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[pearsandhyacinths]

This Year's Reading List

I have a central reading list of a little over 510 books that I have been adding to and breaking down for almost a decade. Of that wrapping paper scroll of a list, I have randomly selected from a few categories to make my active reading list for the next 18 months. I am always looking to add more, so if you have any similar to the ones below, or just a book you love, don't hesitate to comment them, or you can add some of these to your own reading list if you so choose

TWs: some of these books do discuss some difficult themes such as death, violence, chronic or severe health conditions, various forms of maltreatment (mental, physical, and sexual), racism, and sexism. Please be aware of this before reading the summaries or the books themselves.

Fiction 

Where the Dead Sit Talking- Brandon Hobson 

“Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a startling, authentically voiced, and lyrically written Native American coming-of-age story.

2. To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf

“The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change."

3. Thérèse Raquin- Émile Zola

“Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man, and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.”

4. The Well of Loneliness- Radclyffe Hall

“Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents—a fencer, a horse rider, and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer, and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.”

5.  The Moon is A Harsh Mistress- Robert A. Heinlein 

“It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.”

6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo

“Set in Paris during the 15th century. The story centers on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, his struggles with isolation and the treatment of a tyrannical guardian, Archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, and his unrequited love for the beautiful dancer La Esmeralda.”

7.  The Blood of Others- Simone de Beauvoir 

“Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his lover, Helene, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must ultimately decide how many others to send to a similar fate.”

8. The Beach Dogs- Andy Jennings 

“Watership Down with dogs. A dramatic and stirring depiction of a community of dogs living on a beach in Thailand, told from the animals' viewpoint, in alternating chapters.”

9.  Real Life- Brandon Taylor 

“Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—”

10.  Peau d'Homme- Hubert et Zanzim

“Dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, Bianca, demoiselle de bonne famille, est en âge de se marier. Ses parents lui trouvent un fiancé à leur goût : Giovanni, un riche marchand, jeune et plaisant. Le mariage semble devoir se dérouler sous les meilleurs auspices même si Bianca ne peut cacher sa déception de devoir épouser un homme dont elle ignore tout. Mais c'était sans connaître le secret détenu et légué par les femmes de sa famille depuis des générations : une « peau d'homme » ! En la revêtant, Bianca devient Lorenzo et bénéficie de tous les attributs d'un jeune homme à la beauté stupéfiante.”

"In Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is of marriageable age. Her parents find her a fiancé to their liking: Giovanni, a rich merchant, young and pleasant. The marriage seems to take place under the best auspices, even if Bianca cannot hide her disappointment at having to marry a man about whom she knows nothing. But this was without knowing the secret held and passed down by the women of his family for generations: a man’s skin! By wearing it, Bianca becomes Lorenzo and benefits from all the attributes of a young man of astonishing beauty."

11. Parable of the Sower- Octavia Butler

“In 2024, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.

When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed, and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.”

12. Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen

“The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy?”

13. Giovanni's Room- James Baldwin

“Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. James Baldwin's brilliant narrative delves into the mystery of loving with a sharp, probing imagination, and he creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the heart.”

14. Code Talker:  A Novel About the Navajo Marines- Joseph Bruchac

After being taught in boarding school that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

15. Baise-Moi- Virginie Despentes

“One of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that is part Thelma and Louise, part Viking conquest. Manu and Nadine have had all they can take.”

16. Il Decameron- Giovanni Boccaccio

“Dieci uomini e donne lasciano Firenze durante la Peste Nera. Rimangono in una villa per dieci giorni, durante i quali condividono un totale di cento storie per passare il tempo.”

Non-fiction 

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does With Female Bodies- Catherine McCormack 

“Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster―women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes, whether large or subtly hidden.”

2. Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction- Gary Wilson

“When high-speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms. Gary Wilson has listened to the stories of those who have tried giving up internet porn and related them to an account of how the reward system of the brain interacts with its environment. And now a growing body of research in neuroscience is confirming what these pioneers have discovered for themselves – internet pornography can be seriously addictive and damaging."

3. Women, Race, and Class- Angela Y. Davis

 "A powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. Davis shows how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of SA, reproductive freedom, housework, and child care."

4. Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature- Lucien Malson

“Malson carries one step further the assumption of behaviorists, structural functionalists, cultural anthropologists, and evolutionists that "human nature" is a constant. If the content of the analysis made by anthropologists is not affected by a "human nature" that lies outside of history, humanity to all effects and purposes, becomes its history. So-called wolf children are children abandoned at an early age and found leading an isolated existence. They are thus natural examples of complete social deprivation, and Malson explores their history in this study.”

5. Whipping Girl: A Transexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity - Julia Serano

“The powerful story of Julia Serano is that of a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian, transgender activist, and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole. Serano's well-honed arguments stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. She exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive and how this “feminine” weakness exists only to attract and appease male desire."

6. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government- David K. Johnson 

“In  The Lavender Scare, historian David K. Johnson relates the frightening, untold story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as dangerous a threat to national security as Communists. Republican charges that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were havens for homosexuals proved a potent political weapon, sparking a Lavender Scare more vehement and long-lasting than the more well-known Red Scare.”

7. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee- David Treuer

“In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance.

8. Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude- Nigel Spivey

“Enduring Creation reveals the amazing power of art to console, to warn, to prepare the viewer for the harsher experiences of life, raising intriguing Can pain be beautiful? Do we always pity suffering? Are sainthood and sadomasochism linked? This compelling study concludes with a positive message of hope for the enduring human spirit.”

9.  Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy- Heather Ann Thompson 

“The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice, including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.”

10.  A Male Grief: Notes and Essays- David Mura

“Through examining the relationship between child abuse, addictive family systems, and the adult male's consumption of pornography, this classic essay argues elegantly that this addiction to pornography is self-destructive, joyless, and unsatisfiable, a symptom of a consumer society rather than a natural urge.”

Biographical and memoirs 

 Until I Meet My Husband- Ryousuke Nanasaki

“Ryousuke Nanasaki married his husband in 2016 in the first religiously recognized same-sex wedding in Japanese history. This collection of essays follows Ryousuke’s search for love on the journey to his extraordinary marriage. From unrequited junior high crushes to awkward dating sites to finally finding a community.”

2.  The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone- Olivia Laing

“What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art.”

3.  The Last Act of Love- Cathy Rentzenbrink

“With unflinching honesty and raw emotional power, Cathy describes the unimaginable pain of losing her brother and the decision that changed her family's lives forever. As she delves into the past and reclaims memories that have lain buried for many years, Cathy reconnects with the bright, funny, adoring brother she lost and is finally able to see the end of his life as it really was - a last act of love. Powerful, intimate, and intensely moving, this is a personal journey with universal resonance - a story of unconditional love, of grief, survival, and the strength of the ties that bind.”

4. The Book of Disquiet- Fernando Pessoa

“He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet. Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative.”

5. Notes From A Sick Bed- Tessa Brunton

“In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome). She spent much of the next eight years unwell, in a medical holding pattern, housebound, and often alone. In 2017, she found a strategy that helped reduce her symptoms and soon began creating the first installments of a graphic memoir.”

6. Go Tell It on The Mountain- James Baldwin 

“Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.”

[why-the-heck-not]

what I want is a completely plotless book/tv-show/movie with characters I like just chilling & living their lives. No plot. No obstacles. Just purely character interaction

[cadillacjohnf1]

cadillacjohnf1's book club recommendations (because I can)

[not-equippedforthis]

hii does anyone have any recommendations for their favourite podcasts? my favourite ever is wooden overcoats (for the eccentric/fun characters, humour, sound design, themes of connection, and quick pace) and i also love the amelia project and malevolent. i've tried to listen to many more but nothing's really clicked the same way WO did - any suggestions?

[akeenythescientist]

Hello are there any mad scientist movies/books/etc you guys can recommend? I’m DYING over here

[chxrv]

hola! could y'll recommend some of your favorite angst fics or books? like the ones where the reader gets tired of chasing the ml, decides to move on, and meets someone new. thanks!

[yellow-kudzu]

Someone please tell their favorite books in the tags. I love to discover new books from people and not algorithms.

[sugarcandydoll]

alex volkov's voice in the duet audiobook hehehe ♡🙈🙊💓

[neuronal]

i gave my final exams last week so assuming i pass all of them i'll be done with med school and it feels sooo surreal to be finally free of it all. it's still so jarring knowing i have nothing to study (for now) and there are times when i'll be just sitting on the couch and feel guilty for wasting my time BUT i'm just so happy it's finally over!!! i can get back to doing all the things i've been neglecting and hopefully get healthy again and gain back some of the weight i lost. also i don't have to live thousands of miles away from home anymore!!!!

i haven't been online in a while, so i'm getting back to all my messages slowly. just know that i missed u all, and i hope everyone's been doing okay during my time away 💙

[biscof]

One of the biggest annoyances in life is finishing a fucking amazing book and realizing its too niche to have a fandom or art or anything

Kill me now

[hauntedgarden95]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good mystery books? Like Nancy Drew but more “adult” I guess (bad wording I know). I’m really craving a good mystery.

[pk-heart]

my general goal was to read more dutch lit, non-fiction and classics, but I only really read more dutch books. 2025 will be my year though 🫶

[stoneantler]

2024 Reading List

It is that time of year again. I used to do a full listing of all the books I read in the year but now that I read so much that's a little challenging, so I'm doing my top five reads in each category!

Fiction

Playboy by Constance Debre translated by Holly James

I don't usually enjoy autofiction but this novel knocked it out of the part. A tale of a woman discovering and exploring her lesbianism in middle age. It's tight, fast paced, often acerbic, and does not shy away from the ugliness of being a person in the world. I look forward to the Debre's next novel in this series.

Grimmish by Michael Winkler

This is hands down the best book I read all year. It's strange, it's weird, it innovates genre. This novel is sort of a non-fiction historical treatise on the American wrestler Joe Grim. However, the structure and form of the novel flies in the face of all novelistic convention. It is experimental fiction of the highest order and an incredibly interesting deconstruction of the meaning of masculinity and pain.

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek translated by Joachim Neugroschel

On the topic of gender and pain, this novel is phenomenal. Its status as a classic is well deserved. The richness and complexity of Erika's relationship to her mother, to herself, and to Walter is so engrossing. Despite how painful the novel is to read, it is also impossible to put down. It is well deserving of the fantastic film with which it shares a name.

The Troop by Nick Cutter

A thrilling and grotesque novel about the outbreak of an unknown pathogen amongst some teenage boys on a remote Canadian island. This book, like a lot of the others on this list, plumbs the depths of masculinity and finds it wanting. Also the horrifying descriptions of infection are haunting and will satisfy those readers looking for a truly grotesque horror novel.

The Bitch by Pilar Quintana translated by Lisa Dillman

Set in the author's native Colombia, the central character Damaris spends her days cleaning the mansion of a wealthy family who has not returned to their vacation home in years. Unable to have children, she tries to fill her need to love and dote on someone by adopting a dog. The novel is sparing, unflinching, and powerful.

Poetry

Let the World Have You by Mikko Harvey

A wonderfully imaginative collection in the vein of Charles Simic. It's full of a kind of magical realism that you often don't see in American poetry and is additionally hard to pull off. This collection is a beautiful addition to the tradition.

Frightening Toys by Charles Simic

What can I say! I love Charles Simic! I love his fantastic (in the sense of fantasy) poetry. I have nothing else to say.

Soft Science by Franny Choi

This is a poetry collection that builds world with its own logic and characters. I was particularly compelled by the cyborg poems, which so skillfully play with language and sound. The cyborg poems represent the strength of this collection, which lies in its extended metaphor around machinery as woman and as dehumanized other.

The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown

This collection imagines the voices of the residents of the Virginia State Colony, their sorrow, their suffering, and also their joys. It takes names of otherwise unknown people off of the page and inhabits them with light and dignity. A deeply moving collection.

Nonfiction

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

An incredibly illuminating and well written exploration of the history of anarchism in the United States and how that trajectory leads to the police surveillance state we have today. I cannot recommend this book enough if you want to understand the history of leftist radicalism in the US.

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the SS El Faro by Rachel Slade

I love a good disaster book and this one is truly great. Rich with detail and thoughtful story telling, this book methodically tells the nearly incomprehensible story of the 2015 sinking of the SS El Faro. The only place in which I found the book wanting was in its analysis of the systematic issues that allow a disaster like this to happen. I wanted an indictment of the system that allowed this accident to happen, which the book does not deliver.

Graphic Novels and Art Books

firebugs by Nino Bulling

A beautiful and tender story about love, growth, and being transgender. I know that we on tumblr all love t4t relationships but this book explores how complicated a relationship like that can really bit. It's a bittersweet and necessary story that gave me reassurance about my own experience with t4t relationships.

The Parade: A Story in 55 Drawings by Si Lewen

Gorgeously rendered and terrifying, this book is one artist's representation of the ravages of war. Published in 1957, it deals directly with the artists experience as a Polish Jew serving in the US Army during WWII. This collection is not a graphic novel and was originally presented as a exhibit in 1951. Yet, it is not exactly an art book either. There is no statement, no essay from a reviewer. Lewen lets his images speak for themselves, to great effect.

Metamorphadox by Jarrett Heckbert

What a wildly imaginative and strange book. It deals with war, mechanization, loneliness, and more. Really a book better experienced than explained.

Death of the Master by Patrick Kyle

With minimal language and a wonderfully unique style, this novel explores a world of charismatic but distant leaders and incomprehensible but ever present work. Using magical realism and principles of the bizarre, this novel reveals the strangeness of our current work culture and its leaders.

Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave by Yann Damezin translated by Thomas Harrison and Aqsa Ijaz

This volume retells, yet again, the classic Persian tale of Majnun and Layla with absolutely stunning visuals. I am comfortable saying that this Damezin's version is a work of art in its own right. Every page is gorgeous and the novel is a treat to experience.

Plays

God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch translated by Isaac Goldberg

A Yiddish play about lesbians written in 1907? More likely than you think. This play is so interesting in its moral quandaries. It centers around a father who wants become respectable by marrying his daughter off to a yeshiva student and in doing so must face himself and his own moral failings. The history of the plays production in the US is also fascinating and worth reading up on.

The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky translated by Jenny Covan

A classic of social realism, this play shows us the lives of poor Russians living in a basement shelter. The characters are rich and memorable and particularly the actor haunts me to this day. I can see the influence of this play on much of the literature that comes after.

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen translated by William Archer

In the 1906 production of this play in Berlin, Austrian director Max Reinhardt commissioned Edvard Munch to do the set design. Munch decided that the set would be dominated by a large black armchair, which should almost be its own character in the play. I thought about that the whole time I read the play. How it is dominated by a cold, dark, and oppressive domestic space where secrets and betrayal are destroying the family. This play so clearly had an influence on the film Festen, which later went on to influence Succession, and having read it, I can see why.

Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind translated by Francis J. Ziegler

Another classic that I had not read until this year. I feel no need to explain or defend this play; it stands on its own merits.

@uglyseasonmp3 @desperately-human @highawkseason @the-glow-pt-420

[gaywarcriminals]

The worst part about not being on twitter is that no one is updating me on what Bingqiu fics are hot right now. I comb through literally every fic posted to the qijiu tag at least once a week, but I do not have the stamina to do that for Bingqiu too. I need someone to feed me reccs. I am a hungry hungry baby bird.

[magic-magpie]

Thinking abt the Mishima household when Kazuya and Lee were growing up like imagine your father kills your mother then throws you off a cliff and you haul yourself back up and vow to kill him but you're too weak rn and you still live under his roof and are still his son and he trains you ruthlessly and you're thirteen and burning with hatred too big for your barely-teen body and then he adopts a boy close to your age and it's clear what he's doing this boy is only here to threaten your status as heir to the Zaibatsu this boy isn't even given the Mishima family name and your father (and you) call him by his surname because although he learns the fighting style and learns the business he'll never be Heihachi's blood son, and by all accounts you shouldn't hate him it's not his fault he was adopted but you do hate him and he quickly realises what kind of household he lives in now and he grows to hate you too but neither of you hate the other as much as you hate your father and so maybe sometimes you'll smoke together after having bloodied your knuckles from beating each other bruised in training because beneath the rivalry and resentment is someone who gets it, who knows what it's like living on these grounds, who you don't need to keep up false pretences for because the shadow looming over the two of you is the same

[actualbird]

a little no-spoilers rec list of other medias ive been enjoying very much recently

Countdown to Countdown by Velinxi - webcomic, updates every thursday. magical/sci-fi dystopia with rich worldbuilding to die for, a fantastically gripping plot, incredible character dynamics, and the most gorgeous art style in every page. when i first found this, i had bingeread everything thus far in one night up til 2am on a work day because 1) the story is Amazing i literally could not put it down until i had no more pages to read and 2) it took me longer than usual to read through because every single page looks breathtaking, i had to stop and fully savor each one.

Uncanny Charm by COM - manhwa, im not linking anything because i dont wanna get sniped for where i read it from, research and find a link urself HAHA but my god, go read this. supernatural drama with horror, character pair chemistry off the CHARTS, and also you will cry. i have cried at so many portions of this manhwa. i have also laughed my ass off at many parts, but whenever i reread old chapters (which ive done several times) i always still end up crying at the bits. whenever this updates i rejoice and then feel immense fear for the state of my feels. so VERY well done.

BobbyBroccoli's video documentaries on scientific fraud - swerve, ive also been watching a lot of video essays these days and my gripe with a lot of the video essay genre is "why does it have to be a video?" as in, what does the visual and audio form of this piece in particular add to the work that wouldnt have been possible as a written essay? and BobbyBroccoli's vids not only justified the form but knocked it outta the ballpark. very well written and visualized so amazingly that it's an artform to me, there's Visual Metaphor going on in there. my personal fave of his right now is his most recent 2-part series The man who faked human cloning and its sequel How to catch a criminal cloner