#books i liked

[affixjoy]

Time for another book rec! Apparently what I needed to get out of my reading slump was some @ariaste books because damn I really flew through this one!

Running Close To The Wind is perfect for fans of Our Flag Means Death and Terry Pratchett. The main character, Avra, feels like a mash up of Nobby Nobbs from Discworld and Nie Huisaing from The Untamed and I LOVE HIM! He’s funny and sweet and a little pathetic, I just want to pick him up by the scruff of his neck and shake him around for a while.

Anyway go read this, it’s funny and fantastic and I think many of you I’ve chatted with here would adore it as much as I did!

[whatbettyread]

homebodies review: Mickey is about to lose her job. she's the only remaining black woman at a beauty magazine that has been bought out, and they're looking for her replacement. luckily, she has a mostly supportive girlfriend-- unless they go back to said girlfriend's mom's house or if Mickey gets too depressed. mickey gets let go, signs an NDA, and then pens a scathing letter to the industry-- that initially gets 4 likes on twitter.

mickey is a mess: she's a gifted kid who has been told she's smart her whole life, and knows that she is that. she is supposed to be successful because those are the options: success or nothing. part of the book is about what success is, what striving means. there are lots of discussions of race in this book, specifically black lesbianism, and the specific cultural touchstones inside that.

another thing reviewers seemed to dislike about this book is they felt there was no growth or change in it, which don't agree with at all. I like that Mickey is a kinda fat black lesbian with a chip on her shoulder! I like that we know she's good at her stuff, and while she doubts that the book does not. I think a big portion of the book is mickey reflecting and changing. I think you need to go into the book knowing it's a character study, it's about themes, and then enjoy the kinda messy ride.

[swedenis-h]

Wife lovers till they die

[stemmmm]

bad youtube clickbait thumbnail that reads "I think I just had a therapy session with a DEMON???"

[starridge]

puppet hour was brutal

[lesbxdyke]

I could think of no better way to share the news than this!

So when I was 17, my cat went missing and I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.

Until on Monday, 27th of May, 2024, my friend sent me a FB post asking 'isn't that your mother?' about the person named on the microchip.

Here he is! 16 years old, and found safe, twelve whole years after he went missing!

Yesterday (Tuesday the 28th of May, 2024) I went to the rescue that had him, and I reclaimed my boy, renaming him Artie! (He'd originally been called 'Cat' because my mother and I couldn't decide on a name)

He's home safe with me now, currently inhabiting my bathroom and purring up a storm every time someone goes in there!

I'll be doing slow introductions between him and my current cat to give them the best possible chance of living in harmony!

Here's some pictures of Artie once we let him out of the carrier:

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[lylahammar]

My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I could get over anything as long as I have something new to be obsessed with

[that-butch-archivist]

"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

[my-darling-boy]

I was at a bookstore looking through the art section and I saw a spine that said The Camden Town Nudes which was interesting because this didn’t seem like the bookstore where I would ever find something like that and I wanted to have a casual look but like. This also wasn’t exactly the bookstore where you felt like you could look at naked pictures let alone just suggestive paintings of them, it’s a really small shop as well, so I was like right I’ll just take a quick peek, I’m an art student, I love history, maybe I’ll buy it. I looked both ways and saw the shopkeep had left momentarily and no one was about, so I opened it and found it was an entire book featuring nude Edwardian women all painted by Walter Sickert between 1905-1912 and it was actually quite a revolutionary set of paintings for its time given that it featured very raw depictions of working class nude women in dark London instead of the elegant, white bedsheet clad, Demure middle and upper class women usually depicted.

And of course RIGHT as I flip to this lady’s boobs practically taking up an entire double page spread, every customer in a 5 mile radius appeared from around the corners of the shelf including the shopkeep and immediately regressing to a wet, pathetic Edwardian man from 1908, startled, I dropped the large book which caused a giant SLAP on the floor in this already silent store thus causing all patrons to look down at me scrambling on my knees to close a giant book of Edwardian boobs and let me tell you it would not have been nearly as funny had I not immediately felt like some Edwardian local pervert who just tried to sneak a cheeky peek at the erotic book in the bookstore only to drop it dramatically causing a scene, red up to his ears trying to shove it back on the shelf. Like such a casual and normal thing in modern day but looking at Edwardian women suddenly turned it into this egregious act as I apparently became possessed by the spirit of a moustached man in a bowler hat and morning coat going Good Heavens I mustn’t gaze upon these images in public lest the constable haul me away!

[doctorsiren]

Gravity Falls AU where everything is exactly the same except Bill’s parents are alive and well, and they’re just so proud of their chaotic dream demon son

[maibeloved]

BRUH FIDDLESTAN MAN OUGH WHAT IVE BEEN MISSING OUT AAAA