#carti ate

[chrissdollie]

everyones saying they're tired of hearing "carnival" everywhere but holy shit im eating up the chris edits

[syllleblossom]

well, well, well. if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.

[jealousmartini]

KPOP DR INTRODUCTION

Old opening intro:

" Don't freak out! We are O.M.G! "

New opening intro:

" 6 friends and a dream! We are O.M.G "

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[ # 000 :: O.M.G's ORIGIN STORY ] small print

O.M.G, is an originally animated six-member girl group created in late 2013 by Lucia Martinez, or better known as "Keisha" from her character in O.M.G, under her youtube channel "Envious Martini" accompanied by her 5 other girlfriends for fun. They would post a lot of vlogs, grwm (get ready with me's), mukbangs, reaction/commentary, and livestreams, of course, none of these posts were ever serious. And a lot of their videos would be clipped to be used as memes that would instantly catch fire, and their faces would soon be very recognisable. In fact It wouldnt even take long for O.M.G to earn a lot of attention from Korean and Western K-POP fans when "Molly (claimed song!! playboi carti)", which is a scrap unreleased track by the way, would randomly go viral at 2.3 million views on youtube and Envious martini would begin to grow a humble following of 430K followers for their music, art and shitposts.

All music production, concepts, and choreography were created by Keisha with the help of the 5 girls behind the scenes. For example, in order for Keisha to be able to animate the choreography, the girls would make dance routines together, figuring out positions and record it for Keisha to take as reference. This also went for vocals and rapping. All girls played their parts accordingly to how they felt comfortable and were suitable to each member. And then it would be in mid-June of 2014 that the girls would decide to bring Keisha's art to life and replace the characters of O.M.G with themselves.

And in 2015, after being invited to many interviews and talk shows and entering many survival shows and competitions, it would be one competition show in particular, held by JYP which O.M.G would win, where they would officially be adopted under JYP entertainment and debut as a JYP girl group in the same year. But it wasn't until 2016 after much debate surrounding the group that O.M.G. was finally recognised and accepted as a KPOP group.

[ # 001 :: ALBUMS ]

[ disclaimer!! claimed songs are highlighted, and said songs most likely sound slightly different in my dr because of personal taste.]

Core genres :: KPOP, EDM, JERSEY CLUB, POP-ROCK, SYNTH, ELECTRO-POP, CONTEMPORARY R&B

Core aesthetics/concepts :: GIRL CRUSH, Chaotic academia core, Y2K, Girl-next-door

Themes :: Teenage years/Nostalgia, Self discovery, Love/self love, Random stuff

(2013) Mini album 1 :: Superstitious

Tracklist :: "track no.1", "track no.2", "track no.3"

(2014) Mini album 2 :: Lawfully Wedded Wives

Tracklist :: "What's your number", "Molly", "Greedy hearts", "girls never die", "heaven sent", "kinda miss you rn"

(2015) Debut Album :: Oh My Gosh

Tracklist :: "OMG", "Magnetic", "Ditto", "Lucky girl syndrome", "Dalla Dalla", "Woo! Ah!", "ETA"

Debut song :: Ditto

(2016) 1st Single :: Princess Sickness

(2017) 2nd Album :: New Region

Tracklist :: "La di da", "Supernova", "Crush", "life on Mars" , "JOYRIDE",

(2017) 3rd Album :: GINXED

Tracklist :: "Girls on wings", "LOOP", "Serotonin", "WOW", "Bitternes, the disease", "Yes, and?", "Charmed", "LOVE DIVE", "Accendio"

(2019) 4th Album :: Hopscotch

Tracklist :: "Six of em", "1 on 1", "Now what", "Super mario", "Jersey Girls", "Sir mix a lot", more to come...

(2019) 5th Album :: Joyride

Tracklist :: "Insidious", "It's my turn now", "Trance", "met her on the internet", more to come...

(2021) 6th Album :: TOTALLY MAXED OUT

Tracklist :: "I'm your magical girl", more to more...

[ # 002 :: SOLO PROJECTS ]

(2019) Debut Solo Single :: "Make way"

(2021) 1st Solo mini Collection :: Come again?

Tracklist :: "It's my turn now", "He ate my heart", "WTF?"

(2023) 4th Solo Single :: "My Chemical Romance feat. Megan the Stallion"

(2024) 5th Solo Single :: "ABCD feat. NAYEON"

(2024) 6th Solo Single :: "Boohoo"

(2024) 7th Solo Single :: "New Woman feat. CHAE KYUNG"

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[ # 000 :: BASIC INFO ]

Date of DR :: ??/04/2017

Name :: Lucia R. Martinez

korean birthname :: Hwang Chae-Kyung

adopted name :: Lovely adopted surname

nicknames :: Kyu, Kyungie, Keish/Keesh, Chae-Bae, Vivi

Stage name :: Keisha/Kyu

Title names :: THAT girl, Mother Rabbit, Millionaire Maknae, KPOP's Princess, KPOP's Darling, KPOP's first Black Idol, KPOP'S secret ACE, KPOP's curly head, KPOP's BEYONCE

Positions :: Producer, Main/lead singer, main dancer, sub rapper, visuals, maknae, center maybe??

Date of birth : 20 / 06 / 1997

Age :: 19

Hobbies :: Music production, drawing, dancing, singing, baking, gaming

Languages :: English, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Mandarin Chinese

Ethnicity :: half puerto rican, half korean

Representative animal :: red panda / puppy / Bunny (I can't choose rn guys)

Representative colour :: orange

Representative dessert :: cookies and brownies

Fanbase name :: charmings

Training period :: ?? months

Company :: JYP

Group representative colours :: Blue and Pink

Brands :: Vivian Westwood, Diesel, Juicy Couture

[ # 001 :: FUN FACTS ]

She is older than Jungkook by 4 months. He knows this but still chooses to not use honorifics sometimes.

She is close friends with NAYEON, Sana, Chaeyoung, YOONGI, JIMIN, JUNGKOOK, Namjoon, J-hope, TAEHYUNG, Jin, BANGCHAN, Felix, Hyunjin, YUNA, Jennie, Jisoo, Tsuyu, WONYOUNG, YUJIN,

No one knows this yet but she has a crush on 6 of the idols listed and 2 of the highlighted names are part of the six, the other 4 are not

The red panda is her animal representative because there was a video circulating of her dressed up as a mascot for her highschool as a red panda and break-dancing

Speaking of dancing, she has mastered multiple dancing styles like house, vogue, street dancing, belly dancing, Jazz, Latin, Club, Jersey and Freestyle. She's got her own signature groove 💃🏾 🕺

She is the first kpop idol to be the ambassador for Vivian Westwood, Juicy Couture and Diesel

[ # 002 :: CONTROVERSIES AND SCANDALS ]

Next post...

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[nakylvr]

no manon at mama 😔 i blame the carti fans for getting her sick

i saw im so upset :(( i was really excited to see all 6 of them at mama but i hope she recovers fast for jingleball at least...i just know her look would've ate so bad

[swagmonkeybob]

ISSA APPRECIATION POST

i love issa! he is THE coolest person i met and the only person who swag is better than mine. like he ptso so effortlessly and he never be posting it either. like his swag is exclusive to him. and he been doing ts since highschool. he inspired me to start dressing better and was half the reason i got my septum pierced since he looked so cool with his. and his jewelry has always been so cool. my favorite memories with you were driving to thrifts in reedley and just trying shit while listening to music all day. i like the fact we can talk all day on the most random things ever. or when we argue, it’s just a yelling match and we’re always laughing after. and our music taste is almost exactly identical, like we always on the same page

notable moments

when we were at tian tian and you ate too much and you were gonna throw up and you trapped me in the booth and wouldn’t move 😭😭

when you put me on the pointy crochet hats and now even carti copying the swag 🙄😭✌️

when you came back from yemen and hung out w/ me and raw and we just walked around dinuba talking

but issa you are fr so cool and it lowkey broke my heart hearing you say your moving. imma miss you, ness and echo when you guys move to sacramento but ill try my best to visit you. wish you the best & love you always! 🫶🏽

[starsinthesky5]

how has your day been babes😛

mid🧘‍♀️

weather = bad.

but it’s cozy so that’s nice?

but it’s gross outside.

anyway, woke up tired (surprise surprise) and driving this morning was not it because 1. ppl can’t drive in the rain and 2. there was this fog on my windows the whole time THAT WOULD NOT GO AWAY? i could NOT see.

it was a pretty light day tbh. most of my morning was spent with my friends fantasizing and verbally manifesting that we get box office sab tickets. came home early, had some leftover pesto pasta I made yesterday so that was yum. ive been listening to timeless on repeat and ooo that song gets me movingggggggggg. abel and carti ATE DOWN.

now, im working on the fic and watching gilmore girls at the same time so thats cute!

[lux-l1sbon-blitzkrieg]

what a night

in a hotel by myself

took a talkative shower

got rained on otw to dinner

ate coldly next to a couple discussing carti vs lil wayne

waited next to two red nicks for a trolly

doing calc under blankets wearing nothing but clown makeup because literally why did you double text him

[heavenoutside]

okay listningien to new travis scott album ate half a 40mg cookie

- loved hyena, great beat love maggot brain sample and the boom bap cadence - thank god has a stronger back half but that's just personal preference - TEEZO TOUCHDOWN? GUY MANUEL PRODUCTION? this is like travis blatantly doing his yeezus but this song is good  - vegyn buddy ross bon iver vocal effects on my eyes part 1 > beat switch part....  - travis has really just become kanye jr.... el hijo del kanye - crazy that ive been following BNYX since youtube tutorials he made... okay for SICKO MODE 2 meltdown at least pulls a good verse from drake....  - genius lists this as carti but its not?? - beyonce bon iver james blake collab imagine what that would have sounded like in 2011 -buddy ross is doing session piano all over this its crazy - i hate that travis scott works so well for me... astroworld was honestly a shining star in recent mainstream hip hop releases at the time (but it still suffered from the same bloat that is so prevalent in these kinds of releases. cut it off after astrothunder but maybe keep coffee bean bc that's end credits music.) - everything is the same music is wrestling and its cinema  - okay topia twins is funny... good 21 verse - this is literally just black skinhead jr... never beating EL HIJO DEL KANYE ALLEGATION - parasail lost me ill listen to the rest later

[rubyakahs]

ai hoshino anthem

(madonna ate btw)

[jintheastronaut]

y’all she ate this up idc idc

[cascadingpearls]

Andiversary Week Day 8

Fandom appreciation day, and I'm highlighting the time a glitch in Andi's Texts gave the fandom a new crackship. (Hey! I'll check that one off the prompt list as well)

Big thanks to @secretly-of-course putting this together! I had so much fun writing 100 word drabbles. I wrote a 1000 words this week, which is more than I've written in a long time.

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"You said, give it a few weeks and things would change. But guess what? Nothing's changed," Marty complains. 

"I wouldn't say that exactly… Some feelings have definitely changed." Did my voice just crack? Do I sound nervous? Because I am. 

"What are you saying? Did Buffy or TJ say something."

"No..." 

To my surprise Marty looks relieved? Feeling hopeful, I press on. "I was talking about you and me, us and this...thing. And… well… maybe… we should give this a shot… for real and not pretend."

"Really?" His face lights up.

I grab his hand and squeeze it, "Really."

[blackhouseltd]

**LABEL ANNOUNCEMENT**

Please welcome An Isle Ate Her to Blackhouse Ltd.

AN ISLE ATE HER don't have the typical story that most bands in metal music do. They were an artistic mathematical monster that took over Atlanta, Georgia in the early 2000's, but it's members had taken some very unexpected turns in artistic direction as solo artists after they disbanded. Absolutely manic break-neck tech grindcore that was as mind-bending to listen to as it was to see live. Formed initially in July 2007, Vocalist Chaz Bell, guitarist Collin Hutchinson, drummer Matt Cooper, and various other members performed under various names, playing countless shows and tours while constantly building their musical skills.

At the beginning of 2010, the band wrote two new songs which they considered to be beyond the ability of their former moniker's style. Thus, AN ISLE ATE HER was officially formed and used the two songs and a few others and recorded their debut EP "Desiderium", released in July of 2010. Since then, they had met the bassist Eric ROCHE and began playing live shows while writing new material. These new songs were recorded over the summer with Paul HUNDEBY of City of Ifa/City Pro Recording, and the band's debut album "Phrenia" saw the light of day on September 26th, 2011. The band then went on an indefinite hiatus in 2012. Vocalist Chaz Bell has since transitioned into his solo work, adopting the name of Slug Christ, and joining forces with the Awful Records crew alongside the likes of Father, Playboi Carti, Ilovemakonnen and more. Yung Skrrt, the solo performing name of drummer Matt Cooper, started off in 2015, collaborating with members of CHON, Anthony Fantano, Kreayshawn and more, and becoming a prolific producer. The complete opposite of what AIAH was known for, this proves the versatility of their musical abilities, and well beyond, if nothing else.

Fast forward to 2021, a decade later, the masters were unearthed, and we gave them the re-mastering treatment. We are proud to soon present the remastered ten-year-anniversary edition of "Phrenia" on a limited vinyl release, and also, for the first time ever. Keep an eye out for updates coming this Fall, including preorder dates, colored variants, and more.

Bandcamp: https://anisleateher.bandcamp.com/

[nishinoya-is-baby]

hellooo:) i’m here for your matchup thingy! ok so, my fav flowers are pink daisies, my 2 fav songs atm are 20 min by lil uzi and location by playboi carti, i go by she/her, i would like a boy romantic matchup, and my two faves (can’t choose just one LMAO) are iwa and suna! they’re so underrated i love them

(omg! i totally forgot to say, platonically, my fav character is tanaka and iwa and suna are romantically<3)

🪴Hi! Thank you for requesting!🪴

🌼Bouquet requests🌼

🌷Bouquet #7701 can be found below!🌷

🌺Pink daisy; Gentle🌺

🌸I ship you with: Nishinoya Y��! This is because the song immediately made my mind go to him. He would totally listen to songs like that, and would have a playlist dedicated to “Tiktok” songs. His vibe is immaculate. He would be screaming songs while dancing all crazy. While he can be a lil much, he can also be calm and collected when he needs to. It’s the best of both worlds! I feel like he’d be decent at slow dancing, too, so if congrats if you’re into that! He’s definitely the person to go to for a fun time!🌸

🌻Platonic! Tanaka Ryūnosuke x Fem!Reader

“Y/nnnnn,” Tanaka whined. “What?” “I don’t wanna do this anymoreeeee,” “Well too bad. You’re the one that asked me to help you, so here I am. Besides, you know you’ll be a lot more upset if you miss this tournament.” Tanaka just huffed at your words. He knew you were right, as per usual. He had both a tournament and finals coming up, so he came to you, his best friend, for help. He had been complaining for the past 5 minutes about how he was tired and his head hurt, but you knew he could do a little more. “Just finish these last 20 practice problems and we can stop for today,” you said, knowing if you pushed him too hard he would break. He groaned, but still got to work nonetheless. After about 40 minutes, he finished. There was a slight droop to his eyelids as he slid his papers towards you. You smiled and gave him a firm side hug. “I’m proud of you, Tana,” you said. He beamed at your words and shot up, “We should order pizza!” “I already did.” “All meat, right?” “Yep.” He smiled and flopped down on his bed, groaning when his back popped from slouching too much. You found his remote and turned on a movie that you both liked. You layed down next to him and tracked your pizza, his eyes wandering to your phone. When the door rang, you went and grabbed the food and brought it to his room. You two ate on the floor to prevent crumbs getting on his bed, but when you were done he pulled you back up onto it. “You’re like the sister I never had, Y/n.” “Hey, I heard that!” You two giggled at Saeko’s yelling from her room. Rather than yelling, you texted her, asking if she wanted to come watch a movie with the two of you. In a few minutes, she bursted into the room with her blankets and pillows. You and Tanaka laughed and moved over to make room for her. 🌻

🍀Flower: Sweet Briar; Simplicity🍀

💐Song you might like: Ribs by Lorde💐

[whatisthiswitchcraft]

books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

[madelinemsnyder]

Train of Thoughts

I’ve spent a lot of time on trains the past two days. A four hour train ride from Athens to Kalambaka turned into 7 hours when the train stopped on the tracks and then turned to head the wrong way. We were stopped an hour into our journey for 3 hours. Although, I wish I had not woken up before 5 am for a train that arrived much later, there are worse things to happen. Plus I finished my audiobook called “Queenie” by Candice Carty-Williams. (I read this for a book club, and I honestly was not too much of a fan). So I really cannot complain about much. Once whatever mechanical issue we had was fixed, we were back on our way. 

Mia and I were supposed to tour the monasteries in Meteora at 11:30 on Friday, but since we arrived after 2, we asked to reschedule our tour to Saturday morning. We then walked around the city trying to find a hike. The lack of phone service and readable street signs limited us, but nevertheless we had fun. We really got to see the homes people lived in and the flora and fauna of northern Greece. We talked about what’s been plaguing our minds lately: what it’s like to be young and traveling, relationships, friendships, our hopes and dreams. I wonder what kind of conversations we’ll be having together in ten years and ten years after that.

Then leave it to us to find amazingly priced and delicious Greek food. We ate 2€ gyros and drank 3€ white wine. Tzatziki and fries for 5€. Good company for free! How lucky am I. After giggling for far too long and debating on more food, we resolved to go to one of the many bakeries in town for dessert. We got chocolate cake and baklava that really hit the spot. We even made a friend! A sweet stray dog that Mia was quick to name “Stephanie” followed us from dinner to dessert and waited outside for us while we ordered. What a sweet girl. I did not realize how tired we were or the power of a food coma, but Mia and I took quite the nap after feasting. 

The next morning Mia and I had our tour. I feel myself getting to the point where I can guess some of Mia’s thoughts. We got on a bus with one other girl, and that was it. That was the whole tour group. I found it laughable, and I thought Mia did too. We started driving up a winding road to reach all the monasteries. They were quite unbelievable- how did people build these elaborate churches on tall rocks? Christian hermits came to these reclusive places to pray; we learned that they would rise at 3:30 am everyday to pray. There were additional caves in the rocks for when these monks wanted even more privacy and isolation. The views were unbelievable of course: of the neighboring monasteries, the town below, the mountains off in the distance. 

After the tour, we got lunch and coffee the true European way with our new friend from the tour, Annie. Of course, we ate delicious cheap gyros, baklava, and a creamy pastry reminiscent of a doughnut called something like “bomba”. We had hours to kill before we all jumped on the same train back to Athens. We talked about movies, books, travel plans, and school. Additionally, we discussed the paradoxes of social media. Quite fitting as I am writing this for a social media platform, but here are my quickest thoughts: there is quite a lot of pressure to keep up with other people, but no one misses you if you take a leave of absence. Also, there has been quite the talk about fake news and how people can post whatever they want, and while that may be toxic to an extent, it is also quite empowering to control our self-image and present ourselves in the way we hope to be seen. 

I am writing this as I approach home again. I have been watching “Marriage Story” on Netflix, and I enjoy it. The film is beautifully done. The story shares a strong sense of reality to the one I am in now. Life is messy, and things don’t always work out the way we think they should. It was painful to watch, knowing that their story is one of the infinite stories that is complicated and imperfect. Sometimes it feels as though the story line does not have a real end, just as my own life does not have a clearly defined beginning, middle, or end. Here I am in Greece, in the middle of this journey and in the middle of my life. But do I really know if this is the middle? Maybe it is the beginning of the rest of my life or maybe it is the end, and I do not know it yet.

2 February 2020

[theangelcafe]

URL playlist tag✨

tagged by @yukheisrings thanks for tagging my longest url askjsj

this feeling - tinashe

hate you - ph-1

earfquake - tyler the creator (ft. playboy carti, charlie wilson & jessy wilson)

about you - trey songz

nobody - junoflo

god knows i tried - lana del rey 

electra heart - marina and the diamonds

love in the sky - the weeknd

crzy - kehlani

apple box - nafla (ft. loopy)

fila - uzuhan (ft. ph-1 & sam ock)

ever since new york - harry styles

tagging: @mitaesoroo @deakysgang @cafekang @ctylmp3 @angelpassing