#chris silvera

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Chris Silvera

We must never forget the battles that brought us here — the sacrifices of life, blood, and the tears of families who carried the burden of family members’ deaths in the ongoing struggle of labor to defeat capital.

Why was 1934 so significant in the war against the capitalist ruling class? 

[asoftepiloguemylove]

BUT WHO COULD LOVE ME? I AM OUT OF MY MIND // IVAN & TILL

pinterest // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Anne Sexton Complete Poems of Anne Sexton, "The Papa and Mama Dance" // Fall Out Boy Hum Hallelujah // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Ernest Hemingway The Garden of Eden // Florence + the Machine Grace // Elliot Wake Black Iris // The National Daughters of the Soho Riots // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Mitski I Guess // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Writer in the Dark // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Margaret Atwood Cat's Eye // Chris Abani Dog Woman // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Warsan Shire Souvenir, "Our Men Do Not Belong to Us" // VIVINOS Alien Stage, "ROUND 6" (via youtube) // Louise Glück Faithful and Virtuous Night

[confessions-heartland]

"Heartland will always be one of my comfort shows, but it's dying a very slow and painful death. It needs to put out of its misery."

[heartlandians]

Heartland - 17x02 - Taking the Reins

[mikelogan]

Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998)

Manhattan NYPD homicide detective, Mike Logan, demoted to cop on Staten Island comes across a murdered prostitute floating between the two islands. It gets him back to homicide and Manhattan.

[shy-sapphic-ace]

List of queer books I read, loved & recommend!

(There isn't any particular order, I wrote these as I remembered them)

Master Of One - Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett (mlm, fantasy, very cool worldbuilding and magic system, funny, cool characters)

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree (wlw, fantasy, very soft & chill vibes)

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (wlw, high fantasy, cool worldbuilding, kinda reminds me of LOTR but with more dragons and feminism and lesbians)

Even Though I Knew The End - C.L. Polk (wlw, supernatural noir, cool 1930s detective story with angels & demons, I loved this one!)

The Love Interest - Cale Dietrich (mlm, science fiction, very cool concept)

The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black (side mlm, fantasy, cool fae lore)

The Weight Of The Stars - K. Ancrum (wlw, not quite science fiction but space stuff is involved, lovely and complex characters)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz (mlm, fiction, very nice in general, there is also a sequel)

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee (mlm, historical and vaguely fantasy, nice story but I preferred the sequel honestly)

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee (wlw, the sequel to the one before, more fantasy elements than the first, asexual main character!!)

Gallant - V.E. Schwab (no romance, but in the background one of the characters(?) uses they/them pronouns, very cool dark fantasy vibe)

Stranger Than Fanfiction - Chris Colfer (gay main character, trans main character, coming-of-age, nice book)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (yes it's the Love, Simon book, mlm, fiction, pretty nice)

They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera (mlm, sci-fi ish but mostly fiction, cool ideas, but the ending is sad! Very amazing book though, I haven't read the prequel yet)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (wlw, bi main character, historical fiction, cool story, just a neat book in general)

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (wlw, sci-fi, very cool time travel stuff!! and very beautiful, it felt like reading poetry most of the time)

One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston (wlw, background trans & pan & queer characters, sci-fi or fantasy idk, but time travel, I loooved this book, great)

The House In The Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, THIS BOOK oh my gosh you should read it!!, just cute and lovely and good)

Under The Whispering Door - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, this book is also sooo amazing, great character development and awesome relationships and stuff, it's been a while since I read it but it was so good)

In the Lives of Puppets - TJ Klune (mlm, ace main character!!, sci-fi, now THIS is found family, oughh feelings. argh, tj klune you’ve done it again, a human and his family of funky robots… I love them)

And They Lived... - Steven Salvatore (nblm, fiction, about gender identity and learning to love yourself, read it a while ago but it was very nice)

I Wish You All The Best - Mason Deaver (nblm, fiction, about finding your identity and people who care about you, very cute and sweet)

The Song Of Achilles - Madeleine Miller (mlm, historical, very good in general)

Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (mlm, background wlw in the third book, fantasy, it's a trilogy, basically Harry Potter if it was gay and also better)

Silver In The Wood - Emily Tesh (mlm, fantasy, very pretty, lots of fae stuff and lovely descriptions, it has a really good sequel too)

Pretty much anything by Alice Oseman (all cute and lovely and great, though I've only read Radio Silence so far I hear only good things, Solitaire is on my to-read list)

I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuinston (wlw, fiction, it's been a while but I liked this book)

The Falling In Love Montage - Ciara Smyth (wlw, fiction, this book was so cute and funny and deeply emotional it made me Feel way too many things, I'd definitely recommend it)

What Big Teeth - Rose Szabo (a bit of queerness all around, fantasy, werewolves and monsters, this one was pretty cool!, lots of original ideas for the world/character building)

His Quiet Agent - Ada Maria Soto (mlm, asexual, fiction, about like spies but this book was so gentle and sweet I wanted to cry in the best way possible)

Some By Virtue Fall - Alexandra Rowland (wlw, historical fiction(?), theatre drama!! rival romance!! duels!!, a very good read in general)

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend - Emma R. Alban (wlw, historical fiction, I’m not usually one for regency romances, but I really liked this!!, very cute and lots of drama, and there’s a sequel coming out soon!)

[chrispykreme16]

✨Introducing my characters and some infos about them!

Thought I should do this as my official first art post, so here we go!

✨Prince Mochi:

Mochi is an OC/fanchild I concepted in 2019 and his first design came out in 2021, and he is my current most favorite OC.

He is from a Kirby AU I am making for fun and laughs with a friend and her Kirby Gijinkas (I'll perhaps show it one day...)

He is described a "himbo" for being very handsome and respectful yet STOOPID, but that's what makes him charming and loved :"D

✨Chris the human

(👆 21 year-old Chris)

(👆A younger Chris when she was 19 years old)

Chris, just like Mochi, is from the Kirby AU I am making with my friend and her Kirby Gijinkas. She is considered a self-insert since she shares the same name as me and we look slightly the same (minus the lore-)

In the main story of the AU, she is the main heroine and is the second human of Dreamland (Adeleine being the first)

(......she's Mochi's mother in the future wink wink)

Another version of Chris is "Raspberry", based from the Hi-Fi Rush game!

✨Shadow Chris/Shadelle

(Shadelle's first appearance)

(Shadelle's true face)

Shadow Chris (or Shadelle) is the Mirror Counterpart of Chris, living in the Mirror World ruled by Shadow Dedede (And yes, she is from the same AU as Chris and Mochi)

Her first appearance is after the main story, more precisely, in its sequel. She appears as kind and sweet and helping, but in reality she is manipulative and wicked, unlike her "Light Counterpart".

(...let's say I have some friends who absolutely DESPITE her because of how evil she is <x))

✨Silvera Matter

Silvera is once again from the same AU as Chris, Mochi and Shadelle, and she is an artificially created Dark Matter from Hyper Zone, under Zero's orders.

Being the first Dark Matter that was created artificially, Silvera is different from the others. Her ice powers are a part of her, causing her skin to permanentaly be the same color as in livor mortis, and causing her body temperature to be extremely low, although it is normal for her.

She's Chris's rival in the AU's main story.

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There is also my own Kirby Gijinkas but I am redesigning some of them so I'll show them once they are done! :"D

(If you have any questions about my characters or Kirby Gijinkas, my ask box is open! Don't be shy, feel free to ask anything!)

[thefatcat-13]

i should probably have an introduction thing huh? well i’ve been putting it off long enough so i might as well make one

hi!! im Max! i use he/it/glitch/void/xe/ pronouns (aka i will marry you if you use my neos for me). im trans and aroace!

pronoun page!!: https://en.pronouns.page/@Thefatcat13

image credit: @lgbtq-userboxes

other blogs!:

@holy-crab-guys where i talk abt sea creatures, crabs are my favorite but i love them all

@crab-detector where is detect crabs

interests and dni below the cut if you’re interested

onto interests!!!

i love reading! i am currently reading How it Began: the Time Travelers Guide to the Universe by Chris Impey (as of April 1st, 2024)

a few of my favorite books off the top of my head and not including sequels are

What If Its Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli

Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda Dewitt

Magical Boy by The Kao

They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera

If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robie Couch

i like a few musical including:

basically ALL the starkid musicals (other than ani, no offense i just dont know jack shit abt starwars so it rlly wasnt my thing lol)

specifically the hatchetfield series (i just added this so i can say my favorite lord in black is T’noy Kraxis)

Heathers

Be More Chill

Ride The Cyclone

Dear Evan Hansen

Beetlejuice

and i like other kinds of music too! for example:

Limp Wrist

Sex Pistols

Cojum Dip

Fagatron

Will Wood

Pansy Division

Jhariah

Bikini Kill

(image credit @awigglycultist post link 🔗)

i have a pretty basic DNI

-racists

-homophobes/transphobes

-proshippers (do whatever you want in fiction but it makes me uncomfortable so i dont rlly want to hear abt it)

-terfs

-basically just if you’re nice to other ppl then you’re fine

people who are definitely allowed!

-neopronoun/xenopronoun users

-xenogender users

-typically “cringe” ppl (if you feel like you dont fit in cause of your interests or stuff like that)

-idrk what else to add lmao im basically just fine with like everyone, as long as you’re nice to me i will be nice to yoy

if you read this far and think im cool then maybe we could be friends! my dms are open always! (tho im not that good at being social lmao)

[nicxxx5]

book wish list

hi! this is different from my typical posts ig but if there's one thing i love it's making lists! here is my wish list for books that i want to get as of now

The Hate U Give; Angie Thomas

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; Erika L. Sanchez

You're Welcome Universe; Whitney Gardner

Leah on The Offbeat; Becky Albertalli

Picture us in the Light; Kelly Log Gilbert

The Red Scrolls of Magic

The Music of What Happens; Bill Konigsberg

Cupid Painted Blind; Marcus Herzig

The Dangerous Art of Blending In; Angelo Surmelis

Mexican Whiteboy; Matt de la Pena

Ball Don't Lie; Matt de la Pena

Bloom; Kevin Panetta

We Contain Multitudes; Sarah Henstra

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story; Kheryn Callender

Been Here All Along; Sandy Hall

You Asked For Perfect; Laura Silverman

The Music of Dolphins; Karen Hesse

Silence; Deborah Lytton

Accidental Love; Gary Soto

Every Day; David Levithan

Me Before You; Jojo Moyes

Artemis Fowl; Eoin Colfer

Unspoken; Sarah Rees Brennan

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell; Chris Colfer

Snakehead: Alex Rider; Anthony Horowitz

Fablehaven; Brandon Mull

Virals; Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (or the Golden Compass); Philip Pullman

The Last Apprectice/The Spook's Secret; Joseph Delaney

Disney After Dark: Kingdom Keepers; Ridley Pearson

The Thing About Jellyfish; Ali Benjamin

Pan's Labyrinth; Guillermo del Toro

History is All You Left Me; Adam Silvera

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros; Edith Hamilton

Starfish; Akemi Dawn Bowman

Mosquitoland; David Arnold

Challenger Deep; Neal Shusterman

The Ghosts we Keep; Mason Deaver

The Passing Playbook; Isaac Fitzsimons

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality; Jane Ward

Holding up the Universe; Jennifer Niven

All the Bright Places; Jennifer Niven

Renegades; Marissa Meyer

The Female of the Species; Mindy McGinnis

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Holly Jackson

Such a Fun Age; Kiley Reid

She Gets the Girl; Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derric

Kisses and Croissants; Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

Red, White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston

The Librarian of Auschwitz; Antonio Iturbe

The Rise of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

The Shadow of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

Love and Olives; Jenna Evans Welch

The Midnight Library; Matt Haig

The Spanish Love Deception; Elena Armas

Every Word You Never Said; Jordon Greene

When We Were Lost; Kevin Wignall

The Gravity of Missing Things; Marisa Urgo

We Are The Ants; Shaun David Hutchinson

Iron Heart; Nina Varela

Coming up for Air; Nicole B. Ryndall

Unmasking Autism; Devon Price

Planting a Seed; Kate Gaertner

Period Power; Maisie Hill

Disibility Visibility; Alice Wong

Queerly Autistic; Erin Ekins

We're Not Broken; Eric Garcia

Divergent Mind; Jenara Nerenberg

Loveless; Alice Oseman

I Was Born for This; Alice Oseman

there is for sure some that i am missing so there will definitely be a part 2 to this at some point

[raviposting]

Decided to do a reading roundup, inspired by @batmanisagatewaydrug​ ‘s own one here! Posted uhhhh like two and a half weeks after January but hey, it’s my blog and my roundup. 

January Stats  Books Read: 30-31, depending on how I rank one book Average Rating: 3.49 Top Genre: Mystery  My storygraph if you wanna follow me and see my reviews (though I’ll link them for each book in the ratings) :) 

This month I read a ton of books but none of them really hit for me - not to say these books were bad (well. Some were LMAO), just probably not the proper time for me to read them lmao. All the books will be listed under the cut (some with comments) but here were the ones that really stood out! 

Standouts: 

As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson: 4.75/5 This was the end of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy and GOD what a great series! I’m not going to sit here and pretend this is high art but there’s this special something in this series that makes me love it SO much. Is it Ravi Singh? It might be Ravi Singh. It’s probably Ravi Singh. 

The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy: 4.5/5 I don’t wanna spoil this one because it’s an ARC but I was so pleasantly surrpised by this book. I just think it fucks.

The First to Die at the End by Adam Silvera: 4.5/5 The first book made me sob like a baby and this one did make me cry I admit it. :’) While the first book is probably always going to have the biggest place in my heart, this was a fantastic read, and I LOVE that he went back to show us the very first Death Day and how it impacted the first person who was ever called for it. I definitely have more questions on the actual process so if he wants to pull back even further to the creation of the concept I’d gladly take it lmaooo

The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: 4/5 So this is why I’m at 30-31 books - I read The Ultimate Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that has all five books in the same book; since I finished the first book in January I’ll go add it here and it was just *chef’s kiss*. Zany, funny, I finally get that damn “the answer to life is 42″ joke. For some reason I’d die for Arthur Dent. Etcetera. 

All Other Books: 

Non-Fiction:  I didn’t have a number scale for two of them; I felt a little bit weird rating both of them, so I’ve just linked my reviews instead!

The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur: Review

Spare by Prince Harry: 3.25/5 Sometimes he has points but good lord the privilege was ;aklfj;lafka;;flakj bro can we stop defending the monarchy lol

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: 4/5 I don’t know why but I thouhgt these were fiction until I actually went to go check out the book lmaoo

Naturally Tan by Tan France: 3.75/5

If You Tell: a True Story of Murder, Family, Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen: Review

Fiction: 

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: 3.25/5 I know, I know, I’m sorry. Just wasn’t really for me. 

This Spell Can’t Last by Isabel Sterling: 3/5 It’s a short prequel book for a series I really had fun with called These Witches Won’t Burn! The prequel was fine. I wouldn’t suggest you pick it up without knowing the series but yeah

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley: 3/5 I’m kinda surprised I rated it that high in hindsight lmao

Gaslight by J.E. Rowney: 2.5/5

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood with Dozerdraws: 2.75/5 (the art was lovely though)

The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda with Alison Watts (translator): 3.6-3.75/5

Burn the Negative by Josh Winning: 3.5/5

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman: 3/5 (again, sorry lmao)

Not By Blood by Chris Narozny: 3/5 

Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry: 3.5/5 I think I need to stop reading short stories because they’re always at around a 3 and it’s just not always a fair rating. Some stories I absolutely LOVE. Others? Ehhhh not so much. 

Why Are You Like This? by Meg Adams: 4/5 

It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover: 3.75/5 tbh, I think the more I think about the book the lower I’m going to rate it, but for now I’ll keep this original rating

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion: 3.75/5

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen: 4.75/5 Beautiful art as well <3

The Private Apartments by Idman Nur Omar: 3.5/5

I Know What You Did by Cayce Osborne: 2.75/5

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll: 3.75/5

Trouble in Mudbug by Jana DeLeon: 3/5

The Last Man by Vince Flynn: 2/5

All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover: 3.5/5 This couple needed hardcore therapy and most importantly a divorce 

The Devil’s Music by Nathan Page: 3.75/5

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder: 3/5

[sams-special-space]

2023 Reads!

Here's my list of everything I've read for 2023! I'll be updating it regularly as the year goes on.

I'm currently in the middle of going through my backlog of books I've read and posting reviews, which will then be linked on the list! If you see a book on the list you're interested in hearing my thoughts on, shoot me an ask or a DM and I'll respond asap.

The list is under the read more since it's pretty long! A few notes: - Bolded titles are favorites - Blue-colored titles are non-fiction

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey

They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos

This is Our Rainbow edited by Katherine Locke

Too Bright To See by Kyle Lukoff

Ellen Outside The Lines by A.J. Sass

The Insiders by Mark Oshiro

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean

The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff

We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus

The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Out In America edited by Michael Goff

The Golden Hour by Niki Smith

Every Body Shines edited by Cassandra Newbould

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee

The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch

The Bride was A Boy by Chii

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa

Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

In The Shadow of the Throne by Kate Sheridan

Act Cool by Toby McSmith

Embrace Your Size by Hara

The Third Person by Emma Grove

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

You’re The Only One I’ve Told by Meera Shah

The Land of Stories #1: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer

A Boy and His Bot by Daniel H. Wilson

Alone by Megan E. Freeman

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

That Sky Blue Feeling Vol. 1 by Okura

If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Our Dreams at Dust Vol. 1 by Yuhki Kamatani

Our Dreams at Dust Vol. 2 by Yuhki Kamatani

Our Dreams at Dust Vol. 3 by Yuhki Kamatani

Our Dreams at Dust Vol. 4 by Yuhki Kamatani

Other Boys by Damian Alexander

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki

On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

Below the Belt edited by Trystan T. Cotten

Amelia Gray is Almost Okay

Unbound by Arlene Stein

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson

Our Dining Table by Mita Ori

I Think Our Son Is Gay Vol. 1 by Okura

I Think Our Son Is Gay Vol. 2 by Okura

Are You Listening by Tillie Walden

I Think Our Son Is Gay Vol. 3 by Okura

The Talk by Darrin Bell

I Think Our Son Is Gay Vol. 4 by Okura

Wake Up Little Susie by Rickie Solinger

New Kid by Jerry Craft

Junior High by Sara & Tegan Quin, Illustrated by Tillie Walden

Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith

[identity-library]

Mental Health (Books)

A:

All Our Broken Pieces (L.D. Crichton)

Lennon Davis (OCD)

A Step Toward Falling (Connie McGovern)

Belinda Montgomery (PTSD)

Lucas (Stage Fright)

Richard (Depression)

B:

Blind Spot (Laura Ellen)

Tricia Farni (Addiction - Drugs)

Bruised (Tanya Boteju)

Daya Wijesinghe (Grief, Self-Harm)

C:

D:

Doctor Sleep (Stephen King)

Daniel "Danny" Torrance (Abuse, Addiction - Alcohol)

E:

Exit, Pursued by a Bear (E.K. Johnston)

Hermione Winters (Sexual Assault, Trauma)

F:

Fight Like a Girl (Sheena Kamal)

Trisha (Abuse, Guilt, Trauma)

G:

H:

Handle With Care (Jodi Picoult)

Amelia O'Keefe (Bulimia, Self Harm)

I:

Icebreaker (A.L. Graziadei)

Mickey James (Depression)

I Hope You're Listening (Tom Ryan)

Delia "Dee" Skinner (Trauma)

Indian Horse (Richard Wagamese)

Saul Indian Horse (Abuse, Addiction - Alcohol, Racism, Sexual Assault, Trauma)

J:

K:

L:

M:

More Happy Than Not (Adam Silvera)

Aaron Soto (Depression)

N:

Nothing but Life (Brent van Staalduinen)

Wendell "Dill" Simms (Trauma)

O:

P:

Power Play (Eric Walters)

Cody (Abuse, Addiction - Alcohol, Sexual Assault)

Punk 57 (Penelope Douglas)

Annie Grayson (Addiction - Drugs)

Manny Cortez (Addiction - Drugs, Depression)

Misha Lare (Depression, Grief)

Q:

R:

Rush (Jonathan Friesen)

Jake King (Addiction - Adrenaline)

S:

Sketches (Eric Walters)

Dana (Sexual Abuse, Trauma)

Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo)

Inej Ghafa (Trauma)

Jesper (Addiction - Gambling)

Kaz Brekker (Trauma)

Nina Zenik (Addiction - Drugs)

Somebody Told Me (Mia Siegert)

Aleks/Alexis (Trauma)

T:

The Agony of Bun O'Keefe (Heather Smith)

Bun O'Keefe (Abuse, Neglect, Trauma)

Chris (Abuse, Homophobia)

The Beauty of the Moment (Tanaz Bhathena)

Malcolm (Abuse, Trauma)

The Buried and the Bound (Rochelle Hassan)

Leo Merritt (Depression)

Tristan Drake (Abuse, Trauma)

The Good Hawk (Joseph Elliot)

Jaime (Anxiety)

The Immeasurable Depth of You (Maria Mora)

Brynn (Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts, OCD)

The Luis Ortega Survival Club (Sonora Reyes)

Ariana Ruiz (Sexual Assault, Trauma)

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali (Sabrina Khan)

Rukhsana Ali (Abuse, Homophobia, Sexual Assault, Trauma)

The Mosaic (Nina Berkhout)

Gabriel Finch (PTSD)

Twilight - Series (Stephanie Meyer)

Isabella "Bella" Swan (Depression)

U:

V:

W:

Warriors (Erin Hunter)

Bluestar (Depression)

What Unbreakable Looks Like (Kate McLaughlin)

Alexa "Lex" Grace (Abuse, Sexual Assault, Trauma)

Wings of Fire - Series (Tui T. Sutherland)

Cricket (Abuse)

Fathom (PTSD)

Indigo (PTSD)

Qibli (Abuse)

Sora (Anxiety)

X:

Y:

Z:

[asoftepiloguemylove]

MY ONE AND ONLY // ON LOVE THAT ISN'T ENOUGH

Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Adam Silvera They Both Die at the End // Lorde Ribs // Chris Abani Dog Woman // System of a Down Lonely Day // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Catherynne M. Valente Deathless // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Olivia Gatwood "The Lover as a Cult," Life of the Party // Sufjan Stevens Mystery of Love // @/perennials on ao3 (link to fic) // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2018-) wr. 芥見下々Gege Akutami // Azra T. (quote via @wedarkacademia)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.20

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Liebmann (1832)

Charles William Bergner (1854)

Ron Silberstein (1960)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Edwin Abbott; writer (1838)

David Breashears; mountaineer, filmmaker (1955)

Bobby Colomby; rock drummer, singer (1944)

George Roy Hill; film director (1921)

Alan Parsons; rock musician, keyboardist (1949)

Famous Birthdays

Jenny Agutter; English actor (1952)

David Bohm; physicist (1917)

Billy Bragg; English rock musician (1957)

Charlie Callas; comedian, actor (1924)

Peter Criss; rock drummer (1945)

Irene Dunne; actor (1898)

Harvey Firestone; tiremaker (1868)

John Fletcher; English writer (1579)

Uri Geller; psychic, spoon-bender (1946)

Thomas Graham; chemist (1805)

Bob Hayes; sprinter, Dallas Cowboys WR (1942)

John Hillerman; actor (1932)

Pieter de Hooch; Dutch artist (1629)

Sidney Hook; philosopher (1902)

Mike Keneally; rock musician, singer, songwriter (1961)

Suzanne K. Langer (1895)

Max Lerner; political writer (1902)

David Levine; artist, caricaturist (1926)

Peter May; Scottish writer (1951)

Tony Moore; comic book artist (1978)

Dennis Morgan; actor, singer (1908)

Lucy Pinder; English model (1983)

Chris Robinson; rock singer (1966)

Sacagawea; guide 1788, died this day 1812)

Joey Silvera; porn actor (1951)

Lara Stone; Dutch model (1983)

Robert J. Van de Graaff; physicist (1901)

Veronica Wild; porn actress (1989)

Little Stevie Wright; Australian rock singer (1948)

[watching-pictures-move]

Put On Your Raincoats | Wild Things II (De Renzy, 1986)

I did not watch this so I could make a “We have Wild Things 2 (2004) at home” joke, because I haven’t seen that movie and this seems to be better liked by my Letterboxd circle going by the average ratings. So if anything, whenever I watch that, I might make a “We have Wild Things 2 (1986) at home” joke. Which probably won’t be for a while. Because it looks bad. Also I haven’t seen Wild Things (1998) yet.

Anyway, if you’re watching it for the usual reasons one watches these things, the performers are in fine form and the energy level is nicely varied both across and within scenes, so as to keep things from becoming repetitive. I do think the premises of the vignettes here are on average not as strong as in the earlier entry. The first one presented something of a twist or at least a novel arc with each of its vignettes, so that there was some surprise in how they played out. Here…let’s take the first segment, where Joanna Storm tells us about the importance of water in California as she tends to her garden. I am not a gardening expert so I cannot vouch for how much of a green thumb she has, but the garden looked green enough in the transfer I watched this on. (Also, I might be mistaken, but one of the plants looked like it could be the wacky tobaccy. The devil’s lettuce. Marry-hoo-wana. But I’ll keep that to myself as I don’t want Joanna Storm getting in trouble with Johnny Law.) So then she mentions some hunky guy comes up and delivers two big water bottles to her every day. So then the guy comes up, and she just straight up has sex with her. Which is fine, I think they should do what makes them happy, but there’s no twist to this. It’s perfectly possibly she found him attractive, but the movie doesn’t really set this up. The guy is already bringing her water, so it’s not like she’s fucking him for transactional reasons. I dunno, I needed more in the way of motivation. The scene is still super hot, by the way.

This one is hosted by Kari Foxx, who comes across as a lot more polished than Jill Ferrar in the original. Her style is more in line with John Leslie in Ball Busters, in that she keeps bringing up the phrase from the title in her dialogue, although she uses a generally accepted definition. (Unfortunately, she doesn’t go the Deathstalker II route and try to work in the entire title. “I’ll have my revenge, and wild things too.”) She even gets a segment of her own, with Leslie no less, which makes this something of a King Kong vs. Godzilla of loop carrier hosts. I will say that I missed the giddy, “let’s wing it” energy that Ferrar brought in the earlier movie, where half the fun is that she can’t seem to keep a straight face.

Anyway, I just rambled on about how the sketches aren’t quite as good and I didn’t like the hosting style quite as much either, so to keep things fair and balanced, here are some highlights:

This is made only a year after the first one, but has way more electro on the soundtrack. Not a complaint, just an observation.

Nikki Charm is cute as a button as she interviews pornstar Joey Silvera to write an article for career week. Among other things, Silvera vents about the difficulties of doing dialogue while mid-coitus and uses a number of football analogies.

Amber Lynn plays a bankrobber who has to relieve Dick Rambone of his blue balls so they can get back to robbing banks. She attempts an accent that seems to slip by the end of every sentence, but let’s just say there are other things to pay attention to. Like her ’30 bankrobber outfit.

Chris Chase’s shorts seem to defy the laws of physics as the inseam seems much too short to hide his equipment.

The lesbian threesome features three performers (Chanel Price, Shanna McCullough and Regine Bardot) who are successively about a foot apart in height. Had this been released a few years later, it could have been reshaped into a pornographic parody of Twins.

John Leslie plays some sort of doctor of sexual dysfunction, but is shown using the bathroom without washing his hands, which I assume is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath. Later he puts on mummy bandages and tries to peek up Kari Foxx’s skirt, before we get a hard cut to the two of them in flagrante delicto. As you can see, De Renzy understands the importance of editing. Foxx mentions she’s a narcissist who gets off on seeing herself in action, which seems like it’s setting up the same collapsing of performer, director and viewer in the Joanna Storm segment of Ball Busters, but the conflation is much less forceful here.

[alwaysunabasheddelusion]

Gay Male Authors of Gay YA Novels

@owls-garden

I have not read all of these authors so I can’t vouch for quality, but here is a list of gay male authors* who have written at least one YA book with a gay male protagonist. I’m linking to their Amazon Author pages. I am sure there are more out there, but I haven’t been keeping up very well with the YA space. I have not read Heartstoppers, but I understand it is supposed to be a heartwarming coming-of-age love story? That is probably the dominant theme in the books these men write (although there are also coming-of-age with unrequited romance or no romance, dystopian thrillers, fantasy, and other genres in the mix.) 

*to the best of my knowledge this is accurate

Adam Sass

Adam Silvera

Adib Khorram

Andrew Eliopulos (who does not have an author page even though Amazon has his book) 

Arvin Ahmadi

Bill Konigsberg

Brent Hartinger

Brian D. Kennedy

Brian Zepka

Chris Tebbetts

David Levithan

David Valdes Greenwood

Erik J Brown

Grant Muller

James Brandon

Jason June

John Corey Whaley

Jordon Greene

Julian Winters

Kosoko Jackson

Lev AC Rosen

Marcus Herzig

Naz Kutub

Patrick Ness

Phil Stamper

R. Eric Thomas

Robbie Couch

Robby Weber

Ryan La Sala

Shaun David Hutchinson

Simon James Green

Steven Salvatore

TJ Klune

Vitor Martins