#christy Jenkins

[sunnieart7]

Charmed Tarot Cards

Suits of Swords - pt.2

[canenotabeltofunction]

My Charmed (1998) Hot Takes

*Spoilers* (Even Though It’s Been 25 Years- Just Saying)

1. Prue was overpowered

I know that Prue is the oldest and the oldest sister is supposed to be the most powerful, but the development of their powers was just very all over the place with how fast they learned to use them. Prue seemed to master her powers exponentially faster than the other sisters.

For example in the very first episode Prue moves cream from a cup into her coffee. This is moments after she finds out about her powers- yet it takes Paige an extended amount of time before she is able to orb liquids even though she and Prue have basically the same power (and due to the yelling and orbing aspect of Paige’s power it seems like it should have been easier).

There’s also the episode of ‘Secrets and Guys’ in the FIRST SEASON where we see Prue cleaning with her powers and controlling multiple different tools at one time without difficulty- she is literally talking to Phoebe and Piper and is preoccupied and is still able to do this.

Before we even reach the end of the first season Prue has already discovered her ability to control her powers through her hands as well as her eyes. And by the 9th episode of the second season she discovers she can astral project. Which she is already capable of doing intentionally within a few episodes- even though she can’t do it while awake (until episode 5 of season 3).

While the sisters did all develop their powers well I feel like in terms of weaknesses they did not really give Prue that many. There was the whole thing with her being prideful but as a whole her powers didn’t seem to have any bounds after a certain point.

The only time we really see her powers not working well is when there is something blocking their powers all together. Vs with Piper things don’t stay frozen forever, she can only freeze inside a certain range, her freezes can be fought through, etc.

And obviously Phoebe didn’t have an active power until she developed the ability to levitate.

Idk feel free to disagree but I feel that Prue was a little overpowered

2. Cole Deserved a Redemption Arc

Don’t get me wrong I’m not excusing Cole’s behavior in the later seasons. However I do wish that the Cole storyline had gone slightly different and that Phoebe and Cole ended up together.

I personally never was able to get into the Coop storyline- it felt very unemotional to me. And it may have been because Cole was around much longer.

“But Cole was evil! He never changed!”

I beg to differ, up until around the last season he was on the show almost everything that kept Cole evil was out of his control.

He tried to give up his powers originally but was tricked into killing a witch (or he was possessed, I don’t remember). He never wanted to become the source, he was manipulated by The Seer. And even after the source took over we still see Cole inside fighting to be good like when he saves Paige.

And he even tried AGAIN to give up the powers of The Source but Phoebe was manipulated into stopping him.

He genuinely was trying to be good so often and I feel like a lot of it was just that he was dealt a shitty hand.

I think that up until the point where he clearly stopped caring about Phoebe’s wellbeing (like when he is willing to let Paige die and keep Phoebe mummified) he deserved a redemption arc and I wish he had gotten one,

However I think the storyline was ended due to Julian wanting to leave the show and not because of the writers.

(Also I just loved Cole as a character and I cry every time they vanquish him in the apartment)

3. I Didn’t Like Dan

This one is short and sweet

I didn’t like Dan

He’s not an asshole, He was super good to Piper

I just didn’t like him 🤷🏻‍♀️

4. Leo and Piper Shouldn’t Have Gotten Back Together

This one is going to sound kind of hypocritical after the Cole take but I feel like after Leo left to become an elder he and Piper shouldn’t have gotten back together.

Like you’re telling me after all the shit you two went through to be together you’re going to just fuck off to become an elder????

And this is never fully explained honestly; it’s just that “oh it’s not that simple it’s not my choice.” But they never really explained WHY it just seemed like a stupid excuse.

And honestly after all of that shit I know they wouldn’t have had time to give Piper another love interest (which she deserved) and I loved Chris but idk I feel like Piper and Leo shouldn’t have gotten back together-

They can keep Leo around but I don’t think after all of that shit that they should have ended up together

5. Billie and Christy Should Have Had a Different Ending

This is a one or the other kind of thing.

I think Christy should have gotten a redemption arc OR they should have given Billie a bigger corruption arc and killed them both.

I don’t think the ending was BAD I think it was tragic that Billie lost her sister after trying so hard to find her and finding out that she wasn’t who she used to be which made for a good plot point-

But I feel like if they had had more time and things were written a little differently I would have liked to see Christy eventually get redeemed (I mean the girl was brainwashed by the Triad from the time she was a kid cut her some slack). But I know there wasn’t really enough time for that.

However the other option is I think to stick with the strong sisterly love thing that Billie should have had a bigger corruption arc and went down with her sister- or at the very least accidentally died with her or refused to leave her or something.

I will definitely be posting more Charmed content

[vicontheinternet]

I wish they had written Paige to use a bit more of her social work skills with Chris and Billie and Cristi

[cokedupblonde]

sid jenkins

[phoebehalliwell]

if billie hadn't sucked and season 8 hadn't flopped sexy 1950s jd should have been her whitelighter / love interest in her spin off show

[h-l-vlovesvintage]

Thank you @athenawritesandkeepsplants for tagging me. This is a first, so thank you so much.

Anyway, I'm always inbetween books so we'll see how this goes.

Last book I read: and then there were none by agatha christie. I read it over many sittings and is really a good book, though I liked a previous one of hers more which was why didn't they ask evans that book was more my taste in murder mystery.

Current book(s) I'm reading: the ballad of song birds and snakes, interesting world and my introduction into the books of suzanne collins. There are probably others but I'm very much inbetween reading several books bc I tend to loose motivation and still want to read.

Next book I'll read: either a mandatory one for school or reread either the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid or the do-over by lynn painter. Or a fourth option that I haven't thought of yet.

Tagging (you don't have to do it) @ourownside @sandfordsmostwanted @lostcorduroybear

[fandom]

Celebrities

This seems as good a moment as any to remind you that this is a quantitative list. You've yelled about these people a lot this year.

Elon Musk +14

Pedro Pascal +14

David Tennant +46

Neil Gaiman +15

Michael Sheen +92

Margot Robbie

Misha Collins +2

Bella Ramsey

Ryan Gosling

Martin Scorsese

Joseph Quinn -9

Jensen Ackles +2

Greta Gerwig

Jenna Ortega

Kit Connor +12

Chris Evans -11

Daniel Craig

Henry Cavill +2

Taika Waititi -13

Taylor Zakhar Perez

Nicholas Galitzine

Noah Schnapp +23

Rhys Darby -5

Sebastian Stan -11

Ryan Reynolds +39

Joe Keery -15

Robert De Niro

Mads Mikkelsen

Hugh Dancy +19

Sam Reid

Lynda Carter

Zendaya -20

Brendan Fraser

Lily-Rose Depp

Tenoch Huerta

Jacob Anderson

Oscar Isaac -30

Michelle Yeoh

Hayden Christensen -7

Nick Offerman

Emma Myers

Ke Huy Quan

Cillian Murphy

Ewan Mitchell

Tom Holland -41

ND Stevenson

Riz Ahmed

Joe Locke -7

Joey Batey -13

Michael Cera

Tom Hiddleston -21

Oliver Stark +38

Freddy Carter

Ayo Edebiri

Queen Elizabeth II -54

Keanu Reeves -12

Jeff Satur

Chris Pine -41

Marilyn Monroe +7

Ryan Guzman +39

Dana Terrace -28

Ana de Armas +26

Kit Young

First Kanaphan

Florence Pugh -44

Amita Suman

Selena Gomez +4

Jack Wolfe

Guillermo Del Toro

Rian Johnson

Harvey Guillén -1

Matt Smith -35

Khaotung Thanawat

Jeremy Allen White

Anne Hathaway +9

Sydney Sweeney -16

Halle Bailey

Omar Rudberg

Edvin Ryding

Issa Rae

Jennifer Coolidge

Gwendoline Christie

Wang Yibo -2

Glen Powell

Jamie Lee Curtis

Apo Nattawin -33

Jodie Whittaker -28

Andrew Garfield -85

Letitia Wright

Timothée Chalamet -55

Tom Sturridge -53

Ncuti Gatwa

Anya Taylor-Joy +7

Alexandra Daddario

Angela Bassett

Hugh Grant

Jamie Campbell Bower -40

David Jenkins -26

Scarlett Johansson -16

Jason Sudeikis

The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded names weren’t on the list last year.

[gameofthunder66]

-(started) watching Season 1- 7/30/2023- on Netflix

Watching Wednesday (2022)!!!

[sunflower-chai]

i have a problem. so i’m currently reading the chronicles of narnia. once i finish that, i plan to finish reading the hunger games series. but after that, i can’t decide what to read. i have way too many options. so i am enlisting the help of tumblr.

[jakeperalta]

2024 books 📚 (be my friend on storygraph! / also this is my book account on instagram!)

giovanni's room - james baldwin (☆☆☆☆)

let the light pour in: morning poems - lemn sissay (☆☆☆½)

the anthropocene reviewed - john green (☆☆☆☆☆)

lessons in chemistry - bonnie garmus (☆☆☆)

wearing my mother's heart - sophia thakur (☆☆☆)

othello - william shakespeare (☆☆☆)

tiny beautiful things - cheryl strayed (☆☆☆☆½)

the death of ivan ilych - leo tolstoy (☆☆☆)

how not to be a boy - robert webb (☆☆☆☆)

the fellowship of the ring - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆½)

the satsuma complex - bob mortimer (☆☆☆)

the two towers - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆☆)

sapiens: a brief history of humankind - yuval noah harari (☆☆☆)

the return of the king - j.r.r. tolkien (☆☆☆☆☆)

funny story - emily henry (☆☆☆☆½)

the island - victoria hislop (☆☆☆☆)

everything I never told you - celeste ng (☆☆☆☆☆)

wish you were here - jodi picoult (☆☆☆½)

tales from the café - toshikazu kawaguchi (☆☆☆)

forever, interrupted - taylor jenkins reid (☆☆☆☆)

all about love: new visions - bell hook (☆☆☆)

unwell women - elinor cleghorn (☆☆☆☆☆)

seven days in june - tia williams (☆☆☆☆)

breasts and eggs - mieko kawakami (☆☆☆☆)

project hail mary - andy weir (☆☆☆☆☆)

lysistrata - aristophanes (☆☆☆)

the sense of an ending - julian barnes (☆☆☆☆)

dog songs - mary oliver (☆☆☆☆½)

carrie soto is back - taylor jenkins reid (☆☆☆☆☆)

you are here - david nicholls (☆☆☆☆)

the mysterious affair at styles - agatha christie (☆☆☆☆)

the murder on the links - agatha christie (☆☆☆)

the life impossible - matt haig (☆☆☆☆)

beautiful world, where are you? - sally rooney (☆☆☆☆☆)

it's probably your hormones - dr mary ryan (☆☆☆)

wuthering heights - emily brontë (☆☆☆☆)

poetics - aristotle (☆☆)

the girl he used to know - tracey garvis graves (☆☆☆)

a body made of glass: a history of hypochondria - caroline crampton (☆☆☆☆½)

the christmas guest - peter swanson (☆☆☆)

ethan frome - edith wharton (☆☆☆☆)

the holiday trap - roan parrish (☆☆☆☆)

a bookshop christmas - rachel burton (☆☆)

this house of grief: the story of a murder trial - helen garner (☆☆☆☆)

[humanoidhistory]

600 Building, Corpus Christi, Texas, completed 1963, designed by the firm of Jenkins and Hoff.

(Texas Historical Commission)

[mpchev]

You like reading fanfics? How about reading about fanfics? 😏

Here’s what I've read so far (or am currently getting through) for my dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding! I'll be updating it as I go until the end of July. If you have any recs to add to the towering pile or any questions/opinions about something on there, I’m all ears!

on fan studies & ficbinding ✔

Alexander, Julia, ‘Making fanfiction beautiful enough for a bookshelf’, The Verge, 9 March 2021 <https://www.theverge.com/22311788/fanfiction-bookbinding-tiktok-diy-star-wars-harry-potter-twitter-fandom> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Buchsbaum, Shira Belén, ‘Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler, ‘Ethical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom data’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Jenkins, Henry, Textual Pochers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routeledge, 1992)

Jenkins, Henry, ‘Transmedia Storytelling 101’, Pop Junctions, 21 March 2007 <http://henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html#sthash.gSETwxQX.dpuf> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Hellekson, Karen, ‘Making Use Of: The Gift, Commerce, and Fans’, Cinema Journal, 54, no. 3 (2015), 125–131

Kennedy, Kimberly, ‘Fan binding as a method of fan work preservation’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Minkel, Elizabeth, ‘Before “Fans,” There Were “Kranks,” “Longhairs,” and “Lions”: How Do Fandom Gain Their Names?’, Atlas Obscura, 30 May 2024 <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fandom-names> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Penley, Constance, Nasa / Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America (London: Verso, 1997)

Price, Ludi, ‘Fanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writer’s Autoethnography’, Humanities, 11, no. 100 (2022), 1–20

Schiller, Melanie, ‘Transmedia Storytelling: New Practices and Audiences’, in Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era, ed. by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 99–107

on folklore, the internet, other background reading ✔

Barthes, Roland, ‘La mort de l’auteur’ in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques IV (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984)

Blank, Trevor J., Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2009)

Mauss, Marcel, ‘Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques.’, L’année sociologique, 1923–1924; digital edition by Jean-Marie Tremblay, Les classiques des sciences sociales, 17 February 2002, <http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/socio_et_anthropo/2_essai_sur_le_don/essai_sur_le_don.html> [accessed 10 June 2024]

McCulloch, Gretchen, Because Internet: Understanding How Language is Changing (Random House, 2019)

Niles, John D., Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999)

hopefully coming up next (haven't started yet)

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, ed. by Paul Booth (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)

A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, ed. by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021)

Dietz, Laura, ‘Showing the scars: A short case study of de-enhancement of hypertext works for circulation via fan binding or Kindle Direct Publishing’, 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ‘23), September 4–8, 2023, Rome Italy (ACM: New York, 2023)

Fathallah, Judith May, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017)

Finn, Kavita Mudan, and Jessica McCall, ‘Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe’, Critical Survey, 28, no. 2 (2016), 27–38

Hjorth, Larissa et al., eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)

Jacobs, Naomi, and JSA Lowe, ‘The Design of Printed Fanfiction: A Case Study of Down to Agincourt Fanbinding’, Proceedings from the Document Academy, 9, issue 1, article 5

Jenkins, Henry, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006)

Jenkins, Henry, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning In A Networked Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2013)

Kennedy, Kimberly, and Shira Buchsbaum, ‘Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions’, Humanities, 11, no. 67 (2022), 1–18

Kirby, Abby, ‘Examining Collaborative Fanfiction: New Practices in Hyperdiegesis and Poaching’, Humanities, 11, no. 87 (2002), 1–9

Kustritz, Anne, Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction (New Work: Routeledge, 2024)

Lamerichs, Nicolle, Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affecive Reception in Fan Cultures, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Universtiy Press, 2018)

Popova, Milena, ‘Follow the trope: A digital (auto)ethnography for fan studies’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Rosenblatt, Betsy, and Rebecca Tushnet, ‘Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use’, in eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices, ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves

Soller, Bettina, ‘Filing off the Serial Numbers: Fanfiction and its Adaptation to the Book Market’, in Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence, ed. by Johannes Fehrle, Werner Schäfke-Zell (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 58–85

[okayto]

It's that time of year: another crop of films, music, books and images have entered public domain in the US! Highlights include All Quiet on the Western Front, A Room of One's Own, and an Agatha Christie mystery, Buster Keaton's final silent film and Hitchcock's first talkie, and Popeye the Sailor Man as depicted in comic strips from 1929.

The page also has some fascinating explanations and essays on copyright-related topics, including:

The difficulty in figuring out whether The Treachery of Images (aka the "This is not a pipe" pipe picture) is actually in US public domain yet, due to the difficulty of discerning art publishing dates

Why some characters were never copyrightable to begin with

How some greedy actors have attempted to use the threat of copyright infringement to get people to pay up (Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, owners of Charlie Chaplin's films)

[acotars]

books read in 2024

⋆ ⭒˚.⋆ january ⋆.˚⭒ ⋆

one dark window (the shepherd king #1) by rachel gillig

the murder on the links (hercule poirot #2) by agatha christie

pageboy by elliot page

house of sky and breath (crescent city #2) by sarah j. maas

rogue protocol (the murderbot diaries #3) by martha wells

cult classic by sloane crosley

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid

the beauty of your face by sahar mustafah

exit strategy (the murderbot diaries #4) by martha wells

animal farm by george orwell

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin

carrie soto is back by taylor jenkins reid

a court this cruel & lovely (kingdom of lies #1) by stacia stark

the rules do not apply by ariel levy

poirot investigates (hercule poirot #3) by agatha christie

yellowface by rebecca f kuang

every heart a doorway (wayward children #1) by seanan mcguire

house of flame and shadow (crescent city #3) by sarah j. maas

read: 18

* · ✦ · * february * · ✦ · *

beautyland by marie-helene bertino

bride by ali hazelwood

network effect (the murderbot diaries #5) by martha wells

fugitive telemetry (the murderbot diaries #6) by martha wells

faebound (faebound #1) by saara el-arifi

the raven boys (the raven cycle #1) by maggie stiefvater **

read: 6

.✦.· *. march .*· .✦.

interesting facts about space by emily austin

penance by eliza clark

the book that no one wanted to read by richard ayoade

pride and prejudice by jane austen

unlikeable female characters: the women pop culture wants you to hate by anna bogutskaya

the shame by makenna goodman

greta & valdin by rebecca k. reilly

read: 7

✷ · ✶ · ✧ april ✧ · ✶ · ✷

this spells love by kate robb

out on a limb by hannah bonam-young

gwen & art are not in love by lex croucher

a lady's guide to scandal by sophie irwin

the friendship study by ruby barrett

the boyfriend candidate by ashley winstead

the pumpkin spice cafe by laurie gilmore

business or pleasure by rachel lynn solomon

how to end a love story by yulin kuang

this could be us (skyland #2) by kennedy ryan

the honeymoon crashers (the unhoneymooners #1.5) by christina lauren

we could have been friends, my father and i by raja shehadeh

how to stop time by matt haig

how to fake it in hollywood by ava wilder

with love from cold world by alicia thompson

funny story by emily henry

love radio by ebony ladelle

old flames and new fortunes by sarah hogle

just for the summer by abby jimenez

don't want you like a best friend by emma r. alban

love interest by clare gilmore

the exception to the rule (the improbable meet-cute #1) by christina lauren

worst wingman ever (the improbable meet-cute #2) by abby jimenez

with any luck (the improbable meet-cute #5) by ashley poston

last call at the local by sara grunder ruiz

happily never after by lynn painter

the ex talk by rachel lynn solomon

i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston

the love wager by lynn painter

morning glory milking farm by c.m. nacosta

will they or won't they by ava wilder

read: 31

.　° * ☆ may ☆ * °　.

when the sky fell on splendor by emily henry

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

blizzard by marie vingtras

bright young women by jessica knoll

the age of magical overthinking: notes on modern irrationality by amanda montell

the flatshare by beth o'leary **

read: 6

⋆ ˚.⋆ june ⋆.˚ ⋆

not in love by ali hazelwood

the way of kings (the stormlight archive #1) by brandon sanderson

words of radiance (the stormlight archive #2) by brandon sanderson

read: 3

. · ☆ . july . ☆ · .

edgedancer (the stormlight archive #2.5) by brandon sanderson

blue iris: poems and essays by mary oliver

woman, eating by claire kohda

oathbringer (the stormlight archive #3) by brandon sanderson

a novel love story by ashley poston

chlorine by jade song

how to read now by elain castillo

please stop trying to leave me by alana saab

beautifully broken life by catherine cowles

the god of the woods by liz moore

edgedancer (the stormlight archive #3.5) by brandon sanderson

the dead and the dark by courtney gould

a most agreeable murder by julia seales

the murder of roger ackroyd (hercule poirot #4) by agatha christie

read: 14

. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁august ݁. ⊹ ₊ ݁.

the bluest eye by toni morrison

more, please: on food, fat, bingeing, longing, and the lust for "enough" by emma specter

the ministry of time by kaliane bradley

system collapse (the murderbot diaries #7) by martha wells

emily wilde's encycolpedia of fairies (emily wilde #1) by heather fawcett

emily wilde's map of the other lands (emily wilde #2) by heather fawcett

catalina by karla cornejo villavicencio

roadside picnic by arkady strugatsky and boris strugatsky

read: 8

·.★ ° ·. ✶ september ✶ .· ° ★.·

the most by jessica anthony

rhythm of war (the stormlight archive #4) by brandon sanderson

we were the universe by kimberly king parsons

read: 3

.• ★ ₊ ݁. • october • . ݁₊ ★ •.

creation lake by rachel kushner

small rain by garth greenwell

spells for forgetting by adrienne young

normal people by sally rooney

there there by tommy orange

read: 5

.·　✶ november ✶　·.

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read: 0

· ⊹ * · december · * ⊹ ·

two can play by ali hazelwood

happy medium by sarah adler

read: 2

⋆ ˚. ⋆ ✶ reading goal: 103/100 ✶ ⋆ .˚ ⋆

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[magratpudifoot]

I was tagged by @black-lodge-gatekeeper to do a retrospective of what I read this year.

Thanks largely to a couple of extended illnesses, I read:

- 53 print books

- 3 plays

- 1 journal issue

- 1 studio diary

- 2 zines

- About a dozen audiobooks (alas, I have not been posting those in my Ms. P Reads 2024 tag and have therefore not been keeping good track)

1) Best memoir:

The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour

I think perhaps memoirs/biographies were my most-read genre this year, although I haven't tallied up the numbers. I read a pile of them, and what put Velour's book on top is that it is really only half memoir, as she so gracefully situates her own life within a history of drag and activist art and glorious genderqueer vitality. Brava.

2) Most enlightening:

Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews

I don't think I will ever be over the time a professor told me I should read more Freud before I question the merit of Freudian literary analyses. This was long enough ago that that professor is no longer teaching, and I am gratified to report that even the film department faculty was pretty much done with Freud by the time I was in grad school. In fact, Frederick Crews was a Freudian scholar who ended up reading enough Freud that he found out the dude was way more unqualified to speak on...anything than even little undergrad me thought. So take that, professor who taught my undergrad Science Fiction class--Crews says reading more Freud makes you trust him LESS. This book was wild. Every time you think you have plumbed the depths of the wtf-ery, you find out about another absolutely bonkers, thoroughly immoral thing this creep did.

3) Best books I should have read by now:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie & Textual Poachers by Henry Jenkins

Seriously, how had I not read either of these before? Please enjoy them, too, if you haven't already--they're classics for a reason.

4) Book that spoke most directly to my soul:

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

Sublime. I'm afraid to reread it because I don't want to find out that I can't access that state of awed, devastated transcendence again.

5) My favorite horror novel I read this year:

A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

Kingfisher/Vernon is always a joy to read--so twisted and amusing and weirdly educational--and some of the family dynamics hit close enough to home that I felt a bit of my intergenerational trauma seeping out into the rose bushes.

6) Coziest reread:

Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

If you ever find yourself wondering if you should be listening to one of the recent Discworld audio rereleases, the answer is yes. I have much of this book memorized, as many times as I have read it, and it was exactly what I needed this fall. Indira Varma does a spectacular job as the reader, so I could not have enjoyed this more.

7) Most unexpectedly good impulse buy:

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

I can no longer remember if I heard Dickey mentioned in a podcast, or if this book was recommended to me by some algorithm that knows I put on A Haunting as a comfort show sometimes. Having now read several of Dickey's books, I would think it would have been Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart that recommended it, but I quite distinctly remember being surprised it wasn't the usual middling "true" ghost story anthology I assumed it would be. So maybe it WAS recommended by an algorithm, just an algorithm that knows I enjoy Jon Ronson and Oh No! Ross and Carrie.

I'll tag @peppermintquartz, @whatyoufish4, @muppet4muppet, and @nentuaby, and anyone who thinks this looks like fun! In the tradition of @black-lodge-gatekeeper, the categories are entirely up to you!

[dawkacynizmu]

moje życie zawsze było trochę nudne bida i niewielka ilość przyjaciół zatem od dzieciaka rekompensowałam to sobie fikcją, książki, filmy, seriale i moim problemem jest to że zawsze angażowałam się w to trochę za mocno, tzn jak lubiłam jakieś uniwersum to nie znaczy że po prostu obejrzałam filmy. ja je obejrzałam po kilka razy, przeczytałam książki, obejrzałam tysiąc opracowań i teorii na yt, spędziłam godziny na przeglądaniu fanartów, przeczytałam chociaż jedno fanfiction i z reguły też jakieś napisałam. jedno moje fanfiction miało więcej stron niż materiał źródłowy XD trochę przestałam się już tak hiperfiksować na rzeczach które nie istnieją ale dalej mi się zdarza, teraz po prostu jestem bardziej wybredna i historia serio musi mnie zachwycić. także przedstawiam wam spis wszystkich moich faz na przestrzeni ostatnich lat

— ród smoka (ofc)

— gra o tron (mimo że całej nie obejrzałam, przeczytałam też tylko 4 pierwsze książki)

— harry potter

— igrzyska śmierci

— percy jackson

— hamilton (musical)

— fleabag

— książki sally rooney wszystkie przeczytane 2 razy i dwa obejrzane seriale

— wojna makowa (trylogia) (btw przeczytałam wszystkie książki tej autorki i wszystkie kocham — babel i yellowface)

— archiwum X

— criminal minds

— książki agathy christie xD nie zliczę ile

— marvel ale przestałam śledzić po serialu loki bo już same chujostwo wychodziło (ale jeszcze strażników galaktyki obejrzałam)

— seria filmowa krzyk

— fight club

— wszystkie książki taylor jenkins reid

— prawie wszystkie książki ruth ware (jedna czy dwie mi zostały)

— dzieła Shakespeare'a XD absolutnie nie wiem skąd to się wzięło ale zimą przeczytałam romeo i julie sen nocy letniej hamleta makbeta i króla leara a również czytałam mnóstwo teorii o tym czy on istniał w ogóle

— przewodnik po zbrodni według grzecznej dziewczynki

— przeczytałam też prawie wszystkie książki harlana cobena mimo że żadna z nich mi się nie podobała NIE WIEM CZEMU

— milczenie owiec, seria o hannibalu lecterze ogólnie (książki + filmy bez serialu)

— the walking dead

— wszystkie książki z serii fenix net i nika czy jakoś tak (nie pamiętam kolejności imion)

— sporo dzieł stephena kinga (doktor sen, lśnienie, carrie, TO, dallas'63 i jakieś dwa zbiory opowiadań)

— zmierzch

— wszystkie książki donny tartt (tajemna historia >>)

— wszystkie książki johna greena i ekranizacje

— seria książek zwiadowcy ale to jak byłam młodsza i chuja z tego pamiętam chyba pisałam fanfiction

— uniwersum leah bardugo (cień i kość, szóstka wron)

— przeczytałam też i obejrzałam całą narnie ale bardzo nie lubie tego

— stranger things

— derry girls

I PEWNIE BĘDĘ JESZCZE DOPISYWAĆ JAK MI SIĘ PRZYPOMNI

— the bear

— niezgodna

tak to wypisałam i stwierdzam że jestem delikatnie popierdolona nie można mi tego odmówić ps to nie są książki/filmy które po prostu przeczytałam/obejrzałam bo takie to bym caly dzień mogła wypisywać to są wszystkie rzeczy na których punkcie miałam obsesję