#esther kim

[fallloverfic]

The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison to release on 11 March 2025

The end of Sarah Monette/Katherine Addison's The Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy, a spin-off of The Goblin Emperor (together known as The Chronicles of Osreth) has been listed as releasing on 11 March 2025, with cover art by Sachin Teng, design by Esther Kim, and there's now a summary:

"Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is gone, what defines him?

While his title may be gone, his duties are not. Celehar contends with a municipal cemetery with fifty years of secrets, the damage of a revethavar he’s terrified to remember, and a group of miners who are more than willing to trade Celehar’s life for a chance at what they feel they’re owed.

Celehar does not have to face these impossible tasks alone. Joining him are his mentee Velhiro Tomasaran, still finding her footing with the investigative nature of their job; Iäna Pel-Thenhior, his beloved opera director friend and avid supporter; and the valiant guard captain Hanu Olgarezh.

Amidst the backdrop of a murder and a brewing political uprising, Celehar must seek justice for those who cannot find it themselves under a tense political system. The repercussions of his quest are never as simple they seem, and Celehar’s own life and happiness hang in the balance."

[ignisaurumprobat9]

my day was being shitty and then THIS happened.

i feel blessed.

[illustration-alcove]

Esther Kim's illustrated book cover for Lee Geum-yi's Can't I Go Instead.

[graphicpolicy]

Humanoids announces new hires and promotions

Humanoids announces new hires and promotions #comics #comicbooks

[fruityuncleskeletor]

240804 First We Feast Twitter Update with Stray Kids - Heat Eaters Season 3 is finally HERE 🔥 Tomorrow, Esther is joined by THE Stray Kids on her journey eating through NYC's K-Town 🥵 Tune in @ 1pm ET on @firstwefeast ’s YouTube channel. Spice levels: Hannie needs his mommy

Felix has become the Kombucha Girl meme

I'm watching when it drops :)

[harrowclare]

harrowclare's 2024 reading list

here is the long, long list of my 2024 reads with ratings & dates. because of tumblr's limit on links, i cannot direct to individual reviews. if you would like to view my reviews on their respective sites, you can find them on thestorygraph & goodreads.

dates are listed as month, day. manga volumes that are binged will be grouped so that this list isn't a million miles long, with the range of ratings for the volumes in the stack. a few of these titles were started in 2023, lol whoops! those are the only dates with a year stamp.

wanna read along or chat with me about books? i'm super active on fable.

reading challenges: horror bingo reaading challenge (2024-2025)

reading goal progress: 142/100

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Fever House by Keith Rosson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 12.27—12.31 - fiction

The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 11.23—12.27 - fiction

Krampus: The Yule Lord 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 12.13—12.26 - fiction

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 12.01—12.11 - fiction

Fluids by May Leitz 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 12.14—12.17 - fiction

Doppleganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 12.01—12.11 - non-fiction

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.28—11.30 - fiction

Confessions by Kanae Minato 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 11.27—11.28 - fiction

Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 11.26—11.27 - fiction

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 11.26—11.26 - fiction

Graveyard Shift by M.L Rio 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 11.25—11.26 - fiction

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.16—11.25 - fiction

Exquisit Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.11—11.20 - fiction

Rouge by Mona Awad 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.01—11.15 - fiction

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 11.01—11.10 - fiction

Brat by Gabriel Smith 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 11.06—11.09 - fiction

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.31—11.04 - fiction

Hallowpeen by Holly Wilde 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.31—10.31 - fiction

Phantasma by Kaylie Smith 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.11—10.31 - fiction

Taking Her Turn by Lisa Shea 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 10.31—10.31 - fiction

The Watchers by A.M. Shine 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 10.26—10.30 - fiction

The Vegetarian by Han Kang 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 10.26—10.27 - fiction

I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 10.24—10.25 - fiction

Feed by Mira Grant 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.15—10.24 - fiction

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.21—10.22 - fiction

The Fall of the House of Usher 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 10.21—10.21 - fiction

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.13—10.14 - fiction

Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 10.11—10.13 - fiction

Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.09—10.12 - fiction

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 10.04—10.11 - fiction

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.09—10.10 - fiction

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.03—10.09 - fiction

Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 08.25—10.09 - fiction originally i listened to the audiobook, stopping at 57% & restarting the hardcover book from the beginning.

Walking Practice by Dolki Min 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 10.04—10.05 - fiction

Stormflower by Keegan Kozinski & Tristen Kozinski (eARC) 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 07.29—10.02 - fiction

Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 09.27—10.01 - fiction

The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 09.25—09.29 - fiction

Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 09.23—09.24 - fiction

Volume Ø: Issue 3 by multiple authors 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.21—09/22 - fiction

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.12—09. 21 - fiction

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 09.04—09.12 - fiction

The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.02—09.12 - fiction

This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 09.04—09.05 - fiction

Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.30—08.31 - fiction

The Haar by David Sodergren 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 08.25—08.29 - fiction

None of This is True by Lisa Jewell 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑- 08.26—08.27 - fiction

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.19—08.25 - fiction i actually gave this a 3.75 on thestorygraph, which may seem obnoxious, but it felt right idk. sometimes rating shit 1-5 feels arbitrary and hard.

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.30—08.24 - fiction

Killing Stalking Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Koogi 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 08.24—08.24 - webtoon

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 03.16.23—08.22 - fiction

Schappi by Anna Haifisch 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 08.20—08.20 - graphic novel

You Will Own Nothing And You Will Be Happy #1 by Simon Hanslemann 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.20—08.20 - graphic novel, reread

Werewolf Jones and Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann & Simon Pettinger 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 08.20—08.20 - graphic novel

Something Akin to Revulsion by Judith Sonnet 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 - 08.19—08.20 - fiction

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.16—08.18 - fiction

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 08.09—08.16 - fiction

The Troop by Nick Cutter 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 08.12—08.14 - fiction

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 08.01—08.12 - fiction

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 07.27—08.09 - fiction

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.30—08.06 - fiction

The Ruins by Scott Smith 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 08.01—08.05 - fiction

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 07.24—07.30 - fiction at the time of reading and reviewing this i was unaware of the controversies surrounding the author (uncredited use of the likeness of a video game and possible Zionism.) i don't want to change my rating & review because the book did have a profound impact on me, but i also do not believe in separating art from the artist, so i will not be purchasing the book or reading more from the author.

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.14—07.29 - fiction

Playground by Aron Beauregard 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑 - 07.23—07.28 - fiction

Middle of the Night by Riley Sager 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑- 07.17—07.27 - fiction

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑- 07.15—07.24 - fiction

The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑- 07.11—07.23 - fiction

The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑- 07.20—07.22 - manga

The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.19—07.20 - manga

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 07.11—07.16 - fiction

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 07.10—07.13 - fiction

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 07.09—07.10 - fiction

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.08—07.09 - fiction

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 07.03—07.08 - fiction

Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕- 07.05—07.05 - graphic novel

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 06.27—07.03 - fiction

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 06.26—06.26 - fiction

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 06.23—06.25 - fiction

Victim by Andrew Boryga 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 06.14—06.17 - fiction

A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑 - 04.19—06.14 - fiction

A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 06.06—06.13 - fiction

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑 - 06.01—06.06 - fiction

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 05.22—05.31 - fiction

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 05.26—05.27 - non-fiction

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 05.19—05.21 - fiction

You've Lost a Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 05.10—05.19 - fiction

Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 05.18—05.19 - fiction

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 05.14—05.18 - fiction

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 05.10—05.13 - fiction

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 05.01—05.03 - fiction review: thestorygraph, goodreads

The Measure by Nikki Erlick 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 04.21—04.23 - fiction

Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1 - Vol. 8 by Sui Ishida 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 04.22—05.08 - manga

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 04.18—04.21 - fiction

Know My Name by Chanel Miller 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 04.05—04.18 - non-fiction

Chainsaw Man Vol. 1 - Vol. 11 by Tatsuki Fujimoto 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 04.16—04.22 - manga

Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 5 - Vol. 26 by Gege Akutami 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 12.23.23—04.16 - manga

Tampa by Alissa Nutting 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑 - 04.02—04.03 - fiction

Circe by Madeline Miller 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 03.29—04.01 - fiction

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 03.25—03.28 - fiction

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 - 03.23—03.25 - fiction

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 - 02.02—03.20 - fiction

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vyong 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 - 03.06—03.06- poetry

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 02.01—02.01- fiction

Y/N by Esther Yi | fiction 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 - 01.31—02.01 - fiction

my tiny DNF pile

Falling by T.J Newman stopped at 6% - 10.07 - fiction

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois stopped at 32% - 09.07 - fiction

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry stopped at 24% - 05.03 - non-fiction

new words

(tbh i know many of these verbally, but didn't know when when i read them - or vice versa depending on whether i was reading with my eyes or ears.)

acrimony, alacrity, allay, ameliorate, aplomb, assiduously, avarice, avulsed, conviviality, detritus, eddy, garrulous, germane, gloaming, gunwale, inexorable, itinerant, lassitude, lugubrious, moribund, palliative, palimpsest, pernicious, pugnacious, sententiously, scrim, sepulchral, shale, splume, stalward, surreptitious, rime, verisimilitude

[megankoumori]

Girlhood Icons:

[luegootravez]

Kim Riekenberg by © Esther Haase

[scenesandscreens]

BEEF, Season One (2023)

Directed by Hikari, Jake Schreier & Lee Sung Jin, Cinematography by Larkin Seiple

[rpfofficial]

characters that are endlessly devoted to another person or a cause are always my favourite characters which is so interesting because im the opposite of devoted. im terminally untethered. im not scared of commitment but im very avoidant of it. so when a character comes on whose entire personality is commitment and entire story arc is devotion i let it eat me alive because its something that i feel is unachievable. maybe it scares me a little but it's as if i can live vicariously through these characters or try to study something that i don't understand

[choicearmystay]

Spies being Spies

[cascadingpearls]

100 Word Drabble: XO, Kitty - Secrets in Your Head

"Beauty is supposed to be from within."

Her heart stops. All the confidence she had strutting into the ball vanishes for a moment.  “What did you say?"

Min Ho tries back away but she won't let him. He wants her to play her cards?  Fine, she'll play. 

When he tries to brush off her demands. She's all in and reveals her cards. She built him a connection to his father for this. Min Ho is shocked, he underestimated her again. She almost could laugh.

One final dig and she knows she's got him. 

Kitty, her very own ace of spades.

xo

My XO, Kitty drabbles are also here

[ignisaurumprobat9]

I love them so much 🥺❤️

[kaedegowon]

wa wanna be be wa wanna. YOU? WANNA BE LUMINOUS?

[ruleof3bobby]

MINARI (2020) Grade: B

They developed each character so equally beautiful, I think one could argue each is the films POV. Loved the composition and acting. The grandma is one of the best written characters I've seen in awhile.

[nycmess]

I saw Esther Blumenthal and her artist husband out to a nice dinner on Valentine's Day... which is really awkward considering she's been spotted on dates with other people, hasn't she?

maybe they're doing the whole open marriage thing? it hasn't really been a good look for her to be going on all these dates while i'm still waiting for her next book. shouldn't she be working? this could be a good sign for her.