#hark a vagrant edit

[rebrandedbard]

new season new kate beaton comic redraw

[farragoofnotes]

With apologies to Hark A Vagrant #213, the Kaye POV from the B&N edition of Cruel Prince.

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || February 28 || Read In February:

While most of what I read this month was delightful, I read far less than I wanted too. My brain just refused to Focus. Sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles I guess. May my brain be kinder in March!

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 6 by Naoko Takeuchi ★★★★

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley ★★★★

Sunstone Vol. 1 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★ [RR]

Sunstone Vol. 2 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★

Sunstone Vol. 3 by Stjepan ��ejić ★★★★

Sunstone Vol. 4 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★

Sunstone Vol. 5 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★

Sunstone Vol. 6 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★

Sunstone Vol. 7 by Stjepan Šejić ★★★★

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton ★★★

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra ★★★★★

Lorehaven Bound: A Hunger Pangs Short by Joy Demorra ★★★★★ [K]

Crewel Intentions: A Hunger Pangs Short by Joy Demorra ★★★★★ [K]

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages ★★★

Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander ★★

[henrykathman]

I have too many thoughts on The Great Gatsby (2013)

Music by Molly Noise (She/Her)

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This video sees me delving into the 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann; a film that many have regarded as a definitive version of F Scott Fitzgerald's original novel, while others regard it as a dubstep-laden imitation of the literary classic. Which one is it? Settle in and find out, old sport!

Work Cited:

Agur, Colin. "Negotiated Order: The Fourth Amendment, Telephone Surveillance, and Social Interactions, 1878–1968." Information & Culture 48.4 (2013): 419-447. https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/182084/Agur%20-%20I%26C%20-%20Negotiated%20Order.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 

“Baz to Make ‘Gatsby’ Choice.” The New York Post, Achived through the Wayback Machine, 10 Feb. 2011, archive.ph/20130111073735/www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/baz_to_make_gatsby_choice_I5ngKh4aqSwiEmZh6H0iKJ#selection-2097.0-2097.27.

Beaton, Kate. “Great Gatsbys.” Hark! A Vagrant, 10 May 2013, www.harkavagrant.com/?id=259-. Accessed 25 July 2023.

“Elvis (2022) and the Utter Mediocrity of Biopics.” Broey Deschanel, Youtube, 27 Sept. 2022, youtu.be/Fu96gDcrEeU. Accessed 25 July 2023.

Ferriss, S. (2018), Refashioning the Modern American Dream: The Great Gatsby, The Wolf of Wall Street, and American Hustle. J Am Cult, 41: 153-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.12869

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925.

Kroenert, Tim. “Baz Luhrmann versus the God of Capitalism.” Eureka Street, vol. 23, no. 11, June 2013, pp. 25–26. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=a9h&AN=90006908&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Luhrmann, Baz, et al. The Great Gatsby Screenplay. 2013, stephenfollows.com/resource-docs/scripts/greatgatsby_sp.pdf.

MacLean, Tessa. "Preserving Utopia: Musical Style in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby." Literature/Film Quarterly 44.2 (2016): 120-131.

McGirr, Lisa. The war on alcohol: Prohibition and the rise of the American state. WW Norton & Company, 2015.

Miller, Alyssa. “Baz Luhrmann Really Is the ‘Stanley Kubrick of Confetti’ and This Is Why.” No Film School, 11 Nov. 2022, nofilmschool.com/baz-luhrmanns-editing-and-visual-style.

Noer, Michael. “No. 14 Gatsby, Jay.” Forbes, 13 Apr. 2010, www.forbes.com/2010/04/13/great-gatsby-bio-opinions-fictional-15-10-fitzgerald.html?sh=672907174535. Accessed 25 July 2023.

Piff, P. K., et al. “Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, no. 11, Feb. 2012, pp. 4086–91, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118373109.

“Searching for Sugar Man (2012) - Full Cast and Crew.” The Internet Movie Database, Amazon, 2012, www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm. Accessed 25 Aug. 2023.

Seitz, Matt Zoller. “Baz Luhrmann Is the Stanley Kubrick of Confetti.” Vulture, 9 Nov. 2022, www.vulture.com/2022/11/baz-luhrmann-knows-hes-the-stanley-kubrick-of-confetti.html.

Stewart, Jack. “The Cars of the Great Gatsby.” The Daily Drive | Consumer Guide®, 16 May 2013, blog.consumerguide.com/the-cars-of-the-great-gatsby/.

[iirulancorrino]

Best books I’ve read this year: end of year edition

I read a lot of great books this year so it’s really hard to narrow down my favorites, but here are some I read during the past six months that I most enjoyed. (You can read part one here).

Best new releases: fiction

Not a ton of novels I loved but I thought Afghan American author Jamil Jan Kochai’s short story collection The Haunting of Hajji Hotak was absolutely stellar.

Honorable mentions: Flight by Lynn Steger Strong and Small Game by Blair Braverman.

Best new releases: nonfiction

Partisans by Nicole Hemmer - argues convincingly that Trump was the natural evolution of decades of reactionary GOP politics, not an abberration.

Ducks by Kate Beaton - amazing graphic memoir by the Hark, A Vagrant writer about working in the Alberta oil sands to pay off her student debt. An incredible portrait both of what it’s like growing up working class in a small town and the sacrifices that entails and the trauma of being one of the few women in a very harsh working environment.

Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv - fascinating series of vignettes by one of my favorite New Yorker writers exploring different people’s perceptions of mental illness and how we can become trapped in our own narratives.

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham - this was hard to stomach because of the depth of cruelty it described but is well worth reading to understand just how all-encompassing a reign of terror Jim Crow was for black Southerners.

Getting Me Cheap: How Low Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty by Amanda Freeman and Lisa Dodson - Damning Indictment of how this country treats poor people and how women and girls, particularly single mothers, bear the worst burden.

We Need to Build: Field Notes for a Diverse Democracy by Eboo Patel - I would get every left-of-center person to read this if I could.

Honorable mentions: His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa and Bad Jews by Emily Tamkin.

Best fiction (non new)

I ended up reading a lot of fiction by 20th century European authors, and particularly loved The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig, Everything Flows by Vassily Grossman and The Years by Annie Ernaux. Reading these felt like getting a little tour of the century, particularly of how radically modern Europe was shaped by WWI and WWII.

Boy Parts by Eliza Clark and In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes were my two other favorites, and are of a pair in that they’re refreshing (despite being over 60 years old in one case) takes by woman writers on a specific style of novel and make incredible use of an unreliable narrator.

Best nonfiction (non new)

I continued to read a lot of nonfiction about abortion and most appreciated The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler, which details the human cost of the “baby scoop” era and Beggars and Choosers by Rickie Solinger, which criticizes the shift from rights to choice-based language in discussions of reproductive politics.

I also really enjoyed Mark Lilla’s The Shipwrecked Mind about reactionary politics, which honestly felt like a better version of The Decadent Society and Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, which was written before the pandemic and felt extremely prescient about a lot of the discourse of the past few years.

Best poetry

I didn’t read a ton of poetry that really grabbed me but I enjoyed Sherry Shenoda’s The Mummy Eaters, which explores the author’s Coptic Egyptian heritage. From previous years, I enjoyed Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps and Richie Hofmann’s Second Empire.

[artemismatchalatte]

"You can only keep 20 books out of all the books you own" tag

I saw this originally on @theinquisitxor 's page. I thought I'd do my own version of their tag.

Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?

This was hard. I only picked from books I've read all the way through. This list also includes two honorable mentions (because I couldn't limit myself :/). I'll list the titles and authors at the end.

Frankenstein (1818 edition) by Mary Shelley

Mary's Monster by Lita Judge

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn

Byron in Love by Edna O' Brien

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney

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

Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion

Persuasion by Jane Austen

My Plain Jane by Cythnia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Literary Theory by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

(Honorable mentions)

Abigail by Magda Szabo

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by bell hooks (not pictured here- but I do own a copy, I just couldn't find it in time for this post).

I tag: @paperbackpropensity, @thatwritererinoriordan, @godzilla-reads, and anyone else who wants to do this! :)

Because of how long my post already is, please make a new post for your own version of the tag. Feel free to tag me back, if you want, but also credit @theinquisitxor for making the original tag.

Thank you and have fun, everyone! :D

[saydams]

well, i used to love sinfest back in the day (dont read it, it went SUPER anti sexwork and other bad stuff a decade or so ago)

and there was this comic about a slug with a gun?

and that one about the black mage--the blue triangle with the yellow hat, all done in super low pixels. i really liked that. dont know how it holds up. (might be 6-bit? not that's not right)

and ive been reading el goonish shive for decades. the evolution of that one has been fascinating!

i lost a ton of webcomic addresses on a computer crash a long time ago. and it took me a while to get another computer, and by then i had forgotten a lot of names and couldnt find them again.

so i cant remember what else.

oh! the dinosaur one! he's still around, but i stopped reading them for some reason? i dont know why, i remember really liking them. (dinosaur comics)

edit: i love hark a vagrant and xkcd and i used to love QC (stopped reading for some reason and havent picked back up, should try it again) but they were not among my first.

Note: I'm a 1997 baby, so obviously my choices are largely influenced by what was popular when I was in school - and what was popular with my friend group.

[owenthetokencishet]

I needed more options for this one. Tumblr could have 20 options and it still wouldn't cover them all

[compo67]

This past weekend, I had the privilege of reading "Ducks," by Kate Beaton. I have always been a fan of her work, going back to the early days of "Hark! A Vagrant." "Ducks" is phenomenal. It's so honest with grief. Can't recommend this book enough.

[rebrandedbard]

Your wish is my command @greyduckgreygoose​!

Bonus post-mountain version of ‘Lay Down Your Loyalties’

[princess-of-purple-prose]

[ID: Two Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint comics parodying comics by Hark! A Vagrant. The first is titled "Happy Birthday Yoo Joonghyuk feat. Han Sooyoung" and features Sooyoung bursting out of a big cake and saying "Happy Birthday" to Joonghyuk. Joonghyuk says flatly, "I wish it was Kim Dokja." Sooyoung looms over him and crosses her arms with offense, and she glares, "5+ years we've known each other. And now you don't want to see me jump out of a cake?"

The second version also starts with Sooyoung popping out of a cake and saying happy birthday. Joonghyuk glares at her and says "I wish it was Kim Dokja," and she replies, "Me too." Gloom hangs over them both as Sooyoung buries her face in her hands and Joonghyuk falls to the ground in despair. The background has a banner that says "HBD YJH". End ID]

Edit: The first part of the post now has an ID, as kindly added by OP, please go reblog from them!

whoops i forgot to post this lil meme redraw here anyways happy birthday yjh this was for wolfweek day 7: birthday

[aujoule]

Vasily is really living the Nemesis lifestyle.

[a-ramblinrose]

A Weekly Reading Journal 2.19.24

Two weeks and a day late but I did eventually remember I was making these journals! Whoops.

Currently Reading:

Fiction:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [RR]

The Governess Gambit by Erica Ridley [K]

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

Complete Shorter Fiction by Oscar Wilde

Poetry:

The Book of Songs translated by Arthur Waley

The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale

Rilke: Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage Poems edited by John Hollander

Nonfiction:

Eros The Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Graphic Novels:

Weirdos from Another Planet! by Bill Watterson

Just Finished:

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 6 by Naoko Takeuchi ★★★★

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley ★★★★

Sunstone Vol.1-7 by Stjepan Sejic ★★★★

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton ★★★

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra ★★★★★

Lorehaven Bound by Joy Demorra ★★★★★ [K]

Crewel Intentions by Joy Demorra ★★★★★ [K]

General Reading Thoughts:

It's been a bit of a comic dominant month so far. This happens ever so often and I think the rest of February is going to continue my rampage through my comic tbr stack!

Happy Reading!!!

Current Reading Tag || General Original Content || 2024 Reading Page

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin

[dicksmasher]

@mstarajoy i love hark! A vagrant omg thank you for reminding me that it exists

would you reblog this but add your edit to it? I was about to do it myself but I wanted you to keep the credit for this submission lol

[codenamesazanka]

note: his pants changed color because magic and not because i was careless nope.