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i-who-has-never-had-a-name · 9 months ago
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Books I will never read
1. Anything by Haruki Murakami, but especially Norwegian Wood.
I've read Kafka on the Shore halfway through and stopped. Also that one handjob scene....no. why. He's a huge misogynist who I do not want to support. I've heard about that one scene in Norwegian Wood with the father's picture...yikes. I like literary fiction the most, which means I want well-written characters meaning all of them should be well-written and have a soul, yes even the female ones. I saw that one picture of pseudo intellectual Harry Styles being in bed reading Norwegian Wood...at this point why? Why do we not question this? I sometimes wonder if this is all an inside joke I'm not into.
2. Any CoHo/Emily Henry/Tiktok romance book
No explanation needed. I'm in a happy relationship and I don't have a son with big balls.
3. Any splatterpunk book (Eric LaRocca's books, Playground)
I like disturbing books, I have nothing against brutal/disgusting scenes and such, but it has to have a purpose. You cannot write such sick, twisted things just for shock value, because you are a writer and should at least be a good one. Splatterpunk writers don't care about that. They write the most sick, twisted things that a human could come up with. It's not revolutionary but tasteless shock. Those people don't love literature, they love gore. It doesn't help that the vast majority of those authors are men and that they let their female and their younger characters experience a lot of pain. They get away with their blatant sadism and sexism by categorizing it as "splatterpunk".
4. That Icebreaker book
Not just bc it's a tiktok romance book, but specifically bc it reminds me of that one tiktok named Kierra I think who was widely sexist and rude and evil to a hockey player's wife just bc she said she didn't want her to make anymore sexual comments about her husband and the father of her child. Wild. You should definitely look into it.
5. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Torture Corn really. Straight women writes queer male characters are tortures them. We've all seen it, really.
6. Any self help book
Pure Scams. It is capitalist propaganda that your problems are based of your material conditions but are purely isolated from the rest of the world and as long you buy my book in which I give you a list of what to do, you won't be happy. When you give me your money, you'll be happy, really!
It definitely doesn't help that most of those authors are white, male and rich.
7. Books with queer male romance written by straight women
I'm not saying straight women don't have the capability to write well-written male queer characters, I'm just saying that there's a pattern...
I've come to this conclusion after reading the beloved "Song Of Achilles". There's a lot of critique I have with this book, mainly it's portrayal of queerness.
8. Any Books by J.K Rowling, including Harry Potter
Transphobic asshole and not that good of a writer.
9. Tolstoi's works
I'm sure he is great writer. Sometime when I'm old and grey I'll try reading War and Peace. But now, I'm too dumb for that.
10. Any of those celebrity authobiographies
I have my own life. I truly don't care and if I do I'll just watch some YouTube video instead of wasting my money. They're so painfully ghost written. Hate ghost written books, they can be so soulless. You can't really get an objective look at things bc the books are obviously biased. Look at that Prince Harry biography. You feel bad for him bc his wee-wee got frostbite without him actually addressing his partaking in the iraq war.
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rladpeps · 6 days ago
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As soon as I finish reading 1Q84 I’m going to ignore all the other books I have borrowed and binge-read the cruel prince
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rinne4112 · 4 months ago
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Started making Utapri yume artworks recently, so I'll start off with my character's intro via Live Emotion style!! 💪
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Bonus sketches:
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ultimatecutenesspeaks · 1 year ago
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Bunny mind yup he wants us as his brides well too bad for him I’m already dating two people already bunny well soma how can I’m said this but haruki already is dating two idiots so I’m afraid he can’t marry you either do I’m and mizuki
Haruki: Please don't call them idiots...
Soma: I see. So you three have indulged in Shiva's polyamorous lifestyle as well.
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metamorphesque · 1 year ago
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what r ur top books of all time
The Metamorphosis, The Castle, Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (no, it's not too long - if anything, it should've been longer)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Samvel by Raffi
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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rz-jocelyn · 2 months ago
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[NEWS] Sato Ryuji has been Cast as Matsuno Chifuyu in the "Musical 'Tokyo Revengers' #2 Bloody Halloween"
Preview Video
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STAGE INFORMATION
Tokyo Performances
Dates: March 28, 2025 to April 06, 2025
Venue: The Galaxy Theatre
Capacity: 746 people
Kyoto Performances
Dates: April 11, 2025 to April 13, 2025
Venue: Kyoto Theater
Capacity: 941 people
STORY DESCRIPTION
The "Musical 'Tokyo Revengers' #2 Bloody Halloween" is the second installment in the "Musical 'Tokyo Revengers'", and as the title says, will likely be covering the events surrounding Bloody Halloween in the Valhalla Arc.
In the manga, this arc is covered in Chapters 34 to 77, and in the anime, it is covered in Episodes 13 to 25.
Sato Ryuji has been cast as Matsuno Chifuyu, the vice captain of the First Division of the Tokyo Manji Gang, and a close friend of Hanagaki Takemichi.
For more information about the full story of "Tokyo Revengers", please refer to this link: HERE
CAST
Takenaka Ryohei as Hanagaki Takemichi
Kitamura Ryo as Sano Manjiro
Isaka Ikumi as Ryuguji Ken
Suzuki Shogo as Baji Keisuke
Kishimoto Yuta as Hanemiya Kazutora
Sato Ryuji as Matsuno Chifuyu
Sakayori Futa as Mitsuya Takashi
Koki as Hayashida Haruki
Kubo Yudai as Sendo Atsushi
Sasaki Takashi as Sano Shinichiro
Hiramatsu Raima as Kisaki Tetta
Isono Dai as Hanma Shuji
Sato Nobunaga as Tachibana Naoto
Ita Riria (Nogizaka 46) as Tachibana Hinata
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[1] Ryuji and Suzuki Shogo have worked together before in the "Engeki no Mouri-san - The Entertainment Theater" where they did "Hoshi no Oujisama" ("Le Petit Prince"/"The Little Prince").
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Ryuji played the prince while Shogo played the pilot.
[2] Ryuji has worked with Kitamura Ryo before in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO", the Movie Theatre "Success Sou" and "Kamen Rider Geats".
[3] Ryuji and Sato Nobunaga have co-starred together before in "Itoshi no Hakana" and the "Musical Touken Ranbu".
[4] Ryuji has also been a guest on "Bokutachi no Asobiba", which features Isaka Ikumi as one of the regulars. To watch all the episodes with Ryuji, please refer to this link: HERE
TICKETING INFORMATION
Ticket Types
VIP Seat (all seats in the first 5 rows; stage pamphlet included): 16,800 yen
S Seat (stage pamphlet included): 12,800 yen
Pair S Seat (set of 2 seats; stage pamphlet included; 1,000 yen goods voucher included): 25,600 yen
A Seat: 9,800 yen
Sato Ryuji Fanclub Ticket Application
Application Period: Now to 23.59 (Japan time) on September 16, 2024
To apply for tickets using this method, please refer to this link: HERE
NOTE: A fanclub membership is required for this application. To register for a membership, please refer to this link: HERE
"Musical 'Tokyo Revengers'" Official Twitter: HERE
"Musical 'Tokyo Revengers'" Official Website: HERE
Source(s): ( x , x , x , x )
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nevermoretoleave · 11 months ago
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is he your lord before he's your brother? how do you put your duty to your lord before your duty to your brother? how do you tell the difference? — on rahadin, of house zarovich.
@\iasoup-deactivated20190921 / you're on your own, kid, taylor swift / rest achilles, the world will wait, p.d. ( @\lostcap ) / norwegian wood, haruki murakami / so, you're a soldier, m.j. pearl ( @\fairytalesques ) / glass and god, anne carson / infinite jest, david foster wallace / curse of strahd / mirror traps, hera lindsay bird / the cruel prince, holly black / he ain't heavy, he's my brother, the hollies / brother, sister, rival, friend: the longstanding effects of sibling relationships, joshua a. krisch / matryoshka, mabel episode 28 / this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar / antigone, sophocles / sue zhao / underworld, mabel episode 16
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aliciavance4228 · 9 days ago
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One Hundred Books
Decided to make this list in order to include in one post all the books that I found to be worth reading and would recommend to others. They're not in a specific order:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Dubliners by James Joyce
A Jounal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Trial by Kafka
Metamorphosis by Kafka
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Dracula by Bram Stocker
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Dune by Frank Herbert
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski
Notes from the Underground by Dostoievski
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Pianist by Władisław Szpilman
Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
The Idiot by Dostoievski
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoievski
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Moby-Dick by Herman Meville
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievski
The Call of Cthulhu by Lovecraft
Dagon and other Macabre Tells by Lovecraft
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
The Shining by Stephen King
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Enlightened Cave by Max Blecher
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The God Factory by Karel Čapek
The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Selected Poems by Jorge Louis Borges
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Plague by Albert Camus
Carrie by Stephen King
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Tell-Tale Heart and other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
It by Stephen King
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych
La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
...gotta pin this post and edit it later, when I'll have more time to do that.
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josemat2953 · 1 year ago
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🌷Prince Haruki🌷
Adopted Prince and Protector of the Flower Kingdom
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Even obscure characters should be given love (or at least respect) where it's due.
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felix-the-lemon-king · 2 years ago
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Tumblr-Enby Masterlist
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Round One
Raine (The Owl House) vs. Double Trouble (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
Kazi (The Dragon Prince) vs. Mihaly (Just Dance 2023)
Najimi (Komi Can't Communicate) vs. Riri (Romantic Killer)
Kris (Deltarune) vs. Stevonnie (Steven Universe)
Trixie (Epithet Erased) vs. Charlie (Underworld Office)
Ellry (The Henry Stickmin Collection) vs. Davepetasprite^2 (Homestuck)
Janet (The Good Place) vs. Crowley (Good Omens)
BMO (Adventure Time) vs. Frankie (Monster High G3)
Round Two
Haruki (Ouran Highschool Host Club) vs. Raine (The Owl House)
Haruka (Sailor Moon) vs. Najimi (Komi Can't Communicate)
Courtney (DeadEndia) vs. Trixie (Epithet Erased)
Loki (Loki Comics) vs. Crowley (Good Omens)
Round Three
Raine (The Owl House) vs. Kazi (The Dragon Prince)
Haruka (Sailor Moon) vs. Kris (Deltarune)
Courtney (DeadEndia) vs. Davepetasprite^2 (Homestuck)
Crowley (Good Omens) vs. BMO (Adventure Time)
Round Four
Raine (The Owl House) vs. Kris (Deltarune)
Davepetasprite^2 (Homestuck) vs. Crowley (Good Omens)
FINALS
Kris (Deltarune) vs. Crowley (Good Omens)
(Poll designed by @kitkat-the-muffin I am just posting it for her since she doesn't have polls yet. If you have any questions, please redirect them to her! Here's an excerpt from her)
"The non-binary rep wiki was consulted and then promptly abandoned in favor of my own personal picks for who I think the best enby characters are in modern media. I chose people based off familiarity and gender envy. If your fav isn’t on the bracket don’t worry, this isn’t the only poll out there."
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sitp-recs · 10 months ago
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Anime Recs Pt 3
Hello hello! I’ve been sick on and off this month and had a blast revisiting my fave anime for this rec series. Following the queer friendly list and the sports anime list, I finally bring a selection of BL (boys love) titles. Most are Japanese 🇯🇵 except for Mignon 🇰🇷 and Tian Guan Ci Fu 🇨🇳 I’m not gonna lie, there’s a fair amount of adult themes and hardcore angst here, but you’ll also find sweet romance and a couple coming-of-age stories. One of my favorites from this list - Ai No Kusabi - is an old classic (I recommend the 1992 OVA series over the 2012 remake) and the quality is not the best, but all other shows are pretty recent and can be found online or on Crunchyroll. I initially planned for this to be my third and final rec list, but I got a few additional recs in the action/fantasy genre for a potential new list, if anyone’s interested? Stay tuned!
1. Ai no Kusabi (dystopian, tragedy)
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Summary: This futuristic tale is set in a world ruled by a super computer Jupiter, where its cyborg creations, the Elites, rule over the human populace. Iason Mink, a high-class "Blondy" elite from the capital runs into Riki, a "Mongrel" from the slums, and makes him his "Pet". As Riki learns of the dangers Iason faces by keeping him, he finds himself developing feelings for his master.
2. Banana Fish (mafia, tragedy)
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Summary: Set primarily in New York City in the 1980s, the series follows street gang leader Ash Lynx as he uncovers a criminal conspiracy involving "banana fish", a mysterious drug that brainwashes its users. In the course of his investigation he encounters Eiji Okumura, a Japanese photographer's assistant with whom he forms a close bond.
3. Doukyuusei (movie - school, romance)
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Summary: Rihito Sajo, an honor student with a perfect score on the entrance exam and Hikaru Kusakabe, in a band and popular among girls, would have never crossed paths. Until one day they started talking at the practice for their school’s upcoming chorus festival.
4. Given (school, music)
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Summary: High schooler Ritsuka Uenoyama is the guitarist for a band composed of himself, bassist Haruki Nakayama, and drummer Akihiko Kaji. He becomes a reluctant guitar teacher to Mafuyu Satō, a shy classmate, after repairing the broken strings on Mafuyu's Gibson ES-330. See also: Given movie.
5. Mignon (short series - vampire romance + the hottest smut you’ll see today!!!!🥵)
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Summary: Centered on BL Vampire themes, the story portrays Mignon, an underground fighter in love with his doctor, who is coincidentally a vampire. The doctor's revelation triggers complications as their relationship unfolds.
6. Saezuru Tori Wa Habatakanai | Twittering Birds Never Fly (movie - mafia, drama)
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Summary: The sexually masochistic yakuza boss, Yashiro, isn't the type to warm up to others easily. But when Chikara Doumeki, his newly hired bodyguard, catches his interest, he reconsiders his "hands-off" policy with subordinates. See also the side story: Don’t Stay Gold.
7. Sasaki and Miyano (school, romance)
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Summary: Shy and easily flustered Miyano harbors an embarrassing secret - he is a "fudanshi", a boy who likes boys' love manga. Intrigued, the clueless delinquent Sasaki requests to borrow one, marking a shift in their strange dynamic.
8. Tiān Guān Cì Fú | Heaven’s Official Blessing (romance)
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Summary: Crown Prince Xie Lian ascends to the heavens for the third time as the laughing stock among all three realms. On his first task, he meets a mysterious ghost who rules the ghosts and terrifies the heavens, yet, unbeknownst to Xie Lian, this ghost king has been paying attention to him for a very, very long time.
9. Umibe No Étranger (movie - romance)
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Summary: On an island off the coast of Okinawa, two young men meet on a beach. Shun Hashimoto is gay and aspires to be a novelist. He is interested in Mio Chibana, a somber high school student, and starts to flirt with him. Day by day, the two of them grow closer, but then, suddenly, Mio decides to leave the island.
10. Yuri!!! On ICE (sports, romance)
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Summary: Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki faces a crushing defeat during the Grand Prix finals and heads home, unsure of whether or not he wishes to continue his skating career. After a video of Yuri mimicking Russian figure skater Victor Nikiforov's routine goes viral, Victor decided to become Yuri's coach, much to the dismay of his coach, his fans, and his fellow Russian skater Yuri Plisetsky.
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WEEK SEVEN LINEUP
Soooo. I've been gone a while. What was supposed to be Week Six became more like "Two Months" Six. My bad. I can't promise that random breaks won't happen, but I'll do my level best to not let them become longer than a week if they do (knock on wood - the last time I said "I'll try not to take anymore random breaks" i dipped for a month).
Anyways, here's a very delayed Week Seven! Thank you to everyone who stuck around while I vanished.
Darkiplier - Markiplier
The Puzzler - Generation Loss
The Extinguisher - Jerma's 2022 Holiday Awards Show Extravaganza
The Giant Rat - Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure
Candace Flynn - Phineas and Ferb
Venus aka Kanamori - Heaven's Design Team
Han Ying - Word of Honor
Michealangelo - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Carrie White - Carrie (all media)
Steve the Trooper - Chuggaconroy’s Pikmin videos
The Thunderhead - Arc of a Scythe
Haruki Nakayama - Given
A - Tomorrow Will Be Dying
Doris Frances Barbara - Blood & Syrup: A Vampire the Masquerade Podcast
Juliet Capulet - & Juliet
May - & Juliet
Castiel Supernatural - Supernatural
Derek Hale - Teen Wolf
Lúthien Tinúviel - The Silmarillion
Potamos - Wedding Peach
Jiang Cheng - The Untamed
Poe Dameron - Star Wars
Asterion - Baldur's Gate 3
Dalian - Dantalian no Shoka
Shulk - Xenoblade Chronicles
Solid Snake - Metal Gear Solid
Zanza - Xenoblade Chronicles
Kuu - Haibane Renmei
Cole MacGrath - Infamous
Captain Olimar - Pikmin
Raku-chan - Nyan Neko Sugar Girls
Annie Wintersummer - Unprepared Casters
Yona - Akatsuki no Yona
Shane Schofield (Scarecrow) - Scarecrow and Jack West Junior
The Medic - Team Fortress 2
Sailor Jupiter - Sailor Moon
Orbulon - WarioWare
Mike - WarioWare
Cure Honey - Happiness Charge Precure
Crazy Barks - Drawn to Life
Ninjini - Skylanders
Cure La Mer - Tropical Rouge Precure
End (Endymion) - Beyond the End
Kansuke Yamato - Detective Conan
Mr. Crow, AKA Aldous Vanderboom - Rusty Lake/Cube Escape
Vega - Street Fighter
Izumi Miyamura - Horimiya
Aldark - Drawn to Life
M. Bison - Street Fighter
Aoi Inuyama - Yuru Camp
Klara - Pokemon
Virginia Lewis - The 10th Kingdom
Muriel - Good Omens
Nene Kusanagi - Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage/Project Sekai
Michiko Malandro - Michiko to Hatchin
Suzuki Shinya - 10 Dance
Miles Maitland - Bright Young Things
Diavolo - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Burly, Blabberwort, and Bluebell - The 10th Kingdom
Natsume Takashi - Natsume's Book of Friends
Faust - Guilty Gear
Sugiki Shinya - 10 Dance
Cure Finale - Delicious Party Precure
Igarashi Vice - Kamen Rider Revice
Mitsumi Iwakura - Skip and Loafer
The Corinthian - The Sandman
Shizuku Hinomori - Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage/Project Sekai
Mickey Muldoon - The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Natsuki Shinomiya - Uta no Prince Sama
Sasha Braus - Attack on Titan
Virtue Courtenlock - Krillverse
Goop Lyn - veryextraincorrectfegbaquotes.tumblr.com
Jean-Francois - Bunny Maloney
Tome Kurata - Mob Psycho 100
Seras Victoria - Hellsing
Pang Pawaret - The gifted
Viren - The Dragon Prince
Brawne Lamia - Hyperion
Dai Lee - Let Dai
Haruka Kiritani - Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage/Project Sekai
Minori Hanasato - Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage/Project Sekai
Cube - Gather Ye Power
C-53 - Mission to Zyxx
Cynte - Endoparasitic
Ged/Sparrowhawk - Earthsea
Sniff - The Moomins
Soren Baltimore - Camp Here & There
Mellow - Endacopia
Eunhyung Song - Let Dai
Rufus - Deponia
Sheik - The Legend of Zelda
Lee Ping - Detentionaire
Kasane Fuchi - Kasane
Shigure Sohma - Fruits Basket
Aymeric de Borel - Final Fantasy XIV
Meta Knight - Kirby
Luka Couffaine - Miraculous Ladybug
Satō - Ajin: Demi-Human
Mudkip - Pokemon
Death of the Endless - The Sandman
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bookishbokkie · 11 days ago
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🐈‍⬛ jeon wonwoo reading challenge 🐈‍⬛
these are books that seventeen's wonwoo has read, recommended to carats, or has recommended to members
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👓 = books read
🐈 = to be read
🐈‍⬛ 달러구트 꿈 백화점 by 이미예 (dallergut dream department store by lee miye)
🐈‍⬛ sherlock holmes series by arthur conan doyle
🐈‍⬛ ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟 by 東野 圭吾 (miracles of the namiya general store by keigo higashino) 🐈
🐈‍⬛ me before you by jojo moyes
🐈‍⬛ be more cat by alison davies
🐈‍⬛ 第七天 by 余华 (the seventh day by yu hua)
🐈‍⬛ 三国演义 by 罗贯中 (romance of the three kingdoms by luo guanzhong)
🐈‍⬛ 麒麟の翼 by 東野 圭吾 (a death in tokyo by keigo higashino)
🐈‍⬛ 종의 기원 by 정유정 (the good son by jeong yoojeong)
🐈‍⬛ guns, germs, and steel by jared diamond cover
🐈‍⬛ le petit prince by antoine de saint-exupéry (the little prince by antoine de saint-exupéry)
🐈‍⬛ the four great tragedies by william shakespeare (hamlet 👓, othello, king lear, & macbeth) 🐈
🐈‍⬛ call me by your name by andré aciman
🐈‍⬛ 西游记 by 吴承恩 (journey to the west by wu cheng'en)
🐈‍⬛ any book by 村上 春樹 (haruki murakami) 👓
🐈‍⬛ books without english translations 🐈‍⬛
these are books that, as of right now, that i can't read because there are not translated and i'm not that good at reading korean or japanese yet
🐈‍⬛ 달러구트 꿈 백화점 2 by 이미예 (dallergut dream department store 2 by lee miye)
🐈‍⬛ 仮面山荘殺人事件 by 東野 圭吾 (the murder in mansion masquerade by keigo higashino)
🐈‍⬛ 向日葵の咲かない夏 by 道尾秀介 (the summer when the sunflowers do not bloom by shusuke michio)
🐈‍⬛ 김이나의 작사법 by 김이나 (kim eana’s songwriting method by kim eana)
🐈‍⬛ 설민석의 조선왕조실록 by 설민석 (seol minsuk's annals of the joseon dynasty by seol minsuk)
🐈‍⬛ 你,很好: 接受过去的你,喜欢现在的自己 by 艾尔文 (i wish i will do well by alvin)
🐈‍⬛ 90년생이 온다 by 임홍택 (people who were born in 90's are coming by im hong taek)
🐈‍⬛ 부의 지각변동 by 박종훈 (the perceptual fluctuation of wealth by park joong hoon)
🐈‍⬛ war diary of admiral yi sun shin (난중일기) (there's one translation available but it's hard to get a copy)
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ultimatecutenesspeaks · 1 year ago
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Bunny oh don’t tell me he wants to do the same thing shiva has and have three brides right ?
Soma: That's my little secret, dear jewel.
*He then winks at you, and soon, you, Haruki, Mizuki and the servants help Agni with dinner. As he talks with Sebastian, he talks about his life as a sinner, and what he saw in Soma when he saved him.*
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metamorphesque · 2 years ago
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hello, can you recommend me books that will wreck my heart and soul to pieces? I need words to destroy me and then fill the void within 🥺
books that will destroy you:
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
books to fill the void:
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
amalgamation of both:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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haveyoureadthistoo · 22 days ago
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If you're human and living on this planet, you have certainly at least once got into a heated debate with somebody over something that was entirely up to taste. When it comes to culture, especially books, other aspects such as high expectations, political views and personal life experiences can also play a part, to the point where it's sometimes difficult to figure out why you didn't like that novel that everybody else is praising so hard.
My first big disappointment came from where I least expected it to. My queen Jane Austen. How could such a witty, talented author have penned something as dull as “Mansfield Park”? I could barely find any of the traits I so loved about her other novels, apart from maybe Lady Bertram and her impossible pug. It took me ages to finish and by the end of it I almost wished I hadn’t read it. But the following year I read “Emma” and reread “Pride and Prejudice” for the zillionth time, and my sense of wonder was restored.
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In 2016, I finally decided to read “The Little Prince”, ready for a comfort book. Instead, I found a manual for sexist behaviour and unhealthy codependency disguised as sweet words and a love story. It took me so much by surprise that I could barely register the beautiful writing and the clever metaphors. All I could think was - how is this a timeless children’s classic when it glorifies egocentrism and self harm? Unlike many of the books I wish I had read at a younger age, this time I was relieved to be dealing with it at the end of my prefrontal cortex development, when I at least knew better.
Not long after that, I picked up another classic, “Lord of the Flies”. This time, I didn’t have strong feelings about it, I just failed to connect - and to believe. The writing bothered me, the excessive descriptions threw me off and the concept just didn’t ring true. The idea that we’re all just wild animals deep inside, ready to behave irrationally at the lowest provocation is just too convenient. It kills any productive discussion. But Piggy was such a cutie, poor guy.
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My next bad ride was “1Q84”, which marred my admiration for Haruki Murakami. From that point onwards, I started perceiving flaws that didn’t seem to be there before, as though with every new book I was always reading the same thing with small adjustments. Woody Allen comes to mind. I could suddenly see the man behind the author. So many things displeased me, from bad character development to lazy narrative structure, not to mention all the unsexy sex scenes and the attempt at justifying sexual assault with religion. By the time I was done with the trilogy, I just knew I could never read again the books I had already read and loved because it might taint my beautiful memories.
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2019 was the last time I faced a beloved classic and was left with a bitter taste. As a nature lover and philosophy admirer, it had always been a given that I would fall head over heels with “Walden”. I was writing a short film that was all about wilderness and community life, so it seemed like the perfect time to finally embrace my beautiful hardcover copy of the book. I certainly did not expect to find what a Goodreads user defined as: “The tale of a man who dared to live in his parents backyard and eat dinner with them, and then lived to write about it.” I felt cheated on. Ideologically and financially.
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I might sound harsh in my comments, but I still rated all these books 2 stars out of 5. They’re books. Full books. Written by real people - something we take for granted now, but might live to miss one day. And it’s perfectly fine that some people worship them. Well, to some extent.
The bottom line is, I disliked them for different reasons. I take no issue with people enjoying “Mansfield Park” or “Lord of the Flies”, whose faults listed here are of a very personal nature. You can also choose to ignore the author’s privilege in “Walden” and manage to focus on the positive, if abstract conclusions. Even “1Q84” can hold a reverential place to somebody who sees it as a big mysterious symbolism for something I couldn’t see. Same goes for “The Little Prince”, which might just elicit good childhood memories regardless of the actual words - though I would never in a million years give it to an actual child.
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Speaking of childhood memories, it’s also perfectly ok to change your mind. Something that spoke to you when you were little can feel a little distant when you’re an adult. Even something you liked or loathed in your 20s might feel better or worse within a decade (or four). We are constantly changing. And so are our passions. You don’t have to hate something just because you didn’t love it, nor do you have to pretend you’re still passionate about something that belongs in a different time, to a different you.
And it’s so natural that we disagree. Not everything has to turn into a fight. Our opposing tastes are not supposed to elicit war, but rather to give us personality and something to talk about. They are conversation starters, idea sparkers. We shouldn’t have to hide our true opinions, the same way we shouldn’t only listen to other people with the same opinion.
So yes, praise what you like, respect what you don’t. And let’s all collectively forget “The Little Prince”.
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