#i refuse to read business books and i'm not interested in sports but i'll read pretty much any other genre/topic
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jesuisgourde · 1 year ago
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okay so i’ve managed to have a pretty good spread of nonfiction subjects/genres this year. so far i’ve read:
-A Simple Story: The last malambo by Leila Guerriero - Latin American studies/sociology -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - mythology/literary theory -Chroma by Derek Jarman - art criticism/art history/autobiography -The Emerald Mile: The epic story of the fastest ride in history through the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko - travel/adventure -Sacred Sex by Robert Bates - poetry/mythology anthology -The Sober Truth by Lance Dodes - addiction treatment -The Criminal Child and other essays by Jean Genet - essays on various topics -Aimee & Jaguar by Erica Fischer - biography/Holocaust history -At Your Own Risk by Derek Jarman - queer biography -Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm - psychology - Countdown #3 by Aldo - political/civil rights essays from the mid-60s -Fabulosa! The story of Polari by Paul Baker - queer history -The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant - environmentalism/US history -Fire The Bastards! by Jack Green - literary criticism -Opium by Jean Cocteau - drug autobiography -Worker-Student Action Committees May ‘68 by Fredy Perlman - French history/leftist politics -Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher - political science -One Day In My Life by Bobby Fisher - autobiography/Irish history -Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee - transgender autobiography -The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko - art criticism/art philosophy -The Sex Revolts by Simon Reynolds - music history/criticism
y’all should give me suggestions for nonfiction genres/topics i’m missing and also suggest some good titles if you know any!
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witheringvoice · 2 years ago
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Thoughts
I don't know what to do right now so I'ma just talk about random shit.
My leg was bouncy because I have too much energy, really wanna go on a late night walk right nowwwwww BUT I CANNTTTTT.
Living in a shit neighborhood and being a miner (IN MINECRAFT DUH) and a biological female really fucking sucks sometimes.
Reminds me of this story one time-
TW: Mentions of near kidnap, knives.
So one time my sister went on a late night walk and she was walking forever and got lost. She started getting nervous so she started messaging me, right? The sister in question is four years older than me, I believe this story was...Two years ago? Or so? I don't remember exactly, but anyway, so she was walking around she was lost, it was really late at night. But she did bring a knife with her, she has a knife for self defense purposes. And so, as she was messaging me, she told me she saw a van and she's seen it multiple times already driving past her. And she started getting really scared and I started getting really worried because- THAT IS MORE THAN A HORROR MOVIE/CRIME SHOW BEGINNING SCENE THAN ANYTHING IF I'VE SEEN ONE- And well, I kept trying to keep her calm and asking her about where she was and if there was anybody around, there wasn't. There was also no like businesses or anything around so, this was a scary situation. Eventually, she said the van was slowly driving up towards her, so she put her knife in her hand. And to this day, we assume the glint of the knife or whatever scared that van off because they sped off and didn't bother her the rest of the night, or ever again as far as I know. She got home safe. True story.
~~TW END~~
What else can I talk about?
Oh!
I'm the kind of person who talks about how broke they are and shit and complains about it (because it's funny), and then if someone tries to buy me something, I will immediately refuse and get really guilty. Unless it's consumable. I fucking love food and sweets and drinks, okay? I'm a sucker for them, though it still might take some convincing sometimes.
Very few people actually know this, but when I was little, before I got asthma (which was in first grade), I actually loved sports.
Especially soccer, or football depending on where you're from lol.
Anyway, I actually lowkey wanted to play soccer for school or something if that was somehow possible or if I could.
Because I really loved running and soccer was just so fun.
Then, my mom ignored the fact I'm allergic to cigarettes and smoked in our house quite a lot.
Got asthma, no longer enjoy physical activity, started loathing most sports, and yeah.
I love hiking and swimming though. Except I can't swim, true story.
I also like rollerskating but I haven't been very much so I'm not too good.
Basketball and volleyball are the only interesting sports to me now, but I don't bother actually learning how to understand it soo....Yeah
I am to this day pissed that Allegiant literally didn't explain about the shipwreck that was in the other two Divergent movies (divergent and insurgent), and I specifically read the books to figure out WHAT THAT SHIP WAS ABOUT. And you know what? IT DIDN'T EVEN MENTION A FUCKING SHIP IN ANY OF THEM. I'M PISSED. WHAT WAS THAT SHIP ABOUT HUH??? HUH???
To this day I can't get over it, it's been years (2-4) since I finished the movie series and it's only been a year or so since I finished the books but still- Fucking pissed.
My two favorite flowers are flowers and roses but I love dandelions and just about any flower.
I've had a baby minecraft pig stuffed animal for as long as I can remember and named him Porkins in respect of the Yogscast series playing on the adventure map: The Last Potato but am planning on figuring out how to make a crown and renaming him Porkins-Blade or something in dedication to Techno as well because I was never able to afford his merch and I don't know if it's still possible to get, or if I'll ever have money to afford it if it is. Because the little drawing I did was not enough respect in my opinion.
My favorite youtubers when I was younger were Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, Pewdiepie (but mostly when he was playing with Marzia), the Yogscast (mostly Lewis & Simon), and I think that's all I really watched? My brother tried to get me to watch Soot House, but he always dissed anything I liked (unless we both liked it), so I spite the things he tries to show me most of the time, to this day. It took me so long to finally watch Wilbur Soot because of that, Quackity too.
I spent most of my elementary school days playing Minecraft (first the demo over and over, then the Xbox360 version), Skyrim, Oblivion, and a few other games...While also watching Minecraft videos (Sky does Minecraft, stampy long nose, captain sparklez, dantdm, popularmmos, Minecraft parodies), mostly Minecraft parodies though. I loved Minecraft parodies with a passion, it was scary.
I still watch Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, and the Yogscast occasionally, but Markiplier is my favorite now. It used to be Jacksepticeye, and before that the Yogscast because Minecraft was my life and I loved their adventure maps and yoglabs and shit.
I didn't really understand social media for the longest time, not really knowing it existed because, I just didn't have a phone or an iPad for the longest time and didn't care for social media. I still don't care for it too much, but I do indulge in it now.
In elementary school my favorite class was math, when sixth grade happened, I no longer thought that.
My favorite food is potatoes (most kinds), and my mom thinks that's because I have a lot of Irish blood from both sides of my family, but I was born in America so I disagree, believing it is just because potatoes are holy and delicious.
When I was little I wanted to be a singer not realizing that I'd have to be famous for that and when I did I no longer wanted to be a singer
Nowadays I want to be a music writer/musician, content creator, photographer, artist, and mostly writer. But I don't want to get big, just big enough to inspire people. That's what I really want to do, help people and bring beauty to their world.
I also want to be a psychologist/therapist/counselor or English teacher, but they're mostly backup plans.
I plan on getting a PhD/doctorate in psychology and maybe English (at least what a BA in creative writing), but not just for a backup plan, also because I like the idea of being called a doctor and I really like psychology + I like writing so I might as well know a lot about English, right?
When I was little I wanted to be a profiler or private detective but when I thought harder about it I decided against it because I don't think I'd handle that kind of thing well
I've always hated blood and I don't know why, I hate that specific monthly occurrence with a burning passion.
My favorite fruits are grapes and apples but I only like certain apples because some taste gross and I can only explain it as they taste/feel bubbly and it's just disgusting, and I don't like super sour grapes or grapes with seeds.
My favorite vegetable is corn + potatoes but I always forget potatoes are a vegetable, I just think of them as their own thing.
I joined the DSMP community around the time of Tubbo and Ranboo's meetup, and when the benchtrio meetup, that's when I decided I wanted to check out the community.
I have always wanted to watch Minecraft Manhunt's after seeing an edit and not knowing who it was about, but I spite things that are popular for no reason in particular.
My first contact with the DSMP fandom either technically came with Wilbur or Quackity before the fandom existed but their content wasn't entertaining to me at the time because I can never focus on things for long, even though I can totally do that, I honestly don't know why they didn't entertain child me. Maybe I just preferred other content back then.
I jump from thing to thing as a coping mechanism and my "obsession" never usually lasts more than a year but the DSMP has already lasted a little over that, so I have a feeling that this is going to be like Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, Skyrim, and Minecraft. They'll stay for good no matter how much I might end up hating it (I won't).
I love(d) ds games, specifically drawn to life, but the second game was the one I finished and am still yet to finish the first because it is much harder, and I will always love the games.
One of my favorite cartoons (before I got to watch adventure time/gravity falls) was team umizoomie or whatever the fuck, the freshbeat band, and that yogabagaba one. Umizoomie one because of the math, the band one because of the music, and the gaba gabba one because it was funny.
I have always had a slight interest in burning things, but you'd never be able to tell because it was usually quenched by making smores. Now it is quenched by randomly burning things with bad memories or with a lot of emotion (poems, pictures of my father, etc)
My father shortly left my mother after my first birthday because he was threatened by my grandfather to pay rent because they were living in his basement at the time. He sends a lot of child support from time to time, or none at all. He is supposedly the worst person my mom has dated before and that makes me feel like I might become a terrible person.
I always got really good grades, still do for a matter of fact, but my biggest weakness was always homework. Not even forgetting, sometimes it would be finished and in my fucking backpack, and I'd just never take it out. LIKE WHAT THE HECK MINI ME???
I've always struggled with sleeping for as long as I remember. When I was little I'd wake up before the fucking sun to do whatever that day, and I'd always struggle with restlessness when trying to go to sleep + jumpiness, which I'd try to quell with reading, or doing workbooks or playing, or staying up watching youtube videos or playing games, but my mom assumed it was just me trying to stay up late. it was in fact, not, it was me not being able to fucking sleep.
In second grade the thing I obsessed over ended up being the titanic and i'd fall asleep watching documentaries about it because it was so fascinating to me, I don't even know why. I could state multitudes of facts about it, but I can no longer.
I love frogs and toads and geckos.
My favorite animals are cats.
I love foxes, trash pandas, pandas, and red pandas, and just animals.
The chromebook is about to die so I guess that's all for tonight Tumblr, hope you enjoyed lmao? I was bored.
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