#k. Leigh m.

[lilisouless]

Inej: we shouldn't keep playing games that require teams of two people, we always end up fighting

Nina pulling Inej: She is mine!

Jesper pulling the other side: She IS MINE!

Kaz: ah yes, they fight for me too

Matthias pushing Kaz: He is YOURS!

Wylan pushing back: HE IS YOURS!

Kaz: luckily they fixed the problem quickly

Wylan: he is yo-what are we doing?

Both ditch Kaz and pair with each other

Matthias: guys! when you finish with Inej, the loser gets Kaz!

[meeghanreads]

Top 5 books I'm thankful for in 2024

Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I’m thankful for in 2024!! This is the week that we hit our annual wrap up posts. It starts with Thanksgiving. Which is slightly ironic because we don’t celebrate it. At all. However, I do like the sentiment of being thankful for things. Which is why, every year, we talk about books that we are thankful for. Being…

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in November 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 🧡 Snowed in With You - Reba Bale 💛 Fire Spells Between Friends - Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan 💚 Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac - K.A. Merikan 💙 Escape to the Sea - Alex Callan & Angelica Babineaux 💜 She's Always Hungry - Eliza Clark 💛 Phoenix Rising - Emily Hayes 💙 A Flower's Fatal Thorn - Jordan Dugdale 💜 A Sharper, More Lasting Pain - Alex Harvey-Rivas

❤️ The Librarian's Gargoyle - Evelyn Shine 🧡 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri 💛 Of Hoarfrost and Blood - Scarlet Tempest 💚 Judgement - Lucas Delrose 💙 Deadline for Love - Candi Tab 💜 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane ❤️ All the Truth I Can Stand - Mason Stokes 🧡 Celia - Addison James 💛 A Diamond Bright and Broken - Holly Davis 💙 Hexed - Emily McIntire 💜 Hometown Christmas - Laura Conway 🌈 This Christmas - Georgia Beers

❤️ Suite Heart - Jade Winters 🧡 We All Fall - Arden Coutts 💛 Taiwan Travelogue - Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 💚 Pit Stop - L.M. Bennett 💙 The Damaged Hearts Bargain - Sienna Waters 💜 War of Night - Greyson Black & E. Scott Clevenger 🧡 I'll be Boned for Christmas - Katherine McIntyre 💜 All You Want for the Holidays - Quinton Li 🌈 Queer as Folklore - Sacha Coward

❤️ Time and Tide - J.M. Frey 🧡 Ghost of the Heart - Catherine Friend 💛 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland - Jason June 💚 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 💙 Currency in Flesh - Heather Nix 💜 I Really Do - Emily K. Hardy ❤️ Something Close to God - Erika del Carmen Ruiz 🧡 The Crack at the Heart of Everything - Fiona Fenn 💛 Undeniable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💙 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 💜 Always on My Mind - Kelsey Painter 🌈 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

❤️ Don't Break Character - Jules Landry 🧡 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💛 Remnants of Filth: Yuwu - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Sugar, Spice, and Christmas Nice - Anne Hagan 💙 The Wishing Tree - Barbara Winkes 💜 Love on Moonlight Lake - Adriana Sargent ❤️ Mistletoe Motel - Lise Gold 🧡 The Royal They - KJ Sinclair 💛 My So-Called Family - Gia Gordon 💙 Frosted by the Girl Next Door - Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger 💜 The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani 🌈 A Hard Fit - Jennifer Moffatt

❤️ The Sacred Heart Motel - Grace Kwan 🧡 Leap - Simina Popescu 💛 I Dare You - Regena Mercy 💚 Love Lessons - Mary Ellen Capek 💙 Afterglow - Emily Antoinette 💜 In the Back Row With You - Natasha West ❤️ Make Room for Love - Darcy Liao 🧡 Here Goes Nothing - Emma K. Ohland Just for the Holidays - Micah Carver

❤️ Cookies, Candles, and Cute Butts for Christmas - Cameron D. James & Cali Kitsu 🧡 Objects in Mirror - N.W. Downs 💛 Sleigh Bells Ring - Alyson Root 💚 Real Tree / Fake Boyfriend - Ree Thomas 💙 Out of the Storm - Logan Sage Adams 💜 Hungry Heart - Jem Milton ❤️ A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 🧡 Beneath Her Power - Margaux Fox 💛 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 🌈 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri

❤️ Naughty November - Anthology 🧡 Hearts and Stars - Phoenix Kathryn 💛 Guarding Her Gangster Queen - Persephone Black 💚 The Shadow Spinner - Eric Kao 💙 Black, Queer, and Untold - Jon Key 💜 Hall of Shadows - Mariah Stillbrook ❤️ The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso 🧡 A Crimson Covenant - Aimee Donnellan 💛 Isaac - Curtis Garner 💙 Vineyard Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💜 Kiss of Death - Bryony Rosehurst 🌈 The Many Mistakes of Amy Love - RA Hunter

❤️ Accidentally in Love - Kimberly Cooper Griffin 🧡 Unwrapped - D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Hot Honey Love - Nan Campbell 💚 Havoc for the Holidays - Jay Leigh 💙 London - Patricia Evans 💜 Fatal Foul Play - David S. Pederson ❤️ The Gift of Us - Abigail Taylor 🧡 Upon the Midnight Queer - 'Nathan Burgoine 💛 The Christmas Pic - Rena Sapon-White & Ella Schaefer 💙 Seducing Scylla - Lex Logan 💜 Fated Winds and Promising Seas - Rose Black 🌈 A Surprise For The Holidays - Anna Sparrows

❤️ Immortal Hunger - KL Bone 🧡 Love and Loyalty - Emily Hayes 💛 A Kingdom of Lies - Ben Alderson 💚 Christmas Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💙 Wrecked for the Holidays - Kerry Kilpatrick ❤️ Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 🧡 Phoenix Found - T.J. Nichols 💛 Room for Two - Rochelle Wolf 💙 The Long Winter of Miðgarðr - Edale Lan 💜 A Handyman for the Holidays - Valerie Gomez 🌈 Sundown in San Ojuela - M.M. Olivas

[writeouswriter]

TBR Tag Game

Rules: Share 9 books you read this year (last year now, whoops, forgot this in my drafts) and 9 books you're looking forward to reading this next year.

Thank you, @memento-morri-writes for the tag <3

I have actually been horribly slacking on reading the past year, smallest amount of books I've ever completed in a year probably in my life due to a slump and being generally busy and demotivated so I don't even have 9 books to share 😭 so, *that one sad audio from tiktok videos* this is all I got, this is all I got:

1. Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper by J.L. Bryan, and because I love yapping, mini review: Not terrible but incredibly generic, somewhat poorly paced and unmemorable.

2. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller: Fascinating from a literature standpoint, brilliant commentary, not my favourite play, but very enjoyable to pick apart and think about. I understand why it's a classic.

3. The Girl in the Green Silk Gown by Seanan McGuire: I always feel bad because the author's like around here somewhere but genuinely loathe this, fantastic concept and vibes, but horrible/boring execution with an absolutely ludicrous amount of repetition (and a bizarre focus on peeing).

4. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente: Simultaneously a love letter to and exposé of Old Hollywood, classic sci-fi, Greek tragedy, Fairy Tales, Detective Noir, and film in general, this is genuinely one of the most unique, gorgeous, beautiful and poetically written books I have ever read.

5. Moon Knight by Lemire & Smallwood: The Complete Collection: In a word, bizarre, lot of good details, lot of iffy details, questionable quality overall but with some standout moments.

6. Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt: I bought this at a thrift store to get out of a slump at the start of the year, figuring being written by a comedian, it would be a fast paced read. It was... but I also learned I hate Oswalt's brand of comedy. Very forced middle aged man still with the mind of a teenage boy comedy, who thinks toilet humour, mashing references together or being offensive for the sake of it is peak hilarious or something like that, idk it's been a while. Had some okay moments though.

And to get to the 9, uh 3 of the many books I'm currently reading perhaps:

7. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin

8. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

9. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Honorable mention to the Blackberry book, about the rise and fall of the blackberry phone, riveting stuff, I know.

There are many many books I'm excited to read though, even if I haven't had the chance to get to them yet, so 9 random ones from my tbr I'm looking forward to reading this year hopefully:

1. Godkiller by Hannah Kaner (friends have been recommending it for a while but I'm just now trying higher fantasy)

2. The Poisoner's Ring by Kelley Armstrong

3. Tales From the Gas Station by Jack Townsend

4. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill

5. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

6. Contact by Carl Sagan (been meaning to read this for years 😭 loved the movie)

7. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

8. (Hopefully!) A Rental Car Takes A Left Down Rake Street and Disappears by the lovely, talented @albatris

9. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (yes I'm like ages behind in popular books)

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And tagging if you'd like if you haven't already done it: @karolinarodrigueswrites, @albatris, @horrorgirlreads, @mary-is-writing, @druidx, @thewalkingnerd, @transmasc-wizard, @multi-lefaiye, @merelyafigment, @sleepytypewriter, @tmifangirl28, @farrradays, @bethnaberrie, @anyone who wants to do this, you are tagged <3

[trintastic]

⭑ 1980’s names!

name master list ☀️ this list consists of (fem) names that were majorly popular during the 1980s. i will most likely be making a similar post to this eventually including sur names, if you have any suggestions you think would fit well in this list please lmk!

feminine

A ; amanda, ashley, amber, amy, angela, april, alicia, allison, alexandra, alexis, alyssa, anne, annie, angelica, angel, angeline, ana, audrey, aubrey, autumn

B ; brittany, britney, brittney, britanny, brandy, brandi, bianca, brooke, beth, brenda, barbara, bridget, bonnie, bonnabel

C ; christina, cristina, crystina, cristinna, christine, courtney, crystal, cindy, cyndi, cassandra, chelsea, catherine, cynthia, carrie, caitlin, caitlyn, cait, casey, candace, christy, colleen, carolyn, caroline, cassie, carla, claudia

D ; diana, dana, dawn, desiree, divine, destini, destiny, deanna, dominique, deborah, danielle, debbie

E ; elizabeth, emily, erin, eren, erika, erica, ebony, evangeline, elsie

F ; fallon, felicia, fern, francine, franchesca, faye, farrah, felicity, fiona, fiora, flora, freya, frey, frida, fatima, florence, frances

G ; gemma, gwen, gwenny, gabrielle, gabriella, gen, genevieve, genette, genesis, gem, georgina, giana, ginny, giselle, gina

H ; hannah, hazel, harriet, heather, hallie, hayley, hailey, holly, hope

I ; isley, ivy, imogen, isla

J ; jess, jessica, jessy, jessie, jessyca, jen, jenny, jenni, jennifer, jacqueline, jackie, jill, joanna, jaclyn, jaime, jamie, jordan, jordy, jordyn, jass, jas, jasmine, jasmin, jazz, jazzmin, jazzmine, jenna, jade, jayde

K ; krystal, kim, kym, kimberly, kymberly, katherine, kathryn, kathy, kat, katheryne, krystina, krys, kryssie, krissie, kristen, krysten, kristyn, katie, kate, kaitlyn, kaitlin, kathleen, katrina, kelsey, kara, kendra, kelly, kelli, kari, kourtney

L ; lydia, lindsey, lindsay, laura, lauren, loren, lauryn, latoya, leslie, les, lesley, leah, linda, lynda, laury, laurie, laurey, lori, latasha, liv, leigh-anne, lacey, lacy, laci

M ; maria, mariah, moriah, melissa, melyssa, michelle, michele, mychelle, mary, marie, monica, monyca, megan, meghan, megyn, megin, melanie, misty, margaret, molly, morgan, monique, miranda, melinda, marissa, meredith, merida, meagan, mallory

N ; nicole, nichole, nycole, nicol, natalie, natalia, nat, natasha, nancy, nina

O ; octavia, odette, odessa, olivia

P ; perrie, priscilla, patricia, pamela, payton, paige, paisley

Q ; quinn, quinnie, quinni, quincy, queenie, quen

R ; rachel, rachael, rachyl, rebecca, rebecka, rebekah, renee, reneé, regina

S ; sara, sarah, steph, stef, stefanie, stephanie, stefani, stephani, samantha, sam, shannon, sharon, stacey, stacie, staci, stacy, susan, susanne, susanna, sandra, sabrina, sheena, shauna

T ; trina, tiff, tiffany, tifany, tifaney, tiffaney, tiffani, tara, tracey, tracy, traci, tina, teresa, theresa, tara, tonya, tamara, tabitha, tasha, tammy, tamika, taylor

U ; unqiue

V ; vera, veronica, vanessa, victoria, vic, vickey, valerie, val

W ; willow, whitney, whit

X ; xandra

Y ; yasmine, yessica, yazzmin, yazzmine, yasmin

Z ; zara, zarley, zarlee, zarli, zarhlee. zoey, zoe

[eightglass]

do you have any book recommendations? nonfiction or fiction. i'd love to hear what you've enjoyed reading!

!!

Books!!! I love them!!!

Uhh

I'm always a big fan of science fiction! (loong so. under the cut)

I mean. There's always Star Wars, if you're into it. Best of those would be the three Thrawn trilogies (yes three trilogies) by Timothy Zahn. The old one (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command) is literally sequels to the original movies, and they were canon (and awesome) before Disney did their shit. They are very good.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a fantastic author! His Shards of Earth trilogy and Children of Time trilogy are some of the best scifi I've read! Completely different vibes though, but both are really good!

Uhh... If you want existential dread forever, read The Three-Body Problem trilogy. If you've ever heard of the Dark Forest solution to the Fermi paradox, these books are where it came from. (Or popularised/named it? idk.) They're also pretty good.

Everything by Becky Chambers. Wayfarers tetralogy, Monk and Robot duology, To Be Taught If Fortunate, all really good vibes. LGBTR (Little Gay Books To Read)

the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

The Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir! Wow! These are really good. Lesbian necromancers in space, and it makes sense. The narrators don't tell you anything either, because in book 1 the narrator doesn't know jack shit, in book 2 the 'narrator' gave herself a lobotomy, and the narrator in book 3 is six months old.

the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Post-apocalyptic, but the pre-apocalypse was also a capitalism hellscape, so you don't feel too bad.

the Lilith's Brood trilogy by Octavia Butler is some of the BEST aliens scifi I've read holy shit. Seriously, read this.

The Book of Koli trilogy by M. R. Carey! 300 years after an environmental/war apocalypse. Written language has been forgotten, the bioengineered trees have further evolved to walk around and hunt humans (among other things), and the leaders of the remaining groups of humans have whatever top-of-the-line, self-repairing, and self-refilling infantry weapons from the war to use on each other.

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (two books out, dunno if there'll be a third). Ever wondered about a poetry-based interstellar empire? And what if it were gay?

The Andy Weir books. The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, those are good.

If you're more into YA scifi, then the Lunar Chronicles tetralogy and Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer are both fantastic, and the Aurora Rising and Illuminae Files trilogies by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (collabs) are amazing!

Fantasy is also good! But I don't find myself reading very much of it.

First off: Discworld. I read 25 of 41 over the summer, and they are GOOD. https://www.discworldemporium.com/reading-order/

All of the Greishaverse stuff by Leigh Bardugo is pretty good, but the Six of Crows duology is really amazing.

The Cruel Prince trilogy by Holly Black! If you like fae stuff, but also urban fantasy and romance. Good books!

A Darker Shade of Magic trilogy by V. E. Schwab, those are good! There's also a sequel series coming out atm.

OMG how can I forget the N. K. Jemisin books?? The Broken Earth trilogy is FANTASTIC. What if the Earth hated everyone and there were geology witches that are actually pretty awesome but everyone hates them? The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy is also really good. What if the gods were actually omnipotent, but sort of hated each other? And the Great Cities duology! What if New York City was a person (six people)?

As for less scifi-fantasy, I've read and really enjoyed:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, a retelling of David Copperfield, this time with the main character living/growing up in rural Appalachia during the opioid epidemic. Really, really good.

All of the Alice Oseman books of course.

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

Webcomics! These were really fun and they're still ongoing! My favs are:

Questionable Content (yes, you can start at 2104). Just a bunch of young adults in Massachusetts doing random shit with varying degrees of gayness, eventually the singularity happens and there are robots (they're gay too)

Dumbing of Age Really, really good college story. Fundie girl goes to college and learns about how the world actually works, varying amounts of gayness, horrible very bad parents, and three dramatic character deaths by the end of the first semester.

Gunnerkrigg Court weird scifi fantasy stuff going on all the time, big mysteries, omnipotent trickster god. The art style improves a LOT.

Web serials (if you want to be consumed by a piece of literature that's easily over a dozen normal books in length)

Worm. 1.6 million words. This consumed me from July to September. Good god. Some of the very best superheroes and superpowers, like, ever, beautiful fight scenes, and conflict escalation that does. not. stop. The poor characters never get a break between crises and catastrophes. But by Scion it is one of the best things I've ever read. Don't look up anything about it, the spoilers are insane. And there's a sequel that's even longer.

Uh.. I've started Katalepsis

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Update: December 2024

Added:

"Oligoarthritis" category and tag

"Unspecified Depressive Disorder" category and tag

"Panic Attacks" category and tag

"Panic Disorder" category and tag

"Unidentified Panic Disorder" category and tag

"Double Amputee" category and tag

"Leg Brace User" category

"Vascular Conditions" category and tag

"Thoracic Outlet Syndrome" category and tag

"Allergies" category and tag

"Ovarian Cancer" category and tag

"Ataxia" category and tag

"Pernicious Anemia" category and tag

"Ostomy" category and tag

"Unidentified Seizure Disorder" category and tag

"Trauma" category and tag

"Osteogenesis Imperfecta" category and tag

"WLW" category and tag

"MLM" category and tag

"Transgender Author" tag

"Clean Romance" tag

"Welsh MC" tag

"Chinese-British SC" tag

"Sri-Lankan-Canadian MC" tag

"Clean Romance" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Brothers Best Friend" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Only One Bed" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"M/F/M" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Christmas" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Dinosaurs" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Roller Derby" to "Themes & Tropes" page

"Robin Gow" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Mattie Bukowski" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Johanna Hedva" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Lizzie Huxley-Jones" to "Disabled Authors" page

"Natalie Lloyd" to "Disabled Authors" page

"1930s" to "Settings" page

"The Virgin Islands" to "Settings" page

Entries:

'The Undaunted'- Hart, Alan L.

'The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet"- Arlow, Jake Maia

'The Christmasaurus'- Fletcher, Tom. Devries, Shane

'A Not-So Holiday Paradise'- Mitchell, Gracie Ruth

'Make You Mine This Christmas'- Huxley-Jones, Lizzie

'7 Days for Fae'- Eisen, Lior

'Bruised'- Boteju, Tanya

'Dear Mothman'- Gow, Robin

'Hummingbird'- Lloyd, Natalie

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Categories and tags on 'Connection Error'- Albert, Annabeth

Categories on 'Back in the Saddle'- Kincaid, Beth

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Categories and tags on ‘Icebreaker’- Graziadei, A. L.

Tags on ‘A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability’- Andrews, A

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Tags on ‘A Spindle Splintered’- Harrow, Alix E.

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Tags on ‘The Faithless’- Clark, C. L.

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Tags on ‘The Outside’- Hoffman, Ada

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[books-coffee-and-the-woods]

25 in 2025

Tagged by @bigcats-birds-and-books (thanks!!!)

(kinda stealing Bigcats' colour-coding idea lol. Divided into 5 fiction TBR books, 5 nonfiction TBR books, 5 library holds, 5 manga/comics, and 5 rereads. Also, some of these are series, whoops!)

The Butcher of the Forest - Premee Mohamed

Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon

The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo

Long Live Evil - Sarah Rees Brennan

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages - Anthony Bale

I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Serviceberry - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Strange, Spooky, and Supernatural - Mike Browne

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Cleopatra and Frankenstein - Coco Mellors

The City in Glass - Nghi Vo

Graveyard Shift - M. L. Rio

Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender - Shou Arai

Clover - CLAMP

Know Your Station - Sarah Gailey & Liana Kangas

Monstress - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

Saga - Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples

The Immortals - Tamora Pierce

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

Borne - Jeff Vandermeer

Get in Trouble - Kelly Link

Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab

I tag @battyaboutbooksreviews @dandelion-network @bibliophilecats and anyone else who wants to do this!

[just-antithings]

It's official, antis are now attacking published authors.

Oh this has been happening for a while, mainly within booktwt circles (booktok too but I haven't personally seen much of it and can't name off the top of my head drama I've seen there).

Some instances have gotten big enough to end up being noticed outside book twitter (it's almost always YA booktwt too...) like when some YA authors bashed their old English teachers for making them read "problematic" classics, or when Becky Albertalli got harassed so much, she came out as bi (and then get attacked again by an ex-Buzzfeed youtuber that said Albertalli had still been privileged for "appearing straight" and insinuating closeted queer people are inherently in a privileged position compared to out queer people). Then there were the booktubers and bookstagammers harassing Leigh Bardugo about writing a rape scene in her first adult book Ninth House, to the point that Bardugo felt the need to talk about her past trauma. One booktuber I've seen apologized in a later video, though based on some of her later videos, I have doubts she's trying to change /that/ much.

I'm not sure if the other anon is talking about Nyla K when mentioning the author who got their books taken down from Amazon (it wouldn't surprise me if it's happened to plenty of other authors), but Nyla K has been called pedophilic, primarily because of their m/m/m stepcest/twincest (twin teens and their stepdad, pretty sure) book, where the twins are underage (17? I think?). The booktuber I mentioned above called her writing "pedo incest" in passing, as a "gotcha" because Nyla K is friends with another author said booktuber was ranting about.

Then there was what happened with Ava Reid's book Juniper & Thorn, her twt thread saying it almost didn't get published, due to some of the dark topics in the /gothic horror/ book.

And all the authors I've mentioned other than Nyla K are traditionally published. While many publishing houses have their own drama and issues, harassment like the above isn't going to hurt as badly as if they'd been self-published. Nyla K having their books removed from Amazon has likely hurt their earnings, and while it looks like they've leaned into it (their IG last I checked says "banned & proud"), it's still a fight they shouldn't have to fight, just because the neopuritans decided their books shouldn't exist.

And in the case of the publisher first thinking Reid's book was "too dark", I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have worried about that if Reid was a man. It's been said over and over, but all of this backlash from antis is hurting minorities the most.

as it always does and always will

also they’ve been attacking neil gaiman for a good while now

[mappingthemoon]

Movies/TV Watched 2024

Asteroid City (Wes Anderson, 2023)

Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2020)

Cordelia (Adrian Shergold, 2019)

The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)*

Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)*

Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)

Child’s Play (Tom Holland, 1988)*

Train (Gideon Raff, 2008)

Silent Hill (Christophe Gans, 2006)

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (PBS American Masters) (Amanda Kim, 2023)

Past Lives (Celine Song, 2023)

Basic Instinct [Director’s Cut] (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)*

In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967)

What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)

Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1969)

Significant Other (Dan Berk, Robert Olsen; 2022)

The Mimic (Huh Jung, 2017)

Extinction (Miguel Ángel Vivas, 2015)

The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015)

The Hole in the Ground (Lee Cronin, 2019)

Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)

Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

Our Flag Means Death [szn 2] (2023)

Wes Craven Presents: They (Robert Harmon, 2002)

Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)

Leviathan (George P. Cosmatos, 1989)

Rick and Morty [szn 5] (2021)

Dark Skies (Scott Stewart, 2013)

Insidious: Chapter 2 (James Wan, 2013)*?

Insidious: Chapter 3 (Leigh Whannell, 2015)

Insidious: The Last Key (Adam Robitel, 2018)

Insidious: The Red Door (Patrick Wilson, 2023)

American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)*?

The Pope’s Exorcist (Julius Avery, 2023)

Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996)*

Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997)*

The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)*

Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)

Angels & Insects (Philip Haas, 1995)*?

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (Eli Craig, 2010)

The Purge (James DeMonaco, 2013)

4/20 Massacre (Dylan Reynolds, 2018)

The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen, 2001)

Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal (PBS American Experience) (Jamila Ephron, 2024)

Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988)*

The Signal (William Eubank, 2014)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 2024)

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg, Mark Osborne; 2004)

Felix the Cat: The Movie (Tibor Hernádi, 1988)

Speak No Evil (James Watkins, 2024)

Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)*?

The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996)

Sisters with Transistors (Lisa Rovner, 2020)

Holy Smoke! (Jane Campion, 1999)

Shock Treatment (Jim Sharman, 1981)*

Space: The Longest Goodbye (Ido Mizrahy, 2023)

House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2005)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Bill Melendez, 1979)*

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (Chris McKim, 2020)

Longlegs (Osgood Perkins, 2024)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2000)*

Tess (Roman Polanski, 1979)

Barbarian (Zach Cregger, 2022)

Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990)*

Jennifer’s Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009)

Rick and Morty [szn 6] (2022)

The Seeding (Barnaby Clay, 2024)

Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)*

Beatles ’64 (David Tedeschi, 2024)

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Erin Lee Carr, 2024)

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (Richard Williams, 1977)*

Rick and Morty [szn 7] (2023)

Five Nights at Freddy’s (Emma Tammi, 2023)

Immaculate (Michael Mohan, 2024)

Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told (P. Frank Williams, 2024)

The Booksellers (D. W. Young, 2019)*

His House (Remi Weekes, 2020)

Time Cut (Hannah MacPherson, 2024)

Don’t Move (Adam Schindler, Brian Netto; 2024)

Carry-On (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2024)

Subservience (S. K. Dale, 2024)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992)*

May December (Todd Haynes, 2023)

Horse Girl (Jeff Baena, 2020)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)*

Movies/TV watched 2024; asterisks * are rewatches, asterisks w/question marks *? are rewatches I couldn’t remember having seen before but had a vague sense of familiarity and/or I found evidence of watching elsewhere in my archive. Struck titles were unfinished (I absolutely loved the book In Cold Blood but dozed off a bunch during the movie; Under the Skin seemed promising but I had to turn it off because I could NOT emotionally deal with the baby on the beach.)

This year I treated myself to some old weird nostalgia movies on VHS (YouTube or Internet Archive links provided when available). We have a decent collection of thrifted DVDs and we borrow a lot of movies from the library. Occasionally I’ll sign up for a month of a streaming service if there’s something ~exclusive~ we want to watch, and then we’ll end up watching whatever horror garbage is offered. Honestly, I think “meh, it was okay” was my main reaction to a lot of the movies I watched this year? Kind of a bummer.

Favorites in 2024: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE!!!!! I just loved everything about it :D I thought it was aesthetically the right amount of Tim Burton without being *too much* Tim Burton, ya know? (Love movie environments that feel like a dark ride!) Beetlejuice is a forever favorite, one of my earliest “crushes” (proving that I have absolutely never had good taste in men & that as early as age 4 I yearned for a witty dirtbag prankster to show up and ���promptly whisk [me] off from [my] ordinary life into wacky adventures in the land of the dead” [description from the box set of the animated series, yikes lmao; my other fave beginning around this time was Doctor Who lol, obvious underlying theme is obvious]). ANYway, BJ BJ was also the first movie we saw in theatres post-covid! Not necessarily due to covid-related concerns, but just like, idk, being busy and frugal homebodies. And I guess since more theatres are offering restaurant food nowadays, they’re making it more difficult to sneak food in (no bags allowed), booooo.

Other faves: Asteroid City (I’m not usually a Wes Anderson person but this was visually stunning), His House, Poor Things. The Seeding was pretty wild, if heavy-handed. Tho I kind of thought *everything* about male/female relationships in horror movies I saw this year was getting pretty heavy-handed :/ Sisters with Transistors was a cool documentary about women (Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Wendy Carlos, Pauline Oliveros, et al.) in the early days of electronic music, dreamily narrated by Laurie Anderson (*heart-eyes*). Beatles ’64 was surprisingly okay! I *really* appreciated the interviews with people who were young Beatlemaniacs back in the ‘60s, hearing (mostly) women talk about how the Beatles represented a new way of being masculine, how liking the Beatles could provide a sense of agency for women navigating their own desires, etc. That was a cool perspective which I do not personally encounter very often in the Beatles cinematic universe. (For background: My two most recent long-term relationships have been with indie musicians who just happen to be extremely obsessed with the Beatles, so I’ve spent the past 17+ years absorbing deep dives about how great they are, and while I like many of their songs and Understand Their Position of Importance in the History of Pop/Rock/Human Culture, I just do not give a fuuuck on a personal level. But I do still begrudgingly respect my partner’s interest enough to occasionally watch a Beatles documentary with him.)

[bikinibottomdayz]

FEBRUARY 10, 2025 RELEASE

All my videos can be found here, full release under the read more! I am also offering the two Gatsby videos as a bundle for 30 USD!

ORDER FORM HERE

This release includes: Oh, Mary! with Betty Gilpin, A Wonderful World, Hadestown, The Great Gatsby (x2)

THE GREAT GATSBY October 7, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.44GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Austin Colby (u/s Jay Gatsby), Eva Noblezada (Daisy Buchanan), Noah J. Ricketts (Nick Carraway), Dariana Mullen (u/s Jordan Baker), John Zdrojeski (Tom Buchanan), Eric Anderson (Meyer Wolfsheim), Ryah Nixon (u/s Myrtle Wilson), Dan Rosales (u/s George Wilson), Samantha Pollino (s/w Catherine), Jasmine Pearl Villaroel (s/w Gilda Grey), Jake Trammel (s/w Mr. McKee) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of a nice set of understudies! Act One uses internal audio, so there is more audio interference than usual (rustling etc) and is sometimes distorted due to overload, especially at the ends of big songs. A few brief blackouts scattered throughout the video, each lasting about 10 seconds and mostly in Act One. Very slight obstruction on the far left, doesn’t block any action. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Some washout on wider shots. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source for Act Two. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBLRyQ | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

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HADESTOWN December 3, 2024 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (9.37GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Timothy H. Lee (u/s Orpheus), Maia Reficco (Eurydice), Philip Boykin (Hades), Allison Russell (Persephone), Malcolm Armwood (u/s Hermes), Shea Renne (Fate Lachesis), Jessie Shelton (t/r Fate Clotho), Brit West (Fate Atropos), Emily Afton (Worker), Tanner Ray Wilson (s/w Worker), Brandon Camerson (s/w Worker), Alex Puette (Worker), Yael “YaYa” Reich (s/w Worker), Grace Yoo (Worker) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of Tim’s debut as Orpheus! YaYa swung on for Alex as a worker during intermission. Some wandering and unfocusing throughout. Includes curtain call and “We Raise Our Cups,” audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBU17p | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

OH, MARY! January 30, 2025 (E) | Broadway | 4K MP4 (5.34GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: Betty Gilpin (Mary Todd Lincoln), Phillip James Brannon (Mary's Husband), Chris Renfro (Mary's Teacher), Bianca Leigh (Mary's Chaperone), Tony Macht (Mary's Husband's Assistant) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of the new cast! Head obstruction on the right side that blocks off a little bit of action but is almost entirely worked around. One thirty second blackout about six minutes in. Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBZRpk | ASKING $18 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

A WONDERFUL WORLD January 27, 2025 | Broadway | 4K MP4 (10.53GB) | bikinibottomday’s master Cast: James Monroe Iglehart (Louis Armstrong), Trista Dollison (s/b Lucille Wilson), Kim Exum (Alpha Smith), Jennie Harney-Fleming (Lil Hardin), Dionne Figgins (Daisy Parker), Gavin Gregory (King Joe Oliver), Jimmy Smagula (Joe Glaser/Mr. Karnofsky), DeWitt Fleming Jr. (Lincoln Perry/Fate Marable), Matt Magnusson (s/w Assistant Director/Sound Engineer), Jason Forbach (Crooner/Larry the Reporter/White Gangster), Brandon Louis Armstrong (Professor Davis/Band Member), Renell Taylor (Banjo Ben), Wesley J. Barnes (Band Member), Ronnie S Bowman Jr. (Band Member), Brett Sturgis (Band Member), Kate Louissaint (Ensemble), Meridien Terrell (s/w Ensemble), Alysha Morgan (Ensemble), Khadijah Rolle (Ensemble), Dori Waymer (Ensemble) Notes: Excellent 4K capture of this short-lived musical! Some moments of wandering and unfocusing. Some washout on wider shots. Includes curtain call, audio fed from external source. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBZDiD | ASKING $20 USD NOT FOR SHARING EXCEPT THROUGH ME UNTIL AUGUST 2, 2025

[meeghanreads]

Top 5 books I'm thankful for in 2024

Hello friends!! Welcome to Top 5 Tuesday!! This week’s topic is top 5 books I’m thankful for in 2024!! This is the week that we hit our annual wrap up posts. It starts with Thanksgiving. Which is slightly ironic because we don’t celebrate it. At all. However, I do like the sentiment of being thankful for things. Which is why, every year, we talk about books that we are thankful for. Being…

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in February 2024

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson 🧡 The Paper Boys by D.P. Clarence 💛 Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada 💚 Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine 💙 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ❤️ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman 🧡 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💛 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💙 Outsider by Jade du Preez 💜 Cross My Candy Heart by A.C. Thomas 🌈 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

❤️ An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson 🧡 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Ann Older 💛 Never a Bridesmaid by Spencer Greene 💚 The Rewind by Nicole Stiling 💙 Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw 💜 The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha ❤️ The Terrible by Tessa Crowley 🧡 Blood Rage by Ileandra Young 💛 Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose 💙 Sign Me Up by C.H. Williams 💜 Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts 🌈 Peaceful in the Dark by A.A. Fairview

❤️ We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards 🧡 Dead Ringer by Robyn Nyx 💛 Somacultural Liberation by Dr. Roger Kuhn 💚 Stormbringer by Erinn Harper 💙 A Saga of Shields & Shadows by A.J. Shirley 💜 Ghost Town by R.E. Ward ❤️ I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante 🧡 The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor 💛 Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr 💙 Bloom by N.R. Walker 💜 Entwined by Alex Alberto 🌈 Queer Newark edited by Whitney Strub

❤️ Tristan by Jesse Roman 🧡 How to Live Free in a Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson 💛 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💚 Of Socialites & Prizefights by Arden Powell 💙 Lost Harbor by Kimberly Cooper Griffin 💜 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee ❤️ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 🧡 How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly 💛 Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence 💙 Tile M for Murder by Felicia Carparelli 💜 Impulse Buy by Jae 🌈 Live for You, Die With You by Kalob Dàniel

❤️ Fairest of All by A.D. Ellis 🧡 Goddess of the Sea by Britney Jackson 💛 A Taste of Earth by Nico Silver 💚 The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by M.Z. Emily Zack 💙 How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith 💜 V is for Valentine by Thomas Grant Bruso ❤️ Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James 🧡 When Tomorrow Comes by D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin 💙 The White and Blue Between Us by Kiyuhiko 💜 Guide Us Home by CF Frizzell & Jesse J. Thoma 🌈 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

❤️ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 🧡 Heart2Heart edited by Annabeth Albert 💛 No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub 💚 Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda 💙 Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ❤️ Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 🧡 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💛 Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault 💙 Born of Scourge by S. Jean 💜 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 🌈 To Cage a God by Elizabeth May

❤️ Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly 🧡 What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher 💛 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💚 Turning Point by Cathy Dunnell 💙 For the Stolen Fates by Gwendolyn Clare 💜 Season of Eclipse by Terry Wolverton ❤️ These Haunted Hills by Jana Denardo 🧡 Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III 💛 Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💜 The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa 🌈 Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

❤️ Out There by Iris Eliot 🧡 At Her Service by Amy Spalding 💛 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

[drratiosstudent]

List of my favourite books / plays categorised by genres/authors

*In no particular order. It's hard to pick a favourite*

*Do search up the reviews, summary and trigger warnings for these books if you do intend to read it, many of them are not easy reads*

*For poetry, web novel, manga/hua/hwa/webtoon/anime/other recs, check my #WinterLEFavList tags~

*As of 3rd February 2025*

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Deep/Classic/Heavy Books

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngoni Adichie

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngoni Adichie

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Aristotle and Dante Discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Maus (Graphic Novel) by Art Spiegelman

The boy in the striped pajamas by John Boyne

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Book of Evidence by John Banville

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Siddhartha Novel by Hermann Hesse

The weight of our sky by Hanna Alkaf

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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Morally gray/dark-ish/angst books

The Cruel Prince Series by Holly Black

Red Queen Series by Victoria Aveyard

Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

Boot Camp by Todd Strasser

Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo

Room by Emma Donoghue

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Gone Series by Michael Grant

The hate u give by Angie Thomas

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Autobiography/memoir/non-fiction/based on true stories/self-help

Dear Life by Rachel Clarke

When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The body keeps the score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Anne Frank's Diary by Anne Frank

January First: A Child's descent into madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her by Michael Schofield

The Man Who Mistook HIs Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

The Last Lecture by Jeffrey Maslow and Randy Pausch

Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius and Megan Lloyd Davies

Binge Crazy: A Psychotherapist's Memoir of Food Addiction, Mental Illness, Obesity and Recovery by Natalie Gold

Elena Vanishing: A Memoir by Clare B. Dunkle and Elena Dunkle

The happiness cure why you’re not build for constant happiness and how to find a way through by Dr Anders Hansen

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Beyond the Story by BTS and Myeongseok Kang

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Other nice books I liked when I was younger (YA category I think?)

Rick Riordan books (PJO universe, Kane's Chronicles, Magnus Chase, Trials of Apollo, Crossovers etc.)

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Hunger games by Suzanne Collins

Lorien Legacies by Pitaccus Lore (James Frey, Job Hughes and formerly Greg Boose)

Mortality Doctrine Series by James Dashner

Time Riders Series by Alex Scarrow

Mistborn (First book of the series by Brandon Sanderson) I've got too many books so I haven't started reading the series yet, but I did like the first book.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

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Mystery/crime

Death in the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

One of us is lying by Karen M. McManus

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Plays

W;t Margaret Edson

A Doll’s House

A Streetcar Named Desire

You can’t tie a mustang down by Christos Chomenidis inspired by Euripides’ Ion

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*I'll add web novels and poetry list in another section!*

[dailyanarchistposts]

Footnotes 1-550

[1] Hickel J. 2020. What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification. Globalizations: 1-7.

[2] Burkhart C, Nowshin T, Schmelzer M, et al. 2022 Who shut shit down? What degrowth can learn form other socio-ecological movements. In: Barlow N, Regen L, Cadiou N, et al. (eds) Degrowth and Strategy: How to bring about social-ecological transformation. London: Mayfly, p.129.

[3] See: Asafu-Adjaye J, Blomquist L, Brand S, et al. 2015. An ecomodernist manifesto. Ecomodernism.org, Available at: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5515d9f9e4b04d5c3198b7bb/t/552d37bbe4b07a7dd69fcdbb/1429026747046/An+Ecomodernist+Manifesto.pdf

[4] Ibid.

[5] Parrique T, Barth J, Briens F, et al. 2019. Decoupling debunked: Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability. European Environment Bureau (EEB), Available at: https://eeb.org/library/decoupling-debunked/; Hickel J and Kallis G. 2020. Is green growth possible? New Political Economy 25(4): 469-486; Tilsted JP, Bjørn A, Majeau-Bettez G, et al. 2021. Accounting matters: Revisiting claims of decoupling and genuine green growth in Nordic countries. Ecological Economics 187(1): 1-9; & Vadén T, Lähde V, Majava A, et al. 2020. Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature. Environmental science & policy 112: 236-244.

[6] Hickel J and Kallis G. 2020. Is green growth possible? New Political Economy 25(4), p. 82.

[7] Vadén T, Lähde V, Majava A, et al. (2020) Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature. Environmental science & policy 112, p. 243.

[8] Barlow N, Regen L, Cadiou N, et al. 2022. Degrowth and Strategy: How to bring about social-ecological transformation. London: Mayfly, p. 23.

[9] For more see: Hickel J. 2020. Less is more: How degrowth will save the world. London: Random House.

[10] This critique remains rather general from Orthodox, but some heterodox, Marxists. The careless attacks by Leigh Phillips and Matt Huber are text book examples.

[11] For strong Feminist critique see: Nirmal P and Rocheleau D. 2019. Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence: Questions, experiences, and proposals from two Indigenous territories. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2(3): 465-492 & Dunlap A. 2020. Recognizing the "De" in Degrowth. Undisciplined Environments, Available at: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-dunlap-recognizing-the-de-in-degrowth. The book, however, will soon delve into an anarchist critique of degrowth.

[12] Barlow N, Regen L, Cadiou N, et al. 2022. Degrowth and Strategy: How to bring about social-ecological transformation. London: Mayfly, 1-405.

[13] Barlow N, Regen L, Cadiou N, et al. 2022, p. 50.

[14] Aronoff K, Battistoni A, Cohen DA, et al. 2019. A planet to win: why we need a Green New Deal. New York: Verso Books.

[15] Chomsky N, Pollin R and Polychroniou C. 2020. Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet. New York: Verso.

[16] Sanders B. 2019. The Green New Deal. Bernie Sanders Campaign, Available at: https://berniesanders.com/en/issues/green-new-deal/.

[17] Dunlap A. 2019. Green New Deal Part II: Good, Bad & the Ugly Terra Nullius: Reposessing the Existent, Available at: https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/green-new-deal-part-II-good-bad-and-the-ugly.html.

[18] Dunlap A and Laratte L. 2022. European Green Deal necropolitics: Exploring ‘green’ energy transition, degrowth & infrastructural colonization. Political Geography 97(1): 1-17.

[19] Zografos C and Robbins P. 2020. Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions. One Earth 3(5): 543-546.

[20] Dunlap & Laratte, 2022.

[21] See for example: Pollin R. 2018. De-growth vs a green new deal. New Left Review 112: 5-25 & Burton M and Somerville P. 2019. Degrowth: a defence. New Left Review 115: 95-104; Robbins P. 2020. Is less more… or is more less? Scaling the Political Ecologies of the Future. Political Geography 76: 1-6. & Gómez-Baggethun E. 2020. More is more: Scaling political ecology within limits to growth. Political Geography 76: 1-12.

[22] O���Connor, J. (1994), ‘Is Sustainable Capitalism Possible?’, in P. Allen (ed.), Food for the Future: Conditions and Contradictions of Sustainability (New York: Wiley-Interscience), p. 133.

[23] Gelderloos, The Solutions, p. 160.

[24] Stoddard I, Anderson K, Capstick S, et al. 2021. Three decades of climate mitigation: why haven't we bent the global emissions curve? Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46(653-689.

[25] Franta B. 2021. Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay. Environmental Politics: 1-21.

[26] Huber M. 2022. Mish-Mash Ecologism. New Left Review, Available at: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/mish-mash-ecologism

[27] Phillips L. 2015. Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-porn Addicts: A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff. John Hunt Publishing.

[28] Huber, Mish-Mash Ecologism.

[29] Heron K. 2022. The Great Unfettering. New Left Review, Available at: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-great-unfettering.

[30] Martínez-Alier J. (2002) The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation, Northampton: Edward Elgar.

[31] Huber, Mish-Mash Ecologism.

[32] Gelderloos, The Solutions, p. 38.

[33] Daggett C. 2018. Petro-masculinity: fossil fuels and authoritarian desire. Millennium 47(1): 25-44 & Bell SE, Daggett C and Labuski C. 2020. Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough. Energy Research & Social Science 68(1): 1-13.

[34] Malm A. 2020. Corona, climate, chronic emergency: War communism in the twenty-first century. Verso Books, p. 167.

[35] See for example: Friends of Aron Baron. 2017. Blood Stained: One Hundred Years of Lennist Counterrevolution. Oakland: AK Press.

[36] The “White Threat” refers to the loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1923). The real counter-revolutionary forces, which the Bolsheviks would quickly call anyone socialist, anarchist or peasants that opposed their rule.

[37] Ryan J. 2012. Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. London: Routledge, p. 9.

[38] See Malm, Corona.

[39] This quote is from this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdnbMd9BiE; See also: Chomsky N. 2005. On Anarchism. Oakland: AK Press.

[40] Pateman B. 2017 Cries in the Wilderness: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid. In: Baron FoA (ed) Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution. Oakland: Ak Press, 243-258.

[41] Ryan J. 2012. Lenin's Terror, p. 2.

[42] Ibid.

[43] Friends of Baron (Eds). 2017. Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution. Oakland: Ak Press.

[44] Goldman E. 2017 My Disillusionment in Russia. In: Baron FoA (ed) Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrevolution. Oakland: AK Press, 223-242.

[45] Verso. 2022. Property Will Cost Us the Earth: Direct Action and the Future of the Global Climate Movement--A Verso Report. New York: Verso Books, 1-220.

[46] Churchill W. 2007 [1998]. Pacifism as pathology: Reflections on the role of armed struggle in North America. Oakland: AK Press.

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December Books

And with that, the 2024 Reading Year is complete. Honestly, I was not expecting to read this much and yet, I feel like I could have done so much more. Maybe 2025, I'll blow these numbers out of the water.

Sins of a King - Emma Slate ⭐️ Guilty for You - A. M. McCoy ⭐️⭐️ Ice Planet Barbarians - Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wallflower - Samantha Leigh ⭐️⭐️ Scarred - Emily McIntire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Broken Vow - Sophie Lark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Fake Out - Stephanie Archer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Corrupt Kingdom - Ava Harrison ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unconditional - Sonia Stanizzo ⭐️⭐️ Chasing the Puck - Lyssa Lemire ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Resistance of Witches - Morgan Ryan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ QB Keeper - C. L. Rose ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Cerulean Sister - Katrina Calandra ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hidden Empire - K. L. Mann ⭐️ Where We Belong - Ashley Muñoz ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tattletale - Kay Cove ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Just Don't Fall - Emma St. Clair ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Falling Into Forever - Avery Mitchell ⭐️⭐️ Slap Shot Surprise - Melanie Harlow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Spider and the Storm - Kelsey Kingsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bonus Game - Susan Renee ⭐️⭐️ Terms and Conditions - Lauren Asher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Flirtation or Faceoff - Leah Brunner ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jasper Vale - Devney Perry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unveiled Desires - J. Wine ⭐️ Heavy Crown - Sophie Lark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unbroken - Grace Turner ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Crown of Ash and Silver - B. C. FaJohn ⭐️ Loathe to Love You - Ali Hazelwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What Heals Us - Maggie C. Gates ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Savage Wounds - Lilian Harris ⭐️⭐️ Darkest Sins - Neva Altaj ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ How Does It Feel? - Jeneane O'Riley ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sweet Prison - Neva Altaj ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Dark Desire - Parker S. Huntington & L. J. Shen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Front Runner - Elsie Silver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ But He's My One Regret - Annah Conwell ⭐️⭐️⭐️

40 books total read for December 2024