#kiesl

[churchyaoi]

what are they looking at

[vehemourn]

FEVER DREAM - PLUMMET

[random-brushstrokes]

Ernst Kiesling (German, 1851–1929) - Twilight - Forester's lodge in Gößweinstein

[bookaddict24-7]

NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (APRIL 16TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

We're Never Getting Home by Tracy Badua

This is Me Trying by Racquel Marie

This Night is Ours by Ronni Davis

The One That Got Away With Murder by Trish Lundy

Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson

Pretty Furious by E.K. Johnston

The Harrowing by Kristen Kiesling , Rye Hickman (Illustrator)

King of Dead Things by Nevin Holness

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver

The End of Always by Rebecca Phillips

NEW SEQUELS:

Calling of Light (Shamanborn #3) by Lori M. Lee

The Lady of Rapture (The Bones of Ruin #3) by Sarah Raughley

Merciless Saviours (The Ouroboros #2) by H.E. Edgmon

Sheine Lende (Elatsoe #2) by Darcie Little Badger , Rovina Cai (Illustrator)

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Happy reading!

[drondskaath]

Golgothan Remains | Bearer of Light, Matriarch of Death | 22nd November, 2024

Australian Death Metal

Artwork by Misanthropic Art

[tiny-design]

While the players are each filling out their own board during Azul, they are all drawing from a shared resource of tiles in the center of the table, with each turn determining what resources are remaining for everyone else to draw upon. This, along with a complex and obscured scoring system, ensures that players often must make round-by-round decisions based on limited information, trying to predict play based on the immediate future rather than a long-term plan.

[novemberhope]

[chalkmon]

#524 Roggenrola

DeviantArt

Ko-Fi

Roggenrola © Nintendo / Game Freak

Picture © Elik-Chan

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Not to continue to sound like a communist, but:

"In 2021, as childcare costs soared by more than 40%, Congress provided a massive cash infusion to states to stabilize childcare and supplied parents with both cash and an additional tax refund to support their kids. Seemingly overnight, child poverty dropped by 40%."

Those measly little pandemic checks that gave us back a teeny bit of our own tax money DROPPED CHILD POVERTY BY 40%. "Among 38 leading Western nations, American kids account for 97% of child gun deaths." These same assjackets who disgustingly whine about "a domestic supply of babies" as if people with uteruses are a herd of things for them to breed also allow our children to be treated like they're disposable so they can keep collecting NRA handouts. I'm fed up with this oligarchy. I'm fed up with living in the fucking Hunger Games. Hey France, can we borrow your guillotine?

[kammartinez]

He threw his head back and laughed. “Oh my god,” he said. “Let me guess: oil propaganda videos with lady roughnecks.” “Laugh it up,” she said. “I know you used to make your sexist fucking newspaper and it’s all a joke to you, but it’s actually hard for women in this industry.” She felt unprepared to defend herself, weak and worn-out, but offended. “Why should women from oil-rich countries not have a role in supplying cheap and plentiful energy for their own benefit?” This could have been marketing copy she had written for the conference. “Jesus Christ, Bunny,” said Charlie. “You believe that?” “I believe that women should have educations and jobs and refrigerators to put their fucking food in and that they should be able to give birth in hospitals with incubators in the NICU,” she said, genuinely pissed. “That’s not a controversial statement.” This was what Francis had said to her on Phil Miles’s roof the first time they met, and it was such a just and tidy logic she had never really moved away from it. “Oil companies don’t care about incubators,” said Charlie. “They don’t give a fuck about you, or any woman in Kazakhstan, or any woman anywhere.” “Neither do you,” said Elizabeth. “You’re wearing a fucking wedding ring.” He stood up, picked up his clothes from the floor, and walked toward the bathroom. “There it fucking is,” he said. “Yes, I’m a bad person. Chevron or Tengizchevroil or whatever the fuck it is will boil you alive, and you’ll still be screaming that I’m a misogynist pig so you don’t have to care.”

from Mobility, by Lydia Kiesling

[kamreadsandrecs]

Title: Mobility: A Novel

Author: Lydia Kiesling

Genre: literary fiction

Content/Trigger Warning/s: discussions and mentions of major historical events and natural disasters, including but not limited to 9/11, the BP Oil Spill, Hurricane Harvey, and the COVID-19 pandemic

Summary (from author's webpage): The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny’s eyes we watch global interests flock to the former Soviet Union during the rush for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hear rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age—from Azerbaijan to America—as the entwined idols of capitalism and ambition lead her to a career in the oil industry, and eventually back to the scene of her youth, where familiar figures reappear in an era of political and climate breakdown.

Both geopolitical exploration and domestic coming-of-age novel, Mobility is a propulsive and challenging story about class, power, politics, and desire told through the life of one woman—her social milieu, her romances, her unarticulated wants. Mobility deftly explores American forms of complicity and inertia, moving between the local and the global, the personal and the political, and using fiction’s power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context.

Buy Here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mobility-lydia-kiesling/18547461

Spoiler-Free Review: Godsdamn but this book makes me FUCKING ANGRY! I mean this in a good way, by the way, as this is frankly speaking a pretty good read.

Look, it’s not every day that a book pisses me off, but this one pissed me off in the best possible way, with its focus on the sheer hypocrisy of white people - specifically privileged white women - when it comes to the much larger suffering that everyone else around them experiences. From the moment she is introduced all the way to the very end of this novel, Bunny/Elizabeth thinks of no one but herself. Her disinterest as a teenager can be forgiven, I suppose, because I think a majority of teenagers are self-centered little shits to varying degrees - and I say that as a teenager who was pretty self-centered myself. The few who aren’t are rare and far between.

But later on, as she grows more and more comfortable in her place in the oil industry, you can practically SEE her convincing herself that what she’s doing, what her industry is doing, is right and just and not as problematic as everyone thinks it is. Worse, one can also read how she twists her WILLFUL IGNORANCE into a VIRTUE because IT BENEFITS HER TO DO SO. It’s just so INFURIATING to see that happen, since she has the privilege and the opportunity to do better, and yet: SHE DOESN’T!

The funny thing is, SHE GETS CALLED OUT ON IT! There are several moments throughout the novel wherein she is forced to confront how she doesn’t take a stand on anything, for just sitting on a fence, for thinking only of her own comfort, and while she sometimes pauses to think about what the other person’s saying and wonder if maybe they’re right, you can almost FEEL her flinch away from anything that makes her uncomfortable. THEN she goes RIGHT back to thinking any line of thought that makes her feel “safe” and one gets to watch as she chooses the path that makes her feel better, even if it comes at the cost of other people’s lives. They’re not HER people after all, how can she consider the plight of some nebulous entity who lives half the world away and whom she’s never met? This takes a chillingly exploitative turn towards the end of the novel.

I’ll admit, for a few moments while reading this I wonder if there’s anything she could have realistically done to actually take a stand and do something. The size and complexity of the oil industry is mentioned repeatedly throughout the novel; at various points Bunny/Elizabeth herself says that she can’t understand all of it, no matter how hard she tries. And when one is faced with something THAT big, that has the capacity to mutate into a new form to avoid accountability and instead re-emerge stronger than ever— How does one fight against something like that? Seen from that perspective maybe Bunny/Elizabeth’s reticence can be understood, even sympathized with, but after a certain point even this sympathy evaporates because it becomes clear that she’s CHOOSING to remain complacent.

But the interesting thing is, all this rage at Bunny/Elizabeth and the life she’s chosen can easily be turned on oneself. You read this book and wind up asking yourself: “Am I actually doing anything about the way the world works? Am I doing enough?” These are important questions, in my opinion, and applies to a lot more issues than just the theme of climate crisis that this book’s built around. None of these questions are comfortable or soothing, and the potential answers are likely to be less so, but they’re questions we need to ask regardless, if we don’t want to face the same kind of future Bunny/Elizabeth faces at the end of the novel.

Overall, this is an infuriating read, but excellent precisely BECAUSE it’s infuriating. It reveals some very uncomfortable truths and make the reader as some very difficult questions, leading to answers that are probably even MORE uncomfortable and difficult than the questions themselves. But the novel also emphasizes the need to ask those questions and find those answers, because seeking only to live in a bubble of comfort, unbothered and undisturbed by the wider world’s troubles, means living a life devoid of compassion and empathy, and only leads to a future where the entire world suffers.

Rating: five oil tankers

[churchyaoi]

showing off your cool spartan ai to the odst you met a week ago... cody and kiesling face reveal moment whaaaaat! cody is so big im feeling ill

[vehemourn]

loving embrace :]

[moviesandmania]

HOME SWEET HOME REBIRTH (2024) Video game adaptation

Home Sweet Home Rebirth is a 2024 fantasy action horror film about a cop trying to stop an evil occultist from opening the Gates of Hell. Directed by Steffen Hacker (Ingenium) and Alexander Kiesl (Bot Wars). The American-Thai Altit Media Group-Film Frame Productions movie stars Bill Moseley, Alexander Lee, Urassaya Sperbund and Michele Morrone. Plot: During a deadly mall shooting a cop named Jake…

[wellconstructedsentences]

Motherhood is not a house you live in but a warren of beautiful rooms, something like Topkapi... some well-trod but magnificent place you're only allowed to sit in for a minute and snap a photo before you are ushered out.

The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling

[drondskaath]

Putrascension | Forever Below | 2023

American Melodic Black Metal

Artwork by Misnathropic Art