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Some nice shots of the family from the wedding but they were ruining my perfectly manicured post:

Sorry Astra, you got Mike Wazowski'd.

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soft, passionate fictional boys with long, dark hair. yes.

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books I read in 2018! (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine

Skim - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary - Keshni Kashyap

Turning Japanese: A Graphic Memoir - Marinaomi

Killing and Dying - Adrian Tomine

Take What You Can Carry - Kevin C. Pyle

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America - April R. Haynes

Finder: Voice - Carla Speed McNeil

Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life - Samantha Irby

Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

What We Lose - Zinzi Clemmons

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Ship of the Dead - Rick Riordan

Strange Practice - Vivian Shaw

The Best We Could Do - Thi Bui

Kindred: A Graphic Novel - Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings

Will Do Magic for Small Change - Andrea Hairston

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

March: Book One - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

March: Book Two - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

March: Book Three - John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell

Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward

The Power - Naomi Alderman

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White - Lila Quintero Weaver

Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker - Howard Smead

Warriors Don’t Cry - Melba Pattillo Beals

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection - ed. Hope Nicholson

Monstress: Awakening - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Boundless - Jillian Tamaki

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South - Michael W. Twitty

Speak: The Graphic Novel - Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me - Janet Mock

Bingo Love - Tee Franklin, Jenn St-Onge, Joy San

Vietnamerica - G.B. Tran

Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery - Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece

Arab in America - Toufic El Rassi

Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life - Alberto Ledesma

Tell the Wolves I’m Home - Carol Rifka Brunt

The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin

The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson

Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X and Alex Haley

All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes - Maya Angelou

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay

Deer Woman: An Anthology - ed. Elizabeth LaPensée and Weshoyot Alvitre

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War - Wallace Terry

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - [Daniel] Mallory Ortberg

It’s All Absolutely Fine: Life Is Complicated So I’ve Drawn It Instead - Ruby Elliot

The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez

Through the Woods - Emily Carroll

The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America - Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Tributaries - Laura Da’

On the Bus With Rosa Parks - Rita Dove

Full-Metal Indigiqueer - Joshua Whitehead

Whereas: Poems - Layli Long Soldier

Not Your Villain - C.B. Lee

My Body is a Book of Rules - Elissa Washuta

Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages - ed. Saundra Mitchell

This is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe

Crazy Brave - Joy Harjo

Harriet the Spy - Louise Fitzhugh

The Lesser Blessed - Richard Van Camp

A Burst of Light: and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart

My Brother’s Husband, Vol. I - Gengoroh Tagame

When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead

The Wicked and the Divine: Imperial Phase (Part 1)  - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Honor Girl - Maggie Thrash

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang

Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertalli

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) - Amy Spalding

How to be Black - Baratunde Thurston

Bury What We Cannot Take - Kirstin Chen

No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach - Anthony Bourdain

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Anthony Bourdain

Our Dead Behind Us - Audre Lorde

The Wicked and the Divine: Imperial Phase (Part 2)  - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6'4, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian - W. Kamau Bell

There There - Tommy Orange

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor

Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead

Just the Funny Parts: ... And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club - Nell Scovell

Perma Red - Debra Magpie Earling

Toil and Trouble - Mairghread Scott

Kissing God Goodbye - June Jordan

Wade in the Water - Tracy K. Smith

Reincarnation Blues - Michael Poore

Nepantla: An Anthology [Queer Poets of Color] - ed. Christopher Soto

Not Here: Poems - Hieu Minh Nguyen

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession - Alice Bolin

Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir - Kai Cheng Thom

Taproot: A Story about a Gardener and a Ghost - Keezy Young

The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag

The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith

Bright Dead Things - Ada Limon

The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo

Citizen Illegal - Jose Olivarez

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin - Terrance Hayes

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf - Ntozake Shange

The Carrying - Ada Limon

Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury - Lesley-Ann Jones

Unclaimed Baggage - Jen Doll

A River of Stars - Vanessa Hua

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

Barbie Chang - Victoria Chang

Corazon - Yesika Salgado

Chemistry - Weike Wang

Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li

Lucy and Linh - Alice Pung

My Favorite Thing is Monsters - Emil Ferris

The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species - Carlos Magdalena

The Incendiaries - R.O. Kwon

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Dumplin’ - Julie Murphy

How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? - N.K. Jemisin

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Unapologetic: a Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene Carruthers

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Film Friday: 5 movie selections of the week!

The movies in this week's Film Friday mix genres like science fiction, action comedy, thrill, and adventure drama comedy. Get ready to make your weekend worthwhile by watching some of the best movies that WhatsOn editors have chosen for you. 1. Amsterdam The 2022 period comedy-thriller movie Amsterdam was written, produced, and directed by David O. Russell. The international cast, which includes Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, and others, is led by Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington. The plot centers on three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and a lawyer—who are implicated in the enigmatic death of a retired U.S. general and get caught up in the Business Plot, a 1933 political conspiracy in the United States. On October 7, 2022, it was made available in the US by 20th Century Studios. https://youtu.be/GLs2xxM0e78 2. Halloween Ends The 2022 American slasher movie Halloween Ends was written by Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and David Gordon Green. It is the conclusion of the trilogy of follow-up movies that started with the 2018 film and is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth entry in the Halloween franchise. This trilogy's concluding film features a terrifying end to the Michael Myers and Laurie Strode saga. The final installment of David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel trilogy, in which Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode battles Michael Myers for the last time—presumably—pulls into second place, not far behind Black Adam. Halloween Ends had its world premiere on October 11, 2022 at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles before Universal Pictures distributed it in theaters nationwide on October 14, 2022. https://youtu.be/s0vtbxLa-N8 3. Eternal Spring In 2022, Jason Loftus' Canadian documentary, titled Eternal Spring (Chinese :), will be released. The movie focuses on Changchun's broadcast television stations being taken over by Falun Gong in 2002 and China's ongoing persecution of ethnic and religious minorities. It is based on animation by Chinese artist Daxiong. In March 2002, followers of the banned spiritual organization Falun Gong took control of a state TV station in China. Their intention was to refute the government's account of their method. Following this, police raids take place all around Changchun City, forcing Falun Gong practitioner and comic book illustrator Daxiong to leave. On March 15, 2022, the movie had its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. After then, it was shown at the 2022 Hot Docs. https://youtu.be/5XpGpbaiz4Q 4. Doctor G Anubhuti Kashyap (making her directorial debut) is the director of the 2022 Indian Hindi-language medical college comedy film Doctor G, which is also produced by Junglee Pictures. The movie, which also stars Sheeba Chaddha, Rakul Preet Singh, Shefali Shah, and Ayushmann Khurrana, centers on a male gynecologist's struggles. The film Doctor G follows Uday Gupta's comical tribulations as the only male student in the gynecology department. His hesitancy causes mayhem, confusion, humor, and ultimately, a strong sense of brotherhood among his pupils. On October 14, 2022, it was released in theaters. https://youtu.be/XJrRrMCEmp8 5. Babli Bouncer Madhur Bhandarkar is the director of the 2022 Bollywood drama film Babli Bouncer. Tamannaah Bhatia will be portrayed as a female bouncer in Babli Bouncer. The various facets of this trade are also shown in the film. The movie follows Babli Bouncer, a unique story of a female bouncer (Tamannaah Bhatia). It examines the numerous dimensions of the typically male-dominated field. It debuted on Disney+ Hotstar on September 23, 2022. https://youtu.be/uShGv52y6no Read the full article

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nima boards the RMS Titanic with a hopeful, feather-light heart. it's been a lifetime since she's seen her sister, and her children will finally be able to meet their aunt and see the country their mother is from. despite everyone's mixed feelings about leaving england, nima knows in her heart that this is a new, bright page in her family's story.

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Goodbye, Brindleton. The girls are on their way to the city.

ft. some establishing shots i didnt use

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Lil spoilery preview of the cousins with matching hats from the weeks ahead because i'm rly happy with my CAS touch-ups and preset 🥺

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In the Spring of 1912, we return to check in on Nima, Talia's twin sister. Last time we saw her, she was at her new husband's modest country home - the Kashyap family she married into was one of extreme wealth. Or so it seemed. Unbeknownst to the whole family, her husband Robin's mother had seized control of the finances until her dying day and hidden the fact that the family's funds had been drying up for years, enough that she had started selling parts of the guest wing in secret. He had to think fast, and put on his typical happy, silly face on for his family. He had gone to the States years ago to acquire some businesses to become independent from his parents - he'd just do that again. He'd start small, and build their fortune up again. Robin announced to his family that he'd thought of a wonderful idea, a simply wonderful idea, they would go to America! Their cousins and aunt and uncle were over there, after all, and there would be plenty of things to see and do together as a family! He had already booked the tickets, and there was to be no arguing about it. Not everyone was convinced. His sisters and his son Noah didn't want to leave their family home - Noah had plans to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps as Lord, but he'd do a better job than his flighty father ever had. Robin's daughter Laurie and wife Nima, however... Nima had not seen her sister in more than 15 years, and couldn't believe what she was hearing, and Laurie took the news the same way her father always took things, too - with a optimistic smile.

Robin & his side of the family belong to @agentoctosims

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The Kashyap family arrive, finally, to Pier 54. Nima's husband Robin, son Noah, and sister-in-law Namas did not make the journey.

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My bunny,

I'm sorry to hear you and Ollie are feeling down. It can be hard to succeed in this world - harder still as two young ladies alone in a city. It must feel an unfriendly place. Your new job at the magazine sounds so demanding and stressing. I think often on how brave you are, Laurie. If it helps, I am so proud of you. Your father had dreams of doing the very thing you are doing now. I feel so proud, my heart will burst any day now.

Here is my advice to you, sweet bunny. Your father and I had the most fun in the world when we were freshly married - parties, picnics, dances, we did it all! I barely slept the first year of our marriage. We were out all night and went to sleep at dawn. I want that for you - within reason, of course. Stay vigilant - but have fun! Moving pictures aren't so costly that you and your cousin can't see one every once in a while. Your friends sound like fun girls who would enjoy going shopping or playing board games with you. And it sounds like Olivia is doing well at her apprenticeship - she should make the both of you fun dresses! Find one of those dance halls and enjoy every moment!

Your father is nodding and agreeing with me from his cloud up in Heaven, bunny, you know I'm right! I hope things look up soon. Come back soon to visit us.

Love Always,

Mother

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The Gen 2 girls in the modern era 👯‍♀️

Olivia stumbled accidentally into becoming a sewing and dressmaking influencer who sells her patterns on Etsy. She has crippling anxiety and imposter syndrome behind the screen. She exclusively follows booktok accounts that review enemies to lovers arranged marriage alpha fae king etc etc etc fantasy smut books and reads every single one. She lives at home still and feels completely lost in life.

Laurie is majoring in English at Yale and is already thinking about what her Master's degree will be in - she's torn between Creative Writing and Publishing. She's involved in 2 sports clubs on campus and works as secretary on the student council. Due to her family's tragic past, she's reserved and a bit somber and struggles to make friends.

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Making friends with the other girls in the building 🥲 Harmony and Willow - Harmony is the life of the party, but Olivia can't always understand her through her thick Irish accent.