#nataly osman

[albiandreams]

I wrote about the surreal experience of watching the media circus around Baby Reindeer unfold, as someone who looks uncomfortably like Martha:

[littletroubledgrrrl]

[dino-boyo-agere]

AgeRe YouTube Channel list

Haii!!

I decided to write down my favorite age-regression YouTube channels, as well as some I just really like to watch when I'm tiny!

Some of those channels are sparse in their uploading schedule, diverted their theme away from regression or have stopped uploading all together. Nonetheless, even in those cases, their old videos on/ about AgeRe are still a great watch and I highly recommend checking them out!

!! of course it's all SFW content aswell !!

So, without further ado, here is my list..

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Age regression channels:

• ri's space (formerly known as Rileys littlespace)

• Smolbinkie

• AspenSprout

• Babie dani

• Little Moo Moo (i love them so much + their a POC) ╰→ ! they are DDLG aligned, but still make SFW content !

• Vexedbabie

• Princess smol bean

• Natalie's age regression

• milkwebs

• Little kitty space

• Xlittle.plantx

• Small safe space

• cottagebabydol

• Little Disreactions (AgeRe themed/ coded ASMR)

• Blond boy (i think this one's actually ABDL tho?)

• LittleBabysLittleSpace (this one's also ABDL)

Crafting channels:

• NerdEcrafter (always fun when smol)

• North of the Border (great for spookie tiny ones)

• Bobby Duke Arts

• Studson Studio

• Nick Zametti

• Ten Hundred

• I did a thing 

• Jazza (also especially kiddo friendly)

• Evan and Katelyn

• Kasey Golden

• Moriah Elizabeth

• Super Rae dizzle

• Maquaroon

• Dollightfull

• HeXtian

• Tyler Tube

Toy and slime review channels:

• ashens (idk why lil me luvs to watch this, u might too)

• Great Big Toy Box

• Next Jen (Main of GBTB)

• Sandaisy

• It's kristiii

Learning channels:

• Mrs. Rachel (recommended by @zack-agere)

• William Osman

• TheBackyardScientist

• Be Smart (recommended by @zack-agere)

• Crash Course Kids

• Free School

• Peekaboo Kidz

• It's AumSum Time

• Clever Kids

• BRIGHT SIDE Series

• Toy Time Town

• SciShow Kids

• BE AMAZED

• KLT (learning with songs, for smol & big kids)

• Danny Go! (rlly like dis one, even has a vid on ASL!!)

• Kids TV123 (learning with songs, for extra tiny ones)

Dino channels:

• The Dinosaur Channel

• Dinosaurs

• Ben G Thomas

Space Channels:

• Future Space

• PBS Space Time

• History of the Universe

• melodysheep (has some really great vids on space!)

Arcade channels:

• Push Time Wins

• Kawaii arcade master

TV/ Movie talk Channels:

Pugly

Dylan Is In Trouble

Alex Hefner's TV and Movie Vault

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That's all the channels I can think of thus far, I'm more than happy to add your suggestions aswell though! I would actually really appreciate some more recommendations on channels, especially if u have any SFW agere boy channels, aswell as channels that are highly focused on dinosaurs or space!

Thank you for reading!

I hope this helps some of y'all to find some more people to connect to in our amazing community!!

Love y'all 💞 ~ ฅ⁠|°▿▿▿▿°|ฅ

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[benoitblanc]

arwen’s read in 2023!

the spiritual successor to my read in 2022 and, as always, excluding a shitload of rereads.

periodic tales by hugh aldersley-williams (★★★★★)

nona the ninth by tamsyn muir (★★★★★)

as you like it by william shakespeare (★★★★☆)

persuasion by jane austen (★★★★★)

the empire striketh back by ian doescher (★★★★★)

northanger abbey by jane austen (★★★★☆)

little women by louisa may alcott (★★★★★)

darth plagueis by james luceno (★★★☆☆)

the thursday murder club by richard osman (★★★★☆)

wild women and the blues by denny s bryce (★★★☆☆)

hell bent by leigh bardugo (★★★★★)

daisy jones and the six by taylor jenkins reid (★★★★☆)

invisible man by ralph ellison (★★★☆☆)

a thousand ships by natalie haynes (★★★★★)

if beale street could talk by james baldwin (★★★★☆)

moonflower murders by anthony horowitz (★★★★★)

emma by jane austen (★★★★★)

song of solomon by toni morrison (★★★★☆)

stiff by mary roach (★★★★☆)

the radium girls by kate moore (★★★★★)

the word is murder by anthony horowitz (★★★☆☆)

killers of a certain age by deanna raybourn (★★★★☆)

beloved by toni morrison (★★★★☆)

the ten thousand doors of january by alix e harrow (★★★☆☆)

working on a song by anais mitchell (★★★★★)

yellowface by rf kuang (★★★★★)

everyone in my family has killed someone by benjamin stevenson (★★★★☆)

the blind assassin by margaret atwood (★★★★★)

mansfield park by jane austen (★★★★☆)

cloud cuckoo land by anthony doerr (★★★★★)

upgrade by blake crouch (★★★★☆)

the children of jocasta by natalie haynes (★★★☆☆)

piranesi by susanna clarke (★★★★★)

the woman in the library by sulari gentill (★★★★☆)

the city and the city by china mieville (★★★★☆)

a is for arsenic by kathryn harkup (★★★★★)

cymbeline by william shakespeare (★★★★☆)

will in the world by stephen greenblatt (★★★★☆)

atonement by ian mcewan (★★★★★)

dirk gently’s holistic detective agency by douglas adams (★★★★☆)

a room with a view by em forster (★★★★☆)

fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury (★★★★☆)

artemis by andy weir (★★★★☆)

murder your employer by rupert holmes (★★★★★)

memory wall by anthony doerr (★★★★★)

the appeal by janice hallett (★★★★★)

the twyford code by janice hallett (★★★★☆)

summer sons by lee mandelo (★★★☆☆)

salt to the sea by ruta sepetys (★★★☆☆)

the graveyard book by neil gaiman (★★★★☆)

the beautiful ones by silvia moreno-garcia (★★★★☆)

the button house archives by the writers of bbc ghosts (★★★★★)

[letapollojusticesayfuck]

Please check out "The City We Became" by N.K. Jemison. Or anything by N.K. Jemison really. A true talent.

There's also "Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon. A great fantasy/political adventure.

"Hench" by Natalie Zina Walschots if you want a good story about someone getting back at a corrupt hero society for injuring them.

"Get a Life Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert is a fantastic romance novel with awesome disability rep.

And while I think still technically young adult, "Loveless" by Alice Osman (author of Heartstopper) is a fantastic read.

Thank you, anon, for the many recommendations! I’ve actually had a few of these floating around in my “vague to-read list” for a while—have definitely heard many good things about N.K. Jemison and also Priory of the Orange Tree, and Loveless has been something i’ve been meaning to check out for ages. I’ll definitely read up on the ones i haven’t heard anything about so far!

in response to some of the other recs:

@astrologista i think I remember hearing about that series back when I was in school—don’t know if I have the time for quite as many books as that one appears to entail but I’ll have a look?

@hey-akaaaashi HMM i had not heard of this author until now and am not USUALLY too much of a romance-focused reader (hilarious, i know, considering my writing) but i must admit the summaries are pretty intriguing!! i’m going to try and find some excerpts somewhere 👀

@shady-glasses I remember a time when half of my dash was literally just fanart for this series—a couple years back I read the first chapter or so of Fangirl and wasn’t able to get super into the writing, but I know Carry On is like, the fictional series from Fangirl turned into actual books? maybe I’ll try and find a preview and see if that resonates more

@beakerhoneydew oh i am SO into Discworld but am doing the not-recommended strategy of reading them in publication order (i must follow timeline chronology or i will die) and therefore have about eleven more books before I get to Going Postal. i have heard SO MUCH about Moist von Lipwig though, I am really looking forward to it :)

@pigeonreads ngl i am fascinated by a series being “mainly about bird fighting” as the only comparison i can make is to Guardians of Ga’Hoole which i read MANY years ago. Magnus Chase is a Rick Riordan series, right? I am suddenly reminded that I never finished reading the sequel series to PJO…but I know I’ve at least heard of Witch Hat Atelier, I will look into that!

Thank you to everyone so far for your recommendations! :) Every time I have to recall things I want to read my mind goes blank so this is actually super helpful. Much appreciated!

[kitchen-light]

Thank you so much to @briarhips for tagging me to fill out this tag meme!

1) name/nickname: s

2) sign: virgo

3) height: 165 cm

4) last google search: I use Ecosia to help support the trees - I was watching Richard Osman’s House of Games and there was a question on English kings (pre William the Conqueror) and I got stuck inside an internet search spiral of Danish kings of England

5) song stuck in head: Fucking Wizardry by Self Esteem

6) number of followers: mas o menos

7) amount of sleep: sleep is my rival (I think this is a line from a Stars song, but they’re not on Spotify so can’t double check)

8) lucky number: 3

9) dream job: honestly I’ve pretty much just have always wanted to write ... but one dream I had was wanting to be a beekeeper 🐝

10) wearing: light grey hoodie, dark grey satin trousers over winter stockings, bronze woolly socks, slippers, no makeup or jewellery atm

11) books/movies that summarize you: Orlando, Whisper of the Heart, Happy Together, Rebecca, Paterson, Only Lovers Left Alive, Wings of Desire, Travels with Herodotus, Girl Meets Boy (Ali Smith), Deathless, Miłosz’ final collection of poems, In the Same Light | 200 Tang Poems for Our Century (this is so random, I’m sure tomorrow it’ll be different)

12) favorite song: lately too… My Sea by IU (also the Lee Mujin service x KSM cover!)

13) favorite instrument: the oud (!!!!)

14) aesthetic: writing in cafes, rainy days, misted windows, corners of ancient buildings, dusk, fields of lavender, the corners of photographs, oversized hoodies, stacks and stacks of books, old fashioned quills, trains going overground, tones of blue & grey, coffee, purple roses petals falling, foxes leaping over leaves, doric columns, bottled jams, pickles and chutneys, rings on every finger, lunch poems

15) favorite authors: Anne Carson, Richard Siken, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Kaveh Akbar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Marina Tsvetaeva, Lee Hyemi, Anna Akhmatova, Ada Limón, T.S. Eliot, Danez Smith, Valzyhna Mort, David Mitchell, John Donne, Geoff Dyer, Ryszard Kapuściński, Seamus Heaney, etc etc etc lately I’ve been getting into Jenny Xie and Ostap Slyvynsky as well (this reminds me that I want to make a project of spending more concentrated time reading one writer at a time (usually nonfiction) like Svetlana Alexievich, or Natalia Ginzburg, or Teju Cole, etc etc)

16) favorite animal noise: when a cheetah purrs

17) random: last week I got locked inside a public park after closing hours by mistake

Tagging whoever would like to do this - please let me know if you do 💙🦩🦜🧡

[zirhlikuzgun]

January's crew - Page 6

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[sixtyfivehundredinvisiblebirds]

What I read in 2023

2023 Either/Or- Elif Batuman Arcadia- Lauren Groff The Buddha in the Attic- Julie Otsuka Monsters- Claire Dederer Also a Poet: My father, Frank O’Hara and me- Ada Calhoun Bodywork- Melissa Febos Vanishing Fleece- Clara Parkes The Idiot- Elif Batuman Syllabus- Lynda Barry The Women’s House of Detention- Hugh Ryan Saving Time- Jenny Odell Sag Harbor- Colson Whitehead (re-read, very happily) All Night Pharmacy- Ruth Madievsky Moby Dick- Herman Melville Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin Mare’s Nest- Holly Mitchell Lima :: Limón- Natalie Scenters-Zapico Heliopause- Heather Christle The Changeling- Victor LaValle The Secret History- Donna Tartt Punks: New and Selected Poems- John Keene Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers- Jake Skeets Togetherness- Wo Chan Soundmachine- Rachel Zucker Superdoom- Melissa Broder Philomath- Devon Walker-Figueroa Exiles of Eden- Ladan Osman NSFW- Isabel Kaplan Junk- Tommy Pico Draw Me After- Peter Cole O- Zeina Hashem Beck The Interestings- Meg Wolitzer Civil Service- Claire Schwartz My Education- Susan Choi Without Protection- Gala Mukomolova Mothman Apologia- Robert Wood Lynn A Nail the Evening Hangs On- Monica Sok The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On- Franny Choi Space Struck- Paige Lewis The Underground Railroad- Colson Whitehead Bliss Montage- Ling Ma Our Spoons Came from Woolworths- Barbara Comyns Garments Against Women- Anne Boyer Don’t Let Me Be Lonely- Claudia Rankine (reread) Present Tense Machine- Gunnhild Øyehaung, tr. Sophie Hughes Celestia- Manuele Fior, tr. Jamie Richards Night Bus- Zuo Ma, tr. Orion Martin Nightbitch- Rachel Yoder Boundless- Jillian Tamaki Your black friend and other strangers- Ben Passmore Library of Small Catastrophes- Alison C. Rollins Nerd: Adventures in fandom from this universe to the multiverse- Maya Phillips Desperate Characters- Paula Fox The Bird King- G. Willow Wilson Alienation- Inés Estrada The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop- Felicia Rose Chavez The Year of Blue Water- Yanyi Pale Colors in a Dark Field- Carl Phillips I Remember- Joe Brainard Manywhere- Morgan Thomas Obit- Victoria Chang Memorial- Brian Washington Girlhood- Melissa Febos Hot and Bothered: what no one tells you about menopause- Jancee Dunn

[serotoninhq]

the team is thrilled to announce the following mun and muse have been accepted! we’re looking forward to develop this world and its future verses with you.

〔 kola bokinni, 30, cis man, he & him ) samson kande was seen listening to upgrade u by Beyoncé. sam/sonny is a celebrity stylist and known to be affluent & hedonistic ( kass )

〔 barbara lopez, 30, demi woman, she & her ) florence de la cruz was seen listening to try by colbie caillat. Flo is a cosmetic chemist and known to be articulate & projective ( kass )

〔 sam otto, 31, genderflux, any ) remington bhuva was seen listening to who let the dogs out by baha men. Remy is the owner of doggy bakery and known to be creative & aloof ( kass )

〔 romulo estrela, 37, cis man, he & him ) marcos bezerra was seen listening to three little birds by bob marley. marcos is a snowboard & surf instructor and known to be adaptable & sporadic ( kass )

〔 anna leong brophy, 31, demi woman, any pronouns ) chunning zheng was seen listening to some kinda wonderful by betty who. chase is a pr manager and known to be approachable & candid ( kass )

〔 natalie martinez, 39, cis woman, she / her) flor peraza was seen listening to 'nfwmb' by hozier. flor is a physical therapist and known to be self-sufficient & perfectionist ( sol )

〔 karen fukuhara, 31, questioning, she / they) takara sugihara was seen listening to 'the only thing worth fighting for' by lera lynn. kara is a software developer and known to be perceptive & indecisive ( sol )

〔 pinar deniz, 29, cis woman, she / her) zainah osman was seen listening to 'honey' by raveena. zay is a florist and known to be attentive & clumsy ( sol )

〔 adam demos, 38, cis man, he/him ) tate foster was seen listening to paralyzer by finger eleven. tate is unemployed and known to be charismatic & haughty ( abby )

〔 im si-wan, 33, demi man, he/they ) baekhyeon koo was seen listening to human by rag'n'bone man. benny is a paramedic and known to be protective & self-sacrificing ( abby )

〔 jamie lee curtis, 65, cis woman, she/her ) sylvia winters was seen listening to fairytale by alexander rybak. sylvia is a elementary school principal and known to be family-oriented & self-sacrificing ( abby )

〔 matthew lillard, 35, demi man, he/they ) joseph lourdes was seen listening to i knew you were trouble by taylor swift. joey/shaggy is a paranormal investigator & content creator and known to be imaginative & eccentric ( abby )

[lookoneworld]

LOOK 36 WILLA

WILLA @ ONE MANAGEMENT

WILLA WEARS DRESS MARC JACOBS, CAPE OSMAN AND SHOES YSL. ALL C/O ALBRIGHT FASHION LIBRARY

PHOTOGRAPHED AND STYLED BY NATALIE TAUGER

MAKE UP EMI KANEKO

HAIR KAT CABRERA

CASTING THE ESTABLISHMENT

[nausikaaa]

Part Two!

July

Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. 5 stars. this is the book i always turn to when i feel my motivation slip. this was my fourth time reading it. i finished it in three days and immediately moved on to the sequel. it's just so good, it grabs you from the very first page and sets off running and doesn't let go.

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. 5 stars. of course i had to finish the duology. it was amazing as always.

A Curious History Of Sex by Kate Lister. 4.5 stars, super interesting and really funny, my only issue is that it was mostly focused on middle ages and victorian England. a wider scope would have been even more interesting to compare different places and times.

August

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard. 4 stars, a short but enlightening read. really made me stop and go "damn every woman on the planet has dealt with deeply shitty men haven't we? shits fucked."

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield. 4.5 stars, a series of short stories so i liked some more than others, but they were all really atmospheric and fun. also as an aside i counted three references to greek mythology, miss Armfield please write a sapphic horror novel set in the classical world next.

Pride: The Unlikely Story Of The Unsung Heroes Of The Miner's Strike by Tim Tate with LGSM. 5 stars, if you follow me you may know it read this as research for a fic, but honestly i couldn't put it down. i learned a lot, laughed a lot, cried a lot. wouod highly recommend.

September

Murder In The Family by Cara Hunter. 3 stars. read it in 2 days, most of it in one night in just over 3 hours. the amount of twists in such rapid succession had me so invested, but the ending was a bit of a letdown.

Liberated: The Radical Art And Life Of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe. 4 stars, a quick read but very interesting, i really wish we'd learned this kind of history in school!

October

The Ancient Guide To Modern Life by Natalie Haynes. 2 stars, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this book, it's just that i knew a lot of the information already so it dragged for me. would probably be better for someone who hasn't already listened to her podcast multiple times, as it's a lot of the same info.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. 4 stars. i actually consumed this as an audiobook and regret not getting into them sooner. anyway, a really good mystery and i loved all the characters. i was suspicious of people who did turn out to be suspicious but for non murder reasons, everyone just has secrets in this book. and it managed to finally make me cry in the very last chapter. i'll definitely be reading the next book soon!

Secrets Of The Vampire: A Supernatural Sourcebook Of Our Legend And Lore by Julie Légère, Elsa Whyte and Laura Pérez. 3 stars, enjoyable but short. i really liked the illustrations.

November

The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club 2) by Richard Osman. 5 stars, even better than the first one! super exciting and very sweet and touching at times.

Dracula by Bram Stoker. 4 stars. yeah i did Dracula Daily this year. actually i did Re: Dracula but that's basically an audiobook, right? it started in May, ended in November, so i've included it here. honestly, i liked it way more than i'd thought i would. obviously there are parts that make you cringe and remember this book was written in the 1890s, but so long as you read it critically it's really enjoyable.

The First Ladies Of Rome by Annelise Freisenbruch. 5 stars, supplemented the knowledge i already had while also having loads of things i hadn't known before, especially about the later empire which i never studied. overall was super interesting. i want more than ever to go back in time and befriend Julia The Elder, she sounds like an absolute riot. also tv show about Galla Placidia when??

The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club 3) by Richard Osman. 5 stars. another banger. stayed up all night to finish it, i just couldn't put it down. i'm really attached to these characters now. i fear for Stephen in the last book.

The Last Devil To Die (Thursday Murder Club 4) by Richard Osman. 5 stars. i hate being right. RIP Stephen. bawled my eyes out. but i finished the series!! i felt the mystery wasn't quite as interesting in this one, but the character development was absolutely top tier.

December

The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. 3.5 stars. started off strong, was a fairly easy read so i got through the whole 300 page book in a couple of hours (with a break in between for work), but i felt the ending was rushed and dissatisfying. all the setup was there for Mira to become the third vampire, and then at the very end she just leaves and it's some random Countess a single line is devoted to? i can't even tell if it was supposed to be a surprise twist, but it just fell flat and made the ending basically a defeat for the heroine.

Heartstopper Vol 5 by Alice Oseman. 3.5 stars. a quick read but cute. i definitely can feel that this comic meant more to me when i first read it at 17 than it does at 22.

Weak Heart by Ban Gilmartin. 5 stars. this is my third or maybe fourth reread, such a comfort book. the characters feel like old friends at this point.

A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall. 5 stars. i was really surprised by how much i enjoyed this book, as i don't typically go for book where the romance is most of the plot, and i especially don't tend to like Regency historical fiction. but it was just really fun and sweet, and it kept me interested all the way through despite being quite long. multiple moments elicited actual shouting. the romance was excellent, i was really rooting for the characters and so happy for them at the end.

Elektra by Jennifer Saint. 2.5 stars. very hit or miss. Clytemnestra's point of view is really good. her compassion, her complexity, and the way she tries to justify her actions are all so well done. Cassandra's was pretty average. i personally wasn't interested in another rehash of the trojan war, and i felt her chapters just slowed the story down, but i can see how they would benefit someone less well versed in the myths. Elektra's point of view just made me angry. her motivation is never really explained in a satisfying way, and the author clearly felt that she has to address the Electra complex, but knowing the history behind it just makes me angrier. it was a badly thought out psychological theory used to gaslight and victim blame victims of sexual abuse, and while i don't believe that the author knew that, seeing it be treated as in any way valid and applicable to the real Electra boiled my blood.

Country by Michael Hughes. 4 stars. the book i chose to spend all christmas day reading this year. a really good story, and knowing the iliad made it even better as i could recognise characters and interactions map onto the original story! it felt like playing a game while reading, picking up all the little references.

Did Not Finish

Helen Of Troy by Margaret George. i did read some more of this but just keep dropping off and gravitating to other things. maybe i'll have finished it by next year.

Bitch by Lucy Cooke. another book that has done nothing wrong, it is a me problem. i will try to finish it.

Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel. again, working on it.

In The Vanisher's Palace by Aliette Du Bodard. read three chapters (it's only ten chapters long so a decent chunk) and decided it wasn't for me.

The Menelaid by John Barth. it's not even very long but it's just really meandering and boring. i really tried but just couldn't focus.

and finally, top picks in no particular order that i think i would recommend to anyone who wants to read something new in 2024:

Books I Read In 2023, Part One

In January I decided I wanted to track my reading, as I usually don't really have a sense of how much I read per month or year. I don't like things like Goodreads, so I just jotted down the books I read and what I thought of them in my notes app. Now that we're halfway through the year, I thought I might share what I've read, and then in December I can add part 2. So, without further ado,

January

The Girl From The Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag. 3 stars, a bit slow but generally sweet and fun.

Jackalope Wives And Other Stories by T Kingfisher. 5 stars, every story slapped. would highly recommend if you like dark fairytales with a sense of humour.

February

started Helen Of Troy by Margaret George. I still haven't finished it (she is LONG) but i'm really enjoying it!

I Was Born For This by Alice Oseman. 4.5 stars, it was entertaining and emotional like all of Alice Oseman's books but i have to deduct a half a star for the main character (who is from the south) briefly assuming with no basis that being from north = transphobic and the narrative treating this as a rational assumption and not super bigoted and classist, like what the hell was that about? also via this interaction Alice Oseman managed to find yet another way to mention Durham in her books but this time i couldn't even go "yay i'm from there!" because now have this sense that she thinks i'm predisposed to transphobia because of where i'm from. i cannot stress this enough: what the fuck.

The Prince And The Dressmaker by Jen Wang. 5 stars, so heartwarming and i loved the art! I'm trying to get one of my friends to read it because I just know he'll relate.

March

The Lives Of The Saints by Leigh Bardugo. 3 stars, not really my jam but it adds another layer to her other books, which I really enjoy.

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. 3 stars, made my head hurt at times because it's kinda convoluted, but still super interesting. the musical is great too. and before you mention it, yes, i am reading Dykes To Watch Out For, but it's not on the list because I just started it, and I will probably read the bulk of it and finish it in July so it will fall under there.

April

Lies We Sing To The Sea by Sarah Underwood. 3.5 stars, i'll be honest, i read this out of morbid curiosity and spite. it was a pretty average for a YA book really, not worth all the drama it stirred up in the classics community, but the end surprised me so it gets an extra half star.

A Fatal Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum: Murder In Ancient Rome by Emma Southon. 4 stars, really interesting and quite funny at times but i just don't really like the author's vibe. she's weirdly defensive of Caligula, just as she was in her book on Agrippina that i read last year. like yeah people make fun of him and exaggerate stories about him but he literally killed people, maybe he deserves it.

May

Messalina: A Story Of Empire, Slander And Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin. 5 stars, super interesting and engaging, i never wanted to put it down! Messalina really did just girlboss too close to the sun.

I travelled this month so didn't have time for any other books, but I bought my own weight in them and will try to work through them.

June

Rain Hare by Anna Barker. 4 stars, a collection of short stories so a mixed bag. I really liked most of them, some even made me cry (to be precise, How Do I Feel About Lentils?, which does an excellent job of blending past and present to help the reader get into the confused mind of the narrator, who has Alzheimer's, and Tunny, wherein the twist hit me like a sack of bricks and all I could do was break down) but there was just one i didn't really like (Sea Glass, i just don't really vibe with the mentally ill narrator dying at the end and this being presented as what she wanted.)

Through The Woods by Emily Carroll. 3.5 stars, good horror, the art was great and the stories interesting, but they all felt like they ended just a bit too soon and therefore lost some of their impact.

Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield. 6 stars, yes, i'm straight up giving this 6 out of 5 stars because it was so so good! i devoured it in one day flat and loved it. the horror was atmospheric and gripping, the romance made my chest ache, and the ending absolutely devastated me, but in a good way.

so yeah, hopefully i can continue to get through my massive TBR pile in the coming months! and if you've read any of these books, please let me know what you think, I would love to talk about them!!

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Celebrities and Instagram influencers in Ulyana Sergeenko Couture - 2021.

1- Lena Perminova in Spring-Summer 2021 RTW dress and bag; 2- Liu Shi Shi in Spring-Summer 2021 Couture blazer; 3- Natalia Vodianova in  Spring-Summer 2021 RTW dress; 4- Zanilia Zhao in Fall-Winter 2018/2019 Couture dress; 5- Ksenia Sobchak in  Spring-Summer 2021 RTW dress, Ulyana Sergeenko x Yana Raskovalova Spring-Summer 2012 RTW earrings, Spring-Summer 2019 Couture necklace and “Natalia” bag; 6 - Ilona Kotelyukh in Spring-Summer 2021 RTW shirt and pants; 7- Lydia Metelskaya in a Fall-Winter 2020/2021 RTW “Samarkand Collection” custom piece; 8- Ilona Kotelyukh in Spring-Summer 2018 RTW dress and Fall-Winter 2015/2016 Couture “Ballerina” clutch; 9- Natasha Davydova in Spring-Summer 2021 RTW suit and bag; 10- Nataly Osman in Resort 2021 dress.

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BGC: Personal Favourite Bad Girl by Each Season Part #1:

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Happy birthday Natalie Osman!

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My media this week (6-12 Feb 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) (Richard Osman, author; Lesley Manville, narrator) - I found this to be a charming & entertaining mystery with some very delightful characters. Especially Bogdan. The plot was nonsense but no more so than most of cozy mysteries.

😍 Knife Skills (Hark_bananas) - 72K of SHEER PERFECTION in a post-WS divergent AU - "He has an apartment and a routine and a favorite diner and a job that he’s really good at and purple socks with bananas on them, and he knows that all of those things are immaterial in the face of his continuing safety, survival, and freedom. But at the same time, they’re not, actually. They’re the things that make his continuing safety, survival, and freedom worth it. He’s done the nameless assassin thing, the Tour of Vengeance thing, the running and hiding and living out of a duffle bag in shitty motels thing, and it sucks, and it very much does not make life worth living, not if there’s another way to go about it, instead."

😊 Salty Sweet (secondstar) - 46K, Sterek - no werewolves AU - Derek works in a sex shop, Stiles comes in to make some purchases, sex and feelings follow

😊 Heavy Lies the Head (odetteandodile, author; inflomora, art) - 59K, Stucky magical/fantasy AU - Prince Bucky is cursed & in exile with Steve as his bodyguard - there's lots of gardening and, to quote the tags, "tender forest blow jobs"

💖💖 +214K of shorter fic so shorter work shout out to these I really loved💖💖

Welcome Home, Son series (BeaArthurPendragon) - 50K canon-divergent, in which a post-CW Bucky recovers in Wakanda & makes a friend, then reunites with Steve and they live happily ever after in New Asgard.

The Season of the Witch series (emchant3d) - MCU: shrunkyclunks + everyday magic, 31K - absolutely love this pairing of Cap!Steve and nb/gnc kitchenwitch Bucky

Rhapsody in Pink (the1918) - MCU: Stucky, 28K - HYDRA basically kept Bucky chemically castrated as The Winter Soldier and now his body is waking up and trying to recalibrate.

hear your call (silentwalrus) - MCU: Stucky, 6K - just a short, great fic where Bucky wants it rougher and Steve is obliging (and find he really likes it)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Spectre (2015)

Agatha Raisin - s4,e2: "Love, Lies & Liquor"

The Golden Girls - s1, e14-19

What's Up, Doc? (1972)

Great Art Explained: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

Becky Chambers with Sarah Gailey — A Psalm for the Wild-Built [Third Place Books Event]

Great Art Explained: Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Penelope

Overinvested - Ep. 245: In the Heat of the Night

Endless Thread - Murph

You're Wrong About - Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror w. Jamie Loftus (Finale)

Grim & Mild Presents - Sideshow 3: The Mother of All Humbugs

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Quarantine at Malta Lazaretto

Lore - REMASTERED – Episode 21: Adrift

Last Seen - Episode 1: '81 Minutes'

Last Seen - Episode 2: 'Inside Job?'

Last Seen - Episode 3: 'Not A Bunch Of Jamokes'

Last Seen - Episode 4: 'Two Bad Men'

Last Seen - Episode 5: 'The Bobbys'

Last Seen - Episode 6: 'Befriend And Betray'

Last Seen - Episode 7: 'I Was The One'

Last Seen - Episode 8: 'Flimflammer'

Last Seen - Episode 9: 'The Big Dig'

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities - Quite a Character

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Leimert Park

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Ted Lasso S2E5: You Had Me at Coach

99% Invisible #476 - Reaction Offices and the Future of Work

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Theater of Electricity

Fansplaining - Episode 167: Our Secret Identities

Last Seen - Episode 2: Out of Time

Ologies with Alie Ward - Carnivore Ecology (LIONS, TIGERS, & BEARS) with Rae Wynn-Grant

Overinvested - Ep. 244: What's Up, Doc?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Milky Seas

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities - Songsmith

Song Exploder - Brandi Carlile "You and Me On the Rock (feat. Lucius)"

Shedunnit - The Whodunnit In India

Last Seen - Episode 3: The Lost World

You're Dead To Me - The Witch Craze

You're Dead To Me - The History of Chocolate

Endless Thread - Li Ziqi: China's Quarantine Queen

Strong Songs - Strong Covers, Vol. 2

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Very Best of Enya (Deluxe Edition) [Enya]

Essential Skatalites [The Skatalites]

Yacht Rock Classics

Women of '90s Hip Hop

The Best of Hooverphonic

Trip Hop

The World of Lady Gaga

In These Silent Days [Brandi Carlile]

Green [Hiroshi Yoshimura]

90s R&B Girl Groups

Instrumental Pop Covers

Presenting Lindsey Stirling

Presenting Dvořák