#rae reads the dragon republic

[willowstea]

23 books I want to read in 2023

Tagged by @peregrination-studies

Thanks for the tag! My main goal is to continue chipping away at my TBR and to finish off some series.

In no particular order these are the ones i really hope i get to:

Loud Mouse by Idina Menzel and Cara Mentzel

The Bone Queen by Alison Croggon

Reread: Graceling by Kristin Cahsore

Reread: Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

A Winter's Tale by Mark Helprim

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Destiny: Child of Sky by Elizabeth Haydon

The Merchant Emporer by Elizabeth Haydon

The Hollow Queen by Elizabeth Haydon

The Weavers Lament by Elizabeth Haydon

Reread (ish, want to read the new published edition, not to og ebook): Morrighan by Mary E. Pearson

Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore

In the Sperpents Wake by Rachel Hartman

The Secret of the Delvers by Bruce Coville

The Invasion of Luster by Bruce Coville

The Falconer by Elizabeth May

The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaimon

Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

Prince of Val-Feyridge by Helen C. Johannes

The Winners Kiss by Mary Rutowski

The Dragon republic by R. F. Kuang

[theteaisaddictive]

the racism in this book is a hard fucking read, and knowing that it’s all what white people actually thought and believed makes it even worse

[sciencespies]

The Dangers of Space, Military Rivals and Other New Books to Read

https://sciencespies.com/nature/the-dangers-of-space-military-rivals-and-other-new-books-to-read/

The Dangers of Space, Military Rivals and Other New Books to Read

Reading astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter’s latest book, How to Die in Space, will surely help any adult erase regrets they may have about their failed childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. As the SUNY Stony Brook professor observes, outer space—populated by such threats as black holes, acid rain, asteroids, planetary nebulae and magnetic fields—is, to put it frankly, “nasty.”

The latest installment in our “Books of the Week” series, which launched in late March to support authors whose works have been overshadowed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, details the many ways one might meet their demise in space, six notorious military rivalries, the Italian Renaissance’s dark undertones, the history of swimming and the culinary implications of so-called “wild foods.” Past coverage has highlighted books including Karen Gray Houston’s exploration of her family’s civil right’s legacy, St. Louis’ racist history, James Madison’s black family, and modern conservatism’s roots in the antebellum South and post-Civil War westward expansion.

Representing the fields of history, science, arts and culture, innovation, and travel, selections represent texts that piqued our curiosity with their new approaches to oft-discussed topics, elevation of overlooked stories and artful prose. We’ve linked to Amazon for your convenience, but be sure to check with your local bookstore to see if it supports social distancing-appropriate delivery or pickup measures, too.

How to Die in Space: A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena by Paul M. Sutter

Despite its macabre title, How to Die in Space is a surprisingly lighthearted read. Adopting what Kirkus describes as an “informal, humorous persona,” Sutter—host of popular podcast “Ask a Spaceman!”—guides his audience through the cosmos’ deadliest phenomena, from Jupiter’s dense atmosphere to radiation, solar flares and exploding stars, which he deems “slumbering dragon[s], just waiting for the chance to awaken and begin breathing flame.”

The book also dedicates ample space to speculative threats, including dark matter, extraterrestrial life, wormholes and “other relics of the ancient universe.”

How to Die in Space’s description emphasizes that while “the universe may be beautiful, … it’s [also] treacherous.” Still, Sutter’s musings cover more than simply doom and gloom: As the scientist writes in the text’s closing chapters, “It’s really an excuse to talk about all the wonderful physics happening in the cosmos. … There is so much to learn, and we need to study it as closely and intimately as possible.”

Gods of War: History’s Greatest Military Rivals by James Lacey and Williamson Murray

Following the release of their 2013 bestseller, Moment of Battle: The Twenty Clashes That Changed the World, journalist James Lacey and historian Williamson Murray started brainstorming topics to explore in future books. Eventually, the pair landed on the premise of rivals, defined in Gods of War’s introduction as “military geniuses who … fought a general of equal caliber”—or, in the cases of World War II commanders Erwin Rommel, Bernard Law Montgomery and George Patton, multiple generals.

Bookended by essays on war’s “changing character” and the role of military genius in modern warfare, the six case studies read like a Who’s Who of global history. Representing the ancient world are Hannibal and Scipio (the latter of whom the authors describe as “the better strategic thinker”) and Caesar and Pompey. Crusader kings Richard I and Saladin; Napoleon Bonaparte and Battle of Waterloo victor Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; Union Army commander Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate officer Robert E. Lee round out the list of 13 featured men.

Lacey and Murray liken their approach to chess strategy. “There is only so much you can learn by playing someone inferior to you or by revisiting the games of neophytes,” the duo writes. “There is, however, much to absorb, think about, and learn from studying games that [pit] one grandmaster against another.”

The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher

As alluded to by its title, Catherine Fletcher’s latest book juxtaposes seemingly discordant aspects of the Italian Renaissance: its aesthetic brilliance and, in the words of fellow historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, the “filth and thuggery, slavery, sex, slaughter and skullduggery behind [this] exquisite art.” Framed as an alternative history of the much-explored period of creative rebirth, The Beauty and the Terror contextualizes the Italian Renaissance within the framework of European colonialism, widespread warfare and religious reform. Rather than focusing solely on such artistic geniuses as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Botticelli, Fletcher lends a voice to the women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and array of average citizens who also called the Italian peninsula’s competing city-states home.

The “lived reality” of 15th- and 16th-century Italy involved far more violence, uncertainty and devastation than widely believed, argues Fletcher. Forces beyond its residents’ control—a series of wars, the rise of the Ottoman Empire, the advent of the Protestant Reformation—shaped their lives yet have been largely overshadowed by what their greatest minds left behind.

“We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry,” notes the book’s description. “We know the Mona Lisa for her smile but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo’s David but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic’s surrender.”

Splash!: 10,000 Years of Swimming by Howard Means

In lieu of visiting a swimming pool this summer, consider diving into Howard Means’ absorbing exploration of aquatic recreation and exercise. As the journalist writes in Splash!’s prologue, paddling, floating or wading through water can be a transformative experience: “The near weightlessness of swimming is the closest most of us will ever get to zero-gravity space travel. The terror of being submerged is the nearest some of us ever come to sheer hell.”

The earliest evidence of swimming dates to some 10,000 years ago, when Neolithic people living in what is now southwest Egypt painted individuals performing the breaststroke or doggy paddle on the walls of the Cave of Swimmers. Swimming endured throughout the classical period, with ancient texts including the Bible, Homer’s Odyssey, the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Chinese Book of Odes all containing references to the practice.

The advent of the medieval era—with its rising “prudery” and insularity, as well as its lack of sanitation and efficient infrastructure—quickly brought this “golden age” of swimming to an end; in Europe, at least, “swimming slipped into the dark for a full millennium,” writes Means.

During the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, swimming was more closely associated with witchcraft than leisure. The practice only regained popularity during the Enlightenment period, when such prominent figures as Benjamin Franklin and Lord Byron reminded the public of its merits. By 1896, swimming had regained enough popularity to warrant its inclusion in the first modern Olympic Games.

Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food by Gina Rae La Cerva

Part memoir, part travelogue and part culinary adventure, Feasting Wild examines “humans’ relationship to wild food and the disappearing places and animals that provide it,” according to Publishers Weekly. Broadly defined as fare foraged, hunted or caught in the wild, the “untamed” foods detailed in geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva’s debut book hail from such diverse locales as Scandinavia, Poland, Borneo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, New Mexico and Maine. Once “associated with poverty and subsistence,” writes La Cerva, wild foods including broad-leaved garlic, bushmeat, sea buckthorn flowers and moose meat are now viewed as luxuries, reserved for five-star restaurants that cater to an elite clientele.

La Cerva argues that this shift in perception stems from the onslaught of “settler-colonialism,” which used the dichotomy of wild versus tame to “justify violent appetites and the domination of unfamiliar cultures and places.” Within a few centuries, she adds, “the world [had] traded wild edibles at home for exotic domesticates from abroad.”

The flipside of this “fetishization of need” is the standardization of humans’ diets. As wild places across the world vanish, so, too, do undomesticated or uncultivated plant and animal species. Preserving wild foods—and the knowledge imparted by the women who have historically collected and cooked them—is therefore “fundamentally about recovering our common heritage,” writes La Cerva. “The urgency of the environmental crisis is precisely why we must slow down, take time, [and] become complicated in our actions.”

#Nature

[gffa]

Scattered Star Wars comics thoughts:  I’m trying to clean out my backlog of things to read and so I picked up two mini-series that I’ve been intending to get to for awhile, that hopefully I won’t need Deep Thoughts on, since so much of my brainspace is still taken up by Darth Vader of all things. So, I’m reading Han Solo and Shattered Empire, both of which take in and around the original trilogy and my interest levels in them are much higher than they are when I originally tried to read them about a year ago.  I think a lot of that has to do with the nature of Star Wars canon and the sense of the world they’re building here, which is one of my favorite things about it. I have a lot of thoughts about Canon vs Legends and a lot of thoughts about a multimedia franchise, it can be something of a sticky situation to navigate through all of one person’s feelings on that, never mind what we feel other fans are/aren’t obligated to acknowledge about the set-up (basically what I mean is: Star Wars just is a multimedia franchise, that every fan is perfectly free to just watch the movies if they want to, they’re perfectly free to just watch Rebels if they want to, they’re perfectly free to ignore large swathes of canon, but the fact still remains that canon is this big, sprawling thing, that Star Wars just is set up as a multi-media franchise, and only reading part of it is a bit like fast-forwarding over your least favorite characters’ scenes in that TV show you watch--TOTALLY DOABLE and JUST FINE, but you’re still not experiencing the full story, of course with the added bonus that a TV show has a momentum because it’s a singular medium, while comics and movies and games and books and tv shows are a lot more difficult to have momentum with and, frankly, get to be really expensive, ULTIMATE CONCLUSION: it’s complicated!!!)-- What was my point again?  Ah, yes, despite the complicated set-up, one of my very favorite things about that set-up is the sense of a bigger world that has been slowly drawing me in to the parts I never thought I’d care much about.  I’m reading Han Solo (the 2015 comic) and I’m struck all over again that this is just not my area of intense care or feelings, I don’t get excited about glimpses into Han’s journey, I don’t pick up on the small things that he reveals here.  But I am picking up on the bits of worldbuilding, I’m picking up on Chewbacca’s part of the story, I’m picking up on the Leia moments in the story. I’m reading Shattered Empire and reading about Shara Bey in the aftermath of the second Death Star’s defeat, I’m feeling connected to this story because, oh, hey, I know her!  That’s Poe’s mom!  And, oh, hey, there’s Luke Skywalker showing up!  And, oh, hey, there’s some cool Jedi stuff! This is where the Aftermath books really got me--they were so hard for me to get into in the first place (once again: if you want to try them, I would intensely suggest them as audiobooks instead of reading them, that first book especially works so much better that way), because I came to care about those nerds on Norra’s team, I got invested in them.  And I got invested in what was happening around them--every scene with Leia dealing with the aftermath of the Empire’s fall and her pregnancy and her growing frustration with the New Republic fed into my growing care for this era of storytelling.  Every scene with Mon Mothma or with Mas Amedda surrendering or Rae Sloane trying to navigate all the shit she’s going through and me knowing the remnants of the Empire will eventually become the First Order.  Putting all of that together with Iden Versio’s story happening at the same time. Even if I don’t necessarily want to make a home of any one part of this era (like I do with my other beloved parts of Star Wars), what really gets to me about the multimedia nature of the franchise is that it forms a bigger tapestry that I can’t help but get drawn into.  Do I care that much about the Dragon Void race that Han is participating in?  Not really.  Do I care that much about the X-Wing pilots celebrating after the second Death Star goes down?  Not really. But I care about knowing that Iden is out there about to deal with so much shit, I care that this is Poe’s mom and dad and I’m starting to like them for themselves, I care about getting to see Luke in these moments, I care about filling in the world around the big, epic stuff that I do care about.  (And I care about how the art in both series is G O R G E O U S.)  I care about how the Empire’s fall wasn’t that easy, it wasn’t just blowing up the Death Star or Palpatine’s death, that there were a lot more people involved than that, which is being explored through these stories. I shouldn’t even care about the Empire!  But the books and the comics and the games and the TV shows (and, frankly, our own political landscape these days) have made a compelling enough story on a larger level that I’m just Really Into It.  Star Wars has really been doing great at giving me characters to care about (like Shara, like Jas and Sinjir and Norra, like Iden, like Rae, like Ciena, like Hera and Sabine and Ursa and Ketsu, or filling in the details of old favorites like Leia and Han and Lando) and giving them connections to each other, giving them connective tissue so that this feels like part of a bigger story, not just isolated stories that have nothing to do with each other.  It took awhile, it was a lot of stories to consume, and there are still major empty spots for more stories, and I hardly expect anyone else to be obligated to put in that much time/money into reading all of it. But for me? Yeah, it’s a really satisfying ride.  I’m getting an entire world to play in and one that--so far, we’ll see how things go when we start getting more prequels content--feels coherent to me.  Maybe not always what I wanted, but it makes sense to me and keeps me coming back and has given me a lot of really cool stuff.

[swans-anime-ramblings]

10 random facts about me

I was asked by @majinpiccolo to come up with 10 random facts about me. I tried to think of interesting ones as well as some serious ones. Here we go!

1. I used to be a moderator for the Amino Dragon Ball Z app

If you’re not familiar with Amino, it’s basically if Reddit and Tumblr had a love child. You can only post about the Amino’s topic, (in this case, anything Dragon Ball related) and moderators can “pin posts” to the top of the app, meaning you can submit your blog/ artwork to be considered for feature. I moderated the app for almost 2 years. I absolutely loved the team I moderated with, but everything went to hell in a single day. Sparing the details, the level of toxicity which occurred was so bad the leader of the Amino left, and so did another person. And that made me realize I needed to stop too. Being a moderator means you’re constantly exposed to the worst of the internet. Unsolicited dick pics to minors in private chats, being called “bitch” because some person’s post got hidden, being accused of favoritism and the like. I thought that my leaving would be temporary, and maybe some day I’d go back but...I am free. My mental health is a lot better, lol.

2. I am a contract writer

Basically that means I write blogs for small business owners, do website copy (the text you read on a website) snazzy up people’s Linkedin profiles, and whatever else comes my way. The work is slow coming, but it frees me to....

3. I’m trying to write a science fiction novel

Honestly, it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, mostly because it’s a battle with myself. I am a perfectionist by nature and the standard I set for myself and my writing is unattainable. This week for instance, I was so overwhelmed by all the stuff I “need to fix” that I got nothing done, haha. But I really want to do this...it feels important. It’s been a dream I’ve had since I was little. And so, I keep trying to press forward, even when my mental days aren’t good. 

4. When I was a child, my father was diagnosed with a fatal illness society considered taboo

Things are better now for him and society is getting better. But it was a huge burden that I carried, and I mostly carried it alone. I was genuinely afraid if I told my friends my dad was ill (as you couldn’t tell just by looking at him) they wouldn’t want to be around him or me. I didn’t want people to judge him. These days I try to talk about it more, but honestly it’s not something that naturally comes up in conversation. “Oh hey, for most of my childhood I thought my dad was going to die in a horrible way. It really screws with you.” Meds nowadays are much better too, so him dying is not a worry I currently have. He’s in no danger at the present :-) Having a sick parent does alter your life perspective though.

5. My parents are crazy people

Speaking of the rents, they are so...just on a whole other plane of existence that I’ve had SEVERAL people, in different situations all separately tell me I need to write a sit com based on them. Mom is a 100% NY Italian. Dad is 100% NY Puerto Rican. They are unreal. Case in point: one time I took my parents to the beach at night so they could experience a bio-luminescent phenomenon. At 11:30 PM we were walking off the beach and my mother says rather loudly to my father, (in a NY accent) “Well! That was just! I’m telling you, it was better than drugs. And trust me, I’ve taken them! Right babe?! Better than drugs!” 

I normally need to sleep for several days after they’ve visited XD

6.  I’ve got severe ADD

It’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older too. Just recently my nephew was trying to get my attention to help him with his juice box and I had no idea. I realized it after his mom came over to fix it for him. It was rather embarrassing. Normally I’m so much in my brain I don’t see what’s around me. I’ve gotten several bruises from running into doors.

7. I’m married

And have been for quite some time. Me and the Mr were young when we got married. He proposed to me 6.5 months after we started dating and we got married 6 months after that. His parents, who are normal, respectable people, thought we were insane. My parents, who’ve I’ve already established as crazy, thought it was wonderfully romantic. In fact my father called me a month after we started dating to ask me to please let him know when the wedding was so he could be sure to buy a plane ticket. I was like, “Dad. We’re not THAT crazy.” We’ve had our challenges like everybody else, but we love being married and are ridiculously happy. Wouldn’t trade our decision for the world.

8. I love video games

Grew up on the SNES and N64, got back into them when I bought myself a Wii. Most time I’ve logged on a video game is for Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s BioWare’s Star Wars version of World of Warcraft. I’ve got over 60 days of time played, and have been playing since 2013. There’s a new expansion coming in December. I’ll be playing.

9. If I’m listening to music, it’s probably an OST.

I just love OST’s. I think it’s because it lets my brain do it’s weird head in the clouds thing. If I’m not listening to an OST, it’s probably Asain Hip-Hop. Favorite artist is named Tiger JK and he does a lot of stuff with his wife Yoon Mi Rae. Sooo good.

10. I love Japan

I suppose that it’s no surprise but, it’s still the truth. I’ve been to Korea twice and Japan once. I feel really at home there, in a way I haven’t experienced in the couple other countries I’ve visited. The Japanese were so welcoming and so hospitable, I’ll never forget it. Would love to go back at some point.

And that’s a wrap. I now tag @yagamitaichi7! Got any rando facts to share? Only if you want to of course :-)

[petitcharless]

TAG GAME

Tagged by one of my mutuals that surprised me yesterday when I saw her reblog and found out that she’s watching Suits too, @starksnstripes​!! Hello, dear suitor! And thank you for the tag! xD

Rules: answer these 30 Qs and then tag 10 blogs you want to get to know.

nicknames: Bib/Beeb, mirabelle plum (lmao don’t even ask I was like 10 and loved those things) and Cookie when I was 5-6.  gender/pronouns: He/Him.  star sign: The demon spawn himself, Scorpio. height: No idea in feet but not that tall anyway. time: 10:45 pm birthday: November 19th favourite bands: Damn, not really a bands fan but recently I started loving The Score; also like One Republic, Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5 etc. favourite solo artists: too many, really. I mainly like The Weeknd, Zayn, Chris Brown, Drake, Post Malone and a lot of other rappers but I listen to all types of music. Or almost. song stuck in your head: Guatemala by Rae Sremmurd last movie you watched: Rocky but I have to finish it, I’m a lazy ass when it comes to movies lately. last show: The Big Bang Theory or The Sopranos.  why did you create your blog: Probably to reblog cars, fashion and porn-ish stuff lmao. Oops. It was a while ago. other blogs: I don’t have any others. do you get asks: Not really, sadly. how did you get the idea for your url: I am shit at urls so I just looked through Tony’s nicknames on a wiki something page. I should change it soon though. i follow: 477 followers: 251 average hours of sleep: lately 7 I think. More during the weekends. lucky number: I have a thing for 7. Because 007.  instruments: I wish I could play the piano sooo bad. Or the sax. Or the drums better but I just know a lame, simple drum beat and some improv haha. what are you wearing: Black and white baseball pajamas.  dream job: Manager/CEO. dream trip: Probably the US, I want to see NYC so bad. But also the south of France. significant other: I have a ego that is big enough to replace a significant other. I’ll use this excuse. last book i read: The last book I finished is The Godfather by Mario Puzo and I am currently reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov and a few other books haha. top 3 fictional universes: MCU, Star Wars, Harry Potter.

I’m gonna tag: @dropxthexbeat @ironslytherin @captainwakandas @jess-b-xo @avengers4 @hedgehog-goulash7 @anotherdowneyfan1 @dopedreamerironman @flyingavenger @mr-starkasm

[sweenyalicewriting]

Song Shorts 2

Here are some new and old songs! @the-onewho-reads, @ahelpfulpeach, @aircaves, @avallon-moon, @im-homestucked

I have finals next week, but my birthday is also next week, so I want to find time to write, plus these shorts are so much fun!

I’ll list the song below, but if you want to hear the songs I’ll drop the playlist here too:

https://open.spotify.com/user/sweeneyalice/playlist/3ZnQdhuTdVfotj8WdV0wkY

Alexander Rybak

Kotik (Kitten)

What I long for

Andrew W.K.

Ready to Die

Andy Black

Ribcage

Andy Grammer

Honey, I’m Good

Aurelio Voltaire

Death Death

Happy Birthday

When You’re Evil

Avicii

The Nights

Avril Lavigne

What the Hell

Bebe Rexha

I’m gonna show you crazy

Bowling for Soup

Girl all the bad guys want

Britney Spears

Womanizer

Bruno Marz

Just the way you are

Marry You

Runaway Baby

The Lazy Song

The Cab

Angel with a shotgun

Christina Perry

Human

Cody Simpson

La Da Dee

Coldplay

Viva la vida

Creature Feature

Such Horrible Things

Echosmith

Cool Kids

Escape the Fate

Friends and alibis

Let it go

Reverse the curse

The flood

Eurythmics

Sweet Dreams

Fall out boy

Centuries

Falling in Reverse

I’m not a vampire

Forever the sickest kids

She’s a lady

Foster the people

Pumped up kids

Fun

Some nights

G.R.L

Ugly Heart

Good with Grenades

Bruises & Bitemarks

Green Day

Boulevard of broken dreams

Misery

Griffinilla, Jeff Burgess

Stay Calm

Gym Class Heroes

Stereo Hears

Halestorm

Love Bites

Mz. Hyde

Halsey

Control

Hollywood Undead

Bullet

Hot Chelle Rae

Tonight tonight

Icon for Hire

Happy hurts

You were wrong

War

Imagine Dragon

Demons

Monster

Insane Clown Posse

Boogie Woogie Wu

Jasmine Thompson

Mad World

Rather be

Jason Marz

I’m yours

Jayn

Smoke and mirrors

Jimmy James

Fashionista

Lily Allen

Hard out here

Linkin Park

Numb

What I’ve done

Lonestar

Mr. Mom

Marianas Trench

Haven’t had enough

Toy Soldiers

Maroon 5

Maps

Moves like Jagger

One more night

Meghan Trainor

Dear future husband

Dollhouse

MIKA

lollipop

Mike Posner

Cooler than me

MKTO

Classic

My Chemical Romance

Blood

Famous last words

I don’t love you

Mama

Teenagers

Napoleon XIV

They’re coming to take me away

The offspring

You’re gonna go far, kid

Olly Murs

Trouble Maker

One Republic

Counting Stars

OutKast

Hey ya!

Owl City

Beautiful Times

Fireflies

Vanilla Twilight

P!nk

Family portrait

Raise your glass

Panic! At the disco

Don’t threaten me with a good time

The Pierces

Secret

Pitbull, Kesha

Timber

Plaine White Tees

Hey there Delilah

Rachel Platten

Fight song

Rascal Flatts

My Wish

The Ready Set

Killer

Rihanna

S&M

Roomie

Long distance love

Scissor Sisters

I can’t decide

Set if off

Wolf in sheep’s clothing

Why worry

Shinedown

Enemies

Sounds like harmony

Flower child

Wonderland

Up

Starset

My demons

Tally Hall

Cannibal

Teddy Geiger

For you I will

Temposhark

Don’t mess with me

Theory of a Deadman

Angel

Savages

Thirty Seconds to Mars

This is war

Three days grace

So What

Pain

Train

50 ways to say goodbye

Two gallants

Despite what you’ve been told

Walk the moon

Shut up and dance

The Wanted

Chasing the sun

Glad you came

We own the night

Yolanda Be cool & DCUP

We no speak Americano

[metallikato]

Look no one tagged me but there’s no way i’m not going to get my nasty witchy claws on this fun lookin’ meme.

Coke or Pepsi: Bepis 

Disney or Dreamworks: Disney, unless I’m allowed to pick solely based on things like Prince of Egypt or Trollhunters

Coffee or tea: c o f  f e e 

Books or movies: BOTH.  

Windows or Mac: Windows

DC or Marvel: Maybe Marvel, just based on exposure. I’m getting more into DC but lord there is A LOT... 

Xbox or PlayStation: Xbox. It’s the only one I’ve used. Leave me alone. 

Dragon Age or Mass Effect: Dragon Age because I just love me some dragons and melee weapons. Also those romances are A++++. 

Night owl or early riser: Night owl 

Cards or chess: CARDS. I will leave the chess playing to people who actually have an affinity for tactics. I like to work by myself, for myself, occasionally with a few other players who want to bankrupt someone.

Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate. 

Vans or Converse: Converse

Paragon or Renegade? Paragon with a lil bit of thug 

Star Wars or Star Trek? STAR WARS SINCE 1999

One episode per week or binge watching? Binge watching because I am an absolute barbarian. All weekly promises will devolve into me sitting cross-legged on the couch with a bowl of Cheetos in one hand and a glass of coconut water in the other as I sit through the seventh episode in a row. 

Studio Ghibli or Makoto Shinkai? Studio Ghibli! I adore the backgrounds.

Republic or Empire? New Republic yall 

Heroes or Villains? Heroes, unless I come across a really. Good. Villain. And by "good” I mean “absolutely awful and bitter person who has the potential to be good but honestly what society would accept them?” 

Notebook or on PC typing? Notebook and then PC for academic writing, direct PC typing for fanfics. 

The X-Files or Supernatural? X-Files 

Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter? For some reason Tolkien’s prose leaves a weird taste in my mouth that usually comes with musty books from the 1940s written about ancient Roman nonsense, but I will always love Thorin, Pippin, Legolas, and Gimli... Characters are the most important thing to me in any media. I think I’ll go with Harry Potter. God, I will never get over Pigwidgeon.

Sci-Fi or fantasy? Fantasy, as long as there are a few good fights and overarching societal problems to squint at. 

Vampires or werewolves? Shit dude after reading Blood and Chocolate and The Silver Kiss I really don’t know. I think I prefer werewolves because honestly, living loud and fast feels way easier to cope with than basically floating through time. 

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Tag yourselves if you want! But I’m tagging @pigsocks, @hezzah-rae, @purrelise, @clipchip, and @cycloprax because you lot probably deserve it. 

[theteaisaddictive]

fang runin, several war crimes and one literal backstabbing later, has absolutely girlbossed too close to the sun but would never admit as much to anyone. and we still have one book left to go!!