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I did both @batmanisagatewaydrug‘s and @macrolit‘s Reading Bingos this year - was aiming for blackouts on both, didn‘t manage it for macrolit’s, but I did get a couple bingos.
Titles for each under the cut, full reading list here.
batmanisagatewaydrug:
translated book: Jonathan L. Howard: Johannes Cabal #1. Seelenfänger. [org. title: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer]
graphic novel: Vincent Burmeister, David Schraven: Unter Krähen. Aus dem Inneren der Republik. [no english title]
nonfiction: Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Jekatyerina Dunajeva: Re-Thinking Roma Resistance throughout History: Recounting Stories of Strength and Bravery.
sequel: Luke Arnold: Fetch Phillips Archives #3. One Foot in the Fade.
poetry collection: Rainer Maria Rilke: Gedichte [herausgegeben vom Hamburger Lesehefte Verlag]
published before 2010: Faye Kellerman: Die Schwingen des Todes [org. title: Stone Kiss]
memoir: Theodor Michael: Deutsch Sein und Schwarz Dazu. Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen. [engl. title: Black German. An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century.]
oldest on TBR: Anne Frank: Tagebuch der Anne Frank. 14. Juni 1942 bis 1. August 1944. [org. title: Het Achterhuis/engl. title: The Diary of a Young Girl]
author from a different country: Alexander Wolkow: Zauberland-Reihe #1. Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt. [org. title: Волшебник изумрудного города/engl. title: The Wizard of the Emerald City]
romance: Iny Lorentz: Die Feuerbraut [no english title i could find]
essay collection: Scaachi Koul: One Day We‘ll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter.
fantasy: Austin Chant: Peter Darling
novella: Maria Konopnicka: Der Danziger Mendel [org. title: Mendel Gdański/no english title]
debut author: Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow
ghosts or monsters: Jennifer Giesbrecht: The Monster of Elendhaven
short stories: Hendrik Buchna, Marco Sonnleitner, u.a.: Die Drei ??? und der Zeitgeist [no english title; collection of short stories in the german continuation of Robert Arthur’s Three Investigators stories]
banned book: Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
one word title: K. Ancrum: Darling
published before 2000: Josef Bor: Theresienstädter Requiem [org. title: Terezínské Rekviem/engl. title: The Terezín Requiem]
2022 release: Jonathan Kellerman: City of the Dead. An Alex Delaware Novel.
literary fiction: Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar / Jack Kerouac: On The Road (I’m pretty sure at least one of them qualifies)
YA: Jonathan Stroud: Bartimäus #1. Das Amulett von Samarkand. [org. title: The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1. The Amulet of Samarkand.]
reread: Franz Kafka: Das Urteil [engl. title: The Judgement]
400+ pages: James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Stadt der Teufel. [org. title: L.A. Confidential]
macrolit:
Classic Author A/B/C: -
Gothic Fiction: -
Fan Fiction: [no specific work]
published between 1960-1990: Václav Havel: Vernissage [org. title: Vernisáž/engl. title: Unveilling]
Classic Author P/Q/R: Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
Biography or Non-Fiction: Justin Fenton: We Own This City. A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption.
Classic Author S/T/U: -
Young Adult: Christina Henry: Lost Boy
Classic Author G/H/I: -
Detective, Horror or Suspense: Tess Gerritsen: Die Chirurgin. [org. title: The Surgeon]
Philosophy or Literary Criticism: Judith Butler: Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
Classic Author M/N/O: -
Harlem Renaissance: -
Published between 1990-2022: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We‘re Briefly Gorgeous
Book of Short Stories: Don Winslow: Broken
published between 1920-1960: Jerzy Andrzejewski: Warschauer Karwoche [org. title: Wielki tydzień/engl. title: Holy Week]
Classic Author D/E/F: Leslie Feinberg: Stone Butch Blues
Children‘s Literature: [any one of the twenty Three Investigator‘s books I read this year]
Poetry or Play: Bożena Keff: Ein Stück über Mutter und Vaterland [org. title: Utwór o Matce i Ojczyźnie/engl. title: A Piece about Mother and Fatherland]
Graphic Novel: Elfriede Jelinek, Nicolas Mahler: Der fremde! störenfried der ruhe eines sommerabends der ruhe eines friedhofs. [no english title]
Classic Author J/K/L: Jack Kerouac: On The Road
Essays or Satire: Scaachi Koul: One Day We‘ll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter.
Published before 1920: Maria Konopnicka: Der Danziger Mendel [org. title: Mendel Gdański/no english title]
Classic Author V/W/X/Y/Z: Jiří Weil: Leben mit dem Stern [org. title: Život s hvězdou/engl. title: Life With A Star]
#end of 2022#reading list#2022 reading bingo#i tried to use as few titles twice as possible#was very much fun to do these bingos#made me more consciously broaden my range#read my first essay collection this year!#read more poetry!#more fantasy again!#a few more 'classics'#not quite as many as i had hoped to but more#also yes @batmanisagatewaydrug i took quite some inspiration from various monthly reading updates and enjoyed most of them!#many of the czech and polish works were for my slavic studies classes but i also enjoyed most of them
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i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism
(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)
#literally please be so so so fucking niceys to her i am so nervous about this for no reason#it's literally fine it's gonna be perfectly functional. I Am Going To Lose My Mind#i can always make another post if it gets fucked up somehow... i can always make another post...#anyway. hi. this is aromanticism. i made her for class. and then revised her for class. and now she's like my child#losing my miiiiiiiind#poetry#kind of like a uquiz too. to be honest haha#except i can make you read more somehow (long questions instead of long answers)#it's a little choose your own adventure......#poem#poems#poets on tumblr#poems and poetry#poetsandwriters#poems about aromanticism#aromantic#aro poet#aro poetry#aro#aromanticism#aroace#arospec#aspec#itch.io#GOD OKAY I'M JUST POSTING IT.
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edit (10/23/2024) now that the poll is over: Original version, with 10 questions, from April 2023 here
And, given that the original is from April 2023, that means I can very easily say:
No, this was not an ISAT reference!
Just because I use parentheses and 2nd person pov and love the same concepts of what a time loop can do to a person doesn't mean it's ISAT
(Yes, I like ISAT, the original poll is why I was recommended the game! But if you look at the original, you can see all the origins of the options to choose from, including what spurred me on with the moss option from the replies)
If I were going to make something for ISAT, I would never be so vague, you can simply look at my ao3 for proof of that
#egg speaks#writing#polls#my writing#egg writes#my polls#poetry#time loops#listen I want to run this again#time loop poll#<- check that tag on my blog for the original 10 option version lmao#unreality#you know I didn't think I'd get fed up with people making isat jokes about this#I thought it'd be like oh hey neat same hat#we both like the same game#but people keep going “oh this is JUST an ISAT reference”#as if it's not a genuine work of creativity I did myself. it feels a bit devaluing#“op you played isat” yes but that came after the original!!!!!#I KNOW it's not meant like that but I want people to engage in my work as its own thing. you can make jokes about similar media!!!#but this is it's own thing!!!!#I want people to like it for what it is. I want people to enjoy it outside of other media. I want it to stand on its own#I'm flattered someone said it was good enough that they think it could be narration from the game and read just as well!!!!#but like. idk. all the other medias popping up (pmmm. orv. higurashi. etc) aren't people calling it a /reference/#if I wanted it to be an ISAT reference I would have tagged it originally. I would have targeted it toward ISAT fans more intentionally.#I love fanworks but this was an ode to time loops alone. I wanted people to think. to have to CHOOSE. I wanted PARTICIPATION#time loops as a narrative and as horror and as a group activity via polls on tumblr. also s/o to the person who said 40 hr work week so tru
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On Seatbelts and Sunsets - Hanif Abdurraqib
#hanif abdurraqib#julien baker#<- kinda#words#poetry#read this last night and cried the whole time <3 hanif youve done it again#but seriously i was thinking abt that exact julien baker song yesterday n listening to it when i came across this piece he wrote#around that very song....#anyway ms julien mr hanif thanks for writing those respectively but also maybe. be quiet#also i do feel a bit bad abt posting this part of it bc i think the full read that leads up to this makes it more beautiful#but well.
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Najwan Darwish, from "In Paradise (II)", Nothing More to Lose: Selected Poems (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID'd]
#q#lit#quotes#poetry#typography#id included#najwan darwish#in paradise ii#nothing more to lose#palestinian lit#reading#m#x
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respost separated from the og post bc I really liked this silly little thing I made
And a little extra of my own
little binghe has a goal in this life and it only gets worse once he mets sqq, no one dares to threaten his position as sqq's future wife, he literally was born to be his spouse!!
#scum villain's self saving system#svsss#sillies#bingqiu#人渣反派自救系统#svsss fanart#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#tianlang jun#I like to think little bunhe asked his father to let him write letters to his misterious future husband#to get to know him more before their wedding#and tlj hopeless romantic that he is of course says yes#zzl! go for a reliable mailman of the court!#so one day sqq still is on the way to become peak lord and start recieving letters apparently from tlj's child???#so weird but eeh its okay its a way to check on how the protagonist is doing!#so he displays his full autistic caring mother rizz on those letters#and binghe swoons everytime he reads his poetry#and his tales about monsters and artifacts and some weird stories sqq makes up for him#(he is telling him about anime)#idiots in love#binghe thinks they are courting from distance#sy thinks he has a very adorable pen pal#sxy is in the corner probably keeping an eye on everthing to be sure her son is safe#tlj is living this arranged marriage like a telenovela
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"he was a cold, unemotional, calculating machine" yeah and he also reads tragic poetry about forsaken love maybe you don't know what you're talking about
#this is about sherlock holmes#he canonically reads petrarch which is APPARRENTLY a lot of super sappy sad tragic love poetry#unemotional my ass he has more repressed feelings than watson does#sherlock holmes#acd sherlock holmes#john watson#acd holmes#acd canon#acd watson#holmes/watson
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Plot of trigun (1998)
#trigun#nicholas d. wolfwood#vash the stampede#trigun fanart#my art#it would probably make more sense with meryl but I thought wolfwood would be funny#also cuz nichol-as. lawl#I love the stupid poetry Vash reads off at the end of every episode in 98#hes actually beautiful with words his ass LOVES Shakespeare !!!!!#he acts so dumb girl we know you're actually smart stop LYING. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️#Wolfwood talks exactly like this too tho so. hes no better....#my sillies
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"I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more."
– Michelle K., "I Know I Deserve More" (via "michellekpoems" on Tumblr)
#read this again and again#i know i deserve more#dark academia#light academia#dark acadamia aesthetic#excerpts#fragments#poetry#books & libraries#dark fantasy#romanticism#lit#selections#words#books and writing#writing#writings on tumblr#poets and writers#writers and poets#classic aesthetic#classic literature#literature quotes#quotes#life quotes#quotations#chaotic aesthetic#chaotic academia#spilled love#spilled ink#spilled thoughts
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Dark coat
#imagery that makes sense TO ME. look I re read sheer poetry and gave myself feelings. wrote a sequel and gave myself more#doctor who#dw#digital art#thirteenth doctor#fanart#my art#tecteun#the hermit
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I understand that literature nerd Jason Todd is kind of overblown in fanon compared to it's actual presence in canon (a few issues during his pre (and post?)crisis Robin tenure that highlight it) BUT consider that I think it's hilarious if the unhinged gun toting criminal has strong opinions on poetry
#ramblings of a lunatic#dc comics#Jason Todd#batfamily#it's just a fun quirk! it's a fun lil detail and I simply cannot slight ppl for enjoying and incorporating it into works#like obviously jason isn't the only one. I'm a big believer in the batfam having over lapping interests they refuse to bond over#i know dick canonically used the robin hood stories (which are pretty flowery in their language far as i can tell) as inspo for Robin#and i know babs was a librarian and even tho her area of nerddom is characterized as more computery she probably knows quite a lot-#-about literature as well#duke is a hobbyist writer i believe? i saw a fan mention that- which if so is great and I hope he's also a nerd#(i mean he is canonically. i remember him being a puzzle nerd in his introduction. but i mean specifically a lit nerd)#damian called Shakespeare boring but also took acting classes so i think he's more of a theatre kid.#Tim's a dropout and i don't think he's ever shown distinct interest in english lit and i can't remember for Steph?#I'm ngl my brain hyperfocused on musician Steph i forget some of her other interests I'm sorry (minus softball and gymnastics!)#and then Cass had her whole (non linear but it's whatevs) arc about literacy and learning to read#went from struggling to read in batgirl 00 to memorizing Shakespeare in 'tec and is now an avid read in batgirls!#she's shown reading edgar allen poe but we don't know if it's his short stories or his poems#point to all of the above being: i know Jason's not the only lit nerd in the batfam#but also i do need him to be writing poetry in his spare time and reading and reviewing it#jason at the next dead robins society meeting: evening folks today I'll be assigning all of us poems based on laika the space dog#damian and steph who have been kidnapped and brought to jasons warehouse to hangout: LET US GO BITCH#speaking of^ random poem i think jason would like: space dog by alan shapiro#wake up one morning in an unfamiliar more mature body with a profound sense of abandonment. the last four lines. mmm tasty
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The opposite of a haunting is something very lonely, Katie Maria /// there's a little girl in my head, @heavensickness /// Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party (1964) by Norman Rockwell /// Changing, Liv Ullmann /// found photograph with my words /// what they don't tell you, @tryworks /// Anne with an E, A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good (3x07) /// Time Travel by Emhahee /// Second Wave (2023) by Amy Dury /// Katie Maria
#yes that is a photo of me as a child#I've just been thinking about my childhood and how I felt so different from everyone else and I didn't understand why#I always thought that when I grew up I would understand the world and suddenly be like everyone else. but I never did#and I still feel like a confused scared little girl. playing pretend at being a grown up#(I know that this could be read as being about childhood neglect and family trauma and you're welcome to interpret it that way#but I made it more about growing up undiagnosed autistic and being bullied and feeling isolated. I actually had a pretty good home life)#web weave#poetry#art#literature#norman rockwell#anne with an e#emhahee#autism#childhood#isolation#loneliness#girlhood#undiagnosed autistic
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Sunrise, Louise Glück, x x x x x x x x x x x
#sidney crosby#pittsburgh penguins#hockey poetry#my poetry posts#oh captain my captain#happy training camp!#I originally read this poem like right around locker clean out#I spent like half the summer trying to find something that worked#I'm pretty proud of how it came out#its all about the little things - not the big moments like the cup but the big and small leading up to something like that#I was gonna post this at the start of the month but the followers on the lb blog said to do it first day of training camp so here we are#feels especially sweet to post knowing we get two more years of sid after this
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— Anne Carson, from Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions
#I have a ton of poetry quotes in my drafts so I’m gonna start posting more often#literature#currently reading#poetry#words#anne carson#lit
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Spring is here , the true beginning of the year , the season where my soul reborns and blooms .
I have made some progress in terms of the person I am becoming, truly in all my honesty all that i have done is to stop caring for everything that once used to matter , the less I care about anything in particular the less I am bothered and the happier i stay. And i really hope everyone here is doing well and I appreciate all the love that was sent.
The problem is I care a lot about everything and i don't even get the bare minimum in return and when i do get it it's too late, so much time has passed by then ,when it comes by then i do not want or need it because it's the not care that came out of love it came out of their guilts. And the longer i wait for it to come by -the more I learn why I don't need it anymore .
I am slowly learning to value myself ,trying to put myself in a position where I can agree that i too deserve all the good things and love even on the days when i have nothing to offer .
Idk guys I am just here to rant and to be stupid
Better late than never they say , I guess it's not too late for me either, I will start my life and live up to what I want & how I feel ,i don't have to care about anything else as long as I feel alive in my bones things will eventually flow, I will fall in love with myself little by little day after day.
I will choose myself instead of choosing others and I will fall in love with my solitude instead of bearing it with me , i don't care if I end up alone if I do end up all by myself I will be with someone who i know has a tendency not to give up .
Life is really short i just don't want to sit and watch it pass by , if I am lucky enough I will have 40 more springs to experience , I have clear boundaries and thoughts in my head now, eventually i will find peace through it I hope so.
Ramdan kareem to people who celebrate it here please remember gaza in your prayers and fastings
#i love everyone here i hope you all are really good and if you are not i will just hope you all will be eventually#things will get better guys give yourself a chance dont crosss oceans for people who cant cross a mile for you#choose yourself over and over again let things go let people leave when they want to#keep yourself happy you are all you have everything is temporary#do good for yourself don't do anything whixh will hurt you in any way shape of form#seem therapy if needed#always remember if it can happens once it can happen again#dont think too much about anything just live do your part feed yourself well#find happiness in small acts of your living#this stupid blog is currently still active on Instagram in case you want to read more of poetry#remember you deserve all good things but don't go around hurting people#take care of your heart bye 🫂❤️🩹
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Najwan Darwish, "In Latin America" Nothing More to Lose: Selected Poems (trans. Kareem James Abu-Zeid) [ID'd]
#q#lit#quotes#poetry#typography#palestinian lit#najwan darwish#in latin america#nothing more to lose selected poems#reading#palestine#id included#m#x
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