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★ Trilogia Perigos da Cidade !

O Último Garoto da Cidade (vol. 1); Todas as Pessoas da Cidade (vol. 2) e Sem Mais Ninguém da Cidade (vol. 3).

em caso de inspiração, dê os devidos créditos!

obs.: eu amei MUITO fazer essas capas! sou apaixonado por esse universo, e sempre achei que as capas deveriam ser minimalistas com os elementos principais de cada livro. acho que consegui captar bem o que eu pensava. enfim, tô felizinho!

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King of the Fairies by Anne-Marie McLemore

What I did know, what I know still, is that fairies are long used to having what they like.

Another anthology of reimagined classic works by contemporary YA authors edited by Dahlia Adler, That Way Madness Lies focuses on Shakespeare. Queering Shakespeare is far from unusual, yet when it comes to specific retellings some are more popular than others.

I primarily picked the anthology up because it includes an accomplished writer whose work I like reading. Anne-Marie McLemore is a Latine trans/nonbinary bigender queer author. Who has a love/hate relationship to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a work that was also nightmare inducing for them. Their short story contribution, a sequel of sorts, King of the Fairies in “brown and queerest theme” gives a voice to a remarked and silent figure, as narrator the changeling child (i.e. either an abducted or substituted child) Queen Titania and King Oberon quarreled over in the play.

This child is now older, a kind of exotic accessory and isolated in the very white fairy court. Less a world apart and one that is homogeneous and of the elite, moreover a court that while more sexually free is also more gender conforming and even human than one might expect. McLemore does some genderbending and codes this narrator as Latina. (One could fill pages on lexicon and race but tl;dr ‘Indian’ got used for a lot of different peoples. Though, it is more convincing Shakespeare was giving nod to Oberon’s associations with the East. Also often argued evoking imagery, if romanticized and otherwise, of real region(s) of India. During a time when Portugal was the most powerful European empire in India, challenged by England. Yet one argument cites Guiana since Sir Walter Raleigh had an expedition there in 1595. Records a few years later in early 1597 show he brought a young native boy to be baptized.) But a narrator who prefers the so defined masculine colors and trousers, which are denied lest it “mar my girlhood”. Further introducing a new character with Narciso. A trans fairy prince bearing brown skin born out of wedlock to a fairy but, raised by a mortal father and an outcast who dangerously defies Oberon. Now Shakespeare’s fairy land had its nebulous borders and hierarchies. But I tend to think of such beings more outside most (human) conventions and constructs. Although McLemore has the narrator mention tales of the ones in the depths of the woods “live as they wish”. Racism and English colonialism furthermore broached. It is the entitled belief Oberon shows when interacting with Narciso and before in the original play (plus the Queen) McLemore strikes home. In fact, a section of Puck’s lines from the play is quoted whole, ending with the declaration of the child 'stolen from an Indian king'. Beside McLemore describing some and embellishing what Titania asserts in the play, to quote the latter:

His mother was a votaress of my order, And in the spiced Indian air, by night, Full often hath she gossip’d by my side; And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking the embarked traders on the flood; When we have laugh’d to see the sails conceive And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait Following, — her womb then rich with my young squire — Would imitate and sail upon the land, To fetch me trifles, and return again, As from a voyage, rich with merchandise. But she, being mortal, of that boy did die; And for her sake do I rear up her boy; And for her sake I will not part with him.

Traditions of the dangers when dealing with the fair folk, particularly kidnapping are plentiful, and Shakespeare was inevitably drawing from this as well. Considering too (orientalist) literary canon or travel narratives. The horror and effects of a child taken away from their own people and culture and raised among another in a faraway place is necessary to recognize. As the changeling child conceivably emblematic of racial and cultural mixture. But at the same time there have been interpretations on Titania and the votaress as an example of queer pregnancy. Acting out of love and a subversion of heteronormativity and patriarchy than via privilege, possession, and power. Whereas ‘And jealous Oberon would have the child Knight of his train, to trace the forest wild’ it would appear only considers the child in terms of value offered and the displacement of affection and authority with regards to Titania and his supposed dominion. (I won’t get into whether characters are reliable, to be taken at their word.)

Then marriage (which along with love Shakespeare was waxing on a lot about) seems to be the only farce in McLemore’s King of the Fairies. Oberon and Titania are a political match, with his lover in Puck and her with her attendants. As for the human characters in the original play who were toyed with, Helena and Hermia plus Demetruis and Lysander are mentioned as involved in a scheme too. Revealed they staged and faked the lovesickness in addition to please their parents going in for what we’d call a lavender marriage, “but man and man would share a bed as well as wife and wife.” The memorable comedic Bottom is paired off with Quince as well in reference.

Again, King of the Fairies is not the first example to interpret, present, match or cast these characters up in less cis monogamous heterosexual or otherwise more diverse ways. Though inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in reading this short story one wouldn’t gather the former is a whimsical, at times ironic and satirical comedy of desires, social conventions and norms. Still, McLemore does take from the bard (lifting figurative language or using their own), offering crafted writing and commentary. Giving a voice to a character more should better take into consideration.  

[thepunktheory]

Top 5 Tuesday: red books

Hey, guys!It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a bookish favorites post. Top 5 Tuesday is hosted by Meeghan over on Meeghan Reads and is quite simple: check out the topic and write a post with your picks. After yellow books last month, today we’re checking out novels that have red featured in their cover art! #1 Scarlet This one is a double fit! The title is a shade of red and the cover…

[cocomuffy]

Dick: So you like, were in that Lazarus pit...

Jason: Yes?

Dick: And it like... healed you of everything and... it made you brand new and-

Jason: Get to the point..?

Dick: How do you STILL HAVE KNEE SCARS?!

Jason: What do you mean?

Jason's knee scars from the Boy-Robin Boy-Shorts™:

Jason: HOW ARE THEY STILL THERE?!

Dick: AND WHY DO I HAVE THE SAME ONES?

Jason: We have to talk to Tim and Damian. This might be a Robin thing..

*they do so*

Tim: Oh, those? Yeah, you guys have had those since you were little. They're from the lack of pants.

Dick: How do you-

Tim, maniacally: I have so many videos of you all falling flat on your faces and scraping your knees...

[lillidigest]

Red Hot Reads: Books with Red Covers for Your Reading Challenges

Reading challenges are a fantastic way to broaden your literary horizons and tackle that ever-growing to-be-read list. One creative approach to these challenges is to explore books based on their covers, and what better color to start with than fiery, attention-grabbing red? In this blog post, we’ll take you on a journey through a diverse selection of books with red covers that are not only…

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So I asked yesterday what I should draw and a lot of people said baby Jason someone said I should draw him at a gala and someone else said I should draw superman so decided to combine them all so here's Jasons first gala and meeting Clark for the first time

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Green and red pattern. Recherches sur les fièvres. 1821. Marbled book cover.

Internet Archive

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Red Hood: The Hill #5 variant cover by Dan Mora

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king of curses

[parisoonic]

two hugs; years apart. (or a monday and a friday.)

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I wanted to have a picture of wfa-style kon in full superboy attire, but then I got the idea of magazine cover and I couldn’t get it out of my head, so here we are…

part 0, i guess…

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★ Capas suspense (uso pessoal) !

Perfeitamente Maldosa, Inevitavelmente Perverso, Cuidadosamente Maléfico Apaixonadamente Impiedoso.

em caso de inspiração, dê os devidos créditos.

obs.: acho que as únicas capas que não me agradam tanto assim foram a primeira e a terceira, as outras estão do jeitinho que eu pensei. não nego que procurei o estilo mais "limpo" pra elas por se parecer, também, com as capas que fiz de outros livros que se passam no mesmo universo. ou seja: capa limpinha com muito sangue um elemento principal que remeta ao personagem, tudo isso pra demonstrar que faz parte de um universo e não destoar das outras. no mais, acho que gostei mesmo do resultado.

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi Vol. 7 - Chapter Cover Art

✳Please support the author by purchasing the manga if available in your region

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I think maki would perfectly rock 2000s goth fashion ngl

[smovs]

Rainy days on the island make for cozy afternoons at Sora's 🌧️ [remastered for INPRNT]

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Inspired Reading Recommendations List: Red Covers

An Abundance Of Katherines by John Green

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Beloved by Toni Morrison

This Winter by Alice Oseman

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Carrie by Stephen King

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

Switched by Amanda Hocking

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Dracula by Bram Stoker