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[artbysarf]

Warmups with the power couple to end all power couples

[brookeem101]

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[aropride]

my cheical romance is coming to our house to shoot us with a gun

[aesfocus]

Henriette "Ettie" "Rook" Ingellvar

[dropintomanga]

Manga I Enjoyed in 2024

2024 has been an amazing year for manga. With the debut of the American Manga Awards to go alongside the Harvey Awards and Eisner Awards, we're about to head into some really fun times for manga recognition starting now. I read a lot of manga this year compared to last year, thanks to the libraries in my area.

But these few are the ones that impressed me the most.

Honorable Mention: Kagurabachi by Takeru Hokazono - I remember when I first read this manga, it became a meme. But once the meme died down, you got a title that's going to be another huge Shonen Jump anime hit. Reading Kagurabachi reminds me of the days when I loved BLEACH. The mix of sorcery, swords, and urban society combined with impressive art will leave a great impression on shonen readers. VIZ Media made an excellent decision in licensing the print edition as soon as possible as Volume 1 has sold amazingly well in bookstores across North America.

Favorite Ongoing Weekly Manga: Centuria by Tohru Kuramori - I swear more fans should know about this manga. Centuria is about a young man named Julian, who's been living as a slave for most of his life. On a slave ship, he meets a woman and a monster god - both who would change his life forever. Julian suddenly becomes endowed with supernatural powers and decides to pursue freedom however he can all while raising a child destined to be something more. This is a dark fantasy action series that is pretty much influenced by Berserk. Add the fact that Kuramori worked as an assistant under Tatsuki Fujimoto of Chainsaw Man and you have a highly underrated action series that will scratch any seinen fan's itch.

Without further ado, here's my top 5 manga of the year!

5.) She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki - While this manga starts off as a nice yuri series about two women whose common interest is food, it goes into some good commentary about what it means to be a woman living in an extremely patriarchal society like Japan (which I'll discuss in a future post). I like how the manga becomes better with each volume as you get to see the cast grow and confront issues bothering them alongside each other. I appreciate that this series is about how eating food with people you care about is always worthwhile when you get a chance to do so.

4.) Home Office Romance by Kinetsu Yamada - This is a charming one-volume manga about two people who find love during a pandemic lockdown. Reading the manga made me relate to Nokoru, the male lead, as I share the same insecurities as he does when it comes to finally finding love and having the courage to push ahead with it. The manga also made me think about the early lockdown days of COVID as I did enjoy those days quite a bit. But nothing will ever beat actually wanting to be with someone in-person. Plus, good things do happen when you take the time to slow down. I knew this manga was a hit on Reddit and I can see why.

3.) Sketchy by Makihirochi - A librarian recommended this to me earlier this year around the summer, but the premise of skateboarding didn't appeal to me at first. I later gave the manga a shot after my library put it on their top 2024 book list. I was left very impressed. While this manga is about women trying to find more to life than love/work/school, I saw myself in the main characters due to finding a hobby (mahjong) that got me out there engaging with a world full of fun people not related to the daily grind. Sketchy is a testament to finding hobbies even as an adult and making friends there as those relationships are extremely important in ensuring that you still matter even if you're not respected by mainstream forces.

2.) The Darwin Incident by Shun Umezawa - This is a very clever, action-packed, political thriller. It's my favorite action manga of the year. There's so much social commentary that will greatly appeal to Western readers. What I love about the manga so much are the cliffhangers. I don't remember the last time I was impressed with cliffhangers in a manga. Every plot twist has been executed properly from what I've read. There's also some great lines from a really great cast of characters. I hope this series blows up when the anime comes out.

1.) The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't Really a Guy at All by Sumiko Arai - A manga that has lived up to the hype it got online and in Japan. I love the design. I love the usage of green throughout the manga. I love Mitsuki and Aya. It may not be the most original love story, but I love this manga for bringing me back to the days of '80s/'90s rock music. My adolescence was defined by rock music and I felt that the manga is a love letter to the era I grew up in. Even though I listen to mostly K-Pop, I still listen to rock from time to time. When I see new rock artists bringing back sounds I grew up with for a newer generation, it makes my heart glad. I remember how much music from any era has the power to change people's lives. Music does give hope and courage to those who desperately need it. This year was a year where I finally dwelled back into music and that's why green yuri is my manga hit of the year.

If you haven't noticed, most of the manga I recommended are about relationships. 2024 was a year where I made some new close friends whose bonds I want to nurture. It makes me hopeful about people and those who I will meet in the future. While I can't make friends with everyone, I know how much the people currently in my life mean to me and I wouldn't be here without them.

Hope you enjoyed my list and I'll see you guys in 2025!

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DO NOT listen to the jetset life is gonna kill you and the ghost of you and i never told you what i do for a living and you know what just DO NOT LISTEN TO REVENGE. WHEN YOURE HIGH. oh my god i am having a BEAUTIFUL otherwolrdly expereince iright now oh my god ray toro guitar work so good it made a grown man CRY AND SOB IN HIS BED AT 4:00 AM WHY DO ES THEIS BAND FUCKINGGGG SOUND LIKE THATTTTTT OHHHH MY GODDD CHRIST IN HEAVENNN

[mondaymelon]

oh yes xiao is now 8 and klee is now 82 🤩

s...something doesnt... seem right...

[braxxer]

Romance club update. At least it will be better than today’s tragedy in litg

[girlbr0thers]

good morning . mychck

[bearenjoyers]

anyway im gona listen to bad romance and play overwatch and be normal because 2023 new year new me

[rainbluealoekitten]

whyyyyyyy is it so hard. why do i hve to miss poeple. why is it not enough to get over them once, why do i have to do it so many times over and over

[shocker54]

She grabs onto my hand "Look at me Rory" her beautiful eyes and lips, her eyes brown yet hazel and her brown hair.. she gets closer to my neck and starts kissing me and giving me hickeys. And finally, she makes her way up to my lips and starts making out with me. She sits on my lap...

She pulls away and puts my hair behind my ear "Don't let people hurt you sweetheart, and just know I didn't mean anything by that" She put a line on the counter "Here" I snort a line and she goes up to Luis "hey can you bring us home, she's just not in a good mental state right now" he brings us to lily's house, she gives him $40 and gives her 2 bags of coke "come on Rory" she makes me lay in her bed. "How high are you?" I look around.. "really high.." I begin to sweat. "Lilly I really don't-" she stops me and grabs my head and kisses my forehead "It's ok, just calm down" I hold my face and push her away and run to the bathroom. That was the first time I realized your partner could s/a you. She came into the bathroom with me and held my hair back, she slowly made her way down my top and tried to take my bra off, I couldn't help but cry... that was my only option, she didn't think I was crying because of her though, she thought I was crying because I was scared of getting sick. she helps me walk back to her bed... "Lily I need to go home in the morning, my mom will start to get suspicious of how much I've been out lately.." although getting sick did help how I was feeling, I still feel horrible. "Rory just lay down and we will worry about this in the morning" I felt my stomach drop again.. my eyes widened "Rory?.."  she grabbed a trash can.

in the morning I woke up with a pounding headache and the urge to do another line, my phone had died, and Lily was still asleep. the birds had just started to sing their beautiful morning songs. it had to have been around 4 am... I decide to lay back down and forget about my phone and doing another line, but the urge is strong... the wave of depression hits and I sit there wide awake staring at her ceiling, looking at the old glow-in-the-dark stars that must have been a huge part of her childhood, the stars didn't glow anymore. 

Lily finally wakes up "Hey Rory what are you doing up so early?" I start crying, she holds me "Rory what's wrong sweetheart talk to me..." "I-" she puts my hair behind my ears "I can't.." she sighs "Do you want to do a line is that why you're upset?"  I shake my head and look away from her "Rory, what would you like then?" "well I would like that.. but my phone is dead and I don't know what time it is and I need to talk to my mom.." she grabs my phone and plugs it in, she gets up and puts on some plaid pajama pants and finally reaches into her drawer where she keeps the coke and her id from school, she never even goes to school and I wonder how many truancy tickets she has at this point. "come with me" I follow her to the downstairs bathroom and she chops up a line and gives me the rolled up dollar bill. I snort the line and wait "How are you feeling now honey?" I shrug my shoulders and she giggles "The feeling will pass, I promise you, you've just fallen into addiction now sweetheart." I look at her "I am?" she nods her head "ok Rory we will get you home now" I look down at the ground "Can I bring some home with me?" she shakes her head and gives me a baggy. "now chin up rory and text me when you get home."

as I get home I look at my mom and smile "How was the weekend?" I nod "It was good" and walk into my dirty room. it was always messy but only because I was unmotivated and depressed... there was nothing else to do so I decided to go on my phone and text a few friends before the school year started.

finally, back at school, I walked to class my homeroom, which was an art room. I sit in my chair and put my head down, I don't want to talk to anyone or see anyone I hate interacting with people and even looking at them could make them think I want to start a conversation. a few girls and mostly guys were in that classroom... I made eye contact with this girl named Leiya. She had blue eyes and was fairly big... so I felt more comfortable with her and being myself around her as I was just chubby, we had art class together as well.

My friend Zipper and I were walking in the hallway when Zipper's friend Arrow came running up to us "Oh my gosh Zipper I just had the most embarrassing thing happen to me!" zipper laughs "What happened?" "I dropped my monster in front of the whole homeroom and everyone started staring at me and laughing" I didn't wanna budge into their conversation so I just stayed quiet. "oh damn that must have been embarrassing, also Arrow you have science and Spanish and gym with Rory." Arrow smiles "Finally some classes with someone." Arrow and I and Zipper had gym and lunch with each other in 6th grade so I was somewhat familiar with Arrow.

I walked to my English class and when I walked into the classroom I saw my teacher, Mrs. Mellburg. She showed me my assigned seat and it was next to this boy JuJu he was short and had fluffy black hair.  I sit down and look at the teacher "How was everyone's summer?" I looked around the room and many people had their hands up... I began to shake my leg and grab a pencil out of my backpack "So Rory let's hear how your summer went!" I look around the room with people staring at me and girls in the back of the classroom messing around with makeup and their stupid phones "I uhm just hung out with some friends and went swimming that's it..." I say as my voice quivers. she smiles "Now everyone I'm going to pass around papers and I want you to have them done by tomorrow because we are going to be presenting these to the class first thing before we jump into our first unit" Are you fucking kidding me... presenting on the second day of school, I mine as well just sit in front of a stage and start crying. I look down at the paper, it's a get-to-know-me sheet with many weird questions. I stuffed it in my backpack and walked to my next class, science class. I'm just glad that I had that class with Arrow otherwise my anxiety would have swallowed me already...

I see Arrow standing around the fish tank my teacher had, let's just call her Mrs. G. as I don't remember how to spell her name... Arrow walks up to me "Have you found your seat yet?" I shake my head trying not to cry, still worried about tomorrow.  I look around the classroom and find my seat,  next to a blonde girl. her name was Sonya, Arrow sat in the front row close to where the teacher sat. and next to this boy named Dakota, who was tiny and also blonde he looked like a weird dork "Alright class, we're going to do ice breakers!!" oh gosh I just want this day to end already, there's so much anxiety involved into it already.

Arrow and I walked to Spanish class which was probably just another class full of anxiety "So how's your day been so far Rory?" I look down at the ground "Eventful" Arrow chuckles "Same" We get into Spanish and find our seats, of course, we were separated, I sat across from this girl Named Savannah. She had ginger hair, bright blue eyes, and an undercut, you could tell this girl was gay. She looked at me and I looked at her looking away from me, we continued and our teacher told us we're going to play would you rather? I followed Arrow the whole time.

I get home from school and sit in my bed, snort a line, and go on TikTok, watching all these videos of sad trans kids and depressed girls who hated themselves. I got a text from Lily "How was your first day?" I text back "Very eventful and full of anxiety. hbu?" "saw my ex and all these boys were surrounding me in the gym" I text back "Ew." "When would you wanna hang out again Lily?" "my mother's home again, so maybe next week..." Lily's mother wasn't the greatest, big-time addict and would leave home for multiple days and it hurt Lily mentally, she would sometimes spend days outside snorting with older girls in alleyways and would drink at the early age of 12 alone at night since her mother was never home there was no way of stopping her. she used to burn and would smoke cigarettes as well. I once saw her with multiple burn marks on her arms and thighs. "ah alr well lmk when you can" I replied and sighed deeply.

I get in the shower and sit on the ground thinking about what life could be like if stuff never happened when I was a child, I set the shower even hotter than it was when I started it, I liked the burning feeling on my skin and how it would turn red, I sat there for hours in the shower like that and just thought to myself.  just thinking about all the embarrassing memories that happened during the day like the girls and boys who laughed at me and how much I was bullied in elementary school. "Rory get the hell out of the shower!" my dad must have been home...great, just great... I hurry up in the shower and finally get out, I look in the mirror at my aching body, why the hell do I have to look like this, why can't I just be skinny like all of the other girls I know. I go back to my room and get dressed. I know Lily told me I was falling into addiction but I just don't even want it right now,

I look at my phone and see no one has texted me, which means Lily must have been getting slammed into a wall or getting something thrown at her. I decide to just go to sleep and worry about what was going to happen tomorrow.

I wake up way passed my alarm and look at my phone 6:45... fuck, this is bad. I take a quick shower and get dressed, I look at my phone, and still no text from anyone... I try not to cry, I get my air forces on and my id and grab my backpack, and go to the car with my brother Terrance. "Rory why have you been leaving so much" of course my weird brother wants to know what I'm doing he's always so nosy. "Just been hanging out with a friend" he clears his throat "mm ok" my mom comes out of the house "get in the car!" I sit in the back looking at the trees and houses, still waiting for a text back from Lily.

I stand outside with Arrow and zipper. "So how was your guys night?" Says Zipper, I look down at the ground, Arrow replies "well I actually was trying to get my sister to stop attacking me and she just wouldn't stop." Zipper laughs "How about you Rory?" I look up "huh?" "How was your night?"  "Oh uhm it was okay.." zipper looks at me funny and so does Arrow.

I sit in homeroom with my head down ignoring leiya. I get in English and completely forgot we had to present "You ready to present Rory?" I look around the classroom.. "uh yeah.." she saw the worry in my eyes "alright I know you'll do great!" I was of course the first to present... "so uh my names Rory, I go by she/her.. my favorite color is black.... And uh my favorite summer memory was when I went to my friend's graduation."  I say as my voice shakes, My teacher claps and no one else does. I sit down in my seat and I feel a pencil get thrown at me. I put my head down, and listen to the other kids present. "Rory pick your head up please it's very disrespectful." I pick my head up and lay my head in my hand. As the other students finish presenting I can feel the tears forming in my eyes, I raise my hand "yes Rory?" "May I please use the restroom?" "Go ahead" I grab my bag and go to the restroom and ball my eyes out. I look at my phone and still no text back. I hear the bell ring and get out of the bathroom before all of the other girls get in there and stink up the bathroom with weed and vape, and before I get picked on..

I walk to my other class and see Arrow and try and contain myself "so how did your last class go?" "Pretty shitty how about yours?" "It was alright the kids were just so loud and annoying the hell out of me" I sit down and we go over rules and all the other weird stuff we had to talk about.

I text my mom "can I please go home I really don't feel good" and I walk to Spanish with Arrow. I sit down next to Savannah and she looks at me again, and I look at her, but this time we kept eye contact. "Alright guys take out your computers we're going to be playing kahoot" I lay my head down and let my game play on its own.

When I get home from school I sit in my room and cry. I don't stop crying...I hear a knock on my door "Rory get the hell out here right now!" I wipe my tears away "why did I get a message from your teacher saying you kept your head down all class period?" I look down at the ground "I told you I didn't feel good but you never texted me back!" She continues to argue with me "Rory that's it! Just go back in your fucking room!" I walk away and slam my door. And text Arrow "I'm so done with my mom she literally yells at me for no reason" Arrow left me on delivered. I'm so glad it's the weekend tho because I don't know what I would do if I had another day of school. I think I would completely lose my mind.

[artificial-hope]

Do I tell him who I am awkwardly and ruin the mood or do I just sit here and see if he’ll figure it out

[partyinginbed]

Intro note for my first story

Welcome to My Rockstar's World! I'm so happy you're here, and I can't wait for you to fall in love with my story.

This is my first time writing on Wattpad and the first real book I've ever written. I always loved writing stories when I was younger but never shared them anywhere. I lost touch with writing (more so writing for fun) when I got too busy with school and only ever wrote based on unexciting prompts for a grade. It's been a bit since I've sat down and wrote creatively, and I'm so happy to have found my way back.

Having to write all the time for assignments also meant that I was reading a bunch of books just for school. It's never fun to be forced to pay attention and analyze books for tests. From entering high school until last fall, I didn't read a single book for fun. If you would have told me a year ago that I'd be going to the library, waiting for new book releases, and falling in love with fictional characters, I wouldn't have believed you. Just like writing, I'm so happy to have found my love for reading again.

Anyways, after getting back into reading, I one day started trying to look up a specific book. I wanted one where the girl is in college and falls in love with a rockstar. I wanted it to still focus on the aspects of college, because I feel like some books will take place in college but there's barely anything said about their classes when in reality that's a huge part of their lives. I wanted the rockstar to be the lead singer and to be irresistibly hot. I wanted a book where there's partying and trying to learn how to balance school, life, and relationships. I wanted the main girl to not be a quiet super smart person, but instead someone who really doesn't have her life completely together and is arguably more relatable when she gets anxious in her own head. I wanted a book to explore the challenges of dating someone famous and how that impacts a relationship. And of course I wanted some spice.

Lo and behold, when I typed something super specific like that into Google, I got no search results back. I started looking into other rockstar romance books, but nothing was hitting like I specifically wanted it to.

I'm not a huge meaningful quote person, but I do believe that if you want something done right, then you should do it yourself. And if what you want doesn't exist, then make it happen. So I did. I started writing the book. And you're invited to the party :)

p.s. I know the first few chapters are a bit long in terms of what is typically on Wattpad (I did the 8 chapter challenge on here and they needed to be longer), but it is absolutely worth your time!! I start to break them up a bit more like other writers on here as you get more into it :)

p.s.s. This story contains spicy scenes and alcohol/drug use, so please be mindful of that before starting

[official-koolaid-man-cum-sock]

if your favourite cw is #3 or #5 youre objectively wrong im sorry

[turnstileskyline]

mychemical romacne is real and its in imy phone