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[measuringbliss]

Spider-Man Read-Through 087 Puma (ASM 256-258, Ann 18)

MASTERPOST

Today, MJ's back and we get some revelations. Also, a wedding!

ASM 256 starts with a long battle where once again, Felicia takes pictures until she gets fed up and uses her powers. It's fun to see her powers, but otherwise, nothing new on the horizon.

Later, Peter finds his spare red-blue costume and wonders if he could ask his costume to look like it... but no, he can't dwell on his past.

Oops, the symbiote seems to not take kindly to someone suggesting it gets a bit more colorful. So it's clear that it takes Peter out on nights to prowl. And that night, it's the second time Spidey interferes with the Rose's business, which leads to one thing: he calls for Puma's help. He's basically Kraven.

Love those panels. Also love these two guys.

At the Bugle, Robbie tells Peter that he can't coast on the public's interest in photographs of Spider-Man forever. We know how that goes. Then, suddenly...!

Love her!

Her new gig calls for a party, but Peter's exhausted and declines. MJ asks Betty what's up with that...

This issue has nice panel work, by the way.

Spidey hurts his arm as he avoids the projectile.

Oh, I can feel the edginess, like those 3 random issues recently with a lot of blood. Not sure I like it. In the comments, someone says the arm thing has stayed in their mind for a long time, I can see why. It's kind of out of nowhere.

In #257, Felicia intervenes and quickly gets rid of the Puma. Peter's still hurt, however, and they get home. For a moment, the costume doesn't obey Peter's command...

Felicia's all of us, hahaha. She says he really should go see Reed Richards like he said he'd do.

Elsewhere, Fisk's unhappy about the Rose (his subordinate)'s decision to confront Spidey and calls for a meeting.

...Or the animal? Peter's kind of a jerk, that was never an issue before.

Felicia leaves, and just as Puma approaches Peter's flat (uh-oh), MJ arrives.

It's a bit chaotic. Just as Spidey manages to throw him and Puma out the window, MJ barges in again.

Elsewhere, Fist's meeting with the Rose gives us the opportunity to stare at his magnificent body.

He makes it clear that Spidey must not be harmed.

The fight continues and we get the same extremely repetitive exposition. I wonder when it will stop.

Eventually, Puma leaves and he later gets a visit from the Rose's partners-boyfriends, who tell him he has to stop. Puma's relieved.

But it's not the end, because the Hobgoblin's back and ready to help the Rose.

Change into his civvies?? The costume does it for him! A slight proof that the writer is on autopilot.

Upset, MJ confesses to Peter that she knows his secret.

By the way, I love this new logo we got going on.

In issue #258, MJ explains she left NY because she couldn't handle being so worried about Peter.

Then Felicia barges in, because of course she does. Oops.

Felicia, girl, calm down. But Peter suffering is a joyous sight, so let's take it in. It's now more clear than ever that Spidey/Black Cat won't last much longer. I wish it had actually been more dramatic, because as it is, MJ isn't given many pages...

Bahaha, she gets right back in his arms.

Meanwhile, Puma prepares for his rematch with Spidey, and MJ gives us her backstory.

Ooooh.

Oh this is great. Very meta but also canonically true. And on-page, the symbiote takes possession of Peter.

It clearly doesn't know about recommended sleep conditions. And oh boy, does Peter dream.

I'm pretty sure there's a similar scene in TAS. But the sky is pink there, it's better.

Given that last panel, I'm fine with Peter's new choice of underpants. And Peter fiiiiinally goes to Baxter Building.

Because we need three fight scenes in each issue, we get one where the Hobgoblin proves he's the real deal to the Rose. It also helps reestablish him, of course.

And finally...

Oops.

The symbiote resolutely refuses to separate itself from Peter, but Reed uses his sonic blast to get it off him.

There's a "Kick me" sticker behind his back, hehe.

Spidey stops a crime in this suit and gets harassed by journalists wanting to know who he is. Interesting to see how the public's perception of super-heroes has evolved.

In Reed's lab...

What a great concept.

Meanwhile, MJ visits Peter. She's ready to tell him about her past.

In annual 18, that I'm skimming through, Jameson and Marla Madison get married! Nice.

PETER KEEPS KISSING MEN.

Jameson goes to visit his son to a care facility, and John is not happy about the wedding. I'll be honest, I don't know what's going on with him ever since he disappeared from that big bridge. Meanwhile, McGargan (The Scorpion) escapes from prison and captures John, Peter's the only Bugle employee to not have received an invite, and Ned's back.

Oh...

Anyway, action ensues, John sees that Jonah and Marla would do anything for each other, and he decides to intervene.

Ooooh...

Love this. And of course, Jonah asks the Scorpion to kill him.

Spider-Man intervenes, naturally.

This is very much "dad talks to his gay son" talk.

This is nice.

[lollercakesff]

Happiest Place

Pt 1 of 3 - Not Friends for @katia-dreamer​

“Miss! Miss, your scarf!” A voice calls out from behind me, twisting me around on my feet and nearly sending me toppling over as the man’s frame crashes into me. I gasp and not just from the impact, my tongue frozen in my mouth as I look up at hazel eyes, a rampant head of dark hair and a jaw that’s angled just - “You dropped this, I think,” he says, interrupting my train of thought. I sputter, wildly trying to form sentences as my face reddens to match my hair, hands tightening on where I've gripped his lapels. 

“Anne - we’re going to miss our plane!” Diana Barry calls from behind me, the shot of panic jolting through me as I remember why I'd been running in the first place. A departing plane, final boarding call, once-in-a-lifetime trip. 

“Thanks! Bye!” I squeak, releasing his coat before stepping back and almost tripping over my carry-on. 

“No problem, Anne - ?” He attempts and I nod because it’s all I can do as I look up at him and his cocksure grin. “Not even going to give me a name then?” 

“Anne!” Diana calls more insistently, her sandals clapping against the cement floor as she approaches at a quick clip. 

“Sorry - I’m late,” I respond and turn to face my friend, eyes wide and cheeks flushed. “Sorry Diana, I dropped my…” I swallow thickly as I look back at my empty hands, my hasty departure making me forget why I’d even stopped in the first place. 

“Missing something, Carrots?” He chides, holding out my scarf. The nickname makes my shackles rise and I grab for the fabric, yanking it out of his hand and spinning on my heel to sprint towards the gate. 

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“Anne, I love you but my feet are about ready to fall off. Can we go back and have a siesta at the pool now?” Diana groans, looking towards me pleadingly. 

“Yes. We will. I just want to ride the Little Mermaid ride one more - “ 

“Anne, please. It will be here the rest of the week! We’ve been here for almost six hours! Let’s go back, relax, enjoy the afternoon and then we’ll come back for the fireworks!” Diana insists and grabs my arm to pull us up short. I sigh, looking at the bridge towards Fantasyland and then the castle to my left. 

We had five days to spend at Disneyworld and I didn’t want to miss a thing but Diana was right. We’d been walking for hours and though I’d never admit it, my feet hurt too and I could definitely use a few hours away from the crowds and strollers that seemed to multiply like they were under a spell. It was just… The magic was entrancing and I was hooked, never wanting to leave this place. 

“Pool. Drinks. Fireworks,” Diana urges, breaking me from my revery. 

“Alright. Pool. Drinks. Fireworks. Lead the way, dearest Di,” I relent, motioning down Main Street and letting Diana drag me out of the front gates of the park and towards the bus corrales. 

Back at the resort I find myself lathering on the sunscreen, pulling on a sunshirt to hide my pale, freckled skin from the sun I'm about to cook myself under. I couldn’t wait - back home it was winter and though it was beautiful with the snow on the branches and the twinkle of the light at night, there was something about sleeping in the sun that made my soul feel healed and light. 

Down by the pool’s edge, I set my things on a chaise and follow Diana into the water. We talk about nothing and everything all at once, exclaiming about the first day in the park and the wonder that had poured out of us as we walked up Main Street to see the castle and the magic for that first time. 

“And the food! Diana, I have never had anything as delightfully scrumptious as those tater tots with the blue cheese. It was otherworldly,” I say with a sigh, drifting back in the water and looking up at the sky overhead. I was content. Utterly, impossibly content. 

“To think, it’s only day one,” Diana affirms as she floats nearby. 

We slip into a comfortable silence as we move around the pool, swimming for a few hours before climbing out and laying in the hot sun. 

“Carrots, is that you?” The familiar voice says from overhead, causing me to crack an eye open as I look up at the shadow blocking my light. His curls in the sun give him away and I groan, flipping my book up to turn my attention back to the pages. “What? Not even going to say hello?” 

“I’m not talking to you,” I reply, looking towards where Diana is standing at the bar ordering drinks and unable to save me from this awkward moment. 

“Alright then. I just thought it would be interesting to note how Providential it seems to be finding you here, but if you’re not interested, I’ll leave you be.” 

The man from the airport stands above me for another drawn out moment before sighing and turning to head back to his side of the pool. I watch him go out of the corner of my eye, finally exhaling as he settles down beside a man and a toddler who he must be travelling with. 

“Who was that?” Diana says as she sets down a drink beside me, eyes bright and brows lifted in question. 

“The guy who found my scarf at the airport, I think,” I lament, reaching for the drink as Diana eyes me suspiciously. I was going to need the alcohol if we were going to have to share a resort for the whole week, that I was pretty sure of.

[dweemeister]

Flower Drum Song (1961)

M*A*S*H and Star Trek: The Next Generation have long been television favorites of mine. My parents introduced me to both shows – fixtures in American entertainment as Vietnamese refugee families fled to and renewed their lives in the United States. The writers of M*A*S*H, a show set during the Korean War, did not make it a secret that the show mirrored American involvement in the Vietnam War. M*A*S*H understandably focused its attention on its mostly white doctors, nurses, and non-coms. But from time to time, the show railed against war’s horrible effects on the local populace, on whose land such bloodshed is waged. In these episodes, M*A*S*H always cast Asian-American actors of varying ethnicities to play the Koreans (the value of these depictions of Koreans varies, but it is evident the all-white writing staff gave their best effort to portray Koreans in their full humanity). For a show that aired from 1971-1983, this was a radical decision as yellowface was still a widely-accepted practice in Hollywood. Star Trek, in its various incarnations, has espoused “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” from its inception. Numerous Asian-American recurring actors and guest stars of these shows have appeared in these shows I cherish (and many others) for decades. My memory flows with many of their faces and voices, even if I do not recall their names.

Adapted from C.Y. Lee’s novel of the same name, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s musical Flower Drum Song debuted on Broadway in 1958. The musical resembled nothing currently on the Great White Way, with an almost entirely all-Asian cast. Yet this musical still caused consternation. Some Asian-Americans expressed their rightful disapproval towards Rodgers and Hammerstein’s patronizing dialogue and racially insensitive characterizations. For this film adaptation by Universal (this is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptation without 20th Century Fox’s involvement), screenwriter Joseph Fields – who collaborated with Hammerstein on Flower Drum Song’s book – made major adjustments in order to stem controversy. Fields rearranged the plot and soundtrack and, most importantly, rewrote more than half of Flower Drum Song’s dialogue in order to accomplish a more respectful (if still imperfect) portrayal of all the musical’s characters.

The reworked Flower Drum Song attracted a star-studded Asian-American cast. So many in this cast are actors and actresses I have known only through their guest or recurring television roles, maybe the odd extra in a movie. To see them act in non-denigrating roles, sing, and dance in a major Hollywood studio feature film was revelatory. I admit, while viewing Flower Drum Song, feeling pangs of frustration over how Hollywood’s structural racism precluded too many in this cast from stardom. But that frustration was overcome by joy – a joy in seeing these Asian-American actors display their talents in a fashion I, even in 2020, long to witness. Though still constrained by Rodgers and Hammerstein’s stereotypical views towards people of Asian descent, Flower Drum Song is a unique cinematic experience.

Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) and her father, Dr. Han Li (Kam Tong) have stowed away on a ship carrying them from their home in China to San Francisco. The Lis are here to complete Sammy Fong’s (Jack Soo) request for a mail-order bride. Sammy is the slick-talking owner of the Celestial Gardens nightclub, who just so happens to be in a relationship with his principal showgirl, Linda Low (Nancy Kwan). So when the Lis arrive at the nightclub, Sammy realizes the pickle he has put himself in. In his attempts to dissolve the marriage contract, he has the Lis take up residence with the Wang family – including patriarch Wang Chi-Yang (Benson Fong), Master Wang’s sister-in-law Madame Liang (Juanita Hall, a mixed-race actor of African-American and Irish descent, in yellowface), eldest son Wang Ta (James Shigeta), and younger son Wang San (Patrick Adiarte). Secretly, Sammy has convinced Madame Liang to allow Mei Li to fall naturally in love with Wang Ta. Meanwhile, Linda is flustered with Sammy after learning of his mail-order bride plans. They separate, and she soon begins to start dating Wang Ta. Wang Ta is also the object of affection of childhood friend and seamstress, Helen Chao (Reiko Sato). If you could not guess by now, the plot of Flower Drum Song revolves around complicated relationship polygons.

Actors also appearing in this film are Victor Sen Yung as the Celestial Gardens’ emcee, Soo Yong as Madame Yen Fong (Sammy’s mother; this role was to be played Anna May Wong, but she died before production began), and James Hong as the head waiter at the Celestial Gardens. Virginia Ann Lee and Cherylene Lee play Wang San’s girlfriend and the Wang family’s youngest daughter, respectively.

In this rewriting of Flower Drum Song, screenwriter Joseph Fields, there is a greater focus on generational conflict. This film adaptation is unclear when the story takes place. But by looking at some of the technology and mannerisms, I will guess sometime after World War II, probably the 1950s. In this rendition of San Francisco’s Chinatown, first-generation Chinese immigrants live alongside the second and third generations. This mix creates a tension that permeates across the film – from how characters dress, behave in public (if they even go out in public) and private settings, and most notably romantic expectations.

The depiction of this tension is simplistic: those are not American-born uphold as many traditions as they can; those who are American-born are “Chinese” to some extent, but mostly do not think much about Chinese traditions. You are either assimilated into American society or not, says Flower Drum Song – a troublesome generalization that persists in Asian-American subgroups whose history in the U.S. is not as long as Chinese-Americans. But, in a rare instance for a Golden Age Hollywood film, Fields assures that this adaptation does not mock the first generation for not being as “American” as they could possibly be. Assimilation is on the terms of the characters, not contrived societal norms. Another anomaly in Flower Drum Song: the younger generations are assertively American, rather than offshoots of their elders. The younger generations’ unaccented English, wide range of characterizations, and their incidental Asianness (in that they do not feel the need to announce their Asian or Chinese heritage to others or to the audience) is unusual for the time in which this film was released. At the very minimum, Flower Drum Song tries to normalize Asian-American personhood. When the film fails to uphold that, it is mostly because of preexisting issues. In those instances, Fields cannot write his way outside how Rodgers and Hammerstein had already presented Flower Drum Song on the Broadway stage without compromising the duo’s artistic intent.

Many of the actors involved are not Chinese-American, but the performances are sincere, whether comedic or dramatic*. Having seen only a few of his works, I now wonder whether James Shigeta was just so naturally charming. As the go-to Asian-American romantic lead in Hollywood (not that he was cast in such a role often), his performance is seamless, appearing almost effortless. The same could also be said for Nancy Kwan, fresh off her well-publicized cinematic debut in The World of Suzie Wong (1960). An alumnus of the Royal Ballet School in London, Kwan also shows off her fancy footwork multiple times. Kwan’s dancing mastery is without question and, paired with choreographer Hermes Pan (best remembered as Fred Astaire’s principal choreographic collaborator), showcases her talents. As Mei Li, Miyoshi Umeki is slightly hamstrung by her role’s characterization. Yet as one of two actors who reprised the role they originated on the Broadway stage (along with Juanita Hall as Madame Liang; Jack Soo also appeared on Broadway, but switched roles), I was convinced by Umeki’s emotional fragility and shyness – all this for a character who has just arrived in a foreign land, bewildered by what she sees.

For the M*A*S*H fan in me, there is a special delight seeing Jack Soo and Patrick Adiarte here. Soo, best known as Det. Nick Yemana in the sitcom Barney Miller and for his distinctive face, is the natural comedian in the cast. His delivery – physically, verbally – is fantastic in this film. Adiarte, who also starred as Prince Chulalongkorn in The King and I (1956; I had not made the M*A*S*H connection when I watched that film four years ago) has a solo dance number (“The Other Generation”) in Flower Drum Song that I was floored by due to his athleticism.

As lead choreographer on Flower Drum Song, Hermes Pan directs several dancing segments for the film, each one markedly different from the other. The three most notable dance numbers are “Grant Avenue”; “Fan Tan Fannie”, “Love, Look Away” (the first two include Nancy Kwan; the other includes Reiko Sato and James Shigeta). Alongside the production design by Alexander Golitzen (1940’s Foreign Correspondent, 1960’s Spartacus); Joseph C. Wright (1942’s My Gal Sal, 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); and Howard Bristol (1940’s Rebecca, 1959’s Anatomy of a Murder) and the costume design by Irene Sharaff (1951’s An American in Paris, The King and I), the dances are built for Technicolor – even though the film’s Chinatown looks too obviously like a soundstage construction. The abstractions in “Love, Look Away” offer the best example of this choreographic-production design-costuming collaboration. The use of empty space, props suggesting physical divisions and other people, and the enormous dreamlike atmosphere position the scene to be a cinematic manifestation of Helen’s unrequited love for Wang Ta (notably, the dancing segment uses the melody of a song not sung for Helen, but for another). In its ethereal beauty, “Love, Look Away” is a marvelous several minutes of cinematic dance – appearing in a decade where such scenes would only become more rare.

The order of the Rodgers and Hammerstein songs has been rearranged drastically from the original Broadway production; one song (“Like a God”) was dropped entirely because Universal’s executives, “feared that a number in which a Chinese American man compares himself to a god might offend audiences in the American South.” Whatever. The exclusion of “Like a God” does not affect the film much, as this adaptation of Flower Drum Song is a substantially different creature than the stage version. Owing to the performances, the two most notable songs of the musical carry over to the movie. The self-assured anthem “I Enjoy Being a Girl” (Nancy Kwan dubbed by B.J. Baker; Kwan did not protest the dubbing, despite the fact she could sing) may not contain Kwan’s singing voice, but it does boast her charismatic performance.  In the film’s second half, “You Are Beautiful” has Shigeta’s and Umeki’s acting complement the former’s tender singing. But most of the songs – including two of the dance numbers when not considering the choreography (“Grant Avenue” and “Fan Tan Fannie”) – fail to leave an impression. Having Juanita Hall sing “Chop Suey” (an American Chinese dish) underlines the irony of having a non-white actor play someone of Asian descent.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein repertoire, Flower Drum Song is among the least performed of their musicals. A 2002 revival with copious revisions remains the only production outside the musical’s Broadway and West End debuts – Flower Drum Song has not been on tour since the 1960s. It may not compare well musically, lyrically, and dramatically to Carousel, The King and I, or South Pacific, but it is miles better than the likes of State Fair. But the original production of Flower Drum Song, as written, is now considered offensive to contemporary sensibilities. As the preeminent musical theater compositional duo of their day (I would argue that they are the best in the medium’s history), Rodgers and Hammerstein – through The King and I and South Pacific and Flower Drum Song – intended through their stage musicals to break down the racial barriers that they abhorred. All three of these musicals incorporate ethnic and racial stereotypes that can never be stricken entirely from their film adaptations and subsequent musical revivals. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s intentions are well-meaning in their advocacy for cross-racial understanding, but their messages are muddled. Their work reflects a lack of racial sensitivity, at best.

The 1961 film adaptation of Flower Drum Song is the first major Hollywood studio movie to have a significant number of Asian-Americans as credited cast members since Go for Broke! (1951; a WWII film dramatizing the service of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team). Flower Drum Song ups the ante over Go for Broke! as it has an almost all-Asian cast – a feat not replicated again until The Joy Luck Club (1993) and then Crazy Rich Asians (2018). The environment in 1950s and ‘60s Hollywood excluded Asian-Americans in front of and behind the camera, so I can understand why there are only two films from that era with a majority-Asian cast. But I grade on a temporal curve. There is no excuse in modern Hollywood for the twenty-five-year separation between almost all-Asian casts. Are we to expect that the only Hollywood movies with nearly all-Asian casts/majority Asian casts in the future will be the sequels to Crazy Rich Asians?

For the longest time, Flower Drum Song was the one major Rodgers and Hammerstein musical I knew least about. I suspect, of the duo’s musicals that have been revived, it is the one in their repertoire that even self-professed theater buffs are least aware of. Being the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical not distributed by 20th Century Fox does not help. Nor does the fact that its last home media release was on DVD in the 2000s. In 2008, Henry Koster’s Flower Drum Song was inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. That honor marks the film as integral to the history of American cinema. As the constant writing of American cinematic history continues, as audiences become attuned to the history of non-white individuals in Hollywood, perhaps more people will see the importance of this movie. What would have happened if James Shigeta, Nancy Kwan, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, and their other co-stars were offered the same quality of opportunities of their white colleagues? We will never know. But Flower Drum Song can help the viewer envision the answer.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog (as of July 1, 2020, tumblr is not permitting certain posts with links to appear on tag pages, so I cannot provide the URL).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

* My sister will tell you that she does not believe that anyone in this film’s love polygon has a genuine mutual love. I agree. Mei Li’s love for Wang Ta appears genuine, but that is the extent of it.

[onelittlebookgeek]

Book Challenge 2020 (100 books!!) (I did it!!)

After forgetting to track my reading for three years, I started recording my reading on Tumblr last year again, and I’m committed to continuing that this year!

This year is my final year of my Bachelor’s Degrees (I’m finishing English in June) and I’m planning to do a gap year from September on, so now more university after June (at least as far as 2020 is concerned).

I do not really foresee any issues or obstacles to reading this year, except of course finishing my thesis which will probably take quite some time, so I do expect a decline around April until early June. Although I do have a lot more time off in my gap year, I used to read a lot of mandatory books for my studies, so I don’t know whether having a gap year will mean reading more books. Since I’m not doing any university studying, I am interested in reading academic books by myself, studying by myself. Those books are often longer, denser and just take more time to get through; consequently, I might read fewer books in the same amount of energy and time spent reading.

To make a (somewhat) long story short: my expectations are in line with the amount of books I’ve read in the last years, so I’m expecting to read 75 books this year!

Update: it’s mid-October and I’ve already read 99 books this year, so I’ve finished my original goal of 75 books! Now I’m going for 100 books (which should be easy to do, and after that we’ll just see how it goes!).

The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading, I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them, with the (x) being a link to my Goodreads review!

Update: Today (November 23) I’ve read 114 books so I’ve finished my challenge of 100 books! Right now, I’m still 25 books ahead schedule! Let’s see if I can keep that energy up!

January

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin (5/5) (x)

Serpent and Dove (Serpent and Dove #1) - Shelby Mahurin (4/5) (x)

Lethal White (Cormoran Strike #4) - Robert Galbraith (4/5)

Weirdos from Another Planet (Calvin and Hobbes #4) - Bill Watterson) (5/5)

Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (5/5) (x)

Niets zal ons redden maar een beetje liefde is oké - Henk van Straten (Dutch) (4/5) (x)

, said the shotgun to the head. - Saul Williams (4/5)

Loud and Yellow Laughter - Sindiswa Busuku-Mathese (3/5)

Fireborn (The Aurelian Cycle #1) - Rosaria Munda (4/5)

Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy - Sylvia Plath (4/5) (x)

The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare (3/5) (x)

Nieuwe Herinneringen - Remco Campert (Dutch) (2/5)

Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (3/5)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5)

Alles wat er was - Stine Jensen (Dutch) (3/5)

Zij in de geschiedenis - Alies Pegtel (Dutch) (4/5) (x)

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (reread) (5/5)

February

Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (3/5)

The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (4/5)

The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

Educated - Tara Westover (3/5)

Prometheus on Caucasus - Lucian of Samosata (3/5)

March

Reading Old English: A Primer and First Reader - Robert Hasenfratz (4/5) (x)

Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? - Billy Crystal (3/5)

The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

Quick Question: New Poems - John Ashberry (1/5) (x)

Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose - Michael H. Short (3/5) (x)

The Call of the Wild - Jack London (2/5) (x)

The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

April

The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (reread) (5/5)

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou (4/5)

Poëzie in Utrechtse Muren - Ingmar Heytze (Dutch) (5/5) (x)

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (4/5)

Mijn dood en ik - Remco Campert (4/5)

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - Mike Davis (3/5)

Native Son - Richard Wright (2/5)

Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe (reread) (4/5)

May

The Plague - Albert Camus (4/5)

Absalom! Absalom! - William Faulkner (4/5)

Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance - Carrie J. Preston (2/5)

James Joyce and Sexuality - Richard Brown (3/5)

June

Daisy Jones & the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (4/5) (x)

Modernism, Sex and Gender - Alison Pease and Celia Marshik (3/5)

The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone - Seamus Heaney (4/5)

The Host - Stephanie Meyer (reread) (4/5)

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5) (x)

A Terrible Beauty is Born - W.B. Yeats (4/5)

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) - Suzanne Collins (reread) (4/5)

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo (4/5)

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis (4/5)

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) - Brandon Sanderson (4/5)

Everything Leads to You - Nina LaCour (2/5) (x)

The Tempest - William Shakespeare (reread) (3/5)

July

Hag-Seed - Margaret Atwood (4/5) (x)

American Slavery (A Very Short Introduction) - Andrea Heather William (reread) (3/5)

Angels & Demons (Robert Langdom #1) - Dan Brown (4/5) (x)

Mythos: A Retelling of Myths of Ancient Greece - Stephen Fry (4/5) (x)

Mean Time - Carol Ann Duffy (3/5)

Lijfrente - Vrouwkje Tuinman (Dutch) (4/5)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) - Suzanne Collins (3/5) (x)

Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (3/5)

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (reread) (5/5)

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (4/5)

Onbreekbaar - Hans Hagen (Dutch) (1/5) (x)

The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwoord (reread) (4/5)

The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde (5/5)

Het goede leven: een briefwisseling - Piet Gerbrandy & Andreas Kinneging (Dutch) (2/5) (x)

Constructions of the Classical Body - James Porter (3/5)

August

The Complete Poems - Anne Sexton (4/5)

The Kissing Booth (The Kissing Booth #1) - Beth Reekles (2/5) (x)

The Daily Show: The Book - Chris Smith (4/5) (x)

The Duchess Deal (Girl meets Duke #1) - Tessa Dare (3/5)

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehesi Coates (4/5)

Fragments - Heraclitus (transl. by Brooks Haxton) (2/5) (x)

Animal Farm - George Orwell (reread) (5/5)

The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) - Mackenzi Lee (reread) (4/5)

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (4/5)

Catilina’s Riddle (Roma sub Rosa #3) - Steven Saylor (2/5) (x)

When Dimple met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi #1) - Sandhya Memon (1/5) (x)

Adulthood is a Myth (Sarah’s Scribbles #1) - Sarah Andersen (4/5)

September

Normal People - Sally Rooney (3/5) (x)

Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age - Donna Zuckerberg (4/5)

Sadie: A Novel - Courtney Summers (4/5)

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus (4/5)

Vloedlijnen - Piet Gerbrandy (Dutch) (4/5)

Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (reread) (4/5)

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor - Adam Kay (4/5)

Envelope Poems - Emily Dickinson (4/5) (x)

A Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #10) - Agatha Christie (3/5) (x)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (4/5)

October

Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare (4/5) (x)

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)

Het verhaal van Aeneas - Vergilius (trans. to Dutch) (reread) (4/5)

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin (2/5)

Lesbia, Verzen van Liefde en Spot - Catullus (Dutch) (transl. by Paul Claes) (4/5) (x)

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah (4/5) (x)

The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (reread) (5/5)

The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) - Agatha Christie (3/5)

November

Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid (3/5) (x)

Narratology and Classics: a Practical Guide - Irene de Jong (3/5) (x)

The Murder of Roger Akroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) - Agatha Christie (4/5) (x)

The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #11) - Agatha Christie (4/5)

The Great Cat (Poetry Collection) - ed. by Emily Fragos (3/5) (x)

Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil (4/5)

The Northern Lights (His Dark Materials #1) - Philip Pullman (4/5)

Vincent van Gogh en zijn brieven - Leo Jansen (Dutch) (3/5)

My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell (4/5)

The Fill-In Boyfriend - Kasie West (reread) (4/5)

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot #3) - Agatha Christie (1/5)

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What books do you recommend me to read?

I’m not sure what your tastes are but I’ll tell you some of my favorites! To be quite honest, I mainly return to the same books over and over again so the list is rather short and I doubt I have anything to recommend that you won’t have heard of already. I’ll recommend my favorites. It consists mainly of my usual rotation of things i read over and over or books that left an impression on me and I refer back to them often.

When it comes to the non-fiction section just like….keep in mind that most academic texts have many, many problems and I’m not presenting any of the texts I list as The Quintessential Must Read Best Flawless Overview of a topic, I’m mainly listing the books I have found to be approachable and reasonable introductions to topics. Read everything critically, always (and that includes everything else on this list, not just the non-fiction).

Plays:

An Oresteia, translated by Anne Carson (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Elektra, Euripides’ Orestes)

Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides

I mean like. Shakespeare, obviously; my personal favorites are Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth; recently, thanks to the productions starring David Tennant, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II have been added to the list

Doctor Faustus, Edward II, and Dido by Christopher Marlowe

Antigone, particularly Anne Carson’s translation, and after you’ve read Antigone, I’d recommend reading Antigonick, but not before

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (I feel like Lady Windermere’s Fan is also kind of necessary reading and I do love it of course but I’ve only read it the once, for the sake of it, whereas I’ve come back to the Importance of Being Earnest a million times and the 2002 movie is one of the things I watch when I’m down)

Novels (and Epics)

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett if you haven’t yet, obviously

Maurice by E. M. Forster

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

VIRGINIA WOOLF. everything but particularly the Waves, Orlando, and Mrs. Dalloway. The Waves is my favorite, followed closely by Orlando, but I’d start with the Mrs. Dalloway because it gets you accustomed to Woolf’s writing style and the way she approaches her characters if you haven’t read her before.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (If you haven’t read it yet and you have seen 2005 P&P and love it and you’re opening the novel with the expectation that it’s similar to the 2005 film in tone and feel, you’ll be disappointed. If you’ve seen the 1995 miniseries, that reflects it very well. So just approach it with an open mind with 2005 on the back burner and you’ll find it an amazing and very repressed love story)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Iliad (the translation I own is Lombardo. It’s extremely approachable and colloquial and I enjoy it, and if you’ve never read the Iliad and you find it intimidating, I would very much recommend it, but my high opinion is not universal. Fagles and Lattimore are very popular translations and I like them both well enough)

I’m dying to get a copy of Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation. I don’t love the Odyssey personally but I am a big fan of Wilson and from what I’ve read about her translation and what she’s said about it, if anything could make me enjoy the Odyssey, it would be that translation.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I would personally recommend reading the Iliad first just because Miller takes…….liberties with it, but I also don’t think there’s a problem with that at all, so if you’re not interested in the Iliad, or you think tsoa would get you interested in it, there’s nothing at all wrong with reading it on its own or reading it first. I just think it’s a genuinely more enjoyable experience to read the Iliad first and then see what Miller does with it. And regardless of what order you read them in, if you read them both you will understand how very different tsoa and the Iliad are from one another and you will not be one of those people who talks about the Iliad when what they mean is tsoa. Again, there’s nothing wrong with tsoa, it’s one of my favorite novels, but it’s just a very separate thing and it gets just a little maddening.

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. It’s both poetry and a novel but it’s got to go somewhere so

When I was 14 I got very into Les Mis and i will recommend it. I genuinely love it and it will always have a special place in my heart. I have read the entire brick only once however because as much as i love it. as much as i Relate to the infamous off-topic tangents. there is a limit to my patience.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is just like. extremely good. I really don’t know enough about it to recommend any specific translations; in high school I was given a stapled copy of the whole thing and I read that til I lost it and now if I want to reread it or refer back I just look it up online. I’m a fake fan.

Poetry

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson

The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

Devotions, Felicity, and Winter Hours by Mary Oliver. Those are the anthologies that I have read and I adore them. I imagine that all of her anthologies are also amazing and all of them are on my to-read list. I don’t think you could possibly go wrong

I do not have the singular published collection of Elizabeth Siddal’s poetry (My Ladys Soul) but I have read all of her poetry and she is an amazing poet and I hold her very near and dear to my heart

Crush by Richard Siken

Useless Magic by Florence Welch……..yall knew what you came here for

Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

Non-fiction and Essay Collections (again. None of these are recommended as the definitive, end all, be all, all-you-need book on any given subject, they’re just some of my favorites). I have limited myself to collection specifically because this is long enough already and if I start just adding essays it’ll never end. All of these were either purchased online for under $10, are available somewhere on the internet as pdfs, or were at my library, so if you look, you can probably find them somewhere (I say this bc while trying to find the authors of some of these I have been stunned by their retail prices and I’m assuring you, don’t be scared off by your initial search bc I sure as fuck did not pay $30):

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama

Marie Antoinette: the Journey by Antonia Fraser (controversial but well-researched and approachable and I love it. I would recommend reading like. almost anything else first because Fraser does obviously focus on Marie Antoinette and her life and experiences; and while she does talk about the revolution, it isn’t the focus of this biography, and you won’t understand why it was necessary if you don’t come to it with a good grasp on the broader events outside Marie Antoinette).

A Day with Marie Antoinette by Hélène Delalex

Robespierre: a Revolutionary Life and Liberty or Death: the French Revolution by Peter McPhee

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

If you’re at all interested in 18th century art, I recommend Rococo to Revolution:Major Trends in Eighteenth-Century Painting by Michael Levey

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is controversial. But it’s approachable and well-researched and if you don’t know a lot about American history, I recommend it highly (especially for Americans).

Eros, the Bittersweet by Anne Carson (okay literally everything by Anne Carson. All her essays, her poetry, her translations, her weird mashups, all of it. There are a few things I haven’t read yet but. I very much doubt you’re going to be able to go wrong, so just take what I’ve listed as my favorites)

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate and the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory and From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty (also the illustrations by Landis Blair are absolutely phenomenal. Look at this. I love it so much I pulled it out of the book to hang in my momento mori corner because it’s so beautiful.)

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green is. okay we have a love-hate relationship, me and this biography; me, and peter green, but I have major issues with every single Alexander biography I’ve read and this was the first so if you want to start somewhere, I guess go for it.

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

The Honey Bee by James L. Gould. It’s out of date in some respects but a good, simple introduction into honeybee biology and behavior

Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s by Otto Friedrich

Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health by Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Kleinman

Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present by Neil Miller

Holy Madness by Adam Zamoyski isn’t by any means perfect, but it’s a alright introduction to the Age of Revolution. Just don’t let it be the only thing you read. It’s here because it has a special place in my heart as my introduction to it.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Erotic Exchanges: the World of Elite Prostitution in 18th Century Paris by Nina Kushner

Radical Love: Introduction to Queer Theology by Patrick S. Cheng

Our Lives Matter: A Womanist queer Theology by Pamela R. Lightsey

Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them by Paige Embry

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell (I really do not know that much about philosophy or existentialism specifically or this subject generally, so I have no idea where the faults of this book are, but I really enjoyed reading it and it made me think a lot. I have a feeling it’s very simplified so take it with a grain of salt as I did?)

Walden by Henry David Thoreau (just. just. it’s enjoyable but don’t get too into it please for the love of God). My copy (and I think most copies?) includes his essay Civil Disobedience as well which is very good.

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave by Ona Judge

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

The Diaries of Virginia Woolf: I’m currently in the midst of volume 2 (1920-1924). They’re very enjoyable, but they’re something of an undertaking as all diaries are if you aren’t already very familiar with the biography of the person in question, so like. If you find yourself moving slowly don’t worry about it.

Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy

To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today by Margery Post Abbott

The New Jim Crow byMichelle Alexander

The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy by Judith A. Layzer is a textbook that was assigned to me in my Enviornmental Policy class last semester and I really fkcing enjoyed it. It’s a book of case studies in environmental policy and it’s dense at times, but really interesting and enjoyable.

The Second Amendment: a Biography by Michael Waldman

Michelangelo’s Notebooks: the Poetry, Letters, and Art of the Great Master by Carolyn Vaughan. Just like. Genuinely. Genuinely. unintentionally hilarious. but also sometimes very sad, and very gay. I just adore Michelangelo. Just a shy foul-tempered repressed disaster. Jesus Christ.

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homme, ta cage j'abandonne

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by bukkunkun

(man, I'm abandoning your cage)

tie-in/spin-off to Beginner's Luck.

The story of how Akira met Arsene Lupin, and became the Crown Jewel of The Metaverse Casino.

Contains a lot of mob/akira. You have been warned.

Words: 12010, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of The Metaverse Hotel and Casino

Fandoms: Persona 5

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Underage

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kurusu Akira, Persona 5 Protagonist, Arsene (Persona 5), Original Male Character(s), Akechi Goro, Kitagawa Yusuke, Sakamoto Ryuji, Takamaki Ann, Niijima Makoto

Relationships: Kurusu Akira/Original Male Character(s), Arsene/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Kitagawa Yusuke/Kurusu Akira

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Future, Casinos, Alternate Universe - Prostitution, Secret Identity, Underage Rape/Non-con, Dubious Consent, Porn With Plot, Gratuitous Smut, Underage Prostitution, bad porn dialogue, Angst and Porn, Crossdressing, Out of Character, But for Good Reason, Bunny Girl, Daddy Kink, Age Play, Virginity or Celibacy Kink, Burlesque, BDSM Scene, Dom/sub, Infidelity, Kimono, Slut Shaming, School Uniforms, Threesome - M/M/M, Dirty Talk, Bad Dirty Talk, Sex Toys, Sex Toys Under Clothing, Shower Sex, Auctions, Rimming, Prequel

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End of the Decade Favorite Book Tag

This took me forever to do because it’s a high-energy kind of tag, but it’s also a great idea so thank you @bookcub fro coming up with it and tagging me, and thanks to my other taggers @thelivebookproject and @anassarhenisch

Oh, and fair warning: I (almost) never keep to just one book

1. High fantasy books that are obsession worthy  Okay, so definitely the Kingkiller chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss, but also the Strange the Dreamer series by Laini Taylor - and I’m not sure about Daughter of Smoke and Bone (also by Laini Taylor) because it kind of starts out as urban fantasy and then gets high fantasy? In any case, I recommend that as well 

Also, is Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo high fantasy? I’m so bad at genres! But I recommend that duology as well. 

Oh! And the Darker Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab! 

2. Urban fantasy books filled with people you want as friends Again, the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, but also The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (though I’m not so sure about wanting to be friends with them - I just think they’re neat characters). And I can’t forget the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. 

3. Portal fantasy you fall in love with multiple times The different novellas from Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series - I fell in love with the first one because ace!character!! but the other ones are also super intriguing and well-written. 

4. Novella that just makes you sigh cause it’s so lovely I’m totally stealing @bookcub‘s answer and say The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss  Also great but in a very different way is Andrew Kaufman’s All my friends are superheroes

5. Historically inaccurate but laugh out loud I’m stealing that one as well: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton 

6. Satire that makes you reconsider your whole world view I wouldn’ say “reconsider my whole world view”, but I read a couple of Douglas Coupland books that provide quite the satirical social commentary. Also A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, if that fits here?

7. Happy, happy, happy and sad, sad, sad  The Wayfarer’s series by Becky Chambers, Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Fault in our Stars by John Green, The Anne of Green Gables series (as far as I read it) by L.M. Montgomery and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

8. No, I’m not to old for kids’ books, what are you talking about??? The Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud, and A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (which is shelved as Children’s Literature but is really for everyone)

9. I’m also not to old for picture books either and never will be We Found a hat by Jon Klassen - such a great book!!

10. Whoa, never expected that ending and to have that much fun!!! Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianea Wynne Jones

11. Like I’m scared, but I’m happy about it  I don’t think I’ve read anything that fits that prompt

12. Classically favorite So many but my top two are probably Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, and Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 

13. Party in your ears  I haven’t had one of those

14. Boom!!! Pow!!! Wham!!! Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, The Martian by Andy Weir, and Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

15. Oh wow, that’s me!! You know, I really haven’t found that ‘oh wow, that’s me’-character yet, though I’m happy about the books with ace representation I’ve read (and hope to read many more)

16. I can’t stop thinking about this book in addition to the books i already mentioned, Code Name Verity occupied my mind for a looong time, same goes for the Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey, but also Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke gets in your eyes and Between the world and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

17. A book you got from Tumblr that made it to your fave Trick by Natalia Jaster, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, Girls will be Girls by Eme O’Toole and some of the books that I mentioned already 

18. A book you had high expectations for and then the author OVER delivered If We Were Villains by M.L.Rio

So I have absolutely no overview of who has or hasn’t done this and who actually wants to do this, so feel free to ignore this, of course! I’m tagging: @whilereadingandwalking, @accidentalspaceexplorer, @booksnotbombs, @elfspectations, and anyone else who wants to

[dearhummingbird]

rec us these nonfiction books you speak of

I’ve been on a bit of a kick with these three categories lately but I think there’s something for everyone on this list. I have more if you want specific recommendations but I think this’ll do for now, so here you go, go forth—

Memoir / Autobiography / Character study:

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her (Richard Lloyd Parry)

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (Zora Neale Hurston)

Heavy: An American Memoir (Kiese Laymon)

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Caroline Fraser)

The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Anne-Marie O'Connor)

The Descent of Man (Grayson Perry)

All The Truth is Out (Matt Bai)

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster (Sarah Krasnostein)

The Cost of Living (Deborah Levy)

The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Jill Lepore)

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster (Stephen L. Carter)

Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)

Eve: A Biography (Pamela Norris)

A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Daisy Hernández)

Social justice:

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)

Violence All Around (John Sifton)

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (Michael J. Sandel) 

Columbine (Dave Cullen)

Negroland (Margo Jefferson)

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Jill Leovy)

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger (Rebecca Traister) 

The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander)

The Lines Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border (Francisco Cantú)

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America (T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong)

Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman & Tectonic Theater Project)

The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (Michiko Kakutani)

History:

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Candice Millard)

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Peter Pomerantsev)

Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 (by Brandon Stosuy, Dennis Cooper, Eileen Myles)

The Library Book (Susan Orlean) 

A History of Bombing (Sven Lindqvist tr. by Linda Haverty Rugg)

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)

Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Hunter S. Thompson)

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South (Radley Balko)

The Library Book (Susan Orlean) 

Misc:

The Fall of Language in the Age of English (Minae Mizumura)

Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (David Shields)

Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World (Anne Jamison)

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Như vậy là Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2019 sẽ không được tổ chức theo thông báo chính thức từ Victoria’s Secret. Dù đã râm ran tin đồn từ lâu nhưng khi thông tin này được xác nhân thì vẫn khiến không ít fan hâm mộ phải bồi hồi tiếc nuối. Chúng ta hãy cùng dành thời gian điểm lại những hình ảnh đáng nhớ nhất của Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show trong hơn 2 thập kỷ vừa qua.

1995: VSFS đầu tiên được tổ chức tại khách sạn danh tiếng The Plaza (New York, Mỹ). Khi đó các thiết kế còn khá đơn giản, cơ bản chứ chưa đính điểm những chi tiết cầu kỳ, tinh xảo hay những đôi cánh thiên thần hoành tráng mà chúng ta thấy sau này.

1996: “Báo đen” Naomi Campbell lần đầu sải bước tại VSFS vào năm 1996. Trong hình, cô đang diện váy babydoll, kiểu váy ngủ rất được ưa chuộng trong thập niên 90.

1998: Thiết kế đôi cánh lần đầu tiên xuất hiện trên sàn diễn VSFS do Tyra Bank trình diễn. Đó cũng là lúc từ “thiên thần” bắt đầu gắn liền với những cô nàng của show diễn nội y này.

2000: Đến nay, mẫu Fantasy Bra mà thiên thần Gisele Bundchen diện vào năm 2000 vẫn là thiết kế đắt đỏ nhất với mức giá 15 triệu USD ~ 345 tỷ VNĐ. Đây cũng là món nội y đắt nhất thế giới từng được chế tác do Guinness công nhận, gắn 1.300 viên kim cương và đá ruby.

2001: Lần đầu tiên Fantasy Bra xuất hiện trên sàn diễn VSFS và người trình diễn nó không ai khác chính là Heidi Klum.

Khoảnh khắc thần tiên nhất trong VSFS 2001 và trong lịch sử VSFS nói riêng: những thiên thần khoe đôi cánh trắng muốt bay lên không trung giữa những hạt tuyết lấp lánh.

2002: Khi Gisele Bundchen đang sải bước uyển chuyển trên sàn diễn, một số thành viên PETA đã lao lên sân khấy, giơ khẩu hiệu nhằm phản đối việc Gisele Bundchen ưu ái những món đồ lông thú. Dẫu vậy cô vẫn tiếp tục catwalk vô cùng thần thái và chuyên nghiệp.

2003: Thiên thần Heidi Klum đã khoác trên mình một trong những bộ cánh đồ sộ nhất trong lịch sử VSFS.

2005: Ba thiên thần Karolina Kurkova, Gisele Bundchen và Alessandra Ambrosio trong thiết kế nội y táo bạo và quyến rũ gợi nhớ đến hình ảnh trong bộ phim Mean Girls đình đám.

2006: Miranda Kerr lần đầu tiên trình diễn trên sàn diễn Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Một năm sau đó, cô chính thức thăng hạng lên hàng thiên thần.

2007: Heidi Klum biến sân khấu VSFS thành kỷ niệm lãng mạn khi cùng song ca với chồng – nam ca sỹ Seal trước đông đảo kh��n giả.

2009: Heidi Klum chia tay VSFS sau 13 năm gắn bó.

2010: Một trong những đôi cánh đẹp nhất lịch sử VSFS chính là đôi cánh lấy cảm hứng từ đuôi công mà thiên thần Karolina Kurkova đã khoác lên mình.

2011: Hình ảnh đáng nhớ nhất VSFS 2011 chính là khi thiên thần Miranda Kerr bước ra sàn diễn trong bộ Fantasy Bra kho báu đại dương trị giá 57 tỷ VNĐ.

Cũng tại VSFS 2011, khán giả đã được dịp trầm trồ khi nam ca sỹ Adam Levine bất ngờ đặt một nụ hôn lên má người mẫu Anne V, khi đó đang là bạn gái anh.

2013: Thiên thần Behati Prinsloo hóa thành “bà chúa tuyết” trong thiết kế vô cùng đồ sộ.

Cùng năm đó, thiên thần Karlie Kloss lại khoác lên mình bộ bodysuit đẹp nhất trong lịch sử VSFS với thiết kế dát nhiều pha lê trông tựa như vô vàn tinh thể tuyết lấp lánh.

2014: Là năm cuối cùng Karlie Kloss trình diễn tại VSFS trên cương vị một thiên thần. Cô phô diễn những bước catwalk đầy nội lực trong bộ cánh dát vàng lộng lẫy.

2014: Có tới 2 chiếc Fantasy Bra được trình diễn bởi bộ đôi thiên thần chị cả Adriana Lima và Alessandra Ambrosio. Đây chắc chắn là khoảnh khắc mà những người yêu thời trang sẽ khó có thể quên khi nhắc tới VSFS.

2016: Chân dài Bella Hadid “chạm trán” nam ca sỹ The Weeknd không lâu sau khi chia tay. Đây chắc chắn là 1 trong những tình huống khó xử nhất trong lịch sử show diễn nội y được yêu thích nhất hành tinh.

2017: Sau show diễn này, Alessandra Ambrosio chính thức chia tay Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show sau 17 năm gắn bó và 14 năm làm thiên thần. Ed Razek, giám đốc sản xuất của Victoria’s Secret từng chia sẻ hình ảnh của cô trên Instagram và viết: “Một huyền thoại đã sải bước trình diễn lần cuối cùng để khép lại show diễn. Cảm ơn Ale. Yêu em”.

2018: Adriana Lima chính thức chia tay Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, xúc động nghẹn ngào trên sân khấu cuối cùng. Hình ảnh rưng rưng kìm nén cảm xúc của thiên thần chị cả đã khiến nhiều người bật khóc.

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[the-mustache-guy-la]

S.3.Karsu Dönmez (Müzik İncelemesi)

Yanlış hatırlamıyorsam iki sene önce Spotify’da ‘‘Üçüncü Yeniler’’ adında bir çalma listesine denk gelmiştim. Birbirinden güzel şarkılar peşi sıra çalarken, bir anda kulağıma çok tanıdık bir melodi takıldı çalmakta olan şarkıdan. Mustafa Sandal’ın Jest Oldu şarkısı çalıyordu -Çocukluğu 90′larda geçmiş biri olarak beni heyecanlandırmaya fazlasıyla yetmişti.- ama daha cazımsı, sakin bir alt yapısı vardı şarkının... Ve halen çok güzeldi. İşte Karsu Dönmez’in harika müziğiyle tanışmam böyle hoş bir anıya da vesile oldu. 

Karsu’dan dinlediğim Jest Oldu şarkısı bitince hemen Spotify’daki artist sayfasına geçtim ve yaptığı diğer cover çalışmalarının yanında kendisinin bestelerini de keyifle dinledim. Ve sonrasında hayatın akışı içerisinde Karsu ve harika müziği bir süre benim için unutuldu ve bir kenarda kaldı... Ta ki 16 Ekim 2019 günü kendi adını taşıyan ‘‘Karsu’’ adlı albümünü yayınlayana kadar. Çok güzel ve tekrar tekrar dinlenebilen bir caz albümünü güm diye masanın üzerine koymuştu Karsu. Ben ise anın gazıyla birkaç yakın arkadaşıma ‘‘işinizi gücünüzü bırakın şu albümü dinleyin’’ diye insanın gereksiz yere zapt-ı rapt altına alan mesajlar atmıştım.

Karsu Dönmez 1990 yılında Amsterdam’da Hatay’ın Altınözü beldesindeki ‘‘Karsu’’ adlı köyünden göç etmiş bir anne babanın çocuğu olarak dünyaya geliyor. Karsu kendi hikayesini anlatırken, 7 yaşındayken alınan piyanoyu çalmaya başlayan Karsu 14 yaşına geldiğinde arada garsonluk yaptığı babasının restoranında piyanoyu çalarken bir dinleyici kitlesi oluşmaya başlıyor. Hatta bir TEDx konuşmasında restorana yemekler için değil onu dinlemek için gelip yemek yiyenler olduğundan da mizahi bir üslupla bahsediyor. İlginin artışı sonrasında Karsu için bir salon kiralayan ailesi sayesinde Karsu ilk konserini veriyor. Ve böyle başlayan süreç takip eden birkaç yılda şansının da yaver gitmesiyle tanıştığı kişiler (ve tabii ki yeteneği) sayesinde Hollanda’da ulusal kanallarda performanslar ve zirve noktasına ise New York Şehrindeki Carnegie Hall’daki gelecekte devamı da gelecek olan performanslarının ilkini veriyor, ve büyük beğeni kazanıyor. İlkini 2010′da yayınladığı toplam 4 albümü bulunan Karsu, 2015′de yayınladığı ‘‘Colors’’ adlı albümüyle Hollanda’nın prestijli ödüllerinde olan Edison Ödülüne layık görülüyor. 

Müzik kariyerindeki başarısının yanında yaptığı sosyal sorumluluk projeleriyle de birçok kişinin hayatına dokunmayı başaran Karsu’nun üzerine en çok yoğunlaştığı mesele ise göçmenler. Hollanda’da bir takım sivil toplum kuruluşlarıyla çalışmasının yanında, Atina’da Suriyeli göçmen çocuklar için bir müzik okulu da açtı Karsu. Karsu’nun bu sıradışı hikayesi 2012 yılında Mercedes Stalenhoef taraından 87 dakikalık ‘‘Karsu-I hide a secret’’ adlı bir uzun metraj belgesel olarak yayınlanıyor. 

Yakın tarihte ikinci TEDx konuşması da yayınlanan Karsu bu konuşmasında da güzel bir akış içerisinde önemli sosyal problemlere değiniyor. Gerek konuşması ve hal hareketlerindeki samimiyet ve rahatlık, gerekse hafif kırık Türkçesiyle inanılmaz şirin ve içten bir sunuş oluyor. 

Yazımı bitirmeden bir de sizinle Karsu’nun müziğinden hazırlanmış bir çalma listesini paylaşayım ilgilenenler için. 

Umarım bu yazımı da beğenmissinizdir, ve derdimi lisan*ı münasiple anlatabilmişimdir. Güzel bir haftanız olsun.

Esenlikler ve keyif sizinle olsun...

tmg

[catherinepcrr]

☆ ━ ━ OUT OF THE WAY ! can’t you see CATHERINE PARR, the MARCHIONESS of NORTHAMPTON coming this way ?  I hear SHE is/are QUICK-WITTED, but also SURLY. SHE seem/s to remind everyone of DUSTED NOVELS, DRIPPING CHERRIES, .&. LABYRINTHINE LIBRARIES. hopefully one day SHE will succeed in HER ambition to FOUND SEMINARIES / COLLEGES IN LONDON FOR THE UNDERPRIVILEGED, but then again, the court is a dangerous place. one can only hope SHE will keep HER head… ( KEIRA KNIGHTLEY  ) ━ ━ ☆ as written by CLAU;;  EST, SHE/HER, 20+.

Minor notes; I have aged Catherine up a few years so that her history meets the timeline of the roleplay. 

UPBRINGING.

Catherine (or ‘Cat’, as she is sometimes called!) is the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Parr, a descendant of Edward III, and Maud Green, who’d been a lady-in-waiting to King Henry’s mother, Catherine of Aragon. Both Thomas and Maud were loyal subjects of the crown and so Catherine was named after the Queen and modeled in her image. When Thomas died, Catherine was only five years old and so her education was left to her mother. Due to her own beliefs and the encouragement of her close companion, the Queen, Maud educated her daughter to a high standard. Catherine became known for her love of learning and her fluency in a myriad of languages. 

MARRIAGES.

When Catherine was only seventeen she married Edward Borough, grandson of Edward, Baron Burgh. The marriage was turbulent but short lived due to Edward’s death that same winter. Edward was a rumoured lunatic with tendencies for violence.

Widowed at eighteen, Catherine was expected to remarry and did so quickly to protect her youth and dowry. She married John Neville, Baron Latymer, and the couple were granted the title of Marquess and Marchioness of Northampton by Catherine’s father. 

Nearly ten years after marrying, Catherine and her stepchildren by Neville were held hostages by the rebels involved in a religious uprising. Neville managed to bargain Catherine and his children’s release but whilst becoming entangled in the rebellion and its repercussions he died that year, widowing Catherine for a second time in her yet short life-span. 

NOTE:  I have changed the historical Thomas Seymour to Nicholas Seymour as IRL Thomas was a scum bag and if you’ve ever read about Elizabeth I’s early history you’ll know why! 

Shortly after Neville’s death Catherine caught the watchful gaze of Nicholas Seymour and though the couple harbored secret plans to wed they were denied by Edward Seymour and Neville’s brother, his successor, who supplied Catherine her finances. I have taken some liberty in this ordeal as A. Catherine historically did not marry Nicholas/Thomas because Henry VIII became enamored with her and B. I play Edward so I shall use him whatever way I wish! Ta-da. Catherine and Nicholas are still secretly together. 

PERSONALITY

Catherine was known for being both exceptionally intelligent and beautiful. Historian Claire Ridgway says of her, “[she] combined the intelligence and wit of Anne Boleyn with the prudence and diplomacy of Catherine of Aragon.” 

Catherine is a steadfast pupil, an acclaimed author of religious texts, and a patron of the arts. She has a silver-tongue and is generally pleasant to be around unless crossed. That said, she can become ill-tempered rather easily. Hell hath no fury like Catherine scorned. 

Her influence in court – especially as a Marchioness in her own right – is resented by some, especially by the Seymours, and the conservative factions of court who might seek to use Catherine’s covert reformists beliefs against her. 

She does not have any children and in truth would be perfectly content living her life childless. She is apprehensive of the risks linked to childbirth (irl she died only a few days after giving birth to her first and only child, a daughter named Mary!) 

[lollercakesff]

Happiest Place

Pt 2 of 3 (pt 1 here) for @katia-dreamer​

“I've just got us a Fastpass for Flight of Passage - wanna go now?" Diana says over the roar of the coaster taking off in the other direction.

"After, yes. We're almost at the front," I reply, shifting my gaze around the room and seeing that mop of messy curls again. 

I couldn't believe, out of everywhere in this huge park, he'd managed to end up in the same place as us. Again. And not for the first time since the pool - I was starting to think he and his family were following us, even though that was as ridiculous as the sun rising in the west. I just couldn't shake the feeling that every time he was around it felt like a tickle at the back of my neck, a hint of recognition sparkling within me.

"Anne, stop staring already," Diana sighs from beside me, lifting her hand to tap my cheek and draw my attention away from where I'm watching him advance forward in the line. "You'd think you were spellbound by the way you look at him," Diana continues teasing with a laugh.

"Am not!" I cry, wrapping my arms across my chest as I scuff the floor with my shoe.

"Oh, come on! You keep looking at him with daggers in your eyes. But like, attractive daggers," she continues playfully.

"He called me 'Carrots', Di," I moan.

"Yeah, but - " 

"One with them," the ride staff interrupts, pointing Diana off after a group of riders. She goes and I'm left alone to watch as she buckles in and shoots me a bright thumbs up.

It's only another few moments before I'm tapped forward and following behind someone who snakes around and switches with a group in front, his hand pointing me towards a corral near the front. I round the final bars and stop short, eyes wide as I look up towards my shadow.

"Carrots!" He greets brightly as I scowl.

"You!" I grumble and push by as the barrier opens. Dropping into the seat I cross my arms over my chest and look off ahead, avoiding his attempts at interacting as I try to freeze him out of my existence.

"What are the chances of seeing you here?" He says as he settles in beside me. 

"It's a small place and the world is cruel," I grumble in return.

"Come on, it's the happiest place on earth! How can you be so upset?"

"Upset?" I bark, looking at him as he pulls the security bar down on our laps. "You come out of nowhere, insult me, and then continue to stalk me while I'm trying too enjoy myself and - "

"Well, wait just a minute there - I'm not stalking you. At all. And how did I insult you? I've barely said - "

"You keep calling me 'carrots'! Even though you know my first name is Anne! With an ‘E’! And - "

"Oh, I didn't - I'm sorry, I won't call you that again - "

"- you haven't even introduced yourself either - "

"Easy, I'm Gilbert Blythe - "

"Ready? On three," the ride worker calls and counts down, the car jerking forward abruptly as my argument dies in my lips. My hands grapple for the safety bar as we turn around the bend up ahead.

"Now that you know my name, why don't you tell me the rest of yours?" Gilbert continues as though the ride wasn't creeping up a mock Mount Everest and making my heart hammer in my chest.

"Please dear Providence, save me from myself and the - Oh god…" I moan and close my eyes as we reach the peak. The front of the car tilts over the edge and I swear aloud, gripping the bar and letting loose a feral scream as the ride takes off down the track.

We're twisted this way and that, through a dark tunnel where we're blasted with cold air before bursting back out into the bright Florida sun. I barely know what's happening - the conversation long forgotten - as we climb up another rise and see the tracks twisted overhead.

"But where…?" I gasp and look around for what's coming next, panic rushing through me as I see no exit. I hated sudden drops. I hated them with a passion that burned like a tar fire. "Oh no, oh dear, oh no," I mutter and sit back with my eyes closed, terrified of what comes next.

The fall backwards is abrupt and unexpected and the only thing tethering me to my seat is Gilbert's hand wrapped around mine, his matching shouts of exclamation ringing in my ear.

When we finally come to a stop I release my held breath, looking around me with wide eyes as I unclench my fist and straighten my mess of red hair in an attempt to hide my moment of fluster.

"You're an excellent roller coaster buddy, Anne…?" Gilbert says as the train pulls into the loading area. The bar lifts and for a second he just stares at me, his lips slightly open and his eyes searching mine.

"Sir, we need you to disembark," the operator calls and Gilbert seems to come back to himself, getting to his feet with a shot and reaching his hand down to help me out. 

"Well, this was nice," he says as he holds open the door to the gift shop for me. I enter the space and gasp as the air conditioning sends a shiver down my spine. "Perhaps I'll see you around again," he adds before looking over his shoulder at the man I'd seen him with at the pool.

"Maybe you will," I answer and scan the room for Diana, quickly finding her absorbed in the pins section.

"Bye Anne with an E," Gilbert says one last time and after a second of waiting for my lack of response, he turns and heads towards his group.

"Hey Gil," I call out, finding my voice as he stills and looks back towards me. "It's Shirley - Anne Shirley."

"Much better than a vegetable," he chuckles and smiles, my heart skipping as I grin back at him. 

Maybe it wasn't so bad to keep seeing him around.

-----------

"So where do you hail from, ladies?" Bash Lacroix asks as he looks up from where he's crouched over his stroller. Little Delphine coos and Diana sighs, looking over at Mary Lacroix and smiling widely.

"She is just so precious," Diana remarks, looking between the group we'd met on the bus this morning.

"We're from PEI but have been studying in Nova Scotia for the past few years. Diana is interested in Early Childhood Education so forgive her if she gets distracted by Dellie here," I add, watching with a wide smile as Diana plays peekaboo with the baby.

"Really? I have family out there. Almost moved back too when I wasn't sure if I was going to school in Toronto or not," Gilbert replies. 

"He still would, if he finished med school early and got a placement out there," Mary adds with a warm smile. I take to the woman's warmth easily, finding the first hints of a kindred spirit in her the more we talk.

From what we'd learned already in the line this morning, the trio were on their first trip to Disney to celebrate Gilbert's first year of school and Dellie's second birthday, the small mixed family having come together after bonding over hard times in the city. Mary and Bash had taken Gilbert in after his father died, giving him a place to call home until he could go off to school and in return Gilbert had been an uncle to the little girl, bringing her up like his own whenever they needed a helping hand. They were a tight knit group and I envied the family togetherness when Marilla and Matthew were still back home and so far away.

"How about you? What do you do in school?" Mary asks, leaning towards me.

"I'm studying English is all," I respond simply as Diana scoffs and stands up fully.

"Please! Anne is the smartest person in our class. She's starting her master's next year and is head of our student union. Plus she founded a local improvement society back home and is an advocate for better children's aid services. She won a major scholarship to fund her graduate program which is why we're here to celebrate," Diana finishes, out of breath as she sings my praises. I elbow her gently in the ribs, silently urging her to slow her accolades so I didn’t sound too impossible to exist.

"Uncle Gilly here sure knows how to shoot for the stars, doesn't he?" Bash chides playfully, holding his daughter's hand and smiling up at us.

I catch Gilbert's eye across the group and feel my cheeks heat, his smile only widening as he mouths 'sorry' my way.

When it's time to board the Millennium Falcon, Gilbert takes up the handles of the stroller and spins it on its wheels, heading out the exit as we're handed cards with our roles printed on them.

"Where's he going?" I ask as I look up from my card to watch him go. 

"Gilbert doesn't take well to motion sickness," Mary says with a chuckle, looking at each of our cards. Both hers and mine read 'pilot' and she grins up at me, raising her hand for a high five. "Looks like we're steering this ship!"

"Great," I answer, though it's anything but. I didn't do well with motion sickness either… and now I was doubting my ability to survive this ride if others were bailing. Maybe I should too.

Ten minutes later and I'm crashing the ship into the ground, nauseous and dizzy as I hobble out of the room. Pushing past everyone I make for the fresh air, falling against a droid garbage can and relinquishing my breakfast inside it. 

"Woah, easy there killer," Gilbert says from behind me, his large hand resting between my shoulder blades as I groan in embarrassment. "Guess the visuals were a bit intense?"

"I thought I was going to puke on the ride," I mumble as I finally stand up. Gilbert is already standing with a bottle of water open for me, a package of Gravol in his palm.

"I can see that. Take this and let's sit down," he instructs, placing the items in my palm and steering me towards where the stroller sits and the rest of the group has settled in the morning sun.

"You gonna be alright, Annie?" Bash asks, concern in his brow as he looks between us.

"I regret everything," I admit as Mary sighs and settles me down beside her. Diana joins me on my other side and pulls my hair back from my face and off my neck.

"It'll pass. The world is steady. Just remember how bad you felt on the ferry that one - " 

She barely gets her words out before I'm pushing away and clutching at the trashcan again, the memory hitting me like a tonne of bricks. The water that day had been particularly rough, in my defense.

By the time I'm finished and able to sit up straight again, the group has already disappeared in search of food, leaving me alone with Gilbert at my side. He continues to ply me with water, his gaze skating over me as I brush sweaty hair back from my face.

"Feel free to go get something to eat too," I grumble eventually, rubbing at my face and unable to meet his gaze.

"Funny enough, I don't have much of an appetite," he jokes and squeezes my shoulder.

"I'm sorry for that."

"Oh no, it's not you. While you guys were in there I got this ronto wrap thing and it had like two different kinds of meat and this spicy - "

"Nope, no," I interrupt, lifting my hand and grappling at him, my palm connecting with his face and tripping over his lips before he pulls it away. Where I expect him to drop my hands as soon as I'm clear of his space, he doesn't, instead linking his fingers with mine and turning towards me.

"Don't worry. It'll pass and you'll be back to eating every delicacy this side of the moon," he says with a chuckle, watching me with a steady gaze. 

"Thanks for this - for not being a dick while I'm sick, even after how rude I was to you before," I add with a smile, secretly enjoying the heat of his hands around mine.

"No problem. I figured it was only fair since I did compare you to a root vegetable," he replies softly.

We slip into a comfortable silence then, his thumb rubbing circles across the back of my hand as his body leans towards mine. My tongue darts out to wet my lips and I don't know what I'm thinking about doing when Diana clears her throat from beside me.

Was I really leaning in for a kiss? After puking for most of the morning? Who was this version of me and why did she lack the ability to think clearly when one Gilbert Blythe was in her presence? 

"I see you're feeling better," Diana chides, settling down beside me as I pull my hands from where they’ve settled in Gilbert’s lap. I shoot him an apologetic look and lean my head against my friend’s shoulder to curry favour with her and try to hide the growing closeness between Airport Man and myself. The last thing I needed was to fall for someone from another province in another country when I should be having the best time of my life.

[ao3feed-p5-boyslove]

homme, ta cage j'abandonne

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2iN9QI6

by bukkunkun

(man, I'm abandoning your cage)

tie-in/spin-off to Beginner's Luck.

The story of how Akira met Arsene Lupin, and became the Crown Jewel of The Metaverse Casino.

Contains a lot of mob/akira. You have been warned.

Words: 12010, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of The Metaverse Hotel and Casino

Fandoms: Persona 5

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Underage

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kurusu Akira, Persona 5 Protagonist, Arsene (Persona 5), Original Male Character(s), Akechi Goro, Kitagawa Yusuke, Sakamoto Ryuji, Takamaki Ann, Niijima Makoto

Relationships: Kurusu Akira/Original Male Character(s), Arsene/Kurusu Akira, Akechi Goro/Kurusu Akira, Kitagawa Yusuke/Kurusu Akira

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Future, Casinos, Alternate Universe - Prostitution, Secret Identity, Underage Rape/Non-con, Dubious Consent, Porn With Plot, Gratuitous Smut, Underage Prostitution, bad porn dialogue, Angst and Porn, Crossdressing, Out of Character, But for Good Reason, Bunny Girl, Daddy Kink, Age Play, Virginity or Celibacy Kink, Burlesque, BDSM Scene, Dom/sub, Infidelity, Kimono, Slut Shaming, School Uniforms, Threesome - M/M/M, Dirty Talk, Bad Dirty Talk, Sex Toys, Sex Toys Under Clothing, Shower Sex, Auctions, Rimming, Prequel

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[thechurchillreview]

DOESN'T CONTAIN WONDER WOMAN SPOILERS. What does a successful (money-wise, with critics, moviegoers, comics fans) Wonder Woman mean for the future of the DCEU? How about the landscape of the superhero film genre in Hollywood after the fact? Just some personal thoughts along with my own adoration for Wonder Woman! 

The reviews of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, the newest DCEU installment, seem to be more positive than the ones for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice alongside David Ayers’ Suicide Squad. The most memorable moments in Dawn of Justice were Gal Gadot’s smiling Wonder Woman kicking Doomsday’s butt singlehandedly and Ben Affleck’s Batman Arkham Asylum inspired fighting sequence towards the end. So, when it was announced that Wonder Woman was receiving the next solo live-action outing, I was extremely worried...Especially after the dismal treatment and narrative role of Amy Adams’ Lois Lane in both MoS and Dawn of Justice seriously miffed me. 

The humorous Wonder Woman Hark A Vagrant! commentary filled comic is by Kate Beaton. The WW ice cream gif is from 2011′s Justice League: War, borrowed from Tumblr user @wouldyouliketoseemymask. Comics pictured are Wonder Woman: Paradise Lost, Wonder Woman #25 under Gail Simone, Rebirth Wonder Woman: Year One, and New 52 Wonder Woman #41. 

At the same time, I sincerely hoped, almost prayed, that Wonder Woman would surpass the quality melange (I feel tonally and for watch-ability purposes Stereotype Squad is the strongest entry. Wasn’t overly serious or gritty for the sake of gritty versus having substance) of the previous DCEU flicks whilst being true to her iconic character. That’s a bit of a Herculean border-lining on unfair request, I know. But, if DC Comics/Warner Bros. did screw up Wonder Woman, I’d never give another cent towards anything in the DCEU because she’s one of my all-time favorite comic book heroes. I can’t begin to picture myself being forgiving of such a possible butchering combined with history in the making!

My introduction to Wonder Woman was through Super Friends, a series I never gained any enjoyment from viewing. Not due to her, simply all in all. To the point that for a long time I didn’t recall I’d ever seen it besides some Cartoon Network gag featuring said cartoon with Brainiac and Solomon Grundy complaining about not having pants. By the early 90s, I had finally read my first comic book story arc (The Death of Superman my sister’s boyfriend owned) which is ironic since he’s one of my most loathed heroes, yet his supporting cast and villains were and remain fantastic in my eyes to this very day. I learned about the DC Comics trinity and Marvel Comics as I devoured episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, X-Men: The Animated Series, and Spider-Man: The Animated Series. I’ve always had an affinity for superheroes, the varied powers with rad animation/visuals, numerous art styles, varied characters, costumes (unless objectifying, particularly on the women, I’ve never grasped this society standard), themes, subtexts, and etc. I was less influenced by solely the likes of Batman and Spider-Man, no, Princess/Senator Leia Organa, Buffy Anne Summers, Sarah Jeanette Connor, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, The Secret of NIMH’s Mrs. Brisby, Aliens’ Ellen Ripley, Ferngully’s Krista, Fa Mulan, Belle, Jasmine, Lady Kluck, Inspector Gadget’s Penny, S: TAS’s Lois Lane, X-Men’s Storm/Ororo Munroe, Xena, Widow Tweed, Maleficient, Andrea Beaumont, The Brave Little Toaster’s Toaster, Lisa Simpson, Daria, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle’s April O’Neil, and The Powerpuff Girls left a bigger impact on me. Bear in mind I think my feminist, equality for all, diversity, and embracing individuality stances confuse or vex my family the majority of the the time: no one’s officially said this, probably there under the surface though.

Then DCAU’s Justice League premiered and Wonder Woman got some spotlight as the other two members of the Trinity did a decade ago. Alas the time limit structure and sharing the limelight wasn’t enough for Wonder Woman tales most of the time. A fish out of water warrior learning about the world of men that wouldn’t put up with crap while practicing compassion/love (even to her enemies)? YES! This compassion is a double edged sword, serving as both a strength and a weakness for the Amazon from Themyscira. The established core of her character lends itself to some daring storytelling. Justice League and its sequel show Unlimited gave us some great moments with Wonder Woman. Naturally, adoring what the character stood for prompted me to locate comics of her past adventures at my local libraries. Stories by William Moulton Marston, Gail Simone, Jodi Picoult, Greg Rucka, Kurt Busiek, Joe Kelly, Trina Robbins, Darwyn Cooke, Meredith Finch, Nicola Scott, Aaron Loprestri, Phil Jimenez, and George Perez, made my fondness and appreciation towards the character grew. 

While Brian Azzarello did the opposite towards the character and Amazons in general. *GLARES*

Ever since the 90s which gave us animated shows for both Batman and Superman yet shafted Wonder Woman from the same treatment, I've wanted this movie. Sure, she was in the DCAU Justice League and Unlimited series alongside her first full-length feature in 2009's Wonder Woman followed by little screentime in Young Justice (when juxtaposed against Batman’s position) and a Lego Movie cameo role: still that's not quite the same is it?

Wonder Woman’s 2009 standalone DCAU movie remains one of my most beloved since the DCAU was initially formed and was the directorial debut (by herself, no co-director credit like with Superman: Doomsday) of animation director and storyboard artist Lauren Eve Montgomery best known for her storyboard on work on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Justice League Unlimited. It was penned by comic book legend Gail Simone and Michael Jelenic. In celebration of Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, a commemorative edition of 2009’s Wonder Woman with a cover that unfortunately has antagonist Ares on it was recently released with many special features and I’m tempted to re-pick it up (which is something I don’t normally do for any DVD/Bluray I already possess). Wonder Woman got a cameo role in 2014′s The Lego Movie, it was minuscule and added little though, siiiiigh. 

The lasting ramifications of a positively reviewed and liked Wonder Woman by critics and audiences alike are potentially revolutionary. Wonder Woman, is the first superhero female lead motion picture since 2005’s Elektra (it has taken 12 years) with a budget over $100 million under the hand of a female director. 1995’s Tank Girl starring Lori Petty was directed by a woman (Rachel Talalay) except it had a significantly less money to work with comparatively: I did a whole critique/analysis of it before on here. The last superhero motion picture directed by a woman was in fact 2008’s Punisher: War Zone, courtesy of equal pay in Tinseltown advocate Lexi Alexander, that was originally a box office bomb like Tank Girl that has also gained a cult movie status. Meaning, the track record of female-led superhero flicks hasn’t been good and studios (Marvel! Argh…) keep circling back to this to justify Doctor Strange, Black Panther, another Thor sequel, plus another Guardians of the Galaxy before 2019’s Captain Marvel and the in development hell/non-existent (?) Black Widow hit theatres someday.

In this regard, DC Comics, Warner Bros., Zack Snyder, and Geoff Johns, believing in Wonder Woman is unusual and refreshing. How well it does could craft a new future for superhero franchises! A planned Harley Quinn spin-off, a character actor Margot Robbie played close to on fleek in Suicide Squad, that has a writer attached which may or may not have the Birds of Prey/Batgirl in it is equally encouraging. The Hollywood superhero landscape might mirror what I’ve always longed for after the overall reception to 1999’s Blade, 2001’s X-Men, and 2002’s Spider-Man placed comic book adaptations in a mainstay pop culture position: a mixture of female, male, and LGBT heroes getting their chance to shine from a sundry of backgrounds, cultures, religions, and more. Essentially, an exceedingly more balanced reflection of the world we live in that’s been severely lacking forever, ugh.

May Wonder Woman demolish the longstanding myth that female superhero leads don’t sell thanks to its advertising campaigns, writing, acting, editing, visuals, and directing this weekend. That’s my wish. I’ll be checking it out on either Thursday or Friday with one of my nieces. I promised a year and half ago that I’d see it with her. I distinctly remember sitting through previews before the last Hunger Games and her transfixed reaction to that Wonder Woman teaser appearing onscreen. She was psyched. I was psyched! My vow will be fulfilled in the coming days. Of course I want to share this experience with her. It could be wholly transformative. The trailers bring merry tears to my eyes, so, what will the entire thing do to me? To her? Something wondrous (...Sorry) I am hoping. ;’) 

Link to Tank Girl: http://thechurchillreview.tumblr.com/post/154552289293/52filmsbywomen-rachel-talalay-just-saw-tank-girl 

[jc]

Das Beste aus Twitter und Mastodon, August-Edition

Es ist echt viel die­ses Mal. Und es ist sogar was von Mastodon dabei! 🤩

die ers­ten vier stun­den mei­nes arbeits­tags dau­ern meis­tens unge­fähr 7 stun­den und die letz­ten vier stun­den dau­ern dann so etwa 1 stun­de

— es the r seyff­arth (@ojahnn) July 15, 2019

Im Fern­se­hen sagt jemand, er wis­se nicht, war­um wir den Wolf schüt­zen sol­len, das Tier hät­te ja kei­nen posi­ti­ven Effekt. Ich den­ke, das geht vie­len Tie­ren mit der Mensch­heit genau­so.

— Anne Huf­nagl (@Twelectra) July 14, 2019

*hehe..* pic​.twit​ter​.com/​d​t​L​t​b​V​x​CZ6

— Muschel­schloss 💈 (@Muschelschloss) July 15, 2019

Wenn der Mon­tag mor­gen mit Hafer­flo­cken statt Boh­nen in die Kaf­fee­ma­schi­ne schüt­ten star­tet, könn­te die Woche span­nend wer­den. All­seits einen guten Start!

— Kath­rin (@ra_kathrin) July 15, 2019

😁😂😂 pic​.twit​ter​.com/​g​d​0​v​a​y​4​OPK

— Erzy (@erzy666) July 18, 2019

Woll­te mei­ne neue Han­dy­hül­le foto­gra­fie­ren. Den­ke, haha, geht ja gar nicht, die ist ja am Han­dy dran. Na jeden­falls fin­det sich in mei­nem Stamm­baum bestimmt irgend­wo ein Toast­brot.

— Eris (@aenea_jr) July 17, 2019

hege gro­ße bewun­de­rung für freun­din­nen, die sich zu hun­dert pro­zent mit ihrem arbeit­ge­ber iden­ti­fi­zie­ren. ich bin mei­ne eige­ne arbeit­ge­be­rin und schaf­fe nur 95 %. an guten tagen.

— kat­ja­ber­lin (@katjaberlin) July 18, 2019

Peop­le: But the font is too big. Even when chan­ged to the smal­lest set­ting. Old Twit­ter: Not sure how to tell you. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​D​T​K​M​9​9​H​Udt

— Luca Ham­mer (@luca) July 19, 2019

Wir sind zum Kaf­fee und Kuchen bei mei­ner Schwes­ter. Mei­ne Mam­ma nach zehn Minu­ten: “Also, [stellt Espresso­tas­se ab und klopft auf den Tisch] ich wür­de auch mal wie­der ger­ne auf eine Hochzeit!1elf“ Hei­ra­tet jemand von Euch und möch­te mei­ne Mut­ter ein­la­den?

— Anna-Lena Mül­ler (@froileinmueller) July 19, 2019

Was genau ist eigent­lich der Grund dafür, dass man E-Bikes und E-Roller nicht an jeder Later­ne auf­la­den kann? Statt­des­sen wer­den die Rol­ler bzw. Akkus der Räder ein­ge­sam­melt und aus­ge­tauscht. Meis­tens mit Ver­bren­nungs­mo­tor­fahr­zeu­gen.

— Will Sagen (@willsagen) July 20, 2019

Yep, I must be in SF pic​.twit​ter​.com/​J​Z​E​R​6​K​E​xol

— Fran­ti­sek Kusovs­ky (@fkusovsky) July 20, 2019

Erschreckt ihr euch auch immer so, wenn man die Front­ka­me­ra ver­se­hent­lich anmacht?

— 🐿️ Yas­min (@yasmintee) July 20, 2019

„Eines Tages, mein Sohn, wirst Du auf all das hier schei­ßen!“ - der König der Möwen.

— Sascha Bors (@sashbeinacht) July 19, 2019

Ich habe rela­tiv wenig lang­fris­ti­ge Hoff­nung für die Mensch­heit. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​t​o​L​P​o​p​T​F4m

— Grant­scherm (@Grantscheam) July 19, 2019

Stell dir vor du bist Mit­te 50+, hast gera­de wich­ti­ge poli­ti­sche Ämter besetzt und wirst trotz­dem als „Mädel“ bezeich­net, nur damit ein Redak­teur sei­ne lau­si­ge Alli­te­ra­ti­on durch­drü­cken kann. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​Y​U​5​F​T​z​V​xUP

— Nhi Le (@nhile_de) July 18, 2019

„Es ist Ste­fan mit einem F“ - „Okay, mach ich.“ pic​.twit​ter​.com/​U​U​t​T​I​q​e​aQx

— Kath­rin (@Kwalitaet) July 20, 2019

„Seit MeToo wis­sen ver­un­si­cher­te Män­ner nicht mehr, wie sie noch flir­ten kön­nen“ pic​.twit​ter​.com/​R​c​g​a​t​h​v​VLm

— Mar­tin Eimer­ma­cher (@marteimer) July 21, 2019

Kaum ist Boris John­son an der Spit­ze, sucht @c_lindner sei­ne Nähe. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​k​O​N​W​h​d​Z​kzw

— hel­lo­jed (@hellojed) July 23, 2019

An die­ser Stel­le dan­ke ich wie so oft mei­ner Mut­ter, die mal sag­te: „Nur, weil ich plötz­lich ein Kind habe, heißt das doch nicht, dass sich auf ein­mal mein gan­zes Leben nur um die­ses Kind dreht.“ Chillt mal, Leu­te, Klein­kin­der wür­den 24/7 eure Auf­merk­sam­keit haben wol­len. https://t.co/LuEuOg7btg

— Quark­kro­kett­chen (@anneschuessler) July 23, 2019

Nie­mand. NIEMAND! Trägt eine Piz­za hoch­kant spa­zie­ren! pic​.twit​ter​.com/​w​a​l​6​7​6​G​XnC

— •Mut­ter aller Pro­ble­me• (@old_and_grumpy) July 22, 2019

Die­ses Hotel bekommt allei­ne für den Klo­rol­len­hal­ter Plus­punk­te, auf dem man ein Smart­pho­ne able­gen kann. (F. aus dem Hin­ter­grund: „Oder ein Taschen­buch!“ Sicher, Jun­ge.) pic​.twit​ter​.com/​U​6​F​I​P​B​f​OSq

— Anke Grö­ner (@ankegroener) July 24, 2019

Fun Fact: Wrigley‘s Spear­mint hieß in Deutsch­land einst Speer­mint, weil man den Deut­schen die kor­rek­te Aus­spra­che nicht zutrau­te. #Zitrön pic​.twit​ter​.com/​J​E​d​F​s​h​M​JWa

— Nok­ta­ra (@noktara_de) July 22, 2019

Weil mir das Kli­ma wich­tig ist und ich will, dass das Inter­net das weiß, ver­zich­te ich auf den Flug­mo­dus

— Sophie Paß­mann (@SophiePassmann) July 25, 2019

Mir ist gera­de jemand ent­folgt, weil ich ihm gefolgt bin nach­dem er mir gefolgt ist. Auto­ma­ti­sches zurück fol­gen sei scheis­se. Ehr­lich, euch bekommt doch allen die Hit­ze nicht .…

— kasch (@ambrosianuss) July 25, 2019

Ich wur­de eben in einem beruf­li­chen Skype-Gespräch (u.a. mit Teil­neh­mern, die ich nicht kann­te) gebe­ten, auf­zu­ste­hen, um zu bewei­sen, dass ich kei­ne kur­ze Hose tra­ge - wor­auf­hin ich wahr­heits­ge­mäß ant­wor­ten muss­te, dass ich über­haupt kei­ne Hose tra­ge. Dan­ke für nichts, Inter­net.

— Gavin Karl­mei­er (@gavinkarlmeier) July 26, 2019

Ehe­frau: „Wo hast Du denn den Krat­zer am Hals her?„ Ehe­mann: „Ich saß in einem Kajak, als plötz­lich ein See­hund auf­tauch­te und mich mit einem Okto­pus aus­peitsch­te.„ Ehe­frau: „Hältst Du mich eigent­lich für voll­kom­men blö­de?“ pic​.twit​ter​.com/​A​g​q​U​g​x​s​PgS

— Boris N. Moel­lers (@BorisNMoellers) July 26, 2019

Das Wort „Can­tuc­ci­ni“ für das stein­har­te ita­lie­ni­sche Keks­ge­bäck lei­tet sich vom deut­schen „Kant­holz“ ab.

— Topf­rit­te 🦹‍♀️ (@Topfritte) July 27, 2019

Ver­stan­den wer­den pic​.twit​ter​.com/​j​n​d​g​c​P​y​8b5

— islieb? (@Islieb) July 30, 2019

Wenn du zuhau­se aus­ge­zo­gen bist und dei­ne Eltern dich besu­chen. Mama: „Ist das ein Kühl­schrank neben dem Bett?“ Ich: „Ich habe noch kei­ne Nacht­tisch­lam­pe und immer wenn ich Licht brau­che, mache ich die Tür auf und neh­me mir noch ein Bier zum ein­schla­fen.“ Papa: „MEINE GENE!“

— eins­tu­eck­kunst (@einstueckkunst) August 27, 2018

😂 pic​.twit​ter​.com/​0​L​c​7​K​w​I​zpn

— Dank Memes 💎 💎 💎 (@FreeMemesKids) Octo­ber 7, 2018

my bank on pho­ne: we need to veri­fy your iden­ti­ty. me: ok bank: we’re going to text you a secret code. me: ok bank: what’s your num­ber? me: i think i’ve iden­ti­fied a small loo­p­ho­le in your secu­ri­ty

— Chris Coy­ier (@chriscoyier) August 3, 2019

Ste­he vor einem Muse­um in Flo­renz an. Neben mir haben ein Mann und eine Frau ihre Online-Tickets AUSGEDRUCKT und LAMINIERT. Ratet, aus wel­chem Land die bei­den sind.

— Chris­ti­an Huber (@Pokerbeats) August 3, 2019

Über 120 Mil­lio­nen für #Sané fänd ich abso­lut über­trie­ben. Soviel Geld ver­die­nen man­che Men­schen nicht ein­mal in einem Jahr!

— Mül­ler (@gemuellert) August 2, 2019

Was regen sich die Men­schen hier über US-Rindfleisch auf, dass hier nun bes­se­ren Markt­zu­gang erhält. Man muss das nicht kau­fen. So ein­fach. So funk­tio­niert das mit der Frei­heit.

— Sina Trink­wal­der (@manomama) August 4, 2019

Die Beet­les. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​t​r​C​e​W​0​O​yH9

— 🅱️🆄🆂 🅾️🅿️🅰️™ (@Opa_Homie) August 5, 2019

🙄😅 pic​.twit​ter​.com/​m​0​m​Z​P​G​X​cCC

— Gaml. Y (@GY18164253) August 7, 2019

Ich: „Mein Ex-Freund..“ Sie: „Dein Ex-Freund, bist du etwa schwul?“ Ich: „Ja, ich bin schwul und hat­te sogar schon ’ne Bezie­hung mit einem Mann.“ Sie: „Krass, sieht man dir gar nicht an!“ Ich: „Das du dumm bist habe ich auch nicht sofort gese­hen…“

— νᴀɢᴀвυɴᴅ; (@wortgewixxe) August 6, 2019

Haben nun ne Pflan­ze. Hab ihr direkt klar gemacht, dass sie weder auf die Couch noch ins Bett darf. Und raus gehe ich mit ihr höchs­tens 1x/Tag. pic​.twit​ter​.com/​O​E​B​6​c​r​B​I4e

— Mark (@markmueller1979) August 11, 2019

Ich will euch von einem Ein­satz als #Not­arzt erzäh­len, an den ich noch oft zurück­den­ke, der sich heu­te jährt. Auch wenn wir im #Ret­tungs­dienst oft mit #Ster­ben und Tod in Berüh­rung kom­men, macht man dabei die eine oder ande­re „schö­ne“ oder denk­wür­di­ge Erfah­rung. Ein Thread:

— Emer­gen­cy doc (@RMamarvar) August 10, 2019

(Gan­zen Thread lesen!)

I hate pho­ne calls. Like if you’re not rela­ted to me by blood, step away from the pho­ne and send me an email. This isn’t 1997.

— Dr. Moud­hy Al-Rashid (@Moudhy) August 11, 2019

pro­tip: ali­as sudo to „plea­se“ for a much more who­le­so­me unix expe­ri­ence pic​.twit​ter​.com/​L​w​3​h​8​9​R​mXs

— Kate­ri­na Boro­di­na (@kathyra_) August 12, 2019

Wel­tenz­er­stö­rer pic​.twit​ter​.com/​2​9​y​Y​K​I​B​8zh

— 【ツ】 (@FelixBonn) August 13, 2019

I lear­ned new things. Thread 👇 https://t.co/vGTXuTCvM9

— Mar­cus John Hen­ry Brown (@MarcusJHBrown) August 14, 2019

Na klar haben wir in Deutsch­land eine Mei­nungs­dik­ta­tur. In der ers­ten Klas­se hat­te ich die Mei­nung, 3+4=8. Schon damals hat der Leh­rer mei­ne freie Mei­nung unter­drückt und sie mir ver­bo­ten.

— Bert­hold Kog­ge (@BertholdKogge) August 14, 2019

„meow, mother­fu­ckers“ 📹: https://t.co/gap8tF0nHt pic​.twit​ter​.com/​9​k​O​F​9​G​Q​5yi

— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 13, 2019

🐥 pic​.twit​ter​.com/​3​k​Z​i​2​5​g​GGh

— Lean­der Wat­tig (@leanderwattig) August 13, 2019

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