#but absolutely worth the read

[chadsuke]

Books Read in 2022:

Kino’s Journey Volume 1 by Keiichi Sigsawa (2000)

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (2017)

This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion (2019)

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (2007)

Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino (2022)

No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein (2017)

The Remedy: Queer and Trains Voices on Health and Health Care edited by Zena Sharman (2016)

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor (2015)

A Cruelty Special to Our Specials: Poems by Emily Jungmin Yoon (2018)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

#2022media #gigi.txt #kino's journey is a fantastic light novel series 10/10 rec #radium girls was an easy read that i devoured. i vaguely knew abt this but not details. #really set the groundwork for workers rights and just. god i wish i could personally murder all the higher ups #this is not a drill is insanely liberal #'uwu we're above politics and choose our messaging to not piss off/recruit conservatives but we're anarchists guys!!!' #shut the fuck up shut the fuck up don't bother with that one #rev not funded was a very dense read it took me forever to finish but quite good #even if parts were over my head #no is not enough... existed? i didn't really. come away with anything. #maybe if i had read her other books first and/or read this when it came out it would've meant more #but in 2022 its. shrug.jpg #the remedy was good! lots of different perspectives and things i didn't think about #oh forgot eating to extinction i LOOOOOVED that one and it introduced me to a lot of new books and organizations loved it loved it #beasts of burden was very good and made me think a lot. dont necessarily agree w/ everything #but absolutely worth the read #cruelty special i read in one sitting its dark but so. so so good.

[psipudding]

Im kinda sad that the dungeon meshi anime misses out on the extra tidbits, monsters, and lore that the manga got

like this one:

words can't do this drawing justice

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #spoilers i guess? the manga is there and is absolutely worth reading instead of waiting on the anime to catch up

[heritageposts]

As a Black South African, watching these horrific events unfold, I cannot but reflect on my country’s own violent past. I recall the relentless planning and violence that accompanied the last decades of white South Africa’s attempts to make apartheid work. I remember the fears that grew among white South Africans as they put their trust in a sophisticated military capability, a conscription army, a nuclear weapons capacity and steadfast friends in the West, particularly the United States, Britain and France. It was the height of the Cold War and South Africa claimed to be the only democracy in Southern Africa, protecting “civilisation” from the encroaching threats surrounding it. Its military might and expansive police force were accompanied by a series of policies designed to maintain white minority rule. Each attempt to impose new such policies failed in the face of mass resistance. The more they failed, the more brutal the violence meted out by the military and the police with the encouragement of white politicians and a terrified white electorate. The “terrorists”, as the national liberation movements were referred to, could not be crushed by the mightiest army in Southern Africa. By mid-1985 a significant section of the white electorate and some in the ruling party realised that the problem of Black resistance was not going to go away. Something more drastic was going to be required.

. . . continues at Al Jazeera (16 Nov 2023)

#palestine #israel #gaza #suren pillay #it's absolutely worth reading the whole thing

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Yuuki Bakuhatsu Bang Bravern Artist: Kamo Kamen Publication: Animage Magazine (05/2024) Source: Scanned from personal my collection

#yuuki bakuhatsu bang bravern #bang brave bang bravern #bravern #勇気爆発バーンブレイバーン #ao isami #lewis smith #kamo kamen #kamen kamo #scan: howaterandmilk #animage #20s anime #mecha anime #super special treat! #i don't do a lot of recent series scans #but i just got around to reading this feature in animage #and i had to share this piece by kamo #highly recommend buying the magazine #and everything else bravern-related #absolutely worth it

[cactus-juiceee]

“See, I told you. We’d have been good friends, I think.”

#HOLY SHIT #i have been trying to draw this scene since I read it in. december of last year #ive started it over from scratch three times and it finally feels right #but all worth it this is vying for my absolute favorite scene in the entire novel #weheheh and im v happy with the colors and textures so #this was a lot of fun #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoo sangah #kim dokja #cactusjuiceart

[batbunker]

Dick Grayson & Garfield Logan in Action Comics (2016) #1051

#dc comics #dick grayson #nightwing #beast boy #teen titans #garfield logan #tuesday spoilers #*panel #I'm sorry these are absolutely horrible crops but the panels were VERY busy #Go read the comic for yourself its worth it for this story alone

[bloobydabloob]

My part of an art trade with @tauriborns. I had a ton of fun, thank you for the art trade brother.

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #gamzee makara #hs fanart #I know I said it in image but I think that Gamzee would just be the cutest little kid ever. #He’s the kind of kid that you meet at the neighborhood party #and he’s sitting in the corner just staring at the toy trucks. He’s not even playing with them #and you go up to him to see if he wants to play a game… but he doesn’t. Hes just having so much fun staring at his toy trucks #(not playing). #So you join him in staring. #At one point he drops some unknown and wise knowledge on you. That kind of kid #Hyper specific but whatever #Thank you for the art trade. #Your part was absolutely great #Please go check them out if you’re reading this far #It’s worth your time. Trust #blooby posting

[buck2eddie]

quote from “but i can see all along, love (it was you all the way down)” // written by @captain-hen

#ok this took like 3 hours BUT TOTALLY WORTH IT #yes i am obsessed with this fic if you could not tell #absolutely incredible i recommend EVERYONE read it #had yo make something and decided to go for buck's /oh/ moment cause it was truly my favorite #neethu i hope you like this <3 please accept my humble gift as appreciation #for you writing this incredible fic and sharing it with us all <3 #ok mwah im going to eat now im so hungry ajsgsgsk #buddie #buddie fic #buddieedit #911 #911 abc #911edit #m*edits

[cuntbrow]

banging my head against the wall. aziraphale you are a purveyor and a passionate lover of the written word. COMPLETE YOUR SENTENCES YOUR DEMON THINKS YOU SLEPT WITH ANOTHER WOMAN 😭

#they can't take shit as said in this juncture u are in middle of divorce 😭 #its the 'don't you dare anthony me you absolute—' from crowley for me he was about to start THROWING PLATES like a scorned lover im CACKLIN #reading this during my seminar + class combo is soooo worth it maddie you've done it again!!! #good omens #hdwtotl #fic rec #ysa.txt

[deoidesign]

Wait wait wait, I saw in your tags that's Time and Time Again is ending soon? But I've only just found it! (through the animation you did, it and your comic are so well done)

Ah, yeah.

So by "soon" I really mean "sooner than I think I would like" and it feels much sooner to me as the writer than I think it will to you all as the readers.

But, Time and Time Again is pretty much exactly 2/3 of the way through right now. Webtoon gave me the end date before I even finished my first season, and I've been trying to fit in all the things I wanted to get into the story before it ends...

It's why my hiatus has been taking so long, I'm trying to write to get as many moments and as much development as I possibly can, with really limited time! And... also admittedly to prolong how much longer it's sort of "around" in my life.

Because I know once it is over, I'll move on to the next comic! and 3 years just doesn't feel long enough to have Adam and Steve in my life haha

But, yeah. it's getting "close" in a way that it's starting to make me sad. like this time next year it'll probably be over.

It's okay of course, it's the nature of stories that they will end. I'm working really hard to make it satisfying despite Everything, and I'm really proud of everything I've done so far.

And my next comic will be even better for what I've learned here!

So, sorry to everyone, but I promise I'm gonna make it worth it.

#also my next comic I think I'm not going to do with webtoon #it is a massive massive risk #and I will seriously need people's like. actual monetary support to do it #which feels bad because I like making comics for free #ITS GONNA BE FREE TO READ #I just mean like having pressure on my audience to pay me to keep my comics going #but it's sorta just the unfortunate reality of things that like #I'm working for webtoon because they pay me #they don't do anything else for me really #if anything they sorta bring me down HAHAHAH #not. that's a whole other rant but. it's fine it's a work relationship. with a corporation. #BUT YEAH #I've really enjoyed getting to make a comic and put it out there for free and not need to beg people to support me to create it #that's been an absolute dream #but to continue that dream to deliver stories to people on THEIR terms #where the comic doesnt get ended too early #and I dont have to put my foot down to include trans characters #and all that shit #I think if it works. it will be worth it #but FUCK it is a huge risk HAHAHAHAHAHAH #pre-emptively asking you guys to be prepared for that future hahahahahahaha #asks #key-the-kitty

[crispycreambacon]

Keep Yourself Safe!

Disclaimer: This poster is not sponsored by NordVPN. I hate sponsors.

#I had so much fun with this!! except for the typography I salute all typographists I am at my hands and knees how did y'all do it #that Keep Yourself Safe joke has not left my mind since I watched that advert. my mind. 70s Jazz!Ryan would absolutely say that #I delayed reading Dracula just for this #Was it worth it. Hm. Debatable #But I definitely wanted to draw this so there's that #ryan bergara #mystery files #watcher #watcher entertainment #watcher fanart #we are watcher #art #artists on tumblr #fanart #chris p fried art #bright colours #tw bright colors

[kopykunoichi]

No thoughts in my head, just them.

Left column: chapters 47, 62, 98

Center column: chapters 137, 175, 175

Right column: chapters 201, 225, 225

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #son hak #princess yona #yonak #don't mind me - just resurfacing after re-reading my favorite manga to leave this here #evolution of a kiss #slowest slow burn in history #but it's so worth it #the kiss where she was passing water into his mouth because of the smoke is still my favorite #hak was THIRSTY and it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the building was on fire #is it a cliché trope? yes it is. do i care? no i do not. #it works on me every damn time #also...it's been 27 chapters since these two made out...which far too long #literally it's been a year and a half... #also it will never not amuse me that she was the first one to kiss him on the lips #he was working his way down from her forehead to the bridge of her nose to her cheek... #and the next time they kiss she just grabs him and assaults his mouth #technically she also initiated the second “kiss” on the lips when she chose that method to give him water #get it girl

[ctl-yuejie]

a taste

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #mark pakin #papang phromphiriya #i am obsessed with how good papang is #trust me to read too much into it but to me he clearly has an idea who 30 sth year old Dan is #seemingly out of the dating scene since at least his graduation so doesn't know the current lingo #feeling a bit too old but also unsure how he likes being called old but hot #very charmed by this junior but not used anymore to getting butterflies in a club #lowkey knows that the boss thing might be a bit hmm... #(listen: i love that again the show doesn't give us a clear line of 'dan is a creep' because there is a lot of room for him to essentially #be a good option for nick as well as the possibility of accidentally acting unethical) especially within the community it is worth to #observe whether the power imbalance on its own speaks against the person #he's also a bit shy wondering whether this cute guy would actually be interested in him because he is sweet and obviously aquainted with #going to bars so surely he must have options #and mark is also so wonderful ;A; even before he spots boston you can see that there is still some heartbreak lingering #but also that he liked the kiss but it was a very different feel to boston #also: somehow papang in mlc and papang here kisses absolutely differently and it makes so much sense to me that he at this point in his #life would kiss like this?? idk how to explain it better #this show continues to bring out the best acting out of everyone #(to derail: maybe why i want the writing for top to be that he's still in the grey so badly because i think that is the kind of difficult #acting force is actually mastering in this series)

[lucradiss]

Existing in more than one fandom space is like having more than one group of friends but both of them being so wildly different that any overlap at all would be like getting shot in the head

#like there are things that I would consider writing for House MD or Saw but not for Lord of the Rings you know #Same goes for reading #it's like how you have two personalities for your friend groups #and you make a joke that would absolutely score in friend group A #but friend group B just stares at you weird #like in LOTR or The Hobbit fandom I am so used to gentleness and care all around #Characters that love each other against the odds #but with House it's like #yeah these two men hate each other with everything they're worth #yeah they're so codependent that they would literally die for each other #yeah they have freaknasty sex on the regular #yeah i would talk for hours about their omegaverse dynamic #then saw is kind of similar to House in a few ways but fundamentally different because the love there is borne from such tragedy #or in AUs it's love at first sight #and you have these two men who are so so so different #and want desperately to take care of each other #THOSE DYNAMICS DON'T WORK FOR HOUSE OR FOR THE HOBBIT #I would never write House and Wilson lovey-dovey and caring just like I would never write Thorin and Bilbo engaging in pet-play #Anyway. anyway. #hilson #house md #thilbo #the hobbit #Saw #sawposting #chainshipping #fandom

[spicyraeman]

I have done absolutely nothing productive in the last two days... on an unrelated note I have finished reading the entirety of dungeon meshi

#I legit can't even remember the last time I read a manga #It was soooo fuckin good #absolutely worth the binge read

[mayakern]

me and my editor are making SUCH good headway with the spitfire edit and it is honestly killing me that i can’t share it with y’all bc it is so good!!!!!!!!

also obviously knock on wood but we’re hoping to have the first book (i.e. first half of legacy spitfire) edited and ready for submission in early 2024, hopefully by end of january but i don’t wanna get ahead of myself

#maya rambles #spitfire #this editing process has been mega cursed due to me n my editor playing hot potato w who was dealing w a health or family crisis #but fuck if the edit isnt good #its SO good yall!!!!!! #ugh im so excited #when ppl asked me before if they should read spitfire as is or wait for the edit i always noodled before bc tradpub just takes so damn long #but imo the edit is absolutely worth waiting for #im so pumped about it i love it so fucking much