#Friday Black

[agentravensong]

ever since jacob geller released his video on time loop nihilism, i’ve wanted to read the short story he discusses at the end of it. well, on saturday, i went to a few different local-ish bookstores and just happened to finally find a copy of the collection that short story is from at one of them. and over the past few nights i’ve been going through it, and i just finished it

and that’s all just a preamble to me saying you should read “friday black” by nana kwame adjei-brenyah. the time loop story, “through the flash”, is the last one, and it really is something special (flowey-asriel fans you will eat this shit up), but the rest of the collection is too. mostly speculative fiction stories that take a strong concept and go all in on it; all have very strong and distinct character voices, and the emotions are sometimes subtle, sometimes bombastic, but always raw and hard-hitting. already looking forward to rereading it.

#friday black #book recs

[jessaerys]

oh i forgot to log that i finished friday black by nana kwame adjei brenyah! lil short story anthology that is caustic and so angry yet full of tenderness. hard to choose a favorite but i specially liked the finkelstein 5, the hospital where, light spitter and through the flash. the talking fetus one was the weakest imo. highly recommend

#nana kwame adjei brenyah #friday black #allegedly reading

[nerves-nebula]

haha me after reading the first short story in friday black :)))) this book is going to do unthinkable things to me and im so excited

#friday black #books #nnstuff #rambling

[librofm]

Short Story Collections I like: part 3

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Racism in America is the paint, but the images the author creates are so personal and imaginative that I got totally wrapped up in the world. Friday Black turned out to be the perfect appetizer to Chain Gang All Stars (also so good)

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Excellent scifi-ish mind bender, except there’s a super self absorbed guy in one of the stories that I related to wayyyy too much. Thanks a lot Ted. Also the movie Arrival is based on the titular story.

#short stories #Friday Black #Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah #Chain Gang All Stars #Stories of Your Life and Others #Ted Chiang #Arrival #audiobooks #librofm

[thehappyscavenger]

Books Read May 2023

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

I keep hearing great things about Riley who I think is way better known in the UK than in North America. I believe My Phantoms was more of a crossover hit. It’s about the narrator, a middle aged London woman, and her awkward semi-estranged relationship, especially with her mother. It reminded me a lot of My Name is Lucy Barton in that the trauma is kind of vague but there is this nostalgic sense of pain overlaying the whole thing. Really liked this.

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban

Loved this. It’s about two middle-aged strangers in London, a lonely book seller and a lonely children’s book author, who each come to the conclusion they need to free the turtles at the London aquarium. Short and sweet and sharp. Hoban isn’t a writer I’ve heard of before this but apparently he’s pretty well know in the U.K. Will def be reading more of him.

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

A fictional biography of the artist X written by her widow, journalist C.M. Lucca. I had some mixed thought mostly positive feelings about this one. The background is an alternate history of the U.S. imagining a world in which the South willing segregated and the North became more liberal which I found fascinating. What didn’t work for me was Lacey re-purposing some real artists quotes to build up X, an iconoclastic artist. It was a bit weird to see quites I understood used like that. Still worth a read. Also my first book of 2023 that was published in 2023. 

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

LOVED THIS. A set of speculative fiction stories set in America. These are dark and often funny. I was kind of surprised I never heard of this before (I discovered this on a whats that book reddit post) and it was an NYT best seller. Totally up my alley. 

Search by Michelle Huneven

This is a fictionalized memoir supposedly written by a fictional memoirist and food critic as she joined her Universalist Unitarian’s search committee for a new minister. I thought this would be cuter than it was, about found family and oddballs but it’s something darker and more complex than that, about how groups are flawed, change is slow, and not everyone has pure intentions. Very interesting. I will be picking up more of Huneven for sure. 

An amazing month for reading choices! Possibly my best of 2023. 

#My Phantoms #currently reading #Gwendoline Riley #Turtle Diary #Russell Hoban #Biography of X #Catherine Lacey #Friday Black #Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah #Search #Michelle Huneven

[rozecrest]

read this book. it’s good

#still thinking about it it’s scrambled me. i’ll pitch it later #friday black #chats

[someguyiguess]

pro insider tips for black friday from a retail worker

stay home

stay home

stay home

stay home

stay home

stay home

stay home

dont even think about going to a store

#black friday

[februarys-wednesday]

starkid fans when they see Normal Man and his Barista Crush onscreen for 0.5 seconds:

#im starkid fans btw #like i screamed out loud when i saw them in npmd #i'll never get sick of them #starkid #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #npmd #starkid npmd #nerdy prudes must die #emma perkins #paul matthews #lauren lopez #jon matteson #theatreposting #elle's original content

[harmonizingsunsets]

Running Gags in Hatchetfield Musicals pt 5 | Smoke Club

#hatchetfield #tgwdlm #Black Friday #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #npmd spoilers #the guy who didn't like musicals #StarKid #hatchetfield musicals #Alex foster #hannah foster #max jagerman #alice woodward #team StarKid #starkid npmd

[chroma-imp-draws]

#digital art #original art #digital sketchbook #sketch #black cat #friday 13th #black kitty is good luck because it means you get to see a kitty 🖤

[crapload-of-crafts]

The complete Hatchetfield-verse poster set

All of these are up on my Redbubble if you would like to buy a sticker or poster of these designs!!!

#art #digital art #procreate #fanart #starkid #lords in black #black friday #the guy who didn't like musicals #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #nerdy prudes must die #tgwdlm #not #bf #nmt2 #npmd #posters #starkid fanart #the church of starry children #musicals #horror comedy #hatchetfieldverse #hatchefield #pokey #wiggly #blinky #tinky #nibbly

[damnthosedoldrumsarebanging]

Grace Chastity is the most character ever.

She is 18 years of age and thinks carrying books is equivalent to sex, she’s got the school bully wrapped around her finger and doesn’t even know it, she announced her desire for anal at the dinner table, she wanted to fuck the quarterback so bad she decided to ruin his social status instead and accidentally murdered him, she can bury a body well, she refuses to swear, she’s held several people at gunpoint, the first time she swore she called god a son of a bitch, her chastity is the most important thing to her, she lost her virginity to a ghost, she doesn’t even drink caffeine and instead has warm water, she consumes the souls of men after making a deal with eldritch horrors.

GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GRACE CHASTITY I GET WHY BILL WANTED ALICE TO DATE SOMEONE LIKE HER

#nerdy prudes must die #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday #starkid #grace chasity #musicals #gaslight gatekeep girlboss

[ghostface-knight]

i've got some big news for the person who left this comment on the black friday trailer

#they predicted nerdy prudes #i hope they're still and fan and got to see the day their vision was fulfilled #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #tgwdlm #hot chocolate boy #peter spankoffski #pete spankoffski #black friday musical #starkid

[nerves-nebula]

i need to keep reading Friday Black. Black horror is literally so fucking healing.

#nnstuff #rambling #Friday black #I only read the first story and it was so good

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

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#FAT BEAR week #bears #brown bears #polar bears #fat bear friday #grizzly bear #black bear #bear cubs

[ren-is-real]

HATCHETFEILD TRIO

Woah man NPMD made me actually lose it with hyperfixation so here’s the musical trio raghhh!!!!!

I was watching nightmare time for the first time while drawing these and I had to pause for a day to process jane’s a car because what the fuck guys

#npmd spoilers #npmd #starkid npmd #npmd richie #npmd fanart #starkid #starkid fanart #jon matteson #fanart #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #wiggly #wiggog y'wrath #paul matthews #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #this is a lot of tags #black friday #nerdy prudes must die #nerdy prudes spoilers #paulkins #grace chasity