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musicboxghost · 3 months
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The romances in White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton = Hide by Rainbow Kitten Surprise
The romance in Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots = Vampire Empire by Big Thief
Feel free to message and geek out about these books if you know them ❤️ Book fandoms are tiny but my love for them is immense.
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I find the number of reviews and posts about Hench to be really interesting - so many people feel like there is something unresolved between Anna and Leviathan (and there totally is, but imo it's just not what people think is unresolved). There's definitely still some unresolved disagreement: there's some...not resentment, exactly, from Anna (resentment is a little too strong) but she's left annoyed about the whole thing, and Leviathan still needs to further address that *and* get out of his own head and trust her.
A lot of people are sad they didn't kiss at the end, or that their feelings for each other are somehow up in the air, but I think the ending fit. They do know where they stand with one another. They're just taking it (painfully) slow.
Usually a kiss is a stand in for characters A and B showing they love one another, and are on the same page. It's used as a clear neon signal of mutual interest and agreement over that interest. This usually happens when either the characters are confused over how the other feels (but the reader is appraised of how at least one feels), one character has been hiding the extent of their feelings from the other, or there's been a slow buildup of flirtatious banter and actions but nothing confirmed/out in the open.
Anna and Leviathan already know how the other feels about them. No one's been hiding it - Anna even says as such to Decohedrence. She doesn't need to speculate. She loves him, he feels the same for her, and she enjoys that. And while I can't claim to be in Leviathan's head, his attempts at an apology, his assurances he'd trust her plans from now on, and the gesture of rebuilding her office first, seem to prove he's trying to secure and maintain the relationship in the best way he knows how. I choose to believe that means he also enjoys knowing how she feels about him.
So - they do love one another, and are on the same page about it, so why no kiss? Lots of reasons, including: a track record of not really trusting people (Leviathan), heaps of physical and emotional trauma (both of them but make it a double for Leviathan), and the fact that I would bet actual real money that Leviathan is ace. They're literally just trying to figure out how to exist in the same space together with these feelings hanging out there. Things like casually touching each other, assuring the other when someone is worried (Leviathan seemed genuinely surprised when Anna said she was worried about him, and not all of that is ego), being informal with each other - this is the level they are currently trying to navigate. In the end scene Anna reaches for his hand and stops just before touching him, presumably to let him have control over that final barrier, to make the choice if he wants to be touched. If they are still navigating touching hands, they are not ready for kissing. (But I can't fucking wait until they are)
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As promised, here is Anna Tromedlov! Honestly, it’s not fully rendered and probably never will be, but I just wanted to get it out there. This is after her Kidnapped, but hopefully I’ll be able to draw her happier soon. She…does not like it. Again, I didn’t really know how to visualize her, and this is what popped out. Honestly I wasn’t even sure what her eye color was, what’s weird is this took like 2 hours, but the Leviathan drawing took 4 and a half
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disabled-dragoon · 8 months
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The Disability Library
I love books, I love literature, and I love this blog, but it's only been recently that I've really been given the option to explore disabled literature, and I hate that. When I was a kid, all I wanted was to be able to read about characters like me, and now as an adult, all I want is to be able to read a book that takes us seriously.
And so, friends, Romans, countrymen, I present, a special disability and chronic illness booklist, compiled by myself and through the contributions of wonderful members from this site!
As always, if there are any at all that you want me to add, please just say. I'm always looking for more!
Edit 20/10/2023: You can now suggest books using the google form at the bottom!
Updated: 31/08/2023
Articles and Chapters
The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, Essaka Joshua, 2012
Early Modern Literature and Disability Studies, Allison P. Hobgood, David Houston Wood, 2017
How Do You Develop Whole Object Relations as an Adult?, Elinor Greenburg, 2019
Making Do with What You Don't Have: Disabled Black Motherhood in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Anna Hinton, 2018
Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2003 OR Necropolitics, Achille Mbeme, 2019
Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts, Zygmunt Bauman, 2004
Witchcraft and deformity in early modern English Literature, Scott Eaton, 2020
Books
Fiction:
Misc:
10 Things I Can See From Here, Carrie Mac
A-F:
A Curse So Dark and Lonely, (Series), Brigid Kemmerer
Akata Witch, (Series), Nnedi Okorafor
A Mango-Shaped Space, Wendy Mass
Ancillary Justice, (Series), Ann Leckie
An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon
An Unseen Attraction, (Series), K. J. Charles
A Shot in the Dark, Victoria Lee
A Snicker of Magic, Natalie Lloyd
A Song of Ice and Fire, (series), George R. R. Martin
A Spindle Splintered, (Series), Alix E. Harrow
A Time to Dance, Padma Venkatraman
Bath Haus, P. J. Vernon
Beasts of Prey, (Series), Ayana Gray
The Bedlam Stacks, (Series), Natasha Pulley
Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack
Black Sun, (Series), Rebecca Roanhorse
Blood Price, (Series), Tanya Huff
Borderline, (Series), Mishell Baker
Breath, Donna Jo Napoli
The Broken Kingdoms, (Series), N.K. Jemisin
Brute, Kim Fielding
Cafe con Lychee, Emery Lee
Carry the Ocean, (Series), Heidi Cullinan
Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman
Cinder, (Series), Marissa Meyer
Clean, Amy Reed
Connection Error, (Series), Annabeth Albert
Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star, Laura Noakes
Crazy, Benjamin Lebert
Crooked Kingdom, (Series), Leigh Bardugo
Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots, (Series), Cat Sebastian
Daniel, Deconstructed, James Ramos
Dead in the Garden, (Series), Dahlia Donovan
Dear Fang, With Love, Rufi Thorpe
Deathless Divide, (Series), Justina Ireland
The Degenerates, J. Albert Mann
The Doctor's Discretion, E.E. Ottoman
Earth Girl, (Series), Janet Edwards
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Emily R. Austin
The Extraordinaries, (Series), T. J. Klune
The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, (Series), Trenton Lee Stewart
Fight + Flight, Jules Machias
The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix
Finding My Voice, (Series), Aoife Dooley
The First Thing About You, Chaz Hayden
Follow My Leader, James B. Garfield
Forever Is Now, Mariama J. Lockington
Fortune Favours the Dead, (Series), Stephen Spotswood
Fresh, Margot Wood
H-0:
Harmony, London Price
Harrow the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir
Hench, (Series), Natalia Zina Walschots
Highly Illogical Behaviour, John Corey Whaley
Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers
How to Become a Planet, Nicole Melleby
How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager, (Series), D. N. Bryn
How to Sell Your Blood & Fall in Love, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites, Joy Demorra
I Am Not Alone, Francisco X. Stork
The Immeasurable Depth of You, Maria Ingrande Mora
In the Ring, Sierra Isley
Into The Drowning Deep, (Series), Mira Grant
Iron Widow, (Series), Xiran Jay Zhao
Izzy at the End of the World, K. A. Reynolds
Jodie's Journey, Colin Thiele
Just by Looking at Him, Ryan O'Connell
Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Spencer Hesser
Lakelore, Anna-Marie McLemore
Learning Curves, (Series), Ceillie Simkiss
Let's Call It a Doomsday, Katie Henry
The Library of the Dead, (Series), TL Huchu
The Lion Hunter, (Series), Elizabeth Wein
Lirael, (Series), Garth Nix
Long Macchiatos and Monsters, Alison Evans
Love from A to Z, (Series), S.K. Ali
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Never Tilting World, (Series), Rin Chupeco
The No-Girlfriend Rule, Christen Randall
Nona the Ninth, (series), Tamsyn Muir
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor
Odder Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Once Stolen, (Series), D. N. Bryn
One For All, Lillie Lainoff
On the Edge of Gone, Corinne Duyvis
Origami Striptease, Peggy Munson
Our Bloody Pearl, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper
P-T:
Parable of the Sower, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents, (Series), Octavia E. Butler
Percy Jackson & the Olympians, (series), Rick Riordan
Pomegranate, Helen Elaine Lee
The Prey of Gods, Nicky Drayden
The Pursuit Of..., (Series), Courtney Milan
The Queen's Thief, (Series), Megan Whalen Turner
The Quiet and the Loud, Helena Fox
The Raging Quiet, Sheryl Jordan
The Reanimator's Heart, (Series), Kara Jorgensen
The Remaking of Corbin Wale, Joan Parrish
Roll with It, (Series), Jamie Sumner
Russian Doll, (Series), Cristelle Comby
The Second Mango, (Series), Shira Glassman
Scar of the Bamboo Leaf, Sieni A.M
Shaman, (Series), Noah Gordon
Sick Kids in Love, Hannah Moskowitz
The Silent Boy, Lois Lowry
Six of Crows, (Series) Leigh Bardugo
Sizzle Reel, Carlyn Greenwald
The Spare Man, Mary Robinette Kowal
The Stagsblood Prince, (Series), Gideon E. Wood
Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really, (Series), RoAnna Sylver
Stars in Your Eyes, Kacen Callender [Expected release: Oct 2023]
The Storm Runner, (Series), J. C. Cervantes
Stronger Still, (Series), D. N. Bryn
Sweetblood, Pete Hautman
Tarnished Are the Stars, Rosiee Thor
The Theft of Sunlight, (Series), Intisar Khanani
Throwaway Girls, Andrea Contos
Top Ten, Katie Cotugno
Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Treasure, Rebekah Weatherspoon
Turtles All the Way Down, John Green
U-Z:
Unlicensed Delivery, Will Soulsby-McCreath Expected release October 2023
Verona Comics, Jennifer Dugan
Vorkosigan Saga, (Series), Lois McMaster Bujold
We Are the Ants, (Series), Shaun David Hutchinson
The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf
Whip, Stir and Serve, Caitlyn Frost and Henry Drake
The Whispering Dark, Kelly Andrew
Wicked Sweet, Chelsea M. Cameron
Wonder, (Series), R. J. Palacio
Wrong to Need You, (Series), Alisha Rai
Ziggy, Stardust and Me, James Brandon
Graphic Novels:
A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability, (Non-Fiction), A. Andrews
Constellations, Kate Glasheen
Dancing After TEN: a graphic memoir, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber
Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Jason Adam Katzenstein
Frankie's World: A Graphic Novel, (Series), Aoife Dooley
The Golden Hour, Niki Smith
Nimona, N. D. Stevenson
The Third Person, (memoir) (Non-Fiction), Emma Grove
Magazines and Anthologies:
Artificial Divide, (Anthology), Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175: Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds, (Article), R. B. Lemburg
Defying Doomsday, (Anthology), edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, (short story) (anthology), Seiko Tanabe
Nothing Without Us, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
Nothing Without Us Too, edited by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson
Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, (Anthology), edited by Marieke Nijkamp
Uncanny #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, (Anthology), edited by: Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Dominik Parisien et al.
Uncanny #30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy, (Anthology), edited by: Nicolette Barischoff, Lisa M. Bradley, Katharine Duckett
We Shall Be Monsters, edited by Derek Newman-Stille
Manga:
Perfect World, (Series), Rie Aruga
The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud, (Short Stories), Kuniko Tsurita
Non-Fiction:
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Timothy Dolmage
A Disability History of the United States, Kim E, Nielsen
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access, David Gissen
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism, Elsa Sjunneson
Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk
Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations: The Pursuit of Love, Admiration, and Safety, Dr. Elinor Greenburg
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability, Barker, Clare and Stuart Murray, editors.
The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, Stacy Clifford Simplican
Capitalism and Disability, Martha Russel
Care work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism: A Psycho-Ecological Approach, Dr Amitta Shah
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esme Weijun Wang
Crip Kinship, Shayda Kafai
Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, Jules Sherred
Culture – Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, Anne Waldschmidt, Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition, Liat Ben-Moshe
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World, Ben Mattlin
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space, Amanda Leduc
Every Cripple a Superhero, Christoph Keller
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Eli Clare
Feminist Queer Crip, Alison Kafer
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Growing Up Disabled in Australia, Carly Findlay
It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability, Kelly Davio
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Language Deprivation & Deaf Mental Health, Neil S. Glickman, Wyatte C. Hall
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, Elizabeth Barnes
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires: Lessons for Healing in a World That Is Sick, Lyndsey Medford
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Sarah F. Rose
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton
The Pedagogy of Pathologization Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus, Subini Ancy Annamma
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, Essaka Joshua
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Raymond Luczak, Editor.
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir K. Puar
Sitting Pretty, (memoir), Rebecca Taussig
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black & Deaf in the South, Mary Herring Wright
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms, Ilana Jacqueline
The Things We Don't Say: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Truths, Julie Morgenlender
Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability, Scott T. Smith, José Alaniz 
Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman, (memoir), Laura Kate Dale
Unmasking Autism, Devon Price
The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe, Ellen Clifford
We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, Eliza Hull
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, (memoir) (essays) Alice Wong
Picture Books:
A Day With No Words, Tiffany Hammond, Kate Cosgrove-
A Friend for Henry, Jenn Bailey, Mika Song
Ali and the Sea Stars, Ali Stroker, Gillian Reid
All Are Welcome, Alexandra Penfold, Suzanne Kaufman
All the Way to the Top, Annette Bay Pimentel, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, Nabi Ali
Can Bears Ski?, Raymond Antrobus, Polly Dunbar
Different -- A Great Thing to Be!, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga
Everyone Belongs, Heather Alvis, Sarah Mensinga
I Talk Like a River, Jordan Scott, Sydney Smith
Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream, K. T. Johnson, Anabella Ortiz
Just Ask!, Sonia Sotomayor, Rafael López
Kami and the Yaks, Andrea Stenn Stryer, Bert Dodson
My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay, Cari Best, Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, Jessica Kensky, Patrick Downes, Scott Magoon
Sam's Super Seats, Keah Brown, Sharee Miller
Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster, Manka Kasha
We Move Together, Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Eduardo Trejos
We're Different, We're the Same, and We're All Wonderful!, Bobbi Jane Kates, Joe Mathieu
What Happened to You?, James Catchpole, Karen George
The World Needs More Purple People, Kristen Bell, Benjamin Hart, Daniel Wiseman
You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso
You Are Loved: A Book About Families, Margaret O'Hair, Sofia Sanchez, Sofia Cardoso
The You Kind of Kind, Nina West, Hayden Evans
Zoom!, Robert Munsch, Michael Martchenko
Plays:
Peeling, Kate O'Reilly
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ladyhawke · 1 year
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CHARLIE VICKERS photographed by Anna Zina for ODDA Magazine, December 2022.
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How many timelines are there in this game? I know there are at least two (the current game as you play it, and the previous one Miss Direction sees where Fern was the protagonist and got to the grand finale) - but the wiki mentions that Zina sealed away Giratina and became Dreamsick “two timelines removed” from the current one, and so I thought there must be three. However, if so, I am not sure what happens differently in the first timeline compared to the second timeline (assuming that the current timeline/the game as we play it is the third one), or how far the first timeline gets/how it got reset. Is it possible to ask for clarification?
You've got the right idea! It's just three. Reality tries really hard to not get itself stuck in loops so every time there's a divergence it makes sure that can't happen again. First Giratina messed stuff up, so Zina fixed it. Then Lin messed stuff up, so Anna fixed it-- at the cost of Nostra and Euphie. Now we're on the Third.
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Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
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Today's sapphic book of the day is Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots!
Summary: "Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy?
 As a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured.  And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one.
So, of course, then she gets laid off.
With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.
Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing.  And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance.
It’s not too long before she’s employed once more, this time by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable lieutenant, she might just save the world.
A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial office politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound misunderstanding of quantum mechanics."
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fandom-geek · 1 year
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just finished reading hench by natalie zina walschots and fuck, i really just adored it.
massive shoutout to askamanager bringing this book to my awareness by publicly recommending a fanfic of hench on her blog bc it used the askamanager format. fucking delightful on all fronts.
i also have two observations (largely spoiler free):
listening to flesh and bone by black math for the last 47% (going by kindle) of the book was just perfect. perfect for the sheer fury and desperation going on.
i fucking called the nature of anna's relationship with leviathan almost as soon as they met (i know, foreshadowing, but still) and i was fucking vindicated by quantum et al pointing it out after the incident.
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iwannapushthebutton · 3 months
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Elolvasott könyvek - 2023
megjegyzések a végén
Regény/próza: 
Fejes Endre: Szerelemről bolond éjszakán
Brian W. Aldiss: Szürkeszakáll  
Ghyczy Csongor: Egy könyv lapjai
Jacek Dukaj: Zuzanna és a világmindenség 
Robert M. Pirsig: A zen meg a motorkerékpár ápolás művészete
Kemény Zsigmond: A rajongók
Cserna-Szabó András: Zerkó - Attila törpéje 
Aradi Péter: A csend, amire vágytál
Visky András: Kitelepítés
Mati Unt: Őszi kavargás
Tudományos/szakkönyv:
Frantisek Drtikol: Eyes wide open 
Tóth Klára: Elem Klimov
Philip Matyszak: Antik Róma napi öt denariusból
Képregény:
Hill/Rodriguez: Locke&Key 1-3
Inio Asano: Goodnight Punpun 1-2-3
Sinonimo/Pásztor/Várai: 1241 - Farkasnak foga között 
Mervorius-Brazil: Hosszú az út hazáig 
Ghyczy Csongor: Salem Budapest - eredet 
Joonas Sildre: Két hang között 
Q5 - KépregényÚjság
Hudra-Oravecz: Mi a film? 
Lamm Lenke: Itt hagytad nekem a zajt 
Hollerbach Emil: Amit a falakról tudni kell 1-2 
Érsek Laura: Hogyan lőtte le a dédim a hajóskapitány szeretőjét, és más történetek 
Graphic Narratives From Lebanon’s 2019 Popular Uprisings (edited by: Lina Ghaibeh)  
Marjai Petra Lilla: No One Can Be Here With You 
Kati Akraio: Kitchen Towel Comics 
Poór Dorottya: Bébi (igaz történetek 1# by Hurrikán Press) 
Mihály Gréta: Kín (igaz történetek 2# by Hurrikán Press)
Ophélie Paris: Snail Tale (igaz történetek 3# by Hurrikán Press)  
Janek Koza: Erotic Confessions
Thomas Wellman: Pimo&Rex 
Vaughan/Chiang: Újságoslányok 1-4
Leopold Maurer, Regina Hofer: Rovarok
Yoshiharu Tsuge: The Man Without Talent
Zerocalcare: Az óriástatu jóslata 
Koska Zoltán: Lyolyabi és Rizmiráng 1-2
Matz/Jacamon: Killer 1. kötet (1-2.rész)
Ghyczy Csongor: Salem Budapest - Terrárium
G.L.O.M.A.: Feine - Hagyjatok aludni 1-2 
Anamarija Kvas: We Drift Apart Where We Get The Closest
Benczédi Anna: Broken Days
Benczédi Anna:What’s That on Your Arm?
Szép Eszter: Weekdays
Rumi Zsófi: I could kill for a pimple
Zinek: 
Zina 7#
Marjai Petra Lilla: A Political Picturebook
Untold Stories No.2. 
Helena Klakocar: Revolt 
Lamm Lenke: I’m not ideal
Az idei év nem pont úgy alakult olvasás szempontjából, ahogy terveztem. Az év első pár hónapjában hagytam magam megvezetni egy nagyon hosszú darabbal, ami végül annyira feldühített, hogy a felénél a sarokba dobtam. Ugyanakkor azt hiszem elég idős lettem már ahhoz, hogy ne vesztegessem feleslegesen az időmet az engem nem érdeklő művekre. Nagyon sok könyv hagyta el idén a könyvtáramat mivel egyáltalán nem voltak érdekesek. (Sajnos vagy nem sajnos közel ugyanannyi könyv lépett be, így nem csökkent az állomány, bármennyire is törekedtem rá. 😅)
Voltak azonban könyvek, amik bár nem voltak hosszúak, mégis alaposan megizzasztottak. Szerencsére ezek mind egytől egyig megérték a belefektetett energiát. Pirsig, Kemény és Visky írásai nem csupán élményt nyújtottak, de változtattak a világlátásomon is.
A képregények között nagyon sok a rövid mű és szerencsére egyre több a magyar. Ráadásul ezek mind fontos társadalmi/pszichológiai témákkal foglalkoznak, ami fontos előrelépés a képregényes közegben.
Szakkönyvből/tudományos munkából jóval többet kezdtem el, de ezeket rendszerint félbehagyom, mivel nem mozgatják meg az agyamat. Ezt a párat, amivel végeztem, viszont érdemesnek találtam kiemelni, hogy ne vesszenek el a többi között.
A jövőben a listában a zinek is végre a helyükre kerülnek.
Végül pedig egy kis vallomás: idén azért sem haladtam olyan jól az olvasással, mert sok év után idén újra elkezdtem játszani. Először butaságnak tartottam, de rá kellett jönnöm, hogy olyan reflexeket és kognitív dolgokat mozgat meg bennem, amelyeket nem nagyon használtam már egy ideje. Úgy hogy a számítógépes játékok is maradnak, és mivel másból már nem tudnak, így az olvasásból fognak időt elvenni. De ezt egyáltalán nem bánom. 🙂
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Well, gonna put up a new masterpost now that I’ve shared a lot of info about my OCs.
Chroniclerverse A rebornverse AU where certain characters, known as the Sidhe amongst their own kind or Aura Wielders by the general populace, can wield the supernatural abilities of Pokemon either through a spiritual entity residing in their souls since birth (Anima, or Eikons for those with Legendary/Mythical forms) or via forging a Pact with their partner Pokemon (Mageia). There are several canon characters who are Aura Wielders in this AU, being:
Reborn - Taube, Solaris, Taka, Elias, Luna, Zina, Anna, Noel Rejuvenation (v13) - Anju/Angie, Hazuki, Vivian, Taelia, Aelita, Nora, Saki, Kreiss Rejuvenation (v13.5 additions) - Crescent, Nymiera, Kailani, Odessa Desolation - Nova, Lilith, Shiv, Aurora, Waldenhall
OCs Rejuvenation Artemis “Hauyne” Viator (female; she/her, but uses they/them): The Interceptor and the main protagonist of the Chroniclerverse. A skilled competitive player who was transported to Aevium to fulfill the role of Interceptor, and has been through a total of fourteen major cycles to date (synonymous to each of the game’s major updates). She’s a girl of few words with an exterior frostier than Never-Melt Ice, but conceals a tender heart underneath her cold front and is supremely devoted towards those she considers family/friends. The last true heir to her clan. Her other form is an unknown draconic legendary Pokemon.
Reborn Orion Viator (libramasc; they/he): Artemis’s long-lost older brother. They’re the protagonist of Reborn, and the region’s current reigning Champion. They were brought to Reborn via forging a contract with Nostra, who beseeched them to become the region’s saviour and save them from their grim fates. They are a gentle, empathetic and kind-hearted soul who despises violence, but will take up arms to protect those they hold dear should the need arises. Their other form is the Original Dragon of Unova.
Desolation Iseult Rayos (transfem demigirl; she/they): An Aura Wielder bonded to a Cresselia, and older sister to Kisaragi. Formerly a wandering mercenary exiled from her clan due to her seeming inability to Bond with a Pokemon, she eventually came to the Ayrith region together with her friends Ava and Scarlett to take on the League Challenge. Despite their cynical outlook and gruff demeanour coupled with an insatiable thirst for battle, Iseult is a noble soul who abhors needless cruelty and would refrain from harming others even if it hinders her from achieving her goals.    
Main Tags #chroniclerverse - any posts relating to the chroniclerverse au #valkyrie draws some things - my art posts #ramblings - random stuff that has nothing to do with my other main tags #fanfiction - fanfiction I’ve written and posted here #interceptor oc: hauyne - posts related to my Interceptor OC, Hauyne #reborn oc: orion - posts related to my Reborn OC, Orion #deso oc: iseult - posts related to my Desolation OC, Iseult 
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elf-kid2 · 11 months
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Stories of Superheroes & Supervillains!
The following is a list of novels and comics that I recommend to all those who enjoy tales of Superheroes and Supervillains-- especially the ones with a bit of a twist! Fellow Readers-- this is for you!
Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman: Follow the story of Dr Impossible (a Supervillain and Evil Genius; known throughout Earth and beyond for his countless attempts at World Domination) and Fatale (a cyborg and rookie Hero; the newest member of the world’s most famous team of Heroes) in a tale that brings new meaning to power, glory, responsibility, and of course, Good and Evil.
Hench, by Nalalie Zina Walschots: Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. But when an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with the power of social media, spite, and the backing of one of the most feared villains on earth... she might just be able to have her revenge!
After the Golden Age, by Carrie Vaughn: Can an accountant defeat a supervillain? Celia West, only daughter of the heroic leaders of the superpowered Olympiad, has spent the past few years estranged from her parents and their high-powered lifestyle. Then she is called into her boss' office and told that as the city's top forensic accountant, Celia is the best chance the prosecution has to catch notorious supervillain the Destructor for tax fraud. 
The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy, by William Boniface: In the city of Superopolis, everyone has a super-power. Well... ALMOST everybody. With villains scheming for power, Ordinary Boy be able to do anything to stop them??
Sidekicks, by Jack D. Farraiolo: Meet Scott Hutchinson: by day, he’s an ordinary schoolkid, but by night, he’s Bright Boy: the superfast, superstrong sidekick of the great hero, Phantom Justice! But after an embarrassing incident involving his too-tight spandex costume, plus some signs that Phantom Justice may not be the good guy he pretends to be, Scott begins to question his role. With the help of a fellow sidekick, once his nemesis, Scott must decide if growing up means being loyal or stepping boldly to the center of things.
Henchgirl,  by Kristen Gudsnuk: Mary Posa hates her job. She works long hours for little pay, no insurance, and worst of all, no respect. Her co-workers are jerks and her boss doesn't appreciate her. He's also a supervillain. And her parents... well, they're the most famous superhero couple in Crepe City. Cursed with a conscience, Mary would give anything to be something other than a Henchgirl, but no matter what she does her plans always seem to go awry.
My Sweet Archenemy, by Rosanna Duong: In the city of Localsburg, Miss Sunshine fends off evildoers, including the maniacal Mad Spade! However, the super heroine is no sunshine and Mad Spade isn't so sinister... as she pines for the affection of her self proclaimed "archenemy”!
Steelheart, by Brian Sanderson: Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. These people, known as Epics, used their powers to rule the world. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. And David wants in. He's seen Steelheart-- the Epic said to be invincible, the Epic who killed his father-- bleed. And he wants revenge.
Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m a Supervillain, by Richard Roberts:  Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn't understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life, nothing is that clear.
The Society of Steam series, by Andrew P. Mayer: This new steampunk series opens in 1880, when women aren't allowed to vote, much less dress up in a costume and fight crime. But twenty year-old socialite Sarah Stanton still dreams of becoming a hero. Her opportunity arrives in tragedy when the leader of the Society of Paragons, New York's greatest team of gentlemen adventurers, is murdered right before her eyes. Enter into a world of adventure, romance, and clockwork!
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Top 10 Books Read In 2022
Alright, first post on this blog, absolutely terrifying I guess to start out I'll just do some favorite’s from this year. Top 10 books of 2022 so far:
Babel: An Arcane History by RF Kuang: a fantastic treatise on anticolonialism interwoven with fantastic elements. When linguistics have magic that can be harvested, the British Empire collects foreign students to fuel their war machine. What happens when enough is enough? (cw: racism, child abuse, gun violence)
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix: After a disastrous acid trip, a teen notices strange changes in her friend. What or WHO has gotten into Gretchen? (cw: exorcism, gore, body horror, eating disorder, animal death)
Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum: When Chernobyl melts down, Soviet physicist Anna Berkov, unlocks the ability to time travel. Will she be able to save her family and stop that calamity? (cw substance abuse, nazis, torture, brief police brutality)
The City We Became by NK Jemison: New York City is alive and selected a human avatar who is attacked by a being of cosmic annihilation. Will NYC’s five boroughs be able to protect its champion? (cw xenophobia, homophobia, attempted sexual assault)
Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimoore: No one has seen Sasha’s sister in 10 years. When famous magician Violet Volk vanishes mid disappearing act a decade ago, she hasn’t been found. The whole world is clamoring to know what happened to her but Sasha is just looking for peace.
My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones: Jade Daniels has spent rhe last 7 years watching every slasher under the sun. When people start dropping like flies in her sleepy Idaho town, she trains the new girl to become the final girl. (cw gore, self-harm/suicide, child sexual abuse)
The Wolf And The Woodsman by Ava Reid: Evike, the only girl in her pagan village without magic is chosen as a blood sacrifice to a despotic king. When the monster hunters escorting her to the capital are attacked on the road, she forms a tentative truce with the captain to prevent an authoritarian coup. (cw gore, self-harm, antisemitism)
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole: Sydney Greene's neighborhood is changing so quickly. Someone is gone, everytime she blinks. It's just normal gentrification, right? Right? (cw racism, forced hospitalization, police brutality, attempted abduction)
Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev: An update of Jane Austen's Persuasion. In a bid to save her late father's restaurant Ashna enters a reality cooking show to gain exposure.But what will she do when the soccer star celebrity she's partnered with is also the one who got away. (cw marital rape, substance abuse, suicide)
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschotts: When she is left seriously injured by a superhero, a hench woman uses her powers of data analysis to make his life a living hell. (cw violence, abduction, nonconsensual surgery, body horror)
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gooberlad · 2 months
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I had a dream about Hench last night and that’s when I knew I had a problem (I lied, I’ve known for a while). It was just a section of another, longer dream, but it was like when 2 dreams mix together, we’re you can’t tell if they’re the same or separate. It was also just Greg and Anna (I ❤️ both of them) but it alluded to Leviathan, I think??? I was very confused.
Anyway, I’m not actually sure how old my brain thought they were bc Greg played basketball, and this was a key plot point in the dream, he got beat up at one point bc the Refs we bribed by the other team, and he got a free T-Shirt as an apology (Another bribe to not tell the Ref hierarchy, and he didn’t and got his free shirt, but in my opinion that’s a very Greg fashion)
And there was more ofc, but it was in early-dream stage so it’s hard to remember. But another basic plot point was this underground cult/cult aligned organization that made them solve riddles to get information for a murder they were investigating. That’s where I think leviathan was, I don’t remember what he looked like but I think he was the head of the maybe-cult and was the one writing the notes.
I kept waking up in the middle of the night, partially because of my cat, but I woke up completely at 3 am and I’m writing this at 5 in the morning 👍 10/10 dream, but I hope I get better sleep next time
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apollonianism · 2 years
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2022 Book List
This is everything I’ve read to date (April 2022) in order that I read them:
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine - Book 2, fucking loved it. Both of Martine’s books are very dense, heaps of worldbuilding, everything I want in a sci-fi. Explores themes of cultural colonisation and identity. One of my all time favourite authors and books.
This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - A short epistolary novella between two opposing robots/AI in a time war and how they fall in love. A very easy read, enemies to lovers, excellent prose.
Empire of Light, Alex Harrow - Don’t get me started on how much I dislike this book. I forced myself to finish it which may have made me hate it even more. The characters, plot, and pacing are all plain bad.
Neophek Gloss, Essa Hansen - Reading this after Empire of Light may have made me enjoy it more, but a good solid sci-fi. According to notes after I finished it: In-depth worldbuilding, excellent characterisation, plotted well. Predictable, but very solid storyline. May or may not read book 2.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers - A beautiful cosy read in which nothing much happens (as per all Chambers books). A non-binary monastic searching for the meaning of life in a post-utopia world.
Activation Degradation, Marina J Lostetter - This book killed me, I fucking keysmashed in my notes while reading. Notes at time of reading: So this book is compared to Murderbots. This is not correct. Yes, the main character is a robot. They should not be compared. They are different stories. I love both of them. Ahem. I LOVED THIS BOOK. The characters were all really well-developed. FOUND FAMILY. There were so many good twists. This is everything I want in a scifi book. The only negative is that it is a standalone and I desire MORE.
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz - This story is so very good. As can be inferred from the title, it’s all about free will - sentient robots are indentured to pay off their manufacture (which never really ends, yay capitalism!) and so humans can now be indentured too (all capitalism leads to slavery!). And also IP law overload! The issue with the idea of drug patents. The world-building was phenomenal, the characters were all great, both the drug pirate and the two cops were morally grey. A brilliant standalone book, but I'd also love more just to see more of the world
The First Sister, Linden A Lewis - I didn’t really enjoy this book as I was reading, I had trouble connecting with the characters. The writing was on point, but I just didn't really care about them. Possibly because both POV characters lacked agency and were just trying to survive circumstances. It's only after the twists at the end that I decided the book was OK. Not going to continue the series.
Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells - All of these books are fucking A. Everybody loves murderbot. These are really easy to devour and enjoy reading while also exploring some pretty heavy trauma.
Hench, Natalie Zina Walschotts - Ok, so I love villains. I am on team villain, I am this book's target audience. Hench lady (Anna Tromedlov, who works with spreadsheets, has very  little involvement in villainy) is catastrophically injured by a hero and decides to get vengeance by tallying up all the injuries and damage heroes cause. The characters are this book's strong point, my only downside is that I didn’t feel that the character went through any growth or arc in this book. I’ll be interested to see if there’s a sequel.
The Girl with All the Gifts, MR Carey - I am not usually a horror fan, but this book blew me away. It explored some great themes and the perspectives were great. Highly recommended.
A closed and common orbit, Beck Chambers - I will read everything Chambers writes. Nothing much happens, just a slow character exploration. Robots/AI are my bread and butter. This was better than A long way to a small angry planet.
Ancillary Justice/Mercy/Sword, Ann Leckie - These are my favourite books, this is my favourite author. This was a re-read, so I don’t have any notes on my experiences as I read these books, but they are my all time favourites. I love the world-building, the POV character, the ethical questions and themes.
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thewritehag · 10 months
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I don't tend to be overcritical of books, but Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots really annoys me.
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From the first chapter to the second to last, I was tearing through this book, addicted to what would come next; each chapter's last sentence demanded me to continue, culminating in...not that much. Male ego? That's not new.
It was an enormous build up to nothing. I feel cheated. The final chapter didn't do what the end of each previous chapter did; it didn't make me want another installation on the heels of finishing this one.
This was an audiobook and the actor would benefit from practice in voice variance. I could tell the characters apart mostly, but only Anna's (the MC) wasn't annoying.
I'm disappointed and irritated. I don't regret reading it, not like I regret reading others, but I need a palate cleanser.
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plenumofcare · 1 year
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"Ekonomia i Dobrostan", MSN Warszawa 2.04.2023
Mnogość wątków i różnorodność głosów - od teoretycznych przez praktyczne odniesienia, aż po bolesne osobiste historie - sprawiła, że Meminarium było przestrzenią żywej wymiany, wsparcia i wzajemnego zachęcania się do odważnego nazywania swojej roli w tzw. artworldzie. Była to także przestrzeń towarzyszenia sobie, wspólnego przeżywania i wspólnego uczenia się.
Po raz kolejny miałyśmy okazję zobaczyć, że to, co robimy w Plenum, choć chaotyczne i trudne do nazwania syntetycznym opisem - jest ważne. Byłyśmy - jesteśmy - tam, gdzie to potrzebne. Pozwoliłyśmy sobie mówić, milczeć, ruszać się, czytać i oglądać zina (złożonego przez Anię Witkowską w spójną całość), ziewać, słuchać, jeść, wychodzić i wracać. Przytulać się, przedstawiać, nie zgadzać, przyznawać rację, przerywać sobie i ustępować. I prawdopodobnie będziemy to robić dalej. 
Bo opieka najczęściej wymyka się logocentrycznemu opisowi, zawiera się w geście, w osobistej przestrzeni, w mało uchwytnej motywacji do tego, by działać, choć to praktycznie niemożliwe. Codziennie dokonywać cudu rozproszenia siebie i podtrzymania pracy, która jest reprodukcyjna i artystyczna. 
Dzięki odbywającemu się dzień wcześniej wydarzeniu, w którym wzięłyśmy udział (czyli XXVII Seminarium Feministyczne "Troska. Troskliwe działania i epistemologie”) posłuchałyśmy kilku wspaniałych wystąpień, które mogły być dla Memnarium wstępem i jednocześnie zwieńczeniem. Prelegentki Sem Fem mówiły o różnych obszarach troski: o percepcji czasu, która różni się w zależności od przyjętego trybu działania, o odważaniu się do działania ze sobą i dla siebie, o odrzucaniu tego, co nam nie służy - a obowiązuje, w imię patriarchatu.
It’s one of the funny things about maintenance, it’s almost impossible to see (Mierle Laderman Ukeles)
Parafrazując Ukeles nasze działanie w pojedynkę jest także prawie niemożliwe do zobaczenia. Nie stanowi to o słabości jednostki, lecz o niewydolności systemu, w jakim się obraca (od osobistej czy rodzinnej skali mikro aż po społeczną czy polityczną skalę makro). Plenum Osób Opiekujących Się daje widzialność, zin „nie widać mnie” materializuje nasze słowa i twarze, osoby uczestniczące w różny sposób w naszych spotkaniach dokładają się do nadawania znaczenia temu, co dla nas znaczy wspólne opiekowanie się i towarzyszenie sobie. Dodają/emy sobie/nam sił.  
W spotkaniu wzięły udział: Wera Morawiec, Adu Rączka, Gabi Skrzypczak, Anna Steller, Dorota Walentynowicz, Ania Witkowska, Ula Zerek oraz zaproszone: Kuba Szreder, Ida Ślęzak i Monika Weychert (moderatorka). Producentem działania był Kuba Depczyński. W spotkaniu czynnie uczestniczyły osoby z „publiczności”, między innymi osoby artystyczne, producentki, rodzice, osoby związane z instytucjami kultury. 
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