#banger books

[lqtraintracks]

Hey! I'm curious, pls indulge me: which book or fic that you've read in 2023 has made the most impression and why? x

Hi M! Great question! I waited to answer it until Wireless reveals posted! Under a cut because I went off lol. <3

A note about @hd-wireless in particular. There were so many fics that I missed reading simply because I started running out of reading steam, particularly my ability to sit down with a longer story. Posting also coincided with the end of writing my novel and I chose writing over reading in order to actually get the book finished. There are LOADS more great stories in this fest, is what I'm saying, but there were two that I read that simply sang to me.

About This Place by @academicdisasterfic Summary: Harry left everything, including Draco. Harry’s returned to everything, including Draco.

Things are never quite so simple, though perhaps they could be. My comment on it: The way this felt so viscerally real from the get-go, like... you put us right on the street. I could feel it in my body. And the queer joy tag was so spot-on! I wanted to cheer for them in this world! Your writing is absolutely breathtaking. Love love LOVE.

Sun Thief by @floydig Summary: “You’re stunning,” Harry blurts out, because Draco is pink-cheeked and his mouth is bitten and plump. Gasping beneath Harry, working his cock in his fist. “Say my name when you come?”

It’s 2005, and Draco Malfoy says, “Fuck the Ministry,” Harry works as a handyman in muggle London, and Draco should really stop pissing off the Squib gangs.

Or: Harry beats up a pimp and isn’t sorry about it, Draco deals black market potions, and they’re shagging. Again.

My comment: This fic was absolutely beautiful and moving and I LOVE the way you wrote it, the style, the voice (the subtraction of subjects from their sentences just made it seem like… Idk a way for them to keep themselves safe, to not have to say 'You' or 'I' or 'We', to own any of it, like this gruff little defensive mechanism made out of language and its omissions--I loved it!), the sparse and perfect use of details, like you drew them down from on high. Amazing stuff.

Also, I beta'd a story for @hp-lawofattraction-fest that I can't talk about but has fucking killed me dead, it's so good! :zipper mouth emoji: The fest starts posting Monday! <333

And then there are BOOKS! These are the books that have absolutely floored me so far:

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The New Life by Tom Crewe

and I just started a fucking banger:

Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran

All literary fiction plus one beautiful romance that I will never get out of my head or my heart and I don't want to try! Yanagihara's name speaks for itself, but I think she's become an even more masterful writer since A Little Life. To Paradise will still rip your heart clean out of your chest but in a subtler fashion (still mostly queer though). Trust won the Pulitzer this year, along with Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead which I haven't gotten to yet. This book was EXQUISITE. What a writer! It's up there near The Goldfinch for me! The New Life and Dancer are both queer lit fic and very, very well done! A Lady for a Duke... God, it just stole my heart! I'm in love with the pairing of Viola and Gracewood! What a gorgeous trans love story!

Thanks for the lovely Ask! May I ask the same question of you? <3

#magpiefngrl #lovely asks #banger fics #banger books #favorite fics and books of 2023

[revenantghost]

This damn thing is way out of print and often goes for $200 second-hand for a 100-page artbook, but! To keep you from having to flip through incomplete uploads on hentai sites, and to save you from minuscule and questionably seeded torrents for files you might not know how to open, you should absolutely NOT check out this Google Drive I made of some ridiculously high-quality .png scans of the '98 Trigun artbook. Absolutely don't spread it around to anyone interested and keep it from getting lost ever again.

#Trigun #Trigun 98 #Nightow #Yasuhiro Nightow #Because there are some BANGER illustrations by him #This took too much time while my insomnia began creeping up on me lmao #But leave me a tip if you'd like but more than anything I want to preserve this stuff #I'm gonna try and keep this up for as long as I can #But take it and save it and spread it #Enjoy it!!!!!!! #The depression is kicking my ass and I wanted to be and do something productive #So now you all get to benefit lol #Anyway #Someday I want to own it because I love books #But who knows #So I get to hoard the files now

[kala-mies]

Finished Night Watch recently which means it's finally my turn to draw Vimes and lilacs

#discworld #sam vimes #samuel vimes #night watch #can't believe it took me this long to find Night Watch #banger book. i am. not okay! #kala art

[michaelshelleyenthusiast]

This book is so fucking funny I love it

#it devours! #joseph fink #jeffrey cranor #welcome to night vale #nightvale #this book is genuinely so banger I 100% recommend it even if you haven't listened to nightvale

[sweattyspaghetti]

Edit: Tyler with celestia tee existed. Same brain. Same brain..

Hello fight club fandom. It is absolutely abysmal and also a crime how no one (at least to my knowledge) has drawn Tyler Durden in the princess celestia t shirt. We missed out

I have brainstormed multiple fc drawing ideas and hope that they become real.

#my art #art #illustration #fight club #soapshipping #tyler durden #the narrator #yknow I didn’t fully vibe with the movie but here I am with the book on its way #so in actuality #I’m sick #they made me deathly ill #in the awesome way #also you guys should read fc soapshipping fics on AO3 #genuinely banger holy moly #tbh after the day I watched the movie I wanted to rewatch it #that says enough #Tyler can durden deez nuts

[sfsolstice]

Emily Dickinson, in The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

#emily dickinson #the collected poems of emily dicksinson #lit #literature #typo #typography #fragments #light academia #dark academia #love poem #poetry #poem #literally the first poem in the book #and she comes in swinging with this banger #i just had to share it #240306 #oops typo!

[art-question-mark]

“She’d half stumbled to his side and gingerly wrapped an arm around him, led him toward the maintenance turbolift. Somehow she’d carried his weight.

“Do you think,” he’d asked, “anybody’s listening?”

He hadn’t been able to raise an arm, to point skyward after her transmission, but she’d seemed to understand.

“I do,” she’d said, soft and—to his ears—earnest. “Someone’s out there.””

—Rogue One Novelisation by Alexander Freed

#back to your regularly scheduled jyn and cassian shenanigans #the quotes i pick for these keep getting longer and longer the whole book is just a banger #they mean so much to me #when u have to keep ur gf from fighting everyone #i didn’t feel like drawing the rest of cassians blaster #heart hands to them rn #rogue one #rogue one a star wars story #star wars #jyn erso #cassian andor #andor #jyn x cassian #rebelcaptain

[theabigailthorn]

Love your work! I was wondering (because you book recs are always amazing), what are your favourite books of all time?

Ada by Vladimir Nabokov

#everyone always bangs on about Lolita but IMO it's mid compared to some of his other work #Pale Fire was a banger #Ada might genuinely be one of the best things ever written in the English language #IMO anyway #books #used to date a girl whose fave book was Lolita and mine was Ada #I thought this said something very important about our personalities because Ada has a happy ending #Whereas the protagonist of Lolita literally dies of a broken heart in the opening pages #also he's a nonce #press G to pay disrespects

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

me: it's hard to live sometimes :/

Victor hugo: What a solemn thing is this infinity [this consciousness] which every man bears within him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his brain and the actions of his life!

me:

#les miserables #Victor Hugo #this fucking book is just full of bangers #the brick

[rosepompadour]

This girl is charged with all the femininity in the world. If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you on the spot or electrify you for your whole life. If it’s so painful for a man to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it must be to be a woman and to be the electricity, and to inspire love.

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1957)

#the soviets going through this book with a magnifying glass: 'i spotted a FEELING on PAGE 497!' #reread it over the holidays and can confirm it is still an absolute banger #doctor zhivago #boris pasternak #literature

[wizzard890]

How long into Dune Part 2 before you knew you were watching a fucking All Timer

I knew I was watching a movie of incredible visual imagination the minute I saw the Harkonnen troops levitate up the side of the cliffs in the opening scene.

But a fucking all timer? When we landed on Geidi Prime for Feyd's introduction. The score, the boldness of character, of design, the absolute thematic confidence. This movie honestly blew my skull out the back of my head. I absolutely loved it.

I've been listening to the love theme (which is also the "start of holy war, implacable and endless" theme, in another just ace bit of filmmaking) non stop since Monday.

I'm seeing it again as soon as humanly possible.

#the incredibly dark characterization of jessica to help externalize paul's conflict in the book #the semi-erotic knife fight at the end #the very clever use of chiani and the elegant writing around her ending #banger after banger after banger #dune #dune part two

[creative-hanyou-girl]

Honestly would absolutely love it if the Percy Jackson show incorporated some of the songs from the Percy Jackson Musical into their instrumentals. Imagine how awesome that'd be.

#if they can use a cover of riptide surely they can use a few notes or instrumentals from the actual Percy Jackson Musical #I also heard that one of the main people behind the musical score from the musical was recruited for the show so I'm hoping! #like how cool would it be to hear 'we're lost in the woods somewhere in New Jersey' when they actually ARE lost in the woods in the tv show #wouldn't that be a nice way to pay hommage to the musical??? #which for so many fans was the only 'book accurate' adaptation we had for the longest time? #not to mention of course that the songs alone are absolute BANGERS!!!!! #fingers crossed 🤞 #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson musical #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson trailer #music #disney+

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

jesus christ this quote is so good if it's jacks

LIKE THINK ABOUT HIM SAYING THIS TO EVA??? HE'S HER MONSTER???? HER VILLAIN???? HERS????? THIS IS SUCH A GOOD PARALLEL TO THEM SAYING "IM YOURS" TO EACH OTHER LIKE OH MY GOD IM SO EXCITED FOR JACKS TO SAY CRAZY STUFF IN THIS BOOK.

i feel like there's gonna be so much more grit and angst in the dialogue in acftl then in her other books and i'm HYPED for it.

if it's not jacks i will be sad.

#LIKE OH MY GOD #WHO COULD IT BE BESIDES JACKS?? #ONLY JACKS COULD SAY THESE BANGERS!!! #tbona #ouabh #jacks prince of hearts #evajacks #the ballad of never after #evangeline fox #jacks x evangeline #caraval #books #stephanie garber #acftl #acftl quotes #a curse for true love quotes #a curse for true love #evajacks month

[deathsweetblossoms]

Elain had always been gentle and sweet — and I had considered it a different sort of strength. A better strength. To look at the hardness of the world and choose, over and over, to love, to be kind. She had always been so full of light.

#Elain Archeron #apparently its elain week #and i had no idea #so here is my contribution for my favorite gal #may the fandom treat you better #may your book be a total BANGER #may you end up with whoever your sweet little heart wants to end up with #acotar #pro elain archeron #pro elain forever #ACOTAR moodboards #elain: so full of light #my storyboards #my moodboards

[charleslovemustdie]

it's so funny to me that a lot of people only know the vampire chronicles books by the TVL intro. like those books do have a lot of things to criticize but the general prose is good lestat is just like . that

#the thing that kept me hooked on the books is the writing style and the character moments #they're not Ebony Darkness Dementia Way books in general lestat is just so fucking annoyignkefbjenfjd #iwtv #tvc #vc #interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles #lestat #lestat de lioncourt #a lot of absolutely banger monologues from the show are taken directly from the page #lestat is just CUNTY #1k

[familyabolisher]

September 2023 reading

Books:

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Dennis Cooper, The Sluts

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Volodya: Selected Works, ed. Rosy Carrick

Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture

Articles, papers, etc.:

S. Brook Corfman, Yentl and the Three-Quarter Profile

Catherine Damman and Saidiya Hartman, Saidiya Hartman on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary

Jules Gill-Peterson, The Way We Weren't

killreplica, Heidegger's Broken Doll

Julian Lucas, How Samuel R. Delaney Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City

Max Pensky, Angel of Mystery: The tangled story behind a famous Klee painting

Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Caste, Colonialism, and the Speech of the Colonized: Entextualization and Disciplinary Control in India

Achim Rohde, Gays, Crossdressers, and Emos: non-normative masculinities in militarized Iraq

Dylan Saba, Review: 'On Zionist Literature' by Ghassan Kanafani

Leo Zeilig, The Dar es Salaam Years

#reading #all the books are bolded bc it was a banger month for books hth #honest 2 god though i spend 90% of my free time on gay little visual novels atp