#book club tag

[brother-emperors]

for enjoyers of rome and comics:

Les Aigles de Rome (The Eagles of Rome) by Enrico Marini is set in first century CE Rome and it’s a fucking visual and narrative delight. It’s like taking a bite of a delicious meal, the story arc and interpersonal character drama combined with the density of life in the backgrounds makes each page a fantastic time.

Dead Romans by Fred Kennedy & Nick Marinkovich. Also set in the early Roman Empire! My feelings for this one are a little more complicated, but it there’s a sort of Hollywood movie appeal to the plot, and the illustrative work of the comic is stunning, a visual feast for the eyes and worth checking out for that alone.

Cléopâtre, la reine fatale by Thierry Gloris & Joël Mouclier. Dramatic spectacle, drama, delicious visuals, and I'm kind of obsessed with the visual tone of it. The character interactions and snapshot glimpses into the interlocking relationships everyone has are honestly a high point for me with this one.

#i meant to do this like. oof. last year. anyway! comics. behold. there you go #mark antony in the cleopatra comic is fun. brutus is having an existential crisis and antony's like cool. i could blow you if you'd like #rec tag #book club tag #i may or may not lock this post from reblogs so if i do. the tag is book club tag for recs. as a future reference

[katabay]

and some Reading Material, as promised

Assigned Female At Death, Martha G. Newman (in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, Edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt)

#LITERALLY MONKS HAVE IT ALL #book club tag #this book is open access!! i have provided the link for you!!!! #please go forth and Experience Gender #do weird stuff with christianity or whatever. join me in monk fixation hell

[dalandan-oranges]

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, Patricia Evangelista

#the dictatorship tag #ph literature #book club tag

[ghoul-haunted]

Lucan’s Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

#book club tag #pharsalia tag

[asexualbookbird]

i was NOT the only one who didnt like tress and not the only one in the group whos meh to go away about brando sandwich, HOWEVER we were overrun with SIX!!!!! new people all of whom are hardcore brandosando fans so uh. it was a fun discussion lol

#bookbird babbles #book of clubs #....really thought that was my #book club tag #but it didnt show up #ANYWAY. we did all agree that yeah you do actually have to be a sando fan already to have really Got tress #despite what mr sandwich says #so i feel validated by that lol #ALSO SOMEONE CAME UP WITH A WAY BETTER ENDING AND IM MAD ABOUT IT #ezra reads mr sandwich #ezra reads tress #oh none of my preexisting tags show up okay cool

[digitalcactusblog]

SCREAMS IN DESPAIR

I FINISHED RF KUANG'S BABEL IN BASICALLY TWO FRENZIED SITTINGS

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO ON WITH LIFE AFTER THIS

#book club tag #i'll make this tag for me to ramble about books #not sure if I'll use it but at least it's there

[catwafers]

i'm coping

#trigunbookclub #<- this is for you guys #trigun #trigun maximum #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash the stampede #vashwood #trigun fanart #was having my doubts but i saw ppl talking about the wedding imagery and i was like okay now i HAVE to finish this #i considered making angelina ww's pfp but i didn't want to draw her. sorry. ik it would've been funny #meme tag #my art #artists on tumblr #if you're thinking 'oh?! this is someone new in the book club tag?!" no it's me june. this is just my sideblog. hi #trigun spoilers #trimax spoilers

[wreckitremy]

He kissed her, hilariously

.....

Hey

Hey author from 1918

What the fuck does this mean???

#these book club books are wild #its called the magnificent ambersons #and at this point i am certain that its a sarcastic title #the idioms and slang phrases are so convoluted they put touch grass to shame #do i need a new tag for my opinion on these books i would certainly not read on my own? #book clubs nonsense books #october 2023

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

[8bbc theme fades out] Murph: Welcome to 8-bit book club, the only book club that makes you dumber. (laughs) I'm laughing because Emily has the mic at the ready to interrupt me. [Caldwell laughs.] Interrupt the intro. But yes, I'm joined as always by my life-slash-comedy partner, Emily Axford. Emily: Sup, bitch! Caldwell: (laughs) not really on theme, but okay. Murph: Whatup. Yeah, whatup. Uh, and the, uh-- Emily: Oh, I didn't even think to do that. We just were talking about "bitch" so much before we started this. Caldwell: Yeah. Murph: Yeah, and the, uh, Aerith Gainsborough to my Cloud Strife, Caldwell Tanner. Caldwell: (laughs) What's up, it's me, the music bitch! [Emily and Murph laugh.] Murph: Yeah, what's up bitches! Caldwell: Can't get enough of the stuff! [Emily laughs] Murph: We're say-- we're saying "bitch" a lot today, apparently. Emily came in and she kept calling everyone bitch, and referring to herself as bitch. Caldwell: Emily-- Emily said it was cool if we did it. Murph: She said-- Emily: (quietly) No, I said I'm allowed to. Murph: What were you saying? Because we're gonna go-- we're gonna go out to eat after this, and you said-- Emily: I said (exaggerated) this bitch is getting meat! Murph: This bitch is getting meat. You also-- Emily: (exaggerated) This bitch is getting the 12-ounce New York Strip Steak! [Caldwell laughs.] Murph: You were also talking about daddy. Daddy is taking us to go get dinner. Emily: Yeah, I said-- If we record a very good podcast, daddy's gonna take us to get some steak! Murph: This is… Caldwell: That's true. And you meant like-- Murph: Off to a strange, sexual start. Caldwell: You meant like, our collective daddy. Like, the kind of philosophical daddy, which represents you self-disciplining yourself. Emily: Well-- what I said is that everyone has their own inner daddy. Caldwell: Right. Emily: And inner daddy can treat you if you-- um-- if you are good. Caldwell: Right. And that's what-- Emily: You have an inner baby and an inner daddy. Murph: Awh. What? [Emily and Caldwell laugh.] Caldwell: I don't like where this is going. Emily: Baby I mean like-- child. Caldwell: Right Murph: Okay. Emily: Not like baby like, santa baby. Caldwell: Listen, Murph, we're past that basic bullshit where we talk about self care. It's all about uh-- treating your little inner baby-- [Emily laughs.] Caldwell and Murph: --and being your own daddy. Emily: You have to discipline-- Murph: We have discussed in the past being your own daddy. Emily: You have to discipline your inner baby, and be your own daddy. (laughs) So stop going and getting pedicures and acting like that's what you owe yourself. No, your inner baby is soft. Caldwell: Right. Emily: It needs to start pumping up. Murph: Oh my god. Caldwell: Hey. Spare the rod, spoil the daddy. [Emily cackles. Caldwell laughs.] Murph: Everybody-- Alright. Alright bitches, shut the fuck up. Uh, this week-- Emily: Spare the-- [cackles] Murph: Would you guys--? This one's-- This is gonna be a loose one, 'cause we didn't read a book.

#8bbc #8 bit book club #8bbclips #naddpod #emily axford #caldwell tanner #brian murphy #'spare the rod spoil the...' is. insane. caldwell just says things #i can't finish that sentence because it'll nuke this post from orbit lol #8bbc really tests the limits of what i can type to get stuff to show up in the tags

[brother-emperors]

Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto VIII. trans. Robert M. Durling) / 10 December 1513 letter from Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, trans. Alan Gilbert

#if youre going to 'well actually' abt machiavelli calling ovid a lesser poet: don't. someone else has already written abt it #italian renaissance tag #dante tag #this requires. some. uh. well! context. the context is that both dante and machiavelli are writing in exile and it's definitely #a point of trauma for them both. also machiavelli in general. my good man. the love of my life. i would love to get you on antidepressants #that said. his emotional state is deeply relatable #book club tag #comparatives tag #also many things abt history about looking back and reaching out with your hands to find someone reaching forward. btw #dante with virgil. machiavelli with dante. me with machiavelli. etc

[katabay]

Omar El Akkad's forward to the Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (trans. Yasmine Seale)

#book club tag #thought about making a book club side blog. but actually. i will keep it here but i'll keep the prev tag as it's dedicated tag #also the joy of reading and finding beautiful turns of phrases is 90% of why i include citations in much of what i post #and i want to pass that happiness on to whoever might find a similar delight in reading it. you know?? sometimes i don't have art #to go with it. i just really! loved what something had to say! i got nothing else to add! anyway. book club tag. will be the tag for this #also this is like. GOD. this is thee creative statement of the century. the drive to tell stories. i love!! this forward!!!!!!!! #i was listening to the Something Rotten spoilercast episode about Alan Wake 2 and I'm OBSESSED with everything they had to say #about how this is a game that's very aware of the creative process. it is!!!!! IT IS!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!! #this is. poetry to me. i will be turning this around in my head and also chewing on AW2 forever

[dalandan-oranges]

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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, Patricia Evangelista

#ph history #this book is actually about the drug war but i need to get a good tag for that one. which i will figure out. in a minute #ph literature #book club tag #colonial era ph

[ghoul-haunted]

‘Lovers in Peace’ Brutus and Cassius: A re-examination, John Roland Dove & Peter Gamble

#screaming sobbing weeping wailing throwing up flinging myself into a river at all of this #ON THE ALTAR OF HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR THE MAN BRUTUS CASSIUS VOLUNTARILY SACRIFICES HIMSELF #GOOD GOD OKAY THEN #dead romans #book club tag

[asexualbookbird]

must a book be Good and Profound and Add Something To The World is it not enough to be fun and engaging

#bookbird babbles #ezra reads shards of earth #book club tag #i never did come up with a good tag for that lol #ANYWAY ONCE AGAIN I AM THE ONLY ONE WITH TASTE #(this is a joke) #(i respect every book club members book opinions) #(even when theyre wrong)

[yoursonlucifer]

"emily axford not interested?" [in a mysterious vampire woman with a long cape]

love murph just being like you? my bisexual wife? not attracted to a hot woman? are you sure?

#naddpod #8bbc #8 bit book club #not another dnd podcast #tag for when i write posts #axmurph #emily axford #brian murphy

[spindrifters]

fic where peter is james' sidepiece/mistress until he snaps and finally realizes james is never actually going to leave lily, leading to his betraying the potters to voldemort

#james just loves having peter around to massage his uh. ego. #this has been a cursed book club production #prongstail #imp tag #lynx tag