#heimat is a space in time

[gloxina111]

The Countess Is In Town

-> PAIRING┆The Lost Boys (+ Star and Micheal) x Black! (Kinda) Reader x Eddie Munson

-> CAUTION ┆She/Her Pronouns - Vampires - Gore - Minor Character Death (if you squint) - AFAB Reader - Mind Tricks -

-> INFO ┆ Reader is the daughter of Lestat and Queen Akasha, with habits like the Countess.

-> WORD COUNT ┆1k+

-> NOTE ┆I can redo this as a male reader if you want, also the race of the reader is not specified but well writing this I had a black reading in mind because of them being the daughter of Akasha.

(I'm more than happy to take requests, just nothing weird and or downright gross.)

SORRY FOR ANY SPELLING MISTAKES!

@willow41977

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You and the boy's pulse Star had just arrived in Hawkins Indiana, the whole reason for the trip was to get a few things from one of your older houses. With a parasol and lapis lazuli stones in hand, the eight of you were off and out of the bus that took you from the airport to Hawkins. “I'm thankful you guys decided to come with me,” you smiled at the seven vampires behind you that were looking at the sky in awe. “Also, please remind me to thank you mother Micheal,” you started walking in the direction of one of the many houses you had accumulated over the decades. If it weren't for Micheals's mother volunteering to watch the cave the boys wouldn't have come with you, to your dismay.

On your way through the town, you had seen that there was a new mall and so you just had to course the rest into coming along with you to check it out. You didn’t have a mall in Santa Carla so it was a cool treat since it felt like decades since you had been in one. “Come on Laddie, let's go see if there’s a toy store that we can buy an Atari at,” you grabbed Laddie and Marko and ran off leaving the rest to split up and or join you. Paul ended up following the three of you well Micheal and Star ran off leaving David and Dwayne to buddy up.

Once Paul had caught up you three had already walked into a video and toy store that had been selling Atari’s. “What video cards are we getting,” Marko leaned over your shoulder. “I was thinking demon attack or space invaders,” you held up the two. “Laddie what do you think,” you looked down at the boy that held four video cards in hand. “Can we get them all,” he looked up with big dough eyes, the ones that he knew no one could say no to. “Way not,” you smiled down at the young boy.

Well walking through the mall you had once again separated from your group this time with only Marko. The two of you had been looking for one of Heimat-Los albums that you couldn't find anywhere and well in a record store that's where you two met a long-haired metal head named Eddie. “So, what album are you looking for again,” the aforementioned male asked. “Kromozom 4,” Marko replied wrapping his arms around your waist as he saw how Eddie was looking at you. “Awe, the Heimat-Los album right over here,” Eddie walked you in the direction of the store that was labelled ‘Hardcore/Punk’. “And here is Kromozom 4,” Eddie placed the record in your hands. “Thanks,” you locked eyes before Marko chimed in. “Gag Me With A Spoon,” he huffed, just before Eddie walked the two of you to the front of the store to check out. “That’ll be $4.50,” Eddie handed you the vinyl record which you had grabbed before slipping him a small piece of paper with your house number. “Hope to see you around,” you and Marko walked out just before Marko turned around and winked before taking off.

The two of you had met up with the rest at the food court to grab a bite before heading to your original destination.

“Getting lucky now aren’t we now,” Jeff lend over his friend's shoulder after witnessing that whole interaction between the three. “Yeah, by a chick already in a relationship,” Eddie huffed knowing he had no chance of getting with her. “True, but they look like swingers, so you probably can jump her bones if you play your cards right,” Jeff patted his DM on the shoulder before going back to work and saying “She truly was a Betty.”

That night well you and the boy had been fooling around Eddie had been having nightmares well more like wet dreams about the fines chick he had ever seen, wrapped in nothing more than what appeared to be some of the finest black glass and glowing red blood that came from only the purest, Virgenes. Said woman was helped out of the divine blood by a blonde before being indulged in pleasure. The blonde and female looked oddly familiar but he couldn't place his finger on it so he decided not to press it. The fine woman that was once encased in blood looked like she was having nothing more than the best oral known to mankind as several men and a brunette girl came out of nowhere as if they were just lurking in the shadows this whole time.

The five-man that were devouring her looked demonic and animalistic this had farther went turned Eddie on, and oh how he wished it was him between those silky legs making you moan his name.

Well, Eddie was having such dreams you had been getting ravished by each and every one of your lovers including Star, lips parted, leg speed backs arched the whole nine yards.

Once Eddie had awoken the next morning for school all he could think of was that he could have just what could have been the best porno in history.

Yes, Eddie often had weird dreams but noon had crossed boundaries insuch detail, it was almost like he was in the same room as this took place in real-time. Nothing could top dreaming of a hottie getting fucked out of her mind by six absolute monsters in a blood-filled tub.

For the last couple of days after that night, Eddie had been seeing the five guys and the one brunette girl fumbling over you in his dreams and in person, it all had been getting too much for him all he wanted to do was kiss the silk lips of yours. The more you guys notice this the more you made it your mission to be around him and tease him until one night he got the courage to kiss you had soon made him realize that he, in fact, wanted to be a part of this life that was all of you.

#the lost boys marko #marko x reader #fanfiction #eddie munson x black!reader #eddie munson x reader #the lost boys david #the lost boys dwayne #the lost boys #the lost boys 1987 #the lost boys x reader #the lost boys x female reader #the lost boys x you #eddie stranger things #eddie munson st4 #stranger thing s4 #eddie munsen #dwayne x reader #david x reader #paul x reader #star the lost boys #star x reader

[metalhead-brainrot]

[Album of the day] Various Artists - HDK 151 † Hell Night

Milan, ITA // 2023 // Heimat Der Katastrophe (HDK)

[Genres] dungeon synth, synth rock, prog rock, doom metal

[Themes] Hell's generals have escaped onto the material plane and you're a biker who has to track them down and drag them back, one by one

[FFO] indie RPGs, liturgical metal, Lingua Ignota

[Thoughts] This is the first album I've picked from the label HDK, an independent group of synth-loving Italians. Quoth their Bandcamp page: "DIY label focused on ambient punk, minimal-synth, dungeon-drone, wartime music and post-nuclear wave. Managed by a creative punx collective from Milano city."

As a fan of dungeon synth, I think HDK is grand. Most of their releases can be split into about three categories:

Old-school, fantasy dungeon synth (e.g. Kobold, Gnoll). Great music for classic TTRPGs. If you purchase the cassette release, you'll typically get a mini dungeon map and a scenario for any old-school RPG.

Cinematic synth music in the Italian tradition. Think Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, films like The Long Good Friday and Tenebre, bands like Zombi. Check out TEETH OF GLASS and A. RALLA.

Cold-War synth/signalwave, typically with a focus on the atomic era (i.e. sovietwave).* Conceptually interesting and a little underrated. I'd recommend RNLT and TSAR-BOMB.

Other frequent features in the HDK catalogue are proggy synth rock (e.g. POLONIUS), space rock (e.g. LOGIC GATE), and synthwave (e.g. MAX ROGUISH). HDK also has several official soundtracks to indie RPGs, most famously GNOLL's soundtrack to MÖRK BORG and CASIOTOMB's soundtrack to ALTNYC88.

Today's album is an official soundtrack to the indie RPG of the same name, Hell Night by Gavriel Quiroga (link to the DriveThru RPG page below). I haven't played the game,** but I have listened to this soundtrack about a dozen times. I love it. It's a compilation album but feels very proggy; all the tracks are from different artists and different musical styles, but they fit together really well.

Give the album a listen, try out the game, and check out HDK's other releases. I subscribed to their label on Bandcamp a while back, and I haven't regretted it.

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* These tend to remind me of the menu screen for CoD: Black Ops.

** But I would like to, it looks like a lot of fun.

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[From the band/label]

"As these last words were spoken, an explosion of blinding white light filled the black palace, cowing even the grim death lords. The angelic messenger was gone, the message delivered, and outrage soon broke among the ranks of the defiled, cacophony of blasphemy and cursing that announced the arrival of dusk and the beginning of a... HELL NIGHT".

Here is the official soundtrack of the Role-Playing Game HELL NIGHT, by the author Gavriel Quiroga that you may have already known for NEUROCITY and WARPLAND. For now only in digital, the cassette will be available later! Info about Hell Night: * www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/hell-night-pdf * www.kickstarter.com/projects/gavrielquiroga/hell-night * www.drivethrurpg.com/product/399162/HELL-NIGHT

#album #full album #album of the day #Bandcamp #music #underground artist #underground music #compilation album #hdk #heimat der katastrophe #deionarra #j brewer #nanoverse #cam mitchell #dungeon dolls #psychedelic maze club #bog wizard #gnoll #hell night #indie ttrpg #indie rpg #dungeon synth #synth rock #doom metal #prog rock #progressive rock #osr

[newt-and-salamander]

Today I can't stop thinking about that one poem by Rilke that begins with

Das ist die Sehnsucht: wohnen im Gewoge

und keine Heimat haben in der Zeit.

I know it is poetic. But it also is so terrible accurate. I don't know how to feel about it, other than a little devastated. Feeling lost in space is lonely enough, but time ... There is nothing you can do. You live in the here and now, and you can't go back, and you have to go foreward, and there's just so much happening. Terrible.

(You can find an English translation here.)

#poetry #personal thoughts #rilke

[netmassimo]

The novel "Stargazer: New Home - Ancient Foes" ("Stargazer: Neue Heimat - Alte Feinde") by Ivan Ertlov was published for the first time in 2021 and translated from German by Marly Gram. It's the second book in the After Terra series and follows "Stargazer: The Ultimate Artefact".

An area of the Milky Way arm that belongs neither to the Protectorate nor to the Plachtharr Alliance is used by pirates, criminals, and various groups of different species acting outside any law of the interstellar coalitions. This becomes more than just a nuisance to a mining consortium that lost physical assets that overall, have remarkable economical value and thousands of workers.

Frank Gazer and his unique group of fellow adventurers are the perfect envoys for an unofficial investigation. The crew of the starship Stargazer find themselves using special but limited resources in an area of space where dangers are unknown. The discovery they make is a huge surprise that can alter the balance in the entire galactic arm.

#science fiction #scifi #novel #review

[salmontee-shop]

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[jbachmann22]

Heimat // 6.15

To be as transparent as one can be through this medium, my last two weeks have been difficult. Achingly so. I have never been so homesick in my life. I wish for my familiar spaces, the embraces I give my mom unprompted that she accepts regardless, the shut of a door that allows me the isolation I crave. This comes from a privilege that I am aware of, missing my hometown while engaged in a fantasy of being overseas. No one from where I live would miss it if they were in my shoes, I’m certain, so I operate on guilt, on obligation, on pride. I cry in the silent darkness of the night time, where the sounds won’t slip past the doors of my roommates, and I suck the darkness back into myself when the sun rises at dusk to pretend like I never let it spill out in the first place. I stare out the ajar window and into the pouring rain, the pink-purple skies mimicking my cries, and can only hope my insides look as pretty.

I am blessed, despite my lack of faith, to have made the friends I have here in Perugia. They doodle little stars around my storm cloud, and I hope they feel how much I love them. I have never good at using my words for such things. I feel especially thankful for my roommate, who notices the shift of my attitude no matter how slight, and offers sunshine and warmth. A girl I’ve only known for one month who has made more of an effort than some people I know back home. I hope we continue to be friends.

This past week, though, we both had little storm clouds, offering the other sunlight when we could offer it, both fighting back inevitable rainfall. Both sought the comfort of home, the comfort of familiarity, the comfort of our normal lives, so we decided the best way to obtain it was through food. This is how we ended up at Pinturicchio’s twice in a three-day span.

I can’t say I ever expected to crave American food while in Italy, but even the inside of the café gives me the feeling of heimat, a word in German that I can’t quite translate over to English. It is a feeling of home, to be as close to the German definition as possible, and often times people look for heimat wherever they go. This café seems to be the only place where I see people with their laptops, working away like the other students from Albuquerque, and I felt like a college student again. I didn’t feel weird sitting here to write, and neither did my friend, and I felt okay taking up space here. The food, however, was what provided contentment more than anything else.

My heart lifted at the sight of a bagel on the menu, because I rely on them back home like they’re my drug of choice. The bagels here are thinner, and I actually have found I prefer it that way now, especially when they are on a breakfast sandwich. I always order the bagel with sausage, egg, and cheese and a drip coffee to accompany it. The egg is fried, the cheese melted on top of it, and the sausage nestled underneath them. The bagel encompassing it, usually sesame seed or poppy depending on my preference of the day, holds it together perfectly. Each bite is heavenly, and hot, and hearty. Most breakfasts in Italy seem small to us Americans, so to have something so filling was enough to put me into a permanent state of contentment for the rest of that day. The coffee is smooth, dark, and I only feel the need to put a tiny bit of milk for it to reach perfection. My little storm cloud feels warmer now, the pouring rain slowly becoming a drizzle, and I feel like I’m able to feel some sunshine again.

As humans, we feel compelled to find homes in every place we go, every person we meet, and everything we consume; Heimat. I find mine in the moments where my darkness is dispelled, even if just for a second, and I can remember how beautiful the light can be. It’s all around me, I just need to learn to open the windows again.

[sesiondemadrugada]

Heimat is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise, 2019).

#heimat is a space in time #heimat ist ein raum aus zeit #thomas heise #stefan neuberger #heimat is a space in time (2019) #heimat ist ein raum aus zeit (2019)

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2020:

Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise), 2019

#films #movies #stills #docs #documentary #essay film #Thomas Heise #Heimat is a Space in Time #2010s #seen in 2020 #virtual cinema

[shiningwizard]

Heimat is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise, 2019) the filmmaker's family through germany's twentieth century. readings of letters, government documents and interviews are put over a potent visual poetry. trains. transport. waste. things dividing the screen in two.

#heimat ist ein raum aus zeit #heimat is a space in time #last movie i saw #A-

[baankhunya]

Heimat Is A Space In Time ( Thomas Heise, 2019)

#heimat is a space in time #documentary #german #thomas heise #2019 documentary

[dustedandsocial]

Dusted and Social. 2021, #05

Pictured: Mr. Marcaille

Tracklist

01. Les Baxters - Theologically Speaking [Les Baxters LP - CocoMuse - 2021] 02. The Serfs - Angelic Ritualistic Cruelty [Angelic Ritualistic Cruelty 7" - Market Square Recordings - 2021] 03. Famous Mammals - Sirens Danger [Famous Mammals LP - Self-Released - 2021] 04. TB Ridge as the Director - Nice Kiss [Rock n Roll Heart CS - Anti Fade - 2020] 05. Mainly Spaniards - That's What Friends Are For [The Absolute Truth CD - Failsafe - 1982/2021] 06. Géométries - Royna [La tristesse du facteur LP - Troglodisques/Animal Biscuit - 2021] 07. Spike In Vain - Too Cool [Death Drives a Cadillac LP - Scat - 1986/2021] 08. Klapper - Born To Obey [Klapper CS - Mangrel - 2021] 09. Height/Dismay - Mother's Footsteps [VA - Oz Echoes꞉ DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989 LP - Efficient Space - 1981/2021] 10. The Aesthetics - Reptilian Agenda [Go To Hell CS - Independent Woman - 2008/2021] 11. Bilders - World of the Winds [Move Along, Love Among CS - Thokei Tapes - 2021] 12. Map 71 - Aces [Belladonna Sunsets 7" EP - Foolproof Projects - 2021] 13. Privat - Unterhaltung [Ein Gedächtnis Rollt Sich Auf Der Zunge Aus LP - Alter - 2021] 14. Heimat - Quando [Zwei LP - Teenage Menopause/Crybaby - 2021] 15. Sjunne Fergers Exit - Childrens Mind [Childrens Mind LP - Strangelove - 1982/2021] 16. Brigitte G. - Echoes [Secret Earth 7" EP - Chicago Research - 2021] 17. Drop Zone - Tiny Towel [Two Things 7" - Independent Woman - 2021] 18. Maraudeur - Le Couloir Du Soir [Puissance 4 LP - Self-Released - 2021] 19. P!off - Pass auf! [P!off LP - Bureau B - 1982/2021] 20. Unschooling - NYE [Random Acts of Total Control CS - Howlin Banana - 2021] 21. Mary Bell - Dog on a Leash [Bellatrix Boadicea LP - Destructure - 2021] 22. Health Plan - Mirror [Heath Plan CS - Buzzhowl/NIM_BRUT - 2021] 23. Mr. Marcaille - Pro Satan [No Snare No Headache LP - La Face Cachée - 2021] 24. Nagrobki & Mikołaj Trzaska - Matka Jedyna [Na Zywo 2019 - thisisnotarecord - 2021] 25. Schwund - Mal Dabei (Live) [Oh Nee! Bootleg CS - Self-Released - 2021] 26. NH Meth - Unknown Gen [Unknown Gen - Karl Schmidt Verlag/Independent Woman - 2021] 27. 16-17 - Solo [Gyatso LP - Praxis/Skin And Speech - 1994/2021] 28. Kanapee Morast - Hexenvampir [Canary Songs CS - rds rec. hh - 2021] 29. Molto Brutto - Chant [II LP - Growing Bin - 1987/2021] 30. Facit - Dancing Bridge [Princess Pomodoro CDr - Förfall - 2021) 31. Tabby Sensibilities  - Spanner Space [Hands Free For Three - Self-Released - 2021] 32. Middex - Host [Let the Engine-Loud Apocalypse Play Havoc with your Soul CS - Demotic Brick - 2021] 33. Senyawa - Kabau [Alkisah/Once Upon a Time in Avon 2xCS - Avon Terror Corps - 2021] 34. N0V3L - Notice of Foreclosure [Non-Fiction LP - Flemish Eye - 2021] 35. YL Hooi - W/O Love [Untitled LP - Efficient Space - 2019/2021]

Mixcloud / Mega.NZ

#mixes #2021

[saint-gallier]

Shelter

So, i'm getting evicted. My landlord finally decided to kick me out and sell the studio empty. But i'm lucky, the renewal of my rent happens every three year aka next september, i have a year to pack my things, look for a new place and the potentiality of moving in another city. I'm profoundly gutted. Last visit, a woman, visibly overexcited with the prospect of getting a place to invest into, even more when she learned i wasn't going to leave. Oh but i do not have a job right now and so she didn't make any offer because i was at risk. I've been living here for 8 years, i wasn't going to stop paying. Also, the rent was too low to be interesting according to her. It felt so like i was being blamed for living specifically here. Landlords, they have too much power over their residents. It's a relation that reaches an immediate high standard in terms of viciousness towards the so-called "system".

With all the back and forths with hometown and me home these past few years, i've been thinking a lot about shelter. It's the word in english that i thought about in my very frenchy brain. That word shelter. It lies as a very common trope in popular culture yet its appreciation is more intricated in language. The germand word 'Heimat' is impossible to translate in french without losing at least 40% of its meaning. Heimat means more than being born in the country, more than having a home, perhaps a sense of nostalgia is directly injected into its meaning, more than a feeling, more than a loss. 'Shelter' is of the same linguistic range in my opinion. I won't pretend being a senior linguist on american english idiomatics but let's have a go. Shelter, as far as i use it, means more than litteraly a location where lies a coat of protection, a wall made of steel to refuge anyone from hurricanes, which includes its function as a storage room. Against any godlike intentions, shelter means protection. It also means the place that harbours people from other people when they use violence as a replacement for communication. Shelter means security. But it also includes the security of home, that roof over your head. That having a place to sleep in, to cook, to store a catalogue of cozy sensations that go along your life, that witnesses the consequences of the achieved routine. That shelter can have many faces today, whether you get along with a van for two or your family of four living in a small studio, etc. It tells you only one thing: you are in control of your life.

I have never experienced that, not in recent years. I came to the realisation that i endured more than i created, that i lived through more than i provoked, waited more than did. I'm the only one to blame of course. I tried to regain some of it like complaining about something at someone. It's not worth losing your time and strength, it costs more than it rewards. Although companies, they should be punished in some way for their customer service that rubs shoulders way too much with insanity...

I'm tired of having no control over the few of things i have. My studio is very dear to me, i know it still looks as 'the place you lived in during your student times'. It's barely decorated, there is not enough space for a kitchen, it has been poorly rebuilt, yet more than anything, it felt like home, like my home. If i owned it, i could design both floors, i even drew some layouts. But it's over. Someone else decided for me what to do. It's back to packing and planning, and thinking what is the next move. Maybe it's for the best, i don't know. But that grasp over my life is exhausting. Let me handle it for a while, i'll manage well damn it.

P.S.: ironically enough, compared to what happened to me almost 10 years ago, that dreadful january that left me agonizing for years, all of this, is nothing.

#me #mine #personal #eviction #it sucks

[davidhudson]

Heiner Müller, January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995.

Thomas Heise’s Heimat is a Space in Time (2019).

#heiner müller #theater

[jindongkt]

トーマス・ハイゼ『ハイゼ家　百年』 at イメージフォーラム モノローグとモノクロ（多分厳密なモノクロじゃないと思う）で埋め尽くされた「故郷」。 原題に近い英題「Heimat is a Space in Time」の方がタイトルとしてはいいと思う。 https://instagr.am/p/COXQKtzDAlV/

#IFTTT #Instagram

[korrtana]

1-30, korr :D

Oh, just all at once huh? :D Very well.

1. favourite place in your country?: The islands in the north sea

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?: Abroad. Gotta see other places

3. does your country have access to sea?: Yep

4. favourite dish specific for your country?: Probably Currywurst

5. favourite song in your native language?: Herbert Grönemeyer - Der Weg. Beautifully sad. Reminds me of my mom

6. most hated song in your native language?: Helene Fischer - Atemlos. Ugh

7. three words from your native language that you like the most?: Heimat - Home(land); Lütje - local dialect, means small, nickname my grandma gave me; Gezeit - Tide  

8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?: Not really

9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?: I really wanna visit France at some point

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?: Flachfeife - flat whistle, someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about but still act like they do

11. favourite native writer/poet?: Andreas Eschbach 

12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?: Don’t really have much of an opinion on that

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?: Chimney sweepers are considered good luck i guess?

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?: Nope, we are awful at those

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?: Bruder muss los

16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?: We do not wear Lederhosen and we do talk about politics alot

17. are you interested in your country’s history?: Moderatly, I know its important but I learned all the important bits already. I’d rather learn something I don’t know

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?: Not really. I can understand it but only know a few words. We use High German 95% of the time

19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?: Well its there and it doesn’t look /sound bad. We don’t care much about them. Considering our history I thinks its pretty obvious why 😅

20. which sport is The Sport in your country?: Football of course!

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?: (Weird one but ok) A Mettbrötchen and a glass of beer. I guess?

22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?: We have some of the best engineers in the world. On the other hand (aside from the whole we-started-ww2 thing) we are really backwards at times socially speaking

23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?: Obvious one. Beer

24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country?: Poland

25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?: Not really

26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?: They overplay our accents. We don’t pronounce the “r’s” and “k’s” that harsh 

27. favourite national celebrity?: The German celebrity scene is awful. Nuff said

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?: Oh we do have a lot of all three. My favorite river is the one I grew up next to. Lakes and mountains are all farther south so i don’t really have an opinion 

29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?: Not really. We’re that corner nobody pays attention to 

30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?: Not by blood. I have some Turkish cousins that married into the family tho

Whew that was a long one. Thanks for the ask Lily!

(And if you wanna do one yourself, feel free)

#ask #wolfrain-writes #that took a while #;D

[dillydedalus]

november reading

how is it november. anyway i mainly descended into asoiaf hell again but there’s some other stuff!

hugo long list anthology vol. 3, lots of people anthology of the hugo long list for sff short stories - like most anthologies, it’s a mixed bag; i skipped a few stories, found a lot fine, liked quite a few (especially those by ursula vernon, sarah pinsker, p. djeli clark & theodora goss). this tends more towards scifi than fantasy, but i generally preferred the more fantasy-ish ones. 2.5/5

heimat: a german family album, nora krug collage-style graphic memoir about krug’s relationship to german identity after moving to the us and marrying a jewish man, focusing on her research into her family history and her grandparents’ actions during the holocaust, collecting images, documents, letters, statements from other family members, etc etc. the collage style is impressively well-done & her use of documents is especially excellent. 4/5

die untalentierte lügnerin, eva schmidt a german book prize nominee about a young woman in austria going thru a personal & familial crisis after dropping out of acting school. it’s intentionally really detached & isolating (e.g. there is absolutely no direct speech/thought in the entire book) but (unintentionally?) also quite boring. the creepy supportive-but-boundary-breaking stepfather is well done. 2/5

a game of thrones, george r. r. martin (#1 asoiaf) y’all.... i missed this series. i know i’m always lowkey obsessed, but reading the books really is a whole ‘nother thing and there are beats that get me in the heart every time (& every time there are beats that feel completely new) & every time i read agot i suddenly and painfully remember how much i love ned & how good he is & how sad. gods. also i want to take everyone who thinks asoiaf is all about being grimdark & edgy & cynical & ‘honourable = dumb’ and shake them like that’s not what they’re saying! littlefinger thinks like that, cersei, tywin and varys. we’re not meant to side with them! we’re meant to side with ned, who is honourable & chooses ‘the madness of mercy’, even if it kills him, which it does. 4.5/5

cosmicomics, italo calvino (tr. from italian by william weaver) honestly this is so hard to describe but it’s basically short stories about the genesis of the universe, the development of earth & life on earth, told from the perspective of a kind of eternal being (called qwfwq i think) who has been around with some other eternal beings with similarly weird names since before there was space, or time, or anything, but these eternal beings also behave & think pretty much like normal humans if they existed on eternal time-scale. it’s really weird & really fun, altho after the 12 stories i was kinda done. also like the gender politics in this are super eyeroll-y so be aware of that i guess. 3/5

a clash of kings, george r. r. martin (#2 asoiaf) i recently saw a poll on r/asoiaf or something about everyone’s fav book in the series & acok came in last, which i kind of understand - between agot & the absolutely epic and intense asos, it kind of looks like just a transitional book, & while both affc & adwd are kind of polarising, they both have really passionate fans BUT i think acok might actually be my personal favourite in the series. almost all the character’s arcs in this are amazing (arya in harrenhal! sansa figuring out how to cope in KL! theon’s whole mess! tyrion as hand! bran’s last chapter making me cry every single time!) and it has the amazing battle of blackwater bay. so anyway: 5/5

the narrow road to the deep north, richard flanagan (uni) UGH. this is a booker winning (for some reason) novel about australian POWs on the death rail, which is not entirely uninteresting & not something i’ve read anything about before but a) the writing is bad, b) flanagan tries really hard to be incredibly profound & it’s not working, c) half the story isn’t even about the POW camp but about our noble self-sacrificial hero dorrigo ‘manly resolve’ evans, who is a serial cheater & in his feelings about his ~true love for his uncle’s wife which like... who cares!!! in retrospect our discussion in class brought out some interesting aspects about the book & especially what we are meant to think about dorrigo evans but i still dislike it. 1.5/5

bad blood: secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup, john carreyrou the absolutely wild story of startup/total scam theranos by the investigative journalist who originally exposed their total scamminess. it’s sad that there’s so little insight into elizabeth holmes (steve jobs reborn/scammer in chief) and her motivation but oh well. my fav scene was elizabeth holmes giving every employee a copy of a coelho book & telling them she was starting a religion. 3/5

emma, jane austen another austen that is both incredibly delightful and incredibly frustrating in a lot of ways, which i think is partially intentional (although the intense classism never really gets challenged, just emma’s flawed way of enacting classism) - emma herself is often frustrating, misguided, arrogant, but her situation is so dismal and stifling, so many people around her so dull and wearying and demanding, that i couldn’t help but feel for her. sure, the romance is a bit #problematique, and the classism is a lot, but i think the heart of this is emma trying to find a way to exist in highbury, recognise that a) jane fairfax is great but b) she doesn’t have to be like jane fairfax, and that a) yes, she is responsible for her father but b) her father doesn’t have to be her whole life, and that she probably should just let poor harriet smith do what she gonna do. 4/5

the need, helen phillips i think what this book (and fever dream) really confirmed for me is that if i ever have kids, my ocd will go into infernal nightmare mode. anyway. this is a pretty good, pretty scary thriller about molly, working at an excavation site that seems to hold a lot of fossils and artefacts that are just a lil wrong, while also being stressed as hell about her two young children. the book opens with a truly terrifying sequence, switching from molly at her job to molly putting the kids to bed and hearing something that sounds a lot like an intruder (but she’s probably just paranoid right???). the rest of the book doesn’t quite live up to that, but it’s still pretty cool. 3/5

a storm of swords (asoiaf #3), grrm this book is just one thing after the other, in a really good way, in that every time something big & huge happens you read the next chapter or two and something else big & huge happens. read for handless & noseless the lannister boys, not one or two but three contenders for top post on r/weddingshaming, the infamous arya burrito, jon snow inventing cunnilingus in a cave, vengeance zombies, the most emosh snowcastle ever, and just. feelings everywhere. 5/5 thank you for my life grrm

exquisite cadavers, meena kandasamy kandasamy’s last novel (when i hit you) is a kinda autofiction-y novel, closely based on her own abusive marriage but also a novel & the fact that much of the reception has focused on her own traumatic experiences rather than as her novel as a work of literature frustrated kandasamy, as she says in the author’s note here, so she decided to write a story and include her commentary on how it relates (& doesn’t) to her own life in the margin. but rather than straightforward explanation, the margin notes, told by meena (herself? the author-persona? something else?) become their own story, often going on tangents only tenuously connected with the ‘main’ story. i love this conceit & i think in parts of this book it works really really well & it’s interesting how each part informs your reading of the other & how to read the margins as someone whose academic training & inclination tend toward death of the author (one of the characters dislikes barthes lol). sadly i don’t think there’s not enough meat to the story-part to make it more than an interesting experiment. 3.5/5

currently read a feast for crows (of course) and a brief history of seven killings which is... a bit of a slog to be honest sorry :(

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