#probably nonfiction

[nerdexer]

today at school, the honors chemistry teacher XYZ gave everyone a pop quiz. it was about polyatomic ions and whatnot and the entire class bombed it (class averages ranged from 2-3/10 THE WHOLE DAY so i'm told).

Mr. XYZ told them that if all the other periods did worse than them, he would raise their and only their scores. now surely, among these honorable, respectable students, they would do what was best for the majority and warn the others of the looming danger, yes?

what i saw proceed was the most brutal, tragic, and coordinated form of psychological sabotage i have ever personally witnessed occur in real life. the ENTIRE period organized to convince all the other students of Mr. XYZ that it was about lewis structure or some other garbage (idk lol our class is behind) instead and not ONE whisper of the plot leaked. i witnessed close friends from infancy betray one another. whispers of lewis structure became the knives with which allies stabbed one another in their backs, smiling as they sentenced comrades to death by grading. i'd be willing to bet that at least one friendship was broken today over the pop quiz.

the thing is, this is not the first instance of Mr. XYZ being the mastermind of student misery. i'd be willing to bet that Mr. XYZ is a social scientist or whatever they're called posing to be a teacher at our school studying the minds of high school students.

everyday i wake up and thank the Lord almighty that i am NOT a student of Mr. XYZ

#high school #high school chemistry #social experiment #there really is a god #but He isn't on Mr. XYZ's students' sides #story #still don't know what i'm doing #how do i use this app #lewis structure #polyatomic ions #betrayal #probably nonfiction

[hedgehog-moss]

My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :

Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre

The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière

Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe

Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*

La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*

Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*

The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung

#book recs #i haven't finished the last one yet but it's been good so far! i really admire these women's resilience and solidarity #some inspiring stories of political activism + insight into aspects of korean history i didn't know about #i wanted to do a half-fiction half-nonfiction list like last year but i've read mostly disappointing fiction this year :( #my favourites were probably kivirähk's the man who spoke snakish & catherynne valente's radiance; though it wasn't as good as orphan tales #i'm reading jacques abeille's les jardins statuaires right now and it's quite frustrating because on the one hand #it's well-written and interesting with original worldbuilding. on the other i'm 300 pages in and there have been #2 female characters. the purpose of both (so far) was to have sex with the male protagonist and only 1 has a name #which makes the read feel less original and more ''same old shit as far as i'm concerned''

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

#the rejoicing that must have occurred - i can imagine word spread fast #zionists probably took this as a personal attack by nature. good. #The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine #Ilan Pappé #Palestine #Israel #Free Palestine #Free Gaza #ethnic cleansing #zionism #nsnv #colonialism #atypicalreads #politics #history #state of israel #nonfiction #olive trees #Ilan Pappe #mujaydil #conifers #natural flora #indigenous #cypress #pine #trees #migdal ha-emek #jnf #jewish national fund #green lungs

[amanita-rubescens]

#polls #bookblr #fiction #nonfiction #kinsey scale #reblog for sample size #these days i'm probably around a 4

[swampthingking]

the thought of cracking the spine of a book makes kevin nauseous. he like opens it just enough to see the words and holds the book at such uncomfortable angles to read— anything to keep the book pristine and intact. he does not let people borrow his books because he is a control freak (as a term of endearment) and does not trust them to take care of them the way he does.

and andrew is the complete opposite, cracking the spine as soon as he opens it. he annotates in pen. he dog ears the pages because who the fuck has time to find a bookmark. he throws books out of anger. he throws them at aaron for fun. he lets them get smashed and torn in his bag. he always keeps them, he just prefers them to look like they’ve been read.

#someone asks kevin what he’s reading and he doesn’t say the name he just explains the ENTIRE plot of whatever historical thing it is #then is like oh….it’s [book] by [author]…. #someone asks to borrow a book from him and he’s like “i’m sure the library has it” #andrew probably reads horror and sci fi #he probably fucks with stephen king heavy #i refuse to believe andrew “eidetic memory” minyard is “aLLeRgiC tO boOkS” #have you heard him speak… so poetic for what #i fucking know he’s read shakespeare. he hated it but he read it #imagining andrew as a child in foster care escaping in fantasy worlds to get away from his real life is doing something. bad. to me #kevin reads historical fiction and nonfiction #my baby has a special interest and i will do nothing but respect that #“kevin how often do you think about the roman empire” #“…every time i turn on the faucet… why…?” #and when they stare blankly at him he goes on a RANT about roman acqueducts and how they were #“—LITERALLY REVOLUTIONARY WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT??? we would not have running water THINK ABOUT THAT for ONE SECOND” #neil josten doesn’t read. he can’t sit still long enough to #aftg #kevin day #andrew minyard #all for the game #the foxhole court #tfc

[agardenandlibrary]

#cara reads 2024 #it should probably be fires of heaven but I'm thinking of trying to fit in a nonfiction book

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

#i say lesbians but i guess i mean sapphic #im just like. tired of gnawing #and of men also. sorry men in my life i love you but on god if i have to pretend one more man is butch just to get #content that isnt m/m or m/f im going to turn into a horse and run into the wilderness until im saved from the glue factory by a plucky #young woman except instead of letting her have her formative summer where she trains me and bonds w me and wins a competition w me #im going to commit horse suicide in front of her & change her life forever. just because im so tired of bland CW-marketable women kissing & #digging for scraps in a refuse bin while brushing aside 7002993829292929939292929399394 gay and het romances #m text #i will also take nonfictional lesbians if its like a story #not to be whiny on main but one of the hardest hurdles i had to jump wasnt realizing i was a lesbian. i came out to myself and to friends a #lesbian multiple times. but i would always walk it back when a friend would express doubt or a male friend would ask me out #bc i dont and especially then didnt know very many lesbians in person. and so i had to turn to examples #and all i fucking had were fictional women who liked men. or fictional lesbians who were so cleaned and sanitized and prettified #(you all know what i mean right. the 2 skinny white girls one blonde one brunette. im not crazy right) #and i would be like. i dont feel things when i look at these fictional lesbians so i guess i belong back here #(this is also bc my gender ended up being fuckier than i realized but shhhhh) #I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THESE TAGS but theyre too long and im lost. #anyway the point is if people werent so fucking weird abt fictional or onscreen lesbians maybe thered be a lot more people comfortable bein #out as lesbian #like sorry but this awful ouroboros of 'all lesbians onscreen have to be cute and sanitized' meaning that people write and believe wlw has #to be cute and pure and sanitized (OR a 'badge of honor' bc good for u u doodled two women together or had it as a background in ur fic) #meaning that therefore all portrayals of lesbianism continue to be like this. is just #and im also gonna be honest theres probably a lot of good sapphic media im just in the wrong circles to have stumbled into lol. so #yknow. personal viewer bias here #but i still like swing wildly between overly brandishing my dykeness as a badge to feel like im proving im lesbian #and like. backing up under a blanket bc i dont wanna be weird or annoying or freak people out #but if people just Saw Normal Ass Lesbians. aough. #im going to watch revolutionary girl utena one of these days even if i struggled w the writing style the first few episodes #I JUST WANNA SEE AN OLD BUTCH ONSCREEN GET SOME PUSSY. #like it also doesnt help im mostly femme4butch so seeing 2 femmes on screen is like. okay cool so what. but only femmes are 'marketable'

[essektheylyss]

Me recommending nonfiction to people is so funny. I've had people reference both I Contain Multitudes and Underland when I recommended them as "scary" in the last week as if they were horror novels. These books are so drastically different and their subject matter can freak people out in very different ways but in my head they're both just like... about aspects of the world. Many of them natural! Many of them also deadly.

Which is hilarious because I'm over here like, "What's scary is NOT delving into the unknown because you're more afraid of the potential of what you'll find rather than being prepared to handle it."

#if I ever give you a book recommendation you really gotta ask me explicitly about cws cuz I am so bad at even. noticing them ngl #not with fiction! fiction I will remember! #but for whatever reason nonfiction is just 'well this is facts and opinions. i can't be afraid of facts and opinions.' #also we are NOT gonna talk about the fact that yes this is like. most of an essek quote. #it was in fact the phrasing my brain came up with and I did try to figure out if there was another way to convey it as effectively but #this is unfortunately just also how I talk. #I was going to clown on essek for having more flowery imagery in his diction but like. you've probably seen my writing style. #megs is reading

[kummatty]

I put together a little reading list for break bc there's soooo much I want and need to read, its obviously too long and subject to the whims of my brain but some of it will be read;

cross stitch, jazmina barrera trans. christina mcsweeney

out of the sugar factory, dorothee elmiger trans. megan ewing

brotherless night, v.v. ganeshananthan

a mercy, toni morrison

happy stories, mostly, norman erikson pasaribu trans. tiffany tsao

gate of the sun, elias khoury

after the last sky: palestinian lives, edward said

discourse on colonialism, aimé césaire trans. joan pinkham

necropolitics, achille mbembe

securing paradise: tourism and militarism in hawai'i and the philippenes, vernadette vicuña gonzalez

the jakarta method: washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world, vincent bevins

partitioning palestine: british policymaking at the end of empire, penny sinanoglou

maroon nation: a history of revolutionary haiti, johnhenry gonzalez

in theory: classes, nations, literatures, aijaz ahmad

jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the northeast india-bangladesh border, malini sur

finally got the news: the printed legacy of the u.s. radical left, 1970–1979, ed. brad duncan

#if you have any fiction recs pls send them #this list is uncharacteristically nonfiction heavy but thats probably good too bc i always avoid nonfiction

[kakashihasibs]

I feel like my media analysis skill is getting duller over time. Maybe bc i dont engage with fictional stories as much anymore or maybe bc i spent 3 years watching nothing but naruto shippuden lol

#but like when i read stone butch blues i didn't really read as a fictional story #by that i took it fairly face value. I didn't think about hidden meaning by symbolism or themes #and while i actually think a lot of the meaning in stone butch blues is bluntly stated #I'm still probably missing stuff #i read mostly nonfiction and academic nonfiction at that so everything is stated as clearly as humanly possible #i feel like i need a list of questions to prompt me to think deeper about the text now days #i guess this is to say reading fictional stories is a skill and it is one i have found myself lacking in :[

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

actually you know what irritates me (and probably proves I have 0 reading comprehension) is everything suggesting oberon hates people who read stories and then move on from them. Like ??? Wtf do you want us to do with them? Not read them? Not write them? Just permanently continuously read/refuse to finish one story over and over? Never create any narrative fictional art ever just in case someone in it comes to life and becomes orphaned from their cast and purpose??? Like what are we supposed to DO here it’s so???

#like BRO ITS A PLAY/BOOK/STORY #IT EXISTS TO BE READ BUT IT ISNT THE READERS FAULT IT EXISTS? #‘​how DARE these ppl read anything but nonfiction’-this guy probably #ik I’m probably wrong but that’s def how all this ‘he hates m3rlin’ thing feels and tbh that annoys me #bc like. hating people just for reading stories is so stupid #like sure you can hate anyone for anything but objectively that’s stupid. #and it’s not like m3rlin is the only bitch who reads #my post

[libraryfag]

its so wacky living in a world where im not listening to a backlog of podcasts and they're all updating as they go, for this brief period of time.

#well I have 3 penumbra episodes to catch up on #but the modt recent could be the last juno? probably not but maybe #and s2 of dungeons and daddies is wrapping up to. but idk if its the last season #so then ig i might start a new one. but so far I'm just listening to those and nonfiction #my posts #podcasts #tmagp #dndads #tpp

[nat-20s]

Alright beloveds I'm going on a road trip you know what that means! Time to download one motherfuck ton of podcasts! Please recommend what fiction podcast I should listen to next

#im currently catching up on monstrous agonies wtnv and supersuits #ive gotten many recs but give me ur number one right now! #also i wont be listening to malevolent until i have already made my own podcast bc it seems like a similar premise and i dont wanna steal #for non fiction i am (slowly) catching up on sawbones #my next nonfictions will probably be still buffering and just the zoo of us

[byzantine-suggestions]

Definitive iceberg chart of weird Justinian and Theodora media, from least to most obscure

#sorry I abbreviated The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire like it's a taylor swift song lmao #you'd think mainstream historical nonfiction books would rank less obscure but believe me most of the people I see talking about this time #are absolutely not reading actual books #the Rest is History Love Island competition probably shouldn't count as its own thing #but I would be surprised if it wasn't many people's first introduction to Theodora #queue

[anotherpapercut]

I really truly don't understand people who say that reading nonfiction is too difficult or boring. you don't have to read textbooks. there are TONS of nonfiction books that are incredibly interesting and told in a familiar narrative style

#the only nonfiction ive encountered thats more difficult to read than fiction books are books written for people in that field #just find nonfiction books for laypeople. thats like most of the nonfiction books that are published #nontiction is probably like 75-80% of what i read cause its cool as hell #just finished confidence man and black klansman now reading the most dangerous man in america and conspiracy by michael shermer #anyway poke around the nonfiction section of ur librarys physical or digital collection #guarantee youll find something you can enjoy

[boxwinebaddie]

how would you rate cds popularity? like are they harry styles/taylor swift level or closer to like melanie martinez where theyre very popular but to a more niche group of people. or like ethel cain where theyre def more obscure but have super dedicated fans idkdjjdkf

hmm...interesting.

i think for a while they lived in that ethel cain territory in the very beginning, ended up more melanie martinez popular after they had a song go viral and i think now....after they dropped blood moon maybe last year(?) they are somewhere between malenie martinez popular and taylor swift/harry styles popular, but only getting more popular.

( right now they are taking a break from touring to work on their new album/grappling with the new band member switcheroo situation...[this is mostly for my state of mind so i dont have to throw them on planes or tour buses every five seconds, their homebase is in nyc.] )

so i want to say they are...extremely popular, like right now is probably the height of their popularity and they're like in their one direction era. jdlksjdlaja. which i suppose does make stan budget punk rock harry styles.

like i feel like they are definitely on popular talk shows, if you walk into like 20 girls, 12 of them are crimson dawn fans and have specific biases and the other 8 are y/n i hate mainstream music girlies...which...good for them. a lot of boomers probably won't know that much about who they are ( their legacy proceeds them though, they are really controversial ) but millenials and genx do.

this would mean that kyle would be getting excessively googled right now -- he does have no social media presence though, so good luck. also it would mean that upon winning the cd contest that it probably immediately outted marj....who an inspiration to so many trans fans, but is probably also in a lot more danger than she was before tonights concert.

also...is a lot of this farfetched? is it super plausible that stan as raven can stay completely anonymous and not out while being that famous...? probably not! but shhh. close your eyes. this is my funfic. don't read too heavily into the logistics, like, i am an idiot and this is just supposed to be zesty and iconic and cool. it's probably not going to be super accurate and is mostly for the drama, but if you guys are okay with me taking you on a wild journey and just enjoying the ride...that would mean a lot to me. tysm <3

-nervous uncle nina

#to answer ur q i feel like they are def very popular and do have a lot of pap and cameras following them #but they are very well protected by their record label that is all i can say #also as just one person trying to make sense of all this lore i wrote there are going to be plot holes #a lot of this is probably implausible but #are we reading a nonfiction text or my spicy fanfic #so if its not too much trouble...as long as u guys are having fun...pls let me cook #i love you