#summer reads 2020

[call-me-oracle]

barbara gordon in dark nights death metal: the last stories of the dc universe (we fight for love)

bonus:

#missing a few little babses in panels where she doesn't speak #but overall #this is her in this #reading this makes me so infuriated with rebirth batgirl though #like she actually has nuance here meanwhile in rebirth batgirl it's like a slogggg to read through #recently re-read the summer of lies arc for dickbabs and it reminded me of just how bad i hate rebirth batgirl #anyways #barbara gordon #batgirl #dick grayson #nightwing #dickbabs #bruce wayne #batman #jason todd #red hood #tim drake #damian wayne #robin #dc comics #comic panels #dark nights death metal (2020) #the last stories of the dc universe #written by: cecil castelluci #art by: mirka andolfo #colours by: andrew dalhouse #queue #sorry for so much babsgirl lately #but going to start the bop arc soon so i'll try to more from that soon

[shedoessoshedoes]

In this wake of (exciting!! wonderful!!) influx of news and fans discovering (or rediscovering) red, white, and royal blue for the first time as we get ready for the movie to come out, I would like to take a moment to recognize those that have loved this story since the beginning. I see you. I recognize you. I think you're cool. (and if you're just now falling in love with Alex, and Henry, I think you're pretty awesome, too)

#i read this book summer 2020 and it changed my life #truly a light in the covid darkness #rip to the rwrb playlist #i reread this book every two weeks #long live the london scene #red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwarb #alex claremont diaz #alex and henry #hrh prince henry

[welleducatedinfant]

calling it now it’s gonna be a conan gray summer

#I can quite literally smell it #predicting that this will be the four years later spiritual successor/full circle/whatever of 2020 summer #for me at least #unfortunately macky aka the only person who really knows what that’s means isn’t on this website but yeah #trust me on this one guys #best friend v2 out soon #infant speaks #speaks nonsense btw #anyway #conan gray #anton if you’re reading this turn back now please #but I think part of it is that my gf is for lack of a less corny phrase sort of the friend I wanted so bad in high school but never got #we would’ve been running that theater if we went to hs together LMAO #OR been mortal enemies but whatever that’s not the case 🥰 #anyhow found heaven is hitting me very much how kid krow did #ok goodnight

[twinkskeletons]

BAHAHA saw ur tags on how fake deep mcr fans can be like 21p and tru coming from a casual mcr listener. not to start a war butt i find it funny fob tumblr fans be like “yeah petes a misogynist nft bro whos sweaty and gross but hes a good poet and luvs his friends” but mcr fans will literally not do any sort of roasting of their faves and just put up the face of mcr being this super progressive not like other bands and no one gets them besides us😩and always comes from somebody in their 20s

yeah.. idk man maybe the guy besties with/married to mindless self indulgence isn’t actually a perfect progressive god of creativity and womens rights or whatever u guys say abt him

#no one but me remembers summer 2020 #answered #and we cant forget the comics. i mean i can lol i havent read them in years #i do know that there are many questionable choices when it comes to race though!

[annamariedarkholmes]

the way that adult men working both in the x-men office and “influencer” fan-adjacent spaces always behave so performatively extra about gambit will never stop being weird to me. it’s such a nasty underhanded way to gatekeep his (mostly female lbr) fans under the guise of (repeatedly asserting) mere personal preference

#this isn’t the same as fandom arguments btw bc it’s often unprovoked out of nowhere bashing #gambit #x #he’s not real #but his fans that you keep trying to gatekeep are #this shit isn’t new btw #the office tried to kill him ever since antarctica #i’ve read account of people attending cons in the early aughts #and the x-office men on the panel would pull this shit on the FANS ASKING QUESTIONS #the x-office keeps getting more homogenous the further we get from summer 2020 #i knew it was just corporate pinkwashing and there you go #otherwise then where is vita #where is kelly thompson #why is leah only getting an occasional mini #treating tini howard like their peggy olson ‘superstar’ while culling all other female/nb/non-white writers…. tells you everything #we’re finally getting stephanie williams after how many years of the same yt men #and is she actually getting a book #or just a story included in marvel pride? #i don’t give a shit about what those men like and they don’t have to share my interests #but the fact that they’re actively trying to sabotage everything outside their specific personal preference? #not promoting r&g until presales ended for 1 #while they promoted captain britain and x23 EARLY? #was a very specific choice #i remember this song and dance from long ago #see also ‘you’re not real fans’ levied at girls/women who loved movie rogue and her kinship w wolverine #even though they’re super close in the comics too #i know it’s partly the subset of weirdo kitty pryde fans (including our current x-editor lol) #who think any female character who logan mentors is a ~threat~ but it’s mostly misogyny

[lazyspeedy]

looking back, i got to admire the work ethic of my college sophomore year self

#like going back to school thru the roughs of the pandemic still fall of 2020 #writing essays and stuff #AND being able to literally go thru a big chunk of all the known classics™️ of zutara fanfics #these days i have to give myself strength to write a cover letter 😔 #i will say this summer and yr i read a lot of books and watched a lot of movies #^^

[racingliners]

really feeling like re-watching the 2020 season once my 2022 re-watch is out of the way

#I have the 2020 season on a loop in my head at the moment idk why #(well; it's bc I want Lewis to start winning again; but yeah) #might save that for the summer break maybe idk #I know no one reads my re-watch liveblogs and it's literally me just shouting into the void but honestly it's so much fun #I am getting very sick of the dutch and austrian anthems now though sorry not sorry avohaeugh #personal #F1 Thoughts

[likeabxrdinflight]

I have a friend who's still highly cautious around covid because she's high risk but she keeps posting all these screenshots of tweets about covid studies on her instagram in an attempt to convince people that covid is still very dangerous

and it's not that covid isn't still potentially dangerous, but one quick google search has allowed me to find every study that she has referenced, and without fail, every single one of them has been working with pre-vaccine, pre-omicron data. the most recent one she's posting about is about cardiac conditions post covid, and wouldn't you know, the entire sample was taken from people who caught covid between march 2020 and january 2021.

this was pre-vaccine, pre-omicron, hell, it was pre-delta variant (remember that one). this was the wild type covid, which our bodies were least immune to. it was the type that was most known to be causing cardiac symptoms and blood clots. besides delta, it was the most deadly. and no one was vaccinated.

so yes, in that group of people, who were unfortunate enough to catch covid during that period, the results of this study are likely very valid- they are at increased risk of heart disease. and that should be talked about and studied more and if those people end up with cardiac symptoms they need to be receiving proper care.

but we should not be assuming, without further study, that these risks are still the same for those who've been vaccinated, or who only caught covid after the omicron variant became dominant (the omicron lineages have been pretty different from the wild type and other pre-omicron variants, so it's worth noting that). like this is a study that must be replicated with a post-vaccine, post-omicron sample before you will even remotely convince me that those cardiac risks are the same as they were before.

and it is driving me crazy that my friend, who is also fucking trained in how to read science, is posting this shit seemingly without looking at the actual papers or thinking about the context at all. like it is driving me absolutely bananas. these posts aren't even like, direct quotes from the papers, they're screenshots of randos on twitter talking about these papers, as if twitter rando knows jack shit about what they're talking about. like it's all well and good to still care about covid but could you at least do it with less of the fear mongering?

#that's what bothers me I think #these posts always have a flavor of 'you should still be just as afraid of this virus as you were in march 2020' #and that's just...not true #that is patently not true #even if you're high risk the situation has changed a bit it's not as dire as it was though you should still be more concerned obvs #like I'm still all for wearing masks in public spaces #especially crowded ones #but the fear mongering has to stop we cannot talk about this like it's 2020 anymore #and the solutions cannot be the 2020 solutions anymore either #like I agree the government just dropped covid like a hot potato and way too quickly but just...why can't we just say that? #I have enough health anxiety I don't need these kinds of studies thrown in my face when they're all backlogged #...that's probably my real issue is that I read this shit and then get sent all into a tizzy because I had covid last summer #only to go and fact check shit and find out that the data isn't even useful or applicable to someone like me #who caught covid after three vaccines and during the BA.5 omicron wave #arguably one of the mildest of the variants #so it's just like #can you not #and there's no fucking filters on instagram

[burinazar]

It's funny stepping back into fandom spaces where most people are within my general age range or older after making so many younger friends in MiAbyss fandom* so when i go back to my old stomping grounds of LOGH or T&B or Star Trek or Vorkosiverse or the BJD hobby or just the whole entire SFF/genre fiction reader+writer sphere and it's like oh ok yeah. i'm not really thaaaaaaattttt humongously old i guess. because to be honest with you sometimes in other contexts i feel like the club penguin 18+ elderly penguin

*not to erase those of you in there who are older! it's just that something with MiA that was a brand new experience for me over the last year is that I sure did accumulate some treasured fandom friends a decade-ish younger than me and i feel somewhat protective of them slash occasionally ashamed of not being a more impressive role model or something but okay look you guys don't want a mentor you want a draw-er of shitposts and a writer-er of decentish fanfics and That I Can Do

#it was similarly funny when my sister and i went to Balticon this summer #aside from a pack of anime teens that we didn't interact with much nearly everyone was older.. #we met a guy who outright said oh yeah you guys might be a bit young for this scene... #(in a very nice way! he could tell i was feeling a bit fish out of water) #we went to a room party and the hostess also noted we were younger and she was like the next youngest person we had met and she was 40 #and those moments left me so surprised pikachu because.. i feel extremely old on the internet these days in a lot of nerd spaces #nice to know i'm still Larva Age (well pupa age maybe) for like star trek fandom ;; #if any morbidly curious soul read all these tags just wondering if i'd finally mention how old i am i'm thirty. gasp #it is unclear to me if i come across older or younger than this. you people made me start saying 'real' and 'bruh' #i used to mention my age more often on the internet and just stopped out of shame in like 2020 because i'd accomplished so little for my ag #i should try to unlearn that shit maybe .__. 'oh i can mention my age when i have a better job--' Hey. Thats An Insane Thought Process

[skullboiz]

my one accomplishment this year was staying somewhat consistently happy ill be grateful for that at least! may 2024 be even more bountiful

#i think post 2020 got everyone fucked up ill take any small win #AND ALL OF YOU MAKING TOURDUST FUN AS HELL ill cherish the tl memories ❤️ #oh and my summer trip obviously. hannah i miss you like every day its bad LOLLLLL hoping i can see u again next year… #STARS BETTER ALIGN u arent even reading this im just manifesting. if i keep saying it itll be true YEP #skulltxt

[onepiexe]

ive not been on here at all oh my god

#logbook #my last text posts were from like. laurel day. and then nothing until back on like the 5th. #anyways hi im alive SKSHSJFKG spring is almost over. .i habe been told i'll still be busy in the zummer but it wont be bad #it'll be a busy im actually really excited for and have wanted to do this whole time lol #ive got new plant babies. i bought some new furniture. im slowly cleaning my space. #i made new friends at work with some of the cashiers finally. turns out we're all the same age. #we're planning to hang out this week after work too :) #ummmmmm. mostly been watching alfred bi attorney streams/vods and reading again. #relearing spanish. . .learning botany from books. . .going to start on my course this summer too. #i got a plushie i preordered back in like. 2021?? 2020?? and havent slept a night without em<3 #yeah idk ive been doing alright. hows everyone been. missed yall. #tell me whats up if you read this :)

[1eos]

Yk what iconic moment of the Kendra-universe lives in my head?That time a fanfic mother went on a two day rant on Twitter after you left a comment on her fic on ao3

OH THE FUCKING BNHA OMEGA POLICE BRUTALITY HAG LMAOFOAFMOAFOAOOAOAOOOOOOOOAOA. was acting like she was jesus on the cross bc someone was like um how about you don't compare black people being killed in the streets with your lil ugly 2d boys leaking bussies 😭😭😭😭😭😭 fic writers are the worstttttttttttt

#i forgot all abt that #wasnt that also written like super close to all the protesting the summer of 2020? read the room!

[lorelune]

i think jing yuan giving bird nicknames is very cute and i do like it but it also gives me war flashbacks

#i read ‘dove’ and it’s summer of 2020 again #lore loops

[foxgloveinspace]

No matter how many years go by, Afraid - The Neighbourhood is an All for the Game song.

#very much so #it doesn't matter what playlist it's on I will sit here and romantisize summer 2020 and the feeling of reading aftg for the first time #fuck. #tfc

[reigningmax]

There is literally no gossip 😭 it was quite early during the covid lockdown, we just realized via insta he had unfollowed her and since she always had a private account we never really got to see much of her life. he soon started following some random girls on insta and that's it really. i think it was quite amicable because she kept contact with max's family, max never deleted their photos.

that's boring :/

#JKHDBKJVHSBDKJVHB #clearly it was fine cause ya #i've seen her pop up on victoria's comments often! #i remember when i first got here #reading there was overlap with kelly #but my 1d fbi skills clearly showed she was out early 2020 #and kelly was end of summer 2020 #anyways thank you KJSHDBVKHSDB #i was hoping there's some juicy stuff #asks #anonymous

[myhikari21things]

Read of Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (2021) (369pgs)

#summer sons #lee mandelo #fiction #paperback #2020s #first time read