#the fire this time

[onebluebookworm]

February 2023 Book Club Picks

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, fascinated with thoughts of romance and passion. Her older sister Elinor, conversely, is practical and sensible, always having to keep her flighty younger sister out of trouble. But when both sisters are faced with romantic calamities that threaten their futures and their hearts, they that a combination of sense and sensibility are what’s needed to survive life’s many trials.

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson: In 1971, Go Ask Alice hit shelves, and revolutionized young adult literature, opening America’s eyes to the horrors of drug addiction, mental illness, and teen prostitution. In 1979, Jay’s Journal was published, detailing a young man spiraling into the violent world of Satanic worship, and is often credited with igniting the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Both books purported to be true diaries from real young people. In reality, they were both written by the same person: aspiring writer and fame-hungry con woman Beatrice Sparks, who twisted what facts she had and made up the rest, relying on halfhearted reporting, public outrage, and parents’ inherent fear of children they don’t understand to turn her into one of the most infamous “anonymouses” that’s ever existed.

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward: “You know and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon.” These words positively singe in James Baldwin’s letter to his fifteen-year-old nephew in what would become his 1963 essay “The Fire This Time”. And Jesmyn Ward felt them when another year came, bringing with it a slew of black lives ended by police violence and racist rhetoric. Gathering the premiere writers, poets, and thinkers of the modern age, Ward puts together a collection of thoughts and essays to refute the truth that we are living in a “post-racial” society.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nick Carroway is a new face in the swinging Jazz Age New York scene, full of beautiful people throwing money around and living like they’ll die tomorrow. And among the beautiful elite is the crown jewel of the city, Nick’s neighbor Jay Gatsby, known for his lavish parties and enigmatic past. Everyone has a guess about who Gatsby is and where he (and his money) came from, but Nick finds himself slowly being drawn into Gatsby’s inner circle to learn the truth. Unfortunately, learning that truth comes with a whole host of personal problems Gatsby has been harboring for decades, which all culminates explosively and painfully.

Exit, Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell: The time is 1953. The United States is locked in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, and the government is scrambling to flush out any subversives that may compromise the nation to the encroaching Communist threat. Among those under suspicion is famed Southern playwright Snagglepuss, the toast of Broadway who’s harboring a secret or two of his own. When he becomes the target of the House Committee of Un-American Activities, no one in Snagglepuss’ life is safe.

#book club #february 2023 #sense and sensibility #jane austen #unmask alice #rick emerson #the fire this time #jesmyn ward #the great gatsby #f. scott fitzgerald #exit stage left: the snagglepuss chronicles #mark russell

[minnakkadinn]

"If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you."

#f. scott fitzgerald #the great gatsby #literature #quote #the fire this time

[mylifeissuperboring]

Friday, May 27, 2022

Work: working on something for a Very Cool Museum I can’t talk about

Finished reading This is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare by Gabourey Sidibe

Finished reading The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

Unfurled a giant tarp on my driveway because mulch was being delivered this morning

Saw a small snek and a lizard with no tail. Both very cute but too speedy to get pics

The mulch never turned up

Mulch was apparently actually scheduled for next Friday, despite us agreeing to and being told it was today

Rescheduled mulch for June 8 because next Friday does not work

Put tarp away again

Changed this blog’s icon; Squirrel Girl FTW

Picked up the Terrible Van from the shop, it had a bad wheel bearing and needed it’s AC recharged, cost about $800 >:(

Returned my mom’s jeep that we had been borrowing while the van was in the shop

Stopped at a Kentaco on the way home 

Watched an episode of Company Man on youtube

Duolingo Korean

Went to the grocery store

Went to the Burger King drive thru and saw this dude who clearly did not know how drive thrus work (pic below)

Watched episode 3 of Moon Knight

Lockpicking practice

Read pages 1-32 of Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire

#journal #work #may #friday #this is just my face #gabourey sidibe #the fire this time #jesmyn ward #mulch #squirrel girl #Terrible Van #jeep #my parents #family #kfc #taco bell #kentaco #company man #duolingo #korean #grocery store #burger king #pic #moon knight #marvel #lockpicking #lockpick #half-off ragnarok #seanan mcguire

[yourangle-yuordevil]

That time in ancient Greece when Aziraphale needed a speedy horse and accidentally invented the pegasus

VS.

Whatever Crowley had going on in medieval times

#Crowley just really misses the unicorns ok??? #Also Crowley didn't start from a horse to make a new unicorn #he looked at a horse and was like.... nah #then looked at a goat and was like YEAAAAH LET'S GOO LET'S MAKE YOU BIG AF AND YOU CAN ALSO SPIT FIRE WHAT A GREAT IDEA!! #While Aziraphale is fretting over the fact that he accidentally gave WINGS to a HORSE and every time that the angels asks about it he's lik #whaaat?? PegaSUS naaaah never heard about it. Must be a made up thing. humans...right?? silly little things ahahah *sweat nervously* #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #pegasus #unicorn #Do I wanna draw the precious good omens beans? yes. #is this an excuse to draw more horses? also yes. #medieval crowley #ancient greek aziraphale #CAVALLIIIIIII 🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴🐎🐴 #good omens comic #historical husbands

[cemeterything]

sleeping with plushes is humiliating because they're the biggest snitches on your fucked up sleep acrobatics. every night i go to bed with a plush critter in my arms and every morning i wake up and they've somehow migrated to face the wall in shame like this

#🐉 #one time i woke up and they were all lined up against the wall like they were awaiting execution by firing squad

[satan-incarnate-666]

poll time!!

please reblog with your answer and country!!

i, for example, have fired a gun, and am from canada.

enjoy!!

edit to say: air rifles, bb guns, paintball markers, etc, DO NOT COUNT. only REAL firearms (as in gunpowder powered) count.

#poll #polls #poll time #caw caw caw #i was also 18 months old the first time i fired a gun #pros of living in rural northern ontario ig #now I'm a competitive sharpshooter #my girl is a .22 reuger bolt action rifle #i love her <3

[bramblebrine-art]

seteth told him to only file an incident report for hubert if he STOPS sending death threats. he sends one each week to all the faculty in an exquisite, wax-sealed envelope and the rest usually happen during brawling tutoring.

#seteth is also the one who made him keep track to begin with #he has to fill one out every time hilda threatens him just in case holst gets involved #fire emblem three houses #fe3h #my jokes #my art #yuri leclerc

[trylvieuno]

#going back to my roots in time for the live action #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar roku #sozin #fire lord sozin #rozin

[solardrake]

Delivering mail to the furthest corners of the server ✉✈

#IF YOURE WONDERING WHERE IVE BEEN BTW THIS HAS TAKEN UP SOOO MUCH OF MY TIME IM SORRY I BECAME A HERMIT #i spent two weeks learning cpm and blockbench to make this! every animation is made from scratch #there's still a lot more to do too! but im very happy with how it's turned out #I also whipped up an origins datapack that allows people to ride on my back and to scale the eye height and stuff properly #like uhh. i still wanna make a blink anim. and a low health state that makes an engine catch fire. and clean up some anims im unhappy with #if anyone knows how the animated textures function works on cpm btw... pls let me know ;_; #big shoutout to hazel for helping me with a lot of the technical issues btw! <3 #minecraft #modded minecraft #mineblr #aberrations #oc:strata #airplane dragon

[zillychu]

haunting the ashes of home

#danny phantom #fire core au #'hey zilly how many times are you gonna use the whole moon as horns motif' UNTIL IT STOPS BEING COOL!!!! #zilly art

[onebluebookworm]

Ranking Books I Read In 2022: 20-16

20. The Daughters of Mannerling series - Marion Chesney

What I Liked: A fun cast of characters. Lots of notable bachelors. Tons of madcap fun I’ve come to expect from this series. What I Didn’t Like: I really wish Mannerling had burned down, not just because I hate the idea of it still having its claws in the family, but because it would have just worked thematically. Lady Beverly would have either died or learned to move on, and that would have been a much more satisfying ending. Final thoughts: A fun, cute series that has a pretty good dose of nonsense under its belt.

19. The Princess Bride - William Goldman

What I Liked: A funny, fun, rollicking adventure. Fezzik and Inigo’s relationship is, if possible, even more adorable. The framing device of a fictionalized Goldman trying to rewrite a doorstopper for his child to enjoy is incredibly clever. What I Didn’t Like: Some parts got positively Tolkien-esque and it made my eyes glaze over. Buttercup is pretty bland. I dunno, something about actually seeing Wright and Elwes interact and have that wonderful chemistry made the movie so much better in regards to the romance. Final thoughts: A delightful thing whether you’ve seen the movie or not, even though I do prefer the movie.

18. Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler

What I Liked: Absolutely visceral and painful, but in a way that compels you. Lauren is an amazing protagonist and I love reading about her badassery. What I Didn’t Like: Takes a while to get off the ground. Don’t really care for the uncomfortable relationship with Bankole, who is explicitly stated to be old enough to be Lauren’s father. Final thoughts: Despite the slow start, this is a timeless piece of writing that makes me sad Butler stopped after only two books. TW rape.

17. The Bad Guys series - Aaron Blabey

What I Liked: Genuinely made laugh a lot. Surprisingly moving and sweet. What I Didn’t Like: It’s a book for kids so I feel like I can’t judge the plots too harshly. Maybe a few jokes that didn’t land. Final thoughts: A great book series to just turn your brain off, accept whatever comes, and have fun. Really looking forward to the ending.

16. The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward

What I Liked: So many great essays, which were almost all full of gorgeous prose and gut-wrenching feeling. The essay about walking in America while black especially got me. What I Didn’t Like: One or two of the essays fell a little flat. Final thoughts: A great read, but bring a tissue. TW discussions of racism.

#ranking books 2022 #daughters of mannerling #marion chesney #the princess bride #william goldman #parable of the sower #octavia e. butler #the bad guys #aaron blabey #the fire this time #jesmyn ward

[bourneblack]

i’d rather have rainbow capitalism then living in constant fear of discovery. the woman in the pride flag disney t-shirt might be missing the nuance, but at least i know i can be myself. a street full of rainbow flags makes me more comfortable holding a mans hand. look. corporations aren’t your friend. they will sell to whoever will buy. but kids seeing gay everything every year is only ever a good thing, and a massive improvement in history

#unpopular opinion #lgbt #pride month #rainbow capitalism #queer things #bb unpopular opinion #notice how i never said i love capitalism #its the people who buy the flags that are the benefit #notice how i said it makes me more comfortable #and not everyone #because it's not true for everyone #but it's becoming more and more true over time #because despite the fearmongering #things are better than they were #if you can't recognize the fact that we are better off with corporate pride #than with being burned at the stake or being run behind trucks or getting mass fired and murdered and kicked out of home #then you don't need to be on this post #and don't talk to me about how corps and politicians are paying for those behaviors to continue #they've always done that #and now they are digging themselves into a hole #because we call them out and the public listens #the point #is to say there is value to having a seat at the capitialist table #having public opinoin on our side #it means we have more power to call out politicians and corporations for their hypocrisy #it means we have an audience who is listening #so shut the fuck up #trying to explain on this post what rainbow capitalism #the people on this post and I already know #and i'd rather use it

[moon-pepper]

Good time for a periodic reminder that "butch" does not mean "has muscles" and it does not mean "sidebuzz haircut" and if you look at a cartoon girl who wears makeup and skirts and high heels and decide she's butch purely on the virtue of "she's kind of buff" or "she's got short hair" or "she's rude to men" or "she knows how to fight" then you need to delete futchscale.png off your hard drive and talk to an actual butch for once in your life

EDIT: This post is somehow still dominating my activity feed after two months so I feel like I should add a couple of disclaimers:

No, I don't hate She-Ra. I like it quite a bit, in fact. I don't know why some people seem to think being annoyed by the fandom response to a character means I hate the show...?

Also, this post isn't really "about" Scorpia. She just came to mind first when I wrote the tag

(imagine I'm standing up on a big box with a megaphone for this one) THIS POST WAS MADE BY A GLEEFUL TRANSSEXUAL AND IF YOU HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THAT THEN MY WORDS ARE NOT FOR YOU. TRANS-EXCLUSIONARY FEMINISM IS A BOLD-FACED LIE AND SERVES ONLY TO REDIRECT SUFFERING AWAY FROM YOURSELF AND TOWARD THE LESS-PRIVILEGED. COWARD

#pepperpost #listen. listen. I Get It. i've been there. i used to think sully from fire emblem qualified as butch-coded #believe me when i say you are embarrassing yourself every time you reply to a post about butch lesbians with ''like scorpia from she-ra :D'

[demaparbat-hp]

Little Zuzu for an incoming project 🔥

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #atla zuko #zutara #avatar #prince zuko #zuko fanart #atla fanart #atla art #zuko art #I'm... kinda new here so I don't know the tags #Anyways you guessed it (it's a comic) #You may blame our only true God Hozier for making me do this #I never asked for the perfect Zuko song and yet I still received Arsonist's Lullaby #Amazing #Anyways he's literally the love of my life #Best. Character. Ever. #And I know I say this about... pretty much all my favorite characters but I MEAN IT this time #Also look at the pretty fire 🔥 #I've got a page that's literally just Dragon Fire so... I guess this was practice for Ran and Shaw????? #Gotta draw Zuzu here firebending in colors

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

#''but i just want to use it to--'' don't care! it's shit! stop fucking feeding it! #if you need help generating ideas or jumping off points then join an artist or writer group online #talk to people #make connections #that's what art and writing is supposed to be about in the first place #i'm mad as hell etc. #so goddamn sick and tired of seeing ai shit get passed around on here #it's bad enough in general but every time i see more of it showing up #tagged as fan art or as fic #the angrier i get #heartfelt imperfection in art and writing will always ALWAYS be worth more than the most technically ''perfect'' ai generated image or text #fandom problems #ai generation algorithms die in a fire challenge 2k23 #just a heads up that i'm muting this post and will no longer see responses to it #because i'm tired of seeing dogshit takes from jackasses who want to ''debate'' me #there's no debate you're in the wrong on literally every level and you can die mad about it

[thesolemnhour]

Transfiguration's gonna come for me, at last, and I will burn hotter than the sun.

🦋🔥Knight-Commander Agria Lebeda🔥🦋

[INCREDIBLE art by @earthlydusk]

#agria lebeda #pathfinder wrath of the righteous #wotr #pwotr #agria shouldve had a square jaw the entire time earthlydusk was SO right!! #emberkin aasimar #the butterflies in the fire!! omg!! #ag tag