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zahri-melitor · 2 days

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A Quick, Somewhat Joking Discussion of 'the Best Ways To Get Into Comics' (TM)

Be 10-14 years old, pick up a random comic at the library/bookshop/someone's collection and become obsessed. This is proven the best method and the level of confusion engendered by it is actually more useful long term than any other method. (At that age you are going to fall deeply in love with random texts that are never going to quite have the depth your brain imparts on them)

Mention to a friend who does like comics that you want to 'get into comics' and said friend, knowing your preferred types of tv shows and books, your favourite characters and having asked what you're hoping to read, carefully picks out something that is objectively a good starter comic that fits your tastes and makes your brain go brrrr. (god tier level, that friend is a keeper, also congratulations on the fact you are never going to replicate the feel of reading that first comic again)

Lurk or hang out in some fandom space where you are regularly exposed to discussions of comics that includes actual panels and storylines of recent comics, and work out from that what seems to have a vibe you like, so you go and pick up that run (solid option, being able to taste various writers and styles of run before diving in gives you a better chance of choosing a run that hooks you, I was introduced to so many runs via scans_daily in this way back in the day).

Wander into a library or comic shop or bookshop that has a decent number of comics with the idea that you want to look into reading these, and then flip through a bunch of trades in what you think you want to read before something catches your eye and you pick that up (less likely to be a definite hook, but has the benefit of being far more likely than any option listed further below to involve newbie-friendly art. And newbie-friendly art is something that isn't discussed enough in terms of recommendations but is one of the biggest reasons people just getting into comics bounce off the format).

Only here will I mention recommended character reading guides. In my experience they're useful in certain contexts, particularly for characters who have hard-to-trace chronologies, for finding out what runs that person considers essential to the character, for untangling the order of comics in particularly confusing large events, and for narrowing down and directing people where there's a big chunk of material to read about a character. My objection is they tend to be treated like gospel by newbies, they frequently don't consider whether the artwork is going to make their eyes burn, quite often they are more focused on the 'best' stories for a character rather than the 'most accessible stories' for that character (these are two separate concepts!) and they tend to sell a narrative of 'don't read X' where X is quite often a comic which people don't enjoy but where an important event happens or is simply an older comic that's particularly affected by community expectations and standards having changed since it was written.

You know that '75 Years of Comics' series of prestige hardbacks that DC did? They're great to hand to a newbie looking to get into a specific character or mantle, because it's got stand alone stories that are highly regarded or solidly introductory about that character from each era, they can page through it and work out what version makes their brain happy, and then follow up on those leads into more reading. (Expensive but perfect for libraries)

The first trade of a recent run for the character in question by the current or second most recent writer. Most runs when they change lead writers are going to have some level of onboarding simply because a lot of people DO switch what they're reading depending on what team is on the book, and by going with a current run you manage to sidestep a lot of the 'this feels weird and old' problems.

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guywrestlingaddiction · 3 days

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Everything Great About a Match: Evan Sterling v Leroy Blaze (bgeast.com)

Everything Great About this Match: +7

Evan Sterling v Leroy Blaze (bgeast.com)

SPOILER ALERT: I highly recommend viewing this match in its entirety before reading this post.

So let's begin: +1: The guys are hot and a point for their different body types. Wrestlers come in all shapes and sizes and it's great how the muscular Eye-catching Evan is balanced by cut lithe Leroy.

Leroy, built to stretch in any position.

Evan, built bigger to stretch out and manhandle said opponent.

Now if you thought you knew how this match would go simply by looking at them, well then, you would be wrong.

+1: For an even match with each man knowing how to accentuate their strengths. Evan is the big sexy brute powering his way to domination while Leroy is the equally sexy sprite, flinging his body around to great effect.

Flipin for the counter attack and you got to hand it to Leroy, the man can move.

Evan simply pulls Leroy off the mat and tosses him around like he weighs next to nothing

Those huge, muscular thighs are no joke, just ask Leroy

+1: For all the ab bashes. Evan looks like a towering heel, pounding against the razor thin Leroy. But don't count Leroy out, the guy knows how to dish out the punishment and is the man when it comes to selling all this. Hell, this deserves a bonus point [+1]

+1: The guys get sweaty. They definitely deserve a point for the all the effort they put into this match as the entire ring gets slick with sweat.

+1: This nice guy match slowly evolves as these two become more desperate for the win. Our two gentlemen begin by wrestling by the book to eventually pulling out all the stops in order to win.

Wrestling Green Flag: Holding the ropes open for your date, I mean opponent.

Well that changed quick! Evan: I don't care if you're on the ropes; You're mine!

Remember that shaking your opponents hand at the end is a sign of good sportsmanship; whether he's unconscious or not.

+1: I love a hard fought match untill exhaustion and this is it. The guys work hard and it shows not only in sweat but in that extra sense of effort that I just can't put my finger on. Sure both men are wobbly and stumble around the ring towards the end but there's something in the final minutes of the match that makes me feel 'these guys wanted to win badly' and gave it there all. Definitely deserves a point.

The guys are running on fumes and it's only a matter of time before one man breaks.

------- Everything Great About this Match: +7

So there you have it. While relatively newish to the ring by bgeast standards, both men are quickly working their way up the gay wrestling stable to new heights. It's perfect how they fought until they had nothing left and gave this match that extra something that makes gives gay wrestling so much heart and reminds me why I love this so much.

#gay wrestling #bgeast.com #Evan Sterling #Leroy Blaze

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fella-lovin-fella · 1 year

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losing my mind over this, actually.

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rachaels · 7 months

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I'm rereading the Hunger Games books and I truly cannot overstate how little grittiness and bite and general depth of emotion has translated over to the movies. I know it would've been difficult to really capture how Katniss thinks and feels without the aid of her internal monologue, but the viewers lose SO much here.

in the movies, when Katniss visits District 12 after it's been reduced to ash, the only thing you realize is that it was her home and now it's gone — you don't feel the weight she feels, because none of the characters who are presumed dead by the start of the third book were ever introduced in the movies to begin with.

she walks through the remnants of the bakery where Peeta's family used to live. through the books, you know that Peeta had an abusive mother, and two brothers who were either too old to volunteer for him in the games or simply wouldn't sacrifice themselves to save him. and you know Peeta's father, who promised Katniss he would feed and care for Prim before Katniss went into the games in the event that she didn't come back, who bought game from Katniss and Gale when his wife wasn't home, who knew Katniss's mother when they were kids and dreamed of marrying her one day.

and as she walks through the ashes of their home, her internal monologue says they all died. just like that. she's numb to the emotion of Peeta having no family to come home to. she's numb to the fact that her childhood friend and the Mayor's daughter, Madge, who gave her the pin and effectively started the mockingjay symbolization, died along with her parents. and as she passes by skulls and bones, she tells them, "I killed you. and you. and you." because she blames herself for every single death in District 12.

the movies never stood a chance. they can't be meticulous enough to introduce the Mellarks, or Madge and her parents, or Bonnie and Twill — and that's just a fraction of the characters who were cut for time. they can't effectively make you feel exactly how Katniss feels. and they had to stay within the confines of a PG-13 rating. they never stood a chance and it wasn't even close.

#the hunger games #mockingjay #thg #anyways I've been REALLY enjoying reading the books for the first time in like. a decade. highly recommend they are SO good #shut up rachael

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abnormalpsychology · 5 months

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why do we create and why should create that silly thing? bc you gotta :) bc it will matter to someone :) <3

“Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative”, Ethan Hawke | Richard Siken | “Longing” by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1899) | Smiley Blanton, from The Healing Power of Poetry (found in “Mary Oliver Saved My Life” by Greg Cook) | Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger | The Sugar Shack by Ernie Barnes (1976) | the Gospel of Thomas | “Reading books is not just a pleasure: it helps our minds to heal” by Peter Leyland | The Immersive Van Gogh experience, photographed by Ben Davis | Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

#it matters to someone !!!!#even if that someone’s just you!!!!!#good then!!!#big magic is fuckin life changinggggg #love that book #highly recommend #^^#bbge.weaves #creativity #web weaving #thinking I’ll make more web weaves these are so therapeutic and fun #bbge.text #elizabeth gilbert #van gogh #ethan hawke

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botanizing · 1 year

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I just started reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett and I'm losing my mind at the perfect description of what it's like getting a job at a large institution. This building was once state-of-the-art and has now fallen into disrepair, but the people showing you around have been there so long it's completely normal to them. There's that one guy who's really weird and intense but he does good work if you just let him be.

#not plants #going postal #terry pratchett #discworld #very good book so far highly recommend

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phaedraismyusername · 8 months

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Hi hello have you ever read Frankenstein? Do you have any love for gothic tales about grief, obsession, and love? Have you ever thought you might be a Mary Shelley girly at heart? What about dinosaurs, do you like dinosaurs??

If you even considered a yes to any of these questions then I'm begging you to read Our Hideous Progeny by C E McGill

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pasta-pardner · 1 year

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detail shot from my latest art piece!

on a somewhat related note, I think "He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western" by Roderick McGillis should be required reading for every cowboy enthusiast. The book is primarily concerned with 1940s B-westerns, but I think the insights apply to other westerns as well.

Like, uh, there's an entire chapter dedicated to analyzing guns as fetish objects. McGillis breaks down how guns are symbols of manhood, control, desire, repression, etc... it's phenomenal genre study.

Anyways-- lately, I've thinking a lot about the gun fetish chapter and the inherent homoeroticism of gunslinger rivalries. so... mantimer fanart!

#mantimer #mancomer #im oversimplifying mcgillis's gun analysis. he also talks about consumerism. which is why y'all should read the full chapter.#(and also maybe the full book if you have 6 hours to kill bc its a /really/ good book that i highly highly recommend)#but. basically. guns are a thing that can be so gender to cowboys #and i think i have a personal responsibility to generate homoeroticism from that #tmwnn #manco #westerns #🤠#🍝#art #artner #pardner posts

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luxaofhesperides · 7 months

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she gets the girl - rachael lippincott & alyson derrick

#yalit #yalitedit #she gets the girl #rachael lippincott #alyson derrick #lgbtq books #sapphic books #litedit #wlw books #queer books #my edit #been a while since i read a contemp romance and this one was really good!!!#i love the development of molly and alex's rship is so good!!#highly recommend it

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artificial-condition · 2 months

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The book “Some Desperate Glory” by Emily Tesh is so underrated on here. I can’t help but feel like tumblr would love it, your main character is so so so bad, just awful dirtbag person who is so oblivious to how bad she is and that everyone hates her, who then gets pulled throughout so many timelines to where she actually realizes “maybe I suck” and continues to suck but is actively trying not to suck. She’s just awful and it’s so good

#my thoughts #some desperate glory #Emily tesh #also it’s very scifi and so good!!!! I highly recommend #there is a lot of growth and it feels very real #she doesn’t go from stupid horrible awful to amazing overnight #book recommendation #I think it also has a really good portrayal of a cult atmosphere and the mind fuckery that goes on there

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snarkelf · 9 months

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Both love and hate that there's basically no info on the third book of The Legendborn Cycle because on the one hand. I get to experience the hype of getting that information! But on the other hand. Once I finish Bloodmarked I'm just going to have to twiddle my thumbs and wait

#DJ Rambles #Legendborn #no spoilies i still have like 20% of the book left #i love these books though omg #bree my beloved i want so much for her #one of those special moments where i really love the mc #her development has been beautiful and i know she has even more room to grow #also selwyn #i HATED him for most of legendborn but then his story was revealed. AH. i love him sm.#i really like these books y'all #HIGHLY recommend to people looking for a good YA fantasy series

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wordsifelt · 1 year

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Adding on to my collection of queer books.

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whumpypepsigal · 1 year

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i haven’t read the books but a show about a trio who have great natural chemistry, found family vibes, great dialogue, amazing plot, fighting ghosts/supernatural elements, each of them have special powers and skills, each character have a proper development and story, awesome dynamic… is so so so good. their dynamic reminds me of the one between the beloved trio - harry, ron and hermione. i love lockwood, lucy and george. also the whump is great (lockwood is angsty, reserved emotionally detached individual who has a traumatic past and THAT cliffhanger was brutal). the way lucy protects lockwood and george and vice versa is EVERYTHING! THEY ARE MY FAMILY. here i am, yet again, deeply invested and in love with a new netflix show that might or might not get renewed asdfghjkll WHY DO I TORTURE MYSELF LIKE THIS? KNOWING FULL WELL THAT NETFLIX GIVETH AND NETFLIX TAKETH AWAY FML

look at them! the boys comforting lucy. lockwood holding lucy’s hand ahhhh… every time lockwood and lucy hold hands… i melt THE CHEMISTRY IS CHEMISTRYING