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I have never been satisfied with the way I draw usopp simply because I love him SO much does that make sense??

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Summer time

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🍑🍉.

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Get him Zoro!!

(Zoro's eye scar is there, the angle just miraculously hides it)

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the cook

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WANTED NAMI 🍊💰🐱

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Shares are appreciated 💖

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A Weekly Reading Journal 6.22.25

Summer is time for devouring books while getting way to much sun!

Currently Reading:

Fiction:

A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien

Poetry:

Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems edt. by J.D. McClatchy

Early Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov

Nonfiction:

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Just Finished:

Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland ★★★★★

Fruiting Bodies by Kathryn Harlan ★★★

Thousand Autumns Vol. 1 by Meng Xi Shi ★★★

The Love That Dares: An Anthology of Queer Love Letters by Rachel Smith & Barbara Vesey ★★★★

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen ★★★★★ 

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian ★★★★★ 

DNFs/Try Again Later:

Fence Vol. 1 by C. S. Pacat (Full DNF)

General Reading Thoughts:

What an amazing reading week! I was feasting on stories and relishing every bite!!!

Current Reading Tag || General Original Content || 2025 Reading Page

Many Opinions Below:

I picked up Fence Vol. 1-3 used at goodwill for a steal after hearing good things. Also that it was queer it does need to be said. I have to be honest with myself and stop picking up anything with a strong focus on sports. I just don't care. Add my relatively recent aversion the contemporary school settings meant this was never going to be for me.

Fruiting Bodies was a weird collection for me to rate. A few of the stories were 5 Stars but too many of them felt unfinished for me to up the stars. I do want to pick up whatever this author writes next though.

Running Close to the Wind was an absolute blast and I intend on reading Everything by this author!!!! I need more of these characters so badly and I hope for a sequel with bated breath.

I won't be continuing Thousand Autumns as a series. As curious as I am at how the romance will happen I was bored silly by the repetitive fight scenes.

The Magic Fish is beautiful both in art and tale and I can't wait for the Nguyen's next comic.

We Could Be So Good was such a comforting romance.

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she’s three (3) tangerines tall

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JOMP BPC || June 22 || Precious Cinnamon Roll: Tiến from The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

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East Blue Five: Redraw Edition!

og pic i drew hidden below!

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ocean books 🌊📘🐟

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ha ha I got this one done!

I am currently trying to trick my brain into getting used to being a full time artist and have been struggling. But getting this piece done and trying to slow down and take my time with the coloring and details has been very satisfying.

So here she is my Merrow for Mermay. <3

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We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?

A Study in Drowning

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Idk how hot a take it is but sometimes novels should just be left as standalones

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || September 6 || Favorite First Lines:  “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”                 ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

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JOMP BPC || June 4 || Away From Home: I bought my copy of Stephen King's The Stand in Rome waiting for my train to Paris!

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We’re moving later this summer, so here comes the most dreaded moment of any book lover’s life…time to pack up all these books! 😩