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maybe a weirdly specific one, but do you have any books/authors you would recommend to someone who doesn't really read but wants to get into reading regularly?

You need a strategy. Here’s what I always do when I’m in a reading slump: I make sure to read at least one short story a day no matter what. Don’t try to tackle the entire anthology or collection at once. Just pick one random story and read it. The next day, choose another story from a different author. Keep doing this until you feel ready to tackle a longer work or finish the entire collection. That’s all.

Below are my favourite writers who wrote great short stories that everyone should check out :

- Ryunosuke Akutagawa

- Honoré de Balzac

- Mannu Bhandari

- Lucia Berlin

- Ismat Chughtai

- Rayji de Guia @alterbenjamin

- Shirley Jackson

- Sheridan Le Fanu

- Clarice Lispector

- Saadat Hasan Manto

- Guy de Maupassant

- Kenji Miyazawa

- Silvina Ocampo

- Premchand (Munshi Premchand)

- Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

- Koji Suzuki

- Eudora Welty

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The Telltale games didn't have the hype of the Arkham series, maybe because they tried new character dynamics. This Penguin was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne and had an equally traumatic experience. How their lives diverged makes a good project for #penguinweek. This had so much left to explore.

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Yasmin Benoit has won the LGBTA Award for the 'Outstanding Contributions to Communities' category! She's the first aroace activist and first Black aroace to win this award 🖤🤎🤍💜

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This is gonna come out wrong, but I actually really am drawn more to books that don’t have an encyclopedia of characters and family bloodlines going back fifty generations, and don’t flesh out every single aspect of the world-building down to the price of grain, and don’t require you to keep the wiki open so you can keep track of all the side stories, and don’t require extensive knowledge of “how this shit works in real life” so you can call out every instance where it was “unrealistic” and the author didn’t “do enough research” to make it believable

Sometimes you can just sit back and chill and read about a guy going on an adventure and falling in love, and that’s okay

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Research party 🌺

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Friend: Don't you want to have a romance?

Me: I'm good, I have romance at home.

Romance I have at home:

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I just love this set of panels, it shows us Jonathan Crane at his most vulnerable. He’s looking up at Batman, but he doesn’t SEE Batman. He sees the bullies who tormented him in his youth. You can feel the pain in his voice.

Is he sorry? Not by a long shot.

But he IS afraid.

Batman 262 || Scanned at 300dpi

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STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE // S2E19 Judgment My father was a teacher. My mother, a biologist at the university. They encouraged me to take up the law. Now, all young people want to do is to take up weapons as soon as they can hold them. They're told there is honor in victory – any victory. What honor is there in a victory over a weaker opponent? Had Duras destroyed that ship, he would have been lauded as a hero of the Empire for murdering helpless refugees. We were a great society, not so long ago. When honor was earned through integrity and acts of true courage, not senseless bloodshed.

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Scarecrow by pencilhead7

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108

someone forgot his coat

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Riddler: My boyfriend and I have agreed to never go to bed angry at each other

Scarecrow: We’ve been awake since Friday

Riddller: Well IF SOMEONE WOULD JUST ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG-

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You're not alone in the house.

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“Octavius knows what I can do 😏” Norman Osborn I know what you are

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Detective Comics #1098

these two were cracking me up this whole issue

like come on dkdkkdsjjdjdssd

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1966 penguin my beloved💜