#November 2022 wrapup

[lizziethereader]

November 2022 wrapup

I did nonfiction November this month, with the challenge of reading (almost) only nonfiction (the actual challenge is not that strict, I just enjoy giving it a try) and I had one of the best reading months this year, I think! There was so much good stuff and nothing was dry or exhausting to read. Good times! 

[not pictured: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue, Park

favorite of the month: I really can’t choose! There was so much good stuff! 

nonfiction reads (8):  A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park,  Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS by Michael Rosen,  Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile,  This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas,  Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America by Sara Sinclair, Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud,  Traumatized: Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional Stress by Kati Morton, Schluss - mit lustig!: Wahre Wiener Begräbnisgeschichten by Patrick Budgen

classics (1): The Postman always rings twice by James M. Cain

poetry (1): Queer poems edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan

graphic novel (1): Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, There’s a ghost in this house by Oliver Jeffers

[godzilla-reads]

Last Day of November is Here!

This month I read a total of 11 books, bringing my yearly total to 171!

Top 3 Books of November:

🐥 Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts by J. Drew Lanham

🎠 Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

✔️ Black Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham

What was your favorite book of November?

[linus-wickworth]

November 2022 Reading Wrap-Up!

1. A Light Amongst Shadows by Kelley York. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

James is hardly the typical troubled youth who ends up at Whisperwood School for Boys. Instead of hating the strict schedules and tight oversight by staff, James blossoms, quickly making friends, indulging in his love of writing, and contemplating the merits of sneaking love poems to the elusive and aloof William Esher.

2. A Hymn in the Silence by Kelley York. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Since graduating from Whisperwood School for Boys, William has found a sense of normalcy in his life with James. He has a steady (albeit secret) relationship, a home, and a job-even if it doesn't pay the greatest.

3. A Calm Before the Storm by Kelley York. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

James and William’s first Christmas together in their own home ought to be a cause for celebration. But when money is tight, and William is going through withdrawals in an attempt to get off of his laudanum completely, the level of holiday cheer is dismally low.

4. Picture Unavailable by Andrew J. Brandt. ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

While looking through their sixth-grade yearbooks, Charlie and his two best friends notice that the portrait of their missing classmate has been left blank except for two words: Picture Unavailable. Though Johnny vanished mysteriously, Charlie and company know he was at Westfield Middle School for picture day. Things get stranger when they realize Johnny's image has been purged from the entire yearbook.

5. Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong by Erin Donohue. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Can you be lost and not know it? Can other people stop you from being lost? Seventeen-year-old Caleb’s world is disintegrating, his walls are closing in, his sky is threatening to fall. He's barely holding on. To deadlines. To friends. To family. To mum. To Pat. But he has Casey.

6. Suicide Watch by Kelley York. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Vincent has spent his entire life being shuffled from one foster home to the next. His grades suck. Making friends? Out of the question thanks to his nervous breakdowns and unpredictable moods. Still, Vince thought when Maggie Atkins took him in, he might have finally found a place to get his life--and his issues--in order. When Maggie dies, it all falls apart.

7. Jolt by Bernard Beckett. ⭐⭐⭐1/2

Marko surfaces from a drug induced haze to find himself hidden from the world in a psychiatric ward. He is certain the 'Doctor' means to kill him, and he in turn has vengeful plans of his own. But how is it he came to stop taking his medication? Who can Marko trust and how much time does he have?

8. Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.

9. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig is determined to succeed at life--which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself. Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital.

10. The Pigman by Paul Zindel. ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man, and it wasn't long before they were more comfortable in his house than their own. But now Mr. Pignati is dead. And for John and Lorraine, the only way to find peace is to write down the Pigman's story.

11. Ghosting You by Alexander C. Eberhart. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Tommy hears dead people. Okay, one dead person. His best friend, Chase. Since his death, Tommy can't stop hearing his voice. They talk every day and Tommy even sends him texts, but it always ends the same. Message failed to send. Until one day, a stranger texts back.

12. Wild Summer by Suki Fleet. ⭐⭐⭐

At fifteen, Christopher falls in love with a boy whose life he saves. But things go wrong and four years later, he wishes he'd acted differently. His conscience begins to haunt him, and he knows he must find Summer again.

13. Monster by Michael Grant. ⭐⭐⭐1/2

It's been four years since a meteor hit Perdido Beach and everyone disappeared. Everyone, except the kids trapped in the FAYZ. Now the dome is gone and meteors are hitting earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans will mutate into monsters and the whole world will be exposed. As some teens begin to morph into heroes, they will find that others have become dangerously out of control... and that the world is on the brink of a monstrous battle between good and evil.

14. As Far as You'll Take Me by Phil Stamper. ⭐⭐⭐

Seventeen-year-old Marty Pierce leaves small-town Kentucky for London, hoping to explore his sexuality and find work playing oboe, but homesickness, anxiety, and his dwindling savings worsen even as his dreams are coming true.

15. The Blue Lawn by William Taylor. ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

David and Theo are fifteen and sixteen and from very different backgrounds; when they become close friends they must find a way of dealing with the strong physical attraction they feel for each other.

16. Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

17. The River by Gary Paulsen. ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.

18. Lock & West by Alexander C. Eberhart. ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2

Lock is awkward. He can't make eye contact, counts when he's nervous and has to remind himself several times a day how 'normal' teens behave. Homeschooled most of his life, he's resigned himself to a friendless existence at his new Atlanta high school. Until he meets West.

19. The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Like many teenagers, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield doesn't really know what he wants to do, although he is sure that he wants to avoid anything phony. It tells the description of Holden's tortured adolescence as he comes to terms with the transition to adulthood and the onset of a nervous breakdown.

[aroaceacacia]

end of year season 4 stats wrapup

Note: based on the vods archive sheet that I help curate, so some of the details may be a little iffy in certain places!

the total number of streams by members of lifesteal between mid july and december 31 2022 - a total of 173 days - is 699

the average number of streams per member of lifesteal is about 27.96. this number is very much boosted by the three busiest streamers btw

their busiest full month was august, with an average of 6.23 streams per day! (every other month averaged around 3.5, except november, which was just shy of 3. the average across all months was 4 streams/day)

the most streams in any given day go to august 9th and august 23rd, each of which saw 10 streams - the latter, ironically, is the day terrain crashed the server with the heart glitch, which he'd warned the server members about in advance

he's literally printing - princezam hit go live the most times, at 98 streams! tied for second place are pangi and itzsubz, each with 83!

despite that, im willing to bet itzsubz streamed the most hours - typical subz streams are at least 5 hours long

bormethius was our only guest so far, but that's not the first time a bormethius vod appears on the sheet! ashswag streamed using his stream key once in august, and that makes up half of the ash vods we have from this season!

rekrap is, as far as I can tell, the only lifesteal member who's streamed this year that hasnt streamed season 4 himself once. all 4 rek vods are speedrunning, pvp legacy, or events

just some fun facts for you in the new year yay yippee

[ivettel]

2022 creator wrapup

this tag game is going around other circles of tumblr, so i figure i'll kick another chain off for f1blr! also tagged by @haydanakin -- thank you, shale <3 happy new year!

list your favourite and most popular creations from every month this year!

JANUARY • favourite: puma singapore 2010 appearance my beloved • most popular: aus 2011 cunt king moment - 510 notes

FEBRUARY • favourite: japan 2009 did you mean babygirl? • most popular: frank iero in the "blood" music video - 1011 notes

MARCH • favourite: hungary 2010 fuckboy press conference (took me ages to colour and match but literally on the list of all time favs) • most popular: lewis and seb mexico 2017 drivers' debrief bitchfest - 901 notes

APRIL • favourite: seb x adobe creative cloud suite edit • most popular: australia 2022 scooter - 2462 notes

MAY • favourite: grand theft auto miami 2022 edit • most popular: monaco 2022 red flag vogue - 1622 notes

JUNE • favourite: baku 2022 weekend wrapup edit • most popular: lewis @ seb "ur doing amazing sweetie" - 1772 notes

JULY • favourite: ferrari seb bleeding heart edit • most popular: 'i don't care about the legacy--HONK' encounter - 2328 notes

AUGUST • favourite: grill the grid finale edit • most popular: sebastian "i heard silly season was quite turbulent :)" vettel - 1249 notes

SEPTEMBER • favourite: abu dhabi 2010 x austin 2013 quote edit • most popular: mcrfirefly gerard way "these are the only legs on stage" - 7209 notes

OCTOBER • favourite: boyzone anakin charli xcx edit • most popular: frank iero singing along to "fake your death" - 2179 notes

NOVEMBER • favourite: luke skywalker's cv edit • most popular: seb abu dhabi instagram live - 771 notes

DECEMBER • favourite: seb's 2022 wrapup edit • most popular: luke and han in the empire strikes back - 1384 notes

no pressure tags! @josefnewgayden @maranello @crusaderkings3 @brawn-gp @toyotagazoo @princemick @andreagrimes @h-f-k @vetterrari @cedobols @kkmeeluqq @leqclerc @queerbenched

[doodlestroodles]

⭐️ART WRAPUP OF 2022!⭐️

January

February

April

May

June

July

August

October

November

December

This year was a wild one! I’ve had a lot of firsts this year! (First time losing 20lbs, winning an art award, being social since 2018, etc) This year also had lots of art improvement in it. I may not have been able to show it all in these 10 images, but that doesn’t matter. I wish all of you seeing this a fulfilling 2023! Happy new year!! 🎊

[cassiesbookishcorner]

•October 2022 WrapUp•

I hope everyone had a good reading month.

Did you get any spooky reads in?

Did you find a new favorite?

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Here are all of the books I completed in October.

My ratings were all around the board.

My favorite was The Witch Collector by Charissa Weaks.

The month started out very strong and I knocked out all of these books quickly. But the last two weeks, my reading slowed down.

I had to dnf 2 books. I hate doing that but in doing so I found a book that I am enjoying.

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A huge thank you to everyone that picked out books for me to read.

It really helped out a lot and I think I am going to make it an every other month thing.

|So look out for my tbr story post at the of November. You will get to pick out my December reads.|

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[talenlee]

January Wrapup, 2023!

January Wrapup, 2023!

It’s not the end of the month just yet. I’m looking down the barrel of the end of the month, and seeing what’s coming in the last week or so, and phew. I better write this month’s wrapup now because at some point I’m going to be helping someone move house and that’s not fun at the best of times.

Let’s check out first of all, what I wrote this month about games in the Game Pile:

Keep The Heroes Out: This was a really fun cooperative board game that I enjoyed playing a lot. What’s more, playing it, I kept thinking about the way that the game used its particular structure of iconography and a rulebook to displace the game systems away from a lot of reading. It’s beautiful, it’s indulgent, there’s not a lot of time waste in the box on something that isn’t adding something cool to the game.

Speedrunning the Swindle: I wanted to make something that suited the theme of GDQ that was running at the time, and I decided to make a video about finally getting off my butt and making a speedrun archive page for The Swindle. As of right now? I’m still the world leader at The Swindle which means, odds are good, you can probably get the record off me.

Crystal Caves: There’s always space for something small and weird from gaming’s history, and it seems that if you ask me about the old games from the Apogee shareware catalogue, you’ll find me eventually bringing it back to assumptions about the world and what working class people look like. What’s acceptable? What’s normal? Turns out: working for huge piles of money and still always needing to do more work!

A 2023 Channel Trailer: With the dissolution of twitter’s importance in my life, I decided I wanted to redo my channel trailer. This meant using most of the existing audio, but redoing it to both refine it down to exactly 2 minutes long, and using it to present my new animated avatar. I got to do a lot of improvement from this video, like how to make it lip-sync to audio without needing to prop a microphone into my headphones!

And this month’s posting in the Story Pile:

Goncharov: I wrote an explainer on the giant consensual play experience of funning around with the gimmick fake movie, Goncharov from November 2022, and the strangely condescending way everyone who wasn’t enjoying it thought it should have been done.

The Rendezvous: There are a lot of pieces of media that relate to speedrunning of sorts, you know, almost anything built about a race, documentaries about speedrunning, all that good stuff. But I love finding ways to connect older things to current things, and this is one of my dad’s favourite movies that happens to be an IRL speedrun that just happens to have also been really illegal.

Megatokyo: This article is over four thousand words long. Read aloud, it’s over forty minutes. Do you want me to make a video version of this?

Children of Time: I loved this book about cat-sized spider culture! I don’t talk much about books I read (because a lot of the books I read are more academic than fictional) but this was a really cracking one that I read last year and actually kept putting off because I wanted to write about it when it would be fun to do so.

My Hero Academia, Season 1: Oh hey, you know those huge sprawling TV series that are hard to examine as a single, big chunk? I’ve decided to try breaking them up into separate articles so I can examine them in terms of the kinds of time commitment they ask of you!

This is a month for maintenance. I’m trying this year to do more with each post; fewer posts that are really brief and don’t feature a solid amount of words and images. Generally, a thousand words, or five minutes of audio, or an image made for the post (as is the exchange rate for words, I understand). I’m trying to make it so I don’t pad things out much, and use each potential space to say some stuff to do so – like the ‘welcome to 2023 post‘ this year was also a consideration of what it means to blog for ten years and why I started.

There are articles I hold off on writing until I can dedicate time to being sure I’m happy with them, comfortable with how they read and I can run them past people, spoken aloud — and for me, this month, the example is the article about ‘Losing’ Bridget. This grew out of considering the challenges of two different axes I know can feel really rough: Being a wrong kind of fan and being a guy in a space where it feels like people are celebrating something you didn’t think was hurting anyone. I thought this was a worthy topic to think about and talk about, and to try and serve as a guy, as a positive example to other guys about how to relate to this challenging space without hurting other people out of defiance or thoughtlessness.

If you like me talking about my D&D setting, and why I made the choices I did, I wound up telling the story of the founding of a goblin city and how it put the King’s Highway through the nation of Dal Raeda. This year I’m doing a big project with my Magic: The Gathering custom cards, creating a whole set with flavour and worldbuilding. It’s called the Usurper’s Palace and I wrote about it in a little more detail, and you can follow it now throughout the year. I wrote a bit about Josh Lyman (first time being here), the character from the West Wing, and one of the many instances in which he was a shitty dude who sucks. It’s pretty important since Josh Lyman is a fictional character who was able to will himself into an embarrassing real existence. Finally, during GDQ I wrote about The Grasshopper, a book I like a lot because I find its definition of games and how we play them interesting, and how that book relates to the idea of a speedrun.

This month’s shirt is a simple text-on-field kind of design about what it’s like to exist in my head at the right time and place, where the phrase I’m fine, and you? is something resting atop and keeping you safe from an extremely extensive kind of haranguing that wants to talk about specific, intriguing media events that excite and frustrate me. You can get it in white text and black text!

This month featured a return to PhD meetings, my niblings going on an international trip, one of my best friends being away from home, GDQ, Fox getting a vaccine booster and reacting to it poorly in the pharmacy, the build-up for Cancon, then the actual running of Cancon, Australia day, and a housemove. This is a month where two absolute bastard Catholics dropped dead, I fucked up pretty badly and then I spent weeks trying to unfuck the upfuck.

I am writing this a week out and I feel good about what I’m trying to do, but I’m also just feeling that constant low-key jostling watery stomach feeling. I find myself talking to the air around me like here’s why I made the mistake I did, which isn’t helpful and doesn’t do anything beyond get me dwelling on the mistake again, and that makes me feel stupid, and that’s not a good place. I try to respond to this feeling when I notice myself doing it by just getting to work on the thing I fucked up and trying to address it.

Right now I am looking at it in another tab and I want to make sure I don’t fuck it up while trying to unfuck it.

Also, funny thing? I was really interested in working on board games while I was at Cancon, but I didn’t have the time. Everything was way too bloody busy for me to sit down and spend time talking with people about game designs! And that’s normally a time when I have heaps of time to look at games, look at game designs and things in the library and ask myself ‘how would I approach that? How would I implement that?’

No chance.

I’m shocked at how busy this month has been but god damnit I am going to get this done.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Diary

[sandwichtribunal]

December List Sandwiches and November Wrapup

"In December, the Tribunal will be covering England's Wigan Kebab, the Wilensky Special of Montreal, and the Brazilian Xis." December List Sandwiches and November Wrapup

Welcome, once again, to The End, my friends. December will be the End of 2022, of course, a year that has seen us continue to flounder in the wake of a global pandemic while corporate America continues to edge us closer and closer to the cyberpunk dystopia that is seeming less science-fictiony by the day. But I don’t mean the end of the year, the end of the world, or even the end of the working…

[katherinestvincent]

. Good morning 🌄 🌞 booklover 📚 Karena bulan lalu bad mood bangettt bacaannya (kebanyakan bintang 3 ⭐ dan 2 ⭐ saja), bikin malez buat wrapup, maka bulan ini dirapel dua bulan terakhir ini, October & November 2022 wrapup dgn total 24 buku. Mungkin krn bulan ini ikut reading challenge fantasy, jd mood baca buku lebih menantang walau jelas² ini bukan genre favorite-ku. Apalagi stl baca Kazuo Ishiguro, takjub dgn alur ceritanya yg super lambreta tapi banyak disukai para pembaca buku. Eh tapi aku berhasil kelarin seri "The Mortal Instruments" nya Cassandra Clare loh, dgn modal pinjaman ke #IPusnas. Favorite saya 2 bulan ini adalah "Fantastic Mr. Fox 🦊" by Roald Dahl dan "The Christmas Pig 🐷" by J.K. Rowling. Gpp lah aku emang demen genre #childrens books yg plot ceritanya bagus spt ini. Sekian dulu caption-nya krn sbnrnya saya msh rebahan dgn soulmate saya yaitu kasur & Puipui 🤭🤣 . #bookwrapup #october2022wrapup #november2022wrapup #septemberwrapup #bookwrapup2022 #KatBooksCollection #stayhome #bookstagrammerindonesia #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramfeature #booksofinstragram #readingchallenge #goodreads #readingbooks #booklover #bookish #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookworm #ilovebooks #ilovereading #ilovetoread #bacaituseru #pecandubuku https://www.instagram.com/p/ClkN_DOyhic/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nj-stone]

Lynn Hayes  - Astrological news this week: Post eclipse optimism https://www.astrodynamics.net/astrological-news-this-week-post-eclipse-optimism/

[talenlee]

November 2022 Wrapup

New Post has been published on PRESS.exe: November 2022 Wrapup

Intro paragraph! Probably too short! I have had a hard time writing this month!

First up we have the Game Pile articles:

Bart Vs The Space Mutants (in video form!)

City of Heroes Page 5

The Disney Animated Canonball Tier List

Straight Outta Tucson

Story Pile articles:

Air America

The Bear

The Engine of a Million Plots

The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated

There are other articles and honestly I think a bunch of them are great but I can’t really bring myself to look back on them. Truth be told I think this month, I can keenly feel the way that a lot of things that were functioning had to slow, that word counts crept down and that important things were made less important because of other, competing demands.

There were shirt posts, and you can go for more detail there.

This is also the first full month since Elon Musk took over a section of what I considered to be my personal public square and shit all over the floor. The day I write this, I know that he had just unbanned a number of actual nazis and banned a number of antifascist organisers, as well as banned people for things that definitely just look like they’re being annoyed with a thin-skinned billionaire being a turd. That means that rather than having a space to chill out, hang out, do cool things and goof off, a large portion of this month has been about watching a canary in a cage and wondering to myself if oh no, I really should probably be getting out of here.

I wrote my new bio today, for the first time since I started using Twitter seriously in around 2015. It looks like this:

Cis Male, White, Bi, He/Him

http://press.invincible.ink

http://cohost.org/TalenLee

http://kind.social/@Talen_Lee

http://youtube.com/talenLee

Get out, stay safe, reach out.

I don’t think Twitter is going to get a clean death and I don’t think I’m going to ‘stop’ on twitter per se. If nothing else, I gotta make it to next year. But it is not a safe place to post anything that inv0olves talking to people, and it is 100% just there to release links to my blog posts and to finish posting Magic: the Gathering cards on my secondary account. I need to stay there if my work asks me to but otherwise, I really think, today, that I’m going to have to start writing up some official protocls about Not Using Twitter in the name of just safety.

In the diary, I got a haircut. It’s the first time I remember getting a haircut since the start of the pandemic. I handed in marks. I got through a chunk of methodology writing in the PhD. I watched some fun streams. Desert Bus happened and Fox won a prize. I got to see a thing we made and sent raise a stupid amount of money as a raffle giveaway. I got to hear Jacob Burgess remark about our aesthetic. It hasn’t been a bad month per se, not in and of itself.

It’s just essentially part of me is having to move in a digital sense, and moving house is always stressful.

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