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dyke4himbo truly is the relationship dynamic of all time

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Hi there! We’re the Eastman folks. We decided that tumblr seemed cool, and Abe gave us the idea to make an account. How cool is that? Anyway, ask or dare away!

-DJ

Some information about the characters:

Jim- full name is Jimbob. A paranoid survivalist who predicted the apocalypse long before it happened. Now that it’s over, he’s starting to get used to functioning in a society after around 20 years of sitting in a storage crate.

Samuel Brains - A corrupt businessman, founder of Berry Delicious Smoothies. He went into hiding when his blueberries caused a pandemic across Eastman, and came out of hiding when a cure was found. He’s now being investigated.

Elaine Puddy - the sarcastic yet sweet adoptive mother of Claire and wife of Joe. She was separated from both of them for ten years. She’s taken on a strong role.

Joe Puddy - the pessimistic but gentle husband of Elaine and adoptive father of Claire. Unlike everyone else in Eastman, Joe didn’t like fruit at all. That was until he ate blueberries by the order of Elaine, then got infected and now refuses to touch fruit with a 10ft pole.

Claire Puddy - the adventurous and anxious daughter of Joe and Elaine. Claire left Eastman 10 years ago when the apocalypse started, and at 24 years old she came back to conquer it with her friends she made along the way.

Abe Romero- the awkward but ambitious gamer, and Claire’s childhood best friend. Abe had been sitting in his parents’ apartment for ten years playing video games, so now the world is foreign to him again.

Louise - The mysterious feral child. Louise was found by Abe the second year of the apocalypse, and became a parental figure to her. Though she is not mute, she still doesn’t speak fluently.

DJ - the spunky and optimistic DJ with a love for music and partying. DJ was stuck in the nightclub she worked in for ten years, so now she’s working on making the world her friends.

Aisha Lovelace - the irritable and strong scientist. Aisha was a teenager at the start of the apocalypse, but as Claire did, managed to get out. Now that she’s back, she’s trying to rebuild relationships with her friends from before.

Dr. Romero - the curious and frantic scientist, and Abe’s grandfather. He was previously working on the cure before accidentally infecting himself. But now that he’s conscious again, he’s starting to focus more on the small things.

NOTE: In my headcanon, the apocalypse began ten years ago. It lasted until just recently.

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Book Log of 2019

I kept a record of how many books I read in 2019. I liked most of them so I would recommend you give any of them or read.

So on with the list! If it has an X next to it then it means I didn’t finish reading it. 

#1: Warcross by Marie Lu.

#2: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.

#3: Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao.

#4: Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova.

#5: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Roshani Chokshi, Alyssa Wong, Lori M. Lee, Sona Charaipotra, Aliette De Bodard, E. C. Myres, Aisha Saeed, Preeti Chhibber, Renée Ahdieh, Rahul Kanakia, Melissa De La Cruz, Elsie Chapman, Shveta Thakrar, Cindy Pon, and Julie Kagawa.

#6: The 57 Bus by Daska Slater

#7: The Dark Descent Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kristen White.

#8: Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

9#: Broken Things by Lauren Oliver.

10# The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

11# A Study In Charlotte by Arthur Doyle

12# Simon Vs The Homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli

13# The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

14# Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater

15# The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

16# Carry On by Rainbow Rowel

17# Teen Trailblazers, 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20 by Jennifer Calvert

18# Evermore by Sara Holland

19# The White Stag by Kara Barbieri

20# One Dark Throne by Kendra’s Blake

21# Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

22# A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

23# King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo X

24# Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

25# The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

26# Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

27# Mythology by Edith Hamilton

28# Percy Jackson Greek Gods by Rick Riordan 

29# Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M McManus

30# The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

31# Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

32# Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt De La Peña

33# The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux

34# Roseblood by A.G Howard X

35# Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J Maas

36# Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

37# Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown

38# Through The Woods by Emily Caroll

39# The Wicked Deep by Shes Ernshaw

40# Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

41# Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

42# Where She Fell by Kaitlin Ward

43# Modern Herstory: Stories Of Women and non binary people rewriting history by Blair Imani

44# White Rabbits by Caleb Roehrig

45# To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Adapted by Fred Fordham

46# Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan

47# Ever The Hunted by Erin Summeril

48# Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

49# Lost Souls, Be At Peace by Maggie Thrash

50# Honor Girl by Maggie Thrash

51# The Giver by Lois Lowry adapted by P.Craig Russell

52# My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand. Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

53# What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera X

54# An Assassin’s Guide to Love & Treason by Virginia Boecker

55# The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas adapted by Nokman Poon and Crystal S. Chan

56# The Fellowship Of The Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

57# What is someone I know is gay? By Eric Marcus X

58# Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

59# The Two Towers by J.R.R Tolkien

60# The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien X

61# The Return of The King by J.R.R Tolkien

62# Lafayette by Nathan Hale

63# Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

64# We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

65# The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

66# Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

67# Norton Volume Of English Literature

68# Beowulf by Unknown

69# The General Prologue by Chaucer

70# 20/20 by Linda Brewer

71# Always in Spanish by Agosim

72# The First Day by Edward P. Jones

73# Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

74# Writing Fiction by Burroway

75# Murderers by Leonard Michaels

76# Greatness Strikes Where It Pleases by Lars Gustaffson

77# Cathedral by Raymond Carver

78# A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley

79# Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov

80# The Lives of the Dead by Tim O’Brien

81# Head, Heart by Lydia Davis

82# Richard Cody by Edwin Arlington Robinson

83# “Out- Out-“ by Robert Frost

84# The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy

85# I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth

86# Poem by Frank O’Hara

87# On being brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley

88# On her loving two equally by Aphra Behn

89# Because you asked about the line between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov

90# Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish

91# Ars Poetica? By Czeslaw Milosz

92# Ars Poetica #100: I believe by Elizabeth Alexander

93# Poetry by Marianne Moode

94# “Poetry makes nothing happen”? By Julia Alvarez

95# Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins

96# In Memory Of W.B. Yates by W. H. Auden

97# The kind of man I am at the DMV by Stacey Waite

98# The Changeling by Judith Oritez Carer

99# Going to war by Richard Lovelace

100# To the Ladies by Mary, Lady Chudleigh

101# Exchanging Hats by Elizabeth Bishop

102# History Of Ireland Volume 1 by Lecky X

103# A Modern History of Ireland by E. Norman X

104# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

105# Gender by Lisa Wade & Myra Marx Ferree

106# Trifles by Susan Glaspell

107# The Shroud by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

108# King of the Bingo Game by Ralph Ellison

109# Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

110# Fences by August Wilson

111# Where are you going, where have you been? By Joyce Carol Oates

112# Daddy by Sylvia Plath

113# What is our life? By Walter Raleigh

114# May I compare thee to a midsummer day? By William Shakespeare

115# The love song of J. Alfred Prufruock by T. S. Eliot

116# À unr passante by Charles Baudelaire

117# In a station of the metro by Ezra Pound

118# The Fog by Carl Sandburg

119# The Yellow Fog by T.S. Eliot

120# On first looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats

121# the Road Not Taken by Robert Frisr

122# Paradise Lost  Book 1 & 10 by John Milton X

123# The Victory Lap by George Saunders

124# The Tempest by William Shakespeare

125# The Vanity Of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson

126# Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

127# When to Her Lute Corinna Sings by Thomas Campion

128# Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous

129# Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall

130# A Prayer, Living and Dying by Augustus Montague Toplady

131# Homage to the Empress of the Blues by Robert Hayden

132# The Times They Are A-Changin’ *

133# Listening to Bob Dylan, 2005!by Linda Pastan

134# Hip Hop by Mos Deff

135# Elvis in the Inner City by Jose B. Gonzalez

136# Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost*

137# Terza Roma by Richard Wilbur

138# Stanza from The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats

139# Stanza from His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

140# Stanza from Sound and Sense by Alexander’s Pope

141# Stanza from The Word Plum by Helen Chasin

142# Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

143# Myth by Natasha Trethewey

144# Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop

145# Sestina: Like by A.E. Stallings

146# l)a by E.E Cummings

147# Buffalo Bill by E.E Cummings

148# Easter Wings by George Herbert

149# Women by May Swenson

150# Upon the breeze she spread her golden hair by Franceso Petrarch

151# My lady’s presence makes the roses red by Henry Constance

152# My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

153# Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare

154# Let me no to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare

155# When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton

156# Nuns Fret Not by William Wordsworth

157# The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth

158# Do I love thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

159# In an Artist’s Studio by Christina Rossetti

160# What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by Edna St. Vincent Millay

161# Women have loved before as I love now by Edna St. Vincent Millay

162# I, being born a woman and distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

163# I will put Chaos in fourteen lines by Edna St. Vincent Millay

164# First Fight. Then Fiddle by Gwendolyn Brooks

165# In the Park by Gwen Harwood

166# Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley by June Jordan

167# Sonnet by Billy Collins

168# Dim Lights by Harryette Mullen

169# Redefininy Realmess by Janet Mock

170# Lusus Naturae by Margaret Atwood

171# The House Of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges

172# Death Fuge by Michael Hamburger

173# Clifford’s Place by Jamel Bickerly

174# We are seven by William Wordsworth

175# Lines written in early spring by William Wordsworth

176# Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth

177# The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth

178# Lines by William Wordsworth

179# Recitatif by Toni Morrison

180# Volar by Judith Ortiz Cofer

181# The Management Of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee

182# Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

183# Jesus Saves by David Sedaris

184# Disabled by Wilfred Owen

185# My Father’s Garden by David Wagoner

186# Practicing by Marie Howe

187# O my pa-pa by Bob Hicok

189# Mr. T- by Terrance Hayes

190# Late Aubade by James Richardson

191# Carp Poem by Terrance Hayes

192# Pilgrimage by Natasha Trethewey

193# Tu Do Street by Yuaef Lomunyakaa

194# Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

195# Elena by Pat Mora

196# Gentle Communion by Pat Mora

197# Mothers & Daughters by Pat Mora

198# La Migra by Pat Mora

199# Ode to Adobe by Pat Mora

200# Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy

201# The Silken Tent by Robert Frost

202# Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

203# The Vine by James Thomsen

204# Questions by May Swenson

205# A Just Man by Attila József

206# the norton anthology of world literature

207# Pan’s Labyrinth by Gullernio de Toro and Cornelia Funke Xw

208# The prince and the dressmaker by Jen Wang

209# Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

210# The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Do y’all remember Neopets? I still do and honestly I’m sure my neopets are starving ;w;” This doodle is for @lolly-lovelace since she wondered what an Aisha would look in my art style!

I don’t see a difference but maybe I should draw more neopet species ? I never tried drawing them before,

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Diverse Reading Challenge: June Review

June Challenge: Pick up books by LGBTQIAP+ writers this month! Anything from the acronym is acceptable–but please, if you don’t know whether an author you like is out yet, don’t bother them about it! Suggested authors include V.E. Schwab, Oscar Wilde, Julie Anne Peters, Heidi Heilig, Malinda Lo, Amanda Lovelace, Kathryn Ormsbee, Adam Silvera, April Daniels, Jazz Jennings, Andrea Dworkin, and David Levithan.

Synopsis: When Griffin's first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he's been imagining for himself has gone far off course.

 To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin's downward spiral continues. He's losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he's been keeping are tearing him apart.

 If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.

Rating: 5/5 stars

As with all of Adam Silvera’s books, I cried and laughed and adored every page! Adam Silvera has a unique voice that helps me feel connected to Griffin and his pain. His characters are real people; they have secrets and flaws and make a ton of mistakes. But they always come to terms with whatever is going on in their life and accept themselves.

My opinions of most of the characters changed as I read, which was surprising. That doesn’t usually happen. I did a complete 180 on two characters (I won’t say who to avoid giving away anything). I refused to change my opinion in the beginning, but then more was revealed, and how could still think highly or unfavorably after learning about certain events!?

Every novel by Adam Silvera thus far has a powerful message, and History is no different. My favorite quote would have to be:

“People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we’re left unfinished. Sometimes that’s for the best. Some pieces can’t be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn’t be, because they won’t make sense.”

While dealing with his grief, Griffin reached out to Jackson because he is the only one who loves Theo the way Griffin did. When he was with Jackson, Griffin was trying to figure out who Theo was in California because it was a big part of his coping method for the majority of the book. Eventually, Griffin realized that even though he wanted to put the puzzle of Theo’s life together, he should stop because it would not make sense and he would go crazy trying to find all the missing pieces.

I am so happy that Griffin was able to come to terms with Theo’s death. He also started taking care of himself more and accepted who he was. I thought Griffin’s mental health was portrayed perfectly and I loved how Jackson immediately adapted to help Griffin (staying on Griffin’s right, doing things in pairs and even numbers, etc.)

History Is All You Left Me was raw, moving, and emotional. I gained so much from reading this story and took away many lessons. It is definitely one my favorite 2018 reads!

July Challenge: As I mentioned above, the colloquial use of “Asian” is problematic because ASIA IS HUGE. So this month we’re covering more of Asia, specifically South Asia and India. South Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. If you’d like to expand to Central Asia and the other former Soviet republics this month, that’s also encouraged! Suggested authors include Aisha Saeed, Sabaa Tahir, Salman Rushdie, Soman Chainani, Lily Singh, Sandhya Menon, Sona Charaipotra, and Samira Ahmed. 

My next review will be on: July DVRC Book (TBA)

ALL DVRC REVIEWS

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A prominent American newspaper has doffed its cap to Bollywood legend Madhubala who is among 15 remarkable women across the world it pays homage to. The New York Times has gone back in time to remember the contribution of these women by writing their obituary in a new segment called ‘Overlooked’. “Since 1851, obituaries in the New York Times have been dominated by white men. Now, we are adding the stories of 15 remarkable women,” the newspaper wrote.  “Obituary writing is more about life than death: the last word, a testament to a human contribution. Yet who gets remembered – and how – inherently involves judgment.”  Madhubala, who has often been compared to another tragic screen icon — Marilyn Monroe, has been profiled by Aisha Khan in the newspaper. “Madhubala (born as Mumtaz Begum) often portrayed modern young women testing the limits of traditions,” the newspaper said while recalling her first major role as the leading lady in 1949 film ‘Mahal’ opposite Ashok Kumar. She was 16 at the time. “She died 20 years later as an icon of beauty and tragedy – her dazzling career, unhappy love life and fatal illness more dramatic than any movie she starred in,” it said.  The actor started acting at the age of nine. She went to feature in timeless classics such as ‘Amar’, ‘Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi’, ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ and ‘Barsaat Ki Raat’.  Madhubala was born with a ventricular septal defect, a hole in her heart.  The condition was diagnosed in 1954 and there was no treatment for it.  The obituary also chronicles her tragic romance with Dilip Kumar (Muhammad Yusuf Khan, who like Madhubala was discovered and rechristened by Devika Rani).  “They had been eager to marry, but Madhubalas father had set conditions, including that they star in movies he would produce. Kumar demanded that she choose between him and her father. She chose her family. An ugly lawsuit over another movie hastened their breakup,” the newspaper said, adding that it was the big story of her life and added to her legend.  Madhubala married singer-actor Kishore Kumar but they became estranged, it said.  As her health deteriorated, the star withdrew from public eye. She died on February 23, 1969, just nine days after her 36th birthday.  The segment also features names such as Margaret Abbott, the first American woman to win an Olympic championship, writer-poet Sylvia Plath, Ada Lovelace, a gifted mathematician credited as the first computer programmer, Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells were taken from her body without permission and led to a medical revolution; transgender pioneer Marsha P Johnson; photographer Diane Arbus and feminist poet Qiu Jin.   The Times of  India : 9th. Mar,18

ACTRESS MADHUBALA REMEMBERED BY NYT IN ITS ‘OVERLOOKED’ OBITUARY SECTION : A prominent American newspaper has doffed its cap to Bollywood legend Madhubala who is among 15 remarkable women across the world it pays homage to.

[ask-zomberry-survivors]

(The-untold-tales-of-poptropica) do you all remember when the apocalypse started and how did you all survive

Joe: .......

[ask-zomberry-survivors]

Can we get a hight chart like from shortest to tallest

Jim: I’m a tall guy.

Joe: and I look even shorter in the hospital bed.

Aisha: my height is the same as DJ’s, admin just ran out of space.