#banana reads

[banana-with-a-bow-tie]

Oh, how you need to consider all the ways God has protected you that you’ve never seen. You didn’t experience the drunk driver who never crashed into your minivan because God protected you, turning your car away from the intersection where your family was heading. You didn’t die from a viral infection because God protected you, keeping you from touching a virus-contaminated door handle when a person walking out the same door held it open just as you arrived. A family emergency kept you from making a run to the store where a gunman would have robbed and shot you. For personal reasons you decided not to take the job where the boss would have mistreated and fired you after a few months. Every day we are living in a world of narrow misses that we will never know about.

—Heath Lambert, The Great Love of God (2023), p 81

[dearlyjess]

making some real progress on the thesis this cloudy morning☁️

[why-lamp]

i'm finally getting around to reading Killing Time by Della Van Hise.

you know, the Star Trek book that was so gay that it was recalled and reprinted with over 50 changes.

I got my hands on a first edition copy from Thriftbooks and decided to use a sticky tab every time something "spirk" happened

I'm only halfway through.

update its very fucking gay

[schcherazades]

grief will make you do crazy things. it will electrify the elegant, flower-stem neurons in the amygdala of your brain, will pluck them like an instrument. in ancient rome, grief made men twirl in their thin, leather sandals and pirouette until their feet bled; in india, it walked widows onto pyres waiting for fire. the persians gave the bodies of their deceased beloveds to dogs; the egyptians buried them with their servants. grief will make you laugh at the funeral, weep over the cereal bowl; it will buzz your feet until they start dancing in the middle of the night. it’s grief that inspires the unlikeliest of bedfellows. it will convince you, tugging at the hem of your ragged cotton robe — the one you’ve had since your father bought it for you in latakia when you were fifteen, the one that will always smell hazily of summer — that the building is on fire, the world is on fire, and you’ll only find water in one place: a city as far away from here as you can imagine. grief will pack your bag, quit your job, buy a white dress. it will make you say yes.

the arsonists’ city, hala alyan

[ricky-mortis]

Curtwen Week Day 6: Happy Ending

[pillsopa]

4th of July, a perfect day for Bananafish

up as a print here :-)

[bluetheking]

I wanted you to use me, you malign, double-crossing, corpse-obsessed bag of bones, you broken, used-up shithead! I wanted you to live and not die, you imaginary-girlfriend-having asshole! Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me.

[rhinocio]

you are my sunshine

new favourite rise character is @aversiteespabilas' Usagi Yuki

[the-moonprophet]

has anyone else ever read a fic so good that it made you look forward to bedtime bc that’s when you can read it without interruption

if so drop the name (and author) pls 😭

yes any fandom idc atp

[monsterhugger]

i'll always prefer manga canon banana fish bc i think setting it in the 80s means there are a lot of things present that add to the story that are absent when it's set in the 2010s (homoerotic 80s action movie outfits, griffin being implied to have been drafted vs joining the military by choice, general lack of cell phones or computers usable by the general public, etc) but i think there's something to be explored in the idea that ash is going through all this during the AIDS crisis AND the satanic panic. like obviously there would be fallout in the 2010s but we get like two pages in the manga about the government's reaction to dino's operation being exposed and like. oh my god it would be fucking insane. it would be so much more fucking insane than we ever see

like i think yoshida made a very conscious decision to avoid mentioning any real politicians so the president is kind of this like. nebulous fictionalized US President character but like. imagine if it was fucking Reagan denouncing a pederasty ring with ties to the republican party. like. what even.

ash makes like one mention of "if i had [an STD] it would have spread through half of congress" and that hits like a ton of bricks. there were already cases of right-wing politicians found to be HIV+ from presumably consensual gay sex, imagine the added wrinkle of credible connections between the US government and a gay child trafficking ring. like. oh my god being gay in the banana fish universe would suck even more absolute shit

[sainz100]

Daniel Ricciardo after Media Day ahead of the Azerbaijan GP

[banana-with-a-bow-tie]

We must not evaluate God's love for us by whether he provides his children with everything they want but by the fact that we have his ear. He always hears us and then responds in love to our requests. Our response is to trust him and remember that he is good and has our ultimate good in mind.

—Heath Lambert, The Great Love of God (2023), p 71

[bananafishdepression]

Yuma Uchida be voicing every single gay depressed/angry character and serves every single time, I remember his voice as Ash Lynx's and when I try to watch another BL and I hear his voice I get flashbacks but I try my best and now he voices Hisashi in Twilight out of Focus (which is the only reason I read it and watched the episode) and the resemblence is crazyyy 😭😭😭 they didnt need to look exactly like Ash and Eiji but I'm thankful they did 'cause now we can be delulu and say they got their happy ending in another life

[thelailasblog]

[ariasmontage]

August 25, 2024

half eaten banana bread with coffee and croissant for breakfast. I would have made a croissant sandwich but i need to travel far for class, no time.

I hope I do good in class! It's the first day and I'm nervous

[synthshenanigans]

a friends mom said funky jash looked like hes from the 70s & i got bored sooo

theyre rlly cool u should follow them btw...

she make s such amazing art. u should go eat said art :D