#edited to include Nimona

[cloverjester]

The pride month is ending so the pridemon decided to give us three last queers on the road, god bless

[yvesdot]

[ID: A realistic digital painting of Ballister and Ambrosius from the Nimona film facing off, cut off at their shoulders. Ambrosius's head is tipped back so that Ballister's sword lands at his throat.]

then you never really knew me at all

[duckprintspress]

23 Queer Books for Disability Pride Month

July is Disability Pride Month! To celebrate, we asked our contributors to recommend their favorite queer books with disabled characters. The contributors to this list are: Neo Scarlett, Dei Walker, E. C., Polls, Rascal Hartley, Sanne, Meera S., Shadaras, Shea Sullivan, Annabeth Lynch, Tris Lawrence, Nova Mason, Nina Waters, and an anonymous contributor. Reminder: we encourage our rec list contributors to suggest books that spoke to them, which means that sometimes works on our rec lists do not include explicit representation.

Brooms by Jasmine Walls

Iron Widow (Iron Widow series) by Xiran Jay Zhao

Six of Crows (Six of Crows series) by Leigh Bardugo

Golden Stage by Cang Wu Bin Bai

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

The Tea Dragon Festival Treasury Edition by K. O’Neill

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

Feed (Newsflesh series) by Mira Grant

Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep series) by Mira Grant

Nimona by N.D. Stevenson

Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

Body, Remember: A Memoir by Kenny Fries

The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost series) by C.L. Clark

The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus series) by Rick Riordan

The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade series) by Seth Dickinson

Chrono Crusade (Chrono Crusade series) by Daisuke Moriyama

Tokyo Babylon by Clamp

Godkiller (Fallen Gods series) by Hannah Kaner

A Tiny Piece of Something Greater by Jude Sierra

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The Charm Offensive (The Charm Offensive series) by Alison Cochrun

Umineko When They Cry by 07th Expansion

Copper Coins by Mu Su Li

What are your favorite queer books with disability rep?

You can view this list, and our many others, as a shelf on Goodreads!

Looking to buy any of these books or others we’ve recommended? You can browse our rec lists on Bookshop.org!

Want to chat your favorite reads with us? Join our Book Lover’s Discord server!

Love reading queer books? Our Queer Book Challenge is running on Storygraph through the end of 2024. Come join us!

[tossawary]

I think SVSSS as a 2D cartoon would be the best moving medium for it imo.

I mean, personally, yeah, that's how I'd enjoy seeing it as well! My ideal slightly pretentiously artsy SVSSS screen adaptation would probably look only a little more detailed than linograph prints (2D or shaded 3D?) (someone hit me up in like two weeks to draw an example of what I mean, if I don't remember on my own, I don't have access to art stuff right now), very stylized and vibrantly colorful, because that's one of the art styles that I particularly enjoy.

I'm not a personally a fan of the 3D SVSSS show because I find the characters a little too doll-like and same-facey for my tastes? It's fine! It works! It's serviceable! It's just all, backgrounds included, a little... safe? I tend to like over-the-top bright colors and intricate details and impractically weird shapes and yet also coherent world production design in my fantasy, which is a lot to demand of any production, perhaps especially with animation productions, which are always squeezed for time and money.

(EDIT: I know the SVSSS show was under heavy constraints and the results are impressive considering their resources; it doesn't change the fact that I just don't like the art style and nevertheless find the results underwhelming. I don't like a lot of "realistic" modeling / rendering styles, not just "anime" ones, even if they are extremely technically impressive. Believe me when I say that I know the vast majority of the entertainment industry is overworked and underpaid and creatively restrained.)

Slightly tangential general note: I don't think 2D is inherently superior to 3D (EDIT: NOT trying to imply asker is saying this, just having some general thoughts), especially because, with the realities of production, each have their advantages. 2D has a lot of stylistic advantages still, but 3D shaders are catching up and doing some incredible things these days! More advanced puppet controls and particle effects and such are doing some beautiful things for 2D shows as well these days. A lot of stuff has been subtly mixed media as soon as 3D became possible. It is potentially possible (note: not saying any studio would actually greenlight this) to do an equally slightly weird and artistically stunning 3D SVSSS show, given the freedom to work. (Good boarding and writing is also sooooo important in both mediums, obviously, it's not just about the art design. You can get away with incredibly limited animation with good boarding, writing, and art design.)

Another slightly tangential ramble: both 2D and 3D have the potential for stiff animation and poor character acting, which also comes down to production limits and animator skills? (I often think of character animators as a type of actor!) There are a lot of 2D shows that I don't really like because I find the animation incredibly stiff, both puppet and handdrawn (there's great 2D puppet stuff out there these days), which pretty much always comes down to production limits (deadlines and budget and software, saving up their animation for the coolest scenes). One of my favorite things about Studio Ghibli films (which as features get a lot more space to focus on art compared to the demands and restraint of television) has always been the squash and stretch in otherwise relatively realistic action, making things like hugs look SO nice for example. But 3D stuff is getting better at that these days! The ways characters slumped into each other in "Nimona" for example was great. And it's just fascinating to look at the elasticity / stylized sculpt of expressions in "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" compared to the technical limits of the models / rigs in "Shrek" or "Shrek 2".

Adding these side notes because I want to be clear about my respect for both 2D and 3D artistically! A lot of video games are doing cool stuff in 3D that looks very close to 2D with stylized shaders, which you can sometimes spot by the large or small rotations in character action / acting, which is difficult (and therefore often expensive) to do in 2D with all of those extra drawings / angle poses. Also, I think the current push towards funky shaders in 3D is so cool and it's hard not to gush about them!!!

[lavenderin2manyfandoms]

finally doing an intro post yay!!

you can call me Mickey or Lav/Lavender, I don’t really care :)

I AM A MINOR, please no weird stuff as it makes me very uncomfortable.

i go by any pronouns and am bi!

some of my hobbies include: reading, writing, drawing, and sleeping

my asks are open and greatly appreciated <3

expect LOTS of reposts! :P

I’m probably mostly going to post PJO stuff cuz it has taken over my life atp

you can find my yt acc @ LavenderDoesStuf or my animation alt acc @ Kitten_Animations :)

2025 ARTFIGHT HITLIST

oc blog: @lavenders-ocs

here’s MOST of the fandoms I’m in (the ones I’m more active in at the moment are blue)

-Warrior Cats

-Wings of Fire

-The Owl House

-Marvel Cinematic Universe

-Hamilton

-Dear Evan Hansen

-Mean Girls

-The Dragon Prince

-The Umbrella Academy

-Percy Jackson / Riordanverse

-Epic the Musical

-Heathers

-Nimona (go watch it! I’m not asking)

-The D!ckheads

-Helluva Boss

-Be More Chill

-Wicked

-Osora

im sure there are more I’ll edit them in as I remember :)

Want to watch list here

tata for now peoples!

[pinkdevil0725]

Ok, I finished the Nimona little mermaid au vid that i said would be finished soon. So here ya go, hope you like it 🩷

Some things :

-while i was making this, i made some mistakes while editing and i didn't even realize that there were mistakes. I wanted to fix the pic but that would take my time and make me tired FROM DRAWING ON MY OWN PHONE INSTEAD OF A TABLET WITH A PEN. but that's fine, I'm used to drawing on my phone with ma FINGER.

-And also during the "PART OF YOUR WOORRRRRLLLLLDDDD" part, i think i messed up because of the wave of water behind bal and it looks weird 😥

-i also used the same images but edited them a bit to make the expressions look different and the scenes i imagined

-i also realised that i WAS NOT using @riririkinzi 's au because, the au didn't include the music and the characters singing. Just a different story that Riri made which i like very much with no singing but really cool ( btw amazing work you did Riri )

-and i don't even know what I'm doing while doing this. I wanted to change the whole thing but that would be a waste of time and scolding from my parents for using my phone for a while 😐

- idk if i was using someone's au while doing this or... Uh idk 😶

Okay, that's all and Bai bai🩷

[fallloverfic]

"Nimona" fandom informational rundown

New to the fandom and a bit confused about things? Hopefully this will help!

Nimona was a webcomic by Nate Diana Stevenson/ND Stevenson that was first shown on tumblr on December 14, 2011, and Nate later launched it as an official webcomic on its own website on June 19, 2012. It was contracted for publication post-completion as a graphic novel sometime before November 1, 2012. The webcomic finished online publication on September 30, 2014. Shortly afterward, most of the webcomic was taken down as part of the contractual agreement for publication as a physical graphic novel, leaving only a short bit of the opening as a preview. The website for the webcomic later went down entirely, and is no longer accessible.

The comic was published in entirety as a single graphic novel on May 12, 2015. The movie adaptation rights were sold to Fox in 2015, as well, and the project was given to Blue Sky Studios. The comic was later adapted into a full cast audiobook on October 4, 2016. The graphic novel is available for purchase in paperback, hardcover, and as an ebook, and the audiobook is also available for purchase. (The link has international seller links). The graphic novel has been translated into 16 languages. It is also available in a special edition English hardcover via Illumicrate. They only ship from the UK, but ship internationally, and you don't need a subscription to buy the book. As the standard graphic novel and audiobook are ~7+ years old now, if you have a local library, you can see if either of them are available that way.

Disney bought 20th Century Fox Animation (later 20th Century Animation, the purchase completed in 2019), but later shut down Blue Sky Studios in 2021, cancelling the still-in-production movie. Crew worked on shopping the movie around for a new home after talks with Disney. The movie was later picked up and completed by Annapurna, DNEG, and Netflix, premiered June 14, 2023 in France, showed in select theaters starting principally on June 23, 2023, and released to general audiences on Netflix for streaming on June 30, 2023. I have more info on this here.

In English, Nimona is voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, Ballister Boldheart is voiced by Riz Ahmed, and Ambrosius Goldenloin is voiced by Eugene Lee Yang.

If you're looking for official merch, the movie soundtrack is up on multiple platforms, including YouTube, iOS, Spotify, and Amazon, and a vinyl version of the soundtrack was sold by iam8bit. There is an official humanoid Nimona plushie, a whale Nimona plushie, and a shark Nimona plushie, available via Gee and Hot Topic, as well as a variety of official shirts available via Hot Topic and Amazon (just search Brand: Nimona). Nate also still sells "Nimona" comic art on his INPRNT store.

Netflix released a free-to-read digital-only multimedia 358-page artbook for the movie (but took it down in March 2024). (It's also been released at least for crew/friends of crew(?) in physical release, so maybe it'll get mass release as a hardcover). Outside of this, a lot of the crew for the movie from both Blue Sky and DNEG have been releasing a ton of concept art and development stuff, and the cast and crew have been doing a lot of promotional interviews and videos going back through like April 2023, so there's a lot of material to look through on YouTube, tiktok, tumblr, twitter, Instagram, Facebook/Meta, and Vimeo, as well as various news and media sites. Nate is active on tumblr, his personal blog, twitter, and Instagram. Annapurna, DNEG, and Netflix also have multiple accounts on many platforms, including their own websites, YouTube, Facebook/Meta, and Twitter, and have been sharing clips and behind the scenes stuff.

Nimona actually has been added to a video game: Nimona was included as an event companion in SharkBite 2, a Roblox game.

If you're looking for fanworks, the fandom is active on most platforms, and has been ever since Nate started posting early art of the characters. Nate's talked at length in multiple places about how big the fandom was during the webcomic's publication. Mostly back then folks were very active in the Disqus comments on pages, which are a bit harder to find these days. There's a lot of the older comic fanart still circulating in different places (particularly tumblr, where the fandom was most active), some of which Nate reblogged. There is crossover between the comic and movie fandoms, as many fans of the comic love the movie and vice versa, and both fandoms are quite active. There is at least one active subreddit and fanwiki (and many others on assorted fantasy, comic, movie, and non-English language sites), as well as TV Tropes pages for both the comic and movie adaptation and a number of Discord servers.

For fanfiction, there are a ton of fics on Archive of Our Own in the comic tag and in the movie adaptation tag. There are also a number of fics on tumblr, some fics on fanfiction.net, and some on Wattpad. There are fanvids on tiktok, Instagram, and YouTube. There is fanart on tumblr, twitter, deviantart, instagram, and pixiv. There are cosplayers, meta analysts, roleplayers, music makers, and many other fanworkers

Some tags to use/browse for posts on tumblr and other sites:

Nimona

Nimona fanart

Nimona comic

Nimona movie

Ballister Blackheart

Ballister Boldheart

Ambrosius Goldenloin

Gloreth

Meredith Blitzmeyer

Ballister x Ambrosius / Goldenheart / Boldloin / Boldenloin / Blackenloin / Blackloin / Goldheart

Will update this post as I come across new things.

[nimona-week]

Nimona Week: Guide to Fic Recs

Did one of the Nimona Week prompts remind you of a great fic you read (or wrote)?

While only new fanworks should go into the Nimona Week AO3 Collection, we would love to see (and reblog) your fic recs (including self recs!).

To recommend a fic, please:

Share a link to the fic

Mention the Nimona Week prompt that reminded you of the fic

(optional but encouraged) Gush about the fic

EDIT: @ this blog (@nimona-week) AND tag it so we can find and reblog it during Nimona Week (March 31 - April 6): #nimona week 2024, #fic rec, #day [x] or #alt prompt, #prompt name, #nimona, #nimona fanfic. Please also tag for content triggers (#suicide, #suicidal ideation, #self harm, etc.).

Use our fic rec graphic below

[togira123]

Let’s gooo NIMONA!!

A Oscar nominee!!! 🥰

Edit: NIMONA ART BOOK

You guys have to see this 🥰 Full art book how came to life ❤️ and beautiful massages from writers and designers ❤️

[gilearstimboards]

Request Guidelines

PT: Request Guidelines

This guide covers:

What I will and won't make stimboards of

How to send me a request + request etiquette

How to claim an anon/what is claiming an anon

Warning: this is quite long, however each lemon divider breaks up the three sections so it is easy to scroll to what you need.

This guide also includes scripts that I am happy for you to use for requests to me.

I will make Stimboards that are of:

PT: I will make Stimboards that are of:

Any fandom that will be listed below

OCs

Colours

Animals

Songs

Items

Age Regression

Ships (as long as they are legal and non-problematic)

Any fandom, as long as it is not an NSFW-centric one

My Fandoms:

PT: My Fandoms:

Bolded = Special Interest | Italics = Hyperfixations

bbno$

Fantasy High (and in general Dimension 20)

Stranger Things

Marble Hornets (Recurring Special Interest)

The Quarry

Red Dead Redemption 2

Five Nights at Freddy's (Recurring Special Interest)

Honkai Star Rail

House M.D.

Genshin Impact (while I am no longer active in the fandom and recognise the problems with the game, it still holds a special place in my heart)

Pokémon

Devil May Cry

Nimona

Octonauts

Overwatch

LEGO Batman

Spiritfarer

Suits

The Last of Us

Animal Crossing

I will not make Stimboards that are of:

PT: I will not make Stimboards that are of:

Harry Potter (this includes Marauders)

DSMP

Dottore from Genshin Impact (and any variation of him) [Apologies, this one is personal.]

NSFW-centered things and fandoms

Illegal or questionable ships

Real people not in the public eye, or who seem uncomfortable with edits/content made of them. More info about my stance here (question 4).

AI Images

Flashing Images (if I tag any stimboards as flashing, it's because I am overtagging in case. The ones I tag from now on do not personally trigger me.)

I reserve the right to reject any request that makes me personally uncomfortable or that I do not feel like doing.

How can I request? / Requesting Etiquette

PT: How can I request? / Requesting Etiquette

When requesting, you can choose to be as general or as specific as you like. To request me, click on the button that says 'ask gilear' on my blog. This will let you ask anything you want. Anons are on which means you can request something anonymously.

Generally I prefer requests that:

Contain a please or a thank you (politeness costs nothing)

Are specific, or are general if the person wants me to have creative freedom

Are on my list of fandoms (these often have priority over other boards)

Here's an example of a good request:

"Hi, Gilear! May I please have a stimboard that's of the character Steve Harrington from the series Stranger Things on Netflix? I would love if you could include stims with baseball bats, the cinema, and VHS."

Note: I read "I would love" here as that if I include them then the requester will be very happy but if the board is missing one or possibly all of them (often due to lack of gifs), then the requester will be okay with that

Here's an example of a bad request:

"I want a stimboard of [insert something from blacklist here]."

Even if you can't find a good way to insert please into a sentence or a thank you, the phrases "could you", "I would like" or "may you" work way better than "I want". I do however understand social interactions can be hard, so if you're finding it challenging here's a template to plug your request into:

Hi Gilear, please may I have a [insert character/thing] stimboard with [insert colours/items/etc] themes? Please could you not include [anything you don't want included here]. It would be great if you could also include [include any aspect here that you think is very specific or could be difficult to find]. Thank you!

Policy on Multiple Requests:

PT: Policy on Multiple Requests:

You are more than welcome to send me multiple requests. I don't mind if they're sent as one message or multiple, however please do note that I may space them out between other requests if I think someone has requested a lot at once.

If I think someone is abusing this policy, this may change or I will let that person know.

What is anon claiming and how can I do it?

PT: What is anon claiming and how can I do it?

Anon claiming is a practice on tumblr where you can sign off on an anon in a special way that indicates that you are a particular person. This means that I still know who you are, but I don't have an account to attach it to you. For example the anon "- 🌟". If an anon post ends with this little tag, then I know that the person who uses that tag sent it. However, they can still use anon.

Obviously, do not use an anon sign that is not your own.

If you want to claim an anon all you need to do is send me an ask with the anon tag you'd like to use. A script for this is:

"Hi Gilear, could I please claim the anon: [insert anon sign off here]?"

Provided it is not taken, I will add it to my list. You can view my anon list in my pinned post.

[tardis-stowaway]

Books I read in 2023

I completely fell down on keeping track of books I read this year as I went, but I decided to try listing my 2023 reading as best as I can remember so I have some record of it. This list includes middle grade, YA, and graphic novels, but not picture books (I have to read a lot of those for professional purposes) or fanfic. Text categories include both print and eBooks. They're alphabetical by author within each section.

New Reads: text

Adult -Borderline by Mishell Baker -Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold -Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold -Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher -The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher -The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune -The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal -Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices. Edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington -My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine -A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske -Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston -Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse -Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims -Witch King by Martha Wells

YA -Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Booth (graphic novel) -In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan -Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton -Nimona by ND Stevenson (graphic novel)

Middle Grade -The Impossible Destiny of Cutie Grackle by Shawn K. Stout -The Last Hope in Hopetown by Maria Tureaud -Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith (graphic novel)

New reads: audio -Bad Cree by Jessica Johns -Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle -Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig

Rereads: text -Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire -A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire -An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire -I reread several Murderbot Diaries books at some point within the past year and a half, but I really can’t recall if it was 2022 or 2023.

Rereads: audio -Dracula by Bram Stoker (as performed in Re: Dracula. It may be a podcast but it had the full-length novel text so I'm counting it)

My favorites of the new reads were probably Nettle and Bone, The Hollow Places, Nimona, and In Other Lands. Yes, that's two T. Kingfisher books in my top four. This was my first time reading her books, but I will definitely be seeking out more; she's fantastic. Weirdly, I don't think I read a single nonfiction book this year, which is something I'd like to change next year.

Any of these you're interested in and want to know more about? Or any here you've read and want to chat about? Any books you loved this year that you want to shout about?

[sophiesophsofia]

Hi there !

I'm Sophie and this is my tumbl acc.

All facts about me :

I'm a minor

I'm pround citizen of the Republic of Poland (with also polish origins)

I create my own cartoon shows such as Irisia, Code Clash etc.

I'm bi and my pronous are she/they

I'm christian (yes, it's ok to be queer and christian as GOD LOVES EVERYBODY)

I'm propabbly neurodiversed and I'm hsp, so no respect for haters here

My tiktok chanell with edits : https://www.tiktok.com/@saphire.editzz

Fandoms that I'm in :

Nimona

Solar Opposites

Helluva Boss

Hazbin Hotel

Rick and Morty

The Amazing Digital Circus

Murder Drones

The Owl House

Pokemon

Demon Slayer

Heartstopper

Good Omens

Famous people that inspires me :

Dana Terrace

Vivienne Medrano (I don't care if she's controvercial person, this woman is a green flag with an amazing talent)

Micheal Jackson

Freddie Mercury

Riz Ahmed

Eugene Lee Yang

Brandon Rogers

Cooper Smith Goodwin (Gooseworx)

ND Stevenson

Dan Harmon (NOT JUSTIN ROILAND)

Neil Gaiman

Micheal Sheen

David Tennant

Alice Oseman

DNI list :

homophobes

transphobes

racists

anti-semites

islamophobes

christophobes

anti-atheists

haters (I've mantioned that already)

proshippers (INCLUDING BALLISTER X NIMONA SHIPPERS)

pedos

Anyways, tysm for for your time <3

[nimonabigbang]

🎇Attention All Nimona Writers! 🎇

If you are planning on writing a story, event or not, there is a wonderful site you can use that lets you pace yourself on a daily word count.

NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month)

About NaNoWrimo:

"NaNoWriMo is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that believes in the transformational power of creativity. We provide the structure, community, and encouragement to help people use their voices, achieve creative goals, and build new worlds—on and off the page."

How It Works for Writers (their links are included as well in the quotes because why not):

"Once a writer (or soon-to-be writer!) signs up on our site, they can participate in our programs in a variety of ways. Prefer to write on your own timeline? Set independent writing goals and work at your own pace. Prefer the exquisite pressure of an ambitious deadline and enthusiastic community egging you on? Set an official challenge goal during National Novel Writing Month in November or Camp NaNoWriMo in April or July. You’ll receive resource-packed messages (and the occasional celebratory gif) from us, and if you reach your word-count goal, you can access a special winner page with sponsor offers and more.

Either way, once you’ve signed up, you can explore our how-to materials, make writer friends in the forums, join your local region(s) to see what’s going on nearby, pop in on the occasional virtual event hosted by NaNo HQ, make buddies and join writing groups, get inspired by pep talks from authors like Gene Luen Yang, Roxane Gay, Kacen Callender, John Green, and N. K. Jemisin, and—of course—track your writing progress, novel or otherwise."

Feel Free to check out the rest of their site for more information as well!

CB the Mod Uses this Religiously!

I also want to let you know that I (CB) use this site for every single one of my stories when I get close tof inishing them, I also use this for other big bangs that I wrote for. While it is for the NaNoWriMo (National November Writing Month) challenge, it can be utilized for everything!

Back to the Big Bang:

So, big bang writers, if you have trouble pacing, or are worried about that, please use this to give you some peace of mind for the event. And if you need to adjust the word count, or due date, either make a new project, or edit the one you're working on!

[songofwizardry]

i'm going to be attempting @batmanisagatewaydrug's 2025 book bingo! full details of the books i've chosen (and options where i've got multiple) under the cut. it is, as most things i read are, sff heavy, but i have really tried to include other genres too!

literary fiction: detransition, baby by torrey peters. a book that i somehow still have not read, in spite of everyone reading it and talking about it. 2025 is gonna be the year i feel it.

short story collection: lesser known monsters of the 21st century by kim fu. this one came from the recommendations in the challenge post!

a sequel: the stone sky by n. k. jemisin is the last book in the broken earth trilogy. for some reason this is a trilogy i can only read in hard copy (possibly because i started reading the first book in hard copy?) and so while i adored the first two books (incredible worldbuilding, absolutely devastating), i was not able to get into the third one that i had as an ebook. so i'm gonna get a hard copy and finally read it.

childhood favourite: oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson. stretching the definition of 'childhood' a bit here as i first read it when i was 15 (the summer i started coming out!) and also i clearly just want devastating books, but this is my choice. i'm interested to see how it holds up as an adult.

20th century speculative fiction: snow crash by neal stephenson (1992) or kindred by octavia butler (1979). both have been on my tbr for ages, but i'm leaning towards snow crash.

fantasy: jade city by fonda lee. i bought a copy of it ages ago and it sounds exactly like the kinda thing i'd like

published before 1950: dracula by bram stoker. maybe this is the year i read this book and/or keep up with dracula daily!

independent publisher: time to orbit: unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian. stretching the definition of independent publisher here a bit, but i've wanted to read TTO:U for ages, and now it is in an ebook format, so i have no more excuses!

graphic novel/comic book/manga: this one was really hard for me, bc there's so manyyyy i want to read. i have narrowed it down to alone in space by tillie walden, lights, planets, people! by molly naylor, the fade by aabria iyengar and mari costa, and nimona by nd stevenson.

animal on the cover: while filling this out i realised so many of t kingfisher's books have animals on the cover, so this could have been what moves the dead, but in the interest of picking a new author, i went with weyward by emilia hart.

set in a country you've never visited: also lots of options here. i went with the weight of our sky by hanna alkaf (set in Malaysia), which i started when it released but never finished, but i am also looking at kiffe kiffe tomorrow by faiza guene (focused on a Moroccan family in France) and aluta by adwoa badoe (set in Ghana). i wanted some more ya on this list, so this list of ya books set in different countries was helpful!

science fiction: man, so much of this list is sci-fi already. but i went with the school for good mothers by jessamine chan. or alternatively i might read the long earth by terry pratchett and stephen baxter.

2025 debut author: i stumbled across an excerpt from motheater by linda h coega on the stone soup newsletter, and it sounds so good! my other option is anji kills a king by evan leikamp

memoir: again, i have picked two books that will probably hit pretty hard because i am making things difficult for myself. the year of the tiger: an activist's life by alice wong or alternatively i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy.

read a zine, make a zine: i'm going to be browsing the queer zine library, which is a mobile zine library based in the UK (i went to a zine fair they hosted several years ago!) for inspiration.

essay collection: the book of queer prophets: 24 writers on sexuality and religion, edited by ruth hunt. another book i've owned for ages and never read!

2024 award winner: some desperate glory by emily tesh, which won the 2024 hugo award for best novel.

nonfiction - learn something new: the age of surveillance capitalism by shoshana zuboff. of all the books on this list, this is the one i'm least confident about my ability to actually finish. it's a hefty book. but i'm gonna give it another shot!

social justice and activism: there were a lot of books on my tbr that could've fit this. i went with saving our own lives: a liberatory practice of harm reduction by shira hassan, which i got as a present last year. the other option is care work: dreaming disability justice.

romance novel: i'm quite proud of finding a romance novel my partner didn't rec for me for once. make room for love by darcy liao.

read and make a recipe: i love ruby tandoh, so i am going to read her cookbook, cook as you are! i also considered london feeds itself by the vittles team, but i don't think that counts as a cookbook.

horror: coup de grace by sofia ajram. i didn't know much recent horror, so this list of 2024 horror releases was helpful!

published in the aughts: white teeth by zadie smith. apparently it's very 2000s london, so i'm intrigued!

historical fiction: gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno-garcia, which is a historical fantasy set in mexico. my other option is plain bad heroines by emily m danforth, who wrote one of my favourite books of all time (the miseducation of cameron post).

bookseller recommendation: thank you to the bookseller who recommended brandon sanderson's tress of the emerald sea when i was checking out the adventures of amina al-sirafi! apparently it also has ocean vibes, and maybe this is the year i finally read a brandon sanderson novel.

there's some other books i'm really looking forward to reading that didn't fit on my bingo list, which are: the river has roots by amal el-mohtar, the lighthouse at the edge of the world by j.r. dawson, death of the author by nnedi okorafor, and exordia by seth dickinson. i'm including them here so everything is in one place. i'm super excited to get a start on this challenge!

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Hey guys!

So I got SUPER inspired by @mer1099's BlackLoin Playlist and I decided I wanted to make one that follows the themes of their relationship from puppylove to betrayal to bitterness to redemption in order and anyway, here it is!!! I tried to make it a variety of different genres but since it's based on mainly songs I know it's mostly folk, punk, and pop genre :,)

I imagined it sort of separated into "sections" based on the different "stages" of their relationship so I've listed them out below:

Puppy Love / Before

I do Adore- Mindy Gledhill

The Only Exception- Paramore

Be Glad I Love You (Go to Bed)- Bug Hunter

Rising Tensions

Love Song- AJJ

Obsessions- MARINA

Betrayal

Vampire- Olivia Rodrigo

Pretty Little Things- The Crane Wives

Feel Better- Penelope Scott

Fifteen Years

Shout and Scream- AliceBanD

Frances Forever- Mitski

Over and Over- Three Days Grace

Allies or Enemies- The Crane Wives

Ugly Duckling- McCafferty

And All that Could have Been- Nine Inch Nails

Fight For Me- AliceBanD

Regrets / Love Endured

I'm Tired and I Hate this Song (Don't go)- Cyberbully Mom Club

Michelle- Sir Chloe

Ghost Towns- Radical Face

How to Rest- The Crane Wives

I'm Your Man- Mitski

Fighting Nimona / The Suicide Mission

If I'm to Die- Keaton Henson

Forgiveness

Talk to Me- Justin Arena

Free Bird- AJJ

J's Lullaby (Darlin' I'd Wait for You)- Delaney Bailey

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel

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I hope you guys like it I'm really proud of it! I'm open to editing it if anyone has suggestions!! Also everyone please check out Mer's playlist linked above it's got a lot of really cool music, I included a couple songs here !!

(Sorry I don't have a Spotify so YT music is gonna have to do it lol)

[danothan]

dc dreams i’ve had in 2023

highlights:

- reconnected with an old friend who asked what i’ve been up to lately and i immediately started showing him my (non-existent) flash collection, including but not limited to: flash jacket, flash lunchbox, and a flash figure (i need all of these now.)

- superman/GL crossover comic where clark kept outshining hal and hal was getting mad abt it but then clark gave him a big ol hug and it wasn’t such a big deal anymore

- my therapist made me annotate a batman comic bc they thought i would have a lot in common with him 😭 edit: the dream that diagnosed me w ocd.

- went to an ice creamery with jason who was begrudgingly playing a video game with damian bc dami wouldn’t stop yelling at him to over messages, but by the end of the dream he was proudly showing me his scores

- wally and martian manhunter’s nephew m’hammed were friends and wally was helping m’hammed disguise himself as human and hide in society and it took ages for anyone to pick up that “muhammed” was actually a martian. also wally was a kid but barry was already dead in this version :(

and the rest of em are below cut:

- nightwing/GL crossover comic where dick and hal were cowboys that came with cowboy trading cards

- dc pride parade where multiple alt universe barries showed up, one of them had the nonbinary flag painted on their face

- babysitting damian (twice recurring)

- halbarry making plans in the gc 🙄

- found a comic where hal was an orange lantern

- wonder woman was nimona’s mentor

- yja artemis finally became a character in the comics and they made a figure of her to celebrate!

- halcarol wedding in an airport

- brought my hal and superman plushies with me to go somewhere but i got confused why barry wasn’t with me :(

- tried to buy a christopher reeves’ superman vinyl for my sibling’s bday gift

- barry puppy plushies. 5 of them. woke up to have NONE.

- some terrible stuff was happening idk, i was too busy infodumping abt barry to someone and making sure they wrote it down. archiving history as the world ends ig, that’s my contribution

- found an awful comic called darkseid warside (?? had nothing to do w darkseid) that was beautifully drawn and had sooo many fun characters details (ex: barry won the lottery and named his winning ticket betty, there was also a letter in his handwriting that was perfect for character studying, hal kept sneaking selfies to commemorate his time w carol, ollie and roy were simultaneously trying to figure out how to talk to each other again and it was sad + sweet, etc) but it was so horribly written. so so ooc, basically injustice again but so much more gory, thawne died in the first issue and it wasn’t even bc of the flash, it was superman ripping his body into two and there were intestines splayed out everywhere (in front of the young justice too). it was so awful, but the character details and panelling were so unique, everything i couldve asked for, so i lamented abt having to buy it. the clerk was like “you don’t have to” and i was like “but im gonna 😔”