#hit me with those recommendations

[ft-nostalgia]

Damn, y'all batflash shippers could not get enough of the "A Better World" episode of Justice League, huh?

[tj-crochets]

I am having a rough afternoon and could use some joy, so if you have any favorite songs to dance around the kitchen to I'd love to hear them! It does not matter what language they are in, any language is fine

[shiverandqueeef]

absolutely love media that explores deeply dysfunctional mother/daughter relationships but as a woman whose inherited parental trauma is very distinctly father shaped, i desperately want more fictional depictions of daughters and dads that are honestly invested in exploring the complexity of that particular familial dynamic, with nuance and empathy and without reducing it to misogynistic, slut-shaming, indulgent male fantasies (she's a slut because daddy issues)

[ihamtmus]

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[purplecelestial-buddy]

Today I watched past lives (2023) and the quote

"You dream in a language I cannot understand"

Will hunt me till the day I die

[mooshorange]

Do you ever think about The Island of Dr Moreau? Do you ever think about the fact that Prendick never fully recovered from what happened to him? Do you ever think about how he gained a dislike for people, religion, and everything he used to know? Do you ever think about the way he withdrew from society and never fully reentered it due to the trauma of what happened? Do you ever think about the fact that he didn't just go back to normal or do some 'real men don't experience emotion' thing? Do you ever think about the fact that talking through what happened and how it affected him with someone else helped him feel better and recover a little, even if things could never be the same?

Yeah, me neither. I am also normal and definitely don't think about this all the time.

[hephaestuscrew]

I'm always mystified by those pre-roll podcast ads where the hosts of a show you've never heard of (which bears no similarity or connection to the show you are listening to) greet you as if you are meant to care who they are and then proceed to read out the ad.

[tempestclerics]

maybe i actually have learned some resilience across the past year because it truly has been a Day but. feeling more even keeled about it than i was expecting and that's a win

[ghosts-of-love]

wish there was a Horrible Histories-esque show but for like. nature stuff

[geolato]

Thanks for tagging me @yearningsea and @polar-bears-making-pancakes!!

Here's the thing. I post about books because I like reading and I like talking about the books I'm reading and I do read more than your average person my age but I haven't... read a lot of books... in total (trying to do it more now, which is part of why I post about it). Yes I am trying to prepare you guys. This is a very mixed bag.

That being said, here's some books I've read that I really liked!

Yes there are two children's books in there. They are both 10/10 FIGHT ME.

Tagging @the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see @jamiegeode @gendernutralghost @newtness532 @sugaroto @frog-in-a-jumper

[longagoitwastuesday]

you seem to have a wide taste in books !! what are some books that you would recommend ??

Hmmm I wonder. I have the feeling I just read the same couple of books over and over, and at times only different iterations of the same story, like in that line by Borges ("the various intonations of a few metaphors").

I find recommending books without knowing anything at all about the person asking rather difficult. What I'd suggest to one may differ greatly from what I'd recommend to someone else. I'll give a list of some of my favourite books that I think are enjoyable in general:

— Thoughts by Pascal

— Cain: a mystery by Lord Byron

— The Iliad by Homer

— Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

— Othello by Shakespeare

— Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

— The fragments of the Presocratics

— La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas, Clarín

— Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Wittgenstein

— East of Eden by John Steinbeck

— Vita nova by Dante

— Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers by Georg Cantor

— Caligula by Albert Camus

— North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

— Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

— Some essays by Russell. I personally love Mysticism and Logic

— Metamorphoses by Ovid

Poetry is perhaps harder to recommend because at times it translates horribly, but in general I love Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rilke, Byron, Quevedo, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Tennyson, Maiakovsky, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oliverio Girondo, Vicente Huidobro, Emily Brontë, T. S. Eliot, Luis Cernuda and Edgar Allan Poe, to name a few.

[bestial4ngel]

Man, I sure love shows about the hopeless future of the earth in the face of capitalism and climate change (<- me when I fucking lie)

[hesitantlyhopefulspren]

Really fuckin want locked tomb books but it's not in stores in India yet

I see that Brandon Sanderson stuff is here which is great I'm loving it but Tor books(who i assume have some power over this) PLEASE for the love of all that is good get locked tomb on bookshelves in India. I'm dying here. I need a physical copy of these books I am YEARNING for them.

[infintyonhigh]

the one thing i will say about that james guy's misogyny is i have seen a lot of similar sentiments in online left spaces. def left me wondering if maybe i was just another homophobic white* woman overreacting, if so many people supposedly on my side felt the same way

[mycological-mariner]

I always get the job done. My methods may be reckless, unsafe, not thought out at all and entirely ridiculous, but I always get the job done.