#it’s between six of crows and the secret history

[athingofvikings]

In my own experience as a Jewish Leftist, and corroborated by the similar experiences of other Jewish Leftists, there are, roughly speaking, five to six broad categories of Leftists in their attitudes towards Jews. This is a tangential categorization in terms of precise political affiliation; in other words, one's position in these categories is not dependent on what precise type of Leftist/Progressive an individual is.

Type 1: Open And Unapologetic Jew Haters

These Leftists hate Jews and don't try to hide it at all. According to them, Jews are the Problem, and they know what type of Solution they want enacted.

The archetypal example that I'll currently use is Cynthia McKinney, former US Congresswoman and US Green Party presidential candidate, who, well...

But this is also the class of Leftists who say that there is no room for Judaism in their ideal, imagined perfect world, that they picture everyone assimilating and giving up their ethnic and cultural identities to just be "human", and often single out Judaism as a particular problem in that regard.

Type 2: Closeted Knowing Jew Haters

These Leftists hate Jews, know that they hate Jews, but know that it's bad optics to openly praise Hitler or cozy up to the KKK to satisfy their hatred of Jews, so they try to find the barest veneer of plausible deniability to hide behind. "Anti-zionism" is a particular favorite on the Left, but the hatred has a way of slipping past the mask when they get questioned.

A classic example here is the Boston Mapping Project, who literally made up a list of every Jewish institution in Boston, Mass, on suspicion of them being "Zionist"--including elder homes, Jewish high schools, and Kindergartens, and including scary "links" on the map to various government agencies, no matter how tenuous or outright imaginary, thereby invoking old conspiracy tropes about "Secret Jewish Control of the Government". (And BDS, as the parent organization, also gave the lie that they're just antizionist, not antisemitic, when they disavowed the Mapping Project for bad optics, not the rank antisemitism and conspiratorial thinking they were promoting). Another example would be the organizers of the Chicago Dyke March, who explicitly expelled Jews from the March and crowed about "zio tears" (which is a slur originally used by the KKK, no less).

However on first encounter, Type 2 are indistinguishable from and camouflaged by...

Type 3: Undereducated And Unknowing Traffickers In Antisemitism

These Leftists don't hate Jews per se... they're just unaware of the deep antisemitic history of repeating claims that "Jews have too much power", or stating that the Holocaust was "White on White violence", or that "Jews are just White People from Europe", or any of a host of other antisemitic beliefs that are endemic on the Left. They're initially indistinguishable from Type 2, as they say the same things, and can only be told apart by their reactions; a Type 3 will go, "Oh, I didn't know and I'll try to learn!", while a Type 2 will typically double down, or let the mask slip in some other way.

The problem is that, from the perspective of Jews, Type 2 and Type 3 are indistinguishable from each other at first glance, and rather than try to engage and risk the emotional harm, a lot of Jews tend to write off all of them as Type 2, and there's a lot of debate on the ratios between the two.

Also worthy of mention, as a midpoint between Type 2 and Type 3 are:

Type 2.5: Openly Antisemitic "I'm Not An Antisemite, I Just Refuse To Learn, Listen, Or Let Jews Define Antisemitism"

As a midpoint between types, these Leftists openly traffic in antisemitic motifs, conspiracies, and attitudes, all the while insisting that they're not antisemitic. They're a midpoint between types 2 and 3 because they've had plenty of time and opportunity to learn about the bigoted attitudes they're espousing, but refuse to do so... but at the same time, they genuinely seem to think that they're not antisemitic. They just think that there's a vast Jewish conspiracy out to get them personally, or any of a number of other antisemitic beliefs, and refuse to accept or learn that what they're saying is antisemitic. They can believe that they themselves are not all they want, saying that Jews have too much money and power and run the world's politics is still trafficking in antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The archetypal example of this type, assuming we can take his word for it, is Roger Waters. Waters is openly and explicitly antisemitic, saying that there is a widespread conspiracy of Jews running the world's politics... but he has been insisting for over 40 years that he's just "antizionist, not antisemitic."

But these are just the outspoken ones. None of them would get anywhere without the tacit support of...

Type 4: The Silent Majority

These Leftists are, being blunt, hypocritical cowards. They don't want to get involved in issues on antisemitism. When a Leftist Jew is being harassed by one of Types 1 to 3, they don't speak up, they don't get involved, they just say nothing.

Maybe they agree with one of the above types. Maybe they just don't want to get involved. Maybe they're afraid of seeming sympathetic to Israel. Maybe they're afraid of getting the social backlash that the Jew is experiencing. But ultimately, their motivations don't matter, their actions do—and their actions give tacit social support to the antisemite in the Leftist group, not to the Jew being harassed and chased out.

And the reason they're hypocritical cowards?

Well, if your ideology claims that you want a better life for everyone and social progress and being against racism and bigotry... but yet they don't speak up when it's happening right in front of them...

Well.

That says a lot, doesn't it? Both on what their ideals actually mean to them... and how highly they value Jews. And we know that it is possible, because of...

Type 5: The Pro-Jewish Leftist

These Leftists are, in my experience, a minority outside of Leftist Jews, but they do exist among non-Jewish Leftists. They stand up to Types 1, 2, and 3 when they express antisemitic views, and try to shame and cajole Type 4 into standing up as well.

And, just to point out how normalized antisemitism is on the Left...

Some people in this category might object to being labeled as "Pro-Jewish", as if they're biased for Jews. But I have to ask... do you think that they would also object to being labeled "Pro-LGBTQ"?

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We're back with another reading bingo! welcome to the Winter Mini Reading Challenge ❄

RULES: like with all our challenges, the rules are pretty flexible, since the whole point of this is to motivate you to read just a little bit more :) the challenge starts on december 1st and ends with february 28th, but you're welcome to finish it at your own pace -> use the tag #studyblr w/knives reading challenge when you post your updates/pics -> reblog this post if you're participating

once you’ve read a book that fits a prompt, cross it out on the above template and/or share your thoughts on it in a post here on tumblr; make sure to mark any spoilers (hide them under a cut etc.), so people can avoid them if needed :) you can also have just one post and update it as you go, or you can post good ol’ aesthetic book pics!

as always, if you have any questions, my asks are always open

❄ FIND PROMPT EXPLANATIONS & OUR RECS FOR EACH UNDER THE CUT ❄

Any book that features twins - they don't have to be main characters. ❄ The Secret History - D. Tartt ❄ Gideon the Ninth - T. Muir ❄ The King Is Dead - B. Dean ❄ The Magic Between - S. Hoyt

Either second chance as the trope, or give a book you'd previously DNF'd another go. ❄ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - T. Jenkins Reid ❄ One True Loves - T. Jenkins Reid ❄ Persuasion - J. Austen ❄ Beach Read - E. Henry

A book with a single word in the title. ❄ Piranesi - S. Clark ❄ Hamlet - W. Shakespeare ❄ Icebreaker - A.L. Graziadei ❄ Bloodchild - O. E. Butler

A classic or modern classic. ❄ Rebecca - D. du Maurier ❄ The Alchemist - P. Coelho ❄ The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams ❄ The Little Prince - A. de Saint-Exupéry

A book with a pretty cover (this is obviously highly subjective, but here are some we think look amazing): ❄ A Marvellous Light - F. Marske ❄ The Starless Sea - E. Morgenstern ❄ How to Kill Your Family - B. Mackie ❄ All That's Left in the World - E. J. Brown

Any book with festive vibes - any holiday/festivity during the timeframe of this challenge goes :) ❄ A Christmas Carol - C. Dickens ❄ The Mistletoe Motive - C. Liese

Some neurodiverse main characters: ❄ The Charm Offensive - A. Cochrun ❄ Turtles All the Way Down - J. Green ❄ The Gilded Wolves - R. Chokshi ❄ Six of Crows - L. Bardugo

The nonfiction prompt for fiction lovers lol ❄ Crush - R. Siken ❄ Shakespeare's Sonnets - W. Shakespeare ❄ The Anthropocene Reviewed - J. Green ❄ Bitch Doctrine - L. Penny

Any book that a friend's recommended to you - or you can read one of our server faves: ❄ Gideon the Ninth - T. Muir ❄ Six of Crows - L. Bardugo ❄ Red, White & Royal Blue - C. McQuiston ❄ The Raven Boys - M. Stiefvater

[greenerteacups]

Fic Masterpost

Oh, boy. Okay. Here we go.

I have written literally hundreds of thousands of words of fic, and this is where you can find it! Consider this a kind of annotated bibliography.

Harry Potter

Lionheart

Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger | 300,000 words and counting

How Draco Malfoy met a girl on a train, ruined his life, started a war, and ended one.

Notes: Oh, honey. This is my baby. The longest fic I've ever written, the currently running one, and the one I'm most fond of. A Gryffindor!Draco AU that retraces all 7 books. Slowburn Dramione (SLOW, slow burn, a simmer, currently more like a suntanning) with Golden Quartet vibes. I pre-write all the books and then release them in weekly updates, kinda like a serial publication, so you always know when your next hit is coming!

Volume I, "Green and Golden," composed of Years 1-3, finished early in 2023. It's currently releasing Volume II, "Son and Heir," which just finished the first act of Year 4.

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The Climb

Harry Potter, Severus Snape & Harry Potter | 22,000 words

"...in the event that I, Lily Evans Potter, and my husband, James Potter, become deceased," read Albus, "I do hereby name Severus Snape as sole legal custodian of my son, Harry James Potter, until such a time as he comes of age." He folded his glasses on the table. "Fuck," said Severus, with feeling.

Notes: An unexpected brainworm that I had while compiling a Severus playlist for Lionheart, which rapidly spiraled out of control. It's a "Severus raises Harry" fic, which I never had a taste for until I started writing this — I realized there was so much more juice in the narrative idea than I'd realized. I like how I use voice and style here; I think I made a real leap in technique between SWHTWW and this one.

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Other

the scenes which hold the waking world

Six of Crows, Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik, Jesper Fahey/Wylan van Eck | 70,000 words

Thirty million dollars for a secret. That's the payout for Kaz Brekker, the most dangerous, ruthless, and talented extractor in the dream industry — if he can manage it. But to have a chance, he needs the best. That means finding a team willing to attempt the impossible: a knife-wielding cat burglar, a college dropout with perfect aim, a sullen ex-Navy SEAL, a drop-dead gorgeous former Soviet spy, and the estranged son of their rich employer. If they can avoid killing each other, they'll go down in history. If they can't, none of them may wake up again.

Notes: This was my first novel-length fic, and I'll always have a soft spot for it. It's an Inception AU with the vibes of Leverage meets Ocean's 11, with a side of psychological trouble and codependency. Read if you like spy movies, heist stories, or dangerous criminals whose Achilles heel is being unable to stop talking shit to each other.

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someday we'll linger in the sun

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Namor of Talokan/Shuri | 40,000 words

As the legends have it, after she earned the blessings of Bast, the Princess Shuri took a god for a lover. The legends say less about what happened in between.

Notes: Another drabble that spiraled wildly out of control. (You may notice a theme.) I watched Black Panther over Christmas break and thought, "Wow, that's an incredible storyline that didn't actually happen, wish someone would write it." Technically unfinished, but I think the existing chapters serve as a complete story. Unfortunately, no plans to come back to this one; I might mark it as finished at some point, because it feels settled to me.

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it's a western, henry

Dimension20: Fantasy High, Riz Gukgak/Fabian Aramais Seacaster | 10,000 words

Nobody fantasizes about kissing goblins in the moonlight, or taking them out on ice cream dates after class. Especially not beautiful half-elves on the bloodrush team, who could have anybody they wanted (and probably do). It's the beginning of a bad joke. A goblin and a half-elf walk into a tower... And the goblin ends up slain on the floor while the half-elf walks out with the princess.

Notes: My first fic, which started as a writing exercise. A character study in fantasy race relations and a love story between a nerd and a jock in which the jock is the anxious one. Working title for a while was "it's not easy being green," before I found the fancy Siken line. I still think there's some good humor in here, and I like rereading it from time to time.

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Read 2/1-2/2

Four Stars

I enjoyed Hafsah Faizal's previous duology The Sands of Arawiya and I have been eagerly anticipating A Tempest of Tea since its announcement several years ago. I always feel a little trepidation when books are compared to Six of Crows, it just became so popular that any book with even a hint of a heist had Six of Crows slapped on as a comp title. A Tempest of Tea really delivered in the right ways for me. There's a heist, there's a lovable but morally gray crew, and there's some fun twists throughout the way. Add in some vampires and I'm fully sold on the concept of this book!

Arthie was a great protagonist. She is the owner of a tea shop that is often on the wrong side of the law due to nature of the tea she sells. Arthie is a lot of fun, she's highly intelligent and always have a trick up her sleeve. One of the first few scenes of the book where we see her outwitting the people ransacking her shop was so tense and I adored seeing her smarts shine through so early on. I also enjoyed slowly discovering her secrets throughout the book, although I do feel there was a twist that felt quite easy to spot early on. I really enjoyed Jin, Arthie's adoptive brother. He's a charmer and I loved all his interactions with another major character, Flick. Flick's storyline was maybe my favorite of the main characters. I really enjoyed her growth throughout the book. Rounding out the our heist crew are Matteo and Laith. I have opinions on both but they're quite spoilery so I'll have to simply stop at they exist you'll have to form your own opinions about them.

While the majority of this was very fast paced there were a few moments where I felt the flow of the story got a little odd and moments that dragged despite the action that was happening. I was also just not into Arthie's romance in this book. I felt like it occurred way too quickly and did not feel organic at all. While I wouldn't classify this currently as having a love triangle because one of the character's interest did not read as anything more than lightly flirty for most of the book, I do think at the end there are two characters who seem to be set up as potentially both being love interests for Arthie in the next book. In contrast I was 100% here for every interaction between Jin and Flick and I do honestly think the book would have read much better if they were the only characters displaying romantic feelings, at least in this installment. Part of that is because Jin and Flick are shown to have a history that Arthie simply did not have with the characters set up to be her partner. I would have needed more time and slower development to even start to believe in Arthie's romance.

All in all this was a great read and I had lots of fun. I cannot wait for the second book!

[felinemotif]

coryyyy!! 2, 16, 35, 57, 93, 110, 117 from the book ask game <333

hi maya thank you for stopping by /ᐠ - ˕ -マ all but one of these recs are written in english; the last one, compañeras, is written in a mix of spanish & 'spanglish'.

2. a book with a blue cover

i was so ready to say my husband by maud ventura for this but it turns out that??? the cover! is not blue. only the title is. so. with that said i'll go with all's well by mona awad.

i wasn't too sure about reading this at first but i had read and loved bunny by this author, so i figured i'd give it a chance despite my hesitation regarding the topic. glad i did, i'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. it could have been higher, but the ending was... well i don't want to spoil it if anyone is reading it/wants to read it, but it was definitely a very awad-esque ending in that it was neutral and honestly? a bit unsatisfying.

we follow a vengeful actor turned theatre director with debilitating chronic pain who slowly over time loses her sense of empathy as she gets lost in her anger. very, very unhinged. i saw dominique defoe say that it was disturbing to dive into a feminine rage book that wasn't set in a fantasy world where a lack of morality could be smoothed over by the greater good; all's well is a modern contemporary with real world problems. lots of references to two shakespeare plays (which you could probably tell by the title anyway lol).

my usual advice to ppl when they go to read a mona awad book is to have something fun and light to read after because rarely will you be happy with the 'resolution' in her writing.

16. a book you'd recommend to your younger self.

listen. little me was a pretentious fuck lol. i was walking around reading plato's the republic in middle school. i read electra by sophocles for the first time when i was like? 13 i think. both great reads but i really could have benefited from some less heavy material back then. something comforting and silly. with that said, and taking into thought what was already published by that time, i would say any of the lizzie mcguire books.

35. a book featuring the found family trope.

i actually don't read much found family outside of fanfiction but ig six of crows by leigh bardugo. i haven't touched that book since it was published but i remember really enjoying the dynamics between the characters, particularly kaz and wylan. i was also shocked by the huge improvement in the quality of writing compared to her shadow and bone series which i ended up never finishing.

57. a book you want to hit your head with

(assuming this means in a frustrated way) i'll go with the secret history by donna tart. it took me over a week and a half to finish that damn book. for reference normally i can finish a book of that length in two-three days. it was so slow. in over 100 pages the only thing that happened was the main character was able to get into a class he wanted and one of the female characters cut her?? finger?? foot?? smth. it wasn't a life threatening injury either.

the pacing was unbearable but the atmosphere made up for it. i spent some of my formative years where the book is set in the beginning so i did enjoy that aspect, and once i got over half way through it really picked up in intensity but yeah. it's a modern classic for a reason but i think in the future if i want to read a classic, i'll stick with dostoevsky.

93. a book featuring an unreliable narrator.

(the secret history also fits this but since i used that for 57) i'll say we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson. if you haven't read a book by jackson before,,, do so. immediately. she does NOT disappoint.

this book is about two sisters taking refuge in their family manor together after almost their entire family is killed via poison. the townspeople, naturally, point the finger at the sisters and their surviving uncle but are unsure which one of the three committed the crime.

the narrator, 18 year old sister mary katherine, is very childish (to the point that ppl forget she and her sister aren't children). very much a story of sisterhood and trauma and a house is haunted by the living.

110. your favourite psychological thriller.

i can't think of anything off the top of my head so i'll just suggest the one i'm going to read at the start of the new year: a flicker in the dark by stacy willingham. I've heard excellent things about this book. the main character's father was convicted of her murder two decades ago, and while he's behind bars, someone with the same motive---or perhaps the actual killer all along---starts kidnapping young girls again.

117. your favourite anthology.

this really depends on the genre for me but the first to come to mind is one i recently read: compañeras, which is a collection of oral histories, short stories, poetry and essays by and about lesbian latinas.

my own experience with being a bisexual latina woman made this an especially meaningful read to me. in our culture, you don't really discuss your sexuality with your family if you aren't straight. there's a lot of shame in it. i had it a bit easier, given i didn't grow up around many other latines; so the cultural shame wasn't as prevalent for me outside of family. but it was still there.

being a hispanic/latino queer still very commonly results in being disowned once you come out or are outed. i remember when i spoke to my abuela about it (after having already come out) she nearly drove us into a tree.

this collection digs deep into the shame and familial and cultural expectations put on latina women, and it dives into how confusing and lonely it can be to learn about your identity in a household where you can't speak about your experience with the people meant to guide you (elders).

this anthology was also originally published in the late 80s by the latina lesbian history project! and even all this time later, we still face many of the same issues with oppression and family disownment and expectations that the women were talking about in this collection.

a lot of this was written in english, but some were in spanish & spanglish so if you don't speak spanish and want to read this you will have to look for translations for some of the content.

talk books with me

[that-one-english-nerd]

hey folks! i’m not amazing at introductions so i apologize in advance…

anyways, hi! i’m moony and i’m just here to have a good time, infodump and all that jazz…so here’s some things about yours truly :

current hyperfixation : masters of the air / the outsiders

interests :

- the marauders (obviously)

- percy jackson

- lord of the rings

- six of crows

- literature in general (lord of the flies, if we were villains, the secret history, etc.)

- movies (dead poets society, practically any 80s movie, inception, good will hunting, & many others)

- music (taylor swift, noah kahan, oliva rodrigo, hozier, conan grey & again, many others)

general :

- pronouns : she/her

- i have (social & generalized) anxiety sooooo be patient if possible :33

- i’m sapphic and ace :DD

- i’m a minor, soooooo i don’t interact with anything NSFW (plz don’t do anything creepy either😓)

- my ao3 is @ thatoneenglishnerd (but i don’t post on their super often), my discord is @foxhollow18, and my tt is @wylan.lupin.solace

i’ll probably be posting a lot of headcanons, reposts, fanfic stuff and possibly some art (if i feel like it)

about my interest(s)!! my hyperfixations tend to change a ton depending on how latched onto them i am, sooooo there might be some quick flips between what i post about sometimes.

i’m really bad at posting soooo it might be spam or me not posting for long periods (i’ll try not to but sometimes life gets busy😅)

anyways, thanks for checking me out!! enjoy my blog and all my possible cringiness ✨

[todaywasafairytaletv]

blair i love you (/p), but i can't keep up on what your interests are right now bestie 😭

that makes two of us anon 😭

the tl;dr is that I'm kind of in between fandoms rn honestly

the longer answer is my six of crows and raven cycle hyperfixations have started to fade a bit, which is very weird because it leaves me without a Main Interest™ so there isn't really a coherent theme here at the moment lmfao. but this is my best summary of the other stuff I've talked about recently

Atonement - really sad period drama, loved the movie and currently reading the book. watched it for the bi crisis that is Kiera Knightley and James McAvoy tbh

Villains duology - book series, two guys were friends and now they're not and they really just need to kiss I think. superheros and found family!

Some Like It Hot - musical based on a 50s comedy. I saw it on broadway and now that's my only personality trait. basic idea is two guys have to dress up as women to escape a mob boss during the jazz age and it's really sweet and gay

RENT - movie/musical about a friend group living through the aids epidemic in early 90s nyc. also pretty sad, but a banger soundtrack

The Secret History - book, guy misses one (1) orgy and now his friend group is trying to kill him smh (honestly I can't summarize this one)

X-Men - more the movies than the comics tbh, and I'm watching them at a snail's pace. two guys were friends and now they're not and they really just need to kiss I think. superheros and found family!

hope that helps a little bestie! if it doesn't, no worries, I'm confused as hell too 😭

[the7thcrow]

top five book recommendations 

top 10 kpop songs of 2022

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hi ray! hope you’re doing well🥰

top 5 book recommendations:

the secret history by donna tartt (this is my all time favourite book. if you’re going to read anything on this list read this one, i could talk about it for hours.)

the way of kings by brandon sanderson

six of crows duology by leigh bardugo

the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater

an ember in the ashes quartet by sabaa tahir

and OKAY. THIS QUESTION. that is a big question and honestly the only ones i’m 100% about are the top 3. the rest will probably change tomorrow LMAO.

edit: ALSO I JUST REALIZED YOU SAID 2022 BUT I ALREADY MADE THE LIST OMG SORRY.

top 10 kpop songs:

pray (i’ll be your man) by btob

shine by pentagon

crazy by 4minute

glasses by iu

wonderland by ateez

oh my god by (g)-idle

volume up by 4minute

better by twice (technically j-pop but idc it slaps)

deja vu by dreamcatcher

there’s so many i can decide between so imma just put a few: 0x1 lovesong by txt / eleven and love dive by ive / after school by weekly / la di da by everglow / haru haru by bigbang

send me a top 5 / top 10 of anything!

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

Tash Hearts Tolstoy, A Marvellous Light, Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic, The Secret History, Black Water Sister, Spell Bound (F T Lukens), Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots), The Foxhole Court series, Six of Crows duology, Legends and Lattes, She Drives Me Crazy, The Atlas Six, These Violent Delights (Micah Nemerever), The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, Elatsoe, The Charm Offensive, In Deeper Waters, The Girls I've Been, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Between Perfect and Real, Kemosha of the Caribbean, Tarnished are the Stars, Iron Widow, Golden Boys (Phil Stamper), Vespertine, Malibu Rising, The Henna Wars, Annie on My Mind, I'm Afraid of Men, The Sky Blues, The Gilded Wolves trilogy, That Inevitable Victorian Thing, Girls of Paper and Fire, This is How You Lose the Time War, Daja's Book, If We Were Villains, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Ramona Blue, The Fascinators, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, On a Sunbeam, Pet (Akwaeke Emezi), Dread Nation, The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, Finding Home series by Hari Conner, The Sea in You, Love Letters by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

sorry that is just so many and I checked your blog to see if there were any repeats but I used the search function and we all know how awful that can be so there may be some you already have.

Hey there! Just glancing through this list, there are a number that are already on the masterlist: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15zgZxkR3Uxb5qfP9o8vO2EkeyAdPTWsifYGNmMfynBA/edit?usp=sharing

I need to have both the title and author for every book. For anything more than a couple books, each title/author needs to be separated onto its own line. A block of text like this is pretty much impossible for me to keep my place in as I'm jumping around between the different tabs I need to have open to queue posts.

If you'd like to resubmit these following the guidelines laid out in the pinned post, I'd be happy to get them into the queue.

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New iHeart Series About The Conviction of Black Activist To Debut

Like many, H. Rap Brown has a complicated legacy. He was a human rights activist, Muslim cleric, black separatist, a convicted robber, and convicted murderer who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. He served as the Black Panther Party's minister of justice during a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party.

Yet over 20 years later, questions still linger about his arrest, trial, and conviction. Perhaps the biggest piece of exculpatory evidence is the confession by Otis Jackson of the murders before Brown's trial. At the time, the court did not consider Jackson's statement as evidence.

 Premiering December 5, 2023, the podcast tells the story of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a Muslim leader who was convicted of shooting two sheriff’s deputies — one fatally —in 2000, outside a mosque in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods. Prior to converting to Islam, Al-Amin was known as the Black Power activist H. Rap Brown, and was one of the most polarizing figures of the movement, gaining a reputation as a charismatic orator and passionate revolutionary. H. Rap Brown was an honorary officer in the Black Panther Party, and like his peers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King JR., and Stokely Carmichael, was a target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO surveillance program.

The trial for the shootings took place just months after the September 11 attacks — a time of unprecedented anti-Muslim fervor in the United States — and Jamil Al-Amin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.  Al-Amin, in prison to this day, has maintained his innocence, and by 2020, a glimmer of hope emerges as a “conviction integrity unit” begins to reexamine the case.

Leading Atlanta-based independent content production company Tenderfoot TV, and award-winning podcast studio Campside Media, have announced a multi-show partnership agreement. Both of the first-announced series sit at the intersection of social justice, true crime, and journalism, focused on stories from Atlanta, Georgia, where both companies have roots.

“Radical” is hosted by Mosi Secret, a former reporter for The New York Times and ProPublica who grew up in Atlanta’s African-American Muslim community. Secret takes listeners through this odyssey that spans the Jim Crow South, the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Drugs, and post-9/11 America, unraveling a story that transcends a murder trial to explore the impact on a community of Black Muslims in the South, revealing something deeper about violence in America, and who deserves to be called radical.

“Jamil Al-Amin was a crucial figure in Black history, and a vibrant leader who played an integral role in establishing a religious community in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods, yet many people do not know his story,” said “Radical” host, Mosi Secret. “This podcast is not just a story of a brutal murder and a manhunt, but a complex historical and political story, and one that showcases the consequences of violence for a small community of African American Muslims in the South.”

On the heels of the recently announced Cop City documentary with award-winning production company Ventureland, Tenderfoot TV and Campside Media will release an investigative podcast surrounding Atlanta’s controversial proposed police training facility. The indie podcast will cover the protests, violence, arrests and accusations of domestic terrorism erupted last year in response to the proposed $90M, 85-acre ‘Cop City,’ which is set to become one of the largest militarized police training centers in the United States. Told in eight episodes, the narrative will center specifically on the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, a young activist killed by police in January 2023.

“Atlanta’s cultural and political influence is unmatched both nationwide and globally. The stories and figures that have shaped Atlanta — both historical and present-day — are as complex as the city itself,” said Donald Albright, CEO of Tenderfoot TV. “We’re proud to partner with Campside Media to take a deeper dive into the events taking place in our own backyard and told through the voices of our neighbors.”

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I posted 325 times in 2022

That's 278 more posts than 2021!

69 posts created (21%)

256 posts reblogged (79%)

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I tagged 161 of my posts in 2022

Only 50% of my posts had no tags

#shadow and bone - 23 posts

#six of crows - 22 posts

#the secret history - 19 posts

#donna tartt - 18 posts

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#jesper fahey - 17 posts

#grishaverse - 15 posts

#dark academia - 14 posts

#literature - 14 posts

#nina zenik - 13 posts

Longest Tag: 111 characters

#i feel like it’s hard to connect with him on the same level as characters like kaz and inej because of this too

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

My biggest flaw is that I’m unironically Kuwei Yul-Bo’s number one fan. I will 100% support every chaotic decision he has made and will continue to make. Give that child a damn medal for having more personality than the entire Shadow and Bone trilogy despite only being in, like, an eighth of Crooked Kingdom and even less in SOC. He may be a little shit, but he’s MY little shit.

795 notes - Posted January 15, 2022

#4

Dracula Daily has only made me realize there’s a fine line between being in Dracula and being in Beauty & the Beast, so we really can’t blame our bestie Jonathan for getting his genres mixed up

1,267 notes - Posted May 12, 2022

#3

Sparknotes should hire me

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#2

Sometimes I’ll just read the most profound, heart-wrenching piece of literature, and then remember that I’m on AO3 and it’s an It fanfiction published in 2017 with an author’s note saying “wrote this last night because I was bored lol”

1,800 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

My mom after I explained Live Slug Reaction to her: “You should make one about your boys from Community!”

2,038 notes - Posted March 4, 2022

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Two Hundred and Fifty Things an Architect Should Know. Michael Sorkin.

1.    The feel of cool marble under bare feet.

2.    How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months.

3.    With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week.

4.    The modulus of rupture.

5.    The distance a shout carries in the city.

6.    The distance of a whisper.

7.    Everything possible about Hatshepsut’s temple (try not to see it as ‘modernist’ avant la lettre).

8.    The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City.

9.    In your town (include the rich).

10.    The flowering season for azaleas.

11.    The insulating properties of glass.

12.    The history of its production and use.

13.    And of its meaning.

14.    How to lay bricks.

15.    What Victor Hugo really meant by ‘this will kill that.’

16.    The rate at which the seas are rising.

17.    Building information modeling (BIM).

18.    How to unclog a Rapidograph.

19.    The Gini coefficient.

20.    A comfortable tread-to-riser ratio for a six-year-old.

21.    In a wheelchair.

22.    The energy embodied in aluminum.

23.    How to turn a corner.

24.    How to design a corner.

25.    How to sit in a corner.

26.    How Antoni Gaudí modeled the Sagrada Família and calculated its structure.

27.    The proportioning system for the Villa Rotonda.

28.    The rate at which that carpet you specified off-gasses.

29.    The relevant sections of the Code of Hammurabi.

30.    The migratory patterns of warblers and other seasonal travellers.

31.    The basics of mud construction.

32.    The direction of prevailing winds.

33.    Hydrology is destiny.

34.    Jane Jacobs in and out.

35.    Something about Feng Shui.

36.    Something about Vastu Shilpa.

37.    Elementary ergonomics.

38.    The color wheel.

39.    What the client wants.

40.    What the client thinks it wants.

41.    What the client needs.

42.    What the client can afford.

43.    What the planet can afford.

44.    The theoretical bases for modernity and a great deal about its factions and inflections.

45.    What post-Fordism means for the mode of production of building.

46.    Another language.

47.    What the brick really wants.

48.    The difference between Winchester Cathedral and a bicycle shed.

49.    What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri.

50.    What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.

51.    What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

52.    Where the CCTV cameras are.

53.    Why Mies really left Germany.

54.    How people lived in Çatal Hüyük.

55.    The structural properties of tufa.

56.    How to calculate the dimensions of brise-soleil.

57.    The kilowatt costs of photovoltaic cells.

58.    Vitruvius.

59.    Walter Benjamin.

60.    Marshall Berman.

61.    The secrets of the success of Robert Moses.

62.    How the dome on the Duomo in Florence was built.

63.    The reciprocal influences of Chinese and Japanese building.

64.    The cycle of the Ise Shrine.

65.    Entasis.

66.    The history of Soweto.

67.    What it’s like to walk down the Ramblas.

68.    Back-up.

69.    The proper proportions of a gin martini.

70.    Shear and moment.

71.    Shakespeare, et cetera.

72.    How the crow flies.

73.    The difference between a ghetto and a neighborhood.

74.    How the pyramids were built.

75.    Why.

76.    The pleasures of the suburbs.

77.    The horrors.

78.    The quality of light passing through ice.

79.    The meaninglessness of borders.

80.    The reasons for their tenacity.

81.    The creativity of the ecotone.

82.    The need for freaks.

83.    Accidents must happen.

84.    It is possible to begin designing anywhere.

85.    The smell of concrete after rain.

86.    The angle of the sun at the equinox.

87.    How to ride a bicycle.

88.    The depth of the aquifer beneath you.

89.    The slope of a handicapped ramp.

90.    The wages of construction workers.

91.    Perspective by hand.

92.    Sentence structure.

93.    The pleasure of a spritz at sunset at a table by the Grand Canal.

94.    The thrill of the ride.

95.    Where materials come from.

96.    How to get lost.

97.    The pattern of artificial light at night, seen from space.

98.    What human differences are defensible in practice.

99.    Creation is a patient search.

100.    The debate between Otto Wagner and Camillo Sitte.

101.    The reasons for the split between architecture and engineering.

102.    Many ideas about what constitutes utopia.

103.    The social and formal organization of the villages of the Dogon.

104.    Brutalism, Bowellism, and the Baroque.

105.    How to dérive.

106.    Woodshop safety.

107.    A great deal about the Gothic.

108.    The architectural impact of colonialism on the cities of North Africa.

109.    A distaste for imperialism.

110.    The history of Beijing.

111.    Dutch domestic architecture in the 17th century.

112.    Aristotle’s Politics.

113.    His Poetics.

114.    The basics of wattle and daub.

115.    The origins of the balloon frame.

116.    The rate at which copper acquires its patina.

117.    The levels of particulates in the air of Tianjin.

118.    The capacity of white pine trees to sequester carbon.

119.    Where else to sink it.

120.    The fire code.

121.    The seismic code.

122.    The health code.

123.    The Romantics, throughout the arts and philosophy.

124.    How to listen closely.

125.    That there is a big danger in working in a single medium. The logjam you don’t even know you’re stuck in will be broken by a shift in representation.

126.    The exquisite corpse.

127.    Scissors, stone, paper.

128.    Good Bordeaux.

129.    Good beer.

130.    How to escape a maze.

131.    QWERTY.

132.    Fear.

133.    Finding your way around Prague, Fez, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Kyoto, Rio, Mexico, Solo, Benares, Bangkok, Leningrad, Isfahan.

134.    The proper way to behave with interns.

135.    Maya, Revit, Catia, whatever.

136.    The history of big machines, including those that can fly.

137.    How to calculate ecological footprints.

138.    Three good lunch spots within walking distance.

139.    The value of human life.

140.    Who pays.

141.    Who profits.

142.    The Venturi effect.

143.    How people pee.

144.    What to refuse to do, even for the money.

145.    The fine print in the contract.

146.    A smattering of naval architecture.

147.    The idea of too far.

148.    The idea of too close.

149.    Burial practices in a wide range of cultures.

150.    The density needed to support a pharmacy.

151.    The density needed to support a subway.

152.    The effect of the design of your city on food miles for fresh produce.

153.    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes.

154.    Capability Brown, André Le Nôtre, Frederick Law Olmsted, Muso Soseki, Ji Cheng, and Roberto Burle Marx.

155.    Constructivism, in and out.

156.    Sinan.

157.    Squatter settlements via visits and conversations with residents.

158.    The history and techniques of architectural representation across cultures.

159.    Several other artistic media.

160.    A bit of chemistry and physics.

161.    Geodesics.

162.    Geodetics.

163.    Geomorphology.

164.    Geography.

165.    The Law of the Andes.

166.    Cappadocia first-hand.

167.    The importance of the Amazon.

168.    How to patch leaks.

169.    What makes you happy.

170.    The components of a comfortable environment for sleep.

171.    The view from the Acropolis.

172.    The way to Santa Fe.

173.    The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

174.    Where to eat in Brooklyn.

175.    Half as much as a London cabbie.

176.    The Nolli Plan.

177.    The Cerdà Plan.

178.    The Haussmann Plan.

179.    Slope analysis.

180.    Darkroom procedures and Photoshop.

181.    Dawn breaking after a bender.

182.    Styles of genealogy and taxonomy.

183.    Betty Friedan.

184.    Guy Debord.

185.    Ant Farm.

186.    Archigram.

187.    Club Med.

188.    Crepuscule in Dharamshala.

189.    Solid geometry.

190.    Strengths of materials (if only intuitively).

191.    Ha Long Bay.

192.    What’s been accomplished in Medellín.

193.    In Rio.

194.    In Calcutta.

195.    In Curitiba.

196.    In Mumbai.

197.    Who practices? (It is your duty to secure this space for all who want to.)

198.    Why you think architecture does any good.

199.    The depreciation cycle.

200.    What rusts.

201.    Good model-making techniques in wood and cardboard.

202.    How to play a musical instrument.

203.    Which way the wind blows.

204.    The acoustical properties of trees and shrubs.

205.    How to guard a house from floods.

206.    The connection between the Suprematists and Zaha.

207.    The connection between Oscar Niemeyer and Zaha.

208.    Where north (or south) is.

209.    How to give directions, efficiently and courteously.

210.    Stadtluft macht frei.

211.    Underneath the pavement the beach.

212.    Underneath the beach the pavement.

213.    The germ theory of disease.

214.    The importance of vitamin D.

215.    How close is too close.

216.    The capacity of a bioswale to recharge the aquifer.

217.    The draught of ferries.

218.    Bicycle safety and etiquette.

219.    The difference between gabions and riprap.

220.    The acoustic performance of Boston Symphony Hall.

221.    How to open the window.

222.    The diameter of the earth.

223.    The number of gallons of water used in a shower.

224.    The distance at which you can recognize faces.

225.    How and when to bribe public officials (for the greater good).

226.    Concrete finishes.

227.    Brick bonds.

228.    The Housing Question by Friedrich Engels.

229.    The prismatic charms of Greek island towns.

230.    The energy potential of the wind.

231.    The cooling potential of the wind, including the use of chimneys and the stack effect.

232.    Paestum.

233.    Straw-bale building technology.

234.    Rachel Carson.

235.    Freud.

236.    The excellence of Michel de Klerk.

237.    Of Alvar Aalto.

238.    Of Lina Bo Bardi.

239.    The non-pharmacological components of a good club.

240.    Mesa Verde National Park.

241.    Chichen Itza.

242.    Your neighbors.

243.    The dimensions and proper orientation of sports fields.

244.    The remediation capacity of wetlands.

245.    The capacity of wetlands to attenuate storm surges.

246.    How to cut a truly elegant section.

247.    The depths of desire.

248.    The heights of folly.

249.    Low tide.

250.    The Golden and other ratios.

Published in: Michael Sorkin, What Goes Up, London: Verso, 2018.

With thanks to Michael Sorkin.

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