#july 2022 reads

[coredrill]

congratulations to julie power for being the first marvel character to say asexual on-panel!!! 😄

[soppymilkgin]

i dont think theres a single day where i havent thought about shouyou execution in the last 2 years

[jakeperalta]

nobody asked but here's my top reads of 2023 📚🫶

fiction top 5:

in memoriam by alice winn

if we were villains by ml rio

happy place by emily henry

east of eden by john steinbeck

after I do by taylor jenkins reid

non-fiction top 5:

humankind: a hopeful history by rutger bregman

sex power money by sara pascoe

I feel bad about my neck (and other thoughts on being a woman) by nora ephron

women & power: a manifesto by mary beard

small fires: an epic in the kitchen by rebecca may johnson

[skid-the-mighty-poet]

[sillyroundkatie]

Artfight '22 #17, a special one this is Reah from @souls-foreclosed for @sev-wildfang ! It's a great webcomic and you WILL read it you are feeling compelled by dark forces... you will give in... look at how fuzzy she is....

[justagirlinafandomworld]

I want to say a great big THANK YOU to the writers on this list. You are incredible, thank you for sharing your works on this hellsite and sorry this list is being posted on October 31st - months later than your recognition deserves! ❤️

This list is alphabetical by fandom (mostly), then by character. Summaries and warnings are included as provided by the authors.

Read what you like and share what you love!

2022 reading list | fic rec masterlist

Dividers provided by @firefly-graphics

Marvel

Devour by @cockslutpadalecki

Steve Rogers x Reader x Bucky Barnes (no Stucky)

A mutual agreement, that’s all it is. An arrangement between friends. Except now that Y/N has acquired quite a taste for them, she doesn’t want anyone else.

Warnings: oral sex (male receiving), deep throating, mentions of female masturbation and mentions of use of a vibrator.

CW!Bucky Drabble by @sweeterthanthis

Bucky Barnes

anon request: kinda wanna blow cw!bucky with 'nothing's gonna hurt you baby' playing in the background then ride the common sense out of him for good measureWarnings: 18+. Smut.

Sway by @indyluckycharlie

Bucky Barnes x Sarah Wilson

Sarah agrees to be Bucky’s plus one, but she’s not interested in being anything more than friends. Right?Warnings: fluff

Star Trek 2009

Three Things by @imamotherfuckingstar-lord

Jim Kirk x Reader

Your friend asks what are the three things you look for in a man.

Warnings: none provided

Supernatural

From the Pits of Hell by @fluffiest-dreams

Sam Winchester x Female Reader

Prompt from: I'll Be by Edwin McCain

Warnings: none provided

(Don't) Wake Me Up by @fluffiest-dreams

Castiel x Female Reader

A morning with Cas.

Warnings: none provided

Game Night by @evergreencowboy

dom!Dean Winchester x sub!Reader

You decide to send Dean a few dirty texts while at game night with all your closest friends… it doesn’t go as planned.

Warnings: sexting… a whole lot of it, exhibitionism if you squint I guess, mentions of sex, a BJ, and masturbation, sir kink, swearing, there’s no actual smut in this really

The Lip Bite Thing by @evansrogerskitten

Dean Winchester x Reader

His damn lip bite makes you crazy.Warnings: Dean being sexy af. Sexual tension, kissing, implied smut.

Best Laid Plans - Chapter 10 - The Final Chapter by @thinkinghardhardlythinking

Jensen Ackles x Female Reader

Wedding planner rom-com fic but Jensen is our leading man. Y/N is a wedding planner, hired to plan the wedding of the mean girl bully that made her life hell back at school. But who’s that guy over there, in the Impala from that show she likes?Warnings: Fluffy fluffiness

The Sacrifice by @dean-winchester-is-a-warrior

Dean Winchester x Y/N

I swear, if you could see him, you'd get it.Warnings: None. Pure fluff, except for the painful torture of a Chevy Sonic.

Top Gun: Maverick

Just a Memory by @writercole

Rooster Bradshaw

Being called back to Top Gun wasn’t something that Rooster Bradshaw expected. What he expected even less was what awaited him the night he got in.

Warnings: Angst

Under the Radar Series by @princessmisery666

Lieutenant Jake “Hangman” Seresin, Lieutenant Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, fem!reader (You. Call sign: Huntress)

Being a navy pilot you expected to have your world turned upside down from time to time. Taking to the skies was the easy part, the lessons you learn on solid ground are the hardest.Warnings: angst, fluff, soft Jake, jealousy, asshole Jake, break-ups, cheating (reader is the other woman but doesn’t know until after), preludes to smut, heartbreak, Rooster is a bit of an ass in parts, fluffy Rooster. Parts 3 & 4 include spoilersfor Top Gun: Maverick.

Happy Reading!

[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

Clever, colorful, and creative, Hello Stranger is the sort of romcom that both nourishes the soul and gives readers insight into something real and afflicting. This book highlights the medical curve balls life sometimes throws our way, the obstacles that we must traverse in order to learn how to cope with the new normal after a significant health change, temporary or not though it might be, and how to accept help from others when we need it.

The premise is a unique one where the main character, Sadie Montgomery, suffers from a condition called "acquired apperceptive prosopagnosia" or face blindness, which she acquires after having a minor surgery to repair a blood vessel in her brain. The kicker is that she's an artist. A portrait artist looking for her big break, to be more precise.

To complicate matters, she's just landed a spot as a finalist in a portrait competition where the grand prize is $10,000, and that means she needs to create a new painting from scratch within the next six weeks.

However, seeing as she's temporarily unable to see human faces, how will she paint? How will she create a portrait for the contest? And more importantly than that, how will she make sense of the world around her, differentiating between the people she already knows or those she will meet while this condition persists?

As Sadie confronts all of these new obstacles, she is going to need help. A lot of it. Which just so happens to be something she hates asking for, making her resistant to a fault.

Luckily, there are two men about to come into her life - one, a veterinarian named Oliver; the other, a neighbor named Joe (like Joe Shmoe, get it? Because she can't see his face? I'm still giggling over the punny perfection of his name choice) - who will each offer her something she needs. And who, as the story unfolds, will prove to our heroine that "appearances can be deceiving" in more ways than she can possibly imagine.

While I thought some of the family drama could have been resolved better, particularly between Sadie and her evil stepsister, I really liked this one. It was humorous and unique. Full of hope and joy, which I think we could all use more of right now. More than anything, though, I appreciated being along for the ride as Sadie learned to cope with not being able to recognize faces, and how she grew in her art as well as in her relationships.

Definitely one you should add to your 2023 tbr's, y'all!

I'm so grateful to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for granting me early access to this ARC.

4/5 stars

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[livvyofthelake]

to be fair o haven’t given him much opportunity but alex is not helping in the falling asleep war. why is my body incapable of fucking relaxing. i physically cannot un-tense myself rn and frankly it’s making me wish i was just dead. and if i don’t sleep now then i’ll get tired at work and come home and nap at 6pm. which will only make me not tired again when actual nighttime comes around and i won’t sleep AGAIN. like ok do i just kill my self or what

[bookwyrminspiration]

Didn't the author of where the crawdads sing murder someone

What an unexpected ask to receive, I gotta admit

I know literally nothing about the author or anything surrounding the book. It was lent to me by my old English teacher out of nowhere because she thought I'd like it, and I was just casually reading but now I gotta know more about this.

Alright I've skimmed through a few articles, but I believe I've still gotten a fairly good idea of the situation). Here are the three I looked at if you're curious: The Atlantic, New York Times, Vox

Obviously don't trust me as a news source, but what I got from those articles is that when she, her now-ex husband, and their son were living in Zambia as part of an anti-poaching thing and making a documentary, someone (an alleged poacher) was shot and killed on camera, and that was included in the documentary.

The murder remains unsolved despite being filmed (due to blurring and not seeing who fired the shot i believe?) and the three of them received no legal punishments from what I'm understanding since there wasn't the evidence to prove them guilty. But the popularity of the book brought things back to light from this 1995 murder.

So the three of them are still wanted for questioning over it, but Delia Owens (the author of the book) isn't thought to have committed the murder, but is instead considered a potential co-conspirator and an important witness among other legal things. The Vox website I linked has someone say the shots were fired by Chris Owens, who is Delia's son. Delia apparently wasn't there when this happened. There's also mentions in those articles of other comments and practices of theirs in their anti-poaching days that are suspect when considered with the murder.

I'm sure there's a lot more to all of this than what I could find and skim through in ten minutes, and I'm most definitely not an authority on it in the slightest, but since you brought it up I wanted to look into it.

[allweknewisdead]

L'isola di Arturo (1957) - Elsa Morante

Le nostre camere disponevano di cassettoni e di armadi, i quali, ad aprirli, minacciavano di crollarci addosso, ed esalavano gli odori di chi sa quali defunte borghesie borboniche. Ma a noi questi mobili non servivano, se non, talvolta, per gettarvi dentro oggetti fuori uso che ingombravano la stanza, per esempio scarpe vecchie, fiocine rotte, camicie ridotte a stracci, ecc. Oppure per riporvi qualche preda: gusci fossili, del tempo che ancora l’isola era un vulcano sottomarino; bossoli di cartucce; fondi di bottiglia variegati dalla sabbia; pezzi di motori arrugginiti. E piante subacquee, e stelle di mare, che poi si seccavano o marcivano nel chiuso dei cassetti. Forse anche per questo l’odore che si respirava nelle nostre camere io non l’ho poi mai più riconosciuto altrove, in nessuna stanza umana e nemmeno nelle tane di animali terrestri; piuttosto, forse, ne ho ritrovato uno simile nel fondo di qualche imbarcazione, o in qualche grotta.

[bisexual-book-worm]

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Summary: (Via goodreads)

“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.

America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

Rating: 5/5

Finished reading on: July 13th, 2022

Thoughts: Wow, this was an insanely good book. But I had to put it down quite a few times. I almost didn't finish it actually, because it just got so hard to read towards the end. And I knew it was coming, because of course it WOULD come. I ended up listening to it on audiobook towards the end which was very helpful in pushing past the hard parts. Something about listening to it instead of reading it myself made it a little easier I guess. I do think it is highly worth reading, but make sure you're in a good headspace when you do. I was rooting for Lily and Kath the whole time, and it absolutely paid off. I love that this novel explores not only sapphic relationships in the 1950s, but also the identity of being a first generation Asian American in San Fransisco at the time. The world in Lo's book really jumps to life in full color and I felt as though I was transported back in time as I read. I felt the full of Lily's emotions, from confusion, elation, fear, anger, and everything in between. Kath was a sweetheart, I'd totally crush on her too! This novel is definitely worth the read and I cannot wait to read the companion novel that Malinda Lo released a few months ago!

[writeineveryemptyspace]

Summary: Julie comes home for spring break to find out that the guest that’s been staying at her parents house is in fact a member of a very famous band.

Famous!Luke, college student!Julie

Tdlr I'm taking seeds of the show Happy Together / that time Harry Styles lived in his producers attic for 20 months and making it Juke

[nathanpenlington]

Books of the year 2022

I'm not sure where the year went, but here we are again at my books of the year list. 

Like my previous books of the year posts, date of publication is not relevant for this list. This year I had to reread about 70 Choose Your Own Adventure books for a project - they are still as smart, funny, and engaging as ever, but as my love for those is so well documented I haven't included any here. 

So, these are the best books to find me - for the first time - in 2022.

#1 - My favourite thing is monsters - Volume 1 - Emil Ferris (2017)

This book is truly incredible, but not an easy read. 

Drawn mostly with Bic ballpoint pen, it breaks the conventions of graphic novels in many ways. On the surface Monsters is a coming of age story set in 60's Chicago, but it is a multi-layered narrative that catalogues monsters in all forms - those in pulp comics, those responsible for the horrors of the holocaust, and monsters that enable brutal sexual exploitation and abuse.   

It's embedded with sadness, weighed with the heaviness of human struggle, but shot through with light and love. A genuinely important work. 

Volume 2 is forthcoming, I hope in 2023. If so, I can't see it not making next year's list.

#2 - Acting Class - Nick Drnaso (2022)

I loved Nick's previous books - Beverly, and Sabrina - but Acting Class, for me, surpasses both. In Acting Class, as you'd expect, a disparate group of strangers join an amateur acting class. But what the title doesn't give away is the David Lynch like sense of uncanny, an under the surface oddness, which makes the ongoing narrative full of tension. It's compelling in every way.

  #3 - The Labyrinth - Simon Stålenhag (2021)

All of Simon's other books have made my previous books of the year lists, The Labyrinth deserves its place on this year's list too. 

In short The Labyrinth is a brutal sci-fi graphic novel, in which guilt and redemption collide. The art and words work together to build a darker world, where everyday horror seeps into an alternate past future.

  #4 - The Confidence Men - Margalit Fox (2021)

During the 1st World War, two British officers conspired to escape a remote Turkish prisoner of war camp. What follows is a true story of an elaborately planned, long running con, involving seances, spirits, and sleight of hand trickery. It's an outstandingly researched and written book. Film rights have been optioned by Fox, which doesn't surprise me, but the detail in the writing is a joy.

  #5 - Magritte in 400 images - Julie Waseige (2021)

Rene Magritte has been one of my favourite artists since discovering his work as a teenager, tucked away in the tiny Abergele library  in a book on surrealist painters.

This book covers a huge amount of his output, in chronological order. It's interesting to track his obsessions and motifs as they recur and develop. Magritte's use of the ordinary made strange creates a quiet unease, at odds with the more fleshy surrealism of someone like Dali. Magritte's work often playfully explores aspects of illusion and unreality, an area I'm constantly drawn to.  And the best children's book we've read this last year? My oldest daughter is now 6, she's learnt to read using the Biff, Chip and Kipper series (created by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta in 1986). The illustrations are full of incidental details that are brilliant asides to a world bigger than the story. Creating compelling stories using a limited vocabulary is a constraint greater in challenge than anything used by George Perec.

  My daughter's favourite books have been the Pizazz series by Sophy Henn.

Imagine a girl who is a reluctant super-hero, embarrassed by her super-power (glitter jazz hands anyone?), always wearing her too long cape (chosen by her mum), having to save the world before school, and still forced to do homework. We read them all in a month, thanks to the well stocked Hackney library. Pizazz is funny, smart, and identifiable.

[luxceon]

I posted 7,042 times in 2022

That's 625 more posts than 2021!

12 posts created (0%)

7,030 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 1,226 of my posts in 2022

#submas - 382 posts

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#nimbasa trio - 32 posts

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#long post - 29 posts

#tfr - 24 posts

#saving this - 16 posts

#@ ray - 12 posts

#lmaooooo - 11 posts

#snakes - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 132 characters

#also: i have been this dude’s moderator for the past 4 years (fucking wild) and the shoutout towards the end fucking took me out irl

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

“YOU CAN’T KILL A PHOENIX, THEY ALWAYS COME BACK FROM THE ASHES!”

sometimes you hear a raw one liner and immediately go ham with fanart before the next episode

Lys De’Forrest is from Poll For Initiative: Bedlam, a one person DnD campaign where (as the title suggests) the audience influences the story with polls!

7 notes - Posted October 3, 2022

#4

yall are gonna have to take Infinity Train and all the great memories I’ve had of the series out of my cold dead hands, This Is A Threat

7 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

#3

alright Interview With A Vampire fans, how we feeling about that new trailer?

8 notes - Posted September 12, 2022

#2

A huge Fuck You to Rooster Teeth

-sincerely, everyone

10 notes - Posted October 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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@ Beyond Belief nation: sound off, who’s alive?

12 notes - Posted September 23, 2022

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[a-skirmish-of-wit-and-lit]

Book Review: Egypt's Golden Couple: How Akhenaten and Nefertiti Became Gods On Earth by John Darnell and Colleen Darnell

This was an in-depth and discerning account of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, one of Ancient Egypt's iconic power couples. Part archaeological analysis, part travelogue, and part fictional reimagining, this book takes readers on a chronological trek through their lives and reign. It focuses on how they reshaped various aspects of Egyptian art, architecture, politics, culture, and religion, paying special emphasis on how they took Egyptian solar worship from polytheistic to monotheistic.

Egyptology has long fascinated me. I have always been interested in history, in pyramids and hieroglyphics, in the lives of pharaohs and their wives and their progeny, so I hoped there would be much to entice me in this book. A lot of new knowledge I would be able to accrue. There were informative passages and intriguing insights about Akhenaten and Nefertiti that were new to me, and I relished those with readerly vigor, but at times they were overshadowed by the disjointed pacing, which could be dense at best and cumbersome at worst. The transitions that existed between the travelogue and research sections weren't always obvious, either. They could be difficult to follow. I had to focus hard, chew on them a bit until I was able to catch up again.

Overall, I thought this was well-researched and educational. My only complaint is that I wish it would've had a more cohesive flow because I believe it would've elevated my reading experience. Still, I would recommend this to anyone who's interested in Ancient Egyptian history.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for my review.

3/5 stars

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[bookworm-2692]

I posted 18,363 times in 2022

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#999 spoilers - 128 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#he was reading his chat and mentioned it and grian was like ‘wow that’s clever wish i’d thought of that’ and otherwise didn’t say anything

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Watching Impulse’s stream from the other day and Bdubs joined the game an hour or so in, and Impulse was about to say hi in chat but then stopped, because he hadn’t said hi to anyone else and he didn’t want it to look like he was playing favourites. He was like “sorry Bdubs I have to snub you just like I snubbed everyone else”. Then, after a suggestion from chat, he got around it by saying “hey everyone hope you are all having a wonderful day” and then looked super pleased with himself for that loophole

139 notes - Posted September 16, 2022

#4

Doc’s been wandering alone on Empires for 20 minutes, hasn’t seen anyone, has finally discovered a structure. He sees a redstone contraption and just says “if I was Grian right now I would press this button” and then presses it. He’s seen Joel kill Scar in chat, and also that Grian knows Joel by name and is very confused. Doc is convinced this is a UHC. The button released fireworks and now Doc is looking around, worried that he has attracted attention, worried that he’ll be killed if it’s a UHC. Doc is not having a good time right now

142 notes - Posted October 29, 2022

#3

Man Ren is practically begging the server to start a revolution. Flaunting his wealth and building with diamonds was taking too long so he decided to claim everything built in spawn and the shopping district with his head.

The funny part is I honestly think he wasn’t expecting the king thing to last this long. He expected rebellions long before now and now he’s just like. What can I do next so they rebel. I have no diamonds please remove me as king why is no one rebelling.

190 notes - Posted September 5, 2022

#2

I still can’t get over the fact that the only two people banned from the Ranch, separately, were Grian and then Scar. And who did Rancher Duo accidentally team up with? Desert Duo. It’s just. How. Why. It’s great

371 notes - Posted July 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

After everyone leaves Tumble Town, except for Scar who doesn’t have enough rockets, Scar sits Jimmy down and tries to explain that Woody is an honourable man, a leader, respected, and that Jimmy should embrace him. Honestly I much prefer Scar’s method here of utilising his charisma rather than Joel’s of just yelling that Jimmy is a toy haha

455 notes - Posted October 28, 2022

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