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23-CarmTiger:

Kinda toxic but I can see them working. Only a little bit, not so much. The thing is, having the context of Sheena and Black Sheep's rivalry in V.I.L.E. Academy and how Tigress's relation was with Evil Carmen, and even regular Carmen, it would be better for both of them to stay far from one another. They are not exactly healthy but they are somewhat entertaining(somehow), which saved them from a lower position, because wanting or not, they stand out for being similar to catradora(I mean I wouldn't know, I haven't watch She-Ra yet but I've heard people saying this so I'll take it). I'm not sure but it seems like they were enemies to lovers what Carmen and Sheena could be if done right so there's that.

24-PlayCarm:

Listen, I believe that you should marry your bestfriend but Carmen already has Gray and Ivy. Player is her best friend but her platonic best friend. In theory, they have a 4 year age gap and Player is 18 by the end of the series so they are legal. I mean Carulia probably has a 5 year age gap and people still like it so this fact alone would make PlayCarm better than Carulia. But the thing is, it would be so weird. As far as we know they only met personally once and they are family. But not family like husband or wife but as siblings, cousins. I just can't see it. Platonically speaking, they would probably be first place but since it's romantically, they just feel wrong. They basically grew up together and while their friendship definitely matured with them as time was passing by, it still never showed nothing romantic. They are just too platonically wholesome to be romantic. Their friendship is the cutest little thing already, we don't need romance with these two here. Moving on.

25-MimeEel:

I know a good amount of people ship Mime Bomb and Neal The Eel(and I admit that they got some chemestry and would make a fun storyline) but still, I just think Neal The Eel is so gross and I hate him so much. Yes, this is solely the only reason why they are so low:Mime Bomb deserves better than him.

26-JulGray:

Now it starts the ships that are either too toxic, or wouldn't work AT ALL, or barely interacted(in the sense of almost don't know about the orther's existance). JulGray configurate mostly in the third category, because Gray saw Julia as just some A.C.M.E. agent and Julia saw Gray as "Graham Calloway, former V.I.L.E. operative Crackle that knows Carmen Sandiego". I also think it would be really hard for them to work, but they could in a way it wouldn't be toxic. Hard, but definitely not impossible. It would take a lot of effort and sacrifices I think neither of them would be willingly to take for the other tho. So as I saw them as the least worse ship, considering the others that will come after this, that for me are much worse, compared to any of them this one is "okay".

27-CrackleBomb:

I've seen Crackle and Mime Bomb are a thing but...I really don't understand why tbh. It makes zero sense. Maybe that's the appeal? The imagination to create? I don't know but just like JulGray, they are "meh" compared to what's coming.

28-Mimevineaux:

They both are technically legal adults(even if the age gap must be considerably big)...So that's it. I've got nothing else.

29-HaberZack:

I don't like Dash Haber. I just think he is so ugly and so annoying for no reason at all, he just is. I hate him a little bit less than Neal The Eel but Neal and Mime Bomb still had some sorta kinda maybe chemestry that could be enemies to lovers and an almost potential interesting plot/storyline and these two...Just don't. I found out this is a popular ship and I respect it but in my sincere opinion, I can't see it. Zack just deserves so much better(and the age gap between them must be considerable either).

30-TreyZack:

If they could put their differences aside they would be adorable but I just can't see it. They would be so toxic, oh my god. Them as enemies is so toxic in a way I can't see the lovers. Besides, he passes me straight vibes, which is the only reason why I putted HaberZack higher:Dash is probably gay and any sexuality for Zack sounds convinceable to me. So yeah, these two are a definite no.

31-Maelstroundabout:

Maelstrom and Roundabout are at the same page as TreyZack:They are toxicity all around. They are an interesting pair tho because I don't know if that's just me but I felt like Roundabout was constantly trying to get Maelstrom's approval. Even after he was already a part of the faculty. So it's basically the same thing as Countess Cleo:If Maelstrom treated his condition maybe they could work. But for toxicity points, they get the current score.

32-Sulotta:

Shadowsan and Carlotta...Do they even know each other? If they don't, they probably will but just because they are Carmen's family they don't need to be romantically linked together. I guess they are so low because we don't even know Carlotta's face, even less her personality so we don't know if she is a good match for Shadowsan.

33-BruntCleo:

Okay, no. Just no. They are almost complete opposites. But not in the "opposites atract" kind of way. Because for this trope to work you gotta REALLY love, understand and respect the other, as well as doing some sacrifices and trying to adapt at least a little for them just like them for you(which I don't think Carjulia, HaberZack, etc could do even if they tried and this one they would never). I felt like Coach Brunt was the least liked among the faculty. Maelstrom literally left her to die(okay I know he would do it to everyone but still), Shadowsan and her clearly had beef, and Countess Cleo and Doctor Bellum's reaction to her soulmate The Mechanic was of almost disgust. Cleo clearly didn't want The Mechanic as a part of the faculty. I bet she thought something like:"We already have Coach Brunt, we don't need another gross one" so due to their differences that's their place. They barely interacted, like Countess Cleo and Doctor Bellum or Maelstrom. These three seemed close and often done with Coach Brunt. So they would be toxic(and Countess Cleo deserves better) and overall there are better combinations for them so that's why they place here.

34-BruntChase:

Besides Coach Brunt finding him handsome a couple of times and he being flattered about it in the Lupe Peligro episode, there's not really much about these two that isn't toxicity. Coach Brunt actually gives more to CarChase:both Carmen and Devineaux were crushed by Coach Brunt. So they are a no.

35-Shadowsandiego:

Thinking about them romantically makes me want to vomit. I feel like crying and throwing up. He is her father figure. And the age gap is at least more than 20 years old so yeah. Can't see it.

And we are done here. If you got here, thank you for reading. Bye!

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Every Book I Read in 2019

This was a heavier reading year for me (heavier culture-consumption year in general) partly because my partner started logging his books read, and then, of course, it’s a competition.

01 Morvern Callar; Alan Warner - One of the starkest books I’ve ever read. What is it about Scotland that breeds writers with such brutal, distant perspectives on life? Must be all the rocks.

02 21 Things You Might Not Know About the Indian Act; Bob Joseph - I haven’t had much education in Canada’s relationship to the Indigenous nations that came before it, so this opened things up for me quite a bit. The first and most fundamental awakening is to the fact that this is not a story of progress from worse to better (which is what a simplistic, grade school understanding of smallpox blankets>residential schools>reserves would tell you), in fact, the nation to nation relationship of early contact was often superior to what we have today. I wish there was more of a call to action, but apparently a sequel is on its way.

03 The Plot Against America; Philip Roth - An alternative history that in some ways mirrors our present. I did feel like I was always waiting for something to happen, but I suppose the point is that, even at the end of the world, disasters proceed incrementally.

04 Sabrina; Nick Drnaso - The blank art style and lack of contrast in the colouring of each page really reinforces the feeling of impersonal vacancy between most of the characters. I wonder how this will read in the future, as it’s very much based in today’s relationship to friends and technology.

05 Perfumes: The Guide; Luca Turn & Tania Sanchez - One of the things I like to do when I need to turn my brain off online is reading perfume reviews. That’s where I found out about this book, which runs through different scent families and reviews specific well-known perfumes. Every topic has its boffins, and these two are particularly witty and readable.

06 Adventures in the Screen Trade; William Goldman - Reading this made me realize how little of the cinema of the 1970s I’ve actually seen, beyond the usual heavy hitters. Ultimately I found this pretty thin, a few peices of advice stitched together with anecdotes about a Hollywood that is barely recognizable today.

07 The Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton - A love triangle in which the fulcrum is a terribly irritating person, someone who thinks himself far more outré than he is. Nonetheless, I was taken in by this story of “rebellion”, such as it was, to be compelling.

08 Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis; Sam Anderson - Like a novel that follows various separate characters, this book switches between tales of the founding of Oklahoma City with basketball facts and encounters with various oddball city residents. It’s certainly a fun ride, but you may find, as I did, that some parts of the narrative interest you more than others. Longest subtitle ever?

09 World of Yesterday; Stefan Zweig - A memoir of pre-war Austria and its artistic communities, told by one of its best-known exports. Particularly wrenching with regards to the buildup to WWII, from the perspective of those who had been through this experience before, so recently.

10 Teach us to Sit Still: A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing; Tim Parks - A writer finds himself plagued by pain that conventional doctors aren’t able to cure, so he heads further afield to see if he can use stillness-of-mind to ease the pain, all the while complaining as you would expect a sceptic to do. His digressions into literature were a bit hard to take (I’m sure you’re not Coleridge, my man).

11 The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences have Extraordinary Impact; Chip & Dan Heath - I read this for work-related reasons, with the intention of improving my ability to make exhibitions and interpretation. It has a certain sort of self-helpish structure, with anecdotes starting each chapter and a simple lesson drawn from each one. Not a bad read if you work in a public-facing capacity.

12 Against Everything: Essays; Mark Greif - The founder of N+1 collects a disparate selection of essays, written over a period of several years. You won’t love them all, but hey, you can always skip those ones!

13 See What I Have Done; Sarah Schmidt - A retelling of the Lizzie Borden story, which I’d seen a lot of good reviews for. Sadly this didn’t measure up, for me. There’s a lot of stage setting (rotting food plays an important part) but there’s not a lot of substance there.

14 Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy; Angela Garber - This is another one that came to me very highly recommended. Garber seems to think these topics are not as well-covered as they are, but she does a good job researching and retelling tales of pregnancy, birth, postpartum difficulties and breastfeeding.

15 Rebecca; Daphne du Maurier - This was my favourite book club book of the year. I’d always had an impression of...trashiness I guess? around du Maurier, but this is a classic thriller. Maybe the first time I’ve ever read, rather than watched, a thriller! That’s on me.

16 O’Keefe: The Life of an American Legend; Jeffrey Hogrefe - I went to New Mexico for the first time this spring, and a colleague lent me this Georgia O’Keefe biography after I returned. I hadn’t known much about her personal life before this, aside from what I learned at her museum in Santa Fe. The author has made the decision that much of O’Keefe’s life was determined by childhood incest, but doesn’t have what you might call….evidence?

17 A Lost Lady; Willa Cather - A turn-of-the-20th century story about an upper-class woman and her young admirer Neil. I’ve never read any other Cather, but this felt very similar to the Wharton I also read this year, which I gather isn’t typical of her.

18 The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months of Unearthing the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country; Helen Russell - A British journalist moves to small-town Denmark with her husband, and although the distances are not long, there’s a considerable culture shock. Made me want to eat pastries in a BIG WAY.

19 How Not to be a Boy; Robert Webb - The title gives a clue to the framing device of this book, which is fundamentally a celebrity memoir, albeit one that largely ignores the celebrity part of his life in favour of an examination of the effects of patriarchy on boys’ development as human beings.

20 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (And Your Children Will be Glad that You Did); Philippa Perry; A psychotherapist’s take on how parents’ own upbringing affects the way they interact with their own kids.

21 The Library Book; Susan Orlean - This book has stuck with me more than I imagined that it would. It covers both the history of libraries in the USA, and the story of the arson of the LA Public Library’s central branch in 1986.

22 We Are Never Meeting in Real Life; Samantha Irby - I’ve been reading Irby’s blog for years, and follow her on social media. So I knew the level of raunch and near body-horror to expect in this essay collection. This did fill in a lot of gaps in terms of her life, which added a lot more blackness (hey) to the humour.

23 State of Wonder; Ann Patchett - A semi-riff on Heart of Darkness involving an OB/GYN who now works for a pharmaceutical company, heading to the jungle to retrieve another researcher who has gone all Colonel Kurtz on them. I found it a bit unsatisfying, but the descriptions were, admittedly, great.

24 Disappearing Earth; Julia Phillips - A story of an abduction of two girls in very remote Russia, each chapter told by another townsperson. The connections between the narrators of each chapter are sometimes obvious, but not always. Ending a little tidy, but plays against expectations for a book like this.

25 Ethan Frome; Edith Wharton - I gather this is a typical high school read, but I’d never got to it. In case you’re in the same boat as me, it’s a short, mildly melodramatic romantic tragedy set in the new england winter. It lacks the focus on class that other Whartons have, but certainly keeps the same strong sense that once you’ve made a choice, you’re stuck with it. FOREVER.

26 Educated; Tara Westover - This memoir of a Mormon fundamentalist-turned-Academic-superstar was huge on everyone’s reading lists a couple of years back, and I finally got to it. It felt similar to me in some ways to the Glass Castle, in terms of the nearly-unbelievable amounts of hell she and her family go through at the hands of her father and his Big Ideas. I found that it lacked real contemplation of the culture shock of moving from the rural mountain west to, say, Cambridge.

27 Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of Lusitania; Erik Larson - I’m a sucker for a story of a passenger liner, any non-Titanic passenger liner, really. Plus Lusitania’s story has interesting resonances for the US entry into WWI, and we see the perspective of the U-boat captain as well as people on land, and Lusitania’s own passengers and crew.

28 The Birds and Other Stories; Daphne du Maurier - The title story is the one that stuck in my head most strongly, which isn’t any surprise. I found it much more harrowing than the film, it had a really effective sense of gradually increasing dread and inevitability.

29 Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Faded Glory; Raphael Bob-Waksberg - Hit or miss in the usual way of short story collections, this book has a real debt to George Saunders.

30 Sex & Rage; Eve Babitz - a sort of pseudo-autobiography of an indolent life in the LA scene of the 1970s. It was sometimes very difficult to see how the protagonist actually felt about anything, which is a frequent, acute symptom of youth.

31 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party; Graham Greene - Gotta love a book with an alternate title built in. This is a broad (the characters? are, without exception, insane?!) satire about a world I know little about. I don’t have a lot of patience or interest in Greene’s religious allegories, but it’s a fine enough story.

32 Lathe of Heaven; Ursula K LeGuin - Near-future sci-fi that is incredibly prescient about the effects of climate change for a book written over forty years ago. The book has amazing world-building, and the first half has the whirlwind feel of Homer going back in time, killing butterflies and returning to the present to see what changes he has wrought.

33 The Grammarians; Cathleen Schine - Rarely have I read a book whose jacket description of the plot seems so very distant from what actually happens therein.

34 The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network; Katharine Losse - Losse was one of Facebook’s very earliest employees, and she charts her experience with the company in this memoir from 2012. Do you even recall what Facebook was like in 2012? They hadn’t even altered the results of elections yet! Zuck was a mere MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, probably. Were we ever so young?

35 Invisible Women; Caroline Ciado Perez - If you want to read a book that will make you angry, so angry that you repeatedly assail whoever is around with facts taken from it, then this, my friend, is the book for you.

36 The Hidden World of the Fox; Adele Brand - A really charming look at the fox from an ecologist who has studied them around the world. Much of it takes place in the UK, where urban foxes take on a similar ecological niche that raccoons famously do where I live, in Toronto.

37 S; Doug Dorst & JJ Abrams - This is a real mindfuck of a book, consisting of a faux-old novel, with marginalia added by two students which follows its own narrative. A difficult read not because of the density of prose, but the sheer logistics involved: read the page, then the marginalia? Read the marginalia interspersed with the novel text? Go back chapter by chapter? I’m not sure that either story was worth the trouble, in the end.

38 American War; Omar El Akkad - This is not exclusively, but partially a climate-based speculative novel, or, grossly, cli-fi for short. Ugh, what a term! But this book is a really tight, and realistic look at the results of a fossil-fuels-based second US Civil War.

39 Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation; Andrew Marantz - This is the guy you’ll hear on every NPR story talking about his semi-embedding within the Extremely Online alt-right. Most of the figures he profiles come off basically how you’d expect, I found his conclusions about the ways these groups have chosen to use online media tools to achieve their ends the most illuminating part.

40 Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm; Isabella Tree - This is the story of a long process of transitioning a rural acreage (more of an estate than a farm, this is aristocratic shit) from intensive agriculture to something closer to wild land. There are long passages where Tree (ahem) simply lists species which have come back, which I’m sure is fascinating if you are from the area, but I tended to glaze over a bit. Experts from around the UK and other European nations weigh in on how best to rewild the space, which places the project in a wider context.

FICTON: 17 NONFICTION: 23

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