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abookishidentity · 2 months

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Another one to add to the list

It's always an amazing feeling when you find an author and every book you have read by them is just so good.

When I worked at bookstore, they would had free ARCs in the break room. I picked up one called "A Beginning at the End" by Mike Chen. It was about a huge pandemic wiping out most of the population and the main characters are just trying to survive when it comes back again.

Something that was interesting about this book is that I was reading it when the first reports of COVID was happening. I remember reading something like "It hit *major city* and then I saw that on the news that COVID hit *major city.* I thought that was wild.

Anyway, this did not deter me from reading more Mike Chen books. About a year or two later I read "Here and Now and Then" which was also amazing. I love time travel.

Then I think about two years ago I read "We Could Be Heroes" which I also greatly enjoyed.

I just bought like two weeks ago "A Quantum Love Story" which I fucking loved because time loops are amazing.

Currently, I am reading "Light Years from Home" because I noticed it was at my local library and its so good.

He also seemed to have written a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book which might be interesting to read.

So yeah Mike Chen is an author I will keep an eye on because I love his books so much.

#Mike Chen author #A Beginning at the End #Here and Now and Then #We Could Be Heroes #A Quantum Love Story #Light Years from Home #books #reading #bookish #read rise resist #book thoughts

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wildflowercryptid · 4 months

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underappreciated marcille bit : her being a gay lil hater and glaring at toshiro whenever he gets flustered over falin

#i finally finished dunmeshi and i'm irreversibly changed as a person #kinda surprised that i warmed up to toshiro by the end of the manga #still not my biggest fave but the way he greets laios at the beginning of chap. 93 lives in my head forever now #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #marcille donato #toshiro nakamoto #falin touden #mj.txt

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kazraza · 1 year

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lmao doesn’t even mean “laughing my ass off” anymore it’s just “lmao”. she is like a brother to me

#begins and ends all my sentences with lmao

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thesunoficarus1 · 1 month

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season one of supernatual is so funny to me. sam and dean will literally show up to the crime scene in some fuck ass flannels and dean is in his leather jacket and the cops are like "who the hell are you?" and dean will be like "oh, us? well we are obviously from the us fish and wildlife service who else could we possibly be???"

meanwhile theyre in the craziest outfits known to mankind with no badge or anything, so the cops will ask for their IDs and they'll hand them the most unconvincing fake id you'll ever see. the thing will be crumpled to no return and look like it was all hand written by a toddler and SOMEHOW THE COPS STILL BELIEVE THEM??

and then, they'll start questioning the victims family like "aw man :( I'm so sad for you :( that must be really hard :( so like what happened? and on a completely separate note, did you see anything? feel a temp drop? did you feel a cold spot? did you see something weird? like a creature mayhaps? like a ghost? did you see a ghost? do you believe in ghosts? please tell me it's a ghost?" like that's a totally normal line of questioning for a random drowning from two members of the us fish and wildlife service.

#i forgot that yes. this show is actually insane from beginning to end #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #spn rewatch?

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yespumpkindoodlesthings · 9 months

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#pumpkin spice season begins tomorrow in the US #psl #happily being a basic bitch starts now #erik jensen is a professor at salem state university #which delights me to no end #his specialty is ancient history

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shockpinkrosary · 5 months

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The beginning and the end

Happy new year !

#ty toys #beanie babies #the beginning #the end #new year

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albatrossisland · 10 months

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Started a new book today, "A Beginning at the End" by Mike Chen. I bought it a while back, because I read "Here and Now and Then" and really liked that one (I'm a sucker for time travel shenanigans).

And it's a plague novel.

It takes place 6 years after a devastating virus wiped something like 70 percent of the US, and we're following four people who survived.

Decided to look up the publication date:

Jan. 14, 2020

#that had to have been the absolute weirdest marketing campaign #😬😬😬#mike chen #a beginning at the end #reading

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isjasz · 5 months

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Remember, there is always a great big beautiful tomorrow.

#goodtimeswithscar #hermitcraft #hermitblr #my art #Wanted to draw a little tribute after watching the finale so i finished this a while ago and kept procrastinating on posting it HSAJKDHAHw #Jellie's design is from the scarland artbook <3 #man ill miss s9 but!! love how scar tried to end the episode with such a positive note there i love this quote #remember that season 10 will be coming soon and there are endless possibilities for an amazing new chapter to begin :D #edit uh ive seen ppl talk about it so a little note #The cape is directly referenced from the scarland artbook and was not meant to be Techno's or Ren's cape #but you guys can take it how you want ig o7

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dollopheadsandclotpoles · 1 month

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Even after all this time and awareness, it feels like asexuality is still not treated like a proper sexuality. Recently had a girl tell me that she was at a place where she ‘felt so asexual’ because all the other girls were so beautiful and guys were ignoring her because of it. She didn’t know I was asexual and I didn’t take offence (I know she didn't meant it in a malicious way) but it does feel uncomfortable that people are using ‘asexual’ in lieu of ‘unattractive' or 'lacking sexual appeal.' It's really giving 90's/early 2000's slang of using 'gay' to mean 'lame.' Even shows like Brooklyn 99 which took immense pride in being progressive with their comedy, had an episode where one of the characters says "Oh, and I'm sorry if we implied you're both asexual nerds who can only be friends with service animals."

I have mentioned this before also, when I talked about how I feel like people are more comfortable erasing the identities of canonical aro/ace characters in media but act like it's unacceptable with other sexualities... but it does feel like asexuality (and aromanticism tbh) are still not considered 'real' sexualities. In the case of shipping fictional characters, I understand there is nuance to that issue and so don't want to get into it, but it does kinda add to my point.

Why is it that people treat asexuality like it's not a sexuality? Why is it that when I come out to people I'm met with insistence that I'm wrong about my sexuality, that I'm 'self diagnosing' (it's not a medical condition), that I'm probably 'just inexperienced' or haven't 'met the right person' or have a hormone issue? Why can't people just accept that it's a sexuality like any other??

#asexual #ace stuff #aroace tag #asexuality #ace #don't mind me just needed to vent #just tagging asexuality because it was that 'felt so asexual' comment that made me feel this #but I think it does extend to aromanticism as well #but who knows at least for me I can no longer tell where the ace ends and the aro begins

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jq37 · 3 months

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Knowing your chaotic dumbass friends so well that you feel confident in ordering a special vulture dimension set and custom graphic for an episode that has exactly zero to do with vultures is a love language unto itself.

#listen I have been here since the beginning #there have been a lot of d20 ep endings that have thrown me for a loop #but none moreso than the VULTURE DIMENSION #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #dimension 20 spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #the man called his shot #remember in FY when he hinged the entire campaign on Siobhan stealing a book?#this is the ally version of that lmao

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onenicebugperday · 24 days

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#bug art #millipede art #this begs the question #where do the hands end and the feet begin #i think top 1/3 are hands #beyond that it's feet

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deadpoets · 1 month

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DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year

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demanding a series in the same vein (heh, vein) as Dexter/Hannibal wherein a prolific serial killer plays cat & mouse with the police--except the serial killer in question is a preteen schoolgirl. this would make for compelling television due to the fact that middle school frequently causes girls to become deranged, and more media should reflect this

#she hangs out at active crime scenes in a way that should be a red flag but 'evades' the police simply by merit of being in 7th grade #the ONE 'detective'/nemesis who is convinced she had something to do with The Murders #is the classmate who sorta tried to bully her at the beginning of the school year but then the vibes got all intense and sapphic #so she backed off and has been Ignoring the Nerd she does Not have a special interest in #except then The Murders begin and she has so many Suspicions BUT #everytime she confronts the antihero the interaction ends in accidental intimacy followed by furious blushing #the nemesis's father is an (unsympathetic) cop character who repeatedly ignores his daughter's concerns #'dad i think the weird girl in my math class is a serial killer' 'that's not an excuse for failing algebra. go do your homework'

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bloominglegumes · 18 days

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i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

#either that or hilariously dysfunctional or both #tf one #orion pax #d 16 #megop #megatron #optimus prime #my art #saw one post pointing out in the trailer that a like5 frame shot of megatrons cannon that was snuck between their mahoushoujo type transfor #mations and like.messed up deeply messed up u see how goofy best friends orion and megsy are theyre just silly guys but in every telling of #their story they always end up enemies ok like in a meta multiverse hopping way think about it.like oh my god prewar tfp megop was already j #juicy and earthspark divorced-remarried megop is like.RGHFH tf one is going to destroy me bc this is what they had Before do u get me #before the war before they fell apart before friends became enemies and hands were stained before the beginning of the end im so so normal #like ok.this silly tight goofy buddy dynamic thats shown in tf one so far is.is what they had before. its what they could have kept if only #if only things turned out differently. but in every world optimus prime and megatron end up leading opposite sides of the bloodiest war ever #ok.its a universal fact and everyone who knows any transformers knows this BUT THE CHARACTERS DONT THEYRE POWERLESS TO PREVENT IT #ill clean up these tags in the morning but like im so.so normal about fictional robot guys #anyway i was intending to draw a background for this but i got lazy and also spent too long on the hands!!!!so whatever

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chrismho · 2 months

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just finished s2 and I am SO mad at him

#YES i am watching atla from beginning to end for the first time #lets goo #prince zuko #zuko #atla #atla fanart #avatar the last airbender

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electrozeistyking · 6 months

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"She's Gone"

This bad boy was started on the third of November, and finished on the seventh. In total, there are thirty panels (all of which were drawn separately).

A good chunk of N's dialogue near the end came to me after I did some improv to figure out what he should say. I have since dubbed it "N's Failure Monologue."

#murder drones #murder drones n #murder drones tessa #murder drones uzi #tessa james elliott #serial designation n #uzi doorman #the absolutesolver #BOY let me tell ya there was some movie magic pulled in areas #even though i told myself to keep it simple... despite knowing how well that worked when i made crash test #ah well. i go overboard so you guys can enjoy the end result #and hopefully not dock off points for my inability to draw characters holding swords. i tried SO HARD #ALSO JUST SAW THE BEGINNING OF THE END TEASER THING BEFORE POSTING THIS #OH MY GOD MY HEART IS DOING THINGS TO ME AND I'M NOT SURE THIS IS HELPING #YES THAT IS THE ONLY TEASER I WILL EVER WATCH BECAUSE IT WAS UNAVOIDABLE ANYWAY (it’s in glitchx 2023)#solveruzi au #zeisty’s heavy hitters #zeisty’s comic stuff

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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