#favorite books of 2021
Text
The new Percy Jackson series is coming out in 3 days, you know what that means?
Me posting aesthetics/mood boards for characters from my Final Family AUs if they were the children of Greek gods.
…I spent the last hour making them.
They will be posted either Tuesday or Wednesday. Idk if I should do it the day before or day of the premier. Pls feel free to let me know and I apologize in advance for how fucking annoying I’m gonna be when this show drops :)
#Luna talks#admin#actually I’m not sorry#I’ve been waiting for an accurate live action version of my favorite book series for a decade#I will go apeshit on this as much as I want and y’all gotta deal with that#And because I’m still so deep into the Chucky fandom#That I will be making aesthetics for them#Who knows maybe a new crossover AU will be born from this#chucky#chucky 2021#Child’s Play#Percy Jackson#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackson show#percy jackson series
22 notes
·
View notes
Text
lotf fandom let me in please. i cannot draw or write so i am kinda useless but i am fun to talk to i think ?
#lotf#lord of the flies#i've been trying to join lotf tumblr since like december of 2021#pls i'm just an autistic teenage girl who wants to talk about her favorite book.. i'm not mean or a weirdo i promise
36 notes
·
View notes
Text
I don't think scrooge and goldie could do howl's moving castle and that's because sophie's entire arc is about learning to be confident in her own self worth and understanding that she has an inherent right to exist in this world. and neither scrooge nor goldie has ever been insecure about anything in their entire lives ever because they are both personified steamrollers who make everything about them already
#JOKE I GUESS#between them both being old most of the time anyway and neither of them being a great fit for either character.... yeah#sophie's role in the story is defined by her personality imo and it wouldn't be an optimal story if scrooge or goldie was put in her place#howl's moving castle is my favorite book. i read it nine times in 2021. it was kind of a problem.#anyway huge HOWEVER to this is scrooge could do chapter 6 in which howl expresses his feelings with green slime#and goldie could do chapter 19 in which sophie expresses her feelings with weedkiller#and vice versa honestly#also can u imagine. hugely powerful enchanter glittering goldie opens her mysterious portal to another world#only to reveal that it goes to. not wales. CANADA.#scrooge: why are you wearing a jacket that says “canadian hockey” on the back#i love u welsh rugby sweatshirt#last ramble thought: idk if i can think of anybody who's really like sophie but if i had to say SOMEBODY id say donald is the most like her.#which might be a hot take. possibly a bad one. i dont care#ok im done talking to myself
16 notes
·
View notes
Text
btw inbred by ethel cain is THE we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson song.
like there is no song that fits that book better. you could write a song based on the book and inbred would still fit it better
#bobbi babbling#we have always lived in the castle#shirley jackson#ethel cain#inbred ethel cain#music talks#its so silly how#a song written 59 years later#fits a book so well.#1962 novel to 2021 song#literature rewrites itself and stories are retold through art#by the way i dont think ive talked about it much but#thats one of my favorite books like ever#i think it rewired my brain#i’m so serious
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
when i read elantris i was going to school full time still. but i was commuting so i didnt have a meal plan. but i had an 8:30 am class and a 2:30 pm class (and on mondays a 6:30 pm class that went until 8:30 pm. pro tip to college students that follow me: don't do this) so i was at school through lunch. but at that time i was going to be moving out of my parents' house in like, a month, so i was saving up money to buy, like, ikea furniture and shit, so i couldn't just go out to eat five days a week. all this is to say, i was not eating lunch most days during that period of my life. so when raoden was like oh my god im so hungry it hurts oh my god im suffering oh my god i would do anything for food please please please i was like *ate breakfast 8 hours ago and will not get to eat for another 3 hours voice* ME TOO MAN. immersive experience
#for all those concerned about my health during december 2021: my grandma (the real goat the real mvp) would drive through burger king for me#while taking me home from school#i did get three meals a day during that time! its just.#breakfast was at 5:30 am and lunch was at 4 pm. and dinner was at 8 pm#i did occasionally get vending machine snacks as well#but yeah i would not recommend that lifestyle#if i wasnt so goddamn autistic and could eat cold sandwiches i would have packed a lunch but alas#pro tip for all commuters please for the love of god pack a lunch if you are at all able to do so#sometimes i wonder if mistborn era 2 and elantris are my least favorite cosmere books because of them actually being not as good#or if its just that i was being starved during the time i was reading them#who knows#luke.txt
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
😍😍😍
#accidentally slept through my only class today#which whoops sorry. (my 9am english)#which kind of killed step 1 of a plan of mine but thats okay#anyways THEN i had to go downtown to pick up this award bc i forgot to show up to the ceremony like a dumb dumb#but the building was like a 25 minute walk and it was COLD (punishment for my dumb dumbness tbh) but anyways i got there early so i walked#around the block and then went inside and picked up my medal#and i was already far downtown so then i popped my head in a couple of stores as i slowly walked back#got a few things from target. new hair clip nail polish m&ms pens and then a mango. very excited to eat that either later today or tomorrow#then i popped in the calligraphy store and then the comic shop and looked around. saw some white ribbon in the calligraphy store which ive#been looking for but didnt get it because it was a bit wide and kind of expensive and i want a lot for my project idea#(want to write out some of my favorite poems on them in sharpie and then use it to accessorize)#and then i went to the comic shop and peeked around. saw a nubia issue and a few gl 2021s in the discount bin but i didnt get them bc#they were all middle issues and i havent read those books yet although i do want to someday bc my guys were in them. one of the gl 21s even#had simon on the cover so i was very !!!!!!!! thats my guy!!!!!#didnt buy anything there but i did ask the guy to make sure to order a copy of the spirit world tpb so ill stop by to get that in a few wks#and then i went to the bookstore cafe and got a cold brew and did a but of English there. they have tables in the stacks its nice. the one i#grabbed was just surrounded by old paperbacks of sci fi and thrillers lol. didnt see anything id read but recognized a few author names like#card (no enders game though) and the pern lady (idk her name i havent read it). anyways did half a blog post thats technically late (ill#backdate though dw) and then packed up and i grabbed a gyro from the halal cart on that block which i just finished back at my dorm <3333#anyways good times. now im gonna try and spam some work and go to freaking trivia team for the first time in a month later. oops#blah#oh and i think the halal cart guy may have given me a free soda. unsure abt that though bc its possible it came with and i was just being#silly again. so anyways i had a ginger ale too
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
*Swings briefcase over the table casually* Say, have any of you kids heard of...
✨The Fullmetal Dadchemist series?✨
(it's this series of fics where, get this: Edward Elric adopts a baby Harry Potter. It's surprisingly good and unphantomably long, not to mention ONGOING with currently 20 fics and over 600k words-)
Edit, I originally said 600k words. My fucking bad for not checking but um
... Wish me luck cause I have a rule to not read fics over 100k words long cause I don't have the attention span to 😃
#fullmetal alchemist#It intimidates me so much but also as someone who's read the first few installments I love it#It's currently on book 5 of Harry Potter btw#I'm about to attempt to re read the first few fics and TRY to get caught up#Wish me fucking luck#I read the first books when they came out in 2020/2021 so I remember SHIT#But it was SO GOOD GENUINELY#And it has parental Roy Mustang#Which is my favorite flavor#edward elric#harry potter#Fullmetall Dadchemist#fanfic
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
She collected men,
the way the sea,
collects forgotten shipwrecks.
So desperate to be loved,
to be touched,
covered in thorns,
even a sociopath,
can resemble a woman.
I stared deep into her eyes,
and saw a thousand,
broken souls,
devoured by the same lies.
Shipwrecks
"She Planted Her Own Flowers"
Better World Books - Give the Gift of Reading!
#poetry and prose#poets and writers#woman author#poetry collection#a personal favorite#poetry and writing#2021 art#artists on tumblr#books on sale#online marketing
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
it’s a beautiful fall morning
#and i am happier because of it#🧡🍁🍄🍂#nonsims#i am alive and well! hoping everyone is doing okay <3#have loved seeing so many cool things this simblreen already!!!#I’ve been doing less sims and surprisingly more writing#for a book that may never come ou#t#i’ve been working on it since 2021 and I’ve only got……3 things figured out lol#only 9 short excerpts of random ideas#it’s really hard to be original!!! especially when so much inspires you#anywho… please take care of yourselves!! (^:#i know autumn isn’t everyone’s favorite!#much love to you. ♥️
15 notes
·
View notes
Text
Retro Review: "All Systems Red" (Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
Quick review for a quick read. All – I’ve been meaning to write a review for this book as many times as I’ve read it. I just finished listening to it on audio in probably what is either my third or fourth read through at this point. I’m marking it now for 2023 as well.
How do I profess my love for Murderbot exactly? (*Looks in distance with Murderbot standing rigidly, helmet on, expression…
View On WordPress
#action#adult fiction#All Systems Red#all time favorite series#all time favorites#audiobook#audiobooks#audiobooks I loved#books read in 2021#books read in 2023#Martha Wells#Murderbot Diaries 1#novella#novellas#quick read#read in 2021#read in 2023#sci-fi
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers
Publisher: Tor
Genre: sci fi, cozy
Year: 2021
Okay, don't judge me. I finally read my first ever Becky Chambers, and I'm so glad I did. I knew I'd love her work, but it was just one of those things I hadn't gotten around to.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built is now added to my all-time favorites. The world building is so lush and beautiful and how dearly I want to live there. The agender main character, Dex, is so relatable. They have everything they want in life, but still feel restless. They're a monk that travels and helps people with their emotional needs while brewing them a special cup of tea. The book is so gentle and loving and it made me cry. At one point, Mosscap, the robot, asks "Why are you searching for a purpose? Why is living just not enough?" and it was so profound to me because I constantly am feeling like I'm not enough. Besides being a philosophical story through-and-through (Dex and Mosscap's conversations revolving around animals vs objects and what deserves consideration are some of my favorite parts) this is a gentle story that I think will have broad appeal in the up and coming soft-SFF genre that gained popularity with TJ Klune and I am so here for it. I absolutely cannot wait to devour everything else she has ever written
storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston
★★★★★ warm, soft philosophical conversation over a cup of tea stars
#book review#psalm for the wild built#becky chambers#found family#lgbt#sci fi#cozy#2021#favorite#COOL WORLDBUILDING#extremely clever#unique premise#women writers#featured#five stars#queer#tor pub
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
REVIEW: The Atlas Six
DATE STARTED: 25 October 2021
DATE FINISHED: 29 October 2021
RATING: 5 / 5
I have no words for this book but PHENOMENAL.
I have wanted to read this for months, but then I decided to just wait for my physical copy. But it won’t arrive until second quarter next year and I just can’t wait! 😭 Please, I also followed Olivie Blake on IG and god, her IG stories are so intriguing!
And so here we are — my top read for 2021.
No book will ever compare to this one, there is nothing I’m more certain.
This is perfection in paper. Absolutely, implicitly, veritably perfect. From the plot, to the storytelling, world-building, character constructions, pacing, development, oh my god this is just so good!
This book is definitely character-driven, but the way they were woven with the storyline made the plot more richer! The love I have for these characters is inconceivable. I adore each and everyone of them, and Olivie Blake made sure of that. I know I said Parisa is my favorite, and that IS true, but so is Nico, Libby, Reina, Tristan, and even (!!!) Callum. It's impossible to have just one favorite among them because it's either all or none. And trust me, it is never the latter. It was so hard to pick sides between them, but it was also fun because as their characterization was slowly unraveled, my shifting of sides did not simply just shifted—there were reasons to why I changed sides and because the depth of each character was slowly and intricately tackled one by one. It felt as if they grew in front of me.
I also love the pacing of the book, the plot development, but most importantly, the world building. The magic system is so elaborate yet straightforward, a complex thing yet nothing is as forthright. Supported by science, it's just so hard to accept this is fictional. Because… is it???
This book made me question my understanding of the human mind, human emotions, and even the construction of the world. I just love how Olivie Blake wrote this so close to reality yet nothing is as far. This is a perfect, well-written paradox, and it’s amazing how consistent that writing was.
Lastly, I realize that this is a book everyone must read, but not everyone is for this book. This is the kind of book you would not want to travel back time to read again for the first time because once you finish it, you’ll then want to reread it immediately to look at it from a different perspective. And then you’ll reread it again. Then again. Then again. And nothing will change with the story, except for how you take it.
Oh gods, I can’t believe I’ll have to wait for Winter 2022 before I get to read book 2 😭
But please! Undoubtedly a 5 🌟 read!
#maiahiraya reviews#maiahiraya 2021 reads#maiahiraya favorites#olivie blake#the atlas six#book review
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Happy New Year everyone! :)
I came up with several resolutions that mostly align with things I was already doing any way.
Since this is a quasi-bookblr (sometimes I guess?), I am hoping to read at least 50 books this year. I finished 64 last year. I lowered the goal because I have other things going on; like work, grad school, and trying to learn how to drive.
I already bought my first books of the year in a small haul last night. I'll share them in a picture or pictures when they come in. Until then, I've been reading (mostly for school but some of what I've been reading is by choice). I can't wait to be done with my program. It feels like it's been dragging a lot lately.
#I know this is late#I haven't logged in since last year#happy new year!#the new year's holiday is actually my favorite holiday#reading goals#I have a 2024 reading challenge too on storygraph that I'll repost#books#bookblr#oh yes! And I'm doing a savings' challenge this year- that 100 envelopes challenge#I decided to do it while I was working to start saving#most of my goals are probably boring though#like graduate grad school (I'm supposed to in the summer/fall any way)#I've been in my program since October 2021 so I'd like to get to move on with my life soon lol#pretty standard stuff really; save money get a driver's license get a better job when I get out of school get back into writing#the not writing does hurt me but I haven't really come up with anything in a while :/#mychatter
0 notes
Text
youtube
#The Ethical Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence with Guy Morris The Ethical Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence with Guy Morris
Retired fr#high-tech and global energy#Guy Morris has also been a published song writer for Disney Records#a patented inventor#a Coast Guard charter captain#an adventurer#and now#a self-published author of thrillers.
From cartel death threats in Latin America to the shark diving in Moorea – from a Board Room to a#Guy pulls from a rich life of diverse experience to write books that thrill#educate#and inspire thoughtful dialogue on genuine issues facing humanity.
Since his 2021 debut as an indie-author#Guy has released three pulse-pounding thrillers inspired by true stories#the under-spoken dangers of artificial intelligence#global politics and history. His Kirkus recommended books have earned BookTrib’s Best 25 Books of 2021#Reader’s Favorite 2021 Gold Award#and 2023 Silver award#as well as 2021 finalist for IAN Book of the Year.
ai tech kajmasterclass#Youtube
0 notes
Text
How Google’s trial secrecy lets it control the coverage
I'm coming to Minneapolis! Oct 15: Presenting The Internet Con at Moon Palace Books. Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.
"Corporate crime" is practically an oxymoron in America. While it's true that the single most consequential and profligate theft in America is wage theft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it's easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:
https://newrepublic.com/post/175343/wage-theft-versus-shoplifting-crime
Corporate crime is often hidden behind Dana Clare's Shield Of Boringness, cloaked in euphemisms like "risk and compliance" or that old favorite, "white collar crime":
https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/#a-single-proposition
And corporate crime has a kind of performative complexity. The crimes come to us wreathed in specialized jargon and technical terminology that make them hard to discern. Which is wild, because corporate crimes occur on a scale that other crimes – even those committed by organized crime – can't hope to match:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card
But anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. After decades of official tolerance (and even encouragement), corporate criminals are finally in the crosshairs of federal enforcers. Take National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's ruling in Cemex: when a company takes an illegal action to affect the outcome of a union election, the consequence is now automatic recognition of the union:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth
That's a huge deal. Before, a boss could fire union organizers and intimidate workers, scuttle the union election, and then, months or years later, pay a fine and some back-wages…and the union would be smashed.
The scale of corporate crime is directly proportional to the scale of corporations themselves. Big companies aren't (necessarily) led by worse people, but even small sins committed by the very largest companies can affect millions of lives.
That's why antitrust is so key to fighting corporate crime. To make corporate crimes less harmful, we must keep companies from attaining harmful scale. Big companies aren't just too big to fail and too big to jail – they're also too big for peaceful coexistence with a society of laws.
The revival of antitrust enforcement is such a breath of fresh air, but it's also fighting headwinds. For one thing, there's 40 years of bad precedent from the nightmare years of pro-monopoly Reaganomics to overturn:
https://pluralistic.net/ApexPredator
It's not just precedents in the outcomes of trials, either. Trial procedure has also been remade to favor corporations, with judges helping companies stack the deck in their own favor. The biggest factor here is secrecy: blocking recording devices from courts, refusing to livestream the proceedings, allowing accused corporate criminals to clear the courtroom when their executives take the stand, and redacting or suppressing the exhibits:
https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-27-redacted-case-against-amazon/
When a corporation can hide evidence and testimony from the public and the press, it gains broad latitude to dispute critics, including government enforcers, based on evidence that no one is allowed to see, or, in many cases, even describe. Take Project Nessie, the program that the FTC claims Amazon used to compel third-party sellers to hike prices across many categories of goods:
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-used-secret-project-nessie-algorithm-to-raise-prices-6c593706
Amazon told the press that the FTC has "grossly mischaracterize[d]" Project Nessie. The DoJ disagrees, but it can't say why, because the Project Nessie files it based its accusations on have been redacted, at Amazon's insistence. Rather than rebutting Amazon's claim, FTC spokesman Douglas Farrar could only say "We once again call on Amazon to move swiftly to remove the redactions and allow the American public to see the full scope of what we allege are their illegal monopolistic practices."
It's quite a devastating gambit: when critics and prosecutors make specific allegations about corporate crimes, the corporation gets to tell journalists, "No, that's wrong, but you're not allowed to see the reason we say it's wrong."
It's a way to work the refs, to get journalists – or their editors – to wreathe bold claims in endless hedging language, or to avoid reporting on the most shocking allegations altogether. This, in turn, keeps corporate trials out of the public eye, which reassures judges that they can defer to further corporate demands for opacity without facing an outcry.
That's a tactic that serves Google well. When the company was dragged into court by the DoJ Antitrust Division, it demanded – and received – a veil of secrecy that is especially ironic given the company's promise "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful":
https://usvgoogle.org/trial-update-9-22
While this veil has parted somewhat, it is still intact enough to allow the company to work the refs and kill disfavorable reporting from the trial. Last week, Megan Gray – ex-FTC, ex-DuckDuckGo – published an editorial in Wired reporting on her impression of an explosive moment in the Google trial:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics
According to Gray, Google had run a program to mess with the "semantic matching" on queries, silently appending terms to users' searches that caused them to return more ads – and worse results. This generated more revenue for Google, at the expense of advertisers who got billed to serve ads that didn't even match user queries.
Google forcefully disputed this claim:
https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297
They contacted Gray's editors at Wired, but declined to release all the exhibits and testimony that Gray used to form her conclusions about Google's conduct; instead, they provided a subset of the relevant materials, which cast doubt on Gray's accusations.
Wired removed Gray's piece, with an unsigned notice that "WIRED editorial leadership has determined that the story does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed":
https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/
But Gray stands by her piece. She admits that she might have gotten some of the fine details wrong, but that these were not material to the overall point of her story, that Google manipulated search queries to serve more ads at the expense of the quality of the results:
https://twitter.com/megangrA/status/1711035354134794529
She says that the piece could and should have been amended to reflect these fine-grained corrections, but that in the absence of a full record of the testimony and exhibits, it was impossible for her to prove to her editors that her piece was substantively correct.
I reviewed the limited evidence that Google permitted to be released and I find her defense compelling. Perhaps you don't. But the only way we can factually resolve this dispute is for Google to release the materials that they claim will exonerate them. And they won't, though this is fully within their power.
I've seen this playbook before. During the early months of the pandemic, a billionaire who owned a notorious cyberwarfare company used UK libel threats to erase this fact from the internet – including my own reporting – on the grounds that the underlying research made small, non-material errors in characterizing a hellishly complex financial Rube Goldberg machine that was, in my opinion, deliberately designed to confuse investigators.
Like the corporate crimes revealed in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, the gambit is complicated, but it's not sophisticated:
Make everything as complicated as possible;
Make everything as secret as possible;
Dismiss any accusations by claiming errors in the account of the deliberately complex arrangements, which can't be rectified because the relevant materials are a secret.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/09/working-the-refs/#but-id-have-to-kill-you
My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!
Image:
Jason Rosenberg (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/underpants/12069086054/
CC BY
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
--
Japanexperterna.se (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/japanexperterna/15251188384/
CC BY-SA 2.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
#pluralistic#secrecy#opacity#google#antitrust#trustbusting#wired#working the refs#megan grey#semantic matching
2K notes
·
View notes
Photo
Memes
At a certain point, it was just hard to keep up. They seemed to fall from the sky like fizzing raindrops, soaking everything in pure wildness—memes, that is. 2022 had an absolute bumper crop of memes. The fertile field of this year’s chaos was sown freely, resulting in some impressively widespread phenomena. Most of it remained pretty contained within the dashboard, but at the end of the year the biggest meme of them all broke containment…We’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
Cast your mind back to January 2022. We kicked off the year with Horse Plinko, which soon joined forces with Eeby Deeby in a frenzy of flaming gifs in which the poor horse plinko’d its way to Super Hell. Nothing has ever summed up the mildly deranged meme generation process on Tumblr so perfectly.
This era of memes merged smoothly with the Month of Blorbo. Can you believe blorbo from my shows is more or less purely a 2022 phenomenon? Granted, the original post happened in late 2021, but it was the new year by the time “blorbo” secured itself in our vocabulary. How did we even live our lives on Tumblr without the word “blorbo”? It’s impossible to even imagine at this point.
Springtime dawned with the rise of Live Slug Reaction, which dominated the dashboard as everyone rushed to plop that shocked slug in the corner of their favorite gay moments from TV and film. And in May came a very important event that would define the rest of the year on Tumblr: the launch of Dracula Daily, Affectionately dubbed “tumblr book club,” the serialized email newsletter found a hugely involved following on Tumblr and spawned an infinite variety of memes, beginning with the iconic paprika recipes.
The Summer of Morbius dominated Tumblr from June onwards, with everyone going bonkers with Morb-based puns, jokes about the film’s most ridiculous moments, and reblogging a single GIF somehow containing the entire movie that would crash your browser when it played on your dash..
The i love you x i love you y text post meme saw us to the end of the summer, and autumn came with the rise of the GOUGER. Or is it GOUGAR? Regardless, the strange but harmless creature took over everyone’s meme palette for a while, getting involved in increasingly silly scenarios.
This free-for-all was interrupted by the death of Queen Elizabeth, an event that was solemn everywhere else. . But on Tumblr, of course, users swamped the dashboard with Queen Liz-related memes and commentary. And crabs. There were quite a lot of those.
Later, in September, the Try Guys saga unfolding on Twitter and YouTube filtered over to Tumblr in the form of the “lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship” meme, with Tumblr users casting various favorite co-worker ships in the roles of the controversial real-life pairing.
And finally, closing out the year, the meme you’ve all been waiting for: the one and only Goncharov (1973). Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, Goncharov is a movie borne out of the magic combination of a misprinted shoe label and Tumblr’s fertile imagination. Thanks to a fake movie poster by user @beelzeebub, which gave names and faces to the characters, Tumblr ran absolutely wild, churning out analysis, fanart, and even fanfiction at an astounding rate. This was by far the meme to win 2022: it gained coverage all over the internet, including the freaking New York Times, and even Scorsese himself acknowledged it. You did that, Tumblr. Goncharov forever, all hail the power of the Tumblr meme!
9K notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
jamesb2d
Untitled
all-iridescent-birds
Any bird with iridescence!
thorscock-y
All the Stars Are Closer.
short-factoz
Untitled
mikahsmagnifier
Mikah's Magnifier