One of the few remaining interviews from the beginning of the Jamisin Leon Kennedy era in the CGI feature films and retro video games.

“I bet you think Dragon Age 2 is the best writing games have to offer” is a sick burn I would type for a writer and then delete for being too mean.

Been reading the Broken Earth trilogy (ITS REALLY GOOD BTW YOU SHOULD READ IT), finished the second book last night, and something I found interesting was how the orogeny (earthquake magic for those who haven’t read) schools, the Fulcrum, is portrayed in books 1 and 2. There’s something about how Fulcrum teaching actually limits your range of orogeny, how self taught orogenes have abilities Fulcrum students never learn, and how the mindsets the Fulcrum instills actively prevent orogenes from conceptualizing their abilities in certain ways. A character even says at one point in The Obelisk Gate that she has no right to judge non-Fulcrum orogenes by Fulcrum standards as their tests are basically meaningless to someone who hasn’t spent time in the Fulcrum.

It’s a super interesting look and commentary on education, because of course the Fulcrum isn’t made to advance orogeny but is a tool of oppression against orogenes to ensure they fall in line and won’t cause trouble (the real world parallels are clear lol). No Fulcrum trained orogene is meant to be anything more than a slave, so shifting my perspective on it from ‘a horrific institution but without it orogenes have no chance to be able to control their powers’ to ‘a horrific institution that ensures orogenes will never learn what they’re really capable of’ was cool to feel real time. When your perception of the world is limited by the character’s POV and then you learn and discover along with them… that’s the good stuff.

max’s face getting blocked by light turned into new demolition lovers lore drop lmao

@mikeyfrickinway

Put your playlist on shuffle and post the ten songs that come first!

Tagged by @fuitgummybat YAYYY THANK UUUU THESE R SO FUNN

ALRIGHTY lets go

La La Lost You - 88rising and NIKI

fue mejor (feat. SZA) - Kali Uchis and SZA

Love the Subhuman Self - AISHA, Jamisin Boaz, Arc System Works (this is a song from Guilty Gear Strive lol)

Oblivion - Grimes

Everybody Wants to Love You - Japanese Breakfast

MUKANJYO - Survive Said The Prophet (Vinland Saga's first opening song!!! WATCH THIS ANIME THANKS)

Beautiful Head - The National

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Czartacus - CZARFACE

Something About You - Level 42

Insane that it took til song 10 to get an 80s song!

Tagging... @chiss-ticism @eric-the-bmo @vtmgremlin and idk fuck it new mutual no pressure if u dont wanna do it @master-of-shenanigans

and anyone else who wants to do it oc i just didnt wanna tag too many ppl

TY AGAIN FUITGUMMYBAT!! love these

Demo Lovers. Reunited at the Helena church. 16 years later.

February marked the 20th anniversary of Books and Bars. We had a great discussion of The City We Became by N.K. Jamisin.

Okay so I just read “The City we Became” by N.K. Jamisin and the premise is that some cities are alive and chose human avatars to embody them, and I just had the wild thought that Fox would be the embodiment of Coruscant. Just…he’d be aware of and protective of this entire city, and it’s just a particularly fascinating brand of bendy reality in that the avatars can sort of control the city but the city is also them, and I think it’d fit Fox very well.

Ohhh, that is a fascinating thought. I've read some urban fantasy stuff with that premise, but having it applied to SW....that's interesting.

2007 Posing with the best mini-laptop-style phone ever in a last ditch effort to Not have to color and cut my real hair in Capcom's first attempt at booking me as Leon for the Resident Evil Nintendo Wii port live-action promos.

Jamisin Matthews sent me this picture of my sister and I that he snapped on accident! lol

2022 TBR

Maybe it’s a little bit early but here’s a list of all the books I’d like to read at some point in the year. Also this is just planned reading so I might end up reading some stuff that isn’t on here. (Note: outside of the immortal nicholas flamel series I don’t plan to immediately pick up the sequels to anything on this list unless I end up really really liking it which is why the first book is the only one listed) 

• The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series - Michael Scott (part reread part finishing the series)

• Dracula - Bram Stoker

• Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes

• Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica

• Useless Magic - Florence Welch

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk

• The Midnight Lie - Marie Rutkoski

• The Broken Wings - Khalil Gibran

• The City We Became - N.K. Jamisin

• Ghost Wood Song - Erica Waters

• The Deep - Rivers Solomon

• The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams

• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton

• Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz

• A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

• The Merciful Cow - Margaret Owen

• Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin

• Madhouse at the End of the Earth - Julian Sancton

• A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ní Ghíofa

• Mocked with Death - Emily Wilson

• Violence and the Sacred - René Girard

The two faces on the cover of the album are a live version of the Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge cover by Gerard Way; the art on the cover of Three Cheers is called Demolition Lovers II. There is also a version without blood and flipped on the inlay.

The models on the cover are Jaime Andrews and Jamisin Matthews.

for book recs: The City We Became and The Broken Earth series by N K Jemisin. also, T Kingfisher in general is a fantasy author I love

I’m reading How Long til Black Future Month right now and oh my god NK Jamisin is brilliant. Short stories are always a hit or miss for me but there’s something in her stories that interest me every single time, she’s so amazing.

The Obelisk Gate by NK Jamisin

Well damn. Damn this third book is gonna hurt me like hellfire.

I can see why this trilogy won the Hugo for every book.

Hola a todos, les traigo un libro que leí hace un tiempo. “La quinta estación” es la primera entrega de la saga “La Tierra Fragmentada”. La primera trilogía en recibir tres años consecutivos el premio Hugo (2016 con esta obra, 2017 con “el portal de los obeliscos” y 2018 por “El cielo de piedra”). . Tengo que confesar que llegue a “La quinta estación” intrigado de tantos elogios que escuchaba por todas partes. Que una saga reciba tres años consecutivo el premio Hugo es una locura, así que la vara con la que comencé a leer estaba bastante alta y creo que el libro cumplió y superó mis expectativas. . Al principio me encontré que me costó bastante introducirme en el mundo que me estaba presentando Jemisin. Lo sentía poco amigable para una primer contacto. Con el correr de las hojas me fui acostumbrado y dejándome llevar por la magnífica historia. Si bien esa incertidumbre que genera el inicio de la lectura es algo que se supera, la verdad que no me gustó del todo. Uno comienza caminando en la neblina, intentando rescatar algo para poder ir tejiendo el argumento no me termino de convencer, pero son herramientas que suelen utilizar los escritores. Si no lo leyeron y lo quieren empezar, denle tiempo al principio. Cuesta entender todo. . Los dos puntos más fuertes son el Wordbuilding y los personajes. El mundo en el que se desarrolla la historia es muy ambicioso y lo logra desarrollar de manera excelente, al menos, en esta primera entrega. . Los personajes son increibles. La fuerza y el desarrollo que tienen cada uno de ellos. Estan tan bien desarrollados que cada escena le va sumando un puntito a sus personalidades que ya a la mitad del libro los llegas a conocer como si fueran de toda la vida. Gran punto a favor de la autora. De la misma manera que amas unos, otros te generan una indiferencia tal que ya al verlos aparecer te predisponen mal. . No es una lectura del todo sencilla. Yo que suelo leer fantasía todo el tiempo me costo introducirme. Creo que la manera de escribir que tiene Jamisin no me gustó, sin embargo logró mantenerme hasta la última hoja expectante. (sigue... ) (en Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByEeAgAF2jL/?igshid=x39cwk3w79de

Calvin and Hobbs New Years Calvin and Hobbs New Years Source: jamisin