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revenge-is-dead · 1 year

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The cinematic parallels of Jay dying and being shown in Tim's house surrounded by the drawings of the Operator by Alex is so beautiful.

Tim's house showing how Jay put him in a situation that was both his and not his. Forcing him into more trauma of the situation. Alex's drawings being the start of the madness and the spiral.

Alex's drawings and tapes: the beginning

Jay: being the majority of the whole investigation and being the middle

Tim's house: tim being the end of everything

#thinking #thinking so fucking hard #omg #jay merrick #alex kralie #tim wright #marble hornets production #marble hornets #idea #ramble #theory #symbolism #alex mh #tim mh #jay mh #the end of everything

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wutheringmights · 4 months

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2023 Reading Wrap Up

I tried starting this post about 20 times already, and no introduction is really hitting. I am quite a bit hungover, and in dire need of a rest. But alas, I want to talk about all the books I read last year.

So I had the goal of reading as much as I physically could last year. Why? After finishing my degree, I was having trouble reading for the sake of reading. I wanted to be someone who read a lot, but my self-motivated reading habit was in the dumps. My sibling and I ended up making a bet to see who could read more in 2023, and I was determined to win.

I did win, but that's besides the point. My importantly, I am now back in the habit of reading again.

I really enjoyed starting my reading tag and making little write-ups summarizing my thoughts. I really appreciate everyone being so patient with my book-posting, especially as I gradually went from writing a sentence or two to rambling bullet point lists to well-thought out reviews. If you ever interacted with one of those posts-- thank you so much! I hope to continue in this upcoming year.

So to wrap up my year of reading, I figured I would rank all of the books I read. If I read an entire series, I'll count it as one entry on the list. Also, the ranking is going to be determined less by quality and more by personal enjoyment.

All that being said, let's go~

Ranking My 2023 Reads

#17) Breaking Time by Sasha Alsberg - This was my first read of the year, and my worst. This book is near unreadable in terms of prose, and features one of the most infuriating lines I have ever read in my entire life:

Add the most unoriginal plot I have ever seen, and this makes for one bad read. I knew it was going to be bad going on, but the levels of incompetency on display here was mind-boggling.

#16) Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan - Is this the worst book I read this year? No. But it definitely pissed me off more than the others. I didn't need this book to be good; I just wanted it to be fun, but it couldn't commit to a plot line long enough to do so. I will give this book credit for having one of the unintentionally funniest villains I have ever read. That man failed upwards and it was GREAT. No notes.

#15) Ariadne by Jennifer Saint - I don't think this book is terrible, but its flaws are the most glaring to me. Structurally, it's a mess. The prose tries to use imagery to cover up how much telling it's truly doing. Both hampered an overall decent plot.

#14) Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - This book wasn't really for me. It was an entertaining read, but the references to pop-culture were more cringey than humorous. I also could not stand how the book was ashamed to be escapist literature and tried to uplift itself with shallow critiques of American politics.

#13) Lightlark by Alex Aster - That I am putting this book so high on the list is a crime and an insult against every book ranked below it. If I was ranking off of quality alone, it would be the second worst book I read this year. Unfortunately, I started an inside joke with my friends about how I'm Lightlark's #1 Fan, which ended up increasingly my enjoyment of this very stupid book exponentially. #TeamOro

#12) Garrison Girl by Rachel Aarons - This book really isn't anything special, but its place in publishing and anime history tickles my brain. It's not bad but it's not all that good either.

#11) The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack - Someone with a more thorough baseline on science would probably find this book more enjoyable than me. As is, I didn't understand half of it.

#10) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - A fast, enjoyable read. I think it reveals its hand a bit too quickly, but the plot overall is really fascinating. Lacking on prose, but it didn't need a lot of it. This is a book begging to be made into a movie (which will probably be better than the book itself).

#9) A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes - What this book lacks in originality and plot, it makes up for with comprehensiveness. As much as I enjoyed reading all of its varied perspectives, I am still peeved by how Penelope's perspective was wasted and how Haynes had no interest in writing from Helen's perspective.

#8) The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - A prime example of a book series that is objectively excellent, but was simply not for me. My interests didn't align with what the narrative thought was important. However, the characters are fantastic and what there is of the central conflict between mother and daughter is earth shattering.

#7) The Poppy War Trilogy by R.F. Kuang - An incredible fantasy series with some excellent characters and ideas. While I do think that the series is a little simplistic, it makes up for it by being endlessly entertaining. Except for the last book, which leaned too heavily into its grimdark flares.

#6) Beowulf by Unknown (Translated by Seamus Heaney) - A reread featuring a fantastic introduction from Heaney that connects the text to his Irish roots. The translation itself, while good, prioritized brevity a bit too much for my taste.

#5) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - A long overdue reread that reaffirmed why I found this book life changing when I first read it in junior high. Lyrical, brutal, and surprisingly funny, this book paints an honest picture of depression and trauma in adolescence.

#4) In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - A lyrical, dreamy exploration of an abusive relationship. I love how this memoir pushes the limits of its own medium as it also tries to establish a canon for abusive queer relationships. Machado's imagery is insane, and I devour it every time.

#3) The Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger - My last and most surprising read of the year. I did not expect to love this novel as much as I do. I will never forgive the world for insisting that Holden Caulfield is an archetypal male manipulator when he's a traumatized kid (albeit a bratty one) who desperately wants to be feel happy.

#2) Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price - An incredible, comprehensive look on the history, culture, and legacy of the vikings. Price parses through popular fiction to bring humanity back to a historical group of people every subculture wants to claim as their own, for better and for worse. This book broke a damn in my head that was preventing me from doing world building for a piece of original fiction I want to write.

#1) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas - I have been haunted by this book since I was a little kid, promising myself that I would one day gather the courage to read this behemoth of a story. As long as it is, every word was worth it. It was both parts entertaining and stimulating, and I ended by the book knowing why so many people call this the best book ever written.

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And that was my year! Please feel free to share what you read this year. Let me know if there's anything I should try to read in 2024. You can also fight me about any of my opinions lol

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bookcoversonly · 4 months

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Title: The End of Everything | Author: Katie Mack | Publisher: Penguin (2021)

#books #The End of Everything #Katie Mack

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local-boob · 6 months

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"The Composition of the Universe" by Visual Capitalist

#the universe #composition of the universe #visual capitalist #graphic design #visualization #dark matter #dark energy #stars #neutrino #big bang #big freeze #big rip #big crunch #the end of everything

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abs9lution · 10 months

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this is currently still an ongoing fic! i had written the first chapter a while ago and i still need to get around to working on the next chapter so bear with me lol

but this is my take on how i think sonic prime will end !! i hope you enjoy ^^

#sonic fandom #sonic prime #sonic the hedgehog #sth #shadow the hedgehog #ao3 fanfic #writing #the end of everything #tails nine

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darkreeds · 9 months

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tell me,

what will the end of everything be?

#the question of life #the end of everything #pinterest #aesthetic #sunset #golden aesthetic #golden hour #beauty #light

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sixofravens-reads · 11 months

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Finished The End of Everything!

It's a wonderful, very accessible little book about various ways in which the universe could end. Highly recommend if you have any interest in physics, even if you (like me) can't do math for shit and just like getting drunk and watching Youtube Mad Scientist videos (tbh I found this book through the episode of Physics Girl that the author guested on). There are very, very few equations in this book and the author is really good at explaining things without assuming you're super knowledgeable already.

It's a little depressing due to the subject matter, but the author has a wonderfully dry sense of humour and that saves it from being totally horrifying (mostly).

Also, if I had my pick I'd choose Vacuum Decay. Instant. Painless. Never see it coming. Every other option we would see approaching for millions of years (except Heat Death, in which case it's moving away), and just have to...live with that. if we somehow survive the sun going red giant and roasting planet earth.

#the end of everything #katie mack #thinking about reading

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viledictorian · 2 years

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In a matter of days.

Perhaps 2 weeks or less, I will unveil my biggest contribution to the Pibby fandom yet! Subscribe to the Vile Dictorian youtube channel to witness it!

#The end of everything #learning with pibby #my art #learning with pibby art #pibby #pibby adult swim #pibby apocalypse #pibby fanart #lemon demon #the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny

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x-dkaren-x · 2 years

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En otra vida será.

En esta vida, lo que tú querías y

lo que yo planeaba, estaba lejos de ser.

Celebro que alcances tus sueños y, mientras la vida pasa yo alcanzo mis metas.

Que el destino nos alcance en otra vida.

Hasta siempre.

-Karen Gg

#love hurts #lovers #love poetry #the end #the end of everything #poetry #phrases #meaning of life

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wutheringmights · 7 months

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I read "The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)" by Katie Mack (of Hozier fame, of course), and it made me feel really stupid. This is a "pop" science book that, for all its complicated cosmology, it meant to be digestible to common lay men like me. But, man. My brain just could not grasp it.

I don't think it's Mack's fault. If I read a paragraph, I could summarize what it was saying. It was when concept A had to be combined with concept B that I felt all comprehension slip through my fingers. I would read the same page thrice, hoping that it would become clearer the closer attention I paid to it. But, nope. Water through a sieve.

My problem is that as an adult, I am starting to regret how fiercely I avoided taking rigorous STEM classes as a kid. While I was okay at math, I could never grasp science. I did everything in my power to take the easy science classes from middle school, high school, then college professors who weren't really trying to make me learn something.

Doing so kept my grade point average up, but as an adult, I'm realizing how little I understand how the world works. I have friends who can give mini-lectures about the types of clouds in the sky or how nutrients in food works, and so on. Me? I can talk about science and technology from the perspective of the humanities (a great example would be the intersection of racism and technology, as described in Ruha Benjamin's "Race After Technology," which I highly recommend), but I don't truly understand how the world works.

I've been a bit desperate to expand my knowledge as of late. I've even come close to buying an algebra workbook so that I can work on my math skills again.

I picked Mack's book because I love space and learning about stars and planets. It turned out to be more complicated than I had originally anticipated.

I'll try rereading it again at some point, hopefully when I've learn a bit more about science first. In the meantime, I can at least appreciate the times when Mack's speculation about how the universe works and how it will end turned philosophical. There were enough moments of poetics that I could appreciate right now, at least.

Kids, don't be like me. Take your damn science classes seriously.

#it's actually really funny how i managed to go through my whole academic career without needing to take science seriously #i will say that my interest in space was helped by a very easy and enjoyable astronomy class I took in college #the thing is that I think I could have gotten good at it if I just applied myself (especially math) but I hated doing anything I wasn't #good at from the get go and I believed that it wasn't worth my time getting into STEM when I would be up against people who seemed to be #naturally good at it. like once i hit college I really realized that as long as I studied well I would always do better than those who #blatantly did not give a shit but at that point it was too late for me and I was committed to my english degree #SIGH I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FIRST #me rambling #me reading #the end of everything #the end of everything by katie mack #bookblr #books

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 month

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Must be a Sugondese joke.

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #laios touden #senshi #Looks like I won't be able to post this on dungeon meshi thursday so instead I will have a fun past/future conversation #This is wednesday me who has not seen the episode yet but I have such a strong feeling that it is going to be extremely special.#*This* fight is what the first arc has been building up to and it has *so* many incredible moments.#We're going to see the chilchuck knife throw! The leg sacrifice! The bones!#Watch them ramp up the quality this episode and go wild with the frantic action of 'oh god our plan is going to shit'.#Hello. Me of the future who just watched the episode.#I knew it was going to be good but that...that blew my mind completely. My high expectations were beyond met. My god.#I'm just speechless at how well they handled everything. The leg. The tension. That ENDING.#If you have not already: PLEASE watch Dungeon Meshi.

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may12324 · 2 months

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She remade her, she held her bones in her hands and put each piece back together. Only to have to carry on without her.

Everything she did, she did for Falin

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Inspired by The Locked Tomb and Howls Moving Castle, and also how hot these two look in these outfits/forms. This will be a future print for cons this year.

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thesinglesock · 10 months

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in a modern AU Link would be Zelda's only friend with a driver's license and their chat history would look like this

#vitpost #loz #the legend of zelda #zelink #not necessarily zelink but yknow. It fits the bill somewhat #totk #botw #she keeps ending up in random ass places and he keeps dropping everything to come pick her up #this is the only way to preserve their knight/princess dynamic in a modern setting I think.

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sixofravens-reads · 11 months

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Next read! I tried to start this one in February of 2022, but unfortunately that was right after the Ukraine war began and I had to abandon it after only a few pages bc I was too steeped in anxiety about the war to take on existential dread for the whole universe. It sounds like a very interesting book, though, so I'm hoping I can finish it this time!

#currently reading #the end of everything #katie mack

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