[pyrotechnicstars]

[world-cosplay]

[ootori0704]

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[jukjujada]

dinocreatures (requests)

part 1

[broccol-i]

omuncolo

[fyeahseacats]

[irreparableinnocence]

Sorry if this is annoying but what would you recommend for someone trying to get into Argentinian Literature? Preferably more leftist / explicitly political. Figured I'd asked because you seem well read.

Not a bother at all. I love talking about literature.

My first and foremost recommendation is Roberto Arlt. He fits the bill to a ridiculous extent. It is generally considered that the best entry point is The Seven Madmen (Los siete locos). Cynical, merciless, (often explicitly) Marxist.

Another name you might want to look into is Rodolfo Walsh, though sadly at this point I have only read his Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta, for which he was killed.

I can recommend Ernesto Sabato with a caveat. I read The Tunnel twice and, while I enjoyed it, I also remember finding it a bit derivative off already existing European trends without being particularly original. However, I have very high hopes for On Heroes and Tombs.

Closer to our current date, you have Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. Her novel The Adventures of China Iron is a queer and feminist reinterpretation of gauchesca literature. It's about a character from Martín Fierro, but I don't think you need to read it beforehand.

Camila Sosa Villada also comes to mind. I think the only novel of hers that has been translated into English is Bad Girls, which is a brutal magical realist novel about a group of trans women who do sex work, but I could be wrong.

Either less explicitly political or simply tangential to your question, some of my current favourites are Jorge Luis Borges, Mariana Enríquez, Luis Sagasti, and in poetry both Baldomero Fernández Moreno and César Fernández Moreno.

I'll reblog this with an addition if I come up with another name that is more directly politically committed. Many more are on the tip of my tongue or I know of their existence but can't personally say I've read them (or I read them but I didn't like them). You can also ask me again if you'd like more recommendations in a similar vein to a specific example or random favourites. Hopefully this is a good enough starting point.

[transfemininomenon]

the phrase really should be "eat your cake and have it too" im with the unabomber on this one

[kosmogrl]

I will make a beautiful life for myself no matter how long it takes. I will I will I will

[allergott]

Local design university near me has a graduation exhibition this weekend and the flyers they've posted for it are the ugliest things I've ever seen. I can't share them without doxxing myself so please use your imagination thank you

[allergott]

We're not allowed to delete any files, documents or mails anymore because our minister is being investigated for misconduct and workplace abuse #womeninmalefields

[pmamtraveller]

By Eva Roemer

[weirdgirl247]

every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.

go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.

[weirdgirl247]

rbing with other places you can donate to to support those impacted by the fires!

true north aid (an organization aimed at providing support to remote/northern indigenous people in canada)

canadian red cross wildfire fund

ontario spca and humane society (links to their donate page specifically aimed at supporting pets and animals in areas impacted by the fires)

and the anishinabek nation’s page where you can donate to support the namaygoosisagagun nation who had their land destroyed by the fires is still accepting donations

[ninicoru]

Work in progress

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: Dorohedoro / ドロヘドロ 

by Q Hayashida 

[hikanatsu-art-archive]

072821

[x0401x]

“You see, I can’t tell which of these feelings are mine anymore. It’s so painful. What should I do? I like you so much, yet I don’t know where we stand!”