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2026 READING LIST

books read last year: 15 2025 book review: N/A (skipped; list is here) 2024 book review: N/A (skipped; list is here) 2023 book review: link 2022 book review: link

READING LIST guide: bold is whatever I’m reading rn shelved means I put it down and intend to pick it back up binned means I stopped at x%, I won't pick it back up (q) means it's in queue to be read (might get shifted around)

Night's Master by Tanith Lee (reread, complete)

Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy (complete, jesus christ)

Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (binned)

Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner (complete)

Death's Master by Tanith Lee (complete)

Amulet by Roberto Bolaño (complete)

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (complete)

Delusion's Master by Tanith Lee (in prog, 44%)

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (in prog, 15%)

The Pastel City by M. John Harrison (q)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (q)

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (q)

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (reread, q)

Lorelei of the Red Mist by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury (q)

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (q)

Wise Children by Angela Carter (q)

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#happy pride 🌈

dastmalcaps

directors just can't stop filming him on the verge of tears, even when he's playing a serial killer

(from Immoral Compass ep 10: Closure)

#siv tag #david dastmalchian

Leonora Carrington in 1975 with her work Lepidoptera (1969) Photo: Jerry Engel/New York Post Archives /© NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images

#leonora carrington #photography

mexicanprophet

#divine #favs

mango-season

did mitski ever find out what to do after you've been big and small and big and small again and still nobody wants you

#:crycat:

wheelie-sick

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ayronaught

Transcript

Everyone's talking about Artemis II, the first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years

Historic, right? BUT nobody's talking about the Deaf people who made it possible.

In the late 1950's, NASA had a problem.

They needed to understand what weightlessness did to the human body but every test subject kept getting violently motion sick

NASA needed to figure out FAST during the space race!

So, they went to Gallaudet University. They recruited 11 Deaf people.

Because a number of Deaf people had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children which also damaged their vestibular system.

Their inner ears couldn't be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Put them on zero gravity flights. A room for 12 straight days.

(All caps) It rotated the entire time.

One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters, the researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data and research it needed to send humans into space.

No Gallaudet Eleven? No Mercury. No Apollo. No Artemis II.

They stood on the shoulders of 11 Deaf people most people have never heard of.

Now you know!