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i realized i only have one (1) friend on goodreads, so if anyone wants to add me here’s my profile
oh and if you do end up adding me just like reply to this post or smth and let me know bc i would also like to add you all as well!!
i’m gonna cry it’s raining right now and i just passed by a family where both parents were without an umbrella but their kid who couldn’t have been older than like 3-4 was proudly holding this GIANT umbrella whose diameter was as tall (if not taller) as the kid. both the parents were getting absolutely drenched but u could tell the kid was just so happy to have an “adult” task and carry the umbrella themselves and i think that sacrifice is what love is all about
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my fave books of 2025
hey hi i'm alive, just not online much lately. here's my favorite books of the year so far (it's dec 27 and there is a slim chance i'll find a new favorite in the next 4 days). i had a great reading year, so i've got lots of good reads to rec. these are listed by when i read them
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
The Employees by Olga Ravn
This Mouth is Mine by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Interesting Facts About Space and We Could Be Rats, both by Emily Austin
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
James by Percival Everett
The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
The Code Book by Simon Singh
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth and You Weren't Meant to be Human, both by Andrew Joseph White
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Brothers Karamazov and Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Aliexevich
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Mood Machine by Liz Pelley
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
if i read any more bangers in the next few days i'll add them
thank you potato. I love you potato. Everyone praise the potato
Algeria’s independence from France on 5 July 1962.
Harold M Lambert.Three deer lying down in snowy forest in Winter, 1940.
The Freemont Messenger, Ohio, December 15, 1924
The Press Herald, Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1934
my fave books of 2025
hey hi i'm alive, just not online much lately. here's my favorite books of the year so far (it's dec 27 and there is a slim chance i'll find a new favorite in the next 4 days). i had a great reading year, so i've got lots of good reads to rec. these are listed by when i read them
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
The Employees by Olga Ravn
This Mouth is Mine by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Interesting Facts About Space and We Could Be Rats, both by Emily Austin
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
James by Percival Everett
The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
The Code Book by Simon Singh
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth and You Weren't Meant to be Human, both by Andrew Joseph White
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Audition by Katie Kitamura
The Brothers Karamazov and Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Aliexevich
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Mood Machine by Liz Pelley
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
if i read any more bangers in the next few days i'll add them
Babu bed 拔步床
A traditional Chinese canopy bed popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It’s known for being ornate, enclosed, and almost “room-within-a-room.” The name babu (八步) is usually interpreted as “eight-section,” referring to the bed’s multiple structural parts.
Key features include: Built-in shelves & compartments: Some have small shelves, lattice windows, drawers, or decorative balustrades.
Heavy carving: peach blossoms, dragons, phoenixes, and other auspicious motifs.
Curtains: silk or cotton curtains for privacy.
Cultural role: commonly associated with marriage and was usually a part of the dowry, so sometimes called “wedding bed” (喜床 or 婚床), but not all babu beds are wedding beds. Used as a symbol of status and wealth in wealthy households. Functioned as a private, intimate space for sleeping, resting, dressing, or even socializing.
it's crazy how plausible all the shit the corporations do in the murderbot diaries is. that one scene when murderbot was talking to those humans who had signed a 20 year corporate work contract and it asked them if the contract specified 20 years by the standard local calendar or by a proprietary calendar created by the company was downright unsettling 😬 if the ceos of modern earth companies read these books they would probably start crying because the government won't let them do most of this in real life.
hey fun fact this has absolutely happened before. part of the push to standardize time/timezones was because factory employers had clocks set to the pace of their machinery. meaning of the workers were not doing enough, time would run slower until they had reached their goal. there is historical precedent.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)
people in books and tv shows are always getting so upset they throw an untouched meal in the trash. that would never be me. i'd receive the worst news of my life and still be like Let me put this in the fridge.
‘Bear with me’ by Thomas Theodor Heine, 1901
Wow so she's still crazy. It was so easy to see in hindsight. and also foresight. and also duringsight.
the way that the way youre rasied really does impact you forever. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
