#things i read

[bideogaymes]

Why NASA just beamed a Missy Elliott song into space

The rapper’s debut solo single, ‘The Rain’ travelled to Venus in a landmark transmission

send it farther and ill bet we’ll get a response. send some RnB to space too.

aliens didn’t respond the first time bc those NASA goobers sent mid ass “Across The Universe” by the Beatles. nobody wanna hear that shit!

[emmajanereading]

So I devoured "Long Live Evil" last night. What a thoroughly engrossing ride of a narrative.

Hoping there will be a sequel.

Utterly fine if there isn't, but still... rather curious as to where fate is taking Rae and the rest of the characters.

I mean, things do look just a tad bleak but with a dash of hope.

Very glad that @dangermousie waxed so enthusiastically lyrical about this novel. It was very good use of a birthday bookstore gift card!

[jbbartram-illu]

After failing to do so for the last two years, I’ve gone through my books-read for the year & compiled a list of my favourite reads!

While doing this I also discovered that I’d missed putting four entire books on my master list that all should have been in my best-of list, so here’s the final top 22 (in no particular order)…

Matrix - Lauren Groff

My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell

Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt

The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley

The Waiting - Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder

The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel

These Ghosts Are Family - Maisy Card

Greenwood - Michael Christie

Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss

A Master of Djinn - P. Djèli Clark

What is Home, Mum? - Sabba Khan

The Women of Troy - Pat Barker

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Córdova

Fevered Star - Rebecca Roanhorse

Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller

Just Like Home - Sarah Gailey

The Book of Form & Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers

The Galaxy, And the Ground Within - Becky Chambers

Stormsong - C.L. Polk

Soulstar - C.L. Polk

If you want to look at all the books I read/re-read this year, you can see my entire messy googledoc list here!

Turns out that being absolutely terrible at managing a library holds list + feeling obliged to finish almost all the books I take out = reading the most I've ever read in a year (Total was also helped by a visit to the used bookstore in the town closest to my cottage + buying a huge stack of British mystery novels to devour during my time up north)??

Also, I'm always looking for book recommendations! What were your favourite reads of 2022? Are there exciting books you know are coming out in 2023/any books that you've got on your list for the new year (new or old pubs)? Please tell me them!!

*illustration at the top there is by me, from the book that I finished illustrating back in the summer...hopefully I'll have an idea of when that's coming out soon!

[thepanipurisimp]

I wish Aru Shah was less American sometimes (but the author has mixed heritage so idrk if im right here) but its so addictive. Started the 4th book yesterday and finished it today. Also how the hell did none of them know abt Kara... she’s named Kara and had a literal sunbeam as a weapon. Potatoes for brains for real.

[outside-cry]

📖 The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Volumes 2, 3, & 4; 🖋 Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Vol. 2 finished 10/25/22, Vol. 3 finished 11/9/22, Vol. 4 finished 12/1/22

📔: Putting the rest of the series in one post because I honestly don’t remember what happens in which book, and really, I don’t need to make three separate posts for this truly insane series ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu are the definition of you two really deserve each other (derogatory). I don’t even know how to give a good summary for this series msjbdhsjdn 

Sad skillful little orphan boy Luo Binghe who is on the trajectory to be hot boy stallion novel protagonist with like 18 wives and a bad temper, gets teacher-addled when Shen Qingqiu does all he can to not be the scum villain of the novel so he doesn’t die horribly. So then, obviously, Luo Binghe grows up not to be the hunky husband of a harem, but a hunky So Very Gay boy in love with Shen Qingqiu. Shen Qingqiu is oblivious to all of these proceedings. 

We have demon worlds opening, hot lesbian girl demons, lotssssss of clothes ripping, Luo Binghe torturing nations for the chance at pinning down Shen Qingqiu in a water prison. 

The sex scenes in the third and fourth book did take 10-12 year off of my life. The first time they fuck, without spoiling anything I will just tell you it is bat shit off the walls ….. in the last book there is boofing of magic sex wine and that’s NOT the most insane sex scene, if that tells you anything. 

Thank you MXTX you are so terrifying to my brain. Also grateful to all the girlies writing fanfic for bingqiu that is just as off the walls as this canon. I will definitely miss this series but probably good for my mental health that I’ve finished it lol

[saccmaass]

Recommended Zuko Fics

Here is my list of my favorite fics that I read on this hell-site, I hope you’ll like the stories in this list just as much as I did!

Last update: November 13th, 2021

Note: If you have any fic suggestions, don’t hesitate to send them my way!  Please pay attention to the warnings and consider reblogging the stories🥰 

Slow by @zukochi

They Will Never Find You by @iamsuperfluff

Staring by @maddywritez

Questions That Need Answers by @maddywritez

Hopeless by @randomfandominserts

Unfortunate Sleeping Arrangements by @merakiaes

Nosy by @zukochi

To Be Honest by @merakiaes

So Much by @maddywritez

Blush by @beifongsss

The Way You Said “I Love You” by @vee-is-a-writter-now

Pinky Promise? by @maddywritez

Life Changing Adventures with Zuko by @slythergirlimagines

Spy by @zukochi

The Way You Said I Love You by @raekenden

Friends, Fevers, Family Movies  by @loversamongus

Sleep by @sukifans

I Guess I Care About You Or Something by @maddywritez

Say You’ll Remember Me by @firelordzukohere

Warmth by @beifongsss

Fake It Till You Make It by @beifongsss

Sparks And Embers by @lotsoffandomimagines

Proving A Point by @catxsnowatla

Days Like This by @catxsnowatla

oh, spirits​ by @atlabeth​

Fools by @vee-is-a-writter-now (complete)

Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4  Part 5

Don’t Call Me Princess by @slythergirlimagines (incomplete)

Part 1  Part 2 Part 3

Just Us With Some Hugging by @slythergirlimagines (complete)

Part 1  Part 2

Fire Lilies by @melzula (incomplete)

Rotations by @sunflowerazula (complete)

Part 1 , Part 2  , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 , Part 10 , Part 11 , Part 12 , Part 13 , Part 14 , Part 15 , Part 16 ,  Part 17 , Part 18 , Part 19   , Part 20 , Part 21 , Part 22 , Part 23 , Part 24 , Part 25 , Part 26 

Bonus parts:

First Time , Zuko finds out he wasn’t Y/N first kiss  , Y/N is pregnant  , Azula returns , Zuko finds out , Sokka babysits   

Walking On Air by @zukoszukhoes​ (incomplete)

prologue

Boyfriend!Zuko by @zukochi

Cuddeling by @zukochi

Opening up, part 2  by @zukochi​

zuko cuddling by @ka1ara​

[noleavestoblow]

[tatmanblue]

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