Hi I'm Kaz And ✨I Never Get Anything Done✨

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Anonymous recommendations:

Hello Kitty Bandaids - onlyganymede ( @onlyganymede )

THE CUTEST SHIT EVER

in which damian needs a tutor and marinette needs a job - kceedraws

i loved it soso much the characters were so accurate and so hilarious

Aroma Mocha - EthelPhantom ( @ethelphantom )

I WAS SMILING THE WHOLE TIME

I need a (girlfriend) hero - LilaVaporizer9000 ( @lilavaporizer9000 )

Schoolar things, life things. Comic and sweet. And a beautiful character development to Marinette and Damian (and Adrien in the background)

The Lost Temple - Neakco ( @neakco )

Cuuuuuute I've reread it sooooooo many times too many to count lolol

In a heartbeat - miraculousmelodies ( @miraculousmelodies )

Adorable.

She’s Sunshine, She’s Grace, She’ll Punch You in the Face - Brinxiethebear

It's always bittersweet when fics end, but I loved every second of it!!!

Non-Anon recommendations:

Starwarsmum recommends The Emotional Turmoil of Damian Wayne - Otome_Wandering ( @otome-wandering )

This is my go-to reread, it's so full of light hearted fun, has enemies to lovers and is done from Damian's POV! Honestly, I recommend it to everyone I can because I just adore it. It's also a one-shot (28k but still) so you can read the whole thing in one go!

abyssal-ali recommends The Angel of Death - dessarious

Chapter 2

Summary-

When Marinette finds out that she is adopted, she tracks down her Biological aunt. Who happens to live Gotham, the place she swore she wouldn't go. Well, Gotham just gained a new vigilante - Chaos.

<<previous next>>

ugh I started a piece of fanart for @newdog14's incredible Timinette fic Coup de Foudre absolutely forever ago and I finally got around to finishing it lol

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Anonymous recommendations:

i don't need to see to find you by assassinscred and bloodhungrywolfpack ( @bloodhungrywolfpack )

classic betrothed a u but with a twist

Tiny Tim by LeoLeonte

I go back to this fic all the time. It's iconic.

The string that binds us by FaithAndATypeWriter

The way the author characterizes Marinette and Damian in particular is so beautiful, its one of my favorites.

League of Losers: Adventures of Catgirl and Duskwing by GummyLover15 ( @gummylover15 )

I was hooked from the first sentence of the summary and binged it all in less than two days

gotham mouse paris bug izzybelledot ( @izzybellepenguin )

lovely beautiful and satisfying to read

the reports asociated with my existence have been significantly misconstrued by davidstennant

one of those fan fics i wish i could read for the first time again

A bond formed through trauma by Totally_no_one_like_me ( @totally-no-one-like-me )

I like the way Marinette acts in this fic and how Chloe realises her mistake and apologises.

Protection Detail by FairyChix26 ( @the-alice-of-hearts )

It’s a really fun fluff read. Kinda a modern day Knight fic. Very sweet and fun to reread

Maybe I’m by your side in another life by ScarletImpulse ( @ringleaderscarletshadow )

Loving this fic is as easy as breathing. It’s fun and has love in every word written.

Truth and Consequences series by mochegato ( @mochegato )

I'm sure I've already recommended this before. I don't care. I'm doing it again.

Broken Harmony - dessarious

talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, etc

Non-Anon recommendations:

otome_wandering recommends In an Apron by dreamsof_moonlight

I fell in love with this (and its series) because the idea of Damian being complete affected by the idea of a girlfriend being *home* and wanting to be taken care of just because he saw Marinette in an Apron made me absolutely weak

otome_wandering recommends Teleporting Into Your Life by Izanae ( @izanae )

Literally one of the only Bio-fam Bruce fics I actually reread. So we'll written and I love them all being so protective of Mari as well as the trauma comfort. Also the background Jonette is ADORABLE

otome_wandering recommends Joint Filing Status by ew_selfish_art ( @ew-selfish-art )

I'm a sucker for unintentional marriage and the way they get competitive over it leaves me kicking and screaming.

iffy recommends Canary by oliviaandersonisntmyrealnamelol ( @olivia-anderson-fanfic )

Genie: um

Me, continuing on without a care: For my SECOND wish, I want you to give me the ability to learn any given phoneme, so that I can learn to pronounce new languages perfectly. If you're willing, it'd be nice if it were a little easier to memorize new languages too, but if that's not cool, I'm perfectly fine doing all the legwork myself I mostly just want to be capable of pronouncing things correctly.

Genie, now staring at me like I'm insane: ......okaaayyy?....

Me: For my third wish. I want to always have great ideas for gifts for people. Every birthday, every holiday, I want to be able to come up with something they'd really like, with enough time to actually get it for them.

Genie, just staring at me

sometimes your life don't go exactly how you planned

what can one do in the face of such monumental loss but breathe a weary sigh, for the world is a little quieter now

sometimes your death don't go exactlyyyyy how you planned

oh wait one last thing

it's lookin like I've had enough

i tried the best i can but i don't got the stuff

i got SHOT by the chili pope

its easy living as a french fries

I'm critically acclaimed but now its time to die

frankly lifes been pretty dope

and its been a long hard road for a french fries and corn to walk down

who could have ever known that road would lead to you and me and soup and goondis taking on the galaxy

i know that life is crazy

but believe me maizey

you'll

be

fine

with

out

me here

i mean I'm just a funny french fries

there's really no need to cry

even though I'm so re

vered

hyperdrive initiation fifty percent. that space station looks like its gonna blow up my dudes.

even though I'm so revered!

was living lonely in a future state

but i traveled back in time and met my foodie mates

most of them were witch hol o grams

almost all of them were holograms

the story gets a little dense from there

but if you've got a brain its pretty crystal clear

here check out this di a gram

see a wedding

fell into a witch volcano

then we scrammed

and we landed on the planet of the plupples

et cet er A

and now were traveling to the past to save our friends and KICK SOME ASS

i know that things seem kinda shitty

and that the odds aren't lookin pretty

but

whats

the

point

of

qui tt ing now

no we can never quit nowwwwwww

and i won't be here to see it

but you bet your ASS that i believe

that

you'll

still

save

the day

some how

maizeys gonna save the day

the end is

Coming

gonna

Punch my Mortal Ticket

if i had a

Fuckin Bucket

then i got a hunch id

KICK IT

and I'm

SORRY

for the

Cursin

but I'm

Feelin Worse and Worse

and I

Doooooont

i don't wanna die

BUT IM PROBABLY GONNA DIEEEEEE

i know it might SOUND CRAZYYYY but believe ME MAIZEY

YOU'LL BE FINE WITH OUT ME HERE

ahhh UHHHH

and its looking like THIS FRENCH FRIES GONNA take his bow in THIS HOT DAGA

IM DYING NOW JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR

this is it holy shit this is it I'm gonna die

ill see you later pals I'm oUtTa hErE-

*cough*

its been a treat

i think...i see.... smeech

Martial artists like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee (and yes, fucking Ming-Na Wen, that beautiful badass) will build up their bone strength by repeatedly (and fairly gently) striking sand, gravel, wood and steel - this creates tons of microfractures in their bones (smaller than even a hairline fracture) so the bones will heal over again and make the bones stronger and denser with increased deposits of calcium. 

This has to be done over long-ass periods of time, so the bones have time to heal, and none of the fractures expand into actual breaks. 

…

actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

:P

^_^

:3

^u^

:/

O.o

0.0

>:/

>_>

Especially alternating to really capture how boggled you are.

O.o

o.O

I lost respect for the team when they let Thor do this:

No one did anything to stop him. Cap only says one thing and somehow Thor obeys him. 

The double standard in these movies when it came to Tony. All of them have done terrible stuff, none of them are perfect. Many of the things they accuse Tony of, they’ve done it themselves:

Natasha: one of the most feared assassins in Russia. (killed a lot of people on her past, something Tony has also been responsible for) Her reputation made it to SHIELD’S hit list and was considered a potential threat to global security to the point SHIELD sent Clint to kill her. Incidents like Budapest, Osaka, the children’s ward, the hospital fire (it’s implied she was sent in to make an assassination look like an accident and started a fire which ended up killing a number of innocent people.), São Paulo, etc. Loki: ‘Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, can you wipe out that much red? it’s gushing red and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything’

Thor: started as a reckless arrogant god with a large ego to the point that the first thing he did as a king was to sacrifice the lives of innocent people including his own friends to go to war against the Frost Giants even if his father warned him not to go to Jotunheim, this led Asgard to be at war and him to be proven unworthy by betraying Asgard and his loved ones by his actions, chose to taunt Thanos instead of going for the instant kill even knowing how many lives were at stake, this gave Thanos the opportunity to muster the strength to snap his fingers, all of this because he was dealing with grief (something Tony did with Bucky). "Loki’s rage followed me here and your people paid the price. And now again. In my youth, I courted war.“

Steve: a war criminal by choice, refused to sign papers that could be negotiable over time and refused to hand over control requested by 117 countries, refused to tell Tony about his parent’s death even if he was Howard’s friend and Tony was housing him with commodities, even knowing the truth, he still looked down on Tony and treated in a condescending ways; someone as ‘honorable’ as him judged Tony from the very beginning without knowing him personally, the civilians killed in Lagos because he got distracted, he treated those civilians as ‘casualties’ on the day to day job, refused to sign again only because Tony had Wanda inside a facility where she can be protected, throws a tantrum and calls wanda a ‘kid’ then proceeds to fight Peter Parker with no problems and even throws him a piece of aircraft equipment without knowing the kid’s strength, then made Clint bring Wanda into a war she wasn’t supposed to be part of (something Tony did with Peter), put his entire team in danger and risked their lives at his own petition, went back in time and got rid of Peggy’s agency; someone who was happily married with kids, he was willing to tear the Avengers apart for Bucky but given the option, he still left said friend to suffer for years even if he knew he was being tortured, etc.  ‘I’m sorry. Steve. That - that is dangerously arrogant. This is the United Nations we’re talking about. It’s not the World Security Council, it’s not SHIELD, it’s not HYDRA.’ 

Clint: became a brutal assassin who kills people he believes are unworthy to have been spared from the snap, left his wife and kids for a fight he had no business in even if he was retired and it wasn’t a requirement from his part to sign the accords, constantly putting his own family in danger, mockingly told Wanda to go back to school if she wanted to ‘mope’ over the death of civilians in Lagos, became a war criminal by his own volition blaming Tony for his own choices and accused him of being responsible of Rhodey’s misfortune, made of all this deal only to be placed under house arrest and agree to follow the Sokovia Accords as he should’ve done from the very beginning in benefit of his own family, under Loki’s control he helped him steal the Tesseract, escape and inform him all about the members of Fury’s team, including the dangerousness of Hulk, Black Widow’s past, and the power of Stark Tower. While doing this, he shot and killed many people and helped unleash the hulk (Tony was also a victim of someone’s mind control), Rhodey to Natasha about Clint: “What he’s done here, what he’s been doing for the last few years… I mean the scene that he left… I gotta tell you there’s part of me that doesn’t even want to find him.”

Bruce: just like Tony, he wasn’t informed of the real intention under the military’s plans and worked on a dangerous serum for the United States Armed Forces, then upped the dosage of the gamma radiation serum to impress Betty’s dad and the hulk was created (playing with something he didn’t know about, something Tony has also been accused of), this also resulted in him killing two scientists, an army officer, and many others, he’s also responsible for Ultron not only Tony, under Wanda’s mind control (Tony was also a victim of Wanda’s mind control), the Hulk destroyed the city of Johannesburg; largest city in South Africa and Bruce was in talks to be arrested, Tony prevented that. "Only when I’ve created a murder-bot.“

The list goes on and on. All of them have done horrible things, and somehow Tony is the one they see as the one they shouldn’t trust, the one they should watch their backs before he ‘betrays’ them. Tony deserved to say every word he said here:

@maskedkane​: I agree with this. We stan Tony Stark in this house. But we also stan Thor. And what we not finna do is blame him for the snap. Especially not after everything he went through before and after said snap. That’s a bad take.

I know. I only mentioned that part because I was giving an example of how all of them collectively and individually have made mistakes and how some people only point out Tony’s faults and forget he’s also allowed to make mistakes just like the rest of the characters. It wasn’t Thor’s fault, it was grief and that’s understandable, just like it wasn’t Tony’s fault what happened at the end of Civil War, it was grief. That was the point I was trying to make.

I’ll only answer this one. The angry anons telling me that ‘I hate Thor’ can shut up now. 

@steebtiny​: you: all the avengers are flawed in their own way antis who are too cowardly to confront you head on so they hide behind anon to send unoriginal insults: wHaT DiD yOU SAy AbOut mY FaVouRItE ChRACteRs

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

The Anti-Che - Jay Nordlinger

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger