niko, they/ae, 20s, japanese american
currently reading: Wool, Hugh Howey ; Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Not today Justin

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shark vs the universe
we're not kids anymore.

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Love Begins
Stranger Things

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Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Three Goblin Art

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niko, they/ae, 20s, japanese american
currently reading: Wool, Hugh Howey ; Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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i think there is something to be said about this wave of white women made media that is so surface level with an underlying racist and/or insensitive bias and that refuses to engage with criticism. i'm talking taylor swift's the life of a showgirl, emerald fennell's wuthering heights, colleen hoover, the acotar series and booktok in general, etc. whenever you dare to raise concerns about the superficiality or the questionable writing or the treatment of poc in those pieces you get shut down with a "it's not that deep" or "let women have fun". this weaponisation of misogyny to justify slop made for mass consumption, especially considering how wide spread it is becoming, scares me quite a bit. to quote princess weekes, "the girlypopification of anti-intellectualism" is truly concerning, and i do believe it is linked to the rise of far right movements worldwide. if you refuse to engage with what you are being presented with, and exclusively consume brain smoothing content "for fun" then yeah you do become more susceptible to propaganda. it is that deep.
Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube
our longing for inconvenience by hanif abdurraqib (id in alt)
Examples of a Brocken Spectre, a phenomenon where a person’s giant shadow appears magnified onto clouds miles away. The shadow from the sun behind the person creates a halo, giving it an angelic appearance. This mostly occurs on any misty mountainsides or cloud banks, and can even be seen from aeroplanes.

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Semiprecious Stones Coat Kathleen Ryan’s Oversized Sculptures of Rotting Food
hii! here's my other piece from the zine Sing It Like The Kids That Are Mean To You (created by @thrashbeatles and laid out by @birdloaf, get your physical copy here (when its in stock) and your digital copy here)
Pete Wentz is, in many ways, the driving force behind Fall Out Boy, and he is a biracial black man. It is no surprise, then, that blackness is ever-present within the band’s art, through genre, through lyrics, through politics. Let’s talk about how race colours their work.
Eliseu Visconti / "Saint Sebastian's Reward" / 1898 / National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro
Do you know this TV Show Song? #23
I know the song and the show
I know the song but not the show
I know the show but not the song
I may know this
I have never heard this
i forgot how much a good haircut can improve my appearance and confidence. i feel like myself again lol

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obsessed with this anonymous poem that i found at the end of an academic paper
The Doctor and the Master + favourite moments [17/?]
Gomez!Master and Twelve — “I had a friend once. We ran together when I was little, and I thought we were the same. But when we grew up, we weren’t.”
My very favorite observation I have ever heard anyone make about this episode: holy shit, this is so definitely a plan geared towards the last version of the Doctor the Master had met–because it would have worked SO WELL on Ten. SO WELL. Barely-controlled desire to conquer the universe? Check. Expressed through insistence on smiting bad guys and being the savior of the lesser beings? CHECK. Needs the gun held to his (or his favorite planet’s) head so he can tell himself he really had no choice? FUCKING CHECK. She would’ve had Ten hook, line, and sinker.
Vorja Sánchez (Spanish, based Barcelona, Spain) - Interventions series, Photography, Photo Drawings
it's sad to me that cis people never apply their "loved one with a wanted-pregnancy" script to medical transition. like cis people often indicate they don't know how to react to hearing about medical transition, but a huge portion of that social script is directly applicable.
tell someone "congratulations!" tell them "I'm so happy for you. I know you've been trying for a really long time." ask them "do you need help with anything?" throw them a party with loved ones where you all give them some gifts in acknowledgement of how expensive it is. celebrate how far along they are. take photos with them so they have a record of being loved while their body changes. allow them to voice fears and doubts and anxieties about how it'll go, and reassure them that they'll get through the intense medical procedure coming up & you'll be there for support no matter what. let them tell you about the gross parts and laugh together. really listen to them when they talk about how amazing and profound it is that the human body can do this. share in their excitement for beginning a new stage of their life.
If there are complications, comfort them and help them navigate what's next. If they lose access suddenly due to finances or criminalization, treat it like a miscarriage and hold them while they grieve.
This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.

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todays warmup is a guy I saw in an airport several months ago that reminded me of L death note
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