Black Dragon Fighting Society

the last book i read: technically just a chapter but the academic self by donald e. hall

a book i'd recommend: SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH BY TAYEB SALIH. MUNDO CRUEL BY LUIS NEGRÓN

a book i couldn't put down: aside from season of migration to the north by tayeb salih, the vegetarian by han kang, tar baby by toni Morrison, and the locked tomb tetralogy

a book i've read twice or more: all the books exempting return of the thief from megan whalen turner’s The Queen’s Thief; memory for forgetfulness by mahmoud darwish; nona the ninth by tamsyn muir

a book on my tbr: la familia de todos nosotros by magali garcía ramis; black disability politics by sami schalk; jorge luis borges just like in general; wild thorns by sahar khalifeh

a book i've put down: literary theory by terry eagleton. i should get back to it and skim for the one time. lady joker also which i am more earnest to go back to.

a book on my wish list: being real i don’t know. Oh actually I do know it’s the name of the rose by umberto eco it’s never available to check out when i actually have time to read it. AND how to commit a postcolonial murder. AND murderbot.

a favourite book from childhood: the little prince, thirty nine clues, the book thief, and this princess series I don’t remember the name of but there was an Indian princess undergoing a heat wave, a Russian princess who was made to tie her back to a rod and sleep in it, and some other stories from there…i really wish I remembered the names.

a book i'd give to a friend: the thief by Megan whalen turner.

a book of poetry or lyrics that i own: when my brother was an aztec by Natalie Diaz and VENDIMIA BY JOSÉ ANTONIO DÁVILA💪

a non-fiction book that i own: also scenes of subjection by saidiya hartman, also black disability politics by sami schalk, culture and imperialism by edward said, universitas ludens by fernando picó

what I'm currently reading: neurotic distortion of the creative process by lawrence s. kubie

what I'm planning on reading next: IS UP TO THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE!

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.