#frondship

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK THEN YOU DONT KNOW ME AT ALL!!! :fite: 

oh shit, lmao nevermind XD AHHAHAHA i misread, xD 

friendship/platonic relationships!!!! xD i could still go for some platonic chlonath, GIVE THE BEE MORE FRIENDS 

uhhhhhhh i love me that sweet sweet friendship between adrien and nino or adrien with ANY SWEET AND LOVING AND SUPPORTIVE PERSON!!!!! oh! and chloe with  !!! DA BOYS ;0;/ and i love the girl squad they are all so sweet and supportive of one another!!

(credit to @ladyofacat for the gif) 

ALSO OMG TOPH AND ZUKO are the best xD 

11. What do you consider to be romance?

Respect and reliability. I believe the core of romance is respect— of taking your loved ones’ seriously and listening to their experiences and that being respected, having who you are as a person truly respected and appreciated and your boundaries respected and your vulnerabilities respected and truly being respected for who you are is one of the most attractive things in the world. And then reliability— I almost called it fidelity but I don’t want to have this confused with monogamous sexual ethics as if that’s the sum total of what I’m talking about, though I think if that’s something that matters to you or a romantic partner that can be a very important thing to respect. But reliably being there for somebody, being a part of their life, not abandoning them. That’s powerful. And so is receiving that kind of consistent dependability and presence from somebody else. I’m not much of a big gestures person. I do enjoy expressing my love and admiration for the people I care about and I like developing various kinds of closeness and emotional intimacy. But really the core of romance for me are these sturdy characteristics that many people may not consider very romantic at all.

22. Say three things about somebody you love?

Last book I read: The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho. It’s a comedic wuxia adventure in a fantasy setting where religious orders have been caught in the crossfire between an authoritarian government and rebel bandits. A nun who loses her job as a waitress joins a group of black market vagabonds attempting to navigate this new reality and everybody gets more than they bargained for.

It’s a whole lot of fun and also gave me so much to think about. I wish I had a hundred more books like this one.

Book I recommend: Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf. @hoeratius recommended the Heaney, as is her right, and that’s the first Beowulf I read but I encountered MDH’s translation in 2021 and was absolutely blown away. I want to do things like this as a translator.

Book I couldn't put down: I first encountered Nate Stevenson’s graphic novel Nimona while it was being serialized online and probably about 80% complete, zoomed through everything that existed so far in a few hours, and then waited eagerly for each additional page. It was absolutely captivating. I’ve had other similar experiences but that one stands out right now in my memory.

Book I've read twice: I’ve been an inveterate rereader over the past four years. Through 2019 probably less than 10% of my reading was rereads and now it’s around 50%. The Queen’s Thief series, The Goblin Emperor and Cemeteries of Amalo books, the Murderbot Diaries, the Wayfarers novels, the Vorkosigan Saga and the Five Gods books, Discworld, and the Young Wizards series have all been ones I’ve revisited regularly. And in 2022 I did a LeGuin readthrough that included revisiting many of her works and experiencing others for the first time. There are so many others as well. Rereading is great!

A book on my TBR: Navdeep Singh Dhillon’s YA romcom Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions. I don’t see books with Punjabi protagonists very often so I’m very interested in this one.

A book I have put down: I started An Immense World last year, which is an examination of nonhuman sensory experiences, and I’d really like to get back to it but my brain has been having a harder time with nonfiction over the past couple of years so I haven’t found my way back around yet. I’ve also bounced off Translation State a couple of times now which is frustrating because I’ve enjoyed every other Ann Leckie book I’ve read.

A book on my wish list: I don’t actually have much of a wish list for books because I’m very library-centric. There are definitely books I end up buying and I have a fairly eclectic home collection. But mostly I get books through the public library and the Libby and Hoopla apps with the library’s digital holdings. I do like to buy interesting haggadot and siddurim and have my eye on a new translation of Tehillim, so that’s something.

A favourite book from childhood: There is a picture book with text by Lloyd Alexander and illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats called The King’s Fountain, which I haven’t encountered in decades but remember adoring as a child. It’s a fable about a monarch who plans to divert the city’s water to build a beautiful fountain for himself and a beggar who tries to find some way to convince him to change his mind.

A book I would give a friend: The Thief by @meganwhalenturner. I want everybody to read it.

A book of poetry or lyrics I own: I’m very invested in my local poetry scene which means that unfortunately most of the poetry I own would reveal more about my geographic location than I’m comfortable posting on tumblr. TFW most of the books of poetry you own are written by people you personally know. Highly recommend. I grew up on a lot of Billy Collins and e e cummings and Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou and Edna St Vincent Millay and so many others. But that was my mother’s collection and I unfortunately haven’t filled my shelves at home with poetic classics. As a teenager I also had an absolutely wonderful global anthology of poetry from all over the world and from ancient times until the nineteenth century that I’ve never been able to find again and I don’t remember the title. It was very thick and paperback and had a reddish purple cover and was organized by the language each poem had been translated from.

A non-fiction book I own: One of my favorites is The House Book by Phaidon which is a little reference book with a selection of 500 houses from ancient times to the present as an exploration of how people live and what architectural possibilities we’ve explored.

Currently reading: Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold, Omnitopia Dawn by @dianeduane for the @crossingscon book club, Little Thieves by @what-eats-owls, and Witch King by Martha Wells, not counting rereads.

19. Favorite thing about the day?

Most of my friends are awake during it and I can talk to them }:^)

W-E S)(OULD. YOU AR-E SO RIG)(T.

I )(ave reely not spent muc)( time wit)( AC at all. T)(at is a s)(ame!