Lots Of My Favorite Vines Are Old Ones, So Here Are Some That I Didn’t Want Lost To The Wind

There's been a lot of lists floating around twitter of 100 books of a particular genre, or of a particular level of 'literary' merit.

Well, this is my list. 

If you don't like it, make your own.

In no particular order:

1 Exquisite Corpse, Poppy Z Brite

2 Lost Souls, Poppy Z Brite

3 Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman

4 Leash, Jane DeLynn

5 The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

6 Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric Larocca

7 The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault

8 I, Claudius, Robert Graves

9 Sarah, JT LeRoy

10 Dogs of War, Adrian Tchaikovsky

11 Moby Dick, Herman Melville

12 Dead Silence, SA Barnes

13 Ghost Ride, Hope Zane

14 Dark Rise, CS Pacat

15 All Systems Red, Martha Wells

16 Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time, KM Szpara

17 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

18 Everyone On the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K Jarboe

19 The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

20 To Be Taught If Fortunate, Becky Chambers

21 Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

22 Deerskin, Robin McKinley

23 A Dowry of Blood, ST Gibson

24 The Putrescent Vein, Dorian Bridges

25 The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Joe Koch

26 The Faerie Hounds of York, Arden Powell

27 The Monster of Elendhaven, Jennifer Giesbrecht

28 The Apple Tree Throne, Premee Mohumad

29 An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

30 The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

31 Slippery Creatures, KJ Charles

32 The First Man In Rome, Colleen McCullough

33 A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

34 Mexican Gothic, Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

35 Psycho, Robert Bloch

36 Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeanette Ng

37 The Crows, CM Rosens

38 Ritual, David Pinner

39 Dear Laura, Gemma Amor

40 Here, the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward

41 The Orange Eats Creeps, Grace Krilanovich

42 Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

43 Philip and Alexander, Adrian Goldsworthy

44 The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova

45 Babel, RF Kuang

46 As Simple as Hunger, D Des Anges

47 Heavy, D Des Anges

48 The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, Storm Constantine

49 God's War, Kameron Hurley

50 Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee

51 Perdido Street Station, China Miéville

52 Midnight Sun, Stephanie Meyer

53 Damascus, Christos Tsiolkas

54 Penhallow, Georgette Heyer

55 Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss

56 Valiant, Holly Black

57 Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice

58 The Secret History, Donna Tartt

59 Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews

60 Generals Die in Bed, Charles Yale Harrison

61 Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay

62 Dune, Frank Herbert

63 Red Dragon, Thomas Harris

64 The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin

65 A Kiss Before Dying, Ira Levin

66 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

67 Orlando, Virginia Woolf

68 The Tommyknockers, Stephen King

69 Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higgenbothem

70 Strain, Amelia C Gormley

71 Sons of Devils, Alex Beecroft

72 Carnivore, Jonathan Lyon

73 Passchendaele, Paul Ham

74 Let the Dead Bury their Dead, Randall Keenan

75 Angel Mage, Garth Nix

76 The Long Walk, Stephen King

77 The Black Jewels Trilogy, Anne Bishop

78 Huge Rat Comforts Himself With Lies, Mikko Harvey

79 The Two-Headed Calf, Laura Gilpin

80 Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather

81 Your Mind is a Terrible Thing, Hailey Piper

82 Vagabonds!, Eloghosa Osunde

83 The Boy in the Dress, Jonathan Butler

84 Salome, Oscar Wilde

85 Macbeth, Shakespeare

86 Killing for Company, Brian Masters

87 The Stranger Beside Me, Anne Rule

88 The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber & David Wengrow

89 Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

90 The Trauma Cleaner, Sara Krasnostein

91 Iron Widow, Ciran Jay Zhao

92 Kursk, Robert Moore

93 The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben

94 Spectred Isle, KJ Charles

95 The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

96 Catch-22, Joseph Heller

97 Dead Europe, Christos Tsiolkas

98 All I See is Mud, Andrew Dunkley

99 To Hell and Back, Sydney Loch

100 The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale

How's that for a list of 100 books that fuck!

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psst, tumblr just quietly rolled out collaboration with ai training models, and it's opt-out, not opt-in, go into your blog settings to fix it [on desktop, anyway, dunno where you'd look on mobile] keep fighting the good fight <3

I don't see an option for it now, so it may not have rolled out for everyone yet? Unless I'm just missing where it is

collected anne carson: pdf

does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man's neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for "curly hair in medieval paintings". it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it's so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don't wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something

if you search a tag on someone’s blog on the mobile app it will show you only a selection of posts in an inscrutably random order but if you go to a mobile browser and type [blog url].tumblr.com/tagged/[tag] you will get all posts on that blog with that tag in reverse chronological order. if you add /chrono behind it you get them in regular chronological order. naturally this works in desktop browsers too but i know many people are mobile only these days and the app’s built in tag search is shit so this knowledge is vital to your survival

Does anybody have that image of what cyberpunk dialogue is like. "to crack a cyber lemon this nasty" or whatever

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

if any of you could tell me why task manager thinks i have 13 firefoxes open at once that would be great