Look at the cardigan Midoriya is wearing
it’s light blue, that’s not a Midoriya color, that’s a Todoroki color
And we all know that Midoriya doesn’t wear long sleeves, he’s a T-shirt boy first and foremost
But it’s around November here and likely getting a bit chilly, and who do we know that has a wardrobe almost exclusively of turtlenecks and cardigans?
So let me just say...
Boyfriend Cardigan
I know there a lot of dom/sub fics told from the Ryan's (as the sub) perspective and him being turned on by Shane's dominance but are there any where it's in Shane's perspective and Ryan obeying him/being submissive really turns him on?
Praise the fucking Lord for this request.
Okay, so there aren’t many (not that there are actually that much d/s in the fandom either), but here we go. We do need more d/s with dom!Shane’s POV, please authors interact–
you get me closer to god by sessrumnir
Summary: Ryan wants to experiment. Shane is more than happy to comply.
Rated: E
Commentary: This is one of my favorite d/s fanfics in the fandom. A first time doing a scene, first time being a dom for Shane, and it’s amazing. It has this really good POV, too. Shane’s feelings while doing the scene, taking desicions and learning to command are great, there is not even a moment where the fic forgets this and it’s just overall amazing. Such a great story from an amazing author, we all need this in our life.
Ryan Bergara: The Biggest Fucking Tease in the World by ClaraLuna98
Summary: why was Shane so GODDAMN disheveled during the Sodder Children episode?
Rated: M
Commentary: One of the first d/s stories in the fandom, this story is a lot of fun to read. It’s a good PWP and it gives you the chills, it’s great. I really like the dom!Shane they write in this, I love him. Just in general, I really like this fic. Little warning for daddy kink and lotsa good dirty talk.
The Desk Fic by SincerelyLeah
Summary: Shane was having a shitty Monday morning and it was all because of one person, Ryan Bergara. But, by now he should know that endless teasing gets Shane more than riled up.
Rated: E
Commentary: Ah, this fic. I love that we, as a fandom, have gathered the universal headcanon that Ryan is a damn tease and it gives Shane life. This fic is intense and overall very good, one of my favorites. Once more, beware of the daddy kink and tons of dirty talk.
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*
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
happy reading :)
Mikasa: Good morning.
Armin: Good morning!
Levi: Good morning.
Hanji: You all sound like a bunch of robots, “good morning, good morning”, spice it up a bit!
Eren, overhearing and kicking the door down: HEY MOTHERFUCKERS!
no archive warnings apply; season/series 04; plot what plot/porn without plot; humiliation; under-negotiated kink; fear kink; daddy kink
In a matter of hours, Shane has either learned or admitted to knowing most of Ryan’s major kinks, and Ryan has no clue why Shane isn’t bothered. Ryan’s certainly bothered, in more ways than one.
He checks his phone, tired and emotionally deflated. Shane’s been downstairs for half an hour, ostensibly using the bathroom and brushing his teeth. He never takes thirty minutes to do either. Grumbling, Ryan throws off the covers, mashing the camera’s off button before walking down the attic stairs and grabbing the doorknob. No need to film an empty room.
Before he can open the door more than an inch, it pushes shut from the other side, and Ryan hears the definitive click of the lock sliding into place.
“Shane?”
No answer.
I don't know how tf this happened but I suddenly have the overwhelming urge to go to school.
(previous editions) bold = favourite
what coming out of the ‘caste closet’ was like
world food prices are climbing closer toward a record high
i was surrounded by ‘final girls’ in school, knowing i’d never be one (usa)
petrópolis: a perfect storm of weather extremes and deep inequality (brazil)
why were scientists so slow to study covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?
bimbofication is taking over. what does that mean for you?
hollywood played a role in hypersexualising asian women
‘whatever horrors they do, they do in secret’: inside the taliban’s return to power (afghanistan)
the vietnamese workers japan depends on are falling through the cracks
britain’s ownership of the chagos islands has no basis, mauritius is right to claim them
despite climate goals, europe’s 25 largest banks continue to invest billions in oil and gas
‘i remember the feeling of insult’: when britain imprisoned its wartime refugees
archaeologists in egypt discover 3,000-year-old ‘lost golden city’
the good place and bojack horseman died as they lived
‘death knows no colour’: the forgotten african soldiers of wwii
i’m in kyiv and awake at the darkest hour – as putin’s bombs rain down
dictators aren’t pretending anymore
‘the hope is finished’: life in the ukrainian separatist regions of donetsk and luhansk
how suicide became the hidden toll of the war in ukraine
nigeria condemns treatment of africans
Narumi: here’s the plan-
Yuu: hey Mika, do you know who is the most beautiful person on the whole planet?
Narumi: Yoichi will check the perimeter-
Mika: I don’t know, Yuu-chan… You?
Narumi: and then-
Yuu: no no, it’s you~
Narumi: AND THEN-
Mika: no way, it’s definitely you
Narumi: I SAID-
Yuu: how can you say that with that gorgeous face of yours?
Narumi: COULD YOU PLEASE STOP WITH THAT?!
Yuu&Mika: …
Narumi: *sighs* where was I?
Shinoa: hey Mitsu~ do you know who is the most beautiful person on the planet?
Narumi: WHY GOD
Expectation vs Reality II Levi ↳ It’s not rare for people to get upset after talking to him. He is not what people expect to see. He doesn’t look like the flawless hero they imagine, starting with his short stature. He is also unexpectedly tense, rude and unapproachable.~Petra Ral~