I Dont Draw Emi Enough. Heres A Quick Doodle Of A Younger Sisters Obligation To Cause Her Older Brother

I don’t draw Emi enough. Here’s a quick doodle of a younger sister’s obligation to cause her older brother as much grief as possible.

So I got to commission Jack Lawrence for TFCon…

no ok i started spiraling into animated jazzwave ideas too its actually awful

as fun as superman villains can be, I think it's important to remember that he's mostly a natural disaster and accident guy, not a crime guy, unless the crime is union busting or rich people being huge dicks

what are some books you recommend :)

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Um, anyways! Great question! To keep from recommending the same five books I recommend every time (though, those are here are well, the Yah Yah Top 5), I’m going to pick from my favorite books from 2022-2023.

BELOVED by Toni Morrison: Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, reckons with past violence. A story about intergenerational violence, trauma and the effects of slavery on a Black family. Also, there’s maybe a ghost, but there is another reading of the story that Morrison herself talked about that I haven’t even considered until @sawasako brought it up.

A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by Ursula K. Le Guin: A young man called comes into his own as a wizard while fighting his shadow. Truly the blueprint for wizards.

OLGA DIES DREAMING by Xochitl Gonzales: The story of two siblings dealing with their interpersonal dramas and grappling with issues such as identity, sexuality and their absent revolutionary mother.

HAMNET by Maggie O’Farrel: The story of Shakespeare’s late son, Hamnet, and how his death brought about one of the greatest plays of all time. A tragedy in every sense of the word

THE SEEP by Chana Porter: Hard to describe. Aliens have come to Earth and brought great change. Very much one of Octavia Butler’s children.

THE SHAPE OF WATER by Guillermo del Torro, Daniel Kraus: The novelization of the film by the same name, but it truly feels like an expansion of the story. So good.

I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy: Memoir from Jenette McCurdy. You’ve heard about it, literally everyone has heard about it, it’s such a good book. I pray Jenette writes more because she has such a voice, it’s truly something you can’t ignore. I also pray that every day she gets a little better and that her mom’s death becomes more and more of a relief for her

GOD HELP THE CHILD by Toni Morrison: After a devastating breakup, a young woman deals with … a lot of past issues involving her mother, colorism, anti-Blackness and misogyny. What a read.

TENDER IS THE FLESH by Agustina Bazterrica: In a world where animals are deemed unsafe to eat, people start eating people. Such a book, such a read. Nauseating and perfect and horrifying, and has one of the most iconic ending lines I think I’ve ever read ever.

HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang: A story of a revolution, state-mandated violence in South Korea. I need to reread this actually, wait.

OUR ENDLESS, NUMBERED DAYS by Claire Fuller: A girl is convinced by her father that the world is ending and spends her youth in total isolation in the middle of nowhere.

RED DRAGON by Thomas Harris: Will Graham, a former FBI profiler (and autistic icon, and Black icon, and Louisianan icon) needs the help of serial killer Hannibal Lecter to catch the Tooth Fairy.

MADLY, DEEPLY: THE DIARIES OF ALAN RICKMAN by Alan Rickman: If you want to cry over a man who loved to act, who loved his wife, who loved his friends and family and food and dancing, who hated capitalism and wanted nothing more for the world to be a good place, I mean, here’s a book for you. I miss him so much. Rest in peace king, you would hate what’s happening in the world right now.

BURN DOWN, RISE UP by Vincent Tirado: A train, a game, a burning Bronx and the teenager who connects the three of them, oh hell yes. So proud of know the author!

TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong: a poetry collection by our man, our icon, Ocean Vuong, about his mother, about grief.

STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS by Ted Chiang: Iconic collection! The story that inspired the movie Arrival is in here, as well as Liking What You See, the famous story that inspired Scott Westerfield to write Uglies and inspired Ken Liu to write The Man Who Ended History

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Azar Nafisi: A memoir of an Iranian author who risked her life and safety with her book club

MOTHERTHING by Ainslie Hogarth: A nurse at a senior care facility and her relationship with her late mother, her late mother-in-law and a client she gets too close to. So good.two white-passing Black women and their borderline homoerotic relationship with one another, and their relationships to with their Blackness

ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong: Told as a series of letters, the story of the son of a Vietnam war survivor, a story of intergenerational trauma. Damn.

CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr: In three interconnecting stories, Doerr weaves a tale about a famous Greek play, the fall of Constantinople and the power of storytelling, wow.ACL GIRL CALL HOME by Jasmine Mans: A very good poetry collection

BL by Miriam Toews: Women in a secluded religious community debate what to do after a series of violent attacks at the hand of the men in their group. Truly mind-rattling. Read with caution/check trigger warnings in advance!

BABEL by R.F. Kuang: A young man is brought to Britain to learn arcane magic/silverworking. You come for the fantasy, stay for the destruction of the British empire at the hands of the victims of imperialism. Victoire 5ever!

ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner: Such an iconic play! Set during the AIDs crisis of the 80s-90s, this is one of thee most influential and world-rocking plays about gayness, about the world! You will feel like you wrestled God, I’m not kidding.

CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata: AE FARTHEST SHORE by Ursula K. Le Guin: Another Earthsea story…it’s so good, this one features Ged and a young prince discovering what happened to the disappearing magic, it’s about woman struggles to find her place in a society that’s very unreceptive to Autistic Icons.

LAST DAYS by Brian Evenson: After an amputation, a former cop gets caught in a tangled web of two separate doomsday-amputation cults.and love and not losing yourself to apathy…Yeah.

PARADISE by Toni Morrison: A secluded, exclusive all-Black town deals with what it means for a place to be paradise, especially when paradise for some means hell for others.

YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang: Stressful ass book about a white woman who steals a book from her late Korean “friend”, an author she was jealous of. So messy, so stressful, and you’re stuck in the head of a racist white liberal the whole time, oh my god.

THE EMPLOYEES: A WORKPLACE NOVEL OF THE 22ND CENTURY by Olga Ravn: If you liked Severance or Westworld, you’ll definitely like this. Human and humanoid crew members on a space ship become attached to objects and grapple with their humanity. What does it mean to be human? Are they humans or only workers, cogs in the machine? Damn!

THE PLOT by Jean Hanff Korelitz: A twisting thriller about an author who steals a story. This is Yellowface’s cousin

MADAM by Phoebe Wynne: Set in 90s Britain, a young woman is thrown into the secretive society of the British upper class. A story about gender, gender roles and misogyny, and some very brave teenage girls

THE FIRE NEXT TIME by James Baldwin: Essays from James Baldwin on race and America

SKINFOLK by Nalo Hopkinson: A stunning short story collection, truly not a lot of misses. I think I have some direct story recommendations on my storygraph

CONFESSIONS by Kanae Minato: A teacher seeks revenge on the students that killed her daughter

THE PAPER MENAGERIE AND OTHER STORIES: Thee iconic short story collection by Ken Liu. Banger after banger after banger. Would literally recommend every single one of the stories in this collection.

RING SHOUT by P. Djeli Clark: the kkk are literal, actual supernatural monsters in this one and a band of Black women are tasked with killing them. Perfection!

BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buelman: A knight, a monk and a baby saint/messenger from God go on a glorious quest. Effervescent, I desperately need a copy of my own.

I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy: Memoir from Jenette McCurdy. You’ve heard about it, literally everyone has heard about it, it’s such a good book. I pray Jenette writes more because she has such a voice, it’s truly something you can’t ignore. I also pray that every day she gets a little better and that her mom’s death becomes more and more of a relief for her

GOD HELP THE CHILD by Toni Morrison: After a devastating breakup, a young woman deals with … a lot of past issues involving her mother, colorism, anti-Blackness and misogyny. What a read.

TENDER IS THE FLESH by Agustina Bazterrica: In a world where animals are deemed unsafe to eat, people start eating people. Such a book, such a read. Nauseating and perfect and horrifying, and has one of the most iconic ending lines I think I’ve ever read ever.

HUMAN ACTS by Han Kang: A story of a revolution, state-mandated violence in South Korea. I need to reread this actually, wait.

OUR ENDLESS, NUMBERED DAYS by Claire Fuller: A girl is convinced by her father that the world is ending and spends her youth in total isolation in the middle of nowhere.

RED DRAGON by Thomas Harris: Will Graham, a former FBI profiler (and autistic icon, and Black icon, and Louisianan icon) needs the help of serial killer Hannibal Lecter to catch the Tooth Fairy.

MADLY, DEEPLY: THE DIARIES OF ALAN RICKMAN by Alan Rickman: If you want to cry over a man who loved to act, who loved his wife, who loved his friends and family and food and dancing, who hated capitalism and wanted nothing more for the world to be a good place, I mean, here’s a book for you. I miss him so much. Rest in peace king, you would hate what’s happening in the world right now.

BURN DOWN, RISE UP by Vincent Tirado: A train, a game, a burning Bronx and the teenager who connects the three of them, oh hell yes. So proud of know the author!

TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong: a poetry collection by our man, our icon, Ocean Vuong, about his mother, about grief.

STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS by Ted Chiang: Iconic collection! The story that inspired the movie Arrival is in here, as well as Liking What You See, the famous story that inspired Scott Westerfield to write Uglies and inspired Ken Liu to write The Man Who Ended History

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN by Azar Nafisi: A memoir of an Iranian author who risked her life and safety with her book club

MOTHERTHING by Ainslie Hogarth: A nurse at a senior care facility and her relationship with her late mother, her late mother-in-law and a client she gets too close to. So good.

ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS by Ocean Vuong: Told as a series of letters, the story of the son of a Vietnam war survivor, a story of intergenerational trauma. Damn.

CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr: In three interconnecting stories, Doerr weaves a tale about a famous Greek play, the fall of Constantinople and the power of storytelling, wow.

WOMEN TALKING by Miriam Toews: Women in a secluded religious community debate what to do after a series of violent attacks at the hand of the men in their group. Truly mind-rattling. Read with caution/check trigger warnings in advance!

BABEL by R.F. Kuang: A young man is brought to Britain to learn arcane magic/silverworking. You come for the fantasy, stay for the destruction of the British empire at the hands of the victims of imperialism. Victoire 5ever!

ANGELS IN AMERICA by Tony Kushner: Such an iconic play! Set during the AIDs crisis of the 80s-90s, this is one of thee most influential and world-rocking plays about gayness, about the world! You will feel like you wrestled God, I’m not kidding.

CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata: A woman struggles to find her place in a society that’s very unreceptive to Autistic Icons.

LAST DAYS by Brian Evenson: After an amputation, a former cop gets caught in a tangled web of two separate doomsday-amputation cults.

PARADISE by Toni Morrison: A secluded, exclusive all-Black town deals with what it means for a place to be paradise, especially when paradise for some means hell for others.

YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang: Stressful ass book about a white woman who steals a book from her late Korean “friend”, an author she was jealous of. So messy, so stressful, and you’re stuck in the head of a racist white liberal the whole time, oh my god.

THE EMPLOYEES: A WORKPLACE NOVEL OF THE 22ND CENTURY by Olga Ravn: If you liked Severance or Westworld, you’ll definitely like this. Human and humanoid crew members on a space ship become attached to objects and grapple with their humanity. What does it mean to be human? Are they humans or only workers, cogs in the machine? Damn!