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[lukadian]

 Visiting family for the holidays! God it’s been forever hasn’t it? (Posting, visiting…)

 

I’m trialing some new medications this week and taking this time off (about a week for fall break) to review and revisit a lot of old projects I’d put on hiatus, namely some writing stuff and site stuff. 

 

My writing bug for reviews has definitely come back and I’m part-way done with what will be my first in what I’d hoped to be a series of write ups on professionally published Hentai manga from a personal and queer lens more-so than a critical one (though I do occasionally have my criticisms to share)! It feels good to be writing a little bit again even if I still have yet to truly get back to the fiction bug.

 

I’ve also revisited my Tarot reviews since coming into possession of a new deck The Bound Tarot by Jonathan Grimm.

 

Along the same lines of touching base with things left abandoned I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately. I’ve once again fallen deep into reading about the afropunk movement and BIPOC experiences in the punk/hardcore music scene. I’m almost done with Black Punk Now which has been a fabulous spiritual successor to 2003’s Afropunk documentary which I got a chance to nab on dvd from James Spooner’s website directly (along with some cool looking zines!)

 

If you’re at all interested I’d absolutely recommend checking it out and getting yourself a copy! BPN too as a fun follow up! 

 

In general I’ve tried to put myself on a solid book buying hiatus and push myself to work through outstanding books on my reading list that I’ve purchased but have lain untouched in my little dragon hoard. 

 

The rules are simple, no new books (outside of preorders already committed to) until I knock out the current reading list. And from there I’d like to maintain this system to curb the exponential growth of my library vs functional library space. (It’s never that you have too many books, it’s that you don’t have enough shelves!)

 

Seeing how many truly unread books I’ve had in spite of buying more was definitely eye opening! So here’s what’s on the reading list currently:

 

In Progress: 

Black Punk Now

The Bloody Chamber

Fear and Desire

 

Unread:

That’s Revolting

Angels Before Men

Shotgun Seamstress

The Day Hikaru Died Vol. 2 (manga)

Life With the Slime (Hentai)

Race Riot 2 (zine)

How to start a Race Riot (zine)

Muchacha Fanzine #16 Decolonizing Punk (zine)

Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children

Takarazuka Sexual Politics and Pop Culture in Modern Japan

Dementia 21 (manga)

 

Finished:

Innocent Omnibus 1 (manga)

The Day Hikaru Died (manga)

The God Eaters

Camp Damascus

What Moves the Dead

 

On a follow up note, I’m a little over halfway meeting my goal of reading 20 books this year! I’ve only got a few months left, let’s see if I can make it!