+ Stuff to Read +

Fiction

• One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

  Vitangelo Moscarda has an identity crisis because his wife makes him notice his crooked nose, something he never saw in the 28 years of his life.
  "If I wasn't for others what I thought I was for myself until now, who was I?".
  He realizes "Vitangelo" isn't only one person but also, well, no one and one hundred thousand ones, and he'll use it in his favor. Sounds crazy? That's because he is. He also makes perfect sense. And if you read this book, you'll becoma a little like him too.
  This book is very sad-serious and funny! (my favourite combo). I loved reading his reasonings
  
  explain it in an even worse way: everyone thinks Vitangelo Moscarda has gone fishing because he doesn't want to capitalize on poor people anymore

• Dracula (Daily)
• The Metamorphosis...

  I wish I could put into words why it's one of my favourite short stories. It just resonates with me despite everything and with everything I mean Gregor wanting to kiss Grete's neck what the fuck dude that's your sisteeeeer
  read this to get bitten by the Kafka bug. I'm serious, so many people who read this one and were so enamoured they read everything else by him. I think you either get it or you don't

• ...and other stories
• I, Robot

Non-fiction

• Homage to Catalonia

  when you go to Spain just to Kill Fascists but end up in the middle of a political mess and an anarchist revolution, by George Orwell.
  It's him telling the reader what he saw and did in Catalonia, about his military service in the POUM and life in the trenches, how cool anarchist Barcellona and the militias were, and how he had to flee to save his life because the Soviet Union joined the fight.
  this is the fucking George Orwell book everyone should be talking about, the part where he visits Barcellona for the first time makes me shed a tear.
  (beware, as he writes multiple times: this book is only what he saw and understood, it's not objective truth. It's a *small and flawed* (and very interesting imho) portion of the bigger picture!)
  
  but now that I read Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Secret Life (even if I'm not sure about the book on the whole) I am SO ANGRY he didn't include what Eileen was doing there (she worked in the Independent Labour Party on the office side!)

• Contro Natura
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

• Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

  old comic from Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Invader Zim. edgy dark humor but it works.

  an interesting Tumblr post where Jhonen talks about the comic why did you delete your account man :( :

  
  "Johnny was never intended to be a depiction of a person suffering from any mental condition steeped in reality besides being a pompous turd. What he deals with is less fact-based mental disorder and more Lovecraftian.
  Johnny was always meant to be based on a version of me that would have been one of those people you know, the ones that, sure they maybe got made fun of for being “weird” but were twisted into some disgusting, pathetic parody of the enlightened but thicker-skinned person they maybe should have become.
  At the time of making those old books, I was having fun MAKING fun of a person I saw I could easily become without a decent amount of self confidence and a functional sense of humor, the dude that rants and rants about how much they hate a thing while becoming consumed by that thing, to where your identity is impressing others with how angry you are, how much smarter you are than the people you look down on and how everything would be better if you decided who lived and who died, what was right and what was wrong.
  Nny, in my head, was a mix of relatable ideas thrown in with unknowable, cosmic horror. Person who gets made fun of for being different? Relatable. Person who lives out the nasty-fun wish-fulfillment of hurting everyone who hurts them? Ugly, but super relatable. interdimensional nightmare thing that uses weak-willed types for its own interdimensional nightmare thing plans? Maybe not as relatable, but cool. Filter all that through my dorky, 19 year old brain and you end up with the goofy mess JTHM turned into!
  Now and then I get an angry email from someone commenting on my insensitive, wildly inaccurate portrayal of mental illness. Rather then respond to those people, I just stay quiet because those people are fucking crazy, am I right??"

  
  if you're intrested, the Director's Cut TPB has all the Johnny comics and some extra things, "Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors" has the Squee spinoff and the extra comics from the original 7 issues of JTHM. I still have to read the spinoff "I Feel Sick"...
  
  I read this comic when I was way too young for it (about 12?), but I was being made fun of for being weird a lot in that period, and I think it helped me no to become like Johnny (the whole "consumed by what they hate" thing) ? Thank you Mr. Vasquez, I guess??

• Macerie Prime
• Maus
• Mob Psycho 100
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
• Persepolis
• Un Polpo Alla Gola
• Scheletri
• Homestuck X

  Yes I still think it's worth reading. Just... just ignore all the drama, pretend that nothing after Act 7 and the Snapchat Epilogues ever happened. The Unofficial Homestuck Collection is the best way to do it. The Paradox Space comics are also nice.

  "Homestuck is fucking trash" -every Homestuck fan ever and they're right

• Our Permanent Vacation
• Scrupolosity Comics x
• Deep Dark Fears x

  4 panel comics that illustrate a fear submitted by an user. I love this guy's art style!
  Here were to submit

• Leslie and Brianne Wacky Lesbian Hour x

  they're disgusting I love them

• Fangs x

  very cute comics about a vampire and werewolf couple. from Sarah's Scribbles, but the artstyle is more realistic

• Mafalda
• Calvin & Hobbes x

• My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed x

  The famous weed smoking girlfriends Tumblr post in comic form. Amazing shitpost

Other

• A Mathematician's Lament X

  I don't remember how I stumbled upon this, but he's so right. The way we teach math in schools sucks, I retain almost nothing of it. Dull memorization is truly the worst teaching method
  
  this is silly (and probably obvious), but this made me wonder why do multiplications like 5x3 and 3x5 give the same resoults and look, they're the same rectangle! I had never connected it to the formula for finding a rectangle's area before

  5x3

  x	x	x
  x	x	x
  x	x	x
  x	x	x
  x	x	x

  3x5

  x	x	x	x	x
  x	x	x	x	x
  x	x	x	x	x