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To a Decade of Anime

I can’t believe how fast time has gone, like how are we already at the end of a decade! Nevertheless, it has been a crazy couple years for me and I’m sure for most of us, lots of growing up and life changes. One thing that was special about this decade is I got into anime. I’ve always been a reserved person and around my high school days I had a lot of responsibilities that made it hard to do the things “normal” teenagers did. I think it would be safe to say that anime gave me enjoyment in life and the stories to be told. From the tearjerkers to the “WTF did I just watch”, the series that made me laugh like a maniac and the ones that left several holes in my walls, anime has definitely impacted my life one way or another (^^).

So to end this decade I’m going to be listing my favorite anime, some honorable mentions and underrated anime for each year (2010 - 2019). These are solely based on my own opinion and some shows not on here may just be ones I haven’t watched yet. Also I’m not going to be putting any continuing seasons, only season ones. I know I’m not very present on Tumblr as I used to be but I really love being on this platform. Happy new year and I hope the next decade treats everyone nice! 

PS. this is going to be a very long post sorry (><)

2010:

Favorite Anime: Angel Beats (P.A. Works)

Honorable Mentions: Durarara!! (Brain’s Base), The World God Only Knows (Manglobe), Maid Sama! (J.C.Staff)

Underrated Anime: Princess Jellyfish (Brain’s Base)

2011:

Favorite Anime: Fate/Zero (Ufotable)

Honorable Mentions: Blue Exorcist (A-1 Pictures), The Idolm@ster (A-1 Pictures), Anohana (A-1 Pictures)

Underrated Anime: Bunny Drop (Production I.G)

2012: 

Favorite Anime: Little Busters (J.C.Staff)

Honorable Mentions: Love Chunibyo & Other Delusions (Kyoto Animation), Kids on the Slope (MAPPA), Kuroko’s Basketball (Production I.G)

Underrated Anime: Tsuritama (A-1 Pictures)

2013: 

Favorite Anime: (I was stuck between these two so I made it a tie)

1.) Karneval (Manglobe)

2.) Galilei Donna (A-1 Pictures)

Honorable Mentions: Silver Spoon (A-1 Pictures), My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected (Brain’s Base), Beyond the Boundary (Kyoto Animation)

Underrated Anime: Sunday Without God (Madhouse)

2014:

Favorite Anime:  Terror in Resonance (MAPPA)

Honorable Mentions: Monthly Girl’s Nozaki-kun (Doga Kobo), No Game No Life (Madhose), Mekakucity Actors (Shaft)

Underrated Anime:  Laughing Under the Clouds (Doga Kobo)

2015:

Favorite Anime:  Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (Liden Films)

Honorable Mentions: Charlotte (P.A. Works), Assassination Classroom (Lerche), Death Parade (Madhouse)

Underrated Anime: Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation (Troyca)

2016:

Favorite Anime: Erased (A-1 Pictures)

Honorable Mentions: Bungo Stray Dogs (Bones), Kiznaiver (Trigger), Servamp (Brain’s Base/Platinum Vision)

Underrated Anime:  Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (A-1 Pictures)

2017:  

Favorite Anime:  Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul (MAPPA)

*I know technically this is sequel but I don’t really consider it as one

Honorable Mentions: Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid (Kyoto Animation), World End (Satelight/C2C), Masamune-kun’s Revenge (Silver Link)

Underrated Anime: Tsuredure Children (Studio Gokumi)

2018:

Favorite Anime: Violet Evergarden (Kyoto Animation)

Honorable Mentions: Banana Fish (MAPPA), Zombieland Saga (MAPPA), Citrus (Passione)

Underrated Anime: After the Rain (Wit Studio)

2019:

Favorite Anime: Fruits Basket (TMS/8PAN) *also I know this is a 2019 remake but how could I not put it on here

Honorable Mentions: Fire Force (David Production), The Quintessential Quintuplets (Tezuka Productions), Given (Lerche)

Underrated Anime: Dororo (Mushi Productions)

#BookChallenge2021

So here is the #BookChallenge I put together for the year, muxing up categories from several Book Challenge lists I spotted on the net, such as POPSUGAR Reading Challenge or the Reading Women Challange. It counts 30 books as I will hopefully read a few more?

I put together one that could provide me a mix of pushing me out of my comfort zone/broadening my horizons and a very much deserved in this crazy long night self-indulgence. 

I am sharing it, even if it’s a bit late for this kind of projects but what is Time during a pandemic? The passage of time has been long lost ever since… Anyway! I am sharing this hoping to provide useful/intersting tips or - who knows? - inspiration to do this or a similar challenge to fellow bookworms and not. I added flags on certain categories so you know what to expect, that is where to find queer content or where to set sails. After all, in a time where travelling is pretty much not an option, a book can a be the best airplane ticket to fly around this big troubled world forgetting the current chaos…

A crime novel or thriller in translation by a Muslim/ Latinx/ Black/ Asian/ Indigenous and so on author: The Skating Ring (La pista de hielo), Roberto Bolano  🇨🇱

Reread a favourite: Love In the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book by a Southern American author: Hurricane Season (Temporada de huracanes), Fernanda Melchor  🇲🇽   (suggested by the one and only @faeinthefog​)

Book about incarceration: Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison, Caitlin Davies

An author from Eastern Europe: Tales of The Little Quarter or Prague Tales ( Povídky malostranské), Jan Neruda  🇨🇿

Queer Love Story: The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall  🏳️‍🌈

A non-European book in translation (see point 1): The Sea Cloak and Other Stories, Nayrouz Qarmout (Palestine)  🇵🇸

A book you’ve been intimidated to read: Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo 🏳️‍🌈

Non-fiction about anti-racism: Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis

A LGBTQ+ History book: waiting for GJ season 2, a self-indulgent reading… Gentleman Jack: the Real Anne Lister, Anne Choma & Sally Wainwright 🏳️‍🌈

A book by a trans or non-binary author: Conundrum by the recently departed trans writer and historian Jan Morris  🏳️‍⚧️  🏳️‍🌈

A debut novel of a queer author: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong  🏳️‍🌈

Read a book with a cover you don’t like: The Fourteenth Letter, Claire Evans

A book published in 2021: Common Ground, Naomi Ishiguro

A book by an author who shares my zodiac sign (Scorpio): The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue 🏳️‍🌈

Poetry collection by a black woman: And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou

A book you’ve seen on someone’s bookshelf: Claudine at School, Colette (spotted on @natreadsthings​ blog)

An epistolary: Love Letters, Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville West  🏳️‍🌈

A book with a black and white cover: We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Shirley Jackson - spooky Halloween reading

A book set in multiple countries: Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan 🏳️‍🌈

A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021: Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (Paris)  🏳️‍🌈

A book everyone seems to have read but you: The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald (I know: SHAME ON ME!)

A book set in the 1920′s: Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald

A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Shakespeare and Company, Sylvia Beach

A book about art or an artist: The Doll Factory, Elizabeth Macneal

A book made into a TV series: The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Travis

An author you love: Syndrome E, Franck Thilliez

A book you own but haven’t read yet: Acorn, Yoko Ono

Bestselling memoir: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson  🏳️‍🌈

A book recommended by a librarian: The Honeymoon of Mrs. Smith, Shirley Jackson

Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary peeps,

The King is back. ❤

Kiribaku Fics Rec

2am Knows All Secrets - 59k - … It wasn’t that he was annoyed. Okay, maybe he was a little annoyed, but that was just the lack of sleep talking. Because a certain explosive punk thought it was a good idea to test the flammability of his sheets at 2 in the morning. Every single morning. (In which Bakugou’s quirk wakes Kirishima up, and Kirishima gets way too invested in his bro’s well-being.)

downhill - 5.5k - Bakugou sleeping in the common areas like it’s no big deal seems to give everyone else permission to be just as bizarre, and little by little Kirishima starts learning things about his classmates he never knew.

Dulcet - 4.2k - He’s angry, and too embarrassed to specify at whom. There isn’t even any real need to be, and if he were smooth enough, he could have dished out some bullshit yet still acceptable reply. But instead, he chokes–stammers: “What the fuck?”

slow it down (go easy on me) - 26.9k - It’s at that moment that Bakugou realizes something is very, very wrong. He glances down at himself and sees scars he’s never had before along his arms, little nicks and scratches he’d never have been oblivious to. When he reaches up, his limbs feel longer, and as he staggers to his feet he stands several centimeters taller than he had, last thing he knew. He glances at the mirror, catches sight of his reflection, and screams. One of the doors on the opposite side of the room bursts open, steam spilling out into the bedroom. A man crosses the room in quick strides, looking around for some enemy he can’t yet see. No, not just a man. Kirishima. When a confrontation with a villain throws Bakugou through time, he’s forced to face a future he never imagined, and maybe something he can’t leave behind.

not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all - 4k - The proposition is simple: fake-date the single scariest human being on the planet so Todoroki Shouto can go out with his brother. The thing is, with Bakugou, Kirishima thinks he may have signed up for more than he’d bargained for. (A 10 Things I Hate About You AU.)

i want you to show me - 3.6k - “I already told you, I’m not gonna break, you don’t have to go slow.” “What if I want to, though?” Kirishima murmurs quietly. “What if I wanna take my time with you?” Bakugou shivers.

Overworked & Underfucked - 11.9k - “It’s just not manly to leave your bro like this, after knowing he can’t do anything about it, you know?” Kirishima blabbers some kind of bullshit excuse, and the worst part is that it looks like he’s totally convinced of it. “It’s just a— handjob,” he stumbles over the word, the weight of what he’s proposing hitting him all at once, but he doesn’t stop. “—but if you’re not into it we can pretend I didn’t just say that.” Bakugou has to restrain himself from saying that he’s very much into it. Like, a lot, really. - a.k.a Kirishima learns the reason behind Bakugou’s grumpiest days, and he offers to help because that’s what best bros do.

ZACH DEMPSEY AND ALEX STANDALL 13 Reasons Why (4x10 - “Graduation”)

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Had a shitty day, this made my day

this is too cute

donnarumma the whole match

“When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

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