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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
by Mariana Enríquez
3.5/5 🌟

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murderous intentions and morbid desires, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.

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Book cover depicting a very surreal, psychedelic illustration of a woman's face in shades of light blue, pale pink and plum purple. She wears a nose ring and dark lipstick, and she has a third eye in the middle of her forehead. There are hands holding her face, with very sharp, long nails painted black. It's unclear if these are her own hands, or someone else's. The left hand's thumb is halfway inside the woman's right eye, and a tongue curled around a cigarette is coming out of her left eye. She looks unimpressed.
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Three Summers
by Margarita Liberaki
5/5 🌟

Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War.

'The sun has disappeared from books these days... You are one of those who pass it on'
- Albert Camus to Liberaki

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Book cover from the Penguin European Classic edition of Three Summers. The title and author, along with the quote from Camus are on the left side of the cover. On the right side there's a black and white photo of a young woman wearing a simple white chemise top, and a wide brim straw hat, looking off to her left. She looks relaxed. Above the girl is a colourful abstract pattern. Light pink and blue horizontal stripes are crossed diagonally by red circles.
January 30, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Verge: Stories
by Lidia Yuknavitch
3/5 🌟

"Clear-eyed yet inspiring, Verge challenges us with moments of uncomfortable truth, even as it urges us to place our faith not in the flimsy guardrails of society but in the memories held--and told--by our own individual bodies."

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Audiobook cover depicting a realistic-looking grey dog against a colourful stylised background. It's a very compelling, dynamic cover.
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 2
by Naoko Takeuchi
5/5 🌟

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Book cover depicting Sailor Mercury in her sailor suit, surrounded by bubbles, standing in profile reaching out with her hands and looking up at the planet Mercury.
January 30, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 1
by Naoko Takeuchi
4.5/5 🌟

"One of the most-beloved of all Japanese manga titles, Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon has enthralled millions of readers worldwide since its debut in book form in early 1992."

✨ In the name of the moon, I'll punish you! ✨

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Book cover depicting Sailor Moon in her sailor suit, holding her magic wand, posing in front of a full moon. She looks like she's about to say her famous catchphrase: "In the name of the Moon, I'll punish you!"
January 30, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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No new pictures.

Where are you at mentally?
A three panel comic of a cat. In the first panel the cat is confidently yelling "good job! good job!". In the second panel, it starts to cry and lose confidence, saying "oh no! crying!". In the last panel, it is still crying but starts kicking the air, yelling "it's ok!! good job, good job!" The comic is signed MK2018 in the corner.
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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also arguably Miss Martian in Young Justice, but she's a shapeshifter so most of the time she just looks like a sexy green alien. Sort of a more vanilla version of Rika from Jujutsu Kaisen, though this depiction of her precedes the JJK manga.
Three of Miss Martian's day-to-day looks. In the first one, she looks like an average teen girl with green skin and a red-headed pixie cut. In the second, she still looks humanoid, but her skin is now a very pale grey or white, she's bald with no eyebrows, and huge brow bones. In the third one, she's back to looking like a perfectly normal redhead woman, even more feminine than in her first look, but now her skin is grey/white instead of green. Obvious downgrade, in my opinion. Martian Manhunter, a humanoid green alien, with his adopted niece Miss Martian. In her true form she looks like a less creepy xenomorph with exposed muscles.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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I can't believe nobody's mentioned THEM
Rika Orimoto and Yuta Okkotsu from Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (the 2021 film). Yuta looks like a normal man and Rika looks like a xenomorph abomination.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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rumi-coded characters
Clint Barton, specifically from the Fraction and Aja run of Hawkeye. Mafalda from the comic strips of the same name, by Quino. Alpha from Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. Taako Taaco from The Adventure Zone: Balance.
February 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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welp
Screenshot of a 4.5 letterboxd review for Night of the Living Dead (1968).
August 27, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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not the lipton product placement 🤣
Black and white photo of a prominently placed box of tea which clearly reads "Lipton orange pekoe and pekoe tea bags" in very large print.
August 27, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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nothing changes, time is a flat circle, etc
Chris Fleming "was anybody going to tell me" meme edited to read: "Okay, was anybody going to tell me that Romero is a daylight savings truther or was I just supposed to watch the first minute and a half of the movie myself?"
August 27, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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(here's a better picture of her, unwurmed for reference)
regular picture of a cat looking expectantly at the camera. she has greenish eyes and black fur.
August 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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wurm pls
poor quality photo of a cat lying down. an optical illusion makes it look like her body is a long noodle of fur, with no arms or legs, or tail. she is simply a head with a worm body.
August 24, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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and the cato institute too
A screenshot from a list of references that reads: "4. Nile Gardiner and Baker Spring, Reform the United Nations, The Heritage Foundation. 5. Ted Galen Carpenter, Putting the United Nations on Notice, CATO Institute."
July 9, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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ok this might just be my favourite pic of Possum

happy belated #caturday 😘
A cat rolling around on top of a treadmill (which is turned off, don't worry), basking in the sunshine. Her fur usually looks black, but in the direct sunlight it is various shades of brown. Her belly is up, her front paws curled in next to her head, almost as if she were surprised, showing her toe beans in full glory. She looks incredibly goofy, like something out of an old timely horror film.
April 27, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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happy caturday yall 🐈‍⬛♥️
Black cat sitting on a windowsill looking up towards the window. She's babygirl.
March 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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literally what have my notes devolved into 🙈🙈

(horny for the french revolution??)
Photo from a heavily tabbed textbook. Shows an image of a 'sans-culotte' from the french revolution. His looks are immaculate. There's a note written in blue ink that says "he could get it" with an arrow pointing at the sans-culotte. Different page from the same textbook. This one shows a different image (a drawing I think? I can't tell), in black and white, depicting a group of men in wigs and fancy clothing in a courtroom yelling and appealing to the judge. Again, I've written on the side in blue ink "he could also get it". I'm referring to the man in the center of the picture, but it probably doesn't matter lol.
March 21, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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why do I even try to take aesthetic photos of Possum when this is what happens 🙈🙈
Photo of a black cat lying down on the wooden floor partially curled around the dinning table. She's looking at the camera and appears inquisitive. Because of the camera angle her head looks extremely tiny and her body looks gigantic by comparison. A long, chunky girl. Same picture with better lighting. Still a very long, chunky girl.
March 10, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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AND that Arundhati Roy's latest nonfiction book is about India's history with fascism - and it's a great read 📚.

(tho I've yet to read the expanded version)
Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction by Arundhati Roy.
January 24, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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screenshot of interaction on twitter: wint @ drill Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 DVDs $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying. Craig @ craigus12 @drill spend less on DVDs. wint @ drill @craigus12 no.
January 6, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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also, I just wanted to check, just out of curiosity, the price of the Dior dress she goes to Paris to buy, and...
screenshot from the Bank of England inflation calculator, it reads "what would goods and services costing £500 in 1957 cost in November 2023: £9,983.60."
January 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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very cute & lovely to look at, a fun watch as long as u keep in mind that the premise is yay, capitalism! and the main plot is basically an extended version of that one scene from Pretty Woman
snooty boutique attendants: "you're obviously in the wrong place". Julia Roberts looking very posh: "big mistake. big. HUGE!"
January 6, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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📽️ happy letterboxd last 4 friday everybody!
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1975), rated 4.5 stars. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022), rated 4 stars. Tokyo Godfathers (2003), rated 5 stars, a rewatch. It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (1992), rated 3 stars.
January 5, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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💙📚 since folks are posting theirs, here's my storygraph wrap up! follow me on there btw

(the hours read counter is sooo broken tho)
The StoryGraph Wrap-Up 2023 @rumireads infographic. First read: The Shadow Rising. Last read: Season's Greetings from George. Longest read: Lucky Paradise. Shortest read: Harry Potter and the Problematic Author. With a total of 57 books, 17, 344 pages and 1.4 hours read. Top genres were Fantasy (19 books), Manga (15 books), Comics (13 books), LGBTQIA+ (13 books), and Romance (7 books). Top authors were Chie Shinohara, Paru Itagaki, and Soman Chainani. 5 Star Reads: The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo, The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman, and Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer. Average Rating for 2023: 4.05 stars.
January 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM