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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · Jul 8

as more trad wife shit gets circulated around, and the alt-right continues to gain a sociocultural foothold, women have an even greater imperative to lift weights and get jacked

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 6h

the entire main cast of nosferatu (2024) kicked ass

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 9h

he’s a treasure, one of my faves

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 9h

saw a video of someone asking enrique what his most embarrassing clubhouse moment was and the fact that i already knew he was going to say the time he shit his pants mid-game 🤣 real enrique hernández lore

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 9h

also lol at how i clearly have a type when it comes to books between the bullet swallower, the two isabel cañas novels, and the buffalo hunter hunter

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 10h

pt 2

isabel cañas writes so beautifully and colorfully, and i can’t wait to read the hacienda (her debut) next because i LOVED the possession of alba díaz and vampires of el norte. mexican gothic horror i am here for it always!!!

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians comes a tale of the American West, writ in blood. This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall in 2012. What is unveiled is a slow massacre, a nearly forgotten chain of events that goes back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow, told in the transcribed interviews with Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar and unnaturally long life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story, captured in the vivid voices of the time, by one of the new masters of literary horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Canas

When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn't trust... from bestselling author Isabel Cañas. In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Something wrong.
Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family's legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin's betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can't help but notice her every time she enters a room or the growing tension between them... and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon's thirst for blood grows stronger.

Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters-her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working as a vaquero. But no amount of drink can dispel the night terrors of sharp teeth; no woman can erase his childhood sweetheart from his mind. When the United States attacks Mexico in 1846, the two are brought abruptly together on the road to war: Nena as a curandera, a healer striving to prove her worth to her father so that he does not marry her off to a stranger, and Néstor as a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros. But the shock of their reunion— and Nena's rage at Néstor for seemingly abandoning her long ago-is quickly overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh. And unless Nena and Néstor work through their past and face the future together, neither will survive to see the dawn.

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 10h

some notable ones from this year (pt 1)

The Women by Kristin Hannah

A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times! From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women-at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances
"Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation.
Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing.
But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets-and becomes one of-the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost. But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm's way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Cro...
by Antonia Hylton
A 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith describes as “a book that left me breathless." On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations.
As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America's evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system.

The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it-with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed by the Texas Rangers, Antonio finds himself launched into a quest for revenge that endangers not only his life and his family, but his eternal soul. In 1964, Jaime Sonoro is Mexico's most renowned actor and singer. But his comfortable life is disrupted when he discovers a book that purports to tell the entire history of his family beginning with Cain and Abel. In its ancient pages, Jaime learns about the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors.
And when the same mysterious figure from Antonio's timeline shows up in Mexico City, Jaime realizes that he may be the one who has to pay for his ancestors' crimes, unless he can discover the true story of his grandfather Antonio, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower. A family saga that's epic in scope and magical in its blood, and based loosely on the author's own great-grandfather, The Bullet Swallower tackles border politics,
intergenerational trauma, and the legacies of racism and colonialism in a lush setting and stunning prose that asks who pays for the sins of our ancestors, and whether it is possible to be better than our forebears.

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm-and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere-the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own. After her grandmother's death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother's decades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she's been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love. With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant novel of romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible—a story you will never forget.

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 10h

my goal was 70 books this year and i’ve read 80 so far! 🥳

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 12h

i sadly didn’t remember the details but i’m glad that it was a good time lol 🥲 and look at that attendance!

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 16h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 17h

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 15h

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 18h

pulled out my copy of on the road and this was the bookmark left in it 🥲 the entire thing, between the book itself and its bookmark, speaks heavily to who i was in college lol

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite part about this is the camera work. Absolutely no idea where the ball is, like a guy with a flip phone trying to take a picture of Mars.

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

Shohei Ohtani this is just stupid...

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

i am just like shohei ohtani because i too have done most of the work on a group project

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 1d

me on opening night of deliver me from nowhere

a man with dreadlocks is carrying a wooden chair on his back

ALT: a man with dreadlocks is carrying a wooden chair on his back

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 1d

i spread the good word wherever and whenever i can 🫡

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 1d

hot girls have library cards

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 1d

they also implied people should be grateful for owners because they provide jobs………

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 1d

this person arguing with me that the wealth gap between CEOs and their employees, in our example factory workers, isn’t that bad bc they know someone who retired from GM with a lot of money… lmfao!!! especially the irony of using a UNIONIZED company as your example

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 2d

he doesn’t deserve his name it sickens me

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 2d

actually pisses me off that one of the humans i hate most is the son of bobby kennedy

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 2d

actually pisses me off that one of the humans i hate most is the son of bobby kennedy

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 2d

"The River" became a two-record set, crafted to feel “like life or an E Street Band show,” as Bruce said. Released 45 years ago tomorrow, "The River" still sounds like what Bruce was searching for: a record big enough to hold it all.

Bruce Springsteen - The River (The River Tour, Tempe 1980)

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 2d

This Dunkin’ ad is murdering me

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delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 2d

same 🤣

delightful freak ⚡️ @velociicoaster.bsky.social · 2d

every time i re-read frankenstein i am filled with rage at victor because that dude SUCKS!!!

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