Happy #Blackout Day Again!

[amarie24]

I am so, so late! But, yes, today is #Blackout Day again! The first one, (on March 20th of this year), as you'll recall, was an absolute hit! All of our dashes were just flooded with gorgeous melanin and there was so much positivity and sharing and emotions what all that gorgeous jazz! Well this time, it's April 3rd, so time to flood the dashes again!

Unfortunately, I have no new selfies to post, but you can find the selfies that I did post in the first #Blackout in my "memo" tag if you like.

If I have any followers that are participating, please do not hesitate to post your selfie in the comments! Happy posting, happy melanin, and happy black people all over! Yay! :D :D :D



--Amarie

Comments

[mime_paradox]

I got a haircut. Also, I own books. Bonus [something] for whomever identifies them!

[amarie24]

...Ian. We talked about this.

That angel statue is really, really, REALLY missing their face. I'm not saying that you're a bad person, I'm not saying that you're being selfish, and I'm certainly not saying that you don't have a right to facial features, but...

Please consider that angle statue? Please? It needs a face too.

:P :P :P

And yes, I saw your haircut when I liked your selfie at Tumblr! You look WONDERFUL!!!

Hmm...lemme see if I can squint & guess at your books...

"Last Call", by Daniel Orkent?

That's...really the only one that I can see clearly. D:

[mime_paradox]

That statue knew what it was getting into when it played the game. If it didn't want its face taken, it shouldn't have gone and shown emotion. You'd think a statue would be better at that than --ing Aang, but no. :P

In any case, thank you. And correct on "Last Call", a really awesome book about how Prohibition came about and then went away.

[wingedbeast]

Dude, you're bogarting all the handsome. The rest of us need some, too.

If you're not careful, you'll find yourself captured and forced into romantic comedies as the main female character's love interest.

By the way, I see Making Money, Thud, and Snuff. Discworld novels mean you are now my friend.

[amarie24]

See? You SEE, Beast? I told him to put his face back on the angel statue it came from TWICE NOW. But nope. Bet he won't listen to me...

...And how did you get all of those books right? I could only see & guess one of them. Are you a book dragon in real life, like Silver? And so you have extra special eyesight? Who even are you people...?

[wingedbeast]

I didn't read them. I recognized covers that I have in my own collection. By color and style, they're distinctive enough that I could recognize even fuzzy pictures. Based on that, I'm less certain that he has a Percy Jackson book, as well.

[amarie24]

...Okay, so you cheated.

Yep. Imma say you cheated. Imma be bitter like that.

Because you know what?! If Ian had romance novels behind him, I could've figured out it!!!! Romance novels, I tell you!

[wingedbeast]

Reading Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels is not cheating, it is loving fine literature.

[amarie24]

Yes it is. Especially when it gives you an advantage in recognizing book covers. Oh my GOODNESS.

But you did make me curious, though. I just did a little Google search. So..."Discworld" is...a world that's balanced atop four elephants, and then they are balanced atop a turtle? Uhh...okay. Wow. That's...wow. @___@

[wingedbeast]

It's a fantasy world and Terry Pratchett used it to make statements about fantasy tropes and about modern day life and about history... all with a great sense of humor.

Small Gods isn't at the start of the set, but it's a standalone novel and it was my gateway drug. So, yes, sate your curiousity, read, become another fan so that I have more people to talk about the books with!

[amarie24]

Ahhh...okay. Will look into it at least!

So...different. All of it...balanced on a turtle. A TURTLE. @___@

[wingedbeast]

The turtle doesn't always figure prominently. But, Terry Pratchett's eye and humor does.

[mime_paradox]

You're wrong, wingedbeast. You're so wrong. "Thud!" is actually Unseen Academicals. The real Thud! is behind my head and not visible. :P

Or does this mean that you have the power to see the invisible? What else isn't actually in this picture that you can see?

But yeah, Discworld. Good times.

Also, thank you for the kind words. :)!

[wingedbeast]

Thud and Unseen Academicals have a similar color scheme to their covers. So, I choose to think of that as getting it half-right.