MUSIC CREDIT Intro: Break It to Me - MuseCOUPLE READS PIRANESI (spoilery discussion)She Wants the Diction2024-07-10 | pretend we're a podcast?? ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ going back to my "drunk book review" roots with this one ๐
MUSIC CREDIT Intro: Break It to Me - Museinformal lil Powells haulShe Wants the Diction2024-06-02 | ...THRIFT HAUL + Reviewing New Clothes (Godmachine, Vapor95, Magic River Tie Dye, Thai Harem Pants)She Wants the Diction2024-05-17 | MENTIONED:
bg music credit: youtube.com/watch?v=CaHOvXG8JLQYOUR PECULIAR APPETITE ๐ฝ๏ธ (an original poem)She Wants the Diction2024-02-15 | original poem written around 10/2/23. thanks to my partner@mellowrobinson2 for helping with the editing and putting this together! ๐
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseWhy Social Anxiety Advice Doesnt Work for Autistics (In My Experience)She Wants the Diction2023-02-23 | Hope you all are enjoying these lil shortform videos. Just me chatting about how, in my early 20's before I figured out I had autism, I believed I had social anxiety and so would try to apply social anxiety advice and it failed spectacularly.
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseUNMASKING AUTISM - An Expansive Review ๐She Wants the Diction2023-02-12 | ...Why You Should Let Neurodivergent Kids Have Special Interests (From a Neurodivergent Adult)She Wants the Diction2023-02-02 | Neurodivergent kids grow up to be neurodivergent adults like myself. Here's my perspective on why you should let kids be passionate about whatever they're passionate about (clinically termed "special interests" or "hyperfixations") and use that as a point to connect with them and/or a jumping off point to help them learn, rather than trying to force them into a mold that doesn't fit. It's what I wish my parents had done for me.
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseWEEKLONG VLOG: hyperfixating on kanye?? thrifting w adam, making a tea station, santangelo unboxingShe Wants the Diction2022-12-30 | MENTIONED
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelMini Thrift Haul | 2 Goodwills! | Books + AccessoriesShe Wants the Diction2022-07-07 | WANT MORE DICTION?
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse8 Best Books Ive Read So Far (2022)She Wants the Diction2022-07-01 | BOOKS
๐ Post-Traumatic - Chantal V. Johnson ๐ Inside/Out - Joseph Osmundson ๐ Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - Bukowski ๐ We Are Owed. - Ariana Brown ๐ Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon ๐ Girl in Landscape - Jonathan Lethem ๐ My People - Langston Hughes & Charles R. Smith Jr. ๐ Ask Me About My Uterus - Abby Norman
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseJosh Pecks Eating Disorder, Daddy Issues, Drug Addiction?! | Happy People Are Annoying BOOK REVIEWShe Wants the Diction2022-06-09 | My review of Happy People Are Annoying by everyone's fave, Josh Peck!
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseAddiction, Trauma, ADHD | In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Matรฉ + Inside/Out by Joe OsmundsonShe Wants the Diction2022-05-19 | MENTIONED
๐ Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - Charles Bukowski ๐ In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Matรฉ ๐ Inside/Out - Joseph Osmundson ๐ Scattered Minds - Gabor Matรฉ ๐ Food 4 Thot podcast: open.spotify.com/show/2fbYhvsFtnVhdEiQ5roHDx ๐ป Olly Goodbye Stress Gummies
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseULTIMATE THRIFTED BOOK HAUL | poetry, LGBTQ+, SFF, feminism, Black authors, art, vintageShe Wants the Diction2022-04-30 | Thrifty Thrifterson: thriftythrifterson.com
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseTHREDUP HONEST REVIEW + HAUL + TRYON 2022 | thrifting pirate, cottage, fairycore fantasy looks!She Wants the Diction2022-04-02 | WANT MORE DICTION?
๐ Bralette: Gilligan & O'Malleyย - Target (no longer sold) ๐ Dress: American Eagle (thrifted) ๐ Earrings: Target ๐ Leggings: Hue (thrifted) ๐ Socks: Target ๐ Scrunchie: Ross ๐ Shoes: FILA (thrifted) ๐ Jacket: Columbia (found)
MUSIC CREDIT
๐ World Wide Woman -ย Beyonceฬ ๐ Intro: Break It to Me - Muse ๐ Daylight - Custom Robo OST ๐ Take the Power Back - Rage Against the Machine (8bit cover): youtube.com/watch?v=EKVm7VhPEGA
- cheap fast-fashion brands (Old Navy, No Boundaries, Forever 21) - vintage 90s (Tommy Hilfiger, Chico's Designs) - business casual workwear (Ann Taylor, New York & Company) - some "yeehaw" (Carhartt, Lost Creek) - one designer piece (Trina Turk)
After subtracting my returns I spent $55 on 10 items - $5.50 apiece! Thrifting is SO affordable and good for the environment, and the Trina Turk swimsuit coverup alone was worth more than the cost of the entire haul. At the end, I show you how I style an art hoe lewk. ๐
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseWOULD YOU READ IT?! CHALLENGE | Vintage Books, Poetry, FeminismShe Wants the Diction2022-02-11 | Some rambling about my haircut and then a tag video. I'll be reading the first couple sentences of 20 different books to you guys and seeing if any pique your interest! Lots of vintage and obscure picks, as well as poetry and feminist texts. ๐
Intro: Break It to Me - MuseTOP 10 BOOKS OF 2021She Wants the Diction2022-02-02 | My favorite books read in 2021! (Plus a lil rambling about Hannibal and having Covid ๐) Most are memoir or nonfiction. I realize this is actually a top *9* since I forgot one (oops ๐คฆ๐ฝโโ๏ธ), but if you were curious, it's called Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker and I highly recommend it. Also, this was filmed before I learned of Thich Naht Hanh's passing... RIP to a real one. ๐
๐ literally show me a healthy person - Darcie Wilder ๐ A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara ๐ Sisters of the Yam: Black Women & Self-Recovery - bell hooks ๐ Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems - ed. Susan Grimm ๐ The Art of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh ๐ Somebodyโs Daughter - Ashley C. Ford ๐ Code Switch episode: open.spotify.com/episode/224HkIwOiG1OFAVK6amblG?si=eomEPA2JTCGjojgkv3xvdQ ๐ When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele ๐ My Time Among the Whites - Jennine Capรณ Crucet ๐ Greedy: Notes From a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much - Jen Winston ๐ Food 4 Thot podcast: open.spotify.com/show/2fbYhvsFtnVhdEiQ5roHDx
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelWHY IM NOT SETTING ANY READING GOALS THIS YEARShe Wants the Diction2022-01-06 | BOOKS
๐ The Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft ๐ Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston ๐ Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston ๐ Dust Tracks on a Road - Zora Neale Hurston ๐ literally show me a healthy person - Darcie Wilder ๐ Chatter - Ethan Kross ๐ Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - Pete Walker ๐ Tweak - Nic Sheff ๐ Mothers Who Can't Love - Susan Forward ๐ A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara ๐ Spinning Straw Into Gold - Joan Gould ๐ต If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power - Halsey ๐ An Intricate Weave - ed. Marlene Miller
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: me singing Chantilly Lace. you're welcome ๐คฃMINI BOOK HAUL, XMAS GIFTS, CURRENT READSShe Wants the Diction2021-12-18 | In this video I give a bit of a life update before doing a mini thrifted book haul, talking about books I bought my friends & fam for Christmas/the holidays, and what I'm currently reading (poetry, nonfiction about poetry, and memoir/essays by WOC).
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelDUNE, SOLANGE, FIFTH SEASON | A to Z Book TagShe Wants the Diction2021-11-04 | I've been absent lately but hopping back on the horse (is that an expression?) with a tag. Hoping to start doing some original stuff on my channel soon, but right now I don't have the time/energy/wherewithal. If you follow me on insta, you probably already know my dad passed away recently, which is part of why I haven't been posting. Anyway, I'm back now, and was tagged by Mishelle Lexi:
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelSHAWTY READS SHORT BOOKS #2 | Vlog for Shorty SeptemberShe Wants the Diction2021-09-24 | Another weeklong vlog for the Shorty September readathon! I said I finished 9 books, but when I actually went back and counted it was 11.
TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR: discussions of racism, police brutality, and Black death; mental illness, PTSD, and racial trauma; sexual harassment; abortion and medical content; homophobia and abuse. SPOILERS FOR: Tin Man.
๐ Bright Star: Love Letters & Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne ๐ Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? - Mumia Abu-Jamal ๐ On the Shortness of Life - Seneca ๐ Imaginary Borders - Xiuhtezcatl Martinez ๐ Sex Object - Jessica Valenti ๐ Tin Man - Sarah Winman ๐ The Little Book of Self-Care for Libra - Constance Stellas ๐ Vox - Nicholson Baker ๐ The New Me - Halle Butler ๐ I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou ๐ Letter to a Bigot - Myriam Gurba
TIMESTAMPS
thrift haul - 0:00 Bright Star - 6:02 breakfast - 14:20 Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? - 14:54 On the Shortness of Life - 18:25 unboxing - 20:35 work ramble - 23:53 sexual harassment - 26:51 "midwest nice" - 30:54 Imaginary Borders - 35:08 racist comment - 36:56 Sex Object - 39:00 Bright Star - 41:04 Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? - 41:24 Sex Object - 46:59 Tin Man - 50:55 Bright Star - 58:21 One Hundred Poems from the Japanese - 59:20 Bible - 59:53 library haul - 1:00:50 work injuries - 1:05:03 Little Book of Self-Care for Libra - 1:09:56 Vox - 1:11:30 The New Me - 1:12:23 I Shall Not Be Moved - 1:13:30 Letter to a Bigot - 1:13:50
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelBOOKALIKES! ๐ If You Liked A Little Life, Try This...She Wants the Diction2021-09-17 | So I tried pairing together some "literary fiction" books (or just plain fiction, if you like) I felt had similar moods, themes, vibes, or other similarities noticed while I was reading. Lemme know if you agree with my choices, if you like the close-up or nah, and how you feel about me making this idea into a series! ๐
BOOKS
๐ A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara ๐ Tin Man - Sarah Winman ๐ The New Me - Halle Butler ๐ My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh ๐ Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin ๐ The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelSHAWTY READS SHORT BOOKS ๐ | Vlog for Shorty September | Belly of the Beast, Tomato RedShe Wants the Diction2021-09-10 | In this weeklong vlog for the Shorty September readathon, I lose my house keys, try keto cereal, and somehow survive labor day weekend. ๐ฌ I finished 6 books!
๐ Tomato Red - Daniel Woodrell ๐ Ficticious Dishes - Dinah Fried ๐ Broken Places & Outer Spaces - Nnedi Okorafor ๐ At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft ๐ Belly of the Beast - Da'Shaun L. Harrison ๐ Letter to My Rage - Lidia Yuknavitch
I started and/or talked about:
๐ Black Rage - William H. Grier & Price M. Cobbs ๐ Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine - David Leeming & Jake Page ๐ The Double - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR: discussions of racism, police brutality, and Black death; queer character death; drugs & addiction; body image, weight, and diet culture; bullying and sexual harassment. SPOILERS FOR: Tomato Red and At The Mountains of Madness; the rest are nonfiction books.
TIMESTAMPS
channel ramble - 0:00 library haul - 12:08 reading on porch - 15:10 Tomato Red - 16:30 Black Rage - 19:27 Tomato Red - 20:42 lunchbox - 22:50 video essay - 25:18 Tomato Red - 26:32 keto cookbook - 33:05 Ficticious Dishes - 33:27 trying keto cereal - 38:51 Ficticious Dishes - 41:42 Broken Places & Outer Spaces - 42:24 Mountains of Madness - 46:51 Goddess - 51:05 Mountains of Madness - 52:44 lacroix plug - 55:52 Mountains of Madness - 56:49 The Double - 59:10 bookshelf - 1:02:21 messy kitchen - 1:02:56 Mountains of Madness - 1:03:24 Belly of the Beast - 1:04:04 egg roll - 1:08:12 lost keys - 1:08:32 Belly of the Beast - 1:14:30 keys - 1:24:06 Letter to My Rage - 1:24:37 black works - 1:28:10 sexual harassment - 1:29:02 Belly of the Beast - 1:35:30
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelWHAT IM READING IN SEPTEMBER ๐ | Shorty September TBRShe Wants the Diction2021-08-28 | HOSTS
๐ The Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog (#2) - John R. Erickson ๐ The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky ๐ Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya ๐ Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle ๐ Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry ๐ Tomato Red - Daniel Woodrell ๐ Person - Sam Pink ๐ At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelBOOK REVIEW | Drug Use for Grown-Ups by Dr. Carl L. HartShe Wants the Diction2021-08-20 | this is a backlogged review I've been sitting on for a couple months. after 3 weeks of no posts (yikes!), I finally decided it was worthy to see the light of day. ๐
BOOKS:
๐ Drug Use for Grown-Ups - Dr. Carl L. Hart ๐ Pleasure Activism - adrienne maree brown
QUESTIONS: 1. A popular book EVERYONE loves that you have no interest in reading? 2. A classic book (or author) you donโt have an interest in reading? 3. An author whose books you have no interest in reading? 3.2 A problematic author whose books you have no interest in reading? *you can combine questions 3 & 3.2 or you can answer them separately if you have an answer for both* 4. An author you have read a couple of books from & have decided their books are not for you? 5. A genre you have no interest in OR a genre you tried to get into & couldnโt? 6. A book you have bought but will never read? (this can be a book you have unhauled/returned to the library unread) 7. A series you have no interest in reading OR a series you started & have dnfโd? 8. A new release you have no interest in reading?
BOOKS:
๐ The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune ๐ The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ๐ Thinner - Stephen King ๐ The Shining - Stephen King ๐ Harry Potter - JK Rowling ๐ An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon ๐ The Deep - Rivers Solomon ๐ Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon ๐ Venus Envy - Rita Mae Brown ๐ Motor Crush - Brenden Fletcher ๐ Wayward Children Series - Seanan McGuire ๐ The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green
๐ Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin ๐ Undersong - Audre Lorde ๐ Walking the Black Cat - Charles Simic ๐ Luna - Julie Anne Peters ๐ Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers - Sady Doyle ๐ Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden ๐ Goddess -ย David Adams Leeming & Jake Page ๐ย Bright Star: Love Letters & Poems of John Keats ๐ย The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead ๐ย Creative Walls - Geraldine James ๐ย It's a Magical World: Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson ๐ย Aphros - Froma Sand ๐ย The City on the Edge of Forever - Harlan Ellison
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelFellow Bi Reviews Halseys Poetry: I Would Leave Me If I Could [CC]She Wants the Diction2021-06-05 | My first read for Pride month! It's a flop but I respect her. ๐๐ Poems I liked: The Party, You Were First, Powerless, Onanism, Everything, Fun Girl, Travis, Seventeen, The Painter, Eight, A Story Like Mine
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelBITTER LAUGHTER: an original poem [CC]She Wants the Diction2021-05-30 | today somebody at work asked me my ethnicity. this shouldโve been my answer.
๐ Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - Pete Walker ๐ Trauma and Memory - Peter A. Levine ๐ The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk ๐ The Complex PTSD Workbook ๐ What Happened to You? - Oprah, Bruce D. Perry
MENTIONED:
All is Full of Love - Bjรถrk A Short Tour and Farewell - Raymond Douillet
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelTAROT BOOK TAG ๐ฎโจShe Wants the Diction2021-04-28 | You'll have to forgive the somewhat crappy video as I'm currently moving out of state. This tag was created by my friend Charlotte @ Bookish Mama Blooms! youtube.com/channel/UCYbGq3q30Qdf17wSKkhrAPQ
PROMPTS:
1. THE FOOL - A book with a protagonist that is naive at the start and goes through a journey into knowledge (or is just naive and makes mistakes all the way through!) 2. THE QUEEN OF WANDS - A book with a strong lead character that has abundance but is not competitive, or an author that is inspirational in this way 3. THREE OF CUPS - A book with a strong friendship group that you wanted to be a part of 4. TEN OF SWORDS - A book that was painful but (hopefully) had meaning on the journey 5. THE SUN - A book about balance and joy - perhaps it made you happy or brought you to understanding 6. SEVEN OF PENTACLES - A book about something you have cultivated within yourself or a hobby you would like to pass on 7. THE WORLD - If you could recommend one book that you knew everyone would read that might change the world for the better, what would it be? BONUS PROMPT - Choose a card at random from your own tarot deck or use an online tarot deck as a prompt
BOOKS:
๐ Enderโs Game/Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card ๐ Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler ๐ Lightland - H.L. McCutchen ๐ literally show me a healthy person - Darcie Wilder instagram.com/p/CM0DTC5LtWB ๐ This Moment is Full of Wonders - Thich Naht Hanh ๐ The Scavengersโ Manifesto - Anneli Rufus + Kristan Lawson ๐ Chatter - Ethan Kross ๐ The Fire Next Time/Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelTO BOLDLY GO BOOK TAG ๐๐ฝ(Star Trek: The Original Series) [Original]She Wants the Diction2021-03-26 | This is an original tag and the first I've ever created after like 3 years in the book community... BOUT TIME ๐คฃ I've been rewatching The Original Series lately and got the idea for this at like 2am last night, so here we are!
TO BOLDLY GO BOOK TAG: PROMPTS
๐ Live Long and Prosper: a book that benefitted your wellbeing ๐ Heโs Dead, Jim!: the last book you DNFed ๐ Mind Meld: a book that messed with your head ๐ Captainโs Log: a book written in epistolary format ๐ Replicator: a book that reminds you of another book ๐ Tricorder: a book with multiple perspectives ๐ Time Warp: a book from your past ๐ Communicator: a book someone recommended you, plus a book youโd recommend them ๐ Orion Slave Girl: a book with problematic elements ๐ Kobayashi Maru: an extremely challenging book
BOOKS:
๐ Sisters of the Yam - bell hooks ๐ Rosewater - Tade Thompson ๐ Fever Dream - Samanta Schweblin ๐ Upstate - Kalisha Buckhanon ๐ Home Body - Rupi Kaur ๐ Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde ๐ Black and Buddhist - ed. Cheryl A. Giles, Pamela Ayo Yetunde ๐ Love and Rage - Lama Rod Owens ๐ Small Eternities (Withern Rise Trilogy #2) - Michael Lawrence ๐ The Art of Mindful Living - Thich Naht Hahn ๐ The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky ๐ The Art of Living - Epictetus (interpreted by Sharon Lebell) ๐ Swearing is Good for You - Emma Byrne ๐ The Sellout - Paul Beatty
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelMy Boyfriend Reads My Explicit Gay Fanfiction (WE DRUNK!)She Wants the Diction2021-03-11 | ***WARNING: NSFW/LOUD*** [Intended for 18+ only.] There is loud laughing/talking throughout this video, so I suggest starting out with your volume low and turning up as needed. We'll be discussing explicit fanfiction and other mature/sexual topics, so please peace out now if you're a hater, a homophobe, or can't handle it! Hope you enjoy and have a laugh.โ๐ฝ๐
Intro: Break It to Me - Muse Outro: what's normal anyway? - MiguelThe Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh: Book ReviewShe Wants the Diction2021-02-19 | I'm not feeling the most confident about this review bc my lapel mic died and I had some issues working the other one, but I figured I'd post it anyway since it's been over 2 weeks since I last updated. Also, I see no video reviews of this book, so I figure it's still valuable enough that I shouldn't totally scrap it over some audio issues. Please be kind in the comments as racism is a topic that's very personal and near to me. It's a privilege for you to be in my space; please don't abuse it.