Immediate TBR

As in, "Good God, I want to read all these books RIGHT NOW and I actually have them IN MY GRASP so for GOD'S SAKE JUST--"

1) One Day When I Was Lost by James Baldwin (a screenplay about Malcolm X)
2) The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983)
3) Star Trek TNG: Spartacus (I started reading this one, got totally absorbed ... but then I ignored it for a week)
4) Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (I told my book club I would read this last night but instead I browsed replica WWII cigarette cases until my phone died and went straight to bed)
5) Doomsday Clock by Geoff Johns (the Watchmen sequel! It's a comic book for God's sake! Just read it!!)
6) Before Watchmen (IT'S A COMIC BOOK FOR GOD'S SAKE ... actually I've read several of these already, it's just such a huge omnibus)
7) A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality (2002). I just love/hate kitsch like this.
8) Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated World by Tipper Gore (see above)
9) Dead Man's Land by Robert Ryan (a Sherlock Holmes book where Watson becomes a WWI battle surgeon)
10) Les Fleurs du Mal by Brian Stableford (a guy with an Oscar Wilde fetish in the near future uses biotech to stay young forever)
11) TMNT Vol. 1 😞 it's a fucking comic book....

Walther P-38 Replica

I got this bad boy yesterday from HessenAntiques! The P-38 is a 9mm semi-auto developed as service pistol at the beginning of WWII. One of my best friends, Sho, has a P-38 in her family that was captured from a Nazi during the war, and when I started writing gunplay stories, she enthusiastically suggested this one. I liked it immediately. I wanted to get a closer look, though, for my zine submission, and I like having one just so I can take reference photos for my art!

Not pictured is the bright orange plug in the barrel, required by law but easy to hide in photos (actually, you can totally see it in this one, it just blends into the brown cupboard in the background). It's got a good realistic weight to it; not as heavy as the service pistol I used when I was enlisted, but not as big, either. The trigger moves when you pull it (easier than a real P-38) but all other parts of the gun are firmly fixed. The paint job is nice and convincing. Overall, I love it!

(Personally, I don't want to have real guns in my house. This antique replica is a nice way to have the smooth, industrial aesthetic at hand without the danger. It will be a fun prop in photo shoots, that's for sure!)