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Whumptober No. 5

betrayal / misunderstanding / broken nose

(Hockey AU)

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He’d always thought the night Jay took the picture would be the worst of it.

Buck’s hands were clutching the rails of Jay’s iron headboard, where Jay had wanted them, where Jay had placed them after stripping Buck of his clothes, saying “Don’t let go.” His slow, sexy, predatory smile was the last thing Buck saw before the silky black blindfold was tied in place. Jay was gone after that, climbing off the bed, telling Buck how good he looked and what he thought he might do and Buck had arched into the words until he was begging to be touched.

“Be patient,” Jay had purred, appeasing Buck with a single finger drawn shiveringly down his thigh. Buck could feel that he’d climbed back onto the bed, but Jay was too far away and he wasn’t teasing; he just wasn’t there. Stretching out longer on the mattress, trying to find him, he’d said, “What’s going on up there?”

Then the flash went off, the bright light cutting through the thin fabric of the blindfold. Jay swore, “Shit. Fuck,” and when Buck let go of the bed with one hand (one hand because maybe he misunderstood, maybe it was fine, maybe he’d laugh and put his hand back and they’d-)to push the tie away, he’d seen Jay, crouched above him with his phone in his hand.

If he’d asked, Buck might even have agreed. He liked posing. He liked having his body appreciated. But Jay’s expression was the alarm of being caught red-handed and Buck knew, knew with a sinking feeling of dread and betrayal, that Jay wasn’t just taking a memento to savor later. He was taking a picture of Rangers center Evan Buckley, naked, smirking, and vulnerable, to use exactly the way those kinds of pictures get used.

Buck forced Jay to delete the photo, made him prove that he’d done it, and then had somehow managed to get himself dressed and down to the street to get a ride without throwing up. His face burned the whole drive home and for half of the night.

And that was the worst of it until five years later. In a new city. When Buck was finally playing the way he’d always known he could. When he was finally earning the respect of his team and the hockey world at large. When he started thinking he might stay. That was when the anonymously authored post was retweeted and reblogged and shared and gleefully discussed on all corners of the hockey internet.

MY WILD NIGHT WITH AN NHL ALL STAR

The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky

His agent’s was the first text he saw when he got done with practice: “Do NOT respond yet. Call me first.”

It had taken another couple messages before Buck realized what he wasn’t supposed to respond to and in the meantime, the texts kept rolling in. Half of them from numbers he didn’t even have saved in his contacts.

“Dude, is that shit true?”

“Are you okay?”

“Do you know who it is?”

“You dog 😜”

“You never told me you were into that 👀”

“Ignore it, Buck.”

“We’re all with you.”

“Fuck that guy.”

“Hey if you need something to take your mind off of it💋💋💋”

“Evan, Mike from the Tribune. If you want to set the record straight, please give me a call.”

From the looks on the faces of his teammates as they tried to pretend they weren’t stealing glances at him, they were getting messages of their own. Hen was the first one to start to approach him with a look of concern, but Buck avoided her, grabbing his bag and sneaking out the door without bothering to hit the stationary bike like usual.

“What the hell did you do to piss this guy off?” Geoff said as soon as he answered Buck’s call. “More importantly, what else does he have on you?”

“Nothing!” Buck answered, nearly merging directly into another car as his hands shook on the steering wheel. “What do I do? How do I fix this?”

“I don’t know, Buckley. None of my other clients get up to shit like this. You need to get yourself a publicist. I’m going to get in touch with Grant and make sure they’re not already shopping you.”

His agent hung up and Buck’s phone continued to buzz and chime all the way back to his apartment.

There were cameras outside which there almost never were. Mostly only hockey fans cared about pictures of hockey players and the press was limited to the arena and their official events. Maybe one or two regular guys who Buck knew by name. It was just his luck that he lived in LA where there were almost more cameras than there were disasters to photograph.

“Buck! Do you know who the author is?”

“Have your teammates seen the post?”

“Are you worried about other former partners coming out with similar stories?”

Buck pushed past them, but the questions followed him inside. His phone didn’t stop. His mentions were a nightmare on every platform. He shut Twitter as soon as he opened it and saw his name in the trending topics. The statements put out by the Kings and Buck’s agent condemning the piece and the interest in it were drowned out by outlet after outlet picking up the post and sharing it out wider and wider.

Can you guess this NHL player by his sexcapades? (Hint: It’s exactly who you think)

Hockey players used to be the humble, hard working gentleman of sports. What happened?

Should the Kings trade Evan Buckley? Can they?

Nash should make Buckley sit for embarrassing the team like this.

Aw, man, don’t do that. Sitting’s a little tough for Buckley right now

🤣

And I thought it couldn’t get worse than the time he fucked that mascot in Carolina

{This post may contain explicit content}

😵‍💫

🤮

Excuse you, Gritty has standards

[98 more posts]

Whether from a latent masochistic streak or just because he didn’t want to look away and find that the story had gotten bigger while he was gone, Buck couldn’t stop refreshing the pages. He read Jay’s words over and over again as his stomach roiled. If it had all been lies, Buck wouldn’t have spent the morning pressed into the corner of his couch, hoodie pulled up over his head like armor. If it had all been lies, he could have made a fiery statement, condemning the mystery author and condemning everyone who thought they had a right to consume and critique another person’s sex life.

There were some lies, of course, but it was true enough that Buck’s heart clenched with it. True enough that he could remember how he felt when it was happening, during the three times they’d been together before the photo. Soft and desired and joyful. There was a part of him that was still exposed to Jay, that always would be, this man with the sharp wit and the sharp smile who got Buck bare, begging and biddable all to make him a joke. As he read the smug asides in the unforgiving narrative, he could hear Jay’s voice in his ear.

The sixth time he read it, there was an addition.

Edit: Ha ha wow this really blew up. Doing an AMA at 6 eastern if you’re looking for more dirty details.

And for the first time, Buck felt the burn of tears in his eyes. Furious. Powerless.

The buzz of his phone started making his skin crawl so he shoved it between the couch cushions and tried not to think about it. He sat with his knees pulled up to his chest and his arms wrapped tightly around, rocking just a little as he felt panic creeping in.

What else could Jay possibly have to say? Would he make up more and more audacious lies as long as he had an audience? Would an NHL team want to touch Buck when he was done?

Were there more pictures?

It was the fourth night, the night that Buck caught Jay. Not the first night with the blindfold. What if? Buck shuddered, sinking lower, deeper into the couch, folding himself tighter and smaller, trying to crush the mounting, hopeless fear. He was there for a long time.

When the gentle knock hit his door, Buck jumped and then crouched tighter into his ball. He didn’t answer. There was no one he could face right now.

The knock came again.

Then the door opened.

Buck was up like a shot, nearly falling over the coffee table as he whirled around toward the intruder. Eddie stood in the doorway, holding up one empty hand and pulling his key out of the door with the other.

“Just me.”

“What are you doing here?” Buck asked, shoving his hands into the pocket of his hoodie to hide the fact that he’d been digging his nails into his palms for the last hour.

“Well, you took off. And you weren’t answering your phone.”

Hot shame flushed across Buck’s skin. Eddie knew. Eddie had seen the article and the articles about the article and the tweets about the articles and been shouted at by the cameras outside and Buck wanted to sink into the floor.

“Notice you didn’t take the hint.”

The attitude in Buck’s response didn’t faze Eddie at all, “Do I ever?”

And that almost made Buck feel like smiling, because no, no he didn’t. He said, “No. But there’s always a first time.”

Eddie came a little further into the apartment and Buck felt crowded. Eddie always seemed to take up so much space around him. Maybe it was just that Buck felt his presence most strongly than anyone else’s. Especially when he was like this: arms crossed, focused, not letting Buck wiggle out of a conversation that he didn’t want to have.

This time was no exception. When Buck turned and went back to the couch, compulsively refreshing the comments on Jay’s post again as he went, Eddie followed right after him.

“I came by to make sure you were okay,” he said and Buck flinched again, hating that Eddie knew. Hating that the team knew.

“I’m fine,” he answered, keeping his eyes down and away from Eddie. “Coach is going to rip me a new one tomorrow, but my agent hasn’t called me to tell me I’m being traded so yet so I guess that’s-”

“Who the fuck said you were being traded?” His voice was loud enough that Buck looked up, surprised to see the intensity of anger in Eddie’s face.

“THN. NHL Network did a round table on it too, but they didn’t think anyone would take me. Oh, then Kirk Davis did a radio interview.”

Everyone had picked up those soundbites. Even through the heavily bleeped broadcast, the future hall-of-famer’s opinion on Buck had been crystal clear. At least that wasn’t new information for Buck. Davis had all but refused to shake Buck’s hand when he first joined the Predators and was a big part of why his tenure there had only lasted until the trade deadline.

“Kirk Davis is a fucking asshole. There’s a reason they never made him captain.”

“He’s not the only one who said it.”

“Then he’s not the only fucking asshole out there.” When he didn’t respond, Eddie came around the couch to stand face to face with him, noticing the open comments page as he did. “Christ, have you been reading that shit all day?”

Somehow it made Buck laugh. “It’s the same shit I’ve been reading for 8 years. Since I got drafted. Buckley’s a distraction to his team. Buckley’s an embarrassment to the game of hockey. Buckley cares more about getting laid and partying than he does about winning. It’s guys like Buckley that hurt the NHL.”

His voice pitched up as he recited the familiar accusations, staring somewhere over Eddie’s shoulder because Eddie already knew all this about him. Eddie was the opposite of Buck in every way. He would never make himself the center of attention. He’d never do anything to make his teammates ashamed to play with him. He’d never be so stupid as to go home with a guy like Jay.

“Buckley’s finally getting what he deserves.” Buck whispered.

“Look at me,” Eddie said. When Buck couldn’t, Eddie reached out, setting a light hand on his shoulder that got tighter when Buck tried to shrug out of the hold. “Hey. Look at me.”

He moved his head into the space where Buck was staring into the middle distance and waited. Until Buck couldn’t help but flick his gaze to meet Eddie’s. Once he did, he found a furious compassion that startled him.

“You don’t deserve this, Buck. You did nothing to deserve this. It is not your fault. Nobody in our room thinks it is. Bobby doesn’t think it is.”

Buck shuddered under the weight of the words. He wanted to pull himself free and he wanted to step in closer, “My agent told me I should own it. Post a couple thirst traps and a middle finger on instagram and just wave it off like another classic Evan Buckley weekend.”

There was a time when he would have. Times when he had. But this wasn’t a ridiculous paparazzi photo outside a bar, it was… It was private. It hurt.

As if reading his mind, Eddie said, “That’s not what this is. Fire him if he wants to make you pretend this is okay.”

“I just keep thinking if I was anyone else. If I was someone good, they’d all go after him and not me. I didn’t even do anything to him, Eddie. I didn’t-”

Before he could finish his sentence, Eddie tugged him forward and his arms were tight around his back. Buck should have tried to fight it, but he couldn’t help but fall against his chest and cling on. “You are someone good,” Eddie said, making Buck’s breath hitch. “And if you weren’t, it wouldn’t matter. It’s wrong. They’re wrong.”

“I shouldn’t have trusted him,” Buck confessed into the soft fabric of Eddie’s shirt. “I was so stupid back then. I just wanted- I wanted him to like me. And I’m still- It still hurts that he didn’t. How fucked up is that? He did this. And I still just wish he liked me.”

One of Eddie’s hands moved up to cradle the back of Buck’s head. They were swaying, just a little, Eddie rocking them gently. “I know,” he said. “I’m so sorry.”

He managed to keep from crying, but Buck couldn’t stop his breath from coming out in soft, stuttering gasps. Couldn’t keep his fingers from digging into Eddie’s back. If he thought about it, he could imagine this post too (Evan Buckley cried like a baby on my shoulder AMA), but Eddie would never do that. The warm heat of him against Buck’s chest was like a blanket hiding him from the world. It was the most vulnerable he’d been all day and the most sheltered.

Eddie didn’t let go until Buck pulled back and even then he didn’t go far, “Have you eaten since practice?”

“I didn’t think I’d be able to without throwing up,” Buck said honestly.

“Do you want to order something from-”

The timer on Buck’s laptop shrieked and they both jumped. Eddie recovered quickly, but Buck’s heart leapt into his throat. He’d almost forgotten. How could he have forgotten? Pulling away from Eddie, he turned off the timer and refreshed the post, looking for the link he knew would be there.

“Come on, Buck, really?”

Eddie reached out to slam the laptop closed, but Buck shoved his hand in the way. “I have to, Eddie. He’s doing an AMA. I have to-”

“I’m not going to let you torture yourself reading what a bunch of sick assholes have to say, Buck. No way.”

“I have to.”

“No, you-”

“Yes, I do!” He shouted it, standing up to look Eddie in the eye. “I have to read it. I have to see it now because if- if- if I wait and it gets reposted- I have to know if he has- I have to-”

“Buck,” Eddie said, putting his hands on Buck’s arms, trying to rub calmness back into him even as Buck’s heart-rate accelerated. “What does he have? What could be worse than what he already-”

“Pictures,” Buck yelled. “I have to know if he has pictures.”

A dark, dark look came over Eddie’s face and he stopped rubbing Buck’s arms to squeeze instead. “You think he has pictures?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” Buck whimpered. He saw himself as if from above, stretched out long and lewd against Jay’s sheets. He imagined ten thousand other people seeing it. “He took- I caught him taking one. Once. But I don't know if it was the only one. I don’t- I can’t let them get out. If he has them, I have to know. I have to report the post. I have to-”

“No,” Eddie said.

“Yes, Eddie. I have-”

“I hear you. Okay? I hear you, but I’m not letting you do that. I’m not letting you put any more of that garbage in your head.”

“Eddie.”

“I’ll do it. I’ll report every goddamn post.” Lifting one hand, Eddie stroked a thumb softly along Buck’s hairline. “Let me do it. Let me protect you.”

Buck swallowed hard, fear and relief and longing fighting for control of the tears that were building up again. He didn’t want Eddie to see any of that. He didn’t want Jay’s words in Eddie’s head. But Buck really really didn’t want them in his own. He wanted someone to protect him. “Thank you,” he said, falling forward again to rest his head on Eddie’s shoulder.

“I’ve got you,” Eddie replied, rubbing his hands firmly up Buck’s back.

Eddie wouldn’t let Buck sit on the couch while he monitored the thread. He fished Buck’s phone out of the couch and made him answer the important messages. From Maddie. From Bobby. From Hen and Chimney. Then he’d told him to order food from the Lebanese place they always ordered from when Eddie came over, asking for extra of the pickled turnips. All the while, Eddie’s fingers slammed onto the keyboard, that sound the only reaction he gave to any of the posts.

It should have been unbearable, letting Eddie comb through the messages. Even without seeing them, Buck knew what they were like. He blocked people every week for the same kind of thing. But Eddie had a defense against them that Buck never had: he didn’t believe they were true. Not even a little bit. He didn’t believe there was a chance that Buck was getting what he deserved for being a show off, for never being a points leader, for being open and soft hearted, for being himself. Eddie believed Buck deserved to be protected and he was ruthless about it.

“No pictures,” he said, a while later, when Jay had finally stopped replying to every comment on the page. “And the rest of it is… well. It’s nothing new.”

“Really?”

“Really. I think it’s done.”

Eddie closed the laptop as if by making that gesture of finality, he could make the words true. Buck, allowed back on his own couch, let himself believe it too. Let himself lean into the safety of Eddie’s arm over his shoulders, breathing in a deep sigh of relief as they caught the Canucks game.

The next morning, Jay’s story was hardly anywhere to be seen. It was replaced. By an essay in The Players’ Tribune. It excoriated Jay. It called out Kirk Davis by name and hundreds of online posters by their bad intentions. It praised Buck’s grace, tenacity, and backhand shot and it demanded respect and compassion and privacy from anyone who called themselves a hockey fan. And it wasn’t anonymous.

#whumptober2021 #no. 5 #betrayal #fic #911 #hanging out at the angst end of the spectrum #911fic #evan buckley #eddie diaz #hockey au #allison can’t write a short fic to save her life #minimal edits #messy ending #questionable formatting #230 am #😴

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 6 years

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What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?

I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU. I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games. I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.

Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy. I don’t think I can come up with them all. However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating. So here it is, below the cut:

Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list. But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:

Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)

Patricia Briggs

Megan Whalen Turner

Michael Crichton

Marge Piercy

Stephenie Meyer

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Neil Gaiman

K.A. Applegate

Ernest Hemingway

Tamora Pierce

Roald Dahl

Short Stories/Anthologies

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Dubliners, James Joyce

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Who Goes There? John W. Campbell

The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson

Flatland, Edwin Abbott

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

To Build a Fire, Jack London

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier

At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx

The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville

Books (Classics)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Atonement, Ian McEwan

1984, George Orwell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells

The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Books (YA SF)

Young Wizards series, Diane Duane

Redwall, Brian Jaques

The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix

The Giver series, Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Poppy series, Avi

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Tithe, Holly Black

Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Haunted, Gregory Maguire

Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

East, Edith Pattou

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien

The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor

The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Landry News, Andrew Clements

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer

The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb

Generation Dead, Daniel Waters

Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale

Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters

Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes

Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde

Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing

The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray

A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Hope was Here, Joan Bauer

Bunnicula, James Howe

Wise Child, Monica Furlong

Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg

The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer

Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner

Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn

I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende

Summerland, Michael Chabon

The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger

The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck

Liar, Justine Larbalestier

The Doll People, Ann M. Martin

The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron

Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards

Storytime, Edward Bloor

Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

Half Magic, Edward Eager

A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle

The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan

Maximum Ride series, James Patterson

The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle

World War Z, Max Brooks

Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Neuomancer, William Gibson

Dune, Frank Herbert

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth

The Martian, Andy Weir

Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac

Comics/Manga

Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)

Marvel 1610/Ultimates

Persepolis

This One Summer

Nimona

Death Note

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Knight

Emily Carroll comics

Watchmen

Fun Home

From Hell

American Born Chinese

Smile

The Eternal Smile

The Sandman

Calvin and Hobbes

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

TV Shows

Fullmetal Alchemist

Avatar the Last Airbender

Teen Titans (2003)

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher

Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter

Supernatural

Sherlock

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

American Horror Story

Ouran High School Host Club

Orange is the New Black

Black Sails

Stranger Things

Westworld

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Movies

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?

The Breakfast Club

Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox

Attack the Block

The Prestige

Moon

Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera

Primer

THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]

Star Wars

The Meg

A Quiet Place

Baby Driver

Mother!

Alien/Aliens/Prometheus

X-Men (et al.)

10 Things I Hate About You

The Lost Boys

Teen Wolf

Juno

Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)

Die Hard

Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.

Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles

The Matrix

Dark Knight trilogy

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Descent

Ghostbusters

Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13

King Kong

The Conjuring

Fantastic Four

Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall

Fight Club

Spirited Away

Disturbing Behavior

The Faculty

Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marge Piercy

Thomas Hardy

Sigfried Sassoon

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allan Poe

Ogden Nash

Margaret Atwood

Maya Angelou

Emily Dickinson

Matthew Dickman

Karen Skolfield

Kwame Alexander

Ellen Hopkins

Shel Silverstein

Musicals/Stage Plays

Les Miserables

Repo: The Genetic Opera

The Lion King

The Phantom of the Opera

Rent

The Prince of Egypt

Pippin

Into the Woods

A Chorus Line

Hairspray

Evita

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Fiddler on the Roof

Annie

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

Chicago

Cabaret

The Miser

The Importance of Being Earnest

South Pacific

Godspell

Wicked

The Wiz

The Wizard of Oz

Man of La Mancha

The Sound of Music

West Side Story

Matilda

Sweeney Todd

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nunsense

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy

1776

Something Rotten

A Very Potter Musical

Babes in Toyland

Carrie: The Musical

Amadeus

Annie Get Your Gun

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Final Battle

Rock of Ages

Cinderella

Moulin Rouge

Honk

Labyrinth

The Secret Garden

Reefer Madness

Bang Bang You’re Dead

NSFW

War Horse

Peter Pan

Suessical

Sister Act

The Secret Annex

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas. (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it. As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.) There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.

Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here. If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me. Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.

Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations. My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.

Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list. I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic. On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws.

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Every 12" Vinyl Record I Own

ABC The Lexicon of Love ACCEPT Accept (Lady Lou) Accept (I'm a Rebel) Kaizokuban Metal Heart Restless and Wild Breaker AC/DC High Voltage Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Highway To Hell If You Want Blood, You Got It Back In Black For Those About To Rock Flick of the Switch Fly on the Wall Who Made Who Let's Get It Up (live) 12" ACE Five-a-Side ADAM ANT Strip Friend Or Foe Kings of the Wild Frontier Dirk Wears White Sox Prince Charming CANNONBALL ADDERLEY The Best Of AEROSMITH Aerosmith's Greatest Hits Toys in the Attic AFTER THE FIRE ATF ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Tales of Mystery and Imagination WOODY ALLEN Stand-up Comic ANGRY SAMOANS Back To Samoa Inside My Brain STP Not LSD Yesterday Started Tomorrow APOLLONIA I Fell For You (12") APRIL WINE Powerplay First Glance THE ART OF NOISE Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise ARTLESS Artless ASIA Alpha Asia GENE AUTRY Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer HOYT AXTON Road Songs Snowblind Friend THE B-52S The B-52s Wild Planet Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland (12") BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE Bachman-Turner Overdrive II (no sleeve) PHILLIP BAILEY Easy Lover (12") BANANARAMA Bananarama Deep Sea Skiving BARNES & BARNES VooBaHa BELLE BARTH The Customer Comes First For Adults Only In Person If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends Battle of the Mothers THE BEACH BOYS Spirit of America Surfin Safari BEASTIE BOYS Hold It Now, Hit It (12") She's On It (12") Shadrach License To Ill BEAT HAPPENING You Turn Me On Beat Happening THE BEATLES Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (no sleeve) Yesterday and Today Revolver Second Album Beatles VI Hey Jude Magical Mystery Tour (2) White Album (2) Something New Beatles 65 Meet the Beatles (2) Help 1962-1966 1967-1970 PAT BENATAR In the Heat of the Night Crimes of Passion Precious Time Get Nervous Live From Earth Love is a Battlefield (12") Tropico Seven the Hard Way Wide Awake in Dreamland BERLIN Best of Berlin Count Three and Pray Love Life Pleasure Victim SHELLY BERMAN Inside Shelly Berman BIG BLACK The Hammer Party Songs About Fucking THE BIRTHDAY PARTY The Bad Seed BLACK AND BLUE Black and Blue BLACK FLAG Wasted Again My War Loose Nut Damaged Everything Went Black BLACKFOOT Strikes Marauder Siogo BLACK SABBATH Black Sabbath (2) Paranoid Master of Reality Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Gatefold) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Sleeve) Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (2) Born Again Live Evil Never Say Die Live At Last BLANCMANGE Believe You Me BLIND FAITH Blind Faith BLONDIE Best of Blondie Eat To the Beat Parallel Lines Autoamerican The Hunter BLOODCUM Death By a Clothes Hanger BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS Child Is Father To the Man BLOOPERS The Best of Bloopers Volume 1 All Time Great Bloopers Volume 1 All Time Great Bloopers 3 & 4 All Time Great Bloopers 5 & 6 Pardon My Blooper (best of, yellow cover) Pardon My Blooper 3rd Series BLOTTO Combo Akimbo BLOWFLY Blowfly's Punk Rock Party BLUE OYSTER CULT Fire of Unknown Origin The Revolution By Night BLUE SUNSHINE The Glove THE BLUES BROTHERS Briefcase Full Of Blues BONGOS BASS AND BOB Never Mind the Sex Pistols BOOK OF LOVE Book of Love THE BOOMTOWN RATS The Fine Art of Surfacing VICTOR BORGE Hans Christian Anderson BOW WOW WOW When the Going Gets Tough I Want Candy The Last of the Mohicans DAVID BOWIE Fame and Fashion Tonight Let's Dance THE BRADY BUNCH Meet the Brady Bunch MARTIN BRILEY One Night With a Stranger JACKSON BROWNE Lawyers In Love JAMES BROWN Today and Yesterday JULIE BROWN The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Time Out LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Go Insane BUCKNER AND GARCIA Pac-man Fever KATE BUSH Lionheart The Whole Story BUSTA RHYMES Extinction Level Event CAFE CREME Discomania GODFREY CAMBRIDGE Here's Godfrey Cambridge CAMEO Cameosis (no cover) Feel Me CANNED HEAT Live at Topanga Corral CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Safe As Milk Mirror Man Trout Mask Replica (Straight) Trout Mask Replica (Warner) Bluejeans and Moonbeams Clear Spot Unconditionally Guaranteed Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Spotlight Kid Doc at the Radar Station Ice Cream For Crow GEORGE CARLIN On the Road THE CARS Door To Door Heartbeat City Shake It Up Panorama PThe Cars Candy-O Greatest Hits JOHNNY CASH At San Quentin The Johnny Cash Show EUGENE CHADBOURNE Vermin of the Blues Kill Eugene THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS Time Has Come Today RAY CHARLES Modern Sounds in Country & Western CHEAP TRICK Heaven Tonight Dream Police CHUBBY CHECKER Your Twist Party CHEECH AND CHONG Cheech and Chong's Wedding Album Los Cochinos Cheech and Chong Big Bambu Sleeping Beauty Greatest Hit CHICAGO Chicago IX Greatest Hits CHICAGO BEARS Superbowl Shuffle CHILDREN'S RECORDS Six Million Dollar Man 2 Exciting Stories Main Title Themes From the Empire Strikes Back Amazing Adventures of Pac-Man Cabbage Patch Christmas Donkey Kong Rhyme and Reason Captain Kangaroo Sings the Horse in the Striped Pajamas Mother Goose (Boris Karloff) William Castle's Ghost Story Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House Famous Monsters Speak The Story of Star Wars The Story of Star Wars (picture disc) The Story of Return of the Jedi Mickey Mouse Disco Bloop Or Blink Uncle Mac One Hour of Nursery Rhymes and Stories Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Pinnochio Alice and Wonderland The Aristocats Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Winnie the Pooh and the Heffalumps Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too CHRISTMAS Tijuana Christmas John Denver & the Muppets Christmas Eve On Sesame Street Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Whistle a Happy Tune Strawberry Shortcake (picture disc) CIRCLE JERKS Wonderful (12") THE CLASH Combat Rock Combat Rock (JP) COCK ROBIN Cock Robin NAT KING COLE The Very Thought of You COMMANDER CODY We've Got a Live One Here COMEDY ALBUMS Sex is Not Hazardous To Your Health Bottoms Up For Swingers Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Godfather The Laughing Stock of the BBC My Son, the President My Son, the Surf Nut 24 Greatest Dumb Ditties Beyond the Fringe COMPILATIONS The Second Second Season We're Loud: 90s Cassette Punk Unknowns Every Band Has a Shonen Knife That Loves Them Rutles Highway Revisited A Texas Trip God's Favorite Dog Greatest Rap Hits Vol. 2 The People's Record Troublemakers Showbiz Certified Gold 50 Great Moments of Music Music of the Bavarian Alps The Beat Rock '80 Different Strokes Organ Freakout At the Hop Collector's Records of the 50's and 60's Vol. 1 Collector's Records of the 50's and 60's Vol. 4 Disco Italiano Fonzie Favorites Stiffs Live Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Vol. 3 Guest Stars of the Hee Haw Show Zapped Songs of Our Times 1924 Truckin On Keep on Truckin Discotech #1 ALICE COOPER Greatest Hits Special Forces Muscle of Love Welcome To My Nightmare Goes To Hell From the Inside Lace and Whiskey Constrictor Billion Dollar Babies Killer School's Out Love It To Death Flush the Fashion Zipper Catches Skin Da Da ELVIS COSTELLO My Aim Is True This Year's Model Armed Forces Get Happy Trust Taking Liberties Out of Our Idiot King of America COUNT FLOYD Count Floyd BILL COSBY Bill Cosby Sings THE CRAMPS Bad Music For Bad People CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Credence Clearwater Revival Live Europe Fantastic Credence Clearwater Revival Chronicle Cosmos Factory More Credence Gold (no sleeve) CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Deja Vu CULTURE CLUB Colour By Numbers THE CURE Japanese Whispers Head On the Door RODNEY DANGERFIELD The Loser Rappin' Rodney No Respect DANZIG Danzig THE DAVE CLARK FIVE The Dave Clark Five Return MILES DAVIS Miles Davis +19 Sketches of Spain Agharta DEAD KENNEDYS Bedtime For Democracy DEAD MILKMEN Metaphysical Graffiti Eat Your Paisley Big Lizard in My Backyard Bucky Fellini Beelzebubba Chris Deburgh The Getaway DEEP PURPLE When We Rock We Rock Machine Head DEF LEPPARD On Through the Night DEMON The Plague DEREK AND THE DOMINOES Layla DERRINGER If I Weren't So Romantic, I'd Shoot You All American Boy DEVO Are We Not Men Duty Now For the Future Freedom of Choice Live EP New Traditionalists Theme From Doctor Detroit Oh No, It's Devo Theme From Doctor Detroit (Dance Mix) Shout Total Devo Now It Can Be Told BO DIDDLEY I'm a Man MARLENE DIETRICH The Complete Decca Recordings DIO Holy Diver The Last in Line DIRE STRAITS Making Movies Brothers in Arms DISCO LUCY I Love Lucy Theme DIXIE DREGS Night of the Living Dregs DOKKEN BREAKING THE CHAINS THOMAS DOLBY The Golden Age of Wireless Blinded By Science Dissidents The Flat Earth THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Toulouse Street Best of the Doobies The Captain and Me THE DOORS Greatest Hits DR FEELGOOD Malpractice DURAN DURAN Nite Romantics Duran Duran IAN DURY New Boots and Panties Laughter BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits EARTHQUAKE Leveled SHEENA EASTON Best Kept Secret DUKE ELLINGTON Ellington Indigos BRIAN ENO Another Green World ESQUIVEL Exploring New Sounds in Hi-Fi EUROPE The Final Countdown DONALD FAGEN The Nightfly (warped) JAD FAIR Great Expectations FALCO Rock Me Amadeus (12") FATHER GUIDO SARDUCCI Live at St. Douglas Convent DON FELDER Airborne WEISS FERDL Ein Wagen Von Der Linie FIRESIGN THEATER I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus THE FIRM The Firm THE FIXX Phantoms Reach the Beach FLEETWOOD MAC Kiln House Rumours Tusk FLESH EATERS Greatest Hits Prehistoric Fits A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS Listen FOCUS Moving Waves Hamburger Concerto JOHN FOGERTY Centerfield FOGHAT Fool For the City FOREIGNER Foreigner Head Games SAMANTHA FOX Touch Me Samantha Fox Touch Me (12") Naughty Girls Need Love Too (12") REDD FOXX The Best of Redd Foxx Live Las Vegas Doin His Own Thing Mr. Hot Pants Adults Only The Sidesplitter The New Fugg He's Funny That Way Laff of the Party Vol. 7 Laff of the Party Vol. 1 Wild Party Is Sex Here To Stay Laff Your Ass Off Live Las Vegas CONNIE FRANCIS Sings Jewish Favorites FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Relax (12") (2) Welcome To the Pleasure Dome ARETHA FRANKLIN I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Aretha Arrives FREAKY FUKIN WEIRDOZ Extra Play STAN FREBERG The Best of Stan Freberg FRED FRITH Gravity DOUG E. FRESH Oh My God FUN BOY 3 FB3 Waiting PETER GABRIEL Peter Gabriel (dripping) Peter Gabriel (square head) GAP BAND Gap Band IV Gap Band V You Dropped a Bomb on Me 12" MARVIN GAYE Here, My Dear Live at the London Palladium Midnight Love I Want You Let's Get It On What's Going On GENESIS Duke And Then There Were Three Genesis JEAN GENET The Balcony GENTLE GIANT Giant For a Day GINO AND THE GOONS Shake It! GIRLSCHOOL Demolition Hit and Run Screaming Blue Murder Play Dirty GIRL TROUBLE Hit It Or Quit It BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT Meat Bob THE GO-GO'S Talk Show Vacation Beauty and the Beat Our Lips Are Pink GOLDEN EARRING Cut THE GOLLIWOGS Pre-Creedence GOOD GOD Good God GOOD RATS From Rats To Riches THE GRACES Perfect View GRANDMASTER FLASH It's Nasty (12") They Said It Couldn't Be Done GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL AND THE FURIOUS FIVE Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five EDDY GRANT Killer on the Rampage Going For Broke Romancing the Stone 12" GUESS WHO American Woman BUDDY HACKETT The Original Chinese Waiter Comedy Album SAMMY HAGAR All Night Long Rematch Standing Hampton 3 Lock Box VOA HALF JAPANESE We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love The Band Who Would Be King Music To Strip By DARYL HALL Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES Whole Oates Abandoned Luncheonette War Babies Bigger Than Both of Us No Goodbyes Daryl Hall & John Oates Past Times Behind Beauty On a Back Street Along the Red Ledge Private Eyes Voices Live Time X Static H20 Rock n Soul Part 1 Big Bam Boom Live at the Apollo Ooh Yeah Method of Modern Love (12") Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid (12") Out of Touch (12") JON S. HALL AND KRAMER Real Men HAPPY FLOWERS Lasterday I Was Been Bad Oof I Crush Bozo My Skin Covers My Body Making the Bunny Pay PAUL HARDCASTLE 19 (12") HARMONICATS What's New Harmonicats The Cat's Meow GEORGE HARRISON Cloud Nine WES HARRISON You Won't Believe Your Ears COREY HART First Offense HAWKWIND In Search of Space ISAAC HAYES Black Moses Hot Buttered Soul Joy HEAR 'N AID Hear 'n Aid HEART Little Queen Dreamboat Annie Magazine Private Audition Dog and Butterfly Bebe Le Strange Passionworks Heart HELIX Walking the Razor's Edge KARL HENDRICKS TRIO Sings About Misery and Women Buick Electra Some Girls Like Cigarettes (10") DON HENLEY I Can't Stand Still HERMAN'S HERMITS On Tour Hold On! BENNY HILL Sings Old Favorites The World of Benny Hill Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West HILLARY Kinetic ROGER HODGSON In the Eye of the Storm HOMER AND JETHRO Songs My Mother Never Sang THE HONEY DRIPPERS Volume One HOT BLOOD Disco Dracula HOUSE OF SCHOCK House of Schock HSAS Through the Fire HUDSON AND LANDRY Hanging In There HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS Sports HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE Fig. 14 BILLY IDOL Don't Stop IGGY POP Zombie Birdhouse Party Lust For Life INNOCENCE IN DANGER Innocence in Danger Violate the Video EUGENE IONESCO The Chairs IRON BUTTERFLY Metamorphosis IRON MAIDEN Number of the Beast Piece of Mind J. GIELS BAND You're Getting Even While I'm Getting Odd MICK JAGGER She's the Boss THE JAM The Gift RICK JAMES Throwin' Down THE JAMES GANG Best of the James Gang JEFFERSON AIRPLANE Bark LASSE JENSEN April 2017 ST #5 JERMAINE JACKSON Jermaine Jackson JETHRO TULL Stand Up Thick As a Brick Aqualung M.U. JOAN JETT Bad Reputation Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth Album I Love Rock 'n Roll Up Your Alley JOSE JIMINEZ Talks To Teenagers of All Ages In Orbit In Jollywood THE JIMMY CASTOR BUNCH Phase Two JOBRIATH Jobriath BILLY JOEL The Stranger Glass Houses An Innocent Man DANIEL JOHNSTON Respect (10") 1990 Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston Continued Story Hi How Are You HOWARD JONES The 12" Album Human's Lib SPIKE JONES The Wacky World Of Spike Jones TAMIKO JONES Love Trip STANLEY JORDAN Magic Touch JUDAS PRIEST The Best of Judas Priest Hell Bent For Leather Unleashed in the East British Steel Screaming For Vengeance Defenders of the Faith SYLVIA JUNCOSA Nature TONIO K. Amerika KANSAS Point of Know Return KANTNER, SLICK AND FREBERG Baron Von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun NIK KERSHAW Human Racing GREG KIHN Next of Kihn ALBERT KING Born Under a Bad Sign DEE DEE KING Standing in the Spotlight KING CRIMSON In the Court of the Crimson King In the Wake of Poseidon KING KONG Old Man On the Bridge KING MISSILE They Mystical Shit THE KINKS State of Confusion Give the People What They Want KISS Dressed To Kill Love Gun Destroyer Double Platinum Rock 'n Roll Over Music From the Elder Alive Alive II Ace Frehley (solo) THE KNACK Get the Knack But the Little Girls Understand KOOL & THE GANG Emergency KRAFTWERK The Man-Machine Autobahn KROKUS Rendez-vous Hardware One Vice at a Time Headhunter Alive and Screaming The Blitz Change of Address Heart Attack Ballroom Blitz (12") KUBLAI KHAN Annihilation KAY KYSER Kay Kyser LA FLAVOUR Mandalay PATTI LABELLE & THE BLUE BELLES Merry Christmas LAID BACK Sunshine Reggae / White Horse LAUGH-IN Rowan and Martin's Laugh In CYNDI LAUPER She's So Unusual RONNIE LAWS Friends and Strangers Fever LE CHIC C'est Chic LED ZEPPELIN Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin III Zoso Houses of the Holy The Song Remains the Same In Through the Out Door Presence Coda RICKIE LEE JONES Girl at Her Volcano (10") TOM LEHRER Songs By Tom Lehrer Revisited That Was the Year That Was RICH LITTLE Politics and Popcorn SAMUEL LOCKE WARD From the Privilege of the Grave LOS LOBOS By the Light of the Moon LOVE CHILD Okay? LOVE UNLIMITED Under the Influence Of LOVERBOY Get Lucky LENE LOVICH No Man's Land New Toy Flex Stateless THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL The Very Best Of LTD We Party Hearty LYNYRD SKYNYRD Pronounced (no sleeve) LONNIE MACK The Wham of That Memphis Man! MADNESS Madness MADONNA Madonna HENRY MANCINI A Concert of Film Music HERBIE MANN Bird in a Silver Cage DEAN MARTIN Happiness Is STEVE MARTIN Let's Get Small Comedy is Not Pretty A Wild and Crazy Guy The Steve Martin Brothers MARX BROTHERS Original Voicetracks From Greatest Movies DENISE MCCANN Tattoo Man MALCOLM MCCLAREN Fans BOB AND DOUG MCCKENZIE Great White North MEATLOAF Bad Attitude MECCA NORMAL Calico Kills the Cat MECO Encounters of Every Kind MEDIEVAL Medieval Kills MEN AT WORK Cargo METALLICA Kill 'Em All Ride the Lightning Garage Days Re-Revisited And Justice For All MIDNIGHT STAR No Parking On the Dance Floor MISFITS Walk Among Us Legacy of Brutality MISSING PERSONS Spring Session M MISTER ROGERS Let's Be Together Today You Are Special King Friday XIIIth Celebrates MODERN LOVERS Modern Lovers 88 The Modern Lovers Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers MODERN VENDING One Bad Peccary THE MONKEES The Monkees Headquarters THE MONSIEURS s/t MONTROSE Jump On It Montrose Open Fire MONTY PYTHON Matching Tie and Handkerchief Previous Record Monty Python and the Holy Grail Life Of Brian THE MOOG MACHINE Switched on Rock Christmas Becomes Electric Switched On Santa THE MORLOCKS Emerge ENNIO MORRICONE Film Music Vol. 1 MOTLEY CRUE Too Fast For Love Shout at the Devil MOTO Bolt MOUNTAIN Hard Times (12") MRS. MILLER Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits Will Success Spoil Mrs. Miller? MARTIN MULL No Hits, Four Errors EDDIE MURPHY Eddie Murphy JIM NABORS Tomorrow Never Comes By Request NAKED EYES Naked Eyes (warped) NEW YORK DOLLS Too Much Too Soon NEWCLEUS Jam On Revenge RANDY NEWMAN Trouble In Paradise OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Soul Kiss Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2d MIKE NICHOLS & ELAINE MAY Retrospect 1994 Please Stand By NIRVANA Bleach NEIL NORMAN Greatest Science Fiction Hits ALDO NOVA Aldo Nova TED NUGENT Weekend Warriors Double Live Gonzo Scream Dream GARY NUMAN Telekon BILLY OCEAN Carribean Queen (12") THE ODD COUPLE The Odd Couple Sings OINGO BOINGO Oingo Boingo (10") ROY ORBISON In Dreams ORCHESTRAL MANOEVERS IN THE DARK The Best of OMD OZZY OSBOURNE Blizzard of Oz The Ultimate Sin OUR DAUGHTER'S WEDDING Moving Windows GARY OWENS Put Your Head On My Finger GRAHAM PARKER Squeezing Out Sparks Steady Nerves PARLIAMENT Trombipulation JOHN PARR s/t PDQ Bach The Wurst of PDQ Bach CARL PERKINS Original Golden Hits THE PET SHOP BOYS Please EMO PHILLIPS E=MO2 THE PHOTOS The Photos PINK FLOYD The Final Cut Meddle (no sleeve) Obscured By Clouds Ummagumma Dark Side of the Moon Wish You Were Here (no outer sleeve) The Wall Animals PINK LADY Pink Lady JOE PISCOPO New Jersey GENE PITNEY Sings World Wide Winners PLASMATICS Coup D'Etat Beyond the Valley of 1984 Metal Priestess PLATINUM BLONDE Standing In the Dark THE PLATTERS Love You 1000 Times POINTER SISTERS Breakout (no sleeve) THE POLICE Regatta De Blanc (10") Ghost in the Machine Every Breath You Take Synchronicity THE POWERSTATION The Powerstation POWERMAD Powermad PATTY PRAVO Patty Pravo ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis King Creole Elvis' Golden Records In Concert A Legendary Performer Volume 3 PRETENDERS Pretenders PRINCE Purple Rain RICHARD PRYOR That Nigger's Crazy Black Ben Greatest Hits PSYCHEDELIC FURS Mirror Moves PYLON Chomp QUARTERFLASH Take Another Picture QUEEN Flash Gordon The Game News of the World A Night at the Opera QUIET RIOT Metal Health RABID SALESMEN My Tongue Hurts THE RADIO BEATS Ready To Shake GILDA RADNER Live From New York RAGE Nice 'n Dirty RAINBOW Rising Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n Roll Difficult To Cure Straight Between the Eyes RAMONES It's Alive Ramones Road To Ruin Pleasant Dreams Animal Boy Halfway To Sanity Subterranean Jungle Paco Ramone Ramones Mania Too Tough To Die End of the Century Rocket To Russia Ramones Leave Home Pet Sematary 12" RAPEMAN Two Nuns and a Pack Mule Budd STEVIE RAY MOORE Phonography RAYMOND SCOTT Raymond Scott Quintette LOU REED Rock n Roll Animal RENALDO AND THE LOAF Songs For Swinging Larvae Struve and Sneff REO SPEEDWAGON R.E.O. THE RESIDENTS Meet the Residents Not Available The 3rd Reich and Roll Nibbles Fingerprince Duck Stab / Buster and Glen Duck Stab Eskimo Subterranean Modern Diskomo / Goosebumps Mark of the Mole Tunes of Two Cities The Big Bubble Intermission The Commercial Album Title in Limbo Residue George and James Stars and Hank Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats The Census Taker 13th Anniversary Show God in Three Persons WB: RMX Hit the Road Jack REV AND MRS DANNY KENNEDY Meet Me On the Other Side PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS The Spirit of '67 LIONEL RICHIE Can't Slow Down THE RITCHIE FAMILY American Generation ROCK GODDESS Hell Hath No Fury ROCKPILE Seconds of Pleasure ROCKWELL Somebody's Watching Me ROLLING STONES Tattoo You Goat's Head's Soup Get Yer Ya Ya's Out Some Girls Black & Blue Got Live If You Want It! Hot Rocks 1964-1971 HENRY ROLLINS Hot Animal Machine Drive By Shooting THE ROMANTICS In Heat LINDA RONSTADT Greatest Hits Living in the USA Prisoner in Disguise ROSE TATTOO Scarred For Life (12") DAVID LEE ROTH Eat 'Em and Smile ROXY MUSIC Siren THE RUBINOOS Back To the Drawing Board! 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The Road to WrestleMania hits its final PPV this Sunday before the biggest event in Tampa this April. It’s the Elimination Chamber with not one, but two chamber matches.

Neither WWE Champion Brock Lesnar nor Universal Champion Bill Goldberg will defend their titles on the event so that their respective WrestleMania matches against Drew McIntyre and Roman Reigns stay intact. But, most of the other titles are either on the line are have #1 contender matches for them coming up Sunday.

Here’s the full card:

Women’s Elimination Chamber Match with winner to face RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch at WrestleMania – Shayna Baszler vs. Asuka vs. Liv Morgan vs. Natalya vs. Sarah Logan vs. Ruby Riott

Intercontinental Championship 3-on-1 Handicap Match: Braun Strowman vs. Shinsuke Nakamura, Cesaro and Sami Zayn

Smackdown Tag Team Championship Elimination Chamber Match: The Miz & John Morrison vs. The New Day vs. Lucha House Party vs. Heavy Machinery vs. Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode vs. The Usos

No Disqualification Match: Aleister Black vs. AJ Styles

RAW Tag Team Championship: The Street Profits vs. Seth Rollins & Buddy Murphy

United State Championship Match: Andrade vs. Humberto Carrillo

Daniel Bryan vs. Drew Gulak

That tag team match in the chamber should steal the show! I wouldn’t expect a ton of surprises, but you never know when Vince McMahon wants to shake things up. After all, we all thought we were getting Roman Reigns vs. The Fiend until Goldberg walked back in the door. Now, it’s John Cena back in the picture as Bray Wyatt looks for a six-year revenge on Cena for his WrestleMania 30 defeat.

WrestleMania Card:

WWE Championship Match: Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre

Universal Championship Match: Bill Goldberg vs. Roman Reigns

NXT Women’s Championship Match: Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair

John Cena vs. Bray Wyatt/The Fiend

Star of the Week:

Randy Orton – No one is touching him at the moment! Will be interesting to see what they have in store when Edge returns this Monday night!

RAW

RESULTS

RAW Tag Team Title Match: The Street Profits defeated Seth Rollins & Buddy Murphy to win the titles

24/7 Championship Match: Riddick Moss defeated Ricochet to retain title

Aleister Black defeated Karl Anderson

Aleister Black defeated Luke Gallows (DQ)

AJ Styles defeated Aleister Black

Liv Morgan defeated Ruby Riott

Shayna Baszler defeated Kairi Sane

Rey Mysterio Jr. & Humberto Carrillo defeated Andrade and Angel Garza

What we loved:

The @WWEUniverse remains stunned after @RandyOrton gave @TheBethPhoenix an RKO on #RAW! pic.twitter.com/PQaVbVaM9j

— WWE (@WWE) March 5, 2020

The Beth & Randy Story – Such a good angle that Randy Orton keeps delivering week after week. This week, Beth Phoenix was up to the task as well delivering the update on her husband Edge as he tries to comeback from his attack by Orton. When Orton told Beth that it’s her fault that Edge was attacked, you could hear a pin drop! Then, with a show-stealing RKO, Orton’s heel quotient went through the roof! You don’t mess with a man’s wife, right! I’m sure Orton should’ve learned that when he picked on Stephanie McMahon in his feud with Triple H. By far, it’s the best thing going these days in the WWE.

Aleister Black’s gauntlet – Love the push for Black. Having to go through The OC is good way to showcase his toughness while still keeping AJ Styles strong as he heads to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania.

The #StreetProfits now have the #RAW #TagTeamTitles!#AndNew@AngeloDawkins @MontezFordWWE pic.twitter.com/Sk4vBdfGpo

— WWE (@WWE) March 4, 2020

Smoked Champions – With a side assist from Kevin Owens to stun Seth Rollins, The Street Profits are atop the Tag Team Division on RAW as new champs. It’s nice to see a tag team rule the roost and gives TSP some “smoke” in the ring to go with their mic skills. Now, Rollins and the Monday Night Minions will be plotting their revenge against Owens I’m sure for next week.

Holy Claymore! – Once, twice, thrice as nice as Drew McIntyre puts the boots, literally to WWE Champion Brock Lesnar. Let’s have these two get as physical as they can before Tampa’s title tilt at WrestleMania. This should be an all-out war!

What we hated:

Ricochet’s burial – What did Ricochet do to the powers that be in the WWE to make him loss a 2-minute match at Super Showdown to Brock Lesnar in his first shot at the WWE Championship. Then, King Ricochet gets pinned clean by Riddick Moss. Seriously? Losing to the 24/7 Champion in a very ordinary match isn’t what you’d like to see heading into the biggest event of the year. Makes me think something else could be up there.

A tarantula, WTF! – Seriously, after weeks and weeks of Erick Rowan hiding what’s in that damn cage he brings to the ring, we get that fake as anything looking tarantula! And it gets revealed as just a matter-of-fact thing. Typical WWE. Build it up only to see it fall flat in the end. It just seems that it wasn’t thought out and turned into a throwaway. Wasted time and effort, IMHO!

NXT

RESULTS

Steel Cage Match: Dakota Kai defeated Tegan Nox

NXT Women’s Championship #1 Contender’s Ladder Qualifying Match: Chelsea Green defeated Shotzi Blackheart

The Undisputed ERA defeated Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan

Austin Theory defeated Isaiah “Swerve” Scott

Steel Cage Match: Roderick Strong defeated The Velveteen Dream

What we loved:

Just when #UndisputedERA thinks they have the answers…@DreamWWE changes the questions!!! The Dream goes after @AdamColePro and the #NXTChampionship inside of the #SteelCage!#WWENXT pic.twitter.com/aTjWCBiHH8

— WWE (@WWE) March 5, 2020

The Dream’s bigger plan – When’s the last time you saw someone throw a win literally out the front door? Well, that’s exactly what The Velveteen Dream did, tossing Roderick Strong out of the steel cage to give him a victory only to keep NXT Champion Adam Cole in the cage with him. The Dream’s new quest for the title could be Cole’s latest nightmare!

It didn't have to end like this. A trapped @TeganNoxWWE_ = a free to escape @DakotaKai_WWE #WWENXT #SteelCage @RaquelWWE pic.twitter.com/YEKnNdOiUf

— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) March 5, 2020

High flying in the cage – Dakota Kai and Tegan Nox, with a cross-body block off the top of the cage, put on a high-flyin’ show atop the steel cage at Full Sail Wednesday night. Plus, how about that move by Raquel Gonzalez trapping Nox along the outside of the cage with the backside of the steel cage door. Never seen that one before! Well done!

The intensity from @JohnnyGargano is off the charts when talking about @NXTCiampa!#JohnnyWrestling can't wait for next week on #WWENXT… pic.twitter.com/q0V34KcRZo

— WWE (@WWE) March 5, 2020

You think you know me! – No, it wasn’t Edge making an appearance on NXT, but Johnny Gargano taking it to Mauro Ranallo in a gripping, intense one-on-one interview that got to the bottom of Johnny Wrestling’s betrayal of Tommaso Ciampa at TakeOver: Portland. Love the grit to Gargano’s latest chapter.

What we didn’t love:

Two steel cage matches – While both matches on their own were very good, it’s a bit of overkill to have two on the same show. It takes away the bigness of it.

Next week’s NXT – Are we really getting an NXT show from the WWE Performance Center? Seems like a step backwards rather than branching out into something bigger and better.

SMACKDOWN

RESULTS

Bayley & Sasha Banks defeated Lacey Evans & Naomi

Sheamus defeated Apollo Crews

Liv Morgan & Sonya Deville defeated Carmella & Dana Brooke

Tag Team Gauntlet Match: Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode defeated Heavy Machinery, The Miz & John Morrison, The New Day, Lucha House Party & The Usos

What we loved:

Not the first thing @HEELZiggler has stolen from @otiswwe in the past month… #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/wQKtOnPyzx

— WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) March 7, 2020

Otis, My Man – Heavy Machinery nearly runs the gauntlet, beating The New Day, Lucha House Party, The Usos and the tag team champs, The Miz & John Morrison before bowing to Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode. Would’ve thought we’d have a Mandy Rose sighting there in the main event.

Did that glitch out for anyone else or was it just us? #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/AEuiTsJpNj

— WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) March 7, 2020

The Glitch – Killer Kross & Scarlett Bordeaux?

Is it me? – For being the Smackdown Women’s Champion, Bayley sure does get herself involved in a whole lot of tag team matches.

Is it me, two? – Why the sudden brakes on the Otis-Mandy fun? We know it’s not over with Mandy’s “it’s too late” edict to Otis this week, but this storyline is fizzling after a red-hot start that we thought was headed towards a WrestleMania smooch! Main event, as we stated previously, gave HM a boost in the ring though.

Is it me, three? – Kind of odd booking to have your tag team champs lose two straight TV matches after winning the titles in Saudi Arabia. Seems like a lock they win the Chamber match, right?

@NikkiCrossWWE is living her best life right now. #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/ZtqAoui4n6

— WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) March 7, 2020

Awkward – Boy, that opening segment of A Moment of Bliss with the NWO was a bit awkward! A bit off in the timing department for sure and it’s sad to see Nash and Hall, once masters on the mic, put in the spot of silly one-liners. But, in this age where the old stars get you ratings – witness Goldberg’s and John Cena’s spike in the FOX ratings last week – it’s what we were going to continue to get. And oh yeah, that start with Nikki Cross was just awful! Alexa Bliss deserves better.

Parting shots:

Relive some of the brash, bruising and biggest moments from @JCLayfield's career ahead of his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2020. #WWEHOF https://t.co/XPGM3ewQpa

— WWE (@WWE) March 4, 2020

Congrats to JBL – The newest nominee to the WWE Hall of Fame is John “Bradshaw” Layfield. Loved JBL’s talk about the way to be a heel this past Tuesday on WWE Backstage. The way he put John Cena over and on the map is a blueprint for bad guys all over the wrestling world to learn from.

Thank you, Matt Hardy, – The end of Matt Hardy’s contract and WWE days came as March rolled in this past week. He went out with a blaze of glory being attacked by Randy Orton. Now, will it be AEW, Ring of Honor, Impact Wrestling or somewhere else for Hardy and one of his alter-egos? Time will tell and the pro wrestling world will be glued!

Thanks for letting us share our thoughts! Shoot me an email at [email protected]. We’d love to hear your comments and suggestions! You can also check out my blog, The Crowe’s Nest as we delve into more pro wrestling, sports entertainment and the World of Sports. My apologies ahead of time – I AM a Patriots and Red Sox fan! If you’re not down with that, I’ve got TWO WORDS for you… NEW ENGLAND!

#IFTTT #Place to Be Nation

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HBO’s artfully deranged miniseries “Sharp Objects” came to an end on Sunday night after eight riveting episodes full of crime, sweat and ghoulish familial relations.

Those who read Gillian Flynn’s novel, upon which the show is based, were primed to accept the twisted story of the Preaker-Crellin women: Camille (Amy Adams), Adora (Patricia Clarkson) and Amma (Eliza Scanlen). But viewers new to the fictional town of Wind Gap, Missouri, were left with quite the surprise ending.

It’s a surprise that might not have made much sense, unless you stuck around for the show’s two mid- and after-credits scenes. (Warning: spoilers below.)

In the penultimate episode of the series, we learned that Adora, the disdainful but seemingly put-together mother, has something called Munchausen syndrome by proxy ― a psychological disorder in which a caregiver, usually a parent, makes their patient or child sick in a gambit for attention.

This form of abuse led to the death of Camille’s sister Marian. Its current victim is Amma, who has built up a tolerance to the poisonous concoction her mom spoon-feeds her. When Camille finds out ― courtesy of the medical investigation of detective Richard Willis (Chris Messina) and the Bloody Mary-induced confession of Wind Gap fixture Jackie (Elizabeth Perkins) ― she decides to sacrifice herself, submitting to her mother’s care in an attempt to let Amma escape.

The plan, which takes up more than half of the finale episode, almost fails, until the police ― called by Camille’s cancer-stricken editor back in St. Louis ― arrive to find both girls near death’s edge.

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Adora is arrested, assumed to be the person behind Wind Gap’s unsolved murder cases, the killer of teen girls Camille and Richard have been looking for all along. Meanwhile, Adora’s kept husband Alan (Henry Czerny), privy to the at-home abuse of his daughter but somehow incapable of stopping it, escapes the situation unscathed. Amma ends up moving in with her half-sister in the city, an arrangement that seems to be best for everyone ― until Camille recognizes the flittering of Amma’s mood swings.

When Amma makes a new friend, who bends to her whims like the roller-skating accomplices back in Wind Gap, Camille takes notice. Back at her apartment, she kneels by Amma’s relocated doll house and spies something she hadn’t noticed before: Adora’s infamous ivory bedroom floor has been recreated with teeth.

The clues click into place: Amma’s queen-bee status came in handy when she needed to recruit friends to help murder the girls, Ann Nash and Natalie Keene, whose teeth now line the grisly base of her prized toy.

When Amma appears in the bedroom doorway, she doesn’t fight the epiphany. “Don’t tell mama,” she whispers. The screen falls black, and Led Zeppelin’s “In the Evening” is the only thing to fill the void.

That’s where the show ends. Or so we think.

HBO

If you stick around for the credits, director Jean-Marc Vallée has left a grim treat for the audience in the form of two extra scenes.

In one, we watch as Amma’s friends hold down a girl ― either Ann or Natalie ― who’s screaming for her life, as Amma strangles her. Cut to a scene of Amma torturing her new friend in St. Louis.

After the credits roll some more, we get a second glimpse of Amma, this time entering the woods as the Woman in White, a figure seen by the sole witness to Natalie’s murder.

In two hazy sequences, we get more of what we might have expected all along ― bread crumbs that help piece together this slow-to-unfurl murder mystery.

But if we look back, the hints were always there. If you were one of the conspiracy theorists who put their odds on Alan as the butcher, think again.

HBO

Everyone in Wind Gap assumed the killer was a man.

From the moment the show began, it’s apparent that the townspeople suspect a man committed the heinous murders of two teen girls: either Natalie’s brother John (Taylor John Smith) or Ann’s father, Bob (Will Chase).

But one-liners sprinkled into the later episodes clue viewers in. A woman is almost certainly to blame, even if everyone thinks the ladies of Wind Gap are only good for gossip.

In Episode 3, Bob tells Camille during a visit, “Women around here, they don’t kill with their hands. They talk.” And take Richard and Bob’s confrontation at Calhoun Day in Episode 5. “I’m telling you, we’re gonna get this guy,” Richard tells Bob, who asks, “You gonna strangle him and rip out his teeth?”

Then, in Episode 7, Amma’s friends have a quick chat with Sheriff Vickery (Matt Craven) while rollerblading down the street. “Word of advice,” he tells them, shortly after John’s arrest. “You keep your eyes open. Some drunk comes flying down this road, he’ll hit you before he sees you.”

“Or she,” one of them says. “Don’t be sexist, Chief.”

Amma was always a chameleon.

Throughout the series, we see Amma go from being a caring daughter in a babydoll dress to a rebellious mean girl in a short-shorted girl squad. She’s sweet and obedient one minute, cruel and haphazard the next, flinging lollipops into her sister’s hair unprompted.

One revealing moment occurs in Episode 5, when Amma, filled with rage after reading Camille’s article, steals her sister’s clothes from the dressing room while she’s trying on outfits for Calhoun Day. This prank forces an emotional Camille to show her scars to her mother and sister, who then flips the switch from naughty to nice.

“If I can [survive in Wind Gap], you can,” she tells Camille.

We’ve seen Amma act this way before, talking about her wishy-washy relationship with Ann and Natalie or how her friends do “whatever I want them to.” She’s emotionally manipulative.

The clues were there, they just looked different.

Gillian Flynn has her own murder-mystery shorthand, of which Gone Girl fans are likely aware. Maybe the detectives in Flynn’s story aren’t pinning suspect photos on cork boards or whiteboarding evidence, but clues rear their heads in other ways.

Amma hung out at hog slaughter houses, and in dilapidated sheds and parking lots. She was obsessed with a dollhouse replication of her family home. She kept a secret cellphone. She even wore white in the woods.

Yes, we’re still craving some answers, but the show’s constant hesitation, its withholding nature, is what made it so enthralling to begin with. Showrunner Marti Noxon and her team didn’t tie everything up in a nice bow; we’re left to wonder whether the Preaker-Crellin women have and will continue to pass down deviance. Is Alan still in that mansion, blasting one record at a time?

We might never know. Thankfully, a second season isn’t happening (yet). So that’s it people. Sorry. Goodnight. Sleep tight. Nightmares will certainly be in your future. Let’s hope HBO’s miniseries-making factory realizes how valuable that is.

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