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Celeste Borys and Kira Lynch don’t leave the house much these days. When they do venture into their small Utah communities—to go grocery shopping, to take their kids to school or the playground—neighbors whisper and stare. “I’ve had people take pictures and videos of me, and I've had someone come up and yell at me,” Lynch says. “Someone at my daughter’s junior high told me to keep my mouth shut and called me some bad names. It’s terrifying.”
“I don’t leave unless I have to,” says Borys. “My day-to-day life doesn’t exist.”
The man whose followers scorn and harass them seems to have no such problems. Long a household name in conservative Mormon circles, Tim Ballard has become nationally known in recent years: He’s the former operative for Homeland Security who says he became so alarmed during the Obama administration by the government’s supposed inaction on child sex trafficking that he decided to go out and fight it on his own, recruiting other true believers to join him on dramatic sting operations in dangerous places, later serving as cochair of the Trump administration’s advisory council on trafficking and ultimately inspiring the heavily fictionalized film Sound of Freedom based on Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), the anti-trafficking organization he founded. (The organization now goes by the name OUR Rescue.)
Ballard is also a defendant in ongoing civil lawsuits in Utah brought by women—Borys and Lynch among them—who allege that he sexually abused them under the guise of saving children. Borys and Lynch have filed police reports regarding their allegations that Ballard sexually assaulted them; Ballard has denied the claims made against him. OUR, which is mentioned in one of the suits, has countersued Borys and her husband.
“This is just a bunch of random details, gossip, and easily disproven falsehoods packaged up to generate some quick clicks,” Ballard’s spokesperson Chad Kolton wrote in response to a request for comment; he also notes that the claims against Ballard in a separate suit have been dismissed. That suit was brought by a veteran Marine who said she was injured at a training overseen by Ballard; a judge ruled she did not have standing to bring it because she had signed a waiver.
While Borys and Lynch mostly stay at home, talking to their families, each other, and their lawyers, Ballard, when not defending himself by claiming he’s the victim of a shakedown, makes regular appearances at high-profile Republican events. He showed up at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February. In March, he joined a Catholic event at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort alongside Roger Stone and Michael Flynn. In April, Mar-a-Lago hosted a fundraiser for the Ballard Family Legal Defense Fund. At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer, he sat for an interview with Trump’s former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. “The leftist agenda is almost verbatim the pedophile agenda,” said Ballard, grim-faced beneath a cap bearing the logo of Aerial Recovery, a self-described disaster relief and anti-trafficking group with which he now works. “You’ve got supporters here, Tim,” Giuliani told Ballard, adding, a moment later, “Pretty soon, you’re going to have one in the strongest and most powerful position in the world.”
All of this is fairly shocking to Lynch and Borys, who worked with Ballard at OUR. Just last summer, Borys says, she was by Ballard’s side as he crisscrossed Capitol Hill, meeting with Republican legislators about human trafficking and reveling with them in the success of Sound of Freedom, which brought in around $250 million in global ticket sales. “Those people know my face,” she says. “I was in those meetings and on phone calls and texting different people in the congressional world.” By fall, it emerged that Ballard and OUR had parted ways months before, following an investigation into claims of sexual misconduct that employees had made against him. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a longtime supporter of Ballard, publicly rebuked him for “morally unacceptable” behavior. And in the fall of 2023, accusers filed the first set of lawsuits against Ballard. Yet Ballard’s star on the Trumpist right never dimmed.
“They know what’s going on with him right now,” Borys says. “For them to ignore it but then to promote him, it’s so disgusting to me.”
Lynch met Ballard in 2021, when she was giving him a haircut. She’d seen Sound of Freedom in an early preview but at the time didn’t realize that she was cutting the hair of the man on whose life it was loosely based. All she knew was that he was famous.
“I’m kind of a big deal,” she remembers him telling her; he was taken aback and even offended that she didn’t know more about him. He told her, she says, about the amazing things he did and how children were saved by his operations.
“He’s talking about children and sex slavery,” she says. “I’m a mother of four. I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ I got sucked in right that second.”
When Ballard asked if she wanted to get involved in his mission, Lynch says, she enthusiastically agreed. She had just gone through a crushing divorce, and her father was dying of a brain tumor. Lynch was, she says, “desperate for something to come along and help me spiritually.” Lynch says that Ballard told her that he was close friends with M. Russell Ballard, a high-ranking member of the LDS Church’s second-highest governing body, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
OUR was a powerhouse long before Sound of Freedom appeared in theaters, raising millions of dollars in donations every year from devoted fans. The group’s exploits were frequently exaggerated. At the White House and in op-eds, for example, Ballard told the story of how the group had helped rescue a teenage girl who was trafficked from Mexico to New York and forced into sex work for several years, citing the story as evidence of the need for a border wall; at one point, he said the group had helped her “escape her hell.” In fact, according to court records, the girl rescued herself and didn’t come into contact with OUR until well after she’d escaped her captors.
Additionally, as early as 2020, a letter was circulating in philanthropic circles in Utah accusing Ballard of misconduct toward women. OUR denied everything: In a statement to Vice News at the time, an OUR spokesperson wrote, “OUR categorically denies the baseless allegations made in the anonymous letter shared with Vice. The OUR board of directors received the letter 12 months ago and, after a thorough investigation, found zero evidence to corroborate the allegations contained in the letter.”
In Lynch’s community, Ballard was still regarded as a hero. Members of her family, she says, were fans of Ballard’s; her mother gasped in excitement when she learned that Lynch had just done his hair, and showed her a shelf full of books that Ballard had written. “They were all praising him to the roof,” Lynch says. “Automatically, that put me in a very safe place with him in my head.”
Ballard’s books, several of which were published by an LDS Church–owned imprint and promoted by the conservative influencer Glenn Beck, contributed a great deal to his fame and followed two tracks. On one, he lays out supposed ties between figures from American history like George Washington and Mormonism. On the other, he positions himself as a modern-day abolitionist, part of a line with Harriet Tubman. One book, Operation Toussaint, is an adaptation of a documentary showing Ballard and his associates carrying out paramilitary work in Haiti. Missions like this were the basis of Ballard’s image as the leader of an elite group of operators doing the work governments didn’t dare and wresting sex slaves from the hands of traffickers. (Files from an investigation carried out by a Utah prosecutor and the FBI released under a public records request would later show these missions in a much less glamorous light—detailing, among other things, the role of a psychic medium named Janet Russon in providing intelligence and one of Ballard’s backers groping the naked breasts of a trafficking victim he believed to be a minor.)
Lynch never went on missions with Ballard. She was instead asked, she says—after being told of the visions he’d had of them working together to save children—to participate in training operations in which they went to strip clubs.
The first time, she alleges, Ballard arrived at her house beforehand with a close friend and OUR employee in tow, as well as Ballard’s son. At her house, Ballard asked her to put fake tattoos and eyeliner on him, getting into the undercover persona he used, which he called “Brian Black.” But almost immediately, Lynch says, once Ballard was in character, he began groping her and trying to kiss her body while she asked him to stop and reminded him that his son and friend were waiting. The behavior continued as the two rode in an Uber, Lynch says, which she calls “horrific.”
“He doesn’t listen,” she says. “He gets in this mindset where it's like he doesn’t see or hear you. It’s whatever he wants.”
Borys, for her part, began working with OUR in July of 2022 as a volunteer before moving on to paid roles in October of that year; by the time she left the organization, she was working as Ballard’s executive assistant. She also began secretly going on missions when, she says, Ballard told her he “was in the middle of a trafficking ring operation and needed a new female partner to come in” to play his girlfriend.
This was part of what Ballard has called the “couples ruse,” in which he and a woman would tell traffickers they were romantic partners, and act as such, while on missions. Ballard has claimed this was necessary to ensure that he and other male operators wouldn’t have to engage in sexual behavior with victims or traffickers while undercover.
Almost immediately after agreeing to work as Ballard’s partner, Borys’ affidavit says, she was flown to California to do “ops training,” which consisted of staying in hotels, hot-tubbing at a Four Seasons, doing workouts on the beach, and Ballard showing Borys what kind of physical acts they had to do while “undercover” and what his supposed boundaries were. She describes him lifting her shirt to admire her stomach, complimenting her “hot body,” kissing her on the neck and insisting it was fine since it avoided kissing on the lips, and showing her how he simulated sexual penetration during operations to fool traffickers who might be observing them.
Ballard, her affidavit says, told her that traffickers could “smell pheromones,” and so they needed to have real sexual chemistry in order to fool them. (The affidavit also alleges that Ballard removed his temple garment, which observant members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wear under their clothes, telling her “he sees angels all around, and that this isn't wrong.”)
Their first practice operation happened in Mexico, the affidavit says, where she was forced to get a couples massage with Ballard that culminated in a female massage therapist touching her in a sexual way while she froze, closed her eyes, and waited for it to be over. “I heard Tim say he had never seen this done so close and he was getting a lesson,” Borys writes in the affidavit.
"Within seconds, once I was there, I found myself in a situation where I didn't even have time to get out of it,” she says. “I was just staring at him for help.” Afterward, she recalls, she wept, and he told her, “We’re going to save so many kids, you have no idea.’”
Borys doesn’t believe these missions ever led to the rescue of a child. They nonetheless persisted—as did, her affidavit says, not just sexually abusive but spiritually manipulative behavior. Borys, who was raised a Latter-day Saint but is no longer practicing—”I’m so glad you’re not LDS anymore,” she remembers him saying—became enmeshed with Russon, the psychic medium. (Russon did not respond to a request for comment.)
“My life revolved around Janet and her readings,” Borys says; Russon would claim to channel her grandmother and allegedly encourage her and other operators not to worry about taking part in sexualized behavior.
“Janet would say, ‘Our bodies are just bodies, and God gave us bodies to use them to go save kids,’” Borys says.
Ballard, Lynch says, would also frequently assure her while touching her inappropriately that they were doing the right thing, saying things like “I know this is hard, but God will be with us,” and “we’re bringing light into dark places.” He also explicitly told her, she says, that the couples ruse was sanctioned by both God and M. Russell Ballard. (The denunciation LDS Church leadership issued of Tim Ballard in 2023 cited “the unauthorized use of President Ballard’s name for Tim Ballard’s personal advantage and activity regarded as morally unacceptable.”)
The allegations are not limited to the workings of couples ruse. At one point, Lynch’s affidavit says, Ballard came over to her house and sexually assaulted her on her staircase—something her lawyers say she reported to authorities in the fall of 2023, after joining the civil suit. (The following day, in text messages to her that WIRED has viewed, he asked to come by and pick up his belt, which he’d left lying on her floor.)
In early July, the women’s legal team filed a motion in which they say the state crime lab told them that DNA found on Borys’ skirt matched Ballard’s. (Borys alleges that Ballard sexually assaulted her and ejaculated on her leather skirt.) The motion urged the court to instruct the Utah County Sheriff’s Office to turn over the crime lab analysis to Borys’ legal team.
(In a statement to Utah outlet Fox 13, Ballard’s team accused Borys’ legal team of tainting a criminal investigation, asserting this was “consistent with the other illegal and unethical behavior that has been a hallmark of the Borys case.” Janet Russon, meanwhile, appeared on a podcast called The Last Dispensation and suggested that Ballard’s semen could have been found on her skirt because the two shared a suitcase. )
It took a while, Borys says, before she began to view herself as a victim of sexual misconduct. “I remember doing something on an op and I was so scared to go do this specific thing,” she says, her voice breaking. “And right before, all I could think was, ‘If little kids are having to do this, I can do this.’”
She would go home at night and make dinner—“trying to compartmentalize,” she says, while also texting with alleged traffickers on a burner phone.
“I would think I was doing good in the world,” she says. And she desperately wanted to see something tangible from the work—a “win,” she adds. “I felt so conflicted and dirty. I wanted that win so all the dirtiness would go away.”
At this time, Ballard’s reputation as a heroic anti-trafficking expert was at a peak. His rhetoric around trafficking—that it’s the world’s largest criminal enterprise, carried out with impunity due to the negligence and incompetence of the federal government generally and Democrats specifically—had become incredibly popular. QAnon believers took a particular interest, especially after Ballard appeared to support a false conspiracy theory that furniture company Wayfair sold children online by saying that “with or without Wayfair,” the selling of children online was “common.” (Jim Caviezel, who played Ballard in Sound of Freedom, has lent overt support to QAnon beliefs; Ballard, he claimed, taught him that traffickers extract a substance from children’s bodies that “elites” then inject to preserve their own youth. An OUR spokesperson denied at the time that Ballard had explained this to Caviezel.) As this was playing out, the QAnon-tinged Save the Children movement became a driving force in Republican politics, and Ballard himself began to eye a run for the US Senate.
In 2023, Ballard quietly parted ways with OUR following an investigation into claims of sexual misconduct that employees made against him. Lynch, who was not an employee, has a hazy memory of the time but remembers telling friends of an OUR employee that inappropriate things had happened. They, she says, told their friend, who then reported it to human resources. (Her lawyer, Suzette Rasmussen, confirms this sequence of events.)
Borys became Ballard’s executive assistant in early 2023. She was walled off, she says, from other OUR employees. When the investigation began, she knew little about it and was told that its scope was limited to a report made by one woman and would go away. It wasn’t until after she’d quit OUR, and after she’d seen attorney Suzette Rasmussen on TV discussing a suit the pseudonymous women she was representing had filed against Ballard in civil court in Utah, that she really began to process her experiences.
“I was still trying to understand all the stuff I had been going through working for him,” she says. “Once I saw Suzette, I felt like she was my safest place I could go to to protect myself.”
It wasn’t until after she’d gotten out of Ballard’s orbit, blocked his phone number, and filed a lawsuit, Borys says, that she started to understand how traumatized she was. “I was listening to a police officer doing a podcast or on the news, and he said you don’t get to—” here she pauses, and starts to cry. “You don’t get to create a victim by saving victims. And that really hit me.”
The legal process is ongoing; in addition to the suits and criminal investigation, Borys and Lynch have filed for permanent protective orders against Ballard, which currently await the scheduling of evidentiary hearings.
The two are also still very much processing their experiences not just with Ballard but with OUR, which neither now believes was ever a legitimate child-rescue operation.
“Where’s the proof?” asks Borys. “There just isn’t any proof, and when you try to talk to anyone about it who still works there and believes it, it’s like Tim Ballard—red in the face, flustered and frustrated. Instead of answering questions, they fire back at you.”
WIRED provided a detailed list of questions to Chad Kolton, a spokesperson for Tim Ballard. In response, Kolton wrote, in part, “I started responding to each of these and then reconsidered as it seems like a waste of time … There is absolutely nothing new about Tim’s work with Republicans which he’s done openly for years because they actually want to do something about the problem of trafficking rather than denying it exists. The cases against him have begun to fall apart, with one already dismissed and another facing an evidentiary hearing about serious allegations of illegal and unethical conduct by the plaintiff and her attorneys.”
OUR did not respond to a request for comment from WIRED.
“I hope he goes to jail,” Lynch says. “That’s a really honestly hard thing to say, and it’s been hard to understand that might happen. I have to realize it’s not me putting him in jail. It’s not us. It’s him and what he did.”
She also, she says, simply wants the truth to be known.
“Nobody deserves to go through something like this, and someone like him doesn’t deserve to be on a presidential campaign or speaking engagements,” she says. “He doesn’t deserve that right right now.”
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Do Revenge
2022 ‧ Comedy/Thriller ‧ 1h 59m
Do Revenge is a 2022 American teen black comedy film directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Celeste Ballard.
Popular Drea wants revenge on her boyfriend for publishing her sex tape, and exchange student Eleanor is haunted by a rumour. The two teenagers team up to take action against their tormentors.
Initial release: September 16, 2022
Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Distributed by: Netflix
Budget: $10 million
Cinematography: Brian Burgoyne
Music by: Este Haim; Amanda Yamate
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DO REVENGE (2022) dir. Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
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book log - 2018
harry potter and the philosopher's stone by j.k. rowling
the help by kathryn stockett
a wrinkle in time by madeleine l'engle
harry potter and the chamber of secrets by j.k. rowling
amy & roger's epic detour by morgan matson
fire with fire by jenny han
everything i never told you by celeste ng
harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban by j.k. rowling
the miseducation of cameron post by emily m. danforth
lift and separate by marilyn simon rothstein
harry potter and the goblet of fire by j.k. rowling
the leavers by lisa ko
the tao of pooh by benjamin hoff
the one that got away by leigh himes
sharp objects by gillian flynn
harry potter and the order of the phoenix by j.k. rowling
the ocean at the end of the lane by neil gaiman
written in the stars by ish saeed
unqualified by anna faris
columbine by dave cullen
harry potter and the half blood prince by j.k. rowling
without merit by colleen hoover
the art of running in heels by rachel gibson
the hate u give by angie thomas
the woman in the window by a.j. finn
we are okay by nina lacour
before we were yours by lisa wingate
harry potter and the deathly hallows by j.k. rowling
the elizas by sara shepard
this is our story by ashley elston
bad girls with perfect faces by lynn weingarten
fare from the tree by robin benway
truly devious by maureen johnston
the radium girls by kate moore
one day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter by scaachi koul
none of the above by i.w. gregorio
circe by madeline miller
a wrinkle in time: the graphic novel by hope larson
the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd
little monsters by kara thomas
her body and other paries by carmen maria machado
dear martin by nic stone
this side of home by renee watson
the vanishing year by kate moretti
results may vary by bethany chase
the wife between us by greer hendricks
see jane run by hannah jayne
friend request by laura marshall
stiff by mary roach
side effects may vary by julie murphy
dumplin' by julie murphy
carrie by stephen king
the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur
what light by jay asher
a stranger in the house by shari lapena
the outsider by stephen king
a simple favor by darcey bell
the sisters by claire douglas
right behind you by lisa gardner
the favorite sister by jessica knoll
anna by amanda prowse
the murder game by julie apple
the queen of hearts by kimmery martin
the chalk man by c.j. tudor
paper princess by erin watt
pretty ugly by kriker butler
the heartbreak pill by anjanette delgado
rainbirds by clarissa goenawan
broken prince by erin watt
heart berries by terese marie mailhot
twisted palace by erin watt
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burn for burn by jenny han
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baby teeth by zoje stage
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ashes to ashes by jenny han
the program by suzanne young
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180 seconds by jessica park
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it takes a village to kill your husband by jethro collins
the secrets we keep by a.g. ballard
sometimes i lie by alice feeney
the kiss quotient by helen hoang
then she was gone by lisa jewell
silent fear by lance morcan
all these beautiful strangers by elizabeth klehforth
her pretty face by robyn harding
every note played by lisa genova
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Reading List (Latest Update Nov. 6, 2024)
The full list of books I'm interested in reading. Spoiler before you open the read-more: This list has 500+ entries so it's a tad long.
I'm pretty much constantly adding things to all of my lists- hence why I'm amending when this was last updated to the title itself- and will update this post anytime I update the wheel I use to randomize my next choice, which usually happens after I've added or subtracted a significant number of options.
Beowulf
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism; Third Edition
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Andersen’s Fairy Tales by H.C Andersen
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Animorphs Series by K.A Applegate
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Bunny by Mona Awad
Borderline by Mishell Baker
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
Crash by J.G Ballard
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Art of Fiction by Walter Besant and Henry James
Pushkin; A Biography by T.J Binyon
The Etched City by K.J Bishop
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette De Bodard
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
The Serpent and the Rose by Kathleen Bryan
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Notes of a Dirty old Man by Charles Bukowski
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
Song of the Simple Truth by Julia de Burgos
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler
American Predator by Maureen Callahan
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
Through the Woods by Emily Carrol
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Vorrh by B. Catling
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Moliere Biography by H.C Chatfield-Taylor
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en
Wicket Fox by Kat Cho
The Awakening by Kat Chopin
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
Finna by Nino Cipri
The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
Pranesi by Susanne Clarke
Parasite by Darcy Coates
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Inherit the Wind by Linda Cushman
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Dreadnought by April Daniels
The Devourers by Indra Das
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
The Collected Stories by Welty Eudora
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India by E.M Forster
The Diary of Anne Frank
Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
At Fear’s Altar by Richard Gavin
Count Zero by William Gibson
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
The Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Marathon Man by William Goldman
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J Hackwith
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
The Little Locksmith by Katherine Butler Hathaway
City of Lies by Sam Hawke
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Dune Series by Frank Herbert
Cover-Up by Seymour M. Hersh
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Rule of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Iliad by Homer
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Songbook by Nick Hornby
To Escape the Stars by Robert Hoskins
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Warrior Cats Series by Erin Hunter
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Daisy Miller by Henry James
False Bingo by Jac Jemc
The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Liu Ken
Ironweed by William Kennedy
You By Caroline Kepnes
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Very Best of Caitlin R Kiernan
Carrie by Stephen King
Christine by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Extravagance by Gary Krist
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
Babel by R.F Kuang
The Poppy War by R.F Kuang
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
False Hearts by Laura Lam
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Changeling by Victor Lavelle
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence
Lies of the Fae by M.J Lawrie
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
The Dirt; Confessions of the Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Ruin of Shadows by L.D Lewis
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Let the Right One In by John Lindquist
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gregory Rabassa
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Property by Valerie Martin
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Rapture by Claire McGlasson
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Quattrocento by James McKean
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L Mencken
My Life as Author and Editor by H.L Mencken
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Life of Edna by St. Vincent Millay
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Sexus by Henry Miller
Slade House by David Mitchell
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr.
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W Ocker
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Flowers of the Sea by Reggie Oliver
Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen
How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Certain Dark Things by M.J Pack
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim
The Song the Owl God Sang by Benjamin Peterson
A Mankind Beyond Earth by Claude A. Piantadosi
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodie Piccoult
We Owe You Nothing by Punk Planet
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Witchmark by C.L Polk
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Truth and Beauty by Ann Pratchett
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
High Moor by Graeme Reynolds
Sybil by Schreiber Flora Rheta
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Stiff by Mary Roach
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Planet Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by Milo Rossi
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D
The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Sallinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D Sallinger
The Man Who Collected Machen by Mark Samuels
Ariah by B.R Sanders
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Vicious by V.E Schwab
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Bhagavad Gita by Graham M. Schweig
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Love Story by Erich Segal
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Unless by Carol Shields
City Come A-Walkin’ by John Shirley
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Crush by Richard Siken
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Flinch by Julien Smith
Chlorine by Jade Song
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Last Breath by Peter Stark
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
City Under the Moon Hugh Sterbakov
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susane
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley
Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Crier’s War by Nina Varela
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
The Last Empire- Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Candide by Voltaire
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Fire in the Sky; The Walton Experience by Travis Walton
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L Wang
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G Wells
The Time Machine by H.G Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Prophesy Deliverance by Cornel West
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Code of the Woosters by P.G Wodehouse
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Electric Koolaid Test by Tom Wolfe
Old School by Tobias Wolff
John Dies at the End by David Wong
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf
Bitch; In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang
Negative Space by B.R Yeager
Beneath the Moon by Yoshi Yoshitani
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tomorrow, and Tommorow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
#spiced#reading list#when i say i have a special interest in special interests this is where that gets me#i particularly love this list because i have all of the wheel of time series and it's one of my favorites ever#but no i've never read dracula
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I like Saihoshi because of in dangan mode he compared Shuichi's likes with hid girlfriend and I find it very funny. And the way he comments Shuichi on their first meeting was intrigued me.
And one ask before my brain falls out for its own good;
Do you associate songs with your faves, if you do, which songs you associate with them?
>:) you know I do! Not everyone, but here are my ideas! Fair warning though, my taste of music isn't always good.
The Ballard of Sarah Berry- JUNKO'S THEME SONG. Actually, if you can, check out the Annapantsu cover!
Ghost Rule- Kokichi. Vocaloid is good, unironically.
Crazy = Genius- Miu.
Rat- Hajime/Izuru
Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land- Kiyo
Ryoma- This song saved my life (in a slightly happier au)
My R- Chiaki (the rachie cover for it is my favorite, if you missed all of the my r animatics!)
The Guide to success- Celeste (warning, the song uses he/him pronouns for the person sung about. but the vibes are there.)
If I killed someone for you- Mikan
King and Lionheart- Fuyupeko
I am Machine- Peko
Embers (Owl City)- Kaito
Town of Jade (again, Rachie cover sounds amazing)- Saimatsu
Heart of Stone- Fuyupeko (why is my playlist Fuyupeko vibes?)
Hated by life itself- The whole damn game. All of it.
Always Gold- Ishimondo (the songs about siblings, but cmon. -_-)
Feel better (Penelope Scott)- Nagito
My eyes- Makoto and Junko
One for the Money- SDRA2 vibes. Can't explain, won't explain.
Ayano's theory of happiness- SO MANY OF THEM. Found family vibes, okay?
La da dee- just the entire THH cast.
Strange Sight- Kaimaki. (Yes, its from Tinkerbell. Yes, it slaps)
When Love comes (death note)- Literally anyone that died for someone else.
The Lion and the Wolf- Despair sisters/Despaircest
Surface Pressure- you know its Mondo. Cmon
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I don't want to join a pile-on. Conservatives and centrists are on Twitter right now trying to get this professor fired from a university position for the above; he has been suspended today. I suppose, pragmatically, that open calls for murder are a free-speech limit case. I care only because I at least twice taught from the author's Doom Patrols to accompany the Grant Morrison comic in my graphic novel class. In that three-decade-old book, the professor writes:
Craig Owens and Celeste Olalquiaga, among others, suggest that Walter Benjamin's analysis of allegory is particularly appropriate to postmodern culture. In allegory, signs become materially insistent in their own right, detached from referential meaning; the mechanical piling up of fragments takes the place of organic completion or symbolic translation. The postmodern landscape is evoked by J. G. Ballard as a vista of garbage-strewn high-rise apartment buildings, shattered concrete littered with husks of burnt-out cars, snuff videos in incessant replay. Benjamin sees melancholia as a compulsive response to an intolerable situation: one in which everything seems to be fragments and ruins, in which we know that we are irrecuperably estranged from a supposed 'origin' to which we nonetheless continue compulsively to refer. Allegory "represents a continuous movement towards an unattainable origin, a movement marked by the awareness of a loss that it attempts to compensate with a baroque saturation and the obsessive reiteration of fragmented memories" (Olalquiaga). We imagine that these ruins once were whole, that these abandoned structures originally had a rational use, that these signs formerly had a sense, that we used to be organic bodies instead of robots. Dubious assumptions, to be sure; but as Nietzsche puts it, one has recourse to such fantasies and such arguments "when one has no other expedient." Anxious critics today, like Adorno and Eliot before them, feel cut off, with nowhere to turn; and so they shore up fragments against their ruin, seeking desperately to assuage their narcissistic wounds. But as Nietzsche knew, every proposed remedy to nihilism only increases the strength and depth of nihilism. We invent our lost objects posthumously. The more we brood over supposedly estranged origins, the more those origins take form retroactively, even as they recede from us. Melancholia is a recursive, self-replicating structure: it continually generates the very alienation of which it then complains. I want to suggest, therefore, that allegorical melancholy is less a mark of postmodernity per se, than it is a symptom of the desperation of traditional humanist intellectuals (whether of the Marxist or the conservative variety) who find themselves unable to adapt to what McLuhan calls "postliterate" culture. These people should get a life. In the postmodern world of DOOM PATROL, we couldn't care less about the decline of print literacy, of the nuclear family, of historical awareness, or of authentic class consciousness. We play gleefully in the rubble, for we know that such antiquated notions will never subvert anything; the grounds of contention and debate have long since shifted elsewhere.
Here is the danger in preferring theory to art, in translating art into theory: you will catch the ideas in all their murderous purity but miss the emotion in all its impure sympathies. The above passage is eloquent in its knowingness, but misses the qualities of satire and elegy in Ballard, of sentimental-universal concern in Morrison. Morrison in particular has been as clear as possible in rejecting civic violence as a solution to social inequity; this is almost the entire political point of The Invisibles, The Filth, even New X-Men.
[I posted the above early this morning, thought it was needlessly provocative and immediately took it down, and now I'm posting it again. Artists and intellectuals shouldn't call for political violence; this is axiomatic with me; I stand by it.]
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My therapist, the beloved Dr. Gratch, says that hurt people hurt people, but I just don't think that applies to teenage girls. I think sometimes they're just evil.
Do Revenge, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (2022)
#Jennifer Kaytin Robinson#Celeste Ballard#Camila Mendes#Maya Hawke#Austin Abrams#Rish Shah#Talia Ryder#Alisha Boe#Ava Capri#J.D.#Paris Berelc#Maia Reficco#Sophie Turner#Sarah Michelle Gellar#Brian Burgoyne#Este Haim#Amanda Yamate#Lori Ball#David S. Clark#2022#woman director
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021, US)
• Dirección: Malcolm D. Lee
• Guion: Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, Terence Nance, Jesse Gordon, Celeste Ballard
• Cinematografía: Salvatore Totino
• Cast: Rosario Dawson
#Película#Gif#Animación#Live-Action#Space Jam: Nuevas leyendas#Malcolm D. Lee#Juel Taylor#Tony Rettenmaier#Keenan Coogler#Terence Nance#Jesse Gordon#Celeste Ballard#Salvatore Totino#Rosario Dawson#Film#Space Jam: A New Legacy#Live-Action Animated Movie#Wonder Woman#2021#20s
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English Cast Announced for the I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History Anime
The English cast has been announced for the I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History anime: Celeste Perez is Alicia Kamen Casey is Duke Landon McDonald is Alan Eduardo Vildasol is Albert Anthony Bowling is Arnold Van Barr Jr. is Curtis Mark Stoddard is Derek Chase Kloza is Eric Adam Serratos is Finn Brandon Acosta is Gale Ryan Negron is Henry Campbell Cooley is Joan Tia Ballard is…
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do revenge is so...... 🙈
i always get happily queerbaited by characters with Highly Intense Friendships and every time im like no no its different this time because this time its not bait they are definitely into each other but every time i am actually doing the literary equivalent of flopping around with a hook in my cheek thank you celeste ballard and jennifer kaytin robinson
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Key Art And Trailer For DO REVENGE
Key Art And Trailer For DO REVENGE
Netflix has released these official key art and trailer for DO REVENGE Film Release Date: Friday, September 16, 2022 Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Written By: Celeste Ballard and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Producers: Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron, Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Executive Producer: Josh Bachove Music By: Este Haim and Amanda Yamate Cast: Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Austin Abrams,…
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#Austin Abrams#Ava Capri#Camila Mendes#Do Revenge#Jonathan Daviss#Maia Reficco#Maya Hawke#Netflix#Paris Berelc#Rish Shah#Sophie Turner#Talia Ryder#with Alisha Boe
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My Top 35 Favorite Movies
35. Hey Arnold! The Movie
34. Rugrats In Paris The Movie
33. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
32. The Lego Ninjago Movie
31. Rugrats The Movie
30. The Lego Batman Movie
29. Tom And Jerry (2021)
28. Scoob!
27. Space Jam: A New Legacy
26. The Lego Movie
25. How To Train Your Dragon
24. Kung Fu Panda
23. Happy Feet
22. The Powerpuff Girls Movie
21. Free Guy
20. Home
19. The Smurfs
18. Despicable Me
17. Despicable Me 2
16. Despicable Me 3
15. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
14. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run
13. The Angry Birds Movie
12. The Simpsons Movie
11. Uglydolls
10. Shaun The Sheep Movie
9. Beavis And Butthead Do America
8. South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut
7. Bad Boys For Life
6. The Loud House Movie
5. Cars
4. Ratatouille
3. Finding Nemo
2. The Angry Birds Movie 2.
And 1. The Peanuts Movie
Honorable Mentions: Ice Age, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, The Addams Family, Hotel Transylvania, Surf's Up, Open Season, Cloudy With The Chance Of Meatballs, The Lorax, Minions, The Secret Life Of Pets, The Secret Life Of Pets 2, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water, Wreck It Ralph, Recess: School's Out, Space Jam, Monsters Inc. Monsters University, Rio, Rio 2, Epic, And Playing With Fire.
Credit Goes To @patricksiegler1999 for template
Meme: https://www.deviantart.com/patricksiegler1999/art/Top-35-Favorite-Movies-Meme-Base-898803666
Hey Arnold! The Movie Belongs To Craig Bartlett, Steve Viksten, Saerom Animation, Inc. Snee-Oosh, Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie Belongs To J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jill Gorey, Barbara Herndon, Kate Boutilier, Grimsaem Animation Co. Ltd. Koko Enterprises Ltd. Seoul Movie, Sunwoo Digital International, Sunwoo & Company Co., Ltd. Tama Production, Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Yowza! Animation, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG, Rugrats Production K.G. Klasky-Csupo, Inc. United International Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Belongs To Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Matthew Fogel, Animal Logic Vancouver, LEGO System A/S,, Rideback, Lord Miller Productions, VERTIGO Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
The LEGO Ninjago Movie Belongs To Bob Logan, Paul Fisher, William Wheeler, Tom Wheeler, Jared Stern, John Whittington, LEGO System A/S, RatPac Entertainment, LLC, Lin Pictures, Lord Miller Productions, VERTIGO Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Tom & Jerry (2021 film) Belongs To William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Kevin Costello, Framestore Limited, The Story Company, Turner Entertainment Company, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Scoob! Belongs To Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Adam Sztykiel, Jack Donaldson, Derek Elliott, Matt Lieberman, Eyal Podell, Jonathon E. Stewart, Atlas Entertainment, 1492 Pictures, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Space Jam: A New Legacy Belongs To Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod, Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, Terence Nance, Jesse Gordon, Celeste Ballard, Proximity Media, SpringHill Entertainment, The SpringHill Company, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
The LEGO Movie Belongs To Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Lin Pictures Inc. Lord Miller Productions, VERTIGO Entertainment, LEGO System A/S, RatPac Entertainment, LLC, Village Roadshow Pictures, Village Roadshow Limited, Roadshow Films, Warner Animation Group, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
How To Train Your Dragon Belongs To Will Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global
Kung Fu Panda Belongs To Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation, Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global
Happy Feet Belongs To George Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris, Warren Coleman, Animal Logic, Kennedy Miller Productions, Kingdom Feature Productions, Village Roadshow Pictures, Village Roadshow Limited, BGH Capital, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
The Powerpuff Girls Movie Belongs To Charlie Bean, Lauren Faust, Craig McCracken, Amy Keating Rogers, Paul Rudish, Don Shank, Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Mercury Filmworks, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Free Guy Belongs To Matt Lieberman, Zak Penn, Berlanti Productions, Maximum Effort, TSG Entertainment Finance LLC, Lit Entertainment Group, 21 Laps Entertainment, 20th Century Studios, Inc. The Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company
Home (2015 film) Belongs To Adam Rex, Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation, 20th Century Studios, Inc. The Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company
The Smurfs (film) Belongs To Pierre Culliford, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Éditions Dupuis S.A. Kerner Entertainment Company, Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation
Despicable Me Belongs To Sergio Pablos, Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Illumination, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, And Comcast Corporation
Despicable Me 2 Belongs To Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Illumination, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, And Comcast Corporation
Despicable Me 3 Belongs To Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Illumination, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, And Comcast Corporation
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Belongs To Derek Drymon, Tim Hill, Stephen Hillenburg, Kent Osborne, Aaron Springer, Paul Tibbitt, Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Rough Draft Korea Co, Ltd. Toon Boom Animation Inc. United Plankton Pictures Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Players, United International Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run Belongs To Stephen Hillenburg, Tim Hill, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Mikros Animation, Technicolor Creative Studios S.A. Vantiva S.A. MRC, United Plankton Pictures Inc. Nickelodeon Movies, Paramount Animation, Paramount Pictures Corporation, And Paramount Global
The Angry Birds Movie Belongs To Mikael Hed, Mikko Pöllä, John Cohen, Jon Vitti, Rovio Animation, Ltd. Rovio Entertainment Corporation, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation
The Simpsons Movie Belongs To James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Ian Maxtone-Graham, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, Film Roman, LLC, Rough Draft Studios, Inc. AKOM Production Ltd. Gracie Films, 20th Century Animation, 20th Century Studios, Inc. The Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company
Uglydolls Belongs To David Horvath, Sun-min Kim, Alison Peck, Robert Rodriguez, Larry Stuckey, Reel FX Animation Studios, Troublemaker Studios, Original Force Animation, Alibaba Pictures Group, Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Amblin Partners, LLC. VVS Films, Huaxia Film Distribution, STX Family, And STX Entertainment
Shaun The Sheep Movie Belongs To Nick Park, Bob Baker, Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Anton Capital Entertainment, Aardman Animations Limited, StudioCanal Limited, StudioCanal S.A.S. Groupe CANAL+ S.A. And Vivendi SE
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Belongs To Mike Judge, Joe Stillman, Rough Draft Korea Co., Ltd. MTV Productions, MTV Films, MTV Production Development, MTV Studios, MTV Entertainment Studios, MTV Entertainment Group, Geffen Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global
South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut Belongs To Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Pam Brady, Scott Rudin Productions, Braniff Productions, Comedy Central Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation And Paramount Global
Bad Boys for Life Belo To Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan, 2.0 Entertainment, Overbrook Entertainment, Westbrook Inc. Jerry Bruckheimer Films Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation
The Loud House Movie Belongs To Kevin Sullivan, Chris Viscardi, Top Draw Animation, Inc. Jam Filled Entertainment, Boat Rocker Media Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studio, Nickelodeon Movies, Nickelodeon Group, Paramount Players, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Paramount Global, And Netflix, Inc.
Cars (film) Belongs To Dan Fogelman, John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, Jorgen Klubien, PIXAR Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, Disney Enterprises, Inc. And The Walt Disney Company
Ratatouille (film) Belongs To Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird, PIXAR Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, Disney Enterprises, Inc. And The Walt Disney Company
Finding Nemo Belongs To Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, PIXAR Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, Disney Enterprises, Inc. And The Walt Disney Company
The Angry Birds Movie 2 Belongs To Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell, Jonathon E. Stewart, Rovio Animation, Ltd. Rovio Entertainment Corporation, SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Sony Pictures Animation Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, And Sony Group Corporation
The Peanuts Movie Belongs To Charles M. Schulz, Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, Cornelius Uliano, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Andrews McMeel Syndication, Blue Sky Studios, Inc. 20th Century Animation, 20th Century Studios, Inc. The Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Entertainment, And The Walt Disney Company
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