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Dear life,
Ever since I was a little girl, I always thought you were something wonderful. Of course, I still think of you this way, but… But if you are so wonderful how can you be so mean at the same time? Is this supposed to be some kind of lesson you and the Watcher are trying to teach me? Because if so, I must admit, dear life, I actually learned something very important.
As a result of recent events, I learned that…
You can be a good student;
You can be a friendly person with lots of friends, always smiling politely at everyone...
But it doesn't matter at all, because all it takes is one secret that you accidentally witnessed, one secret about your headmaster and teacher…
One secret that was repeated to someone…
And then repeated again.
One secret and one worried brother who decided to confront the headmaster about that secret…
And one headmaster, desperate to maintain his reputation.
All it takes is those three things to accuse you of being a liar.
And then, when you don't want to apologize for the truth and you start arguing with people you shouldn't be arguing with…
All that's left to do is pack your things and get ready to leave the school you love because no one wants liars there. Even those who tell the truth.
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Yaaay my sweeties I am so proud of them they got reconciled !! Wedding 2.0 incoming !!
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Tremors 3 - Ritorno a Perfection
Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo passati all’animazione, cercando di fare alternanza, e per cambiare abbiamo deciso di prendere in esame la Sony Animation Pictures con una delle loro commedie che trovo interessante, Hotel Transylvania. Il Conte Dracula, per proteggere sua figlia Mavis dagli umani, decide di costruire un hotel dedicato ai soli mostri e che possa…
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my headcanons for genshin characters' full names (plus some canon ones lol) ^-^
Travelers:
Aether Sirius Viator
Lumine Spica Viator
Paimon Alycone Merope
Mondstadt:
Albedo Erich Kreideprinz
Amber Ida Hasenkamp-Xia
Astrologist Mona Magdalena Megistus
Barbara “Barbie” Liselotte Pegg
Bennett Anselm Mallory
Dahlia Bram Batz
Diluc Bastian Ragnvindr
Diona Dafni Kätzlein
Eula Babette Lawrence
Fischl von Luftschloss Narfidort
Jeanette “Jean” Elke Gunnhildr
Kaeya Rivaan Alberich / Ragnvindr
Klee Käthe Kessler
Lisa Fiorella Minci
Michael “Mika” Clemens Schmidt
Noelle Petra Desroche
Razor Rolf Minci
Rosaria Karoline Nacht
Vanda “Sucrose” Anneliese Hertz
Varka Johann Bahl
Venti Detlef Daiber / Barbatos
Liyue:
Bai Chongyun
Cai Yanfei
Dai Yaoyao
Ding Xiao
Fei Xingqiu
Hu Tao
Huang Zhongli / Morax / Rex Lapis / Deus Auri
Lei Beidou
Lu Xinyan
Luo Ganyu
Luo Shenhe
Luo Xianyun
Mao Xiangling
Xue Baizhu
Xue Qiqi
Yan Yelan
Yao Ningguang
Yip Gaming
Yun Jin
Zhuang Keqing
Inazuma:
Arataki Itto
Kaedehara Kazuha
Kamisato Ayaka
Kamisato Ayato
Koizumi Chiori
Kujou Sara
Kuki Shinobu
Naganohara Yoimiya
Nekoba Kirara
Raiden Ei / Beelzebul
Raiden Shogun
Sangonomiya Kokomi
Shikanoin Heizou
Shikanoin Sayu
Takeishi Gorou
Thomas Oskar Rothschild / Akatsuki Thoma
Yae Miko
Sumeru:
Al-Haitham ibn Jamir ibn Zaid Sader
Candace bint Hamza ibn Ahmar Asim
Collei bint Tighnari ibn Zayd Habib
Cyno Cyrus Bamoun El-Hafez
Dehya bint Kusayla ibn Malek Hashim
Dori Yildiz / “Dori Sangemah Bay”
Faruzan Azimi
Imai Kunimitsu (Wanderer)
Kaveh Roshan
Layla Yildiz
Nahida Ijaz / Lesser Lord Kusanali / Buer
Nilou Golshan
Sethos Cyrus Bamoun El-Abdelfatteh
Tighnari ibn Zayd ibn Kyree Jubran
Fontaine:
Charlotte Benoîte LaFramboise
Chevreuse Cosette Caideux
Clorinde Maëlle Archambault
Emilie Rose Lavande
Freminet Corentin Snezhevich
Furina Regine Babineaux / “Furina de Fontaine”
Lynette Veronique Alarie-Snezhevna
Lyney Valentin Alarie-Snezhevich
Marion Devereaux Neuvillette
Navia Reine Caspar
Sigewinne Elyna Arquette
Warren Gaultier Wriothesley
Natlan:
Chasca Rivas
Citlali Xahuentitla
Iansan Kẹyinde
Kachina Nanatzcayan
Kinich Canek
Mavuika Whakatāne / Haborym
Mualani Ka’aukai
Oluwatoke Kọlade
Xilonen Nocelotl
Fatui (pretty much all of these will change as the game progresses):
Ajax Klimentovich Melnik / Tartaglia
Ceylse Aurelia Valerian / Columbina
Cosette Margot Bourreau / Sandrone
Crepus Arnfried Ragnvindr / Brighella
Jin Chaoxing / Pantalone
Peruere Genevieve Snezhevna / Arlecchino
Raiden Kunikuzushi / Scaramouche
Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalter / La Signora
Rurik Vadimovich Vorobyev / Pulcinella
Ulrik Agnar Ingolf / Pierro
Tatiana Snezhevna Agapov / the Tsaritsa
Tlacelel Itzcuintlan / Il Captiano
Zandik Nazeri / Il Dottore
Hexenzirkel (again, will change):
Alice Thekla Kessler / "A"
Anya M. Andersdotter / "M"
Astromancer Barbeloth Oda Trismegistus / "B"
Inessa Ivanova Nikulina / "J"
Nicole Reeyn-Ragnvindr / "N"
Octavia Campana / "O"
Idun “Gold” Rhinedottir / "R"
NPCS!!!
(I HAVE A CLEAR FAVORITE NATION)
Mondstadt NPCs:
Adelinde Nett
Adelram Kreideprinz / Durin
Anna and Anthony Heilbrunn
Charles Schenck
Callirhoe Dupuis
Chloris and Flora Diefenbach
Cyrus Laukkanen
Donna Fenimore
Draff Kätzlein
Edith Rayne / Dr. Edith
Ella Musk
Ellin Sheridan
Elzer Boivin
Eury and Nimrod Poirot
Glory Taggart
Godwin Cross
Grace Kappel
Herrik Huffman
Hertha Bonamy
Maeve Livingstone / Dr. Livingstone
Margaret Winfrey
Marjorie Brightwen
Mellan König / Decarabian
Neven Gale / Dvalin
Patchi Driscoll
Patton Schüttmann
Sara Küchler
Siegfria Knochenmus
Timaeus Kloet
Vennessa Aguilar
Victoria Strohkirch
Vile Gagnon
Wagner McGowan
Liyue NPCs:
Gao Haixia / Beisht
Gao Shui / Osial
Huichen Guizhong / Haagentus
Mao Chaoxiang / Chef Mao
Mao Guoba / Marchosius / God of the Stove
Qui Tianlong / Azhdaha
Yi Nuo / Havria
Inazuma NPCs:
Arataki Takuya
Hinoyama Enjou
Raiden Makoto / Baal
Sumeru NPCs:
Amun Al-Ahmar / Deshret
Lilavati Trygve Alberich (post-marriage)'/ Lilavati Kartik Mishra (pre-marriage) / Kaeya's Mom
Nabu Malikata
Parisa Rukkhadevata
Fontaine NPCs:
Alouette Désirée Dupont / Egeria
Elynas Arsène Auclair
Fanchone Océane de Fontaine / Focalors
Remus Berceuse Adagio
all melusines (aside from sigewinne) have the surname "Auclair"
Snezhnaya NPCs:
Aleksander Klimentovich Melnik
Andronika Klimentevna Melnik
Anton Klimentovich Melnik
Teucer Klimentovich Melnik
Theodor Klimentovich Melnik
Tonia Klimentevna Melnik
Khaenri'ah NPCs:
Anfortas Asgeir Alberich
Caribert Alvar Alberich
Chlothar Flosi Alberich
Dainsleif Olan Asketill
Halfdan Munin Lien
Trygve Einar Alberich / Kaeya's Dad
Vedrfolnir Asketill / "the Sinner"
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Web Leitner Tournament Round 1
Dying in the Sun vs. Emma
Witches Abroad vs. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home vs. Come Closer
Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High vs. The Taking of Jake Livingston
Macbeth vs. Oedipus Rex
Curtain vs. Design
The Magician vs. The Prince
The Fervor vs. Misery
Black Maria vs. Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Spider and the Fly vs. Young Adult Novel
Bunny vs. This Book is Full of Spiders
Breeding Ground & Feeding Ground vs. The Spiders
The Order of the Stick: Blood Runs in the Family vs. A Hero of Our Time
50 Shades of Gray vs. The Ash-Tree
The Adventures of Pinocchio vs. Charlotte's Web
In Other Worlds vs. The Cinderella Murder
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Republic Pictures Horror Collection will be released on May 21 via Kino Lorber. The two-disc set features four horror films produced by Republic Pictures: The Lady and the Monster, The Phantom Speaks, The Catman of Paris, and Valley of the Zombies.
1944's The Lady and the Monster is directed by George Sherman and written by Dane Lussier and Frederick Kohner, based on Curt Siodmak's 1942 novel Donovan's Brain. Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, and Erich von Stroheim star.
1945's The Phantom Speaks is directed by John English and written by John K. Butler. Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, and Jonathan Hale star.
1946's The Catman of Paris is directed by Lesley Selander and written by Sherman L. Lowe. Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille, Gerald Mohr, and Fritz Feld star.
1946's Valley of the Zombies is directed by Philip Ford and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. Robert Livingston, Adrian Booth, Ian Keith, Thomas E. Jackson, Charles Trowbridge, and Earle Hodgins star.
All four films have been have been scanned in 4K by Paramount Pictures. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
The Lady and the Monster audio commentary by film historian Stephen Bissette (new)
The Phantom Speaks audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas
The Catman of Paris audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)
Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Miles Hunter (new)
Valley of the Zombies audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas
The Lady and the Monster interview with film historians Tim Lucas and Steven Bissette
In The Lady and the Monster, a scientist (Erich von Stroheim) and his two assistants (Vera Hruba Ralston, Richard Arlen) keep a dead criminal's brain alive. In The Phantom Speaks, the vengeful spirit of an executed killer takes possession of a scientist to take revenge on those who wronged him, and a newspaper reporter becomes suspicious. In The Catman of Paris, an amnesiac Frenchman (Carl Esmond) blames himself for deeds done with the mark of a beast. In Valley of the Zombies, a woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
Pre-order Republic Pictures Horror Collection.
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Lee Moran at HuffPost:
Former President Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA Bible” has been condemned as “disgusting,” “blasphemous,” and a “cheap ploy” by evangelical Christian pastor Loran Livingston. Livingston ripped Trump’s $59.99 Bible during a sermon at the Central Church of North Carolina in Charlotte on April 14. Footage of his comments recently went viral on social media. Livingston also made anti-LGBTQ+ comments, described abortion as “murder” and the “premeditated termination of innocent human life” and slammed people who “get politics mixed up with church” in the lead-up to his attack on the Trump-endorsed holy book. Then he said, “When you don’t read and pray. You say, ‘Wow, there’s a Bible out now that includes the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, isn’t that wonderful?’ No, no. It’s disgusting. It’s blasphemous. It’s a ploy.” “Are you kidding me? Some of you are so encouraged by that. Let me tell you something. The gospel is not an American gospel. It is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ,” Livingston added. He didn’t name the Trump Bible explicitly, but his references were apparent.
Evangelical Pastor Loran Livingston nails it: Donald Trump's "God Bless The USA" Bible is "disgusting" and "blasphemous."
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On December 8th 1746 Charles Radcliff, the English Jacobite was executed.
The Radcliff's were a Catholic family from Northumberland and long-standing links to the exiled Stuart line.
The youngest brother of the Earl of Derwentwater, Charles Radcliff was a wild-philandering character in his youth, and was said to have fathered a number of illegitimate children. He was a particularly ardent Jacobite and took an active part in the Up Rising of 1715.
Although only twenty-two years old at the time, he was given the command of the Earl’s troops, and afterwards praised for his strong leadership and courage. After being taken prisoner at Preston, he was convicted of high treason, but escaped from Newgate in December 1716.
He spent the rest of his life on the Continent, marrying the wealthy Charlotte Maria Livingstone, the Countess of Newburgh, in Brussels in 1724. He remained at the centre of Jacobite intrigue, moving in 1738 with his family to Rome, and becoming a well known figure at the Court of James VIII.
Prince Charlie landed in Scotland and marched into a cheering Edinburgh in September, leading Charles Radcliff, too, to sail for Scotland in November of that year.
Now 52 years old, he would be one of the few lords to participate in both the great Jacobite rebellions …….. but he was captured at sea, condemned under his former sentence, and beheaded on Tower Hill on this day, 1746.
Charles Radcliff is remembered as being one of the bravest and most loyal supporters of the House of Stuart. If he had not escaped in 1716, Charles would in all probability have been pardoned, but the government was particularly harsh on families and individuals seen as habitual or repeat offenders.
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That night Lottie couldn't sleep. She was lying in her bed, which no longer felt like hers, and staring at the ceiling, feeling emptiness.
She didn't want to fall asleep and face the consequences of the morning, and yet, lying still and waiting long hours for the next day full of accusations and scolding looks seemed even worse.
Finally, she got up from her bed and walked to the window. The snow-covered Windenburg was already asleep, but in some houses the lights were still on. Some lucky people were spending long nights having fun, laughing and enjoying their amazing lives. She envied them.
I wonder if there's a ball going on somewhere out there, the thought crossed her mind, but she quickly scolded herself for saying such nonsense. The balls very amazing! Of course, there was one or two taking place right now! Oh... What she would give to be there now...
Dancing in a fabulous ball gown while being admired by everyone.
Slowly, Lottie began to dance to the inaudible rhythm of music, wandering to the land of imagination.
And then... There she was. At the ball dressed in a beautiful pink attire, dancing with a handsome young man.
Beautiful and smart lady Charlotte Livingstone.
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"I don't even want to know what they are doing this time."
- A Darkwood citizen (probably)
#gates art 🎨#self ship#self shipping#self ship art#self ship comic#platonic self ship#platonic f/o#familial self ship#familial f/o#f/o#fictional other#s/i#self insert#self insert oc#self ship community#self shipping community#f/o community#seekers notes#ben rosewell#gordon byron#charlotte livingstone#clyde templeton#{🌻🪁} • 𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾
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CHILD LORE: It’s classics, traditions, and jingles edited by Clara Doty Bates. (Boston: Lothrop, [1879]) Illustrated by Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey, Jessie Curtis, Mary A. Lathbury, Charlotte Doty Finley, Livingston Hopkins, Morgan J. Sweeney, and J.G. Francis.
source [later edition]
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Tagged by @cleaverqueer in this post Thanks for the tag!
my 4 on repeat albums/artists
Changeline, Livingston, Charlotte Sands, Juliet Ivy
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Been thinking a lot about TURN: Washington’s Spies and the American Revolution lately. So here’s every original character I can theoretically stick into that universe… @eurydicefades 🫡
American Revolution podcast.
American Revolution: playlist.
TURN: playlist.
Benjamin Tallmadge: playlist.
Rococo playlist.
French History podcast.
In no particular order…
Audrey: based on Kitty Fisher and Charlotte Hayes, born 1750, turned 1780 at the age of 30. Well-to-do sex worker, coquette, disowned daughter of a Viscount. Abolitionist. She/they, bisexual-polyam. Vampire.
Camille: based on Mary Wollstonecraft and various French Revolution ladies. Audrey’s half sister, unlike her, never disowned, still hates her Viscount father. Abolitionist, anti-monarchist, pamphlet writer, and social climber. Turned into a vampire in 1790. She/her, bi. Vampire.
Artémise: Dutch and Black-Creole New York socialite, spy for the culper ring, and violinist. An informant, a fashionista, bit of diva, excellent listener. Will sell you out to Benjamin Tallmadge. She/her, bi.
Benjamin Fisher: Benjamin Tallmadge, vampire/anti-hero arc. He/him, bi (closeted). Staff to Washington, from New York, trying really hard to be good, but vampirism won’t let him. Turned by Audrey in 1781. Vampire.
Charles: Colonel in the British army. Good at following orders, only doesn’t like his job. It’s a constant existential crisis, he knows neither side is right, he’s sworn to the British by duty not by choice. Scottish and French, English born. Based vaguely on Ross Poldark. He/him, bi. Has a deceased wife and daughter he’s still mourning.
Eliott: Spy for the British army. Follows orders for social gain and security, not cause he wants to. Poet turned spy, he/him, bi. Much like Tallmadge, he is a young man, having control taken from him far too often. Really just doesn’t want to be hung as a traitor to the crown. Irish and Catholic. Hates all of the army, expect Major André and Simcoe.
Carlotta aka Charlotte: French socialite, unknowing informant to the Patriots. She/her, bi. Somewhere between culper ring spy and French nobility looking to escape France due to pending revolution back home. 1/2 characters here who are not made for battle situations.
Edith: Maryland based loyalist, loyalist out of love for her family. She/her, bi (closeted). Catholic but very English. A civilian caught in a bad situation, didn’t do anything wrong, unless love for one’s family is a sin. Honestly reminds me of a Liberty’s Kids character and Sarah Livingston (Turn) but younger. Of marriageable age (24), good natured, well meaning, loyalty to what she deems moral just has her in a bad situation.
Harriet: Boston based dress maker and painter, sometimes pamphlet writer. Free woman of global majority (colour), Black and Welsh. She/her, bi. Yet another civilian caught in a war they didn’t ask for. Declares neutrality to survive, probably more on the side of the continental army, but she’d rather not the gallows.
Verity, Nancy & Sally/the tombeor polycule: their last name isn’t actually their last name, it’s a French title meaning “performer.” Like a code name. A polycule of three black/Irish sex worker women who are all dating each other and their clients, at the same time, she/her(s) all bi-poly-sapphic. Sex workers and spies for the culper ring, but their loyalty isn’t a cheap. Technically they declare themselves neutral in the war, it’s all lies.
#meera answers#ashfordlabs#answered#oc: Audrey#oc: camille#oc: artémise#oc: Benjamin fisher#oc: charles#oc: Eliott Baird#oc: Carlotta#oc: edith#oc: Harriet#oc: verity#oc: sally#oc: Nancy#18th century#american revolution#turn: washington's spies#bisexual#turn washington's spies#amc turn#turn amc#queer#lgbtq+#vampires#monstrous other#writing historical fiction#historical fiction#writing horror#gothic horror
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Updated TDA LV Predictions
My Last predictions before tomorrow
Mini Female
Top 25- Macey Strickland, Penelope jenson, Neala Murphy, Abbey Scott, Melina Biltz, Nixie Vance, Aria McCrea, Remington Frye, Kinley Harper, Scarlett Manzel, Naomi Harper, Amanda Carpenter
Top 13- Jessica Sutton, Stella Brinkerhoff, Mikayla Isler, Belle Marie Arauz, Madisyn Rose Amos, Junie Beus, Lexie Charnstrom, Alivia Hughes, Maylin Munos
Top 4- Savannah Jackson, Tatum Self, Kennedy Marble, Lucia Piedrahita
Mini Male
Top 4- Chase Lang, Kyle Young, Brody Schaffer, Sebastian Saenger
Junior Female
Top 24- Rory Frye, Brooklyn Ward, Ella-Nani Knight, Piper Perusse, Violet Schwarz, Mika Takase, Kylie Lawrence, Mila Ayshford, Vera Escamilla, Isla Gardner, Charlotte Shinnefield, Tayah Klimuck
Top 13- Brynn Jones, Kennedy Anderson, Anistyn Larsen, Roxie Onellion, Finley Ashfield, Annabella Atkinson, Emery Duffin, Bella Charnstrom, Lilly Anderson
Top4- Aria Du, Skylar Wong, Kelsie Jacobson, Emily Polis
Junior Male
Top 4- Matthew Conway, Grayson Niemczyk, Aiden Ecenbarger, Lincoln Russo
Teen female
Top 22- Madison Ronquillo, Caroline McGowan, Katie Shinn, Kinsley Oykhman, Georgia Beth Peters, Keelyn Jones, Vivienne Mitchell, Laci Bloss, Daphnie braun, Mya Tuaileva
Top 12- Caitlyn Polis, Makaia Roux, Kamri Peterson, Stella Condie, Kira Chan, Mariandrea Villegas, Kylie Kaminsky, Ellie Duffin
Top 4- Lilly Allen, Savannah manzel, Taylor Morrison, Claire Monge
Teen male
Top 12- Justin Nguyen, Griffin Abrahamse, Daniel Tamburro, Cade Kaiser, Gabriel Kleeman, Cayman Lee, Caleb Livingston, Johnny Gray
Top 4- Logan Asuncion, Musa Fofana, Zachary Roy, Cooper Macalalad
Senior Female
Top 21- Maliah Howard, Addison Middleton, Zoe Ridge, Brightyn Rines, Madison Goulding, Ceilidh McSeveney, Gianna Mojonnier, Gianna Garwacki
Top 13- Kaitlyn Tom, Beth Anne McGowan, Lola Iglesias, Ayla Rodriguez, Isabella Jarvis, Brielle McCoy, Alexis Leistner, Caroline Skrable, Emma Donnelly
Top 4- Izzy Howard, Hailey Bills, Isabella Lynch, Keira Redpath
Senior Male
Top 10- Grayson Skarsvaag, Charlie Head, Erik Barker, Adin Pracic, Jagger Starr, Alonzo Dock
Top 4- Hudson Pletcher, Caleb Abea, Drew Rosen, Cameron kennedy
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Web Leitner Reading List
The full list of submissions for the Web Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!
Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Attanasio, A. A.: In Other Worlds Austen, Jane: Emma Awad, Mona: Bunny
Burlew, Rich: The Order of the Stick: Blood Runs in the Family
Chainani, Soman: The School for Good and Evil Christie, Agatha: Curtain Christie, Agatha: The ABC Murders Christie, Agatha: The Moving Finger Clark, Mary Higgins and Alafair Burke: The Cinderella Murder Collodi, Carlo: The Adventures of Pinocchio
de Burgh Miller, Jon: Dying in the Sun Douglass, Ryan: The Taking of Jake Livingston
Fink, Joseph and Jeffery Cranor: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home Frost, Robert: Design
Gaiman, Neil: American Gods Gran, Sara: Come Closer
Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale: Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 Howitt, Mary: The Spider and the Fly
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll’s House
James, E.L.: 50 Shades of Gray James, M.R.: The Ash-Tree Jones, Diana Wynne: Black Maria
Katsu, Alma: The Fervor King, Stephen: Misery
Lermontov, Mikhail: A Hero of Our Time (Last Chapter) Lewis, Richard: The Spiders
Machiavelli, Niccolò: The Prince Maugham, Somerset: The Magician Muir, Tamsyn: Gideon the Ninth
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Pinborough, Sarah: Breeding Ground & Feeding Ground Pinkwater, Daniel: Young Adult Novel Pirandello, Luigi: Six Characters in Search of an Author Pratchett, Terry: Witches Abroad Pratchett, Terry and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens Punko: Stagtown
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
White, E.B.: Charlotte's Web Wong, David: This Book is Full of Spiders
Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
"The fundamental interconnectedness of all things" is an extremely Webby concept.
Attanasio, A. A.: In Other Worlds
It's about a species of brain-earing alien spiders called Zotl who take over and control people by attaching to the back of their skulls and burrowing into the pain centre of their brains.
Austen, Jane: Emma
The story centers around Emma Woodhouse, a would-be matchmaker who delights in meddling with the lives of those around her -- with dire results.
Awad, Mona: Bunny
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one.
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.
The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.
Burlew, Rich: The Order of the Stick: Blood Runs in the Family
The Order heads to the Western Continent in search of Girard's Gate, only to get entangled with the Empire of Blood, a tyrannical draconian state--literally, it's ruled by a dragon. But the real power behind the throne is General Tarquin, who turns out to be the bard Elan's dad. Tarquin, being a diabolical mastermind who’s just as genre savvy as Elan, has figured out that ruling openly will only lead to being overthrown, and thus has engineered a grand scheme with his partners to take over the entire continent using their puppet states. He doesn't even mind that Elan wants to overthrow him for being an enslaving dictator--if he wins, he rules as a king, and if he loses, he goes down in history as a LEGEND. Tarquin follows the Order as they try to reach the Gate, using it as a test for his other son Nale--a scheming villain like him, who has continually dissapointed Tarquin. When the Gate is blown up, he meets up with Elan and Nale, finds out that Nale killed his best friend, confirms that Nale wants nothing more from him...and stabs his son dead right in front of Elan because he's an inconvenience. Then he decides to kill Elan's good friend Roy so Elan can be the leader of the party.
Tarquin is essentially a railroading DM in charge of a nation. He's an old white guy with self-centered, old-fashioned, and implicitly misogynistic and racist ideas of how the story is "supposed" to go--he's the Big Bad, Elan is the Hero, and they're destined to have a big epic showdown. But Tarquin isn't the main villain, Elan wants to be a support player, and Roy is the leader; so when Tarquin's plans are defied, he does everything in his power to steer things back on the rails by force, to the point of threatening to kill everyone Elan loves and chop off his hand just to properly motivate him.
Chainani, Soman: The School for Good and Evil
The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.
This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.
I think this series is extremely web-like because it presents a world where people have extremely predestined paths in life with either being a good or bad story character. And they are stuck on the path that is chosen for them even when trying to rebel. Also, there is the connection with children's stories(cough Mr Spider cough) and the series villains are very potting and manipulative.
Christie, Agatha: Curtain
Curtain has a serial killer known only as X before their identity is revealed. X has never actually killed anyone themselves — instead, they're a master of manipulation, preying on the fears of others and driving them into a state in which they decide to kill, but are completely unaware that they're being manipulated to do so.
Christie, Agatha: The ABC Murders
When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go. There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover, and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill, who will then be Victim C? More importantly, why is this happening?
Spoilers: the true murderer, Franklin Clarke tricks a mentally unstable man, Alexander Bonaparte Cust, into thinking he is a murderer. Making Cust feel trapped and controlled by his illness. Clarke also manipulates the entire country into thinking there is some out-of-control serial killer when he was just trying to cover up inheritance murder. So schemes, mass manipulation and control. Very Web book.
Christie, Agatha: The Moving Finger
Ok so the pollrunner themself has said that Miss Marple was their personal fave for the Web Avatar bracket, and this is definitely one of the webbiest Marple mysteries. It's about a bunch of poison-pen letters in a small village that drive the residents to suspect and accuse one another of committing the crime -- or guessing at what might have been in their neighbor's letter. Soon, accusations turn to blackmail and deaths as the culprit weaves their web around the peaceful village of Lymstock...
Clark, Mary Higgins and Alafair Burke: The Cinderella Murder
Actress Madison Meyer is obsessed with fame, to the point it's rumoured she helped cover up her friend's murder or even killed her herself to get her role, and she still has the nerve to act like a diva on Under Suspicion's set even though she hasn't had any significant roles in a decade and is supposed appearing on the show to solve her friend's murder. Actor Keith Ratner was a playboy with a drinking problem when he started out, though he's genuinely managed to clean up his act, albeit by getting involved with a shifty megachurch, and some people still think he murdered his girlfriend. Televangelist Martin Collins is a money-hungry Control Freak who rules his congregation with an iron fist and uses their donations to fund personal luxuries, and that's the least of his misdeeds. Frank Parker is known for being a demanding director who mostly gets involved in Under Suspicion because he doesn't want people to boycott his movies thinking he murdered a 19-year-old college student, although he did prevent his wife from starring in a sleazy movie that left the replacement actress humiliated and has stayed married for ten years (quite a record for Hollywood). And at the centre of it all is the so-called Cinderella Murder, with a young aspiring actress on her way to an audition ending up strangled to death and the crime going unsolved for twenty years, with all kinds of salacious rumours surrounding the case.
Collodi, Carlo: The Adventures of Pinocchio
This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowing yet inspiring adventures. Carved by a poor man named Geppetto, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet that comes to life. He soon leaves his maker and commences a journey of misadventures.
Pinocchio has a good heart, but he is disobedient and lazy and often has poor judgment. And when he lies, Pinocchio's nose grows longer! Follow this mischievous puppet as he goes to the "Field of Miracles", where he plants gold coins to try to make his wealth grow. Thrill as he is pursued by assassins. And marvel as he becomes the unwitting star of a circus show and lives a life of ease in the "Land of Boobies," where boys can play all day and never have to go to school. Of course, Pinocchio gets into trouble along the way.
From the villainous Cat and Fox, who try to steal his gold coins, to the gigantic Dogfish, a terrifying sea monster that swallows him, Pinocchio encounters menacing characters who often lead him to trouble. But Pinocchio also befriends a good Fairy who loves him and wants to help him escape his misfortunes. She even promises the puppet that if he learns to be good, to study, and to work hard, he will become a real boy. Can Pinocchio turn his life around? And will he ever see his "papa," Geppetto again?
de Burgh Miller, Jon: Dying in the Sun
Synopsis: "It was the city of angels, and the angels were screaming...
Los Angeles, 1947: multi-millionaire movie producer Harold Reitman has been murdered and the LAPD are convinced that drug dealer Robert Chate is the killer. Detective William Fletcher isn't so sure — he believes that the man who calls himself the Doctor has a stronger connection to the crime than he's letting on.
While the Doctor assists the police with their enquiries, Star Light Pictures are preparing to release their most eagerly anticipated movie yet, Dying in the Sun, a film that rumours say will change the motion-picture industry for ever. Suspecting that the film holds secrets more terrifying then anyone could ever have imagined, the Doctor decides to do everything in his power to stop it from being released. In Hollywood, however, it is the movie studios that hold all the power... "
Why it's Web: Well, we already know that TV and film are pretty Web-aligned (Lagorio, that one line from Annabelle), so that's a start. The villains of the series create film stars by chemically enhancing their charisma to the point where they can hypnotize people into doing unspeakable things just by asking them -- but the stars, in turn, are under the sway of their alien masters. It's a pretty good metaphor for Hollywood, and a pretty good plot for the Web.
Douglass, Ryan: The Taking of Jake Livingston
Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win.
Fink, Joseph and Jeffery Cranor: The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home
It's framed like a biography that the Faceleed Old Woman is telling Craig, the descendant of the man who killed her. After she dies, as a sort of ghost, she haunts and attempts to kill her murderer, but she fails. She then spends the rest of time manipulating and killing all of his descendants. She is constantly doing things that they don't notice to get them to have kids, etc, and then when they get old enough, causes an accident so the first born son always dies. The villain, and TFOW murderer is also a manipulator. He gets her on a wild goose chase for years to find out who killed her father, and managed to trick her into a situation where he could kill her.
Frost, Robert: Design
"What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?-- If design govern in a thing so small."
Link: https://poets.org/poem/design
Gaiman, Neil: American Gods
When a man named Shadow Moon gets out of prison, he finds that everything he planned to do as a free man has been destroyed. His wife and best friend are dead and he has no job prospects. Because of this, he is forced to accept work from a strange and enigmatic man named Mr. Wednesday.
Shadow soon learns of a brewing war in American between the old (religious and mythological) gods and the new (technological) gods. Both sides want him for their own.
Throughout the novel, Shadow is pulled along by different forces rather than through his own agency, and near the end he finds that the web he is caught in was spun before his birth.
Gran, Sara: Come Closer
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda - a successful architect in a happy marriage - finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane?
Hale, Shannon & Dean Hale: Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High
Now, Ever After High itself is very Web. The children of famous fairytales being destiny-bound to relive their stories or go 'poof' is the driving force behind all the books' conflicts.
However, Shadow High takes it to another level. The narrators, who were present throughout the series, are more influential within the story. Even the straight-laced narrator parents who believe only in observing stories leave 'plop devices' to coerce characters in or out of making decisions. The titular Shadow High is a school for narrators run by antagonist Ms. Direction after a narrator schism between those who observe stories and those who control them. Ms. Direction uses 'unmaking lava' that turns characters and props into the words that compose them, destroying them so that they can be made again in her vision. She also uses narration to compel characters into doing her bidding. The narrator of the book, Brooke Page, is the daughter of the other books' narrators and has frequent arguments with her parents between chapters about why she can't intervene in the story to help the characters. Brooke ultimately does this in the book's climax by climbing the Fourth Wall and asking the reader for help, turning the book into a choose-your-own-adventure and having the reader write in how Ms. Direction is ultimately defeated.
Also, it's a crossover with Monster High so Frankie Stein and Draculaura are there.
Heller, Joseph: Catch-22
Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
Howitt, Mary: The Spider and the Fly
The poem itself was referenced in the podcast with regard to the Web on multiple occasions. Also, the illustrations? Fucking hell. This is the irl 'A Guest for Mr. Spider'.
Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll’s House
A Doll's House (Norwegian: Et dukkehjem; also translated as A Doll House) is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month. The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that "a woman cannot be herself in modern society," since it is "an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint." Its ideas can also be seen as having a wider application: Michael Meyer argued that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather "the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person." In a speech given to the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he "must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement," since he wrote "without any conscious thought of making propaganda," his task having been "the description of humanity."
James, E.L.: 50 Shades of Gray
okay not to get too blue, but BDSM is kinda web-coded, and that goes double for the deeply coercive and unsafe dynamics shown here.
James, M.R.: The Ash-Tree
Spiders with baby heads eat a dude.
Jones, Diana Wynne: Black Maria
On the surface, Aunt Maria seems like a cuddly old lady, all chit-chat and lace doilies and unadulterated NICEness!
When Mig and her family go for a short visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules the place with a rod of sweetness that’s tougher than iron and deadlier than poison. Life revolves around tea parties, while the men are all grey-suited zombies who fade into the background, and the other children seem like clones.
The short visit becomes a long stay, and when all talk of going home ceases, Mig despairs! Things go from bad to worse when Mig’s brother Chris tries to rebel, but is changed into a wolf.
Mig is convinced that Aunt Maria must be a witch – but who will believe her? It’s up to Mig to figure out what’s going on. Maybe the ghost who haunts the downstairs bedroom holds the key?
Katsu, Alma: The Fervor
A psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II.
1944: As World War II rages on, the threat has come to the home front. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko's husband's enlistment as an air force pilot in the Pacific months prior, Meiko and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the West. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American-born: They were Japanese, and therefore considered a threat by the American government.
Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp when a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. What starts as a minor cold quickly becomes spontaneous fits of violence and aggression, even death. And when a disconcerting team of doctors arrive, nearly more threatening than the illness itself, Meiko and her daughter team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate, and it becomes clear to them that something more sinister is afoot, a demon from the stories of Meiko’s childhood, hell-bent on infiltrating their already strange world.
Inspired by the Japanese yokai and the jorogumo spider demon, The Fervor explores a supernatural threat beyond what anyone saw coming; the danger of demonization, a mysterious contagion, and the search to stop its spread before it’s too late.
King, Stephen: Misery
Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life
Lermontov, Mikhail: A Hero of Our Time (Last Chapter)
The last chapter of A Hero of Our Time is titled The Fatalist - someone who holds the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable. The characters in it are debating whether or not Fatalism is a valid worldview, and Lieutenant Vulic decides to test it. He states that everything is predetermined and our actions do not matter, loads the gun, points it at his forehead and pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. Later that same night Vulic gets killed by a drunk Cossack.
In high school we had to write multiple essays on this chapter and argue whether or not we think free will exists and is Fatalism valid. It caused me a huge existential crisis. I recommend reading this chapter if you are in mood for a crisis, as it is short, free and available online here https://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/myl/hero.htm
Lewis, Richard: The Spiders
Imagine a spider as big as a Goliath bird-eater with masticating jaws, venom that first paralyzes and then kills, a hard crabshell-like exoskeleton, and two evil eyes that you can see looking at you. Now imagine that's just the drone in a social system similar to an ant or bee colony — its job is to find food and bring it back to the hive, which consists of some even larger spiders and an enormous queen. This is what the protagonists of the book have to deal with in order to save England, where the spiders are slowly advancing from the country into the cities.
Machiavelli, Niccolò: The Prince
The single most famous political treatise and the first entirely secular work of The Renaissance. At the time it was first published, The Prince was seen as extremely scandalous for its endorsement of ruthlessness and amorality. Nevertheless, it quickly became popular with politicians and remains highly influential in Western politics today. While best known for the quote "And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved," he also emphasized the importance of inspiring love and respect, or at least not inspiring hatred. It is not a guide to how to most effectively be an asshole; it is simply a treatise in exercising political pragmatism. The fact that people like to connect those two ideas, that is what makes this Webby.
Maugham, Somerset: The Magician
The Magician is about a soon-to-be-married couple, Margaret and Arthur, crossing paths with the titular magician, Oliver Haddo, and getting their lives turned upside down. Oliver uses his knowledge of arcane magic to seduce Margaret, get her to run away with him, and to completely suppress her free will. Her friends find her and help her escape but she is almost catatonic until one night she feels Oliver's call and runs away again, unable to resist. Throughout the novel Oliver Haddo is often described as weaving webs of lies and manipulation, and his charisma allows him to effectively manipulate any crowd.
Muir, Tamsyn: Gideon the Ninth
(Keeping it vague bc spoilers) one of the characters is not what they seem and has been pulling strings and manipulating people the whole time to get what they want. All the twists and turns in the book also feel very web adjacent.
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita
Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.
Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four
It tells the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of the miserable society of Oceania, who is trying to rebel against the Party and its omnipresent symbol, Big Brother.
The Party desires absolute control over the citizens to the point where they try to change the language to make sure the people cannot even think of rebellion. That is extremely Web.
Pinborough, Sarah: Breeding Ground & Feeding Ground
The world is changing. Women everywhere are giving birth to a new life form — hideous spidery nightmares that live to kill — and feed. As England becomes a series of web-shrouded ghost towns, those left alive must band together in order to survive and find a way to fight back . . . In a sleepy English village Matt Edge and those he has gathered together head for a secret government facility in the hope of finding refuge and answers there, only to find some of their problems are just beginning. In London, a group of schoolboys must take on a crazed drugs lord, determined to create an empire from the wreckage of the city, in order to escape . . . . . . and everywhere, for each of them, the Widows are waiting . . .’
Pinkwater, Daniel: Young Adult Novel
The Wild Dada Ducks members cause all sorts of mischief around their junior high school, but although the boys are not bad, they like to pretend that they are true dadaists with unintentional and irrational behavior. This story centers around their ongoing story of Kevin Shapiro, a character they invented to explore nihilism and tragedy. When they discover that a student actually named Kevin Shapiro attends their school, they make it their mission to make him popular and succeed beyond their wildest dreams as Kevin becomes a dictator.
Pirandello, Luigi: Six Characters in Search of an Author
First performed in 1923, this intellectual comedy introduces six individuals to a stage where a company of actors has assembled for a rehearsal. Claiming to be the incomplete, unused creations of an author's imagination, they demand lines for a story that will explain the details of their lives. In ensuing scenes, these "real-life characters," all professing to be part of an extended family, produce a drama of sorts — punctuated by disagreements, interruptions, and arguments. In the end they are dismissed by the irate manager, their dilemma unsolved and the "truth" a matter of individual viewpoints.
A tour de force exploring the many faces of reality, this classic is now available in an inexpensive edition that will be welcomed by amateur theatrical groups as well as students of drama.
Pratchett, Terry: Witches Abroad
The villain rules her fairy-tale kingdom with an iron fist, using coercive magic and the force of law alike to ensure that everyone follows out the narrative threads she has assigned them. Toymakers must be cheerful and whistling, wolves must be lurking in the woods to assault guileless travelers, and cinder-sweeping girls must marry the prince -- whether they want to or not.
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Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince.
But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"—even if it means destroying a kingdom.
What the bad guy in this book is trying to do, that is molding an entire kingdom into perfect fairy-tale roles, is imo extremely Web plan.
Pratchett, Terry and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
The book is filled with references to double agents and Cold War era spying. Both sides of the angelic war are trying to manipulate the other, and everything is being predicted by a rare book passed down for generations. There's also continuous talk of G-d's ineffible plan, which is never fully explained but might be pulling some strings.
Punko: Stagtown
The goop below makes me do shit
Shakespeare, William: Macbeth
The play takes place in the Scottish Highlands. Fresh from putting down a rebellion against King Duncan, Lord Macbeth meets three witches who hail him as the future king. His scheming and ambitious wife convinces him to make the prophecy come true by killing Duncan.
Well, it's a play so we already get Web theatre motives. And like is Macbeth in control of his life is he not controlled by witches, by fate, by his wife I think this is a Web story.
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
The whole point of the tragedy is that no one can fight fate. No matter the lengths everyone goes through to avoid the prophecy, it still comes true.
White, E.B.: Charlotte's Web
Okay, so it's not the scariest book. However, the plot is ultimately about a spider using cunning words and showmanship to persuade a bunch of humans to do her bidding. That's statement material for sure.
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The titular Charlotte saves Wilbur, a runt pig from slaughter by writing words in her web and making him famous. At the end of the novel, Wilbur wins a special prize at the country fair thanks to Charlotte, and she dies, leaving her spider eggs to Wilbur.
It's not just that Charlotte's a spider, she is actually a genuinely good web avatar. She manipulates a whole farm, and then a town into thinking Wilbur is something special so he doesn't get killed. She literally weaves a web. She is very dedicated to Wilbur's success, so much so that when she dies, it's sort implied that she kept herself alive until Wilbur was confirmed to be survive and the farm wouldn't kill her
Wong, David: This Book is Full of Spiders
It's all there in the title! The book is full of spiders that attack and control people, spreading through the population like a zombie plague.
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general disclaimer: expect spoilers for both the book and the show, although my stuff usually has more book elements. auggie basset & ernest livingston are only in a modern au. in addition, all the important links to my bridgerton: next gen ‘verse can be found here.
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Edmund • Miles • Charlotte • Mary
Charles • Alexander • William • Violet
Agatha • Thomas • Jane • George “Georgie”
Amelia • Auggie • Belinda • Caroline • David • Edward
Amanda • Oliver • Penelope • Georgiana • Frederick
John • Janet
Katharine • Richard • Hermione • Daphne • Anthony “Ant” • Benedict “Ben” • Colin • Eloise • Francesca “Frannie”
George • Isabella
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮𝓼 (𝓪𝓴𝓪 𝓜𝔂 𝓞𝓒𝓼)
Juliet Knight • Grace Hill • Rupert Townshend • Arthur Townshend
Nell Shepherd • Emma Rutledge • Róisín O’Connolly • Jonathan “Jack” Fullerton
Stephen Ridlington • Eleanor Dane • Morgan Howell • Olivia Sharpe
Ernest Livingston • Phoebe Wycliff • Molly Campbell
Alice Linfield • Christopher “Kit” Barrington • Lucas Wivenly • Beatrice Winslow
Adeline Meadows • Jasper Prentice
Gabe Montgomery • Elizabeth Winslow • Neil Pemberton • Timothy Macmillan • Felicity Holroyd • Evie Wright • Vivian Marsh • Adam Howe • Nathaniel Moore
Lilliana Steele • Patrick O’Donovan
𝓢𝓷𝓪𝓹𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓽𝓼 𝓘𝓷 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮: 𝓐 𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷
Note: As they have canonical spouses, I have not included stories for Amelia Basset, Belinda Basset, Caroline Basset, and Amanda Crane. Auggie Basset and his story are set in a modern AU. Each story is a one shot with snapshots of moments in their love stories.
TBD [Edmund Bridgerton & Juliet Knight, 1843]
TBD [Miles Bridgerton & Grace Hill, 1844]
TBD [Charlotte Bridgerton & Rupert Townshend, 1846]
TBD [Mary Bridgerton & Arthur Townshend, 1851]
TBD [Charles Bridgerton & Nell Shepherd, 1846]
TBD [Alexander Bridgerton & Emma Rutledge, 1847]
Don’t Care About Religion [William Bridgerton & Róisín O’Connolly, 1848]
TBD [Violet Bridgerton & Jack Fullerton, 1848]
TBD [Agatha Bridgerton & Stephen Ridlington, 1847]
TBD [Thomas Bridgerton & Eleanor Dane, 1853]
TBD [Jane Bridgerton & Morgan Howell, 1851]
TBD [Georgie Bridgerton & Olivia Sharpe, 1860]
Tempting Into Marriage [David Basset & Phoebe Wycliff, 1844]
TBD [Edward Basset & Molly Campbell, 1859]
TBD [Auggie Basset & Ernest Livingston, 2043-44]
TBD [Oliver Crane & Alice Linfield, 1847]
TBD [Penelope Crane & Christopher Barrington, 1849]
TBD [Georgiana Crane & Lucas Wivenly, 1850]
TBD [Frederick Crane & Beatrice Winslow, 1857]
TBD [John Stirling & Adeline Meadows, 1855]
TBD [Janet Stirling & Jasper Prentice, 1851]
TBD [Katharine Bridgerton & Gabe Montgomery, 1848]
TBD [Richard Bridgerton & Elizabeth Winslow, 1856]
TBD [Hermione Bridgerton & Neil Pemberton, 1854]
TBD [Daphne Bridgerton & Timothy Macmillan, 1852]
TBD [Ant Bridgerton & Felicity Holroyd, 1860]
TBD [Ben Bridgerton & Evie Wright, 1863]
TBD [Colin Bridgerton & Vivian Marsh, 1863]
Hypothetically [Eloise Bridgerton & Adam Howe, 1861]
TBD [Frannie Bridgerton & Nathaniel Moore, 1862]
TBD [George St. Clair & Lilliana Steele, 1855]
TBD [Isabella St. Clair & Patrick O’Donovan, 1850]
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Next Gen Fics:
In Which William Bridgerton Is Born Prematurely
I’d Still Dance with You
To See My Son Become a Father
Other Bridgerton Fics:
You Belong Somewhere You Feel Free
You Must Know You Are Beloved
The Aftermath
Bridgerton Writing Requests (closed)
Main Tags: #bridgerton next generation • #bridgerton next gen • #bridgerton next gen oc
#arrow’s masterlist#*my masterlist#bridgerton next generation#bridgerton next gen#bridgerton next gen oc#bridgerton oc#fic series: snapshots in love#bridgerton#bng series#feel free to ask about this series!!#it’ll be a little while before any stories are published and still trying to figure out which platform they’ll be on!
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