#Claire Howell

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[manchestereyes]

smosh AND dapg returning in the same year?? nature really is healing

[raye-sim]

me making them all adults: *apply eyebags*

[escalusia]

Three of Hearts ❤️ - Nothing but unparalleled love ❤️

Howel - Claire - Joseph

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Wanted: Dead or Alive Season One 1958-1959

[white-queen-lacus]

Happy Mother's Day! 💖💖

And Happy Day to the literary moms! 💖 That's why I'm sharing a scene from my last original story "Dark Circus: the most precious treasure" which is very important to me! 💖💖 Here there is:

– Nicholas!! –

Marcus screamed, as we ran to the fence. The dazzling light of a flash allowed us to see each other, for a couple of moments. Nicholas looked up terrified at us, then widened his eyes and began to shout in turn, his voice broken by tears.

– Dad!! MOM!! –

I inhaled and suddenly it was as if the whole world around me had stopped turning. Mom.

I blinked, as Marcus pushed the swinging gate, probably already disented by bad weather, to pass to the other side. Mom.

The lapping of the waves in flood against the cliff. Our steps in the race. Nicholas shouted, a few meters from us and we saw the brilliance of the diamond rolling away from the swing. Mom.

– Nicholas!! – I screamed again, torn apart, suddenly blocking myself. Silence.

My heart went crazy, galloping with loose briars. I closed my eyes.

– Mom!! –

His voice, desperate. I reopened my eyes and before I even realized it, my body moved on its own. For some absurd reason, I remembered Elizabeth telling me how she had tried to prevent Alexander from jumping off the terrace and how she couldn't, seeing him go down until he ended up in the water and I started running past Marcus who could not stop me in any way, this time. Without heels I was faster... and I was light. I ran feeling the perception of the earth becoming more and more muddy under my bare feet. The rotating light coming from the lighthouse illuminated the dark expanse in front of me. The ocean was in full storm. I caught my breath and jumped. Un, deux, trois. Demi Plie et Grand Jetè.

I had never gone on with dancing, although as a child my mother had insisted that I take classes. Since it wasn't something that could get my father's attention, I had soon lost interest. And yet, those noble and grandiose steps had something extraordinary, in their quest for perfect execution. But there was nothing extraordinary about that jump. Only the mechanic remembered positions tried and tried again until they were exhausted on the parquet of a room full of mirrors, but remained to haw in the memory of the body. That body that would also have been willing to destroy itself in order to save a child who, although not born from it, leained to it, screaming that name in tears. Mom! I grabbed Nicholas by squeezing him to me and managed to turn around with strength on the trunk. The pain of the tear that followed was excruciating, the strongest I had ever felt in my life. A few seconds separated us from ending up in the water, always assuming that the waves had not overwhelmed us before. But I would have sold the leather at a high price. I had learned to fight, to resist. And for my son I was willing to do anything. I looked at him. The thick black-haired head pressing on my chest, clinging like a little koala trembling over me. At that moment I didn't think we were going to die. I felt like crying at the memory of the first memory of him. After a long night and the interrogation of joint agencies given to Harriet Cruise and Varban Petrov, in Norfolk, we had reached Lex and the others present at the hotel. The presence of a child who could be considered a potential biological weapon had been what we had not yet been able to reach a point of agreement on. All we knew was what Alexander and Alejandra Ortega had reported, namely that Nicholas had always been kept under the key by the Reyes, owners of Cruise&Sons Pharma, and that his plasma had been the subject of study for alleged biological immunity to chemical agents of various kinds. When Kate joined us with Jace, holding hands of what Morris considered a danger to public safety, all I had seen was a six-year-old boy who was thin, underweight, wearing a jacket bigger than him, thick and disheveled black hair, the low and frightened look of those who were afraid of being mistreated again. I had approached it, with an impetus that I had never felt before and Nicholas had looked at me for the first time, revealing his blue eyes, the same cut as those of his late mother, for a moment, before he went back to hiding behind Kate. And, in those eyes that revealed all her pain, I realized for the first time in my life, I who had given up the idea of becoming a mother, that for that child I would be ready to give even my own life. I had sworn to Karina, after Nicholas' adoptability was declared, that I would do anything for him. And, when we could finally hold him in our arms as our son, I had confirmation that this would be the case for Marcus too.

[escalusia]

Thank you so, so much for this!!! This warmed my heart and tickled my brain!! <333333333333333333

A kissy commishie of Claire, Joseph, and Duncan for Es­calu­si­a!!!

[coricatchthorne]

Cori Reads: Magica Riot

I was fortunate to join Bluesky right in time to find out about the release of Kara Buchanan's Magica Riot (@magicariot), a love letter to magical girls of all kinds (especially trans/queer ones <3), different forms of queerness, the magical girl genre as a whole, indie bands, and Portland, Oregon, a city I’m more than a little fond of myself. Minor spoilers to chat about some favorite elements!

There’s both familiarity and freshness here for fans of Magical Girl Things™, which makes for a comforting yet engaging read. The magical girl transformations include gender affirming magic and outfits with an alternative twist. The most frequent baddies have big horror movie monster energy, with lovingly gross descriptions of their own transformations. The conflicts have musical overtones, since the girls aren’t just squadmates but bandmates who wield their powers through their instruments, and there’s an interest in things like the difference between often-lumped together concepts like beat and rhythm. Each of the Magica Riot girls brings a different type of feminine power and queerness (there's even a polyamorous pan/bisexual in there which I really appreciated <3), and they are unified in their celebration of and care for each other.

The wicked magical girls (yes thank goodness we love a wicked magical girl) have, of course, hidden depths and inner conflicts as well as ominous devotion to their mysterious evil mistress. The romance is sweet and gay and notably untortured, with a lovely scene in the Portland rose garden where main character Claire gets to see her own beauty and femininity reflected through the camera of the girl she adores. And instead of the genre’s frequent obsession with keeping secrets, this story likes to get things out of the closet and into the open, which I found especially refreshing in the romance. Several times I braced myself for genre-typical angst at a crossed wire or missed text or date or whatever and then it just DIDN'T HAPPEN because that's not what this story is doing and also these women actually default to talking to each other when in doubt, even and especially when it's awkward, and it was SO NICE.

The prose and pacing is brisk, keeping the scenes and set pieces coming. But some of my favorite moments were when the story took a moment to linger on delightful, specific oddities: a local juice cart and its endearingly in-character owner; a beloved band van with a storied history and a sturdy frame; a [gender-intentionally-left-blank] Dark Souls-obsessed IT gremlin (ilu hikariii <3) I enjoyed the sense of place; this story is set in Portland, and while you don’t need to have been there to enjoy it, there’s little treats if you have (it’s been too long since I’ve been to “Howell’s”) and clearly lots more for the actual PDX locals.

I had a fun time with the girls in Portland, and I look forward to seeing what’s next for them! Preview and links to purchase here: https://magicariot.com/

[midwest-phrincess]

Dan Howell 🤝 Claire Dunphy

marrying a goofy man named Phil

[its-tortle]

tortle's 2024 reads

never let me go by kazuo ishiguro - ●●●●○

neverwhere by neil gaiman - ●●●●○

wann wird es wieder so wie es nie war? by joachim meyerhoff - ●●●●○

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zavin - ●●●●●

as i lay dying by william faulkner - ●●○○○

you will get through this night by daniel howell - ●●●●○

the namesake by jhumpa lahiri - ●●●●○

a clockwork orange by anthony burgess - ●●●○○

(rr) little women by louisa may alcott - ●●●●○

a long way down by nick hornby - ●●●●●

white noise by don delillo - ●●●○○

the charm offensive by alison cochrun- ●●○○○

fair play by tove jansson- ●●●○○

my last innocent year by daisy alpert florin - ●●●●●

on beauty by zadie smith - ●●●●○

on se left you see se siegessäule by tilmann birr - ●●●○○

the pursuit of love by nancy mitford - ●●●○○

killers of a certain age by deanna rayborne - ●●●●○

little weirds by jenny slate - ●●●●●

free by lea ypi - ●●●●○

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams - ●●●●○

der laden (teil 1) by erwin strirttmatter - ●●●○○

small things like these by claire keegan - ●●●○○

the vanishing half by brit bennet - ●●●●●

the joy luck club by amy tan - ●●●○○

the friend by sigrid nunez - ●●●●○

i'm sorry you feel that way by rebecca wait - ●●●●○

(rr) carry on by rainbow rowell - ●●●●○

pelican girls by julia mayle - ●●●●○

scherbentanz by chris kraus - ●●●○○

everything is illuminated by jonathan safran foer - ●●●●○

wayward son & any way the wind blows by rainbow rowell - ●●●●○

a good girl's guide to murder by holly jackson - ●●●●○

bitch by lucy cooke - ●●●○○

mirror, shoulder, signal by dorthe nors - ●●●●●

the heaven and earth grocery store by james mc bride - ●●●●○

boyfriend material by alexis hall - ●●●○○

kummer aller art by mariana leky - ●●●●○

sense and sensibility by jane austen - ●●●○○

good material by dolly alderton - ●●●●○

harlem shuffle by colson whitehead - ●●●○○

uprooted by naomi novak - ●●●●○

(rr) fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury - ●●●●○

die diplomatin by lucy fricke - ●●●○○

the silence of the girls by pat barker - ●●●●●

(rr) giovanni's room by james baldwin - ●●●●○

yellowface by rebecca f. kuang- ●●●●●

(rr) the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by mark haddon - ●●●●○

how to be good by nick hornby - ●●●●○

(rr) swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrwoski - ●●●●○

my book ranking system, for insight:

●●●●● – loved loved loved this. it might have made me cry. i will be recommending this to everyone ●●●●○ – nice!! a good read. would reread and will be keeping it all pretty on my shelf ●●●○○ – t'was a book! maybe not quite my genre or not what i needed in that moment, but no ragrets. i got something out of it ●●○○○ – eh. didn’t really need to read this. it was kind of unoriginal and/or not my thing ●○○○○ – could not finish. who published this and why.

disclaimer: i am not the arbitor of taste. if i rated something high and you hate it, or i rated something low that you love, alright! the joy of reading is that every novel has a reader that appreciates it.

[manchestereyes]

alright phannies what day do we think the phwedding is gonna be

[artisticlegshake]

THE DANCE AWARDS ORLANDO RESULTS 2023

SENIOR SOLOS:

1st Sam Fine - STARS JP!

2nd Robert Williams Nicolau - STARS JP!

3rd Destanye Diaz - STARS JP!

3rd Sofia Benning - EDX JP!

3rd Sebastien Leroux - ECOLE DE DANSE JP!

3rd Bella Tagle - STARS JP!

4th Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl - STARS JP!

5th Iliana Victor - STARS JP!

5th Caleb Monnell - WEST FLORIDA JP!

5th Kennedy Clouse - EDX JP!

5th Andres Jimenez - ARTISTIC EDGE JP!

6th Julia Lowe - EDX JP!

6th Zuzu Duchon - PROJECT 21 JP!

6th Sierra Drayton - EDX JP!

7th Ivanna Vaitkus - THE NINE JP!

7th Lamonte Sadler - CHARLOTTE PAA JP!

7th Angel DiMartino Palladino - VLAD’S JP!

7th Sammi Chung - PROJECT 21 JP!

7th Ally Pereira - STUDIO 61 JP!

7th Madison Mier - YOUR HAVEN JP!

8th Kristin Howell - EDX JP!

8th Sofia Gander - WEST FLORIDA JP!

8th Loila Rhee - PROEJCT 21 JP!

9th Claire Riegler - STARS JP!

9th Jayden Lan - VLAD’S JP!

9th Kaden Golding - EDX JP!

10th Maya Morrison - EDX JP!

10th Tatiana Hagee - NORTHPOINTE JP!

10th Isabella Weidmann - WESTCHESTER JP!

10th Yasmina Granic - CDC JP!

[escalusia]

From Claire and Duncan 🎄

I dream of WoW weather effects, and especially in Gilneas ❤️

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

🦘 Booklr Reads Australian - Authors on My Shelves 🐨

so, I’ve been trying to think of a way to recommend a lot of Australian authors really quickly for Booklr Reads Australian. what I came up with was just to give y’all a giant list of all the authors I have at home! 

most of them are YA and/or fantasy authors, and I’ve marked my favourites with an asterisk (*) but if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an ask 😊

1. Sarah Ayoub 2. Eugen Bacon 3. Shirley Barber * 4. AJ Betts 5. Danielle Binks * 6. Cally Black 7. Steph Bowe * 8. Alice Boyle 9. JC Burke 10. Meg Caddy * 11. Frances Chapman 12. Wai Chim * 13. Claire Christian 14. Lyndall Clipstone 15. Claire G Coleman 16. Katherine Collette 17. Harry Cook 18. Cath Crowley 19. Robyn Dennison 20. Cale Dietrich 21. Lauren Draper 22. CG Drews * 23. Michael Earp 24. Kate Emery 25. Sarah Epstein 26. Alison Evans * 27. Fleur Ferris 28. Carly Findlay 29. Helena Fox 30. Lisa Fuller 31. Emily Gale 32. Meg Gatland-Veness 33. Sophie Gonzales 34. Erin Gough * 35. Leanne Hall * 36. Pip Harry 37. Sonya Hartnett 38. Adam Hills 39. Simmone Howell 40. Megan Jacobson 41. Amie Kaufman 42. Melissa Keil 43. Nina Kenwood 44. Sharon Kernot 45. Kay Kerr * 46. Will Kostakis 47. Jay Kristoff 48. Ambelin Kwaymullina 49. Benjamin Law 50. Rebecca Lim 51. Gary Lonesborough * 52. Kathleen Loughnan 53. Miranda Luby 54. Tobias Madden 55. Melina Marchetta 56. Ellie Marney * 57. Freya Marske 58. Jodi McAlister * 59. Margot McGovern * 60. Nikki McWatters 61. Anna Morgan 62. Jaclyn Moriarty 63. Liane Moriarty 64. Garth Nix 65. Lynette Noni 66. Carly Nugent 67. Poppy Nwosu 68. Kate O’Donnell 69. Shivaun Plozza 70. Michael Pryor 71. Alice Pung 72. Emily Rodda * 73. Autumn Royal 74. Omar Sakr 75. Holden Sheppard 76. AG Slatter 77. Jo Spurrier 78. Krystal Sutherland * 79. Jared Thomas 80. Hayli Thompson 81. Gabrielle Tozer 82. Christos Tsiolkas 83. Alicia Tuckerman 84. Ellen van Neerven 85. Marlee Jane Ward 86. Vikki Wakefield 87. Lisa Walker 88. Jessica Watson * 89. Allayne L Webster 90. Anna Whateley * 91. Samantha Wheeler 92. Jen Wilde * 93. Rhiannon Wilde 94. Lili WIlkinson 95. Gabrielle Williams 96. Rhiannon Williams 97. Fiona Wood 98. Leanne Yong 99. Suzy Zail 100. Nevo Zisin 101. Markus Zusak

[ozimagines]

Lol men. Though Claire Howell would definitely be “I’m hotter than you” too. Feel like Morales would be a little jealous of your looks😅

[infectiouspiss]

dan howell got his ears pierced at claire's of course he fucking did