#Desert island books

[pratchettquotes]

"He's started catching fish," said the Senior Wrangler. "That means he'll come over all smug and start asking what plans we've got for making a boat at any minute, you know what he's like."

The Dean looked at some sketches he'd made on a rock.

"How hard can it be to build a boat?" he said. "People with bones in their noses build boats. And we are the end product of thousands of years of enlightenment. Building a boat is not beyond men like us, Senior Wrangler."

"Quite, Dean."

"All we have to do is search this island until we find a book with a title like Practical Boat-Building for Beginners."

"Exactly. It'll be plain sailing after that, Dean. Ahaha."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[studiolemonboy]

Day 6: Bone Head

Season of the Bad Guys Club 9

[du-sailarar-nerilia]

Probably a hot take but Paolini kinda effed up with that world map

Aside from people from Surda and Hadarac, most people of Alagaësia are basically Knockoff Europeans and many are described as pale-skinned. And as we know, pale skin is something that evolved under pressure of cold European climate. And Alagaësia very much does have that cold, sort of European climate around the Palancar Valley and along The Spine.

But the problem is that humans aren't native to Alagaësia! So where do they come from!

What the hell!

-Mist

[a-a-a-anon]

the fact that ade genuinely loves punk music and apparently changed his "formerly 'straight'" style and bought "tight, striped ‘punk-style’ trousers" at the same time when lise, rik and ben were writing tyo (according to alexei sayle's autobio) is so cute to me for some reason… like rik (with lise and ben) wrote that character sooo tailor made and perfect for his best friend to play

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (12-18 Jan 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 An Apple A Day (SquadOfCats) - 59K shrunkyclunks with doctor!/part time apple seller!Bucky & very freshly defrosted Cap!Steve - EXCELLENT FIC, ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS 🍎🍏

🥰 bear hugs (steddieas_shegoes) - 76K steddie second chance hockey AU where they're both retired NHL'ers, Steve's a single dad & Eddie's his daughter's coach (main fic in a series, lots of fun sequel drabbles in series)

🙂 The Paddington Mystery (Dr. Priestley #1) (John Rhode, author; Gordon Griffin, narrator) - golden age detective story, originally published 1925. read for Shedunnit Book Club. Decently readable Golden Age mystery marred by the period-typical, latent antisemitism; it's not as egregious as other Golden Age stories I've read but it's definitely present in an almost 'background radiation' way

😍 Monoclonius (Zenaidamacrouras1) - reread for stucky book club, forever fave. Featuring environmental policy lobbyist single dad Steve with a dino-obsessed daughter, paleontologist post-doc Bucky, a fantastic co-parenting arrangement, amazing but chaotic roommates and the star of the fic: a purple trilobite plushie named Izzy

💖💖 +139K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

One deep breath out from the sky (musette22) - MCU: Stucky, 14K - just a really good sex pollen fic. in the year 2025! we love to see it.

Fixer-Upper (earlgreytea68) - Inception: Arthur/Eames, 8K - The One Where They're Stars on HGTV #1 - the start of an 9 work so-far amazing series (no surprise with this writer) but I was IN IT before I realized the entire series is 466K. I ain't even really mad about it, I just usually plan those sorts of reads. 😂 (you could absolutely just read this fic & be 100% satisfied, it's very definitely a stand-alone)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

The Graham Norton Show - s31, e14 (Daniel Craig, Nicola Coughlan, Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin and FLO)

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - s2, e1; s3, e7; s1, e2

Nobody Asked - s1, e4

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #21

Handsome - Penn Jillette asks about the placebo effect

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #22

Home Town - s9, e3

Heartstopper - s3, e1

Death In Paradise - Christmas Special 2024

Dirty Laundry - s4, e12

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Desert Island Discs - Cher, singer and actor

The Sporkful - Our 15th Anniversary Sporktacular

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe - Time travel fiction

Sibling Rivalry - The One About DnD (with Brennan Lee Mulligan)

Switched on Pop - Our jingle sucks. Let’s change it.

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Best One-Hit Wonders

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Kola Superdeep Borehole

⭐ 99% Invisible - Ancient DMs

⭐ Vibe Check - Zero to Hero featuring Royal Ramey

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Wolf Man And What's Making Us Happy

Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 650. “I’m Going to Keep Daring” - Romance and History with Joanna Shupe

Shedunnit - Book Club Fact File: The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode (No Spoilers)

Shedunnit - Book Club Conversation: The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode (Full Spoilers)

��� Decoder Ring - I am Tupperware, I Contain Multitudes

Hit Parade - The Freewheelin’ Edition

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

'80s Soft Pop

Power Ballads Forever

'60s Sunshine Pop

Bad Bunny

'70s Rock

[grainsofexcellence]

"Regina froze. Emma hadn’t doomed them – she had."

Continue reading: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57356140/chapters/155407867 #swanqueen #reginamills #emmaswan #OnceUponATime #wlw #sapphic #books #suspense #queerlovestory

Also Crystal Coulter, dude thank you so much for the over a year of accountability! None of this would get posted without your help! <3 all the SQ love. And thanks to Graci in France for the help with some edits!

[sugarsnappeases]

KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME

[monkeyssalad-blog]

1948 illustration by A Groves Raines by totallymystified Via Flickr: For the story The Loot Of Bombasharna by Lord Dunsany. From The Modern Gift Book For Children.

[fireworkss-exe]

what have I become. at any mention of the great gatsby I actually act like a fool

[transgenderboobs]

clenches my fists so tight they draw blood

[tenth-sentence]

They would have thought it very pretty if they had not remembered the time when it was open and breezy and full of merry friends.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - C. S. Lewis

[nastylittleghouls]

🐰🌴

Thank you <3

🐰 What do you think says the most about a person?

There a few things but the first that came to mind was is how a person treats staff (restaurant, hotel, retail workers etc) and homeless peeps. 

🌴  Desert island item?

Lord of the Rings Trilogy book box 😂

[cinnamonrollsos]

Desert Island Discs

You’re stranded on a desert island, but you can pick eight recordings, a book and a luxury item to have with you. You get the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible/other appropriate religious or philosophical book as a ‘freebie’. The luxury item must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside. What do you take? Say as much or as little as you like about why you made those picks

Thank you to @a-noble-dragon and @jamilas-pen for the tags.

1 Tracy Chapman – Talking About a Revolution - my favourite song of all time to play and sing

2 Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World - my dad sang this at my children's naming ceremonies and we sang it back to him at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Gorgeous.

3 The Wailing Jennys – One Voice – a beautiful song featuring and about voices in harmony.

4 Mozart Requiem - The greatest music ever written. In my humble opinion.

5 Dresden Dolls – Coin-operated Boy – Piano-based punk cabaret. Is Amanda Palmer the coolest person ever?

6 Arrested Development – People Everyday – to make me smile.

7 Nick Cave and Kylie – Where the Wild Roses Grow – cool and sexy

8 The Young Uns - Be The Man - A beautiful song about a tragic story of religious homophobia. Please support The Naz and Matt Foundation in working towards a world where religion never comes between the love of a parent for their child.

Book Some giant compendium of poetry about love and nature (and how to survive on a desert island).

Luxury item A grand piano please.

If you are reading this consider yourself tagged, I would love to know more about you.

[bigmack2go]

[dbphantom]

New hyperfixation unlocked moodboard

[grainsofexcellence]

Updates to Current Stories:

Summary:

"Please was never the magic word with you." his heart crushed to dust. Regina had been bought and sold too many times to count when she ended up with the princess. Even all of her efforts and sweet gestures couldn't control what happened in the Middle of the Night.

Summary:

Regina Mills was human long ago. As a child a chance encounter with her own demon sealed her fate to haunt a fear island forever. As her latest victim arrives, she can't help but feel her humanity stirring deep within her, as well as a dark envy fed by questions of why she was never saved. Emma Swan is terrified. She just survived an accident at sea and despite washing up on a deserted island with a beautiful woman, night terrors begin to bleed into her waking life. Is this place and this mystery woman her salvation or will they lead to her demise?