#Elaine/Booker

[avictimofthejazz]

Elaine kiss Booker or Murph

Elaine’s cheeks tinge pink at the unexpected question, and she resists the urge to press her hands over them. It is like this person has been watching the office, and knows about the handsome men who work with her! At least they did not ask about all three guys—that would be more embarrassing than she wants to admit too!

“Oh come on,” She laughs and rubs lightly at her face. “Like either of those guys would want to kiss me! Let’s be real here!” Still, the question demands an answer. Despite the pink quickly turning to red, she finds herself seriously considering her options. In the end, only one choice stands clear. Even if Murphy is cute, and kind, her answer will always favor Booker. Dropping her eyes shyly, she bites down on her bottom lip before confessing. “If I had to pick between them, I’d pick Dennis. Not that he’d ever notice, what with the supermodel types he likes to go out with!” she quickly adds on. “I’m just his secretary. Guys never seriously notice secretaries—just in a kind of casual way, or if they want to harass us. Dennis is too nice to do the latter, and well…” She trails off quietly, eyes focusing on her haphazardly stacked pen cup. “Like I said, he likes to go out with supermodel types…”  

[books-i-once-read]

Being sensitive means you understand people. And that’s the greatest power.

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

[lilianeruyters]

Elaine Feeney || How to Build a Boat

Booker Prize Longlist 2023 I am not quite sure about How to Build a Boat. At times I felt it was getting a tad over the top. On the cover of my copy Douglas Stuart claims that How to Build is ‘a gorgeous gift of a novel, hopeful and full of humanity’. I agree with it being hopeful and being full of humanity. Maybe I would have appreciated its literary quality more if it had been less full of…

[dreammakcr]

( most wanted ships! warning - this is an extensive list )

bellatrix black/tom riddle

george weasley/hermione granger

george weasley/angelina johnson

ginny weasely/draco malfoy

ginny weasley/harry potter

hermione granger/ron weasley

hermione granger/draco malfoy

lily evans/james potter

lily evans/remus lupin

narcissa black/lucius malfoy

neville longbottom/hannah abbot

neville longbottom/luna lovegood

rose weasley/teddy lupin

rose weasley/scorpius malfoy

alice cullen/jasper hale

alice cullen/bella swan

bella swan/edward cullen

carlisle cullen/esme cullen

charlie swan/sue clearwater

emmett cullen/rosalie hale

katrina denali/garrett

tanya denali/edward cullen

winona uley/renesmee cullen

alicent hightower/rhaenyra targaryen

sansa stark/theon greyjoy

myrcella baratheon/robb stark

adam auradon/belle

amelia thermopolis/nicholas devereaux

anastasia romanov/dimitri

ariel triton/eric

charlotte la bouff/tiana

flynn ryder/rapunzel

jasmine shah/aladdin

kim possible/shego

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megara/hercules

tiana maladonia/naveen

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azriel/elain archeron

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feyre archeron/tamlin

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lucien vanserra/elain archeron

morrigan/emerie

blossom sungaze/nyx

tamlin sungaze/elain archeron

anne boleyn/catherine of aragon

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katherine howard/thomas culpeper

elphaba thropp/glinda upland

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maureen johnson/joanne jefferson

mimi marquez/roger davis

dean winchester/jo harvelle

mary winchester/john winchester

aphrodite/ares

hades/persephone

bruce wayne/selina kyle

clark kent/lois lane

diana prince/bruce wayne

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phoebe halliwell/coop

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piper halliwell/leo wyatt

inuyasha/kagome

mamoru chiba/usagi tsukino

amy santiago/jake peralta

bo dennis/dyson thornwood 

bo dennis/lauren lewis

david nolan/mary margaret blanchard

hale santiago/kenzi malikov

olivia benson/elliot stabler

regina mills/robin hood

veronica mars/logan echolls

elizabeth bennett/mr. darcy

elle woods/emmett forest

elle woods/vivian kensington

ian o'shea/wanderer

alessandra stathos/kallias

cardan greenbriar/jude duarte

elizabeth comstock/booker dewitt

karlach cliffgate/wyll ravengard

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wrath/emilia di carlo

[iloveitxwhenaplanxcomestogether]

Booker and Elaine's daughter @avictimofthejazz

Name: Ellie Denise Booker

Fc: Gina Gershon

alias: Madeia (Cunning) Andras (Marquise of HELL) Booker,

(gang crime name) Coffin Booker

Shrewd. She whole-heartedly takes after Dennis Booker. Her outward appearance is MENACING but like her father, she's a massive SOFTIE. She loves helpping innocent people while putting the hurt on JERKS who deserve it. Her left ear is riddled with multiple FAKE piercings and she has a tattoo of a skull on her right hip. She dresses in a beat up black leather jacket and wears only mascara for makeup. Danger hardly fazes her.

There are bits of Elaine in her. She excels with being a secretary and snoop.

Works for the NEXT GEN of Jump Street. Her FATHER hates it. It puts him on edge given how badly he burned out from the same unit.

[thereismoretomylifethenice]

//Since I have a few more followers around, here are all the RP blogs you can find me at @thereismoretomylifethenice Disney’s Frozen muses--Queen Elsa (most active), Kristoff and Hans. (low activity in general) 

@avictimofthejazz 1970s/1980s Multi-muse. A-Team, SWAT 1975, Knight Rider, Adam-12, Remington Steele, and Booker muses. Characters as follows: Templeton ‘Face Man’ Peck, BA Baracus, Dr. Maggie Sullivan, Dr. Kelly Stevens, Officer Jim Street, Michael Knight, Officer Jim Reed, Murphy Michaels, and Elaine Grazzo.  (High activity) 

@fourcornersarizona --1998 Magnificent 7 muses--Vin Tanner, Mary Travis & Inez Recillos (Low activity but still active) 

@anoseforrottenapples -- British-eque Multi muses. Midsomer Murders, Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Turn: Washington’s Spies. Characters as follows, Gavin Troy, Miss Marple, and Mary Woodhull. (High activity) 

All blogs are crossover and multi-verse friendly. Historical muses have modern/mostly modern AUs, more modern muses have historical AUs. Housekeeping is embarrassingly far behind--just message me if you have questions XD

[bookclub4m]

Episode 203 - Dark Academia

 It’s episode 203 and time for us to discuss the genre of Dark Academia! We discuss aesthetics as genres, cosplaying as academics, anti-intellectualism, the differences between Canadian and American university experiences, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker

An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

The Cloisters (the museum)

And He Shall Appear by Kate Van Der Borgh

Other Media We Mentioned

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Howl's Moving Castle (film)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu

Includes “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc”

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake

Faust

Links, Articles, and Things

Dark academia (Wikipedia)

Episode 115 - New Weird

Kurt Vonnegut

Episode 134 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

University of King's College

Sour Patch Kids

Magic Circle

Bottle episode

Episode 202 - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

Skull and Bones

Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers

Cottagecore

15 Dark Academia by Authors of Colour:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by POC (People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma

An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson

Babel by R.F. Kuang

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi 

Land of No Regrets by Sadi Muktadir

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao 

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Join us again on Tuesday, December 3rd we’ll be talking about the genre of Cozy Fantasy!

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A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Curtis Taylor Jr.: Jamie Foxx Deena Jones: Beyoncé James “Thunder” Early: Eddie Murphy Marty Madison: Danny Glover Effie White: Jennifer Hudson Lorrell Robinson: Anika Noni Rose C.C. White: Keith D. Robinson Michelle Morris: Sharon Leal Wayne: Hinton Battle Magic: Mariah Iman Wilson May: Yvette Cason Max Washington: Ken Page M.C.: Ralph Louis Harris Tiny Joe Dixon: Michael-Leon Wooley Jazz Singer: Loretta Devine Jerry Harris: John Lithgow Sam Walsh: John Krasinski Ronald White: Alexander Folk Aunt Ethel: Esther Scott Miami Comic: Bobby Slayton Teddy Campbell: Jordan Wright Melba Early: Dawnn Lewis Talent Booker: Jaleel White Joann: JoNell Kennedy Charlene: Sybyl Walker Stepp Sister: Lesley Nicole Lewis Stepp Sister: Eboni Nichols Stepp Sister: Arike Rice Stepp Sister: Fatima Robinson Little Albert: Aakomon Jones Tru-Tone: Bernard Fowler Tru-Tone: Anwar Burton Tru-Tone: Tyrell Washington Dave: Rory O’Malley Sweetheart: Laura Bell Bundy Sweetheart: Anne Elizabeth Warren David Bennett: Ivar Brogger Jimmy’s Piano Player: Daren A. Herbert Elvis Kelly: Jocko Sims Rhonda: Pam Trotter Janice: Cleo King Club Manager: Eddie Mekka Case Worker: Alejandro Furth TV Reporter: Dilva Henry American Bandstand Producer: Vince Grant Nicky Cassaro: Robert Cicchini TV Director: Thomas Crawford Carl: Charles Jones Technical Director: Robert Curtis Brown Tania Williams: Stephanie Owens Man with Gun: Gilbert Glenn Brown Stagehand: Marty Ryan Detroit Reporter: Michael Villani Chicago Deejay: Gregg Berger L.A. Deejay: Daniel Riordan Photographer: David James Promo Film Narrator (voice): Paul Kirby Security Guard: Derick Alexander Curtis’ Secretary: Yvette Nicole Brown Go-Go Dancer: Nancy Anderson Go-Go Dancer: Joelle Cosentino Go-Go Dancer: Lisa Eaton Go-Go Dancer: Clare Kutsko Go-Go Dancer: Tracy Phillips Go-Go Dancer: Kelleia Sheerin Campbell Connection Dancer: Mykel Brooks Campbell Connection Dancer: Johnny Erasme Campbell Connection Dancer: Cory Graves Campbell Connection Dancer: J.R. Taylor Bad Side Dancer: Corinthea Henderson Bad Side Dancer: Craig Hollamon Bad Side Dancer: Reginald Jackson Bad Side Dancer: Chuck Maldonado Bad Side Dancer: Anthony Rue II Bad Side Dancer: John Silver Bad Side Dancer: Larry Sims Bad Side Dancer: Black Thomas Bad Side Dancer: Kevin Wilson Bad Side Dancer: Adrian Wiltshire Bad Side Dancer: Earl Wright Bad Side Dancer: Russell “Goofy” Wright Disco Dancer: Dominic Chaiduang Disco Dancer: Jose Cueva Disco Dancer: Omhmar Griffin Disco Dancer: Sky Hoffmann Disco Dancer: Trevor Lopez-Daggett Disco Dancer: Leo Moctezuma Disco Dancer: Gabriel Paige Disco Dancer: Terrance Spencer Disco Dancer: Tony Testa Disco Dancer: Quinton Weathers Disco Dancer: Jull Weber Disco Dancer: Marcel Wilson Jimmy’s Band: Stevie Ray Anthony Jimmy’s Band: Matthew Dickens Jimmy’s Band: Jerohn Garnett Jimmy’s Band: Mario Mosley Jimmy’s Band: Jimmy R.O. Smith Film Crew: Casting: Debra Zane Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh Executive Producer: Patricia Whitcher Producer: David Geffen Foley Artist: Catherine Harper Foley Artist: Christopher Moriana Producer: Laurence Mark Director: Bill Condon Musical: Tom Eyen Director of Photography: Tobias A. Schliessler Editor: Virginia Katz Original Music Composer: Henry Krieger Production Design: John Myhre Costume Design: Sharen Davis Digital Intermediate: Stefan Sonnenfeld Dialogue Editor: Kimberly Lowe Voigt Sound Effects Editor: George Simpson Stunts: Dick Ziker Makeup Artist: Judy Murdock Stunts: John Cenatiempo Second Unit Director of Photography: Dino Parks Assistant Costume Designer: Lizz Wolf First Assistant Editor: Ian Slater Casting Associate: Jeremy Rich Casting Associate: Tannis Vallely Music Arranger: Harvey Mason Gaffer: Newton TerMeer Assistant Art Director: Jann K. Engel Costume Supervisor: Elaine Ramires Sound Effects Editor: Donald Flick Script Supervisor: Carolyn Tolley Choreographer: Aakomon Jones Camer...

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Encouragement Statements For The High points and low points Of Life

It's completely common to require a portion of energy to a great extent when life gets you down. Some of the time the perfect statement of f encouragement উৎসাহ নিয়ে সেরা উক্তি is all you really want to make something happen.

Cart Parton broadly expressed, "Figure out what your identity is and do it deliberately." That doesn't mean it's in every case simple. Encouragement is the activity of giving help, certainty, or trust, and we as a whole need it occasionally.

Among individual and expert obstructions, it's occasionally simple to feel like nothing is going right and we have all been there. Fortunately, scholars, thinkers, writers, and others have shared endless elevating statements for quite a long time.

However, these uplifting statements don't need to be held for just the awful days. Go ahead and add one to a card and send it to a companion, message one to a collaborator, or use them as an Instagram inscription (we as a whole realize statements work best, right?).

Whether you're searching for something to elevate yourself or looking for a delicate suggestion to ship off a companion, let this assortment of support statements lead the way.

Short Encouragement Statements:

1."We will come up short when we neglect to attempt." ― Rosa Parks "If you have any desire to lift yourself up, lift up another person." ― Booker T. Washington 2."Empowering somebody to be altogether themself is the most intense method for cherishing them." ― Kalen Dion 3."Achievement isn't conclusive, disappointment isn't deadly: the boldness to proceed with counts." ― Winston Churchill 4."Through discipline comes opportunity." — Aristotle 5."Make it a point to surrender the great to go for the extraordinary." ― John D. Rockefeller 6."Support is like water to the spirit, it makes everything develop." ― Chris Burkmenn 7."It is during our most obscure minutes that we should shine to see the light." — Aristotle 8."Our main need is somebody who will motivate us to be what we realize we could be." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

9."At the point when you have a fantasy, you must get it and never let go." — Hymn Burnett 10."The sky is the limit. The actual word says 'I'm conceivable!'" — Audrey Hepburn

Encouragement Statements From Writing

1."At the point when your fantasies are greater than the spots you regard yourself as in, in some cases you want to search out your own updates that there is something else. Furthermore, there is in every case more sitting tight for you on the opposite side of dread." — Elaine Welteroth, All that anyone could need: Asserting Space for What Your identity is 2. "Whatever happens to you has a place with you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself regardless of whether it feels difficult to swallow. Allow it to support you, since it will." — Cheryl Wandered, Small Gorgeous Things: Counsel on Adoration and Life from Dear Sugar 3. "The delight of life comes from our experiences with new encounters, and thus there could be no more prominent bliss than to have an interminably evolving skyline, for every day to have a new and different sun." — Chris McCandless, Into Nature 4. "Assuming that you look the correct way, you can see that the entire world is a nursery." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Mystery Nursery 5. "Rather than agonizing over what you have zero control over, shift your energy to what you can make." — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Positive Reasoning Statements 1."Every day comes bearing its gifts. Loosen the strip." — Ann Ruth Schabacker 2. "In each day, there are 1,440 minutes. That implies we have 1,440 day to day chances to have a beneficial outcome." — Les Brown 3. "You and you alone are the main individual that can carry on with the existence that composes the story that you were intended to tell. Furthermore, the world necessities your story in light of the fact that the world requirements your voice." — Kerry Washington 4. "I need to be in the field. I need to be courageous with my life. Furthermore, when we settle on the decision to dare enormously, we join to get our butts kicked. We can pick mental fortitude or we can pick solace, however we can't have both. Not simultaneously." — Brene Brown 5. "Try not to fear disappointment. Try to flop to track down ways of succeeding." ― Lailah Gifty Akita 6. "There is in every case light. If by some stroke of good luck we're sufficiently valiant to see it. If by some stroke of good luck we're adequately courageous to be it." — Amanda Gorman 7. "It's something superb to be hopeful. It keeps you sound and it keeps you tough." — Daniel Kahneman 8. "To be clear dear, not all good change feels good in the first place." — S.C. Lourie 9. "When you overcome your apprehension, nothing is ever all around as hard as you naturally suspect." — Olivia Newton-John

10. "Who do you invest energy with? Criticizers or encouragers? Encircle yourself with the people who trust in you. Your life is excessively significant for anything less." ― Steve Goodier

[judewillem]

booker longlist day 10/11:

okay i do like this one so far like the style is a bit experimental but not in an overly pretentious "i'm going to make my book 95% incomprehensible" way

so i went into this pretty much blind but i knew it was about a boy searching for his mother and i took that pretty literally so imagine my surprise when the mom died like right after he was born

reading progress has been a bit slow and i'm still blaming work even though i'm off now bc a massive wave of exhaustion hit me yesterday and i think that was backlogged exhaustion

sidenote i've seen people are getting their hands on the one to-be-published book (prophet lane) and the streets are saying it's incredibly difficult to read god help me this longlist is out to kill me this year

longlist progress: 6 out of 13

pages read (day 10/11): 56

current book: How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney

[avictimofthejazz]

if Booker xElaine had a kid

Name: Julian Peter Booker

Gender: Male

General Appearance: Julian has a slighter build then most guys. He got Elaine's brown hair, instead of Dennis's black hair, but his hair is a bit straight and unruly like his dad's. Unlike either of his parents, he has to wear glasses, and this has given him a 'nerdy' appearance.

Personality: A living example of 'still waters run deep'. A quiet, hard-working student, who is good at math and wants to be an engineer, few people realize that Julian has his dad's streak for insanity. If left unchecked, he is on the road to being a mad scientist.

Special Talents: Julian can get anything mechanical or robotic to work with a bit of tweaking. Likes to build battle bots, and find places to fight them against other bots.

Who they like better: Julian tends to gravitate toward Elaine a bit more, finding his dad a touch intimidating. He is not afraid of Dennis, by any stretch of the word, but he feels like he is not 'manly' enough to make his dad proud. He tries his best, but often feels like he is lacking.

Who they take after more: Despite gravitating toward his mom, he is 100% Dennis's son in a somewhat different wrapper. He just does not realize that yet.

Personal Head canon: Julian would 100% build his own electric chair in shop class if he could get away with it.

Face Claim: Owen Vaccaro

[books-i-once-read]

Paul was always inclined toward revolution at a distance.

How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney 

[haniawritesthings]

Accidentally deleted the ask, but @jeanharlowseyebrows asked #2 for the book ask game

2. Top 5 books of all time

I always feel like I'm forgetting something when listing favourite books, but in no particular order:

1. The regeneration trilogy by Pat Barker

Yes it's technically a trilogy, but i couldn't just choose one and the whole series is phenomenal. With every book gaining a booker prize nomination, the series is deeply well researched and are the sort of books that leave you asking yourself philosophical questions.

2. America is not the heart by Elaine Castillo

A book about family, immigrant identity and language, America is not the heart, conveys big emotions and themes through small moments and actions. It's also uses language in a really interesting way that furthers its themes.

3. The traitor baru cormorant by Seth Dickinson

It feels a little strange including this book when I haven't read the rest of the series, but even as a stand alone it's fantastic. This is the sort of book that almost demands a reread because of how the ending recontextualizes what came before it. It's also one of the most well done depictions of colonialism in fantasy I've ever seen.

4. The pull of the stars by Emma Donoghue

I'm not someone who really has favourite authors per-say, but putting together this list made me realize how much I like Emma Donoghue's writing. Donoghue's skills really shine because of what a narrow focus this book has: set over a few days, primarily in one room.

5. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

While also being historical fiction by the same author, the wonder is a far more cinematic and cerebral book than the pull of the stars. Which is why it makes sense it got a film adaptation. However, in my opinion, the book does a better job at executing its events and themes and their intricacies.

[iloveitxwhenaplanxcomestogether]

Incorrect Quotes: 21 Jump Street:

crazed killer: We have Booker

Elaine: Let me speak with him

killer: Go ahead, you’re on speaker

Elaine: you're such a dumbass, how the hell did you manage to get yourself kidnapped AGAIN?! Do you KNOW how much I’ve paid in ransoms this year?!!!