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Hunt Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Hunt 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!

Blackwood, Algernon: The Wendigo Boucher, Chris: Last Man Running Brooks, Max: World War Z

Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were None Connell, Richard: The Most Dangerous Game Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park

de France, Marie: Bisclavret Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles/Sherlock Holmes series

Fletcher, David: Hunted: A True Story of Survival

Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male Hunter, Erin: Warrior Cats

Kavan, Anna: Ice King, Stephen: Cujo

Lem, Stanisław: The Hunt London, Jack: Call of the Wild

Mallory, Thomas: Le Mort D’Arthur Manifold, John: The Griesly Wife Melville, Herman: Moby Dick Messingham, Simon: The Doctor Trap

Nisneru, Alexandra: Hunt

Ólafsson, Bragi: The Pets Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Perkins, Stephanie: The Woods Are Always Watching Perrault, Charles: Little Red Riding Hood Pierce, Tamora: Huntress Pinkwater, Daniel: The Werewolf Club Povey, Jeff: The Serial Killers Club Pratchett, Terry: I Shall Wear Midnight Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant Preiss, Byron: The Secret

Schenkel, Rudolph: Expressions Studies on Wolves Sheckley, Robert: The Seventh Victim Shusterman, Neal: Red Rider's Hood Sin, Damien: The White Tiger of Kalimantaro Stine, R.L.: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Takami, Koushun: Battle Royale Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Traditional: Actaeon

Van Allsburg, Chris: Jumanji Vega, Danielle: Survive the Night

Yoshitomi, Akihito: School Ningyo (School Mermaid)

Blackwood, Algernon: The Wendigo

In the wilderness north of Rat Portage in Northwestern Ontario, two Scotsmen – divinity student Simpson and his uncle, Dr. Cathcart, an author of a book on collective hallucination – are on a moose-hunting trip with guides Hank Davis and the wilderness-loving French "Canuck", Joseph Défago.

While their Indian cook, Punk, stays to tend the main camp, the others split up into two hunting-parties; Dr. Cathcart goes with Hank, while Défago guides Simpson in a canoe down the river to explore the vast territory beyond.

Simpson and Défago make camp, and it soon becomes clear that Défago senses – or at least thinks he senses – some strange and fearful odour on the wind. That night, Simpson wakes to find Défago cowering in terror from something outside the tent. Later Défago runs off into the night, forcing Simpson to go and look for him. He follows his footprints in the snow for many miles, realising that Défago's are not the only set of tracks. The larger set of footprints are not human, and gradually it seems that Défago's own tracks have metamorphosed into smaller versions of the larger set. Eventually, both sets of tracks vanish, and Simpson believes he hears Défago's distant voice calling out from somewhere in the sky above: "Oh! oh! This fiery height! Oh, my feet of fire! My burning feet of fire ...!"

Simpson finally manages to make his way back to the main camp, where he is reunited with the others. Dr. Cathcart and Hank go back with him to search for Défago, and when camping once more out in the wilderness, Défago – or some hideous parody of Défago – appears before them before vanishing once again into the night.

Conflicted and disturbed about what they have witnessed, they return to the main camp to find that Défago – the real Défago this time – has made his own way back, suffering from delirium, exposure, and frostbite. He dies soon after, and the three men are left in a state of bafflement and uncertainty about what has occurred. Punk alone could have explained it to them, but he fled home as soon as he caught the terrible odour that Défago carried with him. As an Indian, he instantly understood that Défago had seen the Wendigo.

Boucher, Chris: Last Man Running

Synopsis: "Eager for solitude away from the TARDIS and the endlessly inquisitive Leela, the Doctor steps out onto a benign-looking planet. But the apparent tranquillity hides a terrifying secret...

The TARDIS has arrived on a world of violence, where hideous creatures hunt and kill endlessly, vying for supremacy at the top of the food chain. But is evolution on the planet natural or engineered by some higher power? And why has an aggressively suspicious alien police force sent a secret mission here?

With no one safe from the planet's tireless predators, Leela's warrior instincts are tested to the full. The Doctor, meanwhile, begins to suspect that there is a scientific purpose to the planet — one married to a sinister intelligence.

Whatever the data being collated from the planet, the Doctor soon realises its usage may have far-reaching consequences for all humanity... "

Why it's Hunt: The TARDIS has arrived in what essentially amounts to a supersoldier training ground, where everything in the environment is hostile and out to kill them.

Brooks, Max: World War Z

Zombies will chase humans for as long as it takes to catch them. A zombie will chase a human into the sea, over a cliff, into a raging inferno, it doesn't matter. A zombie will go after any living prey that it can find, and eat it to death. In the chapter where the astronaut from the International Space Station is interviewed, he mentions one zombie that chased after a small animal in the desert. When the animal burrowed under the sand, the zombie started digging for it, even as sand continued to pour back into the hole, filling it just as fast as it was dug. The zombie was digging nonstop for five straight days before it apparently lost the animal's scent and gave up.

Christie, Agatha: And Then There Were None

"First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. (...) When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion."

Spoilers: So this book's plot is the last great hunt of a Hunt avatar: Judge Wargrave. Who did the typical hunt avatar thing of joining the law to get his feel and now lets himself go all of springing a trap on his prey and playing with them like a big cat.

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Ten people, trapped on an island, all of them murderers who escaped justice. They are slowly picked off one by one as judgement for their crimes, causing them to search desperately for the killer before turning on one another, evoking themes of paranoia and betrayal akin to MAG 176: Blood Ties. {Spoilers: The killer was the judge, who had gone into law enforcement to sate his desire for killing and punishment, much like Daisy Tonner did)

Connell, Richard: The Most Dangerous Game

A ruthless hunter named Sanger Rainsford is stranded on Ship Trap Island and meets General Zaroff. Zaroff, a hunter who is bored with hunting animals, hunts Rainsford for sport.

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Big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford and his friend Whitney are traveling by ship to the Amazon rainforest for a jaguar hunt. Rainsford falls overboard while investigating the sound of gunshots in the distance and swims to Ship-Trap Island, where he finds General Zaroff and his manservant Ivan. Zaroff, another big-game hunter, knows of Rainsford from his published account of hunting snow leopards in Tibet. Over dinner, he explains that although he has been hunting animals since he was a boy, he has decided that killing big game has become boring for him. After escaping the Russian Revolution, he purchased Ship-Trap and rigged the island with lights to lure passing ships into the jagged rocks that surround it. He takes the survivors captive and hunts them for sport, giving himself handicaps to increase the challenge. Any captives who can elude Zaroff, Ivan, and a pack of hunting dogs for three days are set free; to date, though, Zaroff has never lost a hunt. Rainsford denounces the hunt as barbarism, but Zaroff replies by claiming that ‘life is for the strong.’ Zaroff is enthused to have another world-class hunter as a companion and offers to take Rainsford along with him on his next hunt. When Rainsford staunchly refuses and demands to leave the island, Zaroff decides to hunt him instead. Rainsford uses traps and cleverness to outmaneuver Zaroff, killing Ivan and one of the dogs before jumping into the sea. Disappointed at Rainsford's apparent suicide, Zaroff returns home, but finds Rainsford waiting for him, having swum around the island to evade the dogs and sneak into the chateau. Zaroff offers congratulations for defeating him, but Rainsford prepares to fight him, saying that the hunt is not yet over. A delighted Zaroff responds that the loser will be fed to his dogs, while the winner will sleep in his bed. The story abruptly concludes later that night by stating that Rainsford enjoyed the comfort of the bed, implying that he killed Zaroff in the fight.

Crichton, Michael: Jurassic Park

Big hungry dinosaurs vs. small tasty humans. Muldoon commented that the raptors were cruelly intelligent and liked to hunt for sport as much as for food. It was actually justified because (as Malcolm realizes) the raptors discovered that humans are an easy meal and become a favored prey. Meanwhile, the Tyrannosaur seemed to be stalking Dr. Grant and the kids in particular, even leaving behind a Hadrosaur kill to pursue them down a river. At one point it's even waiting at the bottom of a waterfall with its jaws open, hoping they'll fall inside.

de France, Marie: Bisclavret

Covers several common themes of the Hunt -- loyalty, betrayal, and werewolves. Bisclaveret is a werewolf trapped in his lupine form by his wife's treachery, and is hunted by his king, who does not know his identity.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment

The whole book is about feeling certain that your crimes are about to be uncovered, always looking behind you for the pursuing policeman, the hand of justice that is sure to catch you at any moment.

Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles/Sherlock Holmes series

As per this post: "I know he's already been in the Eye Poll, but trust me, he's such a Hunt guy. All of his observational skills aren't Eye (he'd probably think that was cheating), but the result of a finely trained mind and keen, Hunt-enhanced senses. He's relentless in his pursuit of criminals, trekking for miles through city and country alike to track down a suspect. He gets bored and listless without the thrill of the chase, as Watson has so often remarked, as though something was sapping his energy. Feed your god, or it will feed on you."

Fletcher, David: Hunted: A True Story of Survival

The author is pursued for the entire book by a furious mother bear after he kills her cub in a series of escalating cinematic attacks and escapes.

Household, Geoffrey: Rogue Male

A bored, upper-class British sportsman is found on the grounds of an unnamed European dictator's residence with his hunting rifle in hand, and subsequently arrested. His claim, maintained under torture, that he was stalking the dictator purely as an exercise in the skill of the hunt and that he had no intention of firing is so audacious that it is almost believed — but nonetheless he cannot be allowed to live. To execute such a well-connected Briton would cause an international incident, so his captors decide to kill him by throwing him over a cliff so that his body will show injuries consistent with accidental death. Though badly injured he survives and manages to make his way to the Channel and from there back to England. Where he discovers that home does not mean safety, nor an end to the pursuit.

Hunter, Erin: Warrior Cats

this book series has inspired children for year after year to run around pretending to be feral cats on the playground. it's hunt.

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This book was made for The Admiral

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The concept of your housepet running off to join a feral cat society just feels Hunt-y to me.

Kavan, Anna: Ice

The book follows a male protagonist who feverishly pursues a young nameless woman from country to country as society collapses due to a beginning of a new ice age. People flee their cities to go south, so a lot of the scenes take place in the wilderness and the forests. The protagonist often fantasizes about the woman being torn to shreds by wild animals as she flees a pursuer, and often compares her to prey animals.

King, Stephen: Cujo

A formerly friendly St. Bernard turns into a killing machine after being bit by a rabid bat.

Lem, Stanisław: The Hunt

A runaway is chased by humans with dogs. As the story evolves, it becomes clear that it is a robot, an intelligent machine, one of many created by humans to be hunted. For this reason it was endowed with wit and strength and an ability to be afraid, so that it would run away and make a hunt interesting: "... a tangled plot full of surprises, a forest strategy, a duel of cunning, of tactics, including laying double trails, dodging, looping the scent back on itself, crossing white-water streams and aerial bridges formed by fallen trees". A little girl helps him to hide, but eventually it turns out that her goal was to lay her hands on a gun and shoot the hunted robot herself. It is well known that Lem was ruthlessly burning his unpublished works, and the researchers were puzzled why Lem kept this one. Stanisław Bereś attempts to explain this as follows. Lem never wrote and seldom spoke about his life during World War II in Nazi-occupied Lwow. However one can decipher subtle hints about his experiences of that time in various Lem's works of fiction. Bereś points out an obvious parallel of the runaway's hopeless struggle for his life from The Hunt story, with the experience of the Jews during the Holocaust, including Lem's own. Therefore Bereś suggests that Lem felt overexposing himself in the story, therefore he set it aside and eventually wrote another, a more entertaining version and possibly forgot about the older manuscript.

London, Jack: Call of the Wild

The story follows Buck—a mix of St. Bernard and Scotch collie—throughout his journey as a sled dog. Buck’s story begins at the house of Judge Miller in Santa Clara, California. Here, Buck is a beloved domesticated pet, living comfortably. However, after gold is discovered in the Yukon territory of Canada, Buck is stolen by one of Miller’s gardeners as the demand for sled dogs increases. The gardener sells Buck to dog traders and makes a profit, and Buck is soon shipped north, abused and beaten as he goes. Along with a sweet, unassuming dog named Curly, Buck is sold to two government couriers, François and Perrault, who put him to work as a sled dog. Buck is soon overwhelmed by his surroundings, particularly when he sees a group of huskies attack and kill Curly. As Buck is forced to adapt to the wild, his primitive instincts begin to surface. It is during this time that he makes an enemy of the lead sled dog, Spitz. The two fight a number of times, and Buck consistently undermines him in the hopes of diminishing his authority. After a final, decisive battle, Buck kills Spitz and appoints himself as the new lead dog.

Mallory, Thomas: Le Mort D’Arthur

Large portion of it is about the Quest for the Holy Grail and how all the knights keep setting out to find it and failing

Manifold, John: The Griesly Wife

A poem in which an abusive husband chases his new wife through the snow -- until she changes into a wolf and turns the tables on him. http://mohammadmirzaee.blogfa.com/post/527/Poem-The-Griesly-Wife-By-John-Manifold

Melville, Herman: Moby Dick

Ahab goes on a mad, doomed hunt for a white whale that may or may not be an eldritch abomination and represents God/nature/life, despite the numerous signs that he should give up on his quest and live a fuller and happier life. Unsurprisingly, everyone except Ishmael gets killed by said whale, with Ahab getting tangled in his own harpoon line and dragged down to the depths (in an ironic echo of his own words about how a drowning creature stays down the third time).

Messingham, Simon: The Doctor Trap

Sebastiene was perhaps once human. He might look like a 19th-century nobleman but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal...

In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more prize. For this trophy, he knows he is going to need help. He's brought together the finest hunters in the universe to play the most dangerous game for the deadliest quarry of them all. They are hunting for the last of the Time Lords - the Doctor.

Nisneru, Alexandra: Hunt

Monsters are real. For Emily and Jeremy, the price of this truth was extremely high. Ten years after their mother's death, they hunt these creatures. But every once in a while, they become the hunted. When Emily finds herself in trouble, who will save her?

Ólafsson, Bragi: The Pets

Back in Reykjavik after a vacation in London, Emil Halldorsson is waiting for a call from a beautiful girl, Greta, that he met on the plane ride home, and he's just put on a pot of coffee when an unexpected visitor knocks on the door. Peeking through a window, Emil spies an erstwhile friend - Havard Knutsson, his one-time roommate and current resident of a Swedish mental institutionon his doorstep, and he panics, taking refuge under his bed and hoping the frightful nuisance will simply go away.

Havard won't be so easily put off, however, and he breaks into Emil's apartment and decides to wait for his return. Emil couldn't have gone far; the pot of coffee is still warming on the stove. While Emil hides under his bed, increasingly unable to show himself with each passing moment, Havard discovers the booze, and he ends up hosting a bizarre party for Emil's friends, and Greta.

Orczy, Baroness: The Scarlet Pimpernel

"They seek him here, they seek him there / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere / Is he in heaven, or is he in hell?/ That damned, elusive, pimpernel."

Perkins, Stephanie: The Woods Are Always Watching

Bears aren't the only predators in these woods.

Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together—a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest.

Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare; and then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways.

Perrault, Charles: Little Red Riding Hood

You know why

Pierce, Tamora: Huntress

Corey wants to fit in with the cool kids at her school and ignore her family's oddball religious practices. However, the group of popular kids that Corey has befriended regularly hunts people for sport. They try to hunt her when she refuses to participate, only for the Goddess that Corey's family worships to appear and hunt them instead.

Pinkwater, Daniel: The Werewolf Club

A boy whose parents raised him to be a dog inadvertently joins a club of actual werewolves.

Povey, Jeff: The Serial Killers Club

When our unlikely hero runs into a murderer, he ends up killing the killer. Then he goes through his attacker's wallet and finds another shocker: an invitation to a party hosted by Errol Flynn. Errol Flynn? Isn't he dead? Intrigued, our hero crashes it - and discovers the Serial Killers Club. Its mission: share thrills and make sure members don't target the same victims. With aliases from old Hollywood, they include "Tallulah Bankhead", "Richard Burton", and soon, "Douglas Fairbanks Jr.", our hero himself. But "Dougie" isn't going to waste the innocent. Instead, he plans to knock off the "stars" one by one. And when they notice their numbers dropping, he'll have to answer a killer question: is he one of them - or not?

Obviously there are some strong Hunt element here, killing killers, questions of morality, becoming the monsters that you kill, etc. But also, "Okay, I know how it sounds, but Murder Club wasn’t supposed to be like this."

Pratchett, Terry: I Shall Wear Midnight

The villain of this novel is the Cunning Man, the spirit of a witchfinder who sows suspicion of witches among the people of the Disc in hopes of reigniting the witch hunts.

Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant

"The Scone of Stone, an ancient dwarven artifact, has been stolen, and without it, the new Low King of the Dwarfs cannot be crowned. It's up to Sam Vimes and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch to travel to Uberwald and unravel the dark conspiracy surrounding the theft. Also, Vimes fights werewolves."

Not the strongest contestant, but Vimes does spends a chunk of time being hunted down by werewolves

Preiss, Byron: The Secret

This book contains 12 gorgeous, detailed paintings. Each painting contains clues to the location of a treasure box. Originally published in 1982, only 3 of the treasure boxes have been found. For over four decades, people have been possessed by obsession with finding the treasure boxes, a hunt being passed down by parents to their children. This is very reminiscent of the Hunt ritual we see in MAG 133: Dead Horse. The promise of a treasure pulling people in to a neverending hunt.

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The Secret is a treasure hunt created by Byron Preiss. The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada that symbolically represent events and peoples that played significant roles in North American history. Anyone who uncovered one of the treasure boxes was entitled to exchange it with Preiss for a precious gem; after Preiss died in 2005, his estate assumed the responsibility of honoring the terms of the treasure hunt. As of 2024, only three of the twelve boxes have been found. Preiss kept no record of the treasure boxes' exact locations before his death, leaving it a possibility that the remaining boxes may never be recovered.

Schenkel, Rudolph: Expressions Studies on Wolves

This is THAT study. The one that was conducted on a tiny sample of wolves in captivity, yet so quickly taken up by pop culture? The one that gave us the Omegaverse, but also a whole new hierarchy for toxic dudebros to measure themselves up against.

Sheckley, Robert: The Seventh Victim

Takes place in a world in which society that has eliminated major warfare by allowing members of society who are inclined to violence to join The Big Hunt, a human hunting game in which participants alternate between being a "hunter" and a "victim". The protagonist is surprised to learn that his intended victim is a woman, something which he has never heard of. As he tracks said victim down, he begins to fall for her -- but will love or death rule the day?

Spoiler: It's death. But not hers!

Shusterman, Neal: Red Rider's Hood

In this second entry in Neal Shusterman's Dark Fusion series, he twists the familiar fairy tale of Red Riding Hood into a brooding story about a city plagued by gangs. Red, a boy famous for cruising around in a blood-colored Mustang, takes on the Wolves after they rob his grandmother He decides to beat them by joining them to learn their weaknesses After a while, however, he finds himself drawn to the pack. At the next full moon, will Red take up their murderous ways or will he take them down?

Sin, Damien: The White Tiger of Kalimantaro

Two retired ex-cops travels to the Indonesian jungles to hunt a divine white tiger, only to realize the tiger to be old, mangy, lice-ridden and ready to die of age and disease. They kill it anyway, along with several other animals that they encounter along the way, in gruesome detail. Then the real white tiger shows up, and it turns out to be a god-like entity the size of an elephant possessing supernatural necromantic powers, given how it resurrects the old, slain tiger into a tiger zombie...

Stine, R.L.: The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible. It started with the strange howling at night. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side. But Grady knows his dog is just a regular old dog. And most dogs don't howl at the moon. Or disappear at midnight. Or change into terrifying creatures when the moon is full. Or do they?

Stoker, Bram: Dracula

Dracula is all about the hunt and the hunted. Dracula hunts the innocent for their blood, stalking them and draining them to turn them into hunters in their own right. The protagonists, in turn, hunt Dracula. A Leitner version of this book would probably turn anyone who read it into another Trevor Herbert.

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Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism.

Takami, Koushun: Battle Royale

From Goodreads: "(...) a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. (...)"

I mean, the concept of hunting each other until only one person remains in video games did get named after it, so it's a prime Hunt candidate for me.

Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Gonzo journalism featuring Thompson and his Samoan lawyer on the hunt for the American Dream by way of semi-biographical of a road trip, reporting on a biker race, a lot of booze and drugs, and deliberate confusion.

Traditional: Actaeon

(Summary via Wikipedia) Artemis was bathing in the woods when the hunter Actaeon stumbled across her, thus seeing her naked. He stopped and stared, amazed at her ravishing beauty. Once seen, Artemis got revenge on Actaeon: she forbade him speech – if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag – for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery. Upon hearing the call of his hunting party, he cried out to them and immediately transformed. At this, he fled deep into the woods, and doing so he came upon a pond and, seeing his reflection, groaned. His own hounds then turned upon him and pursued him, not recognizing him. In an endeavour to save himself, he raised his eyes (and would have raised his arms, had he had them) toward Mount Olympus. The gods did not heed his desperation, and he was torn to pieces.

Other versions of the myth suggest his fault was bragging that he was a better hunter than Artemis, not seeing her naked.

Van Allsburg, Chris: Jumanji

A Leitner version of this book would cause the jungle to manifest physically in your home, with new animals escaping to hunt you down with every page turned.

Vega, Danielle: Survive the Night

Julie lies dead and disemboweled in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers. Her friends think she’s just off with some guy—no one could hear her getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music.

In a tunnel nearby, Casey regrets coming to Survive the Night, the all-night underground rave in the New York City subway. Her best friend Shana talked her into it, even though Casey just got out of rehab. Alone and lost in the dark, creepy tunnels, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get any worse . . . until she comes across Julie’s body, and the party turns deadly.

Desperate for help, Casey and her friends find themselves running through the putrid subway system, searching for a way out. But every manhole is sealed shut, and every noise echoes eerily in the dark, reminding them they’re not alone. They’re being hunted.

Trapped underground with someone—or something—out to get them, Casey can’t help but listen to her friend’s terrified refrain: “We’re all gonna die down here. . . .” in this bone-chilling sophmore novel by the acclaimed author of The Merciless.

Yoshitomi, Akihito: School Ningyo (School Mermaid)

A horror manga / anthology series by Akihito Yoshitomi about Japanese school girls who really want boyfriends. But rather than going through the trouble of getting the attention of a boy, talking to them and just being themselves, they decide on a much quicker way to do so... By hunting mermaids in their school and eating their flesh.

#leitner tournament #reading list #hunt poll

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kcscribbler · 10 months ago

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Iced Coffee : Do you like reading? If so, what’s your favorite book?

I do, although nowadays I don't read a lot of fiction. I read a lot of non-fiction/business books for work, and in my small hours of spare time, I'd rather work on writing than reading. Hoping to change that this year, but we'll see. :)

I learned to read at 4 years old, and had basically absorbed both the child and adult contents of my small Midwest town library by 10 years old. I was one of those weird kids that read the dictionary for fun.

But as a child, I loved a lot of the classics, and my favorites were Around the World in 80 Days, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.

For Star Trek specifically, I adore Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane.

Thanks for the ask!

#ask box #books #books & libraries

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offhandway · 1 year ago

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Tagged by @sunlightfeeling (thank you <3)

Currently Reading

The Hound of Baskerville (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Last Song:

Chokehold by Sleep Token, however this answer always changes cause i never turn my spotify off

Currently Watching:

One Piece Live Action, Kamen Rider Geats, Kamen Rider Gotchard (well this one just started), Ultraman Blazar (also still on going), I'm Home.

One day I will finish Trigun (1998) and Jujitsu Kaisen

Current Fic:

I've read every fic on the Kamen Rider Ryuki tag so nothing for now </3

Writing:

I wish I could write (i'm really bad at keeping a consistent timeline and story planning) so I'm compensating by drawing instead. fun fact, a fic i wrote when i was 15 reached 250k reads on wattpad but i hated it so i deleted my entire account.

Next on my Watchlist:

Every SMAP concert, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Kamen Rider Drive (mostly for Mackenyu), some other SMAP member's dramas, maybe the Jackass movie franchise

Current Obsession:

SMAP, Kamen Rider, My Chemical Romance/Fall Out Boy,Judgment, Ice Nine Kills, AI: The Somnium Files

i'm certain that most of my mutuals on this blog have been tagged so feel free to do it if you want

#about me #dila txt

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artificerdusty · 1 year ago

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PLAYER, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS TOP SECRET AND NOT TO BE SHARED WITH ANY PLAYERS IC OR OOC FOR THE NEXT WEEK! YOUR CHARACTER, HOWEVER, MAY ALLUDE TO WHAT THEY ARE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE. FOR THE NEXT WEEK, THEY MAY EXPERIENCE INCREASED PARANOIA, EXTREME MISTRUST, FLASHBACKS, NIGHTMARES, SORE THROAT, AND RESTLESSNESS. WELCOME HOME!

Having twins, a library job, and an illustrious inventing career leaves you with very little down time, but one way you can unwind at the end of the day is a good book. Lately, you’ve been on a kick with the classic Sherlock Holmes novels. You open the Hounds of Baskerville, sinking into your designated chair and amusedly reading the lines. You flip the page though, and it’s blank. Frowning in confusion, you flip back to the page you were on, only to find it blank once more. In a hurry, you set the book down on your footrest, trying to flip from front to back to find any words. An increased sense of panic is growing when you can find none and you slam the book closed. Your chest rises and falls rapidly as a couple of seconds pass when you try to open the book again. This time, you’re met with transcripts of your aol logs with Suzie, phone calls, each page you turn the more incriminating things become. A ringing swells in your ear as it all becomes too much and you throw the book at the wall.

#night one: before the funeral #smh cheater cheater pumpkin eater

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mybucketsofbooks · 2 years ago

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2023 Book Bucket List

I know this is more than 100 Books, like I mentioned in my first post, but I forgot about the Jim Butcher series “The Dresden Files” and realized I needed to add that, and then it was more.

Some of the books aren’t exactly typical adult reading, but they are books I wanted to read as a kid. Also, for the first time I’m actually doing this I wanted to make the process a little easier with books, and not struggle to read because I overloaded myself with classics. Enjoy the list!

1. The Man with a Load of Mischief- Martha Grimes

2. The Old Fox Deciev’d- Martha Grimes

3. The Anodyne Necklace-Martha Grimes

4. The Dirty Duck- Martha Grimes

5. Jerusalem Inn- Martha Grimes

6. The Deer Leap- Martha Grimes

7. Help the Poor Struggler- Martha Grimes

8. I am the Only Running Footman- Martha Grimes

9. The Five Bells and Bladebone- Martha Grimes

10. The Old Silent- Martha Grimes

11. The Old Contemptibles- Martha Grimes

12. The Horse You Came In On- Martha Grimes

13. Rainbow’s End- Martha Grimes

14. The Case Has Altered- Martha Grimes

15. The Stargazey- Martha Grimes

16. The Lamorna Wink- Martha Grimes

17. The Blue Last- Martha Grimes

18. The Grave Maurice- Martha Grimes

19. The Winds of Change- Martha Grimes

20. The Old Wine Shades- Martha Grimes

21. Dust- Martha Grimes

22. The Black Cat- Martha Grimes

23. Vertigo 42- Martha Grimes

24. The Knowledge- Martha Grimes

25. The Old Success- Martha Grimes

26. A Martha Grimes Omnibus- Martha Grimes

27. Legend- Marie Lu

28. Prodigy- Marie Lu

29. Champion- Marie Lu

30. All Fall Down- Ally Carter

31. See How They Run- Ally Carter

32. Take the Key and Lock Her Up- Ally Carter

33. The Invisible Library- Genevive Logman

34. The Masked City- Genevive Logman

35. The Burning Page- Genevive Logman

36. The Lost Plot- Genevive Logman

37. The Mortal Word- Genevive Logman

38. The Secret Chapter- Genevive Logman

39. The Untold Story- Genevive Logman

40. The Dark Archive Genevive Logman

41. Magyk-Angie Sage

42. Flyte-Angie Sage

43. Physick-Angie Sage

44. Queste-Angie Sage

45. Syren-Anggie Sage

46. Darke-Angie Sage

47. Fyre-Angie Sage

48. The Heist Society- Ally Carter

49. Uncommon Criminals- Ally Carter

50. Perfect Scoundrels-Ally Carter

51. The Gift of the Magi-Ally Carter

52. Go Set a Watchman- Harper Lee (I have read To Kill A Mockingbird about 100 times)

53. A Study In Scarlet- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

54. A Sign of the Four- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

55. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

56. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

57. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

58. The Return of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

59. His Last Bow- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

60. The Valley of fear- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

61. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

62. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe- C.S Lewis

63. Prince Caspian; The Return to Narnia- C.S Lewis

64. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader- C.S Lewis

65. The Silver Chair- C.S Lewis

66. The Horse and His Boy- C.S Lewis

67. The Magician’s Nephew- C.S Lewis

68. The Last Battle- C.S Lewis

69. Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

70. Man in the High Castle- Philip K Dick

71. The Missing: Found- Margaret Peterson Haddix

72. The Missing: Sent- Margaret Peterson Haddix

73. The Missing: Sabatoged- Margaret Peterson Haddix

74. The Missing: Torn- Margaret Peterson Haddix

75. The Missing: Caught- Margaret Peterson Haddix

76. The Missing: Risked- Margaret Peterson Haddix

77. Black Ice- Brad Thor

78. Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood- Rebecca Wells

79. Little Alters Everywhere- Rebecca Wells

80. Ya Yas in Bloom- Rebecca Wells

81. The Lady Has a Past- Amanda Quick

82. As Old As Time- Liz Braswell

83. The Looking Glass War- John Le Carre

84. Close Up- Amanda Quick

85. Storm Front- Jim Butcher

86. Fool Moon- Jim Butcher

87. Grave Peril- Jim Butcher

88. Summer Knight- Jim Butcher

89. Death Masks- Jim Butcher

90. Blood Rites- Jim Butcher

91. Dead Beat- Jim Butcher

92. Proven Guilty- Jim Butcher

93. White Night- Jim Butcher

94. Small Favor- Jim Butcher

95. Backup- Jim Butcher

96. Turncoat- Jim Butcher

97. Bigfoot on Campus- Jim Butcher

98. Changes- Jim Butcher

99. Ghost Story- Jim Butcher

100. Cold Days- Jim Butcher

101. Skin Game- Jim Butcher

102. Peace Talks- Jim Butcher

103. Battle Ground- Jim Butcher

104. The Law- Jim Butcher

#bucket list #book bucket list 2023 #bucketsofbooks #books #reading #fiction #Jim Butcher #Martha Grimes #C.S Lewis #fantasy #mystery #all books

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whxtcllsthcstxry · 5 years ago

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"That's my wife!~"

#The Room Where That Happened [Dash Commentary]#Hound Of The Baskervilles; IC #We May Be Right We May Be Wrong But I Wanna Bring You Along To The World I See [Arthur x Minerva / archiiviis]#((they're married I don't make the rules X3))#archiiviis

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builder051 · 2 years ago

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🐥☕🌳 for the asking game?

🐓 Chicken: What is a comfort movie/show for you?

(Unfortunately my list has only the big chicken? I hope the baby chick has good body image and future aspirations.)

I have a couple options dedicated to different scenarios.

#1 for “something is not right” I don’t care what, paper cut to migraine to mental health to just want a nap… is Black Panther.

#1 for Laur is practicing the right of being an adult and making “bad choices,” all in the name of self-medication and good sport is Bohemian Rhapsody.

(NOTES: If one is of age, it is 100% ok, in my opinion, to purchase and responsibly use legal/OTC recreational substances, so long as they do not contain other active/inactive ingredients that will harm you in large doses. One of the easiest pure options recently became available on Amazon. Always calculate your weight dose. tripsit.com is a fantastic resource. Be ready for a flop/hangover day. Bohemian Rhapsody was a best picture nom. Rami Malek won for best actor. There are maybe ~3 edit flubs in the movie that I recognize as flubs, and they drive me nuts. But no hate. It’s an incredible movie. IDK why it has so many haters. )

If I’m really going for a ‘blast from the past.’ I’ll throw on a DVD from the Sherlock (BBC) set. I was sooo into it as it came out (my high school into college), and I got the DVDs and watched them as background noise obsessively. When I hear the theme song nowadays, I’m a little, like, a what now? Tardis? Flashing lights? What year is it? (I’ve seen 2ish seasons of Dr. Who, which I remember none of, because it was just on when I was writing my undergrad thesis.) My fave episode is Hound of the Baskervilles, because Sherlock has that moment of fear/ confusion that he can only express as anger… it’s a great scene.

☕ Tea: How do you take your tea?

However it’s meant to be taken at the venue, generally, though I have some severe allergies (dairy, soy, oats) that prevent some ways of doing it.

Tea party tea should have sugar and a little spoon. Starbucks tea is, like, neon pink and iced. Grandparents’ house tea is southern sweet tea. Tea at Chili’s is Lipton. The tea that comes in the tall tins from Republic of Tea is best if it either has a Star Wars character on it, or someone from Downtown Abbey. Those we drink plain. And I have a pre/probiotic tea that we add vitamins to that I have for breakfast most days, and that’s tasty, too.

🌳 Tree: What is one thing in your future you are looking foward towards?

The continuation of Laur and DD rock n roll tour 2022: we’re seeing Greta Van Fleet next month.

They were our first ‘big’ concert (headliner at a festival), and now they’re headlining an arena, and just to see the growth and continuing to love the music… it’s great.

#starbucks sunday #ask game #ask meme

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twistedtummies2 · 3 years ago

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Ele-May-ntary - Number 7

Welcome to Ele-May-ntary! All throughout the month of May, I’ve been counting down my Top 31 Favorite Portrayals of Sherlock Holmes from movies, television, radio, and even video games! Over the course of the past 26 days – 24 for the month, and two for the rules and Honorable Mentions – we’ve covered takes on Holmes from America, the United Kingdom, Canada, and even Japan. Beyond our list, there have been takes on Holmes from Spain, Germany, France, and still other places. Needless to say, Holmes is an internationally appealing character…and today’s choice proves that with great aplomb. Number 7 is…Vasily Livanov.

Keeping mind what I just said about Holmes being internationally appealing, it’s still often considered, somehow, a little bizarre that one of the greatest takes on Holmes ever done – widely regarded as one of the best portrayals ever put to the screen – came from Soviet Russia. Livanov played the role of the Great Detective in a television movie series (somewhat similar to the structure of Sherlock) entitled “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson.” (Watson, for the record, was played by one Vitaly Solomin, who is equally delightful in his role.) The series did its best to stay true to the source material it was based on, adapting some of the best and most important Holmes stories and characters in an atmospheric and intelligent way. To this day, it’s not only regarded as a brilliant take on the Sherlock Holmes universe, but one of the finest Russian television programs EVER made. Livanov’s Holmes is an interesting one to try and describe. He is somehow both one of the iciest and one the most amusing takes on Holmes ever made. His moods shift so rapidly, and so unpredictably, it’s not always easy to tell when he’s serious or not. You never know if he’s going to calmly continue a conversation, or suddenly burst out into a fit of laughter, or start snapping loudly, or even jump up and strike someone physically. And once the moment of abrupt expression passes, he’s cool and collected once more. Almost nothing seems to ever faze him, and he gives Holmes a sort of easygoing, casual demeanor. He doesn’t just sit in that armchair, he lounges luxuriously. When encountering Moriarty, he addresses the professor in a professional, businesslike, exceedingly calm and patient manner. Even when gloating over the capture of his enemies, he does so in a way that’s so polite, you can’t tell if he’s patronizing them or not. Having said this, a key to Livanov’s Holmes is that he’s very funny: he has a sense of wit and humor as sharp as his mind, and he can tell a joke in such a way that you almost can’t tell it IS a joke, which only makes the punchline funnier. There’s also a warmth to him, despite the ice; he’s generally cold and cool around other people, but the mask slips a bit when around certain people he trusts more than others, especially Watson and Mrs. Hudson. One of my favorite moments is in “The Tiger Hunt” (an adaptation of “The Empty House”), when Holmes – after seemingly dying in the previous episode – pops up again and bids both his landlady and his best friend and partner hello again. The moment in most versions has Holmes playing it off as a dramatic show, almost like a prank…but in this version, Holmes seems deeply moved, like he’s trying desperately not to cry…until Watson and Mrs. Hudson faint. Then, the mask slips into place, as Holmes very gently and almost clinically says to the dazed Doctor, “I’m alive, Watson. I’m alive. Now stand up.” An example of his Sherlock’s humor, as well as his mercurial temperament, is in “Hound of the Baskervilles.” When Holmes notices Watson without looking at him, Watson declares he must have eyes in the back of his head. Holmes then very, very seriously claims that he actually has heat receptors on the tips of his ears, and even claims to have written a monograph on the subject. You can imagine Watson’s reaction…until Mrs. Hudson tells Watson that Holmes is just joshing him, at which case, Holmes can’t keep up the façade any longer and nearly falls out of his chair with laughter. Livanov’s portrayal of Holmes remains influential and acclaimed even to this day. In fact, in 2006, he was awarded the honor of becoming a member of the Order of the British Empire, in commemoration of his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes during the Cold War era. In a time when the boundaries between different countries and economies were in a deadly stalemate, one could easily argue that Livanov’s Holmes showed just how powerful this character truly is, crossing borders only the power of fiction and fantasy can truly overcome. The countdown continues tomorrow! We’re nearly in the top five! Who will be next? Check in and find out!

#ele-may-ntary #top 31 sherlock holmes portrayals #sherlock holmes #the adventures of sherlock holmes and dr watson #russian tv holmes #vasily livanov #number 7

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nothingofpracticalgardening · 4 years ago

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14 Versions of Sherlock Holmes Ranked from Most to Least Likely to Set a Building on Fire in a Fit of Rage

CURRENT UPDATED LIST HERE

1. Jonny Lee Miller — Elementary

This cool modern gent had a Moment™ in the very first episode of this series wherein he crashed Watson’s car into the side of the villain’s for absolutely no reason except the guy had pissed him off. That’s only like half a step down from setting a building on fire, which makes it almost canon, so this fantastic band tee-wearing lunatic gets first place for sure.

2. Yuko Takeuchi — Miss Sherlock

She may look cute, but this girl is fearless and feral. She would set a building on fire on a whim and dance away, leaving her poor Watson holding the matches as a joke. We haven’t really seen her angry, but she for sure would be unstoppable if she was. Sherlock Futaba has a secret heart of gold and a not-so-secret wit of arsenic and she’s not afraid to use either of them to end your ass.

3. Benedict Cumberbatch — Sherlock

He might tie for second place with Miss Sherlock, actually, because we all remember that one American who dared to slap Mrs. Hudson and fell out a window, several times, for it. I don’t need to tell y’all this Sherlock Holmes is vicious as a viper when he wants to be, but he’s also sweet as a newborn kitten deep down. Still, #3 is pretty high on the list and I think this emotion-driven drama queen deserves it.

4. Christopher Plummer — Murder by Decree

For most of this 1970s movie, you would never be able to picture this Holmes with a temper at all, much less one big enough to set anything on fire. He’s empathetic, easygoing, and even downright warm. But then, after discovering how a young woman has been mistreated by people in power, he suddenly goes for a guy’s throat—literally—and then it’s easier to see why he’s #4 on my list.

5. Basil of Baker Street — The Great Mouse Detective

Excuse me, it absolutely counts as a legitimate adaptation. This manic little guy might be cute as a button but he will go absolutely rabid on you if you push him (although he might feel bad about it a second later). I’m not saying it’s super likely, but it’s not super unlikely either. Honestly I wouldn’t take the risk.

6. Peter Cushing — The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

He might not be #1 on this list, but on a list of sassiest Sherlock Holmeses ever, he would definitely be at the top. More than once this sly gentleman was seconds away from Losing It(TM) in this movie; we might not ever have seen him show his temper completely, but between his impatient (but still affectionate) bickering with Watson and his mumbled sarcasm at every other character at every available opportunity, I wouldn’t doubt his capability of setting a fire in sheer annoyance.

7. Jeremy Brett — Sherlock Holmes

Calm but intense, this Sherlock Holmes is extremely popular, thanks mostly to Brett’s love and passion for the role; with all his self-control, every once in a while there’s a little flash of something much bigger going on underneath–his voice gets louder and his eyes get sharper and for a second you might wonder what he’s going to do. It would just depend on the situation, I think; hurt Watson, for example, and yeah…his fire will get you for sure.

8. Original Books

There’s no Sherlock Holmes like the original. Like Brett above, the Blueprint Holmes is cool, unruffled, and very much in control most of the time, but there are a few moments here and there when he turns into lightning personified, ready to strike someone down in a split second if they stir up his wrath. Nevertheless, he is softer and kinder and more patient than most adaptations give him credit for, so he’s lower on the list.

9. Basil Rathbone — Sherlock Holmes

Ever wanted to see Sherlock Holmes take out Nazis? This might be the series for you, then. Despite the ‘40s vintage action vibe, though, this Sherlock Holmes really doesn’t have much in the way of a temper and a lot in the way of cool, observant preplanning. When it comes to high-emotion moments, this Holmes is more urgent action than fiery temper. With all that, he tends to lean more on the non-flammable side of the Sherlock Holmes spectrum.

10. Robert Downey, Jr. — Sherlock Holmes & Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

Okay, you might have expected Action Hero Holmes to be higher up on the list, especially considering he literally did set a fire in the beginning of the second movie. But despite the flack he gets for not being “accurate” enough, I love this Holmes for so many reasons, and one of those reasons is that he’s so gentle and soft-spoken. He’d set a fire in a second for a case, but he faces evil with more melancholy than anger and really isn’t naturally violent at all when you get down to it.

11. Hannah Drew — Baker Street

Probably the most obscure one on the list, this fan-created Sherlock Holmes is blindingly intelligent and relentless, but also profoundly isolated, lonely, and deeply emotional. Still, the extent of her expressiveness seems to be playing obnoxious practical jokes when someone annoys her or shouting halfheartedly when she’s frustrated, not setting fires. (Also confession: she’s totally my girl crush. I would buy her all the ice cream in the world if she asked.)

12. Vasily Livanov — Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson

This Holmes is full of easy charm with emotions that tend to be more prominent on the softer side; he’ll start crying the second his Watson does, and laughs loudly and freely whenever he feels like it, but when provoked by a villain he maintains his cool demeanor like it’s not any kind of a challenge. Like I’ve said before, this Holmes has super-chill trustworthy older brother vibes to me, so he’s almost totally unlikely to be a firebug.

13. Henry Cavill — Enola Holmes (links to trailer)

While it’s true this Sherlock Holmes wasn’t the main character of this movie, we got to see enough of him to make a solid judgment, I think. And my judgment is that he’s one of the most gentle, mild-mannered ones out there. I mean, he might not have started out as a willing parent, but by the end of the movie this guy was volunteering to take in and raise his younger sister. Maybe he could be a fire-starter, but I just don’t see it so far.

14. Ronald Howard — Sherlock Holmes

By far the most adorable version in my opinion, this Holmes is more full of bright humor and childlike wonder than fury of any kind. Like with every version, he has his moments of righteous anger, but guys, come on…this man once spent a whole scene chasing a honeybee around their flat to trap it carefully and set it free. He’s not setting anything on fire anytime soon—at least not on purpose.

These are all the versions of the world’s favorite detective I like so far, but I’m still watching all the ones available, so consider this an incomplete list. If anybody sees this and has a different opinion or a Sherlock to add, feel free to comment! And thanks for reading my rambling.

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shadowhuntertrash · 4 years ago

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"Hold Me I'm Cold"

Kit x Ty

Characters belong to Cassandra Clare

Ty and Kit were standing on the beach watching the sunset. It would be very romantic if they were together, Kit thought before correcting himself. It was still romantic even if Ty didn’t like him that way.

Kit watched Ty as he ran around picking up crabs and pointing out fish. Ty always got a spark in his eyes when he talked about animals. Kit loved it more than anything. Whenever Ty talked about anything he was passionate about he would take on the biggest smile and talk until you told him to stop.

Kit had made it a point to never tell Ty to stop, after Ty had told him one day that he was confused as to why Kit didn’t stop him like everyone else. Kit could understand why some people would ask him to stop, but this was Ty and Kit would never have the power to do that. He couldn’t even be upset.

Kit sighed as Ty brought him a sand dollar. He had absolutely no idea where Ty had gotten it from since they were mostly found away from the shore as Ty had informed him earlier. Emma always joked that Ty should be Kit’s teacher instead of Julian and Diana because he seemed to retain every piece of information Ty threw at him.

Emma, Christina, and Dru all knew how smitten Kit was with Ty. When Kit had asked Emma how they knew she just stocked it up to “feminine intuition” Kit would’ve called BS but Mark, Julian, Jace and Kieran were all oblivious to it. The only male he knew that had figured it out was Jem, and Kit didn’t count Jem because he knew everything.

Kit shuddered and realized that without the sun it had gotten very cold very quickly. Ty, who was always prepared, was wearing a sweatshirt and pants which is appropriate for this weather. What wasn’t appropriate for this weather were the ripped black skinny jeans and sleeveless ‘Fight me I dare you’ shirt Kit was currently sporting.

Kit groaned loudly, accidentally cutting Ty off mid sentence. Ty looked over at Kit with a raised eyebrow. Kit blushed. “S-sorry keep g-going.” Kit stuttered out, his teeth chattering embarrassingly loud. Ty’s eyebrows furrowed. “Are you okay?” Ty asked him sincerely. Kit shuddered again and suddenly wished he was wearing Ty’s sweatshirt. He didn’t want to tell Ty he was cold because he didn’t want this moment to end yet.

“Yeah-h I’m f-fine.” Ty looked at me curiously. “No you’re not.” Kit nodded, giving up on the ‘I’m fine’ facade quickly. “No I’m not. Hold me I’m freezing.” Kit said, making grabby hands at Ty. Something he had rather unfortunately learned from Mina. Ty smiled and came to sit next to Kit.

As soon as Ty sat down next to him, he was acutely aware of exactly how close they were. Ty took his sweatshirt off and Kit avoided, with great difficulty, looking at Ty’s stomach when his shirt rode up. Ty handed him his sweatshirt and Kit put it on quickly embarrassed. Ty’s arms were longer than his so the sleeves were over his hands, not that he minded because his hands felt like ice.

Kit tensed slightly as Ty put his arm around Kit’s shoulder pulling him into the embrace. Kit blushed and had to try really hard not to cover his face with his hands. He was still shaking but all the tension fell away as Kit melted into the embrace.

Ty was often cold but physically he was a human heater. His hands were warm and Kit felt himself leaning into them. He could feel Ty chuckle against him and he buried his head in Ty’s neck. His face was hot but he wasn’t sure if that was Ty’s doing or if he was blushing.

Well technically either was Ty’s doing. He felt Ty run his hands through his hair and smiled. This was Ty’s way of comforting people. He often didn’t know how to comfort people and he opted to just comfort them the way he liked to be comforted.

Kit was aware of this and found it very calming that Ty was running his hands through his hair, it was something Ty had picked up from Kit.

Kit, completely relaxed, picked up the book Ty had brought with them. It was Sherlock Holmes, one of his classics, The Hound Of Baskervilles. Normally Ty would read to him, when he couldn’t sleep or if Kit wandered in when Ty was reading in the library by himself. Kit didn’t often read aloud because it left him with an odd sort of embarrassment, but he found himself reading now, if only to put his mind on something that wasn’t how close Ty was.

He had read two and a half chapters before Ty interrupted. “Kit, can I do something?” He sounded unsure of himself which was so uncommon that Kit twisted so he was facing Ty and raised an eyebrow, his heart beating dangerously fast. “Sure.” He said hoping his voice didn’t betray his racing thoughts.

Ty started leaning closer to Kit and Kit’s eyes widened. No way was Ty about to kiss him. Ty didn’t kiss people, certainly not Kit at least. Kit found himself leaning forward unconsciously.Ty paused right before their lips touched and Kit held his breath. Ty just stared at Kit’s lips as if they had asked him a very difficult question until he leaned in and closed the small gap between them.

Kit felt like he was drowning in the ocean. The desperation was flooding him but he held himself back because what was Ty doing? Was he doing some test and using Kit because they’re friends?

Kit was thinking too much and decided to just kiss Ty while it lasted. Ty’s hand came up and started pulling gently at Kit’s curls. Kit let out an embarrassing sound and brought his hand up to cup Ty’s face. Kit honestly thought he might die if Ty kept kissing him like that.

When they finally broke apart, both breathing heavily Kit rested his forehead against Ty’s. Ty closed his eyes and shifted his face slightly so he could nudge Kit with his nose. Kit laughed a little. “Am I allowed to ask what that was?” Kit asked quietly, staring at Ty’s face, searching for anything that would indicate what was happening in his head.

“I kissed you.” Ty said simply and Kit smiled fighting the urge to roll his eyes and Ty’s endearing bluntness. “I’m aware Tiberius but why?” Ty smiled at that and opened his eyes and met Kit’s stare.

The grey of his eyes took Kit’s breath away. Ty very seldom made eye contact with people and the fact that he was doing it willingly and keeping it with Kit made Kit’s heart flutter more than ever.

Ty smiled widely and brought his hand up, rubbing his thumb along Kit’s cheek. Kit closed his eyes and sighed contently, leaning into the touch. “Because I wanted to and I didn’t want to wait anymore.” Ty said quietly. Kit froze and slowly opened his eyes again. “What?” He asked in a whisper, not able to make his voice any louder in fear it would break the moment.

Ty smiled and pressed his forehead against Kit’s again. “I like you and I wanted to kiss you.” Ty said as if it was the most simple thing in the world, to Kit however it was immensely complicated. Kit stayed silent for a moment before pulling back so he could watch Ty’s face.

“I honestly really like you and if you aren’t one hundred percent sure this is what you want please don’t lead me on.” Kit said seriously. Ty frowned, shaking his head. “I’m not leading you on Kit. It took me a while to realize.” Ty blushed and flickered his eyes down. “Well actually it took a talk with Julian to realize but I’m going to skip that because that was terribly awkward. Anyway I really like you and we don’t have to do anything else. I don’t really want to do anything else right now escape maybe date. But obviously you can say no.” Ty looked at Kit, his face one full of determination as if he hadn’t just asked Kit out after kissing him.

Kit was silent for a minute before he started laughing loudly. Ty frowned and cocked his head to the side. “Why are you laughing?” He asked slowly as if he couldn’t wrap his head around it. Kit supposed he couldn’t, his reaction was far from sane anyhow.

“Tiberius Nero Blackthorn, you oblivious idiot I’ve been simping over you for a year and a half.” Ty looked confused. “What does ‘simping’ mean?” Kit burst out laughing again before leaning forward and wrapping his arms tightly around Ty, Ty returned the gesture pulling Kit closer. “It means I have been utterly irreversibly in love with you for a year and a half.” Kit purposely reworded this, slightly embarrassed by having said simping. Kit knew Ty would probably ask Dru later so he just settled on holding off his embarrassment.

“I’m glad it wasn’t just me.” Kit said softly. Ty pulled back smiling at Kit and shaking his head. “It definitely isn't.” He said before capturing Kit’s mouth with his own again.

#tda #the dark artifices #kit carstairs #kit rook #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #tiberius blackthorn #kit x ty #kit and ty #sherlock holmes #fanfiction

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libertytm · 3 years ago

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MOM / BOOK STUFF

steve’s mother sarah read to him all the time when he was growing up. he was sick and on bed rest a lot due to his medical conditions and she would pick up books from the brooklyn central library on her way home from work. he also learned to read at an early age and would pass the long hours spent alone and confined between the pages of books. a few of his childhood favorites were meditations by marcus aurelius, the war of the worlds by wells, and the hound of the baskervilles by doyle. he is also a big jane austin fan, emma being preeminent for him and he does not accept criticism. he also enjoyed the iliad, the odyssey, and the aeneid, though to a lesser degree because of what he felt to be fundamentally lacking in the protagonists. as he got older he added the art of war to his favorites list, as well as the early english translation volumes of in search of lost time, and the grapes of wrath. wrath was the one he packed with him when he went to basic training, and he finished it during the USO tour, before all hell broke loose. it’s the last book he read before going into the ice.

#HEADCANON.#NOT ME getting emotional over a fictional characters mom #and books he's read

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casebasket · 4 years ago

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The Mystrade Treatise

I am long, long out of the Sherlock fandom, but I still have a soft spot for mystrade after ~ 7 odd years (the only thing I really cared about in the show), so when a friend asked about mystrade I hit them with a spontaneous 2000 word block of text. I thought I’d share it as an homage to the still quietly existing community of mystrade shippers out there. Basically, in this essay I will argue for my interpretation of how the BBC TV show Sherlock (2012) establishes an implied relationship between Mycroft, (The Government) and Lestrade (The Force) in the subtext. This analysis will be broken down to two parts: 1) show chronology / their history and 2) their compatibility, which can be further split into 2a) personalities and 2b) external circumstances.

(The beginning is the only formal(ish) part of - I’m calling it a treatise -, the rest of the piece is written in “I typed it all in messenger app” style. This all came out off the top of my head, so if you think I’m missing something I’m open to the callout)

TL;DR: I’m still mystrade trash and I’m pulling the receipts on mystrade canon

1) Their history - it's clear they know each other and are in communication with each other since the very beginning - and very likely even before - the events of the show. Just a show tidbit, the ending of the pilot episode has Lestrade watch John and Sherlock walk away happily staring into each other's eyes and tell Donovan about their potential as partners, whereas the actual first episode replaces him with Mycroft talking to his assistant Anthea, which shows their character parallels. In one aspect, their role as "aggravated older guardian" is a shared one and one that - rationally, but in fanon - allows them to commiserate with other another. Also, Mycroft kidnaps John in his very first day of him meeting Sherlock, so reasonable to conclude he did the same to Lestrade, so they've clearly met. And, I believe it's canon that Lestrade helped Sherlock with his drug problem, so he's clearly run into Mycroft, whether it's because his brother's OD'd or found with possession or whatever whatever. The possibilities are endless.

We have hints of them knowing each other throughout the show - in season 2 episode 2 the Hound of Baskerville (I am surprised and appalled I know this off by heart instead of more important things), the duo meets Lestrade in a tavern where he's clearly back from holiday and when Sherlock eggs him by basically calling him Mycroft's lackey, he, aggrieved, says "I don't just do what your brother tells me", which is a line I still unfortunately remember over 5 years later, and that is the first precedent set in canon that they clearly communicate. We can interpret this line, given the circumstances, that Mycroft asked him to cut his vacation short to go check up on his brother, and Lestrade, being whipped, was like fine.

This is mere speculation, but in that mini episode, Many Happy Returns, Lestrade is listening to Anderson go on about his conspiracy theories on how Sherlock is still alive, and at the end of it he passes a newspaper article about Sherlock, and he smiles at it like he KNOWS he's still alive somewhere even though he just walked out calling Anderson on his bullshit and dismissing his theories, and I like to interpret that as Mycroft told him Sherlock's still alive. Plus, when Sherlock greets him after his two year absence, the way Lestrade reacts is less “am I seeing a ghost because you’re supposed to be dead” and more “you’re finally back I already know you were alive because my boyfriend Mycroft told me”.

The first time we see them in frame together (in the mystrade community this is famously known as the 29 frames moment because they only showed up for - 29 frames, like 2 seconds) was in season 3 episode 3, where Sherlock goes missing and everyone looks for him in the hidey holes they know of. Lestrade is seen in Mycroft's office while Mycroft tells him about potential hiding spots. Honestly he did look hella dismissive and rude but you know what? Everyone was stressed. But this shows not only is Lestrade trusted in his secret government offices - and likely this was the secret one because it looked like a cellar - but he trusts Lestrade implicitly. When Sherlock is about to leave on a plane, Lestrade's in a pub watching the TV screen when Moriarty's face is all over it and the very next scene we see Mycroft on the phone with someone getting the news that this was happening. Coincidence? I think NOT - Lestrade called up Mycroft and told him, CANON.

And then there's the Christmas special or whatever it was, about the abominable bride, and yes, this one is set in Sherlock's drug fevered mind, but that only means that, in Sherlock's mind, he sees the two of them as a set (Sherlock ships it confirmed lol). During the whole episode when we see the canon versions of Mycroft and Lestrade they are together as a unit. When John leaves him, Sherlock's mind goes to the most reliable thing in his life to help him, which is his brother (and his brother's boyfriend) and his friend Lestrade to help him, together. Sherlock asks the two of them to help him dig up a body and they share a Look, which is clearly Mycroft's way of asking Lestrade to do the dirty work of actually digging and Lestrade resignedly concedes because there is no other way to analyse the Look, and in the next scene we see Sherlock and Lestrade digging in a grave while Mycroft holds up a lantern because Mycroft doesn't like legwork and Lestrade, clearly his boyfriend in Sherlock's mind, understands this and is willing to accommodate.

And then we have the whole of S4, or as I like to call it, Johnlock hell but mystrade victories!, because in s4e1 when Mary is shot in the aquarium, the first person they look at is each other, indicating they take some level of comfort or seek it out from one another in a room full of other people, also the two of them arrived together so they clearly coordinated, also when the gun was lifted Mycroft looks shocked and steps back a bit while Lestrade moves forward in a “ready to step in” protective gesture, and this all happened in the same frame, and there are gifsets of this happening, and everyone was quietly screaming (Johnlockers in pain, mystrade shippers in "look at them sharing a frame together look at these scraps we're getting"). In the second ep we don't see them together but we do see Mycroft getting hit on by Lady Smallwood and he looks hella uncomfortable about it, while Lestrade is talking with another detective and Sherlock shoots him down telling him she's not the one (because clearly we all know who is the one and Sherlock knows it's his brother).

Oh yeah also jumping back to S3, Mycroft is saying no one can match him and he sees everyone as goldfish but Sherlock is like oh really and was lowkey concerned about him and that's how the mystrade fandom got this whole goldfish thing and it's adorable (special shout out to duchessclovery ‘s masterful fanvid romcom series A Fish Called Greg), and in the wedding ep Sherlock calls Mycroft to attend the wedding but he refuses, and Sherlock says "specter in the feast" to entice him and I like to interpret that as him lowkey jabbing him with a *in*spector in the feast because Lestrade was there looking tired and lonely throughout the whole ep lmaaaaaaaaaaaaao.

Anyway back to S4E2, Mycroft is getting hit on, Lestrade is the most tired we've ever seen him, Sherlock is trying to waive off Lestrade's suitors to save him for his brother. Why is Lestrade so tired? Yes, he's questioning a suspect or something, but also! maybe it's related to his love interest getting hit on, who knows???? And lastly, the last ep of S4, the golden era of mystrade, at the very end of the episode after we've seen Mycroft at his most vulnerable, Sherlock asks Lestrade to "take care of him (Mycroft). he's not as strong as he seems". This was an explicit request by Sherlock, addressing Lestrade correctly for the first time, to take care of his brother, and Lestrade says yes. Of course I will. S4 ended with the promise of the him taking care of Mycroft and honestly I don't care about the entire episode except that part

2) A: their personalities: so, Mycroft, as his colleagues know him, is ~ the ice man ~. He's hard to know, even harder and more stubborn and isolated than his brother, and on top of that he's like, contractually obligated under his top secret government job to not be known. That makes him, and this is canon as Sherlock discussed his loneliness with him in S3, even more lonely than his brother, and probably, as much as he likes to think himself more accommodating than his brother and he can definitely pretend for the sake of appearances, more difficult to deal with than Sherlock if he really sets his mind to it. But he's not a complete block of ice - after all, ice can melt - and he has soft spots for his family, esp. his unruly little brother, and by extension (maybe more necessity than real care, but still) the people his brother affiliates with. Because Sherlock is so tricky to deal with, I believe he has a soft spot for people who share that softness for his spiky sibling, and no one cares for Sherlock as he does except for Mrs Hudson, John, and Lestrade. Lestrade's done it for even longer than John, and in the show plays a somewhat paternal figure to Sherlock despite him causing him even more stress sometimes than solving cases for him would relieve. Lestrade is shown to drop everything to help Sherlock when he needs it, and is considered one of his best friends when Moriarty put a sniper on each of Sherlock's closest acquaintances (Lestrade was a target). Lestrade always saw the good in Sherlock despite everything, and believed he could be great. Very few sees the same potential, or shows that level of kindness for - lets be honest here - someone we would want to kick in real life. Lestrade's kindness and patience, enough to deal with Sherlock, surely can be extended to involve Mycroft, as Mycroft's protectiveness extends somewhat to Sherlock's friends.

And this is not a one way street of just Lestrade being kind and accepting. The people Sherlock surrounds himself with appear dull, and have "normal" lives, but secretly either have a florid past (Mrs Hudson) (and her present with the race car and her quick thinking when the flat gets ransacked) and/or crave adventure and danger and intrigue (John) (Molly). Lestrade is the probably the same. He seems aggravated by Sherlock but still like him a whole lot and truly care for him, and you don't go into policing if not for some kind of excitement. He has a failed marriage with his wife who boringly cheated on him with a PE teacher, like how predictable and cliche, and they broke up. Lestrade is loyal, and he wants to fix things, but in the end it doesn't work out. The show doesn't really tell us why, but given what we know of his work and his habits, he probably spends way too much time on the job and in part, neglected his home life. That isn't to say the cheating his wife did can be condoned, nor was it justified, but it does tell us that Lestrade is a workaholic who craves excitement and adventure which explains his attachment to Sherlock. Who else can match that with him in a relationship? Another workaholic who surrounds himself in government intrigue and MI6 bullshit cloak and daggers who also share a soft spot for the most annoying detective consultant, of course!!! For all we know from the show, Mycroft is Lestrade's one constant relationship outside of work. Their common interest is keeping their shared loved ones safe. Beyond that, even though Mycroft feels bored by everyone because "no one is as smart as i, hohoho", Sherlock used to be the same but he found John. We see Lestrade able to hold his own against Sherlock sometimes too, and he is a detective inspector, so as much as Sherlock likes to call him dumb we know that Lestrade's actually pretty smart. If he can hold up his own against Sherlock, he can hold up his own against Mycroft. Mycroft needs someone with the patience to go through all his bullshit, and Lestrade needs someone smart and interesting and protective, because as a protector himself sometimes you forget you need someone to protect you in turn. And that is basically their whole thing - two fierce guardians, trying to protect the world, finding they also need protection, and finding it in each other (end of season 4). Also there's this scene where Lestrade is sitting by his desk with his feet propped up while he eats a donut and says "not my division" which looks exactly like this scene where Mycroft is sitting by his desk with his feet propped up looking smug, or as the mystrade shippers like to call it, "boyfriends picking up each other's behaviours". Essentially, the johnlock relationship sort of parallels the mystrade relationship in that we have a smartass, spiky, secretly vulnerable one paired with a badass, patient, relatively more sunny one. But more mature. And also preferable. The two of them share some kind of relationship that has reached the point of nonverbal understanding, as we can see in their quiet glances towards each other during the few times we see them on screen together, that requires a level of trust and time.

2) B: compatibility in external circumstances - this is a short one, it's mostly that they're both workaholics who needs someone to understand their unpredictable work schedules, and also how minimal their social life can get being a) married to work and b) work can be classified and you can't tell anyone about your case files / government coverups. No one could understand the need for secrecy and getting up in the middle of the night for a case/subterfuge than Mycroft and Lestrade, as their career roles work in tangent with each other. And they share (1) chaotic child between the two of them, so they just. get it when one receives a call telling them to fish this loud annoying bitey man child out of the Thames. Their jobs get in the way of establishing close relationships, so who better to relate to than another who live the same kind of life and can understand?

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a-s-levynn · 4 years ago

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2020 Year In Review

@bored-already thank you so much for tagging me! I saw you posting this and i didn’t get the note for the tag and i was just hoping you’ll tag me too in this because it looked fun! So thank you so much!

Disclaimer: i barely consumed any new media this year so most of these are rewatches/rereads. I’ll put an ‘R’ behind it if it is a re-anything.

putting it under read more, because it’s long

5 favorite movies I watched in 2020:

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988) R

The Old Guard

We Need to Talk About Kevin R

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) R

Enola Holmes

5 favorite TV shows I watched in 2020:

Kindred: The Embraced

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and following (1984–1994) R (I love Jeremy Brett so much and he forever will be my Holmes)

Wizards: Tales of Arcadia (also the Trollhunters and 3Below rewatch)

Preacher R

Prodigal Son R

5 favorite songs of 2020 (not in any particular order):

Death By Rock And Roll - The Pretty Reckless

Silver Dimes - Thousand Watt Stare R

Wait and Bleed - Slipknot R

Stabbing in the Dark or The Nature of the Beast - Ice Nine Kills R (kinda hard to choose)

Far From Home - Sam Tinnesz R

5 top albums of 2020:

Negative Balance - Christian Martucci R

Hydrograd - Stone Sour R

Indestructible - Disturbed R

The Silver Scream - Ice Nine Kills R

Graveyard Shift - Motionless in White R

5 top books of 2020: I haven’t read much this year, mostly listened to audiobooks but as a librarian-on-paper i declare them books read because they are books and i got through them

America 51 by Corey Taylor (audiobook) R

The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J Sullivan (actually read) R (and the other Riyria books listened to as audiobooks)

With My Eyes Wide Open by Brian ‘Head’ Welch (audiobook) R

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (audiobook) R

Dracula, the Un Dead by Dacre Stoker (actually read, not finished yet but already loving it)

how did you spend your birthday in 2020?

The new expansion of the game i play came out on the exact day so i was online, playing with my friends and i barely got like 3 happy bdays and zero gifts so noone really aknowledged it. It was damn near perfect that way.

most memorable day in 2020:

Februar 4. by far. I finally got to see Slipknot live.

most memorable meal in 2020:

Aaahh... i don’t know? Nothing pops into mind at the moment?

new hobbies in 2020:

Starting to learn to write with my left hand again counts as a hobby? I definitely don’t do it as often as to be a regular thing but i do it semi constantly. But i haven’t started anything new. I really didn’t had much time by my own doing.. or more like failings.

5 good things from 2020:

Seeing Slipknot live (sorry i’ve got to put it here as well because reasons)

Starting to post ToA Wizards screenshots and meeting a lot of wonderful people because of it! I love you guys!

Joining the Riyria discord and being welcomed by the author himself, asking how i found his books. Like wth? He is so incredibly nice and genuinly curious about the fans and all. He is really nice and chill. I already considered him one of my favourite authors but like.. i think he actually is my favourite author.

My friend being and absolute angel and lending me a spare digital drawing pad for indefinite time so i can draw crappy things again

My vampire obsession slowly creeping back into the back of my mind and i’m so hapy about it

big lessons learnt in 2020:

I’m disturbingly unaffected in the long run for being almost completely alone for half a year, social distancing and keeping the corona-related curfew and other rules

My ADHD is definitely worse when my flatmate isn’t here to keep me in line

I’m still procrastinating way too recklessly and it should bite me in the arse soon enough

I’m way too much more of an asshole than i’d actually like to be so i really should work on that more than i already do

The past years i became more and more impatient and i have to work on that too

what you’re looking forward to in 2021:

Finally getting rid of universitiy for the rest of my life

Maybe being able to go to theatres again

Maybe being able to go to concerts again

ToA Rise of the Titans

Finally going home for a bit after half a year (in addition: maybe..maybe being able to meet my brother again later this year)

Tagging: aaaah i don’t know if anyone would want to do it? Maybe @isawhisperer , @nikibogwater and @littlerainsworld ? But no obligations as per usual of course! Or if any of you want to do this, feel free to @me because if i’d know you want to do it, i’d tag you!

#long post #tagging game #tag game

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inevitably-johnlocked · 5 years ago

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CHRISTMAS FICS 2019 Pt. 2

(PART 1: Bookmarked Fics HERE)

Happy holidays everyone!! Here’s the promised Part 2 list for y’all!!! This one is all the fics I have RECORDED (not necessarily all the fic I have) on my To Read list (which I only started recently so I wouldn’t have to keep copy-pasting stuff from old Tumblr posts), and I would LOVE for y’all to add your own winter holiday themed fic recs onto this list if it’s not already here!! <3 This is the community gift to the community, and the more fics the better! Any holiday / observance welcome!! <3

Happy holidays, guys!! I hope these two lists help get you into the holiday spirit!! <3

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MARKED FOR LATER FICS

A Study in Pink Pyjamas by alexxphoenix42 (M, 1,628 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas, Est. Rel., Pink Pyjamas, Fluff, Cross-Dressing) – Sherlock hasn't been a fan of either Christmas or fancy pyjamas for a number of years, but John has a way of changing his mind about things.

Santa Knows by Itsallfine (T, 1,719 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas Party, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Fluff) – Sherlock and John both get exactly what they want from the Yard's secret Santa exchange. Pure holiday fluff.

He's an Angry Elf by Ewebie (T, 2,168 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas, Crack, Frosty, The Gingerbread Man) – Sherlock as a bad mall Santa and John as an elf... I make no apologies for this.

Santa Claus Is Going To Town by stravaganza (E, 2,253 w., 1 Ch. || Santa!John / Elf!Sherlock Costumes, Rimming, Rutting, Frottage, Hand Jobs, Oral Sex, Blowjobs, Sex in Costumes, PWP, Humour/Crack, Christmas) – herlock and John are invited to a Christmas party at the Yard. In costume! Sounds legit, right? Riiiight...

Impossible Things by A_Candle_For_Sherlock (G, 2,413 w., 1 Ch. || Est. Rel., Marriage Proposal, Christmas, Fluff) – He'd promised himself he'd do it before Christmas, because otherwise Mummy WILL ask, probably in front of John.

John Likes Christmas by Arcwin (G, 2,638 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas, Fluff, Kid Sherlock / John, First Kiss, Friends to Lovers, Nostalgia, Sherlock Holmes POV) – John likes Christmas. I fail to see why. This is where we find ourselves on this dreary, December evening in 221B. “Sherlock, but, it’s Christmas!” I sigh. “And what does that have to do with anything?”

The Biscuits May Look Terrible But At Least We’re Satisfied (E, 2,745 w., 1 Ch. || Established Relationship, Idiots in Love, Christmas, Fluff & Smut, Christmas Cookies, Jealous Sherlock, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Voice Kink, Dirty Talk) – The whole baking craze had started two days ago when Sherlock had casually mentioned that he hadn’t eaten his mother’s famous homemade Christmas cookies in years. Ordinarily such a comment wouldn’t have stuck with John, he knew Sherlock wasn’t close to his parents, but the touch of wistfulness in Sherlock’s voice had John calling Mrs. Holmes as soon as Sherlock was in the shower. An attempt at a Christmas surprise and a flirtatious client all lead to some loving Christmas smut.

The Case of the Frog Murder and the Disembodied Dog's Head by a_different_equation (T, 2,794 w., 1 Ch. || ACD Canon || Victorian, Period-Typical Homophobia, Christmas, Est. Rel., Hound of Baskervilles, Love Confessions, Angst with Happy Ending, Romance, Fluff and Humour, Miscommunication) – The true story behind the Baskerville case, and its strange and rather queer conclusion via Christmas Cards.

The Old Town by a_different_equation (T, 3,573 w., 1 Ch. || Hans Christian Anderson Fusion || Magical Realism, Christmas, Fairy Tale Elements, Love Stories, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Museums, Sweet Sherlock) – Once upon a time there were two boys. This is the story how once upon December, they found the missing Christmas Spirit, true love and new beginnings. A Queer fairytale for all seasons.

New Memories by WhouffleLover24 (T, 4,072 w, 1 Ch. || Christmas, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Holidays) – “We all have memories. This is so you can capture new ones.”

i read your book, you magnificent bastard by a_different_equation (M, 4,145 w., 1 Ch. || Writer Sherlock AU || Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Alternate First Meeting, Epistolary, Love at First Sight, Romantic Comedy, Metafiction, Falling in Love, Sherlock Wears Glasses, Gay John, Matchmaker Mike, Storytelling, Christmas) – In which John Watson, recently returned from the war, buys a book in Mike Stamford's bookshop and Sherlock Holmes is a famous, openly gay, crime fiction writer whose hero is in need of a partner. Part 1 of the Magnificent Bastard!AU series

Knit Two Together by shinychimera (G, 4,726 w., 2 Ch. || Platonics/Friendship, Best Friends, Knitting, Christmas) – Sherlock Holmes can master any skill to which he sets his mind -- why should knitting a jumper for his best friend be any different?

Oh, Holy Night by sussexbound (E, 5,311 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas, Smut, Hand Jobs, Kissing, Fluff) – Sherlock manoeuvres them towards the bedroom and then lowers John carefully onto the bed. “Take off your shirt and trousers. We should wash the shirt, just to be on the safe side with the poison, and you’ll want the ice directly on the bruise, I assume.” John winces and rolls onto his uninjured side. “You just want me to get my kit off.” “Mmm, well it is Christmas Eve, and I have been a very good boy this year.” John’s eyes widen a little, as a smile teases the corner of his mouth. “True.” Part 6 of Home is Not a Place

Winter Ficlets by 221b_careful_what_you_wish_for (M, 6,239 w., 11 Ch. || Christmas, Fluff & Smut, Jealous John, First Kiss / Time, Marriage Proposal, BJ’s, Suit Porn, Domestic Fluff, Cuddling, Snowball Fight, Winter, Sherlock Cooking, Bed Sharing) – A collection of winter and holiday stand-alone ficlets.

It's Cold Outside by Salambo06 (E, 7,357 w., 1 Ch. || Mutual Pining, Cuddling, Snuggling, Frottage, First Kiss / Time, Bed Sharing, Miscommunications, Love Confessions) – John and Sherlock, Christmas night, the heat broke, add some shared body heat and (not so) accidental erections mixed with some miscommunication and awkwardness and, you guessed it, they’re sharing a bed.

if you like him so much then why don't you marry him by zigostia (T, 7,750 w., 1 Ch. || Teenlock, Oblivious John, Christmas) – Am I going to regret this? SH Not one bit. JW I’m going to regret this. SH

You Don't Need Wings to Fly by Laiquilasse (T, 11,326 w., 11 Ch. || Wonderful Life AU || Bullying, Angels, Suicidal Ideation, Christmas) – John, an angel, is sent from Heaven to help a desperate Sherlock Holmes by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

2017 by 7PercentSolution, J_Baillier (T, 11,466 w., 1 Ch. || Christmas, Case Fic, Est. Rel., Angst, Mental Health Issues, Autism, Anxiety, Family) – Sherlock takes on a case that raises unexpected challenges, both professional and personal. Memories of times before John complicate matters. Part 9 of On Pins And Needles

Five Christmases that went wrong and one that didn't by love_in_mind_palace (M, 11,685 w., 6 Ch. || Christmas, Fluff & Smut, Domestics, Est. Rel., 5 and 1′s, Canon Divergence, Tooth-Rotting Fluff) – John isn’t sure about most of the things in his life. Except for the fact that he loves Sherlock, Sherlock loves him back and that after years of bad luck, he is getting the Christmas he always deserved.

Snowed In by Salambo06, WhatIfIAmInsane (E, 15,687 w., 5 Ch. || Christmas, Smut, Unilock, Alternate First Meeting, Anal, Bottomlock, Army!John, BJ’s) – Sherlock had everything planned out for months now. Today he would finally put an end to this case. Even if that meant keeping an eye on his suspect in a crowded, german airport on Christmas Eve. The same crowded airport John was waiting in for his final flight back home from his first deployment to Afghanistan, not at all thrilled by the prospect of spending Christmas with his possibly drunk sister. Although the airport was stuffed to the brim with holiday travelers and tacky decorations, he was enjoying his time alone, mostly. But then, snow began to fall.

Wonderful, Etcetera. by VictoryCandescence (T, 16,955 w., 3 Ch. || Wonderful Life AU || Alternate Timelines, Brotherhood, Homophobia, Suicidal Ideations, Mentions of Drug Use, Friendship) – Sherlock thinks everyone would be better off if he had never existed, including and especially himself. When he finds himself in a world in which his wish has been granted, he begins to think perhaps even he could be wrong – but it takes an unlikely chaperone to make him not only observe, but understand.

On the Table (Eventually John Watson's Favorite Christmas Story) by emmagrant01, numberthescars (E, 18,135 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TRF, Mild Angst, Fluff, Masturbation, Anal, Rimming, First Kiss / Time, Romance, Christmas) – Set after TRF. Someone's leaving John strange little gifts in the weeks before Christmas. But who could it be?

All I Want For Christmas by Mssmithlove (E, 19,508 w., 1 Ch. || Unilock, Mystrade, Christmas, Holmes Family, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Pining) – Taking Sherlock's platonic university flatmate home with him for Christmas can be a tricky business. Especially when he wishes their relationship wasn't platonic at all. Part 18 of Happiness Awaits

Home for Christmas by SilentAuror (E, 19,499 w., 1 Ch. || S4 Fix It / Post S4, Doctor John, Christmas, Glasses, Domestic, First Time, Slow Burn, Rosie) – It's been eleven months since Eurus Holmes happened, and just one since John and Rosie moved back into Baker Street at last. With Christmas just around the corner, both Sherlock and John are slightly baffled when Mrs Hudson decides to give them a slow cooker as a "house-warming present"...

Advent Calendar 2017 by Hotaru_Tomoe (E, 41,952 w., 25 Ch. || Not S4 Compliant, Fluff, Humour, Smut, Light Angst, First Kiss/Time, Est. Rel., Hurt/Comfort, Spanking, Christmas Party, Lingerie, Various Universes, Advent Calendar Fic) – My Advent Calendar, 25 one shots from 1st to 25th December, Christmas-ish themed. Each story has its own rating. Part 23 of The English job

In Bed by Ellipsical (E, 46,922 w., 12 Ch. || Autofellatio, Vibrators, Rimming, Blow Jobs, Coming Out, Liminal Identities, Christmas, Sex Toys, Sexual Fantasy, Fingering, Jealous John, Therapy, Flirting, Texting, Fluff, Sherlock’s Violin, Anal, Est. Rel., Semi-Public Sex, Harry Watson, Communication, Coming in Pants, Spitroasting, Double Penetration, Dirty Talk, Internalized Homophobia, Self-Acceptance, Happy Ending, PTSD John, Coping Mechanisms, Angst, Hurt/Comfort) – It’s almost Christmas, John thinks, and this, this is bullshit. The epilogue to Guilty Secrets. Part 2 of Guilty Secrets

Raison d'être by AmphigoricSymphony and DemonicSymphony (M, 148,721 w., 21 Ch. || S3 Compliant, Sick Fic, Sherlock Whump, Protective John, Major Injury/Illness, Mentions of Past Torture, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Manipulation) – The missing months of His Last Vow, starting from Sherlock dropping in John's arms at 221B and carrying through the months of Hospital he endured. This is a study in emotional and physical trauma, striving to stick as close to the canon plot as possible. At Christmas Dinner, Mycroft asks why they are even celebrating. His mother's answer, 'Sherlock is home from hospital,' leads us to believe Sherlock was in hospital the majority of the time frame of his fall from shock at Baker Street, to nearly Christmas itself. We have no explanation for what John was doing all that time, so this is an effort to fill the gap. Part 2 of the Word Play series, Part 1 of the Reason and Ashes series

Extricate—An Ex Files Special by 7PercentSolution (E, 231,432 w., 41 Ch. || Not Johnlock, Sherlock/Victor Trevor, Unilock, Multiple POV’s, Drug Use, Classical Music, Chemistry, Slow Burn, Serious Injuries, Autism Spectrum, Bullying, Rugby, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Sherlock Whump, Friends to Lovers, Protective Mycroft, Psychological Trauma, Christmas, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Sherlock’s Violin, Sulking, Late Nights, Sexual Identity, Social Awkwardness, Suicide, Homophobia, Clubbing, Big Brother Mycroft) – When Sherlock met Victor, and what happened next. A backstory that explains why caring truly may not be an advantage. This follows ACD canon and ignores BBC season 4, allowing the two of them to meet while at University.

MFL WIPs

First Christmas by PipMer (T, 4,199+ w., 19/31 Ch. || WIP || Est. Rel., Friendship, Fluff, Humour) – It's Sherlock and John's first Christmas together as a couple. Written as an interconnected set of 221b's for the Sherlock December Ficlet Challenge.

John Watson's Twelve Days of Hiccups by ChrisCalledMeSweetie (E, 8,394+w., 11/12 Ch. || WiP || Hiccups, Experimental Cures, Digital Rectal Massage, Orgasm as a Cure for Hiccups, First Time, Humour, Crack, Friends to Lovers, Christmas) – For John Watson, being afflicted with an intractable case of hiccups was a source of intense irritation. For Sherlock Holmes — his mad scientist of a flatmate — it was a golden opportunity for experimentation.

Your Many Tendencies Series by apliddell (T, 52,222+ w. across 5 works || WiP || Femlock, POC Characters, Enby Character, Sherlock’s Violin, YouTuber John, UST, Mutual Pining, Misunderstandings, Slow Burn, Domesticity, Fluff, Recreational Drug Use, Friends to Lovers, Sherlock’s Past, First Kiss, Love Confessions, John’s Family, Christmas, Anxious Sherlock, Hurt / Comfort, Institutional Racism) – John Watson returns to London after a long absence, somewhat the worse for wear. She meets Sherlock Holmes, and starts feeling excited about life again.

"Merry Christmas" I wrapped it up and sent it with a note saying "I love you" by starrysummernights (E, 135,132+ w., 30/31 Ch. || WIP, chapter missing? || Post S4, Slow Burn, Mary is Not Nice, Christmas, Fluff, Smut, Angst, Parentlock, Past Torture / Rape) – John has moved back into 221B with his daughter Rosie after Mary was killed, but things are not exactly comfortable between him and Sherlock. After everything that has happened, they are trying to become friends again...and maybe something more. What better time than the Christmas season?! Takes place after TLD.

The Good Morrow Series by greywash (E, 216,513 +w. across 5 works || WiP || Post-TRF Divergence, Horny John, Smut, Feelings, Negotiations, Christmas/Advent, Sherlock is a Mess, Relationships, Addiction Issues, PTSD, Therapy, Injury, Aging, Loneliness, Marriage, Family, Friendship, POV Second Person, Travel, Character Studies) – A post-S2 series where everyone has a lot of feels about everything and plausibility is stretched unto breaking. Also: fucking.

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AGAIN, PLEASE suggest your own or your favourite holiday fics!! The more, the merrier!!! <3

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