#LM!Leo talks

[daedelweiss]

happy birthday raph!!!!

whose ur fav/least annoying brother?

wH- RAPH DOESN'T HAVE A FAVORITE BROTHER!! RAPH LOVES ALL HIS BROTHERS EQUALLY!!

-Raph

BULLSHIT!

-Donnie

WE ALL KNOW IT'S LEO!!!

-Mikey

Hey! Don't rope me into this!

-Leo

[s0fti3w1tch]

OP you keep mentioning the bathtub arc please explain im beginng

I've talked about it before but basically

TL;DR?

(oh and Red - Red Rover AU Leo, Green - The Night AU Leo, One - SLAU/Separated Leo AU, LM - Life Mission Leo, BB - Bloodbath Leo, Trainee - Tentative Devotee Leo)

After the end of the (amazing) Red Rover fic, Red is injured and has his own barn-house arc 2k12-Leo style. Injured in a tub and has a cracked shell. Trainee visits his dimension and offers to help and then they get into an argument that ow OW OW

Read Red Rover and follow Ken (who wrote it :))!

[separatedleoau]

1. I ADORE THIS AU. one my beloved <3. 2. how do u think one would react to canon leo? sorry if this has already been touched on 3. do you mind if i write a little fic about lm!leo squeezing the older bro out of one with his pureness and dumbassery?

Thanks youuuu!!! 💙💙

I've talk a bit about One with the canon boys here and here

and YES! please do!

[zerger33]

I loved your wriritng so lm asking you something Ive asked another. How would your hero have reacted to their partner disappearing at the end of eos instead of themselves?

Thank you! I super appreciate it! To answer your question, Violet handles it differently, to say the least. Assuming in this twist of fate, she is in Leo's situation, where somehow she lives, and he disappears, she wouldn't jump immediately seek death like Leo does. She can handle her emotions enough not to do that, but that doesn't mean she is anywhere near ok.

So she just... stops. Stops thinking, working, and talking, and she completely goes blank. She does the bare minimum of existing and spends the rest of her time daydreaming, unable to handle any of it. Leo may have acted out more and had a worse meltdown, but Violet just mentally quits.

She completely secludes herself, refusing to speak to anyone and not listening, either. She actively avoids people who reach out to help her, leaving the guild as part of that. Without Leo, she feels completely lost in a world and body she shouldn't be in. Leo had answers, made her feel like she was supposed to be here, and with him gone, she's lost that.

She would also complete the job of telling people what happened, though in her own way, telling all who would listen of her partner's tragic tale. Of how he had sacrificed everything he had to help her. Of how kind and gentle he was and how cruel the world was for taking him.

He would be gone longer, as it would take her a long time to get desperate enough for his returns to start making prayers at shrines to the gods. The first one she would go to though is Dialga, giving everything she has left as an offering, including her life, just to bring Leo back.

Dialga refuses to take anything, though, telling her through the shrine to return to the beach they first met at and show him how much she wants him to be back. So she does. She goes to the beach and screams at the gods till her throat hurts and her vocal cords give out.

It works, of course. Her sobbing over him, how lost she was, and how glad she is that he was back. How she never wants to lose him again, and how much she loves and needs him.

She also wouldn't evolve after the story. She knows how long Ninetales can live, and if she can't handle a few months without him, she could never handle 900 years alone. So she just stays a Vulpix, refusing to ever take a firestone.

That's about it, though I will say I have thought about how she would handle it before. After all,

She does become a Ninetales in my stories :)

[firealder2005]

10

read

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reading/read part of and

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Would read/sounds interesting

Bold - Read

Italics - Reading/Read part of it

Underlined - Would Read/Sounds Interesting

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (repeat)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (english teach freshman year assigned it to us but the *covid* happened and we never read it lol)

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (I DID A FREAKING PRESENTATION ON HER THIS PAST YEAR IN GENRE WRITING WHEN WE WERE TALKING POETRY WHAAAT?)

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare (There it is! Read it this past year in English)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[alwayshaveneverholdd]

First off, sorry for answering so late but college has been killing me these days🤕

About you liking ateez because of their music and not their personalities first: HONESTLY, SAME. I think they're the first kpop group that I like because of their music, performances and the like first. Idk, I guess they're so talented... and with kingdom they just proved that. I was so amazed by how they took the stage every single time. This may sound a bit cliche but they inspire me to become an idol too😂 maybe not in the kpop industry, but in the music industry in general. I'm currently not studying any dance major or music major but I might do it next year since I've been thinking about it before stanning ateez, but after stanning them? They really make you wanna kill it on stage like they do. Their energy is amazing. Idk how to put it into words but... wow😂 they're THAT talented. They inspire me so so much.

So actually, I got into ateez because I saw on Twitter (those dark days I was still on tt. I'm not there anymore though, too many toxic people🙂) that a lot and when I mean a lot I mean A LOT of people where talking about them the whole time. And at first, to be honest😅 I thought, ah, I'm sure they're hyped because they're from a big company or something, I'm sure they're not that great🙄 (bold of me to assume that because they're not but anyways😂😂) AND THEN, I watched answer's mv because they were having that comeback at that time, and I was SHOCKED because the mv was so breathtakingly beautiful, the song was amazing, they all looked so good, so powerful and I thought: wow, i get what they mean now. Then I went to listen to all of their albums and wow... not a song that I didn't like. After that I found out they were the only group in kq and that the company was a small one and I was like🤡🤡🤡🤡 never judging anyone ever again lmaooo. So that's really how I got into the fandom😂😂😂 what about you?

And yes!!!! I was very excited for this cb and it's finally out!!!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🙌🏻🙌🏻 Have you watched the mv already? I'm not gonna say anything about it because I want you to watch it first and then tell me👀 hehe - uwu friend

Also, can I say I love your blog😂😂😂😂 @leo-culture-technology is right about your asks😂😂😂😂😂 you're so chaotic (in a good way😊), I love it😂😂😂😂😂 - uwu friend

BRO YES ATEEZ is just super unique in that they have that star factor: explosive stage presence and ability to tell a story (A lot of the industry just lacks this), skills and talents that they are always improving, a SERIOUSLY humble attitude, and a unique discography that mostly consists of BATTLE ANTHEMS, motivational BANGERS, and introspective BOPS.

The way I got into ATEEZ was similar. I was coming off of my most recent idol group binge and was ready to open up my horizon. I watched Wonderland MV because it had just dropped like a few days prior, and I LOVEEEEED IT!!!!!! Started hard stanning and never looked back. ATEEZ inspired me to start my own business ^-^ so that's awesome that they are inspiring you to pursue music and dance!!!

I actually heard Treasure when it first came out and I rly liked it and always listened to it. Didn't realize ATEEZ had already touched my life lmfao sometimes I wonder why I didn't start stanning then, but I guess I just wasn't ready and/or in the right headspace in my life to be open to the opportunities, growth, and motivation that would come to me through ATEEZ's music.

THIS COMEBACK IS JUST FUCKING IT!!!!! The past few years (ever since Fever pt.1 actually) I felt a sort of disconnect with ATEEZ's music and they felt off to me, but this is confirmation that they are STILL HERE and they are STILL THE SAME ATEEZ and they made a super tasteful diss track that's very respectful in saying "ALL YOU BULLIES GET OUT OF MY WAY, CAUSE I AM REALLY TICKED OFF!!!!!!"

And it's not even a diss track, diss tracks are fucking stupid and immature and like "u suck lol i am the best u are a nerd" (I hate diss tracks lmfao) ATEEZ IS JUST OUT HERE SAYING,

SAY WHAT YOU WANT BRO WE ARE GONNA STAY HUMBLE, KIND, AND HARDWORKING AND OUR RESULTS WILL SPEAK FOR US

aLSO I'm SO happy we got the studio versions of the kingdom songs. SO fucking happy. Look, every group that went on that show was talented in their own right and there were some amazing stages, but I really wished they had professional judges pick the winner bc making it a popularity contest after ALL THAT TRAUMA THE FANDOMS WENT THROUGH was such a dick move mnet is an asshole.

I just am so happy, and every day I know I stan the right group for myself. They truly inspire me to be better and strive for my goals.

ALSO LO0L thank you uwuwuwuwuw I like having a place to unleash my weird-ass thoughts bc lort knows I can't always do it irl

[cooperblr-alt-blog]

Just had to explain cocomelon to leo’s mom who is also a 3rd grade teacher

Leo’s mom: (asking her on and off bf who idk if she’s dating rn) what’s cocomelon?

Me: (from the other room) OH GOD COCOMELON

LM: is it appropriate for 8yos? My kids keep talking about it in class

Me: well yes but it’s intended for infants lmao *shows her the channel*

LM: ooohhhh ok bc this one girl kept calling herself a “a cocomelon baddie”

Me: yeah I don’t think that’s a thing

-but then we looked it up-

Me: oh god it’s a roblox-TikTok-cocomelon-cringe-meme and a child didn’t realize it was a joke

A teacher knows what cocomelon is now 

[theoldguardvoid]

Immortal husband head canon #2

This one is a bit silly and involves a historical figure but I couldn’t stop laughing about it so just indulge me for a moment.

Nicky can draw but it’s a skill he rarely uses because it triggers joe.

Hear me out….

Let’s say Nicky and Nile are talking. They are trying to remember what some person looks like ( either for a mission or whatever) Nicky quickly sketches them. Nile is super impressed

“Wow Nicky I didn’t know you could draw that’s amazing ”

“ oh thank you I had a wonderful mentor”

Joe instantly reacts.

“ oh so now he’s wonderful…. Really Nicolo.. REALLY? “

Nicky just sighs

“ mi amore….love of my life you can’t get like this every time he’s mentioned “

Joe is fuming and Nicky has to physically calm him.

“ love…. Leo was just a mentor you know this”

Nile is hella confused and invested.

“ Leo?....”

Andy pops in laughing

“ His mentor was di Vinci and he had a thing for Nicky. Joe had some competition for Nicky’s attention back in the day”

“ Wait you guys knew Leonardo di Vinci!”

Can you guys imagine Nicky knowing some of histories famous artist just because he wanted to learn more about the craft that Joe absolutely loves. Instead Joe gets jealous cause Nicky doesn’t understand how these men see him as their muse and want him to themselves.

Especially my boy Leo. I once read somewhere that Leo liked to surround himself with young beautiful men and lm like Nicky is definitely his type.

[littlx-songbxrd]

Okay, so I REALLY associate you with Leo Valdez. It might just be because of your ace!Leo hcs, but the nd latine energy is also a factor. Ah, I also associate you with Christopher Lightwood, but I'm not sure why?? I haven't read the entirety of Choi tho, so I can be very wrong. You also have big Kit Herondale vibes, and, even tho we don't know a lot about Jaime, I feel like maybe him too?? And a little bit of Emma (or at least the Emma we saw in LM, not the oh-julian-why-julian Emma we saw in the other two books).

Yeah, it's mostly because you seem really chatty and friendly (online at least, I'm not sure how you are irl). You seem full of love to give and experiences to share and SO MUCH ENERGY and creativity. It always dazzles me how you're able to be friends with so many people on tumblr and react to everything with so much care and appreciation. Any character that reflects that will be a character I associate you with❤

Anon, I have actual tears in my eyes after reading that and I wish i was joking. You've made me happy pace with a computer in my arms all through my room and that's no small feet this is a heavy computer and im not very big. I cannot actually express how much i appreciate this so I hope youre getting my overwhelming appreciation because COULD I EVEN ASK FOR A BETTER COMPLEMENT THAN ALL THIS???

JAJA LEO IS ACTUALLY SO ACCURATE. Leo Valdez was the first character I read i could see myself entirely in, which scared the crap out of me. Nd latine energy bckjbfkgfk ACE LEO THEORY STILL STANDS. Dont worry anon one day I'll reread hoo and make an entire ace leo post do not worry

Christopher is actually my favorite tlh besides Alastair SO THATS SUCH A WIN FOR ME AND DONT WORRY

chog christopher is pretty much choi christopher and i love this comparison

yes i do enjoy info dumping and making chaotic choices

KIT HERONDALE

I have a fun story for that my friend was reading tda and when she got to the kit pov about kits list of grivances against shadowhunters she texted me like "omg zia is this you?"

Then did that again with the line where he rebelled against shadowhunters eating a cookie

So both you her and i agree SO THATS ACCURATE

I HAD NEVER HEARD EMMA OR JAIME BUT IM SO FLATTERED

we never saw much of jaime but i loved his energy so I agree to this

LM MIDNIGHT EMMA MY BELOVED

I am extremly chatty in real life, like my nikname irl is parrot becase im said to talk as much as one. EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST SO NICE HOLD ON I NEED TO CRY AGAIN-

Thank you so much anon, truly ily

Send me characters you associate with me

[daedelweiss]

Happy birthday big dude!

Anyways question…

I know we aren’t able to see it live…buuuuuut, did anyone grab a quick picture of Ralph putting his fist in his mouth or was Leo able to stop him fully?

sorry, pal. leo won't let me. team medic responsibilities or somethin' like that.

-Raph

AND DON'T YOU DARE TRY IT WHILE I'M NOT LOOKING!!!

-Leo

[dustedmagazine]

Dusted’s Decade Picks: The Lists

Protomartyr, who appear on at least three of these lists.

Of course, those picks from earlier today didn’t just manifest out of thin air; most (if not necessarily all) of us wound up coming up with some sort of decade-end list in the process of picking an album or two to ruminate upon, and a few that didn’t have specific pieces on singular works still had a little something to say about the decade just now passing away. Below the cut, then, is a more expansive but less wordy account of what various Dusted personnel found most personally essential in the 2010s. Enjoy!

Andrew Forell’s Ten Others of the Tens:

Algiers – Algiers (Matador 2015)

Burial – Rival Dealer (Hyperdub, 2013)

Deerhunter – Halcyon Days (4AD, 2010)

Goon Sax – We’re Not Talking (Chapter Music, 2018)

John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union, 2013)

John Murry – The Graceless Age (Evangeline, 2012)

Low – Double Negative (Sub Pop, 2018)

My Bloody Valentine – m b v (m b v, 2013)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd, 2016)

Tim Hecker – Rave Death, 1972 (Kranky, 2011)

Ben Donnelly’s A Decade of Albums, Alphabetical

Sina Alam – Cut Pieces (Tekehaye Borideh Shodeh) (Sina Alam, 2011)

Marisa Anderson – Traditional and Public Domain Songs (Grapefruit Records, 2013)

Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles – Oh Man Cover the Ground (Suicide Squeeze, 2015)

Demdike Stare – Tryptych (Modern Love, 2010)

Esben and the Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo, 2014)

Fire! Orchestra – Exit! (Rune Grammofon, 2013)

A Hawk and a Hacksaw – You Have Already Gone to the Other World (LM Dupli-Cation, 2013)

Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop, 2016)

James Holden & The Animal Spirits – The Animal Spirits (Border Community, 2017)

Kelsey Lu – Blood (Columbia, 2019)

Cate Le Bon – Cyrk, Cyrk II, Mug Museum, Reward (Turnstile, Mexican Summer; 2012, 2013, 2019)

Zabelle Panosian – I Am Servant of Your Voice (Canary, 2017)

Stara Rzeka – Cién Chmury Nad Ukrytym Polem (Instant Classic, 2013)

Ufomammut – Eve, Oro: Opus Primum, Oro: Opus Alter (Supernatural Cat, Neurot; 2010, 2012)

Ulaan Passerine – Moss Cathedral, The Landscape of Memory (Worstward; 2016, 2017)

Various Artists – Sky Girl (Efficient Space, 2016)

Derek Taylor’s Ten for the Decade

Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012)

Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love – Candy (PNL, 2015)

Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die (International Anthem, 2017)

Evan Parker – As the Wind (Psi, 2016)

Sonny Rollins & Don Cherry – Complete Live at the Village Gate (Solar, 2015)

Ellery Eskelin – Trio New York (Prime Source, 2011)

Henry Threadgill – In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Psi, 2015)

Peter Evans – Zebulon (More is More) 2013

Various Artists – FMP In Ruckblick (In Retrospect) (FMP, 2011)

William Parker – Wooden Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity, 2013)

Ethan Milititisky’s 10 Others That Deserve More Attention:

The Whines — Hell to Play (Meds, 2010)

Terry — Terry HQ (Upset the Rhythm, 2016)

Fly Ashtray — The Eponymous Object (Self-Released, 2012)

Metal Mountains — Golden Trees (Amish, 2011)

J. McFarlane’s Reality Guest — Ta Da (Hobbies Galore, 2019)

The Coolies — Kaka (Feeding Tube, 2015)

Hidden Ritual — Zebra Bottle (Monofonus Press, 2015)

Watery Love — Decorative Feeding (In the Red, 2014)

Uranium Orchard — Knife & Urinal (Cold Vomit, 2018)

Rose Mercie — Rose Mercie (Monofonus Press, 2018)

Ian Mathers’ Personal Top 20 of the Decade (Alphabetical)

Chelsea Jade — Personal Best (Create Music Group, 2018)

Clinic — Free Reign II (Domino, 2013)

EMA — The Future’s Void (City Slang, 2014)

Julianna Barwick — Will (Dead Oceans, 2016)

King Woman — Created in the Image of Suffering (Relapse, 2017)

Leverage Models — Leverage Models (Hometapes, 2013)

Los Campesinos! — Sick Scenes (Wichita, 2017)

loscil — Sea Island (Kranky, 2014)

Low — Double Negative (Sub Pop, 2018)

Mansions — Doom Loop (Clifton Motel, 2013)

Mesarthim — The Density Parameter (Avantgarde Music, 2018)

Mogwai — Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. (Rock Action, 2011)

The National — Trouble Will Find Me (4AD, 2013)

Picastro — You (Function, 2014)

Protomartyr — The Agent Intellect (Hardly Art, 2015)

Sleigh Bells — Reign of Terror (Mom + Pop, 2012)

Spoon — They Want My Soul (Loma Vista, 2014)

SubRosa — No Help for the Mighty Ones (Profound Lore, 2011)

Swervedriver — I Wasn’t Born to Lose You (Cherry Red, 2015)

Zeal and Ardor — Stranger Fruit (MVKA, 2018)

Jason Gioncontere’s 10 From the 10s

Recency biases can render exercises such as these moot; fortunately my palate continues to evolve at a glacial pace. Compounding matters is the flash-cube sized attention span the Digital Age is leaving us with in its wake. If it hasn’t honestly hasn’t affected the way you digest and connect with music one iota you are luckier than I. From the opening notes I knew all these albums below were a different beast, each and every time I am left with no choice but to go on the journey in its entirety as intended. Best efforts were made to sequence these in number of rotations:

David Nance - Calling Christine (CDR, 2016)

Helen - The Original Faces (Kranky, 2015)

Dreamdecay - N V N V N V (Iron Lung, 2013)

Uniform - Wake in Fright (Sacred Bones, 2017)

Lou Barlow -  Brace the Wave (Joyful Noise, 2015)

Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art, 2014)

Axis:Sova - Weight of a Color (Kill Shaman, 2012)

Beachglass - Clouding (Bandcamp, 2017)

Birds of Maya - Ready to Howl (Richie, 2010)

La Hell Gang - Thru Me Again (Mexican Summer, 2014)

Jennifer Kelly’s 2010s Favorites

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Push the Sky Away (Bad Seed Ltd., 2013)

Protomartyr — Under Colour of Official Right (Hardly Art, 2014)

Sleaford Mods — Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound, 2014)

Meg Baird — Don’t Weigh Down the Light (Drag City, 2015)

Heron Oblivion — Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop, 2016)

Amy Rigby — The Old Guys (Southern Domestic, 2018)

Steve Gunn — The Unseen in Between (Matador, 2019)

Patois Counselors — Proper Release (Ever/Never, 2018)

Damien Jurado — Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian, 2012)

Skull Defekts — Peer Amid (Thrill Jockey, 2011)

Jack Rose — Luck in the Valley (Thrill Jockey, 2010)

Rangda — False Flag (Drag City, 2010)

Tim Clarke’s A Baker’s Dozen From the 2010s

In a nod to The Quietus’s regular feature, here are 13 albums that have meant a lot to me in recent years. I��m sure there have been musical trends during the 2010s more worthy of coverage than a personal list of favorites, but if one thing’s clear from this list it’s that, for better or worse, my taste hasn’t changed much in the ensuing years and is rarely swayed by the flavor of the month (or year, or decade). Most of this is expansive guitar-based stuff, and they’re all albums I don’t hesitate to revisit to this day. So, if that sounds like your bag, you can’t go wrong with any of these, presented in alphabetical order:

Big Thief — U.F.O.F. (4AD, 2019)

Chris Cohen — Overgrown Path (Captured Tracks, 2012)

Loma — Loma (Sub Pop, 2018)

Sandro Perri — Impossible Spaces (Constellation, 2011)

Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool (XL, 2016)

Roommate — Make Like (Strange Weather, 2015)

Andy Shauf — The Party (Arts & Crafts, 2016)

Shearwater — Animal Joy (Sub Pop, 2012)

Chad VanGaalen — Light Information (Sub Pop, 2017)

Mark Van Hoen — Where is the Truth? (City Centre Offices, 2010)

The Walkmen — Lisbon (Fat Possum, 2010)

Wild Beasts — Smother (Domino, 2011)

Women — Public Strain (Jagjaguwar, 2010)

[locke-writes]

@aryn-the-wolfheart​ asked me how many books from this post I’ve read and instead of just reblogging with the number I wanted to do what the post had said and bold the titles (mainly because if anyone wants to talk books which I’m all for, it’s helpful to know what I’ve read

Total Amount: 49

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[yokosukaacademy]

Male Students Official

Zebra belongs to @middy-lotus name: Z e b r a  Teacher or student: Student of first-year  Age: 15  Gender: Male  Height: 6.3  Weight: 75   Sexuality: Pansexual but leans more towards males  Powers(if any): His mask’s eye sockets can flare up and get eye lights whenever he uses his magic, though it is just to seem intimidating. He mostly summons fireballs since that’s what he’s used to, though he rarely uses his magic.  Personality: Zebra can come off as very aggressive, he will act that way for a while, he only softens around close friends and family. He is very protective of his close friends. he normally acts intimidating and aggressive.  Likes:  - Cold weather  - being alone  -Rain  -Quiet places  dislikes:  -Loud noises  -Hot weather

Luka belongs to @Enderplasma  name- Luka  species- incubus  age- 16 physically, his real age is unknown  height- 6′9 -student or teacher- Student  sexuality- straight personality- huge flirt, lemme smash, not a virgin, wants the good succ before he gives the good fucc likes-  women  sex ed class  Sex on the beach dislikes-  the cold  being rejected  being submissive  powers- all sex-based so, by looking into someone's eyes he can tell what their kinks are where their sweet-spots are

Max belongs to @foxy-ruben-lm   Name: Max Age: 15 Height: 5’ 10" Weight: 143 Student or teacher: Student Gender: Male Sexuality: Straight  Powers (if any): See the emotions of people through their eyes Personality: Clever, Kind, has a better understanding of women, mostly pacific,  funny, sweet Likes:  - Chocolates  - Kendo  - Poems  -Drama  -Animals  -Anime  Dislikes:  - Bullies  - Cockroaches  -Loneliness 

Myriad belongs to @myriad-truth Name: Myriad Truth Age: 15 Height: 64 inches Weight: 195 lbs Student or teacher: Student Gender: Agender / Non-binary Sexuality: Pansexual Powers (if any): Colour manipulation (able to “take” a color from an object and change it into something, whether it be simple or complex). However is only good in specific colors, namely, if they are in large quantities they can control them better. Personality: Myriad is generally a very tough person. Nothing would ever really knock them down and they’re pretty prepared to get up for a fight. Despite that, they are very arty and pretty bookwormish too, despite spending a lot of time outside playing games. They aren’t the best at holding conversations. Likes:  -Fiction and nonfiction books  digital art  -games such as football, basketball etc (contact sports)  Dislikes: -being talked to rudely  -pushed and shoved around  -not being allowed her privacy  -being bothered

Ukiyo belongs to @leo-boio Name: Ukiyo Age:16  Height:5’5  Weight: 75 Student or teacher: student  Gender: Male  Sexuality: Gay  Powers (if any): he’s able to hide within a shadow, he has a spear-like weapon Personality: awkward, weird, shy-ish, easily confused, somewhat reckless, random,  Likes: Horror, Darkness, Cold weather, Sleeping, Tea, Flowers  Dislikes: Hot weather, Water, Awkward, situations, Eye contact, Questions about his eyepatch and mask

Name: Yoco Mamoru Age: 16  Height: 6′3  Weight: 148  Student or teacher: Student  Gender: Male  Sexuality: Bisexual  Powers: Physical strength  Personality: He’s kind, and tends to help people in need. Yoco is gentle towards people even towards people he doesn’t know. He is pretty popular at school for his looks.  Likes:  - Exercising  - Animals  -Music  -Talking to a certain  -someone  Dislikes  -his father  - Ungrateful people  - unkind people

Name: Kazuo Kōri  Age: 16  Height: 6'2  Weight: 134  Student or teacher: Student  Gender: Male  Sexuality: Straight  Powers (if any): Ice magic  Personality: Kazuo is a very flirtatious person. He’s smart and very intelligent in different ways. Though he likes to flirt he is a nice guy. He is one of the most popular guys in school.  Likes:  - Flirting  - Girls  - Cold Climates  Dislikes:  - Other guys  - Mushrooms  - Bitter foods

Joshua belongs to @chara-dreemurr105 Name: Joshua  Age: 17  Height:6" 0  Weight: 145lb  Student or teacher: Student  Gender male  Sexuality: Bistraightual  Personality: He's a delinquent on the outside but on the inside, he's a softie. Is a big flirt when he wants to be. Both genders equally. Has a sister. Loves her to death and tries to protect her.  Likes:  Food  - Friends  - Puppies  - His weapon - His sis Dislikes:  People other than his friend's Big crowds

Nihility belongs to @star!Nihility

Name: Nihility Age: 14 Height: 5′4 cm Weight: 9 kg Student or teacher: student Gender: Male Sexuality: Asexual Powers: he has the power of perseverance and the normal skeleton's bone attack  Personality: Lazy ass but really smart, socially awkward, not trusting strangers while wants to make new friends Likes:  - His family - Maths and Science - food (he's really picky about it but he loves chips) Dislikes: -  most of the vegetables and fish (hates cheese and vegemite) - drama queens and overly sensitive people  - hugs and kisses

Name: Yukamari Ōkami Age: 16 Height: 6'4 Weight: 136  Student or teacher: Student Gender: Male  Sexuality: Straight Powers: Werewolf  Personality: Yukamari has some anger issues and causes a lot of trouble with local police. He is a bit touchy-feely when it comes to girls but doesn't really realize it. Likes:  -  Meat  - Rabbits  - Running  Dislikes: -  Police - Rain  - Thunder

Name: Jake  Age: 17 Height: 6'4  Weight: 159 Student or teacher: Student  Gender: Male Sexuality: straight  Powers (if any): None Personality: He's a Delinquent, but isn't a bad guy he just has no interest in school. He has a strong heart and tries to not get into fights. Rumors say that he is violent because of his scars.  Likes: - Video games - Animals  - Food Dislikes:  - School - People talking shit about him - When people don't come through with promises

[what-the-phoenix]

@olympecx  thanks for tagging me I love these things

rules: answer the 20 questions below and then tag bloggers that you want to get to know better.

Nicknames: So my friends have given me quite a few nicknames ranging from lozza to heels but my current nickname is JJB

Height: I’m around 5ft 4in so lol average

Orientation: straight

Nationality: I’m Manx (lol you most of you will probably need to google what that is) but I have some Irish heritage

Favourite Fruit: Apples though I do like some good berries

Favourite Season: I mean though I love summer winter gives me excuses to drink tea and hot chocolate and I get presents then so...

Favourite Flower: Sunflowers, their bright like me

Favourite Scent: freshly baked pastries 

Favourite Colors : Baby blue, pink, gold

Favourite Animals : Koalas ladybugs, capybaras

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate? : I drink tea and hot chocolate religiously so i can’t really pick but coffee is just plain awful 

Average Hours of Sleep: Like 6 hours but I’m getting better.

Cat or Dog person? : I’m gonna say dog person,cos me and cats have got some bad blood.

Favourite Fictional Characters: 

-Piper McLean : One of my favourite characters when I was younger and helped me get into the new heroes of olympus series

-Felicity Smoak: I mean bad ass computer chick who motivated me to carry on computer science

- Adrien Agreste: New favourite character who is just an awesome cinnamon role.

- Flora (winx): I mean my childhood goals plus helped me get interested in gardening and had the cutest outfits

- Hiccupe Horrendous Haddok III : I mean him and toothless, I have litergrown up with.

and i will stop there otherwise i’ll keep go

Number of blankets I sleep with: One big one ond one thinner one always

Dream Trip: Hawaii, Paris and South Korea

Blog Created: July 2015.  God its been years

Random Fact: I am currently part of a group that has a Guinness world record

Tagging : @thealmightytrashdeity @tortuga247 @awsome-space-dragon

Lol hey guys here you go

[fossadeileonixv]

Mercato Madness: July 27

What would ya do here?

Wow, this is a thing! Sorry I’m having trouble coming up with something cute here cuz this is madness. Hair Leonardo confirmed in a presser yesterday that no hair Leonardo, Leonardo Bonucci, did in fact request a return to Juve, one year after his shock move to San Siro. I mean, we’ve unwrapped this quite a bit here already, but it says something when one of the best defenders in the league hands in a transfer request and pretty much everyone is like “Oh. Good.” As bizarre and comical as this is, the compensation is the hangup, as Juve definitely is interested in bringing him back to bolster their Champions League chances. A swap with Mattia Caldara has seemingly been the backbone of a deal sending Leo back from whenst he came (is that right?), but the valuations of the respectively players by both sides aren’t matching up quite yet. And throw in the news that emerged yesterday that Juve want a buy-back clause (God, do not do this, just on principle), and you got another layer of sediment to brush off. Gonzalo Higuain is another name that’s been mixed up in this Leo-swap, but with Sarri flashing the cash for him at Chelsea, the possibility of Pipita in Black and Red is growing a little dimmer. The chances I think, are still in our favor, but I think time is our enemy.

My question to you lions and lionesses is what is ideal here? Nine posed this question yesterday or the day before sort of, but what is the most reasonable outcome to all this in your mind? And how ya feeling about a buy-back?

Hosting Bernard. When I saw that Milan was linked with Bernard, I was like that’s pretty good. Host or not, and confusing history aside, along with Ford he created the most impressive AI theme-park in Westworld, and while having no football experience it might be good for the stadium issue. Then I realized it was Bernard, the plucky 4′4″ left-winger from Shakhtar, and I was like “Oh... Bernard.” and still liked the move. Out of contract with the Ukrainian giants, Bernard the human footballer is being courted by a few clubs, but many think Milan with Leonardo have a pretty good chance at landing the 26 year-old. Mainly a LW, Bernard packs a lot of pluck into his 3′10″ frame, is good with the ball at his feet, has excellent vision, a decent bit of pace and can find the back of the net. And if his performances for Brazil are a barometer, he’s a pretty physical player for someone of his stature. Would he be tried on the right? Dislodge Cal back to LM? Signal a change in formation? Who knows. But on a free, this would be a nice little piece of business and he’s from Mrs. Rockett’s hometown in Brazil, so there’s also that!

Kjaer in the air. If Leo leaves and Caldara does not, ex-Roma and Palermo man Simon Kjaer may be called on to fill his shoes, because another average-to-good center back is exactly what we need. The journeyman had a bit of a disappointing season in Sevilla last season, and would come relatively cheap, but I’m thinking that if Leo leaves you need to either commit to Musacchio or bring someone with a bit more class in. Kjaer, in a vacuum -- well, he wouldn’t be able to breathe and would die -- but in a metaphoric vacuum, isn’t a poor move for a 3rd or 4th choice defender, but it really doesn’t seem to fit right now with Mus, Zapata, and as of right now still, Gomez. Plus we have a history with blonde, pony-tailed central defenders from Roma that, although are remembered endearingly now, were not so endearing when they played here.

In other news... Biglia’s agent has come out and flatly denied that in the wake of Leo’s request, he asked for a return to Lazio. This is good. Biglia was vital during the second half of the season and his departure would really throw a monkey wrench into the transfer window... Re-calibrate your Conte-Watch clock, Russu, as Hair Leo gave his full support of Rino. I’ve said it here a few times. Conte will probably be this club’s next coach, but for stability’s sake, I see why you double down on Rino. God bless Rino forever, but I really hope this isn’t Montella 2.0... Can we just talk about that away kit for a second? I know it has nothing to do with the mercato, but HOLY SH*T between the chalk across the top to the illegible name and number on back, I think that may be the worst kit since the rainbows. Ew!

That’s it babies! Sound off below!

[inkyturtle]

yukiothecollielover

It's my OTP, so I'm obviously curious what other people think :D I love talking about this ship, I love the dynamics between Raph and Donnie, for some reasn it's very appealing for me and you pretty much covered all points what I think about it :) I think Raph turns to Donnie mostly because Mikey and Leo get on his nerves and Donnie is attracted to Raph because of his passion. Donnie IS passionate, but his passion manifests in different ways than Raph's.

I think Donnie can get on Raph’s nerves too, but at least there’s not that frustration he gets from dealing with Mikey’s antics or that jealousy he gets towards Leo’s position. In that sense Donnie is closer to equal footing for him, and it’s good to get that logical perspective when your mind can’t sort out your emotions.

I agree that Donnie is pretty passionate too, and that it manifests differently. Raph’s is more loud and in your face and shows in his actions more than anything else. For Donnie it shows in what he creates and how he talks about his ideas.

Plus if we’re talking divvying up brothers for ships I’d put Raph/Donnie and Leo/Mikey right in that sweet spot for me. Since RL/DM are high on my list I get self-conscious, and my feelings for RM are way stronger than my feelings for LD so that sorta makes me go hesitant to focus on that because I know where my biases are. But the LM/RD combo? Pretty close together in my favorites without me worrying about making a fangirling ass of myself.

I vow one day to find a way to explore these two ships more, maybe even side by side.

Sadly that day is not today.