#LOUISA……… chuck…

[minnie-themoocher]

some books we know jason has canonically read:

the entire works of jane austen, especially pride and prejudice (his fav so far as we can tell)

the works of alexander dumas

the works of sir arthur conan doyle

hamlet by william shakespeare

richard iii by william shakespeare

1984 by george orwell

little women by louisa may alcott

the prince by machiavelli

fight club by chuck palahniuk

the art of war by sun tzu

these are just the real ones btw; he’s also read at least 2 self-help books, some entirely fictional series, unspecified books on japanese history, the napoleonic wars, and 19th century england, and in-universe superman comics.

[kenobers]

✨Jason Todd's Bookshelf✨

i think it's so interesting to see what books Jason Todd would read/own, so here's my own contribution! some of these are canon* (hence the *), some are popular headcanons and some are my own speculation. i'll probably continue to add to this.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen*

1984 by George (Wh)Orwell*

The Prince by Machiavelli*

The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Art of War by Sun Tzu*

Hamlet*

An additional complete works of William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

i think Holden Caulfield secretly reminds him of Bruce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka

specifically owns a copy that has both of them in there

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

this may be a bit on the nose, but Jason would love a good satire

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibu Tufail

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

but lowkey he hates it

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Iliad by Homer

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

i don't see Jason as being a big fantasy/sci-fi guy unless it falls under the magical realism or gothic categories (i.e, Beloved, Frankenstein), however i do think he would jive with Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett and (unfortunately) Harlan Ellison

i can also see him jiving with R.F Kuang and i think The Poppy War specifically would be an exception to his usual disinterest in fantasy

i think he maybe also has a stash of paperback Star Wars novels stashed away somewhere

if jason is a theatre kid into adulthood, i think he would be the kind that reads solely straight plays

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Complete Works of Arthur Miller

Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

he typically avoids stuff that’s so directly about mortality, but this play would really resonate with him and honestly be a healing read

being the hater that he is, he's also hate read at least one Collen Hoover book (and promptly left it in the Batcave to frame Bruce for the crime)

[s-soulwriter]

Books based on your MBTI

INFJ (The Advocate):

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

INTJ (The Architect):

"Dune" by Frank Herbert

"Neuromancer" by William Gibson

INFP (The Mediator):

"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman

INTP (The Logician):

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams

"The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

ENFJ (The Protagonist):

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

ENTJ (The Commander):

"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn

"American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis

ENFP (The Campaigner):

"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens

"The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

ENTP (The Debater):

"Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

ISTJ (The Inspector):

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson

"The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

ESTJ (The Supervisor):

"The Firm" by John Grisham

"The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham

ISFJ (The Protector):

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

ESFJ (The Provider):

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg

ISTP (The Craftsman):

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy

ESTP (The Dynamo):

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

"The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

ISFP (The Composer):

"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

"The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

ESFP (The Performer):

"Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Brida" by Paulo Coelho

[thatsexcpisces]

Astrology placement pairings and famous TV/Movie couples they remind me of💕🎞️🫂

Leo moon + Pisces moon:

Will & Louisa from Me Before You

Pisces + Scorpio:

Sandy and Danny from Grease

Aries Mars + Sagittarius mars:

Jane & John from Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Virgo moon/mars + Libra sun/rising:

Meredith and Derek from Grey’s Anatomy

Pisces mercury + Aquarius mercury:

Elio & Oliver from Call Me By Your Name

Aries sun/moon + Scorpio moon:

Noah & Allie from The Notebook

Scorpio rising + gemini sun:

Elena & Damon from The Vampire Diaries

Leo/Aries sun/rising + Sagittarius sun/mercury:

Chuck & Blair from Gossip Girl

Taurus moon/mercury + Aquarius sun/moon:

Jim & Pam from The Office

Capricorn sun/mars + cancer sun/mars:

Katniss & Peta from The Hunger Games

[aliciavance4228]

One Hundred Books

Decided to make this list in order to include in one post all the books that I found to be worth reading and would recommend to others. They're not in a specific order:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Dubliners by James Joyce

A Jounal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Trial by Kafka

Metamorphosis by Kafka

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dracula by Bram Stocker

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Dune by Frank Herbert

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski

Notes from the Underground by Dostoievski

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Pianist by Władisław Szpilman

Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

The Idiot by Dostoievski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoievski

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Moby-Dick by Herman Meville

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievski

The Call of Cthulhu by Lovecraft

Dagon and other Macabre Tells by Lovecraft

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Shining by Stephen King

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Enlightened Cave by Max Blecher

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The God Factory by Karel Čapek

The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Selected Poems by Jorge Louis Borges

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Plague by Albert Camus

Carrie by Stephen King

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Tell-Tale Heart and other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

It by Stephen King

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen

...gotta pin this post and edit it later, when I'll have more time to do that.

[greaterblogston]

I started listening to Greater Boston! Love it so far and only on season one. I wanna draw fanart. Any suggestions/requests?

I hope it's okay that I publish this! I also don't know where you are in S1 so forgive me if any of this is spoilery. But uhh - here's a top ten.

1). Louisa photographing Michael from afar - and he starts to pose.

2). Chuck interviewing Mallory for the first time (if you don't know who Chuck is - it's okay, he's the interviewer).

3). The watch factory.

4). Gemma going to town on greasy food so she can get better at gastromancy and speaks to Monty through gas.

5). Michael throwing i-Ching coins.

6). Tyrell at the Margarita-thon looking kinda unhappy because it's not going as he'd hoped.

7). Pregnant Charlotte designing Red Line and showing the very pleased Mayor.

8). Charlotte saving the free-runner from the tracks as a helpless Nica watches, frozen in fear.

9). Nica throwing the bottle into the Charles hoping it reaches Dimitri, as Tyrell watches.

10). Dimitri discovering the horrible secret of Atlantis.

[copper-9spurgatory]

Truth or Dare:

Truth option: Tell us about why Sheila is a bitch

Dare option: Tell @xxrobotessaxx that you think she's nice

I’m bad at compliments so..Sheila has always been a thorn at my side. When I was her second drone, she was nice at first but she always felt distant towards me. Even though my sole purpose at the time was to be her companion.

Then Cyn came along, she didn’t like her either and would always push her off to the side. When N came along, she treated him like he was her savior from that rundown manor.

He never had to sacrifice anything, I always had to give up something to gain a speck of her attention. I had to give up my hair, my self respect, my time, nearly everything. Nothing was ever enough, she never treated me kindly and would neglect me at some points or berate me like she was Louisa. It was painful, her screaming, sometimes she’d chuck at knife at my visor. I was often weak but I still had to work.

I’ve learned to stop at some point, she wasn’t worth my time anymore and I had Viv.

[transfemgorgug]

makes you look at them

does anyone wanna see the stickers i put on my fuck off big water bottle

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Eddie and Agatha

So I've been thinking about Agatha's dinner party invite.

Eddie never gives the reasons why he explicitly wanted Louisa May Alcott, Dostoevsky, George Eliot, or HG dead (though I like to think that he would just meet authors in his day-to-day life and then immediately chuck' em on the kill list). He also never gives a reason for involving Agatha, but her inclusion, besides being a great joke for a murder mystery involving famous authors, is pretty much the perfect encapsulation of his character.

Like, there's no particularly direct personal vendetta there. When Eddie talks about Agatha, it's just to say that he had to kill her before she saw through his scheme. So if she was such a potential problem, why invite her in the first place?

Because at the end of the day, it's not really about Guy or killing off a load of authors and framing Edgar. It's actually about Eddie proving once and for all that he's better and smarter than these copying hacks who inherited the Western literary tradition that should have been his. And what better way to do that than to murder Agatha Christie, the greatest detective writer of her age, thereby beating her at her own high-level game.

Eddie went out of his way, potentially making things a lot riskier for himself, just to deliver the most pointed, situation-specific "fuck you, I'm smarter" to the writing community he could think of. Unlike with most of the others, he got no practical benefit from her death. It was all just ego and over-complication, which are, like Eddie's middle names. What a guy.

(also for all that he couldn't come up with a way to outsmart her so he had to murder her immediately oops)

[zerolostwalks]

HAPPY FANFIC WRITER APPRECIATION DAY!!

In honor of the day I've compiled a list of some of the awesome authors I know!! (As well as some of the fandoms they currently/previously have written for)

@anthonyjlockwood : AO3

The Bright Sessions (Podcast), Lockwood & Co., The College Tapes, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

@bananakarenina : AO3

Julie and the Phantoms

@bbreaddog : AO3

Rent (Larson), Julie and The Phantoms

@blackandblue13 : AO3

Julie and the Phantoms

@caswellseyes : AO3

Julie and the Phantoms, High School Musical: the Musical: the Series

@chickwiththepurpleguitar : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms, The Bright Sessions (Podcast), Supernatural, The AM Archives (Podcast)

@daintyduck99 : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Stranger Things, IT (Stephen King), IT (Movies - Muschietti) , Victorious

@floating-in-the-blue : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Metal Gear, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

@finditagain24 : AO3

The Shadowhunter Chronicles, Push, Julie and The Phantoms, Les Misérables

@ginervacade : AO3

Chronicles of Narnia, Julie and The Phantoms, Little Women (Howland/Dickstein/Knee), Descendants, Little Women Series (Louisa May Alcott)

@kybee1497 : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Wednesday (TV 2022), Do Revenge, First Kill, Wynonna Earp

@legolasghosty : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms

@locketletters : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, The Owl House

@innytoes : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Leverage, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Gilmore Girls

@invisibleraven : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Glee, Glee RPF, Teen Titans (Comics), Legally Blonde (Hach/O'Keefe/Benjamin)

@jatp-spinsb : AO3

Julie and the Phantoms, Sanders Sides

@onlygenxhere : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Teen Wolf (TV) 

@ri-jane : AO3

Moonlight, Chuck, Doctor Who, Captain America

@salamandergoo : AO3

Stranger Things, Julie and The Phantoms, Miraculous Ladybug, House M.D., My Hero Academia

@sarah-sandwich : AO3

Spider-Man, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool

@squirrelno2 : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Marvel Cinematic Universe

@tillstarscollided : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Red White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)

@where-you-go : AO3

Julie and the Phantoms, Stranger Things

@wr0temyway0ut : AO3

Julie and The Phantoms, Hamilton (Miranda), Good Omens, Descendants

[mammameesh]

top 9 Books

Thank you @jesuisici33 for the tag. Friends I would really like more reading material so um pile it on!

Red, White and Royal Blue Its about the son of a diplomat meeting the son of the royal family, and they…well connnect.

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. - It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups…yeah we will go with that.

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - tells the story of Henry DeTamble, a librarian who inadvertently travels through time and his wife, Clare Abshire, an artist who has to cope with his constant absence.

Timeline by Micheal Cricton - It tells the story of a group of history students who travel to 14th-century France to rescue their professor

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt - A Memoir of him growing up in Ireland.

Sandman by Neil Gaiman - This is a comic but its the only Neil Gaiman that I currently own so…(shrugs). The Sandman is a story about stories and how Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, is captured and subsequently learns that sometimes change is inevitable

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - dystopian novel that follows Katniss Everdeen as she plays…the Hunger Games

Little Women by Louisa May Alcoltt - It tells the story of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, each with a unique and relatable personality.3 The book is a classic coming-of-age story set in picturesque nineteenth-century New England during the Civil War

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice - A Vampire's memoirs as told by a Daniel (not Levy)

@a-noble-dragon, @apothecarose, do you have any book recs for me? OPEN TAG! TAG ME!

[laufire]

I borrowed this from someone at dreamwidth and I thought I'd post it over here too: behold, my (completed*) January reading! feel free to borrow the meme yourself.

(list & some thoughts under the cut)

NOVELS

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. This was, technically, a reread. I say technically because I don't remember the last part of the book and now I'm wondering if I DNFed it over a decade ago and completely forgot LMAO. I... could see why. While it's A Classic, and there's plenty to like in the novel, especially in the sisters, the moralising really got to me at some points. The biggest was the one where Jo attends this meeting full of artists and geniuses and political giants ~behaving just like people~~ and this is DEVASTATING to her (and then Bhaer peddles some chrisitanism). Gurl, I would have loved that LOL. But all in all I mostly enjoyed the read. I did it bit by bit, subscribed to The Public Domain Book Club in substack; each month (or, in LW's case, each couple of months) they go through a book. I've kept the subscription for February, where it'll post "Sense and Sensibility", another Jane Austen novel I haven't read.

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirlees. I fucking ADORED this novel. I've mentioned it in this blog before but I just found it such a treat to read. Mirlees' prose is enticing and enchanting and everything I want mine to be. If you're someone that enjoys a good descriptive, florid style of narration, give this one a shot.

SHORT STORIES

I read three short stories by Angel Carter. The first three in "Burning Your Boats", apparently her earliest work: "The Man Who Loved a Double Bass", "A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home", and "A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)". They're not nearly as good as the handful of later ones I've read, but I enjoyed seeing some signs of her future style. "A Victorian Fable" was also really interesting in a technical sense.

*I put the cover of the whole book, although those three only form a section of it, just to make this more manageable.

COMICS COMICS COMICS

I'll just list here runs I set out to start and finished. Sometimes that means "reading every appearance of character X", sometimes "reading everything author Y did in this volume", sometimes "this one specific issue-long plot", sometimes it's a run properly speaking.

DC Speechless. Really cute run. Just some popcorn to the brain that you can chill with.

Robin: Year One. A re-read. Sometimes Chuck Dixon writes well. I absolutely don't have to hand it to him though.

The Judas Contract. A staple and a must-read if you're interested in these characters. Tara Markov's characterisation is sure. Something that happened. But unintentionally on the part of the writers, very, very interesting. And I loved reading Joey's introduction! Ngl, I lowkey ship him with Dick. I lowkey ship Dick with a lot of people lol.

Superman: Lost. This run is more interesting in a meta sense than a properly narrative one. I'll have to mull over it.

Oracle: Year One (The Batman Chronicles #5). Another re-read. BTW, it's already suspect that Robin: Year One has FOUR issues (and Nightwing: Year One SIX), AND JOKER IS GOING TO HAVE THREE, but Oracle: Year One is like, 18 pages within a random issue of a Batman-adjacent comic ñlaksdjf. She deserved something longer and plottier. BUT. Those 18 pages are near perfect and a must-read to all DC fans.

The Next Batman: Second Son. About Timothy "Jace" Fox, who was Batman for a little while. I was curious, and it's a really short read (the issues are more webtoon-length than usual comics length). It was fine, but I had set out to read it before I was like, 99% done with Prime Earth lol. I wouldn't read it now and I doubt I'll continue his journey. Sorry Jace, you were alright.

Nightwing/Huntress. Loved it. Gave me a new ship. A bit heavy-handed at times (Devin Grayson's writing gains a lot more subtlety later on), but I still loved it. And the art is gorgeous.

Batman & Son (Batman #655-658). AKA a reread of Damian's introductory arc. Morrison will have to answer for their crimes against Talia lol, but I wanted a refresher.

JLA/Titans. I'd say the same re: Devin's writing (and I'd say the same about the next in the list), but it was also a really enjoyable read. Very long, lots of characters and moving parts, lots of POWER OF FRIENDSHIP Titans stuff but they're messy as fuck (as proved by the continuation of this plot in...).

Titans #1-20, aka Devin's run. LOVED IT. They are SO messy, SO interesting, SO fun to read. The exact opposite of the current Titans run, if you ask me lmao. The character concepts alone... *chef's kiss*.

Devin Grayson's Nightwing run. Oh, this is a controversial one (yes, this one includes the infamous #93, but you have to analyse it in context)... but I adored it. Grayson's writing matured for this one, it's a lot more nuanced, it doesn't lead you by the hand. It was extremely compelling, maybe one of the most compelling storyarcs I've read in DC comics. And ofc, it was cut short and interrupted in an abrupt way by editorial meddling smh. @ dc, fight me.

Far From the Tree (Batman: Gotham Knights #15). I read this one because I wanted a taste for Tim's characterisation under certain circumstances. It's good. Bruce is an ass during it xD

[marylily-my-beloved]

!!SPOILERS!! Girl in Pieces Pg 46-60

Itchy scars :/ 

She wants to cut her hair!! ‘“Off,” I say hoarsely. Vinnie holds up his hands. “Nah, nah. You wait until you earn your day pass, girl. I’m not touching no girls hair.”’ 

She cut off all her hair! No more hair for her. She has a face! 

‘I miss all my clothes. Not my street clothes, but my long-ago clothes, my band T-shirts and checkered pants and wool caps.’ Clothes have such importance in your life, you pick them, you decide how that still piece of you everybody sees is gonna look like. 

She used glass, and Louisa knew she used glass, did Louisa also use glass? I don’t know but maybe she did 

‘“It’s not Chuck, Isis. It’s Charlie. Charlie David.” My voice isn’t hoarse now, it’s clear as a bell.’ She spoke to them and now they all know how she sounds!! 

It still feels ugly to her. She had to say it, no more writing anything for her 

Jen. S leaves her alone, and Barbero is asleep while she does her school. She’s not gonna stay doing her school 

‘I haven’t talked to him in over a year. Maybe he’s there, maybe he’s not. Hey, I type.’ He’s there! He messaged her back ‘OMFG is that rlly u’ and it Micheal, so Mikey? Probably but she has connections to the outside again. 

She like-liked Mikey/Micheal OMG SHE LIKED HIM. And he liked Ellis, but Ellis is we don’t know where, probably dead. 

He has a sister, Tanya who should be done with college now, and their house is very nice and Charlie really misses it

So Barbelo has to find Jen. S ‘back to your hutch, rabbit. I’ve got to go hunt down your friend.’ 

HOLY SHIT SJE WAS DOING DOC DOOLEY. And Louisa knew. Of course ‘Louisa says, “Too bad, really. They’ll kick her out now and fire him. Or maybe he won’t get fired just reprimanded.’ Ok so she’s probably gone forever then

‘This whole place is a world of sobbing girls.’ The whole world is, nobody really listens to it though. 

Poor Louisa she’s been here for so long, and she’s crying, and she has Hello Kitty bedsheets and a riot of hair.

She’s gone, goodbye Jen S. 

‘I was never with Mikey, but I would have tried, I mean, I wanted to, so much, but he loved Ellis.’ So sad isn’t it when someone you love loves your best friend, even if you’re friends they barely notice you, you’re just a background to the friend they like

Ellis had a boy. Interesting… and Mikey hated him of course, but he left her things and she was devastated when left.

‘Louisa sighs restlessly in her sleep. I don’t want to believe she’s right.’ Nobody wants to believe that she’s right but it’s just the truth, it’s the truth and it really hurts because everybody knows it. 

Two green suitcases and Jen S. is gone. They aren’t even allowed to say goodbye to her, they just watch her leave. Watch her not even look her way back but I mean that’s expected. 

Balberos name is ‘Bruce’ and he liked Jen S. :/ poor guy he was crying too 

[comicreliefmorlock]

(My) BEST READS OF 2023

[I literally just went through my "Books Read" journal and pulled the titles and authors out, then Googled to get first names because I jotted down only an initial and a surname. {Good job, me.} And honestly, having at least one to two SLAMMIN' books per month is great! 35 really awesome books out of a total of 143 new books read for the year is a high percentage of amazing!]

SO. READ THESE!

Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner (Yes, I should've read this DECADES ago.)

The High Crusade - Pohl Anderson (I laughed so many times reading this.)

The Bone Orchard - Sara Mueller (I LOVED the concept of this.)

Contact - Carl Sagan (Again, should've read this DECADES ago.)

Hell Followed with Us - Andrew Joseph White (Monstrous angels are my JAM.)

Briar Rose - Jane Yolen (Yes, another one I'm just… sO late reading.)

How to Invent Everything - Ryan North (Non-fiction with a fictional framework, it's glorious.)

The Art of Tidying - Marie Kondo (Non-fiction and so, so gentle.)

Reigning Cats and Dogs - Tanith Lee (Is anyone surprised that her name is showing up here?)

Fairy Tale - Stephen King (THE DOG LIVES.)

The Library of Fates - Aditi Khorana (Oh, it's so beautifully written.)

Amygdala - Sam Fennah (DENSE but tbh the world building is so, so unique.)

A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher (I read anything with this name on it.)

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (This name will come up again, obviously.)

Blaze - Stephen King (It was so SAD.)

Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (Told you.)

How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix (I will also read anything with this name on it.)

Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher (Told you.)

Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (This should surprise no one.)

Mr. Humble & Dr. Butcher - Brandy Schillace (Non-fiction!)

MAUS - Art Spiegelman (No, I'd never read it before. Yes, I am ashamed of myself.)

Lavinia - Ursula LeGuin (This was just… haunting.)

Cannibalism - Bill Schutt (Non-fiction and I bought a hard copy LOL)

Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle (All those Tinglers have refined his writing to a razor's edge.)

Dr. Mutter's Marvels - Cristin O'Keefe Aptowitcz (Non-fiction, I wanted to learn about the origins of the museum.)

Dark Castle, White Horse - Tanith Lee (Are you really surprised by this?)

Holly - Stephen King (Elderly cannibal serial killers? Yes, thank you.)

A Guest in the House - Emily Carroll (For the story AND the art, it's so good.)

A Long, Fatal Love Chase - Louisa May Alcott (Her writing a Gothic blew my mind, but it was such a SOLID Gothic.)

The Emperor's Soul - Brian Sanderson (I held off on reading EPIC FANTASY for ages, but this? This lovely single volume? It sold me on his magic systems, I gotta find more.)

Books of Blood I-III - Clive Barker (I'm so glad I'm aging into short stories, these were fantastic.)

Night Shine - Tessa Gratton (So unique! So queer! I delighted in it!)

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu (DUDE. FUCKIN'… JUST! DUDE!)

Pegasus - Robin McKinley (I NEED THE SEQUEL WHAT THE FUCK ROBIN???)

The Pink Triangle - Richard Plant (After learning of Somerton's plagarism, I went hunting for books and publications that could give me accurate and researched information.)

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Birthdays 11.29

Beer Birthdays

Herman Uihlein Jr. (1917)

Darron Welch (1967)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Don Cheadle; actor (1964)

Chuck Mangione; jazz trumpeter, songwriter (1940)

Andrew McCarthy; actor (1962)

Gary Shandling; comedian, actor (1949)

Fuzzy Thurston; Green Bay Packers G (1933)

Famous Birthdays

Louisa May Alcott; writer (1832)

Peter Bergman; comedian, actor (1939)

Busby Berkeley; choreographer, film director (1895)

Ed Bickert; jazz guitarist (1932)

Suzy Chaffee; skier (1947)

Joel Coen; film director (1954)

Kim Delaney; actor (1961)

Jeff Fahey; actor (1952)

Anna Faris; actor (1976)

Ambrose Fleming; diode inventor (1849)

Barry Goudreau; rock guitarist, songwriter (1951)

Lew Hewson; Australian actress (1995)

Diane Ladd; actor (1942)

Madeleine L'Engle; writer (1918)

C.S. Lewis; Irish writer (1898)

Howie Mandell; comedian, actor (1955)

John Mayall; blues singer, musician (1933)

Meco; pop musician (1939)

Gena Lee Nolin; actor (1971)

John Ray; English naturalist (1627)

Mariano Rivera; New York Yankees P (1969)

Tom Sizemore; actor (1964)

Krystal Steal; porn actor (1982)

Howard Stern; radio show host (1968)

Billy Strayhorn; jazz pianist. composer (1915)

Merle Travis; country singer (1917)

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9 people you would like to get to know better

I was tagged by @jedi-bird (thank you!)

1. Three ships: hmmm, Aziraphale/Crowley, Jonathan and Mina Harker, Hardison/Parker/Eliot

2. First ever ship: I feel like I’m not much of shipper? I tend to either ship the canon pairings or dislike them, but I don’t show much creativity by and large. That said, I did really love Mac/Rose in Louisa May Alcott’s Rose in Bloom. Auti swag off the charts for that boy.

3. Last song: My gf sent me “New Boyfriend” by Lynks because she liked it

4. Last movie: Hrm, I’ve been watching a lot of random shit on Tubi. 165 Miles: Catastrophe in Kentucky.

5. Currently reading: I’m not really, tbh. Still really want to finish Chuck Tingle’s Camp Damascus (highly recommended so far). I’ve also been meaning to try out the first few volumes of Sweet Rein, which may be more where my energy levels are right now 😅

6. Currently watching: the Roku screensaver

7. Currently consuming: a pinto bean and cheese quesadilla

8. Currently craving: chocolate and cherries

Tagging @sevdrag, @naniiebim, @creamsoda-slut, and anyone else who wants to join in. Feel free to skip this if you wish (no pressure ever).