#Lindsay Smith

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Fave Five: Queer Historical YA Fantasy with Female MCs

A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee Emry Merlin by Robyn Schneider The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings

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Spotlight: Stunticons - Wildrider (Pages 4 & 15)

Originally posted on January 28th, 2012

Story - Josh van Reyk Art - Lindsay Smith Colours - John-Paul Bove Letters - HdE

wada sez: Wildrider’s Budiansky profile reads: “[...] Some of his fellow Stunticons attribute his reckless behavior to be a calculated attempt by Wildrider to enhance the atmosphere of fear he tries to create in his role as a terrorist. But those who know him better realize it's not an act - he really is that nuts! [...] Wildrider fears quiet. He suspects enemies are lurking, ready to pounce on him, if all he hears are the sounds he produces himself. This gets him very nervous and hampers his effectiveness.”

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Travel Destination: Japan Part 2

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

A young married couple and their daughter move into a new apartment building next to a graveyard.

However after strange and disturbing occurrences happen more and more people leave one by one until it’s only the family and the thing in the basement left.

Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company.

It’s the perfect wedding venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, But a night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare. For lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart.

And she gets lonely down there in the dirt.

Seven Deadly Shadows by Courtney Alameda and Valynne E. Maetani

A thrilling retelling of seven samurai featuring a girl tasked to save the world from enternal darkness.

Kira has never had it easy, she’s constantly bullied, her family ignores her and to top it off she can see Yokai and to make matters worse the demon king will rise at the next blood moon and somehow she’s meant to recruit 7 death gods to stops the end of the world before it’s too late.

A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

No one knows what to do with Reiko she’s full of hatred and is consumed by the need to hurt herself and those around her.

Finally her family sends her to Japan to spend the summer with family to learn to control herself, where she finds herself in an Endo period preserved villiage, Reiko finds herself slipping into the past of a girl called Miyu someone even more bent of revenge than her.

Reiko loves it until she discovers the secret of the village and must face down Miyu’s demons as well as her own.

The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker

Death is her destiny.

Half British Reaper and half Shinigami, Ren has been collecting souls from the London streets for centuries, however after failing to control her Shinigami side she flees for Japan with her brother, however this might be just as difficult to fit it.

With an impossible task find and eliminate 3 Yokai, Ren will have to consider how far she’ll go to claim a place at Death’s side.

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Historical Fiction meets Fantasy (Middle-Grade and YA)

Here's a list of books that take real world history and give it a supernatural spin. Sometimes it's a full alternate universe (1860s NYC--WITH DINOSAURS) and sometimes it's more subtle.

Middle-Grade (about 8-12)

Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older

When?: 1863

Fantasy element?: There's dinosaurs around that people can ride and it's AWESOME

Elevator pitch: During the Draft Riots of 1863, a group of Black and Latine children escape the destruction of their orphanage and must outwit a gang of kidnappers--by riding pterodactyls!

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

When?: the Victorian era

Fantasy element?: a tree that grants wishes...for a horrible price

Elevator pitch: An Irish girl and her disabled little brother manage to get a job at an English estate after their parents are lost. But they soon learn their new refuge is haunted by a strange spectre guarding a mysterious tree. An excellent spooky story.

The Inquisitor's Apprentice by Chris Moriarty

When?: the turn of the 20th century

Fantasy element?: magic, in many specific cultural forms, is real, and there's a lot of politics and regulation around its use

Elevator pitch: Picture your standard turn of the century immigrant New York coming of age story: All Of A Kind Family or An American Tail. Now imagine that in this world, magic is real, and much like any valuable tool, there's a whole lot of laws and discrimination governing who can use it and how. Sacha can see magic, and is immediately pressed into service helping an investigator. He's thrust into a deadly world of politics, labor rights, organized crime, and strange new magic technologies that threaten everything Sacha holds dear.

The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz

When?: 1242

Fantasy element?: 3 magical children and their holy dog

Elevator pitch: The Middle Ages were weirder than even comedy has led us to believe, and this book taps into the stories and history of the era. Many people in an inn take turns telling tales of three children with superpowers (one super strong, one gifted with visions, and one healing) and their dog (who's a saint). Somehow these unexpected friends made an enemy of King Louis IX, and the road to get there (and how it resolves) is unpredictable, playful, yet grounded in a solid context of medieval history and literature.

Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge

When?: the Great Depression

Fantasy elements?: A boarding school full of occult secrets.

Elevator pitch: Nev Tallow receives an invitation to a boarding school in the middle of nowhere that no one has ever heard of, but it's the Great Depression and options are limited. Mysteries soon abound--the prefects aren't quite right, the classes include occult languages, and nobody's supposed to talk about the collapse that killed a student last year...despite the wing where they supposedly died still standing. They're going to get to the bottom of this with help from their friends, even if they have to take on a monster with nothing but a fencing foil and some barely-understood spells. The first in a series!

Ophie's Ghosts by Justina Ireland

When?: the 1920s (particularly the Great Migration)

Fantasy elements?: ghosts

Elevator pitch: Ophelia first starts seeing ghosts after her father is murdered in an act of racial violence. Now she works with her mother in an old manor in Pittsburgh, dealing with the racist lady of the house. And the ghosts. Ophie becomes determined to help one of them, but the price--and the secrets buried with her--may destroy the fragile life her mother has made.

Young Adult (13+)

Lovely War by Julie Berry

When?: World War I

Fantasy element?: A peanut gallery made up of half the Greek pantheon

Elevator pitch: Hephaestus catches Ares and Aphrodite cheating in his net, so to teach them all about love, Aphrodite launches into the stories of four young adults caught in WWI, torn between their ambitions, their pasts, and love. Other gods drop in and out to put in their two cents, and on occasion they influence the story in mortal guise.

The Shadow War by Lindsay Smith

When?: World War II

Fantasy element?: Mysterious shadow magic that grants visions and can tear people apart.

Elevator pitch: Picture Inglorious Basterds but some of the ultraviolence is from extremely horrifying shadow magic. It's a roaring rampage of gay, Jewish, Black, and Algerian teens and young adults avenging themselves on Nazis and keeping them from acquiring the power of Eldritch horrors beyond our world. It's a tough balance to get right tonally, but imo they made it cathartic instead of trivializing.

If you have any questions about any of these, message me, shoot me an ask, or comment!

[the-final-sentence]

'You've got yourself a deal.'

Lindsay Smith, from “City of Angels”

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Lindsay's Moodboard

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Mean Girls | Walmart Black Friday Deals | Jingle Bell Rockin’

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continuity photos of some of the women of the saw franchise. (2005 - 2010)

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Lindsey Lohan serving

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bugs when you lift up a rock

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Mean Girls (2004), behind the scenes ✨

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Transformers: Mosaic #245 - "No. 1 Fan(zone)"

Originally posted on September 15th, 2008

Story - Matthew Simon Hessey Art - Lindsay Smith Colours - Rafael Yáñez Letters - Carlos Oliveros

deviantART | TFW2005 | BotTalk

wada sez: This strip bridges between two scenes of “Mission Accomplished”, abridging dialogue from the episode for its first two panels, and setting up the subsequent scene in its final panel. With Isaac Sumdac kidnapped by Megatron, and Ultra Magnus ordering the Autobots to leave Earth, it falls to Captain Carmine Fanzone to look after Sari. Here, she wreaks havoc using her AllSpark key. See below for the full script to this c- wait, did Fanzone just kill that guy...?

No 1 Fan(zone)

PANEL 1:

(Captain Fanzone is standing outside his house, in his pajamas. Standing in front of him are Bumblebee, Prowl, Ratchet and Bulkhead, as seen in the episode ‘Mission Accomplished’. Check Youtube to get the scene right. Sari is hiding behind Bumblebee’s left leg.)

CAPTAIN FANZONE: Absolutely not!

BUMBLEBEE: C’mon Captain! She’s a good kid!

CAPTAIN FANZONE: Why me?

BUMBLEBEE: You’re tops on the list of all the humans we know personally!

PANEL 2:

(Fanzone looks as if he is considering it, Bumblebee looks desperate)

BULKHEAD: Although, it is kind of a short list…

CAPTAIN FANZONE: Well…

BUMBLEBEE: Why not have a ‘trial period’?

CAPTAIN FANZONE: Ah… alright

PANEL 3:

(Sari and Fanzone are standing beside Fanzone’s car, it has crashed into a wall, Fanzone looks furious, Sari is looking sheepish, holding her key tightly. Fanzone’s car has a pair of boosters on it, like the ones Bumblebee had in the first episode with Nanosec)

TEXT BOX: 5 minutes later.

SARI: I thought maybe you’d like a faster car…

CAPTAIN FANZONE: AH! Do you have any idea how many of those cars I’ve gotten through since I met you and your robot friends?

SARI: Um… lots?

PANEL 4:

(Sari and Fanzone are standing in front of a pair of smoking trainers, Sari is again putting on her best ‘I’m innocent!’ look. Fanzone looks livid again. Fanzone is also holding a small gun of some sort, the barrel of which is smoking. There are one or two police officers looking at the boots also shocked.)

TEXT BOX: 10 minutes later.

SARI: I thought maybe you’d like your weapon super charged… the Autobots liked it when I did it for them…

FANZONE: …

PANEL 5:

TEXT BOX: 30 minutes later.

(Sari and Fanzone are standing next to a couple of ambulances, Fanzone looks close to tears, Sari looks insulted. Two police officers are being wheeled into the ambulances on stretchers, they have tea/coffee all over them.)

FANZONE: Practically the entire force… taken out by a drink machine…

SARI: Hey! How was I supposed to know the key would make it come alive!

PANEL 6:

(Sari and Fanzone are walking away from the incident. Fanzone has his head down, and Sari is bouncing around, pleased)

SARI: Well… that was fun!

FANZONE: Whatever… hey, why don’t we go to the park, that’ll be safe… I mean, that’ll be fun.

SARI: Yeah! We can hang out on the swings!

FANZONE: Sure… just as long as they aren’t robots.

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