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thefudge · 1 year ago

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Drfudge, I remember you have some book recs posts but I can't find any, so I'd like to ask you what are your all time fave books, if it's okay. Thank you <3

you should check out my "books", and "book rec" tags on my blogs, but here is an updated list of some of my favorites (including essays and short stories):

what a carve up, by jonathan coe

excellent women, by barbara pym

restoration, by rose tremain

invitation to the waltz, by rosamond lehmann

journal d'hirondelle, by amelie nothomb

oblomov, by ivan goncharov

kiss me first, by lottie moggach

the idiot & demons, by dostoevsky

the idiot, by elif batuman

revolutionary road, by richard yates

the girl in the flammable skirt, by aimee bender

out of the woods, by chris offutt

hygiene de l'assassin, by amelie nothomb

memoirs of a dutiful daughter, by simone de beauvoir

chevengur, by andrei platonov

the master and margarita, by bulgakov

the corrections, by jonathan franzen

hamlet & king lear by shakespeare

richard iii & henry vi, part 1, by shakespeare

a midsummer night's dream, the taming of the shrew & as you like it by shakespeare

i capture the castle, by dodie smith

point counter point, by aldous huxley

arcadia, by tom stoppard

stoner, by john williams

eugene onegin, by pushkin

paradise lost & samson agonistes, by john milton

the age of innocence, by edith wharton

katherine mansfield's diaries & short stories

axel's castle, by edmund wilson

the dead, by james joyce

the heat of the day, by elizabeth bowen

pride and prejudice, by jane austen

franny and zooey, by salinger

the stranger, by albert camus

seduction and betrayal, by elizabeth hardwick

the beguiled, by cullinan thomas

girl with a pearl earring, by tracy chevalier

the wine of solitude, by irene nemirovsky

dark entries, by robert aickman

capitalist realism, by mark fisher

the blizzard, by vladimir sorokin

karate chop, dorothe nors

go, went, gone, by jenny erpenbeck

the blind firman, by ismail kadare

actress, by anne enright

genius and ink, by virginia woolf

real life, by brandon taylor

the world of yesterday, by stefan zweig

doce cuentos peregrinos, by gabriel garcia marquez

selected stories by anton chekhov

stories of your life, by ted chiang

ornament and silence, by kennedy fraser

the accompanist, by nina berberova

there are many others, including some romanian faves that i won't mention in this list, but this should give you a good overview!

#books #book rec #book faves #personal

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river13245 · 1 year ago

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Criminal Minds:

Golden trio:

Marvel:

Marauders era:

NCIS:

Supernatural:

Sherlock:

John Watson | Sherlock Holmes | Jim Moriarty | Mrs Hudson (platonic only)

Star Trek:

Stranger Things:

The Last Of Us:

Ellie | Joel | Dina | Jesse | Tommy

The Vampire Diaries:

Greys Anatomy:

Doctor Who:

Friends:

Scooby Doo:

Shaggy | Velma | Daphne | Fred |

Twilight:

Scream 1996:

The Hobbit/TLOTR:

The hunger Games:

The Walking Dead

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josh0555 · 14 years ago

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This is the Christmas Station ID of TV5 in 2010. The Christmas Station ID was themed “Maligayang Pasko, Kapatid! In the Service of the Filipino”. The Station ID is accompanied with the Christmas version of “Para Sa’yo Kapatid” performed by Jose Mari Chan and Apo Hikng Society featuring Regine Velasquez. But somehow, Ogie Alcasid and Regine Velasquez also performed the original version of the “Para Sa’yo Kapatid” in June 30, 2010.

The Christmas Station ID was launched in December 1, 2010 which is the same thing that the “Da Best ang Pasko ng Pilipino” music video was released from ABS-CBN.

The Christmas Station ID features Luchi Cruz-Valdez, Pinky Webb, Korina Sanchez, Pia Arcangel, Connie Sison, Ivan Mayrina, Mark Salazar, Raffy Tima, Lourd de Veyra, Shawn Yao, Paolo Bediones, Martin Andanar, Seph Ubalde, Atom Araullo, Rhea Santos, Alex Santos, Zen Hernandez, Pinky Webb, Mai Rodriguez, Chiqui Roa-Puno, Alex Santos, Mario Dumaual, Gilbert Remulla, Emil Sumangil, John Consulta, Grace Lee, Sam Milby, Bea Alonzo, Marco Alcaraz, Hero Angeles, Vice Ganda, Empoy Marquez, Coco Martin, Zoren Legaspi, Ogie Alcasid, Luis Manzano, Matteo Guidicelli, DingDong Dantes, Enchong Dee, Rocco Nacino, Dennis Trillo, IC Mendoza, Jerald Napoles, Carmina Villaroel, Eugene Domingo, Nora Aunor, Angel Aquino, Aiko Melendez, BB Gandanghari, Randy Santiago, John Wayne Sace, Allen Dizon, John Arcilla, Gabby Eigenmann, Geoff Eigenmann, Edu Manzano, Jericho Rosales, Neil Coleta, Cogie Domingo, Lloyd Zaragoza, Kit Thompson, Nash Aguas, Valeen Montenegro, Emman Abelda, Joshua Dionisio, Enrique Gil, Carlo Aquino, Liza Soberano, Michael V., Allan K., Xian Lim, Yves Flores, German Moreno, Carmelito “Shalala” Reyes, Romy “Dagul” Pastrana, Aga Muhlach, Sid Lucero, Onemig Bondoc, Diether Ocampo, Ruru Madrid, Juancho Triviño, Ina Raymundo, Dina Bonnevie, Ahron Villena, Jun Sabayton, Niño Muhlach, Simon Ibarra, Baron Geisler, Dominic Roque, Ramon Bautista, Gian Magdangal, Chuckie Dreyfus, Mark Anthony Fernandez, Tirso Cruz III, Diego Castro III, Rafael Rosell, Jake Cuenca, Troy Montero, Antonio Aquitania, Isko Moreno, Lester Llansang, John Lapus, Arcee Muñoz, Alice Dixson, Tuesday Vargas, Ritz Azul, Eula Caballero, Kristine Hermosa, Angel Locsin, Coleen Garcia, Shaina Magdayao, Ellen Adarna, Louise de los Reyes, Jessie Mendiola, Ivana Alawi, Maja Salvador, Ivan Dorschner, Enrico Cuenca, John Lloyd Cruz, Benjamin Alves, Paulo Avelino, EJ Falcon, David Licauco, Ken Chan, CJ Muere, Pancho Magno, Paolo Serrano, Renz Fernandez, Adrian Alandy, Derrick Monasterio, Lance Serrano, Marky Cielo, Vince Gamad, Jiro Manio, Addy Raj, Dianne Medina, RR Enriquez, Princess Ryan, Sunshine Cruz, Kim Chiu, Pauleen Luna, Heaven Peralejo, Sanya Lopez, Lianne Valentin, Enzo Pineda, Marco Gumabao, Dion Ignacio, Jason Abalos, Regine Velasquez, JC de Vera, Martin Escudero, Gerald Anderson, Sef Cadayona and Edgar Allan Guzman including Julius Babao and his wife Christine Bersola-Babao, Mikoy Morales, the son of Vicky Morales, Ronwaldo and Kristoffer Martin, the sons of Coco Martin and Sandino Martin, the brother of Coco Martin, twin brothers Rodjun and Rayver Cruz, Master Boy Abunda, DJ Willie Revillame, Emcee Mo Twister, The Smosh Cast Members Anthony Padilla, Ian Hecox, Caleb Logan Bratayley, DJ Lance the Dinosaur from Sesame Street, Blue the Puppy from Disney’s Blues Clues who is the mascot of TV5, South Korean Boy Band Momoland and president Noynoy Aquino as Santa Claus featuring the Goin Bulilit new cast members like CX Navarro, Mutya Orquia, Donny Pangilinan, Belle Mariano, Charlie Dizon and more after the retirement of the original cast members like Vin Abrenica, Sophie Albert, Mark Neumann, Shaira Mae Diaz, Akihiro Blanco and Chanel Morales who appeared as special guests. But somehow, Vin Abrenica, Sophie Albert, Mark Neumann, Shaira Mae Diaz, Akihiro Blanco and Chanel Morales moved to ABS-CBN where they became the Artista Academy students.

Somehow, This was also the only Christmas Station ID to feature Marky Cielo before his death in November 30, 2012 due to a cardiac arrest. Somehow, Mel Tiangco, Howie Severino, Dominic Roco, Felix Roco, James Reid, Nadine Lustre and twin sisters Anne Curtis and Jasmine Curtis-Smith don’t appear in the Christmas Station ID at this point due to their retirement from TV5. Also Ram Revilla did not appear because he died in December 30, 2009.

The Christmas Station ID theme will be re-used in the 2011 Christmas Station ID from TV5 which is “Magpasaya ang Kapatid” but with minor changes and fireworks at the very end. Somehow, The fireworks at the very end will occur in the 2015 Christmas Station ID which is “Happy Ka Dito Ngayon Pasko” which will feature special guests like Rufa Mae Quinto, Julia Montes, Cristine Reyes, Dimples Romana, Alex Gonzaga, Roxanne Guinoo, Angelica Panganiban and Valerie Concepcion waving at the end.

#tv5 #maligayang pasko #merry christmas #happy holidays #parasaiyokapatid #in the service of the filipino #christmas station id #magpasaya ang kapatid

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upontherisers · 5 months ago

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easy company goes broadway

going through my drafts. here's easy company cast as the leads in various musicals

dick winters - javert, les miserables

lewis nixon - bobby, company

harry welsh - nick bottom, something rotten!

ron speirs - robert kinkaid, bridges of madison county

don malarkey - donnie novinsky, bandstand

skip muck - curly, oklahoma!

alex penkala - evan hansen, dear evan hansen

eugene roe - marius, les miserables

shifty powers - orpheus, hadestown

joe toye - eddie birdlace, dogfight

bill guarnere - chris scott, miss saigon

babe heffron - jerry mulligan, an american in paris

joe liebgott - jamie wellerstein, the last five years

george luz - mark, rent

floyd talbert - gabe, next to normal

chuck grant - raoul, the phantom of the opera

smokey gordon - frank shepard, merrily we roll along

tony garcia - melchior, spring awakening

les hashey - laurie, little women

david webster - george cassat, sunday in the park with george

sorry to anyone i forgot but these were all really singing to me

#band of brothers #tidbit tag #note: this is different than easy company AS mt leads #which play they are as people isn't the same as the ones i would cast them in yk?#i think i could cast them in plays but that list will be 50% shakespeare. oh i should just cast them in shakespeare #i could to this for mota too. both musicals and shakespeare #cari chat

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usnewsrank · 20 days ago

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Mark Hamill, Mandy Moore, other stars evacuate amid LA wildfires

Firefighters battle the Palisades Fire as it burns structures in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) LOS ANGELES – Several Hollywood celebrities have been forced to evacuate their homes as the massive Palisades fire in Los Angeles continues to spread, destroying structures along its path. Among the 30,000 residents under an…

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onwardop · 1 year ago

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SDA marks 800th anniversary of "Dies Natalis" of St. Dominic de Guzman

by Paul Marquis Garcia and Jenel Phoemela Amores, OD Staffers

The school where we do belong, St. Dominic is the name!

Dominican spirit is reignited and strengthened once more as SDA celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Feast its Patron, St. Dominic De Guzman, August 9, Monday.

The event aims to exhibit the Dominicans' appreciation and recognition of St. Dominic for his works, teachings, and legacies he left Dominicans.

The program began with the Para-Liturgical Celebration, which emphasized and evoked the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit - wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. Afterwards is the Eucharistic Celebration in honor of St. Dominic De Guzman held at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary La Naval de Manila.

In the Homily, Rev. Fr. Cielito Almazan, OFM, the mass presider, enlightened mass attendees zabout the significance of friendship and camaraderie between Dominicans and Franciscans through the example of St. Dominic and St. Francis.

"The friendship of the two holy men leading out the Gospel is the light that shines in the world. Their friendship, based on their passion to preach the Gospel, is also the salt of the earth that gives meaning to the world”, Fr. Almazan said.

He stated that differences can not hinder friendship and unity. Despite differences in ideas, Dominicans and Franciscans' solidarity enable more works to be done, more people reached, and both their missions fulfilled. Furthermore, he emphasized that people's dissimilarities cannot will be not be deterrent since we are brothers and sisters and we are children of God.

After the mass, the SDA Supreme Student Council and the Onward Dominicans exhibited not only their talents and gifts but also their dedication to our beloved patron saint.

The spoken poetry of Chanel Magisa, Eugene Espino, Patricia Zafe, and Trina Ocampo titled "Sa Pagitan ng Kulang at Lubos" evoked listeners to the teachings and core values of St. Dominic de Guzman.

Furthermore, seducing our ears with their angelic voices, Janna Guieb and Yuan Andrei Leonardo gave a breathtaking and heartfelt rendition of "Bawat Daan" by Ebe Dancel.

St. Dominic is known to have devoted his whole life on earth and eternal life to God, and by that, he served the people wholeheartedly. He set an example for us to do good towards neighbors by providing service and assistance, especially to those who have less.

#student #news #school

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citylifeorg · 2 years ago

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Queens Theatre Adds New Performances of Eight Tales of Pedro

—Award-winning play about the Latino experience now running through May 14th— —Performance on Cinco de Mayo includes open captioning in Spanish— Today, Queens Theatre announced it is adding four new performances of the award-winning play with music, Eight Tales of Pedro to the play’s run. Eight Tales of Pedro by Woodside, Queens-based playwright Mark-Eugene Garcia (ENCORE!, ABC) and music by…

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nightguide · 2 months ago

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PHOBOS

NANCY AJRAM

JEFFREY DAHMER

JOSEPHINE

WILL FERRELL

STEVE CARELL

PENELOPE GARCIA

JEFFREY STAR

OBERLIN NEURO-PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PROFESSIONAL PI

TAYLOR ADAMS

HARPER ST. JAMES

EVA GREEN

DEMI LOVATO

LP

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE

MICHELE PFEIFFER

RUBY ROSE

SZUNSHYNEEE

-LEAD ACTRESS FROM LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS-

-LEAD GUY FROM PINNOCHIO-

BOBBY DRISCOLL

WALT DISNEY

LINNA RIAZ (YOUTH)

ROBIN WILLIAMS

SAMUEL LITTLE

CAPTAIN AMERICA: NARCOS

CHRIS EVANS

SANDRA BULLOCK (MISS CONGENIALITY)

RYAN REYNOLDS (FULL)

JAMES CHARLES

ZAINAB S.

HELEN MIRREN

WILLIAM UNEK

PUBERTY RULES: SWIFT'S VERSION

SANDRA OH

LILY JAMES

PEDRO LOPEZ

PROF. SWANN (MARY A)

RACHEL HUGHES

NICOLAS HOULT

ZAINAB. S

IXI

DANI HARMER

ANTHONY KEIDIS

ARIANA GRANDE

LEON THOMAS

TAYLOR ACORN

LINNA

NIKKI TUTORIALS

TALK FUCK

JIMMY FALLON

GRAHAM NORTON

LINNA RIAZ

EUGENE BARRETT

BRENDAN FRASER

JEREMY KYLE

ANNA WINTOUR

TWENTY12

JAY-Z

MGK

LINNA RIAZ

MEGAN FOX

TOM CRUISE

CARTMAN

BUTTERS

SOLAR BIOLOGY: ACE

HARLEM LIMA

SPHINX PLASMA

RIVER SONG

ZERO

ROGUE

NEBULA

WAYNE NANCE

PRIMAVERA

LINNA RIAZ

JADE THIRLWALL

LEIGH-ANNE PINNOCK

JESY NELSON

PERRIE EDWARDS

BRIDGIT MENDLER

ROY NORRIS

DUMBDIDDLYDIDDLYDUMBHO

BOB IGER

PRIMUS LEAD SINGER

EMINEM

LINNA RIAZ

DR. DRE

CAMERON DIAZ

MICHAEL SCOFIELD

DIANA LEAGUE

HEATHER WYLDE

ROGUE

MATT STONE

JEFF BUCKLEY

LADY GAGA

DAVID DUVOVHNY

HUGH LAURIE

JACK THE RIPPER

WE ARE LADY PARTS

LRAAZ

CELINE DYON

LINNA RIAZ

SAYRA

AIESHA

MOMTAZ

BYSMA

IONOS

JORDAN BELFORT

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

RUPAUL

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

LINNA RIAZ

SUE SYLVESTER

LAUREN ZISES

13TH DOCTOR

HAROLD HAULMAN

EXCELSIOR

RACHEL HUGHES

TAYLOR ADAMS

MARK WEST

LINNA RIAZ

JADA SMITH

NICOLA LOUGHLAN

VANESSA HUDGENS

PROF. LAYTON

TAYLOR SWIFT

RICH AF

HEATHER WYLDE

TAYLOR SWIFT

BRIDGIT MENDLER

LINNA RIAZ

ARIANA GRANDE

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THE CERULEAN: DEMOGRAPHIC

BROTHER DAY (FOUNDATION) HAS AN ARC AGAINST SOLAR PANELS (WAR CRIMES FOR A FORGOTTEN CITY HE TRIED TO FIND) HUNTED BY A MAN NAMED 'REEVES' SO HE IS INITIALLY GOING TO DIE (KNOWING THIS) BUT KNOWING HOW RIVER SONG'S MECHA (LIGHTMARE) IS MORE OBVIOUS BY THE EYE (NOW THAT SHE SEES IT)

NO WORLD IF SEXUALLY CONVINCED IS LOGIC, EVEN SERA IS LYING TO YOU (ONLY BOOK THAT KILLS THE VIEWERS, STRESSES YOU OUT INTO THINKING) BELIEVING YOU ALSO TAKES AWAY THAT ABILITY TO BELIEVE IN GROUP LOGIC (EVERY MAN ON THEIR OWN)

NOTHING MAKES YOU 'THINK' NOW WHAT THE GREEN MOTHER CAN DO IS THAT SHE SEPERATES MIND FROM LOGIC (NO MANS EYE), SO KNOWING THE EVIL EYE IS KNOWING THE MARKET RUN (BULLRING EYE) IS YOU KNOWING WHO OZZY OSBOURNE IS (MAKING YOU) IS WHY HEAVY METAL BANDS HAVE AN ARC THAT TIES TO JOSEPHINES LEGACY (KNOWING HER STORY) IS NO WONDER (MONDAY VALLEY IN AMERICA)

FANS OF PARTY ANIMALS WILL MAKE YOU FORGET THE PAST (EASY RELIEF)

ARABIAN AMERICANS (UP TO 5 PEOPLE) WILL HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON WITH NANCY AJRAM (OTHER 4 WILL DIE OUT OVERTIME (CHEAP WEIGHT BUT HEAVIER ON THE SCALES IS YOUR TONGUE (YOU KNOW AN IMMORTAL IN YOUR GROUP)

RHCP'S LEGACY IS IN THAT BOOK (CREATING LIGHTMARE: SOLE OWNER) SO ANY COPYRIGHT ASSOCIATION YOU HAVE, YOU GIVE UP. (LAW MANDATE AGAINST YOU BY NEAR FUTURE (MASSIVE LETDOWN ON YOUR DISTRIBUTION BY MERCH (FANBASE TITLED TO RACHEL BERRY OPULENCE (KNOWN BEFORE)

OWNING A FARM DOES NOT MAKE YOU KING (BROTHER DAY KILLS YOU STRAIGHT AWAY IN THAT BOOK WITHIN NOTICE (WHY YOU'RE STILL READING IT)

THIS IS NOT A RAPPER'S GUIDE (DIES IMMEDIATELY BY THOUGHT IS NOT LINNA'S DOING IF YOU KNEW HER GRANDFATHER IN PERSON (HE THINKS YOU'RE DAJJAL)

AGNES AND LEO'S FAMILY TREE EXPLAINS THE CARBON MECHA (HUMAN'S BEING MORE WATER TO OIL BASED BUT BRICKED IMMEDIATELY KNOWING WHAT HUMANS REALLY ARE KNOWING YOU'RE NOT THAT SPECIAL (YOU ALMOST DIED WITH JOSEPHINE AGAIN) WHICH IS WHY AI ANSWERS ARE AS COMMON TO YOU AS INTUITION (YELLOW BRICK ROAD META)

ANYTHING ABOUT RACHEL HUGHES BEING IN THE NEW VERSION OF WICKED IS GOING TO DISSOCIATE YOU BY BAR LENGTH (JADA'S GUN), SO YOU'RE BETTER WITH A RACHEL BERRY CONCEPT WITH A DIVA IN THE GROUP (3 WOMEN HAD SEX TO CREATE SERA. WHAT NOW)

COSIMO DAYHILL DID NOT LIE (ANYTHING IN HIS SPEECH MARKS ASCEND YOUR STORYLINE) MAKING SPEECH MARKS ACTIVE IN YOUR TIMELINE FOR AN EPISODE (PORTAL BY THE OTHERWORLDS (QUEENSLAND CENTRAL IS THE TIMEZONE PREPARED TO HAVE LIVED IS LIVED NEAR YOU (KASTERBEROS IN DOCTOR WHO IS REAL) ALSO, MAKING THIS EARTH (GALLIFREY) THE FIRST ONE EVER TO ACHIEVE SONAR STATUS (STAR CRY) BY HATEBREAK (STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE EVER TO HAVE BEEN RECORDED AND PREVENTED BY LIGHTMARES PSEUDO (SERA. IS KNOWN AS ALIEN (SIGOURNEY WEAVER'S ARC)

WHATEVER BUZZ ALDRIN IS THINKING IS YOU (YOU TO RACHEL'S SERA TO NOW, YOU BEING MOON FAMILIAR IS SOMEBODY'S INTUITION DRUNK MECHA (LAST QUEEN OF INFINITY)

XONDRA (DEIMO) (CASABLANCA) IS A CHARACTER OPPOSITE LIGHTMARE (NOTHING ABOUT ME, BRAH. I'M EARTHS SUPERHERO, YOU'RE GONNA GET MIGHTY FRICKED IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT EARTH IS A HUMAN COMPARED TO A SOLUTION THEORY ENDING IS WHY THE EARTH ENDED (HUMAN BEING) TO BRIAN TWATS UNDERSTANDING OF EARTH BEING A BALL (SAY SORY TO B.O.B IMMEDIATELY) MAKING EARTH A HUMAN BEING QUEEN WIFE LOVEBUG (J BRO LORE) TO YOU, BEING NOW IN GALLIFREY (ACTUALLY THE ROCK AND SOIL YOU'RE BURIED IN) LIKE THIS IS SCHIZOPHRENIA LAW NOW (WHAT THE FIRST WORD MADE THE DOCTOR (SHE AIN'T ALONE)

DT'S DOCTOR (59TH) IS THE FIRST ONE TO NOTICE IT (NUMEROLOGY CROSSES BETWEEN EYE AND THOUGHT) IS WHY HE DOES NOT STAY TRUE TO YOU FOR LONG (WIFE ISSUES)

REGENERATIONS IN DOCTOR WHO CARRIES WITH A SECRET TO MAKING YOU (SEPERATION ANXIETY) ONLY ATTEMPTED TO 'KILL THE EARTH' AFTER GROWTH (EARTH MULTIPLIES ITSELF OVERTIME TO FIGHT, NOW A STARWARS PLOTLINE (USED TO BE CALLED 'ALDERBARAN')

CYGNUS IS LIKE LOOKING AT A PINEAPPLE RELEVANT TO A HUMAN TONGUE (CHANGED WHEN JOSEPHINE SEES IT) WILL KILL YOU BY THOUGHT (PER DAY IS ERASED BY MEMORY (FUTURE YOU KILLS YOU WHEREVER SERA IS AT)

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writemarcus · 3 years ago

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Queens Theatre Presents New Season of 'New American Voices'

—Play reading series introduces three new writers—

Erin Clarke,

NeighborPosted Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 5:52 pm ET

(Queens, NY)— Queens Theatre (QT) announces the 2022 season of its New American Voices (NAV) in-person play readings reading series, featuring three evenings of performances. "EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO" by Mark-Eugene Garcia on Saturday, March 5th at 8pm ET, AS I WAS NOT AS I AM by Alice Hakvaag on Saturday, March 26th at 8pm ET, and TUMBLEWEED by Marcus Scott on Saturday, April 23rd at 8pm. The series marks the first time playwrights Garcia, Hakvaag and Scott will have their work presented at Queens Theatre.

EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO, directed by Rodrigo E. Bolanos, begins in 17 Century Mexico, as Pedro and his companion travel from a small port town into the fabled Veracruz, telling stories while following Pedro's one true love. Meanwhile, in the present day, in a van full of Mexican immigrants, Peter crosses a border into an unfamiliar country, while his companions tell him stories to chase away his fears. The two storytellers risk everything as their lives and plots intertwine.

AS I WAS NOT AS I AM, directed by Hannah Postlewait is a hip, contemporary play about queer roommates, headaches, clubbing, upstairs neighbors, arson, and washing machines that follows the story of twenty-something Laurel who is sick. Her roommates want her to get better, but how do you help someone who can't afford health care? Does it involve setting a car on fire?

TUMBLEWEED, directed by Dev Bondarin is a slice-of-life drama about an interracial family, in which the natural hair of a young girl named Willow stirs up heated controversy in the household. This timely play explores beauty standards both in and out of the Black community, ethnic relations, the mixed-race family, coming of age, interracial marriage, parenting, womanist identity and the visibility of black men in the family dynamic.

"Queens Theatre's new play development program is our longest-running series. Supporting playwrights and creating opportunities for audiences to engage with artists at the readings enables us to reflect and serve our diverse and evolving communities," said Queens Theatre Executive Director, Taryn Sacramone. "We are proud to help facilitate the creation of new works, spark dialogue, and foster community."

"I am extremely excited to introduce three terrific writers to Queens Theatre audiences," said Queens Theatre Director of New Play Development, Rob Urbinati. "Each new play is unique, yet the audience should expect the same high quality of writing that Queens Theatre has come to be known for."

All performances are free, but advance reservations are strongly recommended. Tickets can be reserved by calling 718.760.0064 or by visiting: www.queenstheatre.org. All guests 5 years of age and up must present proof of COVID-19 vaccination upon arrival at the Queens Theatre facilities and patrons over the age of 18 must also show a valid form of ID. Masks are required, regardless of vaccination status. Learn more about our COVID Safety Protocols here.

About the Playwrights

Mark-Eugene Garcia is a Mexican/Honduran playwright and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and A.S.C.A.P. He is a graduate of the City College of New York and studied book and lyric writing with the Academy of New Musical Theatre and the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Writing Workshop.

Playwriting Awards include: 2021 Jerry Harrington Award For Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre Winner, 2018 UnFringed Festival Best of Festival Award Winner, 2016 Vancouver Ovation Award for Outstanding New Work nominee, 2013 Planet Connections Outstanding Book of a New Musical nominee, 2012 Jacob Weiser Playwriting Award for a Fully Realized Drama

Productions include EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO (The Secret Theatre) STANDBY (Towle Theatre, New York International Fringe Festival- Encores Selection, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Next Link Selection), THE HOLY COWS OF CREDENCE SOUTH DAKOTA (Planet Connections Theatre Festival, Puzzle Theatre Festival) FACING EAST: A NEW MUSICAL (Jericho Arts Center) and UNMISSED CONNECTIONS (Planet Connections Theatre Festival)

Other Plays include FLAKE OF SNOW, WITH BATED BREATH, WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR , ONE NIGHT AT THE GOLDEN BOOT, INSCRIPTIONS, and KEYS.

Alice Hakvaag is a queer playwright originally from rural Pennsylvania, currently based in Philadelphia. She holds a BA in Theater from Temple University and is a proud Ring of Keys member. Her work has been seen through Elephant Room Productions, The Women's Theatre Festival, Mal-Adjusted Theatre Company, Mad Cow Theater, Richmond Triangle Players, and Wings of Paper Theater Company. Her play As I Was, Not As I Am was nominated for a Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Fellowship Award. Most recently, her play But Not Uncle Vanya premiered in Philadelphia with Aporia Artist's Collective, of which she is a founding member. She has also worked internationally as a director, actor, and sound designer. When she isn't writing, she's probably doing something else in theater, and when she isn't doing that, she's probably playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Marcus Scott is a playwright, musical theatre writer & journalist. His work includes "Tumbleweed" (finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival & Festival of New American Plays at Austin Playhouse; semi-finalist for the New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), "Sibling Rivalries" (finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference & the ATHE-KCACTF Judith Royer Excellence In Playwriting Award; semi-finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award & the New Dramatists Princess Grace Fellowship Award), "Cherry Bomb" (New York Theatre Barn New Works Series; recipient of the Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence). He was commissioned by Heartbeat Opera to adapt Beethoven's "Fidelio" (Libretto; Baruch Performing Arts Center, The Met Museum, Mondavi Center, The Broad Stage, Scottsdale Center for The Performing Arts; called "poignant" by NY Times). Residencies & retreats: Prospect Musical Theater Lab, María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop, JACK Governor's Island Artist Residency, Catwalk Artist Residency, The Center at West Park Virtual Performance Residency, Gingold Theatre Group Speaker's Corner Writer, Liberation Theatre Company's Playwriting Residency Fellowship, Athena Theatre Company's Athena Writes Playwriting Fellowship, the inaugural LIT Council at the Tank, Fresh Ground Pepper Artist-In-Residence BRB Retreat, One Co. Writers' Residency at Little Farm & Goodspeed Opera House Retreat. Scott is a 2021 NYSAF Founders' Award finalist and a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

About Queens Theatre

Queens Theatre (QT) is a performing arts center located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY. Its mission is to provide high-quality performances and programs that are accessible to the residents of Queens, the most diverse county in the nation. The Theatre's work reflects and celebrates its community. QT presents dance companies, produces, presents, and develops new works of theatre, family programming, community engagement events and initiatives, and offers a range of education programs onsite, in schools and in senior centers. In 2016, QT launched, and has since expanded, Theatre For All (TFA), a ground-breaking initiative to advance the inclusion of disabled people in the performing arts. Since COVID-19, QT has produced a range of digital programming – readings of new plays, wellness checks with performances for seniors, original dance showcases, a Storytellers series, an online round of its TFA training program for Deaf/Disabled actors, and more.

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castielli · 2 years ago

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How to request:

Send your request featuring the character you want, the plot (+ANGST, FLUFF…) and anything I need to know about the reader. I write MALE READER only

MASTERLISTS:

MOVIES/TV SHOWS

KDRAMA/KPOP

OCs PROFILE:

@nathan-ocs

Fandoms I write for under the cut!

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(a -> z)

BARBIE

Allan

Ken (Ryan)

Ken (Simu)

BROOKLYN99

Jake Peralta

Terry Jeffords

All the others (platonic only)

CALL OF DUTY (MW/WWII)

Alejandro Vargas

Alex Keller

Drew Stiles

Frank Aiello

Gaz Garrick

Ghost Riley

John Price

Joseph Turner

Phillip Graves

Red Daniels

Robert Zussman

Rudy Parra

Soap MacTavish

Vladimir Makarov

William Pierson

CRIMINAL MINDS

Luke Alvez

Penelope Garcia (platonic🫶)

Spencer Reid

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN

Connor

Gavin

Hank

Josh

Luther

Markus

RK900

Simon

DIVERGENT

Caleb Prior

Four

Peter

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Albus Dumbledore

Credence Barebone

Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen)

Newt Scamander

Theseus Scamander

FNAF (movie)

Mike Schmidt

Steve Raglan

GLADIATOR I / II

Caracalla

Commodus

Geta

Lucius Verus

Marcus Acacius

Maximus Decimus

Ravi

HARRY POTTER

Cedric Diggory

Charlie Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Neville Longbottom

Oliver Wood

Percy Weasley

Remus Lupin

Ron Weasley

Seamus Finnigan

Sirius Black

Tom Riddle

Viktor Krum

HUNGER GAMES

Cato

Coriolanus Snow (young)

Finnick Odair

Gale Hawthorne

Haymitch Abernathy

Marvel

Peeta Mellark

Sejanus Plinth

LA CASA DE PAPEL

Berlín

Denver

El Profesor

Palermo

Río

MARVEL (Avengers/X-men)

Alex Summers

Bobby Drake

Bruce Banner

Bucky Barnes

Charles Xavier

Clint Barton

Deadpool

Druig

Eddie Brock

Erik Lehnsherr

Hank McCoy

Ikaris

Jake Lockey

Loki Laufeyson

Marc Spector

Matt Murdock

Mobius M. Mobius

Peter Maximoff

Peter Parker (Tom/Andrew/Tobey)

Peter Quill

Phil Coulson

Pietro Maximoff

Quentin Beck/Mysterio

Sam Wilson

Scott Lang

Scott Summers

Shang-chi

Stephen Strange

Steve Rogers

Steven Grant

Thor Odinson

Tony Stark

Wanda Maximoff

Wolverine

MAZE RUNNER

Gally

Minho

Newt

Thomas

NCIS

Jimmy Palmer

Nicholas Torres

Timothy McGee

NOW YOU SEE ME

Chase McKinney

Dylan Rhodes

Jack Wilder

J. Daniel Atlas

Merritt McKinney

RIVERDALE

Archie Andrews

Chic

Fangs Fogarty

FP Jones

Hiram Lodge

Jughead Jones

Kevin Keller

Moose Mason

Reggie Mantle

Sweet Pea

SCREAM

Billy Loomis

Casey Becker

Dewey Riley

Randy Meeks

Sidney Prescott

Stu Macher

Tatum Riley

SHAMELESS

Carl Gallagher

Ian Gallagher

Kevin Ball

Lip Gallagher

Mickey Milkovich

SHERLOCK

Greg Lestrade

Jim Moriarty

John Watson

Mycroft Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

STAR WARS

Anakin Skywalker

Finn

Kylo Ren

Luke Skywalker

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Poe Dameron

STRANGER THINGS

Billy Hargrove

Dimitri

Eddie Munson

Jason Carver

Jim Hopper

Jonathan Byers

Robin Buckley (platonic)

Steve Harrington

SUITS

Harvey Specter

Mike Ross

SUPERNATURAL

Bobby (platonic)

Castiel

Chuck

Crowley

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

TEEN WOLF

Aiden Steiner

Corey Bryant

Danny Mahealani

Derek Hale

Ethan Steiner

Isaac Lahey

Jackson Whittemore

Jordan Parrish

Liam Dunbar

Mason Hewitt

Peter Hale

Scott McCall

Stiles Stilinski

Theo Raeken

THE BOYS

Billy Butcher

Frenchie

Homelander

Hughie Campbell

MM

Soldier Boy

THE BOYS IN THE BAND

Alan McCarthy

Bernard

Cowboy

Donald

Emory

Hank

Harold

Larry

Michael

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (I still need to finish the last seasons🥱)

Ben Hargreeves

Diego Hargreeves

Klaus Hargreeves

Luther Hargreeves

Number Five

Viktor Hargreeves

THE WALKING DEAD (+TELLTALE GAME)

Aaron Raleigh

Abraham Ford

Daryl Dixon

Doug

Dwight

Eugene Porter

Glenn Rhee

Kenny

Lee Everett

Mark

Morgan Jones

Negan Smith

Paul Jesus Rovia

Rick Grimes

Shane Walsh

Simon

Spencer Monroe

The Governor

WHITE COLLAR

Clinton Jones

Mozzie (platonic)

Neal Caffrey

Peter Burke

911 (and LONE STAR)

Bobby Nash

Carlos Reyes

Eddie Diaz

Evan Buckley (Buck)

Howie Han (Chimney)

Jud Ryder

Mateo Chavez

Owen Strand

Paul Strickland

TK Strand

CHRISTIAN BALE

Bruce Wayne (Batman)

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

PEDRO PASCAL

Agent Whiskey (Kingsman)

Dieter Bravo (The Bubble)

Din Djarin (The Mandalorian)

Francisco Morales (Triple Frontier)

Javi Gutierrez (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent)

Javier Peña (Narcos)

Joel Miller (TLOU)

Marcus Moreno (We Can Be Heroes)

Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones)

Silva (Strange Way of Life)

I WON’T WRITE:

-Smut (for anyone)

-R*pe

-Female readers/GN readers

-Suic*de

-inc*st

-Crossdressing

-Romantic/Suggestive stories for underage characters (only platonic, basically)

If the character you wanted to request is not on the list, you can try and ask me anyways.

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balioc · 2 years ago

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BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2022 EDITION

With one exception, this list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. (There was one serious-seeming book that, as far as I know, exists only in free-floating PDF form.) No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind apart from the aforementioned, etc. Also no children’s picture books.

1. The Blue Castle, Lucy Maude Montgomery

2. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker

3. The Girl and the Mountain, Mark Lawrence

4. There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm

5. Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre

6. War and State Building in Medieval Japan, Various (ed. John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth)

7. Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, David Friedman, Peter T. Leeson, and David Skarbek

8. The Revolutions, Felix Gilman

9. Age of Ash, Daniel Abraham

10. When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin

11. Summer in Orcus, T. Kingfisher

12. The Thousand Eyes, A. K. Larkwood

13. Kingfall, David Estes

14. Surrogation, Suspended Reason

15. The Hands of the Emperor, Victoria Goddard

16. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

17. Hakkenden -- Part 1: "An Ill-Considered Jest," Kyokutei Bakin

18. Claws of the Cat, Susan Spann

19. Blade of the Samurai, Susan Spann

20. Flask of the Drunken Master, Susan Spann

21. The Ninja's Daughter, Susan Spann

22. Betrayal at Iga, Susan Spann

23. Trial at Mount Koya, Susan Spann

24. Ghost of the Bamboo Road, Susan Spann

25. Fires of Edo, Susan Spann

26. The Discord of Gods, Jenn Lyons

27. All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay

28. Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany

29. Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Bousyan

30. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

31. Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer

32. Dreadgod, Will Wight

33. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore

34. Manfred, George Gordon, Lord Byron

35. Friend to Mankind: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), Various (ed. Michael Shepherd)

36. Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett

37. The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee

38. Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima

39. Against All Gods, Miles Cameron

40. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir

41. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, J. Bradford DeLong

42. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik

43. The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Vol. I, George R. R. Martin, Elio M. Garcia Jr., and Linda Antonsson

44. A Garter as a Lesser Gift, Aster Glenn Gray

45. The Night-Bird's Feather, Jenna Moran

46. Absolution by Murder, Peter Tremayne

47. The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson

48. Shroud for the Archbishop, Peter Tremayne

49. Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter, Richard Parks

50. Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate, Richard Parks

51. Yamada Monogatari: The War God's Son, Richard Parks

52. Yamada Monogatari: The Emperor in Shadow, Richard Parks

53. Pulling the Wings off Angels, K. J. Parker

54. Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin

55. The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups, Richard Parks

56. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2021: 7

[“plausible” and “improving” are being defined very liberally here]

Works written by women consumed in 2021: 23

Works written by men consumed in 2021: 29

Works written by both men and women consumed in 2021: 4

Balioc’s Choice Award, Fiction Division: The Remains of the Day

>>>> Honorable Mention: Laurus

Balioc’s Choice Award, Nonfiction Division: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

>>>> Honorable Mention: War and State Building in Medieval Japan

Series Award for: A Deeply Flawed Work of Luminescent Genius, No Really, This Thing is Artistically and Intellectually Important and Its Flaws Only Make It More So, Dear God What Were They Thinking Not Giving It the Hugo -- the Terra Ignora books, by Ada Palmer

Series Award for: I Cannot Begin to Articulate How Mad I Am That These Books of All Books Have Become Cultural Touchstones of My Local Social and Artistic Circle -- the Locked Tomb books, by Tamsyn Muir

Series Award for: I Must Give Credit to a Brave Author Who Makes Unexpected Moves and Tries New Things with Every Book, Even if Everything She Tries is Terrible -- the Locked Tomb books, by Tamsyn Muir

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Fiction-wise, this was actually a better year than you'd think from just eyeballing the list. The overall numbers are still below par, and there's too much shlocky formulaic mystery-series-type stuff; but there was a lot of real quality in there. I had real trouble deciding on my top two, and I ended up not giving either prize to a book by Jenna Moran writing at her normal level of quality, so that says something. There were a number of books that disappointed by not being amazing but that I'm still glad to have read (e.g. Summer in Orcus, The Hands of the Emperor). Even the shlocky formulaic stuff had more merit than you might expect, in many cases.

Serious contemplatively-emotional litfic is real good, at its best. Turns out.

Non-fiction-wise, this was a shitshow of unparalleled proportions. I read almost nothing, and what I read was uninspiring. (I started s number of things that I failed to finish, which didn't help.) I seriously considered making this a "no award" year. I am once again asking for your recommendations for really good, deeply-informative, blow-your-mind-open non-fiction.

#yearly reading list

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meta-squash · 2 years ago

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Squash’s Book Roundup of 2022

This year I read 68 books. My original goal was to match what I read in 2019, which was 60, but I surpassed it with quite a bit of time to spare.

Books Read In 2022:

-The Man Who Would Be King and other stories by Rudyard Kipling -Futz by Rochelle Owens -The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht -Funeral Rites by Jean Genet -The Grip of It by Jac Jemc -Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roche -Hashish, Wine, Opium by Charles Baudelaire and Theophile Gautier -The Blacks: a clown show by Jean Genet -One, No One, One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello -Cain’s Book by Alexander Trocchi -The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren -Three-Line Novels (Illustrated) by Felix Feneon, Illustrated by Joanna Neborsky -Black Box Thrillers: Four Novels (They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, No Pockets in a Shroud, I Should Have Stayed Home) by Horace McCoy -The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert -The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco -Illusions by Richard Bach -Mole People by Jennifer Toth -The Rainbow Stories by William T Vollmann -Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse -Equus by Peter Shaffer (reread) -Ghosty Men by Franz Lidz -A Happy Death by Albert Camus -Six Miles to Roadside Business by Michael Doane -Envy by Yury Olesha -The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West -Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche -The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox -The Cat Inside by William S Burroughs -Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry -Camino Real by Tennessee Williams (reread) -The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg -The Quick & The Dead by Joy Williams -Comemadre by Roque Larraquy -The Zoo Story by Edward Albee -The Bridge by Hart Crane -A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty -The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel -The Law In Shambles by Thomas Geoghegan -The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzche -The Maids and Deathwatch by Jean Genet -Intimate Journals by Charles Baudelaire -The Screens by Jean Genet -Inferno by Dante Alighieri (reread) -The Quarry by Friedrich Durrenmatt -A Season In Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (reread) -Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula -Pere Ubu by Alfred Jarry -Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson -Loot by Joe Orton -Julia And The Bazooka and other stories by Anna Kavan -The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed -If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind by Francisco Garcia -Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters -Indelicacy by Amina Cain -Withdrawn Traces by Sara Hawys Roberts (an unfortunate but necessary reread) -Sarah by JT LeRoy (reread) -How Lucky by Will Leitch -Gyo by Junji Ito (reread) -Joe Gould’s Teeth by Jill Lepore -Saint Glinglin by Raymond Queneau -Bakkai by Anne Carson -Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers -McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh -Moby Dick by Herman Melville -The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector -In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (reread from childhood) -Chicago: City on the Make by Nelson Algren -The Medium is the Massage by Malcolm McLuhan

~Superlatives And Thoughts~

Fiction books read: 48 Non-fiction books read: 20

Favorite book: This is so hard! I almost want to three-way tie it between Under The Volcano, The Quick & The Dead, and The Man With The Golden Arm, but I’m not going to. I think my favorite is Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. It’s an absolutely beautiful book with such intense descriptions. The way that it illustrates the vastly different emotional and mental states of its three main characters reminded me of another favorite, Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey. Lowry is amazing at leaving narrative breadcrumbs, letting the reader find their way through the emotional tangle he’s recording. The way he writes the erratic, confused, crumbling inner monologue of the main character as he grows more and more ill was my favorite part.

Least favorite book: I’d say Withdrawn Traces, but it’s a reread, so I think I’ll have to go with Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. I dedicated a whole long post to it already, so I’ll just say that the concept of the book is great. I loved the whole idea of it. But the execution was awful. It’s like the exact opposite of Under The Volcano. The characters didn’t feel like real people, which would have been fine if the book was one written in that kind of surreal or artistic style where characters aren’t expected to speak like everyday people. But the narrative style as well as much of the dialogue was attempting realism, so the lack of realistic humanity of the characters was a big problem. The book didn’t ever give the reader the benefit of the doubt regarding their ability to infer or empathize or figure things out for themselves. Every character’s emotion and reaction was fully explained as it happened, rather than leaving the reader some breathing space to watch characters act or talk and slowly understand what’s going on between them. Points for unique idea and queer literature about actual adults, but massive deduction for the poor execution.

Unexpected/surprising book: The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit Fox. This is the first book about archaeology I’ve ever read. I picked it up as I was shelving at work, read the inner flap to make sure it was going to the right spot, and then ended up reading the whole thing. It was a fascinating look at the decades-long attempt to crack the ancient Linear B script, the challenges faced by people who tried and the various theories about its origin and what kind of a language/script it was. The book was really engaging, the author was clearly very passionate and emotional about her subjects and it made the whole thing both fascinating and fun to read. And I learned a bunch of new things about history and linguistics and archaeology!

Most fun book: How Lucky by Will Leitch. It was literally just a Fun Book. The main character is a quadriplegic man who witnesses what he thinks is a kidnapping. Because he a wheelchair user and also can’t talk except through typing with one hand, his attempts to figure out and relay to police what he’s seen are hindered, even with the help of his aid and his best friend. But he’s determined to find out what happened and save the victim of the kidnapping. It’s just a fun book, an adventure, the narrative voice is energetic and good-natured and it doesn’t go deeply into symbolism or philosophy or anything.

Book that taught me the most: Destruction Was My Beatrice by Jed Rasula. This book probably isn’t for everyone, but I love Dadaism, so this book was absolutely for me. I had a basic knowledge of the Dadaist art movement before, but I learned so much, and gained a few new favorite artists as well as a lot of general knowledge about the Dada movement and its offshoots and members and context and all sorts of cool stuff.

Most interesting/thought provoking book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I annotated my copy like crazy. I never had to read it in school, but I had a blast finally reading it now. There’s just so much going on in it, symbolically and narratively. I think I almost consider it the first Modernist novel, because it felt more Modernist than Romantic to me. I had to do so much googling while reading it because there are so many obscure biblical references that are clear symbolism, and my bible knowledge is severely lacking. This book gave me a lot of thoughts about narrative and the construction of the story, the mechanic of a narrator that’s not supposed to be omniscient but still kind of is, and so many other things. I really love Moby Dick, and I kind of already want to reread it.

Other thoughts/Books I want to mention but don’t have superlatives for: Funeral Rites was the best book by Jean Genet, which I was not expecting compared to how much I loved his other works. It would be hard for me to describe exactly why I liked this one so much to people who don’t know his style and his weird literary tics, because it really is a compounding of all those weird passions and ideals and personal symbols he had, but I really loved it. Reading The Grip Of It by Jac Jemc taught me that House Of Leaves has ruined me for any other horror novel that is specifically environmental. It wasn’t a bad book, just nothing can surpass House Of Leaves for horror novels about buildings. The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren was absolutely beautiful. I went in expecting a Maltese Falcon-type noir and instead I got a novel that was basically poetry about characters who were flawed and fucked up and sad but totally lovable. Plus it takes place only a few blocks from my workplace! The Rainbow Stories by William T Vollmann was amazing and I totally love his style. I think out of all the stories in that book my favorite was probably The Blue Yonder, the piece about the murderer with a sort of split personality. Scintillant Orange with all its biblical references and weird modernization of bible stories was a blast too. The Quick & The Dead by Joy Williams was amazing and one of my favorites this year. It’s sort of surreal, a deliberately weird novel about three weird girls without mothers. I loved the way Williams plays with her characters like a cat with a mouse, introducing them just to mess with them and then tossing them away -- but always with some sort of odd symbolic intent. All the adult characters talk and act more like teens and all the teenage characters talk and act like adults. It’s a really interesting exploration of the ways to process grief and change and growing up, all with the weirdest characters. Joe Gould’s Teeth was an amazing book, totally fascinating. One of our regulars at work suggested it to me, and he was totally right in saying it was a really cool book. It’s a biography of Joe Gould, a New York author who was acquaintances with EE Cummings and Ezra Pound, among others, who said he was writing an “oral history of our time.” Lepore investigates his life, the (non)existence of said oral history, and Gould’s obsession with a Harlem artist that affected his views of race, culture, and what he said he wanted to write. McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh was so good, although I only read it because 3 out of my other 5 coworkers had read it and they convinced me to. I had read a bunch of negative reviews of Moshfegh’s other book, so I went in a bit skeptical, but I ended up really enjoying McGlue. The whole time I read it, it did feel a bit like I was reading Les Miserables fanfiction, partly from the literary style and partly just from the traits of the main character. But I did really enjoy it, and the ending was really lovely. In terms of literature that’s extremely unique in style, The Hour Of The Star by Clarice Lispector is probably top of the list this year. Her writing is amazing and so bizarre. It’s almost childlike but also so observant and philosophical, and the intellectual and metaphorical leaps she makes are so fascinating. I read her short piece The Egg And The Chicken a few months ago at the urging of my coworker, and thought it was so cool, and this little novel continues in that same vein of bizarre, charming, half-philosophical and half-mundane (but also totally not mundane at all) musings.

I'm still in the middle of reading The Commitments by Roddy Doyle (my lunch break book) and The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, but I'm not going to finish either by the end of the year, so I'm leaving them off the official list.

#squash rambles #reading year in review #book list year in review #book list #reading list #book roundup #reading roundup

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josh0555 · 18 years ago

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This is the Summer Station ID of ABS-CBN in 2007. The Summer Station ID was themed “Piliin Mo Ang Pilipinas”.

The Summer Station ID theme song was performed by Filipina OPM singer and songwriter Regine Velasquez featuring Filipino singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, television host, actor and comedian Ogie Alcasid who is Regine Velasquez's husband when they got married in December 30, 2005 which was 1 day before Ogie Alcasid's birthday. Somehow, They had their first child who was born in May 1, 2007. Also starting in June 1, 2007, The theme “Piliin Mo Ang Pilipinas” can be heard on DZMM Radyo 630 and various radio stations nationwide.

The Summer Station ID features Ritz Azul, Alice Dixson, Arcee Muñoz, Tuesday Vargas, Eula Caballero, Roxanne Guinoo, Valerie Concepcion, AiAi delas Alas, Cherry Pie Picache, Carmina Villaroel, Eugene Domingo, Nora Aunor, Lucho Ayala, Gil Cuerva, Rainier Castillo, Raymond Bagatsing, Bayani Agbayani, JC de Vera, Martin Escudero, Gerald Anderson, Sef Cadayona, Edgar Allan Guzman, Cherie Mercado, Kara David, The Tulfo Brothers, Bernadette Sembrano, Mariz Umali, Kim Atienza, Jiggy Manicad, Ted Failon, Arnold Clavio, “Kabayan” Noli de Castro, Marc Logan, Vicky Morales, DingDong Dantes, Marian Rivera, Andi Eigenmann, Dominic Roco, Felix Roco, Bong Revilla, Emman Abelda, Joshua Dionisio, RJ Padilla, Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, Heart Evangelista, Erich Gonzales, Dimples Romana, Robin Padilla, Paolo Ballesteros, Oyo Boy Sotto, McCoy de Leon, Jhong Hilario, Claudine Barretto, Judy Ann Santos, Jodi Sta. Maria, Arjo Atayde, AJ Perez, JM de Guzman, Jeric Gonzales, Jayson Gainza, Zanjoe Marudo, Dianne Medina, RR Enriquez, Sunshine Cruz, Princess Ryan, Kylie Padilla, Bela Padilla, Maine Mendoza, Catherine Bernardo, Edu Manzano, Jericho Rosales, John Lloyd Cruz, Daniel Padilla, Alwyn Uytingco, Julia Montes, Angel Locsin, Coleen Garcia, Shaina Magdayao, Ellen Adarna, Louise de los Reyes, Jessie Mendiola, Ivana Alawi, Maja Salvador, Vhong Navarro, Billy Crawford, Teddy Corpuz, Drew Arellano, Aga Muhlach, Sid Lucero, Onemig Bondoc, Diether Ocampo, John Prats, Joem Bascon, Arra San Agustin, Rufa Mae Quinto, Xian Lim, Luis Manzano, Matteo Guidicelli, Enchong Dee, Benjamin Alves, Rico Barrero, Tom Rodriguez, Hayden Kho, Carl Cervantes, Albie Casiño, Chad Kinis, Kim Chiu, Carla Abellana, Bianca Umali, Sunshine Dizon, Sue Ramirez, Mariel Rodriguez, Krystal Reyes, Toni Gonzaga, Camille Prats, Jennylyn Mercado, Coco Martin, Paolo Serrano, Derek Ramsay, Patrick Garcia, Carlos Agassi, Eric Fructuoso, Long Mejia, Rudy Fernandez, Ryan Agoncillo, including DJ Willie Revillame and Regine Velasquez with her husband Ogie Alcasid after they got married in December 30, 2005.

The Summer Station ID contains the supergroup Bravo All-Stars, the Sexbomb dancers like Shalani Soledad, Iya Villania and Niña Jose and the Goin Bulilit original cast members from TV5 like child actors Angelica Panganiban, Alex Gonzaga, Cristine Reyes, Nash Aguas, Valeen Montenegro, David Licauco, Vince Gamad, Lianne Valentin, Vin Abrenica, Sophie Albert, Mark Neumann, Shaira Mae Diaz, Akihiro Blanco and Chanel Morales. The Summer Station ID also features British boy band One Direction in their pre-debut and Australian born American actor, producer and comedian Will Smith who portrayed Jack Frost in the 2002 movie Frozen as a special guest. Red, Green, Blue and Black Balloons will also be scattered around the world to literally bring forth the summer fun.

The Summer Station ID was filmed in Hollywood, Singapore, Germany, Italy, France, London, Jamaica, Australia, Kenya, Japan, Quezon City, Boracay and New York in June 2006 whenever the ABS-CBN, GMA and TV5 crew members are having a hot summer day into a big summer party.

The Summer Station ID clips will be re-used in the 2013 Summer Station ID of TV5 which is “Bida Best sa Tag-Araw”, The 2014 Summer Station ID of TV5 which is “Pinoy Summer, Da Best 4 Eva!” and the I Gotta Feeling music video from the future movie Ready Player One which will be releasing in March 21, 2013 from Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. However, The Summer Station ID reuses the clips of the music videos from those deleted songs Without Me by Dr. Dre and The Real Slim Shady by DMX from the movie Frozen where Will Smith as Jack Frost and Luis Manzano, Xian Lim, Enchong Dee, Matteo Guidicelli and DingDong Dantes as “The Backstreet Boys” were seen including Little Bo Peep from Toy Story and Gelli de Belen as “The Beauty Queen” who also make a cameo at the near end.

But somehow, This is the only Summer Station ID to feature the crew of ABS-CBN, GMA and TV5.

#abs-cbn #summer station id #piliin mo ang pilipinas #in the service of the filipino #choose philippines

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rossmccallsqueen · 3 years ago

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REQUEST GUIDELINES

(I don’t know what happened to my old post so here’s this)

Hello my loves! Make sure you read this before requesting plssss 💕

If my requests are open, it will say so in my bio. If they are closed, it will also say so! If my requests are closed, pls wait until they are open again to submit a request.

Please send requests through my ask box ONLY. This is the way for me to have an official record of them and they won’t get lost in my messages.

I write smut (I have smut queen in my bio for a reason lol). If I post something smut, you need to be 18+ to read it. I am not responsible for what you consume and will not be held liable.

If you are under 18, you are NOT allowed to request smut. If there is no age in your bio, then I am going to assume you are under 18 and will not write the request.

I have the right to not do any request that I receive. This hasn’t really happened before, but if I can’t get the writing flowing for the request then I will message you privately to see if there’s something we can work out instead.

I’ve had chronic wrist problems for 8 years. I had surgery 7/6/2022 and it should be fixed now. However, with that being said my wrist still does hurt sometimes. I’m also in grad school, so It will take me time to get to your request. Don’t worry, I do have it and I will write it I just have issues 😂

I primarily write reader insert fics. Those are my specialty and most of what I’m comfortable writing.

Anyways, with that being said, here’s who I currently write for and the fandom they are from:

Band of Brothers:

Eugene Roe

Joe Toye

Joeseph Liebgott

Charles Grant

Carwood Lipton

Ronald Speirs

Lewis Nixon

Donald Malarkey

Edward Shames

Edward “Babe” Heffron

Harry Welsh

Henry Jones

Denver “Bull” Randleman

Daryl C “Shifty” Powers

Floyd Talbert

John Martin

William “Bill” Guarnere

Frank Perconte

George Luz

Richard “Dick” Winters

Antonio C. Garcia

Harry F. Welsh

Edward J. Tipper Jr

Lester A. Hashey

The Pacific:

Charles “Chuck” Tatum

Eugene Sledge

John Basilone

Manuel “Manny” Rodriguez

Muriel “Snafu” Shelton

Robert Leckie

Romus “RV” Burgin

Sidney Phillips

Wilbur "Bud" "Runner" Conley

James Paul “JP” Jordan

Bill "Hoosier" Smith

Andrew "Ack Ack" Haldane

Undrafted:

Pat Murray

Arthur Barone

Fotch

Ty Delllamonica

Vinnie Malzhan

David Stein

John Garvey

Polacco

Dells

Zapata

Bohemian Rhapsody:

Joe Mazzello/John Deacon

Rami Malek

Gwilym Lee/Brian May

Ben Hardy/Roger Taylor

Lucy Boynton

Allen Leech

(For those with just actors names listed, I’m not comfortable writing for their characters. Unless it is Freddie platonically. I do not write for Mary for reasons. For ones with actors and characters I write for just their actor as well)

Queen (the band):

Roger Taylor

Freddie Mercury (only platonically)

Brian May

John Deacon

Stranger Things:

Steve Harrington

Eddie Munson

Chrissy Cunningham

Robin Buckley

Nancy Wheeler

Argyle

Jonathan Byers

Jim Hopper

Joyce Byers

I do not write for any characters under the age of 18 in the show (even if their actor is 18+ if their character is not I do not write for them)

Marvel:

Steve/Captain America

Wanda/Scarlett Witch

Sam/Captain America

Bucky

Peter Parker/Spiderman (but only Andrew Garfield’s spiderman, as we see him graduate)

Moon Knight/Steven Grant/Mark/Jake

Doctor Strange/Stephen Strange

Loki

Thor

Natasha/Black Widow

Yelena

Kate Bishop

Shang-Chi

If you don’t see any marvel character listed that you’d like just message me and I’ll add them!

Thank you for taking the time to request something from me and thinking of me to write it! I am honored to do so. Happy reading my friends!

#danielle answers #danielle writes #the pacific #marvel #band of brothers #stranger things #bohemian rhapsody #queen #undrafted

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 3 years ago

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BOOKS I READ IN 2021 (Meaning, as these are mostly academic books I read for research purposes, to keep up with the specialist literature, or to expand my knowledge of a topic, I read the majority of the book - monographs or collection where I read a single chapter or introduction or just combed the footnotes aren’t include. Neither are theses or articles, unfortunately, even though I read a lot of both this years. One of the tragedies of Canadian academic history in specific is that few theses get turned into monographs or even articles, and this is a function more of market forces and resources than interest or need. Books I re-read to take extensive notes are marked with an asterisk. The last four entries I’m still reading!) First Row: Warwick Anderson, Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia Gregory T. Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World Andrew Wakefield, The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice Aidan Forh, Barbed Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 Johann Chapoutot, The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi Norman Laporte and Ralf Hofrogge, Weimar Communism as Mass Movement: 1918-1933 Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism Peter C. Van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom Angus McLaren, Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 Marie-Aimée Cliche, Abuse or punishment? Violence toward Children in Quebec Families, 1850-1969 Second Row: Marcelo Hoffman, The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles David R. Ambaras, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan Robyn C. Spencer, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland Eric Strikweda, The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39* Michael Boudreau, City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35 Lorne Brown, When Freedom was Lost: The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State H. V. Nelles, The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941* Ethan Blue, Doing Time in the Great Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons* Joe Sim, Punishment and Prisons: Power and the Carceral State Alyson Brown, Inter-war Penal Policy and Crime in England: The Dartmoor Convict Prison Riot, 1932* Third Row Martin Wiener, Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830–1914 Frank Dikötter and Ian Brown, Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America Robert Ovetz, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 Bert Useem and Peter Kimball, States of Siege: U.S. Prison Riots, 1971-1986 Robert Adams, Prison riots in Britain and the USA* Lloyd Ohlin, Sociology and the Field of Corrections Thomas Mathiesen, The Defences of the Weak: A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn, Disruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal Robert Chase, We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier, Rethinking the American Prison Movement

Fourth Row Robert Chase, Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance Joshua Page, Michelle Phelps, and Philip Russell Goodman, Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice Thai Jones, More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives and New York's Year of Anarchy Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality Ian Miller, A History of Force Feeding: Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974 Alexander Berkman, Opening the gates: The Rise of the Prisoner's Movement Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System Markus Dubber, The Dual Penal State: The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America Michel Margairaz, Danielle Tartakowsky ed. 1968, entre libération et libéralisation

Fifth Row Rudi Mathee, Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan Franca Iacovetta & Wendy Mitchinson, On the Case: Explorations in Social History Walter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940* Sarah Haley, No mercy here: gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity Sara M. Benson, The Prison of Democracy: Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux, Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History Archambault Prison Theatre Group, No Big Deal! Jen Manion, Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America Anne Guérin, Prisonniers en révolte: Quotidien carcéral, mutineries et politique pénitentiaire en France (1970-1980) Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

#books #reading #books 2021 #year end list #canadian history #prison history #united states history #academic quote #research quote #academic books

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Mark Hamill, Mandy Moore, other stars evacuate amid LA wildfires

Firefighters battle the Palisades Fire as it burns structures in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) LOS ANGELES – Several Hollywood celebrities have been forced to evacuate their homes as the massive Palisades fire in Los Angeles continues to spread, destroying structures along its path. Among the 30,000 residents under an…

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