#Megan reads Star Wars

[jewishcissiekj]

Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, JarJar Binks, C-3PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars Adventures: Ghosts of Vader's Castle #1 - written by Cavan Scott with art by Megan Levens

[kokushibosbestie]

❀ Giyu Tomioka Playlist ❀

For my pookie, @giyuuswifey, who requested it.

ocean eyes - Billie Eilish

unless you leave - Chase Elliott

rises the moon - Liana Flores

Water Fountain - Alec Benjamin

Here With Me - d4vd

Coffee Breath - Sofia Mills

Falling for U - Peachy!, mxmtoon (on Spotify)

everything i wanted - Billie Eilish

telepatia - Kali Uchis

Bubble Gum - Clairo

Dandelions - Ruth B.

Rewrite The Stars - Zac Efron, Zendaya

As It Was - Harry Styles

Build Me A House (A COLORS SHOW) - RIMON

Adore You - Harry Styles

God is a woman - Ariana Grande

Snooze - SZA

Lost In Japan - Shawn Mendes

House of Memories - Panic! at the Disco

Love & War - Yellow Claw, Yade Lauren

In My Mind - Lyn Lapid

Breathin - Ariana Grande

double take - Deruv

Stressed Out - Twenty One Pilots

Fly - Sweet Heat Records, Blake Wisner, Zhou

I'm a Mess - Bebe Rexha

If I Can't Have You - Shawn Mendes

Eastside - benny blanco, Halsey, Khalid

Like I'm Gonna Lose You - Megan Trainor, John Legend

BLISSFUL THINKING - Grace Sorensen

ilomilo - Billie Eilish

i love you - Billie Eilish

xanny - Billie Eilish

Lights Up - Harry Styles

BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Billie Eilish

Die For You - The Weeknd, Ariana Grande

Heather - Conan Gray

Petty Trappin - SLAVES

True Colors - SLAVES

The Pact - SLAVES

Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy

Pathos - VRSTY

Wilt - VRSTY

I LOVE GIYUUUUUU <3333. But fr though, you can't tell me this man wouldn't listen to Billie Eilish. Also, to everyone who reads this, go check out Zhou on Spotify! My mom actually knows him personally and he makes great music!

NONE OF THE PICTURES OR SONGS BEING USED/MENTIONED ARE MINE, ONCE AGAIN THEY ARE NOT MINE.

[adhdkiramman]

hello, i’m van!!! i’m a transmasc butch lesbian studying english at my university!! first and foremost, zionists and terfs and the like, fuck off!

while i’ve been active in tumblr and twitter fandoms before, i’m starting fresh on a new account because it has been several years. i never really planned on coming back to this kind of blog, but i’ve been super hyperfixated on arcane, and i really want to engage with some more content creators!! i’m also working on several caitvi fics, including a multi-chapter college au!! find my work on my ao3 linked below and in my bio!!!

if it seems like we’d get along/you’re interested in my writing, let’s be mutuals! feel free to send questions or fic requests to my inbox or shoot me a dm!

the format of this is very rudimentary, so i'll be making a more complete list soon, but these are some of my interests:

shows: arcane, yellowjackets, over the garden wall, she-ra, bojack horseman, the bear, killing eve, sex lives of college girls, wynonna earp, pantheon... i love lesbians and beautiful animation!

movies: horror movies, go fish, i saw the tv glow, clerks, bottoms, but i'm a cheerleader, portrait, jordan peele films, juno, jennifer's body, the substance, the watermelon woman, and more! i love horror, lesbians, 90s indie films, etc.

video games: the last of us pt. 1 and 2, god of war, cyberpunk 2077, red dead redemption 1 and 2, night in the woods, batman arkham trilogy, assassin's creed, and more!

music: lucy dacus, elliott smith, pavement, the silver jews, fiona apple, ween, kendrick lamar, megan thee stallion, ethel cain, rainbow kitten surprise, doechii, mf doom, big thief, adrienne lenker, mazzy star, indigo de souza, boygenius, belle and sebastion, japanese breakfast, sufjan stevens, noah kahan, chappell roan, julia jacklin, and sooooo much more!!!! please send me music recs!!!

my favorite author is kurt vonnegut! but i am also a great lover of essays, classics, creative nonfiction, and american modernist stage plays. some of my favorite plays off the top of my head are death of a salesman by arthur miller, our town by thorton wilder, and the glass menagerie by tennessee williams! as a full-time student and part-time barista, among other things, i do not get to read for pleasure nearly as often as i did in childhood. however, i’m always down to discuss literature and take recommendations!

[lilmissnatcat24]

lilmissnatcat24 doesn't just write, she also reads too!!!! i read 72 books this year, here were my top 10 favorite and my bottom 5 least favorite of 2024!

The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O'Keefe

Two people, one an heir to a vast intergalactic empire and one an imprisoned terrorist in disguise, must discover why potential habitable worlds for humans are already dead by the time researchers arrive. Spooky creepy zombie book with intergalactic politics and a forbidden romance that makes your toes curl.

2.The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

A woman has an ability to travel in time, but has to decide whether to stay in the present or return to her past life, where she already once left behind her husband and child. Time Traveler's Wife meets Southern gothic magical realism.

3.The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Twenty years after the son of the family who owns a popular summer camp goes missing and is never found, their daughter is suddenly nowhere to be found. Dirty Dancing meets murder mystery meets Yellow Wallpaper.

4. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Terrifying retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Zombies and fungi and gothic manors galore-- in a year where I read seven T. Kingfisher books, this was my favorite.

5. Vengeful by V. E. Schwab

The second book in the Vicious duology, the effects of one particularly dangerous and influential woman with extra special powers. Homoerotic dark academia X-Men retelling.

6. The Will of the Many by James Islington

One boy goes undercover in a vicious university to spy for the very same family responsible for killing his own. Dark academia meets Red Rising (if Red Rising was actually good) meets high fantasy crack cocaine.

7. Happy Place by Emily Henry

Two exes have to pretend to still be together in their friends' annual summer trip to Maine. The only second-chance romance that deserves rights.

8. To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

A native girl with her dragon must learn to keep her individuality in a school that attempts to whitewash and gentrify the ancient skill of dragon taming. Historical fantasy filled with action, romance, and individuality.

9. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The first in the Stormlight Archives series, one assassination of a king results in a war, and how the horrors of that war affect different characters around the globe. Yet another high fantasy crack cocaine.

10. A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn

The fourth installment of the Veronica Speedwell series, a manor haunted by the ghost of a runaway bride ten years later. The slow burn is no longer slow!!!

now for the worst of the worst

The Women by Kristin Hannah

One woman's experience as a war nurse during the Vietnam War, and her struggles to reacclimate back into society. The most disappointing book by one of my favorite authors-- if it comes out in ten years that Kristin Hannah used ChatGPT to write this book, I will not be surprised in the slightest.

2. That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemmings

Young maiden gets kidnapped by a demon in order to save the world. The world's most insufferable millennial unfortunately got published to write demon smut.

3. Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

A sapphic romance of two ex-fiancees who pretend not to know each other as their cabin gets snowed in for the winter. The peak reason why second-chance romances don't work.

4. How Does It Feel? by Jeneane O'Riley

Shitty ACOTAR retelling with a demon who jizzes his pants over some random biologist. That's maybe the nicest thing I can say about it.

5. Throttled by Lauren Asher

F1 forbidden romance between a bad boy and his co-worker's sister. Seriously, who is letting these millennials publish these books? Who is editing these? Who is the audience? Why can't these fuckers just jerk off and get over it like everyone else?

[rowenabean]

2024 reading review

(oh man I never actually title posts this is weird)

2024 was a weird year for reading for me. The entire year was weighted by moving - the first six months were stressful and busy, shadowed by the future of the move - and then the second half was full sabbatical timing. I think you can see this in my reading.

Top books:

The Ogress and the Orphans 5/5 perfect middle grade fantasy. Has everything: a lovely writing voice, plucky orphans, committed family, and a sense of grace. I love it a lot.

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking 4.5/5 - also deeply beloved, also middle grade fantasy officially, my first and thus far my favourite T. Kingfisher novel (although I DO intend to continue reading her rather prolific output). A delight. I just placed a reserve at my library to reread it while writing this.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries 4.5/5 - adult fantasy, this time, and I really enjoyed the characters and the vibes of this one. Book 2 was also excellent; I was worried when I found out about book 2 because I felt this stood alone well, but I eventually went for it and enjoyed it! I'll read book 3 when it comes out too.

The Penelopiad 4/5 - I'm deeply suspicious of Greek myth retellings atm, but I thought I would trust Margaret Atwood and I'm glad I did. Still not reading any of the others though.

The Last Unicorn 4.5/5 - you told me I would love it and I did. Idk why I'm not giving it the last .5 star but possibly just because the Ogress and the Orphans was so perfect at what it was that I want it to stand above everything else

This Is How You Lose The Time War ok actually this one is getting a 5/5. I loved it, and devoured it in a single sitting (although it's not very long). If you like weird time travel sci fi and settings that remain unexplained and elusive, have I got a book for you.

Penric's Demon 4/5 - I've never quite got into the Vorkosigan books on audiobooks, as much as I think I would love them (perhaps I need to read them in physical form, which is often true for me). I do, however, still have an idea that I enjoy Lois McMaster Bujold based on reading of a decade or so ago. The Pen and Des books have turned out to be great as audiobooks, largely because of being novellas and thus I generally don't lose track halfway through (audio processing is not always my strong suit). I'm halfway through the second one at the moment, and having a great time. Perhaps not quite as beloved as the other books above, but certainly enjoyed.

Stats under the cut, plus more thoughts about why the stats are different to previous years (which they are)

101 books recorded (likely I missed +/-5 because I'm not that good at recording things)

40/101 rereads

10/101 non-fiction

I don't have the exact stats from last year, because I lost my notebook before I made one of these posts, but my memory is that over the years I've recorded, usually around 1 in 5 to 1 in 7 books is non-fiction. This year is a markedly lower number. My theory for this is not that I actually read less non-fiction this year: I was studying in the second half of the year, so I read a lot of NF for that, but a) a bunch of it was journal articles, which never count and b) I only record books I've completed (for a slightly variable degree of completed) and so even when I was reading books I wasn't completing them to the point of writing them down. 7/10 non-fiction were in the first half of the year, which supports this theory.

The rereads is particularly interesting, though. If you looked only at the first page of my notebook (roughly January to June) you would get the impression that I wasn't rereading much at all! I also wasn't reading much by my personal standards. Then June to September I went into an intense reread marathon, fueled largely by Diana Wynne Jones and Megan Whalen Turner; for reference, I moved in early August, so this is right around the stress high point of the year (a lot of the DWJs were also audiobooks while packing). In October I returned to my currently-usual book diet, which involves a larger number of new books spaced with rereads every sixth book or so.

This matches my experience of the year, which is that when I first landed after moving I desperately craved time doing nothing and in particular time reading on the deck in the sun, and seized every chance to do this; thus I read voraciously but largely pretty easy books for that central few months, before starting to be able to do things that weren't reading, slowing down my reading and gearing it into longer/slower/less familiar directions.

[fulcrumstardust]

books wrap up 2024 📚

here's my bodycount, let me know if you've read some of these (and what you thought!!)

Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu

A Far Wilder Magic - Allison Saft

Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6) - Pierce Brown

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (London Highwaymen, #2) - Cat Sebastian

Certain Dark Things - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) - Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) - Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) - Tamsyn Muir

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) - Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) - Suzanne Collins

On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1) - David Weber

She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) - Shelley Parker-Chan

He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) - Shelley Parker-Chan

The Hollow Places - T. kingfisher

Analee, In Real Life - Janelle Milanes

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) - Fonda Lee

Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2) - Fonda Lee

Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3) - Fonda Lee

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) - Heather Fawcett

Snowglobe - Soyoung Park

Bride - Ali Hazelwood

Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher

These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) - Bethany Jacobs

Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

The Familiar Dark - Amy Engel

The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1) - Brynne Weaver

The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1) - Thea Guanzon

🌟 Starling House - Alix E. Harrow 🌟 (this was my favorite!!)

The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3) - Megan E. O'Keefe

Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2) - Hannah Grace

We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida

the did-not-finish (RIP):

Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) - Elsie Silver

Beacon 23 - Hugh Howey

We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1) - Tehlor Kay Mejia

Aetherbound - E.K. Johnston

Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) - Nicki Pau Preto

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Chokshi

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Hart and Mercy, #1) - Megan Bannen

The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo

Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1) - Lana Harper

Babel - R.F. Kuang

The Wings Upon Her Back - Samantha Mills

Not in Love - Ali Hazelwood

[anghraine]

your blog is great, and you talk about your interests in such a compelling way! out of curiosity, who would you say are your top 10 fictional characters of all time? also, do you use twitter?

Thank you very much! It's hard to be entirely accurate about my personal top ten, but I still enjoyed thinking about it rather than about being sick and miserable, lol, so here's my attempt to come up with a Faves of Ultimate Destiny list.

(This isn't necessarily about evaluating their worth as characters or even as people, but just how much raw affection I feel. It's also not ranked, just the order in which I thought of them!)

Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (the book character specifically) — I know, nobody is surprised. He actually is my #1 choice.

Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars original trilogy — it's always hard for me to choose between him, his father, and his sister, but ultimately, I feel the most powerfully about Luke. I'm not here for soft, sunshiny fanon Luke, but I am super here for a Luke whose personal kindness, strength, and powerful loyalties mingle with his struggle against rage, fear, even hatred, and an inclination to idealize martial violence and solve his problems with it, yet who comes out the other side as the kind of Jedi that Anakin might have been rather than the authorities around Luke succeeding in forging him into something alien to his true nature.

Faramir from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (very definitely the book character specifically) — again, I'm not super into soft and accommodating mundane guy Faramir, but very into the interplay of his basic compassion and gentleness with the repeated descriptions of him as stern, commanding, willful, and just really fucking strange. I love others a lot but no one can take his crown. (He may be uncrowned in canon but not in my heart!)

Gwen Thackeray from Guild Wars: Prophecies and Guild Wars: Eye of the North, games which most of you haven't played and I suspect would not enjoy for dated mechanics reasons, but which won my heart in the original tutorial zone. I have an explanation about Gwen's greatness here.

Attolia Irene from Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen's Thief books, but especially The Queen of Attolia. She's so precisely tailored to my tastes in female characters that I was kind of astounded, even though I read the books specifically for her based on my friends' TQT blogging. I mostly don't talk about her on this blog, but my feelings are really strong!

Aravis Tarkheena from CS Lewis's The Horse and His Boy. I know everything wrong with Narnia and specifically with THHB, but Aravis, what an icon.

Tarrlok from Avatar: The Legend of Korra. This is another close competition (with his brother Noatak/Amon along with both members of my beloved OTP, Korra/Kuvira), but if I'm being honest, he's the one who scrapes into the fave Avatar character slot. I've loved a lot of tragic villains, but he's really top tier.

Annabella from John Ford's seventeenth-century revenge tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. The title is quasi-ironic; it comes from a dismissive description of her by a super corrupt Catholic cardinal. Both the title and subject matter (murder, consensual sibling incest, a ton of misogyny) can make it a difficult play for some. But for me, Annabella is really what makes the play succeed on its own terms and outshine its Shakespearean inspiration.

Cesare Borgia from Showtime's The Borgias. In my heart this slot goes to both him and his sister Lucrezia (where #8 is definitely Annabella's alone, although I like Giovanni; if only S1 existed this slot would be rightfully Lucrezia's). But if I have to choose between them in the context of the show, I felt his arc was smoother and more coherent and satisfying throughout the show as a whole, so my love for him is less impeded by frustration.

I wasn't actively trying to only choose one character per canon, though it's wound out that way, but here's the exception: Cassian Andor from the 2016 Star Wars film Rogue One (and only that film—I'm not here for the novelization or other EU depictions or Andor or anything except what's in the movie). He's a gift of a character I never expected Star Wars to provide, and half of the only romance in SW that seriously matters to me.

Honorable "rewired my brain" mentions: Moiraine Damodred from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (also in the show!), Sandrilene fa Toren from Tamora Pierce's Emelan books, and Lessa from Anne McCaffrey's Pern books were all deeply formative.

As for Twitter:

I definitely don't use it any more. I used to have multiple accounts, though I wasn't super active outside of academia/chatting with RL friends and the occasional random scholar who deigned to notice me. Twitter wasn't really the natural platform for my preferred "LJ fandom expat" style of online writing, and was mostly stuff like this:

[Damn, I had no idea what was coming with "AI" ... anyway.]

I was deciding whether to keep using Twitter as the Elon purchase was going down, and then he immediately did an antisemitism and I immediately cut all use of it. I later got around to locking down all three accounts; I only maintain them to control the usernames. Most of the people I knew on Twitter joined Bluesky around the same time as me, or can be more easily reached on Discord now. I mostly use Bluesky when I feel like microblogging, but it's not a feeling that often besets me.

[humantorch]

tag game!! thank you @stellernorth for the tag i love these things :D

3 ships: sam/cas my beloveds <3 one of my ships of all time. uh anakin and padmé from star wars because sometimes straight people slay. and uhhhhh ian and mickey from shameless!

First ever ship: I honestly don’t even know… WAIT yes I do it was fucking Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy because I was weird in middle school

Last song: NDA by Megan Thee Stallion <3

Last movie: Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves. it was honestly really good and I wasn’t expecting much but it exceeded my expectations

Currently reading: uhm like nothing except textbooks for class LMAO I’m so busy I haven’t read an actual book since summer break it’s tragic

Currently watching: Game of Thrones season 3 and technically season 15 of Supernatural but I’m taking a break from that

Currently consuming: baby carrots :3

Currently craving: I could fuck up a mcdonald’s cheeseburger rn tbh

tagging people I’d like to know better (only if you want): @johnmeowston @z0nic @bikarma @apyrisol and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!!

[andi-is-bored]

andi, 19, she/her, gemini <3 (more info below)

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hiii :) my last intro post sucked and i haven’t been back in awhile so i thought i’d tell people im still alive <3

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(THE BASICS)

american (could you guess from the everything about me?)

unlabeled

music lover 🎤

iced coffee obsessed (it’s the only thing getting me through the day)

spends wayyyyy too much time online

i’m not super active right now but i try and come back when i can to stay in the loop (i also miss my people <3)

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(HOBBIES)

reading, video games, listening to music, coloring, bracelet making, and uhhhhh, other things probably? i’ll update if i start doing other things lol

(MUSIC)

ashe, ricky montgomery, the beaches, maggie rogers, hozier, gracie abrams, olivia rodrigo, dua lipa, taylor swift, finneas, maneskin, daisy grenade, chappell roan.

(FANDOMS)

harry potter (fuck jkr) marvel/mcu, lockwood & co, star wars, criminal minds, percy jackson, overwatch, gilmore girls, ted lasso, and more probably lol.

(BOOKS)

percy jackson & the olympians, the lunar chronicles, legendborn by tracy deonn, vicious by v. e. schwab, the undertaking of hart and mercy by megan bannen, simon vs the homosapians agenda by becky albertalli, geekerella by ashley poston, a good girls guide to murder by holly jackson, grim by stephanie phillips (comic) the adventure zone by the mcelroy brothers (graphic novel)

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i’m not sure what else i should add, if i forget anything i’ll probably update this post cause i hate redoing this stuff all over again. thank you for reading and everything, bye <333

[kanerallels]

do you mayhaps have a directors cut for the tales of the Steve miller au??

Okay yeah we'll deal with this first out of the TWENTY SOME ASKS I NEED TO HANDLE RIGHT NOW I'm not actually mad just dramatic this is amazing I'm gonna get so much writing done

Okay directors cut for Tales of the Steve Miller Au! I've thought for a long time now that I need to write a story about how Ezra gets his second kyber crystal, because we have no idea how it happened in canon. I read this fic a while back about the same topic that was a Star Wars: Visions AND Jedi Survivor crossover as well (which was super fun!!) and that helped inspire me a little

I came up with the idea of setting it on Pabu around the time that the Bad Batch finale came out. I also happened to be reading this marvelous Bad Batch centric series at that point, which helped a lot! Plus, they hadn't shown up yet, ya know? I went with the comics version of how Order 66 went down for Kanan (though the two can be combined pretty easily) because I didn't know how The Bad Batch was gonna end and I hate writing something only to have it contradicted. Sometimes I put up with it, other times I do not. Anyway, it was fun to finally draw those characters into this series, and I hope I'll have a chance to write them more in the future

I also took the idea of a cave system full of water from The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner! I'm a sucker for that series, and I loved the part where Gen is exploring the caves looking for Hamiathes Stone and nearly dying the process lol. OH and it was also inspired by that scene in Shadow and Bone season two, episode...three? Two? The one where they go after the Sea Whip. I always thought that Ezra would have liked to adopt the Sea Whip

The nos monster was thanks to at least a full hour of plumbing the depths of Wookipedia looking for an amphibious creature that wasn't Oggdo Boggdo lol, and it is truly a miracle I found anything at all

And last but not least, the scene at the end with Kanan was one of the hardest things I've ever had to write. I seriously thought I was going to start crying at one point (but I didn't! I've only cried over one story I've ever written, and that one isn't published. Yet. It will be sometime soon) and the fact that it got written is a gosh dang miracle. I am REAL proud of the way it ended though

Ummm let's see...oh yeah! Little sneak peek of the future: I have an assortment of other one-shots set in the Steve Miller Au planned for this series!! I've only written two others (one about Dev that I've actually posted, and one about Sabine that I have not) but I'll probably work on them at some point after I finish the main series. I have a lot of fun ideas!! Little hint of a story I'm gonna tell in the future: wow most of my options are super spoiler-ful. Uhhh let's go with this. There may well be. A wedding at some point *swan dives off of the post at top speed*

[terminalfids]

heaven, iowa is for insane people. barely reformed supernatural watching destiel shippers. petekey truthers. burnt out midwestern emos. anyone halfway through a thirteen hour drive. people who know about the holy emo trinity. teenage girls in their room discovering the secrets of the universe at three am. megan fox (specifically jennifer’s body) fans. depressed boys staring out their frosty bedroom window after school. romeo and juliet bitches. the demolition lovers. anyone who’s read unholyverse. star wars fans obsessed with anakin skywalker. people who thought they’d never get out of their hometown who’ve now left their hometown behind, and still hate it sometimes. girls still in the closet. twilight lovers. ex-catholics. anyone from chicago. frerardies

[glowing-disciple]

Reading List - 2025

Currently Reading:

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

Digital Logic and State Machine Design by David J. Comer

Books Read:

Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt by Robert A. Armour

Leonard McCoy: Frontier Doctor

Future Reading:

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

Anne of Green Bagels by Susan Schade and Jon Buller

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Clearly

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Blade Itself by Joe Ambercrombie

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Carmilla by Josphen Sheridan Le Fanu

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cranfod by Elizabeth Gaskell

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dancing with Siva by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Dark Journey Deep Grace by Roy Ratcliff

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Dialogue of St Catherine of Siena by St. Catherine

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freaks on the Fells by R. M. Ballantyne

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Good Hunting by Theodore Roosevelt

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by Fr. A. G. Sertillanges

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Life of St Catherine of Siena by Blessed Raymond of Capua

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Middlemarch by George Eliot

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

Pat of Silver Bush by L. M. Montgomery

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Return of the Thief by Megan Turner

The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort

The Shining by Stephen King

Show Me God by Fred Heeren

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

The Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Liseux

The River by Gary Paulsen

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Walking Practice by Dolki Min

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

[wildcasualhair]

ABOUT ME, WHAT I LOVE

my names aaliyah (like the singer :3)

poc. music lover. watcing movies with my friends. taylor swift enthusiast. tv shows. my room. nicholas alexander chavez. painting. my long hair. concerts. lipgloss. mascara. the color pink. percy jackson. tanning. the ocean. food(my moms specifically). reading. sushi. summer. romcoms. lana del rey. sonny angels. commentary youtubers. brat. the seven husbands of evelyn hugo. i speak english and português.

MUSIC

taylor swift. rihanna. beyonce. lana del rey. chappell roan. sabrina carpenter. charli xcx. destinys child. aaliyah. tlc. kendrick lamar. doja cat. childish gambino. tyler the creator. asap rocky. adele. sza. frank ocean. kali uchis. the weeknd. pink pantheress. laufey. selena. ariana grande. rachel zegler. olivia rodrigo. glee covers. steve lacy. partynextdoor. tv girl. britney spears. ke$ha. renee rapp. beabadoobee. travis scott. future. willow. jhené aiko.nicki minaj. megan thee stallion. gwen stefani. bruno mars. dua lipa. a$ap ferg. 21 savage. gracie abrams.

MOVIES/TV SHOWS

marvel movies. 27 dresses. 10 things i hate about you. shes the man. grown ups. homecoming a film by beyoncé. taylor swift the eras tour (taylors version). the sister hood of the traveling pants. the amazing spiderman. La La land. mamma mia!. starstruck. the florida project. the hunger games. priscilla. 500 days of summer. bambi. hercules. barbie. clueless. scream. marie antoinette. how to lose a guy in 10 days. star wars. jurassic world series. percy jackson and the olympians. superstore. how i met your mother. modern family. community. gossip girl. baby. 2 broke girls. glee. ghosts. brooklyn nine-nine. abbott elementary. sabrina the teenage witch. buffay the vampire slayer. the good place. american housewife. better things. that 70’s show. new girl. private practice. greys anatomy. the rookie. freaks and geeks.

i basically only like romcoms and sitcoms LMAOOO

[a-ramblinrose]

Hello My Dears!

dreamer | reader | word weaver

Call me Rose! My gender is a *insert weird noise here* but I’m fine with she/her/they. Really just be polite and it’s all good. Can Poet be a gender? Hmmm must think on this. This blogger is 31 because the passage of time is a trap no one can escape from. Except vampires but  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ who wants to drink blood?

 I’m an avid bookwyrm with a massive hoard of a TBR Pile and an even larger library of books I’ve loved. Discovering fanfiction only increased my consumption of words and my fic bookmarks are a vast labyrinth to get lost in. 

This blog is a mix of books and miscellaneous fandoms run 90% by queue to give some verisimilitude of functionality/organization to my chaos. I do tag. Mostly basic tags with a rare creative tag from the early days but my tagging system is pretty self-explanatory.

Feel free to ask questions please! I love to talk books!!!

Current Reading Tag || Original Posts || 2025 Reading

And under the cut is a list of authors & fandoms that show up on my blog, well a smattering of them anyway!

Favorite Authors:  Terry Pratchett, Ursula K. Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Becky Chambers, Ben Aaronovitch, Robin McKinley, Megan Whalen Turner, Tamora Pierce, Phillip Pullman, Tanya Huff, Eiichiro Oda, Hiromu Arakawa, T. Kingfisher, Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, J.R.R. Tolkien, & many many more

Favorite Poets:  Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, John Keats, Rumi, E.E. Cummings, Leonard Cohen, Andrea Gibson, Billy Collins, Ocean Vuong, Richard Siken, & many many more

Random Fandoms:  Batfamily, Star Wars, MDZS, TGCF, SVSSS, BNHA, ASOIAF, Discworld, Sandman, FMA, One Piece, Sailor Moon, The Magicians, Studio Ghibli, LotR, The Silmarillion, Clamp, Black Sails, The Queen’s Thief, & many many more

"Wherever I’ve lived my room and soon the entire house is filled with books; poems, stories, histories, prayers of all kinds stand up gracefully or are heaped on shelves, on the floor, on the bed. Strangers old and new offering their words bountifully and thoughtfully, lifting my heart."

― Mary Oliver

[healerqueen]

50 Favorite Children’s Books

Inspired by Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s list of his earliest literary influences. This list is limited to books I read in childhood or youth. 50 Childhood Favorites

Caddie Woodlawn and sequel by Carol Ryrie Brink

Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink

The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, and sequels by Elizabeth Enright

Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery

The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Derwood, Inc. by Jeri Massi

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Heidi by Joanna Spyri

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Family Grandstand by Carol Ryrie Brink

Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink

Cheaper By the Dozen and sequel by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Rebecca’s War by Ann Finlayson

The Lost Baron by Allen French

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

Captive Treasure by Milly Howard

Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady

Silver for General Washington by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft

Emil’s Pranks by Astrid Lindgren

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

Freddy the Detective and Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Robert Lawson

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan

Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

The Bridge and Crown and Jewel by Jeri Massi

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Young Adult:

The Eagle of the Ninth and other books by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan

Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George

Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret (a nonfiction memoir)

Picture Books:

Make Way for Ducklings and other books by Robert McCloskey

Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman

Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman

Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner

Ice-Cream Larry by Daniel Pinkwater

Mr. Putter and Tabby by Cynthia Rylant

Discovered as an Adult: Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park

The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

The Armourer’s House by Rosemary Sutcliff

Urchin of the Riding Stars and the Mistmantle Chronicles by M.I. McAllister

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg

Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan

The Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan

Courage in Her Hands by Iris Noble

Knight’s Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

Victory at Valmy (Thunder of Valmy) by Geoffrey Trease

Word to Caesar (Message to Hadrian) by Geoffrey Trease

The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo

Seventh City by Emily Hayse

Escape to Vindor by Emily Golus

Valiant by Sarah McGuire

The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart

[jennifer-jeong]

FANDOMS/INTERESTS

A list of some of the fandoms I'm in/some of my biggest interests! If you're looking to request something from these fandoms please do! My ask box is always open even if requests aren't being fulfilled.

Note that anything with a * beside it is something that I'm just starting to get into and/or haven't really caught up with yet.

ANIME/MANGA/JAPANESE LIGHT NOVELS

Jujutsu Kaisen | Naruto | Haikyuu! | Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure | Attack on Titan | Chainsaw Man | Demon Slayer | Tokyo Ghoul | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | Full Metal Alchemist | One Punch Man | Spy x Family | Soul Eater | Blue Exorcist | Cyberpunk | Violet Evergarden | My Hero Academia | + More These are just some of my favourites. If you ever want to req something else just ask! I've probably watched/read it LOL

VIDEO GAMES

Genshin Impact | Honkai: Star Rail | Overwatch | League of Legends | Project Sekai | Love and Deepspace | Tears of Themis | Valorant | Hollow Knight | Undertale | Call of Duty* | Final Fantasy* | Nier* Hotline Miami | Borderlands | Stray | Firewatch | Lethal Company | Cuphead | Bioshock | Osu! | Friday Night Funkin | Arcaea | Faith The Unholy Trinity | Five Nights at Freddy's | Omori | Terraria | Soma | Minecraft

SHOWS/MOVIES

Castlevania | Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss | Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) | Spiderverse | Arcane | Invincible | The Walking Dead | The Haunting of Hill House | Dune* | Star Wars*

MANWHA/MANHUA/WEBTOONS

Omniscient Reader’s View | Teenage Mercenary | Marry My Husband + Random BL manwha LMAO

DONGHUA

Heaven’s Official Blessing* | The Untamed*

K-POP

BTS | SEVENTEEN | Stray Kids | TXT | GOT7 | ATEEZ* | ENHYPHEN* LE SSERAFIM | ITZY | MAMAMOO | New Jeans

VTUBERS + YOUTUBERS

Shxtou | Kenji | Luxiem Wendigoon | Markiplier | Dunkey | Kshawaay | Albino | Dumbz | Britney Broski | Zy0x | Leveuplifting

HORROR CONTENT

Mandela Catalogues | Faith The Unholy Trinity | Hereditary (Movie) | FNAF VHS Tapes | Skinamarink (Movie) | The Blair Witch Project

MUSIC

JUNNY | DPR LIVE | DPR IAN | Megan Thee Stallion | Trevor Daniel | Laufey | DEAN | Eve

OTHER HOBBIES!

Gym | Art | Cosplay | Plant Mother | Crochet | Cooking + Baking | Fashion + Sewing | Makeup/Skincare

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