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Buried Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Buried Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!

Abe, Kōbō: Woman In the Dunes

Basye, Dale E.: Rapacia Boorman, Kate: Into the Sublime

Clark, Mary Higgins: Moonlight Becomes You Clarke, Arthur C.: A Fall of Moondust Cortázar, Julio: No se culpe a nadie (Don't you blame anyone)

Donoghue, Emma: Room

Graves, Damian: The Sandman

Hamid, Mohsin: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Hendrix, Grady: Horrorstör Hunter, Erin: Warriors: Dark River

Ingels, Graham: "Chatter-Boxed!" (from the comic anthology The Haunt of Fear) Ito, Junji: The Enigma of Amigara Fault

King, Stephen: A Very Tight Place King, Stephen: Dolan's Cadillac King, Stephen: Gerald's Game Kinney, Jeff: Cabin Fever Krabbé, Tim: Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Egg)

McDowell, Michael: The Elementals Morozzi, Gianluca: Blackout Mudford, William: The Iron Shroud

Platt, Marc: Lungbarrow Poe, Edgar Allan: The Cask of Amontillado Poe, Edgar Allan: The Premature Burial Pratchett, Terry: Snuff

Reilly, Lucas: The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation

Sachar, Louis: Holes Sebestyen, Ouida: The Girl in the Box Seibert, Ken: Night Burial Shusterman, Neal: Dread Locks Sophocles: Antigone St. Clair, Margaret: Thirsty God Starling, Caitlin: The Luminous Dead Steig, William: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Stine, R.L.: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake Stoker, Bram: Crooken Sands

Trumbo, Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun

Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Wells, H.G.: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Young, Ben: Stuck

Zhang, C Pam: How Much of These Hills is Gold

Abe, Kōbō: Woman In the Dunes

In 1955, Jumpei Niki, a school teacher from Tokyo, visits a fishing village to collect insects. After missing the last bus, in an act of apparent hospitality, he is offered lodging for the night by the villagers at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, who has lived her whole life in the village and is accustomed to living among the dunes.

The novel opens by telling the audience that Jumpei Niki's case has gone cold after being missing for 7 years, and so he's been officially pronounced as dead. The majority of the novel details him trying to find some way to escape the pit, but the audience knows its hopeless because of how the novel begins. He eventually decides to stay when he realizes that he's just as free in his life before the hole, as in his life after.

Aside from the obvious claustrophobia being used to comment on the metaphorical claustrophbia of modern life, and the plot of a man choosing to live his life in a small collapsing cabin in a hole on the beach, sand is an ever-present motif. The roof in the cabin is broken open and there's no where to fully wash up, so the sand is ever present, caking itself to their sweaty skin. They have a single umbrella that hangs over the well so that the water doesnt get muddy. They have to sleep with a newspaper over their faces to avoid inhaling any sand and fully nude so that the sand on their bodies doesn't chafe at night. There are constant, grotesque descriptions of the sand coating their skin, mixing with their sweat, crunching on their dry lips, shifting whenever they move and so on.

It doesn't need to be a leitner to make me feel like their is a disgusting amount of sand on my skin, but turning it into a leitner wouldn't help.

Basye, Dale E.: Rapacia

Welcome to Rapacia, where the greedy kids go.

When her brother, Milton, escapes the otherworldly reform school Heck in a soul balloon made of old clothes, Marlo is the only Fauster child left to take the blame. Bea "Elsa" Bubb, the Principal of Darkness, sends her straight to Rapacia, the circle of Heck where greedy kids are tormented by glimpses of a just-out-of-reach, glittering shoppers' paradise called Mallvana. Marlo soon falls under the sway of Rapacia's vice principal, a grinning metal rabbit known as the Grabbit that seems to have plans of its own. Marlo is torn between wanting to find a way out and wanting to do . . . whatever the Grabbit asks her to do. Meanwhile, back on the Surface, Milton has his own problems. He is determined to get in touch with Marlo and help her find a way out of Heck. But it's hard to concentrate when his body and soul don't seem to hold together the way they used to. Will Milton ever reach Marlo? And if he does, will they both end up as pawns in the Grabbit's mysterious game?

Boorman, Kate: Into the Sublime

A YA psychological thriller about four teenage girls who descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a lake of local legend, said to reveal your deepest fears . When the cops arrive, only a few things are clear:

- Four girls entered a dangerous cave. - Three of them came out alive. - Two of them were rushed to the hospital. - And one is soaked in blood and ready to talk.

Amelie Desmarais' story begins believably Four girls from a now-defunct thrill-seeking group planned an epic adventure to find a lake that Colorado locals call "The Sublime." Legend has it that the lake has the power to change things for those who risk―and survive―its cavernous depths. They each had their reasons for going. For Amelie, it was a promise kept to her beloved cousin, who recently suffered a tragic accident during one of the group’s dares.

But as her account unwinds, and the girls’ personalities and motives are drawn, things get complicated. Amelie is hardly the thrill-seeking type, and it appears she’s not the only one with the ability to deceive. Worse yet, Amelie is covered in someone 's blood, but whose exactly? And where's the fourth girl?

Is Amelie spinning a tale to cover her guilt? Or was something inexplicable waiting for the girls down there? Amelie's the only one with answers, and she's insisting on an explanation that is more horror-fantasy than reality. Maybe the truth lies somewhere in between?

After all, strange things inhabit dark places. And sometimes we bring the dark with us.

Clark, Mary Higgins: Moonlight Becomes You

Starts out with the protagonist buried alive and desperately pulling on a bell to signal for help. The story then flashes between the present and to several weeks earlier, showing how she came to this fate and leaving the reader to decipher who her would-be killer is, all the while inserting her frantic efforts to remain conscious until help arrives.

Clarke, Arthur C.: A Fall of Moondust

Set sometime in the 21st century, the story takes place in and around the Sea of Thirst, a fictional region of The Moon bearing a sea of incredibly fine moondust that behaves like water, upon which "buoyant" objects can float. The Lunar tourism authority operates the dust-cruiser Selene, a vessel which rides atop the surface like a boat and takes passengers on sightseeing tours across the Sea of Thirst.

When an ill-timed moonquake creates a disturbance that swallows Selene beneath the surface and cuts the dust-cruiser off from outside communication, the routine trip becomes a race to stay alive long enough to be rescued, and indeed for those above the surface to even discover that a rescue is needed. Coordinating the effort to survive and stay sane are Selene captain Pat Harris and flight attendant Sue Wilkins; aided by the vessel's diverse passengers, including retired legendary astronaut Commodore Hansteen. The search and rescue effort from above is headed by Lunar Chief Engineer Robert Lawrence and prickly astronomer Dr. Thomas Lawson, who are faced with a ticking clock, their own disdain for each other, and every nasty surprise the Sea of Thirst has left to throw at them.

Cortázar, Julio: No se culpe a nadie (Don't you blame anyone)

A very short story about a man putting on a jumper. You just need to read it.

A man puts on a jumper and suddenly he becomes tangled in it. The jumper seems to become alive, choking him, strangling him and causing him to fall out the window and to his apparent death.

It shows the struggles of modern life, how one finds himself buried by the monotony of an asphyxiating existance. The buried goes from metaphorical to physical.

Donoghue, Emma: Room

The book is about a mother and her five-year-old child who are kept captive in a small room for years by a kidnapper. The child was born in the room and has never been outside in his life.

Graves, Damian: The Sandman

John and Sarah grow curious about the man who wins the local sand-sculpting competition every year. When they investigate, they discover his grim secret; all of his realistic animal sculptures are built around a real dead animal, be it a beached octopus or dead stray dog. When they confront him, he swears that the animals were already dead, and promises not to make any more sculptures of dead animals. Unfortunately for the kids, he didn't say anything about (formerly) live humans...

Extremely unpleasant ending, describing John's unblinking eye covered over by the thinnest layer of sand, staring at but not seeing the faces of the mourners gathered at the sand memorial to him and his sister.

Hamid, Mohsin: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

"... the astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over "rising Asia." It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along. "

Buried in the meaning of debt and money in this book. the main character and the girl he loves always striving to become richer, no matter what, so that the crushing weight of poverty will never hurt them again. Also lots of water and dirt imagery perfect for Buried.

Hendrix, Grady: Horrorstör

The novel follows a group of people—store manager Basil, and employees Amy and Ruth Anne—who stay overnight at ORSK to investigate strange acts of vandalism. The book particularly focuses on Amy, who is unhappy because she views her work at ORSK as an unfulfilling dead-end job. The workers discover that their store was constructed on the ruins of an old prison, where inmates were forced to do mindless, pointless work in order to break them of their criminal ways. Now, the ghosts of the prison haunt the store, where mindless toil remains the name of the game...

Hunter, Erin: Warriors: Dark River

(this book is part of a very long series about clans of cats so forgive me for not providing more context for the plot) -Two apprentices from rival clans develop a friendship/possible romance, which is forbidden so they secretly meet in a series of underground tunnels. The main cave they meet in has an underground river flowing through it (hence Dark River). -Jaypaw (medicine cat apprentice, blind, has the ability to see and speak to dead cats in his dreams) has dreams/visions of ancient cats who used to live in their territory long ago and had a rite of passage that involved navigating the underground tunnels. The two ghost cats are Fallen Leaves (died during his rite of passage due to sudden rain flooding the tunnels, now eternally trapped in the tunnels as a ghost), and Rock (haggard elderly cat who kept a stick with scores of claw marks, one for every cat who died in the tunnels). -At the climax of the book, a litter of kittens goes missing, and the main characters must enter the tunnels during a rainstorm to find them. As the tunnels flood, they are guided by the spirit of Fallen Leaves and are able to find the kits but get swept up in the flood and nearly drown before being ejected into a lake.

I think it fits The Buried because most of the book takes place in the claustrophobic tunnels, and the prologue details Fallen Leaves’ failure to escape the tunnels. (also idc if this counts but it’s worth noting the tunnels continue to feature prominently in the next few books, specifically a main character runs into the tunnels and is trapped in a mudslide, presumed dead. later it is revealed she abandoned clan life and lived in the tunnels for months with only the ghost of Fallen Leaves for company)

Ingels, Graham: "Chatter-Boxed!" (from the comic anthology The Haunt of Fear)

An elderly man begins to suffer from catalepsy, which makes him appear to be dead when he is not. He leaves instructions to be buried with a telephone if he "dies", allowing him to call for help lest he regain consciousness. There's no way this plan could go wrong, or so he thinks...

Sure enough, he is buried after having an episode behind the wheel and does exactly that, only to find every phone line tied. After futilely trying to get a call through and finally running out of oxygen, the operator angrily snaps at the man's blue-faced corpse for being ignorant of what's just taken place: the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The story is set in December 1941.

Ito, Junji: The Enigma of Amigara Fault

Following an earthquake, a large rock face is exposed, covered in human shaped holes. Numerous people are drawn to it, discovering that each hole is uniquely and perfectly shaped for an individual person. Filled suddenly with an irresistible compulsion towards the holes meant for them, people begin entering them…

Upon entering a hole, you have no choice but to continue forward. The hole, fit perfectly for your body, leaves no room for anything but forward movement. As you move further and further, the hole‘a shape begins to gradually change. It slowly but so so painfully stretches and squeezes and twists your body. Yet you remain alive. You have to continue forward. There is no other way you can go.

Months later, another fault is discovered on the other side of the mountain. The holes on this end are elongated and twisted. And something no longer resembling a human is slowly moving towards the end of this tunnel.

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Following an earthquake in an unnamed prefecture of Japan, a fault is discovered on Amigara Mountain, very close to the epicenter of the quake. On the slopes of the mountain, two hikers meet; a man named Owaki and a woman named Yoshida. The former assumes that they are both here to see the fault, which has captured the attention of the global press. Following the sound of voices to the fault, the two of them marvel at the strange sight before them: countless human-shaped holes in a rock face exposed by the earthquake."

"This is my hole! It was made for me!"

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"This is my hole! It was made for me!"

King, Stephen: A Very Tight Place

Curtis Johnson is locked up in a tipped over portable toilet by his neighbor Tim Grunwald, and left trapped there in the heat of a Florida summer day to die.

King, Stephen: Dolan's Cadillac

Wealthy crime-boss Jimmy Dolan brutally murders a woman who is scheduled to testify against him, and her husband spends the next seven years plotting his revenge. Haunted by the voice of his dead wife, he will stop at nothing to exact his vengeance and allow his wife to rest in peace.

He spends years plotting vengeance, joining a road crew and upon acquiring the knowledge, redirects Dolan so he drives over a deserted stretch of highway which Robinson has excavated himself. The Cadillac Dolan drives plummets into the hole, killing Dolan's bodyguards and allowing Robinson to replace the paving so Dolan may die in darkness and madness, with Robinson never being caught.

From TV Tropes: "There's an especially disturbing part where the main character returns to the stretch of road where Dolan and his car are buried, and hears that Dolan is STILL ALIVE beneath the dirt. He covers the spot with asphalt, and leaves him there to slowly suffocate in the darkness."

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A man gets buried alive in his prized car.

King, Stephen: Gerald's Game

Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald’s kinky sex games—something that she’s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a “romantic getaway” at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts—and Gerald crosses a line with his wife—the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that has become her prison—and comes face-to-face with her deepest, darkest fears and memories. Her only company is that of the various voices filling her mind…as well as the shadows of nightfall that may conceal an imagined or very real threat right there with her…

Kinney, Jeff: Cabin Fever

It involves the entire Heffley family (minus Greg's father Frank) getting snowed in due to a snowstorm. Compounding this is that the power goes out (Greg's little brother Manny was actually responsible for this because no one taught him how to tie his shoes), they are running out of food (Mrs. Heffley can't go out to get more because of the snow), and the basement flooded (which means that Greg's older brother Rodrick has to stay in his room).

Krabbé, Tim: Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Egg)

Rex Hofman is haunted by the disappearance of his girlfriend, Saskia Ehlvest. His obsession with discovering what happened to her has grown to such an extreme that he has taken out a large loan to post advertisements in papers throughout France, hoping that someone might be able to provide him with information. One night he is approached by a man who reveals that he is the one who abducted Saskia, and offers to satisfy Rex's determination to discover her ultimate fate, but only if Rex agrees to undergo the same ordeal that Saskia suffered. After a long discussion between the two men, Rex agrees to Lemorne's proposal, and proceeds to drink a cup of coffee laced with a sedative. He awakens to find himself buried alive, and suffocates while imagining himself finally to be reunited with Saskia.

McDowell, Michael: The Elementals

After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again ...

Morozzi, Gianluca: Blackout

Two young TV executives looking to break into the reality show industry came up with the idea to select an apartment at random, fix the lifts, wait until two or three people were in the elevator together, and then put it on lockdown and film the results. Things get bad. Fast.

Mudford, William: The Iron Shroud

From Wikipedia: It is a classic predicament story about a noble Italian hero who is confined in a continuously and imperceptibly contracting iron torture chamber. In the story, the chamber walls and ceiling are slowly contracting, day by day, through mechanical means, to the point of eventually crushing and enveloping the victim, thus metaphorically becoming his iron shroud.

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The story concerns a prisoner confined in a chamber where the walls and ceiling slowly contract, day by day, through mechanical means, to the point of eventually crushing and enveloping the victim, thus metaphorically becoming his iron shroud.

Platt, Marc: Lungbarrow

Synopsis: "All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.

At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.

673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last."

Why it's Buried: The House of Lungbarrow is literally buried. Gallifrey as a whole is figuratively buried, stagnant and rotting. The Doctor is forced back into the hellish family dynamics of his childhood. Also, considering how much a physical copy goes for on eBay, I reckon it qualifies for the financial aspect of the Buried as well.

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Cask of Amontillado

yes, Fortunato, follow this creepy guy to his family catacombs, deeper and deeper. surely this will end well for you. surely he isn't plotting to bury you alive in these moist and cavernous vaults.

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You want a description? Sure, I got some in my basement. Follow me!

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Premature Burial

The story consists of a number of grisly anecdotes about people who undergo premature burial, as told by a nameless, cataleptic narrator who suffers from a constant, crippling phobia of being buried alive due to his rare medical condition. As the story switches from anecdotes to the narrator's own personal experiences, he suffers no physical harm but begins to dream of death and premature burial. In one case, during a cataleptic trance, he hears a voice telling him to sit up before it speaks to him of the agonies of night and death. It asks him how he can sleep so peacefully when so many of the dead do not rest easily.

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The narrator describes his struggle with catalepsy, a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance.

This leads to his fear of being buried alive. He emphasizes his fear by mentioning several people who have been buried alive.

The narrator reviews these examples in order to provide context for his nearly crippling phobia of being buried alive. He became obsessed with the idea that he would fall into such a state while away from home, and that his state would be mistaken for death. He extracts promises from his friends that they will not bury him prematurely, refuses to leave his home, and builds an elaborate tomb with equipment allowing him to signal for help in case he should awaken after "death".

The story culminates when the narrator awakens in pitch darkness in a confined area. He presumes he has been buried alive, and all his precautions were to no avail. He cries out and is immediately hushed; he quickly realizes that he is in the berth of a small boat, not a grave. The event shocks him out of his obsession with death, and soon after, his catalepsy episodes cease entirely, leading him to suspect that they were a symptom of his phobia, rather than a cause.

Pratchett, Terry: Snuff

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but a body in the wardrobe would be far too simple. Instead he finds many, many bodies – and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. Vimes is about to uncover the exception.

Reilly, Lucas: The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

Sachar, Louis: Holes

A bunch of children in the juvenile prison system are sent to a work camp where they're forced to dig holes in a dry lakebed. Unbeknownst to them, this is because The Warden is using them to search for buried treasure. The major themes of the novel include the injustice of the carceral justice system and being trapped in unfair circumstances due to poverty and racism. Also there's a scene where the protagonist and his friend are stuck in a hole while The Warden watches over them hoping to steal the money belonging to the protagonist's family, which she feels entitled to because she's descended from a shitty rich man.

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Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment

Sebestyen, Ouida: The Girl in the Box

The titular girl has been kidnapped and locked in a dark cellar for no known reason. The novel consists of her writing her story and pleas for help on an old typewriter in the cellar as she begins to run out of food and water. And we're not even given the benefit of a happy ending. The story ends with her final entry (in which she is still trapped) and the reader never learns what happens to her.

Seibert, Ken: Night Burial

Terry, with the aid of his friend, decides to spend the night in a makeshift coffin buried in a cemetery, initially excited at the thought. Unfortunately, things go not quite as planned: it's quite hot in the coffin and he put on too many layers with no way to get rid of them in the uncomfortably tight space he has to spend the night in with no way to get out unassisted. The story ends with a stranger mistakenly thinking that his tube to the surface — which provides him with air — is a makeshift flower vase and stuffs it with flowers out of respect for what she believes to be a newly passed-on soul.

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A pair of con artists trying to fake one's death come face to face with a pair of grave robbers.

Shusterman, Neal: Dread Locks

Dread Locks is told from the perspective of bored high schooler Parker Bear, who is fascinated by the new girl, Tara. She always wears sunglasses, and her hair is almost alive with twisting curls. Parker watches, fascinated, as one by one Tara chooses high school students to befriend; he even helps her by making the necessary introductions. Over time, her "friends" develop strange quirks, such as drinking gallons of milk, eating dirt, and becoming lethargic.

Tara is a gorgon, petrifying students slowly -- the milk and dirt serves to build up minerals in their bodies for the final transformation. She's also begun to turn Parker into a fellow gorgon. At the end of the book, after Parker confronts her, they fight and turn one another to stone. The last lines detail the petrification process, then nothing more.

Sophocles: Antigone

Both literal and social pressure present.

St. Clair, Margaret: Thirsty God

After the main character, Brian, assaults an alien girl, he takes refuge from her family in a "shrine" that's actually an ancient biological processor, and the process wasn't designed for humans. When he wakes up he finds that he's a lot bigger than he used to be and incredibly thirsty. Thinking it's a trick he decides to get up, but can't make his muscles obey him. A little while after that he's visited by a plunp, a toadlike creature who forces the excess moisture into his body. Even though his body is thirsty for the plunp's moisture, he feels (correctly) as if he is being poisoned by it. When after several hours the plunp leaves he feels bloated by all the water he has absorbed and his body is completely stiff and immobile. Although relieved that his torment has ended, he knows that many more plunp will follow and he can do nothing to prevent it. For the rest of the rainy season Brian passively and helplessly absorbs the plunp's moisture while his thoughts turn inward and violently self-destructive. Meanwhile, his sight and hearing slowly deteriorate and his body becomes permanently bloated.

As the rainy season comes to an end Brian is relieved when the plunp finally stop visiting him. His body becomes dry and dusty and begins to shrink, and he begins to experience blackouts which he dares to hope are a prelude to death and a final release from his suffering. Brian is not dying but merely entering a state of estivation, from which he will eventually awaken to the first of many more years of service to the plunp.

Starling, Caitlin: The Luminous Dead

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck—enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother—meant she’d get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane.

Instead, she got Em.

Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre’s body with drugs or withholding critical information to “ensure the smooth operation” of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre’s falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash—and a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . .

As Gyre descends, little inconsistencies—missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em’s motivations—drive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive—she must confront the ghosts in her own head.

But how come she can't shake the feeling she’s being followed?

Steig, William: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

A boy uses a wish-granting magic pebble to escape a lion by turning into a rock. Unfortunately, he drops the pebble in the process, leaving him trapped, still conscious, as a boulder.

Stine, R.L.: The Curse of Camp Cold Lake

Camp is supposed to be fun, but Sarah hates Camp Cold Lake. The lake is gross and slimy. And she's having a little trouble with her bunkmates. They hate her. So Sarah comes up with a plan. She'll pretend to drown—then everyone will feel sorry for her. But things don't go exactly the way Sarah planned. Because down by the cold, dark lake someone is watching her. Stalking her. Someone with pale blue eyes. And a see-through body...

Stoker, Bram: Crooken Sands

A rich Englishman on a vacation to Scotland is menaced by a ghostly Doppelgänger who is constantly sinking into quicksand, and tries to lure him into same fate.

Trumbo, Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun

This novel follows a young man named Joe Bonham, who, after becoming grievously injured during World War I, is left deaf, blind, dumb, and without any limbs. Throughout the novel, Joe reminisces about the life that he's lost, waxes philosophical about war and conscription, and tries desperately to communicate with the doctors keeping him alive.

You might say "Wait, this is about the horrors of war, this is Slaughter not Buried!". I would argue that is kinda both, but forced to choose between submitting it for the Slaughter poll and the Buried one, I chose to submit it to this one, because Joe's plight in central to the book and to me it is a very Buried-aligned one: He can't move, he can't see, he can't hear, he can't speak. He has been reduced to a limbless, faceless figure that is being kept alive in an army hospital. A line that sums up the horror of Joe's condition: "What good is being alive if I can't even tell if I'm asleep or awake?"

"S.O.S. Help me..."

Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth

Lidenbrock's obsession with the depths of the earth results in his party being dragged ever deeper beneath the surface, and deeper into danger.

Wells, H.G.: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Pressure is present here both in terms of the vast weight of the ocean, and the hierarchical and strict rules laid out by Captain Nemo that all aboard his ship must obey.

Young, Ben: Stuck

John Camden doesn't realize he's dying, yet the physical signs are becoming more clear, and he's having recurring visions where he is trapped in a tight space. Everything changes when his best friend Robbie convinces him to go on a poorly planned caving trip as a form of immersion therapy. Soon the lines of reality blur as John finds himself lost and alone, deep underground where all is not as it seems, and the person he trusted most may have sinister intentions.

Zhang, C Pam: How Much of These Hills is Gold

This book is about a family of Chinese immigrants. The father works in the mines and sometimes takes his two daughters to the hills to try and find gold. They struggle against poverty and racism, trying to carve a better life for themselves.

#leitner tournament #reading list #buried poll

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Read More 2024 Elements of Circumstance

A book with "who", "what", "when", "where", "why", or "how" in the title.

Classics What Maisie Knew by Henry James The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima

Fiction What You are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Mystery Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark This is How It Ends by Eva Dolan

Thriller When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

Romance When We Found Home by Susan Mallery How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams

Science Fiction and Fantasy Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason How to Be Remembered by Michael Thompson

Horror The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Graphic Novels No Matter How I look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular by Niko Tanigawa

Biography What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Non-Fiction When : the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner How Not to be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

#readmore2024

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celestialrequiem · 4 years ago

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In Progress/Coming Soon!

So @guiltyfiend and @instincts-baby are incredible writers who inspired me to start writing ❤️❤️ I already have some concepts in mind 🥰, I personally never would’ve thought to be part of a fandom again at the age of 23, (the last fandom I was in was true crime and KPOP, and both were toxic LMAO) and I never in my life thought I would ever write fanfics but here we are. Lol. Thank you to Carissa and Dana who made me believe that there are great & amazing fanfic writing, you truly inspired me with the fictional worlds you have created and blessed this fandom!

Here are my concepts so far. :-)

1-Apollo and Daphne (Michael is Apollo and Reader is Daphne) inspired by Greek Mythology. I wanted to do Hades and Persephone but that’s been done before by great writers!! (@7-wonders and @rainbowxmisa check them out!) (will possibly be a one shot!)

2- Celestial Requiem (In Progress, Chapter 1 will be done soon!) It is a period/historical fic. Soft Dark!Michael is a hunter, who falls in love with Zeus’s naive and pure daughter (a nymph). Michael works for Zeus! (It will be multiple chapters!) This concept was inspired by one of my favourite collages by Max Ernest called “Approaching Puberty” and inspired by Greek Mythology (again) lol. This will be dedicated to @guiltyfiend and @instincts-baby 🥰

3- Kubrick Characters as the Cody boys, (this will be headcanons) This is self-indulgent tbh because I am a Kubrick hoe LOL. (I will be mentioning “Eyes Wide Shut by @guiltyfiend” obviously because she made me (or us?) haha envision Michael fitting in that world!/film!) This also might be the first thing I finish, because it’s headcanons. Lol.

4- Based in the 60s, Dark!Duncan Shepherd is a corrupt Sheriff who falls in love with a waitress working at a diner (inspired by one of my favourite shows Twin Peaks...I am whore for David Lynch okay) Duncan probably has a housewife/misogyny kink 👀. (It’s the 60s duh, his character will be like Don Draper from Mad Men)

5- Opera (inspired by Phantom of the opera and Opera by Dario Argento) Serial Killer Michael! is an obsessed fan who kidnaps ballet reader and holds her hostage at the opera (I started working on it, probably will be a one shot)

I am planning to continue writing once I finish my finals!

If you guys are interested in a particular one let me know 🥰(pick a number)

Thank you !

honourable mentions to other writers who inspired me Ashe, Eva and Jocelyn! ❤️❤️ @sojournmichael @jimmason @michaellangdonstanaccount love your work each one of you!

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writerswithnoborders-blog · 6 years ago

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A Poem for Our Times, Thanks to Ken Burns

Editor’s note: The dramatic documentary, The Vietnam War, captured the attention and minds of audiences as it told the story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history. The subject of this documentary makes pale the current news of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the Game of Thrones, Powerball, NFL, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, Russian hacking,…

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#Ken Burns #Lynn Novick #Michael C. Dolan #PBS #poetry #poetry about war #Public Broadcasting Service #The Vietnam War

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goalhofer · 4 years ago

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2020-21 College Of The Holy Cross Crusaders Roster

Wingers

#8 Michael Kane (Guilford, Connecticut)

#12 Conner Jean (Oakland Charter Township, Michigan)

#15 Jack Ricketts (Oakville, Ontario)

#17 Ryan Leibold (Ashburn, Virginia)

#19 Alex Peterson (Lansdale, Pennsylvania)

#20 Logan Ferguson (Calgary, Alberta) C

#22 Lucas Thorne (Dunnville, Ontario)

#24 Andrew Dumaresque (Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia)

#34 Anthony Vincent (Wilton, Connecticut) A

#37 Jake Pappalardo (Salem, New Hampshire)

Centers

#13 Grayson Constable (Lethbridge, Alberta)

#18 Bobby Young (Kitchener, Ontario)

#21 Alec Cicero (Williamsville, New York)

#26 Pete Kessel (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) A

#40 Erkka Vänskä (Espoo, Finland)

Defensemen

#2 Jack Robilotti (South Kent, Connecticut)

#3 Frank Boie (Needham, Massachusetts)

#4 Jake Higgins (Hingham, Massachusetts)

#5 Mike Higgins (Needham, Massachusetts)

#6 Bryce Dolan (Barrington, Rhode Island)

#7 Nick Hale (Raleigh, North Carolina)

#11 Ryan Pineault (Glastonbury, Connecticut)

#27 Matt Slick (Buffalo, New York) A

#28 Logan Miliken (Canmore, Alberta)

Goalies

#29 Erik Gordon (Duluth, Georgia)

#30 Matt Radomsky (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

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yoshinorecommends · 5 years ago

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Celebrities Masterlist

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Aaron Tveit

Adam Ellis

Alex Turner

Alexander Calvert

Alexander Skarsgard

Allen Leech

Amy Nelson

Andrew Garfield

Andy Biersack

Aneurin Barnard

Ansel Elgort

Anthony Ramos

Ashton Irwin

Austin Butler

Barbara Dunkelman

Ben Hardy

Ben Platt

Bill Hader

Bill Skarsgard

Blaine Gibson

Bo Burnham

Brendon Urie

Burnie Burns

Calum Hood

Chris Evans

Chris Demarais

Chris Pine

Christian Bale

Cillian Murphy

Cody Fern

Cole Gallian

Corpse Husband

Dacre Montgomery

Damiano David

Dane Dehaan

Daveed Diggs

Diego Luna

Domhnall Gleeson

Dream

Dylan O'Brien

Eddie Redmayne

Eminem

Ethan Dolan

Ethan Nestor

Ethan Torchio

Ezra Miller

Fionn Whitehead

Gab Smolders

Gavin Free

Geoff Ramsey

George Daniel

Gwilym Lee

Harrison Osterfield

Harry Styles

Henry Cavill

J.J. Castillo

Jack Lowden

Jai Courtney

Jake Gyllenhaal

James Dean

Jared Leto

Jared Padalecki

Jasmine Cephas Jones

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Jensen Ackles

Jeremy Dooley

Joe Burrow

Joe Keery

Joe Mazzello

Joel Heyman

Jon Risinger

Jonny Weston

Jordan Fisher

Josh Dun

Liam Hemsworth

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Logan Lerman

Lucy Boynton

Ludwig Ahgren

Luke Hemmings

Machine Gun Kelly

Matthew Daddario

Matthew Gray Gubler

Matthew Lillard

Matty Healy

Mark Fischbach

Meg Turney

Megan Fox

Michael B Jordan

Michael Clifford

Michael Jones

Michiel Huisman

Mike Faist

Miles Luna

Misha Collins

Mitch Rowland

Mod Sun

Niall Horan

Nick Jonas

Nick Robinson

Noah Centineo

Patrick Stump

Pedro Pascal

Pete Davidson

Phil Lester

Phillipa Soo

Rami Malek

Robert Downey Jr

Rook

Ross Macdonald

Ryan Bergara

Ryan Haywood

Sapnap

Sarah Jones

Sean McLoughlin

Sebastian Stan

Shane Madej

Shannon Leto

Shawn Mendes

Shayne Topp

Swaggersouls

Sykkuno

Taron Egerton

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Thomas Doherty

Thomas Raggi

Tom Blyth

Tom Glynn Carney

Tom Hardy

Tom Hiddleston

Trevor Collins

Tyler Joseph

Victoria De Angelis

Ville Valo

Will Poulter

Yungblud

Zac Efron

#celebrities masterlist

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keeper0fthestars · 5 years ago

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get to know me game

I was tagged by @beccaplaying and @ithinkwehitametaphor who are both sweethearts xxoo

Nickname: c

Real Name: Cindy

Favorite Musicians or bands: way too many to narrow it down. my playlists have everything from Weezer to ABBA to The Cure to Gary Clarke jr. to Chopin’s Nocturnes

Favorite Sports team: I couldn't even name one sports team lol

Other blogs: hahaha yep @hisredhenley and @thesound0fpullingheavendown both purely for aesthetic reasons and definitely nothing else :P

Do I get asks: very rarely but I appreciate them.

Tumblr crushes: I’m not really sure what this means but I do appreciate all the general squeeing at all hours of the day and incoherent chats between my mutuals

Lucky numbers: 3

What I’m wearing: currently, my black winter soldier shirt and panties

Dream vacation: Greece

Dream car: ok so I don’t know a sniff about cars, but if I had to pick I would take the car John Wick drives because that’s a sweet fucking car.

Favorite food: pizza or churros

Drink of choice: coffee

Instruments: hahahahah I wish

Languages: English, some french,

Celebrity crushes: Xavier Dolan, Winston duke, Simu Liu, Keanu Reeves, Oscar Isaac, Ana de Armas, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Charlie Hunnam, Michael Huisman, Jack Whitehall, Adria Arjona, David Tennant, Richard Madden, Santiago Cabrera, Ben Barnes, Aldis Hodge, I dunno too many to mention

Random Facts: I can read and write Cyrillic

who to tag: @and-i-swear-we-are-infinte @sunriseaurora @themandjalorian @babesbooksandbattles @lannister-slings-and-arrows @purpletangomintsprite

#tag you're it #only if you wanna #no pressure if you don’t

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porlockstompf · 5 years ago

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2018

my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

wiliam h gass "the william h gass reader" (2018)

post-cyberpunkstompf:

01 cixin liu "ball lightning" (2018)

02 kim stanley robinson "red moon" (2018) 03 dave hutchinson "europe at dawn" (2018) + dave hutchinson "shelter (the aftermath 01)" (2018) 04 paul kincaid "ian m banks (modern masters of science fiction)" (2017) 05 hannu rajaniemi "summerland" (2018)

06 m john harrison "you should come with me now: stories of ghosts" (2017) 07 wade rousch (ed) "twelve tomorrows (2018) 08 christopher moore "noir" (2018) 09 jonathan strahan (ed) "infinity's end" (2018) + jonathan strahan (ed) "the best sf & f of the year, vol XII" (2018) 10 neil clarke (ed) "the final frontier" (2018) + neil clarke (ed) "the best sf of the year vol III" (2018)

11 gardner dozois (ed) "the year's best sf: thirty-fifth annual collection" (2018) 12 steve toutonghi "side life" (2018) 13 mike ashley (ed) "lost mars: the golden age of the red planet" (2018) 14 mary robinette kowal "the calculating stars: a lady astronaut novel" (2018) 15 mingwei song & theodore huters (eds) "the reincarnated giant: an anthology of twenty-first century chinese science fiction" (2018)

16 john zakour & lawrence ganem "the peach-blonde bomber" (2018) 17 becky chambers "record of a spaceborn few" (2018) 18 yoon ha lee "revenant gun" (2018) 19 derek künsken "the quantum magician" (2018) 20 gregory benford "rewrite" [arc] (2019)

21 richard k morgan "thin air" (2018) 22 charles stross "the labyrinth index" (2018) 23 john varley "irontown blues" (2018) 24 peter watts "the freeze-frame revolution" (2018) 25 karl schroeder "the million" (2018)

26 drew williams "the stars now unclaimed" (2018) 27 peter f hamilton "the salvation" (2018) 28 neal asher "the soldier" (2018) 29 nick mamatas "the people's republic of everything" (2018) 30 s j morden "one way" (2018)

31 gareth l powell "embers of war" (2018) 32 alex white "a big ship at the end of the universe" (2018) + alex white "a bad deal for the whole galaxy" (2018) 33 s k dunstall "stars unchartered" (2018) 34 catherynne m valente "space opera" (2018) 35 alastair reynolds "elysium fire" (2018)

36 charles stross "dark state" (2018) 37 n k jemisin (ed) "the best american sf & f 2018" (2018) 38 jack mcdevitt "the long sunset" (2018) + jack mcdevitt "a voice in the night" (2018) 39 elizabeth moon "into the fire" (2018) 40 r.e. stearns "barbary station" (2017) / steven erikson "willfull child III: the search for spark" (2018)

polarstompf:

01 david hewson "the savage shore" (2018)

ex aequo andrea camilleri "the pyramid of mud" (2018) + andrea camilleri "death at sea: montalbano's early cases" (2018)

02 mirko zilahy "de schaduw" (2017) + mirko zilahy "de mythe van de dood" (2018) 03 mick herron "london rules" (2018) + mick heron "the drop" (2018) 04 volker kutscher "babylon berlin" (2017) + volker kutscher "the silent death" (2017) + volker kutscher "goldstein" (2018) 05 chris petit "pale horse riding" (2017)

06 edgar cantero "this body's not big enough for both of us" (2018) 07 ian rankin "in a house of lies" (2018) 08 philip kerr "greeks bearing gifts" (2018) 09 jack grimwood "nightfall berlin" (2018) 10 dolan cummings "the existential leap: a crime story" (2017)

11 ann van loock "de expo '58 moorden" (2018) 12 massimo carlotto "master of knots" (2004) 13 joseph knox "sirens" (2018) + joseph knox "the smiling man" (2018) 14 geir tangen "het meesterwerk" (2017) 15 kate atkinson "transcription" (2018)

16 patrick conrad "diep in december" (2018) 17 jorge zepeda patterson "zwarte trui" (2018) 18 wolfgang burger "heidelberg requiem" (2016) 19 charles cumming "a divided spy" (2016) + charles cumming "the man between" (2018) 20 frank goldammer "the air raid killer" (2018) + frank goldammer "a thousand devils" (2018)

21 andreas norman "stille oorlog" (2018) 22 jesper stein "de onrust" (2018) + jesper stein "papa" (2018) 23 luca d'andrea "in de greep van de waanzin" (2018) 24 jo nesbø "macbeth" (2018) 25 hans dooremalen "descartes in amsterdam: filosofische detective" (2018) / chris pavone "the expats" (2012)

klassikstompf:

01 wiliam h gass "the william h gass reader" (2018)

02 louis armand "breakfast at midnight" (2012) + louis armand "the combinations" (2016) + louis armand "canicule" (2013) + louis armand "cairo" (2014) 03 andrew crumey "the great chain of unbeing" (2018) 04 viv albertine "throw away unopened" (2018) 05 daniela cascella "singed" (2017)

06 ted geltner "blood, bone, & marrow: a biography of harry crews" (2017) 07 steve erickson "zeroville" (2007) 08 olga tokarczuk "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" (2018) 09 julián ríos "the house of ulysses" [] (2010) + julián ríos "poundemonium" [1997] 10 daniel mendelsohn "an odyssey: a father, a son, and an epic" (2017)

11 giorgio van straten "in search of lost books: the forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes" (2017) 12 pascal mercier "night train to lisbon" (2004) 13 tony white "the fountain in the forest" (2018) 14 alejandro zambra "not to read" (2018) 15 gabriel josipovici "the cemetery in barnes" (2018)

16 lucy ives "impossible views of the world" (2017) 17 matthew herbert "the music: a novel through sound" (2018) 18 ann quin "the unmapped country: stories & fragments" (2018) 19 stephen fry "mythos" (2017) & "heroes" (2018) 20 johan swinnen "happening: de aanslag op de Inno" (2017)

21 ermanno cavazzoni "the nocturnal library" (2018) 22 richard powers "the overstory" (2018) 23 alain robbe-grillet "project for a revolution in ny" (1972) 24 melchior vischer "second through brain" (2015) 25 bob van laerhoven "return to hiroshima" (2018) + bob van laerhoven "dossier feuerhand" (2017) + bob van laerhoven "dangerous obsessions" (2015) + bob van laerhoven "heart fever" (2018)

gedächtnisstompf:

01 jacques derrida "geschlecht III: sexe, race, nation, humanité" (2018) + jacques derrida "le goût du secret: entretiens 1993-1995" (2018)

02 tom cohen, claire colebrook & j hillis miller "theory & the disappearing future: on deman, on benjamin" (2011) 03 hannah arendt "het waagstuk van de politiek: over politieke leugens en burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid" (2018) + dirk de schutter "hannah arendt: politiek denker" (2015) 04 serge andré "les perversions #1: le fétichisme" (2013) + serge andré "les perversions #1: le sadisme" (2013) + serge andré "les perversions #1: le masochisme" (2013) 05 ger groot "4 ongemakkelijke filosofen: nietzsche, cioran, bataille, derrida" (2003)

06 mark fisher "k-punk: the collected & unpublished writings (2014-2016)" (2018) 07 molier, ellian, rijpkema (eds) "de strijd om de democratie: essays over democratische zelfverdediging" (2018) 08 florentijn van rootselaar "filosofisch veldwerk: grote filosofen van nu over leven in barre tijden" (2018) 09 lieven de cauter "van de grote woorden & kleine dingen" (2018) 10 nemanja mitrovic "the (im)possibility of literature as the possibility of ethics" (2017)

11 sue prideaux "i am dynamite! a life of friedrich nietzsche" (2018) 12 paul farley & michael symmons roberts "deaths of the poets" (2018) 13 erik bledsoe (ed) "perspectives on harry crews" (2001) 14 kailash c baral & r radhakrishan (eds) "theory after derrida: essays in critical praxis"(2018) 15 agnes czajka & bora isyar (eds) "europe after derrida: crisis & potentiality" (2016)

poesisstompf:

01 john cooper clarke "the luckiest guy alive" (2018)

02 kate tempest "running upon the wires" (2018) 03 robin robertson "the long take" (2018) 04 david austin "dread poetry & freedom: linton kwesi johnson & the unfinished revolution" (2018) 05 tommy pico "junk" (2018)

platterstompf:

01 power, devereux, & dillane (eds) "heart & soul: critical essays on joy division" (2018)

02 michael glasmeier & ursula block (eds) "broken music: artists' recordworks" (2nd edition 2018) 03 mark e smith "messing up the paintwork: the wit & wisdom of mark e smith" (2018) 04 willy dirickx (ed) "de brassers" (2018) 05 tommy mackay "40 odd years of the fall" (2018)

06 john h baker "the art of nick cave: new critical essays" (2013) 07 will oldham "songs of love & horror: collected lyrics of will oldham" (2018) + alan licht (ed) "will oldham on bonnie 'prine' billy" (2012) 08 michael goddard & benjamin halligan "mark e smith & the fall: art, music, & politics" (2013) 09 daniel kane "do you have a band? poetry & punk rock in nyc" (2017) 10 bendle "permanent transience" (2015)

11 david grubbs "now that the audience is assembled" (2018) 12 nick soulsby "swans: sacrifice & transcendence (the oral history)" (2018) + michael gira "the egg: stories" (2018) 13 robert young & irmin schmidt "all gates open: the story of can" (2018) 14 mike goldschmith "discord: the story of noise" (2012) 15 bruce russell "gilded splinters: essays & aphorisms towards an aesthetic of noise" (2018)

16 philippe robert "agitation frite" (2018)² + philippe robert "action friite" (2018) + philippe robert "action frIIIte" (2018) 17 guillaume belhomme, philippe robert, ea "le son du grisli: varèse, tzara, mochizuki & cave" (2018) 18 david stubbs "future days: krautrock & the building of modern germany" (2018) + david stubbs "mars by 1980: the story of electronic music" (2018) 19 blixa bargeld "europa: una letania" [2009] (2018) 20 chris bohn (ed) "the wire"

21 richard hirst (ed) "we were strangers: stories inspired by unknown pleasures" (2018) 22 françois girodineau "nick cave & the bad seeds: tender prey" (2018) 23 mick middles "the fall" (2009) 24 jim dooley "red set: a history of gang of four" (2018) 25 mats gustafsson "discaholics! record collector confessions vol I (2nd ed)" (2018) / + rob van scheers "drie akkoorden & de waarheid: muzikale levenslessen" (2014)

stagestompf:

01 ian rankin & rona munro "rebus: long shadows" (2018)

humorstompf:

01 robin ince "i'm a joke & so are you: a comedian's take on what makes us human" (2018) 02 simon munnery "how to live" (2018) 03 lucien randall "disgusting bliss: the brass eye of chris morris" (2011)

bilderstompf:

01 michael glasmeier & ursula block (eds) "broken music: artists' recordworks" (2nd edition 2018)

02 thomas bernhard & ferry radax "thomas bernhard: 3 days" (2016) 03 ed van der elsken "love on the left bank" (2002) 04 philippe monsel "francis bacon" (1994)

05 paul duncan & jürgen müller (eds) "film noir plus taschen's top 50 pick of noir classics from 1940-1960" (2017) 06 cuauhtémoc medina "manifesta 9: the deep of the modern" (2012) 07 julian schnabel: permanently becoming & the architecture of seeing" (2012) 08 reinhard kleist "nick cave & the bad seeds: an art book" (2018)

wissenschaftstompf & other distractions:

01 brian cox & robin ince "how to build a universe: an infinite monkey cage adventure" (2017)

02 patrick moore & chris north "the sky at night: answers to questions from across the univers" (2012) 03 chip carter "obsessed with star trek" (2011) 04 leon hunt "danger:diabolik" (2018)

cyclostompf:

01 jean cléder "petite éloge de la course cycliste" (2018)

02 max leonard "higher calling: cycling's obsession with mountains" (2018) 03 colin o'brien "giro d'italia: the story of the world's most beautiful bike race" (2018) 04 velominati "wielergoden: de meest heldhaftige renners ooit 38 heroïsche verhalen” (2018) 05 william fotheringham "sunday in hell" (2018)

06 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes" (magazine) o.a. extra editie de giro (2018) 07 jorge zepeda patterson "zwarte trui" (2018) 08 dirk jan roeleven "de nieuwe fiets: villar san constanzo - a'dam" (2018) 09 frederik baeckelandt "gino bartali (les héros 03)" (2018) 10 chris sidwells "the call of the road: the history of cycle road racing" (2018)

10 john dowie "the freewheeling john dowie: a comedian, a bike, & a tent, what could possibly go right?" (2018) 12 edward pickering "the ronde: inside the tour of flanders, the world's toughest bike race" (2018) 13 charles pope "a golden age of cycling" (2018) 14 roger gilles "women on the move: the forgotten era of women's bicycle racing" (2018) 15 peter cossins "the first tour de france: 60 cyclists & 19 days of daring on the road to paris" (2017)

16 paul maunder "the wind at my back: my cycling life" (2018) + paul maunder "rainbows in the mud" (2017) 17 giacomo pellizzari "het geheim van de eenzame fietser" [2015] (2017) 18 dries de zaeytijd & fons leroy "25 jaar kweekvijver van koerstalent" (2018) 19 peter sagan "my world" (2018) 20 bradley wiggins "icons: my inspiration, my motivation, my obsession" (2018)

most pleasing purchases:

01 jayne county "man enough to be a woman" (1996)

02 berns, moyaert, & van tongeren (eds) "de god van denkers en dichters: opstellen voor samuel ijsseling" (1997)

03 anselm kiefer "l'art survivra à ses ruines: anselm kiefer au collège de france" (2011) 04 ludger lütkehaus "'ruhe. grösse, sonnenlicht': friedrich nietzsche in sils-maria" (2014) 05 paul raabe "spaziergange durch nietzsches sils-marie" (1994)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

find me on LT:

TBR... PILING UP ...

postcyberpunkstompf:

adam roberts "adam (the aftermath 02)" (2018) eric brown "the martian simulacra: a sherlock holmes mystery" (2018) gary gibson "scienceville & other worlds" (2018) greg egan "phoresis" (2018) ian mcdonald "time was" (2018) ian whates & tom hunter (eds) "2001: an odyssey in words: celebrating the centenary of arthur c clarke's birth" james lovegrove "firefly: big damn hero" (2018) james patrick kelly "the promise of space & other stories" (2018)

jeff noon "a man of shadows" (2017) + jeff noon "the body library" (2018) kevin j anderson "selected stories: science fiction vol I" (2018) rich larson "tomorrow factory: collected fiction" (2018) seb doubinsky "missing signal" (2018) stephen baxter "redemption" (2018) + stephen baxter "xelee: vengeance" (2018) steve erikson "rejoice" (2018) tom schweterlitsch "the gone world" (2018) & maybe, just maybe: jay key "how to pick up women with a drunk space ninja" (2018) + jay key "how to win a pit fight with a drunk space ninja" (2018)

polarstompf:

dario correnti "heimwee naar bloed" (2018) giancarlo de cataldo "suburra" (2017) matthew pearl "the dante chamber" (2018) victor del árbol "a million drops" (2018) zygmunt miloszewski "priceless" [2013] (2018)

#2018 #rewind #reading #lecture #librarything

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ao3feed-mythology · 5 years ago

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All Together™

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2YSndqV

by mellloyelllo

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Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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atlas-of-a-human-soul · 5 years ago

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Broken Wings, pt. 7 (AU)

07: Devil may care

Summary: Struggling between an angel soulmate and a devil charmer, answers she needs evade her. Deciding to delve deeper into her past lives, her choice is made for her.

Warnings: angst, fluff, swearing

Word Count: ~ 3000

Broken Wings (Angel AU - G.D.) Masterlist

Mouth gaping, eyes wide and shock that stops her heart. That’s what Grayson’s words caused. Whether she wanted to or not, her choice was so clear moments before. That was before her soulmate had told her to choose the other guy. That’s before the angel nudged her to fall for his demon brother. After his words shook her to the core, her previously made up mind turned to shambles.

“What?” She croaked, struggling to inhale properly as she suffocated despite the oxygen she’s swimming in.

“Choose him.” Grayson repeats himself, taking a step away from her. He can only hurt her if she lets him, and she did. She did that on the beach when he told her the truth. She opened her heart for him, entirely letting him in. She didn’t have any doubts in that moment, nor did she regret it. Knowing what she knows now, she’s starting to wonder if she made a grave mistake.

“You two are up to something.” Cameron walks over, looking between an anxious Ethan, a frustrated Caroline and a closed off Grayson. Rolling her eyes, she groans.

“What did you do to her?” She asks, her tone sharp and threatening.

“I asked her to choose me over Grayson and he agreed it would be for the best.” Ethan cleared it up, bringing his sister up to speed. He still hoped for a positive outcome, for a happily ever after if that was even in the cards for him. After all he’s done, the bad, the worse and the worst, he was sure that wasn’t an option for him. But it felt so close now, almost within his reach. Sure, she loves his brother already and she feels that connection to him as Amara did, but he was convinced he could make her future pure bliss if she’d only let him. He’d forgo Lucifer and his demands, he’d let his siblings live their life in peace and he’d fight for the light side if it came down to it - all for the love of a single woman. Her love.

“Caroline.” Cameron says sweetly, sensing she’s nearing a breakdown. Unlike the Dolan siblings, Caroline came to this institution with actual mental issues and she was still too fragile to handle the shitstorm her brothers put her in within a week of knowing her. She wasn’t ready for it yet, but it wasn’t her call to make and now it was done and Caroline…she’s holding by a thread.

“Don’t”, she puts up a hand, palm open toward the worried angel who had her best interest at heart, keeping her eyes trained on Grayson.

“You!” Caroline points an index finger in Grayson’s direction, forcing him to face her.

“You just told me you’re my soulmate. You told me I’m not fucking crazy. You told me you’d do anything for me!” She took a step closer, and then another. And another until she stood in front of him, close enough to poke his firm chest with the tip of her index finger accusingly.

“I am doing this FOR you.” Grayson breathes out, the words being anything but easy for him. He’s unsure if it’s the right thing, mainly because he’s selfish when it comes to her. He’s always wanted to have her by his side, to love her like a man should love a woman, to touch her and make her happy. But that was never in the cards for them. Every affectionate move on his behalf killed her in the past, so he decided to end the cycle.

Maybe he needed to be selfless for once and just…let her go.

“You’re taking my freedom to decide.” Caroline’s forehead creased as she glanced over her shoulder.

“You two are pretending that my only choices are to love Grayson and die for it, or to spend the rest of my life with his brother who’ll always be imagining me to be someone else!” She shouted back and forth at the twins, making them both avert their eyes to the ground as if looking at her face would be the last thing they do. As if her look would kill them both.

“…all the while I ache for the one who told me to take that path.” She finishes, her voice cracking as she turns to Grayson once more and shakes her head slowly, holding in a sob.

“You need to figure out your own shit first, because I know what I want. I can’t be Amara for Ethan and I can’t settle into who I used to be. I am me. I’m not Y/N, I’m not Amara, I’m Caroline. Me.” She pats her own chest, heaving.

“And if magic, or godly power is why I’m cursed to die every time I love you, I’ll fight fire with fire. I’ll find a way out of this, break the curse or die trying. And I can do this alone or you can all help me.” Tears prick at her eyes, refusing to spill over. She takes in a shaky breath, pursing her lips.

“Make a decision and stick with it. I don’t care anymore.” Caroline turns away from a silent Grayson who refuses to make eye contact, finding his shoes more adequate.

Passing beside Ethan, their shoulders brush together and in that moment she saw a lifetime.

“Just hold me.” Ethan whispers, resting his head on Amara’s chest. Her arms wrap around him, pulling him closer; as humanly possible.

“I’m not leaving you.” She assures him, running her right hand through his hair gently, completely ruining the way he usually makes it in the morning. She often jokes how he takes longer to get ready than she does, but she loves how he’s so unafraid to be who he is. He doesn’t fit in the little town she’s been born into, nor the society at all. But he’s a perfect anomaly in the blandness she was used to.

“I know. I just need to hear it from time to time.” Ethan nuzzles into her, his fingers playing with the lace of her nightgown. He always liked to touch her, even in a non sexual manor. As long as his hand was on her or something of hers, he was alright. That’s when he could resist the voices in his mind - Lucifer and Michael. Each of them wanted him to make a choice, to either fully commit to being an angel again or to fall from grace entirely and be a demon. Neither option would help him keep his family and his girl. Even with the strain between him and Grayson due to Amara’s love for Ethan, he still fought hard to preserve their brotherly bond. He knew it was killing Grayson, but they knew she was better off with him. She was happy and so was he.

“And I’ll keep telling you that whenever you need to hear it, okay? I love you, my wonderful husband.” She kissed the top of his head as he smiled softly, still getting used to hearing her say it. Marriage was something he never thought would be a possibility, but he found the one and he wasn’t afraid to commit.

“I love you too, my beautiful wife. I choose you. I’ll always choose you.”

Gasping, Caroline all but jumped away from Ethan as if the touch had electrified every cell of her being.

Ethan opened his mouth, as if he too felt the moment she visited her past life once more. Caroline couldn’t speak, unable to form an intelligent thought with this new revelation.

He married Amara. His love for her ran deeper than she thought. Her love for him was stronger than she could ever fathom.

“I’ll help you.” Ethan licked his lips, noticing Caroline pale. She knew he’d do so, because he couldn’t be away from her. She understood now. Devil may care after all.

“I’ll…” Grayson interjects, rubbing his forehead.

“I’ll help. Whatever you need.” Resignation evident in his voice had forced Caroline’s lips to twitch involuntarily, almost forming a smile.

“I’ve been helping since Y/N. What’s one more.” Cameron shrugged, throwing an arm around Caroline casually, getting a stiff response from the Y/H/C haired girl.

“Great.” Caroline managed to mumble, turning to her soulmate once more.

“Don’t let me go without a fight. If I want to risk my life, it’s my choice. It’s the first time you’ve given me a choice, so let me decide what I want to do with it.” The warning in her voice is clear to the Dolan siblings.

“What do we do, boss? I mean we’ve read what we could about this. We searched the globe for a solution since the beginning of time. So, if you have a plan I’d love to hear it.” Ethan steps in, raising a brow.

“I feel like the solution may be in why I’m different than my past versions. The visions about my past lives.” Caroline suggests, scratching her chin nervously as her mind regains speed and tumbles over ideas she’s been considering all day long.

“Like what?” Cameron steps in, while Grayson silently shuffles closer to them. His arms crossed over his chest only make them look bigger, stronger and distracting.

“I don’t know. A lesson of sorts, possibly a solution? There must be something we’re missing. Every curse has a loophole and I think I need to go through my lives, one by one.” Caroline looks to Grayson for an opinion, getting a mortified look from her soulmate. He’s grasping at every word she said like they’re knives meant to stop his bleeding heart for all eternity.

“We can’t let you do that.” Grayson’s arms drop beside him, the veins on them bulging like drawn on. A part of his flop falls over his right eyebrow, pricking his hazel eye, making him blink. Running his hand through the fluffy cloud his hair seems to be, he reveals a creased forehead with worry lines etched into his beautiful skin.

“Choices. Decisions. All mine to make, remember?” She reminds him, kinking an eyebrow all while smirking and oh, how he wanted to erase that smirk with his lips against hers. But he couldn’t. He could never feel her lips on his for he valued her life more than his uninhibited desire to be with her.

“I do. But I also see that you keep getting hurt as each of your lives visit you. You can be killed in them as well and you never know what you’re walking into. What if you walk into a war?” Grayson points out, making her eyes widen and lips open in surprise.

“WAR?” Caroline exclaims, looking between the siblings as they exchange quick glances.

“Yeah. You kind of nursed me back to life.” Grayson clears his throat, getting a frustrated huff in return.

“How could I nurse you back to life when you can’t die?” Caroline presses him for answers, disgruntled and aware of what his answer will be.

“You didn’t know that…and I needed an excuse to get closer. I was already a soldier.” Grayson shrugs, rubbing the back of his neck, sheepishly smiling as Caroline smacks his arm playfully.

“You lied to seduce me? Wow!” Raising both hands in the air in frustration, she narrows her eyes at him.

Cameron barely held her laugh back, while Ethan just waited for the drama to pass so they could get to work. In his mind, this gave him a chance to be around Caroline long enough for her to see he’s perfect for her. He still holds onto hope of a future where she’s the one he wakes next to.

“I did what I had to do to get your attention! You weren’t exactly Miss Perfect every time either.” Grayson lets it slip, making her even more aggravated. It wasn’t true anger, but a genuine exchange between cursed lovers – the one who knew it all and the one who is trying to catch up and understand what pains her soulmate so much.

“What is that supposed to mean?” She folded her arms in front of her chest, tapping her foot impatiently until Ethan rolled his eyes.

“He means to say you were an entitled bitch who wouldn’t look his way at first for about 20% of your lives, but also an uninterested beauty who thought she didn’t deserve love, or someone who was so invested in certain areas of life she never cared for love connections….And a cheating wife…Once. Well, twice.” Ethan adds the last bit as if no one would notice, but Caroline did. It put a damper on her mood, reminding her she not only married Ethan, but also cheated on him with Grayson. Sure it was one kiss and she paid for it with her life, but she never justified cheating, no matter what the reason.

“And while I don’t remember the first, I am sorry for the second.” Caroline took his hand in hers, giving it a gentle squeeze before letting go and sighing, trying to ignore the tingles remaining in her fingers that sprung to life the moment her hand touched his.

The difference between Ethan and Grayson was simple. Ethan is a wild fire, lava. He’d consume her until she no longer knew herself. She’d become fire of melt in the flames. Grayson is a hot spring – gentle and warm, secure and flowing. He envelopes her, but gives her room to breathe, to grow. They’re both fire, both dangerous and intense, neither would let her live upon contact – although her chance to survive with Ethan would be a solid 50%.

“What?” Ethan furrows his eyebrows, the usually playful look in his eyes replaced by a confused, lost one. Does he not know she saw that part of his relationship too?

“I know you married Amara. In a way, when I visit my past lives…I hear thoughts of all present. I could hear what you struggled with at the time just as clearly as I heard her, well, my thoughts.” Caroline noticed the expression on their faces change as fast as lightning, gnawing on her inner lip.

“You.” Cameron starts.

“Can hear.” She continues.

“Thoughts in your past lives?” She finishes, positively shocked with the reveal.

Caroline nods slowly, scared they would lose their minds any moment now. It looked like she unplugged the machine in charge of keeping their train of thought running.

“That’s the solution.” Ethan says in disbelief, head in his hands as his fingers grasp at his disheveled hair.

“It’s too dangerous.” Grayson shakes his head vehemently, only intriguing Caroline more.

“What? Tell me!” She grabs onto her soulmate, shaking him up a little roughly in comparison to the little nudge she went for. The excitement of a possible solution had taken over and she found herself practically buzzing with emotions over flooding her system.

“If you could go back to Y/N…the moment before Grayson goes up before the fall…If you could convince him to take you with, you could hear the thoughts of god and all involved in the curse. If there’s a loophole, you’ll find it in the mind of the one who created the curse.” Cameron explained, covering her mouth.

“There’s too many things that can go wrong. From my past self refusing, to her getting caught in heaven.” Grayson’s arm wraps around Caroline subconsciously, pulling her into his side protectively.

“Gray.” Caroline taps his chest, rubbing her hand over his thundering heart for attention.

“What more can they do to us? Kill me? I’ve been dying for centuries now.” Her voice is weak, but the underlying decision is almost palpable. She’s made her choice and he has to respect it. He knows that no matter how much he wants to hide her from the world, that isn’t an option anymore.

“You could be taken from me forever. You’d be lost to me. The only thing worse than watching you die over and over is knowing I’ll never see you again.” Grayson shifts, cupping her right cheek with his left hand, bringing his forehead to hers tenderly, barely even touching upon it in fear of their lips connecting.

“Trust in me. In our love. In our destiny.” Her words are quiet, barely above a whisper, but they’re strong as is she. Grayson’s one chance to change their future has presented itself and he promised himself he’d take it the first time she turned to ashes in his embrace. He has to break the curse, end the loop they’ve been stuck in.

“Okay. But how will we get you where you need to go?” A small part of him is still hoping she doesn’t have the answer to this question yet, giving him more time to spend with her. More time to love her with every fiber of his being while he still can. He’d love nothing more than to spread his wings and fly away with her to a deserted island where her attention would be undivided and no one could take her from him.

“Hypnotherapy. I have a very trusted therapist I’d like to call on. Might take a little while for him to arrive, but what’s a little more time compared to a lifetime with you?” She smiles, her lips naturally gravitating toward Grayson’s. Her hand raised to his face, feeling his warm one cover it and move it away as he too pulls back with whatever restrain he has. And it’s not much. That’s what he’s so afraid of.

“Make the call.” Almost pained, Grayson untangles himself from her and stands beside Cameron, instantly feeling as if his wings are plucked feather by feather with the distance put between them.

Running inside to the payphone, she puts in the number she’s learned by heart now. The very number she called after each of her ‘episodes’ in fear of losing her mind. The same number belonging to one man she knew would give her benefit of the doubt once she told him the truth. If anyone could understand what she struggled with and now needed, it’s him. It has to be.

“Hello? Darren? I really need your help.”

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IN COMPETITION – for the Palme d'Or THE DEAD DON'T DIE dir. Jim JARMUSCH PAIN AND GLORY (DOLOR Y GLORIA) dir. Pedro ALMODÓVAR THE TRAITOR (IL TRADITORE) dir. Marco BELLOCCHIO PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG) dir. BONG Joon Ho YOUNG AHMED (LE JEUNE AHMED) dir. Jean-Pierre DARDENNE & Luc DARDENNE OH MERCY! (ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE) dir. Arnaud DESPLECHIN THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (NAN FANG CHE ZHAN DE JU HU) dir. DIAO Yinan ATLANTICS dir. Mati DIOP MATTHIAS AND MAXIME (MATTHIAS ET MAXIME) dir. Xavier DOLAN LITTLE JOE dir. Jessica HAUSNER SORRY WE MISSED YOU dir. Ken LOACH LES MISÉRABLES dir. Ladj LY A HIDDEN LIFE dir. Terrence MALICK BACURAU dir. Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO & Juliano DORNELLES THE WHISTLERS dir. Corneliu PORUMBOIU FRANKIE dir. Ira SACHS PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU dir. Céline SCIAMMA IT MUST BE HEAVEN dir. Elia SULEIMAN SIBYL dir. Justine TRIET

UN CERTAIN REGARD – original and different works THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURÍDICE GUSMÃO (A VIDA INVISÍVEL DE EURÍDICE GUSMÃO) dir. Karim AÏNOUZ EVGE dir. Nariman ALIEV BEANPOLE dir. Kantemir BALAGOV THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL dir. Zabou BREITMAN & Eléa GOBBÉ-MÉVELLEC A BROTHER'S LOVE dir. Monia CHOKRI THE CLIMB dir. Michael COVINO JOAN OF ARC dir. Bruno DUMONT CHAMBRE 212 dir. Christophe HONORÉ A SUN THAT NEVER SETS (O QUE ARDE) dir. Oliver LAXE PORT AUTHORITY dir. Danielle LESSOVITZ PAPICHA dir. Mounia MEDDOUR NINA WU (ZHUO REN MI MI) dir. Midi Z LIBERTÉ dir. Albert SERRA BULL dir. Annie SILVERSTEIN ADAM dir. Maryam TOUZANI SUMMER OF CHANGSHA (LIU YU TIAN) dir. ZU Feng

OUT OF COMPETITION LA BELLE ÉPOQUE dir. Nicolas BEDOS ROCKETMAN dir. Dexter FLETCHER DIEGO MARADONA dir. Asif KAPADIA THE BEST YEARS OF A LIFE dir. Claude LELOUCH TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG - NORTH OF HOLLYWOOD, WEST OF HELL dir. Nicolas WINDING REFN

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL dir. LEE Won-Tae

SPECIAL SCREENINGS FOR SAMA dir. Waad Al KATEAB & Edward WATTS SHARE dir. Pippa BIANCO ÊTRE VIVANT ET LE SAVOIR dir. Alain CAVALIER TOMMASO dir. Abel FERRARA FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC. dir. Werner HERZOG QUE SEA LEY dir. Juan SOLANAS

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madmen-ao3feed · 5 years ago

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All Together™

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by mellloyelllo

die

Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #mad men

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maaarine · 5 years ago

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MBTI Typing Index: Names C-D

Name starts with: A B, C D, E F, G H, I J K L, M N O P, Q R S T, U V W X Y Z.

Mike CAHILL (ENFJ)

Agnes CALLARD (ENTP)

Anna CALVI (INFP)

Ricky CAMILLERI (ENTP)

James CAMERON (ENTP)

Alastair CAMPBELL (ENTJ)

Albert CAMUS (INTJ)

Peter CAPALDI (ENTP)

Cardi B / Belcalis ALMANZAR (ESFP)

Steve CARELL (ENTP)

Mariah CAREY (ISFJ)

George CARLIN (ENTJ)

Magnus CARLSEN (INTP)

John CARMACK (INTP)

Alan CARR (ESFP)

Jimmy CARR (ENTJ)

Jim CARREY (ENFP)

Elizabeth Jean CARROLL (ENFP)

Ryder CARROLL (INTJ)

Fabiano CARUANA (INTJ)

Julian CASABLANCAS (ISFP)

Nick CAVE (INFP)

Dick CAVETT (ENTP)

Henry CAVILL (ISFJ)

Noah CENTINEO (ISFP)

Michael CERA (INTP)

Alain CHABAT (ENTP)

Timothée CHALAMET (ISFP)

Emma CHAMBERLAIN (ESTP)

Coco CHANEL (ESTJ)

Charlamagne Tha God / Lenard MCKELVEY (ESTP)

Charli XCX / Charlotte AITCHISON (ESFP)

David CHASE (INTJ)

Jessica CHASTAIN (ENFJ)

Damien CHAZELLE (INFP)

Cher / Cherilyn SARKISIAN (ESFP)

Margaret CHO (ENFP)

Noam CHOMSKY (INTP)

Priyanka CHOPRA (ESFJ)

Christine and the Queens / Héloïse LETISSIER (INFP)

Hélène CIXOUS (INFJ)

Tom CLANCY (ISTJ)

Dodie CLARK (ENFP)

Jeremy CLARKSON (ESTJ)

John CLEESE (ENTP)

Jemaine CLEMENT (INTP)

Hillary CLINTON (ENFJ)

George CLOONEY (ENFJ)

Glenn CLOSE (INFJ)

Kurt COBAIN (INFP)

Brie CODE (INFP)

Paulo COEHLO (INFJ)

Michaela COEL (ENFP)

Ethan COEN (INTP)

Coeur de Pirate / Béatrice MARTIN (ENFP)

Emory COEHN (ISTP)

Leonard COHEN (INFJ)

Daniel COHN-BENDIT (ENFP)

Ada COLAU (ENFJ)

Stephen COLBERT (ENFP)

Lily COLE (INFJ)

Eoin COLFER (ENTP)

Jacob COLLIER (ENTP)

Michelle COLLINS (ENFP)

Olivia COLMAN (ESFP)

James COMEY (ISTJ)

Lauren CONRAD (ESFJ)

Kellyanne CONWAY (ESFJ)

Ryan COOGLER (ISFP)

Olivia COOKE (ENFP)

Bradley COOPER (ENFJ)

David COPPERFIELD (INTP)

Sofia COPPOLA (ISFP)

Brady CORBET (INTJ)

Jeremy CORBYN (ISTJ)

Enola COSNIER (ENFJ)

Nikolaj COSTER-WALDAU (ESTP)

Marion COTILLARD (ISFP)

Katie COURIC (ESFJ)

Brian COX (ENTJ)

Graham COXON (INFP)

Daniel CRAIG (ISTP)

Terry CREWS (ENFJ)

Robert CRUMB (INTP)

Mark CUBAN (ENTP)

Kieran CULKIN (ENTP)

Macaulay CULKIN (ENTP)

Benedict CUMBERBATCH (ENFJ)

Alan CUMMING (ENFP)

Whitney CUMMINGS (ENTP)

Andrew CUOMO (ESTJ)

Rivers CUOMO (INTP)

Jamie Lee CURTIS (ENFP)

Richard CURTIS (ENFJ)

Miley CYRUS (ESFP)

Noah CYRUS (ESFP)

Leonardo DA VINCI (ENTP)

Tom DALEY (ESFJ)

Salvador DALÍ (ENFP)

James DAMORE (INTP)

Damso / William KALUBI (ISTP)

Paul DANO (INFJ)

Susan DAVID (ENFJ)

Pete DAVIDSON (ESTP)

Geena DAVIS (ENFP)

Mackenzie DAVIS (ENFP)

Elizabeth DAY (ENFJ)

Daniel DAY-LEWIS (INFJ)

Hugues DAYEZ (ENFJ)

Alain DE BOTTON (INFJ)

Kevin DE BRUYNE (ISTP)

Charles DE GAULLE (ESTJ)

Pierre DE MAERE (ENFP)

Robert DE NIRO (ISTP)

Neil DEGRASSE TYSON (ENTP)

Dane DEHAAN (ISFP)

Robert DEL NAJA (ISTP)

Lana DEL REY (ISFP)

Benicio DEL TORO (ISFP)

Guillermo DEL TORO (INFP)

Rob DELANEY (ENTP)

Lea DELARIA (ESTP)

Cara DELEVINGNE (ENFP)

Julie DELPY (ENFP)

Antoine DELTOUR (ISTJ)

Claire DENIS (INFP)

Johnny DEPP (ISFP)

Alexandre DESPLAT (INFJ)

David DEUTSCH (INTP)

John DEWEY (INTJ)

Alfie DEYES (ESFP)

Poppy DEYES (ISFJ)

Cameron DIAZ (ESFP)

Philip K. DICK (INTP)

Joan DIDION (INTP)

Ani DIFRANCO (INFP)

Stephen DILLANE (INTJ)

Céline DION (ESFJ)

Peter DINKLAGE (ENTP)

Scott DISICK (ESTP)

David DOBRIK (ESFP)

Peter DOHERTY (INFP)

Lou DOILLON (ENFP)

Ethan DOLAN (ESTP)

Grayson DOLAN (ESTP)

Xavier DOLAN (ENFP)

Natalie NORMER (ENFJ)

Jamie DORNAN (ISTP)

Jack DORSEY (INTJ)

Rain DOVE (ENFP)

Maureen DOWD (ISFJ)

Robert DOWNEY Jr. (ENTP)

Arthur DREYFUS (INFP)

Adam DRIVER (ISFP)

David DUCHOVNY (ENTP)

Julia DUCOURNAU (ENTJ)

Esther DUFLO (INTP)

Jean DUJARDIN (ESTP)

Lena DUNHAM (ENFP)

Eric DUPOND-MORETTI (ESTJ)

Francis DUPUIS-DÉRI (INTJ)

Ramani DURVASULA (ENFJ)

Jacques DUTRONC (ISTP)

Ava DUVERNAY (ENFJ)

Name starts with: A B, C D, E F, G H, I J K L, M N O P, Q R S T, U V W X Y Z.

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ao3feed-orphanblack · 5 years ago

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All Together™

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by mellloyelllo

die

Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

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#ao3feed #fanfic #orphan black #fanfiction #obfic

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ao3feed-babysittersclub · 5 years ago

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All Together™

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by Zxrcon

die

Words: 10, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other

Additional Tags: Futanari, Orgy, Mouth Sewn Shut, Gay Sex, Everyone Is Gay, Lesbian Character, Lesbian Sex, Kissing, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Necrophilia, Murder, BDSM, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Must Read, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn, Discussion of Abortion, Abortion, Glasses, Alternate Universe, Crossover, Fuckin' Fluffy Mondays, Everybody Dies, Holocaust, I did this instead of studying for my finals, harambe trump, Cereal

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#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #fanfiction #ann m. martin #the baby-sitters club #the babysitters club #baby

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