#Nikki Summers

[atboreconsumed]

November Reading Breakdown

Honestly not a terrible month for me book wise. I re-read the Bailey Brothers series by Claire Kingsley. I love that series! My favorite is Unraveling him (which I'm up to 8 re-reads of this year). But other notable standout books were Ice Bet by S.J. Slyvis, The Player by Nikki Summers, and Unsteady by Peyton Corinne.

I loved the first book in the Bexley U by S.J. Slyvis, Weak Side, and I was not aware that the second book was coming out this year, let alone that it was already out. So as soon as I saw it, I HAD to read it. And it wasn't disappointing. I loved the forbidden aspect with the Player x Coach's Daughter. SHOCKINGLY I have only read one or two of "Coach's Daughter" books, and this makes me so much more aware and open to a coach's daughter romance. I can't wait for Taytum and Ford's book :)

"I meant what I said earlier, Riley. You're mine, and I'm going to prove it to you." My voice was hardly above a whisper "And here I thought you were proving it to me by putting Gray in his place" He smirked. "That was just an added bonus."

The fourth book of the Soldiers of Anarchy series by Nikki Summers, The Player, was a favorite of mine for this month. The connection they shared brought me to tears and I quickly found myself invested in their relationship changing from bubbling at the surface to deep connection due to the heavy circumstances. I'll be honest, I didn't really care for Will in the other books. My favorite before this book was Adam's book, but I thought my favorite would be when we got Tyler's story because the thief has always caught my eye. But The Player is going to be hard to top.

"I didn't want anyone else," he went on. "if I didn't have your attention, I didn't want anyone else's."

I have been waiting for Unsteady by Peyton Corinne for months, ever since I saw an insta reel for it. I've been waiting very patiently for this book and I was not disappointed. It was everything I expected it to be, and more. Legit brought tears to my eyes. I was invested not only in the relationship between Rhys and Sadie, but their relationships with everyone else. I loved how much we saw each of them grow not only in their own POV and thoughts, but how they saw each other grow and make changes.

"I love you. I love everything about you. I love your anger and your snark. I love the way you skate- like you're full of fire, and it makes me remember when I fell in love with hockey. I love how you take care of your brothers, how you protect and love Aurora."

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@iamrebeccasblog HE DOES. or rather, he mentioned his reading list to the press lol, i got excited: Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe's The Dirt The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx Black Metal Rainbows The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties ETA correction: Set the Night on Fire by by Robbie Krieger -- hat tip to @la-femme-au-collier-vert Bonus, to watch or rewatch: Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Rocky Horror Picture Show

SUMMER READING LIST!

(in the past the writers used to be on twitter and mentioned books they were reading/references they were influenced by) ETA: @la-femme-au-collier-vert assembled this kickass list of s1 references last year

[thefoxysnake]

School is KICKING MY ASS so from now on im only posting doodles forever and ever kiss my ass

Also guys… sophie tam rayni trio please… i need someone to understand… to go insane with me… theyre so stupid i love them…

[kindahoping4forever]

Nostalgia For A Time That Never Existed in Washington DC - 26 May 2024

[justinssportscorner]

Alex Abad-Santos at Vox:

Despite being a time when people from all over the world come together in equality and peace, the Olympics are still uncertain territory for transgender athletes. There are no transgender athletes who are competing outside of the gender they were assigned at birth at this year’s Games. Transgender women who transitioned after puberty aren’t allowed to compete in major sports on a college level. Athletes Nikki Hiltz, a runner, and Hergie Bacyadan, a boxer, both identify as transgender (Hiltz also identifies as nonbinary), but both have always and continue to compete in the women’s division, which is the sex they were assigned at birth. Athletes who do not identify as trans, like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, have also been scrutinized for their gender. Along with China’s Lin Yu-ting, Khelif is one of two women boxers who failed a “sex test” from the International Boxing Association last year. They have since been connected to discussions of sports and Differences of Sexual Development (DSD), a rare group of genetic and hormonal disorders allowed under International Olympic Committee guidelines. After Khelif’s Italian competitor Angela Carini conceded their match less than a minute into their bout, many have weighed in, including Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling.

Outside of the Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear. It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way? The answers found in historian and journalist Michael Waters’s The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of Zdeněk Koubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.

Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s. Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for eugenics, gender anxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into gender surveillance and trans panic — stuff that eerily mirrors the transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today.

Anti-trans discrimination in the Olympics stretches as far back as the infamous 1936 games in Berlin.

[thepunkmuppet]

thinking about an alternate season 7 wherein instead of every potential slayer being hunted and then activated, every past slayer gets brought back to life. I don’t really like post-chosen content anyway, but when I do read / look at it the whole slayer academy, everyone’s a slayer thing is really stupid to me ngl 💀

previous slayers, though… nikki wood and xin rong interacting with spike, actually finding out about the slayer before buffy, slayers with different backgrounds and situations and personalities, KENDRA?! I just love it so much.

you’d be able to focus on a relatively small cast of slayers, much like the potentials, throughout the season. this would include buffy, faith, kendra, nikki, and some other american slayers from varying time periods with a couple interesting international characters too (maybe a slayer from ancient greece / rome / egypt, or an anglo-saxon one or something). these are all experienced slayers, so no need to focus on training - it would be more about lore, history and their personal character journeys, assimilating them into society (creating some fun bottle episodes, maybe a day out on the town with dawn and a historical slayer) and trying to figure out why they were all brought back. also, if you want to keep the first as the main villain, then it can look like any one of them because they’re all technically dead, which means you can still have that episode with the dead potential revealing herself as the first and all the mistrust that’s threaded throughout the season.

plus with nikki back, there would be no need for the stupid sleeper agent thing with spike or the ridiculous fight between him and robin. all the same ideas (and the flashbacks to spike’s mum) could still be explored, and in a way better way imo.

I reckon the reason they were brought back would probably be the powers that be (tying nicely into angel ofc) trying to defeat the first. and of course the ending would be this huge battle, as all the slayers from around the world come to sunnydale, and maybe to add some drama they would all disappear and die again when the battle’s done as they have fulfilled their purpose (a classic finale knife to the heart that would have everyone sobbing, especially over nikki and kendra).

there’s also the added thing of like,, I appreciate the show was leaning towards a theme of “hope for the future” with the potentials angle, but literally every other aspect of the season is about harkening back to the past. faith, robin, the first taking the form of previous characters, the high school, the slayer origins, etc etc. so I just think this idea would work so much better with the themes of the season, and tie in really nicely.

and the most obvious perk of this concept is kendra! she was forgotten about so quickly, and this season would really give the writers a chance to redeem themselves for the terrible way poc characters have been treated throughout the show (ignoring what they did to robin. FUCK that but that’s another conversation). I think the show really downplayed how much kendra’s death would have affected buffy, and seeing the two of them interact after buffy has changed so much and kendra’s still the same would be amazing. there’s also the interesting concept that, having been brought back from the dead, kendra still be 17, and therefore closer in age to dawn than to buffy, which could make for some really nice interactions between the two of them. also of course the biggest most exciting thing is having buffy, faith and kendra all interact. they all represent places on a spectrum in terms of personality, and I would LOVE to see kendra and faith interact and how much of a unit they would likely become as a trio.

there’s also the theme of buffy feeling (and being) alone in this season that would hopefully go away, as she would now have dozens of people who truly understand her, giving her a proper support system which I would love to see (season 7 scoobies can actually eat shit btw <3)

so. was this born out of my hatred for insufferable kennedy and the annoying potentials? yes absolutely. do I now want them to rewrite and re-film the entire last season 20 years later? yes absolutely I’m so glad you understand

side note wouldn’t it be sick if in the final battle there’s just this one slo-mo shot where buffy stakes a vamp and through the dust she sees the first slayer looking at her from across the battlefield before she disappears amongst the fight. WHAT it would literally be awesome hello?!

also also other side note sorry but Mother(TM) nikki wood would NEVER kick buffy out of her own house. fuck them kids fr

[nikkiissleepy]

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[primal-slayer]

"In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer."

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[redhatmeg]

You know what, I actually like that Nikki was a mother.

We were following the adventures of Buffy since she was a teenager and we were also told that Slayers die young, so we are used to the idea that a Salyer is always a high schooler or - at best - college student. We are also used to the idea of Slayer being alone, maybe aside from her Watcher. In that sense, the most unique part of Buffy is that she has large safety net - not only Giles, her mother and sister, but also Xander, Willow and her other friends.

Nikki, meanwhile, birthed and was raising her own child, and this probably posed some difficulties. We don't know anything about Robin's father (so far), but she had to reconcile her Slayer duties with raising a son (we actually see her fighting while baby Robin is hiding in the park, so I assume that they were attacked). She had to think about the safety of her child, so they were constantly on the move. Probably often she was thinking about what will happen to Robin if she dies on the job and this is why her Watcher took care of him afterwards - this was an arrangement they agreed upon.

What I also mean is that in Seasons 5 and 6, Buffy had to take care of her sister, but taking care of teenager is a bit different than taking care of a child.

(Also, also, I love her style. I always loved gals with afro.)

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Full Moon / sorgy I havent been posting, ironically enough ive been at camp. BUT IM BACK BAYBE