#Olivia Katz

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A Mouthful of Air (2021)

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[paradiseismine]

Finally got my blog organized with an intro post and updated links 🥹 Now, I’d like to hear y’all about the next steps for my writing.

[jolieeason]

Mini-Reviews: The I Can't Catch Up Version

As much as I hate to do this, I am making a post dedicated to the books I have read in the past month but haven’t reviewed. I cannot catch up with my reviews and keep falling further behind. Just to be warned, this will be a lengthy post. So, I understand if you can’t or won’t read it. But I need to do this for my sanity (and my NetGalley rating). This is the second P.J. Tracy book I have read,…

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Golden Globes 2023 — Film WINNERS

Best Motion Picture – Drama Avatar: The Way of Water Elvis The Fabelmans — WINNER Tár Top Gun: Maverick

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Cate Blanchett, Tár — WINNER Olivia Colman, Empire of Light Viola Davis, The Woman King Ana de Armas, Blonde Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Austin Butler, Elvis — WINNER Brendan Fraser, The Whale Hugh Jackman, The Son Bill Nighy, Living Jeremy Pope, The Inspection

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin — WINNER Everything Everywhere All at Once Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Triangle of Sadness

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Lesley Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Margot Robbie, Babylon Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu Emma Thompson, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once — WINNER

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Diego Calva, Babylon Daniel Craig, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Adam Driver, White Noise Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin — WINNER Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

Best Motion Picture – Animated   Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — WINNER Inu-Oh Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Turning Red

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) — WINNER Close (Belgium) Decision to Leave (South Korea) RRR (India)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — WINNER Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness Carey Mulligan, She Said

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin Brad Pitt, Babylon Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once — WINNER Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse

Best Director — Motion Picture James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once Baz Luhrmann, Elvis Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans — WINNER

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Todd Field, Tár Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin — WINNER Sarah Polley, Women Talking Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

Best Original Score – Motion Picture Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Hildur Gudnadóttir, Women Talking Justin Hurwitz, Babylon — WINNER John Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Original Song – Motion Picture “Carolina,” Taylor Swift (Where the Crawdads Sing) “Ciao Papa,” Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro, Roeban Katz (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio) “Hold My Hand,” Lady Gaga, BloodPop, Benjamin Rice (Top Gun: Maverick) “Lift Me Up,” Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) “Naatu Naatu,” Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Kala Bhairava, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR) — WINNER

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Propaganda

1 Trait Danger: this project was created by Andrew Katz and Will Toledo in reality, but in the songs 1 Trait Danger is attributed to Katz and Toledo’s respective furry OCs Stoney and Trait. The 3 albums made under the name 1 Trait Danger follow Stoney and Trait’s in-universe experiences regarding music media and publicity, as well as them building their own reputation in this fictionalized version of our world. there are other side characters mentioned in the project to emphasize the idea of 1 Trait Danger’s storyline. These characters include Tim Schenectady, the Cossett family, Multiple Computer Mark, and Pitchfork interns by the names of Thomas and Steven.

Lemonade Mouth: They're a group of students who meet in detention at a school where most extracurriculars/clubs are not cared for outside of the athletic ones. They have their first jam session when they find a bunch of instruments in the music room where they're having detention, and the old music teacher hears them and immediately hypes them up. They go on to play small venues around town and at parties and it opens up a lot of pathways for each member (for instance Olivia is finally able to open up to people and make friends after she became reclusive once her mom died and her dad was in jail, and Mo is finally able to prove herself as more than just a pretty side piece to her obnoxious musician boyfriend and her father who is very traditional and just wants her focused on academics). They even are actually able to save the arts programs at their school by putting so much work into their music and their performances.

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Fic (and nonfic!) Recs for Pride!

In honor of Pride, have some of my favorite F/F and F/NB reads!

Short stories (available online)

Radcliffe Hall by Miyuki Jane Pinckard - 40k word novella, with a Japanese student attending an American women's college in 1908. It's a Gothic novel with the characters encountering the supernatural, which is no less malevolent than systemic racism and homophobia.

The First Stop Is Always the Last by John Wiswell - Short and sweet time loop flirtation!

Scallop by J.L. Akagi - A woman begins growing eyes all over her body, and struggles to hide them. All the warnings for body horror, eye injury, and referenced sexual assault.

The World Ends in Salty Fingers and Sugared Lips by Jen Reese - Time loop story about the end of the world and the ways we try to deal with the crushing uncertainty of the inevitable.

Romance

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston - Subway time travel romance! August moves to New York and meets Jane, a butch punk from the 70s who’s trapped on the subway. It’s warm and sweet and funny, with all the feels and queer found family goodness.

Fatal Fidelity by Rien Gray - Dark romance/erotic suspense featuring a bi femme fatale and a nonbinary assassin! The series begins with Love Kills Twice, in which Justine hires an assassin to get rid of her abusive husband…unaware that Campbell was also hired to kill her. Absolutely delicious.

Feminine Pursuits series by Olivia Waite - While I’m listing it as a series, each novel is entirely stand-alone! These are a set of historical F/F novels featuring women in arts and science (and beekeeping!) making their way and falling in love with one another!

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan - Historical romance as two older women (73 and 69 years old, respectively!) plot the downfall of an absolutely Terrible Nephew who deserves everything that happens to him. An absolutely delicious comedic romp.

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz - An AI repair technician and an autonomous robot who runs a small tea shop, set in a retro-futuristic America. It’s warm and gentle and yearning in very good ways.

Horror/Suspense

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin - Gender apocalypse featuring trans women! A virus has turned anyone with over a certain level of testosterone into cannibal rape monsters, so we’re following our trans protagonists as they try to survive feral men, murderous TERFs, and a sociopathic bunker brat. This deserves a LOT of content warnings but it’s also been blurbed as a ‘bleeding love letter to trans women’ and it really is.

Blackwater Sister by Zen Cho - A Malaysian-American lesbian moves to Malaysia with her family, where she is haunted by her grandmother’s ghost. Her grandmother is out for supernatural revenge, involving our protagonist with gangsters and a terrifying goddess.

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - Historical crime novel in which a thief poses as a lady’s maid for a con, and ends up developing feelings for the mark. Except the lady’s not as innocent as she seems, and it’s difficult to add more without spoiling the novel but it’s good!

Science fiction

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - Ambassador Mahit Dzmare travels to the capital of the interstellar Teixcalaanli Empire, discovers that her predecessor has died, and must find not only who murdered him, but why—while trying not to get murdered herself, and trying to maintain her small station’s independence from Teixcalaan’s ever-expanding empire. And there is a sequel but that has its own plot and requires you to read this one anyway!

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages - Set in San Francisco, built on artifice and delight as we follow a group of queer women both present and in the 1940s. Central story is a romance, two women trying to navigate both joy and the brutality of the worlds they inhabit.

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - An epistolary love story across time and space, in far futures and alternative pasts as two rival agents—post-singularity Red and bio-consciousness Blue—foil and thwart one another.

Fantasy

The Burning Kingdoms by Tasha Suri - Indian-inspired fantasy trilogy (third book coming in 2024!) that follows a captive princess and a maidservant with forbidden magic who navigate the the tension between their different loyalties and the politics of empire. Just! So good!

The Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk - A fantasy trilogy (that’s actually complete!) set in a world where witches are persecuted and placed in asylums…while secretly, the witches of elite families use that power in service of the crown. The first book (Witchmark) starts with a murder mystery and a doctor with PTSD who follows that mystery to government secrets that force him to confront his estranged family. It’s also M/M, but the sequels (Stormsong and Soulstar) center around F/F and F/NB main pairings, respectively. 

The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir - The first book starts with swordjock butches and lesbian necromancers in space going through (essentially) a haunted mansion together, and it just keeps going after that! It’s delightful, deranged, and full of fantastic characters I want to gnaw on!

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo - A beautiful frame story with a very fairytale feel, where the cleric Chih is telling the story of a tiger and her lover, a female scholar, to a trio of hungry tigers who threaten to eat them if Chih tells the story incorrectly!

A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark - Mystery and magic and suspense in a steampunk Cairo, set forty years after magic returned to the world! The first female agent for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities is assigned to discover who murdered members of a secret cult. In addition to solving the case, she’s also assigned a rookie partner to train, and navigating the surprise return of her girlfriend, who has her own secrets! This is a really fun romp, full of joy and wonder. (And Fatma’s fabulous suits!)

Nonfiction

In the Dream House by Carmen Machado - A memoir about surviving domestic abuse, with each chapter using a different trope or genre convention to not only explore the way the relationship affected her sense of self, but also about trying (or failing) to find that representation in cultural history. It’s a rough read in places, but absolutely worth it if you’re in a space to handle that sort of content. (And in case it’s not obvious: her ex was another woman. Abuse isn’t limited by gender.)

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Let’s call the abuse of Taylor Swift what it really is – a hate crime against women

It doesn’t matter what your thoughts are on the artist’s latest relationship, writes Olivia Petter – we should not be talking about women this way in 2023

Of all the women in the public eye, Taylor Swift is one that people love to hate. Maybe it’s because she’s inordinately successful – her Eras tour is likely to be the highest-grossing tour of all time with an estimated $1.4bn in revenue. It could be because she’s incredibly talented – have you listened to the lyrics on her Folklore album? Maybe it’s because she’s exceptionally beautiful – that hair! Those eyes! That smile!

Or... perhaps it’s just that she’s a woman.

As a long-term, die-hard Swifty (this is what us Swift fans call ourselves), I have often wondered what it is about my favourite golden girl with the voice of an angry angel and the brain of an Ivy League English professor that riles people up quite so much.

Anyone who has seen her Miss Americana documentary for Netflix from 2020 will know that the 33-year-old has long been the subject of internet bile, with critics attacking everything from her vocals and the way she dresses, to her weight and the men she’s dated.

In the latest spate of hatred against Swift, it seems to be the latter that is causing the issue. You see, following a breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, and a rather surprising (though short-lived) fling with 1975 frontman Matty Healy, Swift has a new man in her life: Travis Kelce. The American football player is considered one of the best athletes in the game, and Swift has already made a handful of notable appearances at some of his big games.

Most recently, Swift was seen attending the Kansas City Chiefs-New York Jets game to watch Kelce play, alongside a close friend, Blake Lively, and Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds. Following the game, though, Barstool Sports personalities Dan “Big Cat” Katz and Eric “PFT Commenter” Sollenberger – hosts of the popular Pardon My Take podcast – decided to weigh in on Swift’s presence with a series of sexist comments, calling her “bad for football” and making lewd jokes about “Taylor Swift’s vagina."

Elsewhere in the podcast, Katz admitted that he’d accept Swift’s presence at Chiefs games if she and Kelce were to “release a sex video”, as he described what crude details the video would need to include for him to accept the rumoured relationship.

It’s a hideous series of comments to read in full. Here is one of the most successful women in the world being reduced to nothing but a sex object by two male sports fans. It’s textbook misogyny: what better way to minimise a powerful woman than by talking about her sex life, or making references to her genitals? We’ve seen it before, and I’m sure we’ll see it again – but hasn’t Swift had to deal with enough of this already?

For years, critics fixated on her love life, often neglecting to mention her music at all in long reads about who she was rumoured to be dating at the time. She is a woman that has, for far too long, been defined by the men in her life. At least by those without the common sense to actually listen to her music and show her even a modicum of respect as an artist.

Enough is enough. As the actor Rachel Zegler put it in a tweet, “You will never see people speaking this way about a man. That goes for a lot of different scenarios. We do not pick apart men’s attitudes and relationships the way we do women’s and it’s not always just men who speak this way about us. Women can and do, too. It sucks.”

It’s 2023; this sort of language should not be tolerated, let alone broadcast on a popular podcast. However, when it is, we should recognise it for what it is: hate speech spouted by men who are threatened by successful women, and therefore feel compelled to sexualise them in order to preserve their flimsy, fragile egos. How sad for them.

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Nothing but the absolute TRUTH

[paolo-streito-1264]

Olivia Katz.

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At the time of posting, these are the characters currently in-play:

Gemma - Tina Bell, Rachel Crowne, Alice Little, Nani Pelekai, Deziree Tremaine, Mirage

Alex - Paxton Patterson, Woodrow Pride, Wendy Darling

Alice - Patrick Patterson, Mary Gibbs

Atlas - Toulouse Beaumont, Honeymaren Nattura, Sunny Scamsalot, Kronk Cabrera, Abby Mallard, Bailey Lightfoot

Casi - Sofia Bạch, Sally Finkelstein, Remy Reinhardt, Chelsea Katz, Guinevere Bạch, Olivia Flaversham

Claire - Jane Porter, TJ Detweiler

Jane - Eilonwy Pelydryn

Jordan - Ollie Malo, Raymond Bug, Audrey Ramirez

Kit - Babette Dust, Henrik Hera, Persephone Kore, Alfredo Gusteau-Sør

Naomi - Adam Legrand, Ella Fontaine, James Hook, Elsabeth Arendelle, Terence Gold, Marie Beaumont, Lady Lannister, Dory Blue, Pearl Princeton

Paige - Anastasia Tremaine, Rita Jacobs, Travis Montgomery, Lorelai Hart, Freddie Slothmore, Hans Sør, Myra Lemures, Lilo Pelekai, Gabriel Guzman

Penny - Zach Casper, Peter Pan

Ryan - Charlotte La Bouff

Samantha - Oz Borror, Minnie Myshkin, Jim Hawkins, Arista Neptune, Benak Singh, Sabrina Ogawa, Fig Fabbri

Tom - Hayden Bodaway, Victor Lumiere, Guido Alza

Zöe - Ashley Armbruster, Jessie Pride, Becky Detweiler

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My Fics on AO3

Novel: Recovery: A Barisi SVU Novel Crossovers: Criminal Minds, L&O Criminal Intent, L&O OG Ships: Rafael Barba & Sonny Carisi, George Huang & Nick Amaro, Olivia Benson & Elliot Stabler, Amanda Rollins & Mike Dodds, Ed Tucker & Rita Calhoun, Casey Novak & Alex Cabot, Aaron Hotchner & Emily Prentiss (CM), Kevin Lynch & Penelope Garcia (CM), Jess Katz (OC) & Ken Taylor (OC)

Series:

Barisi Get Together Fics: * Strangled * Concealed Fear & Love * Bring Me To Light * A Final Call At Forlini's: An Alternate Ending * Objection: Argumentative & Ridiculous * A Tragic Love Story * The Titanic Meets the Hindenburg Meets My First Year of Little League * No Show * First Kiss * Mirror, Mirror (Crossover w/ The Princess of South Beach) * The Verdict Is In * Be Mine * Fuck, Blow, or Marry *

Pre-Established Barisi: * Close Call * Spiraling * Up Where--Oh! *

Barmarisi (Rafael Barba, Nick Amaro, & Sonny Carisi): * Aftershock * Overruled! *

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

Newest member to the +10 club! Definitely needs a Weapon Refine; pls Intys!

[paradiseismine]

Nina’s Masterlist

Hi lovelies! As my list of fics is getting bigger, I figured making myself a masterlist was the best way to keep everything organized 💕

I also intend to start writing for other celebrities/characters, but still focus on Finnie, of course. Anyways:

For fluff, 🎀

For hurt/comfort, ❤️‍🩹

For “spicy, but no actual smut”, 🌶️

For smut, ❤️‍🔥

Finn Wolfhard

Finn Wolfhard (himself)

Finn Wolfhard headcanons 🎀❤️‍🔥

After Party ❤️‍🔥

Backstage ❤️‍🔥

Finnverse (all of Finn’s characters)

Tying you up headcanons 🌶️

Undies preferences headcanons 🌶️

Kinks headcanons 🌶️

Cuddling you headcanons 🎀

Boris Pavlikovsky

Good Morning ❤️‍🔥

Mike Wheeler

Twice as Wet (part 1, part 2) ❤️‍🔥

The First Time 🎀❤️‍🔥

Good Kisser ❤️‍🔥

Miles Fairchild

His Favorite (part 1, part 2) ❤️‍🔥

Trevor Spengler

Late Night Talking 🎀❤️‍🔥

Don’t Be Such a Nice Guy 🎀❤️‍🔥

+18 headcanons ❤️‍🔥

Short Skirt ❤️‍🔥

See you in your dreams ❤️‍🩹🎀❤️‍🔥

Electric Feel ❤️‍🔥

Ziggy Katz

Imagine ❤️‍🔥

The way you look 🎀❤️‍🔥

Olivia Rodrigo

Olivia Rodrigo headcanons 🎀

[jolieeason]

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Every Tuesday, a new topic is assigned from the schedule below. Then, you take that topic and fly free with it. You can do as little or as much as you want to (I have…

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10 Songs On Repeat 🎵

Tagged by @luainthewild, thank you my love!

I've kinda been listening more to podcasts and mashups on YouTube instead of my usual music lol but here's what's currently on my repeat list:

Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths (love the song and currently using it for a school assignment)

get him back! - Olivia Rodrigo

A Rumour in St. Petersburg - Anastasia the Musical

Comfort - Nicholas Galitzine (yes this is still here hi, I got called out for being one of the top global listeners lol)

ivy - Taylor Swift

Would've Could've Should've -Taylor Swift

Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift (I'm performing this one on the 21st during a public carnival AHHHHHH)

Poison - Hazbin Hotel

Loser, Baby (in the style of AJR) - cover by Twilike Wonder and Greeny (YOU GUYS IT'S SO GOOD)

非我不可 Fei Wo Bu Ke/ Wiggle - Teens in Time 時代少年團

No pressure tagging @lfg1986-2 @pippin-katz @mylucayathoughts @almightaylor

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April Miller background

-birth year: early 1979

-parents: June Miller & August Miller

-hobbies: partying, chilling, dancing, reading, watching anime

-fav artists: Sky Katz (duh), Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj (her early era, not her trash Pink Friday 2 bs), Olivia Rodrigo, Cardi B, Sabrina Carpenter, LoFi

-loves: marshmallows, chocolate, music, playing instruments

-dislikes: being bossed around, uptight/mean people, hypocrisy, Nicki Minaj's current era, her English professor, jealousy, Ross Geller, Rachel Green, etc.