#Rebecca Lafferty

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

You can feel the pulse of the pavement racing like a runaway horse The subways are steaming and the skin of the street is gleaming with sweat I've seen you sitting on the steps outside And you were looking so restless and reckless and lost I think it's time for you to come inside I'll be waiting here with something that you'll never forget

[masterjedilenawrites]

List of books below, taken from the Star Wars wiki. Only included: Original Novels, Novel Adaptations, Script Books, and Young Adult Novels. Please no comments about books that are missing from the list... it is what it is.

The High Republic: Convergence - Zoraida Cordova

The High Republic: Path of Deceit - Tessa Gratton, Justina Ireland

The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha - George Mann

The High Republic: Path of Vengeance - Cavan Scott

The High Republic: Cataclysm - Lydia Kang

The High Republic: Into the Dark - Claudia Gray

The High Republic: Light of the Jedi - Charles Soule

The High Republic: The Rising Storm - Cavan Scott

The High Republic: Out of the Shadows - Justina Ireland

The High Republic: Tempest Runner - Cavan Scott

The High Republic: Midnight Horizon - Daniel Jose Older

The High Republic: The Fallen Star - Claudia Gray

The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness - George Mann

The High Republic: Defy the Storm - Tessa Gratton, Justina Ireland

The Vow of Silver Dawn - His Majesty the King

Dooku: Jedi Lost - Cavan Scott

Padawan - Kiersten White

Master & Apprentice - Claudia Gray

The Living Force - John Jackson Miller

Queen's Peril - E.K. Johnston

Queen's Shadow - E.K. Johnston

Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade - Delilah S. Dawson

Queen's Hope - E.K. Johnston

Brotherhood - Mike Chen

Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel - James Luceno

Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising - Timothy Zahn

Dark Disciple - Christie Golden

Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good - Timothy Zahn

Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil - Timothy Zahn

Ahsoka - E.K. Johnston

Thrawn - Timothy Zahn

Lords of the Sith - Paul S. Kemp

Tarkin - James Luceno

Most Wanted - Rae Carson

Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition - Mur Lafferty

Rebel Rising - Beth Revis

Crimson Climb - E.K. Johnston

A New Dawn - John Jackson Miller

Jedi: Battle Scars - Sam Maggs

Lost Stars - Claudia Gray

Leia, Princess of Alderaan - Claudia Gray

Thrawn: Alliances - Timothy Zahn

Thrawn: Treason - Timothy Zahn

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Alexander Freed

Battlefront II: Inferno Squad - Christie Golden

Heir to the Jedi - Kevin Hearne

Doctor Aphra - Sarah Kuhn

Battlefront: Twilight Company - Alexander Freed

The Princess and the Scoundrel - Beth Revis

Alphabet Squadron - Alexander Freed

Aftermath - Chuck Wendig

Shadow Fall - Alexander Freed

Aftermath: Life Debt - Chuck Wendig

Victory's Price - Alexander Freed

Aftermath: Empire's End - Chuck Wendig

Last Shot - Daniel Jose Older

Poe Dameron: Free Fall - Alex Segura

Shadow of the Sith - Adam Christopher

Bloodline - Claudia Gray

Force Collector - Kevin Scinick

Phasma - Delilah S. Dawson

Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Alan Dean Foster

Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire - Delilah S. Dawson

Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition - Jason Fry

Resistance Reborn - Rebecca Roanhorse

A Crash of Fate - Zoraida Cordova

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Expanded Edition - Rae Carson

[hollywoodfamerp]

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Experience the energy and excitement of Nashville, Tennessee – the Music City. On the banks of the Cumberland River, this landmark hotel is just a short drive or riverboat cruise from downtown Nashville’s historic attractions and nightlife. 2 of the city’s most popular attractions - the world-famous Grand Ole Opry and General Jackson Showboat – are conveniently located next door to the resort. Inside lies an extraordinary selection of dining, shopping, live entertainment and recreation options that provide the perfect destination. You'll be amazed at the 9-acres of indoor gardens, cascading waterfalls and indoor river with its very own Delta River flatboats. Discover Gaylord Opryland and make memories. You won't believe what they have under one roof!

UNDER THE CUT, YOU’LL FIND THE LIST OF ROOMMATES!

Due to an issue with the booking system at the hotel, it seems the roommates have all been mixed up. Was it the hotel? Or those pesky gossip blog hosts looking for drama? Guess we will never know... enjoy your stay, partners! 

PLEASE LIKE THIS NOTICE WHEN YOU HAVE READ IT AND SO THAT YOU CAN KEEP TRACK OF THE LIST UPDATES!

Pamela Martinez (Bayley) - Kelsea Ballerini Joshua Hong - Lili Reinhart Ariana Grande - Bill Skarsgård Mark Lee - Sabrina Carpenter Tom Holland - Zendaya Coleman Wong Yukhei (Lucas Wong) - Margot Robbie Timothée Chalamet - Lupita Nyong'o Kim Hongjoong - Beyonce Knowles Austin Butler - Vanessa Hudgens Chace Crawford - Elizabeth Olsen Alex Torres (Quackity) - Maia Mitchell Jung Wooyoung - Sarah Drew Tyler Hoechlin - Lucy Hale Louis Tomlinson - Jenna Ortega Natalia Dyer - Joe Keery Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul (Ten) - Maika Monroe Kim Mingyu - Sarah Paulson Jeon Jungkook - Blake Lively Lee Donghyuck (Haechan) -  Kim Jongin (Kai) Harry Styles - Taylor Swift Anya Taylor-Joy - Elizabeth Gillies Selena Gomez - Gigi Hadid Chris Evans - Tessa Thompson Choi San - Kim Ahyoung (Yura) Min Yoongi - Samantha Gibb Stephen Amell - Emily Bett Rickards Lee Sunmi - Kang Seulgi Colby Lopez (Seth Rollins) - Emily Osment Zoey Deutch - Florence Pugh Christian Yu - Brittany Baker (Britt Baker) Pedro Pascal - Jennifer Morrison Byun Baekhyun - Shay Mitchell Demi Lovato - Dua Lipa Hwang Hyunjin - Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper (Saweetie) Nick Robinson - Maya Hawke Bruno Mars - Maura Higgins Leati Joseph Anoa'i (Roman Reigns) - Madelaine Petsch Brett Tucker - Demi Bennett (Rhea Ripley) Kim Namjoon - Camila Morrone Lee Taeyong - Camila Mendes Andy Biersack - Mazz Murray Dylan O'Brien - Adelaide Kane Harry Kane - Meghann Fahy Renee Paquette (Renee Young) - Sarah Hyland Jackson Wang - Emma Stone Geoff Wigington - Sana Minatozaki Otto Wood - Anna Kendrick Sebastian Stan - Jessica Chastain Sam Claflin - Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr (Charlotte Flair) Gareth Southgate - Jessica Lange Tyler Alvarez - Cate Blanchett Lee Felix - Kim Minjeong (Winter) Zac Efron - Perrie Edwards Ross Lynch - Yoo Jimin (Karina) Carrie Underwood - Lee Taemin Jonathan Good (Jon Moxley) - Zoe Kravitz Gong Jichul (Gong Yoo) - Dylan Sprouse Myoi Mina - Molly-Mae Hauge Choi Soobin - Sydney Sweeney Mason Mount - Brittany Snow Joe Burrow - Julianna Margulies Kim Jungwoo - Kim Jisoo Choi Minho - Rachel Weisz Akanishi Jin -  Colin O’Donoghue Lee Minho (Lee Know) - Megan Jovon Ruth Pete (Megan Thee Stallion) Xiao Dejun (Xiaojun) - Kaia Gerber Awsten Knight - Madelyn Cline Park Seonghwa - Hailee Steinfeld Miley Cyrus - Chris Hemsworth Mercedes Justine Varnado (Sasha Banks) -   Rebecca Quin (Becky Lynch)   Bella Poarch - Ana De Armas Yoo Siah (YooA) - Lauren Jauregui Jensen Ackles - Katherine McNamara Grace Van Dien - Christopher Bang (Bang Chan) Lily James - Jung Yoonoh (Jaehyun) Wong Kunhang (Hendery) - James Lafferty Kim Taehyung - Halle Bailey

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The Secrets We Keep | Part One

Summary: It's another morning and Jeb is ready to clock in for another quiet shift at his new precinct. However he's no where near ready for what's waiting for him as he get's out the car.

Word Count: 1.6K

Warnings: Mentions of character deaths and disillusionment in religion, LSD, religious history/trauma, brief mention of the Lafferty case, marriage issues, meet cute, this is a reader insert character with a name and back story written in third person. Apart from a used nickname, the female character has no physical characteristics, imagine them however you want.

A/N: So when I said coming extremely soon, I meant a couple of hours. I've been sitting on this for a little bit now and although I am working on chapter three I have no idea how often this will be updated so bare with, but I think we can all agree there needs to be some more Jeb Pyre love over here. So without further ado, enjoy our meet cute for our childhood sweethearts. (@sincericida eat your heart out)

One

Jeb rubbed absentmindedly at his eyes. He hoped it would remove the tiredness in them, but secretly he hoped they’d act as an iron to smooth out the wrinkles that were forming at the edges of his eyes. He thought he’d gotten quite lucky with his genes. Despite being almost 36 now, he didn’t look a day over 29. Or at least he hadn’t. The Lafferty case had aged him. The stress and the fallout after, only making it worse. Now instead of looking 29, he looked closer to 32; which still wasn’t bad, but now he was far more aware of the dark circles under his eyes and the crows feet appearing in the corners.

He rubbed at his face again as he locked his car and began to walk the few short paces across the sidewalk to the stone steps that led up to the front of the station. Small patches of snow continued to linger in the corners from a recent flurry.

“Jeb? Jeb Pyre?” Her voice woke him from his stupor, his eyes squinting as he looked closer at her features. An act he knew would definitely do little to help with those crows feet.

“Goldie? Goldie Jensen?” Jeb frowned both with surprise and uncertainty as she started to make her way over to him.

“Wow. Nobody’s called me that in years.” She said cheerily as she came to a stop a couple paces before him.

“Wow.” Jeb sighed. “How many years has it been?”

“It’ll be 18 years this summer.” She replied.

“Wooow.” Jeb sighed again as he rubbed a hand at his chin, his feet absentmindedly stepping to the side and back again as he took in the information. It made him feel old. Sure running after his kids in the front yard also made him feel old, his lower back griping, lungs burning as he tried to keep up with them; but this, this predated Annie and Caroline. It even predated him meeting Rebecca.

“What are you doing here? I thought you were still in East Rockwell.” She continued to beam.

“I am. Well sort of. I’m in the process of moving because of work- it’s complicated.” He tried to explain. “What about you? What brings you here?”

“Well I’ve been here for around 3 years now actually.” She nodded at him with pursed lips. “I uuhh… well it’s complicated.” She said, stealing his previous line.

He paused, “I heard about your folks.” His face fell. “I am so sorry.”

“Thanks.” She said, finally dropping her smile. Her head turned away from him, hands slotting into the pockets of her coat, eyes shifting to scan the sidewalk on the opposite side of the road. 

“We uh- I lost my Mom too. About 9 months back.” He said, a faint wobble to his voice.

“I’m so sorry.” She replied, finally turning back to look at him again.

“Thank you.” He nodded at her politely. “She was um-“ he cleared his throat, his words growing sticky like tar in his mouth, “she was ready to go, you know. She missed my Dad… and of course with the dementia.” He said.

“Jeb, I’m so sorry. That must have been so hard.”

He just nodded, swallowing hard, hoping it would remove the lump in his throat. He’d loved his mother dearly; and although he had kept telling himself she had been ready to move on, though they had known it was coming a long time, it still didn’t make it easier; or him any more ready when she did finally go. It made it even harder once he had moved into her old room, the memory of his mother all over those four walls. His parents judging gaze silently screaming from the pictures on the walls as he slept separately from his wife.

“So you’re working here now.” Goldie said, her voice finding its natural sunshine once more, as she attempted to change the subject. “I heard we were getting a new detective in town but I never thought it’d be you. To be fair though, I never saw you moving out of our hometown at all- no offense. Figured you had your whole life planned and set out for you since you were 15 years old.”

“Well,” he let out a small chuckle, “so did I, but I guess things change.”

Her voice turned serious. “I heard about that case. That poor Mother and child. I can’t imagine what it must have been like going through that.” She reached out her hand, still resting in her pocket, towards him. It was meant to be a soft, caring gesture, but ended up just coming across a little awkward, the corners of her jacket poking him. Yet for such a hard subject matter, it was just what they needed.

“Yeah, umm, I guess that’s why I took the transfer, you know.” He said, trying to swallow that invisible lump again.

“Yeah, I bet.” She said to him softly. Her eyes were so warm and inviting, he thought he could just melt right into them. “Uh, well, I’ve got to be getting to work.” She said with a smile and another small wave of her hands, still stuck in her pockets. “I uh, work in the coffee shop, just across the square.” She pointed with her still coat covered hand, the puffa jacket zipper flapping about making him smile. “You should pop in some time. I sure would like to treat you to a coffee- or just a hot chocolate or something-“ she quickly interjected checking herself, remembering the LSD types she used to be surrounded by back home were anti coffee.

“Yeah, I’d like that.” He said with a smile, already feeling lighter than he had 5 minutes prior, just by being in her energy.

“Good.” She smiled.

“Good.” He hummed back. She noticed when he said it he had a small glint in his eye, a sparkle that had not been there a moment ago when she had first seen him climb out of his car.

“So I guess I’ll see you round?” She asked.

“Yeah. Yes.” He confirmed with a small nod and a flash of his hand as she began to skip down the sidewalk in the direction of the square. 

He turned to walk up the steps to the station but paused, checking over his shoulder to watch her, her head looking both ways before she crossed the street.

‘Goldie Jensen’ he thought to himself. There was a flash in his mind, a memory of kids playing on the playground in midday sunshine. Rolling down the small grass hill in the park. A kiss, placed upon youthful lips that had never touched another person other than their Mommas. He let his fingers ghost across his own lips at the memory as he slowly began to take the steps one at a time before entering the bustling little precinct.

Her fingers felt frozen as she tried to pick out the right key in order to open the little coffee shop, a small bell above the door jingling as it finally gave way. She quickly rushed inside, her boots rubbing vigorously against the doormat as her hands rubbed against each other, trying to get rid of the chill. She hated Winter. Christmas was okay, it brought in business; laughter between friends meeting for a coffee and a present exchange while the kids were at school. The lights that got hung across the square added a sense of magic to town. But then January always hit. The lights got taken down. People batten down the hatches with the post Christmas scrimp, waiting for the next payday all the way at the end of the month. The weather stays cold. The days stay short. But that’s how it goes. The same routine every year, just another number added to the end of the date.

She moved around the back of the counter, slipping through a little door in the back, her fingers automatically flicking on the switches and illuminating the quaint little cafe. She peered her head around the door frame as she watched each overhead light turn on before the fairy lights, that hung draped across the front windows, began to twinkle and glow. She smiled, there was no better sight in the world.

She shrugged her coat off of her shoulders, moving further through the back to the washing up area to hang it on a set of hooks, fixed to one of the walls. She flicked on the switch for the washing machine, allowing it to start warming through, before pushing back her fly away hairs from the cold morning wind and heading back out to the main shop floor to start warming up the coffee machine.

She smiled to herself as she began to pour a fresh bag of beans into the grinder. ‘Jeb Pyre.’ She thought to herself, ‘who’d have thought,”  as she began to do her set up for her own coffee, pressing the grounds flat with the tamper before slotting the portafilter into the group head and pushing the button for the hot water to filter through.

As the coffee began to pour through, it mixed in with the smell of ground beans that were already permeating the space. It may have only been 8 o’clock in the morning on a cold dreary day in the middle of January, but somehow amidst the steaming smell of fresh coffee and the comfort of running into an old friend, it felt like spring had walked into her life a little earlier this year.

[accidentalspaceexplorer]

January Monthly Recap:

It's been quite an intense three months, and so I haven't had a chance to report about my reading on here. January was really intense, and I've noticed lately that when I'm really stressed and don't have time for anything else I read a lot, so I read 24 books. My favorite in January was probably Thud!, although I read a lot of great books.

Thud! by Terry Pratchett: 5/5

System Collapse by Martha Wells: 4.25/5

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon: 2.5/5, dnf

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson: 2/5, dnf

Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews: 4.5/5

Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews: 4.75/5

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan: 5/5

Sweep for Me by Ilona Andrews: 4.75/5

The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk: 4/5

Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Petty Treasons by Victoria Goddard: 4.25/5

The Masquerading Magician by Gigi Pandian: 1.5/5

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne: 3.75/5

Stargazy Pie by Victoria Goddard: 4.25/5

Bee Sting Cake by Victoria Goddard: 4.75/5

Whiskeyjack by Victoria Goddard: 5/5

Blackcurrant Fool by Victoria Goddard: 5/5

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo: 4/5

Love-in-a-Mist by Victoria Goddard: 5/5

Plum Duff by Victoria Goddard: 5/5

Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Long Shot by Kennedy Ryan: 4.75/5

The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard: 4.5/5

Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty: 4.75/5

Progress on my goals is below the cut:

Complete series: added 3 series

Catch up on backlists: 15 books

Read FIYAH/Nebula/Hugo finalists & awards: 1 book

Read down TBR: (hard to tell what it was at the beginning of the year, but in August it was 1332) currently at 1442

[riverfrosthq]

mw fcs over 35?

ohh yes ! here's some suggestions that you could consider going with ! how about bringing in: david castaneda, daniel kaluuya, erin westbrook, lakeith stanfeld, oliver jackson cohen, alexandra park, alice braga, aimee carerro, angela sarafyan, ben levin, carlos valdes, daniella pineda, jessica parker kennedy, jessica matten, morena baccarin, summer bishil, jane levy, josh segarra, lewis tan, lily gladstone, manny jacinto, meaghan rath, peter gadiot, rob raco, riz ahmed, casey deidrick, sam claflin, sara channing, alfred enoch, rahul kohli, chai hansen, lucy hale, shay mitchell, troian bellisario, dewanda wise, scott eastwood, justin baldoni, janel parrish, nathalie emmanuel, rege jean paige, kiowa gordon, michael b jordan, jenny slate, lauren london, hyun bin, annabelle wallis, harry shum jr, daniel sharman, dianna agron, laura harrier, candice patton, rami malek, benjamin bratt, gemma chan, jesse williams, issa rae, odette anabele, garrett hedlund, nathalie kelley, crystal reed, choi sooyoung, alba flores, richard madden, aiysha hart, sofia boutella, godfrey gao, antonia thomas, ashleigh murray, berk cankat, brenda song, charles michael davis, karla souza, kylie bunbury, logan browning, lorenza izzo, melissa fumero, michael trevino, nichole sakura, park min young, santiago cabrera, shelley hennig, tessa thompson, adam brody, rachel mcadams, daniella alonso, jessica chastain, eva longloria, simone kessell, tawny cypress, jennifer aniston, sofia vegara, marisol nichols, mark consuelos, charisma carpenter, rachel weisz, taraj p hensen, angela bassett, gina torres, salma hayek, viola davis, monica bellucci, melissa barerra, dev patel, holliday grainger, sophia bush, britt robertson, chris pine, oscar issac, pedro pascal, skeet ulrich, timothy olyphant, rebecca ferguson, bethany joy lenz, hilarie burton, shantel vansanten, james lafferty, robert buckley, anne hathaway, bianca lawson, margot robbie, constance wu, elodie young, alexis bledel, rachel bilson, katharine isabelle, vanessa ray, hannah simone, minka kelly, and leighton meester would all be so lovely to see !

[easthavenhq]

Welcome to East Haven, Vermont! The following applications have been accepted! Please make sure look at the checklist, follow everyone on the blogroll and send in your character accounts within 24 hours.

Parker Campbell ( Alexandra Park )

Kanyon Webb ( James Lafferty )

Cameron Hatcher ( Dustin Milligan )

Joshua Pryce ( Tom Holland )

Maddison Sinclair ( Rachel McAdams )

Apollo Williams ( Stephen Amell )

Rebecca Hamilton ( Margaret Qualley )

[swordofsun]

I realized I don't actually talk about what I read on here. At all really. So, let's do a top 5 books of 2022 to end the year!

In no particular order:

Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty

I can absolutely see why people didn't like this book. It's told non-linearly and spends a lot of time making sure you know the back story of each of the characters. At the same time it really dives into the toll being the amateur detective always solving murders that just happen conveniently near to them could take.

Mallory Viridian runs away to an alien space station because if there are no humans around then no one can die and force her to solve their murder. All is going to plan until the space station decides to allow other human visitors. Soon enough there's murder, mayhem, and a mystery to solve.

I personally thought this was a great time. Fun mystery, lots of twists and turns, absolutely bonkers aliens. You know that post about the character who is objectively bad at everything, but somehow manages to kick everyone's ass because she's just that crazy? That character is in here. It's a good sci-fi murder mystery.

The Valley and The Flood by Rebecca Mahoney

I first picked up this book in 2020, decided I wasn't in the right frame of mind to read it and put it down. Picked it back up a couple of months ago and holy shit was it good. This is a book that straddles the line between urban fantasy and magical realism. It explores memory, trauma, ptsd, and how grief changes you as a person. It also explores having compassion when it would be easier to hate and fear the other.

Rose Colter is almost home, but she can’t go back there yet. When her car breaks down in the Nevada desert, the silence of the night is broken by a radio broadcast of a voicemail message from her best friend, Gaby. A message Rose has listened to countless times over the past year. The last one Gaby left before she died.

So Rose follows the lights from the closest radio tower to Lotus Valley, a small town where prophets are a dime a dozen, secrets lurk in every shadow, and the diner pie is legendary. And according to Cassie Cyrene, the town’s third most accurate prophet, they’ve been waiting for her. Because Rose’s arrival is part of a looming prophecy, one that says a flood will destroy Lotus Valley in just three days’ time.

Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney

This book was a joy from beginning to end.

Lanie Stones, the daughter of the Royal Assassin and Chief Executioner of Liriat, has never led a normal life. Born with a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, she was raised in isolation in the family’s crumbling mansion by her oldest friend, the ancient revenant Goody Graves.

When her parents are murdered, it falls on Lanie and her cheerfully psychotic sister Nita to settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home—and Goody with it. Appeals to Liriat's ruler to protect them fall on indifferent ears… until she, too, is murdered, throwing the nation's future into doubt.

Hunted by Liriat’s enemies, hounded by her family’s creditors and terrorised by the ghost of her great-grandfather, Lanie will need more than luck to get through the next few months—but when the goddess of Death is on your side, anything is possible.

This is a story told from the perspective of the necromancer destined to sit at the left hand of the ruler of land built on blood magic. Where great feats of necromancy that results in the complete destruction of neighboring lands are held up with reverence. Yet, it's funny and kind and filled with love. Also at least one undead army.

Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

This was a delight of a fairytale. Not a retelling, just a new fairy tale filled with familial love, found family, and a dog made out of bones. It's about the limits of sacrifice and how far would you go to save your sister.

Marra is the third daughter of her kingdom and sent to live in a convent. She's happy there, but both her sister's were married off to the prince of a more powerful nearby kingdom. One shortly after the death of the other.

Eventually Marra is forced to face the truth about the prince her sisters were forced to marry and formulate a plan to kill him that won't result in more harm done to her surviving sister or their kingdom. She goes to a powerful gravewitch for assistance and from there sets about toppling a kingdom, saving her sister, and maybe finding some love along the way. She definitely makes a dog out of bones.

This was just fun in the way T. Kingfisher does it. Charming quest story. The people they pick up on the way all have their own trials and tribulations. Most importantly, I think, is that Marra doesn't even like the sister she sets out to save (and the sister doesn't like her back), but sometimes something so bad is happening you have to stand up and fix it.

Dead Silence by Stacey Kade

This is horror sci-fi. I found it genuinely terrifying to the point of staying up too late trying to get to a less scary part before going to bed. There are some weak character moments, but the horror elements make up for it, in my opinion.

A deep space repair crew, made up of a motley cast of characters, receives a distress signal from a long lost luxury cruise liner. Facing unemployment after they return home from their last mission they all decided the risk is worth the reward to claim salvage rights. Along the way they'll have to figure out what happened to the ship and it's inhabitants, how did it end up so far away from where it was supposed to be, and are they really seeing the dead walking the corridors.

Spooky space shit. Good read.

So, five of the best books I read this year.

[womenoflesmis]

[maraschinocheri]

Best of 2017 Countdown #14 :: Celebrating Team Covers in Les Mis London, 2017–2018. [ 15 ]

The West End cast of Les Miserables this year is again teeming with absolutely gorgeous covers, including:

• Adam Bayjou (alternate Valjean); Antony Hansen (2nd Valjean) and Shaq Taylor (1st Javert); and Alice Ellen Wright (1st Fantine); • Jonny Purchase (1st Enjolras) and Ciaran Joyce (2nd Marius); Alice Ellen Wright again (1st Eponine); Rebecca Lafferty (3rd Eponine) and Holly-Anne Hull (1st Cosette); • Sophie-May Feek (2nd Fantine); Katie Kerr (1st Madame Thenardier) and James Hume (1st Thenardier); Catherine Hannay (2nd Cosette) and John Lumsden (1st Marius); • Hugo Chiarella (2nd Thenardier) and Anna McGarahan (2nd Madame Thenardier); Andy Conaghan (1st Grantaire); Oliver Brenin (3rd Valjean); • Lee Van Geleen (2nd Javert); Danny Whitehead (2nd Enjolras) and Jonny Purchase again (emergency Marius); Lauren Soley (2nd Eponine); • Emma Barr (3rd Fantine); Ciaran Joyce again (2nd Grantaire), and Holly-Anne Hull again (emergency Gavroche)

[paradise-bi-the-dashboard-lightt]

Laura Johnson as Kwaiden Appriciation post

[multi-muse-transect]

If Mike Flanagan directed the Resident Evil show

Zack Gilford as Chris Redfield

David Harbour as Barry Burton

Kate Siegel as Jill Valentine 

Antony Starr as Albert Wesker 

Hamish Linklater as Brad Vickers 

Victoria Pedretti as Rebecca Chambers 

Michiel Huisman as Richard Aiken 

Samantha Sloyan as Brenda Irons (gender swap of Brian Irons)

Maya Hawke as Claire Redfield

Mason Dye as Leon S. Kennedy 

Rahul Kohli as HUNK 

Violet McGraw as Sherry Birkin 

Annabeth Gish as Annette Birkin

James Lafferty as William Birkin 

[hollywoodfamerp]

PLANET PRIDE!

Join us at the Brooklyn Mirage in New York City on June 24th for an unforgettable experience and night! 12 hours, 6 parties, 3 stages = the greatest pride ever! This is not a mandatory event - however, under the cut all celebs have been put into a specific color group! If you plan on having your celeb attend, please have them dress in that color (outfit entirely up to you!) and let's turn the dash into a rainbow! If you do not see your celeb in a group, please message us and we'll give you a color! #hfrppride23, #hollywoodfameoutfits Everyone's invited! Adults only.

Credit to planetpridenyc for the video and graphic.

Red:

Otto Wood

Xiao Dejun (Xiaojun)

Margot Robbie

Alycia Debnam-Carey

Sam Claflin

Kim Jungwoo

Joe Keery

Cate Blanchett

Choi Soobin

Julianna Margulies

Bill Skarsgard

Zoey Deutch

Pamela Martinez (Bayley)

Jackson Wang

Carrie Underwood

Min Yoongi

Awsten Knight

Adam Huber

Lee Taeyong

Harry Kane

Maura Higgins

Kim Hongjoong

Elizabeth Gillies

Chris Pine

Orange:

Molly-Mae Hague

Geoff Wigington

Samantha Gibb

Park Jihyo

Sarah Paulson

Olivia Rodgiro

Lili Reinhart

Lee Felix

Zoë Kravitz

Sana Minatozaki

Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr (Charlotte Flair)

Chris Hemsworth

Wong Kunhang (Hendery)

Chris Evans

Selena Gomez

Lee Donghyuck (Haechan)

Tom Holland

Mason Mount

Ariana Grande

Kim Mingyu

Kim Minjeong (Winter)

Joshua Hong

Louis Tomlinson

Yellow:

Brittany Baker (Britt Baker)

Park Seonghwa

Akanishi Jin

Jung Yoonoh (Jaehyun)

Tyler Hoechlin

Maya Hawke

Sebastian Stan

Tessa Thompson

Lee Taemin

Mazz Murray

Joseph Quinn

Jenna Ortega

Mark Lee

Anya Taylor-Joy

Elizabeth Olsen

Dylan O'Brien

Kim Ahyoung (Yura)

Kaia Gerber

Lee Minho (Lee Know)

Shay Mitchell

Lily James

Maika Monroe

Timothée Chalamet

Green:

Jonathan Good (Jon Moxley)

Natalia Dyer

Miley Cyrus

Lucy Hale

Byun Baekhyun

Yoo Jimin (Karina)

Emily Bett Rickards

Jade Thirlwall

Zendaya Coleman

Jessica Chastain

Choi San

Camila Morrone

Kelsea Ballerini

Beyoncé Knowles

Madelaine Petsch

Rachel Weisz

Gigi Hadid

Kang Seulgi

Jung Wooyoung

Jessica Lange

Wong Yukhei (Lucas Wong)

Taylor Swift

Alexa Demie

Blue:

Kim Namjoon

James Lafferty

Choi Minho

Colby Lopez (Seth Rollins)

Dylan Sprouse

Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul (Ten)

Christopher Bang (Bang Chan)

Brittany Snow

Adelaide Kane

Dua Lipa

Sarah Drew

Joe Burrow

Chace Crawford

Jensen Ackles

Sarah Hyland

Andy Biersack

Bruno Mars

Hwang Hyunjin

Emily Osment

Tyler Alvarez

Christian Yu

Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper (Saweetie)

Florence Pugh

Violet:

Mercedes Justine Varnado (Sasha Banks)

Megan Jovon Ruth Pete (Megan Thee Stallion)

Stephen Amell

Yoo Siah (YooA)

Jennifer Morrison

Rebecca Quin (Becky Lynch)

Austin Butler

Zac Efron

Lee Sunmi

Kim Jisoo

Jeon Jungkook

Gong Jichul (Gong Yoo)

Kim Taehyung

Sophie Thatcher

Renee Paquette (Renee Young)

Leati Joseph Anoa'i (Roman Reigns)

Kim Jongin (Kai)

Ross Lynch

Vanessa Hudgens

Lupita Nyong'o

Gareth Southgate

Brett Tucker

Meryl Streep

[heldheartinfo]

Full List of FCs

Abigail Cowen (x4)

Adelaide Kane (x6)

Alexandra Daddario

Alexis Bledel

Alicia Vikander (x2)

Alyson Hannigan

Amy Adams

Ana de Armas (x3)

Bethany Joy Lenz (x2)

Bitsie Tulloch

Brett Goldstein

Bryce Dallas Howard

Camila Mendes

Candice King (x4)

Chloe Grace Moretz

Chris Wood

Claire Holt (x2)

Claudia Jessie

Conor Leslie

Crystal Reed (x3)

Daisy Edgar-Jones (x3)

Danielle Campbell (x3)

Danielle Rose Russell (x3)

Dianna Agron (x2)

Dylan O’Brien (x3)

Dylan Sprayberry (x2)

Elizabeth Gillies

Emilia Clarke

Emily Rudd

Emily VanCamp

Emma Caulfield

Emma Stone (x2)

Emma Watson (x2)

Erica Durance

Evangeline Lilly

Florence Pugh (x3)

Genevieve Padalecki (x3)

Giorgia Whigham

Grace Van Dien (x2)

Hailee Steinfeld (x3)

Halston Sage

Hannah Waddingham

Jane Levy

James Lafferty (x2)

Jenna Coleman

Jenny Boyd (x3)

Jessica Brown Findlay

Jennifer Lawrence

Joanne Frogratt

Jonathan Bailey

John Krasinski

Josephine Langford

Joshua Jackson (x2)

Juno Temple

Kat Graham

Kathryn Newton

Katherine McNamara (x2)

Katie Holmes

Katie McGrath

Keira Knightley

Kirsten Dunst

Laura Dern

Lauren Cohan

Lauren German

Lauren Ridloff

Lea Michele

Leighton Meester (x2)

Lili Reinhart

Lily Collins (x3)

Lucy Hale

Luke Thompson

Mädchen Amick

Madelaine Petsch

Madelyn Cline

Madison Bailey

Margot Robbie

Melissa Benoist

Maude Apatow

Megan Teandy

Melissa Barrera

Michelle Dockery

Michelle Williams

Milo Ventimiglia

Minka Kelly (x2)

Monica Barbaro

Natalie Portman (x2)

Natalia Dyer

Nina Dobrev (x4)

Paul Wesley

Phil Dunster

Phoebe Dynevor

Phoebe Tonkin (x4)

Poppy Drayton

Rachel McAdams

Rebecca Ferguson

Riley Voelkel (x2)

Rose McGowan

Rudy Pankow

Sabrina Bartlett

Sadie Sink (x2)

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Saorise Ronan

Scarlett Johansson

Shelley Hennig

Simone Ashley

Skyler Samuels

Sophie Skelton

Sophia Bush (x2)

Sophia Ali

Thomas Doherty (x2)

Timothèe Chalamet

Troian Bellisario (x3)

Tyler Hilton

Tyler Posey

Victoria Pedretti (x2)

Violet Brinson

Vince Matthis

Virginia Gardner (x2)

Yael Grobglas (x2)

[graywyvern]

( via / @gameauras )

Mon Amie La Rose. My Lojban translation, which could be sung to the same melody.

Switchback Doctrine. Bacon as an ancestor leads but to epigones [Marshall Arisman]; Twombly as an ancestor leads to us [Asemic]. And those after us. Joyce; Woolf & Barnes. (At one time i thought Steampunk could do the same...)

Legend of a Mind.

"We memorized phone numbers. We memorized driving directions. No one knew what we looked like. No one could reach us. We were gods." --@AnthroOmri, to which Rebecca Solnit responded: "We navigated by sense and memory and sometimes spoke to strangers. It was wild. Sometimes we were lost, but we rose to the occasion. Sometimes we found what we were not looking for, and sometimes that was magic and revelation."

Tunez.

return of a voice after absence like not coughing after coughing i fill my skin mostly

start telling a diff'rent story

before shadows the saltatory focus languishes

"Lafferty belongs to a select group that includes James Joyce and Amos Tutuola, of writers who have reinvented the language of literature for themselves from the ground up."

[sdwkpr]

2019: reading list

My annual tradition of tracking my reading for the year, and it’s led me to:

30 books

(10 non fiction/20 fiction) & (14 female authors, 13 male authors, and 3 by a mixed team)

1,681 fics at around 17.3 million (ish) words total

Compared to last year, that’s 6 more books, 3 million less words. My book count has been going up from year to year, and audiobooks help, which is nice.

The books I read in 2019, in chronological order are:

Legion vs Phalanx- Myke Cole

The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh-KJ Charles

Obsidio-Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

The Good Son- Jeong YouJeoung

Jane Doe- Victoria Helen Stone

The Lies that Bind- Kwame Anthgony Appiah

Bookburners- Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty, Margaret Dunlap & Brian Francis Slattery 👎

Prisoner of my Desire- Johanna Lindsay

Witchmark - CL Polk

The Traitor Baru Cormorant- Seth Dickinson

The Last Sun- KD Charles

Band Sinister- KJ Charles

Dreyers English- Benjamin Dreyer

Ninefox Gambit- Yoon Ha Lee

It burns - Marc Fennell

Cannibalism- Bill Schitt

Gone and Mad- Rebecca Traistor

This is How You Lose the Time War- Amal El-Mohtar  & Max Gladstone

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 👍

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter- Theodora Goss

A Very English Scandal- John Preston

The Founding Myth- Andrew Seidel

Leviathan Wakes- James S.A. Corey

Blowout- Rachel Maddow

Catch and Kill- Ronan Farrow

Red, White, & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston

A Memory Called Empire- Arkady Martine

Middlegame- Seanan McGuire

Hither Page- Cat Sebastian

Caliban's War- James S.A. Corey

Gideon the Ninth was my absolute favorite book I read all year, I was literally screaming through part of the last quarter, and I am obsessed with waiting for Harrow the Ninth to come out.

Of the 30, I really disliked Bookburners the most. I got through 3/4 of it, trying to find the groove between the different authors, before finally giving up- the only book I didn't finish that's on this list, but I got most of the way there so I counted it. It was the story itself, generic, a collection of the tropes I tend to hate the most, predictable, rather than the authors, since I know I at least love other things Max Gladstone has written at least, one of them being on this list for this year that I rated 5 stars on goodreads.

Caliban's War I finished in 2 days, right on the 31st, as it was a library book I needed to return, and I figured it's give me a good chance to have this list be an even 30.

Of the nonfiction I read, I think I love Legion Vs Phalanx the most- I love the history periods there, this was super nerdy deep dive into military strategy that wasn't WWII, and the writing style worked for me.