#Remeber that this takes place in the 1800s

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Halloween Book Recommendations!👻☠️🎃....Part 1

Hello, my loves!! If you saw my last post, then you know what’s coming. If not, let me tell you....I wanted to do a Halloween Book Recommendation post (long one) in the beginning of the month since it’s pre Halloween month-as I call it for right now. That didn’t happen for the last couple days because I was busy. But here we are! Now...be amazed of allllll the choices you got and even if some may not be your genre or type, that is okay!

📖 The Diviners Trilogy by Libba Bray

This series is one of my favorites...sadly I haven’t finished reading the 2nd book (Lair of Dreams), but with my Halloween binge I am planning on rereading and finishing it. This is 1920’s New York...nuff said. But anyways, we have different persoectives told in 3rd person (I have no idea which 3rd, cuz those I can’t remember for the life of me), who has abilities to see ghosts/future, etc... aka Diviners. Basically physics in other words. In the first one, they battle out this evil monster dude (which is creepy...the monster dude). Lair of Dreams deals with this mystery illness...I can’t say much for this one since I haven’t finished it yet. Before the Devil Breaks You is the 3rd and final book and I don’t know what that one is about.

The audiobooks-y’all do them-I have no comments. I read The Diviners physically (I didn’t really get into audiobooks till recently this year). I did try and listen to Lair of Dreams, but it wasn’t for me. i may give it another try, so no promises on this though. I have heard that they are really good, so hopefully they are as well for you.

📖Stalking Jack the Ripper Series by Kerri Maniscalco

This series is one of my favorites! I’m gonna say that for so many here, but I love this one to pieces to where I preordered the 3rd book (Escaping From Houdini) and also the 4th and final one (Capturing the Devil. CTD is being shipped on the 10th this month (6 DAYS) from my Barnes and Noble location, so I don’t know if it will arrive that day or not.

Anyways, this series follows Audrey Rose Wadsworth in the late 1800s dealing with the Ripper murders. The second involves Dracula, third is Houdini, and the fourth is H.H Holmes. Yes, America’s first serial killer! Sorry, I’m very excited about that. Being a girl in the 1800s/1900s, you’re not really have much to live for. Audrey rather do things that guys can do (forensics in this case), then being at tea parties. I don’t blame you, girl! Then, Thomas Cressworth comes in as well and they both solves these crimes together with the help of Audrey’s uncle (a mortician). If that doesn’t get your interest, then Idk what will.

📖Confessions Series by James Patterson

This series is more mystery than horror. I personally love James Patterson and he has always been one of my favorite authors. This one follows the Angel siblings after their parents’ mystery death (that mystery is the center of the first one (Confessions of a Murder Suspect). These siblings aren’t necessarily ordinary in some since. I don’t want to give away anything, but meds has the reason for that.

Tandy Angel (main character here) solves these murders/crimes throughout the books. The second one contains school murders (not shootings, thankfully) (Confessions: The Private School Murders). The third (Confessions: The Paris Mysteries) takes place in Paris, France. I have not read this one nor the 4th one (Confessions: The Murder of an Angel) so I don’t have any opinions on these ones. It is really good and if you’re a sucker for mysteries and James Patterson boos, then here you go!

📖The Women’s Murder Club by James Patterson

Another Patterson series...I’m a sucker for them. At first, I had called this the Number series because I didn’t know what the series was called and the only thing I knew was that they have numbers in the title.

Meet Lindsay Boxer (main character), homicide inspector for San Fran; Claire Washburn, medical examiner; Jill Bernhardt, assistant D.A.; and Cindy Thomas, San Fran Chronicle writer. 4 amazing chicks who kick butt, form the Women’s Murder Club to solve these murders. Freakin girl power! The chapters are quite short, sometimes longer, but usually short, which if you’re good with that, then cool, if not, that’s okay! I’m pretty sure the latest book of the series published is the 17th one...maybe 18th....one of those two. These are the ones I currently have.

📖The Merciless Series by Danielle Vega

If you love horror, possesion, all that stuff, you’ll love this series. I first discovered it on Facebook when the book trailer popped up. It was a interesting trailer and caught my tention. Couple years later, my senior year of high school, the book fair came (appears twice a year, this was the first appearance) and I had to buy it. It was $8 bucks, originally $10.99. If you are very religious, then maybe not this series. Lots of said people said its Mean Girls and the Craft mixed together.

The first two books follows Sophoa Flores as the main character. Sophia, being the new girl, befriends the 3 populare chicks (Plastics), who they want her to befriend this outsider (Brooklynn). Mean Girls basically but little bit reveresed. Then things happen. Spoilers, so I can’t really clarify it. Second is and it’s what the 2nd is also called....The Excorsim of Sophia Flores...DUN DUN DUNNNN. The third (Origins of Evil) is where Brooklynns story begins, so we know how Brooklynn became and what not. The 4th and final (The Last Rites) features a little bit of Sophia, but this main character is Berkley Hubbard, fresh out of rehab. Honestly, these books do scare me, but not like how when I watched the Conjuring the first time. Perfect read for Halloween season!

📖Mrs. Peregrine Series by Ransom Riggs

Now, I have not been able to finish the dang first book, so Idk. From what I have read and remeber, it is really good! It’s kind of horro...I don’t particularly think it is, but others do. This has mixed media, mainly pictures, but fascinating ones! The four books follows Jacob Portman and his friends of peculiar aka they have abilities and their adventures they have. If you’ve seen the movis, then you understand what I mean. Ransom’s writing is one of my favorites and having pictures/media in them makes me happy. I am a visual person, so the pictures help me a lot.

Anways, the first book is where Jacob is in the peculiar world where the peculiars live in this never ending time loop of the same day, but they rewind time before bombs happen aka Poland in WW 2. I’ve heard so many amazing things of this series! Jesse the Reader (booktuber) LOVES this series and he will recommend it to the end of time.

📖Visions Trilogy by Lisa McMann

These three books involve visions. If you have seen Medium (with Patricia...I cant remember her last name), then you will love Visions. They don’t involve any ghosts, so that’s a difference from Medium.

Here we have (Crash) Jules Demarco, who is seeing visions of this explosion everywhere. She realizes this explosion will happen very soon and she has to stop it before it happens. Not much, I know, but the next one (Bang) (sadly deals with a school shooting), her crush gets the visions this time. The third one (Gasp) has this random character who the two save last book ends up getting the visions then. This vision is a boat accident...a ferry to be precise, but nothing like Titanic...at least I don’t think so. This was a good series and really liked them. Easy to read in 1 day...unless y’all are busy and or a slow reader like me.

📖The Asylum Series by Madeleine Roux

Horror, ghosts, random past lives stuff! I only have the first two books (Asylum and Sanctum), but I think there is a third and one or two novellas. I love these guys! You get some pictures and letters in the books, so cool!

Here is Dan Crawford, who is spending the summe at the New Hampshire College Prep program. Abby Valdez and Jordan (no last name was given) are his new found friends at the program. The catch of all this, the newly built dorms is where the Brookline Asylum used to be. The three friends uncover secrets of their pasts and families and such. It’s such a good series.

📖The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer

The infamous Twilight books. Y’all may have expected this or may not have. I do not have an opinion on this series just yet. I recently read Twilight for the first time and really liked it. That said, hopefully I will get to the other books and see where my opinions lie.

Everyone knows what this series is about, but if not, come to me. Isabella (Bella) Swan moves from the heat of Arizona (I feel you Bella) to the rainy world of Forks, Washington. There, she meets the Cullen siblings...mainly Edward...who happens to be vampires. Bella and Edward get closer and start dating and what not. Ah yes, the infamous woods scene where Edward is like “Say it!” to Bella, it actually happens in the car so casually. This series contains a love triangle of a human, vampire, and a werewolf.

📖The Chronicles of Vladmir Tod by Heather Brewer...okay it’s formerly Heather, but it is now Zac Brewer

I love this series...even though I only read the first two books and a little bit of the 3rd one. If you love vampires...well half human half vampire then yessss! Half human, Half Titan....Half human, half ghoul....if y’all watch anime, then you probably get the two references. Okay...onto the synopsis!

Vladmir Tod is the equivalent of...dang it what is the word....ahhh disgrace cuz he is half human and half vampire. In the vampire world, humans and vamps dont go together. He is raised by his Aunt Nelly, who of course knows he is half vampire. His best friend, Henry also knows. Throughout 8th Grade to 12th Grade, he’s gotta deal with bullies and vampire slayers. What a hard knock life for this dude.

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Actually, I have another take and you’re gonna be my example punching dummy for this bastard fucking attitude.

First, I don’t give a shit if an artisan - textile, painting, or otherwise - has a day job that pays them well, lmao. The awful truth is that ALL handmade crafts are underpriced. The nature of our current society requires it. It’s not our fault wages are stagnating in this shitfuck late capitalist world.

There is no actual industry problem of hobbyists overpricing, there is only artisans who know what they’re worth pricing more than you think they deserve. You and people like you are the problem, not someone’s hypothetical blanket prices.

68k isn’t fucking shit. Yeah, it’s comfortable. Yeah, it might be very well off in some parts of the United States, but with inflation the way it is, that’s the new middle class, lmao. Sorry not sorry.

With the average rent in the US at $1472, source, which I’ll round up to $1500 for easy calculating, a person who makes 68k a year makes roughly $5700 a month and, according to the brutal 3x rent rule landlords go by, can afford a rent of about $1888. 

Looks like a lot, doesn’t it? 

No, it’s not. Consider utilities, car payments, the money and time it takes to fund their art projects, which are very expensive, btw. I don’t think I need to repeat the breakdown of yarn cost from the op’s images. Consider the possible costs of children, medical expenses, food. Everyday living expenses. The possibility that they live in an area where $1800 is the average one bedroom apartment rent. 68k disappears very, very fast.

I’m not saying people who make 68k are not wealthy, because they’re comfortable while the majority of people scrape unfairly by, but to bitch that someone who has reached comfortable rather than actively suffering doesn’t deserve to be paid for their hard work? Fuck you. 

The wage disparity is not an individual artisan’s fault, nor is it their responsibility to fix. Your New York comment is particularly offensive, because it’s not the artists responsibility to charge what someone in fucking North Dakota can afford when they, statistically, live places like New York, LA, San Francisco, and Seattle, which are huge art industry hubs where artists of multiple industries - illustration and art, fashion, tattooing, etc - are likely to have to live in order to be hired. I wish people in poor areas were paid more, so they could afford my, and other artisan’s, prices. I wish I was paid more, that we were all paid more.

(EDIT: those of y'all that think I’m exaggerating, if you work like this and do happen to be in new York just that first step of minimum wage x 2 is already at $22 AN HOUR. Now remeber this arsehole is charging you for the amount of time it takes him to shop. You might end up paying $66 for him to sip at a slushie in a mall for a couple hours before the work has even started. Seriously tell me how charging like this doesn’t lead to elitist consumption of media reinforincing the class decide wherein “real art” is for rich people and poor people pirate what they can and don’t look at anything hand made twice.)

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. $22hr is fucking pennies for my industry, for the entire art industry across the board. Artisans making things like handmade blankets are not the elitist fucking pricks of the gallery world who have well off jobs and take a year or more to finish one overhyped fucking conceptual piece only rich people will understand. Just say you hate artists being charged fairly because you’re poor and go home. 

Artists who sell individual pieces have to jack up their prices because the amount of items they sell in a month are usually unpredictable. There is no guaranteed shitty salary like at a retail job. There is no guaranteed hourly pay waiting for you at the end of a weekly pay cycle. There is boy I sure hope I sell some fucking items this month because I have rent to pay or I’m in the red because I haven’t made back the money I paid in materials. We make a lot in very short bursts, and then make nothing for weeks. 

We invest money and time into materials and conventions and galleries and shelf spaces at brick and mortar stores all while hoping we can make that money back. It has to be expensive because every single fucking art job, whether it’s textile or painting or woodworking, is feast or famine. Day jobs often keep us even, not edge us up in crazy profits. They keep us from going bankrupt.

You (who I’m assuming makes shit money at retail because I like to think there’s no way someone as bitter as you makes a decent living and continues to bitch about $22hr knit hats, or $22hr paintings) don’t deserve someone’s original piece. No one does. You pay what they’re charging, because they made it, or you don’t. Artist’s get to decide what they’re worth, and you get to decide that you can’t afford that. 

I charge $45hr for illustration, I markup for materials after my hours are done, and I usually push it up a little bit after that because my skills are unique and deserve it. The art store that I buy my paint from is over an hour from where i work in a heavily trafficked area, so yeah, it costs fucking extra in gas just to buy the goddamn $15 a tube paint. I’m going to charge for that. Most artists don’t live next to their art store. Some artists don’t live near one at all and have to buy online, where there is either a large wait time to get their supplies or an expensive extra shipping charge to get it next day, if that’s even an option. 

So yeah, we’re going to charge for shopping. 

Your ignorance harms artists. Like, actively. When I go to events and am selling $35, hand-embellished prints, people scoff at THAT being too expensive. Because they believe we are able to charge as little as giant companies paying for slave labor in poor countries can. There is time, love, skill, invisible years of fucking practice for us to be able to even offer you our products/services. Your attitude hurts us. And, btw, when we sell less volume because of people thinking our products are too expensive, we have to charge more per piece. I’d love to sell $5 (unembellished) prints. I could afford to if I sold enough. They need to be $20 or else I don’t fucking eat after an event where I don’t sell enough.

It’s not like artists fucking spit on poor people who dare interact with them. A lot of us are poor too for fucks sake! We appreciate their time and love of our work. We don’t always have something they can afford. It’s not our goddamn job to have something every person on the planet can afford. Artists’ work and lives are not community service lmao, regardless of their income. 

This isn’t the medieval period, you don’t have to be a baron who works for the church to afford a single tiny painting of Jesus, or a purple shirt made of velvet.

Signed lovingly, an artist tired of dealing with people like you.

Guy wanted me to make him a queen-size blanket.

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Estela x MC for the Ship thing :)

Wow... @holly-park you know me or what! 😉So....▪What is your absolute favorite ship?Emma x MC in HSS. Hands down. Followed extremely closely by Estela x MC.▪What ship do you hate most?I don't know if I hate any of the ships... Honestly. They're all so well written and played out.▪What was my first ship and what fandom was it from?Hmm... Faramir x Eowyn from LotR, first in the books, then again in the films.(In fact if one looks closly to my take on Estela x MC and compare it to Faramir x Eowyn, you will see some similarities between them. Though I think Estela leans more into being the Faramir to MC's Eowyn.)▪Explain why I ship Estela x MC.Well... her cynical outlook and stong nature, that covers a soft, caring heart, paired with fierce loyalty, is counterbalanced and accented so nicely by MC's equally strong willed nature, loyalty, positive outlook and outspoken goodness.They both wish they could be more like the other and bring out the best parts of eachother. Estela to be more trusting, MC to be more savvy etc. That and I have a crush on Estela. 😆▪How did I start shipping Estela x MC?Well as I was going through the book the first time I got seriously suspicious of her... like... her constant sneaking around and caustic personality yet... then she'd go and do say something that... lead one to believe she had a heart after all... I remebered they way Strider was described in the LotR books. As rough, weather worn, slow to trust, skeptical... the pure opposet of a king. When trying to decide of they should trust this ruffian to protect them Frodo's dialog here from the book captures it all...《 (Frodo speaking) 'I believed that you were a friend before the letter came,’ he said, 'or at least I wished to. You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way that servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would - well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.’ 'I see,’ laughed Strider. 'I look foul and feel fair. Is that it? All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.’  》If anyone deserves to be called Aragorn its Estela not Jake 😆 (is a bad-ass hunter, constantly disappearing to take care of 'things', looks rough, but is a passionate and compassionate person. With a strong sense of family and duty. And who's mom was killed by the enemy) ▪Is there a ship I used to ship but don't anymore? Nope. Not that I can think of.▪Whats a ship that you like that most people don't?Not really a ship per se, but Eleanor Waverley x MC, from THoBM is someone that most folks forget about, or didn't like, or what have you but.. likeSeriously?! She's a freakin 1800's resurrected former ghost who's now going to Hartfield with everyone else from TF/TS and maybe even ES! ▪What's a ship you hate that most people like?Honestly? I don't have one. ▪What's the most underrated ship in your opionion? Well Eleanor like I mentioned above, and maybe Val x Kenna. Or Tevan x Kenna too. Rarely if ever hear anything about them. ▪What is the most overrated ship, in my opinion?Uhh.... also dont have one. If it's popular... it's for good reason! ▪Do I prefer Estela x MC as an otp, brotp or notp? OTP please! But in some of the replays I've done of ES I also did brotp. ▪Why do you think Estela x MC is so popular? She's hot, kicks-ass, but mostly, the depth of her character, the mysteries of her past, and the way they bring out the best in eachother.▪Why do you think Estela x MC isn't popular? Who said it wasnt?! XDNow admittedly, it's tough to compete with the likes of Jake and Quinn. But I think her and my main man Sean can still hold their own. 😉▪Rate Estela x MC from 1-10 and explain why.Ok so...... 11? 😁 and we already know why now! ▪what's my favorite headcanon of Estela x MC? Ok so honestly? The two of them someplace private, talking. Like when they can honestly finally talk openly. And Estela is asking why MC trusted her from so early on, without knowing anything about her. And MC (who I canon as being as much as a film and pop culture buff as Diego) explains what I did above, about her perhaps "looking fouler but feeling fairer""So you're saying look foul?""What? No! Is that what you got out of all that?!""Yes... " deadpans"No that wasnt.. I mean... ""MC?""Yes?""Shut up and kiss me...""Oh.... you!" Tackles Estela.❤💞❤▪What's your favorite canon moment of Estela x MC?Well, I'm still going through the books again since I had a device crash and had to reinstall Choices and start the books all over again, so this will probably change but so far its the moment that Estela gets up the nerve to ask MC if they are like... um.. dating. And MC says in essence "Well yeah!" And Estela gets that rare but oh so melt-me-into-a-puddle-of-lovey-goo-million-watt smile with smiling eyes. ▪Favorite AU ideas for Estela x MC?Hmm... years years down the line, I want them to have kids. And they name them after thier ES pals, except their first daughter. Who is named after Estela's mom. Estela also insists on never changing her last name, being all she has of her family type thing, So MC says He will xD▪Rant about Estela x MC.Ok so like... why. Why can't she be real? I wanna meet her IRL. Buuut I'm probably not her type so... still! Maybe a brotp! LOL Honestly though. So many awesome stories and romances, Pixelberry has done amazing and I cant wait to see more of these two! (I don't believe its gonna be over later this week. Just saying)▪What meme/quote reminds you of Estela x MC?The Aragorn and Frodo quote above, and any and every "My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die" meme 😆▪What song reminds me of Estela x MC?I think this one probably the most for me:Friendship to Last by Two Steps From Hellhttps://youtu.be/Iu74pVYkhNI(It has that Island feel with like... Vaanti elements and the old Scottish song speaks of following their friend anywhere,....If it is thy pillow the sandIf it is thy bed the seaweedIf it is the fish thy candles brightIf it is the seals thy watchmen....▪What kind of dates do you think Estela x MC would go on?They love 'just them' time meaning, going off some place just the two of them. I sense hikes, adventures, etc where its the two of them vs. the elemets. Or perhaps a combative sport like paintball or airsoft and they are a duo unstoppable! But also MC helping Estela find something to live for after resolving her mother's death and Rourke. With those things gone Estela's gonna need something new to be the compass of her life and MC hopes to be a part of that.▪Have you ever written fanfiction/drawn fanart of Estela x MC? Would you consider it?No I haven't, but I most certainly want to. Whew! This one took a while to write! Thanks for the ask Holly!

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@pansytheleia tagged me and this seems fun.

Three things your followers don’t know about you:  1. Of all my grades from the final exams at school German was the worst but I got the highest grade in Mathematics. 2. I drink but I don’t smoke. I have never even tried. When I see someone smoking for the first time I'm always shocked and their level of attractiveness drops drastically. I am aware of my gross double standards here but smoking women are worse. 3. I really wish evolution would not have come up with genders. I always wanted to be just a person since I was a kid.

Answer some questions! 1. What’s the last movie you watched? Movie. I can’t remember. Maybe Tschick?

2. The last song you listened to: What did I miss from the Hamilton Sountrack

3. What’s the last show you watched?  The final episode of season two of Turn - Washington’s spies.

4. The last book you read? I gonna finish reading Kein ort. Nirgends by Christa Wolf this evening.

5. Last thing you ate? A dried tomato.

6. If you could be anywhere else where would you be? In the countryside somewhere. (At home? In Scotland? in Denmark? I don’t care.)

7. Which decade would you travel back to if you could? Pre WW1 Europe. 1800. The 80s. Golden age of piracy... no wait... that’s to scary for real live me.

8. If you win the lottery, what’s the first thing you would do?  Take my mum on a trip to Rome. Buy an old transporter for my dad. Built a sauna.

9. Which fictional character would you like to hang out with for the day? Kostja from Night Watch. The nicest and most interesting vampire I know.

10. What was the last fandom you joined? Like head over heels? Erlkönige. More casually it must be Turn.

Favourites Tag:

Place- by the sea Person- my dad  Colour- on the forest spectrum. Food- grandma’s cucumber salat Smell- vanilla and herbs Book- to many and each of them in it’s own regards. (I keep thinking about Futu.re a lot, even though it’s been three years since I read it) Movie- The Lost Boys.  Music artist- Runrig. Genre of Music- metal/folk Genre of literature- fantasy/historic and preferably with either a dark twist or humour or both. Day of the week- Friday Social Media- Tumblr. but just because of the friends I made (and now i have you on insta and whatsapp and everywhere... so it doesn't really matter) Thing to do when bored- scribble Celebrity- the cast of Horrible Histories  Website other than Tumblr- thedreamercomic.com Drink- tea Animals- tiny birds and cats Flower-  my dad’s roses TV show- Horrible Histories Fruit- berries Vegetable- peas Store- tea/book/antique/thrift stores Quote- I’m not big on quotes, I can’t remeber any. Boy’s name- Johann Girl’s name- Karoline Ice cream flavour- dark chocolate Popcorn flavour-  caramel Season-  spring Month of the year-  september Disney Princess- Jasmin Insult- Blödbommel. Arschbärchen. YouTube channel- Sommers Weltliteratur to go Eye colour- all of them Language- German for it is the only language in which I will ever be able to get all the small details Thing about yourself- I want to improve myself and my surroundings 

Aniki already tagged the squad so I do not tag anyone else. Except for @sorrel-ly. Fuck yeah. I am curious for your answers.