#San Luis is the Moon

[elbiotipo]

it's so sad that most people on earth haven't heard or let out a sapucai

martians though? martians have heard radio waves from earth and love chamamé

I love the places this ask went, but yes, you can bet Martians listen to chamamé while fishing on Valles Marineris.

I actually have a couple sketches and unfinished stories about Salteños and Jujeños going to Mars, because Mars is basically Salta and Jujuy.

[onwardtheygo]

San Luis Obispo, USA

[theminecraftbee]

fic masterpost

last updated: august 2024

note that this masterpost does not include tumblr-exclusive fics, because i write those as effectively "sketches"; they're practice and meant to be easy for me, so i deliberately don't 'take them seriously' enough to list them here. (also, there are probably over a hundred at this point.) you can find the tumblr exclusive fics in the tag 'a bee fic' if you're looking for them.

additionally: for ANY of my fics, you can always DM me to ask me to give you spoilers if the tags and summary do not give you enough information to decide if you want to read the fic or if the fic might contain one of your triggers. just let me know in a way i can respond privately, and i will give you that information!

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multichapter fics

this is about a stuffed bird, hermitcraft, T (warning: a bordeline M), 78k. in which an apocalypse happens that turns much of humanity into horrible monsters, mumbo gets a distressing call from grian and decides to travel across the country to meet him. still my most popular hermitcraft fic and my second-most popular fic overall. heavy on body horror, themes of what makes someone a person, and also evil x is here. i still love the mumbo voice in this, and it even has a complete podfic by quackingfish if you prefer audiobooks.

the continued adventures of the boatem road trip, hermitcraft, T, 28k. a series of events that take place as boatem is trapped in the void together for three months after big moon. originally written as a series of vaguely-connected oneshots on tumblr, gathered here into one place. the ending is a little abrupt, but if you're looking for something with the highest concentration of some of my favorite jokes i've made sitting right next to some good old cosmic horror, this is the fic for you.

the last days of the free angel of carrows, hermitcraft, T, 79k. the angel joe hills and the zombie cleo, owners of the atsign agency, investigate a strange mystery brought to them by pearl, and must save their city as they go. a noir-inspired urban fantasy i originally wrote for a big bang, and still my longest fic! it's got some of my favorite worldbuilding i've done, a great joe-and-cleo plot, a pearl i'm still obsessed with, and so much angel symbolism. if you like aus or urban fantasies, this is the one of my fics you should read.

solving counting sheep, evo, T, 78k. blade-three, living weapon of the watchers, is stolen by martyn after martyn finds its command words and taken home to jimmy to try to rehabilitate. what neither the property police or three itself know is that three is the ultimate fate of grian, their friend who they presumed dead. a fic that is very VERY much about identity and learning who you are, and also plays into many of my favorite living weapon and watcher!grian tropes--as well as subverts them in some heavy ways. probably one of the most personal fics i've ever written, as well. my understanding is that both people who like watcher!grian and people who hate it like this fic, which i take as praise.

the carriers, life series, M, 40k. PET mail (the group made up of Pearl, Etho, and Tango) are mail carriers after the zombie apocalypse, as well as asymptomatic carriers of the zombie virus. when cleo, a person from pearl's past, asks them to bring her a package, they go on a journey that barrels through all three of their pasts. this one is rated M for two specific reasons (both violence) but if you're chill with violence this one turned out pretty well! it is a very me take on a zombie apocalypse, what with the fact that the remnants of heavy industry are almost as much of a threat as the zombies, and a fic that leans pretty heavily on the double life soulmate pairs.

san luis, dream smp, T, 23k, perpetually unfinished. after the other three members of sbi die, philza tries to put back together the pieces. it would be easier if he wasn't hearing their ghosts. this is a fic i'm unfortunately unlikely to finish because it just makes me too sad to write after irl events, but it has some of my best handling of grief, and i know it brings some people comfort. if you don't mind me at my most unrelentingly sad, or are looking for that, i might still recommend it.

in deference to saint george, original superhero work, T, 42k. superhero superball, aka jack harlan, starts dating a customer he meets at the coffee shop he works at, while at the same time dealing with the attacks of the villain dragon and natural disasters. a hero/villain fic with a very ME kind of ending, i am still SUPER PROUD of this. i think the worldbuilding and characters work and it's my proof to myself i can write ow! also, if you've always wanted to read a superhero au from me, good news: this may not be an au, but it's very much exactly that.

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long oneshots

consequentialism, hermitcraft, M, 5k. as the members of boatem start falling in the boatem hole, their own dead bodies start showing up. peak "WOULD THAT BE FUCKED UP OR WHAT" horror from me, and also the first hermitcraft fic i ever wrote! if you like my horror writing and aren't too squeamish, good news: this exists.

to convey a certain brilliance, hermitcraft, T, 21k. joe hills and zombiecleo slowly, and through many death loops, drag their way out of their collapsed base to try to survive after a lunar apocalypse. this is the second hermitcraft fic i ever wrote and i wrote it before we knew how moon's big would end, inspired by super hostile; people still tell me it has some of their favorite joe characterization.

cura te ipsum, hermitcraft, T, 15k. tango, in a world where the hermatrix is canon, wakes up on-board the hermethius after dying to the moon and has to try to figure out how to cope. still one of my favorite oneshots i've written, full-stop, and the culmination of all my big moon emotions. it can be considered fully canon-compliant, and it's mostly about all the big emotions something like big moon would cause.

jevin's egg disaster, hermitcraft, G, 7k. the eggs from the season nine egg hunt turn into real children. chaos ensues. this is technically sorted into chapters, and written as a series of very short ficlets on tumblr originally. it doesn't really "conclude" as a result. however this is me on pure crackfic and contains my favorite joke i've ever made (it's in chapter 7 if you're wondering) so PLEASE read it if all the rest of my 'everyone talks about their big feelings' is causing you to need a laugh because it WILL make you laugh.

attempt thirty-three, hermitcraft, T, 14k. joe hills experiences the thirty-third loop of the time loop he's been stuck in, trying to save the world from the rift. a fic exploring the idea of "what happens in that middle part of the time loop when you've been there a while, but don't have things solved yet?" if you like joe hills and you also like hurt/comfort, this is very much a fic with both of those things, and some of my best with both of those things.

a thing that is thicker than starlight, hermitcraft, T, 13k. after reuniting on an adventure through space, long-lost siblings cleo and gem return home and try to figure out where they're supposed to fit into each other's lives. written for recursive exchange and based on "out to the galaxy steady she goes" by thedepressedcanary, although this fic stands on its own. it's a vaguely treasure planet-like au, but it's also MOSTLY about the trauma your parents leave you and the feeling of knowing you're supposed to care about someone (but don't know how to yet). this is my sibling feelings fic, read it for sibling feelings.

the inner mechanism of a black box, dream smp, T, 14k. techno is trapped, isolated, in a horrible version of the prison with only his voices for company. still my most popular fic, and also the fic of mine that is most describable as 'whump'. i still really love the techno writing in this one; it may be the first complete thing i posted to the account but it's still good. written before we knew anything about the prison, and so the situation is entirely speculative; also written before 'techno in prison' really became a genre. you can tell both of these things, for both good and ill.

revenant, dream smp, M, 11k. jack manifold descends back into hell in order to drag tommy back up and out with him. written in a fugue state during the like, three days tommy was still dead. jack manifold is way cooler than he deserves in this fic (he is also EXACTLY as cool as he deserves). to be honest i don't remember why i rated this one M, but not stuffed bird? if you can read stuffed bird you can almost certainly read this. has some of my cooler weird formatting decisions in it and a WAY COOLER VERSION OF HELL THAN THE DSMP GAVE US I'LL STAND BY THAT.

bad beat, dream smp, T, 10k. techno goes to play a high-stakes game of poker against quackity, hoping to win insurance for his friends' lives. do you like card games? i like card games. most of this fic is a thriller in which they are playing poker. both people who like and dislike poker like this fic, though, because the thriller elements still work. also, my one take on casino quackity, so if you like quackity, give it a shot.

a kind of playing heartstrings, empires smp, G, 6k. jimmy invites scott to a cod empire gathering. an older fic of mine that's a cute take on empires flower husbands with a LOT of music culture worldbuilding for the codlands! this is just a fic that makes me feel cozy and happy. it is uncomplicated fluff.

survivorship bias, empires smp, G, 9k. an amnesiac jimmy is fished out of the water and into a surviving village that exists a few decades after the rapture, but still a great deal of time before empires season two will happen. a combination of worldbuilding of that transition period and emotions about jimmy, who doesn't remember why he's sad but certainly feels it. i enjoyed meshing different empires cultures together for this a lot!

the perils of updating your vault hunters server before even the public release (seriously who qa checks this), vault hunters smp, G, 9k. in which a bug on the vault hunters server turns all of iskall's friends into cute small children and he has to get them out of a vault again. this one is just an excuse for me to write endless Cute Baby Shenanigans, and if Cute Baby Shenanigans sound like they're your kind of thing, give it a read!

it's a long way down if you want to get up again, yugioh dm, T, 12k. mokuba tries to puzzle out why his brother is acting so strangely; as it turns out, this is because kaiba has recently time traveled. a fic shoving DSoD kaiba into the earliest parts of yugioh. he is very bad as a time traveler, and he's not necessarily making things better, but they aren't necessarily worse. also, a fic with a lot of my feelings about mokuba and seto's relationship, as well as their relationship with gozaburo. the kaibas will always make me feel things.

on burdens, yugioh dm, T, 11k. kaiba realizes that jounouchi is both more complicated than he gave him credit for and probably being abused, which changes his perspective on him. violetshipping, but mostly pre-violetshipping. another fic where i write people playing a card game! it is also as much about kaiba having the world's worst emotional intelligence as it is about kaiba and jounouchi both having shitty dads.

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selected short oneshots

a question for the dead, life series, G, 1.2k. a script-format fic interviewing the dead players of last life. one of my favorite experiments with formatting of all time, line after line of character study with no wasted words. read it.

different sort of soulmates, life series, G, 926. an aromantic mumbo jumbo hears about double life after the fact, and talks through with grian his fears that he wouldn't have been capable of having a soulmate. cute grumbo friendship and also some feelings about feeling disconnected from the people around you. a personal favorite ficlet of mine.

the long odds, life series, G, 1.8k. martyn is invited to the table with the other writers to play a game. a very meta fic in which martyn plays blackjack with watchers and listeners. this fic is like 80% metafiction and allegory by weight, and i like it very much.

a murder, life series, G, 483. before limited life, jimmy and joel realize it's coming via a flock of birds on empires. a fic both with jimmy and joel's unique friendship and a meta twist on the whole canary thing.

task: answer the following question: do you believe in curses?, life series, G, 1.2k. the surviving members of secret life explain their thoughts on curses. a spiritual successor to 'a question for the dead' and another one of my absolute favorite experiments with formatting. another one with no wasted words that hinges on the character voice of it all.

home, life series, G, 887. cleo and etho have a conversation about their new relationship after secret life, given that cleo's aromantic. man, i love cletho so much, and i also really like the idea of aromantic cleo, so this is my ficlet with both of those things.

do you even lift, bro?, hermitcraft, G, 2.4k. boatem fluff about who can bench press the most members of boatem. this fic is still really cute tbh, not much else to say.

like father, hermitcraft, T, 2k. grumbot prime decides he has to protect grian the same way grian protected grumbot in another world. the horror of being trapped by something you can't escape in a box designed to stop you from hurting yourself; also, the horror of your mistakes coming to haunt you.

forgetful, hermitcraft, T, 977. an interaction between evil x and xisuma near the end of season eight. a ficlet exploring some of my feelings about how season eight evil x can very easily be read as abusive and not even xisuma ever seems to acknowledge that. also, the horror of admin powers in minecraft.

to spite your face, hermitcraft, T, 980. a ficlet where joe gets to be mad about how he was treated by hermitopia during the crossover. i just think i still have so many crossover feelings about joe hills on empires, that's all.

as what you make becomes you, hermitcraft, T, 3.2k. decked out consumes tango, as seen from three perspectives. technically three separate oneshots collected into one fic as one story, the idea of decked out 2 'eating' tango is one of my favorite horror concepts from season 9. this is my execution of it.

missed the shovel talk so this is the next best thing, hermitcraft, T, 941. the rest of the NHO throws a party for doc and then interrogates him about when he even got married to ren in the first place. a goofy, funny fic about the hermits hanging out and being friends. this one is mostly jokes, but i think they're very funny jokes.

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i also have a number of other 'shorter' oneshots that aren't included here for the sake of the length of the post. to find all of my fics, including those left out of this masterpost, check my ao3! and, as suggested above, browse the 'a bee fic' tag on tumblr to find a collection of everything i've written, including things i either haven't yet transferred to ao3 or will not transfer there.

i hope you enjoy my writing!

[ninadove]

— Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (Acte II, scène 8) [FR] [ENG]

Part 1 🐈‍⬛

Part 2 🐉

Part 3 ⬆️

Alt text below the cut!

FRENCH: Et que faudrait-il faire ?

ENGLISH: What would you have me do?

SCREENSHOT: Felix confronting Adrien about his inability to defy his father [S4 E23: Risk]

FRENCH: Chercher un protecteur puissant, prendre un patron, // Et comme un lierre obscur qui circonvient un tronc // Et s’en fait un tuteur en lui léchant l’écorce, // Grimper par ruse au lieu de s’élever par force ?

ENGLISH: Find a powerful protector: and choose a patron, // like the dark ivy that creeps round a tree-trunk, // and gains its support by licking at its length, // to climb by a ruse instead of rise by strength?

SCREENSHOTS: Gabriel handing Colt the Peacock Miraculous + Colt, transformed, holding Felix’s amok [S5 E24: Representation]

FRENCH: Non, merci.

ENGLISH: No, thank you.

SCREENSHOT: Felix wearing his amok for the first time [S5 E24: Representation]

FRENCH: Dédier, comme tous ils le font, // Des vers aux financiers ? Se changer en bouffon // Dans l’espoir vil de voir, aux lèvres d’un ministre, // Naître un sourire, enfin, qui ne soit pas sinistre ?

ENGLISH: Dedicate, as others do // my poetry to bankers? Become a buffoon // in the base hope of seeing a less than sinister // smile quiver on the lips of some minister?

SCREENSHOTS: Kagami abandoning her foil after her defeat against Adrien [S2 E6: Riposte] + Matagi Gozen shooting arrows at Kagami [S5 E19: Pretension]

FRENCH: Non, merci!

ENGLISH: No, thank you!

SCREENSHOT: Argos destroying his fan to protect Kagami from Tomoe [S5 E19: Pretension]

FRENCH: Calculer, avoir peur, être blême, // Préférer faire une visite qu’un poème, // Rédiger des placets, se faire présenter ?

ENGLISH: Calculate, show fear, grow pallid, // prefer to make a visit than a ballad? // Get myself presented, write petitions to the king?

SCREENSHOTS: Gabriel hugging Adrien as part of a ploy to akumatise him [S5 E10: Transmission] + Antichat and Nightormentor [S5 E24: Representation]

FRENCH: Non, merci! // Non, merci! // Non, merci!

ENGLISH: No, thank you! // No, thank you! // No, thank you!

SCREENSHOTS: Felix resisting akumatisation [S4 E9: Gabriel Agreste] + Flairmidable fetching Ladybug’s yoyo [S4 E24: Strikeback] + Felix clutching the Peacock Miraculous [S4 E24: Strikeback]

FRENCH: Mais… chanter, // Rêver, rire, passer, être seul, être libre,

ENGLISH: But...to sing, // to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,

SCREENSHOTS: Paris empty under the light of the Red Moon [S5 E18: Emotion]

FRENCH: Avoir l’œil qui regarde bien, la voix qui vibre,

ENGLISH: With a voice that stirs, and an eye that still can see!

SCREENSHOTS: Felix confessing to Kagami in the sewers [S5 E19: Pretension] + Felix reassuring Duusu they will get their happy ending [S5 E24: Representation]

FRENCH: Mettre, quand il vous plaît, son feutre de travers, // Pour un oui, pour un non, se battre, – ou faire un vers !

ENGLISH: To cock your hat on one side, when you please // at a yes, a no, to fight, or – make poetry!

SCREENSHOT: Felix (disguised as Adrien) smirking as he prepares to beat up the Punishers [S3 E23: Felix]

FRENCH: Travailler sans souci de gloire ou de fortune, // À tel voyage, auquel on pense, dans la lune !

ENGLISH: To work without a thought of fame or fortune, // on that journey, that you dream of, to the moon!

SCREENSHOTS: Argos explaining his wish + preparing to snap Red Moon [S5 E18: Emotion]

FRENCH: N’écrire jamais rien qui de soi ne sortît, // Et modeste d’ailleurs, se dire : mon petit, // Sois satisfait des fleurs, des fruits, même des feuilles, // Si c’est dans ton jardin à toi que tu les cueilles !

ENGLISH: Never to write a line that’s not your own, // and, humble too, say to oneself: My son, // be satisfied with flowers, fruit, even leaves, // if they’re from your own garden, your own trees!

SCREENSHOTS: Felix playing with his plush rabbit [S5 E24: Representation] + Kagami sketching Felix by the pool [S5 E 26: Recreation], both times in a garden

FRENCH: Puis, s’il advient d’un peu triompher, par hasard, // Ne pas être obligé d’en rien rendre à César,

ENGLISH: And then should chance a little glory bring, // don’t feel you need to render Caesar a thing,

SCREENSHOTS: Adrien lying to Kagami about losing his bracelet, which she holds behind her back [S4 E2: Lies]

FRENCH: Vis-à-vis de soi-même en garder le mérite,

ENGLISH: But keep the merit to yourself, entirely

SCREENSHOTS: Argos drawing a heart on Kagami’s window, causing her to giggle + Argami kissing as the sun rises [S5 E24: Representation]

FRENCH: Bref, dédaignant d’être le lierre parasite, // Lors même qu’on n’est pas le chêne ou le tilleul,

ENGLISH: In short, don’t deign to be the parasitic ivy, // even though you’re not the oak tree or the elm,

SCREENSHOTS: Argos joining the heroes’ team [S5 E26: Recreation]

FRENCH: Ne pas monter bien haut, peut-être, mais tout seul !

ENGLISH: Rise not so high, maybe, but be there all alone!

SCREENSHOT: Felix standing to a much bigger Gabriel, surrounded by amoks and akumas [S5 E24: Representation]

[kerubimcrepin]

20th Anniversary Map, with commentary by Kerubim Crepin and Joris Jurgen

The frustrating thing about this map, is that nobody who got it has decided to scan or transcribe it, for documentation's sake. So I had to complete this list of all the commentary using tweets and unboxing videos.

But, at the very least, we now have documentation of what this thing actually says.

Joris and Kerubim's text is colour-coded for your convenience, and this post includes both the French transcription, and English translations.

La carte du Monde des Douzes. par Joris Jurgen et Papycha

The map of the World of Twelve. by Joris Jurgen and Papycha

ASTRUB:

J: Chez Papycha ♡ / Papycha's home ♡

J: Les Araknes, c'est dégueu-monstrueu! / Arachnees are icky-creepy !

J: Je pari que la tour du Xélor fou est par ici. / I bet the Mad Xelor's tower is here.

K: Perdu, mon Jojo ! / You lost the bet, my Jojo!

SUFOKIA:

J: de lourds secrets sont enfouis dans ses profondeurs... / dark secrets lay buried deep within this place...

ILE DE MINOTOROR / MINOTOROR ISLAND:

K: Croyez-le ou non, le Minotoror est terriblement chou... / Believe it or not, but the Minotoror is awfully cute...

FOIRE DU TROOL / TROOL FAIR:

K: Ma meilleure partie de pêche aux koin-koins ! / My best quaquack fishing experience ever!

J: Lorko -> 🚶‍♂️

(personal note: i have no fucking idea what a Lorko is.)

ILE D'OTOMAÏ / OTOMAÏ ISLAND:

J: contacter en cas de besoin 👍 / contact him should the need arise 👍

BONTA:

J: Là où j'ai taqiné la boufballe avec le giga gran Khan Karkass!! / Here I playd boufball with the supa-duper cool Khan Karkass !!

(personal note: This means that Kerubim and Joris started work on this map while still living in Astrub, but kept working even after the movie. Cute.)

(personal note: A French person who helped me decipher this part, said that Joris makes quite a lot of spelling mistakes here. I'm sure there are more that I didn't catch in other parts of the post. He's very wonderful, very cute.)

ÎLE DE MOON / MOON ISLAND:

J: autochtones sympas. ne pas rester pour le dîner. / nice locals. don't stay for dinner.

K: Bashy, mon pote d'enfance, semait la terreur aux ces flots ! / Bashy, my childhood friend, sowed terror among these waves!

ILE DE NOWEL / KWISMAS ISLAND:

J: Les cadeau sont mortels! (vraiment!) / The gifts are deadly ! (really !)

FRIGOST:

J: Bienvenu chez le Yech'ti! / Welcome to Yech'ti's !

K: Passe-lui le bonjour de ma part ! / Say hello to him for me!

PANDALA:

J: commander de la chichala à zato / order chichala from zato

(Personal note: this suggests Joris might be just as heavy of a drinker as Kerubim. Or at least into very intense drinks, similarly to Keke. He's so real for this.)

ÎLE DES WABBITS / WABBIT ISLAND:

J: éviter le wa... / avoid the wa...

J: L'île de La Likrone... Par là d'apré la légende. / The Unikron Island... This way, acording to the legend.

K: T'es à l'ouest, mon Jojo ! / It's to the west, my Jojo!

(Personal note: Joris wrote "d'aprés" with a mistake. I'll try to translate his little mistakes, if I notice them, or can come up with a way to do that.)

K: Le réceptacle des Dofus / The Dofus Receptacle

X Traverser le pont / Cross the bridge X Parler au chaman / Talk to the shaman X Boire un coup / Have a drink

(personal note: this is a reference to the quest "The Dofus Receptacle". The bridge referenced here is the bridge to Pandala.)

K: Je suis sûr qu'Indie a pris ce bateau ... / I'm sure it's Indie, who's on that boat...

VULKANIA:

K: Contre Grozilla, je me suis dépensé sans compter ! / I gave it my all, while fighting Grozilla!

Dessinée à l'ancre de Kralamour. / Drawn using Kralove eenk.

Propriété de Joris © / Property of Joris ©

Ne pa toucher / Dont touch

(Surtou si vous vous apelé Lilotte) / (Espeshaly if you're name is Lilotte)

[the-fallen-stones]

I am bad at hiding. If you are my friend, you might recognize me. For that, I apologize.

You may call me anything you like. I enjoy and encourage nicknames. But if you need a name, Mica works.

If you would like me to write something for you, you can request it, and I will if I can. It may not be immediately. But I will try.

A warning, my descriptions can sometimes be graphic, or a little violent. It is usually metaphorical, though, don't worry.

I like both storm and calm. Chaos and comfort. I enjoy things that invoke thought, or creativity. I love hugs, snuggles, animals (especially dragons and cats), tea, fiction, and poetry.

Please do not bring up politics here. It's not that I don't care. But I've anguished myself enough over them and honestly, I need a break.

Never assume hostility! It was probably an accident. My tone comes across weird sometimes.

Tags:

#storm's eye - things that strike me, and I'd like to come back to.

#mica speaks - anything original, by me.

#mica reblogs - empty reblogs.

#mica elaborates - reblogs that are not empty.

#mica rambles - I have rambled.

#mica rhymes - my poetry.

#mika doodles - my art.

#mika's music - my favorite songs.

#mica recites - my favorite poems or stories.

#mika inquires - I ask questions.

#mika responds - I answer questions.

Credit for the image goes to @poetryforall.

My wonderful mutuals:

@kimu-dem - Keeper of comfort.

@thatrando13 - The wanderer.

@carrotsinnovember - A gentle friend.

@hersurvival - Blanket fort against thunder and snowstorms.

@caustic-splines - Writer of old love letters.

@abiethewizardduck

@randomshowerpoems - The wise wordsmith.

@poemsofanentomologist

@galaxys-universe

@literaryvein - The bright storm outside.

@same-skies

These titles can always change, as I know you better. If you'd like me to use a different one I certainly can.

Some of my favorite songs are;

One Day You Will Fly Too, by Aimee Carty,

Come Along, Does the Swallow Dream of Flying?, Egg and Soldiers, Pelicans We, Half Past Three, Run, and Linger Longer, by Cosmo Sheldrake,

Glow in the Dark by Vian Izak,

Rush of Life, My Neighbor's Car Alarm, Desire, and Rain, by Tony Ann. (Classical.)

Experience, Fly, and Eros, by Ludovico Einaudi. (Classical.)

Ilomilo by Billie Eilish,

Two, Sun, Eight, and Light by Sleeping at Last,

Big Black Car and San Luis by Gregory Alan Isakov,

Passing Through by Kaden MacKay,

The Mountain Song, Be Nobody, and Better is the End, by TopHouse,

Changing Days, Irish Eyes, I Can Never Give my Heart, and Rocket, by Rose Betts,

The Sound of Silence, by Simon and Garfunkel,

Walking in the Air, Time, Orinoco Flow, and Carol of the Bells, by Libera,

And many more.

Some of my favorite poems are;

Tug'o'War of Heartstrings, The Night Sky, Together, With a Window Between, A Heavy Wait/Weight, A Veil Not Yet There, Sharks in a Zoo, A Faustian Deal, Denial, The Voice of a Loved One, Explosions, Tribute to the Ocean, The Vast Expanse of the Ocean, Nurturing, Stalagmites in my Brain, and How Can I Put Those Boxes Away? by The Shower Poet,

Fire and Ice, and Walking by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost,

The Sunshine Kid, Paper People, and 59, by Harry Baker,

The Spider, by Robert P. Tristam Coffin,

Run With You, by Atlas,

A Litany, by Gregory Orr,

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors, and Details of the Woods, by Richard Silken.

And many more.

Some of my favorite books are;

The Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis,

Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu,

Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn,

Holes, Wayside School, Small Steps, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom, by Lois Sachar.

Hoot, Scat, Flush, and Chomp, by Carl Hiaasen.

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Starry River of the Sky, and When the Sea Turned to Silver, by Grace Lin.

And oh, so very many more.

Poems I have written;

Teach Me, Silent Serenade, Space Can Die, Weak Resolve, Boundaries Drawn, The Candle, Vacuum, One Pace, Adventure With Me, Stagnant, Workaholic, Sirens Can Cry, Dreamt of Loss, The Chalkboard, Shush, and many more to come.

Once was a girl, who would talk to herself. Stories, tales, thoughts in passing, of the past, future, of the sky and leaves, wind and breeze, of storm and calm. She longed to speak in a cadence. One to soothe. To heal. Doesn't everyone want that, to heal? To be somebody to someone, to have a voice like an anchor, eyes like a vice, that soften, that go warm like a bird's shelter?

Storm seeks calm. Calm seeks storm. They find a balance. But never, never do they stay still. She couldn't stay still. Her mind was a hurricane. And sometimes a breeze, sometimes a song to put you at ease, and sometimes, tight, coiled like a spring.

The calm wasn't who she was. Nor was she as much of the storm as she thought she was. Dear, she was a fire. She'd dim, and grow brighter. Her voice would get high when excited, she'd smile. Her embers couldn't rest. She'd smoulder. Then big stewing pots would bubble over. She'd speak in paragraphs, eyes like beacons, stumbling over words and not always making sense...

But it was beautiful. She loved, she loved deeply. She wanted to be loved, too. And she was. But when the smoke gets high, water and frost meeting that bright smile all too many times, it blurs out the hands, hearts, the words reaching, seeking...

She was silenced. Of course, the embers still burned. But the very things she stifled were the things she was beloved for. And she couldn't hear them.

But slowly, wet wood dries, my dear. You can't always cry. Time passes by. Wounds heal, scars fade, even when clouds pass over the stars. She was stronger than that.

She learned again to love. And though she had times she couldn't muster the songs, the words, the strength to hold on so tight, she began to heal.

Please, my dear, have patience. She is still healing.

Burnout is a dangerous thing. If you are stuck it never eases, never ceases. And things that brought you peace are no less, then, but grievous. It feels like Sisyphus himself is in charge of pulling you out of that rut. My dear, he can't.

The world moves so fast... I can't help but be dizzy. The facts and the future, like stones, whizzing, past my head, I bustle, I catch them, I'm busy...

The earth turns fast but not as fast as my head. Live, die. Fireflies. On my deathbed. I crave a rest, but I get anger instead. For injustice, for fury, the memories I shed...

Give my hands to the stars, fire for every digit. They fall from the sky when in darkness I fidget. Tear through the clouds, but then cry when I can't fix it. My brain is a void and...

I just.

Can't.

Bridge it.

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Other Leitner Reading List

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

Allende, Isabel: Ripper

Beauregard, Aron: Playground Borges, Jorge Luis: Averroës's Search Borges, Jorge Luis: El Aleph Bosch, Pseudonymous: The Secret Series Breed-Wrisley, Kira and Scott Cawthon: Five Nights At Freddy's: The Silver Eyes Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita Burroughs, William S.: Naked Lunch Byng, Georgia: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Carroll, Lewis: The Hunting of the Snark

Denning, G.S.: Warlock Holmes DeTerlizzi, Tony: The Search for WondLa

El-Mohtar, Amal and Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War

Fforde, Jasper: Thursday Next series

Gaiman, Neil & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens Grahame-Smith, Seth: How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills Grimm, Brothers: Grimm's Fairy Tales

Holt, Tom: Doughnut Hussie, Andrew: Homestuck

Johnson, Jeremy Robert: We Live Inside You

Langlois, Amelie C.: The Sister Verse Series Lewis, C.S.: The Silver Chair Lovecraft, H.P.: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath Lubar, David: Weenies series Lyons, Steve: The Crooked World

Nash, Ogden: A Tale of the 13th Floor

Osman, Richard: The Thursday Murder Club

Pinkwater, Daniel: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars Pirinçci, Akif: Felidae

Rix, Jamie: Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids

Scieszka, Jon: The Stinky Cheese Man Shannon, David: No, David! Sims, Jonathan: Thirteen Storeys Skipp, John: Don't Push the Button Stine, R.L.: Goosebumps

Theis, Jim: The Eye of Argon Tokuda-Hall, Maggie: The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea Traditional (German): Der Struwwelpeter Trumbo,  Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun

Van Allsburg, Chris: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Vasquez, Jhonen: Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors

Allende, Isabel: Ripper

Seventeen-year-old Amanda Martin is fascinated by crime. She is currently obsessed with a game called "Ripper" which she plays online with players from around the world. With the assistance of her beloved grandfather, she guides the group (Sherlock, Esmeralda, Colonel Paddington, and Abatha) in their objective of solve crimes inspired by those of Jack the Ripper. When a series of grisly murders starts taking place in the San Francisco area where she leaves, she is fascinated by then and finds herself steering the group toward solving these real life murders.

But the game stops being fun when her mother, free-spirited Indiana Jackson, goes missing.

Beauregard, Aron: Playground

Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades. But there’s a reason the structures in the bowels of her gothic castle have taken so long to develop—they were never meant to see the light of day.

When a band of dysfunctional children is suddenly thrust into a diabolical realm of violence, they must grow up instantly to have a chance at survival. Will they find a way to put their differences aside, or be swallowed up by the insidious architecture all around them?

Borges, Jorge Luis: Averroës's Search

The story very much reminds me of the domain in MAG183: Monument. "The story imagines the difficulty of Averroës, the famed Islamic philosopher and translator, in translating Aristotle's Poetics because he was not able to understand what a play was, owing to the absence of live theatrical performances from Averroës' cultural milieu, in contrast to that of ancient Greece. In the story, Averroës casually observes some children play-acting, then later hears a traveler ineptly describe an actual theatrical performance he once saw in a distant land, but still fails to understand that the tragedies and comedies of which Aristotle writes are a kind of performance art, rather than merely literature.

The process of writing the story is meant to parallel the events in the story itself; Borges writes in an afterword to the story that his attempt to understand Averroës was as doomed as Averroës's attempt to understand drama. "I felt that the work mocked me, foiled me, thwarted me. I felt that Averroës, trying to imagine what a play is without ever having suspected what a theater is, was no more absurd than I, trying to imagine Averroës yet with no more material than a few snatches from Renan, Lane, and Asín Palacios.""

Borges, Jorge Luis: El Aleph

I am not sure if this counts as it is a collection of short stories, so I will also submit my personal choice that best fits an unaligned Leitner in my opinion. "The title work, "The Aleph", describes a point in space that contains all other spaces at once. The work also presents the idea of infinite time. Borges writes in the original afterword, dated May 3, 1949 (Buenos Aires), that most of the stories belong to the genre of fantasy, mentioning themes such as identity and immortality."

Bosch, Pseudonymous: The Secret Series

The series is about two children who are not named Cass and Max-Ernest. Cass is a survivalist, while Max-Ernest has a condition (though no one knows quite what his condition is). One day, they are swept into the dangerous world of the Terces Society and the Midnight Sun...and the Secret.

Features alchemy, the quest for immortality, time travel, a very Lemony narrator, and the exploration of all five senses.

Breed-Wrisley, Kira and Scott Cawthon: Five Nights At Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

From the creator of the bestselling horror video game series Five Nights at Freddy's.Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret . . . and a murderous agenda.

Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him.

Burroughs, William S.: Naked Lunch

It follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, intended by Burroughs to be read in any order, and the main character takes on various aliases as he travels from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. Burroughs wrote in his introduction that "The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork."

Could this book be considered as being aligned to the Spiral? Could it be Flesh? I don't know, but it is certainly something or other.

Byng, Georgia: Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Molly Moon is a British preteen living in a terrible orphanage. Just before her only friend is adopted and moves to America without saying goodbye, she finds a rare book on hypnotism, and gains the ability to hypnotize anyone through eye contact and make them do whatever she wants. She heads off to America to find her friend, hypnotizing people all the way. Meanwhile, a sinister wanna-be hypnotist stalks her... and he is willing to do anything to get the book in his hands.

Sequels deal with further developing psychic powers, including body-hopping, weather control, and even time travel.

Carroll, Lewis: The Hunting of the Snark

An epic poem which hits quite a few different fears; the Hunt is an obvious one, and given the author, so is the Spiral. The sea voyage has elements of Vast, and various characters can be read as Flesh, Stranger, and even Web. The poem seems to end with the Lonely; " He had softly and suddenly vanished away — For the Snark was a Boojum, you see."

Denning, G.S.: Warlock Holmes

A Sherlock Holmes parody in which the titular detective is a rather abstracted mage, Watson is the brains of the outfit, and Gregson and Lestrade are an ogre and a vampire, respectively. Together, they investigate supernatural crime in Victorian England.

DeTerlizzi, Tony: The Search for WondLa

The Search for WondLa is the first book in a trilogy about a human girl, Eva Nine, in a strange and unfamiliar world.

She actually spends a lot of this book believing she is the last of her species surrounded by all sorts of strange creatures she can never quite feel close to (lonely, extinction) while being hunted by a trophy hunter who wants to give her to a mysterious queen.

On why it's Lonely: a large portion of the book is spent with someone she cannot communicate with and feels distant from, alongside the general Lonely vibes of "last human" stories.

On why it's Extinction: This is earth. A long-destroyed earth, specifically (she visits the ruins of NYC, I have proof), and these alien races have moved in now that the humans are all "gone" (complicated). It's heavily implied the earth was destroyed in some nuclear war or natural disaster, with the alien species having restored the earth from a wasteland.

On why it's hunt: she spends the entire book being hunted and being afraid because of that, what more do I need to say?

On why it belongs here: quite the fear cocktail for a children's book, isn't it?

El-Mohtar, Amal and Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War

The novel is about two agents on rival sides of a time war, Red and Blue, who are both working to ensure that their respective futures — the highly technological Agency and the biological Garden — come to pass. Despite their opposing organizations, Red and Blue begin exchanging letters across time and space, and develop affection for each other that threatens not only them, but the entire time war.

Fforde, Jasper: Thursday Next series

Thursday Next lives in an Alternate History. In her world, Time Travel, cloning and genetic engineering are commonplace; resurrected dodos are the household pet of choice. The obscenely powerful Goliath Corporation, which nearly singlehandedly reconstructed England after World War II, now runs the country as a virtual police state. And literature, particularly classic literature, is very, very, very Serious Business. Writers are revered with nearly spiritual devotion, controversial claims about books and authors can be criminal, and an entire police squad, the LiteraTecs, exist to keep the literary scene in order. Thursday works for just such a unit in Swindon, with her friend and colleague, the exceedingly polite Bowden Cable.

In the course of rescuing her Gadgeteer Genius uncle Mycroft from international arch-criminal Acheron Hades, a gleefully evil individual with supernatural powers, Thursday discovers the Great Library, a sort of pocket dimension that exists 'behind the scenes' of all works of literature, where all literary characters live. They're self-aware, acting out their roles when a person reads a book but chilling out and living their own lives as soon as they close it. The Great Library is governed by the Council of Genres and kept in line by Jurisfiction, another police force whose task it is to make sure the plot of every book stays the same every time someone reads it. (Insofar as they can.)

Such is the universe of Jasper Fforde's meta-fictional masterpiece, the Thursday Next series. The author hangs a lampshade on everything and anything relating to classic literature, the tropes of police fiction and spy fiction, and even the relationship between a work of fiction and its audience. Heavy on wordplay and puns, the series deals with the tireless heroine's adventures balancing her work as an agent of Jurisfiction in the Great Library and LiteraTec in the outside world, to say nothing of her responsibilities as a wife and mother.

Gaiman, Neil & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens

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Grahame-Smith, Seth: How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills

Every month or so, a new horror movie hits #1 at the box office no wonder there are dozens of new fright films slated for release in 2007. But if you find yourself trapped in one of these movies, there's no need to be afraid. How to Survive a Horror Movie teaches readers how to cope with every kind of horror movie obstacle, from ax-wielding psychopaths to haunted Japanese VHS tapes. Chapters include:

-How to Survive a Night of Babysitting -How to Convince the Skeptical Local Sheriff -How to Perform an Exorcism -How to Tell If You've Been Dead Since the Beginning of the Movie -How to Vanquish a Murderous Doll

Full of illustrated instructions on avoiding ghosts, serial killers, haunted cars, murderous pets, telekinetic prom queens, and countless other hazards, How to Survive a Horror Movie is essential reading for movie buffs of all ages!

Grimm, Brothers: Grimm's Fairy Tales

Can't beat the classics, especially when the original versions feature cannibalism, murder, mutilation, and torture!

Holt, Tom: Doughnut

Multiversal travel is made possible through mathematics and fried dough.

Hussie, Andrew: Homestuck

This thing is a tome of madness, chaos, and early 2000s Internet culture (oops, tautology!)

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you know why

Johnson, Jeremy Robert: We Live Inside You

"We are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now. We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness. We are the lie on your lips, the collapsing star in your heart, and the still-warm gun in your shaking hands. The illusion of control is all we'll allow you, and no matter what you do... WE LIVE INSIDE YOU"

This book is one of those story collections that everybody should read. In turns fascinating, poignant, scary and all too human, Jeremy Robert Johnson taps into the nightmare psyche that threatens to eat you every moment of your life. Each story highlights another gremlin that snacks on your nerves, tells you things you don't want to hear.

Langlois, Amelie C.: The Sister Verse Series

John, an unstable detective living in an alternate future, is plagued by hallucinations of a malevolent, shapeshifting entity, known as the Lord in White, that haunted his childhood. While he struggles to maintain his grip on reality, he soon discovers that his world is a terrifying illusion designed to make him suffer. Surreal, horrifying, and unflinchingly brutal – enter a world of blood and fear. Enter the Sister Verse.

The series reads like a fever dream. The world reflects the fears of all the characters in the most bizarre way possible, and things continue to unravel the further they go, typically ending in a forest made of liquid meat that surrounds a black hole shaped like a willow with teeth. It is revealed in the first book that the whole reality John and the rest of the cast of characters live in and themselves was created by the Lord in White for his own amusement. The Lord in White is completely aware that it’s in a fictional universe, and is implied to have the power to rewrite parts of the story, being the avatar of the Sister Verse. It often refers to the reader directly, as well as real world occurrences and future in-universe events, to the point that it literally recites lines from the book. And that's just the first book in the series, with the Lovecraftian horror continuing further in the sequels as the past of the Dreadlands is revealed, along with the past of its characters.

Lewis, C.S.: The Silver Chair

"Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which, for once, is unlocked. It leads to the open moor...or does it? Once again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that brings them face to face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if Prince Rillian is to be saved."

Lovecraft, H.P.: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Uncelebrated writer and illustrious dreamer Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal city, they do not answer, and his dreams of the city stop altogether. Undaunted, Carter decides to use all his talents in the dream-world to find the legendary mountain Kadath, where the wiser Earth Gods live, in order to ask them for the location of his beloved sunset city. He initiates a quest through the depths of the Dreamlands, finding the weirdest things and meeting the strangest friends and foes.

Unknowingly to Carter, a powerful entity is bent on making him desist of his quest...

Lubar, David: Weenies series

A series of horror story collections for kids which range from the funny to the weird to the outright twisted.

Lyons, Steve: The Crooked World

Synopsis: The people of the Crooked World lead an idyllic existence.

Take Streaky Bacon, for example. This jovial farmer wants nothing more from life than a huge blunderbuss, with which he can blast away at his crop-stealing nemesis. And then there's Angel Falls, a racing driver with a string of victories to her name. Sure, her trusted guardian might occasionally put on a mask and menace her for her prize money, but that's just life, right? And for Jasper the cat, nothing could be more pleasant than a nice, long nap in his kitchen — so long as that darn mouse doesn't jam his tail into the plug socket again.

But somebody is about to shatter all those lives. Somebody is about to change everything — and it's possible that no one on the Crooked World will ever be happy again.

The Doctor's TARDIS is about to arrive. And when it does... That's all folks!

Propaganda: okay. okay okayokayokkay. I can be normal about this book (a lie). The TARDIS lands on a planet that operates on cartoon logic. The Doctor immediately gets shot in the chest and everyone is very confused when he doesn't immediately heal. The travelers have inadvertently introduced the real world into this Saturday Morning fantasyland, with concepts like death and sex and social inequality. For the first time, people can die permanently. The two-bit villains unite to nuke the heroic characters. The Scooby gang actually do discover the flayed corpse of God. In the middle of it all is the Doctor at maximum Nyarlathotep, fomenting revolution and drastic metaphysical upheaval in his strange, too-real clothes. If nothing else, vote for this book for actually making me cry over the death of Scrappy Fuckin' Doo!

Nash, Ogden: A Tale of the 13th Floor

A poem which warns against murderous retribution and illustrates the hellish fate of killers tied forever to their victims in the afterlife. Link: https://allpoetry.com/A-Tale-Of-The-Thirteenth-Floor

Osman, Richard: The Thursday Murder Club

“In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?”

While it seems like a shoe-in for the Hunt with tracking down who did the crime, the book goes in areas that could consider being touched by the Lonely, the End, and the Eye. After all, this does take place in a retirement village — people die, people are lonely and these four senior citizens want to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Pinkwater, Daniel: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars

Leonard Neeble has been unhappy since his parents moved from the big city to suburban Kangaroo Park, New Jersey. His new school, Bat Masterson Jr. High, is terrible, and he has no friends since his classmates are snobbish louts who won't be friends with him because he's portly.

Things change once a new student shows up from The Bronx: Alan Mendelsohn, a trollish student who shuts the school down by telling everyone he's from Mars. After they both get suspended for acting out, the two boys journey to Downtown Hogboro, where they start a Mind Control course that teaches them telekinesis and, eventually, how to travel between dimensions.

Pirinçci, Akif: Felidae

Francis is a cat who has moved with his owner to a city in Germany. There, he comes across a mystery involving the murders of several neighborhood cats. Think Warriors, but it is a murder mystery written for adults. It has a lot of Slaughter and Hunt going on, but the killer's motives and backstory would honestly make him a prime Avatar for the Extinction.

The serial killer, Claudandus aka Pascal, is purely motivated by a deep hatred of humans after a traumatic past as the victim of some truly sadistic animal experiments in which he and other cats were used as lab rats, which leads him to try to create a race of "genetically perfect" cats while murdering those he considers to be inferior. He dreams of a future in which humans have been replaced as the dominant species by this future breed of cats, the narration even including an imaginary scenerio of the very last human trying to hide in the ruins of civilization before being hunted down like prey.

Rix, Jamie: Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids

A series of cautionary tales for lovers of screams! Getting a haircut? eating spaghetti? Having a birthday party? You may think these all sound like very ordinary things to do. But read on and see just how grizzly they can be!

Scieszka, Jon: The Stinky Cheese Man

it scared the FUCK out of me as a child, I have no idea why and I don't remember what it was about, and just its art style still creeps me out and I'm in my thirties now. That's got to count for something, yeah? ...okay this prolly isn't a great one for the tournament, but if you're struggling to fill in the brackets.

Shannon, David: No, David!

When David Shannon was five years old, he wrote and illustrated his first book. On every page were these words: NO, DAVID! . . . and a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do.Now David is all grown up. But some things never change. . . .Twenty years after its initial publication, No, David! remains a perennial household favorite, delighting children, parents, and teachers alike. David is a beloved character, whose unabashed good humor, mischievous smile, and laughter-inducing antics underline the love parents have for their children -- even when they misbehave.

Sims, Jonathan: Thirteen Storeys

"You're cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. Black tie optional.

A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All the guests are strangers - even to their host, the billionaire owner of the building. None of them know why they were selected to receive his invitation. Whether privileged or deprived, besides a postcode, they share only one thing in common - they've all experienced a shocking disturbance within the building's walls.

By the end of the night, their host is dead, and none of the guests ever said what happened. His death remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries - until now.

But are you ready for their stories?"

Skipp, John: Don't Push the Button

We all know horror. It's in our face every day. You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destruction is just one button-push away.

In this intensely personal collection of short stories, screenplays, and essays, the author walks you through the light and the dark with an unflinching eye. Revealing both the best and worst of us, one laugh and scream at a time.

It ain't pretty. But it's beautiful. Once you go all the way.

Stine, R.L.: Goosebumps

It is a series of horror novels written for very young audiences. The protagonists in these stories are teens or pre-teens who find themselves in frightening circumstances, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. The best way to describe these books is that they are The Twilight Zone for pre-adolescents, with a twist at the end of every book (sometimes cruel, sometimes not, sometimes non-existent, which is a twist in and of itself given the series). It has spawned a pair of television series, a video games series, a comic series and merchandise, as well as a pair of feature films.

While the books are written for children and so they might not be that scary, they can still get quite creepy, and you might find one book for every Entity if you search hard enough. The book covers can also get really creepy to look at, too.

Theis, Jim: The Eye of Argon

Described as "the worst fantasy novella ever", The Eye of Argon is a story by then 16 year-old Jim Theis. It's the tale of Grignr, a foul-mouthed barbarian warrior who is trying to escape the dungeons of Evil Overlord Agaphim and rescue a young woman named Carthena from a pagan cult who want to sacrifice her to their idol — a statue with one eye called "The Eye of Argon". (A "scarlet emerald", complete with some interesting plumbing.)

Published in the fanzine OSFAN 7 in 1970, the story is well known for its abundant cliches, shoddy spelling, flat characters, wooden dialogue and overly colourful writing. Every woman is a "wench", eyes are "emerald orbs". Almost nothing is ever "said" — instead it is "queried" or "ejaculated" or "husked" or "stated whimsicoracally". There's an extended scene involving elderly cult priests groping Carthena, and she is described earlier as a "half-naked harlot… with a lithe, opaque nose".

The most widely-known and circulated copy of the story comes to an abrupt and unsatisfactory halt, and for many years it was believed that the ending was lost forever (or even, in some quarters, that the story was never completed). Recent years have seen the separate discoveries of two intact copies of the fanzine in which The Eye of Argon debuted, so it is now known how the tale ends. (With multiple exclamation marks, it turns out.)

At science fiction conventions, The Eye of Argon is now a sort of parlor game. All participants sit in a circle with a hard copy of the story, and the first one starts reading aloud — pronouncing every word as it's misspelled, and including every adjective. When they finally burst into laughter, the copy is passed to the next person. If a person manages to make it through more than a page, the copy is sometimes passed anyway, on the grounds that the reader must have special training as a news anchor.

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie: The Mermaid The Witch and The Sea

Follows mainly two characters – Evelyn, the daughter of a wealthy family, sent off on a ship to an arranged marriage, and Flora, known by the alias Florian, a pirate on said ship. This ship is a conship, as it takes people on long travels only to sell them as slaves. Themes of the vast, stranger, the end, the slaughter, and the desolation are commonly present throughout the book

Traditional (German): Der Struwwelpeter

1845 German children's book filled with cautionary tales. These cautionary tales are more grim than others, however — they often end in death or dismemberment for the child. They are a source of plenty of nightmare fuel, too.

Notable examples: The Dreadful Story of Harriet/Pauline and the Matches - Desolation, she plays with matches and burns to death. The Story of the Wild Huntsman - Hunt, a hare steals a hunter's rifle and eyeglasses and hunts him. The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb - Flesh(?), Conrad is warned by his mother not to suck his thumbs, but he does anyway. So a tailor appears and snips them off. The Story of Flying Robert - Vast, Robert goes outside during a storm and the wind picks up his umbrella, carrying him off never to be seen again.

Trumbo,  Dalton: Johnny Got His Gun

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

The novel is heavily about the horrors of war, which would make it Slaughter, but in Joe's plight there's also another sort of horror: He can't move, he can't see, he can't speak. He is effectively trapped in his own body, a torment that could be but it's not quite Buried. There's also some argument for the Spiral to be there as well, as his condition makes it hard for him and the reader to know when he's awake or when he's dreaming, to say nothing on how the horrible situation he's in affects his sanity.

"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."

Van Allsburg, Chris: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

Downloadable PDF: https://mrsgraveswebsite.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/8/12686140/the_mysteries_of_harris_burdick.pdf

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick consists of a series of images, ostensibly created by Harris Burdick, a man who has mysteriously disappeared. Each image is accompanied by a title and a single line of text, which encourage readers to create their own stories.

Vasquez, Jhonen: Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors

Squee (named after the sound he makes when he's afraid) is a little boy whose short life is an unending parade of horrors. His parents outwardly detest him to the point where his father watches footage of his birth played in reverse for amusement, and the only kid in school who likes him is the Antichrist, who Squee is terrified of. He has never, ever, ever, had a good dream. Through the course of the book, he is visited by aliens, ghosts, zombies, time travelers and the serial killer next door.

Though Squee is as frightened by all this as anyone else might be, he takes it in his stride with a passive resilience that only a child could possess and the help of Shmee, his teddy bear and 'trauma-sponge.' He gets through the horrors just by being a simple-minded kid. Adults dwell on the past and the future. Kids live squarely in the present, daydream about flying and drink Tang until they forget it all. He takes for granted that the world is scary and just goes to school each day, provided he hasn't been abducted by aliens.

[didierleclair]

PAUL AUSTER, VOUS ÊTES DANS MES PENSÉES

L'écrivain Paul Auster me manque beaucoup. Il est décédé le dernier jour d'avril 2024. J'ai adoré certains de ses livres mais ce vide mérite une explication.

Permettez-moi de commencer par dire que comme la plupart des lecteurs qui aiment son travail, j'ai commencé avec « La Trilogie New Yorkaise » (1987). Je l'ai lue quand j'étais étudiant. J’ai trouvé l'œuvre mystérieuse. Toutes ces coïncidences inexpliquées, le pastiche d'un roman policier et la venue d’un personnage appelé Paul Auster. Tout cela m’a donné une bonne idée de l’homme derrière le livre. C’est un écrivain audacieux et curieux.

Cependant, je ne l'ai jamais suivi dans les labyrinthes qu'il a souvent créés dans plusieurs de ses livres. Par exemple, « Voyages dans le Scriptorium » est un livre dans un livre. La spirale a un effet claustrophobe sur moi et je n’aime pas une pièce pleine de miroirs.

Pourtant, j’ai adoré « A Man in the dark », « The Brooklyn Follies », « Moon Palace » et quelques autres dans une certaine mesure.

Maintenant, ce que j’ai le plus apprécié chez lui, ce sont ses interviews. L’homme était un magnifique communicateur. Il donnait tout ce qu’il pouvait à chaque fois qu’un micro était allumé. La franchise, l'honnêteté et la simplicité m'ont conquis. J'écoutais ses interviews sur ses livres, sur la vie ou la politique depuis des années.

Ses conseils aux jeunes écrivains n'ont pas de prix. « Oubliez votre ego ». J’aurais pu utiliser ce conseil dans ma jeunesse. « Ne soyez pas trop attachés aux choses que vous jugez intelligentes dans ce que vous faites. N'attendez rien de personne car le monde ne vous doit rien. »Il le dit avec affection, avec tendresse.

Lorsqu'on lui demande ce qui l'empêche de dormir la nuit, il admet que c'était autrefois savoir s’il pouvait payer le loyer. Est-ce quelque chose que de nombreux écrivains ont vécu ? Bien sûr. Il avait une manière simple de transmettre ses idées, ses pensées. C’est ce qui me manque chez lui et pour très longtemps. La capacité de viser l’essentiel de la vie et de vous le donner directement et sans méchanceté.

Je redoute le discours alambiqué des auteurs, le discours de vente du type égoïste ou celui de l’intellectuel torturé. Ils existent tous, mais Paul Auster n’en fait pas partie. Je suis toujours impressionné quand il parle des parties complexes et mystérieuses de la vie. Son écriture est louable. Mais ses conversations sont mémorables.

Grâce à la technologie, je peux reculer le temps, l'écouter et apprécier son approche humble de la vie. Humble mais audacieuse à la fois. Il partageait sa curiosité de la vie avec tous ceux qui voulaient bien l'écouter.

Dans le roman « Moon Palace », il dit : « Et maintenant, nous arrivons à la partie la plus difficile. Les fins, les adieux et les fameux derniers mots. Si vous n’avez pas souvent de mes nouvelles, n’oubliez pas que vous êtes dans mes pensées.

Vous êtes aussi dans les miennes, Paul.

Didier Leclair, écrivain

[the-ninth-moon]

𝟿𝔱𝔥 𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫 𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤

Instant pub, les ami·es. Car 9th moon, c'est la maison, un forum rpg med-fan cosy à la commu a-do-rable. Des inspirations à la frontière entre the witcher, bottero, lotr, the fitz and the fool. On attend plus que v o u s. Je vous présente ici quelques recherches, magnifiées par les icons de memory card VIII.

🗨️ 𝔴𝔢 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔞 𝔣𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔩𝑦. ( Lil, 1f )

attendue par Nelis et Jasper Aurdoza.

Rêveuse, elle en avait le caractère avant d'embrasser le pouvoir de l'imagination et du dessin. [...] Elle a disparu depuis ce début d'année, sans qu'on sache si c'est un enlèvement.

🔥 𝔡 𝔦 𝔳 𝔦 𝔫 𝔢 𝔬𝔯𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔰. ( m ; f ; n ; 1 / 5 )

KEYWORDS. orphan, gosses comme des armes, chaos, f i m j i r, sorcellerie, sacrifices, flames. attendu·es par Elio, Nithya, Morwen et Ashara.

L'orphelinat d i v i n e, murs éclatés aux froideurs noctambules, le brasier toujours avivé aux abords du jardin, les cris des gamins qui se sont tus. Il y a là quête d'une armée, gosses récupéré·es sur les bords de la route, esseulé·es, éperdu·es, qui finissent par se vautrer dans le silence et la peur, avant les ardeurs de la mort.

🌙 𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯. ( 2f )

(en cours) KEYWORDS. famille, troubled peace, soldats, gathering storm, équilibre attendues par Beren Azantys.

The Moon. f 50yo+ ;; Elle est la glace, il est le feu. Elle est son phare dans la tempête, celle qui le raccroche aux choses essentielles. Il doute parfois, Beren. Elle, jamais. The Star. f 25yo ;; Tempérament flamboyant, petite fille devenue jeune femme. Son père éprouve des difficultés à la laisser voler de ses propres ailes. Il veut la protéger, elle le défie.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝔭𝔬��𝔡𝔯𝔢 𝔫𝔬𝔦𝔯𝔢. ( m ; f ; n )

KEYWORDS. dark flames, cœur de lion, homme de l'ombre, secret lies. attendu·e pa Ringer Bellona.

Il garde le corps et les cœurs, ombre parmi les ombres, la plus loyale de toutes, celle qui a tout vu, tout compris, tout acquis, sans pour autant avoir pris parti. Le laëris est connu pour son goût prononcé pour les secrets et la droiture.

🗯️ 𝔲𝔫𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔫 𝔣𝔞𝔪𝔦𝔩𝑦. ( 2m )

KEYWORDS. famille dysfonctionnelle, laeris, politique, riche, âmes en peine, rage, docilité attendu·es par Iris Dragan.

Père. m 50yo+ ;; Homme riche, statut élevé, il a pourtant fait un mariage d'amour. Sa femme, c'était son joyaux, sa lumière. [...] Retrouvailles... Elle, libre et lui, ivre de rage qu'elle soit partie. Jumeau. m 31yo ;; Iris et lui étaient proche, fusionnels. Et puis, elle l'a abandonné. Juste une note dans son lit pour lui dire au revoir. Parce que ça aurait été trop dur pour eux deux. Elle ne sait pas s'il lui en veut, aujourd'hui. Peut-être. Il en aurait le droit.

[daimonclub]

Le canzoni estive più belle dal 1960 al 2024

Le canzoni estive più famose Le canzoni estive più belle dal 1960 al 2024, una selezione delle canzoni più famose delle varie estati con autore, titolo, anno di produzione e parecchi video. Cosa sarebbe l'estate senza alcune canzoni che ne segnano l'epoca, le avventure, i ricordi mitici. Le canzoni estive hanno un fascino particolare che le rende memorabili, spesso associandole a momenti di festa, relax e allegria. Ecco una lista delle migliori e più famose canzoni estive degli ultimi 60 anni. Per chi era presente in quegli anni, sarà un gran bel tuffo nell'oceano dei ricordi; per gli altri è invece l'occasione per (ri)ascoltare le canzoni che hanno segnato le estati dei propri genitori, o dei propri nonni. Tutte queste canzoni hanno lasciato un segno importante nel panorama musicale internazionale, diventando colonne sonore delle estati di molte persone in tutto il mondo. Gli Anni '60 Gino Paoli - Sapore di sale - 1963 Edoardo Vianello - Abbronzatissima - 1963 Peppino di Capri - St. Tropez Twist - 1962 Mina - Tintarella di Luna - 1959 Piero Focaccia - Stessa spiaggia, stesso mare - 1963 Los Marcellos Ferial - Sei diventata nera - 1964 Nico Fidenco - Legata a un granello di sabbia - 1961 Rocco Granata - Marina - 1959 Adamo - La notte - 1965 Gianni Pettenati - Bandiera gialla - 1966 Riccardo Del Turco - Luglio - 1969 Mario Tessuto - Lisa dagli occhi blu - 1969 Louiselle - Andiamo a mietere il grano - 1965 Rocky Roberts - Stasera mi butto - 1967 The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA - 1963 California Girls - The Beach Boys - 1965 Scott McKenzie - San Francisco - 1967 Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful - 1966 Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters - 1964 Gli Anni '70 Donatella Rettore - Splendido splendente - 1979 Lucio Battisti - Fiori rosa fiori di pesco - 1970 Orietta Berti - Fin che la barca va - 1970 Patty Pravo - Pazza idea - 1973 Umberto Tozzi - Gloria - 1979 Francesco De Gregori - Rimmel - 1975 Umberto Balsamo - Balla - 1979 Oliver Onions - Sandokan - 1976 Alan Sorrenti - Tu sei l'unica donna per me - 1979 Adriano Pappalardo - Ricominciamo - 1979 Viola Valentino - Comprami - 1979 Donna Summer - Hot Stuff - 1979 ABBA - Dancing Queen - 1976 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive - 1977 Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville - 1977 https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLN7AdavxIea58XCMJDXbrwUApsyoCpNXc Gli Anni '80 Righeira - Vamos a la playa - 1983 Giuni Russo - Un'estate al mare - 1982 Gruppo Italiano - Tropicana - 1983 Lu Colombo - Maracaibo - 1981 Marcella Bella - Nell'aria - 1983 Donatella Rettore - Kobra - 1980 Miguel Bosé - Bravi ragazzi - 1982 Tony Esposito - Kalimba de Luna - 1984 Luis Miguel - Noi, ragazzi di oggi - 1985 Eros Ramazzotti - Terra promessa - 1984 Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine - 1983 Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 - 1984 The Go-Go's - Vacation - 1982 Blondie - The Tide Is High - 1980 Gli Anni '90 Francesco Baccini e Ladri di biciclette - Sotto questo sole - 1990 Luca Carboni - Mare mare - 1992 883 - Nord Sud Ovest Est - 1993 Alex Britti - Solo una volta (o tutta la vita) - 1998 Lucio Dalla - Attenti al lupo - 1990 Articolo 31 - Tranqi funky - 1996 Fiorello - Spiagge - 1991 Raf - Il battito animale - 1993 Irene Grandi - Bum Bum - 1995 Zucchero - Per colpa di chi - 1995 Los Del Rio - Macarena - 1995 Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 - 1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' la Vida Loca - 1999 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime - 1991 https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLficH3Qnhpmi0CTaL9CoPbasdgReFk8wz Gli Anni 2000 Anastacia - I'm Outta Love - 2000 Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler- 1999 Bon Jovi - It's My Life - 2000 Shivaree - Goodnight Moon - 1999 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body - 1999 Paola e Chiara - Vamos a bailar- 2000 Eiffel 65 - Too Much of Heaven - 2000 Madonna - Music- 2000 Nelly - Hot in Herre - 2002 Beyoncé - Crazy in Love - 2003 Shakira - Hips Don't Lie - 2006 The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling - 2009 Gli Anni 2010 Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano - 2010 Pitbull - Oye Baby (feat. Nicola Fasano) - 2010 Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey - 2009 Bob Sinclar - I Wanna (feat. Shaggy e Sahara) - 2010 Alex Gaudino - I'm in Love - 2010 Angie Be - Soundwaves - 2009 Dirty South - Phazing (feat. Rudy) - 2010 Lucenzo - Vem dançar kuduro (feat. Big Ali) - 2010 Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body (2010 Golden Remixes) - 2010 Molella - Paradise (feat. Alessia D'Andrea) - 2010 Steve Watt - Give It Up (feat. Jean Philippe) - 2010 Riva Starr - Splendido (feat. Donatella Rettore) - 2010 Rls - Festa (feat. Sandra Godoy) - 2010 Mads Langer - You're Not Alone - 2009 Gabriella Cilmi - On a Mission - 2010 Crookers - Festa festa (feat. Fabri Fibra e Dargen D'Amico) - 2010 Après La Classe - Mammalitaliani - 2010 Iyaz - Replay - 2009 Omega - Si te vas / Que tengo que hacer (feat. Daddy Yankee) - 2009 Zero Assoluto - Grazie - 2010 Modà - Sono già solo - 2010 The Baseballs - Umbrella - 2009 Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee - Despacito - 2017 Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell - Blurred Lines - 2013 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky - 2013 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You - 2017 Gli Anni 2020 BoomDaBash & Alessandra Amoroso - Karaoke - 2020 Achille Lauro - Bam Bam Twist (feat. Gow Tribe) - 2020 Takagi & Ketra feat. Elodie, Mariah & Gipsy Kings - Ciclone - 2020 Irama - Mediterranea- 2020 Purple Disco Machine - Hypnotized (with Sophie & The Giants) - 2020 Master KG - Jerusalema (feat. Nomcebo Zikode) - 2019 Mahmood feat. Feid & Sfera Ebbasta - Dorado - 2020 Francesco Gabbani - Il sudore ci appiccica - 2020 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar- 2019 (singolo rilasciato come parte dell'album "Fine Line") LP - The One That You Love - 2020 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me - 2020 Tiziano Ferro Feat. Jovanotti - Balla per me - 2020 Fedez & Robert Miles - Bimbi per strada (Children) - 2020 Purple Disco Machine - Hypnotized (with Sophie & The Giants) - 2020 Giusy Ferreri & Elettra Lamborghini - La Isla- 2020 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar - 2020 Sangiovanni - Malibù - 2021 Rocco Hunt - Teoreama - 2022 Rocco Hunt - L'estate dei sogni - 2022 Rocco HuntTakagi & Ketra feat. Elodie, Mariah & Gipsy Kings - Ciclone - 2020 Gianni Morandi - Supereroi - 2022 Gruppo Italiano (remix) - Tropicana - 2023 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights - 2020 Dua Lipa ft. DaBaby - Levitating - 2020 Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) - 2020 https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLRidd9lFZ0GbJ4uc618F_CLF546TXgyHZ Ecco alcune delle canzoni estive più ascoltate del 2024 Cubalibre - Giorgia Malerba Elettra Lamborghini - Bachata senza sosta Elodie - Black Nirvana Alessandra Amoroso e BigMama - Mezzo rotto Emis Killa e Fedez - Sexy Shop Angelina Mango - Melodrama Loredana Bertè ed Eiffel 65 - Bestiale Paola & Chiara - Festa totale Benji & Fede - Musicale animale Tony Effe e Gaia - Sesso e Samba Sempre sulla musica puoi anche visitare queste pagine: A short history of pop music Entertainment Music and Dancing Drive & Listen Best Christmas Songs Christmas Songs Read the full article

[acloudykiss]

/INFORMATION AND GREETINGS/

Hi so I don't really know what's going on but I'm trying I'm new to this app and don't really understand how it all works yet.

Off of that note I do play to write fanfiction and headcannons. So if you would like to send an ask feel free I don't know how fast I can get to it but I'll try. I'm going to put the fandoms I will write and draw for under the dotted line.

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That's all I remember right now but it goes on.

Creepypasta

Ben drowned

Jeff the killer

Eyeless jack

Jane the killer

Nina the killer

Lui and sully

Clockwork

Laughing jack

Ticci toby

Pinkamina

Rainbow factory

Tim/masky

Brian/hoodie

Hobo heart

Bloody painter

Sally face

Larry

Sal

Travis

Ashley

That's all I remember for now by raindrops!

[exhuastedpigeon]

Heyyyy ✌🏼✌🏼

Heyyy Rae! This has some extreme highs and some very low lows 😆

Opening Credits: cherry wine by Hozier

Waking Up: Sleep on the floor by the lumineers

First Day At School: funeral by phoebe bridgers

Falling In Love: I’m with you by Vance Joy

Fight Song: Cut to the feeling by Carly Rae Jepsen

Breaking Up: almost (sweet music) by Hozier

Life’s OK: true blue by boygenius

Getting Back Together: tank of gas by John muirhead

Wedding: San Luis by Gregory Alan isakov

Birth of Child: silver linings by mount joy

Final Battle: love me like you use to by lord Huron

Death Scene: to the mountains by lizzy mcalpine

Funeral Song: moon song by phoebe bridgers

End Credits: Christine by Lucy Dacus

[messythings-blog]

Clairement j’ai pété un plomb. On écrit une fic avec une pote et c’est tellement incroyable !

Résumé :

June Lily Summer est nouvelle au lycée. Après la disparition mystérieuse de ses parents, elle a emménagé chez sa tante avec son petit frère.

Mais alors qu'elle souhaite simplement se fondre dans la masse et passer une année scolaire tranquille, des évènements surnaturels viennent bouleverser son quotidien.

Premièrement, elle est presque sûre que son professeur principal cache quelque chose.

Deuxièmement, elle est persuadée que Vale Joakime Wayle, nouveau lui aussi, est un vampire. Et elle semble être sa cible, sans qu'elle ne sache pourquoi.

[theminecraftbee]

you mentioned that grief is a recurring theme in your writing, right? can you maybe point me towards some of your stuff that does just that?

depends on what kind of grief you're looking for! the most obvious example might be cura te ipsum, which is sort of about aborted grief. what you do when the world ends and then you all wake up again and all of that emotion has nowhere to go.

the NEXT most obvious one i recommend cautiously. like, it's more obviously about grief, it's just a recommendation i give knowing it's potentially a Read At Your Own Risk. it's abandoned, i will not finish it, because it's a major character death fic where one of the characters that died is techno, and i hope you understand why i no longer really want to finish writing it. however if you want what is probably my most blatant example of "people trying to process a grief that is too big for them", and you like dsmp, san luis is about that. i still really like a lot of parts of this fic, even if i cannot emotionally bring myself to finish writing it, haha, so if any of you read it and like it, feel free to say so!

stuffed bird is about grief in the way any story about the apocalypse is about grief - something is gone, and you are never going to get it back. that's a pretty deliberate theme, in fact - things that are gone that you're never going to get back and it's kind of your fault.

i can't fully explain the kind of grief that's in attempt thirty-three? it's a timeloop fic through the lens of "one loop out of the many, one of the failed ones", if that helps.

a question for the dead is from the end of last life, and it's sort of about grief for yourself. you know, its a bunch of dead people processing that they're dead and they've lost the game they're in. it's in a script format, it's one of my more experimental works, it's probably a fun one.

finally, seventy-two hours and new moon are probably my favorite two remaining fics of me dealing with my hermitcraft season eight big moon emotions, and everything that inspires.

you can PROBABLY find grief as a theme in more of my stuff too, especially if you're willing to stretch it - there's an argument to be made for 'both pearl and joe are dealing with that sideways in last days' and for like, at one point i probably would have described black box as having kind of a grief in it, although that was more the sequel i never actually wrote. also, if you're here as someone who HASN'T read much of my stuff, or who isn't from mcyt fandom, stuffed bird, san luis, and MAYBE attempt-thirty three are the most "able to read fandom-agnostic" from the ones i've recommended here!

hope this offers you something you're looking for!

[kilfeur]

"Ils ne parlent pas assez" dans la fiction (They don't talk enough in fiction)

Sur les séries que je regarde pas mal, j'entends souvent de personnes dirent "Pourquoi le perso ne dit rien ou refuse d'écouter l'autre ?! Ils devraient communiquer." Le truc c'est que plus facile à dire qu'à faire, par exemple le conflit entre Marinette et Adrien, Marinette se sent submergée par son rôle de gardien. Elle veut que tout soit parfait et pense que tout ira bien avec Chat Noir. Mais elle ne voit pas qu'elle fait du mal à Chat Noir sans le vouloir. Marinette veut aider les gens mais a du mal avec leurs réactions émotionnelles. Par exemple dans Reverser, elle aide Marc en les faisant se rencontrer pensant qu'ils pourraient s'entendre. Sauf que ça se passe pas comme prévu et Nathaniel pense qu'il s'est fait avoir. De plus une fois que Marinette a confessé qu'elle était Ladybug. Elle se sent un peu mieux !

Mais Alya n'aime pas garder autant de secrets, elle comprends pourquoi mais ça lui donne un tiraillement entre ce qu'elle doit faire et veut faire. Elle finit par révéler à Nino qu'elle est toujours Rena Rouge. Et c'est ce qui la différencie de Marinette qui veut tout régler toute seule alors qu'Alya fait confiance à Nino de garder le secret. Surtout que dans le finale de la saison 4, elle a failli mourir si Carapace ne l'avait pas protégé. D'ailleurs dans l'épisode de Rocketear, Nino dit qu'un couple n'a pas de secrets. Le truc c'est que si une personne cache des choses à son bien aimé, c'est pas parce qu'il a pas confiance à ce dernier. Mais c'est parce qu'elle se sent pas prête ou bien a peur de la réaction de l'être aimé. De plus Marinette n'a jamais dit que à Alya que Lila l'a menacé dans les toilettes. Car Marinette bien qu'elle est confiante, a peur de Lila car c'est comme quand Chloé l'a harcelait avant qu'elle devenait Ladybug. Sans compter qu'elle aime bien aider les autres mais quand il s'agit de ses problèmes personnelles, elle préfère les régler toute seule. Sans compter qu'elle n'a rien dit sur son trauma dans Chat Blanc. Elle intériorise de plus en plus jusqu'à ce que Felix a volé les miraculous, elle finit par craquer et dévoile ce qu'elle ressent. Elle se sent coupable et ne comprends pas pourquoi Chat Noir est là après tout ce qui s'est passé. Chat Noir reste en la rassurant qu'ils vont récupérer les miraculous un par un, il a été le soutien dont elle avait besoin pour faire face au Papillon. 

Dans le prince des dragons, Rayla est revenu après être parti le jour de l'anniversaire de Callum. Alors on manque de contexte mais dans le comic through the moon. Elle laisse une lettre à Callum sur le pourquoi qu'elle s'en va pour traquer Viren et pensant qu'elle part pour le protèger. N'oublions pas que Rayla a vécu dans un village où les actes sont plus valorisés que les paroles. Sauf que ça reste assez vache, de plus même si Callum le sait, il a le droit d'être en colère contre elle ! Car elle est partie, leur mauvaise communication a du sens car Rayla essaie de réparer ce qui a été fait en espérant que les choses redeviendraient comme avant. Tandis que Callum n'est pas prêt à l'écouter et ça reste compréhensible. Surtout qu'avec Aaravos qui a prit contrôle de son corps pour rendre sa menace encore plus grande et les roaste sur leurs insécurités. Les sentiments de Callum sont confus, car d'un côté il est content qu'elle soit là mais de l'autre il est triste et colère. Ça fait beaucoup quand même ! Même quand Callum demande à Rayla de le tuer si Aaravos prend possession de son corps à nouveau elle refuse car elle ne veut pas tuer le garçon qu'elle aime. Quand elle voit Viren, elle lui dit qu'elle doit le poursuivre. Et Callum comprend, il a peur qu'elle l'abandonne à nouveau mais laisse ça de côté. Toutefois quand Rayla retrouve les pièces de ses parents, elle fait le choix de revenir auprès de ses amis. Elle aurait pu poursuivre Viren et les autres mais non elle a décidé de revenir auprès de Callum et les autres. Callum pensait qu'elle est morte et quand il la sort des gravas, il est rassurée de la voir en vie. Maintenant peut être que Callum est enfin prêt à parler Rayla. 

Dans RWBY, Blake s'enfuit suite à la chute de Beacon laissant ses amis derrière elle. Elle pense qu'elles seront mieux sans elle. Jusqu'à ce que Sun lui dit qu'elle peut faire ses choix mais ceux des autres bon après il a un peu imposé sa présence à Blake mais elle avait besoin d'entendre ça. Car après l'attaque de sa maison, elle va se rendre à Mantle avec les autres faunus. Yang était triste que Blake soit parti à tel point qu'elle disait qu'elle s'en fichait de où elle était. Montrant à quel point elle était blessée par elle. Quand elle revient auprès d'elles, elles mettent du temps à se réconcilier vu que Yang a toujours son syndrome post traumatique à cause d'Adam. Elle essaie d'être à l'écoute mais Yang ne veut pas l'écouter. Elles finissent par se comprendre quand elles se battent contre Adam, la cause de tout leurs problèmes. Elle se protègent mutuellement et tuent Adam, j'aime bien comme la scène est présenté car Blake jette son arme ensanglanté, elle est dans tout ses états. Alors que Yang essaie de la consoler puis elles se sont réconciliés. Dans le volume 7, Blake et Yang ont un désaccord au sujet d'Ironwood et parle d'Adam, Yang dit qu'elles ont fait ce qui doit être fait. Quand à Blake, elle veut pas refaire cette erreur, ça a l'air horrible ce que dit Yang mais Adam est celui qui lui a coupé son bras et a fait fuir Blake. Donc le ressenti n'est pas le même. 

Bref tout ça pour dire que oui il faut communiquer dans une relation romantique, platonique voir même familiale. Or il y a des raisons qui poussent les perso à ne pas en parler de tel ou tel chose et c'est compréhensible en soi. Souvent c'est pas parce que la personne n'a pas confiance à son interlocteur, c'est juste qu'il craint la réaction de ce dernier si il l'apprenait. Mais ils vont finir par en parler faut juste être patient. 

On the series I watch a lot of people say "Why doesn't the character say anything or refuse to listen to the other?! They should communicate." The thing is, easier said than done, for example the conflict between Marinette and Adrien, Marinette feels overwhelmed by her role as guardian. She wants everything to be perfect and thinks that everything is fine with Chat Noir. But she doesn't see that she's unintentionally hurting Chat Noir. Marinette wants to help people, but has trouble with their emotional reactions. For example, in Reverser, she helps Marc by bringing them together, thinking they might get along. But things don't work out as planned, and Nathaniel thinks he's been had tricked. Once Marinette confesses that she's Ladybug to Alya. She feels a little better !

But Alya doesn't like keeping so many secrets, she understands why, but it gives her a tug-of-war between what she has to do and what she wants to do. She ends up revealing to Nino that she's still Rena Rouge. And that's what sets her apart from Marinette, who wants to sort everything out on her own, whereas Alya trusts Nino to keep the secret. Especially since in the season 4 finale, she almost died if Carapace hadn't protected her. Besides, in the Rocketear episode, Nino says that a couple has no secrets. The thing is, if a person hides things from their loved one, it's not because they don't trust them. It's because they don't feel ready or are afraid of their loved one's reaction. What's more, Marinette never told Alya that Lila threatened her in the bathroom. Because although Marinette is confident, she's afraid of Lila, just as she was when Chloé harassed her before she became Ladybug. Not to mention that she likes to help others, but when it comes to her own personal problems, she prefers to deal with them alone. Not to mention the fact that she never mentioned her trauma in Chat Blanc. She internalizes more and more, until when Felix steals the miraculous, she finally breaks down and reveals how she feels. She feels guilty and doesn't understand why Chat Noir is there after all that's happened. Chat Noir stays, reassuring her that they'll get the miraculous back one by one, and that he's been the support she needed to face the Hawmoth.

In The Dragon Prince, Rayla returned after leaving on Callum's birthday. So we lack context but in the through the moon comic. She leaves Callum a letter about why she's leaving to track down Viren and thinking she's leaving to protect him. Let's not forget that Rayla has lived in a village where actions are more valued than words. Except that it's still pretty dirty to do that, and even if Callum knows it, he has every right to be angry with her ! Because she's gone, their miscommunication makes sense, as Rayla tries to repair what's been done but hopes things will go back to the way they were. Callum, on the other hand, isn't ready to listen, and that's understandable. Especially with Aaravos taking control of his body to make his threat even greater and the roast on their insecurities. Callum's feelings are confused, because on the one hand he's happy she's here, but on the other he's sad and angry that she's here. That's a lot ! Even when Callum asks Rayla to kill him if Aaravos takes over his body, she refuses because she doesn't want to kill the boy she loves. When she sees Viren, she tells him she has to go after him. And Callum understands, he's afraid she'll abandon him again, but puts it aside. However, when Rayla finds her parents' pieces, she makes the choice to return to her friends. She could have gone after Viren and the others, but no, she decided to return to Callum and the others. Callum thought that she's dead, but when he pulls her out of the rubble, he's reassured to see her alive. Now maybe Callum is finally ready to talk to Rayla.

In RWBY, Blake flees after Beacon's fall, leaving her friends behind. She thinks they'll be better off without her. That is, until Sun tells her she can make her own choices, but not everyone else's. Well, he's kind of forced his presence on Blake, but she needed to hear that. Because after the attack on her house, she's going to Mantle with the other faunus. Yang was sad that Blake was gone, so much so that she said she didn't care where she was. Showing how hurt she was by her. When she returns to them, it takes a while for them to make up, as Yang still has post-traumatic stress disorder from Adam. She tries to be a good listener, but Yang won't listen. They finally understand each other when they fight Adam, the cause of all their problems. They protect each other and kill Adam. I like the way the scene is presented, as Blake throws away his bloody weapon, she's a mess. While Yang tries to console her, they make up. In Volume 7, Blake and Yang have a disagreement about Ironwood and Adam, with Yang saying they've done what needs to be done. As for Blake, she doesn't want to make that mistake again. Yang sounds horrible, but Adam is the one who cut off her arm and made Blake run away. So the feeling isn't the same.

All this to say that, yes, you have to communicate in a romantic, platonic or even family relationship. But there are reasons why people don't want to talk about this or that, and that's understandable in itself. Often it's not because the person doesn't trust the person they're talking to, it's just that they're afraid of the person's reaction if they find out. But they'll talk about it eventually, you just have to be patient.

[kerubimcrepin]

NAVIGATION

My name is Ro, though you may know me from my main blog (@jorisjurgen) and art blog (@atchamcrepin). On this blog I had posted random dissections of Dofus Aux Tresors episodes in a rewatch liveblog format, and now post about other Jurgen-Crepin related things.

My goal is to solve Crepin-Jurgen related lore.

Things to know:

This was my uhhh. 6th-11th rewatch of this show. Who even knows anymore.

I welcome any lore related asks, even if I may not know something.

I only tag posts with character names if I think I analysed them at least a little, or if the post is quite informative (has trivia that isn't available in any of the shows).

I hope not to spam the tags too much & that it will be entertaining in some way.

※ Chronological tag links have been fixed on by Tumblr in the mobile app! Feel free to click them and read in your app, instead of your mobile browser or PC!

[read the entire blog from the start] or read any of the following:

Character Analysis + trivia:

※ Both the separate analysis posts, and the analysis included within some of the liveblogs.

Atcham Crepin

Joris Jurgen

Kerubim Crepin

※※Non-Liveblog Parts of this blog:※※

MMO dialogue and lore archive

Translations of Official Books

Official art collection

Dofus: Aux Trésors de Kérubim:

1. Kerubim

2. Luis' Blues

3. Stirch Hunt

4. The Infernal Hourglass

5. Welcome to YeCh'Tich's

6. Dance against the Boowolves

7. Bashi the Shark

8. Pandala's Chichala

9. The Legendary Unikron

10. Vax's Living Art

11. The Hairy Archelmet

12. The Great Glucid

13. A Diamond for Ruby

14. Koalak Quack

15. Teeny Keke

16. West of Astrub

17. Toothache

18. The Pyrofuego

19. The Judgement of the Twelve

20. My Friend Bashi

Mid-Show Break:

The Wheel of Destiny #8 - Kerubim Crepin

Dofus Heroes: Kerubim

Dofus Aux Tresors de Kerubim: Official Novels

Dofus: Aux Trésors de Kérubim:

21. A Bow Meow on the Moon

22. The Giant Ploomers

23. Like a Snapper in the Water

24. Scams, Crimes, and Tentacles

25. SOS Adventures

26. A Hairy Mystery

27-29. Ecaflip City

30. Bonta Folie's

31. The Break

32. Pupuce's Life

33. Noffoub's Foutnain

34. Heads for no Tails

35. The Gobbal Set

36. The Ding-Dong Belt

37. The Charming Justicars

38. Dragokart Race

39. The Love Killer

40. The Beginning

41. The Sword of Nine Tails

42. The Trial

43. The Dream Mixer

44. My Papycha, the Secondhand Dealer

45. The Charming Justicars 2

46. The Hacienda's Fever

47. Indie

48. Role Plays

49. The Jellivision

50. Deadly Charm

51. High-Temperature Trap

52. Goodbye

Pre-Movie Off-Topic Break:

What do we know about Joris le Sans-Pouvoir? (Aka, addressing the “cancelled Nintendo DS game”-shaped elephant in the room.)

The Floor Plan of The House + Reference Pics

Random Joris Lore that won't fit into any other post

Documenting the "20th Anniversary of Ankama" map with commentary by Joris and Kerubim

Card Game Lore overview

Exploring dofus-la-serie.com

Pre-Movie Comic Break:

Lance Dur Comic #5 - The Third Death

The Wheel of Destiny #1 - Atcham

Julith et Jahash

Les Dessous de Dofus

Dofus Manga (But only the bits with Atcham, Kerubim, or Joris)

Dofus, Livre 1 : Julith

The Movie (there are... a lot of posts in this tag.

The Novel Adaptation of The Movie (coming not soon)

Post-Movie Break:

An Afterword: talking about Welsh and Shedar

Exploring dofus-le-film.com (and other events surrounding the movie)

Dofus: The Production (speculation & artbook discussion)

Reviewing merch (Without buying the merch in question)

Pre-Wakfu Break:

Remington (But only the bits with Joris)

Other games (a lot less lore)

Dofus choose-your-own-adventure novels/gamebooks

Dofus and Wakfu MMO (A LOT MORE LORE)

Wakfu (the bits that have Jojo Jurgen's Bizarre Adventure):

Wakfu (Season 1)

Wakfu (Season 2)

Wakfu (Manga)

Wakfu (OVA + a few Season 3 posts)

Wakfu (Season 4)

Wakfu - The Great Wave (Manga)

The Post-Wakfu media:

Waven MMO