#Shannon's askbox

[voiceoftheashari]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out! 🥰

Yoooooooooou are one of my favorites

[rose-reads-visualnovels]

Oh that's actually really good to know, I knew it was higher by district but hadn't remembered which district Rokkenjima is in to look it up. Also fuck george even more lmao

George can marry 16 year old Shannon but not fuck her until two years later. Laws sure are interesting!

(He's soooo evil)

-- Rose, the Revolutionary Witch

[tuppencetrinkets]

Sorted caps from Season 1 of The Vampire Diaries, the Originals and Legacies.

Nina Dobrev - Elena Gilbert

Paul Wesley - Stefan Salvatore

Ian Somerhalder - Damon Salvatore

Kat Graham - Bonnie Bennett

Candice King - Caroline Forbes

Zach Roerig - Matt Donovan

Michael Trevino - Tyler Lockwood

Steven R. McQueen - Jeremy Gilbert

Matthew Davis - Alaric Saltzman

Joseph Morgan - Klaus Mikaelson

Marguerite Macintyre - Liz Forbes

Sara Canning - Jenna Sommers

Claire Holt - Rebekah Mikaelson

Susan Walters - Carol Lockwood

Daniel Gillies - Elijah Mikaelson

Susan Walters - Carol Lockwood

Kayle Ewell - Vicki Donovan

Melise - Anna Zhu

David Anders - John Gilbert

Arielle Kebbel - Lexi Branson

Phoebe Tonkin - Hayley Marshall

Kelly Hu - Pearl Zhu

Mia Kirshner - Isobel Flemming

Sebastian Roche - Mikael

Charles Michael Davis - Marcel Gerard

Danielle Campbell - Davina Claire

Leah Pipes - Camille O'Connell

Nathan Parsons - Jackson Kenner

Danielle Pineda - Sophie Deveraux

Danielle Rose Russell - Hope Mikaelson

Eka Darville - Diego

Todd Stashwick - Kieran O'Connell

Elyse Levesque - Genevieve

Shannon Kane - Sabine Laurent

Aria Shahghasemi - Landon Kirby

Quincy Rouse - Milton Greasley

Jenny Boyd - Lizzie Saltzman

Kaylee Kaneshiro - Josie Saltzman

Demetrius Bridges - Dorian Williams

Omono Okojie - Cleo Sowande

Yasmine Al-Bustami - Monique Deveraux

Bianca Lawson - Emily Bennett

Steven Krueger - Josh

Lulu Antariksa - Penelope

Melinda Clarke - Kelly Donovan

Sheila Bennett - Jasmine Guy

Karen David - Emma

Gina Torres - Bess

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[sitpwgs]

books read in 2024!

books read so far: 81/100

— gr: http://goodreads.com/cossettereads — sg: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/cossettereads

as always, askbox + dms are open if have any questions or would like to chat about books! 🤍

⊹ indicates any (new) favorites of the month! previous months are under the cut!

july ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ

1) firekeeper's daughter by angeline boulley (audiobook) ⊹ 2) born to run by bruce springsteen (audiobook) 3) it had to be you by eliza jane brazier 4) the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald (reread; annotated) 5) death on the nile by agatha christie (audiobook) 6) blue sisters by coco mellors (arc) ⊹ 7) juniper and thorn by ava reid (audiobook) 8) the villain edit by laurie devore ⊹

january ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) beach read by emily henry (reread) 2) on palestine by noam chomsky & ilan pappé 3) valley verified by kyla zhao (gifted) 4) the wind at my back: resilience, grace, and other gifts from my mentor, raven wilkinson by misty copeland & susan fales-hill (gifted) 5) check please: year one by ngozi ukazu (reread) 6) check please: year two by ngozi ukazu (reread) 7) check please: year three by ngozi ukazu (reread) 8) check please: year four by ngozi ukazu (reread) 9) raiders of the lost heart by jo segura (gifted) 10) the frame-up by gwenda bond (arc) 11) everything i never told you by celeste ng ⊹ 12) forgive me not by jennifer baker (gifted) 13) ever after always by chloe liese (gifted) 14) the summer of bitter and sweet by jen ferguson (gifted) 15) the lily of ludgate hill by mimi matthews (gifted) 16) last call at the local by sarah grunder ruiz (gifted) ⊹ 17) the sun and the void by gabriela romero-lacruz (gifted) 18) a line in the dark by malinda lo (gifted) 19) biting the hand: growing up asian in black and white america by julia lee (gifted) 20) play it as it lays by joan didion

february ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) mister hockey by lia riley * 2) collide by bal khabra (arc) * 3) a curious beginning by deanna raybourn (gifted) 4) breaking the ice by k.r. collins * 5) if only you by chloe liese (gifted) * 6) anxious people by frederik backman ⊹ 7) the catch by amy lea (gifted) 8) weekends with you by alexandra paige (arc) 9) happily never after by lynn painter (arc) 10) klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro 11) good material by dolly alderton 12) in the event this doesn't fall apart by shannon lee barry 13) the night ends with fire (arc) by k.x. song 14) the good, the bad, and the aunties (arc) by jesse q. sutanto 15) where sleeping girls lie (arc) by faridah àbíké-íyímídé 16) sophomore surge by k.r. collins * 17) lighting the lamp by k.r. collins * 18) glove save and a beauty by k.r. collins * 19) home ice advantage by k.r. collins * 20) power play by k.r. collins * 21) grounded by k.r. collins * 22) line chemistry by k.r. collins *

march ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) happy medium by sarah adler (arc) 2) a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab (audiobook) 3) expiration dates by rebecca serle (arc) 4) divine rivals by rebecca ross (book club) 5) the siren by katherine st. john (gifted) 6) light in gaza edited by jehad abusalim 7) how to end a love story by yulin kuang (arc) // reviewed here 8) rising from the deep: the seattle kraken, a tenacious push for expansion, and the emerald city's sports revival by geoff baker 9) les misérables by victor hugo (reread)

april ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) the goodbye cat by hiro arikawa (reread) 2) the traveling cat chronicles by hiro arikawa (reread) 3) this is me trying by racquel marie (arc) 4) kill her twice by stacey lee (arc) 5) the pairing by casey mcquiston (arc) 6) swiped by l.m. chilton (arc) 7) lies and weddings by kevin kwan (arc) 8) the odyssey by homer (audiobook)

may ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚

1) this summer will be different by carley fortune (arc) 2) the viscount who loved me by julia quinn (reread) 3) romancing mister bridgerton by julia quinn (reread) 4) the iliad by homer (narrated by audra mcdonald) (audiobook) 5) a novel love story by ashley poston (arc) 6) when he was wicked by julia quinn (reread) 7) a banh mi for two by trinity nguyen (arc) 8) the secret garden by frances hodgson burnett (audiobook)

june ⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ

1) lessons in chemistry by bonnie garmus 2) the phantom of the opera by gaston leroux (audiobook) 3) you, with a view by jessica joyce 4) s. by j.j. abrams & doug dorst 5) the hunchback of the notre dame (audiobook) A

[wetcatspellcaster]

Writer Interview Game

thank you so much for tagging me @eraserspiral !!!!

When did you start writing?

I wrote a lot of 'original fiction' as a teen, including a couple of TERRIBLE novels, that were essentially just a grab bag of all the books i was reading at the time. School (and in hindsight, grief) stopped this around 16-18, and then a very high pressure degree at a high profile university seemingly killed off my love of writing entirely.

I got back into writing at 26... weirdly?? just before the panini?? (january 2020, did past-me feel something in the water and know i'd need to hold onto any crumb of serotonin for dear life??) I had just finished my PhD applications, and after sinking so many hours and so many words into the most joy sucking series of forms I've ever encountered, I decided I wanted to write something fun for a change!

Are there different themes or genres you enjoy reading than what you write?

I don't write smut. I read a LOT of smut.

But in terms of themes, I tend to write in worlds/fantasy settings where we can all pretend that capitalism doesn't exist, or that if it does exist, the protagonist is winning at it. I really like speculative fiction (sf and fantasy) that tackles capitalistic themes/poverty well - this has been on my mind recently bc of an arc in a D&D game I've been playing, where my wonderful DM has essentially gone 'capitalism bad' but then let us do something about it <3

Is there a writer you want to emulate or get compared to often?

I find it hard to know what my writing 'is like'... not bc it's wildly unique or anything, but just bc I don't think I can see my own influences that clearly (if anyone wants to drop me some comparisons in the askbox, go for it, I'm curious!)

But in terms of writers I want to emulate, at the chatty/colloquial end it's T Kingfisher and Sarah Rees Brennan, who have a good handle on when to hit emotionally or on high fantasy register, and then when to have really grounded/human moments that make their characters incredibly relatable (and often very funny). At the high fantasy end, it's Shannon Chakraborty, Ann Leckie, Nghi Vo, Silvia Moreno Garcia. They write haunting and engaging narratives!

And, of course, I'm always trying to muster an ounce of whatever the fuck Howl/Sophie had going on.

Can you tell me a bit about your writing space?

I use my desk for work/thesis and want to exclusively keep it that way, so my writing space is actually just on the corner of the sofa in my living room, with my legs crossed, a blanket, and a cup of tea. No music, pure autistic silence (but also bc my laptop speaker is broken). Scotland gets dark for a long time in the winter, so it's usually pretty cosy vibes. It's probably not good for me, as I get a LOT of leg cramp.

What’s your most effective way to muster up a muse?

Honestly, not to be tsundere about it... but maybe ignore the muse a little? If you've burned out or you're trying to brute force a scene, all you're doing is guilting yourself into being productive. With fic writing, especially, you should be doing it to have fun, not bc you feel like you have to. So if the words aren't coming, do other things for a bit. Go on a day trip, hang out with friends, do chores or read something. In my experience, my brain doesn't stay quiet for long, and ideas for my current project will come to me when i'm not trying to squeeze them out of myself like toothpaste.

Sometimes the well runs dry! Rather than feel terrible about it, be kind to yourself, and wait for rain x

Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you?

Hahahahaha, let's not talk about how I keep placing people into the worst versions of themselves and then have them improve and earn love anyway, regardless of if they deserve it. Or how I'm interested in characters who feel a wealth of emotion they hide from everyone behind a mask of either performed indifference, wilful charm, or simply bc they can't articulate it in the socially correct way. Or women who think 'if I cannot be beautiful or loveable, I will be competent', and the men who-

Anyway, introvert x extrovert pairings, amirite? Everything else is shown to me in a vision (my therapist reaches a dead end in my session as I insist nothing is wrong, asks me about my fanfic, and then delivers me a laundry list of the stuff I'm currently coping with. Lowest point: being told im IDing through the fucking DARKLING, on one project. That man is a war criminal, and I dont look like Ben Barnes).

What is your reason for writing?

In the beginning, I think it was pure comfort. I'd just come out of a period of extreme depression, and wanted to hallucinate some characters in love.

But recently, and going forward, I think it is a genuine exercise in proficiency. I thought my writing was so terrible that I said 'I couldn't write', for so fucking long. I now genuinely think this is something I'm good at, and that is something it has taken me so very long to believe, and even longer to say. I am a very self-deprecating person. I have so few things I feel good at, or that I think bring something worthwhile to the table. As academia delivers me blow after blow and the world leaves me feeling worthless, I am going to cling to this until my hands bleed.

Is there any specific comment or type of comment you find particularly motivating?

focusing on the 'motivation' part of this question... I think the comments that happen to land on the one specific thing that matters to me, those are the ones that hit hardest. It happens rarer than you'd think. part of the joy of fanfiction comments is the wealth of different reader interpretations, with people seeing things in your own work that you've never noticed. All interpretations are amazing, especially the ones that show you a blindspot you never considered. But when a reader hits the nail fucking on the head (gets a 'gold star in reading comprehension'), that's the most motivating, and makes me want to open my document and write the next chapter. Because I know then that at least one person out there 'gets it', and is fully on board with the story I want to tell.

But that is a very selfish, specific feeling. All comments are motivation, and all reader interpretations have value!

How do you want to be thought about by your readers?

Idk if this seems weird or a disingenuous answer but... as a person?? Writing a story for fun? Pieces was a very cool and special experience, but it was very unexpected. I wasn't and never considered myself to be a 'big name fan'. I never want to enter any kind of popularity contest, and I never want to be beholden to people who are reading a story I am writing for fun. Very funny to have a story blow up when you have weird feelings about attention lmfao. Like don't get me wrong, absolutely amazing to ride such a huge tide of support, but this was meant to be my silly introvert hobby :')

I also hope they think my writing is good!! obviously!! i know it can't be everything everyone wants all the time, but you know!! i think it's neat!! I hope y'all think it's neat!! plz and thank!!!

What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer?

lmao eraserspiral's reply to this question was a fucking mood. (just deleted it in my template to make space).

I guess... I know how to flesh out a character, and a character voice. I think I can establish a character's personality, their strengths and their flaws, and have them consistently become the vehicle for both progression and some very real, understandable mistakes. I think chapters from different perspectives feel distinct, and that when development in either direction (bad or good) happens, it feels earned.

idk man, this is a hard one to answer when depressed :')

How do you feel about your own writing?

At the end of the day, it's a lifeline. Sometimes I keep very much to myself and I protect it fiercely, because it's one of the only things that kept me going at certain points in the last few years. At my lowest, I've often wondered for what, if anything, I'll be remembered for or what I'll leave behind... and now I actually have things! 12 whole stories, where once there was nothing! Sure, it's fanfic! But some people's favourite fanfic. None of it is perfect, but it all matters to me, and we're now at the point (4 years in) where I am starting to slowly realise how it has changed me as a person, and will continue to change me going forward.

I want to start on some original ideas once my thesis is over, vivaed and done, but I don't currently see my writing as anything something I can make into a career, bc I need to keep the joy in it as the joy literally keeps me alive :')

tagging: @imscissorbladez, @pricemarshfield, @blarfshnorgull, @violacae, @dededrabbles, @brabblesblog - no pressure, just trying to share this tag game to more groups/social circles! :) x

[screaming-universe]

*rolls into askbox*

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(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

adsklfjl well then 😌 (make me write game)

🐲 Los Angeles Fire Riders

Buck had just come out of the bunk room when the dragons let out calls of greeting and Copia—Chopper, as she preferred—descended into the courtyard. She was a Mauerfuchs, a high-flying courier and she used that for when surveillance and additional eyes on the scene were needed quickly. She also worked together with Tommy Kinard. Tommy, who also happened to be Buck’s boyfriend and a real badass pilot. Pilots worked together with just their dragon partner and if the situation called for it, they went their separate ways. In the middle of the air that was.  So Tommy had a specialised harness and always wore a wingsuit and parachute when he was working with Chopper. Chopper herself were a light harness with barely any equipment. “Hey Tommy,” was all he could say before his boyfriend kissed him.

🐉 Would you still love me if I was a wyrm?

So far, Eddie’s first shift as a dragon had been fairly uneventful. There had been no big calls and nothing he could really do to help. They would still have to figure out what he could actually do as a firefighter now. Bobby had made sure he could still work: nothing in his contract had said otherwise and a quick talk with the union rep had confirmed it. Eddie was still a member of the LAFD, just of a different shape. For most of the shift he had found good spots at the firehouse to nap at and to be out of the way and on calls he had taken to perching on Buck’s shoulder. They—he, to be honest—had gotten a lot stares, pointed fingers and of course phones were pointed his way. Dragons were not common in cities at all and so Eddie tried to ignore it but he could not say that he liked the attention either. There was a young child who had come up to Buck and timidly asked to pet his dragons before her father had noticed where his daughter had absconded to and carried her away. “That might become a problem,” Buck said as he gently scratched Eddie behind the horns and drew his fingers along Eddie’s back just the way he liked it. “Then maybe stop petting your boyfriend in public so it actually looks like he is working,” Chimney said with a grin but after Eddie’s affirmative nod he belied his words and let his hand run over Eddie’s back as well.

🐈 Werecat AU

“Give me a moment to wake up properly,” Tommy murmured and got up to pad over to the bathroom. Buck got up too, went down the stairs and sat down at the kitchen island with a glass of water. He was happy with Tommy—he was! They had been courting for a month and it was the happiest he had been in a relationship in a long time, if not ever. There was nothing that was missing, not really. And yet… What Tommy had said had unburied the feelings for Eddie that Buck had shoved deep down and hoped to forget after Shannon had died and they had grown apart. Evidently he was not nearly as ‘over Eddie’ as he had let himself believe and deep down he had known that for a long time. “You are thinking too much,” said Tommy wryly and pressed a quick kiss to the top of Buck’s head. “We have a lot to talk about but I don’t think there’s any need to start catastrophizing just yet, baby.” He sat down on the chair next to Buck and took a deep swig from the water Buck had gotten him. “There are still feelings between the two of you,” he immediately got to the question at hand squeezed Buck’s knee, letting his hand settle there. “And they go both ways even if you pretend that it’s in the past.”

🐈‍⬛ Cat Burglar

Buck liked the roofs; he felt unseen, unnoticed – which was the point really – he liked the perspective that hadn’t been intended for anybody living in the castle. And this perspective allowed him to see things that he would have otherwise missed. Like the small courtyard at the very edge of the castle – nestled between the storage houses and the castle wall itself. It would have been quite unremarkably if it was only that, but what made it interesting to Buck was what was inside the courtyard. A mountain lion. And it didn’t look like it had gotten into the courtyard by accident – if that was even possible. The mountain lion wore a heavy leather collar, reinforced by iron. It was connected to all three of the courtyard’s walls by strong chains. There was no way that the lion could move more than three feet in any direction. Buck had finished his job – nearly at the very least. All he had to do now was to successfully leave the castle. But this was no way to keep an animal – why did they even have a mountain lion in the first place?

🐺 Werewolf Hunters

“We’ll do you a favour tonight, boys,” Herne sneered at them but Tommy paid him no attention as the hatch between his and Eddie’s cell rose. He did not wait for it to open fully and squeezed through as soon as he could. “Enjoy it while it lasts!” The hatch fell shut behind him but he did not care. Evan joined them a moment later and then the two of them carefully nosed around Eddie to find out how he had been hurt. A hit to the head, certainly, given his sluggish, dazed movement—a low-grade concussion probably. Some bruises all over his body too, like they all had by now. But he still flicked his ears as if to wave away their worry and caught Tommy’s head between his paws to lick his muzzle. With a deep sigh, Tommy settled by his side and started to groom his boyfriends as best as he could stuck in a kennel that was much too small for the three of them. At least he was close to them once again and could hold them. Until the hunters would take them away from him again, but for now he would enjoy the moment as much as was possible.

[exhuastedpigeon]

i'm not entirely sre what's going on with the trash in your askbox [tf is up ppl?] but I saw your post about shannon and i wanted to say, like, i have so many thoughts on her too!

like, i do genuinely hate her abandoning christopher. no contact, not even making sure he knows she's alive, just..gone. but i also don't think she's some vile monster. i actually think it was really misogynistic to kill her off, making it clear she was just a plot device for Eddie's character development. i would've loved if they explored her character more and actually got into how her and eddie could navigate a divorce and her properly reuniting with chris.

sorry to ramble. you just got me excited T_T the possibility of shannon diaz's character development really excites me tbh.

No need to apologize for rambling, that's literally what my tumblr is!

I think Shannon is a super interesting character, doubly so because we only really know her through Eddie's perspective.

I think the best part about Shannon's character is that she's so human and so flawed. She had a kid right out of high school with a guy she started dating her senior year. She married that guy. He enlisted in the Army and was gone for most of her pregnancy and most of the first couple of years of their kids life.

And then when he came back he wasn't the same guy she married - how could he be after everything he'd gone through. But she also wasn't the same girl he'd married and how could she be after all their time apart and the growing up she had to do.

Her leaving Chris without a peep for years was so shitty, but I can see why she did it even if I don't agree. That's what I love about her character - she makes choices that are selfish and hurt people and then she comes back and tries to make amends.

We'll never know what could have been because she died, but my god I love to think about what her and Eddie's friendship could have evolved into. To think about her trying to make up for the years away from Chris.

[killingsboys]

read in 2023!

i did a reading thread last year and really enjoyed it so i am doing another one this year!! as always, you can find me on goodreads and my askbox is always open!

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book by J.R.R. Tolkien (★★★★☆)

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo* (★★★★★)

Beowulf by Unknown, translated by Seamus Heaney (★★★★☆)

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Lee (★★★★☆)

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (★★★★★)

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (★★★★☆)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (★★★★★)

The Shadow of Kyoshi by F.C. Lee (★★★★☆)

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (★★★★★)

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson (★★☆☆☆)

Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón (★★★☆☆)

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (★★★★★)

Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt (★★★★★)

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 4 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (★★★★☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

The Guest List by Lucy Foley (★★☆☆☆)

Paper Girls, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson (★★★☆☆)

The Princess Bride by William Goldman (★★★★☆)

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (★★★★★)

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid* (★★★★★)

Goldie Vance, Volume 1 by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (★★★★☆)

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★★☆)

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★☆☆)

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis (★★★★★)

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (★★★☆☆)

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr. (★★☆☆☆)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★★)

Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz (★★★☆☆)

Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie by Ellen Cassedy (★★★★☆)

Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley (★★★★☆)

Hollow by Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, and Berenice Nelle (★★★★☆)

Heavy Vinyl, Volume 1: Riot on the Radio by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin (★★★★☆)

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado (★★★☆☆)

Heavy Vinyl, Volume 2: Y2K-O! by Nina Vakueva and Carly Usdin (★★★★☆)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (★★★★☆)

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (★★★★★)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (★★★★★)

The Backstagers, Vol 1: Rebels Without Applause by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, and Walter Baiamonte (★★★☆☆)

The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (★★★★☆)

The Backstagers, Vol 2: The Show Must Go On by James Tynion IV, Rian Sygh, and Walter Baiamonte (★★★☆☆)

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

Happy Place by Emily Henry (★★★★★)

After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis (★★★☆☆)

Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (★★★☆☆)

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (★★★★☆)

A Little Bit Country by Brian D. Kennedy (★★★★☆)

Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street by Victor Luckerson (★★★★★)

Cheer Up!: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier, Oscar O. Jupiter, and Val Wise (★★★★★)

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by assorted authors, edited by Saundra Mitchell (★★★★☆)

Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher** (★★★★☆)

St. Juniper's Folly by Alex Crespo** (★★★★★)

The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan** (★★☆☆☆)

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (★★★★★)

Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould** (★★★★☆)

Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass** (★★★★★)

Princess Princess Ever After by Kay O’Neill (★★★☆☆)

Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis** (★★★☆☆)

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron (★★★☆☆)

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (★★★★☆)

Devotions by Mary Oliver (★★★★★)

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan* (★★★★☆)

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan* (★★★★☆)

The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan* (★★★★★)

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)

Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz** (★★★★☆)

The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (★★★★★)

All That’s Left to Say by Emery Lord (★★★★★)

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (★★★☆☆)

The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Joseph Andrew White (★★★★★)

Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

M Is for Monster by Talia Dutton (★★★★☆)

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (★★★★★)

Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by assorted authors, edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz (★★★★☆)

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall (★★★★☆)

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (★★★★★)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (★★★★☆)

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

The October Country by Ray Bradbury (★★★★☆)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (★★★★☆)

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

The Appeal by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (★★★★☆)

The Carrying: Poems by Ada Limón (★★★★★)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi (★★★★★)

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (★★★★★)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins* (★★★★★)

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (★★★★★)

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd (★★★★★)

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (★★★★☆)

The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith* (★★★★★)

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (★★★★★)

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi (★★★★★)

The Witch Hunt by Sasha Peyton Smith (★★★★☆)

That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally** (★★★★☆)

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (★★★★☆)

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson (★★★★☆)

Pageboy by Elliot Page (★★★★★)

All This and Snoopy, Too by Charles M. Schultz (★★★★☆)

The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (★★★★☆)

Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter (★★★★☆)

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill** (★★☆☆☆)

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (★★★★☆)

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei (★★★★☆)

Spell on Wheels Vol. 1 by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise (★★★★☆)

Spell on Wheels Vol. 2: Just to Get to You by Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise (★★★★☆)

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis (★★★★☆)

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (★★★★☆)

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014 - 2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin (★★★★☆)

Murder on the Christmas Express by Alexandra Benedict (★☆☆☆☆)

Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon (★★★★☆)

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (★★★★★)

The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani (★★★★☆)

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson (★★★★☆)

The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)

The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan (★★★☆☆)

Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger (★★★☆☆)

Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia (★★★★☆)

An asterisk (*) indicates a reread. A double asterisk (**) indicates an ARC.

[wexhappyxfew]

Shannon!!

Congrats on your internship and presentation, what an accomplishment🤓

I was so happy to see an update from you; I’ve missed your wirings and thoughts about the girls! Kennedy and Bucky, and Annie and Brady, continue to occupy my thoughts lol.

I’ve been super busy as well and think I’ve fallen behind on reading your most recent updates. Time to go back and then drop another ask. I love love love your stuff!!

-☀️

AHHHHHH SUNSHINE ANON HELLOOOOOO!!!!!! it’s so nice to see you in my askbox again omg!!!! 🥹🥹✨🫶 i hope you’re doing well!!!!!

absolutely a massive thank you for that! it means so much! 🥹 it was a lot of hard work and stress at times but so worth it so i greatly appreciate it!!!!! <33333

AWWWWW IM SO GLAD! i missed getting to be on here and posting about the SB girlies and writing in general. so i’m glad to be back for a bit before the semester cranks up again!!!! TRULY!!!! i’ve missed all the SB girls and their duos and chatting about them all! THEYRE JUST SO SPECIAL TO ME 😭😭😭😭😭 (and im glad they’ve seemed to be meaningful to you too!!!)

omg don’t you worry at all!!!! read if you can and when you can, don’t worry!!!! i totally get being busy - i work a lot and with the internship finishing - it’s all i was doing, so it’s okay!!!!! they’ll be here for whenever you want!!! <3333 i always love to see your reactions to them too hehe! thank you for the love and support! :)

THANK YOU AGAIN SUNSHINE ANON!

[penumbraal]

❝ i don’t care if i’m right or wrong. i only believe in my conscience. i will follow my conscience and save people. if you disagree with that, then . . . let’s agree to curse each other. ❞

penumbraal: an independent and selective roleplay blog for MEGUMI FUSHIGURO from jujutsu kaisen. manga and anime - based. headcanon - enthusiast. mun is 28, they/them. 21+ only.

navigation: carrd | wikia | prompts | pinterest | spotify

( rules on carrd and under the cut ! )

01. about me: my name is shannon! i'm 28 and live in eastern time. i've been in various tumblr rp scenes for roughly 13-14 years now, which you probably can't tell based on my choppy photo editing work lol, but i've been inactive for a while due to life. i work a fairly mentally draining full time job so to be safe i'll say for now that i'll be relatively low activity.

02. about writing: i will only write with mutuals, including askbox starter prompts; however, non-starter ask prompts are welcome from non-mutuals! additionally, i am happy to interact with multimuse blogs, duplicates, and original characters.

i'm okay with writing a variety of lengths - multi-para, single-para, one-liners, etc; i might prioritize shorter form replies at times due to how exhausted i constantly am, and might also accidentally turn a short-form into multiple paragraphs! never be stressed about matching me. i can pretty much work with anything!

03. about content and triggers: i will not be writing any explicit nsfw content, even with an "aged-up" megumi. due to the nature of jjk and the fact that i have au's that involve megumi as an adult, there will be some mature themes concerning violence, mental health, etc. as i write a megumi who is gay and trans, there may or may not be an exploration of identity and dysphoria. it depends on if it seems pertinent to what i'm writing in the moment, and i will definitely tag anything that gets too intense, but if i underestimate anything please tell me and i will tag it for you regardless.

i will not be writing anything that involves adult/minor relationships, incest, underage sexual content, etc. and for my own comfort will not be following/may block anyone who does. i try to avoid call-outs and drama as i don't have the energy left from my outside life, but i try to curate my dashboard accordingly.

i'd like as many people as possible to feel comfortable on my blog; as such i'll do my best to tag general triggers that i'm aware of. please do not at all hesitate to ask me to tag something i'm not tagging! additionally, to be clear, i don't tolerate racism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, and zionism in this space.

a few things that make me uncomfortable that i'd prefer tagged if possible: emetophobia, gore, body horror, arachnophobia. images only for me, i don't personally need these tagged if it's only in writing. thank you in advance!

04. about shipping and identity: as i mentioned, i write megumi as a gay trans guy. i tend to ship chemistry but i also ship itafushi and it will likely be the ship i'm most interested in writing. of course i absolutely won't force that on anyone writing yuji and am more than happy to just explore their friendship!

at the moment i don't imagine i will practice exclusivity with a specific character. i'm sure there will be some portrayals of characters that megumi and i vibe with more than others and i won't completely discount the idea, especially if i'm approached about it; but i like interacting with different portrayals and so for now i'm very open to writing with duplicates!

i will reiterate that i will not be shipping megumi with canonically adult jjk characters regardless of whether or not i am writing a verse where megumi is also an adult.

05. about plotting: i love that stuff! slide into my dms! ask for my discord! or we can wing it! i'm not picky. i'll like a starter call, i'll post a starter call, i'll post some silly little open one-liner, i just love interacting with people! as long as we're mutuals, go wild!

06. final thoughts: i always make a point to read rules before following. because of work, i'm not always on my computer to look at tumblr, so it may take some extra time before i follow back. that all being said, i have a bad memory and so while i'm striving not to do this, if there's anything i've done as a misstep in interacting with you, please tell me! i want you to feel comfortable and stress-free interacting with me, and have fun roleplaying!

thanks for reading! <3

credit for icons: iconsbytina.

[voiceoftheashari]

CR asks: 21, 23 (for spice), 34, 39 (feel free to pick & choose which u wanna answer)

21. You can eliminate one ship that did not become a canon, reciprocated relationship from the fandom's consciousness. It is entirely gone - no fics, no posts, no doctored out of context gifsets inexplicably claiming that Travis ships it, no anon hate, no drama. Your blocked tags list becomes several entries shorter. A weight is lifted from your shoulders, and you take the deepest breath you've taken in a long time. Anyway, now that you're feeling relaxed and inspired, what do you think Bertrand Bell's fighter subclass was?

I want to say a Champion? I actually had to go look Fighter subclasses up.

23. You can guarantee that Vax lives at the end of Campaign 1. However, you must trade his permadeath for the permadeath of a different PC who was dead for more than a minute. Your options are Percy dying permanently in 1x68; Scanlan dying permanently in 1x83; or Laudna dying permanently in 3x34. Do you choose to do so, why, and whose death do you trade?

Fite me but Scanlan. He's not my fave, and I love Percy and Laudna more.

34. You meet an old woman in the grocery store and help her with her bags. In return, she tells you she can guarantee that Campaign 3 will be fantastic, and that there will be a Campaign 4 set in Issylra that is also fantastic. However, she warns you, the price is that Marisha and Laura's characters will never be in a romance together, nor will Taliesin and Liam's, though there will be significant queer romances aplenty, both F/F and M/M, in said campaigns. Do you take her up on her offer?

Yeah, let's do it. Sounds interesting. I'm always here for a good time.

39. Favorite parental figure NPC?

Listen, I love Marion so much. She is a gods damned treat

[rose-reads-visualnovels]

What do you think motivates George to pursue Shannon, sure it's a power trip for him but how does benefit his plans to steal the headship from Jessica ?

The answer is pretty simple actually: lust misconstrued as love. Pretty, submissive Rose Furniture Shannon is the reward he's separated for himself for all of his future hardwork. Doesn't he apply himself to his father's company? To the Ushiromiya Family? Surely, a simple prize like Shannon isn't asking for much?

I really don't think the Shannon thing is that complicated to George. He's probably not aware of her "magic" status since the only Furniture to separate themself is Kanon. She's a pretty servant girl he's supposedly dating. Maybe he considers her a breath of fresh air? She's not tangled up with Family Drama (to his knowledge. I think she's so deep in it she's drowning.)

-- Rose, the Revolutionary Witch

[birgittesilverbae]

Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

Talk about your current wips.

thanks for the ask! (and especially thanks for the copy-paste of the questions!!)

Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

I've probably talked about this before but 1x06 is theeee episode of all time for driving my Mary characterization, because it gives us a glimpse of Mary kinda shedding the weight of her crusade for a moment because there's nothing she can do right then to avenge Shannon, not when she has to wait for extraction, so she lapses back into her default in her interactions with the townspeople and with Ava, the gentle guiding and reframing and teaching Ava about what it is to serve

If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

tmtl as an episodic coming-of-age dramedy my beloved

Talk about your current wips.

tmtl chapter 5 (and apparently 6 now because the devil is in my ear) begins with the aftermath of Shannon's death and that's all I'm gonna say about it

have a couple things in the works for tmtc/stone butch-leaning Shannon discovering herself because what are tmtl and tmtc if not partner fics about Bea and Shannon growing and learning at different stages in their journeys

hooker au is Beatrice teaching Ava Physical Things

there's a learning-to-swim-in-Switzerland oneshot that I go back and forth on poking at and hating

I've got a WoT au with Aes Sedai Beatrice and Warder Ava half-outlined and it's gonna be sooooo messy

I've also got a Martian AU where both Ava and Bea get left on the surface roughly outlined

a couple longer actual oneshots for fic: dads

whatever people toss at my askbox for RIPBea

spideytorch BeaxAva is but a flicker in my mind's eye

and then there's [redacted] which I am probably the most fucking stoked about of all of these

I didn't realize I had that many balls in the air my god

[arysuh]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers ♡

In no particular order :

cuddling with the cats or watching them doing cute things (right now Steve Urkel is sleeping under the blanket on the armchair. She has her own little fort <3)

Sitting on this same armchair in front of the window with my dino plushie to hold the book I am currently reading (Paradise by Toni Morrison or A day of fallen night by Samantha Shannon or An unkindness of ghosts by Rivers Solomon atm). And as we're talking about books : the locked tomb series, I'm obsessed. Obsessed as in I had to lend my physical version to not read it for the 4th time in a row. Get me out of my own brain !!!

playing video games with friends - cause doing it alone is boooooring. You can find me on Final Fantasy XIV, Chaos data center, Moogle server. I'm in a pretty neat and chill FC. Also, spending any time with friends is dopamining so, yay !!

Giving good grades.

Explaining something and being listened to.

I'm not even sure 10 people reblog my stuff though... XD

[foulbearobservation]

This is a prompt for the witcher AU (inspired by a equestrian quote I read a while back that sent my brain down the gutter).

Camila and the others (Bea/Shannon/Mary/Ava take your pick) are having a conversation about horse riding. Lilith walks into earshot just as Camila says some variation of "[horse's name] isn't the only one I can control/ride with my thighs and fingers"

this has been sitting in my askbox for a hot minute and I can't share the passage itself because there's Spoilers for witcher au but it is now in the au, thank u brave soldier for suggesting it o7 it's truly so funny. lilith and the mortifying experience of ur gf meeting ur cool older sister and them getting along a little TOO well

[bookwyrminspiration]

Hi, I'm Shelly! I lurked ur blog (and every other blog) for all posts Kenric and/or Oralie, for many months now! So hi!

Oralie stan pink sparkle power yes I agree how dare Shannon say it's just "the opulence expected of a Councillor"

Hello, Shelly! I wondered if you'd pop into my askbox, as I've seen you in a few others. It's nice to meet you. I hope you enjoyed your lurking, and that you will now enjoy your time not lurking!

I see you are a big kenric\oralie (pretend the slash is facing the other direction, normal forward slash kept turning into a percentage-like thing c/o) fan! I must admit I don't think of them very often myself, but there are at least a few in the fandom who love them, so I'm sure you'll be able to find things you like :)

But also yeah feminist lost that day, will forever be disappointed that Shannon had Oralie shed her pink and sparkles when things got serious. She should be able to hold onto those things, to be super opulent and pink and indulgent and serious and capable all at the same time! We had that for so long and then boom she took it away in one fell scene (a scene that took 10% of the book, I calculated).

I just keep wondering what was the point of it? What did we get out of that? Of Oralie having something more somber beneath her opulence and femininity? There's nothing wrong with her having variety and range, of wearing pants and black and not being constantly pink, but it accompanied what read as a dismissal and negativity towards her pink femininity. I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't review exactly how it was worded, but that's what I remember it being, the impression it left. And I just. Why! Why did we do that. The two don't have to be exclusive why did we make them so, Oralie can be powerful and enjoy pink, be opulent.

Anyway, distracted musings aside, the point of this is to say hello and welcome to the fandom! There's plenty of wonderfully talented people here, and we're always thrilled to interact with new people :)