#Top Dog Stories

[doggozila]

(via Winter Dog Breeds That Thrive in Snowy Conditions - Doggozila Magazine)

[originalartblog]

Unforeseen learning opportunity!

(wikitionary to explain the scar)

(bonus)

[erinwantstowrite]

Help I had a dream (nightmare) you abandoned LoF because I saw that ask right before I went to bed and when I woke up I had to go straight to tumblr and double check 😭🙏

if anything I've made a life time commitment because i keep adding chapters to my outline

[monstersandmaw]

so the 'vampire mafia boss in a nightclub' idea i was gonna write as a sexy one off turned into an angst fest with plot instead

[scrivvle74]

I don’t think people utilize putting lotion on another’s scars scenes enough in fanfics tbh. Not in a sexual way but in a soft, caring way.

Scars can get very itchy and dry and you often have to put lotion on them, especially bigger scars. I don’t like the process very much and it’s hard to reach some of them. But asking someone for help would personally be very hard for me. It’s such a vulnerable thing. I read a very heartwarming fic years ago where one character helped the other apply lotion to their scars and it’s really stuck with me.

Anyways fanfic writers, more soft scar-tending fics pretty please? /nf <3

[xskyll]

Odysseus: Oh hey, there's my dog! Haven't seen him in 20 years! Wow, he can recognize me despite Athena's disguise. That's dogs for you. He's so happy to see me. I'm crying. Let me go to him.

Dog: *instantly drops dead*

[constantvariations]

What was the point of giving all faunus darkvision if it's only used like. Twice in the entire series?

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

i love hercules and omphale because despite that fact that he is bigger and stronger and more powerful than her, he willingly becomes her slave (and, eventually, her lover and husband). it's such an interesting dynamic. to know that he could kill her if he wanted to, that her power over him is essentially pretend, but that he, the proud hercules, still plays along, a willing participant in his own subjugation. it's playful and subversive and even romantic.

[yaburnaee]

autumn court magic being steeped in trickster dark magic. something about life and death, the give and take of energy. what you take from magic, it takes something of equal value in return. think like fae bargains and boons. love spells going wrong and bringing people back from the dead meaning something else must be sacrificed. an eye for an eye except the eye taken as payment is the only one you can see with now.

autumn court royalty and the generational curse of death and withering because of the sheer amount of magic they use to upkeep the land versus autumn court and the ban on the craft because of greed and the thirst for control.

[revasserium]

the unofficial ultimate bungo stray dogs reading list

this is mainly for myself bc i rly do want to read most if not all of these and i'm sure it's already been done by someone somewhere. but, i thought why not post it lmao; most if not all of these can be found on anna's archive, z-library, or project gutenberg! (also, consider buying from your local bookstore!) for those that are a bit harder to find, i've included links, though some are from j-stor and would require login to access.

detective agency:

osamu dazai:

no longer human (novel)

the setting sun (novel)

nakajima atsushi:

the moon over the mountain: stories (short story collection)

light, wind and dreams (short story)

fukuzawa yukichi:

an encouragement of learning (17 volume collections of writings)

all the countries of the world, for children written in verse (textbook)

yosano akiko:

kimi shinitamou koto nakare (poem)

midaregami (poetry collection)

edogawa ranpo:

the boy detectives club (book series)

japanese tales of mystery and imagination (short story collection)

the early cases of akechi kogoro (novel)

kunikida doppo:

river mist and other stories (short story collection)

izumi kyouka:

demon lake (play)

spirits of another sort: the plays of izumi kyoka (play collection)

tanizaki junichirou:

the makioka sisters (novel)

the red roof and other stories (short story collection)

miyazawa kenji:

ame ni mo makezu; be not defeated by the rain (poem)

night on the galactic railroad (novel)

strong in the rain (poetry collection)

port mafia:

mori ougai:

vita sexualis (novel)

the dancing girl (novel)

nakahara chuuya:

poems of nakahara chuya (poetry collection)

akutagawa ryuunosuke:

rashoumon (short story)

the spider's thread (short story)

rashoumon and other stories (short story collection)

ozaki kyouyou:

the gold demon (novel)

higuchi ichiyou:

in the shade of spring leaves (biography and short stories)

hirotsu ryuurou:

falling camellia (novel)

tachihara michizou:

in mourning for the summer (poem)

midwinter momento (poem)

from the country of eight islands: an anthology of japanese poetry (poetry collection)

kajii motojirou:

lemon (short story)

yumeno kyuusaku:

dogra magra (novel)

oda sakunosuke:

flawless/immaculate (short story)

sakaguchi ango:

darakuron (essay)

the guild:

f. scott fitzgerald:

the great gatsby (novel)

the beautiful and the damned (novel)

edgar allen poe:

the raven (poem)

the black cat (short story)

the murders in the rue morgue (short story)

herman melville:

moby dick (novel)

h.p. lovecraft:

the call of cthulhu (short story)

the shadow out of time (novella)

john steinbeck:

the grapes of wrath (novel)

of mice and men (novel)

lucy maud montgomery:

anne of green gables (novel)

the blue castle (novel)

chronicles of avonlea (short story collection)

louisa may alcott:

little women (novel)

the brownie and the princess (short story collection)

margaret mitchell:

gone with the wind (novel)

mark twain:

the adventures of tom sawyer (novel)

adventures of huckleberry finn (novel)

nathaniel hawthorn:

the scarlet letter (novel)

rats in the house of the dead:

fyodor dostoevsky:

crime and punishment (novel)

the brothers karamozov (novel)

notes from the underground (short story collection)

alexander pushkin:

eugene onegin (novel)

a feast in time of plague (play)

ivan goncharov:

the precipice (novel)

oguri mushitarou:

the perfect crime (novel)

decay of the angel:

fukuchi ouchi:

the mirror lion, a spring diversion (kabuki play)

bram stoker:

dracula (novel)

dracula's guest and other weird stories (short story collection)

nikolai gogol:

the overcoat (short story)

dead souls (novel)

hunting dogs: (i must caveat here that the hunting dogs are named after much more comparatively obscure jpn writers/playwrights so i was unable to find a lot of the specific pieces actually mentioned; but i still wanted to include them on the list because well -- it wouldn't be a bsd list without them)

okura teruko:

gasp of the soul (short story; i wasn't able to find an english translation)

devil woman (short story)

jouno saigiku:

priceless tears (kabuki play; no translation but at least we have a summary)

suehiro tetchou:

setchuubai/a political novel: plum blossoms in snow (novel)

division for unusual powers:

taneda santouka:

the santoka: versions by scott watson (poetry collection)

tsujimura mizuki:

lonely castle in the mirror (novel)

yesterday's shadow tag (short story collection; i was unable to find a translation)

order of the clock tower:

agatha christie:

and then there were none (novel)

murder on the orient express (novel)

she is the best selling fiction writer of all time there's too much to list here

mimic:

andre gide:

strait is the gate (novel)

trascendents:

arthur rimbaud:

illuminations (poetry collection)

the drunken boat (poem)

a season in hell (prose poem)

johann von goethe:

faust

the sorrows of young werther

paul verlaine:

clair de lune (poem, yes it did inspire the debussy piece, yes)

poems under saturn (poetry collection)

victor hugo:

the hunchback of notre-dame (novel)

les miserables (novel)

william shakespeare:

romeo and juliet (play)

a midsummer nights' dream (play)

sonnets (poetry collection)

the seven traitors:

jules verne:

around the world in 80 days (novel)

journey to the center of the earth (novel)

twenty thousand leagues under the seas (novel)

other:

natsume souseki:

i am a cat (novel)

kokoro (novel)

botchan (novel)

h.g. wells:

the time machine (novella)

the invisible man (novel)

the war of the worlds (novel)

shibusawa tatsuhiko:

the travels of prince takaoka (novel; unable to find translation)

dr. mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley

frankenstein (novel)

[airborneham]

New Game Lab post! Today I discuss Deathmatch Island from Old Dog Games and Evil Hat, and how the "competitive" genre of TTRPGs gives a new twist to the play-to-lose style of storytelling games that I love. Check it out on my Substack Now!

[littencloud9]

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[gar-a-ash]

Bad puppies who can't stop mauling their sibling get to wear a muzzle

[introspectivememories]

my timbern hot take is that i thank god everyday that we got riley rossmo's art for those first few issues instead of serg acuña's because i know some of you bitches would've been extremely weird about timbern if we had gotten acuña's manga-esque style from the beginning

[fictionadventurer]

We interrupt this dashboard to tell you about the cutest image I've come across in my Civil War reading.

Abraham Lincoln playing with kittens.

Apparently there were three of them in the City Point telegraph office. Lincoln would pet them and play with them and wipe their little eyes with his handkerchief every time he stopped by during his trip there at the end of the war.

This was important enough to devote most of a chapter to.

I would like to thank this author for including the important parts of history.

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Hello person who made an author into a bsd oc, I am kissing you on the mouth.