#bad men

[mcnostril]

I've been watching Reacher while I work and it is full of Bad Men with terrible survival instincts.

[peppermintquartz]

It's been a tiresome day at work, but dinner and a documentary on orangutans (hard to go wrong with David Attenborough) have perked Buck's mood up. Tommy has already brushed his teeth and got in bed, midway through a new murder romance comedy - Bad Men, by Julie Cohen - and is grinning to himself.

"This is definitely inspired by that Hannibal series," Tommy says, adjusting his reading glasses.

"Albert told me it was a well-made show, and the food is supposedly really delicious, but I'm not sure I wanna watch it and feel hungry watching a cannibal munching on a liver, y'know?" Buck plugs in his phone. "Speaking of cannibals, we gotta decide on a costume idea for Maddie's Halloween party. It's with the kids so we gotta keep it PG. Funny is okay, nothing too scary, sexy is definitely out."

"I'm thinking cowboy and gladiator. Night at the Museum."

Buck can see it. He still has a cowboy hat and boots somewhere, he thinks. And chaps are easy to rent.

"You know where to get the gladiator outfit?"

"I know a guy."

"Of course you do. Wish we could do scary costumes though, that woulda been fun." Yawning, Buck sheds his sweater and kicks off his pants, intending to pull on sweatpants, when he hears Tommy gasp loudly.

"What? What?" Buck looks around, thinking he's going to see a huge roach or something.

Tommy's eyes are wide and he's staring at Buck. "That's so scary!"

"What? What's scary?"

Tommy points a shaking finger at Buck... and Buck's boxers.

Which have little cartoon jack-o'-lanterns all over them.

Biting back a smirk, Buck glances at Tommy, who is not hiding his smirk. In fact, Tommy shudders dramatically.

"They're so scary. You should take them off," he says, grinning as he sets aside his book and glasses, his eyebrows wagging.

Buck saunters over to the foot of the bed to stare suggestively at his boyfriend, who pulls up the blanket and wraps them around himself. "These are scary, huh."

"So terrifying." Tommy covers his eyes. His shoulders shake with stifled giggles.

"Well, I shouldn't be scaring my boyfriend," Buck drawls. He shimmies out of his frightful boxers. "There, there. See? Nothing to be scared of now."

Tommy pouts, his lower lip wobbling. He looks utterly ridiculous. "Hold me?" he says, in the tiniest voice he can manage. "Please?"

"You absolute dork." Buck laughs and burrows under the blanket.

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PS: If you know the comic this little fic is based on, please drop the link below so I can credit. I can't find it 😭 my tumblr search-fu has failed me

[ihatemakingusernames]

Whenever someone asks my future career goals: this, just this.

[modernmom35]

Tumblr is filled with evil manipulative men

[slagduroc]

🚨 The Slag Duroc State Penitentiary inmates are updating their mugshots this week. Keep your distance from the screen—some of these individuals are dangerous.

[alucard007]

[quietflorilegium]

“[Daja] felt as if she had aged a hundred years. Suddenly all of the elegance around her looked like a mask for some cruel beast. She had to eye every man who passed her, asking herself if he had ever kidnapped a woman—or if he would, given the chance. Were all men like this? No, she told herself firmly. Never Briar. Or Frostpine. Or Tris’s teacher Niko, or our sometimes teacher Crane, or Duke Vedris, or Dedicate Gorse, the temple cook. She doubted Ambros or Zhegorz would consider it, either. No, Daja, don’t be a fool. You know plenty of men who would never even think of pulling such a vile trick.”

Tamora Pierce, “The Will of the Empress”

[keytomind]

I am convinced that, in terms of dating, I will be paying for the sins and the wrongs of bad men for the rest of my life.

Fellas, step your games up and just be good fucking people. Be a good example of a man, one that your daughter could be proud of, whether you have one or not. If that is asking too much, please kindly fuck off to an island somewhere.

[libertyreads]

April TBR 2024--

This next month is set to be full of rereads, hockey romances, and new to me books. It is also the month I'm starting a certification program so it will probably be a bit of a struggle to get through this month's TBR. I don't even remember the last time I've thought that about a month's TBR. I really hope I have as much fun with this TBR as I'm expecting to. I've really been in the mood for these rereads and these hockey romance so I'm excited to finally get to it.

Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken-- This is just one of a few rereads this month. Book two in the series comes out next month. I originally read this one as an ARC so I definitely need a refresher first. Tamsin Lark is a mortal with no magical talent who was never meant to break into ancient crypts or compete with sorceresses and Cunning folk for the treasures inside. But treasure hunting is the only way she could keep herself and her brother Cabell alive following her thieving foster father's disappearance. Ten years later she's looking for a ring that is supposed to save her brother from a curse. It's based in Arthurian legend.

Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo-- Another reread before a new book in the series. I remember enjoying this one slightly less than Raven's book, but I still enjoyed meeting a new character and getting their origin story. I also felt like it addressed an issue that isn't brought up a lot: male body image issues. We see it addressed a lot in fiction for girls, but there are boys who also go through this growing up. Plus it's beast boy and lots of green animals.

The Score by Elle Kennedy-- A hockey romance! I've been so in the mood for hockey romances this year. I don't know if it's because I found a few new to me authors and bought some kindle books for Christmas or what. In this one we follow Allie Hayes who is in crisis mode. Graduation is looming and she's dealing with a broken heart thanks to the end to her longtime relationship. Wild rebound sex is definitely not the solution to her problems, but gorgeous hockey star Dean Di Laurentis is impossible to resist. Just one though because even if her future is uncertain it sure as heck doesn't include Dean. It seems like he's going to pursue her after she puts him in the friend zone following their one night stand. I love it when the guy falls first or the guy is pursuing the girl so I'm looking forward to this one.

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu-- The last of the rereads for this month. I'm so excited for the next book too. In this one we follow an international pop sensation named Winter Young who is brought into the world of spies when a major crime boss gifts his daughter a private concert with Winter for her birthday. Sydney Cossette is a member of the elite covert ops group who is forced to work alongside Winter to infiltrate the crime organization's inner circle. This was such a fun and quick read for me last year and I can't wait to go back into this world of glitz, glam, and spies.

Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen (NetGalley)-- This one just sounded so good when I saw it on NetGalley. It's unhinged women at its finest. Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer. Over the course of fifteen years, she's dispatched bad men--rapist, murderers, domestic abusers. But leading a double life has left her lonely. Dating's rough when your boyfriend might turn out to be your next victim. Saffy thinks she's finally found a truly good man in Jonathan Desrosiers, a true crime podcaster. This is a feminist thriller that asks if even a serial killer can have a happily ever after. My hopes for this one? Rich people drama and some mad women.

The Hemlock Queen by Hannah F. Whitten (New Release)-- The second book in the series is finally coming out. This series starts with Lore, who has a dark power and a hidden past, as we follow her into the intrigue of the Sainted King's royal court. The king and his priest manipulate Lore and have her spy on the prince in order to determine just who is killing the villages at the edge of the kingdom. We follow on from the events of the first book in this new one.

My Lucky #13 by Piper Rayne (Kindle)-- A hockey player who is going through a scoring draught is worried he's going to get traded before the deadline if he doesn't turn it around. Following a New Year's Eve with a woman, he has a waterfall of goals and knows he has to see her again. She wants nothing to do with him and he feels his has to change her mind. A hero falls first sounding story that I'm so looking forward to. I will say that there's a very obvious hockey error in the synopsis of this one and we all know I'm a little picky about hockey details. But I'll try to keep an open mind on this one.

Just Do This One Thing For Me by Laura Zimmerman (Library)-- I'm going to pull the synopsis straight from GoodReads since it's a Mystery/Thriller and those are hard to explain at the best of times: "'Just do this one thing for me.' Drew's mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew's seventeen years, and Drew knows that 'one thing' really means all the necessary things her mother thinks are boring, including taking care of her fifteen-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother. In fact, Drew is the closest thing to a responsible adult they've ever known. When their mother disappears on the way to a New Year's Eve concert in Mexico and her schemes start unraveling, Drew is faced with a choice: Follow the rules, do the responsible thing, and walk away--alone--from her mother's mess. Or hope the weather stays cold, keep the cons going, and just maybe hold her family together."

[geezerwench]

Sadly, the second graph seems to be pretty accurate.

[kissmefriendly]

me at 11pm:

if you can lose your temper then I can lose my mind

if you can lose your temper then I can lose my mind

if you can lose your temper then I can lose my mind

if you can lose your temper then I can lose my mind

[nats-reads-reviews]

Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen 5/5 ⭐️

This book was so incredibly cute and funny! I absolutely loved it! Saffy is a sexy, talented and posh serial killer taking out bad men in the world one at a time. She is such a likable character and she’s deeply falling for Jon, a true crime podcaster, with a knack for solving unsolved cases. The lengths Saffy goes to to get Jon’s attention and bring him in her life are insane but also weirdly cute? I think Saffy may just be one on my ultimate favorite anti-heroes.

[shxpeshifterr]

[hansoeii]

the honda odyssey, huh?

[soimse]

“He wants me so bad he just doesn’t know it yet” -Bill Cipher probably

[professionalnooneatall]

Thinking about the time a very bad man was trying to get 14-year-old me to fly to Florida to meet him (via ICQ) by telling me he thought I seemed like "the kind of kid that wears a lot of AB&F" like I wasn't a poor redneck and that wasn't the dumbest assessment of me I'd ever heard up to then

He wasn't a bad guy. He was going to give me money to travel