#books like veronica mars

[veronicaneptunes]

A long time ago, we used to be friends... The Veronica Mars pilot aired 20 years ago today- on the 22nd of September, 2004.

[wonkyjaw]

I’m looking for more songs to put on my playlist for a character and it’s just the strangest mix.

Like I’ve got To Build a Home and Sixteen Tons on there followed shortly by Hot to the Touch, Cold on the Inside and a new favorite Hamms in a Glass.

Cade’s whole arc is just kind of all over the place, though, so I guess it makes sense. Stuck under someone’s thumb and desperate for her own freedom, so full of hope despite it all that she’s pinned as naive. She falls in love for the first time without even realizing it just as her life starts spiraling fully out of her own control. She’s spent years currying favor with the rich and powerful, gaining favors for leverage, just to end up spending them all in a frantic attempt to save the lives of the handful of people she’s grown to love and care for. Every step she takes further from her patron’s grasp brings her closer to understanding that he had larger, more powerful masters of his own.

She is angry and terrified and so, so tired of being forced into corners that put her life at risk. She wants so badly to believe there’s good in people to the point where she consistently overlooks possible bad intentions. She has so much faith in a world that’s quickly closing in on her.

Idk I just love her so much but my god is it hard to make her playlist cohesive in any way.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Do you have a ludography for Eureka? If so, what games are on it?

Yes we very much do! Here it is, straight from the rulebook.

Inspirations

Though Eureka is an original TTRPG built from the ground up to suit the particular needs of our vision, that doesn’t mean we don’t stand upon the shoulders of giants. Below is some media that either served as inspiration for Eureka, or could at least serve as some inspiration to you for what sort of stories Eureka is best at telling.

TV & Movies

Being Human

The Big Sleep (1946)

Columbo

Doctor Who

Friday the 13th

Halloween

Hard Boiled (1992)

James Bond

Knives Out/Glass Onion

Kolchak: The Nightstalker

Laura (1944)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Midsummer Murders

Murder, She Wrote

Scooby-Doo

Scream (1996)

The Third Man (1949)

Twin Peaks

Veronica Mars

What We Do in the Shadows

The X-Files

Video Games

Disco Elysium

Blood (1997)

DUSK

Gabriel Knight

Hitman

Hotline Miami

L.A. Noire

Max Payne

Resident Evil

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Silent Hill

Tomb Raider

Books & Comics

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dick Tracy

Harrow County

Metro 2033

The works of Agatha Christie

The works of H.P. Lovecraft

Tabletop Games

Call of Cthulhu

Delta Green

Monster of the Week

Warhammer 40,000[1]

Advanced D&D, 2nd edition[2]

[1   sidebar] Warhammer 40,000 may seem like an odd pick, but it actually loosely inspired parts of the combat system of Eureka, like how it makes many inaccurate shots better than one highly accurate shot. It also lends Eureka the idea of providing bullet point summaries after each section. The “Command Point” mechanic in more recent editions of Warhammer 40,000 also served as some inspiration for the Eureka! Point mechanic in Eureka. 

[2   sidebar] Meanwhile, AD&D 2nd edition, unlike D&D post-3rd-edition, is a game that is focused on travel and surviving a dungeon more so than fighting and killing everything in it. Despite that, the game has mechanically complex combat rules, and Eureka also does for similar reasons - if combat is going to be dangerous, it also needs to be deep and tactical.

[lover-of-mine]

I'm sorry what????? They think they can influence Tim! As a fellow 300 survivor I think you can agree Tim gives zero fucks. Do they realize the ego of a show runner? I don't think Tim even likes us. I only have confidence because he loved Oliver and created Buck, then looked at Ryan and said I want him. And hey let's give them a kid. Buddie will have a HEA because that's the story he wants to tell. I have no doubt if he didn't love them like he does he would bellarke them just because he was annoyed at us one day.

No but literally, like we had to survive Jason actually punishing us. He actively was trying to punish the bellarke fans as much as he could. You look at the way that he treated Bellamy at the end of the show just because he was fucking annoyed with us. And the fact that he brought Lexa back just to rub it in more. Tim said it before that he writes Buck and Eddie for himself. We're just along for the ride, Tim will do what he wants and if people annoy him he will blow things up. You know surviving the 100 as a bellarke/Bellamy fan we know what it's like to have a showrunner actively hate us. Jason hated us and he was like "you know what fuck you" and just destroyed his own show because of his ego. And considering that Bob and Elisa said that they were told bellarke would end up together like the book, he literally threw away the plan because we annoyed him too much. They think that a couple hundred people being annoying social media for a few weeks, because their numbers are already completely down, we'll get them their way. Yo if us being annoying worked buddie it would have been married by now. It's so fucking funny that they think that they have any influence. The audience has no power whatsoever. I think it was Veronica Mars that the showrunner made an extra season just to make as many fans mad as possible a few years ago. Tim is doing this for himself, if he cared about the criticism he would have changed things and he's not. The ego of a showrunner is all that matter and they think that Tim is going to allow a guy who literally hijacked his story for personal gain, who was literally selling his IP, to control the narrative because a few people sent a couple emails to ABC. That guy is not going to do what they want, if they keep this up he might do the exact opposite. Jason hated us, you want to know what it's like to be a fan who watching the narrative change because of fan reaction be at the 100 fan in 2019/2020, but that was punishment. They're not gonna get what they want like this.

[ofthedirewolves]

OPENING COMMISSIONS

Hello all,

Commissions are open once again because I am in a jam. I keep getting job rejections, I’ve sold a lot of things but it never seems to be enough. So I really need some extra help. I don’t like asking for help but it’s currently my only option. I need to open commissions to pay for some debts coming up.

I have paypal and Ko-fi. I understand that things are tight for many people so if you can’t donate please share this post.

Below is a mostly full list of my fandoms (also let me know if there’s a fandom you’re interested and not on the list bc I might be forgetting it)

Ships: Queliot, Klaroline, Steddie, Ronance, Kathony, Dair Games: Uncharted, Hades, Pokemon, Baldur’s Gate 3, Dimension 20, Critical Role C1, Movies: Top Gun Maverick, Ready or Not, Any Star Wars* (just no Reylo), IT/IT Ch 2, Alice (Syfy), Fast & Furious Series, ,Pirates of the Caribbean (just no D*pp please), the Mummy, Count of Monte Cristo TV Shows: Game of Thrones, Lucifer, the Sandman, Good Omens, Teen Wolf, Once Upon a Time, Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Merlin, Ted Lasso, One tree hill, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, Wynonna Earp, Black Sails, Justified, The Witcher, White Collar, Supernatural, Veronica Mars (original series), Friday Night Lights, Leverage, Haven, Runaways, The Royals, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, 9-1-1, BTVS, Angel, She-Ra Books: ASOIAF, A Discovery of Witches, Red White & Royal Blue, X Men, Greek Mythology,

Not really my fandom but I know enough; Grisha Verse, MCU, Star Trek, Hazbin Hotel, Hunger Games, Craig Bond, inception, Percy Jackson, Outlander, elementary, Timeless, DCTV, Silo

(*Admittedly I don’t really know Rebels)

Reblogs, Retweets and Shares always help.

Thank you!

[katzell]

Long Live Evil

By Sarah Rees Breenan

I read this book in less than a day. I can’t remember the last time I was able to do that. Not just because of grow up time committments, but because 7 years of graduate school turned reading into work. And yet this book felt like a much needed vacation. Which is NOT to say it’s a nice story full of nice people navigating the small stakes of daily life. No, it’s the opposite. Dark and bloody, this book is metal as hell! You can hear the screaming ghouls from the ghoul pit. (They built a palace next to a pit of the undead! The “heroes” did that). This Sam Rami and Katherine Kurtz, Veronica Mars with a bit of Phantom of the Opera thrown in for good measure. Its funny and extravagant and the plot races to the end.

Sarah also comes at me where I live. She knows the tropes I like, partly because she introduced me to half of them during my formative years (thank you forever for Diana Wynne Jones). And she executes those tropes in ways that make me scream (you decide if I was happy or anguished).

It’s also about real suffering. I won’t say much on this front but it begins with two sisters at the hospital in a cancer ward. She had me crying by page 10. I was crying a few times. (They’re sisters dammit!)

I’m so excited to see where the story continues. The heroine has already promised that things get really messed up in the sequels. I can’t wait.

[ekjohnston]

Hi, I've never really contacted any authors before, but I love Aetherbound so much I figured I needed to. Pendt was written as such a relatable character, and I absolutely ADORED Fisher and Ned. I can't wait for the sequel to come out in June. I'm about to start reading Exit, Pursued by a Bear, as A Winter's Tale is my favorite play, and Veronica mars is my favorite TV show. Thank you so much for writing that wonderful book, I loved it so very much! - Sawyer

Hi! There isn't a way to answer this privately, so, uh, please tell me if you need me to delete it. :)

ANYWAY, thank you! I was in an extremely bad place when I wrote Aetherbound (summer of 2020, enough said), and I was worried that I would never love it and neither would anyone else, so every time someone reaches out to me about it, my heart heals a little bit.

Also, enough people loved it that Penguin let me write the second one, which is GREAT NEWS for everyone, but ESPECIALLY if you like Ned. SKY ON FIRE comes out in July, and you can preorder it now, wherever books are sold (though preferably you'd go to your local Independent bookstore). You can also request it from your local library, because most libraries have request forms and genuinely love it when their community requests books!

[onedayillknow]

Thanks to @panbelle for tagging me!

Last song: movie version of "Popular"

Fave color: It keeps changing, but I always seem to come back to blue

Last book: I can't remember the last one I finished, but I'm currently making my way through Grant by Ron Chernow

Last movie: Wicked

Last TV show: Agatha All Along

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: sweet

Relationship status: single

Last thing I googled: "wicked streaming special features"

Current obsession: Veronica Mars, it's been just what I needed lately

Looking forward too: This might seem a bit weird, but getting some light cleaning done this weekend - I like how productive it feels and I put on some upbeat music to make it more fun!

Tagging: @amianislovely @rememberingmermaids @marthefrozenfan @marciabrady

@folkhoax @mihsanart @riddlerosehearts @jexaurus @bb8-boppity-boo @narniaandplowmen / anyone who wants to do this!

[charlottenewtons]

Veronica Mars for the fandom questions?

my favorite female character: Veronica of course

my favorite male character: Logan

my favorite book/season/etc: season 1 is easily the best

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): An Echolls Family Christmas

my favorite cast member: don't really have any interest in the cast.

my favorite ship: I did like early seasons Veronica/Logan, also Veronica/Weevil. And any Veronica femslash.

a character I’d die defending: Veronica, I don't care how mean she is.

a character I just can’t sympathize with: Lamb

a character I grew to love: I really hated Logan at first

my anti otp: I never really cared about some of Veronica's other boyfriends but there was nothing I strongly disliked.

[rcsilience]

name   ⏤   kirby   sloane   .   label   ⏤   the  grounded  bird   .   age   ⏤   twenty6   occupation   ⏤   receptionist  @  town  hall   .   zodiac   sign   ⏤   scorpio    .   gender   +   pronouns   +   orientation   ⏤   cis   woman   +   she   /   her   +   pansexual   .   inspired   characters   ⏤   veronica  mars  ,  deena  johnson  ,  corey  mason  ,  kirby  reed  ,  natalie  scatorccio  ,  haley  james  scott  ,  sofía  herrera  ,  ronnie  miller 

everybody  hates  kirby's  mom  -  well  ,  everyone  in  red  creek  .  imagine  gale  weathers  at  the  beginning  of  the  first  scream  movie  except  more  fame  hungry  and  meaner  and  wearing  ugly  shoes  .  that  was  sinclaire  sloane  ,  one  of  the  many  reporters  that  tried  to  capitalize  on  the  murders  in  town  all  those  years  ago  .  she  had  a  connection  to  the  place  as  she  had  grown  up  there  and  returned  not  long  before  they  began  ,  after  she  had  gotten  pregnant  with  kirby  .  once  she  saw  a  chance  to  put  her  journalism  degree  to  use  ,  she  did  and  thus  ,  she  drew  the  ire  of  everyone  in  town  .

while  she  went  on  her  book  tour  ,  kirby  was  left  with  her  dad  ,  who  had  long  since  divorced  sinclaire  and  was  living  as  just  another  regular  citizen  .  he  worked  all  day  as  a  plumber  and  spent  his  nights  in  front  of  the  tv  ,  watching  sitcoms  and  drinking  beers  .  kirby  was  left  on  her  own  ,  for  the  most  part  .  she  liked  it  better  that  way  anyways  . 

the  murders  always  hung  over  kirby's  head  because  of  what  her  mom  did  for  a  living  .  once  everyone  stopped  caring  about  red  creek  ,  she  moved  onto  other  murders  in  other  small  towns  ,  while  kirby  actively  did  everything  in  her  power  to  avoid  even  thinking  about  the  events  .  she  didn't  even  watch  horror  movies  .

her  childhood  was  pretty  lonely  ,  she  learned  to  take  care  of  herself  quite  well  so  by  the  time  she  was  in  middle  school  ,  she  was  mostly  self  sufficient  .  she  washed  her  own  clothes  ,  cooked  her  own  food  ,  signed  her  own  permission  slips  ,  biked  to  and  from  school  until  she  turned  sixteen  and  taught  herself  how  to  drive  by  taking  her  dad's  car  out  on  the  road  late  at  night  .  then  ,  she  just  drove  her  mom's  long  abandoned  vw  cabrio  whenever  she  needed  .

when  she  got  into  college  and  left  town  to  move  to  california  ,  where  she  attended  ucla  and  studied  history  ,  kirby  finally  livened  up  a  bit  .  she  partied  with  her  newfound  friends  ,  went  to  the  beach  as  often  as  possible  ,  and  felt  like  she  was  actually  living  for  the  first  time  ever  ,  even  getting  herself  a  best  friend  .  she  even  dyed  her  hair  blonde  !

six  years  later  ,  a  tragedy  struck  kirby  (  it's  her  secret  shhhh  )  and  she  came  running  back  to  red  creek  .  it  was  the  only  other  place  she  knew  to  go  .  her  dad  had  moved  away  six  months  prior  and  her  mom  was  doing  some  fuck  ass  podcast  and  she  needed  somewhere  to  be  so  kirby  settled  in  a  tiny  apartment  above  a  store  in  town  ,  getting  a  job  at  town  hall  and  trying  to  convince  herself  that  it  would  only  be  temporary  -  that  was  two  years  ago  . 

now  she's  just  praying  that  her  mom  doesn't  try  to  come  back  to  town  …  oh  and  that  no  one  else  gets  hurt  ,  of  course  .

[theguywithaplan]

List of Films Turning 10 Years Old in 2024

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

American Sniper

Annie (the remake starring Jamie Foxx)

As Above, So Below

The Babadook (we stan a gay icon)

Batman: Assault on Arkham (a direct continuation of the Batman: Arkham games)

Big Eyes

Big Hero 6

Birdman (won the Best Picture Oscar for this year)

The Book of Life

The Boxtrolls

Boyhood (filmed over the course of 12 years)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Chef

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

Dear White People (the basis for the TV series on Netflix, and made by the same guy)

Dracula Untold (this was Universal’s second attempt at launching the Dark Universe)

The Drop (a crime drama starring Tom Hardy)

Edge of Tomorrow/Live Die Repeat

The Equalizer

Exodus: Gods and Kings (a biblical epic directed by Ridley Scott)

The Expendables 3

The Fault in Our Stars

Foxcatcher

Fury (the war movie with Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf)

Get on Up (the James Brown biopic starring Chadwick Boseman)

Godzilla (the 1st film in the MonsterVerse)

Gone Girl

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1

The Guest

Hercules (the one starring The Rock)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (did you guys know the working title for this movie was “The Hobbit: There and Back Again”?)

How to Train Your Dragon 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

If I Stay

The Imitation Game (the movie where Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing)

Inherent Vice

Interstellar

The Interview (the movie that almost caused World War 3)

Into the Woods

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jodorowsky's Dune (a documentary about the Dune movie that we never got)

Joe (one of Nic Cage's best movies)

John Wick (the 1st one)

Kill the Messenger

Left Behind (one of Nic Cage's worst movies)

The Lego Movie

Life After Beth

Lucy ((the “humans only use 10% of their brain” movie. Which has since been proven false. Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ )

Maleficent

The Maze Runner

A Million Ways to Die in the Weset

Mr. Peabody and Sherman

Muppets Most Wanted

Need for Speed (Aaron Paul's first project after "Breaking Bad" ended)

Neighbors

Night of the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (the third one. Also one of Robin Williams’ last movies)

Nightcrawler

Noah (a biblical epic directed by Darren Aronofsky)

Non-Stop

The Nut Job

Obvious Child

Oculus (one of the 1st projects from Mike Flanagan)

Ouija

Paddington

Penguins of Madagascar

The Purge: Anarchy

The Raid 2

RoboCop (the reboot that was actually decent)

Selma

Sharknado 2

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Son of Batman

St. Vincent

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the one produced by Michael Bay. It’s also the one where the Turtles look like aliens)

The Theory of Everything (the movie where Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking)

Third Person

300: Rise of an Empire

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Tusk

22 Jump Street

Veronica Mars (the film continuation of the TV show)

A Walk Among the Tombstones

What If? (a rom-com starring Daniel Radcliffe)

What We Do in the Shadows (the film that was the basis for the TV show)

When Marnie Was There

Whiplash

X-Men: Days of Future Past

[welcometololaland]

Hello!

If you’re not here, ignore this, but if you are, I present you this or thats for a nice ask. Elaborations welcome but not required

Only write 1k fics or only write 100k fics?

Crunchy green grapes or mangoes?

Tarlos getting a dog or tarlos getting a cat?

Reading smut on the elliptical or on public transport?

Charlie Swan or Billy Tyson?

Comfort movie, comfort show, or comfort book?

JEN! I LOVE THIS AND THAT ASKS! (pls note expression of excitement, i'm not saying you could learn from the best, but i'm saying-) i actually have an ask game saved in my drafts that i'm itching to play because it's based on something similar, so thanks for reading my mind🧍‍♂️

1. 1k fics or 100k fics? look. it would be better for everyone me if i wrote 1k fics. but i know myself. it has to be 100k. besides, i couldn't leave @three-drink-amy alone in the overwriting club.

2. fuck you (affectionate) with your crunchy green grapes, i'll never get over that. i pick mango because grapes are a tummy hurt culprit (even though i love them).

3. i know you're setting me up, but i'm cat man carlos all the way (and i know you agree with me because lucky in meet you after dark is EVERYTHING to me). like he doesn't hate dogs or anything, in fact i think he likes dogs. but carlos would just vibe with a cat so well (makes sense, tk being a feral stray, after all). i co-sign @liminalmemories21 most recent comment on the rainbow fish. we're drivers of the cat-owner-carlos train, everyone hop aboard!

4. smut on the elliptical is my go to but i will say i have a new workout regime and the elliptical is sadly no longer my friend (which is also why i'm reading a lot less fic these days). so i guess i'm gonna have to find another quasi-inappropriate place to read smut.

5. nice trick question. billy tyson and charlie swan are the same person and we all know it (charlie swan having turned into a vampire and moved to...texas (?) as part of his immortal cover story).

6. comfort movie used to be v for vendetta which is not comforting at all, i just love it. it's probably set it up. comfort show is veronica mars (lone star if i only watch tarlos/126 funny scenes and not the rescues because they stress me out). comfort book is rwrb, hands down.

thanks, jen this was a super fun ask! i wanna send people the three comforts now because i'm so intruiged as to their answers! note to the people: please jump in!

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 18 – Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

This is the first in the giant pile of shorter books and novellas I’ve been powering through over the last three weeks to catch up with my extremely aspirational ‘read and review 60 books in 2023’ new years resolution. It’s also possibly the only thing longer than a short story I’ve listened to in audiobook format in, like, a decade? (and that was one of the Veronica Mars spinoff novels).

All to say I may have rushed this one a bit more than I should have to properly appreciate it, and definitely didn’t retain as much from listening to it as I would from reading it. So this is going to be shorter and probably sloppier than previous reviews.

And with all those disclaimers out of the way – this was such a fun fucking book.

The basic premise is that a witch has kidnapped a princess and locked her at the very top of her tower until a prince fights his way up forty floors of monsters (as is the done thing among witches). Unfortunately, this time the witch has rather outdone herself, and the diamond-scaled dragon she has to on the ground floor (putting the most expensive monster on the ground floor being the sort of artistic, avante-garde move this witch wanted to try) turns out to be really quite excellent at the job of prince-slaying. So it’s left to Princess Floralinda, with the variably voluntary help of a stranded fairy by the name of Cobweb, to fight her way all the way down the tower and free herself.

I’ve always really loved the whole fractured fairy tale genre when it’s done with the right sort of sense of humour, and Muir is just perfect at it. Dry and sardonic without ever really tipping all the way into meanspirtedness, and always playful and willing to indulge in a bit of absurdity. Listening to it as an audiobook really did help as well, I think – the narrator was just a delight, and had an amazing sense of timing and delivery for most of the jokes.

I know I say this about altogether too many things, but the whole novella honestly reminded me quite a lot of the old adventure games I played as a kid? Both the tone and just the fact that so many problems required the ruthless exploitation of the automatically regenerating bread, orange and water the witch had left Floralinda with. ‘Use bread knife and fire on curtain rod to make a spear you can use to fight the goblins with’ just very much seems like the sort of thing that would end up in a GameFAQs walkthrough, you know?

Speaking of ruthless exploitation – Cobweb and their interactions with Floralinda were just a delight. Honestly wish fewer words had been devoted to mechanically working their way down floors so we could get more on their dynamic developing. But then I’m a sucker for affection hidden behind sarcastic unpleasantness.

And they are both really truly unpleasant at times, in amusing sorts of ways. Floralinda’s whole arc takes her from sheltered passivity to something more active and terrifying, but it never exactly makes her likeable. Which, to be clear, is not a complaint. Quite the opposite, really. Muir really is excellent at writing spiky women.

Anyway yeah, not the most substantial read in the world, but incredibly fun time.

[ofresoluxe]

🏃🏻‍♀️ MUSINGS 📌 PINTEREST 💻 WANTED CONNECTIONS

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬

full name: naomi elise mason nicknames: nay, mimi ( by family and close friends ) age + birthday: thirty5, july 24th ( leo ) gender + pronouns: cis female, she/her occupation: marketing manager @ the field museum residence: the loft district, factory flats, unit #2b sexuality: heterosexual languages: english and american sign language character inspirations: veronica mars, lorelai gilmore, hermione granger faceclaim: lyndsy fonseca

( TW: N/A. )

When Naomi Mason was a small toddler, her mother sat her down on the living room floor, surrounded by colorful board books while her mother patiently repeated words and signs. At the time, she didn’t fully understand why her mother was teaching her to move her hands a certain way, but ever the curious child, she eagerly mimicked every motion. She remembered running towards her father when he came home and enthusiastically signing something as simple as “I love you” and the proud grin on his face as he signed the words back. Her parents made sure ASL became an integral part of their household the moment they learned her little brother was profoundly deaf. Naomi never saw it as a burden or obligation, just another way to communicate with and support her brother. Even as a child, she’d always been fiercely loyal and independent and naturally took on a protective and guiding role for her siblings while setting high expectations for herself.

Naomi was a bright, competitive and determined kid. From the start she excelled academically, pushing herself towards the top of her class while also participating in extracurriculars. Track and field became her outlet, giving her a way to relieve stress and challenge herself physically. She loved the thrill of competition and the solitude of running – whenever things got too much for her, she could easily be found on the race track at school. She was always a bit too serious for her age, feeling the need to be the “responsible one” in the family and set a good example for her siblings. While she was driven, Naomi’s personality was never cold. She would tease and banter with her siblings and friends with a sharp wit and dry sense of humor. She had a small but close-knit group of friends, and that’s how she preferred her social circles. While her parents were warm and supportive, Naomi always felt like she had to be the one who “had it together” even when she didn’t. Fake it ‘til you make it was her motto. She rarely let people see her struggle which led to a habit of bottling things up.

By the time she graduated high school, Naomi had her future all mapped out. She went to the University of Chicago and double majored in marketing and communications, eager to prove her ability in the fast-paced world of business and branding. After graduating, she landed an entry-level position at a small creative agency where she quickly made a name for herself. The long hours and high pressure environment suited her – she thrived on the challenge and constantly pushing herself to be better. She promoted up the ranks at the agency until five years ago when she realized she wanted something more meaningful than just selling products. That’s when she became the Field Museum’s marketing manager assisting in promoting exhibits, new artworks, and museum events. It was at the museum where she could combine her marketing skills with her love for history and education.While her career was thriving, Naomi’s personal life was a bit more complicated. She had the odd date here and there, but found it hard to balance relationships with her demanding work schedule. She had a serious boyfriend in her late-twenties–a fellow driven, career focus guy–but the relationship eventually fell apart when neither of them were able to prioritize making it work. Naomi struggled with being vulnerable and when things started feeling too messy she had a tendency to run rather than stand and fight for it. Now at 35, Naomi has built a highly successful career but has realized there’s still something missing. Seeing Elliott with her new little niece has made her start reassessing what she truly wants from her personal life. For the first time in years, she’s wondering if she’s ready to let someone in—fully, without holding back.

[sastrugie]

tagged by @cockroachesunite for the life update game

thank you so much <3 here goes:

🎧 last song

"veronica mars" by blondeshell (SO GOODDDDD)

🖍️ favorite color

mustardyellow always <3

perhaps blue and green are my favorites

📚 last book

currently on a reading slump because thesis :') but I´m halfway through MINDSET by sebastian hotz and 25% through moby dick and also like 75% through my madhouse reread

🎥 last movie

porco rosso by studio ghibli <3 great movie

🍜 sweet/spicy/savory

I HAVE THE BIGGEST SWEET TOOTH

💕 relationship status

super happy and super taken

🌐 last thing i googled

submission deadline for a conference i want to attend

💓 current obsession

Pokémon legends arceus <3 this game saved me ngl

🔮 looking forward to

FINALLY SEEING MY PARTNER! leaving with the bus tonight and will be there tmr morning ahhhhh

tagging:

anyone who wants to do this! <3

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Tagged by @nachosncheezies! Thank you!

People I'd Like to Know Better

Last song: Who You Are by Kidneythieves (a Jane-Remi anthem)

Last book: A Sorceress Comes to Call (so good)

Last movie: Jennifer's Body (rewatched on Halloween)

Last TV show: Veronica Mars (rewatch, season 1 and 2 only)

Sweet/spicy/savoury: I am a sugar fiend. Sweet always!

Relationship status: too tired for one. It's been like 12 years. The fatigue is not abating. Which is probably why they call it chronic fatigue syndrome. 🙄

Current obsession: learning how to crochet cute plushies, and therefore YARN YARN YARN

Last thing Googled: If we're talking 'with actual Google', I couldn't tell you. It's been years. Internet searched in general: 'Americans making terrible microwave tea' and various offshoot phrases from that. XD

Looking forward to: various 40th birthday-adjacent meals with siblings, father and friends in early December.

Tagging: I hate tagging people, because of the people I don't tag possibly feeling snubbed. So if you see this and you want to do it, please do!