#daughter of sea serpents: evelyn

[tylermileslockett]

POSEIDON

“I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord of Helicon and wide Aegae. A two-fold office the gods allotted you, O Shaker of the Earth, to be a tamer of horses and a saviour of ships!”  

(-Homeric Hymn, translated by H.G. Evelyn white)

POSEIDON(puh-SAI-din) is the God of the seas, earthquakes, droughts, and horses. Pulled along in his seashell chariot by half-horse, half-fish creatures called Hippocampi, he holds his sacred trident high, bringing a tumultuous storm behind him. Standing beside him is his sea nymph wife, Amphitrite, who is the eldest of fifty nereid daughters of Nereus; the “old man of the sea.” 

Amongst the waters are the god’s faithful followers. The half-fish, half-man creature at bottom right is Triton, herald son of Poseidon, who uses a conch shell to calm the waves and announce the God’s arrival. In the middle is a Nereid, a female sea nymph, typically portrayed as a maiden riding a dolphin. Bottom left is Palaimon, sea god and protector of sailors, sometimes depicted as a boy on a dolphin. 

The god of the sea is known for his savage retributions. One fascinating episode involves Poseidon and Athena entering a competition to become the patron god of Athens. Upon the Acropolis, Poseidon produces a salt water spring for the Athenians, while Athena wins by creating the first olive tree. The sea god, in his anger, sends a flood to punish the mortals. In the odyssey, after Odysseus blinds Poseidon’s son, the giant cyclops Polyphemus, the god causes havoc and disaster for the hero and his crew as they attempt to sail home. Poseidon sends Cetusthe sea serpent to punish QueenCassiopa for her hubris in comparing her daughter Andromedato the nereids. And, he sends a bull from the sea to terrorize Theseus’ son Hippolytus’ chariot.

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[voxdaemonica]

@chaoticdrkness​ (Arabella & Evelyn)

The Coral Palace was the height of extravagance that evening; a violent clash of silk and ornamentation as the nobility fraternized among one another with snakelike grins and furtive glances. The High Lady was not one to spare expenses when she was in the mood for a feast, but its striking bauty has long lost its opulence on Arabella. As dukes and duchesses reveled, she could see her mother’s agents. advisors and spies alike, plant their falsities among the higher class. From her place near the head of the table, she watched as cups were poisoned, deals were made, and political favours gathered in a macabre display of civility. The princess found the whole affair to be just as grotesque as it was beautiful, and she kept her own drink carefully nestled against her as she felt their hawklike gazes leer at her.

But she had been through enough of these charades to know where to really keep her gaze, locked firmly on one of the High Lady’s more capable servants. Evelyn Hyun was far more frightening than any of the braggarts looking to catch her ear that evening, if only because she blended in so eerily well with her surroundings. One distraction away from the spymaster and it would be far too easy for her to slip back out of right, leaving the young princess to search for her yet again. 

Arabella knew well enough that Evelyn was a gamble. Ashir had made that more than clear on multiple occasions. But didn’t those sorts of bets come with lucrative awards?

She waited until the High Lady left with her entourage, off to one of the parlors to conspire against the rebellious factions among them, before she made her move. The princess rose from her seat, carefully blending in among the idle chatter until she had successfully joined the spymaster in the shadows. “Miss Hyun. I trust you aren’t working too hard tonight?” Arabella greeted, knowing fully well that a half-competent spy could uncover treasure troves with the way the rice wine flowed so freely. “Given that the festivities are likely to last until morning, I thought you might appreciate a small breath of fresh air. Would you perhaps accompany me on a stroll through the garden?” It was an innocent invitation, accompanied by a calculating smile that mirrored the High Lady’s with practiced ease. “I think it’s high time we got to know each other, don’t you agree?”

[educated-dumbass]

Sapphic Book Masterlist

Quick Key:

🌻= found on Readanybook for free

🍄= I’ve read and recommend

🥀= on my tbr list

🌈= Send me an ask or direct message with this emoji and the book you want and I can likely find it in digital format for free. Be aware it is less secure than the Readanybook site. Please clarify if you’re using a phone or a laptop/computer. (Not including graphic novels)

Fantasy:

A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson 🍄

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho 🍄

Darling by K. Ancrum 🍄

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust 🌻

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan 🍄

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard 🍄

Inkmistress by Audrey Coulthurst

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan 🍄

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 🍄 (it’s a bit overhyped but still very good)

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho 🌻

The Tiger’s Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera

The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

These Feathered Flames by Alexandra Overy

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Vessel of Starfire by Allison Carr Waechter

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Crier's War by Nina Varela

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Malice by Heather Walter

Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke Robson 🥀

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro 🥀

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

Amy of the Necromancers by Jimena I. Novaro 🥀

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner 🥀

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes 🥀

Ghost Walk by Kay Solo 🍄

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

Graphic Novels:

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

Tea Dragon Society by Kay O’Neill

Historical Fiction:

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 🌻🥀

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

She Rises by Kate Worsley 🥀

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Re

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Horror:

Extasia by Claire Legrand

The Final Child by Fran Dorricott 🍄

The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan

The Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand 🍄

Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould

Literary Fiction:

Solo Dance by Li Kotomi 🥀

Mystery:

Far From You by Tess Sharpe

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist 🥀

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Poetry:

Sappho 🍄🌻

Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

Romance:

First Position by Melissa Brayden 🍄

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar 🥀

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman 🥀

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

Silk & Steel by Janine A. Southard

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite 🥀

The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley

The Soft Landing Collection: Sapphic Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories by Jacquelynn Lyon

The War Within by Yolanda Wallace 🍄🌻

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

Sprinkled in the Stars by Violet Morley

How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake 🥀

Science Fiction:

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine 🍄

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston 🥀

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz 🥀

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson 🌻🍄

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia 🍄

Compass Rose (Compass Rose #1) by Anna Burke

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

[raspberryapplejuice]

Here's a list of sapphic books I recently found somewhere else online. I hope that there are some you didnt know about...

[  ] the mermaid the witch and the sea,

[  ] the stars and the blackness between them,

[  ] one of the good ones,

[  ]  the winter duke

[  ] ,spellbook for the lost and found,

[  ] clap when you land,

[  ] malice

[v]  sweet and bitter magic

[  ] , get it right

[  ] ,american queen,

[  ]  vibe & hush,

[  ] Afterlove,

[  ] these witches don't burn,

[  ] written in the stars,

[  ]  she drives me crazy,

[  ] Ramona blue,

[  ]  queens of geek

[  ] I think I love you

[  ] The jasmin throne

[  ] We set the dark on fire

[  ] The dark tide

[  ] Last night at the telegraph club

[  ] girl made of stars

[  ] the prom

[  ] girl made of stars,

[  ]  the prom

[  ] everything leads to you,

[  ] honey girl

[  ] late to the party,

[  ] annie on my mind

[  ] once & future,

[  ] all eyes on us,

[  ] hunstress,

[  ] the space between worlds,

[  ] tryst venom six,

[  ] these feathered flames,

[  ] love and other natural disasters

[  ] perfect on paper,

[  ] it's not like it's a secret,

[  ]  the falling in love montage,

[  ] girl serpent Thorne,

[  ] the unspoken name

[  ] ,the chosen and the beautiful,

[  ] queen of coin and whispers,

[  ] I kissed a girl,

[  ] a dark and hollow star,

[  ] the never tilting world

[  ] ten things I can see from here,

[  ]  inkmistress,

[  ] the dark wife,

[  ] girls at the edge of the world

[  ] the girl from the sea,

[  ] the lost coast,

[  ] the weight of stars,

[  ] burn our bodies down,

[  ]  the sound of stars

[  ] outrun the wind,

[  ]  plain bad heroines,

[  ] satisfaction guaranteed,

[  ] compass rose

[  ] shes to pretty to burn,

[  ] the mercies,

[  ] the priory of the orange tree,

[  ] of fire and stars,

[  ] criers war,

[  ]  the seven husbands of Evelyn hugo

[  ] gideon the ninth,

[  ] bone shard daughter,

[  ] we are okay,

[  ] ruinsong,

[  ] this is how you lost the time war,

[  ] her royal highness,

[  ] one last stop,

[  ] cool for the summer,

[  ]  it goes like this,

[  ]  who I was with her,

[  ] something to talk about

[  ] amelia westlake was never here,

[  ]  ivy aberdeens letter to the world, 🔻

[  ] the confession, 🔻

[  ] four dead queens,

[  ]  she who became the sun,

[  ] the scapegracers,

[  ]  foundryside,

[  ] radio silence,

[  ]  the long way to a small angry planet,

[  ] juliet takes a breath,

[  ]  ice massacre,

[  ] sword in the stars,

[  ] before you say I do,

[  ]  on a sunbeam,

[  ] those who wait

[  ] tell me how you really feel,

[  ]  trouble girls,

[  ] wench,

[  ] I kissed alice,

[  ] how to make a wish,

[  ] the girls l've been

[  ] beyond the ruby veil,

[  ]  ash,

[  ] not your back up,

[  ] wrong number right woman,

[  ] labyrinth lost,

[  ]  reign of the fallen,

[  ] princess of dorsa

[  ] the misuedcation of cameron post,

[  ]  never kiss your roomate,

[  ]  our own private universe,

[  ]  havenfall,

[  ] her name in the sky

[v] Iron heart

[  ] The color purple

[  ] The henna wars

[  ] Every town has its secrets sanctuary is build on them

[  ] wonderland

[  ] This poison heart

[  ] Lies we tell ourselves

[  ] Girls of paper and fire

[  ] Girls of Storm and Shadow

@sapphicbookclub

[soritadeste]

Who is the Goddess Hekate?

Who is Hekate?

Hekate or Hecate is a multifaceted goddess who has and continues to reveal herself in many different forms to devotees.

From: Circle for Hekate, d’Este – 2017

“The goddess Hekate continues to inspire awe today. She is one of the most ancient Pagan goddesses, closely linked to the worship of the Great Mother Goddess Kybele and the Ephesian Artemis, as well as with the Mysteries of the Grain Goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone. She was worshipped alongside gods such as Zeus, Hermes, Apollo and honoured at the entranceways into cities, temples and homes, as well as crossroads.

In Hesiod’s Theogony, the earliest and most complete surviving literary account of the Greek Gods, Hekate is given the unique position of being honoured by both Zeus and the other immortal gods.

“…Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honoured above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea. She received honour also in starry heaven, and is honoured exceedingly by the deathless gods…”[1]

She is described as a benevolent goddess, capable of granting success in many different aspects of life, as well as being a nurse to the young. Hekate is a shapeshifting goddess, manifesting in various forms and faces, single and triple-bodied, and with the heads of maidens as well as those of animals. She wields her torches illuminating the Mysteries, guiding, protecting and defending that which is under her care. She uses her serpents or whips to strike fear in those who are unprepared for her Mysteries, gifting her devotees with the ability to understand the serpent energy and knowledge. With her daggers, she cuts away that which is no longer necessary, whether the umbilical cord at birth or life itself upon death.

Numerous other goddesses were syncretised with Hekate, in different geographic regions and at different times in history. Her worship may have originated in the ancient Minoan or Mycenaean cultures, and was well attested throughout the Greek and Roman periods, spreading to the very corners of those Empires with those who travelled there. Evidence for her ancient worship has been found not only in Greece, but also as far apart as Sicily and Southern Italy, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Bulgaria and Syria.

[1] The Theogony, circa 8th or 7th century BCE, Hesiod, trans. Evelyn-White, 1914.”

[thenighttrain]

books read in 2020

i’ve been keeping a list and decided i want it on my blog too! everything is on my goodreads too. follow my book blog @thesonofneptune​! bolded are my favourites 

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire ★★★★

Stardust by Neil Gaiman ★★★

Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant ★★★★

Heart of Flames (Crown of Feathers #2) by Nicki Pau Preto ★★★★

Reverie by Ryan La Sala ★★

Crown of Feathers (Crown of Feathers #1) by Nicki Pau Preto ★★★

Soul in Darkness by Wendy Higgins ★★★

The King’s Dragon (Fire and Valor #1) by W.M. Fawkes ★★★★

Blue on Blue by Dal Maclean ★★★★

The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal ★★★★

The Watchmaker of Filligree Street (The Watchmaker of Filligree Street #1) by Natasha Pulley ★★★

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (The Watchmaker of Filligree Street #2) by Natasha Pulley ★★★★

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley ★★★

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Garcia-Moreno ★★★★

Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire #1) by Natasha Ngan ★★★

The Prince’s Dragon (Fire and Valor #2) by W.M. Fawkes ★★★★

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig ★

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen #2) by Aliette de Bodard ★★★

The House of Sundering Flames (Dominion of the Fallen #3) by Alliette de Bodard ★★★

The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1) by S.A. Chakraborty ★★★

The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley ★★★★

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins ★★★

Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders (Dominion of the Fallen, #3.5) by Aliette de Bodard ★★★★

The Last Smile in Sunder City (The Fetch Phillips Archives #1) by Luke Arnold ★★★★

Northern Wrath (The Hanged God Trilogy #1) by Thilde Kold Holdt ★★★

The Unspoken Name (The Serpent Gates #1) by A.K. Larkwood ★★★

Infernal by Mark de Jager ★★★

The City We Became (Great Cities #1) by N.K. Jemisin ★★★

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir ★★★

Deathless (Leningrad Diptych #1) by Catherynne M. Valente ★★★

The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★★

The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★

Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★

Rivers of London (Rivers of London #1) by Ben Aaronovitch ★★★

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi ★★★★

The Deep by Rivers Solomon ★★★

Ashes of the Sun (Burninngblade & Silvereye #1) by Django Wexller ★★★

The Century’s Scribe (A Fantastic Decade #1) by Brendan Walsh ★★★★

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuistonn ★★★

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lembergg ★★★

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi ★★★

Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz ★★★★

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ★★★★

The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang ★★★★★

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) by Fonda Lee ★★★★

Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2) by Fonda Lee ★★★★

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo ★★★

The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winter ★★★

The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor #1) by Katherine Addison ★★★

The Conductors by Nicole Glover ★★★

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen #1) by K.S. Villoso ★★★

When The Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi ★★★

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ★★★

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro ★★★★

White Silence (Elizabeth Cage #1) by Jodi Taylor ★★★

The Rook (The Checquy Files #1) by Daniel O’Malley ★★★★

The Vicar and the Rake (Society of Beasts #1) by Annabelle Greene ★★★

Lava Red Feather Blue by Molly Rinngle ★★★★

The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire #1) by Andrea Stewart ★★★★

Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson ★★★

Carter & Lovecraft (Carter & Lovecraft #1) by Jonathan L. Howard ★★★

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (A Good Girls’ Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson ★★★★

The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden ★★★★

The Girl in the Tower (Winternight Trilogy #2) by Katherine Arden ★★★★★

The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3) by Katherine Arden ★★★★

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab ★★★

Tower of Mud and Straw by Yaroslav Barsukov ★★★

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Garcia-Moreno ★★

Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) by Seanan McGuire ★★★

The Changeling by Victor LaValle ★★★

Ring Shout by Djeli P Clark ★★★★

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★★

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson ★★★

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour ★★★

Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives #2) by Luke Arnold ★★★

The Nightmare Thief (The Nightmare Thief #1) by Nicole Lesperance ★★★★

A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone #1) by John Gwynne ★★★★

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel ★★★

Dry by Neal Shusterman ★★★

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★★

The Searcher by Tana French ★★★★

Ink and Bone (The Great Library #1) by Rachel Caine ★★★

The Burning God (The Poppy War #3) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★

The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War 2.5) by R.F. Kuang ★★★★

The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar ★★★

Long Bright River by Liz Moore ★★

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton ★★★★

Smoke and Stone by Michael R. Fletcher ★★★

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) by Arkady Martine ★★★

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan ★★★★

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke ★★★★

The Familiars by Stacey Halls ★★

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman ★★★★

Kings of Paradise (Ash and Sand #1) by Richard Neil ★★★

Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) by Mark Lawrence ★★★★

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ★★★★

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu ★★★

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters #1) by Rebecca Schaeffer ★★★

Real Life by Brandon Taylor ★★★

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker ★★★

The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale ★★★

The Humans by Matt Haig ★★★★

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell ★★★★

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa ★★★★

A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland ★★★

The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1) by Nghi Vo ★★

The Survivors by Jane Harper ★★★★

The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper ★★★★

The Lost Man by Jane Harper ★★★

[gondolin-but-not-forgottenlin]

Do you have a reading list? whats on it?

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Onyx and Ivory

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Percy Jackson Series

A Touch of Darkness by Sarah St. Claire

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Kiss of Deception

Carnival by Stephanie Garber

Circle by Madeline Mirror

The Cruel Prince (Series) by Holly Black

Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Pierson

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Choksi

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue

The House in The Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

The Inheritence Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

It Ends With Us

The Night Circus

Normal People

One of Us is Lying

Punk 57

Red Queen

Red White and Royal Blue

The Selection

Serpent And Dove

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Shadow and Bone

The Shadows Between Us

Shatter Me

The Silent Patient

Six of Crows Duology

The song of Achilles

Such A Fun Age

These Violent Delights

The Throne of Glass

This is Where it Ends

They Both Die at The End

Unhoneymooners

The Vanishing Half

Wilder Girls

We were Liars

What If it's Us

Girls With Sharp Sticks

The Lunar Chronicles

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, or whatever fuck it Ive read some of these. I had them cut out but I suppose the formatting got removed and im too lazy to do it again

[bloodfestgf]

Okay. So I’ve been complaining a lot about my tbr as if I need more books on it but I actually don’t since it’s super long already. So I’m going to list it out here to hold myself accountable for not reading these books (below the cut because the list is looooong):

The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, Iron Gold, Dark Age, Red Rising 6

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Annihilation, #2, #3

The Mask Falling

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Spin the Dawn, Unravel the Dusk

Scythe 

Skyward

The Fifth Season

City of Brass

She Who Became The Sun

Jade City

These Violent Delights

The Gilded Ones

The Secret History

The Lovely War

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Kingdom of Back

Vicious 

Strange the Dreamer

The Night Circus

Shadow of the Fox

Her Body and Other Parties

Queer books on the list:

This is How You Lose the Time War

The Midnight Lie

The Unbroken (CL Clark)

Cemetery Boys

Circe

The Song of Achilles

Wilder Girls

The First Sister

Crier’s War

Queen of Coin and Whispers

Red, White & Royal Blue

Not priorities at the moment:

Gideon the ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Alecto the Ninth

Dune

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Bone Shard Daughter

Sense and Sensibility

Emma

The Nightingale

If We Were Villains

The Starless Sea

Radio Silence

Dance of Thieves

A Memory Called Empire

Skyhunter

Godsgrave, Darkdawn

We Set the Dark on Fire

The Belles

Skyward

Monstress

Queen’s Thief

Other:

Furyborn

Blood and Honey

filtering out ya books because I’m tired of them at the moment:

A Song of Wraiths and Ruins

The Gilded Wolves

Forest of Souls

Finale

Crown of feathers

Girl, Serpent, Thorn

Girls of Storm and Shadow

[whatisthiswitchcraft]

books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

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Riverdale Reaction - 3x17 - “The Master”

They could’ve renamed this episode “The Snacks” and it’d be pretty damn accurate

The Serpents are slithering in the name of justice and laser pointers! I’m already 10/10 all in

No necklace on V! Is that growth? Can Betty get her a BFF chain thing? Like a heart with two halves and they each wear them? Ohhhh look at my scheming girls.

HA! The Serpents pool table replaced the dining room table. I mean, priorities. Really.

There is an obscene amount of orange juice in the Jones house. Commentary on the acidic relationships? Sunny dispositions? Maybe not. The photos on the fridge have changed and transferred! Woo! OH NO SHE DID NOT grab Jug by his hair and hat. Momma is going down. I’m siccing the girls on her.

Omg Betty’s “ritualistic drowning” line and Veronica’s big smile like “That’s my girl” made my heart swell. Love them when they’re fighting evil instead of perpetrating it.

Did Kevin just put “garden” in air quotes? It sounded like he did. They do have a garden. We saw it. Multiple times.

Alice looks good in white. And crazy XD Wear a silky camisole out in the world as a shirt. You do you, girl. I love the orange/red "yeah I used to be a Serpent” outfit from S2 and hope that comes back at some point.

Why do they choose the creepiest area of Mercy to do interviews? I enjoyed it, weirdly enough. Made their facial expressions reminisce of unimpressed teens sitting in on a scary story. Also, I love how it’s just a check mark box of YES or NO on whatever’s on the sheet and Evelyn didn’t bother marking the last one.

Hermione, the whiney ex-wifey. What was she gonna do if Hiram actually stayed down during those 2 murder attempts? Girl, all you had to do was hold those tubes of oxygen and he’d be taking a dirt nap

Archie’s face as he makes a healthy shake while Jughead noms on chips made me laugh. Classic. Also, any time Archie eats something unhealthy he looks anxious like it will immediately deflate his abs. The prison storyline is silly. Still. Am I the only one who’s still confused by Mad Dog’s status?

The Varchie scene. Sigh. Sometimes I want to bite Archie’s nose because I’m not passionate enough to slap him but I’m frustrated enough I wanna leave a pointy little imprint for a minute. “You worked so hard…before…” Oh like Mary, Sierra, and Betty did as well when you were in trial? And yes, Veronica worked her butt off too and made CUPCAKES for your return! THE CUPCAKES! I’m still upset about it.

“Yes, they wear white after Labor Day…” Is it intentional that Cheryl’s wearing white in this scene? Foreshadowing? Love the little detail on her sweater and Betty’s red sweater as if she’s an ally for the Blossoms.

Ok I’m loving the over-the-top nonsense of Jughead with a switchblade demanding they look for gargoyles on telephone poles and confiscate “gaming equipment.” The Serpents oughtta get a PS4 or something. I love Deputy!Serpents. SOMEONE has to actually do some investigating in this town. And ass-kicking? And pin-pushing? Hilariously enough. Did anyone else notice Jughead thanked a kid named “Jason” on the walkie? Is there a Serpent without a stupid nickname? Or is that a codename?! So many questions.

Ha! FP is mad the Serpents “ruined” his bust. Like, sorry for doing your job before you, sir.

BETTY SNOOPER! What a nickname. Love you, girl.

ELUCIDATE THAT. Damn, sir. You know how to use that vocabulary. I never had an affinity CMM as a teen but he’s got some vibes I’m digging. Like the colorful candles intermixed with the regular ones.

I love how Elio shows up in a full suit to antagonize men he doesn’t know and walks away after it appears Archie is more interested in Fight Club Light

Ok Cheryl has a daddy kink. I know she’s a canon lesbian but canon also has her very interested in the DILFs as eye-candy. Ooooh I cringed when she called him “Eddie.”

I had to rewatch the Archie and Juvie Crew Pop’s scene to get the significance of the guy saying “If I never ate anything but these burgers again, I’d die happy.” WHELP! Good news, person I presume is “Baby Teeth!”

People are terrible at assassination in Riverdale. Why send her a fish? That’s a decent dinner if she could cook. Which I somehow doubt, despite her waitressing at Pop’s. Now her apartment smells.

Betty stands alone in a sea of psychos

Oh my god Hiram’s little SPOOOON! He’s just trying to eat his tiny snacks in peace. He is so done with being accused of everything XD Honestly, he’s probably as sick of his storylines as we are. Also, is that a man with the Olympic torch on the left? Is that gonna be his S4 storyline? Hiram goes for Gold?

Uuuugh I know it was a useless but cute scene and Bughead are so soft I wanna cry. They’re glowing.

Are there ribbon-cutting ceremonies for prisons? Only in Riverdale, I guess.

Maybe there’s a good reason Betty didn’t ask Archie to be her mole at the Farm. He’d definitely join them or just break stuff with his new boxing crew and be like, “LOOK, BETTY! I DID WHAT YOU ASKED :D”

So the juvie guys know the same Serpent deputy secret signals, huh? This sequence is so Riverdale. And Jughead takes NO ONE up with him except Mr. Crowbar? Look at this crazy fight sequence. Good thing the Gargoyles choose to wear masks that limit their vision or our boys may have been in trouble. Because in this DARK SHOW with 99% leather and jeans on boys, how would they know who was who otherwise?

Omg Rhino!Archie is on the loose! I have mixed feelings about the raid sequence.

The ascending window-escape wasn’t really a build-up? They needed some creepy dialogue or something more than that one line. That fall looked pretty painful though? At least he didn’t snag the beanie on a stray plank.

Ok this show doesn’t get how marriage and annulment works. But that’s okay. Hiram can be like Henry VIII and make his own rules. It’s Riverdale.

VERONICA! You schemey schemer! I’d clutch my pearls if we still had any!

Okay does Gladys genuinely not care if Jughead gets shot? Like, she doesn’t actively want to murder him but she’d be fine if he was gone? Because that SUCKS. And giving the Gargoyles guns, she knew that was a possibility. Okay, lady. Game on. Jug should tell his dad. Oh man. My heart.

Betty, my precious snoopy angel! Find Edgar’s tapes and Evelyn’s if you can!

“Like a seance?” anyone else having flashbacks to Jason’s wake and Betty and Juggie bein’ cute lil detectives? Cheryl…oh Cheryl. You saw Jason move on. CARRY ON MY WAYWARD BLOSSOM~ Also, I know the Toni breakup thing was a ruse, but uh…where is she? Just pretending to be broken up with Cheryl? Not caring that she’s in a cult? Alrighty then.

I wonder if Archie or Hiram kept the random trophies in the gym. Again, I’m gonna randomly say that’s gonna be a future season storyline. Forget state champs, these teens wanna get to the Olympics, only to be undermined by their jealous parents!

Okay Betty in a scooped/V-neck? Nice. Also, it looks like Alice is wearing a sheep pin which makes me laugh and also die a little inside.

Alice. You have a daughter. Two, in fact. Neither of whom you have a good experience with because you’re a crap mom, so of course the imaginary dead son is your favorite.

Betty vs. Evernevers! Hell yes! Can we have V join Team Betty more actively as a badass and ignore the speakeasy/divorce stuff in favor of righteous awesome? ‘K thanks!

The Baby Teeth stuff was gross. No thanks. Next.

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POSEIDON

“I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god, mover of the earth and fruitless sea, god of the deep who is also lord of Helicon and wide Aegae. A two-fold office the gods allotted you, O Shaker of the Earth, to be a tamer of horses and a saviour of ships!”  

(-Homeric Hymn, translated by H.G. Evelyn white)

POSEIDON(puh-SAI-din) is the God of the seas, earthquakes, droughts, and horses. Pulled along in his seashell chariot by half-horse, half-fish creatures called Hippocampi, he holds his sacred trident high, bringing a tumultuous storm behind him. Standing beside him is his sea nymph wife, Amphitrite, who is the eldest of fifty nereid daughters of Nereus; the “old man of the sea.” 

Amongst the waters are the god’s faithful followers. The half-fish, half-man creature at bottom right is Triton, herald son of Poseidon, who uses a conch shell to calm the waves and announce the God’s arrival. In the middle is a Nereid, a female sea nymph, typically portrayed as a maiden riding a dolphin. Bottom left is Palaimon, sea god and protector of sailors, sometimes depicted as a boy on a dolphin. 

The god of the sea is known for his savage retributions. One fascinating episode involves Poseidon and Athena entering a competition to become the patron god of Athens. Upon the Acropolis, Poseidon produces a salt water spring for the Athenians, while Athena wins by creating the first olive tree. The sea god, in his anger, sends a flood to punish the mortals. In the odyssey, after Odysseus blinds Poseidon’s son, the giant cyclops Polyphemus, the god causes havoc and disaster for the hero and his crew as they attempt to sail home. Poseidon sends Cetusthe sea serpent to punish QueenCassiopa for her hubris in comparing her daughter Andromedato the nereids. And, he sends a bull from the sea to terrorize Theseus’ son Hippolytus’ chariot.

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I’ve been tagged by @just-your-average-bookworm (thank yoooooou) and I love tags so here thee goes:

Which book are you reading now?

The Republic of Thieves (Gentlemen Bastards 3) by Scott Lynch and THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE SERIES OF LIFE.

What’s the best beverage when reading?

Nothing. Because if anyone would be unlucky enough to spill while reading...IT WOULD BE ME.

What’s your favourite book quote?

“You've got that motherly concern in your eyes, Jean. I must look like I'm hammered as shit," said Locke. "Actually you look like you were executed last week.”

The Lies of Locke Lamora

(But I have, like, serious favourites too but I’m just a liiiiittle obsessed with this series right now. IT’S HARD TO TELL.)

Are you looking forward to a certain book release? If yes, which one?

Omg all of them?! 2017 looks so amaizng for books!

A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Royal Bastards by Andrew Shuarts

Warcross by Marie Lu

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

Wonder Woman by Leigh Bardugo

Our Dark Duet by VE Schwab

The Crown’s Fate by Evelyn Skye

The Thorn of Emberlain by Scott Lynch

Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves

The Prince’s Bane by Alexandra Christo

Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller

SEE I TOLD YOU A LOT.

What’s your Hogwarts house?

Slytherin. I am a dragon.

If you could get on a plane right now, where would you go? (And yes, fictional places are good as well. You could also travel via wardrobe/ train/ etc.)

Paris, probably, because all the famous writers of old went there to write and I SHALL JOIN THEM AND BE FAMOUS. #dreamin

Also pls let me be a Shadowhunter.

What’s your favourite holiday to read?

I’m so not organised to read books according to holidays/seasons. I read whatever!

Spell your name using book titles!

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater

Are there any books you want to recommend to the rest of us? 

Some of my most favourite books of ever are:

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman

A List of Cages by Robin Roe

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Half Bad by Sally Green

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

What is your favourite nonfiction subject to read?

Anything on the history of Russia!

What types of book covers do you find most aesthetically pleasing?

Arty ones! Like the Raven Cycle covers! I also love and adore intricate and incredible typography.

If you had to choose one bookworld to live in, which one would it be?

Definitely The Mortal Instruments. I think I could make it as a Shadowhunter. :’)

What is your favourite reread?

I’m currently re-reading A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and looooooving it. My affections ONLY GROW since my childhood where I was obsessed with ASOUE. (FYI the netflix show is incredible.)

Which books are you planning to read next?

My TBR pile is an absolute nightmare right now omg. I HAVE SO MANY BOOKS AND NOT ENOUGH COMMON SENSE BECAUSE I COLLECT MORE THAN I READ. But, I do hopefully plan to read Gilded Cage by Vic James soon! And I just ordered Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth and The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. OH AND GEMINA the sequel to Illuminae!!

What was the last book you rated 5 stars?

Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch!

What book character do you identify the most with?

I definitely relate a lot to August from This Savage Song. <3

Does your family read a lot?

My youngest sister is a rabid bookworm like meeeee. And my mum is an enthusiastic bookworm when she has time. But my 4 other siblings + dad = NADA.

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[MS] A Sour Harvest

The young prince griped his father’s head, waltzing his fingers through his lieges shrubish black hair. The horripilation swept up the kings’ thoughts as he dreamt in silence. In one hand of the prince held his awe and care for his father, the loyal and royal king. But in the other held his disregard with a strong fist. He grabbed his carver and gashed him up lovely. As the rugged farmer churns his milk so too the young prince churned his father guts in and out. As the thrashing concluded the artist glanced at his canvas to marvel his work.

That night the prince did treacherous things. He along with a few of his loyal followers committed adultery against the crown. The young prince took the life of his father. Had it coming the King did as his abuse and power had blossom far too much. He needed to have a trim and that is what his son gave him.

He did well to cover their tracks Thebe did, and in doing so he ascended as King in his father’s place. As a gift, his accomplices became high ranking positions close to Thebe. As king, his first action was to remove his father’s court. He Had them all labeled traitors under fabricated charges and put to death. Among them many traitors that waited to the king returned from war to execute him in his private moments.

Thebe filled his castle with 12 concubines leading to 8 children. All whom were ladies. The Lord’s way of cursing him he thought to himself. The new king was able to have anything in the kingdom and the world that he sought out; except her. His dear sister Emily. She was a virgin who had been alongside him for many years she even aided Thebe in turning against their father. It was Thebe who consoled her nights after her fathers’ drunken beatings of her. She wanted to have someone in her family who was loving and cared for her, but unfortunately for her Thebe wanted her as well.

Thebe met his sister one night in her private chamber. As he advanced to her she turned him away and pleaded with him to stop. King Thebe knew no bounds, knew no restrictions as his no’s had become yes’s in every facet of his life, who was this lady sister or not to tell him otherwise? So, he took her. He ravaged her body and took her innocence from her. After which he finished his two accomplices threw her out of the castle and into the outer regions. Emily became banished for made up charges and nothing came of suspicion. Upon her finger was placed a ring of disownment. It was symbolic to a marriage away from the kingdom”. She was banished from Tyre to never be seen again.

Many decades had passed, and King Thebe laid in his royal chambers stretched out in his bed next to his queen. He as an old man was nothing more than an old bag of meat wasting away his last days in fear and scorn. His queen was similar as she held no more purpose than that of the Persian rugs draped under the bed, or the mahogany frame itself; just another lifeless possession of the king. Many nights had gone on like this over the decades of his reign. A lost in the sea of old age with no direction. But lately his ship had run ashore to the island of fear as Thebe became anxious for his life. In the past few months, many nobles were turning up dead around the high castle. Just last week two people were found mauled and mutilated at dusk and their bodies painted in blood across the king’s door. As his majesty stepped across the doorway that fateful morning his feet were drenched in blood, but his mind was awash in shock. The two bodies were his accomplices that had helped him do a similar slaying many decades ago. This attack was one of bewilderment not of an enemy but of one within the castle itself.

King Thebe spent many days observing and interrogating various men trying to find any reason, any way to remove those from around him. In a span of two months his highness ordered twenty-three executions. All of whom did not stop others around the castle from turning up dead. Nearly all the royal family and royal court wondered if they were next.

On a dark night in July, As King Thebe laid in bed with his queen stale and stiff as ever there were met with an unexpected guest. As the door opened slowly Thebe was ready to hear the news at this hour that another ally had turned up dead. He was already preparing his mind to act surprised at this news, although the surprise on his face never truly was.

Entering the room was a lanky but stern man about 6’2. He had long black hair down to his shoulders with brown eyes. His resemblance looked familiar, but still unrecognizable to Thebe. The stranger closed the door behind him and stood there gazing at the King. Never mind the queen as she laid there clenching to Thebe’s arm in fear.

“Forgive me thy liege, I am… in awe of thee”, the man said with a smile while bowing down. “I have worked hard…very, very hard to meet thee. And here I am, or better yet here YOU are!”

“State thy purpose?”, Thebe shouted.

Me. Thebe thought to himself. He is here for me. The King could tell by the look in his eye he was after him and only him. If anything were to happen to the Queen, it was just clearing up the witness.

“I am not a man of much words your highness.” Said the man in black as he moved closer to the bed.

“I do not have a longwinded explanation of how I got here, or how I have turned these murders up. Even now as you ask me this question of why I am here, and to what I wish to do there is of only one word of suffice to the means in which I have come here on this dark night. Justice”.

“Justice, say you? What kind justice is in the killing of a decrepit old King and his fair madame? You come here to my chambers and I expect from you harrowing shouts and a turgid speech. A speech to melt my bones, startle my soul, or maybe invigorate a movement of the people and erect anarchy but you come here limp in the wee hours pouring out mud on top of this blazing fire of a kingdom in the utterance of such nonsense?”

“Aye, but the fire of this kingdom was fanned and extended with wood. A branch stripped form the tree of knowledge and guided by the famous serpent as you used it. Make no mistake my lord I know how you have snatched this crackled crown from your father’s head and sat it upon your own. It was not graciously given by our Lord of the heavens. But siezed forcefully with the help of sly Satan”, the intruder shot back.

“Or have you forgotten thy sin that cannot be washed away so easily? It is understandable. We all have scars from our days as Childs tossing and turning in the yard. The scrapes and scraps left on our bodies stand out but overtime they blend end easily. I ask you tonight, your majesty to take a close look at your scars of old.”

And just like that He held it up. The scar after so many years Thebe had tried to forget. What dangled in the air was the ring of his sister, Hannah. His sister that he had raped and banished had bore a son and now he sat across the room from him. While the ring dangled in the air, the heart of the king began to arise as he felt a great heaviness from his gormless actions.

“I have stolen the land from another without remorse. I have stolen land and planted seeds that I believed would yield prosperity for thyself, but the grounds stolen have been long poisoned by my father and his father before him. Now is a sour harvest erected before myself that I have done to my own demise.”

“I accept my fate dear son but tell me this, is thou art capable of mending thee field? Will ye not yield a harvest of destruction and dismality like thou father and many before has? Are you the one who will bring the good favor of The Lord upon these fields or have your seeds of death already been laid as you make you way here?”

The King looked at him as he did not respond but didn’t need to. He already knew his answer. He began laughing as his voiced quavered he clutched the hands of his queen a single tear drew from his eye.

“Nor did I my son. Nor did I.”

The young intruder moved in and made the king and queen into his own art. Constructing blood, bone, intestines, and all into a lumpy pottery.

Just like his father he did well to cover his tracks that night and make sure he was not to be blamed.

He approached the high court later with a fabricated story about him slaying the attackers almost saving the king in a valiant effort. He lied and said that his father knew and kept him a secret because of his suspicion of treason. The son lied and boasted that Thebe told him if he died to step from the shadows and take the throne. His plan went had become successful.

In the coming weeks the vengeful prince became the new ruler in favor of the kings many daughters. A scaturient day it was as his new life was everything he could have hoped for. On that day he took the seat of power in front of the entire kingdom. As the prince sat in his royal chair, he looked over his newfound kingdom and people while he saw one of old memory. During his plot to the crown the prince had only one assistant help him to the king. His dear comrade Evelyn. She was of low stature like him. They grew up in the outer kingdom slums together and he promised her that they would rise as one or fall as one. But it was him on the throne, and her in the crowd. He took a quick glance at her and turned away. That night, the prince went to bed laid next to many concubines and mistresses.

Across the kingdom dear Evelyn went to bed. Unlike the new king her belly was roaring as she made a modest supper of oats and nuts adorned with various cheeses grown on her farm. While here stomach was empty it was also growing. Growing both with the seed that the prince had implanted almost two months ago. In her stomach brewing was a stew pot of hatred and vituperation soon to be served fresh many years later.

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