#dusk reads discworld

[duskwren]

Look, despite the fact that (as of feet of clay) ive barely heard a peep out of Sybil, I’m quite fond of her. That being said, I want what Vimes and Vetinari have. Carnally.

[mosthomoeroticenemies]

The List

This is just a list of all the contestants, now I must go make the round one matchups (I have no idea how long that will take, bear with me please)

There’s 186 contestants so putting it under a read more

Papyrus - Undertale

Sans - Undertale

Jack Skellington - Nightmare Before Christmas

Brook - One Piece

Skelly -Hades

Skeletor - He-Man

Skeleton - Minecraft

Lewis Pepper - Mystery Skulls

Grim - The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Héctor Rivera - Coco

Itward - Fran Bow

Ghost Rider - Marvel Comics

Skulduggery Pleasant - Skulduggery Pleasant

Death - Discworld

Lord Hater - Wander Over Yonder

Smitty Werbenjagermanjenson - Spongebob Squarepants

Skelita Calaveras - Monster High

Señor Hueso - Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Mr. Skully Pettibone - Scary Godmother

Gaster - Undertale

Skull Boy - Ruby Gloom

Real Magic Skeleton - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

Dry Bones - Mario

Spooky Scary Skeletons - Silly Symphonies: The Skeleton Dance

Dr Bones Cookie - Cookie Run Ovenbreak

Manny Calavera - Grim Fandango

Kravitz - The Adventure Zone

Bonejangles - Corpse Bride

Benrey - Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware

Harrowhark Nonagesimus - Harrow the Ninth

Sans - Deltarune

Dry Bowser - Mario

Mamá Imelda Rivera - Coco

Houndstone - Pokemon

Rexy - Night at the Museum

Ainz Ooal Gown - Overlord

King Clawthorne - The Owl House

Clackula - My Singing Monsters

The Lich - Adventure Time

Skeletons - Skyrim

Benny - Halloweentown

The Skull - The Last Unicorn

Skellinore - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

The Dinosaur Skeleton - Dog Man

Zans - Going Under

Skul - Skul: The Hero Slayer

Ernesto de la Cruz - Coco

Royal Dominguez - Inscryption

The Skeleton Appears - The Skeleton Appears

Bonehilda - The Sims

Scraps - Corpse Bride

The Titan - The Owl House

Hector Barbossa - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Skeleton Horse - Minecraft

Samukai - Lego Ninjago

Oshare Bones - Puyo Puyo

Master Warden Palamedes Sextus - Harrow the Ninth

Skull Man - Mega Man

Cubone - Pokemon

Trazyn the Infinite - Warhammer 40,000

Death - Soul Eater

Lady Bone Demon - Lego Monkie Kid

Bone Fairies - Meme

Twelve Foot Skeleton - Twelve Foot Skeleton

Mr Death - Adventure Time

Bone Dragon - Dragonvale

Skeleton Horse Jockey - Minecraft

Skull - The Daily Object Show

Skeletons - Spy Kids 2

Skeletons that tried to kill Mr Krabs - Spongebob Squarepants

Skull on the Mantelpiece - Sherlock

Lerexus Novation - Elder Scrolls Online

Bone Monk - DUSK

The Augur of the Obscure - Elder Scrolls Online

No Name - Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon

Mortis - The Clowns SMP

Skull with Party Hat - It's Time For Comics

Yorick - Hamlet

Skeleton - The G Keyboard

Environmentally Storytelling Toilet Skeleton - Various Post-apocalyptic Games

Skeleton - Oblivion

Atavist - Slap City

Gravelord Nito - Dark Souls

Xykon - The Order of the Stick

Death - Puppet History

Bones Malone - Tumblr

Stallord - The Legend of Zelda: Twilgiht Princess

Santa Claus - Puppet History

Poco - Brawl Stars

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra - The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

Just Walk Out! - The Meme

Nakarkos - Monster Hunter

Skeleton - Morrowind

Caged Skeletons - Stardew Valley

Arc - Skeleton Knight in Another World

Banjaw - My Singing Monsters

Pip's Skull - South Park: The Stick of Truth

Gregor - The Adventures of Puss in Boots

Heisenbones - Breaking Bad

Death - Gregory Horror Show

Greg the Grim Reaper - Conker's Bad Fur Day

Skeleton - Crypt of the Necrodancer

Skeleton - Danny Phantom

Pariah Dark's entire skeleton army - Danny Phantom

La Muerte - The Book of Life

La Calavera Catrina - Mexican culture

Mr. Holbrooke - Little Witch Academia

Bart without his flesh - The Simpson's

Honda - Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-san

The Boneraiser - Boneraiser Minions

David S. Pumpkins' Backup Dancers - Saturday Night Live

Bonesy - Gorillaz

Skeleton - "What's a skeleton's favorite snack?"

Décor and his husband - Tumblr user liquidstar's brother's room

Toumaï - Paleontology

Princess Rita - Once Upon a Tower

The Grim Reaper - The Sims

Elias Ainsworth - The Ancient Magus' Bride

Fabro the Necromancer - Slim Gretina's Grumpy Shark - Absurd Extravaganza

Death - Horrible Histories

Mind-Boggling Effects - Playstation

Mortaccio - Vampire Survivors

Halloween Novelty Pencil  - Halloween 2016

The Skeleton Head - Lockwood & Co.

Captain Bones - Crashbox

Skullastic Superintendents - Monster High

Wither - Minecraft

Stray - Minecraft

Skelly - Monster High

Bonesy - Monster High

Grim - DanTDM

Bone - Aib

High Lord Wolnir - Dark Souls 3

Christmas tree skull - Real Life

Skeleton - Gravity Falls

Me the poll maker - The Near Future

Mr Bones- Mr Bones

Lego Skeleton - Lego

Kruncha and Nuckal - Lego Ninjago

Spider Jockey - Minecraft

The Lernaen Hydra - Hades

Skeleton Champion - Oblivion

The Skulkin - Lego Ninjago

The Nightmare King - Dimension 20: Fantasy High (Sophomore Year)

Queen Elizabeth 2 - England

Stalnox - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Stalkoblins - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Skeletons - My Closet

Lord Death Man - DC Comics

Cadaver Cain - Skulduggery Pleasant

Your Own - Your Body

Righty - The Lone Necromancer

Count von Dy - The Mystery of Greveholm

Skull and Bones - Skull Chapel in Czermna

Sedlec Ossuary skeletons - Real Life

Gary the Necromancer - DnD campaign

Manolo Sanchez - The Book of Life

Death - Cultural

Boneknapper - How to Train Your Dragon

Hooty - The Owl House

Monk Gyatso - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Skullgreymon - Digimon

Inaccurate Animal Skeleton Decoration - Home Depot

Skeleton - Bones Album Cover

Skeleton-T - Puyo Puyo

Skeletron - Terraria

Mr. Saturday - Skeleton Boomerang

Da Vinci - Ghost Stories

Milo Belladonna - Monster Camp

Bones the Skeleton - Skyrim Mod user jarrodrey99

Reaper (Gabriel Reyes) - Overwatch

Szarekh The Silent King - Warhammer 40,000

Calliope - Homestuck

Jared Hopworth - The Magnus Archives

Hexxus - FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Rem - Death Note

Grimm - Grimm's Hollow

Decay Dragon - Dragonvale

Melting - Nuclear Throne

Duskull - Pokemon

Bona - My Singing Monsters

Death Phantom - Sailor Moon

Charon - Hades

Necrodeus - Kirby: Mass Attack

Jimothy - Elsewhere University

Blight - Batman Beyond

[mybiggaybooktour]

Happy cover reveal day to @lou.wilham's The Kings of Dusk & Dawn!

Have you read this queer original fairy tale?

BLURB: A war at their gates. A family united.

To save his family, his people, and the man he loves, Cricket will have to learn what it means to be king in a war torn kingdom, and he may have to do that by relying on the people closest to him.

Takayoshi never wanted to rule. He had abdicated his own throne to his sister, but when his family needs him Takayoshi will step up and be the king they all need.

With one war behind them, and their relationship firmly cemented, Cricket and Takayoshi must face down one last enemy before they can truly know peace. But monsters lurk in the darkness of Lunette, and even the air of their kingdom seems poisonous.

The Kings of Dusk & Dawn is the final installment in the four-part The Heir to Moondust saga. The Heir to Moondust is a frolicking LGBTQ+ fantasy novel steeped in action, wit, and all of the corniness. Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Neil Gaiman's Stardust, and William Goldman's The Princess Bride.

[lightspren]

WELP I don’t use goodreads so. I’m posting it here lol. list of books i read in 2023!! i’ll say my faves at the end

Italics were rereads. bold were faves, strikethrough I did not like. if anyone wants author names i’ll go find them, I just hadn’t bothered putting them directly on my list

1. Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

2. Stormlight Archive - Rhythm of War

3. Tress of the Emerald Sea

4. Dark Shores

5. Dark Shores - Dark Skies

6. Dark Shores - Gilded Serpent

7. Starchaser Saga - Darkwind

8. Starchaser Saga - Dawnstar

9. Starchaser Saga - Nightwing

10. Starchaser Saga - Lightfall

11. Starchaser Saga - Bloodsinger

12. Starchaser Saga - Dragonblood

13. Starchaser Saga - Wildheart

14. Hunger Pangs

15. Legends & Lattes

16. The Saltwater Heir

17. The Phoenix Priest

18. A Court of Thorns and Roses

19. A Court of Mist and Fury

20. A Court of Wings and Ruin

21. A Court of Silver Flames

22. The Jasmine Throne

23. Forging Silver into Stars

24. A Curse so Dark and Lonely

25. A Heart so Fierce and Broken

26. A Vow so Bold and Deadly

27. Defy the Night

28. Defend the Dawn

29. Ash Princess

30. So This Is Ever After

31. The Broken Earth - The Fifth Season

32. The Broken Earth - The Obelisk Gate

33. The Broken Earth - The Stone Sky

34. The Prison Healer

35. In Deeper Waters

36. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

37. Moonrise Exile/Deception/Alliances

38. Fourth Wing

39. The Fae King’s Assassian

40. Mistborn

41. The Sunlit Man

42. Well of Ascension

43. Hero of Ages

44. Tress of the Emerald Sea

45. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Novellas

1. Dawnshard

2. Sixth of Dusk

3. A Court of Frost and Starlight

All in all a good reading year. Esp since I spent a lot of time from July-Dec writing. Yumi and Tress were I think my top fave new reads, I loved them so so much (as evidenced by reading them again in the same year LOL). i’m putting my reading to do list for 2024 below (again italics are ones i wanna reread)

1. Cytonic

2. cytoverse Novellas

3. Defiant

4. Hunger Pangs novella

5. Howl’s Moving Castle

6. Jules Kelley’s book

7. percy jackson

8. the other percy jackson books

9. the Watch discworld books

10. Witches discworld books

11. find more sci fi and post apoc

[taiinted-a]

THE  LITTLE  THINGS  MUSE  QUESTIONNAIRE

favorite tea: Iced strawberry tea / hot cranberry tea infused with cinnamon. favorite coffee: Black coffee favorite sweet snack:Sticky candied toffee apples favorite savory snack: Salty popcorn / burger rings ( a Australian snack that reminds him of home. ) favorite flower(s):  Red roses, poppies.  favorite color(s): Oxblood red,burgundy,  black, white favorite fruit: Strawberries, cherries favorite vegetable: Garlic, beetroot favorite season:Winter favorite time of day: Dusk favorite kind of weather(s): Thunder and lightning, a blizzard, foggy rainy days love language(s) to give: Touch, words of affection, love notes and gifts love language(s) to receive: Physical touch, words of affirmation. specific niche love language:Forehead kisses, sharing food with his lovers. ( He rarely shares his food so when he does it means he is completely besotted with them )  favorite hobbies: Painting, drawing, cooking and reading. favorite book(s):Terry Pratchett Discworld collection, Bram stokers Dracula, classic horror novels favorite movie(s): Anything comic book related, nightmare before Christmas, lilo and stitch, Indiana jones ( the whole series ). favorite song(s): All coming back to me now by Celine Dion. favorite musician: Celine Dion, Evanescence, Green day, Meatloaf and Freddie Mercury. favorite animal(s): Turtles, wolves, magpies, kangaroos. favorite insect: Cicadas, ladybirds favorite terrain: Red dusty landscapes that remind him of the Australian outback and frigid icy landscapes

Tagged by: No one.  Tagging: @takemetochrch @sihnon @sabiyi​ ( Shepherd ) @iincantatorum​ ( Devlin ) @blccdharmonyx​  @conzierge​ ( Moa ) @caffeinehorrors​ @endlessdrifter​ ( Chris ) 

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

so @ahufflepuffhobbit  tagged me in the First Line game which is great. :D I think I’ll probably end up doing a mix of fic and original writing.

Rules are: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line.

God this got long: 

Cycles of Song (lotr, boromir/aragorn): Men who dream by daylight with eyes open are the most dangerous, Denethor said. It was after a council meeting and Denethor was wanting for the sun so they were in his favourite courtyard looking southward over the city. 

Hungry Ghosts (original, in progress): The birth chart must be drawn up with care if it’s to be accurate. A city’s history, though, can be as variable as the water’s of the planet. 

Palmdale (original, w/ sinking city review): Ruth wants to clutch entrails. Death is final and lacks decorum. She cannot walk back from this scene with its burnt coffee smell of off-brand hazelnut, its sound of screen door flapping in breeze. Praise Jesus this be a consumptive country; surely it will drown her.

be not afraid of plenty (lotr, grima/eomer): It’s a filthy winter. A filthy, filthy cold winter. Everything that is about to unfold is winter’s fault.

My Land is Bare (lotr, boromir/aragorn): It is in dusk’s purple blanket when Boromir stops running. Hands on knees he calls out, ‘I think I see something.’ This brings the other three to a halt. Aragorn is at his side and they’re being strange and shy so not looking at each other. 

Pale Before the Fall (original, complete & being pitched): Once upon a time, Napoleon saw a dog howling over its master’s body. He looked at it and as he stepped forward his foot went through a man’s face. Half the skull missing from cannon shot.

I’ve been fucking dinosaurs in an effort to reclaim my ability to transform into a velociraptor (original, forthcoming in Humber Literary Review): A velociraptor lives under my bed. His name is Claw and I turn into him if I jump three times. Or he becomes me.

Sweet is the Air (lotr, boromir/aragorn): ‘Did you forget?’ Aragorn asks.  ‘I didn’t,’ Boromir says. 

Naming the World (lotr, boromir/aragorn): North of Minas Tirith there are a series of interconnected ponds, fearsomely ringed in fog, Boromir was taken to them as a child. They were foreign to him, at the time, only eight years old and uncertain. He gripped the pommel of childish sword as his father led him away from men and horses into mist. 

This multiplicity (star wars, Tarkin/Krennic): Krennic falls. He knows moving one part of your body will cause you to flip because trajectory is overly affected by such minutia when in free fall. He twists, slightly, and yes, flips, so he is falling face first towards the planet’s incredibly firm surface.

The Lament of Geography (original, in progress): The Beginning was discovered in an outcropping of chalk at the border of her father’s fields. Bellefry and her sister had been at work digging up tubers to throw at one another when her hand trawl’s wooden spade hit something. 

To-morrow and to-morrow (discworld, vetinari/downey): Every year at the Assassin’s Guild the seventh form is required to put on a play of their teacher’s choosing. Most often, it’s something with a good deal of blood as Guild teachers know what keeps their students’ attention and it’s generally endemic violence, witty one-liners, brutal executions, rolicking brawls, and vile political machinations. 

Every creature responds to light (discworld, vetinari/downey): Downey once saw a man get his head blown off a mishap with fireworks he was ten years old the man was older, twenty or twenty-five, his head became crushed persimmons on cobblestones. His head became overripe strawberries caught in fingers a sticky summer afternoon spent with his grandmother and his mother a ghost in the background washing fine, thin china edges coloured Agatean blue. 

To Conjure a Man (discworld, vetinari/downey): They were loved. This is clear in many burial sites exhumed by archeologists and, occasionally, farmers, carpenters, the Watch. There will be signs that the dead were tended to, cared for, and left with different objects they were understood to need in the afterlife.

Thus, Always  (discworld, vetinari/downey): History is a cyclic poem written by time upon our memories. Take assassination as key example. There was the first assassination on the Disc. The details of it do not matter, only the fact that it happened. All assassinations after all are performances. They are theatered mimicry of the first.

The Mask of the Ordinary (discworld, vetinari/downey): One of life’s unexpected turn-ups was the time I found myself living with Vetinari when we were in our mid-twenties. While the fact that the Patrician attended the Assassins Guild is well known much of his early years are a blank slate for the denizens of this fine city. A state of affairs I believe Vetinari to be rather keen on maintaining. Naturally, I am here to put a small cat amongst the metaphorical pigeons.

A Year Out of Order (discworld, vetinari/downey): August, it always starts here although this is not the new year it ought to be. There should be a celebration like that Small God’s Eve but Small Mercies Eve or Small Miracles Eve. They do not call the days that allowed Vetinari to become Patrician a revolution or a rebellion or a revolt. A man for subtlety it simply was he was not there then he was. If you blink, you missed it.

Propagating Structure (star wars, Tarkin/Krennic): As a child Krennic once read that nothing enjoys the process of entropy, although it is unavoidable and the ultimate fate of everything including the universe. The universe most especially. Of course being hit with a laser from a machine of your own (mostly your own) creation is another level of something-literary-that-he-forgot-along-the-way entirely. Inertia is the end goal. Regardless of the means of getting there. Inertia. Nothing likes that either.

Wrack and Ruin (historical, Napoleon/Wellington): Getting to America wasn't the difficult bit. Which is, perhaps, the most shocking part to both parties involved. That it had taken so little to catapult them across the Atlantic. 

no more a desolate thing (discworld, vetinari/downey): Vetinari is considering language, a hardly unusual occurrence, and he is deep in hazy recollections of ancient Ankh-Morporkian and modern Klatchian and the nature of vernacular languages in their relationship with the State.

I was trying to see themes or patterns and I suppose it’s mostly style. I tend to start with firm statements or action. Also, I think my writing of opening lines could be called muscular. Not all, of course, but it’s enough to be a thread. 

My favourite? Probably Palmdale, Cycles of Song, Mask of the Ordinary and Palmdale. But it’s hard to choose a favourite - I can certainly say which are not my favourites haha (looking at you Propagating Structure and No More a Desolate Thing). 

I’ll tag a few people: @pipuhattar and @becumsh @tatzelwyrm @tauremornalome @squadron-of-damned @suburbanbeatnik 

I have followers & mutuals who may be writers and I’m unaware of it so if you want to do it please consider yourselves tagged!

[teddy-stonehill]

equinexia replied to your post

“I know stuff with gay subtext is always infinitely more popular in...”

What are your fave good and gay media? Asking for myself ��

Thank you so much for asking this and giving me a chance to ramble about my favorite gay media.

Live Action TV

Black Sails: A golden age pirate show that’s actually about how marginalized people are mistreated by “civilization” and how they fight back. I have literally written essays about what an important gay story it is.

In The Flesh: A zombie show that uses discrimination against zombies as a metaphor for homophobia but also the main character is actually gay and deals with literal homophobia as well. Really well done. I’ll never stop being mad it was cancelled. 

Schitt’s Creek: Fun sitcom. Starting in the second half of season 3 it has one of the best and sweetest gay romances on television.

Happy Endings: Also a sitcom. May be arguable whether or not this one actually qualifies as “good” but Max is one of my favorite gay characters on television.

Movies

Pride (2014): Based on the true story of LGSM (Lesbians and Gay Men Support the Miners), a group of gay and lesbian activists who organized in support of the UK miners’ strike in the 80s. My favorite movie ever.

The Handmaiden (2016): A lesbian thriller set in Japan-occupied Korea. Hard to reveal many plot details without spoiling things, but this movie is the textbook definition of Poetic Cinema. 

Cloudburst (2011): An old lesbian couple goes on a road trip to Canada to get married so they won’t be separated into different nursing homes. They adopt a hitchhiker along the way. A bittersweet ending, but one of the best gay romcoms I’ve ever seen. Genuinely funny and uplifting.

Dear Ex (2018): A man dies of cancer after having changed his life-insurance beneficiary from his ex-wife to his male lover. His son is stuck in the middle of the conflict as the ex-wife tries to fight for the insurance money. Really great characters, surprisingly heartwarming. I’m emotional just thinking about it.

Anime

Given: A story of overcoming loss and joining a band. Great characters, multiple canon gay couples, compelling plot not directly related to the romances, great music. I also love the comic.

Manga

I’m limiting my manga recs to stuff with official English translations but I honestly read A LOT of gay comics so if anyone wants more recs than this feel free to send me an ask or message and let me know more about your taste and I’ll send you more recs.

Our Dreams At Dusk: A really nuanced and compelling examination of many LGBT identities in modern Japanese culture--includes gay and trans characters. It has a lot of important things to say how to deal with both being harmed and unintentionally harming others. Also the art is GORGEOUS. 

My Brother’s Husband: A sweet comic about a Japanese man meeting his twin’s Canadian husband after his twin’s death. A heartwarming slice of life about gay acceptance.

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness: An autobio comic that explores depression and lesbian identity.

After Hours: A music-focused lesbian romance. Reminds me of Given in some ways. A woman hooks up with a DJ at a club and then ends up working with her to plan music events.

Books

The Song of Achilles by Madelline Miller: A retelling of the Iliad written as a romance between Achilles and Patroclus. One of the most tender romances I’ve ever read, and some of the most gorgeous prose as well. Just incredibly well-written.

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett: This book played a major role in my own gay awakening. It’s a Discworld book, but it’s standalone enough that you don’t need to have read any other Discworld to read it. It’s about a girl who dresses up as a boy to join the army and (spoilers) slowly discovers many of the others in her regiment are in the same situation. Has some canon lesbians AND a lot of good subtextual exploration of gender and sexuality.

Silver Darlings by me: jk I’m not actually that conceited but if anyone WAS interested in reading Part 1 of my novel I’m happy to send links. 

[scorrigan]

Rules; Tag 4 People you’d like To Get Know Better

Tagged by @absisnotworthy

FAVE COLORS: Deep dusk blue, clover green, fire engine red.

TOP 3 FAVE SHIPS: I... dont really ship? Like I guess the Finn Rey Poe ships are fine. I dont feel compelled to expand much on source material.

LIPSTICK OR CHAPSTICK:Dirty cracked lips.

LAST SONG: Kohoutek by R.E.M.

LAST MOVIE: Watched Derry Girls and Freaks and Geeks but the last Proper movie I watched was Seven.

CURRENTLY READING: Uhh.. Rereading the Hobbit for the first time in decades? Working my way through the Discworld books every third book, last was maskerade.  | KonMari ing my comics, rereading Super Mutant Magic Academy   Most Valid shoe: Tie between a Chelsea Boot and a Converse High top. 

Tagging: @axcrazy @thelittlemerms @sternenblumen @ijustcantwaittobeme

[inspectorclarke]

Call me boring, but I feel like if a piece of media requires some sort of game changing, character-endangering, out-of-left-field cliff hanger in the last five minutes of it to make sure I pick up the sequel, it probably wasn’t very good in the first place.

If a work is good enough, then I will enjoy the act of consuming it to the point where I will willingly engage in a sequel, even if it costs money.

A good example of this is Hotel Dusk: Room 215. I loved playing that game so much that after I finished it, I immediately looked up how much it would cost to get a European copy shipped to the United States. Another example is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series— the books don’t end in cliffhangers, it doesn’t matter what order you read them in, they’re just so good that you want to keep reading them because it’s entertaining.

Whereas when series’ pull last-minute cliffhangers out of nowhere, it really annoys me to the point where I want to stop consuming the work, regardless of how much I was enjoying it before. An example of this is the end of season 1 of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency— Everything was fine, our heroes were having fun at a diner, and it was easily one of my favorite TV shows I’d ever watched— until they decided that in the last minute or two, one of them would get kidnapped and another would suddenly develop a serious health condition that put him in peril. I was already planning on watching the second season— they really didn’t have to curveball me like that. It left a bad taste in my mouth, to say the least.

The other problem with this structure is that since TV shows are being released all at once instead of one episode at a time, gaps between seasons are really, really long. It allows for fans to obsessively re-watch every scene, giving them ample time to pick out minute details that never were meant to be important. Because of the way that fandoms work, sometimes those details get blown out of proportion, and then everyone is disappointed when the next season rolls around and the writers pull a stupid stunt to get the characters out of the situation almost immediately. (Ex, the end of Sherlock season 1 and the beginning of season 2. Actually, also the end of season 2 and the beginning of season 3. Wait, I’m seeing a pattern here.)

Am I alone in thinking this? Do cliffhangers actually appeal to people and am I just an old man yelling at a cloud?

[terraqua111]

To-do-list for the holidays

Finish reading:

✔ Terry Pratchett's Discworld Atlas (done yesterday, finally - I had gotten that book for Christmas last year and read on it as long since I only read it once in a while)

Dragon Age: the stolen throne

Warum die Uhr stehenblieb als Opa starb

4 creepypasta collection books (they are short, all below 300 pages, I count them as one)

The story of her holding an orange

Science Busters: Warum landen Asteroiden immer in Kratern

✔ Alte Geister ruhen unsanft (got a preference despite still being one of the newer books since it's wtitten by one of my favourite authors of all time - I also did something I hadn't been able to do since my childhood anymore: read a whole book within only one day because I just couldn't put it down)

Journey to the west

David Copperfiled

The whole freaking Kai Meyer collection on my Kindle (all 45 of them, they had been sitting there for ages and so far I only know 9 of them)

The whole Terry Pratchett collection on my Kindle (62 of them, at least I already read them once before, it's just that I really want to read them again)

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Finish playing:

✔ Project X Zone 2 (stayed up until 3 am because that last level took me over six hours until I finished it, repeatedly got a game over thanks to one enemy flying where I couldn't reach him, that was so unfair)

If my heart had wings

✔ Pokemon Ultrasun (I would have preferred the Rainbow Rocket episode to be longer)

Pokemon Gold

Pokemon Yellow

The legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

The side stories of Pokemon Conquest

Fire Emblem Fates

Three Professor Layton games that I only took with me in case I felt like doing more riddles

Hotel Dusk Room 215

Xenoblade Chronicles

Tales of Zestiria

The Metal Gear Solid HD collection

Child of Light

Steins Gate 0

Malicious Rebirth

Lunar Silver Star Harmony

Whispering Willows

Mind Zero

Broken Sword 5

The Stanley Parable

Loreen the Amazon Princess

Two or three games on my laptop that I got from Steam a few months ago, have forgotten the titles but also can't switch on the laptop right now

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Stories to finish writing:

Brotherhood gone Bonkers (11 I think)

An MST3K of the worst creepypasta ever: Sonic.exe

The fight between Steppenwolf and Spectre that I talked with Charlee about in summer

There are more ideas that I already collected but only these three already have more story behind them than just a few vague notes

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Phew, now that I have written it down it seems like a hell lot more to do than I expected or planned, especially since I forgot how much was still saved to my consoles and my Kindle. If I had considered that I wouldn't have taken so many additional games and books with me. Either my two weeks of holidays will be packed so full of activities that I might need additional holidays afterwards to get a rest from them or there will be so many other things I find or have to do that in the end I will barely do anything from my list.

[carterashofficial]

5 things

tagged by @skullinacowboyhat (thanks fam!) ad technically @aearyn since it was a universal tag for everyone and I fill that parameter

5 things you can find in my bag 

wallet

sunglasses

phone

car keys

inhaler

(I literally check these 5 things off on my fingers before I leave my house)

5 things you can find in my bedroom 

me because I’m a hermit

a collection of mugs with tea remnants in the bottom

the Shrimp Tank

lots and lots of crap that should be put away when i get around to cleaning my room

apparently i do own a lot of shoes

5 things I’ve always wanted to do

dance along the beach or a field at night and sing at the top of my lungs dramatically (obviously alone so I’m not judged)

I do want to go back to Yellowstone and Hawaii with painting supplies and spending weeks there (yeah, yeah, i’ve been to both but i want to return)

spend the night star gazing

fall in love

stand out from the world and not have the average american story of living in a suburb with 2 kids with a mediocre job. I want to be different and have something original and new to me

5 things that make me happy

writing. either on my books, fanfic, poems... words have a power all their own

reading. i love books. see above for the same reason why i write

art

binge-watching shows on youtube and netflix

riding in my car with the windows down and blasting music at dusk, cool air on my skin and the mountains lit up with with stark gold light

5 things I’m currently into

SWOTR/STAR WARS for life, that’s a given

Harry Potter for life, also a given

I FUCKIN’ LOVE DISCOWORLD AT THE MOMENT AND I NEED TO GET MORE BOOKS I’VE ONLY READ THE FIRST THREE

nature documentaries on netflix

funny shows on youtube

5 things on my to-do list

re-write my damn book

clean my room/laundry (laundry is all over my room...)

clean the kitchen/do the dishes

read my damn philosophy book

book shopping for more discworld books

5 things you might not know about me 

I once got the stuffing beat out of my by my little sister. I was nine. She was three.

I didn’t understand how haircuts worked when I was little and so when i got my hair cut I would request for my parents’ hairdresser to ‘cut my hair long’ because i wanted long hair but i had a bob

At age 7 I accidentally rode my dog Domino down the stairs

My family moved to Chicago for 10 months when I was 4-5. I discovered that snow is cold.

i just got my 3rd piercings on my earlobes a few days ago

(and yes i have stories for some of those things above if anyone is curious)

[ninja-muse]

Read in 2017 Masterpost

Italics = 7-8 out of 10; Bold = 9-10 out of 10; Struck = unreviewed

Fantasy

Magic for Nothing - Seanan McGuire A Conjuring of Light - V.E. Schwab The Forgotten Tale - J.M. Frey Borderline - Mishell Baker The Immortals - Jordanna Max Brodsky Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day - Seanan McGuire The Oversight - Charlie Fletcher Indexing: Reflections - Seanan McGuire The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge - Paul Krueger Shadowed Souls - Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, ed. Prudence - Gail Carriger Heroine Complex - Sarah Kuhn Winter of the Gods - Jordanna Max Brodsky The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley Dead Men’s Boots - Mike Carey The Masked City - Genevieve Cogman The Brightest Fell - Seanan McGuire An Unkindness of Magicians - Kat Howard An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors - Curtis Craddock The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty Magicians Impossible - Brad Abraham The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett A Green and Ancient Light - Frederic S. Durbin

Reread: Carpe Jugulum, The Fifth Elephant, The Last Continent, The Science of Discworld, The Truth, Thief of Time (all from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett), Smoke and Mirrors, Smoke and Shadows (from the Smoke trilogy by Tanya Huff) Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Finished: a reread of Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

In progress: Smoke and Ashes by Tanya Huff, An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (all rereads)

DNF Finn Fancy Necromancy - Randy Henderson DNF Witches Be Crazy - Logan J. Hunder

Science Fiction

All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai Take Us To Your Chief and Other Stories - Drew Hayden Taylor Abaddon’s Gate - James S.A. Corey The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland The Clockwork Dynasty - Daniel H. Wilson Just One Damned Thing After Another - Jodi Taylor Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant A Lot Like Christmas - Connie Willis Pride and Prometheus - John Kessel Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen - Lois McMaster Bujold

Reread: Miles in Love, Diplomatic Immunity, Cryoburn, Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (all from the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold)

Finished: a reread of The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

In progress: Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

DNF Off Rock - Kieran Shea DNF Has the World Ended Yet? - Peter Darbyshire

Mystery

Ripped From the Pages - Kate Carlisle Siege Winter - Ariana Franklin Royal Flush - Rhys Bowen Break No Bones - Kathy Reichs Behind Chocolate Bars - Kathy Aarons Teetotalled - Maia Chance

Graphic Novels

The Unwritten, Vol. 6 - Mike Carey Sex Criminals, Vol. 1 - Matt Fraction Rivers of London, Vol. 2 - Ben Aaronovitch Saga, Vol. 7 - Brian K. Vaughan Sandman, Vol. 3 - Neil Gaiman Patsy Walker A.K.A. Hellcat!, Vol. 1 - Kate Leth The Hunt - Colin Lorimer Rivers of London, Vol. 3 - Ben Aaronovitch New Romancer, Vol. 1 - Peter Milligan

Young Adult

Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst Down Among the Sticks and Bones - Seanan McGuire The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee Radio Silence - Alice Oseman Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee That Inevitable Victorian Thing - E.K. Johnston Unearthed - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Noteworthy - Riley Redgate

Other Fiction

Bellweather Rhapsody - Kate Racculia Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson The Last Neanderthal - Claire Cameron If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio A Hundred Thousand Worlds - Bob Proehl Moonglow - Michael Chabon The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry Voyager - Diana Gabaldon The Cottingley Secret - Hazel Gaynor Eagle and Empire - Alan Smale

Non-Fiction

Adventures in Unhistory - Avram Davidson Where Am I Now? - Mara Wilson Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition - Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca At Home - Bill Bryson The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan The 37th Parallel - Ben Mezrich Between the Woods and the Water - Patrick Leigh Fermor A History of Ancient Egypt: Volume 2 - John Romer The Chemical Choir - P.G. Maxwell-Stuart From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty

In progress: Bad Days in History by Michael Farquhar

[meisterli]

Got Tagged! :O

I seem to get tagged by @magic-retina a lot lately :P

NO RULES! ... Okay, well, maybe just answer those few little prompts.

Relationship Status: single

Lipstick or Chapstick: I had to look up “Chapstick”. It’s a like... Lip balm kind of thing right? To keep them from cracking? Anyway probably that. I actually very much hate the feeling of anything applied on my skin... Or anywhere. Even hair gel makes me feel eww.

Last Song I Listened to: Dusk Stars by Alex Holowka - from the “Night In The Woods” OST - man, it’s such a calm and fun song and the things you do in the game while it plays are just so... Memorable.

Last Movie I Watched: Logan - in the Cinema! I liked it - definitely the best of the Fox-Marvel movies so far. Which isn’t saying too much but... Yeah, it’s good!

Top Three Characters: Midna from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (You all knew this was coming). Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods), Tiffany Aching (Discworld)

Top Three Ships: There’s like... Waaay too many in my head. xD But here’s three I thought of immediately: Undyne/Alphys (Undertale) - Is it still a shop if it is canon? Ah well, I am still counting it. :P; Mei/Zarya (*cough* I... I just really like both of them <.<), And Midna/Link. I mean yes. All of this. Probably with a lot of domming by Midna. <.< And a lot of size on Midna. <.< >.>

Feel tagged if you read this and would like to let us know a bit of your life! :)

[behindthelastdoor]

Tag Game

I was caught in the blast radius of @sonador-reveur‘s tag bomb.

Name: [Redacted] Nicknames: Lumi Zodiac Sign: *googles* Libra? Height: 6′1″ Orientation: Heterosexual Ethnicity: American

Favourite Fruit: Lowbush Blueberries, Local Apples Favourite Season: Fall Favourite Book: Can’t choose one but here are some alternatives    Most read: Catch-22    Most read series: Discworld (or Calvin & Hobbes, if those count)    Writing Style I’d Copy: Lloyd Alexander or Lewis Carroll Favourite Flower: I don’t think I’ve met a flower I didn’t enjoy Favourite Scent: So many...     Indoors: Wood Smoke, Spruce, Lavender, Sauteed Garlic, Crusty Baked Bread     Outdoors: Lilacs, Witch Hazel, Pipe smoke, Beside a river at dusk, Pine forest, Actinomycetes/petrichor Favourite Colour: Blue...no purple.  Wait, pink.  Or green?  Is smoke a color? Favourite Animal:     To Eat: Chicken/Eggs, Breast milk is great    To Own: Cats, Rodents, Tarantulas, Fish    To See: Literally anything.  I could watch slugs for an hour.

Coffee, Tea, or Hot Cocoa: Tea, then later some more tea.  Coffee at most restaurants because I live in a nation of savages. Average Sleep Hours: 4-6 Favourite Fictional Character: Any strong female character will hold my interest      Vidya Char: Ellie (The Last of Us), Medic (tf2), My Sims, WoW Toons, Dragonborn, Lone Wanderer, etc      Literary Char: Sam Vimes, Ex-PFC Wintergreen, Alice      TV Char: Maj. Motoko Kusanagi, Kino (Kino no Tabi), The Man With No Name, Christopher Foyle Number of blankets you sleep with: 1 Dream trip: A year in Australia (and New Zealand), alternatively Japan (with translator friend)

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