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[possumsquat]

some of the Horses in my campaign....

[mylittledarkag3]

How many have you read out of the hundred?

Me: 64/100

Reblog & share your results

1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

2. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

4. "1984" by George Orwell

5. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez

7. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

8. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

9. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville

12. "The Odyssey" by Homer

13. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

14. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

15. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16. "The Iliad" by Homer

17. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

18. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo

19. "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes

20. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

21. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

22. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

23. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

24. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

25. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo

26. "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells

27. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

28. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

29. "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

30. "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

31. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

32. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

33. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

34. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka

35. "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen

36. "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

37. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

38. "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

39. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

40. "Emma" by Jane Austen

41. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe

42. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

43. "The Republic" by Plato

44. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

45. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle

46. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

47. "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

48. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

49. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

50. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens

51. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

52. "The Plague" by Albert Camus

53. "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

54. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

55. "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal

56. "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

57. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

58. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

59. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

60. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

61. "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle

62. "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins

63. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

64. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

65. "Ulysses" by James Joyce

66. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

67. "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray

68. "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

69. "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner

70. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams

71. "White Fang" by Jack London

72. "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

73. "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne

74. "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor

75. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" by Margaret Fuller

76. "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence

77. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

78. "The Aeneid" by Virgil

79. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

80. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

81. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

82. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

83. "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

84. "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler

85. "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

86. "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

87. "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov

88. "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

89. "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

90. "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

91. "The Clue in the Crumbling Wall" by Carolyn Keene

92. "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Wodehouse

93. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

94. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

95. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

96. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

97. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

98. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

99. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon

100. "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells

[andreabaideas]

Renaming Djats characters

Thank @porkchop200324 for the inspo.

Now my versions: 

•Daisy : 

-Alts to Daisy with same meaning:  

Margaret Margaux ,Marguerite , Margot, Margarita , Rita , Margarida, Mags, Maggie, Deiji , Margaretă, Papatya, Margherita. 

-With different meaning but similar vibe : 

Darcy , Dasha, Didi,Dani , Dany, Diana, Darla, my personal fave: Maisy , Maisie, Daisie, Macy, Monique, Mónica,Maddy, Maddie, Frannie , Francesca, Florence. 

•Billy : 

-Alts to Billy with the same meaning : 

William , Bill , Will , Liam , Willy,  Willie, Guillermo, Guillaume, Guille, Willhem. 

-With different meaning but similar vibe : Bailey, Bobby. 

•Camila : 

-Alts to Camila with the same meaning: 

Camilla, Camille, Kamilla, Kamille, Kamila, Kamile. 

-With different meaning but similar vibe : 

Catalina, Carlota,  Carolina, Carina, Camelia, Camellia, Carissa, Clarissa, Carmen, Carmina. 

•Karen: 

-Alts to Karen with the same meaning: 

Katherine, Catherine, Caterine, Catalina, Cata, Katy, Kat, Kathryn, Katya, Katrina, Ekaterina.

-With different meaning but similar vibe : Kamren, Kayla

•Graham : 

-Alts to Graham with the same meaning: None.

-With different meaning but similar vibes : 

Grant, Gary, Garrett, Gavin. 

•Warren : 

-Alts to Warren with the same meaning: None. 

With different meaning but similar vibes: Walden, Walter, Walker, Waylon. 

•Eddie: 

-Alts to Eddie with the same meaning: 

Ed, Eddy, Edward, Edgard, Eduardo, Eduard, 

-With different meaning but similar vibes: 

Eric, Edmund, Edwin, Eddard, Ernie, Ernest, Earnest, Ernie, Evan , Ethan, Elliot, Eliot, Eli, Elijah. 

• Lisa : 

-Alts to Lisa with the same meaning: Liza, Lizzie, Elisabeth, Elizabeth, Elise, Elisa, Lisbeth, Beth, Betty, Betsy, Liz, Ersebeth, Elizabetha, Elisabeta. 

-With different meaning but similar vibes: Lily, Liv, Luna, Elsie, Ellie, Lydia, Linda. 

• Teddy : Tommy Theo, Ted, Tod, Toby. 

• Rod : Rob, Ross, Rodolph, Ron. 

• Simone : Sarah, Silvie, Sibelle, Sandra, Sophia. 

• Bernie : Bobbie, Billie, Bonnie, Becca, Becky, Betty, Betsy, Bennie, Bessie, Bianca, Blanche, Bella. 

• Julia :  Jillian Julieta Julianna Julie Giulia Jenna Jennifer Jessamina, Jessamine Jemima, Jessica. 

• Susana and Maria : Suzana ,Suzie, Suki,  I kinda prefer the idea of naming twins a name starting with the same letter: so María becomes: Sofía/ Sophia or Sarah. 

• Marlene: Marie, Marianne, Marielle, Malia, Molly. 

[thefamilyeldritchabomination]

Yule Special: Night Two Pt. 2

“Nah, I got this. Carmilla is a lot like me back then, I’m better suited to parenting the monster than anything else.” Envy said, blocking any form of reasoning that was being offered to them.

 “Goddamn it Envy just listen to Freddy for once! He gave a pretty valid candidate and I’m sure Lust would be more than happy to take Carmilla under her wing.” Greed was ready to rip Envy’s head off their shoulder at this point and replace it with a much less pigheaded one.

 “Envy, let’s just get things underway. We need to inform the authorities what we found by the roadside along with filing a missing person’s case. I think I’m going to be needing some of the venison jerky right about now.” Dolly gently placed a hand on Envy’s shoulder and softly directed them into the household. 

 Envy huffed a bit at that before ultimately going inside of the Mancer Household with the others following behind. Carmilla had evidently made herself right at home by screeching for Snickerdoodle to come out of the wall, annoying Gluttony, Ernest, and Dorian. Thanks to the screeching, the notable sound of scuttling could be heard retreating away from the little monster that clearly wanted to torment the poor creature of the walls. Freddy, needing to escape the demonic child, ran for the kitchen to call up the police to file away the missing person report and the highway mess that was found. Dolly stayed with Envy to see how they handle the screeching mess that is Carmilla, given they had made that claim to take full custody. Envy paused for a bit to figure out how to control the screeching, until Envy got that stupid smirk on their smug face. Quickly, the dumbass shapeshifted their right arm into looking like a pale imitation of the already horrifically mutated hamster to entertain Carmilla with. There came a horrible but happy scream from Carmilla who quickly clung to the imitation Snickerdoodle arm that Envy produced. Dolly pulled out a chair to sit down on to watch this little interaction, trying to take her mind off of the now very much missing Thomas who could possibly be super dead by now. The sound of Freddy talking on the phone with the police could be heard, slowly devolving into an argument upon learning of the forty eight hour wait before a search could be issued. It annoyed Freddy that he was sticking his neck out for a very much despised family member that allowed the destruction of a very beloved memento as the police compromised to check on the roadside carnage instead. 

 “Damn pigs, Greed, you still want to feed them to Gluttony by any chance?” Freddy growled as he slammed the phone on its receiver.

 “Freddy, I’ve been waiting FOREVER for you to even offer that glorious thing to me. I can fix up a perfect little dining spot for Gluttony to enjoy some officers. Hey Gluttony, up for a pork roast for Yule this year?” Greed grinned with excitement that he finally got the okay to rid the Walden area of the police force by means of feeding Gluttony. 

 “Pork Roast, PORK ROAST!” Gluttony chanted excitedly for such a delectable meal being offered to him for the perfect festive season.

 “You got it buddy! We’re gonna get you that promised pork roast for Yule this year!” Freddy finally conceded to the use of violence via feeding Gluttony as Freddy went to sit down on his rocking chair right away. 

 “See Face Fur, violence is perfectly acceptable and you’re giving Gluttony some nice fresh meat.” Envy said as they pulled their attention away from playing with the violence driven Carmilla. 

 “I wanna see Gluttony eat the rich next!” Carmilla yelled as she clung to the Snickerdoodle arm.

 “That’s the next step kid, get rid of the pigs and then we get to feed the rich to Gluttony. That way your favorite Uncle Greed can lay claim on their cash as his own!” Greed smiled happily at the thought of getting more cash in this fashion as Carmilla hissed out a cheer. 

 “Shouldn’t we return our attention back towards locating Thomas given that the police is now Gluttony chow?” Dolly softly asked as she turned her attention away from monitoring.

 “I guess we could go back to locating Thomas, I GUESS.” Envy shrugged as Carmilla tugged on the Snickerdoodle arm for more attention. 

 “Are you sure it’s a bad thing that Thomas is gone forever? I’m sure Talia would’ve been more than happy to kick his ass during their boat ride down that river.” Ernest finally dropped his cens into the conversation. “I wouldn’t wish that on Thomas even if he was absolutely grotesque with the funeral and his complete disregard towards how much Talia had cared about him as her first grandchild.” Dolly shook her head a bit from how everything went for the day before the Yule. 

 “You even said it yourself Dolly, his behavior was grotesque and everything Talia had done for him growing up, Thomas had the gall to ask for inheritance right at the funeral. The asshat deserves to freeze.” Ernest argued, wanting to make sure the asshole freezes to death from all the crap he pulled. “Oh no, Ernest, I wasn’t talking about freezing, I’m fine with that one. No, I was talking about Hohenheim, he’s on the loose right now.” Dolly sighed a bit, having to go into that little bit of detail. “Nevermind then, asshole doesn’t deserve to have his flesh ripped from his bones.” Ernest pouted a bit that the situation was different instead. “Can Ernest still vaporize him though?” Dorian piped in, apparently both horrible lions’ need for carnage was very strong for such a merry holiday of sorts.

 “We went over this, Ernest can only vaporize Thomas if it was for his funeral.” Envy jumped in, apparently this whole thing was discussed beforehand. “Dammit.” Dorian pouted big time at not getting to see Thomas be vaporized by Ernest. “I second that ‘dammit’ right there.” Ernest mimicked the pout that was painted onto Dorian at that moment. 

 “You can still use the sledgehammer on him though if Thomas is still alive.” Envy compromised, earning some rather horribly eager expressions on the equally horrific clay lions’ faces. 

 “And this is exactly why we don’t want you to be a parent damn it!” Greed nearly fell off the chair upon hearing what ‘compromise’ came out of Envy’s mouth.  “I Envy would absolutely make the best parent out there! I’ll make the whole Parent Teacher board envious of how great of a parent I’ll be!” Envy kept that stubbornness and evidently grew stronger, far stronger than anyone anticipated.

“...Good luck with that one, Envy.” Freddy resigned to letting the best teacher of all, first hand experience, teach Envy in a horrifying fashion what ‘parenthood’ is really like and how brutal the Teacher Parent board is. 

[kanejw]

What was read 2023

The Lottery & Other Stories - Shirley Jackson (1949~)

A Life Standing Up - Steve Martin (2007)

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (1985)

Licks of Love -John Updike (2000)

Lovesickness Collection - Junji Ito (2011)

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (1966)

The Anarchy The relentless rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple (2019)

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan W.Watts (1951)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869)

The Course of Love - Alain de Botton (2016)

Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (1980)

Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)

A Faint Heart (1848)White Nights (1848) A Little Hero (1857)An Unpleasant Predicament (1862) The Crocodile (1865) Bobok (1873) A Gentle Spirit/The Meek One* (1876) T1877) Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1929)

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk (2005)

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980/3)

Diary - Chuck Palahniuk (2003)

Darkness Visible - William Styron (1990)

The Poorhouse Fair - John Updike (1958)

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)

The First Forty-Nine Stories - Ernest Hemingway (1939)

Mythos - Stephen Fry (2017)

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)

The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell (1936)

The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)

Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1854)

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

Normal People - Sally Rooney (2018)

Joy in the Morning - P. G. Wodehouse (1947)

After Dark - Haruki Murakami (2004)

The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)

The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009)

The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe (1979)

Family Happiness - Leo Tolstoy (1859)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (1866)

The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy (1889)

The Devil - Leo Tolstoy (1911)

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)

True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2000)

Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco (1988/9)

Inferno - Dante Alighieri (~1308-1321)

Iliad - Homer (Samuel Butler translation 1898)

Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (1925)

The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy (2022)

Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy (2022)

Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward (2018)

Rubber Balls and Liquor - Gilbert Gottfried (2011)

kiss me like a stranger* - Gene Wilder (2005)

The Adventures of Auguie March - Saul Bellow (1953)

Rickles’ Book A memoir - Don Rickles (2007)

The ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ Trilogy. Sexus - Henry Miller (1949)

The Heart of a Dog - Milhaud Bulgakov (1925)

Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)

Albert & the Whale - Philip Hoare (2021)

A Waiter in Paris - Edward Chisholm (2022)

The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron (1937)

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Video: Angeline Saris Teams Up with Naté the Soulsanger and Sandra Pippins on a SLinky Feminist Anthem

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[nectarandgold]

2022 Reading List

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

The Sphere of the Winds by Rachel Neumeier

Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress 

Are You Listening by Tillie Walden

Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection by John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick

Withering By Sea by Judith Rossell

Tiger Magic (Book 3 in the The Tiger’s Apprentice trilogy) by Laurence Yep

Wormwood Mire by Judith Rossell

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Wanting: the Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake

My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham

That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Aquanaut by Dan Santat

A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar

[johnmanciniwrites]

Arts and Crafts

Finding Meaning in the Things We Create

Consider the gilded frame, the illuminated pedestal, the banana duct-taped to the gallery wall. Art wants to stand out, to be seen as special, more than just craft. I mean, sure, anyone could do it, but who in their right mind would try?

From Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) to Bruce Nauman’s Self-Portrait as a Fountain (1970), art in the twentieth century was especially bold. In the 1970s, performance artists seemed to try and outdo each other with the amount of self-inflicted pain and humiliation they were willing to suffer: whether running face first into a gallery wall or having themselves nailed to a Volkswagen, these guys wanted attention--and got it.

The closest literary equivalent might be Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, or Kerouac’s On the Road. Art in the twentieth century was raw, unsettling, intimate, and confrontational. Where did all this defiance and aggression come from?

Until Jackson Pollock swaggered onto the scene, the English pursuit of truth and beauty via John Keats seemed reserved for the intellectual set. Your father would rather you become a banker, a lawyer, or a linebacker. Then the hard-drinking, football-playing Kerouac arrived, writing like he talked, writing like Pollock painted—hurling globs of words in an inebriated frenzy.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

—Kerouac, On the Road

This is word jazz, improvised and unfiltered, but it was Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway who introduced concision and immediacy to American literature, whittling prose to bare bones:

Upon the half decayed veranda of a small frame house that stood near the edge of a ravine near the town of Winesburg, Ohio, a fat little old man walked nervously up and down.

—Anderson, “Hands”

Outside it was getting dark. The streetlight came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu. From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in.

—Hemingway, “The Killers”

Until this sort of understated plain-speak came along, American writers tended to put more butter on the bread.

Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs...

—Thoreau, Walden

After ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of the alpenglow, and the irised spray of countless waterfalls, it still seems above all others the Range of Light.

—Miur, “First Glimpse of the Sierra”

This is writing that wants to transcend--like poetry--and as the poet Housman said, "Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it." But from the factories of the Industrial Revolution to the carnage of the World War I, transcendent illusions were shattered, art got surreal, and language got difficult:

​It is very difficult so difficult that it always has been difficult but even more difficult now to know what is the relation of human nature to the human mind because one has to know what is the relation of the act of creation to the subject the creator uses to create that thing.

—Stein “What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them?”

Huh? you might ask. That matronly figure of modernism, Gertrude Stein wrote self-conscious prose, her complex, layered style tending to fragment and obscure--like Cubism. Here she is as painted by Picasso:

When I was living in LA, I briefly worked—“briefly” characterizing most work in LA—at a nonprofit that offered arts enrichment programs at elementary schools. Navigating surface streets from Crenshaw to Brentwood, I arrived at playgrounds with my box of supplies, and spent the afternoon struggling to keep eight or so kids busy until their parents arrived. I handed out wood scraps and hammers and nails and showed them how to build birdhouses. When I turned my back, one little boy would inevitably start throwing nails at the girl he liked, which I realize now was actually more of an artistic act—performance!—than the lame activity I had been assigned to teach. Here was an artist! A lovesick one, too.

These kids were not learning art; they were learning a craft. A birdhouse, like a rocking chair, however well-crafted, doesn’t mean anything. It's not art; it’s practical. The phrase “arts and crafts” always makes me think of fourth graders taking a break from science class to glue some dried macaroni to posterboard—like recess, only less sweaty. The problem is that the word “art” suffers from semantic bleaching, like genius or amazing. We have the art of the deal, the art of seduction, the art of the talking points memo. None of this has helped art’s case for separateness.

There are different sections in libraries for fiction and literature, and when you walk into a bookstore (if you can find one) you may see a section devoted to Classics and another to Best Sellers. I always felt bad for the writers who got lumped in with the mass market romcoms and spy thrillers. What does one have to do besides die in obscurity to be elevated to the academy of Literature? Must the artist's pants be fancy?

The tendency to think of “art” as something stylish, rather than plain, especially in the literary arts, has led to a lot of beautifully written novels in which nothing happens. (I’m looking at you, Proust.) Some great novelists sacrifice momentum for verbal acrobatics. Unfortunately, most fiction readers are looking for a good plot, and as Auden said, "Poetry makes nothing happen."

So if you want to sell some books, tell a story, and if you want to tell a story, keep it simple. When we’re engrossed in a ripping yarn, the sentences dissolve. Verisimilitude is like old school virtual reality—no oversized goggles required. 

Ever try to get a dog to look at something by pointing at it? The dog looks at your hand, not the thing. This is the problem with modernist literature, and most poetry. The eye is constantly drawn back to the surface. If you learn how to manipulate syntax, and you listen closely, you may replicate the voice of a ten-year old girl in a Tennessee trailer park, or an English aristocrat aboard the Titanic. Both pose interesting style choices--but beware. As Stein said to Hemingway: “Ernest, remarks are not literature.” What she was alluding to, I think, was the importance of depth, structure, and artistic intention in a work of art.

Somewhere around the late nineteenth century artists stopped looking for beauty outside themselves and started painting what was in their heads. Painters abandoned the representational image, and writers started admiring their sentences too much. They all started playing mind games. They left bloodstains on the floor and taped bananas to the wall.

Reason for being is a big subject, and short of going down a rabbit hole of relativism in which your truth is just as valid as any other and we can all go home and stare at our bellybuttons, maybe we can agree that there is a pantheon of great art into which over time more are admitted through discovery or changing taste. Sometimes a tree falls in the forest, and we don’t hear it for a very long time.

These writers were dead long before they were appreciated: Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, William Blake, Herman Melville, Sylvia Plath. And there are others. So maybe you don’t have to make a lot of noise or concern yourself so much with being heard. Maybe crafting the thing with care and intention is enough. But if you decide to throw nails at the girl that you love, I wouldn’t expect her to love you back. At least not right away.

*If you enjoy essays like this, read Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard.

[mferlin]

readings

• Dörren, Magda Szabó • Paradais, Fernanda Melchor • Nattens skola, Karl-Ove Knausgård • Trilogin, Jon Fosse • Svar till D, Wera von Essen • Längtans flöde, Alva Dahl • Postmodernismen, Frida Beckman • Min Kamp 1-6, Karl-Ove Knausgård • Slaget om Troja, Theodor Kallifatides • Sympatisören, Viet Thanh Nguyen • Och solen har sin gång, Ernest Hemingway • Moral, Lyra Ekström Lindbäck • Jävla Karlar, Andrev Walden • Trilogin, Andreas Lundberg • Om uträkning av omfång 1, Solvej Balle • En dag i öknen, Anna Axfors • Om den fria viljan, Erasmus av Rotterdam • Weimartyskland, Eric D Weitz • Allegro Pastell, Leif Randt • De tysta satelliterna, Clemens Meyer • Fragment, Herakleitos • Min far & Kvinnan, Annie Ernaux • Mystik och andlighet: Kritiska perspektiv, Simon Sorgenfrei • Farväl till Berlin, Christopher Isherwood • Oostende 1936, Volker Weidermann • Glaskupan, Sylvia Plath • Fåglarna, Tarjei Vesaas

[lazuli-writes]

The Vanishing Intro I

a/n: I got the inspo for such a incident from the “Dark Curse” of abc’s Once Upon a Time and the “Blip” from the Marvel cinematic universe. I do not own Harry Potter and the characters, all rights go to JKR and Warner Bros. Pictures. Only the non-canonical plot was my idea. I also do not agree with any and all prejudiced remarks formulated by JKR in concern of their transphobia. Remember folks, copying other people’s works is plagiarism and that’s illegal. Don’t be that kind of person. Anyways, hope you all enjoy it :)

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Summary: Under the threat of defeat, the supporters of the dark lord cast a curse that banishes half of the Wizarding population of the British Isles. No knows where they had gone or how they vanished. But twenty-one years later, the vanished make their return, and the Wizarding world they once knew is no longer the same.

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The Stranded: The Stranded were thirty-five of the most recognized witches and wizards in the British isles to not be Vanished. It was this collection of witches and wizards that oversaw the reconstruction of the Magical community of the British Isles. They include:

Bathsheda Babbling, Susan Bones, Lavender Brown, Flora Carrow, Colin Creevey, Dennis Creevey, Roger Davies, Tracey Davis, Astoria Greengrass, Daphne Greengrass, Hestia Jones, Lee Jordan, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Ernest Macmillan, Draco Malfoy, Minerva McGonagall, Cormac McLaggen, Graham Montague, Theodore Nott, Garrick Olivander, Pansy Parkinson, Padma Patil, Sturgis Podmore, Poppy Pomfrey, Muriel Prewett, Adrian Pucey, Aurora Sinistra, Alicia Spinnet, Dean Thomas, Edward Tonks, Nyphadora Tonks, Romilda Vane, Ronald Weasley, Oliver Wood

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The Impurities: The last bastion of the Dark Lord’s reign, the Impurities were the remaining death eaters following the Vanishing, and were blamed for causing the British Magical Purge of the 2000s. They include:

Bellatrix Lestrange, Thorfinn Rowle, Corban Yaxley, Amycus Carrow, Aurelius Nott, Terminus Travers, Walden Macnair

•••

The British Conclave of Magic: The Conclave is the successor of the British Ministry of Magic, and serves as the formal government for the magical species of the British Isles. Closer in resemblance to the Wizard’s Council of old Britain and MACUSA, the Conclave still holds many roots in the British Ministry of Magic. The reformation of the Ministry into the Conclave was a direct result of the British Magical Purge that took place from the years 2000 to 2004.

The current regime of the Conclave is as follows:

British Premier of Magic: Susan Bones (2009-Present)

House of Nobles: Members of this house aid in the advisement of the Premier. Acting as a vice power should the Premier become incapacitated. These members are elected tri-annually by the those in the House of Inquest. They also serve as judges and vote in any high profile criminal trials.

Incumbent House Nobles: Flora Carrow, Fergus Finnigan, Roger Davies, Nymphadora Lupin, Ernest Macmillan, Draco Malfoy, Cormac McLaggen, Graham Montague, Theodore Nott, Mafalda Prewett, Adrian Pucey, Rolf Scammander, Ronald Weasley & Romilda Vane

House of Inquest: The successor of the Wizengamot, all fifty-three members of this house are voted on by the wizarding populace of the isles. The higher the concentration of magical folk in an area, the more seats in the house the area maintains. E.g. Hogsmeade and Cokesworth, being the two largest Wizarding settlements in the isles with sixteen and eleven seats respectively. The house is headed by the Orator, who represents, leads and dictates the decorum of the house in all meetings.

Incumbent Orator of the House: Lord Dennis Prewett, née Creevey.

Department of Magical Law Enforcement: (DMLE) Responsible for upholding the laws set forth by the Conclave. The largest of the departments and all other departments were answerable to this one; the Department of Mysteries were the only exception in certain cases.

Incumbent High Enchantress: Lady Daphne Greengrass

Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes: (DMAC) Tasked with the prevention, containment and/or reversal of magical mishaps. It’s main goals currently are protecting the Statute of Secrecy and preventing all muggle interference in the magical community.

Incumbent High Warlock: Roger Davies

Department of International Magical Relations: (DIMR) Serving as the communication between the British Conclave and other magical governments around the world, this department currently focuses on repairing the relationship between Magical Britain and their neighbors in France, Germany and the Nordic Ministries.

Incumbent High Warlock: Lord Theodore Nott

Department for Regulation of Magical Creatures: (DRMC) Dedicated to the restoration, protection and maintaining cooperation amongst the many different magical beings, beasts and spirits of Magical Britain. They work alongside magizoologists and the DMLE to better protect and incorporate the magical species in the British Isles.

Incumbent High Warlock: Rolf Scammander

Department of Magical Transportation: (DMT) In charge of the regulation of transportation services of wizarding Britain. The department became highly regarded following the brief establishment of Rappaport’s Law, because safe transport in and out of the isles became almost impossible during the Purge. Now however, the mass production and regulation of advanced Vanishing Cabinets, and enchanted automobiles have become the new tools of transport.

Incumbent High Enchantress: Romilda Vane

Department of Magical Entertainment: (DME) In control of the proper operation, funding and safe establishment of entertainment sources and events—such as national and international Magical Sports (Quidditch, Wizarding Hockey, Quadpot etc etc.), Magical Cinemas/Theatres and the Magical Music scene. The department rose in popularity following the recognized end of the Purge in the year of 2005, when the Weasley family opened the very first Magical Cinema in Ottery St. Catchpole.

Incumbent High Warlock: Cormac McLaggen

Department of Mysteries: (DMY) The most secretive department, they are dedicated to the gathering of confidential research in the name of furthering the understanding magic. They are the only department not subjected to complete obeisance to the DMLE.

Incumbent Head Unspeakable: Lady Tracey Nott, née Davis

Hogwarts Board of Governors: A group of thirteen wizards and witches that oversaw the maintenance and running of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They held the power to dictate the curriculum and every day operation of the school.

Incumbent Chairman: Lord Draco Malfoy

•••

British Magical Purge of the 2000s: Commonly referred to as the Great Purge or simply the Purge, the British Magical Purge was a mass witch hunt for witches, wizards and other magical species within Britain by covert sects of the British Muggle Government between 2000-2004.

The hunts were believed to be a retaliatory act by the muggles following the final battle between the Order of the Phoenix and the Impurities; Known by magic-kind as the Battle for London, the battle took place within the old Ministry of Magic, upon the streets of Muggle London as well as in the skies above the city. As her final act of terrorism, Bellatrix Lestrange flooded the Thames river. The sudden flood had already drowned at least two-thousand muggles by the time the order had managed to undo the flood.

The muggle reaction to the flood saw associates of the incumbent Muggle Prime Minister, who secretly knew of Magic, hire mercenaries to begin the Purge: this led to a large scale series of witch hunts and magical massacres, unseen since the time of Salem.

The Purge saw numerous witches, wizards and other beings such as werewolves, vampires, squibs, muggles who married into the magical community, hags, centaurs, merlings, goblins and house elves persecuted, captured and murdered.

In response, the British Conclave was formed out of the ruins of the Ministry. Efforts to maintain the Statute of Secrecy as well as sustaining the already diminished, magical population, the Conclave temporarily adopted the American made “Rappaport’s Law” (an era colloquially called “Rappaport’s Reign). The swift segregation of magical folk from the muggles, and harsh operations of oblivation to those within muggle governments, resulted in a slow, but eventual return of peace within the British magical community.

•••

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: The primary source of education for British wizarding youth, Hogwarts serves as a strong bastion of peace and protection for the future wizarding generations.

Current staff is as follows:

Bathsheda Babbling: Ancient Runes

Cuthburt Binns: History of Magic

Colin Lovegood: Head of Gryffindor House, Charms & Enchanted Items

Dean Thomas: Matron

Gabrielle Delacour: Foreign Magical Studies

Kreacher the House Elf: Caretaker & Head Elf

Firenze: Astronomy & Divination

Neville Longbottom: Headmaster

Pansy Longbottom: Head of Slytherin House, Defensive Magic Studies

Ernest Macmillan: Potions & Alchemy

Padma Patil: Head of Ravenclaw House, Transfiguration & Dueling Club Head

Sturgis Podmore: Magizoology

Alicia Spinnet: Herbology & Quidditch Pitch Moderator

Edward Tonks: Head of Hufflepuff House, Muggle Studies

•••

The Seven Swords of Britain: A term coined by Witch Weekly’s Editor in chief, Lavender Brown, the Seven Swords of Britain are—in accordance to numerous public polls and interviews—the current, seven most influential and prominent wizarding families within the isles.

The recognized families are:

The Esteemed House of Carrow: Headed by Flora Carrow, Flora Carrow is the largest trader of magical foreign goods and a philanthropist, who aided in the refugee crisis following the Calamity of Diagon Alley in 2001. She became the head of her family following the death of her uncle, Amycus Carrow—known Death Eater and Impurity.

Commonly associates with Houses Malfoy and Nott. Though keeps a precarious relationship with other families such as the Montagues and McLaggens.

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Longbottom: A revered member of Dumbledore’s Army and the Order of the Phoenix, Lord Neville Longbottom serves as the current Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Through his inheritance as the sole Longbottom heir and his scandalous marriage to Pansy Parkinson, the Longbottoms holds one of the largest wealths in Great Britain. Wealth, that they have been known to spend readily on Hogwarts and numerous charities.

Commonly associates with Houses Lovegood, Macmillan, Parkinson, Patil, Tonks and Weasley. Also viewed as the peacemakers between the feuding Notts & Weasleys.

The Honourable House of Lovegood: Presumed the youngest of the revered families, Luna Lovegood is a well known household name. Current proprietor of the Quibbler—the largest source of news in all of magical Britain and the Lovegood Magical Sanctuary, located on the once disdained isle of Drear. Luna Lovegood married Colin Creevey in 2003. Whereas Luna continues to serve as a magizoologist and newspaper owner, her husband currently works as a professor at Hogwarts.

Commonly associates with the Houses Longbottom and Weasley; as well as the Bones, Creevey, Goldstein and Scammander families. Currently bonded in marriege to House Prewett through her husband’s brother.

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Malfoy: Initially pushed to the outskirts of society following their known patronage of Voldemort, Draco Malfoy returned the honour of his family following his efforts in the defense of Diagon Alley during its Calamity. The Malfoy’s are also recognized as a large benefactor to Sinestra’s Sanatorium for Magical Maladies.

Commonly associates with Houses Carrow, Greengrass and Weasley. Bonded in marriage to the Weasleys through the Greengrass sisters, their relationship is cordial at best.

The Honourable House of McLaggen: Cormac McLaggen is fatefully remembered for his efforts in maintaining the Statute of Secrecy through numerous Obliviation Operations in 2002-2006. Though not as wealthy as the Malfoys, Notts or Weasleys, the McLaggen’s wealth is enough to shoulder the funding for his current office as head of the Department of Magical Entertainments: Sports, Cinemas and Music.

Commonly associates with the Davies, Brown and Wood families. Also, highly supports the Notts when in opposition to the Weasley-Greengrass-Malfoy political block.

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Nott: Lord Theodore Nott and Lady Tracey Nott née Davis are respected as two of the most prominent members of the Conclave—Lord Theodore serving as High Warlock of the Conclave’s Department of International Magical Relations and Lady Tracey as the head Unspeakable for the British Department of Mysteries. The Nott family are also referred to by the epithet “The Lords of Trent” due to their ownership of a large fraction of land near Nottingham.

Commonly associates with the House of Carrow and freely indulges with other families such as Davies, Brown, Macmillan, Montague, Pucey, and Vane.

The Noble and Most Ancient House of Weasley: Perhaps the most desirable of families, Lord Ronald Weasley is most fantastically recognized for bringing a formal end of the Second Wizarding War after he successfully dueled and defeated Bellatrix Lestrange and the Impurities in the Battle for London. Through his marriage to Daphne Greengrass, his acquisition of the Black and Prewett family fortunes, and his successful production of a philosopher’s stone, Lord Ronald had become a large benefactor for the reconstruction of Magical Britain as a whole.

Commonly associates with Houses Longbottom and Lovegood. Hold close ties to families such the Bones, Delacours, Jordans, Spinnets, Thomas, Tonks and Woods. Tied by blood to the Houses of Black and Prewett and bonded in marriage to Houses Greengrass, Malfoy and the Creevey Family—an by extension, the Lovegoods as well.

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The Noble and Most Ancient House of Weasley:

— Lord Ronald “Ron” Weasley; sixth son of the vanished Arthur Weasley & Molly Weasley née Prewett. Born March 1st, 1980. Current head of the House of Weasley, resides at his home of the Warren, on Stoadshead Hill, Ottery St. Catchpole, England. Recognized for his efforts in the Second Wizarding War against Lord Voldemort, defeating Bellatrix Lestrange in the Battle for London and his continued relief and philanthropic efforts throughout the British Magical Purge 2000-2004. Careers includes being a fellow member of the House of Nobles, former Hit-Wizard for the British Conclave of Magic, former steward for the Noble and Most Ancient Houses of Black & Prewett, renowned Alchemist & possessor of a philosopher’s stone, proprietor of the following: Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes (WWW) & the Chudley Cannons Quidditch Team, co-proprietor for Dame’s Wizarding Bank and known benefactor to the Lovegood Magical Sanctuary and Sinestra’s Sanatorium for Magical Maladies.

—— Lady Daphne Greengrass; wife to Ronald Weasley. Eldest daughter of the late Lord Cassius Greengrass and Lady Bianca Greengrass née Este. Born May 19, 1980. Current head of the House of Greengrass, and consort of the House of Weasley. A revered and cherished witch of her generation, and known for relief efforts throughout the British Magical Purge, she once served as a Hit-Wizard and was part of the Muggle Obliviation Squad (2003-2007). Proprietor of Greengrass Solutions—largest domestic farmer/supplier for British apothecaries since 1514. Current member of the House of Inquest and serves as High Enchantress of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (DMLE).

——— Celia Greengrass; first child of Lord Ronald Weasley and Lady Daphne Greengrass. Born June 21st, 2003. The eldest of Ronald’s and Daphne’s triplets, she was named the heiress to the House of Greengrass. She was sorted into Slytherin House and is a proficient potionneer.

——— Serena Weasley; second child of Lord Ronald Weasley and Lady Daphne Greengrass. Born June 21st, 2003. The middle child of the triplets, she was sorted into Ravenclaw House and has deep love for music and aspires to become a musician.

——— Septimus Weasley; third child of Lord Ronald Weasley and Lady Daphne Greengrass. Born June 21st, 2003. The youngest of the triplets as well as Ronald’s and Daphne’s only son, he is set to inherit the Weasley family fortune. He was sorted into Hufflepuff House and is excellent with enchanting items.

——— Clarissa Weasley; the fourth and youngest child of Lord Ronald Weasley and Lady Daphne Greengrass. Born March 1st, 2015. Has deep desires to be a professional dueler.

Relatives:

Lady Muriel Prewett {Deceased}; the former head of the House of Prewett, maternal Great-Great Grand aunt to Lord Ronald. She informally adopted him as her own following the Vanishing, which took his parents, siblings and closest friends.

Alexander Prewett {Deceased}; the secret love child of a young Lady Muriel and Corban Yaxley Sr., he was born a squib and left for America following his disownment. He would later return with his muggle wife and witch daughter Mafalda during the British Magical Purge.

Lady Mafalda Prewett; current Head of the House of Prewett, she was mentored and tutored by Lord Ronald, and became a pseudo sibling for him. She currently serves in the House of Nobles for the British Conclave of Magic, and is the founder and co-proprietor of Dame’s Wizarding Bank—the only bank for Wizarding Britain following Gringotts destruction in the Calamity of Diagon Alley.

Lord Dennis Prewett née Creevey; Lord consort to the House of Prewett, one of the highest stationed muggleborn wizards in the Conclave. Currently serves as Orator for the House of Inquest in the Conclave. He is the younger brother to Colin Lovegood née Creevey.

Alexandra Prewett; current heir and only child of Lady Mafalda and Lord Dennis. Close in age and confidante of her cousin Clarissa Weasley.

Lady Andromeda Tonks née Black {Deceased}; Related through Lord Ronald’s paternal grandmother—Cedrella Weasley née Black—Andromeda was a close friend and supporter. As one of the last potential heirs to the Black Family Fortune, she naturally held influence over much of the older generations of stranded wizardkind. She initially survived the Vanishing but was later murdered by her sister Bellatrix Lestrange during the Impurity’s Rampage of 1999.

Edward Tonks; Widower of the late Lady Andromeda, he was saved from his imprisonment at Malfoy Manor by Draco Malfoy, who defected to the Order of the Phoenix. He would later work with the Conclave and the Order to protect the persecuted Muggleborns during the purge on magic. He currently serves as the Head of Hufflepuff House, as well as the Muggle Studies Professor

Nymphadora Lupin née Tonks; Widowed due to her husband’s—Remus Lupin—vanishing, Nymphadora eventually halted her auror career in favor of a relaxed term as a member of the House of Nobles. Following Lord Ronald’s acquisition of the Black Family Fortune, he intended to grant the entirety to the Tonks-Lupin family, but Nymphadora refused, instead gifting half to her son and the other to Lord Ronald. She, along with her father and son reside as the owners and keepers of 12 Grimmauld Place, the ancestral seat of the former House of Black.

Edward Lupin; son to Nymphadora Lupin née Tonks and the vanished Remus Lupin. A known metamorphmagus like his mother, he is currently slated to inherit the remaining half of the Black family fortune.

Lord Draco Malfoy; also a member of the House of Black maternally, Lord Draco and Lord Ronald’s relationship is mostly held up by their wives being loving sisters—and all wizards know not to anger their spouse. He currently serves in the Conclave as a member of the House of Nobles, as well as the Chairman of the Reformed Board of Governors for Hogwarts.

Lady Astoria Malfoy née Greengrass; the younger sister to Daphne Greengrass, Lady Astoria holds a great relationship with her sister and can typically handle the bickering her husband and brother in law indulge in. She works as the General Manager of Greengrass Solutions, the factory and farm owned by the Greengrass family for more than five centuries.

Scorpius Malfoy; current heir and only son of Lord Draco and Lady Astoria. He looks up to his Greengrass-Weasley cousins.

Lyra Malfoy; youngest child and only daughter of Lord Draco and Lady Astoria, she is close in age to Clarissa Weasley and one of her closest confidantes.

[horribleprotagonist]

Here it is!

E1: I Love This Part - Tillie Walden

Ace Of Spades - Farida Àbiké Íyímídé

E2: We Are Okay - Nina Lacour

The Importance Of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde

E3: Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Pride Display Books!

• All Boys Aren't Blue - George M Johnson

• I Wish You All The Best - Mason Deaver

• Melissa - Alex Gino (previously published and shown in Heartstopper as George)

• My Magic Family - Lotte Jeffs and Sharon Davey

• The Kingdom Of Sand - Andrew Holleran

• Beyond The Gender Binary - Alok Vaid-Menom

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning Of Sex - Angela Chen

• Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid And Nonbinary Youth - Ritch C. Savin-Williams

• My Shadow Is Pink - Scott Stuart

• 100 Queer Poems anthology edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan

Library Background Pride Books

• Leah On The Offbeat - Becky Albertalli

• The Prom (Penguin edition) - Sandra Mitchell, Matthew Sklar, Bob Martin, and Chad Reguilin

• Nate Plus One - Kevin Van Whye

• Birdgirl - Mya-Rose Craig

• This Place Is Still Beautiful - XiXi Tian

• Princess Ever After - Connie Glynn

• Girl Woman Other - Bernadine Evaristo

• When You Call My Name - Tucker Shaw

Book Lovers - Emily Henry

E4: Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Awakening (English classics edition) - Kate Chopin

The Outsider - Albert Camus

We Are Okay - Nina Lacour

E6: Birthday - Meredith Russo

Around The World In Eighty Days - Jules Verne

From the Shakespeare And Company bookstore, (incomplete list)

• The Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst

• The Catcher In The Rye - JD Sallinger

• Heartstopper volumes 1 - 4 - Alice Oseman

• Radio Silence - Alice Oseman

• This Winter - Alice Oseman

• Nick and Charlie - Alice Oseman

• Pax - Sara Pennypacker

• How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are - Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas

• Pandora - Susan Stokes-Chapman

• Loveless - Alice Oseman

• The Color Storm - Damien Dibbens

• The Story Of Art Without Men - Katy Hessel

• Rossetti: His Life And Works (Penguin Modern Classics edition) - Evelyn Waugh

• The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

• Better Living Through Criticism: How To Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, And Truth - A.O Scott

• Bold Ventures, Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy - Charlotte Van den Broeck

• Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces - Ruth Millington, Illustrated by Dina Razin

• Fierce Love - Dr. Jacqui Lewis

Crush - Richard Silken

E7: Boy Erased - Garrard Conley

All Boys Aren't Blue - George M Johnson

Bookstore Background Books!

• Loveless - Alice Oseman

• This Book Is Gay - Juno Dawson

• Juliet Takes A Breath - Gabby Rivera

• The Beauty Of Everyday Things - Soetsu Yanagi

• Nate Plus One - Kevin Van Whye

We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib

E8: Summer Bird Blue - Akemi Dawn Bowman

Books From Isaac's Room (an incomplete list)

• Vadim - Donald James

• Dune - Frank Herbert

• Birthday - Meredith Russo

• How To Own The Room: Women And The Art Of Brilliant Speaking - Viv Groskop

• Boy Erased - Garrard Conley

• All Boys Aren't Blue - George M Johnson

• Ace Of Spades - Farida Àbiké Íyímídé

• This Winter - Alice Oseman

• Save Yourself - Cameron Esposito

• Consumed - Henry Wallop

• The Final Detail - Harlan Coben

• No Safe Place - Richard North Patterson

• The Darkling Spy - Edward Wilson

• Book Lovers - Emily Henry

so I went peak autism and made a list of every book of note I could identify in heartstopper season 2, whether it's read by isaac or seen in the background of a shot if anyone is interested in knowing what Isaac's reading 👀

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my players and their toy npc

[pasttenselibrarian]

CBS’s Saturday-night lineup in the fall of ’84 consisted of Airwolf (8 PM EST), Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (9 PM), and Cover Up (10 PM). Only three episodes of Cover Up had aired when 26-year-old star Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally took his life on the set by firing a prop gun loaded with blanks at his head. Antony Hamilton, playing a new character, replaced Hexum for the remainder of Cover Up’s first and only season.

Airwolf, which had debuted in January of ’84, was canceled by CBS at the end of its third season, in the spring of ’86 (USA picked it up for a fourth, minus its original cast). Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer also premiered in January of ’84, but its second season was cut short, with just 14 episodes completed, when its lead, Stacy Keach, was sentenced to nine months in prison in England for smuggling cocaine into the country. The series returned to CBS in the fall of ’86 as The New Mike Hammer, which lasted 22 episodes, then was revived in ’97, in first-run syndication, as Mike Hammer, Private Eye for an additional 26 episodes.

[thefamilyeldritchabomination]

Chapter Twenty Three: Time After Time Pt.1

It had been three months since Fuhrer Bradley fell to the underground inferno and the capital declared as uninhabitable. The Amestrian government had declared the town of Dublith as its new capital as teams were sent to recover documents and research papers from the burning former capital. Edward and Alphonse had returned to Resembool for the time being before they went about on their next venture into restoring their bodies. It was nice to have things slow down finally after everything the brothers had been through during the rough year. The sound of Pinoko cooking milk stew in the kitchen was a comfort to the brothers while Winry was out showing Rose around the rural town. Though Edward and Alphonse did miss having Ernest around, both brothers had agreed it was for the best if the asshole didn’t live with them. That peace was soon disturbed when a rough looking car that had clearly been through the forests pulled up to the Rockbell household, causing Den to go berserk in frantic barks and wriggles, drawing the brothers’ attention. It was truly a sight to behold as two massive men came climbing out of the car much like clowns coming out of the tiny car. More people came out of the car that weren’t as massive as the first two but were just as bizarre to look at as though these people were just guessing what human society was like. The only one that was normal was the young man in a yellow top with exposed chest and his black hair tied back in a ponytail. The Elrics just stared at the unusual visitors as though they were looking at a free sideshow attraction as a woman of seven feet in height came up to the group who had seen better times before the road trip.

 “Hello Meatbag Larva and Metal Encased Humanoid, we have reasons to believe that you have someone by the name of Gort in this…farm house?” The tall woman asked as she ran a hand over the micro braids that formed a fluffed up mohawk after being trapped for so long in the car.

 “No? Never heard of Gort before…are you alright by any chance ma’am?” Edward asked as the tall woman promptly vomited from prolonged road sickness.

“I’m fine! Just perfectly fine! So you’re telling me you haven’t met anyone by the name of Gort? Have you seen anyone use an intense plasma blast then?” The woman straightened herself back up after the vomiting episode, mentally cursing all road based vehicles to a painful agonizing death once she was through with this quest.

 “Oh! Ernest was able to do that!” Alphonse cheerfully said as he remembered that magical time when Ernest vaporized the upper half of Greed’s body.

“Ernest? Well, I request that you bring us to this Ernest then right away.” The tall lady perked up that there was finally a lead towards locating the missing queen elect.

“Right, problem with that, Ernest doesn’t live with us anymore. He moved up north to Walden with his family.” Edward interjected as the tall lady wasn’t going to let that small information nugget get away from her.

“Well I have some wonderful news for you Meatbag Larva, I’m recruiting you to bring us up there and pointing out this Ernest to us.” The tall lady declared much to the less than amused Elric Brothers who were both becoming uneasy around these weird people.

 “Lady, I’m on break and needing to recuperate..” Edward explained until being cut short by the tall lady who didn’t seem to care.

“Didn’t stop the other meatbag larva from going on this quest, right Ling?” The tall lady called over to the one named Ling, the only normal person in this sea of weirdos.

“Yeah but I didn’t sign on for committing grand theft auto and possible child abduction.” Ling pointed out, not thrilled where this was heading.

 “I AM NOT A CHILD! I’M THE SAME AGE AS YOU DAMN IT!” Edward exploded onto Ling, the grave mistake of calling him a child rang harshly for all.

 “REGARDLESS! You will be joining our noble quest in reuniting us with our Queen Ernest!” The tall woman demanded much to the bewilderment of the Elric Brothers of hearing the title of Queen being bestowed upon the awful clay lion of infamy.

“Can you repeat that one more time…I think we might have missed something important..” Edward’s rage was short-lived thanks to the proclamation.

“Our Queen! You said our queen was going by the name of Ernest now instead of the regal name of Gort! Isn’t that the one who shot the plasma beam?” The tall woman inquired, confused that the one named Ernest wasn’t the queen despite being able to produce a plasma blast.

“Yeah but he’s also like less than a year old and was made in an alchemy lab.” Alphonse gently explained to a very confused tall lady.

“....What?” It was now the turn for the tall lady to be confused.

“Ernest isn’t the queen, he, like his brother Dorian, was made with clay and a blood donation by someone named Dolly. I think that’s who you’re looking for, right?” Edward explained in further details as the news of this punched the tall lady in the gut.

“And that’s how you gather vital information! Didn’t know Queen’s blood could be used in making constructs, but that’s a good thing to know! Alright Meatbag Larva, you’re coming with us to find Dolly then.” The tall lady reformulated the plan towards locating the one called Dolly instead.

 “That’s called abduction, you know that, right?” Edward was growing much more uneasy around this taller lady who was very determined to kidnap him for information.

“I tried to explain that to her.” Ling gave a very apologetic look at the brothers for the way things were heading.

“I’m not playing with human trivialities right now. Now, will you come or shall we drag you off with us in the nausea-inducing metal death trap?” The tall lady was done with the chatting circle as she wanted to get this search done and over with.

 “Just who are you lady?” Edward went into a defensive stance in case the tall lady did something horrifying.

“I’m Cuilleann of Tir Na Nog and you are coming with us NOW.” Cuilleann introduced herself as she decided to honor the long standing fae tradition of spiriting away children.

 Before Edward had the chance to use Alchemy in self defense, Cuilleann lifted up Edward as though he was made of foam and tossed him into the vomit scented car. The same thing was repeated once more with Alphonse as he tried to save his brother, getting tossed right into the car without a second thought. They had been recruited by the surviving members of Tir Na Nog to relocate Gort and damn it, they were going to bring Gort back home if it was the last thing they did. Ling sat uncomfortably between the kidnapped Elric Brothers as the others loaded back into the car as it screeched away into the distances for a long road trip up to Northern Amestris. It didn’t take long for the police report to be filed in about two kidnapped minors, one of which being the youngest state alchemist in Amestris’s history, later to be broadcasted live on radio. =======================================================================

[trans-and-baby-names]

Masculine Names

Aaron  Abdul Abe  Abel Abraham  Abram Ace Achilles  Adair Adam Adonis Adrian Adriel  Ahmed Ajax Ajay Aiden Alan Albert Alejandro Alex Alexander Alfonso Alfred Alistair Alister Allen  Alonzo Amadeo Amadeus Amani Amari Ambrose Amir Anders  Anderson Andre Andreas Andrew Andy Angel Angelo Angus Ansel  Anson Anthony Antonio Apollo Aries Archer Archie Aristotle Arlo  Arnaldo Arnold Arsenio Arthur Arturo Arwin Asa Asher Aslan Atlas  Atticus Aubrey August Augustin Augustine Augustus Aurelio Aurelius Austin Axel  Aziz

Balthazar  Bane Barnabas  Barnaby Barney Baron  Barrett Basil Bastian  Bear Beau Beck Ben Benjamin  Benji Bentley Bernard Bertram Bertrand  Blake Blaze Blue Bobby Bodhi Booker Boris  Boston Bowie Boyd Brad Bradford Bradley Bram  Bramwell Bran Brandon Brandt Braxton Braylen Brayden Brendon  Brent Brett Brian Briar Brick Bridge Bridger Brock Brody Brogan  Bronx Brook Brooks Bruce Bruno Brutus Bryce Bryson Buck Bud Buddha  Buddy Buck Burt Burton Buster Buzz Byron 

Cade  Caden Cain  Cairo Caius Calder  Caleb Callum Calvin Cam  Cameron Camillo Campbell Carl  Carlisle Carlito Carlo Carlos Carlton  Carmine Carson Carter Casper Caspian Cassian  Cassias Cato Cecil Cedar Cedric Cesar Chad Chadwick  Chance Charles Charlton Chase Chauncey Chester Chidi Chip  Christoff Christoph Christopher Christian Chuck Cian Cillian  Clarence Clark Claud Clay Clayton Cliff Clifford Clint Clinton  Clyde Coby Cody Colby Cole Collin Colt Colton Conan Connor Conrad  Constantine Cooper Copper Corbin Cornelius Cory Cosmo Cosmos Costas Craig Crispin Cruz Curt Curtis Cyrus

Dale  Dallas  Dalton Damien  Damon Dan Dane Daniel  Dante Darius Darrel Darren  Dash Dashiell Davey David Dawson  Dax Daxton Deacon Dean DeAndre Declan  Demetrius Denali Dennis Denny Denzel Derek  Derrick Des Desmond Dewey Dex Dexter Diego Diesel  Dion Dirk Dixon Dmitri Dominic Donatello Donovan Dorian  Doug Douglas Draco Drew Duke Duncan Dustin Dusty Dwayne Dwight  Dylan Dyson 

Earl  Easton  Edgar Edmund  Eduardo Edward Edwin  Egon Eli Elijah Elias  Elliott Ellis Elroy Elton  Emanuel Emeric Emerson Emery  Emil Emiliano Emmett Emrys Enrique  Enzo Eric Ernest Ernesto Ernie Esteban  Ethan Eugene Eustace Euvan Evan Evander Everett  Ezekiel Ezra 

Fabian  Fabio Falcon  Faustus Felix Ferdinand  Fergus Ferguson Fernando Fidel  Fido Finbar Findlay Finn Finnley  Fionn Fisher Fitz Fletcher Flint Florence  Florian Ford Forrest Fort Foster Fowler Fox  Francesco Francis Francisco Franco Frank Frankie  Franklin Fred Freddy Fredrick Frederico

Gabe  Gabriel  Gael Gage  Gale Galen Garfield Garrett Gaston Gatsby  Gavin Geoffrey Geordie George  Gerald Gerard Gideon Gil Gilbert  Gilberto Giovanni Glenn Gordon Gordy  Grady Graham Grant Gray Grayson Gregg  Gregory Grey Griffin Griffith Grover Gunner  Gunther Gus Gustavo Guy 

Hades  Hal Hamilton  Hank Hans Harley Harrison  Harry Hawk Hayden Hayes Heath Hector  Henrik Hendrix Henry Herb Herbert Herbie  Hercules Hermes Hershel Hiram Holden Howard  Howie Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hux Huxley 

Ian Igor Iker Irvin Isaac Isaiah Ivan 

Jace  Jack Jackson  Jacob Jaques Jaden  Jake Jalen Jamal James  Jameson Jared Jason Jax  Jay Jed Jedidiah Jefferson  Jeffrey Jeremiah Jeremy Jerome  Jerry Jesus Jethro Jett Jim Jimmy  Joe Joel Johan Johannes John Johnny Jonah  Jonas Jonathan Jones Jordan Jose Joseph Joshua  Josiah Juan Juanito Judah Judas Judd Jude Jules Julian  Julien Julio Julius Junior Jupiter Jurgen Justice Justin Justus 

Kaden  Kai Kaiser  Kale Kaleb Kane  Keane Keanu Keaton  Keegan Keenan Keith  Kellen Kenan Kendrick  Kenneth Kenzo Keoni Kevin Khalid  Kian Kieran Kiernan Kingsley Kingston Killian  Kip Kwan Kyle

Lachlan  Lake Lamar  Lance Lancelot  Landon Lane Larkin  Larry Lars Laurence Laurent  Lawrence Lawson Lazlo Legend Leif  Leith Leland Leo Leon Leonardo Leopold  Leroy Levi Liam Lincoln Linden Logan Loki  London Lonnie Lonny Lorcan Lorenzo Lou Louie  Louis Luc Luca Lucas Lucian Lucky Luke Lupe Luther

Maddox  Maksim Malachi  Malachy Malakai Malcolm  Malik Manfred Manny Marcel Marcello  Marcellus Marcio Marcius Marco Marcos  Marcus Marian Marino Mario Marius Mark  Marlin Marlon Marmaduke Marques Mars Marshall  Martin Marty Marvel Marvin Massimo Mason Matt Matteo  Matthew Maurice Maverick Max Maximilian Maximus Maxwell  Melvin Mercury Meredith Merritt Micah Michael Miguel Miles  Milo Mitchell Moe Monte Montgomery Murdoch Murphy Murray Murtagh  Murtaugh Myles

Nathan  Nathaniel  Ned Nelson  Nemo Neo Neon  Neptune Neville  Newt Newton Nick  Nicky Nicola Nicolai  Nicholas Niko Noah Noel Nolan  Norm Norman Novak 

Obadiah  Octavio Octavius  Odin Olaf Oleg Oliver  Olivier Omar Orion Orlando  Orville Osborn Oscar Oso Osvaldo  Oswald Ottis Otto Owen Oz Ozzy

Pablo  Palmer Panther  Parker Pascal Patrick Paul  Paxton Pedro Penn Percival Percy Perseus  Peter Peyton Phil Philip Phineas Phoenix Pier  Pierce Pierre Pilot Pluto Porter Poseidon Preston  Prince Prosper

Qadir  Quincy Quinn  Quinton 

Raiden  Ralph Ramone  Ramses Randall Randolph  Randy Raphael Ravi Ray Raymond Red  Reece Reggie Reginald Regis Reid Remington  Reuben Rex Reynald Reynaldo Reynard Rhett Rhys  Ricardo Richard Richie Richmond Rick Ricky Rico Ridge  Riley Rio Riordan River Robert Roberto Robbie Rocco Rocky  Rodney Rodrigo Roger Ricky Riley Rod Rodrick Roger Roland  Roman Romeo Ross Rowan Rudy Rufus Russell Ryder Ryker Rylan Ryland 

Salem  Salvador  Salvator Sam  Samir Sampson Samson  Samuel Sander Sandford Sanjay  Santiago Saul Sawyer Scott Sean Sebastian  Septimus Serge Sergio Seth Seus Seymour Shane  Shawn Shayne Sheldon Shepherd Sherlock Sherman Shin Sidney  Sigmund Silas Silver Silvester Simon Sinclair Sinjin Sirius  Slade Slate Sol Solomon Sonny Sparrow Spartacus Spencer Spike  Soren Stan Stanford Stanley Steele Stephen Steven Stevie Stone Sven Summit  Sullivan Sully Sylvester

Tad  Tag Talon  Tanner Tate  Ted Teddy Teo Teodor  Teodoro Terence Terrell  Terry Tex Thad Thaddeus Thane  Thatcher Theo Theoden Theodore Thomas  Thor Thorn Tiberius Tiger Tito Titus Timothy  Titus Tobias Toby Tommy Tony Topher Trace Travis  Trent Trenton Trev Trevor Trey Tristan Troy Truman Tucker  Tudor Tullio Tullius Tully Tycho Tyler Tyrell Tyrese Tyrone  Tyson

Uberto  Ulric Ulrich  Ulysses Uriah Urban Urijah  Uriel

Van  Vance  Vaugn Victor  Vince Vincenco Vincent  Vinny Virgil Vlad Vladimir 

Wade  Walden  Waldo Walker  Wallace Wally Walt  Walter Warner Warren  Watson Waylon Wayne Wendall  Wesley Westley Weston Wilbert  Wilbur Wilder Wiley Wilfred Will William  Winston Wolf Wolfe Wolfgang Woodrow Wyatt 

Xander  Xavier Xavion  Xenon

Yael  Yahir York Yosef  Yousef Yusef

Zac  Zach Zachariah  Zacharias Zachary Zack  Zander Zane Zayden Zeke  Zeus Ziggy Zion Zoltan