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qwordavoider · 17 days ago

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Parting Waves

A snippet of chapter two that I hope to post tomorrow. Plus a little sneak peek at two of my original characters! Chapter 1 is up on AO3.

“Hey, Tommy!” Evan almost yelled from halfway across the lot.

Tommy chuckled at his enthusiasm as they got started on the tour. He showed Evan all the normal station stuff before they made their way out to the helicopters. As they were touring, Tommy kept feeling like Evan was flirting with him but he couldn’t for the life of him tell if it was just his personality or if it was because he was interested in Tommy. Curious how he would interact with other people, he decided to introduce him to some of the other members of his crew. He saw Val and Rusty working on the equipment in their usual helicopter.

He called out to them as they headed that way. “Val, Rusty, there’s someone I want you to meet.”

They both looked up from where they were working. “This is Evan Buckley, he’s here for a tour. He’s actually a firefighter at my old station.”

“Hey, I’m Valeria Lopez, Val,” she said as she extended her hand to Evan.

“Buck, nice to meet you,” Evan said as he gripped her hand.

Huh, Tommy had been calling him Evan the entire time they had known each other. Should he not be doing that? He would have to remember to ask Evan about that later.

“I’m Richard Dawson, but everyone calls me Rusty.”

“Is there a story behind that name?” Evan inquired.

“If there is he won’t share it with anyone. Is there a story behind Buck?” Val asked.

“There were three Evans in my graduating class, so they shortened Buckley to Buck and the name stuck,” he replied with a shrug.

“Val and Rusty are the two helitac members on our team.” Tommy continued.

Buck perked up at that. “Really? So you guys are the ones repelling down for medivacs or the first ones flown in to scope out wildfires?”

“That and we help direct logistics for all flights in and out of the area during the wildfire response,” Val confirmed.

“That’s awesome. I got my combat helitac certification when I tried out for the SEALs. It was probably my favorite part of the whole experience.”

Tommy looked at Evan and raised his eyebrows. He tried out for the SEALS?

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bullet-prooflove · 28 days ago

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A Good Day: Sean Archer x Reader

Tagging: @kmc1989 @emilyjr @toasted-stiletto @icefrye19 @to-grow-in-and-to-love

Companion piece to:

Make A Wish - Sean is triggered on his birthday when he sees a familiar face in the paper.

When Sean woke up this morning he didn’t anticipate spending the night in the cells of the 21st precinct or that he’d be facing another stint in prison for punching the guy who’d fucked up his life.

It had been a good day he had thought, one of the best because he was waking up alongside you underneath the fleece blanket you’d brought him because the Chicago winters still kill him even after all these years. He’s been doing better since the relapse on his birthday, seeing a counsellor, talking to his sponsor. He getting well again, coming to terms with his shit.

It’s when he gets to work that everything changes. He’s introduced to the new youth coordinator Reg Richards and his whole world just falls apart because that man whose hand he’s shaking, he fucked Sean when he was just fourteen years old, he took his virginity, his dignity, he made him the screw up he is today.

He loses it after that. He doesn’t remember hitting Reg, only the hideous crunch erupting through the room as he breaks the bastard’s nose, the sound of his own voice bellowing as he calls him damn curse word under the sun.

He loses track of time after that because he dissociates. He withdraws back into himself, tucking himself into the furthest corner of his cell, his head resting on his knees because he keeps going back there to that night, the one where everything changed.

When Sergeant Platt asks if there’s anyone he wants to call he shakes his head vehemently because he already knows how disappointed his dad’s going to be and honestly this whole thing has proven you are much better off without him.

It's a couple of hours later that the door to his cell opens and he’s escorted upstairs to an empty interview room and left to sweat for a couple of minutes. He doesn’t expect Antonio Dawson to walk in, for him to sit down across the table from him. He knows the detective in passing through your fire station family. They’ve talked boxing a couple of times during the cookouts that Hermann occasionally hosts.

“I know what he did to you.” Antonio says finally into the silence between the two of them. “Platt knows your girl, she came in, told me what this was all about.”

Sean doesn’t speak, he can’t, it’s like the words lodge in his throat like lego bricks as his gaze flicker up to meet Antonio’s.

“Do you think he’s still doing it?” Antonio asks him and Sean flicks back to that split second during his arrest, Reg’s eyes lingering on another child as he sat on the steps of the rehab centre, clutching a bloody tissue to his nose.

“Yea.” He says, his voice coming out in a rasp.

“Alright.” Antonio says as he takes a piece of paper out of the back pocket out of his jeans and sets it down in front of Sean. It’s a CI agreement, one that explains the terms and the conditions of becoming a confidential informant. “If you wanna stay out of jail, I need you to sign this.”

“Why?” Sean asks his eyebrows furrowing in confusion and Antonio leans forward, his hands clasped together as he meets Sean’s gaze.

“Because you Sean, you’re going to help me catch him.”

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guardian-angle22 · 4 months ago

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I promised a book haul of all the exciting books I purchased on my travels to London and Edinburgh! y'all... I bought TEN books...

Here is the stack of books and also some cute bookmarks I got from various places!

Here is the breakdown of all the books with their official descriptions:

Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers’ market. Ash—precise, pretty, and practically perfect—sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she’s not the one doing the devouring…

Monsters: What Do We Do With Great Art By Bad People? by Claire Dederer

Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle and Ziggy Stardust. And what are we to do with that love? How are we, as fans, to reckon with the biographical choices of the artists whose work sustains us? Wildly smart and insightful, Monsters is an exhilarating attempt to understand our relationship with art and the artist in the twenty-first century.

Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A breakup that starts a spiral. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. Little Rot is a whirling journey through the city’s dark side, told through the eyes of five people, each determined to run from the twisted powers out to destroy them. Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, intersect with the three old friends as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt underworld, they’re all looking for a way out of the trouble they’ve instigated, driven by loss and fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them. They careen madly in the face of the poison of power, sexual violence, murder, betrayals. Little Rot tests how far these five will go to save each other—or themselves—when confronted by evil, culminating in a shattering denouement.

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.

Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Díaz and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and seven-year-old Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes her tenuous reality through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination. Meanwhile, Selena Durán, a young social worker, enlists the help of a successful lawyer in hopes of tracking down Anita’s mother.

Intertwining past and present, The Wind Knows My Name tells the tale of these two unforgettable characters, both in search of family and home. It is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers—and never stop dreaming.

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks

Stitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know. Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage's joys upon men and its silences on women. In a world where daughters and fathers are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about, hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude, the comfort to be had in the good company of books. Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary author's awareness that writing is her most vital breath.

A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman

Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing across a chain of lakes, sandwiches and beer in the cooler. But teenagers Amelia and James discover something below the water’s surface that changes their lives forever. It’s got two stories. It’s got a garden. And the front door is open. It’s a house at the bottom of a lake. For the teens, there is only one rule: no questions. And yet, how could a place so spectacular come with no price tag? While the duo plays house beneath the waves, one reality remains: Just because a house is empty, doesn’t mean nobody’s home.

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins. Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour. Pursued by demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning – something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it.

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

In 1949 Helene Hanff, a “poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books”, wrote to Marks & Co Booksellers of 84 Charing Cross Rd, in search of the rare editions she was unable to find in New York. Her books were dispatched with polite but brisk efficiency. But, seeking further treasures, Helene soon found herself in regular correspondence with bookseller Frank Doel, laying siege to his English reserve with her warmth and wit. And as letters, books and quips crossed the ocean, a friendship flourished that would endure for twenty years.

Rouge by Mona Awad

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

#books #book haul #guardian reads (sometimes)#when you have so many books you gotta use a cut to save the timeline #I’m very excited to read these!!#I’ve been reading a TON this month!

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janes-eyebrows · 15 days ago

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Hello,

this post is not like my usual on this blog, but I feel it is important to share. As an American living in the U.S, I have high concern and fear of the next four years for a number of reasons. One of those concerns is the banning of books. My middle & high school years took place between 2011-2017, and A LOT of books I had to read back then are no longer teachable/available in public school libraries, bookstores, etc. This should not be happening as the banning of books if a form of censorship. Those who are at the forefront of banning these books do it under the guise of protecting the younger generation, but let's be real, they do it because they do not like the material/themes in the books.

Reading is political, the consumption and critical analyzation of literature is political. Censoring books is a form of control. Read banned books!!

Below the cut I've listed banned books everyone should read. Several of these have been banned for decades, and some over the last few years. You'll probably recognize a lot of them and might even be shocked at some. I'll also list books/series that focus on dystopian/totalitarian governments that you should read as how the governments in these books reflect issues present today or were inspired by real events, as well as book recs involving themes of sexuality, race, gender, etc.

Also be sure to check out Banned & Challenged Books | Banned Books from the American Library Association

Banned/Challenged Books In America

(remember to check content warnings before reading)

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Animal Farm by George Orwell 1984 by George Orwell I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Beloved by Toni Morrison The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wells The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The Giver by Lois Lowery Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Girl, Interrupted by Susana Kaysen The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer Looking for Alaska by John Green My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertelli

Books recs about a corrupt/totalitarian governments & dystopian/Sci-fi/fantasy

(remember to check content warnings)

Legend Series by Marie Lu (my absolute fav series ever) Skyhunter series by Marie Lu Warcross Series by Marie Lu (banned in Florida) The Young Elites Series by Marie Lu (banned in Florida) Girls of Paper and Fire Series by Natasha Ngan Renegades by Marissa Meyer The Gilded Ones Series by Namina Forna (banned in Florida) Arc of Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman Unwind Series by Neal Shusterman Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Fledging by Octavia E. Butler Severance by Ling Ma Dune by Frank Herbert

Book recs that are LGBTQIA+, Race, Gender, and themes the government is trying to/might ban/challenge

(check content warnings before reading)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (banned in Florida) In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens These Dead Prophecies by Andrea Tang Match to Love by Johana Gavez Score to Love by Johana Gavez A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (Banned in Florida) The World's Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (banned in Florida)

Feel free to add your recs or any banned books I may have missed!! Spread the word!!

#banned books #read banned books #challenged books #books and reading #book recs

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peter-newkirks-smolder · 15 days ago

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50 posts!

Well, I’ll be damned

Never got this far on any other tumblr

-Richard, the moron who owns this account

#50 posts #tumblr milestone #ooc #gay rambling #i love richard dawson

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peter-newkirks-smolder · 5 days ago

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Behold! My buddy got another Dawson Boi

im threatened with another one.

he existed for precisely 1 min. 15 sec. 71 millisec.

god help me.

#f/o community #selfship community #rodguh #richard dawson #i love richard dawson #rowan and martin #laugh in #ooc #gay rambling

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viir-tanadhal · 8 months ago

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Pet Shop Boys' song picks for various radio interviews for Nonetheless

BBC Radio 2 with Jo Whiley (April 25, 2024)

Chris

Black Beauty theme (childhood song)

Bedsitter by Soft Cell

Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now by McFadden & Whitehead (death song)

Neil

The Young Ones by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (childhood song)

Bedsitter by Soft Cell

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams (death song)

BBC Radio 6 with Lauren Laverne (April 26, 2024)

Chris

Was That All It Was by Jean Carn

This Time Baby by Jackie Moore

Native New Yorker by Odyssey

Last Night A DJ Saved My Life by InDeep

Neil

Borderline by Madonna

I Want You by Marvin Gaye

Born Slippy by Underworld

Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

Greatest Hits Radio with Jackie Brambles (April 28, 2024)

Chris

Baby Love by The Supremes

For Once in My Life by Glen Campbell

Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap!

Neil

Girl Don't Come by Sandie Shaw

Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin

Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack

BBC Radio 3 with Jess Gillam (June 8, 2024)

Neil

Ich Habe Genung (Cantata No 82) by J.S. Bach

Générique by Miles Davis

Symphonia Virginum: O Dulcissime Amator by Hildegard von Bingen

September Song by Kurt Weill; sung by Lotte Lenya

Tracks of My Years with Vernon Kay (June 9, 2024)

Chris

Stop! In the Name of Love by The Supremes

Fame by Irene Cara

Never Give You Up by Sharon Redd

Let Me Love You For Tonight by Kariya

A Love So Beautiful by Roy Orbison

Neil

I Am The Walrus by The Beatles

Papa Was A Rollin' Stone by The Temptations

Do Anything You Wanna Do by Eddie and the Hot Rods

This Is Not America by David Bowie

Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack

Artists in Residence - Queer (Nov. 11, 2024)

Homosexuality by Modern Rocketry

Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat

Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed

I Was Born This Way by Carl Bean

Dizzy by Olly Alexander

Shoot Your Shot by Divine

Menergy by Patrick Cowley

Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen

Never Give You Up by Sharon Redd

Hideous by Oliver Sim (ft. Jimmy Somerville)

In the Evening by Sheryl Lee Ralph

If Love Were All by Judy Garland

Artists in Residence - Producers (Nov. 12, 2024)

I'm So Hot For You by Bobby O

Hey DJ by Worlds Famous Supreme Team (Stephen Hague)

Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones (Trevor Horn)

I Like You (Shep Pettibone Mix) by Phyllis Nelson (Shep Pettibone)

Point of No Return by Exposé (Lewis Martineé)

Axel F by Harold Faltermeyer

Hold That Sucker Down - Builds Like a Skyscraper Mix by OT Quartet (Rollo)

Balcony Scene from Romeo + Juliet by Craig Armstrong

So Hard - D Morales Red Zone Mix by Pet Shop Boys (David Morales)

The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud (Xenomania)

Say You Will by Kanye West (Andrew Dawson)

It's Automatic by Zoot Woman (Stuart Price)

The Meeting Place by The Last Shadow Puppets (James Ford)

Artists in Residence - Miserablism (Nov. 13, 2024)

Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You by Stevie Nicks

One Day I'll Fly Away by Randy Crawford

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths

Baltimore by Nina Simone

Alfie by Cilla Black

Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime by The Korgis

Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor

Parlez-moi de Lui by Françoise Hardy

By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Glen Campbell

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) by Marvin Gaye

I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore by Dusty Springfield

I'm Not In Love by 10cc

Let's Stay Together by Tina Turner

I Can't Give Everything Away by David Bowie

Artists in Residence - Remixes (Nov. 14, 2024)

Girls & Boys (Pet Shop Boys Remix) by Blur

Young Offender - Jam and Spoon Trip-O-Matic Fairytale Mix by Pet Shop Boys

Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix) by David Bowie

Flamboyant (Michael Mayer Kompakt Mix) by Pet Shop Boys

Insanely Alive (Pet Shop Boys Radio Edit) by Wolfgang Tillmans

Miserablism (Moby Electro Mix) by Pet Shop Boys

Queen of Ice (Pet Shop Boys 7" Mix) by Claptone

I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Anymore (Peter Rauhoffer's Roxy Anthem Mix) by Pet Shop Boys

Think Of A Number (Pet Shop Boys Magic Eye 12" Remix) by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Can You Forgive Her? (M.K. Remix) by Pet Shop Boys

Love Comes Quickly (Shep Pettibone Mastermix) by Pet Shop Boys

Dancing Star (Solomun Remix) by Pet Shop Boys

A Red Letter Day (Trouser Enthusiasts Autoerotic Decapitation Mix) by Pet Shop Boys

#pet shop boys #psb #ive been meaning to do this but then new interviews kept popping up 😭#anyway proof chris is also a romantic skjddk

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