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Characters: Arthur Griffin, Lucy Stone, Camille Roberts, Jo Taylor, Kendall Knight, James Diamond, Logan Mitchell, Carlos Garcia, Veronica Clark oc, TJ Miller oc, Callie Anderson oc, Addison Tate oc
Pairings: Kendall Knight/Female Original Character, Jo Taylor/Male Original Character, Female Original Character/Female Original Character, Kendall Knight & James Diamond & Logan Mitchell & Carlos Garcia
A/N: the Halloweentown franchise has a sincere place in my heart, and I will always watch the movies every October. But I'm not a big fan of Return to Halloweentown. This is heavily inspired by Halloweentown High, mainly just how the teens wear human suits.
"These are the people you call your friends! They're freaks! Monsters!" Arthur snickered and gestured to the students standing between him and the angry mob of mortals.
James caught Lucy when she fell. The warlock had taken her and her brother's magic per their agreement about a week ago.
"How could you do this? We trusted you!"
Arthur Griffin was the CEO of RCM-CBT and a council member for Halloweentown. And unfortunately, he could keep his fellow council members in his pocket. Reinforcing the idea that mortals were afraid of monsters. That mortals hated them. He wasn't keen on letting children from Halloweentown attend a mortal high school but allowed Lucy and the Stone family to at least try.
But all he wanted was their magic, and she gave him an easy way.
The angry mob formed after the Halloween festival's calamity was confused and shocked. The people they had known and befriended were apparently creatures from another dimension. They stood at a standstill.
"Yeah, that's right. We're monsters." TJ unzipped his human suit and shook like a dog. His dark fur puffed up, and he kicked the suit to the side.
His eyes scanned for Jo in the crowd. She was wearing a fairy costume. The blonde girl stared at him as though enraptured by the sight before her. Although he was covered in fur from head to toe, he was the same person she ate lunch with. He was the same guy who helped her with her French classes.
A weight was lifted off his shoulders when she didn't scream or run for the hills.
"Finally! We don't have to hide!" Carlos cheered as he shook off his human suit.
The girl in the leather catsuit that he brought on a date shrieked when he pulled the bolts out of his neck and removed his head. She actually fainted. Carlos popped his head back on and accidentally switched the bolts in his neck, causing a jolt of electricity to zap Griffin.
Kendall looked to Ronnie, who ducked behind James. She felt guilty for lying to him, but she didn't want him to view her any differently just because she was a monster.
"Now, this door shouldn't have been opened in the first place," Arthur grimaced as he stepped back into the glowing orange doorway. The gateway between our worlds will be permanently closed... forever."
"What? But we have to go home to see our families!" Ben, with the help of their principal, stood up.
"I'm sorry, that's not under my jurisdiction." Arthur faked a pout. White limestone bricks filled the doorway, and soon it was sealed.
"No!" Carlos slammed his fists against the wall. "I wanted to show my dad our haunted house!" he screamed, banging his fists against the limestone. His bolts zapped bright, hot electricity in his hair, making the short strands stand on end.
"No. No! This isn't fair! I did what they wanted!" Lucy snapped, and she joined Carlos, slamming his fists against the brick wall. "You tricked me! You tricked my brother! Give me my magic back!"
The angry mortal mob fell silent. There was nothing else for them to rage about. Instead, they were looking at monsters who were like them. Teenagers who needed their families and who wanted to forge their own identities.
Ronnie squeaked when James gently pushed her toward Kendall. He flashed a toothy smile and waggled his eyebrows. The words were caught in her throat as she looked up at him. Her face bloomed a reddish color, and she wrung her hands together.
"I haven't... Exactly been honest with you..." She mumbled and grabbed the zipper of her human suit.
Kendall stared at her wordlessly. He had no idea what she would look like when she tugged it off, but he had always been curious about how clumsy she was. Sometimes, it was as if she had never walked on two legs. Her heart thrummed in her ears, and she seemingly forgot that she didn't have human legs, unlike how mermaids could change between aquatic and land.
Kendall caught her before she fell, and Ronnie squeaked, hiding her face in her hands. Her webbed ears flapped frantically. He was entranced with the scales that littered her body. It was like he was looking at the moon.
"Well, I mean, if everyone is taking off these damned things." Callie shrugged and took off her human suit as well. Her translucent body wavering in the air, glitching like static on a television screen.
"No way." Addison gasped. Her eyes were wide like saucers.
"Sorry, sweetheart. There isn't anything tangible to hold onto..."
"This is so cool!" Addison squealed in glee.
"I'm a ghost. You can't touch me."
"You're still beautiful," Addison giggled, making the ghost girl blush, her body taking on a pink color. "Woah..." Addison took a step back.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jo gently touched TJ's arm, and he jumped and whirled around to face her.
"I'm sorry, I was scared. I couldn't- I thought you wouldn't like me... If I was covered in fur."
"Are you crazy?" Jo quirked a brow. "I could hardly care about your fur." She shook her head with a laugh. "All that means is I have a personal heater."
TJ's tail started wagging, giving him away. He let out a pitiful whine and scooped her up into a hug.
"See?" Lucy called to the brick wall. "Mortals have changed!" She kicked the wall and instantly regretted it, hopping in place as she held her foot.
"Stupid chairman..."
"You were right, Ben. This ring never fit me." Their principal threw away his ring, and it clattered to the ground like tin. He was renouncing the Knights of the Iron Dagger once and for all.
Ben's eyes sparkled. And hope swelled in his chest.
Even if the gateway was closed indefinitely, that didn't mean the people here hated them. Of course, it was all Griffin's plan. He was a brilliant mastermind but would never have a chance against Lucy and her brother.
Then the bricks illuminated with an orange glow, and Carlos pulled Lucy back.
Maybe Griffin didn't win after all.
#big time rush#btr#btrtv#kendall knight#james diamond#carlos garcia#logan mitchell#arthur griffin#gustavo rocque#kelly wainwright#jo taylor#lucy stone#btr oc#btrtv oc#veronica clark#tyler-joseph miller#callie anderson#addison tate#ronnie clark#halloweentown high inspired#drabble#a dash of angst#idk why but writing on tumblr makes me write smaller#kendall and jo are humans because why not#i gave lucy's older brother a random name cause he doesn't have one
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heyyy. i'm frank longbottom, im 18, and a seventh-year gryffindor (go lions 🦁). i'm a pureblood and obsessed with photography and music. he/him. honestly at this point kiss a frog who cares.
feel free to msg me for anything :)
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hi <3 hijacking the girl time rush au of @selangkir 's once more to help me (hopefully...) clear up my ever-growing writer's block. please enjoy :)
this is 'i got it bad' based on the title of the addison rae song of the same name though i did change a few of the lyrics to fit better! hehe
Goddamn it. I’m writing songs about her again…
The conference room of Rocque Records was the ideal place to write songs, James had discovered. If he were in the lounge or studio, the girls would always come out and bug him, if he stepped into the breakroom, the pool table Griffin installed distracted him too much, and if he dared to use Gustavo’s office, his mind was filled with visions of the night Roxy and Dak broke up.
The way that sleaze yelled at her and called her easy, the way her brilliant green eyes filled with tears she rapidly blinked away, maintaining a straight face even in the face of that monster.
But the conference room? Everyone hated meetings, so everyone stayed away, leaving it the perfect space for quiet reflection and alone time. It was even a stone's throw from the studio, so if he needed to step out and test a melody, his guitar or the grand piano were just across the hall. Though, the last time he’d played a song during working hours, Griffin had sunk his teeth into “Espresso” faster than James could even utter the word.
Looking down at the beautiful script he’d penned his newest lyric ideas in, he drew one hand down his face, pulling his cheeks as he glanced up toward the white popcorn ceiling. He was astronomically fucked. And down bad. But mostly fucked.
In the few short months since Roxy had become single, he’d tried a handful of times to ask her out, casually, just to test the waters. Coffee here, a trip to the mall there, just to make sure there actually was chemistry between them, and he hadn’t just imagined it after their dual writing session on the night of the dance.
Gustavo and Kelly always kept her, Carlota, Logan, and Kendall so busy that Roxy always had to decline.
And, there was that one time at the pool he’d finally worked up the courage to ditch the date idea and just tell her how he felt, before she accidentally cut him off, rolling into her side with a sigh and resting her cheek in her hands.
He remembered every word she’d said, locking eyes with him.
“Why am I always waiting on someone to ask me out… All it’s led to is heartbreak so far. Maybe next time, I need to make the first move.”
If Kendall were there, she would have cheered at Roxy’s statement, praising her for finally coming around to her similar point of view. She’d even boast about Jo if she could, as she did in nearly every breath since the two became official.
James had written the first line in this new song less than 30 seconds later, realizing that probably wasn’t the appropriate time to say something to her.
Now, it seemed to taunt him as he ran his finger over the purple ink one too many times.
You looked right into my eyes and it was over
It was a little rude to think that Dak and the chick from her first band had messed with her head so badly she was afraid to open her eyes and receive his love, but he’d filed her comment away as evidence of that in his mind. Since then, he’d toned down the flirting. Slightly.
“Yeah?” He’d replied, caught completely off guard by her bold statement, after shutting his book. “I like to make the first move, too, and it’s worked out perfectly so far.”
Replaying the memory in his head made him want to travel back in time and kick his own ass. Any number of things would have been better to say instead of that - telling her he was into her topping that list -but he’d chickened out, too stunned at his stupid mouth for running like that without his permission.
It always seemed to do that when he was around her.
The next line summed up their current relationship since then quite well.
I know I should walk away, but I ran closer,
‘Cause I don’t want something right down the middle
James was constantly jumping the gun when it came to relationships, Dak Zevon: Case and point. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t aware of how that usually worked out for him. In Minnesota, he’d have dates every other week, leading to good times and fast expiration dates; Since arriving in Hollywood, he’d similarly sustained nothing meaningful. He’d never been a “something built to last” kind of guy, but in the last few months, he’d wake up thinking about Roxy in the morning and go to bed dreaming about her in the night.
If that meant he’d need to wait for her to realize he was the guy of her dreams, that was just how it would have to be - Which led James to realize the first line in his killer chorus: Damn, I’ve got it bad.
At the very least, after the “Espresso” incident, he’d learned to pad his songs with filler lines much better. While the song, to him, was very obviously about his poorly disguised crush, James did better at making the lines just vague enough that they could apply to anything.
He’d even rehearsed his lies, just in case she’d ask him who it was about like she had when they’d talked about the last single during Roxy’s emergency dance practice.
Everything was perfect this time around.
“An old partner,” Rolled off the tongue easily.
Just like, “Something I saw on TV the other day.”
Or, “Logan and Camille.”
As long as he could utter out anything besides, “Who else could I have it bad for, Roxanne? You. They’re all about you,” James would be just fine.
Dropping his pen on the table with a huff, he ran a worried hand through his hair. If he kept this bottled up much longer, his perfect, natural brunette color might quickly turn grey.
Dyeing my hair every four weeks would only cause more damage than it’d be worth-
The handle on the door to the conference room rattled, pulling James from his thoughts as he jumped in the plush chair before turning toward the sound.
Barreling in came Roxy, using her elbow to push the handle down with two large drinks from the coffee shop around the corner clutched in her hands. Her eyes frantically swept the room, until they landed on James at the end of the large conference table, and the biggest grin he’d ever seen lit up her face.
“There you are!” A slight huff in her speech, like she was out of breath, caught him off guard almost as much as the fact that she had been searching for him. “This room is, like, the only place I hadn’t searched yet.”
As she padded over to him, careful to keep the drinks steady in her hands, James didn’t know where to look first; His eyes drew in about four different directions every time she entered a room, from her beautiful features to her thrifted clothing, but most often, off to the side so she wouldn’t catch him staring.
Today though, he noticed the small, gray dots on her white Buzzcocks t-shirt and the slight curl in her long locks - The same way her hair started to dry after an afternoon of being in the pool.
Painstakingly, he was able to tear his gaze away from her to glance out at the large floor-to-ceiling windows behind him.
What had been a sunny, blue Los Angeles sky that morning had turned into a miserable mess of puffy gray storm clouds rolling in from the East. Fat drops of water lazily fell from above, many landing on the large panes of glass and streaking down, down, down to the sidewalk below.
James’ chest tightened as he turned back to her.
“It’s raining,” He expertly stated as she set the cup in her right hand beside the pages he’d been writing on, even though he had wanted to say something along the lines of “You ran all the way to the coffee shop for me? In this weather?”
That would have been much cooler; The suave line he’d be able to land on any other girl… He just couldn’t seem to think straight whenever Roxy was around.
Wheels squeaking as she pulled the chair beside him, the singer fell into the seat with a huff, pushing some damp hair out of her eyes. They flickered to his songbook for a moment before immediately tearing away, gaze now boring a hole into the side of his cup.
From the sharpie scribbled onto the cup, it looked like she’d gotten his go-to, a skinny vanilla latte with nonfat milk and sugar-free vanilla syrup, and he tried to wrack his brain to remember when the last time they’d been to a coffee shop together had been.
In the Duluth airport… The day we flew out to Los Angeles?
James couldn’t dwell on it for long, not when he noticed the barista had written something extra on the cup underneath the drink instructions.
Ur cute, call me? :)
Seeing the hastily written phone number beneath almost made the cheap plastic of the cup crumple in his grasp as he reached out to take a sip.
“That it is,” Roxy casually replied, waving a hand up and down gesturing to her wet clothing. “Mr. X called Gustavo and said we were ‘x-ceptionally’ stupid if we thought he’d be driving to work in this weather so he canceled our dance practice.”
Nodding along with her words, James found himself already chewing on the orange and purple plastic straw to calm his rapid breathing. When she swiveled back and forth in the chair like that, their knees would brush every so often.
If she noticed, she didn’t mention it as she continued, “Kelly said she wanted to tell you earlier, but you were working so hard on the song she didn’t want to disturb you. Plus, I figured you were super craving something from Drinkin’ since you kept asking if I wanted to go sometime.”
Roxy toyed with the cup in her hands, spinning it a few times before gesturing to his drink and adding, “Just think of it as an apology and a thank you.”
James blinked. “For what?”
To his credit that was much better than asking “What could an angel among men like you have to apologize for?” but the thought certainly crossed his mind.
“An apology for all those times I blew you off because of work,” Roxy confessed, resting her cheeks in her hands. James might have been crazy but he was pretty sure he wasn’t imagining the splotches of pink forming in the gaps of her fingertips. “And a thank you for keeping me employed.”
When she winked, he was pretty sure his heart stopped.
Their unsure eyes locked for a few seconds too long, leaving both of them to quickly look in opposite directions. Roxy crossed her legs and cleared her throat, while James picked up his pen, pretending to bury his nose in his book.
Though the alarm bells started going off in his brain the moment the thought “show her what you’re working on” crossed his mind, James’ soul momentarily left his body, as he heard himself say, “Well, if that’s the case, what do you think of this one?”
An outside force controlled his hands, pushing the book in front of her and pushing him to lean back in his chair as she read over the notes he had for the concept of the song and lyrics. Every second she took to internalize what he’d written felt like an eternity, though he was able to take the time to selfishly take in the perfect silhouette of her face as she bent down over the page.
At one point, she’d brought her finger to the music staff he’d written, tracing her fingers over the notes he’d written down, humming the lyrics to the tune he’d created, and James briefly considered never, ever showing the song to anyone else. Letting that clip live in his memory and his memory alone was growing far too enticing…
“Are you open to collaborating?” She asked, breaking their no-talking streak and bringing the boy out of his head, and back to the present. “I’ve got a few lines I think fit nicely in the second verse.”
Before he’d even finished nodding, she reached his way to grab the pen he’d been death-gripping. James' skin burned from where their fingers brushed before slowly freezing as she quickly pulled her hand away.
As the ball-point hit the paper, she slowly spoke as she wrote out each word, “He looks like the boy-next-door from my boyband poster, but he drives like a maniac in his old-school roadster…”
The keys to the Pontiac GTO had never weighed more than in that moment, settling in his front pocket.
“Oh! And um, I was thinking” She gasped, using her free hand to grip the armrest of his chair and pull him in closer so they could both see the page. “This verse… could go… here instead!”
The way their thighs connected left a shockwave startling up his spine. A move so casual and effortless left him trying to mask how he was gasping for air, only to inhale such a strong whiff of her floral perfume he was sure he’d start growing roses from his lungs any moment now.
Something was happening; James was sure of it. The drink had been one thing, but the lyrics she’d come up with for the song were something entirely different. Was it so far out of line to think he belonged on a boyband poster hanging up on her wall? And he did drive like a maniac - Something she’d told him over and over again as he drove her and the rest of the girls through the tangled Los Angeles streets. Then she’d pulled him closer, her touch straight-up electrifying!
And her hand was shaking - shaking - before she put the pen back to the page, a slight tremor in her voice as her voice dropped to a whisper. “He’s what I want, I could just cry… He’s what I want, give me a sign…”
It was impossible to miss the way she sucked in a large breath of air through her nose, holding it in her expanded chest and her eyes squeezed shut before she let it out through her mouth.
The same breathing technique she’d use to calm her nerves before hitting the stage.
Like he’d stared into the sun for too long, James’ eyes darted back to his cup, the image of Roxy burned into his retinas as he blinked and tried to calm his own breathing. The stupid note below his thumb was doing nothing to help sort out the mess of his mind until he felt the words falling from his lips.
“You’re not going to call that barista, are you, Roxy?”
As she shook her head, James wondered how long it would take an EMT to reach the top floor of Rocque Records, should he fall into cardiac arrest in the next few seconds.
“No.”
The soft patter of rain hitting the window filled the room, along with the sound of his heart pounding in his ears. “Why not?”
Her words nearly caught in her throat. “Don’t make me say it.”
Not even a second later, Roxy’s cheeks were in his hands and James was dragging her lips toward his.
Tentative and hasty were two words he would have never thought went together, but that was before he felt Roxy’s fingers tangle into his hair, nails raking against his scalp as she tried to pull him even closer than he already was, kissing him back with just as much fervor.
Oh, James, what have you gotten yourself into? He thought, eliciting a satisfied sigh from the singer, one that vibrated through his own body. The flesh on his arms raised, sending a wave of goosebumps prickling down his skin.
They’d only broken apart to catch another breath before diving back for more before the songwriter felt the massive grin spreading across Roxy’s face beneath his palms.
Shifting one hand to the back of her neck, he used the other to push a few stray strands of hair out of her face and pretended the slight way in which she was panting didn’t rile him up in the slightest.
“What’s that for?” He asked, not bothering to wait for an answer before he brought his mouth to the corner of hers, kissing one side before moving to the other.
But she wasn’t satisfied with that alone, managing to graze his skin again, trailing a path of kisses all across his cheeks until she brought her lips to his ear, sharing, “I’m so glad practice was canceled today.”
Warmth bloomed in his chest, quietly telling him that the expression on his face was likely mirroring her own. If they were both free for the rest of the day, nothing was stopping him from taking her on a date - a proper date - that evening, but for now, all he wanted was to stay tucked away in the conference room together before getting to share Roxy with the rest of the world.
It was easy to stand, pulling Roxy out of her seat before effortlessly lifting her onto the large, long conference table. The squeal she let out from that action alone was music to his ears.
Last-minute plans be damned; They were spending the entire rest of the afternoon in the conference room if he had anything to say about it.
“Me too, songbird,” He told her in between a few more kisses, only to make her giggles grow even louder. “Me too.”
#mhm... yeah... i'm gonnga write rames falling in love a million different ways okay?... okay!#thats all she wrote fic#girl time rush au
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I just wanted, if possible, to hear your thoughts on my DREAM absolute worst Dune fancast
Paul - Noah Centineo
Chani - Camila Morrone
Leto and Jessica - Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (their acting is the same as in Gigli)
Alia - Joey King
Baron - James Corden
Rabban - Ryan Gosling (same acting as in Barbie)
Feyd Rautha - Harry Styles (wearing this outfit: https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/leute/grammys-2023--die-outfits-von-harry-styles-und-co--auf-dem-roten-teppich-33169854.html )
Piter - Owen Wilson (hw says "wow" every 10 seconds of his 5 minute screentime)
Irulan - Sabrina Carpenter
Shaddam - Nicolas Cage (makeup and outfit from Reinfield)
Gurney - Sylvester Stalone
Thufir Hawatt - Russel Crowe
Duncan Idaho - Dwayne Johnson
Dr Yueh - Ke Huy Quan (I love him sm, but the thought of him being decapitated by James Corden is sending me)
Stilgar Kynes - Pedro Pascal
Liet Kynes - Gal Gadot
Shadout Mapes - Emma Stone in Poor Things
Jamis - Joseph Quinn (with Stranger Things wig)
Hasimir Fenring - Leonardo Di Caprio (same hairstyle as in the beginning of KotFM)
Margot Fenring - Addison Raye (she's 23)
Gaius Helen Mohiam - Jennifer Coolidge
me just going thru the list nodding in approval but then u hitting me with jennifer coolidge as the reverend mother gaius helen mohiam. truly inspired. phenomenal even. remember when they used to make those low budget parody movies of blockbusters? scary movie esque dune parody with this exact cast but especially jennifer coolidge.
noah!paul: haha omg what's in that box..... omg and then what 😆😝😜
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jennifer!mohiam: PAIN
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#thank u for including costume choices and lil directorial notes. really brings this thing alive <3#dune#dunetwo#asks#also can i just say. i deeply dislike joey king. badly her face makes me angry in the same way nicholas galitzines does
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Pack your bags, Famers! Our annual winter trip is taking place in Ireland! On February 17th, all celebrities will be arriving at the Adare Manor to kick off our trip! Named the #1 resort in Europe in 2023, Adare Manor sits on 840 acres of pristine parkland.
"It’s prestige without pretense and magic without nonsense. Above all, it is the sense of belonging. You are known. You are family. You are home."
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Addison Timlin & Sabrina Carpenter
Akanishi Jin & Lee Sunmi
America Ferrera & Ben Feldman
Andrew Garfield & Elizabeth Lail
Angourie Rice & Chris Evans
Anne Hathaway & Jenna Coleman
Ariana DeBose & Mason Mount
Ashton Irwin & Ariana Grande
Awsten Knight & Miley Cyrus
Bae Joohyun (Irene) & Dove Cameron
Barbara Palvin & Maxence Danet-Fauve
Beyonce Knowles & Chloe Bailey
Brie Larson & Brittany Baker
Callum Turner & Chace Crawford
Camila Morrone & Jessica Chastain
Cari Fletcher & Victoria de Angelis
Carrie Underwood & Gigi Hadid
Cate Blanchett & Ellie Bamber
Cha Eunwoo & Glen Powell
Choi Minho & Kim Ahyoung (Yura)
Choi San & Danielle Campbell
Choi Soobin & Rylee Arnold
Cody Christian & Lucy Hale
Colby Lopez (Seth Rollins) & Rebecca Quin (Becky Lynch)
Danny Amendola & Olivia Culpo
Demi Bennett (Rhea Ripley) & Ashley Fliehr (Charlotte Flair)
Dua Lipa & Joseph Quinn
Emma Stone & Chris Daughtry
Ethan Torchio & Damiano David
Florence Pugh & Cillian Murphy
Gareth Southgate & Byun Baekhyun
Harry Kane & Charlie Hunnam
Harry Styles & Mazz Murray
Hayley Williams & Luke Hemmings
Hwang Hyunjin & Bang Chan
Jackson Wang & Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul (Ten)
Jamie Campbell Bower & Jonathan Good (Jon Moxley)
Jenna Ortega & Halle Bailey
Joey King & Nick Robinson
Josephine Skriver & Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Jung Yoonoh (Jaehyun) & Lee Taeyong
Kang Seulgi & Jung Wooyoung
Kelsea Ballerini & Joe Keery
Kendall Jenner & Liam Hemsworth
Kim Hongjoong & Diamanté Quiava Valentin Harper (Saweetie)
Kim Jisoo & Christian Yu
Kim Mingyu & Sana Minatozaki
Kit Connor & Gong Jichul (Gong Yoo)
Kylie Jenner & Christina Aguilera
Lauren Jauregui & Bill Skarsgard
Leati Joseph Anoa'i (Roman Reigns) & Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Lee Felix & Dakota Johnson
Lee Jeno & Na Jaemin
Lee Taemin & Kim Jongin
Leigh-Anne Pinnock & Alycia Debnam-Carey
Lily James & David Tennant
Logan Lerman & Jeon Jungkook
Louis Tomlinson & Phoebe Bridgers
Lucas Wong & Kim Jungwoo
Lupita Nyong'o & Tessa Thompson
Billie Eilish & Ryan Gosling
Madelyn Cline & Chase Stokes
Maika Monroe & Dylan O'Brien
Mark Lee & Lee Donghyuck (Haechan)
Min Yoongi & Kim Namjoon
Niall Horan & Matt Smith
Nicholas Galitzine & Taylor Zakhar Perez
Nick Jonas & Selena Gomez
Nina Dobrev & Sofia Carson
Pamela Martinez (Bayley) & Mercedes Justine Varnado (Sasha Banks)
Park Seonghwa & Lewis Pullman
Pete Davidson & Naomi Scott
Renee Paquette (Renee Young) & Taylor Swift
Renee Rapp & Olivia Cooke
Ross Lynch & Anya Taylor-Joy
Sam Claflin & Riley Keough
Samantha Gibb & Sydney Sweeney
Saoirse Ronan & Jack Lowden
Sarah Paulson & Jessica Lange
Sebastian Stan & Margot Robbie
Tom Hardy & Elizabeth Olsen
Tom Holland & Natalia Dyer
Tony Goldwyn & Megan Jovon Ruth Pete (Megan Thee Stallion)
Travis Kelce & Romee Strijd
Troian Bellisario & Joshua Hong
Vanessa Hudgens & Matthew Macfadyen
Wong Kunhang (Hendery) & Jensen Ackles
Xiao Dejun (Xiaojun) & Yoo Jimin (Karina)
Xu Minghao & Noah Beck
Yoo Bora & Joe Burrow
Yoo Siah (Yooa) & Kim Minjeong (Winter)
Zac Efron & Sophie Turner
Zendaya Coleman & Paul Mescal
Zoey Deutch & Dacre Montgomery
Zoë Kravitz & Lili Reinhart
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2024 Reads
Another human invented marker of time has passed moving us from one year to the next. It's a good reason to start over my lists right?! XD 2023's list can be found here! 2024 starts below!
You Made a Fool out of Death with Your Beauty - Awaeke Emezi
Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide^ - Zoe Mendelson & Maria Conejo
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson
Meru - S.B. Divya
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South^ by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom^ - Adeline Yen Mah
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg^ - Helen Rappaport]
Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen
Fresh Girl - Jaida Placide
Butts: A Backstory^ - Heather Radke
The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex^ - Nathaniel Philbrick
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico^ - Amy S. Greenberg
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible^ - Charles E. Cobb Jr.
This Is Your Mind on Plants^ - Michael Pollan
The Silent Patient*~ - Alex Michaelides
Finding Me^ - Viola Davis
Wuthering Heights# - Emily Bronte
Exit Strategy~ - Martha Wells
The Girls Who Went Away:^ The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade - Ann Fessler
Bowling Alone:^ The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam
Fugitive Telemetry%~ - Martha Wells
The History of Wales^*% - History Nerds
The War on Everyone^% ~- Robert Evans
Searching for Black Confederates:^ The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth - Kevin M. Levin
The Great Influenza:* The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry
Network Effect~ - Martha Wells
Zelda Popkin:^ The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer - Jeremy D Popkin
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
Medical Apartheid:^ The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present - Harriet A Washington
The Assassination of Fred Hampton:^ How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther - Jeffrey Haas
The Death of Vivek Oji - Awaeke Emezi
Mutual Aid:^% Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) - Dean Spade
Passin' Through - Luis L'Amour
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Histories of the Transgender Child^ - Jules Gill-Peterson
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curiosu Man^ - Mark Kurlansky
When I Fell from the Sky:^ The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival - Juliane Koepcke
Dear Senthuran:^ A Black Spirit Memoir - Akwaeke Emezi
Emma* by Jane Austen
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
Woman:^ The American History of an Idea - Lillian Faderman
System Collapse - Martha Wells
A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollawell
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love^% - Bell Hooks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks^ - Rebecca Skloot
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America^ -Rachel Hope Cleves
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle^ - Lillian Faderman
The Woman in Me^ - Brittany Spears
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America^ - Gregory Smithers
Being Huemann: An Unrepentant Memoir of Disability Rights Activist^ - Judith Huemann
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When a Disaster Strikes and Why^ - Amanda Ripley
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone^ - Edward Dolnick
Utopia for Realists:^ How We Can Build the Ideal World - Rutger Bregman
The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey
To Believe in Women:^ What Lesbians Have Done for America - Lillian Faderman
Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
Tribe:^% On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger
Freedom^% - Sebastian Junger
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea% - Mark Kurlansky
Bridehead Revisited# - Evelyn Waugh
The Witch Elm - Tana Frencyh
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
HumanKind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman^
Autumn at the Willow River Guesthouse - C.P Ward
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World Find the Good Death^ - Caitlin Doughty
A Study in Drowning - Ava Reid
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Gideon the Ninth* - Tamsyn Muir
See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt
Plain Bad Heroines* - Emily M Danforth
Tell Me I'm Worthless - Alison Rumfitt
On Killing:^ The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society - Dave Grossman
Camp Damascus - Chuck Tingle
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - Daneil M. Lavery
The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals^ - Aaron Mahnke
The Willows% - Algernon Blackwood
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones% - Alvin Schwartz
The Motion of Puppets - Keith Donohue
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow% - Washington Irving
Wisconsin's Ghosts^ - Sherry Strub
Trauma and Recovery^: The Aftermath of Violence—from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Judith Lewis Herman
An Enchangment of Ravens - Margaret Rogerson
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* - Susanna Clark
Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li
The Five^: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold
Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denamrk's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of their Fellow Danes^ - and the Extrondinary Role of the SS - Bo Lidegaard
The Road to Jonestown^: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple - Jeff Guinn
The Scary Book of Christmas Lore^ - Tim Rayborn
On Tyranny^: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder
The Old Magic of Christmas:^ Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year - Linda Raedisch
Harrow the Ninth~* - Tamsyn Muir
The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
12 Days at Bleakly Manor - Michelle Greip
Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914^ - Malcolm Brown & Shirley Seaton
Midnight Never Come* - Marie Brennan
Behind the Scenes:^ Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House - Elizabethy Keckley
Key: * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty % = Novella #= Doc book club
My goal for 2024 is for 40% of my reads to be nonfiction. I've had two years within the recent past where I managed 20% of my reads to be nonfiction, so I'm aiming to double that.
Okay, below the cut I'm putting the nonfiction books on my tbr, most of which I have the lovely people of Tumblr to thank for the recommendations!
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
The Age of Wood; Our Most Useful Material...
The Assassination of Fred Hampton
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the...
Being Human
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shelf
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
Bowling Alone
Brave the Wild: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped...
Butts: A Backstory / Evermore Recommended
The Cadaver Kin and the Country Dentist / Automatuck9
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse...
Dear Senthuran
DisneyWar
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with...
Finding Me (Viola Davis)
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed...
The Food of a Younger Land
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women...
The Glass Universe
The Great Hunger: The Story of the Famine...
The Great Influenza
Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of an Abused Woman
The History of Ireland
The History of Scotland
The History of Wales
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Indifferent Stars Above
In the Heart of the Sea / ecouterbien
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death...
The Last Days of the Romanovs / Automatuck9
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis...
A New World Begins
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous...
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed / Empty
Radium Girls
The Road to Jonestown
Paper: Paging through History
Pussypedia / Bookstagram Rec
Salt: A World History
Say Nothing
Sea Biscuit: An American legend
Searching for Black Confederates
This is Your Mind on Plants
Unmasking Autism
The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - And Why
Watching the Tree / found all by my little self
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we Will be Killed...
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the.. / Rose
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta...
#tfg reads#2024 Reading List#Books#tbr#Do I usually wait until I actually have more than one book read?#Uh yeah woops haha#Ah well I was eager to get my goal written to hold myself accountable#I'm really enjoying pussypedia!#So a promising start#I also have a silent private goal of some other nonfiction I want to get to#but it's going to be especially hard so that will wait to see if I can even get started XD#la de da#silly tfg#reading#my reading index
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Reading List (Latest Update Feb. 17, 2025)
The full list of books I'm interested in reading. Spoiler before you open the read-more: This list has 500+ entries so it's a tad long.
I'm pretty much constantly adding things to all of my lists- hence why I'm amending when this was last updated to the title itself- and will update this post anytime I update the wheel I use to randomize my next choice, which usually happens after I've added or subtracted a significant number of options.
Beowulf
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism; Third Edition
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
I Am Not Sick I Don’t Need Help! by Xavier Amador, Ph.D
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Andersen’s Fairy Tales by H.C Andersen
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Animorphs Series by K.A Applegate
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Emma by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Oracle Night by Paul Auster
Bunny by Mona Awad
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Borderline by Mishell Baker
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
Crash by J.G Ballard
North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac
The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I’m With the Band by Pamela Des Barres
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir
Art of Fiction by Walter Besant and Henry James
Pushkin; A Biography by T.J Binyon
The Etched City by K.J Bishop
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette De Bodard
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Slewfoot by Brom
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
Sonnets From The Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
The Serpent and the Rose by Kathleen Bryan
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
Notes of a Dirty old Man by Charles Bukowski
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
Song of the Simple Truth by Julia de Burgos
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler
American Predator by Maureen Callahan
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre
Through the Woods by Emily Carrol
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Vorrh by B. Catling
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Moliere Biography by H.C Chatfield-Taylor
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Journey to the West by Wu Cheng-en
Wicket Fox by Kat Cho
The Awakening by Kat Chopin
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
Finna by Nino Cipri
The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco
The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
Pranesi by Susanne Clarke
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Parasite by Darcy Coates
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Swimming With Giants by Anne Collet
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Inherit the Wind by Linda Cushman
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Dreadnought by April Daniels
The Devourers by Indra Das
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Memory Palace by Nate Dimeo
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
A Little Bit of Auras by Cassandra Eason
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
The Collected Stories by Welty Eudora
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate
A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
A Passage to India by E.M Forster
The Diary of Anne Frank
Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) by Al Franken
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
At Fear’s Altar by Richard Gavin
Count Zero by William Gibson
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Neuromancer by William Gibson
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
The Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Marathon Man by William Goldman
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J Hackwith
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
The Little Locksmith by Katherine Butler Hathaway
City of Lies by Sam Hawke
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Descendant of the Crane by Joan He
Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
Dune Series by Frank Herbert
Cover-Up by Seymour M. Hersh
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Rule of Magic by Alice Hoffman
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Iliad by Homer
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Songbook by Nick Hornby
To Escape the Stars by Robert Hoskins
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Warrior Cats Series by Erin Hunter
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Daisy Miller by Henry James
False Bingo by Jac Jemc
The City We Became by N.K Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin
Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Liu Ken
Ironweed by William Kennedy
You By Caroline Kepnes
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Very Best of Caitlin R Kiernan
Carrie by Stephen King
Christine by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Sir James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Extravagance by Gary Krist
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
Babel by R.F Kuang
The Poppy War by R.F Kuang
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
False Hearts by Laura Lam
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Changeling by Victor Lavelle
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by David Herbert Lawrence
Lies of the Fae by M.J Lawrie
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Jade City by Fonda Lee
Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Dirt; Confessions of the Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Small Island by Andrea Levy
A Ruin of Shadows by L.D Lewis
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Let the Right One In by John Lindquist
Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
His Black Tongue by Mitchell Luthi
The Hike by Drew Magary
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gregory Rabassa
A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin
Property by Valerie Martin
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Women in the Picture by Catherine McCormack
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Rapture by Claire McGlasson
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Quattrocento by James McKean
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Terms of Endearment Larry McMurtry
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L Mencken
My Life as Author and Editor by H.L Mencken
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyer
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Life of Edna by St. Vincent Millay
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Sexus by Henry Miller
Slade House by David Mitchell
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Barrington Moore Jr.
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W Ocker
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Flowers of the Sea by Reggie Oliver
Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen
How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Certain Dark Things by M.J Pack
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker
Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim
The Song the Owl God Sang by Benjamin Peterson
A Mankind Beyond Earth by Claude A. Piantadosi
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodie Piccoult
We Owe You Nothing by Punk Planet
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Witchmark by C.L Polk
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Truth and Beauty by Ann Pratchett
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
High Moor by Graeme Reynolds
Sybil by Schreiber Flora Rheta
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
If We Were Villains by M.L Rio
Stiff by Mary Roach
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry M. Robert
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Planet Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful by Milo Rossi
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D
The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Sallinger
Franny and Zooey by J.D Sallinger
The Man Who Collected Machen by Mark Samuels
Ariah by B.R Sanders
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Vicious by V.E Schwab
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Bhagavad Gita by Graham M. Schweig
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Love Story by Erich Segal
The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Unless by Carol Shields
City Come A-Walkin’ by John Shirley
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Crush by Richard Siken
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Of Sorrow and Such by Angela Slatter
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Flinch by Julien Smith
Chlorine by Jade Song
Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Why Christianity Must Change or Die by John Shelby Spong
Last Breath by Peter Stark
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
City Under the Moon Hugh Sterbakov
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susane
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley
Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Crier’s War by Nina Varela
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
The Last Empire- Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal
Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Candide by Voltaire
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Fire in the Sky; The Walton Experience by Travis Walton
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L Wang
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G Wells
The Time Machine by H.G Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Prophesy Deliverance by Cornel West
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Code of the Woosters by P.G Wodehouse
Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
The Electric Koolaid Test by Tom Wolfe
Old School by Tobias Wolff
John Dies at the End by David Wong
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf
Bitch; In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Black Tides of Heaven by Jy Yang
Negative Space by B.R Yeager
Beneath the Moon by Yoshi Yoshitani
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tomorrow, and Tommorow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
#spiced#reading list#when i say i have a special interest in special interests this is where that gets me#i particularly love this list because i have all of the wheel of time series and it's one of my favorites ever#but no i've never read dracula
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From the Golden Age of Television
Keep Our Honor Bright - NBC - October 4, 1953
A presentation of "Kraft Television Theatre" Season 7 Episode 7
Drama
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Michael Higgins as Matt Matthewson
Joan Potter as Sally
Larry Fletcher as Mr. Matthewson
James Dean as Jim Cooper
Addison Richards as the Dean
Peter Fernandez as Harry (Student Honor Committee)
John Dutra as Ross (student who turns in Jim)
Don Dubbins as Ed (Student Honor Committee)
Jim Hickman as Bill (Student Honor Committee)
Cricket Skilling as Tom (Student Honor Committee)
Jack Finnergan as Ben
Andy Milligan as Hines
Edith Gresham as Nurse
Betty Gibson as Marilyn Biggs
Larry Elliot as News Analyst
George Roy Hill as News Commentator
David White as Mr. Langley (the Board)
Calvin Thomas as Mr. Stone (the Board)
Rusty Lane as Mr. Wilson (the Board)
Richard Bishop as Mr. Baldwin (the Board)
Crahan Denton as Mr. Todd (the Board)
T. J. Sydney as Porter
#Keep Our Honor Bright#TV#Kraft Television Theatre#1950's#Drama#1953#NBC#Michael Higgins#Joan Porter#James Dean#Larry Fletcher
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I'm on the tail end of a sinus infection, and was considering skipping this tonight. But I'm here, so let's go.
And Ben winds up in the middle of the Pilgrim Times equivalent of that one Super Mario 64 DS minigame.
"Hey, don't want to interrupt your girl time, but there's a fucking funeral, get a move on."
Oh shit, a cat, that means Ben is fucked.
Is this Ben's first time on the east coast?
Why do they have a moonshine still rigged up at the Project?
"Okay, I have to get back to work and pretend this didn't happen. So, if I have to show back up later in the episode, I will be pissed."
"Don't look at me, I'm not even allowed in the Imaging Chamber." Addison, I have seen the promo for this one. Shut up.
...is it bad that I think she's faking her crying?
"It's just gossip, it can't hurt you." Ben, I have some bad news for you about how the Salem Witch Trials worked...
Oh, yes, just talk to a ghost in the middle of a funeral during the Salem Witch Trials, this won't end badly...
Why does the Reverend look like James Madison?
"We're in Colonial America, lots of people died in strange ways. Some did it for fun."
"Ask yourself if it is hiding among us here today." Oh boy, here we go...
Ah, so there it is: Josiah had a cold, so they thought prayer would fix it.
Uh, you might need to double up on the funeral, guys...
...is Ben going to "out" himself as a witch by inventing CPR?
"SHE BROUGHT THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE! STONE HER!"
[Okay, Ben got accused of witchcraft, break time!]
"Okay, now you two stay there, and think about what you've done!"
"What was once a whisper and a rumor is now a fact! The practice of this 'CPR' is causation for witchcraft!"
Okay, given how quickly those three were willingly to throw her friend under the bus, I'm starting to suspect where this plot is going.
"Uh, hey, Jenn, Ben fucked up in a real bad way, get the lead out?"
"If you admit you are a witch, you will be forgiven, and we will kill you. If you don't, we will skip the forgiveness step."
"Did it work?" "Goody still dies." Fucking duh.
"You don't attend church." Neither do I, pick a new excuse.
"I've seen this movie. Didn't like how it ended. Two thumbs down."
"Look, Ben, just admit to witchcraft, and the episode ends early." ...Ben, I wouldn't bet money on that.
"Ma'am, why are you conversing with a spirit while on the witness stand?"
Oh, that's not gonna go well, you're using the guy you "brought back to life" for your cause...
BEN, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT SCIENCE IS YET, STOP DIGGING THE GRAVE DEEPER!
...honestly, Ben, what the fuck did you expect?
"Whelp, my job is done, I damned the woman who saved my life, I'm out."
Okay, Ben, at this point, your best option is to just fake your deaths.
"The only this this town is cursed with is stupidity." "Don't say that." Ma'am, you're about to be burned to death, stop defending them.
"I don't know what to believe anymore. Everyone betray me! I'm fed up with this world!"
Sulfur: The funniest part of Salem.
Oh, great, we have someone going insane, Ben's practically alone no-
Why is Ian invoking the Devil?
"Have we learned nothing since 1692?" ... ... ...well, I mean, we did discover electricity?
"Welshire, where do I know that name?" He's the ancestor of the Welch's fruit snacks guy.
"Listen to me, Sam." The only way they will get Ben to say that in this show without Scott Bakula.
"Wanna see some real magic? I just invented pickpocketing."
Full moon, perfect night for a prison break.
Ma'am, it's almost as if you don't want to escape.
...why is the Specter of Death watching them?
Twice this season a leap has involved a shop getting looted, what're the odds...
...if this leap is how the pointy hat got added to the witch mythology...
Ben, stop invoking science, this is literally not the time...
"I'm not a witch, I'm a time traveler."
"I want to believe there still is some goodness left in this town." Yeah, but, they want to burn you, so... (shrug)
This is looking like this is the last stand, Ben...
You have a lot of fucking gall to act like you want to help now, William.
BEN, STOP TALKING SHOP, AND ESCAPE
"I fancied an apple. I wasn't helping an escape."
And that apple is gonna fuck them.
Magic, there's 18 minutes left, episode ain't over.
And here we see Addison lampshading how she's been low-key written out of the show.
Addison, I don't know what it says about you if you thought he meant literal alchemy.
And there we have the real reason why Magic was in this episode.
"Look, either I leave, you I die, I don't like it either, Elizabeth."
"Look, you and Morgan have fun, I'm shipping up to Boston."
"Look, you might not know this, but let's pretend I'm a time traveler from 2023 that has gone through his share of emotional bullshit! Life sucks, now get of that wagon!"
Watch as the "plan" involve rain, like how The Wicker Man was originally supposed to end.
I was fucking joking, but here we go.
"Addison, Ben may or may not burn today, get in the Imaging Chamber."
Well, luckily, Sam Beckett once made God make it rain, so, maybe that trick will work twice.
Ben, just stall for 7 minutes, maybe this will all work out.
"My last words are it's gonna rain, and if it ain't we'll all burn in Hell together. (turns to the sky) YOUR MOVE, GOD!"
...taking your sweet ass time, ain't you, God...
"There, it rained, that means witches aren't real."
...Ben, people only make that kind of face when they have a good pee, dial it back.
Ladies, just because it rained for a minute, it doesn't mean it didn't rain.
"Look, I know I keep defaulting to science in this, but your well is contaminated, and it's made you all insane."
And just like that, they're all friends again, just brush he attempted murder under the rug.
Look, Ben, there is still a pretty decent chance the time skip's being undone at the end of the season, so, maybe this will work itself out.
Welcome to Egypt, Ben.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Water purification is what this country desperately needs.
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Writer's first line meme
Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first sentences as you have.
Tagged by @swaps55! Tagging @vhenadahls @theoriginalladya @starrybouquet @that-wildwolf and anyone else who wants to do this!
I have...not written ten things total in the past several years so I'm just gonna go with a liberal interpretation of "most recent" on AO3.
strange is the night where black stars rise (stargate, sam, the one with hastur)
She’s thrown out of the wormhole. By sheer luck, her shoulder, not her head, slams into the stone steps. Sam protectively tucks her head down as far as she can and she comes to a rolling stop on the dry, dead grass.
waves are universal (the heaven in hiding remix) (stargate, sam/jack, the one with time travel and alternate realities)
There’s a break in the guard rotation. Now or never.
church of scars (grey's anatomy, addison, the one with ghosts; unfinished)
“Are you sure?” Jake asks. He slowly zooms the spoon of applesauce toward Paige. Their daughter claps her hands in delight and shows no intention of opening her mouth for food.
i'll find your lips in the street lights (svu, olivia/barba, the one where barba is ace)
If Rafael’s learned one thing in his time with SVU (and he’s learned a lot, far more than he ever thought possible, but he’s trying to keep this to a list of one), it’s that adults telling each other the truth solves a whole host of problems.
gonna set your flag on fire (mass effect, liv/garrus, the one with nora; on pause)
Later, when it’s all over and Nora’s sitting on the back porch of her grandmother’s house watching the sun rise over the lake, she’ll think she should’ve told James she’d take the eezo job.
in this twilight our choices seal our fate (the song in the house of night remix) (svu, olivia/ellliot, the one with too much religious imagery)
Olivia stands at the edge of the driveway just inside the yellow tape. She takes a slow, steady breath. A breath to center herself, a breath to observe the scene. There will be pictures later and she’ll stare at them long enough and hard enough to imprint the front yard on her retinas, but this breath captures the scene alive.
dropsonde (singers in a lower choir remix) (grey's anatomy, addison, addison/alex, the one with the kid; as finished as it's gonna be)
Addison stares at the pair of scuffed brown heels scattered across the entryway in front of her. She stares harder, trying to make them into something they’re not. But the living room lamps are on timers during the week and the ugly one on the end table turns on, illuminating a woman’s shirt tossed over the back of the couch and a pair of black men’s shoes toed off in the hall.
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Diffusion, Volume IX
Artfully Crafted Photography Annual
124 pages, full color, perfect bound softcover
8.25 in. × 10.75 in. // 20.96 cm. × 27.31 cm.
English language, 1st Edition of 400
Nine Chapters: I. Cabinet of Curiosities // II. Transfiguration // III. Nostalgia // IV. Natural Landscape // V. Enigmatic Figures // VI. Organichrome // VII. Geometric Personality // VIII. Human Condition // IX. Sanctuary Shelter
Featuring: Addison Brown, Alan Ostreicher, Alex Delapena, Aline Mare, Allen Morris, Amaury Orozco & Sev Collazo, Amy Kanka Valadarsky, Andreas Olesen, Andy Mattern, Angela Franks Wells, Anne Campbell, Anne-Laure Autin, Antonio Martinez, Barbara Kyne, Benjamin Montague, Bill Vaccaro, Bob Cornelis, Brianna Tadeo, C E Morse, Carol Erb, Caroline Fudala, Clare O'Neill, Claude Peschel Dutombe, Dawn Surratt, Diana Bloomfield, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Elizabeth Raymer Griffin, Elizabeth Stone, Ellie Ivanova, Fritz Liedtke, Galina Kurlat, Harland Vine, Heather Perera, Heidi Clapp Temple, Heidi Kirkpatrick, J. M. Golding, James Wigger, Joseph Deiss, Joshua Myers, Joshua Sarinana, Kathleen Donohoe, Kathryn Mayo, Ken Ball, KK DePaul, Kon Markogiannis, Linda Alterwitz, Linda Barsotti, Margo Geddes, Matthew Finley, Maureen Delaney, Melanie Walker, Michael Kirchoff, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Mike Hoover, Molly McCall, Noelle McCleaf, Rachel Wolf, Ray Bidegain, Robert Calafiore, Robert Moran, Sandra Klein, Sara Silks, Stacie Ann Smith, Susan de Witt, Tamsen Wojtanowski, Thomas Michael Alleman, Tom & Lois White, Troy Colby, Wendi Schneider, and Wendy Verity.
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I know I haven't delivered ch 33, and it's not because of anons. I just didn't feel like writing. So, instead I offer a teeny bit of the Nightmarket AU.
Veronica Clark
Half Siren. This gives her the ability to transform, like how mermaids can transfer from ocean to land. She had webbed ears, webbed hands, and scales scattered across her body in human form. Her scales are iridescent in the light and have this blue-green ombre effect. Her hair is brown.
She and her father live in a cove on the beach inside an abandoned houseboat. Ronnie sleeps in the bathtub most of the time, while her father sleeps on the broken bed.
Seeing as she is part siren, she is a night creature. It isn't that her species can't go out during the day, but for centuries, sirens have preferred the nighttime, and as such, their bodies have evolved to see better at night. In some cases, sirens might have thin skin, which makes it a problem for them to be out during the day.
Her diet consists mostly of fish, and she has a favorite sushi restaurant she frequents when the night market opens.
Lynette Smith
Gargoyle. Her species was said to come to life due to some form of magic, but no one knows where they come from. Made of some sort of unbreakable stone, gargoyles are thought to be guardians of day creatures.
It isn't like there's a rule prohibiting day and night creatures from going where they want. Although she is made of stone, and her wings don't flutter, she is surprisingly agile. For years, she practiced her dance routine and frequently performed on the street of the night market for the crowds.
She lives in a cathedral tower. The floor is sturdy enough to hold her, and her room is sparse. Rather shy, she tries to avoid other creatures.
She doesn't have a specific diet and eats at a lot of vendors or restaurants but prefers to cook her food at home.
Sarah James
Fairy. She can shrink her size and use that to enter her home. She lives in a hollowed-out tree trunk in a patch of forest dedicated to a woodland village. Fairies are day creatures, and she has never experienced the night market.
She frequents used bookstores and prefers to visit local businesses.
A family friend tried to use her magic to make money but didn't tell her it would be made for cash. She refrains from using her magic or granting blessings because she's afraid people will get too greedy.
Ashlynn Torres
Werecat. But, like werewolves, her species is dictated by the moon. Her form changes with the ever-changing phases of the moon. Most notably, she looks the most human during a new moon but looks the most beastly during a full moon. Her in-between form changes depending on if it's waxing or waning.
As a carnivore, she frequents butchers and vendors selling rare cuts of meat, but unironically, she prefers seafood. Unfortunately, she's lactose intolerant. She and Ronnie have crossed paths, but neither of them would know.
Calliope Anderson
Ghost. As apparitions, their forms are corporeal based on light infraction and absorption. Her species is more tangible during the day, so they are day creatures.
She lives in a graveyard! Her bed of dirt is rather comfortable, and although she is a loner, like most ghosts, she has two specific people with whom she spends time. They are the only people she spends time with.
Considering she is see-through, Callie adopts a faint glow depending on her emotion or its intensity. This betrays her quite often when she tries to play anything off.
Addison Tate
Another fairy! She lives in one of the fairy homes that human children made and loves to grant them sweet dreams.
During the day, she likes to visit Callie and spend time at the graveyard. It may seem dull and dreary, but that's only what it looks like initially.
She's only seen the night market once when she went to see Ronnie, but prefers not to unless she really needs to see her friend. It's not that she's scared of the night market, but it's a bit much and everything assaults her senses all at once. The night market is a celebration that makes her head spin.
#Nightmarket AU#btrtv oc#btr oc#oc: veronica clark#oc: lynette smith#oc: sarah james#oc: ashlynn torres#oc: calliope anderson#oc: addison tate#ocs#oc#original characters#au#alterantive universe#monster au
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books read in 2024
I post them here so I don't lose them if something happens to the note on my phone. Also because I’m nosy and fully support other nosy people.
1/10 Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1/24 Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Anna Lembke (👎)
1/31 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab
2/18 A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
2/21 Bookshops and Bonedust, Travis Baldree
3/1 The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison +2
3/8 The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison +4
3/10 The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison +4
3/10 Strangers, Taichi Yamada (trans. Wayne P. Lammers)
3/11 Own Your Space, Alexandra Gater
3/17 St. Juniper’s Folly, Alex Crespo
4/5 Mislaid in Parts Half-Known, Seanan McGuire
4/19 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, Saidiya Hartman
4/23 Catholicism: journey to the center of faith, Robert Barron
4/28 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
4/29 If not, winter: Fragments of Sappho, Anne Carson
5/3 Joan of Arc: A History, Helen Castor
5/7 The Angel of the Crows, Katherine Addison
5/14 Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, Steven Greenhouse
5/21 Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison (hard copy, with short story this time) +2
5/25 The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (hard copy this time) +2
5/25 Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, Mosab Abu Toha
5/29 Dracula, Bram Stoker
6/24 The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, Meghan O’Rourke
6/26 I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jeannette McCurdy
7/1 The City of Brass, S. A. Chakraborty
7/1 Der Katze ist Ganz Egal, Franz Orghandl (german kids book, audio format. Listened while working. Understood some, missed some. Overall got the gist of the story.)
7/5 Museum Depots: Inside Museum Storage, Stefan Oláh and Martina Griesser-Stermscheg (read the English text, not the German)
7/6 Art Students League of New York on Painting: Lessons and Meditations on Mediums, Style, and Methods, James L. McElhinney and the instructors of the Art Students League of New York (skipped half of Knox Martin interview because he annoyed me)
7/17 Master and Commander, Patrick O’Brien
7/18 Malverina: Ich möchte eine Hexe sein, Susanna Isern
7/24 How to Excavate a Heart, Jake Maia Arlow
8/6 The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture, Brian Dear
8/22 The Kingdom of Copper, S. A. Chakraborty
8/31 La bibliothèque des rêves secrets, Michiko Aoyama
9/4 Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries, Rick Emerson
9/9 The Falcon at the Portal, Elizabeth Peters
9/17 Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan
10/3 Devil House, John Darnielle
10/8 All’s Well, Mona Awad
10/14 “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 other myths about fat people, Aubrey Gordon
10/17 The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley
10/22 Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger
10/25 A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
10/28 A Restless Truth, Freya Marske
11/7 Post Captain, Patrick O’Brian
11/10 A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
11/24 Weaponizing Conspiracy Theories, Eirikur Bergmann
11/27 Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, Susan Ferentinos
12/7 The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
12/11 Whose Body?, Dorothy L Sayers
12/11 Moby Dick, Herman Melville (through Whale Weekly)
12/13 How to Break up with Your Phone, Catherine Price (combination helpful and obnoxious :/)
Failed out of:
The Memory Librarian, Janelle Monae
Cujo, Stephen King (too sad ;-; can’t drive while listening to audiobooks that make me cry)
#books read in 2024#Snackerdoodle actually makes a post#Shout out to THE PUBLIC LIBRARY which is where I get the vast majority of these
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From Fall Fling to THING, and the Seattle Showboxes in Between
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Most attendees of the 2022 Fall Fling will remember The Moss’s enrapturing performance, complete with barefoot bassist Caiden Jackson, singer Tyke James’s charisma, and, for those at the barricade who had the chance to see it (and pose for a picture if you were me), a setlist on a paper plate. Loyal concert enthusiasts who stayed until the end will recall headliner Jean Dawson, donning a rain jacket despite the unrelenting Seattle heat—summer hadn’t given way to autumn weather just yet—and his fusion of hip hop and experimental indie rock. Perhaps the early birds at Fall Fling can reminisce over the two openers, both local groups: Kaede 01, a J-Pop/J-Rock cover band, and Aurora Ave., an ensemble whose sound is a blend of indie rock and pop with hints of jazz. The majority of audience members, however, didn’t start to trickle in until The Moss was on, about an hour and a half into the show. My group was the outlier, showing up half an hour before Kaede 01 went on and maintaining our spot in the front row until the end. As a concert enthusiast who has spent hundreds of dollars on tickets over the past few years, I was baffled that this show was “brought to students’ doorsteps free of charge,” as I now tell my audiences as a campus tour guide. As an incentive to attend the University of Washington, I’ll inform prospective students that in 2015, just two years before SZA released her debut album, Ctrl, she was an opener at the Spring Fling, playing alongside Rae Sremmurd and A-Trak. That’s right, opener! Through the Associated Students of the University of Washington (ASUW)’s Fall and Spring Flings, countless venerable artists, from Nirvana to Kendrick Lamar, have entertained UW crowds.
Aurora Ave. may not be Nirvana (yet), but their performance certainly made a lasting impression on me. In 2021, the group released their first and only album thus far under the same name as the band. They played several of these songs at the Fall Fling, my favorites of which are “Skipping Stones” and “It’s Over/Who Said.” A saxophonist, trumpet player, drummer, and several bassists lined the stage, setting the musical backdrop for the vocalist: a young woman who swayed to the melodies her bandmates played while she sang. At the barricade, I cheered for Aurora Ave. They were the first group to catch my attention with their call-and-response between instruments and upbeat neo-jazz phrases blending seamlessly with smooth soprano vocals. At the end of their set, the ensemble covered Tyler, The Creator feat. Kali Uchis’s “See You Again,” engaging with the audience and even getting a few people to sing along and wave their hands.
After a forty-minute intermission, The Moss arrived, decked in earthy tones and ready to bump the energy up a notch. An established crowd had gathered who immediately grew infatuated with the talented Tyke, Caiden, Willie, and Addison—including a girl named Cece who made her way up to the front row with me. Based on our mutual affinity for The Moss, I made a wild guess that Cece and I had similar music tastes. In the spirit of spontaneity and camaraderie, I asked if she’d come to another show with me the next night. We all remember how easy it was to let your guard down and make friends that first week of college.
“Hey, this is random, but do you listen to Arlo Parks?” I yelled between songs.
“Yeah, I love her. Why?”
“I’m actually seeing her at Showbox Sodo tomorrow and I have an extra ticket if you want to join me.”
“Yeah, I’m down!”
Well, turns out Arlo Parks was NOT performing at Showbox Sodo. Arlo and her opener Puma Blue were at the OTHER Seattle Showbox arena, The Showbox. Who let Seattle use “Showbox” to name two of its venues? Cece and I couldn’t be the only ones to mix the two up, and in fact, we weren’t. When we arrived, expecting a line of Arlo-obsessed fans impatiently waiting for the doors to open, Cece and I were surprised to find that we were alone. We didn’t start to panic yet—we’d arrived ambitiously early. Still, as we waited for guests to trickle in, only one did. I want to say his name was Wyatt, but I honestly can’t be sure. He Who Is Probably Wyatt approached us, and we soon confirmed the three of us were searching for a concert that had no signs of being found. There were no musical ties to this location: no tour buses, security guards, flashy outfits, or excited chatter in the vicinity. After waiting a few more minutes, someone Googled the concert and ascertained that we were at the wrong venue. We laughed it off and began the trek to the other Showbox.
The journey to The Showbox was a fever dream. I think we took some sort of public transportation because I can’t imagine us walking for thirty minutes, but I do remember there was a portion where we had to walk along the highway. As we strolled down the island of the highway, I could feel the rustle of cars rushing by me. Terrifying. Yet I remember feeling a buzz of exhilaration in my step, despite knowing that my company and safety net of people were two strangers: one I’d freshly met fifteen minutes before, and the other whom I’d known a whole night longer. Comforting, huh?
In a moment of serendipity, we made it to The Showbox just as opener Puma Blue began his set, and managed to weave through the crowd to the barricade. This scene of my life felt scripted; it was as if the writers arranged this elaborate concert venue mix-up just to introduce a new side character into the story: HWIP Wyatt or what’s his name. Unlike most of the attendees that night, Wyatt had come to this concert exclusively for Puma Blue and had never even heard of Arlo Parks.
“Wow, that’s dedication,” I exclaimed. “But you’ve gotta stay for her set after.”
“We’ll see,” he responded. “What are your favorite songs of hers?”
“I really like ‘Caroline’.”
“Okay. I’ll stay for ‘Caroline’.”
When “Caroline” came on, I nudged Wyatt, then disassociated completely and lent myself to Arlo for the next four minutes. I let her inflate me with her tenderness and poetry. Wyatt was in awe of her, too, and ended up staying for her whole set. In the chaos of the crowd’s dissipating congestion after the encore, “Softly,” Cece and I lost Wyatt just as we found Puma Blue at the merchandise booth, taking photos and talking to his fans.
“We met a guy tonight who bought tickets to this show just to see you, and I wanted to let you know,” I told Puma, after complimenting him on his set.
“Wow, really?! That’s amazing! I’m honored. I’d love to meet him. Is he here?” Puma said something along these lines.
“Sorry, we separated from him as everyone was leaving.”
“Well, thank you for telling me. That made my night.”
After saying goodbye to Puma, the writers were at it again. Cece and I stepped out of the venue and came face-to-face with Wyatt one final time. I couldn’t believe it.
“WE JUST MET PUMA AND WE TOLD HIM ABOUT YOU. GO BACK INSIDE AND FIND HIM. QUICK!!!” I screamed, my voice dead from singing along to Arlo’s songs.
“WHAT?!”
“PUMA WANTS TO MEET YOU. HE KNOWS YOU CAME JUST TO SEE HIM. GO!!!”
“OKAY, I’M GOING. THANK YOU!!!” He was electric. I hope he caught Puma in time.
Funny enough, I never hung out with Cece after that. I see her every once in a while around campus and think of the eventful concert experience we shared—that type of adventure bonds you for life.
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Many concerts later, the highlights of which were Dora Jar, SZA, and Omar Apollo, and The Moss Pt. II, another concert was brought to my backyard. I often compare my hometown of Port Townsend, Washington, to Gilmore Girls’ Stars Hollow, Connecticut because of the quirky, tight-knit nature of its residents and the multitude of festivals we have. From a Wearable Arts Show to a Rhododendron Festival and an entire week of festivities in honor of Washington’s state flower, Port Townsend’s community events are a vessel for artistry. THING Festival, established in 2019 by Seattle Theater Group (STG), was my dream come true: an independent three-day music festival nestled in Fort Worden State Park, just down the hill from my house. Before relocating to Carnation, Washington, THING’s last run in its initial location was in August of 2023; since I volunteered, this was my first time properly going and not just sneaking in or listening from my house.
As one can imagine, August 25-27 was one of the best weekends of my life. Laufey, Cigarettes After Sex, and “Evergreen” by Richy Mitch and The Coal Miners were the TikTok draw-ins, and they didn’t disappoint. Mild High Club positioned their music equipment back to back, and each player sat facing their boards—my friend joked that it looked like they were playing chess. I volunteered during the majority of The Beths’ set, but my friends brought me a guitar chip that I’ve plastered on my dorm wall next to my Samia (who also performed that weekend) and Arlo Parks chips (from seeing her again a year and a half later). Thee Sacred Souls was my favorite live show that weekend. I like to boast that Josh Lane hopped off the stage and stood directly over me while singing “Will I See You Again?” In honor of “Can I Call You Rose?,” my friends and I bought Josh (humor me into thinking we’re on a first-name basis… he did sign a post-it note after the show with “all love, Josh”) a bouquet of roses and decorated the exterior paper with roses and kind messages. The security guard handed it to him, but since we were at the barricade for that show, he knew it came from us, and extended his gratitude after the show. I’ve never felt like more of a die-hard fangirl before.
Cherry Ferrari was not on my radar until my dad, upon looking at the THING lineup, recommended I check them out. This duo was the first act on the smaller stage that Saturday afternoon, and I showed up over halfway through the set with easy access to the barricade. The female vocalist was transitioning from an original to a cover of “No Scrubs” by TLC. Something about her essence felt familiar. Was it her voice? Her appearance? Her charisma and dynamism?
As she continued performing, I realized it was all three. This girl HAD to be the lead singer of Aurora Ave. But where was the trumpet and the saxophone? And how come all the songs she’d played were in a completely different style?
I dismissed the idea; it couldn’t be.
Regardless of who she was, the singer’s stage presence struck me and I happily reciprocated her energy, as did the girls to my left. When she sang another original song, they knew all the words. I was impressed. Maybe they were her friends? Like before, I started a conversation with the girls between songs.
“Are you guys friends with the singer? How do you know the lyrics of her songs?” I asked.
“We don’t know her well or anything, but she opened for our friend’s band,” one of the girls said.
“Really? What are they called? I love finding new music.”
“Aurora Ave.”
No. Way. I waited until after Cherry Ferrari had finished their set and explained what I knew.
“This is gonna sound crazy, but I thought she was connected to Aurora Ave. I swear she came and performed at UW for our fall concert but as the lead singer for Aurora Ave. Do you know anything about that?”
“Oh, yeah. The lead singer couldn’t make that show, so she was just subbing in. This is her project, Cherry Ferrari.”
“Wow. She was a substitute for that show?! She sounded amazing. So are you guys from Seattle, then?”
“Yeah, we’re from West Seattle. We’re students at Western, though.”
“No way. I have a lot of friends at Western.”
“What about you?”
“I’m from Port Townsend—I live just up the hill—but I go to UW.”
“You LIVE here? I’m jealous,” one of the girls said. She had gorgeous auburn curls.
“Yeah, it’s pretty great. We have a lot of festivals like this. I’m Julia, by the way.”
“I’m Quincy, and this is Moira,” the girl with the auburn hair revealed.
“Nice to meet you.”
As Quincy, Moira, and I continued to familiarize ourselves with one another, a voice from the crowd joined in.
“Sorry to eavesdrop, but I know the singer, Emma! We met when she performed at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) Sound Off. I’m Sylvia.”
“Wow, everyone seems to know Miss Emma!” This was me.
“Here, I’ll introduce you if you want,” Sylvia said casually. She went up to Emma—THE Emma Wang, the overlap in the Venn diagrams between Aurora Ave, Cherry Ferrari, Fall Fling and THING Festival—and they embraced. I lied before: I think this was my biggest fangirl moment. As creative women of color, Emma and I had a lot in common; I could feel our interconnectedness. Perhaps she was the manifestation of my lofty musical aspirations. This made meeting her even more intimidating.
“Hi!” I chirped. “You were fantastic.” I explained how I’d seen her at UW, and it was so cool to see her again with her own musical group in my hometown, blah, blah, blah, classic fangirl stuff. We took a few pictures with Sylvia and some with just the two of us. She asked me about what it was like to live in Port Townsend and I gave her some recommendations of things to do here if she had the time. We exchanged social media platforms before saying goodbye.
As I walked away with my new friends Quincy, Moira, and Sylvia, I continued to marvel at Emma’s talent.
“Wow, I can’t believe it’s really her. I knew it! How old is she, anyway? Twenty?”
“Oh, she’s still in high school,” Sylvia said.
“You’re kidding. She’s so talented, and she looks a lot older.”
“Yeah, I don’t think she’s even applied to college yet.”
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Fast forward a year and a half and Emma Wang is attending New York University to pursue her music career. How full circle is it that she reached out to me when she found out I was going to the Spring Fling to see Between Friends and wanted to meet up? A celebrity wanting to hang out with ME? We spent an hour texting back and forth catching up, and she told me she had a concert at Neumos on June 21st. I bought two tickets for my best friend Elio and me within minutes and told her I couldn’t wait to support her. Two shows ago, Emma had no idea who I was, but this time, she had someone to smile at and sing “Night Before” to in the front row.
-Julia Neville
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+ 7 wanted connections!
everett mulligan ( taylor kinney ) is looking for their ex fiance named juliette stone! they’re around 38-43 years old and look a lot like sophia bush, jessica alba, vanessa ray, tracy spiridakos, / utp. what’re the details? ( everett & juliette who mostly goes by julie met through a mutural friend when graduating college and both returning to their hometown, cole, wyoming. not really knowing they were in the same grade as everett was considered popular and she wasn't, everett eventually fell for her & eventually proposed to her. however, they constantly fought & didn't really agree on much. always saw things differently. he loved her though, more than anything and it killed him that he couldn't figure out how their relationship got to this point. it was julie's decision to give back the engagement ring & it's broken him ever since. they didn't really end on bad terms, nor did they end on good terms it was just eh ). you do / don’t have to contact them @ everett-mulligan but please do if you have questions or more head cannons!!
everett mulligan ( taylor kinney ) is looking for their eldest brother named william mulligan ! they’re around 48-55 years old and look a lot like anyone you think who looks like taylor kinney. what’re the details? ( william mulligan is the eldest out of the picture perfect mulligan family, and the oldest son out of the picture perfect mulligan family. this character can be 100% up to you, all i ask is if you can keep the name! ). you do / don’t have to contact them @ everett-mulligan but please do if you have questions or headcannons!!
everett mulligan ( taylor kinney ) is looking for their eldest brother named mitchell mulligan ! they’re around 45-48 years old and look a lot like anyone you think who looks like taylor kinney. what’re the details? ( mitchell mulligan is the second eldest out of the picture perfect mulligan family, and the second eldest son out of the picture perfect mulligan family. this character can be 100% up to you, all i ask is if you can keep the name! ). you do / don’t have to contact them @ everett-mulligan but please do if you have any questions or headcannons!
everett mulligan ( taylor kinney ) is looking for their eldest sister named addison mulligan ! they’re around 45-48 years old and look a lot like anyone you think who looks like taylor kinney. what’re the details? ( addison mulligan is the eldest daughter of the picture perfect mulligan family, and the first daughter out of the picture perfect mulligan family. this character can be 100% up to you, all i ask is if you can keep the name! ). you do / don’t have to contact them @ everett-mulligan but please do if you have any questions or headcannons!
everett mulligan ( taylor kinney ) is looking for their youngest sister named isabelle mulligan ! they’re around 38-40 years old and look a lot like anyone you think who looks like taylor kinney. what’re the details? ( isabelle mulligan is the youngest out of the picture perfect mulligan family, and the second/ youngst daughter out of the picture perfect mulligan family. this character can be 100% up to you, all i ask is if you can keep the name! ). you do / don’t have to contact them @ everett-mulligan but please do if you have any questions or headcannons!!
enzo morales ( clayton cardenas ) is looking for their high school ex girlfriend / baby mama! they’re around 30-35 years old and look a lot like fc lily james, lily collins, ashley park, holland roden, camille razat, zoe kravitz, / utp. what’re the details? ( At just sixteen years old, when things were going good for a bit, he had met and fallen in love with someone. They were mad for each other, and Robin tried to advise him against it, considering they were going too fast but Enzo didn’t care. He was happy. For the first time in his life, Enzo was happy. He and Olivia were together for a few years, but at seventeen she found out she was pregnant. Enz had gotten her pregnant. Terrified and broke, he supported her with whatever she choose. They eventually broke up and Enzo slipped up again. Getting into fights, getting into trouble. However, Robin made him go straight to work. She made him fall in love with fixing cars again and getting his hands dirty. After high school, and after his situation with Olivia, it was straight to work for him ). you do / don’t have to contact them enzo-morales but please do if you have any questions or headcannons!
enzo morales ( clayton cardenas ) is looking for their ex girlfriend! they’re around 30-35 years old and look a lot like fc kelsey asbille, lindsey morgan, willa fitzgerald, ashley park, greta onieogou, sarah bolger, / utp. what’re the details? ( However, Enzo took up a second job which was bar tending and he thoroughly enjoyed it. That finally did it and Enzo put his first down payment on a place in Brooklyn, New York. Though nights were lonely and he filled that loneliness with different girls throughout the week, women he’s flirted with at the bar he was working at. No one ever really stuck. That was until he had met one girl, one girl whom he tried so hard not to fall in love with. They were usually one night stands with the women he’s slept with throughout the years and throughout his time in Brooklyn, but this women? No. She was it for him and he knew it and it terrified him. He was ready to propose and though before he could pop the question, the women disappeared.) you do / don’t have to contact them @ enzo-morales but please do if you have any questions/ headcannons!
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Birthdays 8.21
Beer Birthdays
Josef Groll (1813)
Christian Diehl (1842)
David "Zambo" Zamborsky
Julian Shrago (1977)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Count Basie; jazz pianist, bandleader (1904)
Aubrey Beardsley; English artist, illustrator (1872)
Friz Freleng; animator (1906)
Joe Strummer; English rock singer, songwriter (1952)
Peter Weir; film director (1944)
Famous Birthdays
Janet Baker; English soprano (1933)
Nikolay Bogolyubov; Russian mathematician and physicist (1909)
Usain Bolt; Jamaican sprinter (1986)
Sergey Brin; Google co-founder (1973)
Bo Burnham; comedian (1990)
James Burton; guitarist (1939)
Dina Carroll; English singer-songwriter (1968)
Kim Cattrall; English-Canadian actor (1956)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy; French mathematician (1789)
Wilt Chamberlain; Philadelphia 76ers C (1936)
Jackie DeShannon; singer (1944)
Addison Farmer; bassist (1928)
Art Farmer; jazz trumpeter (1928)
Hubert Gautier; French mathematician (1660)
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt; French chemist (1816)
Carl Giammarese; singer-songwriter (1947)
Otto Goldschmidt; German composer (1829)
Eric Goles; Chilean mathematician (1951)
Nathaniel Everett Green; English painter and astronomer (1823)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze; French painter (1725)
Stephen Hillenburg; marine biologist and animator (1961)
Patrick Juvet; Swiss singer-songwriter (1950)
Angel Karaliychev; Bulgarian author (1902)
M.M. Kaye; British writer (1908)
X. J. Kennedy; poet (1929)
Ruth Manning-Sanders; Welsh-English author and poet (1886)
Giacomo F. Maraldi; French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (1665)
Patty McCormack; actor (1945)
Jim McMahon; Chicago Bears QB (1959)
Jules Michelet; French historian and philosopher (1798)
Christopher Robin Milne (1920)
Carrie-Anne Moss; Canadian actor (1967)
William Murdoch; Scottish engineer and inventor (1754)
Barry Norman; English author (1933)
William Henry Ogilvie; Scottish-Australian poet and author (1869)
Ozma, Queen of Oz; book character (1904)
Hayden Panettiere; actor (1989)
Frank Perry; film director (1930)
Basil Poledouris; Greek-American composer (1945)
Blossom Rock; actress (1895)
Kenny Rogers; country singer (1938)
Christian Schad; German painter (1894)
Lucius Shepard; author (1943)
Harry Smith; television journalist (1951)
Steve Smith; rock drummer (1954)
Ivan Stang; author (1953)
Jean Stas; Belgian chemist (1813)
Robert Stone; writer (1937)
Jeff Stryker; porn actor (1962)
Melvin Van Peebles; actor (1932)
Pete Weber; bowler (1962)
Clarence Williams III; actor (1939)
Mark Williams; New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter (1954)
Hugh Wilson; actor and film director (1943)
Alicia Witt; actor (1975)
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