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thisisyourdriverspeaking · 20 days ago

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Another day, another motorsport themed playlist for your entertainment. This is the 24 Hours Of Daytona soundtrack (6 months too late but oh well 😂). Enjoy

Jon Field (18th September 1955) - Clyde McPhatter - Come What May

Charlie Scardina (27th April 1959) - Pat Boone - For A Penny

John Farano (8th December 1959) - Brook Benton - So Many Ways

Claudio Schiavoni (14th November 1960) - Sam Cooke - Chain Gang

Dan Knox (9th February 1964) - Chris Crosby - Young And In Love

Steven Thomas (12th July 1967) - Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her

Roberto Lacorte (25th June 1968) - Peaches & Herb - United

Custodio Toledo (18th September 1969) - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Here I Go Again

Chris Cumming (25th August 1970) - Donovan - Riki Tiki Tavi

George Kurtz (14th October 1970) - Free - All Right Now

Ben Keating (18th August 1971) - Steppenwolf - Ride With Me & Jethro Tull - Hymn 43

Luis Perez Companc (2nd January 1972) - Rufus Thomas - Do The Funky Penguin Part I

Kenny Habul (24th May 1973) - Helen Reddy - Peaceful

Rodrigo Sales (2nd November 1973) - Dr John - Such A Night

Spencer Pumpelly (28th December 1974) - James Brown - Funky President (People It's Bad)

Andy Lally (11th February 1975) - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down The Highway

Anthony McIntosh (7th April 1975) - Olivia Newton-John - Have You Never Been Mellow

Townsend Bell (19th April 1975) - Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star

Dan Goldburg (11th May 1978) - Bonnie Tyler - It's A Heartache

Joey Hand (10th February 1979) - Bell & James - Livin' It Up (Friday Night)

Sebastien Bourdais (28th February 1979) - Village People - Y.M.C.A

Brendan Iribe (12th August 1979) - ABBA - Does Your Mother Know

David Heinemeier Hansson (15th October 1979) - Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

Antonio Garcia (5th June 1980) - Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me

Tobias Lutke (16th July 1980) - Kenny Rogers - Love The World Away

Scott Dixon (22nd July 1980) - Robbie Dupree - Hot Rod Hearts

Felipe Massa (25th April 1981) - The Isley Brothers - Hurry Up And Wait

Gianmaria Bruni (30th May 1981) - John Schneider - It's Now Or Never

Till Bechtolsheimer (4th February 1982) - The Steve Miller Band - Circle Of Love

John Potter (25th February 1982) - AC/DC - Let's Get It Up

Ryan Dalziel (12th April 1982) - LeRoux - Nobody Said It Was Easy

Manny Franco (22nd May 1983) - Bee Gees - The Woman In You

PJ Hyett (10th August 1983) - Michael Jackson - Beat It

Augusto Farfus (3rd September 1983) - Madness - It Must Be Love

Mike Rockenfeller (31st October 1983) - Jeffrey Osbourne - Stay With Me Tonight

Neel Jani (8th December 1983) - Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

Richard Lietz (17th December 1983) - The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep

Alessandro Pier Guidi (18th December 1983) - Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

Oliver Jarvis (9th January 1984) - Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Daniel Serra (24th February 1984) - Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together

Franck Perera (21st March 1984) - Debarge - Love Me In A Special Way

Stevan McAleer (28th August 1984) - Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Matteo Cressoni (28th October 1984) - Cyndi Lauper - All Through The Night

Nick Tandy (5th November 1984) - Tina Turner - Better Be Good To Me

Ben Hanley (22nd January 1985) - Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

Filipe Albuquerque (13th June 1985) - Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Maro Engel (27th August 1985) - Belouis Some - Some People

Tommy Milner (28th January 1986) - Stevie Nicks - Talk To Me

Maximilian Gotz (4th February 1986) - Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking

Renger Van Der Zande (16th February 1986) - Dokken - In My Dreams

Rahel Frey (23rd February 1986) - The Isley Brothers - Caravan Of Love

Maxime Martin (20th March 1986) - Wham! - I'm Your Man

Paul Di Resta (16th April 1986) - Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All

Romain Grosjean (17th April 1986) - The Jets - Crush On You

Mathias Beche (28th June 1986) - The Art Of Noise ft Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn

Frederic Vervisch (19th August 1986) - The Beatles - Twist And Shout

Davide Rigon (26th August 1986) - The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

Kamui Kobayashi (13th September 1986) - Cyndi Lauper - True Colors

Mike Skeen (25th October 1986) - Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You

Rene Rast (26th October 1986) - Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square

Orey Fidani (21st November 1986) - Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Misha Goikhberg (24th November 1986) - Paul Young - Some People

James Hinchcliffe (5th December 1986) - Lionel Richie - Love Will Conquer All

Edoardo Mortara (12th January 1987) - Stacey Q - We Connect

Marco Mapelli (1st August 1987) - Robbie Nevil - Wot's It To Ya

Cédric Sbirrazzuoli (20th August 1987) - Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle

Kei Cozzolino (9th November 1987) - Los Lobos - Come On, Let's Go

Lars Kern (18th November 1987) - Poison - I Won't Forget You

Nicky Catsburg (15th February 1988) - Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes

Alexander Sims (15th March 1988) - George Michael - Father Figure

Colin Braun (22nd September 1988) - Blue Zone UK - Jackie

Dane Cameron (18th October 1988) - Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout A Revolution

Kevin Estre (28th October 1988) - Steve Winwood - Don't You Know What The Night Can Do?

Miguel Molina (17th February 1989) - Survivor - Across The Miles

Sheena Monk (16th March 1989) - Sheena Easton - The Lover In Me

Nick Boulle (28th March 1989) - Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It's True

Tom Dillmann (6th April 1989) - Breathe - Don't Tell Me Lies

Nicki Thiim (17th April 1989) - Samantha Fox - I Only Wanna Be With You

Shane Van Gisbergen (9th May 1989) - Queen - I Want It All

Sarah Bovy (15th May 1989) - Henry Lee Summer - Hey Baby

Christopher Mies (24th May 1989) - Chicago - We Can Last Forever

James Calado (13th June 1989) - Cinderella - Coming Home

Ricky Taylor (3rd August 1989) - Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now

Tristan Vautier (22nd August 1989) - Bobby Brown - On Our Own

Matt Bell (5th November 1989) - Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire

Brendon Hartley (10th November 1989) - Bobby Brown - Rock Wit'cha

Marco Wittmann (24th November 1989) - Tesla - Love Song

Mirko Bortolotti (10th January 1990) - Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On

Andrea Caldarelli (14th February 1990) - Expose - Tell Me Why

Kyle Marcelli (23rd February 1990) - The Smithereens - A Girl Like You

Philipp Eng (28th February 1990) - Luther Vandross - Here And Now

Ollie Millroy (21st April 1990) - Billy Joel - I Go To Extremes

Daniel Morad (24th April 1990) - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - All My Life

Albert Costa (2nd May 1990) - Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me

Earl Bamber (9th July 1990) - Faith No More - Epic

Jens Klingmann (16th July 1990) - Bad Company - Holy Water

Parker Kligerman (8th August 1990) - The Whispers - Innocent

Scott Andrews (25th August 1990) - Slaughter - Fly To The Angels

Jesse Krohn (3rd September 1990) - Tony! Toni! Tone! - Feels Good

Marco Sorensen (6th September 1990) - New Kids On The Block - Tonight

Nick Yelloly (3rd December 1990) - Pet Shop Boys - So Hard

Frankie Montecalvo (28th December 1990) - Jon Bon Jovi - Miracle

Jack Hawksworth (28th February 1991) - Warrant - I Saw Red

Daniel Juncadella (7th May 1991) - Hi-Five - I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)

Laurens Vanthoor (8th May 1991) - Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart

Jordan Taylor (10th May 1991) - Salt-N-Pepa - Do You Want Me

Will Stevens (28th June 1991) - Another Bad Creation - Playground

Klaus Bachler (27th July 1991) - Bingo Boys - Borrowed Love

Robin Frijns (7th August 1991) - Rod Stewart & The Temptations - The Motown Song

Antonio Felix Da Costa (31st August 1991) - Tami Show - The Truth

Paul-Loup Chatin (19th October 1991) - Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only

Harry Tincknell (29th October 1991) - Roxette - Spending My Time

Felix Rosenqvist (7th November 1991) - Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

Aaron Telitz (13th December 1991) - Naughty By Nature - O.P.P

Russell Ward (8th March 1992) - Jody Watley - I'm The One You Need

David Fumanelli (21st April 1992) - Keith Sweat - Why Me Baby?

Mario Farnbacher (14th May 1992) - Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss

Zacharie Robichon (31st May 1992) - Jodeci - Come & Talk To Me

Felipe Nasr (21st August 1992) - En Vogue - Giving Him Something He Can Feel

Josh Burdon (5th September 1992) - Slaughter - Real Love

Kevin Magnussen (5th October 1992) - TLC - What About Your Friends

Patrick Gallagher (6th October 1992) - Michael Jackson - Jam

Philip Ellis (9th October 1992) - Jon Secada - Do You Believe In Us

Mikael Grenier (17th October 1992) - Billy Ray Cyrus - Could've Been Me

Indy Dontje (21st November 1992) - The Rembrandts - Johnny Have You Seen Her?

Connor De Phillippi (25th December 1992) - Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Tatiana Calderon (10th March 1993) - Sunscreem - Love U More

Eddie Cheever III (5th June 1993) - Snow - Informer

Scott McLaughlin (10th June 1993) - The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Garnet Patterson (16th August 1993) - Tag Team - Whoomp! (There It Is)

Alessio Picariello (27th August 1993) - G-Wiz - Teddy Bear

Pipo Derani (12th October 1993) - R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

Tom Blomqvist (30th November 1993) - Taylor Dayne - Send Me A Lover

Michelle Gatting (31st December 1993) - Trisha Yearwood - The Song Remembers When

Eric Filgueiras (20th January 1994) - Cypress Hill - I Ain't Goin' Out Like That

Alex Riberas (27th January 1994) - Ace Of Base - All That She Wants

Marvin Kirchhofer (19th March 1994) - Meat Loaf - Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through

Riccardo Agostini (20th April 1994) - Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now

Daniil Kvyat (26th April 1994) - MC Hammer - 2 Legit 2 Quit

Kenton Koch (5th July 1994) - Celine Dion - Misled

Lucas Auer (11th September 1994) - Patra ft Yo-Yo - Romantic Call

Elliott Skeer (16th September 1994) - Celine Dion - Think Twice

Pascal Wehrlein (18th October 1994) - Joe Diffie - Third Rock From The Sun

Mathieu Jaminet (24th October 1994) - Babyface - When Can I See You

Raffaele Marciello (17th December 1994) - R.E.M - What's The Frequency Kenneth?

Matthieu Vaxiviere (3rd December 1994) - Fu-Schnickens - Breakdown

Onofrio Triarsi (17th December 1994) - Ace Of Base - Living In Danger

Mikkel Jensen (31st December 1994) - Janet Jackson - You Want This

Jules Gounon (31st December 1994) - Martin Page - In The House Of Stone And Light

Matt Campbell (17th February 1995) - Des'ree - You Gotta Be

Alessio Rovera (22nd June 1995) - U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Felipe Fraga (3rd July 1995) - Nuttin' Nyce - Froggy Style

Luca Stolz (29th July 1995) - Adina Howard - My Up And Down

Charlie Eastwood (11th August 1995) - Xscape - Feels So Good

Salih Yoluc (22nd August 1995) - Sheryl Crow - Can't Cry Anymore

Trent Hindman (20th September 1995) - Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)

Jack Aitken (23rd September 1995) - D'Angelo - Brown Sugar

Alec Udell (28th November 1995) - Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone

Danny Formal (24th December 1995) - Collective Soul - December

Madison Snow (26th December 1995) - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day

Gar Robinson (17th January 1996) - Brandy - Brokenhearted

Valentin Hasse-Clot (26th February 1996) - Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's

Dennis Olsen (14th April 1996) - The Brand New Heavies - Dream On Dreamer

Antonio Fuoco (20th May 1996) - Lionel Richie - Don't Wanna Lose You

Kelvin Van Der Linde (20th June 1996) - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads

Pietro Fittipaldi (25th June 1996) - LL Cool J - Doin' It

Toby Sowery (30th June 1996) - Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason

James Allen (4th July 1996) - Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down

Robby Foley (20th July 1996) - Lenny Kravitz - Can't Get You Off My Mind

Jordan Pepper (31st July 1996) - Quad City DJ's - C'mon N Ride It (The Train)

Ben Barnicoat (20th December 1996) - Journey - When You Love A Woman

Frederik Schandorff (26th December 1996) - R.E.M - Bittersweet Me

Ross Gunn (1st January 1997) - Merril Bainbridge - Mouth

Adam Adelson (31st January 1997) - The Original - I Luv U Baby

Nicklas Nielsen (6th February 1997) - Susanna Hoffs - All I Want

Alex Palou (1st April 1997) - George Strait - One Night At A Time

Louis Deletraz (22nd April 1997) - Westside Connection - Gangstas Make The World Go Round

Fabian Schiller (24th May 1997) - OutKast - Jazzy Belle

Maxime Robin (29th July 1997) - Jewel - You Were Meant For Me

Ayhancan Güven (2nd January 1998) - Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson

Parker Thompson (2nd March 1998) - Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November

Ralf Aron (21st March 1998) - Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life

Dries Vanthoor (20th April 1998) - The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Mattia Drudi (16th July 1998) - Imajin ft Keith Murray - Shorty (You Keep Playing With My Mind)

Thomas Preining (21st July 1998) - Nate Dogg ft Warren G - Nobody Does It Better

Austin Cindric (2nd September 1998) - Goodie Mob ft OutKast - Black Ice (Sky High)

Job Van Uitert (10th October 1998) - Usher - My Way

James Roe (11th October 1998) - Xzibit - What U See It What U Get

Kyle Kirkwood (19th October 1998) - Five - When The Lights Go Out & TQ - Westside

Callum Ilott (11th November 1998) - Bravo All Stars - Let The Music Heal Your Soul

Benjamin Pedersen (11th May 1999) - Sheryl Crow - Anything But Down

Sheldon Van Der Linde (13th May 1999) - Sarah MacLachlan - Angel

Thomas Neubauer (8th June 1999) - Clay Walker - She's Always Right

Kakunoshin Ohta (22nd June 1999) - Ginuwine - What's So Different

Julien Andlauer (5th July 1999) - 98 Degrees - The Hardest Thing

Hunter McElrea (21st November 1999) - Donell Jones - U Know What's Up

Rory Van Der Steur (24th February 2000) - Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)

Colton Herta (30th March 2000) - Lonestar - Amazed

Anthony Bartone (27th April 2000) - Kenny Chesney - What I Need To Do

Felipe Drugovich (23rd May 2000) - Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway

Christian Rasmussen (29th June 2000) - Clint Black & Steve Wariner - Been There

Giacomo Altoe (5th October 2000) - Bon Jovi - It's My Life

Arthur Leclerc (14th October 2000) - Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

Nico Varrone (6th November 2000) - Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)

Dan Harper (8th December 2000) - Vitamin C - The Itch

Sebastian Priaulx (18th January 2001) - Keith Urban - But For The Grace Of God

Simon Mann (10th February 2001) - U2 - Beautiful Day

Roman De Angelis (15th February 2001) - Destiny's Child - Independent Women Pt 1

Neil Verhagen (18th February 2001) - Joe ft Mystikal - Stutter

Charles Milesi (4th March 2001) - OutKast - Ms Jackson

Lilou Wadoux (10th April 2001) - Ricky Martin & Christina Aguilera - Nobody Wants To Be Lonely

Karen Gaillard (29th June 2001) - Madonna - What It Feels Like For A Girl

Rasmus Lindh (6th July 2001) - Staind - It's Been Awhile

Max Hesse (23rd July 2001) - Matchbox Twenty - If You're Gone

Dylan Murry (16th September 2001) - Backstreet Boys - More Than That

Laurin Heinrick (26th September 2001) - Sum 41 - Fat Lip

Tom Gamble (7th November 2001) - Usher - U Remind Me

Frederik Vesti (13th January 2002) - Busta Rhymes - Break Ya Neck

Sebastian Alvaraz (8th July 2002) - Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles

Bijoy Garg (15th July 2002) - Creed - One Last Breath

Tom Sargent (1st December 2002) - Whitney Houston - One Of Those Days

Casper Stevenson (22nd April 2003) - Matchbox Twenty - Unwell

Bryce Aron (30th September 2003) - Tamia - Officially Missing You

Malthe Jakobsen (29th October 2003) - YoungBloodZ ft Lil Jon - Damn!

Tijmen Van Der Helm (26th January 2004) - Trillville - Neva Eva

Jonny Edgar (13th February 2004) - Mary J Blige ft Eve - Not Today

Nico Pino (21st September 2004) - Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Lorenzo Patrese (12th August 2005) - Lyfe Jennings - Must Be Nice

Seth Lucas (12th January 2006) - Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

Jake Walker (9th February 2006) - Gwen Stefani - Crash

Graham Doyle (4th March 2006) - Keith Urban - Tonight I Wanna Cry

Conrad Laursen (11th May 2006) - Dierks Bentley - Settle For A Slowdown

Connor Zilisch (22nd July 2006) - Pitbull - Bojangles

Nicola Lacorte (1st June 2007) - The Fray - How To Save A Life

Link to the playlist 😁😁

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unreleasedtaylorsongs · 9 months ago

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Finally got around to downloading each special guest performance from the Speak Now World Tour! Lots of the songs she did were obscure 2010’s hits that I didn’t even know the title of (Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, She’s So High by Tal Bachman, Live Your Life by T.I.) and a few of them were songs that were so good that you could sing them at a country music tour and everyone loved it, despite those being a completely different genre (Yeah! by Usher, Right Round by Flo Rida, Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae). There were 22 special guests on the Speak Now World Tour, my favorite being Selena Gomez with Who Says (my favorite song by her remains Rock God though). She also sang I’m Yours by Jason Mraz in full, and brought him out as a special guest in Los Angeles. She sang I’m Yours as a b-stage song as part of the setlist, mashed up with Fearless and Hey Soul Sister by Train. The final special guest was James Taylor, and they sang Fire and Rain together. That must’ve been cool as hell because imagine being named after a singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (he wasn’t when Taylor Swift was born but still), becoming a singer yourself, naming the artist you’re named after as one of your inspirations for becoming a songwriter, playing at Madison Square Garden, bringing out the guy you’re named after to sing with you and not only singing one of his songs, but also one of yours (Fifteen). She also has more than double the amount of Grammys that he has (James Taylor has six, Taylor Swift has fourteen. I don’t think Grammys are a completely accurate measure of success, but it is to a lot of people). Her life and success is so crazy to think about.

#taylor swift #unreleased #taylor swift rares #taylor swift unreleased #rare taylor swift #unreleased taylor swift #swiftie #trade #demo #swifties #live #live performance #live audio #live music #taylor swift live

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wickedadaar · 26 days ago

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OC Vibes Game: Lanti Arainai

Rules: Show a picture of your Rook, then 4 pictures and songs you think match their vibe. If anyone wants context, they can inquire in the comments.

#dragon age #dragon age veilguard #rrau #rooks roost au #oc: lanti arainai #oc vibes #Spotify

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bracketsoffear · 10 months ago

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Slaughter Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Slaughter Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!

Abercrombie, Joe: The Heroes Anderson, Poul: The Broken Sword

Bachman, Richard (Stephen King): Rage Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange

Chesterton, G.K.: The Sign Of The Broken Sword Christie, Agatha: Murder is Easy Colgan, Jenny T.: In the Blood Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness Coville, Bruce: The Japanese Mirror

Echeverría, Esteban: El matadero (The slaughteryard) Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho Evans, Robert: After the Revolution

Felker-Martin, Gretchen: Manhunt

Golding, William: Lord of the Flies

Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls Hendrix, Grady: The Final Girl Support Group Herbert, James: The Fog Hitler, Adolf: Mein Kampf Homer: The Iliad Howard, Robert E.: Rogues in the House Hunter, Erin: Warrior Cats

Icelandic Saga: The Saga of the Sworn Brothers

Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery Jarrell, Randall: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Kuang, Rebecca F.: The Poppy War

Lansdale, Joe R.: Down by the Sea near the Great Big Rock Laumer, Keith, et. al.: Bolo

Martin, George R.R.: A Song of Ice and Fire McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian Michelinie, David and Dean Wesley Smith: Carnage In New York Moody, David: Hater

Owen, Wilfred: Dulce et Decorum Est

Pendleton, Don: The Executioner Pratchett, Terry: Jingo Pratchett, Terry: THUD!

Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front Remender, Rick: Deadly Class

Schmitt, Carl: The Concept of the Political

Takami, Koushun: Battle Royale Thomas, Ryan C.: The Summer I Died Tzu, Sun: The Art of War

Vallejo, Fernando: La virgen de los sicarios (Our lady of the assasins)

Walsh, Rodolfo: Operación: masacre (Operation: Massacre) Weber, David: Honor Harrington

Abercrombie, Joe: The Heroes

The author explains in the foreword that he didn't just want to show that War is Hell, but to explore why it nevertheless has such a hold on human imagination. Thus, we get to see both the stupidity and waste and horror of it and the way it can turn men into monsters, but also examples of how it brings out the best in some people, and how the constant danger and the bonds among soldiers can be so addictive as to make someone who's gotten used to them feel like a peaceful civilian life is hardly worth living.

Anderson, Poul: The Broken Sword

The book tells the story of Skafloc Half Elf (actually a human stolen by the elves), son of Orm the Strong. The story begins with the marriage of Orm the Strong and Aelfrida of the English. Orm kills a witch's family on the land, and later half-converts to Christianity, but quarrels with the local priest and sends him off the land. Meanwhile, an elf, Imric, seeks out the witch to capture the son of Orm, Valgard. In his place he leaves a changeling called Valgard. The real Valgard is taken away to elven lands and named Skafloc by the elves. He grows up among the fairies there. Later, he has a significant part in a war against the trolls.

The eponymous weapon, named Tyrfing in the 1971 revision, was given to Skafloc as his naming-gift by the Aesir. He later travels to the ends of the Earth to have it reforged by Bolverk, the Ice Giant.

Anderson wrote the book during the Cold War, and it does reflect on the story. For example, the Elf-Troll conflict is basically a proxy war between two great powers, the Aesir and the Jotuns; the latter two do not fight directly because that would lead to Ragnarok, the final battle in which most of the world would be destroyed. The parallel to the real-world threat of nuclear war is obvious. Even the titular sword may be an allusion to nuclear weapons; Skafloc contemplates throwing the sword into the sea, but realizes someone - probably much less moral than himself - would eventually find and use it.

Bachman, Richard (Stephen King): Rage

A controversial psychological thriller novel about a disturbed high-school student with authority problems who one day kills one of his teachers and takes the rest of his class hostage. Over the course of one long, tense and unbearable hot afternoon, this student, named Charlie Decker, explains what led him to this drastic sequence of events, while at the same time deconstructing the personalities of his classmates, forcing each one to justify his or her existence.

The novel has been associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. In response, the author allowed the novel to fall out of print (though it can still be found and read), and has even explicitly requested that no future printings are made.

A rare, disturbing book allegedly linked to actual horrible events in real life, and whose own author wants nothing to do with? What's more Leitner than that?

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It tells the story of Charlie Decker, an inexplicably volatile high school senior who decides to storm his algebra class, shoot his teacher and take the students hostage. The book became infamous after it was associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s, with the author letting it fall deliberately out of print in 1997 after the book was found in the locker of a teenager who had killed three classmates and injured five others.

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The story is about a disturbed high schooler who, after being expelled, shoots his teacher and takes the rest of his class hostage.

Stephen King requested the novel to be pulled out of circulation after its connection to several similar school shooting incidents possibly inspired by it. It is a real life Leitner.

Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange

The novel is narrated by Alex, a young man who leads a gang of “droogs” and takes pleasure in “ultra-violence.” After being arrested and convicted of murder, Alex undergoes an experimental procedure that is intended to cure him of his violent tendencies.

Chesterton, G.K.: The Sign Of The Broken Sword

"Where would a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. If there were no forest, he would make a forest. And if he wished to hide a dead leaf, he would make a dead forest. And if a man had to hide a dead body, he would make a field of dead bodies to hide it in."

A Father Brown tale, filled with war, bloody passions, broken blades, and of course, murder.

General Sir Arthur St. Clare provoked a completely unnecessary military battle and defeat purely to cover up the fact that he had killed one of his men in a bout of rage. He was then in turn overpowered and hanged by his own surviving soldiers in revenge.

Christie, Agatha: Murder is Easy

During his travel back home from an overseas job, former policeman Luke Fitzwilliam comes across Miss Lavinia Pinkerton (in some editions her last name is Fullerton), an elderly lady who's on her way to Scotland Yard. A serial killer seems to be loose in her home village of Wychwood under Ashe, and she believes she knows who the next victim will be. Luke secretly thinks she's making this up, but her similiarity to his favorite aunt leads him to humor her.

The next day, Luke reads about Miss Pinkerton's death, then about the death of Dr. John Humbleby a few days later. Dr. Humbleby was the one the affable old lady thought would die next. While the cause of his death seems to be thanks to an infection, Luke decides to look into the matter himself.

Pretending to be a researcher into superstitions and witchcraft, Luke begins his investigation into the multiple deaths. What all the deaths have in common is that the victims were largely seen as pests and none of them seemed to have died by foul play. With the help of Bridget Conway, a secretary of Lord Whitfield (in some editions he's called Easterfield) who's much smarter than she looks, Luke might be able to figure out who the murderer is and stop the killings for good.

The serial killer kills anyone who is in any way disliked by their real target, Lord Whitfield, with the ultimate goal of pinning all the murders on him. If that sounds completely insane, that's because it is.

Colgan, Jenny T.: In the Blood

Summary: "All over the world, people are "ghosting" each other on social media. Dropping their friends, giving vent to their hatred, and everywhere behaving with incredible cruelty. Even Donna has found that her friend Hettie, with her seemingly perfect life and fancy house, has unfriended her. And now, all over the world, internet trolls are dying...

As more and more people give in to this wave of bitterness and aggression, it's clear this is no simple case of modern living. This is unkindness as a plague. From the streets of London to the web cafes of South Korea and the deepest darkest forests of Rio, can the Doctor and Donna find the cause of this unhappiness before it's too late?"

Why it's Slaughter: Yeah, it's anger as a bloodborne disease, basically. You get angrier and more violent, spreading the disease further -- and then your heart can't take any more and it explodes.

Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . . In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness

In Heart of Darkness, various European powers are exploiting Africa for its riches and resources while leaving little or nothing to the Africans who are laboring under them. Through Marlow, Conrad shows the horrors of colonialism and concludes that the Europeans, not the Africans, are the true savages.

Coville, Bruce: The Japanese Mirror

"Jonathan is noted for having had a foul temper that made him yell at anyone who triggered it, until the titular mirror begins absorbing his anger after he gets his blood on it... and the thing inside begins to stir."

Echeverría, Esteban: El matadero (The slaughteryard)

Argentina, 1839. A young man dies for his political beliefs when attacked by a mob in a slaughteryard used to butcher cattle.

The story takes place at the height of Juan Manuel de Rosas’ reign of terror. Though fictional, it is an open indictment of that brutal regime and the first masterwork of Latin-American literature, orginally published twenty years after the author’s death. El matadero, or The Slaughteryard, is reputed to be the most widely studied school text in Spanish-speaking South America.

Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho

Patrick Bateman is a yuppie's yuppie. He works on Wall Street, has a pretty girlfriend, and spends most of his free time in trendy restaurants and clubs. However, he is also a psychotic killer who often hallucinates and murders people in increasingly horrific ways, often over the most trivial of provocations or for no reason whatsoever.

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It follows the life of Patrick Bateman, a wealthy and handsome investment banker living in Manhattan in the 1980s. Beneath his polished exterior lies a psychopathic killer who preys on his victims without remorse. Bateman's exploits quickly grow more and more extreme, and his mask of sanity starts to slip.

Patrick Bateman's murders (or hallucinations of murders) are often over the most trivial of provocations or for no reason whatsoever. It is a book about the Slaughter.

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Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

Evans, Robert: After the Revolution

Roland the Super-Soldier has cybernetic implants that reward him with a sense of euphoria for killing and battle. As a result, Roland is a highly reluctant fighter because he knows he will lose himself to bloodlust if he ever sees enough fighting and tries to deafen out his implants with lots and lots and lots of drugs. The Battle of Waco sees him fully jump off the wagon and he ends up killing well over a thousand people while on a battle-induced high, even going so far as to hunt down escaping survivors and people trying to surrender to chase the thrill.

Felker-Martin, Gretchen: Manhunt

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.

Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.

Golding, William: Lord of the Flies

A group of boys wind up stranded together on a deserted island. While they initially intended to work together, the boys wind up separating into faction and come to grow hostile and distrusting of one another. Eventually, the boys turn to violence, malice, and eventual murder in order to stay alive, with mob mentality and fear gripping them all.

Also important is the fact that the boys are stranded trying to ESCAPE a war, and then get so caught up in fear and desperation to survive that they initiate war among themselves, resulting in a cruel cycle of perpetuating the violence and death they feared and sought to get away from. Essentially it's a commentary on war itself and the things fear can drive people to do, reducing them to base instincts.

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Stranded on an island, the fragile social constructs between a group of British schoolboys break down, and they revert to mindless violence and murder.

Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Hendrix, Grady: The Final Girl Support Group

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl. She witnessed and survived not one, but two mass killings and the events have left her traumatized and constantly looking over her shoulder. And she's not alone. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other actual final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their lives back together.

The support group has to keep their very existence secret. Each of the women were able to turn their events into movie franchises, to varying degrees of success. Fans of both the original killers and the films they inspired are known to stalk and harass them, along with anyone who thinks that getting a good soundbite to sell could be their ticket to fame and fortune.

Then one day, one of the women misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.

Herbert, James: The Fog

an earthquake cracks open a secret bioweapon buried underground for disposal, and which causes people and animals who breathe it to go utterly homicidal. The main plot surrounds Jon Holman, an Environmental Officer for the British government, who is present at the fog's dramatic entrance and spends most of the book trying to stop the fog; meanwhile, Herbert occasionally takes us on little side trips to see what horrible thing the fog is making happen next.

Hitler, Adolf: Mein Kampf

A hateful book made by a hateful man, definetly. I dont know if you gonna put it, just submiting this here just in case.....

Homer: The Iliad

(Unless otherwise noted, translations are by Peter Green.)

"Goddess, sing of the cataclysmic wrath of great Achilles, son of Peleus, which caused the Greeks immeasurable pain and sent so many noble souls of heroes to Hades…"

(translation by Emily Wilson)

The Iliad is the archetypical war story. It traces the destructive path of the demigod Achilles, who sets in motion a devastating series of events when he refuses to fight the Trojans in a pique of pride. The infamous catalogue of ships in Book 2 gives a sense of the mind-numbing scale of a war fought over something as intangible as the pride of men and gods. The lavish descriptions of battle and the accounts of individual deaths and wounds give a sense of the utter devastation of war and the grief it leaves behind:

"Not in vain from [Diomēdēs's] hand did the missile fly, but struck Phēgeus full in mid-breast, threw him clear of his horses. Then from the fine-crafted chariot Idaios sprang down, but dared not make a stand over his slain brother, nor would he himself have escaped the black death spirit without the aid of Hēphaistos, who saved him, hid him in darkness, to ensure that aged Darēs [father of Phēgeus and Idaios] was not wholly undone by grief."

Without the help of Achilles, the Trojans begin to gain ground on the Greeks. Torn between his pride and his concern for his comrades, Achilles agrees to let his beloved Patroclus disguise himself in Achilles' armor to hearten the Greeks and scare the Trojans:

"All at once [the Greeks] came charging out like a swarm of wasps by the roadside that boys have a way of provoking to fury, constantly teasing them in their nests along the highway, as children will, creating a widespread nuisance, so that if some traveler passing by should happen to annoy them by accident, they with aggressive spirit all come buzzing out in defense of their offspring-- like them in heart and spirit the Myrmidons now streamed forth from the ships, and an endless clamor arose…"

Hector, prince of Troy kills Patroclus and unleashes the unbridled wrath of Achilles, who becomes so enraged he slaughters every Trojan in his path so gruesomely he enrages the River itself:

"Achilles, scion of Zeus, now left his spear on the bank, leaning against a tamarisk, and charged in like a demon, armed only with his sword, horrific deeds in mind. He turned and struck at random, and ghastly cries went up from those caught by his sword: the water ran red with blood…"

"My lovely streams are currently all awash with corpses; I can't get to discharge my waters into the bright sea, I'm so choked with the dead, while you ruthlessly keep on killing!"

When the River almost drowns Achilles, he's terrified--not of death, but of being robbed the glory of his promised death at the hands of the Trojans:

"If only Hektōr had killed me, the best-bred warrior here, / then noble had been the slayer, noble the man he slew…"

In The Iliad, war is destruction and grief but simultaneously honor and glory, and Achilles is only one of the many characters who move through its battlefields like the incarnation of Slaughter itself.

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Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.

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I mean it's a big ol' war story! The wrath of Achilles alone is the stuff of Slaughter-aligned nightmares.

Howard, Robert E.: Rogues in the House

One of the Conan the Cimmerian short stories http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600781h.html

From TV Tropes: "Conan is sitting in prison after killing a priest (he had it coming) when he is approached by a nobleman named Murillo, who has a proposition for him: kill the Red Priest Nabonidus for him, and he will provide Conan a horse, a sack of gold, and a one way ticket out of town and away from the gallows.

Conan escapes from jail, and, after dealing with the prostitute who turned him in, heads off to Nabonidus's mansion. Conan tries entering through the sewer, only to get stuck down there thanks to one of the mansions traps. While down there, he runs into Murillo, who had arrives there first with the intention of killing Nabonidus himself, thinking Conan had high tailed it out of town. They soon discover Nabonidus trapped down there as well, a prisoner in his own home.

Turns out Nabonidus's servant, a man-ape named Thak, has rebelled against his master, and now uses the assortment of traps set around the mansion to keep out unwanted guests (and keep his prisoners in). The three rogues will have to work together if they ever want to get out of the mansion alive, lest they fall victim to Thak, or perhaps, to each other."

Hunter, Erin: Warrior Cats

Warrior Cats is a series about a society at constant war. It is known for having an excessive amount of gore and violence for a children’s series, and this exact violence is the subject of many pieces of fanart. What’s more, the Warrior Cats community frequently animates the battle sequences and violence to music.

This is a series in which war is a simple fact of life (it’s called Warriors for a reason). There is no real end to this constant conflict, the continuous cycle of bloodshed. The series is still ongoing. It’s been 21 years. These cats are still fighting and fighting and fighting for generation after generation.

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This one didn't get past round 2 in the Hunt and honestly I think it deserves a Slaughter win more. It takes place in a kitty civilization where the characters are very frequently battling over very important subjects such as who gets to own a pile of rocks or some cat catching a rabbit on the wrong side of the border. There's brief periods of peace and allyship, but most of the time, tensions are present and everybody is probably willing to start beating each other up if they scent another clan on their territory. The violence isn't instinct or the thrill of it beyond the fact that these are still cats who hunt prey, but it's still rather irrational in many cases. The only real path in life you can have in a clan which isn't committing to causing and withstanding senseless violence is the path of healing that senseless violence, seeing cats you can't save die and also not being able to have children or a mate ever, which isn't even something you can choose to do without approval from cat heaven most times, meaning that you'll most likely be locked into a cycle of mindless battles over that one guy from the other clan accidentally marking the wrong side of the border.

This is also how you get brand new artists in the age range the books are for drawing cat violence and death with their limited skills before they somehow become the best artists you've ever seen while still probably drawing lots of cat violence and death. These murder cat books have an unexplained impact on young artists who will be drawing the same scenes of their pick for the saddest cat death years later. It also gets people making their own stories inspired by it, which are often still cat soap operas with plenty of senseless violence (source: 9 year old me had one of these bloody cat soap opera stories inspired by Warriors), and might even lead to Warriors rps with similar amounts of violence.

Icelandic Saga: The Saga of the Sworn Brothers

"About a decade after Iceland has converted to Christianity, best friends Thorgeir Havarson and Thormod Bersason grow up together in the Icelandic Westfjords. Teachings of love and forgiveness are, alas! all wasted on Thorgeir and Thormod, who feel they are not cut out for a pacifist lifestyle, and intend to shape their lives in the ways of the vikings of old. As they believe it is their destiny to die fighting, the two make a pact that whoever of them lives longer will avenge the other, and seal the deal by performing the rites of fóstbrœðralag, sworn brotherhood. Naturally, there comes a time when the fearsome warrior Thorgeir gets himself killed, leaving the scrawny poet Thormod with the duty to avenge his death."

And, oh boy, does he ever.

Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery

“A fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not revealed until the end what actually happens to the person selected by the random lottery: the selected member of the community is stoned to death by the other townspeople.”

Jarrell, Randall: The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Kuang, Rebecca F.: The Poppy War

"When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies(…) That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.(…) Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.

For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . ."

Series heavily focused on slaughter and war.

Lansdale, Joe R.: Down by the Sea near the Great Big Rock

A family on vacation camps out near the titular rock. Over time they become increasingly snappish with each other and thinking violent thoughts. It culminates in a bloody massacre off-screen whose aftermath horrifies one of the investigating detectives. The story ends with the great big rock sprouting flippers, the slaughter having sated its hunger, and swimming into the sea. The fish that swim near it start fighting each other.

Laumer, Keith, et. al.: Bolo

"Bolos might fail. They might die and be destroyed. But they did not surrender, and they never — ever — quit."

A series of stories, originally by Keith Laumer, that were later expanded into a Shared Universe by other authors. They detail the exploits of the Bolo, autonomous AI tanks that are supposed to have evolved from the standard main battle tank of the 20th century.

These aren't your normal tanks. For one, their designers decided that bigger was better, and since the only thing that could really take down a Bolo was another Bolo, they just kept building the Bolos bigger and bigger, to the point where even the stealth tanks mass 1,500 tons. Or in some novels the Mark XXXIII weighs 32,000 tons.

There are plenty of examples of why this is Slaughter, but the aptly-named Final War, culminating in a mutual campaign of total extermination between humans and Melconians that turned a whole spiral arm of the Milky Way into a lifeless waste of dead or hopelessly contaminated planets, takes the cake. It is notable that plans of Operation Ragnarok, the human half of the equation of genocide, were based on a scenario initially created to illustrate utter madness of such campaign. Even the eponymous sapient supertanks start cracking under the weight of their orders by the end, succumbing to bloodlust. When one of the very few surviving Bolos, Shiva, reawakens, he is horrified by the atrocities that he himself had not been above committing under the pretense of following orders.

Martin, George R.R.: A Song of Ice and Fire

Torture, war, bloodshed, sadism... it would be easier to list the aspects of Slaughter this *doesn't* include.

McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian

An extremely dark and vicious deconstruction of the Western novel, with the central antagonist of Judge Holden, a violent, well-educated man who believes that "war is god" and appears to be solely motivated by the desire to propagate violence and pain. While the Glanton gang were already despicable and vile people, he corrupts them even further into his depraved frame of mind, succeeding with all but the protagonist... who he later kills violently.

Michelinie, David and Dean Wesley Smith: Carnage In New York

Spider-Man rescues Dr. Eric Catrall, a scientist, from government agents. Simultaneously, serial killer Cletus Kasady is brought to New York to undergo an experiment that would purge him of the Carnage symbiote, which is bonded to his bloodstream. Catrall infiltrates the experiment and in the confusion Carnage escapes, taking Catrall with him. When Catrall turns up in jail, Spider-Man learns he had invented a chemical that drives people insane with bloodlust, and the government wants it back in order to weaponize it. Even worse, the serum is now in Carnage's possession. Spider-Man is forced to go toe-to-talon with one of his most dangerous foes to retrieve the serum, which could make all of New York just as bloodthirsty as Carnage himself.

Moody, David: Hater

Something is wrong with society these days. The news gives reports of people just suddenly deciding to kill other people: enemies, strangers, coworkers, friends, family. Random. Brutal. For seemingly no reason.

Enter the protagonist, The Everyman: He lives a mundane life, married with children, slaves away for a paycheck under a miserable bitch of a boss. He stops going to work and barricades himself with his family inside their home until it's over because he starts seeing people mowing down other people in real life, on the street and at work, not just on television, which has basically gone off the air, and is now displaying the message, "REMAIN CALM DO NOT PANIC TAKE SHELTER WAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL".

By the end of the book, the main character realizes he is a Hater and then kills his father-in-law with plans to kill the rest of his family save for his daughter.

Owen, Wilfred: Dulce et Decorum Est

If you can't place why the name Wilfred Owen sounds so familiar, you might recognize him from MAG 7, "The Piper." That's right: the historical Owen's poetry dovetails so perfectly with the themes of the Slaughter, he becomes a character in the Entity's first appearance in the series!

It's really tempting to quote the entirety of "Dulce et Decorum Est" because all of it fits the slaughter so well, but instead I'll just provide a link. (pollrunner’s note: they did not provide a link)

The short of it is that the poem reflects the experiences Owen had in the trenches of World War I. Owen titles the poem after "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori. [How sweet and proper it is / To die for your fatherland.]" He therefore excoriates people in his society who encourage young men to go to war, despite never having "pace[d] / Behind the wagon we flung [a soldier dying from a chemical attack] in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin…."

Owen's poem is the perfect representation of the visceral, disgusting trauma of witnessing your comrades slaughtered by the early twentieth century's newly industrialized war.

Pendleton, Don: The Executioner

"I am not their judge. These people have judged themselves by their own actions. I am their judgment. I am their executioner."

Mack Bolan (nicknamed "The Executioner" by his fellow soldiers) is an elite sniper/penetration specialist in The Vietnam War when he receives word that his father Sam, a steelworker in Pittsfield, has gone insane and shot dead his wife Elsa and daughter Cynthia ("Cindy"). On talking to the Sole Survivor, younger brother Johnny, Bolan discovers that his father was being squeezed by Mafia Loan Sharks and, on hearing that his daughter was prostituting herself to cover his debt, snapped under the pressure.

Figuring there's no point in fighting a war 8,000 miles away when there's a bigger enemy right here at home, Mack Bolan sets forth on a one-man crusade to destroy The Mafia, using all the military weapons and tactics at his disposal including heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, sniper rifles, night-vision scopes, radio-detonated explosives, electronic surveillance, silenced handguns and the garrotte. Bolan is also fond of using wiles to turn his enemies against each other.

Inspired the character of The Punisher. Being in the Mafia (no matter how distant the link) is punishable by death. Doesn't matter if you just are an errand boy, you are guilty and must die.

Pratchett, Terry: Jingo

"‘Neighbours… hah. People’d live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.’ When the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, those are going to be some pretty large garden tools indeed. Of course, no one would dream of starting a war without a perfectly good reason… such as a ‘strategic’ piece of old rock in the middle of nowhere. It is, after all, every citizen’s right to bear arms to defend their own. Even if it isn’t technically their own. And even if they don’t have much in the way of actual weaponry. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him . . . and that’s just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse."

Pratchett, Terry: THUD!

It's a Discworld book following Sam Vimes, commander of the city watch, trying to get to the bottom of a murder and quell tensions between the dwarf and troll communities in the city of Ankh Morpork. Thud! Is a book all about violence, in all it's different scales. Starting with War, the War of Koom Valley being a rallying cry that never fades, making every conflict between dwarves and trolls it's own little Koom Valley. From war to mob violence, fear and bile, assassin's sent to Vimes's house to kill his son with a flamethrower. Then down to quiet, horrible murder in the dark, betrayal so bad that the victim's last action calls up a quasi demonic force of pure vengeance.

This force, the summoning dark, possessed Vimes. He's always been an angry character, but also a man with supreme self control, who knows if you do a thing for a good reason, you'll do it for a bad one. through the narration we can see how the summoning dark strengthens his violent impulses and kneejerk reactions, his biases and anger, making him go on rants in his head about how "someone will burn for this! Burn!".

Although it has aspects of Dark to it, it's much more a book about the violence in people, any kind of people. One of its iconic scenes is of a thoroughly civilian clerk named A.E. Pessimal going postal and throwing himself into a riot, even biting a troll, which are made of rock in discworld!

Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front

"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . ."

"This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive."

Remender, Rick: Deadly Class

It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus on class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn't always metaphorical.

Schmitt, Carl: The Concept of the Political

In The Concept of the Political, composed in 1927 and fully elaborated in 1932, Schmitt defined “the political” as the eternal propensity of human collectivities to identify each other as “enemies”—that is, as concrete embodiments of “different and alien” ways of life, with whom mortal combat is a constant possibility and frequent reality. Schmitt assumed that the zeal of group members to kill and die on the basis of a nonrational faith in the substance binding their collectivities refuted basic Enlightenment and liberal tenets. According to Schmitt, the willingness to die for a substantive way of life contradicts both the desire for self-preservation assumed by modern theories of natural rights and the liberal ideal of neutralizing deadly conflict, the driving force of modern European history from the 16th to the 20th century.

Takami, Koushun: Battle Royale

The story tells of junior high school students who are forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by a fictional, fascist, totalitarian Japanese government known as the Republic of Greater East Asia.

Thomas, Ryan C.: The Summer I Died

So much screaming. When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his best friend, Tooth, he knows they're going to have a good time. A summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, and maybe even girls. So much pain. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures, two friends-- So much blood. --suddenly thrust in the middle of a nightmare. Forced to fight for their life against a sadistic killer. A killer with an arsenal of razor sharp blades and a hungry dog by his side. So much death. If they are to survive, they must decide: are heroes born, or are they made? Or is something more powerful happening to them? And more importantly, how do you survive when all roads lead to death!

Tzu, Sun: The Art of War

It's an entire manifesto on how to conduct warfare effectively, ranging from hand to hand combat to military tactics. It's expansive and detailed and is still utilized today despite being hundreds of years old. Also I'm convinced my copy of it IS a Leitner because every single time I go and read it to get content, an armed conflict somewhere in the world pops up on my news feed a day or two later. It's spooky.

Vallejo, Fernando: La virgen de los sicarios (Our lady of the assasins)

A novel set in the backstreets of Medellin, Colombia, captures the lives of the beggars, thieves, drug addicts, and other lost souls of a city overwhelmed by the drug trade.

Walsh, Rodolfo: Operación: masacre (Operation: Massacre)

1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956: sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo Walsh learns by chance that one of the executed civilians from a separate, secret execution in June, is alive. He hears that there may be more than one survivor and believes this unbelievable story on the spot. And right there, the monumental classic Operation Massacre is born.

Walsh made it his mission to find not only the survivors but widows, orphans, political refugees, fugitives, alleged informers, and anonymous heroes, in order to determine what happened that night, sending him on a journey that took over the rest of his life.

Originally published in 1957, Operation Massacre thoroughly and breathlessly recounts the night of the execution and its fallout.

Weber, David: Honor Harrington

Military Science Fiction series by David Weber. The book series is mainly set around the adventures of the titular heroine, although we see a fair amount of the wider universe. Weber has explicitly described the series as "Horatio Hornblower" IN SPACE! with the series being a great deal more focused on (Space) Naval operations than other science fiction series. Honor Harrington occasionally performs ground-based and political adventures, but the vast majority of the series is focused on her ship-to-ship conflicts, where she serves as commanding officer. A lot of military combat and dueling.

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Chapter 24 and 25 of the Star Wars Clone Wars shorts lead directly into the beginning of Star Wars episode III Revenge of the Sith. Chapter 24 originally aired on March 24, 2005. In the episode, Shaak Ti was trying to prevent Palpatine from being kidnapped by General Greivous and his forces. ("Chapter 24" Star Wars: Clone Wars, TV Event)

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Robbie Basho — Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan: The Lost Live Recordings (Tompkins Square)

Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan : The Lost Live Recordings by Robbie Basho

The rediscovery of the guitarist, composer, and singer who presented himself to the world as Robbie Basho continues with this release of more than four hours of live recordings from his too-brief career (1965-1986). Snow Beneath the Belly of a White Swan is a major achievement, equally successful as documentation of the underappreciated composer and performer and as vital and beautiful music. Like Song of the Avatars (2020), which gathered unreleased demos and studio recordings, this collection, also released by Tompkins Square, expands significantly the amount of Basho’s music that is available. Packaged with archival photos and images of concert posters, the 30 live tracks (presented over five CDs in the physical release) provide a fascinating perspective on Basho’s music and its context.

Basho’s often lengthy excursions on acoustic guitar, at times accompanied by powerful and eerie singing, came to the attention of John Fahey, whose Takoma Records released a series of his albums in the mid to late 1960s. Featuring eclectic mysticism and showcasing stunning, if unorthodox, guitar and vocal technique, none of these albums sold particularly well. However, constant shows at coffee shops, bars, and college campuses across the country managed to land Basho a contract with the celebrated Vanguard label for a few years in the early 1970s. His Vanguard recordings also failed to attract a large audience, though, and he soldiered on with touring and small-batch releases on his own or on obscure new age labels until his death from overly aggressive chiropractic treatment in 1986.

Basho lived precariously on the edge of the music industry, a professional musician who was shy and socially awkward, a product of hippy culture who eschewed drugs (“I’m completely straight,” he declares before playing “Autumn Nocturne”) and was apparently devoid of guile or irony. As Robbie Dawson discusses in the liner notes, in the pre-digital era, Basho was never represented by an agent and had to rely on word of mouth, the post office, and phone calls to schedule his tours and market his recordings, usually with little or no support from a label. The unfavorable reviews that Dawson quotes and tepid applause following some of the tracks documented here suggest the difficulty that Basho experienced finding and connecting with audiences. All the more remarkable, then, are the passion and commitment that he demonstrates onstage.

Such challenges aside, these recordings demonstrate how accomplished a musician Basho was. Largely self-taught, his approach to the guitar and singing tends toward maximalism without being overblown. His fingerpicking on the six- and 12-string (it is sometimes difficult to tell which he’s playing) ranges from delicate (e.g., “Silver Curls”) to ferocious (“Charles Ives Paints Modern America”), sometimes within the same tune (“Portrait of Fahey as a Young Dragoon”). His influence is so pervasive in modern Takoma school guitar music (Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, James Blackshaw, Daniel Bachman, etc.) that its revolutionary character is easy to forget, and Snow Beneath the Belly serves as a reminder of his uniqueness.

The standout tracks include what seem to be the longest recorded versions of “Cathedrals et Fleur de Lis” and “California Raga,” both of which unfurl with stately majesty and offer insights into Basho’s thinking as a composer. Some tunes, such as “The Golden Shamrock,” which crackles with energy, are close to the studio versions, showing evidence of careful polishing. Other live versions differ from the studio versions in interesting ways. “Orphan’s Lament” on guitar — rather than piano, as it appears on Visions of the Country (1978) — sounds every bit as mournful and a little more emotionally raw; “Chung Mei” sounds a little more conventional without the wonderful whistling that features on the studio recording; and the live version of “Green River Suite” appears as an instrumental rather than vocal number.

There are also a fair number of previously unknown or unpublished titles that will delight Basho-philes. At least some of these seem to be earlier or alternative versions of known tunes. “In the Meadows,” for instance, is reminiscent of “The Dharma Prince,” and the title track bears a passing resemblance to “Pavan Hindustan.” “Bear Medicine,” on the other hand, starts out with harmonics and a riff suggestive of John Fahey’s “America” before going off in a different direction.

Fahey is, in fact, a recurrent background figure in Snow Beneath the Belly. To begin with, two of the tracks are covers of his tunes (one each from his first two albums), being among the very few covers in Basho’s recorded output, and Fahey’s name appears in one of the song titles. Also, Basho repeatedly mentions Fahey in his stage banter. For instance, after crediting Fahey with the cover songs, he says proudly, “John Fahey is my friend,” and he repeats this claim at the end of “Song of God,” though it is difficult to imagine the sarcastic and irascible Fahey similarly describing the earnest and gentle Basho, of whom he once said “I never hung out with Robbie personally much. Nobody did. You couldn't.” Basho also introduces “Himalayan Highlands” as intended for Fahey’s wedding. It is fortunate for the development of guitar music that these two young men — both transplants from the Northeast to California shaped in part by childhood traumas and driven by idiosyncratic artistic visions — found each other, and Fahey deserves credit for recognizing the quality of Basho’s work (including his singing), releasing six of his albums, and helping revive interest in him through the release of the Bashovia collection on CD in 2001.

Basho’s banter is a delight throughout, showing him alternatively confident and diffident. In the introduction to “Chaconne Fandango” (which indicates that the title should read “Chicano” rather than “Chaconne”), he describes the tune as “a fun number” (though “Fahey said I was too serious”); interestingly, this peppy tune is greeted by fairly thunderous applause. He acknowledges making mistakes, for instance, declaring “I’m three for four this evening” before “Cathedrals et Fleur de Lis,” and reflects on his process, introducing “California Raga” as “a new type of music I’ve been working on for some time.” His devotion to the Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba is also on display in the dedication of his performance at the beginning to “Song of God.”

Some of these recordings have been released previously. This version of “A Song of Kings,” for example, appears on the Live at St. Mary’s College of California set recorded in the mid-1970s, and “Charles Ives Paints Modern America” is included in the Portrait of Basho as a Young Dragoon collection, both released in 2010s by the apparently now defunct Grass-Tops Recordings. “Kowaka d’ Amour” appeared on the Tompkins Square compilation Imaginational Anthem 2 (2006), and “Chaconne Fandango” is the same as “Fandango” found on the 1/29/75 demos, also released by Grass-Tops. In every case, the sound quality of the Snow Beneath the Belly version is superior. This collection is not, however, comprehensive; for example, the Reed College bootleg recordings from August 4, 1967 are not represented.

Over all, the sound quality is remarkably good given that these recordings were mainly sourced from Basho’s decades-old personal tape archive. The remastered digital files come across warm and full, and the vocals and guitar are well-balanced. The few tunes, such as “Wonder Song,” that are of sound low quality are worthy of inclusion, in this case because this specific title is not found elsewhere and the playing and singing are prime Basho (and, indeed, the tape distortion of Basho’s voice serendipitously contributes to the power of this performance).

Tompkins Square deserves praise for cleaning up this trove of material and making it available in an attractive passage with well-written liner notes. Robbie Basho was a singular talent whose music, like Fahey’s, seems certain to find an audience in every new generation, and his live recordings, as this collection shows, are a vital part of that legacy.

Jim Marks

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