#john ellison

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Ribbons

Ribbons I cut the ribbons from my life to mark the pagesof the loves that made me cry, of the sleeplessnights knowing everyone has gone, from fieldsemptied over many years. I bravely look on. I wonder, will you remember my warm hand onyour hand, cooling as you slept away from me,the ribbon that kept us together now in a boxon my desk. The color of my life without you. I learned how to not grow…

[spilladabalia]

The Chemical Brothers - The Darkness That You Fear

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W A T C H I N G

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Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien (1989)

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The gofundme for SpyBoy's medical bills has stalled out at $430 of the $5200 we need. My husband is applying for jobs, and has a couple of interviews lined up, but...we're hurting. I have a large collection of books...signed first editions, fancy leather bound limited editions, etc. I'm going to be listing them for sale on ebay soon. If you see something you're interested in, let me know and we'll talk price and details. Signed and numbered limited edition leather bound John Varley, signed Mercedes Lackey, signed and numbered Poppy Z. Brite, signed Harlan Ellison, and more!

Here's the gofundme link for SpyBoy's vet bills: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-spy-boy-urgent-medical-funds-needed My Venmo is @GwyndynAlexander

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Whenever I watch John Waters’ films or read a Harlan Ellison book, I can’t help but wonder if they ever met. Sometimes, I even imagine whether they could have been friends—maybe with Harlan even striking up a friendship with Divine. Honestly, if they ever did cross paths or become friends, I’d love nothing more than to get high with them and dive into the most out-of-pocket conversations imaginable.

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2x22 Born to Run

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The Undying Monster (1942)

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mother / daughter films

the brooke ellison story ( 2004 ) dir. christopher reeves

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cameron + will you join us?

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The phantom of the opera (2004).

Dir. Joel Schumacher / dop: John Mathieson.

[goatpalacezine]

Approaching the holy

Artifact Love the deadlove all the deadremember every faceevery dying placeand the sound of every voicetheir hair and their handsand the way they returnto youwhen you hear a songyou didn’t knowbut that sounds like it comesfrom inside you someplacelike a namelike a lightlike a clocklike a warning Safe This cool glass nightthis wind, this uncertain lightspeak to me lowlike firemy memory is a…

[51kas81]

Mark Harmon & John Finn in NCIS S9.E8 Engaged part I (2011)

[osmiumpenguin]

It's solstice night again, and time to recount the books I've best loved over the past year.

My second-favourites

Here, in order of their first publication, are a whole lot of books I read for the first time this year, and loved.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë (1848)

Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1927)

Strong Poison, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930)

Have His Carcase, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1932)

The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1934)

The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut (1959)

The Edible Woman, by Margaret Atwood (1969)

Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones (1977)

The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch — "Angouleme", by Samuel R. Delany (1978, revised 2014)

The Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne Jones (1981)

Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones (1986)

The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing (1988)

The Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynne Jones (1988)

Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean (1991)

The Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynne Jones (1998)

Ben, in the World, by Doris Lessing (2000)

The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler (2004)

The Pinhoe Egg, by Diana Wynne Jones (2006)

Stonemouth, by Iain Banks (2012)

The Quarry, by Iain Banks (2013)

Swing Time, by Zadie Smith (2016)

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune (2020)

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins (2020)

The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey (2021)

Machinehood, by S.B. Divya (2021)

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (2021)

Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021)

On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World, by Danya Ruttenberg (2022)

Shirley Estar Goes to Heaven, by Winston Rowntree (2024)

My favourites

But I loved a few books even more: books which touched me more, taught me more, more valuably rewired my brain, and reminded me just how good a book can be. Sentence and solaas, baby.

Here — once again, in order of their first publication — were my ten favourite books I read in 2024.

Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935)

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952)

The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (1955)

334, by Thomas M. Disch (1972)

We Who Are about to..., by Joanna Russ (1977)

Fire & Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones (1985)

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & D͟r͟e͟a͟m͟s͟ ͟D͟e͟f͟e͟r͟r͟e͟d͟, by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (2021)

Fayne, by Ann-Marie MacDonald (2022)

Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant (2023)

The Fraud, by Zadie Smith (2023)

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Weird Tales Illustrated house ad (circa January 1992)

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