#john underhill

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to captain John Underhill, who took the last name to honor his hobbit ancestors

[tumb1rprincess]

Fuck, fuck, fuck, oh god, the build up in this episode was fucking insane. It starts off so slow at first: Frank’s voice showing up, John and Arthur slowly turning on each other until everything just explodes. And then all the hallucinations start barreling in one after the other. The sound design was so good on this one, it scared the shit out of me. I think we heard Faroe drowning for a couple of seconds and my stomach just dropped. And you can hear John trying to reach Arthur, but his voice sounds so far away, almost like it’s underwater too. And now it sounds Arthur is stuck in this “prison pits” place and the King in Yellow is going to keep him there until he cracks. Ugh, my stomach is in knots, the tension is killing me.

[gelukart]

The madness?? More like uhhhh rrrr ummmm errr idk John is jealous

Malevolent doodles

Pervious - Next

[eldritchqueerture]

girls (me) will be obsessed with some cringefail guys from a call of cthulhu campaign streamed 8 years ago that no one's heard about that now haunt the narrative of the Malevolent podcast

[psychedelic-charm]

Why is Rip Hayman half naked in this photo?

What is John wearing?

You're not helping the queerbaiting rumors there, Johnny.

NEVER SEEN BEFORE photo of John Lennon with composer Rip Hayman at the Gate Hill Cooperative in Haverstraw, 1976, taken by Paco Underhill.

© Guido Almstedt.

[corvuserpens]

Kinda love the fact that the one person who remembered Billy was tied up and injured in the slave quarters while the Spanish attacked Nassau and surrounded the Underhill plantation and thought to set him free so he could at least try to escape... was Ben Gunn.

Not John Silver. Not anyone who he fought and bled with while building the resistance. Not a single man whom he was friends with and with whom he sailed alongside FOR YEARS.

It was Ben Gunn. Arguably the guy who knew him the least, for the shortest time, and who could ever possibly be excused for believing Silver when he said Billy was the traitor. Absolutely love it. And by love I mean I hate it.

[bookaddict24-7]

NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (FEBRUARY 13TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill

Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley

The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha

Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson & Ekua Holmes

Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre, Rafael Rosado, & John Novak

Bunt by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert

Freshman Year by Sarah Mai

The Boyfriend Wish by Swati Teerdhala

This is How You Fall in Love by Anika Hussain

A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic by Yi Shun Lai

NEW SEQUELS:

The Eternal Ones (Deathless #3) by Namina Forna

With A Little Luck (Fortuna Beach) by Marissa Meyer

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Happy reading!

[inspofromancientworld]

Chinese Historical Periods: Bronze Age to the Development of Writing

By Guss - Own work, after Li Liu, Archaeology in China, p.214, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32701410

The Bronze Age Started around 3100 BCE in China and can be divided into three main periods: early, middle, and late. Some scholars prefer to divide the period between the Shang (about 1600-1046 BCE) and Zhou (11046-256 BCE) dynasties and the Warring States Period (476-221 BCE) into four parts, almost poetically called the heyday, the decadence, the mid-emergence, and the decline.

By Prof. Gary Lee Todd - [1], CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31469658

The earliest culture that created bronze artifacts that we've found is the Majiayao culture near Gansu, which is near the upper Yellow River. The object found was a knife. From Majiayao, bronze working spread along the Yellow River through contact between cultures. It is also thought that domesticated animals may have entered China through this area, also called the Hexi Corridor, or possibly through the Mongolian plateau around 3500 BCE, so it's quite possible that there was communication between Eastern and Western Asia through this passage.

By Unknown author, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9997728

The next major culture was the Erlitou culture, which was also focused around the Yellow River valley from about 1750-1530 BCE. They are considered to be the first true Bronze Age culture, being fully within it, and spread through hundreds of sites. Within this culture, the Xia dynasty ruled from about 2070 BCE through 1600 BCE, the first dynasty in Chinese history that we know about. Until 1959 CE, there weren't any sites discovered that were directly related to the Xia dynasty or a way of differentiating them from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. With improved technology, it became possible to separate out artifacts from the dynasties and establish the historicity of the Xia dynasty.

By rotated and cropped by Kanguole - This file was derived from: Shang Ox Scapula Oracle Bones 1.jpg by Gary Lee Todd, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146266981

The final part of prehistoric Bronze Age was under the Shang dynasty. The center of the late Shang dynasty was around Xiaotun Village in modern day Henan. During this time, oracle bones scripts, usually carved on shoulder blades of oxen, began to appear, the earliest form of written Chinese that began to appear around 1250 BCE. There are 150,000 known pieces of oracle bones with about 5,000 different characters, of which 1,700 are recognizable to modern readers of Chinese. There is also a rich array of pottery, bronze ceremonial objects, carved jade, and many stone and bone tools, letting us develop a fuller picture of how people lived and what they valued during this time.

By Kanguole - Own workdesign based on Chang, Kwang-chih (1986) The Archaeology of Ancient China, p. 319 ISBN: 0-300-03784-8.rivers from Natural Earth 1:10mErlitou sites from Xu, Hong (2013) "The Erlitou Culture" Underhill, Anne P. , ed. , John Wiley & Sons, pp. 300–322 ISBN: 978-1-118-32578-0. p. 302, Figure 15.1.Xia capitals from Tan, Qixiang , ed. (1982) The Historical Atlas of China, 1, China Cartographic Publishing House Map 9–10., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111573260

Much work has been done to reconcile the received or traditional history with the archaeological record by a group called the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project. With the large gap between the Xia dynasty and the beginning of the use of oracle bones, there are schools of thought that doubt its existence, considering it only legendary. Using the best tools available, they're working on narrowing the range of artifacts to identify when they were made. Certain sites are identified with each dynasty as well as certain types of artifacts. By being able to tighten the dates that items found at the various sites, the project has been able to date the currently known sites and identified gaps in the cultural record (cultural transitions between dynasties and predominant technologies).

[women-of-malevolent]

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I enjoy Malevolent. When I'm not focusing on its writing of women, I can easily get swept up in its many strengths. This blog focuses on its writing of women. You're welcome to peruse this blog, maybe the YouTube supercuts channel. And check out the reblog notes for other perspectives!

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AT A GLANCE:

💀 DEAD ❓ STATUS UNKNOWN 🍀 STILL ALIVE (PROBABLY)

💀👩 Emily MacFarland

💀😈 Shub-N

💀👩 Sarah Cummings

💀👩 Delphine Cummings

❓👥 KIY's Cultists

💀👩 Unnamed Dead Woman In Woods

🍀🧙‍♀️ Unnamed Cultist Witch

🍀👶 Unnamed Baby

💀🧙‍♀️ Wraith / Mother Stanczyk

❓👩 Anna Stanczyk

🍀👩Unnamed Crying Woman (Presumed Mother of Baby)

💀👩 Kellin's Sister Samantha

💀👩 Kellin's Mother

🍀👩 Lilly (nurse)

🍀👩 Unnamed Waitress

💀👶 Faroe Lester

🍀🧙‍♀️ Unnamed Elderly Woman

💀🧙‍♀️ Unnamed Widow

💀👩 Frank Underhill's Wife

🍀👩 Tess

💀👩 Bella Lester

❓👩 Tess' Mother

💀👥 KIY City Denizens

💀💏 Arthur's Parents

❓💃 The King's Dancers

💀�� Lilly the Buopoth

🍀😈 Lillith

💀👩 Mum Larson

💀👧 Addison Larson

💀👩 Unnamed Woman in Larson’s Basement

🍀👥 The People of Addison

🍀👩 Offended Woman On The Train

🍀👩 Marie Pilon

🍀👩 Hattie

🍀😈 Mr. Scratch

💀👩 Bella Lester’s Mother / Faroe's Grandmother

💀👧Young Girl, Daughter Of A Senator, Who Went Missing

💀👩 Mother of Young Girl, Daughter Of A Senator, Who Went Missing

🍀👥 Parishioners of Saint Jean Baptiste

🍀👩 Unnamed Woman in Hospital

🍀👩 Waitress at The Black Iris

🍀👧 The Girls in Oscar's Orphanage

💀👩 The Allan Family Wife

🍀👩 Waitress at Arthur and Noel's Little Date

💀👩 Percival's Mother

💀🧙‍♂️ The Witch

❓👩 Anais Lachlann

❓😈 Mother Darkness (Shub connection unclear)

🍀🦉😈 Alexander the Owl

💀👥 The People of Unnamed English Village

💀 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 King John's Family

[storkmuffin]

Hey hey, so re Silver loving Flint:

In 305, Flint is gonna basically kill himself to save his men by threatening the Maroon Queen with a knife and bargaining for the crew's release. Silver, on the off chance Flint can talk her into an alliance instead, convinces him not to do that. Silver basically puts his own life and the lives of all the men (who he cares about, see him crying and clinging desperately to Muldoon's hand as he drowns just a few episodes prior, plus him losing his leg to protect them) at risk in order to maybe save Flint. He knows, as he admits later, that it probly won't work. There's really no good reason for him to do this thing that blatantly goes against his survival instinct except that he has come to care about Flint very much in the short time they've been friends.

He also betrays Billy for Flint in 403, even though he considers Billy a friend and is having a hard time with the whole thing, demonstrated by his convo with Hands in Rogers' office. But he does it anyway. He also does it for Madi, as he later hands Billy over to the Underhill plantation slaves at her urging. So it's an act of his devotion to both of them.

Just some food for thought! It's been interesting following your rewatch :)

Hi!

Thank you for this ask! I really want John Silver to really love James Flint. I really do. Because James Flint clearly definitely loves him. Maybe I just don't speak John Silver's love language?? The one incontrovertible instance of his being loving to James Flint to me was when he essentially forgave and absolved Flint of Madi's death (when Flint was clearly dying a daily psychic death over it, as was Silver). I haven't been able to clock the two instances you point out - turning on Billy, with whom he was so close, for Flint's sake, and preventing Flint from courting certain death by attempting to kill the Maroon Queen - as acts of love for James Flint per se, but I'm going to add them to the ledger & see if I can come to some sort of an understanding (at minimum, a detente) with Mr. Silver later.

For clarification - this is my FIRST watch. I'd never heard of this show until September 2023. :D And I'm sad I wasn't there to experience the show as a weekly TV event, but I'm also VERY grateful that I only learned about it via tumblr, because I could not have withstood watching this show alone.

[johnmalevolent]

on break rn dont mind me just trying to rmb pre Malevolent stuff

emily was the one that arthur met in his memory-dream from the start of part 19. right

sarah wrote to anna that henry made a sacrifice. sarah also wrote antoine "ruined emily's life". then, frank in the dreamlands told henry in his letter that he'd fulfill his promise to find emily and get them back home. a bit of a leap but its reasonable to think emily was henry's sacrifice for Shub-Niggurath

and the results from the portal opening in henry's basement (58 pelican lane) were

king in yellow trapped inside a book

henry and antoine dead? (skeletons from 2 people in the basement)

frank underhill missing (and, if emily was present during the ritual, she was probably gone as well since sarah and anna were the only ones found afterwards)

then, 10 years later

emily was reported missing, arthur & parker took the case in

someone told them about emily's bike outside of 58 pelican lane. they went there to investigate

still on the same day, emily was found dead in a field (john admitted he was the one who killed her in part 18. he also made a comment on how she was too difficult to manipulate. as in, she has some sort of barrier/preventive thing - much like arthur who probably wouldnt be affected by the monster from the lake because he couldnt see - or she did something to john that actually made it difficult for him to control her.)

KIY's book, which was still left in the basement where the ritual took place 10 years ago, apparently got to jd ackerman (through emily?)

a week after emily's missing report, arthur got & read KIY's book (although presumably meant for roland cummings instead)

the podcast up to part 5

sarah found dead, killed by something that, according to john, wasn't KIY (maybe his servant, maybe something else entirely?)

between those 10 years, there is the possibility that emily survived and ran away, or got sent into the dreamlands and found her way back. lorick did say he was put in the prison pits for helping someone from arthur's world escape.

but: who reported her missing? a relative she lived with? or could it be someone who knew she was out of the dreamlands and wanted to find her quick. might be the same anonymous tip that reported her dead in the field.

but why did she went to 58 pelican lane? maybe to find the book, sure, but then where did she bring it to, right away to JDA or roland cummings's address? (also how old was she to remember who the PI from 10 years ago had been...)

aaaaaaaaokay back to life

[queenmarytudor]

Mary I's Fight For The Throne

19th July - Mary organises her army

After hearing of the Earl of Oxford's defection, Mary sends him a letter of thanks, with a commission to "make provisions for six days victualing and come through with a speed." 1 She also orders six days worth of food from Great Yarmouth 2, and 300 quarters of malt to be brewed in Ipswich 3.

Due to lack of money she cannot afford to pay all the wages for soldiers in her growing army, but orders "where captains in every band shall perceive any soldier lacking money, his captain shall relieve him with so much as his discretion shall think good, but in such sort that it appears not otherwise but to be of his own liberality." 4

Her army is slowly growing more disciplined under the instruction of the Earl of Sussex, but they need more bows and arrows. Mary and her council send to Norwich for them, promising the city "shall receive money presently" 5 for them.

After hearing the army is ready and eager to do battle, Mary sets a day "when she would come from the castle to view and muster her army, and gratify her soldiers, who deserved so well of her, with her presence. Consequently at the queen's command issued through a trumpeter, 20th July was assigned for the inspection." 6

Meanwhile...

Henry Neville, Lord Abergavenny and Sir Thomas Wyatt (of Wyatt's rebellion) write to the gentlemen of Sussex, requiring them to proclaim Mary queen and denouncing "the lady Jane, a queen of a new and pretty invention." 7

Jane Grey acts as godmother to Edward Underhill's child, a son named Guildford in honour of her husband. 8

The Privy Council meet in private and agree to proclaim Mary queen. 9

The Imperial ambassadors are visited by the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mason from the Privy Council. They inform them that "Though it had been said that the late King Edward's devise touching the succession had received the assent of the Council, only three or four of them had given their willing consent, and the rest had been compelled and treated almost as if they were prisoners." 10 They reveal they are planning to proclaim Mary queen.

Around 4pm, Mary is proclaimed Queen of England, France and Ireland around London. 11

When the Duke of Suffolk hears what the Council have done, he "went to the Lady Jane, who was at supper, and tore down the canopy, saying no more than that it was not for her to use it, for her position permitted her not to do so. When the Lady Jane heard of the Council's determination, she replied that she would give it up as gladly as she had accepted it; she knew that the right belonged to Queen Mary." 12 The Duke then rushes to proclaim her himself on Tower Hill. 13

At nightfall, Northumberland retreats back to Cambridge. 14

Sources:

1. Acts of the Privy Council, Vol 4

2. Acts of the Privy Council, Vol 4

3. Acts of the Privy Council, Vol 4

4. Acts of the Privy Council, Vol 4

5. Acts of the Privy Council, Vol 4

6. Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield

7. A Guide to the Manuscripts in the Grenville Library

8. Tudor Tracts

9. Spanish State Papers, 19th July 1553

10. Spanish State Papers, 19th July 1553

11. Spanish State Papers, 19th July 1553

12. Spanish State Papers, 22nd July 1553

13. Chronicle of Queen Jane and Mary

14. Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae of Robert Wingfield

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

teddy, king, beloved, sunbright,

what the fuck are the ballad brothers

Therse guys in my head. I don’t know very much about them but maybe making a masterpost will help? Literally I cannot emphasize enough how much I was just listening to music while I was driving and. now there’s guys in there. With a lot of implied sci-fantasy worldbuilding I don’t understand yet. Anyway!

Kyrie Aleidis Ballad

29, she/her, former sword-for-hire, current fugitive. The older Ballad Brother. Priorities include vibing and keeping things good for her baby brother (before) and trying to fix the world after it broke (metaphorically) while she was gone (after). Diagnosed big fuckoff “microchip sword like that guy from Transistor”

The Horatio to FG!C. The Gojo to Haibara. The Mordred to Gawain (HNOC). Also Guinevere (HNOC). Laertes (Hamlet). If Roddy was a little more serious and had less responsibility. Little bit of Cyclonus aswell but in a Whirl way. Dyker robobs if he was marginally less traumatized.

Alonzo ‘Toro’ Ballad

(Except only Kyrie is allowed to call him that)(Ari tried it once to be obnoxious and he punched them)

25, he/him, former Little Guy, current sword-for-hire. The younger Ballad Brother. Priorities include: being just like his sister when he grows up (before) and do you think he fuckin knows he’s just trying to get from day to day over here (after). Terminal funny bitch (emphasis on the bitch). He’s even asexual.

If Feldspar DM grew up to be FG!C/Underhill Jay Sleepaway. The Haibara to Gojo. Gawain HNOC. Tien Stormlight. Cyrus Planegays. They’re both kind of Zoro also actually. If Miki RGU grew up to be John-or-Benny OSCU. If you combined the entire Ricosquad robobs into one guy.

Ari Basil Finch (Seneca)

25, any pronouns, several jobs best summed up as Mad Scientist. (Weapons tech guy. Intern. Part time front desk in the financial department. Necromancer. Not the order they would put those in.) Priorities include: bringing their [somebody] back from the dead, causing problems on purpose. (No I don’t know who they’re trying to bring back I just know they can’t do it.)(why? good question.) Nepo baby extraordinaire. There’s something wrong with them in the brain <3

Other Things I Know:

there’s an organization

Kyrie fucked off to work there as a sword for hire when Alonzo was like 14 without saying anything (first time they had ever been meaningfully separated)

These bitches don’t have parents (possibly sci-fi shenanigans)

Alonzo found out that’s where she was a couple years later and joined up as soon as he could

Shortly before that she quit and/or got fired very very dramatically and became the organization’s Public Enemy Number One

Alonzo was kind of underground during that and he still doesn’t really know what’s going on. He’s not gonna get her ass tho.

At some point they have a confrontation swordfight on a roof. I don’t know what the deal with that is.

Alonzo and Ari have a weird fucked up gay thing going on best described as Part Time Boyfriends. Kind of dating. Also Ari is 100% milking the sugar daddy angle of Running Front Desk In The Financial Department. And also they’re kind of just coworkers (derogatory). (TLDR. POV you have to wrangle with the financial department at work to get your expenses account in order for your next assassination but you got a little too close to the guy running the front desk over there and now they think it’s funny to fuck with you)

Alonzo doesn’t have any faith in the necromancy. Heehoo!

That’s about it??? Rotations to follow.

[thoughtfulfangirling]

2023 Reads

A new year means a new book list! I don't think I can top my 2022 count, but that's okay! I'm not totally sure what my reading goals this year will actually be, but I guess I'll sort it out on the way! XD For future reads, here's my 2024 list!

Four Treasures of the Sky - Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass+

The Bear and the Nightengale - of the Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

The Secrets We Keep - Mia Hayes

Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal - Patty Loew+

The First Sister - Linden A. Lewis^

The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury~

Fin Mac Cool - Morgan Llewlyn^

How Long 'til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin

Lavinia - Ursula K Le Guin^

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin*

Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, and Littke-Known Stories form History - Tricia Martineau Wagner+

The Mysteries of Thorn Manor - Margaret Roberson%

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - Amanda Leduc+

Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson^

She Who Became the Sun~ - Shelley Parker-Chan*

The Witch King - H.E. Edgmon^

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree*

Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin^

The Adventures of Amina El-Serafi - S.A. Chakraborty

Humankind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman+

The Folk Keeper - Frannie Billingsly*%

Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens - (Suzy) Eddie Izzard+

Juniper & Thorn - Ava Reid

Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey%

I Await the Devil's Coming - Mary MacLane+

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut~

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights - Molly Smith & Juno Mac+

The Woman in White - Wilke Collins^

King of Battle and Blood - Scarlett St. Clair

Sarah - J.T. LeRoy^

The City Beautiful - Aden Polydoros^

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

Always the Almost - Edward Underhill

All Systems Red - Martha Wells%

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Nevada - Imogen Binnie

A Dowry of Blood - S. T. Gibson

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli

The Second Rebel - Linden A Lewis

Get a Life Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert

The Hero and the Crown* - Robin McKinley

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing - Bruce D Perry & Oprah Winfrey+^

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorne

The Eye of the Heron - Ursula K Leguin

Artificial Condition -Martha Wells%

The Kraken's Sacrifice - Katee Robert%

Crown Duel - Sherwood Smith*

Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells%

Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self Involved Parents - Lindsay C Gibson+

Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit - John Boessenecker+

The History of Wales - History Nerds+%

Ander & Santi Were Here - Jonny Garza Villa

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls^

Rosemary and Rue - Seanan McGuire^

The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez

Irish Fairy and Folk Tails - Various+

The Dead and the Dark - Courtney Gould

Haunted Wisconsin - Michael Norman and Beth Scott+

The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Ruins - Scott Smith

He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan

Fledgling - Octavia Butler

Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend - Mark Collins Jenkins+

The Vampyre - John Polidori%

This is Halloween - James A Moore

Sorrowland - Rivers Soloman

The Lamb will Slaughter the Lion - Margaret Killjoy%

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Love Her or Lose Her - Tessa Bailey^

One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston*

The Last Hero - Linden A. Lewis

Lovelight Farms - B. K. Borison

Reindeer Falls Collection: Volume One - Jana Aston

Currently reading: One Last Stop (Audiobook to help me sleep XD)

Nonfiction is annotated by + A Re-read is annotated by * A book completed from the list below is annotated by ^ A Read with Empty will be annotated by ~ A Novella %

My current, loose and not that interesting goal for this year is to really work on the books I have current access to right now... at the start of this year. Because it's a lot XD This means books currently favorite in Scribd, on my StoryGraph 'to read' pile, or a book I currently own on my shelves. Main goal is at least one of these a month.

For my own personal reference, I'm putting a list of such books below to hold myself accountable.

Edit: Now the end of 2023, and here's a breakdown of my goal to read books I already had access to at the start of 2023:

I didn't read one a month per se, but I got more than 12 done, so I call this a win. These books are:

-Can't Spell Treason Without Tea - Rebecca Thorn -The City Beautiful - Aden Polydoros -Finn Mac Cool - Morgan Llewlyn -The First Sister by Linden A Lewis (proceeded by the other two in the series) -Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert -The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls -Haunted Wisconsin - Michael Norman & Beth Scott -Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson -I Await the Devil's Coming - Mary McClane -The Kraken's Sacrifice - Katee Robert -Lavinia - Ursula K Le Guin -Love Her or Lose Her - Tessa Bailey -Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin -Nevada - Imogen Binnie -The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli -Rosemary and Rue - Seanan McGuire -The Ruins - Scott Smith -The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller -Sarah - J.T. LeRoy -Vampire Forensics - Mark Collins Jenkins -What Happened to You? - Oprah Winfrey -The Witch King - H. E. Edgmon -The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

The books I did not get around to reading from this list are as follows: Black Water Sister by Zen Cho; Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye (o); The Book of M by Peng Shepard (o); Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves (o); The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (a); The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (s); Fallen by Lauren Kate (o); Fanny Hill by John Cleland (o); Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (s); The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea (s); The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith (o); Helping Her Get Free by Susan Brewster (o); The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang (s); Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (o); The Merry Spinster by Daniel Lavery (o); On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (o); The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (s); Radiance by Grace Draven (a); Watching the Tree by Adeline Yen Mah (o); The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (s); Wings of Fire (o); Witches Steeped in Gold by Clannon Smart (o); The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid (s)

23/46 Whoa! That's exactly 50% of the books I had on my list! That's pretty cool! All in all, I consider this 2023 goal successfully done!

[malec-ao3feed]

Love me in the Shadows of Our Memories

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ZIkbt6 by AprilLightwood Magnus's life takes a nightmarish turn as he's abducted by human traffickers. After enduring five grueling months of captivity, his fate worsens when he's sold to a sadistic alpha. Over twelve relentless years, Magnus endures the cruel tendencies of this alpha. A sudden chance for freedom leads him and his twins back to New York, only to discover that his beloved Alec has moved on and married another omega. Magnus faces the painful reality that a life with Alec is no longer possible, yet letting go of his lingering feelings for the alpha proves to be an agonizing challenge. Words: 3931, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Categories: M/M Characters: Magnus Bane, Alec Lightwood, John Stevenson (Original Male Character), Isabelle Lightwood, Jace Wayland, Maryse Lightwood, Luke Garroway, Maia Roberts, Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern | Sebastian Verlac, Jarin Bane, Cahya Bane, Catarina Loss, Andrew Underhill, Nathaniel "Nate" Blackthorn, Other Characters Relationships: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Alec Lightwood/Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Post-Apocalypse, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Verse, POV Alec Lightwood, POV Magnus Bane, Omega Magnus Bane, Alpha Alec Lightwood, Kidnapping, Abduction, Alternate Universe, Human Trafficking, Mpreg, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Slow Burn, Endgame Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Angst with a Happy Ending read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/3ZIkbt6

[sheilaofdjungle]

Sometimes people take my picture…

Credits: Nos. 1a & 1b, Photographer: John Starkey Cousin of Sir Ringo (Starkey) Starr - Location: Swap Meet, London, England

No. 2, Photographer: Ellen Bloom Underhill - Location: Cali Rose’s CC Strummers’ Ukulele Gig, West L.A. Farmers Market, Los Angeles, California

No. 3, Photographer: One of My Peeps - Location: Somebody’s Home, at the Filming of “Querida,” Directed by Nellie Luna, near Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, California

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