#kate mandell

[whatwouldborisdo]

Many don’t understand why he randomly smooched her but also you have to think, look this movie feels INSANE just cuz you don’t get your answers like is Kate crazy or are all these strange things actually happening. However, back to this scene. Lets say Kate is actually crazy and this moment is just as normal as my left hand. Miles is depressed and needs the love he had in him before. Now idek how old Kate is and miles is I think 15 or 14. I have this thing when I feel numb I do anything to feel and BTW this includes stupid stuff I normally wouldn’t fucking do. Some even blame Kate for not bringing up how he kissed her but also don’t be so fucking dramatic it was on the cheek and like I said he’s broken and I think what he did was perfect okay and I wouldn’t call it embarrassing or weird. If you’re mentally I’ll and have a whatever fucking personality disorder, this is nothing.

[jhd4ev]

My fanfic's out!

I finally decided to make a Miles Fairchild x OC. If you read the cast (first listed chapter,) it says that the reader acts/plays as the OC. The way Finn plays Miles. So if you like the turning, mayyybe go check it out..?

Not forcing anybody, if you want to, yay. If you don't it's fine. No need to be rude though.

ALSO

if you're going to join in on commenting, please no rude comments to anybody else! if there's an innapropriate comment, I will take it down if you reply a little disclaimer.

please don't fight in the comments, or on here. it's really messy and you don't get anywhere with it.

no slurs at each other. joking about characters is fine though.

if you have any requests for any fan-fics, i'll try my best. I'm not that good at writing fanfictions unless i, myself am interested in the person/character.

some more fan-fics i might consider writing <3

miles fairchild x fem!oc/reader

trevor spengler x fem!oc/reader

finn wolfhard x fem!reader

sadie sink x fem!reader

max mayfeild x fem!oc/reader

enola holmes x fem!oc/reader

beverly marsh x fem!oc/reader

sydney novak x fem!oc/reader

if you want me to add a masc version of any of the fanfictions let me know, i'll add they/them or he/him pronouns to the fanfic.

[rito-luvr]

“i’m going from 25 screaming kids to one little girl, how hard can it be?”

LMFAOAOAOAOAOFHGRKSHSHDJSH

[eurovision-revisited]

1998 Birmingham - Number 19 - Kate - "Tulepuuhuulte luule"

Kate has returned to Eurolaul for 1998 with some more traditional, folky vibes after her successful debut in 1997. She's edged up seven places in my yearly round up!

Last year her song was, perhaps conventionally, about wanting to stop the globe and get off. Not an uncommon wish in 1997 when so much had been happening around the world in the preceding years. In 1998, she's gone to her safe place - the forest. Tulepuuhuulte luule (Firewood Lips Poetry) is an elaborate metaphor combining the imagery of a forest fire with the idea that anger is a fire that consumes all in its path.

If you've ever felt like lashing out in fury, this song is about you. Go find you calm space. Listen to the silence of the trees, and endure as they do.

Two violins, a guitar, a traditional drum and three rather wonderfully deep male harmonies are all that are required to give body to this music from Estonia's heartlands. Once again Kate's voice is confident singing the words of another poet, this time Villu Kangur. This finished 3rd in the final, in the best-of-the-rest slot behind the two songs that were clear at the top competing for the title. With this song and result, Kate established herself as a Eurolaul fixture, and one of the main contenders to represent Estonia in a future Eurovision.

There are two more entries to come and now that Alma Čardžić has entered her last national final for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kate is almost certain to become my national final crush for the time being.

[macrolit]

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

NYT Article.

*************

Q: How many of the 100 have you read? Q: Which ones did you love/hate? Q: What's missing?

Here's the full list.

100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith 98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward 96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman 95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel 94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante 91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen 89. The Return, Hisham Matar 88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters 86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight 85. Pastoralia, George Saunders 84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee 83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat 82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor 81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan 80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 78. Septology, Jon Fosse 77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid 74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro 72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich 71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones 69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez 67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 66. We the Animals, Justin Torres 65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill 62. 10:04, Ben Lerner 61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon 59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 58. Stay True, Hua Hsu 57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner 55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 54. Tenth of December, George Saunders 53. Runaway, Alice Munro 52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 50. Trust, Hernan Diaz 49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang 48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison 46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson 44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin 43. Postwar, Tony Judt 42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano 37. The Years, Annie Ernaux 36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine 33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt 28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26. Atonement, Ian McEwan 25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24. The Overstory, Richard Powers 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro 22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo 21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond 20. Erasure, Percival Everett 19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe 18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty 16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 14. Outline, Rachel Cusk 13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 6. 2666, Roberto Bolano 5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones 3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel 2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

[horrorkincalls]

Hi, it’s the anon that asked if you could post a screenshot of the rules, thank you so much for posting them and for keeping this a safe space! I am Flora Fairchild from the movie The Turning (2020) and I am looking for Miles, also Kate and doubles are welcome! I recently turned 22 if that bothers anyone. I am shy at first so I apologize in advance if I am late reaching out. Please interact with this post and I’ll message you

🎃

[thousandfireworks]

Authors whose books you have to avoid because they are problematic.

Abigail Hing Wen.

Alex Aster.

Alice Hoffman.

Alice Oseman.

Alison Win Scotch. ‘Terrorism is never acceptable. Not in Israel.’

Allie Sarah.

Amber Kelly.

Amy Harmon.

Annabelle Monaghan.

Anna Akana.

Aurora Parker.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Brandon Sanderson. Islamophobic.

Carissa Broadbent. Said that hamas is doing violence against innocence.

Chloe Walsh. Siding with Israel in the name of humanity.

Christina Lauren. Believe that Israel is the victim. A racist, also Islamophobic.

Colleen Hoover.

Cora Reilly. Travel to Israel despite criticism.

Danielle Bernstein. Islamophobic.

Danielle Lori.

Deke Moulton. Said hamas is terrorist.

Dian Purnomo.

Eliza Chan.

Elle Kennedy.

Elyssa Friedland.

Emily Henry.

Emily Mclntire.

Emily St. J. Mandel. Admiring Israel.

Gabrielle Zevin. Wrote a book about anti-Palestine. Mentioned Israel multiple times without context on his book.

Gregory Carlos. Israeli author. A zionist.

Hannah Whitten.

Hazel Hayes. Reposted a post about October 7th.

Heidi Shertok.

Jamie McGuire.

Jay Shetty. ‘Violence is happening in Israel.’

Jean Meltzer.

Jeffery Archer. Wrote a book with a mc Israel operative (mossad) in a positive and anti terrorist light.

Jennifer Hartman. Liked a post about pro-Israel.

Jen Calonita.

Jessa Hastings.

Jill Santopolo. Said that Israel has right to exist and fight back.

John Green.

Jojo Moyes.

J. Elle.

J. K. Rowling. Support genocide. Racist. Islamophobic.

Kate Canterbery.

Kate Stewart.

Katherine Howe.

Katherine Locke.

Kristin Hannah. Support Israel. Shared a donation link.

Laini Taylor.

Laura Thalassa. Islamophobic.

Lauren Wise. Cussed that Palestinian supporters would be raped in front of children.

Lea Geller. Thanked people who supports Israel.

Leigh Dragoon. Islamaphobic and anti Asian racist rants on Twitter and threads

Leigh Stein.

Lilian Harris. A racist. Blocking people who educates about colonialism in Palestine and call them disgusting.

Lisa Barr. A daughter of Holocaust survivor. Support Israel.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery.

Lisa Steinke.

Liz Fenton.

Lynn Painter. Afraid of getting cancelled as a pro-Palestine and posted a template afterwards.

L. J. Shen. Her husband joins idf (Israel army).

Mariana Zapata.

Marie Lu.

Marissa Meyer.

Melissa de la Cruz.

Michelle Cohen Corasanti.

Michelle Hodkin. Spread false rumors about arab-hamas. Islamophobic.

Mitch Albom. ‘We shouldn't blame Israel for surviving attacks or defending against them.’

Monica Murphy. Siding with Israel.

Naomi Klein.

Navah Wolfe.

Neil Gaiman. Suggested Palestinians unite with Israel and become citizens.

Nicholas Sparks.

Nic Stone. Talked nonsense that children in Palestinian refugee camp are training to be martyrs for Allah because they felt it was their call in life.

Nyla K.

Olivia Wildenstein. Blocking people who disagree with Israel wrongdoing.

Pamela Becker.

Penelope Douglas.

Pierce Brown.

Rachel Lynn Solomon.

Rebecca G. Martinez.

Rebecca Yarros. ‘I despise violence’ her opinion about what's happening in Gaza. Blocking people who calls her a zionist.

Rena Rossner.

Renee Ahdieh.

Rick Riordan.

Rina Kent.

Rivka (noctem.novelle).

Rochelle Weinstein.

Romina Garber. ‘These terrorist attacks do nothing to improve the lives of Palestinians people.’

Roshani Chokshi. Encourage people to donate to Israel.

Samantha Greene Woodruff.

Sarah J. Mass. Her book contained ideology of zionism.

Stephanie Garber. Promoting books by zionist author (Sarah J. Mass)

Skye Warren.

Sonali Dev.

Talia Carner.

Tarryn Fisher. Said ‘there was terrorist attack in Israel.’

Taylor Jenkins Reid. Posted a video about genocide.

Tere Liye. Rumoured to have ghoswriters to write his books and never give credit to them.

Tillie Cole.

Tracy Deon.

Trinity Traveler (Ade Perucha Hutagaol). Rumour to wrote book about handsome Israelis.

T. J. Klune.

Uri Kurlianchik.

Veronica Roth.

Victoria Aveyard. ‘Israel has the right to exist.’ quote from her about the issue.

V. E. Schwab. Shared a donation link and video about Israel.

Yuval Noah. ‘Israel has the right to do anything to defend themselves.’

Zibby Owens.

[gllrimes]

𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒐’𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈!

𝑹𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔:

I will be writing smut, fluff, comfort, and angst. I'm not experienced with writing as much as other writers are, so don't expect the best.

No sa or rape of any sort because we don't tolerate that.

No piss/shit/fart kinks ya dirty fucks.

No pedophilia. Age gaps only can consist of five years apart in my story's when 18+

No human servitude.

I write for any sexuality and any gender.

I do write drabbles and hcs.

I don't write agere/little space on this blog, I'll set up another blog for that!!

I don't care how old you are I can't stop you from reading my stuff 😕🙏🏻

Requests are open!!

𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎𝒔 & 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓

The Walking Dead:

Rick Grimes

Carl Grimes

Daryl Dixon

Negan Smith

Glenn Rhee

Ron Anderson

Enid Rhee

Maggie Rhee

Michonne Grimes

(Bonus: I might write for others too. Maybe Shane idk.)

The End Of The Fucking World:

Alyssa Foley

James (last name unknown)

Heartstopper:

Charlie Spring

Nick Nelson

Tao Xu

Elle Argent

Darcy Olsson

Tara Jones

Sahar Zahid

Issac Henderson

13 Reasons Why:

Clay Jenson

Hannah Baker

Justin Foley

Alex Standall

Jessica Davis

IT:

Bill Denbrough

Richie Tozier

Beverly Marsh

Stanley Uris

Mike Hanlon

Henry Bowers

Patrick Hockstetter

Victor Criss

Belch Huggins

The Flash (IMDb):

Berry Allen

Cisco Ramon

Caitlin Snow

Harry Potter:

Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

Ron Weasley

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Draco Malfoy

Tom Riddle

James Potter

Remus Lupin

Sirius Black

Mattheo Riddle

Theodore Nott

Regulas Black

Stranger Things:

Mike Wheeler

Will Byers

Jonathan Byers

Nancy Wheeler

Lucas Sinclair

Dustin Henderson

Steve Harrington

Henry Creel

Eleven

Eddie Munson

Criminal Minds:

Spencer Reid

Aaron Hotchner

Derek Morgan

Penelope Garcia

Jennifer Jareau

Twilight:

Bella Swan

Edward Cullen

Jasper Hale

Alice Cullen

Rosalie Hale

Carlisle Cullen

Emmett Cullen

Jacob Black

Seth Clearwater

Esme Cullen

Thirteen:

Tracy Freeland

Evie Zamora

Mason Freeland

Melanie Freeland

Anne With An E:

Gilbert Blythe

Anne Shirley

Dianna Berry

Cole Mackenzie

Jerry Baynard

The Goldfinch:

Theodore Decker (older and younger)

Boris Pavlikovsky (older and younger)

The Turning:

Miles Fairchild

Kate Mandell

Flora Fairchild (NO SMUT)

When You Finish Saving The World:

Ziggy Katz

Lila

American Horror Story:

Tate Langdon

Violet Harmon

Kit Walker

Lana Winters

Zoe Benson

Kyle Spencer

Cordelia Goode

Fiona Goode

Jimmy Darling

James Patrick March

Elizabeth/The Countess

Kai Anderson

Winter Anderson

Ally Mayfair-Richards

Austin Sommers

Mr. Gallant

Edward Mott

Rory Monahan

Shameless:

Fiona Gallagher

Lip Gallagher

Ian Gallagher

Mickey Milkovich

Mandy Milkovich

Carl Gallagher

I Believe In Unicorns:

Davina

Sterling

Tokio Hotel:

Bill Kaulitz

Tom Kaulitz

Georg Listing

Gustav Schäfer

Slashers/Halloween movies characters:

Max Dennison

Billy Loomis

Stu Macher

Sydney Prescott

Bo Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Vincent Sinclair

Jason Voorhees

Freddy Kruger

Michael Myers

Jason Dean

Patrick Bateman

Brahms Heelshire

BONUS singers/actors/youtubers:

Sam Golbach

Colby Brock

Jake Webber

Albert (flamingo)

The Sturniolo Triplets

Finn Wolfhard

Noah Schnapp

And finally... ALEX TURNER 😋😋 (he's so husband material)

!!PLEASE USE THIS RESPECTFULLY AND WISELY!!

[booksandchainmail]

Pick what I read next

these are all from the piles of books on my windowsills:

[filmnoirsbian]

Hi !! I was wondering if you had any book recs/favorite books? Things that you think of as inspiration or just plain like? Genuinely curious. <3 im in love with your work btw i spent the other day binging your patreon

Some favorites that deeply impacted me from a young age up into teenagedom: the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Oddly Enough by Bruce Coville, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Little Sister by Kara Dalkey, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, Piratica by Tanith Lee, the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Holes by Louis Sachar, The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, The Iliad and Odyssey (allegedly) by Homer, The Táin by many people, Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, The Ethical Vampire series by Susan Hubbard, The Howl Series by Diana Wynne Jones, the Curseworkers series by Holly Black, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters, An Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Beloved by Toni Morrison, A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, World War Z by Max Brooks, This is Not A Drill by K. A. Holt, Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Crush by Richard Siken, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, Devotions by Mary Oliver, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Some favorites read more recently: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, Engine Summer by John Crowley, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, Reprieve by James Han Mattson, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Kindred by Octavia Butler, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel, The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, She had some horses by Joy Harjo, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, The King Must Die by Mary Renault, Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Cassandra by Christa Wolfe

Plays: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Salome by Oscar Wilde, Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr, Fences by August Wilson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond

Graphic novels: The Crow by James O'Barr, DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, Eternals (2021) by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribić, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

[frances-baby-houseman]

as you know I am doing literally anything to avoid writing my board report so I made this, my ballot for the NYT best books of the 21st century project. I did not put a lot of thought into it but maybe that's for the best! I feel sad that I missed some runners up so I guess I'll list them too. Anyway I've lost my dang mind, PER USUAL.

yes I did make it too look just like the nyt celebrity ones, thank you for noticing.

the list, in no order, literally the random order I pasted the images:

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

Just Kids, Patti Smith

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

Life After Life, Kate Atkinson

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Brooklyn, Colm Toibin

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

Runners up:

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

11/22/63, Stephen King

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

The City We Became, NK Jemison

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel

My Brilliant Friend, Elana Ferrante

Please feel free to do your own! Lists and ranking things is one of my favorite things on earth!

[firenati0n]

24 reads in 2024 <3 :)

tagged in this fun game by @suseagull04 yay! i currently have a spreadsheet I'm making for a friend that's 500 books long and full of books I've read and books on my TBR, all painstakingly hand-categorized by genre AND subgenre, tropes, rating, etc. it is my great undertaking. can you tell I'm a consultant by career lmfao

just picking 24 at random from the tbr that is currently clocking in at 300 books...

Casket Case by Lauren Evans

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

Not in Love by Ali Hazelwood

Funny Story by Emily Henry

The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Alison Rose Greenberg

A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert

Between Us by Mhairi McFarlane

Always Be Your Baby by Illustraice

You, with a View by Jessica Joyce

Educated by Tara Westover

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

Do I Know You? by Emily Wibberley

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

idk how many of y'all like to read regularly for fun but i saw that you did this @myheartalivewrites @14carrotghoul and @onward--upward tagged me in a version of this so i am open to chatting books xoxo. open tag to all who read!! pls tag me i want to see and scream.

i am always open to book recs (i am always into romance/thriller/suspense/mystery/psychological works!!!! <3 <3 <3 xoxo

[rito-luvr]

look, i get that kate was trying her best, she’s also traumatized and has her own set of issues… but no matter what, i am a full kate hater. i don’t know- she gets on my nerves SO much. i love mackenzie davis, she, the actress, is great. but christ all mighty i want to punch kate.

[eurovision-revisited]

2000 Stockholm - Number 14 - Kate - "Verevend"

You didn't think I'd forget Kate did you? EuroLaul's ever present Estonian folk queen is back and at a new high of 14. She's got a hurdy-gurdy accompaniment this time too! Sporting a new blonde look and a slightly harder edge to her singing this her final appearance a EuroLaul. She tried four times in a row finishing as high as second place, but never made it. Eurovision doesn't know what it missed.

She has made it into my top 26 for all four years and this is the highest ranking I've had for one of her songs. Verevend (Blood Brother) is all about having iron in the soul, and blacksmithing. As the the percussion begins to incorporate the sound of a hammer beating iron on an anvil, Kate sings about blacksmith who can't sleep, works all night, silently at the forge. Despite his labours and stoicism, things in the world only continue to get worse. He cannot hammer away the feelings.

It's a bit of a downer, although I love that one of the backing singers' lines compliments him on the strength of his metacarpal bone.

The song is written by Kate's long-time song-writing partner Aivar Joonas, with the lyrics again being provided by Estonian poet Villu Kangur. The same year as this, she released a best of album Kõik Mis Tehtud (Everything Done). There have been four more albums of music since then in collaboration with others. The more recent footage of Kate I've found is from ETV five years ago. Here she is singing Mul on nii hea (I'm so Good), her own composition.

[black-rabbit-razumikhin]

Books, So Many Books

The Bedside Pile

~ Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

~ The Once And Future King by T. H. White

~ Silas Marner by George Elliot

~ Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

Physical TBR

~ The Mammoth Hunters by Jean Auel

~ Plains Of Passage by Jean Auel

~ Shelters Of Stone by Jean Auel

~ Land Of The Painted Caves by Jean Auel

~ As Long As We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney

~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

~ On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

~ Here I Am by Jonathan Foer

~ A Killer Choice by Tom Hunt

~ Cold Heart by Linda LaPlante

~ Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

~ Brothers by Bernice Rubens

~ The Hickory Staff by Robert Scott

~ The Farm by Tom Smith

~ The Master Of Ballantre by Robert L. Stevenson

~ Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

~ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

~ The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Storygraph TBR

~ The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

~ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

~ Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey

~ Sea Of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

~ Blood In My Eye by George Jackson

~ Escape Routes by Naomi Ishiguro

~ The Gospel Of The Eels by Patrik Svensson

~ The End Of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

~ Orlando by Virginia Woolf

~ Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie

~ Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie

~ Unexpected Vanilla by Lee Hyemi

~ The Ritual by Adam Nevill

~ Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

~ Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

~ The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

~ Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

~ Battle Royale by Koushin Takami

~ What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

~ The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

~ American Prometheus by Kai Bird

~ Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

~ The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

~ Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck

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It's the solstice tonight, and a good time to reflect on my favourite books from the past year.

I'm making very little attempt to rank these titles. They're simply the books that I enjoyed most, and they're presented in the order I read them. • "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet," by Becky Chambers (2014) • "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," by Becky Chambers (2021) • "Locklands," by Robert Jackson Bennett (2022) • "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) • "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang (2019) • "Fugitive Telemetry," by Martha Wells (2021) • "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," by Patty Krawec (2022) • "The Vanished Birds," by Simon Jimenez (2020) • "The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (2021) • "Utopia Avenue," by by David Mitchell (2020) • "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery," by Amitav Ghosh (1995) • "Moon of the Crusted Snow," by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) • "Bea Wolf," by Zach Weinersmith; illustrated by Boulet (2023) • "Fighting the Moon," by Julie McGalliard (2021) • "The Empress of Salt and Fortune," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel (2020) • "New York 2140," by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) • "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus," by Ryan North et al; illustrated by Erica Henderson & Derek Charm & Jacob Chabot & Naomi Franquiz & Tom Fowler & Rico Renzi et al (2022) • "Buffalo Is the New Buffalo: Stories," by Chelsea Vowel (2022) • "Greenwood: A Novel," by Michael Christie (2019) • "The House of Rust," by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (2021) • "Children of Memory," by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022) • "Jade Legacy," by Fonda Lee (2021) • "A Deadly Education: A Novel: Lesson One of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2020) • "The Last Graduate: A Novel: Lesson Two of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2021) • "The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2022) • "To Be Taught if Fortunate," by Becky Chambers (2019) • "Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution," by Carlo Rovelli (2020), translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (2021) • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built," by Becky Chambers (2021) Ah, but I said I'd make "very little attempt" to rank them, not "no attempt." So here is that attempt: my favourite five books from the last solar orbit — the five I enjoyed even more than those other thirty — also presented in the order I read them.

• "Nona the Ninth," by Tamsyn Muir (2022) • "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," by Kate Beaton (2022) • "Record of a Spaceborn Few," by Becky Chambers (2018) • "Briar Rose," by Jane Yolen (1992) • "Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution," by R.F. Kuang (2022)