you've heard of gen 1 last names, now get ready for gen 4 last names!
Hezekias ‘Zee’ Abara. abara means spirit and i think it's a name that fits zee a lot
Damien Calvin. 'calvin', as inspired by melvin calvin, an american biochemist
Ripper Marchetti. in italian, marchetti means warlike, and i like to think ripper has some italian heritage!
Bowie Finley. finley = fair-haired hero, and hasn't our fair-haired boy proven to be a knight in shining armour, rescuing raj from tapioca pudding sharks and giving his very best until the finale?
Raj Bhatti
Wayne Curran (Curran = hero. our little guy is badass c'mon!!! also this was of irish descent i think? i can see it)
Chase Cooper. while researching names, for chase, i looked up 'youtuber last names'. one thing led to another, and i discovered some buddy of that annoying ass loser ben shapiro, whose last name was cooper. considering i hate chase (and i love double initials), i thought this would be fitting!
Caleb Campbell. shares his name with a model. no need to go into more detail.
Axel Ectorius (Ectorius = hero in latin. don't tell me you can't see it. also very close to victorious, which i wished for her to be this season *sad emoji*)
Julia Amana. amana means trust, faithful, which is a very ironic name for julia to have, so therefore, a must-have
Mary-Kate ‘MK’ Nghiem. nghiem = stern, strict, rigorous; similarly to julia, MK is not at all what her name represents, so, funny
Nichelle LaDonna (canon name not much to say here)
Emma Baker (both because baker is a simple name to me and i see emma as just a simple girl (just like me fr) and because i could totally see her as a baker)
Priya Chanda (Chanda = of the moon)
Millie Nisim. nisim, as in, miracles, because millie, unprepared and under pressure, still made it to the finale... and because her voice actress also voiced zoey, and both millie and zoey were, coincidentally, the third contestant in their respective debut season
Lauren ‘Scary Girl’ Graves (do i need to explain this?)
Welcome to my Masterlist. Everything I've written so far will be kept in one place until I feel like a mini masterlist is necessary. Requests are Open so please send in your requests!
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Who I'll Write For:
Right now, I'm only writing for characters or celebrities I am familiar so I apologize if I don't recognize for your person that you request for. However, I am hyper-fixated on Twice so that's your best bet. I primarily write OCs instead of Y/N just to make it easier for me to write. Also all my OCs are G!P too.
Stories/Imagines that are highlighted RED is 18+. CONTAINS SMUT!!
reader has no physical description except from having long hair and her surname being Trevor.
Emilia Jones as Landon McCormick, the coworker.
-"You know...you're not so bad after all, sweeper."
-"It's time for you to C.Y.A," she pauses, "cover, your-own, ass - I'm sick of taking the fall for you all the time, Randy is getting pretty damn hostile with me."
Joe Keery as Finley Hayes, the brains.
-"Okay, enough!! it's not as easy and effortless as it looks in the movies, alright?"
-"Hold on wait- somebody asked you out?! I - I mean, woah that's uhh...that's- nevermind!"
Norman Reedus as Randy Martin, the grumpy boss.
-"Yer' late, again." he grumbled, before taking a long drag of the cigarette in his calloused, inked hand.
-"Boy's here t' see ya, finnick- finland, ion remember his damn name."
Lauren Ridloff as Cheryl Martin-Brown, the bossman's wife.
-her hands move swiftly as they jot quick-paced scribblings onto the notepad before she lifts it, showing it to you 'I'm mad at Randy, so I hid my hearing aids.'
-"Randy just let them borrow the damn bike, please!!"
Natalia Dyer as Wendy Jablonska, the journalist…in training.
-"And these...men, they were in all black? Creepy-looking masks?"
-"Hi! This is...Samantha P...Plankton! Samantha Plankton from the Drellington's Post, I was wondering if you could answer a few questions for me." she continued, despite the bamboozled look on your face at her attempt to use such a ridiculous alias.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Dean, the guy who is always at The Tipsy Tangle (that would be the bar.)
-“I think in all honesty, kid- that damn boy is dead!! and you’re nearly getting yourself killed for nothing!”
-“I’m almost offended that you didn’t ask lil’ ol’ me if I had bike- cause if you did…hell maybe i woulda let you and pretty boy over there take her for a spin.”
Here are our main characters!! I love them personally, they all play key parts within the story and I think you will all grow to love them very much.
A couple of weeks ago I asked about people’s favorite book or books they read this year. Between Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and discord, I have a list of 123 books in no particular order that my friends and family loved this year. If it was a series then I listed the first book. Each star is an additional recommendation. I haven’t read all of these, they may or may not reflect my personal opinions, though my favorite books are on the list too. The most recommended books were How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, one or all of the Murderbot books by Martha Wells, and Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, because if there’s one thing my friends have in common across platforms, it’s that you’re all nerds (affectionate). Enjoy, and I hope you find your new favorite book!
Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes de Mez
The Soul Of An Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
The Going To Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
My Hijacking by Martha Hodes
Longhand by Andy Hamilton
Babel by RF Kuang*
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff*
Lies We Sing To The Sea by Sarah Underwood
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart
Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone
I Lost My Tooth! by Mo Willems
The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
How Far The Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler**
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett*
I’m Stuck by Julia Mills
Entangled Life by Martin Sheldrake
Iris by Eden Finley
Hot Vampire Next Door by Nikki St. Crowe
Devil of Dublin by BB Easton
Tied by Carian Cole
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld*
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
From Blood And Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Where I End by Sophie White
Wool by Hugh Howey
The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow
Yellowface by RF Kuang
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
North Woods by Daniel Mason
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin*
The Fragile Threads of Power by VE Schwab
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt
Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning by The Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivante
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Love In The Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa*
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Prophet by Sin Blache and Helen MacDonald*
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki**
System Collapse by Martha Wells***
The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine*
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
A Psalm For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers*
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
The Lazarus Heist by Geoff White
The September House by Carissa Orlando*
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Mistletoe and Mishigas by MA Wardell
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
The Last Smile In Sunder City by Luke Arnold
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes by Zoe Playden
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
Loot by Tania James
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
All Systems Read by Martha Wells
The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner*
The Door by Magda Szabo
Fluids by May Leitz
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Lieut. John Irving, R.N. of H.M.S. "Terror" in Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic regions a memorial sketch with letters
In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Raven the Pirate Princess by Jeremy Whitley
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
The Fiancée Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Slewfoot by Brom
The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
500 Miles From You by Jenny Colgan
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell
The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman by KJ Charles
A Line In The World by Dorthe Nors
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Glitter and Concrete by Elyssa Maxx Goodman
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Tragic Menagerie by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (translated by Jane Costlow)
The 100 Years Of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
I had a bit of out-of-town traveling and flying. I would like to attribute this to the amount of books finished, but frankly, my reading speed has no true rhyme or reason. **Also, I've far surpassed my reading goal for the year!**
Throne of Power - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Throne of Vengeance - Rina Kent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Come Back for Me - Corinne Michaels ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Black Ties & White Lies - Kat Singleton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bromantic Puckboy - Eden Finley & Saxon James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Freed - E. L. James ⭐️⭐️
Sing for Me - Brittany Ann ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hollow Heathens - Nicole Fiorina⭐️
Bridesmaid for Hire - Meghan Quinn ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Queen of the Night - A. N. Stauber & Molly Briar ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Little Slice of Hell - Clio Evans ⭐️⭐️
What I Should Have Done - R. L. Atkinson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rivalry - Lisa Suzanne ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Soulmate Equation - Christina Lauren ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Broken Vows - Catharina Maura ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Home Game - Odette Stone ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Come Break My Heart Again - C. W. Farnsworth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Accidentally Ours - Erin Hawkins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Key to the Dark - Alexa Michaels ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Her Soul to Take - Harley Laroux ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Sight of You - Ashley Mack ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Things I Should Have Said - Kelsey Humphreys ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Her Soul for Revenge - Harley Laroux ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Faked - Karla Sorensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Mindf*ck Series - S. T. Abby (Audiobook) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
One Pucking Love - Ellie Wade ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Keeping Her - Angela Snyder ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Saving Him - Angela Snyder ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Reason Why - Lacy Channell ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Not My Coach - Pru Schuyler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ready for You - Samantha Leigh ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Morally Corrupt - Veronica Lancet ⭐️
Forget Me Not - Karissa Kinword ⭐️⭐️
In the Light of Sin - Juniper Nye ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Scoring Chance - Teagan Hunter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lord of Bones - Aiden Pierce & R. K. Pierce ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Watching Ames - R. Handler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Scandalous - L. J. Shen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Pucking Wrong Man - C. R. Jane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Flawless - Elsie Silver (Audiobook) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stolen Heir - Sophie Lark ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Butcher & Blackbird - Brynne Weaver (Audiobook) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chalet Love in Alaska - Ellyne ⭐️⭐️
Skin of a Sinner - Avina St. Graves ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heartless - Elsie Silver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tailgates and Twist of Fate - Haley Rhoades ⭐️⭐️
Irresistible - Willow Aster ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dom - S. J. Tilly ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shattered Veil - Deborah Garland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
King of Sloth - Ana Huang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fallen Star - Heather Ashley ⭐️
Mile High - Liz Tomforde ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Leather & Lark - Brynne Weaver (Audiobook) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Hit - Julie Weaver ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Holdout - Jacqueline Snowe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Comeback Pact - E. M. Moore ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm making a playlist for the show "My Stand In". I hate Tong so much! He is one of those characters that you absolutely hate, no redeeming qualities. I want him to get his karma so bad!
The playlist includes, "Better Than Me" by Hinder, "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift, "Irrelevant" by Lauren Aquilina, "Good Enough" by Evanescence, "Who Knew" by P!nk, "Lacrymosa" by Evanescence, "Not For You" by Kylee, "Broken" by Seether & Amy Lee, "Fever" by Carly Rae Jepsen, "Cut Me Loose" by The Shires, "She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) by David Guetta & Sia, "My World" by SR-71, "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx, "Out Of The Woods" by Taylor Swift, "My Happy Ending" by Avril Lavigne, "Call Me When You're Sober" by Evanescence, "Love Me Now" by Kygo & Zoe Wees, "Driving To Nowhere" by Finley, "Release Me" by Agnes, "How You Get The Girl" by Taylor Swift, "Can't Breathe" by Fefe Dobson, "What's Left Of Me" by Nick Lachey, "Let Go" by Frou Frou, "Is It Over Now? by Taylor Swift, "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence and much more.
Literally everything you write with sick Ian is great so that’d be my preference!
Thank you for the prompt!!
(re: this post... and the offer still stands if anyone else wants to make a request!)
Set at some point after this angsty thing. Here's the link to all of the World Above stuff. :-)
You can read this fic below or on AO3.
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"How was the show?" Josh leans his head back against the couch, and Finley takes the opportunity to shove his nose into Josh's face and start licking him enthusiastically.
"Mm, maybe." Ian turns away from the camera to cough.
Kate comes around the back of the couch to get in frame as well. "Hi, Ian."
"Kate!" Ian's eyes light up, but his voice wavers a little bit when he says, "Ah, I miss you guys."
"We miss you too." Kate tips her head against Josh's and frowns a little. "You okay? You look really tired."
"Yeah." Ian rolls his shoulders and grimaces. "I dunno. I used to be better at sleeping in motels. Or tour buses, god."
"Or that frickin' van?" Josh raises his eyebrows.
"I do not miss that," Ian agrees, and turns aside to cough again.
The stove timer beeps, and Kate sits back up. "Ah, I've got to get that. Take care of yourself, okay?"
Ian nods, still coughing, and waves as she heads for the kitchen.
"Ian," Josh says, in a way that's synonymous with oh, buddy.
"I'm okay." He's sounding kind of hoarse. "It was loud at the bar."
"Hmm."
Ian scrunches up his nose, then scrubs at it with his fist, but he can't stop it when his breath catches and builds into a strong h'ET-schiew! "Oh," he mutters, scrubbing at his nose some more. "Fuck."
"Bless you."
Ian groans and lets himself fall sideways onto the pillows of his motel bed.
"I have to play tomorrow." Now that he's started, he can't stop sniffling.
"Not if you're sick, you don't."
"Not sick," he says, but it's more of a pout than anything.
"It's not like before," Josh says gently, running a hand through Finley's fur. They'd played through all kinds of shit. Before. He wonders if it'll ever go back to being like that, or if this is just how it's going to be from now on.
"I know." Ian scrubs at his nose with the flat of his palm. "I just…" He shakes his head, not meeting Josh's eyes through the phone.
Josh gives him a minute. "Yeah?"
"I just thought we'd all be here together." His sniffle this time is emotion as much as illness. "I mean, not here in this motel playing at some random bar. But like." He bites his lip. "Here."
"I know." They'd been working on it, slowly and uncertainly. And then the whole world had shut down. He wants to tell Ian that it'll happen, that they can try again at trying again, even after all this time. There are just too many unknowns. The state of the world, for one. And the fact that they've all got stuff going again. Danny's producing out in Oakland. Lauren's started streaming online, sometimes music and sometimes video games and sometimes just talking about whatever's on her mind. Nate and Ellie are having another baby. Josh had moved his guitar lessons to Zoom and for the most part kept them there, and the idea of leaving the safety of his life with Kate and Finn to go back out on the road seems too overwhelming to even think about right now.
Ian, though. Ian's never been good at staying in one place. He'd gone back to touring as soon as it was reasonably safe. He's happier now, for sure, but sometimes just as lonely as when he'd been stuck in his apartment. More so, given how many roommates he'd been squeezed in with at the time.
"Hey," Josh says, gentle. "Tell me about the show."
That gets him a little bit of a smile. "It was good." He swipes at his nose with the back of his hand. "There were these girls who drove three hours to come."
"Wow."
"Yeah. And I wrote some new stuff." He shrugs, suddenly shy. "It went over pretty good."
"Send it to me, I want to hear it." For so long, Josh would've been there, in the hotel room and the tour bus, hearing the song come together bit by bit, rather than hearing about it after the fact.
"Okay." It's just a whisper. There are tears in Ian's eyes. Finn whines at the phone and tries to lick the screen.
"You're getting puppy kisses from Finley."
"Thanks, Finn." He sniffs, and coughs, and rubs at his forehead.
"How're you feeling? Seriously," he adds, when it looks like Ian's going to say he's fine.
Ian shrugs. "Like I'm getting sick." He coughs again. "I don't know. My head hurts. And my throat."
"Do you feel like you have a fever?" If he does, it's low. He's not glassy-eyed and rosy-cheeked, he's just exhausted and sniffly and sad. Past experience says he's hanging out somewhere right around the tipping point between warm and feverish.
Ian considers for a second, and then shivers. "I'm kinda cold. A little achy, maybe."
"Get under the covers."
"It's too early to go to…hhh…k'TCHHH! to go to sleep." He wriggles around anyway until the comforter's pulled up to his chin. He absentmindedly wipes his nose on it and Josh flinches.
"You're the reason I don't trust hotel sheets."
"Oh. Sohhh… h'NGT!choo…" Caught in the bedding again. He doesn't finish the apology, just sort of stares into the middle distance past the phone.
"Bless you." Josh sighs. "Okay, who's letting tomorrow's venue know you're out, you or me?"
"No," Ian says, voice wavering again.
"Yes." This move from Ian like he's pushing his forehead into his pillows, and Josh knows that if Ian were here he'd be doing that move against Josh's shoulder right now. "I can do it. The info's in your business email?" Josh has had access for years, but it's been a while since he needed to step in.
Ian nods miserably.
"And we need to get you a test— yes, even if you're sure that's not what this is— and some groceries, and meds, some nice tissues. And extend your motel reservation."
Kate's been listening from the kitchen, and she comes to sit on the couch with Josh and Finley. "We've got it, Ian. Text me your grocery requests."
"I'll do the reservation at the same time I call the venue," Josh says. It's the sort of thing that would have sent him anxiety-spiraling five years ago. Now, here at home with Kate and Finn, it feels easy. An act of love.
"I can't." Ian's shaking a little bit, now; exhaustion and frustration and that little bit of fever.
"It's okay." Kate's voice is reassuring. "Having to cancel for being even just a little sick is just part of the deal now. Everyone will understand."
The kitchen timer goes off again and Kate gets up to turn off the stove and put the finishing touches on dinner.
"We'll work on all that," Josh says. "Call me back in an hour or two if you want."
"Okay." Now that he's under the covers, his eyes are starting to close.
"I think Lauren's streaming tonight, so if you can't get her on the phone you can always show up in the chat."
Ian laughs at that. It turns into a cough. "Everyone always freaks out when I do that."
"The best medicine." For Ian, it really is. He needs attention the way a plant needs water and sunlight. It's not an insult, it's just the truth: he wilts and fades without it, and when he gets it again, he straightens up. Fills out. Comes back to life.
"Hmm." Ian's already perking up a little bit at the thought. "I guess I could do that."
"Good." More screen kisses from Finn. "Finley says he loves you. Talk to you soon."
"Okay." A small but genuine smile. "Thanks, Josh."