#levin henning

[gramarobin]

I had to post this, being a crazy chicken lady.

[blueberrypie20]

Me: *watching the ending of S2E39* ... so it finally ended...

Me:

Me: now...

Me: LET'S GO TO THE WORLD YOUTH---!! ^0^

I expected myself to start crying/screaming after it'd be over but surprisingly this was my very first thought lol

CT made me a lot more optimistic

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Summaries under the cut

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was an oracular pig. But the day that Hen Wen vanished, Taran was led into an enchanting and perilous world. With his band of followers, he confronted the Horned King and his terrible Cauldron-Born. These were the forces of evil, and only Hen Wen knew the secret of keeping the kingdom of Prydain safe from them. But who would find her first?

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Louie is very popular. Who wouldn't love a swan who can read, write, and play the trumpet? When Louie goes to camp, he meets a boy named A.G. who doesn't like birds, and since Louie is a bird, that means he doesn't like Louie. When A.G. pulls a dangerous stunt out on the lake, he realizes that Louie is a hero, after all.

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons.

The Black Stallion by Walter Farley

Alec Ramsay is the sole human survivor of a devastating shipwreck. Trapped on a deserted island, Alec finds his only companion is a horse, beautiful, unbroken, and savage . . . a horse whose beauty matches his wild spirit.

The Magisterium by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. To succeed at the Iron Trial and be admitted into the vaunted Magisterium school would bring bad things. But he fails at failing. Only hard work, loyal friends, danger, and a puppy await.

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden from the heroic epic of Drualt to a thrilled audience of Addie, their governess, and the young sorcerer Rhys.

But when Meryl falls ill with the dreaded Gray Death, Addie must gather her courage and set off alone on a quest to find the cure and save her beloved sister. Addie takes the seven-league boots and magic spyglass left to her by her mother and the enchanted tablecloth and cloak given to her by Rhys - along with a shy declaration of his love. She prevails in encounters with tricky specters (spiders too) and outwits a wickedly personable dragon in adventures touched with romance and a bittersweet ending.

Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits... and fangs!

Beka Cooper by Tamora Pierce

Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, commonly known as "the Provost's Dogs," in Corus, the capital city of Tortall. To the surprise of both the veteran "Dogs" and her fellow "puppies," Beka requests duty in the Lower City. The Lower City is a tough beat. But it's also where Beka was born, and she's comfortable there.

Beka gets her wish. She's assigned to work with Mattes and Clary, famed veterans among the Provost's Dogs. They're tough, they're capable, and they're none too happy about the indignity of being saddled with a puppy for the first time in years. What they don't know is that Beka has something unique to offer. Never much of a talker, Beka is a good listener. So good, in fact, that she hears things that Mattes and Clary never could - information that is passed in murmurs when flocks of pigeons gather ... murmurs that are the words of the dead.

In this way, Beka learns of someone in the Lower City who has overturned the power structure of the underworld and is terrorizing its citizens into submission and silence. Beka's magical listening talent is the only way for the Provost's Dogs to find out the identity of this brutal new underlord, for the dead are beyond fear. And the ranks of the dead will be growing if the Dogs can't stop a crime wave the likes of which has never been seen. Luckily for the people of the Lower City, the new puppy is a true terrier!

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else has-a magical voice. Her vocal talents captivate all who hear them, and in Ontio Castle they attract the attention of a handsome prince - and a dangerous new queen.

Trickster's Duology by Tamora Pierce

Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods.

[rhadinesthes]

🐍About Me🐍

Got tagged by @n-brio, so let the fun begin~

Nickname: I've had several, but the most prominent are S_D (which I've used since I was twelve) and Snek. I like snakes. There's also the name people call me when they forget my name. Somehow it's always the same, so it must really suit me. XD

Sign:

Call Me Little Sunsign

Height: 5'5"

Last Google Search: I've been looking for a certain sausage cheese ball recipe, since I've lost the one I used last time.

Song Stuck In Your Head: Granite (Pendulum), since it's what's currently playing.

Followers: 2

Lucky Number: Killing Defiled Amygdala in only two tries was pretty lucky. That's gotta be my greatest Soulsborne moment.

Sleep:

Dream Job: I'm trying to write a story/book, so if I finished that and people enjoyed it, that'd be swell.

Wearing: Jack-o-lantern/bat/rat/ivy print leggings, socks, flip-flops house shoes, my middle school orchestra shirt, and a big, cozy jacket. And to think I just ragged on Fred for wearing flip-flops with socks.

Favorite Songs: So many. I'll pick some from a variety of styles: Legion (VNV Nation) Im Guten Im Bösen (Eisbrecher) Theremin [Club Edit] (Covenant) Respite on the Spitalfields (Ghost) Planet Hell (Nightwish) Honeythief (Halou) Das Neue Fleisch (Sielwolf) Resurrection (Christopher Young)

Favorite Instrument: Harpsichord. I love the sound.

Aesthetic: Does goth count? I've been into goth shit since, like, middle school. Otherwise, it's a hodgepodge. Feel free to peruse my Aesthetic tag.

Favorite Author: Lovecraft. I feel the burn of the torches and the sting of the pitchforks already. Honorable mention goes to my two favorite books: A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin and The Hot Zone by Richard Preston.

Favorite Color: I like blues and greens a lot. And black.

Favorite Animal Sounds: My grandma has this saying: Whistling girls and crowing hens always come to no good ends. So you know what? Shout out to all the crowing hens.

Last Song: Benzin (Rammstein) just finished playing.

Last Series: I've been watching The Last of Us with someone who's super into the games. I never played them. The last shows I was really into were Resident Alien and Snowpiercer.

Random:

I don't have many people to tag, so... @the-hole-in-terzos-shoe, I tag you. Have fun~ :3 It'd be funny to tag @n-brio again and make it recursive. And anyone else who sees this, Kos has planted a tag inside your brain. Hail Mother Kos! Grant us tags!

[wildlife4life]

Temptation Tuesday

Once again have to mention how much I love this new tag game created by the lovely @honestlydarkprincess. Thanks to this tag game I actually was inspired to create one my temptations and its very exciting!

Rules: share something about an idea you have/something that's speaking to you/an au you'd like to see and are considering writing/ ect. Basically anything that is tempting you away from your current wips!

I was tagged by @ebdaydreamer so here are few ideas that have come to me recently

Yellowstone AU: The Diaz Ranch. Eddie and Buck are kind of like Rip and Beth, but not really. They met on the Diaz ranch when Buck was saved by Bobby after running away. Eddie and Buck fall in love, but then his sister discovers the relationship and tattles to their dad. Buck is sent away to work on another ranch, Eddie tries to adhere to what his family wants for him and starts dating Shannon. She becomes pregnant, Eddie enlist. Eddie comes back after the helicopter crash, Shannon doesn't run, but she does move back to town and has a very strained relationship with Eddie and Christopher who remains on the ranch. When Eddie returns, he discovers that Buck is back working for his dad's ranch along with his new friends Chimney and Hen. Buck's long lost sister Maddie is also there as the ranch's own personal vet. His dad only brought Buck back on because he is the best damn horse wrangler and swore up and down that nothing would happen between him and Eddie. Buck knows about Shannon and Christopher, believes that Eddie never truly loved him and is heartbroken. Eddie doesn't know that his dad sent Buck away, that Buck left on his own. Ramon wants Eddie to take over the ranch, making him work alongside the ranchers, including Buck. Ensue the drama and the two boys falling in love all over again.

The Voice different meeting Au: Buck and Eddie are Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton. Eddie is a country artist, Buck pop rock? Like Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Adam Levine type music. Both are coming out of horribly ending long term relationships when they are tapped to judge the Voice. They fall in love and start making music about each other. Even make a song together. The world is freaking out over Buddie, paparazzi go nuts when ever their out together, new outlets have very inside 'dish' and so on.

A possible continuation of my soon to post (keep on the look out!) 6x16 coda future fic. This coda somehow went from like a quick 500 words to 2K. Doesn't sound like I alot, but I literally started it out like a little blurb like my previous codas lol.

Grimm Buddie AU: Eddie is a Grimm and Buck is wesen. (pronounced with a V).

A different Wolf! Eddie and Witch! Buck. Except this time Eddie is given a prophecy as a teenager by another witch about his future mate.

Alright hope that is tempting enough! I am off to finish my coda and I will be posting soon, and not just here. Its big enough that I'll be posting to AO3, so keep an eye out!

No tags from me! Everyone I would like to tag has been tagged! But I would love to see everyone's temptations! Happy Tuesday!

[fourteenfifteen]

omg is it Hen interviewing hours? holds out a microphone Hello HenWTC what's your all time favorite poem (you can choose more than one if this is a cruel question)? what's your go-to sorbet flavor of choice? how many hard-boiled eggs do you think you could eat in one sitting if someone gave you $10 for each egg? what's an opinion you've held for Years but no one has ever asked the right question for you to properly rant about/explain it? what would you consider to be a very specific love language for you (either doing or receiving)? would you rather own a lizard or a chinchilla as a pet? also did you know I love you? that's all mwah I hope you're having a great night ^-^ 💜

shdjfkgks hiiii bestie i’m picturing myself as the guest on the late show with cola queen_eevee

i love lots of poems but i have an emotional attachment to my brother the artist at seven by philip levine it just hits

raspberry sorbet is everything to me i have in my life eaten a whole pint in a sitting. dangerous stuff

i’m actually not a big hard boiled egg guy and idk that $10 is enough. like the idea of just scarfing down a bunch of hard boiled eggs in a row while someone is presumably watching and counting and handing me more eggs is so awful to me rn

oh god i have no idea. i tweet most of my opinions so-

in terms of doing i do love doing things for ppl esp like getting up and grabbing something for someone. but other stuff too i just like to be helpful. on the receiving end i always get very 🥺 when i like say that i like people doing something or treating me a certain way and then i notice ppl going out of their way to do that like it means a lot. also ppl listening to me talk and like asking questions and acting like they’re interested in what i’m saying i’m v intentional in doing that for other ppl and when i get it back it’s nice

definitely a lizard i’m a fan of those guys. love when a guy is scaly and dry

shfjfkfks i did 💕💕💕 but i’m glad to be reminded. and i love you too 💕💕💕💕💕

[cathygeha]

REVIEW

Annika Rose by Cheri Johnson

This is a book that has mixed reviews. Some are glowing and others much less so. The prose is well done and the dialogue easy to follow.  I began reading and two young women meet on a country road. One lives with her father and is out for a walk and the other has just moved into the cabin next door. They talk, tour the cabin, and Annika worries but admires Tina while thinking about drawings she has made. I was underwhelmed so read the end, as I sometimes do, to see if I wanted to continue reading based on the conclusion of the story. I wasn’t sure but still uncommitted so went to the middle and read a bit more here and there and found that there were characters that seemed charming in spots while also feeling rather dangerous. There was a dark vibe throughout and a feeling that left me thinking that this is probably a book for someone younger than I am who might be drawn in and be able to make more sense of it. So, did I read the entire book word for word? No Will I return to it? Probably not because I could not relate to the characters and their story did not draw me in. Would I read this author again? It would depend on the synopsis and if it was of interest.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Red Hen Press for the ARC – This is my honest review

2-3 Stars

BLURB

Ancient and contemporary myths—including both Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby—overlay a coming-of-age story set in remote northern Minnesota. Seventeen-year-old Annika Rose and her father Wes have spent the years since the death of Annika’s mother in self-imposed social isolation on their farm on the edge of the woods. When a young woman named Tina moves into a house down the road, the result is a sudden explosion of feelings in both father and daughter and a fierce rivalry. At stake in the competition is not only their relationship, but the life of the vulnerable young woman at the center of it all. Advance Praise: “Part coming-of-age story, part ode to the landscape of northern Minnesota, this is also a horror story that reflects the larger horror of adolescence, of a girl’s fight for integrity in the face of demolished innocence. How could we forget Annika after we meet her? Her character is seared upon my brain. She is reminiscent of other stubborn, opinionated characters who struggle in the limbo between childhood and adulthood: Huckleberry Finn, Laura Ingalls, and Scout Finch.”—Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist “Cheri Johnson’s novel Annika Rose is a marvel of invention whose always knowing prose, alternately heartbreaking and hilarious, simultaneously glimmers and cuts. A magician with character, Johnson’s most artful alchemy comes in her protagonist Annika, who, if there is a meritocracy, will become as memorable a first name in literature as Holden or Huckleberry as teenagers choked and befuddled by angst, adventure, and an ever-encroaching and frightening very real world. Annika—an eighteen-year-old post-modern Laura Ingalls inhabiting a little trailer on the prairie—is a breathing contradiction, both an old soul and a doe-innocent naif. Yet her battle—to speak when uncomfortable truths finally outweigh convenient myths—is as ageless as both life and death.”—Neal Karlen, author of This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey On + Off the Record "Annika Rose is a coming-of-age story unlike any you’ve ever read. This novel peels back the skin of the genre’s tropes to reveal all of the sticky weirdness that exists beneath. Annika Rose’s narrative is a journey into deep psychic wildness where love, desire, envy, power, and violence collapse into one another. We open with what presents initially as a love triangle, but quickly reveals itself to be the face of a much more complex and multidimensional geometry of desire. The setting, at the edge of farm country in the age of supermarkets, is more than a backdrop. The creatures and hazards of the deep woods the characters still roam serve as an insistent reminder of the feral impulses powering our rational minds. Annika Rose is also a page-turner and compulsively readable, its sentences at turns as restrained and untamed as the country it describes." —Melanie Conroy-Goldman, author of The Likely World

[renegadetulisrp]

The whole time Leia spoke, Hal was silent. His silence was as scarce as a hen's teeth. But her words made him reel, thinking of its consequences and the implications of their now intimate involvement might bring forth. And.... Hal realised he did not care. He didn't care if the marshal found out they had broken a rule. He didn't care if things are going to get complicated with Leia in tow. All he knows now was this selfish need to keep Leia by his side at every waking moment if possible. "You were lashing out," Hal whispered against her hair as he pulled her closer to him. "Broke my heart and trampled on it these past few days but nothing I couldn't handle. I've dealt with worse, Miss Levine." Hal took a moment to run his fingers through her hair, caressing it gently. "You wanna go upstairs?" he offered, pulling back so she could see his face. He nuzzled her nose, brushing his lips against hers. "I do my best work on a comfortable bed," he rasped cheekily.

Her tears stopped a little at the change in movement, wanting to see what would happen before she really go carried away. They were in the living room now, only half painted but utterly charming. "I just thought that if I kept pushing you'd leave to avoid me jeopardizing our cover. Or that you'd leave if we had sex because you'd feel guilty." She mumbled, trying not to meet his eyes even though he was gently wiping away her tears. Now she just felt foolish. But he wasn't leaving, wasn't saying Thanks for all the fish and walking away. She couldn't help but giggle a little at the feel of his nose gently touching hers. "You did, but I wanted you too. I know I was acting selfish and being pushy. I'm sorry about that. I should've acted more like an adult instead of pouting. I don't regret what happened but it should have happened differently. I care so much about you." Leia said, resting her head against his chest. "Yeah, together until the end."

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander

The Search for Delicious (Babbitt, Natalie) The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker

Maya and the Rising Dark (Barron, Rena)

Peter and the Starcatchers (Barry, Dave)

The Looking Glass Wars (Beddor, Frank)

Eigth grade bites by brewer (published under author's deadname?)

Minecraft the island by Max brooks

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (Byng, Georgia)

The Awakening (Carroll, Michael )

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Carter, Ally)

A Week in the Woods (Clements, Andrew)

The Supernaturalist (Colfer, Eoin)

Artemis Fowl (Colfer, Eoin)

Airman (Colfer, Eoin)

Of Fire and Stars (Coulthurst, Audrey)

Into the Land of the Unicorns (Coville, Bruce)

Out of My Mind (Draper, Sharon M.)

So you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane

The Patron Thief of Bread (Eagar, Lindsay)

Half Magic (Eager, Edward)

Inkheart (Funke, Cornelia)

Bunnicula James Howe

Which Witch? (Ibbotson, Eva)

The Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson, Eva)

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

The Reformed Vampire Support Group (Jinks, Catherine)

The Akhenaten Adventure (Kerr, P.B.)

The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Kessler, Liz)

Savvy (Law, Ingrid)

The Fairy's Mistake (Levine, Gail Carson)

Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (Levine, Gail Carson)

Ella Enchanted (Levine, Gail Carson)

The Two Princesses of Bamarre (Levine, Gail Carson)

Nightmare Academy (Lorey, Dean)

The Merchant of Death (MacHale, D.J.)

The Ruby Princess Runs Away (Malcolm, Jahnna N.)

If the Shoe Fits (Mason, Jane B.)

How to Become a Planet (Melleby, Nicole)

Game of Strength and Storm (Menard, Rachel)

The Host (Meyer, Stephenie)

Fablehaven (Mull, Brandon)

Five Children and It (Nesbit)

The Borrowers (Norton, Mary)

The Wicked Bargain (Novoa, Gabe Cole)

If I Was Your Girl (Russo, Meredith)

Magyk (Sage, Angie)

The Alchemyst (Scott, Michael)

Scythe (Shusterman, Neal)

The Glitch in Sleep (Wexler, Michael)

You, me, and our heartstrings by See, Melissa

Instructions for dancing by Yoon, Nicola

The Jasmine Project by Ireland, Meredith,

Rise to the sun by Johnson, Leah

Happily ever afters by Bryant, Elise

Everything I thought I knew by Takaoka, Shannon.

The falling in love montage by Smyth, Ciara

The peasant's dream by Dickerson, Melanie

The princess will save you by Henning, Sarah

If I'm being honest by Wibberley, Emily

Opposite of always by Reynolds, Justin A

Summer constellations by Sevigny, Alisha

The wicked deep by Ernshaw, Shea

The supervillain and me by Banas, Danielle

The boyfriend bracket by Evangelista, Kate

An enchantment of ravens by Rogerson, Margaret

Wild beauty by McLemore, Anna-Marie

Stay tuned 🐺

[angrybell]

Hen Mazzig recently made the statement that there is a new form of conspiracy theory, on or with Holocaust denial. That’s the people who deny that Hamas butchered, mutilated, and raped their way through Southern Israel. Eric Levitz is one r of those deniers. He teeeted,

Can anyone come up with another way that a baby loses their head?

I don’t care that this miserable excuse for a human apologized. Apologies from people like him are meaningless. His actions are what matters. He has been happy to be a go along to get along Jew, helping to keep the progressive lies going so he keeps his standing in the progressive ranks.

Don’t believe me?

Even though it was clear by 10/19, that the Al Ahli hospital incident was a fraud, he was still writing in New York Magazine that

He was still leaving open the possibility that PIJ wasn’t responsible and that it was Isrsel which was at fault!

But that’s not enough for this kapo. Nope. He has to go on and repeat the lies of Hamas. He writes,

He portrays what Israel is doing as indiscriminate attacks on civilians, relying upon Hamas and the UN, neither of which have had any problem lying about the facts in the past when it comes to Israel.

But let’s look at the history of Levin. He is a dyed-in-the-wool shill for the progressive cause. When Congresswoman Tlaib pulled out of a visit to Israel because the Israeli government, rightly, wanted to limit the harm she could do, Levin championed her. Portraying her visit as one where she would be open minded and concerned with facts.

Then he called out the media in 2021 for their bias. Why? Because it was hurting President Biden. Can’t have the party criticized, people might realize that they’re the problem!

To his credit, he did call out how progressives shouldn’t be supporting Hamas. However, being the kapo that he is, Levin can’t resist characterizing Israel as “neocolonial”. In the end he argues not simply that celebrating Hamas’ atrocities are immoral, but that it hurts the struggle against Israel.

By the end of the article, he abandons the initial thesis and turns this editorial into a. Screed about Israel, but not the Arabs, must be held to their promises. He only sees the celebration of Hamas as distracting from what he believes should be happening : the vilification of Israel and the continued hagiographiction of the “Palestinian” people.

So when he apologies for his horrific statement, essentially calling into question whether atrocities happened simply because he was not there to witness the beheading in real time, it’s a sham. Levitz wants to aid the terrorists in a way he thinks is better.

Levitz is every bit the ally of the antisemites, just as the kapos were every bit the accomplices of the Nazis. He just dresses it up differently. He’d rather be a good progressive than a good Jew, and definitely more than he wants to be a mensch.

Don’t accept his apology. His actions show it’s just words to mollify the crowd because he has no interest in changing.

[music-despite-everything]

More Than You Gave by Philip Levine

Philip Levine won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1995 for his collection “The Simple Truth.” He was the US Poet Laureate for 2011-2012. He died in 2015 at the age of 87.

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We have the town we call home wakening for dawn  which isn’t yet here but is promised, we have

our tired neighbors rising in ones and twos, we have  the sky slowly separating itself from the houses

to become the sky while the stars blink a last time  and vanish to make way for us to enter the great stage

of an ordinary Tuesday in ordinary time. We have  our curses, our gripes, our lies all on the stale breath

of 6:37 a.m. in the city no one dreams, the Tuesday city  in which we shall live for this day or not at all.

“Where are the angels?” I ask. This is a visionary moment  in the history of time, incomplete without angels,

without at least Argente of the tarnished wings,  or the mangled half-assed Incondante who speaks

only in riddles, or one-winged Sylvania who glows  in the dark. All off in eternity doing their sacred numbers.

Instead at 6:43 a.m. we have Vartan Baghosian with a face  seamed like a softball and Minky Schantz who pitched

three games for the Toledo Mud Hens in ’39 and lost  them all, we have the Volpe sisters who married

the attic on Brush Street and won’t come down,  we have me, fresh as last week, bitching about my back,

my bad ankle, we have psoriasis, heartburn, the four-day  hangover, prostatitis, Jewish mothers, Catholic guilt,

we have the teen-age Woodward Ave. whores going  to bed alone at last, hugging no one for that long moment

before the young Madonnas rise from separate beds  to open their shutters on whatever the day presents,

to pledge their virtue and their twitching, incomparable bodies  to Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Tupperware. All this

in rooms where even in the gray dishwater dawn  the chrome grill on an Admiral black-and-white TV

gleams like the chalice of Abraham. And from his corner  the genius of this time and place, Uncle Nate, chomping

his first White Owl of the day, calls out for a doughnut  and sweetened milky coffee to dunk it in and laces up

his high-tops and swears by the vision of his blind right eye  he will have strange young pussy before the sun sets

on his miserable balding dome. Today we shall paint,  for Nate is a true artist trained in the eight-hour day

to master the necessary and not the strung-out martyrs  of El Greco or the brooding landscapes of an awful century.

No, today we paint the walls, the lintels, the ceilings,  the dadoes, and the doodads of Mrs. Victoria Settle

formerly of Lake Park, Illinois, now come to grace  our city with the myth of her late husband, her terriers,

her fake accent, her Victorian brooches, her perfect posture,  and especially her money. Ask the gray windows

that look out on the remnants of winter a grand question:  “Have I come all the way through the fires of hell,

the torture of the dark night of the etc., so that I might inhale  the leaden fumes of Giddens Golden Gate as the dogsbody

of Nathaniel Hawthorne Glenner, the autodidact of Twelfth Street?”  It could be worse. It could be life without mortadella sandwiches,

twenty-five-cent pineapple pies, and quarts of Pilsner  at noon out on a manicured lawn in Grosse Pointe

under a sun that never before caressed an Armenian or a Jew.  We could be flogging Fuller brushes down the deadbeat streets

of Paradise Valley or delivering trunks to the dormitories  of the Episcopal ladies where no one tips or offers

a pastry and a schnapps for the longed-for trip  back to Sicily or Salonika; it could be the forge room

at Ford Rouge where the young get old fast or die trying.  So savor the hours as Nate recounts the day he hitchhiked

to Toledo only to arrive too late to see the young Dempsey  flatten Willard and claim the lily-white championship

of the world. “Story of my life,” says Nate, “the last to arrive,  the first to leave.” Not even Aesop could outdo our Nate,

our fabulist, whose name even is pure invention,  a confabulation of his prison reading and his twelve-year

formal education in the hobo camps of his long boyhood.  Wanderlust, he tells us, hit him at age fifteen and not

a moment too soon for Mr. Wilson was taking boys  off to die in Europe and that was just about the time

women discovered Nate or Nate discovered women,  and they were something he wouldn’t care to go without.

Call it a long day if you want and a hard one, too,  but remember we got more than we gave: we got myth,

we got music, we got underpaid work, a cheap lunch  with more to follow. On the long walk to the bus stop

and the ride home we hear the birds gathering  in the elms and maples thickening with summer finery,

and no one cares if we sing to the orange sun  that also seeks its rest, no one cares that our voices

are harsh from cigarettes and our ears worthless,  our timing off, and we’ve got the wrong words

in the wrong places. Let’s just give it what we have  and when that’s done give it a second time, one

for us and one for Nate, and even a third wouldn’t hurt.

[doubleattitude]

YAGP Finals Results 2022

Pre-Competitive

Hope Award

Asuka Hara

Classical Dance Category-Women

Top 24

Ellary Day Szydlar

Alicia Miyu Wills

Anne Takahashi

Tiffany Emmanuela Tanugraha

Silvie Kharatian

Nina Miro

Yelyzaveta Bidenko

Hikari Otomo

Kurumi Saito

Kae Osada

Chloe Wang

Ekaterina Pichkova

Top 12

Eve Vlahodimos

Mikhaela Felicia Maleke

Asuka Hara

Morgan Ligon

Chaeyool Kim

Annie Webb

Laura Paquim

Kiera Sun

Top 3

Yuna Yamada

Mikaela Cameron

Maria Qixin Tian and Shaqueena Yefta Hutasoit

Classical Dance Category-Men

Top 6

Alessandro Loiola

Dylan Custodio

Charley Toscano

Top 3

Ruan Santiago

Leon Yusei Sai

Michael Savio

Contemporary Dance Category-Women

Top 12

Emilia Dubiel

Asuka Hara

Savannah Manzel

Mikaela Cameron

Kya Massimino

Sachi Oza

Kae Osada

Vivien Palmer

Carrigan Paylor

Top 3

Kiera Sun

Morgan Ligon

Phoebe Ingram

Contemporary Dance Category-Men

Top 6

Owen Simmons

Nikolas Adarmes

David Mihail Anagnoste

Top 3

Michael Savio

Ruan Santiago

Dylan Custodio

Junior

Youth Grand Prix

Alexei Orohovsky

Women

Top 12

Ana Lorenza Blanco Peniche

Minori De Silva

Nozomi Akamine

Ruka Suginohara

Luisa Lisboa

Izzy Howard

Charlize Hardwick

Anna Chaziroglou

Top 3

Nao Nakajima

Yerin Ok

Sophia Koo and Crystal Huang

Men

Top 12

Eric Poor

Manoel Domingos

Cesar Ortega Garcia

Keisuke Miyazaki

Gramada Dragos

Minjun Suh

William Gyves

Alexei Orohovsky

Top 3

Denis Watanabe

João Pedro Dos Santos Silva

Clovis Couillard and Suhyeok Bang

Senior

Grand Prix

Not awarded

Women

Top 12

Monami Aoki

Yana Peneva

Mia Patton

Akvile Šulcaite

Nicole Liu

Sydney Upchurch

Saela Rivera-Martinez

Kako Sawai

Camila Lino

Top 3

Maya Schonbrun

Natalie Steele

Lexi Mccloud

Men

Top 12

Micah Levine

Killian Rudd

Carson Willey

Cristian Ponder

Justin Padilla

Andrew Shields

Dominic Abiel Godoy Martinez

Alexander Alvarez Silvestre

Hibiki Tsukamoto

Top 3

Arthur Wille

Zander Magolnick

Hoyeon Kim

Pas De Deux

Classical

Top 12

Leon Yusei Sai and Afina Gosla (Southland Ballet Academy, CA)

Sophia Yamazaki and Anthony Caio (Lapidari Nucleo de Artes, Brasil)

Eric Poor (12), Berkleigh Hernandez (CityDance School and Conservatory, MD)

Nicole Kosasih Widjaja and Jim Willis Ang (Marlupi Dance Academy, Indonesia)

Kennedy Kahler and Zander Magolnick (Elite Classical Coaching, TX)

Bella Ownby and Paxton Speight (International Ballet Academy, NC)

Nora Yun Schaefer and Alexander Nicolosi (Kirov Academy of Ballet, Washington)

Sophia Jones and Lisandro Neris Concepcion (Feijoo Ballet School, TX)

Haruna Watanabe and Hibiki Tsukamoto (Ellison Ballet - Professional Training Program, NY)

Top 3

Maya Schonbrun and Cruz Vining (Master Ballet Academy,  AZ)

Kyra Orozco-Davey and Samuel Morris (Grand Pas Classique City Ballet San Francisco, CA)

Nina Miró Verger and Asier Bautista (Jove Ballet de Catalunya, Spain)

Contemporary

Top 6

Milania Leone and Bryce Young (All American Classical Ballet School, FL)

Aubri Parker and Harris Yesenik (Cary Ballet Conservatory, NC)

Kailin Kratz and Kyawzwa Lwin (City Ballet - San Francisco, CA)

Sabina Rode and Engel Perez (ProVer, Mexico)

Top 3

Nali Dobrin and Gramada Dragos (Choreography High School ''Floria Capsali'' / Dance Planet, Romania)

Kailin Kratz and Kyawzwa Lwin (City Ballet - San Francisco, CA)

Michael Savio and Kya Massimino (Stars Dance Studio, FL)

Ensembles

Small Ensembles

Top 12

Gayane (Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington)

Angelasta (Balé do Teatro Escola Basileu França, Brasil)

Reframe (Elite Classical Coaching, TX)

Bluebells (Bayer Ballet Academy, CA)

Oceans and Pearls (West Suburban Ballet Conservatory, IL)

Rhapsody (Campaneria Ballet School, NC)

Pas De Quatre Part 1 (Pavlova Professional Coaching, TX)

Hens and Rooster  A&A Ballet, IL)

Gemini (Master Ballet Academy, AZ)

Top 3

Eureka! (Mid-Atlantic Center for the Performing Arts, MD)

Melliflous (Ballet de Galicia, Diego Landín, Spain)

Raymonda Cavaliers (UNCSA, NC)

Large Ensembles

Top 24

Moving Forward (Indiana Ballet Conservatory, IN)

Waves (Elite Classical Coaching, TX)

Untethered Soul (WestMet Classical Training, MN)

Hibiscus of the Night (MorningStar Dance Academy, GA)

Études (École de Ballet Tio, Japan)

Suits (Li's Ballet Studio, CA)

Bournonville Divertissement (Amirian Ballet AcademyMain, CA)

Carmen Suite (Colorado Ballet Academy, CO)

6;42 Again (On Your Toes Academy of Dance, IL)

Right Left Shuffle (Hinsdale Dance Academy, IL)

Chains Take (Joffrey Ballet School, NY)

Last Warning (Golden State Ballet Academy, CA)

Top 12

España (Next Generation Ballet at the Straz Center, FL)

Youth Freeway (Studio Croix, Japan)

Appearance of Light (Jacqueline's School of Ballet, UT)

Mechanisms (Cary Ballet Conservatory, NC)

Generation 143:08 (Conservatoire de Danse du Nouvel Opéra de Cracovie, Poland)

Nessun Dorma (ProVer, Mexico)

What Never Sleeps (Odasz Dance Theatre, NY)

Vita (Ellison Ballet - Professional Training Program, NY)

Top 3

Coppelia Friends Act 1 (The Art of Classical Ballet, FL)

Tang Dynasty (OAEC, TX)

Virus (Ballet de Galicia, Diego Landín, Spain)

Special Awards

Outstanding Choreography

Maria Konrad

Natalia Makarova Award

Charlize Hardwick

Shelley King Award for Outstanding Artistry

Minori De Silva

[oasislake76]

I’m thinking about a mix of my Adam’s family + the Protege!Tommy au I’ve been bing reading lately.

Like Dream isn’t possessed by Nightmare and is a fairly young God. Only 21, which is young and especially Royalty which means he’s the youngest child and grandchild, he doesn’t know better and Dream likes knowing. He strives to have a complete family and goes a bit possessive when Wilbur and Techno show up on his server. Later followed by Phil.

Now the reason why Dream knows those three were because they were originally a part of his family while growing up. Phil and Sky, his Pa, were ‘married’ in a sense since Mumza is still a part of this Au. Wilbur was Phil and Kristens son but seen as a son by Sky as well. Techno was adopted by Sky and Phil. but before that Sky had Dream with Puffy, the normal backstory I have for Dream yada yada.

Something makes Phil part with Sky and take Techno and Wilbur with him. Kristen doesn’t know what happened, just out of loop with the God, and stays down from her Realm to help take care of Dream. who’s just old enough to start remember fully and just in time for his magic, freakishly strong for a supposed Demi, to start lashing out with his feelings. With the lose of Wilbur and Techno, leaving Dream without anyone around his age since Malachi and Levin are way to old to play with him, Dream becomes a mother hen to his friends.

All through out eight grade through the Admin Academy he mother hens everyone. Newly fresh students down to newly graduated Admins. Even older Admins that run their own server get momed by him every now and then when they cross path’s. This feeds into his need for a full family, he just wants siblings dammit, but stamps it down.

It isn’t until everything starts to go haywire in his server and everyone subconsciously starts to hang up on Tommy does Dream really ‘snap’. Taking Tommy out and kinda force adopting him into the family. Tommy’s absolutely surprised by the switch up from angry and manipulative Dream to “I swear to god if you don’t finish your coke I’ll shove it down your throat” Mama Bear. Better yet when Sky inevitably allows Dream, he really has no say since Dream adopted like over thousands of kids through this schooling, and doesn’t think Tommy’s any different.

Not until he spots Dream and Tommy out in the castle’s pastures. Watching as Dream help hoists Tommy onto one of the bigger war horses and teach the younger boy how to steer and command. Encoring and smiling - and when did he take off his mask around people he ‘adopted’? - and wheezing. Leaving the blonde for just a moment to hop on another one, a bigger one then Tommy’s, and gently lead the boy and two animals out to a trail. Sticking close by and smiling down when Tommy let out a squeal when his horse picked up speed.

Dream wasn’t one not to wear his mask students and teachers. Even his best friends, Sapnap and George, had only ever seen the smiling mask. Nothing ever above the bottom lip at most. A tick Dream had pulled from somewhere and one Sky wasn’t going to push his son out of. So seeing him trot alongside the other blonde boy, maskless with his hair in a low pony and freckles for the world to see, it wiggles something inside Sky’s chest.

Soon he’s talking to Tommy more. Slowly getting to know him because he’s staying with them and Dream always butts in when someone ask’s Tommy about his home. A clear indication that this boy is staying and that Dream will fight anyone about it. Sky’s own heart hasn’t healed that much from the loss of Wilbur and Technoblade so Tommy, loud sarcastic cursing Tommy, was almost like a balm.

Watching him and Dream wrestle in the gym or race around the tracks out in the back by the tennis courts made the King smile. The more Tommy stayed the more he brightened up the castle as a whole. Flowers bloomed a week where he sat and animals just seemed a bit happier when he’s around. Blue eyes bright and just as thirsty for knowledge like Dream was his age. Books upon books read and if the pair aren’t outside their in the library. If not in the library then their in the kitchen. Dream desperately trying to teach Tommy how to cook even simple meals and can only sigh and shake his head fondly when Tommy burnt yet another dish.

He even has his own emote mask now like Dream. It’s resting face is a frown while Dream’s is a smile and he only really wears it outside of the castle ground. Getting shy around all of Dream’s rowdy friends. It’s just not Sky who’s platonically falling for the blonde.

Aphmau ended up making a red and white cape for the boy. Slightly furry around the collar and definitely enough to drown him in soft fabric. The edges looked clawed at but were made that way, more like a giant shawl than anything. Seto made a pendant kind of like Sky’s. It holds many uses like a compass to find the nearest Admin when he’s lost or even acts up like a back up communicator/chat page if he lost his device. Sparklez made an enchanted metal crown of flowers that gave him almost the same amount of armor protection as iron.

Just... I think I might call this Little Bother!au



[increasinglygeeky]

MY HOLLYWOOD LIVE ACTION ATTACK ON TITAN FANCAST

Alex Storm as Eren Yeager

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Grisha Yeager

Holly Marie Combs as Carla Yeager

Kitty Chicha Amatayakul as Mikasa Ackerman

Sonoya Mizuno as Mikasa’s Mother

Tom Felton as Mikasa’s Father

Otto Farrant as Armin Arlert

Robert Englund as Armin’s Grandfather

Archie Renaux as Connie Springer

Cierra Ramirez as Sasha Braus

Julian Haig as Jean Kirshstein

Dane DeHaan as Levi Ackerman

Lizzy Caplan as Hange Zoe

Chris Evans as Erwin Smith

Shane Harper as Marco Bodt

Alexander Ludwig as Reiner Braun

Gus Birney as Annie Leonhart

Kathryn Newton as Historia “Christa Lenz” Reiss

Kawani Prenter as Ymir

Théodore Pellerin as Bertolt Hoover

Matthias Schoenarts as Erwin’s Father

Patrick Stewart as Commander Dot Pyxis

Elizabeth Debicki as Rico Brzenska

Emily Browning as Petra Raal

Misha Collins as Eld Guinn

Timothy Odmundson as Oluo Bozado

Ian Bohen as Gunther Schultz

Virginia Gardner as Isabel Magnolia

Leo Howard as Furlan Church

Johnny Depp as Kenny Ackerman

Rose McGowan as Kuchel Ackerman

William Zabka as Hannes

Jk Simmons as Keith Shadis

Joel Kinnaman as Mike Zacharias

Kristen Stewart as Nanaba

Camren Bicondova as Hitch Dreyse

Jason Mantzoukas as Gelgar

Peter Scanavino as Henning

Nathalie Emmanuel as Lynne

Andrew Garfield as Moblit Berner

John Boyega as Onyankopon

Mackenzie Davis as Yelena

Charlie Hunnam as Zeke Yeager

Harriet Cains as Pieck Finger

Tamlyn Tomita as Kiyomi Azumabito

Lou Wegner as Colt Grice

Flynn Curry as Falco Grice

Douglas Booth as Porco Galliard

Louis Partridge as Marcel Galliard

Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Gabi Braun

Hudson Yang as Udo

Miya Cech as Zofia

Matthew Gray Gubler as Uri Reiss

John Goodman as Rod Reiss

Alexxis Lemire as Frieda Reiss

Iain Armitage as Dirk Reiss

Zackary Arthur as Urklyn Reiss

Reagan Revord as Florian Reiss

Kitty Peterkin as Abel Reiss

Michelle Pfeiffer as Rod’s Wife

Will Poulter as Floch Forster

Isabella Gomez as Kaya

Skeet Ulrich as Eren Kruger

BD Wong as Tom Ksaver

Elizabeth Moss as Dina Fritz

Jeff Bridges as The Fake King Fritz

Brad Pitt as Willy Tybur

Helena Bonham Carter as Lara Tybur

Jason Beghe as Kitz Woermann

Jashaun St. John as Mina Carolina

Chuku Modu as Milieus Zeremski

Diego Tinoco as Nack Tierce

Ted Levine as Darius Zackly

Grant Show as Pastor Nick

Rudy Pankow as Thomas Wagner

Jacob Anderson as Marlowe Freudenberg

William Moseley as Daz

Kit Young as Samuel

Melissa Fumero as Nifa

Ramy Youssef as Rashad

Alia Shawkat as Lauda

Tony Thornburg as Keiji

Nico Mirallegro as Abel

Liza Soberano as Black-Haired Soldier

Brandon Flynn as Lima

Cillian Murphy as Dirk

Fo Porter as Marlene

Alan Ritchson as Klaus

Manish Dayal as Darius Baer-Varbrun

Neels Visser as Dita Ness

Barry Sloane as 11th Commander

Austin Bitikofer as Claude Duvalier

Jodie Comer as Traute Caven

Charlie Cox as Duran

Devon Sawa as Nile Dok

Drew Tanner as Franz Kafka

Abigail Cowen as Hannah Diamant

Till Lindemann ad Djel Sannes

Tim Curry as Wald

Veronica Ngo as Ilse Langnar

Kathy Bates as Jean’s Mother

Rob Raco as Flagon

Madelyn Cline as Carly Stratmann

Harish Patel as Annie’s Adopted Father

Dedee Pfeiffer as Karina Braun

Hector Elizondo as Reiner’s Father

Jessica Rothe as Louise

Oliver Platt as Reeves

Jason Genao as Lou

Javier Bardem as Magath

Lucas Till as Niccolo

Brad William Henke as Lobov

David Cross as Griez

Aryan Simhadri as Ramzi

Ritvik Sahore as Halil

Martin Sensmeier as Sumra

Alfred Molina as Koslow

Sonam Kapoor as Connie’s Mother

Nasser Hussain as Connie’s Father

Namit Shah as Martin Springer

Swayam Bhatia as Sunny Springer

Robert Patrick as Elliot Gurnberg Stratmann

Mia Talerico as Maria Fritz

Jophielle Love as Sina Fritz

Alyvia Alyn Lind as Rose Fritz

Jorge Enrique Abello as Artur Braus

Angie Cepeda as Lisa Braus

Lilian Bowden as Gabi’s Mother

Trent Garrett as Gabi’s Father

Sharon Stone as Grice Mother

Craig Fairbass as Muller

Lily Tomlin as Zeke's Grandma

Kevin Kline as Zeke's Grandpa

Ian Mckellen as 145th King Karl Fritz

Michael Fassbender as Karl Fritz

Amanda Seyfried as Adult Ymir Fritz

Brec Bassinger as Ymir Fritz

[friendly-neighbourhood-librarian]

Fairy Tale Retellings Masterlist

If you spend a lot of time on my blog, you might notice that I really enjoy reading fairy tale retellings! And because I also love organization, here are all the fairy tale books I have read and reviewed, grouped by fairy tale and listed alphabetically. Series name is in brackets — if there’s no number it means the series does not need to be read in a specific order. Under the cut because it’s long...

Update: apparently there is a limit to how many links Tumblr will let me add to one post, so the larger sections will now link out to separate posts.

Aladdin

The Forbidden Wish - Jessica Khoury

The Stolen Kingdom - Bethany Atazadeh (Stolen Kingdom series #1)

A Whole New World - Liz Braswell (Twisted Tales series)

Alice in Wonderland

Heartless - Marissa Meyer

Beauty and the Beast

As Old as Time - Liz Braswell (Twisted Tales series)

Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge - Lisa Jensen

Beastly - Alex Flinn

The Beast’s Heart - Leife Shallcross

The Beautiful Pretender - Melanie Dickerson (Medieval Fairy Tale series) (+Princess and the Pea)

Bellamy and the Brute - Alicia Michaels

Belle - Cameron Dokey (Once Upon a Time series)

Belle - Sarah Price (Amish Fairytales series)

A Curse So Dark and Lonely - Brigid Kemmerer (Cursebreakers series #1)

Heart's Blood - Juliet Marillier

Human Again - E. L. Tenenbaum (End of Ever After series)

Hunted - Meagan Spooner

Lost in a Book - Jennifer Donnelly

The Merchant’s Daughter - Melanie Dickerson (Hagenheim series)

Of Beast and Beauty - Stacey Jay

Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley

Ogre Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine

The Princess and the Hound - Mette Ivie Harrison

Roses - Rose Mannering

Silken Scales - Alex Hayes (Chameleon Effect series #1)

Uprooted - Naomi Novik

Cinderella

All the Ever Afters - Danielle Teller

The Blood Spell - C. J. Redwine (Ravenspire series)

Cinder - Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles #1)

Ella - Sarah Price (Amish Fairytales series)

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine

End of Ever After - E. L. Tenenbaum (End of Ever After series)

Geekerella - Ashley Poston (Once Upon a Con series #1)

Godmother - Carolyn Turgeon

Just Ella - Margaret Peterson Haddix

Stepsister - Jennifer Donnelly

Goose Girl

The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale (Books of Bayern series #1)

Thorn - Intisar Khanani (Dauntless Path series #1)

King Arthur

The Camelot Rising series - Kiersten White [1][2][3]

Little Mermaid

Beautiful To Me - E. L. Tenenbaum (End of Ever After series)

The Jinni Key - Bethany Atazadeh (Stolen Kingdom series #2)

Mermaid - Carolyn Turgeon

Part of Your World - Liz Braswell (Twisted Tales series)

Sea Witch - Sarah Henning (Sea Witch series #1)

Sea Witch Rising - Sarah Henning (Sea Witch series #2)

Speechless - Madeline Freeman (Unfortunate Souls series #1)

Stars Above - Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles #4.5)

To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo

Mulan

Reflection - Elizabeth Lim (Twisted Tales series)

Peter Pan

All Darling Children - Katrina Monroe

Lost Boy - Christina Henry

Tales of the Wendy series - Erin Michelle Sky & Steven Brown

Pied Piper

The Piper’s Pursuit - Melanie Dickerson (Hagenheim series)

Rapunzel

Bitter Greens - Kate Forsyth

Cress - Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles #3)

The Golden Braid - Melanie Dickerson (Hagenheim series)

The Journey series - JacQueline Vaughn Roe (+Other fairy tales)

Red Riding Hood

Scarlet - Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles #2)

Red Shoes

Dark and Deepest Red - Anna-Marie McLemore

Robin Hood

Curse Painter - Jordan Rivet

The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest - Melanie Dickerson (Medieval Fairy Tale series) (+Swan Lake)

Sherwood - Meagan Spooner

Rumpelstiltskin

A Curse Dark as Gold - Elizabeth C. Bunce

Lies of Golden Straw - E. L. Tenenbaum (End of Ever After series)

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem - Vivian Vande Velde

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

The Wish Granter - C. J. Redwine (Ravenspire series)

Sleeping Beauty

Briar Rose - Jane Yolen

Once Upon a Dream - Liz Braswell (Twisted Tales series)

Spindle Fire - Lexa Hillyer (Spindle Fire series #1)

Spindle’s End - Robin McKinley

Snow Child

The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey

Snow Queen

Breadcrumbs - Anne Ursu

Conceal, Don't Feel - Jen Calonita (Twisted Tales series)

Snow White

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Fairest - Gail Carson Levine

Fairest - Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles #3.5)

Girls Made of Snow and Glass - Melissa Bashardoust

Heart of a Hunter - E. L. Tenenbaum (End of Ever After series)

Poisoned - Jennifer Donnelly

Sadie - Sarah Price (Amish Fairytales series)

The Shadow Queen - C. J. Redwine (Ravenspire series)

Stitching Snow - R. C. Lewis

Winter - Marissa Meyer (Lunar Chronicles #4)

Snow White and Rose Red

Snow & Rose - Emily Winfield Martin

Twelve Dancing Princesses

Entwined - Heather Dixon

The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley (+Princess and the Frog)

House of Salt and Sorrows - Erin A. Craig

Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier (+Princess and the Frog)

Other

The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden (inspired by Russian folklore/fairy tales)

Book of a Thousand Days - Shannon Hale (Maid Maleen - Grimm)

Eurona Duology - Wendy Higgins (The Singing Bone - Grimm)

Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust (inspired by Persian mythology)

Keturah and Lord Death - Martine Leavitt (original fairy tale reminiscent of the Hades and Persephone myth)

The Language of Thorns - Leigh Bardugo (original fairy tales set in the Grishaverse)(Hansel and Gretel; Little Mermaid)

The Two Princesses of Bamarre - Gail Carson Levine (original middle grade fairy tale)

Nonfiction

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale - Marina Warner

[gene-forrester]

What Leopold and Loeb books (non-fiction & fiction)/movies do you own? And which do you recommend?

ahh thank you so much for asking! the easiest way to do this would be to take a photo of my books, but since they're all over my bookshelf and i don't feel like reorganizing them i'm typing it all out. everything i say about any of these books is just my personal opinion. i always recommend trying things out for yourself and forming your own opinion. 

for non fiction i own: for the thrill of it by simon baatz (and my hardback version has his signature in it against my will), crime of the century by hal higdon, the amazing crime and trial of leopold and loeb by maureen mckernan, leopold and Loeb: a psychiatric study by maurice urstein, evil summer by john theodore, crimes of the century by gilbert geis and leigh bienen (jamie if you're reading this, apparently i had this book all along and didn't know lol), the loeb-leopold case by alvin sellers, life plus 99 years by nathan leopold, the leopold and loeb files by nina Barrett, the story of my life by clarence darrow, retrying leopold and loeb: a neuropsychology perspective, the great trials of clarence darrow by donald mcrae, and i had a copy of leopold and loeb killed bobby franks but threw it away because it was that shit. 

for fiction i own: these violent delights by micah nemerever, the moralist by joshua marcus, the hunting accident, nothing but the night by k.c. krantz, nothing but the night by james yaffe, never the sinner by john logan, little brother fate by mary-carter roberts, dickie and babe: the truth about leopold and loeb by daniel henning, rope by patrick hamilton, homo superiors by l.a. fields, semblance of balance (i had it but i got rid of my copy, i don't remember the author and they don't deserve the effort to look it up), compulsion by meyer levin, and thrill me by stephen dolgnoff. 

for movies i own: compulsion (1959), rope (1948), swoon (1992), american experience: the perfect crime, “hearts of darkness” (an episode about l&l from a crime to remember), “the perfect crime” (an episode from behind mansion walls).

as far as non fiction goes i recommend higdon’s, mckernan’s, urstein’s, and seller’s book. if you want you a lot of information about the case/nathan and richard. retrying leopold and loeb is good as well. so is the leopold and loeb files. i don't recommend evil summer (poor writing and false information), leopold and loeb killed bobby franks (horrible writing and very false information. also the cover looks like something i’d make on picarts), or darrow’s book (only because leopold and loeb are barely mentioned). donald mcrae’s book is fine but again leopold and loeb aren't in it a lot, i didn't learn anything new. for the thrill of it isn't great, lots of inaccuracies and i despise how baatz talks about loeb’s death. nathan’s book is fine but you're not going to get anything about pre-murder/the murder itself. it’s mainly about prison life and is censored a lot. 

as far as fiction goes i recommend: these violent delights (good characters, good plot, nice change), james yaffe’s book (good richard fill in character, i like the dynamic between the two characters), never the sinner (it’s good), dickie and babe...(it’s good as well), rope by patrick hamilton (short but good), and homo superiors (my love. my heart. i adore this book. if you don't read any of the above then just read this one. it’s worth it imo.). i don't at all recommend compulsion (artie and judd are the worst characters ever written), little brother fate (i hate the pedophilia in it), krantz’s book (horrible take on leopold and loeb), thrill me (an even worse take on leopold and loeb), the moralist (i deserve free therapy after reading this book from how bad it is), or semblance of balance (absolutely horrible. hated everything about it. shame on the author for even writing it). 

for the movies i actually enjoyed the compulsion film more than the book. the later part drags so much though. rope is great, i love it. swoon is good too. american experience is probably the best documentary about the case. those two episodes from different shows are something you can skip lol. they're not great. a little entertaining though. the hearts of darkness episode is oddly romantic. krantz would love it.