#lydia wang

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 13th, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

Return to Sender by Lauren Draper

Kisses, Codes, & Conspiracies by Abigail Hing Wen

Ash's Cabin by Jen Wang

The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee

Eat Your Heart Out by Terry Blas , Matty Newton , Lydia Anslow (illustrator)

Under the Surface by Diana Urban

Zombie Apocalypse Running Club by Carrie Mac

New Sequels:

Ghostsmith (House of the Dead #2) by Nicki Pau Preto

Hemlock House (Liar's Beach #2) by Katie Cotugno

Holly Horror: The Longest Night (Holly Horror #2) by Michelle Jabès Corpora

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Happy reading!

[len-the-witch]

"you whit the dark curls"

"you whit the water colour eyes"

[kila09]

Yesss! I especially loved the outside the tavern scene with Lydia and Ruby. First I laughed because that's the second time that Ruby has stumbled into a Lydia situation lol. But this time, even eith everything, Ruby was still so understanding and willing to be an ear. Like you, I hope we get more Lydia and Ruby bonding scenes. I can see Lydia being taken in by the dynamic of Ruby's family. Add in Lin and Lydia will have genuine female friendships and not those hang-ons she's usually around.

I'm loving everything in your post. Bring on the platonic relationships: give us Ruby and Lin, Ruby and Lydia, Alistair too...just all of it

The one thing I am kind of missing in the new Maxton Hall series are the platonic relationships.

I did enjoy that they spend so much time on Ruby and James (and I think it necessary since this is their love story), but if we do get further seasons with more episodes (fingers crossed) I want to see more of everyone’s friendships.

I want to see more of the boys: I want Cyril absolutely hopelessly in love with a girl that he cannot have and feeling as though his entire friendship group is falling apart. I want him feeling lost and helpless and I want to understand him and to empathize with him even though his actions are wrong. I want the backstory with Alistair’s family and I want to see him struggle with his non-conformity with what is expected of him in terms of his sexuality and how his friends love and support him through all of that. I want more Wren and James interaction. These two are supposed to be best friends. I want to actually see that and I want to see Wren feeling lost and alone because of Ruby’ and James’ new relationship and how he deals with that. And I want to see more interaction between all of them. I want to know more about how they got to know each other and what keeps them together. James’ friends and how they operate is crucial to understanding the story in further seasons and I actually wanna be able to see that.

But I also want to see more of the girls: I want to see Lydia be actually kind to Ruby and Ruby be the friend that she really needs. I want Lin to be there for Ruby. To pick her up and make her feel better when she truly needs it. I want them to have their little parties and love and support each other throughout all their trials. Beyond Ruby‘s family they are the group I always felt the most sympathetic towards and their camaraderie really enriched the story for me. Especially Ruby and Lydia slowly opening up to one another has to be one of the most wholesome relationships in this entire series.

[bakawitch]

Overcome The Thorns (and insomnia)

With a new passenger aboard the Astral Express, everyone has to get adjusted to the new circumstances and make an occasional sacrifice for the benefit of their new guest. Especially Sirius.

Overcome The Thorns (and insomnia) is a Siriel/Sulliel au comic inspired by Sunstelle, Galladay and Claudrien and is based on @wisteriasymphony 's Honkai: Star Rail X Miraculous Ladybug au

Table of Contents

《PART 1》 《PART 2》 coming soon...

Miscellaneous

The Crew

Siriji kiss + Ariel meltdown, Ex-in-law, Rules are made to be broken!

Cast

Claudia Perreault as Sirius/Stelle

Adrien Agreste as Ariel/Sunday

Cynic as Sullivan/Gallagher

Bellamy Laframboise as Dan Ji/Dan Heng

Élodie Desrosiers as June 6th/March 7th

Roxanne Verona as Hikari/Himeko

Welt Yang as Himself/Welt Yang

Lucky Lucky Ladybug as Junebug/Robin

Chat Noir as Leira/Wonweek

Young Lydia as Anita/Misha

Lydia Perreault as Anastacia/Mikhail

Gabriel Agreste as Aleppo Wood/Gopher Wood

Lila Rossi as Mirage/Sparkle

Luka Couffaine as Pan Flamel/Sampo Koski

Nathalie Sancoeur as Styx/Acheron

Emilie Agreste as Mandela/Black Swan

Alix Kubdel as Marbletown/Boothill

Felix Graham de Vanilly as Lapis Lazuli/Aventurine

Chloe Bourgeois as Zircon/Topaz

Audrey Bourgeois as Pyrite/Jade

Kagami Tsurugi as Dr Axis/Dr Ratio

Rose Lavillant as Rosefinch/Firefly

Nathaniel Kurtzberg as Edge (Dao)/Blade (Ren)

??? as ???/Kafka

Max Kanté as Creamello/Silver Wolf

Zoe Lee as Crystallis/Argenti

Marc Anciel as Jing Ming/Jing Yuan

Socqueline Wang as Kusa/Rappa

Alya Césaire as Ms Reco/Mr Reca

Tomoe Tsurugi as The Haruta/The Herta

[The planned cast as of now, the roles with ??? are not secret, they're just yet be cast... Suggestions are welcome for those characters (be it canon or oc) since I have no idea what I'm doing! (*￣∇￣) Do keep in mind that this comic deals with suggestive themes on occasion, and all characters are 18+ here!]

[skyesdaisys]

character's i write for

welcome to my list of characters where i have many of them from many fandoms that i write for

requests: open currently (just wanna try writing again)

bolded names are ones i really wanna write for

yellowjackets (shauna shipman, jackie taylor, lottie matthews, taissa turner, van palmer, nat scatorccio, laura lee, callie sadecki)

dc titans (dick grayson, jason todd, kory anders, gar logan, donna troy, dawn granger, hank hall)

fear street (deena johnson, sam fraser, ziggy berman, cindy berman, kate schmidt, alice hart, simon kalivoda, tommy slater, young!nick goode)

teen wolf (scott mccall, stiles stilinski, isaac lahey, malia tate, kira yukimura, lydia martin, liam dunbar)

american horror story (violet harmon, kit walker, lana winters, zoe benson, madison montgomery, kyle spencer, misty day, cordelia goode, jimmy darling, tristan duffy, ally mayfair-richards, kai anderson, winter anderson, mallory, brooke thompson, montana duke)

the summer I turned pretty (jeremiah fisher, belly conklin, taylor jewel, shayla wang, conrad fisher)

gossip girl (nate archibald, dan humphrey, blair waldorf, jenny humphrey, serena van der woodsen, vanessa abrams)

miscellaneous: maeve rojas (one of us is lying), leighton murray (the sex lives of college girls), miguel diaz (cobra kai), brooke davis (one tree hill), maeve wiley & ruby matthews (sex education), kate bishop (hawkeye), roronoa zoro (one piece live action), daisy johnson (agents of shield), zach dempsey (13 reasons why)

another thing i'd like to add, i wouldn't mind writing poly ships x reader like dickkory, jackieshauna, stalia, sameena, lottienat, jaygar, etc. (or a poly ship with crossover characters like dick grayson & kate bishop for example)

i will write for fluff, angst, and maybe smut (there's only so much i am comfortable with though) if you ask nicely. and i only write for fem & gn readers

and as a reminder, you guys can request for the following fandoms for oneshots, headcanons, or just sending your fluffy or horny thoughts in my inbox (i don't judge)

[eddiewithcat]

i am reading this silly sapphic romance where they are both on a show similar to the bachelor and one has intense comphet while the other is just trying to gain her followers while she can (real) and oh my god .

it is so good i have gotten to the point where i am imagining my ships in a similar situation and GUYS

GUYS I DESPERATELY NEED A BUDDIE FIC WITH THIS PREMISE. PLEASE. OH MY GODDD

They are both contestants trying to win the heart of this year’s bachelorette. eddie going on bc maybe his silly abuela put him up to it and he cannot disappoint her, and buck doing it bc he is just tired of going on tinder dates and not being able to find a real connection with someone, so he decides ‘fuck it’s and auditions to be on this years bachelorette bc he is also a silly romantic and believes in true love from these shows

and oh my god the bachelorette can be like . taylor or someone . ana ? ali ? someone completely random who they become bffs with instead? idc!

but guys please tell me u see the vision. if i was a writer i would cook this au up myself but.. alas.

(anyway u should also read the book its so good. ‘here for the wrong reasons’ by annabel paulsen & lydia wang. so cute. i love romance books)

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in May 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

[ Release dates may have changed. ]

❤️ Farzana's Spite - Felix Graves 🧡 Archangels of Funk - Andrea Hairston 💛 How It Works Out - Myriam Lacroix 💚 Queer History A to Z - Robin Stevenson, Vivian Rosas 💙 Queerceañera - Alex Crespo 💜 Second Night Stand - Karelia Stetz-Waters, Fay Stetz-Waters ❤️ You Can Call Me Cooper - Cali Kitsu 🧡 Gooseberry - Robin Gow 💛 Grand Slam Romance - Ollie Hicks, Emma Oosterhous 💙The Witches of Silverlake - Simon Curtis, Stephanie Son 💜 Drawn to the Enemy - Barbara Winkes 🌈 The Truth of Our Past - Heather Leighson

❤️ Infaust - T.D. Cloud, Ambi Sun 🧡 Garner for Gold - Catherine Labadie 💛 The Z Word - Lindsay King-Miller 💚 Snake Charming - Genevieve McCluer 💙 The 7-10 Split - Karmen Lee 💜 Loving Jemima - Sienna Waters ❤️ The Potion Gardener - Arden Powell 🧡 A Swift and Sudden Exit - Nico Vincenty 💛 The Worst Ronin - Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Faith Schaffer 💙 Murray Out of Water -Taylor Tracy 💜 The Guncle Abroad - Steven Rowley 🌈 The Weight of What Was - Pip Landers-Letts

❤️ The Amazing Alpha Tau Pledge Project - Lisa Henry, Sarah Honey 🧡 I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley - Thom Vernon 💛 Malicia - Steven dos Santos 💚 The Sins on Their Bones - Laura R. Samotin 💙 SLUTS: Anthology - Michelle Tea 💜 You Should Be So Lucky - Cat Sebastian ❤️ Death's Country - R.M. Romero 🧡 Cinema Love - Jiaming Tang 💛 The Brides of High Hill - Nghi Vo 💙 Emma - Jenna Kent 💜 Wish We Were There - Lionel Hart 🌈 A Troublemaker in Her Eyes - Genta Sebastian

❤️ I Make Envy on Your Disco - Eric Schnall 🧡 Lavash at First Sight - Taleen Voskuni 💛 Queer Power Couples - Hannah Murphy Winter, Billie Winter 💚 In Repair - A.L. Graziadei 💙 A Heart Divided - Angie Williams 💜 Long After We Are Gone - Terah Shelton Harris ❤️ The Queen of Steeplechase Park - David Ciminello 🧡 Lunar Boy - Jes Wibowo, Cin Wibowo 💛 Hot Boy Summer - Joe Jiménez 💙 Sunhead - Alex Assan 💜 The Summer Love Strategy - Ray Stoeve 🌈 Into the Mouth of the Wolf - Erin Gough

❤️ The Girl in Question - Tess Sharpe 🧡 The Lost Erwain - Mariah Stillbrook 💛 Starfire - Naomi Hughes 💚 Adrift - Sam Ledel 💙 Shanghai Murder - Jessie Chandler 💜 April May June July - Alison B. Hart ❤️ A Bone in His Teeth - Kellen Graves 🧡 Cabin Fever - Tagan Shepard 💛 Don't Be a Drag - Skye Quinlan 💙 The Ride of Her Life - Jennifer Dugan 💜 The Redemption of Daya Keane - Gia Gordon 🌈 Nearlywed - Nicolas DiDomizio

❤️ The Sunforge - Sascha Stronach 🧡 The End of Time - Trudie Skies 💛 Silent Ones - Melissa Polk 💚 Prime Time Travelers - Neil Laird 💙 My Darling Dreadful Thing - Johanna van Veen 💜 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields ❤️ Spitting Gold - Carmella Lowkis 🧡 Last Chance - Claire Highton-Stevenson 💛 Road Home - Rex Ogle 💙 Only for Convenience - Shannon O'Connor 💜 Linus and Etta Could Use a Win - Caroline Huntoon 🌈 Finding Molly Parsons - Alyson Root

❤️ Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding - Maia Kobabe, Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier 🧡 See You Next Month - Jamey Moody 💛 Until You Say My Name - Tatum Schroeder 💚 Disembark - Jen Currin 💙 True Love and Other Impossible Odds - Christina Li 💜 Flyboy - Kasey LeBlanc ❤️ Thirsty - Jas Hammonds 🧡 Hands Off - N. Slater 💛 Flooded Secrets - Claudie Arseneault 💙 The Deer and the Dragon - Piper C.J. 💜 To Be Loved - Frank G. Anderson 🌈 Snowblooded - Emma Sterner-Radley

❤️ Blood Remains - Cathy Pegau 🧡 Blood on the Tide - Katee Robert 💛 We Were the Universe - Kimberly King Parsons 💚 Loyalty - E.J. Noyes 💙 Spirits and Sirens - Kelly Fireside 💜 Clean Kill - Anne Laughlin ❤️ The Worst Perfect Moment - Shivaun Plozza 🧡 Oye - Melissa Mogollon 💛 Here for the Wrong Reasons - Annabel Paulsen, Lydia Wang 💙 Exhibit - R.O. Kwon 💜 Experienced - Kate Young 🌈 Parenting with Pride - Heather Hester

❤️ Road to Ruin - Hana Lee 🧡 Meet Me in Berlin - Samantha L. Valentine 💛 The Advice Columnist - Cade Haddock Strong 💚 where lost & hopeless things go - Bryony Rosehurst 💙 Pit Stop - Ellis Mae 💜 The Switchboard - Christina K. Glover ❤️ In the Shallows - Tanya Byrne 🧡 Have You Seen This Girl - Nita Tyndall 💛 Another First Chance - Robbie Couch 💙 The Only Light Left Burning - Erik J. Brown 💜 Keepers of the Stones and Stars - Michael Barakiva 🌈 A Little Kissing Between Friends - Chencia C. Higgins

[fyrix]

This novel didn’t really follow the same trope that I’m used to with fuzzy romances. It was actually refreshing; a nice change of pace. I loved how everything was handled and I don’t think I would change anything about the story, which doesn’t happen often. This one is a whole lot of figuring yourself out and a bit of hurting the people around you because you haven’t yet. If that’s something you can relate to, and I know it is for me, then this is the book for you.

Thanks Annabel Paulson and Lydia Wang, “Here For the Wrong Reasons” was a truly good read.

5/5 ⭐️

[justforbooks]

Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

Paul Auster, the author of 34 books including the acclaimed New York Trilogy, has died aged 77.

The author died on Tuesday due to complications from lung cancer, his friend and fellow author Jacki Lyden confirmed to the Guardian.

Auster became known for his “highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting,” the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010.

His stories often play with themes of coincidence, chance and fate. Many of his protagonists are writers themselves, and his body of work is self-referential, with characters from early novels appearing again in later ones.

“Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature,” wrote critic Michael Dirda in 2008. “His narrative voice is as hypnotic as that of the Ancient Mariner. Start one of his books and by page two you cannot choose but hear.”

The author was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947. According to Auster, his writing life began at the age of eight when he missed out on getting an autograph from his baseball hero, Willie Mays, because neither he nor his parents had carried a pencil to the game. From then on, he took a pencil everywhere. “If there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it,” he wrote in a 1995 essay.

While hiking during a summer camp aged 14, Auster witnessed a boy inches away from him getting struck by lightning and dying instantly – an event that he said “absolutely changed” his life and that he thought about “every day”. Chance, “understandably, became a recurring theme in his fiction,” wrote the critic Laura Miller in 2017. A similar incident occurs in Auster’s 2017 Booker-shortlisted novel 4 3 2 1: one of the book’s four versions of protagonist Archie Ferguson runs under a tree at a summer camp and is killed by a falling branch when lightning strikes.

Auster studied at Columbia University before moving to Paris in the early 1970s, where he worked a variety of jobs, including translation, and lived with his “on-again off-again” girlfriend, the writer Lydia Davis, whom he had met while at college. In 1974, they returned to the US and married. In 1977, the couple had a son, Daniel, but separated shortly afterwards.

In January 1979, Auster’s father, Samuel, died, and the event became the seed for the writer’s first memoir, The Invention of Solitude, published in 1982. In it, Auster revealed that his paternal grandfather was shot and killed by his grandmother, who was acquitted on grounds of insanity. “A boy cannot live through this kind of thing without being affected by it as a man,” Auster wrote in reference to his father, with whom he described himself having an “un-movable relationship, cut off from each other on opposite sides of a wall”.

Auster’s breakthrough came with the 1985 publication of City of Glass, the first novel in his New York trilogy. While the books are ostensibly mystery stories, Auster wielded the form to ask existential questions about identity. “The more [Auster’s detectives] stalk their eccentric quarry, the more they seem actually to be stalking the Big Questions – the implications of authorship, the enigmas of epistemology, the veils and masks of language,” wrote the critic and screenwriter Stephen Schiff in 1987.

Auster published regularly throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s, writing more than a dozen novels including Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002) and Oracle Night (2003). He also became involved in film, writing the screenplay for Smoke, directed by Wayne Wang, for which he won the Independent Spirit award for best first screenplay in 1995.

In 1981, Auster met the writer Siri Hustvedt and they married the following year. In 1987 they had a daughter, Sophie, who became a singer and actor. Auster’s 1992 novel Leviathan, about a man who accidentally blows himself up, features a character called Iris Vegan, who is the heroine of Hustvedt’s first novel, The Blindfold.

Auster was better known in Europe than in his native United States: “Merely a bestselling author in these parts,” read a 2007 New York magazine article, “Auster is a rock star in Paris.” In 2006, he was awarded Spain’s Prince of Asturias prize for literature, and in 1993 he was given the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He was also a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

In April 2022, Auster and Davis’s son, Daniel, died from a drug overdose. In March 2023, Hustvedt revealed that Auster was being treated for cancer after having been diagnosed the previous December. His final novel, Baumgartner, about a widowed septuagenarian writer, was published in October.

Auster is survived by Hustvedt, their daughter Sophie Auster, his sister Janet Auster, and a grandson.

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[imb3rs]

⊹₊⟡⋆   simone   ashley   +   she/they   ⊹₊⟡⋆   blasting   all   american   bitch   by   olivia   rodrigo   through   their   airpods   is   NALINI   KUMAR   .   oh   ,   you   don’t   know   them   ?   they’re   the   twenty9   year   old   fashion   designer   who   just   went   viral   for   a   fierce   rivalry   with   another   up   and   coming   designer   ,   ateliers   vandalized!   .   yup   ,   the   one   that   drives   a   porsche   taycan   turbo   gt   .   i   hear   they’re   pretty   adroit   ,   but   others   have   claimed   that   they’re   quite   taciturn   .   that   makes   sense   ,   considering   they’re   often   labeled   as   the   high   priestess   .

[  ✰  ]  WANTED  &  ESTABLISHED  CONNECTIONS  (  WIP  ).

penned  by  HECATE  (  she/her  ,  21+  ,  pst  )

001.     ↻     BASICS  .

[  ✰  ]  full  name:  nalini  kumar 

[  ✰  ]  nickname(s):  n/a

[  ✰  ]  age:  29

[  ✰  ]  date  of  birth:  02/20

[  ✰  ]  place  of  birth:  san  francisco,  ca,  usa

[  ✰  ]  ethnicity:  indian  (  tamil  )

[  ✰  ]  nationality:  american

[  ✰  ]  gender:  demi  woman

[  ✰  ]  pronouns:  she/her,  they/them

[  ✰  ]  orientation:  bisexual  /  biromantic

[  ✰  ]  language(s)  spoken:  english,  tamil,  hindi,  french,  spanish,  asl

[  ✰  ]  mbti:  INFJ

[  ✰  ]  element:  water

[  ✰  ]  zodiac:  pisces

[  ✰  ]  character  inspiration:  ilsa  faust  (  mission:  impossible  ),  jane  smith  (  mr.  &  mrs.  smith  ),  lydia  martin  (  teen  wolf  ),  astrid  leong  (  crazy  rich  asians  ),  elizabeth  swann  (  pirates  of  the  caribbean  )

002.     ↻     BACKGROUND  .

NOTE:  this  is  a  quick  summary  /  tldr  of  nalini's  background  .  for  a  more  detailed  bio  ,  please  CLICK  HERE  !

a  determined  individual  dead  set  on  carving  her  own  path  after  years  of  being  overshadowed  by  her  older  siblings’  successes  and  overlooked  in  favor  of  her  siblings  .  despite  the  friendly  and  free-spirited  demeanor  ,  she’s  more  often  than  not  fueled  by  spite  .  pursued  not  only  a  bachelor’s  but  a  master’s  in  fashion  because  of  it  and  has  been  making  waves  as  the  next  big  thing  in  the  industry  .  began  to  thrive  after  stepping  out  from  their  family’s  confines  and  due  to  an  opportunity  too  good  to  turn  down  ,  has  found  themselves  relocating  to  los  angeles  .

003.     ↻     HEADCANONS  .

NOTE:  this  is  a  work  in  progress  so  more  will  be  added  at  a  later  time  !

obtained  a  bachelor’s  in  both  fashion  design  and  advertising  &  marketing  communications  from  the  fashion  institute  of  technology  and  her  master’s  in  fashion  management  from  parsons 

while  her  career  claim  is  vera  wang  ,  nalini’s  designs  often  incorporate  a  mix  of  her  own  culture  .  not  only  do  they  specialize  in  western  wedding  gown  designs  ,  they  also  specialize  in  indian  bridal  attire  as  well

has  a  mixed  british  shorthair  &  russian  blue  cat  named  buttercup

enjoys  sketching  as  a  hobby  .  can  sometimes  be  found  sitting  at  a  cafe  or  a  rooftop  with  a  small  sketchbook  in  hand  

since  moving  to  los  angeles  ,  nalini  picked  up  mixed  martial  arts  as  another  hobby

a  porsche  girlie  .  on  top  of  the  all  electric  taycan  that  they  drive  as  their  daily  vehicle  ,  they  also  have  a  vintage  porsche  911  turbo  (  type  964  )  in  british  racing  green  that's  their  weekender

[aroaceswagcompetition]

MASTERPOLL 1

Vylad Ro'meave?(Minecraft) vs Abed(Community)

Phineas(Phineas and Ferb) vs Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

Remus and Logan (Sanders Sides)vs Aya(I Just Wanna Be Single)

Shigaraki Tomura(BNHA) vs Georgia Warr (Loveless)

Kyle Broflovski(South Park) vs Shadow the Hedgehog(Sonic)

Marco Diaz(Star vs The Forces of Evil) vs Juno McGuff(Juno)

K1-B0(Danganronpa) vs Bubby(hlvrai)

Lydia Martin(Teen Wolf) vs Mihashi Ren (Ookiku Furikabutte)

Alucard(Castlevania (games)) vs Teardrop(BFDI / BFB)

Friday(Hello from the hallowoods) vs Victor Vale(Villains Book Series)

Test Tube(Inanimate Insanity) vs Cerise Hood(Ever After High)

Phosphophyllite (Phos)(Land of the Lustrous) vs Abe Takaya(Ookiku Furikabutte (Oofuri))

Yoo Sangah(Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint) vs Chell(Portal (Valve))

Barry (Pokemon) vs Paul (The Bible)

Ca Cupid(Monster High) vs Mera Chisato (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

Red Son(Lego Monkie Kid) vs Hearthstone Alderman(Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard )

Onceler(Lorax) vs Hastune Miku(Vocaloid)

Fei Hargreeves(The Umbrella Academy) vs Aled Last(Radio Silence)

Cher(Clueless) vs Asterix(Asterix and Obelix)

Sakuko Kodama5&Takahashi Satoru4(Koisenu Futari) vs Death(Puss in Boots:The Last Wish)

Double Trouble(She-Ra Princess of Power) vs Suitcase(Inanimate Insanity)

Childe(Genshin Impact) vs Patrick Star(Spongebob)

Fujisaki Nozomi(Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!) vs Howl Jenkins(Howl’s Moving Castle)

Mei (Monkie Kid) vs Ichika Hoshino (Project SEKAI)

Kujou Sara (Genshin Impact) vs Abbi Singh (The Imperfects)

Takashi Natsume (Natsume’s Book of Friends) vs Tails(Sonic)

Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney) vs Chara (Undertale)

Bakugou (BNHA) vs Donatello,Mikey,Raph,Leo (TMNT)

Corey Riffin(Grojband) vs Robin Goodfellow (Na Daoine Maithe *The Good People *)

Katarina Claes (My Next Life as a Villainess) vs Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Tsunami (Wings of Fire) vs Toy Foxy (FNAF 2)

Thalia Grace (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) vs Katsuya Serizawa (Mob Psycho 100)

Zhu Chongba(She Who Became The Sun) vs Ling Chan (The Diviners)

Ruth (Covenant Webtoon) vs Mettaton (Undertale)

Percival King (Epithet Erased) vs PAC Man (Pac Man and The Ghostly Adventure)

Musa(Winx Club) vs Green Oak (Pokémon)

Link (Legend of Zelda) vs Moana (Moana)

Steve Morley (Sex Education) vs Ema Skye (Ace Attorney)

Zim (Invader Zim) vs Dewey Duck (Ducktales 2017)

Sonic(Sonic the Hedgehog) vs Mater(Cars)

Din Song and Li Na Wang (Wish Dragon) vs Floofty Fizzlebean(Bugsnax)

Hiro Hamada(Big Hero 6) vs Ena(The Ena Series)

Espresso Cookie (Cookie Run) vs Jiang Cheng (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed)

Percy(Legend of Vox Machina) vs Makoto Sunakawa(Ore Monogatari)

Shouto Todoroki(BNHA) vs Rey(Star Wars)

Giorno Giovanna (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) vs Kusanagi Nene (Project SEKAI)

Olivier Mira Armstrong(Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Blanche(Wikidot!Backrooms)

Kusuke Saiki vs Kusuo Saiki vs Kuriko Saiki (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

After having ranted about the last book I read, I'd like to share another book I just finished and LOVED: Here for the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang!

If you like The Bachelor and have ever wondered what it would be like for two contestants to fall in love, this sapphic romcom is the book for you. I hope yall will give it a whirl!

[capricuntmoon]

we are nearing the end of january, so here are the books i have read and the books i am currently reading.

books i have read:

- some girls do by jennifer dugan.

- here for the wrong reasons by annabel paulsen and lydia wang.

books i am currently reading:

- the bell jar by sylvia plath (i will finish it all this time, i will not quit half way like the other two times).

- psychic teenage blood bath by carl john lee.

i have always loved reading, i spent most of my kid, pre teen and teen years in libraries and reading, so it's nothing new. but i did notice the decline in my reading as i aged, specifically my teenage years. i stopped reading many novels and i stuck to smut or short stories on wattpad ans tumblr. i can't help but wonder, and feel validated in, that my dependence and over use of instant gratification via short smut stories had really ruined my ability to read, as i haven't been able to read through boring passages as i have been now (after deciding to be abstinent and blah blah). i feel i can really lock in and push through books i'd find boring bc there's no instant gratification or dopamine hits, which is really great bc i'm able to really read and experience a story for how it is and i have newfound appreciation for reading as a whole. i used to only read books that captured my attention asap and i'd give into ones that i had to stick through to experience its glory, and now that i don't struggle with that, i can't wait to read so many books that have always peaked my interest, but i have had trouble committing to.

[vimesbootstheory]

For the book ask: 8, 80, 180

Nice, thanks for sending this! (And in particular, thank you for sending some high numbers! 180 is much easier to remember than most of these books lol)

8 -- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote -- I read this one last January during a single train commute to the next town over. A quick, breezy read, I liked it quite a bit. I've never seen the movie so I don't know how they compare. I will say that the advantage of the book over the movie is that nobody is in yellowface in the book. Because it's a book.

80 -- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood -- It had been a few years since I'd read The Handmaid's Tale, didn't reread it before reading this and never watched the show, and I think that heavily impacted how I read this book... but for the better?? Somehow? I actually really liked this, it was no 11 or 12, only very narrowly missed being in the top 10. And. I liked it more than I liked the original? Mostly because The Handmaid's Tale is largely worldbuilding, while The Testaments builds on the worldbuilding and gets into more of a plot. I wonder if it's easier to engage with Aunt Lydia in particular as someone who didn't read The Handmaid's Tale recently, since I hadn't remembered that she was The Bad Guy in that book, I was just like, damn this woman's got layers, nice. All three main characters were compelling yet distinct, and yes okay it was very obvious who Daisy was, but I don't really think it was supposed to be a surprise.

180 -- Imposter Syndrome by Kathy Wang -- This one came in at the 11th hour (along with Convenience Store Woman, both December books that made it into the top 10!) and was just so fucking fun. I was Seated at that premise -- a Russian spy gets placed within a Silicon Valley start-up and becomes the COO of a Google-evocative powerhouse tech company? Don't mind if I do? And it's a grounded, slow burn on that premise, with two great lead characters, the spy and the employee in tech support who notices the spy being a lil sneaky bitch. I could see why people might bounce off of this if they expect more high-octane spy stuff, because this really isn't that, it feels pretty realistic. This had some interesting things to say about feminism in a kind of girlboss-critical way, and of course lots to say about digital privacy in the current age. I kept wanting to pick this back up once I'd put it down.

(Send me a number 1-186 and I'll talk about the book I read in 2024 corresponding to that number!)

[busstop]

Maison Margiela Artisanal 2024: ‘Nighthawk’ (1h14:23)

Based on an Original Concept by John Galliano. Directed by Sasha Kasiuha.

Artistic Image Director - Alexis Roche. Styling Défilé - Olivier Rizzo. Casting Director - Jess Hallett.

Make Up & Make Up Concept - Dame Pat Mcgrath. Hair & Hair Concept - Duffy.

Défilé Movement Director - Pat Boguslawski. Défilé Shoes By Christian Louboutin For Maison Margiela Artisanal

Invitation Design Direction – Olu Odukoya. Nighthawk Poster - Tom Kan

Sound Direction And Design - Jeremy Healy With Tom Linden & Cheekypaul

Production / Paris - 109. Film Premiere Production - La Mode en Images. Livestream and Défilé video direction - Bureau Future

Voice-over Of Mr. Galliano Conducted By Anders Christian Madsen

Voice-over Of Mr. Galliano Recorded By Tayo Popoola

Voiceovers By Joseph Bader (Soho Voices)

Voiceovers By Jamiyla Ocasio (Damn Good Voices)

Cast:

Abdrahamane Tambadou

Achol Ayor

Alvar Af Schulten

Anna Iris Dobson

Antoine Brabant

Canlan Wang

Charlotte Hommes

Chuol Khan Dak

Colette Kanza

Daimy Van Betuw

Dara Gueye

Diya Zhang

Dugyeong Kim

Elise Schmidt

Eliza Petersen

Emeline Hoareau

Finlay Robinson

Frederic Bittner

Gwendoline Christie

Hamin Yu

Hannah Motler

Jill Kortleve

Jordan Barrett

Julia Nobis

Jum Kuochnin

Kim Kardashian

Léa Julian

Leo Levy

Leon Dame

Lina Zhang

Lucky Love

Lulu Tenney

Lydia Celesta

Maggie Maurer

Mamuor Majeng

Maya Sieron

Michael Zielinski

Monica Bellucci

Naomi Apajok

Natasha Poonawalla

Nyaduola Gabriel

Nyakier Buong

Olga Sherer

Rachel Renou

Rejoice Chuol

Rezi Simonova

Sanija Dalecka

Sascha Rajasalu

Sherry Shi

Tess Mcmillan

Thomas Riguelle

Tish Weinstock

Valentine Charrasse

Vika Shoom

Yeray Allgayer

Yilan Hua

Yulia Bezryadina

[libraryleopard]

Libraries are cool! Anyone want to hear about the books I have on hold at the library right now? Just kidding, you don't have a choice.

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron. Adult historical fiction about a Haitian-French, queer woman who becomes a pirate in the 17th-century Caribbean. As a Black Sails fan, I have high hopes for this one.

The Tower by Flora Carr. Adult historical fiction novel about the imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots, prior to her execution–supposed to be very character-driven and claustrophobic, also queer I think?

Experienced by Kate Young. Adult romantic comedy about a newly-out lesbian in her thirties whose first serious girlfriend tells her she should go out and explore the queer dating scene she missed out on in her twenties; I've heard it's both funny and heartfelt.

Here For the Wrong Reasons by Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang: Adult romantic comedy about two women on a Bachelor-type dating show for fall for each other instead of the male star. I don't watch dating shows, but this is a great premise for a rom com.

A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins. Black sapphic romance about a music producer and a dancer at a strip club. I like queer friends-to-lovers and the cover for this is cute (fat Black masc lesbian on the cover, also!)

How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly. I have grown to love Anita Kelly this year so I'm excited to read their F/F romance! There's basketball and a sort of fake-dating/relationship lessons scheme between the leads.

Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg. Adult lit fic about two queer roommates and artists from Philadelphia who go on a roadtrip to photograph rural Pennsylvania. Reviews promise messy yet loveable characters and an exploration of the power of art.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. Adult science fiction novel about a British civil servant offered a job to monitor people plucked from history and brought to the modern times to see how they adjust to the present–specifically Arctic explorer Graham Gore. And falls in love with him? This is a really wild premise for a book but I've seen some very positive reviews and apparently the novel has an interesting exploration of history and colonialism, so I've decided to give it a whirl.

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. Nonfiction about Palestinian history.