#maya circe original

[turnstileskyline]

and heres miss piggy femininomenon. femininmuppeton?

[decayingcorpses]

Paras

Under construction

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After The End

Ki --- Tag

Sascha

Maya

Carter

Elijah

Jams

Phoenix --- Tag

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Bright Nights

Styx --- Tag

Blaise --- Tag

Cole --- Tag

Scarlet --- Tag

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Ghosts and Fireflies

Cyrus --- Tag

Keira --- Tag

Cielo --- Tag

Sometimes Cole and/or Scarlet

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[Fae]

Verl --- Tag

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[Deities]

Jericho --- Tag

Orien

Synnove

Skepsis

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Gaia

Lumi --- Tag

Beetle --- Tag

Hyacinth --- Tag

Asherah

Aethra --- Tag

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Other - Sky: Cotl

I don't know if these can be called fictparas or not. They are original creations of mine, but they're based on a game and do exist within that game's universe.

Circe --- Tag

Io

Faye

Aura

Phoebe

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Other

Idk what paracosm these silly guys are in yet or if it's just a new paracosm atp

Liminal Boy (idk his name yet) --- Tag

Radio Host (I also don't know his name yet)

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Other

Sean --- Tag

Luke --- Tag

Jude --- Tag

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Notes:

I use brackets [these things] for stuff that will most likely change

I might make intro posts for my paras (at least some of them) at some point but idk when

[continuo-docs]

Music reviews by Laurent Fairon, September 2020

Glands Of External Secretion –  Do Not Disturb (July 2020) Christina Vantzou – Multi Natural (July 2020) Mouchoir Étanche – Kommuniqué Zéro (July 2020) Mark Leckey – In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle (August 2020) Lucrecia Dalt – No era sólida (September 2020) Staraya Derevnya – Inwards Opened the Floor (September 2020) .   .   .   .   .   .   .

Glands Of External Secretion –  Do Not Disturb (Butte County Free Music Society) https://glandsofexternalsecretion.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-disturb The music on Do Not Disturb is made of stuttering interview excerpts, media audio detritus, spoken word, musique concrète, non-descript electronic sounds and loops, plus backward playing guitar or what sounds like studio outtakes. Californian duo of Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass (Bananafish magazine founder), Glands Of External Secretion build their tracks from bits and pieces of found sounds, without progression nor development but with frequent U-turns and aimless sound collages. The collage for them is not so much an avantgarde artistic gesture, as a means to make sense of sound scraps and aural leftovers. They're carving a freedom niche for themselves where they can progress inside a track with a frolic of their own but no apparent logic. Part of the pleasure derived from listening to Do Not Disturb is to experience this freedom other bands usually deny themselves. Glands Of External Secretion are part of this US libertarian tradition including Los Angeles Free Music Society or early Idea Fire Company, the duo of Scott Foust and Karla Borecky.

Christina Vantzou – Multi Natural (Edi��ões CN) https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/multi-natural Full disclosure: I have a soft spot for psychoacoustic sounds – give me howling wolves, children at play, female laughing or sea surf and I'm carried far away from the contingencies of ordinary life. So I might be partial to Christina Vantzou's new album, which has plenty of that. Multi Natural is a collection of remarkably evocative aural miniatures built with the simplest of means – natural found sounds, lonely acoustic instrument or spoken word, associated with basic, reverb-coated synth pads. These are elusive tracks coming out of a haze as inchoate thoughts just before waking up, exploring the liminal state between dream and real life, like Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon movie. Akin to lucid dreaming, the music invites free associations in the mind of the listener as does psychoanalysis or Surrealism. This kind of effect couldn't be achieved with mere ambient music, which tends to focus the mind of the listener on (pretty much) nothing. It requires a talented composer to come up with an aural equivalent of a Dream Machine – just spinning around and creating images in your head. That's what Multi Natural does for me.

Mouchoir Étanche – Kommuniqué Zéro (Dekorder) https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/kommuniqu-z-ro Mouchoir Étanche [waterproof handkerchief] is a side project of Hamburg-based, German composer Marc Richter, better known as Black To Comm and Jemh Circs. As Black To Comm he released 2 superb albums on Thrill Jockey in 2019. This one-sided 12inch record has one 11mn-track which style is actually typical of previous Black To Comm's loop-based music. In Kommuniqué Zéro, samples of orchestral classical music are looped and left to accumulate over a slow, pulsating rhythm to create a fascinating repetitive, gloomy atmosphere, complete with operatic vocals and spoken word. The entire track can be considered both an homage to, and an update on, Holger Czukay's legendary Boat Woman Song, recorded in Köln in 1968.

Mark Leckey – In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle (Boomkat Editions) https://boomkat.com/products/in-this-lingering-twilight-sparkle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFqzj45Llo There's nothing like collage music done right – unrelated sounds bursting out of your speakers at strange angles, inexplicable transitions, sounds jumping from place to place yet not really progressing... what's not to love in this cornucopia? British composer Mark Leckey does it brilliantly on this 32mn album. Using amateur-ish music excerpts, found sounds, street recordings, internet aural detritus, as well as great found vocals by actors, children, video game soundtracks and the likes, all exploited with appropriate sound processing and dramaturgy. There's no irony or mass media criticism in there, just a feast of sounds collected from various sources. The human voice is omnipresent throughout, confering the album a very moving, gripping atmosphere, unusual in collage music.

Lucrecia Dalt – No era sólida (RVNG) https://lucreciadalt.bandcamp.com/album/no-era-s-lida This album represents a kind of departure for Lucrecia Dalt. Gone are the niceties of Anticlines, her previous acclaimed album – gone the sexy voice, the sweet synth sequences and reassuring song form. As far as I'm aware of, No era sólida is her darkest effort to date and her most experimental release, likely to sound rather impenetrable to many. Mostly composed of short, skeletal tracks, the album actually plays like one long suite with seamless transitions and great cohesion throughout. The music is build on simple synth sequences and carefully crafted sound textures with that Lucrecia's sound signature: synth sounds with unstable pitch, like a detuned computer left to rot on loop mode. Except for the concluding track, the music is wordless, but occasional, processed vocal samples emerge here and there. Other than that, this is rather abstract music – no melody, no rhythm, no lyrics. Yet the album is also a reacquaintance with her native tongue for Lucrecia – she once told me she was at odds with Spanish language these days, but here track titles are in Castillan and the last track is a long spoken word piece in that language, delivered over a mesmerizing hushed voice loop. The next moment it is gone, and you're left at a sensory threshold between hypnagogia and bewilderment, with no solid ground beneath your feet – No era sólida, indeed.

Staraya Derevnya – Inwards Opened the Floor (self release) https://starayaderevnya.bandcamp.com/album/inwards-opened-the-floor-2 British-Israeli collective led by Gosha Hniu recorded in both countries with local musicians, some from Russian origin. Staraya Derevnya are allegedly around since 1994, but it's the first time I come across their music. Songs are build on collective live jams performed on traditional instruments like dulcimer, double bass, kazoo, synth or sampler, with homemade percussion, toys and found objects. These are then reworked and expanded in studio to create intense Surrealist excursions propelled by weird arrangements. Occasional vocals by Hniu include lyrics in Russian from the poetry of Arthur Molev, but most of the time consist of spoken word, wordless chanting, shouts or invented language. Staraya Derevnya inhabit a territory between 1980s post-punk and Rock in Opposition, with echoes of Red Balune, UR Kaos, Psi Vojaci, SRP, Metabolists or Zamla Mammaz Manna. Great album.

[greenlightpaperbacks]

my 2019 books

original rockers - richard king

mrs dalloway - virginia woolf

the return of the soldier - rebecca west

hunger makes me a modern girl - carrie brownstein

conversations with friends - sally rooney

uncommon people: the rise and fall of the rock stars 1955-1994 - david hepworth

just kids - patti smith

m train - patti smith

normal people - small rooney

girl in a band - kim gordon

woolgathering - patti smith

the coral sea - patti smith

the merchant of venice - william shakespeare

a moveable feast - ernest hemingway 

much ado about nothing - william shakespeare

the secret history - donna tartt

king lear - william shakespeare

clothes, clothes, clothes. music, music, music. boys, boys, boys. - viv albertine 

the goldfinch - donna tartt

pericles - william shakespeare

blue legacies and black feminism: gertrude ‘ma’ rainey, bessie smith, and billie holiday - angela y. davis

circe - madeline miller

measure for measure - william shakespeare

the tempest - william shakespeare

into the wild - jon krakauer

flush - virginia woolf

england, england - julian barnes

pamper me to hell & back - hera lindsay bird

devotion - patti smith

pride and prejudice - jane austen

the bridge over the drina - ivo andric

oranges are not the only fruit - jeanette winterson

ziggyology: a brief history of ziggy stardust - simon goddard

henry v - william shakespeare

richard iii - william shakespeare

the night circus - erin morgenstern 

the passion - jeanette winterson

titus andronicus - william shakespeare

on the road - jack kerouac 

on writing: a memoir of the craft - stephen king

hamlet - william shakespeare

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban - j.k. rowling

written on the body - jeanette winterson

der untertan - heinrich mann

the radetzky march - joseph roth

the last of the hippies: an hysterical romance - penny rimbaud

a midsummer night’s dream - william shakespeare

good omens - terry pratchett and neil gaiman 

the year of magical thinking - joan didion

year of the monkey - patti smith

letter to my daughter - maya angelou

high school - tegan and sara quin

your silence will not protect you: essays and poems - audre lorde

twelfth night - william shakespeare

women, men and the whole damn thing - david leser

sonnets - william shakespeare

blue nights - joan didion

to throw away unopened - viv albertine

without you, there is no us: my secret life teaching the sons of north korea’s elite - suki kim

candy - luke davies

frankissstein: a love story - jeanette winterson

the christmas truce - carol ann duffy

christmas days: 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days - jeanette winterson

the silence of the girls - pat barker 

[thebooklister-blog1]

Book Depository’s Best Books Ever List

Elena Ferrante -- My Brilliant Friend

Andre Aciman -- Call Me By Your Name

Sally Rooney -- Normal People

Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale

Anthony Doerr -- All The Light We Cannot See

Celeste Ng -- Everything I Never Told You

Jane Harper -- The Dry

Hanya Yanagihara -- A Little Life

Gail Honeyman -- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Fredrik Backman -- A Man Called Ove

Emma Donoghue -- Room

Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

Liane Moriarty -- Big Little Lies

Colson Whitehead -- The Underground Railroad

Min Jin Lee -- Pachinko

Rosalie Ham -- The Dressmaker

David Mitchell -- Cloud Atlas

Naomi Alderman -- The Power

Takashi Hiraide -- The Guest Cat

Madeline Miller -- Circe

Hannah Kent -- Burial Rites

M. L. Stedman -- The Light Between Oceans

Becky Chambers -- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Kamila Shamsie -- Home Fire

Han Kang -- The Vegetarian

Hilary Mantel -- Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel -- Bring Up the Bodies

Marlon James -- A Brief History of Seven Killings

Richard Flanagan -- The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Eleanor Catton -- The Luminaries

Kazuo Ishiguro -- Never Let Me Go

Mohsin Hamid -- The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid -- Exist West

Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Between The World And Me

Homer -- The Iliad

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

Ernest Hemingway -- Fiesta

Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

Philip K. Dick -- The Man in the High Castle

George Orwell -- Homage to Catalonia

Ursula K. Le Guin -- Earthsea

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse 5

Philip Pullman -- Grimm Tales

Angela Carter -- The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Martin Amis -- Money

Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

Ann Patchett -- Bel Canto

Stephen King -- It

George Eliot -- Middlemarch

Haruki Murakami -- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Emile Zola -- Therese Raquin

Angela Carter -- The Magic Toyshop

Philip Pullman -- Northern Lights

Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

J. D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

Georges Bataille -- Story of the Eye

Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- Journey to the End of the Night

Lewis Carroll -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Vikram Seth -- A Suitable Boy

Salman Rushdie -- Midnight's Children

Vladimir Nabokov -- Lolita

Donna Tartt -- The Secret History

Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

Rohinton Mistry -- A Fine Balance

Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

John Kennedy Toole -- A Confederacy of Dunces

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Honore de Balzac -- Lost Illusions

Stendhal -- The Red and the Black

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

Anton Chekhov -- Stories

Plato -- Republic

Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

Albert Camus -- The Stranger

James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Sigmund Freud -- The Unconscious

Karl Marx -- Grundrisse

Niccolo Machiavelli -- The Prince

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

Sun Tzu -- The Art of War

Carl Gustav -- Jung Man & His Symbols

Voltaire -- Candide, or Optimism

Charles Darwin -- On the Origin of Species

J. W. Von Goethe -- Faust: Part One

Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Toni Morrison -- Beloved

James Baldwin -- Another Country

Maya Angelou  -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Jaroslav Hasek -- The Good Soldier Svejk

Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Samuel Beckett -- Watt

Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

Benedict de Spinoza -- Ethics

Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan

Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

Robert Graves -- I, Claudius

Philip Roth -- Portnoy's Complaint

Raymond Chandler -- The Long Good-bye

William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

Christopher Isherwood -- Goodbye To Berlin

Art Spiegelman -- The Complete MAUS

Rachel Carson -- Silent Spring

Robert Hughes -- The Shock of the New

James Agee -- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Edward W. Said -- Orientalism

Hannah Arendt -- Eichmann in Jerusalem

John Kenneth Galbraith -- The Affluent Society

Barbara W. Tuchman -- A Distant Mirror

Rebecca West -- Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

[gotatext]

TASK OO1 / OOC SURVEY.

[kermit voice] hallo.... its me 

YOUR ALIAS & NICKNAMES — nora

AGE — 23

TIMEZONE — gmt

PREFERRED PRONOUNS — she/her

MBTI — enfp-infp border cos im an introvert who Masquerades as an extrovert :)

HP HOUSE — i spent 10 yrs of my life thinkin i was gryffindor.... to find out.... huffle....puff...... 

ARE YOU A STUDENT? WHAT DO YOU STUDY? — i fuckin wish! being a student was dope af i got stressed about essays like once a month and apart from that i was just chillin, surrounded by really intelligent people every day n livin it up on the party scene. adult life fucking sucks no one wants to have fun cos we all work fuckin tonnes of hours so we can afford to eat and get paid peanuts xx

ARE YOU ENJOYING IT? — im really afraid of bein one of those jock types who peaked in high school but i deff peaked in uni like 100% i was way more interesting 2 years ago

LINKS TO OTHER ACCOUNTS & SOCIAL MEDIA — im not showin u my instagram bc im a fuckin embarassment but this is pinterest , this is my personal blog, this is my writing / 1x1 blog i never use any more n this is my trash talking twitter where i mostly just cry about timothee chalamet and bash the tories. 

DISCORD USER — kristine’s forehead vein#8664

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FICTION GENRE? — i dont read fanfiction much but when i do u can be sure it’s slow burn angsty enemies to lovers mutual pining heart attack every time one of them accidentally brushes the other’s hand

TOP FIVE FAVOURITE FILMS — suspiria (2018 luca guadagnino version rogue i kno but i prefer the remake), the lobster, before sunrise, baz luhrmann romeo + juliet, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind,  thoroughbreds (REC!! so underwatched pls watch it. compelling female characters), hunt for the wilderpeople (also so underwatched), swiss army man, call me by your name, atonement, moonrise kingdom, trainspotting, the florida project. i rlly like films ok

A BOOK YOU FEEL “CHANGED” YOU? — the song of achilles by madeline miller n also fen by daisy johnson

A MOVIE YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN? — booksmart cos its fuckin dope

WHAT IS YOUR SIGN? — libra

ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY? —  i like to pretend im super invested in it mostly to anger my friends but tbh.... i just use it as a rough guide for character creation.... its fun but i dnt .... fully invest in what it has to say..... altho i am the most unbalanced n indecisive bitch on earth so i guess they got that right !! i just live to please baybeyy!

WHAT PLATFORMS HAVE YOU ROLEPLAYED ON? — tumblr for about 8 year (omg) n before tht facebook..... i was very embarassingly in a twilight rp..... i wrote jane..... i also rped as a scene kid oc n when i was like 12 i was on some weird forum harry potter roleplay where i basically played a self insert with georgie henley as the fc......

WHAT OTHER HOBBIES DO YOU HAVE? — i used to have so many hobbies but now i jst lie in my bed staring at the ceiling. but before i was workin like a dog i loved reading, writing, acting in theatre productions..... going out on the town getting bevved..... big druggy EDM nights in warehouses tht probably weren’t liscenced for tht many ppl..... gigs... costume-design and making, spoken word poetry, acrylic painting n rollerskating but my sister broke my skates abt two years ago in vengeance and i’ll never forgive her that fuckin bitch

HAVE ANY PETS? IF SO, TALK ABOUT THEM! — no my landlord is a fascist

IS THERE A TV SHOW YOU RECOMMEND A LOT? — i’ll never stop reccing euphoria!! also i was pleasantly surprised by looking for alaska!! but i also rlly like bob’s burgers, parks and rec, good omens.... black mirror, n sharp objects. lovesick on bbciplayer (n netflix i think) is also rlly fun

ANY SHOWS YOU LIKE SOME MIGHT BE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT YOU DO? — maybe love island, idk if i talk abt that much bc i am ashamed but i am so obsessed with it. i even got the love island game n got so invested in my fictional relationship w bobby tht i had to delete it

WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? WOULD YOU RECOMMEND IT? — god god... i haven’t finished a book in ages.... i recently started reading milkman by anna burns, the bees by laline paull and everything under by daisy johnson.... bt the last book i read cover to cover was probs circe. defs read it. feminist and witchy

CURRENTLY READING? — i jst said this but the bees, everything under and less so milkman cos im finding milkman a bit tough

LAST FILM? REC IT? — i watched ladyworld the lord of the flies all-female remake n even maya hawke could not save it.... dnt get me wrong from an art film point of view i loved it but it felt a bit underdeveloped n a level media studies for me..... apart from tht?? the runaways (yorkshire film not released yet at a preview screening) and threads (also a yorkshire film from the 80s about nuclear apocalypse)

THREE MOVIES YOU NEED TO WATCH — portrait of a lady on fire, i work at an independent cinema n we recently had a preview screening and everyone said it was SICK, uhhhh short term 12, n the new eliza scanlen movie babyteeth

WHAT MOVIE DO YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN THE MOST TIMES? — madagascar because when i was 12 my parents bought me a little television with a dvd player in it for my birthday and madagascar was the only dvd i owned for like..... the first two years of havin the absolute luxury of a tv in my room so i just used to watch it all the time n i now basically know the script inside out

WHAT ALWAYS PUTS YOU IN A GOOD MOOD? — nothing, life is pointless n i hate fun, let me rot in peace

WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICIAN / BAND? LIST IF THERE ARE MORE THAN ONE. — ughhh god probably lcd soundsystem. gorillaz, the streets, tame impala, talking heads, soft hair, i also love lizz tho n also angry twangy guitar girl bands like girlpool, courtney barnett, best coast, cherry glazerr,

WILD NIGHT OUT OR QUIET NIGHT IN? — quiet night in my party days are over i cant even be bothered to go to the shops if its past 4.30pm and dark these days

ANY PHOBIAS? — clowns n rats

DO YOU LIKE BUGS? — absolutely not

BIRDS? — yes but not if they fly in my face

ARE YOU A CAT OR DOG PERSON? BOTH? — i love both i want one 

BIGGEST PET PEEVE? — tory middle aged boomers who treat me like actual shit on their shoe because i work in the service industry like thats my choice and their poor economic decisions didnt mean i have to do a shitty job to afford to live bcos of austerity n cuts to arts funding meaning i cant get a job writing unless i self-fund :)))

FAVOURITE THING ABOUT THE RPC? — that everyone ive met through rp is a fuckin LAFF

TOP TEN FAVE FCS TO USE? — god .... diana silvers, timothee chalamet, margaret qualley, kristine froseth, froy gutierrez, zendaya, elle fanning, astrid berges frisbey, hunter schafer, leonardo dicaprio

FIVE YOU LIKE WRITING AGAINST? — herman tomeraas, hunter schafer, saoirse ronan, timothee chalamet, froy gutierrez

FAVOURITE TYPE OF FOOD? — linda mccartney 1/2pounder mozzarella veggie burgers, sweet potato wedges, tomato soup, mozzarella sticks, brownies

WORST FOOD? — green things like broccoli n sprouts gross. baked beans cos as a kid ppl used to do baked bean baths for comic relief / red nosed day a lot n i thought when they were finished in the baked bean bath they just put all the cold beans back in the tin. actually anything small that moves around on your plate. peas. spaghetti. sweetcorn. i dont like small things i cant control.

DO YOU PLAY VIDEOGAMES? IF SO, WHAT ONES AND ON WHAT PLATFORM DO YOU PREFER? — last year my housemate had an xbox n i went through a phase of obsessively playin fable 3 it was amazing. i had like 5 husbands and 3 wives and loads of kids but they all ended up leavin me cos i spent so much time out doing quests neglecting them

ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE TAG? — this

LASTLY, HOW DID YOU FIND US? — im one of those bitches who was in this grp all the way back when it was swipe... so quirky and original!! i knew the band before u! anyway im goin now this has been sufficiently embarassing..... i am lame

[awwishfulthinking]

I recently found a children’s graphic novel called “Melowy: The Test of Magic” and it’s a magic horse book which looked so cheesy I had to borrow it. I’ve included some photos below the cut but this book seriously refuses to be photographed well so the photos are real crap quality, sorry.

I’ll include a transcript under most photos because I know the text is hard to read.

Transcript: Beyond the stars in the night sky, beyond our universe, and far away in space there is Aura...

...A world where magical creatures live in harmony. The four ancient island realms of Aura are separated by an enchanted ocean and above, in the clouds, is the Castle of Destiny...

Transcript: The school for Melowies... They are pegaus-born with special powers... and a symbol on their wings.

...So this series is basically My Little Pony crossed over with Winx Club?

Transcript: Today is a very special day for the first year Melowies! There is a big exam in Defense Techniques Class... And it could be defense against anything...

...The series also has some Harry Potter/magic school for gifted kids elements to it I guess?

Transcript: Meanwhile, in their dorm room, five Melowies are studying together, as these five do everything together...

(i’m not gonna transcribe the rest of this text since it’s just mindless banter)

Why do some of the horses wear full on dresses/tops while others don’t? It’s so freaking WEIRD.

Anyway we get a brief intro of the main girls.

Transcript: Cora flew up from the Winter Realm, with the intent to be the best, but never expecting to find new best friends... Electra flew up from the Day Realm along with her bubbly personality to spread humor and cheer... Maya flew up from the Spring Realm, with her heart on her sleeve... and Selena flew up from the Night Realm with her heart hidden behind her aloof facade.

All magical pony characters is the same.

Electra is so Pinkie Pie-ish that it hurts. Maya is essentially a less shy Fluttershy, whilst Cora is similar to Rarity. Selena is probably the most original of the girls imo.

WHY DO THEY SOMETIMES STAND ON TWO LEGS AND SOMETIMES ON ALL FOUR LIKE REGULAR PONIES??? IT’S SO FREAKING WEIRD

(also Twilight, is that you)

well that sure is applejack

“The Power of Friendship”

All magical horse stories is the same

Transcript: Their friendship can’t even save them...

Shadowy being: “Nothing matters.” Electra: “Nothing matters.”

Holy crap I was expecting silly fun times, not implied depression.

Transcript: “There is no more room for fear. My heart is full with love... the love for my best friends!”

I know they mean “love” here as in--platonic love. But honestly if these horses were all gay for each other I wouldn’t be surprised and would also support them 100%

Transcript: Circe did not come to Destiny just to work in the library... she has intentions far different from Destiny’s... And far worse...

Circe: “Take this directly to the ruler!”

In the final few pages of the first volume, we’re suddenly introduced to an evil librarian pony out of nowhere.

Can we all just appreciate how ridiculously anime this looks.

why the hell do I want to read more volumes of this...?

[victor-v]

Under the cut you will find a complete and updated list of my digital and physical bookshelf. I will try to include a free PDF version (both in Spanish and English if it’s possible), so any of the links are broken, let me know! (★: my favourites, E:PDF in English, S: PDF in Spanish, SS: short story). All links are safe (tried them all) and I’ll keep updating the original post! You can ask me for titles to add here.

★The song of Achilles, Madeline Miller (2011) E / S

★The secret history, Donna Tartt (1992) E / S

★All for the game, Nora Sakavic

The foxhole court (2013) E

The raven king (2013) E

The King’s men (2014) E

★Six of crows, Leigh Bardugo

Six of crows (2015) E / S

Crooked kingdom (2016) E / S

★Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2012) E / S

★The Iliad, Homer. E / S

★The raven cycle, Maggie Stiefvater

The raven boys (2012) E / S

The dream thieves (2013) E / S

Blue lily, lily blue (2014) E / S

The raven king (2016) E / S

[SS] Opal (2018) E

★Captive prince, CS Pacat

Captive prince (2012) E / S

Prince’s gambit (2012) E / S

Kings rising (2016) E / S

[SS] Green but for a season (2016) E

[SS] The summer palace (2017) E

[SS] The Adventures of Charls (2017) E

[SS] Pet (2018) E

★Vicious, VE Schwab (2013) E / S

★The gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue, Mackenzi Lee (2017) E / S

★The casual vacancy, J.K. Rowling (2012) E / S

★The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon (2003) E / S

★We are the ants, Shaun David Hutchinson (2016) E

★The hunger games, Suzanne Collins

The hunger games (2008) E / S

Catching fire (2009) E / S

Mockingjay (2010) E / S

★ Circe, Madeline Miller (2018) E

The inexplicable logic of my life, Benjamin Alire Saenz (2017) E / S

The goldfinch, Donna Tartt (2013) E / S

It devours!, Joseph Fink (2017) E

The art of being normal, Lisa Williamson (2015) E / S

The miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth (2012)

The perks of being a wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (1999) E / S

El cuaderno de Maya, Isabel Allende (2011) S

Every heart a doorway, Seanan McGuire (2016) E

All the crooked saints, Maggie Stiefvater (2017) E

The watchmaker of Filigree street, Natasha Pulley (2015) E

Maze runner, James Dashner

The maze runner (2009) E / S

The scorch trials (2010) E / S

The death cure (2011) E / S

The kill order (2012) E / S

The fever code (2016) E / S

Doctor death, Lene Kaaberbøl (2015)

Lord of the flies, William Golding (1954) E / S

The Odyssey, Homer. E / S

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton (1942) E

Alexander the Great, Mary Renault

Fire from heaven (1969) E

The persian boy (1972) E

Funeral games (1981) E

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953) E / S

El juego de Ripper, Isabel Allende (2013) E

Matilda, Roald Dahl (1988) E / S

Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A study in scarlet (1887) E / S

The sign of four  (1890) E / S

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) E / S

The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) E / S

The hounds of Baskervilles (1902) E / S

The return of Sherlock Holmes (1904) E / S

The valley of fear (1915) E / S

His last bow (1917) E / S

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes (1927) E / S

The girl on the train, Paula Hawkins (2015) E / S

Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children, Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children(2011) E / S

Hollow city (2014) E

Library of souls (2015) E

The universe in a nutshell, Stephen Hawking (2001) E / S

Dead poets society, N.H. Kleinbaum (1988) E / S

Robin Hood, E / S

The travelling cat chronicles, Hiro Arikawa (2013)

I am the messenger, Mark Zusak (2002) E

Robert Langdon, Dan Brown

Angels and demons (2000) E / S

The Da Vinci code (2003) E / S

The lost symbol (2009) E / S

Inferno (2013) E / S

By John Green

The fault in our stars (2012) E / S

Looking for Alaska (2005) E / S

Paper towns (2008) E / S

The land of stories, Chris Colfer

The wishing spell (2012) E

The enchantress returns (2013) E

A Grimm warning (2014) E

Beyond the kingdoms (2015)

An author’s odyssey (2016)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (2002) S

Struck by lightning, Chris Colfer (2012) E / S

We were liars, E. Lockhart (2014) E / S

By William Shakespeare

★Troilus and Cressida (1602) E / S

The merchant of Venice (1596) E / S

A midsummer night’s dream (1595) E / S

★Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett (1952) E / S

The little prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943) E / S

Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, Horacio Quiroga (1917) S

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Year of reading 2021

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye / Sonny Liew

那些年，我们一起追的女孩 / 九把刀

Cosmos / Carl Sagan (unfinished)

Everything You Ever Wanted / Luiza Sauma

Circe / Madeline Miller

Immortality / Milan Kundera

City of Thieves / David Benioff

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou

The Outsiders / S. E. Hinton

Transcendent Kingdom / Yaa Gyasi

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid

Bringing Up Bebe / Pamela Druckerman

Boy Erased / Garrard Conley (unfinished)

Breasts and Eggs / Mieko Kawakami (unfinished)

A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents / Isabel Wilkerson

The Song of Achilles / Madeline Miller

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 / Cho Nam-Joo

Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (unfinished)

Klara and the Sun / Kazuo Ishiguro

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue / V.E. Schwab

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dc/marvel characters that are your favorites but are very underrated. name a few and maybe a reason why you like them? :)

i have a lot of z list favs i love this question

marvel;

silver sable!!!!!!!!- one of my ultimate favourite characters. emotionally stoic girls are my type. characters w white hair are my type. assassin/mercenary girls are my type. girls whose families are famous for killing nazis are definitely my type

maya lopez- such a unique character with such an intricate origin with fisk and daredevil. it would have been so easy to write her as Just Another Assassin that matt has the hots for but she was her own character and she progressed so far

ben reilly and kaine parker- they have so many stories about over coming being peter’s clones and i wish they’d get something else because they’re so clearly NOT peter fucking parker. my sons whom i love

THE ENTIRE NEW WARRIORS TEAM- they got blamed for starting the first civil war and then they just kind of got abandoned with that guilt and no one ever really acknowledged how traumatising it would be for a bunch of kids to be trying to help people and to then end up killing them. robbie literally kept himself in a suit that constantly hurt him afterwards because he felt like he deserved it, they lost so many of their own team members who are still MIA today

elsa bloodstone- monster slayer???? how fucking cool is that..... exists to murder and drink tea afterwards

selene gallio- QUEEN OF DEATH the oldest mutant, uber powerful.

clea- another ultimate fav!! put up with dr strange enough to marry him. literally queen of the dark dimension at one point, which is basically where all of stephen’s biggest enemies come from. and she just lived there. she deserves a story that shows how powerful she actually is

lady bullseye- another bitter assassin girl. she became what she is because bullseye unwittingly rescued her from trafficking and idk i think being inspired to be a bad guy to protect herself is something that makes a lot of sense 

satana & daimon hellstrom- hot bitchy brother sister team that literally rules hell. literally the children of satan and they get used like..... once a year

dc;

so many legion people but to narrow it down- nura nal- her power is sleeping and that’s neat. but she’s also considered to be one of the smartest members of the legion, which is a HUGE team so thats a very bold statement to make. she’s gorgeous and etheral but also knows math and could kick anyone’s ass & dawnstar- literally looks like an angel!!!! used the money she got from attending legion academy to better her homeworld’s defenses. her power is tracking which seems pretty useless at first glance but the way she uses it makes it actually incredibly cool

lady shiva- assassin girls!!!! she pretty much just travels the world looking for people who think theyre the best at fighting or martial arts etc, then she kicks their asses. she’s not exclusively a villain, she just does what benefits her which is something i love

a lot of lantern girls..... mostly star sapphires like carol and fatality. their power is love sure but the embodiment of their power is a giant ethereal pink murder monster called the predator. love seems like a shitty power but the star sapphires make it so cool and also a little fucked up

bleez... my fav lantern girl... she used to be a princess w huge feathery wings who was a little arrogant but she had reason to be because she was hot and rich. then she was raped and tortured. enter the red lantern ring and now she uses her hate and anger to destroy anyone that’d hurt her. im all about negative character development and female characters that fuck up anyone hurts them

silver st cloud- a batman love interest thats pretty much faded into obscurity since strange apparitions. and even then she didnt get a lot of content. but she was rich and pretty and SMART. she realised when something was up with bruce even if no one else did, and no one listened to her!!!! she figured out that bruce was batman by herself but she pretended not to because she knew it was important to him

circe- murder wonder woman with pink hair. both very good concepts. she wants to make the world better by killing men

cheshire- she has a lot of issues and isnt the most morally admirable person in the world but despite all of that she loves her daughter and idk i like that her weakness isnt a love interest or a man

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ray toro can you picture that fancam . a maya circe original 

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2019 booklist

Here are some books I've read last year. Hopefully, I get to read more books this year!

Circe, Madeline Miller *

The Hating Game, Sally Thorne

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón *

Original Fake, Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Defy Me, Tahereh Mafi

Truly Devious, Maureen Johnson *

The Vanishing Stair, Maureen Johnson

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio *

The Secret History, Donna Tartt *

Wallbanger, Alice Clayton

Receiver of Many, Rachel Alexander

Destroyer of Light, Rachel Alexander

The Unhoneymooners, Christina Lauren

Verity, Colleen Hoover *

The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang *

The Angel's Game, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Beginner's Guide: Love and Other Chemical Reactions, Six De Los Reyes

The Bride Test Helen Hoang

Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo

Re-reads:

The Scythe, Neal Shusterman *

The Toll, Neal Shusterman *

Four Play, Maya Banks and Shayla Black

*the best i've read imo

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SO LET'S FADE AWAY TOGETHER ONE DREAM AT A TIME

where did the party go – fall out boy // maude fealy, ~1920

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cameraman, swing the focus!

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gerard way doing makeup in the mirror, photographer unknown / gerard way at kunstrasen, 2022 / nancy boy - placebo / gerard way photographed by swathi srinivasan / gerard way photographed by erin russel

gerard way + placebo’s “nancy boy”

part one / part two / part three

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what a catch, donnie (fall out boy) / whale fall captured by the nautilus exploration program