#mr dunkle

[dunkleosteus-official]

How do you feel with being depicted on a canvas

What’s a canvas

Also I would be so honored to get to see that!!! I love knowing that dunks are appreciated and seen. Makes my fishy heart smile.

[rayless-reblogs]

20 Book Challenge

I saw this challenge on a post by @theresebelivett. The idea is you pick 20 of your books to take with you to a desert island, but you can only pick one book per author and series. Here are two further guidelines I set myself: They have to be books I actually own, as if I really am gathering them up under my arms and heading to the island; and I'm defining "book" as a single volume -- so if I just so happen to have 100 novellas squashed between two covers, it still counts as one book.

We'll go alphabetically by author.

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. An old standby, a classic, I can jump into it at any point.

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca. Have only read it once, but loved it and I suspect I'll get more from it each time.

Clare B Dunkle: The Hollow Kingdom. If I can only take one book from this excellent and unusual goblin series that captivated me in the mid-2000s, it'd better be the first one.

William Goldman: The Princess Bride. This book had an outsize influence on my own writing. I can quote a lot of it, but I wouldn't want to be without it.

Shannon Hale: Book of a Thousand Days. I love the warmth and humility of its heroine Dashti. Plus, Shannon Hale very kindly wrote a personal response to a fan letter I sent her years and years ago, so her work always has a special place in my heart.

Georgette Heyer: Cotillion. I don't actually own my favorite Georgette novel, but the funny, awkward, and ultimately romantic Cotillion is definitely not a pitiful second-stringer.

Eva Ibbotson: A Countess Below Stairs. Countess was my introduction to Eva's adult romances, and she is the past master of warm, hardworking heroines who should really be annoying because they're way too good to be true, but somehow you just end up falling in love with them.

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth. I first read this when I was like eight, and even for an adult, its quirky humor and zingy wordplay hold up, no problem.

Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera. Can't leave without Erik, nope, the French potboiler has got to come. Perhaps I will spend my time on the island writing the inevitable crossover fanfic, The Phantom of the Tollbooth.

CS Lewis: Till We Have Faces. Faces is my current answer for what my favorite book is, so I'm taking that, though it feels criminal to leave The Silver Chair behind.

LM Montgomery: The Blue Castle. As much as I love Anne and Emily, it came down to Blue Castle and A Tangled Web, and I'm a sucker for Valancy's romantic journey.

E Nesbit: Five Children and It. Probably the most classic Edwardian children's fantasy, though still a hard choice to make. Nesbit is another author who had a huge influence on me as a writer.

Robert C O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. A childhood book I'm really sentimental about. I should re-read it.

Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel. The first in the archaic lunar vampire trilogy. This will always be frustrating, only having the first in the series, but if I can only read the first, maybe I'll forget about how angry the third novel left me.

Sherwood Smith: Crown Duel. At one time, this swords-and-manners fantasy duet was one of my absolute favorite fandoms, and clever me has both books in one volume, so I don't have to choose.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl: Starflower. My favorite of the Tales of Goldstone Wood series. We'll have to test whether I can actually get sick of Eanrin.

JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings. I've never actually read it through as an adult and, look at that, I have a three-in-one volume. Cheating!

Vivian Vande Velde: Spellbound. I've read much of VVV's YA fantasy and liked a lot of it, but none more so than The Conjurer Princess and its fast-paced tale of revenge. The Spellbound edition includes the prequel and a bonus short story, so I'm good to go.

PG Wodehouse: The World of Mr Mulliner. There are some hilarious novels I'm leaving behind here, including all the Bertie Wooster stuff. But there are some absurdly fun Mulliner stories and this edition is like three hundred pages. That'll keep me happy for a long while on my island.

Jack Zipes (editor): Spells of Enchantment. This is an enormous compilation of western fairy tales. I've owned it since 2004 or so, and I've still never finished it. Now, on my island, I'll no longer have the excuse.

Tagging anyone else who feels like doing this!

[cakeyouareoh]

My 25 Most Reread Books

thanks to @francesderwent for letting me borrow this ask game, it’s too fun not to try! The rules I copied over from Cate’s post, and they apply the same.

Rules: everything on the list is fiction. the books listed are not necessarily my favorites, they’re the ones I’ve reread most often. some of them I haven’t read in decades, but I read them over and over as a kid. mine are not ranked, and are in random order. I chose one most-read book by each favorite author (I did make one exception for an author, but for the rest it’s just one.) I will add more clues if needed, and update the list as I go with the answers.

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (once read this three times in one year, ultimate comfort book in the fantasy genre.) guessed by @paranormaljones

Two Mighty Rivers: Son of Pocahontas by Mari Hanes (obscure historical fiction tangentially related to pocahontas) filled in by me :)

The Frog Princess series by E. D. Baker (an absurd middle-grade fairytale retelling series) guessed by @creating-by-starlight

Lad, A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune (depressing dog book (hint: breed of dog is the same as a famous TV dog.)) guessed by @tapferhills

The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (shipwreck time but make it equestrian) guessed by @francesderwent

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (sequel to a much more popular american classic (but more personally beloved to me)) guessed by @tapferhills

Redwall series by Brian Jacques (where the love of animal books started for me) guessed by @colorfulraven

Crown/Court Duel by Sherwood Smith (one of the only books I will accept the descriptor “pride and prejudice but make it fantasy” as accurate) guessed by @colorfulraven

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (wherein cleaning supplies are instrumental in defeating the bad guys) guessed by @creating-by-starlight

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (married enemies to lovers/sort of in love triangle with own husband) guessed by @noneofthesewillbringdisaster

The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy by Clare B. Dunkle (sisters, also reminiscent of labyrinth (1986) but better and less weird) guessed by @tapferhills

The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (changed my life at 12, haven’t stopped reading them or recommending them ever since) guessed by @isfjmel-phleg

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (puritans, cousins, assumptions and preconceived notions disproved.) guessed by @francesderwent

Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg by Gail Carson Levine (book about a disney property by an author of many more childhood favorites) guessed by @fictionadventurer

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (knitting wins the day) guessed by @imissthembutitwasntadisaster

Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander (time travel and a talking cat) guessed by @fictionadventurer

The Angel’s Command by Brian Jacques (pirates and privateers, a missing nephew, and a curse.) guessed by @colorfulraven

The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope (ghosts, and an entwined narrative of both past and present.) guessed by @thelonelybrilliance

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (biographical book about navigation) guessed by @tapferhills

Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery (a childhood classic’s edgier and slightly darker cousin. (written by the same author)) guessed by @isfjmel-phleg

The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting (doctor for humans becomes doctor for animals.) guessed by @imissthembutitwasntadisaster

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (quintessential ensemble adventure fantasy) guessed by @thelonelybrilliance

Matched by Ally Condie (will forever associate dylan thomas’ most famous poem with this lol) guessed by @fictionadventurer

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (bird learns to communicate via jazz) guessed by @ghostrider-02

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (grandma at heart finds herself, falls in love, more at 11.) guessed by @ghostrider-02

The complete list!!

thanks for playing!!

[pdouwes]

Ich habe lang genug mich selbst verleugnet, das ist jetzt vorbei! Nein, man sieht sie nicht, doch ich spür', sie ist hier und lebt noch. Ich war umgeben von Schatten, doch jetzt sind sie fort. Sie hört und sie sieht uns, sie ergibt sich nicht. In das dunkle Haus kommt Licht. Sie ist s t ä r k e r ! Alles, alles ändert sich. Sie ergibt sich nicht. Mrs. de Winter bin ich! Man besiegt sie nicht!

[cbdinodoodlez]

I FEEL LIKE POSTING SO HERE’S A REF OF MY PROFESSOR LAYTON OC, MR DUNKLE

HERE’S THE CRAPPY LIL DESCRIPTION FOR DUNKLE I SPEDRAN FOR ARTFIGHT: “He is my Professor Layton oc! He's a silly paleontologist antagonist who wears the head of a Dunkleosteus. He's seen causing havoc to London and stealing fossils from museums. He's also seen to be able to get along with the main characters actually! He's helped them before and will sometimes appear in the background, prob wearing a hawaiian shirt, lol. [Think abt dr doofenshmirtz and perry the platypus being enemies but are able to get along with each other kind of like friends but not idk lol] HE'S HUMAN AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE HIS HEAD IS, WELL, UR NOT GETTING AN ANSWER MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

[sixosix]

SIXOSIX WROTE KAZUHA I REPEAT SIXOSIX WROTE KAZUHA FKOWOQP1PWPEOE it was so sweet i nearly cried soft boy + me absolutely missing mr skrunkle dunkle man (otherwise known as kazuha) paired with your writing is just. wow. gets blown away. you're literally incapable of mischaracterising anyone [insert holy moly gif] ☹️ i hope school is treating you well, thank you for da 3-time meal you just gave for free. okay but that really made my day a lot better,,, [places a little creature in your hands] here is a bite sized xiao with a flower ☝️

THANK U SO MUCH once again anon strikes me with the sweetest messages 😞🙏 u make my day, my week, my month if you will. i hope ure having an even better day for leaving me with serotonin… ❤️❤️

I WILL TREASURE BITE SIZED XIAO WITH A FLOWER FOREVER THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[ladyaislinn]

quelle

"A really fun role I played recently is Declan Howell in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” because when I first started out, these were the kind of roles I wanted to play. Comedy is the kind of thing I enjoy the most." ~ RS 2020

In der zweiten Staffel von The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel wird die unerschrockene Heldin Midge Maisel mit dem Dilemma konfrontiert, das kreative Profis schon seit jeher quält: Was kostet Kreativität und Kunst? Während einige ihrer Konflikte auf ihre wilde, komplizierte Familiensituation und ihr verworrenes Liebesleben zurückzuführen sind, fragt sie sich auch, wie viel sie bereit ist, in ihre Karriere zu investieren, selbst auf Kosten anderer Aspekte ihres Lebens. Dieser innere Konflikt wird in der siebten Episode der Staffel deutlich sichtbar, in der Midge Declan Howell (gespielt von Rufus Sewell aus The Man in the High Castle ) trifft, einen betrunkenen, aber brillanten Maler.

Declans Rolle in der Geschichte ist ziemlich einfach: Er soll sowohl für Midge als auch für die Zuschauer die dunkle, einsame und manchmal brutale Seite des Künstlerdaseins darstellen. Er schafft spektakuläre Kunst, aber sein Streben kostet ihn sein Privatleben und seine Familie, sodass er allein in einem schmutzigen Atelier mit einem gewalttätigen Vermieter zurückbleibt. Obwohl Declan Howell im Gegensatz zu einigen anderen Charakteren, denen Midge begegnet, keine reale Person war, dient er als eine Mischung aus den männlichen Malern wie ihm aus dieser Zeit.

Die Figur, die in der Kunstszene von Downtown Manhattan in den 1950er Jahren angesiedelt ist, scheint von abstrakten expressionistischen Künstlern dieser Zeit inspiriert zu sein, wie etwa Jackson Pollock – dessen Name in einer Geschichte, die Declan über ein bestimmtes Gemälde von ihm erzählt, erwähnt wird. Pollock war bekanntermaßen zurückgezogen und alkoholkrank, galt jedoch als einer der bedeutendsten Künstler seiner Generation. Weitere in der Folge erwähnte Künstler sind Franz Kline, dessen künstlerisches Erbe immer durch seine Weigerung, über seine Kunst zu sprechen oder ihr eine Bedeutung zuzuschreiben, verwirrt wurde, und Robert Motherwell, dessen drei Ehen in Scheidung endeten.

Obwohl sich Schauspieler Sewell und Schöpferin Amy Sherman-Palladino nicht öffentlich zu den Inspirationen für die Figur des Declan geäußert haben, ist es wahrscheinlich, dass die genannten Künstler als seine Zeitgenossen die Grundlage für diese kleine, aber entscheidende Rolle bildeten.

[dunkleosteus-official]

What does your skin feel like? Is it smooth and rubbery? Scaly? Or perhaps slimy?

Under that thick, plated armor there is a sort of sliminess like that of nearly all fish. I am a bit rubbery, but not quite smooth… I don’t have fully evolved scales either.

I’m trying to get used to my snacks having scales though!!! Scales are really just starting to become a thing and honestly all that new texture does is just make my life harder. It’s a major change and currently i hate it but I’m hungry as can be.

[oxbl00d42]

chatgpt und talkai versuchen mr.t zu beschreiben

zieht euch warm an, auch wenn es august ist. ich habe eine simple frage an zwei ki's gestellt. das kuriose: ki nr. 2 (talkai) gibt an, ki nr. 1 (chatgpt) zu sein. das ergebnis ist eher so mittelmässig, wenn nicht sogar irgendwie doof. spoiler: frisur und bart werden sehr zufällig beschrieben, und für kopfbedeckungen war mr. t nie wirklich bekannt.

die frage ist folgende:

was sind die äusserlichen merkmale von mr. t? gehe nur auf seine kleidung ein.

in der linken seite des rings, mit einem gewicht von irgendwas über 1024kb: chatgpt:

Mr. T ist bekannt für seinen unverwechselbaren Kleidungsstil, der ihn zu einer Ikone der Popkultur gemacht hat. Hier sind einige seiner markanten äußerlichen Merkmale in Bezug auf Kleidung:Goldschmuck: Mr. T ist berühmt für seinen übermäßigen Goldschmuck, insbesondere goldene Halsketten und Armreifen. Er trägt normalerweise mehrere Goldketten, oft mit einem großen Anhänger, der das Buchstaben "T" oder andere persönliche Symbole darstellen kann. Kopfbedeckung: Er trägt oft eine schwarze Wollmütze, die sein kahles Haupt bedeckt. Die Mütze ist zu einem wichtigen Teil seines Stils geworden. Tanktops: Mr. T trägt oft ärmellose Shirts oder Tanktops, die seine muskulösen Arme zur Schau stellen. Diese Shirts sind oft einfarbig und können verschiedene Aufschriften oder Logos tragen. Jeans: Er trägt in der Regel blaue Jeans oder Cargo-Hosen. Diese sind oft recht locker sitzend. Armbänder: Neben seinen auffälligen Armreifen trägt Mr. T auch oft Armbänder und Manschetten. Schnürstiefel: Er ist oft in schwarzen Schnürstiefeln oder Bikerstiefeln zu sehen, die seinem robusten Image entsprechen. Sonnenbrille: Gelegentlich trägt Mr. T auffällige Sonnenbrillen, die zu seinem coolen Look beitragen. Frisur: Sein kahles Haupt und sein markanter Schnauzbart sind charakteristisch für sein Erscheinungsbild.

Die oben genannten Merkmale machen Mr. T zu einer unverkennbaren Figur, und sein Stil hat ihm einen festen Platz in der Popkultur eingebracht.

in der rechten seite des rings, mit einem gewicht von irgendwas über ich weiss es nicht genau wie viele kb: talkai, der angibt, chatgpt zu benutzen:

Mr. T, auch bekannt als Lawrence Tureaud, ist berühmt für seinen einzigartigen Kleidungsstil, der zu seinem Markenzeichen geworden ist. Hier sind einige äußerliche Merkmale seiner Kleidung:Kopfbedeckung: Mr. T ist dafür bekannt, fast immer eine schwarze oder dunkelblaue Mütze zu tragen. Meistens handelt es sich um eine eng anliegende Kappe oder eine Baskenmütze. Oberteile: Er trägt oft mehrere Oberteile übereinander. Ein typisches Outfit beinhaltet ein enges, ärmelloses Muskelshirt als untere Schicht, das seine muskulösen Arme betont. Darüber trägt er häufig ein langärmliges, lockeres Sweatshirt oder eine bedruckte Weste. Schmuck: Ein weiteres auffälliges Merkmal sind die zahlreichen Halsketten, die er trägt. Er ist für seine Liebe zu großen, goldfarbenen Ketten mit verschiedenen Anhängern bekannt, darunter ein Kreuz und die Buchstaben "T" oder "Mr. T". Hose: Mr. T trägt meistens dunkle, locker sitzende Hosen. Oft handelt es sich um Jeans oder Jogginghosen mit einem elastischen Bund. Schuhe: Er bevorzugt hohe Stiefel in dunklen Farben, oft mit Schnürsenkeln oder Klettverschlüssen.

Insgesamt zeichnet sich Mr. T's äußeres Erscheinungsbild durch einen auffälligen, muskulären Look mit vielen Accessoires wie Mütze, Muskelshirt, Halsketten und Stiefeln aus. Diese Kleidungsstücke sind zu einem charakteristischen Teil seines Stils geworden.

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sorry, elektrokumpels. hier gibt es jeweils nur eine 3 und eine 4 in der endnote.

[icewindandboringhorror]

*gets this confirmation button hovering in front of my vision every time I’m about to make a choice that sets me down a villainous path*

[hotsumiozaki]

E ku aro, dada lo wa?

Was für eine seltsame Nacht. Bin im Vergleich zum Vortag früher ins Bett, es war doch noch gestern 😇 Leider habe ich die halbe Nacht wach gelegen und konnte keinen Schlaf finden. Ich könnte das auf meine konsequente Durchführung von Tag 2 des "Weniger Schlaf um mehr vom Leben zu haben" Experimentes schieben. Die Wahrheit sieht anders aus. Da gibt es momentan ein, zwei dunkle Gedanken die mich nicht loslassen und in diesen unruhigen Stunden wie ein Damoklesschwert über mir schwebten. Wenn ich durch weniger Schlaf mehr Zeit habe um mir meinen süßen Kopf mit düsteren Überlegungen zu zerbrechen, dann klingt das für mich nach einem schlechten Tausch.

Das ich nach der kurzen vorletzten Nacht, nachmittags weggeknickt bin tat sein Übriges. Aber keine Sorge, wenn auch mit Verspätung habe ich mein Trainingsprogramm auf dem Weg zum Mr. Olympia, strikt durchgezogen 💪🤏

Auch wenn es für ein Fazit der aktuellen Untersuchung viel zu früh ist, sagt mir meine jahrelange Berufserfahrung als Oneirologe und leidenschaftlicher Schläfer💣 das wir uns hier auf dem Holzweg befinden. Um dies zu untermauern, den ich will mich hier auf empirische Daten stützen und nicht auf meine Vermutungen, werde ich zum Wohle von uns allen, dieses Selbstexperiment bis zum bitteren Ende weiter führen.

Wie war deine Nacht? Hoffentlich erholsame und du musstest dich nicht mit Bettwanzen herumschlagen!

[dahlia-coccinea]

Why do you think Heathcliff never fires Joseph while he is the master of the Heights? Yes Joseph is an efficient and competent servant, but Heathcliff disliked him as a boy and wanted to throw him off the highest gable. Why did he give up on this childhood grudge and not the others? Does he only care about grudges that effected his relationship with Catherine now? Does he not retain grudges concerning people of a lower social status than himself? Does he think that being the master of Joseph and ordering him around is revenge enough? Is he merely nostalgic for the Heights of his childhood? I think Clare Dunkle discussed this but didn’t give a satisfactory answer. What is your theory?

That is an interesting aspect of the story. As Dunkle notes, when he’s around 13 Heathcliff says he wishes he’ll one day have “the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable, and painting the house-front with Hindley’s blood!” and yet he lives side by side with Joseph for 18ish years after he returns. There aren’t many ways we can interpret this, other than that Heathcliff, even when he is angry and “defying” the sympathy of others - Nelly is right when she says “you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?” 

I agree with @princesssarisa who said recently:

“Maybe we could view him as having a fundamental respect for servants, or for people reduced to servitude, because of his own background. Even though he speaks of “crush[ing] those beneath [him]” and in large part does just that, the fact remains that the chief victims of his cruelty are people of more privileged status and upbringing than he was, even when they lack the power that he currently has.”

It’s apparent that Heathcliff isn’t a completely ruthless, inhuman, being. I don’t think he does just want to hurt people for the sake of it. It’s not at all at odds with his character that he wouldn’t needlessly expel and abuse everyone in his path. We see this in his treatment of Lockwood. He’s not hospitable by nature but neither is he senselessly violent. 

Is Joseph efficient and competent? I don’t think we really know if he is a good worker or not? Or something could be escaping my memory. 

About Heathcliff only being against those who effected his relationship with Catherine - I do think Joseph played a role in Hindley’s objection to their closeness. In Chapter 9 when Joseph goes on a rant after Heathcliff runs away he says that Catherine has been “Running after t’ lads, as usuald!” and he makes quite an insinuation when he says “It’s bonny behaviour, lurking amang t’ fields, after twelve o’ t’ night, wi’ that fahl, flaysome divil of a gipsy, Heathcliff! They think I’m blind; but I’m noan: nowt ut t’ soart!” I image it wouldn’t be the first insinuation of the sort on Joseph’s part and I doubt that Catherine, Heathcliff, and Hindley haven’t been previously lectured on the dangers of sexual immorality. Totally my own conjecture but as Heathcliff is 16 when he leaves and Hindley wants Catherine to marry Edgar I’d think he would see Heathcliff as a threat to her purity and could cause problems with the Linton’s viewing her as an acceptable daughter-in-law. Hindley certainly takes Joseph’s insinuation seriously when he says it is only recent events (Heathcliff saving Hareton) that keeps his "conscience tender of breaking his neck” if they had been spending all night on the moors alone together.

On a totally comical note there is this scene in Chapter 33 when Hareton and Cathy dig up the garden and Joseph gets all upset: 

“I mun hev’ my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I’d sarved fur sixty year; and I thowt I’d lug my books up into t’ garret, and all my bits o’ stuff, and they sud hev’ t’ kitchen to theirseln; for t’ sake o’ quietness. It wur hard to gie up my awn hearthstun, but I thowt I could do that! But nah, shoo’s taan my garden fro’ me, and by th’ heart, maister, I cannot stand it! Yah may bend to th’ yoak an ye will—I noan used to ’t, and an old man doesn’t sooin get used to new barthens. I’d rayther arn my bite an’ my sup wi’ a hammer in th’ road!”

“Now, now, idiot!” interrupted Heathcliff, “cut it short! What’s your grievance? I’ll interfere in no quarrels between you and Nelly. She may thrust you into the coal-hole for anything I care.”

“It’s noan Nelly!” answered Joseph. “I sudn’t shift for Nelly—nasty ill nowt as shoo is. Thank God! shoo cannot stale t’ sowl o’ nob’dy! Shoo wer niver soa handsome, but what a body mud look at her ’bout winking. It’s yon flaysome, graceless quean, that’s witched our lad, wi’ her bold een and her forrard ways—till—Nay! it fair brusts my heart! He’s forgotten all I’ve done for him, and made on him, and goan and riven up a whole row o’ t’ grandest currant-trees i’ t’ garden!” and here he lamented outright; unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries, and Earnshaw’s ingratitude and dangerous condition.

“Is the fool drunk?” asked Mr. Heathcliff. “Hareton, is it you he’s finding fault with?”

That it seems that Heathcliff cannot even understand Joseph is HILARIOUS to me. Perhaps he keeps him around for comic relief ? Just kidding lol I’m going to go with this is a case of Heathcliff not being Evil™ 

[blarfkey]

First Line Fic Game

TheThank you to @wizardofozymandias, @kunstpause and @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold for tagging me! This looks fun!

The Rules: Take the last twenty fics that you wrote and only show the first line of each fic. Tagging @mllekurtz and @salexectria and anyone else who wants it and hasn’t been tagged.

1. Armistice (Star wars/Reylo):  Ever since Crait, that last look Rey sees on Kylo’s—on Ben’s face—haunts her.

2. Thick as Thieves (Dragon Age/ Solas x Cadash):  The dwarf who  bears his mark is not in any way intimidating.

3. Dear Fen’harel (Dragon Age/Solavellan): “Are you Ellana Lavellan?” 

4. Too Wise to Woo Peaceably (The Hollow Kingdom by Clare Dunkle):  The first nightmare Kate has occurs three days into their marriage.

5. It’s Not Just a Coincidence (Dragon Age/ Varric x Lace) "So how exactly do you skin and eat a fish?" Varric asks.

6. The Benefits of Mayhem (Dragon Age/Krem x Lace):  Krem learns something unexpected yet very important about Lace in the field:  she's fucking crazy.

7. I Like The Dirty Rhythm You Play (Dragon Age/ Zevran x Cadash): Zevran Arainai is a walking, talking cliche.

8. Show Me How A Kiss Should Feel (Dragon Age/ Cole x Cadash): "What does a kiss feel like?"

9. Idiots in Not-Matrimony (Dragon Age/ Cole x Cadash): "You're serious.  No one can do this for me?"

10. The Language of Flowers (Dragon Age/ Cole x Lace): At first she thought it was a joke.

11. Let Me Give You Some Light (Dragon age/Cole x F!Inquisitor): It starts out as a dream.

12. Something Good Can Work (Dragon Age/ Zevran x Lavellan): "Want to come in?" Ellana asks at the door.

13. Your Son Keiran (Dragon Age/ Alistair & Kieran, Alistair x Morrigan) “You’re a Grey Warden.”

14. Cupid’s Chokehold (Dragon Age/ Solas x Cadash) The new kid is weird.

15. Code Ren (Star Wars/ Reylo) The first time she sees the destruction of Kylo Ren, she almost gets fired.

16. A Trick of the Light (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey/ Alkibaides x Kassandra)  The worst mistake Kassandra ever made was sleeping with Alkibiades at Aspasia's party.

17. Feral (Dragon Age/ Solavellan): Solas had expected the one who bears his mark to be upset, bewildered.

18. Time Does Not Bring Relief (Dragon Age/ Solas & Cassandra): They should have been enemies. 

19. The Skin Outside Is Taking You For a Ride (X-Men/ Charles x Erik): Mr. Kostner leans over his podium, situated exactly in the middle of Charles and Erik.

20. The Sun Will Shine When Morning Comes (X-Men/ Erik & Peter): Erik learns new things about his son every day:

[taurielsilvan]

1,8,10,17,20 for the book ask please! Or if that’s too many any of those you’re interested in answering :)

Bookworm Asks

1. What are you reading right now, and what do you think of it?

I'm reading Christian Cameron - Der lange Krieg: Sohn des Achill (orig. Killer of Men) at home. It's very good! I thought it would be a bit more gruesome and I had to get used to the writing style, but I'm still invested in the story and already bought the second book of the series. And at work I'm reading Stuart Turton - Der Tod und das dunkle Meer (orig. The Devil and the Dark Water). I havn't gotten far yet, but I think I may be in love?!

8. Favorite book read this year?

Hmm Ann Napolitano - Der Morgen davor und das Leben danach (orig. Dear Edward) and TJ Klune - Mr. Parnassus' Heim für magisch Begabte (orig. The House in the Cerulean Sea). Both arn't my absolute favourites, but those stories are quite impressive and will stay with me for a while.

10. Favorite nonfiction book?

Klemens Pütz - Unverfrorene Freunde: Mein Leben unter Pinguinen (it's about penguins!!), Stephen Fry - Mythos and Steve Brusatte - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

17. What time of day, season, and weather is your favorite for reading?

I read during my work break, in my bed before I go to sleep or when I have a day off and can stay the whole day on my couch... seasons and the weather arn't really a factor for my but I do love autumn reading when it's raining (very cliché, i know)

20. How does your choice in reading material compare to your family’s?

Like once every decade I can convince my sister @wondcrwomans to read a book, because I loved it and know she'll love it too (like Six of Crows, if you've seen her beautiful aesthetics for our beloved crow babies, you can thank me!). We differ in the quantity of our reading more than the actual choice of reading material. My father reads mostly Science Fiction, which I don't enjoy, Fantasy, which I do love and Non-Fiction, which I don't read often enough.

I inherited my love for books from my mother. She lend me books from Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon and some very bloody crime when I was quite young. I think we both really like historical books and scandinavian crime.