#new york city cating

[yodaprod]

1989

[lemondedelamode]

Cate Underwood by Haris Farsarakis

for Sergio Rossi x Woldford Fall’22

[thebowerypresents]

Devendra Banhart – Webster Hall – October 11, 2023

Devendra Banhart’s been at the front of the freak-folk movement for a couple of decades now, but he’s not afraid to embrace new sounds. On his 11th LP, the Cate LeBon–produced Flying Wig, out three weeks ago, “LeBon has made Banhart’s spacey music more spacious by closing him in — the production cages in his vocals. There are edges and corners in the arrangements where there used to be curves,” says PopMatters. “Like the inanimate object from which the album gets its title, it’s just the context that makes it bizarre. A wig that lies there is just a wig. One that flies is strange. That’s true of this record as well.” And last night he brought the new tunes to the East Village to headline a packed Webster Hall.

(Devendra Banhart plays Union Transfer in Philly tonight.)

(Devendra Banhart plays Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, N.J., tomorrow.)

Photos courtesy of Adela Loconte | www.adelaloconte.com

[friendship-ditch]

Angel

Carol Aird x Fem!Reader ✼

Summary: Therese doesn't show and Carol is devastated, so you step in.

Warnings/Notes: Slightly referenced suicide, that's it. (I'm in a Cate Blanchett phase)

Word Count: 3263

  Despite spring being on the horizon, the nights in New York City were still nipped at by the chill. The days were getting longer but the colors of the sunset were covered beneath a blanket of dark clouds, a tell tale sign of rain.

  Rain you could have easily avoided, had you not stayed 10 minutes after to aid your coworker in packing the last of their backlogged orders. Of course your good deed was met by a downpour. It always was. And you’d forgotten your umbrella.

  You darted from the workplace exit and made your way down the street, occasionally stopping for a break beneath an overhang to wait out the falling sheets of freezing water. You’d missed the bus by a minute. It was either freeze at the bus stop or seek shelter elsewhere.

  Choosing the latter, you crossed to the next block and entered the hotel.

  The doorman took pity on you when you admitted you had no reservation to meet in the tea room and sent you upstairs anyway.

  The stairs were plush, the walls lucious and cozy. It was an elegant place, full of elegant people. And then there was you, a sopping wet woman, nearly turned into a puddle, hesitating on taking the last step.

  You took one last glance around, deciding maybe you should flee and find somewhere less tasteful. But somebody caught your eye.

  An angel of sorts. Golden hair curled up to just avoid brushing her silver clothing. A black half hat sat snug upon her head. Her pale skin glistened beneath the warm lights, blue eyes slowly scanning the room, just barely reigned in from irrational and quick looks, like a vicious dog hardly contained by its leash. She was searching for something, someone, though trying to appear as not so. Beautiful and terrifying; she sat like a statue.

  She sat alone at a table for two. Upon the table sat two teacups and her hands, thumb rubbing anxiously against her pointer finger. Whoever she was waiting for was running late. You could almost feel her stress from the other side of the room.

  You stood, dripping on the stairs, gazing at her as though her presence had put you into a trance. 

  In her subtle observation her eyes met yours. One brow quirked and the corners of her lips teased a smile but rose for no longer than a second as her expression was replaced with disappointment.

  Your heart sank in your chest at her response. Of course, you were not who she was waiting for… but you suddenly wished you were. 

  How it would feel to glide across the floor, your presence causing a joyous laughter to escape her red lips. Falling into her arms upon returning home after a long day, her scent, surely rich and warm, enveloping you like a second embrace. Seeing that light that was missing from her eyes appear when yours met. Being the reason for a flutter in her heart.

  Someone else came up the stairs. They were clumsy, brushing against you by accident. When they muttered a quick response you turned to look to wave it off. 

  You glanced back towards the woman afterwards but her gaze was once again averted, staring aimlessly to the left at the clock.

  You couldn’t help but wonder who it was she was waiting for. Whoever it was��� you envied.

  Not being one for tea, you decided to camp at the bar on the other side of the stairs until the heavy rain outside stopped.

  You didn’t quite feel like drinking so you ordered something light and took a seat at the edge of the bar. Your mind was focused on other things. Your eyes continuously flicked across the stairs to the woman, taking her in like a bad habit, something you didn’t realize you were doing until it was already done.

  She never met your gaze again, but you could still read what was festering in her eyes. The time passed from 6:30, to 7:00, and eventually 7:15. That well composed mask upon her delicate face began to crack the longer she waited. Her lips twitched into a line, held flat so as to not reveal an ounce of weakness. The hope in her eyes was now dim and her shoulders had slumped. You did not know her but you did know this look was an uncharacteristic one.

  You weren’t one to intrude on others business but something told you to go over there. It took all of your restraint not to, though that faded the second you saw her stand up.

  Worried she was going to leave your life forever, you rose to your feet as well. The woman glanced towards the stairs with solemn eyes and her hand rested on the handle of her bag. Though she decided against leaving as she turned instead towards the ladies room.

  It was then that you saw something fall from her chest. 

  Abandoning your drink, you crossed to the other side of the large room. 

  There it laid, calling you, beckoning you like a siren to a sailor, glistening silver upon the floor. It was the brooch that had once been pinned to her top, a lilac branch, one of the pair. It was cool against your palm as you scooped it up, whispering to you the words of mocking love.

  Without a second thought, you followed the woman.

  You found her in the bathroom, standing in front of the sink. One hand gripped the counter, red nails tapping one at a time. The other was holding a handkerchief to her eyes, dabbing lightly at the edge. She didn’t flinch when the door opened, nor did she look your way, but she slowly lowered the cloth and took a deep breath as though expecting your interference.

  “Excuse me.” When had your voice become this shaky? You sounded infantile, like a toy who’s squeaker was not fully completed in the factory, rendering you permanently different, lesser than. You cleared your throat and straightened your shoulders. “You dropped this.”

  The woman finally turned her head and her gaze fell upon the item in your hand. Her brows lifted in surprise, then lowered as a shaky but relieved smile spread across her lips. She reached a hand out, hovering above yours for a beat.

  “Thank you.” She breathed. Her voice was like heaven, both smooth and rough, like sand submerged beneath water, too much of one to be the other. If her voice was the last you would hear before dying, you would have willingly died on the spot.

  Her gentle fingers brushed against yours as they clasped around the brooch and lifted it from your palm. She held it to the light and examined it. Then she breathed a sigh. “It was a gift from my grandmother. I would be sorry to lose it.”

  “I can imagine. It’s beautiful.” You nodded in agreement.

  She must’ve mistaken the look of amazement in your eyes to be for the accessory rather than for her presence as she held it out to you. “Though I would not regret it if someone else could love it better than I… would you like it?”

  Your eyes widened. You didn’t know this woman at all, yet here she was, offering you a family heirloom. It was kind. Too kind.

  “Oh, no, I couldn’t.” You pulled your hand away just as she tried to replace the brooch where it had been snug against your palm. 

  Her smile faded. “You’re sure? It compliments your complexion…” She held the brooch up as if studying the way it contrasted with your face. Her lips perked up again and she offered it once more. “Please, take it. You would use it much more than I ever would.” Then she gingerly touched the other brooch that still clung to her jacket. “I still have one, I don’t need two.”

  In any other situation you would have refused, but the pleading look on her face was shockingly fierce, as if her eyes alone were saying “if you do not take it, I won’t be able to live,” so after a beat of hesitation, you took it.

  The woman's mouth curved into a full smile this time once you accepted her gift and she let out a pleased sigh. She watched quietly as you attempted to pin the brooch to your jacket but fumbled.

  “Let me…” Her touch was as soft as her murmur as she pinned it for you, fingers lingering upon the fabric a moment longer than necessary. She took you in and then nodded before her hand found your back and turned you to face the mirror.

  She had meant for you to look at herself, but your eyes couldn’t tear from her. She stood a few inches taller than you, elegant and poised like a statue, though beneath that she emanated a strange warmth. You could see how the corners of her eyes glistened as though damp but her face was still put together.  The proud smile didn’t quite meet her eyes, though they didn’t look as hopeless.

  “Now we match.” She declared, moving her second brooch to match the position of yours. The silver was set just above your heart, barely concealing its racing beat. 

  “We do…” You let your own smile lift your lips as your gaze fell to the item. You traced a finger over it for a moment, then looked back up at her. “Thank you so much.”

  “No, thank you. It always felt selfish to have two of them but my sister refused to take the other half. I was going to offer it to There–...” Her voice dropped an octave before cutting off so suddenly you felt startled. She raised a hand to pinch the bridge of her nose. “Forgive me, I’m rambling.”

  “No, it’s alright.” You shook your head and took a step back to be across from her once more. “I don’t mind. I ramble too.”

  The woman chuckled. “You’re very kind.” She sighed again, softer, but sadder. Then she stretched her neck and held her left hand out. Her ring finger was bare, though there was the slight indent from years of a previously worn ring. “Carol.”

  “Y/n.”

  “Y/n…” Carol repeated your name like a praise. She tilted her chin up ever so slightly that you had to strain to see the movement. Her fingers were tight around yours, giving your hand a firm squeeze and shake before pulling away. “Forgive me once again, I should return to my seat…” Her voice clung to the lower sadness like a sponge, resignation clear in her tone, as well as the heavy disappointment. She knew whoever she was waiting for was not coming yet she could not force herself to leave.

  You didn’t want her to leave either. You didn’t think you could bear to never see her again, but seeing that expression of pure sadness on her face was not a sight you wished to see either. “Are you waiting for somebody?” You asked like you clearly hadn’t noticed.

  “Yes, and no.” Carol began to leave the bathroom, opening the door with a paper towel before tossing it away. If she had wanted you gone, she wouldn’t have held the door open for you, so you stayed a few steps behind. “I was supposed to meet somebody but… I believe they got held up.” Her alarming, bitter tone lasted only a second before easing once more. “Or… perhaps I scared her away.”

  Had she not looked upon the verge of tears you would’ve pressed for further answers but you backed off. She glanced back at you, a spark of relief visible for a flash.

  Carol took her seat at her table. “Thank you again, Y/n.” She said, clearly as a sign for you to leave on the off chance her plus one showed up. Being dismissed by the goddess herself wasn’t a pleasant feeling but you took the hint and turned to leave.

  But you hardly got a few steps when she spoke again.

  “Actually… I don’t believe she’s going to come.” Carol’s voice was soft, eyes glued to the chairs in front of her. “You can sit if you like–if it wouldn’t be too much trouble.”

  “Not at all.” You kept your breath of relief as quiet as you could, then joined her at the table.

  The tea had gone cold so she tried to order another kettle but when you gently declined she ordered you a water instead. Then she leaned back into her chair with a heavy sigh.

  “I’m relieved you stayed, though I cannot help but feel as if I’m weighing you down. I don’t mean to be so... depressed.” Carol spat the last word like a curse, for once, not meeting your gaze. She’d gone from strong in the bathroom to a weaker, more drained version of herself in only seconds. “I appreciate your company, truly.”

  “Don’t worry, I’m not offended.” Your reassurance was enough to soften her eyes slightly, though you wished to do more. You wanted to be the one to hold her after a long day; the one to feel her soft, shaky breath against the crook of your neck after crying; the one whom she would go to when she needed comfort. Instead of throwing your arms around her, you glanced down at the chair you were sitting in, wondering whose place you’d taken.

  “Therese.” Carol whispered softly as though she could read your mind. “She–We were close. I wronged her, and I wanted to make it up to her but… I suppose it was foolish to think she would come after everything I did.” Her self-deprecating chuckle pierced your heart like a blade. “I deserve this rejection, though that does not make it easy to endure.”

  If you were sitting just an inch or so closer you would have grabbed her hand and held it tight, but her hands were clasped tight in her lap, lips again drawn into a thin line. In this lighting you could truly see the depth of emotions in her gaze. Her eyes were deep, weathered oceans, full of silver tears. 

  You chose not to touch the topic of Therese. “What are you doing after this?”

  “F-fuck if I know…” The curse slipped from Carol's mouth without notice. She was too busy trying to subtly brush away the tear that had fallen down her left cheek. In the end she rested her cheek into her palm and flicked the droplet away. “I have a dinner at the Oak Room at 9:00, but I don’t think I can go anymore.”

  You nodded softly in understanding. 

  “Truth be told, I’m not quite sure what to do with myself now.” Carol’s voice was even softer, more fragile, like glass balanced on its edge. Her hand was hovering in front of her mouth as though to brace the sobs she felt were about to come on. “Therese was… You’ll think of me foolish for saying so but… she was most of all I had left–.” Carol’s voice broke. She was devestated.

  If someone were to ask either of you two what happened next, they would be let down, for the next few minutes felt like a blur, a hazy dream forgotten upon waking, only the memories of how it felt remaining.

  The rain had stilled when you led a sniffling Carol out onto the street, taking caution like she was a whistle about to blow. She followed your lead like a lost dog as you began to walk at her side. In the cold but fresh air of the street she let her tears flow freely. You guided her silently, with only a hand on her back.

  It was on the only dry bench–a seat hidden beneath an overhang in one of the alleyway gardens–that Carol confessed it all to you. She was a rich, poised and stoic woman, but here, with a stranger, she was nothing more than a grieving mother and a sorrow-stricken lover. The truth poured from her lips as though she’d been holding it in her whole life to tell you, and you soaked it up as though you would never be watered again.

  You did not hold her but your firm hand upon her shoulder brought her more comfort than you would ever know. By the time her sobs were no longer ferocious roars, but more soft sniffles, she settled against your side, cheek slowly meeting your shoulder. 

  She’d given up everything for Therese, and what was she left with? Well, she had Abby, she told you all about Abby. But Abby wasn’t here right now. Nobody was, except for you. 

  “And without you…” Carol rasped softly, nudging a few stubborn tears off their tracks. Her voice hitched but she pushed through it. “I would be lost, truly… I don’t know what to do.” She wasn’t even sure if life was worth living in this foul solitude she’d doomed herself to. 

  “I’m sorry.”

  “Don’t be… I’ve done so much wrong, I deserve this.”  

  “That doesn’t mean I have to sit back and pretend I enjoy it.” You muttered, drawing a weak, hoarse laugh from Carol’s lips.

  “Look at you…” She mused softly, shoulders sinking with a heavy exhale. “You’re a little fighter… an angel.”

  “Angels aren’t fighters.”

  “Aren’t they?”

  You frowned, then smiled a little at her comment. Carol stayed against your side. If anything, she slumped further into you as your arm slowly crept around her shoulders. Your eyes finally tore from her down to your watch. “It’s past 9:00…”

  “Forget the dinner. I didn’t want to go anyway.” Carol shook her head like a defiant child. Her breakdown had wrung her out, soaking out whatever inkling of strength she had left and rendering her limp. “I couldn’t…”

  “That’s alright. I don’t enjoy big dinners either.” You whispered, trying to get a little smile out of her. “Though, what will you do now?”

  “Now?” Carol mumbled, lifting her head. Her eyes, no longer bloodshot and pained, but softly dull, flicked to yours. “I’m not quite sure.” She sounded baffled as though she truly didn’t know what to do, and that this was her first time ever feeling this way.

  “But you’re free, though?”

  “Free… yes, you could say I’m free.”

  You smiled softly at the woman at your side. You patted her back gently, leaving your hand there. “I know a quiet diner nearby. It’s nothing posh but it’s good.”

  “Tell me more.”

  “What else is there to say?”

  You both laughed quietly and Carol hummed.

  “I’d like that.” Despite her words, her head found its way back to your shoulder. “Are they open late?”

  “24 hours.”

  “Good… I think I’d like to stay here...” Carol whispered softly, eyes fluttering closed. The strain left her brows with a sigh and the tight line of her lips softened into a tired smile. “Just a little longer…”

  “Alright.” You whispered in agreement.

  Carol’s smile grew and she reached for your other hand, gripping it just as she had earlier that night, the same firm grip, but this time, she didn’t let go. She just sank further into your side, breath gently tickling your neck. 

  You didn’t mind waiting to eat. You would wait an eternity for anything she asked. With a content sigh of your own, you settled down beside her and rubbed your thumb in soft circles over the back of her hand, your cheek against her head.

[otherworlds-inside-my-mind]

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Literature

A

Age of Fire - E. E. Knight

Adventure Lit their Star - Kenneth Allsop

Alien in a Small Town - Jim Cleaveland

Alien Chronicles (Literature) - Deborah Chester

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Animorphs - K. A. Applegate

Am an Owl - Martin Hocke

At Winters End - Robert Silverberg

Avonoa - H.R.B. Collotzi

Astrid and Cerulean: A Parrot Fantasy - Parasol Marshall-Crowley

A Wolf for a Spell - Karah Sutton

The African Painted Wolf Novels - Alexander Kendziorski

The Alchemist's Cat - Robin Jarvis

The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents - Terry Pratchet

The Amity Incident - C. M. Weller

The Ancient Solitary Reign - Martin Hocke

The Animals of Farthing Wood series - Colin Dann

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Author of Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics - Ursula K. Le Guin

A Magical Cat Named Kayla: Whiskers of Enchantment -Carlos Juárez [AI Cover]*

The Animal Story Book - Various Authors [Editor: Andrew Lang]

Abenteuer im Korallenriff - Antonia Michaelis [DE]

B

Bambi: A life in the forest & Bambi Children - Felix Salten

Bamboo Kingdom series - Erin Hunter

Bazil Broketail - Christopher Rowley

Beak of the Moon & Dark of the Moon - Philip Temple

Bears of the Ice series - Kathryn Lasky

Beasts of New York - Jon Evans

Beautiful Joe - Margaret Marshall Saunders

Beyond Acacia Ridge - Amy Clare Fontaine

Birddom - Clive Woodall

Bird Brain - Guy Kennaway

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Blitzcat - Robert Westall

Blizzard Winds - Paul Koch

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Braver: A Wombat's Tale - Suzanne Selfors & Walker Ranson

Bravelands series- Erin Hunter

Broken Fang - Rutherford Montgomery

Bunnicula series - Deborah Howe & James Howe

Burning Stars - Rurik Redwolf

A Black Fox Running - Brian Carter

A Blue So Loud - Tuesday

The Ballard of The Belstone Fox - David Rook

The Bear - James Curwood

The Bees - Laline Paull

The Biography of a Silver Fox - Ernest Thompson Seton

The Blue Cat of Castle Town - Catherine Cate Coblentz

The Book Of Chameleons - José Eduardo Agualusa

The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin Jr.

The Book of Night with Moon - Diane Duane

The Books of the Named series - Clare Bell

The Bug Wars - Robert Asprin

The Builders - Daniel Polansky

C

Call of the wild - Jack London

Callanish - William Horwood

Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin

Cat Diaries: Secret Writings of the MEOW Society - Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey & Laurie Myers

Cat House - Michael Peak

Cat Pack - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Cats in the city of Plague - A.L Marlow

Celestial Heir series - Chester Young

Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

Chet and Bernie mysteries - Spencer Quinn

Chia The Wildcat - Joyce stranger

Child of the Wolves - Elizabeth Hall

Clarice the Brave - Lisa McMann

Cry of the Wild - Charles Foster

Coyote's Wild Home - Barbara Kingsolver; Lily Kingsolver & Paul Mirocha

Coyote Series - Michael Bergey

Crocuta - Katelyn Rushe

Coorinna: A Novel of the Tasmanian Uplands - Erle Wilson

Cujo - Steven King

The Calatians Series - Tim Susman

The Cats of Roxville station - Jean Craighead Georde

The Chanur Novels - C. J. Cherryh

The Cold Moons - Aeron Clement

The Color of Distance || Through Alien Eyes - Amy Thomson

The Conquerors - Timothy Zahn

The Council of Cats - R. J. F.

The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden

The Crimson Torch - Angela Holder

The Crossbreed - Allan Eckert

The Crucible of Time - John Brunner

D

Darkeye series - Lydia West

Deadlands: The Hunted - Skye Melki-Wegner

Demon of Undoing - Andrea I. Alton

Desert Dog - Jim Kjelgaard

Dinotopia - James Gurney, Alan Dean Foster

Doglands - Tim Willocks

Dimwood Forest series - Avi

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray - Ann M. Martin

A Dog's Porpoise Duology - M. C. Ross

Dogs of the Drowned City - Dayna Lorentz

A Dog's Purpose series - W. Bruce Cameron

Dolphin Way: Rise of the Guardians - Mark Caney

Domino - Kia Heavey

Douglas' Diary - Andrew John

DragonFire series - Lewis Jones Davies

Dragon Fires Rising - Marc Secchia

Dragon Hoard and Other Tales of Faerie - Cathleen Townsend

Dragons and Skylines series - Rowan Silver

Dragon Prayers - M.J. McPike

Dragons of Mother Stone series - Melissa McShane

Dragon Girls Series - Maddy Mara

The Deptford Mice series - Robin Jarvis

The Dogs of the Spires series - Ethan Summers

The Dragons of Solunas series - H. Leighton Dickson

The Duncton Chronicles - William Horwood

The Destiny of Dragons - J.F.R. Coates

The Diary Of A House Cat - Ileana Dorobantu

Dogtown - Katherine Applegate & Gennifer Choldenko

Die schwarze Tigerin - Peer Martin [DE]

Die weiße Wölfin - Vanessa Walder [DE]

Die Wilden Hunde Von Pompeii - Helmut Krausser [DE]

Das wilde Mäh - Vanessa Walder [DE]

E

The Eyes and the Impossible - Dave Eggers

Eclosión - Arturo Balseiro [ES]

Ein Seehund findet nach Hause - Antonia Michaelis [DE]

F

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl

Faithful Ruslan - Georgi Vladimov

Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles - Clem Martini

Feathers & Flames series - John Bailey

Felidae series (1) - Akif Pirinçci

Fifteen Rabbits - Felix Salten

Fire, Bed & Bone - Henrietta Branford

Fire of the Phoenix - Azariah Jade

Fluke - James Herbert

Firefall series - Peter Watts

Firebringer - David Clement-Davies

Flush: A Biography Book - Virginia Woolf

Fox - Glyn Frewer

Foxcraft series - Inbali Iserles

Frightful’s Mountain - Jeanie Craighead George

Frost dancers: A story of hares - Garry Kilworth

The Familiars series - Adam Jay Epstein

The Fifth - Saylor Ferguson

The Firebringer series - Meredith Ann Pierce

The Fox and The Hound - Daniel P. Mannix

The Forges of Dawn - E. Kinsey

Freundschaft im Regenwald - Peer Martin [DE]

(1) Felidae's Author - Akif Pirinçci - is known to be a Xenophobic, Anti-muslim, Anti-Lgbt and Extreme Right-Wing guy (A N4zi by his on words). Won't be going onto details just know he has a non-fiction work called "Germany Gone Mad: The Crazy Cult around Women, Homosexuals and Immigrants." His works has been out of print ever since.

G

Guardian Cats and the lost books of Alexandria - Rahma Krambo

Guardians of Ga'Hoole series - Kathryn Lasky

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Griffin Quest - Sophie Torro

Gryphon Insurrection series - K. Vale Nagle

The Ghost and It's Shadow - Shaun Hick

The Golden Eagle - Robert Murphy

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

The Good Dog - Newbery Medalist

The Guardian Herd series - Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

The Great Timbers - James A. Kane

H

Haunt Fox - Jim Kjelgaard

Haven: A Small Cat's Big Adventure - Megan Wagner Lloyd

Heavenly Horse series - Mary Stanton

Hive - Ischade Bradean

Horses of Dawn series - Kathryn Lasky

House of Tribes - Garry Kilworth

Hunter's Moon/Foxes of First dark - Garry Kilworth

Hunters Universe series - Abigail Hilton

A Hare at Dark Hollow - Joyce Stranger

The Hundred and One Dalmatians & The Starlight Barking - Dodie Smith

The Hunt for Elsewhere - Beatrice Vine

Hollow Kingdom Duology - Kira Jane Buxton

I

I am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki

I, Scheherezade: Memoirs of a Siamese Cat - Douglass Parhirst

In the Long Dark - Brian Carter

The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford

Im Reich der Geparde - Kira Gembri [DE]

J

Joe Grey series - Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach & Russell Munson

Julie of the Wolves - Jeanie Craighead George

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en

K

Kävik the Wolf Dog - Walt Morey

Kazan duology - James Curwood

Kine Saga - Alan Lloyd

Kona's Song - Louise Searl

The Killers - Daniel P. Mannix

Kindred of the Wild - Charles G.D Roberts

König der Bären - Vanessa Walder [DE]

L

Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight

Last of the Curlews - Fred Bodsworth

Lazy Scales - D.M. Gilmore

Legends of Blood series - Ethan Summers

A Legend of Wolf Song - George Stone

Luna the Lone Wolf - Forest Wells

Lupus Rex - John Carter Cash

Lutapolii: White Dragon of the South - Deryn Pittar

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

The Labrador Pact & The Last Family in England - Matt Haig

The Last Dogs - Christopher Holt

The Last Eagle - Daniel P. Mannix

The Last Great Auk - Allan Eckert

The Last Monster on Earth - L.J. Davies

The Life Story of a Fox - J. C. Tregarthen

The Lost Rainforest series - Eliot Schrefer & Emilia Dziubak

The Lost Domain - Martin Hocke

The Last Whales: A Novel - Lloyd Abbey

M

Mammoth Trilogy - Stephen Baxter

Manxmouse: The Mouse Who Knew No Fear - Paul Gallico

Marney the Fox - Scott Goodall & John Stokes

Mattie: The story of a hedgehog - Norman Adams, & G.D. Griffiths

Matriarch: Elephant vs. T-Rex - Roz Gibson

Midnight's Sun - Garry Kilworth

Migon - P.C. Keeler

Minado The Devil - Dog - Erle Wilson

Monkey Wars - Richard Kurti

Mouseheart Series - Lisa Fiedler

The Mistmantle chronicles - M.I. McAllister

The Mountain Lion - Robert Murphy

The Mouse Butcher - Dick King-Smith

The Mouse Protectors Series - Olly Barrett

Maru - Die Reise der Elefanten - Kira Gembri [DE]

N

New Springtime series - Robert Silverberg

Nightshade Chronicles - Hilary Wagner

Nugly - M. C. Ross

Nuru und Lela - Das Wunder der Wildnis - Kira Gembri [DE]

O

Old One-Toe - Michel-Aimé Baudouy

Of Birds and Branches - Frances Pauli

Outlaw Red - Jim Kjelgaard

The Old Stag - Henry Williamson

The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate

P

Painted Flowers - Caitlin Grizzle

Pax & Pax: Journey Home - Sara Pennypacker

Petrichor - C.E. Wright

The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams

The Pit - Elaine Ramsay

Pride Wars Series - Matt Laney

A Pup Called Trouble - Bobbie Pyron

The Peregryne Falcon - Robert Murphy

Pork and Others - Cris Freddi

Q

Queen in the Mud - Maari

Quill and Claw series - Kathryn Brown

R

Rak: The story of an Urban Fox - Jonathon Guy

Ramblefoot by Ken Kaufman

Rats of Nimh series - Robert C. O'Brien

Raven Quest - Sharon Stewart

Ravenspell Series - David Farland

Raptor Red - Robert T. Bakker

Red Fox - Charles G. D. Roberts

Redwall series - Brian Jacques

Rose in a Storm - Jon Katz

Rufus - Rutherford Montgomery

Run With the Wind series - Tom McCaughren

Runt - Marion Dane Baeur

Rustle in the Grass - Robin Hawdon

Rusty - Joyce Stranger

The Remembered War series - Robert Vane

The Rescuers series - Margery Sharp

The Red Stranger - David Stephen

The River Singers & The Rising - Tom Moorhouse

The Road Not Taken - Harry Turtledove,

The Running Foxes - Joyce Stranger

Revier der Raben - Vanessa Walder [DE]

S

Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson

Scary Stories for Young Foxes Duology - Christian McKay Heidicker

Scaleshifter series - Shelby Hailstone Law

Shadow Walkers - Russ Chenoweth

Scream of the White Bears - David Clement-Davies

Seekers saga - Erin Hunter

Serpentia Series - Frances Pauli

Shadows in the Sky - Pete Cross

Shark Wars Series - EJ Altbacker

Silverwing series - Kenneth Oppel

Silver Brumby series - Elyne Mitchell

Sirius - Olaf Stapledon

SkyTalons Series - Sophie Torro

Solo's Journey - Joy Aiken Smith

Sky Hawk - Gill Lewis

Snow Dog - Jim Kjelgaard

Song of the River - Soinbhe Lally

Spirit of the West series - Kathleen Duey

Survivors series - Erin Hunter

Stray - A.N Wilson

String Lug the Fox - David Stephen

Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas - Rhonda Parrish & Co.

Swordbird series - Nancy Yi Fan

The Sheep-Pig - Dick King-Smith

The Sight & Fell - David Clement-Davies

The Silent Sky - Allan Eckert

The Silver Claw - Garry Kilworth

The Stoner Eagles - William Horwood

The Stink Files - Jennifer L. Holm & Jonathan Hamel

The Snowcat Prince - Dina Norlund

The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a dog called Leal - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a Red Deer - John Fortescue

The Summer King Chronicles - Jess E. Owen

Schogul, Rächer der Tiere - Birgit Laqua [DE]

Stadt der Füchse - Vanessa Walder [DE]

T

Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Three Bags Full - Leonnie Swann

Thy Servant a Dog - Rudyard Kipling

Tomorrow's Sphinx - Clare Bell

Torn Ear - Geoffrey Malone

Thor - Wayne Smith

Trickster -  Tom Moorhouse

Two Dogs and a Horse - Jim Kjelgaard

The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

The Trilogy of the Ants - Bernard Werber

The Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White

The Tusk That Did the Damage - Tania James

The Tygrine cat - Inbali Iserles

U

Ultimate Dragon Saga - Graham Edwards

Under the Skin - Michel Faber

V

Varjak Paw duology - S.F Said

Vainqueur the Dragon series - Maxime J. Durand

W

War Bunny series - Christopher St. Jhon

War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

War Queen - Illthylian

Warrior Cats series - Erin Hunter

Watership Down/Tales of Watership Down - Richard Adams

Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long

Welkin Weasels series - Garry Kilworth

West of Eden - Harry Harrison

Whalesong Trilogy - Robert Siegel

Whale - Jeremy Lucas

Whispers in the Forest - Barbara Coultry

White Wolf - Henrietta Branford

White Fang - Jack London

White Fox Series - Jiatong Chen

Wings trilogy - Don Conroy

Wild Lone - Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton

Willow Tree Wood Series - J. S. Betts

Wings of Fire series - Tui T. Sutherland

Winterset Hollow - Jonathan Edward Durham

Wolf: The Journey Home | Hungry for Home: A Wolf Odyssey - Asta Bowen

Wolf Brother series - Michelle Paver

Wolf Chronicles - Dorothy Hearst

Wolves of the Beyond Series - Kathryn Lasky

Woodstock Saga - Michael Tod

A Whale of the Wild - Rosanne Parry

A Wolf Called Wander - Rosanne Parry

The Waters of Nyra - Kelly Michelle Baker

The Wolves of Elementa series - Sophie Torro

The Wolves of Time - William Horwood

The Wolf Chronicles Series - Teng Rong

The Way of Kings - Louise Searl

The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy

The White Fox/Singing Tree - Brian Parvin

The White Puma - Ronald Lawrence

The Wild Road & The Golden Cat - Gabriel King

The Wildings & The Thousand names of darkness - Nilanjana Roy

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Wind Protect You - Pat Murphy

The Wolves of Paris - Daniel P. Mannix

Y

Yellow eyes - Rutherford Montgomery

The Year Of The Dinosaur - Edwin H. Colbert

Z

Zones of Thought series - Vernor Vinge

Z-Verse series by R.H

Comic Books/Graphic Novels

Animosity - Marguerite Bennett

Age of Reptiles - Ricardo Delgado

Legend - Samuel Sattin Koehler

Mouse Guard - David Petersen

Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon

Rover Red Charlie - Garth Ennis & Michael Dipascale

Stray Dogs - Tony Fleecs & Trish Forstner

We3 - Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

Beasts of Burden - Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson

LOBO: Canine Crusader of the Metal Wasteland - Macs-World-Ent

The Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats - Neil Gaiman

Animal Castle - Xavier Dorison & Felix Delep

Blacksad Series - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Scurry - Mac Smith

The Snowcat Prince - Dina Norlund

Rankless - Maggie Lightheart

Animal Pound - Tom King & Peter Gross

Animal Castle - Xavier Dorison & Felix Delep

BlackSad - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Picture Books

Steve the Dung Beetle: On a Roll - Susan R. Stoltz & Melissa Bailey

Hot Dog - Doug Salati

The Rock from the Sky - Jon Klassen

Whoever Heard of a Flying Bird? - David Cunliffe & Ivan Barrera

A Cat Named Whiskers - Shana Gorian

Ocean Tales Children's Books Series - Sarah Cullen & Zuzana Sbodová

Jake the Growling Dog - Samantha Shannon

Indie Written Works

Fins Above Series - MIROYMON

Journey of Atlas - Journey of Atlas

Webcomics

A

Africa - Arven92

After Honour - genstaelens

Awka - Nothofagus-obliqua

Arax - Azany

Amarith - Eredhys

The Apple's Echo - Helianthanas

Alone - Magpeyes

B

The Blackblood Alliance - KayFedewa

The Betrothed - Kibisca

Black Tyrant - Zapp-BEAST

Blue - HunterBeingHunted

Beast Tags - TheRoomPet

Spy - Utahraptor93

Be Reflected in my Eyes - Aquene-lupetta

C

Carry your voice - TacoBella

Caelum Sky - ALRadeck

Crescent Wing - Mikaley

Crescent Moonlight - AnimalCrispy

City of Trees - SanjanaIndica

Corpse - doeprince/ratt

D

Darbi - Sherard Jackson

The Devils Demons - Therbis

Doe of Deadwood - Songdogx

Dyten - Therbis

Desperation - PracticelImagination

E

Equus Siderae - Dalgeor

Empyrean - Leonine-Skies

Enchantment - FeralWolf1234

F

Fox Fires - Pipilia

Forget me Not - Nitteh

Fjeld - Dachiia

Felinia - Rainy-bleu

G

Golden Shrike - doeprince/ratt

Ghost of the Gulag - David Derrick Jr.

H

Horse Age - BUGHS-22

Hiraeth - AFlameThatNeverDies

Half-Blood - majkaria

Horns of Light - ThatMoonySky

I

I Hope So - Detective Calico

The Ivory Walk - TacoBella

I'm not Ready - Wolfkingdom372

J

Jet and Harley - doeprince

K

Kestrel Island - Silverphoenix

Kin - Fienduredraws

KuroMonody - IrisBdz

Krystal - Nitteh

The King of Eyes - CloverTailedFox09

L

Legend of Murk - Azany

LouptaOmbra - Loupta Ombra (OngakuK, MlleNugget & joeypony)

Leopards bring rain - Kyriuar

M

Mazes of Filth - petitecanine

Minimal All You Are - mike-princeofstars

N

Nine Riders - SpiriMuse

No Man's Land - TacoBella

Never seen the Day - R3dk3y

Norra - shadowmirku

O

Obsidian Fire - SolinaBright

Oren's Forge - teagangavet

Off-White - Akreon

Out Of Time - IndiWolf

R

Rabbit on the Moon - Songdogx & Nitteh

The Rabbit Hole - Detrah

RunningWolf Mirari - Mirella Menciassi

Raptor - ElenPanter

Redriver - FireTheWolf777

Repeat - Songdogx

The Rabbit's Foot - riri_arts

S

Scurry - Mac Smith

Simbol - Zoba22

Spirit Lock - Animal Crispy

The Sylcoe - Denece-the-sylcoe

Sunder - Aurosoul

T

Tainted Hearts - Therbis

Taxicat - owlburrow

That's Freedom Guyra - Nothofagus-obliqua

Three Corners: A Kitten's Story - Lara Frizzell

Tofauti Sawa - TheCynicalHound

Two of a Kind - ProjectNao

To Catch a Star - SleepySundae

U

Under the Ash Tree - ChevreLune

Uninvited - Nothofagus-obliqua

W

Water Wolves - LuckyStarhun

What Lurks Beneath - ArualMeow

Water Wolves - LuckyStarhun

Wild Wolves - Lombarsi

White Tail - SleepySundae

What's your damage? - FrostedCanid

The Wolves of Chena - Yamis-Art

Waves Always Crash - Hellhunde

The Whale's Heart - Possumteeeth [Warriors Fancomic]

Manga

A Centaur's Life - Murayama Kei

Beastars - Paru Itagaki

Chi's Sweet Home - Kanata Konami

Ginga Series [Silverfang] - Yoshihiro Takahashi

Gon - Masashi Tanaka

Houseki no Kuni | Land of the Lustrous - Haruko Ichikawa

Inugami-Kai - Masaya Hokazono

The Jungle Emperor - Osamu Tezuka

My roommate is a cat - Minatsuki & Asu Futatsuya

Crimsons – The Scarlet Navigators of the Ocean - Kanno Takanori

Rooster Fighter - Shū Sakuratani

Simoun - Shō Aikawa

The Fox & Little Tanuki - Mi Tagawa

Yuria 100 Shiki - Nobuto Hagio

Massugu ni Ikou - Kira

Cat Soup

The Amazing 3

Cat + Gamer - Wataru Nadatani

Animated Series

#

101 Dalmatians: The series & 101 Dalmatian Street

A

A Polar Bear in Love

B

Baja no Studio

Bagi: Monster of Mighty Nature

Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel

Bluey

C

Centaurworld (2021)

Chirin's Bell

Chironup no Kitsune

D

Dokkun Dokkun

E

F

G

Gamba no Bouken

H

Hazbin Hotel

I

Invader ZIM

Inu to Neko Docchi mo Katteru to Mainichi Tanoshii

J

K

King Fang

Koisuru Shirokuma

Kemushi no Boro

Kewang Lantian

Konglong Baobei: Shiluo De Wenming

L

Little Polar Bear

M

Manxmouse's Great Activity

Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken

Mikan Enikki

Massugu ni Ikou -

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Mikan Enikki

N

O

Ore, Tsushima

Okashi na Sabaku no Suna to Manu

P

Primal

Polar Bear Cafe

Q

R

Robotboy (2005)

S

Seton Doubutsuki: Risu no Banner

Simoun

T

The Amazing 3

Tottoko Hamtarou

The Adventure of Qiqi and Keke

Tama & Friends: Third Street Story

U

V

W

Watership Down (2018) & Watership Down (1999)

What's Michael?

Wolf's Rain

Wonder Pets

X

Y

Live-Action/Hybrid show

Fantasy High

A Crown of Candy 

Burrow's End

Good Omens

Webseries

Dinosauria - Dead Sound

My Pride - tribbleofdoom

Whitefall - Chylk

The Stolen Hope - Galemtido

Dragon's Blood - FluffyGinger

Helluva Boss -

Murder Drones -

Short Films

A

Alone a wolf's winter

B

Baja's Studio

Beautiful Name

Burrow

C

Cat Piano

Cat Soup

Chicken Little

D

E

F

Far From the Tree

Ferdinand the Bull

Frypan Jiisan

G

Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji

Gaitou to Neko

H

Hao Mao Mimi

Houzi Dian Bianpao

I

J

Je T'aime

K

Kitbull

L

Lava

Lambert the sheepish lion

Laoshu Jia Nu

M

Mahoutsukai no Melody

Monmon the Water Spider

Mushroom - Nakagawa Sawako

N

O

Of Mice and Clockworks

Osaru no Tairyou

P

Piper

Q

R

Robin Robin

Rusuban

S

Sauria - Dead Sound

Smash and Grab

Street of Crocodiles

She and Her Cat

Space Neko Theater

Shiroi Zou | White Elephant

Shi | Food

Sugar, With a Story

Straw-saurus NEO

T

The Chair

The Blue Umbrella

The Shell Shocked Egg

The Dog Door

The Dog In The Alley

That's Why They Were Made

U

Ushigaeru

V

W

With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun

X

Y

Z

Zhui Shu

Animated Films

#

101 Dalmatians duology

A

A Monkey's Tale (1999)

All Dogs go to Heaven

The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin

Alpha and Omega saga

An American Tail

The Aristocats

Antz

Animals United

Annabelle's Wish (1997)

Alakazam the great (1960)

B

Back Outback

Balto

Bambi / Bambi II

Bolt

Brother Bear / Brother Bear II

A Bug's Life

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

Bee Movie

The Brave Little Toaster

Birds of a Feather

Back to the Forest

C

Cars

Chance

Chicken Run

D

Dinosaur

Speckles: The Tarbosaurus || Dino King: Journey to Fire Mountain

Dumbo

DC League of Super-Pets

E

Elemental

F

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Planet

Felidae

The Fox and the Hound

Finding Nemo/Finding Dory

Free Birds

The Fearless Four

G

The Good Dinosaur

Ghost in the Shell

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

H

Happy Feet/Happy Feet Two

Help! I'm a Fish

Home on the Range

Hoero! Bun Bun Movie

Hokkyoku no Muushika Miishika

I

Ice Age Franchise

Isle of Dogs

I Am T-Rex

J

Jungledyret Hugo

K

Koati

The King of Tibetan Antelope

Kuma no Gakkou trilogy

L

Lady and the Tramp

The Land Before time Franchise

The Last Unicorn

Leafy, A Hen in the wild

Little Big Panda

The Lion King Franchise

Lucky and Zorba

Lilo & Stitch

Luca

Last Day of the Dinosaurs

M

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marona's Fantastic Tale

Millionaire Dogs

My Friend Tyranno

Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants || Minuscule - Mandibles from Far Away

Mouse and His Child

N

Nezumi Monogatari: George to Gerald no Bouken

O

Oliver & Company

One Stormy Night

Over the Edge

P

Padak

The Plague Dogs

Pompoko

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro

Pipi Tobenai Hotaru

R

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

Rango

Ratatouille

Raven the Little Rascal

Reynard the Fox (1989)

Rio

Robots

Rock a Doodle

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998)

The Rabbi’s Cat

S

Samson and Sally

Sahara

The Secret of Nihm

The Secret Life of Pets/The Secret Life of Pets II

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Sheep & Wolves

The Seventh Brother

A Stork's Journey

Stowaways on the Ark

T

A Turtle's Tale

The One and Only Ivan

Toy Story

Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)

The Trumpet of the Swan

The Enchanted Journey

U

Unico

Underdog

V

Vuk the Little Fox

W

WALL·E

Watership Down (1978)

White Fang

Wizards

The Wild

Wolf Children

Wolfwalkers

X

Y

You Are Umasou

Z

Zootopia

Live Action/CGI Assisted Movies

Au Hasard Balthazar

Beverly Hills Chihuahua franchise

Cats & Dogs franchise

Charlotte's Web

EO

Fluke (1995) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Homeward Bound duology (1963 & 1996) - Disney

The Legend of Lobo (1962) - Disney

Strays (2023) - Universal Pictures

Pride (2024) - BBC

101 Dalmatians duology (1996 & 2000)

Documentary

March of the Penguins

Meerkat Manor

Lemur Street

Gangs of Lemur Island

Orangutan Island

Prairie Dog Dynasty

Chimp Empire

Monkey Thieves

Monkey Kingdom

Theather

Cats

Videogames

Animalia Survival - High Brazil Studio

Cattails - Falcon Development

Endling: Extinction is Forever

Gibbon: Beyond the trees - Broken Rules

The Lonesome Fog - Might and Delight

Meadow - Might and Delight

Niche - Stray Fawn Studio

Shelter / Shelter 2/ Shelter 3 - Might and Delight

Paws - Might and Delight

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio

The WILDS - Gluten Free Games

Wolf Quest - eduweb

Golden Treasure: The Great Green - Dreaming Door Studios

Spirit of the North - Infuse Studio

Ōkami - Clover Studio

Rain World - Videocult

Feather - Samurai Punk

Eagle Flight - Ubisoft Montreal Studio

Copoka - Inaccurate Interactive

Untitled Goose Game - House House

PaRappa - NanaOn-Sha

Night in the Woods - Infinite Fall & Secret Lab

Monster Prom - Beautiful Glitch

Them's Fightin' Herds - Mane6

Toontown

E.V.O.: Search for Eden - Givro Corporation

(Pretty much most of Might and Delight games)

Online Browser Games

Lioden

Wolvden

Flight Rising

Lorwolf

Table Top Games

Bunnies & Burrows

Chronicles of Darkness

Wanderhome

Mage: The Awakening

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Pugmire

Three Raccoons in a Trench Coat

World Tree (RPG)

Pawpocalypse

Heckin' Good Doggos

Humblewood

Dungeons & Dragons (Depends on the GM)

Music

In My Eyes You're a Giant - Sonata Arctica

It Won't Fade - Unia

The Cage - Winterheart's Guild

Other Online Projects

Youtubers

Cardinal West

Xenofiction Reviews

Gen. Videos

Trope Talk: Small Mammal on a Big Adventure by Overly Sarcastic Productions

Worlds

Mirolapye - Varverine

Franchises

Sonic the Hedgehog

My little pony

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Hamtaro

Pokemon

Digimon

Kirby

Monter High

Tom & Jerry

Baldur’s Gate

Maya the Bee

The Little Polar Bear

[famesudeikis]

Come help Jason's girlfriend and family celebrate him turning 49 with a surprise party!

(Yes shh please don't let him on to it!)

Everyone is invited!

Be prepared to come and play in your best athleisure wear and Nikes to celebrate the birthday boy!

This party features dancing to greatest 80, 90s and 00s hits, pick up games of basketball, arcade games including skee ball and basketball skee ball, and food from his favorite places in Chicago, New York, and Kansas City!

@hollywoodfamerp

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**this is for rp purposes only please dont blog or post outside of Hollywood Fame, thank you.

[ginalover]

Cate Blanchett and Gina visit the SiriusXM Studios on August 05, 2024 in New York City.

[funkycave]

since tthe majority voted "yes", then-- meet the Chaos symbiote!

here will tell you about Chaos and its universe.

but before that, a small digression. :))

finally done with this.

added some more small references so that you can understand what my AU looks like, what’s going on there and who has what kind of relationship with whom. most of it will probably be about the Chaos symbiote. :))

if you are interested, then read on.

thank you very much, @kaijuparfait , for your support and for expressing your adoration for Chaos and this AU. <33

name: Chaos.

aliases: Chaos symbiote, Kay (for its parents and relatives. but more for its parents, since that’s what they affectionately call it).

parents: Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote.

siblings: Sleeper, Carnage, Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, Agony.

marital status: single, no host.

gender: agender.

height: 2.55m (8'4, variable).

weight: variable.

eyes: white.

skin: black, dark orange, dark gray, midnight purple.

origin: symbiote (eighth offspring of the Venom symbiote).

living status: alive.

reality: earth-C05.

place of birth: New York City.

sharp teeth, there may be sharp spikes in case of danger, but usually they are soft. Chaos can be without a host, since it was born on Earth, when it grows up it can take any form without a host. bonded with a host it can also take on its any form and camouflage itself(as well as without a host).

the eighth offspring of the Venom symbiote. appeared some time after the Sleeper symbiote. Eddie and the Venom symbiote really missed Sleeper, so after thinking about it, they decided that they wanted the last offspring, so that it would stay with them and they would teach it correctly in order to be a good, kind, supportive and helpful symbiote.

lives with its parents, a very smart and hyperactive symbiote who wants to know everything, but is in no hurry to fly out of its parents’ nest, because it loves them very much, just as they love it. Eddie and the Venom symbiote teach the Chaos symbiote a lot and try to adapt it to life on Earth. Chaos is very attentive and when it becomes very active(hyperactive), it can destroy the house in search of something that it hid from its parents, to show later or just to fool around.

The Chaos symbiote loves to learn everything new, but at the same time it asks its parents, because their opinion is important to it and it wants to be good. is not currently looking for a host because it is too young. speaks like its parent, the Venom symbiote, but sometimes phrases or dialogues can flash, like its father, Eddie Brock. cannot read minds, but can communicate through them.

a little about Eddie.

after Sleeper left to explore the world on its own, Eddie became very attached to his Other. he values ​​their relationship and wants to be a good and irreplaceable host for his love.

they quarrel less, seek compromise and listen to each other. the Venom symbiote also does not want to replace Eddie with anyone else, so it marks him with the fact that they are married and always forms a wedding ring on Eddie's finger from itself.

they have true love, not like in Donny Cates, who i haven’t read, but like in Mike Costa. they live in love and harmony, although sometimes they may quarrel!

Eddie has long wavy hair, which the Venom symbiote simply adores and loves to stroke and play with. Eddie also has piercings on his ears, which you can see in the reference. and also he paints his nails in black, as a reminder of his love for the symbiote.

Eddie had a difficult childhood and has three scars on his right hand from a knife, which were not made by him himself, but by someone whose name cannot be spoken in their house.

as a result of Eddie and his Other being in complete symbiosis, Eddie began to develop sharp teeth, and when he is angry, his eyes can turn black and his nails become sharper.

phew, think that’s all and i didn’t write all this in vain! :))

if you have questions, you can ask them in the comments or in my ask box, will be happy to answer, maybe even with drawings, we’ll see! ;)))

that's all, thanks to everyone who read this nonsense to the end. wish you all a wonderful day/evening, take care of yourself!!! <333

[raccoonfallsharder]

hiii hello! i main rocket in marvel rivals and got curious if someone wrote fics w him, found yours and now I'm absolutely obsessed🫶 you made me fall in love with rocket and the way you write is incredible, i feel so lucky that i still have lots of your fics to read :'3

is there any particular comics involving rocket that you like and/or you'd recommend? i think I've only read like 3 comics in my life lol but now i want to see more of rocket and know the context of some things i read in your fics.

i hope to see more of your writings 🫶 thank you for sharing them to the world 🫶🫶🫶

oh my GOD, nonnie ♡♡♡ i am so glad you're enjoying marvel rivals ~ and i'm so grateful it brought you to the fandom lol. thank you for the kind words, and for reading my silly stories! it truly means so much that you would come here and let me know, and i really appreciate it ♡♡ also, i love questions in general, but this is one of my favorite kinds of questions. thank you for asking!

a suggestion: if you are gonna binge-read and don't particularly care about having the physical comics in your hands, i highly recommend getting the Marvel Unlimited app (it's about $10 USD a month, i think). it's not always super-intuitive but i do believe all of these comics are on it! that said, i do have a lot of the comics in the first list in hardcopy because the art is ♡♡♡

I am also hoping some of the other folks out here will weigh in with their favorite recs (@mrwolfhare comes to mind as someone who has excellent insight into the best Rocket arcs and i would say like... an encyclopedic knowledge of the comics).

Here are some of my absolute faves though, in order from my most favorite to my least favorite (they are still all my favorites though):

Rocket Raccoon: Grounded. Rocket Raccoon (2016-2017) by Matthew Rosenberg and Jorge Coehlo. Prior to this arc, the Guardians come to Earth to assist with the evil du jour. Their ship ends up getting destroyed and they get into a fight, resulting in all the Guardians going their separate ways. This is Rocket's story of being grounded in New York City.

Rocket: The Blue River Score. Rocket (2017) by Al Ewing , Adam Gorham, etc. During (yet another?) fight amongst the Guardians, Rocket goes off on his own to sulk and runs into an old love interest, who cons him into getting involved in a classic heist.

Rocket Raccoon Vol. 1: A Chasing Tale. Rocket Raccoon (2014-2015) by Skottie Young and Jake Parker Rocket is hunted haunted by his past. This comic has some of the most beautifully-colored art and is just....fucking fun.

Rocket Raccoon Vol. 2: Storytailer. Rocket Raccoon (2014-2015) | by Skottie Young, Filipe Andrade, etc. Groot and Rocket recount some of their old adventures. This collection contains one of my favorite short arcs, The Cold.

Groot Groot (2015) by Jeff Loveness, Declan Shalvey, etc. Obviously, this comic is more Groot-centered than Rocket-centered but it's my favorite comic of all time and I still highly recommend.

Rocket Raccoon and Groot Vol. 1: Tricks of the Trade Rocket Raccoon and Groot (2016) by Skottie Young, Filipe Andrade, etc

Rocket Raccoon and Groot Vol. 2: Civil War II Rocket Raccoon and Groot (2016) by Nick Kocher, Michael Walsh, David Lopez.

in no particular order, i'd also recommend the following comics. (tbh a lot of times the other guardians bore me, and the gotg-ensemble comics below don't focus as heavily on rocket as i might like, but they do contain good rocket moments!)

Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy (2019) 1-12 by Donny Cates, Al Ewing, etc.

Guardians of The Galaxy: Then It's Us Guardians Of The Galaxy (2020-2021) by Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, etc.

Guardians of the Galaxy: Guardians of Infinity Guardians of the Galaxy (2015-2016) by Dan Abnett , Carlo Barberi, etc.

Star-Lord: Annihilation - Conquest Annihilation: Conquest (2014) by Keith Giffen, Nic Klein, etc.

Captain Marvel Vol. 2: Stay Fly Captain Marvel (2014-2015) by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Marcia Takara, etc.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 1: Grootfall & Vol. 2: Grootrise Guardians Of The Galaxy (2023-2024) by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, etc.

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear Gus & Magnus,

We put in around 25,000 steps yesterday, and then we topped that today, starting with a walk to breakfast, then we met Arika and Chu at the Museum of Modern Art. My favorite piece was George Grosz's The Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse. We got coffee and pastries in the Singapore Food Court, visited the Public Library, then Lily joined us for dinner in Koreatown at Osamil. Afterward we walked to a Korean market, then the High Line, where we took a picture with a giant pigeon, and eventually split off from the Lais. By the time we made it back to our hotel we were a little hungry, so we ducked into a dim sum and noodle place before calling it a night.

Nene sent us photos of you two and Cate eating s'mores around the fire pit at her house. We're glad you're having a good time.

Dad.

New York City, New York. 11.16.2024 - 7.28pm.

[lyonnns]

[ A sticky note attached to the top of cate's laptop reading "watch me...xo + i'll be back in an hour " a video already set up on the screen, ready to be clicked. ] @cate-eblanchett / @hollywoodfamerp "Well helloo gorgeous " the video began, with Jenna striking a pose in the doorway , a mix of playful and sultry. The scene quickly cut to her lounging in her bathtub. "Alright, alright, I know what you're thinking… and yes, I’m sorry if the title threw you off a bit. But, uh, if I did decide to go full frontal, I’m pretty sure this video wouldn’t even make it past the upload stage." She smirked, leaning in a little closer to the camera. "But hey, maybe I’ll tease you with a bit of under-boob just to see if I can push the limits without getting flagged… just a little experiment"

"You know, as I sit here... in a tub, fully clothed, I think... life’s been pretty damn good to me lately. Maybe I’m just reflecting, or maybe I’m trying to convince myself this is all just a dream, and I’m about to wake up." She paused, looking up at the camera with a small, wistful smile. "a few minutes isn’t nearly enough to explain how you’ve made me question everything — I mean, Cate... meeting you, all of this—it feels too good to be real. Sometimes I wonder if youre real." She paused, raising an eyebrow with a little smirk. "It’s debatable..." She leaned back in the tub a little, her voice softening as if she was letting herself get lost in the moment. "Now, this part… really is only for you, okay?" She gave a playful look, glancing over her shoulder. "You might’ve noticed the little gifts on the bed… and, just in case you missed it, there’s also freshly made coffee waiting for you too, babe, enjoy it with those cookies — I thought i'd just make this official debut more sappy and cryptic " She smirked, raising an eyebrow. It was easy for Jenna to ramble, it was charming almost, especially when her yapping involved a blonde actress who was the real star if this video So, Cate… get in the mood for a night of love with the playlist I’ve made. Let it set the vibe, and maybe, just maybe, it’ll help you answer the most important question.......She paused for dramatic effect, leaning back, letting the suspense build. "Will you be my ‘d8 on February 2nd ’?" blowing a kiss toward the screen. "Think about it…maybe i'll sweeten you up more when i get back,' Je t'aime"

LINK under the video to a playlist *

"ANKLES / LUCY DACUS" 'Pull me by the ankles to the edge of the bed And take me like you do in your dreams I'm not gonna stop you I'm not gonna stop you this time, baby '

" BY YOUR SIDE / SADE" 'You think I'd leave your side, baby You know me better than that You think I'd leave you down when you're down on your knees I wouldn't do that'

"I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR / THE VELVET UNDERGROUND" 'I find it hard to believe you don't know The beauty you are But if you don't, let me be your eyes A hand to your darkness so you won't be afraid'

"LIGHTS ON / H.E.R" 'Ain't seen this side of me (me) Fluent in the sheets (sheets Can you read in between me? I ain't a stranger to the foreplay (yeah), yeah So we can skip to wordplay, yeah'

"NEW YORK / ST. VINCENT" 'New York isn't New York without you, love So far in a few blocks, to be so low And if I call you from First Avenue Well, you're the only motherfucker in the city who can handle me'

"PYNK / JANELLE MONAE" ' Pink like the inside of your, baby Pink behind all of the doors, crazy Pink like the tongue that goes down, maybe '

[fuckyeah-jessicabiel]

Jessica Biel for Elle USA - June 2007

From the moment she appears, Jessica Biel is gracefully deflecting the attention of men. Wearing Roger Vivier white pumps and snug True Religion jeans, her hair tightly pulled back in a ponytail, she walks out of the elevator in the Hotel Gansevoort in New York City's Meatpacking District at a rapid clip, shedding two young men who had the incredible good luck to have ridden down with her. She nods them off nicely as they walk away grinning and no doubt mentally compiling lists of buddies who'll be receiving the following text message: "DUDE! I WAS JUST IN AN ELEVATOR WITH THE SEXIEST WOMAN ALIVE!"

Next in the gauntlet is a Moby-looking scenester with a paunch who descends upon her in Ono, the Gansevoort's bustling, dimly lit Japanese restaurant, introducing him- self as if he's an old friend. The fact that he's wielding a Treo device like a video camera goes unnoticed by Biel, who later refers to said implication as "creepy." She dis- patches him into the darkness with a tight smile and walks through the large restaurant to a back booth, caus- ing a ripple of chopsticks to go still as heads turn.

If the rhythms and rotations of the mass entertainment media complex are to be trusted, we are currently living in Jessica Biel's Big Moment. After getting her foot in the door in 1996 on the show 7th Heaven, the now-25-year- old actress won the hearts and minds of the boys with her badass ability to wield a meat cleaver in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a bow and arrow in 2004's Blade: Trinity. Her turn in 2005's Stealth, which bombed (literally), may have gone largely unnoticed, but the trailer highlighting Biel under a waterfall certainly didn't. Then in the fall of 2005, Esquire bestowed on her the magazine's "Sexiest Woman" honorific. Last summer, she deftly skipped over the threshold from hottie to respectable actor with her supple performance as an early-twentieth-century duchess opposite Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti in The Illusionist and since then has become a red-carpet flashbulb magnet, wearing Valentino to the Golden Globes and, to present at the Oscars, a fuchsia halter-top Oscar de la Renta dress that strikingly revealed her toned shoulders.

And yet "it's still a struggle," Biel says, sitting up straight with the alertness of a ninja. Her tan sleeveless Preen turtleneck highlights her muscular arms. "I thought the Esquire cover was going to be really positive for my career," she says. "But it wasn't, really." Biel recalls being told by one director, "I'm not looking for the sexiest woman; I'm looking for the girl next door."

"Parts that I really want aren't going to me," Biel says. "Like The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman." But she stops herself. "I don't want to say that there's nothing I love that I can have. But there's still the occasional script that the director doesn't want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls."

So how does she go from Big Moment to top tier? Gaug- ing from her acting heroes-Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, and Annette Bening (with whom she will costar, along with Sean Bean, in a screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play A Woman of No Importance)-it seems she has good taste. And in addition to working with Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore in the recent thriller Next, Biel is finally getting a turn at comedy-something she's been longing for-opposite Adam Sandler and Kevin James in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, due out next month.

"Jessica is a great actress who also happens to be smart, sweet, and funny," Sandler says. "But the best part of working with her was watching her beat Kevin James at arm wrestling." Not that the movie, about two firefighters who pretend to be gay in order to claim domestic-partner benefits (Biel plays their lawyer), refrains from reveling in her sexiness-she sheds her clothes for a gawking Sandler, and when his character first sees her, his world goes into super slow-mo.

"She's capable of attaining the Julia Roberts crown," says Chuck and Larry director Dennis Dugan, referring to Biel's healthy-American-girl vibe and comic timing. The actress herself is wary of such pronouncements.

"The scary thing about having this opportunity is that if it's 'your moment,' that eventually disappears," she says. "I think about reaching for 'the moment' but never really achieving it. That way, I'm always striving."

BIEL CARRIES HERSELF WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A DANCER OR AN ACCOMPLISHED JOCK-BOTH OF WHICH SHE HAS BEEN.

When Biel walked onto the set of The Illusionist, director Neil Burger was impressed with her athlete's readiness and resolve. She carries herself with the confidence of a dancer or an accomplished jock-both of which she has been. "She completely gave as good as she got" with her Oscar-nominated costars Norton and Giamatti, Burger says. "That's a testament to her poise and her talent."

Early in the production, Biel had a scene with Norton that put the two of them in a stream in the Czech Republic in March. "It was essentially liquid ice. It was like an elec- tric shock, and it knocked the breath out of both of us and Jess turned blue," Norton says. "When we watched it back on the monitor, you could see it hadn't played out exactly right. Neil and I both wanted to do it again, but some- times you have to give up perfect for safety, and we were hesitant to ask her to get back in that water. But she said, 'It wasn't right, was it? Let's do it again.' And I thought, All right, she's a pro."

"She doesn't take herself too seriously," says her friend and producing partner Michelle Purple.

Stephen Collins, who played Biel's minister father on 7th Heaven, agrees: "She has an incredible goof-off, tom- boy streak," he says.

So what was a tomboy doing in the front rows at fashion week in Paris early last March? ("An intimi- dating and overwhelming environment," Biel says.) Scoring some clothing, including the Preen number she's wearing now, and also celebrating her twenty- fifth birthday. "Someone said, 'You have five years till 30.' I started to think, Wow, over the next five years, my life could really change personally," Biel says smil- ing, with a slight squint of her catlike eyes.

When the tabloids started spotting Biel with Justin Timberlake in January shortly after his breakup with Cameron Diaz-the two were seen snowboard- ing together in Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival; sharing a glass of champagne at Prince's Golden Globes party; and backstage at Timberlake's concert in San Diego-her personal life suddenly became of great interest to the public. She dodges a probe about her relationship with Timberlake while knocking back shrimp tempura with aplomb, saying that she was in Park City with girlfriends and holding

"WE DIDN'T LOCK OUR DOORS," BIEL SAYS OF HER COLORADO CHILDHOOD,

meetings for her production company, Iron Ocean Films. Nor does she want to discuss her past relation- ships with actors Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans, or Yankee star Derek Jeter, "for no other reason than I can't even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore," she says. "You're seen in public with anybody that you might not even know, and you're speculated about."

Asked if the constant attention makes dating hard, she says, "It makes everything hard because you can't even go to pick up a prescription without somebody trying to snap a photo of what you have in your Longs Drugs bag. Thank goodness I'm a nice person," she says. "Thank you, Mom, for teaching me that.

"The day after Biel was born, in Ely, Minnesota, her parents took her to a dogsled race; it was 30 degrees below zero. By age one she was in a canoe. Her mother, who is "New Age," grew up in Colorado, hunting for arrowheads as a child; her father was a "mountain man" who ran an Outward Bound school and worked as an international business consultant. His career took the family (her brother, Justin, is three years younger) from Texas to Connecticut and, finally, to Boulder. "We didn't lock our doors," she says. "We snowboarded, hiked, climbed, rafted. We grew up without a fear of the world."

Although Biel thrived at athletics, she doesn't remember a time when she wasn't dancing or sing- ing. At age 11, she signed up with a talent agency in Denver, which got her to the International Modeling and Talent Association convention in Los Angeles, which in turn got her into meetings with managers and agencies.

"I wanted to be Whitney Houston for a long time. I would be onstage and I would just come alive," Biel recalls. "I begged my parents to let me go out for pilot season."

When she was 14, she landed her central role in 7th Heaven, playing the oldest daughter of seven kids in a wholesome Christian family. But after a few years, she wanted to mix things up personally and professionally. At 17, Biel posed seductively for a Gear magazine photo shoot, topless with scant bottoms. It was a clear sign that she wanted to be off the show. "I was all over the place," she says now. "I was being a rebellious teenager." She feels that she was exploited by the magazine, but 7th Heaven's producers cut her out of the series. (She eventually returned in a more limited role.)

"The Gear thing, while embarrassing, wasn't exactly bad for her career," Collins says. True enough, in that between Gear and Esquire Biel worked on seven major films. But none of those movies had anywhere near the impact that taking off her clothes did . Julianne Moore says that Biel's "extraordinary" beauty appears as if "she were carved from marble," but she also has a body that you'd think only a comic book artist could draw-curvy in just the right places-and yet still healthy. 

"WE SNOWBOARDED, HIKED, CLIMBED, RAFTED. WE GREW UP WITHOUT A FEAR OF THE WORLD." 

Biel works out three times a week, primarily heart-rate training, doing fast-speed soccer exercises, squats, and running. She also does yoga regularly. Still, she feigns dismay at the suggestion that she looks buff.

"What do you mean? This is the thinnest and the least muscular I've been in a long time," she protests. "I'm so lean and feminine!"

As we order tea after dinner, the large party of 20 at the banquet table perpendicular to ours has mostly disbanded, allowing four of the men left at the table to reshuffle themselves so that eventually they sit on one side, facing her. It's as if they're at dinner theater. Biel may feel she has yet to land the role that breaks her out, but until that time, she has no shortage of fans who will be happy to watch her along the way.

When asked to go bowling two days later, after her ELLE photo shoot, Biel scarcely raises an eyebrow. She throws on a black ensemble and arrives ready to roll at Chelsea Piers between two lanes of bouncy seven-year-old girls. Despite doing pretty poorly, losing for eight frames, she pulls a spare, a strike, and two nines at the very end to win the contest. "I was really sucking, but I'm a closer," she says gamely. "You should see me at beer pong."

[omegaremix]

The Cool & SRS Music Sharing Collective.

WUSB always had a history of dee-jays finding new music off each other. This was and always will be no issue. Thanks to Alice of Nightmare Aquarium, I’d never know who Ariel Pink or William Onyeabor were, and quadruple that for Black Marble, an act that’s become one of my best discoveries of the decade. Others had always asked me for playlists and “that one song I played fifteen minutes before the end of my show”. Our lives are a little more tolerable thanks to our station.

Shaerie, our dee-jay and resident astrologist, decided to create a secret group to post finds for only us to listen to. The Cool & SRS Music Sharing Collective was established in August 2016. She bestowed our dee-jay Conor (Headless Elvis) the title of admin- and the two started letting their closest friends and station volunteers in. “If there’s shitty music in this group, I will delete the fuck out of it”, she declared. Their first order of business? PWR BTTM’s “New Hampshire”. That was back when everyone and their cat loved them, until they were outed as sexual predators and then became shitty. We’ve yet to delete the fuck out of them, hmmm?

A month later, I was in. The SRS (“serious”) collective took off and we posted on a near-endless basis that almost everyone at one point had some catching up to do. Shaerie and Conor shared many a Bandcamp and d.i.y. find. They provided our daily allowance of acts in Downtown Boys, Ty Segall, Slowthai, Slothrust, Kal Marks, wosX, Car Seat Headrest, Saint Pepsi, Really Big Pinecone, and more. Cornflower posted some Argentinian musicks; and many others pitched the obvious, the classics, and some obscure finds in Brian Eno, Neu, Velvet Underground, The Fall, Richard Hell, Bush Tetras, Suicide, old-school hip-hop, alternative, shoegaze, and other nutritious pieces of good music. Other posts of theirs in Future Islands, Rolling Blackouts C.F., Speedy Ortiz, Idles, Snail Mail, Algiers, and Fidlar were ones my show Omega WUSB already played beforehand. They had our phases of Mac DeMarco and Frankie Cosmos worship. Did you know she was Phoebe Cates’ daughter? Shocked the shit out of me.

Some things dropped off on SRS became essential not only for Omega WUSB but for me personally. Conor’s why I’ve played Cende, Marijuana Deathsquads, Machine Girl, and Ghost Spell, and why I’m now a huge fan of Water From Your Eyes / Rachel Brown. He’s also the one responsible for me discovering Post Trash which helped influenced my show’s format and made me find the beauty of d.i.y. music. You can thank our friend Toasty for Palm’s “Dog Milk” that became part of a personal soundtrack to a wildly surreal summer.

Sharing is caring collecting, so I spread the wealth, too. I posted anything you could think of in hopes of resonating with our own. Most of the time it hit. Other times I struck out. Who was the only one who came though if others didn’t half the time? Spooky Christmas, the other (female) dee-jay who cares about sample culture as much as I do. Hooded Fang and Javelin were two which people jumped on board. Conor saw my post for Unstoppable Death Machines and he was floored: the billboard shown on Know Tomorrow was a real one very familiar for those driving west on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, and he was a fan of theirs.

We didn’t just post music, we posted current events, too. Our staff were (and still are) very into the meat of the city scene. They were sad to see Shea Stadium close down for good. That’s the venue, not the former home of the New York Mets but that’s been gone. Citi Field should also close down, too. (Go Yankees!) As Shaerie left, Conor took over and gave SRS an important edge. Leave it up to him to post pieces from the Washington City Paper, where Priest’s Katie Alice Grier questioned how safe safe-spaces really were; or from the Creative Independent about Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale living in, owning, and being evicted from d.i.y. venues. See where our mindset is?

Even there were a few moments that I found my fellow staffers’ actions (besides posting PWR BTTM) questionable and grounds for expulsion from the SRS and the station. Toto’s “Africa” but with vocals one step out of key and off-beat. Marcus Mixx’ “My Oui Oui (New York)” for fuck’s sake. Smashmouth’s “Allstar” but every word is “somebody”. Yeah, somebody should’ve deserved a caning for that one. Mac Sabbath? Really? Thank Based God we didn’t post Okilly Dokilly, either.

But, they redeemed themselves when they really hit a few out of the park. Conor’s bandmate Jasko found Black Merda’s self-titled album. I thought I was the only one who knew of them. Cornflower found The Avalanches’ “Since I Met You”, which solved a mystery of what that song was I recorded on cassette 15 years ago. Conor once again wowed me when he posted Pigs’ You Ruin Everything (Unsane-related), because again, I had that all to myself. Kleenex’ “Nice”, Elite Gymnastics, Thee Oh Sees, and Death’s “Politicians In My Eyes” were other finds from our staffers which Omega WUSB played beforehand.

If not for Shaerie and Conor, I wouldn’t have a read on where some of the best dee-jays and selectors stood and what we’re all about. Some of what they posted for all to see was what I essentially wanted. What I wanted, like everyone else, was a connection with ourselves and the music. And I got it all in spades and diamonds. Thanks to everyone involved, I wouldn’t have summer memories, a newfound appreciation for the local / city scene, or the feelings I get for hearing specific sounds, vibes, ideas, and projections from certain artists. These are feelings I want and what they come with is a vision that makes me see and imagine things others don’t. As an aside, it was great to see what we’d come up with and how excited we were when we got it. It was a joker’s-wild goin’ on and we didn’t know what the fuck would happen.

For anyone keeping score, here’s what we took with us and what we gave back. Now it’s yours. It’s been a ride. SRS took off and ran well for a year-and-a-half. It slowed to a halt when everyone moved on and activity dwindled down. With six months of no activity at last year’s end (and a couple of autopsy posts after the fact just to see if anyone still cared), I finally gave SRS a proper eulogy. It’s sad that it came to an end. Hopefully, it will come back as a hologram one day.

SRS finds later played on Omega WUSB:

Girl Band “Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage”

Cende

Big Ups

Pill

Crumb “So Tired”

Hookworms Microshift

Corridor “Le Grand Ecart”

Girlpool “123”

Yumi Bitsu “Truth”

DJ Muggs & MF Doom “Assassination Day”

Slothrust “Sex And Candy”

Blood Cultures

Bodega

Strahinja Arbutina “You Don’t Need This in Your Life”

Chastity Belt

Machine Girl “Ginger Claps”

Marijuana Deathsquads

Eyedress

Bodega

Sega Bodega

Soko “Sweet Sound Of Ignorance”

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Ghost Spell s/t

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Sweet Valley “Sentimental Trash”

Water From Your Eyes / Rachel Brown

Palm

Antwon “Helicopter”

Secret Circle “Tube Socks”

Coca Leaf

Wolf Eyes No Hate

Bad Zu Kllkllkll

Health “L.A. Looks”

Water From Your Eyes We’re Set Up

Women Lawncare

VIP Skylark “Y2K Dynasty / Clipped”

Other SRS finds:

Kleenex “Nice”

Elite Gymnastics

Shackleton “Blood On My Hands” (Ricardo Villalobos ‘Apocalypso Now’ RMX)

Thee Oh Sees

Young Marble Giants

Mannequin Pussy

Parquet Courts

Craft Spells “Nausea”

Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes

Black Dice “Smiling Off”

Death “Politicians In My Eyes”

Pigs You Ruin Everything

Elvis Depressedly

Warpaint

Chelsea Wolfe

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya 

Dear Nora

clipping.

Helena Hauff

Future Islands

Tameyawt

Rolling Blackouts C.F.

Holy Fuck

Eric Copeland

Bush Tetras “Too Many Creeps”

Body, The

Lightning Bolt

Speedy Ortiz

Demdike Stare

Suuns

Idles

Swans

Khost

Aa

Snail Mail

Algiers

Nine Of Swords

Screaming Females

Dreamcrusher

Kate Tempest

Single Mothers

Fidlar

Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs “Hashashin” (f. Conway)

Nine Of Swords

Gymnastics Sneaks

Computer Graphics Lo-Fi

SRS finds Omega WUSB posted:

Tony Williams Lifetime “Right On”

TRNSGNDR/VHSCondominium

Shana Falana “There’s A Way”

Girl Pusher “Best Ecver”

New Dreams Ltd.Initiation Tape: Isle Of Avalon Edition

Tropic Of Cancer “I Woke Up And The Storm Was Over”

Hooded Fang “Ode To Subterrania”

Les Rallizes Denudes “The Night Collectors”

Alice Glass “Without Love”

Ciarra Black “Transition None”

Preoccupations “Disarray”

Holydrug Couple, The “Follow Your Way”

Javelin “Lindsay Brohan”

DIIV “Wait”

Airport / Claire Maisto “Alone”

Raveonettes, The “Bang”

Prayers “Shaking Hand With Razor Blades”

Iceage “Under The Sun”

Bug, The & Miss Red “Mi Lost”

Jah Wobble & Holger Czukay & The Edge “Hold On To Your Dreams”

Girlpool “Before The World Was Big”

Nature “Horse Jumper Of Love” (demo)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Mr. Beat”

Boards Of Canada “Nothing Is Real”

Unstoppable Death MachinesKnow Tomorrow

Sun Ra

Black Marble “Collene”

Steve Khan “The Blue Man”

Free Love

M.I.A. “Born Free”

KVB, The “Never Enough”

General Lee & The Space Army Band “We Did It Baby Pt. I & II”

Taiwan Housing Project “Veblen Death Mask”

Harry Pussy “Showroom Dummies”

Cold Cave “Glory”

Isaurian “Hologram” (Jesu RMX)

Death “Keep On Knockin’”

Skywave “Wear This Dress”

Stella Donnelly “Boys Will Be Boys”

LCD Soundsystem “Yr City’s A Sucker”

Throbbing Gristle “Persuasion / Discipline”

DOM “Bochicha”

Cold Cave / Black Rain / Breyer Genesis P. Orridge  “Comprehension”

Body-San “Shining The Money Ball”

Ducktails “Don’t Want To Let You Know”

Prurient “Christ Amongst The Broken Glass”

Etant Donnes “Brutal Piss Rods”

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Fright Night (Nevermore)”

Bombshells, The (s/t)

Dame Charm School

[cate-eblanchett]

Cate Blanchett hosting a special screening of Persona. New York City.

[lutzhuelle]

Cate Blanchett wears Lutz's Gradient Denim Suit for AZ Factory to the ‘Sophie’s Choice’ 40th Anniversary screening at the MoMA in New York City, styled by Elizabeth Steward

[ficyorick]

im itching to write SOOOO BAD today it’s driving me insane…. My friend and I finished rewatching s3 yesterday and im like ughhhhh it’s peak homelander season for me I need to continue writing for this beast …. Im soooo popping out of work early so I can do that FAUCCKKKK

In the meantime I was also thinking abt like. Dead characters in the world of BE and for anyone interested the list goes like this for now

DEAD FOR SURE:

1. soldier boy - literally burned himself out after butcher triggered the worlds worst ptsd attack in him, depowering homelander and blowing up at least half of new york

2. ashley :(((( - i have no idea what they're gonna do with her in s5, my secret BE concept was that she mutated into a weird monster (way before the pandemic) and sage+the deep+black noir 2.0. had to fight her and they all almost got killed. homelander was away when that happened and thought it was the funniest shit ever when he came back to the tower and it was covered in goop and gore while sage, the deep and black noir sat there traumatized like

3. hughie - ill probably go into more detail about that but butcher killed him while hughie was trying to talk some sense into him. kessler's influence is unclear, but overall, it was butcher who killed him, finally losing his #canary. which was the final push he needed to unleash the virus and decide to risk an entire city to depower homelander

4. firecracker - didnt mask up and caught the virus.

5. black noir 2.0. - removed his mask to talk. caught the virus, echoing the fate of his predecessor

6. cate and sam (gen v) and a lot of B-list vought-aligned supes - claimed by the virus (or butcher after the pandemic)

unclear fates that might get a mention in the fic :)

the deep

stan edgar <- ok i probably wont elaborate here bc i ahve no idea if this guy is still alive in canon. so. schrodingers stan edgar continues

a-train

sage :^)