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asphaltvalkyrie · 8 days ago

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I'm Writing Bout' the Book I Read

Figured I'd do that thing where I list the books I read in 2024... Or at least the ones I can remember.

My process for choosing a book is basically a combination of looking at reviews from trusted sources... and going into used bookstores and seeing what I vibe with. Also bookshop.org is a great alternative to Amazon and it supports indie bookstores.

H is for Hawk - Helen McDonald The author (a Cambridge scholar and falconer) coming to terms with her father's death through her relationship with her goshawk hunting partner.

Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer 3rd installment of a trilogy about an alien… something that's not quite a place, not quite a creature and its interactions with some rather imperfect people.

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller The story of the Trojan War from Patroclus' point of view.

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? - Alison Bechdel Bechdel's autobiographical relationships with her father and mother, respectively.

The Left Hand of Darkness and The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin About a man living on a planet of people who have no gender except when breeding - and even then its random which partner is male and which is female each and every time, and about a man in a dystopian society who can shape reality with his dreams.

The Bird Way - Jennifer Ackerman Nonfiction studies of a few specific bird species and their many types of complex social relationships with others of their species.

Bonk and Fuzz - Mary Roach One about the science of sex and the other about problematic human/wildlife interactions, respectively.

Who By Fire - Matti Friedman An account/analysis of the time Leonard Cohen spent in Israel during the Yom Kippur war and how it affected his work.

Bittersweet - Susan Cain Nonfiction about how sadness and longing are actually healthy and productive emotions that humanity is made better by.

Skin - Roald Dahl A collection of deliciously dark short stories.

Never Home Alone - Rob Dunn Nonfiction about the most common bacteria, insects and various other creatures found abundantly in human habitats. A good

Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen A magical realism story about benevolent ghosts and found family.

Monstress Volume 9 and The Night Eaters Volume 2- Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda One is a series about an extremely angry young woman/weapon/demonic vessel/refugee caught in the middle of a war, and the other about a pair of twins learning that their mom is a demon.

Annnd what I thought of them;

The Left Hand of Darkness was probably my favorite. Its an incredible story of what politics might be like if it were impossible to assign gender roles. Its also a study of the many types of love (friendship especially) and has some damn beautiful worldbuilding behind it.

Other Birds was my least favorite. My MIL wanted me to read it and I wouldn't say I hated it, but I felt condescended to by its predictable whimsy and general cutesy-poo-ness.

I read the Roald Dahl stories because I stumbled across Wes Anderson's The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Three More on Netflix (which was superb by the way.) I loved Roald Dahl as a kid. I think he helped create my sense of humor, and its hard to believe he wrote for children after looking at his other work.

Bonk was good for a very objective and informative, taboo-dispelling giggle, especially for a rather prudish ace like me.

I thought Fuzz and The Bird Way were a little lacking.

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? were both quite good. FH definitely made for a better story, but AYMM hit me very close to home emotionally.

The Song of Achilles was a unique treat - I know some purists hate novelizations of epic poems and sagas, but I really appreciated being able to fall under the story's spell of tragedy and irony without having to break that spell to look at footnotes or parse difficult language. Also gaaaaay.

Acceptance - This one and the rest of the trilogy are just a big, thick, and super entertaining stew of sci-fi and horror. Annihilation (the first book) made for a good film too.

Not totally sold on The Night Eaters yet but I trust Liu and Takeda.

...The others I really liked as well, but I can't remember much about them. Also I want to get back to my stupid boring gatherer's scrip grind on FFXIV. I hope future me enjoys this.

#2024 books #book reviews #reading #personal

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angsty-prompt-hole · 2 years ago

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My OC’s In Class

I was tagged in this a while back by @addisons-damn-dialogue and never got around to it due to a series of life events. I’m going to be doing this for the whole extended Dresden Crew since they are actually in high school for most of the story (and I don’t give the whole entire extended crew enough attention).

Kira: She’s the quiet, model student who always finishes her work early and usually spends half the class reading whatever book she checked out that week. After she gets her powers, though, she ends up cutting classes or leaving midway through a lot due to monster troubles. She somehow still manages to pass all of her classes.

Emily: Kind of like Kira, but she doesn’t have Kira’s book smarts and she has chronic severe anxiety, so she is ALWAYS worrying about whether or not she did something right and whether or not her homework will get done. Has had panic attacks over homework assignments. Kira usually helps her with the stuff she struggles with.

Pickle: It completely depends on who else is in the class with him. If it’s someone he’s really good friends with, he is absolutely awful because he spends the entire class trying to talk to them or pranking them. If you can manage to isolate him, he’s usually fine.

Cain: Cain is usually pretty well-behaved, but he is a drama kid at heart so he goes extra hard on any assignments that allow him to get creative, much to the chagrin of everyone else. If he shares a class with Emily he spends half his time being an “i fucking love my girlfriend” type of guy, and if he shares a class with Kira he usually just bothers her for the entire class because it annoys her.

Carter: It’s a miracle he’s passing all of his classes to be honest. He regularly skips all of the classes he hates, which is everything except for shop classes. In his shop classes he just dicks around with his friends and makes mechanical nightmares the likes of which his teachers have never seen.

Maxine: Maxine is usually well-behaved, unless Pickle is in the same class, and then it’s just total chaos and prank wars. They had to be forcibly seated on opposite sides of the room in one class because they would not leave each other alone. Their pranks kept escalating to the point where Pickle once hid Maxine’s entire desk. Both of them are banned from ever taking the same chemistry class ever again.

Maxwell: Unlike his twin, Maxwell is quiet and well-mannered, and he’s often the teacher’s pet. He’s a model student and is well-liked by everyone. He has decent grades. However, he is not immune to Pickle’s shenanigans, nor is he immune to his sister’s, so he still gets in trouble because of them sometimes if he shares a class with them.

Caitlin: Caitlin gets super bored in class because she��s the type to do all the work ahead of time and then just coast the rest of the semester. She regularly has to leave school to help her parents with stuff, though, so she kind of has to get all of her work done early. She is one of the only ones who can stop Pickle’s shenanigans dead in their tracks by virtue of her phenomenal ability to ignore his very existence.

Roxanne: She dropped out of high school, but when she was in class she was not a very good student lmao. She would regularly fight with her teachers, show up drunk or high, and just be a general disturbance and menace to society. She’s calmed down significantly since then and is working on getting her GED.

Tagging: I’m leaving this as an open tag, so if you see this and want to do it, go for it!

#the dresden crew #I love these idiots #pickle and carter are the real problem children #maxine became a problem child when she arrived in dresden #mostly because she was in proximity to pickle and carter

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fallout--alley--youth--zone · 3 years ago

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Genderbent Gone Names

Sam & Caine = Eve & Lilith. Maybe Eve would go by Evie or some similar nickname, but Lilith only goes by Lilith (Lily if it's male!Diana trying to get under her skin). It keeps a lot of the symbolism from their original names, maybe even better symbolism--Lilith was Adam's original wife, but she was cast out and replaced by Eve.

On that note, Astrid = Addison. I considered just naming him "Adam", but that felt a little on the nose--Addison just means "son of Adam", so it's practically the same. Plus, the image of people sarcastically calling them "Addie and Evie" just makes me giggle tbh. And it's just old-fashioned enough to really fit Astrid's vibes, y'know (though that might be just me)?

Little Pete = Pandora, but everyone calls her "Little Dora". It's literally PERFECT symbolism--she's the one who made the FAYZ, after all.

Drake = Serta or Sarah. Look, I couldn't find any names that had the right vibe--that creepy, crawly, snake-like vibe--so I just took "certa" out of "lacerta" (Latin, lizard) and called it a day. But if that's too weird, Sarah works too.

Edilio = Edilia or Estefania. Edilia is good if you don't want to confuse people with all the new names, but I like Estefania because of its meaning--from Greek stephanos, meaning crown or laurels.

Diana = Apollo or maybe Artemis? Diana was the Roman interpretation of the Greek goddess Artemis: Artemis is a goddess of the moon and Hunt (and an eternal maiden), while Diana is a warrior goddess of the moon and fertility. Artemis has gained popularity as a boy's name in recent years, and such a name would foreshadow male!Diana's resourcefulness well, but overall I think Apollo fits better. It mirrors Diana's original name (Apollo is the god of the sun, music, & medicine), and better fits Diana's overall "image" (Apollo was known for his dramatic love life, lol).

Lana = Clark, because she was named after superheroes.

Dahra = Dabir, an Arabic name meaning "root, origin".

Sanjit = Saanvi, a Hindu name meaning "the Goddess Lakshmi". So she still gets to brag about her awesome name.

Lightning round! Dekka = Derek, Brianna = Brian, C. Jack = C. Jaqueline, Quinn = Quinette, Charles "Orc" = Charlie "Orc", Howard = Hannah, Albert = Alberta, Mary = Matthew, John = Joan. Taylor, Duck, Hunter, & Orsay's names stay the same since they're already gender neutral; minor characters all stay the same gender.

#gone series #genderbent gone au #genderbent caine soren #genderbent sam temple #genderbent astrid ellison

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bondsmagii · 4 years ago

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OH MY GPD YOUVE SEEN THE LINDSAY ELLIS VIDEOS top three favorite wack moments of the whole situation go

how the fuck can I choose like the entire thing was just... so wild from start to finish like. what in god’s name. literally the entire situation was insane. I can’t pick one thing without having to disentangle it from like, 80 other crazy things and I feel like your man from the It’s Always Sunny picture. you know the one.

I can however tell you some of my personal favourite parts. I don’t know if they’re Most Wack because literally the entire thing is Most Wack, but I need to shout out the following:

explaining the concept of wolf sex (and the disproven alpha/omega theory) to a literal jury

the fact that Lindsay paid voice actors to read out excerpts of the book and then Addison Cain tried to sue her for using parts of her book outside of copyright and Lindsay shut her down because it was creative fair use

the fact that somebody wanted to be known as the person who invented this trope? and lied about it? and then tried to say they invented the heterosexual version? my goodness.

the “that damn baby” saga which resulted in Cain genuinely stating that Lindsay and her friends had threatened her child

the fact that in the followup video Lindsay didn’t list her Patrons because apparently they all risked being sued as well if she did

not one, not two, but three courts had to sit this case.

listen I know there’s a lot to be said about horny men and writing but I feel like horny women can really hold their own as well because it was one hell of a horny woman who landed wolf sex in a federal court of law and I think that counts for something.

#anon #asks

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aion-rsa · 3 years ago

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Doctor Who: Previous Guest Stars Who’d Be Great as the New Doctor

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It’s not unusual, in the world of Doctor Who, for the same actor to play more than one role on screen. From classic to modern Doctor Who, Nicholas Courtney, Ian Marter, Lalla Ward, Jaqueline Hill, Jean Marsh, Adjoa Andoh, Eve Myles, Naoko Mori, Vinette Robinson and more have all played multiple parts in the whoniverse. Before she debuted as companion Martha Jones, Freema Agyeman was a Torchwood employee who fell foul of the Cybermen in series two’s ‘Army of Ghosts’. Karen Gillan was a seer in series four episode ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ before she recurred as Eleven’s companion Amy Pond. Even the Doctor has had test runs. Colin Baker played a Gallifreyan commander in season twenty before taking over from Peter Davison. Peter Capaldi appeared in ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ as well as playing John Frobisher on Torchwood before taking up residence in the TARDIS.

In the search for the new Doctor then, it makes sense to rifle through those actors the show already picked once to see who might be asked back. Continuity can be handled if need be – just do what Russell T. Davies did and make up something about spacial genetic multiplicity, or what Steven Moffat did and pretend it was all part of the Doctor’s plan to remind him to be a good man. In a few cases, the shared genetics wouldn’t even be an issue as the actor in question’s first appearance was either solely as a voice, or beneath too many layers of prosthetics to matter.

Gliding over a few previous guest stars whose current filming commitments likely take them out of the running (Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, James Norton, Felicity Jones, Gemma Chan and Gugu Mbutha-Raw are probably all tied up…), here’s a choice selection of guest actors since 2005 who could all make fantastic, and very different, Doctors.

Chris Addison

Played: AI interface ‘Seb’, who greeted the recently deceased to Missy’s Nethersphere. Appeared in: Two-part Series Eight finale ‘Dark Water/Death in Heaven‘. Watch his stand-up and there’s a real Tenth Doctor energy about writer-director-producer-comedian-actor Chris Addison (The Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep). That probably means his time has come and gone on Doctor Who, as the show isn’t likely to want to repeat itself at this stage. Addison also has his plate full with the third series of Sky/FX’s excellent comedy-drama Breeders, but you could definitely picture him at the TARDIS console, couldn’t you?

Arsher Ali

Played: Bennett, a bookish recent military recruit to a Scottish underwater mining facility in 2119. Appeared in: Series 9 two-parter ‘Under the Lake/Before the Flood‘ Part of a large crew (initially at least) we didn’t see loads of Arsher Ali in his Doctor Who role, but what we saw was enough to convince that he has the presence and bearing of a potential Doctor. He was great as the lead in BBC’s Informer and as a conflicted journalist in the first series of The Missing, as well as in supporting role in Line of Duty‘s best series. Add all that to his breadth of stage experience and he’s a highly intriguing prospect.

Percelle Ascott

Played: Delph, a member of the Ux, humanoid aliens who live for thousands of years and have the power of telepathic inter-dimensional engineering (they can teleport planets). Appeared in: Season 11, Episode 10 ‘The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos‘. Not the only entry on this list with a Doctor Who-adjacent role in his back catalogue (see also: Anjli Mohindra in The Sarah-Jane Adventures), as a teenager, Ascott played science geek Benny in Russell T. Davies’ Wizards Vs Aliens. He was great then, but really showed his range in cancelled-too-soon Netflix supernatural drama The Innocents, where he stole the show. When he popped back up opposite Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor as the wise and conscience-led Delph, it was hard not to imagine what he might do in the Doctor’s role.

Zawe Ashton

Played: Lieutenant Journey Blue of the Combined Galactic Resistance, a solider on the Aristotle. Appeared in: the Ben Wheatley-directed Series 8 episode ‘Into the Dalek‘. A regular on ‘Next Doctor’ wishlists for some time now, Zawe Ashton is a terrific actor who came to fame as hedonist Vod in Channel 4 student comedy Fresh Meat and who’s recently been seen in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In ‘Into the Dalek’ she played a ‘shoot first ask questions later’ soldier, but Ashton has the range for serious, absurd and very funny – in short, everything required to make a great Doctor.

Maxim Baldry

Played: Dr Polidori, a nineteenth century character who was part of Mary and Percy Shelley’s social circle. Appeared in: Series 12’s ‘The Haunting of Villa Diodati‘, about the summer Mary Shelley conceived her famous science-fiction novel Frankenstein. Baldry’s scored a role in Amazon Prime Video’s new mega-money Lord of the Rings TV series, so his dance card is likely full for now, but he’s just the sort of actor to breathe fresh life into the role of the Doctor, much in the way Matt Smith did back in 2010. He’s probably best recognised right now as Viktor, the asylum-seeking boyfriend of Russell Tovey’s character in Russell T. Davies’ future-predicting Years and Years, but the Russian-British actor has been acting in films since he was a child.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Played: UNIT’s Colonel Ahmed, a colleague of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in the fight against Missy’s Cybermen-from-corpses wicked plan. Appeared in: Series 8 finale ‘Death in Heaven‘. This Doctor Who role was just not enough of Sanjeev Bhaskar, an actor-writer-comedian whose role as DS Sunny Khan in ITV detective series Unforgotten has elevated him to the status of national treasure (partly because of his backpack, but mostly because of his decency and warm humour). Bhaskar is playing Cain opposite Asim Chaudhry’s Abel in Netflix’s forthcoming The Sandman series, and there’s series five of Unforgotten on the way, but wouldn’t he be great as the Doctor? As would another member of his family (see below)…

Mark Bonnar

Played: 22nd century miner Jimmy Wicks in the one with the ‘ganger’ clones. Appeared in: Series 6 two-parter ‘The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People’. No, of course they won’t let another funny, clever, slightly scary Scot with a brilliant face be the Doctor so soon after Peter Capaldi, but in a parallel universe, Mark Bonnar would make a very fine Doctor – something that hasn’t escaped Big Finish. He’s got it all (funny, clever, slightly scary, brilliant face) and frequently steals whichever show he’s in. Watch this two-parter, Catastrophe, Unforgotten series two and the brilliant Guilt (series two of which is approaching) for evidence of that.

Kevin Eldon

Played: Ribbons of the Seven Stomachs, a trader in the ‘Antizone’ obsessed with the Doctor’s “tubular” (or Sonic Screwdriver), and the voice of companion Antimony in an animated online adventure. Appeared in: Series 11’s ‘It Takes You Away‘ and 2001 webcast ‘Death Comes to Time’. It just seems a waste for the multi-talented Kevin Eldon to only play just one (or technically two, but just one on-screen) role on Doctor Who. And because his series 11 appearance was under a faceful of prosthetics, it wouldn’t even cause any continuity errors for him to come back in the role of the Doctor. Or a companion. Or another alien. Whatever it is, just give us more Eldon please.

O-T Fagbenle

Played: ‘Other Dave’, an engineer on an expedition to The Library who was eaten by the Vashta Nerada but brought back to life in the computer core. Appeared in: Series 4 two-parter ‘Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead‘ Fagbenle has recently been seen as Natasha’s fixer in Black Widow, June’s husband Luke in The Handmaid’s Tale, and as the lead character in sitcom Maxxx, about a washed-up former boy band member. The man has dramatic and comedy range, a very good American accent (not necessarily relevant here) and excellent screen presence. He’d rock the role of the Doctor.

Siobhan Finneran

Played: 17th century landlady/witch prosecutor Becka Savage/Morax queen Appeared in: Series 11’s ‘The Witchfinders‘. If the new Doctor’s going to be a woman in her early fifties, then it should really go to Jo Martin, but if she’s busy, how great would Siobhan Finneran be? The Happy Valley and Downton Abbey actor’s a treat in everything. She can be equal parts funny and imperious, and you can easily imagine her running circles around alien fiends and having a load of fun doing it.

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Tamsin Grieg

Played: the Nurse who inserts Adam’s infospike on Satellite 5. Appeared in: Series 1 Simon Pegg-starring episode ‘The Long Game’, alongside Anna Maxwell-Martin (who might also deserve a place on this list come to think about it). Tamsin Grieg would make such a good Doctor it almost makes you angry she’s never played the role. She has the dramatic chops to deliver all the world-saving speeches, and the comedic skill to give it all a sparkling light touch. She was chilling in her small Series 1 role, but it only showed a tiny portion of what she can do. Also, wouldn’t she look great in a signature coat.

Suranne Jones

Played: Idris, into whom the ‘soul’ of the TARDIS was poured, making her the ship incarnate until her body died. Appeared in: Series 6 episode ‘The Doctor’s Wife‘, written by Neil Gaiman. Perhaps a bit too similar to Jodie Whittaker to be a likely successor, but you only have to see Suranne Jones in BBC/HBO drama Gentleman Jack to know that she’s made of Doctor material. As nineteenth-century landowner and famed lesbian Anne Lister, she’s cleverer and faster than everybody else, with a fierce sense of boundary-breaking why-not-ness, and plenty of emotion. Look at most of Jones’ roles, including that of the TARDIS itself, and she’d be great in the part, especially if her regular collaborator Sally Wainwright is enticed into the showrunner gig.

Paterson Joseph

Played: the venal Rodrick, who competed against Rose Tyler in The Weakest Link on the Game Station. Appeared in: Series 1 two-parter ‘Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways’. Paterson Joseph was famously up for the role of the Eleventh Doctor that ultimately went to Matt Smith, and has been a stalwart entry in ‘Who next?’ lists of this sort ever since, so… this isn’t going to happen, but wouldn’t it have been great if it had? The Peep Show, The Leftovers, Noughts + Crosses actor and Big Finish voice artist is currently showing off his commander chops in BBC One submarine thriller Vigil.

Ralf Little

Played: Steadfast, one of the few crew members of an off-world colony ship who weren’t murdered by nano-bots. Appeared in: Series 10 episode ‘Smile‘. He’s currently solving baroque murders on a fictional Caribbean island in Death in Paradise, but none of that lot ever last long, which could free Little up for another spin in the TARDIS. Little has been a familiar face on British TV for years, after playing feckless teenager Anthony on The Royle Family and starring in a BBC Three sitcom that spanned the entire noughties, but now a little older, with plenty of experience under his belt, it could be Ralf Little’s time.

Susan Lynch

Played: Pilot Angstrom, a competitor in an intergalactic race who meets Thirteen on her second ever adventure. Appeared in: Series 11 episode ‘The Ghost Monument’. You don’t need telling why Susan Lynch would make a great Doctor, just watch any decent British drama from the last decade and she’s in it, showing you. From Save Me to Unforgotten to Happy Valley to Killing Eve to any number of TV and film roles, she’s a scene-stealer who can play mystery, tragedy, power… everything the role calls for.

Daniel Mays

Played: Alex, the unwitting foster dad of a Tenza-in-human-form son, George. Appeared in: Series 6 episode ‘Night Terrors‘ written by Mark Gatiss. RADA-trained Danny Mays can do comedy, drama, has some serious dance moves, and was a Line of Duty guest star, so we know he’d have no problem at all learning the Doctor’s long speeches. If the TARDIS wanted to cast a Gallifreyan Doctor by way of Essex, he’d be top of the list.

T’Nia Miller

Played: The General, Military Commander of the Time Lords, in their Twelfth Regeneration. Appeared in: Series 9 finale ‘Hell Bent’. The Years & Years and Foundation star played a Time Lord in her Doctor Who debut and can even already tick ‘Regeneration’ off the to-do list. Miller clearly has the bearing and gravitas required of the Doctor, looks great even in impractically massive armour, and was the absolute stand-out in Netflix’s 2020 horror series The Haunting of Bly Manor. If they could work out the continuity for a reappearance, she’d rock the role.

Lucian Msamati

Played: Guido, the father of Isabella, a new enrolment at Rosanna Calvierri’s school for girls. Appeared in: Series 5 episode ‘The Vampires of Venice.’ Since appearing in this 2010 Doctor Who episode, Msamati has gone on to appear in major series, from Game of Thrones to Gangs of London and His Dark Materials. He’s an experienced stage actor too, who’d be sure to bring dramatic heft to the role of the Doctor.

Anjli Mohindra

Played: the Scorpion-like Queen of the Skithra, a species that relies on other species for their engineering. Appeared in: Series 12 episode ‘Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror‘. Anjli Mohindra already has a long history with Doctor Who, having appeared under layers of prosthetics and make-up in Series 12, provided the voice of the Mechanoid Queen for animated Time Lord Victorious series Daleks!, and playing the recurring role of Rani Chandra from series two of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Would that preclude the Vigil and Bodyguard star from stepping behind the TARDIS console in the top role? Nah.

Sophie Okonedo

Played: Elizabeth X of The United Kingdom aka Liz 10 of Starship UK. Appeared in: Series 5 episodes ‘The Beast Below’ and ‘The Pandorica Opens’. One of our finest actors, Sophie Okonedo not only played the future queen opposite Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in Doctor Who, she was also the voice of the Shalka Doctor’s companion in the BBC’s ‘Scream of the Shalka’ animated webcast, way back when. She’s currently starring in Amazon’s Wheel of Time adaptation and voices the key role of angel Xaphania in His Dark Materials, so probably has too full a plate to step into the TARDIS, but casting her as the Doctor would be a no-brainer.

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Tom Riley

Played: Robin Hood. Appeared in: 2014 Series 8 episode written by Mark Gatiss ‘Robot of Sherwood’. Tom Riley played a legendary genius and multi-hyphenate over three seasons of Da Vinci’s Demons so taking on the role of the Doctor wouldn’t really be a stretch. The actor is currently playing Augie in HBO/Sky drama The Nevers, which started life as a Joss Whedon-created supernatural fantasy before the showrunner left the project after the first six episodes.

Danny Sapani

Played: Colonel Manton/Runaway (depending on your perspective). Appeared in: Series 6 episode ‘A Good Man Goes to War’. The River Song/Melody Pond revelation overshadowed much else that happened in ‘A Good Man Goes to War’, but nonetheless, seasoned Brit actor Danny Sapani made an impression as enemy of the Doctor, Colonel Manton, who conspired with Madame Kovarian to kidnap Amy and Rory’s baby. Sapani’s enjoying a long career on screen and stage, with stand-out TV roles in Penny Dreadful, Harlots and Killing Eve, as well as the upcoming part of Captain Jacob Keyes in video game adaptation Halo.

Amit Shah

Played: Rahul, brother to missing person Asha Chandra, both victims of Tzim-Sha. Appeared in: The Series 11 opener ‘The Woman Who Fell to Earth‘. A skilled comedic actor who has a habit of stealing scenes, even in serious supporting roles like this one, or last year’s turn as a doctor experimenting on children in His Dark Materials, Amit Shah would be a great surprise to find in the TARDIS. Experienced but not yet a household name, there’s a Matt Smith vibe about this one. Revive him as a companion, at the very least?

Peter Serafinowicz

Played: the voice of alien warlord The Fisher King (though the character’s screams were provided by Slipknot front man Corey Taylor). Appeared in: Series 9 episode ‘Before the Flood‘. Likely not the photo of Peter Serafinowicz his Nan keeps on the mantelpiece, this is the villain he voiced in a Series 9 two-parter. It’s Serafinowicz out of the make-up and prosthetics though, who’d make an intriguing prospect as the Doctor. Great voice(s), great face, serious presence, humour, loads of experience… what else do you need?

Nina Sosanya

Played: Trish Webber, mother of Chloe Webber, the little girl endowed with the psychic powers of an Isolus. (And in Big Finish audio adventure ‘Aquitaine’ Captain Maynard’). Appeared in: Series 2 Olympics episode ‘Fear Her‘. A regular RTD collaborator, with previous roles in Casanova and Wizards Vs Aliens as well as Doctor Who, Nina Sosanya is a joy to see in any cast, which must be why she’s (thankfully) in everything. She’s great in comedy (Good Omens, WIA, Staged, Nathan Barley) and in drama (Last Tango in Halifax, Killing Eve, His Dark Materials, Little Birds) and would no doubt make a very convincing centuries-old two-hearted big-brained Time Lord. Get her a statement coat and get her in the TARDIS.

Meera Syal

Played: Dr Nasreen Chaudhry, the scientist in charge of an ill-fated deep drilling mission in a Welsh village. (As well as voicing audio stories and audiobook Borrowed Time). Appeared in: Series 5 two-parter ‘The Hungry Earth’ and ‘Cold Blood‘. Actor-writer-comedian Meera Syal, CBE, had a fair crack of the whip in Series 5 Silurian two-parter, but would always, always be welcome back for more. As well as comedic talent, she has the dramatic presence, brains and stature to play the Doctor. Her husband Sanjeev Bhaskar (see above) will just have to fight her for the role.

Joivan Wade

Played: Bristol graffiti artist Christopher Riggens aka Rigsy. Appeared in: Series 8’s ‘Flatline’ and Series 9’s ‘Face the Raven‘. Joivan Wade is currently starring as Victor Stone in Doom Patrol for the MCU, so it may be a while before he returns to the UK, but his two appearances in Doctor Who proved him to be a charismatic talent who’d energise the TARDIS if welcomed back.

Harriet Walter

Played: British Technology Secretary and later, Prime Minister Jo Patterson. Appeared in: Series 12’s ‘Revolution of the Daleks‘ (as well as voicing the role of Beatrice in audio story ‘The Boy That Time Forgot’). Having a Dame in the TARDIS would be quite something; that Dame being Harriet Walter would be off the charts brilliant. Just look at her – the face, the voice, the hard-to-define quality that means the moment she opens her mouth, everybody shuts up and listens. Harriet Walter, stage and screen star of Killing Eve, Succession, The Crown, Downton Abbey and so much more, would make a very fine Doctor indeed.

Marc Warren

Played: Elton Pope, co-founder member of LINDA, a group of humans who meet to swap stories on their encounters with the Doctor. Appeared in: Little-loved Series 2 episode ‘Love & Monsters‘. A very familiar face on British screens, with regular roles in hits including Hustle, Mad Dogs, The Good Wife and The Musketeers, there’s always been something about Marc Warren that makes you think he’d make a really great alien. See him as The Gentleman in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, or Mr Teatime in The Hogfather, and you’ll agree. Top Doctor potential.

Gemma Whelan

Played: the voice of loads of characters for Big Finish audio adventures, but never (yet) on screen. Appeared in: ‘Ninth Doctor Adventures’, ‘Dalek Universe’, ‘Counter-Measures’ and more. Always a treat wherever you find her on screen, actor-comedian Gemma Whelan is best recognised as warrior leader of the Iron Islands, Yara Greyjoy in Game of Thrones but she’s been great in Killing Eve, Gentleman Jack, Upstart Crow, The End of the F***ing World, and recently, a killer episode of Inside No. 9. If Doctor Who is looking for another late-thirties Yorkshire lass to take on the Doctor’s mantle in future, go Whelan or go home.

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stina-is-a-punk-rocker · 4 years ago

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disney’s ‘the hunchback of notre dame’, early 2000s kid nostalgia, and other midnight musings

“What the fuck, Stina? I thought this was a blog for book reviews!” you say.

“Books, amongst other things. Hence the -ish suffix,” I say. “And all my mediocre ‘reviews’ are hit-or-miss in terms of engagement, so I’m pretty much free to post whatever the fuck I want.”

I toss my head. My hair whacks me in the face.

The first time I watched Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame was been circa 2006, in the ‘movie room’ of my preschool, huddled around a CRT TV with the rest of my five-year-old classmates. Not much about the film particularly stood out to me at the age.

Fast-forward fifteen years later; I’m cooped up in quarantine, hundreds of thousands of miles away from that first viewing. I’m living my best life, rejoicing in my introverted tendencies and having a laugh at the expense of all the suffering extroverts. I haven’t moved from my bed all day, except for the bare necessities, and I’m bingeing YouTube videos. All is well.

I discovered Lindsay Ellis’s channel quite recently- embarrassingly enough, through her videos on Omegaverse and the whole Addison Cain fiasco. I stumbled down the rabbit-hole of her channel, and here I am, a few dozen videos later, and I find her one on this film.

Which, of course, led me to want to re-watch the film, with the eyes and mind (supposedly) of an adult. And it went far beyond and above my expectations.

The film is dark, much darker than the average Disney film of today- not just thematically, but the graphics too. Except for the first parts with the Festival of Fools and the last scene, the rest seems to have a dark filter put over it all. Obviously, given its themes (I’m pulling these out of my arse; I’m a STEM major and I have zero to no knowledge about film) of freedom and equality, acceptance of those different from us, corruption and lust- all that good shit, in other words- you can’t exactly have sunshine and rainbows. But it’s such a stark contrast from what I’ve been accustomed to from Disney; Frozen has Hans about to decapitate Elsa, but the background remains bright and light; Simba sobbing next to Mufasa’s body in The Lion King is heart-wrenching, but a few scenes later, we have an anthropomorphic meerkat-boar duo singing about eating bugs and farting and all that classy stuff, so it’s not as traumatizing.

The themes are a lot more on-the-nose than a lot of other kids’ movies (forgive me if I err, I am aged and forgetful)- cue la Esmeralda saying, “What do they have against people who are different, anyway?”- you get what’s essentially the same ‘accept others regardless of their differences’, ‘prejudice is bad’ morals from, say, Zootopia, but having given the main characters fursuits makes it less obvious than in this movie.

(Or maybe I’m just a dumbass. I have no elaborate notes for this; I’m high on sugar and deprived of sleep so I might be spewing bullshit.)

Admittedly, the resolution is a bit… unrealistic. The citizens of Paris = sheep, essentially; they go from throwing fruit in Quasimodo’s face because the guards started it, to helping defeat them. Maybe there’s something about mob mentality in there, but I find it hard to believe that people who showed up to watch Esmeralda burn to death were suddenly totally cool with not getting what they didn’t pay for. But then again, this is a Disney movie, and you can’t make kids too cynical too early on. Let them have their innocence and ‘people will be with the heroes in times of peril because humanity is inherently good!’ before they realize that humanity kinda fuckin’ sucks.

The characters are some of the most human from those I’ve seen in Disney (other honorable mentions: the main characters of The Emperor’s New Groove, Moana, Tangled, Anna from Frozen). Quasimodo’s the main character (lol DUH, will I ever say anything not obvious?), and he’s so lovable, but not without flaws- he’s biased against gypsies in the beginning because Frollo’s the literal scum of the earth. To borrow from the K-pop fans’ dictionary: UwU he’s so pure!

Esmeralda sparks a bit of controversy because she’s another POC leading lady from a Disney film of the 90’s (a list including Jasmine, and, sigh- Pocahontas) who’s markedly more sexualized than the white Disney princesses. It’s not something I particularly noticed nor cared about until I saw it being brought up- I mean, the woman shows a bit of cleavage and then dances for a couple of seconds- but. I’m just putting that out there.

She’s an empowering heroine without having to belt in in your face (not me making a dig at Naomi Scott’s Jasmine from the Aladdin live action film), and I also love how her role in taking down the Big Bad doesn’t have to do with her ‘power of seduction’ (the scene in the animated Aladdin film where Jasmine kissed Jafar truly traumatized me as a kid).

Phoebus is… well, he exists. Kind of a Regulus Black archetype, but not exactly. The guy on the bad side who turns good and all is forgiven. Well, at least it’s not the ‘her love made him a better man’ trope. And he is a good guy. Even if he did spend a considerable amount of his adult years on the side of the bad guys.

Systemic oppression? Nah, it’s one or two corrupt baddies. But again, it’s a Disney film, we need everything to work out for the good guys in the end.

Let’s get the gargoyles out of the way. To reference Lindsay Ellis’s video (she’s a lot smarter than I am and breaks this down better than I ever could): yes, the comedy’s oft ill-timed and inappropriate… for an adult audience. And the primary demographic of Disney films, especially princess ones (obviously Esmeralda isn’t a princess, nor does she marry into royalty, nor is she included in the group of princesses in the dumpster fire that is Ralph Breaks the Internet, but I had a book imaginatively titled ‘Disney Princess Stories’ as a kid that included Esmeralda’s story alongside Belle’s and Ariel’s, so I’m calling her a princess), are kids. And kids love fart jokes.

Additionally, I have a theory-that-is-not-really-a-theory-but-a-pretty-obvious-thing-that-happens that the gargoyles are figments of Quasimodo’s imagination, and the, at times crass and ridiculous things they say are just the voices in Quasimodo’s head (THIS IS OBVIOUS, STINA, YOU HAVEN’T STUMBLED ACROSS A STARTLING NEW REVELATION); maybe what he imagines normal townspeople to act like.

And then we have Judge Judy Chrissy Teigen Frollo. This dude is the embodiment of pure evil. He’s bigoted and rapey and abusive and one of Disney’s most successful villains- even better than Mother Gothel, who previously held the crown. It’s rare that a villain genuinely terrifies me, especially a cartoon one. Frollo, unlike your typical fairytale antagonist who wants power/fame/fortune/to overthrow Olympus, is far more sinister; driven from deep-rooted hatred instead of plain greed. He’s so much closer to people in positions of power and authority even in the modern world, and that element of reality makes him so much better as an antagonist instead of a literal sheep who hates carnivores (seriously, Disney, enough with the twist villains- they’re not working out).

Also, Hellfire slaps. In fact, the entire soundtrack does.

Speaking about Hellfire, I love the contrast between that and Heaven’s Light; how Esmeralda is viewed by Frollo (an object to possess, “Destroy Esmeralda, and let her taste the fires of hell; or else, let her be mine and mine alone”) as opposed to Quasimodo (someone with free will, “I dare to dream that she might even care for me”).

Another argument brought up, and admittedly one I had as a child was, ‘but if the whole point of the movie is acceptance and love as opposed to lust, why didn’t Quasimodo get the girl?’ Which, years later, I realize is an extremely misogynistic way to look at it. As Princess Jasmine said four years before The Hunchback was released, she is not a prize to be won. Quasimodo is Frollo’s antithesis; he lets Esmeralda choose, and she chose Phoebus. And Quasimodo accepted that, because he is good and kind and sweet and loving. Severus Snape, take note.

On a sidenote, I’m always kind of caught out of left field when the plot in films moves really fast- I’m really not a movie-watching type; I prefer to read, and books usually indicate how much time passes from one main plot point to another, and there are little slice-of-life, filler parts that tie in to character development and moving the plot forward, but at a snail’s pace. So, whenever I’m watching a movie and it’s one important event after another, I usually haven’t had enough of a refractory period to process it.

Let’s pretend that I segued smoothly into the next part of this (already tedious and long drawn out) review.

The Hunchback is the darkest film I’ve ever seen come out from Disney. Re-watching it as an adult made me pause every so often and wonder why the hell I wasn’t traumatized by it as a kid. I mean, the whole movie kicks off with Frollo about to throw an infant down a well. And then there’s that horrifying shot of the stone renditions of the Israelite kings on the church walls. Frollo falls to his death into fire. I mean, good riddance, but still. I guess it’s because the kids’ shows of today are awfully censored and polished so kids don’t have nightmares forevermore.

Update: tried to watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2. Exited just as fast as I clicked on it. Disney sequels really ain’t shit (yes, I’m looking at you, Frozen 2).

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christinaroseandrews · 4 years ago

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As I was scrolling through the dumpster fire, I came across your review for 'Born to be Bound'. I loved it! It was an absolute delight to read with some of the best burns I've seen in a long while. If I had the funds to purchase books, I now know to not buy that particular one. Thank you for suffering through the incessant, hoity-toity babble to warn the rest of us.

I get by on limited income, books are a luxury I can rarely afford. Fanfiction fills my need to read and consume written stories. And now I can't unsee the asexual erasure in the A/B/O tag on Ao3. I'm moderately pissed off at myself now.

I'm a disgruntled fanfiction writer. I will do what I do best. Say, "I can fix that." Then write it into existence. I'm going to add an asexual Alpha/Omega couple to my current A/B/O fanfic. I'll use a popular ship that is a minor background pairing.

On a related note, how do you keep your sanity alive reading badly written books for a living? Are magical abilities granted to editors? Like, does some higher power descend upon you saying, 'Congrats! You're strong to survive the trials of terrible wording inflicted upon the English language. Take this level up and go forth!' ?

Hi! I’m glad you messaged me. Nice to meet you!

Awww! I’m blushing from your praise. That was only for chapter 1 and there are 10 chapters in this, so I’ve got a lot more to go through. I’m hopeful it will get better.

I really understand not being able to buy books. That’s pretty much me all the time. LOL I’m a disabled, chronically ill person who can’t work a regular 9-5 job so I do other stuff to pay the bills. There’s a few ways to be able to read original fiction for free. The first is that a lot of authors will offer books for free as reader magnets. The second is that publishers of all stripes will send out ARCs of books to people with the understanding/hope that they will review the book. This is how I get most of my more recent releases. Finally there is reading from the library. I’ve been utilizing both Overdrive and Hoopla. And fanfiction is a wonderful thing. A precious thing. I am 100% here for fanfic, especially since I still write it myself. LOL

Don’t be pissed off that you missed the lack of ace rep on the tag. Be proud of yourself that when it was pointed out your first thought was “How can i fix this?” Because that speaks volumes about you as a person. And you’re a good doobie. I think it’s awesome that you’re going to add more asexual rep to the ABO tag. We need that. There are not nearly enough characters on the Ace spectrum and it really runs the gambit. I’m a demiromantic/bisexual myself. There needs to be more Ace rep out there. Good on you!

So you want to know how I keep my sanity when reading bad books?

So here’s the thing, most of the books I edit aren’t badly written. They really aren’t. Even those that if they were published in the form I got them in would be called “badly written” have potential. They’re unpolished. They have flaws. They need work. And it’s my job to help the author get their book into the best shape that I can.

Also most books, even Addison Cain’s Born to Be Bound have something good about them. Something. And one person’s yuck is another person’s yum. This book happens to be hitting a lot of my yucks and there’s some structural, logistical, and tonal problems with the book. That being said, I can say that from the one chapter I’ve read I wouldn’t have guessed that the story started its life as a Batman fanfic featuring Bane/Original Female Character. So she filed the serial numbers off well, I guess.

The other thing that keeps me sane is a philosophy I have about editing/life. No effort is wasted if you learn something or help someone else to learn. I wanted to be a teacher before I hit some pretty big obstacles and had to switch gears. And in my heart, I still want to help make the world a better place. And if that means that I help others create beauty, then that’s a good legacy for me.

I also have a good support system and invest in self care. That can be reading a good fic, watching something fun, or even playing a game for a little bit. I also don’t edit constantly. I take breaks. Edit for an hour, take a 20 minute break. This keeps me more focused and allows me to not get dragged down. Plus it works better for my disabilities since that’s a thing.

Additionally, I 1000% agree with the maxim that any problem in a book can be fixed in the editing process. It just takes a lot of work and a lot of suppressing of the author’s ego and the author has to be willing to do that. That last one is the toughest, because these books are their babies. Their children. It’s hard to hear that their child isn’t perfect. And editing can feel like an attack if you aren’t used to it. I do a lot of hand holding. I make sure that they know that just because I’ve found something I need to change that it isn’t a reflection on them. The only time it becomes a reflection on the author is when they have been told something is a problem and they choose to ignore that anyway because it doesn’t fit with their vision. I’m a pretty hard core editor. I tend to give it to my clients straight. And I think my clients know that I honestly and truly want them to succeed. Because I do. Honestly, a well-edited successful book is like a huge piece of advertising for me as an editor. Like straight on. I want my clients to succeed because then I’ll succeed. It’s a very symbiotic relationship.

Now there are books that I’ve edited that are absolutely horrible. Books where I’ve gotten them in the copy edit phase and I’ve wondered why the acquisitions and content editors are letting this subject go to press. But in the end, I have to remember what my job is. When that happens, it’s the self-care route again.

But seriously, most books have something good in them. It’s a question of finding it and drawing it out.

#darthumbreon #on editing #omegaverse #ace rep #abo dynamics #editor's life

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duhragonball · 4 years ago

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Updated the damn fic again, and I rewarded myself for posting Luffa #133 by cooking myself an omelet and watching this:

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So, my omelets are turning out pretty good, except they keep coming apart in the center when I try to fold them over. I’m not sure if that’s because they need more time to cook or what. But I’m out of eggs, so I’ll have to go to the store before I can try aga-- Oh, right the video. About the wolf sex.

I think the thing that surprised me the most while watching this whole thing was that much of the underlying tropes of the A/B/O genre are unoriginal. Lindsay Ellis refers to “bodice rippers” in romance stories, which sounds a whole lot like the sort of rough, I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-consensual style of nookie in these Omegaverse stories. Even the term “alpha” got used before wolves had anything to do with it.

The overlooked point of the lawsuit, which Ellis clarifies in the end, is that this whole thing should have been about the chilling effects of DMCA takedowns. If you publish a story and someone files a bad faith DMCA against you, websites like Amazon and YouTube have no obligation or incentive to investigate, or to treat you fairly. Your only recourse is to sue the person who filed the DMCA claim, but this just assumes you’ve got deep enough pockets to do that. Meanwhile, filing malicious DMCA claims is really easy to do, and any crank or megalomaniac can use them with almost no risk of consequence.

From what I can tell, Addison Cain seems to genuinely believe she owns some piece of the Omegaverse pie. Like, she was the first one to do M/F pairings in that genre, so she thinks she “created” a subgenre. Or the idea of the M/F A/B/O stuff being violent and “dub-con”, she seems to think that’s hers as well. That’s like saying Neil Armstrong invented stepping on the moon because he was the first guy to try it.

I’ve been involved in fanfic for a lot of years, and the main thing I’ve noticed is that most people aren’t looking to innovate. My biggest gripe with slash is that every slash concept I run into looks exactly the same as all the others. Someone sees a fic about Legolas and Aragorn and they just do the exact same thing, only they make it about Loki and Hawkeye. I guess that comes with the territory, since fanfic assumes you’re using someone else’s characters and situations, so I guess borrowing other concepts and tropes isn’t too outrageous.

Still, it seems like there’s always people in this world who want to stake some sort of claim. Superwholock is a pretty good example. I don’t think any single person ever claimed to invent Superwholock, but lots of fans took pride in it, like it was some great institution, like merging those three things together was some sort of accomplishment. But it’s not. There were just these three really popular TV shows, and a lot of people expressed their appreciation for all three in the exact same fucking way. There’s not some magic connection between Supernatural, Dr. Who, and Sherlock, just a bunch of fans who saw no point in separating them. It’s not an original idea, it’s the taking of three original ideas and assimilating them into one simpler idea, an idea about conventionally attractive white men being handsome.

Omegaverse reminds me of the Gor novels, which were set on this other planet where, get this, you can make women do whatever you want and they’re all totally into it. Someone just figured “Hey, I’m going to write a story where I can indulge my pet kinks, and I’ll do some worldbuilding to make it easier to explain.” Sexliking isn’t an original idea, but every once in a while somebody comes along who wants to believe that their sexliking story is special. That it blazed a new trail. Addison Cain apparently thinks she blazed a new trail by putting women in these Omegaverse situations. I get the impression that she only declared war on this other author to protect her own ego more than anything else. Once there was a similar work to her own out there, she was suddenly confronted with the possibility that she wasn’t quite the trailblazer that she thought she was. But if she filed a DMCA and made it stick, then she could at least pretend that the law was on her side.

I’ll make this about Dragon Ball for a second, just to stay on brand. One of my favorite bits from the dub is when Ginyu is recruiting potential new members for the Ginyu Force, and he has a bunch of scrubs call out their names while they pose, and one guy impulsively calls himself “Captain Strong” and Ginyu gets upset with him because there’s only room for one captain in the Ginyu Force. It’s completely petty and dumb and it fits Ginyu’s character perfectly. He loves theatrics, but don’t you dare try to upstage him.

Maybe there’s a lesson there. We all have our captaincies. Is that a word? We all have our captain’s rank. Something we each claimed for ourselves as a thing that makes us special, and it’s easy to get jealous when we think that’s being threatened. There’s a lot more captains out there than we want to admit. I see a lot of cars on the road with those “13.1″ stickers on the rear window, and it took me a while to figure out that it means they ran a half-marathon, and they should all be proud of that, that’s a big deal, but I’d hate to think any of them believes they’re the only one. Pretty much every idea is derivative in some way, so if you manage to make a name for yourself with your Coffee shop/Only One Bed story, please don’t get upset if someone else does the same thing.

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handlewithkara · 4 years ago

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I wanted to say something like “the saga of the melodrama in the omegaverse fanfiction trope turned published wolf porn authors community continues”. But I feel this would be genuinely unfair to the community when it seems to me that it’s really just one person who is going ham on everybody else. Addison Cain gives me so many flashbacks. (especially the bit where she complains about Courtney Milan)

Even if you think this topic does not interest you, this video is very well worth a watch. Spoiler alert, even ao3 gets namedropped.

#fanfiction #omegaverse

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surejaya · 5 years ago

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Strangeways

Strangeways by Addison Cain

“A thrilling ride that will leave you on the edge of your seat! I need MORE of Phi and his... shall we say... unique physiology. Ten thousand stars!!!" -USA Today Bestselling Author, Myra Danvers I have been chosen. One moment I was leaving work, the next I was entertaining a silvery-green alien intent on knowing me fully. Their invasion of our world nonviolent, seamless. They dress as human men, eat in human restaurants, vote, pay taxes, and are controlling every last one of us. I don’t understand how no one else can see what I see? That their beauty is a trap. They have come here for the women, intent on creating life partners—through seduction, mental manipulation, employing muscular bodies capable of fulfilling any female desire. Shaping themselves to our wants. Until we’ve each been claimed, marked, and changed. Assimilated. We don't have a choice. They can make us like it. They can make us desire them. They can make us do anything they want.

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ivymiariauthor · 2 years ago

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One Society, My Society, Sobre Dios playlist

Here is my playlist for my wip ‘One Society, My Society, Sobre Dios’

For you — Delaney Bailey MEAN! — Madeline The Person Tired — beabadoobee First Love / Late Spring — Mitski God Must Hate Me — Catie Turner Monogamy — Leith Ross Down! — Mico No friends — Mazie Best Friend — Laufey She — Dodie I can`t handle change — Roar A Burning Hill — Mitski Heart Like Yours — Williamette Stone I wanna be a boy — Addison Grace Lowkey as hell — Waterparks Just a Kid — Noah Vela I Guess — Mitski The Fruits — Paris Paloma So My Darling (Acoustic) — Rachel Chinouriri Burned Out — Dodie The Gold (Phoebe Bridgers Version) — Machester Orchestra, Phoebe Bridgers Telephone — Waterparks Risk — Mega Mango Prom — Ethan Bortnick Boggle — Mega Mango Every Single Night — password:password Hard Times — Ethel Cain Prolouge — Chase Petra Ava — Famy Starkissed — Rani Adi Mary On a Cross — Ghost Passerine — The Oh Hellos Help Me — Rainbow Frog Biscuits Just Take My Wallet — Jack Stauber`s Micropop Family Line — Conan Gray Blurt — Mega Mango Star Love — Late Night Drive Home Everybody Wants To Rule The World — Tears for Fears I Know The End — Phoebe Bridgers Expired — Jenny Nuo Atlantis — Seafret Astronomy — Conan Gray Jacob From the Bible — Jake Wesley Rogers Love/hate — Matt Van Fat Funny Friend — Maddie Zahm Running Up That Hill — Meg Myers

#OSMSSD #OneSocietyMySocietySobreDios #wip #books #work in progress #book tumblr #booktwt #booktok #bookinstagram #playlists #playlist #bookplaylist #spotify #amazonmusic

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bibibibuckleykinard · 7 years ago

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Another prompt for your fic month, because it's too hilarious to pass up: 52) “There’s a herd of them!” with roblivion (or future family, whatever floats your boat). I admire the heck out of you for doing this challenge btw. I hope you're having fun with it! :D

@zippywafflebuns for you lovely, I hope you like it!

This was inspired by my niece and nephew who drove me mad this past week lol

“There’s a herd of them!”

If you had told 26-year-old Aaron, that in ten years time his small family would have grown into what it is today, he probably would have thought you were crazy, yet here he was four kids later. There was Seb, who was 10, the twins Addison and Oliver, who were 7, and Evlyn who was 3. All of which kept both Robert and Aaron on their toes.

“Right come on the lot of you,” Aaron replied ushering the twins and Seb out of The Mill, Liv following closely behind holding Evlyn. Aaron locked the door joining the five of them in the driveway. “We have to stop over at the garage before we meet Dad at the Pub.” He explained.

“I want Daddy,” Evlyn said reaching out for Aaron.

“Come here, Peanut,” Aaron said taking her from Liv.

“I see how it is, no love for your auntie Liv,” Liv replied.

“I love Daddy!” Evlyn said grinning clinging to Aaron

“I love you too,” Aaron replied patting the little girl softly own the back. “Addison and Oliver, take auntie’s hand,” Aaron told the twins as they headed towards the garage.

“Daddy?” Evlyn asked as they made their way closer.

“Yes, Evlyn,” Aaron asked.

“Why are we going to the gawage?”

“Because that’s where Daddy’s car is, Uncle Cain had to work on it remember?” Aaron explained.

“Oh yeah,”

The six of them made their way towards the garage, Aaron noticed Robert coming from the Pub.

“Dada!” Evlyn screamed out into Aaron’s ear, Aaron closing one eye to cope with the loud scream.

“The last one to Dad is a rotten egg,” Seb told Addison and Oliver before letting go of Liv’s hand, he bolted towards Robert, the Twins closely behind chasing after their older brother.

“Kids,” Aaron began yelling but stopped, seeing there was no use.

“I won!” Seb yelled out tapping Robert on the arm stopping by his dad. “You lose, I win! You lot are rotten eggs.”The young boy teased.

“No, we’re not!” Addison said, mad. “You cheated!”

“Did not!” Seb replied.

“Did too!” Oliver added. “You took off before we were ready.”

“It’s not my fault you guys are snails!”

“Dad!” Addison said to Robert.

“Seb, be nice to your brother and sister,” Robert told the older boy.

“But they’re being sore losers.”

“Or maybe, just maybe you’re being a sore winner,” Robert replied.

“Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada,” Evlyn chanted as her and Aaron got closer.

“Evie, Evie, Evie,” Robert mimicked. Evlyn reached out for Robert, Aaron leaning forward for Robert to take the toddler.

“Have they been driving you mad?” Robert asked Aaron.

“Always,” Aaron replied with a smirk, “Liv included.” He added, Liv poked Aaron in the ribs causing him to jump, he batted his sister’s hand away. The group made their way towards the garage to be met by Debbie and Cain.

“Oh, there they are,” Debbie replied making her way out the building. Addison ran up and hugged Debbie, “Hey pretty girl,” Debbie replied playing with the girl’s ponytail, “You driving your dads mad like I told you?”

“Yup,” The girl replied proudly.

“There’s a herd of them!” Cain jokingly exaggerated making his way out wiping his hands on an old towel.

“Very funny,” Aaron replied.

“Who said I was joking?” Cain replied.

“Ignore him,” Debbie replied. “He’s in the dog house with Moria.” She added. “Apparently, he thinks it’s okay for Isaac to fight in school…”

“What brings you here?” Cain asked quickly changing the subject. Debbie smirked.

“We were on our way to see Mum,” Aaron replied, “I just wanted to see how the work on the car was going.”

“We’re still waiting on one part,” Debbie replied. “It should be in today.”

“Can I work here with you guys?” Seb asked Debbie and Cain.

“Seb,” Robert replied.

“What?” He questioned. “you, Dad and Mom said I should get a job.”

“No, we said chores to earn the money you’ve been asking for,” Aaron replied. “And we were thinking more along the lines of helping out at home or even at the yard or the haulage.” He added.

“But the garage is cooler,”

Aaron shook his head.

“What do you need money for anyways?” Debbie asked. “You’re 10.” She added.

“Shoes,” Seb replied.

“£150 pair of shoes to be exact,” Aaron added. “Expensive tased like his dad.” He explained.

“Could always say it’s your time of the month,” Liv jokingly replied. “That usually worked when I wanted money.” She added.

“What?” Seb asked confused.

“Liv,” Aaron warned.

“Right,” Robert replied. “With that… We should get going,”“Yeah,” Aaron replied.

“The last one to Nana Chas’s is a rotten egg!” Seb yelled running off

“Cheater!” Oliver yelled back, him and Addison ran after him.

“Don’t run,” Robert yelled after the three.

“See ya,” Aaron said as him and Liv followed the rest.

“Bye, “ Debbie replied, smiling.

“There really is a herd of them,” Cain told his daughter as they watched the ‘herd’ of them leave.

Catch Up (x) (x)

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