#other erik n hyde

[operas-phantom]

”What is it with your friends!” Erik sighed, noticing the jumpscare and not finding it fun. “At least let’s have this conversation away from Aurelio and let him work,” he added after, before he could get too mad.

he boops his nose

Aurelio huffs and shakes his head, leaning back a bit and looking at him in confusion. "Why did you do that?" Aurelio asks, completely puzzled. "Is there something you need?"

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

ROLES I WANT DAVID TENNANT TO PLAY IN MUSICALS: THE MASTERLIST

Okay so I've divided this into three categories, which you shall see below!

Roles I Think David Could/Should Play NOW:

Charlie Guiteau in Assassins

someone in Brigadoon bc it would be funny

The Emcee in Cabaret

Ryuk in Death Note

The Man In The Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone

The Dysquith Family in A Gentleman's Guide to Love And Murder

Herbie in Gypsy

Hades in Hadestown

Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame (okay give him like five years)

The Baker in Into The Woods

Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe

Albin or Georges in La Cage Aux Folles (either one as long as the other is played by Michael Sheen)

Trunchbull in Matilda OKAY HEAR ME OUT (he could also do Mr Wormwood)

Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

Fagin in Oliver

Tateh in Ragtime

Riff Raff OR Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror

Shakespeare in Something Rotten

Squidward in SpongeBob (im so serious)

Sweeney Todd (utterly delusional but I need it to happen)

The Wizard in Wicked

Roles I Think David Would Have Nailed When He Was Younger

The Balladeer in Assassins

anyone in Cats please it would be so funny (especially Munkustrap)

Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen (like Campbell era come ON)

Motel in Fiddler on the Roof

Marvin in Falsettos (he MIGHT get away with that now not sure)

Monty in Gentleman's Guide

J.P. Finch in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman

Emmet in Legally Blonde

Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors

Edgar Allan Poe in Nevermore

Leo Frank in Parade

Narrator/Cat in the Hat in Seussical

Georg in She Loves Me

any character Christian Borle played in Spamalot

Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd

Roles David Quite Doesn't Have The Instrument For But I Would Watch Him Do Them Anyway Bc He Would Act The Hell Out Of Them:

Any Elder in The Book of Mormon (Younger)

Robert in Bridges of Madison County

Bobby in Company (Younger)

Jervis in Daddy Long Legs (Younger)

Lucheni in Elisabeth (Younger)

or death. Rudolph too tbh

Bruce Bechdel in Fun Home

Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (younger)

Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (younger)

Javert in Les Miserables

Christian in Moulin Rouge (Younger)

Pierre in Great Comet (this one actually kills me bc he and Phileas are so similar)

OR ANATOLE HOLY CRAP

Gabe in Next to Normal (Younger)

Erik in Phantom of the Opera

Mark Cohen in Rent (younger)

Noel Gruber or Ricky Potts in Ride the Cyclone (younger)

Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden

Joe/Josephine in Some Like It Hot

BURRS IN THE WILD PARTY OH I WISH THIS WERE REALISTIC IT WOULD BE SO GOOD

GOD this is long please spill the opinions so this was worth it

[underqualified-human]

Self-Aware Yuu sings La Seine and I:

A/N: So because there are a lot of songs that were requested, I don't think I'll be doing all of them mostly because the Jekyll and Hyde one was because I really liked the song. I’ll also be doing separate parts for the songs that I do.

All of them:

A new challenger approaches

“Who is Seine and where is the bridge?!?!”

Heartslabyul:

Most of them are too focused on Yuu’s singing to pay any close attention to the lyrics. 

Cater is once again filming Yuu, but oddly enough no clips are posted to Magicam

Trey is the most normal, not really reacting much during but complementing them after.

Ace and Deuce are trying to find out who Seine is, for research purposes obviously. 

Riddle is completely mesmerized, then he listens more closely and gets a bit sad. The only Heartslabyul guy to ask Yuu about the Seine

Savanaclaw:

Once again, not really listening to the lyrics

Leona falls asleep halfway through, but enjoyed it nonetheless

Ruggie is honestly just happy to get some time off, hearing Yuu sing is just a bonus in his eyes

Jack is pretty curious about the origin of the song, so it and others become a common conversation topic for the next few weeks 

Octavinelle:

The ones that suggested the singing in the first place

The tweels are now following Yuu around in case they go to meet anyone at a bridge

Floyd may try to sabotage the performance if he gets bored [which he thankfully doesnt]

Azul is torn between wanting to hire the prefect at the lounge full-time and wanting to keep their singing to himself [Erik style]

Scarabia:

Kalim is, once again, not fully paying attention to the lyrics. Honestly, he’s just happy that Yuu looks like they're having fun

Jamil starts paying attention when hypnotism is mentioned and doesn't ever stop paying attention. Another one that actually asks about the lyrics.

Pomefiore:

Rook is finally allowed to duet! [It was only because he knew how to pronounce Seine when reading the lyrics]

Epel is more interested in the instrumentals if he’s being honest, but he still supports Yuu from the sidelines.

Vil actually had a hand in the production of the performance, he couldn't help himself! Definitely talks to Yuu about their singing and ways to improve afterwards [is also oddly nice about it]

Ignihide:

Ortho also talks to Yuu about the song lyrics but only like, a month later.

Idia is too busy recording everything to pay attention in the moment, but he has several questions once he watches the recording back [and trust me he does. A LOT]

Diasomnia:

The entire dorm is of the few that pay attention enough to realize Seine is a place, not a person

Malleus asks about the lyrics, the origins and even where the Seine is located. He’s a little sad when he finds out it doesn't exist there. Also asks if you’ve ever thought of naming a child Seine 🤔

Sebek disregards the fact that it’s mostly about love and just jumps straight to asking if the Seine is a safe location or not.

Lillia is just laser-focused on the wine, he asks about the river too but mostly about wine.

Silver is taking a nap, please do not disturb him.

Tagging: @coffee-or-hot-cocoa [the requester]

[scorpio-marionette]

31 Nights of Head Canons - Night 4

Night 3

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A/N: This one was hard. I haven't actually seen any of these movies. I had to do a LOT of reading of summaries to write this one. Hence why it's so late coming out. I would've gotten to it sooner, but I had to cover a shift at work. Now that it's done, I go to sleep.

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Night 4

What is your favorite classic horror movie monster?

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Dio

Dracula is Dio's favorite. I imagine that there are days he feels like him. I mean, he brags about all of the mindless drones that he can't seem to shake. Dracula turns people into his vampiric minions that follow his commands without question. Sounds pretty similar to me.

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Omar

Cheela from the Captive Wild Woman reminds Omar of how trapped he is in his own life by his father's desires. He, like Cheela, is actually very affectionate. Sure, he can act all cool and attractive. Ultimately though, he just wants freedom.

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Zach

The Gill-Man in the Creature from Black Lagoon has always triggered Zach's love for travel and discovery. He finds the creature's desire for the woman strange, but enjoys the movie all the same.

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Oberyn

Centuries prior to even the fair Targaryens rein over Westeros, before even the Children of the Forest, there was an ancient serpent that dwelled in the expansive caves of the land. This serpent was said to be the ancestor to all dragons, having been the first to sprout wings and fly free of its rocky confinment. Oberyn does not see this ancient beast as a monster or as the creator of monsters as so many others do. While his relations with the Targaryens have soured, he still holds much respect for the distant cousins of his namesake.

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Marcus Pike

Erik, the Phantom, from the 1925 version of the Phantom of the Opera. Marcus loves this character as much as he fears becoming him. He hasn't had the best luck with love, but he hopes to never feel compelled to "take" someone's love rather than earn it.

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Max Phillips

Dr. Jack Griffin, the invisible man, is more like Max than you know. Both are suave, psychotic, and easily disarmed by the one they really love.

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Pero Tovar

William often likes to tell stories from his homeland to Pero, whether he cares to hear them or not. One such tale was of a man who turned into an animal. The Wolf-Man William had called it. Slave to the Moon and a hunger for flesh, whatever that may mean at the time. Pero acted like he didn't care for the story, but secretly he enjoyed thinking about resigning himself to his more basic instincts.

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Javier Peña

Frankenstein's monster has become a favorite of Javi's. While he knows it isn't true, there are days he feels like a monster. He's done bad things. They don't define him though. This movie reminds him of that truth.

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Jack

Dan McCormick, the Electric Man, from Man Made Monster. While you can see parallels in the men having both been turned into monsters due to their circumstances. The truth is, Jack finds the applications of electricity facinating.

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Ezra

In is search for more relics, Ezra discovered the movie the Brute Man. He enjoys this movie because he sees himself in Hal Moffet. Not because he's disfigured, but because he's be slighted by people whom he trusted.

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Dave

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde speaks to Dave's double life. He is a man with a family he loves, but he misses the work he used to do. Now a monster lurks under his skin. Itching to come out and be in charge forever.

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Frankie

Wilfred Glendon, the werewolf, is a long time favorite of Frankie's. Both because he relates to having the seemingly uncontrolable beast within, and just from a personal facination of the mythological creature.

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Max Lord

Gwynplaine, the Man Who Laughs, is a movie Max doesn't like to share with people unless he trusts them. He knows the movie calls out to his own perpetually forced smile. He hates that he has to pretend. He appreciates that his isn't carved into his face though. He also likes knowing that even Gwynplaine could find love in the end.

~

Marcus Moreno

Marcus is not a Hollow Earth theorist by any means. Just because he lives in a world where superpowers are a thing, doesn't mean the Earth has to have a whole subterranean ecosystem. He does enjoy the idea of the Mole Poeple though. It isn't entirely impossible for a whole seperate species closely resembling humans to exist underground in caves.

~

Din

Din doesn't really remember any stories from his childhood, unfortunately.

~

Nico

Godzilla and all of the other kaiju from Japan. Nico loves the look of the old films and comparing them to their latest itterations. The progress of production only heightens the action. It will always be funny to think of the man in a lizard suit though.

~

Dieter

Exeter from This Island Earth is Dieter's favorite. Though it's been a long time since seeing the movie, he remembers this being his first favorite sci-fi movie about aliens. He likes that he's a hero though not human.

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Javi Gutierrez

Imhotep, the mummy, from the 1932 movie the Mummy. Javi likes this version of the mummy because it really focuses on Imhotep's desire to find his love again. That isn't to say he doesn't like the 1999 version. It's just with that one, he sees himself more as Rick rather than Imhotep.

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Joel

This isn't really a monster persay, but they are huge and dangerous. In the Monolith Monsters, there are asteroid fragments that grow rapidly when exposed to water. They also seem to leech out all trace amounts of silicon from your body and leave you petrified. I would imagine Joel wanting to use some of that stuff right now to build walls very quickly around Jackson.

[operas-phantom]

”You’re friends with another version of me, I hear,” Erik said, a bit curiously. He didn’t even notice the blood and the cane; it was child’s play for him.

Hyde is lonely talk to him

[twistedtummies2]

Top 20 Musical Theatre Villains

Okay, so, I know I’ve only just started my month-long “Count-Down” of my favorite versions of Dracula, but this idea was bugging me, and I decided to make a description-less list of it just for yucks. Is that so wrong? I hope not... Anyway...if you know me, then you know I love musicals. And of course, so often in musicals, the most fun characters are...well...what they are in so many things, to be honest: the villains. The thing about villains in musical theatre is they sort of bring out the wonderful, fun, dark side of what makes the musical genre what it is. The idea behind how these things work is that the characters are expressing their deepest emotions and motivations through song, and while you can get many positive ideas across with that, the bad guys of these shows prove to us that, even in a world where it’s apparently the norm to get up and dance like you just don’t care, there will always be people who have dark emotions and dark thoughts that are just as powerful as the rest. Musical Villains run the gamut in terms of how they work: some are funny, some are threatening, some sing a whole lot, some only get a few key musical moments to their name, but they all serve some sort of function and play a vital role in the proceedings. So, I decided to do a quick tribute and talk about some of my favorites in musical theatre. Now, a couple of basic rules: Rule Number One, I’ll only be counting characters who I, personally, perceive to be VILLAINS in these stories. For example, Inspector Javert from Les Miserables is the main antagonist, but I don’t really consider Javert to be a VILLAIN in the truest sense. Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett are both far from the nicest folks around, but I think of them more as dark protagonists than the villains in their stories. In both these cases, there are other characters who are much more obviously in line with the typical way we think a villain should be, anyway. Rule Number Two: I won’t be counting villains from musicals based on movies, such as the number of Disney Villains who appear in stage shows, or characters like Beetlejuice and the Child Catcher. They’re great villains, but I want to talk about “stage exclusive” villains. There will be a few exceptions, and these are in cases where the musical is more popular or well-known than the original movie source: most people don’t know about the old black-and-white movie “Little Shop of Horrors,” but a whole lot of people know the musical and its own movie adaptation. On that note, I won’t be talking about music MOVIE villains, such as Lucifer from The Devil’s Carnival or Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas. These guys have to basically be born onstage. There will be ONE exception to the rule...kind of...but not really. XD With all that in mind, here are My Top 20 Musical Theatre Villains.

20. Evillene the Wicked Witch of the West, from The Wiz.

19. Miss Andrew, from Mary Poppins: The Musical. (I’m counting her because, even though the musical is semi-based on the movie, this character never APPEARED in the movie, unlike other Disney Musical Villains, like Frollo, Scar, or Ursula. Miss Andrew is only found in the stage show...and the P.L. Travers books, I suppose.)

18. Velma Von Tussle, from Hairspray.

17. Jud Fry, from Oklahoma!

16. Caiaphas & Annas, from Jesus Christ Superstar.

15. Hades, from Hadestown.

14. Mayzie LaBird, from Seussical.

13. Madame Morrible, from Wicked.

12. Dr. Frank-N-Furter, from Rocky Horror (Picture) Show.

11. Mr. Applegate, from Damn Yankees!

10. Mr. Hyde, from Jekyll & Hyde.

9. Aaron Burr, from Hamilton. (Hey, he outright admits to being “the villain in your history;” I say he counts, no matter how much we love him.)

8. Captain Hook, from Peter Pan.

7. Audrey II, from Little Shop of Horrors. (And yes, to those who know me on this site...this plant makes me VERY blushy and shivery and all that stuff. >///> )

6. Fagin, from Oliver!

5. The Thenardiers, from Les Miserables.

4. The Mad Hatter, from Wonderland. (Specifically as played by Kate Shindle; others who have played the Hatter, and the ways the Hatter has been handled in those versions, are okay...but this one is just EPIC.)

3. Judge Turpin, from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

2. Miss Hannigan, from Annie.

1. Erik, a.k.a. The Phantom, from The Phantom of the Opera.

[themainframes]

PLEASANT HILL DOSSIER

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS COMPILED BY THE HACKER KNOWN AS THE WHISPERER AND A VERIFIED WHISTLEBLOWER.

S.H.I.E.L.D. OUTPOSTS

Six outposts around the United States carried classified information relating to Project KOBRIK, including a code that could only be compiled from entering the system of each individual base. Within six days of the last week, four outposts were destroyed by the Winter Soldier and Black Widow. Surveillance shows the pairs also breaking into the last two on 30 May 2025 and 31 May 2025.

Footage on the sixth outpost - Helicarrier Thesus - showed footage of some kind of reality glitch that resulted in S.H.I.E.L.D. agents seemingly being erased from reality. Despite the red of the energy burst, Wanda Maximoff is not believed to be a suspect.

SEQUENCE UNLOCKED FROM OUTPOSTS: 4-9-5-7-2-4, Section 3

This code enters you into the Project Kobik mainframe

PROJECT KOBIK:

Using Infinity Stone based reality warping, S.H.I.E.L.D. has created the town of Pleasant Hill, CT, a highly sophisticated prison center for criminals that present the highest threats. They were either captured on the streets or transferred from other facilities and rehabilitated before completing a short stay at the Pleasant Hill Inn for monitoring. Afterwards, they are released to the town to acclimate into “normal” life.

Those entering Pleasant Hill with clearance are given reality blockers, chips made by Dr. Erik Selvig that affix to the back of the neck. It can be unhooked by applying pressure to the top left and bottom right corners. This opens neurological pathways and keeps the mind from succumbing to the reality warp.

The town database controls the town and is located in room 8-1 of the hospital. The database is <file not yet decoded> and can be powered down by <file not yet decoded> . A back-up system has not yet been solidified.

PLEASANT HILL, CT - BASIC STATS

TOWN MOTTO: “Come back for a stay!” LOCATION: 41.6032° N, 73.0877° W

POPULATION: 184

30 inmates/residents

96 ground operatives

40 civilan staffers

18 special agents (see below)

GOAL: Everybody finds out what’s so great about them in Pleasant Hill. Then, someday, they can leave and go do nice stuff out in society.

PLEASANT HILL, CT - TRAINING VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

AUDIO: Hello, I’m S.H.I.E.L.D. Special Coordinator Sharon Carter, and I’d like to welcome you to Pleasant Hill: the future of super villain incarceration. How many times have you heard the same story? Guy in costume gets caught, sent off to jail. But then -- one week later -- he breaks out again! It’s madness! We’ve tried Rafts… We’ve tried Vaults… We’ve tried Negative Zones. Nothing seems to stop the revolving door. But now, we at S.H.I.EL.D. have come up with a solution that’s humane, efficient and best of all, cost effective. Using our patented KOBIK program we can turn any enemy of the state into a peaceful member of society in seconds.

VISUAL: At this point, we see a criminal known as Segei Kravinoff, aka “Kraven the Hunter”  restrained.

AUDIO: Kravinoff has undergone physiological changes that put him at the top of the food chain. He is better, stronger, faster and more cunning than any human, coupled with his skills, Kraven truly is a dangerous and deadly adversary. He’s caused thousands in damages and killed hundreds both purposefully or as accidental casualties. Currently, a power dampener field negates his powers, but we all know how that usually works out, right? Except this time, we’re going to try something different. Watch what happens when we take Kraven and turn him into...

VISUAL: The screen briefly becomes red. When it refocuses Kravinoff is gone and replaced with a mild mannered man in glasses and scrubs.

AUDIO: Alban Lewis! Alban’s just moved to Pleasant Hill to open up the very first pet grooming shop. I’ll have to take my little guy over soon.

VISUAL: Kravinoff/Lewis is clearly disoriented but not upset as he waves hello before being escorted out.

AUDIO: Now, as an Agent stationed in Pleasant Hill, you’ll be charged with a number of duties such as surveillance, ongoing treatment and yes, security. But I’m pleased to report we haven’t needed much of anything in that department to date! However, a word of caution, stay out of the top floor of the hospital. It’s there that --

TRANSMISSION LOST.

PLEASANT HILL, CT - TRAINING VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

HERE you will find the up to date town registry based on the last census. Below is S.H.I.E.L.D.’s inmate list:

Adrian Toomes (Vulture) - sinister six

Agatha Harkness - n/a

Anthony Masters (Taskmaster) - thunderbolts

Benjamin Poindexter (Bullseye) - n/a

Cain Marko (Juggernaut) - n/a

Calvin Zabo (Mr. Hyde) - n/a

Elektra Natchios - n/a

Eric Williams (Grim Reaper) - n/a

Felicia Hardy (Black Cat) - n/a

Freelancer (Crush) - freelancers

Freelancer (Cursed Cass) - freelancers

Freelancer (Hotness) - freelancers

Freelancer (Might) - freelancers

Freelancer (Panic) - freelancers

Georges Batroc (Batroc the Leaper) - thunderbolts

Giulietta Nefaria (Madame Masque)

Helmut Zemo (Baron Zemo) - thunderbolts

John Walker (U.S. Agent) - thunderbolts

Karla Sofen (Moonstone) - n/a

Lonnie Lincoln (Tombstone) - n/a

Melissa Gold (Songbird) - thunderbolts

Miles Warren (Jackal)  - n/a

Norman Osborn (Green Goblin) - sinister six

Ripley Ryan (Star) - thunderbolts

Rita Demara (Yellowjacket) - sinister six

Roger Gocking (Porcupine) - n/a

Sergei Kravinoff (Kraven the Hunter) - sinister six

Sinthea Schmidt (Sin) - n/a

Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) - n/a

Yelena Belova (White Widow) - thunderbolts

PLEASANT HILL, CT - ADMINISTRATION

The highest level of Pleasant Hill officials, they retain their own faces when inside the town and are not required to live on the premises.

NAME: Maria Hill TITLE: Program Director AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: N/A

NAME: Sharon Carter / Agent 13 TITLE: Program Director AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Leah Overton

NAME: Dr. Barbara Morse / Mockingbird TITLE: Communications Liaison AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. / Mighty Avengers PERSONA: Violet Testa

PLEASANT HILL, CT - SCIENCE DIVISION

The Science Division work off-site but do enter Pleasant Hill to check in on the town database. They are not given new faces.

NAME: Dr. Erik Selvig TITLE: Scientific Development Director AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. / Independent  PERSONA: Dr. Hans Sutherland

NAME: Dr. Kavita Rao TITLE: Head of Research AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Dr. Mathilda Singh

PLEASANT HILL, CT - ONSITE SPECIALISTS

Onsite specialists outrank embedded agents and S.H.I.E.L.D. staffers. They are allowed to retain their own faces and are required to be present in Pleasant Hill daily with most leaving the town at night.

NAME: Alisandre Morales TITLE: Head of Intake Processing AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Natalia Granger

NAME: Alison Blaire / Dazzler TITLE: Head of Civilian Affairs AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Lissa Little

NAME: Jake Oh TITLE: Head of Security AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Tate Yang

NAME: Dr. Randall Jessup TITLE: Head of Onsite Scientific Research AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Dr. Daniel Torres

NAME: Dr. Valerie Cooper TITLE: Onsite Psychologist AFFILIATION: SA to President's National Security Adviser  PERSONA: Dr. Flora Bond

PLEASANT HILL, CT - REINFORCEMENTS

Selected for their abilities, the telepathic reinforcements individually alternate the town to handle any glitches or border disruptions. They are not given face changes.

NAME: Olivia Hook TITLE: Telepathic Intervention & Protection AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Clara Rot

NAME: Martinique Wyngarde / Mastermind TITLE: Telepathic Reinforcement & Security AFFILIATION: Freelance PERSONA: Cassandra West

NAME: Regan Wyngarde / Lady Mastermind TITLE: Telepathic Reinforcement & Security AFFILIATION: Freelance PERSONA: Cleo West

PLEASANT HILL, CT - EMBEDDED AGENTS

Embedded agents must primarily reside in Pleasant Hill and are allowed to leave for one day a week. They outrank S.H.I.E.L.D. staffers but have Pleasant Hill appearance changes.

NAME: Avril Kincaid TITLE: Mayor’s Assistant AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Vera Jakobs

NAME: Daisy Johnson TITLE: Town Patrol AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. / Ultimates  PERSONA: Sabine Tasker

NAME: Jenna Carlisle TITLE: Runs Town Inn  AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Florence Young

NAME: Nicole Orr TITLE: Town Management AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Dina Scott

NAME: Scott Adsit TITLE: Border Patrol  AFFILIATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. PERSONA: Robert Bridgers

S.H.I.E.L.D. OUTPOSTS

Six outposts around the United States carried classified information relating to Project KOBRIK, including a code that could only be compiled from entering the system of each individual base. Within six days of the last week, four outposts were destroyed by the Winter Soldier and Black Widow. Surveillance shows the pairs also breaking into the last two on 30 May 2025 and 31 May 2025.

Footage on the sixth outpost - Helicarrier Thesus - showed footage of some kind of reality glitch that resulted in S.H.I.E.L.D. agents seemingly being erased from reality. Despite the red of the energy burst, Wanda Maximoff is not believed to be a suspect.

SEQUENCE UNLOCKED FROM OUTPOSTS: 4-9-5-7-2-4, Section 3

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[opera-ghosts]

Walter Hyde (6 February 1875 – 11 November 1951) was a British tenor, In 1901 he sang Borrachio in the premiere of Stanford's Much Ado About Nothing and soon appeared in London's West End in light opera and Edwardian musical comedy. He appeared regularly at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden between 1908 and 1924, becoming known for roles in Wagner operas, among others, both in Britain and America. He was also in demand as a concert artist. In his later years he was Professor of Voice at the Guildhall School of Music where his students included Geraint Evans and Owen Brannigan. He received lessons in voice before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied composition under Joseph Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford and harmony and orchestration with Walter Parratt. On graduating Hyde was engaged by the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden to create the role of Borrachio in the premiere of Stanford's Much Ado About Nothing on 30 May 1901. Hyde was appearing as Bandmaster van Vuyt in Miss Hook of Holland when he impressed Percy Pitt who introduced him to Hans Richter Richter was preparing for a 1908 production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in English at the Royal Opera House and cast Hyde as Froh in Das Rheingold and Siegmund in Die Walküre  Hyde accompanied Richter and the rest of the cast in concerts at Manchester and Leeds where they sang Act I of Die Walküre; Hyde would continue to sing Wagner roles for the rest of his career. By 1909 he was singing tenor roles in oratorio at the Hereford and Birmingham Festivals and continued to do so up to and including the Leeds Festival of 1928. In May 1909 Hyde made his début in Italian opera at the Royal Opera House as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly followed by Gluck's Armide, In November 1909 he sang in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust in a Proms concert under the baton of Henry Wood repeated two days later in a Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle. The same year, Hyde returned to the Royal Opera House as Loge in Das Rheingold and Siegmund in Die Walküre. n January 1910 he sang Walther in an English-language version of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under the baton of Richter.For Thomas Beecham's first season at the Royal Opera House in February 1910 Hyde sang Sali in A Village Romeo and Juliet by Frederick Delius. For Beecham's second season at Covent Garden he was Laertes in Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Erik in Der Fliegende Hollander and sang in Gounod's Faust. In March and April 1911 Hyde sang Loge in Das Rheingold and Siegmund in Die Walküre in Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow. On returning to England in 1913 Hyde toured the provinces singing in Wagnerian tenor roles before singing Pelléas in September 1913 in the first performance in English of Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande at Birmingham. In early 1914 Hyde was booked to sing the title role in Lohengrin at the Hungarian State Opera House, but a misunderstanding over language (he thought he was to sing in German and did not know the role in English) resulted in the organisers switching to Die Meistersinger, which he sang in English. in 1919 he played Samson in Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah  During 1923 Hyde created the role of the Troubador in Holst's The Perfect Fool and sang in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House in the first production since the end of the War. Commencing on Boxing Day at Covent Garden that year, he sang in Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, The Magic Flute and as Belmonte in Il Seraglio.

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Classic literature vines compilation: crossovers pt. 01

A/N: I’ll have to split this one too.

Victor Frankenstein: Hey, wanna hear a chemistry joke?

Henry Jekyll: …

Victor Frankenstein: Sooo no?

Henry Jekyll: Oh sorry, did you want a REACTION? >;D

Victor Frankenstein: *cries in a corner*

Edward Hyde: Come on, shake what yo' mama gave ya! :D

Frankenstein's Creature: My mother was the most selfish woman I ever met, SHE NEVER GAVE ME ANYTHING-

Edward Hyde: Alright! Jesus …

Dr. Moreau, conducting the orchestra, singing: Anarchy that I run, it's Doctor Horrible's turn-

Dr. Jekyll, playing the piano, singing:  -You people all have to learn-

Frankenstein at the mic, singing: -This world is going to-

All three: BURN! BURN! BURN!

Frankenstein, speaking: Yeah, it's two R's, h-o-r-r, right-

All three: BURN!

Edward Hyde, to Frankenstein's Creature: You gotta start taking the thug life more seriously!

Ice cream wagon: *appears off-screen*

Edward Hyde & Frankenstein's Creature: ICE CREAM!!! *run out of the picture excitedly* 

Frankenstein's Creature: Dad's been on a hunting trip. And he hasn't been home for a few days.

Edward Hyde: …

Frankenstein's Creature: …

Both: *put on shades*

Hyde: *slamming the door shut and open*

Frankenstein's Creature: *playing the trumpet*

Dr. Moreau: Hello?

Victor Frankenstein: Hey, what's up?

Dr. Moreau:I need your help. You come here?

Victor Frankenstein: Uh, I can't, I'm buying clothes.

Dr. Moreau: Either way, hurry up and come here.

Victor Frankenstein: I can't find them.

Dr. Moreau: What do you mean, you can't find them?

Victor Frankenstein: I can't find them, there is only soup!

Dr. Moreau: What do you mean, there is only soup?

Victor Frankenstein: It means, there is only soup!

Dr. Moreau: WELL THEN GET OUT OF THE SOUP AISLE!

Victor Frankenstein: Alright, you don't have to shout at me! *goes to the next aisle* There's more soup.

Dr. Moreau: What do you mean, there's more soup?!

Victor Frankenstein: There's just more soup.

Dr. Moreau: Go to the next aisle!

Victor Frankenstein: There's still soup!

Dr. Moreau: Where are you right now?!

Victor Frankenstein: I'm at Soup!

Dr. Moreau: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU'RE AT SOUP?!

Victor Frankenstein: I MEAN, I'M AT SOUP!

Dr. Moreau: WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN?!

Victor Frankenstein: I'M AT THE SOUP STORE!

Dr. Moreau: WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE?!

Victor Frankenstein: FUCK YOU!!!

Dr. Jekyll: Hello?

Griffin: Hey, what's up?

Dr. Jekyll: I need your help. You come here?

Griffin: Uh, I can't, I'm buying clothes.

Dr. Jekyll: Either way, hurry up and come here.

Griffin: I can't find them.

Dr. Jekyll: What do you mean, you can't find them?

Griffin: I can't find them, there's only soup.

Dr. Jekyll: What do you mean, there's only soup?

Griffin: It means, there's only soup!

Dr. Jekyll: WELL, THEN GET OUT OF THE SOUP AISLE!

Griffin: Alright, you don't have to shout at me! *goes to the next aisle* There's more soup!

Dr. Jekyll: What do you mean, there's more soup?

Griffin: There's just more soup!

Dr. Jekyll: Go into the next aisle!

Griffin: There's still soup!

Dr. Jekyll: WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?!

Griffin: I'M AT SOUP!

Dr. Jekyll: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU'RE AT SOUP!?

Griffin: I MEAN, I'M AT SOUP!

Dr. Jekyll (about to transform): WHAT STORE ARE YOU IN?!

Griffin: I'M AT THE SOUP STORE!

Mr. Hyde (just transformed): WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE?!

Griffin: FUCK YOU!!!

Dr. Jekyll, sombrely: Sir, you appear to have a very severe case of-

Dr. Jekyll: -Baby Voice.

Frankenstein: *cries like a baby*

Dr. Moreau: Hello, welcome to Standing Up School!

Victor Frankenstein: *flop*

Dr. Moreau: Aaand, you failed.

Dorian Gray, to Frankenstein's Creature: Yo' mama's so fat-

Frankenstein's Creature: I have two dads. -_-

Dorian Gray: …

Frankenstein's Creature: Doesn't really work.

Victor Frankenstein: Ah, but what about the laws of compassion? Sir, please cover the laws of compassion for us!

Dr. Jekyll: What do you want now?!

Victor Frankenstein: It's time to cover the laws of compassion!

Dr. Jekyll: We already covered that!

Victor Frankenstein: Teach me, Senpai-

Victor Frankenstein: -you bitch!

Griffin: Good afternoon, Sir. Could we interest you in some chocolate?

Dr. Jekyll: Chocolate? Did you say chocolate?!

Dr. Moreau: Yes, Sir. With or without nuts.

Dr. Jekyll, transforming: Chocolate … chocolate …

Mr. Hyde, just transformed: CHOCOLAAAATE! CHOCOLAAAAAAAAATE! CHOCOLAAAAAAAATE! CHOCOLAAAAAAAATE!!!

Griffin and Dr. Moreau: *run for their lives*

Mr. Hyde: CHOCOLAAAAAAAAATE!!! *pursues them*

Frankenstein's Creature: Victor? Where are you?

Frankenstein's Creature: Your creature wants to go home and get s-go to sleep!

Frankenstein's Creature, frantically looking around: Has anyone seen my creator?! Oh god, Victor! That filial adrenaline is kicking in! FATHER!!!

Frankenstein's Creature to Dr. Jekyll: Excuse me, Doctor, have you seen my creator, Victor Frankenstein?! This tall, clearly gay, but we haven't had the talk yet!

Dr. Jekyll: Uhhh … O_e

Van Helsing: Well then, show us something!

Dr. Jekyll: Noooo, it's embarrassing!

Victor Frankenstein: Do something! *attacks*

Dr. Jekyll: *knocks him out with a roundhouse kick*

Van Helsing: … Shit! O_O

Edward Hyde: So you play the piano?

Dorian Gray: Yeah?

Edward Hyde: Soo, you're a pe(a)nis(t)?

Dorian Gray: O_e

Edward Hyde: *cackles*

Van Helsing, as a Yoga coach: Release all the sounds that are trapped in your mind.

Dr. Jekyll: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH-

Victor Frankenstein: …

Griffin: …

Dorian Gray: …

Erik: … 

Van Helsing: … Doctor? Are you okay?

Dr. Jekyll: I'm a little better now.

Van Helsing: When exactly did you lose your mind?

Griffin: Hmm … three months ago. I woke up one morning, married to a pine-apple! An ugly pine-apple.

Griffin: *sighs dreamily* But I loved her! <3

Frankenstein's Creature: This is fun.

Edward Hyde: You know, we could have more fun upstairs in my bed.

Frankenstein's Creature: *playing video games with Hyde* You're so right!

Edward Hyde: Yup!

Edward Hyde: Teacher, can I use the bathroom?

Victor Frankenstein: I don't know, can you?

Edward Hyde: I don't know, can you get a full-time job and an actual exam, diploma and doctorate? You college drop-out.

Edward Hyde: Seriously. Everyone in this room is more educated than you. Even I.

Frankenstein's Monster, Griffin & Dorian Gray: OHHHHHHHHHH!!! *laugh*

Victor Frankenstein: …

Edward Hyde: *has shades on*

Erik: I like killing people, how about you?

Dracula: Drinking blood. *turns to Dorian Gray* You?

Dorian Gray: Fashion.

The other two: O_e

Dorian Gray: You're looking fabulous, btw.

Count Dracula: Are you a real villain?

Dorian Gray: Uh-

Edward Hyde: Well, uh, technically, uh-

Count Dracula: Have you ever caught a good guy, like, a real superhero?

Edward Hyde: Nah.

Dorian Gray: *shakes head*

Count Dracula: Have you ever tried a disguise?

Everyone, except Hyde: *shakes head*

Edward Hyde: Bitch, I AM the disguise!

Count Dracula: *ignores Hyde* Alright! I can see, that I will have to teach you, how to be villains!

Count Dracula: *starts playing an obnoxious tune on the saxophone*

Everyone else: HEY!!! O_e

[smokeyloki]

Ugly Sweaters: POTO Edition

Alright alright my fellow phans,

    If one wishes to make a POTO Ugly Sweater, you need some things:

-Sweater

-Time (or commitment, both are good)

-Felt

-Thread n’ Needle

-Fabric Craft Paint

    And before you know it, after slaving over it for several days, you have something like this:

*Dramatic organ music*

     So here’s the finished product!  I drew the outlines of the boarders, then drew each character and accessory, cut out the little bits, and sewed them on top of each other.  I’ll add a close-up of each character:

    Here’s Raoul.  I put Christmas lights around his boarder.  He’s holding one end of the red scarf.  I figured a scarf was Christmas-y.

   Here’s Christine!  I sort of modeled her outfit on the one she wears in the I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt it scene.  Then I added the Santa hat and she’s holding the other end of the scarf.

    I actually sewed her hair onto the shirt, then sewed her body right next to it, to keep from extra overlapping stitching in her hair.  The outfit was made by sewing a small piece of pink felt under the white felt.  

    Also, you can’t see it too well in any of the photos, but there’s a little gold and silver chandelier hanging off of Christine’s star boarder.

    And of course, here’s the real star of the Ugly Sweater.  Erik took the most time, as I had to add a bowtie, his hat, and a cape made out of sparkly purple fabric.  I also gave him gloves ‘cause Erik with gloves is cool and refined.  The punjab lasso was extremely last-minute, but he looked left out with nothing to hold.  *Still friend-zoned though [tips fedora]*

    But to crown the sweater was a delightful pun conceived by a close acquaintance of mine.  Instead of “Happy Holidays���, he suggested I make a pun out of Christine’s last name...so...

Here are the sleeves.

   This is by far the most time I’ve ever dedicated to a single project.  And I already have ideas for the future: Jekyll and Hyde, Count of Monte Cristo, Scarlet Pimpernel...the list is already rather extensive.

...So...what did you guys do during winter break?  

[aceattorneyutterson]

Gabriel Utterson

Full name: Gabriel John Utterson

Nickname(s) or Alias: Gabe, John

Gender: Male

Species: Human

Age: 40

Birthday: March 20th, 1846

Sexuality: Bisexual

Nationality: British

Religion: Orthodox Christian

City or town of birth: London, England

Currently lives: London, Englad

Languages spoken: English, Latin, conversational Romanian

Native language: English

Relationship Status: Married

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Height: 6'4

Weight: 111.584 kg (246 lb)

Figure/build: Tall and stocky, combination muscular with little "pudgy" areas around the stomach and thighs

Hair colour: Salt and pepper/black and grey

Hairstyle: Coily, kinky curls

Facial Hairstyle: Sideburns and scruffy beard, matching the color of his hair

Eye colour: Dark brown

Skin/fur/etc colour: Dark bronze

Tattoos: N/A

Piercings: N/A

Scars/distinguishing marks: Scars hidden on his back

Preferred style of clothing: Business formal; black suit with a dark blue vest over a white button up, often wears a top hat with a blue brim.

Frequently worn jewellery/accessories: Wedding ring; made of an obsidian band with a tiny sapphire crystal

Smoker? N/A

Drinker? Occasionally, often seen as a "light weight"

Recreational Drug User? Which? N/A

Addictions: N/A

Allergies: N/A

Any physical ailments/illnesses/disabilities: Mild depressive symptoms

Any medication regularly taken: N/A

Personality: Around strangers, he is polite and very quick to the point, often very business-like in his interaction. Can often be seen as kind of stoaic, sometimes too serious. Around friends and family, he is a little more lighthearted and casual, smiles more often, but can still be reserved.

Likes: Theatre, Gin, work, reading, research, baking, family time, being a father, baths, his wife, and helping others.

Dislikes: Lying, disrespectfulness, past treatment, discrimination of any sort, and Mr. Hyde.

Fears/phobias: Losing his family, being alone, failing those he cares about, not being enough, and his past.

Favourite colour: Blue

Hobbies: Working, reading, baking, and playing with his children

Taste in music: Classical and cabernet

SKILLS

Talents/skills: Really good at debating, well trained in self-defense, and good with children.

Ability to drive a car? Operate any other vehicles? Drives a car

EATING HABITS

Omnivore/Carnivore/Herbivore (Vegetarian): Omnivore

Favourite food(s): Confections of any sort, beef stew, sausage rolls, steak, and shepherd's pie

Favourite drink(s): Water, gin, and black coffee

Disliked food(s): Any pickled foods, sauerkraut or sea food

Disliked drink(s): Ale, soda

HOUSE AND HOME

Describe the character's house/home: Two stories, classic Victorian layout with six bedrooms and four bathrooms. Outside panels are white with blue trim. Additional attic and basement.

Do they share their home with anyone? Who? His wife, Lavina, and their four children.

Significant/special belongings: Collection of the supernatural by Abraham Van Helsing, a silver sword, and a leather hunting suit.

CAREER

Level of education: Graduated from law school

Qualifications: PhD in law

Current job title and description: Personal lawyer, can argue any case but often does personal dispute and injury.

Name of employer: Himself

COMBAT

Peaceful or aggressive attitude? A mix, varying in situations

Fighting skills/techniques: Swordsmanship, hand-to-hand combat

Special skills/magical powers/etc: N/A

Weapon of choice (if any): Silver sword

Weaknesses in combat: His own humanity

Strengths in combat: Levelheadedness

FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FOES

Parents names: John Utterson (father) and Josphine Utterson (mother)

Are parents alive or dead? Dead

Is the character still in contact with their parents? No

Siblings? Relationship with siblings? Mackenzie Utterson, (little sister) deceased

Other Important Relatives: 

Partner/Spouse: Lavina Utterson (wife)

Children: Mackenzie, Samuel, Anastasia, and Douglas

Best Friend: Robert Lanyon

Other Important Friends: Henry Jekyll, Lisa Jekyll, Charlotte Enfield, and Francis Poole

Acquaintances: Raoul de Changy, Erik, Marlowe, Lucy Harris (formerly), Victoria Frankenstein

Pets: N/A

Enemies? Why are they enemies? Edward Hyde because he goes against everything Gabriel stands for. Richard Enfield because he was abusive towards his wife and conspired against his own family. Simon Stride for abusing women in his brothel. Dr. Moreau for kidnapping and torturing his wife and best friend

BACKSTORY

Describe their childhood (newborn - age 10): Born into the weathly Utterson family where John Utterson had high expectations from the beginning. He was raised under a strict code and taught to obey rules. His life relaxed and became a bit more fun when he turned 8 and his little sister, Mackenzie, was born.

Describe their  teenage years (11 - 19): Was sent off to a boarding school for his early schooling years, but often stayed in touch with his little sister via letters. He was accepted into Oxford University's law school at 17-years-old and rekindled relationships with his childhood friends Robert and Henry.

Describe their  adult years (20+): Graduated University at age 21 and began an apprenticeship with a variety of different lawyers. At 23, he and his sister took a trip to the Netherlands, enjoying the time away from his family, however, one night on their trip, Mackenzie Utterson is murdered by an unknown suspect who drained his sister dry of blood. Upon seeing this, Gabriel's heart shattered and for the next 5 years, disappeared to train as a vampire hunter under the Van Helsing family. When he returns to London at 28, he opens his own law firm and during the night, he hunts for vampires. One year later, on another trip to Amsterdam, Holland, he meets a vampire woman named Lavina Dalca, who initially attacks and changes Robert Lanyon. When she follows him to London, he is apprehensive at first, but soon welcomes her company and falls in love. Seven years later, his first daughter, Mackenzie, is born. However, the happiness only last two years, as Lavina returns home to Romania and soon vanishes. During her absence, all he has is Mackenzie, but thankfully Henry has developed a small serum taken with the smallest ounce of vampirism, that slows the aging process immensely. Sadly, his family separates even more after Henry's daughter, Emma, is born and sent to the Americas to hide from the wars raging in Europe, Gabriel sends Mackenzie away. For the next 94 years, Gabriel is alone until his "niece" Charlotte, returns to London with Emma and Mackenzie and a month later, Lavina returns as well. Finally marrying, Samuel Utterson is born shortly after, and years later, his twins, Anastasia and Douglas.

(While my version of Utterson ties in heavily with the fanstory that I and @queen-of-nerds1026 and I have created, he still does and can coincide with current TGS canon)

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i noticed y’all have been enjoying my novel masterposts. so im just going to keep posting because im obsessed with books like that T.T

for my study-like-rory studyblr friends who want to read all the books mentioned in gilmore girls (because hello?? who doesn’t??), here’s a list! pls let me know if i missed a book, but i think it’s quite a complete list! enjoy!!

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1984 – George Orwell

A

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

Archidamian War – Donald Kagen

The Art of Fiction  – Henry James

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

Atonement – Ian McEwan

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy

B

Babe – Dick King-Smith

Backlash – Susan Faludi

Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Beowulf – Seamus Heaney

The Bhagava Gita

The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy

Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel

A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane – Monica Ali

Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner

C

Candide – Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer

Carrie –Stephen King

Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

The Celebrated Jumping Frog – Mark Twain

Charlotte’s Web – EB White

The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman

Christine – Stephen King

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse

The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare

Complete Novels – Dawn Powell

The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton

Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac

Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

Cujo – Stephen King

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon

D

Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende

David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin

David Coperfield – Charles Dickens

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)

Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Deenie – Judy Blume

The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson

The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx

The Divine Comedy – Dante

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells

Don Quijote – Cervantes

Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde ­– Robert Louis Stevenson

E

Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn

Eloise – Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange – Roger Reger

Emma – Jane Austen

Empire Falls – Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

Ethics – Spinoza

Eva Luna – Isabel Allende

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer

Extravagance – Gary Kist

F

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore

The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan

Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien

Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein

The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce

Fletch – Gregory McDonald

Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes

The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger

Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers

G

Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble – Judith Baker

George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg

Gidget – Fredrick Kohner

Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen

The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford

The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

The Graduate – Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The Group – Mary McCarthy

H

Hamlet – Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi

Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare

Henry V – Shakespeare

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons

Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris

The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton

House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III

The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland

Howl – Alan Ginsburg

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

I

The Illiad – Homer

I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Inferno – Dante

Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee

Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy

It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton

J

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

Julius Caesar – Shakespeare

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito

K

The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

L

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield

Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens

The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway

The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson

Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott

Living History – Hillary Clinton

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

The Love Story – Eric Segal

M

Macbeth – Shakespeare

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)

Marathon Man – William Goldman

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Memoirs of  Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris

The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer

Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken

The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

The Miracle Worker – William Gibson

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin

Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor

A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman

Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret

A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall

My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh

My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken

My Life in Orange – Tim Guest

My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

N

The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin

Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen

New Poems of Emily Dickinson

The New Way Things Work – David Macaulay

Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich

Night – Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain

Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski

O

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Old School – Tobias Wolff

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

On the Road – Jack Keruac

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life – Amy Tan

Oracle Night – Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

Othello – Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan

Out of Africa – Isac Dineson

The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton

P

A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – Donald Kagan

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Peyton Place – Grace Metalious

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain

The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby

The Portable Dorothy Parker

The Portable Nietzche

The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Property – Valerie Martin

Pushkin – TJ Binyon

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Q

Quattrocento – James McKean

A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall

R

Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers

The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham

Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi

Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant

Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman

The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien

R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton

Rita Hayworth – Stephen King

Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert

Roman Fever – Edith Wharton

Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare

A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View – EM Forster

Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

The Rough Guide to Europe

S

Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi

Sanctuary – William Faulkner

Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford

Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James

The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum

The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne

Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand

The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior

The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

A Separate Place – John Knowles

Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

Sexus – Henry Miller

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron

Shane – Jack Shaefer

The Shining – Stephen King

Siddartha – Hermann Hesse

S is for Silence – Sue Grafton

Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut

Small Island – Andrea Levy

Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway

Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore

The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht

Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos

The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker

Songbook – Nick Hornby

The Sonnets – Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophie’s Choice – William Styron

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov

Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach

The Story of my Life – Helen Keller

A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams

Stuart Little – EB White

Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust

Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett

Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber

T

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald

Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty

Time and Again – Jack Finney

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar

To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare

Travel and Motoring through Europe – Myra Waldo

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson

Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

U

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless – Carol Shields

V

Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann

The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard

The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

W

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

Walt Disney’s Bambi – Felix Salten

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker

What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles

What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell

When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka

Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee

Wicked – Gregory Maguire

The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

Y

The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

OTHER RESOURCES:

19th Century Novels Masterpost

20th Century Novels Masterpost

21st Century Novels Masterpost

Rory Gilmore’s Reading List

Series Masterpost

[moontemple85-blog]

7 Great Books Set in Chicago

Chicago has been the backdrop of both modern and classic literary works. And in many cases, the city acts as both the setting and a character itself. 

In these seven contemporary novels, Chicago is an integral element that drives the story. We've paired each tale with the neighborhood, landmark or cultural institution that will transport readers straight to the pages of their favorite book.

“Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.” ― Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Travel back in time to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, when Chicago made its cultural mark on the world stage. Erik Larson's acclaimed true-crime thriller, The Devil in the White City weaves together the stories of Daniel Burnham, the architect behind fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, the first known American serial killer.

While Holmes' “Murder Castle” and most of the fair’s buildings are long gone, you can still visit the fair’s scenic setting in Jackson Park in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Across the park’s lagoon lies one of the last remnants of the fair — the Museum of Science and Industry (5700 S. Lake Shore Dr.) was once home to the Palace of Fine Arts.

In this-best selling trilogy, Chicago is transformed into a dystopian society. The first book in the series follows 16-year-old Beatrice Prior as she learns to survive a world divided into factions and choose between her family and who she really is.

Chicago landmarks figure prominently into the action throughout the book. Readers can spot references to the Willis Tower, Cloud Gate (better known as “The Bean”), and Lake Michigan. One of the more harrowing scenes takes place on Navy Pier’s Centennial Wheel (600 E. Grand Ave.), which Beatrice scales during a game of capture the flag.

“Chicago would unfurl its map to him one promising street, one intoxicating space, at a time. It would weave him into its grid, pour beer in his mouth and music in his ears. It would keep him.” ― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

It's 1985 and Yale Tishman is working at Northwestern University's new art gallery just outside Chicago. But his career, relationship and the city itself is turned upside down during the AIDS epidemic. The Great Believers is one of the first novels to portray Chicago during the AIDS epidemic in unflinching detail, from its initial outbreak to the present as its two intertwining stories carry readers through heartbreak and hope.

Readers will follow Yale through a faithful recreation of Chicago in the eighties, from Lincoln Park to downtown to Evanston. Boystown in particular comes to life as a safe haven for Yale and his friends. Today, it’s still one of the most inclusive LGBTQ+  neighborhoods in the nation. Visitors can walk the historic Legacy Walk, which spans a half mile of the North Halsted corridor, and learn about LGBTQ heroes and events.

"It was the world’s first thoroughly modern campus, the brochures said, built in just the last few years, conceptually groundbreaking, a campus unlike any other: created as a single vast system using the most fashionable principles of social design and engineering...” ―  Nathan Hill, The Nix

The Nix brings readers into the world of Sam Andresen-Anderson, a professor at a university in Chicago, who is struggling to complete work on his book. Then he spots his mother, who abandoned him ages ago, throwing rocks at a politician in a viral video, and he sets off on a completely different course. This epic tale traces the tumultuous 1968 Chicago riots, revealing the impact these events had on not only on Sam and his mother, but also on the entire country.

The book intricately describes the University of Illinois at Chicago campus circa late 1960s. Get a glimpse of the book's setting by taking a walk around the UIC campus and surrounding University Village neighborhood. To learn more about activism on Chicago's college campuses during that era, set off on a virtual tour with legendary activist Bill Ayers. Hyde Park, A Storied Neighborhood, Wrapped in Contradiction ($2.99; VoiceMap.me) will take you through the University of Chicago, where you'll encounter tales of world renowned architects, activists and artists.

In her debut novel, Audrey Niffenegger gives readers a whirlwind tour of Chicago through the eyes of a librarian with a time-traveling genetic condition and his artist wife. The romantic and heartbreaking story spans decades as the couple tries to build a life together against the pull of time.

The book is full of detailed references to Chicago, from landmarks to local stores. The Aragon Ballroom (1106 W. Lawrence Ave.), Lyric Opera of Chicago (20 N. Upper Wacker Dr.) and the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington St.) all make an appearance. Observant readers will also catch mentions of neighborhood favorites like Swedish restaurant Ann Sather (multiple locations) and The Berghoff (17 W. Adams St.) in the Loop.

Henrietta Von Harmon works as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall while also caring for her mother and younger siblings in 1930's Chicago. When the floor matron turns up dead, aloof Inspector Clive Howard appears on the scene and sends Henrietta undercover.

Much of the action in A Girl Like You takes place in the northwest neighborhood of Logan Square. Capture the vibe of the 1930's dance hall scene in Logan Square at Rosa's Lounge (3420 W. Armitage Ave). Or swing by Twin Anchors (1655 N. Sedgwick St.) in Old Town, a former soda shop and speakeasy that was a favorite of Frank Sinatra.

In Feuding Fan Dancers, Leslie Zemeckis brings the golden age of showgirls in Chicago to life. Burlesque dancers Faith Bacon and Sally Rand found stardom in the 1930’s through their daring performances, but their lives took dramatically different turns. One rose to fame while the other found heartache.

Chicago's burlesque scene still shines today. Vaudezilla (3614 W. Belmont Ave.) offers classes in the art of burlesque while also showcasing teachers and students in regular performances. At Untitled Supper Club’s (111 W. Kinzie St.) weekly Unbridled show, world-famous burlesque star Michelle L’amour presents one of the most stimulating burlesque performances in the city.

Source: https://www.choosechicago.com/blog/post/chicago-books/

[luckyvampyr]

Charles Xavier x OC

I guess it was about 11 am when my portal opend in front of the X-mansion. Luckily the students were in class so nobody noticed my big entrance. So I walked trough the door and started to think were my old friend could be but it seems like this wasn't necessary. He sit there reading like nothing happend. "Don't you want to greet and old friend Logan?" I asked him. Logan turnt around and looked at me. "Is that you Jo?", Logan asked with a slightly shocked face. "Do you really have to ask?" , I said while laughing. Then Logan came up to me and hugged me. "You haven't aged a day!", he said. "And neither did you.", I answered. "So where have you been the last 70 years? I missed you Jo!" "70 years? Logan you're talking shit right now. This boy can't be older than 20!", another voice appeared. Logan and I started grinning. "Erik not everything is like it seems", Logan answered, "He is far from being a boy." "Stop talking like that Logan. It's not that I am much older than I look." "What are you talking, Bub? You're basically 400 years old!" "I guess we should bring him to Charles, Logan. I think he would find your friend very interesting.", Erik said. Logan agreed to him and they brought me in an office....and then left me there....alone. Not that it isn't interesting but after a while it was kinda boring. So I used my magic and conjured a book from my apartment.

"interesting", suddenly a voice was there and I didn't heard the man came in. "You must be Jonathan I guess." A man in a wheelchair came to me. "The one and only", I said with a charming voice. "Where is that book from?", asked the guy with a funny british accent. "Well due to the fact I was boring because I have been sitting her for about an hour, I guess, I decidet to want to read. So, basically I magiced it to me.....from my apartment" "So you're able to teleport things to you? Is that your mutation?" " Oh no", I started laughing, " My mutation allows me to do way more than that"

"What are you able to do with it? Creating portals is a very powerful mutation." "How about I show you?" "That would be brilliant", says the british guy expectant. I tried to hyde the smirk on my face. "But I warn you", I said, "it will have an effect on you" "That won't be a problem" He clearly doesn't know what he will experience.

As he wished I reveald my truely power which are, and I know it sounds weird, my eyes. They look like cat eyes with a small pupil and the iris is has the colour of burning ice. They are blue at the outer edge and going purpel at the inner edge.

He looked into my eyes and didn't move for a moment. This moment was about five seconds long, then I decided to cover my eyes. "They have a brilliant effect on humans, don't they?", asked the british guy whos name I didn't know. "Oh sorry I am so impolite. My name is Charles Xavier but most of the people here call me 'The Professor'. But you definetly could go with Charles." "Okay Charles but there are more things my mutation allow me to do. You remember that book? Well with this kind of magic I can do basically everything I want to. The third thing my mutation alloews me to do is to to change my body. Or in other words I have two bodies. A masculine , which of course you're able to see now, and a feminine." "Those are a lot of powers...How are you able to control them all with this short amount of time. You seem like your 20 years old" "That flatters me a lot but it seems like a forgot my fourth power....I'm unable to get killed and my body stopped changing when I was nineteen. Luckily I already been throug puperty at that point." "So how old are you?" "I am 829 years old"

Charles looked shocked for a moment and then he starts to realise what he just had heared. "and thats why I now Logan so well." I finished my sentence. With a smirk on his face Charles said: "I just have to Know you better. You have an very interesting effect on me I think we should talk about it.....maybe tomorrow at the 'Gala' it's a wonderful restorant. " "You're asking me out on a date? So you're gay?" "Yes I am and no I am not so I'd prefer to see you as a woman if thats okay for you" "No problem Charles. See you there at eight", I answered with a wink.

I walked out of the room and started grinning. Tomorrow evening will be very interesting. I stopped thinking about him when I realised that he is a telepath. Then I heard a laugh out of his office "You got me", he shoutet while laughing.

[smokeyloki]

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Fanfic Ask Meme - Thanks for the questions, @tasteofthebitchpudding!

b. Are any stories inspired by personal experience?

     None of my stories are entirely based on personal experience.  That being said, I make use of conversations and imagined events made up by myself and my other siblings.  In terms of direct personal experience, I’m currently working on a Phantom Modern AU in a college setting, and that’s based off of personal experience at my college, as well as stories given to me by fellow peers and my piano professor.

n. Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

     Anything Cherik, really.  I don’t see enough phanfiction for him.  A couple of stories I’d like to see completed are “Forevermore” by @staminaoverlook, “Haunted by the Opera Ghost”, by @jamiepage19, and “Out of the Woods” by @wheel-of-fish.  

     Another fic I’d love to read (not quite PoTO) is a mash-up of great Victorian works/timeless classic characters, such as the Phantom, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, the Count of Monte Cristo, the Invisible Man, Dorian Gray, Sherlock Holmes, with a special guest appearance from the Scarlet Pimpernel and others.

    Also, if anyone wants to write all my stories for me, that would be great.

t. Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

     I can’t stand how Raoul is bashed or made to be less important/caring/loving, or made to be more of a shallow, one-dimensional character.  Raoul is one of my favorite characters, and he’s better than what a lot of people credit him.

     Let’s see…other things…uh…I’m not a fan of smut? I don’t know if that counts as a trope, but I don’t read fics with that stuff.  I find it hard to imagine, especially with characters from Phantom.  I don’t like it when people make Erik abusive or a jerk, and still try to justify Christine staying with him.  That’s not how life should work.  That’s not a good relationship.