#sonya seven moons

[literallys-illiteracy]

Project Moon Reading list

this is mt attempt at a comprehensive list of the references in Project Moon Games.

if you have any that arent listed, feel free to share them.

Lobotomy Corporation:

SCP-049 (Plague Doctor) (Speculated)

Portrait of Dorian Grey (Portrait of Another World; Mirror Of Adjustment) (Speculated)

Bible (One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds, Plague Doctor, Skin Prophecy, Flesh Idol, Burrowing Heaven, Express Train to Hell, Whitenight, Carmen)

Midsummer Nights Dream (Fariy Festival)

[Radio Station] UVB-76//The Buzzer (1.76Mhz)(Speculated)

Necronomicon//General Lovecraft (Skin Prophecy)

Colour Out of Space (Fragment of the Universe) (speculated; Thematically almost certainly lovecraft inspired)

The Little Match Girl (Scorched Girl)

Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

The Red Shoes (Red Shoes)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow searching for wisdom; Warm Hearted Woodsman)

Colour Out of Space (Child of the Galaxy) (speculative)

The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen)

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (Rudolta of the Sleigh)

[Opera] Der Freischutz (Der Freischutz)

Snow White and the seven dwarves (Snow White's Apple)

Alarune (Alriune) (speculative)

The Little Prince (Little Prince)

Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary; Big and Will be Bad Wolf)

Three Little Pigs (Big and Will be Bad Wolf)

The Six Swans (Dream of a Black Swan) (Speculative)

[Music] Bethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Il Pianta De La Luna, Silent Orchestra)

[Film] Spirited Away (Mountain of Smiling Bodies) (Design) (Speculative)

Wonderlab specific:

Alice's adventures in wonderland (Red Queen, Hookah Butterfly)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Scaredy Cat and the road home)

The little mermaid (Piscence mermaid)

Midsummer nights dream (Titania)

[Conjecture/Heavy Speculation] Snow Queen or Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Nobody Is)

Rapunzel (Tangle)

Lady in the Lake (White Lake)

Mythology and Folklore:

[Buddhist] Preta (Clouded Monk)

[Celtic] Faerie (Fairy Festival)

[German] Der Freischutz "The Freeshooter" (Der Freischutz)

[German] Doppelganger "Double Walker" (Nothing There) (thematic)

[German] Nachtkrapp "Night raven" (Big Bird) (Speculative; Personally unconvinced)

[Greek] Stymphalian birds (Punishing Bird) (Speculative)

[Greek] Pygmalion//Galatea (Pygmalion)

[Japanese] Baku (Void Dream)

[Japanese] Jubokko "Tree Child" (Grave of Cherry blossoms)

[Jewish] Kabbalah (Tree of life, Malkuth, Yesod, Netzach, Hod, Tifret, Gevurah, Hesed, Chokma, Binah, Keter, Ayin)

[Jewish] Succubus//Incubus (Porccubus)

[Korean] Urban Legend regarding "Grape Welch Soda" (An Opened Can of Welcheers)

[Norse] Yggdrasil (Parasite Tree) (Speculative: Giant Tree Sap)

[Roman] Justicia // Lady Justice (Judgement Bird)

[Roman] Laetitia (Laetitia)

[Russian]  Zhar-ptitsa "The Firebird" (The Firebird)

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Library of Ruina:

Library of Babel

Do Androids dream of electric sheep? (Thematic, Achievement name)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The Adult Who Tells Lies, Scaredy cat and the road home)

The Marvelous Land of Oz (Ozma)

Town Musicians of Bremen (The Musicians of Bremen)

The Jaunt (WARP trains)

Nosferatu (Nosferatu)

Macbeth ("And then is Heard no more")

[Film] The hour of the wolf (Tanya)

[tarot] The fool (Jester of Nihil)

[poetry] Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poem (SPB&TP mili song) (thematic)

[poetry] Orlando furioso /& Orlando Innamoratto. (Roland and related cast (Argalia, angelica, etc.))

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Limbus Company

The Divine Comedy (Dante & surrounding cast)

The Wings (Yi Sang & co.)

Faust (Faust)

Don Quixote (Don Quixote)

Hell Screen (Ryoshu)

The Stranger//L'etranger//The Outsider (Meursault)

Dream of the red chamber (Hong Lu)

Wuthering Heights (Heathcliff & Co.)

Moby Dick//The Whale (ishmael & Co.)

Crime and Punishment (Rodion & Sonya)

Demian (Sinclair & Co.)

The Odyssey (Outis, Cyclops)

The Metamorphosis (Gregor)

Limbus Company - Minor References:

Peter pan (Smee)

Sherlock Holmes: (Timekilling Time Stage Names)

Scandal in time (Scandal in Bohemia)

A Case of the Gallows (A Case of Identity) (speculative)

The Adventure of three detectives (The Adventure of Three Students)

The White Scarved League (The Red Headed League)

The Clock Tower of Fear (Valley of Fear)

The Final Problem (The Final Problem)

Midsummer night dream (Midwinter Nightmare EGO gift)

The Time Machine (Hubert from TKT) (Speculative)

The Stars (Alfonso and Stephanette)

The Old Man and The Sea (Indigo elder) (Speculative)

Murder on the Orient Express (Murder on the WARP express)

Vampire the Masqurade (Casseti) (Speculative)

The Masque of the Red Death (Casseti) (Speculative)

The one who rules (Stage name "the one who lords") (speculative)

Real People:

League of nine:

Kim Kirim (김기림) (Rim)

Yi Hyoseok (이효석) (Aseah)

Lee Jong-myeong (이종명) (Yurang)

Kim Yu-yeong (김유영) (???/ Unnamed Member)

Chi-Jin Yoo (유치진). Pen name: Dongrang (동랑) (Dongrang)

Cho Yong-man (조용만) (Aneung)

Lee Tae-jun (이태준) (Sang-heo)

Jeong Ji-yong (정지용) (Young-ji)

Lee Mu-young (이무영) (Gap-ryong)

Park Taewon (박태원) (Gubo)

Kim Hae-Gyeong (김해경). Pen name Yi Sang (이상) (Yi Sang)

Park Pal-yang (박팔양) (???/ Unnamed member)

Gim Yujeong (김유정) (Dongbaek)

Kim Hwan-tae (김환태) (Nul-in)

other(s):

Agatha Christi (Grade 1 Fixer Agatha)

Kim Sakkat (Bamboo Hatted Kim)

Alphonse Daudet (Alfonso)

Vergil (Vergillius)

EGO and Abnormalities:

Midsummers Night Dream (Midwinter Nightmare) (EGO gift)

Carmilla (400 roses Anormality) (Carmilla EGO gift)

Metropolis (Resident of Metropolaris) (Speculative)

Snow White and the seven dwarves (Ebony Queen's Apple)

Pride and Predgudice (Spider of Marrige)

Poem of a dying butterfly (no.10 Crows Eye View) (A Dying Butterfly

Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer (Sandolph)

[Religion, Abrahamic religions] (Skin Prophet) (Heavenly Executioners throne) (Sign of Roses) (Heavenly Commanders Throne) (Broken Wings) (ichthys (Headless ichthys))

[Religion, Buddhist] (Ya Śūnyatā Tad Rūpam EGO) (My Form Empties)

[Folklore, Celtic] Faeries (Fairy Long-Legs, Fairy Gentleman, Faelantern)

[Folklore, German] Der Freishutze (Der Freishutze) (Der Fluchshutze)

[Folklore, Korean] The Green Frog (Blubbering Toad)

[Folklore, Korean] Dol hareubang (Wishing Cairn) (Pagoda Veneration)

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

Just finished Canto II, pretty interesting! Has a good few twists and turns, but overall, a fun time, learning how this game works and all! I am thankful for Seven Faust always being there to help me. Also Sonya did nothing wrong. Also what they're setting up with the mark of cain is interesting. I will see that cunt Demian soon. And that fucking weirdo called Kromer who's just. Kromer. Also god I am gonna fucking miss Vellmori's artworks at the end scenes. Fuck Project Moon for how they handled everything. They handled shit so poorly. Lol.

Anyways fun game!

[paleontaxi]

Sharp nails trailing along his shoulder blades with the intent to comfort as if scratching a persistent itch, not the hard and vicious clawing usually involved in his encounters with Cora, thrust Jarod, violently in its unexpectedness, back into his early childhood.  There were nights when he would crawl into bed with his mother, either because he had a bad dream or simply out of a desire for closeness with her, and his father would sleep on the couch to give them space.  Jarod felt at once very grown-up, sleeping in the big double bed for adults, and simultaneously tiny and fragile, unable to fill his side of it, relying on his mother to anchor him, prevent him from drowning in the sheets glowing while from the moon in the window.  He lied with his back to her, and she ran her nails up and down it, just like Cora was in the present, and waited for him to sink lower into the mattress.  Sleep always came over her too quickly, and she drifted off before him so that her hand lie limp between them and he could not ask her to keep going.  Jarod would then stare at the wall for the next while, thinking whatever thoughts a seven-year-old boy had to think, until the sound of her snoring dragged him into unconsciousness as well.

The dredging up of this distant memory caused fresh tears to well in Jarod’s eyes, and he choked back another sob.  Goddammit, he had lost her, too.  This, right here and now, was really all he had left, and the spirit of everyone he had ever cared about would die with him.

If that was not proof enough, though, that he had to keep going, he did not know what was.  It was lonely to persist without them, and he thought often about giving up.  However, he was it, and the stark reminder that he was it and that his family would all vanish with him was enough to compel to continue teetering forward, lurching blindly into a dark tunnel that seemed to hold nothing else for him.

Cora’s description of her past sounded so staggeringly like his present.  If he had to hurt, why shouldn’t everyone else?  While he was bent on killing Bob and Sonya, why did it matter how many more innocents got caught up as collateral?  Weren’t they guilty by association with the rotten world?  Hearing his own long-held sentiments parroted back to him in past tense made him twist his neck to look at her with shining, bloodshot eyes.

“A lot of somethings happened to change your mind, huh?” he rasped.  “Think I’m still a few somethings away from that…”  But this conversation was at least a start, the first of his own ‘a lot of somethings.’  He got the feeling that he might remember it tomorrow, even if it would be cast over in a dream-like haze.

“I didn’t know,” he said, shaking his head and laying his rough cheek against her breast.  That only proved her point, though, that everyone was facing some struggle you know nothing about.  He wasn’t the only one who lost someone in the peak collapse.  It was easy to say that they were all Brigades and therefore had it coming to them, but then, what had Lola been?  If anyone said that shit about her, it would gut him.  Not all of them were innocent, that much he was sure of, but…

This was getting a bit too complicated for his current state of inebriation and was, perhaps, something to save for the morning, so he went back to Cora.  “I mean, I figured something had to have happened to you for you to end up here.  It’s not exactly…”  A profession for upstanding young women, died on his tongue.  Cora was a good person, and there wasn’t a way to word what he was trying to say that didn’t sound antithetical to his real feelings on the subject.  “Well, people don’t just think about… without…”  No, he gave up.

“I’m not a good man,” he squeaked, then shook his head more fervently.  “Don’t give me that, not yet.”  There was so much he had to make up for, and he might never atone for some of it.  “If I get better”—because he still wasn’t convinced—“you can give it to me then, not before.”

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐳𝐳𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 . while it’s always something she subtly encouraged within her clients who share similarities of isolation &. a lack of faith , coraline can’t ever guess who will take that step to break down the barrier of their own routine to welcome in a frightening , unknown change of the other side ; the light can be just as intimidating as the dark .

remaining quiet , hands continue their soothing journey against war torn skin &. allows jarod the space to let go , words were hardly needed at the moment , not until his sobbing came to a stop &. the tears allowed the heaviness of the emotions he held on his sleeve to ease their weight . some of the tears that stained his cheeks end up on skin , though pays no mind . she wonders if it’s an alcohol fused agreement &. while those never hold any weight to them , it was still something to even entertain the conversation .

the questions has her head tilting slightly to the side , eyes trailing face , attempting to detect any hint of bullshit - hands turn to cup his face , thumbs grazing under his cheeks , trying to think of how to respond to the questions ; it wasn’t that she was ashamed of who she was , where her journey began - she’s just not good at putting things into words in this area .

❛ i used to be a nasty piece of work ❜ the best place to start , right ? ❛ i liked hurting people . i was hurting , as long as it wasn’t me … i didn’t care , the world sure as shit didn’t care about me for what it turned me into . ❜ eyes leave his , head falling back against the pillow , staring up at the ceiling - one hand remains on his face , the other having nails drag lightly over shoulder . tongue presses against cheek , trying to piece thoughts together . deep down , the part that always caught her off guard was very much alive part of of her that craved that destruction again , the violence , it was like an itch begging to be scratched , she’ll refuse to , again &. again , not entertaining it even if crimson offered her a way out for good if the cost was giving into the thoughts just one more time .

❛ something … several somethings happened to me , things i couldn’t ignore ❜ the drug addiction that began to sink her deeper &. deeper into a self made hell . lucas , too , he was a huge starting point of realising the life she was living wasn’t sustainable . a twinge of sadness lingers - she hopes he’s okay . voice returns back to normal , steadier than the weaver that slipped it’s way in for a moment too long ❛ i realised i just … couldn’t do it anymore , there comes a time where you realize the well you’re using to poison the village is also where you get your own water . ❜

❛ the how is complicated . everyone begins their journey different because it started for different reasons . for me , it helped to remember everyone has their own story , some struggle that they’re not telling anyone . i’m not the only one suffering , it doesn’t give me a pass to be cruel . simple , yet oddly effective ❜ eyes seek out jarod’s face again , finally comfortable in words to look up .

❛ you have start with what’s doable for you ; maybe treating strangers in your backseat a little kinder , give their stupidity some grace ❜ index finger taps the tip of his nose , a playful pointed gaze .

coraline doesn’t think she’ll ever see the man he does when looking in the mirror , some feral monster cursed for the rest of his days to live life in a murderous rage . he wasn’t damned , he was human &. although it felt like damnation , it wasn’t grounded in reality . there was always light , jarod simply needed to put in the work , step out of the shade an allow himself to bathe in the sunrays .

❛ whatever it is . you’re a good man &. i have faith in you , you’ll find your way , i know it . ❜

[fatliberation]

Here Are Some Fat Positive Activists, Educators, Therapists, and Artists to Know!

First and foremost, the pioneer of organized fat activism:

• Bill Fabrey (he/him)

Bill Fabrey, a self-proclaimed fat admirer, founded NAAFA (the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) in 1969 after gaining an understanding of the day-to-day oppression and discrimination faced by his wife, Joyce. Fabrey founded the organization in hopes to raise awareness of weight stigma, criticize biased studies, and increase overall acceptance and accessibility to fat Americans. He is considered one of the pioneers of the fat liberation movement, and is heavily involved to this day.

• Judy Freespirit, Sara Fishman, Lynn McAfee, Ariana Manow, & Gudrun Fonfa (she/her for each)

(Members of The Fat Underground, 1979)

Fat, radical, feminist members of NAAFA! Their agenda was much more aggressive than NAAFA’s, and eventually they broke off and formed their own group called The Fat Underground, which acted as a catalyst in the creation and mobilization of the fat liberation movement. Based in LA in the 1970s, the Fat Underground did not fight to change discriminatory laws but rather discriminatory thoughts and practices in different aspects of society, which included those of doctors and other health professionals who perpetuated the unhealthy habits encouraged by diet culture. In 1973, Judy Freespirit and Alderbaran published the “Fat Liberation Manifesto” which establishes that fat people are entitled to what they were denied on a daily basis: “human respect and recognition.” The other objectives then outline the commercial exploitation of fat bodies by both corporations and scientific institutions. (x) I will go into more detail about the Fat Underground in my next post, “The History of Fat Activism!”

• Dr. Lindo Bacon (they/them), PhD

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Creator of the concept of HAES (Health At Every Size).

Dr. Bacon is best known for their paradigm-shifting research and advocacy upending the weight discourse. They have mined their deep academic proficiency, wide-ranging clinical expertise and own personal experience to write two best-selling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Both are credited with transforming the weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the fat liberation movement. Dr. Bacon holds their PhD in physiology, as well as graduate degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Dr. Bacon formerly taught at City College of San Francisco, in the Health Education, Psychology, Women’s Studies, and Biology Departments. A professor and researcher, for almost two decades Dr. Bacon has taught courses in social justice, health, weight and nutrition; they have also conducted federally funded studies on health and weight and published in top scientific journals. Their research has been supported by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health. A truly great pioneer in medical health research! 

https://lindobacon.com/ | HAES | IG

• Aubrey Gordon, a.k.a. Your Fat Friend (she/her)

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Aubrey Gordon writes about the social realities of life as a very fat person, previously publishing anonymously as Your Fat Friend. She is the author of What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Lit Hub, Vox, Gay Mag, and has been covered in outlets around the world. She also hosts the podcast Maintenance Phase, in which she and cohost Michael Hobbes debunk and decode wellness and weight loss trends. Her articles are incredibly heartfelt and enlightening. You can read all of them at www.yourfatfriend.com !!

@ yrfatfriend on IG & Twitter

• Sabrina Strings (she/her), PhD

Sabrina Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, which exposes fatphobia’s roots in anti-blackness. Strings contributed an opinion story to The New York Times titled “It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.” With Lindo Bacon (creator of HAES), she coauthored “The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity,” published in Scientific American. Strings has a BA in psychology and an MA and PHd in sociology. This book is #1 on my to-read list!!

https://www.sabrinastrings.com

• Hannah Fuhlendorf (she/her), MA LPCC NCC

Hannah is a highly educated and experienced counselor whose work focuses on self acceptance, eliminating the effects of internalized oppression, and practicing through a HAES lens. She is a fat liberationist who puts out educational videos daily. Hannah is also married to a healthcare professional, and the two of them are working toward making the medical field more accessible to fat people in their local community, and offering education on how to be fat allies. I really admire Hannah and the work that she does!

@ hannahtalksbodies on IG and TikTok

• Tracy Cox (she/her)

Tracy is an award-winning performer and artist, who co-created the web series “Angry Fat People” with Matthew Anchel, which takes a pop culture approach on serious issues faced by fat performers. She has been interviewed by the New York Times on fat politics and accessibility, and currently has a huge following on IG where she unpacks fat performance, fashion, and politics. You may know her as the creator of the ‘fat vanity’ trend on TikTok!

@ sparklejams on IG & TikTok

• Da’Shaun L. Harrison (they/them) 

Da’Shaun is a non-binary abolitionist, community organizer, and writer. They are currently a managing editor and columnist at Wear Your Voice Magazine. They travel throughout the United States and abroad to speak at conferences, colleges, and lead workshops focused on Blackness, queerness, gender, class, religion, (dis)abilities, fatness, and the intersection at which they all meet. Da’Shaun is the author of the book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which is expected to be published in July 2021. They have an incredibly enlightening social media presence as well!!

@ dashaunlh on IG and Twitter

• Lauren Buchness (she/her)

Lauren Buchness is one of my favorite artists. She’s a contemporary artist and fat activist based in Tucson, Arizona. By combining painting & performance, she aims to question Western standards of beauty and create conversations that alter preconceived notions about the fat body. Go check out her gorgeous work!!

@ ladybuchness on IG and TikTok

If you’re interested in learning about diet culture and intuitive eating, check out

Shana Minei Spence (she/her), MS RDN CDN

Shana is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who opposes food restriction and encourages intuitive eating! She spreads food positive daily messages on her platform. She used to work in fashion, but she left after being dissatisfied with the industry and went back to school to become involved in food policy and public health. She offers counseling on a HAES approach. I have much respect for Shana!

@ thenutritiontea on IG

And right here on tumblr (who was my personal introduction to fat lib) -

@ bigfatscience !!!

An anonymous fat liberationist. They share so many great resources, diving head-first into the scientific research of weight and health, they’ve found that the relation between the two is extremely complex. They tackle the biases of  research in a system that profits off of fatphobia, and they offer a fat positive perspective based on scientific studies. Their blog serves as an easily accessible resource for fat folx and fat activists who want to learn about fat positive science to support their own personal interests/activism. Thank you for your work, bigfatscience!! (if you have questions for them, you will have a greater chance of getting a response with anon off!) 

• Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they), LCSW MEd

Sonalee is an award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, and grassroots organizer. They’re a superfat queer bisexual non-binary therapist and co-owner of Radical Therapy Center. Sonalee is specialized in treating sexual trauma, internalized fatphobia, immigrant kid guilt, and South Asian family systems, while offering fat positive sexual healthcare. Go, Sonalee!!

@ thefatsextherapist on IG

• Fat Rose (org)

Fat Rose organizes fat people, building a more radical fat liberation movement in strong relationship with other social movements, such as anti-fascism, anti-ableism, and anti-racism. Check them out on Facebook!

fatrose.org

Honorable IG mentions: (Some anti diet culture specific blogs in here, as well)

@fatangryblackgirl  @msgigggles @thefatphobiaslayer @bodyimagewithbri @saucyewest @fatpositivetherapy @fatlippodcast @chairbreaker 

BOOKS

And here’s an amazing list of fat-positive book recommendations from HannahTalksBodies!

Science & Health:

Health at Every Size by Lindo Bacon PhD

Body Respect by Lindo Bacon PhD and Lucy Aphramor PhD, RD

Secrets from the Eating Lab by Traci Mann PhD

Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison MPH, RD

Fat Liberation:

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings PhD

Fat Activism by Dr. Charlotte Cooper

Fat Politics by J. Eric Oliver

The Fat Studies Reader by Esther Rothblum (Editor) and Sondra Solovay (Editor)

Fat Shame by Amy Erdman Farrell

Self Acceptance:

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Things No One will Tell Fat Girls by Jes Baker

Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnson PhD

Happy Fat by Sofie Hagan

You have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

Thanks for reading! Please feel free to share this list of resources!

Image descriptions below.

1. [ID: A black and white photo of Bill Fabrey, a straight-sized, balding white man with thick black glasses wearing a suit and tie, standing at a poduim in front of a sign that reads, “NAAFA”. Beside the image is another photo of Fabrey, from his left side.]

2. [ID: A black and white photo of seven fat, female and gender non-conforming members of The Fat Underground, performing a recital.]

3. [ID: The cover of Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. On the cover is an illustration of four upper-class white people in fancy colonial period clothing showing shock and disgust at a Black woman’s exposed body. Beside the book cover is a photo of Sabrina Strings, a straight-sized Black woman with dark brown curly hair wearing a blouse.]

4. [ID: Hannah Fulhendorf, a fat, white woman with straight hair dyed blue, wearing a black tank top and holding her shoulder while smiling brightly and looking into the camera.]

5. [ID: An artistic picture of Tracy Cox, a fat, white woman with long, straight brown hair, laying topless on a bed of flowers. There are flower petals placed strategically in her hair on her skin, and along her lower eyelid. Beside that image, is an image of the album cover for Angry Fat People, picturing two angry faces made out of white paper against a grey background. In the top left corner, black, bolded text that reads “AFP” and “FAT LIBERATION”.]

6. [ID: Da’Shaun L. Harrison, a fat, non-binary Black person with a beard, glasses, and long dreadlocks, wearing a shirt that reads, “TO BE VISIBLY QUEER IS TO CHOOSE YOUR HAPPINESS OVER YOUR SAFETY. -DA’SHAUN HARRISON” against a natural backdrop of autumn leaves.]

7. [ID: A watercolor painting by Lauren Buchness of a white and tattooed fat body, hands caressing abstract rolls of fat with wild blueberries and grapefruit between folds. Beside it is another Buchness watercolor painting of Black hands with long sharp nails, caressing the midsection of a fat Black body, with purple crystals growing out of the skin.]

8. [ID: Shana Minei Spence, a straight-sized, Black woman smiling with bright pink lipstick and her long wavy hair pulled back, wearing a floral pattern shirt and jean shorts. She is holding small marquee that reads, “BE CAREFUL OF WELLNESS COMPANIES THAT SAY THEY’RE PROMOTING HEALTH YET ARE STILL ONLY TRYING TO GET YOUR BODY SMALLER” and a heart symbol.]

9. [ID: Sonalee Rashatwar, a superfat, South Asian non-binary person with short black hair, wearing a long floral dress, standing in front of large glowing text that reads, “BIG GIRL ENERGY” against a coarse-textured wall.]

10. [ID: A circular logo with a red fist in the center, with text surrounding it that reads, “FATTIES AGAINST FASCISM” with roses separating the word “RESIST”. Beside it is another image, of eleven fat and superfat activists, standing and sitting on mobility scooters, holding fists and middle fingers in the air, wearing T-shirts and holding banners that both read, “FATTIES AGAINST FASCISM”. In front of the group is a large cardboard sign that spells the acronym “F.A.B.” which stands for “Fat Antifascist Brigade”.]

[crtalley]

wip title game →

tagged by the lovely @dramaticvoiceover!! thank you ♥

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs. (i'm breaking the last one because um. yeah. no.)

this is gonna be a bit of block text because otherwise this would be "color of the sky" long

i'll just pull from my dotscriv folder → only the ones i've worked on, bolded ones are current or recent wips

100 prompts 2021 // A Darker Dawn // A Son of Gehenna // Adjacent // All the Sky Aflame // Bearskin // Beneath the Shallow Water // Cup Full of Storms // DnD 5e shorts // Goddess Envy // Grinners // Hunter Moon // In Step with the Wicked // Jackdaw // Liar's Pawn // Loyal // Matricide // Only Saints // Quarantine Novel // Quarantine Novel 2 // Salt & Silver // Secret WIP // Seven of Sorrows // Strangers to Mercy // The Ash Scarab // The Autumn Door // The Burning of Evan Deroucy // The Garden of Earthly Delights // The Gossamer Weave // The Keeper of the Keys // The Old Sun // The Sleep of Death // Unchosen // Under Troll Creek Bridge // Witch Knight // Yuri in the Forest of Dreams

also a few of my favorite docs → bearskin modern au // cadstel // carver 10 years later // goethe // qoas prequel // rhys // sonya and liev // the poisoners heart // unchosen 2022 electric boogaloo // unchosen bad end // unchosen distant future // unchosen evil ending // weaveworld excerpts

tagging anyone who wants to do this because i definitely don't know 50 writeblrs who want to be tagged in this lmaooo

[curator-on-ao3]

21 answers for a fanfic 2021

1. fandoms you wrote for this year

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Picard

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Ted Lasso

2. favorite fic you wrote this year

I’m really proud of The Autobiography of Kirsten Clancy. I’ve always wanted to write a character backstory, and am grateful to have had the opportunity.

3. favorite fic you read this year

I fangirled — hard — for Who Shot AR’s Everything Will Come Right (If You Only Believe), a Julius Eaton/Kay Eaton origin story from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s “Far Beyond the Stars” universe. I misted up for parts of @marymoss1971’s The Inspiration, in which newly minted Captain Kathryn Janeway visits a mentor, Captain Benjamin Maxwell, who is in prison due to the events of TNG’s “The Wounded.” I, of course, delighted in @ussjellyfish bringing Kirsten and Matthew Clancy into her Star Trek: Janeways universe with her delightfully naughty Unscheduled Time and sweet what we can. Oh, and the Michael Burnham & Paul Stamets conversation in SiderumInCaelo’s i don’t forgive you (but please don’t hold me to it) was exactly the between-the-seasons discussion I needed for those two characters.

4. favorite opening line/scene you wrote this year

I’m pleased with both opening scenes of Fly Me to the Moon, a non-linear Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris story that examines four universes of their relationship — three canon and one AU.

5. favorite ending line/scene you wrote this year

Again, I’m pleased with both endings to Fly Me to the Moon. I love the feeling of tying up a story with a little bow, and I think I did it well on that one.

6. a trope you wrote this year

I actually kicked off the year with a Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris four times, one time: Console Me (Four Times Paris and Janeway Almost Had Sex and One Time They Did).

7. pairings you wrote this year

Just looking at main pairings, not sub-pairings, I wrote:

Jet Manhaver & Tom Paris

Kirsten Clancy/Original Character (Matthew Clancy)

Raffi Musiker/Seven of Nine

Kirsten Clancy & Jean-Luc Picard

Kirsten Clancy & Sonya Gomez

Kirsten Clancy & Edward Jellico

Kirsten Clancy & Simon Tarses

(untagged, but I’m proud of it) Kirsten Clancy & Tom Paris

Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris

Kathryn Janeway & Tom Paris

Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway

Tom Paris/B’Elanna Torres

Kathryn Janeway/B’Elanna Torres

Kathryn Janeway/Kes

Kathryn Janeway/Harry Kim

The Doctor (Star Trek)/Kathryn Janeway

Keeley Jones/Roy Kent (Ted Lasso)

8. a fic regret from this year

I don’t know.

9. a song that helped you write

Fly Me to the Moon (of course). That fic had an entire playlist. And I have, ahem, four Clancy playlists.

10. total number of fics you posted

I think 14 [edit: 15 — another little one happened]. (It’s a little hard to tell with so many crossovers within the Trekverse and one fic that carries over from last year.)

11. total number of words you posted

92,769 [edit: 92,960 — yes, the little addition was very little]

12. most popular fic written this year

By hits, kudos, subscriptions, bookmarks, and comment threads, Fly Me to the Moon was my most popular fic this year, which makes me happy because I am very proud of it. (Shout out to beta extraordinaire @caladeniablue! 🎉)

13. least popular fic written this year

It’s a little tougher to tell least popular, but I think In Bed has my lowest hit and kudos count. That’s okay. I knew my E-rated vignettes that dip into The Autobiography of Kirsten Clancy universe through the perspective of Matthew Clancy wouldn’t get a lot of traffic. I’m pleased with the work, though, and that’s important.

14. longest completed fic you posted this year

That would be The Autobiography of Kirsten Clancy, at 32,536 words.

15. shortest completed fic you posted this year

As a stand-alone story, the shortest is Starlight, a 154-word, G-rated, Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway musing on the ways different people see and express love.

16. favorite character to write about this year

Kirsten Quayle Clancy

17. a fic you didn’t expect to write

All of them.

18. most memorable comment/review

So many! When Fly Me to the Moon comments became a forum for Tom Paris character analysis, I could feel my fandom soul begin to ascend. Also, every time someone commented some variation of, “How did you make me care about Kirsten Clancy?” or, “I don’t usually ship this, but …” or, “I’m so happy you wrote this friendship/scenario/pairing,” my writerly heart filled with joy. I don’t want to single anyone out, but comments wishing for an Autobiography of Kirsten Clancy book club, comments from regular commenters who said they tried something new because I wrote it, and comments from re-readers were all especially meaningful.

19. trends you noticed in your writing this year

I don’t know why but, across three stories, I wrote experiences during and immediately after Wolf 359 for Kathryn Janeway, Tom Paris, Raffi Musiker, and Kirsten Clancy, plus glimpses for Nick Locarno and Edward Jellico, the latter of whom was in two stories, so he got two experiences — and two characterizations.

20. fics you wanted to write but didn’t

Real life has been demanding this year. I have a few fics I hope to finish next year.

21. something you want to write next year

I’d like to finish my post-Endgame Kathryn Janeway/Mark Johnson story. I also have a few other WIPs rattling around. But I just don’t know.

If anyone has questions on any of that, please ask. Also, if you write, I’d love to read your fanfic 2021 answers!

[shikasaku-week]

Hello, fellow ShikaSaku lovers! Guess what time of the year it is?

Yes, it’s ShikaSaku Week 2020! The main event of the year, during the worst year of the millennium, of course. We don’t do things by half, here at ShikaSakuWeek Ltd. For this edition, we have an interesting mix of prompts for you, and we hope you’ll be inspired by them and give us even more content than last time! Fun fact: ShikaSaku Hanami 2020 was the most prolific week since the event was created, and we know you can do even better this time! Let’s get started ♥

— The Rules

• you can post anywhere! Tumblr, AO3, FF.net, DA, Twitter, Pillowfort, go wild! • please send us a link to the fanwork so we can add it to the masterpost • tag it with #shikasakuweek or @shikasaku-week to help us find it • the only requirement is for ShikaSaku to be the main pairing in your fanwork. It can be a fic, a fanart, a fanvid, a gifset, an edit, it’s up to you!

When: Sept 30th to Oct 7th. We would have loved for it to match with Shikamaru’s birthday like we usually do, but we want to let people know a bit in advance, so herewe are.

Please, no character bashing. We’re here to create content for our ship, not ruin other people’s day.

This time, you get two prompts, like for Hanami, with a twist! One prompt is our traditional group of obscure words and obtuse metaphors. And the second prompt is a song from which we picked two lyrics and you have to find a way to work one of them into your story (bonus point if you use the quote word for word, but it’s not mandatory, you can just be inspired by the lyrics).

You get to choose if you’d rather use our pretentious word prompts, or the song lyrics (and if you’re not inspired by the lyrics we picked, you can still use the song prompt and pick your own lyrics in it to integrate in your story! We just encourage you to challenge yourself with the limitation of the lyrics we picked).

We tried our best to pick as many different genres of songs as possible, so everyone can find something they like. So there’s pop, rap, folk/trad, indie, hard rock, glam metal, you get the idea. Have fun!

— The Prompts Light & Shadow Theme

DAY ONE streetlights at dusk Insomnia by IAMX Lyrics #1 “ Oh, my god, you're beautiful Why do you stay with this neurotic fool?” Lyrics #2  “ I don't know what is happening to me Or if I'll die, 'cause I just never sleep”

DAY TWO like a moth (to flame) Moby Dick by Jakey Lyrics #1 “I'm not the one that you wanted But damn it I think I could be what you need” Lyrics #2 “I know you better than you know yourself Well, my self said "you can go straight to hell"

DAY THREE chiaroscuro/clair-obscur The Seed by Aurora Lyrics #1: “Through dirt and shadow I grow I’m reaching light through the struggle” Lyrics #2: “Suffocate me So my tears can be rain” 

DAY FOUR eclipse (looking for the moon) Bushes and Briars by McDonnel Trio Lyrics #1: “I overheard a voice, it rang so loud and clear Long time have been waiting for the coming of my dear” Lyrics #2: “Sometimes I am weary and troubled in my mind But if I should go to love, my love he will say, "Nay." If I show to him my madness, he'll never love me again”

DAY FIVE Well then, kiss me,—since my mother left her blessing on my brow, There has been a something wanting in my nature until now” “Though my soul may set in darkness, i will rise in perfect light; i have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night Only The Good Die Young by Kissin’ Dynamite Lyrics #1: “I'll never sleep, how long the game will go? I have to burn bright like a star” Lyrics #2: “Only the good die young Living as a rebel, dying as a rebel”

DAY SIX (like a crystal) he diffracts the light

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac Lyrics #1: “Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise Run in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies” Lyrics #2: “Break the silence Damn the dark, damn the light And if you don't love me now You will never love me again”

DAY SEVEN the night is ours (i want, i want) Her Sweet Kiss by Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli Lyrics #1: “I'm weak my love, and I am wanting If this is the path I must trudge I'll welcome my sentence, give to you my penance Garroter, jury, and judge” Lyrics #2: “A storm raging on the horizon Of longing and heartache and lust She's always bad news, it's always lose, lose”

DAY EIGHT (bonus day) free day or remix challenge

If you’re interested in the remix challenge and didn’t participate in it last edition, here’s a quick explanation: Basically, you browse through the masterposts of the previous years and pick a story or art you like a lot. Then you write/draw an interpretation of that fanwork! Summarize in your head what the core idea of the fanwork you picked is (for exemple: Shikamaru and Sakura are captured. The story is their escape.) and use that to make your own, based on that same premise. It’s basically like making a movie remake, or writing fanfiction based on the canon of something you like (we have a feeling you know how to do that, don’t you?). So there you go, that’s the remix challenge! We hope you’ll enjoy yourselves and that you’ll rediscover works from previous years!

Once again, thank you for participating in ShikaSaku Week. I (Mako) can’t believe how far we’ve come, from this little event in 2017 where two people and a half knew about it, to the massive (for a rarepair, at least) amount of content from the last edition. Thank you so, so much for being here every year, you’re the best. Let’s celebrate ShikaSaku one more time!

[theonlyblackcanary]

2021 Mixed Match Challenge teams

IIconic-Finesse (Peyton Royce and Chris Bey)

T and J (Taya Valkyrie and John Morrison)

Taker’s Kids (Violet and Aleister Black)

Classy-Crossfit (Lacey Evans and Seth Rollins)

Glorious-Pirates (Kairi Sane and Robert Roode)

The Way (Candice Lerae and Johnny Gargano)

Wolf Pack (Ember Moon and Baron Corbin)

Untouchable Retribution (Carmella and TJP/Manik)

The Flying Ninjas (Kacy Catanzaro and Ricochet)

Golden-Seven (Mandy Rose and Trent Seven)

Team Power (Sonya Deville and Big-E)

Team Pawz (Natalya and Kevin Owens)

Fil-Am Badasses (Kayden Carter and Joaquin Wilde)

[sawyersscribbles]

Sky of Sinners Worldbuilding: Monsters

In Sky of Sinners, after the Immortality Virus prevented death for all humans and wiped most of them out, it didn’t just affect one species. In fact, the entirety of Earth’s ecosystem was affected by the virus, either directly or indirectly. Animals began to act strange, some species died out from an overabundance of predators, and others had populations explode from lack of it. Pets became a burden and were freed from captivity in mass, causing common animals like guinea pigs and parrots to enter back into the wild where they haven’t been for generations. The new animals in the wild weren’t the worst part though. It was the species which was never meant to reach Earth in the first place.

Ganymedans, the alien species which cause most of the problems in Sky of Sinners, are organisms which originate from one of Jupiter’s moons, called Ganymede. It’s Jupiter’s largest moon and is actually more massive than Pluto, making it the ninth largest object in our solar system, and it looks like this:

(image credit: x)

Ganymede History and Geological Makeup

The name “Ganymede” came from a Greek myth surrounding a Trojan boy named Ganymede who was abducted by Zeus and forced into immortality to become his cupbearer for eternity. Hmm...I wonder why I picked this moon o.o

Due to the ice that exists below the planet’s surface as well as having a magnetic field surrounding the planet, life was able to exist on this planet. Ganymedans don’t need to eat or drink but they enjoy living below the surface of planets and absorb minerals from dirt and sand, which makes them particularly dangerous since it’s impossible to know when they’re about to strike.

Ganymedans are the top predators in their environments, meaning that most of their skills and weapons are tailored to their environment. While underground, they formed colonies and even technological advancements. However, the main threat to the Ganymedan species is itself. Constant wars ravage the planet, forcing Ganymedans to craft newer and better weapons, which is why there are an abundance of alien weapons on Earth: they brought the weapons not to kill humans, but to kill each other.

Ganymedans came to Earth by accident, hitching rides on asteroids and chunks of rock that break off from their planet, burrowing their way in to survive. The Ganymedans have a hive mind, connecting every member of their species, so when the first few Ganymedans came to Earth and learned about it, they sent word back to their planet, and within a few decades, about 80% of the Ganymedan population resided on Earth. Earth had what Ganymede never did: biomes, complex organism-made structures, and most importantly: heat.

Ganymedan Sociology and Physiology

Since Ganymede is smaller than Earth, when they settled around the world, their once strong legs and capable bodies were crushed by the weight of the planet, crippling them and rendering them only partially effective. The number of legs ranges from individual to individual, but most have around six or seven legs holding up the Ganymedan’s brain, heart, and reproductive system (they have no digestive system) in a tough sack. They look similar to Louise Bourgeois’s “Maman”, created in 1999, which stands in London:

This sculpture is about 30 feet high and Ganymedans stand at about 10, but you catch my drift.

Though at first they appear mindless, their collective intelligence allowed them to learn human language and even negotiation. In order to control Earth, they made a deal with the humans for something they know they desperately want: infinite immortality for the Earth’s resources. After intense United Nations collaboration and fierce protest from advocacy groups across the globe, the humans agreed.

Now Ganymedans roam the stripped planet for reasons unknown, occasionally attacking humans but generally living below the surface with their heat and wealth of mineral deposits. No one knows when they’re going to leave -- if at all.

~

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[wrestlingisfake]

Smackdown Fake Rankings, 9/6/2020

Men’s heavyweight singles division - babyfaces

Bray Wyatt

Jeff Hardy (WWE intercontinental champion)

Jey Uso

Big E

Matt Riddle

Drew Gulak

Men’s heavyweight singles division - heels

Roman Reigns (WWE universal champion)

Braun Strowman

AJ Styles

Sheamus

King Corbin

Shorty G

WWE’s official position seems to be that Reigns and Strowman are heels and Wyatt is a babyface.  This would have been a lot clearer if any of them had done a full-fledged turn--as it is, Braun and Roman really haven’t done anything Bray wouldn’t do.  But at least they’ve technically got the heels and faces balanced out over here.

They’ve begun setting up Reigns vs. Uso and Hardy vs. Styles vs. Sami Zayn.  It looks like Big E vs. Sheamus and Corbin vs. Riddle will just keep going.  Wyatt and Strowman probably need to settle their issues once and for all.  Man, it’d be real funny if they do a Hell in a Cell match, considering that each of them was involved in the two cell matches that failed to settle anything.

In the long term, I get the feeling they’re prepping Big E for a main event run.  They could go with Reigns vs. Wyatt for Wrestlemania, but I think Reigns vs. Big E would be more productive.  As for Wyatt, if he’s going to be a face I’d feed midcard heels to him like he’s mid-90s Undertaker.  Of course, they’re talking about doing another draft to rearrange the rosters, so none of this may matter in a few weeks.

Women’s singles division - babyfaces

Sasha Banks

Mandy Rose

Nikki Cross

Tamina

Dana Brooke

Women’s singles division - heels

Bayley (WWE Smackdown women’s champion)

Lacey Evans

Bayley just turned on Banks the other day, so Sasha hasn’t had a chance to get back up and do anything babyface-like.  All the same, I assume she’s turning face, although knowing WWE she’ll just continue being a jerk who happens to feud with heels.

Other than Banks and Bayley, the most heavily promoted woman on the roster may be Rose.  Thing is, Mandy only had two or three matches all summer, and now that she’s done with Sonya Deville it’s possible they’ll just present her as Otis’s girlfriend.  Everyone else here (Cross, Tamina, Brooke, and Evans) hasn’t done much besides lose a battle royale a few weeks ago.

With Banks and Bayley split up, and Cross trying to figure out if Alexa Bliss is turning heel or not, there are no women’s tag teams on Smackdown.  They’ll probably throw one together after the champions (Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax) run out of contenders on Raw or NXT.  But that might not be for a few months.

Men’s tag team division - babyfaces

Heavy Machinery - Otis (Mr. Money in the Bank) & Tucker

Lucha House Party - Kalisto & Gran Metalik & Lince Dorado

Men’s tag team division - heels

Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro (WWE Smackdown tag team champions)

The Miz & John Morrison

I think they’re building to Lucha House Party challenging for the tag titles.  Meanwhile Morrison has stolen Otis’s Money in the Bank briefcase, potentially setting up a two-on-two match over a contract for a singles title match.

I don’t get the sense that WWE has a plan for Otis and the MITB contract.  Fans keep wondering if he can use it to challenge for the tag title, which reveals two things.  First, people ask questions like this because they cannot discern the answers for themselves from where Otis’s storyline is headed, because WWE has done nothing to push him except as part of a comedy tag team.  Second, the fans can tell Otis would get creamed by anyone who’s been universal champion lately, so they’d rather see him cash in for a match he could actually win.

No matches in over 30 days: Alexa Bliss, Bo Dallas, Carmella, Daniel Bryan, Jaxson Ryker, Mojo Rawley, Sami Zayn, Steve Cutler, Wesley Blake

Bliss hasn’t wrestled since she was “abducted” by Wyatt, and they’re doing a thing where we’re supposed to wonder how the experience changed her.  Zayn was gone for months waiting out the pandemic, but I suppose he finally decided he couldn’t wait forever.

As far as I can determine Carmella, Bryan, and Rawley haven’t appeared at a WWE show in person since the big COVID-19 outbreak in June.  I assume Bryan decided to stay home for the safety of his family and won’t be back soon.  Carmella posted some workout footage recently, so even if she caught COVID in the June outbreak, she’s clearly healthy now.  Mojo’s unexplained absence, however, is perfectly consistent with his entire WWE tenure.

Ryker, Cutler, and Blake have been in the doghouse ever since Ryker picked a really bad time to kiss Donald Trump’s ass.  I don’t think Dallas has even appeared on TV in 2020.

Part-time/semi-retired: Goldberg, John Cena, Kane

Inactive

Elias (chest/shoulder - pectoralis tear)

Ember Moon (right ankle - Achilles tendon tear)

Jimmy Uso (knee - unspecified injury)

Kofi Kingston (unspecified injury - maybe kayfabe?)

Lars Sullivan (knee - unspecified injury)

Xavier Woods (right ankle - Achilles tendon tear)

Sullivan was originally projected to be back by June 2020.  We know nothing about Kofi’s situation except that he was supposed to be out for “six weeks,” and that was six weeks ago.  Woods should be ready soon, and I assume that’s why he’s doing the Talking Smack show.  Although, given Ember’s problems--her injury may end her career--you can’t take an Achilles tear lightly.

I don’t know what the timetable is for Jimmy Uso.  My guess is that Roman Reigns squashes Jey Uso on September 27, and then they both return together as a tag team.  But that might be six weeks or six months from now.

There doesn’t appear to be any info on Elias’s injury beyond the kayfabe reports from WWE.  We know he has pectoralis tear, but not whether the tear is at the shoulder or breastbone, or the severity of the tear.  The only word is that he’s expected to miss Wrestlemania 37, which is seven months away.

[whatisthiswitchcraft]

books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

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YA GIRL GOT THE GREAT COMET BOOK!

and then binge read it all in one night. Anyway,these are some of my fave bits, somewhat in order!

In an email to the cast in 2012, Prologue’s original title was “Look It Up In Your Program, You’re In A Complicated Russian Novel, What Did You Expect?”. The lyrics “We’d appreciate it, thanks a lot” was also “What did you expect?”, but Rachel Chavkin suggested Dave be nicer to the audience.

People are referred to as Unicorns on two occasions, “This cast of beautiful unicorns” by Jason Eagen on Pg 22, and “We’ve always said that The Great Comet is an ensemble of unicorns” by Sam Pinkleton on Pg 56.

“This is what happens when you mix mass anxiety with a lot of vodka.”-Paloma Young, about the costumes.

Andrey is there during the Duel, rocking the party from Pierre’s study-turned-DJ-booth. He has been nicknamed both “DJ Andrey 3000” and “DJ Dreteen 12”.

Pierre is a conspiracy theorist, and the robe for Old Prince Bolkonsky’s costume was once used in some shrouded Freemason activity.

Phillipa Soo and Nick Choksi went to Juilliard together!

For about a week at A.R.T., Nicholas Belton gave out Scott Stangland’s phone number during Letters with a note reading, “My friend Pierre is lonely, won’t you give him a call?”. Scott received several awkward voicemails and text messages from women wanting to know if he was busy later.

When Josh Groban joined the team, Josh Canfield decided to start calling him Josh 2, and Groban referred to him as Josh 1 since Canfield had been there first.

You know that snow machine in No One Else? Well when it was added, it took a few shows to calibrate it to snow the right amount, so on occasion Natasha would be singing her sweet love song to the moon in the middle of a full on blizzard.

“Pierre shook his head and arms as if attacked by mosquitos or bees”- a line from War and Peace, which Dave desperately wanted to include. For the sequel! 

Josh Groban named his accordion Olga.

Lucas Steele says that he first thought Dave seemed pensive and slightly gruff-looking, but he later learned that he was “an absolute teddy bear”.

One of the first times Lucas sang Natasha and Anatole, Rachel Chavkin had the casting director Henry sing as Natasha. Lucas had no problem with this, and said he knew he was capable of having chemistry with a tin can if needed. He then proceeded to make direct eye contact with Henry for seven whole measures before slightly cocking his head and flashing him a smile. Everyone at the table laughed.

Now we get to the actual lyric annotations!

The original draft of Prologue was “a lyrical nightmare” and features lines such as “and Dolokhov, his friend, is fierce. Wouldn’t wanna mess with him.” and “Mary and the Old Prince are minor characters. They’ll get things going and you’ll never see them again.”

Sometimes during rehearsal Pippa would sing “Oh I can soothe myself with ironing” instead of “irony”

The first draft of the show did not have the Duel, but rather a scene where Pierre, Anatole, and Dolokhov get roaring drunk, tie a policeman to a bear, and throw them both into a river. This was actually in a workshop, using a large stuffed bear. Sadly, this idea did not survive the workshop.

Dave and Rachel would say that Balaga’s age is probably a few millennia into immortal.

Denisov has a speech impediment which is transliterated in different ways, one of which is literally the uwu voice. Meaning Paul Pinto originally gave his speech in the Duel as “As the advewsawies have wefused a weconciliation, we shaw pwease pwocede with the duew…” This was cut.

Dave calls the strings after Anatole and Natasha’s kiss “the strings of doom”

During rehearsals, sometimes Brittain would sing “I burst into flames” instead of “I burst into sobs.” (Starchild, anyone?)

“On the day that Sonya decided to save her” Oh so Dolokhov is an omniscient narrator, at least when it comes to the woman he once proposed to.

“What a foot she has”- Dave’s annotation literally just says “Anatole is totally into feet” 

Nick Choksi, aka Dolokhov, cannot whistle, so when they say “When they reached the gate Dolokhov whistled” either Or or Andrey has to do it for him.

“So thankful I am here on earth during the same time Grace Mclean is visiting.”-Dave Malloy, page 192.

Sometimes during rehearsals, Dave would sing “I have been snorkeling” instead of “I have been studying.”

The high C# on PETERSBUUUURG was written as a joke in a moment of Dave’s frustration that he forgot to about until rehearsals when Lucas just...did...THAT. 

On the page with the Pierre & Andrey lyrics, there’s just???? A picture of a drumset on the side????? With no context whatsoever??? Dave Malloy what????

Sorry this was so long! I might make another post with the great ponytail hairstyle Lucas had on page 112 because it wouldn’t let me put it here, but that’s all for this one.

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2019 Voiceover Guest: Tara Jayne Sands

Tara Sands

2019 Voiceover Guest Wordpress Facebook Instagram Twitter Tara Jayne Sands can be heard as over 50 characters on the original Pokemon series, including Bulbasaur, Richie, Jasmine, Oddish, and Tori. Other roles include Biscuit in Hunter x Hunter, Mokuba in Yugioh, Kari in Digimon Adventure Tri, Circe in Generator Rex, Summer in Barbie: Life In The Dream House, Karla in Gundam Thunderbolt, Kombu Infinity in One Punch Man, Death 13/Mannish Boy in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Cynthia inPokemon Generations, Anna in Shaman King, Young Ban and Luigi in Seven Deadly Sins, Kippie in Glitter Force Doki Doki, Tobisuke in Beyblade Burst, Rena in Ultraman, Filia in Slayers, Young Jin in Anohana, Queen Badiane in Sailor Moon SuperSs The Movie, Chase in Fighting Foodons, Spyler in I Spy, and lots more. She has played roles in episodes of Celebrity Deathmatch, Sailor Moon, Shamanic Princess, Magic Knight Rayearth, Shopkins, Naruto, Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, DuRaRaRa!!, Geobreeders, Kirby: Right Back at Ya, One Piece, TV Funhouse, Tiger and Bunny and much more!Tara has also voiced characters in a number of video games including Sonya in Fire Emblem Echoes and Fire Emblem Heroes, Genis Sage  in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Masaru in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, Jin in Dead Island, Leah in God Eater 2: Rage Burst, Bamo in Hyperdimension Neptunia Re:Birth 3: V Generation, Pipotchi in Ape Excape 2, in addition to roles in  Avatar, Singularity, Final Fantasy, PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale, Skyforge, Call of Juarez, NieR: Automata, Dishonored among others.She has a bunch of other projects that are top secret that she can’t wait to share!Tara has narrated over 200 audiobooks and for over 100 episodes, Tara was the on-camera host of the Cartoon Network show “Fridays.” There, Tara interviewed dozens of celebrities and had more on-camera food fights than she cares to remember. 

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Hello, Isolans! We have conducted an activity check for the month of October!

If your character isn’t on this list, make sure to check this page to see how many stars that character has earned this month! Stars can be used for purchases at the marketplace.

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If you were removed in error, please simply send a re-application message. Several different people work on the activity checks, so it’s possible there are mistakes! If this happens to you, you will be able to keep everything you previously had, you just may be placed in a different residence.

Our general activity rules regarding checks are as follows:

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Please Note: If you are removed during two consecutive activity checks, you will not be allowed to re-apply as that character for two calendar months. 

Additionally, anyone removed during the activity check will have a 12-hour window from the time of posting to re-claim their character. Any character not reclaimed during that period will be open to the community at large. 

BROKEN URLs:

Jack Skellington (Disney, CONDO 436)

Saiki Kusuo (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, CONDO 448)

Nami (One Piece, CONDO 440)

Maria Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog, HOUSE 127)

Yusei Fudo (Yu-Gi-Oh, TOWNHOUSE 252) *DASH ONLY

ANNE WITH AN E

Anne Shirley-Cuthbert (CONDO 472)

ALIEN VS PREDATOR

Scar (TOWNHOUSE 204)

Teresa "Tequila" Aquila (APARTMENT 331)

ARCANA FAMIGLIA

Felicita (CONDO 436)

ARCHIE

Jughead Jones (HOUSE 113)

AVA'S DEMON

Ava Ire (HOUSE 136)

Odin Arrow (CONDO 404)

AVATAR

Katara (HOUSE 154)

Kuvira (CONDO 455)

AZUR LANE

Akagi (TOWNHOUSE 234)

BIOSHOCK

Elizabeth (CONDO 457)

BLEACH

Ichigo Kurosaki (CONDO 447)

BRAVELY DEFAULT

Ringabel (APARTMENT 359)

CHILDREN OF THE WHALES

Suou (APARTMENT 320)

CODE GEASS

Euphemia li Britannia (APARTMENT 362)

Kallen Kozuki (HOUSE 160)

CRITICAL ROLE

Yasha (APARTMENT 326)

D. GRAY MAN

Lenalee Lee (APARTMENT 304)

DANGANRONPA

Angie Yonaga (CONDO 435)

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu (HOUSE 171)

Kaito Momota (TOWNHOUSE 214)

Kyouko Kirigiri (CONDO 402)

Sayaka Maizono (APARTMENT 374)

DARK SOULS

Creighton (HOUSE 139)

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN

Alice Williams (CONDO 433)

DIABOLIK LOVERS

Azusa Mukami (TOWNHOUSE 229)

DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA

Argilla (HOUSE 171)

THE DISASTROUS LIFE OF SAIKI K

Saiki Kusuo (CONDO 448) *BROKEN URL

DISGAEA

Seraphina (APARTMENT 365)

DISNEY

Elsa (HOUSE 138)

Prince Edward (HOUSE 161)

Jack Skellington (CONDO 436) *BROKEN URL

DON'T STARVE

Wilson P. Higgsbury (APARTMENT 338)

DRAGON AGE

Garrett Hawke (HOUSE 154)

DRAGON BALL

Android 17 (HOUSE 147)

THE DRAGON PRINCE

Ezran (HOUSE 138)

Runaan (CONDO 424)

DRAGON QUEST

Camus (CONDO 406)

DRAMATICAL MURDER

Koujaku (TOWNHOUSE 275)

ELSWORD

Raven Cronwell (Furious Blade) (TOWNHOUSE 203)

Raven Cronwell (Nova Imperator) (HOUSE 119)

ENSEMBLE STARS

Rei Sakuma (TOWNHOUSE 255)

Tsukasa Suou (APARTMENT 341)

THE EVIL WITHIN

Stefano Valentini (HOUSE 130)

FATE

Archer (Gilgamesh) (HOUSE 129)

Assassin (Carmilla) (CONDO 473)

Assassin (Phantom of the Opera) (APARTMENT 368)

Berserker (Mysterious Heroine X Alter) (TOWNHOUSE 262)

Caster (Leonardo da Vinci) (HOUSE 164)

Caster (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) (CONDO 420)

Kirei Kotomine (HOUSE 166)

Olga-Marie Animusphere (CONDO 427)

Rider (Alexander the Great) (APARTMENT 314)

Rider (Quetzalcoatl) (HOUSE 174)

Rider (Ushiwakamaru) (HOUSE 174)

Sakura Matou (APARTMENT 374)

FINAL FANTASY

Fray Myste (CONDO 442)

Kuja (TOWNHOUSE 261)

Lightning Farron (HOUSE 131)

Oerba yun Fang (TOWNHOUSE 236)

Omega (HOUSE 166)

FIRE EMBLEM

Camilla (CONDO 414)

Ephraim (HOUSE 175)

Grima (M) (APARTMENT 354)

Lene (TOWNHOUSE 257)

Orochi (CONDO 434) *DROPPED

Sonya (HOUSE 157)

FLCL

Canti (CONDO 427)

FRUITS BASKET

Ayame Sohma (HOUSE 166)

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Ling Yao/Greed (HOUSE 165)

GINTAMA

Tae Shimura (APARTMENT 352)

GOD EATER

Alisa Ilinichina Amiella (CONDO 416)

Lindow Amamiya (CONDO 423)

GOLDEN KAMUY

Ienaga Kano (HOUSE 172)

GRANBLUE FANTASY

Fenrir (HOUSE 105)

Magisa (HOUSE 130)

Seofon (CONDO 462)

Shiva (HOUSE 152)

GUNDAM 00

Feldt Grace (TOWNHOUSE 272)

HARRY POTTER

Queenie Goldstein (CONDO 441)

HELLO CHARLOTTE

Charlotte Wiltshire (CONDO 470)

HOMESTUCK

Dirk Strider (TOWNHOUSE 241)

Elwurd (CONDO 462)

Lord English (CONDO 422)

Porrim Maryam (APARTMENT 353)

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

Victoria (APARTMENT 359)

HYPNOSIS MIC

Dice Arisugawa (Townhouse 260)

Ramuda Anemura (TOWNHOUSE 209)

IDOLISH7

Nagi Rokuya (HOUSE 164)

Ten Kujou (APARTMENT 304)

JOJO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE

Enrico Pucci (APARTMENT 370) *DROPPED

Joseph Joestar (CONDO 467)

Josuke Higashikata (APARTMENT 370)

KAGEROU PROJECT

Haruka Kokonose (Apartment 338)

Kousuke Seto (Condo 428)

KEN GA KIMI

Kayo (Apartment 334)

KINGDOM HEARTS

Namine (HOUSE 104)

Roxas (CONDO 451)

Xion (Condo 415)

LAMENTO BEYOND THE VOICE

Shui (Condo 421)

THE LAST UNICORN

Schmendrick (APARTMENT 364)

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

Jayce (APARTMENT 331)

Khada Jhin (House 158)

Twisted Fate (CONDO 431)

LOVE LIVE

Mari Ohara (TOWNHOUSE 245)

LUPIN III

Arsene Lupin III (CONDO 429)

Fujiko Mine (APARTMENT 305)

MABINOGI

Elatha (CONDO 405)

MARVEL

Gwen Stacy (Spider-Gwen) (HOUSE 166)

Jean Grey (Phoenix) (APARTMENT 319)

Johnny Storm (HOUSE 121)

Laura Kinney (X-23) (APARTMENT 358)

Matthew Murdock (Daredevil) (HOUSE 101)

MERLIN (BBC)

Merlin (Townhouse 237)

METAL GEAR

Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich (APARTMENT 319)

Quiet (HOUSE 105)

MIRACULOUS LADYBUG

Marinette Dupain Cheng (Ladybug) (Townhouse 246)

MONOGATARI

Hitagi Senjougahara (APARTMENT 301)

MONSTER HIGH

Draculaura (APARTMENT 356)

MONSTER PROM

Vera Oberlin (HOUSE 126)

MOTHER 3

Lucas (TOWNHOUSE 269)

MY HERO ACADEMIA (BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA)

Tamaki Amajiki (Suneater) (TOWNHOUSE 243)

Uraraka Ochaco (Uravity) (HOUSE 144)

NARUTO

Neji Hyuga (CONDO 420)

NEVER SATISFIED

Su-Yeong (APARTMENT 311)

OCTOPATH TRAVELER

Cyrus Albright (APARTMENT 366)

ONE PIECE

Nami (CONDO 440) *BROKEN URL

Shyarly (HOUSE 140)

ONMYOJI

Dodomeki (APARTMENT 326)

Yuki Douji (CONDO 447)

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Ba'al (HOUSE 143)

Ebene Sootil (APARTMENT 346)

Eli McKendal (TOWNHOUSE 234)

Ichiko Calleghan (HOUSE 103)

Jounoichi Nakahara (HOUSE 116)

Liu Canglong (APARTMENT 336)

Maurecai (HOUSE 132)

Orion (TOWNHOUSE 212)

Sallajeth Mahoy (TOWNHOUSE 223)

Scottie Valentin Cicogne (TOWNHOUSE 250)

Yenmal Piprin (HOUSE 159)

Zack Ledger (HOUSE 109)

OVERWATCH

Fareeha Amari (Pharah) (TOWNHOUSE 263)

PANDORA HEARTS

Reim Lunettes (TOWNHOUSE 259)

PERSONA

Aigis (HOUSE 145)

Haru Okumura (APARTMENT 355)

Ken Amada (HOUSE 173)

Marie (TOWNHOUSE 235)

Ryoji Mochizuki (CONDO 471)

PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA

Kazumi (TOWNHOUSE 221)

RED VS. BLUE

Dr. Emily Grey (APARTMENT 354)

RWBY

Velvet Scarlatina (APARTMENT 308)

SAILOR MOON

Chibiusa Tsukino (Sailor Chibi Moon) (TOWNHOUSE 231)

Michiru Kaoru (Sailor Neptune) (CONDO 459)

SENNEN MEIKYUU NO NANA OUJI

Titus Ram (HOUSE 107)

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI

Flynn (HOUSE 159)

SILENT HILL

James Sunderland (APARTMENT 307)

SINOALICE

Red Riding Hood (Alternative) (TOWNHOUSE 255)

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Maria Robotnik (HOUSE 127) *BROKEN URL

SOUL EATER

Maka Albarn (HOUSE 153)

SPAWN

Al Simmons (Spawn) (CONDO 450)

STAR OCEAN

Faize Sheifa Beleth (APARTMENT 309)

Noel Chandler (TOWNHOUSE 248)

STAR TREK

Jim Kirk (CONDO 415)

Spock (HOUSE 114)

STARCRAFT

Alarak (HOUSE 172)

STARFIGHTER

Alexei Cain (CONDO 423)

STARGATE UNIVERSE

Nicholas Rush (CONDO 432)

SUPER MARIO

Peach (TOWNHOUSE 268)

TALES OF

Eizen (CONDO 417)

Emil Castagnier (TOWNHOUSE 216)

Ratatosk (APARTMENT 316)

TEKKEN

Eliza (APARTMENT 340)

TOKYO GHOUL

Ken Kaneki (CONDO 416)

TOUHOU

Rinnosuke Morichika (CONDO 412)

Tenshi Hinanawi (APARTMENT 349)

TOUKEN RANBU

Kashuu Kiyomitsu (HOUSE 173)

Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki (TOWNHOUSE 273)

TRINITY SEVEN

Arata Kasuga (HOUSE 105)

UNDER NIGHT IN BIRTH

Gaien Enkidou (HOUSE 145)

UTA NO PRINCE SAMA

Ranmaru Kurosaki (CONDO 441)

Yamato Hyuga (APARTMENT 368)

VOCALOID

SeeU (HOUSE 157)

WARFRAME

The Operator (CONDO 425)

WE KNOW THE DEVIL

Venus (HOUSE 162)

WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE

Cecil Palmer (TOWNHOUSE 263)

WOLF'S RAIN

Kiba (CONDO 459)

WORLD TRIGGER

Hyuse (HOUSE 165)

YU YU HAKUSHO

Hiei (TOWNHOUSE 247)

YU-GI-OH

Dartz (TOWNHOUSE 233)

Takuma Saiou (TOWNHOUSE 207)

Yusei Fudo (TOWNHOUSE 252) *DASH ONLY

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Crunchyroll Expo Welcomes Voice Actress Tara Sands!

  Crunchyroll Expo is delighted to announce another guest for this year's festivities. Voice actress Tara Sands is officially coming to Crunchyroll Expo 2019, where she will be participating in autograph sessions and panels. 

  Tara Jayne Sands can be heard as over 50 characters on the original Pokémon series, including Bulbasaur, Richie, Jasmine, Oddish, and Tori. Other roles include Biscuit in Hunter x Hunter, Mokuba in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kari in Digimon Adventure Tri., Circe in Generator Rex, Summer in Barbie: Life In The Dream House, Karla in Gundam Thunderbolt, Kombu Infinity in One-Punch Man, Death 13/Mannish Boy in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Cynthia in Pokémon Generations, Anna in Shaman King, Young Ban and Luigi in The Seven Deadly Sins, Kippie in Glitter Force Doki Doki, Tobisuke in Beyblade Burst, the voice of the Sadie and the plants on Netflix's Disjointed, Filia in Slayers, Young Jin in Anohana, Chase in Fighting Foodons, Spyler in I Spy, and lots more. She has played roles in episodes of Celebrity Deathmatch, Sailor Moon, Shamanic Princess, Magic Knight Rayearth, Shopkins, Naruto, Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, DuRaRaRa!!, Geobreeders, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, One Piece, Sailor Moon Crystal, The Seven Deadly Sins, TV Funhouse, Tiger & Bunny, and much more!

    Tara has also voiced characters in a number of video games including Sonya in Fire Emblem Echoes and Fire Emblem Heroes, Genis Sage in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Masaru in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, Jin in Dead Island, Leah in God Eater 2: Rage Burst, Bamo in Hyperdimension Neptunia Re:Birth 3: V Generation, Pipotchi in Ape Escape 2, Lily and Mayuri in Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale, Pria, Cersei, and Ferocious Illira in Skyforge, in addition to roles in Avatar, Singularity, Final Fantasy, Call of Juarez, and Dishonored, among others.

  She has a bunch of other projects that are top secret that she can’t wait to share!

  Tara has narrated over 150 audiobooks and for over 100 episodes, Tara was the on-camera host of the Cartoon Network show Fridays. There, Tara interviewed dozens of celebrities and had more on-camera food fights than she cares to remember. 

  In the meantime, catch Tara Sands on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! 

  Crunchyroll Expo 2019 will return to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center August 30 - September 1.

  Stay tuned to Crunchyroll News for more Crunchyroll Expo 2019 announcements!

  >>Visit the Crunchyroll Expo 2019 Website! 

>>Purchase Tickets

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com