#this is gillian-specific content

[olderthannetfic]

i was listening to the fanficmaverick podcast episode you did on fanfiction history, in which you mentioned (~55 min in) that you were one of the main people writing the terms of service for AO3 and bringing up the types of "would this be allowed" test cases, that these were not "oh it's a slightly problematic kink" but "violent snuff porn of gillian anderson, not scully, but gillian anderson" — and that you all eventually landed on "kinda gross, but legal in the US, and therefore would host." question: was this the most contentious case? any other memorable/notable test cases, or other interesting discussions you can remember?

i'd also love to hear more about how the major archive warnings were decided on — on what basis were these chosen? which others were considered? — if you happen to know!

sincerest thank you for all the work you've done for fandom and the preservation of fandom history. ❤️ seriously, such a feat, and so interesting!

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I think even then my personal level of wallowing in annoying wank or looking at horrifying fic was vastly higher than everyone else's, so this was pretty much the example we looked at.

Though, if you want to laugh, astolat's original post is still up on LJ with the comments, and there were totally people going "I'd be interested in this new archive project, but not if it includes RPF!" or "Not if it includes any underage fic at all!" etc.

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On usenet in the 90s, there was somebody or somebodies who were reaaaaally into that specific type of snuff story. I remember noticing how many of them involved not only hangings but very specific imagery of one high heel falling off. I was 13, so I really couldn't tell you if it was one dude with a specific fetish or genuinely super widespread. But it made an impression.

The alt.sex.stories hierarchy was a wild time.

Anyway, in practice, badwrong RPF of female celebs that sounds like it's aimed at straight dudes ends up on fetish sites for whatever the fetish is, not on fic archives for the most part, but I thought it was a useful example because it was so far into actually offensive to AO3y types. We're not talking the weaksauce shit people are always asking me about on here like "Oooh, what if someone posted [bog standard slash trope] to AO3?" as though it's a gotcha.

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Man... were there other test cases? I'm trying to remember. This was all in like 2008, and of course, I didn't keep internal documents when I left OTW. Not that half of this was stuff I'd have had documented on my computer anyway.

My memory is that the general shape of the content policy had been decided by the founding Board before Content Policy started up. I don't think we were actually making the ruling on RPF ourselves.

I'm pretty sure most of what we were up to was looking at wank and trying to determine how to head off shitty behavior with the ToS. Trying to define harassment is a mega pain in the ass, let me tell you.

One major internal wank there was was deciding whether to allow Original Work. I was the one who'd been in anime fandom, and I was very used to archives that have an original section, often for the "original slash" and "original yaoi" that had nowhere else to go at the time. (These days, you'd just become a "m/m romance" author, as I in fact have.) Fanfiction.net had spun off its original years ago at that point, but a lot of the non-English archives and a lot of the archives in other parts of English-speaking fandom found fannish-but-original to be a normal thing.

I am a grudgy bitch, and I am still not over how much pushback I got on this.

AO3 went live with a ban on original work, but the policy never ended up being heavily enforced. We waited to see what would happen with posting, and it was predictably that people from those backgrounds outside of US Media Fandom posted some original without even thinking it might be banned, but they didn't post so much it overwhelmed the archive.

The big fears had been that #1 people would flood AO3 and drown out the fic. This was predicated on the idiotic notion that original = inherently not fannish, so there's no dividing line. In reality, the people who were used to posting original to fic archives had an internal sense of what belongs and what doesn't. Fear #2 was that people would try to post chapter 1 of a commercial story and then go "See here to buy the rest". Little did we know that this would soon be a problem with fucking fan fiction itself. (Also, commercial spam was always against the rules and needed no extra anti-original work rule.)

People didn't just disagree with me: they looked at me blankly.

Pretty sure I vented about this on that podcast too though. Anyway, most of the shit people find contentious now was already decided before we started writing the ToS, I think... though I don't really remember clearly. We were more looking to plug up holes in the rules that nitpicking trolls could use to harass.

The kinds of things we were deciding were often like the policy that AO3 doesn't necessarily tell you if someone reported you. If they need info, they'll contact you, and if they decide you broke the ToS, you'll hear about it, but obviously bogus reports don't get passed on. This is to remove the temptation to use the team as a proxy to harass a target. An official e-mail, even if it's "You're fine, actually", can be disturbing.

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Re the warnings themselves, I know I'd done a survey of what archives were out there at the time and had come up with a list of a few dozen. This was early on in OTW's development process, not just for Content Policy. You can still find the list somewhere on that LJ group. Anyway, for the ToS writing, we looked at the commonplace warnings from archives past, which were basically character death, character death, and also character death.

It always cracks me up when people are like "Um, rape makes sense, but how dare they downplay these other bad things with a character death warning?" Old fandom places were full of unwarned for rape, but woe betide the person who posted surprise character death of a main ship!

We needed an under-18 warning because we had a lot of Australian fans who were like "Dude, my government is a bitch, and I cannot use this archive at all if I can't filter that out". Past archives had mostly just banned it entirely or been full of death eaters raping teenage Harry Potter characters with nary an underage warning in sight.

I don't remember why we picked the violence one. It really wasn't common, but maybe we wanted to make a philosophical point that sex doesn't have more cooties than violence.

CNTW was a compromise with older fandom standards where people objected to literally any warnings existing. A lot of the really oldschool warnings debates aren't about which ones you should have but about whether you should have them at all.

I think people around here miss how non-universal warnings are and how many other communities and spaces even today don't think you need all that.

I don't recall if we seriously considered any specific others. I don't think we had a big list, then ruled them out. It's more like we accreted a few must-haves as we went along. We probably looked at the metadata for the eFiction archives that actually had ticky boxes for search (as opposed to the very low-metadata norm on many archives). But a lot of those filters would have been fandom-specific or redundant or hella vague.

One thing to keep in mind is that this was an Era of Archives, so there were fucktons of examples to look at, though only a few flavors of example since a bunch used eFiction or otherwise copied each other's design. It was possible to make some judgements about past norms on archives, not just go "Are we copying FFN or not?" A lot of fans now see fic hosting as the big three or see AO3 as the only option, but we were used to having many archives with many designs.

I know we wanted a short and manageable list of warnings, and we wanted unambiguous things that could be effectively enforced. If I'm populating my hard-coded 90s website with other people's fics, I can go through each for dubcon before I post it (not that you'd ever have warned for dubcon in the 90s). On a big fic archive, making judgement calls on vague ass categories like dubcon is a nightmare.

We did do some focus groups where other interested fans came in and critiqued our work. I can't recall how much was about our ToS wording and how much was about the actual policies. But we did workshop this shit extensively with people who were around at the time. I think many of the whiners now assume it wasn't enough of a community effort (since we didn't decide things they like). But actually, a bunch of people weighed in. Maybe elf remembers what we actually asked them. I think she was in a focus group.

[antoschauniverse]

I don't think it was that easy with that podcast. It was the end for both of them. But in the photo, Gillian looks satisfied and David looks confused and perplexed...

I would pay for this information!🤣👏 Man, it would have been wonderful if that had happened - even more wonderful if chickadee had gone along - not that Gillian would have said anything to her, but seeing her clinging to him, as always, would have reinforced her revulsion against Duchovny. Gillian does look happy and content in the photo of the two of them - and even with a wicked little victory face. He's expressionless, looking scared, drunk, dirty and drugged - just like in the People photos. But it could be because the Odalisque took the photo and he didn't want to hug Gillian so as not to upset the child bride. Or because he was exhausted after a night of sex and weed with the girl.🤮

Was the event at the US Open after or before these photos? Were the People photos after or before the recording of the podcast? At the US Open, he didn't seem to be paying attention to the game - as he always did - but was instead chatting internally. Coincidence or not, a few days ago he was alone with his daughter in Los Angeles, something very rare in recent years during the sugarbaby period.

But that's too good to be true 🤦‍♀️- Gillian wouldn't bother, that's the job of family and close friends. It's more likely that she left something in the air and he got the message. Let's hope so.🙏🙏

Miss "Nobody" has no rights in this relationship. All the power is in David's hands, so she will keep quiet, no matter what David does. The photos at the U.S. Open were staged. The trio of stepmother, stepdaughter and sugar daddy was made specifically for the magazine, so such photos should be treated with a high degree of skepticism. People's photos in New York are much more interesting. David is angry, his kept woman is happy. Gillian closed her book "David Duchovny" and Odalisque is happy. This fool does not understand that the main threat to her is not Gillian, the main threat is David. Gillian doesn't need a worn-out David. David divorced Tea, so for David to leave his girlfriend or wife for the sake of satisfying his dick is not a problem. However, now David will not pay such alimony, he has become smarter. I think Lemonada paid Gillian to advertise this podcast. Considering how much they paid for Megan's bubble, it's quite possible. David will never give up hope of continuing the X-Files- this is his only hope for a big fee and fame these days, so he hardly got the message or believed that Gillian was serious.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Hello!! I'm really sorry, but could you do a summary of the Krone and Isabella light novels? I can't find anywhere to read them. thank you so much!!

No need to apologize, happy to help!

I've talked about the contents of the first light novel here. Almost all of it is available either translated in text or via sound dramas with English subtitles. The exception is the "NER in Bird Cages" story, which is only available in English as a summary.

I've provided a general overview of the second light novel here, as well a link to the masterlist of TPN content for the English-speaking fandom. The first half is dedicated to Isabella, and the second half to Krone, though if you've read chapter 181.2, you'll already be familiar with most of it.

If one of the stories is part of the content of a post, I'll usually tag it as light novels, the title of the light novel in question, and the title of the specific story. (e.g., TPN Light Novels + Moms' Song of Remembrance + The Starry Sky and Leslie's List)

Here's all the light novels laid out with their story tags (with the exception of the fourth one because I've only read the half that's translated):

Light Novel 1: A Letter from Norman

• "The Ghost Incidents at Grace Field House" - Norman reminiscences about his earliest memory with Emma and Ray, when they were about three or four, trying to solve the mystery of the spooky occurrences around the house. • "The Day Emma Cried" - Norman recalls an incident when he was about seven and became terribly ill retrieving Emma’s handkerchief during a rainstorm. Thinking he’s on death’s doorstep, with Isabella’s permission (to both appease Emma and test Ray’s loyalty), Emma and Ray go out to find the miracle cure, a white flower that only blooms at night. • "NER in Bird Cages" - Norman muses how he's never seen Ray cry before he remembers the incident where they rescued an injured bird sometime after Emma's ninth birthday. Ray deals with the grief of not being able to save his beloved older sister, Susan, if he wants to save Emma's and Norman's lives. • "A Gift from the 39th Girl" - The Grace Field kids secretly work on putting together a gift for Norman’s eleventh birthday.

Light Novel 2: Moms' Song of Remembrance

• "The Starry Sky and Leslie's List" - Isabella's story where she remembers helping Leslie with a list of goals he set out to accomplish over the course of two days before he's shipped out. She also reflects on her relationships with Ray and Sarah. • "Searching for the Skies of Freedom" - Krone's story; chapter 181.2 is a retelling of this.

Light Novel 3: Records of Comrades

• "Two Paths" - The story of how Lucas and Yuugo's group acquired the tea set we see Yuugo with in the bunker, interspersed with scenes of Lucas interacting with Emma and Yuugo interacting with Ray during the present timeline. • "Two Wills" - Gillian and Nigel's story of their earlier days at Goldy Pond when they both lost their sisters, Lala and Emilia. • "Two Destinies" - The story of how Mujika and Sonju met and how Leuvis inadvertently ended the farm system and thousand-year promise because he was bored.

Light Novel 4: Films of Memories

• "The Days to Celebrate" • "Operation Stormy Night" - The Grace Field children reminiscence about the night their older siblings helped them feel safe during a particularly bad storm. • "Ray and Conny" - The Grace Field kids are telling Emma about their life at Grace Field house when Conny comes up. Ray recalls to himself how he helped three-year-old Conny adjust to sleeping in the larger shared bedrooms with some indirect help from Susan. It's a story only he and Norman know now. • "The Chess Proverb" - Ray teaches Norman how to play chess, and Emma and Norman join in a match with Ray against Isabella. Serves as a metaphor for how each of them approaches a problem and how they balance each other out when they work together. • "Don and Gilda" • "The Guiding Star" - The story that explains how the trio got on the roof for the chapter 119 cover art and the comfort they each draw from the stars.

Finally, here's my general tag navigation page that's hopefully accessible on mobile as well as desktop.

[cav-core]

Fake Crime novels

I would really recommend people who get a kick out of true crime content but don't feel comfortable with the ethics of consuming real people's tragedies that way (me, I'm people) get into the genre I've personally dubbed Fake Crime.

This is a specific subset of thriller/crime/mystery/sometimes horror novels that hit the same kind of content, the same kind of beats, same "tropes" and often narrative voice as a lot of popular true crime content, but the events and people involved are entirely fictional. It's the same thrill to it, but without feeling like you're getting your kicks off someone else's pain.

Often these novels will address an in-universe true crime community, too, usually critically, which can be pretty meta-fun.

Examples of this genre I've personally decided exists that I've read and enjoyed include:

The Whisper Man, Alex North

What Lies in the Woods, Kate Alice Marshall

Penance, Eliza Clark

Brutes, Dizz Tate

Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

(ofc check trigger warnings for all of these)

[kamreadsandrecs]

Title: Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)

Author: Margot Douaihy

Genre/s: mystery

Content/Trigger Warning/s: arson, homophobia, drug use, police brutality, cancer, suicide, rape, incest

Summary (from author's website): Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed nun puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “dark, sneaky thriller” and “freight train of a murder mystery” (Gillian Flynn).

When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials' response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil the mysterious attacker herself and return her new home and sanctuary to its former peace. Her investigation leads down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets in the sticky, oppressive New Orleans heat, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way. An exciting start to Margot Douaihy’s bold series for Gillian Flynn Books that breathes new life into the hardboiled genre, Scorched Grace is a fast-paced and punchy whodunit that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

Buy Here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/scorched-grace-a-sister-holiday-mystery-margot-douaihy/18283014

Spoiler-Free Review: Oh this was a FUN ride, for sure! While the cover, and the premise - lesbian former (?) punk rocker becomes a nun and solves crimes - are definitely appealing the quality of the writing solidify the promise of both cover and premise. In the first three paragraphs one can almost HEAR Sister Holiday’s cigarette-and-punk-rock-roughened voice, and the overall quality of that voice and the author’s writing does not let up for one second over the course of the novel.

It also helps that Sister Holiday herself is FASCINATING. Though there is an overall mystery that needs to be solved (i.e. the arson case that burns down a huge portion of St. Sebastian’s School), the Sister herself is a mystery all her own - one that gets untangled throughout the novel as she gets lost in memories and narrates events from her life before moving to New Orleans and joining the Sisters of the Sublime Blood. The contrast between her past and her present is also incredibly fascinating to read about, not least because the one thing that bridges the two halves of her history is her genuine faith.

That’s another thing about this novel that makes it so enjoyable to read: Sister Holiday’s faith is rock-solid and real. It’s not a BLIND faith though; she is entirely aware of how damaged Christianity in general and Roman Catholicism in specific is, and how damaging they are to their believers. This is something she knows from her own personal experience, something that the reader can pick up whenever Sister Holiday narrates her reminiscences on her past.

But despite knowing the downsides, Sister Holiday also knows the strengths of her religion, and it is those strengths that she embraces and holds on to as hard as she can. She regularly extols the virtues of worship, ritual, and a far more progressive lived practice than some people might think is possible while being a devout Catholic. To be fair, this assumption is entirely deserved, but it also neglects a type of Catholicism where socialist thought borne from the hard realities of colonialism and imperialism have interwoven with a Catholic emphasis on action-as-devotion and community service to create a brand of the faith that, in some ways, is very progressive.

Despite all these positives, there are a few minor nitpicks that might rub some readers the wrong way. The first might be the author’s repeated descriptions of how hot New Orleans gets. The language used is very good, so it might not bug the reader too much the first few times it happens, but by around the midway point it DOES get a bit tiresome.

The second nitpick might be the way the mystery is laid out. Sister Holiday is not exactly the tidiest of narrators despite her insistence that she is a fantastic amateur detective, so this means that the reader can get taken for a wilder ride than is strictly necessary. Some readers may find this fun, not least because Sister Holiday’s narrative voice is so compelling, but there might be some other readers out there who won’t be too happy with how the story is laid out.

Overall, this was an amazingly absorbing read, despite a few tiny nitpicks. The characterization of Sister Holiday is stellar, as is the overall quality of the writing, that it easily hooks readers from the beginning and doesn’t let go until the very end. If the cover and/or the premise appeals to the reader, then rest assured that the contents definitely back them up.

Rating: four and a half cigarettes

[drelldreams]

blog introduction

hey. i’m taliah, 22, she/her, gmt+2 timezone, demisexual/demiromantic & bi. i love ME and thus decided to create a blog to discover new content, to support all the amazing artists, modders & writers, and to share some of my own content.

i like to share headcanons, au ideas, and i write fics. i love rarepairs and i ship femshep/samara, more specifically my shepard oc vivien shepard with samara, and jack/thane. i do ship shrios too.

aside from femshep, jack, thane and samara i also love miranda lawson, mordin solus, liara t’soni, oriana, the asari species, the drell, and the novel characters liselle t’loak, paul grayson and gillian grayson. most of the stuff i have on my blog revolves around that. i try to dig out all the rare content such as liselle fics and artworks, rarepair content, cut content from the game, unused concept art, etc.

[houseofhurricane]

Against Nostalgia | Chapter Eight

Summary: Fifteen years after the end of the second war against Voldemort, Hermione Granger is invited to Hogwarts for a one-year appointment as the professor for History of Magic, forcing her to take a break from a successful career at the Ministry of Magic. Draco Malfoy, meanwhile, is Hogwarts’ Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. He’s a former Auror, despite the fact that he still bears the Dark Mark. Though there’s mutual distrust between them, sparks quickly fly between Hermione and Draco…sometimes literally. And although the war is long over, it doesn’t take an interest in History of Magic to see that history is intent on repeating. Between them, Hermione and Draco have the power to shatter the world they know. Or, maybe, the could make it into something new. (Imagine if they fell in love at the same time.)

Pairing: Dramione

Word Count: 5,923

Chapter Summary: Everyone is some combination of hot and/or bothered in this chapter.

Thank you to @iftheshoef1tz​ + @poisonivy206​ + Carter + Farrah + Gillian for beta reading this. You all are the epitome of squad goals. All mistakes, as always, are my own.

Thank you all for the love and support on this fic! I hope you enjoy this chapter 🧡

You can read Against Nostalgia on Archive of Our Own.

The next few weeks fall into a rhythm that, if not quite ideal, is more than bearable. Hermione settles in to teaching, trying to be contented with the fact that approximately half of her History of Magic students are listening. She consoles herself with the fact that she’s given some really good lectures in Contemporary History of Magic, with McGonagall sitting in, actually rapt, when she spoke about the duel between Grindelwald and Dumbledore, the specifics and the implications for the years between the war. Her next lecture, about what Voldemort learned from Grindelwald, is even better.

Every evening before dinner, Malfoy uses a spell to hoist her in the air by her ankles, and Hermione works to break herself out. Within three days, she’s learned to master her panic, and a day later, she can reverse the spell wordlessly. But casting the countercurses without a wand proves more difficult. Another week passes, and then two, and Hermione’s mind goes bright and blank.

“Why don’t you try thinking of your poetry?” Draco suggests as they walk to dinner after two weeks of unsuccessful effort.

“Didn’t it take you a month to figure out how to break these curses without a wand?” she asks, adjusting the bag on her shoulder. She’s caught up on her grading, and she’s made her recommendations for Rebeca’s proposal on Muggle relations, and she’s somehow still waiting for the literature on security wards. So despite the fact that Hermione still has plenty of books in her satchel, tonight it is mostly filled with sheet music.

She’s going to slip off to the piano room as soon as dinner is over.

Malfoy looks bemused at whatever he sees on her face. “I would have thought hearing about my record would make you want to beat it in half the time.”

“I’m planning to catch you off your guard,” she informs him with unearned asperity. She hasn’t bested him in any more duels. That hasn’t stopped her from practising diligently. Not only spells, either: Hermione has begun rising early in the mornings to run around the Hogwarts castle in the exercise clothes she bought with Ginny in Muggle London last year. Her bright yellow trainers look more than a bit ridiculous on the castle grounds, but she’s been able to dodge nearly all of Malfoy’s spells since she started her runs.

“That will take longer than the time you have left at Hogwarts.”

She frowns, because it suddenly seems as if her return to the Ministry in July is too near. Then she changes the subject. “Have you heard any more about this threat against me?”

Read the rest on AO3.

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[sorrengael]

#SORRENGAEL.      private and highly selective headcanon based writing blog for   ( 𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚕  ) of the empyrean series with verses in many different fandoms. 18+ only, minors dni. wridden   by   𝙰𝙽𝙽𝙰, 𝚃𝚆𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚈7, 𝚂𝙷𝙴/𝙷𝙴𝚁. *currently reading iron flame.

EXPLORING ( ... ) a pheonix rising from it's ashes, otherworldly and vaguely threatening, not the kind who needs saving, flowers growing back as thorns, you're a weapon and weapons don't weep, who's afraid of little old me?, work smarter not harder, she would make herself a reckoning, pain shapes a woman into a warrior, thunder and lightning, from a little s park may burst a flame.

you can also find me at : @legatium ( multi - muse ), @switzaerland ( bella swan ), @spiltsalt ( gillian owens ), @cardigaens ( swiftverse multi )  ©

PSA. this blog will contain sensitive / mature content (blood, death, gore, drugs etc ), these specific subjects will always be written with caution and tagged accordingly. nsfw will also be present from time to time, these subjects will only be written with those who are comfortable and of age (21+). all memes answered are available and encouraged to be turned into threads! memes are the easiest way for me to start new dynamics and test the waters, so please never hesitate to send me some! the most important thing to remember when interacting with me is that roleplaying is not a job, it is a hobby. i won’t tolerate any ooc drama what-so-ever (and neither should anyone else!) roleplaying is not worth the mental strain!

[cowbutches]

trying to get back into reading books and not just fanfic, do you have recs?

Probably too many. Here's a quick and dirty list off the top of my head because my e-reader decided to tank any sideloaded books and my goodreads account is a defunct mess. Neither of things these helped with checking on what I've read. I'll be rectifying that later today... 💀

Unless it's in the YA section, please assume that these may have adult content in some way or another (usually horror elements). Genres may blend. A lot of these are going to contain a woman/woman relationship as well.

If you're wanting anything more genre-specific, I certainly would have recommendations beyond just broad strokes.

Horror

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Amfield Tender is the Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher

Fantasy

Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat (Captive Prince Trilogy) Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb series) The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri (The Burning Kingdoms Series) Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (Roots of Chaos series) She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan (The Radiant Emperor)

Mystery/Thriller

Dark Places - Gillian Flynn Eileen - Ottesa Moshfegh The Push - Audrey Audrain

Science-Fiction

All Systems Red - Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries) Dead Silence - S.A. Barnes Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant (Rolling in the Deep series) The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

Misc.

Crash - James Ballard The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale series) The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters Vampires of El Norte - Isabel Cañas

YA

Bones and All - Camille DeAngelis Crier's War - Nina Varela (Crier's War duology) The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games series) Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo

[raoulmichelleauthor]

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Detective books are hiding lots of interesting stories, intricate mysteries, and smart detectives there. In this genre, Detective Reads Editor’s Picks are a selected voyage into the best literature of crime-solving genius.

These selections involve the readers in the fascinating world of deduction, intriguing turns, and mysteries to be unveiled, beginning with the classical stories of Sherlock Holmes told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ending with the modern hits of Agatha Christie’s books

Plunge into the psyche of “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn, in which the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly indistinguishable as you read on. Dig deeper in the enigmas of the Dublin Murder squad by Tana French, exploring dark mysteries on eerie crime scenes and multiple layers of characters’ motivations.

Those who are looking for some historic ambience should explore the meandering complexities that Jacqueline Winspear has woven into the Maisie Dobbs series in England after World War I ;page Whether it is the mystical appeal of one specific private detective or the complex intricacy of numerous riddles and puzzles, all these Detective Reads Editor’s Picks have much in common as they promise an enthralling journey across the exciting realm of a criminal story book genre

What Are Editor’s Favorite Picks for Murder Mystery Books?

What are Murder Mystery Books?

Murder stories orchestrate complicated plots that involve crimes, suspense and investigations. The stories lead readers in through convoluted mysteries involving murders that are not straight forward, great detectives, and lies and seeking after the truth. They have been known for this since Agatha Christie and the Dragon Tattoo girl.

The murder mystery books rank highly among the editor’s favourite picks because of their ability to grab, puzzle, and amuse. These narratives are complex plots, interesting people in suspenseful tales. These kinds of works fascinate readers, attracting murder mystery Editor’s picks to their eternal charm as this genre combines intellectual amusement with enthralling adventure.

Such stories have not just kept the audience on the edges of their seats but they have also displayed how humans are really clever and complex. It is a place where writers can build mind bending riddles while readers enjoy being armchair detectives unravelling secrets and anticipating twists.

Their ability to go beyond straight storytelling is what makes these murder mystery and detective reads Editor's pick as they provide an intellectual break from regular routine alongside offering suspenseful escapades in alternative realities. Additionally, there is a great variety of genre options from cosy mysteries to grisly noir which should meet demands of most tastes.

Recent Detective Mystery Books

Newest detective mystery reads have proved innovative with interesting stories that have attracted a lot of attention. “The Searcher of Tana French”, focusing on a retired detective seeking for the truth in a remote Irish hamlet, shedding light on different levels of surprises and suspense. In addition, a book titled “The Thursday Murder Club” by Richard Osman provides another fascinating option that involves a gang of pensioners who cleverly investigate a number of local crimes while incorporating humour as well as complex crimes into their actions.

In “this might hurt” by stephanie wrobel a therapist ventures into dangerous ground as she discovers the dark side of her client’s lives. “Blacktop Wasteland” is a modern noir with a heist movie touch and multi-dimensional characters exploring a criminal world and family issues.

In addition, “A Line to Kill” by Anthony Horowitz features a comeback of private investigator Daniel Hawthorne within a case concerning a kill during a literary festival and tells an interesting story. Recent releases have been varied in terms of settings, perspectives, and challenging puzzles. The mysteries are enthralling, detective reads editors’ picks as narratives retain their grittiness. In order to find out the recent additions to this genre one can visit a bookstore, an online store or read a literature magazine.

Conclusion

The detective reads Editor's pick, comprising enticing content based on detective books. Detective symbolises curiosity and careful analysis in solving mysterious questions, which is the meaning of the keyword “Detective”. The books combine cerebral excitement with sensational pleasure, inspiring armchair detectives among their readers. Lately some interesting works were released, such as “The Searcher,” ” The Thursday murder club,” “ This might hurt”, ” Blacktop waste land” and “ A line to kill”. These present different settings, personalised angles and elaborate puzzles to attract the up-to-date detectives.

[maggie-parks]

Research Journal 3: Identity & Place

Artist 1: Paul Noble

Form: Graphite drawing on paper

Content: "Nobson", an imagined place: detailed symbolic city illustration influenced by architecture

Process: Similar to a Bosch painting, this type of drawing takes meticulous planning to include as many details as possible with as many separate parts in the composition for a viewing experience that takes much longer than a quick glance to see the whole picture. This requires skill in 2-point perspective drawing.

I chose this work because I am interested in the idea of adding fine details to a map that represents my identity, and I like Noble's style of drawing.

Artist 2: Ned Vizzini & Abigail Smith

Form: Book cover/jacket artwork

Content: Abigail Smith illustrates Ned Vizzini's concept of a "brain map" in his book It's Kind of a Funny Story. The main character in the book, Craig, drew maps of imaginary cities when he was a child. While being admitted into a mental hospital for 5 days, he takes an art class and revisits his childhood idea, and decides to draw these maps in silhouettes to describe them as "brain maps".

Process: The process on this one looks pretty straightforward design-wise as far as placing simple shapes into the composition, but it could be approached through different mediums like drawing, painting, collage, or digital.

I was thinking about this map for the original idea I had to illustrate my own "brain map", but wanted to take it a step further by adding in some serious detail and adding meaning with metaphor, which is where I would pull inspiration from Paul Noble.

Artist 3: Ed Fairburn

Form: portrait drawn in ink on a map (Marquette, MI)

Content & Process: Artist statement- “I manipulate paper maps to construct other forms, usually portraiture. I call this process topopointillism; a direct combination of topography and pointillism. Using traditional materials such as ink, paint, and pencil, I make gradual changes to the contours, roads, and other patterns found in cartography. These changes allow me to tease out the human form, resulting in a comfortable coexistence of figure and landscape. I aim to preserve the functionality of each map by feeding the composition instead of fighting it – I often spend hours studying the terrain before I begin any physical processes. I’m interested in the degree of subtlety behind each synchronization, and [how] a completed map behaves more like a portrait when viewed from further away – it’s almost paradoxical that a portrait should lose detail when examined closely."

Moving away from imaginary maps to real ones, Fairburn's portraits are stunning, I love his use of cross-hatching, and I love how drawing on a map from a specific place adds a level of meaning and context to the identity of the person in the piece. If I did something like this I would focus on someone else's identity instead of mine, as I don't feel like there's a strong connection to a particular place that shapes my identity.

Artist 4: Joseph Cornell

Form: shadowbox construction 

Content: Assembling multimedia shadowboxes, Cornell combined found objects, painted surfaces, and collages. He was a major collector of everyday ephemera, and his materials ranged from marbles and toys to maps and seashells.

Process: These shadow boxes consist of found objects but also carefully crafted paper figures as well. This art form emphasizes a layered look.

I love shadowboxes, and I like how Cornell showcased his collected items. There's a potential here to use found objects/personal items that represent my identity.

Artist 5: Gillian Lambert

Form: graphite drawing on paper 

Content & Process: Artist statement- “I try to find the beauty in what is traditionally unattractive, grotesque, awkward, or bizarre, I work primarily with self-portraits, but try to make them less personal by removing body parts and disguising others. I think there is a lot that can be learned from fragmenting and objectifying the human figure and face, and a lot that can be learned from witnessing the final product.”

Figure drawing is a very obvious/literal way to represent a sense of self & identity, I'm hoping to maybe draw a full-body self-portrait that leans into Lambert's style. I like how she emphasizes characteristics that can be described as unattractive or grotesque, which is what I would want to focus on if I were to make a figure drawing of myself.

[rosabuchanan]

Inspiration

My inspiration for my film has been an accumulation of TikTok trends, movie tropes and feminist agendas. Below I have listed specific forms of media that I researched for this task.

CoreCore Videos

CoreCore is a term that the urban dictionary describes as "kind of a deconstructed art. Basically evoking emotion out of a series of (visual) clips that you develop your own meaning to. CoreCore content is introspective". I found this style of "visual poetry" to be very evocative thus, I wanted to replicate it in the way I edited my film.

Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope and Feminine Rage

The manic pixie dream girl trope was the initial inspiration for this film. Although it is a dying trope in cinema, its detriments live on in society with the assistance of the patriarchal expectations of women. I wanted to show the implications of the MPDG ideal in how women are treated in relationships as well as focus on mania and how men want a wild fun girl yet are taken back once she shows real emotion. The MPDG trope highlights the dehumanisation of women in relationships as they are seen as an accessory to better their men.

Movie scenes used for MPDG: Garden State, 500 Days of Summer, Paper Towns, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ruby Sparks

This leads to the defiance against this trope, specifically seen in contemporary cinema, feminine rage. I employed scenes of feminine rage in films to represent the "breaking point" of a woman. Or in other words, the point where she transitions in the eyes of a man from an accessory to a human being with complex emotions.

Movie scenes used for Feminine Rage: Midsommar, I, Tonya, Euphoria, Gone Girl, Promising Young Woman, Pearl, Jennifer's Body, You

Feminist Agenda

For this film i used two poems which i felt encapsulate the meaning of my film and highlight its relevance to society and feminism.

[getvalentined]

I love this ramble and I would like to thank you for making it. You've pretty much got it right, at least from everything I know.

First, I gotta point out that years go by very quickly when you're 1. chronically ill, 2. extremely busy, 3. in the midst of higher education, and/or 4. over the age of about 26. Lucrecia was dealing with all of these at once, under the direction of the most powerful company in the world, so a multi-year timeframe really doesn't seem that excessive to me. It's still awful, but it's totally understandable. (Anyone out there pursuing a PhD probably knows what I'm talking about.)

The last bullet point is still a point of contention, because it's implied in Dirge that Hojo must have seen Vincent transform into Chaos during the Crisis due to the fact that he was still talking about Lucrecia's thesis like it was nonsense in all the flashbacks where he talks about it at all, and Vincent couldn't turn into Chaos intentionally until after finding Lucrecia in the cave in the OG. (Unlocking the Chaos limit break requires returning to the cave late in the game; she isn't active anymore, but Vincent finds Death Penalty and gets access to his last limit break, the unlocking of which leads him to comment "I'm becoming less human.") Hojo says that he injected himself with Jenova cells because he saw what Lucrecia did to Vincent worked with Chaos, so he was like "Fuckit we ball," but that literally can't be the case based on timing in the OG.

My take on this is that Hojo did see Vincent turn into Chaos during the Crisis, but not specifically during the fight on the Sister Ray—rather, I think he saw it happen on surveillance somewhere, since Shinra had been tracking Avalanche pretty much the entire time, and the team has spent more than enough time in Shinra-controlled regions for that to be possible. [SPOILERS] Rebirth in particular makes this seem likely, given that the Nibel protorelic questline shows just how comprehensive Hojo's observation is and how obsessive he is with keeping track of his subjects. [END SPOILERS]

The rest of it, though, is pretty spot-on from my perspective. Hojo canonically had Vincent first, because he essentially says that Lucrecia picked up his trash; my take on this is that Lucrecia knew that the only chance of Vincent being revived was to let Hojo do whatever it was he was going to do. Regardless of timing, Lucrecia canonically knew that Hojo was experimenting on Vincent and she did nothing about it.

Gast also had to have known, since it was taking place in his lab and he was canonically in Nibelheim for Project S—it was his project, that's why he was initially the one raising Sephiroth, and why Sephiroth has such fond memories of him. Gast thought Sephiroth was an Ancient, and treated him as such, until he learned the truth and abandoned him. One of the intel entries in Rebirth literally says that Gast ran the Jenova Project in Nibelheim, referring to Hojo as his assistant, thereby explicitly canonizing that he was there even in the alternate timeline in which the FF7Re series take place.

The basement lab at the Manor and the attached study are full of Gast's notes in every single installment, and that's where Vincent was experimented on. Crisis Core also makes it clear through project information that Gast dropped Project G when Genesis was born normal and moved on to Project S; to drive that point home, the notes in the Howling Fang aren't written like any of Hollander's records or like anything Gillian ever says, using dramatically different language than either of them (referring to subjects "returning to the Lifestream" comes to mind), which seems to imply that they were left by Gast. This also tracks, since the subjects referred to in those notes had to have been experimented on prior to Genesis' birth—to prove that, one of the escaped subjects mentioned in the notes and later found in the Lake of Oblivion was a Shinra research assistant working on the project at the time. Hollander hasn't had that level of Shinra backing in decades, and Genesis' birth marked the death knell for Project G, so this must have happened before Genesis was born. Gast was there for all of this. He isn't just complicit, he's directly responsible, so it's not really any surprise that he didn't do anything about what Hojo was doing to Vincent.

Here's the part where I point out that talking to the elders in Cosmo Canyon in the OG explains that Gast left the company after discovering that Jenova wasn't an Ancient after all. He abandoned Sephiroth at like six years old because he wasn't what Gast wanted, and then immediately got the only real Ancient left in the world pregnant. To call his behavior in this term suspect does a disservice to language.

Gast did nothing about Vincent for the same reasons he experimented on his own research assistants and a bunch of literal babies: because he didn't become director of Shinra's Research and Development department by having a conscience.

No one on the Jenova Project wound up where they were by being good. Some of them may have had what they believed were good intentions, but that doesn't excuse any of it. Just as Gast abandoning Sephiroth the moment he found out he wasn't an Ancient proves it, Shalua referring to Vincent as one of the subjects of Lucrecia's research also proves this beyond any doubt: Lucrecia wanted to save Vincent, because she couldn't save his father, but that didn't stop her from using her work on him as added research for her thesis. Regardless of how much she wanted him to survive, she still used what she learned working on him, at least early on, for her own benefit. I do believe that saving Vincent was the priority, and I want to make that clear—I honestly believe that in her mind she felt like using the research in her thesis and on Project 0 was the only way to remain in good enough standing with Shinra to continue working to save him.

But there's no way to absolve any of the researchers on either wing of the Jenova Project of what they actually did, whether under Shinra's purview or not. These were not good people—but people don't have to be good to be loved.

Also one final note about Project 0 is that [SPOILERS] Broden's existence proves that at least some of the subjects were fully consenting, as he's not only from one of the first waves of functional SOLDIERs but also was allowed to quit even after being enhanced. It's possible that the early subjects, all of whom wound up mutating and dying horrific deaths based on the FF7FS opening cutscene, were nonconsenting—but Broden was presumably enhanced in the early to mid-eighties and was not treated like some kind of animal. The results have left him all fucked up now, decades on, but he was given the chance to participate in Project 0 and he seemingly took it of his own free will.[SPOILERS END]

I thought I posted this here ages ago, but I couldn't find it to link in another post I'm working on, so I'm posting it now!

Regardless of everything else surrounding the First SOLDIER battle royale game, I'm always going to be delighted that the timeline established in its opening cutscene indicates that Hojo and Lucrecia were experimenting on Vincent for around seven years before Lucy ran off and Hojo put him in the box.

See, the thing that's always bothered me about the known timeline of Vincent's life as it existed up until this cutscene dropped is that it kind of implied that Hojo did all his scientific body horror work in about two months, and then Lucrecia took over and spent a couple months on her part. This is...utterly ridiculous, for so many reasons, not the least of which is Shalua being aware of Lucrecia's work with Chaos having subjects, which it didn't prior to Grimoire's death—this project wouldn't have been ongoing long enough for Shalua to refer to "subjects" in Dirge if it was only a couple months of work.

The implication with the timeline shown in the FF7FS opening is that Lucrecia and Hojo both moved to Project 0 after their part of Project S was complete, presumably leaving Gast with Sephiroth while they tried to make superhumans that would be deployable sooner than a literal baby. We know it's post-Jenova Project, because Hollander is there but Gillian isn't, so she's already in Banora with baby Angeal. The team is shown working on Project 0 until around 1984, with Lucrecia present.

Hojo working on Vincent for a year or two while Lucrecia first gives birth to Sephiroth and then recovers from that whole ordeal makes sense. Him going back and forth between Midgar and Nibelheim trying shit on Vincent that he thinks might work on Project 0 also makes sense, given that we know Hojo's work on Vincent was eventually repurposed for a couple of the Tsviets, who are the current iteration of what Project 0 originally was.

When Vincent's body finally gives out, Hojo just kinda leaves him there, changing his focus entirely to Project 0, while Gast still has Sephiroth. Lucrecia comes back to Nibelheim at that point, for whatever reason, and picks up where Hojo left off, trying desperately to do something to keep from being responsible for killing both Valentines.

Gast leaves the company in 1984, whereupon Sephiroth is moved into Hojo's care—not Lucrecia's—and we can assume that Project 0 as a whole is shuffled.

This is the point where Lucrecia reaches the end of her rope. She's never going to get to meet her son, she's never going to get anywhere in this damn company, she's still so sick from the Jenova infection she contracted during her pregnancy. She can't do this anymore. So she dresses Vincent up like his dad (because his eyes look just like his father's), puts on a wedding dress she never got to wear, and leaves forever.

Hojo comes back to Nibelheim, possibly looking for Lucrecia—he either finds her "dead," or he only finds Vincent. Either way, Lucrecia ends up in the Nibel Mountains and Vincent ends up in the basement. With nothing left to lose and nothing holding him back, Hojo proceeds to track across the planet to find Gast and shoot him in the face.

This is a much better story.

This also explains why the official Dirge guide says that Vincent was asleep in the basement for, very specifically, 23 years, and why all Ultimania material cites that he was in the coffin for "over 20 years" even though he was shot to death 30 years ago. It's not a retcon. It never was. It's a clarification.

Vincent was killed in 1977, 30 years before Cloud found him during the Crisis. But he was under the knife and in the tubes for seven years after that, until the two equally brilliant psychopaths trying for opposing reasons to make him into Something Else finally gave up and put him in a box.

That's fantastic.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

WHERE are you reading the light novels ohmigoodness

In addition to sound dramas and links I mentioned in this post, @1000sunnygo has graciously compiled what I believe is the most extensive master list of TPN material in the English-speaking fandom: https://1000sunnygo.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-promised-neverland-masterlist.html

Love the symmetry of these covers.

I already touched on what can be found in A Letter from Norman, and Sunny already outlined what can be found in the fourth one, so I’ll just briefly go over the second and even more briefly touch on the third since I haven’t read it in its entirety yet. (gotta savor the content 👌😩)

☆ The second light novel, Moms’ Song of Remembrance, released in January 2019, is split into two stories:

1. “The Starry Sky and Leslie’s List” (translated by c72684 here)

Isabella remembers helping Leslie with a list of goals he set out to accomplish before leaving Grace Field two days before he’s shipped out. It’s book-ended by segments set on January 15, 2046, where Isabella briefly chats with Phil, reflects on her relationship with Ray, and finds new purpose now that her children have proven she was wrong about escape being impossible.

(It’s roughly 52 pages in Word at 12 point Times New Roman font single spaced if one is wondering about the time commitment.)

2. “Searching for the Skies of Freedom” (translated by @standreamy​ and 14thNeah; many thanks!) (It’s roughly 64 pages in Word using the aforementioned standard)

This was eventually turned into chapter 181.2 that features Krone during her first month of training to be a sister candidate where she reunites with her elder sister Cecile. The gist of the story is kept the same, however, the novel also:

Confirms sister candidates have the electronic chip surgery the day they arrive at HQ.

Expands upon the training sister candidates go through, specifically incorporating scenes of self-defense training and one on medical training. It’s also noted that cooking is not a priority for sisters during their first regiment of training; that’s only if they retrain to become one of the kitchen staff, which is one path of retraining they can take in the event they can’t secure a sister position at one of the plants. Others are teachers, child caretakers, and doctors/surgeons. (The better to keep them stratified and make it more difficult to fight the system.)

Has more scenes between Krone and Cecile.

Briefly looks into Grandma’s thoughts during the panel where she holds the embroidery with the map of HQ on it as a trophy.

Briefly features the scene in chapter 23/S1e07 where Smee gives Krone the Minerva pen.

☆ The third light novel, Records of Comrades, released in October 2020, is split into a prologue and three stories:

1. “Two Paths”: A story about Yugo and Lucas’ time at Glory Bell. 2. “Two Wills”: The story of Nigel and Gillian’s first few days at Goldy Pond. Nigel’s sister, Lala, and Gillian’s sister, Emilia, who are both briefly shown in chapter 77 are featured in here.

3. “Two Destinies”: The story of how Sonju and Mujika first met. Legravalima, Leuvis, and Yverk also appear in here.

(The document I have is 133 pages in Word at 14 point Verdana font single spaced.)

[oceanssapart]

sarah paulson and sandra bullock in elle’s 25th annual women in hollywood

bonus:

[dirty-bosmer]

Thanks for tagging me @wispstalk!

Relationship Status: in one and very content :)

Favorite Color(s): dark greens and dusty pinks and p much any earth tone.

Favorite Food: My mom’s pozole rojo. She makes it for Christmas every year and it rejuvenates my ragged, withered soul.

Song Stuck in My Head: Pull up the Roots by the Talking Heads. Played randomly while listening to Spotify one day, and I’ve been listening to it every morning while getting ready for like a week.

Last thing you Googled: plastic histology block gets stuck on knife

Time: 1:48

Dream Trip: Man there are so many places I’d love to visit. Off the top of my head, southern Europe, specifically Portugal cause I want to practice the language, but I’d love to see more of the Mediterranean, drink a lot of wine, eat very late dinners. Have an olive or two.

Last Thing You Read: “Problems in Histopathological Technique” (histology will be the death of me lmaoooo. Too bad I need it for 2 out of 4 of my dissertation chapters 😩) 

Last Book You Enjoyed Reading: I’m currently in the middle of... maybe five books (i have promble) and too busy to finish even one 😭 The last novel I read was Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. I finished reading through her entire bibliography this summer. On her wikipedia page, she is quoted saying, “I particularly mourn the lack of female villains – good, potent female villains,” and when I read that, I was like “gorl, you so damn right.” Big fan.

Favorite Thing to Cook/Bake: Now that it’s the fall, it’s gotta be this Stardew Valley inspired dish I call “Roots Platter.” Just a bunch or roasted root veggies thrown together and served with some sautéed kale. +100 health.

Favorite Craft to do in Your Freetime: idk if this is a craft, but I’ve recently taken up drawing again and working with oil pastels. I was heavily inspired by all the lovely artwork done by @katastronoot. I’m very bad at it lol, but it’s so much fun!

Most Niche Dislike: Pants. I hate pants. I like them on other people, but I can’t stand wearing them.

Opinion on Circuses: Never been to one, and I do not intend to go. Especially if there are clowns or large animals doing tricks for entertainment (which I feel like should be illegal?? Has that happened yet, idk). 

Do You Have Any Sense of Direction: Ehhh, no. I can get where I need to go, but I’m awful at navigating while riding shotgun on road trips. I’m always late on calling out the turns, and if anyone asks me for directions on the street, I panic, wave my hands wildly, and somehow forget the word “right” and “left.” 

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