#Memoire 44

[c-kiddo]

finally listened to it.. .. i crode.

#its a 44 minute memoir song i had to emotionally prepare #screaming PHIL!!!! at the sky and shaking my fist bc he's not got any shows in scotland. . jus ireland and in london T_T #kiddo say #man. it did make me go silly go crazy a little #when he sung 'when i took my shirt off in the yard' i was like Yooooo sick glow pt 2 reference lmao like i got excited #all the details T_T #i loved it sm

[andsjuliet]

2024 books read

2024 goal: 150 books

january: 1 - heartstopper vol. 1 → alice oseman (reread) 2 - heartstopper vol. 2 → alice oseman (reread) 3 - heartstopper vol. 3 → alice oseman (reread) 4 - heartstopper vol. 4 → alice oseman (reread) 5 - heartstopper vol. 5 → alice oseman 6 - a fragile enchantment → allison saft 7 - some shall break → ellie marney (audiobook) 8 - only if you're lucky → stacy willingham (arc) 9 - over my dead body: a witchy graphic novel → sweeney boo 10 - notes on an execution → danya kukafka (physical & audiobook) 11 - murder on the orient express → agatha christie (reread) 12 - our wives under the sea → julia armfield (physical & audiobook) 13 - the invocations → krystal sutherland (arc) 14 - red string theory → lauren kung jessen 15 - the breakup tour → emily wibberley & austin siegemund-broka (arc) 16 - the name drop → susan lee 17 - the secret of the old clock → carolyn keene (reread) 18 - bright young women → jessica knoll (audiobook) 19 - last call at the local → sarah grunder ruiz (audiobook) 20 - no one can know → kate alice marshall

february: 21 - worst wingman ever → abby jimenez 22 - drop, cover, and hold on → jasmine guillory 23 - with any luck → ashley poston 24 - the atlas six → olivie blake (reread, audiobook) 25 - that's not my name → megan lally 26 - not here to stay friends → kaitlyn hill 27 - this golden state → marit weisenberg 28 - today tonight tomorrow → rachel lynn solomon (reread, annotation) 29 - past present future → rachel lynn solomon (arc, annotation) 30 - the atlas paradox → olivie blake (reread, audiobook) 31 - the guest list → lucy foley (audiobook) 32 - in the market for murder → t.e. kinsey (audiobook) 33 - the neighbor favor → kristina forest 34 - in the mix → mandy gonzalez 35 - everyone in my family has killed someone → benjamin stevenson 36 - the seven year slip → ashley poston 37 - veronica ruiz breaks the bank → elle cosimano (audiobook) 38 - finlay donovan rolls the dice → elle cosimano (audiobook) 39 - the simmonds house kills → meaghan dwyer (arc)

march: 40 - the mysterious case of the alperton angels → janice hallett 41 - the book of cold cases → simone st. james 42 - what the river knows → isabel ibañez (audiobook) 43 - cut loose! → ali stroker & stacy davidowitz 44 - how i'll kill you → ren destefano 45 - the reappearance of rachel price → holly jackson (arc) 46 - when no one is watching → alyssa cole (audiobook) 47 - outofshapeworthlessloser: a memoir of figure skating, f*cking up, and figuring it out → gracie gold (audiobook) 48 - julius caesar → william shakespeare (rerad, audiobook) 49 - the family plot → megan collins (audiobook) 50 - if we were villains → m.l. rio (reread) 51 - alone with you in the ether → olivie blake (physical & audiobook) 52 - disappearance at devil's rock → paul tremblay (audiobook)

april: 53 - shakespeare: romeo and juliet graphic novel → martin powell & eva cabrera 54 - shakespeare: macbeth graphic novel → martin powell & f. daniel perez 55 - shakespeare: julius caesar graphic novel → carl bown & eduardo garcia 56 - shakespeare: a midsummer night's dream graphic novel → nel yomtov & berenice muniz 57 - twelfth knight → alexene farol follmuth (arc) 58 - kill for me, kill for you → steve cavanagh 59 - murder road → simone st. james 60 - everyone on this train is a suspect → benjamin stevenson 61 - listen for the lie → amy tintera 62 - king cheer → molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, jamie green 63 - twelfth night (musical adaptation) → kwame kwei-armah & shaina taub 64 - in juliet's garden → judy elliot mcdonald 65 - fat ham → james ijames 66 - death by shakespeare → philip l. nicholas, jr 67 - a good girl's guide to murder → holly jackson (reread)

#post: 2024 books read #i always get SO excited to start these threads! #and as y'all know i love starting the new year with a reread #so i figured this year it would be heartstopper and then i'd finally get to read heartstopper vol 5 #i loved it which is no surprise #i just love these characters so much <3

[garadinervi]

Women's Graphics Collective, Abortion is a personal decision not a legal debate, Chicago, IL, 1969-1970s [Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), Culver City, CA]. Plus: Posters designed by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) / at the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA. Plus: Chicago Women's Graphics Collective by Estelle Carol, Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) Herstory Project. Plus: The Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective: A Memoir by Estelle Carol, «Feminist Studies», Vol. 44, No. 1 (2018), pp. 104-124. Plus: Interview with Estelle Carol, co-founder of the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective, Never The Same, 2012

(Near complete) list of CWGC members reconstructed by the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) Herstory Project:

First group (1970-1975)

Estelle Carol Leslie Nevraumont Barbara Carrillo Barbara Morgan Shirley Blumenthal Barbara Bejna Tibby Lerner Wendy Garber Jeanne (Susan Galatzer) Galatzer-Levy Nancy Boothe Cynthia Staples Elena

Second Group (1975-1979)

Jane Trish Merri Furlong Cedar (Janet) Kindy Karen Dodson Helen Factor Julie Zolot

Third Group (1978-1983)

Jan Contento Cathy Joritz Marcia Grubb Jan Wills

– (source: Never The Same)

#graphic design #typography #poster #interview #journal #women's graphics collective #chicago women's liberation union #estelle carol #chicago women's liberation union herstory project #feminist studies #center for the study of political graphics #oakland museum of california #never the same #1960s #1970s #2010s

[zetadraconis11]

HL Incorrect Quote #44

*in the Ravenclaw common room*

Amit: *slowly comes in while staring into space*

Samantha: Oh, Amit! You went with MC to translate some Gobbledegook, right? How was it?

Amit:

Andrew: Er, Amit? Are you alright?

Amit: I think...my memoir just got more interesting!

Samantha: Oh, that's good! So it went well?

Amit: Oh, it went terribly. Goblins found us and tried to kill us. Then MC and I fought them off. Well, MC did most of it, with this strange magic of conjuring lightning without a Thunderbrew, and being able to grab exploding barrels and chuck them at the enemies!

Andrew: That sounds...horrifying.

Amit, still excited: Oh, it was. I'll probably have nightmares, but it will be an exciting chapter for my book!

#Amit is a true author in that he writes his trauma as therapy #Ravenclaws were given the shaft and deserve better #amit thakkar #andrew larson #samantha dale #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy incorrect quotes #hogwarts legacy mc #But mc is just mentioned

[logarithmicpanda]

The Narrow Road Between Desires VS The Lightning Tree

I reread both simultaneously to be able to have a more objective opinion on them.

TL;DR the new version of the story adds, on top of the illustrations, several additional scenes and some very welcome revisions. It is a kinder, queerer, and more magical version of the same story. For me it is definitely worth the read!

Spoilers below:

First let's crunch the raw numbers. Based on the audiobook version TLT has an estimated 27,807 words and TNRBD is at 71,760 words, so almost three times at long. The sections in TLT are arranged a bit differently than in TNRBD but I will use them to do a more detailed breakdown below:

TLT:

Morning: The Narrow Road (29p)

TNRBD:

Dawn: Artistry (6p) Morning: Embril (18p) Mid morning: The Narrow Road (40p) Mid-day: Birds (8p)

Total: 72 pages

The same events are covered, but TNRBD expends on Bast and Kote's characterization. I think the story takes place before NOTW btw, because Bast looks intrigued when Kostrel jokingly tells him to write a book if he knows so much. I think that was was made Bast try to have Kote write his memoirs himself, a while before Chronicler ever sets foot in the Waystone Inn.

The order in which Bast does his turns around the tree changes, the breaking way first, then the making way. I'm not sure yet how I interpret that lol.

One of the boys is changed to a girl, and the first secret she gives about a man sleeping with someone who is not his wife implies that it might be an open relationship in this version (everyone knows, including the wife).

A girl named Gretta in TLT is now Grett, and explicitly referred to using they/them.

New divination system introduced, with things called Embrils that Bast uses kinda like runes, to do tosses

Instead of a shepherdess, Bast charms a shepherd (Bi!Bast for the win) who very cutely embroiders stuff on Bast's pants while mending them

The bargain with Kostrel is more complex, touches on Fae magic and debts, and Bast gets tricked into accepting the gift of a penance coin...

When Kostrel asks Bast to describe Emberlee's breast to him, Bast says he will only do it if she gives her permission

When Bast takes his bath, both men and women are watching (in both versions, he very well knows they are there)

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TLT:

Afternoon: Birds and Bees (32p)

TNRBD:

Mid-day: Birds (continued, 16p) Noon: Obligation (17p) Afternoon: Still (33p) Moonrise: Sweetness (11p) Evening: riddles (7p)

Total: 84 pages

I had forgotten, but TLT already had bits of queerness, namely the little girl who saw "mama kiss the maid", and when Bast goes watch Emberlee bathe, it is strongly implied she was among the women watching him earlier. In TNRBD, that is expended upon.

When the little girl wants to know if her kitten is a boy or a girl, there's this quote that I really liked: Bast would rather tell the bigger truth than the smaller one anyway. "Bows and dresses don't matter much," he said. "She decided she's a girl, so she's a girl."

The girl is also smarter in this version

Rike has a hold on Bast because of the penance coin, so there's a bit of additional plot around that

Rike's sister is named earlier instead of being an afterthought

Bast does some magic on Rike to get rid of his obligation

The description of the still is longer, and the alcohol has a different flavor (no opinion on that but some people might theorize about it lol)

There's a second Embril throw, and Kostrel admits Emberlee told him where she bathed expressly so Bast could find her

Bast, Emberlee, Kholi and Dax (the shepherd) seem to be a polycule and everyone knows haha

Grett is mentioned again, along with "harthan tea" which I assume is fantasy HRT xD

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TLT:

Evening: Lessons (17p)

TNRBD:

Sunset: lies (17p) Twilight: carrots (1p) Night: demons (15p) Midnight: lessons (11p)

Total: 44 pages

The conclusion to the story has a long additional scene and a few more changes

Instead of Martin punching a tinker because he was assaulting a young girl, he punches the tinker because he had pushed down Old Cob

A scene where Rike washes his face and Bast notices the bruises he has from his father beating him have been moved later in TNRBD

There's a prediction from the Embrils that gets realized here, and the way the narration speaks of Bast and his desires impacting the world feel very reminiscent of TSROST, I wonder if Auri is using Grammarie? Is it just another name for Shaping?

Longer description that empathizes that Bast beat the shit out of Rike's father

There's an entirely new scene of Bast talking to Rike and helping him heal from his terror of becoming an abuser like his dad

I particularly liked that last bit, the story was always a commentary on the cycle of abuse, but this version makes it clear it can be broken. Overall, as I said in the intro, TNRBD is a lot kinder as a story. And meaner towards abusive fathers which is always a plus for me lmao. Bast is made very explicitly queer, as are some of the side characters, and the women are better treated as a whole, with more emphasis on consent. I have to say, in both versions Bast offers to take Kote to where Emberlee bathes, and there's no mention of her agreeing to that, so eh.

But I really appreciate the changes that have been made, and the extra magic. Plus the illustrations are lovely as the moon. I'm even more excited about Doors of Stone now (who knew it was possible lol) because I feel like Pat has grown a lot as a writer since WMF :D

#the narrow road between desires #the kingkiller chronicle #reblog later #my meta #the lightning tree

[magicaltear]

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

As found in the original post I saw by @macrolit

My total: 43/100

#tear-chan talks #reading and stuff #damn this is both more and less than I expected haha #this tells me I should probably read more Dickens #also some of these I read in Spanish so...

[alienejj]

(I took these pictures myself)

Part 5

This is a collection of short stories, 50 penguin's modern classics. They were sold together so I've no idea if they're sold separately. I bought them back when Book Depository was still a thing :( this is one of the few times I bought brand new books instead of thrifting them, I splurged on it because I was given Eid money around that time ahaha

Titles in this set (summary taken from the backs of the books):

41. THE PROBLEM THAT HAS NO NAME by BETTY FRIEDAN. The pioneering Betty Friedan gave voice to countless American housewives - who, despite being sold a dream of the perfect home and family, silently wondered 'Is this all?' - and set the women's movement in motion.

42. THE DIALOGUE OF TWO SNAILS by FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA. A dazzling selection of the beautiful, brutal and darkly brilliant work of Spain's greatest twentieth-century poet, from his beloved Gypsy Ballads to pieces appearing in English for the first time.

43. OF DOGS AND WALLS by YUKO TSUSHIMA. Two luminous, tender stories from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers, showing how childhood memories, dreams and fleeting encounters shape our lives.

44. MADAME DU DEFFAND AND THE IDIOTS by JAVIER MARÍAS. Five sparkling, irreverent brief portraits of famous literary figures (including libertines, eccentrics and rogues) from Spain's greatest living writer.

45. THE HAUNTED BOY by CARSON MCCULLERS. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.

46. THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS by JORGE LUIS BORGES. Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary magician.

47. FAME by ANDY WARHOL. The legendary pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious, gossipy vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.

48. THE SURVIVOR by PRIMO LEVI. From the writer who bore witness to the twentieth century's darkest days, these verses of beauty and horror include the poem that inspired the title of his memoir, If This Is a Man.

49. LANCE by VLADIMIR NABOKOV. These three dazzling stories of obsession, mania and an extra-terrestrial nightmare feature all the wit, dexterity and inventiveness that are the hallmarks of Nabokov's genius.

50. WHY I AM NOT GOING TO BUY A COMPUTER by WENDELL BERRY. The great American poet, novelist and farmer argues for a life lived slowly, and the value of home.

I reblog bookish content and since I have a home library I also make bookish content myself; aesthetic book pics, reviews, recommendations, quotes, excerpts, hauls and cats.

#nejj bookblr #classic books #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #academia #books #book review #booklr #book rec list #book recommendations #reading #readers #home library #thrifting #fiction #literature #penguin classics #cosycore #modern classics

[capricorndevil15]

Hey party people! ORLAM PLAYLIST BE UPON YE!!1 🥩🍷

I've been trying to upload this playlist all day, and even now I am pretty sure it won't be long for this world. TwT So get in a listen while you still can. If all else fails, I did also make a normal youtube playlist without the visual component (but I really wanted to show off my Orlam Collage…)

THERE ARE FLASHING LIGHTS/FLICKER IN THIS VIDEO! There's some randomized flicker effects throughout, but the big fast flashing one happens from 43:52 - 44:05 at the end of Hurt. If that would be bad for you, I recommend listening to the non-visual version linked above.

It may go without saying, but none of the art in this playlist is mine! All the images were ripped from Our Wonderland directly or found on Carrot's tumblr, and I just made it into a collage and did fancy editing for fun.

Tracklist under the cut

♛✧༺♥༻∞ Tracklist ∞༺♥༻✧♛

0:00 - 2:08 EATYOU!- Talkshow Boy 2:09 - 5:30 Blood- Billy Cobb 5:31 - 6:57 M'Lady- Dorian Electra 6:58 - 9:25 Prom- MSI 9:25 - 12:07 F***- MSI 12:08 - 15:12 In My Mouth- Black Dresses 15:12 - 18:15 What Do They Know?- MSI 18:16 - 21:05 Bunny Party- Schnuffel (nightcore) 21:06 - 24:19 fReAkY 4 Life- Dorian Electra 24:20 - 26:41 "Call This # Now"- The Garden 26:42 - 28:06 I Got A Melody- Talkshow Boy 28:07 - 30:26 Dancing Queen- Billy Cobb (a banger cover, original song is by ABBA) 30:26 - 33:36 Cake- Melanie Martinez 33:36 - 36:44 Never Wanted To Dance- MSI 36:45 - 39:42 My Blood Is Fucking Up The Dancefloor- Talkshow Boy 39:43 - 44:04 Hurt- Nine Inch Nails 44:05 - 47:18 I Just Wasn't Made For These Times- The Beach Boys 47:18 - 52:59 Linger- The Cranberries (daycore) 53:00 - 54:54 Memoir #2- May Roosevelt

56:00 - 57:19 Blood- MCR (lol)

#our wonderland #orlam brewbacher #our wonderland orlam #if this video survives to tomorrow I will add timestamps to the video itself but rn I am so tired lol. please just take this away from me. #character playlist #GOD DAMN I MISS 8TRACKS #WOULD YOU BELIEVE the song giving me the most grief from yt content ID was fucking BUNNY PARTY NIGHTCORE #WAAUUGH. AAAUUGH. I LOVE ORLAM. I'M GONNA GO TO SLEEP NOW. #Youtube

[thelonelybrilliance]

2023 Reads: thelonelybrilliance

Final count 72! I set a goal of 52 originally but raised the bar when I realized that would only bring me into early November.

Decided it would be fun to share some stats and recommendations along with the full list.

First, ten recommendations:

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (best completed series)

Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (best new poetry read)

Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything (best memoir)

E.B. White, Here Is New York (best short read)

Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (best journals)

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family (best children's lit)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout (best poetry memoir)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (best classic)

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (best food writing)

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (best sci-fi/ongoing series + best audio drama (Red Rising (Book 1))

Of my 72 reads, 31 were rereads, 41 new . Four were audiobooks, the rest print (primarily e-books). My longest read was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. My shortest read (I think? A lot of poetry collections are short) was the longform essay, Here Is New York by E.B. White. I read the most books in December (15) and the least in June (2). 50 authors were women, 21 were men, and one poetry collection was multi-author. My most-read authors were as follows:

Megan Whalen Turner (7 books)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (6 books)

Louise Glück (5 books)

Elizabeth Wein (5 books)

Jane Austen (3 books)

Pierce Brown (3 books)

Full list organized by month under the cut!

Favorites: Bold | Rereads: Underline

Fiction: Blue | Non-Fiction: Red | Poetry: Purple | Audiobook: *

JANUARY

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

2. Annie Chagnot & Emi Ikkanda (eds.), How Lovely the Ruins

3. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

FEBRUARY

4. Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

5. Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

6. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

MARCH

7. Rita Dove, Playlist for the Apocalypse

8. Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

9. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

APRIL

10. Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen

11. Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

12. Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

13. Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

MAY

14. Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

15. Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

16. Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

17. Elizabeth Wein, A Coalition of Lions

18. Elizabeth Wein, Sunbird

19. Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

JUNE

20. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

21. bell hooks, Applachian Elegy

JULY

22. Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line*

23. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

24. Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom

25. Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

26. Michael Bazzett, You Must Remember This

27. Lisa Ampelman, Romances

28. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

29. Natalie Diaz, Post-Colonial Love Poem

AUGUST

30. Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

31. Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

32. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

33. Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

34. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

35. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SEPTEMBER

36. Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

37. E.B. White, Here Is New York

38. Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything

39. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

40. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

41. Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase*

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

OCTOBER

43. Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance*

44. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

45. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

46. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

47. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

48. L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

49. L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

50. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

NOVEMBER

51. Ron Rash, Poems

52. Louise Glück, Meadowlands

53. Tom Perrotta, Election

54. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

55. Louise Glück, Averno

56. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

57. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

DECEMBER

58. Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

59. Pierce Brown, Red Rising*

60. Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

61. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

62. Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

63. Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family

64. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

65. George Eliot, Middlemarch

66. Louise Glück, Ararat

67. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

68. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

69. Kate Baer, And Yet

70. Marguerite de Angeli, The Lion in the Box

71. Pierce Brown, Golden Son

72. Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

#booklist #my reading #my booklist #2023 booklist #2023 reads #my reads #2023 wrapped #bookblr #book recs

[musicfordinner]

He absolutely did that shit.

Listen there are so many things I want to talk about in relation to this story and I’m sure everything will be spoken on and spoken about in the coming year.… however, the most important thing that I’m taking away from this is a lesson I hope younger women learn by looking at these artists. It is something that I’m glad that I learned when I was younger and I thank God every day that things didn’t turn out worse for me.

Dating older men ain’t shit — it’s for the birds. Most older men dating younger women are insane. Absolutely fucking nuts. They’re predatory. They can’t stand against the women in their age group because that would force them to take responsibility for their actions. That would force them to think logically about their behaviour. That would force them to not be able to hide. Not to say women they’re age aren’t experiencing abuse, but there’s a level of “getting away with it” that older men think they’re going to be able to do because the woman is much younger and is unsure of herself.

All of this story and the abuse that Cassie sustained at the hands of Diddy is fucking monstrous. I actually was discussing it with my father last night and we watched On the Record and talked about how insane power hungry men can get and he was like yeah: Russell Simmons is a fucking rapist.

I think it’s really telling when people wanna date teenagers or people who are like one or two years out of being in high school or the new, young upstart at their business or company. It always reeks of desperation and power imbalances. You know its generally because they’re trying to exact a level of control over somebody. Throwing in some HP references: those niggas are death eaters. They’re literally dementors and they’re absolutely insane. They get off on domination and control.

I’m so glad that there’s so many fucking warrior women coming out to speak about their insane relationships that they had with older men in the public eye when they were very very young.

I loved Taylor Swift for writing about these predators. I love Demi for doing it. It’s like when women hit 30 and realize the fucking gag, they pull that pen out and holy shit I can’t wait for the exposure. It’s what’s changing and shifting the landscape right now in music. We can barely listen to fucking male rappers at the moment. Who is bitches and who are the hoes you speak of sir? Listen, a hex on all their houses. I can’t wait to see Beyoncé in her 70s/80s write that memoir, I’m sure she’d talk about the grooming and the violence she sustained with Jay, even though in a somewhat typical Black family tradition, they’re staying together. He claims he learned his lesson. I guess Lemonade must have taught him some shit as we heard on 4:44. Or he figures it’s cheaper to keep her. Whatever, that memoir is finna be fire.

Circling back — as a young girl you are not fully aware of what’s transpiring in these age-gap relationships, until it’s too late. It just feels like you’re getting special attention from someone to look up to. Popular decorum dictates that there is the campfire rule that if you’re dating a younger girl or a younger guy you’re supposed to leave them in a better state than you found them, but that’s not usually the case with famous and rich men. They’re cheap. They’re abusive. They may want you to engage in acts you’re not comfortable with because you don’t hold the upper hand and more times can’t fully stand on your own yet. Maybe you’re not as notable or popular or you’re new on the scene and most times they hope: less experienced. If you look at a relationship like Quavo and Saweetie’s, they can be violent jealous liars that act one way for the cameras and another when you’re trapped in an elevator with them fighting and forgetting that there are security cameras around. If you’re someone like Diddy, you’re paying 50K for the security camera footage so that the public doesn’t see you Ray Rice-ing your girlfriend in the building. It’s fucking nuts. AND THEN on top of that — they want you to have sex with young studs for their voyeuristic pleasure because they probably can’t get their dick up enough to develop a meaningful, healthy, sexual relationship with you. Lastly, if you’re a Black woman, shade be damned, you could be a Cassie, or a Serena, or anyone who has had to deal with domestic terrorism from your community and you leave the community and marry a non-black man (not to say that outsiders won’t abuse you either becauseeee whew chile), then they (said men in your community) want to cry racism. It’s stupid. Everything sucks. BUT the major take away is that older men are particularly vile because they want to rob you of your youth, your popularity, and your talent because they’re fucking vultures. See: Drew Dixon, Sil Lai Abrams, Anita Hill, etc etc etc.

A former coworker of mine died this past week. It is a challenge to mourn for him because he was an abuser, he was violent to young women, women that are my friends that he worked with. He was inappropriate. He was a cheater. He was older than us all. He cheated on his wife constantly. She more than likely knew. He was vile. He put vulnerable people in fucking awful situations that he will have to pay his dues to the creator for. These men are everywhere.

When I worked for another company, music-related, there was a man there who sexually harassed every young woman that worked there, including me. We reported it/him. I fucking left that job before he did. Him and his cronies both engaged in that behaviour. Picture that. You’re trying to work and get your cheque and these folks stay being inappropriate. He’s probably dead now too and honestly, the world is probably a better place for it.

I remember the first time I saw the movie an education and was like FUCK— no comment about whether or not this happened to me or other girls I knew. But Jesus. It’s such a common scenario there is movie after movie after movie about shit like it. Honestly, most women watching this Cassie/Diddy scenario play out probably can’t wait for these dudes to get the fuck outta here. There’s a reason these folks never marry and just replace one young girl with another. It’s sad. But it’s time for them to get the fuck outta here. Not to mention his poor business practices, alleged murder of individuals, the Shyne situation and the Mase situation. They’re even doing men dirty in these scenarios. It’s a level of toxicity that has known no boundary. I can’t wait for Diddy to get CAUGHT THE FUCK UP.

More to read:

#chantel’s sound diary #diddy #cassie ventura #music diary #music journal #music nerds #music nerd #music dreams #surviving diddy

[xblueoceanfloor]

JUSTIN Timberlake and Britney Spears' "feud" is non-existent and the trauma over her abortion has been resolved privately.

Timberlake apologized to his ex-pop superstar partner and they are now "fine," his NYSNC bandmate Lance Bass revealed in an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun.

Bass is a friend to both Britney and bandmate and long-term pal Justin.

Bass says that Britney addressed the break up in the book to set her record straight on that split, but "that was the past”.

He insists that while publicly it appears Spears remains upset, seemingly through her social media posts, “They don't care. They are good.”

Speaking exclusively on camera, at the annual Environmental Media Association Awards in LA, Bass said that the deeply personal issues between the couple was not even a "fight".

The ex-NSYNC star feels that his friends’ personal woes were "just life".

Bass, 44, also added that Britney fans' successful push of her single Selfish ahead of Timberlake's new single of the same name on the iTunes Charts is "good for everyone".

Currently, some Spears’ fans continue to attack her ex-partner following her memoir heartbreak of him wanting an abortion and cheating allegations in 2001.

When asked how the famous couple solve their differences, Bass declared: “Well, the problem is they've already sorted it out and everyone just forgets.

“No, they are fine. They support each other. They love each other in their own ways.

“He has apologized. She is amazing. It's just like everyone, this has happened already.

“So I think just people like to keep fights going, but look at the people that are in the fight. They don't care. They're good.”

Spears claimed in her memoir, the media portrayed her as “a harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy," while she was really “comatose in Louisiana” as he was “happily running around Hollywood”.

Justin has not made any public comment about Spears’ claims, but did tell fans at his Vegas gig in December “no disrespect” before playing Cry Me a River - a tune penned about her cheating on him.

Hours later she appeared to fire back on Instagram: “I never mentioned how I beat him in basketball and he would cry... no disrespect.”

Bass, wearing a vibrant green suit and sporting violet hair, says The Woman In Me is not reflective of their status now.

"But she was talking about her past. She's not talking about right now. Okay. So what's happening right now - they are fine.

"I don't know why people try to keep this fight going. It wasn't even really a fight. It was just life.”

Bass also feels that Spears‘ fans continuing to disrupt Timberlake is not necessarily a bad thing.

'GOOD FOR EVERYBODY'

They sent her tune named Selfish to No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart, stopping his tune from a top spot.

Bass, 44, feels Timberlake, whose new album Everything I Thought It Was is released on March 15, is winning despite the drama.

“It's good for everybody, right?

“Yeah. Any press is good press is what they say. . So yeah, I mean, it's fine. Now they both have singles in the top 10, which is great.”

Bass admits that while Timberlake has his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, which kicks off in Vancouver, Canada on April 29, There are no NSYNC reunion plans.

He added that there is "always hope”, especially after how fans reacted to Bass, JT, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and JC Chasez, reuniting for The Trolls film comeback single before Christmas.

”The fans are incredible. They keep us alive, but they've been with us since the last NSYNC tour.

“So it's like we've never felt like they've left us at all. So everything that I've ever done, I felt that they were there.

"They've always shown up for me in every individual project I've done.

"When we get together as a group, it is a different thing.

“It's just this kind of craziness that happens and it's fun.

"It's fun to see the reaction. I love the smiles and how happy people get seeing us all five together. It is rare, but it's special.”

#britney spears #justin timberlake #justney #lance bass

[cecilyacat]

BBC Big Read List

Many years ago, I first started tallying the books from the BBC Big Read list, seeing how my reading and interests correllate. I don't take it as the "one truth" on which books are worth reading or "good", I just find it interesting which ones I agree with. Let's go!

Out of the BBC's "The Big Read" list from 2005, which ones did you read, plan to read or started to read, but didn't finish? The ones I read are fat, the ones I still want to read are in italics, the ones I started but didn't finish are crossed out and all the other ones I have either never heard of before or never wanted to read them.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (and I thought it was horrible. But I wanted to finish it!) 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (and I love it) 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck (didn't finish it in school but want to try again) 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome 102.Small Gods, Terry Pratchett 103. The Beach, Alex Garland 104. Dracula, Bram Stoker 105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz 106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz 108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks 109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson 111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy 112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend 113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat 114. Les Misérables, Victor Hugo 115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy 116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson 117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson 118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 119. Shogun, James Clavell 120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham 121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson 122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy 124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski 125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver 126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett 127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison 128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 129. Possession, A. S. Byatt 130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 131. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl 133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck 134. George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl 135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett 136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker 137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett 138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan 139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson 140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson 141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson 143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby 144. It, Stephen King 145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl 146. The Green Mile, Stephen King 147. Papillon, Henri Charriere 148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett 149. Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian 150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz

151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett 152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett 153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett 154. Atonement, Ian McEwan 155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson 156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier 157. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey 158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling 160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon 161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 162. River God, Wilbur Smith 163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon 164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx 165. The World According To Garp, John Irving 166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore 167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson 168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye 169. The Witches, Roald Dahl 170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White 171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (I've read excepts for uni) 172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams 173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway 174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco 175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder 176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson 177. Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl 178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach 180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery 181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson 182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay 184. Silas Marner, George Eliot 185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis 186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith 187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (I stopped after the toilet-scene. Too disgusting) 188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine 189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri 190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. LawrenceLife of Lawrence 191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera 192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons 193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett 194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells 195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans 196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry 197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett 198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White 199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle 200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews

Read: 57 Want to read: 60

Some of the books to read I know very little about except the title and that they're classics, some others I know a lot about (and I even have "Men at Arms" on my TBR pile for when the mood strikes me next). I like reading classics once in a while, but especially older ones I can't read too often, I need to be in the right mood for that style of writing.

The last time I updated this was in 2015 and I had read 44 and wanted to read 72 - so 15 books in 9 years xD Like I said, it's not a challenge or a goal to read all of them, just a convenient way of keeping track of which classics I want to read eventually.

#my actual life #bbc big read #books

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, November 22

GILES: I was a librarian for years. This is exactly the same, except people pay for the things they don't return. It'll give me focus. Increase my resources. And it'll prevent you lot from trampling all over my flat at all hours. There may even be some space for you to train in the back. BUFFY: Boy, you've really thought this through. How bored were you last year? GILES: I watched "Passions" with Spike. Let us never speak of it.

~~BtVS 5x02 “Real Me”~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Invasion Of Privacy (Buffy, Ted, Joyce, Angel, PG) by badly_knitted

make me hazy (Giles/Jenny, M) by CallMeVampy

Fledgeling Take Flight (Jenny Calendar, Phantom xover, T) by arcanedreamer

Not a Dark Prince (Angel, Spike, G) by Stand with Ward and Queen

[French language] Vampire hollywoodienne (Buffy/Faith, T) by Friday Queen

[Chaptered Fiction]

Breathe Again, Chapter 12/17 (Angel/Cordelia, M) by Califi62

New Blood, Chapter 7 (Xander, Naruto crossover, T) by danu40k

With Arms Wide Open, Chapters 13-14 (Buffy/Giles, E) by jaybird023

Days of Future Past, Chapter 31/34 (Buffy/OC, Angel/OC, Buffy/Angel, M) by a2zmom

New York, Chapter 19 (Giles/Xander, M) by drsquidlove

"The Sky's Gonna Open", Chapter 6 (Lindsey/OC, T) by lindseymcdonaldseyelashes

A Call From Beyond, Chapter 3/7 (Ensemble, G) by CoffeeMilkLuvr

I'm Only Your Darkness, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Faith, E) by Karnstein99

Moments that Make You: The Hero and The Princess, Chapter 93 (Cordelia/Doyle, T) by myheadsgonenumb

Between The Shadow & The Soul, Chapter 3 (Angel/OC, T) by dreamingshores

Spiderwebs, Chapter 43 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Willow25

The Transfer, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Blackmysteria

Fates Intertwined: A Second Chance, Chapter 7 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Spikelover4ever

The Vision Quest, Chapter 2 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by acb6293

Encased by Sunshine, Chapter 29 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by acb6293

Buffy’s Spooky Birthday, Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

What the Drabble?, Chapter 44 (Buffy/Spike, R) by VeroNyxK84

Encased in Sunshine, Chapter 30 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Acb6293

Twice Broken, Thrice Burnt, Chapter 19 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by ClowniestLivEver

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: Here’s a fun old one of the Master!! (drawing, worksafe) by foul-sorcery

Tattoo: [Tattoo design with BtVS quote from "The Gift"] (worksafe) by tattoos4mnd via tattoos4mnd

Gifset: PASSION is the source of our finest moments. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear (Wesley/Lilah, slightly NSFW) by gothamstreetcat

Video: D&D | Podcast | Q&A | Buffy the Vampire Slayer by It's A Mimic!

[Reviews & Recaps]

*SHOULD I BE LAUGHING!?* Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5 Ep 11 "Triangle" Reaction: FIRST TIME WATCHING by Nick Reacts

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 6X12 REACTION | First Time Watching by EvilQK

EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reaction - 3X8 - "Lovers Walk" ( Buffy Reaction ) by Java Java Reactions

Zombies and Reunions! | Buffy The Vampire Slayer 3x2 'Dead Man's Party' | Blind Reaction by Vic

Season 3 Begins! // Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode 3x01 Reaction // Buffy is My Hero! by Brooke Whipple

PODCAST: Buffy Season 8: Part 3 by Buffy the Gilmore Slayer: A Buffy and Gilmore Girls Podcast

[Recs]

spuffy fic rec, pt.2 recced by louisandjade

[Fandom Discussions]

buffy season four will give you whiplash any time they cut from one romantic subplot to another by idkaguyorsomething

With all my Bangel VS Cangel talk recently it probably does come across like I hate Bangel. This isn’t true by girl4music

And I don’t hate Angel. Not anymore. I never really did actually by girl4music

Do any of yall think about how in Something Blue, Buffy tells Riley shes getting married to a guy named Spike and plays it off as ‘a joke.’ by spikes-left-eyebrow

Rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and today’s new issue with the show is how Buffy is the “chosen” one who has no say in the matter by jenny-from-the-box

Would you like a SMG celebrity memoir? by Taake

The Nature of Willow's "Dark Magic" in Season Six by American Aurora, multiple posters

What Would a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Revival Look Like? - A MLC Retrospective by MyLoveableCrayon

Yet another “Dead Man’s Party” thread: how would you have fixed it? by squidwardsaclarinet

Am I the only one that wishes they kept the more “case of the week” noir style of season 1 and 2 by SignificantBerry3837

Wrong answers only: What did Spike whisper in April the Robot's ear that she threw him out a window? by jdpm1991

Watching Buffy again- changed my opinion on Riley by EyCeeDedPpl

Xander as a character has not aged well or society has just evolved by Jockwarrior

Tired of the fandom? by Upbeat_Tone_2710

Would a high caliber bullet to the heart kill a vamp? by TheEbolaArrow

Everyone talks about the best and the worst… by duvet-cover

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#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #ats #angel the series #fan art #fan fiction #meta

[child-of-the-danube]

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1. Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen

2. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

4. Harry Potter series

5. To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering heights - Emily Brontë (TBR)

8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9. His dark material - Philip Pullman

10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott

12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (DNF)

14. Complete works of Shakespeare (TBR)

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye

19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26. Brideshead revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

34. Emma - Jane Austen

35. Persuasion - Jane Austen

36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres

39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (DNF)

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (TBR)

48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (TBR)

50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi - Yan Martel

52. Dune - Frank Herbert

53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (DNF)

58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (TBR)

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -time - Mark Haddon

60. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (TBR)

64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (DNF)

66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding

69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (DNF)

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72. Dracula - Bram Stoker

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses - James Joyce

76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78. Germinal - Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80. Possession - AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (TBR)

84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (TBR)

85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87. Charlotte's Web - EB White

88. The Five People You meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94. Watership Down - Richard Adams

95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (DNF)

#books #tbr #dnf #bbc #read #reading #literature #classic literature #+ 6 DNFs #31/100

[silencedminstrel]

N7 Day Special - Mass Effect Fanfiction

Hey everyone! Since this is still the month of November I am giving you fans of Mass Effect a treat: it's fanfiction time! Please subscribe and enjoy!

Story Title:

01) April 2017 - Ignited (Inspired By The Mass Effect Tribute Song “Reignite” By Malukah) 00:16

02) April 2017 - The End Of An Era (Inspired By The Soundtrack Of The Same Name) 01:00

03) April 2017 - A Moment Of Silence (Inspired By The Soundtrack Of The Same Name) 01:44

04) April 2027 - Farewell/Into The Inevitable (Inspired By The Soundtrack Of The Same Name 02:28

05) November 2017 - Shakarian’s Christmas Dinner 03:12

06) October 2017 - Kaidan Recalling Their Meeting In Horizon 04:17

07) October 2017 - Kaidan Reacting To Javik 05:01

08) October 2017 - Kaidan’s Remark About Sur-Kesh 05:43

09) December 2017 - Lament Of Liara 06:29

10) January 2018 - Liara On Mars 07:13

11) January 2018 - Liara Reacting To Shepard’s Clone 07:57

12) February 2018 - Aria T’Loak Praying For Shepard 08:41

13) February 2018 - Kaidan Recalling How Joker Lost EDI 09:25

14) February 2018 - Jack’s Remark On Being A Teacher 10:09

15) March 2018 - The Aftermath (Control Ending) 10:53

16) July 2018 - Looking At Old Vids - Joker After He Stopped Mourning For EDI 11:37

17) September 2018 - Matriach Aethytha’s New Business 12:21

18) September 2018 - EDI Being Asked About TaliZorah Vas Normandy 13:05

19) September 2018 - Garrus’ Eulogy For Shepard 13:49

20) September 2018 - Garrus Recalling The Moment Joker Lost EDI 14:33

21) September 2018 - Liara Missed Being A Shadow Broker 15:17

22) October 2018 - Joker Attending The Normandy Alumni 16:01

23) Liara Finding Shepard’s Body (January 2019) 16:45

24) I’ll Be In The Bunk (February 2019) 17:29

25) Dock And Refuel (February 2019) 18:13

26) The Last Hope Of The Galaxy (March 2019) 18:47

27) Back From Tiptree (March 2019) 19:31

28) Liara Reacting To Shepard’s Death (Refuse Ending) (April 2019) 20:15

29) Life-like Statues (July 2019) 21:09

30) A Tribute To Jane Shepard 1 (June 2019) 21:53

31) The Last Salute - A Tribute To Jane Shepard 2 (June 2019) 22:27

32) Clever Little Pyjack (June 2019) 23:11

33) In Memoriam - Legion (June 2019) 23:55

34) She’s All Yours (July 2019) 24:39

35) A Memoir From A Surviving Elcor Division Soldier (July 2019) 25:33

36) Commander Shepard Writing His Memoir (July 2019) 26:17

37) A Tribute To Father And Son (July 2019) 27:11

38) A Tribute To Shepard And Kaidan (August 2019) 27:55

39) Together At Last (September 2019) 28:39

40) Merry Christmas, Commander! (December 2019) 29:23

41) Commander Shepard At The Post-War N7 Gathering (January 2020) 30:07

42) The Heavy Price Of Being The Galaxy’s Savior February 2020) 30:51

43) (Control Ending) The New God Of The Reapers Reflect On Her Mortal Aspects And Of The Surviving Lover She Left Behind (July 2020) 31:35

#science fiction #fantasy #cyberpunk #space opera #short story #slice of life #mass effect trilogy #mass effect legendary edition #mshepard #femshep #fanfiction #youtube #Youtube

[iron--and--blood]

Bismarck (1940)

It's a Nazi era movie about Otto von Bismarck. Let's rip it to shreds.

TLDR: It's surprisingly accurate in many ways, though definitely propagandist in the way that they discuss the English.

2:57: Already throwing in a Fredrick II reference, obviously.

3:12: FOUR FRITZ REFERENCES HOLY SHIT

3:22: Bitching about Freddie III and his love of the English and Liberals.

3:44 Napoleon reference, I swear there needs to be a Bingo card for this

4:11: Our first look at Bismarck, surprisingly accurate (at least when it comes to looks). His eyes are so strange, but honestly that adds to the accuracy

5:06: HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY WEREN'T PLAYING AROUND WITH THIS MOVIE. WILHELM I SAYS THE QUOTE ATTRIBUTED TO HIM BY BISMARCK IN HIS MEMOIRS. THEY DID ACTUAL RESEARCH. (the fact that I realized that off the top of my head is concerning)

9:02: "We'll be king and queen soon" Vicky no

10:20: 3 seconds after meeting Nap III he's already bringing up his uncle

15:32 "we don't want a new German Reich, but a free one" tough lucky buddy

18:03: They shortened Iron and Blood but that's probably fine, Bismarck was a wordy MFer

19:03: THEY DID IT AGAIN. THEY WENT WORD FOR WORD FROM THE MEMOIRS. THEY REALLY DID THE RESEARCH

23:24: YOU'RE JOKING THEY DID THE THING WHERE HE READ THE NEWSPAPER WHILE PEOPLE WERE MADE LIKE DAMN THEY DID THEIR RESEARCH

36: 33 The portrayal of Franz Joseph is way off, he was firmly against pan-Germanism and this is most likely a propagandistic way to legitimize the Anschluss. (Thanks to @/kaisern-erzsebet for the help!)

45:23 OKAY I WAS RIGHT They are really doing the whole King of Saxony debacle. That doesn't usually get talked about, another point for accuracy

46:51 HE TORE THE DOORKNOB OFF THE WALL. HOLY SHIT

55:59: Wilhelm is making a lot of sense, I'm glad they are showing the conflict between Bismarck and the king

1:11:23: Okay Bismarck's relationship with his kids and wife is way too good

1:19:49: Unless I'm mishearing, they are keeping Bismarck's health issues, which is quite surprising, not many people do (also again his wife is wayyyyyy too perfect)

1:20:14: Johanna's characterization is AWFUL. She would not be at the club and she would not be comforting Otto like that. I knew they would fuck her up but its like they aren't even paying attention to historical Johanna.

1:28:50: "Es stet in Gottes Hand" "In Gottes Hand? In Bismarck's Hand! Er ist den Teufel!" Okay at least they got Augusta's anti Bismarck feelings in there

1:30:00 He apparently had no blood on him or noticeable wounds after the assassination attempt in the movie. I know the bullets either bounced off or went right through but that seems highly unrealistic. And of course they had to mention that Cohan-Blind was an English Jew

1:40:03: Okay at least they are keeping Bismarck's sorry mental and physical state accurate.

1:42:34 Oh that scene with Benidetti is great, shows off Bismarck's utter hatred and rage at the French, and his slippery nature

1:44:23 HOLY SHIT THEY'RE DOING THE NIKOLSBURG TANTRUM! And having Fritz III help him out!!

It's really interesting that they barely talk about the Franco Prussian war and just skip to the Hall of Mirrors, I really wanted an Ems Dispatch scene.

(Though I appreciate that they kept the historical accuracy of calling him Kaiser Wilhelm because of the Kaiser debate)

#he means what he says #otto von bismarck #bismarck (1940)