#Rachel McMillan

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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Recommended Romantic Quick Reads

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#Anna Lee Huber #Becky Wade #Book #book list #books #Carla Laureano #Christmas Book #Courtney Walsh #Jennifer Rodewald #Joanne Bischof #Laura Frantz #Lindsay Harrel #Meme #novella #novellas #Pepper Basham #Rachel McMillan #read #Reading #Top Ten Tuesday

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Bad movie I have The Fountain 2006

#The Fountain #Warner Bros #Hugh Jackman #Rachel Weisz #Ellen Burstyn #Mark Margolis #Stephen McHattie #Fernando Hernandez #Cliff Curtis #Sean Patrick Thomas #Donna Murphy #Ethan Suplee #Richard McMillan #Lorne Brass #Abraham Aronofsky #Renee Asofsky #Anish Majumdar #Janique Kearns #Boyd Banks #Alex Bisping #Kevin Kelsall #Patrick Vandal #Marcello Bezina #Hugo Salvador Gutierrez Aguilar #Eric Carmelo Valenzuela Batz #Elfego Vinicio Pena Castellanos #Jose Maria Tol Chan #Jose Panjoj Cortez #Juan Salvador Lares #Jose Alfredo Conoz Macario

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360 (2024) CHARLI XCX dir. Aidan Zamiri

Starring: Matisse Andrews, Quenlin Blackwell, Sakura Bready, Chloe Cherry, Greer Cohen, Anna Collins, A. G. Cook, Alex Consani, Emma Chamberlain, Gabbriette, Julia Fox, Isamaya Ffrench, Blizzy McGuire, Tess McMillan, Salem Mitchell, Hari Nef, Peri Rosenzweig, Rachel Sennott, Chloë Sevigny, Richie Shazam & Niki Takesh

#charli xcx #360 #charlixcxedit #xcxedit #musicedit #dailymusicqueens #userpcultures #usermusicdaily #usermusic #userchaska #userbamf #userfarllee #* #m #oh she got BUDGET

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

Out of curiosity, could be either due to craft or sheer enjoyment, what are your top favourite books?

Okay lowkey I wrote this post & then tumblr ATE it so here it is a little late!! Rachel's All Time Favourite Books (in no particular order):

Cleanness - Garth Greenwell (litfic, ok but this is actually my fave book & today Garth Greenwell lowkey Acknowledged My Presence SOOOO!!! I've read this 4x since August, it's a craft masterpiece)

What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell (litfic, the book that comes before Cleanness, I'm not as attached to it but it's still FANTASTIC)

A Hundred Lovers - Richie Hofmann (poetry, my fave poetry collection of all time, ALL my epigraphs come from here)

We Do What We Do in the Dark - Michelle Hart (litfic, AMAZINGGG character study & peak into relationship dynamics)

Big Shadow - Marta Balcewicz (litfic, one of my fave books of all time, FANTASTIC teen protagonist in this bildungsroman)

Physical - Andrew McMillan (poetry, AMAZING queer poetry, lots of epigraphs from here too)

Winter in Sokcho - Elisa Shua Desapin (litfic, probably the best start-to-finish narrative I've ever read in my whole life)

If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English - Noor Naga (litfic, THE BEST litfic ending I've ever read, it's UNEXPECTED and something to be STUDIED)

Undoing Hours - Selina Boan (poetry, I feel so grateful for this book as it really helped me reconnect to my Indigenous identity. I met Selina after a LIFE-CHANGING reading & chatted with her, & that conversation drove me to learn more about my family!)

Bitterblue - Kristen Cashore (YA fantasy, this is LITERARY FICTION TO ME I've re-read this like 6 times)

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo (YA fantasy, really fun ensemble cast, THE AUDIOBOOK SLAYS)

Intimations - Alexandra Kleeman (litfic short story collection, some of THE BEST short story collections, my work feels adjacent to this dare I say??)

The Marionettes - Katie Wismer (NA paranormal, this series is sooo tropey and fun like I CAN'T WAIT for the last book, I did like book 2 best but this is the first one & I loved it too!)

Demi-Gods - Eliza Robertson (litfic, this was my fave novel before Cleanness & Eliza is my fave writer & from my alma mater! Read my interview with her!)

Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson (litfic, I read this book in a DAY, it's the most impactful novel I've ever read, she's also from my alma mater!)

How to Pronounce Knife - Souvankham Thammavongsa (litfic short story collection, my fave short story collection OF ALL TIME I learned so MUCH about short stories from this!)

The Girls - Emma Cline (litfic, this was MY writing bible for so long lol, I actually ethically hate how this book treats real murders but Emma Cline is an incredible writer & the best parts of this book are the ones that don't casually repurpose history... I have thoughts...)

History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund (litfic, I need to re-read this NOW but wow, the first half of this is chilling...)

Past Lives, Future Bodies - K-Ming Chang (poetry, not sure if you can still buy this but this is one of THE best collections I own)

The Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken (YA dystopian, I love AB SOOO MUCH even now hehe, this was a childhood fave & Fostered is a ripoff so <3)

#asks

[phxntomhives]

My Kuroshitsuji AU

This started because I wanted to write something else. All this was supposed to be the introduction. But it is too long, so take this for now.

Spoiler for well, all kuroshitsuji manga.

Important premise: the fire didn't happen/it happened but the Phantomhive survived (sorry servants). R!Ciel is not a sociopath as he may be now as a bizzare doll, what we saw when he was a child was a slightly obsessive brother that wanted to stay with his twin, for this AU he just grew up and maintained a couple of those traits. Sebastian also isn't here.

The twins life at Weston!

Since it's a happy AU (mostly), the twins just get enrolled to Weston, where they both go to Sapphire Owl.

Lawrence takes a like on both of them, tho he is more comfortable with O!Ciel since he is less mischievious.

R!Ciel may affectionally bully O!Ciel and Lawrence would defend him, projecting on him a little.

R!Ciel then actively starts a fight against Lawrence when he sees them bonding a little too much.

"Leave my brother alone, if you want a younger brother ask your parents. This is mine" and proceed to stalk them both.

Edward has to come and stop him as the older cousin. It didn't work, but R!Ciel did decide to slow his obsession down a little.

R!Ciel also absolutely despises McMillan, at first. But since he is always with O!Ciel, he can't do anything about it but suffer in silence. After a while McMillan shows that he is extremely good at getting information so he starts to warm up to him a little.

O!Ciel is better at fags/drudges activities so he is noticed by the P4, and R!Ciel is extremely pleased and runs around showing off his little brother.

Then Maurice tricks O!Ciel and R!Ciel gets furious at him. He tried to defend him with the other students but since they are twins they don't trust him.

When he overhears the night conversation between O!Ciel and McMillan, McMillan finally earned his seal of approval. From the next day R!Ciel treats him almost like he treats O!Ciel and he doesn't know why but accepts gladly the change of pace.

Later, thanks to Soma, the twins discover about Maurice plan and together bring it down with the same plan as in the manga (tho they had to do the work instead of just using Sebastian, so it took a little longer).

When Maurice tried to harm O!Ciel, R!Ciel joined Herman and Edward in running to the rescue. He checked his brother, ignoring Maurice completely.

The day after they exposed the truth, R!Ciel went home for the day for "personal business". Some days after Maurice was "so embarrassed that his real look's was reveal that decided to quit school and went to hide at home". No one ever saw him again.

O!Ciel tried to ask about the sudden disappearance to R!Ciel but he just smiled and said he had no idea what he was talking about. They are both very good actors.

No one mention it again, but all the students are now slightly scared of R!Ciel. McMillan thanks God that he somehow ended up on his good side.

After this, they both get to join the cricket team because they showed how to be smart and quick-witted.

They also both train very hard, R!Ciel has an easier life adapting and improving on the physical aspect, while O!Ciel relies more on strategy and mental play.

When the tournament comes, it happens with the same strategies. Vincent is in the spectators seats and he is trying his best not to laugh too loudly from his seat. He is very proud.

Diederik is also present and he is fuming while watching the matches. He will scold them both later.

Rachel is loudly cheering them both and encouraging them.

R!Ciel can actually make a couple of points in a fair way! It's more luck than anything but he talks about it like they were decisive.

The final strategy of switching the ball was O!Ciel's idea, but he didn't share the part about being hit on purpose by Greenhill with his twin.

When he got hit, R!Ciel froze on the spot, but O!Ciel was focused on the game and went on with the plan.

After he recover from the shock, R!Ciel doesn't let anyone get close to him, almost growling, and somehow brings him to the nurse. Vincent and Rachel follow soon after.

While O!Ciel is being visited, R!Ciel is outside picking a fight with Greenhill who doesn't fight back bevause he feels guilty. Diederik has to stop him.

O!Ciel gets invited to the midnight tea party, he feels guilty about going because R!Ciel can't go. R!Ciel doesn't stop him but follows him until he can because he is worried something may happen.

Nothing happens tho! We are happy here!

No one shuts up about the blue miracle part 2. Vincent can't stop bragging, especially to Diederik. Rachel talks about it to anyone that has ears.

Every year after that, the twins made it a personal goal to win especially to flex about it to Vincent and because they need more material to annoy uncle Diederik. So they spend their free time at school coming up with more complex and wild strategies.

The manual with the rules for cricket became twice its size by the time they graduated, because they had to keep add rules to not make the twins cheat. But they still won for all the years they frequented. After the second year they win, both the twins just annoy Vincent with "What would you know about sport? You only won once"

Do you want more? I have so much more, this arc is my will to live.

Edit: I made part 2 here

#kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji au #black butler au #ciel phantomhive #weston college arc #i think about this daily please have mercy #it's the only thing keeping me mentally stable during the darkness of the manga #gotta keep up the delulu #i even checked for spelling mistakes #this is how much I care about this

[blondeaxolotl]

Red Butler/Swap AU Character guide list

This list does not go in order and only has characters that have been swapped with already/confirmed to be swapped with another, more will be added/changed when I figure them out Elizabeth Midford <- -> o!Ciel Phantomhive Alois Trancy <- -> r!Ciel/Sirius Phantomhive Grell Sutcliff <- -> Sebastian Michaelis Ran-Mao <- -> Mey-Rin Joanna <- -> Baldroy Soma Asman Kadar <- -> Finnian Paula <- -> Tanaka Drossel Keinz <- -> Snake

Irene Diaz <- -> Pluto Madame Red <- -> Lau Francis Midford <- -> Rachel Phantomhive Alexis Leon Midford <- -> Vincent Phantomhive Hannah Annafellows<- -> William T. Spears Wolfram Gelzer <- -> Ronald Knox Agni <- -> Othello Claude Faustus<- -> Undertaker Sascha, Ludger <- -> Timber, Canterbury (Third triplet does exists, they're just an extra) Ash Landers <- -> Rian Stoker Angela Blanc <- -> Nina Hopkins Layla <- -> Sieglinde Sullivan Charles Grey <- -> Joker Charles Phipps <- -> Dagger Jane <- -> Beast Joanne Harcourt <- -> Doll Johann Agares <- -> Jumbo Edward V <- -> Peter Richard <- -> Wendy Viscount Druitt <- -> Blavat Edward Midford <- -> Clayton Maurice Cole <- -> Cheslock Gregory Violet <- -> Edgar Redmond Lawrence Bluewer <- -> Herman Greenhill McMillan <- -> Derrick Arden Baldroy JR <- -> Luka Macken Theodore <- -> Mabel Artie <- -> Oliver

Note: when more characters are revealed in the series as it goes on, chances are some swaps might be changed because they fit newer characters more than previous ones.

#This list took forever but hey hope this helps keep track of swapped characters easier. tried to keep it as simple as possible #again not all characters are shown here so this post will most likely be edited the more this au goes on #or be updated with some swaps changing places because I end up realising they actually fit better than their previous ones #again ty imviotrash for suggesting I make a character guide list #black butler #kuroshitsuji #black butler 2 #kuroshitsuji 2 #black butler swap au #red butler au #not an art post #not tagging a single one of these characters nuh uh #swap au

[suunkiised]

Black Butler Swap Au || Blue Butler Au

I decided to do my own Swap Au since I was inspired by blondeaxolotl's Red Butler AU. So here it is, I'll likely be changing these up later on, who knows :D

Minor spoilers under read more, as there are characters from the Manga listed ^^

If you have any questions on the au, my askbox is open

Elizabeth Midford <--> Ciel/Smile Phantomhive

Angela Blanc <--> Sebastian Michaelis

Francis Midford <--> Rachel Phantomhive

Alexis Midford <--> Vincent Phantomhive

Edward Midford <--> Clayton

Alois Trancy <--> Finnian

Beast <--> Mey-Rin

Paula <--> Tanaka

Margaret Connor <--> Pluto

Joanne Harcourt <--> R! Ciel Phantomhive

Ada <--> Baldroy

Balvat Sky <--> Snake

Charles Grey <--> Sascha

Charles Phipps <--> Ludger

Nina Hoppkins <--> Grelle Sutcliff

Abbie <--> William T. Spears

Joanna <--> Ronald Knox

Hannah Annefellows <--> Undertaker

Jane <--> Othello

Irene Diaz <--> Angelina Dalles

Lau <--> Agni

Ran-Mao <--> Soma

Cheslock <--> Doll

Pitt <--> Joker

Damian <--> Jumbo

Luka Macken <--> Peter

Ellery Nixon <--> Wendy

McMillan <--> Maurice Cole

Herman Greenhill <--> Gregory Violet

Edgar Redmond <--> Lawrence Bluewer

#blue butler au #kuroshitsuji au #black butler au #kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji swap au #black butler swap au

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The following is the lineup for the polls by date, made using a random number generator. New characters introduced in chapter 199 will automatically be added to the end of the roster.

April 19th - April 26th

Chlaus

Rian Stoker

Lord Ackroyd's son

FOL Orphanage staff

Timber

Claude Faustus

Tanaka

Conny

Emily

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Finnian / Finny

Sharpe Hanks

Mabel

Burnett

April 20th - April 27th

Soma's elephant

Beast

Sophie Smith

Theodore

Finny's hat

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Karl Woodley

Oscar

Chris Heathfield

Sieglinde Sullivan

Fred Abberline

Stella Rose

Charles Phipps

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

April 21st - April 28th

Nick

Joanne Harcourt

Purple House dorm master

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Yana Toboso

Grete Hilbard

the Mad Dog of Venice

Abbie

Johnny

Mina

Rachel Phantomhive

Charles Phipps's chicken

Haku

Sascha

April 22nd - April 29th

Jumbo

Mrs. Mayell

Goethe

the Rowdy Count

Georg von Siemens

Margaret Connor

Al

Cedric Brandel

Mathilda Simmons

Wendy

Sam / Old Man Sam

Grelle Sutcliff

Ellery Nixon

Eric Slingby

April 23rd - April 30th

Edward Midford

Luka Macken

Queen Victoria

Lord Ackroyd

Layla

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Betty

Reaper trainees

Green House dorm master

Vincent Phantomhive

Drossel Keinz

Kelvin

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Charles Grey

April 24th - May 1st

Margaret Turner

Akashi

Snake

Edgar Redmond

Derrick Arden

Ronald Knox

Aurora Society member

Bloodbath Johnny

Wilde

Soma Asman Kadar

Claude's birds

Sebastian's silverware

Chef Rickman

Susannah Connor

April 25th - May 2nd

Susan

Artie

Damian

John Brown

Saneatsu Nekoma

Peter

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Chef Wollest

Chris Heathfield's maids

demon Crow

Nina's assistants

Ludger

Prince Albert puppet

Miranda

April 26th - May 3rd

Blavat Sky

Vicar Rathbone

Julius Pitt

walking stick shopkeeper

Grimsby Keane

Ciel's horse

Edward V

Jay the Undertaker

Gregory Violet

Canterbury

Jeremy Rathbone

Doctor

the cat from the live action movie

Henry Barrymore

April 27th - May 4th

Lawrence Bluewer

Prince Albert

Higham

the Panzer

the train kidnapper

Donne

Heinrich

Chef Lach

Dagger

Doll / Freckles

Sam's grandson

Bitter Rabbit

Japanese man with a katana

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

April 28th - May 5th

Mey-Rin

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Webster

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Diedrich

Johann Agares

Bronte

Carter

Othello

the cultists

Baldroy Jr.

John Brown's horse

Sphere Music Hall staff

April 29th - May 6th

Jackknife Haywood

Nina Hopkins

William's death scythe

Angela Blanc

Wolfram Gelzer

McDowell

Ronald's lawnmower

Arthur Randall

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Keats

Annie

Terry

Hao

Maria

April 30th - May 7th

Irene Diaz

Polaris

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

kenpo master

Red House dorm master

Ran-Mao

Shiori Genpou

Cedric K. Ros

Lau

Clayton

William T. Spears

Patrick Phelps

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Oliver

May 1st - May 8th

Arthur Conan Doyle

the bear

Grelle's chainsaw

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

Richard

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

the archeologist

Joker

Jan

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Hilde Dickhaut

Rin

Cloudia Phantomhive

"Deer"

May 2nd - May 9th

King's Bear prostitutes

McMillan

"Her"

Undertaker's death scythe

Daniel

Ginny

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Charles Bennett Sato

demon Ciel

Ada

Arnold Trancy

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Arihito Genpou

Thomas Wallis

May 3rd - May 10th

Chef Tarpin

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Lau's ladies

Fennian

Harold West Jeb

Nicholas

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Anne Drewanz

CGI horses / driver

Margaret Connor's father

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

Jane

Paula

Wordsworth

May 4th - May 11th

Maurice Cole

Alexis Leon Midford

bizarre dolls

the turnspit dog

the "werewolves"

O!Ciel's land renters

priest

Pluto

Sebastian the dog

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

the Sebastian Roomba

bizarre doll horses

Baldroy's cow

Undertaker

May 5th - May 12th

Hanae Wakatsuki

the iceberg

Alan Humphries

Ash Landers

Thompson

Snake's unnamed snakes

Milly

Munemitsu Aoki

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Aurora Society purified water seller

Drossel's dolls

the timetable guy

Herman Greenhill

May 6th - May 13th

Azzurro Vanel

William's pigeons

Joanna

Reaper managers

Dove

Countess Trancy and her baby

German countryman

Scotland Yard officers

Haku's henchman

Lorraine McDowell

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Hannah Annafellows

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Pitt

May 7th - May 14th

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

Paul Jones

Francis Midford

Sebastian Michaelis

Cheslock

Phantomhive family ring

James

Edward Abberline

Baron Ridley

Sebastian's owl

#poll schedule #black butler character poll #poll info

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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Thread: A Memoir in Woven Poems by Janet McMillan Rives

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In Thread: A Memoir in Woven Poems, the author reveals connecting filaments of nature, place, family, and friendship over her lifetime. From a “Snow Day” in childhood to years living “In Paris” to the “Blaze” of a southwest desert to being “Called to Stay” in the Midwest to finally moving “Ahead” into retirement, she weaves prose narrative through her #poetry. These #hybrids capture the transitions of life in a lyric tapestry.

Janet McMillan Rives resides in Tucson, Arizona. She was born and raised in Connecticut and spent most of her adult life in Iowa where she retired as professor of economics from the University of Northern Iowa. She has published her poetry in many journals and anthologies and is the author of two chapbooks—Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie (Finishing Line Press 2020) and Washed by a Summer Rain: Poems from the Desert (Kelsay Books 2023).

PRAISE FOR Thread: A Memoir in Woven Poems by Janet McMillan Rives

This refreshing memoir weaves poetry and prose into a tapestry depicting a childhood of wonder and joy bound to the days of “our long and lucky lives,” as Janet McMillan Rives can write now. With chapters moving around in time and place, with lines of poetry that sharpen the focus, she takes us vividly into what the child once saw as a cathedral of trees, to explore memory and beauty and poetry itself, to discover the connections threading past to present. In that green cathedral, the child wonders what friends and details and experiences she will remember when she’s old. This tender, lyrical book is the answer.

–Meg Files, author of The Beasts.

“Only connect!” wrote E.M. Forster. “Live in fragments no longer.” Janet McMillan Rives exemplifies this calling. “I remember connections,” she declares, and it’s true. Rives’ recollections are painterly. She shows us “blue green agave, muted orchid skies at sunrise, subtle pink reflecting off the mountain side, cool cloudless azure skies.” But the thread that securely binds together this hybrid of memoir and poetry is Rives’ “open-hearted, open-minded” capacity to connect—with history, place, and most of all, people, especially her readers. “There is no one left in my circle who lived through these moments with me, no one with whom to share. So I write,” writes Rives. And—lucky us!—we read. We connect. Thread widens the circle of the writer’s life to welcome and include anyone fortunate enough to become interwoven with this honest, lyrical book.

–Rachel M. Srubas, author of The Desert of Compassion, The Girl Got Up and other books.

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#poetry #flp authors #preorder #poets on tumblr #american poets #finishing line press #small press #hybrid

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BOOK REVIEW: Salt Heart Press's Space Horror Anthology, The Darkness Beyond the Stars

by Elizabeth Broadbent, Staff Writer.

The Darkness Beyond the Stars (ed. P.L. McMillan, Salt Heart Press) has a simple but compelling premise: space horror. Space horror makes for a good sci-fi/terror mash-up, and this anthology dishes out stories that scream into the void. I expected aliens, and I got some aliens, but modern indie horror is too good for tired tropes to fly. So is this anthology, which takes high strangeness into the unknowable reaches of space. 

There’s far worse up there than little green men; in the hands of writers like Dana Vickerson, Rachel Searcey, and Patrick Barb, those aliens become weird, their terror twisted into heartbreak (if you’ve read more of Barb’s stories, especially Haunting Lessons, printed in a limited edition by Shortwave Publishing in a limited edition and available online from The Arcanist, you’re not shocked). In “The Weight of Faith,” Carson Winter, author of Soft Targets and Posthaste Manor (Tenebrous Press) delivers an emotionally devastating story about belief as tense and visceral as his longer works. You need this collection because you need this story, full stop.

But space holds more terrors than exobiology, and Darkness Beyond doesn’t stop at aliens. Bob Warlock serves up an itchy little tale about something in a space suit; several stories, including Jessica Peter’s “The Wreckage of Hestia” and Lindsey Ragsdale’s “A Voice from the Dark” play with emptiness and solitude—is it more frightening to be alone in the universe, or to find we have company? I can’t articulate a proper trigger warning for the horrors of Bryan Young’s “Son of Demeter” other than “I have children,” but it left me a weeping puddle of goo (a warning for “excessively heroic parenting,” maybe?). Bridget D. Braves yokes second person POV to amnesia in “Last Transmission from the FedComm Sargasso,” which gives this already great tale a kind of haunting sorrow. 

Packed with plenty of feeling, this tight anthology’s transmissions reach across worlds to find the same human feelings we left behind: the terror of the unknown, the fear of solitude, the heartbreak of loss. These authors use the void of space as a blankness on which to impose our darkest fears. What’s up there? Nothing is—and that’s the scariest part. Unless something is, and maybe that’s even scarier. 

Buy The Darkness Beyond the Stars:

#gothic literature #review #fiction #book review #horror fiction #horror anthology #horror collection #indie horror #space horror #small press horror #indie lit #horror books #small press

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Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Eat This, Read That Books & the Foods to Enjoy While Reading Them

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#Bethany Turner #Book #book list #books #Carla Laureano #Eat This #food and books #Hillary Manton Lodge #Laura Frantz #Liz Johnson #Meme #Nichole Van #Pepper Basham #Rachel McMillan #read #Reading #Sarah Adams #Top Ten Tuesday

[byneddiedingo]

Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz in The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006) Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie, Fernando Hernandez, Cliff Curtis, Sean Patrick Thomas, Donna Murphy, Ethan Suplee, Richard McMillan. Screenplay: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel. Cinematography: Matthew Libatique. Production design: James Chinlund. Film editing: Jay Rabinowitz. Music: Clint Mansell. I don't know why Darren Aronofsky's film is called The Fountain, unless Terrence Malick had already reserved The Tree of Life for his 2011 film. There's no fountain of significance in Aronofsky's movie unless it's the Tree itself and the viscous ooze it secretes. Actually, it's worth comparing the two films because both belong to a peculiarly overreaching genre of metaphysical-speculation movies. Malick's works better because it is grounded in a vividly actual portrait of growing up, whereas Aronofsky centers his film on a rather melodramatic story about a research scientist (Hugh Jackman) looking for a cure for the brain tumor that is killing his wife. This story dovetails awkwardly into a story the wife, nicely played by Rachel Weisz, is writing about a 16th-century conquistador's search for the Tree of Life at the behest of the queen of Spain (also Weisz). The Fountain begins in the middle of that story, with an Indiana Jones-like sequence of the conquistador (also Jackman) hacking through the jungle and battling Mayan warriors in his quest. But wait, there's a third story, in which Jackman is now a futuristic spaceman traveling in a transparent sphere -- I couldn't help thinking of Glinda the Good Witch -- along with the Tree itself, whose secrets he is attempting to uncover. No, I don't get it either. Jackman and Weisz give it all they've got, which is a lot, and Ellen Burstyn is always a welcome presence. Here she's the boss to Jackman's scientist, trying to keep him from flipping out when he discovers a cure at the very moment his wife dies. She doesn't succeed. There's a good deal of ponderous pronouncement like "Death is the road to awe" and a few nice special effects, as when the spaceman ingests the ooze from the Tree and begins to turn into a flowerbed. But the film as a whole is too unfocused to be either coherent or convincing.

#The Fountain #Darren Aronofsky #Hugh Jackman #Rachel Weisz

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*Starring: Matisse Andrews Quenlin Blackwell Sakura Bready Chloe Cherry Greer Cohen Anna Collins A. G. Cook Alex Consani Emma Chamberlain Gabbriette Julia Fox Isamaya Ffrench Blizzy McGuire Tess McMillan Salem Mitchell Hari Nef Peri Rosenzweig Rachel Sennott Chloe Sevigny Richie Shazam Niki Takesh

#Youtube

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mwf fcs?

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My Kuro AU part 2

Because this is what I actually wanted to write. But I needed to first contextualize everything.

Part 1, with "the context" is here, if you are curious/missed it.

Spoiler for one major thing in the manga!

How O!Ciel got fianceé

Since R!Ciel is here, he is the one that is supposed to marry Lizzie, so O!Ciel is "free to take"

I assume this because Vincent and Rachel seemed to want to force him into the social rules, but on the contrary gave him space to be free and be himself

Maybe since R!Ciel had a fiancé he thought about trying to get one himself, but Vincent and Rachel told him it was ok to wait and that he didn't have to force himself.

Then fast forward to the twins at Weston, at the eve of the cricket tournament. Where the Bluewer older sisters start to push Adela on O!Ciel.

R!Ciel noticed the situation and went to kidnap save him from them.

I actually gave the sisters some names, let me show you (I didn't see any canon names aside Adela so I just went with what I like). Here they are:

Anyway, he is technically free and a wonderful possible husband. So they don't give up.

Lawrence apologize for days after the meeting. But if he is honest to himself, he likes O!Ciel enough so he isn't against the idea per se.

And because he likes him enough, he starts to call both the twins at his home so they can chat and spend time together. He also calls Clayton, because he wants to know how they are all doing at Weston.

After a while the twins convince Lawrence to invite McMillan too. They all just chat and have some nice time together.

Sometimes the other P4 join too because they were visitng Lawrence.

The older sisters make sure that Adela always passes by to say hi to O!Ciel. They also try to win him over because in general he grew on them. They like R!Ciel less because he is harder to tease and fights back.

After some "casual meetings" thanks to the older sisters, and a couple of actual casual meetings, O!Ciel and Adela ends up bonding a little and become friends.

The older sisters are celebrating and R!Ciel is pissed.

Some time passes and O!Ciel is getting more and more proposals of engagement. He tries to politely reject them all but some families are harder to convince than others.

When he is in second year at Weston during the eve of the tournament's party, he panicks when he is cornered by some ladies and says he is "unfortunately" taken. When asked the person he automatically blurts out Adela's name.

R!Ciel is nearby and almost dies chocking on his drink. He kidnaps his brother and ask him about the news and why he had no clue about it.

Vincent and Rachel are also very confused but try to not show it, unless until they hear an explanation. They just laugh it off and run to their children to try and fix the situation.

O!Ciel then explains he made it up. But unfortunately for him, rumors started to spread already. Vincent says he will take care of it first thing next morning. Rachel teases O!Ciel about having a crush and R!Ciel is pouting in a corner.

Unfortunately Vincent can't fix anything because Lawrence and his older sisters appears the day after at school and Lawrence is pissed. "I trusted you. How dare you defile my younger sister?"

Then O!Ciel has to explain everything and he feels guilty about lying but he didn't do it on purpose.

Lawrence says he understand but he should hold onto his words now, at least for a decent amount of time, because otherwise it would ruin Adela's reputation.

O!Ciel understands and this is how he got engaged in half a day. Vincent is in the back and has to restrain himself for laughing at how the sisters got what they wanted by pure accident.

The sister makes it so that Adela can also join them for the tournament so she can cheer on her fiancé.

She is awkward after they meet for the first time and hits him with a book. He apologize thousands of time, but since neither of them can rewind time, they are stuck with it and try to make it work. He also swears to never use her as mean to run away from problems again.

Their own relationship doesn't really change, they just hangout a little more often. It's the Bluewere siblings that are mostly affected: the younger twins start to call O!Ciel "big-bro" while the older sisters call him "brother in law" to make him blush and to piss off R!Ciel

Will they stay together or not? Only time will tell, but there is a basis of mutual respect at least.

If they stay together, Adela automatically wins the arguments because she reminds him he was the one that chose her, she didn't ask for anything, and he can just admit defeat.

In any case, she will become bestie with Lizzie.

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