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c-e-d-dreamer · 3 years

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Who’s Counting: Part Three

A/N: Hope everyone enjoys this next part :)

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“He did what with his what?”

Nesta slams the book in her hands shut, the paperback falling into her lap as she whips her head over her shoulder to find Cassian with a shit-eating grin and bright eyes twinkling with mischief.

September had finally brought an end to the scorching summer heat. In its stead was crisp blue skies, cooling, gentle breezes, yellow and red foliage beginning to blossom across campus. Nesta had decided to take advantage of the weather while it lasted, settling under one of the large oak trees on the common. She had finished up her reading for class and had a strong enough outline for her essay that she decided to reward herself with a few chapters of the current romance novel she had picked up. Clearly, she had been a bit engrossed in what the love interest was doing to the main character, enough so that she didn’t hear Cassian approach. She can’t stop the heat that creeps up her neck and settles in her cheeks at the thought of Cassian reading those particular pages over her shoulder.

“What do you want, Cassian?”

Nesta’s face settles into a scowl as Cassian takes a seat beside her. She expects Cassian to make some crude comment about her book, but what she doesn’t expect is for Cassian to take her hands within his. Her eyes instantly drop to the contact. Cassian’s hands are large, practically swallowing her own whole. But they’re warm and the callouses on them rub against Nesta’s palms in a tantalizing way. When she looks back at Cassian’s face, he has a serious expression on, and Nesta instantly feels on guard for where this is going.

“Nesta,” Cassian starts. “Lab partner. Light of my life.”

“Excuse me?” Nesta chokes out.

“Too far? Sorry. I need a favor.”

“A… favor?”

“It’s my Shakespeare class. I didn’t do too great on the last assignment, and I really need to keep my GPA up. You’re an English major. Please can you help me with my essay?”

Nesta has to blink a few times to get her bearings. That was not what she had expected to come out of Cassian’s mouth. This whole conversation has been a rollercoaster from start to finish, and her brain can’t quite keep up with all the twists and turns.

“You need help with your Shakespeare essay?”

“Yeah. It’s on Macbeth and symbolism. Please say you’ll help.”

“Fine,” Nesta concedes, pulling her hands free from Cassian’s grasp. “But I have a seminar soon and then I promised my sisters I’d meet them for dinner. So we can’t meet until later.”

“Deal.”

“The library at 7:00?”

“See you then, Nes.”

“I told you not to call me that,” Nesta reminds him, putting her book back in her bag and standing up.

“Whatever you say, sweetheart.”

Cassian settles his hands back behind his head and stretches his legs out, leaning against the trunk of the oak tree. The pose emphasizes his arms and causes a sliver of tanned skin to peek out below the hemline of his shirt. The smirk he sends Nesta’s way tells her it was on purpose. But she refuses to give him the satisfaction, simply crossing her arms and staring him down eye to eye.

“Don’t be late,” she tells him sternly before turning on her heel and following the path to the English building.

Unfortunately, her seminar is worse for her mood than usual, and she spends most of the time arguing about Hemingway’s feelings towards adverbs with an idiot from her class named Tamlin. By the time she’s walking in the door of the dining hall to meet Feyre and Elain, Nesta is considering bailing to enjoy a stiff drink instead. But she plasters on her best smile anyways as she settles into the seat across from her sisters, and she nods at all the right places while they talk about their classes and lives.

“And then Rhys turned to me and told me he loved me and—”

“Seriously, is no one going to say it?” Nesta cuts it.

“Say what?” Feyre questions.

“You’ve known this guy how long? And you’re already saying I love you?”

“So?”

“So, don’t you think you’re moving a bit fast?”

“Jealousy isn’t a good look on you, Nesta.”

“Jealous?” Nesta splutters, her jaw practically falling open at her sister’s suggestion.

“We all know you haven’t gotten laid in awhile,” Feyre throws back.

“Twenty minutes,” Elain sighs, causing both sisters to snap their heads in her direction. “We made it twenty minutes before you two started going at it.”

“Well, who do you think is right?” Feyre asks.

“Oh, no. I may be the middle sister, but I’m not getting in the middle of this,” Elain says, standing up and straightening out her skirt. “Besides, I need to go check on my evening primroses for my project on night blooming flowers. They should be blooming soon.”

“Wait,” Feyre cuts in, grabbing Elain’s wrist before she can leave. “How about you both just meet him properly, okay? His game is on Friday next week, so we can do brunch on Saturday. I’ll even have him invite his brothers. They can act as a buffer so you don’t bite Rhys’ head off.”

Feyre shoots a pointed look at Nesta as she says the words, but the oldest Archeron merely shrugs a shoulder. “I make no promises.”

“Just text us the time and place, and we’ll be there,” Elain offers. “But I really do need to get to the greenhouse.”

After Elain leaves with a wave and flourish of skirts, a silence settles between Nesta and Feyre. They both poke at the remains of their respective dinners before Feyre sets her fork down with a clatter.

“Do you want to split a slice of chocolate cake?”

And that’s the end of their fight.

~ * * * ~

Nesta makes it to the library before 7:00, so she heads up to the third floor and settles into her usual spot. She pulls her laptop from her bag, switching it on and setting it beside her, before pulling her essay research notes out as well. She splays the papers out in a ring around her and digs around in her bag until she’s pulling out a highlighter. She’s so engrossed in determining what she’ll actually need for her Classics essay, she doesn’t hear the footsteps approaching where she’s sitting. It’s only when she can feel eyes on her that she glances up to find Cassian leaning against one of the shelves, reminiscent of their first meeting.

“I didn’t realize you were a floor person.”

“A what?”

“I mean you know there’s these amazing things called desks right over there, right?” Cassian asks dryly, making his way further between the shelves to where Nesta is sitting. “Even better. There’s these crazy things called study rooms.”

“And they have people in them who have zero respect for other people trying to study. They’re always playing music so loud that you can hear it despite the headphones. Or eating. Or whispering and thinking that is somehow supposed to make it okay that they’re talking.”

“And gods forbid anyone disturb Nesta’s study time.”

“Do you want my help or not?”

Cassian chuckles, but doesn’t say anything else. He slides the backpack off his shoulder and takes a seat beside Nesta, shifting a bit until his legs are sprawled out in front of him and his back is leaned against the shelf behind them comfortably. Once he’s settled, he pulls a set of papers out of his backpack, handing them over to Nesta.

“So I have to ask,” Cassian asks, as Nesta takes the papers extended toward her. “Why the encyclopedia section of all places?”

“Thanks to Google, no one ever needs these books, so I’m almost never disturbed,” Nesta replies, pulling out a red pen from her bag and beginning to read Cassian’s essay.

“Almost?”

“I’ve had an awkward encounter a handful of times.”

“How often are you here exactly?”

“I come here most nights.”

“Even weekends?”

“Especially weekends,” Nesta says, looking up from Cassian’s essay to find the man in question watching her curiously. “Saturday nights are the best times. Everyone else is too busy getting wasted to be here.”

“I don’t know whether I should be impressed or concerned.”

Nesta rolls her eyes at the comment, settling her attention back on Cassian’s essay. She makes various notes in the margins, crossing out certain sentences and circling others. Cassian can’t take his eyes off her, the slight pinch to her brow and the way her nose scrunches when she reads certain parts. But then his eyes catch on her pen dancing across the page.

“Can you stop doing that?” Cassian asks.

“Doing what?”

“Aggressively marking up my essay. It’s making me feel subconscious.”

“Maybe your ego could use that. Besides, it’s called a rough draft for a reason, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, but it’s not that bad, is it?”

Cassian chuckles a bit deprecatingly, but Nesta purposefully stays quiet, finishing up the last page of Cassian’s essay. When she looks up again, she can’t help but smirk as she takes in Cassian’s face pulled into an unimpressed frown.

“Is it?” Cassian asks again.

“Guess you’re lucky to have me, huh?” Nesta quips.

“Lucky indeed.”

~ * * * ~

The next night, Nesta returns to the library and her usual spot. Despite the cool evening weather now, they’ve yet to turn the heat on, so Nesta tugs the sleeves of her sweatshirt down near her knuckles to help keep warm. She pulls her laptop out of her bag and perches it on her lap, opening up a blank document to start on her Classic’s essay. She sticks her headphones into her ears and dives in.

She’s just through the first paragraph when she feels someone settle beside her. Her head snaps to her left and a confused frown tugs at her lips when she comes face to face with Cassian. He offers her an easy smile before turning to pull an Economics textbook out of his backpack and flipping through the pages. Nesta’s frown only deepens, and she pauses her music.

“What are you doing here, Cassian?” Nesta asks, pulling her headphones fully out.

“I thought it was pretty obvious,” Cassian replies, holding up his opened textbook as further explanation.

“It’s a Saturday night. Shouldn’t you be out on a hot date?”

“I’m right where I want to be, Nesta.”

“You better not be about to suggest that I’m your hot date.”

“Well,” Cassian smirks, blatantly scanning his eyes over Nesta. “Don’t forget that offer for dinner still stands.”

Nesta rolls her eyes with a scoff. She turns her attention back to her essay and shoves her headphones back in. “Don’t get your hopes up.”

With a chuckle, Cassian turns his own attention back to his work, but he can’t help the way his eyes keep drifting back to the female beside him. Her bottom lip is caught between her teeth while she thinks, and her sweatshirt sleeves are pulled down so only the tips of her fingers peek out to allow her to type. Before he can stop himself or overthink it, Cassian is reaching across, tugging the right headphone out of Nesta’s ear. He pointedly ignores Nesta’s incredulous expression as he places the headphone in his own ear.

“Sharing is caring, sweetheart.”

“Brute.”

Rather than snatch her headphone back, Nesta lets it be, lest Cassian try to continue to distract her. She goes back to her essay and he seems satisfied enough to tackle his own work, the lilting notes and lyrics the only sound between them.

~ * * * ~

The next week is a whirl of classes and more assignments, and when the week ends, Nesta’s workload has somehow doubled in size. She organizes them all by deadline and pulls extra hours at the library to wrangle them all into the semblance of a good place.

By Saturday morning, she’s so entrenched in her presentation for her Art History class that she doesn’t realize the time until it’s too late. She curses herself as she quickly changes, deft fingers fixing her hair and makeup into a presentable fashion. She’s practically running by the time she slips her shoes on, snags her keys off the hook, and is out the door. Luckily, the brunch place Feyre chose isn’t too far, and when Nesta pulls into a parking place, she’s only slightly late. Technically. For a college town restaurant, the place is quaint and well put together, pots of blooming white and purple flowers hanging outside and a bright colored chalkboard declaring the specials.

After Nesta steps inside, her eyes scans the dining room before spotting their table. It’s hard to miss the two heads of golden brown hair identical to hers, an empty seat between them. She notes the man who must be Rhysand sitting at the head of the table, hand entwined with Feyre’s atop the table. There’s a blonde Nesta doesn’t recognize on his other side, and as her eyes slide to the female’s right, Nesta’s steps falter to a stop. Because none other than Cassian is sitting across the seat waiting for her.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Nesta mumbles to herself.

Cassian’s head is thrown back, laughing at something someone at the table said. The crinkles are back beside his eyes, and the low light of the restaurant casts shadows across his jaw line. When the laughter subsides, his eyes snap to Nesta’s like he knows exactly where in the room she is.

“Nesta,” Cassian calls out, a wide smile splitting his face as he raises his hand in greeting.

Five pairs of eyes snap to where Nesta is standing, and she takes a single calming breath before continuing toward the table, pulling out the spare seat.

“Wait,” Rhysand starts once Nesta is seated. “Feyre’s Nesta is the Nesta?”

“The Nesta?” Feyre questions.

“Nesta and I are lab partners,” Cassian explains. “For Chemistry.”

“And Cassian is—”

Before Rhysand can finish his sentence, he lets out a yelp of pain, the table jostling as he seems to knock his knee against it. He turns a glare toward Cassian, and the man to Cassian’s right barely hides his snort in his drink.

“Anyways,” Feyre says slowly. “Nesta, this is Rhysand. And that’s Mor, his cousin. And you already know Cassian. And that’s Azriel, his other brother.”

“Nesta,” Rhysand starts, awkwardly clearing his throat. “It’s so great to finally meet you. You look lovely.”

Nesta narrows her eyes at him. He holds his ground under her scrutiny well, but she doesn’t miss the way his fingers twitch as the silence stretches on. She’s fully prepared to continue this game, to see how much she can really make him squirm, when she notices Cassian leaning over the table out of the corner of her eye.

“He was told to be on his very best behavior with you,” Cassian whispers conspiratorially to her. “But I for one think he could do with being knocked down a peg or two.”

Cassian sends Nesta a wink before settling back in his seat, and Nesta turns her full attention back on Rhysand who blinks confusedly between the two of them. She raises her chin and pins him with an apathetic look.

“I hope you’re aware I took Anatomy last year, that I aced the class, that I know exactly how to make it hurt should I need to. And I hope you know that if I ask nicely, Elain here will happily let me use her green house should I need it.”

“Noted.”

Satisfied with having said her piece, Nesta turns her attention to the menu in front of her, looking over the selection the restaurant offers. There’s a brief moment of awkward silence, but then the conversation picks back up around her, and Nesta is glad for it, more than happy to let the various voices swirl around her. But she can feel the eyes across the table on her, the weight of them like a flame skating across her skin. When she glances up and her eyes snag on hazel, the corners of Cassian’s lips twitch up the smallest amount.

“So Nesta,” Azriel cuts in, pulling her attention toward him. “What’s it like having Cassian for a lab partner?”

“Terrible I assume,” Mor quips.

“You know I’m sitting right here, right?” Cassian protests, knocking his shoulder easily against the blonde. “Besides, I’m a great lab partner. Right, Nes?”

Once again, five sets up eyes are on Nesta, including a particularly wide pair from her youngest sister that Nesta doesn’t even want to ask about. She shifts slightly in her seat under the scrutiny, the attention dragging and grating under her skin, but years of practice means she refuses to let it show. Instead, she raises her chin and settles a cool, unimpressed look across the table.

“I don’t think great is quite the word I would use.”

“You’d prefer a different word?” Cassian asks. “Amazing? Handsome? The best lab partner to ever grace this campus?”

“Full of himself?” Rhysand cuts in.

“Pot, meet kettle,” Mor mutters under her breath.

“Well, we can’t all be as humble as you, Rhysie,” Cassian drawls sarcastically.

“It’s my burden to bear,” Rhysand smirks, picking a piece of lint off his sleeve.

There are collective groans from the table at the comment, except from Feyre, who simply smiles and leans over to press a kiss to her boyfriend’s cheek. Luckily, before another round of roasting or obnoxious PDA can begin, the waitress comes to the table, ready to take everyone’s orders.

~ * * * ~

After the craziness that was brunch, Nesta is surprised when she climbs the library steps up to the third floor and weaves her way to the encyclopedia section to find Cassian already sitting in her usual spot. Nesta almost trips over her own feet as they stutter to a stop. She takes in his propped knee and the notebook balanced there. His hair is pulled back into a top bun but a few stray curls have broken free and dance across his brow, which is pinched in concentration as his pen scribbles across the page.

“Now who’s a floor person?” Nesta asks, setting her bag down beside Cassian and sliding into the spot next to him.

“It’s not my fault you were right about Saturday nights being the best time to be here.”

“So I should expect you here on Saturdays moving forward?”

“Probably.”

Nesta simply hums in reply, pulling her own assignment out of her bag to get started on. There’s something about the quiet as they both work on their respective work. The sound of Cassian’s pen scraping against paper and the hum of the library heating system. The smell of coffee wafting up from the cafe downstairs mixing with the fresh ink of the printers. The warmth that’s always there when she’s nestled between books. It’s like a familiar embrace, and Nesta can feel herself relax more and more as each second ticks by. She can’t help but close her eyes and take a deep breath before she dives into her assignment.

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purplebass · 4 years

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“Everything” in Shades of Magic

Based on this photoset I’ve just made. Spoilers for the whole trilogy, so don’t read if you haven’t finished Shades of Magic.

In this short essay I explain the meaning of “everything” through ADSOM, AGOS and ACOL regarding Kell and Lila. Enjoy 👀

In ADSOM Lila tells Kell that she doesn't want to die until she's seen everything. This not only shows her thirst for discovery, exploration, her curiosity, but it also shows that she won't stop until she will see... Everything. It literally means, “I will settle down or rest until I’ve seen the world”. She is a free spirit and she’s attracted by things she can’t have in a legal way (by stealing them). This is also a thrill and shows her life “on the run”. In ADSOM, in fact, Lila is on the wanted list because of her thefts.

During that “everything” moment, Kell is bittersweet because inside of him, he also wants to see “everything” but knows he can’t do it. He is bound to his king and queen and they don’t let him go wherever he wants. He only leaves to run errands for them, and when he doesn’t return in time, they send royal guards to look for him. When he and Lila return to Red London, he is wanted as well. In some ways, he’s a thief like Lila, but whatever he steals, he hides somewhere else, somewhere he can look at those things without the fear that someone is going to discover him. In a place only he knows and where he can “escape” from his chains. Kell’s collection of things is the only way in which he can escape the stifling feeling of serving the royals and see “everything”, although that everything is just in his imagination. When Kell’s things are destroyed, it’s like his last hope of escaping and distracting from his duties vanishes for good.

The second time “everything” appears is in AGOS, when Lila is on the Night Spire and Alucard starts treating her more like a friend. This is when their friendship starts, and Alucard promises Lila to help her with her magic. This is Lila’s first confirmation that she is also “special” and of course, she wants to know everything about magic. Later in AGOS we see how Lila’s greed for magic unfolds. Unlike Kell, Lila tries to get ahead of herself even if she knows she hasn’t mastered magic yet. She’s reckless, while Kell is controlled and patient, and rarely, if not ever, he goes overboard when it comes with his magic. Even when he is offered the chance at that “everything” by participating in The Essen Tasch as Kamerov by Rhy (who will be ultimately the ones that “frees” Kell from his duties in ACOL), he doesn’t feel like he’s doing the right thing. He feels uneasy almost all the time, and in the end he’s even arrested by the king and thrown in jail because he defies his orders. By this time Kell had enough of being treated like he’s just a servant. He’s also sick that he always has to take responsibility for someone else.

In ACOL, we see that Kell tells the final “everything” to Rhy. The king is the one who allows Kell to be finally free of doing whatever he pleases, but “don’t get yourself killed”, he says. This is also a parallel with Lila’s “I’m not going to die,” in the first quote. And it doesn’t surprise that Kell follows Lila on her journey, because she also wants to see “everything”. In this book they have a serious conversation about this, and it is Lila who suggests Kell that he come with her. When they talk, though, Kell doesn’t know what to answer. He doesn’t want to leave his brother, but he doesn’t want to leave Lila either (and neither does Lila). So the only way for Kell to embrace his self-discovery journey on the Night Spire/Grey Barron is knowing that Alucard will be by Rhy’s side and will protect him when he’s not there.

TLDR; in ADSOM, Lila doesn’t want to settle down, while Kell has settled down too much and has been too accommodating. Lila is independent, while Kell is dependent on the royals he serves. They both think this is normal for them, but as they get to know each other, Lila starts wanting to settle down but without sacrificing her own freedom, and Kell wants to be more independent and free. By the end of ACOL, they are able to achieve that by embarking on a journey together. When they give Ned the Inheritor in Grey London, Kell thinks Lila wants to take a look around before leaving, but she says “let’s go home.” This is another statement that confirms how Lila has “settled” down. But “settling” down doesn’t have to mean a place in the real sense. It means that Lila considers somewhere like home, like Red London, ok. But she also considers Kell like an anchor, the person with whom she’s “settled” down, like her “home”. There’s a passage in ACOL where Lila feels “safe” for the first time while she’s in Kell’s arms on the Ghost. She feels home. Settling down doesn’t mean giving up on your dreams and expectations in Kell and Lila’s case. It means balancing your freedom but also trusting someone with your life, and this is also what Kell says about magic. “Power in balance, balance in power.”

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 😊

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thegoddessofliterature · 4 years

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A pretty long spoiler-filled reveiw of ACOMAF

-posted this reveiw on my goodreads around June and decided to share it now on Tumblr.

Reread this gem and love it even more than the first time. Of course, reading a good book for the first time is always special and you don't know any of the plot twists and turns. Not knowing what is gonna happen in a story is my favorite thing about reading. Sarah blew me away with her captivating writing style and amazing world building that left wanting more .The is the first book that made me cry and I don't easily cry in books which just proves my love for this book. Rhysand stole my heart. I just love him so much. I know most of you probably didn't like him in the first book but once you read this one you will change your mind. You can thank me later.

Moving on, let's dive straight into spoilers, if you adored this book as much as me. Most just me gushing over our precious bat boi.

Sarah did a great job at fooling me. Just like Feyre, I was blind to the red flags that displayed the unhealthy and toxic relationship between Feylin. Upon my second read, I could clearly see all the signs and read between the lines and kept thinking "why didn't I realize this sooner?''

I really liked the lesson that the author taught us about unhealthy and healthy relationships. You usually don't see the latter in most NA or even YA. And I despise Tamlin. He is everything that I hate in a man,controlling,abusive and anti feminist. I was so pissed at him for lying to Feyre that Rhys killed his family. The tool himself, had murdered Rhys family and I will never forgive him for that

Me to Tamlin “ I hope that burn..”

I could write a whole essay on professing my love for Rhysand but even that wouldn't be enough for me.

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. He is no 1 on my fictional boyfriends list. No other male character can compare to him.

Just like Feyre, I wasn't expecting him to be the good guy. And, just as she was unaware of falling for him,I was too. I didn't even realize how attached I grew to Rhys until I got a spoiler that he was going to die. I legit got an ache in my heart and felt like crying. That's the beauty of books when a character feels real even they sadly aren't. Thankfully, he survived and if he didn't then I wouldn't have been able to forgive Sarah/

Why do I adore the Highlord of the Night Court?

He is so precious and a major feminist. He is humble and strong ( even when he has been through so much). My heart breaks for him. His story is too emotional for me to read without crying (on my second time reading). Not only did he lose his parents but his sister too. We never got to know how old she was but she was young. We never got to see his mother and baby sister. That makes my heart shatter in a million pieces but as if that wasn't enough, He didn't see his friends for 50 years. He was trapped under the mountain for so long and raped by that bitch and he endured it just to protect his city and family (the inner circle). As if he didn't have enough on his plate, he watched Feyre be taken away from him twice. He watched the girl he loved be in love with another man (his enemy who had killed his parents and sister) and yet he let her be happy (even if she was mate). After all of this torture and pain, he is still so kind and sweet and caring. He still think he isn't enough even though he sacrificed so much. He would rather put himself in torture than let something happen to Feyre or the Inner Circle.

And what I love most about him, is the freedom he gave Feyre. He isn't controlling like most men. He trusts Feyre and believes she can fight for herself but he will be there to protect if she needed him. Of course he cares for but isn't overprotective. Their relationship is so pure and healthy and I love it. I love how humble he is. Being the most Powerful HighLord of all the seven courts, you would expect him to be a rich snob but he is far from that.

I loved how much Feyre grew from that naive girl to a strong and badass woman. I could barely recognize her while rereading Acotar. It felt as there were two seperate girls in the two books. This is one of the best character development I have ever seen. My heart broke for what she went through. I could relate to her about some stuff minus the under the mountain scene (ofc). And I was so happy when she survived her depression and ptsd all because of Rhysand.

And I got so attached to whole inner circle, as if they were my family too. And I love Mor more than Amren because I could relate to her too besides the fact how sweet and strong she was

The whole book was a pure joy to read but my favorite parts were Starfall, The Summer Court and Court of Nightmares.

Starfall: It was such a beautiful celebration. Unlike, the ones in the spring court despite its pretty name. I loved the idea of stars falling down from the sky. Everyone was at their happiest. It was also sad to read knowing this was the first Starfall Rhys had after Amrantha. The fact that she knew how much it meant to him and yet she made him service her without his consent and on purpose. My hatred is like a burning sun. Moving on, I squealed at the moment when Mor and Feyre were talking and then Rhys came up behind them. My heart burst of joy when Feyre heard his voice and turned around. He took her to the balcony for her to experience Starfall at its prettiest. They had their cute moments and it was the moment when they were falling in love but didn't admit it yet to each other. Rhys hadn't laughed like that in ages, pure and a real laugh like Feyre hadn't smiled filled with pure joy ever since she was turned into a fae.

Summer Court: I loved Tarquin too. And I enjoyed the feysand moments at the court. Their constant back and forth banter and flirting. That's where the famous quote " To all the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered came from.

Court of Nightmares: This scene was so sexy and made my cheeks turn a deep shade of red. I loved how Rhys gave Feyre a choice whether she wanted to join him and the play the part or stay at home. It was her own choice that made her say " I wanna do it" and yet Rhys still felt guilty. Even when it wasn't like he forced or anything. He would never do that. I enjoyed them teasing each other. I was captivated by Rhys beauty. I love the real Rhys but I lust for the "evil" Rhys, the mask that he wears to protect his loved ones.

And that ending, I wasn't expecting that. I feel bad for those who had to wait a year or more for the next book esp after that gripping yet lovely cliffhanger. I didn't had to since the whole serious was already out. It was emotional even when Feyre was pretending to be in Rhys control. They work well so together. Rhys understood her plan through that bond and he acted so well. ( he actually deserves an oscar for his great acting of a bad guy). Tears rolled down my cheeks when the bond snapped and Feyre fell down to her knees, screaming in pain. Even Rhys. Sara tricked us but I was so grateful for that. That chapter in Rhys pov (the only chapter) was so precious. I was shook when he declared that Feyre is his Highlady and equal and the bond was never broken. It was just the bargain. And I loved how cunning Feyre. She is so smart and badass. Pretending to be in love with Tamlin (her ex), only to take him down along with his court.

This book brings me pure joy and reading it for the second time gave me a different perspective. I noticed things I didn't before. This time, I knew about Rhy's backstory so it was more emotional than the first time. And I didn't think of this sooner but I have a theory that Jurain knew all along that Rhys wasn't Amrantha's whore but was raped by her (sobs and gets angry). Esp, when he mentioned that he was forced to watch everything that bitch did due to the ring she made out of his eye. And he was the only one who was shocked when Feyre was pretending to hate Rhys. He knew since he screamed "What?'' when she told the king to break the bond.

Damn, this is the longest review I have ever written. No regrets though.

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cvrnewsdirectindia · 5 years

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Ginger Baker dead: Cream drummer dies, aged 80

Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer and co-founder of rock band Cream, has died at the age of 80.

Last month, the musician’s family announced he was critically ill in hospital, but no further details of his illness were disclosed.

On Sunday morning, a tweet on his official Twitter account stated: “We are very sad to say that Ginger has passed away peacefully in hospital this morning. Thank you to everyone for your kind words over the past weeks.”

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Baker had suffered from a number of health issues in recent years. He underwent open heart surgery in 2016 and was forced to cancel a tour with his band Air Force after being diagnosed with “serious heart problems”.

The drummer, who is widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential drummers in rock music, co-founded Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. The band released three albums before splitting in 1968, after which he formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. A fourth Cream album was released after the band disbanded.

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Baker was named number three on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time list, and is the subject of the documentary Beware of Mr. Baker.

“Gifted with immense talent, and cursed with a temper to match, Ginger Baker combined jazz training with a powerful polyrhythmic style in the world’s first, and best, power trio,” said the Rolling Stone article. “The London-born drummer introduced showmanship to the rock world with double-kick virtuosity and extended solos.”

Lewisham-born Baker was known for being a mercurial and argumentative figure, whose temper frequently led to on-stage punch-ups.

His father, a bricklayer, was killed in the Second World War in 1943, and Baker was brought up in near poverty by his mother. He joined a local gang in his teens and when he tried to quit, gang members attacked him with a razor.

Baker suffered from heroin addiction, which he acquired as a jazz drummer in the London clubs of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He once told The Guardian he came off heroin “something like 29 times”.

Tributes for the drummer have been pouring in on Twitter.

Paul McCartney called Baker a “wild and lovely guy”, writing: “We worked together on the ‘Band on the Run‘ album in his ARC Studio, Lagos, Nigeria. Sad to hear that he died but the memories never will.”

Baby Driver director Edgar Wright wrote: “RIP the music giant that was Ginger Baker. The beat behind too many favourite songs from Cream, The Graham Bond Organisation and Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated.”

Rock journalist Mark Paytress tweeted: “Like Hendrix, Ginger Baker was a name synonymous w/ early days rock. Once you heard him play, saw pics & footage, he seemed to embody the music’s power, the culture’s adventure. Spending a day w/ him in 2014 magnified it all. Lost a big one this morning.”

Slipknot’s Jay Weinberg simply wrote: “Thank you Ginger Baker.”

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The new Procrustes script;

New Script – Procrustes

Facetime

4 friends talking

‘Ghost story’ of Procrustes

*Texts*

Char: Hey guys facetime?

Han: Sure

Rhy: Yeah give me 5 minutes then I’ll join

Chloe: Yeah

*Facetime opens*

(Hannah and Charlotte having a ‘girly’ gossip.)

Han: Hey Char, where’s the girls?

Char: I'll text them now.

Han: Have you seen Chloe’s new boyfriend?

Char: No show me.

(Hannah shows a photo on her phone).

Char: Aww.

Han: I know right.

(Chloe & Rhyanna join video chat.)

Han: Hey.

Char: Hey.

Chlo: Hey.

Rhy: Hey.

Chloe: So, what were you guys talking about?

(Hannah & Charlotte Laugh Hysterically)

Han: So, Chloe, who's the new boy?

Char: You have a different one every week.

Rhy: Who? You didn’t tell me.

Chloe: Well, I mean I don’t have to tell you guys everything.

Rhy: We’re supposed to be best friends?

Chloe: What’s it got to do with you anyway?

Han: Girls, just stop.

Char: Anyways, You gals alright?

Rhy: Yah. OMG have you seen all this drama on Instagram between Cara Delevingne, Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber??

Chloe: No of course I haven’t, I don’t spend all my time gawking at celebrities (banter)

Char: (Jokingly mock) OMG have you seen THIS about what’s his face and his new girlfriend?!

Han: You guys can’t talk! You’ve got your noses stuck in your phone 24/7, see your screens paused now bet you’re on snapchat or something

Char: I had to reply to a message, can’t be rude, now can I?

All: *laugh*

Rhy: Have you all finished this assessment yet? Its literally taken me forever to finish

Chloe: Yeah, I finished my ages ago, it’s not that hard just find a topic you like to talk about and bam the essays basically written itself

Han: Nope not finished yet just got to finish the conclusion and proofread it. Charlotte do you mind if I send it to you to check over? Don’t want to have any mistakes in it obviously

Char: of course babes! Just let me know when you’ve sent it

Rhy: OMG I hate you guys this isn't fair that you actually understand the brief, bet you're getting extra help for this because you’re all the favourite

Han: (Sarcastic) Oh definitely! We’re 100% the favourite in the class. Have you only just figured this out?

Rhy: Ha ha ha. Very funny

Char: Hang on mums calling me, be back in a second (leaves room)

Chloe: *playing around with filters on facetime* guys look I’m a (insert filter here)

Han: You’re such a child

Rhy: Ooh I wanna try, how’d you do that?

Chloe: Just the button on the right hand of the screen

Han: So, girls did you ever hear of the story of Procrustes?

Char: (Walks back in and sits down) What?

Chloe: Huh?

Han: Procrustes.

Rhy: Yeah, shut up. That’s not real.

Han: umm, yeah it is actually.

Char: Yeah, I’ve heard about it.

Han: He’s a big monster. Who chops off your limbs...

Char: He has this bed, and if you don’t fit…

Rhy: He stretches you to fit the bed

Han: Or cuts off your limbs.

Chloe: Stop it guys. I know you’re just trying to scare me.

Han: And why would we do that?

Chloe: Because that’s what you guys always do. It’s not funny anymore.

Rhy: Chloe, chill out. (laughs)

Han: I know right.

Han: This one time, a group of children were skipping down the path.

Rhy: And he invited them into his house.

Chloe: And what did he do?

Char: He stretched the arms and legs of each and every child that stepped foot into his home.

Han: Girls, what are you wearing to Emily's party?

Char: I’m thinking of just going casual.

Rhy: I haven’t even thought about it yet.

Chlo: I probably won’t go.

Han: What why?

Char: Yeah, why not Chlo?

Rhy: It’ll be so much fun.

Chlo: Just because.

Han: Just because what?

Chlo: I feel disgusting. Nothing fits me. I look fat in everything I wear.

Han: Omg shut up Chloe, you’re not fat.

Char: You’re so stupid if you believe that.

Rhy: Yeah, you’re gorgeous. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Char: I promise you Chloe, you’ll be fine.

Han: How about I come over later to help you pick something out?

Chloe: Yeah okay, sounds good.

Rhy: Aww, can I come too.

Char: Yeah, we can order food.

Han: Lush, what time chlo?

Chlo: 5?

All but Chloe: We’ll be there.

(Girls painting nails, doing makeup etc)

Hannah notices something on the screen.

Han: Um, Chloe what’s that?

Chloe: What’s what?

Han: That

Char: OMG, Chloe who is that

Han: Stop trying to scare us Chloe, it’s not funny.

Rhy: You’re so pathetic, stop it.

Han: its moving

Char: Chloe seriously.

Han: Chloe don’t move.

Char: It is moving again

Rhy: Whatever girls.

Han: I’m being serious!

(Charlotte and Hannah scream)

(Chloe screen glitches and then goes black, disconnects from the video chat)

Rhy: What was that all about?

Han: She not picking up!

Char: Pick up! Pick up Chloe (panicking)

Rhy: She’s just messing with us surely

(Chloe comes back on the video chat)

Han: Omg Chloe is everything okay

Char: What happened?

Chloe: The power went out, my dad checked the fuse, and everything was fine, nothing blew...

Rhy: Okay that is weird… haha ghost oooo (laughs nervously)

Char: That’s not funny, I’ve got a weird feeling...brb

Han: Ah I feel sick as well (cough up little bit of blood into a tissue)

Chloe: What the fuck Han, are you okay? What is going on! Damn it’s got cold in my room

Rhy: That’s because your window is open Chlo?

Chloe: Well it’s winter I wouldn’t have it open!? I didn’t open my window (turns around and sees the door shutting slowly and then slams shut

(Han, Rhy and Chloe scream)

Char: (Runs back to the screen, hair all messy and makeup all ruined, with blood coming out her nose)

Han: Your bleeding too? (starts coughing again and blood comes out) what the hell happening

Rhy: (TV comes on randomly and door slams) okay guys I’m scared now

Char: Guys I keep seeing things, he he he…

Chloe: He?! Who’s he…

Han: Char stay with us!

Char: (Keeps disconnecting from the video call, screen keeps going black)

Rhy; (Sweating and shaking) maybe her internet lagging, let me call you guys again...

(Chloe, Han and Rhy answer straight away)

Chloe: You guys there, everyone okay? Everything’s fine now

Han: Yeah I’m good

Char: (joins the video chat, sweating, breathing heavily) he’s here

Rhy: Who? Who is he, I’m calling the police, don’t move Char

Char: Don’t call anyone, don’t move, he’s everywhere, we can’t escape him.

Han: Please stop, I’m home alone right now and I can’t deal with this. I need call someone

Chloe: No Hannah don’t move, he’s behind you…

Han: I don’t want to look, please make this stop (starts crying)

Char: Don’t cry Hannah, don’t show him you’re scared. That’s what he wants

Rhy: I think I’m gonna throw up (starts to cough and looks up to the screen with blood coming out of her nose)

Chloe: I can’t deal with this (shouts out to her dad and something moves/crashes in her room)

(Everyone looks into the camera, screen goes dark)

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So I finished ACOWAR

This is in no way a coherent or articulate piece of writing in the same way my ACOTAR/ACOMAF piece tried to be, and I don’t think it even can be called a review, because I don’t tend to review books that already have this much visibility in the booklr community. It’s more just the notes I made while reading ACOWAR, which I kind of felt was the weakest book in the series so far (and if you haven’t already guessed it, I’m not much of a fan to begin with).

This entire piece is basically just spoilers, and salt, so please don’t read unless you already know/don’t mind finding out some major plot points!

First off, can I just say that every time ‘the male’ or ‘the female’ is used as a descriptor, I wince. I think it is a) bad writing and b) cis-centric as fuck. There needs to be more non-binary people in fantasy!

This book was so….bloated. It needed to be edited down a lot – the sheer number of chapters is insane. I had this poignant realisation when I read five chapters of High Fae trash talk at the faerie High Lord meeting and then…the thing they were having a meeting over just…happened anyway? And the meeting suddenly had no meaning whatsoever?

So many abusers are now being made into sympathetic/rehabilitated figures. I took Rhys’ redemption arc in ACOMAF because I kind of suspected that that was the way his and Feyre’s relationship were going to pan out but….both Eris and Tamlin received sympathy, and were made into heroes or forces for good at some point in the plot? Feyre forgave Tamlin? Mor’s abuse at the hands of Keir and Eris is pushed aside because ‘times are hard’ and ‘tough choices have to be made’? And Mor had literally no say or agency in that decision?

Meanwhile we have Ianthe. an abusive woman who’s entire character is one-dimensional villainy and demonised female sexuality. She is portrayed as having not a single scrap of goodness in her soul, not one redeeming characteristic, someone who Feyre has no moral quandary over letting be munched up by the Weaver. Even though her use of sex could realistically be portrayed as a product of internalised misogyny? And yet the men who ‘nailed a message’ into Mor’s womb get nuanced portrayal, the benefit of the doubt in the run up to the war, and even moments of heroism?????

I’m not saying that Ianthe should be redeemed, I just don’t understand why this instance of sexual abuse is so utterly condemned to the point where we watch her smash her own hand in some kind of medieval punishment, and yet the instances of sexual abuse perpetrated by men are all given a degree of either redemption or pardoning because of the circumstances of the plot. Is it because female to male abuse is more taboo and thus seen as more ‘evil’? Because SJM has so ingrained male-to-female sexual abuse into the very fabric of her patriarchal fantasy society, that we and Mor are expected to just accept that this is ‘the way things are’, or even write it off out of necessity as ‘boys will be boys’? I HAVE NO IDEA AND IT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE.

Given my recent essay on the subject, I was interested that SJM tried to problematize and dismantle the concept of mating bonds a little in the conversation Feyre and Rhysand have about Lucien and Elain. It’s made into ‘Some natural function, not an indication of true, paired souls’ (Chapter 24). There was even the handwave of ‘oh this homosexual relationship may be the product of a mating bond, but they’re probably keeping it a secret from everyone’.

To be honest, I don’t think it succeeded in explaining away the problematic elements of mating. The biological imperatives were still there, ‘the bond is nothing more than...preordained guesswork at who will provide the strongest offspring’ (Chapter 24). Aggression was still a major part of the male side of the bond (like when we get the internal monologue of Lucien and witness him fighting his ‘instincts’) and it’s still implied that men are slaves to the desire that the bond generates, whereas women don’t feel it as strongly/can control their physical desires? ‘But the males...It can drive them mad. It is their burden to fight through’ (Chapter 24) This has some serious ramifications in terms of gendered conceptions of sexual drive. In my opinion, mating bonds are still squicky.

I now mostly just want SJM to put her money where her mouth is and follow through on her attempts at muddying the water: if she insists on pairing the spares, have Elaine get together with Azriel rather than Lucien, and show a relationship where the mating bond is terminated not because of outright physical abuse on the side of the male, but because of a romantic attraction overcoming a sexual/biological one. (Yes, I ship it. Or rather, I ship Elaine overcoming her trauma and going on to be a badass seer, building herself a temple and calling out bullshit like Cassandra in ancient Troy. But if she needs to have a boyf – and it’s SJM so she probably does – I want it to be Sad Shadow Man.)

‘Helion favours both males and females. Usually together in bed’ (Chapter 47). I’m not saying that bisexuality can’t work this way, but I gather that SJM has used the hypersexualised bisexual trope before.

I think that perhaps Mor’s jealousy of Nessian is because she’s attracted to Nesta (a la season 1 Korrasami)? But even so her possessiveness of Cassian and her hostility towards Nesta was horrible and OOC and made me angry every time it happened. I hate it whenever female-female relationships are sacrificed because of a guy, but it is particularly frustrating in a book where male-female relationships are definitely already the priority. And given the way that Nessian is reaching canonical status, even if you do attribute the jealousy to female-female attraction, it’s only going to end badly for Mor.

Feyre used Mor’s sexuality as a weapon against her after she was justifiably called out on reckless behaviour. Fuck off Feyre.

I know that Azriel is a good character. I know this. And yet this book turned his relationship with Mor into this awful poster child ‘friendzone’ dynamic, where Mor feels pressurised to hide her sexuality because of the hurt it will cause *him*. I don’t think this is a fault of the characters, but of the entire treatment of their friendship and SJM’s portrayal of Mor’s queerness as a burden.

No main characters die. In this apparently impossible war that basically ends in an afternoon. No – everyone is magically resurrected after barely five pages.

Bonus points for not even having the courage to keep Amren out of fae form and thus rip up her incipient ship with Varien. You could have written an entire book on the inner circle going off on a quest to find and subdue a superhuman dragon Amren unshackled from the bonds of human morality. But no. She’s ‘in the cauldron’.

DEUS EX MACHINAS (dragon ex machinas?) MAKE ME WANT TO SCREAM. Find a better way to resolve your conflicts. Especially when even the decision to unshackle Amren from her human form in order for her to become the Deus ex Machina in question has literally no lasting consequences.

Speaking of deus ex machinas: is anyone else annoyed that the only death god who survives the battle is Bryaxis, the one who only asked for a window in exchange for his services, rather than freedom and an implicit murder spree? This means that there are literally no consequences to these so-called ‘tough decisions’ that have to be made in times of war, and everything can just go on fine. ‘No evil death gods were permanently unleashed in the making of this war.’

Can I forcibly rip SJM away from the Russian mythology that she is no doubt going to butcher in the continuation of this series? As soon as I read the name ‘Koschei’ I groaned aloud. You can’t just take whatever mythology you like and use it to make your own magic system! You’ve already detached the Morrigan from any semblance of Celtic Mythology!!!

That being said, I did like:

That the Archeron sisters FINALLY seem to be forming a strong friendship rather than the girl-on-girl hate mess it’s been for the past few books. I liked that Nesta was as powerful as Feyre, and had a more integral role in the final battle than she did.

I liked that in Feysand we see a stable ‘after they get together’ relationship. I still think ACOMAF is ‘stronger’ as a book, as SJM is better at writing romance than plot, but at least there was no needless YA angst, beyond Rhys’ martyrdom complex.

And this sounds awful, but I’m glad that Feyre had a PTSD relapse. I felt that in ACOMAF, her recovery from mental illness was equated a little too strongly with her growing romance with Rhys. Love doesn’t cure mental illness, and I’m glad the SJM showed that.

But overall, this book (much like this commentary) was a bit of a rambling mess of little consequence.

#acowar spoilers #a sort of live tweet reading thing I think?#and it probably falls on the side of #anti-sjm #anti-acowar #I gave it 2.5 stars on goodreads in case anyone is wondering

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Des concerts à Paris et autour

Avril 10. Jamie Stewart joue Xiu Xiu – Olympic café 10. Wolf Eyes Music 2018 + Evil Moisture + Delphine Dora + Sophie Cooper – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 10. Structure + Walking Idiots + Oktober Lieber – Le Klub ||COMPLET|| 11. JC Satàn + Cockpit – La Maroquinerie 11. Pyrit + Somaticae – Point FMR 11. Silent Era + Youth Avoiders + Retsar Bai Naim – La Comedia (Montreuil) 11. Descendeur + Disposition Matrix + Bordigaga + Saada Abe – L'Armony (Montreuil) 12. Dune Messiah (dj) – Le Sans-Souci (gratuit) 12. Mont Analogue + Vendège – Le Zorba (gratuit) 12. Massicot + Tonnerre + Belmont Witch – Le Jardin d'Alice (Montreuil) 12. The Ex + Anarchist Republic of Bzzz (fest. Banlieues bleues) – La Dynamo (Pantin) 13. Amusement Parks on Fire + Ulster Page + Misty Coast – Supersonic (gratuit) 13. DJ Krush – La Bellevilloise 13. La Secte du futur + Dune Messiah + The Space Padlocks – La Station 13. Èlg, Catherine Hershey, Borja Flames & Sourdure + D.K. + Carval Tarek (dj) – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 13. Tribalism + Parquet + Babil Sabir + Luca Ventimiglia + Mesce Basse + Broken Cash Machine + We Use Cookies + Hypnoqueen + Stex-1 + Junkaa-Poika & Stokastinen + Antoine Viard, Andrea Hakl & JF Riffaud + Minia Mania (dj) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 13. Ghost in the Machine + WarinD + Basswell + NTBR – Glazart 14. Dominique a + My Brightest Diamond – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 14. Infecticide + Exo_C + Randy x Marsh + Mauvaise foi + Forge (Monospace fest.) – Petit Bain 14. Techno Thriller + Air LQD + Lostsoundbytes + Maoupa Mazzocchetti + Violent quand on aime + Constance Chlore + Ian Tocor – La Station 14. YC-CY + Max Lampin + Feller Buncher – Espace B 14. Michael Hiscock plays The Field Mice + Eggs + En attendant Ana – Le Chinois (Montreuil) 14. Function + Shifted – La Machine 14. Lil Louis + Josh Wink + Ellen Allien + Levon Vincent + Acid Arab + Paranoid London + Wlderz + Thomas Delacroix – Paris Event Center 15. Dominique a + Adrian Crowley – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 16. Ursa + Bitpart + Stalled Minds – Pointe Lafayette 17. Jacky Molard Quartet, Albert Marcoeur, François Corneloup, Christophe Marguet et Jean-Michel Veillon – Café de la danse 17. Chicaloyoh + Areva + Paul Grémare + Gauchoir – tba 18. Chrysta Bell – La Maroquinerie 19. Christian Death + Punish Yourself + Volker – La Machine 19. Peter Kernel – Point FMR 19. Ventre de biche + Compas dans l'oeil + Le Mal des ardents + La Coupure – La Station 19. Primal Scream + Nathalie Prass + Hollywood/Mikhael Paskalev (Arte concert fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 19. Carole Robinson, Buno Martinez & Charles Curtis : "Naldjorlak I, II et III" d'Éliane Radigue – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 20. Die Selektion + Gost + Hørd + Koy + Valeskja Valcav – Supersonic (gratuit) 20. Crystal Sound – La Générale (gratuit) 20. Los VV's + Société étrange + Bison Bison – Pointe Lafayette 20. Zarkoff + Al Niklaus (dj) + Law & Haktion (dj) + Schwefelgelb (dj) + Philipp Strobel (dj) + Petula Black Sperm – La Station 20. Laurel Halo + Konrad Sprenger – église Saint-Merry 20. Lovatarxx + Cyclikweetos + Vyryl – Espace B 20. Nits – Petit Bain 20. Mondkopf + Second Spectre + Swarm Intelligence + SpunOff (dj) + Size Pier (dj) – La Machine 20. Idles + Lice – Trabendo ||COMPLET|| 21. Grand Blanc + Lenparrot + Buvette... (Disquaire Day) – Point FMR (gratuit) 21. Yan Wagner + Tristesse contemporaine (fest. Clap Your Hands) – Café de la danse 21. Modeselektor (dj) + Actress + Nathan Fake + Rival Consoles + Moxie b2b Louise Chen (dj) (Arte concert fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 21. Watters – Espace B 21. Badbad – 2, rue Paul-Eluard (Montreuil) (gratuit) 21. Louisahhh + Jeanne Added + Maud Geffray + Myako + Léonie Pernet + Betty + RAG + Nari Fshr + Sophie Morello + Vikken + Leslie Barbara Butch + Sara Zinger + Catherin + Apollo noir + F/cken Chipotle (10 ans de Wet For Me) – La Machine 21. Igorrr + Niveau Zero – Trabendo ||COMPLET|| 22. The Body + Fange – Olympic café 22. Norma Loy + Babel 17 – Supersonic 22. Lea Bertucci + F.Ampisme + Félicie Bazelaire & Sig Valax + Roger MPR – tba 24/25. Franck Vigroux & Kurt d'Haeseleer – La Pop 25. Nine Eleven + Binaire + Unlogistic + Ayatollah – Le Klub 25. Helluvah + EDH + Rach Tree – Espace B 26. Franck Vigroux & Kurt d'Haeseleer – La Pop 26. Ought + Foammm – La Maroquinerie 26. Wrekmeister Harmonies + Grooms – Espace B 26. A Place To Bury Strangers – Trabendo 26. France + Why The Eye? + Mikhail Mineral – La Station 27. Popsimonova + Sleep Loan Sharks – Le Klub 27. Madben + Emmanuel Top + Trunkline (dj) – Rex club 28. Denis Frajerman, David Fenech, Carole Deville & Justine Schaeffer – Galerie Plateforme 28. Rhys Chatham + Krikor Kouchian + Chloé & Vassilena Serafimova – Centre Pompidou 28. Tomaga + Vanishing Twin + Veik – La Maroquinerie 28. Yves Mesnil + Birtawil + Ujjaya & Adama Ouedraogo (fest. Ambient) – Crypte du Martyrium 28. Arcade Fire – Bercy Arena 28. Regis + Inigo Kennedy + CTRLS + Anastasia Kristensen – Nuits fauves 28. She Past Away + Lebanon Hanover + Selofan – La Machine ||COMPLET|| 29. Thank + 25 + Brain Juice Drainer – La Comedia (Montreuil) 30. Koudlam + Bajram Bili + Pointe du lac – La Maroquinerie 30. Iron Fist of The Sun + Am Not + Kevlar + Kontinent – Les Voûtes 30. Seth Troxler & Miss Kittin – Badaboum 30. Silent Servant + Orphx + François X + Oko dj – Concrete

Mai 01. Venetian Snares & Daniel Lanois + Joanne Pollock + Tryphème – Trabendo 03. Black Leather Jesus + Vomir + Rien – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 04. Michael Mayer – Rex Club 05. Stratocastors + Top montagne + Petites voleuses – Gare XP 07. Iceage + Pardans – Petit Bain 07. Karenn + Varg + Shlømo + Sandrien + Basses Terres + Radiante Pourpre + Les Fils de Jacob – Concrete 09. John Wiese + Me Donner – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 09. Virginia + UVB + Théo Muller b2b Sottoh – La Machine 10. Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek + Stranded Horse (Le Beau fest.) – La Petite Halle 11. And Also the Trees + Tropic of Cancer + Better Person + En attendant Ana + Magic Island (Le Beau fest.) – Trabendo 11. Lenny Dee + Manu le Malin + Docteur Macabre + Torgull – Rex club 12. Deerhoof + Ulrika Spacek + First Hate + Pantin plage + Le Couleur + [Good Morning : ANNULÉ] (Le Beau fest.) – Trabendo 12. I Hate Models + Ancient Methods + Rrose – La Machine 13. God is an Astronaut – Trabendo 14. Bryan's Magic Tears + Le Villejuif Underground + VvvV – La Maroquinerie (gratuit sur résa) 15. Sinivia Alvise + Erwan Keravec & Mats Gustaffson + Orchestre orange & Gëinst (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 17. Moor Mother + Boy Harsher + Succhiamo (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 17. Alessandro Cortini + Fléau – Petit Bain 17. Clément Edouard + Giani Caserotto + Elise Dabrowski & Claudine Simon (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 18. Sister Iodine + Ramleh + B-Ball Joints (Low Jack) (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 18. Joachim Florent + Nox.3 & Linda Olah + Chassol (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 19. Yo La Tengo – Cabaret sauvage 19. Horse Lord + Das Ding + Noir Boy George (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 19. Deux boules vanille + Mondkopf + The Noise Consort (fest. Switch) – Théâtre de Vanves 19. 999999999 + Raär + Under Black Helmet + Dax (dj) + Parfait – tba 20. Bundle of Joy (Barnt & Superpitcher) + La Mverte + Xeno & Oaklander + Cité lumière + December + AZF (fest. Ideal Trouble) – La Station 20. Biscuit Mouth + Melkbelly + Storm{o} + BadBad – Espace B 20. Of the Wand & the Moon + The Dark Red Seed + Vesperal – Supersonic (gratuit) 20. SNTS (Marvellous Island fest.) – Ile de loisirs (Vaires-Torcy) 22. Zëro + Moodie Black – Petit Bain 23. Buzz Kull + IV Horsemen – Espace B 23. Otomo Yoshihide + Kaze – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 24. Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Pitsiokos + Ikuro Takahashi – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 24. HMLTD + Faire (dj) – Petit Bain 25. Mogwai + Jon Hopkins + James Holden & The Animal Spirits (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 26. Car Seat Headrest + Naked Giants (Villette sonique) – Trabendo 26. Marquis de Sade + Anna Von Hausswolff + Exploded View (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 26. Kelly Lee Owens + The Sea & Cake + Tzusing + The Field + Richard Dawson + Ariel Kalma + Jackie Mendoza + Flamingods + Sassy 009 (Villette sonique) – Prairie du cercle nord et périphérique (gratuit) 26. Black Zone Myth Chant + Colin Johnco + Domotic + Fatal Walima (Villette sonique) – Jardin des îles|Parc de La Villette (gratuit) 27. Bisou de Saddam + King Khan + Miley Serious + Paul Seul (Villette sonique) – Jardin des îles|Parc de La Villette (gratuit) 27. Abra + Essaie pas + Flohio + Nilüfer Yanya + Smerz + Snail Mail + Hookworms + Fire! + Mario Batkovic (Villette sonique) – Prairie du cercle nord et périphérique (gratuit) 28. The Chamelons – Supersonic 29. Deerhunter + Midnight Sister (Villette sonique) – Cabaret sauvage 29. Camille Emaille, Nina Garcia & Arnaud Rivière + Zaraz Wam Zagram & Sig Valax + Laurent Di Biase – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 29. The Damned – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 30. The Damned – Petit Bain 30. John Maus + Flat Worms + Kate NV (Villette sonique) – Trabendo 30. Igorrr + Ni – Les Cuizines (Chelles)

Juin 02. Penguin Café – Fondation Cartier 02/03. Björk + Beck + Jamie XX + King Krule + Father John Misty + Migos... (fest. We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 06. Heimatlos + Li Jianhong + Mei Zhyong + Wang Ziheng (Eastern Noise Congregation) – Les Voûtes 07. Molly Nilsson – Badaboum ||COMPLET|| 08. Molly Nilsson – Badaboum 09. Trisomie 21 + Delacave – La Maroquinerie 09. Waxahatchee – Espace B 09. The Driver + Renart + Le Cabaret contemporain + "In C" de Terry Riley + Le Comte + Arandel (dj) + Dudmode + Ambeyance (dj) + Clément Bazin (dj) – La Station 11. Preoccupations + Moaning – La Maroquinerie 12. Damo Suzuki's Network – Espace B 12. Thom York – L'Olympia 13. L7 – La Cigale 14. Ty Segall & The Freedom Band + Mike Donovan – Bataclan 15. Bernard Grancher + Infecticide + Les Trucs – Centre Barbara-FGO 15/16. Ryoji Ikeda : "Formula - c4i - Datamatics" – Centre Pompidou 16. Vitalic (fest. Bains numériques) – Lac d'Enghien-lès-Bains (gratuit) 17. Animal Collective – Le Trianon 22. Modern Life Is War + Cro Mags – Petit Bain 25. Nine Inch Nails – Olympia ||COMPLET|| 27. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Le Trianon 28. La Colonie de vacances – La Station 29. Fred P. aka Black Jazz Consortium + Tin Man + Kay Alce b2b Patrick Gibin + Skee Mask (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 30. A Deep Groove + Antal + Golden Dawn Archestra + Blake Baxter + Muddy Monk + Saint DX + Toshio Matsuura + Vox Low + Nathy Peluso (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 30. Eliott Litrowski (Macki Music fest.) – boat party 30. Echo Collective joue "Amnesiac" de Radiohead (fest. Days Off) – Le Studio|Philharmonie 30. Nils Frahm (fest. Days Off) – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

Juillet 01. Motor City Drum Ensemble + Josey Rebelle + Cotonete + Lomboy + Ceephax Acid Crew + Kamaal Williams + HDBeenDope + Sentiments (Macki Music fest.) – parc de la mairie (Carrières/Seine) 01. Nick V (Macki Music fest.) – boat party 01. Zaltan (Macki Music fest.) – boat party 03. David Byrne (fest. Days Off) – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 04. MGMT (fest. Days Off) – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 06. Trami Nguyen et Laurent Durupt jouent "Piano Phase" de Steve Reich + Bruce Brubaker + Laake + Fabrizio Rat + Murcof & Vanessa Wagner + Tom Rogerson + Grandbrothers (fest. Days Off) – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 06. Amelie Lens + Daniel Avery + Floating Points + Folamour + Jeff Mills + Laurent Garnier + Kink b2b Gerd Janson + Not Waving + Solomun... (The Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 06/07. Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp + Odessey & Oracle + Warum Joe... (La Ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 07. Sister Iodine (La Ferme électrique) – La Ferme du Plateau (Tournan-en-Brie) 07. Richie Hawtin + Tale of Us + Charlotte de Witte + Chloé + Maetrik + Mano Le Tough + Octo Octa + Joy Orbison b2b Kornel Kovacs (The Peacock Society) – Parc floral (Vincennes) 08. Maulwürfe – La Gaîté lyrique 09. Eels – Olympia 12. Chelsea Wolfe + Emma Ruth Rundle – Trabendo 13. Ministry + Grave Pleasures – Elysées Montmartre

Août 20. Front Line Assembly + Die Krupps – La Machine 24>26. Dirty Projectors + Idles + The Black Angels + Parcels + Cigarettes after Sex + Bonobo + Carpenter Brut + Justice... (fest. Rock-en-Seine) – Domaine de Saint-Cloud

Septembre 01. Ariel Pink (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – La Machine 04. Thee Oh Sees (Paris Inter. Fest. of Psychedelic Music) – La Cigale 05. Feist – L'Olympia 22. The Wedding Present – Point FMR

Octobre 04. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – La Seine musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) 20. Tallinn Chamber Orchestra : Fratres, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Adam's Lament, Salve Regina et Te Deum d'Arvo Pärt – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 26. Jon Hopkins – Trianon 27. Killing Joke – Cabaret sauvage

Novembre 01>03. Bon Iver + Fever Ray + Mac DeMarco + Blood Orange... (Pitchfork Music fest.) – Grande Halle de La Villette 04. Peaches Christ Superstar – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 05. Colin Stetson – Café de la danse 18. Ensemble Links : Drumming de Steve Reich – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 23. Michael Nyman : "War Work: 8 Songs with Film" – Salle Pleyel 23. Ennio Morricone – Bercy Arena

Décembre 01. Deux boules vanille (fest. Marathon!) – La Gaîté lyrique 09/10. Moriarty – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 15. Gaspar Claus – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Avril 14. Arnaud Rebotini joue la BO de "120 Battements par minute" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Mai 17. Philip Glass : Études pour piano – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie 18. Bruce Brubaker & Max Cooper : Glasstronica – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie

Juin 26. Magma – Salle Pierre-Boulez|Philharmonie

en gras : les derniers ajouts / in bold: the last news

#agenda concerts #concerts à Paris #gigs in paris #paris' gig

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Hyperallergic: What Can We Learn from Dystopian Fiction About Climate Change?

Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science, copyright Harry N. Abrams (cover image courtesy of Abrams ComicArts)

Recently, a friend asked on social media, “What do you people read to wind down?” He was referring to the distress we all suffer from the endless negative news coming from the Trump administration. I first suggested sci-fi, but upon remembering that he is a lobbyist for international corporations’ divestiture from the fossil fuel industry, I decided to do some research on sci-fi novels which focus on climate change. That’s when I discovered the so called cli-fi (climate change fiction) genre.

If you haven’t heard of it yet, you are not alone; most of the people I mentioned it to were unaware of it too. However, you have probably either read or watched some cli-fi already. IMBd’s cli-fi page has more than a dozen titles. The Goodreads list of cli-fi novels is over 130 titles long. During the recent months, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan, Zachary Mason’s Void Star, Jane Harper’s The Dry, Margaret Drabble’s The Dark Flood Rises, Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140, Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway, and Sally Abbot’s Closing Down have all hit the shelves described as cli-fi. And, since February of this year, the Chicago Review of Books has published a monthly column on its web site exclusively dedicated to the genre.

Steven Amsterdam,The Things We Didn’t See Coming, copyright Anchor (image courtesy Steven Amsterdam)

Still, there is strong skepticism about the genre’s originality. When I mentioned it to my sci-fi and graphic novel enthusiast friends, they mostly rolled their eyes. Nothing was new about stories focusing on a man-made ecological disasters; they just showed up in other literary categories. For example, Alan Moore’s graphic novel The Swamp Thing, a story based on the consequences of mismanaged nuclear waste was published in 1971. This was also the year in which Dr. Seuss wrote his infamous Lorax, a children’s classic about deforestation and environmental irresponsibility. Even older is Alexander Bogdanov’s communist sci-fi novel, The Red Star – now almost 110 years old – which refers to an ecological crisis very much like ours. Older yet are the ancient religious and mythological Mesopotamian, Hindu, Chinese, and Abrahamic narratives, all of which refer to eco-disasters caused by human mischief.

Octavia Butler,, copyright Grand Central Publishing (photo courtesy of Hachette Book Group)

Yet, it is also true that there has been a growing emphasis on ecology during the last two decades in almost every field. In history, there is the so called spatial turn, which refers to a growing interest in geography and ecology. In philosophy, Glenn Albrecht has coined the term solastalgia to describe “a form of psychological or existential distress caused by environmental change, such as mining or climate change.” In the field of geology, there is widespread acknowledgment of the anthropocene, re-popularized in reference to a new epoch defined by the “significant human impact on the Earth’s geology and ecosystem” according to Wikipedia. So, cli-fi can be understood as modern literature’s response to our anxieties about the current consequences of climate change.

In her book, Antonia Mehnert defines cli-fi as:

literature dealing explicitly with anthropogenic climate change,” which “gives insight into the ethical and social ramifications of this unparalleled environmental crisis, reflects on current political conditions that impede action on climate change, explores how risk materializes and effect society, and finally plays an active part in shaping our conception of climate change.

In Wikipedia, cli-fi means the “literature that deals with climate change and global warming. Not necessarily speculative in nature, works of cli-fi may take place in the world as we know it or in the near future.” Hence, cli-fi is not any eco-conscious or eco-apocalyptic literature. It focuses specifically on the current climate change, which we are experiencing. (One place to build your familiarity with cli-fi is to read a recent interview with Dan Bloom, the man who originally coined the term.)

Area X, The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, copyright FSG (image courtesy of Jeff VanderMeer)

Most commonly cited examples of the genre are Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Kim Stanley Robinson’s the Science in The Capital trilogy, Margaret Atwood’s The Maddaddam trilogy, Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow, and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior. However, Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower tops my list, since it predates (in 1993) those novels mentioned above, and it seems to have inspired Atwood’s The Maddaddam trilogy and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which are considered pillars of the genre. It also reads like a masterpiece, along the lines of Jean Rhys’s Wide Saragossa Sea. The Parable of the Sower is the coming-of-age story of a an African-American minister’s daughter who lives in a racially mixed and charged community, which gated itself due to an ongoing ecological crisis. A less acknowledged, but excellent novel is Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming, which is experimental and enchanting till the very last page. There are large gaps in the story-line, that make it read like Andre Breton’s surreal novel Nadya, but these gaps also mimic how we deal with moments of disaster and stress by taking refuge in collective amnesia. By far the best cli-fi out there must be Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach trilogy. Although VanderMeer rejects the label cli-fi, this is indeed a story about our changing climate: how a territory called Southern Reach becomes a self conscious ecology, starts to remember, thinking, and communicate with human beings. VanderMeer also shifts between genres; the first volume is a horror story that gave me serious nightmares three nights in a row. The second volume is a detective story, and the third one is a mystery.

As for graphic novels, Philippe Squarzoni’s award winning Climate Changed, a graphic documentary about his personal struggle to understand climate change is a remarkable artistic feat. Brian Wood’s, The Massive, series relates the story of an eco-activist gang who roam the international seas in the near future, trying to save the planet from further harm. The fifth volume of Paul Chadwick’s Concrete: Think Like a Mountain is also a personal favorite of mine, and the last issue of World War 3 from AK Press is entirely dedicated to climate change chaos.

The Massive, written by Brian Wood and Illustrated by Kristian Donaldson and Garry Brown, copyright Dark Horse Comics (courtesy of Dark Horse Comics)

Last but not the least, I have to mention The Dark Mountain Project, which is active since 2009. It is best known for its Dark Mountain Manifesto, which opens with the statement: “Those who witness extreme social collapse at first hand seldom describe any deep revelation about the truths of human existence. What they do mention, if asked, is their surprise at how easy it is to die.” They have so far published 10 volumes of collected short fiction, poetry, critical essays, graphic fiction, and visual art, all of which explore climate change, and how we write or tell stories about it. Its past editorial boards have included authors like the famous feminist sci-fi writer Ursula La Guin and late cultural critic John Berger. Each volume delivers a serious punch and could generate more debate about cli-fi.

Uncivilised Poetics, Dark Mountain #10, October 2016, copyright The Dark Mountain Project (courtesy of The Dark Mountain Project)

We all know the news about the future of our planet is not good. At the current rate, we have only 60 more harvests left. Marine life is in dramatic decline, and Antarctica has joined the North Pole in melting, which has far more disastrous implications. Weather temperatures are regularly record breaking, sea and river levels are rising, the salinity of our oceans is quickly changing, and the behavior of our atmosphere is evermore unpredictable. Climate refugees are no longer a thing of fiction; parts of Africa and the Middle East will become uninhabitable in the near future, and the World Bank has already advised a number of countries to revise their immigration policies, because they will be hit by a tsunami of migrants. Meanwhile, in the US, we are governed by those who prefer to erase the climate-change data, withdraw from the Paris climate accords, sell our natural reserves to the developers, and eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency. Pathetic as it may sound, cli-fi offers a type of relief from this bigotry. It imagines that one day such idiocies will be washed off clean, and the earth will continue its adventure — probably without us. And even if anyone is left to survive, they would most likely strike a far better covenant with this planet than the one we have at present.

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