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dogueteeth · 2 months

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Just my boys :) link to their fic is here

#fhr #oc #larry the regene #Dennis o’Connery #Barbara the cuckoo #is mentioned #she exists forever in the peripheral #what can i say #she’s a busy lady #ain’t got time to be a main character #ockiss24 #oc kiss week #polaroid #ockiss2024

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velvet4510 · 20 days

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loyhargil · 2 years

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#doctor who #classic doctor who #dwedit #the first doctor #my boi one #susan foreman #barbara wright #ian chesterton #edge of destruction #an unearthly child #anthony doerr #cloud cuckoo land #kate atkinson #a god in ruins #literature edit #doctor who edit #fan edit #book quotations

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screamscenepodcast · 9 months

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Brick wall... Brick Wall... BRICK WALL!! This week we cover VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) from director Wolf Rilla!

Adapted from the John Wyndham novel The Midwich Cuckoos, we discuss this evil children horror starring George Sanders, Barbara Shelley and Martin Stephens.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 42:11; Discussion 50:41; Ranking 1:22:21

#podcast #horror #classic horror #village of the damned #the midwich cuckoos #wolf rilla #stirling silliphant #ronald kinnoch #john wyndham #barbara shelley #michael gwynn #geoffrey faithfull #gordon hales #ron goodwin #metro-goldwyn-mayer #history of horror #evil children #george sanders #SoundCloud

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abs0luteb4stard · 2 years

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W A T C H I N G

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ao3feed-brucewayne · 12 days

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The Drakes Spoiled Brat. (im sorry dad)

by Yellow_sprouts Tim Drake died at seventeen, his family long broken beyond repair. A Cuckoo finally rid from the nest. But when he wakes up in his time, but now just a year after the Graysons death and appearance of the first Robin. Tim wouldnt let his family suffer again, even if it meant he couldnt join them. Bruce Wayne is not "Brucie Wayne" Tim Drake is not "Timothy Drake" They are both personas, a front to prevent people from looking at whats really under the surface. But sooner or later Tim should have known Gotham being a city of secrets, nothing stays buried forever. Especially not when the bats get involved with their trashy next door neighbor whose behavior seems more and more contriditory. Tim had saved them all more times than he could count, maybe this time they could return the favor. __________________________________ Inspired by @brucewaynehater101 on tumblr- Time Travel AU- Timothy "Trash" Drake Words: 4187, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Batfam one shots/drabbles Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Other Characters: Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Barbara Gordon, Oracle (DCU), Rogues Gallery (Batman), Batfamily Members (DCU) Relationships: Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Alfred Pennyworth, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily (DCU) Feels, Protective Batfamily (DCU), Tim Drake-centric, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Tim Drake Tries to be a Good Sibling, Protective Tim Drake, Protective Jason Todd, Protective Dick Grayson, Protective Damian Wayne, Protective Bruce Wayne, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne B- parenting, Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, BAMF Cassandra Cain, BAMF Tim Drake, Tim Drake is Not Red Robin, He is Cardinal, Batfamily is a Mess (DCU), Good Sibling Damian Wayne, Good Sibling Jason Todd, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Good Sibling Stephanie Brown, Good Sibling Cassandra Cain, Good Sibling Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown Being a Little Shit, Batfamily Paranoia, Family Dynamics, Protective Siblings, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending, Barbara Gordon is Oracle, Protective Barbara Gordon via https://ift.tt/i4eDqrO

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the caped crusader #gotham #dcu #dc #ao3 #ao3feed

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arcticlutra · 1 year

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Kon stared on in horror. It couldn't be. It couldn't be real?

Everything about this was wrong. Nothing about this made sense. It was repugnant. It was unnatural. Nothing here was right. Yet he could do nothing, do nothing with the green crystal collar at his neck.

Yet still, his eyes didn't lie as he saw Tim ponder over the blades at Dick's and Damian's throats. Jason stood to the side waiting, humbled and collared, his hood made a mockery in the form of a scarlet owl mask. The Red Hood humbled, collared and brought to heel.

Tim almost looked bored before his brothers who strained against blades that threatened their lives.

Kon couldn't move, terrified at the thought that he could fuck it all up even further, even as the kryptonite bit at his neck.

At Tim's shoulder lurked the cause: Bernard. The Serpent in the Garden that spoke honeyed words of affirmation, support and love. That spoke the machinations of Janet. Of plans years in the making. Of isolation and manipulations. Of promised futures and possibilities. Whose every needled word and serpent bite exposed an insecurity and hurt. Who carefully manoeuvred Tim into playing the assigned role.

"Go on Tim. They don't love you." Bernard kissed along Tim's jaw. "They always saw you as a placeholder. A cuckoo."

Damian wept against his austere training. A small child in a harsh world, met with an opponent far more broken and warped than he could have been trained for. One that he himself had primed and trained: a brother exiled and scorned.

"You're so right Bern...always so right." Tim murmured, pulling Bernard's fist into a kiss. "And what does a cuckoo do?"

"Please Timothy." Damian begged, for Dick's tongue had already been ripped out. "Don't do this."

"A cuckoo chick, kicks all the other eggs out of the nest." Tim stated and brought the knife to Damian's neck.

Damian felt the tears fall readily and unashamedly. The little boy was scared.

"Don't worry Damian, I'll make up a lie. I'll say you died by Ra's hand. Fighting to save us against him. But sadly your youth failed you and I was too late. Dick had already been too late..."

Damian didn't hold the tears back.

"Jason came too late as well, and we finished them off." Tim continued as he played with Bernard's hand. "They took out Barbara too. Priority target."

"Timothy...Tim...please..." Damian begged.

"Tshush...Tshush " Dick choked as he fought against the blood in his mouth.

"It will be such a shame as Bruce sees Alfred killed. He'll see it as Talia attacking. The final assault." Tim reflected as he brushed his thumb over Bernard's knuckles. His beautiful Castellan. "And as Bruce fights tooth and nail to protect his fortress...he'll see his soldiers fallen, compromised and dead..."

"Timothy...please." Damian begged as the blade dug into his throat.

"Oh Damian, you were never even a contender." Tim laughed. "You called yourself a Prince of Gotham because you were Bruce's Bastard?"

The raucous laughter and cawing of the Court made Damian shrink as far in as he could on his small frame.

"Pathetic little bastard. Bruce never loved you. You were an obligation. I was the one he trusted. Not the worst thing though, to be the trusted one. At least I'll make sure Gotham is safe. Once we've cut out all of the cancer. Heroes...villains...what is really the difference?"

"Nothing, my love." Bernard kissed into Tim's knuckle.

"You're right as always my Heart." Tim smiled, and looked to his Talons. "Talons, remove these Robins from my sights. Repurpose them for grander designs. And take this Kryptonian to my Chambers."

"I'll see it done, my Lord." The Rufous Owl bowed, and Tim nodded in agreement.

It was only when they were alone, and free of any bugs that the Rufous Owl turned to Dick and Damian and whispered. "I'll try and get you both out of here. But he's fucking unstoppable. Why the fuck did you fight?"

#tim drake #bernard dowd #timber #timbern #tim x bernard #jason todd #dc fanfic #court of owls #batman #batman fanfiction #dick grayson #damian wayne #court of owls tim #kon el kent #connor kent #timkon #timberkon

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antebunny · 2 months

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a cuckoo in the nest pt.2

[part one] aka the fae!Tim idea i said i wouldn't write any more of. oops my hand slipped.

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Tim clenches the Cliff granola bar tightly in his fist, inhales deeply, and steps through the fairy circle. His footsteps leave deep indents in the soft grass before vanishing completely.

If one of the Waynes were to wander into the woods behind Wayne Manor and stumble upon this particular clearing, they would quickly notice the small footprints leading into a patch of dirt and never emerging out the other side. Fairy circles are subtle things, easily moved and created, but just as easily spotted if you know what to look for.

Sweet grass, spices, something wild and dewy and the sick smell of cruelty. The fae realm is just as Tim remembered it. The Unseelie Queen, too, is just as Tim remembers her. She’s eternally young, after all. Her crown of thorns tips toward Tim as she bends down, gnarled hand reaching for Tim’s granola bar. He quickly shoves it behind his back, and the Unseelie Queen’s hand freezes. She cannot take that which is not freely given.

Long ago, a lifetime ago when Tim was nine years old and stupid, the Unseelie Queen used his naivete to get everything she wanted from him. She asked for his name and he gave it. She offered him fae food and he took it. She told him that the deal his parents made was unbreakable and he believed it. For an eternity, though now he knows it was three years, he believed her.

He knows better now. That’s what made the Unseelie Queen strike a bargain with him in the first place. Tim cannot believe that it took him three years to realize that his parents had no right to sell him away. That he could’ve left the moment he’d arrived, if only he’d known to run. But by the time he figured it out, he’d eaten their food and given his name. Become fey enough for the Unseelie Queen to control, if not own.

Now the only question is whether he can outsmart her. Whether he, the twelve year old who just got his very first iPhone, can beat the Unseelie Queen at her own game.

“How wonderful to see you back in my domain.” The Unseelie Queen still looms over Tim as she greets him. “Though you reek of human.”

Tim lifts his chin. “Because I am one.”

A blood red smile stretches across thin lips. White teeth shine like stars. “That will be changed in time.”

She’s just trying to scare him because she knows that he can see through her lies now. Tim is not bound to the fae realm, not yet, anyways. She has no power over him. (Not yet). Not ever.

“I’m just here to tell you that I’m winning,” Tim says, faking a confidence he very much does not feel. “Dick and Jason both said I’m their little brother. Alfred cares about me. Even Barbara likes me and they care about what she thinks.”

An infinite number of somethings dances in the Unseelie Queen’s dark, shining eyes. Tim does not dare name any one of them. She is not one to be defined by physical appearances. Sometimes she has four wings like large leaves, humming on her back. Sometimes she is a young girl with the voice of a thousand nightmares, other times an old woman faking good intentions. All Tim has learned regarding appearances is to not look into her abyss-like eyes for too long.

We must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their fruits.

“And what of Bruce Wayne?”

“I’m working on it,” Tim says stubbornly. “I have a month left.”

“Be careful, little one. Wayne men do not love easily.” The Unseelie Queen’s smile widens into a grotesque length. “Even when they should.”

Tim squeezes his granola bar until it bends in two. “That’s my problem.”

The Unseelie Queen laughs, like a murder of crows taking flight. “What spirit. Will you not consider staying to entertain my court? We so miss your colorful antics.”

“No,” Tim says firmly. He whirls around and marches back to the fairy circle. The plastic wrapping of his granola bar grows slick with cold sweat.

“Stay,” the Unseelie Queen commands. The single word thunders, layered with the thousands of humans before Tim that have fallen prey to her. “Timothy Jackson Drake.”

Tim’s steps falter. One foot hesitates in the air too long, and he stumbles. In the human world he sometimes is weightless, a touch lighter than humans. In the fae realm Tim is weighed down by his humanness. His knees sting as he resumes his march. Not so long ago, such defiance would have cost him far more than stinging knees. He’s grown strong on Alfred’s cooking, movie nights with Dick and Jason, and Barbara buying him a phone and a subscription to Crunchyroll because “every boy needs one.” On human food and love.

She doesn’t have this power over Tim. Not anymore, not yet. Not even with his full name.

A screech rattles around Tim’s brain. A claw curls around his neck. Tim freezes, heart battering at his ribcage. She cannot hurt him. She doesn’t own him (Not yet).

“If you will not stay,” the Unseelie Queen concedes, “then please, won’t you take a gift with you?”

Her hand retreats from his neck, scraping skin gently as it goes. In her palm it appears: red and dripping, or bone white, green like fireflies, purple like the sunset. Fae fruit. It hums in her hand, singing a song just for Tim. Even though he knows the cost now, the fae fruit calls to him, promises pure ecstasy and eternal love if only he takes a bite.

Tim shakes his head quickly, eyes shut. “No, thank you,” he whispers. “I brought food from home.”

So saying, he twists the Cliff bar wrapper in trembling hands and attempts to rip the plastic open. The truth is that he hates Cliff bars. They’re his least favorite snack of the many that Alfred has gotten him to try thus far. He brought it to the fae realm for such an occasion, selected out of his many options because he would not mind associating Cliff bars with the fae realm. He already hates them as it is.

It is a novelty, having opinions about human food. Preferences and dislikes. Dick has a tier list of vegetables that he and Jason argue about every once in a while. Jason also has strong opinions about food, but somehow he knew just what to do when Tim said helplessly that he didn’t have any, that he’d eat whatever he was given.

Before Tim can get the granola bar in his mouth, the Unseelie Queen pushes the fae fruit in his face. He retreats, and she pursues, arm outstretched, fruit still calling out to him.

“Eat,” she insists. “Timothy Drake.”

The command takes root in Tim’s bones, peels him inside out until right is wrong and wrong is right. Against his will, Tim’s free hand reaches for the fruit that is magenta and lime green and coral pink and mushroom white. The texture is soft and a bit rubbery, the shape somewhat like a still-beating heart. Warm, wet, and just a little alive. Tim wishes he could throw it at her. Instead, he takes a bite. It tastes like–

Decay on the wind, petrichor and honeynut squash, spices and arrowroot, freshly overturned dirt still composting, dancing underneath moonlight-dappled branches around firelight, ancient tales told of stars, mirror-like water and water-like glass, lies and trickery and cruelty and brutal honesty–

It tastes like the fae. Seeping into the walls of his throat, leaving dark purple residue on his tongue, a sharp berry taste for him to remember it by. Making him just a little more fae, a little less human. His blue eyes a little brighter, his step a touch too light. It is not such a terrible thing, to be wild, to be fae. But Tim cannot bear the cost.

Tim squeezes the remaining fae fruit until the juice bursts from the skin, running down his fingers in wine red and shining green rivulets. The song dies. He licks his lips. Juice drips from his chin. The Unseelie Queen watches on in satisfaction.

“Thank you for the gift.” Even now, when Tim wishes for nothing more than the right to scream at her until he cries, it would not do to be impolite. One must respect the fae, to say nothing of the Unseelie Queen herself.

Still, when Tim walks through the fairy circle, he thinks I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, until the words burn into the inside of his brain.

We must not look at goblin men, we must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soils they fed their hungry, thirsty roots?

#my writing #my fanfiction #tim drake #batfam

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cutechickdgaming · 10 months

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Day 4 actually done

June almost over, so yay less anxiety over being judged for my beliefs (and less second-hand embarrassment from Twitter mfs, like have you seen that one post about someone being upset about less companies changing into rainbow logos because “it’s not profitablely sound anymore to openly support LGBTQ+”, like rainbow capitalism wants MONEY not change) I MEAN getting this thing out.

some are my thoughts for Kwazii are in here https://www.tumblr.com/cutechickdgaming/721533875922354176/day-4-incomplete-ek-dangit-i-was-having-issues?source=share

infodump on funny (accidental) trans mallard duck incoming

This was the duo piece I wanted to get done, but boy was this duck HARD to color, all these airbrush stuff...She’s nice though. I forgot her name in English, but from my childhood, I’m betting 50 dollars her name is Diana. All the ducks’ names started with d in the English dub of Bird Squad. It’s hard for me to pinpoint her exact name in Italian due to the available Italian episodes not specifying what names belong to which duck, but in French, she’s Caroline.

If anyone has a grasp on duck plumage...yeah. I’m guessing it was overlooked, I mean Bird Squad doesn’t have the best accuracy to animals, like Marius being HUGE for an Indian blackbird or Humphrey/Brio flapping his wings up and down while real hummingbirds flap in a figure-eight. If Caroline was mottled brown like a female mallard, then it’d be harder to distinguish her from the group. It’d make sense for her canon plumage design to indicate that she’s AMAB (mtf). Also she’s vibing with the acrobatic duck squad, ngl they seem like a hive mind lmao.

Soo in terms of being trans, one is implied (and totally fine by Meomi) from the OG book typos, one is literally on the screen if you have an iota of knowledge on sexual dimorphism in ducks.

Ima go wrap up my infodumping rq, SO I have a bit of a like-hate relationship with the ducks. They are arguably the most valuable members to the Squad, saving creatures’ lives several times in the season (Pina/Penny the penguin in episode 1, Chou-Chou/Amelie in Jolie Owl, Ticchio/Willy the woodpecker in The Cuckoo Big Ben, Barbara the INFLATED whale in the Krakatoa episode, Diego the seagull in the Barcelona episode, the stork’s eggs from a flaming chimney in the Bavaria episode, and much more), so they’re practically gigachads. BUT I’m questioning the necessity of making their dumptrucks THAT BIG. Maybe it’s all muscle, but God are they CURSED. Italian children’s TV is built different, man.

Enough birb talk, this is Octonauts Week, have my belated pride and I’ll do days 5 and 6 later.

#octonauts #octonauts week 2023 #this took forever #bird squad #la banda volante #bittersweet that this month is ending

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dea-morana · 1 year

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SAT literature list:

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Francis Bok, Escape from Slavery

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

James F. Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens,

— A Tale of Two Cities

— David Copperfield

— Great Expectations

— Hard Times

— Oliver Twist

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

George Eliot, Silas Marner

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

John Knowles, A Separate Peace

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

John H. Griffen, Black Like Me

John Hersey, Hiroshima

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

John Krakauer, Into the Wild

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Lois Lowry, The Giver

Yann Martell, The Life of Pi

Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

Arthur Miller, The Crucible

George Orwell

— Animal Farm

— 1984

Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men

Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

William Shakespeare

— Julius Caesar

— The Merchant of Venice

— Romeo and Juliet

— The Taming of the Shrew

— The Tempest

— Twelfth Night

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

John Steinbeck, The Pearl

Bram Stoker, Dracula

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

Paul Zindel, The Pigman

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Mark Bowden, Blackhawk Down

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Dante, Inferno

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed

William Faulkner

— As I Lay Dying

— The Sound and the Fury

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Hendry James

— The Portrait of a Lady

— The Wings of the Dove

Sebastian Junger, A Perfect Storm

Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Balm in Gilead

Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Nation

Niccolo Machiavelli

— The Prince

— Discourses on Livy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Ayn Rand

— Anthem

— The Fountainhead

Erich M. Ramarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation

William Shakespeare

— Hamlet

— King Lear

— Macbeth

John Steinbeck

— The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

— The Grapes of Wrath

— Of Mice and Men

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Virginia Woolf

— Mrs. Dalloway

— To the Lighthouse

Read.

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tenderbittersweet · 11 months

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Happiness is a Full Bookshelf 😊📚

My goal is to collect every Penguin Classic that has a black spine and cover, white title, and orange author name because they’re sooo aesthetically pleasing to me. My fun challenge of collecting/amassing them is by finding them exclusively through secondhand purchases (resale shops, ebay, garage sales, used bookstores, etc.) Then I only have to shell out $0-$7 each instead of $10-$30 each!

Penguin Classics

A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrick Ibsen

A Nietzsche Reader by Fredrich Nietzsche

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Dolye

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin**

BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London*

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer*

Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

Confessions by Saint Augustine

Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnut

Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius

Crucible by Arthur Miller

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley**

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck**

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen

History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman*

Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*

Middlemarch by Geroge Eliot

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

Narrative of the Lige of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas

Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle*

Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Odyssey by Homer**

On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Suart Mill

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Passing by Nella Larsen

Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant

Portable Sixties Reader

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne**

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Song of Roland

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Bhagavad Gita

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Guide by R.K. Narayan

The Habor by Ernest Poole

The Hound of Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Iliad by Homer

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano

The Lais of Marie de France

The Marquise of O—and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Keist

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Odyssey by Homer

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli*

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlson

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Three Theban Plays by Sophocles

To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck

Utopia by Thomas More

Villette by Emily Brontë

A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Washington Square by Henry James

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Non-Penguin Classics

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath**

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood**

House on Mango Street by Sander Cisneros

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien*

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Collections, Compilations, and Anthologies

100 Best-Loved Poems (American & British)

101 Great American Poems

English Romantic Poetry

Four Great Comedies of the Restoration & 18th Century

Four Great Elizabethan Plays

Great Poems by American Women

Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

Six American Poets (Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Frost, Hughes)

The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Victorian Love Stories

* = Started & didn’t finish (yet)/Read parts

** = Read ≥5 years ago

Strike-through = Read

Updated: April 14, 2024

Total count: 126

#classic literature #literature #penguin classics #my classics collection #bookblr #long post #personal #op

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dogueteeth · 8 months

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sargasso sea

Mature | M x M | Contains Non-Explicit NSFW | TWs: Mentioned/Implied Past SA

FHR Fandom | Not Sidestep-Centric | companion piece to "palos verdes blue" | ~7k words | Oneshot

Leave a comment & kudos if you enjoy! <3

#crossposting #my beloved #my mortal enemy #fhr #oc #larry the regene #fhr oc Dennis #who has no last name yet lmao #Barbara the cuckoo #oc fiction #fanfic #oneshot #mature fic #m x m

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jocia92 · 25 days

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From thatdanstevens IG stories.

Kicking off the festivities as the Opening Night film will be NEON’s upcoming Cuckoo. Directed by Tilman Singer and starring Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens and Jessica Henwick, this beautiful and terrifying giallo-esque nightmare tells the story of a reluctant 17-year-old who moves with her family to a resort in the German Alps. There she finds herself the subject of terrifying visions and aggressive stalking by a mysterious woman who may or may not be linked to the town’s past.

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Closing Night of the festival will feature the world premiere screening of Universal Pictures’ new Radio Silence film, Abigail, from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream). Starring an ensemble cast led by Melissa Barrera and Dan Stevens, Abigail is a brash, blood-thirsty new vision of the vampire flick, about a group of criminals who get more than they bargained for when they kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure. As they watch Abigail overnight in an isolated mansion, the captors discover that they’re locked inside with no ordinary little girl. The directors and their Radio Silence partner Chad Villella will be in attendance for the film.”

#overlook film festival 2024 #cuckoo 2024 #cuckoo #abigail 2024 #abigail #dan stevens #fangoria #instagram #article

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aninsecurewriter · 10 months

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100 must-read books!

This is a list of books considered "must-reads" from various lists and online posters. I'll be reviewing them as I go but mainly keeping track of what I have and haven't read here.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Secret History by Donna Tart

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Norwegian Wood bt Haruki Murakami

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ulysses by James Joyce

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Macbeth by Shakespeare

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R Tolkien

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

London Fields by Martin Amis

Sherlock Holmes and the The Hound of the Baskerville's by Arthur Conan Doyle

My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gladys Aylward the Little Woman by Gladys Aylward

Mindnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Dissolution by C.J Sansom

The Time Machine by H.G Wells

Winnie the Pooh (complete collection) by A.A Milne

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Dracula by Bram Stoker

All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Misery by Stephen King

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis

The Shining by Stephen King

The Odyssey by Homer

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

#books #reading #literature #100 -must reads #challenge

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thenightmarerealms · 1 year

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closed starter for @runawayagent

Dream did not know what drew him to the witch woman-- their meeting at the Skerry months ago had been far from pleasant-- but he found himself seeking her out. Barbara had ceased to dream entirely since the cuckoo had fled, and Foxglove and Hazel dreamed of the child they would soon have. Char, on the other hand, dreamed of far more mundane things than he would have guessed.

Dream watched her for a little while, surrounded by ghosts of her family long-dead, before stepping forward from the shadows and making his presence known.

"Wonders never cease," he said. "You’ve actually managed to enter the Dreaming without causing an unnatural disaster in the waking world.”

#closed starter #the sandman rp #thessalyverse01 #thessaly based OC

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ao3feed-brucewayne · 2 months

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Cuckoo

by WishItWasCopacetic (foxwithflair) Jason is having the time of his (second) life. He hadn’t realized it at first, but it doesn’t matter what Dick had done or refused to do. Jason’s dad is still Jason’s dad, and Dickhead and his broken little pet bird can’t do anything about it. ~~~ Jason has no reason blame his civilian dad for what happened in Ethiopia, so when he comes back to Gotham, he comes home. Words: 7338, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Barbara Gordon & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson Additional Tags: Pre-Jason Todd's Attack on Titans Tower, Post-Jason Todd's Attack on Titans Tower, Alternate Universe - No Batman, Bruce Wayne is Not Batman, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Tim Drake is Robin, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Barbara Gordon is Oracle, Alternate Universe, Hopeful Ending, Under the Hood Arc (DCU) via https://ift.tt/Rvf1nMc

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the caped crusader #gotham #dcu #dc #ao3 #ao3feed

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