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"Affliction" by Laura Hall

An Honest Account of a Lifetime of Love, Lies, and Secrets #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews

Affliction Laura HallShe Writes Press (2021)ISBN: 978-1647421243Reviewed by Grace Braun for Reader Views (11/2023) Dad described the time as one of quiet solitude, clean mountain air, brilliant starry nights, and the occasional howl of a lone coyote or the silhouette of a fox in the distance while he was on night duty. Snow-dusted sugar pines and white firs, shown in his photos from that time,…

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#Affliction #Book Review #Growing Up with a Closeted Gay Dad #Laura Hall #Reader Views #She Writes Press

[bookdivareads]

Book Showcase: AN UNEXPECTED ALLY by Sophia Kouidou-Giles

Read an #excerpt from AN UNEXPECTED ALLY by #SophiaKouidoGiles, coming soon via #SheWritesPress. #fiction #mythology #greekmythology #comingsoon #newrelease #BooksForwardPR

An Unexpected Ally: A Greek Tale of Love, Revenge, and Redemption by Sophia Kouidou-GilesISBN: 9781647425555 (Paperback)ISBN: 9781647425562 (eBook)ISBN: 9798350844924 (Digital Audiobook releases 11/14/23)ASIN: B0BQBQYMDX (Kindle edition)Page Count: 256Publication Date: October 3, 2023Publisher: She Writes PressGenre: Fiction | Mythology | Greek Mythology Powerful Circe, daughter of the sun-god…

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#AN UNEXPECTED ALLY #Book Excerpt #Book Showcase #Books Forward PR #fiction #Greek Mythology #Mythology #She Writes Press #Sophia Kouidou-Giles

[its-my-spice-of-life]

Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry

Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry

Pre order now on Amazon Lost Souls of Leningrad by Suzanne Parry for release on November 8, 2022. Another great book from She Writes Press. If you’ve read any of my reviews, you know I love anything to do with WW II, Holocaust. She Writes Press has broadened my reading experience with WW II. The attached link shows an estimate of the numbers killed during WW II.…

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#Suzanne Parry #Lost Souls of Leningrad #Nazis #Germany and Russia #Volunteer Corps in Russia #She Writes Press #WWII

[you-see-something-strange-here]

we need Ted Lasso to come back for a season four so Jamie can copy this hairstyle from Jack Grealish

(personally, I think Jamie would rock it. also, Phoebe totally braided it for him)

#god now I’m thinking of a fanfic #where jamie plays a game with his hair braided #and the press is like RAILING on him for it calling it ugly #but he refuses to change it and keeps wearing his hair in a braid #and it leads to a winning streak #and he tells the team that Phoebe did it for him and she loves doing hair/him wearing it #so he keeps letting her do it #and also add in a roy/Jamie element ofc #like he’s over at Roy’s all the time and so is phoebe and she braids his hair!! #*adding this to the ever growing list of fanfics I need to write* #ted lasso #jamie tartt #Roy kent #phoebe ted lasso

[wlw-cryptid]

thinking about being a sheepgirl with a big butch guard dog whose finally broken the tension between us and started kissing marks into my neck.

them growling about how they've wanted to for so long while my voice wavers and my arms wrap around their shoulders for stability. theyd get on top of me and be everywhere, caging me in with their arms braced on either side of my head, helping me shut out the world n just focus on trying to grind against their bulge. Id get to feel their back muscles work as they leaned back n helped me wrap my legs around their waist.

I want them to look down at me and get lost in the needy look in my eyes and the flutter of my long eyelashes, only to lose their swagger when I blurt out "fuck me. I want you- I've wanted you to fuck me." I like to think they'd never expect me to be so vulgar and direct about it. either way i want to hear them let out a strangled, surprised little noise. i want their eyes to drop down to between my legs, biting their lip a little, and instinctively bucking their hips ever so slightly. all i want is to whine n pout n clutch at them and force their hunger become too great to resist

#i like to think about the way theyd growl. a spiked collar or jacket. the way theyd press their nose into my soft skin and sink their hands #into my fluffy cloudy soft wool. #and then theyd breed me panting that i belong to them. the end #she speaks #anon #asks #god i hate trying to write creatively where the fuck is my ACE paragraph model when i need it. what is my thesis

[the-meme-monarch]

call me a ps2 original the way i be chu lip

second one is a reference to wrtv’s playthrough ! part one but i don’t have a time stamp

last one is an oc heres the original post of her

#a few of these are redraws You May Remember Them #chulip #chulip ocs #the art gallery #that one doodle of miss press i feel like i should mention #since shes the one writing the paper shes like. desparate for a good story #she gets stuck writng shit like 'swimmer daniel is home alone today' so when she finds out about the ufo in scarecrow field shed be. #a little mad #she lives in scf and somehow didnt hear about it

[heleentje]

So there's a take that crops up every so often in the Breath of the Wild fandom, and it goes something like this:

Windblight Ganon is such a piece of cake! If Revali were as talented as he claimed to be, he wouldn't have been defeated by it, so clearly he's just an arrogant blowhard.

I disagree. Because while Windblight might have been relatively easy for the player to defeat, circumstances conspired against Revali in every possible way.

Strike 1: The Blight Ganons were tailor-made to defeat the Champions

While it's not stated outright, the Blights seem to be custom-made to put their respective opponents at the worst possible disadvantage. So while Link can avoid the whirlwinds on the ground, they would be very disruptive to Revali's Gale (something he's only been able to do consistently for a short while). Arrows, too, can easily get blown off course by the wind even when using a heavy bow (so can a Rito, who is presumably lighter than a Hylian).

If, on top of that, it was raining (implied by memories #16 and #17), then Revali's favoured bomb arrows would have been useless. Not a great recipe for a fight.

Strike 2: Rito don't see well in the dark

Botw is a game that doesn't tell you a lot upfront, but you can find a wealth of information in every little corner. Case in point, in Gerudo Town there's a Rito named Frita. And she has a very interesting tidbit to share if you talk to her at night.

[Image ID: A Rito named Frita in Gerudo Town says: "Us Rito... We haven't got the best night vision, to be honest."]

When the Calamity emerged, an unnatural darkness blanketed the land. A darkness that persists from its appearance all the way through Link and Zelda fleeing and their final stand at Fort Hateno, up until Zelda temporarily sealed the Calamity (memories #15, #16 and #17).

That’s without even mentioning the laser show Windblight Ganon puts on. Ever encountered a car with LED lights on a dark road? Now imagine how Revali felt.

Strike 3: Revali had to fly non-stop for hours to get to Medoh

After sinking some hours into playing botw, you probably get used to warping all across the map via the shrines. Going from Lurelin to Rito Village is a matter of seconds. And if the Sheikah had been able to unlock the Sheikah Slate fully in the past, that would have been a massive boon to the war effort.

Unfortunately, they didn't. Which means that, when Calamity Ganon emerged, all the Champions had to take the long road to their Divine Beasts.

Now what does that mean for Revali? We can hazard a pretty good guess, but we don't have to, because the art book tells us: Revali flew straight from Lanayru East Gate to Rito Village. It's hard to tell exactly how long that would have taken him, but I'm estimating that would be about 8-10 hours flying non-stop.

[Image ID: A map of Hyrule showing the presumed routes the Champions took to get to their Divine Beasts. Revali's is a straight line across Hyrule.]

Which means Revali (like the other Champions) was probably already exhausted by the time he got to Medoh.

Aaaaaand that's three strikes, he's out!

But if that's not enough for you yet, here's one more thing. Admittedly, this is less solidly canon than the previous parts, but it's conjecture that, in my opinion, is backed up by the Champions' Ballad DLC.

Strike 4: Revali lacked his best weapon and may have been injured

The artbook shows us another salient tidbit. Revali could have detoured if he wanted to, but he didn't: he flew in the straightest possible line across Hyrule Field.

Hyrule Field, better known as the center of the chaos at the time.

Can we really expect a Champion, especially a Champion who's so eager to prove himself, to not stop and at least try to help? And while trying to help, what might have happened to him?

When you fight the Blights in the illusory realm, you gain a set amount of equipment, implied to be what the Champions carried with them at the time. And with Revali, something's missing.

[Image ID: The bow inventory during the DLC fight against Windblight Ganon. It includes a Falcon Bow, Duplex Bow and Phrenic Bow.]

Where's the Great Eagle Bow?

Would Rito Champion Revali, greatest archer in known Rito history, really not be carrying his signature bow, when every other Champion carried their favoured weapon?

This, combined with his route straight across Hyrule Field, makes me suspect that he did engage the Guardians, lost his bow, and may even have gotten injured in the process.

So there you have it. Just about everything was against Revali in that fight. And while Link, and by extension the player, may have had an easy time of it, they went into it at full health and with all the advantages of the Sheikah Slate.

Meanwhile, Revali arrived at Vah Medoh after a frantic hours-long flight only to be thrown into a fight he didn't expect against an opponent tailor-made to counter his every move, while he was unable to see properly and lacked his best weapon. And he still managed to put up one hell of a fight.

#botw #revali #meta #look I didn't write my first botw fic about this very thing just to have this nonsense persist #Revali is exactly as good as he claimed to be #and the Champions were thrown into a fight that had them at a massive disadvantage #(sidenote: Urbosa doesn't have the Thunder Helm either even though it probably could have saved her) #(Presumably she didn't want to detour when they were so pressed for time and she didn't expect a fight on Vah Naboris)

[nix-draws]

Enid casually using her wolf strength to do mundane tasks and Wednesday being like 😳

#wenclair #wednsday addams #enid sinclair #you can’t tell me Wednesday #doesn’t think that Enid’s strength is hot #enid casually wolfing out my beloved #wednesday #Wednesday had to throw out the paper she was writing #her hand slipped when she looked at Enid and pressed the wrong key

[ashersanity]

ASHER X LYRA IS CANON?!???

Can you believe it, guys? Wow, Christmas just a week awa— Holy shit, it’s Christmas Eve and my present is Ashlyr.

“Could you stop with the teasing for once, yeah?” | + + Love | - Patience | + + Lust

- credit goes to @shokujin-art or @shoknsfw too

asher got a hard-on from being called ashy

#I’m going crazy #feral #clenching the fabric of my jeans rn #fuck #it’s canon cuz I said so #vrel told me #just know asher got the biggest hard-on from that nickname #and it’s just pressing up against lyra’s uh #lyra’s yeah #and she knows #and HE knows #they both know #mere seconds before actual fucking #but lyra likes to tease and be a brat #good thing asher is here to put her in her place right? #gnawing at my screen rn #writing a whole novel in the tags because fuuuckkk #creamed my pants #haha! joke! #dol #degrees of lewdity #dol pc #dol pcs #asher the disturbed #lyra the succubus #asher x lyra #ashlyr #help me god #merry christmas guys #merry fucking christmas

[everythingisconfetti]

what is the best love song ever written and why is it Fair by The Amazing Devil?

#i could write essays on the interplay between prose and mundanity that's chatacteristic of so many tad songs #but i do think fair is the most perfectly executed. it's grounded poetry and it's beautiful #like #'this life that we've created inundated with the fated thought of you' #gets me every goddamn time #'i was born to press my head between your shoulder blades at night when light is fading' #the IMAGERY! the TENDERNESS #and then let's through a 'that's what she said' joke in there too #the intricacy of weaving humour and intimacy and hope and everything that makes up a relationship into one song #yeah. yeah #the amazing devil #tad #joey batey #madeleine hyland #music #music analysis #shut up ellie

[becca-e-barnes]

Becca, please I need more ex husband! Bucky I can't get him out of my head!!!

Aw no bc I'm drawing inspiration from one line in something I re-read this morning that was an original piece written by a cutie bc it would fit this so nicely 🥵

Like maybe you and Bucky both move on and get remarried but there are still those desperate, needy hookups because no matter how hard you try, you can't stay away from each other.

They'd be awfully intimate though, his plump, wet lips trailing up your neck, latching onto your earlobe, allowing his teeth to sink into the soft flesh just a little. You can hear every little pant and groan from him like this, enjoying every sound you coax out of him.

"Fuck, nothing feels as good as you do, sweetheart." He groans, giving you slow leisurely thrusts, enjoying the way your body envelops him so entirely.

He's blissed out and you've only started but there's an addictive familiarity that you offer him. He can't have sex like this with her. Purely because she's just not you.

"You missed this as much as I did?" You tease, curling your fingers in the short, dark hair at the back of his head, tugging his mouth down more insistently against your skin. He knows exactly what you need, grunting in pleasure while he licks a gentle strip up your neck. He only faintly recognises that you're still wearing the same perfume you used to wear. The one that's so distinctly you. The one that used to make his heart soar because smelling it meant that the love of his life was nearby.

"I missed it more, I can promise you that." You know he's not exaggerating. Just by the way he's touching you, you can tell he's needed this more than he should admit. "She's not you."

It's an awfully simple admission but the weight behind it is staggering.

"I know what you mean. He's not you." You know you mean that with your entire heart and it's so damn wrong to compare your new husband to your ex-husband but it's hard not to.

"I'll always be yours, you know that? Fuckin' ruined me for anyone else." He tries to ease the tension with a half laugh but it doesn't help. It's a lot of weight to add to a casual affair but it feels so right with him.

"And I'm gonna keep ruining you, Buck." You're desperately trying to shift the mood, making sure you both avoid saying something you'll regret. Before he knows it, you've manoeuvred him so he's flat on his back, his cock back inside you and his hands on your hips to help you grind yourself on him.

"I'll let you ruin me any time, bunny. Just say the word." He has that lazy, half smirk on his face, watching how you fuck yourself on him. You're right where you belong, on top of him, stuffed full of his dick, taking what you need.

Your hand trails over your own body, teasing yourself, putting on a show for him and slipping into the moment and he can't help but notice your ring finger is bare. You've taken your new wedding ring off and for the time being, it almost feels like you're his again.

"That's it, use me. You feel like a dream. We shouldn't need this the way we do. God, this is wrong." He can't tear his eyes away from where your bodies are joined, knowing how much you love being on top. "You have any idea how much I love seeing you fill that slutty, desperate little married pussy with my dick? 'M right where I should be. Buried so deep inside my little slut. Guess some things never change."

The change of pace is so welcome, straying away from feelings and into safer, filthier territory.

"That's it, that little cunt only ever flutters like that for me. I still own it, don't I?" He knows he shouldn't be into this but he is. And so are you.

You reply with a breathy "yes", feeling your body tighten around him and deep down you know you've never belonged to anyone else.

#Bucky Barnes x reader smut #Bucky Barnes smut #asks answered <3 #anon #becca writes spice #ex-husband!bucky #tw: cheating #if you see this #just know this is your fault #I re-read that AGAIN #and it was still unbearably hot #the one line in particular that gets me every single time #the one where she's pressed to the table and he says something about her 'married 🐱' #ruins me #I can't explain it #you wrote a masterpiece with that series #but that one chapter is 🤤

[chuckwon]

My incomparable friend Deirdre T. (aka @sourtimesmachine on here) has posted an article about The Winchesters that perfectly encapsulates how and why the show is a masterpiece, what its depths highlight about Dean’s story in-narrative and out-of-narrative, and how what is ostensibly an exploration of the past is actually commentary on Supernatural and a path for the future.

Nearly every monster on this show takes its victims to another place— hidden lairs, pocket dimensions, buried spaces inside their own minds. Escape, every time, means the same thing: transformative catharsis centered around truth and the breaking of traumatic cycles. Telling your parent you believe in yourself, letting go of your father’s plan even if making your own is scarier, telling your childhood self that you’re going to fight for them and give them back their choices, confessing your guiltiest secrets and allowing your friends to accept and love you as a whole, giving up false peace for real love. Characters are offered ways to forget, to live free of their guilt, pain, and trauma, but this is never the answer. This isn’t real. They learn instead to let themselves examine the bad, embrace that it is part of them, and use it to inform and strengthen their ability to fight for the good as a more complete and centered person. It is fundamentally a story about healing, being told to us by someone whose own story ended with profound pain. Whose story ended in a trap, never escaping the cycle, never getting to speak or fully embrace his own truth or choice. Never getting to live. Rather than avoiding the narrative burden of Dean’s death and all the circumstances, both in story and out, that led us to it, The Winchesters is breaking it down. It is examining each theme that was regressed by the finale and pointedly reaffirming it. It’s telling us that what happened to Dean was wrong, that there is something to be done about it. It’s, maybe, trying to help us heal too.

I cannot recommend this full article highly enough. Unsurprisingly, Deirdre beautifully summarized a bird's eye view of much of my thoughts on this show. I feel like I want to print out pamphlets of this and hand it out in public!!!! But sharing it on this blog will have to be enough.

No matter what the events of the season one finale hold tomorrow, this show could not have been louder or clearer. Dean Winchester spoke to us for 12 episodes by comprehensively deconstructing every aspect of his ending, condemning it repeatedly and consistently, and showing us that he's doing his best to break free of it. And, through him, the real-world team behind this show conveyed the same in kind.

The Winchesters could not have been more validating and (in my opinion) thrilling at every turn. By design, there is SO MUCH in it to examine and talk about, all within the context of it being Dean's story. It's unbelievably dense in clever ways I don't think any of us could have expected.

(And it must be said that I did not watch this show every week expecting to see Chuck Won propaganda, and yet, EVERY WEEK...)

Anyway. Please read this article.

And if you've avoided watching this show, consider this your sign that you absolutely should watch it.

#spnwin meta #the winchesters meta #THE QUEEN HAS ARRIVED!! Not the Akrida queen I'm talking about DEE #I wanted to write a piece like this over this past weekend and just couldn’t #and THE SATISFACTION OF READING THIS.... and of course her writing just blows it out of the water because she's brilliant #I feel like I could bench press a truck I'm so thrilled by this piece #I still want to write things of course but I have peace in my soul seeing this laid out <3

[its-my-spice-of-life]

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I feel privileged to have been asked to write reviews for She Writes Press. You can check out their website at https://shewritespress.com/. Til All These Things Be Done by Suzanne Moyers If I had all the time to read that I’d like, I would have finished this in a day. Leola tells us the story of her and her family as she fights through her dementia memory. Her father is a teacher, working at a…

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#She Writes Press #Suzanne Moyers #Rebecca Stirling #Till All These Things Be Done #The Shell and the Octopus #Women writers

[astralwritings]

vincent/sandracore….. augh…..

#next thing to draw #and also write maybe? #like imagine all that time they didn’t see each other #vincent is walking at a train station #catches a glimpse from the corner of his eye #his heart stops #and he sees /her/ #not sandra in person but her face plastered on her latest book press tour #and he’s filled with so much pride yet regret #proud of how far she’s come but regretting that he never took a chance to confess #aching for what could’ve been #IM SO NORMAL GUYS I SWEAR #anatomy of a fall #vincent renzi #anatomie d'une chute #sandra voyter #sandra x vincent #vincent x sandra

[silenthillbunni]

📓🖊️🧸

#i feel so lonely now bc i have no one to talk to sksksk #my sisters gets mad whenever i try to talk 2 mom and she just slammed doors nd got irritated at me #nd my mom is so stressed nd in a bad mood so she just got annoyed when i tried saying smth to her #so ig i should just vent to my bestfriend beloved diary confidant thats been here for me for 5yrs<3333 #anywayyy today was rough.. i woke up w a headache after 3hrs of sleep :(( #but still had to get up nd get ready nd eat boxed mashed potatoes for breakkyy 🤢🤮 (it's so gross after eating it everyday lol) #then w my hunchback nd achy stomach i went to school. it was frustrating bc ppl r so fkn rude #they bumped into me at the bus nd i had to sit like a weirdo caging my left stomach side from everyone. had to elbow some dumb fkn guy bc he #pressed his backpack into my side. so i had to basically push it away from me lol he thought i was so weird. but move tf away asshole?????? #got to school nd checked myself in the mirror nd i was so pale i look like absolute garbage its annoying :(( #it was next to insufferable to endure class bc my head hurt so bad (it was the worst part i think) nd i couldnt sit up straight so my back #hurt so bad too sksksks :< #but i managed to write a little but on my assignment #then i left a bit earlier bc i couldnt stand it anymore i was feeling so bad #wrnt to the library bc i had to return some books. could only carry two small ones tho so have to go back multiple times sksksk #felt soooo bad but ate some more disgusting mashed potatoes nd took a nap w an ice pack. took a migraine pill even if it upsets my stomach🤣 #now a few hours later i feel better physically #buuuuuut im so miserable im not even kidding #idc if it sound pathetic or fatty but genuinely that moment w a cup of coffee nd a small chocolate treat everyday makes me feel sm better #like im not kidding!!!!! it does a lot for my peace of mind sksksk T-T #im so miserable bc i cant eat anything still im so hungry :(( #and im weak. im pale. my skin's dry. it's itchy bc of malnutrition... i feel faint nd dizzy nd slow nd just not good at all #im so frustrated i hate this sm i wanna feel strong and healthy!! i dont wanna be constantly hungry. i wanna go to the gym nd go for walks #i wanna be able to sit up straight nd not get back pain!!! #i know i know it's only been 8 days since surgery and it takes time to heal i get it..... :( #but theres just too much going on and im so sick and tired of it all #mostly i just wanna be able to eat and feel strong bc i feel so weak nd i miss food so much sksksksk

[comixandco]

waiiiiit, now you made me think about other thing.... so, let's assume mermaids can get pregnant in human way right, but their child then has to be a merperson, because how would then a mermaid transform, if she turns into literal water... i can already imagine a pregnant mermaid and a baby with a littleee tail inside her LMAOOO.

no, actually, when mermaid transforms, the baby teleports to the backrooms /j

this goes sooo deep i just sought out a couple episodes of mako mermaids bc i remembered the guy was adopted and like. babies have to be brought up in that discussion right? And in the episode the teacher mermaid says “your mother was the only mermaid strong enough to stop you from getting your tail” which implies that????? they’re born without tails????????? How long are they babies with legs do the mermaids give birth on land and then return to the sea and their babies get tails then? do their tails slowly form as they grow older? if they have to become human to give birth why is it so unheard of for the mako mermaid girls to go on land for their mission? have they never seen any merbabies? there are canonically mermaids younger than them! And why does the h2o wiki refer to one of the characters as coming from a long line of mermen are mermaids not involved in the process do mermen get pregnant like seahorses????? why did they have to make mako mermaids and make everything so confusing?????? *cries*

putting mako mermaids aside because that’s a hot Mess. Would the baby also turn into water? it wasn’t in the moon pool but it’s parent was and the moon pool changes a person’s entire dna so like. it would change the eggs dna as well right? but the egg is only half of the dna and there would also be a human half that shouldn’t respond to water at all. does the mer dna overpower the human dna? would onlookers see a random tiny foetus floating in the air/water for a split second before the mermaid reappears around it?

yeah the baby goes wherever cleo’s coat went in the second episode

#dericelem #mako mermaids #h2o just add water #like. i get why the mermaids clothes change to their matching bra technically like if their trousers are going missing their tops should to #and it is not kid-show friendly for the mermaids clothes to rip werewolf-style every time they transform #but cleo’s coat was barely on her when she was in miriam’s pool it was floating up so much. lewis saw it disappear and he won’t tell me #where it went because he is a fictional character for a series that is almost 2 decades old and he had more pressing questions than ‘where #did the coat go?????’ in that moment and we understand that but it’s still upsetting #sorry the coat is another thing entirely #i think the lore-writing for this series was ‘if it’s cool and makes for a good episode we’ll incorporate it. if it’s a question #we can’t immediately answer or argue about and it doesn’t have to come up in the show we just wave our hand and say the moon did it’ #and that is a valid way to move forward. they didn’t realise at the time how big h2o would be or that people would still be trying #to figure out the parameters of the world they made almost two decades ago lmfao #the babies have to survive though right???? like. we can’t emma’s horrible red hair away a baby #it would be absolutely fucked up though if the baby disappeared every time they got wet and then the pregnancy reappeared once they dried #off #’cleo you can’t transform this late into the pregnancy we don’t know what will happen!’ ‘but my back hurts!’ #fun fact h2o takes place in the same universe as shape of water and this is how the fishman thing was made /j