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ashes-forgotten · 8 days

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MELANIE KING ENTHUSIASTS LISTEN TO ME.

There were no bodies to find. Her father’s body was never found. There was just charred remains and bones that probably couldn’t be distinguished from each other.

What if Melanie never truly accepted her dad was dead until Elias Made Her?

Melanie, who watches so many horror movies and probably lives by the “No body? Not dead.” Rule when it comes to movies, how easily would that mindset have slipped into her reality? When everyone told her “He’s dead, it wasn’t your fault, smoke inhalation, he didn’t suffer,” did she ever allow herself to hear it? Had she ever even allowed herself to really think about it? Her father was all she had, she was all he had, and everyone told her that he was dead when there was no body found, the place just burned down. Who were they to know he wasn’t still alive, still out there, just lost without his memories and confused and wandering the streets somewhere? Did all that anger at being “ignored, passed over” maybe come from her trying to file a missing person’s report, and it never being seriously looked into? If Melanie had been written off as an irrational, grieving girl in denial? Or even if it had been looked into, how long before the police gave up on trying to find him, because they think they have bigger things to deal with, when to Melanie he was the last person she had? Was Melanie still looking for him? Even if she wasn’t, even if she wouldn’t admit it, was a part of her still holding out hope? Was that what Elias thought she had to lose when she told him she had nothing to lose?

And now, she knows, she KNOWS in a way she can’t refute anymore, that he’s gone. The hope is gone. But again, she’s just left with that dull, aching rage. Because they WERE wrong. It was WORSE than they thought and still, no one will ever know, because if she told anyone what she was forced to Know by Elias, she would, again, be written off as irrational. Troubled.

Again.

She holds onto that anger. It’s kept her going so far, right?

I JUST FEEL LIKE THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH.

#melanie king #the magnus archives #tma podcast #rusty quill #melanie tma

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bookgeekgrrl · 9 months

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My media this week (20-26 Aug 2023)

my absolute fave line in all of heartstopper, so glad they left it unaltered

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😍 how a resurrection really feels (LiarsandThieves22) - 176K, steddie - post s4 fixit with a timeline merge - just brilliantly executed, lots of great emotional moments as well as even more laugh out loud ones. Big, big rec.

🙂 The Wedding Bait (Golden Years #1) (Adele Buck, author & narrator) - novella; cishet romance but MCs in their 50s, which was a nice change

😊 Murder at the Village Fair (Miss Underhay Mysteries #13) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Matt & Kitty are on a sort-of delayed honeymoon & get involved in murder in Yorkshire while visiting his aunt

😊 here there be dragons (theundiagnosable) - 66K, original hockey fic - epitome of sunshine/grumpy - POV char has extreme anxiety/anxiety-induced paranoia/anger outbursts due to fear etc - he gets better & it does end very happily but first we gotta watch him train wreck everything & suffer (to be clear, I did enjoy reading this! but it's a lot!)

🥰 Lemon Meringue Lies (Nejinee) - 111K, technically stucky modern no-powers AU but honestly such an AU that it's really more of original fic WHICH ISN'T at all bad - best friends to lovers, lots of oblivousness, pining, angst, emotional dumbassery but also a really great external setting & compelling supporting characters (who just all happen to have names/physical traits as MCU characters) [reread]

😍 if I'm gonna get back to you someday (napricot) - 46K, post Endgame fixit with "a clusterfuck of Steves" from different multiverses [reread for stucky bookclub]

😍 Golden Handcuffs (seekwill) - 70K, Good Omens human AU where they're both professors at a small Scottish university - brilliant fic, great characterizations, solid story development, absolutely loved it

💖💖 +246K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Mandatory Fun (One-EyedBossman (desert000rose), SecretFandomStories) - MCU: stucky, 39K - Part 11 of Differently Okay Local Idiots; Bucky & Steve go suit shopping with Natasha & together navigate another bump in their road

To the Waters and the Wild (rainbow_nerds) - MCU: magical shrunkyclunks, 23K - selkie!Bucky finds Captain America frozen when he's 10 years old, but no one believes him; ~15 years later, Cap finally thaws out

To Kiss the Tender Inward of Thy Hand (circ_bamboo) - Band Sinister (KJ Charles): Ned Caulfield/George Penn, 32K - beautiful backstory of how Ned & George met

Sit (fandomfluffandfuck) - MCU: stucky, 21K, Part 1 of You Can('t) Teach An Old Dog New Tricks - modern, no powers AU - promising start to a series about older/old guard dom Steve & newbie dom Bucky

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Game Changer - s2, e1-4; s3, e5-8; s5, e9

Make Some Noise - s2, e6

Um, Actually - s8, e11

Heartstopper - s2, e1-8

Only Murders In The Building - s3, e4

Harley Quinn - s4, e7

What We Do In The Shadows - s5, e8

D20: Mentopolis - "F For Freezer" (s1, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We Are Feeling Machines That Think" (s14, e3)

Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham Theatre 2011) {Tate/Tennant version}

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Re: Dracula - August 20: We Shall To-night Play

Re: Dracula - August 21: Goods are Delivered

Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Emily King

Ed Zitron's 15 Minutes In Hell - Episode 3 - Taylor Lorenz, The Washington Post

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Embracing Adventure in Fayetteville

⭐ Shedunnit Book Club - Murder-on-Sea

⭐ Switched on Pop - Wonders: "Stacy's Mom" and Adam Schlesinger

⭐ 99% Invisible #550 - Melanie Speaks

Vibe Check - Did AI Write That Song?

Re: Dracula -August 23: Ominous in His Calm

ICYMI - How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & Dragons

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Mysterious Sinkholes of Mt Baldy

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - The Voice Inside

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Arthurdale

Re: Dracula - August 24: Some Terrible Shock

Strong Songs - "Soul Vaccination" by Tower of Power

Dear Prudence - My Wife Goes Braless Around Our Teenage Sons. Help!

Re: Dracula - August 25: Another Bad Night

What Next: TBD - TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.

Into It - Did Taylor Swift Curse Scooter Braun? And Will Fyre Fest Fool Us Twyce?

Endless Thread - PARKS! Pt. 4: Death Sea

⭐ Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 577. Killing Folks with Deanna Raybourn

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - WWDTM: Mark Ronson

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Soft Rock Ballads

'80s Soft Pop

Relaxing '80s Rock

Unreal Unearth [Hozier] {2023}

'80s Training Montage

Tower of Power

Presenting The Doobie Brothers

Presenting Steely Dan

Presenting Electric Light Orchestra

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thecrewoftheimmortalis · 2 years

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The Magnus Archives and Gundam 0079 crossover because it's been eating my brain

okay so this is mostly what of the 14 fears the cast of the original gundam would be connected to because we've put too much thought into this to not write it down somewhere (skipping over getting marked by the slaughter because that's the fear of war so like,,, duh)

Amuro: just narrowly avoids becoming an Avatar of the Lonely, like just barely, like he gets stuck in the Lonely and someone has to find him and get him out type just barely. He's pretty isolated throughout the show tbh so he'd be pretty easy pickings, but at the very end he's like "no I have friends fuck you" Martin style

Char: my first thought was avatar of the slaughter but then I thought about it for like .2 seconds longer and this guy is an Avatar of the Desolation through and through, especially with the themes of revenge with some of that fears avatars. The guys plan is to systematically kill the entire family of the guy who wronged him like, c'mon. Could also have a fun bastardization arc of "well your revenge is complete, you have still sold your soul to an eldritch manifestation of humanities fear"

Kai: i feel like he'd just somehow manage to avoid all the eldritch fear bullshit by just going "I am not looking, I do not see it". Maybe later in life he could become an Eye Avatar with the whole journalism thing, but in the original show anytime some fear bullshit goes down he just walks the other direction

Sayla: I feel like she also wouldn't manage to get avatarized, but like in a Gerry Keay way, like she's been embroiled in this shit for awhile and she's going around making sure people don't get killed by the fears and destroying dangerous artifacts

Hayato: okay we said we wouldn't mention Slaughter marks, but I'll make an exception here because he gets very very close to becoming an Avatar of it, Melanie King style. Like he's upset/angry that he can't keep up with Amuro and the Slaughter uses that as a jumping off point to get into his psyche. I don't think he actually becomes an avatar but there's a point where he very easily could

Mirai: part of me really wants to make her an Avatar of the Vast for no reason other than she can fly a spaceship and the Vast is one of our favorite fears. Tbh we honestly can't think of anything else for her

Frau Bow: the corruption tries to get it's hooks worms in her and she just puts it in a jar and moves on with her life Joshua Gillespie style.

Bright Noa: okay so he's actually really difficult, in an AU where they're in the Magnus Archives he definitely takes Jon's place in the narrative and becomes an Avatar of the Eye, but in Gundam proper we honestly have no idea? First thought was Web but he's not manipulative enough for that, it feels like he should fall to one of the fears but idk which one? Maybe the Buried, like in a metaphorical buried by his responsibilities type way

Ryu: he's too mentally okay to fall to any of the fears tbh, i think his death is a catalyst to the others falling to the fears more though

Lalah: first thought was Eye but after thinking about it more she's definitely an Avatar of the End, especially with that scene where she predicts a swan dying right before it does. She just has End avatar vibes idk how to explain it

Garma: okay he was only in a couple of episodes but there's a really fun concept we have where Char fucks up killing him and he becomes an Avatar of the Lonely and he shows up periodically as a "ghost" to psychologically torment Char. realistically he'd be an avatar of the slaughter if he was one at all, but fuck being realistic this concept is more fun

Bonus: Kamille becomes and End Avatar at the end of Gundam Zeta

#i'm not mentioning the kids in this bc they don't deserve this shit #pretty much all other characters would be completely uninvolved with the fears or avatars of the slaughter

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irradiatedsnakes · 3 years

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[ID: 8 drawings of various furries drawn in a very cutesy, chibi sort of style with big heads and eyes. the first is of raven!jon sims, floating in a t-pose with green eyes blown wide, with the words “CEASELESS WATCHER” behind his head. armadillo!martin blackwood is below him, looking up with a befuddled expression. next is also of jon, colored in dark blues and greens, standing and sort of glaring at the camera. text above and below him says “MOM SAID IT’S MY TURN ON THE XBOX”. next is a zombie velociraptor, op’s fursona, standing and smiling with one arm out. he is colored in brown, aqua, and tan, with ivory bony face and tail, and is wearing a fishing vest and a mechanisms shirt. next is a pachycephalosaurus, colored in vibrant purple, magenta, and dandelion, and wearing a black shirt and skirt with gray fishnet gloves. next is an uncolored drawing of armadillo!martin, standing and looking downwards. next is an uncolored drawing of copperhead!melanie king, standing with her arms crossed and a frown. next is a knightly unicorn, colored in light blue and gray, wearing armor and holding a sword. last is zulius from centaurworld, a zebrataur with dark skin, a white-and-black striped zebra body, and a black-and-white striped mohawk. he is standing with his hands on his hips and a smug expression. end ID]

TINY LITTLE THINGIES

#art #furry #tma #centaurworld #zulius centaurworld #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #melanie king #the rest are my chars

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isobel-thorm · 5 years

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For the music ask meme: Every. Single. Number. 😈

1) Three songs that come up when you put your phone on shuffle?

Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood

IDGAF - Dua Lipa

Breath - Breaking Benjamin

2) Three of the last songs you listened to:

Wish You Pain - Andy Grammer

Delicate - Damien Rice

Death of a Bachelor - Panic! At the Disco

3) Three songs you were recently obsessed with?

Come to Me - The Goo Goo Dolls

Speechless - Naomi Scott

Spaceship - Andy Grammer

4) Three songs that you know thanks to your parents

On the Road to Kingdom Come - Harry Chapin

Night Train to Munich - Al Stewart

In My World - The Moody Blues

5) Three songs you wish you could forget (because listening to them hurts) (Mixed bag because the first to physically hurt bc Bad (TM), last one hurts because of a situation it reminds me of)

Like a G6- Not linking, don’t recall who it’s by, not keen to find out either

Grown Ass Man Child - Andy Grammer

If I Die Young - The Band Perry

6) Three songs you wish you could erase from history (because they’re terrible)

Like a G6

Anything by Melanie

7) Three songs you didn’t expect to like but eventually loved

Old Town Road - Lil Nas X - it’s AJ and Char’s fault

Shiny - Jermaine Clement

One Thing - One Direction

8) Three songs that remind you most of summer and vacation

Gone, Gone, Gone - Phillip Phillips

Blame it On the Weatherman - B*Witched

Good Life - Jesse McCartney

9) 9. three songs that get you in the Christmas Mood

New York Christmas - Rob Thomas

Cold December Night - Michael Buble

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Michael Buble

10) Three favourite Halloween/spooky songs:

I Put a Spell on You - Bette Midler

I Put a Spell on You (Yes that’s intentional)

Bones - Little Big Town

11) Three favourite songs from movie or TV series soundtrack

October Sky - October Sky

To the Stars - Dragonheart - Randy Edelman

He’s a Pirate/Barbossa is Hungry - Klaus Badelt

12) Three favourite songs from video games

Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones - Mafia 3 (technically only USED in a videogame but it’s still the best used/edited song in a game)

Now That This Old World is Ending - Dan Romer - Far Cry 5

The World is Gonna End Tonight - Dan Romer

13) Three songs you want at your funeral

No answer bc who the Hell plays music at a funeral

14) Three songs you want at your wedding

Come to Me - The Goo Goo Dolls

Valerie - Amy Winehouse

New York, New York - Frank Sinatra (will make ZERO sense post-move, but that didn’t stop the wedding singer at my cousin’s wedding in Cali going ALL OUT over the song so if I ever get married this NEEDS to be played at the reception)

15) Three songs you want to dance with your love to:

Literally the same as 15.

16) Three favourite songs for sex

Blinks in Forever Alone Asexual

17) Three songs that remind you of your crush

You May Be Right - Billy Joel

As She’s Walking Away - Zach Brown Band and Alan Jackson

Hotel California - The Eagles

18) Three songs that remind you of your best friend

Woman - Kesha

Raise Your Glass - P!nk

19) Three songs that are your guilty pleasure

Ready as I’ll Ever Be - Jeremy Jordan

Delicate - Taylor Swift

East Northumberland High - Miley Cyrus

20) Three songs that remind you of the person who sends this one

Traitor - Daughtry

Fuck You - Cee Lo Green

You’re the Best - Joe Esposito

21) Three songs of your childhood

Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys

One of Us - Chorus from The Lion King 2

It’s Gonna Be Me - N*Sync

22) Three songs you listen to when you’re sad

To the Sky - Owl City

The Bird and the Worm - Owl City

Good Time - Owl City

23) Three songs that never fail to get you pumped up24) Three favourite old songs

Both answered here

25) Three favourite songs of 2017

Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran

Praying - Kesha

There’s Nothing Left Pt 1 - Flogging Molly

26) Three favourite non-English songs

Bang Bang - Salman Khan

Hello - Cast of Hello - (Okay like 25-30% is English but its a Bollywood movie so...)

Padmaavat: Khalibali - Ranveer Singh+ Company?? I guess??

27) Three songs that you sing while drunk

Candy - Robbie Williams

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus

28) Three best songs to get drunk or high to

Same as 27

29) Three songs that influenced you most (some songs change or save lives)

Lullaby - Nickelback

My Kinda Party - Guitar Tribute Players

That’s really it, no songs have really influenced me per se except for Lullaby for That Night and the second one throwing me into a writing mood every single time

30) Three songs you really want your followers to know (for reasons other than all those above) Yall have heard these suggestions before but:

Taxi - Harry Chapin

Sequel - “

Corey’s Coming - “

bc Harry Chapin is an excellent story-song teller, Sequel is the “sequel” to Taxi and it has some of the most honest, thought provoking phrases/sentences I’ve heard. And Corey’s Coming’s... ‘punchline’ if you will gave me chills the first time I heard it.

#amistrio

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metkayinaa · 2 years

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A READING LIST hhhhhhhh AUTHOR TITLE + SUMMARY Carian Cole Torn: Age Gap Romance. Don’t Kiss The Bride: Marriage Contract. Sara Cate Beautiful Sinner, Handsome Devil, Gravity, Raincloud Mariana Zapata Lingus, Under Locke, The Best Thing, The Wall of Winnipeg, Wait For It, Luna & The Lie, Kulti, From Lukov with Love, Hands Down, All Rhodes End Here Ali Hazelwood The Love Hypothesis Lauren Asher Dreamland Billionaire Series, Dirty Air Series Cora Reilly Born in Blood Series, Camorra Chronicles Danielle Lori The Darkest Temptation, The Sweetest Oblivion, The Maddest Obsession Tessa Bailey It Happened One Summer K Webster Dirty Ugly Toy, Notice Me, Coach Long, Easton, Koyn, Cold Cole Heart, Cinderella Series ( CONSTANTINE ) Pam Godwin Dark Notes + Lessons in Sin (CONSTANTINE) Penelope Douglas Credence + Birthday Girl + Misconduct Micalea Smeltzer Sweet Dandelion, The Confidence of Wildflowers Lucia Franco Off Balance Series LJ Shen Playing with Fire + The Kiss Thief + In The Unlikely Event Char Leigh Rose Misbehaved Vi Keeland The Summer Proposal Karla Sorensen The Forbidden (Gym Owner) Mila Finelli Mafia Mistress Charmaine Paul’s Dubious (Maid) B. Céleste The Truth About Tomorrow Nikki Sloane The Doctor Ker Dukey VEN, VLAD, VAS Elizabeth Roarkes Waking Olivia Amelia Wilde Beast of Bishops Landing ( CONSTANTINE) R. S. Grey Date Me Like You Mean It + Not So Nice Guy Saffron A Kent The Unrequited + Dreams of 18 Tessa Bailey Disorderly Conduct Laurel in Page + Sierra Simone Pornstar( Logan o’toole’ Before he was her head Master, Chloe Maine Blind faith, mathilda martel FIONA COLE LIAR CROSSED LINES LANA SKY TAKEN BY THE RUSSIAN ALEXA Riley LOVING MR DANIELS BRITTAINY CHERRY TAPPINGOUT NIKKI ASH LOCKED HEARTS BY TJ SMITH HUNTING ADELINE BY HD CARLTON BECOMING SELFISH BY LIZ TOM FORDE AGAINST THE ROPES SARAHCASTILLE TO READ: Gianna Darling, welcome to the dark side Sleet Kitten, SJ Tilly Child Star, JJ McAvoy The Cloverleigh Farm, Melanie Harlow Wicked Idol. Becker Grey When He’s Sinful. Suzanne Wright Ruin. Samantha Towle The Architect, Nikki Sloane Mating Theory. Skye Warren Coach. Jacob chance The words, Ashley jade Rein of a king. Rina Kent Scoring Wilder, Rachel Grey Dear Ava, ilsa madden mills Darling Venom, Parker s Huntington

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princessalethea · 7 years

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YA Scavenger Hunt–ARE YOU READY??

In June, the Alliance of Young Adult Authors is sponsoring a massive young adult scavenger hunt. This is a chance to meet some new authors, grab a bunch of free books, and sign up to win a whole bunch of epic prizes!

RULES

Each author will be given a special keyword, which will be bolded and all caps like this: BUTTERFLIES.

All you have to do is visit all the author’s sites in this order, write down the special keywords to discover the short story, then enter the giveaway with the completed secret legend HERE.

There will be one main giveaway for the main prize, but most of the participating authors will also have smaller giveaways for free books, amazon credit and author swag, so make sure you read their post carefully to see what else they’re offering while you’re on their site for the keyword.

THE MAP (participating authors)

Cindy Ray Hale

Katherine Bogle

Melle Amade

David Kudler

A.M. Yates

Alethea Kontis

Stevie Rae Causey

Katlyn Duncan

Debbie Manber Kupfer

Meredith Rose

N.M. Howell

Lara Ann

K.M. Robinson

J.A. Culican

Heather Karn

Rob L. Slater

Dylan Keefer

Sarah K. Wilson

L.J. Higgins

Gina Marie Long

Em Kazmierski

Travis Hall

Heather Young-Nichols

Anna Santos

J.L. Weil

Jo Schneider

Rebecca Fernfield

Kristin D. Van Risseghem

Martine Lewis

Tara Benham

Stacy Claflin

Beth Hammond

Erica Cope

Nicole Zoltack

Char Webster

Sabrina Ramoth

T.J. Muir

Raquel Lyon

Beth Rodgers

S.L. Beaumont

Eva Pohler

Melanie McFarlane

Cheryllynn Dyess

Audrey Rich

Amanda Zieba

Sandie Will

Elle Scott

Angie Grigaliunas

Ashley Maker

Mandy Peterson

Audrey Grey

Elisa Dane

Amy McNulty

Melinda Cordell

Monica Leonelle

Claire Luana

Frost Kay

Preeti C. Sharma

Bentz Deyo

April Wood

Lena Mae Hill

Angel Leya

Wendi Wilson

Wendy Knight

Chogan Swan

Tamara Hart Heiner

Norma Hinkens

Patti Larsen

Megan Crewe

Jamie Thornton

Jessie Renée

T.A. Maclagan

Lydia Sherrer

Phyllis Moore

P.D. Workman

J.A. Armitage

K.N. Lee

Angela Fristoe

Rhonda Sermon

G.K. DeRosa

Erin Richards

Ali Winters

Larissa C. Hardesty

Kristine Tate

Debra Kristi

Bella Rose

Cortney Pearson

Jeff Kohanek

Kristal Shaff

Rachel Morgan

Emma Right

C.L. Cannon

Joanne Macgregor

Lindsey Loucks

Farah Kuck

Erin Hayes

Jesikah Sundin

Dorothy Dreyer

Danielle Annett

C.J. Ethington

L.C. Hibbett

Madeline Dyer

Katie John

Nicole Schubert

Rachel Medhurst

Tee G Ayer

May Freighter

Heather Dyer

Jen Minkman

J.L. Gillham

Karen Tomlinson

Kate Haye

Megan Linski

Martina Billings

Jo Ho

Brian King

Inna Hardison

Rachel Bateman

Sally Henson

J.L. Hendricks

A.L. Knorr

T.M. Franklin

Konstanz Silverbow

felisha Antonette

Jake Devlin

S.F. Benson

Laurie Treacy

Emily Martha Sorensen

Leia Stone

T. Rae Mitchell

J. Keller Ford

Kat Stiles

Jessica Hawke

Elyse Reyes

Sophie Davis

Bianca Scardoni

Jenetta Penner

David R. Bernstein

Olivia Wildenstein

Derek Murphy

Starts June 1st!

Just go through the “treasure map” above to find the keywords and reconstruct the secret legend. Once you’ve got it, enter for the grand prize HERE. Don’t forget to keep an eye out for other giveaways or free books as you search for the keywords, most authors will be offering their own prizes as well.

For rules, updates or trouble-shooting, make sure to check out this main post which will stay updated.

TIMELINE

Authors will post the rules and the full list of participating authors sometime in June, and have their post up and visible on their site/blog, with their keyword, by June 1st. Readers just need to go through the list, find the words, and use the story to enter for the grand prize.

The post YA Scavenger Hunt–ARE YOU READY?? appeared first on AletheaKontis.com.

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aisuigetsu · 4 years

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wtf I've also already heard sour times before!! other civil wars songs I like are girl with the red balloon & birds of a feather-- your music taste is solid. didn't get to mention this previously, but I really liked Cake, never heard of Melanie before. Arctic Monkeys is always a jam. other english songs I like are king by the romanovs, somebody by alice jemima, & cloudline by joseph. Recently I've been getting into some of Gregory and the Hawk too when I feel a bit pensive. char limits smh (1/2)

excuse me wtf those are my favs too?????

and you listen to the romanovs wtf i thought nobody knew them???? i love king cuz it was in this kuroshitsuji fanfiction like 10 yrs ago. i also rly enjoy mr okada

somebody is rly cute!! thanks for the rec

cloudline is also in my playlist wow

i listen to greg & hawk when im drawing sometimes

#ask #who are you my music twin???#anonymous

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gigiglorious · 7 years

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r/fantasy bingo is this awesome reading challenge that happens over on reddit each year. 2016 was the first year I joined and it was a great way to expand my SFF reading habits. The 2017 bingo challenge is now live and will be running from April 1, 2017 – March 31, 2018 if anyone is interested in joining.

I didn’t actually think I’d finish this challenge. I was on track to do so, planning to knock out the last three books while recovering from a minor surgery. Then I got a horrific cold, had trouble getting into one of the books and started to panic about graduating. Technically I only needed to finish 25 books for the challenge but I’d made a goal of 75 and was feeling down about failing to reach it. But the last day of the challenge I finished a book I’d put down for two months, realized it counted for my unfilled square and quickly rearranged everything.

In 2016 I’d just gotten out of a three year reading slump and was trying to find books I enjoyed. r/fantasy bingo seemed like a fun challenge and so I jumped in part way through the summer. The thought process behind this overly large amount of books was that I wanted to really diversify my reading so I did a full card of books written only by women and a full card of books written only by people of colour or Indigenous people, plus an additional card of random books (which will turn into a card of small press books in 2017).

An additional rule was that a minimum of 50% of books must be written by people of colour and Indigenous authors. I met that goal with 47% (35/75) of books by people of colour and 4% (4/75) of books by Indigenous authors, for an total of 51%. Gender wise the books broke down to 28% men (21/75), 67% women (50/75), and 5% both (4/75), either in the 2+ authors square or short story anthologies.

I loved this bingo challenge. I learnt so much about my reading preferences (deep characterization all the way), discovered so many good books I might have passed up or never gotten too, had a lot of good conversations and got so many great recommendations. This was such a great experience and I’m looking to expand the 2017 bingo with a small press/indie/self-published card and a queer and trans characters/authors card.

Top Six Books (2 for each card although it was very hard to choose)

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft: Senlin Ascends is exactly the type of fantasy I love, cultural mashups filled with mythology and blending genres, and well-written characters that develop and grow over the course of the book. I could barely put it down near the end.

The Devourers by Indra Das: Every time I try to describe this book it ends up getting boiled down to werewolves in India. But it’s so much more than that, it’s a compilation of history and mythology all wrapped up in beautiful and brutal prose.

The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff: I know this book isn’t going to be everyone’s favourite but it took me completely by surprise. It’s a fast-paced, paranormal romance urban fantasy full of genre tropes set in Calgary with deadpan Canadian humour. The sequels weren’t as solid as the first book but The Enchantment Emporium was one of the best and weirdest books I read last year.

The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker: I couldn’t believe how much Wecker brought The Golem and the Jinni to life. Every character was compelling and I could have sworn I was walking down the streets of New York in 1899.

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee: It’s really hard to explain just how much I love Ninefox Gambit. I’m new to reading sci-fi and never though I would come to enjoy a military space opera but wound up crying uncontrollably half-way through the book, unable to put it down.

Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam: This was just such an original, beautiful, weird, compelling collection short stories. It grabbed me from the first page and didn’t let go until the end.

Honourable Mentions

A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Kalpa Imerial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer

King’s Shield by Sherwood Smith

Top Three Disappointments

The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson: Sanderson appears to be almost universally loved and so I had a really hard time figuring out why I didn’t enjoy Mistborn until I realized that his characters tend to be very cardboard-like. One of the benefits of reading so much SFF over a year is learning your reading tastes and unfortunately/fortunately I need deep characterization and Sanderson just doesn’t do it.

Octavia’s Brood, edited by by Adrienne Maree Brown & Walidah Imarisha: I was really excited for this anthology but found in the end it just fell flat. The concept was really cool, to have a collection written by activists from social justice movements, many of which were first time writers. But that was also its downfall in my opinion. A lot of the stories just didn’t go anywhere or left me hanging in a bad way and months after reading it I can’t remember a single story from the collection that stood out to me.

A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files: Normally when I don’t like books it’s due to the writing style, but my dislike for A Book of Tongues is purely content related. I had to finish this one because I was using it for two reading challenges and was running out of time, but would have put it down immediately otherwise due to the colonial racist genre tropes and anti-semitism. Do not recommend.

Magic Realism – Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami/ What is Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi/ Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan

GR Book of the Month – Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb/ The Golem and the Jinni by Helen Wecker/ Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Romantic Fantasy/PNR – The Decoy Princess by Dawn Cook/ Spirit Caller 1-3 by Krista D. Ball/ Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh

Self-published/Indie – Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction, edited by Kathryn Allan & Djibril al-Ayad/ Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was by Angélica Gorodischer/ Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Adrienne Maree Brown & Walidah Imarisha

Published in 2016 – Saint’s Blood by Sebastien de Castell/ The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh/ Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

AMA Author – Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft/ A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller/ The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard

Dark/Grimdark Fantasy – The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins/ The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin/ The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

<3000 GR Ratings – Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson/ The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee/ This Strange Way of Dying by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Wild Ginger Appears – A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin/ A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab/ A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar

Female Authored Epic Fantasy – A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin/ Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey/ Into the Dark Lands by Michelle Sagara West

Science Fantasy/Sci-Fi – Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel/ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers/ Nostalgia by M.G. Vassanji

Five Fantasy Short Stories – The Sea is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia, edited by Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng/ The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter/ Filter House by Nisi Shawl

Graphic Novel – Saga by Brian K. Vaughan/ Through the Woods by Emily Carroll/ SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

Published The Decade You Were Born – Hogfather by Terry Pratchett/ The Goblin Mirror by C.J. Cherryh/ Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Written By 2+ Authors – Crux by Moira Rogers/ The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliot/ Devil’s Wake by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due

Published In The 2000’s – The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson/ The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff/ Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others) by Ted Chiang

Weird Western – A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files/ Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman/ Are We Having Fun Yet? – American Indian Fantasy Stories by William Sanders

Non-Western Myth Or Folklore – The Devourers by Indra Das/ The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo/ Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord

Military Fantasy – King’s Shield by Sherwood Smith/ A Secret History by Mary Gentle/ The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu

Non-Fantasy Novel – Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang/ The Vegetarian by Han Kang/ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Award Winning Novel – Doomsday Book by Connie Willis/ Uprooted by Naomi Novik/ Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam

YA Fantasy Novel – Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare/ Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine/ The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Protagonist Flies – Agatha H and the Airship City by Phil Foglio/ The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman/ Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Someone Read For 2015 Bingo – The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson/ The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton/ Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

Sword and Sorcery – Imaro by Charles Saunders/ Green Rider by Kristin Britain/ Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

[Wrap-up] r/fantasy bingo 2016 r/fantasy bingo is this awesome reading challenge that happens over on reddit each year. 2016 was the first year I joined and it was a great way to expand my SFF reading habits.

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