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haveyoureadthisqueerbook · 22 days

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Hello! First of all: love this blog! Second: I read a lot of queer books and as it turns out a lot of them weren’t already on your spreadsheet so uh. Sorry in advance for what I’m about to do to your inbox/queue 😅

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Werecockroach by Polenth Blake

In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folktales by Helene Boppert and Rachel Plummer

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Tremontaine: The Complete Season One by Patty Bryant, Malinda Lo, Racheline Maltese, Joel Derfner, Ellen Kushner, Paul Witcover, and Alaya Dawn Johnson

This Other World by AC Buchanan

In Memoriam by Nathan Burgoine

The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

Felix Ever After by Karen Callender

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cory McCarthy

The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta

XX by Angela Chadwick

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

The Vela by Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, Yoon Ha Lee, and SL Huang

Black Water Sister by Zen Cho

The True Queen by Zen Cho

The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho

The Water that Falls on You From Nowhere by John Chu

The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri

A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Dreadnought by April Daniels

Sovereign by April Daniels

Thornfruit by Felicia Davin

Nightvine by Felicia Davin

Shadebloom by Felicia Davin

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Stay Another Day by Juno Dawson

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

We Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire by Jules Grant

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Outside by Ada Hoffman

The Fallen by Ada Hoffman

The Infinite by Ada Hoffman

Mindtouch by MCA Hogarth

Sing the Four Quarters by Tanya Huff

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson

The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

The Beast of Callaire by Saruuh Kelsey

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

The Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green by Nicky Kyle

Avi Cantor Has Six Months to Live by Sacha Lamb

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

Goldie Vance Vol. 1 by Hope Larson

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee

Not Your Villain by CB Lee

Not Your Backup by CB Lee

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Fever King by Victoria Lee

The Fox’s Tower and Other Tales by Yoon Ha Lee

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Inheritance by Malinda Lo

Natural Selection by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

The Hand, the Eye, and the Heart by Zoë Marriott

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Forbid the Sea by Seanan McGuire

In Sea-Salt Tears by Seanan McGuire

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

A Tyranny of Queens by Foz Meadows

All Out: The No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages ed. Saundra Mitchell

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

Princess Princess Ever After by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O’Neill

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Stormsong by CL Polk

Soulstar by CL Polk

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Tiger’s Daughter by K Arsenault Rivera

The Phoenix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera

The Warrior Moon by K Arsenault Rivera

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Birthday by Meredith Russo

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Dying for a Living by Kory M. Shrum

Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

The Edge of the Abyss by Emily Skrutskie

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding

The Traitor’s Tunnel by CM Spivey

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver

Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time by KM Szpara

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Crier’s War by Nina Varela

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

System Collapse by Martha Wells

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang

The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang

The Ascent to Godhood by Neon Yang

Waiting on a Bright Moon by Neon Yang

Taproot by Keezy Young

Phew! Finally got all of these queued! Thank you so much for the list, and for arranging them so neatly, which definitely made it easier to transfer over to a spreadsheet!

#Anonymous #submissions

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ultimate-fucked-up-ship-tourney · 1 month

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Tentative list for best horror and thriller girls:

1. Maria from Mad Father

2. Reiko Mikami from Another

3. Bridget, from the webtoon Nonesuch,

4. Ha-Im, from webtoon Never-ending Darling.

5. Riot Maidstone (from Hello From The Hallowoods),

6. Martha from Ravenous 1999

7. Grace, from Ready or Not (2019).

8. Regan Abbott (A Quiet Place)

9. Ava (Ex Machina)

10. Beatrice (Over the Garden Wall)

11. Jennifer from Jennifer’s Body

12. Rozy from the guy upstairs

13. Rachel (Rachel Rising comic book series)

14. Amanda Young, SAW,

15. Wendy Torrance, “The Shining” movie

16. Pannochka - Viy

17. Blind Mag (Repo! The Genetic Opera)

18. Sasha from the magnus archives

19. Mina Harker (Dracula

20. Lex Foster from Black Friday.

21. Charlotte from Hello Charlotte!

22. Carrie White, Carrie

23. Scarlet, I’m the Grim Reaper

24. So Jung-hwa, Strangers from Hell

25. Dana Scully, The X Files

26. Akane Tsunemori, Psycho Pass

27. Mima Kirigoe, Perfect Blue

28. Nina Fortner, Monster

29. Eva Heinemann, Monster

30. Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak

31. Lucille Sharpe, Crimson Peak

32. Ellen Ripley, Alien

33. Clarice Starling, Silence of the Lambs

34. Lisa Reisert, Red Eye

35. Laurie Strode, Halloween

36. Kayo Hinazuki, Erased

37. Hondomachi, ID Invaded

38. Yonaka Kurai, Mogeko Castle

39. Ib, IB

40. Re-L Mayer, Ergo Proxy

41. Kyun Yoon, Bastard

42. Jisu, Sweet Home

43. Lauren Sinclair, Purple Hyacinth

44. Nita, Market of Monsters series

45. Rose the Hat from Doctor Sleep (2019 movie and Stephen King book)

46. Sidney Prescott from the original Scream movies,

47. Jade Daniels, Indian Lake Trilogy/My Heart is a chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

48. Villanelle, killing eve

49. Harrow from gideon the ninth/Locked Tomb

50. Maggie, Everything is Fine

51. Chaerin Eun, Surviving Romance

52. Finn, I’m Dating a Psychopath

53. Rayne Liebert, Homesick

54. Ha-im Yun, Never Ending Darling

55. Ashlyn Banner, School Bus Graveyard

56. Chae-ah Han, Trapped

57. Jeongmin Choi, Dreaming Freedom

58. Frankie, Stagtown

59. India Stoker, Stoker

60. Nam-ra, All of Us Are Dead

61. Ji-woo, My Name

62. Nanno, Girl From Nowhere

63. Emerald, Nope

64. Jessica Jones

65. Susy, Wait Until Dark

66. Margot, The Menu

67. Vera, Just Like Home

68. Rosemary, Rosemary’s Baby

69. Gertrude Robinson, The Magnus Archives

70. Alex, Oxenfree

71. Margaret Lanternman/The Log Lady, Twin Peaks,

72. Audrey Horne, Twin Peaks,

73. Su-an, Train to Busan

74. Ji-a, Tale of the Nine Tailed

75. Cha Ji-won, Flower of Evil

76. Coraline

77. Helen Lyle, Candyman

78. Nancy, Nightmare on Elm Street

79. Mrs. De Winter, Rebecca

80. Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca

81. Shiki Ryougi, Garden of Sinners

82. Kirsty Cotton, Hellraiser

83. Pearl, Pearl

84. Take-ju, Thirst

85. Suzy Bannion, Suspiria

86. Lain, Serial Experiments Lain

87. Asami Yamazaki, Audition

88. Naru, Prey

89. Eli, Let the Right One In

90. The Girl, A Girl walks home alone at night

91. Cecilia, Immaculate

92. Evie Alexander, The Invitation

93. Maren, Bones and All

94. Michelle, 10 Cloverfield Lane

95. Thomasin, The VVitch

96. Emma, None Shall Sleep

97. Contestanta, A Dowry of Blood

98. Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Maltese Falcon

99. Sandra Voyter, Anatomy of a Fall

100. Lisa, Rear Window

#polls

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onlydreaming · 2 years

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-Ophidian

Franz Kafka // Wageningen University // David Foster Wallace // @saint-ambrosef // Ada Limón // Ben Capalan // Francisco Goya // Catherine Gildiner // Margaret Atwood // Laozi // Architecture mysticism and myth. 1892 // Adonis // Akwaeke Emezi // Anne Carson // Maya Marshall // David Cronenberg // Inio Asano // Maggie Stiefvater // Mark Z. Danielewski // Ian Matthias Bavitz // La Lampara Maravillosa // Brenna Twoh // George Abraham // Emily Dickinson // Heather Havrilesky // Gwen Benaway // Stig Dagerman // Yves Olade // Katy Wiedemann // Ajahn Chah // Katherine Mansfield // Sara Teasdale // The Judge, 1921

#web weaving #poetry #not my quotes #quote #x #🜏#☿#☽🜔☾#♄

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ub-sessed · 1 year

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My favourite books over the past year:

The Murderbot Diaries series, by Martha Wells

The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

The English Understand Wool, by Helen Dewitt

Dodger, by Terry Pratchett

The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje

Something to Do with Paying Attention, by David Foster Wallace

Books I read over the past year+ that I enjoyed less (arranged from "really not bad" to "omg I wish I hadn't read this"):

Mort, by Terry Pratchett

The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski

The Amulet of Samarkand, by Jonathan Stroud

The Twisted Ones, by T. Kingfisher

All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

The Lost Man, by Jane Harper

Blood of Elves, by Andrzej Sapkowski

Sword of Destiny, by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Time of Contempt, by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green

Books I tried to read over the past year but didn't like enough to bother finishing (in alphabetical order by author):

Another Country, by James Baldwin

A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers

Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

White Noise, by Don DeLillo

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James

Beyond, by Mercedes Lackey

Foundation, by Mercedes Lackey

The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Circe, by Madeline Miller

Runaway, by Alice Munro

Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Tempests and Slaughter, by Tamora Pierce

Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, by Cassia St. Clair

Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor

The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner

The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks

The Martian, by Andy Weir

The Cloud Roads, by Martha Wells

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, by Alex White

A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, by Sue Wilkes

#books #I'm putting these here in hopes that they will help me figure out how to predict what books i might like #i enjoyed 6 out of the 47 books i tried to read last year

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paganminiskirt · 2 years

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OC SONG ASSOCIATIONS, BABEY!

Thank you to @strafethesesinners and @adelaidedrubman, who certainly knew what they were getting into when they tagged me in this.

Tagging: @henbased @smithandrogers @amistrio @shallow-gravy @florbelles @cranky-kyrati @broken-balance-baby @snake-in-the-garden @smithandrogers @aceghosts @derelictheretic @purplehairsecretlair

Faith Marisol Escajeda, Far Cry 5 - I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Nina Simone

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This one's pretty lighthearted, relative to the rest of the list. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl is about an intense desire to experience the pleasures of life; which is, on the surface, a very trivial thing to be losing sleep over. But there's more to it than that, a level of genuine emotional distress which cuts the impact of the whimsical, homely lyrics - "I want a little sugar in my bowl / I want a little sweetness down in my soul / I could stand some lovin', oh so bad / I feel so funny, I feel so sad."

Faith is defined largely by her desire to escape cycles of suffering, and the way the social mores of her time encourage her to rely on men to do that. She would've just been coming of age when the song was released in 1989, just losing Joseph after he aged out of foster care before her, and just beginning to learn how to navigate her adult, professional, and romantic lives.

The chorus in particular eludes to a lot of the mentalities she adopts in this process, like her attempts to rely on the moral certainty of traditional religious values and the way those attempts are often thwarted by the reality of the environment of constant struggle she's in, her desire to be a fully autonomous woman and the way that contradicts her desire for the support and normalcy of a relationship - "I want a little steam on my clothes / Maybe I could fix things up so they'll go / What's the matter daddy? Come on, save my soul / I need some sugar in my bowl." The switch from "I want" in the first verse to "I need" in the second emphasizes the true emotional significance of these desires very well.

Caroline Seed / Margaret “Maggie” Vaughn, Far Cry 5 - When the Night is Over, Lord Huron

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I’m trying to stick to songs I haven’t touched on for these OCs before, but I think this one's relevance to Meg's story warrants closer examination. When the Night is Over is a slow moving, mournful ballad which follows a singer searching in the night for the love his life, who has disappeared. Listening to the lyrics, it's easy to come to the conclusion that this person's lover is dead, and that this is an examination of the tole grief has taken on their mind.

Meg was raised in the south, and meant to spend her life there. She came to Hope County when she was 23 to attend the funeral of her fiancé Devon, a former soldier who committed suicide. His family, partially to get to know their estranged/late son's would-be wife and partially out of guilt for not taking better care of him, offered her financial support, which Meg used to establish herself permanently in HC - a stranger in a strange land where she never meant to live, connected to it only by the memory of a loved one who killed himself. Devon's distance from his homeland and family render the County a physically representative of a side of her lover that Meg never knew. Every moment she spends entrenching herself in this community and it's culture, she uncovers another reason for why Devon was who he was, another chunk of the past he ran from, and how she may have failed him. (And, of course, she gets to know the people she eventually figures out are her biological family, and comes to realize why she is the way she is. Fun!)

The emotional processes Meg goes through, in both the game and the events leading up to it, are closely mirrored in the emotional process of the distressed singer in When the Night is Over. You can easily imagine her wandering around in a haze one cold night, going through these very motions, seeing apparitions (literal or metaphorical) of her lover everywhere which cause her to doubt her own sanity - "In every window I pass, Your reflection in the glass, Makes me wonder if my mind is going / Shadows shifting in the rain, Slowly driving me insane."

Even though the singer in WTNIO never outright acknowledges that the lover he's searching for is dead, he refers to their relationship in the past tense - "By the stars above, I know we were in love." You could compare that to Margaret's difficulty processing her feelings over Devon's death juxtaposed against how thoroughly everything in Hope County is connected to him. The singer’s consistent personification of the physical environment as his lover contributes to this reading as well, while his repeated mentions of "an emerald in the sky" make reference to the manner in which Devon's death guided her, North Star-like, to the place where she would eventually discover her birth family. The singer goes back and forth between asserting that this search must end when the evening does and wondering if he'll actually find his missing love at sunrise - "I have only 'til the night is over" / "Will I find you when the night is over?" / "When the night is done, you'll vanish in the sun / Will I hold you when the night is over?" It's emblematic of the mixed feelings Meg has about Devon's significance in Hope County; learning more about him feels almost like having him back in a certain way, but it also causes her to reconsider the relationship they had in life. Sometimes, she just wishes they never met, a shameful thought to say the least.

Midway through the song, there's a long breakdown which leads to the singer seeming to begin to realize that they're never going to find this person; "Now the trail has gone cold, I don't know where else to go, And my time, I fear, is nearly over." / "Am I lost inside my mind? There's an emerald in the sky." But by the end of the song, they're right back where they were in the beginning, reiterating how little time they have, that they must keep going. The final line is another repetition of "I have only 'til the night is over." The point of the song isn't development, it's just to offer a brief view into the experiences of a person dealing with grief that their psyche can't cope with.

Margaret changes in the campaign against the cult, but not for the better. Her circumstances just don’t allow for it. For every step she takes forward in processing the loss of her fiancé, she takes two steps back due to the torture inflicted on her by the Seed family - the family that is revealed to be hers, in the end. What a gut punch. Keeping in mind Meg's final transformation into The Judge, When The Night is Over 's purpose of briefly exploring a person's grief and suffering without seeking to improve on it connects with her negative arc excellently.

Nora Jean Kingston, Far Cry 5 / Various - I’ll Stay, Funkadelic

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I sort of surprised myself with this one, since until today I’ll Stay wasn’t even featured on Nora’s character playlist. I'll Stay is literally about awaiting the return of an emotionally erratic lover, going through one of the bad moods which offset their euphoric good ones. Figuratively, it's about accepting unwarranted hardship gracefully for the purpose of an unspoken future reward - "I'll stay, For she'll be coming back / You know her head went out to play, She'll get over that / I know that my reward, When she returns Woo-woo! / Keeps me hanging on, I'll stay."

In essence, it's a love song, which eludes to the way Nora's loved ones help set her on the paths she chooses to follow - her parents (unintentionally) drove her to alcoholism and self-destruction, her grandfather to self improvement and proactivity, Burke and Grace to police service and militarism. But considering the underlying theme of the addiction-like cycle of toxic situations, the justifications people use to keep themselves in those positions, and the resigned, almost hypnotic rhythm maintained throughout, when asking the question "what song provides the best ambiance for a narrative about a person directed by their misguided faith in a lot of awful belief systems," no better answer comes to mind.

Evelyn Seed, Far Cry 5 - Delilah, Tom Jones/Amigo the Devil

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Evelyn wasn't originally going to be on this list, but since I just brought her up for the first time, now's as good a time as any to talk about her. Tom Jones' version of Delilah was released in 1968, right around the time Evelyn would've been marrying Josiah Seed. It's an operatic power ballad told from the POV of a man who murdered his girlfriend after she unrepentantly cheated on him. The narrator is essentially screaming, his performance so intense and over-enunciated that if he were talking about anything else, it could almost be funny.

It's comparable to one of the seemingly random bouts of rage people in long term abusive relationships sometimes exhibit, the swallowed resentments and embittered fantasies. Evelyn is a talented appeaser of volatile men, but she's pretty damn histrionic in private. She loves the music of her time, the outlet it provides for feelings she has no release for in the real world - outside of taking them out on her sons, which is emotionally taxing in its own way. You can easily picture this record being apart of her secret collection. The way the narrator describes himself as a victim of Delilah only to end by apologizing to her for the murder is also reflective of Evelyn's mindset in the late stages of her marriage. Her acknowledgement of the horrors Josiah has subjected their family to exists in conflict with the grief she feels over the fact that all that love they had for each other failed to culminate in anything but the two of them both devolving into domestic monsters - “I could see that girl was no good for me, I was lost like a slave that no man could free" VS "Forgive me Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore."

The chorus in which the murder takes place is repeated once, and the only break in sound comes after the line describing it - "I felt that knife in my hand, and she laughed no more” - even though the lyric itself is told in exactly the same way the rest of the lyrics are, like it doesn't hold the weight such a crime should. That's symbolic of a lot of things; slow building anger which culminates in outbursts of physical violence, the normalization of abusive habits because "that's just what they do," the ego death living with that treatment causes and the horrible things people do to salve that wound.

Amigo the Devil's cover is, tonally, the original's polar opposite. Some of the songs in the album it was a part of were recorded outside on a summer night, a setting choice which is very Southern in nature, reminiscent of the habit Evelyn develops of spending time in the swampy area surrounding the Seed family home after her domestic life takes a turn for the worst. The only instrument in AtD's Delilah is an untuned banjo, a choice which creates an intimate, workaday atmosphere which is itself evocative of the impoverished Seed family. The disparity in Evelyn's feelings for her husband mentioned earlier is also reflected in Amigo the Devil's more emotionally varied delivery of one of the choruses: a judgmental "My, my, my, Delilah!" followed by a depressed "Why, why, why, Delilah." The cover's consistent moroseness injects the apology at the end with more genuine remorse than the original, which I think is just as suitable for Evelyn’s story as the old-fashioned version.

Evelyn is not at all a good person, but she's also not an evil demon who chewed her way out of Satan's womb with the express purpose of growing up to abuse little boys, yes? People don't become this way overnight. My first choice was another of Amigo the Devil's songs, Perfect Wife, but that story's exclusively about a woman who murders her abusive husband, and there's a lot more to Evelyn's role in the family than that. Delilah connects Evelyn to both the murderer and the murdered - it's her as a victim of Josiah and as the torturer of their children, and all the types of misery that come along with being those things, underlaid with the lingering remnants of their warped bond as Christian husband and wife.

Kiswar Abdel Murad, Metal Gear Rising - Fu Gee La, Fugees

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The opening line of Fu Gee La makes reference to digital electronics, and the proceeding line - “In the battle lost my finger / mic became my arm” - is extremely on the nose for the seven-and-a-half-fingered Kiswar. It was released in 1996, right around the time she would’ve been coming of age in the United States, so it easily could’ve been on one of her own playlists, and the name of the group and song both derive from the word “refugee.”

The hazy, repetitive echo of the background track and the creepy closing lines of the first verse contributes to an almost hallucination-like atmosphere, which is more than fitting for a passion-oriented, morally vacuous bioengineer like her. One of those lines in particular - "Nobody's shootin', my body's made of hand grenade / Girl bled to death while she was tongue kissin' a razor blade" - can be taken both as a literal reference to her job as a designer of weaponized cyborg bodies and as a metaphorical wink to the way her obsessive dedication to her work has hollowed her out emotionally and ethically. She also sleeps with some of the weaponized cyborg bodies she creates, if you wanna interpret "tongue-kissin' a razor blade" in that way.

The overarching narrative of the song itself revolves largely around the conflict between the black-nationalist Rastafarian movement and the imperialistic western society that the writers find themselves in as immigrants of the Caribbean diaspora in the east coast- New Jerusalem VS New Jersey, in a sense. My understanding of the Lebanese Civil War is that it was in large part a conflict over whether or not Lebanon should join the United Arab Republic or remain an independent nation. Regardless of where Kiswar's loyalties once lied, (I'm sorry if that sentence is insensitive, I'm new to learning about this) Fu Gee La, in this way, connects Kiswar to the grit and gravel of her birthplace, bringing her character back to the war that influenced her so much before she tried to transcend ideology into a being of pure, commoditized violence. Like that one Reductress headline, "How To Show People You're More Than Your Unethical Career Choice."

#suicide tw #abuse tw #skipping Yuko for now since her playlist is published #faith escajeda #Margaret Vaughn #kiswar murad #far cry 5 #metal gear rising #Youtube #deputy nora kingston #evelyn seed

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golden-girl-daisy · 1 month

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That little white spot on her forehead was made to be kissed.

#Margaret ‘Maggie’ Foster #dog #labrador retriever #mixed breed #mutts #boop the snoot

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sheffran · 2 years

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Francesca “Fran” Joy Sheffield

Actress: Fran Drescher

Basics:

Marital status: 💍 Married 💍

Sex: Female

Age: “29” (😉)

Season 1 - 30

Season 2 - 31

Season 3 - 32

Season 4 - 33

Season 5 - 34

Season 6 - 35

Religion: Jewish 🕎

Nationality: American (New Yorker)

Accent: New Yorker

Affliction: Possible ADHD

Position:

Nanny (S1-5)

Lady of the House (S6)

Birthday: September- October 1963

Zodiac sign: Libra ♎️

Chinese Zodiac: Dragon 🐉

Element: Earth 🌱

Home:

Flushing Queens, New York (S1-5; Formerly)

Beverly Hills, California (S6; Currently)

Occupation:

Bridal Consultant (S1 episode one; fired)

Nanny (formerly)

However, technically, Fran’s occupation, here, still be the same as it was between season 1-4; the only difference is that she would be with C.C. instead of Maxwell)

Actor (temporarily)

Broadway Producer’s Partner (temporarily)

Candy Stripper (temporarily; filled in for Maggie for one episode)

Rosie O’ Donnell Show (temporarily)

Other:

Motherhood (😂)

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Nicknames:

Fran (usually by friends & family)

Frannie (by her parents and great grandmother)

Miss Fine (By Maxwell & Niles between the seasons 1-5)

Although; it’s shown that when angry Maxwell tends to still use Fran’s maiden name out of habit, even when they’re married, in season 6

Nanny Fine (by C.C)

Franchesca Fine (By herself)

Mrs Sheffield (by Niles; after Fran married Maxwell)

Mom (by her adoptive/step children)

Ma (by Eve)

Mum (by Jonah)

Darling | sweetheart | my love (by Maxwell S5&6)

AU:

Mrs Fine (by C.C.)

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Family:

(Step) Great grandfather: Sammy

Great grandmother: Yetta Rosenberg

Mother: Sylvia Fine

Sister: Nadine Cooperman

Father: Morty Fine

Aunt: Freida Fine

Immediate family:

Husband: Maxwell Sheffield

(step/ adoptive) daughter: Margaret Sheffield

(step/adoptive) Daughter: Grace Sheffield

(step/adoptive) Son: Brighton Sheffield

(biological) Son: Jonah Sheffield

(biological) Daughter: Eve Sheffield

Other:

Son-in-law: Michael

Extended:

Mother-in-law: Elizabeth Sheffield

Father-in-law: James Sheffield (✝️)

Brother-in-law: Nigel Sheffield

Sister-in-law: Jocelyn Sheffield

Sister-in-law: Conception (illegitimate)

AU:

Granddaughter: Sara Fran Sheffield (Maggie & Michael)

Grandson: Sunny Sheffield (Brighton & his wife)

Granddaughter: Holly Sheffield (Grace & her husband)

Wife: C.C. Fine 🏳️‍🌈

Surrogate father: Maxwell Sheffield

(foster) Daughter: Mei-Ling

AU 2#:

(step) Father: Niles

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Family name:

Fine (S1 - 5x21)

Note: If Fran married C.C. her surname would still be the same

Sheffield (5x22 - S6; by marriage)

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Appearance/ personality:

Fran is most known for her brown big hair, her loud choice of clothes, and wearing a lot of makeup.

Her hairstyle and clothes varies every episode, often wearing clothes from the latest Todd Oldham line (Todd being a cousin of hers and her connection to the high fashion world).

Though she almost always wears a tight miniskirt, high heels and a tight top. She’s known to wear a floral bathrobe for breakfast, when the rest of the Sheffields are already dressed though in one episode she actually gets dressed. Everyone thought she was sick.

How would you describe Fran’s personality?

* Absentminded

* Persuasive

* Theatrical

* Tactful

* Curious

* Profound

* Vivid

* Maternal

* Honest

* Sweet

* Loud

* Eccentric

* Fixated (sometimes)

* Sentimental

* Humorous

* Determined

* Expressive

* Bold

* Flair

* Sassy

* Beguiling

* Protective (towards her family)

* Timid (only if Fran’s in trouble by Max)

* Temperamental ( oftentimes Fran isn’t moody unless it’s got something significant for her: feelings, family, self-image. Other than that, most of the time, she’s a pretty happy-go-lucky gal if not a little eccentric 😂

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Trivia:

“Fran” is actually short for Francesca NOT Francine as most people have assumed it is

She can sew

She’s actually allergic to pumpkin

Favourite food is shrimp & lobster

Fran & Maxwell ‘s anniversary is in May (the same day as, ironically, their twins birthday)

If Fran was 30 years old ( 🤫) in season 1 which meant she had to be 36 years old at the end of the series

Maxwell is 5 years older than her (that’s assuming his birthday is correct 🤔)

When having coffee Fran, I assume, would order decaf considering she’s already energetic enough

One of Fran’s many fantasies is/was doing Maxwell on his desk in his office

Most likely had masturbated, whilst fantasising about Maxwell, over the 5 years he couldn’t commit to her

When Maggie was describing what happened with Sean when they made out it’s possible that Fran was imagining that happening with her and Maxwell doing the same thing to her; considering she did say, “now do it with an English accent”

When scared Fran hides behind Maxwell for protection (which is actually quite sweet to be honest)

Fran uses tactility (physical touch) a lot which her way of showing any sort affection; whether it’s something as simple as a light snack or pat

Other:

Chester is Fran Drescher’s dog in real life; which is why he likes her character so much

#full names are awesome to say 😂#nanny fine (former)#fran drescher #fran sheffield #character bio #married life

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kwebtv · 18 days

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From the Golden Age of Television

Pattern For Pursuit - CBS - June 15, 1956

A presentation of "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" Season 5 Episode 37

Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Produced by William Self

Directed by Lewis R. Foster

Stars:

Arthur Franz as Sgt. Douglas Renfrew, R.C.M.P.

Margaret Field as Renee Beddoe (as Maggie Mahoney)*

Ross Elliott as Jess Omega

Philip Tonge as Inspector Charles Henderson, R.C.M.P.

Charles Wagenheim as Charley Duckwater

Ralph Moody as David Red Blood

An unsold pilot for a proposed series called "Renfrew of the Royal Mounted"

*Margaret Field was the mother of actress Sally Field.

#Pattern For Pursuit #TV #Schlitz Playhouse of Stars #Drama #1950's #1956 #Arthur Franz #Margaret Field #Ross Elliott #Philip tonge #Charles Wagenheim #Ralph Moody

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Margaret Tam - Circle of Stars Druid/Twilight Cleric

Maggie was born to a small town. Her father was a traveling merchant and her mother was an ex-noble who left her title and riches behind for her love.

Growing up, Maggie’s mother taught her all about the stars, fostering a love for the celestial sky at a young age. As a young adult, Maggie was encouraged to study them at an observatory in the near city. There she learned much about the night sky, and while in town she studied medicine, a more practical knowledge set in her position.

One day Maggie received a letter from her family, speaking of a plague that had begun to prey upon their town, killing the people there.

Maggie rushed to their aid, being careful to ward herself against the illness. Unfortunately, both she and her family had contracted the illness and were beginning to fall to it.

Days after death, those who had fallen to the plague began to rise, monstrous undead preying upon the living.

Locked in a healers hut surrounded by the undead, Maggie had nothing to do but wait for her own fate, be it plague or the monsters outside.

As a final plea, she reached out to her god asking that she be spared the fate of becoming one of the monsters plaguing the town.

Her request was granted. Maggie was spared that fate, though not becoming undead herself. Maggie was killed by her plague, and resurrected by her god, caught in a permanent place between life and death.

Her purpose is to heal those she can, and to put to final rest she cannot.

Maggie’s body is in a state of death - she does not breath, her blood does not pump, until she uses the powers bestowed upon her by her god.

Her wild shape and channel divinities restore her to life momentarily - though with such a blessing does come the curse of the state her body is in - still wracked by the illness that destroyed her. In those moments she is no longer numb - but it is extraordinarily painful.

She takes her purpose very seriously and traverses the world seeking those she can help. Maybe one day she’ll return to her town to put to rest those she once knew. But for now, that proves to be a great burden. A test she is not yet ready to pass.

#dnd #d&d #oc stuff #oc art #dnd npc #cleric #druid #she makes me cry #unfinished campaign #yes she has hands I was just lazy

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vnllacosmo · 2 years

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characters & fandoms *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

overview: the 100, greys anatomy, the walking dead, private practice, glee, victorious, pitch perfect, pretty little liars, gilmore girls, once upon a time, manifest, degrassi, shameless, criminal minds, the fosters, orange is the new black, switched at birth, riverdale, the vampire diaries, the originals, legacies, marvel, friends, lost in space, supergirl, mom (sitcom), full / fuller house, one day at a time, outer banks, rizzoli & isles, american horror story, how to get away with murder, blue bloods, law & order svu, reign, disney fandoms.

the one hundred:

raven reyes

anya kom trikru

echo kom spacekru

abby griffin

bellamy blake

octavia blake

luna kom flourkru

emori kom spacekru

lincoln kom trikru

john murphy

jasper jordan

monty greene

harper mcintyre

clarke griffin

indra kom trikru

commander lexa

grey’s anatomy:

addison montgomery

teddy altman

arizona robbins

meredith grey

miranda bailey

amelia shepherd

lexie grey

callie torres

cristina yang

izzie stevens

april kepner

jo wilson

carina deluca

alex karev

george o’malley

jackson avery

mark sloan

derek shepherd

ellis shepherd (best kid <3)

the walking dead:

maggie rhee

beth greene

glenn rhee

carol peletier

daryl dixon

michonne

andrea harrison

rick grimes

rosita espinosa

carl grimes

sasha williams

tara chambler

mika samuels

yumiko

connie

princess

private practice:

charlotte king

addison montgomery

amelia shepherd

pete wilder

violet turner

glee:

santana lopez

brittany pierce

quinn fabray

mercedes jones

tina cohen-chang

shelby corcoran

holly holliday

victorious:

jade west

cat valentine

beck oliver

andre harris

tori vega

pitch perfect:

aubrey posen

chloe beale

emily junk

beca mitchell

pretty little liars:

alison dilaurentis

spencer hastings

hanna marin

emily fields

mona vanderwaal

toby cavanaugh

caleb rivers

aria montgomery

gilmore girls:

lorelai gilmore

paris geller

luke danes

sookie st. james

emily gilmore

richard gilmore

lane kim

rory gilmore

dean forester

once upon a time:

regina mills

emma swan

zelena mills

snow white / mary margaret blanchard

maleficent

mulan

ruby lucas

belle french

hope swan-mills

henry mills

prince charming / david nolan

manifest:

olive stone

grace stone

michaela stone

ben stone

saanvi bahl

zeke landon

cal stone

degrassi:

paige michalchuk

manny santos

christine nelson

archie simpson

jt yorke

ellie nash

ashley kerwin

jimmy brooks

spinner mason

toby isaacs

liberty van zandt

holly j sinclair

imogen moreno

adam torres

alli bhandari

clare edwards

eli goldsworthy

zoë rivas

grace cardinal

tristan milligan

shameless:

fiona gallagher

veronica fisher

angela (season 5)

kevin ball

lip gallagher

ian gallagher

debbie gallagher

carl gallagher

liam gallagher

sheila jackson

mandy milkovich

mickey milkovich

criminal minds:

emily prentiss

elle greenaway

penelope garcia

derek morgan

aaron hotchner

david rossi

jennifer jareau

the fosters:

stef foster

lena adams

mariana adams-foster

jesus adams-foster

jude adams-foster

orange is the new black:

piper chapman

nicky nichols

poussey washington

alex vause

lorna morello

galina reznikov (red)

gloria mendoza

sophia burset

maritza ramos

switched at birth:

bay kennish

regina vasquez

kathryn kennish

toby kennish

lily summers

melody bledsoe

daphne vasques

riverdale:

alice cooper

betty cooper

veronica lodge

cheryl blossom

kevin keller

archie andrews

toni topaz

hermione lodge

the vampire diaries:

caroline forbes

bonnie bennett

stefan salvatore

katherine pierce

elena gilbert

the originals:

rebekah mikaelson

hayley marshall

elijah mikaelson

klaus mikaelson

legacies:

lizzie saltzman

hope mikaelson

rafael waithe

penelope park

marvel:

jemma simmons (agents of shield)

melinda may (agents of shield)

natasha romanoff (black widow)

yelena belova (black widow)

maria hill (agents of shield)

victoria hand (agents of shield)

bobbi morse (agents of shield)

kate bishop (hawkeye)

lance hunter (agents of shield)

elena rodriguez (agents of shield)

alphonso mackenzie (agents of shield)

leo fitz (agents of shield)

phil coulson (agents of shield)

skye / daisy johnson (agents of shield)

friends:

rachel green

monica geller

phoebe buffay

joey tribbiani

chandler bing

lost in space (2018):

maureen robinson

penny robinson

john robinson

don west

judy robinson

supergirl:

kara danvers

alex danvers

lena luthor

cat grant

astra

mom (sitcom):

bonnie plunkett

christy plunkett

full / fuller house:

dj tanner

stephanie tanner

kimmy gibbler

michelle tanner

ramona gibbler

rocki mahan

jesse katsopolis

joey gladstone

one day at a time:

penelope alvarez

elena alvarez

alex alvarez

lydia alvarez

schneider

outer banks:

kiara carrera

jj maybank

pope heyward

john b routledge

sarah cameron (s2 only)

rizzoli & isles:

jane rizzoli

maura isles

barry frost

angela rizzoli

american horror story:

cordelia goode

misty day

madison montgomery

zoe benson

myrtle snow

queenie

nan

mallory

coco st. pierre vanderbilt

wilhemina venable

how to get away with murder:

bonnie winterbottom

michaela pratt

annalise keating

connor walsh

asher millstone

wes gibbins

laurel castillo

blue bloods:

eddie janko

maria baez

jackie curatola

linda reagan

jamie reagan

danny reagan

erin reagan

law & order (svu):

alex cabot

olivia benson

amanda rollins

reign:

catherine medici

mary stuart

disney:

raven baxter (tsr / raven’s home)

chelsea baxter (tsr / raven’s home)

miley stewart (hannah montana)

lilly truscott (hannah montana)

alex russo (wizards of waverly place)

teddy duncan (good luck charlie)

london tipton (suite life on deck)

maddie fitzpatrick (suite life of zack & cody)

sharpay evans (high school musical)

olivia, mo, & stella (lemonade mouth)

mal, evie, carlos, & jay (descendants)

riley matthews (girl meets world)

#peaches navigation

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