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she called me pet names last night and it felt amazing. I wish she’d only ever call me her baby. it’s the best feeling I’ve ever felt.
New Chapter tomorrow!
i had sworn to myself that i’m content / with loneliness / because none of it was ever worth the risk / but you are / the only exception
- the only exception [paramore]
Diverse Stories & Funny Laughs: a reading list
Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Wanted:
One (fake) boyfriend
Practically perfect in every way
Luc O'Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything.
To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. He’s a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he’s never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened.
But the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. And that’s when you get used to someone. Start falling for them. Don’t ever want to let them go.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items?
• Enjoy a drunken night out.
• Ride a motorcycle.
• Go camping.
• Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex.
• Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.
• And… do something bad.
But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.
Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…
Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his mother and sisters, Larry refuses–thus imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease them, and in penance for failing to mourn his father correctly, he hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the daily prayer and shepherd his father’s soul safely to rest.
This is Nathan Englander’s freshest and funniest work to date–a satire that touches, lightly and with unforgettable humor, on the conflict between religious and secular worlds, and the hypocrisies that run through both. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet, which, like God, is everywhere.
Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home.
Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America.
Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.
A hilariously heartfelt novel about living life at full force, and discovering family when you least expect it, influenced in part by the author’s time as Carrie Fisher’s beloved assistant.
Charlie Besson is about to have an insane job interview. His car is idling, like his life, outside the Hollywood mansion of Kathi Kannon. THE Kathi Kannon, star of stage and screen and People magazine’s worst dressed list. She needs an assistant. He needs a hero.
Kathi is an icon, bestselling author, and an award winning actress, most known for her role as Priestess Talara in the iconic blockbuster sci-fi film. She’s also known for another role: crazy Hollywood royalty. Admittedly so. Famously so. Fabulously so.
Charlie gets the job, and embarks on an odyssey filled with late night shopping sprees, last minute trips to see the aurora borealis, and an initiation to that most sacred of Hollywood tribes: the personal assistant. But Kathi becomes much more than a boss, and as their friendship grows, Charlie must make a choice. Will he always be on the sidelines of life, assisting the great forces that be, or can he step into his own leading role?
Laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly poignant, Byron Lane’s A Star is Bored is a novel that, like the star at its center, is enchanting and joyous, heartbreaking and hopeful.
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
Leading Ladies do not end up on tabloid covers.
After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country, Jasmine figures her new “Leading Lady Plan” should be easy enough to follow—until a casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Suárez.
Leading Ladies don’t need a man to be happy.
After his last telenovela character was killed off, Ashton is worried his career is dead as well. Joining this new cast as a last-minute addition will give him the chance to show off his acting chops to American audiences and ping the radar of Hollywood casting agents. To make it work, he’ll need to generate smoking-hot on-screen chemistry with Jasmine. Easier said than done, especially when a disastrous first impression smothers the embers of whatever sexual heat they might have had.
Leading Ladies do not rebound with their new costars.
With their careers on the line, Jasmine and Ashton agree to rehearse in private. But rehearsal leads to kissing, and kissing leads to a behind-the-scenes romance worthy of a soap opera. While their on-screen performance improves, the media spotlight on Jasmine soon threatens to destroy her new image and expose Ashton’s most closely guarded secret.
5 stars
audiobook
I made a horrible mistake when I started this audiobook, I planned to listen to it over a couple of weeks. It took me three days, would have taken me two, but I life things that had to happen. To say I loved Joker and Carissa would be an understatement. To say watching them fall in love had me in happy tears more times than I could count was accurate. To say watching the people around them, the family they each built separately and together made me smile in crazy happiness would be true. To say I cheered as old friends surrounded and loved and helped them and made me giddy at their appearance would be correct. To say I loved Tack even more with every appearance he makes, and especially in this epilogue, and my heart swelled as he did so good by Joker would be exact. I have had this book for years, I have seen these characters in other books, and now that I know their story, the lives they lived before, apart, and now together, to say I am kicking myself for not having this story before now, that would be truthful. But I now have them, I have their story, and I love them immensely now, that’s the most beautiful thing in the world <3
Fandom: Fire Emblem Awakening
Rating: G (death mentions, grief, kissing)
Relationships: Chrom/F!Robin
Summary: Chrom laughs quietly, which Robin is glad for; she hasn’t heard him so much as giggle the whole way back to Ylisstol. She cracks a smile in return, and doesn’t shy away when Chrom leans his back against the railing at her side, his arm brushing against her shoulder. “You gave me a good reason to get out, though, after you disappeared like that. I told the others I’d look for you.”
Robin smiles softly. “Well, you found me,” she murmurs lightheartedly.
Chrom falls silent for a moment, each breath of his sending clouds of fog into the air, until he finally says, “It’s hard to celebrate when I keep seeing her face every time I close my eyes.”
Read it on AO3: Every Step
ESMOND CONFESSION…
Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn’t it?
I loved you
You loved me loving you
“Às vezes, começar de novo é exatamente o que uma pessoa precisa”
My favorite thing to think about is you beside me, sitting comfortably and reading.
Or writing, me laying half asleep in your lap, while your laptop rests on top of me.
Or at a coffee shop, I said something that made you laugh so suddenly you needed to grab your cup with both hands.
Or at a nature walk, talking a break by the bench. Me sitting, watching you with adoration as you lean against the railing, taking in your beauty as you take in the beauty of nature.
Or walking along the street, hand in hand eating ice cream. I get some on my nose because I’m clumsy, you laugh, only to gasp when I boop some onto your nose too with a finger, my laugh joining yours as you can’t help but laugh again.
Or at a carnival, at night, clinging to your arm so I don’t get lost and you smiling knowingly. Keeping me close and not straying from the lights, suggesting rides and games that seem like fun. I try to win you a prize but my clumsiness makes me lose every time. You try to win, and succeed, asking me which prize I wanted. I had wanted to win one for you, but too swooned by you to say that, so pick one— Smiling as I hug it explaining I chose it because it reminded me of you.
Vanessa: Is it poisonous?
Dorian: Like all beautiful things…
Penny Dreadful S1E4
