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Brian Waugh, “Last Castle”
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badgaymovies · 2 years
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Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Kelly's Heroes by #BrianGHutton starring #ClintEastwood and #TellySavalas, "only go for this one if its familiarity is appealing to you",
BRIAN G. HUTTON Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5 USA/Yugoslavia, 1970. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Katzka-Loeb, Avala Film, The Warriors Company. Screenplay by Troy Kennedy-Martin. Cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa. Produced by Sidney Beckerman, Gabriel Katzka. Music by Lalo Schifrin. Production Design by John Barry. Costume Design by Anna Maria Feo. Film Editing by John Jympson. A platoon of American…
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dandifiedstupefied · 2 years
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there is nowhere near enough love for ambrose silk on this site.
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WIP Game
I am so incredibly late to the party on this one! But! I was so incredibly honored to be invited!!! @eliotqueliot tagged me, and this was the first time I have EVER been tagged in something like this, so even though my response is late to a degree of insanity, please know that it literally filled me with an explosion of joy that I was thought of and included 💕
Ok, Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs. Buckle in folks, I have SO many.
I'm keeping it just to The Magicians, but if anyone would like me to repeat this process with other fandoms I am in but not primarily focused on right this moment (like Merlin or TMA, both of which I have pretty solid handfuls of fics in the works for that I will get around to eventually) feel free to ask! Also feel free to ask me literally anything about any of my fics at any time, because that would actually excite me beyond all mortal comprehension! OK! Here goes.
And just so everyone knows, a lot of my docs are just named with an autofill of part of the first sentence written there, so I'm really going to get some mileage out of the 'non-descriptive and ridiculous' part of the rule lol
The memory wipe was not
A Reluctant Coin Toss
Something Borrowed
(Eliot steals the Time Key)
5+1+3
Queliot dnd fic
Brian walks through his favorite bookstore
And Death was a Joke
Vampire Eliot series season two
Green-eyed Monster
The Cottage was empty and quiet – somewhat shockingly seeing as most of those missing in attendance were hardly social butterflies – but three first year additions (and Penny) to the Physical Kids residence was more than was customary and the whole building was just a lot less densely packed without them.
Quell Your Love Spell
Eliot Waugh's Adventures in Soothing a High-strung Super Nerd
Eliot was right
Eliot and Quentin have been… weird since Margo retrieved the Time Key.
Fen's eyes sparkle when she cries
Of Prophecies -- Princes, Parrots, Pirates, and Paupers -- and the Prepared
Sksksksksk
Fennel Seeds
Excerpt from A Flock of Lost Birds – Book One of The Adventures of Sam Cunningham series:
I think that is all of them??? All of the ones I actually have stuff written for and not in a notebook anyway lol, I have more ideas and snippets scattered across various journals. Please please please ask me questions, holy shit, I would love that! Honestly, I cannot think of anyone to tag that hasn't been already, so I'm gonna leave this here I think.
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Dubois' bibliography: Fairy books (1)
I talked a LOT before of Pierre Dubois, his famous "Fairy/Elf/Lutin Encyclopedias", his collections of fairytales, and so forth and so on. And yes we have to agree that he has a very free, inventive, poetic style when it comes to retelling the various myths and legends surrounding the fair folk and other supernatural beings. As such, while his books are very entertaining and very beautiful, they are not to be used as a serious research material and can be quite misleading between Dubois' personal inventions, crafted genealogies and fictional history of "Elfland"...
BUT the wonderful and very pleasant thing with Dubois is that at the end of each of his Encylopedias he leaves us with a complete bibliography of all the books he used when writing them. I have rarely stumbled upon such complete bibliographies about the "fair folk", "good neighbor", petit peuple" and so forth, and while it goes a bit beyond what this blog is about (fairy tales proper), I still thought of sharing some of it here because my Dubois posts were all here.
Now, I can't share the entirety of the bibliography because it would be too big. However what I will share is all the books Dubois placed in his bibliography... in English. Indeed, Dubois reads the English and as such a good chunk of his bibliography is English-speaking (there are also some Spanish, Italian and German books in his lists). As such, if you are an English speaker you can easily go check these texts. (Note, this comes from his bibliography of his "Encyclopedia of Fairies", so that we stay within the "fairy tale" theme of this blog)
Tolkien's On Fairy-Stories
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Beatrice Phillports, Mermaids
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Richard Carrington, Mermaids and Mastodons
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Gwen Benwell and Arthur Waugh, Sea Enchantress
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The Lost Gods of England, Brian Branston
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Wilfrid Bonser, A bibliography of folklore
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Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese Mythology (also known as the History of Japanese Religion)
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F. J. Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
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Moncure Daniel Conway, Demonology and Devil Lore
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T. C. Croker, Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
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N. Belfield Dennys, The Folklore of China [The book has the very unfortunate subtitles "and its affinities with that the Aryan and Semitic races", but it was written in the 19th century so...)
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David Crockett Graham, Songs and Stories of the Ch'uan Miao
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Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology
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P. Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
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John Rhys, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
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Sir George Webb Dasent's translation of Popular Tales from the Norse
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The Norse Myths (as rewriten by Crossley)
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Delaporte Press' Great Swedish Fairy Tales, illustrated by John Bauer
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Inger and Edgar Parn d'Aulaire, D'Aulaire's Trolls (also known as D'Aulaire's Book of Trolls)
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The Florence Ekstrand edition of Theodore Kittelsen's Norvegian Trolls and Other Tales
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G. Fox, The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
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Edward L. Gardner, Fairies
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M. Geoffrey Hodson, The Kingdom of the Gods
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Coming of the Fairies
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Walter Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults
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Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Age
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polycule-playoff · 9 months
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Last Edited: 2 February 2024
So far polycules from the following media have been submitted:
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy
Stephen King's It
Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Stan Uris, Mike Hanlon, Kay McCall, Audra Phillips and Patty Blum
Sherlock Holmes
Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mary Morstan
Doki Doki Precure
Cure Heart, Cure Diamond, Cure Rosetta, Cure Sword and Regina
A3!
Tsumugi Tsukioka, Tasuku Takato, Hisoka Mikage, Homare Arisugawa, Azuma Yukishiro and Guy
Persona 5
Akira Kurusu/Ren Amamiya, Ryuji Sakamoto, Ann Takamaki, Yusuke Kitagawa, Makoto Niijima, Futaba Sakura, Haru Okumura, Goro Akechi, Sumire Yoshizawa, Morgana and Yuuki Mishima
Akira Kurusu/Ren Amamiya, Hifumi Togo, Chihaya Mifune, and Lavenza
Witch's Heart
Claire Elford, Noel Levine, Ashe Bradley, Wilardo Adler and Sirius Gibson
Ensemble Stars!!
Leo Tsukinaga, Tsukasa Suou, Arashi Narukami, Izumi Sena, Ritsu Sakuma, Mao Isara, Hokuto Hidaka, Subaru Akehoshi and Makoto Yuuki
Stranger Things
Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Jonathan Byers, Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley, Argyle, Chrissy Cunningham, Eden Bingham, and Vickie.
Star Trek DS9
Elim Garak, Julian Bashir, Miles O'Brien, Keiko O'Brien, Kira Nerys, Jadzia Dax, Odo Ital, Quark, Worf, Ezri, Sisko, Lwaxana Troi, Kasidy Yates-Sisko, and Lenara Kahn
The Owl House
Luz Noceda, Amity Blight, Willow Park, Hunter, and Gus Porter
Dracula
Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, Quincey Morris, Jack Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Abraham Van Helsing
The Breakfast Club
Brian Johnson, Andrew Clark, Allison Reynolds, Claire Standish, and John Bender
Winx Club
Bloom, Stella, Tecna, Musa, Flora, Aisha, Sky, Brandon, Timmy, Riven, Helia, Nex and Nabu
Resident Evil
Leon S Kennedy, Claire Redfield, Ada Wong and Helena Harper
The Case Study of Vanitas
Vanitas, Noe Archiviste, Dominique de Sade and Jeanne
Scooby Doo
Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Shaggy Rogers, Velma Dinkley, Hot Dog Water, and Crystal.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Darla, Angel(us), Drusilla, and Spike/William
The Legend of Zelda
Revali, Zelda, Link, Mipha, Sidon, Yona, Paya and Tauro
The Magicians
Fen, Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson, Josh Hoberman, and Quentin Coldwater
To be added: Arielle
Haikyū!!
Kiyoko Shimizu, Yachi Hitoka, Yamaguchi Tadashi, Tsukishima Kei, Bokuto Kōtarō, Akaashi Keiji, Kuroo Tetsurō, Kozume Kenma, Hinata Shōyō, Daichi Sawamura, Kageyama Tobio, Oikawa Tooru, Iwaizumi Hajime, Terushima Yuuji, and Ushijima Wakatoshi
Genshin Impact
Cyno, Alhaitham, Kaveh, and Tighnari
To be added: Dehya, Nilou, Faruzan, Dunyarzad, and Candace.
Kaeya, Rosaria, Albedo, and Sucrose
Neuvillette, Wriothesley, Navia, Clorinde, Zhongli, and Childe
Arataki Itto, Kujou Sara, Kamisato Ayato, Gorou, Thoma, and Sangonomiya Kokomi
Heaven Official's Blessing
Xie Lan, Hua Cheng, Mu Qing, and Feng Xin
The Magnus Archives
Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood, Sasha James, and Tim Stoker
Torchwood
Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Rhys Williams, Owen Harper, Ianto Jones, and Toshiko Sato
Spiderman
Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, Mary-Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Liz Allan, Felicia Hardy, and Johnny Storm
Beastars
Legosi, Louis, Haru, and Juno
Lupin III
Lupin III, Goemon Ishikawa XIII, Daisuke Jigen, and Fujiko Mine
Omori
Sunny, Kel, Basil, Aubrey
Cookie Run
Herb Cookie, Vampire Cookie, Sparkling Cookie, Mint Choco Cookie, and Cocoa Cookie
The Grail Quest
Percival, Galahad, Bors, Dinadrane, and Blanchfleur
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair/Super Danganronpa 2
Hajime Hinata, Kazuichi Soda, Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, Sonia Nevermind, and Akane Owari
Zero Escape
Akane Kurashiki, Junpei, Sigma Klim, Carlos, and Diana Snake
Roswell New Mexico
Nora Truman, Louise Truman, Theo, Tripp Manes and Roy Bronson
Max Evans, Isobel Evans, Michael Guerin, Liz Ortecho, Kyle Valenti, Maria DeLuca, Alex Manes, Jenna "Cam" Cameron, Heath, Dallas Haines, Greg Manes and Anatsa
The Raven Cycle
Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey, Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish, Noah Czerny, and Henry Cheng
Warcraft
Khadgar, Kalecgos, Illidan, Kael'thas, and Vashj
Lor'themar Theron, Thalyssra, Halduron Brightwing, and Rommath
The Book of Firsts
Mika, Rin, Bran, and Kyou
Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun
Suzuki Iruma, Asmodeus Alice (Azz), Valac Clara, Azazel Ameri, and Purson Soi
My School President
Gun, Tinn, Sound, Win, Tiw, Por, Yo, Nook, Pat, and Kajorn
Bad Buddy
Pat, Pran, Korn, and Wai
Guardian Tales
Knight, Elvira, Arabelle, Beth, Priscilla, Yuze, Bianca, Loraine, Eva, and Camilla
Word of Honor/Faraway Wanders
Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu, Han Ying, Jing Beiyuan, and Wuxi
The New Teen Titans
Dick Grayson, Starfire, Victor Stone, Raven, Joseph Wilson, Donna Troy, Garfield
The Locked Tomb
Ianthe, Tridentarius, Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Alecto the First, John Gaius, Mercymorn the First, and Augustine the First
Baldur's Gate 3
Astarion, Gale, Lae'zel, Karlach, Shadowheart, Wyll, and Durge
Kagerou Project
Ayano Tateyama, Shintaro Kisaragi, Takane Enomoto, and Haruka Kokonose
NU Carnival
Eiden, Aster, Morvay, Yakumo, Edmond, Olivine, Quincy, Kuya, Garu, Blade, Dante, Rei, and Karu
Only Friends
Top, Mew, Ray, Sand, Boston, Nick, and Boeing
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Books Read 2023
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations / Mira Jacob
A Grief Observed / C. S. Lewis
Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader / ed. Brian Carpenter & Tom Franklin
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison
Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate (A Golden Nature Guide) / Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Herbert S. Zim ; Harry McNaught (ill.)
Improbable Memories / Sarah Moon
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery / Adam Clair
The Difference Between / Billy McCall
The Submissive (The Submissive #1) / Tara Sue Me
Last Night at the Casino [v. 1] / Billy McCall
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing / Marie Kondo ; Cathy Hirano (tr.)
Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov
My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones
"Waltz of the Body Snatchers" / Alfred Bester, in Andromeda I: An original SF anthology / ed. Peter Weston
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America / William Least Heat-Moon
The Stars My Destination (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) / Alfred Bester
Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov
Man and His Symbols / Carl G. Jung
Mysteries of the Unexplained / ed. Carroll C. Calkins
The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin
The Seven Ages / Louise Glück
The Wild Iris / Louise Glück
Vita Nova / Louise Glück
Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design / Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker
Where's Waldo? (Where's Waldo #1) / Martin Handford
Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (Where's Waldo #3) / Martin Handford
Doctor Who 50 Years #3: The Doctors / ed. Marcus Hearn
Rabbit, Run / John Updike
Mother Night / Kurt Vonnegut
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) / Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with The Policy Standards Office of the Library of Congress
"Descriptive Bibliography" / Terry Belanger, in Book Collecting: A Modern Guide / ed. Jean Peters
The Essential Doctor Who #2: The TARDIS / ed. Marcus Hearn
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov
Chicago: City on the Make / Nelson Algren
Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 / Gilles Néret
American Gods: A Novel / Neil Gaiman
Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art / Janis Mink
The Empathy Exams: Essays / Leslie Jamison
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families / James Agee & Walker Evans
Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction / ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg
Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project / W. Eugene Smith ; ed. Sam Stephenson
Twilight / Gregory Crewdson ; Rick Moody
Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World / N.E. Thing Enterprises
Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams / Steve Horton & Michael Allred ; Laura Allred (ill.)
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path / Jack Kornfield
The Gin Closet: A Novel / Leslie Jamison
The New Kid on the Block / Jack Prelutsky ; James Stevenson (ill.)
A Book of Common Prayer / Joan Didion
Mariette in Ecstasy / Ron Hansen
Camp Damascus / Chuck Tingle
The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak (Public History in Historical Perspective) / Tammy S. Gordon
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas / Rebecca Solnit & Rebecca Snedeker
Other Voices, Other Rooms / Truman Capote
Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon ; E.H. Suydam (ill.)
Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets / Matt Lake
Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (Griffin & Sabine #1) / Nick Bantock
Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues (Griffin & Sabine #2) / Nick Bantock
The Golden Mean: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes (Griffin & Sabine #3) / Nick Bantock
Breath, Eyes, Memory / Edwidge Danticat
Last Night at the Casino, v. 2 / Billy McCall
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions / Randall Munroe
Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-with Books (Third Millennium Cataloging) / Jain Fletcher
Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) / Barbara Johnstone
My Misspent Youth: Essays / Meghan Daum
Slender Intuition: Essays on Artist's Block / Brian Hitselberger
The Mister / E L James
Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place / Scott McClanahan
The Transcriptionist: A Novel / Amy Rowland
Explanations/Opinions below the cut:
Ok so I have several reading lists/stacks that I rotate through: my to-read spreadsheet (which has almost 300 titles listed in chronological order by date added, with the oldest being from 8/22/2014), my to-read bookcase/nightstand (which holds ~50 books I’ve acquired over the past few years but haven’t yet read), a stack of oversized unreads that don’t fit on the nightstand shelves (this gets its own list bc I need to read them and find a permanent home for them before the stack gets too tall), and “interruptions” (books that override the list order bc I didn’t want to wait to read them, for whatever reason).
Maybe it’s weird that I’m so attached to reading things “in order”? Idk. I’ve always been like this. It’s only a mild compulsion – obviously, I am perfectly capable of ignoring what’s supposed to be next on the list, in favor of reading something that catches my interest more strongly in the moment, but in general, I like to read things either in the order I added them to the list, or the order I personally acquired a physical copy (if I went by the list only, I’d be drowning in unread books [yay, college town thrift stores], so I gotta stay on top of that pile pretty regularly). So that is why I am often reading things that I first became aware of/added to my list nearly 10 years ago. Sometimes this practice results in feelings like, “Dang, I wish I would’ve actually read this 10 years ago,” but also sometimes, “WOW, I’m so glad I’m reading this RIGHT NOW, as opposed to 10 years ago when I first heard about it!”
I think my favorites this year were Mariette in Ecstasy; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Crapalachia; and Speak, Memory.
Mild disappointments were the essay collections by Leslie Jamison and Meghan Daum, two authors I’m pretty sure I discovered via popular and relateable quotes reblogged on tumblr ca. 2014, but the collections taken as a whole just had too many moments of cringe – casual classism, arrogant self-absorption, and other annoying and unrelateable qualities typical of privileged 20-something writers (this tone definitely appealed to me when I was a naïve and melodramatic snotty 20-something, so there’s that).
As a kind of memorial, Rachael and I read David’s three favorite books: The Stars My Destination, Mother Night, and American Gods. In all the time I knew him, including all the times we used to sit on the porch together, reading quietly while he drank whiskey, I never thought to ask him his favorites. I kept looking for pieces of him in the stories, wondering what lines stood out, what made a book memorable, what did it say about him that these were his favorites.
Being an elder Millennial, I’m in the stage of nostalgically re-acquiring important artifacts from my childhood, so that’s why there are some children’s books on my list. Where’s Waldo? was one of the most coveted books in my grade-school library! There was always a list of people waiting to check it out, but usually, whoever actually had the book that week would let the other kids gather around and look together.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw was a recommendation from my goth teenaged birthdaughter <3 which I probably read too much personal symbolism into but maybe not!
I thought John Updike was overrated, lol.
Favorite photography book: W. Eugene Smith’s Dream Street. His pictures made me so homesick, and it was wild because he took them from 1955-1957 but they still really, REALLY, to me, looked like the Pittsburgh of my ‘80s/’90s memories (bc Pittsburgh doesn’t change, and also the “idea” or “brand” of Pittsburgh in the ‘80s/’90s was ofc consciously referencing its industrial working-class past). He took over 10,000 photos but was never able to “finish” the project to his intense, obsessive standards of perfection (I KNOW THAT FEEL) and felt it failed to capture the multifaceted essence of the city. WELL, not in my opinion at least!
PS I'm moonmoth on LibraryThing.
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homomenhommes · 5 months
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …
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1466 – Erasmus was a Dutch humanist and theologian, who merits serious consideration by queer people of faith. Born Gerrit Gerritszoon, he became far better known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: Erasmus was his saint's name, after St. Erasmus of Formiae; Rotterdam, for the place of his birth (although he never lived there after the first few years of early childhood; and "Desiderius" a name he gave himself - "the one who is desired".
He left a legacy as a scholar and church reformer. His career spanned the years leading up to, and after, Martin Luther's break with the Catholic Church that became the Protestant Reformation. Prior to the split, Erasmus had himself been fiercely critical of the Church, arguing forcefully for reform of the many and manifold abuses. He had close relationships with Luther and many other leading members of the Reformation movement, which his ideas strongly influenced. However, when the break came, he chose to remain formally inside the church structures, and not outside of it.
Some LGBT activists have hailed Erasmus as a gay icon from history. Circa Club for instance has no doubt, using that precise term and including Erasmus in it's collection of historical gay icons. The primary basis of the claim is a series of passionate love letters he wrote to a young monk Servatius Rogerus. While at the Augustinian monastery at Stein near Gouda around 1487, Erasmus wrote passionate letters of friendship to the fellow monk, whom he called "half my soul", writing, "I have wooed you both unhappily and relentlessly"; this correspondence contrasts sharply with the generally detached and much more restrained attitude he showed in his later life.There were also allegations of improper advances made to the young Thomas Grey, later Marquis of Dorset, while employed as his tutor.
Erasmus's best-known work was The Praise of Folly, a satirical attack on the traditions of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511 and dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More.
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1903 – British poet and novelist Evelyn Waugh was born on this date (d.1996). The English writer is best known for such satirical and darkly humorous novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, as well as for broader and more personal works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honor trilogy, that are influenced by his own experiences and his conservative and Catholic viewpoints. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he satirizes but to which, paradoxically, he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel writings and his extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published.
The overt homosexuality of his brother Alec Waugh may have caused Evelyn to hide his own tendencies behind two marriages and seven children. Alec Waugh, like their father, publisher Arthur Waugh, had gone to school at Sherborne, and it was assumed that Evelyn would follow. However, in 1915 Alec was asked to leave, after a homosexual relationship came to light. He departed for military training, and while waiting for his commission to be confirmed wrote a novel of school life, The Loom of Youth, which was published by Chapman and Hall. The novel, which alluded to homosexual friendships in what was recognisably Sherborne, caused a public sensation and offended the school sufficiently to make it impossible for Evelyn to go there. Much to his annoyance he was sent in May 1917 to Lancing, in his view a decidedly inferior establishment. He later went to Oxford.
He arrived in Oxford in January 1922; in October 1922 the arrival of the sophisticated Etonians Harold Acton and Brian Howard changed Waugh's Oxford life. Acton and Howard rapidly became the centre of an avant-garde circle known as the Hypocrites, whose artistic, social and homosexual values Waugh adopted enthusiastically; he later wrote: "It was the stamping ground of half my Oxford life". He began drinking heavily, and embarked on the first of several homosexual relationships, the most lasting of which were with Richard Pares and Alastair Graham.
After gallantly protecting T. S. Eliot from "the specious assumption that he was homosexual," T.S. Matthews in Great Tom, suddenly became viciously ungallant: "It is peppery, glaring little men like Evelyn Waugh who are sexually suspect - as his diaries bear witness."
Indeed, his diaries do clearly reveal him as a Gay man. But then so do his novels, particularly Brideshead Revisited, in which the friendship of Charles and Sebastian, despite the limitations of what he was allowed to write in the early 1940s, is magnificently drawn.
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1909 – The Anglo-Irish born painter Francis Bacon (d.1992) was a descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork is well known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs
Bacon early discovered that he attracted a certain type of rich man, an attraction he was quick to take advantage of, having developed a taste for good food and wine. One of the men was an ex-army friend of his father, another breeder of race-horses, named Harcourt-Smith. Bacon later claimed that his father had asked this friend to take him 'in-hand' and 'make a man of him'. Francis had a difficult relationship with his father, once admitting to being sexually attracted to him. Doubtless, Eddy Bacon was aware of his friend's reputation for virility, but not of his penchant for young men. In the early Spring of 1927 Bacon was taken by Harcourt-Smith to the opulent, decadent, "wide open" Berlin of the Weimar Republic, staying together at the Hotel Adlon.
His visit to a 1927 exhibition of 106 drawings by Picasso at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, aroused his artistic interest, and he often took the train to Paris five or more times a week to see shows and art exhibitions.
In 1929 he met Eric Hall at the Bath Club, Dover Street, London, where Bacon was working at the telephone exchange. Hall (who was general manager of Peter Jones) was to be both patron and lover to Bacon, in an often torturous relationship.
In 1964, Bacon began a relationship with 39-year-old Eastender George Dyer, whom he met, he claimed, while the latter was burgling his apartment. A petty criminal with a history of juvenile detention and prison, Dyer was a somewhat tortured individual, insecure, alcoholic, appearance obsessed and never really fitting in within the bohemian set surrounding Francis. The relationship was stormy and in 1971, on the eve of Bacon's major retrospective at the Paris Grand Palais, Dyer committed suicide in the hotel room they were sharing, overdosing on barbiturates. The event was recorded in Bacon's 1973 masterpiece Triptych, May-June 1973.
In 1974, Bacon met John Edwards, a young, illiterate, handsome Eastender with whom he formed one of his most enduring friendships, eventually bequeathing his £11m fortune to Edwards after his death.
Bacon died of a sudden heart attack on April 28, 1992, in Madrid, Spain. Bacon bequeathed his entire estate (then valued at eleven million pounds) to John Edwards after his death. Edwards, in turn, donated the contents of Francis Bacon's chaotic studio in South Kensington, to the Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin. Bacon's studio contents were moved and the studio carefully reconstructed in the gallery. Additionally draft materials, perhaps intended for destruction, were according to Canadian Barry Joule bequeathed to Joule who later forwarded most of the materials to create the Barry Joule Archive in Dublin with other parts of the collection given later to the Tate museum.
Bacon's Soho life was portrayed by John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer (with some lovely frontal nudity on Craig's part) and with Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher, in the film Love is the Devil (1998), based on Daniel Farson's 1993 biography The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon.
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1949 – Caitlyn Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner), known as Bruce Jenner until 2015, is an American television personality and former track and field athlete.
A former college football player, Jenner came to international attention as a decathlete, winning the gold medal in the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and setting a world record not beaten until 1980. With the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete" for the Olympic decathlon win, he was also an American cult hero winning an event dominated by Soviet Union athletes during the Cold War. He leveraged his celebrity status to endorse products and subsequently starred in numerous movies and television specials including several made-for-TV movies, and was briefly Erik Estrada's replacement on the TV series CHiPs.
Jenner was married for 23 years to Kris Jenner (née Houghton; formerly Kardashian); the couple and their children appeared beginning in 2007 on the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Following their divorce in 2015, Jenner came out in a television interview as a trans woman, initially preferring masculine pronouns until his transition was more complete. In June 2015, Jenner revealed her new name, Caitlyn, and a preference for being referred to using feminine pronouns. Many news sources have described her as the most famous openly transgender person in the world.
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Bruce Jenner that was.
Jenner is a professed Christian, leans politically conservative, and is a Republican. Prior to her public gender transition, she had been married three times. Her first marriage was to Chrystie Scott (née Crownover) from 1972 to 1981. They have two children, son Burton and daughter Cassandra, known as Burt and Casey. Jenner and Scott's divorce was finalized the first week of January 1981. The same week, on January 5, 1981, Jenner married actress Linda Thompson, in Hawaii. By February 1986, Jenner and Thompson had separated, and they subsequently divorced. They have two sons together, Brandon and Sam Brody, known as Brody. The two sons starred on the reality show The Princes of Malibu and Brody Jenner was also on the reality show The Hills.
Jenner's third marriage, to Kris Kardashian (née Houghton), occurred on April 21, 1991, after five months of dating. They have two daughters, Kendall and Kylie. While married, Jenner was also the step-parent to Kris's four children from her previous marriage to the late lawyer Robert Kardashian: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob. The couple announced their separation in October 2013, though they had actually separated a year earlier. Kris filed for divorce in September 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce terms were finalized in December 2014 and went into effect on March 23, 2015, because of a six-month state legal requirement.
In an April 2015, 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, Jenner came out as a trans woman saying she had dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth, and that, for all intents and purposes, "I’m a woman." Jenner cross dressed for many years and did hormone replacement therapy but stopped after the romance with Kris Kardashian in the early 1990s became more serious. Caitlyn recounts having permission to explore her gender identity on her own travels but not when they were coupled, and that not knowing the best way to talk about the many issues contributed to the deterioration of the 22-year-long marriage which formally ended in 2013.
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1990 – Placido Domingo and Andre Watts raised $1.5 million at a fundraiser for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
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2008 – Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic premiered to a star-studded audience at San Francisco's Castro Theater. Milk would go on to win various Oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards.
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2009 – President Barack Obama signed the The Matthew Shepard Act (officially the "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act") into law. The Act expanded the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. It was finally passed after almost two decades of attempts to pass it through Congress and over stiff opposition by members of the Republican party. During debate in the House of Representatives, Republican Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina called the "hate crime" labeling of Shepard's murder a "hoax."
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nellie-elizabeth · 3 months
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2024 Book-Tracking Post!
GOAL 1 BOOKS: OWNED & NOT READ (13 as of 1.2.24)
Red Rising - Pierce Brown
The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
Promise of Blood - Brian McClellan
Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
Edgedancer - Brandon Sanderson
Dawnshard - Brandon Sanderson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Brandon Sanderson
The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson
The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
[The Adventure Zone - Suffering Game] - preordered
[What Doesn't Break (Bells Hells)] - preordered
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GOAL 2 BOOKS: BOOK CLUBS! (1 as of 1.2.24)
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
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GOAL 3 BOOKS: RE-READ OLD BOOKS (40 as of 1.2.24)
Peter and the Starcatchers
Peter and the Shadow Thieves
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
In Cold Blood
The School Story
The Wish List
Walk Two Moons
Bud, Not Buddy
The BFG
Crime and Punishment
Adam Bede
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Princess Bride
The Blithedale Romance
Olive’s Ocean
Our Only May Amelia
The Valley of Secrets
Cages
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
The Magician’s Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
Gathering Blue
The Host
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Mama Day - Gloria Naylor
The Accursed - Joyce Carol Oates
Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
The Cricket in Times Square
The Hobbit
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Slaughterhouse-Five
Charlotte’s Web
The People in the Trees
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GOAL 4 BOOKS: CONTINUING SERIES/AUTHORS
Books are available & not read:
Discworld series [14]
Brandon Sanderson Novels [17]
Red Rising series [7]
Powder Mage series [3]
The Locked Tomb series [3]
The Poppy War [3]
The Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit) [4]
Dresden Files [17]
Chronicles of the Avatar - F.C. Yee (Kyoshi and Yangchen) [4]
Singing Hills Cycle [2]
NK Jemisin - short stories [1]
Series/Author New Releases to keep tracking:
Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
The Adventure Zone - Graphic Novels
The Old Guard - Comics
Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Noumena - Lindsay Ellis
Singing Hills Cycle
Nampeshiweisit - Moniquill Blackgoose
Edward Rutherfurd
Kate Alice Marshall
Critical Role Content
ATLA/LOK Comics
WTNV
Madeline Miller
Hank Green
John Green
Authors to buy additional:
Philippa Gregory
Kazuo Ishiguro
Hilary Mantel
Evelyn Waugh
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tom Stoppard
Elizabeth Jane Howard
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Barbara Kingsolver
James Baldwin
Charles Dickens
Bronte Sisters
Neal Stephenson
Alexandre Dumas
Emily St. John Mandel
Dan Jones
Ruth Ozeki
Natasha Pulley
Neil Gaiman
Margaret Atwood
Leo Tolstoy
Tamora Pierce
Andy Weir
Greenhollow Duology - Emily Tesh
The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher
Time Traveller's Guides - Ian Mortimer
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‘Look,’ I whispered, ‘there’s Harold Acton.’
A tall plumpish young man loomed up, whom it was impossible to contemplate as an undergraduate; his umbrella was rolled cane-tight but no snugger than he was, into a long tube of a black overcoat with spilling from under it pleated trousers as wide as a skirt. As he advanced out of the swirling mist, it became clear that it was not just the weather, he was doing his own swirling. His advent was a sequence of hobble steps which seemed—his legs were of a good length—to be based on the ritual of some rompish religion; if his walk had not elegance, it would have been a waddle. He swayed to a standstill; in case his kind soft-coloured features might be mistaken for the face of youth, he had flanked them with a pair of long side-whiskers and topped them with a skittishly curled gray bowler. Bowing with the courtesy of another age and clime, he spoke, an English flawlessly italianated. 
‘I do most dreadfully beg your pardons this inclement night—though I have been resident a year, I find it too idio-tically diffi-cult to find my way about; I have been round Tom like a tee-toe-tum, too too madd-enning—where does our dear Dean hang out?’ 
He thanked me profusely, raised the bowler with a dazzling smile, and propelled himself Dean-ward, an Oriental diplomat off to leave a jeweled carte de visite. 
‘Jesus,’ said Evvers, ‘what's that?’ 
‘He's the Oxford aesthete,’ I informed him, ‘a Victorian, his rooms in Meadow are in lemon-yellow and he stands on his balcony and reads his poems through a megaphone to people passing, and he belongs to the Hypocrites Club with Brian Howard and Robert Byron and Evelyn Waugh and all that set; they call themselves the Post-War Generation and wear Hearts on their lapels as opposed to the pre-war Rupert Brooke lot who called themselves the Souls. They're supposed to eat new-born babies cooked in wine.’
—  Emlyn Williams, George: An Early Autobiography (1961)
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Such a delight! Love this tender Queliot story, such a pleasure to get a new chapter!
Hard To Believe (29632 words) by LoveQueliot Chapters: 5/6 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Quentin Coldwater & Julia Wicker, Margo Hanson & Eliot Waugh Characters: Quentin Coldwater, Eliot Waugh, Julia Wicker, Margo Hanson, 23rd Timeline William "Penny" Adiyodi, Kady Orloff-Diaz, Alice Quinn (The Magicians), Ted Coldwater, Henry Fogg, Brian (The Magicians), Nigel (The Magicians), Todd (The Magicians), Josh Hoberman, Fen (The Magicians) Additional Tags: Angst, Unrequited Love, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Angst with a Happy Ending, Love Confessions, Friendship, Best Friends, Endgame Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Summary: Canon Divergence. Eliot was successful in killing the monster and was never possessed. Everyone was in their fake lives created by Fogg until Kady brought Margo, Josh and 23 back. Brian and Nigel found each other. The gang found them together. How many lives do they need to be together? What happens when they come to their senses? This is the last fic of the challenge. I intend to finish it by the end of next week. Where The Magic Happens: Magicians Settings Week Day 7 - Free Choice #Magicianssettingsweek
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which stones album should I start on? I've never really listened to them, I just enjoy the band members? not sure how to explain it but I'd like to try them out and see if I can dig em
i'm more of a charlie watts fan than a stones fan, musically speaking, despite having been raised on the stones by my grandfather. i also tend to prefer '60s and '70s stones over a lot of their later stuff as a result (not to say their later stuff isn't good; i'm just not as familiar with it because i listen to it less frequently). if you also prefer a more '60s/'70s rock kind of sound like me, some good albums to start with would probably be
aftermath (1966)
(uk and us versions are slightly different)
aftermath isn't my favourite album but it does have a lot of well known songs on it and a lot of people like it. brian and charlie are probably the most impressive on this one. mick and keith are still figuring out who they are as musicians at this point, for the most part. bill, as usual, is completely forgettable.
let it bleed (1969)
this one is one of my favorites actually, as is the next one. i like almost every song on it, and you can tell mick and keith have really grown a lot as musicians and songwriters by this point, in just a few years (musicians in the '60s did A Lot in not a lot of time, so a lot of groups got good pretty fast for fear of being knocked out by the next big thing).
i especially like "you got the silver," which features keith singing. he's very good on it, and the story behind how that happened is also pretty funny to me. mick wanted glyn johns to do something experimental with the vocals (i forget what the actual technique glyn settled on was called but it involved reversing the tape or part of the tape), and glyn accidentally wiped the entire vocal track because he'd never done it before. mick was out of the country filming a movie, so they couldn't call him back in to rerecord. as a result, glyn ended up asking keith to step in because he was the only other guy from the band in the studio, and it turned out better than the original, so they kept keith's version in the final cut.
beggars banquet (1968)
i really enjoyed the stones' performance at the rock and roll circus special they did in november '68 (but didn't end up releasing until the '90s) (also, for beatles fans, this is the film michael lindsay-hogg asked john lennon to record an intro for in get back, which prompted the "and now your hosts for this evening..." running gag) and a lot of the songs they did there were from this album bc it came out that same year. it's one of their best ones from that decade, too, in my opinion.
forty licks (2023)
this is a recent (re)release they did for mick's 80th birthday this year, and it's pretty fun to listen to. it's sort of a "greatest hits" kind of album, so it has a compilation of a lot of their most popular or more successful songs over the decades, and therefore could also be a good place to start to sort of sample everything and get your feet wet to see if they're anything you'd be interested in listening to.
my friend @waugh-bao might be a good person to ask as well since her tastes are probably somewhat different from mine, and i think she likes more of their later stuff than i do.
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WAUGH!! I apologize to Dave..., anywayssss Ninja Briaaannnnn, what's your favorite dinosaur?? (I like asking him questions can you tell yet)
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It looks like Ninja Brian got pretty excited over having a fan! ...In his own Ninja Brian way.
...Look on the bright side, at least he didn't kill Danny-
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.....nevermind.
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oceanssecond · 9 months
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welcome to oceanssecond's multimuse.
Hello, I am Izzy ! I am 25, they/them, I was in the tumblr rpc sphere from 2012 to 2019, and am re-establishing myself with a multimuse as of May 2023. Mutuals priority, but open to all rp blogs who follow to interact.
This blog will be low to medium activity.
Feel welcome to ask me questions, ask my muses question, send things in to the inbox, it's always open even if we haven't chatted before.
I will be writing here as well as discord if anyone would prefer that, mutuals may ask for dicord
>RULES / >MUSELIST
>HEADCANONS / >MAINS
@oceansfirst -> my main high activity blog, consisting of marvel, dc, and myth muses
@oceansmusings -> my headcanons sideblog for this blog and oceansfirst (i also liveblog when i'm reading comics or watching stuff or playing stuff over there, so expect ooc posts over there too along with headcanons! i recommend following if you want insight to my muses)
Mutuals get priority
I prefer paragraphs over one liners
my ask box is always open
will turn asks into thread
MUSE LIST
Cassius Hawke (m!warrior)
Nyra Hawke (f!rogue)
Maxwell Trevelyan (archer/ex-templar/inquisitor/companion)
Eliot Waugh
Alice Quinn
Julia Wicker
Dr. James Wilson
Stef Adams Foster
Daniel Larusso
Johnny Lawrence
Rizlis (risen eliksni guardian oc)
Carmelita Fox
Loona (hb)
Octavia (hb)
Beelzebub (hb)
Millie (hb)
Brian Yu (monster prom)
Nimona (nimona)
Ballister Boldheart (nimona)
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cluboftigerghost · 1 year
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Brian Waugh, “Last Castle” https://ift.tt/yt6T8sJ
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