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🔮 6th of October: What is your favourite kind of monster? (vampire, witch, fae etc.)
I've been reading The Odyssey recently, and because of that, right now the Cyclops is my favourite monster ^_^. I think it's totally fair and justified that the Cyclops ate Odysseus' men because Odysseus and his crew just WALTZED into the Cyclops' cave and ate all his food! Like, hospitality in the ancient world is one thing, but Odysseus was just a bastard in that case.
I used to like vampires because I would read my mum's collection of Anne Rice books, but Twilight and Vampire Diaries ruined the vampire concept - vampires are now tame and pretty -_-
Actually there is one light recently in vampire literature.... But I'll recommend it on October 10th ^_^
#HorrortoberChallenge#backlogathon2022#the odyssey#definitely written before 2010 hehehe#although i want to read Emily Wilson's translation ^_^#bookblr#reading#epic novel#cyclops#backlogathon22
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👻 15th of October: Do you like cozy mystery books?
Hm, I don’t think so? Actually I have struggles to really understand what really is a cozy mystery. I’ve probably read some books and like them, but I can’t recognise them as cozy mystery books LOL
Btw, that’s the Brazilian edition of If We Were Villains! I’m really anxious to re-read it in my native language 🥹
#horrortoberchallenge#pastel academia#dark academia#creepycute#horror academia#studyblr#brazilian studyblr#bookblr#books#if we were villains#book editions around the world
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23rd of October: That’s for you, Theatre Academia ones! You favourite horror/spooky play!
I don't have a favorite horror play, but I do love the dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Horrortober Day 17 - Break
Okay peoplez
Todays reader doesn't take shit from no one. Not even a god o.o
Yandere!Poseidon x Reader for day 17 of @yandere-sins and @pastelbirb s HorrortoberChallenge^^
oh, and if I stop posting I was probably drowned by an ancient sea god that I offended in a oneshot .-. Whatever
TW: mentioned kidnapping; mentioned suicide
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➤ Day 17: Break “Try that again, and I’ll break your arm.” | Add a shattered item of your choice in your drawing.
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To be stuck in an underwater castle had its upsides and downsides. Mostly downsides if you thought about it longer. Okay, maybe almost only downsides but there were some rare times where it wasn’t that bad.
You also really liked to watch the fish outside. Just think about it: Who could watch the fish swim in the ocean by looking out of their window? Like, if you had to judge the palace itself you’d be fine. It was really awesome. There was one big problem though …
… and that would be the very tall, muscular - sometimes braindead - host.
He was the only one with access to your chambers too and that only added to the problem.
It was very hard for you to adjust to your new living conditions down here in the sea. The thought of ‘escape’ never really occurred to you as you’d definitely drown outside the palace walls. Maybe Poseidon claimed that he loved you but you didn’t believe it one bit even after staying with him for such a long time.
Apollo also told that one guy that he loved him and what did he do? He preferred jumping off a freaking cliff over going up to Olympus with Apollo. That says it all.
You were mortal. What is a mortal life for an immortal being? For a god? Nothing. You were just … an interest. An experiment. The exciting new toy of a godly buffoon.
You were so sick of it all. Clutching the nearest object - you weren’t sure what it was exactly, just that it was made of metal and felt heavy in your hand - you thought about throwing it against the window. Knowing that it would just go through whatever it was that was keeping the water out you decided against it.
“There you are. How was your day?” Hard to say how your day was if there was never a real change in the lighting. No day night cycle at all.
Instead of answering you just turned towards him and threw the little metal object at him with all the force you could muster. It missed his head by inches and crashed loudly into something behind the god. For a moment nothing happened but then his expression changed and you could hear the sea starting to rage all around you.
You tried your best to stay calm as Poseidon approached you. Never before had you been scared of the god only to remember now, the sea was unpredictable and it changed with his mood. Trying your best to look up at him - he really didn’t like it if you looked away when he was talking to you - you swallowed hard as you saw his icy expression up close.
How could you have forgotten how many mortals died just because he was in a lousy mood?
“Try something like that again, little coral, and I’ll break your arm.”
You had never expected him to say something like that but you had gone so far already why not go a little further still?
“Then break it.” Stretching your arm out towards him you even smiled a little, a challenging look in your eyes. “Break it just like you break boats. Like you're trying to break me.”
#horrortoberchallenge2021#oneshot#yandere#yandere oneshot#hades game#yandere hades game#hades poseidon#supergiant hades#yandere poseidon#yandere x reader#tw yandere#tw: kidnapping#tw suicide
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🔮 8th of October: Did you ever experience something supernatural?
Nope. I've never experienced ghosts, fae, rooms that just chill you to the bone as soon as you walk in. Nothing.
To be honest, I'm still grasping how incredible nature is - the planets, gravity, birds that fly, soil that nourishes plants. I know that there are experts in all these fields, but the ultimate why of 'why does nature do that?'... That why still feels supernatural to me.
Also, The Haunting of Hill House (first published 1959) still reads SUPERBLY today. I have SO MANY thoughts on Eleanor and Theodora's relationship 🤓 🧐 particularly its giddy-school-girl overly affectionate beginning and its knife-sharp middle.
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#HorrortoberChallenge#backlogathon22#the haunting of hill house#shirley jackson#bookblr#reading challenge#horror fiction#coffeebeanclaire
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🔮 10th October: Name a horror title that has some academic themes and that you can totally recommend
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova!
This is one of those books that I've had for years and don't quite remember how I acquired it, but when I finally read it in 2020 it was WOW. I mean, the pandemic was happening so I think I was really desiring a book through which I could do some imaginary travelling (Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, England.... ^_^). I remember being glad it was a long book because I was enjoying it so much!
I have since read reviews that say the plot is a bit loose, but if you're the kind of person who likes taking time to smell old books, or writing notes by hand, or chasing singular references to obscure things all over the internet... Well then this book kind of puts on a pedestal that life but as a cool plot. Oh, and there's vampires too!
#HorrortoberChallenge#dark academia#the historian#elizabeth kostova#bookblr#no kidding the main character copies out whole passages from ancient books into a notebook because a) no camera phones b) no scanners
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👻 7th of October: Do you like Halloween parties?
HELL YES!!! It’s my favourite part! Any excuse so I can dress a little extra I’m in!
#horrortoberchallenge#pastel academia#dark academia#horror academia#studyblr#brazilian studyblr#books#chaos academia#chaotic academia aesthetic#Halloween
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🔮 2nd of October: Do you watch scary movies?
YES! I LOVE scary movies! My favs are The Witch, Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street.
👻 3rd of October: Would you use any element connected to horror in your Academia looks? Which?
Totally! My goal is to incorporate Horror Academia to my looks! I like to use a lot of accessories, so I guess I would use a lot of rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and etc linked to horror books and movies.
#horrortoberchallenge#dark academia#chaotic academia#light academia#romantic academia#adhd academia#dark academia aesthetic#bookblr#books#studyblr brazil#geogblr#Horror academia
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20th of October: Do you have any quote about horror or from a horror book that marked you?
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
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🔮 10th of October: Now name a horror book and a horror film that you think have some Academia thing and you totally recommend.
I’m not a “film person”, to be honest… But I really feel some vibes from The VVitch cuz it has the exactly same vibe I felt from The Red Letter. For the book one, I recommend a brazilian novel called Bem Mal Me Quer!
👻 11th of October: Do your college or school have any urban legend?
A lot lol My fav is about a copper bust of a minotaur or something with some stuff written on (things like “fear”, “sadness” etc) and people say that during the night it’s eyes turn red and the bust was made by patients from a asylum.
🔮 12th of October: Tea or coffee to drink while reading?
Tea, specially matcha tea 🍵
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👻 5th of October: What drink you automatically associate with the spooky season?
Herbal tea and pumpkin spice latte (that unfortunately only came to brazilian starbucks once)
🔮 6th of October: What’s your favourite type of “monster”? (Vampire, witch, werewolf, faes etc)
Vampires, cuz they’re biologically unable to been straight /hj (but I really love vampires, specially sapphic vampires)
#horrortoberchallenge#dark academia#chaotic academia#light academia#romantic academia#adhd academia#dark academia aesthetic#bookblr#books#studyblr brazil#geogblr
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🎃 HORRORTOBER CHALLENGE 🎃
1st of October: What's the first horror book you read?
I had to read The Turn of the Screw in university for my "Ideas of the Real" class (circa 2006 😅). I re-read it recently after watching The Haunting of Bly Manor and wow! It hits differently when you're older. Horror isn't the first genre I usually turn to when I want 'a good read' so the challenge this month will help me get through a few titles I've been meaning to read but have been putting off.
Stay tuned for a slow release of the horror titles I'll be reading in October!
#studyblr#bookblr#HorrortoberChallenge#the turn of the screw#henry james#horror#reading challenge#coffeebeanclaire
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18th of October: What’s the scariest book you ever read?
I can't decide. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson was a freaky read. So were Jose Saramago's Blindness, Post-Depravity by Supervert, and Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Pretty much every Chuck Palahniuk novel I've laid my hands on has been horrifying.
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🎃 Horrortober Challenge + Backlogathon 2022 📚
🔮 13th October: Do you believe in Friday 13th superstitions?
I don't believe in Friday 13th superstitions, no. But for some reason the broken mirror = bad luck superstition is really strong for me 🤷🏽♀️. Someone has put a broken mirror in our apartment building's hard rubbish collection, and it's been sitting to the side for a month, and it's SO UNNERVING >.< (And I wasn't even the person who broke the mirror!!!)
As part of @pastelhorroracademia and @logarithmicpanda's reading challenges, I've started a book of short stories by Barbara Baynton. This collection depicts the harsh life and ever-present fear (of personal safety, of physical health, of your child's safety) of living as a (white) female in rural Australia at the turn of the century. As Helen Garner writes in the Introduction, Baynton's stories "are driven by a contained, contemptuous rage that no woman of spirit can fail to recognise, or to share." It's not surprising that, in 1902, Baynton had to go out to London to get her stories published. White Australians, it seems, didn't want to see the mirror of their own society - even if it was only fiction.
#HorrortoberChallenge#backlogathon22#barbara baynton#australian author#bush studies#fiction#horror fiction#bookblr#studyblr#reading challenge#coffeebeanclaire
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12th October: Tea or coffee while reading?
It depends on the time of day ^_^ When I read a book in the morning, it's always coffee ☕. But if I read a book after midday, then I'll have tea. Black tea, green tea, herbal tea - that depends on what mood I'm in 🍵. These days rooibos is my go-to tea.
Also I finished Dry the other day (I think it was mentioned in a Ruby Granger video and that's why I got it from the library). I enjoyed it because it was easy to read, but - and this will be totally weird - but I think the end could have been a bit sadder? I would have believed it. But I guess the sad part r.e. Kelton's family kind of hit hard the most.
#HorrortoberChallenge#reading challenge#Dry#ya fiction#what is this genre?#it isnt post-apocalyptic but its like#altworld#altearth#bookblr#books#productivity#coffeee
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📚 October Backlog Readathon! 📚
Thank you to @logarithmicpanda for putting this marvellous idea out into the tumblr world for all to enjoy ^_^
I have on my list for October:
- The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges (Pocket Penguins edition published 2005)
- Chess by Stefan Zweig (1942)
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)
- Martha and Hanwell by Zadie Smith (2005)
The books that will cross-over with the Horrortober Reading Challenge are:
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
- Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902)
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