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Currently listening to the audiobook of “The Alchemist of Monsters and Mayhem” by Gigi Pandian, and Frankenstein is mentioned every other chapter, because it has a lot to do with the plot.
This is not a good thing to listen to at night, because every time Frankenstein is referenced, I nearly skyrocket through my bedroom ceiling.
#Dracula has also been referenced a lot throughout the series#frankenstein#frankenstein's creation#frankenstein or the modern prometheus#the alchemist of monsters and mayhem#Gigi pandian#the accidental alchemist#the accidental alchemist series#Frankenstein references#audiobook#Frankenstein in media#my posts#frankenthusiast#the blog of frankenstein
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Sidney Crosby: Shrinking (Apple TV+), Prison Break (Hulu)
Alex Nedeljkovic: The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee; Same as Ever by Morgan Housel (he’s listening to it as an audiobook and reading a physical copy at the same time); Born a Crime by Trevor Noah; The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo; American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice; Red Notice by Bill Browder
Lars Eller: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Billions (Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+)
Noel Acciari: Reacher (Amazon Prime Video), Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King (Paramount+), and “I’m watching Boardwalk Empire (HBO Max) with Steve Buscemi. That one, I’ve seen already twice through. I pick long series that I haven’t seen in a couple years, like last year I did a show called Power (Hulu). Then the year before, I rewatched Game of Thrones (HBO Max). All those long ones.”
Ryan Graves: American Kingpin by Nick Bilton - “it’s unbelievable”; Born to Run by Christopher McDougall; From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle; How I Built This podcast; and the Doctor’s Farmacy podcast.
Rickard Rakell: Mario Kart on Nintendo Switch - “I’m always Waluigi. Because it’s the best character… with the kart and the wheels, he’s the fastest one.”
Drew O’Connor: Entourage (HBO Max)
P.O Joseph: “Watch the Marvel movies, all of them. There’s like, 26. That’ll keep you busy during the week. You watch two a day, you’re not even going to get half of it done. I finished all of them. I did them in (chronological order versus order of release), so Captain Marvel is first, then Captain America.”
Marcus Pettersson: When We Were Kings podcast; and “I go through a lot of shows. I feel like there's a lot of different ones that catch my eye, but I like more sci-fi or fantasy. Like the new Lord of the Rings show, I watched… the new Game of Thrones, I've watched… and the old Game of Thrones, all of those. I watched a show early in the summer called Silo on Apple TV+. It's a really good one.”
pens recs for the bye week
#sidney crosby#alex nedeljkovic#lars eller#noel acciari#ryan graves#evgeni malkin#drew o connor#po joseph#rickard rakell#marcus petterson#pittsburgh penguins
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Hey. Could you rec any podcasts with sapphic couples as their mains? Or a sapphic story. And so on. I only really know about where the stars fell and Alice isn't dead.
You're off to a strong start. Here's 20, there's more out there, but I tried to pick a variety. I'm going to put a ★ next to the ones I think will fit best, but they're all good.
Arden: (Fictional "True Crime", Investigative, Comedy). On the 25th of December, 2007, heiress and young actress Julie Capsom crashed her car into a tree and fled into a nearby forest clearing, leaving a trail that seemingly vanished into thin air, and a dismembered torso in the trunk. A decade later, Bea, the first reporter on the scene, and Brenda, a detective on the case, are hosting a true crime podcast about it, and neither is remotely impressed with what the other has to say. Arden is also a retelling of various Shakespeare plays.
The Author's Anathema: (Horror) Looking for some extra cash, and with some help from her girlfriend Eleanor, college student Natalie takes a small job to narrate an audiobook for a reclusive anonymous author. The book being a horror wouldn't be such a bother, but the stories within are... Familiar. Too familar.
The Beacon: (Urban Fantasy) Bee is a perpetually anxious university student who discovers she has the ability to create fire, and decides to start a podcast to find others like herself. She quickly discovers she's not alone, but a series of bizzare animal attacks suggest superpowered freshers are far from the only strange thing on campus.
The Department of Variance of Somewhere, Ohio: (Weird Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi) On day one of a new job at the Department of Variance, in the middle of her workplace orientation, Jasmine's new workplace goes into lockdown. Guided via walkie-talkie by Scarlet, an experienced security officer, Jasmine must make her way down 20-odd shifting floors of strange entities and experiments. Ideally without becoming one of them. As a disclaimer, this one is the only addition to this list that isn't actively romantic yet, however there are canonically sapphic characters, and I am fairly confident it's headed that way.
★ Elixir: (Urban Fantasy, Romance) Set in a fantasy world's equivalent of the american prohibition, lawmakers daughter Elsie approaches someone unexpected in search of her missing sister: Vera, an alchemist and propriator of the local now-elicit hush bar.
The Far Meridian: (Magical Realism) An agorophobic young woman wakes up to discover her lighthouse home has moved overnight. It quickly becomes clear this isn't a once-off, and she decides to use this as an opportunity to search for her missing brother, having some strange encounters along the way.
Interference: (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Romance) Jacq is a D&D podcaster. Geneva is an orc scientist studying ancient human ruins the next world over. What happens when these women from different realities begin picking up each other's broadcasts?
Khôra Podcast: (Sci-Fi) Somewhere between adapted from and inspired by various greek myths, Khôra follows four women who deserved better (Atalanta, Echo, Medea, and Medusa) on a grand space adventure to find the golden fleece while keeping out of the reach of the olympians who own and run the galaxy.
★ Mabel: (Mystery, Supernatural, Horror, Romance). The live-in carer of a dying elderly woman attempts to contact her granddaughter, with little success. The contents of voicemails only get stranger, and what starts as a subtley creepy mystery-horror develops to poetic lesbian fae body-horror.
★ Midnight Radio: (Light Supernatural, Romance). Sybil McIntyre, host of the ever-popular 1950's nightly radio hour, begins exchanging letters with an old fan who has reluctantly returned to visit Sybil's beloved town.
Mina's Story: (Sci-Fi, Romance Elements) Still dealing with a major loss in her family, a young woman volunteers for a long-term cryonics project. The episodes are her audio logs after waking up each time, always the same place but centuries after she went to sleep. A story about grief, change, and the intersection of past and future.
Mirrors: (Sci-fi, Mystery, Supernatural). The audio journal of three women from different periods (past, present, and future) who seem to share little in common bar the strange inhuman, ghostly figures they have started seeing.
Night Life: (Supernatural, Noir) Utterly wacky one-episode story (more of a short audio movie) about an ex-vampire hunter turned private eye who finds herself dealing with the shenanigans of mafia and vampires in the wake of an upcoming mayoral election. Find it on the feed for The Lightning Bottler.
The Night Post: (Supernatural, Mystery). The conscripted couriers of Gilt City are both respected and shunned, integral to the city's function, but inexplicably tied to the supernatural. It's not something they like to talk about. When his husband goes missing on the job, Milo is called to take over. Clementine took over from her father a long time ago, yet recently someone else with her face has been delivering her own unsent letters. Val's not going to discuss how she ended up there, but she will absolutely open people's mail (filled with their own supernatural tales) to read aloud.
Palimpsest, Season 2: (Horror, Romance, Fantasy Elements). Set in the 1800s, a young woman becomes the maid to a supposed fairy noblewoman, who is being kept as one of many "denizens", living curiousities, in a large house. Each season is a different story, this is Season 2.
★ The Pasithea Powder: (Sci-Fi, Thriller?) The last major interplanetary war was full of atrocities, but none more infamous then the creation of Pasithea Powder, a memory altering drug which was used to horrible effect and landed it's entire team of creators in prison. So when decorated war hero Captain Sophie Green sees one of them wandering free, worlds away from his prison, she gets in touch with a very old, estranged friend: one Dr. Jane Gonzalez, who's behind bars for the very same reason.
Starship Q Star: (Sci-Fi, Comedy) The small crew of a tone-deaf space agency's attempt at a PR mission wake up at Mars to discover that they - and the one botanist abandoned on Mars base - are now the last surviving members of humanity. Co-captains and ex-girlfriends Aurelia and Sim must now dedicate themselves to protecting their crew and finding a new home, but they're rarely on the same page about how best to do it.
★ The Strange Case of Starship Iris: (Sci-Fi) When the shuttle carrying the crew of scientific research ship Iris explodes, Violet Liu finds herself stranded in space, the last survivor with no way out. Until her emergency broadcast is picked up by a passing ship. But the crew aren't who they seem to be, there's more going on here than anyone knows yet, and Violet must decide who she can really trust.
Unwell: (Supernatural). Lily Harper revisits her supposedly haunted childhood home to help take care of her aging mother. The house is weird, sure, but there's something far stranger haunting the town of Mount Absolm than simply ghosts.
Weaver: (Supernatural, Romance Elements). The musings of the entity within the old house about the girl she fell in love with (the only thing she can remember), and her two new coinhabitants, who do not yet know she exists.
#audio drama#█████ posts#podcast#recommendations#arden#the beacon#the author's anathema#the department of variance of somewhere ohio#elixir#the far meridian#interference#khôra podcast#mabel#midnight radio#mina's story#mirrors#night life#the night post#palimpsest#the pasithea powder#starship q star#the strange case of starship iris#unwell#weaver
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Any fiction recommendations? I’ve repeatedly read Locked Tomb, natch. I’d love something similarly brainwork inducing but maybe a touch lighter. Also not fantasy or sci fi…I need something to listen to while I do a ton of chores, and those can be hard (for me) because the unfamiliar proper nouns get confusing. :/
anon!! I'm terrible at reccing anything based on “if you liked TLT” because TLT is like five different genres in a trench coat, but I TRIED (⭐) Here are some brainworm-y recs that aren't sff — where by brainworm-y I mean that they stayed with me for a while after I finished them, but aren't overly confusing. (most of them are books, but available on audio)
Podcasts: a tumblr pal recced me the deviser based on me liking the eldritch elements of tlt; it's short and horror-y, and I really enjoyed it.
I haven't checked out the new TMA yet but I see many TLT peeps who are enjoying it (or S1 of the original The Magnus Archives could be a good entry point if you haven't ever listened to it)
TV: Unfortunately I hardly ever watch live action stuff BUT if you haven't seen either IWTV (the series not the film) or Yellowjackets, I do rec those! There's a lot of overlap between these fans and TLT fandom on my dash. His Dark Materials also goes hard and you might enjoy it (dysfunctional characters! worldbuilding! religious weirdness!) but it has more sff elements than other stuff I've recced. Oddball out of nowhere but The Great is a fun show if you enjoy the meme moments of TLT + people being gleefully horrible + having feelings despite your best intentions
Animanga: Utena (!!!!!) also Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, which occupies a very similar space to TLT in my brain
Books!
✧ I went through my “women unhinged” goodreads shelf and found some books that are avaliable in audio format, and might appeal. These are wildly varied in scope and ngl the criterion was just “at least one person (besides myself) who enjoyed tlt also this book” and the similarities stop there. It's all vibes baby! Still, I tried
my heart is a chainsaw by stephen graham jones (horror, slasher), bunny by mona awad (horror, wildly unhinged), the witching hour by anne rice (horror, gothic)
matrix by lauren groff (historical, lesbian nuns), anything by sarah waters (historical fiction + lesbians), rebecca by daphne du maurier (historical, gothic)
the plot by jean hanff korelitz (litfic, thriller), sadie by courtney summers (thriller, coming of age). anything by gillian flynn (thrillers with terrible women).
✧ I really enjoy Tana French thrillers for the strong sense of place, great prose, and the complete emotional turmoil of her character-centric narratives. If anything sounds up your alley, I enjoyed the witch's elm + dublin murder squad series. They're murder mystery procedural but the messy characters really elevate the novels. Available in audiobook also
✧ American Elsewhere, technically scifi but set in New Mexico. Somehow, cosmic horrors who have taken over a quaint little town and worse! They are enforcing HETERONORMATIVITY upon it! They also have tentacles. The main character rocks
✧ Sundial by Catriona Ward: insane, gripping psychological horror. A mother and her unsettling daughter take a trip to the isolate desert ranch where the main chracter grew up. Surrounded by unsettling science experiments
✧ A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan: when the parasocial relationship is so strong, it accidentally summons a hellmonster from another dimension
✧ SFF adjacent, sorry, but set in the real world (historical, tho) — Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, a middle grade novel with fairytale elements that gave me more brainworms than any kids book ought to, mostly because I LOVED the main character. She occupies a very similar place in my brain as Gideon does. This is actually the only book on the list that I'm not sure is available in audio format, but if you get a chance and it's up your alley, I'd check it out
I hope there's at least ONE thing you'll like in here! lmk (also. lmk if you don't have access to a way to borrow audiobooks but would like to)
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Having now read The Final Empire, I'm really impressed with it. It holds together really well as a whole and unlike some other books I've read I don't recall any parts that seemed particularly weaker than the others. It's a hefty book but it has the same quality throughout, and then when the climax hits... it's like a season-long final battle with twists and turns that keep you engaged through the whole thing.
At least the last 3 hours of the 24-hour audiobook were all final battle. Naturally that's not possible for an 8-hour audiobook (a lot of YA is I think around 8-12 hours in audiobook form, though I could be wrong), but holy moly. I think a reason the audiobook is that long is partly because Sanderson's style is dense. There's a lot of character in the writing and I appreciate that a lot. One of Sanderson's strengths, in my opinion, is that he has a talent for showing you what the viewpoint character sees and only that, leaving the reader to guess and work out what's going on in their heads along with the character. It's an excellent use of limited point of view that keeps the story moving forward and the uncertainty works well to keep the reader engaged.
Also it has a fantastic magic system. I know Brandon Sanderson basically (as far as I know) created the theory of hard vs. soft magic systems but this is a masterclass in balance; what allomancy can do, particularly physically, is limited but can be leveraged in dozens of ways, which helps maintain the sense of awe and wonder. I am a huge fan of magic systems with hard limits, but this has to be one of my favorite solidly fleshed-out systems, up there with bending in Avatar: The Last Airbender and alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist. It also has one of the best introductions to a magic system; it introduces the hard limits first, makes the magic finite and dependent on a specific source, which can run out... and then later on you find out that there's more complexity to it. In my opinion, that's one of the best ways to do it; first show the core functions and tenets, and then gradually introduce the ways that the assumptions surrounding that system are wrong, or technically correct yet misleading... much like advanced science courses.
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Player recommendations for the bye week
Courtesy of Michelle Crechiolo
January 29, 2024
The Penguins began their annual bye week on Sunday, Jan. 28, which leads into the All-Star break. That means Pittsburgh won’t return to game action until Tuesday, Feb. 6, when they host the Winnipeg Jets at PPG Paints Arena.
A number of the players shared their recommendations for books, shows, and podcasts to help pass the time over the next week-plus until hockey is back, with some adding commentary to their picks. I tried including where you can stream the shows, but if you aren’t subscribed to the service I listed, I would do some research to see if it’s accessible elsewhere. Enjoy!
Sidney Crosby: Shrinking (Apple TV+), Prison Break (Hulu)
Alex Nedeljkovic: The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee; Same as Ever by Morgan Housel (he’s listening to it as an audiobook and reading a physical copy at the same time); Born a Crime by Trevor Noah; The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo; American Sniper by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice; Red Notice by Bill Browder
Lars Eller: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Billions (Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+)
Noel Acciari: Reacher (Amazon Prime Video), Mayor of Kingstown and Tulsa King (Paramount+), and “I’m watching Boardwalk Empire (HBO Max) with Steve Buscemi. That one, I’ve seen already twice through. I pick long series that I haven’t seen in a couple years, like last year I did a show called Power (Hulu). Then the year before, I rewatched Game of Thrones (HBO Max). All those long ones.”
Ryan Graves: American Kingpin by Nick Bilton - “it’s unbelievable”; Born to Run by Christopher McDougall; From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle; How I Built This podcast; and the Doctor’s Farmacy podcast.
Rickard Rakell: Mario Kart on Nintendo Switch - “I’m always Waluigi. Because it’s the best character… with the kart and the wheels, he’s the fastest one.”
Drew O’Connor: Entourage (HBO Max)
P.O Joseph: “Watch the Marvel movies, all of them. There’s like, 26. That’ll keep you busy during the week. You watch two a day, you’re not even going to get half of it done. I finished all of them. I did them in (chronological order versus order of release), so Captain Marvel is first, then Captain America.”
Marcus Pettersson: When We Were Kings podcast; and “I go through a lot of shows. I feel like there's a lot of different ones that catch my eye, but I like more sci-fi or fantasy. Like the new Lord of the Rings show, I watched… the new Game of Thrones, I've watched… and the old Game of Thrones, all of those. I watched a show early in the summer called Silo on Apple TV+. It's a really good one.”
#Pittsburgh Penguins#bye week#entertainment#January 29 - 2024#this is the article#for those who might not have access#or don't want to lose the list the next time the NHL updates its website(s)#but please follow the link and visit the story on the website#let MC get credit for generating traffic to the site#the more traffic such stories get#the more such stories she'll be allowed to write
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Fran's Winter 2024 Reads
January
The Tithenai Chronicles #2: All the Hidden Paths - Foz Meadows
The Tarot Sequence Bonus Stories: Scenes from the Holidays & The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemy - KD Edwards
The Tarot Sequence #3: The Hourglass Throne - KD Edwards
Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 1-3 - Hiromu Arakawa
February
Under Jurisdiction #1: An Exchange of Hostages - Susan R Matthews
Cemeteries of Amalo #1: The Witness for the Dead - Katherine Addison [reread via audiobook]
The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 4 - Hiromu Arakawa
Notes of a Native Son - James Baldwin
Simon Snow #2: Wayward Son - Rainbow Rowell
March
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer - Christian Wiman
Tian Guan Ci Fu: Heaven Official's Blessing vol. 1&2 - Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
[Non-fiction academic history that is SUPER specific to my current research and the collections I'm responsible for & I like to pretend I have *some* degree of anonymity here still]
Cemeteries of Amalo #2: The Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison [reread via audiobook]
#fran reads#im on GR hmu if you want!#(im sorry i tried storygraph i rlly did not like the interface. IM SORRY)#it was a slow start to the year....i was....very sad....#and some real busts in there. and in my current reads#ALAS
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📚 January Reading Round-Up 📚
January was a pretty great reading month! Finished a few books I'd started in December, while also binging some new ones.
- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (good, very funny and bittersweet, full of detailed and lush descriptions, loved the last part the best, very different than the movie's plot)
- Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher (Delightful, funny, characters were a bit too self-deprecating but it worked nonetheless, all the feels)
- Manacled by Senlinyu (Very good, cried at a lot of parts, not my favourite iteration of this trope but a great addition, loved the fanart, interesting take on Draco Malfoy that I did enjoy)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Very good, loved the audiobook, funny and smart and heartfelt, MC has ADHD vibes, some cool twists, great intertwined flashback story structure)
- Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition Vol. 5 by Hiromu Arakawa (Very good, thankfully some of the scenes didn't hit me as hard as the anime, loved the humour and the art style)
- The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani (Good, very intense, loved the second half of the book more, great character development and themes)
- A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani (Very very good, binged it in a day, very poetic and lyrical and angry and cathartic, loved the romance and the friendships and the ending)
- Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier (Good, loved the beginning, not quite what I was expecting for the ending, great characters and communication)
#mine#reading round-up#crazy rich asians#kevin kwan#project hail mary#andy weir#fma#manacled#dramione#intisar khanani#the theft of sunlight#a darkness at the door#tuyo#rachel neumeier#paladin's strength#t kingfisher
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Year in Review - BOOKS - 2023
Audiobooks read:
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
DisneyWar by James B. Stewart
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer
Horse Crazy by Sarah Maslin Nir
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
As You Wish by Cary Elwes, Joe Layden
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
eBooks read:
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J Maas
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (In Progress)
Regular books read:
Wet Moon Volume 4: Drowned in Evil by Sophie Campbell
Princess Jellyfish Volume 3 by Akiko Higashimura
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter by James Gurney (In Progress)
It felt like I read a lot more this year, but looking back at previous years, not by much! What really happened is I joined not one, but TWO book clubs - one with work and one with friends. It's definitely helping me explore outside of my normal tastes, and I've found some great stuff.
In 2023, I branched away from audiobooks and into ebooks in the interest of not listening to fairy smut on my speaker, and instead reading it on my phone as god intended.
I finally started a GoodReads account, but I'll probably still do these yearly round-ups here on tumblr. But now I can more easily endorse (or roast the fairy smut) items on my my reading list.
#book year in review#books#life interruption#year in review#about me#the goodreads account was about more easily documenting my reads#and ALSO so i could leave an angry review b/c christ
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hey @zelzahdarkcloak, stealing this from you, love you, thanks!
🐭 last song: Life Itself (Glass Animals) — (that's my Theme Song for Clown World!!!!)
🐭 last show: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood! — (I'm rewatching this intense anime war story, don't laugh, as my bedtime story. I know everything that happens, but it's exciting enough to me that it's a Treat and Motivational for Bedtime!)
🐭 currently reading: ummm.... the epistle of James semi-consistently... whatever fanfiction Nightwing sends me... The Graveyard Book, if I can ever find the book again, I lost it in the middle of reading it—and I just finished re-reading the Murderbot Diaries on audiobook!! I'm sad to be done with that series (again), but now I'm resuming the last Harry Potter audiobook and hesitantly starting Tish Harrison Warren's Prayer in the Night.
🐭 current obsessions: W R I T I N G. Writing my fanfic The Strange Redemption of Thaddeus Thawne, expanding my Clown World original world and stories, semi-roleplaying Tim Drake with a friend's oc... yeah. Also, I've been making lots of sculptures. LOTS of SCULPTURES. OH AND CLOWNS. you would not BELIEVE the amount of research I've been doing on clowns. I fell in love with them headfirst this summer.
"if you feel like it" tags for @swinging-stars-from-satellites, @bluesidedown, @lovesodeepandwideandwell, @called-kept, @lady-stormbraver, @spacekrakens, and anyone else who wants to do this game!
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Heyo! It's been a hot minute since I visited this place and I'm starting fresh, so I figured I'd kick things off with a proper introduction post.
My name is Brittany M. Willows (she/her, "Bri" for short). I'm a self-published author and self-taught digital artist from rural Ontario, Canada. Science fiction, fantasy, and post-apocalyptic stories are my jam, and I tend to write some amalgamation of the three. I also stream art and games occasionally over on my Twitch channel and am currently working as a comic colorist/script writer.
Here's a quick rundown of my projects! I'll give them their own intro posts later on.
Works and WIPs to my Name
The Calypsis Project (2013) & TCP II Rebirth (2016): Known collectively as the Echo-Alpha Duology, this is my debut series! It's a science fiction/space opera that tells of an unlikely alliance of humans and lizard-like aliens in their mission to thwart a conspiracy that could see their whole galaxy upended. However, as it's currently slated for a rewrite, book #1 has been taken off the shelves haha
Bloody Spade (2021) & Bleeding Heart (2023): The Cardplay Duology is an anime-inspired YA urban fantasy about a cat-eared boy touched by dark magic and a softhearted girl with the power to cleanse it. It's queernormative, features a slow-burn romantic subplot, has plenty of hurt/comfort goodness, and a chaotic found family to boot.
p.s, Bloody Spade has an audiobook edition coming out on August 2nd! You can listen to a sample here.
The Howling Dark: This is the gay space werewolf brainworm that sprung from a dream a couple years back and has only been growing since. Set on an Earth-like planet recovering from the aftermath of a radioactive war, it follows fugitive werewolf brothers Sylvain and Illia on their search for a safe haven. It's currently in planning stages!
Bleakhouse: A more recent seedling of an idea that also originated from a dream! This gritty steampunk tale will tell the story of a mechanical girl bursting with soul, and a boy who's more machine than he looks. This has no real plot yet, but the vibes are good lmao.
Favourite Anime
D.Gray-Man
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Fruits Basket
Bleach
Noragami
Toradora
Jujutsu Kaisen
My Hero Academia
Favourite Games
Halo (pre-Halo 4)
Mass Effect 2
Dishonored
Dead Space 2
Assassin's Creed
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Favourite Books
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa
Sedition by E.M. Wright
And that'll do it for now. I'm excited to be back and will hopefully become more active in the future (especially as the bird app is slowly imploding on itself). I'm mainly a reblogger but will be tagging all my original posts appropriately so they can be found!
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My Year In Review:
Books Read: 32 (Goodreads)
Personal Fav: The Exorcist by Peter Blatty
Most Recommended: Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton
Movies Watched: 112
Top 5
1. Suzume
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Oppenheimer
4. John Wick 4
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Honorable mentions:
Across the Spider-Verse Pt 1 & Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Pt 1
Video Games Played (Ranked I literally only played 5 games)
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Resident Evil 4 Remake
3. Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Remaster
4. Jedi: Fallen Order
5. Hogwarts Legacy
Games I watched (Ranked)
God bless my brother, my worstie @the-gotheltic-rowan, Markiplier, Jacksepticeye & Maximilian Dood 🫶 for helping me consume a game when I didn't have the brainpower to play
1. Faith: The Unholy Trinity
2. God of War: Ragnarok
3. Mortal Kombat I
4. Spider-Man 2
5. Final Fantasy 15
6. Final Fantasy 16
Series Watched (Ranked Top 9 because I didn't watch more than that)
1. The Last of Us
2. The Bear
3. One Piece Live Action
4. Midnight Mass
5. Spy x Family (s1)
6. Rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
7. Rewatching Breaking Bad
8. Rewatching Better Call Saul
9. X-Files
Favorite Personal Growths:
Got really good at cooking and meal prep
Paid off dept and built up a modest savings
Got my life more organized
Sewed some of my most challenging projects yet
Reorganized my living space to make my home my sanctuary
Learned to live in the moment and not be a workaholic. Take days off. Take a drive. Got out of town for a day or two.
2024 Goals
(in no particular order)
Daily reading plan with Bible
Stop watching YouTube shorts. Seriously, short form, rapid-fire content is so bad for my attention span
Crocheting a tempeture blanket
Finishing all personal open sewing projects
Re-design my bedroom to have more space
Experiment 1st month with Carnivore diet and see what happens
Get active
Drink Less
Keep a regular sleep schedule
Charge phone away from bedstand
Use alarmclock to wake up so I have to GET UP
Play & beat the following video games from prev years:
Alan Wake 2
Jedi Survivor
Resident Evil Village
GoW Ragnarok
Spider-Man 2
The Quarry
Until Dawn
Resident Evil 0 & 1 Remaster
Listen to an audiobook on daily commute to work
Read the following via Audiobook:
Finish Hannibal Series
Finish Eragon
Dracula
Frankenstein
more Star Wars Classic EU books
Brave New World
11/22/63
Finish more TV series instead of brainlessly watching YouTube in that time
Mandalorian S3
Andor
Ahsoka
Reacher
The Haunting Anthology
Read a physical book before bed and not mindlessly read fanfic
1. Finish Resident Evil Books
2. Finish all owned manga & graphic novels
3. Read thrifted Stephen King books
4. Death Stranding
5. Alan Wake
I wanted to give myself some realistic goals like last year. I found that keeping a monthly log of these types of things really felt good to do. So I'm going to log more stuff here in hopes to for to keep me more accountable and to enjoy consuming fulfilling content again and not fall down a youtube rabbit hole for hours unless it is long-form video content that is edifying.
This is tumblr. This is my personal little space where I can gush about my interests. I can't do that on social media like FB, Insta, or Twitter without it feeling like a popularity contest or a great debate. So yall freaks get unsolicited updates from my funky little life filled with whatever all this is.
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