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emeraldgreaves · 1 year

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23 Books in 2023

[2022]

Finished

Loved / reread / read

The Vegetarian by Han Kang (12/29/22 - 1/4/23)

The Defining Decade by Meg Jay (1/5)

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (1/6)

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim (1/6-1/8)

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (1/5-1/11)

Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells (1/4-1/19)

The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino (12/27–1/19)

Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin (1/19)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (1/24-2/3)

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace (1/20–2/9)

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown (3/4)

Once Upon a Marquess by Courtney Milan (3/1-3/10)

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan (4/4)

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (4/23)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (finished 4/29)

Nuclear Family by Joseph Han (4/27- 5/3)

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula LeGuin (4/30-5/9)

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (reread, started est. bigolas dickolas saga & finished 5/25)

The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan (5/11-5/26)

Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (5/27-5/30)

Lady of the Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils (reread, 5/14-6/4)

My Not-So-Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella (6/4-6/6)

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (6/6-6/7)

Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates (6/7-6/11)

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin (6/4-6/18)

Love is a Mixtape by Rob Sheffield (6/14-6/21)

Beauty by Robin McKinley (reread, 6/22-6/24)

Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki (6/26-6/28)

A Lady of Persuasion by Tessa Dare (6/29-6/30)

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuinston (6/30)

The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan (reread, 7/1-7/3)

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare (6/30-7/4)

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang (7/3)

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (7/10)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (7/18)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (7/14-7/22)

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (reread, 7/21)

Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA (7/23-7/24)

Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin (7/3-7/24)

The Red Palace by June Hur (7/26-8/2)

The Farthest Shore by Ursula LeGuin (8/1-8/15)

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King (9/2-9/3)

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (9/3-9/4)

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor (9/22-9/27)

A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart (9/23-9/28)

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou (9/28-9/29)

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang (9/27-10/02)

Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky (10/03)

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee (10/21)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (finished 10/27)

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up / Spark Joy by Marie Kondo (11/15-11/18)

Raise Your Voice by Kathy Khang (11/28)

The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly by Margareta Magnusson (12/5-12/6)

The Art of Discarding by Nagisa Tatsumi (12/5-12/7)

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson (12/11)

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (12/17-12/24)

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis (12/28-12/31)

Ongoing

The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel by Sarah Airriess (1/17–)

Lord of the Rings (via LOTR Newsletter)

DNF

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (12/28–1/12)

Astray by Emma Donoghue (1/4-1/13)

Time Squared by Lesley Krueger (2/10)

Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok (3/18-3/19)

Density rhapsody lmao (4/4-4/18)

Madly deeply alan rickman (4/19-4/20)

Be the bridge (4/20)

The dead romantics (4/20)

Bronze drum (5/1)

This is how augusten burroughs (5/3)

Tastes like war grace m cho (5/4)

The duchess war courtney Milan (5/11)

The calculating stars mary robinette kowal (5/11)

Frugal wizard brandon sanderson

Fool moon jim butcher (5/21)

Vladimir julia may jonas (5/29)

Light from uncommon stars (6/11)

The spy who came in from the cold by john lecarre (6/25, try again later)

How not to be wrong by jordan ellenberg (6/29)

The great derangement by amitav ghosh (7/28)

i keep my exoskeletons to myself by marisa crane (9/16)

the key to rebecca by ken follet (10/03. not even tim downie can rescue this)

Frostblood by Ely Blake (11/something - 12/11)

Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer (12/17. wanted to love it though)

The expatriates by janice yk lee (12/27)

#emerald reads #new year new books!#emerald speaks

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youllalwaysfindyourwaybackhome · 1 year

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Books I read in 2022

Books I started in 2021 and finished in 2022

Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson

Don't Shoot The Clowns - Jo Wilding

Domina: The Woman Who Made Imperial Rome - Guy De La Bédoyère

Books I read in 2022

Everything Is True - Roopa Farooki

Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

The Vínland Sagas - tr. Magnusson and Pálsson

They Don't Teach This - Eniola Aluko

Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis - Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson

The Harp in the South - Ruth Park

Goodbye and Keep Cold - Jenny Davis

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities - Bettany Hughes

W.H. Auden: Poems - ed. John Fuller

Understanding Shinto - C. Scott Littleton

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish - Douglas Adams

Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams

Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose - ed. W.H. Gardner

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

Artificial Condition - Martha Wells

All Systems Red - Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells

Books I started in 2022 and am still reading

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

#i meant to do this on new year's day lol #I'm currently about halfway through the fellowship of the ring #talk to me about books!

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weirdesplinder · 2 years

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La mia lista di libri per l’estate: cosa spero di riuscire a leggere

Le mie ferie si avvicinano e voglio condividere con voi parte della mia lista di libri da leggere quest’estate:

- Ghosted, di J. M. Darhower (inedito in italiano)

Genere: second chance romance

Link: https://amzn.to/3nmrlOa

Trama: un famoso attore che per anni è stato dipendente da alcool e droga trova la forza di disintossicarsi e ritente ancora una volta di riallacciare i rapporti con la figlia che praticamente non ha mai consciuto e il suo grande amore, la ragazza che lo ha amato e sostenuto facendogli ottenere tutto ciò che voleva, e che lui ha trattato malissimo quando ha raggiunto il successo.

- Palazzo di sangue, di Jane Hur

Genere storico giallo

Link:https://amzn.to/3QQBIqJ

Trama: Korea, 1758. Figlia illegittima, la diciottenne Hyeon ha studiato e lavoroto duro per diventare assistente del medico di palazzo. E quando il suo maestro viene sospettato di 4 omicidi perpretrati all’interno della corte in una sola notte, è decisa a indagare da sola per scagionarlo. Le sue indagini le faranno incontrare l’ispettore di polizia ufficialmente incaricato di trovare il colpevole ed entrambi si accorgeranno subito che tutti gli indizi puntano al principe ereditario....

- Romanzo d’estate, di Emily Henry

Genere rosa contemporaneo

Link:https://amzn.to/3ynmcf2

Trama: Augustus Everett è un autore amato dalla più intransigente critica letteraria. January Andrews invece scrive deliziose commedie romantiche che scalano regolarmente le classifiche.Lui è uno scrittore serio, ma non riesce a parlare di sentimenti. Lei è una sostenitrice dell’amore per sempre e del lieto fine. Non hanno niente in comune. A parte che per i prossimi tre mesi saranno vicini di casa. January ha infatti deciso di rifugiarsi nel cottage del padre sul lago Michigan e pensa di trascorrere l’estate raccogliendo le idee e scrivendo un romanzo pieno della felicità che non sa più immaginare: ha da poco scoperto un segreto sui suoi genitori e non crede più nell’amore. Nella veranda accanto alla sua c’è però un vicino di casa inaspettato: Augustus Everett, suo ex compagno di college e soprattutto autore di fama. Anche lui colpito da un paralizzante blocco dello scrittore. Da sempre i due non si sopportano, ma decidono di lanciarsi una sfida per cercare di darsi una mano, o più probabilmente di punzecchiarsi. Si scambieranno il romanzo. E così Augustus dovrà dimostrare di saper scrivere anche un lieto fine e January di sapersi cimentare nella scrittura del Grande Romanzo Americano. E questa scommessa cambierà inevitabilmente tutti i finali…

-Angel falls, di Colleen Helme (inedito in italiano)

Genere paranormal romantico/ironico/suspance

Link:https://amzn.to/39XiAXG

Primo libro di una serie spinn off della serie Shelby Nichols di cui vi avevo parlato qui: https://weirdesplinder.tumblr.com/post/657614393887047680/ho-scoperto-una-nuova-serie-di-libri-shelby

Trama: Dopo essere stata mandata via dall’ospedale di New York dove lavorava come infermiera con l’accusa di non aver fatto il necessario per salvare un paziente, Ella St. John dopo aver incontrato Shelby Nichols deve fare i conti col fatto che i suoi poteri sono nuovamente stati notati da qualcuno e nemmeno fuggire nel deserto le impedirà di venire rintracciata da un misterioso conosciuto che ha bisogno del suo aiuto. Purtroppo però aiutarlo potrebbe essere il più grande errore della vita di Ella....

-Dream Maker di Kristen Ashley (inedito in italiano)

Genere rosa contemporaneo suspance

Link:https://amzn.to/3usupMH

Trama: Evan "Evie" Gardiner ha passato la vita a dover essere responsabile per la sua famiglia scapestrata, finchè ha detto basta, e ha deciso di inseguire i propri sogni, cioè laurearsi in ingegneria. E per finaziare i suoi studi inizia a ballare nel club Smithie's finchè i suoi parenti non finiscono di nuovo nei guai e decidono di coinvolgerlancora una volta nei loro problemi. Per fortuna al club Evie ha conosciuto Daniel "Mag" Magnusson che decide di aiuatarla nonostante il problema di Evie possa mettere in pericolo anche la sua vita.

-The truth about dukes, di Grace Burrowes (credo sia inedito in italiano ma non sono certa)

Genere romance storico

Link:https://amzn.to/3Nl6Dsl

Trama: Robert Rothmere è un duca atipico, che porta ancora le cicatrici mentali e fisiche del fatto che da giovane è stato internato in un manicomio. Per aiutarlo a sopportare il peso sociale del suo rango deve sposare la donna adatta una lady perfetta e crede di averla trovata in Lady Constance Wentworth. Purtroppo la donna in relatà appare perfetta perchè si sforza ogni momento della sua vita di non dire o fare mai nulla che possa collegarla la più piccolo scandalo per la paura che un segreto del suo passato venga rivelato. Perciò dovrebbe rifiutare Robert, ma purtroppo ne è infatuata da nni, fin da quando l’avev aiutata nel momento del bisogno anni prima...

- Spelunking Through Hell: A Visitor's Guide to the Underworld di Seanan McGuire (inedito in italiano)

Undicesimo libro della serie InCryptid di cui vi ho già parlato molte volte: https://weirdesplinder.tumblr.com/post/146951171758/salve-a-tutti-vi-ho-gi%C3%A0-ampiamente-parlato-della

Genere: urban fantasy

Trama: Finalmente dopo 11 libri Alice, la nonna di Verity Price, ha forse individuato la dimensione dove è finito anni prima sua marito Thomas e ora armata fino ai denti come suo solito è decisa a salvarlo ad ogni costo. Distinguere i nemici dagli amici non sarà facile ma lei è una donna che non sa arrendersi mai, proprio come sua nipote che le somiglia così tanto.

Fatemi sapere le vostre liste di libri da leggere quest’estate.

#seanan mcguire #Grace Burrowes #kristen ashley #colleen helme #emily henry #jane hur #j. m. darhower #collen helme

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shattereddteacup · 2 years

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Trespassing Bergman (2013)

Dir. Jane Magnusson - Hynek Pallas

Language: English

#trespassing bergman #documentary #2013 #jane magnusson #Hynek Pallas #ingmar bergman #alejandro gonzalez inarritu #alejandro gonzález iñárritu #directors #movie screencaps #movie #film screenshots

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dearly · 3 years

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Bergman: A Year In A Life (2018)

#ingmar bergman #he did not come off well at all :/#jane magnusson #i mean the nauseating part is surely that while this doc exposes all his bs #they still end it so lovingly like ok #ppl really do be forgiving

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ozu-teapot · 5 years

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Bergman - ett liv i fyra akter (Bergman - A Life in Four Acts) | Jane Magnusson | 2018

As I’d decided to stop doing my Bergman Fests last year and am pointedly not watching any Bergman this year (despite buying that big-ass Criterion set) I had saved this documentary to watch today to mark Ingmar’s birthday.

I don’t know about other territories but in the UK this is available on disc from the BFI in two versions: four hour long episodes called A Life in Four Acts or a re-edited and condensed version at just under two hours called A Year in a Life (I watched the four episodes).

Anyway this is an excellent documentary for anyone interested in Bergman. While it recognises his genius, artistry and influence it's very even handed and isn’t afraid to look at the darker side, his infidelities, admiration for Hitler, insecurities, failings as a father, and abuse of the power he held over Swedish Film, Television, and Theatre. I think it’s the only Bergman doc I’ve seen which goes some way to acknowledge the influence of some of Bergman’s various wives and girlfriends on his work. There’s plenty of clips of interviews with Bergman through the years and contemporary ones with people he worked with and experts which variously go towards reinforcing or debunking the mythologies surrounding him, lots of behind the scenes footage, and even some amusing trivia for Bergman fans.

#Ingmar Bergman #Bergman #Jane Magnusson

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lostgoonie1980 · 4 years

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238. Invadindo Bergman (Trespassing Bergman, 2013), dir. Jane Magnusson & Hynek Pallas

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yeswecancan · 6 years

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Films in 2018 #101 Bergman - Ett år ett liv, 2018. Directed by Jane Magnusson

★★★★★★ - - - -

#Bergman - ett år ett liv #Films in 2018 #Ingmar Bergman #movie director #swedish #Jane Magnusson #cinemaphile #movie #black and white

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1day1movie · 4 years

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Bergman - ett år, ett liv (2018) Jane Magnusson.

#Bergman - ett år ett liv #Jane Magnusson #1day1movie

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slow-dancing-with-myself · 3 years

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Welcome!!

Hello and welcome to my account!!! I am a writer and a minor graphic designer! I do take requests for oneshots, series, playlists and graphics! and my requests are open!! I do not write smut, incest, or mentions of rape, suicide, etc. Below are fandoms you can request for!! I write for male, nonbinary, and female readers! If they don't specifically say male! reader or female! reader than it will be gender neutral or nonbinary!! I also speak a couple languages so tell me if you need your request in a different language! ( i speak french, spanish, german is my native language, english, itallian, and a little bit of dutch! )

the fandoms i will make/write for are:

supernatural (season one to season fourteen, no spoilers!)

characters include: dean winchester, sam winchester, castlel, jack kline, and the actors!

ships include: destiel, sabriel, platonic jack x dean, platonic castle x jack

harry potter

characters include: james potter, sirius black, remus lupin, lily evans, marlene mckinnon, ginny weasley, harry potter, hermione granger, luna lovegood, ron weasley, charlie weasley, bill weasley, george weasley, fred weasley, cho chang, cedric diggory, draco malfoy, pansy parkinson, neville longbottom, blaise zabini, narcissa malfoy, regulus black (male reader only bc that's my head cannon for him)

ships include: lily, wolfstar, drarry, hedric, pansmione, harry x cho x cedric (poly), blairon, bleville, ronmione, linny

percy jackson (I'm only on the fourth book of hoo, no spoilers please!)

characters include: percy jackson, annabeth chase, grover underwood, nico di angelo (male reader only), will solace, jason grace, piper mcclean, leo valdez, frank zhang, hazel levesque, clarisse la rue

ships: percabeth, solangelo, jercy, valdangelo, frazel

skam (ive watched all of the remakes but will only write for original and germany, this might change later)

characters include: nora sætre, jonas vasquez, isak valtersen (male reader only), christoffer schistad, evan næsheim, sana bakkoush (platonic only please), eva mohn, william magnusson

ships: evak, nora x william, eva x chris, eva x nora

skam druck

characters include: mia winter, kiki machwitz, amira mahmood, hanna jung, jonas augustin, matteo florenzi, alexander hardenberg, nora machwitz

ships: david x matteo, mia x alexander

teen wolf

characters: stiles stillinski, derek hale, issac lahey, scott mccall, lydia martin, allison argent, peter hale, theo raeken, liam dunbar

ships: sterek, scissac, lydia x allison, thiam

stranger things

characters: steve harrington, will byers (male reader only for personal headcannon), mike wheeler, eleven/jane hopper, dustin henderson, jonathan byers, nancy wheeler, robyn buckley (female reader only), max mayfield, lucas sinclair, joyce byers

ships: byler, elmax, nancy x robyn, jonathan x steve

IT (2017)

characters include: mike hanlon, ben hanscom, beverly marsh, richie tozier (male reader only), eddie kaspbarak, bill denbrough, stanley uris

ships: reddie, stenbrough, mikeverly, benverly, mike x ben

marvel and x-men

characters include: peter parker, steve rodgers, peggy carters, peter maximoff, pietro maximoff, wanda maximoff, charles xavier (young romantic or older platonic only), wade wilson, tony stark, bucky barnes, thor, loki, natasha romanoff, bruce banner, stephen strange (more that I'm probably forgetting tbh)

ships: stony, parley, ironstrange, stucky,

characters include: conner kent, clark kent, jonathan kent, damian wayne, tim drake, bruce wayne, jason todd, dick grayson, selina kyle, barbra gordon, helena bertinelli, harley quinn, poison ivy, cassandra cain, kara danvers, mon-el, alex danvers (female reader only), oliver queen, barry allen, bart allen, wally west, miss martian/megan mores (more im not thinking of, just ask)

ships: damjon, lena luthor x kara danvers, superbat, dick x wally

there are probably others I'm not thinking of, just ask please!!!

#malereader #femalereader #strangerthings #teenwolf #druck #skam #percyjackson #heroes of olympus #harry potter #supernatural #nonbinaryreader #graphics #request #love #it #marvel #dc #xmen

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dreaming-of-stories-i-wont-write · 3 years

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Hi, this is me!!

Hello and welcome to my account!!! I am a writer and I love romance! I do take requests for oneshots, series, and playlists! and my requests are open!! I do not write smut, incest, or mentions of rape, suicide, etc. Below are fandoms you can request for!! I write for male, nonbinary, and female readers! If they don't specifically say male! reader or female! reader than it will be gender neutral or nonbinary!! I also have a friend who will translate my work if needed ( they speak french, spanish, german is my native language, english, itallian, and a little bit of dutch! )

the fandoms i will make/write for are:

supernatural (season one to season fourteen, no spoilers!)

the characters include: dean winchester, sam winchester, castlel, jack kline, and the actors!

the ships include: destiel, sabriel, platonic jack x dean, platonic castle x jack

harry potter

the characters include: james potter, sirius black, remus lupin, lily evans, marlene mckinnon, ginny weasley, harry potter, hermione granger, luna lovegood, ron weasley, charlie weasley, bill weasley, george weasley, fred weasley, cho chang, cedric diggory, draco malfoy, pansy parkinson, neville longbottom, blaise zabini, narcissa malfoy, regulus black (male reader only bc that's my head cannon for him)

the ships include: lily, wolfstar, drarry, hedric, pansmione, harry x cho x cedric (poly), blairon, bleville, ronmione, linny

percy jackson (I'm only on the fourth book of hoo, no spoilers please!)

the characters include: percy jackson, annabeth chase, grover underwood, nico di angelo (male reader only), will solace, jason grace, piper mcclean, leo valdez, frank zhang, hazel levesque, clarisse la rue

the ships: percabeth, solangelo, jercy, valdangelo, frazel

skam (ive watched all of the remakes but will only write for original and germany, this might change later)

the characters include: nora sætre, jonas vasquez, isak valtersen (male reader only), christoffer schistad, evan næsheim, sana bakkoush (platonic only please), eva mohn, william magnusson

the ships: evak, nora x william, eva x chris, eva x nora

teen wolf

the characters: stiles stillinski, derek hale, issac lahey, scott mccall, lydia martin, allison argent, peter hale, theo raeken, liam dunbar

the ships: sterek, scissac, lydia x allison, thiam

stranger things

the characters: steve harrington, will byers (male reader only for personal headcannon), mike wheeler, eleven/jane hopper, dustin henderson, jonathan byers, nancy wheeler, robyn buckley (female reader only), max mayfield, lucas sinclair, joyce byers

the ships: byler, elmax, nancy x robyn, jonathan x steve

IT (2017)

the characters include: mike hanlon, ben hanscom, beverly marsh, richie tozier (male reader only), eddie kaspbarak, bill denbrough, stanley uris

the ships: reddie, stenbrough, mikeverly, benverly, mike x ben

marvel and x-men

the characters include: peter parker, steve rodgers, peggy carters, peter maximoff, pietro maximoff, wanda maximoff, charles xavier (young romantic or older platonic only), wade wilson, tony stark, bucky barnes, thor, loki, natasha romanoff, bruce banner, stephen strange (more that I'm probably forgetting tbh)

the ships: stony, parley, ironstrange, stucky,

the characters include: conner kent, clark kent, jonathan kent, damian wayne, tim drake, bruce wayne, jason todd, dick grayson, selina kyle, barbra gordon, helena bertinelli, harley quinn, poison ivy, cassandra cain, kara danvers, mon-el, alex danvers (female reader only), oliver queen, barry allen, bart allen, wally west, miss martian/megan mores (more im not thinking of, just ask)

the ships: damjon, lena luthor x kara danvers, superbat, dick x wally

shameless

the characters include: carl gallagher, ian gallagher (male reader only), debby gallagher, lip gallagher, fiona gallgher, kev and vee (parental only!), mickey milchovich

ships: gallavich

hockey

the people: nico hischier, connor mcdavid, johnny gaudreau

(there are more but its like 2:00 am rn where i live and I'm lazy as fck)

there are probably others I'm not thinking of, just ask please!!!

layout for this by @slow-dancing-with-myself

#fandoms #supernatural #IT #shameless #harry potter #dc #xmen #marvel #stranger things #gay #male reader #female reader #nonbinary reader #skam #teen wolf #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus

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itsnothesameasitwas · 3 years

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🎬 10 characters 10 fandoms ? tags

my dearest @cowboylarries @holyshit and @whaleharry tyy for tagging me ilyy 💞 this took me so long but here it is finally!

gregory house from dr. house

elliot stabler from law & order uve

patrick jane from the mentalist

alicia florrick from the good wife

georgie cooper from young sheldon

isak valtersen from skam

william magnusson from skam

severus snape from harry potter

sheldon cooper from the big bang theory

rue bennet from euphoria

i’m tagging @cherryacoustic @harrysuits @genuineconspiracy @17greys @ozziiee @yourhabit28 @habithlarry @harry-sue and whoever who wants to or haven’t done this yet

#tag games #this tools me so long because I don’t watch series tbh #the 1D fandom got me and that’s enough for me so I don’t have time to be in other fandoms #hehehehe anyway thx for tagged me!!! 💝

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freudensteins-monster · 4 years

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I wish you would write a fic where Loki and Sigyn try to one-up each other pranking Thor, Valkyrie and the Avengers while on Earth. (Thanks, and Happy New Year! xoxo)

Dear Anon, I know you probably don’t remember sending me this ask, considering you sent it on New Years Day - two years ago - but better later than never, right? (Set post-Ragnarok, minus Thanos)

Loki’s return to Earth had notexactly been celebrated, but the Avengers needed him on an upcoming mission so hispresence was tolerated. Eventually they reached the end of their patience andso he was sent to annoy Doctor Strange at the New York Sanctum. He had to begrudgingly admit that theircollection of magical knowledge and artifacts was impressive, though it paledin comparison to Asgard’s. And didn’t he feel that loss keenly? He’d managed tosquirrel away almost a hundred of his most treasured volumes into his personalpocket dimension during his all to brief reign as king but there were hundreds of thousandsmore that had been lost to the fires of Ragnarok.

The Sanctum also held another mysterioustreasure.

“Sigyn? Is that name supposed tomean something to me?” Loki replied with disinterest, not bothering to raisehis eyes from his latest book.

“It should,” Strange smirked.“She’s your wife reincarnated.”

At that Loki deigned to raise hiseyes, flitting from the irritating Strange to the mortified initiate besidehim. She was fair of face and hair, the latter pulled back in elaborate braidsthat fell down to her shoulder blades, and she wore thick gloves on her hands inaddition to the standard burgundy garb of any initiate of Kamar-Taj.

“Is this a reference to yourlurid mythologies?” Loki drawled. “Because in truth I have never taken a wife.Though if you wish me to take her off your hands I would require a substantialdowry, say the Axe of Angarrumus? I received Thor’s name in Stark’s wintersolstice gift giving game and such a weapon would mean I don’t have to lowermyself to visiting one of Midgard’s marketplaces.”

Rather than reply Strange huffedwith irritation and flounced out of the room (the sorcerer may have justturned, the Cape of Levitation did all the flouncing). The woman gave him acurt bow before disappearing into the rows of shelving, and Loki would haveforgotten all about her the moment she was gone from his sight if Strangehadn’t screamed his name as he stormed back into the library less than a minutelater.

Loki laughed. He couldn’t helpit. The Sorcerer Supreme was standing in the middle of the room, his dark bluerobes now emerald green and his famed cloak a blinding gold, as his face turnedan interesting shade of red. It was the best thing he’d seen since the Hulk hadthrown Thor around like a ragdoll in the arena.

“What? It wasn’t me,” Loki arguedas Strange continued to glare at him after he’d been able to stop laughing.

With one flick of his wrists thesorcerer changed his robes back to their original hue and with another he cutthe legs off Loki’s chair, causing the Asgardian to fall on his ass with athud.

Loki was dusting himself off whenthe woman, Sigyn, reappeared, a heavy tome in her arms and a small smileplaying on her lips.

“It was nice to meet you,” she saidin lightly accented English before leaving the room via a portal she’dconjured.

Loki stared at the space she hadoccupied for a long minute before smiling to himself, “Interesting.”

In the days leading up to theMidgard winter solstice celebrations Loki thought of the curious Sigyn often,and though he frequented the Sanctum he had not seen her again, and dared notask Strange as to her whereabouts and give away his interest. In the end she came to him, arriving via a portal on the balcony of Stark’stower along with Strange and two other sorcerers, a hour late for Stark’sChristmas party.

Since they had last crossed pathsSigyn had apparently completed her training, having exchanged her initiaterobes for more formal ones of grey overlayed with a dark purple sleeveless coatwith silver embroidery. She still wore gloves the same shade as her robes, andtoyed nervously with the bindings. Stark was being his obnoxious self as heintroduced the sorcerers to the rest of the superheroes, scientists, andobligatory celebrities gathered on the 68th floor, and just as Lokiwas sure that Strange was about to push Stark through a portal to the farreaches of the universe, the Man of Iron was distracted by his AI systemintroducing the newest arrivals to step off the elevator – in Latin. Their hostsufficiently distracted, the sorcerers began to mingle (Strange making for oneJane Foster, the next smartest person in the room, much to Thor’s thinly veiledannoyance), and Loki made his way over to Sigyn.

“That was a nice trick.”

“I have no idea what you’retalking about,” she replied automatically as she took a glass of somethingbubbly from a passing waiter.

“Of course you don’t,” Lokismiled. “Just as I have no idea what’s going on over there,” he said, pointingto the bar where Valkyrie was trying drink after drink, growing more frustratedas each turned to water on her tongue.

Sigyn stifled a laugh beforegazing around the room in search of her next target. The slight twitching ofher fingers was the only indication that she had made her play and it was a fewminutes before Loki understood what it was. There was a small commotion acrossthe room and the man out of time stumbled away from a group of overly affectionatedebutantes, a sprig of mistletoe followed him. If he stayed in one place forlonger than five seconds the mistletoe hovered over his head and the peopleclosest to him felt compelled to kiss him. It resulted in the good captainrunning laps of the room as he cursed Stark for inventing some sort ofmistletoe drone.

As the party guests laughed Sigynraised an eyebrow in challenge but before Loki could contemplate his next movea loud slap rang out. All eyes turned to find Doctor Strange getting chewed outby Doctor Foster before the petite brunette stormed off.

Sigyn gasped. “What did you do?”

“It wasn’t me. Itseems as though the Sorcerer Supreme is fully capable of making an ass out ofhimself without my assistance.”

They watched as Thor made tofollow Doctor Foster and the moment he caught up with her Loki sliced the airwith his arm, sending the former lovers flying into a storage closet at the endof the hall. He immediately sealed the room – no one would be able to heartheir cries for aid and for all Thor’s strength he would not be able to breakout of the room before dawn’s first light hit the tower.

“Really?” Sigyn scoffed.

“They have been tiptoeing aroundeach other for weeks. It’s been painful to watch. One way or another it endstonight.”

“Fair enough,” she mused as hersharp gazed scanned the room. With a sly smile she ran a finger around the rimof her glass and half the room fell silent before findingthemselves singing a rather passionate rendition of “Santa Claus is Comin’ ToTown”.

Loki barely had a moment to enjoythe confusion before he felt a sharp pinch between his ribs.

“That’s enough,” the widowcommanded, pressing a blade so hard against his side it pierced through hisleather vestments.

Before Loki could proclaim hisinnocence Sigyn took a sip from her glass and the chaos fizzled out intoconfused laughter and the sounds of drinks being topped up. Loki breathed asigh of relief as the blade was removed from his side.

“If you can’t behave yourself itmight be better for your health if you retired for the evening,” the widowsuggested before rejoining her friends.

“Haha,” Sigyn chortled into herdrink. “You lose.”

“How so?”

“You got caught,” Sigyn repliedas though it were obvious.

“But it wasn’t my trick.”

“It still counts.”

“It does not!”

“It does too!”

In a fit of frustration, and inan effort to best his sparring partner, Loki threw a glamour over Sigyn,ridding her of her robes and dressing her in a glittering golden gown similarto those he had seen a few models in attendance wearing. The figure-hugginggown was quite alluring on her, as was the amount of exposed flesh, until onegot to her now glove-free hands which were misshapen with leathery scars. Sigyndropped her champagne glass with an anguished scream when she realised whatLoki had done, angry tears filling her eyes when she felt the room staring ather. She turned on her heel and summoned a portal with her sling ring,disappearing in a shower of sparks.

“What did you do?” Strange sighedirritably as he appeared at Loki’s side.

“I may have taken things a steptoo far,” Loki conceded.

“You don’t say.”

“Is there any way to follow her?”

With another put upon sigh,Strange summoned a portal for him.

“If my favourite student doesn’tcome back, neither should you,” Strange warned before shoving him through.

The portal closed and Loki foundhimself face first in the snow. He righted himself and in the grey light he wasable to follow Sigyn’s footprints towards a church and the cemetery behind it.He found her seated before a headstone once again dressed in her in grey andpurple robes. Her gloves were lying on the ground beside her and her misshapenhands sat in her lap. Loki approached cautiously and when she failed to attackhim he sat down next to her, joining Sigyn in staring silently at the headstoneof one Marta Magnusson.

“Most days I can forget aboutthem,” she said without preamble, turning her scarred hands this way and that. “But thensomeone will comment on my gloves and I remember it anew. If I don’t wear them I have to put up with looks of disgust or pity. I’m notsure which is worse.”

“…How did it happen?”

“When I was but a child my fatherthrew me into the fireplace during one of his drunken rages, pushed me down bythe heel of his boot, my little hands pushing back against the burning logs asflames licked my face. It felt like hours of agony but my mother assured me itwas only seconds, either way the damage was done. Recovery was almost aspainful, and whenever I cried about it my mother would wipe away my tears andsay, “Women are defined by what they can endure, little Sigyn, so it is in allthe great stories, and you are far too strong to give up now.”

She fell silent then, content toignore her companion in favour of losing herself to long buried memories. Itstretched on long enough to make Loki fidget, a dozen empty platitude dying onhis silver tongue.

“I’m not showing you mine,” hemuttered, just loud enough to draw Sigyn’s attention.

“Hmm?”

“I’m not showing you my scars soyou’ll think us even,” he bit out petulantly. “Just know that I have them. Also,”he added with a belligerent sigh, “I’m sorry for bringing yours to light the wayI did. It was cruel.”

She accepted his apology with abrief nod but made no move to bury her past once more and leave the frozen cemetery. Loki sighed again, cursing his newfound sentimentality, and outstretcheda hand towards the headstone. Within minutes an ice sculpture formed behind itin the shape of a mother embracing her child. The child may have resembled Sigynbut, Loki realised too late, the mother was most definitely Frigga.

Sigyn’s eyes lit up inappreciation but as she turned to Loki her smiled faded. Loki followed her gazeto his outstretched hand, now azure blue. Chastened, he gave it frustratedshake as though his true heritage was something he could easily rid himself of.He crossed his arms to hide it from view until it returned to his prefershade and avoided meeting her eyes.

“Can you only manipulate ice?”she asked, surprising Loki.

“What?”

“Is it only ice you can create?”she repeated, smiling as her eyes drifted skyward to the flurries of snowflakesthat drifted past on the wind.

Loki, sensing mischief, smiledback. “What did you have in mind?”

The karaoke portion of Stark’s Christmasparty was due to begin, but as the host took the stage a blizzard developed outof thin air, pouring in from the balcony and blanketing the room with snow.Panicked and freezing guests sought to escape it but where met with icy gales thatpushed them back from the elevators and stairwells.

It disappeared as quickly as it came but left the entire floor covered in two feet of snow. Stark was thefirst to regain his senses, but before he could call for Loki’s head his ownwas struck with an icy projectile. He turned on the spot to find the SorcererSupreme smirking back at him, his cocky cloak dusting snow off whatever its equivalentto hands were.

“Oh, it’s on now, Strange.”

Loki hoisted himself up onto thebar and helped himself to an abandoned glass of champagne, laughing at thechaos before him as dozens of enhanced individuals engaged in an all-outsnowball war. Sigyn joined him moments later after quickly forming a portal withher sling ring to divert a wayward snowball down the back of Wong’s robes.

Loki beamed at his partner inmischief and pushed a drink into her gloved hand. “To what doesn’t kill us,” hetoasted.

Sigyn laughed and clinked herglass against his. “May it always make us a riot at parties.”

#i wish you would write a fic where...#loki #sigyn #logyn #pranks #post-ragnarok #no thanos #dr strange #tony stark #not that i can actually remember writing any of this #but i'm pretty sure sigyn was inspired in part by riley blue and lagertha

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20 in 20 Book Tag

I was tagged by the lovely @princess-of-france. Thank you!! ❤️

Rules: List either 20 books you want to read in 2020 or 20 goals, or some mix of both, up to you! Then tag some friends to play along :)

(Those are essentially paraphrased rules, but you get the general idea...)

I broke the rules a bit and did 20 books and 10 goals - as a lit major I always have a list a mile long of books I want/need to read. Some of these are plays as well, because I’ve got like half a leg stuck in theatre but I love it. And goals are always important!

20 Books for 2020

1. The Libertine - Stephen Jeffreys

2. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

3. Shakespeare in Love - Tom Stoppard

4. Blandings Castle - P.G. Wodehouse

5. Dunbar: William Shakespeare’s King Lear Retold - Edward St. Aubyn

6. L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron” - Lucasta Miller

7. The Island Princess - John Fletcher

8. Collaborative Playwriting - Paul C Castagno

9. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

10. Farinelli and the King - Claire Van Kampen

11. The Vexations - Caitlin Horrocks

12. The Revolutionists: A Comedy, A Quartet, A Revolutionary Dream Fugue - Lauren Gunderson

13. Poldark - Winston Graham

14. This is Shakespeare - Emma Smith

15. The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera - Daniel Snowman

16. Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession - Ian Bostridge

17. Emma - Jane Austen

18. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

19. Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter

20. Shakespearean Character: Language in Performance - Jelena Marelj, Jonathan Hope (that’s my cool Shakespeare professor ahh), Lynne Magnusson

10 Goals for 2020

1. Get through 99 operas! - 49 were on a list of most famous operas, 50 were chosen by me. We’re 5 down - 94 to go!

2. Actually use my planner :’) - I bought fun stickers to put in and on it so maybe it’ll persuade me to use it.

3. Make new friends and keep in touch with old ones! (I’m so excited to meet a bunch of theatre people in two weeks guys).

4. Figure out a thesis topic (ahhhh)

5. Do well academically this semester and turn in some good honors projects.

6. Finish a draft of The Selby Roses

7. Perhaps start a new play WIP (we’ll see)

8. Travel!

9. Learn how to sing or play a new instrument

10. Perhaps start a studyblr... or blog/vlog thing? (I’m not sure how interested people would be or how plausible this sounds with my crazy busy schedule, but I feel like a studyblr would be manageable).

Tagging: @nuingiliath, @dustyp-rose, @bonebreakfast, @sneez, @forcebros, @shredsandpatches, @necromancy-savant, @devilsss-dyke, @twostarsinonesphere, @meharmonycarmen, @ghost-minuet, @chaotic-archaeologist, @lovesjustachemical, @henriadical, @witty-fool, @fantasmaglory, @maryiofengland, @exercise-of-trust, and @themalhambird, @maplelantern

(I think all of y’all are mutuals! I don’t know all of you extraordinarily well, but consider this to be a wave hello! Of course, anyone who sees this and wants to do it is tagged - I love seeing people’s TBR lists. And if life is moving at 9000 mph, don’t feel obligated to do this! ❤️)

#hehe i tagged a lot of people #sorry to bother if life is crazy at the moment #i’ve gotten a lot of new mutuals recently so i just want to say hi!#thank you for tagging claire!#20 for 2020 #books #to read #friends!#and obviously if I made a mistake on the mutuals thing then please feel free to ignore #my brain cant keep track anymore ahahaha #:)

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