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m-madeleine · 5 months

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hi! for the end of the year asks: 1, 3, 9, 14, 22, 24?

Hiiii!

1. How many books did you read this year?

Officially 33, although counting is difficult because I interned in publishing this summer and read some books that weren't out at the time. I keep thinking of more books I finished half a year ago. There's one that's announced for February and I guess I'll be counting it for this year instead??

Then there were also a couple that I technically finished, but am not counting for my goodreads challenge for Reasons, like I was basically skimming because of fast review deadline...or found so artrociously horrible I don't even want it to stain my account lmao. And that last one, I did the final edit for, so I know how bad it was even after multiple professional editing rounds :P

3. What were your top five books of the year?

In no particular order

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (EL!!! El, the girl who was born to be evil and fights tooth and nail to stay good out of spite T-T) (Also I realized I operate nigh daily on the exact same level of vigilance as a kid in a school that will KILL YOU and that's....a lot)

The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane (chill nonfiction about hiking and sailing mostly around Britain)

Shadow Girls by Carol Birch (girl's schools and ghostssss)

The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell (two girls bury their own parents in their backgarden; macabre in the best ways, grim but full of love)

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (essentially a fictional true crime case where you actually get the satisfaction of unpeeling all the layers through a round dance of POVs, left me Pondering for daysss)

Bonus: Along the Trenches by Navid Kermani (a travelogue that gets into the nitty gritty of the history and politics of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus) (I've only gotten halfway through, but I have to mention it NOW because it's amazing and Kermani has been cemented as my non-fiction crush)

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Not really! I def felt a taste for dark stuff this year though.

For the opposite of Getting Into, I had to read a lot of r0mance novels and new adult fiction for work, and mmmmmmm no. No shade, I did enjoy a couple, even though I'm not sure I would've finished them if I didn't have to. But they're just so formulaic T-T I need my books to have a kick.

14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Worked hard on finishing In Männerkleidern by Angela Steidele. It's somewhere between an academic work and a conventional biography? The subject is a working class AFAB person in early 1700s Germany who lived sometimes as a woman and sometimes as a man, had a really interesting life, married a woman but eventually got busted and executed for "sodomy with a woman".

I think Steidele is pretty solid about dealing with the transman or lesbian or?? controversy potential, refers to the main character as whatever gender they were presenting as at the time and when discussing the possibility of interpretation at the end gives evidence for and against all possibilities fairly imo.

You're usually not gonna catch me reading history stuff outside uni, but this was a treat.

22. What’s the longest book you read?

Mansfield Park!

24. Did you DNF anything? Why?

Oh yea. For one, a lot of that was involuntary through work, often you'll only get a 50 page sample, sometimes the rest isn't even written yet.

One thing for work I DNFd more or less voluntarily was What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close (sent in for translation licensing). I actually loved it and for the first and last time felt that famed editor "This is MY manuscript and I'm FIGHTING for it" feeling. Buuuuut it's very dark and visceral and I wasn't in a great headspace at the time, so I kind of just quiet quit on it during my last week. I did still write it a recommendation for as far as I got.

Outside of work, The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker. Only took me a couple pages to realize it was based on Mary Bell. I actually thought it was very well done, but it was tough to read just because of the subject and even flipping forward didn't help. I don't think I'll go back to it, I feel like I kind of know what it was doing and where it was going and I liked it, but don't need to experience it page by page.

#thank youuuu #i have a lot to say about books huh #lev reads #askbox meme #teddy-after-all

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torpublishinggroup · 24 days

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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

Rakesfall by @adamantine

They met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. Later, in a demon-haunted wood, an act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey through the ages. As they reincarnate ever deeper into the future, a truth emerges: Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell.

Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste

In this queer pirate fantasy, Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world. To avoid capture, he flees to the open sea, where only his on-again, off-again ex aka pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār can help him survive, profit, and become a legend.

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body and wears your skin. Welcome to Camp Resolution, a queer conversion center where everyone leaves a different person. In 1995, seven queer teens were abandoned here by their parents, but survived. Sixteen years later, they’re scarred and broken, but back to face an evil that threatens the world.

Kinning by Nisi Shawl

In this alternate history where barkcloth airships soar and former colonies claim freedom from imperialist tyrants, the identity of the island of Everfair still wavers. Victorious in the wake of the Great War, a new threat looms. Can Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope for anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces within and without?

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by @rebeccathornewrites

Can one of the Queen’s private guard and the most powerful mage in existence leave their lives behind to settle down in their new bookshop that serves tea? This cozy fantasy is steeped in sapphic romance and nestled on the edge of dragon country.

The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and ruin in the four Londons, there are only three. Now the worlds are going to collide anew—brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians.

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The Archive Undying by @emcandon

This is a story about misplaced faith, complicated love, so much self-loathing, and yeah—giant robots. Plugged into his AI god when its apocalyptic corruption renders him unfortunately immortal, sad gay disaster Sunai takes a die-again-or-die-trying approach to things. Unending life’s tough when intimacy is somehow scarier even than either of the warring police states set on turning you into a weapon or the rogue undead mecha-fragment of your old god that wants to eat you.

Now available in paperback!

The Bell in the Fog by Lev AC Rosen

A dazzling historical mystery that dives into the shadowy, closeted world of the Navy, emerging in the gay bars of the city. It’s a whirlpool of missing people, violent strangers, and scandalous photos in 1952 San Francisco.

Now available in paperback!

Celebrate Pride with more titles from Tor Publishing Group here!

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justalittleguest · 23 days

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I spent way to long on this sketch about a headcanon I’m not even going to explain. Probably. Eventually?

#it’s more like a thing they do based on several headcanons I have actually #also dw about dust she’s just being silly. and this is the happiest she physically CAN be in a long time so she’d have to be fine for now #utmv #nightmare sans #dreamtale #dust sans #dusttale #my art #my headcanons #and if u must know (<- me yapping without anyone asking) they’re reading Lev Tolstoy in Russian cuz Nightmare’s a snob

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izukuleeyoung · 5 months

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Last year, for a few months, I got to serve Daniel Radcliffe, and I snuck in a suggestion to read @dduane 's Young Wizard series. He was like "I've never heard of it but I'll check it out." And I know he's probably sick of Wizard stuff but when I explained how the magic worked he seemed interested.

I legit missed working at that café but I resigned due to physical and mental health reasons. I wish I was still there. I miss everyone.

I have dreams of directing an animated series based on the Young Wizards series and having Dan play Ed lol 😆 but that's just a fan's dream. It's called Fantasy because it's what the fans want to see, after all. ✨️

I've also wanted to co-write a magical adventure with Lev Grossman and Diane Duane! But that's also a wild idea for another day.

#I spread the word of our goddess Diane Duane #I grew up Reading Intellivore #He tips so well i miss that guy #Diane Duane #daniel radcliffe #lev grossman #gosh we are all NYers why cant we collab tho 😫

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elthecreator · 7 months

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can i request like scissoring/tribbing with gf!ellie everyone just writing about her strap but i just want her poosayyy

𝐀/𝐍: 𝐎𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐧😭. 𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧.

𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐀𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐱. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐱?? 𝐔𝐠𝐡𝐡𝐡 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞. 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐞<𝟑𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭! 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠!

“Fuck, you take me so well baby.” Ellie said as she continued to grind her pussy with yours.

Holding your leg up for her while you lay down in the sheets not having to lift a finger. She always went to work on you. To the point where she was dripping in sweat. Letting you lay there all pretty.. looking up at her with those pretty doe eyes. Sticking your tongue out while she put her thumb on it. Feeling the smooth sloppy surface.

Every time she thrust into you, your pussy got slippery. Your girlfriend struggling to grind into you due to your slick wet folds dripping with pleasure.

“So wet for me already hm?”

Ellie said kissing up your leg as she held it in place. Two of her slender pale fingers in your mouth. You gagged on them making an even bigger mess. Drooling from your corners..down your chin. Your eyes watering as you deep throated her. She continued to rub herself against you. “Such a good girl. Taking my fingers all the way.” She purred taking her fingers out your mouth. Rubbing her thumb against your jawline. “I knew you were a fucking slut.” Ellie breathed out starting to violently thrust on you. Holding your leg up so tight the muscles in her hands and arms were flexing.

“Fuck—“ She grunted.

You weren’t able to say anything at all. Trying to say full sentences or just her full name alone would come out as syllables. “Ell—“

“Mm..please—“ “M’ so close!—“

“need to cu—“Between your body continuously vibrating in an up and down movement from Ellie thrusting her clit in yours. Or her not letting you cum repeatedly now even when the two of you changed positions.

You were a fucking wreck.

And she knew it. It gave her pure joy knowing she was ruining you just with her clit alone. Your leg having a cramp in it from Ellie holding it still for so long. She didn’t give a fuck if you were tired or in need to cum after all these rounds?

Her goal was to ruin you, and that she has achieved.

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eucacici · 9 months

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"Wait, come'ere." Rhys says. Tim moves a bit closer but it's evidently not close enough because Rhys pulls at the front of his jacket until they're nearly toe-to-toe and presses his forehead to the glass front of Tim's helmet. "What—" "Yeah," Rhys breathes, fogging the glass, "I knew it'd be cool." He's close enough that Tim could count his eyelashes, close enough he could kiss him if the glass wasn't there, close enough he can probably hear Tim's unsteady breathing—

Trade with @snailpdf 💖Did a scene from chapter 4 of his lovely fic 'The Devil Doesn't Bargain'

Check out the fic here 👉: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45903100

#thanks for trading with me Lev!!#art trade #borderlands #tales from the borderlands #rhys tftbl #rhys strongfork #timothy lawrence #yes its tim he's just in a helmet sdkjhasdh #you would know if you read this fic 💅#rhysothy #go read and comment on levs fics y'all #my art #euca's art #the devil doesn't bargain #tddb

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xojack · 2 months

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ℜ𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔰 📖

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miumyo · 8 months

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HOW MEAN

LEV, bokuto, atsumu, USHIJIMA, itadori, daichi, hinata, oikawa

#haikyuu #oikawa x you #ushijima x reader #hinata x read #itadori x reader #hq daichi #lev #akaashi #haikyuu atsumu #haikyuu headcanons #haikyuu x reader #haikyuu imagine #ushijima fluff

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chaoticmiserablelover · 3 months

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When the book is inspired by Romeo and Juliet, and I'm still shocked when it has a tragic ending.

#books and reading #olivie blake #one for my enemy #Dimitri Fedorov #Marya Antonova #Lev Fedorov #Sasha Antonova #chloe gong #these violent delights #these violent ends #juliette cai #roma montagov #benedikt montagov #marshall seo #romeo and juliet #retelling #shakespeare

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seattlesellie · 1 year

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the opening of tlou 3

ellie outside of dina’s house with a boombox playing the song “baby come back” pleading on her hands and knees

& dina holding potato telling him “there she goes. there your stupid mommy goes” and slamming the window shut leaving ellie looking like a kicked puppy w 8 fingers to cater to her own wounds

#𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃 anon 🎀#tlou3 just ellie try to get dina back in 90 different ways #abby n lev’s adventures in seattle vs ellie tormented in jackson #neil druckmann i know ur reading my blog old man

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sukasshunn · 1 year

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since my method of keeping this acc alive is reposting old or already existing content, i leave this shipping art-trade of an adult RodyDeku i did for @levtuve, i still keep as a treasure what they draw for me btw u,3u <333

#izuku midoriya #rody soul #rodydeku #rody x deku #bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #my drawings #i rlly like this one so far #i had a lot of fun painting it #still loving this lovely couple #lev i know you're reading the tags let me tell you hola como estás gracias por el dibujo k'rohnen #mwah mwah #º3º

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m-madeleine · 1 year

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for the end of the year book asks: 1, 15, 17, 33, 39? :)

1. How many books did you read this year?

32! Considering that my original goal was 12, that’s pretty impressive.

15 & 17 answered!

33. Did you DNF anything?

Oh yeah. I really wanted to like Gideon the Ninth but somehow bounced off it, maybe because I’d just finished a very grounded literary fiction novel and in comparison the worldbuilding was ... A Lot. I’ll probably give it another try. Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion was kind of a depressing drag I might just not come back to. I’ve liked other books by her though.

There were also a couple books I basically never even started properly. I have a hard time finding poetry in my library somehow, saw a tome of Bukowski’s (just knew that he seems worth reading and I did like Ham on Rye as a teen) and took it home, only to open it on “legs”. Yikes. Yeah no.

I’ve also always wanted to read Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Now that I finally had the chance I unfortunately already have been reading quite a bit of YA and while some of it was good, I’m also just. So tired of it. So I opened that book, read the description of someone getting ready for high school and closed it again lol

39 answered!

#thank you :)#teddy-after-all #replies #askbox things #lev reads

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st-louis · 5 months

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really don't understand why everyone always has to be so fucking weird about hockey players and reading

#i go in the tags and it's like LMAOOOO HE CAN READ? LMAOOOOO HE'S READING A BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES???#newsflash some of them are not very smart some of them are quite intelligent just like the real fucking world. newsflash people have a wide #range of abilities and experiences and interests.#idk why people just love to infantalize them. it's weird. it's weird #and i'm going to say it.#literally like listen to some of them talk? you can tell? johnathan kovacevic has a civil engineering degree he completed WHILE playing #'it's a joke' it's not a funny joke it's boring and tired and you suck if you make it #and we're not even going to get into different forms of intelligence and the amount of work and study that goes into playing at the top lev

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aniaks · 4 days

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Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

#leo tolstoy #tolstoy #lev tolstoj #quotes #literature #books #classics #classic literature #book quotes #dark academia #russian literature #tolstoi #resurrection #booklr #classic books #books and reading #bookish #excerpts

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elthecreator · 7 months

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♱ Blade

knifeplay ellie!

A/N: Just thought of this just now omfg. This was chefs kiss, I wanted to release something for y’all this week soooo bad. I was trying to put out my most recent fanfic I have been working on this Friday but girl I have CLEARLY forgot the process of a fanfic 😭. Long as hell. Anyway but enjoy this while I try to get the fanfic done my loves. Let me know if y’all want more knife play Ellie 🥴. If there is bad grammar ignore that shit its 3:44 am I'm tired let a bitch live 🙏🏾.

Warnings: Knife play! Dom E! Sub R! SMUT!

“Shh..we’re gonna get caught.”

Ellie whispered as she continued to thrust the end of her pocket knife inside you. You lay back against the wall, both of you on the ground in an abandoned office room. You were sent on patrol to be looking for more files about the virus. However, you’re legs were spread open for her as she used her knife as a dildo. Fucking you with it repeatedly. Dangerous as it seemed she did not let the blade touch you whatsoever. Ellie was holding the blade in order to have control over the pace of the knife.

Full on holding the end of the blade with her bare hands without cutting herself.

Classic Ellie Williams. You were worried she’d end up cutting herself but she couldn’t give two fucks.

You groaned as she bobbed the knife in and out of you. Starting at a slow smooth pace, but slowly working her way up. Tattooed hand holding your thigh open and controlling the pace of the knife with the other. Watching the end of the knife glisten with your juices.

“Taking it so well for me. Next time we’ll just have to get a bigger knife yeah?”

Ellie teased, watching you nod your head exhaustingly. You were dazed in pleasure. It surprised you to think a pocket knife could give you so much satisfaction. Or maybe because the cunning auburn haired girl in front of you was fucking you with it.

She started getting down between your legs. The knife still pacing inside of you. Her hand was on the blade, licking the tip of the silver sharp object. Slowly while looking up at you.

With those green eyes.

Both of you locking eyes as she pulled such a move. Immediately making you fold.

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bonggatorade · 9 months

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Contemplating whether Connor Lassiter is a little meow meow or a scrunkly

#I'm so sorry to anybody who has to read this #connor lassiter #risa ward #unwind #unwind dystology #neal shusterman #lev calder #lev garrity

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