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recklessjerry · 3 months

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Wonderland v2

Just a quick remake of an old piece from 2019

#my oc #draw tag #red ribbons #jordan hartingham #richard o'neill #dedrick dawson #patricia st clair #carlyn deville #philomena o'neill

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twinsoftheday · 9 months

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today's twins of the day are:

patricia and isabelle o'sullivan from mischievous twins: the tales of st. clare's

#yes there is an anime of st clare's. no i didn't know this either #twins of the day #identical twins #same-gender twins #animation #tv shows #anime #patricia o'sullivan #isabelle o'sullivan #st clare's #mischievous twins: the tales of st. clare's #the twins at st. clare's #the mischevious twins #mischevious twins: story of clare academy #ochame na futago: claire gakuin monogatari #ochame-na futago #twins #fictional twins #twinsoftheday

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bookerplays · 1 year

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Agenda turns a new page

I’m thrilled have two poems in the final issue of Agenda edited by the legendary Patricia McCarthy. Stepping Stones (or Volume 55, Nos 3-4 to those of a bibliographic mind!) is a beauty in both form and content, and a fine finish after two decades of Patricia’s curatorship. “Agenda is being taken over by the University of St Andrews, with the illustrious poet and Professor John Burnside as the…

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#Agenda #Celtic #Claire Booker #contemporary poems #Horses #John Burnside #new poetry #Patricia McCarthy #poetry reviews #Stepping Stones #University of St Andrews

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poke-muns · 5 months

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Dragon Type Names

Pre-existing: Aragon (dragon), Aris/Aristide (possibly Aristides, an Athenian general), Clair (lair, what dragons are said to have and store their treasures in), Débora (dragón or víbora, Spanish for dragon and viper), Dracaena (the dragon tree’s genus), Dragan (Irish word for dragon), Drake (another term for dragon), Drayden (drake/dragon & den), Dreyton (see Drayden), Genji (genjū, Japanese for mythical beast as a generic term), Gweonsu (gweon/권 Korean for power, su/수 meaning beast), Ibuki (means breath in Japanese, possibly referencing either dragons breathing fire, Dragon Breath, or dragons’ breath opal glass), Kakitsubata/カキツバタ (contains anagram of タツ, meaning dragon), Kibana (Kiba/牙, Japanese for fang), Lance (weapon used by knights who killed dragons and Lancelot, a knight of the round table from Arthurian legend), Lóngkuí/Lùhngkwàih/龍葵 (lóng/lùhng/龍 is Chinese for dragon), Lysander (Spartan general or part of fleur-de-lys, a medieval coat of arms), Peter (petard or petronel, medieval weapons again used by knights), Roy (king in Middle French or from roi, French meaning king), Ryūki (ryū/竜, Japanese for dragon), Sandra (dragon, drake, etc.), Siegfried (a knight who killed a dragon in Germanic legend), Tristana (Tristan, a knight in Celtic legend who had to kill a dragon), Wataru (possibly Watatsumi, a Japanese dragon and water deity), Yong-Gyu (Yong/용 is Korean for dragon) Basil = basilisk (possibly what they were going for with Raihan, who’s name comes from the Arabic word for basil, rayḥān/ريحان) Craig(g) = Draigg, Welsh for dragon Erwan = homophone with aeroant, meaning dragon in Breton. George/Georgina/etc. = St. George, said to have slain a dragon Gil = Gilgamesh, who loses a plant granting immortality to a serpent (could allude to a dragon-water ace given gill or dragon-grass given the aforementioned immortality plant) Hera/Heracles/Hercules/etc. = the mythological figure who killed the hydra Heidi/Hydi/etc. = hydra Linda/Lindon/etc. = Lindworm, type of dragon or serpentine creature Merlin/Meryl/etc. = Merlin, a figure from Arthurian stories Patrick /Patricia/etc. = St. Patrick, if taking the snakes he drove away at face value Puck = a dragon from German, Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian legend (possibly alludes to a dragon-fairy ace given the famous fae from Celtic legend, made more known in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Tracy / Patrice = Cockatrice, a 2 legged dragon with a fowl’s head

#gym leader ideas #gym leader oc #pokemon oc

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cherryjuicegf · 2 years

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For your poetry prompt (which is a beautiful idea btw) this and yennskier?

amazing poem i'm obsessed thank you dear i hope you enjoy and also forgive me ♡

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a flower grew in a wilderness - patricia st clair

He knows this place.

His feet sink in the ashes, scrotching hot and it has been ages, it has been a day, he cannot tell. Only, he can smell the smoke, and the taste of burnt flesh, and the touch of flaming fingertips on his cheek. Only, he can climb the cliff and look around, a vast valley of snow, of ash, one that could be beautiful in a song, but now, in life, it is dreadful. Greedy. Taking and taking and taking.

His lute hangs limp on his back, and his fingers soulless on his sides. He can fit in, like that.

He can take the deed, and make it beautiful.

That is what she would have wanted. And he, careless as ever, learned to love her for her fire.

In the middle of the hill, there lies a flower.

Walking, he can almost feel the prints of past footsteps, only that he can ever lose, and lose and lose. But she, she had won.

He kneels. A red flower, a little flame, a little hope. For him, who despite all searches for hope in a rotten battlefield.

A hand on his shoulder, light and burning and gentle, familiar. He craves the touch, relishes in the wound it carves on his skin.

"I thought you might want some company." Tears well his eyes at the sound of her voice.

Once he had caught her singing to herself. Only once, a distant memory of lighter times, or times that could bear some light. He suspects she didn't have the chance to do it again after that.

He looks at her and her eyes are brighter than any other time, emptier than any other time. Sometimes he can't carry the trust they put on his shoulders. Sometimes maybe she thinks too high of him.

He never was that strong.

A tears flows down his face. "Hello, witch," he says and it echoes like a wail.

Yennefer smiles, or he thinks, hopes she does. She is so beautiful in her lifelessness, not running at last, but this one time he can catch her, his hand only runs through her like it's thin air.

He knows better than hoping.

She kneels beside him, the flower as though blooming faster under the solid press of her knees. Not looking at him. Lucky, for she can avoid his sight whenever she wishes.

He is damned to see her everywhere he goes. In every flake of ash floating on the air, every little whistle of leaves, every wilting flower.

Yet oh, he is not sure he could bear it otherwise.

"Keep me alive," she says then. Looks at him. The flower tremblies as though trying to fall on its knees and beg along. But it cannot wilt, not yet. She tilts her head. "Can you do this for me, Jaskier?"

He doesn't speak. He just nods.

He can do anything for her. If he tries hard enough, maybe he can bring her back from the dead.

The lute hangs limp on his back, and he digs into the charred earth, and holds the flower's roots inside his hands.

It is red, foreign, and it smells like lilacs.

As though waking from a lethargy, he flinches hard and opens his eyes.

Before him, the waters of the lake sparkle under the afternoon sun, and a boat slips deep into the horizon. And he can only stand.

He can only keep her alive.

#i can't find the poet rip #the witcher #yennskier #yennefer of vengerberg #jaskier #you know i had to do it to em #chrysa writes #fic recs #prompt fill #dancingwiththefae #angst #mcd #hopeful ending #poetry prompts

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thecrimecrypt · 1 year

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Crimes That Shook Britain (East Midlands)

Murder of Kayleigh Haywood Kayleigh Haywood, 15, met Luke Harlow, 28, online in 2015. For two weeks, with over 2,600 texts, he groomed her. Said she was beautiful, declared his love, persuaded her to visit.

On Friday 15 November, Kayleigh’s dad dropped her at Ibstock Community College, Leicestershire, believing she was staying with a friend. At Harlow’s flat, Kayleigh met his neighbour Stephen Beadman, 29, and she was abused, plied with alcohol.

Her worried parents reported her missing. At 3am Sunday morning, a neighbour saw Kayleigh flee Harlow’s flat, naked from the waist down. Beadman chased her, raped her and killed her with a brick. Harlow was jailed 12 years for sexual activity, grooming and falsely imprisoning a child.

Beadman was jailed for life for rape, murder and false imprisonment of a child.

Colin Pitchfork November 1983 - Lynda Mann, 15, was found raped and strangled in Narborough.

The case went cold until July 1986, when Dawn Ashworth, 15, was raped and strangled less than a mile away. The year before, Alec Jeffreys, a British genetics researcher, had discovered DNA profiling.

Testing semen samples found at both crime scenes, Jeffreys linked the cases. Police asked local men aged 17 to 34 to submit blood. Jeffreys tested the DNA samples.

After being overheard admitting he paid a colleague to provide blood on his behalf, local man Colin Pitchfork, then 25, was arrested. His DNA matched both samples, and he was jailed for life.

Susan and Christopher Edwards In October 2013, police dug up a garden in Mansfield and found the remains of former residents Patricia and William Wycherley, 63 and 85.

The pairs daughter Susan Edwards, 56, and husband Christopher, 57, were arrested - turned out they’d shot and buried them in May 1998. For 15 years, Susan said her parents were travelling, but after living off their benefits, a letter to William from the Department For Work and Pensions scared them to confess.

They were convicted of murder and given life.

The Philpotts At 4am on 11 May 2012, Mick and Mairead Philpott’s home, 18 Victory Road, Derby, went up in flames. Despite Mick’s apparently valiant efforts to save their kids, Duwayne, 13, Jade, 10, John, 9, Jack, 7, Jesse, 6, and Jayden, 5, all died.

Detectives found petrol inside the letterbox, and suspected arson. But while Mick and Mairead sobbed during a TV press conference, police already considered them suspects. A tangled love triangle emerged. Mick’s mistress, who’d lived with the Philpotts, had walked out with her five kids- a custody hearing loomed.

Mick planned to torch the family home, frame his ex love, and win custody. But a horrific fireball engulfed the house, trapping his and Mairead’s children upstairs.

In April 2013, Mick and Mairead Philpott were found guilty of six counts of manslaughter. Mick was jailed for life, Mairead for 17 years. A friend involved in the plot - Paul Mosley, 47 - also got a 17 year sentence for manslaughter.

Murder of Danielle Beccan On her way home from the Nottingham Goose Fair in October 2004, Danielle Beccan, 14, was shot in the stomach and killed in a drive-by.

Junior Andrews, then 24, and Mark Kelly, then 20, part of the Waterfront gang, were charged. They hated the St Ann’s area where Danielle lived and they’d wanted to ‘shoot up’ people.

When they saw Danielle, Kelly pulled up next to her and Andrews opened fire. Andrews and Kelly were jailed for life.

Beverley Allitt Liam Taylor, 7 months, was the first victim of serial killer nurse Beverley Allitt, then 22, in February 1991 at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire.

Within 59 days she’d killed Timothy Hardwick, 11, Becky Phillips, 2 months, and Claire Peck, 15 months, and tried to kill or harm nine more children. Staff became suspicious of the number of heart attacks on the ward.

Allitt was the only nurse on duty when the children were attacked. She’d given at least two of them large doses of insulin. In May 1993, Allitt was given 13 life sentences.

#murder #truecrime #tc community #tcc family #serialkillers #blog #the crime crypt #true crime community #true crime junkie #East Midlands #Britain #Crimes that shook britain #Beverley Allitt #Mick Philpott #Colin Pitchfork #Kayleigh Haywood #mairead philpott

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thaoworra · 15 days

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association recently released the poems that made it to the finalist stage for consideration for the 2024 Rhysling Awards for Short and Long Speculative Poems of the year. Congratulations to all of the nominees! This will be the 46th year these awards have been conferred!

Short Poems (50 finalists)

Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity!, Emily Ruth Verona, Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II

The Beauty of Monsters, Angela Liu, Small Wonders 1

The Blight of Kezia, Patricia Gomes, HWA Poetry Showcase X

The Day We All Died, A Little, Lisa Timpf, Radon 5

Deadweight, Jack Cooper, Propel 7

Dear Mars, Susan L. Lin, The Sprawl Mag 1.2

Dispatches from the Dragon's Den, Mary Soon Lee, Star*Line 46.2

Dr. Jekyll, West Ambrose, Thin Veil Press December

First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare, Emily Jiang, Uncanny 53

Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness, Ali Trotta, The Deadlands 31

Gods of the Garden, Steven Withrow, Spectral Realms 19

The Goth Girls' Gun Gang, Marisca Pichette, The Dread Machine 3.2

Guiding Star, Tim Jones, Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)

Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke, Morgan L. Ventura, Banshee 15

hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice, Ennis Rook Bashe, Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice

Hi! I am your Cortical Update!, Mahaila Smith, Star*Line 46.3

How to Make the Animal Perfect?, Linda D. Addison, Weird Tales 100

I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon, Jennessa Hester, HAD October

Invasive, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Polar Starlight 9

kan-da-ka, Nadaa Hussein, Apparition Lit 23

Language as a Form of Breath, Angel Leal, Apparition Lit October

The Lantern of September, Scott Couturier, Spectral Realms 19

Let Us Dream, Myna Chang, Small Wonders 3

The Magician's Foundling, Angel Leal, Heartlines Spec 2

The Man with the Stone Flute, Joshua St. Claire, Abyss & Apex 87

Mass-Market Affair, Casey Aimer, Star*Line 46.4

Mom's Surprise, Francis W. Alexander, Tales from the Moonlit Path June

A Murder of Crows, Alicia Hilton, Ice Queen 11

No One Now Remembers, Geoffrey Landis, Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.

orion conquers the sky, Maria Zoccula, On Spec 33.2

Pines in the Wind, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)

The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon, T.D. Walker, Radon Journal 5

A Prayer for the Surviving, Marisca Pichette, Haven Speculative 9

Pre-Nuptial, F. J. Bergmann, The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)

The Problem of Pain, Anna Cates, Eye on the Telescope 49

The Return of the Sauceress, F. J. Bergmann, The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February

Sea Change, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader, Scifaikuest May

Seed of Power, Linda D. Addison, The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)

Sleeping Beauties, Carina Bissett, HWA Poetry Showcase X

Solar Punks, J. D. Harlock, The Dread Machine 3.1

Song of the Last Hour, Samuel A. Betiku, The Deadlands 22

Sphinx, Mary Soon Lee, Asimov's September/October

Storm Watchers (a drabbun), Terrie Leigh Relf, Space & Time

Sunflower Astronaut, Charlie Espinosa, Strange Horizons July

Three Hearts as One, G. O. Clark, Asimov's May/June

Troy, Carolyn Clink, Polar Starlight 12

Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary, John Grey, Medusa's Kitchen September

Under World, Jacqueline West, Carmina Magazine September

Walking in the Starry World, John Philip Johnson, Orion's Belt May

Whispers in Ink, Angela Yuriko Smith, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Long Poems (25 finalists)

Archivist of a Lost World, Gerri Leen, Eccentric Orbits 4

As the witch burns, Marisca Pichette, Fantasy 87

Brigid the Poet, Adele Gardner, Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice

Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure), Armoni “Monihymn” Boone, Fiyah 26

Cradling Fish, Laura Ma, Strange Horizons May

Dream Visions, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Eccentric Orbits 4

Eight Dwarfs on Planet X, Avra Margariti, Radon Journal 3

The Giants of Kandahar, Anna Cates, Abyss & Apex 88

How to Haunt a Northern Lake, Lora Gray, Uncanny 55

Impostor Syndrome, Robert Borski, Dreams and Nightmares 124

The Incessant Rain, Rhiannon Owens, Evermore 3

Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis, Angela Liu, Strange Horizons November

Little Brown Changeling, Lauren Scharhag, Aphelion 283

A Mere Million Miles from Earth, John C. Mannone, Altered Reality April

Pilot, Akua Lezli Hope, Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)

Protocol, Jamie Simpher, Small Wonders 5

Sleep Dragon, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)

Slow Dreaming, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)

St. Sebastian Goes To Confession, West Ambrose, Mouthfeel 1

Value Measure, Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish, Dreams and Nightmares 125

A Weather of My Own Making, Nnadi Samuel, Silver Blade 56

Welcoming the New Girl, Beth Cato, Penumbric October

What You Find at the Center, Elizabeth R McClellan, Haven Spec Magazine 12

The Witch Makes Her To-Do List, Theodora Goss, Uncanny 50

The Year It Changed, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Star*Line 46.4

Voting for the Rhysling Award begins July 1; a link to the ballot will be sent with the Rhysling Anthology, as well as with the July issue of Star*Line. More information on the Rhysling Award can be found here.

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barbh · 2 months

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Fair Opposition (Old Toronto Historical Romance - M W Gilford Dry Goods Co. Series Book 3) by Patricia Davenport [REVIEW]

SYNOPSIS After a most heartbreaking dissolution of her engagement to her unfaithful fiancé, Elise Sutherland leaves New York for a much-needed visit with her extended family. At her cousin Marni’s invitation to Toronto, Elise looks to find solace with both Marni and her favorite uncle. When Marni introduces Elise to Mr. Jarvis St Clair, a friend and business acquaintance, an unexpected challenge…

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from1837to1945 · 3 months

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Petition for divorce for Henry B. Walthall, "Little Colonel" of the movies, from his wife was on file here today. The charge is desertion. Walthall is understood to be in Los Angeles. Papers were filed by his attorney.

-"'Little Colonel' of Movies Asks Divorce From Wife," Eugene Register-Guard, September 11, 1918

Less than two minutes after he entered the courtroom yesterday Henry B. Walthall, moving picture actor, was granted a divorce from Mrs. Isabelle Harrington Walthall in the circuit court. Walthall charged his wife with desertion, stating she left him March 18, 1916. Mrs. Walthall is said to be living in New Jersey.

-"Divorce for Henry Walthall," Warsaw Daily Times, November 16, 1918

Henry Walthall married Miss Mary Charleston five days after he had been granted a divorce from Mrs. Isabelle Harrington in 1918. They were married at Crown Point. Judge H.H. Loring, Valparaiso, Ind., pronounced Walthall's second marriage illegal.

-"Three Movie Weddings Probed; Search For Bride Is Recalled.," St. Petersburg Times, May 26, 1922

He married his leading woman, Mary Charleston, in Indiana, ten days after he was divorced from Irene Fenton. He says:

"There are absolutely no grounds for investigation into my second marriage. I married my first wife, Isabelle Fenton, fifteen years ago. We couldn't get along, and separated. I obtained a divorce at Chicago five years ago. I was given a final decree with the provision that I would not marry again in that state. The Indiana judiciary decided that my second marriage is entirely legal."

-"The Love Troubles of a Perfect Lover," The Norwalk Hour, July 10, 1922

※ Here's Walthall lied that he had a divorce from his wife Isabelle Fenton 5 years ago but actually it was 4 years ago. It seems like he was trying to deceive his daughter's age.

Marguerite Clark, once as noted in the film world as Mary Pickford, and Mary Charleston, star of the old Vitagraph company, now are happily married. The former is the wife of Harry Williams of New Orleans, and the latter married Henry B. Walthall, the actor.

"I have found more happiness in my home than I ever could have found in the vain glory of seeking personal fame," says Mrs. Walthall.

-"Many Stars, Once Famous, Now Are In Poverty And Obscurity," The Southeast Missourian, September 15, 1925

Henry Walthall's daughter Mary Patricia was born on her father's 40 year old birthday. (March 16, 1918) But the baby's mother wasn't Walthall's wife. Her mother was Mary Charleson.

When Henry Walthall divorced his wife Isabelle Fenton in Chicago, he received an order from the judge prohibiting him from remarrying within the state for one year. So he went to Indiana and remarried Mary Charleson in November 20, 1918. It was five to ten days after divorcing his wife, Isabelle Fenton.

In other words, Henry Walthall already had an illegitimate child. That was a reason why Walthall had to divorce Isabelle Fenton and why he had to remarry Mary Charleson so quickly after the divorce.

gifs: Blanche Sweet and Henry Walthall in Death's Marathon (1913, D.W. Griffith) / Claire McDowell and Henry Walthall in Two Daughters of Eve (1912, D.W. Griffith)

#henry b. walthall #henry walthall #death's marathon 1913 #two daughters of eve 1912 #isabelle fenton #mary charleson #mary patricia walthall #i adore you very much mr. walthall but you were the worst man i've ever loved #기사 인용

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kattra · 4 months

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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF JANUARY The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White Dear Mothman by Robin Gow Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang (SS) A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher ** Monologue of a Dog by Wisława Szymborska (P) The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree ** Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine (NF) Prospero In Hell by L. Jagi Lamplighter Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson (SS) A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

Graphic Novels: Sorry For My Familiar Vol.11 by Tekka Yaguraba ** Faithless Vol.3 by Brian Azzarello & Maria Llovet

(13 books read / 100 books goal)

currently reading: Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt (NF) The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien Yellowface by R.F. Kuang It Would Be Night In Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead (P) A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Prospero Regained by L. Jagi Lamplighter Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck (SS)

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook

TBR Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire Under the Smokestrewn Sky by A. Deborah Baker How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin (SS) Eat A Peach by David Chang (NF) Eros/Psyche by Maria Llovet (GN) Porcelain by Maria Llovet (GN)

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

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dzjadzja · 5 months

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75 books in 2023. Not bad. I fell into a Julia Quinn hole in Nov/Dec, apparently (I didn't realize how many of her books I read during the Holiday season). I discovered a few new authors I really like. And I've realized that, given the option, I will almost always pick a female author (Ilona Andrews being the stand out exception, since I like the way the duo write together, and one of them is a dude). Burn for Me - Ilona Andrews Chasing Shadows - Maria V Snyder Navigating the Stars - Maria V Snyder The Apothecary Diaries V1 - Natsu Hyuuga The Darkest Pleasure - Gena Showalter The Darkest Kiss - Gena Showalter The Darkest Night - Gena Showalter Fledgling - Octavia E Butler Master of None - Sonya Bateman Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao Echo North - Joanna Ruth Meyer The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea - Maggie Tokuda-Hall The Siren, the Song, and the Spy - Maggie Tokuda-Hall The Kings Beast, V1&2 - Rei Toma Brighter Than the Sun - Julia Quinn Secret Diaries of Miss Miranga Cheever - Julia Quinn To Catch an Heiress - Julia Quinn Dancing at Midnight - Julia Quinn Minx - Julia Quinn Ten Things I Love About You - Julia Quinn The Secrets of Sir Richard Kentworthy - Julia Quinn The Girl With the Make Believe Husband - Julia Quinn The Sum of All Kisses - Julia Quinn First Comes Scandal - Julia Quinn Mr Cavendish, I Presume - Julia Quinn The Lady Most Likely - Julia Quinn Lady Whistledown Strikes Back - Julia Quinn A Night Like This - Julia Quinn Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn The Other Miss Bridgerton - Julia Quinn Everything and the Moon - Julia Quinn Romancing Mister Bridgerton - Julia Quinn It's in His Kiss - Julia Quinn To Sir Phillip, With Love - Julia Quinn When He Was Wicked - Julia Quinn An Offer from a Gentleman - Julia Quinn The Bridgertons, Happily Ever After - Julia Quinn On the Way to the Wedding - Julia Quinn Queen of Myth and Monsters - Scarlett St Clair King of Battle and Blood - Scarlett St Clair The Innocent Sleep - Seanan McGuire The Fenmere Job - Marshall Ryan Maresca Lady Henterman's Wardrobe - Marshall Ryan Maresca The Enforcer Enigma - GL Carriger The Omega Objection - GL Carriger The Sumage Solution - GL Carriger Demons and DNA - Meghan Ciana Doidge The Amplifier Protocol - Meghan Ciana Doidge Of Noble Family - Mary Robinette Kowal Without a Summer - Mary Robinette Kowal Valour and Vanity - Mary Robinette Kowal Shades of Milk and Honey - Mary Robinette Kowal Demons of Good and Evil - Kim Harrison Empire of Ivory - Naomi Novik Backpacking Through Bedlam - Seanan McGuire Blame it on the Early - Jane Ashford Earl on the Run - Jane Ashford The Duke Who Loved Me - Jane Ashford Magic Claims - Ilona Andrews Magic Tides - Ilona Andrews Victory of Eagles - Naomi Novik Black Powder War - Naomi Novik Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik The Atlas Paradox - Olivie Blake The Atlas Six - Olivie Blake A Darker Shade of Magic - VE Schwab Lost in the Moment and Found - Seanan McGuire The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline Time's Convert - Deborah Harkness VenCo - Cherie Dimaline The Outsiders - SE Hinton The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness Soul Taken - Patricia Briggs Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir.

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recklessjerry · 10 months

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This line from GTA: VCS popped up in my head recently and I realized it sounds like something Patricia defo would've said lol

#my oc #draw tag #patricia st clair #get lucky

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cocktailsfairytales · 8 months

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FIGHT LIKE A GIRL is a romance anthology to benefit Breast Cancer Research in the US and Canada. This collection of short romance stories cannot be read anywhere else. 100% of the royalties will be split equally and donated to the US Breast Cancer Research Foundation & the Canadian Cancer Society-CIBC Run for the Cure, both charitable organizations dedicated to funding breast cancer research.

Get your copy here → https://geni.us/FightLikeAGirl

From sizzle to spice, we've got all your romance needs covered! Dive into some amazing romance stories while supporting a very important cause! Included are 24 short stories of various romance genres including contemporary romance, dark romance, romantic suspense, and rom-com. Grab this limited-time collection before it’s gone forever!

Authors included in this anthology: Anna B. Doe, April Moran, Brighton Walsh, Cassidy London, C.M. Albert, Crystal St. Clair, Daisy St. James, Dakota Willink, Diana Hicks, E.M. Shue, Ellie Masters, Erin Cristofoli, Gabrielle G, Heather Slade, Jami Davenport, Kat Mizera, Lydia Michaels, M.L. Broome, Maddy Lowe, Michelle Windsor, Mimi Flood, Patricia D. Eddy, Pepper North, Remy Reigns, Samantha Cole, Zoe York.

#htpromos #charityanthology #fightlikeagirl #cancersucks

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allthingsdarkanddirty · 2 years

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DISSENT: A Charity Romance Anthology is LIVE!

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For National Read a Book day, DISSENT will be releasing in eBook and paperback!

DISSENT is a charity romance anthology with NEW, never before published content from over 150 authors of all romance genres. All proceeds from the eBook and paperbacks will be donated to organizations benefiting reproductive rights in the United States, particularly in areas where people need them more than ever.

Dissent will only be available for a very limited time, so grab your copy today!

**We are not affiliated nor endorsed by any of these charities. We are simply a community bound by a single cause: protecting the basic human right of body autonomy.**

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mariocki · 3 years

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Shockproof (1949)

"Now listen: this is important in your case. You may not associate with, or correspond with, or make any contact with any individual of known bad reputation, or any present or former inmate of a penal institution -"

"Harry Wesson was never in any -"

"I know all about Harry, you don't have to tell me! He's never landed in the pen, but he's come close a dozen times. Now, I'm telling you he's the wrong sort for you, and my orders are to stay away. Disobeying my orders means you break parole. Breaking parole means you go back to jail, is that clear?"

#shockproof #1949 #samuel fuller #american cinema #crime film #douglas sirk #Helen Deutsch #cornel wilde #Patricia Knight #John Baragrey #Esther Minciotti #Howard St. John #russell collins #Charles Bates #Ann Shoemaker #Frank Jaquet #Richard Benedict #Argentina Brunetti #Claire Carleton #Cliff Clark #A charmingly diverting but pretty lightweight picture that inverts a familiar trope (the good hearted man of law gradually leads a lady of #Wicked nature back towards the straight and narrow) into something a little more morally complex (only a little). It chugs along quite #Nicely making a few unexpected choices and with one or two great scenes (a suicide and subsequent psychiatric probing of a witness is very #Sam Fuller) but then it all ends in the most absurd way possible. A real doozy of a 'wait what'. A complete tonal 180 and a sickeningly #Twee and horrifically unbelievable wrapping up... Its truly astounding. It's also not the work of Fuller; director Sirk was attracted to #The project by Sam's script which ended much more bleakly and violently. Someone somewhere (the same old story) got cold feet and Deutsch #Was called in to provide the sugary nonsense which completely upends the last ten minutes of this film. Oh well. Actually I'm not all that #Disappointed.... It may be fluffy nonsense but so what. Sometimes a happy ending (no matter how unbelievable) is nice... And I'm really a #But of a romantic deep down. Very deep. Honest.

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2021 in books

Here is my 2021 reading wrap-up! The titles in italics are the ones I’m emphasizing as recommendations.

january:

1. “Christmas Days” by Jeanette Winterson

2. “Antigone” by Sophocles, translated by our Lord and Savior, Anne Carson

3. “The Undiscovered Islands” by Malachy Tallack

4. “The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts” by Baba Ifa Karade

5. “Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg” edited by Corey Lang Brettschneider

6. “The Soul of an Octopus” by Sy Montgomery

7. “World of Wonders” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

8. “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

9. “Magickal Mermaids” by Flavia Kate Peters

february:

1. “Dear Juliet” edited by the Juliet Club

2. “Memorias de mis putas tristes” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3. “Midnight Sun” by Stephenie Meyer

4. “Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel (DNF)

5. “Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery

6. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)

7. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)

8. “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake

march:

1. “The Dumb House” by John Burnside (TW)

2. “Hope Never Dies” by Andrew Shaffer

april:

1. “150 Glimpses of the Beatles” by Craig Brown

2. “The Passion” by Jeanette Winterson

3. “The Satanic Bible” by Anton Szandor LaVey

4. “A Coney Island of the Mind” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

5. “The Final Revival of Opal and Nev” by Dawnie Walton

6. “Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alann

may:

1. “The Invention of a Murder” by Judith Flanders

2. “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage

3. “Ghost Wall” by Sarah Moss

4. “God is Not One” by Stephen R. Prothero (DNF)

5. “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson

6. “Loki: Agent of Asgard″ by Al Ewing (re-read)

7. “Loki: Agent of Asgard #2″ by Al Ewing (re-read)

8. “Poesia de Amor” by Pablo Neruda

9. “Modern Greek Poetry” edited by Kimon Friar

10. “Of Blood and Magic” by Shayne Leighton

11. “In Focus Reiki: Your Personal Guide” by Des Hynes

12. “Beneath the Moon” by Yoshi Yoshitani

13. “Tales of a Korean Grandmother” by Frances Carpenter

14. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera

15. “Mercy, Unbound” by Kim Antieau

june:

1. “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” by William Finnegan

2. “The Falling in Love Montage” by Ciara Smyth

3. “Butterflies of North America” by Jeffrey Glassberg

4. “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo

5. “King John” by William Shakespeare

6. “Girl Crushed” by Katie Heaney

july:

1. “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi

2. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer

3. “Wonderful Tonight” by Pattie Boyd

4. “An Oresteia” by Anne Carson

august:

1. “Crazy Brave” by Joy Harjo

september:

1. “The Carrying” by Ada Limón

2. “A Queer History of the United States” by Michael Bronski

3. “The Maidens” by Alex Michaelides

4. “The Black Arts” by Richard Cavendish

5. “Soiled Doves” by Anne Seagraves

october:

1. “A Dowry of Blood” by S.T. Gibson

2. “Books of Blood” by Clive Barker

3. “We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez

4. “Playing in the Dark” by Toni Morrison

5. “Deep and Dark and Dangerous” by Mary Downing Hahn (Re-Read)

november:

1. “Collected Poems” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

2. “Green Witchcraft” by Paige Vanderbeck

3. “Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors” by Babette Perrone et al.

4. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (Re-Read)

5. “I’ll Take You There” by Greg Not (DNF)

6. “Upstairs Girls” by Michael Rutter

7. “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters (DNF)

8. “Once Upon a Quinceanera” by Julia Alvarez

9. “Sabrina and Corina: Stories” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

10. “The People We Keep” by Allison Larkin

11. “Besom, Stang, Sword” by Christopher Orapello

12. “Ute Tales” by Anne M. Smith

13. “The Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell (DNF)

14. “The History of Torture” by Brian Innes

15. “Kaleidoscope” by Brian Selznick

december:

1. “Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution” by Mark Elsner

2. “A Touch of Darkness” by Scarlett St. Clair

3. “David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music” by Darryl W. Bullock

4. “Ordinary Girls” by Jaquira Díaz

5. “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz

6. “Gods Behaving Badly” by Marie Phillips

7. “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich

8. “Winter” by Ali Smith (DNF)

9. “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo

Here’s to another year of reading! DM if you’d like more personalized reading recommendations.

-bia

#books #bookblr #reading #new year #nye #2022 #dark academia

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