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Blog tour- SCHEME by @JennSommersby With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @skyponypress @RockstarBkTours

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SCHEME by Jennifer Sommersby Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: SCHEME (AVRA-K #2)

Author: Jennifer Sommersby

Pub. Date: April 21, 2020

Publisher: Sky Pony Press

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 456

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

The key to good is found in truth.

Genevieve may have left the circus behind in Oregon, but there is plenty of show still to come.

When she and Henry land in France, they are whisked away to Croix-Mare, the home of Henry’s grandfather, Nutesh, where they will prepare for a journey they never could’ve imagined. Now that they have all three AVRAKEDAVRA texts—Life, Death, and Memory—the books must be destroyed in the Undoing.

However, it’s not as simple as taking the books to their birthplace in Babylon and setting them alight. Genevieve and Henry must rely on unexpected allies as they embark on a harrowing global search to acquire pieces necessary to complete the Undoing. They’re offered cover and protection by La Vérité, the secret network of followers devoted to the message of the AVRAKEDAVRA, who, not surprisingly, are found under the big top—because no one does underground quite like the circus.

But loyalties among the magical community are fragile. Genevieve, still grieving the loss of her mother, now struggles to control the new AVRAKEDAVRA-bestowed gifts, and with mounting threats to her psyche and body, she clings mightily to the promise of a brighter future once this is over—if they can survive it. And Henry, broken by his father’s treachery but entranced by the heartwarming connection his family’s text has granted him, grapples with the fact that once they succeed in destroying the books, he’ll lose the only family he has left.

Together, our two young heirs will learn that when hope has abandoned us, the overwhelming love of friendship and family is all the magic we need.

About Book 1:

Title: SLEIGHT (AVRA-K #1)

Author: Jennifer Sommersby

Pub. Date: April 24, 2018

Publisher: Sky Pony Press

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 424

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

Delia smiles at the shadow only she sees—

Something slams into her. The lyra whirls like a half-dollar spinning on its edge.

My mother is thrown backward.

And she falls.

Growing up in the Cinzio Traveling Players Company, Genevieve Flannery is accustomed to a life most teenagers could never imagine: daily workouts of extravagant acrobatics; an extended family of clowns; wild animals for pets; and her mother, Delia, whose mind has always been tortured by visions—but whose love Geni never questions. In a world of performers who astonish and amaze on a daily basis, Delia’s ghostly hallucinations never seemed all that strange . . . until the evening Geni and her mother are performing an aerial routine they’ve done hundreds of times, and Delia falls to her death.

That night, a dark curtain in Geni’s life opens. Everything has changed.

Still reeling from the tragedy, the Cinzio Traveling Players are also adjusting to the circus’s new owner: a generous, mysterious man whose connection to the circus—Geni suspects—has a dark and dangerous history. And suddenly Geni is stumbling into a new reality of her own, her life interrupted daily by the terrors only Delia used to be able to see.

As the visions around her grow stronger, Geni isn’t sure who she can trust. Even worse, she’s starting to question whether she can trust her own mind.

Praise for Sleight “Jennifer Sommersby’s Sleight makes magic from an enthralling premise, wonderfully-drawn characters, and beautiful words. It’s hard to avoid descriptors like entrancing, spell-binding and mystical.” —Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series “Fantasy readers will fall in love with Sleight. Like a circus, it’s an intoxicating mix of beauty, humor, magic, and danger that means the reader can’t bear to look away until the final page.” —Eileen Cook, author of With Malice “Startlingly imaginative and vividly realized.” —Ira Bloom, author of Hearts & Other Body Parts

Excerpt:

Calling Andronicus a mean lion would be like Calling a tsunami a big wave.

He tore off our wrangler Montague’s face. He didn’t mean to. Lions are wild animals, even if they live with a circus—especially if they live with a circus—and the show Andronicus came from used bullwhips and cattle prods to train him. That cat had some stuff.

But I saved Montague. I was young—six? Seven, maybe? I heard the screams coming from the menagerie, and if you spend any time at a circus, you get to know the good sounds from the bad ones. Montague’s hollers for help, the yowl and roar of an enraged big cat—definitely not good sounds. Naturally, all the important players went running: Ted Cinzio, my “adopted” uncle and owner of the Cinzio Traveling Players Company and the man who rescued Andronicus and his girl Hera (and Gertrude and countless other beasts) from their terrible situations; Baby, the show’s tentmaster and Ted’s right-hand man in all things, and the other half of my mother’s heart; crew leads and roustabouts and Aunt Cece, Ted’s wife; Aleks Jónás of the Jónás Family Flyers, Ash and Violet’s dad; my mother, Delia.

And me.

She didn’t want me to see it, but out of all of them, I was really the only one who could do anything for Montague. Baby and my mother warned me, but I loved Montague, just as I loved all of my circus family. I couldn’t just let him die there in the lion’s pen, hay and dirt matting to his hair and neck from the incredible blood loss.

I saved a bird once. It flew into the side of our Airstream trailer. I picked it up and my head exploded in a firework of pain and light. I squeezed that little bird gently and mended its wing and it went from almost dead to alive and flying away in less than a minute. Then I threw up and my mom told me that we have secrets. It was the first time I really listened to the story—the one she told over and over again—about the little girl whose mother told her of a secret family treasure. I knew from then on that we were different.

Which is how I knew I was the only one who could save Montague.

While Ted and the wranglers tranquilized the lion, I sneaked in under their legs and laid my hands on Montague’s face. I pushed the skin back where it should be. I stopped the bleeding and saved his eye.

I was just a kid, so I wasn’t strong enough to restore him completely. I might have been able to if Baby hadn’t scooped me up and run out of the menagerie tent. Too many people were watching. But this was before everyone recorded everything on their phones. No one thought to record the little girl with the magic hands.

No matter. It has all caught up to me now.

And as I watch Montague in his predawn jog across the massive lawns of the Delacroixs’ French estate, his heavily scarred face a reminder of that day at the circus, I think about how I’d give anything to go back to that life, to those people, to that day, when I saved someone I loved.

When I believed I still could.

About Jennifer:

Really, though, who am I? How about a list? We Virgos tend to like lists:

Writer, copy/line editor (www.plumfieldediting.com)

I reside in the Great White North, though the webbed feet prove that I originate from Portland, Oregon. Last U.S. address was Los Angeles. No, I do not miss the traffic. (Although Vancouver is #2 in North America for Worst Traffic Ever.) I do miss California's awesome beaches.

I write under the pen name Eliza Gordon for non-YA titles -- romantic comedies and Happily Ever Afters. (These books are NOT for kids. Mature themes, adult language, super-inappropriate jokes that will make you giggle. Well, I hope.)

Member of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators)

Member of the eight-person fiction cohort of the 2007 Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University

Studied copy and substantive editing (2005-06) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. As a writer, I have worked with and studied the practices of some of the best editors in the publishing industry. #luckyJenn

Studied English, political science, and criminology via Washington State University

I'm called Mom by three brilliant babies.

I will never join the PTA or PAC, so please, don't ask. I also don't do candle, jewelry, or clothing parties. Thanks, though. I'm sure the finger sandwiches are delicious.

I used to do all of my first-draft writing in the car, at night, in the parking lot of my favorite coffee shop. These days I write where it's quietest -- home, or my local coffee shop.

I buy a lot of books. A LOT. No, seriously. I have a problem.

I am a soundtrack/movie score JUNKIE. Hans Zimmer and Alexandre Desplat and Sonya Belousova and the Greyson-William brothers and Ramin Djawadi … and HARRY ESCOTT. *swoon* He followed me back on Twitter and I almost died. Almost. If you ever need movie score recommendations, I AM YOUR PERSON.

I am obsessed with elephants and otters. I'd like to smooch one of each someday.

Cat person. The household is ruled by an overweight tuxedo cat named Nuit and her very energetic little sister, Rosie Cotton (named after Samwise Gamgee’s wife from Lord of the Rings).

I love coffee, Shakespeare (!!!), Joan of Arc, most things pastry, MOVIES (oh man I love movies so much), the Golden Rule, and bloody good writing.

I am Team Superman all the way. I wear the same outfit every day: a Superman T-shirt and jeans, and I have a very cool Superman tattoo inspired by the artwork of comic book artist Jim Lee.

I adore Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit -- and I ship Kili + Tauriel forever, and I don't care if Tauriel wasn't in original Hobbit story. 3>

I now have five tattoos, including the Dwarvish script from Kili's rune stone (from Desolation of Smaug). I waited until my 30s to get my first tattoo, just to be sure I wouldn't regret it.

Muses help me write -- I have many. I love movie stars!

I hate thunderstorms, paperwork, people lacking humility, lazy writers with a sense of entitlement, and going to the dentist. Oh, and bad drivers. THE BAD DRIVERS TURN ME INTO A RAGE STORM OF CALAMITOUS DOOM.

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads

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Week One:

4/13/2020

Mythical Books

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4/13/2020

BookHounds YA

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4/14/2020

momfluenster

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4/14/2020

Sweet Things

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4/15/2020

Jazzy Book Reviews

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4/15/2020

Two Chicks on Books

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4/16/2020

Locks, Hooks and Books

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4/16/2020

The Book Junkie Reads . . .

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4/17/2020

A Gingerly Review

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4/17/2020

Down The Rabbit Hole

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4/20/2020

eating between the lines inc

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4/20/2020

Jaime's World

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4/21/2020

She Just Loves Books

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4/21/2020

Simply Daniel Radcliffe

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4/22/2020

A Dream Within A Dream

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4/22/2020

Jena Brown Writes

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4/23/2020

Book-Keeping

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4/23/2020

Fire and Ice

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4/24/2020

popthebutterfly reads

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4/24/2020

Fyrekatz Blog

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diversegaminglists · 7 years

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Games with Nazis, Nazi and Fascist Imagery

This list is intended primarily as a content/trigger warning resource. I’m including fascism in general as well as the more obviously named Nazis.

Content Warnings: Mentions of concentration camps, prisoner of war camps, ethnic cleansing, the holocaust, anti-Semitism, eugenics, rape, abortion, and general fascist horrible things.

As with all lists, suggestions and corrections are encouraged,

Fantasy/Fictional Games Featuring Nazis:

'Allo 'Allo! Cartoon Fun! - Licensed game from the 1980s British TV comedy series, set in occupied France.

Another War - Polish made RPG set during WW2 in the style of Baldur’s Gate.

Bionic Commando - The Japanese NES game originally had Hitler as the final boss, but the International versions changed his name without changing his appearance.

Bloodrayne - Set in 1933 and 1935, deals almost entirely with killing Nazis and Nazi vampires. The PC and Xbox versions have had the swastikas removed and replaced with a triskelion style symbol, which is also used by other real world white suprematist groups.

Bugs vs. Tanks - The player is a tank crew of Nazi tanks who have been miniaturised.

CannonCrotch - About killing Nazis with a dick cannon, yeah.

Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice - Something about Nazi scientists trying to harness the power of eldrich abominations.

Call of Duty: Zombies - Nazi zombies

Captain America: Super Soldier - Features the Iron Cross (the Marvel super soldier, not the medal) and Agents of Hydra, who are both Nazis.

City of Heroes - This defunct MMO had a villain faction who were Nazis.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Time travel led to Russia becoming the aggressor in WW2.

Death to Spies Franchise - Hitman style games about killing German spies in the Soviet Union.

Deus Ex - Brief mentions of Nazi gold.

Dino D-Day - As you’d expect from the title, D-Day with dinosaurs.

Double Hitler - A QWOP game where Hitler is two small kids in a trench-coat.

Download 2 - The plot involves terrorist trying to bring back Hitler with digital technology.

Enemy Front - FPS about an American War Correspondent fighting with the Resistance

Epic Fantasy Battle Series - The second game features a Nazi as the final boss. He joins the party in the 3rd and 4th games. Both the Swastika and the Iron Cross symbolism show up in his outfits, though the Swastikas point in the wrong direction.

Ethnic Cleansing - I don’t think I need to explain this one.

Flight of the Amazon Queen - Features a company which is a front for a Nazi group with the names filed off.

Fists of Resistance - Game about punching Nazis

Freedom Fighters - Alternative history where Russia won WW2.

Freedom Force vs The Third Reich - It’s in the title so I’m being redundant for sake of completeness, it features alternative history and time travel but no actual swastikas.

Golgo 13: Wolf's Lair - Infiltrating a Neo-Nazi lair and killing them.

Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode - The Japanese original features a cyborg Hitler and obvious Nazis. These were apparently changed in the English language localisation, but the imagery and use of the swastika remains

The Great Escape (1986) - Based on the movie, not the real events which inspired it.

The Great Escape (2003) - Based on the movie, not the real events which inspired it.

Gran Turismo - Something about Nazi cars??!

GROM: Terror in Tibet - RPG about fighting Nazis with mystical Tibetan magical relics.

Guntu Western Front June, 1944 - FPS set in occupied France

Hans Kloss - A platforming game based on a Polish TV show about a spy stealing German plans.

Hellboy: The Science of Evil - Story involves Nazi scientists, Nazi robots and Nazi gorillas or something.

Hour of Victory - A FPS set in Europe and North Africa

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - One of the playable characters is a former Nazi scientist.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - It’s Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb - It’s Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures - It’s Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade - It’s Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings - It’s Indiana Jones.

The Intercept - Text Adventure about the Enigma decoders.

Into the Eagle’s Nest aka Eagle’s Nest - Gauntlet style game set during WW2

Iron Sky Invasion - NMR

Jang Pung 3 - Something about punching a Nazi Cyborg Dinosaur.

KZ Manager - A series of Concentration Camp simulators.

Kronolog: The Nazi Paradox - Alternative history where the Axis won.

La Croix Pan - Adventure game about an Allied solider.

The Last Resurrection - Some edge-lord nonsense pretending to be satire where Jesus is an anti-Semitic (yes, really) supervillain rapist and Hitler is his right-hand man or something.

Laura Bow: The Dagger Of Amon Ra - Set in 1926 but features a Germany security guard who goosesteps.

Lost Horizon - Point and click adventure game in the style of Indiana Jones with Thule Nazis, though all swastikas are replaced with the Iron Cross because it was made by a German company.

Len Deighton's Blitzkrieg: The Game - From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of England - RTS where you play as Germany in a fictional scenario where they win the war.

Marine Raider - Text adventure about Allied forces in Japan.

Metal Gear Solid 1 - Hitler is briefly mentioned in dialogue.

Mortyr: 2093-1944 & Mortyr 2 - Alternative History FPS about time travelling to stop Hitler winning WW2.

Mr. T - Something about Mr. T and Will Wright teaming up to fight Nazis,I don’t know either.

Operation Darkness - Fire Emblem style JRPG with vampires and werewolves as well as Nazis and Vampire Nazis.

Opération Teddy Bear - French Edutainment title to teach kids about WW2 history and the French Resistance.

Operation Wolfsburg - FPS about stopping Nazis from doing... something.

Outlast - Nazi scientist research is part of the game’s backstory.

Partisan - Action RPG set during WW2.

Pathways into Darkness - FPS featuring Nazi ghosts.

Pearl Harbor: Attack! Attack! - Alternative history where you shoot down the Japanese planes and prevent the Pearl Harbor bombing.

Persona 2: Innocent Sin - Features Hitler as an antagonist who is actually an eldritch horror in disguise.

Pilot Down: Behind Enemy Lines - Stealth game about a pilot trying to escape to Switzerland

Police Quest IV: Open Season - Something about interrogating a very old Nazi.

Project: Weltuntergang - Mod for Wolfenstein 3D

Raiders of the Lost Ark - It’s Indiana Jones.

The Reckoning - Mod for Mount and Blade: Warband which features a Neo-Nazi faction.

Redcon - You play as an officer in an alternative history fascist future.

Red Shark Franchise - Flight sim involving a time travelling helicopter.

Relic Of War - Strategy game where WW2 didn’t end.

Ring of Red - Alternative history with mecha in WW2.

Rescue Raiders - Helicopter game involving time travel.

Rocket Ranger - Game involving time travel and a Nazi moon base.

The Saboteur - GTA clone set in occupied France.

Secrets of the Vatican: The Holy Lance - Hidden Object Game about trying to get the Lance of Longin (the spear which pierced Jesus’ side during the crucifixion) before the Nazis find it.

Signatory: Chouinsha - I can’t find anything about this old Japanese game but it has Hitler on the front cover.

Spear Resurrection & Spear End of Destiny - Fan made sequels to a Wolfenstein game

A Stroke of Fate: Operation Valkyrie - Adventure game with a German protagonist in the SS and Gestapo who sets out to assassinate Hitler.

The Simpsons Game - Features a level set inside a WW2 shooter.

Soldier of Fortune - FPS where the enemy is a Neo-Nazi Group who have stolen nuclear weapons.,

Southpark: The Stick of Truth - Features Zombie Nazi aborted foetuses, because of course it does.

Super Mario World Dark Horizon - A Super Mario fan game featuring a Super Saiyan Hitler.

Stalag 1 - POW Camp simulator

Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set - This early RPG creation kit features a Nazi castle as part of its included settings.

Time Gentlemen, Please! - Involves time travel and alternative history with Hitler and robot dinosaurs.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time - Point and Click about a retired spy dying in the Blitz travelling back in time to redo a failed mission on the Titanic which will stop WW2 from happening, or something.

The Train: Escape to Normandy - Train simulator about trying to prevent Nazis from getting French paintings.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty - Alternative History where Nazis invade New York.

ÜberSoldier Franchise aka Crimes of War - About a German soldier who gets super powers and then recruited by the Resistance to fight against Nazis.

Uncharted 1 - Features a U-Boat full of dead Nazis.

Uncharted 2 - Brief references to Hitler.

Undercover: Operation Wintersun - Point and Click adventure set during WW2.

Velvet Assassin - Loosely based on a real British spy. No swastikas because it was made by a German company.

Vogelstein 2D - Top down shooter inspired by Wolfenstein

Walker - Side scrolling WW2 shooter with a walking tank.

War Front: Turning Point - Alternative history RTS where Hitler was assassinated and the Germany and Allied power joined forces to fight against Russia.

Weird Wars: The Unknown Episode of World War II aka Weird Wars: Operation Pantherauge - Polish Isometric RPG involving Nazis and a mystical weapon.

Wolfenstein Franchise -Various reboots turned the series into Alternate History, Jewish-American Protagonist.

Wolfram - Remake of Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfschanze 1 & 2 - FPS inspired by the real life attempted assassination of Hitler by Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg.

World War II: Prisoner of War - Stealth game about escaping a POW camp.

Zombie Army Trilogy aka Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army Franchise

Nazi/Fascist Imagery/Fascist Empires:

Absolute Obedience - This yaoi game is set in Germany and uses a lot of fascist militaristic imagery (also rape) but the exact historical period is unclear (it has the Berlin wall in it, for example,) and is visually all over the place.

Akatsuki Blitzkampf - Japanese Dōjin fighter which uses a lot of fascist militaristic imagery and is clearly inspired by the Axis and Allies of WW2.

Battalion Wars - The Xylvanians are based on the WW1 era German Empire rather than Nazi Germany.

Bioshock Infinite - Despite being set in 1912 Columbia is influenced directly by Nazi Germany in-game because of the time tears. Massively fascist racist society.

Bloodrayne 2 - Set in “modern times” but features a flashback with Nazi imagery and occasional triskelion imagery.

Borderlands Franchise - Handsome Jack is often referred to as a fascist in game, he kills people for no reason, has a massive ego, has huge statues build glorifying him, and wants to kill everyone on Pandora who doesn’t work for him because he has decided they are “savages”.

Bully aka Canis Canem Edit - During the Halloween section Gary’s costume is clearly a Nazi Officer uniform, but without any insignia

Civilization: Beyond Earth - The purity affinity is about glorifying humanity and destroying anything that doesn’t conform.

The Darkness - Apparently features Nazi imagery in a bonus comic which came with the game.

Einhänder - What’s left of the world is run by a German-speaking evil Empire.

Fallout 2 - The Enclave wanted to exterminate everyone who wasn’t part of them, though the later games made them a bit less extreme.

Fallout: New Vegas - Caesar’s Legion attempts to emulate the Roman Empire, complete with hating women, and crucifying all their enemies.

Fallout 4 - The Brotherhood of Steel in this instalment is obsessed with “purity” associated with not being irradiated.

Final Fantasy 2/II - The Empire of Palamecia.

Final Fantasy 6/VI - The Gestahlian Empire is definitely a fascist regime and the Emperor even uses a Nazi salute in game.

Final Fantasy 12/XII - The Archadian Empire.

Final Fantasy 15/XV - The Empire of Niflheim

Final Fantasy Type-0 - The Milites.

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim - Both the Thalmor and the Stormcloak factions are really into the “racial superiority” of the Altemer and Nords respectively.

Half-Life 2 - The Combine.

Killzone Fracnhise - The Hellghast are obviously based on a mixture of Nazi and Stalinist sources.

Lusternia - This MUD has a fascist empire called the Empire of Magnagora.

Maken X - Apparently the Japanese features Nazi imagery but was censored for American release (not sure if this was deliberate or not in context, given the use of the manji symbol in Japanese culture and religion, but the game also apparently features a boss fight against the Pope, so maybe it was).

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy - The Movement brainwashes people and has a uniform with red arm bands and jackboots.

Resident Evil Franchise - Almost every antagonist movement in the series has some element of fascism to it, from wanting to “improve” humanity through genetic therapy, to killing off everyone who is not “worthy”, to experimenting bioweapons on African villagers.

Starcraft Franchise - The UPL & UED are into genetic “purity”and purging humanity of “undesirables”.

Star Wars - Any game which features the Sith Empire, but especially The Old Republic MMO.

Tales of Symphonia - The half-elven Desians round up humans and put them in camps for being “inferior”.

Team Fortress - The design of the Medic evokes a Nazi doctor, especially since he has a German accent and refers to himself as “ze ubermensch”.

Tropico Franchise - The Nationalist faction hates foreigners, and in Tropico 4 their leader is depicted as a skinhead.

Under Defeat - Nazi inspired uniforms.

Valkyria Chronicles - Has an evil empire which is a mashup of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Special Mentions and Exceptions:

Assassin’s Creed Franchise - In the lore Hitler was apparently a Templar with a piece of the Apple of Eden, but I’m not sure which game(s) contain Nazi imagery, if any, so needs more research.

Bazooka Bill - Is set during WW2 but all the enemies appear to be ninjas instead of German officers.

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures - Unlike the films it’s based on, and most of the licensed games, the LEGO game contains no references to Nazis or Nazi imagery. Characters who were Nazis in the originals are referred to as “Enemies” in game instead.

Mass Effect - The Cerberus group is a “humans first” organisation in their first appearance but their portrayal over the three games is inconsistent.

The Secrets of Atlantis: The Sacred Legacy - Set in 1937 but omits direct references to Nazis and swastikas even though the Hindenburg is a location.

#list actually #nazi mention #abortion mention #rape mention

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Threads of Fate [KaiVi]

OTP: Crystal Glaciers [Main Verse]

KaiVi Moments | ship // anime | tagged images

Kaneki x Touka // Tokyo Ghoul

Eishiro x Mikako // Heaven’s Lost Property

Ryuken x Masaki // Bleach

Kousei x Tsubaki // Your Lie in April

Nishiki x Kimi // Tokyo Ghoul

Kakashi x Rin // Naruto

Kei x Kanon // Mahouka

Tatsumi x Mine // Akame ga Kill

Ichigo x Rukia // Bleach

Uryu x Orihime // Bleach

Ichigo x Orihime // Bleach

Stein x Marie // Soul Eater

Taichi x Suiren // Hibi Chouchou

Cloud x Tifa // Final Fantasy 7 (Remake)

Loid x Yor // Spy x Family

KaiVi Lyrics - Crystal Glaciers Playlist + Song #3 - Stone Sour

Other: musings | son (Issei) faceclaims | daughter faceclaims

Threads

[FIN]: thread is finished [VIT] Very Important Thread: this thread for me takes posting priority over others so it can be concluded asap: wedding related, and one from each other category (crack, fluff, nsfw, (long) canonAU, otherAU)

Childhood Rivals Path to S Class Wizardry (age 13-14): Kaito along with Vivienne, Erza and Mirajane are chosen to participate to the S class promotion trials. They race to an island as part of their first trial, working together to take down a giant monster fish. Erza is eliminated for reaching the island last after fighting with Mira, but helps out with the next trial, a maze. Kaito confronts his worst fears on his way, but later work together with Viv to pass, while a vengeful Erza fights Mira to eliminate her. Kaito and Vivienne have to fight each other as part of their final trial, and in desperation to win so he can deserve to see his foster dragon father Eislogia again, Kaito awakens an unstable form of Dragon Force and almost kills Vivienne while losing control. Overwhelmed with guilt, Kaito leaves to train despite Viv pleading for him not to leave her. Teenage (Angst) Conflictions

why things are so horrible

Roast Fest (kaivi roast fest, age 16-17): It started off as a simple roast game, but escalated to nastiness as Viv become more drunk and Kaito more annoyed at her behaviour. He carried her home despite her protests, making her a remedy before leaving for a job, both assuming they hate each other more than ever.

Dear Diary [FIN] Best Friends (Ages 18+)

Hush, Go Back to Sleep: Kaito and Vivienne watch a late night movie together and end up falling asleep. The next morning, Kaito loses control of his magic at the guild hall and flees to to Mt Hakobe to keep in under control. Vivienne follows him and hides out in an ice cave with Shiro while Kaito maintains his magic outside. Kaito almost dies while keeping a magical fire burning for them, but is saved by Viv feeding ice from the cave thanks to Shiro’s quick thinking. KaiVi return to Fairy Tail later, closer than before.

A Bedding Gesture: Kaito invites Vivienne into his home, and for the first time, properly looks at the scar he gave her during their S Class Exams. They talk things over, and then sleep in the same bed, continuing to heal their relationship.

Thoughts Out: ?

Hate Hiding Love: ?

Face Cream Fiasco: Kaito finds Vivienne’s face cream in his drawer, Shiro had sneakily eaten some so Kaito is forced to visit her. Post Confessions - Dating

First Confessions: (NSFW, May 20) Kaito and Vivienne finally confess to each other, which leads to a lot of firsts.

The Aftermath: ?

The Aftermath 2: ?

Hot and Out: KaiVi go out swimming at the lake

Cat Casting: ?

Five to Go Seek: ?

Love Calc: ?

Birthday Bright (March 30): ?

Easter Buns: ?

Most Attractive Feature: ?

Phone Phoney: ?

Phone Phoney After: ?

Glitter Galore: When someone puts glitter in Kaito’s hair gel...

Library Quiet [NSFW]: ?

Battle of Fairy Tail: Laxus returns and both Kaito and Vivienne are dragged into his games to decide the guild’s strongest. Viv is turned to stone by Evergreen with the rest of the Miss Fairy Tail participants. Kaito later works with Levy to override Freed’s runes to let the Dragon Slayers join the fight. Kaito, VIvienne and Shiro fights Bixlow who just took out Gray. Bixlow is at a disadvantage until he takes over Shiro’s body and forces him to fight Kaito. Viv defeats Bixlow with Dragon Force after Kaito appears to have been killed, with Gray giving Kaito ice to replenish his stamina before he fights Laxus on his own. After Laxus taunts Kaito about almost killing Viv in his S Class trials and calling her weak, Kaito releases the full power of his Dragon Force, and is stopped in time from killing Laxus from the cries of VIv and Shiro. Laxus takes the chance to counterattack and seemingly kills Kaito, causing Viv to fight Laxus in a rage, but is unable to keep it up for long due to her last fight with Bixlow. Natsu and Gajeel soon join in fight Laxus to protect Kaito and VIv but are unable to finish him off. In a desperate attack Natsu launches Laxus into the air after Gajeel absorbs his last lightning spell. Natsu calls out to Kaito and Vivienne, the two dragon slayers finish Laxus off with a unison raid. They both make peace with Laxus before he leaves the guild.

Rumour Has It

Compliments Around

Two Weeks ‘Til Doom: Shiro hints at Kaito’s proposal to Viv with a rumoured date of the apocalypse

The World Ends with You (May 20): [VIT] Kaito proposes to Viv Post Proposal - Engaged

Happy Birthday Darling [VIT]

Deep Heated Azure [NSFW]:

Three Through from Her Name (Vivienne) // FIN

Three throughs from His Name (KaiVi)

Wedding Plans // FIN

How Adorable Are You (Kaito) // dash game

Silver Touchy Hair: Vivienne distracts Kaito from his paperwork.

Shiro Frying Panned

Kissing Boothed

Scary Autumn Leaves: ?

Rushing Home to his Dragoness (KaiVi)

Under the Mistletoe (KaiVi): ?

Kaito the Snowman: Kaito is turned into a Nikoka for the day

Photo Misunderstandings 2

You Should Be My Valentine (Again)

The Wedding of Dragon Slayers [VIT] Post Wedding - Married

Mother’s Day Surprise [FIN]: ?

Father’s Day Fairy

In Sickness Kaito Freezes Everything: Kaito gets so sick that he completely froze over his room, his only hope of recovery is with special magical ice from Mount Hakobe. Viv is tasked with getting some, with the (unfortunate) help of Shiro.

Vi Closet Burned: Vivienne finds her closet set on fire (by Natsu)

The Glittering

The Lickening

The Lickening Returns

The Fuckening

Beach Time: ?

Sinny Lacrima Message:

Sinny Guild Masters Meeting

Happy Birthday Kaito 2019

The Ichiya Incident // ?

The Spankening

Lightheaded // reply owed

Happy New Year 2020

I Love You no Shiro Post Pregnancy - Parents

Happy Father’s Day 2020: ?

Happy Birthday Kaito 2020: ?

ccThread : The Compelling Power of Christ | Shiro & Viv Dark Future AU | ccAU kaito FTverse fairytail Sclass futureAU

Can Beauty Come Out of Ashes: In an alternate dark future, Vivienne takes a fatal blow for Kaito while he is fighting (a devil slayer crazed) Gray, causing Kaito to snap and became the Future Rogue of this timeline. Soul Eater AU | ccAU kaito SEverse meister

A Duet in C: Kaito Yuki is a gifted Meister of the DWMA, determined to find the perfect partner with a compatible soul wavelength. All they have to do was press a key while he is playing piano during lunch hour, then he’d know if he found the one. [VIT]

Book Partners

Single Father (Natsu) AU: Kaito is one of the teachers/staff at Happy’s school

Sabertooth AU: Kaito first meets Vivienne at the party after the Grand Magical Games

Magic Council AU: Kaito works for the council, and is in charge of dealing with dragon slayers due to being one himself

My Hero Academia AU: KaiVi are in the same class (with other OCs and AUs of canons), where Kaito aims to be fastest to save, and Viv the strongest to protect. Viv is also the class president, and Kaito as vice-president.

Bleach AU: Kaito is a Quincy that Vivienne (a Shinigami) saves after he escapes from Mayuri’s lab.

#ccAU kaito FTverse info #ccOTP : Kaito x Vivienne | KaiVi | Crystal Glaciers

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[Free eBook] The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity by St. Sukie de la Croix [1920s Chicago LGBT Fantasy Satire]

The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity by Chicago-resident British expat author St. Sukie de la Croix, an Esteem Award-winning columnist, playwright, and LGBT community historian who has been inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, is a standalone satirical historical literary fantasy with m/m, f/m, and f/f erotic elements novella, free for a limited time courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press.

The story takes place in the 1920s in Chicago and is a literary fiction coming of age tale with strong magical realism and sex comedy elements, as three sheltered upper-class sisters tracing the origins of a supernatural pet find themselves taking different paths towards self-discovery, as they come into contact with the thriving black, immigrant, and underground LGBT communities and engage in assorted experiences that will broaden their previously narrow lives, as well as discovering secrets about their supposedly staid parents' own personal activities.

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Free for a limited time @ Amazon (should be available worldwide).

The Chicago Tribune newspaper has an archived article by de la Croix, giving a city tour spotlighting several LGBT-significant local historical areas, if you're interested.

Description The year is 1924 and has something gone amiss at the Chicago home of the Clam Sisters? When one purchases a rare blue spong from a songbird dealer, the aristocratic sisters and their staff find themselves exposed to a flying koan, provoking them to cast off their commonplace mores, their staid lives, for something altogether bold and ribald. Chinese tongs, vaudeville shows, fraudulent spiritualists...

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New Post has been published on Otaku Dome | The Latest News In Anime, Manga, Gaming, And More

New Post has been published on http://otakudome.com/little-witch-academia-anime-review/

Little Witch Academia Anime Review

Little Witch Academia, is Trigger’s latest original anime release, with the first thirteen episodes (both subbed and dubbed) airing on the Netflix streaming platform, however, it should be noted that the total 25 episodes have been released with English subs in Japan. Based on the OVA short and sequel film preceding it, the anime TV adaptation follows Atsuko “Akko” Kagari as she enrolls in the once famous Witch Academy ‘Luna Nova’, which once housed her idol Shiny Chariot, whom she looks up to. Unfortunately for Akko, however, she lacks even the smallest amount of magic and struggles performing simple spells such as flying on a broom. With the help of her friends Lotte & Sucy, as well as her fellow Luna Nova students and Professor Ursula, she slowly begins to grasp hold of magic.

Little Witch Academia is a 2017 fantasy anime adaptation of the OVA and film sequel of the same name, it is produced by Trigger, and licensed by Netflix for streaming. The first thirteen episodes are available on Netflix in English dub and subs, the remaining twelve are currently available in subs only.

Editor’s Note: Due to the complete series having been released elsewhere, this review will contain near complete, to complete spoilers for all 25 episodes. Netflix viewers please be wary of this.

A charmingly animated anime adaptation suitable for all ages.

If you like Trigger & dig Boku no Hero Academia, then odds are you’ll end up loving Little Witch Academia. The TV adaptation is a far more expansive take on the OVA & film sequel to said OVA that preceded it. The story of the TV anime once again follows lead character Akko; an aspiring witch who’s dream is to become just like her heroine Shiny Chariot. A once famous witch who has since been shunned by most of the magic community and has gone in hiding. After attending the same magic academy as Chariot, Luna Nova, Akko begins to train under the magical arts, she soon learns that she has to work far more harder than her fellow students due to herself being magicless. As the story progresses, Akko will have to face the challenges surrounding not only her educating, but the mysteries of Luna Nova & Chariot’s disappearance.

Akko (right) with best friends Lotte & Sucy (background).

THE GOOD: If you’re a fan of Trigger’s previous work such as Kill la Kill & Gurren Lagann, to the point of recognizing their art and writing style, then chances are you’ll love Little Witch Academia, as it features both of the producer’s usual touch. It’s cute, hilarious, and has an very well liked cast of characters, and almost everyone gets some development and a respectable amount of screen time. The first arc deals with Akko’s growth as a witch, while the second has her realizing her growing magical abilities, while searching for seven magical words that will unleash the “reconstruction magic” and thus saving the world of witchery. The second arc also introduces Croix, a witch looking to combine magic with technology, because she feels the current age of magic is dying like most of the world. While each episode can often feel like filler, that’s not necessarily the case, as they all have a bit of their own singular plot that individually continue the main story of each arc. The series has a very satisfying closing to its story, especially for Akko.

A likely one off we’re sad to see end.

THE BAD: Not every character gets a closing arc come the end of episode 25, which is disappointing. And considering this is a Trigger production, there’s likely not to be a continuation or second season, although it is their first attempt at creating a franchise, so who knows what will happen down the road?

A great series with a (mostly) satisfying end.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: Little Witch Academia was a hilarious, witty, charming adventure throughout its run. Akko is an absolutely adorable character, and the rest of the cast were enjoyable. It’s a shame that this is likely the end of the story, given Trigger’s history with continuations, but we’ll see. Otaku Dome gives Little Witch Academia a 87 out of 100.

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