#Read Every Day in October

[raiyine]

Read Every Day in October

At the end of last month, I saw an advertisement for the American Cancer Society‘s Read Every Day in October Challenge. And boy did I get excited. I enjoy the opportunity to read more, and this sort of challenge is something I can easily hold myself accountable for. Typically I read nothing but Halloween/Horror in October, but I had a few books on my faith that I wanted to read as well, which…

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#Adam Light #American Cancer Society #Catholic #Children of the Dark #Christian #Evans Light #Exorcist Falls #faith #Harmlessly Insane #horror #Ian Murphy #Jonathan Janz #Joyce Reardon #Read Every Day in October #religion #Reverend Victor Hoagland #Rose Red #Saint Louis de Montfort #Stephen King #The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception #The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer #The Holy Rosary #The Nightmare Girl #The Road to Self Awareness #The Scriptural Rosary #True Devotion to Mary

[peacehopeandrats]

Read Every Day In October

And so now begins my next challenge. October starts a special challenge for me, as I am raising awareness (and funds) for the American Cancer Society. I am asking my personal friends and family to either read with me and also find sponsors, cheer me on and hold me accountable, or sponsor me as I read. Some people are donating per book I finish, some are donating per hour I read, some are just giving a total at the end. I love doing this because it takes something I love and uses it to make money for a cause close to my heart. I mean, sure rats die of cancer and I want that ended, but both my Star Trek family and my personal family have lost members to cancer. I read for the memory of all of them, to raise awareness and funds in all their names.

This October, I'm using my Genre Bingo card to pick my books from. The goal is to need another card by the end of the month. Will I make it? Fingers crossed.

#read every day in october #october tbr #genre tbr #tbr bingo

[gideonisms]

#just curious 👀👀 #for me i feel like it varies. it's basically just if i don't finish it by the time the library wants it back and can't renew #then i give up hgkhkl #but sometimes i come back to it #here is a secret when i first tried to read gtn i got 2 pages in was like that's too many names left it in dfn for the next 8 months #picked it back up in October of 2021 and have thought about it every day since. rip

[clarabosswald]

86 year old Shlomo Manzur is the oldest hostage currently held in Hamas captivity.

He was born in 1938 in Iraq, and as a young child he survived the Farhood pogrom.

The Farhood took place during the Jewish Shavu'ot holiday. Between 180 to over 1000 of the Jews of Baghdad were murdered in the pogrom. A Jewish intelligence report had stated that about 120 Jewish patients were murdered in hospitals via toxic injections. Mass robberies took place, which targeted some 50 thousand Jews. Jewish businesses were marked in red beforehand, as targets. Homes were robbed and then flooded by turning on all the water taps inside. People were raped and butchered in broad daylight, including children and the elderly. The events, which went on for two days, were later nicknamed "The Kristallnacht of Iraqi Jews". Some see it as a turning point and a key event in the chain of antisemitic events which eventually motivated Iraqi Jews to flee the country. Many of the Farhood victims were buried in a mass grave in the Jewish Cemetery in Baghdad - a cemetery which was later relocated with the intention to build a skyscraper on its grounds.

Hadassah, Shlomo Manzur's sister, said last month: "He was kidnapped weighing 58 kg. We hope that he is not starving, and that he receives the conditions to live. Precisely on the day when the International Holocaust Day is celebrated, I want to ask: how is he going through such a tragedy again - and the world is silent? They murdered, raped, abused babies, kidnapped, beheaded, looted and burned stores marked with red paint ahead of time. It was the Kristallnacht for Iraqi Jews and the world was silent. Shlomo saw sights that accompanied him all his life. If we thought then 'never again' - we never imagined that such scenes would return when we have a sovereign state. My brother Shlomo was kidnapped from his home, his fortress, and these days he is going through another Holocaust in his old age. The heart aches with longing and thinking what goes through him in the dark. I talk about him, and my heart skips a beat."

#jumblr #ישראבלר #i read his sister's words last week and i keep thinking about them literally every single day #ashamed i didn't know much about the farhood especially since i live in an area with a large iraqi jewish population #reading the exact details on the farhood was. bad. very painful. #immediately brought back horrible memories from october

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Everytime I see Seward being an actual good general praticioner that could've actually cured Lucy if she had anything other than vampirism and a great surgeon specially for victorian times I get genuinally even more confused about what the fuck he is doing being an asylum director. He has no clue what he is doing and is only making his life AND the life of his patients (that he activaly hates and sees as less than people) worse and FOR WHAT? He doesn't even like Carfax.

Goddamit man go be a surgeon. People would gladly hire you. You have a success rate that would make a lot of your pears jealous, why are you doing medical ableism daily instead?

#i've been asking it to my self every single day since i read dracula last year #and since I'm trying to catch up with dracula daily prefencially before october 11 i'm doing it even more these days #like why? #just why #jack seward #medical ableism man is genuinally the most intriguing characther for me #i'm just sending heart eyes to quincey and harkers #smilling to arthur and when she was alive lucy #and making confused noises to seward #dracula #he is the characther i talk the most because he is soo interesting i can't

[libralez]

anyone ever try vitamin d3 before? shit’ll get you high on LIFE

#this is an actual pro-tip #i started taking it and i’ve felt better every day #shit had me cleaning my room + the bathroom today and doing tasks i’ve been putting off since october like reading my mail #this whole time i thought i was losing my mind rotting it bed turns out i was just severely vitamin d deficient #like damn the rest of y’all live like this? i’ve felt this way for YEARS

[smooth-noob]

More solicitors behind the locked doors was a joke from last year when Dracula was asking how many solicitors he was allowed to have

Ahhhhh I see, thanks for the context!

#every day i wish i had participated in dracula daily last year #but by god is having the podcast as my first experience an incredible one #i just dracula dumped to my roommate for a good twenty minutes and they agreed to read it for the first time this october #im excited to read it as published right after finishing it like this #anyway #theres hundreds of other solicitors in the locked rooms and under the floorboards #thats where i drac post from #dracula daily #asks

[snowflop]

Happy new year from me and my beastie 🎉

#wishing you all a safe and happy 2024. #i know everything is kinda... horrible forever but we all gotta persevere okay? lets do our best to find joy in the little things. #last year was. okay for me i think #like. i really didn't get up to much but i enjoyed myself immensely #and i did a few little hobby things i've wanted to for ages. made an itabag that was awesome #got a pin press. did some embroidery. did some painting. started collecting everything i need for my bjd #next year... i want to get into sewing doll clothes (both for my bjd and for plushies) and knitting (i'd like to make my own leg warmers) #it'd be nice to do more painting to. like traditional stuff. it's gonna be so bad but its fun so i keep trying #hobby stuff aside i'd like to attend 1 (one) convention. it's scary and expensive but... ahh i really really want to #we'll see if i can budget it in -w-) #i don't think i have any particular resolutions... ah wait. gonna draw AT LEAST 1 thing a month #was diseased or something last October and fell into a slump. not this year. 2024 is MY year. for art at least #i've lost the plot with the tags because i'm typing it between reading subtitles but you get the idea. i lived. you lived. we'll be fine #WAIT!!! i forgot the cats. wah. #the cats are hands down THE best thing that happened to me last year I love them. #Haru and Christopher (pictured above) are my brightest light in this cold dark world they make me so so happy every day #snow blogging

[dewitty1]

Saturday Six (Stuff)

I haven't posted one of these in a bit and it's due to too much life bs happening.(¬д¬。)

Work has been meh. Though I did get this project done recently. (★^O^★)

My Bff's Mom passed away on the 13th. So that sucks. She was like my other mom. Her memorial will be in November.・゜・(ノД`)

My Dude's (@super-ultra-mega-kami-guru-blog) grandpa passed on the 17th. They're going to Colorado this week, for like a week and a half. (╯︵╰,)

I've been dealing with stupid neck pain that's causing a migraine for a while. It was going away, but now idk.ヾ(´A｀)ノﾟ

The only thing keeping me sort of sane are the kittehs. Leeloo (the kitten) especially, is a silly girl, who gets the zoomies a few times a day. She's a terror, and all you can do is laugh. (=^-ω-^=)

#Saturday Six #October 21 2023 #About me #Personal #Please do not reblog #Carey rambles about her life and death apparently #tw death mention #I have very few prospects for work coming in atm and it kind of sucks #Anyway something will turn up #It usually does #Have a great day or night out there y'all #Hugssss from mom or just a friend whatever you need right now ٩(๑•◡-๑)۶ⒽⓤⒼ❤💜 💙 💚 💛 ❤️ 💕 💖 #I appreciate y'all reading my nonsensical ramblings every time! #Now back to your regularly scheduled programming

[disdaidal]

Sorry for coming to you for this. A mutual I've been following for years posted "If you still like harry potter in 2023 you deserve the electric chair" and tbh it's...scary. Tumblr is more hostile everyday. First the withhaunt for Billy fans now even HP. Can't one enjoy anything anymore in this world???? I don't follow JKR. I Don't support JKR. Demonizing a whole fandom and franchise though wishing death upon fans is going too far imho. Everyday I'm thinking on leaving tumblr for good.

As a long-time (unapologetic) Harry Potter fan and a fan of Billy, I feel ya there. I've had to unfollow and block people for posts like that because guess what: I don't come here to be judged over a fictional thing that I happen to like. 😒 Nor do I actually care about JK Rowling, so my bad I guess.

Wanting to leave Tumblr (or Twitter etc. etc.) under these circumstances is understandable. Fandoms and being a fan should be fun. Not an excuse to bully other people online or tell them to kill themselves because they disagree with you. 🤷‍♀️ Your own comfort and well-being should always come first.

#replies #anon #discourse #thanks for sending me this. please don't apologize #because truthfully i've been having similar thoughts lately #i don't think i'll ever quit my tumblr because i've been here forever #but i've definitely spent less time here since october #hardly participating in any of my fandoms (besides letting my queue run daily) #and not even feeling that guilty about it #i guess it was my path to finally understanding that I need to look better after myself and doing stuff that actually matters irl #and right now it feels good #i miss interacting with certain tumblr ppl ofc #but at the same time what i really don't miss is coming here every day just to see the same old billy discourse repeat every few days #or reading these posts on my dash saying that liking hp makes me a degenerate or a supporter of the Current Bad Thing™ #i just don't have the energy or even interest in these complex pretentious woke mental gymnastics. because it's fucking pointless #so i've tried to focus on my real life instead and i've managed to get stuff done and it actually feels good for a change

[probablyscreamingintothevoid]

Things that have had an impact on me in 2023

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (series)

Blue October (especially seeing them live)

Yuri on Ice

Writing my story for Yuri on Ice

My bestfriend traveling the world

Going back to therapy

Volleyball

First Light by Hozier

Writing when I am angry

Reading books (fanfiction as well, but I have struggled with that more than books)

Piercing my nose

Dying my hair

Purging my physical belonging, especially clothes

#me #writing #just trying to get my thoughts out there #i guess?? #every so often this blog becomes my journal and I wouldn't have it any other way #2023 #blue october #yuri on ice #best friends #personal #volleyball #first light #by hozier #warm bodies #by isaac marion #therapy #reading #guys i love a good book okay? #my thoughts #my brain has been so scrambled the last few day (i think bc i am getting a cold) but i am just trying to make it be quiet #my year in review #and a little self reflection #i suppose #links

[i-did-not-mean-to]

October 24th

Festival

Ah, a slightly ambiguous one, I shall not lie.

Dedicated to @maglor-my-beloved and @arofili who have been great inspirations in my short writing career. ❤️‍🔥

Words: 718

Warnings: Sadness, ambiguity...Be advised, it's not Bad!Fëanor all the way

Ñolofinwë didn’t want to go.

He had pleaded his case with his mother – not daring to disturb his eminent father in his critical dealings with monumentally eminent dignitaries come from afar – but she had simply ruffled his braids and told him to wear the blue tunic and to make haste.

Biting down on his lip now to keep it from trembling with dismay, he looked at the gawky youngster staring back at him from the looking glass despondently. He hated those feasts where people kept milling around endlessly, chattering about this and that and – no doubt – looking upon him, that other, lesser son, with disappointment and disapproval.

Of course, he could not be like Curufinwë, nobody was, and nobody ever would be. 

Maybe, he thought desperately, if he pretended to be taken ill, they’d let him stay in his chambers; it was highly unlikely that anyone other than his siblings – his mother’s children, not Fëanáro, as he preferred to be called – would even notice let alone regret his absence.

“Ñolofinwë…” The bored drawl of the older brother he had just been musing about crept into the room like a venomous snake much too mighty to be wrestled into submission by a mere princeling. 

“Your mother desires to see you in blue,” Fëanáro went on as he stepped into the chamber confidently, “and I am here to fetch you. Why are you not dressed? Why is your hair not done?”

Shame flooded Indis’ son like an overwhelming, suffocating tide and he had to clench his fists to prevent himself from patting his half-undone braids helplessly.

“Come here, you fool,” the other commanded and – pulling the younger boy rather forcefully towards him by a slender wrist– he yanked a brush through the dark, silken hair that was so much like his own.

“I don’t want to go,” Ñolofinwë whined and bit down on his tongue as he heard how pathetically weak and shrill his words had sounded; no doubt, that son of his father’s, who stubbornly denied being of his kin, would now reprimand and mock him harshly.

To his utter surprise though, Fëanáro’s hands stilled immediately and he let them sink heavily onto the bony shoulders of the boy standing – tense and miserable – before him, staring still into the mirror at an awkward angle that only highlighted his sharp, handsome features into which he’d no doubt grow faster than the seasons could change.

Their eyes met and there was unlooked-for understanding in the flaming gaze of the eternal prodigy; an echo of loneliness and stubborn ambition resonated dully in the cool air of a room that was halfway between a child’s bedroom and a lord’s chamber. 

“We each have our role to fulfil,” Fëanáro hummed finally, pensive, “and we must do our father proud. Finwë has sired great sons and it is his prerogative to display them for all to see.”

“I am not great,” Ñolofinwë sighed, lifting his yet spindly arms to flap the wide sleeves of the overcoat he was shrugging into while his hair was no longer being tugged at.

“Not yet,” came the sombre, premonition-laden answer, “but – I well fear – that the day will come when the tides shall shift.”

That generous mouth which was the fountain of so much wisdom and cruel jibes tightened into a pale line of discontent and the brush returned, all the more vicious after this short reprieve.

“I shall be loyal to you,” Ñolofinwë promised under his breath, not sure if he wanted his brother to hear him, ashamed of the childish gratitude soothing his frayed nerves. The creature in the looking glass resembled a prince – thanks to his brother’s competence – and Ñolofinwë felt heartened by the sight.

“Let’s go down and be scions of a king,” Fëanor huffed in a choked voice as he wound the last silver ribbon around the end of an expertly crafted braid and righted the cloak around the other’s shoulders needlessly.

Despite his misgivings and innate jealousy, he held his brother’s slender hand encouragingly in his own as they descended the stairs and walked up to the big ballroom. 

Fëanáro – the great and mighty smith and inventor – did not know then that he had lifted a heart from misery and dejection and that it would be, for better or for worse, his forevermore.

@fellowshipofthefics we're almost done, almost...

I hope this will not get me into too much hot water lol read it as you wish...I love you all and I promise that I did not mean to force down your throat what you didn't want to read!

Lots of love

-> Masterlist

#fanfiction #writing #IDNMT writes #fotfics October challenge #fotfics fictober #ficlet run #1 scene per day #a different pairing every day #the silm #the silmarillion #Fëanor #Fingolfin #Fëanor & Fingolfin #Potential Fëanor/Fingolfin reading #brotherhood #family #burden #festivals #duties #and braids

[martsonmars]

desperately trying not to have a panic attack about university hehehe

#literally the only thing i'm supposed to do is study #am i doing it? nope of course. i have less than a month left to take exams and i should take at least 2 but i haven't opened a book in more #than a month and the thought fills me with dread and i literally physically cannot do it #it's possible that going back to my uni flat would help (it would be a change in scenery for sure) but on wednesday it will be a year since #my father died and there's this fucking church thing and my mother won't force me to stay but i really should. shouldn't i? #after all it's already saturday and i've already wasted 40 days. what's half a week more? #i keep staring at the list of exams and i know that if i spent every waking second studying i could get back on track and graduate when i'm #supposed to graduate but 1. it's not healthy and 2. my brain refuses to study for ONE exam let alone 14 so it's unrealistic #and at this point i should just accept that i'm going to graduate one year late and one year after all my friends because last year i did #absolutely nothing. and last autumn started out great. i moved. i was organised. and then the first week of october my mother was at the #hospital and i had to go home for a week and somehow i let that week screw up my entire semester #and now i'm panicking because i have only 18 days before the exam i'm supposed to take and it doesn't feel enough for everything i have to #study but it's not going to get better if i just let all the days pass without doing anything but i can't i can't i can't #so yeah i should be kind to myself and accept i'll need one additional year for all the exams and take it slowly which is the only way to #actually get things done. but i don't want to. i don't want to tell my mother that i failed at the one thing i'm supposed to be doing #but i really really can't it's hard and i'm failing and my head is screaming that i don't deserve hobbies and yet i keep wasting my days #it's one am and i should either sleep or relax because it's not like i can do anything now and yet i feel like i need to fix my entire life #right this second or i'll explode. i'm so tired of my thoughts. #please ignore all this ^ because i know most of it is irrational or whatever and i DON'T WANT to hear rational things #if you've read until here and really want to say something just tell me that right now i'm allowed to relax #any other comment would make me feel worse #💖💖💖 #**one month left to take exams this semester not forever hahaha but then i'd be supposed to take all the remaining exams in the summer #and i can't possibly take 14 exams between now and july which is why i'm panicking (there are other logistically confusing things in what i #said but i wanted to clear this one up at least lmao) (i'm already feeling vaguely better can't you see?)

[chaoticwholesome]

Interesting trend i've noticed in my reading habits lately is that the first, like, 30% of a new book is often a bit of a slog, and then usually somewhere after that i gain momentum and start reading much faster (either because I'm now engrossed and invested, or because I want to finish the book while momentum is high before my finicky attention span disengages from it again.

Anyone else get this?

#usually less the case for novellas. i read seanan mcguire's Every Heart a Doorway in 3 days with not much waffling #and for graphic novels hmm if it's chaptered I'll often read a chapter or 2 on the first day and then motor thru the rest the next #but yeah. I'm currently reading The Guncle by Stephen Rowley! i like it its cute #but i got thru 13% last october and then got busy moving house and did not pick it up until now in Jan #and i got thru the next 30% slowly this week. and then just THIS AFTERNOON motored from the 40% mark to the 70% mark #can can posts!

[suddenrundown]

these books are so chaotic

#toby's no good horrible very bad day--Every Single Day #she's constantly in a hurry to Get Somewhere because someone needs her and then immediately she'll be pulled elsewhere #because someone else needs her and its like WE WERE ALREADY ON A TIME CRUNCH AND THE FATE OF EVERYTHING RESTS ON HER SHOULDERS BUT SURE #taylor reads october daye #ok to reblog

[orcelito]

i do love. how 11/21 is absolutely a big date in game. but for me? with my fic? now THAT is the discacc anniversary, and THAT is what shall be celebrated on that day first and foremost in me-world

and i think im valid for it

#speculation nation #discacc shit #it was not. purposeful. for me to upload on that day #just so happened that i spent that october depression reading through every decent akeshu fic i could find #and was running out of material mid november. so i decided to just write my own lol #and then after writing for a few days i had enough to post the first chapter. and so i did. #with no regard for what the date actually was. It Happens.