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athingofvikings · 6 months
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In my own experience as a Jewish Leftist, and corroborated by the similar experiences of other Jewish Leftists, there are, roughly speaking, five to six broad categories of Leftists in their attitudes towards Jews. This is a tangential categorization in terms of precise political affiliation; in other words, one's position in these categories is not dependent on what precise type of Leftist/Progressive an individual is.
Type 1: Open And Unapologetic Jew Haters
These Leftists hate Jews and don't try to hide it at all. According to them, Jews are the Problem, and they know what type of Solution they want enacted.
The archetypal example that I'll currently use is Cynthia McKinney, former US Congresswoman and US Green Party presidential candidate, who, well...
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But this is also the class of Leftists who say that there is no room for Judaism in their ideal, imagined perfect world, that they picture everyone assimilating and giving up their ethnic and cultural identities to just be "human", and often single out Judaism as a particular problem in that regard.
Type 2: Closeted Knowing Jew Haters
These Leftists hate Jews, know that they hate Jews, but know that it's bad optics to openly praise Hitler or cozy up to the KKK to satisfy their hatred of Jews, so they try to find the barest veneer of plausible deniability to hide behind. "Anti-zionism" is a particular favorite on the Left, but the hatred has a way of slipping past the mask when they get questioned.
A classic example here is the Boston Mapping Project, who literally made up a list of every Jewish institution in Boston, Mass, on suspicion of them being "Zionist"--including elder homes, Jewish high schools, and Kindergartens, and including scary "links" on the map to various government agencies, no matter how tenuous or outright imaginary, thereby invoking old conspiracy tropes about "Secret Jewish Control of the Government". (And BDS, as the parent organization, also gave the lie that they're just antizionist, not antisemitic, when they disavowed the Mapping Project for bad optics, not the rank antisemitism and conspiratorial thinking they were promoting). Another example would be the organizers of the Chicago Dyke March, who explicitly expelled Jews from the March and crowed about "zio tears" (which is a slur originally used by the KKK, no less).
However on first encounter, Type 2 are indistinguishable from and camouflaged by...
Type 3: Undereducated And Unknowing Traffickers In Antisemitism
These Leftists don't hate Jews per se... they're just unaware of the deep antisemitic history of repeating claims that "Jews have too much power", or stating that the Holocaust was "White on White violence", or that "Jews are just White People from Europe", or any of a host of other antisemitic beliefs that are endemic on the Left. They're initially indistinguishable from Type 2, as they say the same things, and can only be told apart by their reactions; a Type 3 will go, "Oh, I didn't know and I'll try to learn!", while a Type 2 will typically double down, or let the mask slip in some other way.
The problem is that, from the perspective of Jews, Type 2 and Type 3 are indistinguishable from each other at first glance, and rather than try to engage and risk the emotional harm, a lot of Jews tend to write off all of them as Type 2, and there's a lot of debate on the ratios between the two.
Also worthy of mention, as a midpoint between Type 2 and Type 3 are:
Type 2.5: Openly Antisemitic "I'm Not An Antisemite, I Just Refuse To Learn, Listen, Or Let Jews Define Antisemitism"
As a midpoint between types, these Leftists openly traffic in antisemitic motifs, conspiracies, and attitudes, all the while insisting that they're not antisemitic. They're a midpoint between types 2 and 3 because they've had plenty of time and opportunity to learn about the bigoted attitudes they're espousing, but refuse to do so... but at the same time, they genuinely seem to think that they're not antisemitic. They just think that there's a vast Jewish conspiracy out to get them personally, or any of a number of other antisemitic beliefs, and refuse to accept or learn that what they're saying is antisemitic. They can believe that they themselves are not all they want, saying that Jews have too much money and power and run the world's politics is still trafficking in antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The archetypal example of this type, assuming we can take his word for it, is Roger Waters. Waters is openly and explicitly antisemitic, saying that there is a widespread conspiracy of Jews running the world's politics... but he has been insisting for over 40 years that he's just "antizionist, not antisemitic."
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But these are just the outspoken ones. None of them would get anywhere without the tacit support of...
Type 4: The Silent Majority
These Leftists are, being blunt, hypocritical cowards. They don't want to get involved in issues on antisemitism. When a Leftist Jew is being harassed by one of Types 1 to 3, they don't speak up, they don't get involved, they just say nothing.
Maybe they agree with one of the above types. Maybe they just don't want to get involved. Maybe they're afraid of seeming sympathetic to Israel. Maybe they're afraid of getting the social backlash that the Jew is experiencing. But ultimately, their motivations don't matter, their actions do—and their actions give tacit social support to the antisemite in the Leftist group, not to the Jew being harassed and chased out.
And the reason they're hypocritical cowards?
Well, if your ideology claims that you want a better life for everyone and social progress and being against racism and bigotry... but yet they don't speak up when it's happening right in front of them...
Well.
That says a lot, doesn't it? Both on what their ideals actually mean to them... and how highly they value Jews. And we know that it is possible, because of...
Type 5: The Pro-Jewish Leftist
These Leftists are, in my experience, a minority outside of Leftist Jews, but they do exist among non-Jewish Leftists. They stand up to Types 1, 2, and 3 when they express antisemitic views, and try to shame and cajole Type 4 into standing up as well.
And, just to point out how normalized antisemitism is on the Left...
Some people in this category might object to being labeled as "Pro-Jewish", as if they're biased for Jews. But I have to ask... do you think that they would also object to being labeled "Pro-LGBTQ"?
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bulletnotestudies · 1 year
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We're back with another reading bingo! welcome to the Winter Mini Reading Challenge ❄
RULES: like with all our challenges, the rules are pretty flexible, since the whole point of this is to motivate you to read just a little bit more :) the challenge starts on december 1st and ends with february 28th, but you're welcome to finish it at your own pace -> use the tag #studyblr w/knives reading challenge when you post your updates/pics -> reblog this post if you're participating
once you’ve read a book that fits a prompt, cross it out on the above template and/or share your thoughts on it in a post here on tumblr; make sure to mark any spoilers (hide them under a cut etc.), so people can avoid them if needed :) you can also have just one post and update it as you go, or you can post good ol’ aesthetic book pics!
as always, if you have any questions, my asks are always open
❄ FIND PROMPT EXPLANATIONS & OUR RECS FOR EACH UNDER THE CUT ❄
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Any book that features twins - they don't have to be main characters. ❄ The Secret History - D. Tartt ❄ Gideon the Ninth - T. Muir ❄ The King Is Dead - B. Dean ❄ The Magic Between - S. Hoyt
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Either second chance as the trope, or give a book you'd previously DNF'd another go. ❄ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - T. Jenkins Reid ❄ One True Loves - T. Jenkins Reid ❄ Persuasion - J. Austen ❄ Beach Read - E. Henry
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A book with a single word in the title. ❄ Piranesi - S. Clark ❄ Hamlet - W. Shakespeare ❄ Icebreaker - A.L. Graziadei ❄ Bloodchild - O. E. Butler
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A classic or modern classic. ❄ Rebecca - D. du Maurier ❄ The Alchemist - P. Coelho ❄ The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams ❄ The Little Prince - A. de Saint-Exupéry
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A book with a pretty cover (this is obviously highly subjective, but here are some we think look amazing): ❄ A Marvellous Light - F. Marske ❄ The Starless Sea - E. Morgenstern ❄ How to Kill Your Family - B. Mackie ❄ All That's Left in the World - E. J. Brown
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Any book with festive vibes - any holiday/festivity during the timeframe of this challenge goes :) ❄ A Christmas Carol - C. Dickens ❄ The Mistletoe Motive - C. Liese
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Some neurodiverse main characters: ❄ The Charm Offensive - A. Cochrun ❄ Turtles All the Way Down - J. Green ❄ The Gilded Wolves - R. Chokshi ❄ Six of Crows - L. Bardugo
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The nonfiction prompt for fiction lovers lol ❄ Crush - R. Siken ❄ Shakespeare's Sonnets - W. Shakespeare ❄ The Anthropocene Reviewed - J. Green ❄ Bitch Doctrine - L. Penny
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Any book that a friend's recommended to you - or you can read one of our server faves: ❄ Gideon the Ninth - T. Muir ❄ Six of Crows - L. Bardugo ❄ Red, White & Royal Blue - C. McQuiston ❄ The Raven Boys - M. Stiefvater
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greenerteacups · 11 months
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Fic Masterpost
Oh, boy. Okay. Here we go.
I have written literally hundreds of thousands of words of fic, and this is where you can find it! Consider this a kind of annotated bibliography.
Harry Potter
Lionheart
Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger | 300,000 words and counting
How Draco Malfoy met a girl on a train, ruined his life, started a war, and ended one.
Notes: Oh, honey. This is my baby. The longest fic I've ever written, the currently running one, and the one I'm most fond of. A Gryffindor!Draco AU that retraces all 7 books. Slowburn Dramione (SLOW, slow burn, a simmer, currently more like a suntanning) with Golden Quartet vibes. I pre-write all the books and then release them in weekly updates, kinda like a serial publication, so you always know when your next hit is coming!
Volume I, "Green and Golden," composed of Years 1-3, finished early in 2023. It's currently releasing Volume II, "Son and Heir," which just finished the first act of Year 4.
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The Climb
Harry Potter, Severus Snape & Harry Potter | 22,000 words
"...in the event that I, Lily Evans Potter, and my husband, James Potter, become deceased," read Albus, "I do hereby name Severus Snape as sole legal custodian of my son, Harry James Potter, until such a time as he comes of age." He folded his glasses on the table. "Fuck," said Severus, with feeling.
Notes: An unexpected brainworm that I had while compiling a Severus playlist for Lionheart, which rapidly spiraled out of control. It's a "Severus raises Harry" fic, which I never had a taste for until I started writing this — I realized there was so much more juice in the narrative idea than I'd realized. I like how I use voice and style here; I think I made a real leap in technique between SWHTWW and this one.
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the scenes which hold the waking world
Six of Crows, Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa, Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik, Jesper Fahey/Wylan van Eck | 70,000 words
Thirty million dollars for a secret. That's the payout for Kaz Brekker, the most dangerous, ruthless, and talented extractor in the dream industry — if he can manage it. But to have a chance, he needs the best. That means finding a team willing to attempt the impossible: a knife-wielding cat burglar, a college dropout with perfect aim, a sullen ex-Navy SEAL, a drop-dead gorgeous former Soviet spy, and the estranged son of their rich employer. If they can avoid killing each other, they'll go down in history. If they can't, none of them may wake up again.
Notes: This was my first novel-length fic, and I'll always have a soft spot for it. It's an Inception AU with the vibes of Leverage meets Ocean's 11, with a side of psychological trouble and codependency. Read if you like spy movies, heist stories, or dangerous criminals whose Achilles heel is being unable to stop talking shit to each other.
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someday we'll linger in the sun
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Namor of Talokan/Shuri | 40,000 words
As the legends have it, after she earned the blessings of Bast, the Princess Shuri took a god for a lover. The legends say less about what happened in between.
Notes: Another drabble that spiraled wildly out of control. (You may notice a theme.) I watched Black Panther over Christmas break and thought, "Wow, that's an incredible storyline that didn't actually happen, wish someone would write it." Technically unfinished, but I think the existing chapters serve as a complete story. Unfortunately, no plans to come back to this one; I might mark it as finished at some point, because it feels settled to me.
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it's a western, henry
Dimension20: Fantasy High, Riz Gukgak/Fabian Aramais Seacaster | 10,000 words
Nobody fantasizes about kissing goblins in the moonlight, or taking them out on ice cream dates after class. Especially not beautiful half-elves on the bloodrush team, who could have anybody they wanted (and probably do). It's the beginning of a bad joke. A goblin and a half-elf walk into a tower... And the goblin ends up slain on the floor while the half-elf walks out with the princess.
Notes: My first fic, which started as a writing exercise. A character study in fantasy race relations and a love story between a nerd and a jock in which the jock is the anxious one. Working title for a while was "it's not easy being green," before I found the fancy Siken line. I still think there's some good humor in here, and I like rereading it from time to time.
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schumi-honey · 25 days
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Book quotes that live in my head
"For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?" - Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
"He is half of my soul, as the poets say." -The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller
"But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself." -Circe, Madeline Miller
"Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" -Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
"May your eyes go to the sun, to the wind your soul. You are all the colours in one, at full brightness" -All The Bright Places, Jennifer Niven
"All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?" -All The Lights We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them." -Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
"The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to." "I'm here." -We Were Liars, E. Lockhart
"How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions." -If We Were Villains, M.L Rio
"Men mock the gods until they need them" -Six Of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
"Know that I loved you... Know that it wasn't enough" -Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo
"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it." -The Secret History, Donna Tart
"You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you’re with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can see." -Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
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tometalk · 1 month
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Read 2/1-2/2
Four Stars
I enjoyed Hafsah Faizal's previous duology The Sands of Arawiya and I have been eagerly anticipating A Tempest of Tea since its announcement several years ago. I always feel a little trepidation when books are compared to Six of Crows, it just became so popular that any book with even a hint of a heist had Six of Crows slapped on as a comp title. A Tempest of Tea really delivered in the right ways for me. There's a heist, there's a lovable but morally gray crew, and there's some fun twists throughout the way. Add in some vampires and I'm fully sold on the concept of this book!
Arthie was a great protagonist. She is the owner of a tea shop that is often on the wrong side of the law due to nature of the tea she sells. Arthie is a lot of fun, she's highly intelligent and always have a trick up her sleeve. One of the first few scenes of the book where we see her outwitting the people ransacking her shop was so tense and I adored seeing her smarts shine through so early on. I also enjoyed slowly discovering her secrets throughout the book, although I do feel there was a twist that felt quite easy to spot early on. I really enjoyed Jin, Arthie's adoptive brother. He's a charmer and I loved all his interactions with another major character, Flick. Flick's storyline was maybe my favorite of the main characters. I really enjoyed her growth throughout the book. Rounding out the our heist crew are Matteo and Laith. I have opinions on both but they're quite spoilery so I'll have to simply stop at they exist you'll have to form your own opinions about them.
While the majority of this was very fast paced there were a few moments where I felt the flow of the story got a little odd and moments that dragged despite the action that was happening. I was also just not into Arthie's romance in this book. I felt like it occurred way too quickly and did not feel organic at all. While I wouldn't classify this currently as having a love triangle because one of the character's interest did not read as anything more than lightly flirty for most of the book, I do think at the end there are two characters who seem to be set up as potentially both being love interests for Arthie in the next book. In contrast I was 100% here for every interaction between Jin and Flick and I do honestly think the book would have read much better if they were the only characters displaying romantic feelings, at least in this installment. Part of that is because Jin and Flick are shown to have a history that Arthie simply did not have with the characters set up to be her partner. I would have needed more time and slower development to even start to believe in Arthie's romance.
All in all this was a great read and I had lots of fun. I cannot wait for the second book!
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felinemotif · 4 months
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coryyyy!! 2, 16, 35, 57, 93, 110, 117 from the book ask game <333
hi maya thank you for stopping by /ᐠ - ˕ -マ all but one of these recs are written in english; the last one, compañeras, is written in a mix of spanish & 'spanglish'.
2. a book with a blue cover
i was so ready to say my husband by maud ventura for this but it turns out that??? the cover! is not blue. only the title is. so. with that said i'll go with all's well by mona awad.
i wasn't too sure about reading this at first but i had read and loved bunny by this author, so i figured i'd give it a chance despite my hesitation regarding the topic. glad i did, i'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. it could have been higher, but the ending was... well i don't want to spoil it if anyone is reading it/wants to read it, but it was definitely a very awad-esque ending in that it was neutral and honestly? a bit unsatisfying.
we follow a vengeful actor turned theatre director with debilitating chronic pain who slowly over time loses her sense of empathy as she gets lost in her anger. very, very unhinged. i saw dominique defoe say that it was disturbing to dive into a feminine rage book that wasn't set in a fantasy world where a lack of morality could be smoothed over by the greater good; all's well is a modern contemporary with real world problems. lots of references to two shakespeare plays (which you could probably tell by the title anyway lol).
my usual advice to ppl when they go to read a mona awad book is to have something fun and light to read after because rarely will you be happy with the 'resolution' in her writing.
16. a book you'd recommend to your younger self.
listen. little me was a pretentious fuck lol. i was walking around reading plato's the republic in middle school. i read electra by sophocles for the first time when i was like? 13 i think. both great reads but i really could have benefited from some less heavy material back then. something comforting and silly. with that said, and taking into thought what was already published by that time, i would say any of the lizzie mcguire books.
35. a book featuring the found family trope.
i actually don't read much found family outside of fanfiction but ig six of crows by leigh bardugo. i haven't touched that book since it was published but i remember really enjoying the dynamics between the characters, particularly kaz and wylan. i was also shocked by the huge improvement in the quality of writing compared to her shadow and bone series which i ended up never finishing.
57. a book you want to hit your head with
(assuming this means in a frustrated way) i'll go with the secret history by donna tart. it took me over a week and a half to finish that damn book. for reference normally i can finish a book of that length in two-three days. it was so slow. in over 100 pages the only thing that happened was the main character was able to get into a class he wanted and one of the female characters cut her?? finger?? foot?? smth. it wasn't a life threatening injury either.
the pacing was unbearable but the atmosphere made up for it. i spent some of my formative years where the book is set in the beginning so i did enjoy that aspect, and once i got over half way through it really picked up in intensity but yeah. it's a modern classic for a reason but i think in the future if i want to read a classic, i'll stick with dostoevsky.
93. a book featuring an unreliable narrator.
(the secret history also fits this but since i used that for 57) i'll say we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson. if you haven't read a book by jackson before,,, do so. immediately. she does NOT disappoint.
this book is about two sisters taking refuge in their family manor together after almost their entire family is killed via poison. the townspeople, naturally, point the finger at the sisters and their surviving uncle but are unsure which one of the three committed the crime.
the narrator, 18 year old sister mary katherine, is very childish (to the point that ppl forget she and her sister aren't children). very much a story of sisterhood and trauma and a house is haunted by the living.
110. your favourite psychological thriller.
i can't think of anything off the top of my head so i'll just suggest the one i'm going to read at the start of the new year: a flicker in the dark by stacy willingham. I've heard excellent things about this book. the main character's father was convicted of her murder two decades ago, and while he's behind bars, someone with the same motive---or perhaps the actual killer all along---starts kidnapping young girls again.
117. your favourite anthology.
this really depends on the genre for me but the first to come to mind is one i recently read: compañeras, which is a collection of oral histories, short stories, poetry and essays by and about lesbian latinas.
my own experience with being a bisexual latina woman made this an especially meaningful read to me. in our culture, you don't really discuss your sexuality with your family if you aren't straight. there's a lot of shame in it. i had it a bit easier, given i didn't grow up around many other latines; so the cultural shame wasn't as prevalent for me outside of family. but it was still there.
being a hispanic/latino queer still very commonly results in being disowned once you come out or are outed. i remember when i spoke to my abuela about it (after having already come out) she nearly drove us into a tree.
this collection digs deep into the shame and familial and cultural expectations put on latina women, and it dives into how confusing and lonely it can be to learn about your identity in a household where you can't speak about your experience with the people meant to guide you (elders).
this anthology was also originally published in the late 80s by the latina lesbian history project! and even all this time later, we still face many of the same issues with oppression and family disownment and expectations that the women were talking about in this collection.
a lot of this was written in english, but some were in spanish & spanglish so if you don't speak spanish and want to read this you will have to look for translations for some of the content.
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whatevsbla · 2 years
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Why I'll Eat My Hat If Chokshi Doesn't Know Leverage
Ok, I just finished the trilogy last night and went through pretty much the entire Tumblr tag. Multiple people (deservedly) compared The Gilded Wolves with the Six of Crows series (of course the target demographic of diverse magic heist books is gonne be similar, c'mon)
However. Nobody reached for the lowhanging yet delicious fruit that is Leverage parallels.
Leverage is, shortly summarised, a series about a group of thieves and an ex insurance investigator who con the rich and the powerful in order to help the people they've hurt
While the gilded wolves has unique team dynamics of its own (this is not an accusation of plagiarism! It's a love letter of parallels between media I like!), there are similarities that CANNOT be denied
- Laila / Sophie Devereaux: performers with identity issues who frequently act as a kind of "emotional support team mom" and have fallen hard for a man who makes questionable life decisions. They even both have a secret birth name that never ever gets revealed!
- Séverin Montagnet-Alarie / Nate Ford: Is the man who makes questionable life decisions, suffers from the MC mastermind syndrome that has him manipulating his team members despite genuinely loving them and later has them rightfully being mad at him about it, is the one the team looks to for plans especially in a pinch, has lost a family member which set him off on a downwards spiral
- Zofia Boguska / Parker: autistic-coded, feelings? Hard. Blowing things up/jumping off buildings? Easy, a genius in their area of interest, trust issues, sweet tooth, frequently takes things literally and is oblivious about some things yet feels intensely and her loyalty, once earned, is unshakable
- Enrique Mercado-Lopez / Alec Hardison: the MVP nerd who is an expert in many many areas, knows enough about history to be able to make convincing art forgeries, is the one holding the presentations about the marks, wants to be the leader on occasion, likes to talk a lot, may complain but will still do a great job, actually a sweetheart
Hypnos / (stay with me on this) James Sterling: frenemy who has a History with the mastermind, can be manipulative and shady yet charming in his own way ((because of this parallel I was utterly convinced that Hypnos would be a backstabber but instead Hypnos turned out to really really want friends instead. Whoops))
Tristan: rip, you were too unique to have an equivalent
Other notable parallels: the will they won't they / keep hooking up and breaking up again because of drama of Nate/Sophie and Laila/Séverin especially, the sweet slowburn development of Parker/Hardison and Enrique/Zofia, the emotional support / will help figure out feelings dynamic of Parker& Sophie and Zofia&Laila.
TL;dr I love Leverage and the gilded wolves and the pipeline from one to the other was very real for me. I will be SHOCKED if some of these parallels are not on purpose
Edit: in the heat of the moment, I forgot some further parallels: ot3 dynamic, Parker&Zofia both having Issues around feeling trapped
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My giant ass lgbt (mainly gay, bi and lesbian) book list
Priory of the orange tree, A Day of Fallen Night
Criers war
The never Tilting world. The ever cruel Kingdom
Not your sidekick, Not your villain, Not your Backup
Girl, Serpent, Thorn
Can’t spell treason without tea
House in the cerulean sea, Under the whispering door, In the lives of puppets
Bookshops and Bonedust, Legends and lattes
A Marvellous Light, A Restless Truth, A Power Unbound
Mooncakes
Spin me right round
The Bone spindle, The severed thread, The cursed rose
Love somebody
Icebreaker
Coming back (a graphic novel)
At the End of Everything – Nijkamp
The temperature of me and you
Ophelia after all
The Chandler Legacies
All that’s left in the world
When the moon was ours
Self-made boys
Lakelore
Venom and Vow
All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!
And they lived…
Right where I left you
As you walk on by
So This Is Ever After
In Deeper Waters
Spell Bound
Heartstopper 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nick and Charlie, Solitaire, Loveless, Radio silence, I was born for this, This winter
Red, White & Royal Blue
This Is Why They Hate Us
Giovanni’s Room
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda ,The upside of unrequited, Leah on the Offbeat
It's Not Like It's A Secret
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the waters of the world
The Song of Achilles
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Six of Crows, Crooked kingdom
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks, The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky
Boy Meets Boy
Between Perfect and Real
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
You Should See Me in a Crown
Felix Ever After
Legendborn, Bloodmarked
Date Me, Bryson Keller
Lumberjanes
Anger is a Gift
We Are Okay
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
Into the Light
The Insiders
They Both Die at the End, The first to die at the end
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
I’ll Give You the Sun
Juliet Takes a Breath
Carry On, wayward son, any way the wind blows, scattered showers
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, a scatter of light
Cemetery Boys
The sunbearer trials
What If It's Us, heres to us
Gearbreakers, Godslayers
One Last Stop
The Prince and the Dressmaker
The sky blues
Some Girls Do
Aetherbound
The Girl From the Sea
Jay's Gay Agenda
The Witch King, the fae keeper
The Ghosts We Keep
The Passing Playbook
Ace of Spades
Love & Other Natural Disasters
Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun
Fire With Fire
The Darkness Outside Us 
She Drives Me Crazy 
May the Best Man Win
When the Angels Left the Old Country
Autoboyography
I wish you all the best
Only mostly devastated
The gravity of us
Boyfriend material, husband material
The charm offensive
If this gets out
Two boys kissing
Always the almost
World Running Down
Lose You to Find Me
The Last Sun, The Hanged Man, The Hourglass Throne
Before We Disappear
The Extraordinaries, flash fire, heatwave
I Want to Kiss You in Public, You're The One For Me
A mark on my soul, watching for comets, Every word you never said
angels before man
I am not your chosen one, so what if I am the chosen one
Sorry, bro
All the right notes
We could be so good
Delilah Green doesn’t care, Astrid Parker doesn’t Fail, Iris Kelly doesn’t date
Out of time, into you
Yesterday is history
Kamikaze boys
Imogen, obviously
Everyone in this room will someday be dead
Read between the line, no rings attached
The henna wars
Here the whole time
The facinators
The falling in love montage
Darius the great is not okay, Darius the great deserves better ?
Late to the party
We are totally normal
Infinity Son, Infinity reaper
If I can give you that
Ander & Santi Were Here
Act Cool
Out of the Blue
Hell followed with us, the spirit bares its teeth
The Infinite noise, A Neon darkness, Some faraway place
Wranglestone, Timberdark
Of Feathers and Thorns
Cafe Con Lychee
Winter’s orbit, Ocean’s echo
The Gay Teen's Guide to Defeating a Siren 1 : the seeker, The Gay Teen's Guide to Defeating a Siren 2 : The siren
Call Me by Your Name
My policeman
he Temperature of Me and You
All Our Hidden Gifts
The starless sea
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Out of Salem
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
They hate each other
The song of Achilles
She gets the girl
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Written in the stars, Count your lucky stars
The raven boys, The dream thieves, blue Lilly Lilly blue, The raven king
Good omens
A lady for a duke
On earth we’re briefly gorgeous
A little life
Good angel, Bad end
Tell me how it ends
The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester
Dear mothman
Self-made boys
Both can be true
This is how you lose the time war
D’Vaughn and kris plan a wedding
She drives me crazy
Orphia and Eurydicius
Light from uncommon stars
Her majesty’s royal coven
Once and future
Melt with you
Paybacks a Witch, From bad to cursed, Back in a spell, In charm’s way
The Scapegracers, The Scratch Daughters, The Feast Makers
The lost girls
Mistakes were made
A genesis of misery
These Witches Don't Burn, This coven won’t break
gender queer
Sweet and bitter Magic
Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches
the jasmine throne
The dos and donuts of love
If tomorrow doesn’t come
The Botanist's Apprentice, The Bachelor's Valet, Winter's Dawn, The Solstice Cabin, A Novel Arrangement, A Thief and a Gentleman
Wilder girls
Heart Haunt Havoc
Gideon the ninth, Harrow the ninth, Nona the ninth
The atlas six, the atlas paradox, the atlas complex
Maurice
The archive undying
The borrow a boyfriend club
Peter darling
Dionysus in Wisconsin
In other lands
As we fall
Mortal Follies
If We Were Villains
Strange the dreamer
A darker shade of magic, A gathering of shadows, A conjuring of light
Rosaline palmer takes the cake, Paris Daliencourt is about to crumble
The Place Between
Phantom and rook
The jasmine throne
The wicker king ?
we are okay
The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, The King's Men
A strange and stubborn endurance
Wrath - Ella James
May the best man win
Like a love story
Taproot
Never have I ever – Isabel Yap
Blame atlas, Save atlas
Less, Less is lost
The queer principles of Kit Webb, The perfect crimes of Marian Hayes
Culture's Skeleton, Turn to Paige Never
Darkhearts
She who became the sun, He who drowned the world
You Will Not Know Me By My Bones
EXODUS 20:3
The summer of everything
Into the Gray
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
Alice Austen Lived Here
Hither page, The missing page
Slippery creatures, The sugared game, Subtle Blood
The Otherwoods
The Scottish Boy
Wish You Were(n't)
The lover curse of Melody Mc
Little Thieves, Painted devils
The ghost slept over
Glitterland, waiting for the flood, for real, Pansies
She gets the girl
Blackwater
Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix
We All Fall Down ?
The Mimicking of Known Successes, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
Even Though I Knew the End
The Spear Cuts Through Water
The Witch Boy, The Hidden Witch, The Midwinter Witch
Right Where I Left You
The Archive Undying
How It All Blew Up
The Music of What Happens
The Darkness Outside Us
Jay's Gay Agenda
Milo and Marcos at the End of the World
The Language of Seabirds
Grounded for All Eternity, The Afterlife of the Party
Jack of thorns, Knight of flames, Lord of ravens, Reeve of veils, Page of tricks, Rites of winter, Sigils of spring, Spells of summer
The tea dragon society, the tea dragon festival, the tea dragon
Kiss Her Once for Me
The Gentleman's Book of Vices, A Rulebook for Restless Rogues
Fractured infinity
Bestiary
I think I love you
Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me
A million to one
the fox and the dryad
Bloom
The Grimrose girls
Welcome to night vale
The magic fish
Ziggy, stardust and me
Only mostly devastated
We contain multitudes
Love and other Natural disasters
The midnight girls
All the young men
The swimming-pool Library
Maurice
Of fire and stars
Mirrored in Evergreen
One Night in Hartswood
We are the ants
The secret lives of Country gentlemen, A nobleman’s guide to seducing a scoundrel
A strange and stubborn endurance, All the hidden paths
Bonds of brass, Oaths of legacy, Vows of empire
Mr Warren’s profession, Throw his heart over
Dark rise, Dark heir
Dionysus in Wisconsin
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foxhollow18 · 6 months
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hey folks! i’m not amazing at introductions so i apologize in advance…
anyways, hi! i’m moony and i’m just here to have a good time, infodump and all that jazz…so here’s some things about yours truly :
current hyperfixation : the boys in the boat
interests :
- the marauders (obviously)
- percy jackson
- lord of the rings
- six of crows
- literature in general (lord of the flies, if we were villains, the secret history, etc.)
- movies (dead poets society, practically any 80s movie, inception, good will hunting, & many others)
- music (taylor swift, noah kahan, oliva rodrigo, hozier, conan grey & again, many others)
general :
- pronouns : she/her
- i have (social & generalized) anxiety sooooo be patient if possible :33
- i’m sapphic and ace :DD
- i’m a minor, soooooo i don’t interact with anything NSFW (plz don’t do anything creepy either😓)
- my ao3 is @ thatoneenglishnerd (but i don’t post on their super often), my discord is @foxhollow18, and my tt is @wylan.lupin.solace
i’ll probably be posting a lot of headcanons, reposts, fanfic stuff and possibly some art (if i feel like it)
about my interest(s)!! my hyperfixations tend to change a ton depending on how latched onto them i am, sooooo there might be some quick flips between what i post about sometimes.
i’m really bad at posting soooo it might be spam or me not posting for long periods (i’ll try not to but sometimes life gets busy😅)
anyways, thanks for checking me out!! enjoy my blog and all my possible cringiness ✨
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christina nadin.     she/her.     cis woman.      ›   spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,  persephone   grimaldi   ,   most   likely   listening   to   place   de   la   république   by   cœur   de   pirate   with   their   airpods   pro   .   the   twenty   two   year   old   gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -impassive   yet   +sagacious   to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you'll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about   warm   wind   blowing   across   light - drenched   balconies   reflecting   azure   seas   ,   faint   smiles   disguising   frigid   glances   from   disinterested   eyes   ,   fingers   trembling   with   crimson - tipped   exhaustion   as    they   dance   over   another   key   ,   quiet   innocence  &  divinity   of   polished   halo   as   the   worst   form   of   unknowing   seduction   ,   followed   by   mon   paris   by   yves   saint   laurent   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   her   no   longer   speaking   to   her   older   brother   after   arguing   about   his   desire   to   step   down   as   heir   apparent   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   .
﹟⠀⠀⠀𝟎𝟎𝟏⠀,⠀⠀𝗌𝗍𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗂𝖼𝗌⠀.
*   ⋮   basics. full  name.   héloïse  perséphone  elisabeth  marie  grimaldi   (   first  name  is  technically   héloïse,  but  never  uses  it  because  no  one  ever  says  it  correctly  ). nicknames.   percy, seph. birthday  &  birthplace.   december  30th,  2000   &   monaco gender  &  pronouns.   cis woman,  she/her occupation.   princess  of  monaco,  juilliard  student  (  doctor  of  musical  arts  ),  pianist  &  composer
*   ⋮   family. father.   alexandre,  prince  of  monaco   b. 1958 mother.   ana  theresia,  princess  of  monaco   b. 1964 older  half  brother.   julien,  hereditary  prince  of  monaco   b. 1992
*   ⋮   physical. height  &  weight.   150 cm,  40kg  hair.  dark  brown,  usually  a  bit  wavy  &  left  down eyes.   hazel  brown dominant  hand.   ambidextrous,  favours  her  left  hand habits.   tilting  her  head  ever  so  slightly  when  lost  in  thought,  fiddling  with  her  watch,  perpetually  keeping  legs  crossed  at  ankles.
*   ⋮   mental. education.   bachelor  of  music  (  piano  major  ),  curtis  institute.  master  of  performance,  royal  college  of  music. languages.   way  too  many  …  monégasque,  french,  tagalog,  german,  dutch,  italian,  spanish,  english  (  has  a   very  strong  received  pronunciation  accent,  unfortunately  ). religion.   roman  catholic  (  but  it’s  complicated  so  …  don’t  ask  ). star  signs.   capricorn  sun,  scorpio  moon,  virgo  rising alignment  &  mbti.   lawful  neutral,  intj - t positive.   sagacious,  loyal,  astute negative.   impassive,  reticent,  pedantic parallels.   camilla  macaulay  (  the  secret  history  ),  edmund  pevensie  (  narnia  ),  inej  ghafa  (  six  of  crows  ),  su  li - zhen  (  in  the  mood  for  love  )
﹟⠀⠀⠀𝟎𝟎𝟐⠀,⠀⠀𝖼𝗁𝗋𝗈𝗇𝗂𝖼𝗅𝖾⠀.
she’s  héloïse  first.  born  in  the  mild  monégasque  winter,  she’s  the  second  child  &  only  daughter  of  the  prince  of  monaco  &  a  banking  tycoon’s  daughter,  six  years  younger  than  her  older  half  - brother  (  to  the  world  julien,  to  her,  simply  jules  ).  the  grimaldi  name  rests  heavily  on  her  from  birth,  the  simple  knowledge  that  she  carried  a  title  (  she’s  a  serene  highness,  after  all  ),  but  with  it,  even  more  responsibility.
childhood  is  spent  between  the  sea  &  the  hills,  traversing  monaco  by  bicycle  (  &  later  on,  a  beloved  blue  vespa  )  until  everyone  recognises  the  sight  of  their  princess  with  her  sunhat,  flying  down  the  streets.  but  opulence  &  greed  is  native  to  this  place  &  her  parents’  marriage  is  more  strained  than  ever,  because  love  can’t  solve every  problem  &  money  even  less.  not  when  her  father  was  trying  to  replace  the  ghost  of  his  first  wife  with  someone  who  decidedly  wasn’t.  (  love  doesn’t  exist.  convenience  does.  )
sensing  the  instability  of  their  home,  jules’  side  of  the  family,  the  dutch  royals,  offer  to  take  them  in  for  a  while.  so  she  goes  alongside  her  brother,  trading  the  sunny  mediterranean  for  the  chilliness of  the  noordzee,  monaco  for  den  haag  &  a  bit  of  peace  for  her  sense  of  stability,  permanently.  
the  soundtrack  of  her  childhood  is  glasses  clinking  at  a  formal  gala,  her  parents’  angry  shouts  echoing  through  the  halls,  shoes  scraping  across the  floor  as  she  drags  jules  away  from  another  bad  decision,  the  shifts  in  tone  as  she  leaps  from  language  to  language,  the  endless  melodies  of  her  steinway  grand  &  a  sense  of  resignation  &  loneliness  louder  than  any  sound.
apart  from  jules,  the  only  constant  in  her  life  is  piano.  she’d  started  since  age  two,  courtesy  of  overzealous  parents  &  won  almost  every  prestigious  competition  there  is.  a  virtuoso  in  the  making,  coaxing  melodies  from  the  keys  while  scribing  new  ones  of  her  own  —  they  call  her  the  petite  mozart.  a  rising  star  in  the  classical  world,  deft  in  interpretation  &  endowed  with  all  the  intensity  of  horowitz  &  measured  sweetness  of  rachmaninoff.
leaves  den  haag  at  age  sixteen,  accepted  by  curtis.  from  there,  she  throws  herself  into  music  completely.  jules  calls  frequently,  asking  for  help  on  some  thing  or  another  from  his  courses  at  oxford  —  she  obliges,  though  increasingly,  it  feels  like  she’s  the  one  taking  the  degree  for  him.
the  years  pass  &  percy  performs  more  &  more  often,  degrees  steadily  accumulating.  pursuit  of  her  doctoral  degree  finds  her  in  nyc,  stepping  through  juilliard’s  halls.  though  she’s  long  since  been  exposed  to  the  entertainment  world  &  high  society  (  after  all,  she’s  from  monaco  ),  having  to  live  within  it,  this  time  as  an  adult,  almost  feels  like  far  too  much.
manages  to  stay  mostly  out  of  the  tabloids,  the  picture  of  the  dignified  grimaldi  princess  contrasting  with  the  increasingly  public  embarrassments  of  the  grimaldi  heir.  because  jules  is  headstrong  &  dislikes  responsibility,  while  she  has  never  stopped  feeling  obligated  to  clean  up  another  mess.  she’s  both  whatever  is  needed  &  somehow  still  all  too foreign. 
but  still,  she’s  growing,  trying  to  bloom.  writing  film  scores,  pursuing  her  degree,  giving  concerts  at  carnegie  hall,  the  darling  prodigy  calmly  striding  ahead  of  them  all.  percy  tries  to  make  her  own  place  in  life,  dictating  her  own  terms  to  life.  it’s  an  existence  that  leaves  her  on  edge,  fearful  that  the  slightest  mishap  will  send  it  all  tumbling  down.  she  tries  to  be  good.  she  tries  to  hope  everything  will  turn  out  okay  in  the  end.  it  doesn’t  have  to.  but  she  will  make  it,  if  it’s  the  last  thing  she  does.  (  &  maybe,  that’s  just  living.  )
the  rumours  have  it  that  she’s  no  longer  on  speaking  terms  with  her  brother.  because  he  doesn’t  want  any  part  of  this  anymore,  eternal  free  spirit  refusing  to  accept  that  he  ought  to  bear  the  grimaldi  crown.  (  to  which,  she  can  only  laugh.  )
﹟⠀⠀⠀𝟎𝟎𝟑⠀,⠀⠀𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗈𝗇𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗍𝗒⠀.
though  intelligent  &  perceptive,  percy  doesn’t  flaunt  it  &  often  has  an  unassuming  demeanour.  alluring  in  the  sense  of  her  quiet  innocence  to  much  of  the  world,  she  is  nevertheless  sharp - eyed  &  a  touch  cynical.  eternally  polite  &  faintly  warm,  seemingly  impossible  to  anger,  percy  nonetheless is  unforgiving  &  has  a  streak  of  petty  cruelty  to  her  sometimes.  she  knows  what  she  wants,  but  won’t  stoop  to  underhanded  means  &  doesn’t  interfere  where  she’s  not  wanted.  beautiful  from  a  distance  (  though  you  always  feel  that  she’s  a  touch  exhausted  ),  but  more  than  slightly  frigid  internally  (  unless  you’re  close  to  her,  in  which  case  permanent  loyalty  is  almost  guaranteed  ),  she  embodies  her  namesake  surprisingly  aptly.  kore,  the  maiden  —  an  endless  puzzle,  every  interaction  no  closer  to  solving  it.
﹟⠀⠀⠀𝟎𝟎𝟒⠀,⠀⠀𝗐𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖾𝖽⠀.
*   ⋮   platonic.
childhood  best  friend.   probably  lived  in  europe,  but  percy's  always  had  fond  memories  of  summers  on  the  côte  d'azur  with  y/m,  who  was  probably  her  first  genuine  friend.  they  can  be  on  good  /  bad  terms  now  for  various  reasons,  utp  !
fellow  university  students.  study  sessions  ?  wishing  for  nice  background  music  ?  just  want  to  complain  about  courses  ? percy knows  almost  everyone  at  juilliard,  whether  it  be  freshmen  or  professors,  so  there’s  a  good  chance  y/m  would  know  her  if  they  also  attend  !  also  knows  many  postgrad  music  students  &  faculty  at  columbia  &  is  often  seen  there  too.
coworkers.  percy has  recently  started  composing  more  film  scores,  a  few  of  which  are  beginning  to  attract  critical  acclaim  (  think  interstellar  type  music  ).  y/m  is  starring  in  a  movie  that percy is  writing  the  score  for  &  they’ve  been  running  into  each  other  quite  often,  since percy often  spends  time  on  set  to  gain  inspiration.  alternatively,  this  can  be  someone  who  just  wants  her  expertise  in  composition,  or  help  with  piano  !
good  /  bad  influence.   often  a  little  bit  ‘ uptight ’  &  maintaining  a  genuinely  pristine  public  image, percy is  the  quintessential  ‘  good  girl  ’.  y/m  is  the  devil  on  percy's  shoulder,  always  trying  to  get  her  to  live  a  little,  get  out  more,  etc.  alternatively, percy is  the  one  who’s  trying  to  be  y/m’s  moral  compass,  keep  them  out  of  trouble  &  all  of  that  !
musician  friends.  pretty  self  explanatory,  but  other  musicians  that percy can  talk  to  about  music  &  everything  related  !  she’s  a  classically  trained  pianist  but  has  always  been  interested  in  other  types  of  music  &  will,  with  a  dry  smile,  provide  a  wry  commentary  on  what  everyone  else  is  listening  to.  (  &  no,  you  cannot  judge  her  for  her  massive  collection  of  cds  &  wall  mounted  cd  player.  )
close  friends.  percy is  prone  to  being  a  bit  distant  &  withdrawn,  but  genuinely  loyal  &  would  do  anything  for  them.  these  are  the  people  she’s  been  friends  with  for  a  long  time  now,  the  ones  she’d  let  drag  her  anywhere,  just  generally  people  in  her  life percy is  always  happy  to  see.
*   ⋮   romantic.
first  love.   percy’s  never  been  inclined  to  give  her  heart  that  easily,  doesn’t  do  random  hookups  &  has  been  in  very  few  relationships,  but  once  she  falls  in  love,  she  is  exceedingly  loyal  &  warm.  her  first  serious  relationship,  to  this  day, percy is  still  a  little  bit  hung - up  on  this  person.
it’s  a  ???.   they’re  dancing  around  each  other,  maybe  because  they’re  friends  reluctant  to  change  the  situation  or  rivals  who  simply  seem  to  openly  dislike  each  other.  either  way,  there’s  something  there  that  neither  has  quite  noted  (  or  possibly  even  noticed  )  &  only  time  will  tell  where  it  will go.
crush  /  unrequited  crush. percy is  very  bad  at  noticing  when  people  are  interested  in  her  &  also  at  noticing when  she  herself  is  interested  in  someone,  so  this  can  be  a  crush  /  unrequited  crush  situation  (  on y/m  or  percy's  part  )  that  is  making  things  slightly  awkward  between  the  two  of  them.
fool  me  once.   percy  is  obscenely  wealthy  &  carries  the  grimaldi  surname  (  will  kill  you  if  you  try  to  jokingly  refer  to  her  as  '  princess  '  though  )  &  y/m  seemingly pursued a  relationship  with  her  because  of  those  reasons  (  but  maybe  others  too  ).  they  did  not  actually  start  dating because  percy  figured  out  the  fact  &  has  resented  them  ever  since  for  trying  to  make  her  into  a  game  to  be  won.
*   ⋮   misc.
brother’s  ex.   percy's  older  brother,  julien  (  28  ),  has  a  little  bit  of  a  bad  habit  called  jumping  into  &  out  of  relationships  far  too  fast. percy normally  tries  to  restrain  him,  while  also  being  extremely  suspicious  of  his  partners.  y/m  used  to  be  in  a  relationship  with  him  &  post - breakup,  y/m  & percy dislike  each  other,  with  y/m  suspecting percy meddled,  or percy simply  thinking  y/m  was  terrible  for  julien.
rivalry  /  dislike.   usually  tries  to  be  nice,  but  it’s  entirely  possible percy rubs  more  than  a  few  people  the  wrong  way.  maybe  it’s  because  she  often  seems  unemotional,  maybe  it’s  because  of  her  '  can  do  no  wrong  ' image,  maybe  something  silly,  but  either  way,  y/m  doesn’t  like  her  &  it’s  the  same  vice  versa.
anything  &  everything  really  !
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todaywasafairytaletv · 9 months
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blair i love you (/p), but i can't keep up on what your interests are right now bestie 😭
that makes two of us anon 😭
the tl;dr is that I'm kind of in between fandoms rn honestly
the longer answer is my six of crows and raven cycle hyperfixations have started to fade a bit, which is very weird because it leaves me without a Main Interest™ so there isn't really a coherent theme here at the moment lmfao. but this is my best summary of the other stuff I've talked about recently
Atonement - really sad period drama, loved the movie and currently reading the book. watched it for the bi crisis that is Kiera Knightley and James McAvoy tbh
Villains duology - book series, two guys were friends and now they're not and they really just need to kiss I think. superheros and found family!
Some Like It Hot - musical based on a 50s comedy. I saw it on broadway and now that's my only personality trait. basic idea is two guys have to dress up as women to escape a mob boss during the jazz age and it's really sweet and gay
RENT - movie/musical about a friend group living through the aids epidemic in early 90s nyc. also pretty sad, but a banger soundtrack
The Secret History - book, guy misses one (1) orgy and now his friend group is trying to kill him smh (honestly I can't summarize this one)
X-Men - more the movies than the comics tbh, and I'm watching them at a snail's pace. two guys were friends and now they're not and they really just need to kiss I think. superheros and found family!
hope that helps a little bestie! if it doesn't, no worries, I'm confused as hell too 😭
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top five book recommendations 
top 10 kpop songs of 2022
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hi ray! hope you’re doing well🥰
top 5 book recommendations:
the secret history by donna tartt (this is my all time favourite book. if you’re going to read anything on this list read this one, i could talk about it for hours.)
the way of kings by brandon sanderson
six of crows duology by leigh bardugo
the raven cycle by maggie stiefvater
an ember in the ashes quartet by sabaa tahir
and OKAY. THIS QUESTION. that is a big question and honestly the only ones i’m 100% about are the top 3. the rest will probably change tomorrow LMAO.
edit: ALSO I JUST REALIZED YOU SAID 2022 BUT I ALREADY MADE THE LIST OMG SORRY.
top 10 kpop songs:
pray (i’ll be your man) by btob
shine by pentagon
crazy by 4minute
glasses by iu
wonderland by ateez
oh my god by (g)-idle
volume up by 4minute
better by twice (technically j-pop but idc it slaps)
deja vu by dreamcatcher
there’s so many i can decide between so imma just put a few: 0x1 lovesong by txt / eleven and love dive by ive / after school by weekly / la di da by everglow / haru haru by bigbang
send me a top 5 / top 10 of anything!
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Tash Hearts Tolstoy, A Marvellous Light, Transmogrify! 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic, The Secret History, Black Water Sister, Spell Bound (F T Lukens), Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots), The Foxhole Court series, Six of Crows duology, Legends and Lattes, She Drives Me Crazy, The Atlas Six, These Violent Delights (Micah Nemerever), The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, Elatsoe, The Charm Offensive, In Deeper Waters, The Girls I've Been, Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Between Perfect and Real, Kemosha of the Caribbean, Tarnished are the Stars, Iron Widow, Golden Boys (Phil Stamper), Vespertine, Malibu Rising, The Henna Wars, Annie on My Mind, I'm Afraid of Men, The Sky Blues, The Gilded Wolves trilogy, That Inevitable Victorian Thing, Girls of Paper and Fire, This is How You Lose the Time War, Daja's Book, If We Were Villains, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Ramona Blue, The Fascinators, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, On a Sunbeam, Pet (Akwaeke Emezi), Dread Nation, The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass, Finding Home series by Hari Conner, The Sea in You, Love Letters by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
sorry that is just so many and I checked your blog to see if there were any repeats but I used the search function and we all know how awful that can be so there may be some you already have.
Hey there! Just glancing through this list, there are a number that are already on the masterlist: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15zgZxkR3Uxb5qfP9o8vO2EkeyAdPTWsifYGNmMfynBA/edit?usp=sharing
I need to have both the title and author for every book. For anything more than a couple books, each title/author needs to be separated onto its own line. A block of text like this is pretty much impossible for me to keep my place in as I'm jumping around between the different tabs I need to have open to queue posts.
If you'd like to resubmit these following the guidelines laid out in the pinned post, I'd be happy to get them into the queue.
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New iHeart Series About The Conviction of Black Activist To Debut
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Like many, H. Rap Brown has a complicated legacy. He was a human rights activist, Muslim cleric, black separatist, a convicted robber, and convicted murderer who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. He served as the Black Panther Party's minister of justice during a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party.
Yet over 20 years later, questions still linger about his arrest, trial, and conviction. Perhaps the biggest piece of exculpatory evidence is the confession by Otis Jackson of the murders before Brown's trial. At the time, the court did not consider Jackson's statement as evidence.
 Premiering December 5, 2023, the podcast tells the story of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a Muslim leader who was convicted of shooting two sheriff’s deputies — one fatally —in 2000, outside a mosque in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods. Prior to converting to Islam, Al-Amin was known as the Black Power activist H. Rap Brown, and was one of the most polarizing figures of the movement, gaining a reputation as a charismatic orator and passionate revolutionary. H. Rap Brown was an honorary officer in the Black Panther Party, and like his peers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King JR., and Stokely Carmichael, was a target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO surveillance program.
The trial for the shootings took place just months after the September 11 attacks — a time of unprecedented anti-Muslim fervor in the United States — and Jamil Al-Amin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.  Al-Amin, in prison to this day, has maintained his innocence, and by 2020, a glimmer of hope emerges as a “conviction integrity unit” begins to reexamine the case.
Leading Atlanta-based independent content production company Tenderfoot TV, and award-winning podcast studio Campside Media, have announced a multi-show partnership agreement. Both of the first-announced series sit at the intersection of social justice, true crime, and journalism, focused on stories from Atlanta, Georgia, where both companies have roots.
“Radical” is hosted by Mosi Secret, a former reporter for The New York Times and ProPublica who grew up in Atlanta’s African-American Muslim community. Secret takes listeners through this odyssey that spans the Jim Crow South, the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Drugs, and post-9/11 America, unraveling a story that transcends a murder trial to explore the impact on a community of Black Muslims in the South, revealing something deeper about violence in America, and who deserves to be called radical.
“Jamil Al-Amin was a crucial figure in Black history, and a vibrant leader who played an integral role in establishing a religious community in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods, yet many people do not know his story,” said “Radical” host, Mosi Secret. “This podcast is not just a story of a brutal murder and a manhunt, but a complex historical and political story, and one that showcases the consequences of violence for a small community of African American Muslims in the South.”
On the heels of the recently announced Cop City documentary with award-winning production company Ventureland, Tenderfoot TV and Campside Media will release an investigative podcast surrounding Atlanta’s controversial proposed police training facility. The indie podcast will cover the protests, violence, arrests and accusations of domestic terrorism erupted last year in response to the proposed $90M, 85-acre ‘Cop City,’ which is set to become one of the largest militarized police training centers in the United States. Told in eight episodes, the narrative will center specifically on the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, a young activist killed by police in January 2023.
“Atlanta’s cultural and political influence is unmatched both nationwide and globally. The stories and figures that have shaped Atlanta — both historical and present-day — are as complex as the city itself,” said Donald Albright, CEO of Tenderfoot TV. “We’re proud to partner with Campside Media to take a deeper dive into the events taking place in our own backyard and told through the voices of our neighbors.”
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I posted 325 times in 2022
That's 278 more posts than 2021!
69 posts created (21%)
256 posts reblogged (79%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
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@bazberkker
@doubledavid
@rinezha
@hellspawnmotel
I tagged 161 of my posts in 2022
Only 50% of my posts had no tags
#shadow and bone - 23 posts
#six of crows - 22 posts
#the secret history - 19 posts
#donna tartt - 18 posts
#wylan van eck - 18 posts
#jesper fahey - 17 posts
#grishaverse - 15 posts
#dark academia - 14 posts
#literature - 14 posts
#nina zenik - 13 posts
Longest Tag: 111 characters
#i feel like it’s hard to connect with him on the same level as characters like kaz and inej because of this too
My Top Posts in 2022:
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My biggest flaw is that I’m unironically Kuwei Yul-Bo’s number one fan. I will 100% support every chaotic decision he has made and will continue to make. Give that child a damn medal for having more personality than the entire Shadow and Bone trilogy despite only being in, like, an eighth of Crooked Kingdom and even less in SOC. He may be a little shit, but he’s MY little shit.
795 notes - Posted January 15, 2022
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Dracula Daily has only made me realize there’s a fine line between being in Dracula and being in Beauty & the Beast, so we really can’t blame our bestie Jonathan for getting his genres mixed up
1,267 notes - Posted May 12, 2022
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Sparknotes should hire me
1,748 notes - Posted April 3, 2022
#2
Sometimes I’ll just read the most profound, heart-wrenching piece of literature, and then remember that I’m on AO3 and it’s an It fanfiction published in 2017 with an author’s note saying “wrote this last night because I was bored lol”
1,800 notes - Posted August 19, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
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My mom after I explained Live Slug Reaction to her: “You should make one about your boys from Community!”
2,038 notes - Posted March 4, 2022
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