#kristen bird

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: I Love It When You Lie by Kristen Bird

Author: Kristen BirdPublisher: MIRAReleased: March 14, 2023Received: NetGalley Goodreads | More Thriller Reviews Book Summary: Some people are born to keep a secret. Other people may end up dying for a secret. Either way, nobody wants those truths to get out. For the Williams women, they certainly know how to keep their secrets safe – it simply takes extreme measures. Pearl Williams passed…

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[whitneydaniell]

by: Kristen Bird Published: Mar 14, 2023 Genre: Thriller, Murder Mystery, Fiction 352 Pages, Paperback

★★★★

GoodReads Synopsis:

Just days before her eightieth birthday, Pearl Williams has the gall to up and die on everyone. Now her granddaughters must make plans for a proper send-off…all while their own lives unravel a little more each day.

Tara, the pastor’s wife, makes a series of decisions that could scatter his flock. Then there’s June, who would do anything to have a baby of her own, even if her husband won’t. Clementine, the youngest, is entangled in an affair with her professor, desperate to ignore who he really is. Finally, there’s Stephanie, the sister-in-law—an outsider who knows all the family dirt.

But Gran won’t be the only one they’ll put in a grave this weekend…because now someone has gone missing in the dark Appalachian woods.

My Review:

Good read! I couldn't put it down.

The Williams Sisters are all but what meets the eye. Tara, the independent second mom -- is the oldest girl, so #IYKYK. June, the unlucky (unloved) middle child -- has a lot to work on and I hope she gets the help she needs. Clementine, the baby of the sisters -- she surprised me. Walker is the oldest and the only boy -- he really gives off that, I was raised around women and have been coddled my whole life, vibe. Stephanie, Walker's wife, is a Williams sister by marriage, and boy, does she fit right in with this band of misfits. Lottie is Tara's daughter and, let's just say, the apple didn't fall very far.

When a visitor goes missing while at their Gran's cabin, it's up to the Sherriff to uncover what has happened. But don't discount the Sherriff, she has a grudge to uphold and is not buying whatever the sisters are selling.

When the sins of Gran's past float up to the surface, they all are forced to shit or get off the pot, and, one thing is for certain, a man will never stand in their way!

My Final Thoughts: I pegged the missing person by Part II because if anyway was to come up missing... it would be them. I struggled through most of June's story because she is mentally unstable and I hated how everyone placated her and went along with it. I just couldn't see that as being realistic, which annoyed me so much.

Clementine (I hate this name, BTW) also frustrated me early on. With everything she knew, how could she assume she would be any more special than the others? I hated that for her but was so glad when she bossed up.

The story jumps between a past and present timeline, with points of view from all the Williams sisters and 1 chapter from Lottie. It's a great whodunnit and an easy read. It wasn't predictable because there are some twists and turns, but it was a good story; with good writing; and a good plot.

My one gripe would be the mention of southern women and how they held up the country and households; that felt flat to me like it was just thrown in there as a sign of "strength" but I don't think it was needed. Also, what's to come with the Confederate cash?

One-Word Summary: Appalachian

#i love it when you lie #murder mystery #fiction #books to read #books i read #tbr 2023 #thriller #kristen bird #books #bookshelf #reading #to read #i read #what i read #four stars

[rrat-king]

silly little bad kids headcannons:

kristen chews on the collars of her tshirts till they are all warped and destroyed

fig is still v flexible from her cheerleader days and still does the dancer thing of popping and stretching every part of her body in ridiculous ways so there all just sitting on the couch during movie night and they hear a crunch and it’s just fig casually popping her hips

her and fabian like to see who can stretch the farthest

fabian and adaine both have just. impeccable posture from their parents drilling it into them

riz cannot keep his glasses clean to save his life and constantly uses the other bad kids shirts to try and clean them (gorgugs hoodie usually has the best material, only second to the bizarrely nice athletic tanks fabian wears, but riz has to sneak so that fabian doesn’t notice him using his shirt)

gorgug is a micronapper. if they are sitting anywhere for too long he will just cross his arms and close his eyes and be out just like that

adaine is a chocolate fiend but has to hide it so jawbone doesn’t find and eat it and make himself sick so she has a secret stash at school (aelwyn got her the fancy elven kind for her birthday and she’s been rationing it, saving it for test days when she really needs it)

i love thinking about them

#d20 #fhjy #fantasy high #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #riz gukgak #fabian seacaster #fig faeth #gorgug thistlespring #adaine abernant #the bad kids #fantasy high hc’s #fantasy high headcannons #bad kids hc’s #bird word

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Track list for Fig and the Cig Figs independently published Junior Year album (officially named “Infaethable”)

Teenage Rebellion

Night Yorb (a heavy metal banger)

Summer Scaries

Devils Nectar

Time Quangle (a love song about Ayda)

Multiclass (Gorgug sings on this!)

The Ballad Of Lucy Frostblade (Kristen was the one who convinced Fig to write this)

So Late, So Tactical

Do You Have A Fucking Warrant

Cassandra (Can You Hear Me)

Hall Of Mirrors

President Applebees (written entirely in the night after Kristen gets elected by a drunk Fig with extremely drunk notes by Kristen)

Raging For Love (inspired by Gorgug, of course)

The Elven Oracle (Has A Day Job) (So Stop Bothering Her)

Maximum Legend

Fury Of The Ball

Cursed

Infaethable

The Bad Kids

#i neeeeed fig to go indie it’s her destiny #she promises each of them that she’ll dedicate at least one song to them and then dedicates a track to each of them individually #sklondas seething a tiny bit that she called riz the ball but he won’t stop playing it so it keeps getting stuck in her head #adaine summons mephits to help with her track #you can hear her in the background near the end yelling ‘yeah!’ and ‘fuck off!’ #fabian wanted his to sound like a shanty but fig said it wouldn’t go with the vibe of the album #they eventually compromised by having the noise of waves and seagulls subtly in the background throughout #kristen actually cried the first time fig played the ballad of lucy frostblade for them #summer scaries sounds like an olivia rodrigo song #gorgug gets a sick drum solo in raging for love #time quangle opens with fire crackling and a bird cawing and a quiet clip of ayda saying ‘I love you’ before the instrumental starts #fig stuck a quiet sound clip of gilear saying ‘oh fuck’ and then a louder sound clip of her saying ‘oh fuck!’ in cursed #devils nectar is one of the slower tracks on the album #hall of mirrors is heavily inspired by the events at evil mordred and baron so you can hear a lot of influences from baronesian music in it #fig has a fucking sick as hell guitar solo and a couple of samples from just the bottomless pit in general in infaethable #Gorthalax also gets some lyrical input on it #fig manages to get a clip of riz saying ‘the ball bitch!’ to kalvaxus in freshman year to put in fury of the ball #is this too long for an album? maybe but who cares I love this #a good portion of the profits made from the album goes towards college for the party #having thoughts about fig and the cig fig’s Junior year album #autism (mads) speaks #fantasy high #fhjy #fig faeth #fantasy high junior year #dimesnion 20 #d20 fantasy high #fig and the cig figs

[alaydbug]

rip ayda you wouldve loved watching your girlfriend disguised as presidential candidate kristen applebees perform a shrimp jump into a flaming pool of tartar sauce

#shes still alive but her absence makes me feel dead #BRING HER BACK COWARDS #We've had dad cameos now give me bird cameo #her little romantic acts have been consistent all season #give me the gay fire bird brennan #dont be afraid #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #dnd #kristen applebees #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fabian aramais seacaster #figeroth faeth #ayda aguefort #fig x ayda

[quodekash]

tumblr I need y’all to know I had a dream the night before junior year premiered, and I don’t remember the plot I just know that gilear came out of an underground parking lot, and encountered the bad kids, and he was on like 1 HP and everyone asked where he was and he said he went to get a haircut, and they all looked at his head and there was one singular singed hair on top of his scarred scalp, and Kristen tried to heal him one hair at a time but it very much wasn’t working. like he regained his hit points, but not his hair, and definitely not his dignity

and honestly this feels like something that actually happened / would actually happen, so if this occurs at all during junior year, I need everyone but especially Adaine to know that I’m the oracle now bitch

#he looked like a dead baby bird in this dream #…specifically a vulture… #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #gilear faeth #the bad kids #dream #adaine abernant #kristen applebees #dimension 20

[cor-lapis]

By matching up the portraits at the end of the PV from the stream, there's one Rhine Lab Director that hasn't been shown at all

Rhine Lab Sections and Directors Component Control - Kristen Wright Ecological - Muelsyse Energy - Ferdinand Clooney Originium Arts - Dorothy Franks Scientific Investigation - Unknown (Magellan's boss) Structural - Ahrens Parvis Business - Unknown Defense - Saria Engineering Section - Unknown Human Resource Investigation - Unknown (4 unknowns)

Unassigned but known directors (3): Justin Fitzroy Jr., Jara B. Wilson, Masti Lundrey

#arknights #ngl I kind of thought the leftmost blob was saria and kristen was just spiting her lol #petty breakup moment #but nah dorothy's vision outfit saria is right there. next to kristen. oof #The Blob isn't Ho'olheyak either cause it doesn't have her bird wings #not sure why it would be since she's not actually part of rhine #if i had to guess justin = business #jara = human resources because... she's fashionable ig? #and masti = scientific investigation cause she was hanging out with mumu #and it would make sense for the artic expedition coordinator to work with the biology group #alternatively engineering maybe? #could be totally wrong though

[olympain]

"Let's the three of us leave. Maybe this is the way it's always been. Maybe families have been deciding this all through time. Let's just walk the earth, then. The three of us."

Knock at the Cabin (2023) Dir. M. Night Shyamalan

#horroredit #filmedit #knock at the cabin #m night shyamalan #jonathan groff #ben aldridge #kristen cui #dave bautista #rupert grint #nikki amuka bird #abby quinn #original #*screencaps

[marshhiestimz]

kristen applebees stimboard (fantasy high) with birds!

x x x / x x x / x x x

#stimboard #kristen applebees #fantasy high #birds #cockatiel #yellow #orange #grey #green #kristen applebees stimboard #white #brown #visual stim

[allthecastlesonclouds]

6 and 12 for fav kid bucky applebees?

yes! yes! yes!

6: What's something you have in common with this character?

sometimes you grow apart from your sibling and once you realize you have to fight so so hard to find her again. i think there's definitely a difference bc i am the older sibling but. it's there.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

ALRIGHT she is transfem to me but you know this so. if kristen is the arts+crafts Applebees then bee is the sculpture Applebees is the sculpture Applebees! kristen can make every type of gimp weave and friendship bracelet, but bee can make CERAMICS and PAPER MACHE and model magic if that's what available and it looks good :D

#bucky applebees #MY BELOVED. #not maintagging this #bird :D #questionnn! #she's! my! beloved! also: she stays paladin like kristen stayed cleric except she's got her shit together a bit more and either #becomes a paladin of cass or a paladin of some belief not god

[jellyfishinc]

The plot of Knock at the Cabin was an elaborate hate crime

Redmond was the only one of the group who wasn't doing it for someone he loved. Instead he was the one that rounded everyone up from that online server and fucked with them to convince them to do it. He was the only one that knew they were gay. He even called himself Redmond to taunt them with the name of the city he attacked them in

The news reports were doctored, well known to be something people will do to convince vulnerable people of something of this magnitude.

The first reports made a point to say everyone had already been evacuated. Since the report was on something that only happened 4 hours ago, that would mean people were given an emergency evacuation warning. Which someone could easily look up or see on the news.

The virus already existed before any of them even arrived at the cabin.

In the tsunami footage, the tide didn't pull away from the beach, and no one ran away until seconds before it allegedly hit, even as the wave was forming right in front of them.

700 plane crashes, complete with footage of them going down in ways that are not physically possible for an airplane? I don't think so. Most airplane accidents occur upon takeoff or landing. NOT mid-air. Yes, yes, I know. What about the one they saw when they went outside? You just answered yourself: they saw ONE plane crash. Not to mention, it crashed in an area with a high survival rate.

Again, literally any weather phenomena they experience can be easily tracked by weather reports. It also implies just how long Redmond had to have been stalking them, just to know when exactly they would be there and what the weather was going to be like when they got there.

And right at the end, when they're watching the news reports in the diner: all of them were coming from places where those disasters would've happened anyway.

And you know the saddest part? The guy got what he wanted and got away with it.

#knock at the cabin #knock at the cabin spoilers #movie spoilers #m night shyamalan #dave bautista #rupert grint #johnathan groff #ben aldridge #abby quinn #nikki amuka bird #kristen cui #spoiler alert #spoiler warning #spoilers #spoiler

[benjaminaldridge]

Behind The Scenes Knock At The Cabin

Ben Aldridge Jonathan Groff Abby Quinn Nikki Amun’s Bird Kristen Cui

#BenAldridge

#ben aldridge #benaldridge #benjaminaldridge #knock at the cabin #knockatthecabin #m night shyamalan #jonathan groff #abby quinn #nikki amuka bird #rupert grint #kristen cui #dave bautista

[jgroffdaily]

Behind the scenes photos from ‘Knock at the cabin’ posted by Kristen Cui.

#jonathan groff #ben aldridge #kristen cui #rupert grint #dave bautista #abby quinn #nikki amuka bird #knock at the cabin

[rrat-king]

some Bad Girls accesory headcannons:

adaine

doesn't need glasses but wears blue light ones because the light gives her migraines. the glasses are round silver wire frames that she has broken and cast mending on too many times

she loses her glasses constantly so gorgug made her a glasses chain so they can just hang when she's not wearing them. it has little star charms and blue and silver beads

it's my hc that adaine didn't actually give kristen her pinky back, keeping the philange instead so she has the bone on a little necklace she wears. its morbid but sweet.

she has a leather book holster that ayda made her after she complimented her's so that they are matching. keeps her spellbook in it

has three bracelets from kristen: a red rubber 'vote for applebees' bracelet as well as two woven friendship bracelets, a purple and blue chevron as well as a orange white and blue striped

elf ears are... so stupidly sensitive so she has a hard time wearing earings but she does steal fig's ear cuffs a lot

kristen

wears dog tags with jawbone's number as her emergency contact in case anything happens. he doesn't legally have custody but its a safe way of making sure he gets called over her parents

got her septum peirced with fig in leviathan, was originally a silver barbell but had to take it out when she realized the silver meant that tracker wouldn't kiss her, so wears a little golden hoop instead

has six trillion bracelets. most of them are friendship bracelets she's made herself, but she also has a rubber sig figs bracelet, a pony bead bracelet that says 'little shrimp' as well as a 'WWCD?' she made with her campaign rubbers

bad at wearing rings but has a number of them that she keeps on a carabiner that tracker got her (most of them found in the river while throwing rocks with riz. don't ask her why there are so many lost rings in the river she doesn't question it)

she got rid of her cross necklace after meeting helio but still has the saint necklace she got at first cornmunion. it's saint iree, patron saint of the lost harvest

fig

has one of gorthalaxes guitar picks as a necklace along with a million others

wears rings around her horns, most of which she makes herself but fabian gifted her a few of his that he doesn't wear cuz 'they interfere with my fighting, thank you' that are nice elven gold

has a matching septum with kristen as well as a million other peircings

she. loves. mixing. metals. she wears a million pieces of jewelry and they are all mishmashed but because none of it matches it works

constantly stealing her mom's earings. it drives sandra lynn crazy

hardcore believer in scrunchys over hairties. always has one either in her hair on on her wrist even they somewhat clash with her aesthetic.

wears compression gloves under her fingerless gloves to help with her joints swelling

has a million pins including: some of her mom's old band pins that she let her have, band pins of her own, kristen's campaign buttons as well as kipperlillys but she doodles over those, pins she's made herself out of bottle caps, a little tin skateboard pin gorgug made her, and a red compass pin that ayda gave her that belonged to one of the previous ayda's

(will make one for the boys eventually when i have time to come to terms with riz's new found accessory addiction this season)

#so many of these are based on my accesories/my friends accessories btw #d20 #fhjy #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fantasy high hc’s #fantasy high headcannons #the bad kids #kristen applebees #adaine abernant #fig faeth #bird word

[scenesandscreens]

Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Director - M. Night Shyamalan, Cinematography - Jarin Blaschke & Lowell A. Meyer

"And you will all live long enough to witness the horror of the end of everything. And you will be left to wander the devastated planet alone. Permanently and cosmically... alone."

#scenesandscreens #rupert grint #abby quinn #kristen cui #jonathan groff #ben aldridge #nikki amuka bird #jarin blaschke #lowell a. meyer #dave bautista #knock at the cabin #m. night shyamalan

[trendfilmsetter]

Anticipated films for Sundance Film Festival 2024:

1️⃣ Freaky Tales w/ Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis and Normani

2️⃣ Frida (documentary on Frida Kahlo)

3️⃣ Love Lies Bleeding w/ Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian

4️⃣ Love Me w/ Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun

5️⃣ Ponyboi w/ River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien

6️⃣ Sue Bird: In The Clutch (documentary)

7️⃣ I Saw the TV Glow w/ Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine

8️⃣ My Old Ass w/ Maisy Stella, Percy Hynes White, Maddie Ziegler, Kerrice Brooks, Aubrey Plaza

9️⃣ Will & Harper featuring Will Farrell

#freaky tales #pedro pascal #jay ellis #normani #frida kahlo #love lies bleeding #kristen stewart #steven yeun #ponyboi #dylan o'brien #sue bird in the clutch #sue bird #I saw the tv glow #justice smith #my old ass #aubrey plaza #will & Harper #sundance #sundance film festival #2024 movies #2024