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redhoodinternaldialectical · 4 months

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It's quite important to me that Jason and Bruce's conflict is not a misunderstanding.

I truly believe that if each of them had perfect omniscient knowledge of every detail of what happened surrounding Jason's death, not only would they still have conflict, but they would still have the SAME conflict. Neither the question nor the answer of Under the Red Hood's climax would change.

Sheila's betrayal is often known about in canon (frankly there is no way anyone but Jason should know; it is deeply unclear to me why comics allow others to be aware of this) and it does nothing to change anything.

Bruce's one off attempt to kill the Joker at most changes a few lines during Jason's plea to let him kill him ("Please! I know you wanted to, I know you tried to once, what changed? Did you forget about me? Did you stop caring? Did you fucking well forgive?! You for whom vengeance is your only life?")

Learning about the people Jason saved doesn't do much to assuage Bruce's horror at what Jason has become ("Each life is precious, unique, irreplaceable. It does not absolve him.")

Learning exactly what was done to mourn him modifies the depth and force of Jason's fury some ("You buried and destroyed all trace of me, the actual person, didn't even try to tell Dick, and then blamed my death on my own irresponsibility?!") But otherwise does very little.

Talia's involvement being revealed does nothing, because frankly she didn't do much of anything except stall this confrontation and give him a knife. It's a really cool knife, granted, but it sure as fuck didn't convince Jason this needed to happen!

The exact details of Tim's induction into the role have the largest effect - on an issue that is utterly tertiary to his main conflict with Bruce ("Oh wow, cool, great, the new kid you got to emotionally support you actually volunteered, and has parents so his entire well-being doesn't hinge on your approval. Congrats on approaching the bare fucking minimum! Now, wouldn't you agree that you have a duty to protect him by taking care of the murderer who killed me?! Instead of fucking demanding that he be good enough not to get killed?!")

I have a whole damn post on the can of worms Jason understanding the events of War Games would open! ("YOU LET ANOTHER ONE OF US DIE WHILE I WAS GONE?!?")

I am convinced that the only ways in which their conflict becomes less intense is through a misunderstanding.

And I like it that way. I'm really, really glad it's not a misunderstanding, and that it can't be resolved through better communication. Their issues are real and meaningful and cannot be swept away without one actually conceding to the other's demands.

#jason todd #got big thoughts today #damian's tomfoolery #bruce wayne

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paigemathews · 1 year

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I’m sick and it sucks, so have some headcanons about how Charmed characters react when they’re sick!

Prue Halliwell - will not quit working unless she is actively dying, and even then. She’ll take meds and soup when Piper shoves it at her, but will not actually rest. When someone else is sick though, she is hardcore bossing them to go back to bed and quit getting up. She’s an absolute hypocrite.

Piper Halliwell - initially, she’ll try to ignore it and keep going until someone tells her to rest. As soon as someone else has it under control, she will be happily retire to her bed and be a (mostly) model patient. The key is someone else actually has to have it under control because otherwise Mom Mode activates and she has to do something (as Phoebe and Paige discovered when they burnt dinner and had Piper cooking while she coughed every other breath). When anyone else is sick, however, she is The nurse. Soups, popsicles, hair pets, the whole nine yards.

Phoebe Halliwell - look, Pheebs was the youngest for a long time. She is absolutely whining the entire time and making it known that everything about being sick sucks. She is not trying to be annoying, but like. It sucks and it has to be known. When other people are sick, she like. tries? But Piper made homemade chicken noodle soup and Phoebe dumped some Campbell’s in a bowl, so. She’s great at the entertaining you while sick though, she has all of the movies to watch and gossip to catch you up on.

Paige Matthews - at first glance, you’d think she’s like Phoebe with the being terrible at being sick thing. And she is! But she tends to isolate herself more and hole up in a corner of her bed because it’s been a while since there’s been someone who could take care of her. Eventually, she starts learning how to let other people take care of her but it Is a Journey. On the flip side, she kinda just. left others alone when they were sick, but after having Piper take care of her when she was sick, she left meals on Piper’s nightstand with things like orange juice. She’s still not great at being comforting with the person though.

Leo Wyatt - in theory, a perfect patient. In practice, “I’m a doctor, I know what I’m doing.” Which? For other people? Sure, Leo’s a great caretaker. When it’s himself though? Baby, lie down please. The only one who can really wrangle him is Piper, mostly bc she doesn’t feel bad yelling at him to go back to bed. He isn’t trying to be a bad patient, but he spent like sixty years never getting sick and now he’s been brought down by the cold four-year-old Melinda’s class spread. (Piper teases him one time “Betcha regret becoming mortal now, huh?” And Leo, with a fever and has already thrown up once today, looks at her with adoring eyes and says, “To be with you? Never.”)

Andy Trudeau - a lot like Prue in that he hates resting. He’ll be working on a case while Darryl makes pointed comments about rest and sick days and not getting your partner sick. Eventually, however, he’ll actually take the sick day and rest (always in-between cases or when it’s time to go into field though). He’s a great caretaker though, not the superhuman type like Piper but just. good.

Darryl Morris - finally, someone who is a good patient! He’ll take the sick day and go home to his family. If it’s more than a few days though, he starts getting bored and will start going over case files. He always sheepishly puts them back once Sheila catches him and just gives him a deadpan look. He just hates the boredom part of being sick where you can’t really do anything. He’s a good caretaker though, but you will be getting your soup and gatorade at random times due to whenever he comes in.

Cole Turner - this man’s first cold was when he was over a century and he made it v clear that he thought he was cursed. Once they figured out that he just had a cold, Piper nearly did curse him. The mighty Belthazor brought down low by a couple of germs. It’d almost be funny if he didn’t nearly exhaust even Leo’s near limitless patience. On the flipside, he.... also has no idea how to caretake but he does try! He goes a little overboard tho and just provides unnecessarily dramatic solutions. (If things had went differently, he probably would have kidnapped a nurse to wait on Phoebe hand and foot during Queen of the Underworld arc while Phoebe went, what? no, I don’t need- COLE!)

Henry Mitchell - he denies that he’s sick and basically powers through it. Like Paige, he didn’t have anyone to care for him when he was sick but I also headcanon that he was. a bit worse off than Paige (who had Glen and his family and the mentioned exactly once Aunt Julie and Uncle Dave to turn to if she needed it, even if she wouldn’t choose to) so he didn’t really have much of a choice. He gets even grumpier when he’s sick though. Eventually, he also learns how to take it easy and let others care for him but he. struggles with it a lot. On the flipside, he’s a surprisingly good caretaker. It’s because he just does what he wishes he had someone there to do for him, which leads him pretty well. (I am also now imaging Henry with a sick teenage parolee and like. It’s cute. I can’t provide specifics but it’s really cute.)

Coop Halliwell - okay, based on how I indicated that Whitelighters and demons can’t get sick, I don’t think that I can make an argument for Cupids getting sick. So he doesn’t get sick, I guess. (Lucky him! Can’t relate.) He’s a really good caretaker though, especially with the comforting side. He’ll sing the girls to sleep and make toast and be really freaking sweet that no one can even be snarky about how he doesn’t get sick. (Piper tries once when she and the kids are sick while Leo is at some Magic School thing but then Coop and Phoebe come by and Phoebe is entertaining the kids while Coop makes lunch and cleans up the house so that Piper doesn’t have to worry about it and like. this is really good chicken noodle soup so she can’t say much.)

Chris Halliwell - literally, no one finds out that he’s sick unless he fucking passes out because he’s a dumbass who lived in a world where sickness was weakness and weakness meant dying so he just hides it until he physically can’t anymore. No one has a good time when this happens. It takes... awhile. for them to get through to him that he can tell them when he’s sick and they’ll help. He still doesn’t really like it and still struggles to share that info, but. it starts getting a little better and then he dies and it doesn’t matter anymore. Similarly, his response to others being sick is rooted in his time. He doesn’t particularly know how to handle it in the past, so he just. lets the others take over while he keeps a watch over the Manor, in case anyone tries anything while someone is down sick.

Billie Jenkins - she’s the type of person to insist that she won’t get sick and is brought down in the next chapter. She hates it and she grumbles but besides the whining, she’s actually a decent patient. She’ll take her meds and eat the soup and lie in bed, but just. lots of complaining. On the flip side, she’s. not exactly a stellar caretaker. She’s like twenty years old; they’re not exactly known for their caretaking ability and Billie is a lot of things, but a Mom Friend™ she is not.

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theremightbecupcakespodcast · 1 year

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Independent Bookstore Day with Judy Blume

Judy Blume owns a bookstore called Books & Books. I want to beef up my Judy Blume collection that has survived from childhood and adolescence. So what better way to celebrate the day, than to buy Judy Blume directly from her on Independent Bookstore Day! So I ordered the second in the Fudge series, one I loved, Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great; Freckle Juice, a book I probably haven’t read in…

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#20th century #Eric Pettigrew #Judy Blume #movies #There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast

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daniellesreadingnook · 2 years

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New podcast episode about Judy Blume and some of her novels aimed for children and young adults! Click the link to hear what books I talk about! Hope you enjoy!!

#judy blume #danielle's reading nook #podcaster #podcast #podcasting #book podcaster #book podcast #book podcasting

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tigirl-and-co · 5 months

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Judy Blume book titles often bounce around in my brain for no discernable reason. Like no I don't really want to read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing or Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, but I do just want to say the titles out loud for a while

#titi talks

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fivedollarradio · 1 year

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It’s behind a paywall, so I can’t access the entire interview, but from what I gather she doesn’t go into any great detail other about her support of JK Rowling, but it’s disappointing nonetheless. On Twitter she unsurprisingly pivoted to the “my words were taken out of context” defense:

This is no excuse but it’s quite likely she doesn’t know the whole story on how JK Rowling made those transphobic comments, then multiple times doubled down on them.

Full disclosure: I’ve never been a huge Judy Blume fan, and she’s one of those canonical female writers we’re never supposed to criticize because she’s so important to girlhood, but I never felt seen in any of her books except maybe Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great because I’ve always been a big fan of self-reinvention, even when it goes wrong. And yes, and I’m very well aware that a book can be good without being personally relatable, but her books were supposed to be that. I wanted no part of womanhood -- the boobs, the periods, etc. I didn’t see that in any books I read.

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andswarwrites · 1 year

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Day 1

So you want to know what a thousand words looks like and how long it takes to write it? Read on.

I remember hearing the groans when our English teacher in Grade 7 told us he wanted us to write a hundred words. He then wrote out a paragraph on the board and told us: that’s a hundred words. Up until that point I had counted pages, but he taught us to look at the words, because you can change the font size and make it seem like you have a lot of writing with pages, but numbers don’t lie when you’re counting words.

I've had six English teachers in my life. Four of them were awesome, and two of them were not. I have fond memories of English class. I was taught at home from grades one to six, so my first English teacher was my mom. She and my dad would bring me to a library that allowed children an unlimited pile of books, and I would take advantage of that. From the age of three I was an avid reader. I would come to the check out desk with a pile of books over my head, and the librarians would ask me if I really was going to read all of these books?!

To be honest, I would read about four or five of those books on the trip home. If I was misbehaving, my mother would threaten me that if I didn't stop, I wouldn't be allowed to read. There was a series of stories about a community of all sorts of different animals, and it was beautifully illustrated. This series inspired me to create my own books. My dad would bring home large sheets of paper from work, which I would fold in two and staple into a book, and then I would make my own illustrations and spin a tale.

When I was old enough to appreciate Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume, I got inspired to write my own chapter book. It was thirty-five pages, and I painstakingly colored the pictures. At age twelve I read my first historical romance: it was Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer. My mom had a whole shelf full, along with books by Nevil Shute and D. E. Stevenson. Around that time I fell in love with Anne of Green Gables, as well. Anne was just as talkative as me.

Of course, my love for historical fiction made me want to write a novel of my own, so that was my one hundred page summer project, which I showed to my English teacher. The computer on which I wrote that book has long since perished, and I lost my one printed copy, which is just as well, because I am sure it would make me cringe to re-read it. In my late teens I got an idea for a science fiction novel. I worked on it but never completed it. And by Grade 10 my English teacher was once again my mom, and she gave me a project.

Mom told me that I had to write a novel using the old adage to "write what you know". Up until that point, from the books about animals, to the story of a little sister I wished I'd had, to the romance and the science fiction, my projects had been heavily laced with imagination. I didn't really want to "write what I knew" at first, because I felt like what I knew was pretty boring and uneventful. I did have a friend who lived close by, and she and I would hang out a lot. We had a circle of friends. I used this as a basis to write a story about friendship.

In my early twenties I hit a rut. I wanted an original idea, and every time I sat down to write, nothing came to me. Events were unfolding, however that would lead to my first success with Nanowrimo. It took three attempts. I was at home with my six month old baby, and while she would sleep I would write. Completing that project gave me the confidence I needed to tackle a single sheet of loose leaf I had filled in pencil nearly a decade prior. It was just the intro to a story, but I couldn't think of how to continue for all that time.

Here's the thing about Nanowrimo: once you figure out how to write a 50K novel in thirty days, it's somehow easier and easier each year you attempt it. You figure out your own way of doing it. But in 2021 I decided that in 2022 I would write 365K words in a year: an average of a thousand words a day. They wouldn't have to be all fiction, but I would also try to write a novel. This year, I'm writing a thousand words a day, but I'm keeping the fiction goals down to short stories when I feel like writing them.

I do have another idea for a novel. It seems as though every time I write one, an idea for another takes its place. It's just that I'm waiting for the idea to fully form in my mind. You have to be patient with stories. Sometimes you start one and you have no idea where you are going with it, and you're just along for the ride. Other times, you've got a few pieces of an idea, and you have to wait to get more pieces to really get a clear picture of what the story will be.

I'm also watching my daughter become a writer in her own right. She has tons of ideas for stories, she just has to choose one to stick to and complete. I'm encouraging her to work on one this year, and write it until she reaches the end. I've also got an idea for a story that we can collaborate on. My mother is a writer, so my daughter is a third generation writer too. She's currently reading that novel I wrote in Grade 10, and she likes it. So, this was a thousand words, and it took me about two hours to write, with a lot of pauses to do other things. I can’t think of anything else to say for now, so I'll stop here.

#campnanowrimo #a thousand words a day #writerswriting

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Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume?s five Fudge books, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Fudge-a-Mania, and Double Fudge. Now all packaged together for the very first time, this collection of Fudge books will please lifelong fans and entice a whole new generation of Blume readers.

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24kmagiic · 2 years

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All of your wips sound so interesting!! But about 4 & 6!

Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it.

Kitty's Car Wash - Bonlijah

The warm Virginian sun beaming on her face felt good after being cooped up in an air-conditioned building for three hours. Her newly acquired job at Kitty’s was immoral at best, but it paid the bills. The looks she often got from locals once they found out where she worked, usually left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth. ‘No respectable woman should ever have to earn a meal working there’, she’d hear them say. But she needed to eat and couldn't be picky.

Everyone’s imagination of Kitty's far exceeded what actually took place, but you couldn’t tell her grandmother that. According to Sheila Bennett, it was a whorehouse and you couldn’t convince her otherwise. Bonnie barely escaped a public flogging from the woman by explaining that she only worked the cash register and directed cars through the line when business got going. Sheila begrudgingly accepted this and ceased her complaints once Bonnie brought home the first check. They could eat for a month with the tips alone.

Bonnie hated the idea of parading around for a ton of chauvinistic pigs, but those pigs brought in the bacon so she kept her painted mouth shut; smiling whenever they shamelessly flirted with her. The flirting usually took place while their significant others were within earshot. The gall of these bastards; and the woman that stuck around and subjected themselves to such bullshit!

Bonnie wondered on her first day if this was a job she could see herself doing for an extended period of time. It was only supposed to supplement the income of her primary job until the recession ended but low and behold, her primary employer decided to sell his business and leave his employees high and dry. Kitty's was now the sole source of income until she could find something better. It was either that or shadowing Matt Donovan down at the Mystic Grill until she caught on to bartending. The tips would have been great but seeing everyone in her graduating class get shit-faced day after day wasn’t something she was willing to sign up for.

No. She’d rather travel over to Grove Hill, a neighboring town just west of Whitmore, where no one knew her personally. Grove Hill was interesting. The town was seedy at night but picturesque during daylight hours. It was where the good people of Mystic Falls, Whitmore, and Fells Church came to do their dirt in the cloak of darkness—a red light district if you will. There were several strip malls and fun activities for families on The Hill and The Valley could be known quite literally as the shadow of death. There was a strip club, a pawn shop, a liquor store, the local ‘trap’ house, an hourly ‘hotel’, and Kitty’s Car Wash.

No one lived in Grove Hill, at least no one she knew. People came there for a good time, whatever their definition of the word may be, and left with a smile on their face. Bonnie showed up for her paycheck and always tried to leave before sundown.

The first half of her six-hour shift was spent ringing up the customers once they received their car wash. She liked to think that her charming personality was what sold the cheap air fresheners she was forced to market, but judging by the lustful gazes of the men that came through, it had more to do with the thin fabric of her bikini top, coupled with the sub-zero temperatures inside. When she was sure no one was looking, she used her hands to warm her aching nipples, convinced that the store owner did this on purpose.

“Mr. Mikaelson,” she called once she arrived outside. The owner of the black Bentley was an odd one. He always visited Kitty’s but never partook in its pleasures. Most men couldn’t wait to make their way past the black tarps but this guy preferred to sit outside on the bench until his car was ready. He always got the basic package which Bonnie thought was a waste of time.

Mr. Mikaelson lifted his head and raised his brown eyes to meet her green ones. She smiled at him as she made her way over to where he sat. He stood to meet her as he slid his phone into his suit pocket.

“Please, Elijah,” he said with a small smile. Even if she wanted to use his first name, she was bound by the company’s policy to refer to all of the men as ‘mister’ or ‘sir’. What an eye roll.

“Your car is ready, Sir.” Elijah smiles. No matter how many times he corrected her, she refused to use his name. He smiled down at her and found himself lingering a bit too long at the loosely attached name tag that hung on the corner of her bikini top. He knew her name but always made a point to ‘check’ anyway.

“Thank you, Kat?” Bonnie nods at him. The name still sounds foreign to her ears but she’s quickly adapting to the pseudonym.

“My pleasure, Sir.” She responds. Her tone to the untrained ear may have come across as suggestive, however, they all had their roles to play at Kitty’s Car Wash. Elijah regarded ‘Kat’ with a lingering look before pilfering his keys from her dainty little hand. Bonnie watched his retreating figure and took her post near the car wash’s entrance to finish out her shift.

**I cut it here but there's not much after this. My goal for this story was to have it be some sort of murder-mystery where Bonnie is a witness to a heinous crime and Elijah swoops in to help with his many resources. I ran out of inspiration but if anyone wants to take this on, by all means...**

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Of All The Gin Joints - Klonnie

Of all the Gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, he walks into hers. She can feel him, smell him, taste him, almost. Niklaus fucking Mikaelson. A ghost from her past. She doesn’t have to lift her head to know it is him. She’s grown in her power enough to remember what his oppressive nature feels like. Annoyance is the first emotion to rise to the surface. Her fear of him over the years grew from terror to hate; from hate to annoyance and eventually, apathy.

“Thought you were dead,” she mutters against the lip of her cognac glass before taking a sip. She knows he heard her. He’s standing at the entrance approximately fifty feet from where she’s seated, but she doesn’t bother to repeat herself. She counts in her head the number of seconds it takes for him to clear the room. Her finger taps the glass, in sync with her counting. She measures her breathing as she waits for him to appear. His power grows as he closes in and her counting slows to a stop once he is standing over her shoulder.

“Should we do this somewhere else?” His voice feels similar to being dipped in steaming hot grits.

“Here is fine,” she asserts, motioning for him to sit across from her. When he comes into view, Bonnie begins to assess the face that haunted her over a decade and a half ago. He was void of his usual arrogance. Whatever brought him here was serious and he obviously knew where to find her meaning he’d been stalking her. He was good; made sure to stay hidden and off her radar, almost. The dreams that plagued her at night weren’t just dreams. They were premonitions.

Premonitions of his return and whatever b.s. he brought with him. His face had hardened but remained unchanged, aside from the shorter haircut he sport now. His style of dress was a bit more thoughtful now, as if he actually considered what came out of his closet and didn’t just roll out of bed like in the past. His white skin had a rosy tint to it as if he’d been in the sun a bit too long, however, considering that it was cooling down this time of year, Bonnie surmised that he must have fed recently.

“Did you kill them?”

“Bloodbag, no time to hunt.” There was no delay in response as he corrected her assumption.

“Caroline isn’t with me so why are you here?” Her jab earned no reaction from him. Caroline Forbes was the furthest thing from his mind and had been for years.

“My daughter is dying from a curse placed on her by an ancient evil entity that is haunting her and you are the only person on earth I believe can stop it.” His was concise; something she appreciated.

“So you’re here to threaten me into saving her life?” Bonnie knew how this game went. She has danced this tango with him several times and was not interested. Klaus considered her for a moment.

"I'm here as a father, not an enemy." The exasperated tone made Bonnie reassess the man before him. He looked beaten. Like life had served him one hell of a dish and he was too tired to fight back.

The thought unnerved Bonnie.

She took another sip of her drink before squaring her shoulders. A child was in need; no matter who the child's father was, she could never turn her back on one. So, without hesitation, the words she never thought to utter to Klaus fucking Mikaelson left her lips.

"How can I help?" He released a breath he wasn't aware he'd been holding but didn't hesitate to get to the meat and potatoes of the situation.

Klaus gave a wry smile and stared at nothing in particular, just beyond her shoulder. When his eyes settled on her, they were icy and filled with resignation.

"I need you to kill me."

Fuck.

This called for another glass of Gin.

**I truly wish I could finish this, maybe one day. I have no clue what inspired me to even start this lol.**

@cancerian-woman

#klonnie #bonlijah #bonnie bennett #elijah mikaelson #klaus mikaelson #wips #fanfics #writing #I didn't edit this shit at all so please... forgive me #@cancerian-woman

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marithlizard · 3 years

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Well, the classic novel The Great Gatsby has just entered the public domain, and some of us were prepared. Rewrite suggestions I have seen today include:

Pride & Prejudice & Gatsby (Gatsby as Wickham) Gatsby vs. Jason Gatsby and Furious Gone With the Gatsby Gatsby Conquers the Martians The Great Gatsby Meets Ms. Dalloway (also newly in public domain) The Great Gatsby and the Search for the Holy Grail The Grrrrrrrreat Gatsby, presented by Kellogg’s Frankengatsby Nick the Obscure Far from the Gadding Crowd Green Lights and Ham Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Gatsby Gatsbyton (musical)

#more suggestions accepted #I bet we do see at least one published rewrite this year

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pynchfic · 4 years

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Hiya! Thanks so much for the breaking up-then-makingup recs. they were great! I have another request - do you know any fics where adam is a lawyer/in law school? Also any fics where there is a focus on gansey’s friendship with ronan and/or adam? Thank you so much for your help!

Hello! Here are some Lawyer!Adam fics. (Below the break are some fics with Gansey being a bro).

Five Things by EmmaLThornwood (M | 23515 | 5/?)

He dreamed of various, lovely things. A music box that played a hauntingly familiar melody, though he was sure he’d never heard it. A section of Gansey’s model Henrietta encased in glass, like an oversized shadow box. A leather bracelet, similar to the bands on his own wrists, but crafted to look like a circlet of leaves. A book with pages that changed each time he flipped it open.

A ring.

We Built This City by ungoodpirate (NR | 1685 | 1/1)

Ronan uses his dream powers to become a superhero.

Including: utility belt inventories, couch cuddling, cool dream gadgets, impossible promises, and (surprisingly) absolutely no action sequences

Tabloid Love Story by ungoodpirate (G | 1474 | 1/1)

Ronan Lynch is a washed up rock star ready to make a comeback; Adam Parrish is a notable human rights lawyer whom he may or may not be dating. As told my clickbait news articles and internet comment sections.

Day 1 for Pynch Week 2018 - Famous AU

Below are some fics with strong friendship elements between Gansey and Pynch:

let’s get together before we get much older by raewrites (M | 16674 | 1/1)

Adam doesn’t know what compels him to make an attempt at finally finding out.Does Ronan Lynch have a crush on me?

(Do I have a crush on Ronan Lynch?)

Otherwise known at the one where Ronan, Blue, and Noah visit Adam and Gansey at their university for the weekend.

Five dumb peas in a dumb pod by lazarusthefirst (7 works)

Update 11/5/2019: @currentfrequency sent us a rec!

what useless tools ourselves byshinealightonme (9 works)

It's kind of about fake dating and it's kind of about friendship and it's mostly about casual revelations that I spent time in Los Angeles, because that's my wheelhouse. Some day there will be a Sarchengsey installment, probably.

-Sheila

#answered #anonymous #gansey #author: emmalthornwood #author: ungoodpirate #author: raewrites #author: lazarusthefirst #fic rec list #long post #au #author: shinealightonme

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fairyfolkreviews · 4 years

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“The Mermaid Bride and Other Orkney Folktales” Review

Disclaimer: In accordance with FTC Guidelines for blogging and endorsements: The book reviewed has been purchased by me and the opinions I have expressed are my own. All quotes from “The Mermaid Bride” are the property of © Tom Muir, and illustrations are all by artist © Bryce Wilson. Images used with permission of © Tom Muir from Orkneyology.

“The Mermaid Bride” is a varied collection of folk tales retold by the author and is as entertaining as it is informative. It’s a hidden gem among the many Scottish folklore books that line the mythology and local interest section of bookstore shelves. I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about Orkney's traditional tales and customs. It is also a great choice for children who love fairy tales. The pages are filled with fantastic creatures, lesser known creatures of folklore: selkies, giants, ghosts, fin folk, mermaids, and trows, to name a few. If you are familiar with Norse mythology, you will notice its influence on some of the legends. Vikings had invaded the Orkney Isles and lived there for a time among the natives long ago. Bryce Wilson’s illustrations adorn the book and add even more charm to the stories. They are incredibly detailed and are done in black ink with a stippling effect, creating texture as well as a three-dimensional impression to his pictures.

The book begins with the “Acknowledgements” page, followed by an introduction by the author, Tom Muir. He explains that his purpose for writing this book was to preserve Orkney's heritage and compile as many folk stories as he could find into one place for fear that all the ancient tales would be lost in time. I believe that he has achieved this goal. He may have even composed a classic that will lay on the bedside tables of many Orkney children for their mothers to read to them for years to come. Following the introduction is “The Creatures of Orkney Folklore” section which provides short descriptions of the mythical characters featured in the tales. I recommend you read this section if you are not familiar with Orkney folklore. Otherwise, it will be difficult to understand who or what the supernatural characters are in the tales. After the collection of folk tales, there is a small segment titled “Short Stories from Old Lore Miscellaneous.” and one labelled “Ernest Marwick Papers, Orkney Archives of the Orkney Library, D31.” Ernest Marwick was a folklorist who wrote one of the first books of folklore of the Orkney and Shetland Isles. The last two sections are “BBC Radio Orkney Archives” and the bibliography, which is designated “Notes and Sources.”

The language of the tales is simple to adhere to traditional story-telling. This combined with the author’s unique voice which captures the essence of the settings in which the stories take place and the dialogues between the characters. They preserve the authenticity to these tales as faithful as the ambiance of the originals. They invoke emotions of love, loss, wonder, caution and even some humor. Some tales are short, less than a page long, while others exceed three pages. I found that the narration is similar to that of many fairy tales. Most folk tales have an underlying purpose, theme, or lesson.. My favorite sayings from the book are: "A close tongue keeps a safe head" and "She shaped her own cloth, now let her wear her ill-fitting dress!" The stories are more plot-driven and the protagonists generally do not play a large part and are not particularly well-rounded. Therefore, the choices these characters make and external supernatural forces/entities are what move the narrative forward. Supporting characters are not mentioned much and rarely influence the events which occur. If you keep in mind that you are reading a book of folktales, not a collection of short fiction, you will enjoy the book regardless.There is plenty of adventure to be found: discoveries of hidden islands and an underwater kingdom, the exploration of the wild, rich and untamed Orkney landscape, which is depicted in Mr. Muir's brilliantly.

As much as I adored the book, I’m giving it ★ ★ ★ ★ instead of five because of some minor vexing details:

Toward the end of the book, there is an increase in common grammatical errors (misuse of punctuation, not capitalizing the first words of sentences, etc.). Also, the language in the tales do not seem to flow as smoothly as they did earlier in the book. Everything feels somewhat rushed. Furthermore, some factors in the tales are difficult to comprehend. I understand and appreciate that these folk tales were told this way years ago, but one wonders if the original storytellers at the time had not been improvising or adding elements spontaniously. A good example to support my opinion is the story "Good Neighbours of Greenie Hill," when a stampede of pigs suddenly appears out of nowhere in the house and starts squealing next to a character’s feet, then one of them carries him or her off to see fairies.

Overall, I enjoyed every moment I spent reading this book. I learned a lot about the folklore of Orkney and a little about the customs of the people who lived there in the past. I loved the stories toward the beginning of the book most of all, which are creation myths that portray how Orkney came to be, as well as stories of Mermaids, Selkies, and Fin Folk. But my absolute favorite tale was by far "Lady Odivre;" it was one of the most epic folk tales I had ever read: an oath made by Odin, a heartbroken lady, a brave knight in a faraway land, a Selkie King, and even a scandal!

I recommend this book to anyone interested in folklore, particularly Scottish folklore. I also recommend it to anyone who loved mermaids, selkies, and stories of the sea. The tales of the Orkney Isles are not as well-known as those from the rest of the UK, but they should be. If not for the sake of scholarly research, then for the pure joy that they will no doubt bring you. If you are interested in this book, you can find used copies online, but most are overpriced overpriced. Luckily, you can still purchase a new copy directly from the bookshop linked to the publisher, Orcadian Limited (Kirkwall Press), here.

Resources for research and further reading:

1. Orkneyjar: http://www.orkneyjar.com/

2. Orkneyology: https://www.orkneyology.com/

3. Orkney Library: http://www.orkneylibrary.org.uk/

4. Marwick, Ernest W. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland. B.T. Batsford, 1986.

5. Muir, Tom, and Sheila Faichney. Orkney Folk Tales. The History Press, 2014

6. Black, George F. County Folklore. Facsimile ed., III, Folklore Society, 1994.

7. Dennison, Walter Traill, and Tom Muir. Orkney Folklore & Sea Legends. Orkney Press, 1995.

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rickmoya · 4 years

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the books I read in 2019

Thirst No. 3, Christopher Pike

My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian, Elizabeth Levy

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch, Donald J. Sobol

Thirst No. 4, Pike

Cardboard, Doug TenNapel

The Pinballs, Betsy Byars

Witch World, Pike

Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

Five Were Missing, Lois Duncan

Thirst No. 5, Pike

Bad Habits, Dave Barry

Red Queen, Pike

Ball Don't Lie, Matt de la Peña The Food Lab, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Lapsing Into a Comma, Bill Walsh

Black Knight, Pike

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsberg

A Word to the Wise, Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali

Strange Girl, Pike

So B. It, Sarah Weeks

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

No Place Like Here, Christina June

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, Stacy McAnulty

Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

The Smartest Book in the World, Greg Proops Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami

People I Want To Punch in the Throat, Jen Mann

Attucks!, Phillip Hoose

Beastie Boys Book, Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz

Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams

The Odd 1s Out, James Rallison

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams

Soof, Sarah Weeks

Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams Do I Make Myself Clear?, Harold Evans

Superfudge, Judy Blume

Accidence Will Happen, Oliver Kamm

Writing Your Rhythm, Diane Thiel

Everything is Flammable, Gabrielle Bell

Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great, Judy Blume

Suck It, Wonder Woman!, Olivia Munn

Learning to Bow, Bruce Feiler

Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Wish You Were Here, Nick Webb

Check, Please! 1-3, Ngozi Ukazu

Holes, Louis Sachar

Dave Barry Turns 40 The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman

Five-Carat Soul, James McBride

italics: read it before bold: read it to my kids in bed struck: unfinished

Far lower number than usual. Couple possible reasons:

I was still (and increasingly, as I closed out the project) burnt from attempting to read nearly 100 books by the same author and summarize/react to all of them in one year.

In the fall, I taught two classes instead of just one, which meant double the researching, writing, reading, responding, and grading.

Maybe as a reaction to these two things, I developed some pretty nasty zoning-out-on-digital-devices habits that ate up possible reading time (which I am actively working to curtail).

That former rationalization may also be why I didn’t read more new things. Re-reading stuff I enjoyed (and exposing my kids to it) is sort of a comfort food for me, which I needed in the gaps between research and creating prompts and wondering why these technically-adults didn’t understand their responsibility in actually turning shit in.

I don’t necessarily expect to read more this year. I have a couple other projects I want to work on, including at least drafting the novel I’ve been kicking around since before A Year of Pike. One of the books I didn’t read, which I’ve had from the library since goddamn August, is Walter Mosely’s This Year You Write Your Novel. Well, guess what — I’m actually gonna read it this year. Writing not guaranteed.

#books i read

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petals42 · 5 years

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desolatebeauty15 replied to your post: help me find this book my roommate has been...

Has she looked through Judy Blume books? Sounds like something she would have written

lendmyboyfriendahand replied to your post:

help me find this book my roommate has been...

This feels like “otherwise known as Sheila the great” by Judy Blume, but it’s been long enough since I read it that I don’t know if it has the specific scene.

she is insistent it is not judy blume; she has done a lot of searches for this book and I know she has gone through all the judy blume ones. (she may well be like misremembering her own memory at this point though)

thank you both so much for your help!

#desolatebeauty15 #lendmyboyfriendahand #book hunt

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allisonswrittenwords · 4 years

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Fearless Insecurity: The Story of Sheila "The Great" Tubman

Fearer of dogs, spiders, the dark, thunder, unable to swim, no yo-yo skills... but yet, in her own mind, she's Sheila "The Great" Tubman!

“Sometimes I think I am really two people. I am the only one who knows sheila tubman—afraid of dogs, spiders, the dark, thunder…can’t swim, work a yo-yo, never heard of Washington Irving. Everyone else knows only SHEILA THE GREAT—knowledgeable, witty, afraid of nothing.”

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how do you think the batfam mightve progressed if jason never died?

Whaa, 4 asks at once? I’m sorry I still haven’t gotten back on the last one, I thought I was unstuck but guess what, I wrote myself into a pretty little corner by being all ‘I don’t care about what’s canon! i’m just gonna have fun!’ which is the correct approach except then you find out the thing you made up is incorrect and idk how to deal with that. being wrong. it’s a life skill i’m still working on.

So like, if the vote had gone the other way...it depends so much on the writing and editing teams, and so little on real causality, it’s hard to frame a picture?

Jason was created as an alternative to aging Dick down and taking him out of the Titans; his new character origin after the Crisis on Infinite Earths barely got out of its shakedown tour before they killed him off. We know who he was enough to spot the major character derailments, but who he might have been? It’s hard to say.

If he’d made it through the vote, the noisy fans would still have hated him, and so would the man writing his comics. I doubt Starlin would ever have convinced DC to do the HIV plotline with Robin like he reportedly tried, but I feel like Something Bad remained likely.

The 90s are known for their grimdarkness for a reason, and Jason just missed living through them. I feel like his odds of going villain were pretty high anyway, not because of him but because of the constant need for drama fuel. I mean, Alfred had a villain phase, in the 60s.

Babs became Oracle almost simultaneous with the Robin trade-off, debuted the same month Jason died (January ‘89), so that still would have happened. Tim’s influence on her was very slight.

Without Tim, there would have been no need for Steph, since she was created partly as a love interest but more importantly as a foil, and a way of getting more of that high-energy feeling traditionally associated with Robin back into the story even though so many of the fans loathed it and refused to have it in their lead.

(Not that Tim didn’t have a lot of it anyway, but it wasn’t his core feel the way it had been for Dick and Jason. Possibly of note, the ‘87 Killing Joke and ‘89 Batman movie also marked a rise in the use of Joker as Batman’s main dramatic foil rather than Robin, which coupled with the Bronze Age in general really shaped Tim’s character direction. It’s hard to say what caused what, with these trends.)

They might have introduced a girl anyway, to replace Babs. Maybe even a version of Cass. Shiva stated under interrogation during ADitF that she had no child, but in comics terms that half-guaranteed she’d get one eventually, because the concept was now out there.

I doubt Jason would have gotten his own series in the 90s, considering his screaming hatedom and the fact that it took three extremely successful mini-series to get Tim a regular title, but if DC had managed to repackage his character into something that the 90s liked and he had made a go of it, he’d probably have acquired a completely different supporting cast. He might well have continued his pattern of acquiring moms. Maybe even Talia. The whole Sheila thing would have been a half-forgotten backstory subplot by like ‘94 probably.

It occurs to me after typing all of this that you might want to hear my ideas about what in-universe causality might logically have led to, lmao. Let’s see.

Jason’s adolescence was hitting a rocky stage that I doubt this betrayal and near-death experience and technical bereavement would have ended, though it would probably have hit harder than his last few near-death experiences even assuming another improbable complete recovery.

If we up the realism dial a little, he might be forced into retirement by the severity of his wounds. He’d still have to hash out his trust issues with Bruce, probably more than ever. Being a shit communicator was not yet a key part of Bruce’s personality; they might have sorted things out.

Jason would not have dropped out of college. If he’s retired, he goes into a prestigious but helping-centered field with an understanding that he is now the son Bruce trusts to step up to keep WE on the straight and narrow after he dies; inheritance of voting shares may be structured around this expectation.

(Dick experiences that really complicated hypocritical jealousy where you specifically rejected a thing, but it spent so long being marked yours that you feel robbed anyway when someone else gets it. Not a lot of it in the disability scenario, because there’s a distinct vibe of consolation prize there, but otherwise.)

Babs would still have been Oracle. It would have been a less fraught launch, though.

Dick might not have heard about the Ethiopia thing at all, if Jason made a full recovery, considering how little communication was passing between him and Bruce at that point. Dick’s level of Batcomputer access only stated Jason as ‘location unknown’ when he was dead, so.

He and Jason got along fine, regardless of retcons since then, but he was under a lot of stress from a lot of sources, and the feeling that he couldn’t go home even when he really needed to, because he’d been replaced, was very present. That might well have blown up at some point.

I tend to think of Bruce as having changed pretty dramatically as a result of Jason’s death, disregarding a lot of retcons, but I mean, 1987 Bruce already failed to notice Dick having a mental breakdown right in front of him and put him off in favor of hero work with Jason on Dick’s birthday, he just did it cheerfully and with fairly courteous wording. There was a trend in the faildad direction starting already.

There was a lot of relationship stuff in need of fixing and in some ways Jason’s presence made that as hard for Dick with Bruce as Damian’s later did for Tim, even though there was a lot less drama and intentional emotional violence and attempted murder involved. So. That could have gone a lot of ways. Realistically, even without Tim trying to play peacemaker, Dick always gets dragged back into Bruce’s orbit, though. That’s narrative causality at work, but also psychology.

In-universe, Tim can be assumed to have already existed before Wolfman invented him. He’s mostly away at boarding school, but he’s nosy and well-intentioned and he Knows. If Jason ran away more comprehensively than the Great Mom Tour, he might approach him with an argument for why Batman needed Robin and he should go home. Or there would eventually have been a case where he knew something they didn’t and attempted to subtly pass information and got noticed.

Or Oracle’s expanding field of awareness would have eventually noticed him and his zoom-lens one summer evening while his parents were in Haiti getting dead. Idk.

He’d probably have gotten mixed up in Bat-things eventually, and if it wasn’t before the Haiti thing there’s no way Batman would have been invested enough in this random disappearance to be there in time to help, so he’d have been completely orphaned at 13. Bruce taking him in is reasonably likely, since he wasn’t exactly in a position to create himself a fake uncle at the time. On the other hand, he might have gone into foster care. His parent’s company still would have crashed without them, so he wouldn’t have inherited much, but he’d have been better off than most kids in the system because he’d have some assets.

Steph is even more guaranteed to hit the vigilante scene. Bruce would be a lot friendlier to her without Jason death issues for her to trigger, though that doesn’t mean he’d actually be friendly, and Jason would like her, and possibly communicate more effectively than Tim did about how she could not die, or possibly they’d have egged each other on into steadily more unwise behavior.

On the other hand, depending on where Jason’s character development went after surviving Ethiopia, he might at 17 find 15-year-old Steph indescribably annoying precisely because they have so much in common, and lash out at her as a proxy for his younger self, and be kind of awful.

Cataclysm breaks causality to even acknowledge anymore because they rushed on from it like massive chumps, but Jason would have been a good Robin to have for it. He’d have been pretty tall by then, and he’s got the mental tools for surviving in an unfriendly urban environment where money is useless. I think he and Cass would have gotten on well, they have compatible personalities. The only major issue I can see is if Bruce or Babs got really positive about her and triggered some kind of jealousy or possessiveness issue.

We don’t really have any specific data at all from before Jason died about how he would cope with a rival for something he felt entitled to but insecure about--he deferred very nicely to Dick as his elder, but Dick wasn’t actually a threat to anything Jason valued. Assuming later canon is applicable, jealousy would be a definite issue with any additional family members, though I assume without the risk of homicide.

Okay here is an after-midnight hour of my half-baked opinions. You asked for it! ;DDD

#ask #answer #jason todd #batfam #dc comics #superheroes #hoc est meum #my dumb opinions #kuppatan

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