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theaawalker · 5 months

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Fandoms I'll Write For

Marvel (not Iron Man, Starlord, Loki, Thor, Doctor Strange, or Hawkeye, Drax, Victor Creed, Antman, Adam Warlocke, AG's Spiderman, or Cyclops)

DCEU (not Peacemaker, Killer Croc, JL's Joker, RP's Batman, or anyone from Gotham except Jerome/Jeremiah Valeska)

Scream Queens (not Chad Radwell or Pete Martinez)

American Horror Story (only Murder House, 1984, Freakshow, and Cult)

Hunger Games (not Gale, Maymitch, President Snow, or Cato)

The Maze Runner (not Ava Paige, Jorge, or Janson)

My Little Pony

Once Upon A Time (not Hook, David, Rumple, Neal, Peter Pan, or Zelena)

Pacific Rim (not the sequel)

Twilight (not Seth, Edward, Carlyle, or Jasper)

Stranger Things (not Will Byers, Billy Hargrove, or Jim Hopper)

IT (2017, 2019, and tv series) (not Henry Bowers or Pennywise)

Jurassic Park/World (not Owen Grady or Ian Malcolm)

Jumanji (1997 & 2017)

Zathura (not the dad or robot)

Stand By Me (not Ace Merrill)

Girl, Interrupted (not Jared Leto's character)

The Black Phone (not the Grabber or Mr. Blake)

Teen Wolf (the film & series)

Equestria Girls

Teen Wolf (not Peter, Jackson, Theo, or Derek)

The Office (not Jim, Ryan, or Dwight)

Now You See Me (not Dylan Rhodes or Merritt McKinney)

Descendants (not Chad, Harry, Ben, Jay, or Carlos)

Sky High (not Zach or Speed)

Percy Jackson films (not Luke Castellan)

The Umbrella Academy (not Five)

TMNT (live action ver. only)

Dance Moms (not the final season)

Ender's Game

Wednesday (not Xavier, Tyler, or the Dean)

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (not Mentor Peter Parker)

Unbreakable (not Hedwig or Dennis)

Big Hero 6

The Black Mirror

Dynasty (not Culhane, Adam, or Blake)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Spy Kids

Sharkboy & Lavagirl

Clue, Knives Out, & Glass Onion

Back to the Future (not Biff), Breakfast Club (not Bender), Sandlot, Stand By Me (not Ace Merrill), Mighty Ducks, The Outsiders (not Dally, Two-Bit, Randy, Bob, Steve, or Darry)

I’m willing to write imagines for underage characters so long as there's no romance (examples: hang out with the Losers Club at the barrens; go shopping with Eleven and Max; play baseball with Finney and Bruce). I’m allowed to deny any request and the longest I should take ever to write one is about 2 weeks. I’ll write smut, fluff, angst, poly relationships, LGBTQ+, etc. Generally most of my x readers are female unless stated otherwise.

What I won’t write-

I won’t write anything to do with rape, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, romance with anyone younger than 18, gun play, anything about poo(sexually), anything about urine(squirting is fine considering it’s not technically urine), age gaps. See guidelines for more details.

Thanks for reading❤️

A.A. Walker

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magicaltear · 1 year

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the titles you’ve read.

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

As found in the original post I saw by @macrolit

My total: 43/100

#tear-chan talks #reading and stuff #damn this is both more and less than I expected haha #this tells me I should probably read more Dickens #also some of these I read in Spanish so...

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jtownraindancer · 7 months

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top 5 burn characters go

Good gods Anon this is evil. Only five!??? 😭💕

I spent like three days trying to make up my mind on this, and I'm still not satisfied, but as of the moment, in no particular order:

The Best Boys

Mr. William Guppy of Kenge & Carboy, Bleak House

He's awkward, he's manipulative, he has no real social skills to speak of, and he's in love. I actually really disliked this character when I first read the book circa 2011, but as Burn seems wont to do, I ended up being completely won over in the end. ^_^; His Guppy is expressive, less a comic relief and almost sympathetic. I mentioned in a conversation with @synthapostate about how Guppy is technically an antagonist, but he's played in such a way that you really can't see it (unlike the book). Also the camera is half in love with Burn this entire series, and it makes it very, very easy to fall in love with this dorky, curly-haired puppy of a man.

Dr. Hermann Gottlieb, Pacific Rim & Pacific Rim: Uprising

I could write sonnets about Hermann for how much I've come to love him. 😅 He's one of the Characters of All Time for me. From his passion, his stubborn resilience, and his sharp humor, to his unwavering loyalty for those he cares for and his ability to care so deeply, how could I not irrevocably fall for him? (Also singlehandedly the cause of the 2023 Burn Binge.) Hermann found his way into my heart from the very beginning, but I never realized how at home he had made himself until the day I turned around and he was patiently waiting for me to see him. I think I fell for him and Newt in the same fell swoop, and my love for both of them is unwavering.

Dr. Owen Harper, Torchwood

I've been in love with this bastard since 2013; I've been repressing that adoration for 10 years. I- I don't really remember the exact moment that my opinion of Owen shifted from extreme dislike to him carving a permanent place in my very being, but there it is. He's sarcastic, an incorrigible flirt, and has one of the biggest, kindest hearts I've ever come across in fiction. At the time, I was pre-Med, and I aspired to be half as compassionate a doctor as him. After Exit Wounds, I gave up Torchwood (I couldn't, not with Tosh gone too.), but I've slowly been dipping my toes back in via Burn's reading of some of the books & the Big Finish audios. It's been 10 years, yet I think I'm more in love with this bastard than I ever was before. (And okay, I admit, he might be my favorite-favorite ^_^;)

Sgt. Detective William Blore, And Then There Were None

Bill, Bill, Bill... He's a crooked cop, he's tired of everyone's nonsense, he's filled with regret, he's probably gay. Detective Blore is yet another classic lit character that I first met back in the late 20-aughts, early 2010s who I really didn't care for. Then 2023 rolls around, and not only did I come to love him in this adaptation, but I've ended up going on an Agatha Christie bender because of it. Burn made me... well love would be too strong a word, but I definitely rank Blore as "a poor little meow meow."

Major Edmund Hewlett, TURN

How could this list be at all complete without including my beloved major? (Just picking a gif for this made me realise how badly I've missed him. 🥺) Edmund is... How do I explain how much I adore this guy? How do I possibly pin down the levels of pride I have in his journey, in his growth, explain the way my heart aches at the twists and turns that will tear him apart and build him back even stronger? How do I possibly do justice in conveying how damn aspirational he is, how merciful, how delightful? I can't, really. He's a force of nature that one must experience for themselves. (And I need to resume my rewatch methinks~)

Runner-Ups

(or the characters who have been spinning in my brain nonstop like rotisserie chickens and absolutely deserve mention)

Ben Jarvis, Cheat

I... I have entire essays I want to write about this guy. I have theories I want to discuss, but as most of them are... I can't. Yet. Maybe soon? I- Anyway. Ben was a huge surprise, and definitely nowhere close to what I was expecting when I finally got around to watching this show. I would be lying to say it wasn't a pleasant surprise, and I absolutely love how Burn was able to do a lot of solo work this series, with a lot of focus on body language and his uncanny knack for killer expressions.

Jacko Argyle, Ordeal By Innocence

This... This beautiful little shit ♡ One of the first Burn movies I actively chose to seek out, my second in his Agatha Christie adaptations, and my first dive into gif making. And Jacko-! Oh, Jacko... You stole my heart then broke it in only a few, few precious moments of screentime and backstory. He haunts the entire film, he haunts me still, and I'm so glad I had the chance to meet him.

Martin, Up There

(Oh look yet another one of my gifs 😅)

Martin is absolutely one of my favourite characters, especially for his absolute growth during the film. He crawls out of his downward spiral, he finds himself again, and ultimately discovers that there can be life after death. He just- He's grumpy, he's beautifully sarcastic, he's depressed, he's loved, and he just- Seriously I love him. Martin feels like a friend who I haven't seen in an age, and it's always a good day to bump into him again.

Reverend Benedict Marley, Lark Rise to Candleford

I almost forgot my favourite clergyman??? D:

Benedict Marley came into my life just to shake my very foundations, send me on an existential journey of self discovery, and waited for me at the end of it all with a soft smile and encouraging words. He only had one episode in the show, but his story was so easily woven and understood, his humility humbled me, and in ways that make me almost afraid to admit aloud- I felt seen in a way that I ever so rarely am. I connected to him; I understand him. He has depths that I could hardly explain in a single paragraph, but I can say that- out of all these characters- my feelings are birthed more out of a very deep respect and admiration.

I can't say this list will stay the same- I'm far from through with Burn's portfolio- but for his on-screen roles, these guys firmly remain top-tier for me. :)

(If you'd like to hear about his voice work instead, please let me know; I could go on for Hours about some of those lads. ♡)

Thanks for the ask Anon, and if you haven't seen any of these yet, I definitely recommend them!

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blowflyfag · 4 months

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated: 1995 THE YEAR IN WRESTLING. March 1996

WRESTLER OF THE YEAR: DIESEL 24,209 votes

Had Diesel decided to be content with the WWF World tag team or Intercontinental titles, no one would have held it against him. After all, he already had come much further than nearly anyone had expected.

It isn’t what Diesel expected. He thirsted for more, and he got what he wanted. He also received Wrestler of the Year honors for 1995.

Three days after the 1994 Survivor Series, Diesel obliterated Bob Backlund in eight seconds to capture the WWF World title. All he’s done since then is prove his surprising victory was no accident. Simply put, he was the most dominant wrestler of 1995.

Along the way to earning the top spot in the “PWI 500”, he beat Owen Hart, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Jeff Jarrett. He has beaten Mabel, Sid Vicious, Waylon Mercy, King Kong Bundy, and Tatanka. And he has beaten Shawn Michaels.

“That did it for me,” wrote Sally Rutherford of Albany, New York. “When Diesel beat Shawn at WrestleMania, that showed he had arrived. He was a true champion.”

A champion who until late-1993 was nothing more than a bodyguard for Michaels. Diesel had done fairly well as Vinnie Vegas in WCW, but he hadn’t shown any indication that he could be a dominant titleholder.

“I would have figured a dozen guys would’ve won the World title before Diesel,” said Johnny Gunn, who wrestled him in WCW. “I always knew he was good but I didn’t think he was that good. He either made a dramatic improvement in a short time, or he held back for a long time.”

Diesel’s dominance was threatened when he hurt his elbow in his bout with Vicious at In Your House I, but successful surgery enabled him to bounce back after only a few weeks. He was determined not to let an injury spoil his amazing run.

The World champion enhanced his reputation further when he again formed a successful tag team with Michaels and nearly won the WWF tag title from Yokozuna and Davey Boy Smith and In Your House III, Had Owen Hart not got involved, Diesel and Michaels might have been tag team champions to this day.

It’s too early to consider Diesel among the all-time great WWF World champions but he’s off to a good start on his path toward greatness. It’s going to be fun watching this powerhouse try to maintain that level of excellence in 1996.

RUNNERS-UP

SHAWN MICHAELS: 16,091 votes

First runner-up: Had Michaels defeated Diesel at WrestleMania, he might have been voted Wrestler of the Year. “The Heartbreak Kid” Had an outstanding year, defending the Intercontinental title against foes like Dean Douglas, Jeff Jarrett, Davey Boy Smith, and even SMW’s Buddy Landell before injuries forced him to give it up in October. He also won the Royal Rumble.

STING: 12,801 votes

Second runner-up: The “Stinger” held the WCW U.S. heavyweight belt for most of the year, and he was a lot more active than former World champion Hulk Hogan. He continued to demonstrate that he’s more than a charismatic personality. He is a flat-out terrific all-around wrestler, and plenty of fans don’t want the rest of us to forget that. Trust us, we won't.

HULK HOGAN: 11,349 votes

Third runner-up: One would expect the man who was WCW World champion for most of the year to finish higher in the voting, but many fans apparently remembered that the “Hulkster” once went five months without defending the belt. Still, on some nights, there isn’t a greater wrestler in the world. Those nights just don't come as frequently as they once did.

VOTES FOR OTHERS (8,652)

Some of the top vote-getters who did not capture a runner-up spot include: Bret Hart, Antonio Inoki, Mitsuhara Misawa, Razor Ramon, Sabu, The Sandman, and The Undertaker.

#big daddy cool diesel #diesel #wwf #world wrestling federation #kevin nash #pwi #pro wrestling illustrated #magazine scan #magazine transcript

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fallow-foot · 2 years

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Hey would you like a fully story smp that rips your heart out every step of the way with amazing storytelling and role play? Well I have just the perfect smp for you!

Outsiders smp!

Outsiders smp is an amazing role play smp with a amazing story line and characters. The smp is inspired by maze runners and is set in a giant maze with the goal to be to escape and survive! Throughout the smp the players must work together and figure out the secrets of the maze to survive while avoiding the dangers the maze holds.

And if you look for an smp with a complete end layer out in story this is perfect for you to become Outsiders has that to! As of today (jun 12th 2022) outsiders has just finished the first part to its finale and the second part is scheduled for a release date of late July! So it’s an amazing time to come watch all the different povs and story each character has to offer!

Now you may be wondering now hey we’re could I watch this smp? And here’s a few!

Owengejuice:

(Owens pov is on the YouTube side one of the most complete will all his stream being made into YouTube videos! He’s the one I’d very much recommend starting with because he’s the most up to date and is a good jump point into other povs)

YouTube playlist (note if their are a few not in the playlist they are his most recent videos. He just didn’t put them in yet most likely) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCdB6oYO2Mw33gTlhut4zKOtqVyf4AY27

Bek:

(Like Owen bek’s stream are made into videos and are all on her YouTube channel! Though she came into play later in the series and isn’t their much after a certain point but a very good pov and very different from Owen!)

YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN_FkhBTuPmsi_H2ywM_IHVTVBXT7ZYUw

Magic

(Magic while not having any streams made into videos has all her streams on her twitch! She’s a very fun pov with a mystery still not revealed! She like Bek is a later character to apear! She also makes music and has them all on her channel!)

Twitch (find streams in her highlights!) https://twitch.tv/magicsings

YouTube (don’t lisen to a hopeful melody until you have watched the finale! It spoils something! All the other should be fine to watch because they don’t really spoil stuff!) https://youtube.com/channel/UC0mkxdp2V4QOr3lxes0cUYg

Also here’s a very helpful vod finder of other members I didn’t mention!

Theirs also a wiki!

(Do note tho that the wiki in some areas isn’t up to date completely! It also has massive spoilers for events and the deaths of characters in the card with their description! (A characters card changes when they die and gets grayed out))

It is such a good and well done series with amazing storytelling and it’s just so well made. It’s so so SO good and I literally cannot recommend it enough! PLEASE WATCH. You won’t regret it!

#outsiders smp

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saltyr3mix · 22 days

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have I ever told you that second chances had multiple test concepts?

before I decided on empires, I considered Stardew Valley because the original idea for this was an ask game where you put the last character you drew in the last game you played and I thought he would vibe :D

Then, when I decided on empires, I considered making him a ghost in a cursed pendant that llama Owen picked up! The story would have been about him trying to get brought back so he could continue his massacres but being worn down by llama Owen’s stupid antics lol

NO YOU DIDN'T

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THOSE IDEAS ARE SO SO SO FUN!!!!

I neeeeeeeeeeeed more outsiders x other servers fixing them fics. There was this one fic where they took outsiders and fused it with the maze runner and it was amazing. and like i ADORE ADORE ADORE LOVE ABSOLUTELY FAWN OVER YOUR FIC OF COURSE!!

Cause i love taking messed up characters and sending them on the most painfully complicated fix it arcs. Its literately the plot of both These walls scream your name and Played my game now you're in it. OH! and my new secret wtdw fic only Danger knows about that i wont share for a while. (im going to wait till i have a few chapters before hand ready to post so i don't get behind on it like all my other fics lol.)

ANYWAY

I've also been tossing around more combinations for this kind of au. taking outsiders and putting them in places they shouldn't be. and here are some of the ones i've nearly written but just don't have the time for.

O!Krow in Newlife. just, it's reaction to sparrow would be so funny and also the angst potential in death and hybridizing Krow even further. Also there is one opening to one of the NL episodes where Krow does a Japanese voice over intro that catches me off guard every time i hear it.

O!Bek in SOS smp. Look. Scott, Eloise, and Owen are there but my girl is missing and that makes me just a little bit sad that they can't reach their full chaos potential. its more so to fix them than her at this point. but i also think it would to see O!Bek specifically try to adjust to it all cause shes isn't a big......team player..... to say the least. Which is something that smp relay on big time.

O!Magic on Pirates. i think she deserves a gun. and to kill people. and also think she would be a great apprentice for P!Gracie and would be besties with cruppy. this is less of a lore heavy one and more i just want her safe and happy and also to kill whomever she so desires because she deserves it after everything.

On a similar note on sending people place for the sole sake of letting them kill people, i think sending O!Oeca to the traffic series would just. just think about it. they were made for each other. and you know what. Put O!Mowhee there with him. Just the two of them running around on red just. i don't know man. i think its very fun and that they would thrive.

O!Squidney and O!Spidey i firmly believe should have the pleasure of being in Rats. Just as a treat. just so they can be silly and forget the horrors.

Anyway those were plans i had for another super big grand fic where every outsider got put somewhere new and each chapter centered around them healing. but i quickly realized that's way too big of a project to take on right now and also i don't know enough about servers or enough about every outsider for that.

Hope you like the little exchange in ideas!!! I do really like yours and i have so many i couldn't help but spill some of my own!

(i also may have another little idea for a oneshot sort of inspired by your fic, if i get around to having the free time to write it and you allow inspiration)

#salt answers!#outsiders smp #fanfic

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boosmidnighthour · 5 months

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For more information about this rewrite, please look at this post.

Read more about some of my thoughts on previous finalists below.

With previous finalists, it felt like there was more of a theme. Total Drama Island had the introvert (Gwen) VS. the extrovert (Owen). Action had the book smart (Beth) VS. the street smart (Duncan). World Tour had the "lesser evil" (Heather) VS. the "greater evil" (Alejandro). Revenge of the Island had the nerd (Cameron) VS. the jock (Lightning).

All Stars kinda just went with a couple (Mike and Zoey) and called it good (I didn't personally like this season, and it kinda had no theme I think). I don't really think that Pahkitew Island had specific winners, either. They went with a nut job (Shawn) VS. some girl (Sky). (As you can see, I'm pretending to know what I'm talking about. I did not watch Pahkitew Island enough to know these characters as much as the other seasons'.)

The Reboot's original finalists didn't have the first four season's thing, and chose a character that was basically born to play this game (Priya) VS. the series' first openly gay character (Bowie). If I was to choose the finalists while keeping one of these original finalists, it would have been Priya VS. Damien (because Damien has no idea what this game is about while Priya definitely does) or maybe Bowie VS. Zee (because Bowie is supposed to be really competitive and Zee definitely is not that).

I could easily be overthinking this, of course. But I can honestly work with whatever. I love [almost] all of these characters and I'm willing to give any of them a better shot at the million.

☆ ☆ ☆

(Off Topic: The wiki has Bowie's label listed as the "Lovable Party Boy", but I don't remember him being particularly interested in partying. I believe it was to be less offensive, since being labeled the "Gay One" is kinda rude, but the label just doesn't work. Actually, a few of the new contestants' labels don't really work. Like, what is "The Gorgeous with a Side of Substance" (Nichelle) supposed to mean? "The Bad Boy" (Ripper) doesn't really work either. I'm not giving fault to the Wiki runners; I don't blame them for this, because it's not their fault. I'm just complaining.)

#total drama #total drama reboot #total drama 2023 rewrite #tdi 2023 rewrite: poll #non work #td bowie #td priya #total drama 2023

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ceph-the-ghost-writer · 7 months

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Seven Snippets, Seven People

Tagged by @calicoy

How-to: Post seven Snippets, from different stories or the same, it's up to you. Tag seven people to play next.

Tagging @likegemstone @thatndginger @tabswrites @authoralexharvey @blind-the-winds @runner-owen @duckingwriting

Writing under the cut (warnings for some blood/gore in the final snippet)

From that new Apophenia beginning:

Taking an assignment along the Broken Coast always got a reaction. Everyone from the archivist gathering relevant case materials to people not even in Isaac’s department eagerly volunteered a list of their deepest fears whenever they heard where he was going. Storms out that way were ten times as crazy—tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods that could sweep away anything or anyone in their path. Then all the earthquakes left over from the break to boot? The drive from Chicago was brutal, at least twenty-six hours, assuming the highways were in decent repair and smugglers hadn’t set up roadblocks to ambush travelers. No civic guards in the territories made it a wonderland for criminals plying their dark trades, from thieves to serial killers. Any decent people that far outside a reliable grid scratched out an existence through hunting and gathering, their tech and habits straight out of the paleolithic. The coast was as far from civilization as anybody could get without joining half of California under the ocean.

Which was why Isaac had let out a sigh of relief when Director Khang told him this job was strictly classified. Not a word breathed to archives or his colleagues. Nevermind he’d been sent on the Coven equivalent of a wild goose chase. He got paid per diem anyway.

@dysthanasia-series or AO3 for updates

From some random later scene in Fair Trade:

The temple entrance had been carved out under a set of splayed finger bones. Or Celina took the twisted spires jutting from the crater wall to be fingers anyway. She counted seven aside from a thumb. All of them tipped with scythe-shaped talons that could have cut open a train boxcar like a tin can. She caught herself reaching out as she and Vess passed under. Whatever smoky, translucent black stuff made up the skeleton of the creature entombed within the stone had a curiously glossy texture. Something along the lines of fingernails or chitin. They produced a very unbone-like tink tink tink when tapped.

“What is this thing?” she asked, not really expecting an answer.

Yet Vess paused, offering a shrug as it glanced over its shoulder. “A god. Dead one.”

Celina pulled her hand away and frowned down at her palm. No glitter or glow. Not even a residual tingle. Whatever deities were made of wasn’t all that special apparently. “What can kill a god?”

“Being a fool. The right weapon and timing. Crashing through the vaults of the heavens and landing face-first in the dirt. Same things as the rest of us. Now, are you done gawking?”

From The Primrose Path:

Despite the lack of any other living soul, the grassy area above hadn’t grown wild. A slim path of white bricks, swept clean and only slightly mossy, snaked its way further in. Belly full of dread but heart driven by determination, Ân followed it to a small, crumbling stone temple. A storm or maybe just age had sent a large tree branch crashing into the roof, caving half of it in. Vines dripping with bell-shaped white flowers were busy pulling down the walls. The anxiety that had been poisoning him for weeks drained from Ân. This? This collapsing hovel was the symbol of Shadyrus’s glory? He could demolish what remained with a few good kicks.

“Welcome, illuminator. We’ve been expecting you.”

Ân tensed at the crackling rasp in the otherwise mild voice. One that spoke Heaven’s Speech just as naturally as he did. He directed a glare at the figure in white robes he caught leaning against the wall by the arched (and doorless) entryway. This revenant had once been a man old enough to be a grandfather. Its jaw and cheeks were coated in a close-cropped gray and white beard. A crown woven from the wall’s small flowers sat atop its soft cloud of similarly pale hair. Despite the creases in its skin, the creature’s back and shoulders remained straight and strong, letting it tower over Ân.

“I take it your god is somewhere in this heap then?” he said, refusing to be intimidated.

With its lids half-closed over eyes gone the same blue as the sky, the revenant took on a dreamy look when it smiled. “Shadyrus is waiting for you below, yes.”

His heart gave a nasty lurch. “Below?”

“Take the winding stairs behind the altar. They go down into the vaults.”

@the-primrose-path-story or AO3 for updates

From a prompt that I'm turning into a possible future Dysthanasia scene:

Renato turned his head and leaned in a fraction as if straining to hear better. “I’m sorry. I thought you said you wanted me to—”

“Hypnotize me. Dorian says it’s possible to learn how to break out of bloodborn trances with practice. So…help me train.” However, Isaac kept his gaze—usually so direct, so sharp—trained on the far corner of the bedroom. One arm crossed over his middle, gripping the opposite as he shifted from foot to foot.

While his body certainly knew what it wanted, Renato’s mind (namely the conscience section) hesitated. “What prompted this?”

“Aside from the entire Unseen Hand wanting us dead now, you mean?”

“Ceph isn’t trying to kill us.” Not that they were going out of their ghostly way to help either.

It might’ve been hunger tinting Renato’s perception, but a warmer, rosy undertone crept into Isaac’s skin. “According to Kinslayer, I’ve got a bad habit of looking into vampires’ eyes."

From Whumptober 2022 Day 2:

Silver doesn’t burn. That’s the thing people always get wrong. They think it’s like sunlight is to bloodborn. It’s more complicated than that, however. Tilda might even say worse, but then she’s never been set on fire for comparison. Not yet. Her naked skin is mottled with bruises and crusted with old blood, the silver chains crisscrossing her chest and shackled to her limbs and neck heavy, cold. Her shoulder and hip ache from lying on the concrete floor of the cage. The cellar stews in the smells of spoiled meat, sour sweat, and animal piss. But her prison is also dark, quiet, cut off from the ersatz life of the Mayer household above. Tilda’s eyelids droop, her mind finally going fuzzy around the edges after hours, or maybe days—time doesn’t exist down here—without sleep.

Naturally, that’s when the lights snap on. The precise click click click of her mother’s heels on the stairs has every muscle in Tilda’s body ratcheting tighter, until she’s shaking. Inside her, the wolf raises its own hackles. Fur, wet and matted by her blood, rubs against the underside of her prickling skin, pushes against it. Phantom teeth nip at her pounding heart in frustration. Invisible claws scrabble against the bars of her ribcage before she can assert control. A growl vibrates up from her chest and rumbles out of her own throat when the wolf meets the barrier of silver, unable to tear its way out of her.

The rest of the scene is here.

From "Covenant", a short story for Halloween:

On they traveled until concrete and rows of houses gave way to grass and towering trees. A park, humans called it. The last remnant of land before it had been parceled into farm fields and tamed enough for the town to take root was what it was. Here it remained at the heart of civilization, the shadows of evening creeping across it like spilled ink as they had for millennia.

And, as they had for the past fraction of that, cats met beneath the tangled boughs for All Hallows’ Night.

White, silk-furred heirs of Persia sauntered in with sleek Siamese and temple-bred Maus. Rangy strays padded alongside fat housecats and barnyard mousers. Calicos, tabbies, maltese, pointed—all came to honor the pact they and their ancestors before them had made. They streamed in to where the ancient trees grew thickest. Where the chill had little to do with autumn and the barren branches overhead crisscrossed like a jumble of old bones. No birds flitted or called their goodnights there. The usual tiny creatures that skittered through the leaf litter hadn’t reported in for their graveyard shift. A dank, primeval smell gave the air a weight it didn’t have elsewhere.

Fur bristled along the backs of the younger cats as they passed under the cobweb-like shadows. Their elders led by example, pressing on into ever deepening gloom. Finally, they saw it. At the dark heart of the old grove the ground gradually swelled up under their paws, rising into a large mound. Shaggy tufts of gray-green grass covered it like a mangy pelt. Fissures scarred the damp earth.

Three silent figures waited for them.

The whole story is on AO3.

From Ch. 19 of Phagophobia:

Dimas had the enforcer pinned to the dirt, jaws clamped on eir shoulder. There was no romance to the scene. No seduction or grace. He snarled and shook his head like a (pale wolf on two legs) dog mauling (his tía) a shrieking rabbit. Quinn’s clawing and thrashing just tore eir wounds wider, deeper. Blood bubbled around Dimas’s lips, splattering his cheeks. Teeth still clenched, he jerked away, ripping fabric and flesh to ribbons. He darted back down to seal his mouth over the hemorrhaging fountain he’d created. Quinn’s sounds ebbed into more sob than scream.

He had Zamora’s pistol this time instead of his dad’s rifle, but Isaac figured it would do him the same amount of good. Thought faded away after that. He pounced on Dimas from behind. One arm wrapped around his waist for stability. His free hand darted to the bloodborn’s face. Fingers delved against hot gore. Wormed their way under snarling lips, aided by the life spilling out of Quinn. Sharp teeth split his skin, but Isaac tugged. Gentle but insistent.

Dimas vibrated with a warning growl.

Another tug. “Don’t,” Isaac whispered against the back of his neck. “Please. Don’t do it. You don’t have to. Please, please, please.”

Coming soon to AO3, patrons, and @dysthanasia-series

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child-of-the-danube · 1 year

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The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1. Pride and prejudice - Jane Austen

2. Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

4. Harry Potter series

5. To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering heights - Emily Brontë (TBR)

8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9. His dark material - Philip Pullman

10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott

12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (DNF)

14. Complete works of Shakespeare (TBR)

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye

19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26. Brideshead revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

34. Emma - Jane Austen

35. Persuasion - Jane Austen

36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres

39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (DNF)

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (TBR)

48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (TBR)

50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi - Yan Martel

52. Dune - Frank Herbert

53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (DNF)

58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (TBR)

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -time - Mark Haddon

60. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (TBR)

64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (DNF)

66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding

69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (DNF)

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72. Dracula - Bram Stoker

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses - James Joyce

76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78. Germinal - Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80. Possession - AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker (TBR)

84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (TBR)

85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87. Charlotte's Web - EB White

88. The Five People You meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94. Watership Down - Richard Adams

95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (DNF)

#books #tbr #dnf #bbc #read #reading #literature #classic literature #+ 6 DNFs #31/100

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coffeewritesfiction · 3 months

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For the curious, a quick and rough rundown of my Runner Owen series WIP

in a Victorian inspired world of eternal night, a transgender detective for hire resists forces both human and vampire that wish to own the city, and him

A gothic fantasy series with heavy MM sideplots, featuring not one but two hot antagonists who desire the protagonist. Set in a fantasy world based heavily on the 1890s, Owen Rosedown lives in a POC-filled, queer accepting society where trans people are common and gay marriage is accepted, but that doesn't mean it isn't prejudiced in its own ways. Owen, the youngest to become a member of the Runners' Society of detectives for hire and the first trans man, has his work cut out for him to get taken seriously by his middle and upper class clients even before the vampires get involved...

As this is a gothic, this series deals with heavy topics, so pay attention to future warnings both in and out of the books. Both villainous love interests involve age gaps - the vampire is a few hundred years old, and the human is ten years older than Owen - and while the vampire is your typical European white guy, the human is black. Smut is almost guaranteed, though probably within side stories and separate novellas instead of the books themselves.

The first book is currently titled Farewell Vesperos.

If any of this sounds like fun, leave a like/comment/reblog to be added to the tag list!

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runner-owen · 3 months

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From the first draft of my gay gothic fantasy story Farewell Vesperos, I give you the ending of Chapter 1:

No one knows the story as I do -- no one but me, and the dead.

That’s right, isn’t it? I know this story. I know it’s beginning. I know it’s ending. I know it, for I lived it. And I cannot tell a soul what I’ve seen - but does a book have a soul? Not until the words are written upon its blank pages. And I have already begun this one fresh. I have all my resources, all my papers, all the notes I took during my investigation-- And I can keep it safe. No one will ever look at this book, with the simple cover, with the simple ribbon, among all the rest on my bookshelves. What a revelation, a relief, a blessing straight from the Goddess herself!

I must gather my thoughts, and my papers, and make myself my cocoa. The moons rise high through my window over the peaks and spires of Theris. I will be writing until they rise together again. And I feel invigorated despite it. No longer do I need to hold inside what I experienced. Not the fear, not the discoveries, not even… no, not even that! Not even the challenges I endured to my body and mind at the hands of my enemies! No one will see this. No one will know.

Not until I die. Not unless, until, I inevitably disappear.

I wonder - when the vampires come, will they take this book along with me? Or will they not see it on my shelf, too consumed by my resistance?

When I think of that, I think of them. I think of you, merciless vampire, brutal god, who I know by the scars on your face and the cool of your smile. I think if you, dreadful prince, cruel tormentor, with your eyes of black fire, your clever mind, your clever touch.

Foolish of me to try and take on one of you. I knew I could not, and cannot, defeat you both. And yet, nothing pleases me so much as knowing how much you both would hate this book.

To you, my beloved adversaries - to you, Sire Commandant Prince Aurum, to you, the vampire we humans call the Scarred Man - to you, with all my love, and all my defiance, I dedicate this.

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penna-nomen · 7 months

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9 Favorite Books

Thanks for the tag @cultofsappho!

It was a pleasure to think about favorites, and it was a challenge. What can I say? English major who devours books, with 36 books marked as comfort reads in the Libby app! My favorites change at least monthly… So I went with some that are favorites because of the memories attached / impact on my life, and some that are favorite examples of a theme I enjoy.

Harold and the Purple Crayon series by Crockett Johnson - These are the first books I remember my Mom reading to me, and they're associated with my first memories of visiting a library. A couple of years ago I picked them up again to see if they were as delightful as I remembered, and they were! The themes of creativity wrapped themselves around my heart.

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - This was the book that shook my world my first year in college, when I'd decided that "literature" meant depressing. It was a shock to realize the book really was SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY. This and books inspired by it are frequent re-reads for me. Runner up is If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, which I read my senior year.

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett - My best friend in college recommended this when I mentioned that I was only reading class assignments and I'd gotten out of the habit of pleasure reading. The Discworld series pulled me back into reading for fun, and it inspired me to write again, so it will always have a place in my heart. Plus, Pratchett's style and sense of humor are truly amazing. And in case you're wondering, yes, I love Good Omens, too.

Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz - This represents my post-college romance phase. I picked this one because of the humor, the hints of sci-fi elements, and the fact that JAK's Seattle settings were one of the things that convinced me I'd like living in the Pacific Northwest. Runner up from my romance phase is Getting Rid of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie. I just this summer heard that she has new books out, and I really hope the new ones live up to my memories of snarky humor.

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li - Now we're moving on to themes and tropes I love. As a writer in the White Collar fandom, it's not a big surprise that I love a good heist story, and this one had excellent twists. Runner up is Little Thieves by Margaret Owen, which has a fantasy/fairy tale setting.

Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall - This represents my love of stories about cooking and baking. Extra ingredients include romance, humor, and a well-balanced story about mental health. I've enjoyed several books by Alexis Hall, and I'm looking forward to reading more.

The Twelve Points of Caleb Canto by copperbadge on AO3 - Music, musicians, singers -- love, love love these elements. Plus a sweet love story for a neurodiverse character. Runner up is the Tinkered Starsong series by Gail Carriger -- so far I've read the first two books in the trilogy, and it's a fun combo of pop singers and sci-fi.

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells - I adore the whole Murderbot series, but if I had to pick a favorite, this would be it. This fills my need for sci-fi and snarky narrators, and sometimes it's nice to take a break from romances with an aroace lead character. And the audiobooks narrated by Kevin R Free perfectly capture the distinctive voice of Murderbot. These books got me through the time last year when I needed to escape from a toxic job and needed an escape from the pressures of job interviews. And I keep listening to the audiobooks now that I’m in a great job, because they're such perfection.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - This fills my need for gentle stories with limited conflict, the kind of stories that teachers used to tell me weren't valid. I have so many favorites in this category! Runners up include: A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Legends & Lattes, and Sal & Gabi Break the Universe.

Such a pleasure to think about books I love!

I'll gently tag @edupunkn00b and @silbrith and @thesymphonytrue if you want to participate

#tag game #favorite books #book recommendations

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usnatarchives · 2 years

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#OTD 1936 Jesse Owens wins long jump @Berlin Olympics Black athletes shined in Berlin, were snubbed at home. By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs. Gif online

Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics, NARA ID 595375..

#OTD 1936, track star Jesse Owens, son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves, won 4 Olympic golds at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, shattering the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. Hitler was "highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens" said Nazi Minister of War Albert Speer.

Owens’s Olympic glory was celebrated around the world, but he returned home to prejudice and racism. Neither Jesse nor any of the other BIPOC medal winners were invited by FDR to the White House.

“Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me," said Owens. [He] didn’t even send a telegram.”

I came back to my native country and I couldn’t ride in the front of a bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted . . . I wasn’t invited up to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either” (from here).

NARA ID 148728022

Recognition 40 YEARS Later Owens' incredible feat was recognized at the White House in 1976, 40 years after his Olympic victory, when President Ford awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Owens' track and field record medal count held for nearly 50 years - until broken by Carl Lewis at the 1984 LA Olympics.

President Ford and Jesse Owens, Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House, 8/5/1976, NARA ID 7062576.

More online:

Jesse Owens, American Hero, Rediscovering Black History, by Netisha Currie.

Olympian Jesse Owens, DocsTeach.

How to annoy Hitler, Pieces of History.

Exchange of remarks between President Ford and Jesse Owens, 8/5/1976, NARA ID 7062576.

Records Reveal Winter Olympics History, National Archives News

Primary Sources Related to the Olympics, DocsTeach

This Week in Universal News: The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, The Unwritten Record

#fdr #track stars #jesse owens #blm #black history #african american history #olympics #sports history #civil rights

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liminalweirdo · 1 year

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

34 in completion, 47 if you count the ones I started and didn't finish

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#this kind of feels like a nyt bestseller list a little bit #A Tree Grows in Brooklyn isn't even on here #also the complete works of shakespeare is on here and then hamlet why #also the chronicles of narnia and then the lion the witch and the wardrobe #i don't understand #books #reading

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