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Actually, while we're shaming people for their 452 unread books, here's a list of unread books of mine of which I own physical copies, attached to the year I obtained them, so that you can all shame me into reading more:
2024: Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence (James Bridle; just started)
2021: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Cal Flyn)
2024: Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life (Steven Shaviro)
2021: The Unreal & The Real Vol. 1: Where on Earth (Ursula K. Le Guin)
2023: A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)
2023: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (Dmitri Xygalatas)
2023: Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things (Jane Bennett)
2023: The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Chris Gosden)
2018: Ways of Seeing (John Berger)
2022: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong)
2020: Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Jonathan C. Slaught)
2023: My Life in Sea Creatures (Sabrina Imbler)
2020: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Jennifer Ackerman)
2023: Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Tim Birkhead)
2020: Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife (Benedict Macdonald)
2022: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
2022: An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks)
2021: Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Patricia Fara)
2023: At The Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)
2019: Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino; I have been trying to finish this forever and am so, so close)
2023: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf (Sean Duffy)
2021: What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other (Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb; essay collection, half-read)
2020: Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (Thomas Penn)
2022: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici)
2020: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Touissant Louverture (Sudhir Hazareesingh; half-read)
2019: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hallie Rubenhold; 3/4 read)
2022: Lenin on the Train (Catherine Merridale)
2020: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (China Miéville)
2019: The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution (Mark Roseman)
2019: Heimat: A German Family Album (Nora Krug)
2018: Maus I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)
2020: Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje)
2022: Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys; also never technically "finished" Jane Eyre, but I did my time, damn you)
2023: Time Shelter (Georgi Gospodinov)
2019: Our Man in Havana (Graham Greene; started, left unfinished)
2019: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John le Carré)
2021: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge; half-read)
2017: Rebel Without Applause (Lemn Sissay)
2022: The Metamorphosis, and Other Stories (Franz Kafka)
2011?: The Complete Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino; vaguely remember reading these when I was maybe 7 and liking them, but I have forgotten their content)
2022: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Lea Ypi)
2021: Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (W.B. Yates)
Some of these are degree-related, some not; some harken back to bygone areas of interest and some persist yet; some were obtained willingly and some thrust upon me without fanfare. I think there are also some I've left at college, but I'm not sure I was actually intending to read any of them - I know one is an old copy of Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss that Dad picked up for me secondhand, which I...don't intend to torment myself with. Reading about Tom Huffman's cognitive-structural theory of Great Zimbabwe almost finished me off and remains to date the only overdue essay I intend to never finish, mostly because the professor let me get away with abandoning it.
There are also library books, mostly dissertation-oriented, from which you can tell that the cognitive archaeologists who live in my walls finally fucking Got me:
The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (Thomas Wynn & Fred Coolidge)
The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Karenleigh A. Overmann)
Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside-Out (Gavin Lucas)
And, finally, some I've actually finished recently ("recently" being "within the past year"):
The Body Fantastic (Frank Gonzalo-Crussi, solid 6/10 essay collection about a selection of body parts, just finished earlier)
An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (Patricia Fara, also a solid 6/10, fun read but nothing special)
Babel: An Arcane History (R.F. Kuang, 8/10, didactic (sometimes necessary) but effective; magic system was cool and a clever metaphor)
The Sign of Four (A.C. Doyle, 2/10 really racist and for what)
Dr. Space Junk vs. the Universe: Archaeology and the Future (Alice Gorman, 8/10, I love you Dr. Space Junk)
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology (Lucy Moore, 8/10, I respect some of these people slightly more now)
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin, 9/10 got my ass)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (A.C. Doyle, 7/10 themez 👍)
#if you see a book on this list that you gave me years ago. well. just know that i failed.#genuinely so much worse than i thought it was but i'm making my best effort to get through them#this is honestly just for fun because i love to list things. user professionalowl bookshelf reveal. please offer reviews if you have them#hooting
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2023 Favoritest Book Reads
Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas
Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick
Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin
Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny
The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi
Black Paradox - Ito, Junji
David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo
Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick
The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza
Smashed - Ito, Junji
Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi
Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta
Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil
The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin
Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham
DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.
My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike
Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac
Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.
Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen
Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey
La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel
Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah
The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol
The City & the City - Miéville, China
Mem - Morrow, Bethany C.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah
Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric
Gutshot - Gray, Amelia
The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan
Just Kids - Smith, Patti
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto
Flicker - Roszak, Theodore
Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew
Flashback - Simmons, Dan
Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William
Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo
Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham
The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly (33 1/3) - Maner, Sequoia
The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid
A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob
Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.
Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal
Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A.
Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint
Tracy Flick Can't Win - Perrotta, Tom
Devil House - Darnielle, John
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2) - Butler, Octavia E.
Heat 2 - Mann, Michael & Meg Gardiner
Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) - Butler, Octavia E.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal
The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) - Lynch, Scott
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) - Atwood, Margaret
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These are gonna turn out awesome and be great additions to the "SCRIBBLES by CHAOS" Collection....
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Ben Hogan and Scotland's Panmure Golf Club
Ben Hogan only played in one Open Championship, but he left an indelible mark on Scotland’s east coast because of how he won the game’s oldest major and how he prepared for it.
Hogan famously captured the 1953 Open at Carnoustie Golf Links by shooting a final-round 68 while battling the flu. Four years after an automobile accident nearly killed him, he beat four men by four shots in his lone voyage to Scotland.
That journey to the Claret Jug, however, began two weeks earlier when Hogan, accompanied only by his caddy, Cecil Timms, arrived at Panmure Golf Club to acclimatize to the terrain of links golf and to acquaint himself with the smaller 1.62-inch British ball that was used at the time.
Hogan was the only participant in the Open given the privilege of playing at Panmure Golf Club. At that time, Panmure was an extremely private club, and Hogan could practice away from the prying eyes of the public and the press.
Legend has it that Hogan intently studied Macdonald Smith’s swing to improve his own. Smith and his family started life in Barry, Carnoustie, before emigrating to America in 1908. Smith is widely regarded as one of the best players of all time who never won a major championship. When he returned to Panmure in 1931 to qualify for the first Open Championship at Carnoustie, Smith set a new course record of 70.
Panmure is a historic Scottish club, only 1.5 miles from Carnoustie Golf Links and a 45-minute drive from St. Andrews. It was founded in 1845 by a collection of 17 gentlemen, and the Club’s name and shell logo come from a close connection with the Maule Ramsay family. The Rt. Hon Earl of Dalhousie remains the Club’s honorary president, and King George VI accepted honorary membership of the Club in 1930.
Ben Hogan and the Panmure Golf Club. An unlikely pairing, yet one whose story is forever etched in the pages of golf history.
Panmure is the world’s 21st oldest golf club and moved to its current site in Barry in 1899. The original layout was designed by Old Tom Morris and constructed by R. Duff of Edinburgh, who also built the New course at St Andrews and Muirfield. Many of the original holes remain.
Five-time Open champion James Braid gave suggestions for modifications in the 1920s, and those were among the most significant changes over the past century.
Some of the charming characteristics include holes designed by these greats. Braid’s par-3, 180-yard 9thhole, with its undulating green protected by large bunkers and dunes, and Old Tom’s par-4, 396-yard 12thhole which requires an accurate approach shot to carry the Buddon Burn guarding the front of the green.
Today the course measures 6,551 yards, plays to a par 70, and combines the best elements of links and heathland with tight fairways, challenging carries, and undulating greens. True to links golf, holes mostly play firm and fast, and the rolling fairways wind through dunes and pine trees, leading to greens that are protected by proper Scottish bunkers.
Ben Hogan would never play in the Open again, but his legacy at Panmure remains. The sixth hole, a 414-yard par 4 (stroke index 1), was Hogan’s favourite and named after the legendary Texan. He suggested to the club that a strategically placed pot bunker be built to the front and right of the green. It was, and it is still known as Hogan’s bunker.
Another favorite story from Hogan’s Panmure experience came on the par-4, 401-yard 17th hole. Hogan liked the green and spent much time putting there, but he wanted it to run quicker than it did. So, he asked William Falconer, the head greenkeeper, if the mower could shave the green a tad tighter. Falconer said it was possible but pointed to the mower and mentioned that Hogan was free to do it himself. He did, and word is that he later returned the mower to Falconer in pristine condition after insisting on cleaning it first.
Panmure has hosted many prestigious championships over the years, ranging from national amateur tournaments to final qualifying for The Open Championship. Recently, the Club has hosted regional qualifying for The Open, the R&A Girls Amateur Championship, final qualifying for the AIG Women’s Open, and the stroke play qualifying for the R&A Boys Amateur Championship.
The colorfully clad Doug Sanders advanced through qualifying at Panmure in 1970 and later lost to Jack Nicklaus in an 18-hole playoff with a chance to win the Open. Nicklaus shot an even-par 72 to clip Sanders by one and earn his second of three Opens. Gary Player, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle and Padraig Harrington are a few Open champions who have played at Panmure for years.
The Club’s iconic clubhouse is one of Scotland's finest old golf buildings and was modeled – architecturally and spiritually – on Royal Calcutta Golf Club. It features three lounges, each perfect for a post-round beverage.
Ben Hogan never returned to Scotland, and the victory at Carnoustie marked the last major that he’d ever win. The Scots still refer to him as the “Wee Ice Mon” because of his steely demeanor, determination, and ability to perform best under pressure. The Open victory and his presence at Panmure in the preceding weeks were enough for Hogan to remain a legend in the area forever.
Panmure remains a private member’s club, but they are delighted to welcome visitors to experience its classic links. Are you ready to take on the Ben Hogan challenge?
panmuregolfclub.co.uk
Photos Courtesy of Panmure Golf Club
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In Memoriam: Julie Garwood (1946-2023)
For the Roses by Julie Garwood
1879. In Blue Belle, Montana, everyone knew better than to mess with the Claybornes. The brothers had once been a mismatched gang of street urchins—until they found an abandoned baby girl in a New York city alley, named her Mary Rose, and headed west to raise her to be a lady. They became a family—held together by loyalty and love if not by blood—when suddenly they faced a crisis that threatened to tear them apart....
Trouble came to town with one Lord Harrison Stanford MacDonald. Armed with a swagger and six-shooter, he cut a striking figure—but it soon became apparent to Mary Rose that he was too much of a gentleman to make it in her rough-and-tumble town. She asked her brothers to teach him the basics of frontier survival, which he acquired with ease. And soon he possessed a deep and desperate love for Mary Rose. She returned his affection wholeheartedly... until MacDonald revealed a secret that challenged everything she believed about herself, her life, and her newfound love. Now her search for identity and meaning would begin, raising questions that could only be answered if she listened to the truth within her heart....
This is the first volume in “The Clayborne Brides” series.
Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood
“Bless me father, for I will sin. . . .” In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom’s sister, Laurant. In a frantic race to protect her, Tom calls upon his best friend, elite FBI agent Nick Buchanan, to track the predator who is closing in on Laurant. Now, as an electrifying attraction grows between Laurant and Nick, so does the danger—and one false move will cost both of them everything that matters.
This is the first volume in the “Buchanan-Renard” series.
Shadow Music by Julie Garwood
For Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel, Scotland is a land of stunning vistas, wild chieftains, treacherous glens, and steep shadows--skullduggery, betrayal, and now murder. Prized for her exquisite beauty, the daughter of one of England's most influential barons, Gabrielle is also a perfect bargaining chip for a king who needs peace in the Highlands: King John has arranged Gabrielle's marriage to a good and gentle laird. But this marriage will never take place.
For Gabrielle, everything changes in one last burst of freedom--when she and her guards come upon a scene of unimaginable cruelty. With one shot from her bow and arrow, Gabrielle takes a life, saves a life, and begins a war.
Within days, the Highlands are aflame with passions as a battle royal flares between enemies old and new. Having come to Scotland to be married, Gabrielle is instead entangled in Highland intrigue. For two sadistic noblemen, underestimating Gabrielle's bravery and prowess may prove fatal. But thanks to a secret Gabrielle possesses, Colm MacHugh, the most feared man in Scotland, finds a new cause for courage. Under his penetrating gaze, neither Gabrielle's body nor heart is safe.
This is the third volume in the “Highlands’ Lairds” series.
Grace Under Fire by Julie Garwood
Grace Isabel MacKenna had a hundred things to do today. Killing someone wasn’t one of them. It was supposed to be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanan anniversary party, then on to Scotland to collect an inheritance. She checks into the hotel and then decides to go for a brisk walk. But after getting lost she ends up with a wounded man stumbling into her arms, and then his shooter coming after them both. When she fires back in self-defense, she doesn’t expect him to drop dead. Thanks to the Buchanans dispatching Navy SEAL and now a lawyer Michael Buchanan to help her deal with the police, Isabel endures hours of interrogation and is finally free to go.
Isabel knows she should be grateful for Michael’s help, but since she’s harbored an extreme dislike for him for years, gratitude is difficult to muster. Michael has appointed himself her de facto guardian, and she’s stuck with him despite their constant bickering and sizzling attraction. Even when Isabel goes to Scotland to claim her inheritance, Michael follows her, but he isn’t the only thing she can’t shake. Mysterious threats against Isabel surface, and before they can deal with their growing feelings for each other, Michael and Isabel must first survive.
This is the 14th volume in the “Buchanan-Renard” series.
#in memoriam#julie garwood#romance novels#historical romance#fiction#Romantic Suspense#Library Books#Book Recommendations#book recs#Reading Recs#reading recommendations#TBR pile#tbr#tbrpile#to read#Want To Read#Booklr#book tumblr#book blog#library blog
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Millinery for the masses at Fashion Week
Melbourne milliner Louise Macdonald believes there’s a hat to suit everyone – from a fashionable fedora to a perky beret perched at the perfect angle.
Having spent more than 30 years in the business, she would know. Ms Macdonald has made millinery for the likes of actors Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson.
She’s even made a bowler hat for Tom Cruise.
“They were all very professional people, I was a little bit in awe, it was very exciting at the start,” she told AAP.
Ms Macdonald learnt millinery living in London in the 1990s, and found work making hats for BBC and Merchant Ivory shows, including The House of Eliott, Howards End, and Pride and Prejudice.
These productions were set in times when hats were an essential accessory for leaving the house – or mansion.
But over the years people have lost their familiarity with millinery, Ms Macdonald says, apart from sunhats and baseball caps, and the occasional trip to the races.
She often hears the refrain “hats don’t suit me”, occasionally even from reluctant customers in her studio.
“They tend to be mothers of brides and grooms, who’ve been told to wear a hat to their son or daughter’s wedding and they’re feeling awkward,” she said.
So Ms Macdonald will show them how to find the perfect hat at her sold-out workshop on Thursday as part of Melbourne Fashion Week.
Height and face shape are important considerations, along with hairstyle and outfit, but in the end it comes down to professional advice and, well, just trying on a lot of hats.
Ms Macdonald is well-known to the well-hatted of Melbourne – she has made headgear to go with thousands of Spring Racing Carnival outfits since returning to Melbourne in 1995.
She works on the eighth floor of the city’s historic Nicholas Building looking out on to St Paul’s Cathedral, often accompanied by the sounds of singing classes from a nearby studio.
This season her collection features halo brims, and pillboxes that pay homage to Jackie Onassis, with simple lines at the front and a detailed trim behind.
Some of her exquisite hand-sculpted straw creations take three hours to construct, while others take as long as three days.
“When I am making, I am completely in the zone, I’m just completely absorbed and I love it,” she said.
When making a new hat Ms Macdonald delves into a supply of materials accumulated at estate and garage sales over the decades, alongside new fibres woven in the Philippines and China.
She also finds vintage hats in op shops and rescues them, re-shaping them into items for everyday wear.
“I am trying to make hats that are worn more every day, people could wear them to the races if they wanted to, but they could wear them every day as well.”
Melbourne Fashion Week runs until October 16.
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by moonysloverbitch
Modern AU where the marauders and friends are in the Mormon church on a mission trying to convert people. The gang is having a collective faith crisis and trying to not get in trouble with their leaders. the "death eaters" in this scenario are tbms(true-believing Mormons). I got the idea to do this in the middle of the night guys don't judge me.
Side Note: I know that missionaries exchange partners every few weeks, but for the sake of this fic I'm just going to have them swap exclusively with each other so the characters don't randomly disappear.
Words: 724, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Marauders - Fandom, Harry Potter - Fandom, Mormonism - Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Regulus Black, Bartemius Crouch Jr., Lily Evans, Mary Macdonald, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Amycus Carrow, Rabastan Lestrange, Pandora Lovegood, Ted Tonks, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Alice Longbottom, Frank Longbottom, Tom Riddle, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, Rodolphus Lestrange
Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Regulus Black/James Potter, Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes
Additional Tags: Marauders, wolfstar, jily, Jegulus, trust me guys, Mormonism, Missionaries, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe, Betrayal, Religion
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by moonysloverbitch
Modern AU where the marauders and friends are in the Mormon church on a mission trying to convert people. The gang is having a collective faith crisis and trying to not get in trouble with their leaders. the "death eaters" in this scenario are tbms(true-believing Mormons). I got the idea to do this in the middle of the night guys don't judge me.
Side Note: I know that missionaries exchange partners every few weeks, but for the sake of this fic I'm just going to have them swap exclusively with each other so the characters don't randomly disappear.
Words: 724, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Marauders - Fandom, Harry Potter - Fandom, Mormonism - Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Characters: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Regulus Black, Bartemius Crouch Jr., Lily Evans, Mary Macdonald, Marlene McKinnon, Dorcas Meadowes, Amycus Carrow, Rabastan Lestrange, Pandora Lovegood, Ted Tonks, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Alice Longbottom, Frank Longbottom, Tom Riddle, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, Rodolphus Lestrange
Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Regulus Black/James Potter, Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes
Additional Tags: Marauders, wolfstar, jily, Jegulus, trust me guys, Mormonism, Missionaries, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe, Betrayal, Religion
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Dryas octopetela (Mountain Avens) at Invernaver climbing sand dunes. Photo by Tom MacDonald, 2015.
#2015#botany#wild plants#nature#countryside#uplands#coastal#dryas octopetela#invernaver sssi#bettyhill#scotland#tom macdonald collection
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Gideon and Fabian Prewett headcanons
(i keep referring to them as “the twins” to try to make this less confusing, it didn’t really work lmao)
- they are twins
- Fabian has longer hair
- Gideon is queer
- quidditch (Fabian is keeper, Gideon is chaser)
- they host a party after final exams every year
- Gryffindors
- they both are around 6’0
- lowkey dresses like frat boys
- I don’t know which one but one of them dated Mary Macdonald and now they are both best friends with her
- 1-3 years older than marauders
- they are either Aries (like the Weasley twins) or Virgos
- Gideon has a funky sock collection
- “what socks are you wearing today?”
- *kicks his whole leg up on the Gryffindor table*
- the twins tried to convince a first year that they are related to Lily Evans
- she was in on it too
- Fabian enjoys arithmancy and is crazy good at math in general
- Gideon will bully him about it but Gideon is a history nerd so fabian will bully him right back
- I also think Remus Lupin is a history nerd so he and Gideon gush over history together
- one time the twins spent hours in a fragrance shop looking for a perfume to gift Mary for her birthday
- I think Bilius is a Weasley and also head boy
- so since Molly and Arthur are together the twins and Bilius are friends
- and the twins try to talk Bilius into letting them leave detention (if he’s supervising it)
- it never works
modern-day:
- Fabian will defend Olivia Rodrigo with everything in him
- vans shoes. that’s all. (this doesn’t have to be modern I just feel like it fits better here)
- they both know tom holland’s umbrella dance
#marauders#marauders headcanon#gideon prewett#fabian prewett#mary macdonald#prewett twins#lily evans#remus lupin#harry potter
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The actor/director Robert Trotter was born on March 7th 1930.
Trotter will be remembered by many for his performance as Mr Murdoch in TVs Take the High Road, but he was more than just the character actor that many loved in the Scottish soap.
His life as an actor began in the 1950s, when he was a member, in his home town, of the Dumbarton People’s Theatre, playing leads and character parts. After completing his National Service as a Naval Coder, he trained as a teacher and taught English at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow. Thereafter in 1965, he became a lecturer in drama at Glasgow University.
While doing so he found time to act in and direct productions for the prestigious Glasgow university Arts Theatre Group, of which he was a co-founder.
Moving to London, Robert continued to work for the BBC, and played at the King’s Head Theatre Club and the Royal Court, in plays by his fellow Scot, Tom Gallacher.
He was ever aware of Scottish writers, promoting, directing or playing in their works - including those of Joan Ure, Hector MacMillan, Eric MacDonald and Alasdair Gray.
He returned from London he took up the position of a directorship at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, about this time he also turned his attention to another intense interest; photography publishing Sing the City, in 2001 a collection of his own photographs, that led in turn to an exhibition three years later at the Glasgow School of Art.
Sadly, his eyesight was quickly failing him and many of the projects he hoped to carry out could not be met.
Frail at the end, yet still strong in spirit, he left much of his work to the Glasgow School of Art Archive and more is to be found within the Scottish National Photography Collection held within the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
Robert was a fiercely proud Scot and we can be proud and grateful for his legacy.
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Books, November - December 2020
The Relentless Moon - Mary Robinette Kowal [I...was not prepared for an eating disorder to drive as much of the plot as it does; maybe you should be]
How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea - Tristan Gooley
Spoiler Alert - Olivia Dade [This could have gone so wrong; honestly, I expected to ditch it in the first two chapters, because usually I HATE giddy novels about fandom...and yet! it turned out to be wish fulfillment in the best possible way, somehow despite the inclusion of multiple tropes that I also dislike (least spoilery: “I betrayed your trust by not telling you my terrible secret that involves you when I had the opportunity, and now you can never know,” when that will obviously only make the eventual inevitable reveal much worse). Anyway: if you wanted actor RPF/fandom AU for a canon that doesn’t exist, here you go.]
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait - Bathsheba Demuth
Desire and the Deep Blue Sea - Olivia Dade
The Way Past Winter - Kiran Millwood Hargrave [dnf]
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism - Seyward Darby
Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat: A Biography - Oliver Soden
Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers *
Yes, I’m Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth About Life in a Hijab - Huda Fahmy [I introduced this artist to a former boss, whose reaction was to immediately purchase and lend me every book she’s published; I’m overdue to mail this one back (and if your thought was “that book exchange sounds backwards,” well, ...yes)]
One by One - Ruth Ware [it’s fine, I didn’t have anywhere to go the next morning, I didn’t mind staying up until 2:30 to finish this, it’s fine]
A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh
The House of the Four Winds - Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People - Emily McDowell and Kelsey Crowe [self-help is not usually my genre, but given that I’ve written so many condolence cards this year that I’ve run out of condolence card-appropriate stationary - archives love using scenes from Hamlet on their exhibition giveaway cards, and they’re absolutely not okay to use for...really any occasion, but especially death - and am utterly unable to tell whether anything I’m writing is any good, and that my standard How To Be A Better Person manual is an etiquette book from the 1930s, what could it hurt?]
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Around My French Table: 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours - Dorie Greenspan
Return of the Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Spectred Isle - KJ Charles [still really fond of this one; still really want the lesbian ghost sequel]
Division Bells - Iona Datt Sharma [there’s one scene that threw me out of the world, and I’d kind of love to see whether it got editorial notes and if so, what...but on the other hand, I wasn’t expecting this to make me cry, and it did]
Serpentine - Philip Pullman, illustrated by Tom Duxbury [the story is slight; what you want to read this for are the illustrations, which are delightful]
The Rakess - Scarlet Peckham
The Midnight Bargain - C. L. Polk
The House of Green Turf - Ellis Peters
Beach Read - Emily Henry
Not the End of the World - Kate Atkinson
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments - Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Eleventh Hour - Elin Gregory
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick - Richard J. King [Let’s get this right out there: “Cetology” is my favorite chapter in the entire novel; I think it’s brilliant and fabulously funny and I loathe the lazy “everybody hates ‘Cetology’” trope that shows up everywhere - looking at you, Dave Malloy! - (although my mother tells me that her students did, indeed, universally despise it, which I find incomprehensible), so I’m always a little salty on approaching any Melville criticism: will they disrespect ‘Cetology”??? Sure enough, it’s there, but at least it’s on the way to explaining why you ought to appreciate it.]
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love - ed. Anne Fadiman [the essay to read is Diana Kappel-Smith on the Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America]
Why Birds Sing - Nina Berkhout
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country - Louise Erdrich
Barn 8 - Deb Olin Unferth
Black Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse
Where the Wild Ladies Are - Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton * [completely won over by this linked collection of present-day yōkai stories]
Ammonite - Nicola Griffith
Or What You Will - Jo Walton
Vesper Flights - Helen Macdonald
La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman [I’m fascinated to discover that the sequence I remember from reading this the first time doesn’t start until more than halfway through! He can tell a riveting story, so I wish I trusted Pullman even a tiny bit...but I don’t.]
Written in the Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears) - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling [some of this would never be funny; it’s possible I’d find parts of it funnier if libertarians didn’t make me so damn angry]
The Glass Magician - Caroline Stevermer
#books 2020#books practical and pleasurable#apparently 2020 in romance novels is the year everyone has a cathartic boundary setting conversation with their parents#the duodecimo whale
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Spoilers for comics in March 2021!
These are some of the solicitations for that month, which you can see at Newsarama.
There’s basically nothing for the Rogues that month, although Digger drinking on the Suicide Squad cover is fun. However, DC’s announced the new creative team on the Flash book, and it’ll be written by Jeremy Adams and drawn by Brandon Peterson. I don’t know anything about Adams’ work, but hopefully it’ll be good.
It seems like there may be only one Flash issue released a month now if March’s solicits are any indication, but the book’s page count is longer.
There is a relaunched Suicide Squad book that month, but thus far there’s no sign of Digger in it.
THE FLASH #768
written by JEREMY ADAMS
art and cover by BRANDON PETERSON
variant cover by IAN MacDONALD
ON SALE 3/16/21
$3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC
The retirement of Wally West begins! After the events spanning from DC Universe: Rebirth to Heroes in Crisis to Dark Nights: Death Metal, the former Kid Flash decides to call it quits. But the current Flash needs his former partner now more than ever. As fallout from Infinite Frontier hits the Flash, Barry Allen and Wally West must confront the past by way of a Justice League led by Green Arrow.
SUICIDE SQUAD: BAD BLOOD HC
written by TOM TAYLOR
art by BRUNO REDONDO, DANIEL SAMPERE, and JUAN ALBARRAN
new cover by BRUNO REDONDO
ON SALE 4/27/21
$29.99 US | $39.99 CAN | 288 PAGES | FC | DC
HARDCOVER
ISBN: 978-1-77950-395-4
In this new collection, the Suicide Squad is assigned to neutralize a group of international super-terrorists known as the Revolutionaries—and the survivors are forced into joining the Squad! Who can Harley Quinn and Deadshot trust when their new teammates are the very people their crew was assigned to kill? This Squad might survive their next mission, but they may not survive each other—and with a "team" like this, the body count starts high, and only gets higher.
Tom Taylor, the acclaimed writer of DCeased, delivers his flair for high-octane mayhem to the Suicide Squad in this new series where quite literally no one is safe. Bruno Redondo, Taylor's collaborator on Injustice, illustrates this deadly new take on DC's dysfunctional villain team. Collects Suicide Squad #1-11.
#Captain Boomerang#the Flash#Wink#the Aerie#Osita#Thylacine#Jog#Deadshot#Harley Quinn#solicits#spoilers: comics
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You reblogged the Fanfiction questions so here you go: 😉
Fandom Questions:
1, 4, 10
Ship Questions for your Current Fandom
13, 14, 20
Author Questions
27, 32, 40
Fanfiction Questions
44, 50, 51
Gee, I always try to contain myself by asking, and there you come, whacking me over the head with 12 questions 😂😂 (Not complaining though!)
Thank you for asking :D
Okay, so Fandom Answers:
1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?
-> I can't really remember…? I am pretty sure that it was the SG-1 Fandom because I wanted to know if Danny and Vala get together after the series final, but it also could have been "The Legend of the Seek", because back then I didn't know that it's based on a book, and DAMN did I want to see Kahlan and Richard together!
4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?
-> No, not really. Any fandom I followed or read FF of was pretty decent and had great stories, and there wasn't a big cliff between the different fractions of the fans :)
10. Is there a fandom you read fic from but don’t write in?
-> Jup, plenty :D Though I always have ideas for stories in those fandoms, I am currently only writing for The100 and Star Wars, while I read Vampire Academy, Percy Jackson (every once in a while), Legend of the Seeker, and Stargate as well.
Now let's head to the Ship Answers ;)
13. Any NoTPs?
-> Hmm, no… I do have my preferences, of course, but I do not hate any ships in particular. I just hugely dislike Finn of The100 Fandom, so whenever he has a major ship in the story, I am very careful if I really want to read it.
But I do hate the ship of Kylo/Hux; I don't like Hux at all, and the way that Kylo treats him in canon just doesn't give me any idea whatsoever that there could be anything between them. That, and it stands between Reylo, soooo… :D
14. Go on, who are your BroTPs?
-> Oh, I love the dynamics between Bellamy and Murphy in the100, and have a huge soft spot for Jack and Daniel in SG-1 :D
20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?
-> In the The100, I was really surprised that I like Murphy/Raven – just because I never saw the two of them like that – but the way some authors portray them is really good :)
In Star Wars, I really like the Poe/Hux as a side note to my modern-AU stories. They never met in canon (as far as I recall) and therefore I like the creative dynamics that authors come up with for those two! :)
Next stop: Author Answers!
27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?
-> Uhm… Both? Sometimes titles just fall into my lap and I can work with them and sometimes I just come up with a collection of words that make no sense whatsoever… Summaries are tough because I don't want to spoiler too much, but I want to tease a but, if that makes sense, but I also don't want to write a freaking essay like back in school 'what is this story about, write three pages and summaries your text in a short four-lines-final' -.-'
32. Do you listen to music when you write or does music inspire you? If so, which band or genre of music does it for you?
-> Oh, yes! I listen to music pretty much all the time :) I have to adjust it a bit depending on the mood of the scene, and weirdly enough, I can't listen to any German songs (my mother tongue) if I write in English, otherwise, you just get very weird sentences!
Hmm, lately I listen a lot to Rap from Tom MacDonald and Eminem, Pop or Punk like Pink or Three Days Grace, Soundtracks like Mamma Mia and Disney, etc. So, my music varies widely with no real idea where it's going 😅
40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?
-> Gee, I don't know… Probably anything that relates to romantic emotions, but that is because I am as emotional as a rock in that area 😅😅
Okay, and finally: FanFiction Answers :D
44. What ship do you feel needs more attention?
-> I don't know… I am probably just one of the fans that follow the most popular/obvious ship in the fandoms…
50. How did you get into reading and/or writing fanfiction?
-> Well, that is easy: I NEEDED ANSWERS!!! I wanted to know if they get together, what they did in the time between episodes, what that insider was about, etc… I just needed answers! :D
And writing… I had that idea stuck in my head for the CW show Arrow, where the main character has nightmares (back then I had some really bad myself) and how he would still get to propose to his girlfriend, even though his demons called him worthless and chewed on his self-worth… It was a way of coping with my own problems, and if you read my stories and pay attention, you will pick up on some things that repeat themself or that are very vividly displayed. Those are the things I try to cope with through writing… 🤷🏽♀️
51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!
-> I love our community! I love that there is something for everyone, no matter their taste or shipping or style. It's a way to find like-minded people and to get to connect with people who you can gush about the same things that you like. It is so great to see people publishing something and then get the opinion to it from others, to interact with the author and to just be connected to others.
And as an author, it is so cool to get feedback from your readers, and to interact with them!
I really love FF and the community around it :D
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HERE’S WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (11.6-11.12.19):
NEW MUSIC:
· With Confidence premiered their cover and music video of Train’s iconic track “Drops of Jupiter.” The band, along with many others, are contributors to the second volume of Songs That Saved My Life by Hopeless Records and their nonprofit organization, Sub City.
· Poppy premiered her brand new track “BLOODMONEY,” alongside a video that finds her kicking ass and taking names. This comes after wrapping up a run on the Threesome Tour with Bring Me the Horizon and Sleeping with Sirens.
· Originally slated to be released last Friday, All Time Low livestreamed their tribute Nothing Personal documentary a day early on Twitch. Speaking with Alternative Press, frontman Alex Gaskarth revealed the reasoning behind the band’s decision to rerecord the album.
· Bring Me the Horizon debuted their fiery new track “Ludens” from the forthcoming soundtrack Death Stranding: Timefall (Original Music from the World of Death Stranding). Yesterday, the band shared their new action-packed music video for the song.
· The Blink-182 live album, The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!), is finally available to stream again in certain regions on Spotify. Recorded in 1999, the album includes material from the trio’s first three albums: Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch and Enema of the State.
· Motionless in White released a new music video for their song “Undead Ahead 2: The Tale of the Midnight Ride.” They also added more dates to their co-headlining tour with Beartooth and revealed Stick to Your Guns will be joining them on the full 2020 run.
· You, Me and Everyone We Know teased fans on their social media accounts and also posted a video of an acoustic track on their website, marking their first new song since 2016. Back in 2016, the band revealed in a Tumblr post explaining their reasoning for calling it quits.
· Fireworks released a brand new track last Thursday titled “Demitassem,” making the song the first new music by the band since 2014. They also tweeted a link to a website that offers a survey and then takes you to the song.
· After the announcement that their new album You’re Welcome would be released November 15, A Day to Remember took to Instagram last Friday to delay it. The album is now slated to be released in early 2020.
· As It Is’ latest EP in their reimagined versions series, Acceptance: Reimagined, was released and features reimagined versions of “The Haunting,” “The Hurt, The Hope” and “The End.” Starting this past March, the band have been reworking The Great Depression into different styles.
· Waterparks felt like taking control of their old music and released a medley of sorts of some songs from their second album, Entertainment. While the 7:43 song features elements from the entire album, it showcases “Tantrum”, “Crybaby” and “Peach (Lobotomy).”
· Billie Eilish took to Twitter to announce her new single “Everything I Wanted.” The song will be Eilish’s first new music since her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, was released in March of this year.
· Silverstein announced plans to release an album of concert recordings, LIVE: When Broken is Easily Fixed. Slated for release November 19th, the record is compiled from various recordings from their 2018-2019 tour centered on their debut album of the same name.
· Weezer snagged Adam DeVine and Barak Hardley, who appear in the upcoming comic thriller Spell, for the strangest therapy session in their “California Snow” video. The band dropped their Black Album earlier this year.
TOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS:
· Falling in Reverse canceled their forthcoming Episode IV Tour with Crown the Empire and Tom MacDonald, set to kick off last Thursday, November 7th. The cancellation comes with the tragic news of guitarist Derek Jones’ fiancé suffering complications from her metastatic cancer.
· Angels & Airwaves announced the addition of a second leg for their upcoming winter tour, which will kick off in January 2020. The news comes on the heels of the release for AVA’s “Kiss & Tell” music video.
· Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and AWOLNATION are teaming up for the Lightning Riders Tour next summer. The run kicks off in late May in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and wraps up in Troutdale, Oregon, in June.
· My Chemical Romance added another show for their reunion run at Download Japan 2020. Billboard also confirmed former touring drummer Jarrod Alexander would join them for the reunion shows, and the band revealed Thursday would be their opener.
· Billie Eilish headed to White’s label studio in Nashville last Wednesday with brother and collaborator FINNEAS. She is also partnering with Global Citizen to offer fans a chance to work their way into the shows on her tour.
· Ed Sheeran joined ONE OK ROCK onstage at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, on the latter’s Eye of the Storm Japan Tour. ONE OK ROCK supported Sheeran on the Asia leg of his Divide World Tour in April and May earlier this year.
· Fall Out Boy played a “special show” with iHeartRadio in Seattle yesterday and offered locals the chance to attend at no cost. The band are preparing to release another greatest hits record and live-streamed the entire gig, also doing a Q&A and chat about their upcoming tour.
· In This Moment announced that they are bringing along Black Veil Brides, DED and Raven Black for a spring tour. The In Between Tour kicks off March 24th at the Orlando House of Blues and wraps up May 17th in Morrison, Colorado, at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
OTHER NEWS:
· Green Day fans were quick to spot Lou Taylor Pucci, the actor who portrayed St. Jimmy in the band’s “Jesus of Suburbia” music video, in an episode of American Horror Story: 1984. The video followed the teen’s heartbreak and struggles opposite Whatsername, portrayed by Kelli Garner.
· My Chemical Romance frontman, Gerard Way, announced that Doom Patrol is receiving a special stand-alone issue in the series written by DC imprint Young Animal’s Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad. He announced the new comic on his Instagram account last Wednesday.
· Circa Survive and Saosin vocalist, Anthony Green, revealed via Twitter he has relapsed in his addiction. Many of Green’s fans and fellow artists responded in support for the musician, and he previously penned an essay for Spotify about his journey with substance abuse.
· The Black Parade has officially re-entered the Billboard 200 chart. According to Chart Data, which tracks various Billboard charts and collects data on the most popular albums and EPs, this is My Chemical Romance’s first entry in over two years.
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Check in next Tuesday for more “Posi Talk with Sage Haley,” only at @sagehaleyofficial!
#posi talk#sage haley#poppy#bring me the horizon#blink-182#all time low#motionless in white#a day to remember#waterparks#billie eilish#weezer#falling in reverse#my chemical romance#ed sheeran#fall out boy#black veil brides#green day#circa survive#saosin#one ok rock#in this moment#with confidence#you me and everyone we know#fireworks#as it is#silverstein#angels & airwaves#andrew mcmahon in the wilderness#awolnation#music news
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