#Daniel Handler interview

[thesnicketfile]

Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what music? Is your choice of music inspired by the project you’re working on?

Daniel Handler: I listen to music whenever I can, and my books usually end up circling a specific album or two. Poison for Breakfast seemed to enjoy listening to An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, by the Caretaker (...)

From a Sept 13, 2021 interview with Sit Down & Write

[runningoutofbooks]

There should be a documentary style film about Lemony Snicket with all the sources from The Unauthorized Autobiography and the Leading Snicket Expert needs to be Daniel Handler

[devoutjunk]

I caught up with Ben Niespodziany, founder of Piżama Press. We talked about running a small press, the freedom of prose poems, and finding inspiration off the page--from folk horror to hip hop. Interview linked unpaywalled here.

Piżama will publish Disintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi and illustrated by Gautam Rangan May 27th. The debut poetry collection is "tender, [...] twisted, [...] full of lies and fake bios and pop culture references," (Ben Niespodziany). Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) said: “Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi’s poems take me to a place where I am laughing and frightened and not sure which way to turn. This book is a reminder that all literature should feel this way."

Check out my conversation with Ben & keep an eye out for Kiik's collection this May!

[thekoalapastriesbakery]

Expanding on the hybrid handler reader (I've always loved thos concept from when @safetycar-restart put it in my head a year ago) so maybe reader starts out as one of the older drivers handlers, like lewis (panther?) And reader ends up also acting as the handler to all of lewis' teammates over the years, so nico, valtteri, and George all start semi-regularly coming to lewis' motor home for you to take care of them (preening for bird hybrids, getting pets, grooming, etc.)(I think valtteri is a bird hybrid)(that man rizzed Tiffany up by doing a mating dance) anyway, Toto gets kinda tired of it, and organizes for you to have your own motor home so all his former drivers aren't barging in all the time, and maybe this happens about early 2022, and it spreads around the Grid like Wildfire. Valtteri is bringing Zhou, George is bringing Lando and Alex, who are then bringing Max and Daniel and on and on, and eventually, you end up with every teams schedules each week so that you can care for everyone whenever you can.

Flash forward to 2025, the Grid is changing a lot this year, there are many new rookies and new reserve drivers that you want to get close with, so your entire preseason is filled with cuddling with all the rookies, with Ollie, Kimi, Jack and Liam vouching for you and joining the cuddle piles on a technicality

At this point your motorhome has also grown to a full on hubrid haven, you have every type of shampoo, but only the ones that the hybrids on the grid like, you have durable, and safe blankets, and toys galore, and some nights instead of going to their own hotels, some drivers just stay with you in your motor home. To make sure you don't get lonely, of course. No other reason.

During the season a lot of the times your focus is probably on drivers who dnf, or just have an unusually bad race (think charles in vegas) so sadly Logan, Zhou, Franco, Checco, and Valtteri in 2024 spent a lot of time in big cuddle piles in your motor home

For Otter!Franco, to prevent him from pulling out tuffs of fur, you have a box of anti-skin picking fidget toys, that can keep him occupied for hours. Get him comfy, and give him one of those and a few cuddle buddies, and you're all good

I think Golden Retreiver!Logan would be the reason your motorhome is always overrun with blankets. His reaction to everything is making a den, so whenever he dnfs, you know there will be a den with you and him in it, facing the TV to cheer everyone else on.

Cat!Zhou would probably try to throw himself into trying to fix the car, and improve for the next race, so it takes a bit of effort to get him to relax, but especially if you have Logan with you, eventually you can herd him into a nice, warm, bed, for him to nap his troubles away

2024 was also the year of drama, so, so much drama, and sadly, some of that would end up leaking into your motorhome. You tried as best as you could to keep it drama free, and the drivers mostly respected that, just opting to not cuddle with certain people, but sometimes, tensions got too high. The best was you'd found to deal with drama was to make the two arguing cuddle. How did Max and Lando forgive eachother post Austria so fast? Well, during interviews they were still so high on adrenaline they barely knew what they were saying. An hour after, they had come down from their highs and were cuddling together, purring. Especially impressive if you don't think Lando is a cat hybrid. Oscar and Lando in Hungary? Simple, you have to get back to Monaco somehow, so mandated McDonald's, Monopaly, and Cuddle pile on the plane. Those two are, at the very least platonically, soulmates, they aren't about to hold a grudge that long. Especially not while you are watching. Charles and Carlos? That one took a bit more time because Charles wanted to party his feelings away with max, but rest assured that the following morning he was dragged to breakfast-in-cuddle-pile-where-you-talk-your-feelings-out with you and carlos. You gotta supervise. Can never be to careful.

Vinnie what have you done to me this is more than I write for some of my own fics.

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i. 🦕 this is amazing i love it???

(notes: this is very long. and also possible more intimate with reader than you intended but it's not sexual intimacy and it's not necessarily romantic either so. read however you like!)

when you first start working as a hybrid handler, you're only assigned to take care of lewis

with him being a panther hybrid, there were a fair few handlers who wouldn't/couldn't work with him

and then comes you. fresh out of training, probably no more than 20 years old when you start with lewis at mercedes

you're not as experienced as some other handlers he's had in the past, but lewis learns very quickly that that isn't much of a hindrance for you

you listen

don't get him wrong, his other handlers had been fine, but they'd all been fairly rigid in terms of how they'd work with a hybrid

you? you asked lewis what worked best for him. how he liked to do things.

when lewis told you that he didn't really know, you told him it was okay and that you could find out what worked together

if he said he didn't trust you immediately after that, he was lying

it takes a while for lewis to show affection but you are undoubtedly his favourite handler

the first person he brings to you is arctic fox!nico

you see him and it's immediately clear that his handler—however well intended—has no idea what they're doing

his fur is dull and uneven, with several patches of tangles

you get lewis set up with his own care routine (including vegan snacks carefully planned by a special dietician you found to make sure lewis was getting all the nutrients he needed as a big cat hybrid)

and then you start with nico

who is shocked at how gentle you are? his handler wasn't rough or abusive or anything, but they tended to just tug at whatever fur got tangled

but you sit him on the floor with lewis and just quietly get to work teasing apart the knots in his tail

you have special hybrid detangler in your emergency kit

you'd never needed it with lewis because of how short his panther fur was, but you had on occasion used human detangler when lewis asked you to help with his hair

anyway

nico feels a little awkward about chatting with lewis while you work on him, but it doesn't take long before they're talking and laughing

he doesn't even notice when you're done because he barely felt a single tug the whole time

you just sit back and wait for a natural break in their conversation to tell nico you'd like to take a look at his ears and claws to make sure they're okay, but you understand they're a sensitive place for a lot of hybrids so it's completely fine if he'd rather not have you touch them

nico just blinks. looks at lewis. looks at you. looks at lewis. and when he sees that a) you're serious and b) lewis is still totally relaxed and even mentions that you check his panther ears and file his claws all the time without issue, nico will shyly agree to let you do it

it's a little harder for him to focus on talking to lewis when you're checking his ears, checking his claws, and his heart is pounding

once you're sure he doesn't have any immediate health issues, you mention that you could give him a few places to look for better care products for hybrids (like brushes, shampoo, conditioner, etc) and nico just. he doesn't know how lewis ended up with such a perfect handler

needless to say, he ends up visiting you pretty frequently too

you're sure you couldn't count the number of times you'd ended up as the center of their cuddle piles

or the number of times you'd broken up little bickers between them

the visits drop off a little in frequency in 2016

when nico does drop by, it's only when he knows lewis isn't there

at first, you're able to get them to talk through their battles on track and reconcile

but that doesn't last for too long

before you know it, they're both playing psychological warfare with each other

the only thing they both know is over the line is you. lewis wouldn't stop nico from visiting you. nico wouldn't try to poach you from lewis. neither of them brought you up at all in their interviews

you took care of them, they would never drag you into the middle of their elaborate break up

ironically this is roughly when you start getting visits from bunny!seb, peacock!jenson, and lynx!kimi

they're much shorter because you definitely have your hands full with brocedes

but 2016 is when they start kinda catching on that you're easily the best handler in the paddock

meanwhile, you're still trying to stop a complete breakdown between lewis and nico. you've given up on trying to get them to stay friend, but you refuse to have them not be able to be civil

after nico retires, he still drops in to see you every now and then

he does go to you for advice if his kids are hybrids too

(they always love whatever you give them)

in 2017, you start working with flamingo!valtteri as well

you kinda love his flare

definitely arguing with mercedes about giving him longer than 1 year contracts

anytime he and lewis are both with you, expect a lot of laughter

from them or from you

they're very goofy together, you will end up laughing at them a few times

you teach val how to not hyper-extend his knees like his flamingo side wants to

he's quite surprised that standing isn't supposed to be uncomfortable

2017 is when you get your own motorhome, separate from mercedes because toto gets tired of nico constantly asking him for keys and directions

at this point, you're still kind of mercedes secret? except that seb, jenson, and kimi are all interested

jenson ends up hanging out with you a lot because mclaren doesn't really need a reserve driver all that often

when you offer to help him preen some of his peacock feathers during a race, jenson finds out just why lewis and valtteri and even nico are just about always with you in the paddock

he blabs to seb and kimi, and ... well, in 2016 you had two hybrids, in 2017 you have six

breaks between races consist of you doing lots of research and shopping to make sure you have everything you could possibly need for each of the six hybrids you accidentally acquired

lewis is fairly low maintenance after you get his routine settled, but he still chooses to hang out with you pretty often

he and nico definitely ended up buying you an apartment in their building in monaco at some point

for the most, you stay out of the public eye in the paddock

sometimes you'll walk around with lewis or valtteri, especially if they don't have media duties

mostly you just hang out either in your special hybrid-friendly motorhome or in the mercedes garage

there's a pretty well-established rule in mercedes that if the door of your motorhome is closed, you do not go in. you don't knock unless it's an emergency. you leave the hybrids alone to have their decompression time

at that point ferrari/mclaren don't think to look with you when they can't find their drivers

so kimi frequently ends up hiding in your motorhome when he's fed up with media duties

the next time you get a new hybrid driver is 2019

seb brings bunny!charles because he's new to ferrari and just so jittery that he knows you can help him settle down

you help charles find a comfortable way to tape down his ears during races

and help him unwrap and massage them again afterwards

he sends bunny!arthur to you to get you to help with his ears too

fast forward to 2022, your collection of hybrids explodes. you're not entirely why the rest of the grid decided that year was the year to join, but they do

you were expecting to have george, and you half-expected him to bring alex with him

but you weren't expecting lance (who brought esteban and mick)

or pierre (and yuki)

or lando or guanyu or max or kmag or ... you could go on

before you know it, you're getting calls from every team on the grid asking you to handle their hybrid drivers

you checked with lewis first of course, and he was fine as long as he still got taken care of

at this point you're pretty used to juggling several drivers and several schedules

kimi, jenson, and nico still drop in whenever they can to "stock up" on hybrid care

anyway, each hybrid driver gets at least an hour allocated to them every race weekend

any free time you have is usually whoever wants to hanging out in your motorhome

it's a nice break from the pressure of the paddock for them

you're the best mediator, too

no matter what spat happens in the car, you'll have the drivers involved both cuddling up to you and talking normally within the hour

it's not a perfect science of course

but you're also pretty good at telling when a driver just needs time and space to work through their emotions before they can reconcile

2024 was ... hectic, to say the least

for starters, your motorhome was pretty much a permanent den because that was golden retriever!logan's instinct whenever he was sad

even after williams dropped him, he'd travel with you just to curl up in his den with you

bonus if he gets to have oscar join in afterwards

after austria, everybody was tense

even george and oscar and charles

they wanted to celebrate their podiums with you

but they knew max and lando needed handling more than they did

it took you several hours to get them sorted out again

and then you could celebrate with the others

and hungary was a shitshow, but at least oscar and lando were pretty happy to accept that it was the team's screw up and not theirs

by the time 2025 rolled around you’ve barely managed to recover from the previous season and you still regularly fall asleep whenever you get a moment to yourself

but with six new rookies on the grid, you couldn’t exactly slack off

getting them comfortable with you was surprisingly easy

for the most part they were basically just overeager puppies

you had no idea what was in store but you were sure there’d be equal parts comforting and congratulating drivers

you met liam, ollie, and jack briefly when they were in the paddock last season, but this was their first year in your official hybrid collection

you still didn’t really know how it had gotten this big

it was supposed to just be lewis

whatever happened to that??

[f1-disaster-bi]

nearly 200 writing prompts // feel free to reblog

184: “ Can I touch you? ” Charlando

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Charles is shaking when Lando finally manages to find him.

He's curled up in a hastily built nest in the corner of Lando’s driver room. His face is half hidden by the hood of Lando’s Quadrant hoodie that is swamping his frame. His hands are trembling where they grip a pillow, and Lando feels a feral noise building in the back of his throat when he sees the bruises on Charles's wrist and chin.

He'd been in an interview when the chaos had broken out. Fans screaming, media wondering what was happening, drivers frozen as their media handlers tried to figure out what had happened.

When it had come through that someone had attacked Charles, Lando had almost broken into a run. It was only Daniel grabbing his wrist that stopped him until they had gotten the all clear, and then Lando was running.

Ferrari hadn't know when his omega was, and Carlos's concerned alpha sent had irrational his nose as Lando had dashed back towards McLaren. It had been his own omega instincts suggesting that Charles would be here, that he would have sought out Lando and he was right.

However it didn't make the sight before him any easier.

"Charlie....", Lando whispered, not wanting to startle him.

Charles looked up at him, shoulders shaking but when he spotted Lando, he finally relaxed a little. A soft, sad noise left him and suddenly Lando was on his knees, reaching but not touching because Charles still smelt scared.

"Can I touch you?", Lando asked carefully, wanting nothing more than to pull Charles into his arms.

"Please", Charles croaked, voice wobbly but reaching for Lando and that was all it took.

Lando didn't care about the tears drenching his shirt. He only cared about the man in his arms and making him feel safe.

[onboardsorasora]

Thought of this last night, a sort of semi violent meet cute lool

Something something Max follows Logan, Oscar and Lando to a hockey game the week after the race. He had been planning to stay in Miami but Lando had begged using first time winner best friend privileges or something.

It was the playoffs, whatever that meant, so it was supposed to be exciting. That's what Logan said.

The game was exciting, even if Max couldn't follow it all. They sat behind the players benches and he was surprised at how often players were coming and going from the area.

He'd heard that hockey was fairly violent and crazy, but seeing it and hearing the crowd go into a frenzy for it was something else. Every time a player was rammed into the glass there was a whoop from somewhere in the crowd and when a fight broke out, it was like feeding the feral masses.

The home team, Logan's team, were winning. They were already up 3-1 to their opponents and so the air in the arena was charged. Max thought he finally got used to the blaring of the horns by the third period.

It was all action packed and chaotic, and of course Max didn't know who any of these players were. but there was one guy that caught his eye, Max had seen him going in and out of the penalty box, on and off the bench. Each time a ref pulled him off of another player, he had a wide grin on his face and was clearly reveling in the violence. The big C on his chest showed him to be the captain and he was like a king at court.

“Who is that?” Lando leaned over Max to ask Logan. Max was happy he didn't have to ask because he was too busy tracking this guy’s movements.

“Oh that's Daniel Ricciardo…” Max’s brain tuned out the remainder of Logan's response about goals and assists and other stats. Daniel was smiling again, playing with his mouth guard and showing a mouth full of teeth. Max felt a flush when their eyes met as Daniel clambered back into the bench. Daniel winked at him before sitting with his team and speaking to his coach.

The home team won and the arena went wild, throwing things onto the ice. An official collected the drivers and brought them back to the locker rooms to meet the team. Oscar and Lando were chuffed, and Logan was immediately pulled into a conversation with one of the half dressed men. Max glanced around surreptitiously looking for the one player he cared about. Daniel wasn't there.

Disappointed, Max posed for pictures and signed a few sticks and jerseys before they were led out of the room.

There was an interview wrapping up further down the hall and a honking laugh rang out when the cameras cut. Max watched as Daniel ran a hand through sweaty tangled curls, his face and smile were even better without the helmet to cover it. His jersey was also gone, and Max thought he looked smaller in just a loose tank and his lower pads. Max wanted to bite his corded shoulders.

Daniel walked over to them, with the waddle of someone wearing skates on carpet, and shook their hands.

“Fuckin killer game out there man.” Logan praised and Daniel grinned, bashfully pressing his hand behind his head. Max could only stare at the indecent bulge of his bicep. He wanted to lick Daniel's tattoos.

They chatted for a little bit longer before a handler came to collect Daniel. He took a few pictures with them and walked away, brushing his shoulders against Max’s jacket clad one along the way. When Max looked over at him, Daniel winked at him again with a smirk. Max felt his face flush in response.

[hauntedholodeck]

so idk if i’m supposed to post this or not but i have feelings so oh well.

my partner is interviewing daniel handler tomorrow for his podcast and i have to sit in the same house and be normal about this while he talks to him and it’s just like wow ok.

asoue has been part of my life since i was a kid and every now and then i reread the books and it becomes my hyperfixation for a while so it just feels really surreal tbh and also it’s just Very Fucking Dope :)

i keep telling him to ask about the sugar bowl but i don’t think he will.

[shineforthee]

in the deafening polar province called You

Pairing: Armand/Daniel Molloy

Length: 150k

Rating: E

Summary:Daniel is sprawled out across the bed, loose-limbed and lazy, somehow filling all the open space it has to offer and leaving Armand to nestle into the gaps. His cheeks are flushed, blood pooling like it knows what comes next. Maybe it does. Armand was reading about classical conditioning the other day. About dogs who become accustomed to getting food when their handler rings a bell.

Perhaps Daniel is the dog, Armand’s teeth sharp bells reverberating in his veins. Or perhaps Armand is the dog, Daniel’s blood a song rattling in his ears. He has been a dog before. He runs his tongue along the bow of Daniel’s collarbone, gathers the salt-sweat there and imagines what it tastes like because Daniel does.

Armand remembers he loved Daniel, once, and that Daniel loved him. Or a version of them did, at least. It isn't his intention to go back to that, but it's not not his intention, either. Such is the prerogative of an immortal: to hold two contradicting desires simultaneously. If nothing else, it passes the time while he waits for this miserable interview to end.

You might like this fic if: You're looking for a vague mixture of book canon and show speculation, You like Armand POV, You enjoy flashbacks and memory fuckery, you like when character's are imperfect but also love each other

[beatricebidelaire]

Book Lust with Nancy Pearl: A very fortunate interview with Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)

[thesnicketfile]

11 May 2024

Daniel recommends a Book, a Live music act, Food, a TV Show, a Song, & a Card game.

[brokehorrorfan]

The Boy will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 3 via Scream Factory. The 2016 horror film was an international co-production between the US and China.

William Brent Bell (Orphan: First Kill, The Devil Inside) directs from a script by Stacey Menear. Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Ben Robson, Jett Klyne, and James Russell star.

The Boy is presented in 4K from the original elements with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by film critics Julia Cunningham and Emily Higgins (new)

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by film critics Julia Cunningham and Emily Higgins (new)

Interview with William Brent Bell (new)

Interview with writer Stacey Menear (new)

Interview with cinematographer Daniel Pearl (new)

Interview with doll designer Todd Masters (new)

Interview with doll handler Tannis Hegan (new)

Theatrical trailer

Greta (Lauren Cohan) is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village. She soon discovers that the family's 8-year-old is a life-sized doll that they care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their son 20 years prior. After she violates a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.

Pre-order The Boy.

[armydreamerr]

my bookshelf

scary book of christmas lore - tim rayborn

save me an orange - hayley grace

be more chill - ned vizzini

the melancholy death of oyster boy - tim burton

haunted - chuck palahniuk

the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - douglas adams

moonlight on the magic flute - mary pope osborne

how to read literature like a professor - thomas foster

the knight at dawn - mary pope osborne

moxie - jennifer mathieu

the lost track of time - paige britt

10 bad dates with de niro - a bunch of authors edited by richard kelly

frindle - andrew clements

at first bite - ruth ames

the truth about alice - jennifer mathieu

all four stars - tara dairyman

and then? and then? what else? - daniel handler

the school for good and evil - sonan chainani

wonder - rj palacio

ways to live forever - sally nicholls

holes - louis sachar

monster survival guide - susan lurie

wipeout of the wireless weenies - david lubar

restart - gordon korman

a jar of dreams - yoshiko uchida

two minute mysteries - donald j. so ik

star trek iv: the voyage home - vonda n. mcintyre

thirteen - a bunch of authors edited by t. pines

fear street: double date - rl stine

cheerleaders: the first evil - rl stine

cheerleaders: the second evil - rl stine

cheerleaders: the third evil - rl stine

cheerleaders: the new evil - rl stine

the midnight club - christopher pike

interview with the vampire - anne rice

pranks, tricks, and practical jokes - giles brandreth

ghost stories - a bunch of different authors edited by a.l. furman

islands in the stream - ernest hemingway

princess nevermore - dian curtis regan

the giver - lois lowry

eight tales of terror - edgar allen poe

where the sidewalk ends - shel silverstein

los miserables (spanish translation of les miserables) - victor hugo

the donnie darko book - richard kelly

the communist manifesto but tony hawk gets to keep his stuff - karl marx & dick cody heese

i want a better catastrophe - andrew boyd

book of longing - leonard cohen

famous last words - katie alender

the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins

manga in theory and practice - hirohiko araki

the outsiders - se hinton

the lovely bones - alice sebold

grasshopper jungle - andrew smith

looking for alaska - john green

fight club - chuck palahniuk

the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald

please don’t kill the freshman - zoe trope

the shining - stephen king

the catcher in the rye- jd salinger

god bless you mr rosewater - kurt vonnegut

breakfast of champions - kurt vonnegut

no exit and three other plays - jean paul sartre

heathers the musical - kevin murphy & laurence o keefe

who will run the frog hospital? - lorrie moore

escape from eden - andrew smith

20,000 leagues under the sea - jules verne

much ado about nothing - william shakespeare

athletic shorts - chris crutches

the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky

the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - douglas adams (yes i have it two times)

the restaurant at the end of the universe - douglas adams

les miserables (abridged) - victor hugo

dracula - bram stoker

after the fall - a bunch of different authors edited by robert sheckley

batman - craig shaw gardener

tales for the midnight hour - jb stamper

more tales for the midnight hour - jb stamper

still more tales for the midnight hour - jb stamper

now go - karl thomas smith

the complete works of william shakespeare

slaughterhouse-five (graphic novel adaptation) - kurt vonnegut, ryan north, albert monteys

batman: the long halloween - jeph loeb & tim sale

xmen: blood hunt - a bunch of different authors idk

the true lives of the fabulous killjoys: national anthem - gerard way, shaun simon, leonardo romero, jordie bellaire, nate piekos

ouran high school host club volumes 1-5 - bisco hatori

fairy tail volumes 1-3 - hiro mashima

black clover volume 1 - yuki tabata

naruto volume 1 - masashi kishimoto

batman: hush - jeph loeb & jim lee

the great gatsby (graphic novel adaptation) - k woodman maynard & f scott fitzgerald

venus in the blind spot - junji ito

lovesickness - junji ito

fullmetal alchemist volumes 1-2 - hiromu arakawa

jojo’s bizarre adventure phantom blood volumes 1-3 - hirohiko araki

jojo’s bizarre adventure battle tendency volumes 1-3 - hirohiko araki

jojo’s bizarre adventure golden wind volumes 1-5 - hirohiko araki

the usborne book of greek myths

when the library lights go out - megan mcdonald and katherine tillitson

how my parents learned to eat - ina friedman

where the sidewalk ends - shel silverstein (i have it twice)

where the red fern grows - wilson rawls

sideways stories from wayside school - louis sachar

wayside school gets a little stranger - louis sachar

wayside school is falling down - louis sachar

marie antoinette:serial killer - katie alender

jennifer, hecate, macbeth, william mckinley, and me, elizabeth - el konigsburg

skin - roald dahl

nightmare at 20,000 feet - richard matheson

lunch money - andrew clements

guts - raina telgemeier

playing with fire - emily blake

takes to give you goosebumps - rl stine

frightlopedia - julie winterbottom

everything you need to ace english language arts in one big fat notebook

file under: thirteen suspicious incidents - lemony snicket

the zombie survival guide - max brooks

the chocolate touch - patrick skene catling

when my name was keoko - linda she park

esperanza rising - pam muñoz ryan

the unauthorized autobiography - lemony snicket

a little princess - frances hodgson burnett

dear evan hansen - val emmich, steven levenson, benj pasek, justin paul

the best of hp lovecraft

blood on the river - elisa carbone

hatchet - gary paulson

tuck everlasting - natalie babbitt

the watsons go to birmingham - christopher paul curtis

scary stories to tell in the dark - alvin schwartz

more scary stories to tell in the dark - alvin schwartz

scary stories 3: more tales to chill your bones - alvin schwartz

playing with fire (i have it twice) - emily blake

no accident - emily blake

over the edge - emily blake

nothing but the truth - emily blake (fun fact: this is the 5th book in the series and i also have 1 2 3 BUT NOT 4? ts pmo)

little women - louisa may alcott

devoted - jennifer mathieu

escape from mr. lemoncello’s library - chris grabenstein

big nate: a good old fashioned wedgie - lincoln pierce

big nate: the crowd goes wild - lincoln pierce

the little prince - antoine de saint exupery

the beast from the east - rl stine

pashmina - nidhi chanani

good night stories for rebel girls - elena favilli and francesca cavallo

miss fortune - brandi dougherty

the wonderful wizard of oz - l frank baum

sadako and the thousand paper cranes - eleanor coerr

lost in a book - jennifer donnelly

brown girl dreaming - jacqueline woodson

supergirl at superhero high - lisa yee

bumblebee at superhero high - lisa yee

wonder woman at superhero high - lisa yee

katana at superhero high - lisa yee

harley quinn at superhero high - lisa yee

batgirl at superhero high - lisa yee

drama - raina telgemeier

walk across the sea - susan fletcher

from the mixed up files of mrs basil e frankweiler - el konigsburg

the girl who drank the moon - kelly barnhill

the inexplicable logic of my life - benjamin alire saenz

short and shivery - robert d san souci

the treasure seekers - thea stilton

the ghost of blackwood hall - carolyn keene

shouldn’t you be in school? - lemony snicket (got this second hand only to find it’s like book 4 out of a series)

the dreamer - pam muñoz ryan and peter sis

alice’s adventures in wonderland AND through the looking glass - lewis carroll

scary stories to tell in the dark - alvin schwartz (have it twice)

more scary stories to tell in the dark - alvin schwartz (have it twice sighh)

big nate lives it up - lincoln pierce

diary of a wimpy kid - jeff kinney

diary of a wimpy kid: rodrick rules - jeff kinney

hyperbole and a half - allie brosh

us in progress - lulu delacre

the phantom tollbooth - norton juster

famous last words - katie alender (have it twice)

serafina and the black cloak - robert beatty

serfina and the twisted staff - robert beatty

[doloresdisparue]

I feel like nobody talks about Daniel Handler of ASOUE fame calling Lolita 'kind of sexy' (to be fair, he did say in another interview it would be horrific if it were happening in real life, but what makes even the idea of it so appealing to him?) and flippantly justified calling it a love story because 'love is quite crazy'. Even more so, no one talks about how one of his villains is named after Dolores (Carmelita = portmanteau of Carmen and Lolita) and reads like a bad caricature of how people see her, as this insufferably bratty and evil child. Sometimes, I can't help but wonder what else if it weren't a children's series.

Interesting, I know next to nothing about Daniel Handler aside from the mention that he recommended Lolita as his favourite book on the Lolita podcast. I'm also not very familiar with the ASOUE books I have only seen the Netflix adaptation. Though I firmly believe Count Olaf and his disguises stem from the trend the Kubrick movie established of having Quilty chasing them in elaborate disguises wherever they go. And he does try to marry Violet even if it is ostensibly for inheritance reasons the subtext is very much there for adults who can pick up on it. I'm not sure Carmelita is named after Dolly, since the "-ita" type suffiix is very common in Spanish but I also don't remember that character. From this ask it sounds like he had a genuine fascination with the novel on a technical level (the unreliable narrator and all that jazz) and clocked the reality of it slightly better than a lot of other old writer men (I say this only because the bar is in hell) but still not well enough to not put his foot in his mouth about it. But as I said I personally haven't looked into it him at all and read neither his kids nor adult books. Any Handler literate followers want to weigh in here?

[bullet-prooflove]

UC!Series Part Two: Grit - Jubal Valentine x Reader

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Living without you is an adjustment for Jubal.

You’ve been a part of his life for a long time, even before the two of you got together. Two weeks in, he’s still removing both mugs from his cupboard first thing in the morning. It’s a stark reminder that you’re not in his life right now.

He tries to fill his time the best way he knows how, with work and his kids. His takes on additional shifts, covering other Special Agents in Charge and spends weekends up in Scottsdale, immersing himself in Tyler and Abigail’s lives.

His ex-wife Sam knows that something’s up. She’s always been able to read him, especially when it comes to you. She’s the one that realised he had feelings for you way back when. The one that encouraged him to make a move when the time was right, to stop delaying his happiness because he deserved a little light in his life.

He doesn’t tell her all of the details, but she knows enough about the work he does to read between the lines. Your sudden disappearance from his life, the tender way in which he talks about you. She knows it’s an assignment, not a breakup. She can see that he’s hurting right now, trying to keep the pieces of his life together by sheer force of will.

“How are you holding up?” She asks him, sitting down in one of the patio chairs that her husband Alan bought for the back yard. Jubal’s eyes remain fixed on the kids, the two of them chasing each other with bubble wands.

Jubal shrugs his shoulders in response to Sam’s question.

“Some days are better than others.” He says quietly, his hands slipping into the pockets of his jacket. “I keep wondering how she’s doing, if she’s being safe.”

It’s ridiculous to think like that, he knows it. You’re a decorated FBI agent with years of UC experience under your belt, and the thing is, you’re good, really good.

The first time he’d met you, he’d been trying to purchase several cases of assault rifles and you had been the one arranging the buy. At the time he remembered thinking it was somewhat refreshing to meet a female arms dealer.

Nikki Delphino, you had introduced yourself, when he handed over the cash.

He’d looked you up after the arrest. Daniel Moreno’s partner in crime. The guy had put a bullet in two federal agents who had been escorting the original shipment before it was hijacked. His plan had been to flip you, to leverage the charges, the relationship, whatever else he could so they could get their hands on Moreno. The two of you had sat across from each other in that interview room for hours, he went at you with everything he had but you, you were something else. Evasive, cold, and if he was honest, a bit of a smartass. It was infuriating.

It wasn’t until your handler made an appearance that they realised you were one of them. His frustration had turned to respect because game recognises game, and you, you didn’t fucking flinch.

An agreement was struck after that. You would catch up with Moreno, try and lobby a confession about the murders. It was dicey, they weren’t sure if news of your arrest had hit yet. Jubal admired your dedication, when you saw the mess that Moreno had left behind at the site of the hijacking, you’d been eager to help.

They watched it play out over a camera affixed to the necklace you were wearing. It was a lesson in manipulation, something they could use at the academy. You used your sex appeal to draw out the details, teasing, cajoling, pouting until he told you exactly what you wanted to know.

“I never asked…” Jubal had said after the arrest. “What’s your real name?”

“Stefani.” You tell him, the left side of your mouth tipping up into a smile. “Stefani Romano.”

“Welcome back Stefani.” He says holding out his hand to shake yours.

“You have no idea how good it is to hear someone actually use my real name.” You tell him as you clasp his hand. There’s a spark, one that he feels the instant the two of you touch. He doesn’t know it in that moment, but his life has just changed dramatically.

“She’s got grit.” Dana says when the two of them are sitting in her office at the end of the day. “I like her.”

“Yea.” Jubal remembers saying as Dana signs off on the transfer paperwork. “I like her too.”

“You’re not used to the shoe being on the other foot.” Sam remarks, drawing him out of this reverie. “Being the one that’s left behind. You’re used to being in control, knowing everything.”

“Yea, there’s probably something in that.” He says, his eyebrows furrowing into a frown as he considers Sam’s words.

Part of the problem is that he’s out of the loop and he hates that. He’s used to having the information at his fingertips but right now he’s in the dark and that’s a shitty place to be.

“I could say it gets easier…” Sam tells him before shaking her head. “But it doesn’t.”

“And I have a new appreciation for some of the stuff I put you through.” Jubal tells her, rubbing his hands over his features. “I guess I just didn’t realise it would be this hard.”

“You gotta have faith.” Sam says quietly, squeezing his arm lightly. “In yourself, in her. Trust that she will do anything to come back to you. That’s how I used to get through it, no matter what happened, I knew you’d do everything possible to get back to me and the kids.”

“Yea.” He says, his gaze straying back towards Tyler as he tries to pop the bubbles that Amelia blows in his direction. “Yea, you’re right.”

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[toocoolforyouanyway]

I FEEL THE ASOUE BRAINROT BEGINNING IN A VERY SERIOUS WAY. im in my notes app analyzing these characters i hate it here. and I CANT STOP WATCHING DANIEL HANDLER INTERVIEWS, i adore him!!! i love listening to him speak so much i wish i could have a conversation with this man grrrrrr

[shineforthee]

Seeing that I have accumulated a variety of fandoms, it feels like a convenient time to make a pinned masterlist of my fics for easy reference. Currently, I am actively writing fics for Interview With the Vampire & Supernatural.

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Interview With the Vampire

in the deafening polar province called You

Pairing: Armand/Daniel Molloy

Length: 150k

Rating: E

Summary:Daniel is sprawled out across the bed, loose-limbed and lazy, somehow filling all the open space it has to offer and leaving Armand to nestle into the gaps. His cheeks are flushed, blood pooling like it knows what comes next. Maybe it does. Armand was reading about classical conditioning the other day. About dogs who become accustomed to getting food when their handler rings a bell.

Perhaps Daniel is the dog, Armand’s teeth sharp bells reverberating in his veins. Or perhaps Armand is the dog, Daniel’s blood a song rattling in his ears. He has been a dog before. He runs his tongue along the bow of Daniel’s collarbone, gathers the salt-sweat there and imagines what it tastes like because Daniel does.

Armand remembers he loved Daniel, once, and that Daniel loved him. Or a version of them did, at least. It isn't his intention to go back to that, but it's not not his intention, either. Such is the prerogative of an immortal: to hold two contradicting desires simultaneously. If nothing else, it passes the time while he waits for this miserable interview to end.

You might like this fic if: You're looking for a vague mixture of book canon and show speculation, You like Armand POV, You enjoy flashbacks and memory fuckery, You're looking for a longfic and willing to follow along while I write it.

visions of the hereafter

Pairing: Armand/Daniel Molloy

Length: 70k

Pairing: Armand/Daniel Molloy

Rating: E

Summary:

Daniel sees life like a river. Thinks he is caught up in a current that only goes one way, that will eventually sweep him out to sea. It’s easier for him to think so. It keeps him alive to think so.

He doesn’t know that he could stand up and reach the bottom. He doesn’t know he has a choice.

Drugs don’t work, sex doesn’t work, New York hasn’t worked. Somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, an improbable number of suicides have taken place. Somewhere in a bar in New York, Daniel hears about them. He wants to fill a void. The difference between what is real and what isn’t matters as little to him as the things he’ll find to throw into the darkness. Which, as it turns out, is quite a lot.

You might like this fic if: you love an unreliable narrator, you have a love for Appalachia, you love stories where the setting is a character, you're looking for Daniel pov

in hell the units are the gallon and the fuck

Pairing: Armand/Daniel Molloy

Length: WIP

Rating: E

Summary:

Survival is an artform.

Armand has been an unwilling student, an eager acolyte, a master of the craft.

The things he feels can be broken down into component parts. Can be simplified into anatomic essentials, the series of processes required to make him something that functionally resembles the likeness of man. Sensation without thought. Water-damp brushstrokes dragging across a canvas with no paint. No color. No light.

Leaving Dubai was an act of necessity, arriving anywhere else an act of apathy.

In which Daniel attempts to make sense of the past and Armand attempts to do whatever the opposite of that is.

You might like this fic if: you want an exploration of Armand's trauma that isn't concerned with retelling the details but also won't be shying away from the impacts, you want Armand pov & Daniel pov, you like flashbacks, you read visions of the hereafter and kinda wondered what was going to happen next.

Oneshots

things that are rare | E | 6.5k | dm angst & smut |

filthy with a twisted tongue | T | 4k | dm angst & substance use |

Supernatural (Destiel)

how we're stuck in entropy

Length: 211,563 (complete)

Rating: E (Major Character Death, not Dean or Cas)

Summary:

Sam makes one last deal.

Cas comes back. And Dean gets him back. And together they get something.

Something about humanity, about living even when it hurts, especially because it hurts. About building a home for loss inside your chest, and making your heart a place where the dead live when they die. About being selfish, about belonging, about deserving both. About choice, and a life lived, and learning to lay down arms so that your hands might hold something softer.

You might like this fic if: You want a post-canon fic that doesn't quite fix it but does give them their love story, you want a story that's about grief and joy and all the ways they coexist, you like a character driven story

virga(e)

Length: 71,924 (complete)

Rating: E

Summary:First, before anything, there was want.

In one version of this story, Dean Winchester hasn't stopped moving since the day his father died. He hunts across the country but always comes back to California with the half-hearted hope of visiting Sam at Stanford, and an endless, restless, ceaseless pull to the desert.

In one version of this story, Dean Winchester finds himself in the scorched heat of a Death Valley summer, on a hunt for a ghost. Or a purpose. Or an answer to the question that’s been tugging at his tendons for as long as he’s lived.

In one version of this story, all Dean Winchester has ever done is want, and all Castiel has ever done is wait.

You might like this fic if: You love AU's and/or Stanford Era!Dean, fics about the desert, nature as a metaphor for choice, mystery-adjacent plots, or bite-sized longfics.

whatever dust is left (WIP)

Length: 26k+

Rating: E

Summary:It’s natural to think in terms of checks and balances. He’s been taught – created even – to think in terms of the greater good. The problem, of course, is that Castiel can no longer think of any good greater than Dean Winchester.

He goads Zachariah into sending him to the future, and it’s worth the cost.

He lets that future burn and drags Dean home, and it’s worth the cost.

If all he ever does is stay at Dean’s side, then he thinks that will be worth the cost, too.

Dean and Cas both wind up five years in the future, and the conversations they have there have ramifications that no version of them is prepared to comprehend. Dean doesn’t agree with Sam’s approach to stopping the apocalypse and can’t trust him, Cas has nowhere else to be, and all Dean and Cas know is that at the end, they had each other.

You might like this fic if: You also have endverse brainrot and have thought "what if Cas met his future self, too?", you like explorations of Dean's trauma, Cas' early experiences with humanity, and Sam struggling with darkness, toxic and codependent destiel

Oneshots

scared of the crack where the light comes through | E | 6k | AU |

I'll linger at your body like a silent beggar | E | 10k | Episode: s09e06 Heaven Can't Wait |

Daisy Jones & The Six (inactive)

she is benediction & I fell so ceaselessly

Pairing: Daisy Jones/Billy Dunne

Length: 11,453 & 96,006 (Complete)

Rating: M

Summary:

Part 1: Canon-compliant, Billy pov gap-filler of the show.

Part 2: Canon-Divergent post Chicago, Daisy and Billy pov. A journey of recovery, healing, and trust.

You might like this fic if: You want something to heal the open wound that is the finale, you like fics with tiny mountain cabins, you like fics with road trips in vans, you like characters who are allowed to mess up and learn from their mistakes.

call it fate, call it karma

Pairing: Daisy Jones/Billy Dunne

Length: 145,886 (complete)

Rating: E

Summary:

Billy meets Daisy at the diner the day they rename the band.

Or: these messy humans are even messier before they get a chance to grow up some.

Or: Daisy and Billy are in love in every universe, but in this one it's a bumpy ride.

You might like this fic if: You want to ask "what if the whole story were different?", you like found-family dynamics, you like invisible strings, you like characters that take forever to do what's best for themselves, you like your happy ending with a heaping side of angst and mess.

all of me an offering

Pairing: Daisy Jones/Billy Dunne

Length: 108,906 (complete)

Rating: E

Summary:

Teddy dies in '83. Daisy and Billy are brought back together because it was never an option not to be. Billy and Camila's marriage has spent six years collapsing. Angst and mess ensue.

You might like this fic if: a fic colloquially referred to as the "affair fic" during the writing process, characters who really really suck but also are learning, a narrative that doesn't make anyone the good guy, angst, grief

Oneshots

the night explodes the sun is gone | E | 3k | smut | daisy/billy |

life ain't ever what it seems (these dreams are more than paper things) | T | 1.5k | Tiny canon "what-if?" | daisy/billy |

first light | E | 4k | from the Hozier song| daisy/billy |

I'll come too | T | 2k | simone/bernie |

and it feels good to be known so well | T | 2.5k | daisy/karen | platonic kissing|