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sammysdewysensitiveeyes · 4 years ago

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Marauders #22

I absolutely hated this issue, so be warned that’s a lot of salt here, and my usual whining, so skip this post if you’re not in the mood for that. Also spoilers below.

First impression - what absolute, self-indulgent horseshit. I hesitate to use “fanfic” in a derogatory way, but a lot of Marauders has read as being very “fanfic” in terms of self-indulgence, and greatly favoring certain characters while denigrating others. I actually don’t think that’s a bad thing in fanfic. It can be annoying to read if that’s not what you’re looking for (or it can be wonderful, if it IS what you’re looking for), but ultimately, fanfic is all about self-indulgence. It’s about writing what you want to see in a story, and if Duggan’s Marauders was someone’s actual fanfic, I wouldn’t have anything bad to say about it. I might dislike the characterization, and probably wouldn’t read it, but it ultimately wouldn’t matter because it’s fanfic. Frankly, I’m just as bad about constantly centering everything around Pyro (and finding ways to work him into stories where he doesn’t even belong), because I’m writing just for myself, so I can be self-indulgent. But I’d expect much better from a professional writer. I’d expect much better from someone being paid to write a team book. I’d expect a god-damn balanced book that actually pays attention to the whole cast and gives a thoughtful interpretation to ALL the characters, even the villains, rather than a book dedicated to shining a spotlight on two already well-established characters, and treating them like queens who step all over the rest of the cast.

So, we ignore almost everything set up at the Gala, including the attack on Christian and the Marauder (the ship) being set ablaze. Why aren’t the characters handling that, Duggan? Is that really being saved for another month? We don’t even know if Christian is dead or not, you can’t even spare a panel for Iceman reacting to this? Instead, we tell a flashback story that eventually reveals that Lourdes Chantel is still alive, and Emma helped her fake her own death to escape from an abusive Sebastian.

What exactly is the point of this story, in terms of the overall Marauders arc? Will Lourdes show up later to play a role? Is this meant to further push Sebastian along some kind of path to redemption (recognizing that he drove Lourdes away with his actions). Because so far, Duggan doesn’t seem the slightest bit interested in rehabilitating Sebastian. This seems like yet another story establishing Emma GOOD, Sebastian BAD, the same message that’s been getting pounded into the readers’ heads for 22 issues. Like, we KNOW, Duggan. We know that you think the sun shines out of Emma’s ass, you’ve already well-established that you think she’s a brilliant, wonderful, compassionate, badass queen, through 22 issues of centering the entire series around her, at the expense of EVERY other fucking character in the book (even sometimes Kate, the other obvious favorite). It’s gotten beyond tiresome at this point. Like, I feel like even people who love Emma and hate Sebastian are getting bored by now, because it’s not even good storytelling to have a strawman villain who is no real threat just getting repeatedly knocked down.

So, Duggan has taken both Sebastian and Emma, and further removed any kind of complexity or nuance from them. Sebastian can’t have a kind or tender side, he can’t ever be shown in a positive light. His relationship was Lourdes was previously part of his tragic origins, pushing him to be a worse person than he’d been in a past, but no, lets retcon him to be a controlling abuser, whom Lourdes is desperate to escape. Because it makes Sebastian look bad and Emma look good. Honestly, it would have been more interesting and powerful to have Lourdes come back from the dead, and be disgusted by the person Sebastian has become. That would actually have an impact.

And by the way, why did Lourdes need Emma’s help in establishing her new identity? She was already part of the Hellfire Club, she’s the one who brought Sebastian in, she’s rich as fuck. Lourdes should be well capable of getting away from Sebastian on her own. She might need Emma’s help for faking her own death, but the rest of it? Emma should just do a little hacking to access Lourdes’ personal fortune and transfer it into a new account, and then she’s good to go. But no, Lourdes has to be treated like a little lost lamb, a helpless battered woman for Emma to rescue. And Emma’s deal with the Kingpin further exonerates Emma for her past crimes, because obviously, she’s just working off the debt she incurred helping poor, innocent Lourdes! It can’t be that Emma did bad things in the past because she was ambitious, cruel, vain, and power-hungry, she has to be a woke queen who was always there to help other women.

I think Duggan thinks he’s being feminist with all this, with the “women help each other,” message, and either ignoring or villifying all the male characters. But he’s not. It’s not feminist to take a very complex, interesting, powerful woman like Emma Frost and completely remove all responsibility and agency for her past crimes by turning her into an abuse victim and repeatedly retconning her to be better than she actually was. (To be fair, Duggan is just continuing a trend already started by other writers). Emma is ambitious, power-hungry, cruel, callous, self-absorbed, vain and snobby. But she is also brave, intelligent, compassionate, kind, protective, heroic, and self-sacrificing. All of those things are part of Emma. She is a teacher who loved her students, and the love for those students is part of what sent Emma on her long, difficult path towards redemption. Yes, she’s a badass queen, but she is also a flawed individual, who has worked to overcome those flaws and become a better person. And constantly re-writing the past to make her an “always good” abuse victim who only ever committed crimes because the big bad men forced her into it cheapens that redemption.

Speaking of cheap redemption -

The Wilhelmina subplot: Wow, Duggan really will prioritize ANY character over Bishop, Iceman and Pyro, won’t he? I know this is me throwing a tantrum, because “Wah, Duggan is writing someone other than my favorites!” but after 22 issues I feel justified in this whining. Iceman, Bishop and Pyro are supposed to be regular cast members, and so far Duggan has given more serious development and emotional scenes to Callisto, Forge, Dolores (the human contact at the X-Desk), Masque, Jumbo Carnation, Magneto, the Cuckoos, and now Wilhelmina. I don’t mind the development for many of those characters, I like Callisto and Forge and Jumbo (although I’m a little annoyed at the Magneto stuff, since he’s already front and center in the Krakoa era, and about to star in a mini-series, does he really need more time in the spotlight?). But honestly? Fuck Wilhelmina. I was never that interested in the Hellfire brats, and I’m not the slightest bit interested in watching the retcon redemption of a character that murders animals for fun. Why does she get a spotlight story while the three dudes on the team STILL haven’t gotten anything more than vague background hints of character arcs. I mean, compare the very emotional flashback and Wilhelmina’s breakdown to the half-assed, mostly taking place off- panel “redemption” that Duggan has given Pyro. Just a single line of “maybe this crew is bringing out the best in me,” with no lead-up, no further reflection, no hints about Pyro changing his ideas before then. Why did you even put Iceman, Bishop and Pyro on the team if you’re not going to use them, Duggan? Because you’ve made it quite clear that you’d rather write ANY character other than them. I can’t even look forward to Tempo and Banshee joining the cast next issue, even though I like them (and I really want to see more development of Tempo), because I know they will be yet more characters that get pushed into the foreground, while Iceman, Bishop and Pyro remain the underdeveloped background clown trio.

Also, it seems kind of offensive to have a cruel, murderous female character, and then say that her cruelty is entirely due to sexual abuse? What kind of message does that send to sexual abuse victims? That it will turn you into a monster? Why do female villains keep getting sexual abuse as part of their backstory? Why can’t they just be bad? Or have something else going on? So the Cuckoos flip a switch in Wilhelmina and she’s magically “fixed,” or at least on her way to better? Again, I think Duggan thinks he’s being feminist with this, but he’s not.

At least Wllhelmina has been a recurring villain in this series, so I can kinda see how her potential redemption may move the plot along, but Duggan is still introducing new plot threads, while leaving so many others dangling. What about Christian? What about Shinobi and Fenris? Will Bobby and Christian ever even speak to each other again? Will the supposed main cast members of Iceman, Bishop and Pyro ever, EVER get a proper character arc?

Or will we get an entire issue of Emma, Kate and the Cuckoos giving Wilhelmina a redemptive make-over, because girl power, amiright?

#not tagging on purpose #not trying to gum up the tags with my extreme salt #but seriously this was my least favorite issue so far #at least the revenge issue just destroyed Sebastian's body not his character #really fuck this nonsense it was terrible

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emmy-writes-sometimes · 5 years ago

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Oh, Baby!

You and Sebastian have been waiting for almost an entire year to adopt a baby. What happens when the call finally comes?

You stood up from the door you’d just painted and sighed. It looked good. You’d taken painter’s tape and put it in a geometric pattern. There was really nothing else to do with the door until you could put a sign on it with the baby’s name. If you ever got one, that was.

You and Sebastian had been married for two years, together for three before that. He was the absolute love of your life. You wanted the world for him and he wanted the same for you. And when you found out you couldn’t have the children you’d always dreamed of, you’d decided to give adoption a chance. You’d been on the list for a year. Last month you’d been told to prepare a room, so you did. It was absolutely beautiful by the time you were done with it – it was right across the hallway from the office, so you and Sebastian could go check on the baby. It was gender neutral, even though you both wanted a girl. And then the day came to go get the baby and the mother changed her mind.

Now you were waiting, again, on the list. You were waiting and waiting. This time, though, you’d decided to adopt from Romania. It was where Sebastian was from and they had so many babies and children that needed a home, and every time you’d heard Sebastian’s mother talk about Sebastian there your heart had skipped a few beats. But you still couldn’t help but think that maybe you weren’t getting picked because people thought you wouldn’t be good parents. And it was slowly breaking you, little by little, so much so that you’d taken the leftover paint from the nursery and painted over the white door. It brightened up the hallway, that was for sure.

“What on Earth did you just do?” You turned around to see a smile on Sebastian’s face. He’d been gone filming for most of the day. In fact, you hadn’t even seen him since the night before. He was training for another movie, too, and left before the crack of dawn. Luckily, though, the filming was almost over and then he’d be all yours for another few months.

“I got bored so I painted the door,” you said with a shrug.

“It looks amazing.” You stood up. Sebastian turned you around and captured your lips in a kiss, but you pushed him away with your elbows.

“I have paint all over me, Seb,” you giggled.

“Yeah, I know. I like it.”

“And hopefully, someday soon, a baby will.” Sebastian’s face fell, and yours did too.

“Sweetheart, we’ll get a call when we get a call.”

“And what if we don’t?”

“Someone’s got to have a baby,” he said as he pulled your hands to wrap them around his waist. You hugged him back with a sigh. “And one of these days our names are going to come up on that list. And we’ll get a call. And we’ll fly there. And then we’ll have a baby. I promise.”

“But what if they decide we’re not fit or whatever?”

“They’ve checked both of the houses out half a dozen times. We’re good to go, honey. We just have to wait our turn.” You sighed again as he kissed your hair. “And until then, how about you help me bring in the groceries I just got?”

It was two weeks later before you even thought about it again, and before you ended up at that door again. This time it was just because there was a draft in the hallway and you realized that Sebastian had opened the window last night. So you walked in, and the breakdown started. You ended up in the old rocking chair Sebastian had gotten from his mom’s house, one he’d had since he lived in Romania, and you were crying your eyes out by the time he found you.

“I just want a family so bad, Seb,” you said softly as he stood in front of you, taking your hands.

“Yeah, sweetie, I know,” he responded. “We’re a family, okay? And you and me and the dog are going to get our baby. Whether it’s tomorrow or next week or next month or… whenever. We’ll get our baby.” You nodded, sniffling, and tried to stop crying.

“I just wish I could stop having breakdowns over this.” You tried to smile, but it didn’t work.

“Next thing you know, our kid will be going to elementary school and you’ll have a breakdown over that.” You swatted at his shoulder. “What? It’s true, you cry at everything.”

“Hello?” You didn’t even turn your head at the sound of Sebastian’s phone ringing. He perked up, though, and looked over at you. You turned the book you were reading upside down upon seeing the look on his face. You cocked your head and Sebastian turns his phone over for a second.

“What?” You asked.

“Go buy the next tickets to Bucharest,” he said with a smile on his face.

“What?” At first, none of it made sense. And then it did. He turned back to his phone.

“Yep. Yes. Yes. We’ll email you our flight itinerary and meet you at the airport,” he said. “And we’ll have all of our things with us. Right. Thank you, so much. Bye.”

“Well?”

“There’s a baby waiting for it’s new parents in Bucharest!” He said loudly, scooting to your side of the couch to hug you tightly. You’d never felt so happy in your entire life. You’d never felt so relieved, either.

“Ours?”

“Ours. Go, go, get the tickets! I’ll pack!” You jumped off the couch and out of Sebastian’s arms with a squeal and ran into the office to turn on the computer.

In an hour and a half you were loading your carry-on bags and the baby’s things into the back of your Uber. The driver looked a little confused as to why you had so many things for a baby except for the baby yourselves, but didn’t question it. You just sat in the back with Sebastian and tried not to squeal from excitement again. You’d been reading blog after article on website after website about other people’s adoption stories and even though you weren’t trying to get your hopes up, nobody better take a baby away from you after making you come all the way to Romania.

“Passports?” Sebastian asked as you walked into the airport, looking for your airline’s kiosk station. You handed the bundle of passports to him, taking the baby carrier. “If we get separated, just meet me at the gate. We had half an hour after security, so I’ll get the coffee and you get the snacks.”

“You’ve been planning this out for awhile.”

“You’re not the only one who’s been waiting for ages upon ages for a mini-me. Go.” He watched as you printed out your boarding pass and checked in, doing the same on his own kiosk. Everything went smoothly – you went through security, got Sebastian’s favorite snacks, got your favorite snacks from the next booth over, and then met Sebastian at your gate. He’d checked everything aside from your backpacks and was sitting down, holding a carton of two iced coffees.

“I got extra espresso in yours,” he said.

“And that’s why I’m adopting a child with you.” He smiled.

“And remember. If you don’t like me after a month, it’s not like we can return it.” You scoffed.

“I could just tell customs you have a bomb in your pants.”

“You wouldn’t!” He shoved you as you took your iced coffee from him, almost causing you to spill it.

“I would after that.” You both shut up and waited for your flight to start boarding.

It was a thirteen hour long flight, and it was endless. The entire time you were getting up and down to walk around the plane, to go to the bathroom, then wander back to your seat. Sebastian took a pill and was out, but you were there, the entire time, smiling to yourself and dreaming about the baby that was finally about to be yours.

“Oh, my God,” you heard Sebastian breathe out when he stepped inside the hospital room, looking at the baby in the farthest crib to the left.

“This is Victoria,” the nurse said in a thick accent as she walked you two over there to meet her. “I understand you’re the adoptive parents?”

“Yeah,” you breathed out. The baby was as beautiful as you could’ve imagined. She had blue eyes, like Sebastian’s, and that was when you knew it must be fate.

“You’re allowed to change the name, of course, if there’s something else you’d prefer.” You thought about the name and looked at Sebastian. “Would you like to hold her?”

“You go first,” you said to Sebastian, when you saw that he was actually starting to cry. You just put a hand on his back, insisting, and the nurse quickly showed Sebastian how to hold her. “I don’t know. We’ve had all this time and never even thought of a name.”

“I don’t mind Victoria,” Sebastian said, looking over at you. “Victoria…”

“Georgeta,” you interrupted. “After your mom.”

“Only if we do Elizabeth after. For your mom.” You smiled.

“I don’t know, Seba, it’s a long name.” Sebastian held the baby tightly, swinging her over to face you.

“I think she looks like a Victoria Georgeta Elizabeth Stan,” Sebastian said with a grin. “Huh?” You could see the beginning of dark hair on the baby’s head and reached your hand out. The baby gripped onto your thumb with her tiny fingers. Your heart skipped a beat again.

“Yeah,” you said. Sebastian kissed the baby’s head like he did yours. “Almost as pretty as her.”

“Almost as pretty as you.” Sebastian offered you the baby. “I’ll go sign the papers so we can go take our baby home.”

“Our baby,” you repeated. He closed the distance between you and kissed you.

“Ours.”

A/N: I hope the person who requested this loves reading it as much as I loved writing it! Like, the things I would give to have Sebastian’s children... not to be too thirsty or anything.

#sebastian stan fluff #sebastian stan imagine #sebastian stan x reader

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highgaarden · 5 years ago

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Lizzie/Landon - "I think I'm the first girl to break a bed with a guy, without even having sex with him while doing so." (pls let them break a bunch of other stuff while actually having sex)

two-shot! read and comment on ao3, please!

where you cast those stones you wear;

rating: explicit chapters: 1/2 characters: lizzie/landon; background klaus/caroline, background hope/landon, background josie/penelope; the whole SS gang.

where you cast those stones you wear

part i

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“There you are.”

Lizzie’s smile is the fakest ass fake smile he’s ever seen, and he’s seen a lot of them.

It’s how she smiles when Wade asks her for donations to his Anime club. Or when Dr Saltzman caught all of them at the Old Mill trying to make moonshine (Kaleb’s idea). Her smiles are especially at their fakest when she wants to pull Hope away from him for some magical assistance to whatever trouble she’s managed to get herself—

—and Josie, and Alaric, Raf, MG, (himself, though she’ll never count him) and probably half the school along as well—

—that week. “Just the person I wanted to randomly bump into in study hall.”

“Really,” he deadpans, not believing her one bit.

He shifts his book just a little closer to his chest. He’s not nervous, but her energy is full of it sometimes, and sometimes it’s just energy personified that bounces off the calm he tries to fill his study hall with.

You know, where they’re supposed to study – in silence, preferably – but with Lizzie, there’s never much of silence.

It’s with a bit of a niggling discomfort that Landon realises he’s learned her tells: Lizzie can talk up a storm, always, but it’s in tense moments that she can’t seem to shut up. Not that he’d ever tell her to shut up; he doesn’t know why he always just wants to be nice to her, despite her printing out posters of VOTE ARTISANAL JAR OF MAYONNAISE FOR HOMECOMING KING last semester and sticking them all over school.

—

“Well?” Lizzie prompts, clicking her tongue.

Landon’s just sitting there, and for all his humble bragging about being at the top of their classes he’s just… sitting there, with a look that tells her he’s not quite registering what she’s just said to him.

“I’m—I’m sorry?” he finally says.

Lizzie sighs loudly enough for the entire study hall to send glares their way. Landon attempts to tamp down on their aggression, but all Lizzie does is just sigh louder.

Sorry, Landon mouths apologetically again, raising his hand at Wade, who looks close to crying over exam revision.

“Landon,” Lizzie says with finality.

“Lizzie,” Landon matches her tone. “I’m sorry, but you’re just going to have to repeat yourself.”

Murder is the only word that comes to mind with the glare she sends his way. But she decides to humour him.

“Wow, that’s so weird. I feel like I’m just mishearing you. Again, please—hey, I said please.”

Lizzie’s mouth moves around the words she’s telling him.

Landon continues to stare at her blankly. “Sorry, there’s just this weird ringing in my ears. It sounds like you just asked me to be your boyfriend?”

—

Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman.

Asking him, resident emo-boy, a marginally competent bird as she always ‘fondly’ calls him, to be her esteemed partner.

“Am I hearing this right?”

Lizzie hisses right through her teeth, “Do not insult me, you moderately competent bird.”

See?

He lifts his book as if to deflect the blow of her mighty glare. “Look, I’m not! I’m just – are you feeling alright? Been getting enough sleep?”

“Two weeks have passed since my mom’s come back, and I have thoroughly exhausted every single mother-daughter bonding activity ever, and she’s moved on from Oh Lizzie, my favourite daughter, I’ve missed you so much snuggling to Who is this Sebastian your father keeps mentioning lectures.” Lizzie adds flippantly: “I’m not vibing with it.”

“Sebastian?”

“Super sexy perma-teen vampire but a complete misjudgement of character on my end.”

“And this isn’t?” Landon mumbles.

“I need to get my mother off my back, keep up.” Lizzie inches forward in her seat. The ends of her hair graze the table with how much she’s leaning towards him, making him look her in her wide, blue eyes. Always with the theatrics. “You’re just about at the exact opposite end of the Sebastian spectrum. Mopey, dependable, not obviously good looking, but your other qualities probably can make up for that. And you’re the kind of guy would probably wake up super early to get me a coffee and croissant before school, because that’s just how cheesy you are.”

“Thanks?”

“Don’t interrupt me. Anyway, it’s not just for my benefit either.”

“Somehow I find that hard to believe.”

Lizzie’s smile widens just a touch. “Heard your little crush on Hope just went up in flames.”

So is his face now, all puffed out and embarrassed. He lowers his voice and hisses, “How do you know about that?”

“Oh Landon. My sweet thrift store hobbit,” Lizzie sighs. “Everyone knows about it. You wear it like a badge of constant glumness. You didn’t speak to Jed for a whole week after he bought her a sandwich last week.”

“I could’ve bought her a sandwich too, big deal,” Landon mutters.

Lizzie raises a sharp finger and looks smug. “Ah, but you didn’t! See, my boy, you’ve got no game. Now imagine how much cooler your image would be if you were seen with resident popular girl,” she gestures to herself. “Your reputation would shoot up the ranks.”

“There are ranks?”

“Duh,” Lizzie says like it’s the most obvious thing. “And you, being a phoenix without actually possessing any unique phoenix qualities other than resurrecting – ”

“That’s not unique enough?”

“—looking like a pale artichoke in gym class doesn’t help, either. I am your salvation!” Lizzie finishes, hands on her hips and jaw raised like she’s standing centre-stage at their annual talent competition.

Landon narrows his eyes. “You think people will like me more if it looks like I’m dating you?”

“Now we’re getting somewhere. Move a little.” She takes a seat next to him gracefully, tucking her skirt under her thighs. “Listen. I need my mom to stop breathing down my neck. She’s been looking at me like she wants to give me the birds and the bees talk, with visual aid, flash cards and mini-theatre and I’d rather not go through that again. Once was more than enough. Pretty sure Dad wants her to exact power over my social life, since he doesn’t really have any say in that, and I’m looking at two semesters of constant surveillance. Or a twelve-step programme. And Professor M isn’t helping either—”

Landon shuts his book. “How does Professor M know about your love life?”

“Everyone knows about my love life, Landon. I’m interesting.” She rests an unwilling hand on his shoulder with a grimace. “And soon you will be too.”

“Because I’ll be dating you.”

“Fake dating,” Lizzie corrects primly.

“And you think Hope will like me, even though I’ll be unavailable?”

“There’s something to be said about wanting the unattainable, Landon. And trust me, you will be unattainable once you’re standing by my side.”

“Yeah, because everyone will think I’m nuts.”

“I resent that. Say yes.”

“Lizzie, I—” a panicked, helpless sort of look crosses Landon’s face. “This is really dishonest; I don’t think we should be…”

“Let me do the thinking for both of us, alright Little Bird?” Lizzie snips. “Getting back in my parents’ good books, the teachers off my backs for any sort of inevitable breakdown, and you… get to be Professor M’s potential son-in-law one day.”

“This is extremely coercive, you know,” Landon points out, but the protest is feeble at best. “And making me really uncomfortable. Nobody will buy it.”

“We’ll just have to put on a really good show,” she swears. “Say yes.”

—

Two things happen the next two days:

Landon attempts to say hi to Hope, who looks right through him to greet MG a good morning.

During lunch break, by some kind of miracle, he joins Hope and Lizzie for lunch just in time to hear Hope say, “You were right about the bio homework, by the way. Your ideas aren’t that bad, Saltzman.”

Lizzie cocks an eyebrow at Landon. “Welcome, Kirby.”

“Oh, hey Landon,” Hope greets warmly.

Landon takes all of thirty seconds to make up his mind.

Lizzie’s phone vibrates in her bag. When she checks it, it’s from Landon.

Just one word.

Yes.

—

Every Friday evening, the rag tag group of upper-secondary students meet for some dumb study group Emma had made them all participate in, in an effort to like, ‘bond’ as ‘one’ ‘community’ or something.

It’s astonishing that all of them consistently make it every single week, but no one will admit it’s because they appreciate each other’s company. They’d chalked it up to Stockholm Syndrome.

Rafael comes when he feels like it, but he’s usually stuck in detention helping Dorian jar newton eyes or something, but even he tries to be on his best behaviour so he doesn’t miss much of these.

It’s during one of these study groups that MG, having been not-so-discreetly been spying on Lizzie and Landon whilst they all parroted off chemical equations to each other, demands: “Why are you touching him?”

He’s probably been watching them really closely since the Bomb had Dropped.

Lizzie makes sure to have Josie walk into them in the courtyard one day with her hand placed very carefully on Landon’s thigh, and shocks her twin so much she goes running through the hallways until she bumps into Penelope, and blurts out the scene she just witnessed, swearing her to secrecy.

Penelope, of course, tells everyone else.

Lizzie pretends to fidget with the hem of her shirt. “Excuse you?”

MG narrows his eyes. “You just… keep putting your hand on Landon’s arm. Willingly. Why.”

“Haven’t you heard?” Penelope smirks, whilst Josie turns red and avoids Lizzie’s glare, “they’re the Salvatore School’s It Couple right now.”

“Fake news,” Jed coughs into his notes, and Kaleb guffaws.

Hope doesn’t do anything but watch the entire exchange with curious eyes.

“Look, Penelope, you don’t have to believe it,” Landon begins, but he’s making mopey eyes at Hope, so Lizzie decides to cut in.

“As devastated as I am to admit it, Frodo’s been growing on me,” Lizzie sighs, the vision of a woman distraught. “Who knew I was into nerd porn?”

MG’s ears might as well be whistling, and Jed’s cough sounds like a choke now.

“Girl, say what,” Kaleb says in one disbelieving breath. “Tell me you’re not serious. You okay? Been getting enough sleep? Is this a breakdown thing, ‘cause Emma said we have to like, show solidarity and help you visualise your inner child and shit—”

Lizzie smarts at that, just a little. Her lips part to shoot some of her automatic sass bullets, but surprisingly nothings comes out. Landon secretly puts his hand on her knee in a secret show of solidarity.

“Kaleb,” Josie says sharply. “People can change.”

Lizzie eyes Landon curiously. He shoots her a small smile, which she looks away from.

“Exactly,” Penelope nods, but she’s smirking in a way that says she doesn’t buy a single thing, and is enjoying every second of watching Landon squirm under everyone’s scrutiny. “Who’d you lose the bet to, Lizzie?”

Lizzie, despite herself, starts to feel annoyed. “I’ll have you know, Penelope, Landon isn’t the short end of an already short bunch of sticks—”

Landon tries to figure out the compliment there.

“Then – then prove it!” MG blurts out. “Kiss. If you’re really a couple, then – Kiss!”

That stops Lizzie short. “Milton. Ew.”

“Really gross, MG.” Hope shoots him a look of distaste.

“Voyeur much?” Penelope smirks.

“Nah, I’m with MG,” defends Kaleb. “This is really entertaining and all, but it’s kinda starting to weird me out. Suck his face. No way you’d do that willingly.”

“You’re all wrong,” Lizzie tells them politely. Or as politely as she can. Things are a-movin’ and she’s excited; she can already feel her legs tingling when she accidentally siphons some of Landon’s magic from his hand on her knee under the table. She swallows down the smugness in her voice, because this is exactly where she’d hoped the day would go. She turns to Landon, and wills him not to look so pale.

“Pucker up, ‘90s,” she coos.

Keeping her face as forced-smiley as possible she leans forward and gives Landon a peck on his lips. A small little one. A peck really, bird to bird.

Landon, to her discreet pleasure, kisses her back.

When they part their chaste, publicly-acceptable form of display, everyone is looking at them, shell-shocked.

Penelope steals Jed’s can of Coke just so she could do a spit-take.

—

“That plan worked out awesome. Score one to Saltzman,” Lizzie sighs victoriously as she plops down onto her bed. “Now on to Phase 2.”

“I really don’t want to know what Phase 2 is,” Landon mumbles. He’s got his arm slung over his eyes as he slumps three inches down into Lizzie’s plushy pink armchair.

“Phase 2 is Mom walking into us. She’s about to start baking downstairs. I know. It’s Tuesday. Ready?”

Slowly, Landon removes his arms. He stares at her. For like, a really long time. “What do you mean,” he widens his eyes, “by walking into us.”

Lizzie smiles deviously. Without warning, she lets out a very soft moan.

“Lizzie,” Landon hisses harshly.

“Yes, exactly, keep doing that,” Lizzie responds in a breathless voice, whilst she grins manically at him and flaps her hands, motioning for him to go louder.

“Lizzie,” Landon groans now, completely exasperated. “It’s barely been two days, I really doubt we’ll be having sex right now—”

“Yeah, keep talking dirty to me!” Lizzie all but bellows and jumps up on the bed, the mattress squeaking. She glares at Landon, who sighs, and very reluctantly joins her.

They jump up and down, and every so often Lizzie punches Landon in the arm so he lets out a believable grunt.

The mattress springs keep squeaking. Lizzie keeps up her panting.

After four more minutes of that, Landon’s a little out of breath, puts some spring in his jump, and lands in a pile of Lizzie’s haphazard pillows.

“Give it up, Lizzie,” he says, resuming his previous moping position of arm-over-eyes. “I think I pulled a muscle.”

“Sexy,” Lizzie says the way one might say ‘rancid foot’, but drops down next to him anyway. She stares at the ceiling, and they let out a long sigh.

After about another four minutes of moping, Lizzie turns to her side and swats Landon’s arm off his face. “Enough! Tomorrow night is another day.”

“That doesn’t even make sense,” he points out, before propping himself up on one elbow to face her. “About that kiss just now—”

“They totally bought it,” Lizzie can’t resist interrupting.

“You sure you okay with this?” he mumbles in that Landon way of his. He studies her face. She notes the dark circles framing his obsidian-blues.

“Getting cold feet already, Kirby?”

“No, it’s just that—”

Her door swings open. “Elizabeth, do you remember where your mum put the…”

Lizzie and Landon whip around to see a very livid Professor M, staring at them, at the space between them, at the sweat beading on Landon’s forehead, at Lizzie’s once-sleek French braid that has now shaken loose, at the two of them again, at the space between them, and once more at Landon.

“Professor Mika-Mikaels—” Landon squawks, turning white as a sheet.

The growl that emanates from Professor M seems to make the room tremble, and Landon all but stutters to a stop. Lizzie, however, is coming up sunflowers. She practically bounces to her knees and throws her hands up, eyes crinkling warmly, exclaiming, “What did you need of me, my beloved stepfather!”

“Well, darling, I was looking for your mother’s ridiculously expensive sea salt but now I’m looking for something else entirely,” he grits out through clenched teeth, despite being slightly mollified by Lizzie’s welcome.

“And that is?” Lizzie all but croons, making a very conscious move towards Landon. “We’re kind of in the middle of studying right now.”

“Banishing objects, hm? Your books are missing.”

“Invisique,” Lizzie sings in reply. Landon just wants her to shut the fuck up, right now.

Landon’s head disappears, which is a good thing, because he looks like he’s holding in from puking his guts out, the way Klaus observes him like he’s a piece of meat.

“You’re the phoenix, yes?”

“Yes,” Landon says squeamishly.

“Alright,” Professor M seems to deliberate, before flashing over to Landon, grabbing him and throwing him out the room and right down the stairs.

“Niklaus Mikaelson!” comes her mom’s furious bellow.

“For FUCK’S SAKE, KLAUS!” She hears Dad yell. “WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS.”

Screams erupt, there’s a clattering of feet, and Lizzie falls out of bed in a perfect traumatised swoon, back of her hand rested delicately on her forehead. “Stepfather! Can we not with the dramatics!”

“We’re going to have a talk about this later,” he warns with a finger wagging her way, his undisguised rage making his accent thicker.

“I’ll miss you when you’re suspended again,” Lizzie pouts.

He groans, already hearing Mom’s boots stomping up the stairs. “As shall I, my sweet.”

—

At least Landon’s gotten used to resurrecting. Cause of death: the ire of Professor Klaus Mikaelson.

Lizzie’s waiting for him with a warm blanket when he starts to stir, her head facing the sky like she’s enjoying the sunset. Blinking groggily, he turns onto his stomach and rubs the back of his neck. He feels the weather-worn wood of the docks pressing into his face and he groans. That’s going to leave a mark.

“Welcome back,” Lizzie quips.

“Just because I can’t die doesn’t mean I wouldn’t appreciate some sympathy, Lizzie,” Landon mutters, throwing her a murderous look. “So what’s your damage.”

“Let’s see,” Lizzie says as she drapes the blanket over Landon’s crumpled heap of a body, face and all. “Two weeks of grounding. Mom suggested making it three weeks, but Dad intervened and said he’d rather us be on library duty instead for the rest of this semester.”

“Us?”

“Professor M also suggested throwing you out the window and have me try to levitate you before you hit the ground—”

“Jesus fucking Christ.”

“—but Mom was all Oh, maybe that’s a little too harsh,” Lizzie continues thoughtfully.

“A little?” Landon squeaks underneath the blue and white embroidered quilt. “Literally dying wasn’t enough?”

“But on the plus side, they were yelling so hard the entire school now knows we were caught post-doing the dirty.” Lizzie shoots him a grin. “On to Phase 3!”

“No!” Landon yells and clambers to his feet. “Lizzie, so far all your plans have kind of sucked for me, you know? How the hell is Hope supposed to like me now that she thinks I’ve slept with you!”

“Easy, lover boy,” Lizzie says, frowning. “This is the 21st century, she’s not a prude.”

“You don’t — you don’t know her like I do,” Landon says, burying his face in his hands and turning towards the water. “She’s not like y…”

He whirls around, hands already halfway lifting up like a gesture of apology but Lizzie’s already standing up, facing him squarely. Her eyes are narrowed as she takes him in coolly. “Not like?”

“Nevermind,” Landon says quickly. “Let’s grab some dinner, I’m starv—”

“Finish your fucking sentence, Frodo,” Lizzie says in a voice that is low and dangerous. Is it weird that he’s seeing some Klaus in the shadows of her face right now?

“Lizzie… let’s drop it.”

“No. Let’s hear you say it. Not like what? You were saying she’s not like me,” she hisses. Her fists are bunched into tight fists and he’s so glad she doesn’t have anything to syphon right now. He really hasn’t tried dying twice in the span of 12 hours.

“Look, I’m sorr—”

“Invisique,” she whispers.

“Lizzie!”

He hears the wooden boards squeak as she runs away, and when her feet hit grass there’s no telling where she might be.

“Fuck you, Landon!” he yells and heaves a rock into the water with a loud splash.

—

tbc

#lizzie saltzman x landon kirby #lizzie x landon #legacies fanfiction #legacies #ishenwulf #hannah writes things #drunk writing: a series #otp: why are you carrying a sword #fic: where you cast those stones you wear

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hydrosurfhardware · 6 years ago

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Gath Is Cool Again!

Thanks to Owen Wright’s use of a Gath Gedi Helmet during his WSL win in Tahiti, Gath is in the spotlight once again. The core surf co has always been a favorite with underground chargers & top pro’s alike, most notably used by Tom Carroll & Nathan Fletcher at Pipeline. But now with an increased awareness around the effects of head injuries and more crowded lineups full of surf craft of varying sizes & shapes (i.e. SUP’s mini mals & foils), many more surfers are beginning to err on the side of caution.

Owen’s head injury at pipeline & now use of a Gath helmet during competition has helped to breakdown the stigma surrounding protection while surfing & was joined by fellow WSL surfers & hollow wave chargers Jeremy Flores, Sebastian Zietz & Kauli Vaast in wearing Gath Helmets while performing at the highest level in waves of consequence during the WSL event.

Gath is the original water & action sports helmet company & over the years they have refined & improved their products to cater to various needs. We stock all four Gath helmet models so we’ll have a helmet to suit you.

Find the best Gath helmet for you below:

Gath Hat: The original Gath helmet first made in 1989, still works as well today. A good choice if you want a bit more protection around your neck too, thanks to its closed fit design.

Gath Surf Convertible: This is by far the most popular Gath model. Designed for surfers, it’s got all the features that made the Gath Hat great plus more ergonomics and even lighter. This makes more comfortable & maneuverable when surfing, feels like you’re not even wearing a helmet

Gath Gedi: The helmet Owen Wright used in Tahiti. The Gath Gedi does away with the EVA foam peak, making it 100% hard shell to protect from maximum impact. Like the Gath Surf Convertible, the Gath Gedi has removable ear pieces which can be handy in warm water. If you’re partaking in high speed activities on the water, the Gath Gedi is your helmet.

Gath Retractable Visor: Great for high speed water sports when you need to keep the sun, wind or water spray off your face. The full face visor can be adjusted to any position, enabling the user to only cover what they want. Like the Gath Hat, the Gath Retractable Visor has a closed fit which provides a bit more protection around the back of the head & neck.

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happysandwichparty-blog · 8 years ago

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Tokyo Disney Sea Food (Spring 2017)

This is a breakdown of all the food we tasted while In Tokyo DisneySea during the Spring of 2017, including Easter event dishes!

Apple Pastry, Egg & Bacon Focaccia, Chocolate Croissant - Mamma Biscotti's Bakery

The egg pastry was was slightly warm, the egg was also runny in the middle, which made it pretty tasty, the sauce on top seemed to be a hollandaise of some sort.

The other two were pretty standard, they would have been better warmed up or with a warm drink, but the apple danish and chocolate croissant tasted fine and did their job

Sea Salt Ice Cream - Ice Cream Cart (All Over Park)

The outside is a wafer shell of sorts, inside is sea salt ice cream with has a lovely flavor, the sea salt really compliments the vanilla ice cream. And surprise, there is some raspberry paste in the middle as well. Good treat for a warm day or afternoon snack. One of the more unique sweet treats available at the ice cream carts.

Tiramisu Ice Cream Sandwich - Ice Cream Cart (All Over Park)

Cute Mickey stamped on the outside, standard ice cream sandwich with a tiramisu flavor. The flavoring is pretty on part with tiramisu, it that is something you enjoy and want a sweet treat, this is for you!

Maple Cream Ball & Soft Cream - Sultan's Oasis

They taste like pancakes, in ball form! Pretty yummy sweet treat, sweeter than some of the other options in the park and paired with a very creamy soft serve. While a lot of the deserts in the park are more fruity, tart, or savory, this treat is a bit more sweet. Pairs well with the Chandu tail.

Peach Mousse - Mamma Biscotti's Bakery

Many of the mousse options in the parks are fruit flavored, good luck finding chocolate if that’s what you like. This was very cute in it’s souvenir cup, but there are many varieties like it throughout the park.

Little Green Men - Mamma Biscotti's Bakery

The little green men seem to be one of the most popular snack purchases. They are filled with custard, chocolate, and strawberry. The filling all seem to have a pudding like texture and the men themselves are a mochi like texture.

They are cuter than they taste. The custard was good, the chocolate and strawberry left more to be desired.

Ubiwa Bun - Seaside Snacks

One of the best Disney Sea snacks. A shrimp bun! Makes a great breakfast item, or afternoon snack. The bun itself is in adorable packaging and looks like a life preserver, it is incredibly like and airy. The inside has a shrimp mixture which is no too overpowering but very savory and tasty!

Chandu Spring Tail - Sultan's Oasis

Too good, we ate before pictures! This is the Spring version of Chandu’s Tail. The inside consists of a chicken and cheese curry mixture, with just a bit of a kick to it, but tastes really good and is a filling snack. The outside has a similar consistency to the Ubiwa Bun, a light airy bread.

Pork Rice Roll - Liberty Landing

Basically a roll of rice rapped in bacon and then fried. It is a bit greasy, but is also a unique and tasty snack. The bacon wasn’t as cooked on some areas as It could have been. A good snack if you are looking for something a bit different in the American Waterfront area, but you aren't missing much if you pass on this.

Caramel Popcorn

Much more sweet than the milk chocolate popcorn. Still tasty, and had a little bit more of a salty kick as it’s caramel. If you are looking for a snack to share and want something salty and sweet, grab some caramel popcorn! However, you may be more interested in the other flavors.

Miguel's El Dorado Cantina

Two meals and drinks - breakdown below.

Combination Plate - Miguel's El Dorado Cantina

Donald shaped rice with a tortilla sombrero, veggies are in a bell pepper cup and the meat and shrimp covered in salsa. Surpsingly good for mexican inspired food in Japan. A large well rounded meal.

Tres Fruit Cocktail - Miguel's El Dorado Cantina

Three fruit cocktails. Lime, mango, and berry (strawberry, cherry, blueberry). The lime one was the best tasting of the three, it was similar to a margarita. Great little sampler to pair with any of the plates available.

Spicy Meat Tacos - Miguel's El Dorado Cantina

Don’t fool yourself, they are not spicy, but they are tasty! The tortilla’s were soft and not stale as you will sometimes find in more humid locations. Pretty standard soft tacos, with some hard shells tossed into the mix, which actually added to the flavor/consistency nicely. If you are missing Mexican food while on your trip to Japan, the options in Miguel’s are a great lunch choice!

Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen

Breakdown below.

Easter Special Sparkling Lemon Drink - Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen

Another drink with a sprite like taste, including raspberry jelly in the bottom and pop-rock (without the fizz) like candies added. The jelly in these drinks was very popular around the park, it was a unique consistency. Good taste, but it little over powering if you drank up too much jelly at once. Give it a shot just for the jelly added at the bottom, it’s different.

Scallop Chowder - Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen

Very standard chowder, a nice warm snack with a cute Micky bread cracker. Nothing outstanding, but a good snack if you are hungry and not looking for Pizza while in the Mermaid lagoon. It is a small cup, so don’t expect to be full for long.

Sausage Pizza - Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen

The bread on the pizza was very good! Light, tasty, and not over cooked. The sausage was a bit greasy, but overall this pizza is a good snack if you aren’t looking for something as large as a full set meal that many of the restaurants offer.

Strawberry Cream Roll Cake - Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen

Wafer like sea shell decoration, similar to the sea salt ice cream. The cake was very moist and tasty, the pairing of the strawberry cream was a good touch in lieu of a vanilla cream. I would definitely recommend this dessert if eating at this restaurant.

Blood Orange & Passion Fruit Mousse -Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen

We ordered the mango version and ended up with blood orange. It was very tart. If you don’t like tart do not order this. There were mini boba and a jelly like mixture on the top. I would personally not order this again (though I would try the mango version), but it was nice to give it a try.

Potato Soup - Magellan's

Magellan’s has course meals which come with a soup, main dish, and dessert.

The soup of the day was a creamy potato. Warm and tasty! There were however no large potatoes in the soup itself, it was completely puréed, but still very good! I would recommend this soup.

White Fish - Magellan's

I’m not actually sure what type of fish this was, I’m leaning toward a Halibut? No one was able to tell us, just that the fish of the day was a white fish.

The main dish portion was small, but the fish it self was well cooked and tasty, I would definitely order again. There was bread on the side so don’t fret about not getting full from a small main dish.

Creme Brulee - Magellan's

A very standard creme brulee, nothing speculator or ground breaking in terms of the recipe, but it was well executed, and a very large portion for one person. If you like creme brulee I don’t think you will be disappointed.

Link to Tokyo Disneyland Spring 2017 Food

https://happysandwichparty.tumblr.com/post/160218011602/tokyo-disneyland-food-spring-2017

#food #foodpics #travel #japan #tokyo #tokyodisneyland #tokyodisneysea #toktodisneyresort #disneyland #disneysea #disney #travelfood #cutefood #happysandwichpartyJapan

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ramblin-mama-blog · 8 years ago

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I need a mental health day. But between working 40 hours a week, spending every spare moment taking care of my kid who is glued to my side since I went back to work, and fighting with my husband for some god dang help, who knows when I will be able to take one. 😓😓😓 Had a mini breakdown this morning. Woke up to find dead flying bugs all over the floor of my sons room. 3rd year in a row they've shown up. We have bombed for termites and flying ants the last two years but here they are again. Luckily Sebastian sleeps in my room with me and we just use his room for storage but it's still upsetting. They weren't in there last night when I got his pjs, but they were coating the floor when I went in this morning for clothes. 😭😭😭 Sebastian's been screaming at me all morning bc I locked him in the living room so I could clean them up (I put up a baby gate in the hallway). In stressed beyond belief at making sure I'm doing my job right, that are my bills are paid, and my kid stays happy for the most part. I barely have two seconds to breathe. I can't even escape to the bathroom bc he just follows me and if I put up the gate he will scream. And my husband is no help when he comes home on the weekends bc he just wants to 'relax'. Well so do I fucker! He might have a more physically demanding job but he gets to clock out at the end of the day, go back to his hotel room and eat and watch tv and shower alone. I have Sebastian as soon as I get off work until I go back to work the next day. I am busy every single second of every day. I would love to be able to relax on the weekends. But no. I don't get too. So. Damn. Frustrated.

#mumblr #humblr #bad day

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stevefoxe · 8 years ago

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Everything I Read in 2016

For the third year in a row, I logged every novel, short story collection, poetry compilation, graphic novel, and collected edition of monthly comics I read, excluding individual monthly comics (on which I continued to fall catastrophically behind) and anything I read (and reread, and reread again) for my day job. My only big change? A lot of these books were read on my iPad Mini. And a good number were for my gay book club (you can guess which ones).

If you don’t yet keep track of your reading, you should start in 2017. It’s your best bet for hitting a reading goal, and for folks like me who read a ton, it’s a nice way to recall books that otherwise departed your memory.

For the tl;dr crowd, here are my Top 13 for the year, in the order in which I read them:

On Writing, Stephen King

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

The Girls, Emma Cline

I Am a Hero Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín

Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (I read an ARC)

A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli

Habitat, Simon Roy

Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton

Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques

(New X-Men Omnibus was a re-read, or it would be up here.)

The rest is below the jump!

I don’t really feel like dumping on anything this year. I definitely got burnt out on comic anthologies, and I hated A Little Life, but the good outweighs the bad. Below is the full list, divided by month, followed by a few statistics and an evaluation of my 2016 reading goals as established last January.

[A note on comics: I feel guilty that I’ve left off colorists and inkers, as they contribute so much to a book, but I defaulted to cover credits while logging my reading and don’t have most of these books on-hand to fix it now.]

January

The Amazing World of Gumball: Fairy Tale Trouble, Megan Brennan, Katy Farina, Jeremy Lawson

Adventure Time: Masked Mayhem, Kate Leth, Bridget Underwood, Drew Green, Vaughn Pinpin, Meredith McClaren

Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland, Kim Newman, Maura McHugh, Tyler Crook

On Writing, Stephen King

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016, edited by John Joseph Adams & Joe Hill

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Kai Ashante Wilson

February

Planet Hulk, Sam Humphries & Marc Laming

Future Imperfect, Peter David & Greg Land

Hail Hydra, Rick Remender & Roland Boschi

House of M, Dennis Hopeless & Marco Failla

Marvel Zombies, Si Spurrier & Kev Walker

Old Man Logan, Brian Michael Bendis & Andrea Sorrentino

The Girls, Emma Cline

The Gilded Razor, Sam Lansky

March

Civil War, Charles Soule & Leinil Francis Yu

New X-Men Omnibus, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Phil Jimenez, Ethan Van Sciver, Igor Kordey, Marc Silvestri, Keron Grant, Chris Bachalo, John Paul Leon, Bill Sienkiewicz, Leinil Francis Yu

The Eye of the Cat, Elejandro Jodorowsky & Moebius

All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders

Beyond Anthology, edited by Sfé Monster & Taneka Scott

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Patricia Lockwood

April

I Am a Hero Vol. 1, Kengo Hanazawa

The Nameless City Vol. 1, Faith Erin Hicks

Ody-C Vol. 1, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward

Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff

Husk, Rachel Autumn Deering

New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi & Fantasy, edited by C. Spike Trotman

Chainmail Bikini: An Anthology of Women Gamers, edited by Hazel Newlevant

Broken Frontier, edited by Frederik Hautain & Tyler Chin-Tanner

Love in All Forms: The Big Book of Growing Up Queer, edited by Serafina Dwyer

Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1, Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Hero: Book Two, David Rubín

The Girl With All the Gifts, M. R. Carey

Regular Show: Noir Means Noir, Buddy, Rachel Connor, Robert Luckett, Wook Jin Clark

Night Air, Ben Sears

Revenger: Children of the Damned, Charles Forsman

Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link

May

Dark Engine Vol. 1, Ryan Burton & John Bivens

Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird, Brandon Seifert, Karl Moline, Filipe Andrade

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Aimee Bender

Every Heart a Doorway, Seanan McGuire

Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Charles M. Blow

Revival Vol. 1, Tim Seeley & Mike Norton

The Fireman, Joe Hill

Colder: Toss the Bones, Paul Tobin & Juan Ferreyra

The Fly: Outbreak, Brandon Seifert & Menton3

Faker, Mike Carey & Jock

What If? Infinity, Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Riley Rossmo, Mike Norton, Jason Copeland, Goran Sudžuka

June

Hawkeye vs. Deadpool, Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Jacopo Camagni

Outcast Vol. 3, Robert Kirkman & Paul Azaceta

Lady Killer Vol. 1, Joelle Jones & Jamie S. Rich

The Fiction, Curt Pires & David Rubín

The Amazing World of Gumball Vol. 2, Frank Gibson, Tyson Hesse, Paulina Ganucheau

Arcadia, Alex Paknadel & Eric Scott Pfeiffer

Black Market, Frank J. Barbiere & Victor Santos

Dream Thief Vol. 2, Jai Nitz, Greg Smallwood, Todd Galusha

Contest of Champions Vol.1, Al Ewing & Paco Medina

The Infinity Gauntlet, Dustin Weaver & Gerry Duggan

The Amulet, Michael McDowell

The Dark Half, Stephen King

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Steve Moncuse & Art Adams

Steven Universe: Too Cool for School, Ian Jones-Quartey, Jeremy Sorese, Asia Kendrick-Horton, Rachel Dukes, Josceline Fenton

Bob’s Burgers: Medium Rare, overseen by Loren Bouchard

Bob’s Burgers: Well Done, overseen by Loren Bouchard

Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates

Kare-Kare Komiks, Andrew Drilon

Night Sky With Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

The Witcher: House of Glass, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio

X-Men: No More Humans, Mike Carey & Salvador Larroca

Cold Moon Over Babylon, Michael McDowell

July

Black Hand Comics, Wes Craig

Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay

B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: The Devil’s Wings, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, Lawrence Campbell, Joe Querio, Tyler Crook

B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth: Flesh & Stone, John Arcudi, Mike Mignola, James Harren

Abe Sapien: Sacred Places, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fiumara, Max Fiumara

Abe Sapien: A Darkness So Great, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Sebastian Fuimara, Max Fiumara

Hellboy & the B.P.R.D. 1952, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Alex Maleev

Lobster Johnson: Get the Lobster!, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Tonči Zonjić

Green River Killer: A True Detective Story, Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case

The Witcher: Fox Children, Paul Tobin & Joe Querio

Children of the Night, John Blackburn

Frankenstein Underground, Mike Mignola & Ben Stenbeck

My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Grady Hendrix

August

The Well, Jack Cady

Angel Catbird Vol. 1, Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

September

Fellside, M. R. Carey

The Twilight Children, Gilbert Hernandez & Darwyn Cooke

Veil, Greg Rucka & Toni Fejzula

Negative Space, Ryan K. Lindsey & Owen Geini

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 1, Alex De Campi, Chris Peterson, Simon Fraser

Bitch Planet Vol. 1, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Robert Wilson IV

Ody-C Vol. 2, Matt Fraction & Christian Ward

Tampa, Alissa Nutting

Clive Barker’s A-Z of Horror, compiled by Stephen Jones

The Missing, Sarah Langan

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 2, Alex De Campi, Federica Manfredi, Gary Erskine

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 3, Alex De Campi, R.M. Guera, Chris Peterson

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight Vol. 4, Alex De Campi, Mulele Jarvis, John Lucas

Audition, Ryu Murakami

Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, Suehiro Maruo

In the Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami

October

Ghosts, Raina Telgemeier

Anya’s Ghost, Vera Brosgol

One Week in the Library, W. Maxwell Prince & John Amor

A Choir of Ill Children, Tom Piccirilli

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

I Am a Hero Vol. 2, Kengo Hanazawa

The Beauty Vol. 1, Jeremy Haun & Jason A. Hurley

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo Vol. 1, Drew Weing

November

Gerald’s Game, Stephen King

Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman

Invisible Republic Vol. 1, Gabriel Hardman & Corinne Bechko

Roche Limit Vol. 1, Michael Moreci & Vic Malhorta

What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell

Roche Limit Vol. 2, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles

Roche Limit Vol. 3, Michael Moreci & Kyle Charles

One-Punch Man Vol. 9, ONE & Yusuke Murata

One-Punch Man Vol. 10, ONE & Yusuke Murata

Habitat, Simon Roy

December

Beowulf, Santiago García & David Rubín

The Oath, edited by Audrey Redpath

Star Wars: Tales From the Far, Far Away, Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Ryan Cady, Phillip Sevy, etc.

Prelude to Bruise, Saeed Jones

Grief is the Thing With Feathers, Max Porter

Tomie Deluxe Edition, Junji Ito

Krampus!, Brian Jones & Dean Kotz

Fantasy Sports Vol. 2, Sam Bosma

The Beauty Vol. 2, Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, Mike Huddleston, Brett Weldele, Stephen Green

Prez Vol. 1, Mark Russell, Ben Caldwell, Domo Stanton

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe, Ryan Q. North & Erica Henderson

Love is Love, edited by Marc Andreyko

Joe Golem Vol. 1, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Patric Reynolds

Baltimore: Cult of the Red King, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Peter Bergting

Abe Sapien: The Burning Fire, Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Max Fiumara, Sebastian Fiumara, Tyler Crook

Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire, Neil Gaiman & Shane Oakley

Bones of the Coast, edited by Shannon Campbell, Jeff Ellis, Kathleen Jacques

Total:

140 Books (up from 128 in 2015 and 87 in 2014)

Breakdown:

39 Novels or short story collections (down from 43 in 2015 and 44 in 2014)

98 Graphic novels/collected editions of comics (up from 84 in 2015 and a measly 42 in 2014)

3 Books of poetry (triple the 2015 and 2014 counts!)

About 35 Books written or edited by female authors (up from 20 in 2015 and 16 in 2014; note that I’m only counting writers and editors, not artists, and I’m counting books, not unique authors)

Roughly 19 books by (known-to-be) non-white authors (down from 30 last year but up from 9 in 2014...but both this year and last were inflated by multiple entries from manga creators)

...and at least 16 books written or edited by queer and trans authors.

So...any suggestions for 2017?

#best of 2016 #best of #best books #top ten books #books #comic books

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brooke-the-poet · 7 years ago

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Personal

The flu gave me nightmares all of last week as I was trying to sleep it off. Friends and family killing each other and fighting while I could only watch.

The flu is gone now, I hope but I still don’t feel well. This week at school I’m having panic attacks. I think it’s an existential crisis about graduation. haha

I was sitting in the writing centre taking deep breaths and talking to a friend when I realized, I do want to move on but to what I’m not sure. I can’t imagine surviving outside of school even though it hasn’t always been pleasant. It’s allowed me some space and time, it has been sanity saving in ways nothing else has besides God.

My first year of college I was physically hit by a car, I was a pedestrian, and I almost died. But after several surgeries I recovered, but it took almost 10 years.

I had worked several jobs before returning to school, mainly for my health. I suffered a nervous breakdown after one really stressful office job. I had had mini breakdowns before but the last one was frightening. I couldn’t live a life where I didnt actively engage in things that are creative or something I’m contributing to meaningfully.

Hobbies or weekends wasn’t cutting it. My imagination hunts me down until I am focused solely on it, and it's not conducive to working in an office. I was telling anyone who would listen about my creative projects when I got the chance. I got to a point where I was physically ill all the time and unable to do anything . That literally changed when I returned. (Money was a factor but I felt I wasn’t making enough to risk my health or even support myself)

School is very structured and your expected to learn. I *have* to have new thoughts and beliefs presented or learned and feel mental expansion otherwise I go crazy.

I’ve always felt like if I don’t keep moving psychologically,doing new things, reading, learning, being someone new each time, then some metaphysical darkness will eat me.

(not like Sebastian, more like that scene with Asuka and the new Eva. series in End of Eva: Death&Rebirth)

Ive had nightmares like that since a child, being consumed by physical darkness.

The balance has always been to try not to do so much that I burn out or do too little. I do have fun at times, but there’s always that underlying darkness, knowing that I dont really initiate things all the time for their pleasure or any desire other than fleeing that monster of a feeling. I suppose everyone does this. I just start to feel too self conscious about it at times. On the other hand I absolutely love quite a lot of things and feel the need to produce more of the things I and others love, poems, books etc… School always helps me keep this balance.

So I suppose getting an MFA or PhD or working in some academic field is necessary for me, if I want to survive that is.

#life #school #mental health #graduation 2018 #creative writing #demons #sebastian actually showed up to save me in a few dreams #he was teaching me how to be a butler in order to take care of my mom

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sabrinaenespana · 8 years ago

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I’m backkkkkk!

*record scratch*

*freeze frame*

Yup, that’s me…you’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…I mean, didn’t I literally just leave Spain and return to the U.S. after 7 months abroad???

*rewind*

Well I returned to the U.S., finished my degree at the University of Georgia, all the while wondering, “What is my post grad life gonna look like?”

Well it took lots (& LOTS) of effort, but I am now 100% prepared for my return to the country so dear to my heart, Spain! It has been a long, difficult year arranging this return, and, yes, it has been (more or less) in the works since the moment the wheels of my airplane hit the landing strip at Hartsfield-Jackson airport back in July of last year.

In an effort to revive this blog for my return, in this post, I will give a brief overview of what’s happened throughout my last year back home. Plus a timeline of sorts, detailing the things I’ve had to go through to get back to Spain.

August-November 2016: Return to school; senior year = YAY! but also mixed with horrible reverse culture shock and post-study/live abroad depression = BOO. Yearning to go back to Spain is on the rise.

December 2016: A thought pops into my head, courtesy of my study abroad group message, which was still going strong at the time. Someone asks if anyone is thinking about returning to Spain after the school year ends to teach English for the year, and I think, “Um…YES!”

January 2017: (1) Applications open for Auxiliares in Spain (a Spanish government-run program that doesn’t pay much, but it’s cheap to live in Spain, so it’ll be plenty). (2) Student teaching and EdTPA begin, severely limiting the time I can dedicate to preparing for Spain, but *~*priorities*~* (3) Convince one of my best friends, Justin (https://beyondbordersaaa.tumblr.com/) to come join me in Spain!

February 2017: Successfully finish the application process, which requires little more than filling out some paperwork, obtaining a letter of recommendation, and writing up why I’d like to do the program (easy enough).

March-April 2017: Wait to hear back from the program and focus on finishing EdTPA for school.

May 2017, a BIG month: (1) Mildly freak out as I finish up student teaching/EdTPA and have nothing to occupy my mind, as I anxiously await my regional placement; even consider switching to CIEE / any other teaching abroad program (even a teaching position in Thailand). (2) Find out I’m placed in Andalucía, and scream of joy!! I got my top choice!!! (3) Return to work after student teaching to start saving for Spain. (4) Schedule my visa appointment at the Spanish Consulate in Miami, the closest one to me and already booked for months. (5) GRADUATE SUMMA CUM LAUDE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA <3

June-July 2017: (1) Find out my city/school placement when I receive my carta one night at 4 in the morning; subsequently spend the rest of the night looking up everything there is to know about my small, seaside city, Motril in the province of Granada! (2) Have several mental breakdowns as I gather everything I need for my visa appointment. (Seriously, it’s insane how difficult and expensive this process is, but once you’re done, there’s an immense feeling of accomplishment! Although I could do without the whole spend-hundreds-and-hundreds-of-dollars part. For a list of everything required by my consulate at least, go to http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Consulados/MIAMI/en/InformacionParaExtranjeros/Pages/Visa%20Requirements/Student-Visa.aspx) (3) Check the visa website every ~0.00002 seconds for new appointment openings (since it was initially completely booked until September) until I finally settle for one in early August. (4) Move out of my apartment and onto my best friend Caroline’s couch fo’ freeeeee. (5) Continue working, as well as enjoying my last summer in Athens with all my friends!

August: (1) Turn my required visa trip down to Miami into a fun mini-vacation/road trip with Caroline and Justin; also take this opportunity to begin my travel vlog (https://youtu.be/B_ftY4178zA). (2) Take a few unexpected trips up to Boston, as my sweet abuela passes away </3. (3) Receive my visa through the mail two weeks later after a horrific scare that it had gotten lost in the mail. (4) Continue living on Caroline’s couch for the month, working, and living it up in Athens.

September, another HUGE month: (1) Quit my job of over 4 years (with several months’ notice of course) after saving a good bit of money. (2) Say goodbye to Athens and so many of my good friends. (3) Return to my mom’s apartment to spend my last week at home in the company of my family <3. (4) Unpack, pack, repeat. Seriously, I tried so hard to get my checked bag under the 50 lb limit, but packing for 8 months / 4 seasons made this impossible, and I ended up having to pay the $100 fee. (5) FLY TO SPAIN. This was a horrible, what was supposed to be 12-hour trip turned into 40 full hours of tears, sweat, and broken sleep. To be more specific: my first flight being delayed caused me to miss my connecting flight, have to sleep on the cold airport floor in a crowd of people in similar situations, add a connection in Madrid, and finally arrive in Motril after 4 airports, 3 flights, 2 train rides, and 1 bus ride. (6) Move into my apartment immediately upon arrival to my city and finally meet my roommate, Tori, in person after having met on the program’s Facebook group and only skyping once.

Present time (still September, but I figured I’d break it up anyway): It’s now September 25. I’ve been in Spain for several days now and have exactly one week before I begin teaching. I’ve completely unpacked, taken a couple relaxing trips to the beach, spent several hours out and about and exploring my new home-away-from-home, met some Spanish friends, bonded with my roommate, and even had a night out on the town! This city is small enough that everything is basically within walking distance, even the beach! Also, I’ve only once before been to a part of Spain where they still do the whole “order a drink and get a free tapa with it” thing, so that’s been really cool! I’ve also been able to go food shopping twice now, and it’s blown my mind both times how inexpensive it is to live here! My roommate also helped me open a bank account here, which was a BIG stress-reliever. The people here seem so nice, even though they still stare, but I knew that was going to be a thing coming in, being a foreigner in a small city. And the Spanish have NO shame whatsoever about staring, which is something I learned last year in Sant Cugat hahahaha. Anyways, a few other things I have on my plate for the next few weeks are obtain my TIE (basically the ID card I have to get that says I can legally live here), apply for income-based loans (definitely cannot swing $200/month in payments with the amount I’ll be getting paid through this program), meet the teachers at my school (which I’ll be doing this Thursday), plan my birthday trip to San Sebastian with Justin and my other friend here, Martha (I have lots of friends that decided to come back to Spain/Europe to teach English/study), and continuing exploring my new city. Welcome back to Spain @me! <333

P.S. I’m planning my next blog to take a deeper look into my city and apartment. I’m gonna try to keep up with this blog at least once or twice a week with updates on what I’m doing, as well as links to any travel vlogs I make! However, I have no idea what my workload will be / how many private classes I will take on to earn a lil’ extra money on the side, so let’s see how this goes!

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snowtoroislord · 8 years ago

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List 92: Top Tenish Anime I need To Finish

We all have anime we have started but some reason or another we never finish the show. It could be we got distracted, disinterested, dismembered, really anything could be the reason. So today I decided to make a list of the anime I need to go back and complete “soon™ ”. Off we go!

10: Last Years Monthly Shows: NIsekoi, Aria, LB!, Dennou Coil, and Humanity has Declined

Last year I tried to watch an anime for every month of the year for the first ten months. These anime were all favorites of particular friends of mine. To be honest I loved the idea and it even spread a little bit too. However, other commitments took precedence and I only finished 4 of the 10 series overall. I’d love to go back and see what these shows have to offer if I can soon.

9: Deadman Wonderland

Okay, I know this show ends like crap but the last 2-3 episodes is all I have left so I figure it can’t be worse than like Eva or Utena right? Maybe it can haha but I am willing to look into it and see what the pain of this finale is like. At least the show was semi fun if anything.

8: Death Parade

What a split reaction this series garnered overall. Some adored it calling it AOTS and others wanted to throw their TV out the window. Episodic shows tend to do that it seems. Well seems like a fun experiment for me. Which end will I end up on? Knowing me somewhere in the middle sounds about right. That would be my bulls-eye.

7: Kekkaishi

Shonen fun with spirits and the voices of Vic Bologna and Angel Bailey! Two of my favy american voice actors and a really fun show. I never finished it because I was watching it on Toonami and got behind and didn’t have recording at the time. I sorta just forgot which is a shame because I enjoyed it too.

6: Black Butler(season 1)

I started this one with my good friend and just never finished. I mean I don’t think I will change opinions on it. The show is good in strides but that is about it. Sebastian and Ciel are great but the rest is just a slog to get through. Also forced catch phrases every episode gets a big tiring. Charming sometimes, but most times a NO.

5: Amagami

What an interesting little show this was. Visual novel romantic plots split into 4 episode mini arcs telling their individual stories. Some are downright weird but I appreciate the variety and unique love depictions. It gives the show a mixed bag of feelings but in a more positive light than the usual negative. I promise BYtheHORNs one day I will finish!!

4: Welcome to the NHK

A classic in the anime community for it’s offbeat story and creative ideas, NHK is a loved series. After a few episodes I liked what I saw but wasn’t enamored and then got caught up in some other show. I would like to go back and see how it plays out though. A man who is a NEET shut in and making a hentai game does pose a funny plot if anything.

3: Arslan Senki

An adapted version of an old story with the art of FMA creator Hiromu Arakawa made for a classic fantasy in the works. And I really liked what I saw but as I watched it seasonally I got so far behind I never had the time to catch up. With it now completed and my free time becoming better managed I am running out of reasons to not watch a potential favorite to it’s conclusion.

2: Polar Bear Cafe

The only show on this list that isn’t on my on hold list but is still currently being watched. But with the rate I am going I will finish it in like 15 years so I may want to speed this up a bit. The weird thing is I find it to be one of the funniest anime I’ve ever seen but for some reason never am in the mood to watch it. I don’t understand that one bit. Oh well one day maybe haha.

1: Touch

After the 25 episodes I saw this show was top of the line for me. So much potential to be one of my favorite shows of all time. But a sad moment in the show mixed with a real life breakdown caused me to take a break last February and I still haven’t gotten back to it. I promise I will but I need to make myself get into a groove with a long show first. I know I can, just need a little time is all. Life is looking up and I just want to be touched by an anime.

Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own any of the above pictures. The credit goes to the original creators of each and thus will be considered theirs. Enjoy the pics!

What shows are in your proverbial, will watch “soon” list? What do you need to get back too? Tell me somewhere on the net! Until then...

See ya Space Corgis!

#anime list #top ten #deadman wonderland #death parade #kekkaishi #black butler #amagami #welcome to the nhk #arslan senki #polar bear cafe #touch #space corgis

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lexiewrites · 8 years ago

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2016 Meme

1:What did you do in 2016 that you’d never done before? I tried a bunch of new things in 2016 - went to a bunch of YA book events alone, which was a big deal for me. Mostly, I just tried to get out of my routine and rut. Explore and enjoy that I live in the city.

2:Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Nope, I’m done with idea of resolutions, that you can only improve yourself at a certain time. I’m embracing the idea that I can start something new whenever I want.

3:Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope.

4:Did anyone close to you die? Nope, I fear 2017 is the year that I’ll be losing some people, though.

5:What countries did you visit? Didn’t leave Australia.

6:What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016: Better health, mental and physical. Weightloss. A degree, lol. A path forward doing something I love.

7: What dates from 2016 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I can’t think of any specific ones.

8:What was your biggest achievement of the year? I absolutely smacked like 5/6 of my classes out of the park with really good marks. I’m so happy my marks are finally beginning to reflect the work I put in and the lessons I’ve learnt.

9:What was your biggest failure? My weight is still bad. My anxiety is off the charts. That really sucks.

10:Did you suffer illness or injury? Does fucking up my neck/shoulder to the tune of 1k in treatment count, due to uni stress? And the crippling anxiety?

11:What was the best thing you bought? I’m pretty stoked by some of my Gorman purchases on FB and eBay. Unless you’re ‘into’ Gorman, it doesn’t sound like much, but I snagged most of the pieces from the Walala collab that I didn’t buy in Summer 15/16 in-store through eBay and FB and that made me very happy; I think I ended up paying less than retail for all but two pieces. I also got an ottoman that folds into a bed for guests that I named Otto from the Ottoman Empire that I’m very fond of.

12:Whose behaviour merited celebration? No one I know.

13:Whose behaviour made you appalled? Lots of family members, almost every politician I can think of, and a few celebrities.

14:Where did most of your money go? Food, physio for my neck/shoulder, Gorman.

15:What did you get really, really, really excited about? YAFest, Civil War, Avengers Academy App XD

16:What song will always remind you of 2016? Maybe ‘Youngblood’ from the Jem and the Holograms movie? Wait, according to Spotify, it was ‘Upside Down and Inside Out’ by OK Go

17:Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? © richer or poorer? Sadder, the same, richer in that I’ve leant my parents a lot of money they’ll pay me back - it’s like a savings account ;)

18:What do you wish you’d done more of? Exercise and write.

19:What do you wish you’d done less of? Worried.

20:How did you spend Christmas? At home. My father brought my grandparents over for lunch. It’s not a particularly festive or memorable way to spend the holidays, tbh.

21:Did you fall in love in 2016? Not with people.

22:What was your favourite TV program? Well, Archer has to be up there because I discovered that, watched all the episodes in like 3 days, and then watched it on a loop for like 4 months. And Agent Carter’s second season was awesome, and I enjoyed most of Luke Cage.

23:Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? No one specific. I have a general ‘people irritate me’ policy at the best of times, but no one agitated me enough for me to devote the energy to ‘hating’ them.

24:What was the best book you read? Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake. Girl knows how to world build.

25:What was your greatest musical discovery? I don’t think I really made any artist discoveries, just kind of curated a good collection of songs.

26:What did you want and get? Good marks at uni; Gorman x Walala Rice Dress, Arcade Raincoat & Shorts, Rice Tote; Gorman Harlequin Rice Dress; Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake; and an adorable hair cut.

27:What did you want and not get? A slim body, rainbow hair, a bedside table, a puppy, freedom from mental illness, Gorman Circus skirt, and one of Massimo’s mini black forest cakes.

28:What was your favourite film of this year? A few. Deadpool was amazing, I actually really liked Alice: Through the Looking Glass, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

29:What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Finally getting the marks that I knew I could get at uni, and not suffering because of a shit computer or a breakdown in communication between departments.

30:How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016? Neat, practical and feminine.

31:What kept you sane? Archer on a continual loop and fan fiction.

32:Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Sebastian Stan or Chris Evans. I’m not even embarrassed anymore.

33:What political issue stirred you the most? Any time an Australian politician tries to take on mental illness or the publishing industry, I get pretty riled. I don’t talk about Australian politics much, simply because I think all of the parties are fairly despicable and impractical (at best), and a lot of people I know are incredibly strong supporters of a certain party.

34:Who did you miss? I miss times and places, but none of the people who are necessary were absent from my life, which was good.

35:Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2016. Everything looks better in an InDesign presentation.

36:Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. Is there ever a time when this question isn’t the worst-sounding cliche?

If I can light the world up for just one day Watch this madness, colorful charade No one can be just like me any way

- Pink, Just Like Fire

#meme #2016 meme #end of the year #thoughts #rants

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