#The Hunger and the Dusk Vol. 1

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Review: The Hunger and the Dusk Vol. 1

Series: The Hunger and the Dusk Vol. 1Writer: G. Willow WilsonArtist: Chris WildgooseColorist: MsassykLetterer: Simon BowlandPublisher: IDWReleased: June 11, 2024Received: NetGalley Find it on Goodreads | More Graphic Novel Reviews Summary: The world is dying. There are only two races left. Three, depending on how you look at it. The humans and the orcs have always been enemies, but they might…

[blood-orange-juice]

4.5 preload datamine has a book with a Khaenri'ah lorebomb

Text on Project Amber

Excerpts and thoughts under the cut

vol.1:

"In those days, a crimson moon shone down upon the subterranean realm, and not the dark sun of latter days."

Something something Eclypse dynasty.

Due to the Kingdom's unique position, things from outside this world were always leaking into it. The Kingdom's weapons would wipe out the calamities slipping in, but what of all the other objects? Such as, say, a child who may have come from some destroyed world?

What the hell what the hell what the hell

"Oh high lord of the nobles, a child once told me a tale of another world: Once upon a time, there were sea people who believed that the gods came from the sea. Each time they discovered a shipwrecked person, they would treat them with the utmost honor, for they believed that the gods would take the form of the shipwrecked to investigate the mortal realm."

I can't connect it with anything but I feel it's important. Parsifal's and Skipper's story mention a shipwreck. Two, actually. In some sense the twins are shipwrecked and Paimon was fished out of the sea.

The ocean and the sea were often used as a metaphor for the space projected by the stars.

Why sea and Abyss get conflated with it sometimes: Khaenri'ans were more familiar with the Abyssal stars than the sea.

In anticipation of the arrival at their Kingdom of gods from beyond the so-called ocean — or rather, the arrival of beings who could transcend the gods — they founded an organization, an orphanage to take care of such children. In latter days, the orphans of the Kingdom and those who wandered in from outside were accepted as well.

Everything fun in Teyvat is made by kids in orphanages.

The young Perinheri's first memory was that of being asked by the grown-ups to crawl through a dark corridor. This passage might have been a chimney for winter fires, for it was filled with coal ash, and there was not a single crack in it through which smoke or light could pass through. As he crawled, he would sometimes stumble in the pitch-black darkness. Fortunately, the corridor appeared designed for the passage of children in the first place, so the falls were not very painful. It also lacked any annoying cobwebs. When Perinheri reached the end at last, the exit had not opened yet. He knocked, only for the grown-ups to coldly ask: "Are you dead?" Well, how was he to reply if he was dead? But the grown-ups did not like this response. They kept asking the same question, until he at least shouted, "Yes, I'm dead!" The adults then asked, "Did you see it, then?" Perhaps it was the fear brought on by the darkness combined with hunger and exhaustion, but Perinheri did indeed see an illusion. The crimson moon, hanging high in the pitch-dark night sky, suddenly turned around, revealing itself to be a titanic, horrified eye. The adults opened the door and embraced the soot-covered Perinheri: "You have traversed the fire of two worlds within the hearth, and here you are reborn."

Moons being goddesses' corpses, the fake sky, whales, the rebirth ritual in the narcissenkreuz notes. Again, I can't connect it.

Though the crimson moon set, and the dark sun descended into a yet darker dusk, that transcendental person from beyond who the Kingdom orphanage was awaiting never arrived. But unusual individuals they had aplenty, and many of those who strode forth from the gates of that orphanage became great knights of the Kingdom. Perinheri was, in his time, the leading figure amongst their ranks — that is, unless, he were forced to compete with his best friend, Hleobrant.

tl;dr: Khaenri'ah casually welcomed travelers from between worlds, visitors from dead worlds especially. or at least hoped to but didn't get many

[clinchcoverenthusiast]

I read a bunch of comics and graphic novels in December with a little romance, lit fic, sci fi, and fantasy mixed in. It's difficult to pick favorites because everything I finished was pretty good but I choose Erasure, Ashwin, The Hunger and the Dusk, and Family Style. I own Role Playing but (comfort reread) listened to the eaudio via KU, and also own Erasure. Wild Pitch was on KU as was Consort of Fire, which I listened to, and everything else was from either Hoopla or Libby.  

The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds #1) - Megan E. O'Keefe

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton

Role Playing - Cathy Yardley* **

The Hunger and the Dusk #1 - G. Willow Wilson, Christian Wildgoose

The Hunger and the Dusk #2 - G. Willow Wilson, Christian Wildgoose

The Hunger and the Dusk #3 - G. Willow Wilson, Christian Wildgoose

Technically Yours - Denise Williams* **

Blue in Green - Ram V., Anand R.K.* **

Always Never - Jordi Lafebre

It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth - Zoe Thorogood

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam - Thien Pham* **

Consort of Fire (Bound to Fire & Steel #1) - Kit Rocha

Friday Black - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah* **

The Hunger and the Dusk #4 - G. Willow Wilson, Christian Wildgoose

Grafity's Wall Expanded Edition - Aditya Bidikar, Ram V.* **

Can't Escape Love (Reluctant Royals #2.5) - Alyssa Cole* **

The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night (The Night Eaters #1) - Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda* **

Little Monsters Vol. 1 - Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen

Little Monsters Vol. 2 - Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen

Bryony and Roses - T. Kingfisher

Ashwin (Gideon's Riders #1) - Kit Rocha**

Prem Numbers and Tikka Chance on Me* **

Wild Pitch (Dominating the Diamond #1) - Cat Giraldo* **

Erasure - Percival Everett* **

Bad Karma - Alex de Campi, Ryan Howe, Dee Cunniffe

* = author(s) of color

** = main character(s) of color

[galacticrambler]

The Hunger And The Dusk, Vol. 1 | Comic Review

I was really excited to read The Hunger And The Dusk, Vol. 1. I’ll be the first to admit that fantasy with orcs and everything isn’t always my jam, but this story looked really cool Continue reading The Hunger And The Dusk, Vol. 1 | Comic Review

[barrylyga]

Recommended Reading 2024

Every year, I track the books I read and take care to flag the ones that are really, really good. Here are my top books for 2024, in no particular order: Friday, Book One: The First Day of Christmas by Ed Brubaker & Marcos Martin The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton Clean Room Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception by Gail Simone & John Davis-Hunt Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel by Lisa Jewell Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery by Andrew Shaffer Julia Unbound by Catherine Egan (read the whole damn trilogy -- it's so good!) Hopscotch by Brian Garfield The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson & Chris Wildgoose Batman/Superman: The Archive Of Worlds by Gene Luen Yang & divers artists! The Reformatory by Tananarive Du Read the full article

[phantasticreads]

The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1

The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1, by G. Willow Wilson, Chris Wildgoose, and Michele Assarasakorn I like a good fantasy comic as much as the next person but frequently they follow the same patterns without really adding much to the larger body of work. Not so here, where our human vs orc conflict is complicated by a common enemy. The solution? An aloof course. While there’s plenty of action, the…

[zahri-melitor]

Okay, starting list of titles borrowed to read/sample :-

The Old Guard vol 1, 2 & the prequel (I know! I have been meaning to get to this)

The Forged (#1-3)

Lazarus (#1-9)

The Hunger and the Dusk (#1-6)

The Autumnlands (#1-6)

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (#1-5)

Got a few ideas of more to add once my limit resets on Tuesday, and bookmarked them to borrow (I was reminded that Black Widow exists and I've been meaning to read more of her when it has good art)

Also tested the flight mode version of DCUI and it's more functional than I was worried it might be.

A combination of ‘my borrowing privileges reset at the start of every month for some digital library platforms’ and ‘I’m travelling internationally on holidays early in July’ mean that I’m currently scouring through Hoopla for various comic titles to read on the plane that aren’t DC ones that I’ve been meaning to get to.

Me, paging through what Greg Rucka stuff I haven’t read yet, nodding to myself…

(Recs appreciated. I CAN just download a bunch of stuff for DCUI, and I will do that, but also given I need offline reading I might as well pick up a bunch of options on various platforms)

[aceinabook]

March Reading Wrap-Up

I read a lot this month, but most of it was Graphic novels/Manga so those are real quick reads.

Reviews linked to my GR reviews. 

Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1-5-I’ve had these on my shelves for a while and finally got into it! I really liked it and im excited to continue. 1 2 3 4 5

Our Dreams at Dusk Vol. 1-4: If you are not character driven do not read this. This series is v character driven and I enjoyed reading a story about LGBT characters and seeing their lives. Kamatani’s work is amazing. I think this is my favorite read for the month. 1 2 3 4 

Bride of the Water God Vol. 1-I didn’t care for this and I felt it romantizes a lot of shitty things. I don’t know maybe it wasn’t for me. 

Legend of the Fire Princess(She-ra Graphic Novel): This was just bad. I didn’t like it all.

MockingJay(Hunger Games #3): I finally finished the Hunger games trilogy! I really liked it. I felt like it was a good end and I can see why it caused the great trend of great dystopians. 

How Saeter Robbed the Underworld: this was a short novella that was only availble on Ereaders. I am not a fan of ereading personally. BUT...this was really good and I cried. Katz did a good job of manipulating emotion. 

The Seventh Bride: I loved this book! I enjoyed all the themes and most of the characters. Kingfisher’s writing style is also super fun.

The Player of Games(Culture #2)-I hated this in the beginning and never liked the MC. At the end of this book I did end up actually liking it. It was pretty good. The Drones were my favorite. I don’t read a lot of sci-fi and I was glad to take a dive. Also this was my book club pick of the month. 

Monster and the Beast Vol. 1-3-Listen this is kind of trash, but it’s erotica and its fun, not good but fun.  1 2 3

Yotsuba&! Vol. 1-I read this at a bad place and it was v stressful waiting for news at a friends. It was funny enough to make me smile. 

Son of the Storm-I won the ARC of this from a GR giveaway. I thoroughly enjoyed this and think it’s one of my favorite reads of this year. The world was amazing. 

Women’s War-I used this for the prompt recommended you by a librarian. This one is not pictured because I foolishly thought I wouldn’t finish it within March and finished it on the last day of March. It’s a fantasy set in a society that highly oppresses women and Women who don’t perform properly get sent to government funded brothels.

[lizzyisameme]

literary sexts vol. 1 poetry meme

Literary Sexts is a modern day anthology of short love poems with subtle erotic undertones edited by Amanda Oaks & Caitlyn Siehl. Hovering around 50 contributors & 124 poems, this book reads is like one long & very intense conversation between two lovers. It’s absolutely breathtaking. These are poems that you would text to your lover. Poems that you would slip into a back pocket, suitcase, wallet or purse on the sly. Poems that you would write on slips of paper & stick under your crush’s windshield wiper. Poems that you would write on a Post-it note & leave on the bathroom mirror. Treat yourself, a crush or a lover with this lush gift!

source and amazon buy link.  

I will be providing select short, sometimes edited, poems for a texting/”sexting” meme, but not the whole book itself.  If you enjoy the poems provided, please support the collection whether it’s the first volume or the second.   Or look into the works of the various contributors and see if anything else they’ve written is to your liking!  

Feel free to add to and/or edit these sentences to better suit your needs---but remember, many of these work best in the context of texts and/or love notes instead of spoken dialogue.    ---Lizzy.  

Mark me like a passage from your favorite book, then open me there again and again.

My skin is full of flowerbeds and you know every way to make them bloom.

I am tracing the knobs of your spine like the map of my favorite continent. You are all the places I haven't visited yet and I mark each one off with my teeth.

Your hands unzip me one breath at a time; there is not room beneath my skin for all of you and I spill over the edges with a sigh.

You take apart my heart in pieces with your mouth, but the splash of your tongue against mine feeds it back to me. It tastes sweeter coming from you.

You opened your mouth and spoke the language in my blood.

You kiss me and there aren't sparks. There’s an entire orchestra in my chest, playing staccato on my heart strings.

My hands are nomads, my dear desert. May they never find rest.

Being small things, we understand this as our humble attempt at thunder, at setting the world to shake.

Delicate work. Like peeling kiwis. My tongue across your skin. Mellow flesh against my lips. Your taste always in my mouth.

How a storms needs to feel the earth how the earth wakes to the pelt of rain how the ground is quenched is how I need you... 

My hands were glaciers I never dared to move freely, my fingers icicles. Your touch thawed me to excavation. I want to dig into your warmth.

Kiss me like white bread, stick to my teeth even after the whiskey. I want memories of your mouth lodged beneath my tongue to wake me at two in the morning, hungry.

I want you next to me, in my bed, your clothes making friends with my floor. Love me hard enough so we wake up the neighbors.

Your hands peeling that onion, thumbs and forefingers pulling skin from skin—they are sacred. Let me kiss them. Let them bless my sinning chest, let them peel my lips apart.

I don't want to be your harmonies anymore; I want to be the melody you scream when your heart is starving for love. I want to satisfy your hunger.

Show me the parts of you that nobody else ever wanted to sleep with. Show me it all with the lights on.

You, darling, are Vesuvius. I won’t see you coming. Erupt. Wreck me. Leave me ashes leave me Pompeii, leave me outlined into your history forever.

It's not so much that I want to kiss you. I want to relearn vocabulary words from the shape of your mouth. All my poems are yours first.

Kiss me blossoms in the summer, lover. I want to taste the succulent sweet of your peach tree smile. This time let Adam take the fruit from the garden.

Surge into me as a downpour, as the pounding waterfall which makes swollen rivers flood, as the sea.

The happy ending to this night: you tug my hair and lightly brush your hand across my lap. Don’t forget how resilient I am and how I would bend for you.

Even my lungs are in love as we breathe together.

I don’t just want to take your breath away. I want to rip it from your mouth and keep it locked away between my teeth. You can only have it back if you kiss me again.

The gentle friction of your hand on my thigh is enough to strike a match inside me. I lean into your lips and the fire blooms and spreads.

You are an undiscovered continent. I trail my fingers down your mountainsides. Ten explorers digging for buried treasure, I want to take it all.

My body is a gospel and you are my first quivering hallelujah. Your breath leaves your mouth like a prayer and washes over me like faith.

My hands are hungry for your flesh, desperate in the way that rivers empty themselves over waterfalls.

I peel back your skin to see if we have the same scars. I follow the map of your veins back to your heart and press my palm against yours to tangle our lifelines.

I hope to breathe in you. I hope my body will be the blood your roots drink.

We commit sins in holy places, fold ourselves between pews like dirty pictures tucked into a bible. Pant each other’s names until they sound like scripture.

My tongue collides with your collarbone like a meteor careening across the cosmos, and I taste the stars you are made of.

You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.

You, benevolent god, legs splayed like instruments of creation. I, blank slate of the universe, kneel in wait for you to fill me with your hot, honeyed light.

My hands are suntanned tourists without a map whose desire compels them onward to explore your golden cities by the light of the stars.

The moment between your thighs where I become a devout follower of your existence. That hour which passes in slow seconds of soft skin, as I lay my head against you, drifting, drowsy with love.

Your grin is a flash of primal fire in the dark. Somewhere deep inside me, something hungry wakens and shifts, uncurls its insatiable tongue.

I have been thinking of how I want to be touched by you, with hands that will play me like piano keys, with fingers that will make a symphony out of me.

You till the soil of my need, my lips a blood-red flower bursting open with the first wet flush of your heat.

When it comes right down to it, all that nonsense about hearts syncing up feels like a hallelujah with our bodies pressed together like praying hands.

Every time, you peel back my skin, pry open my ribs, and feast on my insides. Every time, you make a meal of my heart, and every time, I let you.

You’re not one for poetry or sentimentality, so I’ll just say that I’ve dreamt of being the motor oil trapped in the grooves of your weathered hands.

I ache for your hum between my legs, the purring of motorcycles on winding highways: wind in my hair, and romance in losing myself to the sweet, revving vibration of the engine again and again.

You smile and it’s like sunrise. Something inside me Wakes up, stretching.

I float away in cool sheets against my burning skin, and you are the sea guiding me beyond the realm of earthly things.

My lipstick spills over your mouth and trickles down to your chin, your neck, pooling into your collarbones. We love like crushed grapes in wine country.

You're kissing a wildfire up my thigh and I am tracing the landscape of your jawbone like a sculptor. My hands were made for this.

The rush you give me: The way a blade of grass must feel when splashed with a cloud’s cry after days of screaming for rain.

We are the fall of Rome, all fire and fighting. We collapse into each other like the pieces of the Parthenon, kissing like gladiators, loving like rebuilding.

You creep into my head like a river rushing for the sea & a cosmic digit of fingertips flash over me.

You are pressing against me like I press flowers against the pages in my book. You are kissing my neck and it feels like the start of forever. I want to touch you until my palms burn.

The wet of your mouth rains down my neck like frame, the soft heat of your tongue burns the apple in my throat. We are practiced at this love that asks angels to cover their eyes and turns devils shy.

I melt into the gentleness of your fingertips. Your tongue presses me open like the summer fresh flesh of a perfectly ripe fig, all juice, seeds and pulp.

The small of your back is refuge, is veldt, is summer heat. And I am predatory snarl.

I can't brush out the taste of you; coffee breath, cigarette smoke, and all. Mouth to mouth; Our shared vices linger on each other. Your salt still lives in my tongue.

I'll take you quiet as the bones in your closet, love as softly as a whisper. Holding your tongue like a secret.

You smiled and lit up like the dusk. I sank to your lips like the sun against the horizon. We made the day stand still.

I want to kiss you until you melt into me, ice turning to water. I want to drink you deep, and warm you from the inside.

[oltnews]

Eighteen Glee soundtracks reached # 1 - more than three times more than any other franchise. Frozen is hot melted. In fact, it's the best franchise in the history of Billboardthe soundtrack table (which dates from June 2001). The original Frozen the soundtrack has exceeded this table for 44 weeks - longer than any other soundtrack (whether from a franchise or not) - and Frozen II is in its 21st week at the top, the longest series of soundtracks in a suite. This combined total of 65 weeks at # 1 is more than the combined total for any other franchise in the history of the chart. FrozenThe advance is particularly impressive because it only has two albums. The next four franchises on this list reflect the combined strength of three or more # 1 soundtracks. Here are all the franchises in which two or more soundtracks have reached n ° 1 on Billboardof Soundtracks and kept first place for a combined total of 10 weeks or more. All chart references refer to the Soundtracks chart and the Billboard Hot 100. 1. Frozen, 65 weeks. Frozen gave birth to Idina Menzel's "Let It Go", a hit No. 5 of the Hot 100 in 2014 and an Oscar winner for the best original song. Frozen II gave birth to Menzel's "Into the Unknown", Oscar-nominated for Best Original Song. Menzel is one of the voice actors for this animated franchise, along with Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad. Frozen won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. Yes Frozen II also wins in this category, Frozen will be the first franchise to win twice since the category was introduced in 1999. 2. Hannah Montana, 57 weeks. Four of the five Hannah Montana The soundtracks to reach No. 1 were from the Disney Channel television series with Miley Cyrus. The most successful was the first, who scored 21 weeks at No. 1 in 2006-07. Hannah Montana 2 / Meet Miley Cyrus had 11 weeks at the top in 2007-08. Hannah Montana 3 recorded four weeks at No. 1 in 2009. (He spawned a top 10 on the Hot 100, "He could be the only one", the only one credited to Hannah Montana.) Hannah Montana Forever had two weeks at the summit in 2010. Hannah Montana: the movie, from a movie released in theaters with Cyrus, recorded 19 weeks at number 1 in 2009. It spawned "The Climb", Cyrus' first top five on the Hot 100. (It peaked at number 4.) 3. High School Musical, 45 weeks. Two of three HSM The soundtracks to reach No. 1 come from the original Disney Channel films with Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. The first, from 2006, recorded 26 weeks at the top, the longest for a television soundtrack. High School Musical 2 had 17 weeks at the top in 2007. Both albums produced the top 10 hits. "Breaking Free" by Efron and Hudgens from the first album reached number 4 on the Hot 100. The "What Time Is It" by the cast of the second reached number 6. The soundtrack of High School Musical 3: last year, a theatrical film, spent two weeks at the top in 2008. 4. Joy, 42 weeks. No Joy album or EP was # 1 on soundtracks for more than six weeks. (The oldest No. 1 in the franchise was Glee: Music, the Christmas album, in 2010-11.) So why does the Fox TV franchise rank so high? Eighteen Joy the soundtracks reached # 1 - more than three times more than any other franchise. All of these weeks add up. the Joy The cast collected 207 Hot 100 tubes, which were the record for any artist until Drake surpassed them in March 2020. The Joy casting, directed by Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele and Jane Lynch, won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2009 for the exceptional performance of an ensemble in a comic series. 5. The Twilight Saga, 33 weeks. Five dusk the soundtracks reached No. 1, more than any other franchise in which the films were released in theaters. The first one dusk the soundtrack recorded 16 weeks at number 1 in 2008-09 and generated a top 40 hit on the Hot 100, "Decode" by Paramore. The Twilight: New Moon saga was three more weeks in 2009-2010. …Eclipse was five more weeks in 2010. … Breaking Dawn: Part 1 recorded five weeks at the summit in 2011-12. He spawned the biggest hit song in the franchise, "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars, which hit # 3 on the Hot 100. … Breaking Dawn: Part 2 had four weeks at the summit in 2012. Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson starred in the first film. Taylor Lautner joined them for the second. 6. Perfect, 29 weeks. The first one Perfect the soundtrack recorded 20 weeks at number 1 in 2012-13 and generated a surprise success number 6 on the Hot 100, "Cups" by Anna Kendrick. A sequel to 2015 recorded nine weeks at the top. Kendrick starred in both films alongside Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Skylar Astin and Rebel Wilson. (How was Brittany Snow not hired to Frozen?) 7. Guardians of the Galaxy, 26 weeks. Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1, featuring 70s smash like "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede and "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone, recorded 21 weeks in issue 1 of 2014-16. Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 recorded five weeks at the summit in 2017 (despite this cumbersome title). The films have made Chris Pratt a star. 8. Spider Man, 20 weeks. The soundtrack of Spider Man, from the first film with Tobey Maguire, was six weeks old at the top in 2002. Spider-Man: in the Spider-Verse, from the computer-animated version starring Shameik Moore, had 11 weeks at the top in 2019. This 17-year period of # 1 soundtrack is the longest in any franchise. Both albums were boosted by hit singles. Chad Kroeger with "Hero" by Josey Scott from the first album, reached third place in the Hot 100. "Sunflower" by Post Malone & Swae Lee by In the spider worm, hit No. 1 and received a Grammy nod for the year record. (A third soundtrack, Spider-Man 2, was three weeks older in 2004.) 9. Descendants, 17 weeks. The soundtrack for the first Disney Channel film, with Dove Cameron and the late Cameron Boyce, recorded 11 weeks at number 1 in 2015. Descendants 2 had two weeks at the summit in 2017. Descendants 3 had four weeks at the top in 2019. Eternal young Kenny Ortega directed all three films. Ortega also did the honors on the High School Musical movies and Cheetah girls 2. 9. Mamma Mia!, 17 weeks. The soundtrack for the first film, based on ABBA's smash jukebox musical, was # 1 for 14 weeks in 2008. Mamma Mia! Here we go again, in which Cher joined Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and other actors from the first film, had three more weeks in 2018. 11. Alvin and the Chipmunks, 14 weeks. The soundtrack of Alvin and the Chipmunks, the feature film starring the surprisingly long-lasting rodents that started to eat their way into the record books in 1958, recorded five weeks at number 1 in 2008. The rest, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (clever title), had even more (nine weeks) at the top in 2010. Fun fact: "The Chipmunk Song" was nominated for the record of the year during the first Grammys (1958). 12. the Cheetah Girls, 13 weeks. The EP of the soundtrack for the first Disney Channel television film, with Raven-Symone, recorded four weeks of success in 2004. The soundtrack for the sequel was nine weeks older in 2006. 13. The fast and the furious, 11 weeks. The original The fast and the furious recorded three weeks in 2001. 2 fast 2 Furious (2003) and Furious 7 (2015) each recorded an additional four weeks. The first album spawned "Put It On Me" by Ja Rule, a hit # 8 on the Hot 100. Furious 7 spawned "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa with Charlie Puth, who dominated the Hot 100 for 12 weeks , longer than any other film song from the 2010s. "See You Again", which allowed fans to mourn the tragic death of actor Paul Walker, one of the stars of the franchise, received a wink the Grammy for the song of the year. 13. Teen Beach Movie, 11 weeks. The soundtrack for the first Disney Channel television film, starring Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell, was # 1 for 10 weeks in 2013. The soundtrack for a 2015 sequel, Teen Beach 2, had one more week. 15. Camp Rock, 10 weeks. The soundtrack for Disney Channel TV's first film was # 1 for four weeks in 2008 and resulted in a # 9 hit on the Hot 100, "This Is Me" by movie stars Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas . The soundtrack for the 2010 sequel, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, had even more time (six weeks). Here are five other franchises where two or more soundtracks have reached # 1 on Billboardof Soundtracks and took first place for a combined total of six weeks or more: Fifty shades of Grey (eight weeks), Star Wars (eight weeks), American Idol (seven weeks), Empire (six weeks) and The hunger Games (six weeks). This list does not include individual soundtrack albums, even if they were long at # 1, such as O brother, where are you (34 weeks at No. 1) and The Greatest Showman (32 weeks). The focus here is on the best film and soundtrack franchises. For the purposes of this classification, franchises are films or television series that have a continuous history with recurring characters and, more often than not, actors. PGM.createScriptTag("//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6&appId=303838389949803"); https://oltnews.com/frozen-fans-just-wont-let-go-frigid-franchise-has-the-most-weeks-at-1-on-the-soundtrack-chart-billboard?_unique_id=5ea10daa1f41d

[stillhotter]

MY FANDOMS

***bold nad italic means fav***

BIGGEST OTPS:

ALBERT+VICTORIA

YENNEFER+GERALT

amy+rory

francis+mary

bellamy+clarke

will+tessa

doctor+clara

fred+hermione

CIRI+CAHIR

REY + POE

TV SHOWS

A Series of Unfortunate Events

And Then There Were None

Anne of Green Gables (the old series):

ships:

Anne+Gilbert

American Gods

characters: Wednesday, Mad Sweeney, Shadow Moon

ships:

Shadow+Wednesday (as hmm, better watch/read it hahah)

Mad Sweeney+Laura Moon (I just love their dynamics)

American Horror Story (Murder House):

ships:

Violet+Tate

Atlantis:

ships:

Ariadne+Jason

Awkward:

ships:

Jenna+Matty

Black Mirror

Breaking Bad

Broadchurch

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Dancing on the Edge

Degrassi

Desperate Housewives

Doctor Who:

characters: Eleven, Amy, Rory, River, Clara, Twelve, Thirteen, Yasmin

ships:

Amy+Rory

PONDS AND ELEVEN

Eleven+River

Clara+Doctor (with Eleven it’s as a cute lovebirds but with Twelve it gets deeper, I love both!!)

Eleven+Amy (platonic)

Ten+Rose

Euphoria

Eye Candy:

ships:

Tommy+Lindy

Friends:

ships:

Ross+Rachel

Chandler+Monica

Phoebe+Mike

Rachel+Joey

From Dusk Till Dawn:

ships:

Seth+Kate

Richie+Kate

Game of Thrones:

characters: Daenerys Targaryen, Margaery Tyrell, Tyrion Lannister, Arya Stark, Robb Stark

ships:

Daenerys+Tyrion

Robb+Myrcella

Daenerys+Jon

Robb+Daenerys

Sansa+Daenerys (QUEENS OF ICE AND FIRE!!!111!)

Daenerys+Drogo

Jon+Ygritte

Arya+Gendry

Gossip Girl:

characters: Blair Waldorf

ships:

Serena+Nate

Blair+Nate

Blair+Dan

Great Expectations

Hemlock Grove

House of Cards

How I Met Your Mother

ships:

Barney+Robin

Ted+Mother

Legends of Tomorrow:

characters: Rip Hunter, Sara Lance

ships:

Sara+Rip

Legion:

characters: Lenny, David, Syd

ships:

Syd+David

Lenny+David (but you know, not in a romantic way LMAO)

Marvel’s Netflix Series:

characters: Jessica Jones, Matt Murdock, Frank Castle

ships:

Matt+Karen

Karen+Frank

Luke+Jessica

Matt+Elektra

Matt+Jessica

Merlin:

ships:

Merlin+Morgana

Arthur+Gwen

Misfits

characters: Nathan Young

Mr Robot

Once Upon A Time

ships:

Emma+Hook

Parks and Recreation:

characters: April Ludgate, Andy Dwyer

ships:

Andy+April

Leslie+Ben

Peaky Blinders:

characters: Tommy Shelby, Michael Gray

ships:

Tommy+Grace

Tommy+Tatiana (more as Tommy and personification of his madness)

Penny Dreadful

ships:

Vanessa+Dorian

Preacher:

ships:

Jessie+Tulip

Reign:

characters: Mary Stuart, Francis Valois, Lola

ships:

Mary+Francis

Mary+Bash

Narcisse+Lola (flirting phase)

Claude+Leith

Riverdale:

characters:

ships:

VERONICA + JUGHEAD

Veronica+Archie

Cheryl+Toni

Shadowhunters:

ships:

Isabelle+Simon

Isabelle+Clary

Alec+Magnus

Clary+Jace

Sebastian+his accent

Sherlock

SKAM:

characters: Noora Sætre, Sana Bakkoush

ships:

Sana+Yousef

Noora+William (french Manon and Charles as well)

Jonas+Eva

even+isak

Skins:

characters: Chris Miles, Freddie Mcliar, Tony Stonem

ships:

Chris+Jal

Freddie+Effy

Cook+Effy

Rich+Grace

Alo+Mini

Stranger Things:

characters: Mike, Dustin, Steve, Will, Max

That 70′s Show

ships:

Eric+Donna

Donna+Steven

Steven+Jackie

The 100:

ships:

Bellamy+Clarke

Raven+Shaw

Lincoln+Octavia

Murphy+Emori

Gabriel + Josephine

The Bold Type:

characters: Jane Sloan, Kat Edison, Sutton Brady

ships: all of their ships are cute so far in a way

The Borgias

The Cry:

characters: Joanna

The Crown:

ships:

Elizabeth+Philip

The Magicians:

characters: Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson, Penny Adiyodi

ships:

Penny+Kady

Eliot + Margo (as friends)

Eliot+Quentin

Josh + Margo

The Mentalist

The Night Manager

The O.C.

ships:

Seth+Summer

The Tudors

The White Princess:

ships:

Elizabeth+Henry

The White Queen:

characters: Richard York

ships:

Richard+Anne

Elizabeth+Edward

(Everyone were driving me from love to hate and back at some points so...)

The Vampire Diaries:

ships:

Damon+Elena

Stefan+Elena

Timeless:

ships: 

Lucy+Wyatt

Lucy+Flynn

Rufus+Jiya

True Detective

Westworld:

characters: Dolores, William, Ford, Maeve

ships:

Dolores+William

Will

Veronica Mars:

ships:

Veronica+Logan

Vikings

characters: Lagertha, Ragnar Lothbrok, King Ecbert, Athlestan, Rollo

ships:

Judith + Ecbert

Rollo+Gisla

Victoria:

ships:

Victoria+Albert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Victoria+Melbourne (platonic-ish)

Ernest+Harriet

Drummond+Alfred

MOVIES

#

(500) Days of Summer

A

About Time

Amelie

American Beauty

American Psycho

Anna Karenina (Anna+Vronsky)

B

Before Midnight

Before Sunset

Before Sunrise    

Birdman (Sam+Mike)

Black Swan

Blade Runner

D

Donnie Darko

Dorian Gray

Drive

F

Fight Club (Tyler+Marla)

Filth

G

Gladiator

Gone with the Wind

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

H

Harry Potter Series (Harmione, Dramione, Romione, Hinny, Fremione... I ship everything lmao AND I LOVE MARAUDERS ERA)

I

Inglourious Basterds

Interview with the Vampire

Into the Wild

K

Kick-Ass

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

L

Like Minds

Lord of the Rings Series

Love Actually

Love, Rosie

M

Macbeth

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (LILY JAMES ILY)

Marvel Movies

Match Point

Meet Joe Black (Joe+Susan)

Moulin Rouge!

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (John&Jane)

MCU (Peter+Gamora, Tony+Pepper, Wanda+Vision)

P

Pride & Prejudice

Pulp Fiction

S

Se7en

Sherlock Holmes

Slow West

Star Wars Series (Anakin+Padme, Han Solo+Leia, REY+POE OMG)

Stuck in Love

Submarine

T

The Boat That Rocked

The Dreamers

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Great Beauty

The Great Gatsby

The Guest

The Hunger Games Series

The Men From U.N.C.L.E. [Gaby&Illya]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Pirates of Carribean (JACK&ELIZABETH)

The Prestige

The Social Network

The Virgin Suicides

Troy

W

Whiplash

BOOKS&COMIC (some)

1Q84

A Song of Ice and Fire

Adrian Mole series

American Gods

Artemis Fowl series

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Gossip Girl

Great Expectations

Harry Potter (Ginny+Harry, Hermione+Ron)

On the Road

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Infernal Devices (Will+Tessa)

The Hunger Games (Katniss+Peeta)

The Magicians

The Mortal Instruments (Jace+Clary)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Witcher (Geralt+Yennefer, Ciri+Cahir)

GAMES (only faves)

Assassin's Creed Series:

characters: Ezio Auditore, Kassandra, Haytham Kenway, Evie Frye, Bayek

ships:

Ezio+Sofia

Bayek+Aya

Arno+Elise

Kassandra+Brasidas

Mass Effect Series:

characters: Garrus Vakarian, Thane Krios, Mordin Solus, Jack, Jaal Ama Darav, Nakmor Drack

ships:

Shepard&Garrus

Shepard&Thane

Ryder+Reyes

Ryder+Jaal

Witcher series:

characters: Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer, Cirilla, Dandelion, Triss Merigold, Zoltan

ships:

Geralt+Yennefer

Dandelion+Priscilla

Geralt+Ciri (as father and daughter)

ANIME&MANGA

Attack on Titan

Code Geass

Death Note

Fullmetal Alchemist

Paradise Kiss

[clinchcoverenthusiast]

I started August on a roll, enjoying every book listed below up to and including T. Kingfisher then had to DNF three new releases that didn't work for me. I was able to get back on track with the help of Elizabeth Hoyt and the incredible, unhinged Duke of Sin, Valentine Napier and after that, it was all good again. I'm off Kindle Unlimited again so everything came from Hoopla and Libby except for What is Love?, which I got free through Prime First Reads, and the super cute and sexy A Walk in the Park, which I listened to with a brief Audible trial.

Looking at my stats, my average time to read is skewed because I started What is Love? in April and just now finished it. It was fine but I kept having to stop because the FMC was giving too much Nadia from Russian Doll and it was taking me out of the story. I'm eagerly looking forward to StoryGraph implementing a pause feature for books you want to leave on hold instead of DNFing.

The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds #3) - Megan E. O'Keefe

A Walk in the Park - Rebekah Weatherspoon* **

The Cull Vol 1 (The Cull #1-5) - Kelly Thompson, Mattia De Iulis**

The Earl's Mistress (MacLachlan Family & Friends #10) - Liz Carlyle

Queen of Dreams (Bound to Fire & Steel #2) - Kit Rocha

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins - P. Djèlí Clark* **

A Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher

Duke of Sin (Maiden Lane #10) - Elizabeth Hoyt

Wicked Intentions (Maiden Lane #1) - Elizabeth Hoyt

Notorious Pleasures (Maiden Lane #2) - Elizabeth Hoyt

Sharing Shane - Hannah Murray

Saga #68 - Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

The Hunger and the Dusk: Book Two #2 (The Hunger and the Dusk 2.2) - G. Willow Wilson, Chris Wildgoose

Second Chances in New Port Stephen - TJ Alexander**

Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane #3) - Elizabeth Hoyt

What is Love? - Jen Comfort

* = author(s) of color

** = main character(s) of color

[clinchcoverenthusiast]

Storygraph's new monthly wrap-up graphic is here! There's also a monthly view with ratings but I stuck with the cover only view since don't rate everything.

July was another mostly stellar reading month with many more of my anticipated new releases. Saga and The Hunger and the Dust returned! Chuck Tingle, Stephen Graham Jones, and Paul Tremblay knocked it out of the horror park. Cathy Yardley gave me more actual 40+ year old adults falling in love and Adriana Anders brought some serious both over 30 OWYM breeding kink heat. Once Bitten was so good that I forgive the cliffhanger ending and now I'll just have to read the rest of Heather's backlist while I (im)patiently wait for Twice Shy. Everything was from Hoopla or Libby except for Hot Blooded, Well Bred, Do Me a Favor, and Once Bitten, which were KU. Here's everything in chronological reading order:

A Shore Thing - Joanna Lowell

Hot Blooded (Tooth & Claw #2) - Heather Guerre

The Partner Plot (Greene Sisters #2) - Kristina Forest* **

The Hunger and the Dusk: Book Two #1 (The Hunger and the Dusk 2.1) - G. Willow Wilson

Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle

Well Bred - Adriana Anders

Pink Slime - Fernanda Trías

Do Me a Favor - Cathy Yardley* **

I Was a Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jones*

Books & Broadswords Vol. 1 (Books & Broadswords #1) - Jessie Mihalik

Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

Once Bitten (Tooth & Claw #3) - Heather Guerre

Roaming - Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki* **

Saga #67 - Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

This One Summer - Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki*

* = author(s) of color

** = main character(s) of color

[galacticrambler]

I was really excited to read The Hunger And The Dusk, Vol. 1. I’ll be the first to admit that fantasy with orcs and everything isn’t always my jam, but this story looked really cool

And, I am very happy to say that I was not let down. I can’t wait to read more!

The world is The Hunger And The Dusk sets the humans and orcs as historical enemies who have to come together to fight an even bigger enemy. The humans are leaderless and hapless. The proud and regal orcs are facing a good shortage unless they conquer or partner with the humans.

The story is a romance, and I’m here for it. The human mercenary leader Callum Battlechild and the orc healer Gruakhtar “Tara” Icemane are going to fall in love before our very eyes, and we’re going to enjoy it.

The Vangol were righteous and scary. They left the lands currently occupied by the humans and orcs and have now returned with a bloodlust. Right? There’s nothing more to the story, right?

Just kidding. There very clearly is something else going on here, and I can’t wait to find out more.

I really liked this book. The setting is familiar but different. The characters and story are intriguing and, almost, species-swapped. And the artwork is gorgeous. G. Willow Wilson and Chris Wildgoose killed it. I can’t wait for more.

Thank you Netgalley and IDW Publishing for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

[galacticrambler]

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