#lily mcguire

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So I am apparently not done going insane over Valiant

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And now Valiant by Sarah McGuire?? I wonder how many obscure favorite books we share!

AW YEAH VALIANT FAN GREETINGS I am. Deeply insane about this particular book. I've been slowly reading through and posting about it for oh, the past year or so (I keep getting distracted) and you've caught me just at the end! And then I'm gonna start it again so I can annotate it for my friend! Super normal, as you can see

Okay now I'M wondering how many obscure favorites we share excuse me while I send you an ask! Also thank you so much for reaching out!

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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire | Book Review

I put off reading this series for quite literally years, because the blurb was so promising that if it had been bad I would have been devastated. I finally bit the bullet this week, and this is everything I wanted and more, like a Miss Peregrine meets Narnia meets House Of Hollow mash up, and I wanted the book to be longer before I'd even finished the first chapter.

I felt this story introduced us to the house and the characters who had found themselves there really well, explaining the different worlds they had found themselves in before ending up back on earth in a way I understood easily. And this kept the pace up and my attention by brutally killing off multiple characters by the end of the story.

I did guess the culprit, but solving the mystery didn't feel as important as getting the reader to know the characters. I loved all of them, and the final pages had me wondering what on earth was happening next and where this story was going to go. I'm not reading the blurbs too far ahead, but now I've read the blurb for book 2, I love the choice of POV switch. 5/5

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THE TOURNAMENT IS OVER! Eartha Kitt lounges in her deck chair in the sun, dipping her toes in the pool with Toshiro Mifune and sipping a brightly colored fruity something with an umbrella in it.

Far below in the shadow realm, however, the fallen hotties dance in the dark—let's take a minute to look back at them under the cut.

PRELIM PRETTIES:

Claude Gensac, Silvia Pinal, Ewa Aulin, Rita Tushingham, Annette Funicello, Norma Bengell, Catherine Spaak, Brigitte Auber, Micheline Presle, Nanette Fabray, Libertad Lamarque, Vera Miles, Martha Raye, Catherine McLeod, Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allan, Belle Bennet, Virginia Cherill, Mary Brian, Ruth Chatterton, Agnes Ayres, Merna Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Corinne Griffith, May Allison, Virginia Brown Faire, Alice Brady, and Jetta Goudal

ROUND ONE WONDERS:

Angie Dickinson, Thelma Ritter, Geraldine Chaplin, Evelyn Preer, Vanessa Brown, Betty Blythe, Susan Hayward, Mae Clarke, Sally Ann Howes, Ossi Oswalda, Adrienne La Russa, Hermione Gingold, Barbara Bouchet, Melina Mercouri, Anna Karina, Edwige Fenech, Charmian Carr, Pina Pellicer, Marlène Jobert, Tsuru Aoki, Alice Roberts, Leila Hyams, Lady Tsen Mei, Geneviève Bujold, Dolores Hart, Anita Berber, Bonita Granville, Vonetta McGee, Claire Windsor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Tuesday Weld, Grace Darmond, Carol Channing, Deanna Durbin, Laraine Day, Mariette Hartey, Wendy Hiller, Candy Darling, Hermione Baddely, Valeria Creti, Ella Raines, Ann Miller, Dana Wynter, Dalida, Martine Beswick, Gale Storm, Simone Signoret, Cristina Gaioni, Mabel Normand, Stéphane Audran, Ruth Weyher, Anna Wiazemsky, Ann Sheridan, Sandhya Shantaram, Alice White, Anne Francis, Gena Rowlands, Lyda Borelli, May Whitty, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Walter, Virna Lisi, Barbara Shelley, Iris Hall, Heather Angel, Anne Shirley, Joanna Pettet, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Collins, Greer Garson, Gracie Allen, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Shirley Maclaine, Geraldine Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Margaret Hamilton, Eva Gabor, Francesca Bertini, Julie Adams, Olga Baclanova, Misa Uehara, Yvette Vickers, Milena Dravić, Jenny Jugo, Madeleine Carroll, Benita Hume, Olive Borden, Shirley Jones, Miyoshi Umeki, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Mary Anderson, Charlotte Greenwood, Sybil Seely, Mona Barrie, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Ross, Madge Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Gray, Jana Brejchová, Debra Paget, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Evelyn Brent, Zelma O'Neal, Marie Laforêt, Türkan Şoray, Beatriz Costa, Irene Zazians, Eleanor Powell, Susan Luckey, Patsy Kelly, Lil Dagover, Norma Talmadge, Dorothy Mackaill, Madge Evans, Virginia McKenna, Amália Rodrigues, Mamie Van Doren, Valerie Hobson, Isabel Jeans, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Claire Luce, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nieves Navarro Garcia, Janet Leigh, Carmen Miranda, Jean Harlow, Aud Egedge-Nissen, Nina Foch, Jean Simmons, Piper Laurie, Katy Jurado, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Garvin, Frances Farmer, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Greenwood, Una Merkel, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette, Ruta Lee, Carolyn Jones, June Richmond, Eva Nil, Diana Dors, Anna Chang, Colleen Moore, Alexis Smith, Yvette Mimieux, Ruby Keeler, Viola Dana, Dolores Grey, Marie Windsor, Danielle Darieux, Jean Parker, Julie Christie, Acquanetta, Leatrice Joy, Ghita Nørby, Julie Newmar, Joanne Woodward, Sandra Dee, Eva Marie Saint, Simone Simon, Katherine Dunham, Birgitte Price, Lee Grant, Anita Page, Flora Robson, Martha Sleeper, Elsie Ames, Isabel "Coca" Sarli, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Burke, Linden Travers, Diane Baker, Joan Davis, Joan Leslie, Sylvia Sidney, Marie Dressler, June Lockhart, Emmanuelle Riva, Libertad Leblanc, Susannah Foster, Susan Fleming, Dolores Costello, Ann Smyrner, Luise Rainer, Anna Massey, Evelyn Ankers, Ruth Gordon, Eva Dahlbeck, Ansa Ikonen, Diana Wynyard, Patricia Neal, Etta Lee, Gloria Stuart, Arletty, Dorothy McGuire, Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon, Maria Schell, Lili Damita, Ethel Moses, Gloria Holden, Kay Thompson, Jeanne Crain, Edna May Oliver, Lili Liliana, Ruth Chatterton, Giulietta Masina, Claire Bloom, Dinah Sheridan, Carroll Baker, Brenda de Banzie, Milú, Hertha Thiele, Hanka Ordonówna, Lillian Roth, Jane Powell, Carol Ohmart, Betty Garrett, Kalina Jędrusik, Edana Romney, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kay Kendall, Ruth Hussey, Véra Clouzot, Jadwiga Smosarska, Marge Champion, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, María Casares, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mildred Natwick, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Elisabeth Bergner, Celeste Holm, Betty Hutton, Susan Peters, Mehtab, Leslie Caron, Anna Sten, Janet Munro, Nataša Gollová, Eve Arden, Ida Lupino, Regina Linnanheimo, Sonja Henie, and Terry (what a good girl)

ROUND TWO BEAUTIES:

Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Todd, Tura Satana, Helen Gibson, Maureen O'Hara, Rocío Dúrcal, Mary Nolan, Lois Maxwell, Maggie Smith, Zulma Faiad, Ursula Andress, Musidora, Delphine Seyrig, Marian Marsh, Leatrice Joy, Sharon Tate, Pina Menichelli, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Lee Remick, Jane Wyman, Martita Hunt, Barbara Bates, Susan Strasberg, Marie Bryant, Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, Rosalind Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brigitte Helm, Gloria Grahame, Rosemary Clooney, Bebe Daniels, Constance Bennett, Lilian Bond, Ann Dvorak, Jeanette Macdonald, Pouri Banayi, Raquel Welch, Vilma Bánky, Dorothy Malone, Olive Thomas, Celia Johnson, Moira Shearer, Priscilla Lane, Dolores del Río, Ann Sothern, Françoise Rosay, June Allyson, Carole Lombard, Jeni Le Gon, Takako Irie, Barbara Steele, Claudette Colbert, Lalita Pawar, Asta Nielsen, Sandra Milo, Maria Montez, Mae West, Alma Rose Aguirre, Bibi Andersson, Joan Blondell, Anne Bancroft, Elsa Lanchester, Nita Naldi, Suchitra Sen, Dorothy Van Engle, Elisabeth Welch, Esther Williams, Loretta Young, Margueritte De La Motte, Ita Rina, Constance Talmadge, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Bedford, Josette Day, Stefania Sandrelli, Jane Russell, Doris Dowling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donna Reed, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Billie Burke, Kyōko Kagawa, Françoise Dorléac, Hend Rostom, Monica Vitti, Lilian Harvey, Marjorie Main, Jeanne Moreau, Lola Flores, Ann Blyth, Janet Gaynor, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Sullavan, Sadhana, Ruby Myers, Lotus Long, Honor Blackman, Marsha Hunt, Debbie Reynolds, Michèle Mercier, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Tippi Hedren, Susse Wold, Vera-Ellen, Carmelita González, Nargis Dutt, Purnima, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne De Carlo, Miroslava Stern, Sheila Guyse, Helen, Margaret Dumont, Betty Grable, Joan Bennett, Jane Greer, Judith Anderson, Liv Ullman, Vera Zorina, Joan Fontaine, Silvana Mangano, and Lee Ya-Ching

ROUND THREE ELECTRIFIERS:

Jean Hagen, Sumiko Mizukubo, Mary Philbin, Ann-Margret, Margaret Rutherford, Claudia Cardinale, Eleanor Parker, Jessie Matthews, Theresa Harris, Brigitte Bardot, Alla Nazimova, Faye Dunaway, Marion Davies, Anna Magnani, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Hideko Takamine, France Nuyen, Claudine Auger, Miriam Hopkins, Maylia Fong, Samia Gamal, Maude Fealy, Machiko Kyō, Sharmila Tagore, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Juanita Moore, Anna Fougez, Waheeda Rehman, Ruan Lingyu, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Nadira, Olivia de Havilland, Abbey Lincoln, Louise Beavers, Agnes Moorehead, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer, Maria Falconetti, Reiko Sato, Marie Doro, Clara Bow, Margaret Lindsay, Catherine Denueve, Madhabi Mukherjee, Rosaura Revueltas, Hu Die, Mary Pickford, Fredi Washington, Louise Brooks, Leonor Maia, Merle Oberon, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Francine Everett, Savitri, Tita Merello, and Meena Kumari

ROUND FOUR STUNNERS:

Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Papas, Lupe Vélez, Pola Negri, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Gina Lollobrigida, Lena Horne, Nutan, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Gladys Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Darnell, Julie Andrews, Carmen Sevilla, Gloria Swanson, Glynis Johns, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Anita Ekberg, Toshia Mori, Deborah Kerr, Hazel Scott, Chelo Alonso, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Devika Rani, Shima Iwashita, and Anouk Aimée

ROUND FIVE SMOKESHOWS:

Setsuko Hara, Pearl Bailey, Joan Crawford, Madhubala, Marpessa Dawn, Keiko Awaji, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Xia Meng, Suraiya, Natalie Wood, María Félix, and Mbissine Thérèse Diop

ROUND SIX SEXY LADIES:

Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Vyjyanthimala, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman

QUARTER FINALIST GLAMAZONS:

Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Lauren Bacall

SEMIFINALIST ICONS:

Rita Moreno, Diahann Carroll

FINALIST FABULOSITY:

Hedy Lamarr

ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF THE HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE WOMAN TOURNAMENT:

Eartha Kitt

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Do you have any suggestions of appropriate books for 14 to 16 year olds that have "dragons but no romance"? My young friend would enjoy the romantasy genre, if only it would avoid the romance part. I don't know for certain that she will end up identifying as aro/ace, but it's looking like a good assumption at this point and I'd really like to be able to give some recommendations that would be supportive of that as much as being a standard YA fantasy story.

Thanks for all your fabulous book recs!

thank you so much! unfortunately no romance and dragons are difficult parameters to fill so here is what i found in different categories

no romance and dragons

to shape a dragons breath by moniquill blackgoose

i have only started this book, it is a fantasy that reads like historical fiction. a girl finds a dragon egg and attends the colonizer institution that trains dragons and humans. im pretty sure there is no romance (if there is it is definitely not central) and great for teens who want more dragons!

tea dragon society by kay o'neill

a graphic novel series about a young girl who becomes a member of a society that protects small dragons who make tea from the leaves they grow. very sweet and whimsical, the only romance are established romances.

the dragon of ynys by minerva cerridwen

a fairytale like story about a knight who keeps going to the dragon to ask for the town's treasures back. if i remember correctly, all romances are already established before the story starts and does serve as motivation but not a focus of the story.

dragons and a little bit of romance

the girl who drank the moon by kelly barnhill

this is on the younger side but reads like a fairy tale. it is about a town forced to sacrifice a baby to the witch in the woods except the witch doesn't know why the town abandons the baby and takes them to another village. and one year she feeds the baby moonlight and needs to raise her. there is a dragon and other magic and both children and adults act as narrators. one of the characters goes on a quest for his wife and child but that's all the romance there is.

fantasy with no romance

thornhedge by t kingfisher

a retelling of sleeping beauty from the fairys perspective, except sleeping beauty is a changeling. a short novella with no romance.

every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire

children after they have traveled to a magical world, struggle to adjust to their former worlds and attend a boarding school together. half fantasy, half murder mystery, this is the first in a series of novellas that are great adult books that really work well for a teen audience. the main character of this one is aroace and there are different mcs in each novella and the romance never takes center stage if there is any.

sisters of the neversea by cynthia leitich smith

this is more middle grade but as an adult, i found it really interesting and engaging. this is peter pan but through a feminist and post colonialism lens. wendy and lily are stepsisters and they go to neverland with their brother micheal with the untrustworthy peter pan.

i hope this helps and i hope your young friend finds something she can enjoy on the list!!

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🍾TONIGHT! A new Dirty Laundry launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT.

Featuring host Lily Du, bartender Grant O'Brien, and Disney Channel alums Raviv Ullman ("Phil of The Future"), Davida Williams ("Lizzie McGuire"), Daniel Kountz ("Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge), and Andrew Lawrence ("Brotherly Love", "Recess")

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THEY STOLE THE SUN / an introduction

🔆 adult, science fiction, horror 🛫 body horror, gore, violence, sexual content, and more 🙊 currently outlining 🧪 i am scared of the dark, my hearing sucks, i don't trust most people, and i'd rather die doing what i wanted even if it's incredibly pointless. how can you miss something you never saw? there's also monster fucker representation. and three povs! not of the monster fucking. but that would be kinda funny. 🔅 spotify / pinterest 💉 picrew used

on the two-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary of the sun disappearing, a bunker council leader declares that the hunter's should be disbanded, regrouped into the bunker guard to police people instead of searching for the corpses of those that dared to leave. after all, it's been over a year since the last time someone tried. what's the point? they should be doing a better job of guarding the doors in the first place. a week later, the bunker wakes up to strangers at their door. the last and only time the heizfree bunker let in any outsiders, it brought a sickness that has plagued their descendants ever since. and that was before they had even found the bunker; when their founders were still barely surviving in the destroyed air force base. with the entire five floors below them voting for them to lose their jobs and change their lives just as they've discovered something that could possibly save them- the hunters decide to let the outsiders in. after all, they guard the doors. the strangers claim they've been traveling across the state looking for survivors, that they saw them running from a shadow and were impressed by their skills. they offer to bring the hunters back with them, and only then they'll be able to understand how they survive out there, and that it could be possible for them, too. it's also completely possible that they're liars and that the hunters have just marked themselves for certain death instead, but what else have they got to lose? their jobs were always going to lead them to it, anyway. they might as well go out trying to do something better than the people before them.

the hunters — in order of appearance

antontio castillo - 30 | capricorn | general

van boyd - 26 | gemini | colonel

sterling townsend - 27 | aries | lieutenant

knox perry - 26 | sagittarius | captain

lily calderon* - 20 | capricorn | captain

phoebe howard - 23 | gemini | captain

vegas leon - 24 | taurus | captain

*lily is the lone survivor of her family, her dad was the last from his generation of hunters and was killed four years before the story in an attack that still leaves the bunker shaken. his death happened three months before she was meant to join the guard boot camp, which would allow her to become a hunter and many of those within the bunker tried to sway her from enlisting. but if there's one word you can describe lily as, it would be determined. besides, those people didn't care about her or her family before, why would she listen to them, then?

the outsiders — in order of appearance

rem - 31 | taurus

kali* - 25 | libra

anders - 25 | scorpio

sierra - 22 | leo

*kali has been traveling across texas to search for survivors since she was twelve, along with rem, who she considers her older sister at this point. they were raised by the same scientists, but that's where the similarities end. where kali is caring, diplomatic, and serious about the offers she gives to the survivors they meet, rem could be considered the opposite. quick to set their ever-revolving pair of guards off on whoever turns on them. but anders and sierra have lasted longer than most of their guards so far, and kali really enjoys their company, even if they can be incredibly cold sometimes. she knows she can be the same, so she can't fault them for it too much.

the scientists — in order of appearance

tucker marshall - 70 | cancer

shiloh schaefer* - 27 | virgo

violet mcguire - 25 | aquarius

*shiloh is the youngest daughter of edith schaefer: one of the council leaders and a member of the light of life, a religion followed by a majority of the bunker. shiloh was originally studying at the medical bay when her older sister was indoctrinated following a rough stint during her voluntary medic time with the guard, who are known for being unpleasant to, well, everyone. shiloh knew she didn't want to follow her family's footsteps and plead with dr. marshall to switch to studying with him to avoid that life, knowing he has a vocal dislike for them and needed someone to follow in his footsteps eventually. she's since been a diligent pupil, but may be working on something behind his back. just to see if her hypothesis is correct before she shows him, of course.

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… encore de belles découvertes

Il m’a été aussi donné de voir les nombreuses divas du softcore telles Silvana Venturelli, Laura Antonelli, Rosemarie Lindt, Stefania Sandrelli, Malisa Longo, Alina Penz, Edwige Fenech, Gloria Guida, Barbara Bouchet, Karin Schubert, Agostina Belli, Victoria Vetri, Lina Romay, Patrizia Webley, Teri Tordai, Sylvia Kristel, Marika Green, Catherine Rivet, Paola Senatore, Gisela Hahn, Meredith Baer, Corinne Cléry, Laura Gemser, Claudine Beccarie, Alice Arno, Marie Forså, Nathalie Uher, Mia Nygren, Marcela Walerstein, Michelle Stark, Catherine Spaak, Marina Hedman, Florence Guérin, Serena Grandi, Anne Randall, Luciana Paluzzi, Jami Ferrel, Dona Speir, Susan Ward, Rachel Elizabeth, Lesli Kay, Shannan Leigh, Danielle Petty, Brandin Rackley, Janet Tracy Keijser, Julian Wells, Jessica Lee, Tina Wiseman, Regina Russel, Susan Featherly, Tracy Dali, Kim Sill, Rebecca Davis, April Blossom, Stephanie LaFleur, Elina Madison, Kehli O'Byrne, et LoriDawn Messuri. Mais aussi les actrices qui ont tourné avec Tinto Brass comme Anneka Di Lorenzo, Serena Grandi, Valerie Rae Clark, Jane Hargrave, Henrietta Kelogg, Maria Mascarielli, Juliet Morris, Carolyn Patsis, Aliena Galina, Susanne Saxon, Melanie Sutherland, Bonnie Dee Wilson, Tina Aumont, Valentine Demy, Emanuelle Cristaldi, Paola Senatore, Debora Caprioglio, et Tamara Triffez.

À cela s’ajoute les célèbres pornstars que sont Hyapatia Lee, Linda Lovelace, Desiree Cousteau, Seka, Marilyn Jess, Brigitte Lahaie, Karine Gambier, Georgina Spelvin, Patricia Rhomberg, Annette Haven, Juliet Anderson, Kay Parker, Rene Bond, Julia Perrin, Helene Shirley, Nina Hartley, Tori Welles, Jennifer Jones, Candy Evans, Little Oral Annie, Debbie Diamond, Savannah, Racquel Darrian, Victoria Paris, Lisa De Leeuw, Anna Malle, Tracey Adams, Loni Saunders, Ramba, Venere Bianca, Jessica Rizzo, Selen, Ilona Staller, Lili Carati, Baby Pozzi, Monica Roccaforte, Vanessa Del Rio, Milly D'Abbraccio, Jesse Jane, Mary Carey, Taylor Wane, Keisha, Heather Hunter, Deborah Wells, Moana Pozzi, Valentina Velasquez, Debi Diamond, Inari Vachs, Éva Henger, Vittoria Risi, Michelle Ferrari, Riley Steele, Chasey Lain, Jesse Capelli, Katie Morgan, Sacha Grey, Jenny Hendrix, Mackenzee Pierce, Bree Olson, Ava Taylor, Dillon Carter, Stella May, Brooklyn Daniels, Ashlynn Brooke, Rebecca Linares, Missy Martinez, Bobbi Eden, Kianna Dior, Charmane Star, London Kayes, Lily Thai, Lulu Chu, Rae Lil Black, Vina Sky, Sharon Lee, Kobe Tai, Jade Kush, Alina Li, Jessica Bangkok, Kalina Ryu, Lucy Lee, Morgan Lee, Minka, Gaia, Daisy Haze, Mia Rider, Mika Tan, Jennie Rose, Song Lee, Mio Kimijima, Yu Shinoda, Reiko Kobayakawa, Riko Tachibana, Rie Tachikawa, Asuka Yuki, Anna Ohura, Saika Kawakita, Akiho Yoshizawa, Yua Mikami, et Eimi Fukada.

Mais aussi les nombreuses playmates que j’ai pu découvrir dans de nombreux films comme Barbi Benton, Liv Lindeland, Dorothy Stratten, Tiffany Fallon, Vanity, Diora Baird, Terri Welles, Cindy Wood, Dawn Richard, Donna Michelle, Angela Dorian, Claudia Jennings, Sharon Clark, Lisa Baker, Patti McGuire, Audra Lynn, Monica Leigh, Jessa Hinton, Karen McDougal, Karen Velez, Mariel Hemingway, Garcelle Beauvais, Dani Mathers, Amberleight West, Victoria Zdrok, Cathy St. George, Lisa Welch, Holly Madison, Pamela Bryant, Nikki Leigh, Lisa Matthews, Buffy Tyler, Hope Marie Carlton, Summer Altice, Kathy Shower, Candy Loving, Christa Speck, Sally Rand, Lili St-Cyr, Cynthia Myers, Blaze Starr, Carol Alt, Andrea Lowell, Lilian Müller, Christina Carlin-Kraft, India Love, et Brook Power.  

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Spoilers for RDR2 below!!!:

I was visiting Kieran's grave the other day and there were light blue flowers not far away and they reminded me a lot of him it was crazy so I decided to make a list of flowers that remind me of all the rdr2 characters

Kieran Duffy: Tweedia/Forget-me-not

Lenny Summers: Lantana

Hosea Mathews: Dasiy

Arthur Morgan: Poppy

Javier Escuella: Rose

Dutch Van Der Linde: Red hibiscus from Tahiti

Molly O' Shea: Honey Suckle

Sean McGuire: Dandelion

Susan Grimshaw: Red Tiger Lily

Sadie Adler: Sunflower

Charles Smith: Plume Thistle

Reverend Swanson: Queen Anne's Lace

Josiah Trelawney: Bleeding Heart

Jack Marston: Lilly of the Valley

John Marston: Violet

Karen Jones: Lily

Abigail Marston: Columbine

Mary-Beth Gaskill: Daffodil

Tilly Jackson: Lavender

Simon Pearson: Sea Thrift

Bill Williamson: Yarrow

Uncle: Cardinal Flower

Micah Bell: no flower only rat

[oblivionsdream]

Hi, I saw your ask for urban fantasy book recs! Here are some of my faves:

Bite Me! (You Know I Like It) by Fae Quin (love the whole series so far! Small town filled with supernatural creatures, murder plots, demisexual vampire love interest)🏳️‍🌈

The Mysterious And Amazing Blue Billings by Lily Morton (haunted houses and ghost tours, with real ghosts!)🏳️‍🌈

The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs (love this series, werewolves & shifters & fae politics, just be careful there are some heavy trigger warnings for some of the books) (queer side characters!)

The Adam Binder series by David R. Slayton (it’s got supernatural vibes! check trigger warnings before diving in)🏳️‍🌈

The Scapegracers by H.A. Clarke (ya, saapphic witches, girl gang, religious trauma(?), a little bit of body horror)🏳️‍🌈

The October Daye series by Seanan McGuire (fae, politics, found family (literally), and so many adventures!) (queer side characters!)

The Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon (this is a ya spin off from her Dark Hunters series, lots of supernatural creatures, gods, immortals, demons all fighting to change the main characters past and set him on different paths, time fuckery, people messing with the timelines) (queer side characters!)

If you don’t mind omegaverse stories:

The Dragonfate Games series by Hawke Oakley (mpreg omegaverse, The Bachelor style tv show meet-cute, fated mates, honestly these are hilarious and something fun to get lost in for a while)🏳️‍🌈

If you need more recs let me know! I’ve got a massive list/shelf thingy over on goodreads that I’d be more than happy to share!

OMG THANK YOUUU. I've read a few of these but I'm definitely going to have to read the others!!

[the-forest-library]

February 2024 Reads

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands - Heather Fawcett

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

Mislaid in Parts Half Known - Seanan McGuire

Love at 350 - Lisa Peers

I Hope this Email Doesn't Find You - Ann Liang

The Lily of Legate Hill - Mimi Matthews

Set the Record Straight - Hannah Bonam-Young

At Her Service - Amy Spaulding

Don't Want You Like a Best Friend - Emma R. Alban

My Fair Brady - Brian D. Kennedy

Simon Sort of Says - Erin Bow

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears - Tehlor Kay Mejia

A Knot in the Grain - Robin McKinley

Freshman Year - Sarah Mai

When I Was Your Age - Kenan Thompson

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt - Madeline Pendleton

White Supremacy is All Around - Akilah Cadet

Sex with a Brain Injury - Annie Liontas

All the Women in My Brain - Betty Gilpin

One in a Millennial - Kate Kennedy

I'll Be Just Five More Minutes - Emily Farris

Outofshapeworthlessloser - Gracie Gold

The Woman in Me - Britney Spears

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

The Liars' Club - Mary Karr

Secure Love - Julie Menanno

The 5 Resets - Aditi Nerukar

Tiny Traumas - Meg Arrow

A Dirty Guide to a Clean Home - Melissa Dilkes Pateras

Gut Renovation - Roshini Raj

Veg-table - Nik Sharma

Soup Club - Caroline Wright

Soup Season - Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: 

Emily Wilde II didn't disappoint, but Mislaid in Parts Half Known did. I was really hoping we'd be immersed in a world of dinosaurs similar to Across the Green Grass Fields, but we spent such little time there.

The non-fiction reads this month really outshone the fiction reads. I especially enjoyed Betty Gilpin's All the Women in My Brain. It was weird and wonderful.

Goodreads Goal: 76/200

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads | 

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads | 2024 Reads

[waxingrunes]

Odd questions but I’m interested in the scope of Tiny in your opinion.

- Is it always PG? Or does it get explicit?

-Is ur interpretation and HC only wholesome?

-Are they dating?

-Or is Remus like, Lizzie McGuire and Sirius is like a Mini Lizzie?

-Are they at hogwarts?

-What’s the origin story?

-is this Remus also a werewolf?

Like im genuinely fascinated! genuinely would love to know the answers! And if you’re not game to answer bc it takes away some of the “glamour” or interpretation (even though I feel like we’ll equally be excited for each video when it drops even if we know) of them that’s cool I respect it. But would stillllll love to know 😝🥰ILY xxxxx

Orrrr would love to see these q explored in future videos ! Idk just a thought 🤍🤍🤍

Tiny’s forever open for your own interpretations, he can bimble around being whatever or whoever. But as you’ve asked for my takes on them:

Tiny and Remus won’t be getting up to anything explicit in my storytelling, I wouldn’t know how or where to start with exploring that, so as it stands it’s a very PG relationship.

This is a magical verse as Tiny’s a minuscule breed of something very fairy-esque. Remus is a werewolf yes, and actually discovered him in his werewolf form during a particularly calm full moon. He was trudging through the woods, plodding about until he stumbled across a shivering Tiny wedged in a nest of damp leaves. It took one inquisitive sniff from the wolf for Tiny to try and attack (which failed but succeeded in charming his companion) though soon realised this huge daft creature was no threat. Remus prodded and sniffled for a few minutes until resigning to curling around him on the floor, keeping one eye on him rustling around in the leaves, until confidence was gained and eventually Sirius climbed on his snout and settled between the extra soft fur near Moony’s ear.

Remus discovered Tiny after Hogwarts and is somewhere around mid-twenties. At some point, there may be a magical way for Tiny to become the big Sirius we all know, but for now there’s no such thing and Sirius exists in this verse as a wee mythical creature.

I don’t think they’re dating, but there’s an unspoken rule that Remus is satisfied being Tiny’s caretaker. A friend once suggested that the people in Remus’ life have just accepted this “tiny life partner”. These boys are on their soulmate shit in every universe, even in these ones where they’re not necessarily romantically involved, but experience a strong bond nonetheless. Nothing is taking Tiny away from Remus, and god help you if you try take away Tiny’s Moony.

All I know is they’re happy with their little existence and Remus and Lily enjoy coming up with inventive ways to make Tiny-sized objects for him to function. (A toothpaste cap for him to gargle a splash of mouthwash was one of Remus’ proudest moments).

[seiya-starsniper]

For the flower prompts...

Calla Lily (it's my favourite flower) - Something at first sight.

I leave it to you to do any Sandman pairing you have an itch to write. 💜😊

Ooooooo this one is so appropriate for me as one of my fave fics I’ve written (not for this fandom) is called Calla Lillies 💖💖 I also added a little personalized twist on this, just for you 😘

Flower Prompt Game!

(Also, for anyone still wondering, I am in fact still accepting prompts! Gonna be a bit slow and answer one or two a day, but I’m so glad this has been such a hit!)

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When Morpheus Endless (and isn’t that the name of the century?) enters the coffee shop in a whirlwind of taut anxiety and indignant rage, Simon Snow does not even say hello, he merely takes up residence at the espresso machine to start preparing the most absurdly complex drink known to man.  

“Your man is here,” Penelope deadpans, and Simon rolls his eyes. Morpheus is not his man. He’s very nice to look at, yes, and he may or may not bear a striking resemblance to Simon’s hopelessly secret crush arch nemesis, but they’re too alike in temperament to be anything more than friends. But he can see where the confusion comes from. 

When he finishes making Morpheus’s regular order, he calls for his break and walks over, drink in hand, to the corner Morpheus and his terribly bad mood have taken up residence. 

“Bad day?” Simon asks, placing the absurdly sweet concoction down on the table where Morpheus has sprawled all his notebooks and laptop. He’s not looking at any of it though, more preoccupied with whatever social media scandal is happening on his phone.

“Cory left me,” Morpheus growls, tapping angrily at the screen. “For Alex Burgess. Who, as you recall, is currently still in a relationship with Paul Mcguire, the unfaithful bastard.” 

Simon has no idea who these people are besides Cory, who has come into the shop with Morpheus once. He doesn’t pay attention to the campus gossip. More specifically, the rich people campus gossip. Because Simon is here at the university on scholarship, working part time at the local coffee shop for a little extra spending money, and Morpheus is part of the very small, elite group of legacy family admissions. 

No one, not even Penelope, Simon’s best friend since childhood, understands why he and Morpheus get along so well. Simon knows it’s partially because he’s the only one willing to make Morpheus’s stupidly complicated order, and partially because they’re both grumpy bisexuals who fall in love too easily with the wrong people. 

“You were too good for him anyways,” Simon replies, plopping down into the chair next to Morpheus.

“Damn right I am,” Morpheus answers, picking up his coffee that is actually more syrup, sugar and milk than anything resembling coffee. And that was after Simon added four shots of espresso. He groans happily as he takes his first sip. “He was awful in bed anyways.”

Simon snorts. “Maybe you should try not dating rich assholes,” he offers.

“No? I should only pine for them hopelessly from across the rugby pitch?” Morpheus answers pointedly. 

“Wow, you’re lucky I’m on shift or I’d tip that sad excuse for coffee into your lap,” Simon bites back, feeling the familiar heat of anger rise up in him. Because of course Morpheus knew about Simon’s complicated feelings towards Baz. But he didn’t have to be an asshole about it just because he got dumped.

Morpheus sniffles. “These jeans are Gucci,” is all he says back, before taking another sip of his coffee and letting the subject drop. 

———————

Simon’s break is over before he knows it, and not a moment too soon. He and Penelope are swamped by the late-afternoon rush. Simon doesn’t know how so many people could be craving coffee this late in the day, but to each their own. Morpheus had ordered a second cup of his ungodly drink right before the rush hit, and it’s when he’s finishing up that drink and getting ready to leave that half the rugby team decides to walk into the cafe and ruin Simon’s day. 

“Snow,” Baz Pitch sneers at him when he gets to the counter to order. Simon rolls his eyes.

“Let me guess, black tea for the blackness in your soul?” he retorts, smirking when Baz’s face goes tight with annoyance.

“Ooooh, this guy’s got you down to a T,” a brunette answers, coming up from behind Baz and draping an arm over his shoulders.

“Shut up Hob,” Baz replies, rolling his eyes and shrugging his friend off before turning back to Simon. “And yes, black tea, but do try not to over-steep it this time Snow.”

“I’ll have a caramel latte,” the man called Hob adds, “with extra caramel syrup since Bazzy’s paying.”

“Hob I swear if you call me Bazzy one more time—”

“Yeah, yeah, you’ll sue me for defamation somehow, hey, can I get a couple of cake pops too?” Hob answers all in one breath. Simon gets the impression the man is something like a golden retriever in human form. 

“Sure, anything for a friend of Bazzy's,” Simon chuckles before he turns to work on their order. He can practically feel Baz seething from behind him as he prepares their order. 

As he’s getting ready to prepare Hob’s latte, Simon catches Morpheus out of the corner of his eye approaching the counter, and he instinctively starts preparing a drink for him as well. Seriously, how the hell could Morpheus stomach one of these, let alone three in a single sitting?

“The line is behind me, Endless,” Simon hears Baz say. 

“Ah, that’s where you’re mistaken, Basil,” Morpheus replies smoothly. “There is no line when you’re the favorite.”

“Who the hell says you’re the favorite?” Baz snaps 

“I do,” Simon cuts in, bringing over the order, and making sure to hand Morpheus’s drink over first. He can just tell Baz is irrationally mad about the whole thing. “Unlike some other customers, Morpheus is a sweetheart.”

“Thank you, dear heart,” Morpheus practically coos at him before turning back to Baz and Hob and smirking. “The cake pops are quite good, by the way.”

“Good to know!” Hob answers cheerily. “Did you want one, by the way? Didn’t realize how large they were,” he adds holding one out. 

Morpheus looks taken aback, but accepts the cake pop with a meek thank you and then with their order complete, the rugby team starts making their way towards the exit. Morpheus stares after them as they leave, cake pop still in hand. 

“I think I’m in love,” Morpheus says once the cafe has totally emptied out.

“You’re what now?” Simon exclaims, then groans. “Please tell me this isn’t about the cake pop.”

“He has nice eyes,” Morpheus argues. “And if he tolerates Basil’s awful attitude, I’m practically a ray of sunshine in comparison.”

“You're not wrong,” Penelope cuts in, leaning her elbows down on the counter next to Simon. “And if Morpheus can get Hob, maybe he can help you get Baz, Si.”

“That is a terrible plan,” Simon says. “And anyways, Baz hates me.”

“It’s an excellent plan,” Morpheus replies. “And also, you’re an idiot. Basil was ready to stab me with my own fountain pen for touching you so casually.”

“He was not!” Simon squeaks.

“No, he definitely was, I’m with Morpheus here,” Penelope says. “Maybe you two should pretend to date and see how long it takes for Baz to crack.”

“Absolutely not,” Simon says at the same time Morpheus answers “That’s an excellent idea.”

Simon groans. 

“I don’t have a choice in the matter do I?” he asks.

“Not at all,” Morpheus replies, biting into the cake pop.

[rockingrobin69]

Snippet

One Monday Teddy asked, “Uncle Harry, why are your flowers always sad?” pointing to the newspaper under his nose. The pen was still in Harry’s hand, half-chewed.

“I,” he said, stopped. Squinted at the sketching, didn’t really see it. “Are they? Sad?”

“Yeah! Look at this one,” sticky-peanut-butter-finger wiggled very close to his face. “It’s all frowning and all.”

Did look at the lily in question, couldn’t really see where a face would be for it to frown. An eyebrow, maybe, in that line over there, or—“Oh,” when it hit him. The sagginess to the corners. “Yeah, I guess it is a bit sad.”

“They always are,” with a truly Hermione-level of self-assuredness. “Is it because of the, you know, the Terrible and Devastating Loss You’ve’ad Suffered and… everything Mrs. McGuire always goes on about?”

Choked on a startled laugh, buried his face in his palm. “Sorry! No, it’s not—sorry. Jesus, Ted, you surprised me there, is all.”

Thankfully, mercifully, Teddy laughed too. A bit like Malfoy’s laugh, loud and unselfconscious, a little wild. “Sorry, Uncle Harry! I didn’t mean to,” words lost in another burst of laughter. Harry’s chest went tight and over-warm, something fizzy and bright bubbling inside.

“Look at us,” he said in this thick voice he barely even recognised, “all sorry and silly like that.”

“So silly!” Ted shouted, delighted. “Gran would say we’re being so silly!”

“And what would Uncle Draco say?” with only a touch of self-loathing. Teddy’s smile went big, and he came closer, conspiratorial.

“He would say we’re being absolute gooses about it.”  

“Geese,” smiling helplessly. “He’d say we’re being silly geese?”

“Absolute geeses!” shouting, “that we’re—we’re—honking!”

They both roared with it, arm flailing, belly-aching laughter, shouting things like “honk!” and “goose!” and “stop, Ted, oh, god, stop,” flat on the table and laughing. Harry was constantly wiping his eyes, shaking his head, overwhelmed with how tight his chest was, with how much he loved this silly little goose of a kid, who used to be quiet, who still sometimes was. Who was scratched in the same ways Harry had been, and then in different ways altogether. For whom Harry was an adult, was a fixture in a life that wasn’t entirely stable, that was, still, full of warmth and bursts of laughter.

“Hey,” he tapped Teddy’s shoulder, “when he comes in here, what do you think Uncle Draco’s going to say?”

Ted made a serious face, quivering at the edges. “He’ll say, ‘what on earth is happening here!’ and then,” giggling too hard to continue.

“Then?” Harry tried valiantly, covering his own uncontrollable giggles under his hand, “then he’ll—laugh?”

“Honk!” Teddy screamed, and they both lost it, both utterly and helplessly entranced, both, probably, a little bit in love with the image they each conjured of a bemused, sparkly-eyed Malfoy coming in with his arms crossed, with his slanted smile, with his frizzy hair and the piercings all shining in the kitchen’s florescent light. With the questions already on his face and his willingness to partake in any kind of idiocy, of silliness, with how he’d probably only make it worse.

“Honk,” Harry agreed, used his sleeve to wipe some snot, “oh god, Teddy, you’re—” no words to describe it. On the floor, Teddy had begun on what he named his ‘loose goose dance’, which involved mainly elbows and the occasional shriek, and Harry lost it, entirely, perpetually, lost it.

“Teddy!” screaming and joining, flinging his elbows in every direction, belly simmering with it, with how—how silly and light and terrific it all was, everything was, in existence: that he had his godson and his kitchen and his Malfoy and his, this, this terrible, sticky, peanut-butter-smelling moment, this lunacy.

A noise from the door—and there he was, their Malfoy, arms crossed and his face torn between amusement and surprise: “Hello there, Teddington, Harry. What—what on earth is—”

They both cracked with it, sobbing, melting down to the floor: “What,” Teddy, and “on earth,” Harry, lost, both of them lost to it, lost. In the distance, Malfoy was shouting (“what? What? You have to tell me, what?”) and they were all losing their minds, all already have lost.

(From act 2 of Wonder Full on which I'm, yes, still working, promise!)

[thenightling]

Queer Horror

It's pride month so here is a (NOT complete) list of horror icons real and fictional who are of the LGBTQAI+ community. Writers / directors / Actors Oscar Wilde Clive Barker Caitlin R. Kiernan William Joseph Martin James Whale (director of Frankenstein) Ernest Thesiger (Doctor Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein) Anthony Perkins Vincent Price David Geffen (producer of Interview with the vampire movie and Beetlejuice) Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows) Louis Edmonds (Dark Shadows) Ed Wood Elvira (Casandra Peterson) Amanda Beares (Fright Night, 1985) Merritt Butrick (Fright Night Part 2) Roddy McDowall (Hell House, Fright Night, Fright Night: Part 2, and Carmilla) _________________________ Characters Mephisto (Faust, 1922) Countess Zeleska (Dracula's Daughter) Carmilla (The Vampire Lovers, 1970 and all film adapations of Carmilla) Louis, Lestat, Daniel Malloy, Armand (Interview with the vampire movie and show and The Vampire Chronicles book series) Claudia, Madeleine, Nicolas (Interview with the vampire TV series) Jerry Dandridge, Billy Cole, Peter Vincent, Evil Ed, and possibly Amy (Fright Night, original 1985 version) Regine and Belle (Fright Night part 2, 1988) Miriam Blaylock (The Hunger movie and novel by Whitley Streiber, along with its sequels) Marius (Queen of the damned movie and novels) Glen / Glenda (Seed of Chucky) Dracula (Marvel comics, Dario Argento's Dracula, Steven Moffat's Dracula, Frank Wildhorn's Dracula The musical) Alucard, Striga, Morana, (Castlevania) The Corinthian, Hal Carter, Wanda, Judy, Donna (Foxglove), Hazel, Alexander Burgess, Paul McGuire, Cluracaun, Mazikeen, Lucifer, Loki, Desire, Johanna Constantine, John Constantine, Rachel, Chantel, Zelda, Aristaeus the Satyr, Jim / Peggy, (Neil Gaiman's The Sandman) Echo, Ruin, Heather After (From Sandman spin-off comics) April Spink and Miriam Forcible (Coraline) Angela and Sera (Marvel comics) Sam Black Crow (American Gods) EVERYONE! - Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles EVERYONE! - Lost Girl (TV series)

Snow White (Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman) Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, and Basil Hallward (The Picture of Dorian Gray) Captain Shaekespeare (Stardust) Loki (all incarantions) John Constantine (All versions) Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens) Renfield (Original Dracula novel, speculated by scholars) Mephistopheles, Faust, and Satan - Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Faust by Goethe. Carmilla and Laura (All versions of Carmilla) Eli and Oskar (Let the Right One In) Lily and The mermaid Queen (She-Creature, 2001 version) Radu (Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula) Lexington (Disney's Gargoyles, not canon until the comics) Dorothy and Ruby AAK Red (Once Upon a Tme) Tara and Willow (Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series) Lorne (Angel) Ethan, Dorian Gray, Angelique, and Professor Lyle (Penny Dreadful) Thelma Bates (Hex) Joe (Midnight Texas) Skully (Scary Godmother) Mitch (ParaNorman) Henry Fitzroy (Blood Ties) Thomas Jerome Newton (The Man who fell to Earth) Any Clive Barker character NOT confirmed to be straight is presumed LGBTQAI+. There are many, many more but my fingers are starting to ache and these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.