#sim: stefan burns

[gir-sims]

Business is blooming at Marcella's Farmers Market

[josefiendelphine]

TVD Inspired Legacy Challenge For The sims 4!

🧛‍♂️ The Vampire Diaries Legacy Challenge 🧛‍♀️

Hello, Simmers! 🌙 I’m excited to present to you my brand-new Vampire Diaries Legacy Challenge! Inspired by the iconic characters and supernatural drama of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, this legacy challenge takes you on a thrilling journey through 10 generations of love, power, betrayal, and survival. Each generation is based on a beloved (or feared!) character from the shows, with unique traits, aspirations, and career paths that mirror their stories. 🖤🩸

What’s the challenge about?

From Elena Gilbert’s tumultuous love life to Klaus Mikaelson’s reign as a hybrid king, each generation brings a mix of romance, danger, and supernatural intrigue. Your Sims will navigate relationships, rivalries, and magical abilities as they build their own epic legacies. Whether it’s living a double life as a vampire, mastering witchcraft, or striving to balance family and power, there’s always a dramatic twist waiting just around the corner.

Challenge Highlights: 🖤 10 generations of iconic Vampire Diaries and Originals characters.

🧛‍♂️ Supernatural gameplay with vampires, witches, and hybrids.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Unique goals for each generation, including mastering careers, skills, and supernatural powers.

💔 Drama-filled relationships, with love triangles, betrayals, and deep family ties.

⚰️ No cheats allowed, except when needed for storytelling or supernatural elements (like turning into a vampire or hybrid).

Ready to start?

If you’re up for a dramatic, supernatural legacy, this challenge is perfect for you! Dive into the world of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals and share your journey with #TVDLegacyChallenge. I can’t wait to see the legacies you create! 🩸🌙

Want to read it better? -> read it here!

[cptsadist]

Our Fatal Longing

Here is why Hauer keeps part of his face covered. He has a nasty burn scar that has left him blind in his right eye, and its actually thanks to Ralph! During one of Hauer's experiments, Ralph had had enough so he grabbed a vial of hydrochloric acid and flung it in Hauer's face!

(I didnt know what to do for the background lmao)

[melien]

𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖

🎵

[steamworksandshadows]

Extremely Large Pile of Halloween Music Recs, 2020 Update!

(Reorganized a bit, and with a whole bunch more songs.)

Classical

Come Little Children - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestral classical)

A History of Horror (album) - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra 

Double Trouble - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (classical)

Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens (eerie classical)

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens (dark classical ballet)

Uranus, the Magician - Gustav Holst (orchestral classical)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Paul Dukas (orchestral classical)

Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky (orchestral classical about witches)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg (classical)

Dies Irae - Mozart (threatening choral/orchestral classical)

Don Giovanni, a cenar teco - Mozart (growly baritone/bass opera - the bit where Don Giovanni gets dragged to hell, both in the supernatural religious sense and in the modern internet slang sense)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach (classical pipe organ)

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (III) - Shostakovich (classical string quartet)

Dance of the Knights - Sergei Prokofiev (classical)

Flowering Vines - Unwoman (ominous cello waltz)

The Carny of Mr Dark - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman (goth pipe organ)

Castlevania organ medley - Ulla Olsson (pipe organ)

This Is Halloween - Vitamin String Quartet (classical string quartet)

Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Nightmare Before Christmas (album)

The Vampire Masquerade - Peter Gundry (classical)

Waltz of the Bone King - Peter Gundry (classical)

Masquerade Suite: Waltz - Aram Khatchaturian (dark classical waltz)

The Comedians, Op. 26: Waltz - Kabalevsky (uneasy classical waltz)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - Myuu (instrumental piano)

Rock, alternative, rockabilly

Haunted - Ashcan Orchid (folk rock)

The Last Steampunk Waltz - Ghostfire (rock waltz)

Bad Moon Rising - Rasputina (cello metal)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Apocalyptica (metal cello)

Get Your Kicks on Route 666 - Exdevils (metal)

Shoot The Zombies - Andrew Huang / Songs To Wear Pants To (sing-along folk)

Something Wicked That Way Went - Vernian Process (circus rock)

Dark Carnivale - Frenchy and the Punk (indie rock)

Come Alive (War Of The Roses) - Janelle Monae (rock)

Gallows - Coco Rosie (goth indie/alternative)

My Favorite Things - Youn Sun Nah (creepy vocal)

Annabel Lee - Psyche Corporation (electronic alternative)

The Devil Wears a Suit - Kate Miller-Heidke (alternative)

Toxic - Yael Naim (neo-folk)

Crazy For You - Venus de Vilo (indie rock)

Witchy Woman - The Eagles (classic rock)

Goodnight Moon - Shivaree (alternative)

Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Nouvelle Vague (alternative)

Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blonde (alternative)

Tombstone - Suzanne Vega (alternative)

Off With Your Head - Mz Ann Thropik (alternative)

Poison Apple - Charlene Kaye (rock)

This Is The Night - Harry Potter soundtrack (rock)

Look Out Young Son - Grand Ole Party (rock)

Painkiller - Birdeatsbaby (rock)

Haunted - Frantic Flintstones (rockabilly)

Freaked Out and Psyched Out - Frantic Flintstones (album)

Zombie Riot - Batmobile (rockabilly)

Alice in psycholand - Nekromantix (rockabilly)

She’s My Witch - The Radiacs (rockabilly)

Werewolf - Southern Culture on the Skids (rockabilly)

Human Fly - The Cramps (rockabilly)

Munster Beat! - Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket (‘60s pop remix?)

Circus punk, dark cabaret

Charmed, I’m Sure - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

We’re All Mad - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

Pink Elephants on Parade - Circus Contraption (dark cabaret)

The Last Waltz - The Magnificent Seven (dark cabaret waltz)

Tango de la Muerte - The Magnificent Seven (rock tango)

Bloody Bones - Beats Antique (dark circus waltz)

Monster Tango - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Rumanian Dance No. 1 - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Mr. Spider Goes Home to Spiderland - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

The Trouble - Birdeatsbaby (dark cabaret)

Theatre Noir - Robyn Cage (dark cabaret) (music video)

Jekyll and Hyde - Theoretics (hip-hop)

Lament for a Toy Factory - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Bogeyman Boogie - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Circus Apocalypse - Vermillion Lies (dark cabaret)

When You’re Evil - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

BRAINS! - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

Careless Whisper (cover) - Unwoman (electronic cabaret)

Katrinah Josephina - Universal Hall Pass (a capella)

Buried in Water - Dead Man’s Bones (dark waltz)

Metropolitan Waltz - Orpheum Bell (folk waltz)

The Buccaneers’ Waltz - GurdyBird (electronic folk?)

Black Waltz - Amber Asylum (electronic circus thing)

Creepy Clown Symphony - Myuu (self-explanatory)

Americana, bluegrass, blues, soul, funk

In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company - The Dead South (Americana)

Stranger - The Devil Makes Three (Americana)

First and Last Waltz - Nickel Creek (Americana)

Ghosts of Mississippi - The Steeldrivers (bluegrass)

7 Devils - The Goddamn Gallows (bluegrass, rock)

Old devils - William Elliot Whitmore (bluegrass)

Death Come Creeping - Stefan Grossman (bluegrass)

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall (Americana)

Shankill Butchers - Sarah Jarosz (Americana)

Hellhound - Shawn James (acoustic blues)

Voodoo Woman - Koko Taylor (blues)

Your Hoodoo Man - Studebaker John & The Hawks (blues)

Voodoo - The Neville Brothers (New Orleans soul)

Voodoo - Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (soul, funk)

The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone (funk)

I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (rock ‘n roll)

Jazz, swing

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Duke Ellington (jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Morgan James (slow jazz)

Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra (jazz)

Black Magic Woman - Janice Hagan and Kenny Vehkavaara (jazz)

I’d Rather Be Burned As A Witch - Eartha Kitt (jazz)

Thriller (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady - Postmodern Jukebox (swing) (alternate link)

The Devil With The Devil - Larry Clinton Orchestra (swing)

Swingin’ at the Seance - Glenn Miller (big band swing)

Spooks - Louis Armstrong (swing)

The Headless Horseman - Bing Crosby (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band (swing)

Resurrection Waltz - Lee Presson and the Nails (big band waltz)

Spooky - Puppini Sisters (Andrews Sisters-style swing)

Headless Horseman - Kay Starr (swing)

Hell (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Ghost of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Memphis Exorcism (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Boogie Man - Lee Presson and the Nails (swing)

Rattlin’ Bones - Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans swing)

Save My Soul - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (New Orleans swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong (swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - The Moon-Rays (swing)

The Mack - Beat Circus (swing - doesn’t seem very Halloween at first, until the tuba player gets murdered in the middle of the song. I swear it makes sense.)

Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Voodoo Mon Amour - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

The House Is Haunted - Casa Loma Orchestra (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Viva La Rocca (swing)

Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer - Ella Fitzgerald (swing)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans (barbershop)

Grim Grinning Ghosts - The Dapper Dans (in person) (barbershop)

Halloween Medley - The Cadaver Dans (barbershop)

Pop

Full Moon Tonight - Silvastone feat. Bellsaint (pop)

Demons - Hayley Kiyoko (pop)

Season of the Witch - Lana del Rey (pop)

A Little Wicked - Valerie Broussard (pop)

Halloween - Aqua (pop)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - violin/cello/bass cover - Simply Three (electronic pop)

Shoot The Zombies (Pink Fluffy Unicorns Remix) - Andrew Huang (happy pop)

I Put a Spell on You (no movie dialogue) - Winifred Sanderson (pop musical)

Electro-swing

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents (electro-swing)

Midnight - Caravan Palace (electro-swing) (alternate link)

Midnight - Swingrowers (different electro-swing)

Old House - Dirty Honkers (electro-swing)

Devil’s Samba - Sim Gretina (Latin-flavored electro-swing)

Devil’s Got My Soul - Victor and the Bully (rock/electro-swing)

Cuphead: Railroad Wrath (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Cuphead: One Hell of a Time (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil’s Swing - Fandroid (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil’s Swing (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (funk/glitch/chiptune)

Luigi’s Mansion (Remix) - Qumu Music (chiptune, electro-swing)

Undertale: Ghost Fight & Dummy (Peggy Suave Swing Remix) - Sim Gretina (electro-swing)

Electronica, EDM

Backstreet Bones: Everycorpse - Sim Gretina (uhhh…spoopy Halloween EDM remix of Backstreet Boys? If you click on nothing else, click on this one. It’s very worth it, I promise.)

Macabre Rotting Girl Feat. Kathy-chan - Sim Gretina (adorable electro)

Sim Gretina feat. Kathy chan: Let The Monsters Free (µThunder Remix) - µThunder (EDM) 

Ghost in the Machine - PrototypeRaptor (complextro)

Spooky Tune - PrototypeRaptor (complextro)

Nullifcation [Underground] (Legend of Zelda remix) - PrototypeRaptor (grimy EDM)

Grim Grinning Ghost (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Undertale: Megalovania (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Undertale: Spooktune (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London (Daheen Rmx) - Daheen (psytrance)

Interlude: Limbo - Yoshimasu Kamiya (ambient horror)

Bloodstone - Amon Tobin (atmospheric glitch)

Volk - Thom Yorke (ambient horror)

The Horror - RJD2 (instrumental hip-hop)

Crybaby - Drum & Lace (indescribable brooding atmospheric)

The Kid Who Drowned At Summer Camp - Hot Sugar (instrumental hip-hop)

The Darkest Evening of the Year - Emancipator (downtempo)

Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup - Pretty Lights (EDM)

HALLOWEEN Theme Song (DJ Deville Trap Remix) - DJ Deville (trap)

The Oogie Boogie (Man) - Duke Skellington (glitch-hop)

Stranger Things Theme Song (Michael Jobity & The Foreign Machine Remix) - Michael Jobity, The Foreign Machine (synthwave - my personal favorite remix of this theme)

Stranger Things Theme Song (C418 REMIX) - C418 (synthwave)

Stranger Things (Louis Futon Flip) - Louis Futon (chillstep)

Stranger Things Theme (Slicey Remix) - Slicey (trap)

Stranger Things - Theme Song (Oscar Wylde Trap Remix) - Oscar Wylde (trap)

Ghostbusters (Kill Paris Remix) - Kill Paris (EDM, future funk - by far my favorite remix of the Ghostbusters theme)

The Ghostbusters Theme (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Matheo (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Fat Noize (dubstep)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Starfuckers Remix) - Starfuckers (EDM)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Chew Fu Remix) - Chew Fu (electro-house)

Michael Jackson: Thriller (James Egbert Remix) - James Egbert (electro-house)

Michael Jackson - Thriller [The Reflex Halloween Disco Edit] - The Reflex (moody, indescribable IDM(?))

Beetlejuice (Dubstep Mix) - Figure (dubstep)

The Addams Family (Figure Remix) - Figure (dubstep)

Hedwig’s Theme (KE KRA’s Trap Remix) - KE KRA (trap)

Stress - Justice (French electronic…something)

Things I thought were funny

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30 Rock (parody novelty record)

A Hard Days Night of the Living Dead - The Zombeatles (zombie rock)

Schüttel deinen Speck - Peter Fox (witches’ dance video) (the track by itself)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Portsmouth Sinfonia (experimental orchestra from the ‘70s - google them, you absolutely will not regret it)

Gangnam Busters - FAROFF (Ghostbusters/Gangnam Style mashup - annoyingly, it works far better than you think it will)

[listlesslists]

11-8-17 my books

2/2/2018

100 People Who Changed the World, LIFE

1984 by George Orwell

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

30 Days of Night: 1, 2, 3, 7

500 Tricks: Storage by Page One

A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene

A Certain … Je Ne Sais Quoi by Charles Timoney

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Signet Classics

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (with The Chimes)

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

After the Funeral by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

A Life in Poems: Selected Works of Khoo Seok Wan

All My Sons by Arthur Miller (x3)

All-Star Superman: 1

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

All The Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen

Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven

A Man Asleep by Georges Perec (and Things: A Story of the Sixties)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini

Animal Farm by George Orwell

An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Antigone (in The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles (Robert Fagles translation)

A Pack of Liars by Anne Fine

A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

A Series of Unfortunate Events 3: The Wide Window, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 4: The Miserable Mill, by Lemony Snicket (x2)

A Series of Unfortunate Events 5: The Austere Academy, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 7: The Vile Village, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 8: The Hostile Hospital, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 9: The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 10: The Slippery Slope, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 11: The Grim Grotto, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 12: The Penultimate Peril, by Lemony Snicket

A Series of Unfortunate Events 13: The End, by Lemony Snicket

A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins

A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Ajahn Chah, Jack Kornfield, Paul Bretier

A Taste of Freedom by Ven. Ajahn Chah

Atlanta Review: Asia (Spring/ Summer 2002)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Atonement by Ian McEwan

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Batman Hush: 1, 2

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken

Black Maria by Diana Wynne Jones

Boy by Roald Dahl

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

Buddhism for Beginners, Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery

Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle

Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories by Angela Carter

Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh

Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House by Geronimo Stilton

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Ceriph: issue 2

Ceriph: issue 6

Cha-no-yu: The Japanese Tea Ceremony by A. L. Sadler

Chaos by James Gleick

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Chicken Rice (24 Flavours series by BooksActually)

Chinese Ethnic Minority Motifs by Page One

Cligés by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

Collected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Collected Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x2, one translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky)

Crow Boy by Taro Yashima

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Cymbeline by Shakespeare (The Pelican Shakespeare)

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Daredevil Noir

Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Dog Friday by Hilary McKay

Death Note: Another Note: The Lost Angeles BB Murder Cases

Demian by Herman Hesse

Dhammapada, Venerable Buddharakkhita

Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Drawing and Painting the Portrait by John Devane

Dune by Frank Herbert

Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood

Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng

Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy, The Economist

Elidor by Alan Garner

Emma by Jane Austen (x2)

English Literature Made Simple by H. Coombes

Erec et Enide by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

ESV Holy Bible

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics in Buddhist Perspective by K. N. Jayatilleke

Evolve or Die (Horrible Science) by Phil Gates

Facing the Torturer by Francois Bizot

Fallen Angels: Paintings by Jack Vettriano, edited by W. Gordon Smith

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Fascist Rock by Claire Tham

Favourite Singlish Tales: Three Little Pigs Lah by Casey Chen

Federal Anthology of Poetry I

Festivals Graphics by Page One

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

Five Run Away Together by Enid Blyton

Folk Customs and Family Life (Korean Cultural Series Volume III)

Foreskin’s Lament by Shalom Auslander

For the Record: Conversations with People People who Have Shaped the Way we Listen to Music

For They Know Not What They Do by Slavoj Zizek

Four Continents by Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, et al.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman

Frankenstein by Mary Sehlley

Frog and Toad Together by Arnold Lobel

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000, Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

Ghost Stories of Henry James

Gitanjali by Tagore (双语版)

Gone Case by Dave Chua

Gone Case: A Graphic Novel (Book One), art by Koh Hong Teng

Gratitude to Parents, Venerable Ajahn Sumedho

Great British Editorial by Page One

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell

Great Illustrated Classics: The Little Mermaid and Other Stories

Green First! : Earth Friendly Design (Over 100 green projects around the world)

Guerillas by VS Naipaul

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hamlet by Shakespeare (x2)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Have Phone, Will Paint by Zhu Hong

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

History of Beauty, Umberto Eco

History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe

House of M, Marvel

How the Bible Came to be by John Barton

How Late it Was, How Late by James Kelman

I Didn’t Know Mani was a Conceptualist by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

If I Could Tell You by Lee Jing-Jing

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Infographics: Designing and Visualising Data by Page One

Jane Austen Cover to Cover by Margaret C. Sullivan

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Japanese Tales, Royall Tyler

Japanese Tatoos by Brian Ashcraft and Hori Benny

Jeeves and Wooster: Perfect Nonsense, by The Goodale Brothers/P.G. Wodehouse

Jerusalem the Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon’s Mines by Haggard

Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana

KJV Holy Bible

Kokology 2: More of the Game of Self-discovery by Tadahiko Nagao and Isamu Saito

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence (in The Great Novels of “)

Lady Precious Stream by S. I. Hsiung

Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

Left-Right

Les Misérables: Volume One by Victor Hugo

Let’s Chat About the Bible by Whiting/Reeves

Let’s Give it up for Gimme Lao! by Sebastian Sim

Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Lists of Note by Shaun Usher

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lizard by Yoshimoto Banana

Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Looking for Juliette by Janet Taylor Lisle

Love for Love by William Congreve (in Three Restoration Comedies, Gamini Salgado intro)

Love Gathers All: the Philippines-Singapore Anthology of Love Poetry

Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway

Luxury for Cats (by teNeues)

Macbeth by Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Malay Weddings Don’t Cost $50 by Hidayah Amin

Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan

Man and his Symbols by Carl Jung

Marx on China

Me Grandad ‘ad an Elephant! by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare

Metal Gear Solid: 1, 2

Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

Middle Land, Middle Way by S. Dhammika

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Mio, My Son by Astrid Lindgren

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (and The Day of the Locust)

Moby-Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville

Mr Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (x2, one with an intro by Carol Ann Duffy)

Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw

Measure for Measure by Shakespeare

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Multitudes: Litmus 2016

Music & Monarchy by David Starkey & Kate Greening

My Pictorial Book of Dialect Idioms & Slangs by Kuan Eng

Mythologies by Roland Barthes

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Nanyang Girls’ High School 2014 Montage

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Native Son by Richard Wright

Natural Heritage of Korea, Dokdo

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

No Ajahn Chah: Reflections by Ven. Ajahn Chah

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman

Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle by Peacock (x2)

Occupational Hazards by Mayo Martin

Oedipus the King (in The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles (Robert Fagles translation)

Oedipus at Colonus (in The Three Theban Plays) by Sophocles (Robert Fagles translation)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog

Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gregory Rabassa translation, Penguin)

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On Ugliness, Umberto Eco

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Othello by Shakespeare

Our Animal Eye: Litmus 2014

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Papillon by Henri Charrière

Paradise Lost by Milton

Pastels for Beginners by Francisco Asensio Cerver

Peepo! by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Persuasion by Jane Austen (x2: penguin classics and )

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (x2)

Phedra by Eugenia Tan

Physics by Aristotle

Playing Pretty by Euginia Tan

Poems Deep and Dangerous

Poets on Growth: An Anthology of Poetry and Craft

Possession by A. S. Byatt

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (x2)

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Jay Rubin translation)

Reaching for Stones: Collected Poems (1963-2009) by Chandran Nair

Rebel Rites by Deborah Emmanuel

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Voice by Mildred D. Taylor

Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Ael Scheffler

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima

Sabbath’s Theatre by Phillip Roth

Salted Vegetables and Duck Soup (24 Flavours series by BooksActually)

Samanera sikkapadani 沙马内拉学处

Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Satipatthana Sutta: The Foundation of Mindfulness

Selected Dhamma Talks in 2011 by Venerable K. Rathanasara

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (published by Vintage)

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries by Emma Thompson

Shakespeare: All 37 Plays, All 160 Sonnets and Poems (The Illustrated Stratford)

Shakespearean Tragedy by A. C. Bradley

Shakespeare the Complete Works: Volumes 2 and 3

Shakespeare’s Words: A Glossary & Language Companion by David Crystal & Ben Crystal

Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays by George Orwell

Short Cuts by Raymond Carver

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Sigalovada Sutta: The Code of Discipline for Layman

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Singapore Children’s Favourite Stories by DI Taylor and L K Tay-Audouard

Sing to the Dawn by Minfong Ho

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Slightly Invisible by Lauren Child

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (in The Great Novels of “)

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder

Spiaking Singlish by Gwee Li Sui

Spider-Man Noir

Stoner by John Williams

SQ21, Ng Yi-Sheng

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Strait is the Gate by Andre Gidé

Summer by Edith Wharton

Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

Tales from Around the World

Tales from King Arthur by Andrew Lang

Tartuffe by Molíère

Tenacity: Stories Built to Last

Tennyson: Selected Poetry  (The Penguin Poetry Library)

That Night by the Beach and other stories for a film score by Phan Ming Yen

The 9/11 Commission Report

The Abyssinian, Jean Christophe Rufin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Chrichton

The Art of Animal Character Design (first edition) by David Colman

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The BFG by Roald Dahl

The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

The Blondes by Emily Schultz

The Bikkhus’ Rules for Laypeople by Bikkhu Ariyesako

The Billion Shop by Stephanie Ye

The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Sierstad

The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren

The Buddha and his Teachings

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

The Case for Literature by Gao Xingjian

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Cherry Tree Buck and Other Stories by Moore

The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton

The Children of Húrin by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Chimes by Charles Dickens (with A Christmas Carol)

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature

The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

The Clocks by Agatha Christie (in Poirot: the Post-War Years)

The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Translated by Geza Vermes)

The Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderson

The Complete Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm

The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Sappho

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Stories and Poems of Lewis Carroll

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Country Wife by William Wycherley (in Three Restoration Comedies, Gamini Salgado intro)

The Crescent Moon by Tagore (双语版)

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

The Dark is Rising: The Complete Sequence by Susan Cooper

The Dark Tower Book I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Book II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Book III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King

The Dark Tower Book IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (and Miss Lonelyhearts)

The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle

The Dhammapada, K. Sri Dhammananda

The Dragon Book of Verse

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

The Earth by Émile Zola (Translated by Douglas Parmée)

The Earthsea Quartet (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu) by Ursula Le Guin

The Eclogues by Virgil (Translated by Arthur Guy Lee)

The Elements of Legal Style: Second Edition by Bryan A. Garner

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

The Encyclopedia of American Comics

The Encyclopedia of Illustration Techniques by Catharine Slade

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox

The Four Buddhist Books on Mahayana Pure Land Teachings

The Fright of Real Tears by Slavoj Zizek

The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson

The Gardener by Tagore (双语版)

The Gardener’s Son by Cormac McCarthy

The Girl who Could Fly by Victoria Forester

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Golden Ass by Apuleius

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Governing Principles of Ancient China, excerpted from qunshu zhiyao

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde

The History of Rasselas by Johnson

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (in collected volume)

The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Last Breath by Ajahn Pasanno

The Liberation of Lily and Other Poems by Lim Thean Soo

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Lioness & Her Knight by Gerald Morris

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (x2 in collected volume)

The Literature of the United States of America by Marshall Walker

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little World of Liz Climo

The Lord of the Rings Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Part 2: The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Part 3: The Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier

The Maid by Yasutaka Tsutsui

The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis (in collected volume)

The Man of Mode by Sir George Etherege (in Three Restoration Comedies, Gamini Salgado intro)

The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (The Pelican Shakespeare)

The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare (World’s Classics)

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan

The Miner by Natsume Sōseki

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks

The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Natural History of Selborne by Reverend Gilbert White

The Nature of the Gods by Cicero

The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton (x2?)

The Once and Future King by T. H. White

The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future

The Poetry of Singapore

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (x2)

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence

The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

The Ragamuffin Mystery by Enid Blyton

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (in The Great Novels of “)

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

The Rattle Bag, edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

The Reason Why: A Gospel Exposition, Robert Laidlaw

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret of Killimooin by Enid Blyton

The Secret of Spiggy Holes by Enid Blyton

The Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Space of City Trees (selected poems) by Arthur Yap

The Spy Who Came in From The Cold, John Le Carré

The Symptom of Beauty by Francette Pacteau

The Tempest by Shakespeare

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

The Time is Now: Public Art of the Sustainable City Land Art Generator Initiative UAE

The True History of the BlackAdder by J. F. Roberts

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Vatican Cellars by André Gide

The Voice Book by Michael McCallion

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Whispering Statue (a Nancy Drew Mystery) by Carolyn Keene

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

The Works of Sir Walter Scott (poetry)

The World and other Places by Jeanette Winterson

The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer (Payne translation)

The World’s Great Civilizations, LIFE

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The Young Adventurers and the Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton

The Zahir, Paulo Coelho

Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec (and A Man Asleep)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Thirty Days on the Camino by Alvin Mark Tan

Thursday Afternoons by Monica Dickens

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Towerhill reclaimed (a 2011 high school commemorative, HCI)

Travesties by Tom Stoppard

Tristan by Gottfried Von Strassburg

Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer (Norton Critical Edition)

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unfree Verse

Understand and Criticize by John Doraisamy

Unhomed

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (x3, Rosemary Edmonds for Penguin, Louise & Aylmer Maude, Pevear & Volokhonsky)

We Rose Up Slowly by Jon Gresham

What are Masterpieces? by Gertrude Stein

Whit by Iain Banks

Why Worry? How to Live Without Fear & Worry by K. Sri Dammananda

What Does the Bible Really Teach?

W. I. T. C. H.: The Four Dragons

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

William Wordsworth

Wilde: The Complete Plays

Worlds of Amano by Yoshitaka Amano

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Yeng Pway Ngon: 英培安: Poems 3 [Self-exile]            

Yeng Pway Ngon: 英培安: Poems 4 [Resurgence]

Yeng Pway Ngon: 英培安: Poems 5 [Other Thoughts]

Ywain, or, The Knight with the Lion by Chretien de Troyes (in Arthurian Romances by DigiReads.com Publishing)

  20世纪中国短篇小说精选：现代卷1、2

飙车 (La Ronde et Autres Faits Divers), J. M. G. Le Clézio

冰河，余秋雨

陈嘉庚新传，陈共存

重访边城，张爱玲

春尽江南，格非

Composition 摄影构图

弟子规（少儿版，注音，配图）

儿女英雄传

蕉风椰雨话甘榜五十，李龙

光耀一生，联合早报

古诗词一百篇

Hi, 我们的森林，赵小敏

红楼梦（节本），曹雪芹

华韵35： 火花

华韵39： 以梦为马

皇朝末路：清朝篇

家，巴金

假如给我三天光明 (The Story of My Life) by Helen Keller (双语版)

狼图腾，姜戎

廖静文与徐悲鸿：名人情节众书，廖静文

灵山，高行健

鲁迅大全集

绿山墙的安妮

名侦探柯南：44

念力的秘密分享，净空法师

女神，郭沫若

三国演义

山河入梦，格非

失恋33天，鲍鲸鲸

世界近代史

十年阅城记（Tenacity）

守车的秘密 (The Boxcar Children: Caboose Mystery), Gertrude Chandler Warner

霜冷长河，余秋雨

特拾：学生文集2010，新加坡特选中学

微微一笑很倾城，顾漫

未完的梦，李乔

向左走，向右走，几米

小和尚的白粥馆2

西游记，吴承恩

叶芸的色铅笔画画课，叶芸

一学就会最实用最经典的博弈课堂

印光法师：上海护国消灾法语

于丹《论语》心得

宇宙探索：中小学生科普读物

佐贺的超级阿嫲，岛田洋七

《庄子》心得，于丹

  Castres un Autre Regard

Cendrillon

Chronique des sept misères by Patrick Chamoiseau

Cours de francais, Linguaphone Institute

Les Penseurs Grecs Avant Socrate de Thalès de Milet A Prodicos

Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau

  다람쥐와첫눈

두근두근 내인생 장편소설

하회탈, 다시살아나다 by 무돌

질문 상자 (Det spørs)

캐비닛 김언수 장편소설

Le Petit Prince (in Korean)

설계자들 김언수 장편소설

  Hua Lo Puu by Murti Bunanta (in English and Indonesian)

Legenda Pohon Beringan (The Legend of the Banyan Tree) by Murti Bunanta, illustrated by Hardiyono (in English and Indonesian)

  Weekly Shonen Jump 1月8日9日号

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Another busy day at Iron and Powder Salon

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Round 4 of the Macleod household is up to read on my Dreamwidth! Check it out here :)

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A house party takes place at the Fowler household!

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Business went smooth at Island Shack, other than the fact that Oren Nova started picking on Herb the townie.

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The family went out for a day, and bought the girls new clothes and some gifts!

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Lani (top+middle) and Samantha (bottom) grew up into children this round!

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The gals went to the beach to get their tan on :D

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Extremely Large Pile of Halloween Music Recs!

Many of these are retro-futuristic (or just retro), but I figured there’d be at least a few appreciators of electronica among my followers as well. All of these links go to YouTube to make them easy to add to your playlists, but it’s not difficult to find them on pretty much any other streaming or purchasing platform. Enjoy!

Classical

Come Little Children - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - Erutan (ethereal classical)

Transylvanian Lullaby - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestral classical)

A History of Horror (album) - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Double Trouble - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (classical)

Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens (eerie classical)

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens (dark classical ballet)

Uranus, the Magician - Gustav Holst (orchestral classical)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Paul Dukas (orchestral classical)

Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky (orchestral classical about witches)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg (classical)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Apocalyptica (Metal cellos. Cello metal?)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Duke Ellington (jazz)

In the Hall of the Mountain King - Portsmouth Sinfonia (experimental orchestra from the ‘70s - google them, you absolutely will not regret it)

Dies Irae - Mozart (threatening choral/orchestral classical)

Don Giovanni, a cenar teco - Mozart (growly baritone/bass opera - the bit where Don Giovanni gets dragged to hell, both in the supernatural religious sense and in the modern internet slang sense)

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - Bach (classical pipe organ)

Flowering Vines - Unwoman (ominous cello waltz)

The Carny of Mr Dark - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman (goth pipe organ)

This Is Halloween - Vitamin String Quartet (classical string quartet)

Vitamin String Quartet Performs The Nightmare Before Christmas (album)

The Vampire Masquerade - Peter Gundry (classical)

Waltz of the Bone King - Peter Gundry (classical)

Masquerade Suite: Waltz - Aram Khatchaturian (dark classical waltz)

The Comedians, Op. 26: Waltz - Kabalevsky (uneasy waltz)

Rock, alternative, rockabilly

 Haunted - Ashcan Orchid (folk rock)

The Last Steampunk Waltz - Ghostfire (rock waltz)

Shoot The Zombies - Andrew Huang / Songs To Wear Pants To (sing-along folk)

Shoot The Zombies (Pink Fluffy Unicorns Remix) - Andrew Huang (happy pop)

Something Wicked That Way Went - Vernian Process (circus rock)

Dark Carnivale - Frenchy and the Punk (indie rock)

Come Alive (War Of The Roses) - Janelle Monae (rock)

Gallows - Coco Rosie (goth indie/alternative)

The Devil Wears a Suit - Kate Miller-Heidke (alternative)

Toxic - Yael Naim (neo-folk)

Crazy For You - Venus de Vilo (indie rock)

Haunted - Frantic Flintstones (rockabilly)

Freaked Out and Psyched Out - Frantic Flintstones (album)

Zombie Riot - Batmobile (rockabilly)

Alice in psycholand - Nekromantix (rockabilly)

She's My Witch - The Radiacs (rockabilly)

Werewolf - Southern Culture on the Skids (rockabilly)

Circus punk, dark cabaret

Charmed, I'm Sure - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

We're All Mad - Circus Contraption (dark circus cabaret)

The Last Waltz - The Magnificent Seven (dark cabaret waltz)

Tango de la Muerte - The Magnificent Seven (rock tango)

Bloody Bones - Beats Antique (dark circus waltz)

Monster Tango - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Rumanian Dance No. 1 - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

Mr. Spider Goes Home to Spiderland - Mucca Pazza (circus punk marching band)

The Trouble - Birdeatsbaby (dark cabaret)

Theatre Noir - Robyn Cage (dark cabaret) (music video)

Jekyll and Hyde - Theoretics (hip-hop)

Lament for a Toy Factory - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Bogeyman Boogie - Dr. Steel (circus rock)

Circus Apocalypse - Vermillion Lies (dark cabaret)

When You're Evil - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

BRAINS! - Voltaire (dark cabaret)

Americana, bluegrass, blues, soul, funk

In Hell I'll Be In Good Company - The Dead South (Americana)

Stranger - The Devil Makes Three (Americana)

Ghosts of Mississippi - The Steeldrivers (bluegrass)

7 Devils - The Goddamn Gallows (bluegrass, rock)

Old devils - William Elliot Whitmore (bluegrass)

Death Come Creeping - Stefan Grossman (bluegrass)

The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie - Colter Wall (Americana)

Voodoo Woman - Koko Taylor (blues)

Your Hoodoo Man - Studebaker John & The Hawks (blues)

Voodoo - The Neville Brothers (New Orleans soul)

Voodoo - Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons (soul, funk)

The Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone (funk)

I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (rock 'n roll)

I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You - Morgan James (slow jazz)

I Put a Spell on You (no movie dialogue) - Winifred Sanderson (pop musical)

Jazz, swing

Old Devil Moon - Frank Sinatra (jazz)

Black Magic Woman - Janice Hagan and Kenny Vehkavaara (jazz)

I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch - Eartha Kitt (jazz)

Thriller (1930s Jazz Cover) ft. Wayne Brady - Postmodern Jukebox (swing) (alternate link)

The Devil With The Devil - Larry Clinton Orchestra (swing)

Swingin' at the Seance - Glenn Miller (big band swing)

Spooks - Louis Armstrong (swing)

The Headless Horseman - Bing Crosby (swing)

Skeleton Jangle - Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band (swing)

Resurrection Waltz - Lee Presson and the Nails (big band waltz)

Spooky - Puppini Sisters (Andrews Sisters-style swing)

Headless Horseman - Kay Starr (swing)

Hell (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Ghost of Stephen Foster - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Memphis Exorcism (Remastered 2016) - Squirrel Nut Zippers (swing)

Boogie Man - Lee Presson and the Nails (swing)

Rattlin' Bones - Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans swing)

Save My Soul - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (New Orleans swing)

Skeletons in the Closet - Louis Armstrong

Skeletons in the Closet - The Moon-Rays (swing)

The Mack - Beat Circus (swing - doesn’t seem very Halloween at first, until the tuba player gets murdered in the middle of the song)

Balrog Boogie - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Voodoo Mon Amour - Diablo Swing Orchestra (swing)

Electro-swing

Fear & Delight - The Correspondents (electro-swing)

Midnight - Caravan Palace (electro-swing) (alternate link)

Midnight - Swingrowers (different electro-swing)

Old House - Dirty Honkers (electro-swing)

Devil’s Samba - Sim Gretina (Latin-flavored electro-swing)

Cuphead: Railroad Wrath (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Cuphead: One Hell of a Time (Electro-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil's Swing - Fandroid (electro-swing)

Bendy and the Ink Machine: The Devil's Swing (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Glitch-Swing Remix) - The Musical Ghost (glitch-swing)

Undertale: Spider Dance (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (funk/glitch/chiptune)

Luigi's Mansion (Remix) - Qumu Music (chiptune, electro-swing)

Undertale: Ghost Fight & Dummy (Peggy Suave Swing Remix) - Sim Gretina (electro-swing)

Electronica, EDM

Backstreet Bones: Everycorpse - Sim Gretina (uhhh...spoopy Halloween EDM remix of Backstreet Boys? If you click on nothing else, click on this one. It's very worth it, I promise.)

Macabre Rotting Girl Feat. Kathy-chan - Sim Gretina (adorable electro)

Sim Gretina feat. Kathy chan: Let The Monsters Free (µThunder Remix) - µThunder (EDM)

Grim Grinning Ghost (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Undertale: Megalovania (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Undertale: Spooktune (Sim Gretina Remix) - Sim Gretina (EDM)

Spooky Scary Skeletons (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London (Daheen Rmx) - Daheen (psytrance)

Interlude: Limbo - Yoshimasu Kamiya (ambient horror)

Halloween Funtime REMIXMONSTRousMASHup - Pretty Lights (EDM)

HALLOWEEN Theme Song (DJ Deville Trap Remix) - DJ Deville (trap)

The Oogie Boogie (Man) - Duke Skellington (glitch-hop)

Stranger Things Theme Song (Michael Jobity & The Foreign Machine Remix) - Michael Jobity, The Foreign Machine (synthwave - my personal favorite remix of this theme)

Stranger Things Theme Song (C418 REMIX) - C418 (synthwave)

Stranger Things (Louis Futon Flip) - Louis Futon (chillstep)

Stranger Things Theme (Slicey Remix) - Slicey (trap)

Ghostbusters (Kill Paris Remix) - Kill Paris (EDM, future funk - by far my favorite remix of the Ghostbusters theme)

The Ghostbusters Theme (Remix) - The Living Tombstone (EDM)

Ghostbusters Remix - Matheo (EDM)

Gangnam Busters - FAROFF (Ghostbusters/Gangnam Style mashup - annoyingly, it works far better than you think it will)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Starfuckers Remix) - Starfuckers (EDM)

Lady Gaga: Monster (Chew Fu Remix) - Chew Fu (electro-house)

Michael Jackson: Thriller (James Egbert Remix) - James Egbert (electro-house)

Michael Jackson - Thriller [The Reflex Halloween Disco Edit] - The Reflex (moody, indescribable IDM(?))

Beetlejuice (Dubstep Mix) - Figure (dubstep)

The Addams Family (Figure Remix) - Figure (dubstep)

Hedwig's Theme (KE KRA's Trap Remix) - KE KRA (trap)

Things I thought were funny

Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - 30 Rock (parody novelty record)

A Hard Days Night of the Living Dead - The Zombeatles (zombie rock)

[josefiendelphine]

A good time to rewatch the show and play the sims with this challenge! 🧛‍♀️🧛‍♂️🖤

TVD Inspired Legacy Challenge For The sims 4!

🧛‍♂️ The Vampire Diaries Legacy Challenge 🧛‍♀️

Hello, Simmers! 🌙 I’m excited to present to you my brand-new Vampire Diaries Legacy Challenge! Inspired by the iconic characters and supernatural drama of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, this legacy challenge takes you on a thrilling journey through 10 generations of love, power, betrayal, and survival. Each generation is based on a beloved (or feared!) character from the shows, with unique traits, aspirations, and career paths that mirror their stories. 🖤🩸

What’s the challenge about?

From Elena Gilbert’s tumultuous love life to Klaus Mikaelson’s reign as a hybrid king, each generation brings a mix of romance, danger, and supernatural intrigue. Your Sims will navigate relationships, rivalries, and magical abilities as they build their own epic legacies. Whether it’s living a double life as a vampire, mastering witchcraft, or striving to balance family and power, there’s always a dramatic twist waiting just around the corner.

Challenge Highlights: 🖤 10 generations of iconic Vampire Diaries and Originals characters.

🧛‍♂️ Supernatural gameplay with vampires, witches, and hybrids.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Unique goals for each generation, including mastering careers, skills, and supernatural powers.

💔 Drama-filled relationships, with love triangles, betrayals, and deep family ties.

⚰️ No cheats allowed, except when needed for storytelling or supernatural elements (like turning into a vampire or hybrid).

Ready to start?

If you’re up for a dramatic, supernatural legacy, this challenge is perfect for you! Dive into the world of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals and share your journey with #TVDLegacyChallenge. I can’t wait to see the legacies you create! 🩸🌙

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