#D.J. Neal

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😂🔊Now presenting: the trailer for season three of 'Make Some Noise'! Premiering June 24th.

Make Some Noise season three is our biggest and noisiest season yet and will consist of a whopping 20 episodes with host Sam Reich back behind the desk.

Featuring the return of the Noise Boys (Josh Ruben, Zac Oyama, Brennan Lee Mulligan) and an incredible slew of guests: Anna Garcia, Chris Grace, Carl Tart, Ify Nwadiwe, Ally Beardsley, Erika Ishii, Geoff Ross, Izzy Roland, Jacob Wysocki, Jacquis Neal, Jeremy Culhane, Jess McKenna, Jiavani, Kimia Behpoornia, Kurt Maloney, Lauren Pritchard, Lou Wilson, Nick Mandernach, Rashawn Scott, Ross Bryant, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Zeke Nicholson, Paul F. Tompkins, Talia Tabin, Victoria Longwell, Devin Field, Rachel Bloom, Hannah Pilkes, D.J. Mausner, Malachai Komanoff Bandy, Mimi von Schack, Maame-Yaa Aforo, Sarah Claspell, Ryder Dunagan, Caitlin Reilly, Pete Holmes, Bri Giger, Echo Kellum, Angela Giarratana, Corin Wells, Ben Schwartz, and Ryan Gaul!

[hooked-on-elvis]

"Angel" (1962)

The scene above comes from the Follow That Dream movie, which was filmed between July 11 and August 28, 1961 and released in the States on April 11, 1962.

"Angel" is a song written by Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett and recorded by Elvis Presley on July 2, 1961 at RCA's Studio B in Nashville, for the motion picture "Follow That Dream".

Musicians: Guitar: Hank Garland, Scotty Moore, Neal Matthews. Bass: Bob Moore. Drums: Buddy Harman, D.J. Fontana. Piano & Organ: Floyd Cramer. Saxophone: Boots Randolph. Vocals: Millie Kirkham, The Jordanaires.

The "Follow That Dream" EP has four songs — the movie title song "Follow That Dream", "Angel", "What a Wonderful Life" and "I’m Not the Marrying Kind".

"ANGEL" LYRICS

Angel, with those angel eyes Come and take this earth boy Up to paradise Angel, may I hold you tight? Never kissed an angel Let me kiss one tonight If I said "I love you" Would I be speaking out of turn? I'm only human, but I'm willing to learn Angel, make my wish come true Let me be in heaven here on earth with you Angel... Never kissed an angel Let me kiss one tonight If I said "I love you" Would I be speaking out of turn? I'm only human, but I'm willing to learn Angel, make my wish come true Let me be in heaven here on earth with you Angel, Angel

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander

The Search for Delicious (Babbitt, Natalie) The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker

Maya and the Rising Dark (Barron, Rena)

Peter and the Starcatchers (Barry, Dave)

The Looking Glass Wars (Beddor, Frank)

Eigth grade bites by brewer (published under author's deadname?)

Minecraft the island by Max brooks

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (Byng, Georgia)

The Awakening (Carroll, Michael )

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Carter, Ally)

A Week in the Woods (Clements, Andrew)

The Supernaturalist (Colfer, Eoin)

Artemis Fowl (Colfer, Eoin)

Airman (Colfer, Eoin)

Of Fire and Stars (Coulthurst, Audrey)

Into the Land of the Unicorns (Coville, Bruce)

Out of My Mind (Draper, Sharon M.)

So you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane

The Patron Thief of Bread (Eagar, Lindsay)

Half Magic (Eager, Edward)

Inkheart (Funke, Cornelia)

Bunnicula James Howe

Which Witch? (Ibbotson, Eva)

The Secret of Platform 13 (Ibbotson, Eva)

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

The Reformed Vampire Support Group (Jinks, Catherine)

The Akhenaten Adventure (Kerr, P.B.)

The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Kessler, Liz)

Savvy (Law, Ingrid)

The Fairy's Mistake (Levine, Gail Carson)

Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (Levine, Gail Carson)

Ella Enchanted (Levine, Gail Carson)

The Two Princesses of Bamarre (Levine, Gail Carson)

Nightmare Academy (Lorey, Dean)

The Merchant of Death (MacHale, D.J.)

The Ruby Princess Runs Away (Malcolm, Jahnna N.)

If the Shoe Fits (Mason, Jane B.)

How to Become a Planet (Melleby, Nicole)

Game of Strength and Storm (Menard, Rachel)

The Host (Meyer, Stephenie)

Fablehaven (Mull, Brandon)

Five Children and It (Nesbit)

The Borrowers (Norton, Mary)

The Wicked Bargain (Novoa, Gabe Cole)

If I Was Your Girl (Russo, Meredith)

Magyk (Sage, Angie)

The Alchemyst (Scott, Michael)

Scythe (Shusterman, Neal)

The Glitch in Sleep (Wexler, Michael)

You, me, and our heartstrings by See, Melissa

Instructions for dancing by Yoon, Nicola

The Jasmine Project by Ireland, Meredith,

Rise to the sun by Johnson, Leah

Happily ever afters by Bryant, Elise

Everything I thought I knew by Takaoka, Shannon.

The falling in love montage by Smyth, Ciara

The peasant's dream by Dickerson, Melanie

The princess will save you by Henning, Sarah

If I'm being honest by Wibberley, Emily

Opposite of always by Reynolds, Justin A

Summer constellations by Sevigny, Alisha

The wicked deep by Ernshaw, Shea

The supervillain and me by Banas, Danielle

The boyfriend bracket by Evangelista, Kate

An enchantment of ravens by Rogerson, Margaret

Wild beauty by McLemore, Anna-Marie

Stay tuned 🐺

[birdzflycom]

Mountaineers Defeat Tar Heels in Duke's Mayo Bowl Rout

Courtesy: wvusports In the inaugural play of the game, West Virginia seized the lead and maintained dominance, securing a 30-10 triumph over North Carolina in the Duke's Mayo Bowl held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Mountaineers initiated their first possession with a remarkable 75-yard touchdown pass from the game's Most Valuable Player, Garrett Greene, to Traylon Ray. Subsequently, they thwarted a Tar Heel offense, predominantly composed of substitutes, restricting them to a lone touchdown and no points in the latter half. Despite the absence of key players such as All-America center Zach Frazier and top rusher C.J. Donaldson Jr., West Virginia showcased Greene, their starting quarterback. In contrast, North Carolina faced the game without their primary quarterback, Drake Maye, and several other key contributors. Greene demonstrated prowess by completing 12 of 23 pass attempts for 228 yards and contributing an additional 64 yards on the ground, culminating in a total offensive output of 392 yards for the Mountaineers. The standout narrative of the evening unfolded through WVU's defensive prowess, sacking North Carolina's quarterback Conner Harrell seven times and achieving a shutout in the latter part of the game. Omarion Hampton, UNC's leading rusher, was limited to a net gain of 62 yards, resulting in the Tar Heels managing only 140 yards on the ground, inclusive of sack yards. Harrell, despite completing 18 of 27 attempts for 199 yards, faced adversity with two interceptions and incessant pressure throughout the game. Coach Neal Brown expressed, "This is a remarkable group; I've thoroughly enjoyed coaching them, and tonight, we answered the call." The victory held special significance for Brown, given that his team was initially predicted to finish last in the Big 12 but exceeded expectations with nine victories, marking the first time since 2016 that the Mountaineers concluded a season with double-digit wins. Highlighting the exceptional performance, Brown acknowledged, "Our defense and special teams were outstanding, and Mountaineer Nation truly made an incredible showing." Indeed, the crowd of 42,925, predominantly clad in Old Gold and Blue, passionately supported the team. Amidst Ray's touchdown and Michael Hayes' field goal concluding the first half, promising Mountaineer drives faced setbacks, including three holding penalties, an illegal man downfield penalty, and D.J. Oliver's fumble. Nevertheless, Beanie Bishop Jr. provided a brief 11-point lead with a 78-yard punt return for a touchdown, marking WVU's first punt return for a score in a bowl since 2017. The first half witnessed North Carolina's sole touchdown drive covering 76 yards in five plays, benefiting from Malachi Ruffin's pass interference penalty on Jon Jones Jr. WVU's response was swift, with Greene's pass to Clement for 32 yards setting the stage for Hayes' field goal, concluding the half. The second half witnessed Harrell's interceptions and WVU capitalizing on penalties, extending their lead with another field goal by Hayes. As the game progressed, West Virginia's dominance continued, with Greene's 48-yard run and a subsequent pass to Taylor, culminating in White's touchdown run and Hayes' successful conversion. North Carolina's unsuccessful attempts on their own 26-yard line resulted in Hayes adding three more points, concluding the scoring. This victory marked West Virginia's 17th in 40 all-time bowl appearances, securing a 9-4 record for the regular season and instilling momentum for the offseason with key offensive players returning in 2024. In a post-game tradition, the West Virginia crowd remained in the stadium to witness Coach Neal Brown partake in the ceremonial dumping of mayonnaise on his head. Looking ahead, the Mountaineers encourage fans to maintain the momentum by securing season ticket deposits for the upcoming 2024 season, available at WVUGAME.com for just $99 for new season ticket orders. Renewal information for existing season ticket holders will be provided in the coming months. Read the full article

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Robert D. Garrett December 10, 1934 - August 9, 2022

Robert D. "Bob" Garrett, 87, of Anderson and husband of the late JoAnn Neal Garrett, passed away Tuesday, August 9, 2022.

Born December 10, 1934, in Waterloo, Iowa, he was the son of the late Doran and Carol Murdock Garrett. He was a Commercial and Residential Real Estate Developer. Mr. Garrett attended Auburn University and received his Honorary Doctorate from Clearwater College. He was a United States Army Veteran serving as a Jumpmaster in the Airborne 11th Air Assault Division. He served on the Boards of Bob Jones University, Clearwater Christian College, the Wilds Christian Camp and Transformation Life Center. While he was a true entrepreneur with a love for land development, his passion was that of a spiritual paramedic . Nothing thrilled him more than to see Jesus deliver someone from the bondage of addiction. He taught us all to "Praise the Lord' at all times - even during the hard times. He loved the Lord and shared that love with everyone he met. His was a beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather - and Uncle Bob to many nieces and nephews.

Surviving are his children, Penny Crowell (Drew) of Durango, CO, Robbie Garrett (Pam) of Honea Path, Sherri Settle (Mike) of Anderson and Rusty Garrett of Anderson; grandchildren, Charlie Phillips (D.J.), Mackie Phillips (Anna), Michael Wilson (Hayden), Cory Wilson, Andrew Crowell (Jessica), Carolina Emsbach (Travis), Garrett Crowell, Marianne Powell, Mallie Plonk (William), Claire Hirte (John), Thomas Settle, Michelann Settle, Austin Garrett and Davis Garrett; great grandchildren: Alex, Sean, and Ryan Phillips; Gus and Lark Wilson; R. J. Wilson; Brooks and Gracie Crowell; Riggins and Henry Emsbach; Alethia, Everly, Luther, and Grimke Plonk; Stevie and Sammie Hirte, and siblings: Marion Keener, Michael Garrett (Cathy), Virginia Peterson, and sister-in-law, Delores Garrett and numerous nieces and nephews.

In addition to his wife and parents, Mr. Garrett was preceded in death by his daughter, Cindy Leigh Wilson, and his brother, George "Skip" Garrett.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm Saturday, August 13, at New Covenant Church at 301 Simpson Road in Anderson, SC with Rev. Robert Garrett, Jr. officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. prior to the service at New Covenant Church.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Shalom House Ministries, 349 Blake Dairy Road, Belton, SC 29627. A ministry for long-term care and recovery of women looking to leave addiction behind.

[niallodonohoe]

C's Recap - Dust Devils Davis Destroys Canadians in Season Opener

C's Recap - Dust Devils Davis Destroys Canadians in Season Opener. Kloffenstein 3.2IP 0R 3K Ryan 1.0IP 0R Clarke 1/1 3BB Morris 1/3 BB Talley 1/3 #VanCanadians #MountysMounties #WeAreBlueJays

A lack of timely hitting and untimely mistakes on the field and base paths resulted in a 4-0 loss for the Vancouver Canadians against the Tri-City Dust Devils on Opening Night at Gesa Stadium. The Dust Devils loaded the bases against Luke Gillingham in the fifth but the Navy Midshipmen induced what appeared to be an inning-ending ground ball off the bat of Francisco Del Valle to Spencer Horwitz…

[hettiesworld]

Pairing: Andy Barber x OFC x Ransom Drysdale

Summary: After the trial of his son, Jacob, Lynn asked Andy to take over Neal’s job of prosecuting Hugh ‘Ransom’ Drysdale (He’s trying to get Ransom into prison). Andy got told before the trial by his father that Hugh is his twin brother that was separated at birth.

Warning(s): Spoilers from both D.J. and Knives Out, angst, fluff, mentions of murder, attempted murder, assault, arson (Idk tbh xD 😂) 

Author’s note: Most of these gifs are not mine!

Chapter 1: Against All Odds

Andy was at the hospital, signing in. The hospital was stuffy and the air had an undertone of bleach. The walls were magnolia and were scraped in places from the hundreds of trolleys that have bumped into them. The pictures on the walls were cheap benign prints of uplifting scenes and above the double doors are large blue plastic signs with the areas of the hospital that lie ahead.

The nurse entered the reception area in blue scrubs, po-faced, serious, washing her hands at the sink like she was lost entirely to worrying thoughts.

“Back so soon?”

Andy was confused as a puzzled expression was left on his face. This was the first time he came to visit Laurie and Jacob that day. 

He took the thought out of his head and walked down the corridor towards his ex-wife’s hospital room.

The hospital room was like a concrete pen with a window the size of a biscuit tin lid. It had a stagnant smell, like it's cleaned with plain water instead of disinfectant. The bed sat low to the ground, the frame baring the signs of rust and the mattress worryingly thin. Andy bit his lip. Leaving wasn’t an option for Laurie. 

“Did anyone visit you earlier?” Queried Andy leaned against the doorway of the room, looking down on Laurie.

“Maybe. Why do you care all of a sudden?” Laurie looked away to look out of the window. Andy sighed and walked into the room and sat in the chair away from the bed.

“Just tell me. Who visited you?”

Laurie kept quiet. She was hiding a secret. Just like Andy had been doing to her. That followed up to the divorce.

Andy sighed once again and stood up. 

“I’m going to visit Jacob, okay?” Andy stood up and looked at Laurie one more time, walking towards the entrance.

Silence.

----------------------------------------------------

Finally, Andy found the visitor’s house. He asked the nurse for their name and he was currently outside of his house. It was quite the drive from Newton to the main city of Boston.

The house was new. Very new. It looked like it had been finished last week. It looked almost too new in some strange way. It was as if it had rolled off a production line, but they had forgotten to apply the mandatory layer of colour to it. The windows were huge and seemingly inspired by something truly alien. Anyone could see into the house from an uncomfortable distance.

Andy could then see a figure in the window. Talking on the phone. 

Same jaw structure. Same colour eyes. Same lip shape.

Andy got out of the car, hands turning into a fist, as he walked towards the security gate. The guard thought it was the guy in the house and immediately let him through.

He knocked on the door. Heavily.

He waited for a while until the door opened.

Heart beating faster and faster. 

“Hello?” The guy growled at Andy. “Can you see I’m on the phone?”

“What were you doing at the hospital?”

“I don’t know what the fuck you’re on about.”

“Answer me!” Commanded Andy, pointing a finger at the mysterious guy and slammed the door behind him. “Cause’ I’m not leaving until you tell the truth!”

“Visiting my grandmother.”

“Bullshit.” Andy replied. “I know you were stalking my ex-wife, so tell me. What were you doing at the fucking hospital?!”

“I’ll call the cops, you fucking psycho! You’re clearly stalking me!” Ransom accused. He had the exact same voice as Andy and it is really creeping him out.

Andy knew he visited his ex-wife. And the guy knew he’s getting Andy on the urge of hatred.

“You stay away from her and my son.” Andy threatened him and walked out of his house, leaving the guy to give him a smug smirk and said to him as he left, 

“Don’t be upset about this. Maybe the old man would be proud. It runs in our blood.”

@optimistic-dinosaur-nacho​ @jeremyrennerfanxxxx123​ @donutloverxo​ @captain-a-rogerss​ @iguessweallcrazyithinktho​ @stop-obsessing-over-those-actors​ @averyrogers83​ @pegasusdragontiger​

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“Wet Sugar” [Part 21 of 30]

Summary: Erik has doubts about what he has done...

Mature Audience. NSFW. 

"Gotta be careful, I know, I know You and me can't be nothing no more I've been lookin' for something from you I've been gettin' nothing at all You're such a fuckin' woman (woman) But deserves the fuckin' world, yeah…"

Lucky Daye—"Love You Too Much"

The saltwater in the pool soaked Erik's sunburned skin as he floated on his back. He would've preferred to swim at the cove, but going there was all her. Too much her.

That woman he tried to ignore became a specter before his eyes. He would catch glimpses of her around the compound, but she was like a rumor whispered in hushed tones. They were able to work around each other, but sometimes he caught her lingering above the gun range when he was there firing the new weapons with the other mercs. He acted like he didn't see her in the distance when she did that, or when he caught her slipping out of the kitchen when they all came to eat. He felt her eyes on him even when he couldn't directly see her.

He did the same, often hanging back after meals, sipping on dinner espresso and waiting to hear the side kitchen door open with her bounding in to help Leona clear away dishes and leftovers. Or he would stay out by the pool for a long time and catch the sound of leaves rustling as she snuck down to the cove using the secret path no one else knew about. She would sometimes cuss at Jerome while heading there and he would stifle a laugh while thinking about the first time he heard her talking to the iguana. The sound of her voice still thrilled him. It was the girlish softness of it mixed with the smart-ass personality behind it that still made him excited about her.

He dreamed about her. And Sydette.

Those night visions were often a replay of the earlier days of them alone at the compound. He'd wake up suddenly in the middle of the night clutching at his side hoping she was there. When he heard movement from Linda in the room next to his, he would pretend it was Sweet Pea sneaking out of her bed to crawl between him and Yani.

He knew from jump Yani despised Linda.

But that was to be expected because Linda tended to rub people the wrong way and of course...he had fucked the woman. Linda could be condescending to people that she felt were inferior to her. She treated a lot of the other mercs that way and they couldn't say shit because her skills were so tight and she proved it to be true time and time again. She never tried it with him. His game was tighter than hers and she respected that.

He never saw Yani act funky in front of Linda personally, but Linda often commented on how Leona was very nice to her, but Yani was just direct and spoke very little.

"She's efficient and like a damn ninja around here…but I can't get more than two words out of her when I ask her for stuff. It's like I'm bothering her own personal things. She acts like Klaue's house is her house. I had my feet on the coffee table and she walked past me with the laundry sucking her teeth."

Erik knew the reason why Yani was acting that way. It wasn't because of no feet on the furniture.

Klaue moved Linda into his house and her bedroom was next to Erik's. She was sleeping in Sweet Pea's old room. She was sleeping too close to him.

Yani wasn't the only one feeling irritated by new interactions.

He was feeling a way about her and Zachary.

Erik still lurked on her social media to see how she was doing. At first, it was to keep tabs on Sweet Pea from afar, and he could also see what Yani had to say about her classes. She was acing school like he knew she would, but it was the posts about her social life that had him uptight.

As expected, Zachary pounced on her, and Yani seemed open to the rekindling of some type of relationship because Erik saw pictures of them together at clubs and group gatherings. Yani had big smiles on her face when she posed with Zachary, and apparently, they took a trip to Jamaica together for a concert Kendall performed at. He saw pictures of them posing in front of a waterfall together in swimsuits holding hands while facing one another. Yani's eyes were closed and the grin on her face told him that they had either kissed before the picture was snapped, or they were about to kiss.

He couldn't even be all that mad on a certain level if he were honest with himself. He would've done the same thing. If he'd lost a bad bitch being stupid, he wouldn't waste time snatching her back up.

She looked happy in that picture. Zachary looked…enamored with her. Erik wondered if she was sleeping with him. Getting new dick to forget the old dick. Erik scoffed a bit while staring at them. Ain't no way Zachary could handle what Yani had. Fire pussy needed bomb ass dick. That was the only thing that kept Erik from going off seeing her with someone else that soon.

What nigga could compare to him with her?

He used to make that bitch's pussy jump when he called her on the phone. He could snap his fingers and have her pulling open her slit for him whenever he wanted it, had her cumming and crying and begging him not to stop until she couldn't hold onto him anymore. Made Yani sit anywhere he wanted—indoors or outdoors-with her legs wide open while he watched her slam a thick blue dildo in her pussy just to amuse him before he picked her up and stretched her walls out all night. He made her cum in her sleep with just the thought of him fucking her. She would lay in bed next to him having multiple orgasms that woke her ass up and made her beg him to fuck her wide awake. What could that civilian do for her?

She looked good though. Damn good. She had lost some weight from running around again, but shit was looking hella tight.

Shit.

Thinking about her in that picture made Erik want to fuck.

He climbed out of the pool and took himself a long shower. Afterward, he drove himself to a barbershop in Havensight and had his locs cut off and his beard trimmed and groomed. He needed the change. His mother had done it often when she needed a fresh start. At least two times in his life with her he had witnessed his mother shaving off her hair. Shedding old energy to welcome the new.

He felt a few eyes on him in the shop. Maybe they recognized him from being with Yani.

Before meeting up with Linda and Klaue in the main house he shot off a few emails to his grandfather and his Uncle. He also loaded more money onto Yani's credit card. She didn't use it all that much anymore, probably because she didn't want him tracking her purchases, but more than likely not wanting to stay connected to him. No matter what happened between them, he wanted her to have some sort of back-up support if she ever needed it. If not for herself, then for Sydette at least.

Strolling into the main house, both Klaue and Linda gave him a double-take when they saw his hair.

On the viewscreen in the living room, Erik posted up a picture of the C.I.A. agent that he was tracking for Klaue. The man had a mousy face and the strait-laced look of one who believed in toppling other governments in service of making America great again. A weak-looking yes man by the name of Everett K. Ross.

"U.S. Air Force. Decent pilot. Currently the Deputy Task Force Commander of the Joint Counterterrorism Center. He reports to the Secretary of State. That good ole boy, Thaddeus Ross."

"He's taking nibbles from me. I've been dropping hints at wanting to sell vibranium," Klaue said, "the U.S. wants their hands on all they can find. But he's a bit skittish right now."

"No one likes to look like they're in bed with mercs and terrorists," Linda said.

"The U.S. fucks with them all. They must be under scrutiny," Erik said.

"Any sales aren't going to be done in the U.S. The Great Satan needs to come where I say," Klaue barked.

"Nowhere in Europe," Erik said.

"Definitely not Africa," Linda added.

"What a wimpy looking oaf," Klaue surmised.

"That's what makes him effective. A milquetoast-looking face can get away with anything anywhere," Erik concluded.

"Well, the moment you find me a chunk of the good stuff I'll set up the sale," Klaue said.

The three of them sat around drinking until dinner. There was to be no meal at the house that night. Klaue took everyone out to a restaurant on the Northside of the island. The food was exceptional and Erik didn't get into any arguments with Neal or Huntsman. Surprising. There were great bars to crawl around and when Shipley let them toke on some blended weed, Erik felt pretty mellow. He actually wanted to hang out a bit.

Klaue caught a cab back to the compound but the rest of their crew stuck together. Linda was really floating, acting like the Snow White to their ragtag team of six non-Dwarfs. Shipley was trying to run game down on her, but Linda wasn't interested. She put up a front of being all business. But not with him.

He kept it friendly between them. Even when she sunbathed topless on the porch of Klaue's house, he treated her like his colleague.

It wasn't easy at times.

When his sexual urges came on strong, he was tempted to seek her out in her bed, but he didn't want the headache of Neal or Shipley. They were both jockeying for some play and there was nothing worse than working with hard-up men and the tension that jealousy brought.

Linda would give him looks sometimes and he hoped that no one else caught on.

Some really hard-sounding island music caught their attention and they stumbled upon a boisterous club that excited Linda. Shipley got into the spirit and they were all sucked into the space ordering drinks and watching the spectacle of winding hot bodies and good sounds. Linda grabbed Shipley's hand and dragged him out among the crowd. The place was a lot bigger inside than it looked outside and there was an actual stage on one side with a D.J. spinning tunes with a massive sound system. No wonder they could hear it blocks away.

Erik found a honey with loose hips and he followed her out onto the floor. Neal sprang for drinks and by the time it turned midnight, Erik had a good sweat and copped a few feels on some Grade A ass that seemed to come from an endless supply throughout the space. He found another shorty that made his temperature rise, and he was getting her number when she and a few other women swarmed the stage. The music was thumping and there were a few eager men on stage where a solitary chair sat in front of them.

Erik bought himself some Henny and walked closer to the stage with Neal and Shipley in tow.

"What's happening?"

Huntsman eased up beside them, his voice loud over the music.

"I don't know," Erik said.

"I think they are about to…ah yeah…we about to see some rump-shaking," Neal said.

A man with a chiseled chest poking out of his half-unbuttoned shirt sat on the chair as an MC talked to the crowd.

"What's the point of this?" Huntsman said.

"Watch and see," Neal said.

Erik sipped on his drink.

The music got a little buck and several women, even the one Erik was trying to mess with climbed on stage and took turns dancing with frenzied athleticism on the lap of the man who sat in the chair.

"Man…I couldn't do it!" Neal squealed.

Linda found her way over to them. Her face was flushed from dancing and drinking.

"Poor guy!" she said.

"Be right back, gonna refresh my drink."

Erik left them and headed to the bar. He could see the different women trying to out-dance one another, and by the time his new drink finally got to him, a new dude was in the chair getting his junk pummeled.

"Shit," Erik whispered.

These women were not playing. He grinned when he saw Linda reach up to the MC and he helped her on stage to take her turn at grinding on a stranger. She stood out with her light gray booty shorts and half top. Kicking off her sandals, she made the man sit on the floor of the stage as she did the splits and pounded her groin on him. Her wild cascade of curls covered part of her face. The audience went into a frenzy and Erik could hear Shipley and Neal cheering her on.

"Did y'all dare her to get up there?" Erik asked when he returned to his entourage.

"Nope. She said they needed an expert up there," Shipley said.

The woman could move, and she played to the audience while she awaited her chance to dance on the next guy in the chair.

"This gyal is on fiyah!" the MC shouted.

Linda wiggled her hips fast, throwing her cheeks in a wild circle. She dropped down and grabbed her ankles letting the audience watch her cheeks move.

"She too much, man…too much!" Shipley shouted.

"Goodness gracious," Neal said.

Erik looked around the stage to see who he was talking about, but then he saw Twyla moving near the front.

"Twyla!" Erik shouted.

"You know her?" Neal asked.

Twyla looked his way. She saw who was calling her and she smiled.

"Big nigga. Where yuh hair go?"

Twyla's hand rubbed his head.

"God damn…she thicker than a pot of grits," Neal barked looking toward the stage again.

"That girl is small—" Shipley answered.

"Not that one…her. Oh my damn. That's…shit. That's Klaue's girl," Neal said.

Erik saw Yani staring at the stage. He recognized a couple of her friends with her that saw him fuck her in a club.

"Don't be scared to say hello," Twyla said.

Her eyes regarded Erik's face.

"Yuh can't hide back here."

"I'm not hiding—"

"Lookin' like yuh back at Juvay," Twyla teased.

One of Yani's friends jumped on stage and stood next to Linda.

"How is she?"

His eyes were sheepish looking at Twyla.

"She's as good as can be expected from a bad break up. Doing well in school—"

"Sydette?"

"A busy body. And you?"

Erik shrugged.

"Still hurts, yeah?" she said.

He didn't answer.

"I see it on your face. Hers too."

Twyla glanced back at her cousin.

"She say yuh leaving the island."

"Yeah."

His eyes were focused on Yani.

"Big man…if there are things yuh still need to say to her, best tell her before yuh bounce. End it the right way with she, yeah?"

He decided to suck it up. Test the waters.

He sipped on his drink again as he walked over to her.

"Yani."

She turned to look at him and he realized it was a mistake. He should've kept his ass in the back and ignored her.

"Killmonger."

Damn.

He got goosebumps hearing his name on her lips despite the coldness. Her eyes took in his new appearance and he couldn't tell if she liked it or not. Indifference settled around her toward him.

The crowd surged and she turned back to watch her friend on stage. He stood behind her and could only concur with Neal's words. Lil Mama was thick as fuck, and the tight black pants she wore did not hide a damn thing. His body yearned for hers. He stepped closer, close enough to feel her body heat. He wanted to kiss the back of her neck and trace his tongue around her tattoos again. Erik had to fight his own hands to keep them from circling her waist and pulling her back toward him. As far as she was concerned, he wasn't even there.

"She doin' too much."

He heard one of Yani's friends talk about Linda.

"She gwine break his dick if she keep that up!" Another one cackled.

Yani giggled and covered her mouth.

Erik's eyes swept back up to the stage. Linda was living it up in the spotlight, and she was getting plenty of rousing support from a lot of men and women.

The current man in the seat had a serious expression on his face, like all that ass pounding his dick from different women wasn't affecting him in any way. Stoneface.

"Go up there, Yani."

She shook her head as her friends cat-called her name.

The D.J. changed the song to a track that had been remixed to death over the years. But it revived the crowd and the women on stage. Linda received some more cheers when she had another turn at bat, and for the first time, Stoneface reacted a little bit. The audience laughed and the MC teased the man about losing his cool.

Yani and her friends walked away and Erik felt himself actually deflate a bit. Yani straight ignored his ass. He watched the lights of the club hit the bronze of her top with them titties sitting, her platinum fade lined up tight, and that ass just being totally disrespectful in public.

He felt absolutely proud to see her not giving a fuck about him.

Gulping down the last of his Henny, he saw the MC bend down to the crowd trying to catch Yani's attention. She stopped with the rest of her homegirls to listen to him. Her hands flew up waving him off, but her friends nudged her arm. She put a hand on her waist and said something to the MC, and Twyla sauntered over pushing her up toward the steps leading upstage.

Fuck.

She went up the steps and once the full lights hit her, Erik had to stop and take inventory of what he had once. That used to be his woman, but there was something different about her that was turning him on in a way that made him feel out of control.

Linda saw Yani approach the chair and the look on her face told Erik that she was in a bit of shock recognizing the woman who cleaned her room and cooked her food.

The MC let Linda and a couple of other women do their booty shakes again, but then Yani stepped over the man, spread her legs wide and did the slowest drop down onto his lap that put the audience in a tizzy. Unlike the other women who moved with hyped up energy, Yani slowed it all the way down until her cheeks were popping in a way that had the man's legs jerking.

Erik felt his jaw get tight when Yani turned her head to look back at everyone as she let each ass cheek bounce in syncopated rhythm. She rolled her hips and the MC, along with several other people on stage started laughing hard and slapping arms. The MC started jumping up and down and pointing.

"Lawd -a-mercy! She done made this nigga buss in his pants!"

Yani lifted up and stepped away from the man with his eyes glazed over and his left hand grabbing at his protruding erection. Eyes watched Yani sashay away, and even Linda gave a painful-looking laugh as her eyes watched Yani leave.

"She dangerous. That gyal dangerous!" The MC shouted.

Yani's friends laughed with her as the entered back into the fray of bodies swaying to the music. A few men tried to get Yani's attention, but she was focused on her friends.

A song they used to listen to at the house came on and Erik took long strides to get to her.

"Come dance with me," he said touching her hand.

She pulled back from him as if he stung her.

"I don't want to dance with you."

Her friends surrounded him and their eyes were ready to cut him in two.

"It's just a dance, cuz," Twyla said nudging her cousin's arm as she walked past heading to the floor herself along with other people. The lap dance show was over.

Yani shoved past him and her friends followed.

Bet.

He headed back to the bar and ordered a couple of shots. Shipley joined him and they drank and talked, watching people dance on the floor. Erik tracked Yani's movement as she danced with different men.

"Can't believe that's the same chick at the compound," Shipley said.

"Yep," Erik answered.

They watched Neal approach Yani and she wasted no time sending him on his way. The way her friends swooped in to protect her, Neal had no chance of harassing her further.

"Whew, I gotta slow down," Linda said.

She plopped down on a stool next Erik and asked for water from the bartender. Twyla walked past him and gave him a look. Erik shrugged his shoulders at her and Twyla rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"Had no idea Yani was a regular Cinderella," Linda said.

"She fine," Shipley said.

Erik found that surprising since he never showed interest in women built like Yani before.

"Thought you didn't like thick bitches," Erik said.

Linda eyed Shipley with amusement.

"She could be the exception," Shipley said gulping down a shot of tequila with lime.

"He'll fight you for that," Neal said.

Erik watched Neal grab a beer from the bar.

"What?" Shipley said.

Erik felt his face harden.

"That's Killmonger's pussy."

"Shut the fuck up," Erik snarled.

"You're fucking the help?" Linda asked.

She tossed her head back and laughed at him.

Erik stepped off the stool he sat on and left the bar in a huff.

"Killmonger…hey….hold on…."

Linda followed him and tugged on his arm.

"Hey…we're just drinking and pulling your chain. Calm down."

She steered him to the dancefloor.

"Relax. Loosen up."

Linda swayed in front of him and tried moving his arms. His eyes darted about looking for Yani again, but he had lost track of her.

"How can you not dance to this?"

Linda moved around him, bumped her hip into his and he eventually gave in and danced a little.

"Oh, come on now. You're better than this. We fucked it up in Jo'burg. You remember that club with the roof that was caving in!"

Erik smiled. He remembered. The music was hot, fast, and so were the club patrons. That was a good night. Right before the raid…

"…fucking her?"

Erik missed what Linda said. The confusion in his eyes made her repeat the question.

"Is it true? You and Yani?"

"Nah. Neal had been bothering her and I put a stop to it."

"He is aggressive. Nasty piece of work."

His eyes flicked around. Searching still.

"You want to fuck her?"

His eyes glared at her like she was insane.

"It's just a question. She watches you all the time—"

"I barely have time to—"

"I'm just telling you…I think she has a thing for you. I hear her cleaning your room and she stays in there for a long time. You are a neat freak, so there's no reason for her to be in there so long."

Yani in his room lingering?

"I catch her watching you at the gun range…"

Erik dismissed Linda's words when he felt his cell vibrate in his pocket. He pulled it out.

A text from Twyla.

Yani is alone in her apartment this weekend. Chez has Sydette. Roommate gone too. Chance to talk?

Erik stopped dancing.

Unger ran up and grabbed Linda's hand to dance.

"I'ma head back to the compound," he said.

Linda nodded her head.

"I'll catch a cab."

"I'll let the others know."

He watched her and Unger head further into the crowd on the floor.

###

Looking around his room, Erik tried to see what Yani would see.

A clean room. Sterile almost without her there anymore. Two boxes of condoms on the dresser. One empty and the other half used. She would probably think he had been with Linda. He hadn't. But he was seeing women outside the compound again. He couldn't help it. It kept his mind off of her.

But seeing her that night brought up all the things festering in his mind about her. Was she okay? Was Sydette fine? Did Yani hate him? How would she react if she saw him in public?

If Linda was able to glean Yani's feelings for him around the compound, maybe she still had a soft spot for him. Maybe he could…

No.

It was stupid to think of going to her. Even with Twyla's encouragement. He hopped into his bed fully nude. No one was at the compound. The secret tracker he placed in Klaue's arm told him the man was on the other side of the island. Inside a hotel. Probably with a woman.

Staring up at the ceiling, his mind settled on Yani again. Seeing her wind her body on that man onstage made him groan as he felt on his dick.

He reached for his cell again and read Twyla's text two more times.

It wasn't worth it.

What could he say to her? I'm checking to see if you've been able to salvage your life after I blew it up?

But damn…

She was so beautiful on stage. Her whole demeanor was just…sexy…bold. She used to make him cum in his pants all the time. Maybe she did that because she knew he was there watching.

He slammed his fists on his bed.

He wasn't going to get any sleep. He would think about her all night.

He reached into his nightstand and pulled out some weed. He smoked a bit and felt his muscles ease up from the tension he carried in them after seeing her.

Killmonger.

His name on her lips sounded so dead to him. There was no malice in her eyes, but they seemed clouded like she was really and truly over him.

That's what he wanted, right? He told her to focus on school and to forget him. But faced with it, faced with true indifference…he didn't want her to forget him.

Taking a long drag he thought of Linda and what she told him. She noticed Yani keeping her eyes on him. She had to still feel something. Lingering in his bedroom had to mean something. Too many good memories in the place. All the things they did to one another. All the time they slept together in a pile with Sydette between them.

Twyla was right. He had to have a final conversation with her that didn't come from a place of anger, but one of love. They still had to part, but he wanted it to be on better terms. He did have things he wanted to say to her. Secret things. Maybe even promise her something that he didn't think he had a right to.

Stubbing out the joint in an ashtray, Erik jumped out of bed and put on some loose sweatpants and shirt.

He borrowed one of Klaue's smaller cars, a blue Beemer with a moon roof.

He let air flow through from the roof of the car as he drove to Yani's place. Every few minutes he thought about turning around, but once he pulled into the parking lot of her small complex, he was fully committed to talking with her.

After a bit of deep breathing in the car, Erik walked up the stairs and tried to find the right words to say. Once he was in front of her door on the far end of the floor, he felt a bit calmer, less afraid. He debated about texting or calling her. It was too late. He was already there and high as fuck…

He pressed his ear to her door.

Noise.

Talking.

No…not talking.

Moaning.

Shit.

"Yes, Baby!"

The seductive mewling in her voice raised his blood pressure.

She was fucking someone.

Zachary.

Erik removed his ear from the door. His hands pressed against the door frame and he closed his eyes. His body burned with rage. That little punk bitch.

He heard a loud male groan erupt from behind the door.

Erik clenched his fists.

The weed had him spinning scenarios. Bust the fucking door down and drag her off that nigga's dick. Or wait for Zachary to leave and pound on the door and…and do what?

Yell at her for getting dick when he had empty boxes of condoms in his room that she saw? Two days prior he was guts deep in some bitch with big ass titties making her holler out his name. Nutted all in that woman's face and didn't even think about Yani while he did it.

But that's your woman in there. Giving your pussy away.

Erik walked away from the apartment.

Back in the car, he pulled out his cell.

Call her. Break up their little party.

Fuming in the car, he sat there for a long time until he could think straight. The weed still had his mind spinning, but he was able to drive back to the compound and crawl into his bed. The sun was rising when he finally fell asleep.

###

"Hey, lazybones."

Erik blinked his eyes.

Linda looked down at him.

"You were out for a long time. Thought I'd check on you," she said.

Erik sat up.

He was still wearing his sweats.

"What time is it?"

"Two."

"Shit," he said.

"Stay in bed. You looked worn out last night."

Erik leaned against the headboard.

"You want anything to eat?"

"Nah. I'm just gonna chill. I feel tired still."

She touched his forehead.

"Are you feeling sick?"

He shook his head and pulled off his sweatshirt and pants. Crawling under the covers he tucked himself into a ball.

"I'll be up in an hour or so."

"Okay. Call me if you need anything. I have to get some things in town. Klaue is still out."

"Cool."

He pretended to go to sleep and Linda left his side.

When she opened his bedroom door, Yani was using a soft bristle broom to sweep the floor in the hall.

"Don't bother him. He's sleeping in," Linda said.

Erik saw Yani's eyes sweep over Linda's short house dress, and then her eyes caught his on the bed before Linda shut the door.

"Bring him some of that soup around three," Linda said.

"Him sick?"

The lilt in Yani's voice had concern.

"No," Linda said.

"Does he need medicine?"

"No. Just bring him the soup to the kitchen like I asked and he'll be fine."

Erik stayed curled under the covers until he saw from his bedroom viewscreen that Yani had left the house. He jumped in the shower and cleaned up, shaved, and threw on some light cologne. He pulled on some beige loungers and hopped back on the bed.

Exactly in one hour, he saw Yani heading down to Klaue's main house with a covered tray. She entered the space and headed to the kitchen.

He hopped on the intercom.

"Can you bring that here, please? In my room?"

He watched Yani's face look perturbed as she stood in the kitchen. She knew he was watching her.

"Yuh not sick. Get it yourself."

She left the kitchen.

"Bring it here please."

He watched her calculate her next move. Unlike the time when they were together at the compound alone, Klaue had everything watched. If she refused to do her job, Klaue would see it. The bedrooms were pretty secure because Klaue did allow that privacy. He wanted her in his room.

"I have some laundry to be picked up too," he said.

He saw her lip pout and he smiled. Her cell phone rang.

"Yeah?" she answered.

Erik waited. A smile came across her face and she started to giggle into the phone. Flirty-like.

"Mi can't tonight…can't. I'm working…"

She hung up and put her cell in her back pocket. Her smile left her face when she picked up the food tray and carried it to his room. She kicked the door with her foot softly.

He opened it.

"Thanks," he said taking it from her hand.

She turned away.

"Wait, the laundry, my sheets—"

"You do your own cleaning, remember?"

Her eyes were petulant looking up at him.

"Yeah, but um…I'm not feeling great—"

"Linda said you were fine…can I go?"

Mean.

She wasn't with the shits.

Her mind was on giggling over Zachary.

He walked slowly over to his bed and climbed in balancing the tray. She moved over to help him.

"Thanks," he said.

Her eyes took in the room and when they glanced at his dresser, he made sure the condoms were gone. She went to the hamper in his bathroom.

"There's nothing in here," she said, annoyed.

"I need these sheets changed," he said.

"I'll come back then, or you can have Linda change them for you—"

"Yani, wait a minute."

He lifted up too fast and the tray tilted. He spilled some soup on the covers.

"You did that on purpose," she said.

"No, I didn't."

"What do you want, man?"

He hated the sound of her voice at that moment. She didn't want to be around him.

"I miss you," he said.

"I don't think so."

"I do—"

"You got Linda and whoever else…"

Her eyes drifted toward the dresser.

"And you have Zachary."

Her eyes regarded him with suspicion.

"I heard you on your phone."

"You don't know who I was talking to."

"You're not with him?"

She left the room.

Erik jumped off the bed and ran after her.

"Hold up—"

"I don't have time for your shit—"

He grabbed her hand. She snatched it back.

"Clean up your own fucking mess!"

She stormed out of the house and he let her go.

"Whoa. That was…awkward."

Linda walked into the room, coming in through the back door.

Shit.

"So…um…the help…" she said.

Erik stomped back to his room and slammed the door shut.

###

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Top five favorite books. & Top five favorite villains.

Questions for Mutuals! Top 5:

Top five favorite books. 

In The Forests Of The Night by Amalia Atwater-Rhodes

The Pendragon Series by D.J. MacHale

Children Of The Red King Series by Jenny Nimmo

Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson

Arc of a Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman

Top five favorite villains.

The Master from Doctor Who

Kai Parker from The Vampire Diaries (Even though I don’t particularly like anything ELSE about the show but him, SO I have only ever watched the episodes he’s been in.)

Sylar from Heroes

The Joker from DC Comics

Vaas Montenegro from Far Cry 3

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The Gathering (Gerd Edit) / Neal Howard / Clone Classic Cuts

Promised Land / Joe Smooth / D.J. International

Good Life (DK's Stretched 7 inch) / Inner City

Living For The Nite (For The Music) / UR / Underground Resistance

Do You Wanna Dance / Sterling Void / A B P

It's You / ESP / Underground

Erotic Illusions (Original Mix) / Nick Holder / DNH

Can You Feel The Bass / Phortune / HOTMIX5

Fly Life / Basement Jaxx / Atlantic Jaxx

Yo Yo Get Funky (Original Radio) / Fast Eddie / D.J. International

Unfinished Sympathy (Perfecto Mix) / Massive Attack / Ultra

Dance (Beats Mix) / Earth People / Cabaret

Throw (Original Mix) / Paperclip People / Planet E

Watch Them Come (Original Mix) / Roy Davis Jr Feat. Peven Everett / Defected

Bizarre Love Triangle (Extended Dance Mix) / New Order / London

You Got The Love (Erens Bootleg Mix) / The Source Feat. Candi Staton / ZYX

Big Fun (Original 12'' Mix) / Inner City / Virgin

Star Chasers (MAW Remix) / 4Hero / Raw Canvas

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Jack Cust III (2011)

Wily Pena (2011)

Carter Capps (2012)

Hisashi Iwakuma (2012)

Josh Kinney (2012)

Lucas Luetge (2012)

Kevin Millwood (2012)

Hector Noesi (2012)

Oliver Perez (2012)

Stephen Pryor (2012)

Erasmo Ramirez (2012, 2018)

George Sherrill (2012)

John Jaso (2012)

Jesus Montero (2012)

Munenori Kawasaki (2012)

Carlos Triunfel (2012)

Eric Thames (2012)

Luis Jimenez (2012)

Dan Altavilla (2018-19)

Shawn Armstrong (2018)

Christian Bergman (2018)

Chasen Bradford (2018)

Alex Colome (2018)

Ryan Cook (2018)

Ross Detwiler (2018)

Edwin Diaz (2018)

Zach Duke (2018)

Roenis Elias (2018-19)

Matt Festa (2018-19)

Erik Goeddel (2018)

Marco Gonzales (2018-19)

Justin Grimm (2018)

Casey Lawrence (2018)

Mike Leake (2018)

Wade LeBlanc (2018)

Ariel Miranda (2018)

Mike Morin (2018)

Juan Nicasio (2018)

James Paxton (2018)

James Pazos (2018)

Nick Rumbelow (2018-19)

Marc Rzepczynski (2018)

Sam Tuivailala (2018)

Nick Vincent (2018)

Adam Warren (2018)

Robert Whalen (2018)

David Freitas (2018)

Chris Herrman (2018)

Mike Marjama (2018)

Mike Zunino (2018)

Gordon Beckham (2018)

Robinson Cano (2018)

Dee Gordon (2018-19)

Ryon Healy (2018-19)

Taylor Motter (2018)

Kristopher Negron (2018)

Andrew Romine (2018)

Jean Segura (2018)

Zach Vincej (2018)

Dan Vogelbach (2018-19)

John Andreoli (2018)

Nelson Cruz (2018)

Ben Gamel (2018)

Mitch Haniger (2018-19)

Guillermo Heredia (2018)

Cameron Maybin (2018)

Denard Span (2018)

Jay Bruce (2 games 2019)

Edwin Encarnacion (2 games 2019)

Domingo Santana (2 games 2019)

Omar Narvaez (2 games 2019)

Tim Beckham (2 games 2019)

Dylan Moore (2 games 2019)

Cory Gearrin (1 game 2019)

Zac Rosscup (2 games 2019)

Hunter Strickland (2 games 2019)

Braden Bishop (1 game 2019)

Yusei Kikuchi (1 game 2019)

Brandon Brennan (1 game 2019)

New York Yankees

David Aardsma (2012)

Justin Chamberlain (2012-13)

Cody Eppley (2012-13)

Freddy Garcia (2012)

Phil Hughes (2012-13)

Igarashi Ryota (2012)

Kuroda Hiroki (2012-14)

Boone Logan (2012-13)

Derek Lowe (2012)

D.J. Mitchell (2012)

Ivan Nova (2012-14)

Andy Pettitte (2012-13)

David Phelps (2012-14)

Chad Qualls (2012)

Clay Rapada (2012)

Mariano Rivera (2012-13)

David Robertson (2012-14)

C.C. Sabathia; Jr. (2012-14)

Rafael Soriano (2012)

Justin Thomas (2012)

Cory Wade (2012)

Adam Warren (2012-14)

Francisco Cervelli (2012-14)

Russell Martin: Jr. (2012)

Chris Stewart (2012-13)

Robinson Cano (2012-13)

Eric Chavez (2012)

Derek Jeter (2012-14)

Casey McGehee (2012)

Jayson Nix (2012-13)

Eduardo Nunez (2012-13)

Steve Pearce (2012)

Ramiro Pena (2012)

Alex Rodriguez (2012-13)

Mark Teixeira (2012-14)

Chris Dickerson (2012)

Brett Gardner (2012-14)

Curtis Granderson; Jr. (2012-13)

Raul Ibanez (2012)

Andruw Jones (2012)

Darnell McDonald (2012)

Melquisedic Mesa (2012-13)

Nick Swisher (2012)

DeWayne Wise (2012)

Dellin Betances (2013-14)

Chris Bootcheck (2013)

Cesar Cabral (2013-14)

Preston Claiborne (2013-14)

Matt Daley (2013-14)

David Huff (2013-14)

Shawn Kelley (2013-14)

Brett Marshall (2013)

Jim Miller (2013-14)

Vidal Nuno (2013-14)

Mike Zagurski (2013)

John Murphy (2013-14)

Austin Romine (2013-14)

David Adams (2013)

Reid Brignac (2013)

Luis Cruz (2013)

Alberto Gonzalez (2013)

Travis Ishikawa (2013)

Corban Joseph (2013)

Brent Lillibridge (2013)

Chris Nelson (2013)

Lyle Overbay (2013)

Mark Reynolds (2013)

Brendan Ryan (2013-14)

Kevin Youkilis (2013)

Zoilo Almonte (2013-14)

Brennan Boesch (2013)

Ben Francisco (2013)

Thomas Neal (2013)

Alfonso Soriano (2013-14)

Vernon Wells III (2013)

Travis Hafner (2013)

Alfredo Aceves (2014)

Bruce Billings (2014)

Chris Capuano (2014)

Jeff Francis (2014)

Shane Greene (2014)

Rich Hill (2014)

Wade LeBlanc (2014)

Chris Leroux (2014)

Brandon McCarthy (2014)

Josh Outman (2014)

Michael Pineda (2014)

Jose Ramirez (2014)

Chaz Roe (2014)

Esmil Rogers (2014)

Masahiro Tanaka (2014)

Matt Thornton (2014)

Chase Whitley (2014)

Brian McCann (2014)

Dean Anna (2014)

Stephen Drew (2014)

Chase Headley (2014)

Kelly Johnson (2014)

Jose Pirela (2014)

Martin Prado (2014)

Brian Roberts (2014)

Brendan Ryan (2014)

Scott Sizemore (2014)

Yangervis Solarte (2014)

Zelous Wheeler (2014)

Carlos Beltran (2014)

Jacoby Ellsbury (2014)

Eury Perez (2014)

Antoan Richardson (2014)

Chris Young (2014)

Miami Marlins

Kyle Barraclough (2015-17)

Carter Capps (2015)

Steve Cishek (2015)

Adam Conley (2015-17)

Erik Cordier (2015)

Jarred Cosart (2015-16)

Mike Dunn (2015-16)

Sam Dyson (2015)

Brian Ellington (2015-17)

Jose Fernandez (2015-16)

Kendry Flores (2015-16)

Brad Hand (2015)

Dan Haren (2015)

Mat Latos (2015)

Raudel Lazo (2015)

Nick Masset (2015)

Vin Mazzaro (2015)

Scott McGough (2015)

Bryan Morris (2015-16)

Chris Narveson (2015-16)

Justin Nicolino (2015-17)

David Phelps (2015-17)

A.J. Ramos; Jr. (2015-17)

Chris Reed (2015)

Andre Rienzon (2015)

Jose Urena (2015-17)

Jeff Mathis (2015-16)

J.T. Realmuto (2015-17)

Jarrod Saltalamacchia (2015)

Jhonatan Solano (2015)

Tomas Telis (2015-17)

Jeff Baker (2015)

Justin Bour (2015-17)

Reid Brignac (2015)

Devaris Gordon (2015-17)

Adeiny Hechavarria (2015-17)

Don Kelly (2015-16)

Casey McGehee (2015)

Mike Morse (2015)

Martin Prado (2015-17)

Miguel Rojas (2015-17)

Donovan Solano (2015)

Derek Dietrich (2015-17)

Cole Gillespie (2015-16)

Marcell Ozuna (2015-17)

Giancarlo Stanton (2015-17)

Jordany Valdespin (2015)

Christian Yelich (2015-17)

Craig Breslow (2016)

Austin Brice (2016)

Andrew Cashner (2016)

Hunter Cervenka (2016-17)

Wei-Yin Chen (2016-17)

Paul Clemens (2016)

Odrisamer Despaigne (2016-17)

Cody Ege (2016)

Jake Esch (2016)

Cody Hall (2016)

Edwin Jackson (2016)

Dustin McGowan (2016-17)

Nefi Ogando (2016)

Colin Rea (2016)

Joseph Reyes (2016)

Fernando Rodney (2016)

Nick Wittgren (2016-17)

Robert Andino (2016)

Chris Johnson (2016)

Yefri Perez (2016)

Xavier Scruggs (2016)

Jeff Francoeur (2016)

Destin Hood (2016)

Oswaldo Arcia (2016)

Jarlin Garcia (2017)

Javy Guerra (2017)

Jeff Locke (2017)

Chris O’Grady (2017)

Dillon Peters (2017)

Drew Steckenrider (2017)

Dan Straily (2017)

Junichi Tazawa (2017)

Edinson Volquez (2017)

Vance Worley (2017)

Brad Ziegler (2017)

A.J. Ellis (2017)

Brian Anderson (2017)

Mike Aviles (2017)

Christian Colon (2017)

Steve Lombardozzi (2017)

Tyler Moore (2017)

J.T. Riddle (2017)

NPB All-Stars

 Hideki Irabu (1994-95)

Koichiro Yoshinaga (1994)

Hiroo Ishii (1994)

Junichi Fukura (1994)

Hiromi Matsunaga (1994)

Tetsuro Hirose (1994)

Kevin Reimer (1994)

Makoto Sasaki (1994-95, 1997)

Ralph Bryant (1994)

Kimiyasu Kudoh (1994-95)

Tsutomu Itoh (1994-95, 1997-98)

Kazuhiro Kiyohara (1994)

Hatsuhiko Tsuji (1994-95)

Koji Akiyama (1994, 1996, 1999)

Makoto Shimada (1994)

Satoshi Nakajima (1995)

Julio Franco (1995, 1998)

Hiroki Kokubo (1995, 1997)

Kiyoshi Hatsushiba (1995)

Yukio Tanaka (1995-96)

Darrin Jackson (1995)

Troy Neel (1995-96)

Toshifumi Baba (1995)

So Taguchi (1995-97, 2000)

John Hillman (1996)

Koichiro Yoshinaga (1996)

Atsushi Kataoka (1996-98)

Koichi Oshima (1996-97, 2000)

Norihiro Nakamura (1996, 1999-2000)

Arihito Muramatsu (1996)

Yukihiro Ishizaki (1996)

Makoto Takada (1996)

Fumiya Nishiguchi (1997-98)

Phil Clark (1997-99)

Ken Suzuki (1997)

Kazuo Matsui (1997-2000)

Karl Rhodes (1997, 1999)

Domingo Martinez (1997)

Taisei Takagi (1997-98)

Tatsuya Ide (1997)

Naoyuki Omura (1998)

Hiroshi Shibahara (1998, 2000)

Nigel Wilson (1998, 2000)

Makoto Kaneko (1998-99)

Susumu Otomo (1998-99)

Daisuke Matsuzaka (1999-2000)

Kenji Johjima (1999-2000)

Michihiro Ogasawara (1999-2000)

Yoshitomo Tani (1999)

Makoto Kosaka (1999-2000)

Nobuhiko Matsunaka (2000)

Sherman Obando (2000)

MLB All-Stars

Alex Rodriguez (2001-08, 2010)

Manny Ramirez (2001-08)

Bret Boone (2001, 2003)

Juan Gonzalez (2001)

John Olerud (2001)

Edgar Martinez (2001, 2003)

Cal Ripken; Jr. (2001)

Ivan Rodriguez (2001, 2004-07)

Roger Clemens (2001, 2003)

Magglio Ordonez (2001-03, 2006-07)

Derek Jeter (2001-02, 2004, 2006-10)

Johnny Damon (2002, 2005)

Jim Thome (2002, 2006)

Eric Chavez (2002)

Darin Erstad (2002)

Derek Lowe (2002)

Jorge Posada (2002-03, 2007)

Jason Giambi (2002-04)

Alfonso Soriano (2002-05)

Shea Hillenbrand (2002, 2005)

Torii Hunter (2002, 2007, 2010)

Mark Buehrle (2002, 2005-06, 2009)

Roy Halladay (2002-03, 2005-06, 2008-09)

Pedro Martinez (2002, 2005)

Freddy Garcia (2002)

Eddie Guardado (2002-03)

Mariano Rivera (2002, 2004-06, 2008-09)

Sasaki Kazuhiro (2002)

Ugueth Urbina (2002)

Barry Zito (2002-03, 2006)

A.J. Pierzynski (2002, 2006)

Paul Konerko (2002, 2005-06, 2010)

Mike Sweeney (2002-03, 2005)

Tony Batista (2002)

Robin Ventura (2002)

Nomar Garciaparra (2002-03)

Miguel Tejada (2002)

Omar Vizquel (2002)

Garret Anderson (2002-03, 2005)

Robert Fick (2002)

Dwight Wynn (2002)

Esteban Loaiza (2003-04)

Carlos Delgado (2003)

Troy Glaus (2003, 2006)

Hideki Matsui (2003-04)

Lance Carter (2003)

Brendan Donnelly (2003)

Keith Foulke (2003)

Shigetoshi Hasegawa (2003)

Robert MacDougal (2003)

Jamie Moyer (2003-04)

Mark Mulder (2003)

C.C. Sabathia; Jr. (2003-04, 2007)

Ramon Hernandez (2003)

Jason Varitek (2003, 2005, 2008)

Hank Blalock (2003-04)

Melvin Mora (2003, 2005)

Vernon Wells III (2003, 2006, 2010)

Carl Everett III (2003)

Dmitri Young (2003)

Vladimir Guerrero (2004-07, 2010)

Francisco Cordero (2004)

Tom Gordon (2004)

Tim Hudson (2004)

Ted Lilly III (2004)

Joe Nathan (2004-05, 2008-09)

Francisco Rodriguez (2004, 2007-08)

Kenny Rogers (2004-05)

Curt Schilling (2004)

Javier Vazquez (2004)

Jake Westbrook (2004)

Victor Martinez (2004, 2007, 2009)

Ken Harvey (2004)

David Ortiz (2004-08, 2010)

Ronnie Belliard (2004)

Carlos Guillen (2004, 2007-08)

Miguel Tejada (2004-06)

Michael Young (2004-09)

Carl Crawford (2004, 2007, 2009-10)

Matt Lawton; Jr. (2004)

Gary Sheffield (2004-05)

Mark Teixeira (2005, 2009)

Brian Roberts (2005, 2007)

Danys Baez (2005)

Matt Clement (2005)

Bartolo Colon (2005)

Justin Duchscherer (2005, 2008)

Jon Garland (2005)

B.J. Ryan (2005-06)

Johan Santana (2005-07)

Bob Wickman (2005)

Scott Podsednik (2005)

Mark Loretta (2006)

Jose Contreras (2006)

Bobby Jenks (2006)

Scott Kazmir (2006, 2008)

Francisco Liriano (2006)

Jonathan Papelbon (2006-09)

Mark Redman (2006)

Joe Mauer (2006, 2008-10)

Robinson Cano (2006, 2010)

Jose Lopez (2006)

Jermaine Dye (2006)

Gary Matthews; Jr. (2006)

Alex Rios (2006-07)

Grady Sizemore (2006-08)

Placido Polanco (2006)

Josh Beckett (2007)

Dan Haren (2007)

Bobby Jenks (2007)

John Lackey (2007)

Gil Meche (2007)

Hideki Okajima (2007)

J.J. Putz (2007)

Justin Verlander (2007, 2010)

Justin Morneau (2007-09)

Mike Lowell (2007)

Kevin Youkilis (2008-09)

Dustin Pedroia (2008-09)

Josh Hamilton (2008-10)

Cliff Lee (2008, 2010)

Ervin Santana (2008)

Joe Saunders (2008)

George Sherrill (2008)

Joakim Soria (2008, 2010)

Dioner Navarro (2008)

Ian Kinsler (2008, 2010)

Joe Crede (2008)

Evan Longoria (2008-10)

J.D. Drew (2008)

Carlos Quentin (2008)

Milton Bradley; Jr. (2008)

Jason Bay (2009)

Zack Greinke (2009)

Felix Hernandez (2009)

Edwin Jackson (2009)

Aaron Hill (2009)

Ben Zobrist (2009)

Brandon Inge (2009)

Jason Bartlett (2009)

Curtis Granderson; Jr. (2009)

Adam Jones (2009)

Andrew Bailey (2010)

Clay Buchholz (2010)

Trevor Cahill (2010)

Roberto Hernandez (2010)

Neftali Feliz (2010)

Phil Hughes (2010)

Jon Lester (2010)

Andy Pettitte (2010)

David Price (2010)

Rafael Soriano (2010)

Matt Thornton (2010)

Jose Valverde (2010)

John Buck (2010)

Miguel Cabrera (2010)

Ty Wigginton (2010)

Adrian Beltre (2010)

Elvis Andrus (2010)

Jose Bautista (2010)

Nick Swisher (2010)

Team Japan

Shimizu Naoyuki (2006)

Fujita Soichi (2006)

Tomoyuki Kubota (2006)

Daisuke Matsuzaka (2006, 2009)

Koji Uehara (2006)

Yabuta Yasuhiko (2006)

Wada Tsuyoshi (2006)

Fujikawa Kyuji (2006, 2009)

Watanabe Shunsuke (2006, 2009)

Otsuka Akinori (2006)

Kobayashi Hiroyuki (2006)

Sugiuchi Toshiya (2006, 2009)

Hirotoshi Ishii (2006)

Mahara Takahiro (2006, 2009)

Satozaki Tomoya (2006)

Motonobu Tanishige (2006)

Aikawa Ryoji (2006)

Iwamura Akinori (2006, 2009)

Michihiro Ogasawara (2006, 2009)

Matsunaka Nobuhiko (2006)

Nishioka Tsuyoshi (2006)

Imae Toshiaki (2006)

Miyamoto Shin’ya (2006)

Takahiro Arai (2006)

Kawasaki Munenori (2006, 2009)

Wada Kazuhiro (2006)

Hitoshi Tamura (2006)

Tatsuhiko Kinjoh (2006)

Fukudome Kosuke (2006, 2009)

Aoki Norichika (2006, 2009)

Yu Darvish (2009)

Iwakuma Hisashi (2009)

Minoru Iwata (2009)

Komatsu Satoshi (2009)

Masahiro Tanaka (2009)

Utsumi Tetsuya (2009)

Wakui Hideaki (2009)

Yamaguchi Tetsuya (2009)

Abe Shinnosuke (2009)

Yoshiyuki Ishihara (2009)

Johjima Kenji (2009)

Kataoka Yasuyuki (2009)

Kurihara Kenta (2009)

Murata Shuichi (2009)

Nakajima Hiroyuki (2009)

Atsunori Inaba (2009)

Kamei Yoshiyuki (2009)

Seiichi Uchikawa (2009)

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

What other fandoms are you familiar enough with to use as an AU prompt? Pokemon Trainer AU? Homestuck AU (they'd still probably die but at least there are lots of ways to come back to life)?

I’m not that familiar with Homestuck, definitely not enough to do an AU.  I read the novelizations of the Pokemon show as a kid but never saw the show or played any of the video games.  I did play the super-obscure Pokemon board game, but most of my trading cards were printed in Japanese (I had a strange childhood), so my experience there is, uh, probably not quite overlapping with everyone else’s.

Anyway, if you want list of all my fandoms… Boy howdy.  I don’t think I can come up with them all.  However, I can list everything that comes to mind between now and ~20 minutes from now when I have to end my procrastination break and go back to dissertating.  So here it is, below the cut:

Okay, there is no way in hell I’ll be able to make an exhaustive list.  But off the top of my head, the fandoms I’m most familiar/comfortable with are as follows:

Authors (as in, I’ve read all or most of their books)

Patricia Briggs

Megan Whalen Turner

Michael Crichton

Marge Piercy

Stephenie Meyer

Dean Koontz

Stephen King

Neil Gaiman

K.A. Applegate

Ernest Hemingway

Tamora Pierce

Roald Dahl

Short Stories/Anthologies

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

Dubliners, James Joyce

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Who Goes There? John W. Campbell

The Man Who Bridged the Mist, Kij Johnson

Flatland, Edwin Abbott

I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison

To Build a Fire, Jack London

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bier

At the Mountains of Madness/Cthulu mythos, H.P. Lovecraft

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Close Range: Wyoming Stories, E. Annie Proulx

The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

Bartleby the Scrivener (and a bunch of others), Herman Melville

Books (Classics)

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Secret Annex, Anne Frank

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

The Stranger, Albert Camus

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Atonement, Ian McEwan

1984, George Orwell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

The Iliad/The Odyssey, Homer

Metamorphoses, Ovid

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne

The Time-Machine, H.G. Wells

The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, MacBeth, Othello, and The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Thomas Stoppard

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett

Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

Books (YA SF)

Young Wizards series, Diane Duane

Redwall, Brian Jaques

The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis

Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix

The Giver series, Lois Lowry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Uglies series, Scott Westerfeld

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

Song of the Lioness, Tamora Pierce

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

Unwind, Neal Shusterman

The Maze Runner series, James Dashner

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Patricia C. Wrede

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Coraline, Neil Gaiman

Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Poppy series, Avi

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Tithe, Holly Black

Life as We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

Haunted, Gregory Maguire

Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

East, Edith Pattou

Z for Zachariah, Robert C. O’Brien

The Looking-Glass Wars, Frank Beddor

The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

The Landry News, Andrew Clements

Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson

Bloody Jack, L.A. Meyer

The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Certain Slant of Light, Laura Whitcomb

Generation Dead, Daniel Waters

Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale

Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel

Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Define Normal, Julie Anne Peters

Hawksong, Ameila Atwater Rhodes

Heir Apparent, Vivian Vande Velde

Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Keys to the Kingdom series, Garth Nix

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

The Seer and the Sword, Victoria Hanley

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Daughters of the Moon series, Lynne Ewing

The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman

Island of the Aunts, Eva Ibbotson

The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer

A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray

A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, John Bellairs

The Edge Chronicles, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Hope was Here, Joan Bauer

Bunnicula, James Howe

Wise Child, Monica Furlong

Silent to the Bone, E.L. Konigsburg

The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pene du Bois

Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters, Gail Giles

The Supernaturalist, Eoin Colfer

Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie Faria Stolarz

Mystery of the Blue Gowned Ghost, Linda Wirkner

Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn

I was a Teenage Fairy, Francesca Lia Block

City of the Beasts series, Isabelle Allende

Summerland, Michael Chabon

The Geography Club, Brent Hartinger

The Last Safe Place on Earth, Richard Peck

Liar, Justine Larbalestier

The Doll People, Ann M. Martin

The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron

Matilda Bone, Karen Cushman

Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger

The Tiger Rising, Kate DiCamillo

The Spiderwick Chronicles, Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

My Teacher is an Alien, Bruce Coville

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, Julie Andrews Edwards

Storytime, Edward Bloor

Magic Shop series, Bruce Coville

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket

Veritas Project series, Frank Peretti

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

Raven’s Strike, Patricia Briggs

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy, Gregory Maguire

The Wind Singer, William Nicholson

Sweetblood, Pete Hautman

The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

Half Magic, Edward Eager

A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle

The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan

Maximum Ride series, James Patterson

The Edge on the Sword, Rebecca Tingle

World War Z, Max Brooks

Adaline Falling Star, Mary Pope Osborne

Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi

Parable of the Sower series, Octavia Butler

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Neuomancer, William Gibson

Dune, Frank Herbert

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Emily M. Danforth

The Martian, Andy Weir

Skeleton Man, Joseph Bruchac

Comics/Manga

Marvel 616 (most of the major titles)

Marvel 1610/Ultimates

Persepolis

This One Summer

Nimona

Death Note

Ouran High School Host Club

Vampire Knight

Emily Carroll comics

Watchmen

Fun Home

From Hell

American Born Chinese

Smile

The Eternal Smile

The Sandman

Calvin and Hobbes

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

TV Shows

Fullmetal Alchemist

Avatar the Last Airbender

Teen Titans (2003)

Luke Cage/Jessica Jones/Iron Fist/Defenders/Daredevil/The Punisher

Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter

Supernatural

Sherlock

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Firefly

American Horror Story

Ouran High School Host Club

Orange is the New Black

Black Sails

Stranger Things

Westworld

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Movies

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jurassic Park/Lost World/Jurassic World/Lost Park?

The Breakfast Club

Cloverfield/10 Cloverfield Lane/The Cloverfield Paradox

Attack the Block

The Prestige

Moon

Ferris Bueler’s Day Off

Django Unchained/Kill Bill/Inglourious Basterds/Hateful 8/Pulp Fiction/etcetera

Primer

THX 1138/Akira/How I Live Now/Lost World/[anything I’ve named a fic after]

Star Wars

The Meg

A Quiet Place

Baby Driver

Mother!

Alien/Aliens/Prometheus

X-Men (et al.)

10 Things I Hate About You

The Lost Boys

Teen Wolf

Juno

Pirates of the Caribbean (et al.)

Die Hard

Most Disney classics: Toy Story, Mulan, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s New Groove, etc.

Most Pixar classics: Up, Wall-E, The Incredibles

The Matrix

Dark Knight trilogy

Halloween

Friday the 13th

A Nightmare on Elm Street

The Descent

Ghostbusters

Ocean’s Eight/11/12/13

King Kong

The Conjuring

Fantastic Four

Minority Report/Blade Runner/Adjustment Bureau/Total Recall

Fight Club

Spirited Away

O

Disturbing Behavior

The Faculty

Poets

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marge Piercy

Thomas Hardy

Sigfried Sassoon

W. B. Yeats

Edgar Allan Poe

Ogden Nash

Margaret Atwood

Maya Angelou

Emily Dickinson

Matthew Dickman

Karen Skolfield

Kwame Alexander

Ellen Hopkins

Shel Silverstein

Musicals/Stage Plays

Les Miserables

Repo: The Genetic Opera

The Lion King

The Phantom of the Opera

Rent

The Prince of Egypt

Pippin

Into the Woods

A Chorus Line

Hairspray

Evita

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Fiddler on the Roof

Annie

Fun Home

Spring Awakening

Chicago

Cabaret

The Miser

The Importance of Being Earnest

South Pacific

Godspell

Wicked

The Wiz

The Wizard of Oz

Man of La Mancha

The Sound of Music

West Side Story

Matilda

Sweeney Todd

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Nunsense

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown/Snoopy

1776

Something Rotten

A Very Potter Musical

Babes in Toyland

Carrie: The Musical

Amadeus

Annie Get Your Gun

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Final Battle

Rock of Ages

Cinderella

Moulin Rouge

Honk

Labyrinth

The Secret Garden

Reefer Madness

Bang Bang You’re Dead

NSFW

War Horse

Peter Pan

Suessical

Sister Act

The Secret Annex

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Disclaimer 1: Like a lot of people who went to high school in the American South, my education in literature is pretty shamefully lacking in a lot of areas.  (As in, during our African American History unit in ninth grade we read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn… and that was it.  As in, our twelfth-grade US History class, I shit you not, covered Gone With the Wind.)  There were a lot of good teachers in with the *ahem* Less Woke ones (how I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye) and college definitely set me on the path to trying to find books written/published outside the WASP-ier parts of the U.S., but the overall list is still embarrassingly hegemonic.

Disclaimer 2: There are a crapton of errors — typos, misspelled names, misattributions, questionable genre classifications, etc. — in here.  If you genuinely have no idea what a title is supposed to be, ask me.  Otherwise, please don’t bother letting me know about my mistakes.

Disclaimer 3: I am not looking for recommendations.  My Goodreads “To Read” list is already a good 700 items long, and people telling me “if you like X, then you’ll love Y!” genuinely stresses me the fuck out.

Disclaimer 4: There are no unproblematic faves on this list.  I love Supernatural, and I know that Supernatural is hella misogynistic.  On the flip side: I don’t love The Lord of the Rings at all, partially because LOTR is hella misogynistic, but I also don’t think that should stop anyone else from loving LOTR if they’re willing to love it and also acknowledge its flaws. 

[randomlyrandoms]

Celebrity Deaths 2018

JANUARY Jon Paul Steuer - Jan. 1 (TV Actor) Robert Mann - Jan. 1 (Violinist) Rick Hall - Jan. 2 (Music Producer) Thomas Monson - Jan. 2 (Religous Leader) Bruce Halle - Jan. 4 (Entrepreneur) John Young - Jan. 5 (Astronaut) Jerry Van Dyke - Jan. 5 (TV Show)  *Dick Van Dyke's Brother* Donnelly Rhodes - Jan. 8 (TV Actor) Doreen Tracey - Jan. 10 (TV Actor) Eddie Clarke - Jan. 10 (Guitarist) Jessica Falkholt - Jan. 11 (TV Actress) Keith Jackson - Jan. 12 (Sportscaster) Bobby Zarin - Jan. 13 (Reality Star) Dolores O'Riordan - Jan. 15 (Rock Singer) Peter Wyngarde - Jan. 15 (TV Actor) Bradford Dillman - Jan. 16 (Movie Actor) Jo Jo White - Jan. 16 (Basketball Player) Jessica Falkholt - Jan. 17 (TV Actress) Dorothy Malone - Jan. 19 (Movie Actress) Fredo Santana - Jan. 19 (Rapper) Olivia Cole - Jan. 19 (TV Actress) Dorothy Malone - Jan. 19 (Movie Actress) Paul Bocuse - Jan. 20 (Chef) Jim Rodford - Jan. 20 (Musician) Bob Smith - Jan. 20 (Activist) Connie Sawyer - Jan. 21 (TV Actress) Ursula K. Leguin - Jan. 22 (Children's Author) Hugh Masekela - Jan. 23 (Composer) Joel Taylor - Jan. 23 (Meteorologist) Nicanor Parra - Jan. 23 (Poet) Lari White - Jan. 23 (Country Singer) Mark E. Smith - Jan. 24 (Punk Singer) Warren Miller - Jan. 24 (Director) Ingvar Kamprad - Jan. 27 (Entrepreneur) **Mark Salling - Jan. 30 (TV Actor) Louis Zorich - Jan. 30 (TV Actor) Ann Gillis - Jan. 31 (Movie Actress) Rasual Butler - Jan. 31 (Basketball Player) Leah LaBelle - Jan. 31 (Pop Singer)

FEBRUAY Dennis Edwards - Feb. 1 (Rock Singer) John Mahoney - Feb. 4 (TV Actor) Khalif Smith - Feb. 5 (Youtuber Star) Mickey Jones - Feb. 7 (TV Actor) Ebony Reigns - Feb. 8 (Reggae Singer) John Gavin - Feb. 9 (Movie Actor) Reg E. Cathey - Feb. 9 (TV Actor) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Feb. 9 (Composer) Vic Damone - Feb. 11 (Pop Singer) Jan Maxwell - Feb. 11 (TV Actress) Daryle Singletary - Feb. 12 (Country Singer) Marty Allen - Feb. 12 (Comedian) Morgan Tsvangirai - Feb. 14 (Politician) Billy Graham - Feb. 21 (Religious Leader) Emma Chambers - Feb. 21 (TV Actress) Nanette Fabray - Feb. 22 (TV Actress) Ensa Cosby - Feb. 23 (Family Member) *Bill Cosby's Daugher* Bud Luckey - Feb. 24 (Cartoonist) Sridevi Kapoor - Feb. 24 (Movie Actress) Rogelio Guerra - Feb. 28 (Soap Opera Actor)

MARCH David Ogden Stiers- March 3 (TV Actor) Roger Bannister - March 3 (Runner) Hubert de Givenchy - March 10 (Fashion Designer) Ken Dodd - March 11 (Comedian) Craig Mack - March 12 (Rapper) Nokie Edwards - March 12 (Guitarist) Stephen Hawking - March 14 (Physicist) Jim Bowen - March 14 (Game Show Host) Ed Charles - March 15 (Baseball Player)   Tom Benson - March 15 (Entrepreneur) Tripp Halstead -March 15 (Blogger) Dushon Monique Brown - March 13 (TV Actress) Mike MacDonald - March 17 (Comedian) Charles Lazarus - March 22 (Entrepreneur) Fergus Anckorn - March 22 (War Hero) Morgana King - March 22 - (Movie Actress) Dushon Monique Brown - March 23 (TV Actress) Stéphane Audran - March 27 (Movie Actress) Rusty Staub - March 29 (Baseball Player) Bill Maynard - March 30 (Comedian)

APRIL Steven Bochco - April 1 (TV Producer) Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - April 2 (Politician) Susan Anspach - April 2 (Movie Actress) Ray Wilkins - April 4 (Soccer Coach) Eric Bristow - April 5 (Darts Player) Tim O'Connor - April 5 (TV Actor) Cecil Taylor - April 5 (Pianist) Jonathan Pitre - April 6 (Activist) Chuck McCann - April 8 (TV Actor) Art Bell - April 13 (Radio Host) R. Lee Ermey - April 15 (TV Actor) Pamela Gidley - April 16 (Movie Actress) Hal Greer - April 16 (Basketball Player) Harry Anderson - April 16 (TV Actor) Barbara Bush - April 17 (Political Wife) Dale Winton - April 18 (TV Show Host) Avicii - April 20 (DJ) **Verne Troyer - April 21 (Movie Actor) Bob Dorough - April 23 (Jazz Singer) Johnny Bennett - April 25 (TV Show Host) Kristin Nelson - April 27 (TV Actress) Judith Leiber - April 28 (Fashion Designer) Lil Lonnie - April 29 (Rapper) Robert Mandan - April 29 (Soap Opera Actor)

MAY Scott Hutchison - May 10 (Guitarist) Hubert de Givenchy - May 10 (Fashion Designer) Margot Kidder - May 13 (Movie Actress) Doug Ford - May 14 (Golfer) Tom Wolfe - May 14 (Journalist) Hugh Dane - May 16 (TV Actor) Joseph Campanella - May 16 (TV Actor) Young King Dave - May 17 (Instagram Star) Stephanie Adams - May 18 (Model) Robert Indiana - May 19 (Pop Artist) Clint Walker - May 21 (Movie Actor) Nara Almeida - Nay 21 (Fashion Designer) Allyn Ann McLerie - May 21 (Dancer) Philip Roth - May 22 (Novelist) Elizabeth Sung - May 22 (TV Actress) John Bain - May 24 (Youtube Star) Blake Painter - May 24 (Reality Star) Jerry Maren - May 24 (Movie Actor) Blake Painter - May 25 (Reality Star) Cornelia Frances - May 28 (TV Actress)

JUNE Sophia Gall - June 1 (Instagram Star) Georgann Johnson - June 4 (TV Actress) Dwight Clark - June 4 (Football Player) **Kate Spade - June 5 (Fashion Designer) Alan O'Neill - June 6 (TV Actor) Peter Stringfellow - June 7 (Entrepreneur) Anthony Bourdain - June 8 (Chef) Jackson Odell - June 8 (Movie Actor) Eunice Gayson - June 8 (Movie Actress) Neal Boyd - June 10 (Opera Singer) D.J. Fontana - June 13 (Drummer) Matt Murphy - June 15 (Guitarist) Leslie Grantham - June 15 (Soap Opera Actor) Xxxtentacion - June 18 (Rapper) Big Van Vader - June 18 (Wrestler)   Sophie Gradon - June 20 (Reality Star) Charles Krauthammer - June 21 (Journalist) Vinnie Paul - June 22 (Drummer) The Random Toon Show - June 24 (Youtube Star) Richard Harrison - June 25 (Reality Star) Harlan Ellison - June 27 (Novelist) Steve Soto - June 27 (Musician) **Joe Jackson - June 27 (Talent Manager) *Michael Jackson's Father* Emily Hayward - June 28 (Youtube Star) Derrick O'Connor - June 29 (Theatre Actor) Steve Ditko - June 29 (Cartoonist) Smoke Dawg - June 30 (Rapper)

JULY Alan Longmuir - July 2 (Bassist) Richard Swift - July 3 (Music Producer) Ed Schultz - July 5 (Radio Host) Claude Lanzmann - July 5 (Director) Alan Longmuir - July 7 (Bassist) Tab Hunter - July 8 (Movie Actor) Jorge Valenzuela - July 8 (World Music Singer) Annabelle Neilson - July 12 (Reality Star) Roger Perry - July 12 (TV Actor) Ray Emery - July 15 (Hockey Player) Jon Schnepp - July 19 (Director) Elmarie Wendel - July 21 (TV Actress) Oliver Dragojevic - July 28 (Rock Singer) Arielis Paulino - July 29 (TikTok Star) Nikolai Volkoff - July 29 (Wrestler)

AUGUST Rick Genest - August 1 (Tattoo Artist) C. Struggs - August 3 (Rapper) *Charlotte Rae - August 5 (TV Actress) Barry Chuckle - August 5 (Comedian) Stan Mikita - August 7 (Hockey Player) Jill Janus - August 14 (Metal Singer) **Aretha Franklin - August 16 (Soul Singer) Atal Bihari Vajpayee - August 16 (Politician) Kofi Annan - August 18 (Politician) Craig Zadan - August 20 (Film Producer) **Stefan Karl Stefansson - August 21 (TV Actor) Barbara Harris - August 21 (Movie Actress) Ed King - August 22 (Rock Singer) Robin Leach - August 24 (TV Show Host) John McCain - August 25 (Politician) Neil Simon - August 26 (Playwright) Vanessa Marquez - August 30 (TV Actress)

SEPTEMBER Bill Daily - Sept. 4 (TV Actor) Burt Reynolds - Sept. 6 (Movie Actor) **Mac Miller - Sept. 7 (Rapper) Kim Porter - Sept. 11 (Movie Actress) Rachid Taha - Sept. 12 (Rock Singer) Marin Mazzie - Sept. 13 (Stage Actress) Denis Norden - Sept. 19 (Radio Host) Al Matthews - Sept. 22 (Movie Actor) Chas Hodges - Sept. 22 (Rock Singer) Gary Kurtz - Sept. 23 (Film Producer) PeeWeeToms - Sept. 28 (Youtube Star) Kim Larsen - Sept. 30 (Rock Singer)

OCTOBER Charles Aznavour - Oct. 1 (Pop Singer) Geoff Emerick - Oct. 2 (Sound Desinger) Will Vinton - Oct. 4 (Film Producer) Audrey Wells - Oct. 4 (Screen Writer) Hamiet Bluiett - Oct. 4 (Saxophonist) **Scott Wilson - Oct. 6 (Movie Actor) Peggy McCay - Oct. 7 (Soap Opera Actress) Paul Allen - Oct. 15 (Entrepreneur) Dennis Hof - Oct. 16 (Entrepreneur) Oli Herbert - Oct. 17 (Guitarist) James Karen - Oct. 23 (Movie Actor) Ntozake Shange - Oct. 27 (Poet) James Karen - Oct. 28 (Movie Actor) Jin Yong - Oct. 30 (Novelist) Willie McCovey - Oct. 31 (Baseball Player)

NOVEMBER Roy Hargrove - Nov. 2 (Trumpet Player) Sondra Locke - Nov. 3 (Movie Actress) **Stan Lee - Nov. 12 (Comic Book Author) David Pearson - Nov. 12 (Race Car Driver) Katherine MacGregor - Nov. 13 (TV Actress) Kim Porter - Nov. 15 (Model) Roy Clark - Nov. 15 (TV Show Host) Devin Lima - Nov. 21 (Pop Singer) Nicolas Roeg - Nov. 23 (Director) Ricky Jay - Nov. 24 (TV Actor) Stephen Hillenburg - Nov. 26 (Director) Bernardo Bertolucci - Nov. 26 (Director) *George H.W. Bush - Nov. 30 (US President)

DECEMBER Ken Berry - Dec. 1 (TV Actor) Geoff Murphy - Dec. 3 (Director) Philip Bosco - Dec. 3 (Stage Actor) Pete Shelley - Dec. 6 (Punk Singer) Nancy Wilson - Dec. 13 (Jazz Singer) **Penny Marshall - Dec. 17 (Director) Donald Moffat - Dec. 20 (Movie Actor)

[bongaboi]

Auburn: 2018 Music City Bowl Champions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jarrett Stidham threw for 373 yards and five touchdowns in his final college game, and Auburn routed Purdue 63-14 in the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl on Friday.

Auburn raced out to a 56-7 halftime lead, scoring TDs on its first eight possessions -- spanning only 11 minutes -- to set a record for points in any half of any bowl game, according to ESPN Stats & Information.

The Tigers also tied Music City Bowl records for most points and TDs -- set by West Virginia in 2000 -- with 5:36 left in the first half.

The 56 points by halftime were the most scored in any half in program history.

Auburn (8-5) rolled in the finale of a season in which it opened with a top-10 ranking, stumbled a bit in the middle and concluded with a record-setting performance. It was the Tigers' first postseason victory since beating Memphis in the 2015 Birmingham Bowl.

Auburn scored the most points by a Southeastern Conference team in a bowl, topping Alabama's 61-6 win over Syracuse in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 1953. The Tigers had a chance to match the most points ever scored in a bowl (70), most recently reached by Army in the Armed Forces Bowl last week, but they took a knee at the Purdue 1-yard line with 61 seconds left.

"We've had some ups and downs this year,'' Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said, crediting his seniors for keeping the Tigers together. "This was a big win for us.''

Stidham, a junior who already has declared his intention to leave school early for the NFL draft, got the Tigers off to a fast start, and they just poured it on from there.

"We just tried to make those explosive plays that we've needed all year,'' Stidham said.

Purdue (6-7) dropped three of its last four games in its second season under coach Jeff Brohm.

"That one snowballed faster than most,'' Brohm said. "I've been part of games that were a bad outcome, but that one happened fast. Credit to them, they made their breaks. Every little thing that went wrong seemed like it could. We got behind the eight-ball early.''

Auburn started the game with the ball and needed only 63 seconds to set the tone, with Stidham finding JaTarvious Whitlow for a 66-yard TD pass. Whitlow also added a pair of short TD runs as Auburn led 28-7 at the end of the first quarter.

"I mean, it was a thing of beauty to watch from the sideline to watch the guys make plays,'' Malzahn said. "When we make explosive plays and we play fast, we're a pretty good offense, and today it all came together. I really believe that will carry over to next season.''

The Tigers outgained Purdue 586-263 in total offense and had only one three-and-out late in the third quarter. Purdue was intercepted twice and turned it over on downs twice. Auburn punted once all game.

Darius Slayton set a bowl record with three TD catches of 74, 52 and 34 yards. Javaris Davis had a sack and an interception in the first quarter for Auburn, and Big Kat Bryant returned an interception 20 yards for a TD and a 45-7 lead with 12:29 left in the first half.

THE TAKEAWAY

Purdue: With defensive tackle Lorenzo Neal out after tearing an ACL in the regular-season finale against Indiana, the Boilermakers had few answers for anything Auburn tried on offense.

Auburn: It sure looks as if coach Malzahn made the right decision when he took back the playcalling duties he handled his first three seasons at Auburn.

UP NEXT

Purdue: Brohm has a handful of key seniors to replace, including quarterback David Blough and his top two running backs in D.J. Knox and Markell Jones.

Auburn: The search for Stidham's replacement begins with sophomore Malik Willis getting the first look once Malzahn finally pulled his starting quarterback with 1:33 left. Joey Gatewood also played late in the game, driving the Tigers to the 1 before taking a knee.

[writingonjorvik]

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this but the way you responded to the fictional writing ask was very rude. There’s answering a question and then there’s adding extraneous and rude nonsense. Also, cursing and using profane words is poor writing.

Yo, it’s cool that you have an opinion and all, but fuck you. Calling people out on bullshit behavior like asking for free commissions isn’t rude. Whether it was the intent or not, that’s how it came off from multiple anons that came in around the period asking for free commissions that were not published and so I called it out. I’m not going to tolerate bad behavior for the sake of other people feeling comfortable. If I see bullshit behavior in my inbox, I will call out bullshit behavior.

Also, if cursing is bad writing, you want to go talk to these folks:

J.K. Rowling

Stephen King

Douglas Adams

Orson Scott Card

Jenna Moreci

Mark Twain

William Shakespeare

Oscar Wilde

Ernest Hemmingway

John Steinbeck

Margret Atwood

G.R.R. Martin

F. Scott Fitzgerald

J.D. Salinger

Harper Lee

Alice Walker

Toni Morrison

William Golding

George Orwell

Joseph Heller

Aldous Huxley

William Faulkner

Zora Neale Hurston

Ralph Ellison

Margret Mitchell (”Frankly dear, I don’t give a damn!”)

Richard Wright

Ken Kesey

Kurt Vonnegut

John Green

Sarah J. Maas

Patrick Rothfuss

Ernest Cline

Neil Gailmen

Ned Vizzini

V.E. Schwab

Guillermo del Toro

Justin Cronin

Jenn Bennett 

Amelia Brunskill 

Jason Segel 

Julie Murphy

M.T. AndersonMichelle KrysBecky AlbertalliJennifer BrownMindy McGinnisLeah KonenKiersten WhiteRachel WardM.J. FieldsRainbow RowellNicole JacquelynJ.M. DarhowerHeather Van FleetLiz ReinhardtTillie ColeApril BrookshireChristina LeeElizabeth FinnMarie HallSarah DaltryJamie McGuireJenika SnowDawn MartensMelody GraceKirsten DeMuzioBella JewelC.J. ScottLynda ChanceAutumn DoughtonJasinda WilderJamie BegleyLynda ChanceJ.L. BergKatie LeeSelene ChardouD.J. PiersonKristen Ashley Shelly Pratt Denise Grover SwankHadley QuinnJen Frederick

But maybe you’d like me to go on? Maybe you’d like some Noble Prize Winners in Literature who’ve had cursing in their writing? How about Pulitzer Prizes? What if we move into other forms of writing, like screenwriting for TV and movies? Maybe you want some community members here who use cursing in their writing that you can go say to their faces that cursing is bad writing? Or maybe you can do the smart thing and not go throwing insults around behind a mask on the internet. That’s my suggestion. It’s generally the smartest and most mature choice.

But please, explain to the professional author with a BA in English more about how literature works. About the evolution of English as a language and the effective use of it. Maybe you have some scholarly discourse you can provide to back up your claims. Maybe you’ve done years of research into the matter, written dozens on college level papers on the subject. I’d love to talk to you more about the levels of evocation found in using profanity, the etymology of curses and their sense of desensitization on modern culture, and the general change from Old English to Post Modern English today and how we communication differently based on our personal experiences and how we feel and express language as individuals, not as a whole. Maybe you’d like to avoid cursing because you want to create a wider vocabulary, but maybe then also I choose to curse as a legal adult because I find the word fuck to just have the right cadence and impact on using it and I feel confident enough in my ability to express myself that I don’t need the approval of shitty anons to tell me I should or shouldn’t curse. I can make that choice as an adult.

Or maybe you have an opinion. And where you are entitled it it, I am also entitled to mine. If you don’t like how I handle it, you can leave. And if you choose not to leave, then there’s this awesome feature I really love called the block function which helps me help you do it anyway.

Don’t be a fucking coward and insult me on anon. If you’re going to criticize me, do it to my fucking face like an adult and not behind a mask. I’d rather be a bad writer than have shitty character. 

[niallodonohoe]

C's Recap - Dinger from De Los Santos, Solid Pitching by Van Eyk + Eisert Help Canadians Assert Themselves in 2nd Straight Win over Spokane

C's Recap - Dinger from De Los Santos, Solid Pitching by Van Eyk + Eisert Help #VanCanadians Assert Themselves in 2nd Straight Win over Spokane. #MontysMounties #WeAreBlueJays

The Vancouver Canadians are over the .500 mark for the first time in three years thanks to a 3-2 victory over the Spokane Indians at Ron Tonkin Field Thursday. Spokane scored the game’s first run in the fourth inning when Brenton Doyle took Canadians right-hander C.J. Van Eyk deep to center field on the first pitch of the frame. The Canadians responded in the sixth against Spokane reliever…