#Hacienda Club

[theaskew]

[lavampira]

ngl storygraph buddy reads are so fun, the discussion thread within it is such a cool feature (especially marking comments by page/percentage and that it hides them if not at that point yet) and I love seeing the meters where everyone is at in a book too

[parure-d-insomnie]

Club L' Hacienda, Manchester. 6th July 1988.

(Bez from Happy Mondays 2nd left), ______photo Avalon.

[ahagisborn]

i read so many good books in july, i can’t choose just one

[contraspectacle]

☿ KONTAKT-HI 12.15.23 PLAYLIST

☿ GUEST DJ CARSON GREENWAY

☿ thank you so much for your support — we're gonna be switching up formats pretty frequently to try and bring something new to the town and diversify the genre exposure, but we had a great time and you're definitely gonna be seeing this one again.

☿ please support artists on bandcamp. never have they had to work as hard as they do in current conditions.

☿ substitutions may be made for unavailable tracks/versions in the streaming playlist.

☿ next KONTAKT event TBA — we hope to see you there.

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☿ 10:00PM (NON SERVIAM)

Gina X Performance - Be A Boy

Cerrone - Miss Wagner

Vivien Vee - Higher

Casco - Cybernetic Love

Klapto - Mister Game (Flemming Dalum Remix)

Angela - Fantasy

Eighth Wonder - Cross My Heart (Dance Mix)

Nuovo Testamento - Heartbeat (Curses Remix Edit)

ABC - How To Be A Millionaire

Trans-X - Imagination (Original Album Version)

Chinaski - Blood Patch

Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See (French Extended Mix)

Axodry - You (Beauty & The Beat Mix)

Sacred Skin - Bitter Heart

Pet Shop Boys - I Want A Lover

Yello - Vicious Games (Mark Reeder's Wet & Hard Remix)

Visage - The Anvil (Extended Version)

Tobias Bernstrup - Nylon (Hy-Nrg Mix)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Club 69 Future Anthem Part 1)

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☿ 11:00PM (CARSON GREENWAY)

Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It

Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter (Groovefunkel Deep Shelter Remix)

Hawke - 3 Nudes

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head

The Art of Noise - Catwalk (Ground Mix)

Everything but the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)

Pet Shop Boys - I Want to Wake Up (Johnny Marr 1993 Mix)

808 State, Bjork - Ooops (Eric's Cup of Hysteria Mix)

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Riki Tiki Mix)

Daft Punk - Daftendirekt

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☿ 11:35PM (NON SERVIAM)

Shannon - Do You Wanna Get Away

BPM AM - Come To Me (Vocal Version)

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them For Me (Kathak #1 Mix)

The KLF - Justified & Ancient (Stand By The Jams 12")

Madonna - Into The Groove (Shep Pettibone Edit)

Secession - The Magician

Baby's Gang - Challenger

Modern Rocketry - Deeper N Deeper (Ultimix)

Duran Duran - A View To A Kill

Anne Clark - The Haunted Road

Beyond the Struttosphere - Astral Riders (Rigopolar Remix)

Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On

Bardeux - Hold Me, Hold Me (East LA Club Mix)

Fun Fun - Give Me Your Love (Harris & Hurr Extended Mix)

Madeline Goldstein - One More Day (Some Ember Club Mix)

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Arnaud Rebotini Remix)

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☿ 12:35AM (CARSON GREENWAY)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (808 State Mix)

Leftism - Afro Left

Porn Kings - Up to No Good

The Art of Noise - Dreaming in Colour (Your Dream of Mine)

Soft Cell - Memorabilia 91

Alice Deejay/Quad City DJ's - Slammin' Off Alone (Carson Greenway Mix)

Heaven 17 - We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing (Rapino Club Mix)

Utada Hikaru - Simple and Clean (Planitb Mix)

Madonna - Ray of Light (Victor Calderone Mix)

Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)

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☿ 01:10AM (NON SERVIAM)

Geneva Jacuzzi - Cannibal Babies

Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club Mix)

The KLF - 3AM Eternal

Units - High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix)

Leftfield - Open Up

Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart (Tempo Club Mix)

The Future Sound Of London - Expander (Remix)

Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Original Mix)

Corona - Rhythm Of The Night

Fortran 5 - Heart On The Line (Voodoo Child Mix)

SNAP! - Rhythm is a Dancer

Bananarama - Venus (Marc Almond's Hi-NRG Showgirls Remix)

David Bowie - Hallo Spaceboy (Pet Shop Boys Remix)

JK - You Make Me Feel Good (Hyper Go-Go Remix)

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[hdm206]

https://t.co/4Qz2b6P34W

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Interesting 1998 modern, stylized Hacienda style home in Scottsdale, Arizona. 5bds, 6ba, $5.890M + $286mo. HOA fee. (Why do all these homes in deserts, on mountain tops, and the middle of nowhere have HOAs?) Note: Membership to the Desert Mountain Club is not available with this property. Well, excuuuuse me. This home is not good enough for the Desert Mountain Club?

Now, there's an unusual mantel- I've never seen an accordion style mantle.

I guess when you use the bar, you push it away from the window?

Wow, is this home fancy. An arched nook just for the sideboard and a half wall overlooking the living room in the dining room.

The kitchen has direct access to the terrace. Nice exhaust hood, but the thing I like most is the pop of turquoise.

Cozy family room. Love the ceramic fireplace. What is that wood on the wall? Looks like a built-in cabinet.

The pool room has a stunning fireplace and a view of the fountain on the patio. Look at the high chairs so your opponents can watch your moves.

The movie theater has snack tables, but it needs a fancy snack counter.

Wow, look at the sink in the powder room. This is luxurious. What? No soap holder? How tacky, a bar of soap sitting on the rim.

Primary bedroom has a great mountain view and lovely fireplace.

The en-suite is beautiful, but that tub enclosure is too big. I'd have sit on it and swing around.

The shower has a nice big seat. Good platform for bathing the dog, too.

The closet has a built-in jewelry case the size of a wall.

Imagine relaxing on this terrace.

Cozy, rosy, little den.

Nice shower with a chaise longue.

Secondary bedroom has a window seat with a shell-like molding above the window.

The lower level rec room even has a full kitchen.

Terraced patio has a gorgeous fireplace.

Yikes, the infinity pool makes it look like you can swim right off the mountain.

The property measures 1.74 acres.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11155-E-Honda-Bow-Rd-Scottsdale-AZ-85262/8079385_zpid/

[kerubimcrepin]

Episode 46 - The Hacienda's Fever (Part 1)

AKA Kerubim Crepin's Divorce Ballad

Kerubim and Simone besties moment number 84593845345.

This episode is so meta for making Kerubim fucking hate a breakup song and in response singing an even worse one.

I don't think I need to point out that, very likely, 50-90% of this episode is some shit Kerubim is making up on the fly as he sings to Joris and Simone.

This is less telling of what actually happened at that fucking club, or whether The God Ecaflip Himself was there that night, — and more telling of his divorce issues.

His dance is too well animated. I can't believe I had to rewind to watch it two times (while withstanding the "singing")

And it has to end with this ass shot each time. I can't do this anymore.

It is tempting for me to assume that this episode takes place after Ecaflip city.

The clues for that interpretation being: The lyrics, her hairstyle, and the fact that he keeps apologizing for some betrayal that we never learn about.

This would point to the fact that, perhaps, she regained her memories, and left him, — and then he had to win her heart back, and they got together again (with this being an idealized depiction of what happened), but eventually, it became too much, and she left him for real.

That would mean that their break-up was a long time coming after Ecaflip city, even if they did try to make things work after she regained her memories, and would line up perfectly with the tenets 1, 4, 5, and 6 of divorce theorising.

She left sad, and unlike many other times, without any anger for Kerubim.

She left Luis with him to watch over him.

She also left Luis because he couldn’t go with her, but that could mean many things.

She left after Ecaflip City, obviously, and at that time, their relationship seemed the healthiest. (Well, as healthy as it could be.)

Unlike all the other times, Kerubim didn’t go searching for her. It seems this separation was final in a way no other was, and there had to be a reason that he didn’t go and try to make up. An unsolvable issue.

Both Luis and Kerubim blame Kerubim, and the first one uses this to make the second one angry.

But thinking about this a bit deeper, — it is just as likely, if not more likely, that Kerubim simply goes into a sad-ass vent song on his post-divorce issues in the middle of that story and never gets back on track for the rest of the episode.

He is singing all of this out loud, after all. There isn't as much of an emphasis on accurate storytelling, when all you're thinking about is singing.

The lyrics would... certainly fit that.

Though it could be a combination of both. Perhaps it is after Ecaflip city, — but a lot of lyrics are tinted by his present regrets, with him blaming himself for not saving their relationship somehow.

Perhaps he is envisioning a world where simply singing a Cooler song, all about how sad he is, at Da Club could have fixed everything.

Or maybe I am fucking insane for reading into this.

His poor homeless orphan ass did NOT go to school or wear glasses. He is making SHIT UP for rhyme's sake. I HATE his ass. Anyway, that book in his hands may say "ERER", or "FRFR", or perhaps "RLRL". It's way too small for me to really tell.

It doesn't seem to be "KEKE", at least.

Chances are, Indie, who has known Lou for as long as Kerubim has, is still her friend even after all the romantic tension disappears from between them.

And I think if he knew about Kerubim's fucky wucky in the Ecaflip city, he would not feel kindly about it. It would probably completely undo the friendly rivalry and mutual respect they managed to develop over the years.

Keke is making more shit up, considering this has never happened, but it does tap a little bit into the "he thinks he's entirely to blame, and Lou isn't" thing ("I was so clueless") and "he has self-worth issues" thing ("So afraid they'd like him less").

Yet another clue towards "this episode is a vent for him" theory.

I can't stand him. I can't stand Joris either.

Truly said like a man who developed clinical depression and hoarding tendencies, opened a shop, ruined his shop, and then went to wars for fun after this divorce, before adopting a kid to love him instead.

Men will do anything but go to therapy.

[i-am-vita]

Masterlist

Since I'm planning to do a full Headcanon-verse of fics here, the need has arisen for a list to organize my present and future projects and Oc's. I really need to bring some order here before I start forgetting things.

WELCOME, gentle readers, to my One Piece (mostly live action) musings.

My recs 🤌

The Storyteller Club

Sapsorrow Spinoffs Masterlist

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My art 👩‍🎨

"You have cursed my soul..."

The Bodice Ripper Club

👉 Beckman 👉 Shanks 👉 Mihawk 1 (Sapsorrow fanart) Mihawk 2 Bogard (WIP) Sir Crocodile Buggy (Songbird fanart)

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My writing ✍️

OPLA Headcanons/Fic

👉 Hot Older Guys Headcanons

Mihawk, Kuro, Bogard, Shanks, Buggy x FemOcReader Reader is a semi-retired piratess who went into hiding to protect her little niece and may have history (past and recent) with certain renowned gentlemen.

👉 The OPLA men react to seeing you again pt. 1

Bogard, Mihawk x FemOcReader Reader's journey to find her runaway niece start at Syrup Village following the trail of a certain upcoming pirate crew that just sailed away in a new ship.

The OPLA men react to seeing you again pt. 2 (WIP)

Kuro, Buggy, Shanks x FemOcReader Reader arrives at Conomi Islands and then has to runaway and go on the low.

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👉 The Ghost Rose Masterlist 🌹👻

My Oc bio, headcanons and posts that are not fics.

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Fics and oneshots based on my First Headcanons following my Oc Ghost Rose's past and present life and adventures with certain gentlemen. 😉

Shanks

👉 At the Bathhouse

Shanks x Ghost Rose Oc, Light NSFW "If there was one person in all the Blues that you can always count to somehow be exactly where and when you needed him was Shanks." 11'ish years ago you found herself stranded in a little island with a bathhouse and no signal of your captain or crew through your phone, but there's exactly one person that you can always count to pick you up.

👉 That Last Night

Shanks x Ghost Rose Oc Fic Inspo "Since you met him, Shanks had never kissed you on the lips." You and Shanks had been kind of an unofficial thing for the last two years since you reconnected at the bathhouse. Both of you had always been happy to give each other your friendship and sincere affection while also enjoying your bodies. Until one night, watching you sleep peacefully by his side, he wonders what could be and steals a kiss from you, vowing to confess himself the next day, not knowing that this is the last night he will have with you due to the demise of your family and you going to hide with your niece...

Mihawk

👉 A Diversion Dance (pt. 1)

A Diversion Fight (pt. 2, WIP)

Mihawk x Ghost Rose Oc Fic inspo, Teaser "The probability of a Warlord walking to any ball, specially one in honor of the Marine, was low but never zero." One year ago, the Phantom Pirates infiltrated the Hacienda of a famous Wine Producer during a party to recover and destroy some information. You have to resort to some diversions to maintain certain Warlord from a business meeting at the office being robbed by your crew.

Bogard

👉 A Night at Loguetown

Bogard x Ghost Rose Oc Fic inspo "Because of all the Marine Bases in all the Blues, you stormed into the one he was stationed." 8 years ago you had to go into hidding with your little niece to protect her after the demised of your entire stranded family. During the process to claim her as your ward, you meet again with the man whose hearth you broke along with yours when you ran away from the life your family had decreted for you.

Inspired: Fight for her by @jintaka-hane

After all these years... (WIP)

Bogard x Ghost Rose Oc, mention of past Kuro x Ghost Rose Oc You came back home from a trip that got unexpected shortened to find your niece gone to her friend Kaya's birthday. You arrived to Syrup Village the next day just to discover she had run away with a group of pirate wannabes after defeating your toxic ex Kuro who had been posing as Kaya's Buttler for the last years. You tried to sail after them, but was halt in your intent by a Marine vessel captained by Vice Admiral Garp, and you know where Garp goes, certain former suitor of you follows.

👉 At the Ballroom

Bogard x Ghost Rose Oc x Mihawk, Songfic "You have been invited to a regency era Masquerade Ball: your gown and garb has been dusted off, your hair styled beautifully, masquerade mask attached firmly to your face and you are being led by the hand to the dancefloor. The garden has been littered with tealights illuminating the marble floor. The stars scattered amongst the night sky with their dusted luminance: kissing your cheeks and chin while bouncing off your radiant formalwear."

👉 Someone Who Loves You (pt. 1)

Bogard x Ghost Rose Oc, NSFW Fic Inspo Bogard is there to retrieve intel from The Contact, Garp’s main secret informant. Their exchanges always go swiftly... until they don't and Bogard finds himself running through the night with a mysterious woman, ailed by an enemy serum with unexpected effects

Misc.

👉 Mihawk x Ghost Rose x Bogard Idea

👉 The Next Morning (drabble)

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Benn Beckman

👉 Beckman at the Bathhouse

Benn Beckman x FemReader, Light NSFW Beck gets some well deserved attention at the bathhouse ;)

👉 The Passenger (WIP)

Benn Beckman x FemReader, Light NSFW "She needed a safe passage to a new life, but her journey ignited unexpected passion..." Yes, the Beckman Bodice Ripper fic I know you all want.

[dedtek]

The Birthday Party : Release the Bats (live Hacienda club, Manchester, UK 1982) 

[guardian-angle22]

I read books! Sometimes, I remember to talk about books!

Here’s a roundup of some of my favorite things I read in 2023. I'll put half of this under a cut to save the timeline.

Middle Grade:

When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen Getten - This is a sweet story about friendship, grief, and family set in a close knit community in Jamaica following a young girl who can't remember anything that happened the previous summer. I don't read middle grade often so I wasn't expecting to be on the edge of my seat during this book, but I sure was!

Garlic & the Vampire by Bree Paulson - An anthropomorphic village of vegetables - what more could you ask for? When the village learns a vampire moved into a nearby castle, they decide Garlic has to be the one to face him. A cute, wholesome graphic novel - and the sequel Garlic & the Witch was also lovely!

Nonfiction:

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott - This is a collection of essays by an Indegenous author covering a wide range of topics including race, gentrification, parenthood, and mental illness. I annotated the shit out of this book... which is always a sign of a well loved read in my house.

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - A fascinating account by the journalist from the Wall Street Journal who broke open the case against Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. The entire story is absolutely bananas and made for a wild read.

Excellent on Audio:

How to Be Perfect by Michael Shur - If you watched and enjoyed The Good Place, this audiobook should be required listening. Pretty much everyone from the cast pops in at random times to narrate something. It was also just a great, thought-provoking book. I actually read this for a work book club and it prompted me to finally finish The Good Place. Most successful book club pick ever.

Finding Me by Viola Davis - She won a Grammy for the narration of this book (and earning her rightful place as an EGOT) and it was well deserved. I'm not usually one for celebrity memoirs, but Viola's life was incredibly interesting and her narration was amazing.

Thriller/Horror:

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas - This is a Mexican, historical, gothic horror novel set after the Mexican War of Independence. It features a secluded, potentially haunted hacienda and a priest who might actually be a witch. Atmospheric vibes are peak here. Highly recommend listening to the spotify playlist the author made while you read!

No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole - The official blurb says "the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning" and that about sums it up. It also compares it to Get Out and that's a pretty good comp, in my opinion.

Poetry:

Artemis Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer - I'm not gonna lie, this poetry collection and the one in the series before it (Aphrodite Made Me Do It) were absolutely cover buys. The cover art is stunning! but luckily the inside is good too.

If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird - This collection deals a lot with the feminine experience, how we relate to our bodies and its traumas. Definitely check the trigger warnings for this collection first before picking it up.

Romance:

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert - I'm not one to read a ton of romance books but I did enjoy a couple this year. This one was definitely the most explicit but also wholesome and something has to be said for being able to do both. Fun tropes include: fake dating & grumpy/sunshine.

Glitterland by Alexis Hall - While this is still a romance book at its core, it also deals heavily with depression. Fun tip with this book: definitely get the re-released edition with this cover because it has author annotation notes! It was very fun to read those at the end of every chapter.

Short & Quick Reads:

The Appendix by Liam Konemann - This is a very small little pocket book, part of the 404's Inklings collection. In it, Liam is reacting to transphobia he encounters through various media, but also discussing how he navigates being a gay trans man in today's culture.

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh - I think I would best describe this as a queer forest fairytale. I'm a sucker for any story that can transport me to a mythical forest and while this one clocks in at a little under 115 pages, it packed a good plant magic punch.

Misc Books I Couldn't Find a Category For:

Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat - I never thought I would read this series, but I stumbled into the first one and then devoured the entire series in the span of 2 days. While I know the core of what people love about this is the love story... the political intrigue happening absolutely gripped me!

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore - Another trope/plot device I love is time travel... or whatever weird timey wimey mess you would consider this: Oona faints after she's about to turn nineteen and awakens 32 years in the future in her 51 year old body. She learns that after each year completes, she'll leap to another age at random. It's as messy and complicated as it sounds but never a dull moment.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🗞️📖 Bookish News - February Edition

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! Check below the cut for details.

Adaptations: 🗞️ Chloé Zhao will direct a film adaptation of Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal 📖 HBO is adapting Dark Places (Gillian Flynn) as a limited series. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner 🗞️ FX has ordered a limited series adaptation of Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe), directed by Michael Lennox 📖 Taika Waititi will direct an adaptation of Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), potentially starring Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega 🗞️ The Terror will base season 3 on The Devil in Silver (Victor LaValle) 📖 The Man in My Basement (Walter Mosley), directed by Nadia Latif, will star Anna Diop, Corey Hawkins, and Willem Dafoe 🗞️ Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) has a trailer 📖 America Ferrera's feature directorial debut for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika Sánchez) is in development 🗞️ The adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down (John Green) will stream on MAX this year 📖 Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles (R. V. Bowman) is getting a live-action adaptation 🗞️ Interview with the Vampire (based on Anne Rice's novel) is getting a second season 📖 Percy Jackson and the Olympians is getting a second season 🗞️ Seven Days in June (Tia Williams) is being adapted for Prime Video 📖 The adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow, (Amor Towles) will star Ewan McGregor 🗞️ The Color Purple movie musical will stream on MAX (Feb. 16) 📖 Hulu’s adaptation of A Court of Thorns and Roses was axed 🗞️ The Alex Van Helsing YA books are being adapted for a television series 📖 Ryan Reynolds and Paramount are working on an adaptation of Starter Villain (John Scalzi) 🗞️ A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) will be adapted as an animated TV series 📖 The trailer for the film adaptation of Wicked is up 🗞️ Netflix renewed Survival of the Thickest for season 2 📖 The cast for Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been announced (July 25, 2025) 🗞️ The trailer for the new X-Men animated series is up (Mar. 20) 📖 The Oscar-nominated animated film Nimona is now available to watch for free on YouTube! 🗞️ Reese Witherspoon is producing a film adaptation of Romantic Comedy (Curtis Sittenfeld) 📖 Photos are up for the adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Holly Jackson)

Cover Reveals: 🗞️ When Haru Was Here - Dustin Thao (Sept. 3) 📖 Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass (July 23) 🗞️ The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Oct. 8) 📖 The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich (Dec. 10) 🗞️ Colored Television - Danzy Senna (July 30) 📖 Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me - Whoopie Goldberg (May 7) 🗞️ House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias (Aug. 6) 📖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar (Nov. 12) 🗞️ Night Owls - A.R. Vishny (Sept. 17) 📖 The Dixon Rule - Elle Kennedy (May 14) 🗞️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen (Aug. 27) 📖 The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel (Sept. 24) 🗞️ In Want of a Suspect - Tirzah Price (Nov. 12) 📖 Memorials - Richard Chizmar (Oct. 22) 🗞️ The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (Sept. 24) 📖 Unsinkable Cayenne - Jessica Vitalis (Oct. 29) 🗞️ Cue the Sun! - Emily Nussbaum (June 25) 📖 We're Alone - Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3) 🗞️ The Sherlock Society - James Ponti (Sept. 3) 📖 The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes (May 21) 🗞️ The Baby-sitters Club: Kristy and the Walking Disaster - Ellen T. Crenshaw (Sept.) 📖 The Baby-sitters Litter Sister: Karen’s Grandmothers - DK Yingst (Oct.) 🗞️ The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science - Kate McKinnon (Oct. 1) 📖 The Life Impossible - Matt Haig (Sept. 3) 🗞️ Ruin Road - Lamar Giles (Sept.) 📖 Yours Truly by Katie Shepard (Sept. 3) 🗞️ Wishbone - Justine Pucella Winan (Sep. 17) 📖 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts (Oct. 8) 🗞️ The Dividing Sky - Jill Tew (Oct. 8) 📖 Heir - Sabaa Tahir (Oct. 1) 🗞️ Beautiful Dreamers - Minrose Gwin (Aug. 27) 📖 We Solve Murders - Richard Osman (Fall) 🗞️ Till the Last Beat of My Heart - Louangie Bou-Montes (Sept. 10) 📖 Aisle Nine by Ian X (Sept. 24) 🗞️ Warrior of Legend - Kendare Blake (Sept. 17) 📖 The Ancient’s Game - Loni Crittenden (Oct. 29) 🗞️ The Witch of Wol Sin Lake - Lega Jeong (Oct. 29)

Upcoming Releases: 🗞️ Tiny Reparations Books has secured North American rights to two new books by National Book Award–longlisted author LaToya Watkins. The first book, The Book of Chuck, will be published in spring 2026. 📖 Tia Williams has sold North American rights to two new novels to Grand Central. 🗞️ LeVar Burton is releasing two new books

Other News: 🗞️ The Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 longlist is up 📖 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced 🗞️ The finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards were announced 📖 Pulitzer-winning author N. Scott Momaday passed away (first Native American author to win a Pulitzer) 🗞️ OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive for allegedly stealing 2.2 TB of data from WorldCat 📖 The St. Paul Public Library launched a laser-eyed loon library card 🗞️ Writers Against the War on Gaza have written an open letter to PEN/America to release an official statement about the “225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars, and novelists killed in Gaza” by Israeli forces 📖 Andy Weir released a series of “lost” journal entries from Mark Watney to celebrate The Martian’s 10th anniversary 🗞️ Amazon removed multiple titles about King Charles’ recent cancer diagnoses amid concerns that they were written by AI 📖 This year’s winners and finalists of the Cybils Awards were announced 🗞️ Delacorte is launching a new YA romance imprint

[lavampira]

14, 17, + 24 for the book asks? 📚

end of year books

ty beloved uwu 🖤

14. what books do you want to finish before the year is over?

the hacienda by isabel cañas and kiss her once for me by alison cochrun - the first one is a historical horror set in 1800s mexico that I’m currently reading now and I’m loving it so much already, and the second is a contemporary that sounds ideal for the cozy holiday season, a potential little treat to wrap up the year <:

17. answered here!

24. did you DNF anything? why?

I actually haven’t this year! I did come close with the thursday murder club by richard osman (I think it was a case of the writing style not meshing with the mood I was in at the time) but I’m glad I stuck it out because I did end up liking it tbh

[asmrbrainrot]

Candela Everbright~! 🕯️ Pt 2

The last one was a more in depth backstory so these will be more fun facts :

-Candela has an identical twin brother named Carver. (He is ftm trans)

-She has lots of cousins, a set of grandparents on both her mom and dad’s side, and two little sisters, (also identical twins) Catalina and Catarina. (But most people just call them the Cece’s~)

-Candela spent summers on the Everbright Hacienda with her tíos and learned to ride horses there!

-She is currently in the Art club and Food Ritual club at the Blue Rose Academy

-Candela has a wand shaped like a candle stick that she will attach certain candles to, in order to perform or enhance certain spells

-She uses the resources of the Art club to make candles for her wand (and as gifts)

[organchordsandlightning]

Ooo can u rec a few of ur fav horror books love love love spooky reads :)

🤩oh man here we go let me open the book. a bunch of them under the cut!

Haunted House Classic - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Not the first haunted house story by any means, but a lot of modern haunted house stories draw from this one specifically. A wealthy old man invites a group of people to investigate his house to find concrete proof of the supernatural, only for things to go awry as they realize the house is haunted. Gets really mind-trippy towards the end. Modern - The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas Our protagonist marries a rich man to escape a life of poverty and gain some stability in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Mexican government. As she stays at the hacienda, however, it becomes very clear that something is haunting and watching her every move -- as the staff vehemently deny anything happened to the master of the house's first wife, the protagonist turns to an unorthodox priest for help.

Humor

Grady Hendrix is probably the biggest name in horror-comedy right now, and I'm really enjoying his stuff! My favorite so far of his is How to Sell A Haunted House: in the aftermath of her parents' sudden death, a young woman returns home with her burnout brother to try and figure out what to do with her parents' sizable (and possibly haunted) puppet collection. Really tugs at the heartstrings with the plot being utterly off the wall. Also enjoyed Southern Book Club Guide's to Slaying Vampires by him, about a small southern town that realizes they have a vampire in their midst!

Shlocky

I always have to recommend Riley Sager's books because they feel like reading a B-list horror film: they can be silly, they can be a little shallow, they can be full of unnecessary twists, but they're also a lot of fun and feel like they run with a lot of horror tropes. Home Before Dark is his best-known: growing up, the protagonist's parents exploited the so-called spookiness of their family home (very much a la Amityville Horror). As an adult, she returns to her childhood home and realizes it might not all have been fake.

Sci-Fi Horror

The Annihilation series by Jeff VanDerMeer is really good: a group of scientists given only by their title (the biologist, etc) explore this strange new territory filled with secrets and suspicious creatures, only to realize they may have a traitor in their midst. The first of this series is my favorite, and the dream-like narration might not be for everyone, but the imagery is stunning (and if you do read and like it, audio drama Syntax is heavily inspired by it!)

The Last Astronaut by David Wellington: My god, an asteroid is about to hit Earth (very, very slowly!). To investigate what it's about and how to stop it, a former astronaut and their team go to explore it... only to realize there's more secrets than they realize lying inside, and that it may not be an asteroid after all. Really spooky, ending made me emotional.

Fake Oral Histories (Oral Histories are some of my favorite subgenres of books in general! Basically like World War Z - not written in explicit prose format, but taking advantage of other ways of displaying the story - newspaper articles, interview transcripts, court hearings, etc!)

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks - Speaking of, the guy who wrote World War Z! A town is found massacred, seemingly by the mythic Bigfoot. Journals and various other articles are found around town that explain the weeks leading up to the final slaughter. Really tense, had a lot of fun.

A History of Fear by Luke Dumas - Grayson Hale, AKA the Devil's Advocate Killer, was sentenced for the murder of his fellow graduate student. His account of what happened is found in his jail cell following his death, where he describes how he was approached by a man who he believes to be the actual devil. The framing device for the book is an editor trying to explore more about the Hale case, and it is really fun seeing the editor's version of the story (interviewing people in the Hale statement, seeing conflicting newspaper articles, etc) and how it compares with Hale's. I do have to give a massive religious trauma/homophobia CW on this one though.

Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven - I have commitment issues about calling any singular book my favorite, but Fantasticland holds a special place in my heart. In short: a series of interviews from a bunch of Disneyland-esque theme park workers, mostly teenagers, about an incident in the park. A hurricane forced everyone to evacuate but the employees, who hid in underground bunkers. Soon they emerge to see the damage, but in the several weeks it takes for the flooding to clear, all social order breaks down and gangs start to form: the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, the Mole People, all based on different areas of the park. I just think it's really cleverly done and a lot of fun (and also, you know, a little horrifying).

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BOOKS I READ IN 2023 ( YES I DO COUNT REREADS)

1. Mind of my mind (butler) 9/10

2. Clay ark (butler) 9/10

3. Patternmaster (butler) 7/10

4. Dawn (butler) 8.5/10

5. Bloodchild (butler) 10/10

6. The Gilda stories (Gomez) 7/10

7. Sandman vol 1 (gaiman) 8/10

8. Slaughterhouse 5 (vonnegut) 10/10

9. The sirens of titan (vonnegut) 9/10

10. Adulthood rites (butler) 9/10

11. Imago (butler) 9.5/10

12. Never let me go 7/10

13. The sandman vol 2 6/10

14. Kindred 9/10

15. Blood feast 10/10

16. The bell jar 9/10

17. Bottle grove 8/10

18. The basic eight 10/10

19. Be gay, do comics 5/10

20. The metamorphosis 7/10

21. The grace year 9/10

22. Wilder Girls 8/10

23. Yours Cruelly, Elvira 6/10

24. The pleasure of my company 4/10

25. Crazy rich asians 6/10

26. China rich girlfriend 5/10

27. Rich people problems 4/10

28. We Run the Tides 7/10

29. Fantasticland 10/10

30. The hunger 7/10

31. The southern book club guide to slaying vampires 8/10

32. My best friends exorcism 7/10

33. Horrorstor 7/10

34. Story Time 9/10

35. We sold our souls 9/10

36. Friday black 10/10

37. Gabi, a girl in pieces 6/10

38. Woman, eating 7/10

39. Gideon the ninth 10/10

40. Harrow the ninth 6/10

41. Nona the ninth 8/10

42. Small game 7/10

43. What moves the dead 9/10

44. The hacienda 9/10

45. The girl with all the gifts 9/10

46. hell followed with us 8/10

47. The boy on the bridge 7/10

48. Station eleven 6/10

49. comforts me with apples 7/10

50. Feed 8/10

51. Deadline 8/10

52. Blackout 8/10

53. Parasite 9/10

54. Symbiont 10/10

55. Chimera 10/10

56. Circe 9/10

57. The junkie quatrain 7/10

58. Certain dark things 5/10

59. Tender is the flesh 9/10

60. Nightbitch 10/10

61. The lamb will slaughter the lion 6/10

62. velvet is the night 7/10

63. Into the drowning deep 9/10

64. sister maiden monster 9/10

65. A very normal family 8.5/10

66. Interview with the vampire 6/10

67. Final girl support group 8/10

68. Bunny 9/10

69. How to sell a haunted house 8/10

70. Vampires of El norte 8/10

71. Silver Nitrate 9/10

72. Mexican Gothic 10/10

73. The Beautiful Ones 7/10

74. Wait for the Night 8/10

75. Moon of the Crusted Snow 8/10

76. We Spread 6/10

77. My heart is a chainsaw 9/10

78. The Spirit Bares its Teeth 10/10

79. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (6/10)

80. Copykate (9/10)

81. A ballad of song birds and snakes (8/10)

82. The hunger games 8/10

83. Catching Fire 7/10

84. Nona the ninth 10/10