#Scott livesay

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CIncy’s Song of the Day (1.8.24)

SŸDE - Her Touch

[why-i-love-comics]

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #4 - "Resurrection" (2024)

written by Tim Sheridan art by Cian Tormey, Jordi Tarragona, Raul Fernandez, John Livesay, & Matt Herms

[the-forest-library]

July 2023 Reads

Will They or Won't They - Ava Wilder

Going Bicoastal - Dahlia Adler

Hello Stranger - Katherine Center

You, With a View - Jessica Joyce

The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston

Kit McBride Gets a Wife - Amy Barry

We Could Be So Good - Cat Sebastian

The Duchess Effect - Tracey Livesay

The Prince & the Apocalypse - Kara McDowell

Ghosted - Amanda Quain

End of Story - Kylie Scott

Their Vicious Games - Joelle Wellington

Four Three Two One - Courtney C. Stevens

The First Thing About You - Chaz Hayden

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

Sunshine - Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Isabel Sanchez Vegara

100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli - David LaRochelle & Loan Cho

Beyond the Wand - Tom Felton

Wildflower - Aurora James

Lips Unsealed - Belinda Carlisle

Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge - Helen Ellis

Directions to Myself - Heidi Julavits

The Life Council - Laura Tremaine

Everybody's Favorite - Lillian Stone

Life on Delay - John Hendrickson

I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi

Finance for the People - Paco de Leon

Unmasking Autism - Devon Price

Self-Care for People with ADHD - Sasha Hamdani

Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD - Susan Pinsky

You've Got This - Michaela Dunbar

Easy Crafts for the Insane - Kelly Williams Brown

Pottery for Beginners - Kara Leigh Ford

Conscious Crafts: Pottery - Lucy Davidson

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

Thoughts: 

Lots of good reads this month, but no five stars reads, which I didn't realize until putting this together.

Goodreads Goal: 246/400 

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

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads

[heckcareoxytwit]

A preview of What If…? Dark: Tomb of Dracula #1

WHAT IF...? DARK: TOMB OF DRACULA #1

Legend Marv Wolfman returns to TOMB OF DRACULA and the character he co-created! WHAT IF…the legendary Dracula transformed BLADE the vampire slayer…into a vampire?!

Written by: Marv Wolfman Art by: David Cutler, Victor Olazaba, Scott Hanna, John Livesay, Edgar Delgado, Antonio Fabela, Dee Cunniffe Cover by: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Richard Isanove Page Count: 40 Pages Release Date: November 8, 2023

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My most anticipated books of July 2023!

July 1: Lady and the Camp by Stephanie J. Scott 💚

July 4: The Second Chance Store by Lauren Bravo and Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon 💜

July 6: Trivialized Pursuit by Mia Heintzelman 💙

July 11: It Happened One Fight by Maureen Lee Lenker and The Duchess Effect by Tracey Livesay 💛

July 25: How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long, Not That Duke by Eloisa James and Four Weddings to Fall in Love by Jackie Lau ❤️

July 27: Love Inn Books by Erin Branscom 💚

Happy Summer Reading!!!

[rabbittstewcomics]

Episode 358

Comic Reviews:

DC

Batman/Catwoman 12 by Tom King, Clay Mann, Tomeu Morey

DC vs. Vampires: Killers 1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Mike Bowden, Eduardo Mello, Le Beau Underwood, Livesay, Antonio Fabela

Deathstroke Inc 10 by Ed Brisson, Dexter Soy, Veronica Gandini

Teen Titans Go! Undead?! GN by Michael Northrop, Eric Owen

Marvel

Iron Cat 1 by Jed MacKay, Pere Perez, Frank D’Armata

Iron Man/Hellcat Annual 1 by Christopher Cantwell, Ruairi Coleman, Triona Farrell

Marvel’s Voices 5: Young Avengers infinity comic by Anthony Olivera, Jethro Morales, Dijjo Lima

Mech Strike: Monster Hunters 1 by Christos Gage, Paco Diaz, Dono Sanchez-Almara

Thor: Lightning and Lament 1 by Ralph Macchio, Todd Nauck, Rachelle Rosenberg

Variants 1 by Gail Simone, Phil Noto

Image

Public Domain 1 by Chip Zdarsky

Sins of the Black Flamingo 1 by Andrew Wheeler, Travis Moore, Tamra Bonvillain

Dark Room GN by Gerry Duggan, Scott Buoncristiano, Tamra Bonvillain

Dark Horse

Hellboy and the BPRD: Old Man Whittier 1 by Mike Mignola, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Dave Stewart

Liebestrasse GN by Greg Lockard, Tim Fish, Hector Barros

Summer Fires GN by Giulia Sagramola

Boom

Buffy '97 1 by Jeremy Lambert, Marianna Ignazzi, Mattia Iacono

Power Rangers Unlimited: Countdown to Ruin 1 by Marguerite Bennett, Giuseppe Cafaro, Anna Kekovsky Chandra, Sara Antonelli, Fabi Marques, Sharon Marino

IDW

Canto: Tales of the Unnamed World 1 by David Booher, Drew Zucker

Dungeons and Dragons: Ravenloft - Orphan of Agony Isle 1 by Zoe Quinn, Bayleigh Underwood, Casey Gilly, Corin Howell, Cris Peter

Dynamite

Vampiverse Presents: The Vamp 1 by Tom Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson, Daniel Maine

Behemoth

Redman 1 by Matt Frank, Goncalo Lopes

Vault

Mindset 1 by Zack Kaplan, John Pearson

Verse Book 2 GN by Sam Beck

Ray’s OGN Corner:  Gender Queer

Additional Reviews: Ms. Marvel ep4, Baymax, Stranger Things 4.2, Minions 2, The Bad Guys, The Black Phone, Paper Girls, Spree

News: Ghostbusters Afterlife sequel, new sci-fi movie by the Russos starring Millie Bobby Brown, Eight Billion Genies optioned by Amazon, Nexstar buys CW, new flagship Spidey title from Dan Slott and Mark Bagley, Despicable Me 4 announced, Tenet sequel, new Stephanie Phillips Comixology famous fictional detective series (Beatrix Rose), Nate Stevenson, Marvel/Ultraman crossover

Trailers: Hocus Pocus 2, Paper Girls

Comics Countdown:

Seven Secrets 18 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Walter Baiamonte

Department of Truth 19 by James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds

Eight Billion Genies 2 by Charles Soule, Ryan Browne, Kevin Knipstein

X-Men Red 4 by Al Ewing, Juann Cabal, Andres Genolet, Michael Sta. Maria, Federico Blee

Public Domain 1 by Chip Zdarsky

Liebestrasse by Greg Lockard, Tim Fish, Hector Barros

Swamp Thing 14 by Ram V, Mike Perkins, Mike Spicer

Canto: Tales of the Unnamed World 1 by David Booher, Drew Zucker

What’s the Furthest Place From Here 7 by Matthew Rosenberg, Tyler Boss, Josh Hixson

Sins of the Black Flamingo 1 by Andrew Wheeler, Travis Moore, Tamra Bonvillain

Check out this episode!

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Really good stuff from DCeased: The Unkillables #1...

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Review: Devil's Reign: Villains for Hire #1

Devil's Reign: Villains for Hire #1 is an entertaining addition to an event that has been solid but plays out as expected. #Comics #ComicBooks

Devil’s Reign has been solid so far. The event sees Wilson Fisk’s plans all coming together as he uses his power as Mayor of New York to try to reign in Marvel’s superheroes. There’s a little bit of Dark Reign mixed with the Superhero Registration Act but all updated to reflect today’s political reality. But, even better, the tie-ins for the event have been really good as well. It feels rare that…

[comicwaren]

From Devil’s Reign: Villains for Hire #001, “Fisk’s Fist: Part 1”

Art by Manuel Garcia, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Scott Hanna, Livesay, Andy Owens, Victor Nava, Dono Sánchez-Almara and Fer Sifuentes-Sujo

Written by Clay McLeod Chapman

[marvel-dc-art]

DCeased: Unkillables #1 (2020) pencil by Karl Mostert ink by Trevor Scott, Neil Edwards, & John Livesay color by Rex Lokus

[scottlivesaymusic]

Cincy’s Song of the Day (12.28.23)

Piper- Shine On

[why-i-love-comics]

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #4 - "Resurrection" (2024)

written by Tim Sheridan art by Cian Tormey, Jordi Tarragona, Raul Fernandez, John Livesay, & Matt Herms

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quotes masterlist

- lucky people should hide. pray the days of wrath do not visit their homes ~ josephine heart

- you said i killed you—haunt me, then!

- so this was how you died; in whispers you did not hear ~ ernest hemingway

- my whole being calls for an act of violence, but i still use velvet gloves ~ anaïs nin

- the gods envy us. they envy us because we’re mortal. because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. you will never be lovelier than you are now. we will never be ever again ~ troy

- i felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way ~ donna tartt

- there is blood everywhere and i am lost in it. i breathe blood, not air ~ kelly cherry

- until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter ~ african proverb

- and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? ~ charles bukowski

- i keep remembering—i keep remembering. my heart has no pity on me ~ henri barbusse

- i have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. or i can go mad by ricocheting in between ~ sylvia plath

- you sliced me loose and said it was creation. i could feel the knife ~ margaret atwood

- show me an orchard where i have not slept / tell me a time i have not loved ~ dorothy livesay

- trauma sends you letters, without warning, for the rest of your life, usually disguised as something else ~ brenna twohy

- the blood on my teeth begins to taste like a poem, like religion, like the way you look at me ~ sean glatch

- we begin in the dark and birth is the death of us ~ antigone?

- i sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief ~ c.s lewis

- love isn’t soft as the poets say. love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close ~ stephen king

- is this all you? mysterious and lucid present and absent at once ~ mahmoud darwish

- i cant exactly describe how i feel, but it’s not quite right. and it leaves me cold ~ f. scott fitzgerald

- artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide ~ donald winnicott

- death is the mother of beauty. and what is beauty? terror. well said. beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. quite the contrary. genuine beauty is always quite alarming. and if beauty is terror then what is desire? we think we have many desires, but in fact we only have one. what is it? to live. to live forever ~ excerpt from the secret history

other language ones:

- veritas nunquam perit. the truth never perishes. ~ seneca

- atrox melior dulcissima veritas mendaciis. the bitter truth is better than the sweetest lies

- post tenebras lux. after darkness (I hope for) light

- eheu. fugaces labuntur anni. alas. the fleeting years slip by

- nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. nothing is more unpredictable than the mob. nothing more obscure than public opinion. nothing more deceptive than the whole political system ~ cicero

- verba volant, scripta manent. words fly away, writings remain

- sic itur ad astra. thus you shall go to the stars

- aut viam inveniam aut facium. i will either find a way or make one

- pedes in terra ad sidera visus. feet on the ground, eyes on the sky

- timendi causa nescire est. ignorance is the cause of fear

- ex nihilo nihil fit. nothing comes from nothing

- natura nihil frustra facit. nature does nothing in vain. ~ leucippus

- imperare sibi maximum imperium est. to rule yourself is the ultimate power ~ seneca

- tempus fugit. time flies. ~ virgil

- fortuna caeca est. fate is blind

- vita somnium breve. life is but a dream

- tempus edax rerum. time, devourer of all things

- vita brevis et ars longa. time short and art long

- omnes una manet nox. one night is awaiting us all

- astra inclinant sed non obligant. the stars incline us, they do not blind us.

- rien n’est éternel. nothing lasts forever

- soif de vivre. lust for life

[mermaidsirennikita]

Can you recommend any contemporary romance novels? Thank you!

For sure!

One of my favorite contemporary series I read this year was Kylie Scott's Stage Dive series, which I recommend reading in full and in order. It's about a rock band and the women who fall in love with the members of the band, basically.

Lick--hero is the guitarist/songwriter, heroine wakes up with no memory of the previous night in Vegas and oops they're married

Play--hero is the wacky drummer, begins fake dating the level-headed heroine For Reasons

Lead--hero is the lead singer, had biiig addiction issues and is the older brother of the hero of Lick; heroine is his sober companion/assistant, and the professional lines are.... blurred, to say the least

Deep--hero is the bass player, has been tempted by the little sister of book 2's heroine for a while even though there's an 8-year age gap and he's been instructed to... not touch her; one night later and whoops, she's pregnant

American Royalty by Tracey Livesay--pitched as "what if Prince Harry fell for Megan Thee Stallion", and it is, delightfully, hilariously, very heatedly that

The Brown Sisters Trilogy by Talia Hibbert--Very fun, very soft, very hot. Book 1 has chronic pain rep with the heroine and book 3 both leads on the spectrum. I believe the hero of book 2 has anxiety.

Heated Rivalry and The Long Game by Rachel Reid--Must be read in order, TLG is the direct sequel to HR and about the same couple. Ilya and Shane are super-hyped up arch rival hockey players, the best of the best. What nobody knows is that they've been hooking up in secret since their rookie season. It's basically charting their relationship going from pure sex to love. Heated Rivalry is easily one of my favorite reads this year, and TLG is a great followup. Super hot, super romantic, Shane and Ilya are PERFECT leads--very uptight meets wild, very carefree slutty one has a secret emotional side and reserved one has a secret risky side.

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone--A porn star is brought in last minute to star in a Christmas Hallmark-type movie, with the knowledge that her porn career must stay a secret. But oops, the male lead of the movie is a former boy bander she used to have a crush on, and he's been subscribed to her OnlyFans for YEARS. Very fun, hot, and Christmassy.

Kiss An Angel by Susan Elizabeth Phillips--A wild 90s-era contemporary. The heroine (spoiled little rich girl) and hero (surly alpha) are pushed into an arranged marriage by the heroine's father, and plan on getting it annulled in six months. But lol turns out he is part of a TRAVELING CIRCUS and she has to spend those six months working the circus with him. Truly wacky and fun, great grovel.

Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips--Another insane 90s contemporary. Heroine is extremely smart (graduated college at 14 smart) and always felt alienated due to her brain and lack of social skills. She wants a baby, but she wants the baby to be kinda mid intelligence-wise, and figures she should get knocked up by a stupid man in order to have an average baby. She targets a dumbass NFL quarterback, and after some maneuvering, ends up pregnant with no intention of ever telling him. Except, oops, turns out he is actually VERY smart, and he finds out and forces her to marry him because no kid of his will be a bastard!!! Truly insane, and TW because she does poke holes in the condom the first go (which doesn't take). The second go, he's just like "what the fuck ever let's just do this" and foregoes the condom by choice.

The Billionaire's Wake-up-call Girl by Annika Martin--Heroine is desperate to make it through a trial period at her new job because she needs the signing bonus to pay off a loan shark her ex got into trouble with (yes). Her boss instructs her to arrange a wake-up-call service for the company's billionaire CEO, but she puts it off and fucks up, which leads her to pretend to be the service and call him herself. He loves her abrasive attitude, and eventually they start talking... and phone sex happens... And it goes on from there.

The Roommate by Rosie Danan--Uptight heroine moves to take a chance on living with the guy she's always been into, but he flakes out and goes on tour with his band, leaving her with a replacement roommate. Except, whoops, turns out the new roommate is a rather successful porn star, and she can't quite look away from his work.

Priest by Sierra Simone--Tyler Bell is a Catholic priest, and is happy with his lot in life until Poppy shows up at confession. She begins confessing her rather interesting past, leading to him getting hot and bothered and the two of them eventually connecting emotionally. This is an erotic romance, with unique uses of holy oil and altars. Also, it does discuss the sexual abuse of a character off-page--not either of the leads, but it's plot important.

Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan--Heroine and hero were childhood sweethearts until conflict between their parents drove them apart. Years later, heroine is a successful political consultant, and hero is a father getting out of a messy relationship. They swing back into each other's lives and begin to discover the secrets in their families' pasts together.

The Kiss Quotient Trilogy by Helen Hoang--Kicks off with The Kiss Quotient, which is about a heroine on the spectrum hiring a male escort to teach her how to be good at sex, as she feels her stiffness in bed is keeping her from getting a lasting relationship (which is what she feels her family wants for her). Each book features a hero or heroine on the spectrum, and a hero or heroine (or both) of Vietnamese descent. The author is both, to be clear.

From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata--Hero and heroine are figure skaters who hate each other. Heroine's career is on a downward trajectory, and she's given a surprising opportunity to team up with the hero.

[marvelman901]

Excalibur 82 (1994) . Phalanx Covenant part 7 . Written by Scott Lobdell and Todd DeZago Penciled by Ken Lashley and Steve Epting Inked by Philip Moy, Harry Candelario, W C Carani, John Floyd and John Livesay . Forge was forced to help the Phalanx, but with Nightcrawler's help, he managed to destroy the offspring of the Phalanx. Meanwhile, Douglock sacrificed himself to stop the Phalanx... . #marvel #xmen #douglock #phalanx #phalanxcovenant #wolfsbane #90s #comics #forge #nightcrawler #excalibur #cannonball #shinar #polaris #siryn #shadowcat https://www.instagram.com/p/CRg5sa2soyj/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Cincy’s Song of the Day (11.14.22)

Lana Del Rey- Ride