#Trans Jason Lee Scott

[augment-techs]

In all honestly, Jason would have to confirm that 'YES' technically the merman that had been wandering the reef near the kingdom was a threat to public safety. He was an Orca variant, which meant he ate meat. And he was male, which meant he was two to three times the size of a goddam Galleon ship fashioned for all out war. However... Perhaps, just maybe, the princess had been right to take on the advice of her manservant (consort) in sending someone (Jason) to see just why the merman kept just outside the port and manhandled their ships as if it was looking for something that had been lost. Or, in this case, taken. Apparently some of the less than savory types had wandered into the wrong territory and caught the giant merman's (symbiote) smaller companion unawares. And now Jason had to return him, all cramped in a glass tank that didn't look at all comfortable, Cranston trying to keep the poor thing calm as Jason did the heavy work of rowing out past the rock made outpost docks and into waters that had gotten significantly more choppy and dark as a storm was on its way inland and the much larger merman seemed to be waiting.

* Honestly, Jason expected trouble and things going terribly wrong when a wave crested and the lot of them were thrown adrift from the tiny boat; him in the opposite direction of Billy (the princess was going to have his guts, oh man) and the glass bound merman sinking directly down with a panicked cry as the boat cracked the glass and both humans could see blood in the water. Getting rescued had not been on his list of high probability. Drowning swiftly if he couldn't correct himself under the wave seemed the optimal probability--maybe finding himself ashore without direction or way back if he was exceptionally lucky--but rescued? There was no way. And yet when he was done coughing, saltwater horrible, vomit even more so because whoever was administering compressions had pushed too hard, Jason blinked to find himself looking up at a very large face with very sharp teeth hidden away as the Orca merman frowned down at the human he'd set on his exceptionally plush belly. "Er...Hello?"

[l-just-want-to-see]

You’ll never recover from that kind of devotion.

Jason Grace: on family and the lack thereof, wolves that really are dogs, remembering and healing and the sudden inevitability of being remembered.

I Bet on Losing Dogs, Mitski / War of the Foxes, Richard Siken / You’re on Your Own, Kid, Taylor Swift / Trees II, McCafferty / Mowgli Taken in by the Wolves, 1937 / Space Dog, Alan Shapiro / Moon Song, Phoebe Bridgers / A Hymn to Childhood, Li-Young Lee / Susan Smith, wych elm / The Blood of Olympus, Rick Riordan / Saint Bernard, Lincoln / Lupa Capitolina in Ludus, Romania / The Odyssey, Homer (trans. by Emily Wilson) / quadruple dog art by @mxmorggo on Instagram / Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami / The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan / House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski / Vulnerability, @/kazerad / Euripides, Elektra / Jason seizing the Golden Fleece, Charles Natoire / Thalia (Grace) / I can’t find the source… / My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult / Seam, Tarfia Faizullah / In the Blood, John Mayer / The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, Michael S. Harper, Anthony Walton / Memento Mori, Crywank / And My Father’s Love Was Nothing Next To God’s Will, Amatullah Bourdon / Family Line, Conan Gray / Franz Kafka’s letters to his father / Kronos/Saturn, Peter Paul Rubens / Wolf and pup / American Teenager, Ethel Cain / LET YOUR FATHER DIE ENERGY DRINK, Daniel Lavery and Cecilia Corrigan / Scott Street, Phoebe Bridgers / Tumblr, @/inanotherunivrse / Tomatoes, Shane Koyczan / Pinterest / Tumblr, @/heavensghost / Tumblr, @/tagdevilish / through sickness and in health… by Angelina Hajducky on Instagram / Jason (given name), Wikipedia / Human Acts, Han Kang / The gas pillar in the Carina Nebula, NASA / Tumblr, @/roach-works / Not Strong Enough, boygenius / Grit, silas denver melvin / Herakles, Euripides (trans. by Anne Carson) / Pelias sending forth Jason, 1880 / The Audre Lorde Questionnaire to Oneself, Brianna Albers / The Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan / Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle / The Oresteia, Aeschylus / Tumblr, @/orpheuslament / Anecdote of the Pig, Tory Adkisson / The Burning Maze, Rick Riordan / I Bet on Losing Dogs, Mitski / Icarus, The Crane Wives / The Three Graces, Edouard Bisson / For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick

[lolahauri]

✎ Introduction ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

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Things I Won't Write:

Sex Crimes of ANY KIND, Super Violent/Xtreme Kinks, Inflation, Feederism, Abuse, Puke, Shit, DDLG, Age Play, Raceplay, Wound Fucking, Gore, Vore, Misgendering, Lesbian x Male, Gay Man x Female, Stepcest etc... no exceptions!

Fluff, Angst, Platonic. (Go to my other fanfic blog for that.)

Things I Will Write:

Genderbent Characters, Mild Yandere, Daddy/Mommy Kink, Cheating, Mild BDSM, CNC, Dubcon, Monsters, Hybrids, Sex Pollen, Legal Age Gap, Power Imbalance (Prof/Student, Boss/Employee), Feet, Armpits, Piss, Breeding, Mild Bloodplay & Knifeplay, Cock Warming, Dry Humping, Voyeur, Public Sex, Orgy, 3somes, Sex Toys, Overstim, Edging, etc... etc... :P

Trans Reader, Chubby/Tall/Short/Curvy/Fat/Buff Reader, Other Specific Characteristics.✔️

*if you aren't sure, just ask!* :)

HC's, One Shots, Multi-Chapter, Drabbles, F/O Imagines.

Canon-friendly, AU's, Canon Divergence, Out of Character.

Ch x Ch / Ch x Reader / Ch x OC / OC x Reader / Poly Ships of any kind.

F/F, M/M, F/M, GN/F, GN/M, Poly Ships of any kind.

Now that that's out of the way, here's the list of fandoms and characters i'm familiar with and will happily take requests on! (you can request other characters from these fandoms, but it might take me longer!)

Adventure Time/Fiona & Cake: PB, Marceline, Marshall Lee, Winter King, Candy Queen, Simon, Ice King, Fiona.

Attack On Titan: Armin, Eren, Mikasa, Sasha, Levi, Hanji, Annie, Historia, Reiner, Erwin, Ymir. 

Avatar: Jake, Neytiri.

Batman Begins Triology: Batman, Catwoman, Bane, Joker, Scarecrow.

Bee & Puppycat: Bee, Deckard, Cass, Toast.

BigBang Theory: Raj, Leonard, Penny, Amy.

Black Dynamite: Honeybee, Black Dynamite.

BNA: Michiru, Shirou.

Bob’s Burgers: Bob, Linda.

Breaking Bad: Jesse, Skylar.

Call of Duty: Konig, Ghost, Mace, Keegan, Krueger, Valeria, Farah.

Creepypasta: Jeff, Jane, Ben, Toby, EJ, LJ, Slenderman, Splendorman, Clockwork, Kate, Masky, Hoodie,

Desperate Housewives: Bree, Gabi, Edie, Lynette, Carlos, John.

Dirty Dancing: Johnny, Baby.

Earth Girls Are Easy: Mac, Zeebo, Wiploc, Valerie.

Elemental: Wade, Ember.

Encanto: Isabela, Bruno, Dolores, Julieta.

FNAF Movie: Vanessa, Mike, William/Steve.

Frozen: Elsa, Anna, Kristoff.

Futurama: Leela, Fry, Amy, Bender.

Gravity Falls: Ford, Stan, Soos, Melody, Giffany, Bill.

Jane The Virgin: Jane, Michael, Petra, Luisa, Rose, Rogelio, Xiomara.

Jurassic Park (1993): Ian Malcolm, Ellie Sattler.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Gojo, Choso, Nanami, Sukuna.

King of the Hill: Hank, Peggy, Luane, Nancy, Dale, Khan, Min, John Redcorn.

Lisa Frankenstein: Lisa, Creature, Taffy.

Little Mermaid (2022): Ariel, Eric.

MHA: Dabi, Hawks, Aizawa.

Moon Knight: Moon System, Layla, Khonshu.

National Treasure: Benjamin, Riley.

Nintendo: Link, Zelda, Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, Luigi, Bowser, Waluigi.

Norbit: Rasputia, Norbit.

Princess & The Frog: Tiana, Lottie, Naveen, Shadow Man.

Ratatouille: Colette, Linguini. 

Regular Show: Mordecai, Margret, Eileen, CJ, Benson.

Resident Evil: Karl Heisenberg, Carlos Oiliveria, Lady Dimitrescu.

Rick and Morty: Rick, Jerry, Beth, Doofus Rick.

Riverdale: FP Jones, Hiram.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Kim, Ramona, Gideon, Wallace.

Serial Mom: Chip, Beverly.

Silverado: Slick, Rae, Mal, Paden.

Shallow Hal: Rosemary, Hal.

Shameless: Lip, Fiona, Kev, V.

SheRa (2018): All Adults.

Sherlock (2010): Sherlock, John Watson.

Slashers & DBD: Brahms, Ghostface, Michael Myers, Jason Vorhees, Pyramid Head, The Spirit, Huntress, Trapper, Wraith, Trickster, Pearl, Jennifer Check, Stu Matcher, Billy Loomis, Tiffany Valentine, Patrick Bateman, Thomas Hewitt, Vincent Sinclair, Eric Draven, The Artist, Amanda Young.

Spiderverse: Miguel, Jessica Drew.

Spongebob: Dennis, Man Ray.

Squid Games: Gi-Hun, Sae-Byeok, Ali, Sang Woo.

Steven Universe: Garnet, Amethyst, Peridot, Lapis, Jasper, Blue Diamond, Rose, Greg.

Stranger Things: Robin, Billy Eddie, Chrissy, Hopper.

Supernatural: Sam, Dean, Castiel.

Super Store: Amy, Jonah, Dina, Garrett, Cheyenne.

Tangled: Flynn, Rapunzel, Mother Gothell.

The Batman (2022): Batman, Riddler.

The Breakfast Club: John Bender, Allison Reynolds.

The Nanny: C.C, Fran, Maxwell.

Total Drama Island: S1 Contestants, Chris, Chef, Blainley.

Triple Frontier: Frankie, Santiago.

Turning Red: Ming Lee, Jin Lee.

Twilight: Edward, Carlisle, Alice, Charlie.

WWE: Rhea Ripley, Roman Reigns.

YOU: Beck, Joe, Peach, Love.

Young Sheldon: Mary, Connie.

Abel Morales (A Most Violent Year)

Astarion (Baulder’s Gate 3)

Babbo Natale (Violent Night)

Barbie (Barbie 2023)

Basil Stitt (Lightning Face)

Beverly Goldberg (The Goldbergs)

Bruce (Beyond Therapy)

Charles Ingalls (Little House on the Praire)

Charlie Dompler (Smiling Friends)

Chel (Road to El Dorado)

Dale Kobble (Longlegs)

Dan Conner (Rosanne)

David Levinson (Independence Day)

Din Djarin (The Mandalorian)

Doug Remer (Baseketball)

Duke Leto Atreides (Dune)

Fezzik (Princess Bride)

Francine (American Dad)

Fujimoto (Ponyo)

Georgia Miller (Ginny & Georgia)

Jack Harrison (Translyvania 6-5000)

Jackson Rippner (Red Eye)

Jon Arbuckle (Garfield 2024)

John Doe (John Doe Game)

Jonathan Levy (Scenes from a Marriage)

John Wick (John Wick 4)

King Baldwin (Kingdom of Heaven)

Kitten (Breakfast on Pluto)

Laurent LeClaire (In Secret)

Linda Gunderson (Rio)

Llewyn Davis (Inside Lleywn Davis)

Master Chief (Halo)

Mike (5lbs of Pressure)

Moe Doodle (Doodle Bops)

Nani Palekai (Lilo & Stitch)

Nathan Bateman (Ex Machina)

Outcome-3 (The Bourne Legacy)

Orestes (Agora)

Paul Blart (Paul Blart: Mall Cop)

Paul Cable (Last Stand at Saber River)

Peggy Bundy (Married With Children)

Peter Mitchell (3 Men & A Baby)

Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Prince John (Robin Hood 2010)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd (Top Gun: Maverick)

Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Shiv (Pu-239)

Stanley Ipkiss (The Mask)

Star-Lord (Gaurdians of the Galaxy)

Tate Langdon (AHS: Murder House)

The Janitor (Willy’s Wonderland)

Thomas Magnum (Magnum, P.I 1980)

William Tell (The Card Counter)

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 68 images in 34 pairs. each has one image of the listed scott pilgrim character, with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

Scott Pilgrim might be bisexual, might be a trans lesbian, but currently just thinks of himself as a straight guy!

He's dating Ramona Flowers, a bisexual trans girl!

Ramona also has a slight crush on Scott's ex, Kim Pine, who's a closeted lesbian and into Lisa Miller, who's a closeted femme ply lesbian!

Scott's roommate, Wallace Wells, is gay, polyamorous and arospec and has a crush on Stephen Stills, who's a closeted gay bear! Wallace's boyfriend, Mobile, is gay, and so is his best friend, Other Scott, who's specifically a femme otter!

Stephen's boyfriend, Joseph, is a gay bearish otter, and his roommate, Hollie Hawkes, is currently bicurious and will later realize she's a bi lesbian!

Stephen's roommate, Neil Nordegraf, is a transheteroflexible autistic guy who has a crush on Scott's sister, Stacey Pilgrim, who's bi! Her ex-boyfriend, Jimmy, recently realized he's gay!

Crash Wilson is a bisexual guy who has a crush on Young Neil! His friends, Joel MacMillan and Trasha Ha, are straight and autistic respectively!

Julie Powers is a mostly straight girl, though she also considers herself heteroflexible, because she used to have feelings for Envy Adams, an aroace bi lesbian!

Julie's friends, Sandra and Monique, are both closeted and secretly dating! Sandra is bi and Monique is a lesbian!

Jason Kim and Simon Lee are both bisexual, though Jason has a female preference and Simon's bi gay!

Stephen and Kim are close friends with Knives Chau, who hasn't yet realized that she's a nonbinary lesbian! Her best friend, Tamara Chen, is sapphic!

Matthew Patel, is a bi gay guy!

Lucas Lee, is unlabeled!

Todd Ingram hasn't yet realized that he's gay! His former bandmate, Lynette Guycott, is a transfem homoflexible lesbian!

Roxie Richter is a lesbian!

Ken Katayanagi is arohet and his brother, Kyle Katayanagi, is gracehet!

Gideon Graves is bisexual, but he doesn't like to think about it!

Stephen and Scott's coworker, Dominique, is bisexual and their other coworker, Crystal, is a closeted nonbinary gay guy!

Everyone's friend, Michael Comeau is pretty much straight, but he has occasional bisexual tendencies!

[theyraylovehate]

Wheel of Fan Fiction Masterlist

Smut 🔥

Fluff 🌸

Angst 💧

*This is like brand new so most of the characters won't have anything just yet*

•Stranger things

-Billy Hargrove

-Steve Harrington

-Eddie Munson

-Robin Buckley (Fem/NB only)

-Argyle

-Johnathan Byers

-Nancy Wheeler

-Jim Hopper

-Joyce Byers

-001/Henry

-Will Byers (No smut)

-Mike Wheeler (No smut)

-Max Mayfield (No smut)

Hateful Cuddling - Female reader 🌸

-Dustin Henderson (No smut)

-Lucas Sinclair (No smut)

-Eleven (Jane) Hopper (No smut)

•Marvel

-Iron Man/Tony Stark

-Captian America/Steve Rogers

-Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff

-Hawkeye/Clint Barton

-Hulk/Bruce Banner

-Thor

-Loki

-Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes

-Black Panther/T'challa

-Doctor Strange/Steven Strange

-Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff

-Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff

-Starlord/Peter Quill

-Gamora

-Spiderman/Peter Parker

-Falcon/Sam Wilson

-War Machine/James Rhodes

-Valkyrie (Fem/NB only)

•X-Men

-Professor X/Charles Xavier

-Magneto/Erik Lensherr

-Wolverine/James Howlett

-Quicksilver/Peter Maximoff

-Rogue

-Jean Grey

-Storm/Ororo Munroe

-Cyclops/Scott Summers

-Mystique/Raven

-Beast/Henry "Hank" McCoy

-Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner

-Havok/Alexander Summers

•DC/Young Justice

-Batman/Bruce Wayne

-Superman/Clark Kent

-The Flash/Barry Allen

-Aquaman/Authur Curry

-Cyborg/Victor Stone

-Joker/Jack Oswald White

-Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel

-Wonder Woman/Diana Prince

-DeadShot/Floyd Lawton

-Kid Flash/Wally West

-Nightwing (Robin #1)/ Dick Grayson

-Red Hood (Robin #2)/ Jason Todd

-Robin (#3)/ Tim Drake

-Beast Boy/Garfield Logan

-Superboy/Johnathan "Jon" Kent

-Artemis/Artemis Crock

-Red Arrow/Roy Harper

-Green Arrow/Oliver Queen

-Black Canary/Dinah Lance

-Miss Martian/Megan Morse

-Aqualad/Kaldur'ahm

•Umbrella Academy

-Luther Hargreeves (#1)

-Diego Hargreeves (#2)

-Allison Hargreeves (#3)

-Klaus Hargreeves (#4)

-Five Hargreeves (#5)

-Ben Hargreeves (#6)

-Viktor Hargreeves (#7)

-Marcus Hargreeves (#1)

-Fei Hargreeves (#3)

-Alphonso Hargreeves (#4)

-Sloan Hargreeves (#5)

-Jayme Hargreeves (#6)

-Lila Aryu

-The Handler

•Harry Potter

-Harry Potter

-Ron Weasley

-Hermione Granger

-Fred Weasley

-George Weasley

-Ginny Weasley

-Draco Malfoy

-Sirius Black (Older)

-Cedric Diggory

-Oliver Wood

-Neville Longbottom

-Luna Lovegood

-Remus Lupin (Older)

-Nymphadora Tonks

-Lucious Malfoy (Older)

-Narcissa Malfoy (Older)

-Severus Snape (Older)

-Bill Weasley

-Charlie Weasley

•Marauders

-James Potter

Friendly Love - Male reader 🌸

-Lily Evans

-Sirius Black

-Remus Lupin

-Severus Snape

-Regulus Black

-Lusious Malfoy

-Narcissa Black

-Peter Pettigrew

•Greek Mythology

-Zeus

-Hades

-Posideon

-Apollo

-Hera

-Persephone

-Ares

-Athena

-Demeter

-Aphrodite

-Artemis

-Dionysus

-Hermes

•Divergent

-Beatrice "Tris" Prior

-Caleb Prior

-Eric

-Peter

-Christina

-Will

-Tobias "Four"

-Zeke

Zip line of Love - Nonbinary Reader (Requested) 🌸

-Uriah

•Star Wars

-Anakin Skywalker

-Luke Skywalker

-Leia Organa

-Han Solo

-Obi-Wan Kenobi

-Kylo Ren

•Supernatural

-Dean Winchester

-Sam Winchester

-Castiel

-Crowley

-Lucifer

-Rowena MacLeod

-Gabriel

-Charlie Bradbury (Fem/NB only)

-Chuck Shurley

-Jody Mills

-Ellen Harvelle

-Kevin Tran

•The Walking Dead

-Rick Grimes

-Daryl Dixon

-Glenn Rhee

-Carl Grimes

-Maggie Greene

-Negan

-Michonne

-Shane Walsh

-Rosita Espinosa

-Carol Peletier

-Paul "Jesus" Monroe

-Abraham Ford

‐Tara Chambler (Fem/NB only)

-Enid

-Ezekiel

-Aaron (Masc/NB only)

•The Walking Dead Game

-Clementine

-Lee

-Kenny

-Luke

-Javier

-Gabriel

-Kate

-Louis

-Omar

-Ruby

-Mitch

-Marlon

-Violet (Fem/NB only)

IT (2017)

-Richie Tozier

-Beverly Marsh

-Eddie Kaspbrak

-Bill Denbrough

-Stanley Uris

-Ben Hanscom

-Henry Bowers

-Mike Hanlon

-Patrick Hockstetter

-Victor Criss

-Belch Huggins

•Desendants

-Mal

-Evie

-Ben

-Jay

-Jane

-Chad

-Doug

-Lonnie

-Carlos

-Uma

-Harry Hook

-Gil

•Maze Runner

-Newt

-Minho

-Gally

-Teresa

-Alby

-Chuck

-Brenda

-Aris

-Thomas

-Frypan

-Jorge

[dear-indies]

Hi! I was hoping you could share your fave fcs from ages 50-70? If they have resources that's awesome, but if not I can work with that too! 💜 Tysm!!

Those that have spoken up for Palestine, bolded have resources!

Juliet Stevenson (1956)

Peter Capaldi (1958)

Shobu Kapoor (1961) Indian.

Kamel El Basha (1962) Palestinian.

Sabrina Ferilli (1964)

John Cusack (1966)

Cynthia Nixon (1966) - is queer.

Michael Greyeyes (1967) Plains Cree.

Benedict Wong (1971) Hongkonger.

Waleed Zuaiter (1971) Palestinian.

Gabrielle Union (1972) African-American.

Poorna Jagannathan (1972) Indian.

Haifa Wehbe (1972) Egyptian / Lebanese.

Omar Metwally (1974) Egyptian / White.

Maxine Peake (1974) - is queer.

Tobias Menzies (1974)

Itziar Ituño (1974)

Mahershala Ali (1974) African-American.

also:

Lindsay Duncan (1950)

Luis Guzmán (1956) Puerto Rican.

Kristin Scott Thomas (1960)

Elaine Miles (1960) Cayuse and Nez Perce.

Michelle Yeoh (1962) Chinese Malaysian.

Rena Owen (1962) Ngāti Hine and White.

Alexandra Billings (1962) European, African-American, Unspecified Native American - is a trans woman.

Ming-Na Wen (1963) Macanese, part Malaysian.

Anna Chancellor (1965)

Steve Toussaint (1965) Afro Barbadian.

Michael Imperioli (1966)

Zahn McClarnon (1966) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux and Irish.

Jason Scott Lee (1966) Kānaka Maoli and Chinese.

Diana Lee Inosanto (1966) Filipino, Irish, Chinese, Spanish, and French.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967) Nigerian.

D.B. Woodside (1967) African-American.

Byron Mann (1967) Hongkonger.

Kelly Hu (1968) Kānaka Maoli, Chinese, White.

Lucy Liu (1968) Chinese.

Daniel Craig (1968)

Ángeles Cruz (1969) Mexican [Mixtec].

Naveen Andrews (1969) Malayali Indian.

Benjamin Bratt (1963) Peruvian [Quechua] / White.

Aaron Pedersen (1970) Arrernte and Arabana.

Lee Byung-hun (1970) Korean.

Manisha Koirala (1970) Nepali.

Eve Best (1971)

Will Yun Lee (1971) Korean.

Daniel Sunjata (1971) African-American, Irish, German.

Rick Yune (1971) Korean.

Carla Gugino (1971)

Sandra Oh (1971) Korean.

Deborah Mailman (1972) Te Arawa, Ngāti Porou, Bidjara.

Arjun Rampal (1972) North Indian and Dutch.

Khary Payton (1972) African-American.

John Cho (1972) Korean.

Adam Beach (1972) 7/8 Saulteaux and 1/8 Icelander.

Idris Elba (1972) Sierra Leonean / Ghanaian.

Clemens Schick (1972)

Laverne Cox (1972) African-American - is trans.

Andrew Lincoln (1973)

Kim Seo-hyung (1973) Korean.

Adrian Holmes (1974) African-American.

Sendhil Ramamurthy (1974) Kannada and Tamil Indian.

I'd also consider checking out my age diversity tag too!

[sophia-sol]

books read in 2023

WHAT, how is it already the next year, I'm not ready to be done with my 2023 reading list! This year I read 73 books, which is my lowest total since 2016. I got so distracted by just thinking about Heaven Official's Blessing constantly that I did hardly any reading of anything else for the last several months of the year!

If you want to ask me anything about any of the books I read, please feel free! I'm always happy to talk books!!

Italics indicate a reread. Each book is rated from one to five stars according to my personal reaction to it, rather than my judgement of its objective worth.

January

***** A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf - nf

*** Wild Rain, by Beverly Jenkins

**** The Desert is Fertile, by Hélder Câmara, translated by Dinah Livingstone - nf

***** When the Angels Left the Old Country, by Sacha Lamb

*** Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix, by Anna-Marie McLemore

*** Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski - nf

**** Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe - nf

**** Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your TIme, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, by Christy Harrison - nf

***** How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, by Jason Stanley - nf

*** The Twelve Points of Caleb Canto, by Sam Starbuck

*** Spellcast, by Barbara Ashford

**** Defekt, by Nino Cipri 

February

***** Point of Hopes, by Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett

*** Rabbit Chase, by Elizabeth LaPensée

*** Shelterbelts, by Jonathan Dyck

*** A Restless Truth, by Freya Marske

March

**** Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay, by Merilyn Simonds - nf

*** Volume 1 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

**** The Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope

*** Spear, by Nicola Griffith.

**** How Long ‘til Black Future Month?, by N. K. Jemisin

*** Hello, Melancholic!, by Ohsawa Yayoi

**** The Monsters We Defy, by Leslye Penelope

April

**** The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated and edited by Jack Zipes

*** The Stand-In, by Lily Chu

*** A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys

**** Volume 2 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

**** A Garter as a Lesser Gift, by Aster Glenn Gray

**** Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

**** Magical Boy, Volume 1, by The Kao

**** Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, by Chuck Tingle

*** Welcome to St Hell, by Lewis Hancox - nf

***** The Iron Children, by Rebecca Fraimow

**** A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird, by Rosemary Mosco – nf

May

*** Volume 3 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

*** Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

**** We Ride Upon Sticks, by Quan Barry

**** Surviving Romance, Season 1, by Lee Yone

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 1, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

June

**** Volume 4 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 1: Legend of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

**** Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh

**** Enemies to Lovers, by Aster Glenn Gray

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 2, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

July

***** To Shape A Dragon’s Breath, by Moniquill Blackgoose

**** Volume 1 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

**** Under Fortunate Stars, by Ren Hutchings

**** Honeytrap, by Aster Glenn Gray

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, Volume 1, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

*** Bloodmarked, by Tracy Deonn

August

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 3, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

**** Volume 2 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

**** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 4, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Volume 5, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

** The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

***** The Sleeping Soldier, by Aster Glenn Gray

**** The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, by Desmond Cole – nf

**** Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher

September

*** The Lies of the Ajungo, by Moses Ose Utomi

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 1, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 2, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 3, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

October

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 4, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

**** Volume 3 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

**** Volume 4 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 5, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 6, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

*** The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, volume 1, by Kazuki Irodori ; original story, Yatsuki Wak

November

**** Volume 5 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 2: Turn of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Suzuki Jirou

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 7, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

***** Heaven Official’s Blessing, volume 8, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

December

**** The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter, volume 2, by Kazuki Irodori ; original story, Yatsuki Wak

**** Volume 1 of Umineko no Naku Koro ni Episode 3: Banquet of the Golden Witch, by Ryukishi07, art by Natsumi Kei

***** Heaven Official's Blessing, volume 2, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[veritasislehq]

what fcs would you like to see on the dash?

Oh, where does one begin? There are so many face claims we'd love to see on the dash but here are some suggestions; da'vine joy randolph, savannah welch, brian michael smith, jack black, bree kish, jana schmeiding, cooper andrews, pedro pascal, brian tee henry, lauren ridloff, trevante rhodes, michael b jordan, tom ellis, keanu reeves, kelly marie tran, dewanda wise, zahn mcclarnon, sofia boutella, anna diop, laverne cox, michaela jae rodriguez, nico tortorella, jacob batalon, nikolaj coster-waldau, andy allo, angela bassett, harvey guillen, jason scott lee, hale appleman, aisha hinds, andy samberg, kiana madeira, devery jacobs & quintessa swindell all come to mind!! I could definitely go on longer, though.

[tvintedspvrkmoving]

mobile muse list : television

* original character. ** written as an original character.

it's always sunny in philadelphia :

frank reynolds , fifty eight , danny devito

the waitress , thirty four , rachel mcadams

american horror story :

violet harmon , twenty one , taissa farmiga

bob's burgers :

gene belcher , twenty three , noah centineo

louise belcher , twenty one , hailee steinfeld

tina belcher , twenty five , barbie ferreira

doctor who :

amelia pond , twenty one , karen gillan

clara oswald , twenty six , jenna coleman

rose tyler , twenty one , billie piper

euphoria :

barbara "bb" brooks , twenty three , katie douglas

cassie howard , twenty three , sydney sweeney ( @howaerds )

lexi howard , twenty two , maude apatow

maddy perez , twenty three , alexa demie

ruby "rue" bennett , twenty two , zendaya

glee :

brittany s pierce , twenty three , heather morris / alt tbd

finn hudson , twenty three , adam dimarco

rachel berry , twenty two , hailee steinfeld

santana lopez , twenty two , cierra ramirez

quinn fabray , twenty three , dianna agron

the good place :

eleanor shellstrop , thirty two , kristin bell

janet , ageless , d'arcy carden

jason mendoza , twenty eight , manny jacinto

trevor , immortal , adam scott

gossip girl :

blair waldorf , twenty two , leighton meester

dan humphrey , twenty two , penn badgley

serena van der woodsen , twenty two , blake lively

grey's anatomy :

alex karev , twenty four plus , justin chambers

april kepner , twenty four plus , sarah drew

cristina yang , twenty four plus , sandra oh

george o'malley , twenty four plus , t.r. knight

isobel "izzie" stevens , twenty four plus , katherine heigl

josephine "jo" wilson , twenty four plus , camilla luddington

jules millin , twenty four , adelaide kane

lucas "luke" adams , twenty four , niko terho

lexie grey , twenty four plus , chyler leigh

mark sloan , twenty eight plus , eric dane

meredith grey , twenty four plus , ellen pompeo

mika yasuda , twenty four , midori francis

jury duty :

noah price , twenty six , mekki leeper

new girl :

nick miller , thirty six , jake johnson

winston bishop , thirty four , lamorne morris

outer banks : now at @pcguelife

parks and recreation :

april ludgate , twenty four , aubrey plaza

schitt's creek :

alexis rose , twenty seven , annie murphy

david rose , thirty one , dan levy

shameless :

fiona gallagher , twenty eight , emmy rossum

mickey milkovich , twenty four , noel fisher

phillip "lip" gallagher , twenty six , jeremy allen white

stranger things :

kimberly holloway , twenty two , inde navarrette *

robin buckley , twenty three , maya hawke

supernatural :

brooklyn winchester , twenty two , kaitlyn dever *

charlotte winchester , twenty two , olivia holt *

dean winchester , twenty six plus , jensen ackles

ed zeddmore , twenty seven , nicholas galitzine **

elena gilbert , twenty one , nina dobrev **

harry spangler , twenty five , devon bostick **

hayley wilson , twenty three , maia mitchell *

iliana , unknown , astrid berges-frisbey *

joanna "jo" harvelle , twenty five , dianna agron

kevin tran , twenty one , osric chau

layla rourke , twenty six , rebecca rittenhouse **

lucas barr , twenty four , nick robinson ** ( @medaeium )

sarah blake , twenty three , taylor cole ** ( @provenaence )

weston lane , twenty eight , pete davidson *

superstore :

cheyenne lee , twenty two , nichole sakura

teen wolf :

allison argent , twenty four , crystal reed

asher mccall , twenty two , niko terho *

chris argent , forty three , j.r. bourne

cora hale , twenty one , adelaide kane

daniella coleman , twenty two , chase sui wonders * now found at @ch1maeras

derek hale , twenty five , tyler hoechlin

emma martin , twenty two , madelyn cline * now found at @lupaeus

emmett hale , twenty five , mike faist

erica reyes , twenty three , gage golightly

hadley cooper , twenty three , abigail cowen *

isaac lahey , twenty three , daniel sharman

kira yukimura , twenty three , arden cho

laura hale , twenty eight , phoebe tonkin **

lydia martin , twenty three , holland roden now found at @quiritaetus

malia tate , twenty two , shelley hennig

melissa mccall , forty six , melissa ponzio

noah stilinski , fifty , linden ashby

paige krasikeva , twenty five , maia mitchell **

peter hale , forty five , ian bohen

riley hale , twenty two , zoey deutch / maia mitchell * now found at @haelestorm

scott mccall , twenty three , tyler posey

sierra ngata , twenty four , courtney eaton *

stiles stilinski , twenty three , dylan o'brien

vada parker , twenty six , fivel stewart

walker :

clint west , thirty six , austin nichols

emily walker , thirty six , genevieve padalecki

micki ramirez , thirty four , lindsey morgan

stella walker , twenty one , violet brinson

[kevrocksicehouse]

I have a confession. But first I want to emphasize that none of us is perfect, y’all without sin etc. Everybody has some secret shame that if exposed should be penalized with nothing more stringent than forgiveness. Except this. This is worse. Okay here goes (deep breath):

I DON’T THINK THERE WERE ANY OSCAR SNUBS.

Nope. Not even Barbie. Despite Greta Gerwig’s masterful shepherding of what is so far Mattel’s greatest movie, if Zone of Interest (which I haven’t seen yet) is a dog, I’ll give Jonathan Glazer’s place to May/December’s Todd Haynes. Ditto for Robie who was almost perfect (But what’s up with her still using the Harley Quinn accent?). If Nyad isn’t up to snuff I’ll just slide in Past Lives’ Greta Lee.

It was that kind of year. Lots of good movies and for a change most of them got at least some kind of Oscar nod. But. There were those orphans and also-rans that came up all the way short. No nominations. Let’s honor them, okay?

In other words, it’s time for KEVROC’S ANNUAL BEST MOVIES THAT DIDN’T GET EVEN ONE LOUSY NOMINATION list!

Asteroid City. Wes Anderson had a short-lived Oscar vogue in the last decade with  Best Picture nominations for Moonrise Kingdom in 2013 and  Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014, but this year the consensus was that this deadpan dramatization of the tension between postwar optimism and post-nuclear domination which defined the latter half of The American Century was just a collection of the director’s tropes instead of a humanist masterpiece. It should have been nominated if for no other reason than to give a push to “Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)” for the Best Song award it deserves. (But hey, Wes got a Best Live Action Short nod for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar).

A Good Person. Zach Braff’s directorial rep as the King of Emo, not to mention an early release date kept Oscar voters from this story of two addicts struggling not to relapse in the face of their lives’ biggest tragedy, that gave Morgan Freeman his best role in years and reaffirmed Florence Pugh’s status as the best actor of this decade.

All of Us Strangers. A simple dreamlike plot (a depressed gay man meets his soulmate, and simultaneously gets to see his long-dead parents) becomes a soul-wrenching mystical reverie brought to life by Claire Foy and Jamie Bell as the parents, Paul Mescal as the troubled soulmate and Andrew Scott, who gives a performance so exposed and vulnerable that if it went any further he’d literally shed his skin.

Monica. A trans woman (Trace Lysette) reconnects with her family and is taken for a nurse by her demented, homophobic mother (Patricia Clarkson). It sounds like Joan Crawford doing an Almodovar film but director Andrea Pallaoro goes for subtlety and nuance over camp drama in this quiet gem. Lysette should have been talked about more.

Air. This crazy-entertaining celebration of the marketing synergy of Michael Jordan and Nike got Oscar-overlooked because a whole movie devoted to a celebrity spokesperson deal is maybe just a little too on-the-nose. But it had great work by Chris Messina, Jason Bateman, a Macchiavellian Viola Davis and especially Matt Damon who might be too good an actor to ever win an Oscar for it.

Passages. Ira Sachs examination of why-good-people-love-irredeemable-pricks is a high point in the careers of Adele Exarchoupoulos and Ben Wishaw but was a breakout star vehicle for Franz Rogowski playing the kind of prick who has a one-night stand and is so smitten he can’t wait to tell his husband all about it.

Blue Beetle. You know the superhero movie is in trouble when this crackerjack film about a reluctant Latino champion of his family and community (and whose sidekicks include a Zapatista-veteran grandmother) could only find a fraction of the audience it deserved.  And the line “Now is when we cry” made me cry.

Strays. All apologies to Poor Things and American Fiction, but this profane and scatological tribute to couch-humping, trash-eating dogshit producing (and eating) canis lupus familiaris was the funniest movie of the year.

Bottoms. Even beating out this gloriously tasteless and bracingly absurdist tale of high school lesbians who start a fight club to meet chicks that would win the Jean Hersholt humanitarian award if they renamed it for John Waters.

Taylor Swift: The Eras tour. The Academy’s prejudice against performance films is understandable. Certainly the struggle against dictators in Uganda and Invaders in the Ukraine are more important than a superstar juggernaut’s latest step on her way to world domination. But I’m not the only one who became convinced that the juggernaut was a real (and major) artist. And flashing on the closeups of random fans experiencing pure ecstasy was as moving as anything I saw this year.

[iwasnthere622]

Hi My Name Is... (Ch. 7)

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It took longer than usual to get to Jaylee's house since they couldn't run down from the mine -- Zack tried, but the movement jostled Jaylee's leg too much.

Kim knocked on the door once they got there, giving Jaylee a quick smile.

Sam Scott yanked the door open and just stared for a minute.

"I'm fine," Jaylee said, and that seemed to snap her dad out of it.

"What happened?" he demanded, letting all of them inside and following Zack as he went to the living room couch.

Jaylee winced when Zack set her down on the couch, clenching her jaw at the pain.

"I'm fine," Jaylee repeated, as Kim hopped up on the arm of the couch at her head, Zack standing next to her, Billy at her feet and Trini standing at her shoulder almost protectively.

"How is this fine?" Sam demanded. "You're clearly hurt, is your leg broken?"

Jaylee winced. "It's just sprained, we already had it looked at, okay? Two days of wrapping it and keeping off it and it'll be fine."

Sam exhaled loudly, angry that his kid was hurt, glancing around belated at the rest of them. "Is everyone else okay?"

Trini nodded. "Yeah, we're fine."

"Good... how did this happen?" Sam asked.

"I, uh, fell during a tremor from the destruction," Jaylee said, thinking fast and hoping her lie was believable. "Uneven ground, landed wrong."

"They aren't airing much yet, just a few clips -- it was the same creatures attacking again?" Sam asked.

Jaylee nodded. "Yeah, I mean, we didn't stick around but yeah."

"They were defeated, though," Kim added.

"Yeah, the Power Rangers came back," Billy smiled.

"And kicked ass!" Zack added.

"We didn't stay and watch the fighting, we were just in the crossfire," Trini was quick to add. "We got to safety as quick as we could."

Sam looked around at them all, gaze landing on Jason. "You're sure you're okay?" he asked, reaching to squeeze his shoulder.

Jaylee nodded. "Yeah, Dad. I'm okay," she promised.

Sam nodded back. "Thank god your mother and Pearl were out of town when this happened."

"There were a lot of people running away, I don't think there were many who stuck around," Zack said.

"Yeah, hopefully there aren't too many people hurt," Kim nodded.

Sam sighed, looking around at them all again. "I'm sure they'll say on the news," he said, reaching for the remote to turn the TV on, grainy images of the Power Rangers fighting filling the screen.

"Did they give you something for pain, when they checked you out?" he asked.

Jaylee shook her head. "Uh, no, I didn't want to be admitted so no," she said, lying.

Sam nodded. "Let me get you something, then."

They watched him leave, everyone watching the TV, seeing themselves fighting the putties and Goldar.

"We look so badass," Zack whispered, wincing when Trini punched him and hissed at him to shut up.

Sam came back with some pills and a glass of water, handing them both to Jaylee.

Jaylee took the pills gratefully, doing her best to block the pain out, already planning on morphing in her room at night so she could use that circuit patch...

Sam turned to the TV at the announcement that so far only 5 people had been treated for minor injuries, the reporter saying it was miracle that the Power Rangers had once again shown up to save them before adding they were going to play new footage from the fight.

He watched closely with Jason and his friends, everyone watching as the rock and gold monster swang at the Power Rangers, the footage a bit grainy but you could clearly see Yellow, Pink, Blue, and Red charging at its legs.

The camera panned up to the sky and the flying jet shot at the monster, and you could hear the reporter commenting that Black was the pilot. The camera pulled back down just in time to see Red leap away from a kick and roll, not getting out of the way in time and getting stepped on. The rest of the Rangers immediately pulled rank, and the camera followed Yellow and Pink as they charged the monster, Blue staying with Red.

"We're still processing the rest of our footage, but one thing is certain: the Power Rangers once again saved Angel Grove," the reporter said.

Jaylee winced watching Goldar step on her, leg throbbing in pain, and everyone reached out to touch her in some way, to connect themselves, without even thinking about it.

Sam turned back to the kids, face set, glancing at Jason's leg and the ace bandages peeking out from beneath his sweatpants and then at how everyone was pressed close protectively... He ran a hand over his face, turning to Billy.

"Thank you for protecting Jason," he said, and everyone froze.

Jaylee stopped breathing for a minute, her heart racing in her chest and loud in her ears.

"Uh," Billy said, having no clue how to respond to that. "We, uh, all helped," he tried, but Jaylee's dad shook his head.

"I wish I could kill that thing myself, but I guess thanking you is all I can do," Sam added, looking at Trini.

"D-Dad?" Jaylee asked, eyes wide. He... what...

"Look, I don't know how it happened, or why. I mean, jesus, you are just kids," Sam said, shaking his head and running a hand through his hair. "But you're heroes."

"Dad?" Jaylee repeated, voice cracking. Oh god, oh god, he knew, he knew, if he knew what they were, did he know which ones, did he see her armor, oh god.

"I love you, but subtle you are not," Sam said with a small smile, seeing them all panicking and trying to show it was okay.

"Pink," he said, pointing at Kim, who reeled backwards. "Blue," to Billy, who blinked at him, eyes wide. "Black," to Zack, who was slack-jawed. "Yellow," to Trini, who was glaring.

"Red," Sam said gently, pointing at Jason.

"Dad, I... I can..." Jaylee tried, breath quickening, panicking and glancing around at everyone. Seeing her team panicking, too, she forced herself to take a deep breath, her shoulders squaring.

"Relax," Sam said, "I won't tell anyone. No one else knows? None of your parents?" he added, but the others just shook their heads, all of them glancing at Jason for how to respond.

"You can't tell anyone," Jaylee said firmly, staring up at her dad. "Not mom or Pearl or anyone."

"I won't. This is incredibly dangerous--" Sam said.

"We'll be fine," Jaylee cut off. "We're strong. We're a team," she added, glancing at everyone reassuringly even though nerves and panic were like ice in her gut.

"Clearly the armor you wear isn't invincible," Sam said, waving at Jason's leg.

Jaylee winced. "I'm fine."

"This time," Sam conceded. "What if next time--"

"We'll be faster next time," Jaylee cut him off. "Look, like it or not, this is what we have to do. And you can't tell anyone, even you knowing is a risk -- how did you figure it out?"

Sam snorted. "You aren't subtle," he repeated. "The five of you fall together right when it all happens, and you all wear your colors all the time! And... I knew you were Red when you saved me from my truck."

Jaylee's breath stilled, because fuck, he'd known the whole time, the doctor's notes and covering with the school made so much more sense now, he'd known that Jaylee wasn't cutting to goof off but was cutting to fight putties, all his sudden focus on teaching her to be a man and a leader making sense and oh fuck.

The armor.

If he'd known from the start, he knew that Jaylee's armor changed. Hell, he'd just watched her get stepped on, he had to have seen it, he knew she was Red and her armor was female like Pink's and Yellow's.

Billy reached out to hold on to her right ankle, Kim placed one hand on her shoulder, Zack put his hand on her other shoulder, and Trini took her hand and squeezed, and then she could almost breath again, because she wasn't alone.

"You've always been a leader," Sam was saying, Jaylee tuning back in, watching her dad watching her team pull rank around her but continuing to talk, "you have the ability to push people to their best. And look at what you've accomplished, and without taking any credit or fame... It's dangerous and reckless and that's just like you, isn't it, to find some way to literally throw yourself into the fray. I'm so proud of you."

"Dad," Jaylee choked out, heart racing.

"You've grown up so much these last few months," Sam said. "I love you. And I'll always love you. No matter what."

Trini straightened in front of Jaylee, as if to physically protect her from anything else Sam could say, and Jaylee squeezed her hand. "Trin, it's okay," she whispered.

Sam shook his head. "I can see why you're the second-in-command," he said wryly.

Jaylee chuckled a bit even though she felt like she was going to cry or throw up or both. "If... if you know that I'm Red, that I've always been Red, then you've... you've seen...?"

"You've seen Red kick ass is what you've seen," Zack said fiercely.

"Red is the strongest of all of us," Kim said firmly.

"And the bravest," Billy added.

"Red is the one who holds this team together," Trini said, glare practically daring Jaylee's dad to say the wrong thing.

Sam had known that they must all know, but seeing them acting so protective, knowing Jason went to them when he couldn't go to his own father, it hurt.

"I'm proud of you," Sam repeated, knowing he needed to get this right. "I might not... know a lot, about this. Or what the right term even is... but I love both my children. Both my daughters."

Jaylee stopped breathing, tears pooling in her eyes. "Dad?" she whispered.

"Whatever this is, you can tell me. We'll get through it and make it work. I only ever wanted you happy, and these past few months... hell, these past few weeks... you've practically been glowing. I know I push you, but I just want you to be the best that you can be. You have so much potential, Jason, and I think you see that now, too," Sam said.

"It's, um," Jaylee said, clearing her throat and swiping quickly at her eyes with her free hand. "I, uh, prefer Jaylee, actually."

Sam blinked. "Oh. Okay. Jaylee."

"Y-yeah," Jaylee choked out, trying and failing not to cry.

Sam took a step closer and Trini took a step to the side, giving him room to lean down and hug Jason -- Jaylee.

Jaylee dropped Trini's hand in favor of wrapping both arms around her dad's shoulders, crying into his shoulder and feeling the team hovering close by but giving them this moment.

"Hey, hey, it's okay. You're okay. I love you, you think I'd turn you out for something like this? Never. I'm so proud of you, you're so strong, it's okay," Sam said, just holding her close.

"S-sorry," Jaylee muttered when she eventually pulled back, wiping at her face.

"No, I'm sorry, for not noticing. For not showing you enough support for you to feel comfortable coming to me," Sam said firmly. "Is this... new? The armor didn't change until recently..."

"No, ah, no," Jaylee answered. "It's... I've always. Um. This has always been me. The armor changed once I told the rest of the team."

"Okay," Sam said. "We can... we can talk more later, we can tell your mom, or I can tell her if you want. Pearl will probably love this," he joked.

Jaylee blushed a bit. "Pearl already knows, or at least, she won't be surprised when you tell her."

Everyone was surprised to hear that, even the rangers.

Jaylee shrugged. "She knew to keep the secret."

"Okay," Sam said, a little choked up because wow, was he that terrible a father that Jason -- Jaylee -- felt like she had to hide this and swear her sister to secrecy?

Jaylee nodded, shifting and wincing.

"Is your leg really just sprained?" Sam asked.

"Um," Jaylee hesitated. "No?"

"If it's broken, why didn't you go to the hospital? You need a cast," Sam chastised.

"It'll be healed in two days," Jaylee said. "Don't need a cast."

"Two days?" Sam repeated, shocked.

"Yeah," Kim confirmed. "Accelerated healing came with the package."

"Jesus," Sam cursed softly.

"Two days is the time factor when morphed in the armor, though," Trini added, shrugging at Jaylee's look. "What? He already knows, you might as well morph and then you can use the circuit patch."

"Morph?" Sam repeated, confused.

"Put on our armor," Zack clarified.

"Oh. I mean, if it will help you heal faster, you should," Sam said, nodding at Jaylee. "Where is it, do you need help getting it?"

"We have our armor with us right now," Billy said, hand over his chest.

"Zordon is gonna be so pissed," Jaylee muttered.

"Screw Zordon," Trini muttered back, making Jaylee smile a bit.

"It's probably better if I just show you," Jaylee said, waiting for Zack and Kim to pull the curtains closed, smiling hesitantly at her dad and pulling on her armor, morphing.

The morphing grid responded quickly, immediately tightening around her broken leg and supporting it.

Sam gasped, watching the armor grow and surround his kid, slightly panicked but then the mask dissolved.

"I'm okay," Jaylee said, sighing in relief when Kim slapped the circuit patch onto her leg and it went numb.

"That... that stuff is inside you?" Sam asked, staring and trying not to linger on her chest.

"Yeah, but it's okay," Jaylee promised, sitting up.

"Whoa, take it easy!" Sam snapped, rushing to brace her.

"I'm good, Kim put the circuit patch on. It's numbing my leg, I can't feel the pain," Jaylee assured.

"We don't really understand the technology, either, we just know it works," Billy said.

"It's... it really doesn't hurt?" Sam asked.

Jaylee shook her head. "No, it doesn't hurt."

"Knowing you were the Red Ranger and then seeing it happen right in front of me... and you can all do that? Morph?" Sam asked, looking around and realizing he really had no clue what was going on with these kids or what these powers were. The only thing he did know was that they were using them to protect everyone.

Everyone nodded at Sam, and Jaylee reached out hesitantly. "You okay, Dad?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm good," Sam said, hesitantly touching Jaylee's hand and tracing his fingers up her arm, feeling the smooth metal. He glanced at her leg again, replaying in his head that monster stepping on her. "How strong is this stuff?"

"Pretty strong," Jaylee said.

"And so are we," Trini added.

Sam nodded slowly. "Right... let's get you up to your room. And everyone else should probably go home, I'm sure all your parents are worried about you."

"They know we're okay," Trini said.

"Knowing and seeing are two different things," Sam said.

Jaylee nodded. "It's okay, guys, go."

Kim, Billy, and Zack glanced at Trini, who nodded, making Jaylee smile.

"We'll be back tomorrow, bosslady," Zack said, clapping her on the shoulder.

"Take it easy on that leg, Jaylee," Kim said.

"Don't forget to take off the circuit patch if you demorph," Billy reminded.

Trini glanced at Sam before meeting Jaylee's eyes. "Text us."

"I will," Jaylee promised, waving them out.

"C'mon, let's get you upstairs," Sam said, feeling a little bit of déjà vu helping Jaylee up the stairs, as he'd had to help Jason with the stairs after his truck accident and the damage to his knee.

"What about your knee?" Sam asked once Jaylee was sitting on her bed.

"Healed, for the most part. Takes a lot to push it, now," Jaylee answered, leaning back against her headboard.

Sam nodded, amazed.

"Dad?" Jaylee asked.

"Yeah?" Sam said, turning back from the door.

"You're really... okay with this?" Jaylee asked hesitantly.

"With you being a Power Ranger? Or with you being... Jaylee?" Sam asked.

Jaylee winced. "Both?"

Sam nodded. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay with it."

Jaylee nodded back, lingering fear and nerves slowly fading. "Okay."

"Rest up," Sam said.

Jaylee nodded, watching her dad leave and close the door, settling to lay down and staring up at her ceiling, emotions whirling inside her. Mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted, she fell asleep.

[minniethemoocherda]

A Krispy Kreme Reunion: Billy and Jason (Part 3/3)

Jason finally confronts his feelings for Billy after some help from two stangerly familiar looking strangers.

It was Monday and the Krispy Kreme was packed! For some reason everyone and their mother had decided to come this day. Even with three people (Jason, Kimberly and Zack) working at the counter the que was nearly out the door and people were still coming in.

Jason was completely drained from dealing with hours of this but as the next customer stood in front of him he forced a smile onto his face.

“Welcome to Krispy Kreme what can I-“ he cut off when he realised he was looking at the earnest face of Billy Cranston.

“Billy!” Jason cried, the strained smile on his face instantly melting into a genuine one. “What are you doing here?”

“Buying a Krispy Kreme.” He replied.

“Yeah I know........it’s just you don’t have a shift today.”

“Well I had homework to and I didn’t want to do it at home because my mum is out so I thought I would come here to do it so I can be around you guys and be here in case another alien attacks.”

“Keep your voice down!” Jason whispered at that last part. It pained him to see Billy look so apologetic.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to I-“

“It’s fine Billy, don’t worry about it, just remember for next time Ok?”

“Ok.” Billy nodded enthusiastically. His energy was was contagious and just smiling at Jason gave him enough power to keep on going.

“What would you like?” He asked.

“I’ll have the original glazed please.” Jason smiled knowing it was his favourite. He went to the display counter but couldn’t see any there. It was hardly surprising as it was their most popular donut and they were extra busy today.

“Sorry we haven’t got any right now. If you don’t mind waiting at one of the tables I can bring you one when we’ve got a fresh batch.”

“Ok.” Billy said handing over his money.

Jason’s skin tingled where he had touched his hand.

“Thanks, it shouldn’t be too long.”

He nodded and went to sit down. Jason watched him go then turned to the next person in line, a girl around his age with long brown hair and emerald eyes. He recognised her from somewhere but couldn’t place where. He must share a class with her at school or something.

“Welcome to Kris-“

“Don’t worry bro I got this!” Zack said literally pushing out of the way. The girl rolled her eyes at his antics but both her and Zack had pink cheeks and small smiles. Jason was definitely going to ask about that later.

Just then Kimberly came out of the kitchen with a fresh batch of glazed donuts.

“Can you stay on the till whilst give one of them to Billy?” He asked her.

“As long as I can go an hour early. I’m going to the cinema with Trini.” She said and put one of them on a plate for him.

“Sure.” He headed out to find Billy and found him sitting by the window. The afternoon sun made his body glow but the smile on his face when Jason came over was even brighter.

“Thank you.” He said cheerfully.

“You’re welcome.” Jason replied turning away quickly so he couldn’t see him blushing. He was on his way back to the counter when he heard somebody call out to him.

“You two look so cute together.” The owner of the voice was a woman in a pale pick jacket sitting next to a man in a dark green top. They were both in their early thirties with matching wedding rings and smiles. Like the girl at the counter there was something strangely familiar about them.

“Oh I .....erm......we’re not.....” He stuttered.

“Shame you really do look cute together.”

“Your not bothered by the fact that we’re both guys?” They were around the same age as his parents and they hadn’t exactly taken the news of his bisexuality well.

They both shook their heads forcefully.

“Of course not. One of our best friends Billy is gay and even before he came we never had a problem with it.”

Although Jason was obviously thankful for their acceptance the fact that they knew someone called Billy too struck something inside him.

“Are you ok?” The woman asked at his pained expression.

“I’m fine. It’s just that that the boy that I like is called Billy too.”

“Really?” She said in a conspiratorial tone. “You should ask him out.”

“I don’t know. We’re really good friends. He probably doesn’t even like me that way.” Jason was brave enough to fight off psychotic alien monsters but for some reason asking Billy out seemed a whole lot scarier.

“Well if you don’t ask then you’ll never know.” The man said. “If I hadn’t asked my beautiful wife out twenty-four years, one month and thirteen days ago then I probably wouldn’t be sitting beside her right now.”

“Hey! I was the one who asked you out!” She said gently slapping him on the shoulder with a loving smile on her face.

“Eh details!” He said in return taking her hand in his own. “We met here when we were teenagers and have been together ever since. Don’t always believe what your parents say, sometimes the relationships you make in high school do last forever.”

Jason thought about it. He supposed there was no harm in asking Billy out. He was hardly the type of person to be mean to him if he didn’t return his feelings.

Just then the girl that Zack had been talking too came over with three donuts.

“Here you go.” She said sitting next to the couple who had to be her parents and handing them over a plate of donuts.

“Thanks sweetheart.” The Dad said ruffling her hair making her groan in annoyance.

“You two haven’t been embarrassing me have you?” She asked.

“Why would we do that?” The Mum asked in mock offence. The girl gave her a hard stare in response.

“Don’t worry darling, we were just telling Jason that he should ask out that nice young man.”

“Billy? Yeah, Zack said you should stop making goo goo eyes at each other and get together already.”

“Zack?” The man asked suspiciously.

“Damn.”

“Language!”

Jason left them to it and headed back to the counter. The shop was still busy right up to closing time so he didn’t get a chance to talk to Billy. Jason served his last customer of the day and looked over to the window to thankfully still see Billy sitting there. He took a deep breathe to mentally prepare himself before walking over. He passed the couple and their daughter on their way out and they smiled at him, wishing him good luck. He nodded in thanks and went to Billy’s table.

“I err.... there’s something I’d like to ask you..... would you erm-“

“Will you go on a date with me?” Billy blurred out. “I’ve liked you since tenth grade when you picked up my books for my after Bulk tripped me up although you probably don’t remember.......”

Jason stood there in shock until a smile broke out on his face.

“......... it wasn’t till then that I really started to like you though and thought that you might like me back and-“

“Billy!” Jason said cutting him off. “I’d love to go out on a date with you.”

Billy smiled. “Great! What do you want to do?”

“How about I start by walking you home?” Jason said picking up his new boyfriend’s bag and coat.

“I’d like that.” Billy blushed and Jason could stare at those cheeks all day.

They headed off home unaware of the couple and their daughter watching them go from their car.

“Are you ever going to tell me the real reason we came back here?” The daughter asked.

“You’ll find out soon enough.”

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

[blacknerdwrites]

hey andrew!! hoping youre doing great today!! Who are your favorite dark skinned fcs? i need more people to love!

Thank You anon for requesting this list I had fun listing them and I’m glad you asked for it and I am glad I can help you. This list is in no particular order just the ones that came to my head as I went and the ones I had in my gif hunt tag, some of these may be the rpc definition of dark skin which is anyone darker than Michael B. Jordan but I had to put them on this list because the rpc really need to know people darker than Michael B. Jordan exist, cause with the way y’all covet light skin fcs, y'all act like they don’t. I will not put this under a read more. the rpc will look at it and acknowledge that people with darker skin exist and since I got a lot of this list from my gif hunt tag, best believe a majority of them have resources and the rest need resources to be made so you have no excuse not to use this list to your advantage and utilize it. If you’re like Andrew, don’t read the rpc while you’re helping them, that’s rude. I’m telling you, ignoring people with darker skin tones is also rude, so get over it. Y’all can do better. So do better.

 Anyway, yeah, the list:

Nicole Byer  ·  30+  ·  body diverse  ·  does not identify as straight

Sasheer Zamata  ·  30+

Kirby Howell-Baptiste  ·  30+ 

Anna Diop  ·  30+

Samantha Marie Ware

Aja Naomi King  ·  30+

Amber Riley  ·  30+  ·  body diverse

Bre-Z  ·  30+

Bernard David Jones ·  30+   ·  does not identify as straight

Sterling K. Brown  ·  40+

Aldis Hodge  ·  30+

Daniel Ezra

Brian Michael Smith  ·  30+  ·  body diverse  ·  trans male

Dominique Jackson  ·  40+ ·  trans female

Angelica Ross  ·  30+ ·  trans female

Billy Porter  ·  40+

Lamorne Morris  ·  30+

Dule Hill  ·  30+

D.B. Woodside  ·  50+

Angela Bassett   ·  60+

Viola Davis  ·  50+

Idris Elba  ·  40+

Lovie Simone

Ryan Destiny

Nomani 

Lakeith Stanfield

Brandon Michael Hall

Brandon Michael Smith

RJ Cyler

Tyler James Williams

Issa Rae  ·  30+

Jermaine Fowler  ·  30+ ( please gif him. also if you want to cry please, please, please watch the episode of celebrity drag race he was on with Nico Tortorella) 

Jonathan Daviss

Ashley Blaine Featherson ·  30+

Joko Sims  ·  30+

Paul James  ·  30+ ( he has a whole ass show on netflix called soundtrack someone make him gifs so I can use him )

Thabang Molaba

Chinenye Ezeudu  ·  body diverse

Ncuti Gatwa

Kedar Williams-Stirling

John Boyega

Jade Payton

Ama Qamata

Michaela Coel ·  30+

Nafessa Williams  ·  30+

Sonequa Martin-Green  ·  30+

Jeremy Pope

Isaiah Mustafa  ·  40+

DeWanda Wise ·  30+

Ester Deen  ·  30+

Yandeh Sallah

Léo Daudin

Luke James  ·  30+

Alex Newell  ·  body diverse  ·  genderfluid

Kimberley Drummond

Assa Sylla

Ashleigh Murray

Rutina Wesley  ·  40+

Shameik Moore

Algee Smith

Tsion Habte

Sinqua Walls  ·  30+

Siddiq Saunderson

DeRon Horton

China Anne McClain

Gabrielle Union  ·  40+ 

Zuri Adele ·  30+

Kofi Siriboe

Brandon P. Bell ·  30+

Shannon Thornton ·  30+

Javicia Leslie ·  30+

Malcolm-Jamal Warner ·  40+

Yvette Nicole Brown  ·  40+  ( THIS WOMAN HAS BEEN IN SO MANY SHOWS. SHE COULD HAVE SO MANY POTENTIAL RESOURCES WHY ARE Y’ALL NOT GIFFING HER???? )

Danai Gurira ·  40+

Lupita Nyong'o  ·  30+

Danielle Brooks  ·  30+  ·  body diverse

Mehcad Brooks  ·  30+

Gabourey Sidibe  ·  30+

William Jackson Harper  ·  40+

Cress Williams  ·  40+

Jesse L. Martin  ·  50+

Mike Colter  ·  40+

Shamier Anderson

Amiyah Scott ·  30+  · trans female  

Chris De'Sean Lee

Eddie Leavy  ·  body diverse

Spence Moore 

Marcel Spears  ·  body diverse

Nonso Anozie ·  40+   ·  body diverse

Okieriete Onaodowan  ·  30+   ·  body diverse

Jason Winston George  ·  40+

Chandra Wilson  ·  50+

Jessie Usher

Lena Waithe  ·  30+

Jovan Adepo  ·  30+

Trezzo Mahoro

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II  ·  30+

Taye Diggs  ·  40+ 

[dear-indies]

Hi y'all! I love your suggestions and I was wondering if I could possibly get some for a sort of rugged, once-was-a-hippie, 40-50y/o man? Thank you so much!!

Keanu Reeves (1964) Native Hawaiian, Portuguese, English, Scottish, at least 1/16th Chinese, remote Dutch / English.

Ian Harvie (1968) - trans.

Tony Hawk (1968)

Nick Offerman (1970)

Nick Frost (1972)

Khary Payton (1972) African-American.

Eric Dane (1972) English, German, Scottish, Finnish, Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish.

Idris Elba (1972) Sierra Leonean / Ghanaian.

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (1972) Korean.

Adam Beach (1972) Saulteaux and Icelandic.

Anson Mount (1973)

Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (1973)

Andrew Lincoln (1973)

Sendhil Ramamurthy (1974) Kannada and Tamil Indian.

Pedro Pascal (1974) Chilean [Spanish, Basque, possibly other], 1/16th Peruvian.

Randall Park (1974) Korean.

Seth Green (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974) Jewish, German, Dutch, Indonesian.

Joaquin Phoenix (1974) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, with some Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Irish, Welsh, and French Huguenot.

Neil Sandilands (1975)

Jason Sudeikis (1975)

Óscar Jaenada (1975)

T.J. Thyne (1975)

David Harbour (1975) - has bipolar disorder.

Tim Rozon (1976)

Ryan Hurst (1976)

Scott Caan (1976)

Adrian Grenier (1976) Mexican [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous], as well as possibly 1/8th French / English, Irish, Scottish, German, remote French.

Eric Christian Olsen (1977)

Kristofer Hivju (1978)

Tyler Labine (1978)

Josh McDermitt (1978)

Santiago Cabrera (1978) Chilean [Spanish, Basque, French, Belgian/Flemish, English, Irish, German, possibly other].

Tom Ellis (1978)

Lee Pace (1979) - gay.

Adam Brody (1979) Ashkenazi Jewish.

Here ya go!

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Silvio Simac

Scott Adkins

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Ant & Dec

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Aaron Gasser (5’8.5-9” max in person!)

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Andrew Flintoff

Arnie (back in 03/03/2013)

Bill Duke [back in 2017]

Cynthia Rothrock

Dan Stevens

Eric Roberts [back in 2005?]

Jason Statham

Jet Li

Jonathan Ross

Keanu Reeves

Kevin Nash

Matthew Marsden

Michael Jai White

Randy Couture

Ronnie Coleman

RVD [back in 2011]

Tom Benedict Knight

Adam Kiani (Listed 6'0")

Alan DELABIE (Listed 5'9")

Andy On (Solid 5'10")

Art Camacho (Listed 5'8")

Aziz Cem (Claims 180cm)

Berry Demey (Listed 6’0”)

Cynthia Rothrock, Angelika Anqi Nimbach (Listed 172cm)

Dan Severn (Listed 6’2”)

Daniel Stisen (Listed 5'9")

Darren Shahlavi (5'10.5")

Dean Williams (5'6" tops)

Dirk Rabe (Listed 5'7")

Don Wilson & Paul Logan (Both Listed 6'0")

Gary Amen (5'9" range)

Guy Bleyaert (5'7-8" tops) & Stilian Keli (5'11" max)

James Lew (5'8" range)

Jason Ninh Cao (Listed 5’6”), Choi Tseveenpurev (Listed 5’6”), Lisa Carrodus (Claims 5’8”)

Jean Carbonaro (5'7" max)

Kamran Kam (5'9.5-10" max)

Kash Gill (Listed 6'3")

Lee Charles (Listed 6'2")

Maria Tran (Listed 5'3")

Mark Lester (Listed 179cm) & Bevan Viljoen (Claims 6’3”)

Mark Sears (Listed 172cm)

Master Wong (1st left, 5'5" tops)

Matt Fiddes (Listed 6'4")

Matt Routledge (Listed 6'1")

Merrick McCartha (Middle, 5’9” range)

Nacho Serapio (Listed 5'8.5")

OLIVIER GRUNER (Listed 6'0")

Paraschiv Amansio (Listed 5'8")

Philip Mawdsley (Listed 5'9") (in trainers, Silvio in Astro shoes)

Simon Rhee (Listed 5'9") & Phillip Rhee (Listed 5'9.5)

R. Marcos Taylor (Listed 6'2" or 187cm)

Robert Maaser (Listed 184-5cm)

Ross O'Hennessy (Listed 178cm)

Salar Zarza (2nd Right, Listed 5’10”) & Sezer Özdemir (1st Right, Listed 5’10.5”)

Sandy Holt (5'4" max)

Sanjay Dutt (5'11.5" tops) (In Cubans, Silvio in Trainers?)

Sunny Singh (Listed 5'8")

Taimak (Listed 5'11")

Tazito Garcia (5'11" max)

Tiger Chen (Listed 5'9") (in flats, Silvio in boots)

Valery Mikalauskas (Listed 182cm)

Zara Phythian (Listed 5'5")