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I just finished The Alpha’s Son by Penny Jessup and I had Thoughts. It hasn’t had great reviews, but I thought it was fun. Warning: possible spoilers?
Alpha Jericho of the Elite pack from New York sends his son and heir Jasper with a small delegation to Green Creek to meet with Ox and Joe, ostensibly on wolf business. To Jasper’s dismay, Alpha Jericho insisted that Max joins him as part of the Elite pack’s entourage.
When they arrive, Max is awed when he meets Ox. He’s heard so much about the Werewolf Jesus™ and he’s been nervous for the whole journey to Oregon knowing that he might get to meet him.
Max is super awkward when they arrive. He momentarily forgets how to address alphas so Max calls Ox “my lord” and “your majesty”, and curtsies to him awkwardly like Theresa May does.
Embarrassed and exasperated Jasper holds his face in his hands. The Bennett pack finds Max adorable but have to choke back their laughter.
Max loves all the Green Creek wolves and humans but immediately takes a shine to Robbie. Cubs and young wolves seem to have an affinity with Robbie, and Robbie always jumps at the opportunity to befriend a wolf from Back East. (I could never pin down the accent of audiobook Robbie - was that a Long Island accent?)
Gordo warns Robbie that Max isn’t a stray cub needing adoption—Max has his own alpha and pack, that Gordo is well past taking care of adolescent wolves, and doesn’t want to go through that again
Max and Jasper try to keep their being mated a secret (Jasper is still trying to push Max away—because he thinks Max will be safer if they’re not together) but of course the Green Creek wolves suss it out pretty quick. They notice the dreamy look Max always has on his face when he looks at Jasper or smells him in the room. Jasper tries to put on a steely calm and professional face because he’s on Official Wolf Business, but he can’t control his scent, and they can all smell it on him. They all simultaneously sniff their air, but the Bennett pack politely say nothing at first. Max goes beet red when realises what has just happened.
Robbie asks Max how Max and Jasper met and on hearing that the Blue Moon Festival had a big part in it, Joe snorts and calls it the ‘weird horny meat market thing’ the New York pack does. Everyone is like what? and then Joe tells them what he’s heard about it, about how its just a summer camp for unmated wolves and hooking up isn’t just encouraged but is the whole point of it.
Joe: “have I got that right?”
Max: “yeah pretty much”.
Kelly is horrified, “gross imagine how ripe that place would smell”
Rico says he wishes he had been a New York wolf in his teens
Later, Carter pulls Max aside and says “I get it, right? I didn’t know I was into guys until a dude wolf happened to me too”
Gavin: “Not dude. Stop calling me that”
Carter: “Sorry dude”
Gavin: “Stupid Carter”
Gavin cannot believe that Max never shuts up “Cub always talking. Never stops. Mouth moving but says nothing. All teenagers like this?” No, just twinks with two brain cells like Max.
But Gavin can’t help but ask Max what Jasper smells like to him: “mint and citrus and cherry blossom”
Ox puts on his Zen Alpha Bullshit™ and counsels Jasper about what it means to be alpha and that he doesn’t have to be like his father Alpha Jericho, he just needs to be true to himself, and Ox is all “my daddy said I’d get shit all my life” but the Bennett pack all roll their eyes
It turns out that the Official Wolf Business that Alpha Jericho has sent Jasper and Max on was pretty much a lie. The actual business was trivial and it could all have been done over Zoom. Jericho just wanted Jasper to meet and learn from Ox, and to see that an alpha and his male mate could work (Jericho thought that giving his blessing to Jasper and Max would fix everything but Jasper decided to be a martyr and push Max away—whats with these self-denying, self-sacrificing princeling wolves?). When Jasper realises this, he growls, mad. Ox says he didn’t know, but he can’t help his heart hitching.
They only stay a few days. Max begs Jasper to let them stay a little longer, but time’s up and they have to return to New York. Ox tells Jasper to give him a call if he ever needs anything.
Before they leave, the two packs run together in the forest, and Jasper brings Max the carcass of a recently hunted deer...
there weren’t many places outside of the library that brought jasper joy, but the various coffee shops dotted around blue harbor were a fairly good alternative. they were quiet, they were safe, and they produced hot chocolate by the bucketload if he had the means to pay for it—and he often had a full loyalty card to soften the blow for good measure. that afternoon, he was sat with his fellow bibliophile; jasper and james had crossed paths at the library, seeing the man hunched over and grading papers, and ever since they had been the first to send him a text, wide-eyed and excitable, at the end of a particularly good book. “and then,” there was a thin white line of whipped cream across the librarian’s upper lip, “it turned out that it was the mum all along. i couldn’t believe it! i mean, i knew she was weird throughout the whole book, but . . . ” they shrugged and wiped the mess away, “it still had me rushing to the end to figure out what else i’d missed.”
As bisexual visibility month approaches us, I wanted to highlight a few bi books we don't see people talking about much and give people some recs for bi books to read!
Books listed:
Fall Into You by Georgina Kiersten
Splinter by Jasper Hyde
Spring on the Peninsula by Ery Shin
When Tara Met Farah by Tara Pammi
Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington
More to Love by Georgina Kiersten
When the Stars Alight by Camilla Andrew
Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva
i love where this season is taking us. finding out about the first stoats. that the stoats of last bast speak human. tula locking down bennett at the thought of walmer showing up again. lukas as either a 3rd level bard or 10th level expert sidekick. the entire concept of dr. tara steel.
in other news, we have the final class updates for burrow's end! i'm expecting level 10 to be their endpoint, as they've all landed there this episode. everybody multiclassed, with 3 cleric multiclasses this season.
tula: stoat mom as a feat is all i'm going to say. towards the end, she's really leaning into the healing aspect with the cleric levels.
initial level: redemption paladin 4
final level: redemption paladin 7 | life cleric 3
jaysohn: adhd karate boy, or all stoats in a nutshell. a true killer like his grandma.
initial level: astral self monk 4
final level: astral self monk 5 | swashbuckler rogue 5
viola: the embryonic diapause storyline is going to kill me, i can feel it. it is indeed. instead of going more magic like tula she went more martial.
initial level: devotion paladin 4
final level: devotion paladin 7 | champion fighter 3
thorn vale: anxious wife guy cult leader is something i didn't know i needed until now, but i'm so glad that that's where jasper went with him. and now he's really leaning into the cult and the power of the blue.
initial level: fey wanderer ranger 4
final level: fey wanderer ranger 5 | tempest cleric 5
ava: if generational trauma was a stoat. the commitment to the werther's? phenomenal. she died and came back with magic.
Feel free to request anything for the following fandoms! | Requests
Rules for requests:
I will NOT write rape, incest, SA.
You may request for characters not on this list but If I'm unfamiliar with the fandom it probably will get skipped over.
I will write reader x character, character x character, character x requested person (your name).
I'm not familiar with the transgender community, but I will be willing to write for it if you specifically put in your request what I should and shouldn't put in it.
You can request romantic relationships, friendships, and basically any type of relationship you want as long as it isn't incest.
Please do not request for celebrities or any real people because I will not write for them.
TEEN WOLF |
DEREK HALE
Snuggles & Snarles
SCOTT MCCALL
STILES STILINSKI
ISSAC LAHEY
LIAM DUNBAR
ALISON ARGENT
LYDIA MARTIN
MALIA HALE
THEO RAKEN
TWILIGHT |
JASPER HALE
EDWARD CULLEN
EMMETT CULLEN
ROSALIE HALE
ALICE CULLEN
CARLISLE CULLEN
JACOB BLACK
BELLA SWAN
(Any of the other wolves)
TVDU |
DAMON SALVATORE
STEFAN SALVATORE
JEREMY GILBERT
TYLER LOCKWOOD
KAI PARKER
KLAUS MIKAELSON
ELIJAH MIKAELSON
KOL MIKAELSON
Soulmates (coming soon)
Lost & Found | PART 1
Lost & Found | PART 2
FINN MIKAELSON
ELENA GILBERT
CAROLINE FORBES
BONNIE BENNETT
REBEKAH MIKAELSON
FREYA MIKAELSON
HOPE MIKAELSON
PLL |
JASON DILAURENTIS
ANGEL
Drunken Kisses
Every Minute, Every second
WESLEY FITZ
MIKE MONTGOMERY
CALEB RIVERS
TOBY CAVANAUGH
NOEL KAHN
ARIA MONTGOMERY
HANNA MARIN
EMILY FIELDS
SPENCER HASTINGS
MONA VAANDERWAAL
THE OUTSIDERS |
DALLAS WINSTON
JOHNNY CADE
PONYBOY CURTIS
DARREL CURTIS
STEVE RANDLE
TWO-BIT MATTHEWS
SODAPOP CURTIS
(I'm willing to write for other characters but I'm sort of unfamiliar with characters from the Shepard family.)
MCU |
Literally, request for any Marvel character and I will write for them.
MY BRAIN LEGIT DIED WHEN THIS CAME UP IN THE EPISODE!!! 😭😭✋✋ MY BRAIN HAD JUST A STRAIGHT-UP MALFUNCTION!!! Literally Jasper's facial expression was mine too when that happened!! 😭😭✋✋💀💀
I love how Thorn literally tells Tula that they shouldn't go up to the humans and be like "hey buddy" because it ruins their element of surprise but LITERALLY THAT IS EXACT WHAT VIOLA DID when she went up to the human and went "HEY GIRL! HEY!" Literally doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Thorn and Tula were discussing about in this moment earlier on in the episode! 💀✋ Like y'all! 💀✋
Also, Bennett offering Tula the thimble of water at the end of this scene was so cute as well!!! 🥺🥺❤️❤️
This is an idea I came up a little bit ago when scrolling through the TMA wiki. So, many of the canon Web avatars are already associated with certain spiders like Annabelle Cane as the Black Widow or Raymond Fielding's episode being called "Recluse" for a Brown Recluse.
So, what if each Web avatar (and some specially marked non-Web Avatars) each had a spider associated with them. These spiders manifest in places that the avatar wants them to be and gives them a general sense of what is going on in the room that they are in. The more advanced avatars will be able to control them more and take in more information from their spiders.
Here is the list so far (I will avoid putting pictures up for those with arachnophobia, but I do recommend looking them up as they are all so cool):
Orion Cerebri - Pretty Orb Weaver
Thea Brooks - Sheepy Jumping Spider
Barnabas Lukas-Bennett - Regal Jumping Spider.
Manphy Lukas-Bennett - Tiny Blue-Faced Peacock Jumping Spider. Cillian Fanshawe Callaghan - European Nursery Web Spider
Dr. Jonathan Callaghan Fanshawe - Skeletorus Peacock Jumping Spider
Father Ignis Callaghan - Cross Orb Weaver
Father Edwin Burroughs - St. Andrew’s Cross Spider
Adonis - Dancing White Lady Spider
Venari - Huntsman Spider
Annabelle Cane - Black Widow
Raymond Fielding - Brown Recluse
Jasper Alder - Ant-Mimicking Jumping Spider
Nell Keelin - Peacock Jumping Spider
John Doe - Sparklemuffin Peacock Jumping Spider
Arthur Lester - Bunny Harvestman
Charlie Dowd Detective Noel Finley - Tuxedo Wolf Spider
Kayne - Long Horned Orb Weaver
As always, I would love to talk about the relation of these spiders to these characters. If you want more of the funky things me and my friends have added to the TMA universe (and other podcasts as well), please check out the tag #ocelli expansion pack !
🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!
❤️ The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck
🧡 Heading North by Holly M. Wendt
💛 The Wisdom of Bug by Alyson Root
💚 Trick Shot by Kayla Grosse
💙 A Holly Jolly Christmas by Emily Wright
💜 Outdrawn by Deanna Grey
❤️ Yours Celestially by Al Hess
🧡 The Christmas Memory by Barbara Winkes
💛 Violet Moon by Mel E. Lemon
💙 The Santa Pageant by Lillian Barry
💜 Only for the Holidays by Shannon O’Connor
🌈 Homestead for the Holidays by Wren Taylor
❤️ You Can Count on Me by Fae Quin
🧡 No One Left But You by Tash McAdam
💛 The Worst Thing of All is the Light by José Luis Serrano, Lawrence Schimel
💚 Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed
💙 Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt
💜 Emmett by L. C. Rosen
❤️ Finding My Elf by David Valdes
🧡 Tonight, I Burn by Katharine J. Adams
💛 Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
💙 Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
💜 A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
🌈 We Are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull
❤️ The Manor House Governess by C.A. Castle
🧡 You Owe Me One, Universe by Chad Lucas
💛 Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen by Sarah James
💚 Skip!: A Graphic Novel by Rebecca Burgess
💙 Something About Her by Clementine Taylor
💜 Touching the Art by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
❤️ A Nearby Country Called Love by Salar Abdoh
🧡 Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us by Karen Tongson
💛 Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost by Esme Symes-Smith
💙 The Order of the Banshee by Robyn Singer
💜 Once Upon My Dads’ Divorce by Seamus Kirst, Noémie Gionet Landry
🌈 Forsooth by Jimmy Matejek-Morris
❤️ A Common Bond by T.M. Kuta
🧡 Risk the Fall by Riley Hart
💛 Just a Little Snack by Yah-Yah Scholfield
💚 Home for the Holidays by Erin Zak
💙 NeurodiVeRse by MJ James
💜 Dark Heir (Dark Rise #2) by C.S. Pacat
❤️ sub/Dom by Rab Green
🧡 Bitten by the Bond by Elaine White
💛 Heir to Frost and Storm by Ben Alderson
💙 The Sea of Stars by Gwenhyver
💜 Bad Beat by L.M. Bennett
🌈 Idol Moves by K.T. Salvo
❤️ Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa
🧡 In the Pines by Mariah Stillbrook
💛 The Crimson Fortress (The Ivory Key #2) by Akshaya Raman
💚 Only She Came Back by Margot Harrison
💙 Megumi & Tsugumi, Vol. 4 by Mitsuru Si
💜 Pritty by Keith F. Miller Jr.
❤️ Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid
🧡 An Atlas to Forever by Krystina Rivers
💛 Come Find Me in the Midnight Sun by Bailey Bridgewater
💙 Bait and Witch by Clifford Mae Henderson
💜 Shadow Baron by Davinia Evans
🌈 Day by Michael Cunningham
❤️ Livingston Girls by Briana Morgan
🧡 Delay of the Game by Ari Baran
💛 The Nanny with the Nice List by K. Sterling
💚 A Talent Ignited by Suzanne Lenoir
💙 A Kiss of the Siren’s Song by E.A.M. Trofimenkoff
💜 Rivals for Love by Ali Vali
❤️ Whiskey & Wine by Kelly Fireside, Tana Fireside
🧡 Buried Secrets by Sheri Lewis Wohl
💛 Ride with Me by Jenna Jarvis
💙 Living for You by Jenny Frame
💜 Death on the Water by CJ Birch
🌈 Merciless Waters by Rae Knowles
❤️ Vicarious by Chloe Spencer
🧡 Sapling’s Depths by Spencer Rose
💛 That French Summer by Sienna Waters
💚 System Overload by Saxon James
💙 King of Death by Lily Mayne
💜 Warts and All by Ashley Bennett
❤️ Principle Decisions by Thea Belmont
🧡 The Best Mistake by Emily O’Beirne
💛 Sugar and Ice by Eule Grey
💙 Until The Blood Runs Dry by MC Johnson
💜 Splinter : A Diverse Sleepy Hollow Retelling by Jasper Hyde
🌈 The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q by Felicia Davin
❤️ The Queer Girl is Going to be Okay by Dale Walls
🧡 Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose Black
💛 Leverage by E.J. Noyes
💚 Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
💙 Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon
💜 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
❤️ To Kill a Shadow by Katherine Quinn
🧡 Warrior of the Wind by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
💛 For Never & Always by Helena Greer
💙 A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sally Hawley
💜 Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 8 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù
🌈 A Carol for Karol by Ann Roberts