#l...lauren?

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

What do you think the Wiz kids would look like in fionnaworld?

well spader would be a bald blonde bitch

and ofc we already have this tiny hannak concept art of blain and cadaniel they live in my head. I make that tbh finn face when I think about them

[flaine]

puck + being so completely into lauren

@glifswap gift for @backslashdelta 💜

[m3tth4ws]

[murasaki-cha]

*how I imagine the Kieran reveal going*

Kym: I knew it! I freaking knew it!

Will: oh my god Lauren how could you!

Kieran: I knew it would be like this

Lauren: Guys please he's not that bad-

Kym and Will: HE'S THE PURPLE HYACINTH!

Lauren: You don't have all the facts!

Will: Which are?

Lauren: I love him

Will:

Kym:

Kieran:

Lauren:

Will: excu-

Kieran: You wha-

Lauren: shi-

Kym: god I owe Randall so much cash

[bookishbethanyerin]

• book recommendations •

I’ve been reading a lot of fantasy⚔️ and also it’s finally the first F1 race week of the year🏎️ and also I watched a romcom that I actually enjoyed💕, so here is a little round-up of book recs based on all of these things!💋

What have you been reading and loving lately?

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

ships m/f but only with the understanding that it's because he's a gay man and she's a lesbian and they fucking hate each other and want to be constantly covered in one another's blood because of their toxic codependency and they each have their own homosexual love interested but they can't be separated from each other

[angelmush]

we slept w the window open last night and the cool fresh air was spilling over us and everything smelled like spring we had the most restful sleep

[idowantfrieswiththat]

Female author alignment chart I made with @edgylord. Based purely on their writing and vibes.

Note a certain author is not mentioned at all. And she won't be at all. At. All.

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (October 8th, 2024)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers

The Dividing Sky by Jill Tew

Red in Tooth & Claw by Lish McBride

If You're Not the One by Farah Naz Rishi

Divine Mortals by Amanda M. Helander

I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner

Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond & Teghan Hammond

The Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance by Joshua Ulrich

Light Enough to Float by Lauren Seal

Giddy Barber Explodes in 11 by Dina Havranek

Wrongs Answers Only by Tobias Madden

Zodiac Rising by Katie Zhao

Sally's Lament by Mari Mancusi

A Vile Season by David Ferraro

Fledgling by S.K. Ali

Only for the Holidays by Abiola Bello

Twenty-Four Seconds From Now... by Jason Reynolds

New Sequels:

Under All the Lights (When It All Syncs Up #2) by Maya Ameyaw

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Happy reading!

[kyleetryme]

heathers hamilton au!! laf herc and John as the heathers

[dbguidebook]

L$D Dispatches From PFW @ Givenchy. #Societythings

[m3tth4ws]

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Eternals (2021, Chloé Zhao)

13/05/2024

[garadinervi]

Everything is fine, with Patricia L. Boyd, Lauren Burrow, Fred Lonidier, and Ian Burn, 1856, Melbourne, 2019 [BOOKS at, Amsterdam]

Exhibition: Everything is fine, with work by Patricia L. Boyd, Lauren Burrow, Fred Lonidier, and Ian Burn, Curated by Nicholas Tammens, with assistance from Lydia Mardirian, Ziga Testen, and Nicholas Mangan, 1856, Melbourne, as part of Paris Internationale 2019, Paris, 16-20 October 2019 (exhibition pamphlet pdf here)

[bakertoons]

Just want to thank everyone who pre-ordered the new "Lauren Ipsum" book!

I will place an order on the first week of December. In the meantime you can still get the book here!

[cantsayidont]

Video Killed the Radio Star

If you don't already feel sufficiently alienated from the culture of your generation, consider getting into old time radio. It's pretty easy to do: Radio was mainstream media from the 1930s well into the 1950s, and it hung on for quite a while after it started losing ground to television. There's a huge amount of programming in various genres, and a surprising amount of it survives; there was a cottage industry in OTR cassettes and CDs for many years, a lot of shows can be found in MP3 format without much effort, and some of it pops up regularly on streaming platforms.

The easiest way to get into it is if you're already got a fondness for some older Hollywood star: If they were a movie star between 1930 and 1960, there's a good chance they guest-starred in various radio shows, and they might even have had their own show for a while. For instance, do you like Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall? Around 1950, they had their own syndicated radio adventure series, BOLD VENTURE, which was essentially an extended riff on their characters in the 1944 film version of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. Orson Welles, of course, was a big radio star, playing the lead on THE SHADOW in 1937–38 and then bringing his Mercury Theatre company to a number of different one-hour and half-hour radio series. Vincent Price starred for several seasons as Leslie Charteris's Simon Templar on THE SAINT. And almost everyone who was anyone showed up now and again on SUSPENSE or LUX RADIO THEATRE (which produced all-star one-hour adaptations of popular movies). If you're a Superman or Sherlock Holmes fan, the radio versions of those characters are a must — Holmes was a perennial presence on English-language radio for decades.

If you want something more modern, the British kept producing generally high-quality radio dramas in surprising volume until relatively recently, including a range of both adaptations and originals. Unlike American radio, the survival rate for older British programs from the '40s and '50s is poor, but the BBC has continued periodically airing its better material from the '70s through the '00s, a lot of which has been offered on cassette and CD. For instance, there were excellent BBC radio series dramatizing the Wodehouse Jeeves and Wooster stories (with Michael Hordern and Richard Briers); Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series (with Ian Carmichael); and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries (with John Moffat), along with standalone plays on programs like SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE. The big limitation with British radio dramas is that the number of British radio actors who can do convincing American accents is not high (and is definitely lower than the number who mistakenly think they can), and the availability of American actors who know how to act for radio is clearly even more limited, which can become a grating problem when dramatizing American material.

One of the reasons that listening to older (and/or British) radio shows will contribute to your cultural alienation is that it will make a lot of modern dramatic podcast series and audio dramatizations excruciating, because it will reveal to you how bad a lot of modern audio dramatists and performers are at this once commonplace art. (If you are or are contemplating doing a dramatic podcast or audio drama, please, for the love of dog, make a close study of radio shows created before you were born, and diversify enough to recognize the mediocrity of hacks like Dirk Maggs, who's been stinking up audio drama on two continents for four decades now.)