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The Easter Bunny aka LJ Ross dropped a new DCI Ryan book. I'm a very happy (Easter) Bunny and already half way through the book. I love it so far. Happy to read about new adventures of the criminal investigation department and Ryan's team in famous Northumberland settings. Also, reading this, I hear it in my head in Jonathan Keeble's voice, who narrates the audiobooks. I'll have to wait for the audiobook a while longer, but its great to have a new story already 😊
And of course imagining Ryan looking like this (my manip)
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AI Assistant or Authorial Apocalypse? The Future of Fiction is a Human-Machine Dance
Forget robots churning out bestsellers – the truth about AI in fiction writing is far more nuanced. While AI can’t replace the human touch that breathes life into characters, it’s emerging as a powerful tool for brainstorming, research, and even co-writing alongside human authors. Science fiction has long depicted a future where robots write our novels and compose our symphonies. But is AI truly…
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Dragon shifters let’s gooo
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hi!🤍 your lj x fem!r x cp was suuuper good!! i was wondering i could request a headcanon ver of this??
Your sins are my command 🙏🙏
— ❝ 10 LJ x fem!Reader x Candy Pop Headcanons
Headcanons that continue this fanfiction .
NSFW tags: Dacryphilia, threesome, teratophilia, superiority kink, jealousy, hate fucking, mentions of sex toys, rivalry sex, switch dynamics, bdsm elements, oral sex
For starters, they are still rivals. Jack and Candy both can't stop bickering and trying to one up each other to gain all your attention. Jealous sadistic clown + jealous needy jester = insane situations
Jack is a Service Dom with primal urges while Candy is a Verse. Candy can be either a service Dom or a petty pillow princess, it all depends on what he is in the mood for.
Both jokesters love to watch you scream and cry for the both of them. The two fucking into you as you cry out their names, the overstimulation pricking your brain as they mercilessly bash all the right places. A twist of sadistic natures and taunts filling the room as you fall limp like putty in their claws.
Jack and Candy are rivals, they hate each other but they aren't against fucking around with one another. Depending on your mood, you love to watch the two growl and snarl as they fight for an inch of dominance. Their snark remarks and violent comments making your sick stomach swirl with a kindled passion.
Jack and Candy both like hearing you beg them with pet names. Pleading "sir"s and "mister"s spilling shamelessly out of your mouth as they tease your body to the limits.
Jack prefers to fuck your throat. The clown loves to watch you choke on his length as Candy pounds you on the other end, sending vibrations and mewls right down on his stripped penis. His soft grunts and guttural moans filling your ears as he thrusts into your mouth.
You and Jack enjoy toying with Candy when he bottoms, and you relish it. The way his eyes glaze over with a neediness as you teasingly touch all the right places on his body. Jack's teasing taunts making Candy whimper and squirm under you two, causing pleasurable shivers down your spine.
Since the two love toying with you, what is more fun than them playing with sex toys with you? The way you moan and squirm as Jack fucks a vibrator into you, Candy's hands keeping your hands restrained. The way they sadistically torture you with all the right toys makes your brain mush, your incoherent babbling fueling their pleasures even more.
Aftercare is the best thing and worst thing ever. Jack and Candy are more focused on you with cherishing you than fighting with one another. Though some nights can be pretty hard hearing such bickering at night.
You make sure to keep Jack's box in a safer place that Candy can't get. Sometimes the fighting so too much, so you quickly respond by hiding their prized protections and possessions to distract them. Dealing with these jokers is a tough struggle sometimes.
#creepypasta#creepypasta smut#not safe for minors#creepypasta x reader#creepypasta x you#mdni#smut#creepypasta x y/n#creepypasta headcanons#laughing jack x you#laughing jack headcanons#laughing jack x reader#laughing jack smut#candy pop x reader#candy pop creepypasta#candy pop#smut headcanons#creepypasta headcanon#headcanons#smut hcs#nsft
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"Strength (Bell Donner Gives Her Word)"
I posted this short story on LJ back in 2007, and I said I'd repost it here for Halloween. I did an audio reading 15 (!) years ago that I'd like to redo in better quality in the near future; I'm also curious to see what it would sound like now that I'm the age I imagined the main character to be. This version is lightly revised, but the story is mostly the same.
That fall a number of people in Chesterville were mauled to death by some kind of wild dog or coyote—the kind that apparently wasn’t too afraid to go right up to people as they took out their trash at night, or let their own tame, domestic dog out not too long after dawn. But it was a small town out in the sticks, verging on farm territory: quiet. Not like a wild animal was marauding up and down Times Square or anything. Not like it was in plain view. So people just started being more careful—not venturing out alone until midday, or not venturing out at all without a loaded shotgun—and things were all right for a while. Then, in late October, the animal came back, and this time, someone survived.
An old lady by the name of Edna Mayhew—well, yes, she lost her arm from the elbow down, but she came out of it a damn sight better than any of those who’d come before her. And she said that it was a wolf, definitely a wolf, but it had come at her on two legs, and when she had smacked it in the face with a veiny little fist, it had held her down with two arms and bitten her forearm clean off. The only thing that saved her, she declared, was her neighbor Bill “Thursday” Thurston, who had heard her screaming and come out with both barrels blazing. He claimed that the thing he saw ran away on four legs, but that it was, in fact, Goddamn Huge. This was about the time that that new photo of Bigfoot lumbering around on all fours came out, which several professors and scientists swore up and down was just a bear with mange. Eddie at the Red Brick printed out the picture and taped it up by the bar, and the next time Thursday came in for a beer, he said, yeah, the thing he chased off Miz Mayhew kinda looked like that. Maybe it was a wolf with mange. Mange was a terrible thing, after all. He’d managed to hit it with at least one shot, though, so he didn’t think it’d trouble people too much after that.
So, going into November, that was where things stood. Whatever it was, it had mange, and it had probably gone off and died quiet somewhere. Bell Donner wasn’t terribly worried about it when she went outside one morning to get more wood for her kiln. She threw artisan pottery out on a little farm a few miles to the west of Chesterville anyway; every week or so, she’d go into town for groceries, mail out her online orders, maybe stop at the Brick for a burger and a drink, and hear what was to be heard. She had little to tell about herself, but folks like to tell their stories, and she knew Miz Mayhew from the post office. She learned that people were keeping their guns out, their doors locked, and their pets inside; she heard the recitation of tales. But whatever the thing that Bill Thurston shot had been, it and its mange were not likely to bother Bell. Or so she thought, until that morning when she was piling kindling into the crook of her arm, looked up, and saw it standing at the edge of the yard.
It didn’t have a human face, but it was standing—on two long, lanky legs that curved back into hocks like a dog’s. One—arm?—was held close to its belly. Probably protecting wherever Thursday shot it, thought Bell, her brains feeling thick and logy. That was the best reaction she could dredge up: Yeah, six-foot man-shaped wolf thing hunched over in my yard, probably not feeling too good right now. It didn’t have a human face, but it did have a very human expression—desperate, she thought, and cranky. Maybe resentful, even. And hungry.
Bell put down her armful of kindling and picked the axe back up.
The thing staggered forward a step or two. It was still a good twenty feet away.
“Go on, now,” she said. “Get. Ain’t nothin’ here you want.”
The thing gazed at her, its eyes watching the axe; it almost seemed to—calculate? She’d seen it, after all, and it was hungry. A human murderer wouldn’t have let her live, and this wasn’t even human.
Bell hardened her voice and rode over a quaver like it was a speedbump: “Go on now. I won’t tell nobody if you just go.” It was on the tip of her tongue to offer it some food—she had a pot roast from the other night, and she was still knee-deep in leftovers—and then she thought, You dumbass, you feed it once and you’ll never get rid of it. “G’on now,” she said, her hands tight on the axe handle. “Just get. You got my word. I won’t tell nobody.”
It was still standing there, reckoning. And then it stepped back, making a tactical withdrawal into the brush at the back of the yard. She saw it drop back down on four legs and lope away awkwardly towards the thicket out behind the farm, a scrubby bit of forest that led into some of the foothills. Probably some good caves in there, she thought. The wolf-thing wasn’t the only one out there who could calculate. And when the attacks started in Chesterville again, and then moved a bit north—northeast of Bell’s farm, and then back down to Chesterville, and then southeast of her farm, and then back to town again—she knew it was being careful. It knows better than to shit where it eats, she thought to herself. Or eat where it slept, more precisely, but the saying held the same. There were some people at the sheriff’s office who probably would have given a lot to know about a thicket in the foothills west of Chesterville, particularly since Edna Mayhew was still the only survivor. But Bell Donner had given her word; she valued her word almost as much as she valued her life, and they were pretty much the same thing in this case, she decided. After all, it’s one thing to know where something lives. It’s another when something knows where you live, and a deal was a deal where Bell Donner came from.
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When I was in high school, I stumbled across an artist that really grabbed my attention and held onto it tightly. His work was gorgeous and fantastical and gory and also more than a little…salacious. All things that teenaged me love. This artist’s name was Luis Royo, and his works often involved some variation of beautiful, thin, light-skinned, half-naked women looking moody and forlorn covered in blood or boning some buff dude in some dystopian wasteland of a universe. But sometimes, Royo’s women didn’t settle for boning random men. Sometimes they preferred something a little more…inhuman. Yeah, baby, I’m talking about monsters.
Now, eventually I stopped buying Luis Royo’s books. I don’t remember why—I mean, I don’t even remember how I started buying them in the first place considering all of my mail was routed through my mother, because again, this was high school—but I stopped. But that didn’t mean that I also stopped thinking about ladies banging monsters. That never stopped. I didn’t have a vocabulary for this interest. I didn’t know what it was called, I didn’t know if other people liked it. I was consuming Royo’s work on my own and forcing it on my high school friends who were considerably less interested in the monster stuff than I was. So I kind of learned to just keep it quiet. But the interest certainly didn’t go away.
As I got older and started to explore different types of art and media and ways of telling stories, I found myself continuously drawn to some version of humans and inhumans connecting, falling in love, getting it on. Sometimes that looked like a really intense vampire phase and an appreciation for all things Anne Rice and Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse. Sometimes that looked like a really deep interest in folklore that involved humans marrying animal brides and bridegrooms. Sometimes it looked like a fixation with the movies of Guillermo Del Toro. And sometimes that looked like accepting there was probably a strange and unconventional reason that Beauty and the Beast was my favorite Disney movie growing up.
I mean. Did y’all see the beast?
It wasn’t until late 2022 that all the dots started connecting. I had decided I wanted to read more, specifically more romance. I added some BookTok accounts to my TikTok feed. I started talking more about romance books with a friend. I started exploring the world of spicy adult paranormal romance and joining Kindle Unlimited, which was very exciting all on its own. And that’s when I found it, my holy grail: the book subgenre known as monster romance. You know that saying, “All roads lead to Rome”? It was kind of like that, except all the roads I took lead to the city of monsterfucking. Monsterfucking was my Roman Empire, if you will. And what a glorious empire it was.
As I’ve engaged more directly and consistently with the monster romance genre, it’s inspired a lot of thoughts for me. That’s why I’ve started this blog, because I can’t stop thinking about fucking monsters, and I want to explore the idea in a lot of different ways. For today, I want to talk a bit about why I think monster romance holds so much appeal for me and for the many others who enjoy it. That seems like as good a starting point as any.
When I was thinking about this question, one of the first things that came to mind was a blog post I read a number of years ago that never really left my head. It was written by Cleolinda Jones over on Livejournal. If you’re an older millennial viewer, Cleolinda’s name might sound familiar, as she’s the author of some very funny movie recaps she called “Movies in 15 Minutes,” which was my introduction to her. But Cleolinda is also known for her Twilight recaps that she posted to her LJ account. These recaps fused a summary of the books with her own observations, and man, her observations were good.
In Cleolinda’s recap for the first Twilight novel, she gets into why she thinks the series has had the success that it’s had. She specifically talks about how she feels Twilight is just an extension of the “good girls wanting a bad boy” trope.
I actually don't think girls like a guy who treats them bad. But I do think they--we--get off a little on the idea of changing someone for the better, or the idea of having the power that someone loves us so much that he'll change or sacrifice something for us….A nice guy doesn't need to change, and, most importantly, he's already nice to everyone. How do you know that you're special if he treats everyone else with as much kindness and respect as he treats you? The "bad boy" type, though? He may range from simple, garden-variety jackhole…to appalling psychopath…, but you know he loves you because he's completely different around you. You are an exception to his very nature���.That's the fantasy.
Now, I’m not saying every male lead in a monster romance is a jerk, because a lot of them aren’t. (Don’t worry, Sol, I’d never let anyone accuse you of being mean.) But I do think by virtue of these monsters being, well, monsters, there’s a given understanding by readers that a human should not be fucking one. Monsters are predators, monsters are dangerous, monsters are not made for cuddles and smooches. But these monsters in these books? Especially the ones who are a little rougher around the edges? Seeing them soften for their human partners is deeply satisfying and scratches the exact kind of itch that I think Cleolinda is referencing.
But long before Cleolinda was musing on bad boys, writer and literary critic Hélène Cixous was posing something related in her essay “Love of the Wolf.” This essay has a number of interesting things to say on the tension between love and fear, using the metaphor of loving “the wolf,” aka loving a thing that can harm or destroy us, to make her point. Cixous writes about the thrill of fear when in love, and suggests that we must have that true fear to experience true love.
But happiness is when a real wolf suddenly refrains from eating us. The lamb’s burst of laughter comes when it’s about to be devoured, and then, at the last second, is not eaten. Hallelujah comes to mind. To have almost been eaten yet not to have been eaten: that is the triumph of life. But you’ve got to have the two instants, just before the teeth and just after, you’ve got to hear the jaws coming down on nothing for there to be jubilation. Even the wolf is surprised. (Stigmata, pg. 77)
It’s the idea, once more, of the person that we care about changing their very nature to be with us. The bad boy will treat us with kindness. The big bad wolf won’t eat us. The monster will love us tenderly. We humans are special, something to be cherished, even by something traditionally seen as negatively as monsters have been.
It makes me think too about the popularity of dark romance on BookTok and Bookstagram. Monster romance is kind of like dark romance taken to a different sort of extreme. In dark romance, there is often a baseline threat of violence or a disregard of consent. The male leads are often cruel, unpredictable, and inconsiderate. Their love of the other character drives them to stalk or kill or harm others, and even to be deeply, toxically controlling and possessive of the main character. And this is why folks like them. These are the real bad boys, and I mean the really bad boys, that Cleolinda’s talking about. And with the monsters in monster romances, there can be a lot of overlap. The monsters can be cruel and controlling for sure, but even when they aren’t, their very existence as monsters makes them a super unconventional choice for a human person. If the mafia boyfriend with anger issues who you know you should avoid is appealing, than the entirely different species with claws and fangs and a tail who you’re really not supposed to want to bone is that appeal taken about three steps further.
At some point I’d like to explore the different sorts of monster romance book covers that are popular with authors and artists, because I think they get at the last topic I wanted to touch on today when it comes to the appeal of monsterloving: aesthetics. Size kink can be fun in every genre, but monster romances really understood that particular assignment. The monsters in these books are massive in every possible area. Their muscles are chiseled, their tails are long, and their eggplants are otherworldy. Not to mention, a monster may even have more than one.
There’s also the contrast of furry or scale-covered monster bodies embracing soft, fragile human bodies. Monster bodies are foreign and unique; they’re a fantasy that can’t be found anywhere else, which makes the fantasy inherently more interesting. There’s a lot more that can and should be said here about the gender dynamics at play in the design of these monstrous figures and their human partners, and even possibly the racial dynamics too, but for now I just want us thinking about how the physical depiction of monsters and humans together holds an undeniable appeal to a large number of people. I’m thinking again about Luis Royo and the success of his art that explored this very thing. And that’s really interesting to me.
I’ll stop there for today, I think. See you in the next post!
Currently Reading: Devoured by Monsters - Katie May & Ann Denton
Monster Joke for the Road: What was the dramatic monster’s favorite play?
Romeo and Ghouliet.
Until next time, monsterfuckers.
#teratophillia#terato#monsterfucker#monster lover#monster romance#my posts#art#luis royo#helene cixous#monrom
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5 Short Fic Recs for Friday
going through some family medical nightmare so didn't really have time to check out a lot of new fic. also blog is on queue sorry if i missed any mentions and stuff. hope to be back when life gets better! anyway this week's recs! mostly old fic rereads.
The Concentration of Salt in Fresh Water (After the Deluge) by Jay Tryfanstone. Ginny/Giant Squid. 100 words. Drabble. The writing feels so atmospheric and evocative. I am really on a Tryfanstone binge at the moment and loving it. Especially love the prose and the storytelling creativity. Definitely on the LJ fandom prose style side.Which can be pretty different from modern styles. YMMV. Wishes unwritten rise like bubbles to the surface. Some – don’t burst.
2. October by ashesasheshackles. 3 Drabbles. 300 words. The first drabble is a super sharp character study of Barty Crouch Jr. Really precise and powerful. Even without the costume of another's flesh, even if it was his own bones that propped him up, his father would have failed to see him.
3. Devotion by Anonymous. 26000 words. Complete. Snarry a thon 2023 fest collection. Snarry fic. Intense/dirty bad/hot/wrong. Exactly what I want from my Snarry! Though the worst crime of all is Potter’s. "Did you want to die?" Also The boy knows — he knows — he can take anything he wants. That bitter surrender is surrender all the same. That the force of Severus’ loathing is fed by his longing.
4. Ouroboros by eldritcher. 26500 words. Complete. One of their older fics which got reposted on AO3. Omg. The level of whoa! in this fic. Dysfunctional John Wick Voldemort wins, gets his revenge and ofc victory is totally pointless. When he understands that he gets depressed. Like really depressed. Like Kafka levels of depressed. Voldemort seducing Narcissa ftw. Voldemort pimping out Narcissa to get Snape's loyalty even more ftw. Honestly this fic was a total feverdream. Its not really a pairing fic. More of a Voldemort character study. It was a gentle game from then. I saw to Narcissa every day, cocooned her in pleasure and safety, and softly snuffed out her devotion to her husband. Lucius, poor Lucius, was too proper to pleasure his wife as she desired. I, on the other hand, had spent my childhood in the alleys of London’s East End.
5. charitable explorations by oh_gilderory. This is a Wolfstar comic with Trans Sirius Black. Complete. From the HP Trans fest 2023 collection. Short and sweet. Modern AU. Streamer Sirius. Kind of blurry and i had to zoom a lot on my kindle. but idk maybe that's just my kindle. But definitely wanted to share it because I loved it.
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What philosophy would you recommend to beginners?
hm these are all things that aren't super different to read but serve as pretty good introductions to various areas....
lj austin's How to do things with words. (free on internet archive). this is a really fun intro to phil of language! austin has a dry sense of humor that always really appealed to me and this is a lot more approachable than a lot of other classic or contemporary phil of lang texts but a lot of the ideas are still super relevant!
legally i have to say plato. bc he really did set the tone for. everything that came after pretty much. we're all more platonist than we realize. Republic is a classic and it's got the famous cave allegory but it's Long so i usually suggest either Phaedrus, Meno, or Symposium to start instead. they're all pretty entertaining dialogues and symposium is probably my favorite. though heads up phaedrus and symposium talk about pederasty a good bit. unfortunately most of the free online translations are pretty dated and clunky and don't get the way plato's prose just flows so sexily, but gill's translation of symposium at least is available for 99 cents on kindle. (my favorite translations are probably those by grube or bernardete tbh).
merricks' "do ordinary objects exist? no." is a good intro to contemporary metaphysics and the kind of logical reasoning analytic philosophers do today and the way consistent logical application can lead to counterintuitive results. i dont care enough about metaphysics to have an opinion and mereological nihilism (u will know what that means if you read the article) but it's a fun read that gives a good feel for analytic philosophy as a whole!
bechter's "what is trans philosophy" is a bit dryer but still a great read for an underappreciated but really interesting and in my mind important field. "trapped in the wrong theory" is also great!
and i need to include something that's concretely about ethics so. one of my favorites is "love as a moral emotion"
#trying to limit this to things that are enjoyable for normal ppl to read and easily available for free or little money on line is killing m#philosophy posting
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Mystique of the Fallen (D’Vaire, Book 42) by Jessamyn Kingley
NEW RELEASE Book Title: Mystique of the Fallen (D’Vaire, Book 42) Author and Publisher: Jessamyn Kingley Cover Artist: LJ Anderson of Mayhem Cover Creations Release Date: October 24, 2024 Genres/Tropes: MM Fantasy/Paranormal Romance, Fated Mates Heat Rating: 3 flames Length: 90 660 words Goodreads Series Link Buy Links – Available in Kindle Unlimited Amazon US | Amazon UK Two…
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6. 16. 32. and 59. for the fic game
6. What’s the last line you wrote?
Have two for a little context:
“Father is looking for you,” Rhaena called after his back.
“It is good for an old man to have some occupation,” Baelon returned without looking and carried on with his own plans.
16. Do you write by hand, on your phone, or on your laptop?
All of the above - mostly longhand (mostly on a kindle scribe which does some handwriting recognition) and laptop but occassionally in one of the many too nice to write in notebooks I own and then finish things on the laptop but I occassionally add a sentence or idea to a google doc on my phone
32. Do you take fic requests? Why or why not?
I mean I take drabble requests occassionally on here and I'm happy to be sent ideas and stuff for pairings I am on board with but whether they stick in my head or not and actually get written is another thing altogether.
59. Have you participated in any fic events/writing challenges? If yes, what were they and did you enjoy them?
I used to do the lj fic exchanges way back in the day at which point I realised I liked writing fic better than requesting - i'd fill in the form and then be I want to write these ideas so then I just did pinch hits. And I'm planning on taking part in @mirabellemoira's Jacaela event next month.
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Amazon Celebrates a Decade of Kindle Unlimited
This week Amazon Books is celebrating 10 years of Kindle Unlimited - a digital reading subscription service allowing customers to read as much as they want on any device with the Kindle App, choosing from millions of eBooks, thousands of audiobooks and hundreds of magazines. First introduced in 2014, Kindle Unlimited was designed to give customers the freedom to explore genres, discover authors, and dive into a world of audiobooks and magazine subscriptions. Since 2014, Kindle Unlimited members have read more than 3 billion books globally. Since 2014, authors using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and choosing to make their books available through Kindle Unlimited have collectively earned more than US$3.5 billion for reads of their books through Kindle Unlimited. Over the last ten years on Kindle Unlimited in the UK, the most popular genre has been Romance, with Colleen Hoover proving the most popular author within this category. Her title, Reminders of Him: A Novel takes the fifteenth spot in the most read books on Kindle Unlimited in the past decade. Romance is also in the air for Amazon Publishing bestselling author, T L Swan, whose steamy novel The Stopover (The Miles High Club) also makes the top 20 most read books on Kindle Unlimited in the UK, with the author also sitting in seventh in the most read author list of the past decade. Following Romance, Thrillers are the next most popular on Kindle Unlimited in the UK, with this genre comprising almost 50% of the top 20 most read titles on Kindle Unlimited in the UK. Interestingly within this genre, there is a real appetite for independent authors who publish via Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). In the UK, it is independent author LJ Ross who leads the way as the most popular KDP author on Kindle Unlimited, with six of her DCI Ryan Mystery novels featuring in the top 20 Most Read titles. 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I'm so curious about your favourite books (dark romance and otherwise) outside of the devils night series? Are there any other dark romance series that have stood out to you like devil's night? Any standalone that you liked?
Hey!! I wish I had something for you. A long list of recs that we all lose our minds over. That’s the best part of reading and fandoms, I think. Unfortunately, I don’t.
Devil’s Night caught me at a weird time, when I was going through something. I read a lot of dark romance fanfic when I was an unsupervised teenager with unlimited internet access, and sort of got over it after a while. After I finished DN and still had time left on my KU subscription, I tore through a bunch of what was offered. None of it sticks out now, and it’s been a few years since then.
But for you, I went through my old kindle account. These are in no particular order, just as I found familiar names that I've read various series/books from:
Monica Murphy LJ Shen S. Massery Elle Kennedy Saffron A. Kent Callie Hart Sav R. Miller Selena
There's probably a few others that I didn't find, and several authors that I tried but ultimately didn't like anything I picked up enough to finish. I hope that helps, however vague it is.
There is one series that still comes back to me from that time, other than DN. I’ve spoken about it before, but it’s the Crown Pointe series. I would technically call it a dark romance, because of it’s tropes, but I know much darker things are published daily on KU.
Heartless Hero and Stolen Soulmate are great, and I honestly wish that DN’s writing and plot development were similar to Crown Pointe. CP, in general, uses its pages and time to serve the plot and characters better than DN. In CP, after every interaction between the main characters, I knew something had changed or progressed in some way. Even the sex served to change the dynamics between the characters, either to the reader or the characters, which made it feel more useful to the story, than just shoved in because it’s what’s expected.
(as a bonus point, the couple in Stolen Soulmate is interracial. I know some people were complaining about that with DN.)
The thing that CP lacks that DN has is an interesting cast of characters. I like the main characters for each book well enough. There were some minor characters I would like to get to know better. There were plans for those characters to get their own books, but they were never published for some reason. As you can probably tell, because my conversations about DN usually circle around character relationships and dynamics, interesting characters and plot are more important to me than the overall romance.
I’m currently reading A Walk to Remember. A friend said that the ending is different than the movie. I think it’s probably just their interpretation. Still, I’m reading to find out if I feel the same. So far, I much prefer the movie to the book. The updated setting, the changes made to the characters, and how they interact and progress are more engaging and, honestly, make more sense. As it is, the movie took the basic premise and characters names. But we’ll see. Maybe my thoughts will change. It’s my first Nicolas Sparks and I think it’ll probably be my last.
A few weeks ago, I finished a re-read of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I was once again struck by how successfully the author was able to convince me of the close, lifelong friendship between the four girls, while keeping the focus on Vivi, and her eldest daughter, Sidda, front and center. The movie doesn’t do it justice. Last year sometime, an anon that went by Z asked for stories that featured female friendships, and I still hold this one up as a good example.
Below is a scene that made me want to read the first time the horsemen were arrested. Was Will excited? Kai stressed? Damon annoyed? Did their dad's fight in the Thunder Bay police station lobby? Was Martin just a baby cop?? Give me all the moments.
But I'm also really fond of this scene on its own.
Don’t know what I am going to read next. I’ve debated before about whether I should post more about what I’m reading or watching. I know that the followers I have are here for DN stuff, though I never meant to limit it to that. As the DN fandom goes quiet on tumblr, I question whether it’s a good time to archive this blog, and leave it as it is. I’d keep it active, but only as a collection of Devil’s Night stuff. Or if I should divert to other topics as I go.
Since you’re following for a reason, I’ll ask you. Keep in mind, if I really wanted to spend the time building a new blog for what I'm reading, I would. It's not a huge deal.
Thanks for reading this far. I know it went way of track, as I usually do. I love talking, after all.
And I appreciate the question, even if my answer isn't much of an answer.
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We've been cleaning out our basement and reorganizing it and came across some old books of mine and my dad just stacked them on the shelves which bugged my organization cause there's series and series orders so I just put laundry in the washer for 56 minutes and organized them. Crazy what memories I unlocked.
I have partial or full:
City of Ember(I Loved this one in late elementary school)
Maximum Ride
Maze Runner(A summer vacation read, bought books 2 and 3 in TX after visiting my cousin for an afternoon on my way back to our aunt's)
Divergent (I was huge into ya dystopian fiction as a teen. Huge)
Lorien Legacies(This was one I wish I had finished)
The Missing by Margret Peterson Haddix(Scholastic book fair era)
The Vampire Diaries(I noped out of the series after the LJ Smith getting fired for wanting a Delena endgame drama. Did not want to support publishers who fired authors telling their stories)
Delirium
And a lot of random books
Honestly a few of these I wouldn't be opposed to re-reading and finishing as an adult on my Kindle.
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