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faedawayyy · 3 years

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*lowkey better than the ogs*

EMBERLY RIVERS - @.emberlylovesx

23 years old she loves stan culture and is forever on stan twitter and instagram she is quite immature and WILL leave nasty comments and pick sides if she feels like she has to/want to. she gets VERY jealous of the fans who get noticed because it’s like her goal lmao. she can also be very sweet though and knows how to make celebs like her/care about her as their fan.

STAN LIST

young mi & blackpink, lottie, salem, violet, avery, mcfly, addy, amy, victoria, cameron, whitney...(i’ll add and change this as she developed, if i haven’t included your character lmk!)

CURRENT DRAMA AND ISSUES

- she’s FIRMLY team violet in the roman x violet x dixie drama - she STRONGLY dislikes dixie because she ships roman x violet - her other ships include river x daisy, victoria x kitty, ethan x addy and freddie x delena, maverick x harlow - even though addy and ethan are toxic, she loves the fact they were high school sweethearts - she hates peter c and thinks that bianca can do better - her favourite carmichael sister is pippa - she’s not a big fan of alternative music from like lillian and amelia - her biggest crush from the tour is avery, closely followed by jacob

RUEBEN ODELEYE - @.ruebendoesit

24 year old and has self-declared that he’s the father of the fandom part of the lgbtqia+ community and is proudly homosexual he thirsts over the boys so badly and they make up 99% of his stan list the girls he stans are mainly the fashion girls - harlow, fleur, perrie, dixie, luna, kendra etc. he LOVES the drama but doesn’t really pick sides, he just likes watching mess unfold he feels he’s elite because he knows his talent academy history and all about the older generation too.

STAN LIST

jay, kai, ethan, nicolai, noah, cam, river, avery, flynn, tomos, peter r, peter c, jihoon, eric, lennox, odin.

CURRENT DRAMA AND ISSUES

- the mendoza cruz siblings are elite to him, there isn’t another family that compares - he is pro-daisy. he loves that she has so many of the guys wanting her. - he is THE BIGGEST umbrella academy stan. even though he doesn’t follow the actors as individuals, that show is his shit - he LOVES peter and victoria and never takes sides in that - salem is his favourite musician out of the liberty girls - baby one more time is his fave song - he ships jay sylvia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> but also get off of his man - dwight is his favourite from the OG generation.

AUSTIN DOHERTY - @.austin_d

25 years old (can u believe that timothee is older than mac) he’s honestly not that big of a stan of anyone but has ambitions to be famous and will 100% take advantage of fan culture to meet famous girls (and guys if he has to) because he doesn’t actually want to work for fame, just the lifestyle. he’s less likely to like the famous guys, just bc obviously they’re dating girls he wants to get with LOL he has quite a few connections in the academies and always knows whats going on

STAN (i wanna be your groupie) LIST

addy, dixie, ally, salem, luna, mila, maddie, sofia, violet, whitney, youi, tilly, harlow, young mi, delena, daphne, lillian, amy, louisa, victoria, perrie

CURRENT DRAMA AND ISSUES

- he’s VERY superficial. he’s only interested in the most famous/the prettiest. if a celeb isn’t as good looking as the ones he usually stans, he probably won’t care. - he does not give a shit about ships/friendship cliques or anything like that but again, pretends he does to fit in

#next gen #saved #next gen - fans

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thefacelesswanderer · 7 years

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21.

In honor of my amazing collab with @triwizard-tardis, Molten Magic, I have updated that insane ship list I posted a year or two ago..... It got REALLY long, sorry!

21. Who do you ship?

Harry Potter:

Draco/ Harry

Draco/ Hermione (very rarely, but occasionally there’s a REALLY well-written fic)

Draco/ Ginny

Harry/ Hermione

Harry/ Ginny

Ron/ Luna

Ron/ Hermione

Krum/ Oliver Wood

Seamus/ Dean

Neville/ Luna

Neville/ Hermione (Only seen it once or twice, but it worked for some reason)

Blaise/ Draco

Draco/ Daphne Greengrass

Remus/ Sirius /James (Marauder era)

Remus/ Sirius (Marauder era and now)

James/ Sirius (Marauder era)

Remus/ Nymph

Blaise/ Pansy

James/ Lily (obvs)

Luna/ Ginny

Hermione/ Ginny

Fred/ George

Harry/ Draco/ Ron

Fred/ George/ Harry

Alice/ Frank Longbottom

Bellatrix/ Voldemort

Crossover with Harry Potter:

Harry/ Ed Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Harry/ WuFei Chang (Gundam Wing A/C)

Severus Snape/ Zechs Marquise (Gundam Wing A/C)

Harry/ Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing A/C)

Hermione/ Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing A/C)

Hermione/ WuFei Chang (Gundam Wing A/C)

Draco/ Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing A/C)

Luna/ Stoll brothers (Percy Jackson)

Harry/ Edward Cullen (Twilight)

Draco/ Jacob (Twilight)

Hermione/ Prince Adam (Beauty and the Beast)

Ron/ Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

Gundam Wing A/C:

1x2x1 (Heero/ Duo)

3x4x3 (Trowa/ Quatre)

1x2x3 (Heero/ Duo/ Trowa)

3x2x3 (Trowa/ Duo)

2x5 (Duo/ WuFei)

5x6 (WuFei/ Zechs)

5x13 (WuFe/ Treize)

5x6x13 (WuFei/ Zechs/ Treize)

6x13 (Zechs/ Treize)

6x9 (Zechs/ Noine)

5xSally (WuFei/ Sally)

Dorothy/ Relena

1x2x3x4x5 (Heero/ Duo/ Trowa/ Quatre /WuFei)

6x1 (Zechs/ Heero)

9xSally (Noine/ Sally)

Fullmetal Alchemist:

Ed/ Winry

Ed/ Al (I’m shipping trash, I’m so sorry)

Roy/ Riza

Roy/ Ed

Ed/ Lust

Havoc/ Lust

Izumi/ Sid

Maes/ Gracia

Lin Yao/ Lan Fan

Al/ May Chang (panda midget princess)

Al/ Winry

Ed/ Rose

Ed/ Envy

Hoenheim/ Trisha

Ed/ Greedling (Greed and Lin once they’re combined)

Ed/ Lin

Crossover with Fullmetal Alchemist:

Ed/ WuFei (Gundam Wing A/C)

Avatar the Last Airbender:

Zuko/ Katara

Toph/ Aang

Suki/ Sokka

Sokka/ Yue

Mai/ Ty Lee

Pakku/ Gran Gran

Suki/ Katara

Azula/ that jackass from Ember Island (It’s Chen or something)

Azula/ Mai/ Ty Lee

Yue/ Jet

Azula/ Teo

Mai/ June

TyLee/ Haru

Marvel:

Steve/ Bucky

Steve/ Tony (bonus if Peter Parker is their kid)

Clint/ Natasha

Bruce/ Tony

Thor/ Jane

Loki/ Tony

Loki/ Thor

Sif/ Thor

Sif/ Jane

Darcy/ Maria Hill

Peggy/ Angie

Peggy/ Colleen

Steve/ Peggy

Tony/ Pepper

Peter/ Mary Jane

Peter/ Gwen Stacy

Peter/ Harry Osbourne

Steve/ Sam

DC:

Bruce/ Clark

Bruce/ Dick

Bruce/ Jason

Dick/ Wally

Dick/ Koriand'r (Starfire)

Dick/ Jason

Dick/ Damien

Dick/ Roy Harper

Dick/ Tim

Jason/ Tim

Jason/ Damien

Tim/ Kon-El

Cass/ Barbara

Cass/ Steph

Wally/ Artemis

Jaime/ Bart

Tim/ Kon/ Bart

Roy/ Jade (Chesire)

Roy/ Koriand'r/ Jason

Dinah Lance/ Oliver Queen

Dick/ Kaldur'ahm

Clark/ Lois Lane

Garr/ Raven (Beast Boy)

Kaldur’ahm/ Tulla

Bart/ Secret

Jason/ Roy

M'Gann/ La'gaan

Roy/ Wally

Bart/ Clarion (ICE CREAM– this is for you daveyjacobskemp)

Cassie/ Cissie

Anita/ Slobo

Zatana/ Dick

Musicals:

Jack/ Davey (Newsies)

Jack/ Davey/ Katherine (Newsies)

Sarah/ Katherine (Newsies)

Sarah/ Hannah (Newsies)

Katherine/ Hannah (Newsies)

Specs/ Romeo (Newsies)

Specs/ Race (Newsies)

Spot/ Race (Newsies)

Raoul/ Christine (Phantom of the Opera)

Christine/ Meg Giry (Phantom of the Opera)

Fantine/ Jean Valjean (Les Mis)

Enjolras/ Grantaire (Les Mis)

Marius/ Cosette (Les Mis)

Cosette/ Eponine (Les Mis)

Joly/ Musichetta/ Boussett (Les Mis)

Jean Valjean/ Javert (Les Mis)

Enjolras/ Courfeyrac (Les Mis)

Jehan/ Combeferre (Les Mis)

Bahorel/ Feuilly (Les Mis)

Fairy Tail:

Natsu/ Lucy

Gray/ Juvia

Erza/ Jellal

Gajeel/ Levi

Evergreen/ Elfman

Natsu/ Lisanna

Freid/ Evergreen

Freid/ Mirajane

Mirajane/ Reedus

Loki/ Lucy

Loki/ Aries

Bisca/ Alzack

Hetalia:

Austria/ Hungary

Austria/ Switzerland

Belarus/ Russia

Denmark/ Norway

France/ England

Germany/ Italy

Hong Kong/ Iceland

Poland/ Lithuania

Prussia/ Austria

Prussia/ Hungary

Prussia/ Canada

Russia/ China

Russia/ America

America/ Belarus

Sweden/ Finland

Asian orgy

Nordic orgy

France/ England/ America/ Canada

Spain/ Romano

ENGLAND/ AMERICA

Taiwan/ Japan

Rome/ Germania

Holy Roman Empire/ Italia

Switzerland/ Lichtenstein

France/ Scotland

Sealand/ Wy

World orgy

Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit

Legolas/ Gimli

Frodo/ Sam

Merry/ Pippin

Tauriel/ Kili

Thorin/ Bilbo

Galadriel/ Gandalf

Galadriel/ Elrond

Aragorn/ Legolas

Aragorn/ Arwen

Merlin

Merlin/ Arthur

Arthur/ Gwen

Lancelot/ Gwen

Lancelot/ Gwaine

Gwaine/ Percival

Gwaine/ Elyan

Merlin/ Lancelot

Merlin/ Gwaine

Gwen/ Morgana

Morgana/ Mordred

Percy Jackson and the Olympians/ Heroes of Olympus:

Percy/ Annabeth

Jason/ Piper

Percy/ Nico

Jason/ Nico

Leo/ Calypso

Frank/ Hazel

Hannibal:

Hannibal/ Will (bonus if Abigail is their kid)

Jimmy Price/ Brian Zeller (Science Husbands)

Jack/ Bella aka the Crawfords

Rave Master:

Haru/ Elie

Musica/ Reina

Let/ Julia

Cattleya/ Shuda

Go/ Rosa

Range/ Sopra

Remi/ Musica

Musica/ Belnika

Sieg/ Elie

Jegan/ Janna

Clea Maltese/ Alpine Spaniel

Rise of the Guardians/ How to Train Your Dragon/ Tangled/ Brave/ Frozen:

Jack/ Hiccup

Jack/ Merida

Jack/ Rapunzel

Jack/ Elsa

Hiccup/ Rapunzel

Star Wars:

Han/ Leia

Luke/ Mara Jade

Padme/ Anakin

Obi Wan/ Dorme

Robin Hood BBC:

Robin/ Marian

Much/ Eve

Will/ Djaq

Yu-Gi-Oh:

Yugi/ Yami

Bakura/ Ryo

Kaiba/ Jonouchi

Marik/ Malik

Yami/ Bakura

Bakura/ Marik

YuYu Hakusho:

Yusuke/ Keiko

Yusuke/ Kurama

Yusuke/ Botan

Yusuke/ Kurama/ Hiei

Kurama/ Hiei

Kuwabara/ Yukina

Genkai/ Younger Toguro

Shizuru/ Sakyo

Shinobu/ Itsuki

Mukuro/ Hiei

Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir:

Marinette/ Adrien

Nino/ Alya

Alix/ Kim/ Max

Chloe/ Nathaniel

Chloe/ Sabrina

Juleka/ Rose

Ivan/ Mylene

Check Please!

Bitty/ Jack

Lardo/ Shitty

Holster/ Ransom (Bonus points if it’s the AU that must not be named)

Nursey/ Dex

Nursey/ Dex/ Chowder

Chowder/ Farmer

Questionable Content

Bubbles/ Faye

Martin/ Dora

Martin/ Claire

Faye/ Sven

Momo/ May

Tai/ Dora

Dale/ Marigold

Clinton/ Brun

Wilde Life

Oscar/ Lorelei

Oscar/ Sylvia

Eliza/ Darcy

Oscar/ Clifford (I’m trash, I’m well aware)

El Goonish Shive

Tedd/ Grace

Elliot/ Ashley

Nanase/ Ellen

Elliot/ Sarah

Catalina/ Rhoda

Disney/ Close to It:

Belle/ Adam (Beauty and the Beast)

LeFou/ Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) (Only really works if Gaston isn’t being a dick anymore)

Anya/ Dimitri (Anastasia)

Vlad/ Sophie (Anastasia)

Elsa/ Kristoff (Frozen)

Elsa/ Hans (Frozen)

Anna/ Kristoff (Frozen)

Ariel/ Eric (The Little Mermaid)

Cinderella/ Her Prince Charming (Cinderella) (Bonus points for genderbending)

Mulan/ Shang (Mulan) (Bonus points for transgender Mulan)

Rapunzel/ Flynn (Tangled)

Anime/ Manga:

Saitama/ Genos (One Punch Man)

Phoenix Wright/ Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright)

Victor/ Yuuri (Yuri on Ice)

Yurio/ Otabek (Yuri on Ice)

Yuuri/ Phichit (Yuri on Ice)

Todoroki/ Yaoyoruza (My Hero Academia)

Deku/ Uraraka (My Hero Academia)

Deku/ Bakugo (My Hero Academia)

Todoroki/ Deku (My Hero Academia)

Light/ L (Death Note)

Matt/ Mello (Death Note)

Dante/ Nero (Devil May Cry) (only cause of @triwizard-tardis)

Gon/ Killua (Hunter x Hunter)

Gon/ Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter)

Hisoka/ Leorio/ Gon (Hunter x Hunter) (Damn you amazing NSFW fanart)

Canary/ Killua (Hunter x Hunter)

InuYasha/ Kagome (InuYasha)

Miroku/ Sango (InuYasha)

Sesshomaru/ Rin (InuYasha) (aged up Rin)

Sesshomaru/ Kagome (InuYasha) (ONE good fic and fanart)

Tsuna/ Gokudera (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Mukuro/ Chrome (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Takeshi/ Gokudera (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Tsuna/ Kyouko (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Bulma/ Yamcha (Dragonball)

Bulma/ Vegeta (Dragonball Z and Z Kai)

Goku/ Krillin (Dragonball)

Goku/ Chichi (Dragonball)

Riku/ Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

Sora/ Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)

Axel/Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)

Ciel/Sebastian (Black Butler)

Ruby/Jaunne (RWBY)

Jaunne/ Pyrrha (RWBY)

Yang/Blake (RWBY)

Blake/ Weiss (RWBY)

Ruby/ Weiss (RWBY)

Ren/ Nora (RWBY)

Ozpin/ Glynda (RWBY)

Blake/ Sun (RWBY)

Soul/ Maka (Soul Eater)

Black Star/ Tsubaki (Soul Eater)

Death the Kid/ Patty/ Eliza (Soul Eater)

Stein/ Medusa (Soul Eater)

Maka/ Chrona (Soul Eater)

Stein/ Marie (Soul Eater)

Haruhi/ Tamaki (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Tamaki/ Kyoya (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Hikaru/ Kaoru (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Mitsukuni/ Takashi (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Haruhi/ Hikaru/ Kaoru (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Ranma/ Akane (Ranma ½)

Mortal Instruments/ Infernal Devices

Clary/ Jace

Clary/ Simon

Simon/ Isabelle

Alec/Magnus

Jace/ Alec

Jocelyn/ Luke

Simon/ Maia

Tessa/ Will

Will/ Jem

Will/ Magnus

Sherlock BBC

Sherlock/ John

Sherlock/ Molly

Lestrade/ Mycroft

John/ Mary

Sherlock/ Irene

John/ Anthea

Mycroft/ Anthea

Teen Titans

Robin/ Starfire

Beast Boy/ Raven

Cyborg/ Bumblebee

Aqualad/ Terra

Beast Boy/ Terra

Twilight

Bella/ Edward

Alice/ Jasper

Rosalie/ Emmet

Carlisle/ Esme

Bella/ Jacob

Renesmee/ Jacob

Edward/ Jacob

Edward/ Bella/ Jacob

James/ Victoria

Quil/ Embry

Jacob/ Leah

Sam/ Emily

#time and time again it sings #I DID IT!#This thing went from 6 to 10 pages....#it's a monster #and I left off a few things that I knew I had ships for but couldn't remember what they were

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onelittlebookgeek · 5 years

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Book Challenge 2019 - I DID IT!

Hi guys, after tracking all the books I’ve read here from 2013-2016, I completely forgot this whole thing for more than 3 years! Sorry!!

No fear though: I’m back! Even though 2019 has almost ended, I’ll make sure this post correctly reflects the whole of 2019!

Since it’s already the end of October, I do feel like I have some hindsight vision into my reading pace this past year, but before I mention how it actually went, I want to explain my original expectations! So 2019 for me is the year I’m finishing my Classics Bachelor Degree in July and the year I’ll be studying abroad for one term from September to December (I’m doing two degrees, so I’ll still be doing my English degree after Classics!). So for my reading, I’d expected not to read a lot. Perhaps for my thesis some books on the subjects and of course for English my course work. So my original reading goal was 50 books!

Looking back on these expectations I must say I’ve read a great deal more than I expected! Writing my thesis did include reading a lot of books and other course work had more reading than I thought I would which boosted my challenge in the first half of the year! Of course, I’ve also read quite a lot during the holidays because what else is there to do in the holidays :D? Regarding my studying abroad experience, I’m reading more than I expected. This is partly because the course work is again much more based on reading books than articles or just parts of book. At the same time, I’m doing less studying than I used to do back home, so I have more time free to do some casual reading. On top of that - since I’m walking everywhere here - I’ve started listening to audiobooks which also adds a couple to the challenge.

So my challenge became 80 books! But I had already surpassed before November, so that’s great! I’d expressed my hopes to read 100 books this year as well, but out of fear of not making that I hadn’t changed my goals. Seeing as of now (mid-November), I’ve already read 93 books I feel confident I can read at least 7 more until a 100, so I’ve changed my goal to read 100 books

The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading, I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them; the (x) is a link to my Goodreads review!

Update: Today (December 31) I’ve read 135 books so I’ve finished my challenge!! Let’s see where the rest of this year brings me :D!

January

The Oresteia - Ted Hughes (4/5) (x)

The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) - Arthur Conan Doyle (3/5)

The Suffragettes - Various (3/5)

The Poems of Phillis Wheatley - Philils Wheatley (3/5) (x)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglass (3/5)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself - Harriet Ann Jacobs (4/5)

February

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram (5/5)

A Disquisition on Government - John C. Calhoen (2/5)

March:

‘s Nachts verdwijnt de wereld - Jaap Robben (Dutch) (4/5)

Public Opinion - Walter Whitman (3/5)

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman (5/5) (x)

Zalig Uiteinde - Viktor Frölke (Dutch) (2/5)

Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)

Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)

Language and Power - Paul Simpson (3/5)

Language Change: Progress or Decay? - Jean Aitchison (3/5) (x)

Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)

April:

Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)

A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome - W.R. Johnson (2/5) (x)

The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (5/5) (x)

Propertius: Elegies - Propertius (ed. Hutchinson) (2/5) (x)

Propertius: A Critical Introduction - J.P. Sullivan (3/5)

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett (4/5) (x)

Lanny - Max Porter (4/5) (x)

Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)

Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy - Jeri Blair DeBrohun (1/5)

Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes #3) - Bill Watterson (4/5) (x)

Emancipating Lincoln - Harold Holzer (3/5)

The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1/5) (x)

May:

Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (5/5) (x)

The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome - Richard Hunter (2/5)

Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome - Barbara K. Gold (3/5)

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg (2/5) (x)

Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War - Burrus M. Carnahan (3/5)

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America - Allen C. Guelzo (3/5)

June:

Apollo, Augustus and the Poets - John F. Miller (2/5) (x)

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1) - Margaret Atwood (3/5) (x)

Circe - Madeline Miller (4/5) (x)

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

Callimachus and his Critics - Alan Cameron (2/5)

July:

Elegies - Propertius (5/5)

Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

Er was er eens en er was er eens niet - Judith Herzberg (Dutch) (1/5)

Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)

A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)

Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (4/5) (x)

The Book of Extraordinary Deaths - Cecilia Ruiz (3/5)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde (4/5)

The Epic of Gilgamesh (3/5)

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare (5/5)

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (5/5)

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (5/5)

The Peloponnesian War, Book 2 - Thucydides (3/5)

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (5/5)

August:

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) - Sarah J. Maas (reread) (4/5)

Hold Your Own - Kate Tempest (4/5)

Slimy Stuarts - Terry Deary (3/5)

Orlando - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)

Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker (3/5) (x)

Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake (4/5)

Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 - Coll. by Niall MacMonagle (4/5)

Kaas - Willem Elsschot (Dutch) (1/5)

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti (4/5)

Brand New Ancients - Kate Tempest (3/5)

September:

The Fall of Arthur - J.R.R. Tolkien (3/5)

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (4/5)

The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy (4/5)

Poems - Allen Ginsberg (5/5)

Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy #5) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)

Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)

Callirhoe and Caereas - Chariton (3/5)

Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville (3/5)

Benito Cereno - Herman Melville (4/5)

October:

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglass (4/5)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself - Harriet Ann Jacobs (2/5)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green (4/5)

Song of Myself - Walt Whitman (4/5) (x)

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness - Salsa Agnieszka (3/5)

A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes (4/5) (x)

Roderick Hudson - Henry James (4/5) (x)

All That She Can See - Carrie Hope Fletcher (3/5) (x)

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (4/5)

All the Crooked Saints - Maggie Stiefvater (3/5) (x)

Daphnis and Chloe - Longus (3/5)

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1/5) (x)

November:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (2/5) (x)

Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley (4/5) (x)

First World War Poems from the Front (4/5)

If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio (4/5) (x)

The Republic - Plato (2/5) (x)

Observations - Marianne Moore (5/5)

Poems (1930) - W.H. Auden (2/5) (x)

The Professor’s House - Willa Cather (1/5) (x)

Becoming - Michelle Obama (4/5)

The Outsider - Albert Camus (4/5)

Three Poems - Hannah Sullivan (3/5)

Leucippe and Clitophon - Achilles Tatius (4/5)

The Book of Mirrors - Frieda Hughes (3/5) (x)

Sophist - Plato (5/5) (x)

Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (4/5)

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry (4/5)

The Beats (A Very Short Introduction) - David Sterrit (4/5)

The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (5/5)

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (4/5) (x)

Kindred - Octavia E. Butler (4/5)

Remains of Elmet - Ted Hughes (3/5) (x)

Dear Boy - Emily Berry (1/5) (x)

The Merchant of Venice - Willaim Shakespeare (3/5)

Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov (4/5)

How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran (2/5) (x)

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America - Bill Bryson (3/5)

December

Tracks - Louise Erdrich (3/5)

Derrida (A Very Short Introduction) - Simon Glendinning (x)

Ariel - Sylvia Plath (5/5)

London Triptych - Jonathan Kemp (3/5)

Two Cures for Love - Wendy Cope (5/5)

Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (4/5)

Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase #3) - Rick Riordan (4/5)

The Vegetarian - Han Kang (4/5)

Selected Poems - Philip Larkin (3/5)

Kid - Simon Armitage (1/5) (x)

The Children Act - Ian McEwan (4/5)

On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (3/5) (x)

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (4/5) (x)

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs (4/5)

Man met hoed - Lieke Marsman (3/5) (Dutch) (x)

Koffers Zeelucht: Gedichten - Hagar Peeters (Dutch) (4/5)

Selected Poems - Gregory Corso (3/5)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling (reread) (5/5)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (reread) (5/5)

Erotic Poems - E.E. Cummings (3/5)

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare (reread) (4/5)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee (2/5)

Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (reread) (4/5)

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Lindsey Duncan, Dr. Who, Waters, Rome, and Sherlock

Choosing an actress with experience in plots about amnesia, changing time, black pearls, and men with super powers, but fragile egos...

Dr. Who: Adelaide

Back in 2009, Lindsey Duncan was in the Dr. Who episode, The Waters of Mars. Her character name was Adelaide Brooke, and this was the first Dr. Who special that wasn’t connected with a holiday. The story arc was referred to as “He will knock four times.”

Just prior to his regeneration a significant change in the Tenth Doctor's character was presented, showing a much darker and benevolent side. Up to this point he'd only seen himself as a survivor of the Time War, but now he started to believe that he was the "Victorious" and that the Laws of Time were his to command, allowing him to break them because there were no other Time Lords around to stop him. After saving Adelaide Brooke even though he knew her death was fixed, he realised that he'd gone too far and that he shouldn't have the power to influence history and the future on such a large scale. ( x )

Unfortunately, there is a virus on board the ship, and it involves water. Last recorded message: "Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop."

At one point, The Doctor tells Adelaide that “she was the woman with starlight in her soul,” and that "Water is patient, Adelaide, water just waits. It wears down the clifftops, the mountains, the whole of the world. Water always wins!"

Adelaide’s crewmates are: Steffi, Yuri, Tarak, Andy

Roman, a genius who contracts the virus, and tells the others to run before he transforms (”When I say run, run...”).

Maggie, who also contracts the disease inside the biodome, and ends up with amnesia. It’s important that the virus makes humans seem like zombies, and they’re susceptible, because of the amount of water content in the human body.

By the end of the episode, The Doctor becomes a complete egomaniac, and Adelaide is horrified by it. She commits suicide, and there is a flash of blue light indicating the event. Her death rearranges the events of The Doctor saving the day, and a vision of Ood Sigma appears, which prompts The Doctor to ask if he’s finally gone too far.

This Special element might explain why this image of the backward sigma/300 ended up on a clapboard for Sherlock S4 Ep 2. It was a Special (TAB) CLUE, before Mycroft’s Umbrella, John’s Cane, and Sherlock’s Hat were involved. It’s almost like Monopoly, and we’re banking on seeing the important pieces.

Birdman: Tabitha

Riggan Thomson is a faded American actor who is famous for playing the superhero Birdman in a film trilogy 20 years ago. He is tormented by the mocking and critical internal voice of Birdman and is frequently shown performing feats of levitation and telekinesis....She (Sam) shows him that the Times Square footage is going viral and explains how this actually helps him. Riggan goes to a bar for a drink and approaches Tabitha, accusing her of not understanding theater and just being someone who crudely labels things. She tells him that she hates ignorant Hollywood celebrities who pretend to be serious actors and promises to "kill" his play with a deprecating review without even having seen it. On the way back, Riggan buys a pint of whiskey, drinks it and passes out on a stoop...After Sylvia wishes him luck and leaves the room, Riggan picks up a real gun and checks that it is loaded for the final scene in which his character commits suicide. At the climax, Riggan shoots himself in the head on-stage. The play receives a standing ovation as Tabitha rushes out to file copy. The next day, Riggan wakes up in hospital with his face covered in a mask of bandages where his nose has been surgically reconstructed after he blew it off during the botched suicide. His ex-wife is worried about him but Jake cannot contain his excitement that the play will run forever after Tabitha's rave-review which called the suicide attempt "super-realism" and just what American theater needed. Sam visits with flowers, which he cannot smell, and takes a picture of him to scare the skyrocketing number of followers on the Twitter account she has created for him. (This reminded me of Mofftiss post S4, and what John went through.)

TLD

THERAPIST (offscreen): Culverton Smith. In the present, John’s therapist has her laptop open on the side table in the back room. Pushing her glasses up her nose, she bends down to the computer and runs her finger over the pad. THERAPIST: This, I think, is relevant from this morning. (She has done a search for the man in question and the results page is on the screen. At the right of the screen are photographs of Smith, and underneath are links to a couple of books he has written. One is called ‘How to Make a Killing’ and the other ‘Business Killer’. On the left of the screen, the top item on the results list – headed Latest News – is headlined, in speech marks, ‘“He’s a serial killer!”’ and underneath it says, ‘Net detective blasts Culverton Smith on Twitter’ and then ‘Defamatory remake goes viral on Twitter’.

Fast forward...

CORNELIA: Sherlock’s been amazing for us. (Handing the notebook back to the woman as she smiles, Smith continues onwards with the others.) SMITH (to the reporters): Breakfast has got to be cool. CORNELIA (to John): We’re beyond viral. SMITH: And you know what makes it cool when you’re a kid? JOHN (to Cornelia): What, sorry? Beyond what? SMITH: Dangerous.

Also, Naomi Watts is in the film, but she will be getting her own meta.

Rome: Servilia of the Junii

The characters is based on Servilia, mistress to Julius Caesar, and mother of Brutus, who was of course one of Caesar’s assassins.

Caesar was very fond of her and, years later, when he returned to a chaotic Rome after the Gallic Wars, he presented her with a priceless black pearl. It is also said that she offered him her youngest daughter Junia Tertia once his interests began to wane.

For this part, suffice to say she plays characters out for revenge, really well...tw//violence

Servilia's curse upon Caesar:

"Gods of the Junii, with this offering I ask you to summon Tyche, Megaera, and Nemesis. so that they may witness this curse. By the spirits of my ancestors I curse Gaius Julius Caesar. Let his penis wither. Let his bones crack. Let him see his legions drown in their own blood. Gods of the Inferno, I offer to you his limbs, his mouth, his breath, his speech, his hands, his liver, his heart, his stomach. Gods of the Inferno, let me see him suffer deeply, and I will rejoice and sacrifice to you."

Servilia's curse upon Atia:

"By the spirits of my ancestors I curse Atia of the Julii. Let dogs rape her. Let her children die and her houses burn. Let her live a long life of bitter misery and shame. Gods of the Inferno, I offer you her limbs, her head, her mouth, her breath, her speech, her heart, her liver, her stomach. Gods of the Inferno, let me see her suffer deeply, and I will rejoice and sacrifice to you."

Both of these curses are invoked as she carves them into scrolls of lead. The scrolls are then rolled up and given to her duenna (slave), who then takes the scrolls to hide them within the cracks of the homes of Servilia's intended victims.

Her final curse comes just before her suicide in front of Atia's front door:

"Gods below, I am Servilia,

of the most ancient and sacred Junii, of whose bones the seven hills of Rome are built. I summon you to listen. Curse this woman! Send her bitterness and despair for all of her life. Let her taste nothing but ashes and iron. Gods of the Underworld, all that I have left I give to you in sacrifice

I’ve already seen many meta about Lady Smallwood as a Mary mirror, but I will link this one, because it is a concise series of bullet points.

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