Ciac's Lair

Ciac // He/Him // Mostly Alex Rider // Adult // PFP by Kapsel

[imciac]

I decided I'll make a reading-status post for the top of my blog, why not

Last Updated: 7/3/26

Books read this year: 21

Currently Reading: Slow Horses - Mick Herron Percent Completion: 0%

Coming Up Next: Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: Field Notes from a Funeral Director - Robert D. Webster

FINISHED! (Since I made this post)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the Fbi's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science by Sandra Hempel

The Sicilian by Mario Puzo

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

The Family Corleone - Ed Falco

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help - Larissa MacFarquhar

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death - Susana Monsó

Omerta - Mario Puzo

The Spycraft Manual: The Insider's Guide to Espionage Techniques - Barry Davies, Richard Tomlinson

[gaycop]

[drakomachina]

COMMAND WOLF : ENGAGE!!

[imciac]

[bursts out of a fevered state with one of the most crackfic ideas i've ever concieved] Alex Rider Zoids AU

[grimeclown]

I got a job at a gas station across from a casino and a guy keeps coming in to buy whole cartons of cigarettes and talks in the third person calling himself "snake eyes pete" and every time I tell him his total hes like "tell ya what if old Pete rolls a snake eyes why dont you give it to him for free?" and he rolls the same set of loaded dice on the counter and it does not matter how many times he rolls snake eyes I will not give him the cartons for free he gets so mad

[grimeclown]

Snakeyes Pete is from Toronto he gave me a button once that said "Canadians have the best luck" and i said i thought that was the Irish and he said "I fucking hate the irish" and i said okay

[dunhilll]

[ontologicallyeviluke]

the polite and considerate sadist

[wastelocking]

I think something interesting about Johnny C is the fact that he is surprisingly social. He's gotta be getting out of the house on a frequent basis, when he's not going through shut-in phases, to recognize most of the occupants of that cafe and mention personal interactions with them. There's also all those dates he's implied as having gone on, and I'm counting that one pre-canon panel where he talks about going to concerts just for fun. He was meant to be a social butterfly, or just more social, but is forced to stagnate between psychotic breakdowns and contend with bloodthirsty walls in the meanwhile. Unfortunate.

He's implied to be having very few non-homicidal interactions with people by the middle and end of the comic, but other than all of his paranoia and self-imposed isolation he seems to live a pretty normal life. He goes to the movies, and likes television, and snack runs, just like anybody else, and is said to have had multiple friends before pushing them away. I wouldn't be surprised if at the beggining stages of his deterioration he was still apart of different groups or communities while just murdering people on the down-low which is hilarious to consider.

[rockets]

Grace having a very Eridian time of his life.

(I also have this up on my etsy! <3)

[organizedcrimearchive]

Meyer Lansky's Medal of Freedom given to him by the United States government after corresponding with an exiled Luciano to ensure a safe landing for U.S. Naval Forces upon arrival to Sicily during WWII.

It was discovered in a bow-tie box by Lansky's step–granddaughter—Cynthia Duncan, the current executor of his estate—& then it was sold at auction to Vegas' Mob Museum for $44,800 in Aug of 2022.

[mortalityplays]

I truly don't think there's anything worse than an artsy theatre kid band trying to do a dark edgy song about domming someone. like it's giving dr horrible. I don't believe you.

[mortalityplays]

it's the same problem every booktok dark romance D/s fantasy has, which is that it's written by a sub projecting what they think they want that guy to sound like. there's nothing sexy about someone sweatily pointing out to you how dommed you are right now for fear that you weren't aware you're totally subjugated and definitely 100% under their control. also they're feeling very possessive btw. are you listening. though actually now that I'm typing it, this is also the problem with 90% of cishet maledoms irl so maybe they're cooking. post cancelled.

[mortalityplays]

hey so you'll never guess what prompted this post

[mortalityplays]

get secondhand embarrassment with me

[mortalityplays]

[fandom-man]

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Doesn't seem it's working! Undeterred geese!🎵

[jacksally]

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026, dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[parkchanwoohoo]

[organizedcrimearchive]

Carlos Marcello—the mafia Don of Louisiana from 1947 to 1990—walking out the Federal Courthouse of New Orleans in 1961 with his lawyer & business parter, Mike Maroun, after pleading innocent to a charge of ill-legality upon reentering America by Guatemalan planes.

A few weeks before this legendary moment took place, wherein the judge granted Marcello a fifteen day delay until further arraignment proceedings, Don Calogero was kidnapped by U.S. Marshalls on false pretenses and flown into a remote section of Guatemala's rainforest. Since Marcello had once provided U.S. immigration services with a fabricated Guatemalan birth certificate, RFK used this event against Marcello by having him "legally" deported to his "country of origin."

With only alligator dress shoes and a three-piece suit...Don Calogero made his way through the jungles of Guatemala in just under two months, and arrived back in New Orleans to eat at his favorite Italian restaurant within NOLA's West Bank section of Waggaman: Mosca's.

Shortly thereafter, in 1962, while hosting a party at his Metarie home, Marcello is alleged—by author Ed Becker in attendance—to declare:

"Livarsi na petra di la scarpa!" ["Take the stone out of my shoe!"]

"Don't worry about that little Bobby sonuvabitch... we gonna' take care of him... you cut the head off the lion and the tail goes with it."

[icebluecyanide]

I want you to meet your tutor. Alex Rider TV, S03E03: Enemy

[3motionally3xhausted]

My contribution of PHM fanart that took me so much longer to finish than I wanted