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Protagonist ABC Reading Challenge 2026

I remember doing this when I was still an active book blogger and really enjoying this. I guess this time around I will keep track on tumblr.

I remember that Q, X & Y only needed to appear in the name somewhere and well since this is my own challenge, I will just make my own rules and also allow to count the Queen title of Queen Katharine. It's supposed to be fun, not work. Otherwise to count as a protagonist the character must be a POV character.

Currently Reading: Serpent's Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz

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Arsinoe (Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake)

Beatriz Soluné, Princess of Bessemia (Poison in Their Hearts by Laura Sebastian)

Benedict Bridgerton (An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn)

Corra, Queen of Eonia (Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte)

Caledon Holt (The Queen's Assassin by Melissa de la Cruz)

Daphne Soluné, Princess of Bessemia (Stardust in Their Veins by Laura Sebastian)

Francesca Stirling, Countess of Kilmartin (When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn)

Lady Grace Cavendish (Lady Grace Mysteries: Giftmord by Grace Cavendish)

Gregory Bridgerton (On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn)

Hyacinth Bridgerton (It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn)

Ingrid Beauchamp (Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz)

Juillenne "Jules" Milone (Five Dark Fates by Kendare Blake)

Benjamin "Jack" Force (Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository by Melissa de la Cruz)

Katharine "Kate" Sheffield (The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn)

Lilac Dellafiore, Queen of Renovia and Montrice (The Queen's Secret by Melissa de la Cruz)

Madeleine "Mimi" Force (Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz)

Nomi Tessaro (Grace & Fury by Tracy Banghart)

Oliver Hazard-Perry (Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz)

Penelope Featherington (Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn)

Sir Philip Crane (To Sir Philip, With Love by Julia Quinn)

Queen Katharine (One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake)

Red (This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone)

Sophronia Soluné, Princess of Bessemia (Castles in Their Bones by Laura Sebastian)

Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings (The Duke & I by Julia Quinn)

Violet Bridgerton, Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton (The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn)

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Other books I've read and their protagonists

Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz (Schuyler Van Alen, Bliss Llewellyn, Madeleine "Mimi" Force)

The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz (Schuyler Van Alen, Bliss Llewellyn, Madeleine "Mimi" Force)

Misguided Angel by Melissa de la Cruz (Schuyler Van Alen, Madeleine "Mimi" Force, Deming Chen)

Bloody Valentine by Melissa de la Cruz (Schuyler Van Alen, Jack Force, Allegra Van Alen, Charles Van Alen Force, Oliver Hazard-Perry)

Lost in Time by Melissa de la Cruz (Schuyler Van Alen, Allegra Van Alen, Mimi Force, Jack Force, Oliver Hazard-Perry, Deming Chan)

Diary of the White Witch by Melissa de la Cruz (Ingrid Beauchamp)

Royals of Nightfall - Dämonenfluch by Julia Kuhn (Felicia Rose, Prinz Jasper)

#reading #reading challenge #Protagonist ABC Challenge

Did the trainee nurse fuck up by forgetting her pager when she went to study for her exam with the charming resident? Sure.

But is she responsible that you as the head of gynecology decided to wait on her instead of immediately doing the c-section? I don't think so.

But sure, go ahead, scream at her. That will absolutely help now.

#In Aller Freundschaft #1x25 #Tina Walbert #Thomas Straub

Pregnancy/desire to have a child and multiple sclerosis in one episode? Okay, that's not what I expected but could make for an interesting story.

#In Aller Freundschaft #1x24

Let's gaslight the burglary victim, Charlotte. Great idea.

#In Aller Freundschaft #1x23 #Sarah Marquardt #Charlotte Gauss

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

#Aldi really did a 180 in recent years #when I was a child they were still a very low class and often kinda dirty store #but in like the last decade they really caught up to Lidl and their stores are really nice now #anyhow as a German it feels kinda crazy to me that there are people not used to discounters #like how the hell do you guys pay for your groceries?#do you all shop at the equivalent of our Rewe and Edeka?#because you are paying through the nose my dudes #Aldi Lidl Penny Netto and Norma are established discounters here #and I think only Netto (the yellow one. not the Scandinavian one) hasn't expanded abroad so far #you guys are missing out #and if a cowboy has to explain it to you...well so be it

jellymeduza

The Sims Medieval clothing conversions list

I decided to make my own list of TSM clothing conversions, because TSM to TS2 conversion database is dead. Feel free to use it and let me know if I missed something! :)

Keep reading

tedsies

omg, amazing resource…

#I need to check this out tomorrow #Sims 2

twentyfourfirst-sims

Garden of Shadows: a preservation effort

Like many of us, I grew up with Garden of Shadows. To me, it was more than just a forum. It was a place I could ask for help, learn new skills and, best of all, find amazing content in any style I could possibly want. I loved the board names, the people, the themes; everything, really.

And I admit I was more than a little heartbroken to find it gone.

After mulling it over, I decided that I wanted to preserve what I possibly could. I spent a few hours yesterday running through strategies and ideas about how to best go about it, and the best I could come up with was, well, exactly the same.

So, here it is: the Garden of Shadows mirror forum.

I've only just started, but I hope to add a little bit to it every day. The primary focus will be on preserving all the knowledge and custom content. I'm tackling it myself, but if you feel so inclined, you're more than welcome to join in.

PS. I am not here to offend, break Terms of Use, or to step on any toes. This is simply an effort to preserve content and knowledge for a game I have played and loved for over twenty years. Thank you ♥

shitty-fanfic-prompts

The characters from Magnificent Century go through the plot of Murder on the Orient Express

#I nominate Süleyman as the murder victim

I know there needs to be room for characters to develop and to grow but damn do I just want to throw stuff at Roland Heilmann's head. Pia deserves better (at least in season 01 from what I've seen so far).

#In aller Freundschaft #Roland Heilmann #Pia Heilmann #I hate people who scream #you're an adult. handle it like one.

taylorswift

It’s a *Toy* Story 🤠

You knew it! My new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5 will be yours on June 5th. I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?

You can pre-order now exclusively on my site and catch Toy Story 5 in theaters June 19th ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️

#if only the EU shop would allow us to buy now

brandinotbroke

yes yes GOS is down i get it

but i think this is an appropriate time to tell all of you that internet archive/wayback machine is *also* not safe for making backups

they have repeatedly been the target of legal battles, some of which they have already lost (see here and here) and which have nearly bankrupted them

so putting everything on the internet archive and calling it a day is a majorly stupid idea. Ideally, we'd need SEVERAL backups of everything, in different places.

solarsimblr

so surreal to scroll through the gos archive and see stuff named 'clothes.zip' or just random lyrics or something. whatever's inside those files isn't technically lost, but it's hard to imagine organically discovering any of it again. yes it's possible to track down a download if you know exactly what you're looking for, but what if you don't...?

#this #I hope the creators who are still active will take some time and properly reupload or relink to their downloads #and maybe also add it to other sites #like MTS or simblr.cc #having a download only available in one place will ultimately lead to it getting lost or at least buried deep

permulance

imagine deleting a massive website documenting over a decade of community and thousands of contributions with absolutely no warning nor any care

#at least a week would have been nice #now a lot of the 4t2 archive is also broken #I guess that's a good example why only one source for downloading is always a huge risk #sims 2 #garden of shadows

rabbiteclair

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

starlightshadowsworld

It’s really annoying

jerreeeeeee

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

jerreeeeeee

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

#I'd say my sister in arms

celestialspritz

GOS is dead so here is everything I posted up there

sadly GOS is now gone which is a huge loss. gos hosted lots of events over the years and brought so much content along with it. for years it was not as active, which is a shame, and now its no longer here.

this is gonna be really difficult as a lot of cc on GoS was usually only ever shared on GoS and nowhere else