#fantastic read

[pinkstor3]

• Pre-War Map of Etheria

• Hard Line - Major Nation

• Dash Line - Satellite of Major Nation

• White with Dotted Line - Unaffiliated

• No Color - Practically Unpopulated

The Lioness 🦁

@ZappertheViking

Totes loving this continuous read indeed!! 📚

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[parrish-the-thot]

Just finished Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao and there was less pegging then I had been told there was, but in the end that guy didn’t deserve to be pegged by such a woman so it was for the best

[kathrynalexao3]

What if… Jason gave the Authority to his Familiars instead of handing it over to the Great Astral Beings?

This fic shows another outcome we could have witnessed. And it’s fantastic! 🤩

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

No Pairings, No Smut

If you’re looking for a clean, but emotionally deep, well written HWFWM read, then this is the fic for you.

Thank you, Lunar Imbris for adding this fic to our alternate universe realities, because it is outstanding!

Takes place in Book 8/9 time period.

[larry-is-my-anchor1]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

On his way home from work, Stiles's Jeep broke down. Which normally wouldn't have been a problem, except his heat was two weeks early, so he needed to get home. Now.

Fortunately, Deputy Derek came to his rescue—in more ways than one.

[zot3-flopped]

https://slate com/culture/2024/02/grammys-2024-winners-taylor-swift-celine-dion-miley-cyrus.html

This is a really good article from the great music journalist Carl Wilson that calls out Taylor's faux-humility and how she made the Grammys all about herself.

Taylor Swift Made Grammy History—and One Big Mistake

The self-proclaimed “Anti-Hero” came a little too close to living up to that name.

[papercuting]

Books I’ve read in 2021 (2/?): In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

“There is a Quichua riddle: El que me nombra, me rompe. Whatever names me, breaks me. The solution, your course, is “silence.” But the truth is, anyone who knows your name can break you in two.”

[proudpigeon]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 16/? Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, John Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Bobby Singer, Benny Lafitte, Charlie Bradbury, Lisa Braeden Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe- No Supernatural, Road Trips, Alternate Universe - Road Trip, Getting Together, Slow Burn, Fluff and Angst, Castiel and Dean Winchester Need to Use Their Words, Mechanic Dean Winchester, Poet Dean Winchester, Mutual Pining, Sharing a Bed, Strangers to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Internalized Homophobia, Castiel and Dean Winchester Have a Profound Bond, Sexuality Crisis, Bad Parent John Winchester, Suicidal Thoughts, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Canon-Typical Violence, Protective Dean Winchester, Protective Castiel (Supernatural), Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Past Abuse Summary:

There's more than one way to be in hell. There's more than one way to be lost. Sometimes all it takes to change a person’s life is meeting a stranger at the right place at the right time.

Dean Winchester is a brother, a son and a man without a purpose on a short road to nowhere. One night in a rundown diner off a Kansas highway he meets a hitchhiker in a tan trench coat with his sights set on anywhere but home. The two decide to head there together.

[caitlynlynch]

I read Sirocco, the second book in the series about international bounty hunters Finnegan and Fiero, and liked it so much I decided to pick up this one. It goes back to the beginning of their partnership, showing how they met as antagonists, decided they were approaching the same problem from different directions, and chose to work together to resolve problems which weren’t being dealt with by conventional methods. Three years on from the beginning of their partnership, they are far more than comfortable with each other, they exhibit absolutely complete and unshakeable mutual trust in each other.

For some reason I keep picturing Finnegan as Jeremy Renner, and I think it’s because the pair definitely have a Hawkeye and Black Widow vibe; the soldier and the spy/assassin (although Finnegan’s a former cop rather than soldier). The trust they have in each other without the relationship being in any way romantic is the same, though. And Katalin Fiero Dahar is definitely a Black Widow, a chameleon able to fit in anywhere, perfectly happy to use her beauty and femininity as a weapon just as lethal as her guns.

As I noted in reviewing Sirocco, Finnegan and Fiero have fascinating friends; mercenary McTavish appears here with a few of his crew to help out, as does the corrupt money launderer Ways and Means and, my favourite side character, Sally Blue, the hacker and surveillance expert whose crew are happy to help out in return for being allowed to steal anything not nailed down at the end of the job. (I really want a whole series about Sally, please and thank you).

This is a really good action-adventure series with a pair of truly fascinating protagonists, that avoids falling into the trap of overly-sexing up what they do. It’s got so much potential; it’s the kind of thing that would make really excellent TV (please do cast Jeremy Renner as Finnegan… I’m begging you!) Five stars for a fantastic read.

St. Nicholas Salvage and Wrecking is available now.