#night school

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I don’t trust myself to render this properly😭💔

[fictionz]

Something of a darkman myself.

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Would Theodore “Teddy” Walker from Night School have a Scorbunny?

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[bandcampsnoop]

5/17/26.

One of the most enigmatic current labels of alternative/indie music is Night School. Michael Kasparis runs the label, and also works at Monorail Music in Glasgow. If you want to get his autograph, just buy something from Monorail - chances are he'll be signing the customs form on the front of your package.

His tastes are eclectic. Recently he's reissued Rose McGowan, released a new album from Hannah Lew, and now has Gichard "Chins For Lefty" up for preorder. Listening to "Posthumous Hologram" made me think of a soupier/thicker Dry Cleaning. Other bands mentioned in the Bandcamp write up: Rowland S. Howard (The Birthday Party), and Chromatics. Lisa Jones' vocals/melodies also recall early (and I mean early) Michael Stipe in R.E.M.

While Jones is newer to the music scene, guitarist Chris Valli has been plying his trade for the past 20 years in Glasgow. Again, according to the Bandcamp notes, his most notable band was VOW.

[cassie-jefferson]

Мне очень нравится узнавать, как создавалась та или иная книга, и как сильно изменилось видение автора от первоначальной идеи к финальной версии. Одна из моих любимых историй – про «Ночную школу» Кристи Доэрти.

Изначально Кристи Доэрти хотела написать про школу вампиров, но впоследствии изменила основную концепцию романа, убрав из него всю мистику и сконцентрировавшись на более реальных и страшных вещах – политических играх, в которые оказываются втянуты подростки. В книге все ещё можно найти элементы чрезмерной таинственности, характерной для городского фэнтези, но, не считая некоторых косяков автора, всякая мистика в сюжете отсутствует.

В России книга затерялась среди других, и дальше первой части, насколько я знаю, издательство ничего не выпускала (подозреваю, что дело в ужасной обложке, которую раскритиковала дада сама Доэрти). А жаль. Элли, конечно, по уровню IQ недалеко ушла от Алины Старковой, но она была бойцом, которой приходилось сражаться ментально и физически, чтобы выжить в этом ужасном мире. Ее врагами были не люди с магическими способностями, а с деньгами и связями, а друзья и возлюбленные, которым ещё вчера ты доверял свою жизнь, могли оказаться шпионами.

I really enjoy learning how a book was created and how much the author's vision changed from the initial idea to the final version. One of my favorite stories is "Night School" by CJ Daugherty.

Initially, CJ Daugherty wanted to write about a vampire school, but she later changed the novel's core concept, removing all mysticism and focusing on more real and terrifying matters—the political games that teenagers find themselves embroiled in. The book still contains elements of the over-the-top mystery typical of urban fantasy, but, aside from a few authorial missteps, the plot lacks any mysticism.

In Russia, the book got lost among others, and, as far as I know, the publisher never released anything beyond the first part (I suspect this is due to the terrible cover, which even Daugherty herself criticized). It's a shame. Allie, of course, wasn't far behind Alina Starkov in IQ, but she was a fighter who had to fight mentally and physically to survive in this terrible world. Her enemies weren't people with magical powers, but those with money and connections, and friends and lovers to whom you trusted your life just yesterday could turn out to be spies.

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[demisexualnathanvuornos]

Frances Neagley in Night School (2016) by Lee Child [ch. 3-4; 19-21; 34]