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YouTube video by Betwixt the Books Reading The Best Horror Books of 2024* Pt. 1 | Worth the Hype?

This video has literally been ten months in the making and has gone through several iterations, just to break containment and become a multi-part series... sooo enjoy pt 1 of my thoughts on some of the best* #horror of last year.

*as voted by the Goodreads Choice Awards

youtu.be/5g5MhlsDd7k

YouTube video by Betwixt the Books A feminist take on serial killers | Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou | Betwixt the Books Reviews

Definitely not our favorite read of the year... but @ghohmeyer.bsky.social and I are back to talk about Sour Cherry and check off a feminist text from our buddy reading challenge.

#literary #horror #bookreview #booksky #bookclub #readingchallenge

youtu.be/Jdj9koYU6wE

I want to say that despite dragging my feet while reading this one, I always forget how much I enjoy King's short fiction. I picked this up on release last year and I'm glad to be reading it...

BUT ☝️

I'm halfway through and none* of this is horror

*an argument could be made for 1 twist ending

I've been working all year on a video where I read some of the best* horror books of last year. I wanted to have it up today for the start of October. It may not be up today as I'm still making my way through You Like It Darker... but soooooon.

*as voted in the Goodreads Choice Awards

As a person who has been told I talk too quickly my whole life (especially when excited or impassioned) I would like to use this as a tool to speed everyone else up. Why don't they get on my level for once? Skill issue?

The ability to 2x speed videos on almost every app is a great quality of life thing. I love it, dearly.

Unfortunately... my ability to listen to people talk at normal speed without getting bored is slowly diminishing.

Why must it feel like my hips are no longer connected to my spine and the only thing holding my lower half to my upper half are my back muscles? I am not a fan of this sensation. -5/10 do not recommend.

I've been getting them for a while because I enjoy cooking/meal prep videos and home garden videos both have a lot of fundy stay at home moms making them. So I know the pain.

A screenshot overiew of a fic on AO3. The text in the image is as follows: Stats: Words:81,903 Tags No Archive Warnings Apply Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Background Robin Buckley/Vickie - Relationship Past Steve Harrington/Nancy Wheeler - Relationship Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Steve Harrington Eddie Munson Robin Buckley Jim "Chief" Hopper Dmitri Antonov Billy Hargrove The Party (Stranger Things) Wayne Munson Nancy Wheeler Chrissy Cunningham Tommy Hagan Vickie (Stranger Things) Gareth (Stranger Things) Jeff (Stranger Things) Maxine "Max" Mayfield Susan Hargrove Alternate Universe - No Upside Down (Stranger Things) Alternate Universe - Modern Setting AngstHurt/Comfort Strangers to Lovers Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program Steve Works In It Eddie Munson is an Inmate Horses Cowboy Steve Harrington Steve Harrington Has Migraines Eddie Munson Needs a Hug Steve Harrington Needs a Hug Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington Are Best Friends Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart Steve Harrington Is a Mess Eddie Munson is a Mess Dyslexic Steve Harrington Happy Ending Injured Steve Harrington Alcohol as a Coping Mechanism References to Depression Cat Dad Steve Harrington Eventual Smut Steve Harrington Has Head Trauma Past Child Abuse Steve Harrington Has Bad Parents Bisexual Steve Harrington Broken Bones letter writing Pining Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence Summary And Steve wanted to help Eddie, too. Munson. Not Eddie. “What’d you do to your hand?” Munson was frowning down at Steve’s bruised and split knuckles. Steve flexed his fingers, tucked his hand away. “What’d you do your face?” he asked pointedly, glancing at Eddie’s – fuck, Munson’s – slightly-black eye. Munson remained tight-lipped, and Steve called it a draw. ***** Steve is working with the Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program. He's good at his job, exceptional with the horses, and makes sure to keep a healthy detachment from the inmates he works with... ...until Eddie Munson.

Dearest #steddie peeps,

Can I humbly request some long-form fic recs to download as emotional support while AO3 is down?

Please and thanks!

Rec Tax:

god how lucky can a simple man be? By Atalia_Gold

God tier pining, hurt/comfort, slow burn & Cowboy Steve.

🔗👇
archiveofourown.org/series/4650013

Olive oil/butter, minced garlic, montral steak seasoning (which the internet tells me is garlic, onion, salt, black pepper, coriander, dill and red pepper flakes). Although red pepper can be left out if you have gerd issues.

Pesto as well, is a good option.

Scampi is delicious if lemons are ok.

Exactly. They are the weird ones. We are chill and normal.

Right? Plus the (probably autism) metaphor of trying to be liked by an entirely different species... attempting to anticipate what something unknowable will appreciate knowing that half of it is guess work and reading microexpressions to gage and course correct a conversation. Awful. Horrible.

Like today ... my guy at one point had to survive a dinner with cannibal snail people and I was like ah, yes... social anxiety but you've raised the stakes. Now I have to be cool and entertaining... OR GET EATEN.

Rofl. Well ... on the bright side ... if the axe murderers win, you don't have to do the play?

But also that sounds horrible because its the worst part of both types of nightmares. Sometimes I can tell what fear my subconscious is playing with.

I'd much rather have normal nightmares where I'm naked at school or like doing poorly at work and getting reprimanded ... instead I get to be a man spontaniously traveling through dimensions closely chased by death as evident by everyone around him dying in gruesome ways in front of him.

Every time I wake up from a nightmare (they tend to be hyper violent and filled with detailed gore/death) I feel like I should write then down because they would make banger horror stories but I'm too distressed at the time to do it. Plus I dont want to rehash it again. Literally shaking right now.

YouTube video by Cult Flav Blender Showdown: Vitamix vs Breville vs Blendtec (and more...)

Nearly spit out my tea laughing while watching the new @cultflav.com Blender Showdown when Bryn likened the modes on a blender as "the three genders"

So folks, tell me:

Are you Smoothie, Milkshake, or Salsa?

I'm salsa.

🔗 for folks who enjoy cooking content

youtu.be/v4nIP0EzwrI?...

I respect that. It's a very good home. Cozy and cute. Not my home, but I like to visit and spend some time here every now and again.

a black and white photo of a cat laying on its back in the snow . ALT: a black and white photo of a cat laying on its back in the snow .

Me: -sees a video of a bat-

Also me: Remember when we were doing bat shifter Eddie/Eddie comes back as a bat fics? I miss that. Bats are adorable and despite the trauma, I think when confronted with a fuzzy lil injured bat Steve would nurse the hell out of that thing.

Maybe it's a glitch on my end. I'll try restarting my phone and keep an eye on it. If not, it might be my time to bow out.

Not even following ... just mutuals which for me as a watcher is very few people.

No, yeah, it usually is... today I only have "friends" at the top of mine.

So, uh, is American TikTok finally dead? I've only got a friend's tab today.

I've talked about deleting it for a while now but I'm just wondering if the shambling corpse of the last six months has finally collapsed?

I support your AU. I'm down for anything. Would that part of the road be part of a crime scene tho? Make it 1 lane around the crime scene? Or possibly detour around it altogether? I'm also just trying to rationalize how they went unnoticed for at least 2 days.

I don't think they were snack-sized gates until about the third death ... which was at night in the lake. I feel like they grew slowly with each death and maybe at first they looked like blood/viscera stains? Which would be a normal thing to find at a physically traumatic death? Maybe?

I've been in migraine hell this week. More days with migraine than without. Someone save me. I would like to be able to think and see and move my head without dying.

YouTube video by Betwixt the Books End of Q3 Reading Challenge Check In | Betwixt the Books

Failing a reading challenge? Never! (Always.) Is it about completing the challenge or using it to push your reading though? 🤔 @ghohmeyer.bsky.social and I talk about how we may be failures, but that's okay, in this week's Betwixt the Books video.

youtu.be/7A8bid405AU

I'm reading Han Kang's new novel, We Do Not Part, and with everything going on it is making me feel so incredibly heart sick. The ease with which some people can justify and carry out mass slaughter always confuses me... and it has happened in every place, at every time, over and over again.

100% I get it. You can't put in what you don't know. We need to get more fics with examples of complete safe sex. I don't think every fic needs to be a sex education lesson and it is true to the age bracket for them to say fuck it and be super unsafe buuuuutttt let's get some dental dams in here!

(I also tried to see if it was something to do with user-only fics but it happens with both user-only and available to everyone fics so IDK)