round and round the winchesters go

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is it just me or does he look like he’s singing

• Profound Bond
• Motherfucking Wendigo
• You’re a Bitch (You’re a Jerk)
• Angels are Dicks
• I Always Come When You Call
• Get the Fuck Out, Sampa
• Twelve Year Old Anti-Christ

• White Cat by Holly Black: modern day urban fantasy noir with a MOC what else do you need ETA: HOLLY BLACK IN GENERAL OK
• Liar by Justine Larbalestier: a beautiful mindfuck of truths you won’t believe by a bi WOC narrator
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater: for an understanding between souls who eat and breath man-eating horses of the sea some like to call romance (do not go in expecting the hunger games whatever the description reads)
• Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey: SUBVERTED PERSEPHONE - not explicitly but still. this book is entrenched in its New Zealand setting and built entirely on Maori myth
• Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Stroud: it’s abt magicians and stuff and w/e ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT THAT THEIR POWERS COME FROM SLAVERY AND BARTIMAEUS XEMSELF JUST READ
• The Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan: Supernatural set in the UK and this amoral pair of brothers get blackmailed by a pink-haired girl (who eventually becomes the heroine yay!) into helping her brother.
• Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor: a collection of short stories based on Western fairyfolk written to wring out tears of awe.
• Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey: there are no words [tw: torture, abuse, it’s extremely disturbing so prepare for everything tbh]
• Star Crossed by Elizabeth C. Bunce: a YA ASOFAI where religious sects fight for the throne centered on a thief with blood on her hands and magic in her veins. (it’s also a perfect winter read.)
• Ash by Malinda Lo: a lesbian retelling of Cinderella and this is intensely biased as i have a crush on cinderella’s love interest
• Eon by Alison Goodman: i can’t say anything for its authenticity but its world is based on ancient China and is a good deal less offensive than other ancient china recs i’ve seen, so for a change of setting.
• Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda: also set in the UK, it stars a Middle-Eastern girl Templer Knight raised in the business.
• Rampant by Diana Peterfreund: killer unicorns and the cloister of huntresses who kill them. that is all
• Everything by Courtney Summers: her protagonists range from the terrible to the flawed and it’s a breath of fresh air in a genre where all main characters must be Good. [tw: for some transmisogyny in cracked up to be]
• idk if she’s truly underappreciated on tumblr but i feel like no one reads her anyway and this is my list so
• Everything by Melina Marchetta: it’s the soul nourishment you didn’t know you needed. i advise you buy half her books if buying bc you’ll be lost after the first one.

those who dream only by night: the gothic short stories rec list

have you ever felt like you want to read more fiction in the gothic tradition, but you haven’t the money or the time, or you’re the sort of person who only reads a novel if you’re sure you like the writer? i can help with that! here is a list of short stories, novellas, and one poem, all of which are important in the gothic tradition, the gothic revival, or contemporary gothic fiction, and they are all on the internet! for free! (i enjoy making rec lists, but i particularly enjoy making rec lists where i know that everyone who reads the list can get all of it for free.) so, take a night, make some hot chocolate, and frighten the life out of yourself. you’ll thank me!

1. manfred by lord byron (1817)
2. the tell tale heart by edgar allan poe (1843)
3. carmilla by sheridan le fanu (1872)
4. lord arthur savile’s crime by oscar wilde (1887)
5. the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman (1892)
6. lot no. 249 by arthur conan doyle (1892)
7. the great god pan by arthur machen (1894)
8. the turn of the screw by henry james (1898)
9. the monkey’s paw by w.w. jacobs (1902)
10. sredni vashtar by saki (1911)
11. casting the runes by m.r. james (1911)
12. the damned by algernon blackwood (1914)
13. the tomb by h.p. lovecraft (1922)
14. the garden party by katherine mansfield (1922)
15. a rose for emily by william faulkner (1930)
16. the lottery by shirley jackson (1948)
17. lamb to the slaughter by roald dahl (1953)
18. a good man is hard to find by flannery o’connor (1955)
19. the company of wolves by angela carter (1979)
20. i, cthulhu by neil gaiman (1986)

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