by 2firstnames on Tumblr
Title: In Memoriam
Content/Warnings: angst, fluff, psychological
Disclaimer: As transformative commentary on Harry Potter, the property of J.K. Rowling & Bloomsbury/Scholastic, no profit or copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: For Otter & Ferret Gift Exchange 2013 Prompt: "WHAT EACH KISS MEANS"
- Kiss on the Forehead: We're cute together.
- Kiss on the Cheek: We're friends.
- Kiss on the Hand: I adore you.
- Kiss on the Neck: I want you, now.
- Kiss on the Shoulder: You're perfect.
- Kiss on the Lips: I LOVE YOU...

I adored your list, MiHnn, and tried to include all of the different kisses! I had to get creative with a couple of them. Thank you for such a sweet, inspirational prompt.

( Summary: For two weeks they pass each other like ghost ships in the night, their outlines faint in the fog where men dared not follow. The Janus Thickey Ward specializes in ghosts. )

Title: Kalopsia
Content/Warnings: romance
Disclaimer: As transformative commentary on Harry Potter, the property of J.K. Rowling & Bloomsbury/Scholastic, no profit or copyright infringement is intended.
Notes: For Otter & Ferret Gift Exchange 2014 Prompt: "Someone who’s willing to burn the world down to protect the one person they care about, that’s a man I understand."
--The Blacklist, "Frederick Barnes"


Kalopsia (noun): The delusion of things being more beautiful than they are.

( He is too pale and full of sharp edges to be conventionally attractive, for which you are grateful. He is already in your workplace and your thoughts; there’s no more room for him under your skin. )

General because prepare thyself for epic list of epicness!

Agatha Christie's everything (99.8% of her books shit all over modern mysteries. Er, in a good way.)
P. B. Ryan's Nell Sweeney & S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance murder mysteries
Chelsea Cain's Gretchen Lowell & Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series (because men AND women can be serial killers)
Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North and South'
Åsne Seierstad's 'The Bookseller of Kabul'
Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'
Gillian Flynn's 'Gone Girl'
Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner'
Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Interpreter of Maladies' & 'Unaccustomed Earth'
Chuck Palahniuk's 'Fight Club'
Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' & 'Brothers Karamazov'
Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'
Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' 'Pale Fire' & 'Pnin'
Anton Chekhov's too many to count (the undisputed master of the short story, bar none)

Science Fiction because badass marines/starship peeps/alien whatsits are a blast!

Isaac Asimov's everything (Brilliant. And dead. But still brilliant.)
David Weber's pre-bloat Honor Harrington series
Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series
C.S. Friedman's 'In Conquest Born'
Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' & 'Ender in Exile'
Joe Haldeman's 'The Forever War' & John Scalzi's 'Old Man's War'
Tanya Huff's Valor Confederation series
Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series
David Drake's Royal Cinnabar Navy series
Kristine Smith's Jani Kilian series
Charles Stross's Laundry series
Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series

Fantasy because all antiheroes secretly long to swing a sword.

Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant & Mordant's Need series
GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn & Stormlight Archive series
Laurell K. Hamilton's early Anita Blake books before they became porno (they used to be a grittier Buffy!)
Jack Vance's Dying Earth series
Rachel Aaron's Legend of Eli Monpress series
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's 'Good Omens'

Romance because oooh la la the feeeeels.

Georgette Heyer's everything (even her whodunnits aren't terrible)
Laura Kinsale's 'Flowers from the Storm'
Sherry Thomas's 'Not Quite a Husband' & 'Private Arrangements'
Jude Morgan's 'Indiscretion' (his others are a cut above the rest too and yep, he is a man)
Loretta Chase & Lisa Kleypas's pre-2000 historicals (they're Avon dreck now)
Sarah A. Hoyt's 'Darkship Thieves'
Judith Ivory's 'Black Silk'
Liz Carlyle's 'A Deal with the Devil'