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So uhhh I just started Discworld for the first time... Who could have ever guessed that I'd imprint on the weedy anxiety wizard LOL
Just some random moments I've been drawing while listening to the audiobooks.
1: "We should REALLY go somewhere else."
2: "You used all the pink ink! Only monochrome pictures now!"
3: "Come on down, it won't hurt :)"
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i managed to get a whole bunch of these for cheap, so feel free to make your case for where i should dive in
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i don't know if you even posted about it but
which discworld books have you read already?? and maybe you have some favourites like I STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT IT'S NIGHT WATCH but what if im absolutely wrong..please share
anon i will lay my life down for you i've been waiting for this for so so long (literally since november. but whatever)
so. from the rincewind series i've only read the last continent and unseen academicals bc reasons. one of them being is that i am weirdly passionate about the ridcully/bursar ship only i care about and they're developed enough characters by those books for me to actually have something to ship. i can't think of other reasons but. they're there definitely i promise. oh yeah unseen academicals was by FAR my fav from the two but i found the ending a little eh so i dont consider that one a FAVORITE favorite. but its still insanely fucking good.
then i've read all of the witches novels except equal rites and that's only cause i was listening to the audiobook and then i forgot where i left off and i just didn't finish it. anyway the clear winner for me is and always will be carpe jugulum and it's DEFINITELY one of my top 3 discworld books. like i know you didn't ask for this to be a hundred pages long but fuck me that BOOK. i could write ESSAYS. also wyrd sisters is a fucking masterpiece and i wont hear a WORD against it. thank you.
all of the death books expect thief of time and i honestly i just dont want to end the series yet so i'm still putting it off. give me some time. favorites from that hmm well hogfather DUH but also reaper man. listen man it's about found family it's about bill door it's about death giving his TIME for a little girl it's about I NEVER WORE A CROWN YOU NEVER WANTED TO RULE it's THE FIRST FUCKING TIME WE MEET REG SHOE also the wizards are fucking GREAT in that one i just love it. not top 3 material but definitely a comfort read.
from the watch books i've read up to thud! which i'm still half way thru bc i'm not ready to move on from night watch like i had to listen to it on audiobook two days after i've first read it bc it just sucks you in man. does NOT let go. and yeah you're so so so right and true about night watch being one of my absolute favorites that book changed me as a person i'm still definitely not over it. like at all. also feet of clay and fifth elephant will always ALWAYS be my children and have my heart for obvious reasons (cheery. its cheery).
from the moist books i only have raising steam left and yes again im putting it off bc i dont wanna finish the series whatever dont look too deep into my issues
uh. shit this is so fucking long ok sorry. from tiffany novels i've read up to wintersmith and so far the wee free men is my absolute favorite i cried so much reading that book it's embarrassing.
small gods was my very first discworld novel and let me fucking tell you man absolutely HILARIOUS place to start when you dont know shit about the world building that's all im gonna say. also it's just so fucking good it's insane to me like yeah maybe it's not as funny as the others but the way terry wrote about faith and gods and devotion and the church and ugghh. (sidenote i read an brutha/om fic a few weeks ago that changed my fucking LIFE im being so so serious rn that was a masterpiece)
and i think the only one left is the truth which is in my opinion one of the best written discworld books from what i've read and definitely in my top 3. like otto chriek would be enough to convince me and THEN there's mr tulip's backstory and william confronting his dad (man that scene where william gives his father thousands of dollars to pay back for what he "cost" him over his life. anyone got reminded of that one ladybird scene? yeah.) and it's just like the best thing you've ever read.
im so sorry this got so long im insane i hope u got some kind of answer out of it
#the problem is carpe jugulum and night watch and the truth are all 1. for me i couldn't ever choose#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#night watch#carpe jugulum#the truth#terry pratchett#idk if u want a number but i think i've read like 23. which is insane there's so little left im rocking back and forth and back and forth
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Hi!
I think I’m right that you’re a fellow listener of audio books? I was wondering if you had any recommendations for particularly good narrators? I have been spoilt by the awesomeness of Moira Quirk (Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb)& Adjoa Andoh (Anne Leckie’s Imperial Radch) - also Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Ben Aaronovich’s Rivers of london), Robin Miles (N K Jemisin’s Great Cities) & Kristin Atherton (Garth Nix’s Angel Mage). I’m currently listening to the Temeraire series but am always on the hunt for the next good book!
I'm sorry it took me so long to get to this! You have of course already named my top two audiobook recs (Moira Quirk's TLT and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's RoL) so here are some further favourites:
Memoirs of Lady Trent read by Kate Reading (5 books in the main series)
A Crown for Cold Silver read by Angéle Masters (first in a trilogy)
Discworld audiobooks! Personally I prefer Stephen Briggs over Nigel Planer but tbh they're both really good
Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis is really fun! my brother got started on this for a long train ride and he a) doesn't really read usually b) isn't that confident with English so I think that is a recommendation all of its own
Graceling Realms but make sure you get the version by Xanthe Elbrick!! (5 books so far but although I've read all of them I've only listened to 2 and 3)
if you already like Kristin Atherton you should check out her performance of Howl's Moving Castle!
and I'm going to rec @ariaste's brilliant book A Conspiracy of Truths read by James Langton, perfectly captures the crotchety old man narrator
I hope you find something you like! I am basically always listening to an audiobook even if I've already heard it a dozen times, but I am also very picky so I have a lot of Opinions about what I like and end up revisiting favourites a lot xD
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I need book recs (especially audiobooks). I've listened to like 13 Discworld books and I love them but I need something different to keep me going during my night shifts.
I'll read anything if it's interesting enough, my only hard no is YA. I'm especially interested in genre fiction that actually gets creative with its world (fantasy that isn't medieval Europe with dragons, sci-fi that's more than just spaceships and robots, etc.) Queer stuff is also good, but it's so hard finding anything that isn't YA and/or about two generically pretty twenty-somethings. Actually, bonus points for anything with a protagonist who is 30+, fat, unattractive, trans-masc, or non-human.
#i'm just tired of generically pretty twenty somethings tbh#cant relate#also my favourite discworld protagonists have been brutha. vimes. and the witches#so a middle aged alcoholic. a fat guy. and two old ladies#book recommendations
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9 Favorite Books
Thanks for the tag @cultofsappho!
It was a pleasure to think about favorites, and it was a challenge. What can I say? English major who devours books, with 36 books marked as comfort reads in the Libby app! My favorites change at least monthly… So I went with some that are favorites because of the memories attached / impact on my life, and some that are favorite examples of a theme I enjoy.
Harold and the Purple Crayon series by Crockett Johnson - These are the first books I remember my Mom reading to me, and they're associated with my first memories of visiting a library. A couple of years ago I picked them up again to see if they were as delightful as I remembered, and they were! The themes of creativity wrapped themselves around my heart.
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen - This was the book that shook my world my first year in college, when I'd decided that "literature" meant depressing. It was a shock to realize the book really was SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY. This and books inspired by it are frequent re-reads for me. Runner up is If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, which I read my senior year.
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett - My best friend in college recommended this when I mentioned that I was only reading class assignments and I'd gotten out of the habit of pleasure reading. The Discworld series pulled me back into reading for fun, and it inspired me to write again, so it will always have a place in my heart. Plus, Pratchett's style and sense of humor are truly amazing. And in case you're wondering, yes, I love Good Omens, too.
Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz - This represents my post-college romance phase. I picked this one because of the humor, the hints of sci-fi elements, and the fact that JAK's Seattle settings were one of the things that convinced me I'd like living in the Pacific Northwest. Runner up from my romance phase is Getting Rid of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie. I just this summer heard that she has new books out, and I really hope the new ones live up to my memories of snarky humor.
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li - Now we're moving on to themes and tropes I love. As a writer in the White Collar fandom, it's not a big surprise that I love a good heist story, and this one had excellent twists. Runner up is Little Thieves by Margaret Owen, which has a fantasy/fairy tale setting.
Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall - This represents my love of stories about cooking and baking. Extra ingredients include romance, humor, and a well-balanced story about mental health. I've enjoyed several books by Alexis Hall, and I'm looking forward to reading more.
The Twelve Points of Caleb Canto by copperbadge on AO3 - Music, musicians, singers -- love, love love these elements. Plus a sweet love story for a neurodiverse character. Runner up is the Tinkered Starsong series by Gail Carriger -- so far I've read the first two books in the trilogy, and it's a fun combo of pop singers and sci-fi.
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells - I adore the whole Murderbot series, but if I had to pick a favorite, this would be it. This fills my need for sci-fi and snarky narrators, and sometimes it's nice to take a break from romances with an aroace lead character. And the audiobooks narrated by Kevin R Free perfectly capture the distinctive voice of Murderbot. These books got me through the time last year when I needed to escape from a toxic job and needed an escape from the pressures of job interviews. And I keep listening to the audiobooks now that I’m in a great job, because they're such perfection.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - This fills my need for gentle stories with limited conflict, the kind of stories that teachers used to tell me weren't valid. I have so many favorites in this category! Runners up include: A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Legends & Lattes, and Sal & Gabi Break the Universe.
Such a pleasure to think about books I love!
I'll gently tag @edupunkn00b and @silbrith and @thesymphonytrue if you want to participate
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@cheekedupwhiteboy tagged me in a post the last 6 albums you've listened to thing little knowing that I've only been listening to really old low quality discworld audiobooks for the past month. anyway
as tall as lions // you can't take it with you - the high school hits. the cover art slaps. the singer has a voice that i've never heard replicated.
weatherbox // big news (single) - song ive got on repeat. oc song. midwesterny emo song.
standards // fruit island - i actually started relistening to this after they dropped their latest album... i think this one's better. everyone try nap
yo la tengo // stuff like that there - some preddy good covers along with some originals. originally found it for the whippoorwill song
math the band // get real - another classic. positive stress will live on forever.
the algorithm // object resurrection - literally what can be said. the algorithm rules. yk music is good when you can name the song track to lyricless songs.
I'm not tagging anyone because that's scary <3
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So I've gotten a few of the revamped Discworld audiobooks
I really like what I'm hearing so far!
The ones I currently have are Small Gods(again), Wyrd Sisters (due to the miniseries I watched bits of as a small child, and which was my introduction to the Disc, though I knew it not then), Soul Music (I paid more attention to that miniseries, though I never fully processed "Susan's grandfather is Death" because I didn't know the context/missed the beginning), and Amazing Maurice (which was the first Discworld novel I ever read courtesy of Vision Australia).
I also got a set of BBC audio dramas, but I wasn't satisfied with some of them (the guy who played Death was not a bass and Death can't just be a tenor/baritone with a reverb slapped on I'm sorry I didn't make these rules.)
So, let's start with Small Gods, because I listened to the play version and then the new version read by Andy goddam Serkis.
So Andy did a phenomenal job, but who was expecting any different?
He did give Brutha a deeper voice than I expected from a seventeen-year-old but I got used to that (also I had just listened to the audio drama wherein Brutha was played by another tenor so I was a wee bit biased).
He also turned Om into David Lister from Red Dwarf and I don't know how to feel about that one except I hope Terry was listening in the afterlife and found it just as hilarious.
After consuming three separate versions of this book I can state with confidence that I would absolutely die for Brutha if that would not make him sad. He was such a good boy.
Death shows up just a little in this book but I'll gush about him in a minute.
Apart from the other plays, which I skimmed through, I've only read Soul Music, so let's just move on to that one okay?
Death has his own voice actor. I mentioned this the other night when I made the post wherein I related my discovery of the new set of audiobooks, but guys he is. Killing it. (pun absolutely intended and also completely true.) His voice is deep and dark and rolls like thunder and is the perfect balance of black honey on black velvet and GAH I LOVE IT. There need to be audiobook narrations awards just so Peter Serafinowicz could get seven.
Sian Clifford is also amazing, and captures Susan very well, as well as every other character, and I enjoyed listening to her extremely very much.
Seriously Peter's Death is the best iteration of Death I've ever heard and I watched the miniseries of this book, which had Death played by Christopher goddam Lee!
Peter does not, notably, attempt to speak for the Death of Rats. I do not mind this. Sian's "SQUEAK"s were adorable. (Can you do the Death font on Tumblr? I think I've seen the Death font rendered weirdly by my screen-reader before and I dunno if it was on here or TVTropes.)
I didn't get the Nigel version of this book but I heard the sample and he did what he always does with gloomy characters and made Susan sound cartoon glum and ... I'm glad that's not what I experienced here.
Terry's references are like finding chocolate coins every now and then when you turn a page and I love them.
In short, I believe I've made an excellent investment.
I really hope whoever narrates the Vimes books is as good as the guy who played him in the Night Watch drama. I think he was different from the guy who played him in the Guards! Guards! drama, which is why I'm pointing him out specifically. I'm sure I'll love the choice regardless, but I'm still gonna voice the hope.
#Discworld#Spelled correctly this time#Terry Pratchett#GNU Terry Pratchett#Audiobooks#Soul Music#Small Gods#Death of the Discworld#I have always loved him he's so chill#And I'm so glad he's being done justice
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Tagged by @sasslett Thank you :3
Share your wallpaper:
We were streaming way back when and so some of our promo art is my desktop wallpaper. I am on there as well!
Phone wallpaper is the samsung default bc I wanna spend less time on the phone.
The last song you listened to: AJR - Bummerland
Currently Reading: (only if Audiobooks count because I cannot find the time or focus to read, and I remember things I hear better) I've started the Malazan series and Wyrd Sisters (Discworld)
Last Movie: Grave of the fireflies (qwq how could u do dis to me?!)
Craving: motivation
What are you wearing right now: home-office uniform (jogging pants and a nerd-shirt)
How tall are you: 1.83m
Piercings: nope
Tattoos: also nope? but idk maybe at some point but probably not I don't like the commitment
Last drink: coffee >:)
Last show: Bleach, still working on it
Last thing you ate: Chocolate cake baked by my grandma (not very healthy breakfast I know)
Favourite colour: all of the blues
Current obsession: For Fuckssak-I mean the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV
Unrelated Obsession: my TTRPG and my videogame x-x (the act of creation)
Any pets: Not anymore, we had a doggo until late last year
Do you have a crush on anyone: it's complicated
Favourite fictional character: it's also complicated, but I am gonna choose Kelsier from the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, because of all his faults
The last place you traveled: inside the country Seefeld (small town in Austria), outside the country must've been Geneva (Switzerland) last actually
TAGGING! Well this was fun! @pumpkinmagekupo if you want :> don't feel forced to tho
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For book asks, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23?
3. What were your top five books of the year?
1. The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie
2. Middlemarch by George Eliot
3. SCORPIA by Anthony Horowitz
4. Dune by Frank Herbert
5. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?
Anthony Horowitz and George Eliot
5. What genre did you read the most of?
Fantasy, what with all the Discworld & First Law rereads. I kinda hoped I'd have read enough Alex Rider to tip the balance into spy novels, but nnnope!
6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?
Mostly classics. I wanted to read more George Eliot and want to at least give Tale of Two Cities a go. Also more fantasy - if the Farseer audiobooks weren't so diabolically dreadful I would likely have read the whole trilogy, I still want to try Lies of Locke Lamora even though I've heard mixed things. I'll hopefully get to them next year. There's also some I put on my tbr that I might take off. Still half-way through Left Hand of Darkness, and I'm wondering whether maybe Wizard from Earthsea isn't for me after all...
9. Did you get into any new genres?
Not really, though I don't tend to care about genre when looking at what to read, so much as style & characters. I read an autobiography (Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain), which I very rarely do, but I also don't class one book as 'getting into' a genre. "I dipped a toe in," is probably more accurate.
10. What was your favorite new release of the year?
I think the only new release I read was The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie.
12. Any books that disappointed you?
I rated Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir the worst book I read this year (2 stars), and I stand by that. It's a good book for the right person, but I am not that person by any means. The Poppy War by RF Kuang was also a big disappointment, I just didn't jive with any of the characters or the plot despite hearing good things. Circe was disappointing too - Madeline Miller can't seem to live up to my lofty expectations for these Greek myth stories, her prose is gorgeous but her characters are severely lacking. I still rated that one 3/5. God, all of these books are super popular and I feel bad for not enjoying them more! 😭
13. What were your least favorite books of the year?
Aside from Gideon and The Poppy War, Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz wasn't great, but I didn't expect it to be, and sure enough the rest of the Alex Rider series really takes off after the first book. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson was also very meh IMO, which I kinda expected too.
14. What books do you want to finish before the year is over?
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin. I feel like since I said semi-mean things about it I should probably finish it, but it's really kinda dull. I should endeavour to finish The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic, too. I started it ages ago but I think the audiobook is just not great and it's hard to tell characters apart. Also I put Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb on my Christmas list, so if I get that I would like to read it before Jan 1. Unfortunately I don't have many hours of work left in which to listen to audiobooks this year, but I think I could manage a good paperback. Having read 49 books (and DNF'd 4) I really wanna make it to 50 complete books.
15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?
Was The Wisdom of Crowds nominated for anything? If not, then no and also why not? If yes, then see below.
16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?
Gideon the Ninth, all the way. I also thought Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire was god awful for its ace rep, and honestly if anyone puts that on an 'ace rep' list I will personally scrunch it up into a ball and stomp on it. Not a bad story overall, but that part made me cringe and groan at the same time. I would maaaybe say Red, White & Royal Blue is over-hyped too, but I fucking love it.
18. How many books did you buy?
I am not in the habit of buying physical books. The only ones I bought were A Trouble With Peace in paperback and The Wisdom of Crowds hardback.
20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?
The Wisdom of Crowds, and honestly? No it didn't. I thought it would be a rough ride emotionally, and it really was, probably more than I expected, but overall I think there are some genuine issues with it - it's certainly far from the near perfection that is The Trouble With Peace. Some of the plot lines turn out to be pretty contrived tbh, there's a fair number of wasted opportunities to bring most of the characters to more thematically satisfying conclusions, Risinau was a mistake, and... it was that person, really, Joe? Did you have to? But I can't deny that the main thing I wanted from the book was for Leo to be amazing, and oh my god did Abercrombie deliver on that score. He's probably one of my favourite characters of all time at this point, I just think he's so rich and complex that he warrants some kind of GOAT sticker 🦁. So yeah, for all my gripes - and there are many - the whole book is still 5/5, because I couldn't stop yelling the whole time, and considering just how ridiculously high my expectations were, I'm good with how it turned out. 😊
23. What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?
A Christmas Carol took me 2h23 at 1.15 speed. Or, if you count it, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which took me 15 minutes.
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A Year in Books (and fandom in general) review (2021 retrospective)
According to Goodreads, I read 109 books and 9 of those were rereads in the same format and some of those were rereads in different formats (ie audiobook/text) but I can't be bothered to narrow the number down further by taking those rereads into account.
I did read and reread The Murderbot Diaries A LOT though. The first four novellas and Network Effect twice over (at least), while Fugitive Telemetry only clocks in once (but I will be listening to it for a reread shortly).
Which does mean I have a lot of opinions about the series, and while I won't be writing fic for that universe anytime soon, I do have opinions about how MB and Dr Mensah's QPR is better than MB and ART's. Also things I would like to see in future installments, but I'm pretty sure I've already shared those here.
I reread some Discworld books, nothing interesting to note there except that yeah, I am on that tumblr train of 'Angua was meant to be the next commander of the Watch'.
Read a bunch of mystery books, notably one historical mystery/romance series (Kendra Donovan by Julie McElwain), plus a couple of cosy mystery series (A Needlepoint Mystery by Monica Ferris and Cape Bay Cafe Mystery by Harper Lin). Still not sure if I like more modern cosy mysteries especially the repetition, but the Monica Ferris series does hit the right 'Midsummer Murders' tone for me. I do feel I need to get back into reading the Matthew Shardlake series so I can finish it off/be current.
Also read a bunch of popular/adapted books:
The House in the Cerulean Sea (didn't click for me, but can see why it's a comfort for others)
The Queen's Gambit (depressing af for a good half, but the latter half gets more interesting as the character grows and things get more political)
The Flight Attendant (weird semi-spy thriller as a novel, which does not seem to be the vibe of the series)
The Essex Serpent (I utterly understand why they cast Tom Hiddleston and generally like the reverse 'A Promise' romance but has a disappointing lack of dragons and dinosaurs)
The Last Letter from Your Lover (the passionate language is beautiful, but let down by the frame story introduced halfway in)
Red, White & Royal Blue (fluff but not much else)
One Last Stop (also fluff, but with ghosts and weird entertainment park treatment of queer history)
The Shape of Water (the web the characters are a part of is much clearer here than in the movie)
and Cemetery Boys (fluff with substance, better than the Casey McQuiston books)
Bunch of YA as well, the worst of which was The Shadows Between Us; the best (for fluff) Sorcery of Thorns and the best (for darker stuff) The House of Hollow.
Also got to reading some recs from friends, including Hench, Penric and Desdemona (series), The Goblin Emperor (and The Witness for the Dead), Silver in the Wood/Drowned Country, and The Widows of Malabar Hill.
Honorable mention goes to Fred, the Vampire Accountant series as being about heroic kindness and found family but doesn't quite fit into any of the above categories, nor quite good enough to be fave for shipping. Also House of Hollow, which is an amazing dark supernatural story with faerie worlds but didn't leave me shipping anything.
So top faves, which did generally leave me shipping something:
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
The Goblin Emperor/The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
Penric and Desdemona (series) by Lois McMaster Bujold (Penric's Fox and Mira's Last Dance probably being my favourites thus far)
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (Exit Strategy and Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory probably being my faves. (NE and AC are close third & fourth though)
And after that, someone who is not me needs to analyse why my new ships of 2021 consist of 1) a librarian, a sorcerer & a demon [Sorcery of Thorns] ; 2) a priest? his demon, a blinded & exiled general & his half sister/twin [Penric & Desdemona]; 3) a villainous data analyst, her boss & the former partner of said villain's nemesis [Hench]; 4) two gods of outcasts, both different versions of the same god of mischief from a different universe/timeline [Loki]; plus I suppose 5) another priest and a slightly camp opera composer [The Witness for the Dead]; 6) whatever the hell Murderbot and the rest of their weird relationship network/found family are.
Oh, and I forgot two anime ones: 7) the popular girl at school who's really a homebody and the quiet geek who's actually a bit punk [Horimiya], 8) Liam James Moriarty, criminal mastermind who wants to take down the aristocracy and the British empire and Sherlock Holmes [Moriarty the Patriot] but really but really, they're the outliers because aside from them there's mostly this thread of divine/demonic power & magic, and well as bonds of mystical origin (two of which involve demons going 'guess we're stuck together until one of us dies').
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2, 3, 15, and 17 for the identity asks please :3
2) have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you? if so, who?
no and thank god for that bc all books would be boring and predictable and the same. (that’s not self-deprecation, that’s just a fact.)
3) list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with
DAI - Cullen, SPN - Cas, Stargate - nobody (they're all either too cool or too smart or both), Star Wars - Finn, Mass Effect - Kaidan Alenko. I think I covered the major ones? :’D
15) five most influential books over your lifetime
tbh I was afraid of this question bc I'm not a big reader -.- so the sad but true answers is I don't really have that many life-changing books but I'll try.. I loved Harry Potter books when I was a kid obviously - I was the same age as the protagonists then.. but I haven't picked any of them up in like 15 years.
I love the "Shadow of the Templar" book series - they gave me my favorite fictional character ever, Jeremy Archer.
I got into audiobooks a lot when I got my car and I've listened to almost all Discworld books with The Watch and Vimes is.... the most fascinating character and I'd kill for him. These books were super important to me bc through them I finally found a way to Pratchett's writing (after several failed attempts). And I'm super glad bc I got to see the genius and I can share this interest with quite a few of my friends, which is always nice.
A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles is so well written that I had to stop reading for a bit to just.. recuperate from the perfection?? And that only happened to me once in my life so far. So this book showed me just how good and powerful writing can be.
17) would you say your tumblr is a fair representation of the “real you”?
sure. definitely not in the beginning but the older you get, the better you get to know yourself, the more tiring pretense gets for you. so you just.. act the way you really feel atm. so I'd say so, yea.
from all the SM platforms I use, tumblr is the most honest for sure.
thank you!! :)))
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Hello! It is I, you new Santa, here to inform you that I am ready to write a brand new, complete fic all for you! (and also, I may have watched a little bit more Sesame Street than this my brain can hold this morning - pardon my Grovering) I've got your prompt in my hands and I'm all set to get to it, but first I must ask you a few questions so prepare yourself for incoming messages. 1 Do you have any squicks, triggers, or absolute no's that I need to avoid? 2 Favorite/ least favorite tropes?
3 Besides Rumple and Belle, who are your favorite characters in Once? Also, those whom you wouldn’t mind seeing in a pit of boiling snake entrails?
4 Favorite show / movie / song / book, etc (for no real reason other than I’m trying to get to know you).
5 What kind of points would you like me to hit in the story?
6 Who is your favorite muppet? I will be back later on, in the meantime, I hope you have a lovely day! PS, I hope you like AUs.
Hey there, (new) Santa! Thank you so much for stepping in : D (And don’t worry about the Grover thing--my “speech” pattern in English is usually 50% compromised of the last piece of acoustic media I consumed, and that is why I should not be allowed to listen to the Sherlock Holmes audiobooks before trying to talk to actual people.)
Alrighty, let’s get to the questions part of this. In order:
1) Rolling out the actual specifics on that would take forever (and I’m not exactly comfortable doing it on the blog), so let’s just say: if we could stay away from protracted death scenes, especially in hospitals, that would be great. I’m not sure how it could come up, but y’know, putting it out here. Just in case. The three main AO3 warnings basically fall into the category of “I Would Prefer Not To”, but that’s the only hard no I can think of (that would reasonably come up).
2) ...how long do you have? Nah, just kidding, I’ll try and keep it short. I love some Angst With A Happy Ending (and its violent little sibling, Hurt/Comfort). Also, if it fits your idea, I so don’t mind established relationships. Reading about these two idiots get together is always wonderful, but reading about them go up against stuff together has a special place in my heart.Not-so-favourite tropes: Love Triangles. This is more trope fatigue than trope dislike, but just... please no.
3) As I’m sure nobody is sick of hearing by now: I love Ruby to bits. There’s of course always Regina, but I don’t know how easily she can be fit into a story, so... at your own discretion and all that. I love Neal/Bae a whole bunch, too, and even a mention that he’s around and well would be great!
4) Favourites!Show: Doctor Who (nobody @ me, you can’t change my mind anyways)Movie: ...idk, Hot Fuzz, probably? (I don’t “connect” to movies very strongly, but I can watch that one pretty much any time and have a ton of fun)Song: Uh... last week, you mean? “The Cave” by Mumford & Sons. Generally, I’m a big fan of ballads, because... well, I like it when music tells a story. And yes, I adore musical theatre. Again, you can’t change my mind *g*Book: *looks at ginormous pile of Discworld books* Definitely one of those. Please don’t make me choose between my children! (It’s either “Night Watch” or “Maskerade”, I think.)And for the etcetera: my favourite flower is the evening star/evening primrose, because they smell amazing.
5) Tbh, I’m a bit wary of going into too much detail, because I really don’t want to inadvertently box you in. I would love if there’s a “moment of support” between Rumple and Belle, though (meaning that one or both of them support/help the other against whatever nonsense is going on at the time). Also, any mention that Rumple either has contact with his family (whoever may count among them in your AU) or at least wants to have contact with them would be wonderful.
6) I... Uhm... I never watched a single Muppet thing in my life. Not because I avoided them, mind you, our paths just never crossed. (I think they’re less ubiquitous in Germany). But if I have to pick one by reputation alone, I think I’ll go with Miss Piggy.
Wow, OK, that took a surprising amount of time. Can I ask what your favourite show, movie, and book are? I know that asks have a limited character number, and that the whole anonymity thing makes things difficult, but I thought those are safe enough *g*
And yes, I love AUs!
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