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matthewsblue · 10 months
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How's one to know?
I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones
In a faith forgotten land
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fearlesstarker · 6 months
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grief carves a place in the heart and sits there forever. but when focused, it can be a powerful motivator. sadness becomes resolve and pain becomes action 🍂🤍
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earlgreyandanime · 8 months
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Before officially meeting, do you think Matthew and Diana ever just casually passed each other while on campus? Cause I'm imagining Gallowglass watching from an undetectable distance, seeing Diana cross a courtyard, going in the opposite direction of Matthew and Gallowglass is just simultaneously panicking and relieved.
Gallowglass: Oh my God, it's happening! They're going to finally meet! After centuries of waiting and decades of watching, Diana will finally be- Wait! Why is she walking away? Auntie! Turn back right now! Matthew! Turn around and go meet your wife!
They both continue on their way, completely oblivious to who they just walked past.
Gallowglass, unable to decide if this was a good or bad thing: Ok, they didn't meet this time. So, I don't have to leave her yet. But it'll be sooner rather than later now. At least she'll be happy when they do meet...
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rosalyn51 · 5 months
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grace-nakimura · 5 months
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It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.
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justarandomgirly · 1 year
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Dammit I love a vampire in period clothing...
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lady-of-the-spirit · 9 months
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I love when Deborah Harkness books are like "This is the most evil person ever" and it's just a normal person who might have legitimate grievances with the main characters, and when the books are like "this is just some normal person" and it's an absolute shitstain of a person.
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minim236 · 1 year
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My favourite genre of ships: Intelligent WOC who are badass in their own ways with their idiot rich bois with daddy issues.
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vincentsambershades · 11 months
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Can we appreciate Gallowglass a bit more?
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Gallowglass turned wide blue eyes on Matthew. The younger man was wearing a black T-shirt adorned with a skull and crossbones. Something had slashed the back, rending it from left shoulder to right hip. The holes in his nephew's jeans looked to be the result of wear, not war, and his hair was shaggy even by Gallowglassian standards.
(-Chapter 2, The book of life, All souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness)
He is basically described as a harsh looking blue eyed man, with metal shirts and ripped jeans, which is not just his 'personal sense of style' since all the tears are from wear. And yet, despite his appearance, he has the personality of an angel. Think of how he picked on the wax residue on the kitchen table when he was nervous. He honestly seems like a gentle giant. Please romanticise him with me.
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alegriavida · 5 months
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A Discovery of Witches || Deborah Harkness
I cannot shield you from the challenges you will face. You will know great loss and danger, but also great joy. You may doubt your instincts in the years to come, but your feet have been walking this path since the moment you were born.
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all-mirth-no-matter · 15 days
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mirth’s otps | matthew + diana
once the world was full of W O N D E R S, but it belongs to humans now. we creatures have all but disappeared; daemons, vampires and witches. hiding in plain sight, fearful of D I S C O V E R Y, ill at ease even with each other. but as my father used to say: in every ending, there is a new B E G I N N I N G.
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asgoodeasgold · 6 months
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A Discovery of Witches Real Time Read Ch9
"Hamish surveyed the board and made his final move. ‘Checkmate.’ Matthew let out his breath and sat back in his chair, staring at the chessboard. His queen stood encircled by his own pieces – pawns, a knight, and a rook. Across the board his king was checked by a lowly black pawn. The game was over, and he had lost.
There’s more to the game than protecting your queen,’ Hamish said. ‘Why do you find it so difficult to remember that it’s the king who’s not expendable?’ ‘The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely.
I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.’ Hamish wondered if he was talking about chess or Diana.
Is she worth the cost, Matt?’ he asked softly.
Yes,’Matthew said without a moment of hesitation, lifting the white queen from the board and holding it between his fingers.
I thought so, Hamish said. You don’t feel this way now, but you’re lucky to have found her at last."
I adore Hamish as a character, both in the books and show (hurray to Greg McHugh!), and his friendship with Matthew and I love this scene in particular.
Matthew Goode's microexpressions as realisation dawns on MdC are particulary delightful. Another great piece of acting.
📷 Sky/Bad Wolf A Discovery of Witches (2018) s1:02 my edit
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fearlesstarker · 5 months
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diana bishop is a young vampire hunter. her parents died at the hands of a vampire with a blood rage when diana was still a child. and now the girl devotes every day of her life to hunting murderers.
this happens until the day diana meets matthew for the first time. at that moment, her life takes on a new meaning
I know them, but I'm not like them.
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earlgreyandanime · 10 months
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You know what I want? A little novella from Philippe's perspective. Can you imagine how funny his inner monologue must have been after Matthew and Diana time walked?
Like, it's been a few months since they left. The other Matthew is now back at Sept-Tours and makes a comment about how he will forever hate witches, and Philippe has to stop himself from laughing.
Or whenever he and Ysabeau hear that Matthew has taken a new lover, Philippe is hopeful for a moment and then gets really disappointed because, "That's not Diana!"
He must have had so much fun making little passing, vague comments to Matthew over the years.
Verin: I'm starving! Let's go hunt.
Baldwin: Just have some wine, I never find much when I hunt around here.
Matthew: Really? I always find more than enough whenever I hunt in this area.
Philippe, with a little smirk: That's because the Goddess of the chase truly loves you.
Centuries later, Matthew sits up in bed, eyes wide.
Diana: Matthew? Are you alright?
Matthew, whispering: The Goddess of the chase truly loves me.... Oh my God!
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rosalyn51 · 7 months
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ADoW Book 5 News (SPOILERS)
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While #1 New York Times bestselling author Deborah Harkness is still editing THE BLACKBIRD ORACLE, she has said that more information will be coming. And the book is COMING SOON!
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Bear in mind that things may change, nevertheless I got you a preliminary sneak peek of the synopsis [below the cut], which is a “thrilling and triumphant return to the All Souls Universe”. According to Deb’s book and media agent, the book will come out summer of 2024! 
Recently, Deb has said, 
Really excited for you to know more about it. It has been really a labor of love. I think you're going to really enjoy catching up with Diana and Matthew, and the twins.
THE BLACKBIRD ORACLE (Book 5) takes place 4 years after the events of TIME’S CONVERT (Book 4) of the All Souls Series (A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, SHADOW OF NIGHT, THE BOOK OF LIFE). Exciting!!! 🤩🥳🥰
***SPOILERS ALERT***
THE BLACKBIRD ORACLE [Fiction, Summer 2024] by Deborah Harkness
A thrilling and triumphant return to the All Souls Universe about facing the darkness inside yourself—and embracing it.
Four years after the events of TIME’S CONVERT, Diana and Matthew are living in Connecticut with their seven-year-old twins preparing for a summer holiday in England. Their plans are thrown into disarray, however, when the Congregation notifies Diana that her children are scheduled to have their magic tested this autumn, bringing back painful memories of her own assessment and the chain of events it set in motion. The mail also brings a letter telling her it’s time to come home to Ravenswood—the family farm— and fulfill the prophecy the Proctors call The Blackbird Oracle. The letter is signed by Gwyneth Proctor—a great-aunt Diana didn’t know existed from a side of her family she thought dead.
Concerned for their children and curious to meet any family that remains, Diana and Matthew travel to the marshes of Ipswich, Massachusetts to meet Gwyneth. She shows Diana the higher magic that runs through her veins— and through her children’s, too—and Diana finds herself conflicted between her lifelong fear of darker magic and the tantalizing powers she could have.
Diana also discovers a collection of dusty old bottles filled with family memories captured through higher magic, including those of her mother’s. But her family’s memories aren’t just stored in Ravenswood; the Congregation holds some of the Proctor and Bishop memories along with those of other powerful witches as a means of control. As Diana learns how higher magic operates and how the Congregation withholds it for their own purposes, she’ll have to decide whether or not to embrace the darkness within her to protect her family. And whether to give her own children the chance to learn higher magic—a chance she never had—even if it means exposing them to the Congregation and their own dark sides.
SHADOW OF NIGHT and THE BOOK OF LIFE each debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list
The trilogy was adapted into a hit TV show, entitled A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, starring Teresa Palmer and Matthew GoodE.
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📸 Park & Fine Literary and Media (April 2023)
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grace-nakimura · 5 months
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Page 204, A Discovery of Witches.
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