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Hi, so arrogant ex husband?? Did it become an original story? Because I literally got to ch 5 and then I didn't realize it was updated and when I found it, it was all removed and now I want to know what happened...
Yes, I'm already putting all the story together into a novel.
By the way, thank you for still remembering this story. Haha 😆
I will tell you the summary: Bucky and Y/N are still in the progress of trusting each other, but they communicate.
I hope you're interested in the Arrogant Ex Husband novel version. Because in here, the story will be more detailed and have multiple extra stories/epilogues.
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🍭🍭THE SHIP BABY DIRECTORY!🍭🍭
The products of Maria's various ships on this blog! Some babies are canon, some are not, and some are more prominent than others (and this list will inevitably grow sigh), but I love all of them!
I'll keep it basic so it won't be a novel, but you can ask about them if you want!
CLARA (the OG)
Father: Maria's Unnamed Ex-Husband (Prosecutor!Verse), Leo (FE!Verse (when she's married to Leo), KNY!Verse)
Stepfather: Simon (@risingshine )
((I won't rehash her bio and personality since she has a page already! Go check it out~))
SANTANA GAVIN
Father: Klavier (@legalbrats)
Bio: Maria and Klavier's oldest child. She caused quite a stir among Gavinners fans when she was born. She's played the guitar and volleyball since she was a young child. How does a teenager rebel against parents as over-the-top as Maria and Klavier? By being as basic as possible. Santana went to great lengths to fit in as much as she could, which caused her parents great distress. In her spare time, she composes and posts songs on social media.
Personality: Santana is kind, sunny, and strong-willed. She is protective of her siblings and likes having lots of friends. Like her parents, she can be dramatic when bad things happen, and very flirty.
Physical Appearance: Blonde hair. A lovely smile. Powerful legs.
NYX GAVIN
Father: Klavier (@legalbrats)
Bio: The second child of three, unlike her sister, she tries hard to stand out. She sings very well, and as she gets older, she becomes interested in charity work. Is known for making nasty faces at paparazzi. She often wonders if she should go into law, too.
Personality: Nyx likes to appear tough, but she is actually a big baby. She'll say "whatever" and then cry to her parents later. She is compassionate and artistic, and a little mischievous.
Physical Appearance: Her ears stick out a bit. Colored highlights. Likes leather jackets.
RICK JAMES "RJ" GAVIN
Father: Klavier (@legalbrats)
Bio: The youngest, and the only boy. He and his sisters are very close. He tagged along to one of Santana's ballet lessons when he was small and he loved it. He danced until middle school, where he was picked on for it. In college, he rediscovered his love for dance and continued. He wants to be a movie star, too.
Personality: He's passionate and confident, but he can be arrogant and shallow. In terms of self-improvement, he's unstoppable. When his ego is bruised, though, he'll spiral until someone reassures him.
Physical Appearance: Klavier's clone. He works out a lot. Has dimples.
KIRAGI
Father: Takumi (@fjinyumi )
Bio: Maria and Takumi's long-awaited son, who was placed in a Deeprealm(a pocket dimension) when he was nearly kidnapped as a baby. He reunited with his parents during the war, and he enjoys hunting, where he can put his incredible eyesight to good use. Although he is a prince, he dislikes fancy clothes and prefers that people speak casually to him.
Personality: He's friendly and fun-loving and doesn't sweat the small stuff. He can be stubborn and very messy, though. Like biohazard messy. He often puts hunting before his studies.
Physical Appearance: Here he is!
SHOUKO KANEDA
Father: Kaneda (@sayonaradumbass)
Bio: Born in a timeline where Tetsuo did not get up to his Tetsuo business, and to the sheer horror of Maria's father. Her mom is a prosecutor turned fashion consultant and her dad owns a bike garage. Since her mother works crazy hours, she is often in the care of Kaneda, who is definitely the more lax parent. When she gets older, she becomes a punk, and Maria absolutely cannot stand it.
Personality: Shouko is outgoing and curious and a bit of a showoff. She loves to talk to new people. She goes to private school but she can be hood af and is not afraid to stomp somebody, which often gets her in trouble.
Physical Appearance: Fluffy eyebrows. Poofy cheeks. Her hair started out light but darkened as she got older.
#IT IS DONEEEE#I thought it wouldn't all fit x v x#which kid would you babysit >:O#now the gavins are a package deal bc they are siblings lol#but what about the others?
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Netflix Persuasion Trailer Reaction:
I don’t understand why the filmmakers had to make Persuasion more “feminist.” It already IS feminist!! Anne has strong female friends and role models such as Lady Russell and Mrs. Croft that she relies upon. I found it BADASS when Mrs. Croft talked about sailing the world with her husband the admiral, it’s a total contrast to the indoor, sedentary lifestyle of rich Regency ladies. Also Lady Russell is one of Anne’s few friends who supports her while her family ignores her. Significantly Lady Russell is allowed to be flawed too - though her advice is generally sound, she cares too much about social status and and first fails to recognize Captain Wentworth’s merit. In order to have actual FEMINIST female characters, they should be allowed to be flawed because women are people too (duh but to me that’s the point of feminism) who are imperfect yet still deserving of respect.
Why did they have to make Anne Elliot a modern “girl boss” who makes snarky comments? As many others have said this would work for Elizabeth Bennet, but not Anne since she’s more reserved compared to Elizabeth. Also if Anne is a modern girl boss why is she still pining over a man she dismisses as her “ex?” Modern girl bosses don’t need men they hate them!
Persuasion starts off as a sad story because Anne (persuaded by Lady Russell) has given up the chance of love with Wentworth since his social status was lower than her’s. So obviously the forced comedy based on modern jokes doesn’t suit the mood of the story. It doesn’t make sense to have Anne dressing up in a fake mustache to impersonate a caricature of Wentworth because the memory of him and the chance she had to be happy with him brings her pain. In fact she is mortified when he first visits her after 8 years because she’s afraid she looks old and ugly. To me, that is a shrewd commentary on how society values women purely on external beauty rather than their integrity. How is this boring or outdated?
To me, Anne is defined by quiet strength and maturity rather than snarky comments. Anne is feminist because she gains more independence throughout the novel. Initially she has buried her feelings and focused on maintaining the family estate while her family members emotionally neglect her and live beyond their means. She helps others but they don’t appreciate her kindness and ignore her. For example when Louisa Musgrove falls she responds to the situation calmly and quickly while everybody else (including Wentworth) freaks out. She is also intelligent as shown by her discussion of poetry with Captain Harville and her challenging Captain Benwick when he implies women aren’t capable of dedication in long-distance relationships. She also displeases her family by befriending a poorer, yet honest, woman instead of sucking up to an arrogant noble lady. And the real kicker is the ending states that Anne’s domestic work as a Navy wife is equally as important as her husband’s role in the Navy. Please tell me how this isn’t feminist.
The book itself has humor too so there’s no need to add in anachronistic modern jokes that don’t work. Mr. Elliot perfectly fits the rom-com trope of douchebag love interest, and you also have your typical Austen characters like perfectly healthy people who act like invalids and snobby rich people like Anne’s father who is obsessed with his appearance and likes mirrors. We like Austen’s humor because it pokes fun at morally deficient/arrogant people.
Lastly the only good thing about this film is casting Henry Golding as Mr. Elliot. It suits the character, who’s a typical Austen villain in the sense that he’s good looking but deceptive.
#persuasion#jane austen#persuasion 2022#netflix persuasion#dakota johnson#cosmo jarvis#henry golding#reaction#this adaptation looks pretty shitty#why mess with the book#i’ll give it a chance since this is only a trailer but really it looks bad#persuasion is a feminist novel that was ahead of its time it doesn’t need this stuff#feel free to correct me because I haven’t read the book in a while and this is what I remember off the top of my head#the friends and exes quote drives me mad#anne elliot#frederick wentworth#rant#not sorry for the rant#long post#this film so far deserves all the criticism#how dare they dumb down the book#I don’t like how feminist characters are so flat and have to talk sarcastic to be feminist#why did they turn Anne Elliot into Bridget Jones#I like the Bridget Jones movies but I hate that it reinforces the stereotype of a single woman as emotionally unstable
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The Things We Leave Unfinished | Rebecca Yarros | Published 2021 | *SPOILERS*
28-year-old Georgia Stanton has to start over after she gave up almost everything in a brutal divorce - the New York house, the friends, and her pride. Now back home at her late great-grandmother's estate in Colorado, she finds herself face-to-face with Noah Harrison, the bestselling author of a million books where the cover is always people nearly kissing. He's just as arrogant in person as in interviews, and she'll be damned if the good looking writer of love stories thinks he's the one to finish her grandmother's final novel...even if the publisher swears he's the perfect fit.
Noah is at the pinnacle of his career. With book and movie deals galore, there isn't much the golden boy of modern fiction hasn't accomplished. But he can't walk away from what might be the best book of the century - the one his idol, Scarlett Stanton, left unfinished. Coming up with a fitting ending for the legendary author is one thing, but dealing with her beautiful, stubborn, cynical great-granddaughter, Georgia, is quite another.
But as they read Scarlett's words in both the manuscript and her box of letters, they start to realize why Scarlett never finished the book - it's based on her real-life romance with a WWII pilot, and the ending isn't a happy one. Georgia knows all too well that love never works out, and while the chemistry and connection between her and Noah is undeniable, she's as determined as ever to learn from her great-grandmother's mistakes - even if it means destroying Noah's career.
Georgia Stanton has returned to her hometown of Poplar Grove, Colorado after the demise of her marriage to a Hollywood producer. Six months prior, and the day she learned her now ex-husband was having an affair and impregnated Paige Parker, Georgia lost her great-grandmother, Scarlett Stanton. Scarlett was a world-renowned author, having penned 73 novels in her career.
However, Georgia has been made aware by her mother that she has found book number 74, or in this case, the book that started it all. Scarlett's own true story of her life with the man she had fallen in love with during World War II, Jameson Stanton.
Ava, Georgia's mother, wants to sell the rights to the novel and have it completed, using Noah Harrison, another well-known actor in his genre. Georgia is against the idea, as there was a reason why Scarlett never finished the book herself...and even Georgia hadn't read it yet. But, her against her better judgment, ultimately agrees with certain conditions: Noah can finish the book, but she has final approval before anything is finished and the book is published.
Noah works tirelessly to come up with a plot line to get the story moving, and each time, Georgia turns it down. When Noah finally shows up on her doorstep, the very home that Scarlett had lived in for the majority of her life, the two of them agree: they will complete two endings, one that Noah wants and the other that Georgia wants. Noah wants a happy ending, where Scarlett and Jameson are reunited and live happily ever after...and Georgia wants the real ending, where Jameson remains a POW MIA of the war with an unknown fate.
While Noah works to finish the books before the deadline, he and Georgia start up a fling...one that both Georgia needed in order to move on from her horrid marriage and divorce, and one for Noah that allowed him to completely open up to another person. The two of them are quickly falling in love, but Georgia is certain that Noah will leave as soon as the manuscript is finished and calls it a fling, while the two of them continue to fall deeply in love with the other in secret.
On the night of Georgia's gallery opening, where she has worked tirelessly, Ava returns from Seattle as a gift from Noah. While Georgia is tired of giving out chances with her mother after being disappointed so many times in the past, she allows her in and even gives her permission to stay with her and Noah in the house. Noah also invites his sister and brother-in-law. And Noah even finds something that is as timeless as Scarlett and Jameson's love for one another: the phonograph that supposedly broke sometime in the 1950s but works perfectly well.
While we are seeing Georgia and Noah's love for each other blossom; we also see Scarlett and Jameson's love blossom as well. In short, Jameson and Scarlett met while Jameson was, willingly, fighting during WWII in England. Scarlett and her sister Constance were Assistant Section Officers in the WAAF, their job confidential to all but those who worked with them. Jameson was a pilot, and despite her misgivings of being involved with someone whose very job could kill them in an instant, Scarlett falls hopelessly, head over heels in love with Jameson.
The two of them marry, and when Scarlett becomes pregnant, is forced to resign her commission in the WAAF and becomes a housewife. After two years of a stress environment, Scarlett isn't quite sure how to handle the free time she is now awarded, which quickly comes to an end with the birth of their son, William.
The war is heating up, and Jameson arranges for Scarlett and William to head to the US with the help of his Uncle Vernon, the very uncle who taught him how to fly planes. With Scarlett and William officially being given visas in order to travel to the US, the arrangements are made. But just a few days before their departure, Jameson and his squad are attacked, and his plane goes down somewhere over the ocean near the coast of the Netherlands. Despite their best efforts, Jameson and his plane are not located.
With the insistence of her sister, Scarlett agrees to leave. Constance is going to drive her to the airfield, but on the way, the air raid sirens begin going off and the three of them are forced to find shelter. Unfortunately, their efforts come to late, as a bomb explodes nearby. Scarlett comes too, and on the surface appears to be fine. However, Constance is injured.
Back to the present day storyline, Ava is attempting to take the finished manuscript, which Noah had finished six weeks before without telling Georgia, as he had wanted their love story to continue, and sell the rights to Georgia's ex-husband to turn it into a movie. Georgia refuses to do this, and finally, after many years, tells her mother to get out and stay out. She also tells this of Noah, who returns to New York City at Georgia's insistence, their love story officially over.
One day, Georgia receives one of her monthl gifts from Scarlett, who had arranged for something to arrive to Georgia every month after she had passed. Inside she finds three envelopes, and the truth about what really happened on the day that Scarlett, William and Constance were heading to the airfield are revealed:
When Scarlett comes to after the bomb went off, she finds that William is essentially uninjured, but that Constance had been killed in the aftermath. Or so she thought. Constance had simply been knocked unconscious. Unfortunately for Scarlett, she is fatally injured and after having COnstance promise to protect William no matter what, dies.
Constance hurries to the airfield, and everyone assumes she is Scarlett...so she essentially becomes her. Constance's entire existence simply becomes that of Scarlett's. For Scarlett and Jameson, they had been reunited this entire time, and the tragic love story that Georgia was led to believe all of these years ended up having a somewhat happy ending for the two lovebirds.
For Constance, she had spent the last 76 years of her life being someone else, raising someone else's son, and having a career that should have been Scarlett's. When word of her husband's death came to the US, Constance finally felt comfortable enough to marry the man she had been seeing for the last 17 years, and they had an extra blissful ten years together before his death.
Georgia shocked by this news, and right away calls the publisher for the book, having them change the ending she had chosen: the real one...to the happy ending that Noah said Scarlett and Jameson deserved.
As for Noah, he arrives on her doorstep after returning from a research trip for his next novel, completely blindsided that the ending was changed. The reviews on the previous ending were not good ones, but for Noah, Georgia wanted to save the career that he loved so much.
Noah admits that he had been in the Netherlands, attempting to locate the plane wreckage and Jameson. While they were successful in finding the plane, they did not locate any remains, but did find something that showed them that Noah had found what he had been looking for: a necklace engraved with the initial of J & S - Jameson and Scarlett.
With the revelations, Noah and Georgia admit their love for each other and three years later, the two of them are married and despite having told her ex-husband that she couldn't have kids (when she was really on birth control the entire time not wanting to have children with a man she despised), she is now pregnant and Noah is still writing.
Do you want a tear-jerker? Read this. Point blank. Period. I cried the entire last half of the book. I'm so glad I decided to give this author another shot. I enjoyed the first book I read from her, but this one...this one...there are truly no words for the beauty that is this book.
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Review: The Only Way Is Up by Heidi Stephens
I love a good romance novel, particularly if there’s some kind of celebrity aspect. I think it might add to the escapism aspect of why I love rom-coms. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect from this book but I was excited to find out!
Daisy Crawford has spent 25 years in TV and is delighted when she finally wins TV Presenter of the Year at the NTAs. However, as she makes her way up to the stage to collect her award, she trips and reveals much more than she ever wanted to on live TV. Then her boyfriend announces their engagement to the world without consulting her. To escape the shame, she retreats to a cottage in the Cotswolds that she used to own with her ex husband. Although it hasn’t got the glitz and glam of the city, at least Daisy is close to her teen daughter Ruby now. But it soon becomes apparent that someone in the village is selling stories about Daisy to the press, spreading rumours about her and hunky headmaster Tom.
I really enjoyed the reference to the TV Presenter of the Year award going to the same winner every year. It’s a running thing at the UK NTAs that Ant and Dec win it every year and I suppose it’s only a matter of time before someone else is finally deemed better than them. How awesome would it be if it were a woman who has put the work in over many years?
Daisy’s fiance Christian made my skin crawl. After Daisy ran away (notably without him), he kept showing up and I found myself shouting at him to just go away. I don’t know why the book tried to redeem him by claiming he had a sex addiction because he was clearly just your regular, run-of-the-mill, arrogant creep.
The fact that Daisy hates Tom on her first meeting with him was an instant clue that he would become a love interest. I loved seeing them together because it was a slow burn romance and yet the initial attraction was definitely there for both of them. I loved Tom and thought he’d be a good match for Daisy. I just wanted her to see Christian for what he was and clear the way for a romance with Tom to develop.
I really enjoyed the little Wagatha Christie inspired mystery towards the end. It was all very low stakes but it was a very clever element to throw into the book. I think it would have been great to have this thread start earlier in the book and have the slow reveal, so that I could have spent more time picking up clues, but it was a really fun, unexpected way for the book to come to a close.
The Only Way Is Up is a fun, romantic rom-com with some really lovely characters. I think I would have enjoyed more laugh-out-loud comedy rather than warm smiles but the romance was cute, the friendships were lovely and the conclusion was really satisfactory.
#the only way is up#heidi stephens#rom-com#contemporary fiction#blog tour#book review#review#books#bookworm
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Fictional novel
It's just hilarious as fuck to watch a narcissistic bastard go around and around in their head. Just ignore them they can't stand that
It's like a person going through withdrawals from their addiction to what ever.
But different because yeah, the devil can get you addicted to all kinds of shit but once you sold your soul to the devil there's no getting that back with out help from Jesus Christ himself!
Once Brad wanted to write about a man who sold his soul to the devil and asked how would one go about getting their soul back?
I should have been listening to him like that back then.
I thought he trying to put do Steven King but apparently I was wrong.
King writes some scary ass shit !
He started writing his book and in one of his chapters it read like this
The husband was decorating the Christmas tree with their kids and his wife and he had been fighting with the devil for a while now.
This one night as the husband stood in front of the tree he looks over at the living room window and his eyes got huge and he sees the devil and gets scared and see him see the devil he's right there and he's trying to take my family away from me!
The wife could not see what he was seeing and the husband started yelling at the devil and he was saying no Satan you can't have my soul nor my family either.
He scared the shit out of his wife and kids all four of them.
I thought geeze this is getting to be good but the guy worked for a local company and that company lost a different man to suicide
This man has a wife and a few kids and he sold his soul to the devil too his wife later on in the story tells all.
Her husband put the barrel of a shot gun in his mouth and blew his own head off.
I thought wow this is creepy as hell.
Who knew Brad had sold his own soul to the devil way back when.
This is what bothers me is that the shit can lay dormant if you will till the devil is ready to tear your life up and to hell and back.
Now with my eyes wide open and seeing clearly I am shocked floored .
In his story the man could time travel and he was married before and he stalked his ex back in time and he was able to change his appearance so she could never know it was him stalking her.
It's just to damn creepy for her because the book we went into so much details.
He crossed the line time after time and knowing that Jesus was going to be mad at him and avenge her with in time.
That means Jesus was going to hurt his ass bad!
Devils do not listen not even to Jesus because they're that stupid and arrogant and evil!
They listen to Jesus but they'll to stupid to not be the same way as usual because they are evil!!!
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Hard Pass by Brenda Rothert & Kat Mizera is available now!
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Sariah
Ever meant to text your ex, but accidentally messaged a stranger instead? I did, and that mistake started a friendship that became important to me as I navigated a move and a new job with the St. Louis Mavericks. I’m crushing life as a strong, single woman until I discover the truth. That stranger I’m crushing on? He’s actually not a stranger at all.
Nash
Giving a fake name to the woman who accidentally texted me seemed like a good idea at the time. As a pro hockey player, my real name tends to draw out puck bunnies and fame seekers. But when the woman who thinks I’m “Rob” starts working for the Mavericks, I find myself in a jam. How do I tell her the man she thinks she’s falling for is actually the somewhat arrogant (though charming) hockey player she can’t stand?
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Brenda Rothert was a print journalist for nine years. She made the jump from fact to fiction in 2013 and never looked back. From hot hockey romance to steamy romantic suspense, Brenda creates fresh characters in every story she tells. She's a lover of Diet Coke, lazy weekends and happily ever afters.
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A typical PTA mom with a wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat can usually be found scrapbooking or indulging in her second love (after writing) - traveling. Greece is one of her favorite places in the world. She loves that Athens is a big city with a small-town feel. The food, beaches and culture keep her going back as often as possible.
Kat's been a working freelance writer for nearly 30 years. She sold her first article--a review of a rock concert--for $10 in 1985. Since then she's been an entertainment journalist, waitress, bartender, legal assistant, food critic, magazine editor, substitute teacher, and sports writer. She also spent some time working at A & M Records in Los Angeles.
As you can guess from her Las Vegas Sidewinders series, Kat loves hockey and occasionally writes articles about her favorite team, the Florida Panthers. The rest of the time, she writes novels: sexy, romantic fiction that she hopes makes you as happy as it makes her. There's something enticing about hockey players and romance...
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Reminiscing
Warnings - tooth rotting fluff... And smut. Obvs. Bit of a Daddy Kink thrown in cuz why the hell not?
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You sat in the large armchair, in the big bay window of your Dublin home, blanket over your legs, as you immersed yourself in the latest John Grisham novel. Your husband was out, dropping his sons off back at their mum's after spending the weekend with you. You couldn't help but pinch yourself on a regular basis. Gorgeous husband, amazing young stepsons, even Cillians ex-wife, Lisa, was someone you considered a close friend - the split had been amicable, and she'd encouraged her sons with Cillian to welcome you with open arms. You even met her for lunch a few times a month, much to Cillian's surprise. He was more concerned the two of you were comparing notes than anything else!
Hearing the front door open and close, he smiled as he re-entered the room. Leaning over to kiss your lips, he sank down onto the sofa and picked his own book up from the coffee table.
"How was Lisa?" You asked, taking a sip of your coffee.
"Good - she said she'd call you later, something about a girls night out next week."
"Sounds fun - I'm up for that." You nestled down snug in the chair and continued your chapter. You could feel his eyes looking your way, and smiled internally. You loved the way he just watched you when he thought you couldn't see.
The way your legs hung over the chair, blanket covering your lower half. He smiled, remembering the day you met at the aftershow party for his latest play in Dublin. He was hesitate to go, but the director had convinced him. You were the director, Enda Walsh's niece, and you'd gone along to support your uncle's latest stage production. You knew who Cillian was of course, not that it bothered you. Working as a stagehand part time at the theatre in your teens, you'd met plenty of famous people over the years and frankly most of them were arrogant idiots with egos the size of Jupiter. Cillian was different though. Down to earth, sweet, kind, normal. Neither of you particularly looking for love, but sometimes it happens in the most unlikely of places.
Flashback
"Cillian, this my niece y/n. Y/n, this is Cillian, the star of the show!" Enda introduced the two of you and Cillian smiled, leaning forward to embrace you softly and kiss your cheek.
"I've heard so much about you y/n, nice to put a face to the name." You couldn't help but feel butterflies looking into those blue eyes, and without you realising at the time, Cillian felt exactly the same about yours. You'd spent most of the evening from that point talking about the theatre and what you each loved about it - from the lighting and production side to the audience reactions during the live show itself. You'd seen Cillian in the show three times, you'd been mesmerised by his performance, but this was the first time you'd met him.
The music changed as the night was drawing to a close. A slower number, and the other cast members and production team all took their respective partners to the dance floor. You were both now sat pretty much alone - clearly the only single people in the room!
"Would you like to dance?" Cillian asked, sheepishly. It suddenly felt a little awkward. You looked at him surprised, but found yourself nodding as he offered you his hand and led you to the dance floor. You could feel your uncle's stare as Cillian placed one hand on your waist and took your hand with his other, both of you gently swaying to the music. He was a smooth dancer, never missing a step. No toes clashing together, and the awkwardness melted away as you looked into each others eyes. The rest of the room suddenly becoming an afterthought.
"I've really enjoyed talking to you tonight y/n."
"Me too, you're not like the other actors. You're... Normal!" You giggled lightly.
"I'm boring, you mean?" He laughed in response, you could feel his fingers caressing your waist softly as you continued to sway.
"How'd you feel about dinner one night? We can talk more about how boring we both are?" That smile again.
"You're on. He pulled you a little closer, your cheeks inches apart. He desperately wanted to kiss you there and then but with your uncle a mere few feet away he didn't dare. He knew you were 28 to his 40, and he wasn't sure how his friend would react to it.
"You two seemed to be getting on well?" Enda approached you after the party, and he couldn't help but notice the glow around you after your dance with Cillian. He'd gone to the bathroom.
"He's a nice guy Uncle E, we have a lot in common."
"You know he's 40, and has two kids, right?"
"Uncle -"
"Cillian! So you're taking my niece out for dinner are you?" He returned from the men's room and froze.
"Um.. I..."
"I'm kidding... God you're too easy to wind up!! Have fun!!" Both of you audibly sighed in relief.
"He's an ass..." You smiled as Cillian offered you his arm to link into.
"I have a car outside, I'll drop you home?" You nodded, taking his arm.
You both sat in the back, the driver being given your home address as Cillian pushed the visor up between the driver and you. Privacy. He took your hand, leaning back and kissed the back of it gently. You smiled - your first kiss, but not where you wanted it.
"He can't see us, right?" You asked. He nodded and pulled you closer to him. "So..." Leaning toward you slowly, he gently ran a thumb over your cheek and pressed his lips to yours. You returned the kiss. His mouth opening slightly to gain access to yours, your tongues soon met. It quickly became heated before Cillian pulled away.
"You wanna go home?"
"You want me to go home?"
"Nope."
"Then I'm not going home." Cillian pulled the visor down and told him you were both going back to his house instead before pulling you back against his lips.
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The memories of that first night were as clear as if it had happened only yesterday, not two years ago. It was so good that you both often got yourselves off to the thought of it when Cillian was away working. Two years on and your lives were simply idyllic.
He made his way over to you in the chair and kneeled down next to you, running a hand under your summer dress and squeezing your thigh.
"You know, I've been thinking..." He leaned closer to your ear, making you squirm. He knew the effect his voice had on you and he played on it daily.
"Dangerous..." You smirked, and he responded by tracing kisses up your back, his hand still teasing under your dress, over your now damp underwear.
"All this house.. and just the two of us.. seems a waste, don't you think?" His fingers gently moving your panties aside and slipping between your folds. Instinctively you opened your legs, granting him access.
"Hmmm....." Your hips rising slightly to meet his fingers. "Are you saying you want a dog, Cillian.."
"Funny, y/n... No.." his fingers were torturing you, caressing everywhere except where you needed him to be.
"Wanna fill me with your baby do you daddy?"
"Hmm.. call me that again..." He smiled, his erection now painfully pushing against his jeans as he dipped a finger inside you.
"Do we have a Daddy Kink, Cillian? Does making me full of your baby turn you on?" You tried to retain composure as a second finger entered you, his hand now pushing them in and out slowly.
"Fuck... Stand up." He ordered and he immediately pulled the dress over your head and your underwear down. Swiftly followed by his own clothing, before he lay you down on the sofa.
"Guess we won't be needing a condom for this then... Fuck me daddy - give me a baby..."
"Coming right up..." He kneeled back down next to you and parted your perfect legs, before sinking two fingers back inside, rubbing your clit with his thumb. It wasn't long before you were writhing under his touch, calling his name as you came hard against his hand. He moved over you, quickly turning you over so your pert behind was up in the air and you were gripping the arm of the sofa in hot anticipation. He pushed inside, feeling you for the first time without a barrier - no other contraception had suited you, so you'd stuck with condoms - and he groaned as he filled you completely.
"Jesus... God yes.. right there Daddy...." He picked up the pace at your words, thrusting into you like a man possessed.
"Fuck this is tight baby... I'm not gonna last long like this..."
"Fill me up Daddy.. make me pregnant.. give me your baby..." He couldn't hold back after that, and came hard, filling you and sending you into your second orgasm. Breathing heavy, he stayed in until he was completely spent - not daring to waste a drop.
"Lay on your back y/n... Legs in the air.." you did as he asked, confused. "Helps the whole process apparently."
"So you meant it then?" You smiled as he knelt beside you again, swirling a hand over your belly.
"What, that I want to see the love of my life's body swell with my baby inside? Damn right I meant it y/n.. nothing would make me happier than a baby with you." You were grinning now, as he leaned in to kiss you.
"Love you Cill."
"Love you more mama." The sound of him calling you that made your heart swell. You couldn't wait to hear your baby call it you too.
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Rebecca, The End
This is my second part of my review of “Rebecca”, don’t forget to read the first part!
Now this young lady is CRAZY. She went from a shrivel, shy, can’t do anything by myself to oozing with confidence teetering on ignorant arrogance. First she couldn’t even look at Mrs. Danvers, now she’s telling the workers “I do want I want, I’m Mrs. De Winter” (353). And all she had to do to free herself was hear Max say he hated Rebecca. Not only hated her, but murdered her. Why is she not running? How has she found solace in hearing her husband killed his late wife? Does her hatred for Rebecca run so deep? Her obsession with Max that strong to look over such a criminal act?! I understand that Rebecca was not perfect or right, but murder is just as inexcusable as adultery and abuse. I was rooting for this young lady but she was crazy from the start! Now I’m rooting for the truth and justice. Too bad Favell doesn’t have a good case or witness because he’s absolutely right! Given the circumstances of the beginning of the novel, it sounds like everything works out or at the very least the de Winters are on the run. I just hope justice is rightly served.
The story is getting good!! Far from what I had expected the plot to go. I thought Rebecca was the main character who would be haunted and tormented by the ex-wife. I was thinking there would be a ghost flying around haunting her dreams, terrorizing her life, but Rebecca did haunt Mrs. Rebecca created a barrier for both Max and Mrs., preventing them from having an actual loving marriage. Mrs. was haunted by not being able to match up to Rebecca in everything she did (the ball, how she handled the house, the schedule, interactions with the servants). Mrs. Danvers was a physical representation of Rebecca’s haunting in her detestable treatment of Mrs.
It’s too bad Mrs. Danvers isn’t being too much of a help to Favell, I thought she would be on his side. Maybe Rebecca just didn’t let her know what was truly going on. Clearly, Danvers thinks she knows more than she does. And Ben was of no help, which I thought he would have been (353).
What does the doctor mean by “it doesn’t do the profession any good if people can treat us like that” (374). I understand people deserve respect but how is hiding your identity as a patient hurting the doctor? Shouldn’t the doctor be more concerned as to why their patient was hiding this information?
The difference in times is so evident. Imagine being told “please help yourself to cigarettes”.
WHAT DID SHE HAVE!! Omgsh why is the author playing with me, I’m literally at the edge of my seat! Originally I thought she was pregnant, now it sounds like cancer (373). If she was pregnant then you could definitely make a case of murder, but it would be harder with a sickness. Sickness would more help the suicide line. I’m so sad to see justice won’t happen.
I had no idea there was a Soho in London (379)! I’ll have to add it to my travel list. Along with the other places I’ve found in literary novels set in the United Kingdom. How funny would it be to recount “Rebecca” at Manderley.
Even after all is said and done, the guilt and Rebecca is still riding over Maxim. And Mrs. de Winter still cannot shake Rebecca out of the picture, Rebecca still has her frantic. Rebecca for the win!! Never thought I’d say it though. The tables have turned and now Mrs. is the one in charge and getting her way (382). However Maxim is getting very worried! (I like that! I need justice to be served!!).
How interesting is that the moment Mrs. hears Maxim killed Rebecca she begins to become bold and demanding. While you’d think she’d be afraid as her husband kilt his ex-wife! Who’s to say she isn’t next? This just shows how little she thinks of Rebecca even though she hasn’t met her. All she cares about is that Maxim hated her and “loves” her, which makes Mrs. better than Rebecca and pets her ego.
Ahhhh, I’m screaming! Imagine your spouse asking you to sleep in the back of the car when there is plenty of money for hotels?!! He asked if you don’t mind if you wrapped up in a rug and tuck in the back?! No sir!
Can you imagine randomly stopping at someone’s garage for some tea at half past 11??! It’s amazing to see the differences of that time versus ours. I doubt people even knock on their neighbor’s door for some flour or sugar, much less tea! And I wonder what the significance of the conversation with the garage man was, especially when he says “summer is over”, definitely got an eerie vibe from the conversation and that comment solidified my assumption along with the nightmares Mrs. was getting (384). I wonder if this is hinting to what will be a sour turning point in the plot, although Mrs. seems to feel this is a positive turning point. With her imagining how she’ll take supreme charge over the household and finally become the good ol’ housewife she’s wanted to be but felt like she wouldn’t live up to Rebecca. So funny to see how happy she is, but how distraught Mr. De Winter is. We’ll see where this goes!
“There is no Happy Valley” (385). If that’s not a foreshadow I don’t know what is! Oops and now she’s dreaming of Rebecca!
Is Manderley on fire (386)?! And what’s the significance on the sun setting on the west? WAIT THAT’S THE END???? THERE IS NO WAY! NO NO NO! I CANNOT ACCEPT THIS! This is not the ending I was hoping for! Why, I don’t even understand. It took me months to finish this book and that’s the conclusion. I know the first chapter basically started at the end, but I’m still shocked! I don’t know what to say, definitely not a traditional ending to a novel. I just don’t feel like it’s over. I’m going to read the beginning of the 1st chapter to see if that helps a little bit. I just had a different view of how the book would end, I guess that explains my shock.
No wonder the 1st chapter ends with “Manderley is no more”, it really is! I guess the house burning also burnt up their past in a sense that they can start a new life with each other. More importantly, Rebecca and her control is dead. But call me mean, I still think they should be locked up. I still have to read the SparkNotes because this just blew my mind.
Concluding Thoughts
It seems as if I have forgotten the entire novel started with the ending. I’m not sure how that could have possibly slipped my mind, most likely due to how long I had put the book down. However, by reading the SparkNotes summary from the beginning, I’m starting to pick up connections from the end of the novel to the beginning. For example, “there is no Happy Valley”, it makes sense that in the dream she couldn’t see Happy Valley, it was pointing to the fact that “Manderley is no more” as it had caught on fire. Also Mrs. Van Hopper was right, Mrs. wasn’t fit to be mistress over Manderley, which is why it being burnt has turned her life around for the better. She couldn’t be the housewife at Manderley because Rebecca would always reign there, even if the entire place were to be redecorated, her presence and memory would not be shaken. All it would take is for one person to say “that’s not how Rebecca did it” for any of that progress to be reversed. Things start to make more sense when you reread with the knowledge you have. Maybe that’s why reading the textbook either before or after lecture is good reinforcement or a tool for better understanding.
So much connecting the dots being done here. When Crawley said Maxim is the last to want to return back to the pass, or how Maxim said the beach gives him bad memories, and that it was a mistake to return back to Manderley. All because he hated his late wife’s guts and then murdered her.
I wonder if I’m the only one who would have preferred to see Rebecca get justice in terms of Mr. de Winter getting caught.
Also what is the reasoning behind gothic novels, or novels written in the past, the first coming to mind “Jane Eyre” and “Persuasion” include a young women falling head over heels to an older man? Was this the norm of society? I feel like it wasn’t as other couples in the novel usually don’t have a big age difference as the main couple do. Now I know I have a personal aversion to age gaps in romantic relationships and back then woman usually got married much younger than what would be accepted in today’s society, but were they really getting married to such older men? And why is this such big trope in literature?
Overall I loved “Rebecca” and would definitely recommend anyone to read it. I can’t wait for my next gothic novel, I’m thinking “Wuthering Heights”? Also should I watch the move adaption of the novel?
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Awwww! Also, just one of these times the ML of a web novel will have a decent emperor father and I will need a fainting couch!!!! Between the whole “let’s chain you up” thing (even though he’s the one who put you on the throne, ingrate!) and the fact that later ML remembers how daddy preferred his cousin because he was gentle and literary, all I can say is daddy richly deserved to be murdered by evil uncle (I am spoiled).
Bwahahhh! Love how the ML and everyone else is “his chains cannot he unlocked there are only two keys and one set is with emperor and the other with Crown Prince and you need to use both” meanwhile FL is all “a lockpick taught me skills let’s unlock this in two minutes” hahahahah.
This novel is not really angstfest but I do love how it’s understated but consistent that XXC does have psychological trauma from all the shit that’s happened to him (but is still arrogant which is very in keeping with the fact that he’s young - he’s what - around 20? And his natural temper is hella unbridled.)
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This is the stuff I am here for!!!!
This novel isn’t as well-written and nuanced as The Emperor’s Beloved Ugly Girl (which really feels like a delicate slice of life/hurt-comfort and healing nirvana wrapped in a period package) but it gives me so many things I love! And I do like that ML and FL in this are nowhere as beaten down as ML and FL in Ugly Girl but they still have issues and the healing also takes a while. (The protags of Ugly Girl are probably most beaten down protags I’ve read about in a while - not in terms of stuff happening to them - it’s bad but realistically bad not some gonzo xianxia stuff - but in terms of their hearts and attitudes. FL is basically a slave with burn scars who’s never had a good life and ML has been living in such hell for the last year or two and even before there are decades of knowing his own father hates him and walking on knife edge all those years - and he’s 32 so it’s been forever! You get the sense that both of them are just so damn exhausted by the start of the novel and so much of what I love about Ugly Girl is their slow reenergizing and coming back to life.)
Awwwwww poor darling!!!!! Of course she didn’t leave!
ETA I love how her terrible adopted family and aristos and scumbag ex fiance are all “she must be suffering/still in love with ex fiancé” meanwhile FL is all “ugh I couldn’t stand the little twerp! And I am perfectly happy being around my husband since he saved my life back then and I feel gratitude and am delighted to be able to repay back, plus he’s hot!” Hahaha
ETA2 bwahahaha
She’s in the middle of a super fancy wedding and people are all “she must be feeling sad her ex is marrying someone else/her wedding wasn’t as fancy” meanwhile she’s bored and pining for ML who’s left at home.
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Hi… so I found your Arrogant Ex-husband series recently but when I tried clicking on the links none of them worked??? Can you please tell me where I can read it??? I would looove to read them!
Hii...I've removed the chapter because I'm turning it into an original book. Still in progress.
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Chinese Wuthering Heights (Episode 1)
A few weeks ago I’ve stumbled upon a Chinese soap opera based on Wuthering Heights. I’ve immediately decided to watch and do a review of it, but the fact that it is 30 episodes long and still doesn’t do the second half kind of made me hesitate (really they had no excuse to not do the second half). But my curiosity got the better of me and I’ve decided to watch and review it anyway.
Since I’ve found this series completely by chance and it might be difficult to find it on the internet, I will reblog this post and give a link to the playlist of the episodes.
Since I’ve went into watching this series with no idea what to expect and since the people who are reading this are unlikely to be familiar with it, this ended up being an opinionated and detailed recap of the first episode rather than a review.
I’ll call the characters by the names of their book counterparts for clarity’s sake.
I am unfamiliar with Chinese history and culture, so please feel free to correct me if I say anything widely off the mark or offensive.
So let’s get started with the first episode.
Intro is super dramatic with scenes of people slapping each other, and the scenes that are chosen seem to summarize the plot of the whole show.
According to the only English post about this show that I’ve found on the internet, the show takes place in Late Qing Dynasty/Early Republican Era China. So, it is set in early 20th century China. Based solely on the scenes in the intro, the clothing of the characters seems to get more Westernized as the story goes on.
The story is narrated by Nelly as in the book. The episode starts with Nelly (who is actually the age she is supposed to be in the book, yay) bringing food to Cathy. But Cathy is not in her room and is being naughty by attempting to free a bird (*metaphors*). Joseph scolds Nelly for Cathy’s naughtiness but Cathy defends Nelly.
Mrs. Earnshaw arrives at the scene and Cathy’s naughtiness is once again blamed on Nelly. But Cathy bravely tells that Nelly needn’t be blamed, it was all her. (This is honestly nicer than anything Cathy in the book has ever done). Apparently in her dream her father had told Cathy that she has to pick him up from the town (I don’t know how this relates to the bird to be honest). Mr. Earnshaw seems to be away at the equivalent of Liverpool.
Earnshaws of this version aren’t upper middle class owners of a farm but a noble family with lots of servants.
On the way to the town Mr. Earnshaw relives the trauma of losing his son. Apparently he arrived at the place where his grave is. There is a surprising amount of focus on the dead Earnshaw son in this adaptation.
Back at the Linton home, Mrs. Linton is scolding Mr. Linton because he doesn’t get Mr. Earnshaw from the town. Mr. Earnshaw is Mr. Linton’s older brother in this adaptation! (There wasn’t enough near-incestous relationships in the source material apparently). And Lintons are the poorer family and rely on the Earnshaws to support them! And Mrs. Linton is clearly envious of Earnshaws’ wealth and status. This is quite the change from the source material!
Isabella tries to get Edgar to come to breakfast but Edgar playfully hides from her and then scares her.
We see Heathcliff picking up fruits in the forest where the Earnshaw son’s grave is. I don’t want to be stereotypical and compare the two East Asian adaptations, but his hair looks a lot like that of the Japanese Heathcliff in the 1988 Japanese adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
I couldn’t find a photo of the child Heathcliff in the Japanese adaptation unfortunately.
Mr. Earnshaw immediately associates this child he met at the graveyard with his dead son and thus we get a neat explanation of Heathcliff’s adoption.
Nelly talks about how sadly Mr. Linton played his violin.
It is getting dark and Mr. Earnshaw still hasn’t arrived at his home despite Mrs. Earnshaw expecting him by supper time (which is a detail that is taken from the book). Edgar wants Nelly to play chess with him but Isabella wants Nelly to play with herself. Here all the children know each other from the start.
Cathy gets dressed up as her father and makes everyone laugh. They got her tomboyish and playful personality right. Hindley is still nowhere to be seen? I guess he isn’t in this. A Wuthering Heights adaptation without Hindley? That’s a first.
Mr. Earnshaw finally arrives at home.
Cathy and the Lintons have a very sibling-like relationship here. They call each other “brother” and “sister”. This makes the eventual Cathy-Edgar marriage even weirder.
Edgar talks about his studies to Mr. Earnshaw.
I get the feeling that in this adaptation the characters of Edgar and Hindley are blended and Edgar will be wary of Heathcliff since he is the next-in-line as the sonless Mr. Earnshaw’s nephew. Maybe the writers didn’t find Mr. Earnshaw preferring Heathcliff to his biological son appropriate?
Heathcliff is brought into the sight of the Earnshaw/Linton family. Edgar immediately calls him a “little devil”. Mr. Earnshaw scolds him. Mr. Earnshaw calls Heathcliff to the table and gives him food. Children are disgusted by his lack of manners while eating. Edgar calls him a “little beggar”. (I think it is clear at this point that this is a composite character of Edgar and Hindley, but I will call him “Edgar” for clarity’s sake). Edgar apparently tries to give Heathcliff some food but it turns out that he put some weird shellfish thing in it (which is certainly more of a Hindley move than an Edgar one). Heathcliff angrily throws something at him. (Is this the applesauce incident? It is too early in the story to be the applesauce incident).
Joseph blames the whole incident on Heathcliff since Edgar is above him in status. Classic Joseph. Heathcliff gets a haircut.
Mr. Earnshaw tells his wife that he believes that he was led by something to his son’s graveyard. This lends credence to the idea that there is something supernatural going on with Heathcliff. Mr. Earnshaw likened Heathcliff’s silence to his dead son’s (who apparently couldn’t talk at three years old - interesting). Mrs. Earnshaw is moved by her husband’s story (very unlike her book counterpart).
Next day, Joseph makes Heathcliff into a servant. Heathcliff starts to work at the kitchen and Cathy accuses him of stealing food. This is their first actual interaction. Slightly more promising than her spitting at him. Heathcliff gives Cathy the silent treatment.
Mr. Earnshaw sold some of his properties in his last business trip and Mrs. Linton clearly doesn’t like that. I guess Mrs. Linton is the resident Scheming Bitch that is mandatory in every soap opera. Mr. Linton is characterized as very shy and is not interested in worldly matters. (Maybe the dead Earnshaw son took after his uncle?)
Earnshaws are very forgiving of Heathcliff’s lack of manners and adaptability issues. They are characterized as a very nice couple that only aim to do charity work. All the evil here comes from the Scheming Lintons.
Heathcliff can’t talk at all instead of speaking “gibberish” like in the novel.
Mrs. Earnshaw likes Heathcliff nearly as much as her husband. Mrs. Linton offers to give Heathcliff Edgar’s old clothes to test the Earnshaws and is super offended when they accept it.
Mrs. Linton tells her husband when they are alone that she feels bad for the Earnshaws because their son died and that she can give them Edgar. Mrs. Linton is offended that a nobody Mr. Earnshaw brought home can throw things at Edgar and Mr. Earnshaw can be ok with that. To be fair, she is not completely wrong.
Edgar, Cathy and Isabella are studying while Heathcliff is doing housework. Cathy sees that Heathcliff is wearing Edgar’s clothes and tells Edgar. Edgar beats Heathcliff up, girls separate them. Nelly informs Edgar that Mrs. Linton was the one who gave Heathcliff his clothes.
Mrs. Earnshaw asks Nelly why Heathcliff looks beaten up. Nelly attempts to lie and say that he stumbled while fetching water. Classic Nelly. Then she tells the truth.
Mrs. Linton tells Edgar that he is the young lord of the family and Heathcliff is just a beggar. (Really I’m calling this character “Edgar” but he is 80 percent Hindley and 20 percent Edgar so far). Mrs. Linton warns his son that he shouldn’t offend his uncle, and that he is the only heir of the house and should act like it.
Mr. Earnshaw is talking about his businesses to his wife. Mrs. Earnshaw says to him that they need to buy new clothes for Heathcliff from the town, and that it is not actually appropriate for a servant to wear Edgar’s clothes. Her husband thinks that Edgar is too spoilt and arrogant because he is the only boy of the family.
Next day Mr. Earnshaw brings Heathcliff to the town to buy new clothes for him. The tailor mistakes Heathcliff for Mr. Earnshaw’s son and Mr. Earnshaw doesn’t correct him. Mr. Earnshaw buys some sweets for Heathcliff at the town and Mr. Linton witnesses it.
Mr. Earnshaw tells his wife of the mistake the tailor made. Mrs. Earnshaw thinks that he should have sent Heathcliff to the town with a servant. She worries that Edgar’s feelings might be hurt because Heathcliff attacked him. Mr. Earnshaw rightly tells her that Edgar was the first to bully Heathcliff by calling him a “devil” and a “beggar”. Mrs. Earnshaw tells her husband that Edgar had fought with Heathcliff over the clothes.
Nelly finds Heathcliff outside and Heathcliff gives her Edgar’s clothes. Nelly tells him that Edgar doesn’t get mad as long as the servants don’t upset him and that servants should be humble in front of the young lords and ladies. Heathcliff should be a diligent worker so that Joseph doesn’t scold him and he can ask for her help if he doesn’t know something. This girl really is Nelly.
And the first episode ends here.
Quite a bit is different from the source material. I feel like they wanted to change one thing, and they had to change a bunch of other things to make that change work. They simply didn’t want Hindley to exist in this adaptation and Edgar’s counterpart had to take his role. So they had to make him Mr. Earnshaw’s nephew and they had to make Lintons poorer than Earnshaws for Edgar to feel threatened by Heathcliff’s presence. And the whole logic of the story changed because of this.
I don’t know why they wanted to write out such a crucial character as Hindley. My guess is that it wasn’t appropriate for Mr. Earnshaw to bring Heathcliff home when he already has a son? I’ve considered it being for budget reasons but this is not a cheap production. It is a period drama with nice costumes and settings. Surely they could pay one more actor playing a main role? If this change has something to do with Chinese culture and values please let me know. Of course it is always possible that writers just felt like it.
A good portion of this episode is taken up by the interactions of Earnshaw and Linton parents and to be honest I didn’t really like their whole dynamic. I don’t know if it is even right to call them Earnshaws and Lintons since they are the same family. I guess they should be collectively called the House of Tian (the name of the family). I didn’t like the binary between the good, noble, patriarchal Earnshaws and the evil scheming Mrs. Linton and her doormat of a husband. I guess the character of Ambitious Scheming Sister-in-law is universal in soap operas regardless of their country of origin. And of course Lintons being poorer than Earnshaws is completely against the book. (Though I guess Cathy will be of lower status than Edgar when her father dies because Edgar will be the lord of the house).
But, despite the massive changes in plot, character motivations and setting, this still felt like Wuthering Heights. More than some of the more “legitimate” adaptations. I think there are two main reasons for this. Firstly, I can’t know how true the subtitles are, but the language that is used seems to echo the book’s language, especially in regards to the insults that are thrown at Heathcliff. And many of the scenes echoed the similar scenes in the novel, though they were placed differently.
Secondly, and much more importantly, Heathcliff and Cathy, the main characters, are mostly true to their book counterparts. Heathcliff is mostly Heathcliff and Cathy is mostly Cathy. We didn’t really see them bonding in this episode, and I’m curious as to how the show will present their relationship.
All the child characters are very well done. Even the Edgar/Hindley hybrid child is well-done if you can accept that he mostly plays the role of Hindley at this part of the story. Despite him being an arrogant bully, you can sympathize with his panic at the possibility of being replaced by Heathcliff in his uncle’s affections. In some ways his panic feels more valid than book Hindley’s, because he is Mr. Earnshaw’s nephew, not his son. Nelly is awesome. She is Nelly. From the little glimpses we saw of her, Isabella also seems true to her book counterpart.
As a show, I’ve had fun watching this. It was the first Chinese Drama I’ve ever watched and I’ve enjoyed it. It isn’t Art, it is very much a melodramatic soap opera, but it was fun for what it is.
If you have made it this far in reading this recap/review, please tell me if you are interested in reading more on this show. I think it is an interesting adaptation. I can’t promise that I will watch all 30 episodes, but I will try to make it to the “I am Heathcliff” part.
I will post a link to the playlist of the episodes in reblogs if anyone is interested in watching it.
See you next time!
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The Sister Cast: Russell Tovey and Bertie Carvel’s Best-Known Roles
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Written by Luther creator Neil Cross, The Sister stars Russell Tovey and Bertie Carvel as acquaintances connected by a long-buried, dark secret. The four-part paranormal thriller based on Cross’ 2009 novel Burial, sees Nathan Redman (Tovey) and Bob Morrow (Carvel) tussle with their conscience when the past re-emerges and threatens to upend the lives they’ve built. Tovey and Carvel star alongside Amrita Acharia as Nathan’s partner Holly, and Nina Toussaint-White as Holly’s friend and a police officer investigating the disappearance of a young woman (Simone Ashley).
Leads Carvel and Tovey boast a long and healthy back-catalogue of stage and screen parts. See below for five of their most recognisable roles to date.
Bertie Carvel: Magician, Adulterer, Headmistress, Murdoch, Agatha Christie
Jonathan Strange – Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Carvel was dream-casting for the role of mercurial magician Jonathan Strange in the 2015 BBC One adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s rich period-fantasy Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (a cracker for fans of 19th century lit and astonishingly worthy of its 1000-odd page length). He was paired perfectly with Eddie Marsan as the withdrawn and bookish Mr Norrell, against whom Carvel’s Strange appeared even more, well… strange. Carvel played the character as part Dr Frankenstein, part Lord Byron, with his own sense of mischief and unpredictability. Magic.
Miss Trunchbull – Matilda the Musical
Roald Dahl’s villains are legendary, and on stage, Bertie Carvel made the antagonist of Matilda the Musical unforgettable. Plumped out with padding, a hump, warts, a wig and a weightlifter’s belt, he didn’t play the terrifyingly sadistic headmistress for laughs, but got them anyway. Carvel won an Olivier award for the performance, and was nominated for a Tony. In the upcoming film version of the Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin musical, Voldemort himself, aka Ralph Fiennes, is reported to be picking up the Miss Trunchbull role.
Simon Foster – Doctor Foster
For a brief period in 2015, a Bertie Carvel character became the most-hated man in the country. As the cheating husband of Suranne Jones’ titular character in BBC drama Doctor Foster, he became a dartboard target for wronged women everywhere. Smug, arrogant and apparently conscience-free, Simon Foster’s extra-marital affair with Jodie Comer’s Kate was all anybody talked about.
Rupert Murdoch – Ink
Carvel won a coveted Tony award for his role as media mogul Rupert Murdoch in Ink, a play by Quiz and This House playwright James Graham, set against the backdrop of the late sixties as a young Murdoch buys UK tabloid newspaper The Sun.
Zachariah Osborne – The Pale Horse
One of Carvel’s most recent and prominent screen roles saw him join the twisted Sarah Phelps-Agatha Christie universe. In two-part adaptation The Pale Horse, he plays Zachariah Osborne, a car mechanic who becomes obsessed with the idea that he and lead Mark Easterbrook (Rufus Sewell) have been cursed by witches…
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Both on stage at The National and on screen for the 2006 film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, Russell Tovey played Rudge, one of a group of sixth-formers taking the Oxford entrance examination in the 1980s. Alongside Tovey, the play’s cast has included Dominic Cooper, James Corden, Sacha Dhawan and Matt Smith, all of whom went on to very big things.
George Sands – Being Human
Supernatural drama Being Human was never quite the same after the series three departure of the original cast (well, not the original original cast, which had Andrea Riseborough as Annie, didn’t have Poldark’s Aidan Turner as Mitchell, but did have The Crown’s Claire Foy as George’s ex-fiancée Julia). Russell Tovey was there from the start as werewolf George, the beating heart of the Bristol-based flat-share.
Steve – Him & Her
Russell Tovey made a terrific pair with Sarah Solemani (who’s written the currently-in-production BBC drama Ridley Road) in low-key BBC comedy Him & Her. Becky and Steve were loveable slobs whose inertia meant their sitcom’s action never left the confines of their filthy flat. No matter, because they were subject to an onslaught of grotesquely comic visitors, from Becky’s sister Laura (Kerry Howard) to upstairs neighbour Dan (Joe Wilkinson).
Kevin – Looking
Celebrated HBO comedy-drama Looking was hailed by many critics as the male, gay answer to Lena Dunham’s Girls over its three-season lifespan between 2014-2016. The series won well-deserved plaudits for its funny, touching and frank portrayal of the lives of gay men living in San Francisco, navigating career, love lives and family. Tovey played video-game genius Kevin, the boss and sometime love interest of lead Patrick (Jonathan Groff).
Daniel Lyons – Years and Years
Without spoilers, Tovey’s character has a heart-wrenching and gripping storyline in Russell T. Davies’ Years and Years. The six-part BBC series follows three generations of a Manchester family from the present day years into the future, where modern politics, the economy and division over immigration have all worsened in the UK. It’s a powerful drama, and Tovey is right at its heart.
See also: Henry Knight in Sherlock ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’, Midshipman Frame in Doctor Who, Budgie in Gavin & Stacey, Jake in Flesh and Blood, Ray Terrill in the Arrowverse ‘Crisis on Earth X’
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Full Name: Mason Yoon Chang-Kyun (창균)
Alias/es: Mason, Chang-Kyun (by his mother)
Age: Twenty-one
Date of Birth: December 30th, 1998
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Education
Major: Photography
Year Level: Second Year
House: Genghis
Mason is the result of a one-night stand that happened a little over twenty-years ago to his novelist father, and his lawyer mother. To say he came as a surprise would be an understatement, for his mother had just started working as a paralegal at a local firm then, and his father was well on his way to finishing his very first novel. They decided to try and stay together for a while, thought that maybe they would work as a family, but they realized quickly that there was no love there. But his mother, not wanting to raise Mason on her own, asked his father to stay, if even for Mason, and for a while, he did. For a while, they both pretended that they could be a happy family-- be loving parents to their newborn son. They even got married a few months after Mason was born, and Mason’s mother quit her job so she could take care of him full-time. She adored Mason, and so did his father, but they could only pretend to be a loving couple for so long, even for the sake of their son. Mason was four when he first witnessed a fight between his parents, and just months later, they both filed for divorce. There was no drawn-out custody battle because, to Mason’s mother’s surprise, her ex-husband signed his rights to Mason away and left the country just two months after the divorce was finalized. Mason was too young to understand that his parents just separated, and that his father just left them, and when he asked when his father was coming home, cheeks stained with tears, he was simply told that it would just be him and his mother from then on.
That didn’t stay for long, however. His mother remarried a few months later, and became pregnant to what would be Mason’s younger half brother.
His stepfather was kind to him, but there was always a wall between them, and Mason always secretly felt as if he was betraying his own father by having a relationship with his mother’s new husband. And it wasn’t as if his stepfather tried to have a relationship with him either. Mason always felt as if he tolerated him, for his mother’s sake.
When his brother was born, his mother became too busy with raising him, and when both boys were going to school, she went back to work and eventually earned her license as a lawyer. Mason was mostly left to his own devices growing up, and he can’t say that he minded. He’s always felt as if he didn’t belong in their family anyhow, especially after his little brother was born, but he knew that his mother loved and adored him. Still, that wasn’t enough for him to sit with them in pictures and pretend to be a part of their family, when he knew he wasn’t. Things were okay for a while, and Mason adored his little brother, but it wasn’t until he was ten that the comparisons began. At six years old, his younger brother was better at reading and comprehension than he was, and Mason dreaded family dinners when his stepfather was around because he was always asked about how he was doing at school. He hated having to tell them that he was struggling but, it seemed as if he didn’t have to because one afternoon, after punching one of his classmates who had been making fun of him for a while, his mother was called to the principal’s office and was suggested that they let Mason see a psychologist. It was through the psychologist that they found out that Mason had dyslexia, and would need extra attention. His mother complied, of course, and after that, Mason would spend his afternoons with a tutor that helped him to read.
High school was definitely better than elementary school. Mason found that while he wasn’t very good in academics, he was great in sports-- soccer, to be specific-- and it didn’t take long until he became the star player of his prep school’s soccer team. This helped Mason come out of his shell; he became more confident, more social. He was one of the “popular kids”, and he thrived in it. He still struggled academically, so in order to keep his position in the soccer team, he agreed to tutoring sessions every afternoon.
Choosing to study Photography at Astor was more of a whim, than anything else. It was a hobby, something that while he wasn’t very passionate about, he truly enjoyed. But by the time college season came, and he was asked about what he wanted to do, he didn’t have a response. His counselor handed him multiple leaflets to “good college”, as he called them, and most turned them down because of his grades. Most, except, Astor Academy, which was how he found himself enrolling to the academy with Photography as his major, unaware that because of his mother’s pleading, his stepfather played a hand in him getting accepted.
Personality:
Mason is...... not the easiest person to get along with. Well, if you get past his arrogance and sarcasm, maybe, but he also has the tendency to push people away, a result of feeling like he has never belonged anywhere. He doesn’t trust easily, has the tendency to be a bit immature at times, and is definitely egotistic. He does what he wants, and has very little regard for the feelings of others, which is why he is awful when it comes to relationships.
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Amazon First Reads for April 2020
Here we are again, it’s time to choose one of eight books that Amazon First Reads lets Amazon Prime Members download for free. At the moment I seem to be downloading more free books than ever. I wonder if it’s my mind trying to get off what is happening around the world, lets just hope that I start to read more quickly.
This months book choices are:
Psychological Suspense
What we Forget to Bury by Martin Montgomery, Pages: 439, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
synopsis: Truth and deceit blur as one woman’s desperation twists into another’s desire for revenge in this mind-bending psychological novel.
Charlotte Coburn has a tragically dark past. But she’s safe now. She lives in a gated community, protected from danger. When teenager Elle knocks at her door looking for shelter during a particularly severe storm, the woman can’t help but think how lucky Elle’s been to have found someone as friendly as her. Except Elle chose her door on purpose…
She knows all about Charlotte’s secrets because they ruined her family and her life. And it is time that everyone else knew. But Charlotte’s past has left a dark void in her life, so she is concocting her own vicious plan, convinced that Elle can help fill that void.
As events unfold, the truth unravels and pulls both women into a dangerous game that will leave you wondering, Who’s the villain?
Contemporary Fiction
Little White Secrets by Carol Mason, Pages 33, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: A daughter pushing the limits. A marriage ready to crack. A secret that can break them.
For Emily Rossi, life may not be perfect, but it’s pretty close. She has a great career, a house in the country, a solid marriage to Eric and two wonderful children—tennis superstar Daniel and quiet, sensitive Zara. But when her fourteen-year-old daughter brings home a toxic new best friend, Emily’s seemingly perfect family starts to spiral out of control.
Suddenly Zara is staying out late, taking drugs and keeping bad company. And just when Emily needs Eric to be an involved father, he seems too wrapped up with his job in London to care. What’s more, he’s started drinking again.
When a dark secret from the past emerges, Emily’s life is turned upside down. Struggling to protect the people she loves, can she save her damaged family? Doing so may mean keeping a secret of her own…
Thriller
The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayner, Pages: 328, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist.
Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family’s shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she’s the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal—a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan’s. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect. And her colleagues aren’t the only ones following every move she makes. So is the killer.
Stalked by an assassin, pitted against a ruthless cartel searching for a lost fortune, and under watch within her ranks, Sloan has only one ally: the legendary DEA agent who put Sloan’s uncle behind bars. He knows just how deep corruption runs—and the kind of danger Sloan is in. To stay alive, Sloan must stay one step ahead of her enemies—both known and unknown—and a growing conspiracy designed to pull her under.
Science Fiction
A Girl from Nowhere by James Maxwell, Pages: 442, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: Surrounded by fire, a girl with mysterious powers and a young warrior search for safety.
Life in the wasteland is a constant struggle. No one knows it better than Taimin. Crippled, and with only his indomitable aunt to protect him, Taimin must learn to survive in a world scorched by two suns and frequented by raiders.
But when Taimin discovers his homestead ransacked and his aunt killed, he sets off with one mission: to seek revenge against those who stole everything. With nowhere to call home, his hunt soon takes a turn when he meets a mystic, Selena, who convinces him to join her search for the fabled white city. Taimin and Selena both need refuge, and the white city is a place where Taimin may find someone to heal his childhood injury.
As they avoid relentless danger, Taimin and Selena attempt to reach the one place that promises salvation. And they can only hope that the city is the haven they need it to be…
Romance
Love on Beach Avenue by Jennifer Probst, Pages: 310, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: True love is in the details for the Jersey shore’s premier wedding planner in this heart-swooning series about big dreams and happy endings from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.
Avery Sunshine might not have a soul mate of her own, but she still believes in happily ever after—for her clients. Making dreams come true is her business at Sunshine Bridal, which she runs with her two sisters. When her best friend announces her engagement, Avery is thrilled to take charge of the giddy bride-to-be’s big day. Less thrilling? Her best friend’s arrogant and demanding brother, who just so happens to be the man of honour.
Carter Ross’s first instinct: call 911. He promised to always take care of his impulsive little sister, and he honors that vow. Even if it means taking over her wedding, where he is sure Avery will fail. At best, Avery is unpredictable. At worst, if she’s anything like the spitfire of a college girl he remembers, the main event could run wild.
With Avery and Carter wrestling for control, tempers heat up. So does the spark of attraction they’re fighting with every kiss. As the wedding draws near, it’s time to reconcile a rocky past and make a decision that could change everyone’s lives. Because what they’re rebelling against looks a lot like love.
Contemporary Fiction
Stories We Never Told by Sonja Yoerg, Pages: 328, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a suspenseful novel of love, secrets, and obsession.
Psychology professor Jackie Strelitz thinks she’s over Harlan Crispin, her ex-lover and colleague. Why should she care if Harlan springs a new “friend” on her? After all, Jackie has everything she ever wanted: a loving husband and a thriving career. Still, she can’t help but be curious about Harlan’s latest.
Nasira Amari is graceful, smart, and appallingly young. Worse, she’s the newest member of Jackie’s research team. For five years, Harlan enforced rules limiting his relationship with Jackie. With Nasira, he’s breaking every single one. Why her?
Fixated by the couple, Jackie’s curiosity becomes obsession. But she soon learns that nothing is quite what it seems and that to her surprise—and peril—she may not be the only one who can’t let go.
Literary Fiction
Meadowlark by Melanie Abrams, Pages: 238, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: A haunting novel about the lasting effects of childhood trauma and the resulting choices we make for our children.
After growing up in an austere spiritual compound, two teenagers, Simrin and Arjun, escape and go their separate ways. Years later, Simrin receives an email from Arjun. As they reconnect, Simrin learns that he has become the charismatic leader of Meadowlark, a commune in the Nevada desert that allows children to discover their “gifts.”
In spite of their fractured relationship, Simrin, a photojournalist, agrees to visit Meadowlark to document its story. She arrives at the commune with her five-year-old daughter in tow and soon realizes there is something disturbing about Arjun’s beliefs concerning children and their unusual abilities. When she discovers that the commune is in the midst of a criminal investigation, her unease grows deeper still.
As tensions with police heighten, Arjun’s wife begins to make plans of her own, fearing the exposure the investigation might bring for her and her children. Both mothers find themselves caught in a desperate situation, and as the conflict escalates, everyone involved must make painful—and potentially tragic—choices that could change their worlds forever.
Gripping and beautifully crafted, Meadowlark explores the power and danger of being extraordinary and what it means to see and be seen.
Children’s Picture Book
Bear & Fred (A World War II Story) by Iris Argaman, Pages: 47, Publication Date: 1 May 2020
Synopsis: Based on true events and beautifully illustrated, this is the story of a friendship that will last forever—told by Fred’s best friend, his beloved teddy bear.
During World War II, Fred must leave his home and live in hiding, apart from the rest of his family, but he always keeps Bear by his side. Bear knows it’s his job to take care of Fred and make sure he doesn’t feel alone.
After the war, Fred and his family are reunited and leave Holland for the United States. And still Bear is with him. When Fred grows up, he and Bear part for the first time when Bear is sent to Yad Vashem—the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, where this book was first published—to show the power of hope, friendship, and love.
I felt Fred’s small hand grab me.
He patted me and whispered,
“Bear, I won’t leave you here all by yourself.
You are my best friend.”
*** Which book will you choose? I decided to go for Love on Beach Avenue. ***
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10 favorite female characters
Borrowing the tag from @pythionice because creating this list was surprisingly therapeutic. Although I now want to read everything on it again.
Tagging: anyone who would like to do it, but a gentle nudge in particular to @emberglows, @ciacconas, @lantur, @muffinworry, @imthemuthafuckingcricket, and @revenantmothling. No pressure of course.
1. Robin McKinley’s Beauty: my god, this was formative. Beauty and the Beast retellings are my bread and butter; along with East of the Sun, West of the Moon, it’s my favorite fairy tale. But this Beauty - bookish, practical, waspish, kind, achingly insecure, wonderfully strong - was everything to me. I was bookish and quiet too, and I’d never met a heroine with those traits until Beauty. (Yes, Hermione Granger is a bookworm too. No, she is not quiet. I liked her, but I could never relate. Such a Gryffindor.)
2. Sandrilene fa Toren/Trisana Chandler/Daja Kisubo: Yes, this is cheating, especially because their quartet isn’t complete without their foster brother Briar Moss, but I love these kids. Separately they’re gold, but it’s when they’re together that the best of them really comes out and I fall in love all over again. This was another formative influence. I first encountered these books when I was a year or so younger than the characters, and I grew up as they did. Also, quite frankly one of the best magic systems I have ever seen.
3. Tiffany Aching: Formative influence number three! She was my introduction to Discworld, though I actually read I Shall Wear Midnight first. What can I say about Tiffany Aching that hasn’t been said a thousand times before. I could never be her, but I would willingly be her sidekick, always and forever. That speech she gets against the Fairy Queen about selfishness? Dancing with the bees? Talking down winter? Literally life-changing. I get chills to this day.
4. Jane Eyre: last of the formative influences. I met her when I was thirteen, and I frankly worshipped her the way she worshipped Miss Temple. Now we’re more like friends. This article does a great description of her: “my favorite little creep in literature.”
5. Lyra Silvertongue: I never wanted to be her - I’m far too cautious and quiet, and I like it that way - but I would love to have a daughter like her. Lyra is a name I’m seriously considering for a future daughter.
6. Emma Bovary - Emma is selfish and impractical, yes, but also so starved and lonely. What really struck me, though, is how incredibly realistically her mental illness is written - and how much Flaubert hates her for it. I don’t think I’ve ever read another book where the author both understands and hates his creation so intimately. I loved her all the harder for that, and even more since I first met her when I was just starting to recover from mental illness myself.
7. Susan Pevensie: I wanted to marry her when I was fifteen. Tumblr (and to be fair, a lot of modern writers) tends to have a pretty fraught relationship with “the Problem of Susan,” and so did I for a while. I think now my stance is what Lewis himself set out in his foreword: “one day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again.”
8. Ley from Ruin of Angels: Ley is the bad girl every sapphic dreams of. Ley is the horrible ex everyone has nightmares about. Ley is an artist. Ley is manipulative, sharp as a scalpel, secretive and ferocious. I adore her.
9. The second Mrs. De Winter. I met her in my second year of college, when I was going through a rough patch and struggling with whether to keep studying for medical school or switch to ancient history (spoiler, I switched). Meeting this painfully shy, insecure girl and watching her grow into strength was one of the best things that could have happened to me. I cried.
(As an aside, Max de Winter is my all-time favorite literary hero, second only to Henry Tilney. If you’re reading this and you have a feeling that this is meant to push you into reading the book, it is. You know who you are.)
(Natalie, I’m sorry, but I relate to Darcy far too much to ever want to marry him. He’s all yours)
10. Tullia Minor. “Although younger, the fiercer of the two sisters.” Encourages a man known as The Arrogant to “greater heights of daring”. Obviously she and Tarquin are made for each other, but her father arranged her marriage to the wrong brother, so she casually kills her husband and talks Tarquin into killing his wife/her sister so they can get hitched. Has three sons and goodness knows how many daughters with him. Deposes her father with him. Is the first to hail her husband as king, to which he replies (again, a man known as The Arrogant), “Please go home, I don’t want you to get hurt.” Runs her chariot over her father’s corpse in the streets. Lady Macbeth, you wish you could be this cool. I am not entirely joking when I say I got my classics degree for the sole purpose of writing a novel about her.
Bonus: Elizabeth Sloane in the film Miss Sloane. I really do not like how her character arc ended, which is why she isn’t in the list proper, but the beginning, my god. Amoral and ruthless and absolutely sharklike. We need more women like her in media. Also, I would kill for her wardrobe (hers and Lorraine Broughton’s).
Bonus 2: Astrid Dane from V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic. Astrid as presented in canon ticks a lot of my boxes, but is missing something to make the whole come to life. The Astrid in my head - my Astrid - owns my soul.
Bonus 3: All the women on NBC’s Hannibal. All of them. I haven't finished the first season yet so I can’t say anything more concrete, but I would marry any one of them in a heartbeat.
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