I am totally normal levels of excited about the bath I am about to take with this bath bomb

and this book

The Consultant Trailer

Regus Patoff is a business consultant hired to improve the numbers of a successful game development company after the CEO dies. He’s completely fine with the idea that the employees will hate and/or fear him. 

The Consultant stars Christoph Waltz, Brittany O’Grady, Nat Wolff, and Aimee Carrero. Tony Basgallop serves as creator, showrunner, and an executive producer on the series. The series is based on Bentley Little’s novel of the same name.

The Consultant hits Prime Video on February 24, 2023.

8/14/2023: This is my first workplace horror and I have thoughts. Review coming soon, but I'd like to say this now: This book felt like I worked there and those consultants were on something else. I was ready to quit and wondered why most characters didn't (lol).

8/19/2023: It’s been a couple days since I’ve finished this book and I’m still not sure what to say about it. I guess what I said before is all.

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Бентли Литтл "Наследие"

Книгу я прочитала за 4 дня, а после половины вообще трудно было оторваться и лечь спать 😁 Эта история с неожиданным концом, держит в напряжении, полностью раскрывая жуткий и кровавый мир абсолютно больного человека, который оправдывает свои убийства.

Не сильно кровавая и в меру жестокая и довольно качественная книга.

Well, I didn’t think to post this at the beginning of last month, like I should’ve, but if anyone is interested, here are the 28 books that I read in 2022 (excluding comics), in the order that I read them:

Some new thriftshop finds!

Read of The Store by Bentley Little (1998) (418pgs)

THE CONSULTANT | Official Teaser Prime Video & Images

Prime Video debuted the first-look teaser and episodic images for the highly anticipated, Christoph Waltz-led series, The Consultant. Prime Video announced that the series will premiere all eight episodes exclusively on February 24 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff in THE CONSULTANT. Courtesy of Prime Video | Copyright Amazon Studios.

Based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same name, the characters and story in this thrilling new series unfold in new and unexpected ways. The Consultant is a twisted, comedic-thriller series that explores the sinister relationship between boss and employee.

(L to R) Nat Wolff as Craig & Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff in THE CONSULTANT. Courtesy of Prime Video | Copyright Amazon Studios.

The series stars Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff, Nat Wolff as Craig,  Brittany O’Grady as Elaine, and Aimee Carrero as Patti.

(L to R) Brittany O'Gray as Elaine & Nat Wolff as Craig in THE CONSULTANT. Courtesy of Prime Video | Copyright Amazon Studios.

When a new consultant, Regus Patoff (Christoph Waltz), is hired to improve the business at the App-based gaming company CompWare, employees experience new demands and challenges that put everything into question … including their lives.

Right: Aimee Carrero as Patti in THE CONSULTANT. Courtesy of Prime Video | Copyright Amazon Studios.

Creator, showrunner, and executive producer Tony Basgallop is joined by executive producer and pilot director Matt Shakman, and executive producers Christoph Waltz, Steve Stark, and Andrew Mittman, alongside producer Kai Dolbashian.

Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff in THE CONSULTANT. Courtesy of Prime Video | Copyright Amazon Studios.

THE CONSULTANT is from MGM Television and Amazon Studios. 

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Brian Asman

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Brian Asman

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I listened to Haunted by Bentley Little on audio. I was pretty disappointed in the ending, however the story itself was good. I give it a 8/10 as the ending fell short for me. I feel like the book had so much more potential, however I am not an author so I cannot complain. I enjoyed the writing and the story itself was enjoyable.

Blog post 08/26/22

Quick update! I’m trying very hard to get the review for Caught in the Chase by Kacey Shea done by the end of the weekend. Don’t lose faith in me! I spent a few credits on audiobooks: His father’s son by Bentley Little–that is no romance, it’s a thriller, but it’s narrated by Andrew Gibson–Lilac by BB Reid, and the Crooked paradise complete series by Eva Chance and Harlow King. See ya!

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I was so distracted by the Bentley playing Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy as Crowley raced back to the bookshop this season that it didn't occur to me that we'd been in this position before.

Spat with Aziraphale?

Check.

Threatened by demons?

Check.

Rushing back to the Bookshop with the Bentley playing something overly romantic?

Check and check.

Friends, it is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that Crowley was having major flashbacks to the bookshop burning and Aziraphale being gone, which is why he was setting new records for the drive through central London. Maybe everyone else already thought about this but I didn't until right now and I am not ok.

ok time for mad gomens headcanons meta brain dump because I just watched episode 6 in its entirety for the second time since July (I was saving it for when I needed Big Feels I guess?)

And look, there's some fun parallel stuff going on: Crowley bopping around with angels while Aziraphale is dealing with demons, Crowley being the one to say the feelings words (mmph, kinda) when Aziraphale has been groping him all season, Aziraphale being the one who leaves after what it is a gross understatement to call a row. But these flippy floppies all keep leading me to not be as sad this watchthrough, partly because I've been soaking in metas on here for nearly 4 months! So here's what I got.

+ No nightingales! The nightingale singing doesn't just mean that they love each other. It represents when they are safe, after 1941 (headcanon!) and after the nopocalypse. Crowley is pointing out danger, that Heaven is listening. The nightingale sings for them when they've successfully dodged celestial and infernal meddling which puts their relationship at risk, with each other and with Earth, and the silence is pointed out because Crowley needs Aziraphale to really really understand that this is possibly irrecoverable danger, not that his heart is being broken.

+ By the time Aziraphale is saying dickish things like "you're the bad guys" and "second in command" the tone has shifted from Crowley being scared, irritated and shocked to something much weirder and harder to read

It's not just hurt, and he's not as hurt as he should be, and it's not because he's about to, mmmf, propose. He's processing. Aziraphale's begging him to understand something and is so obviously panicked. We all noticed his hands and his posture, you think Crowley who's been staring at him for 4523 years* just missed that this isn't Aziraphale being a featherbrain traumaball? Nothing lasts forever, and this precious peaceful fragile existence has, in fact, shattered. Oh Crowley, nothing lasts forever you were right.

By the time Aziraphale says "I need you" with such raw fear and hunger, he's not yet sure Crowley was 1. picking up what he's putting down and 2. he's begging for help, begging for some sign or certainty that Crowley isn't saying "hey, rude, fuck you, I'm gonna storm out because this is a really unusual hurtful fight but I'll swing by in a couple days with some eclairs". He gets that certainty moments later in the form of...

+ BIG DAMN KISS

which says "I need you too" and "I'm scared this danger is too much and I'll never get to do this" and "oh fuck Angel be safe please" and "GODDAMNIT GODDAMNIT how do these bastards always wiggle in on EVERYTHING" and "I WAS RIGHT about being nervous"

and I absolutely do not believe that the alveolar sound after "I..." was just Michael Sheen failing to form a fricative**. Aziraphale received the message of "this is dangerous, this is public, and I don't care, I love you enough to kiss you goodbye (?) in front of God (and Muriel!) you bloody stupid brave Angel" and almost responds. But now they're both in the mode of communication like spies again, after 4 years of starting to communicate like...humans. Lovers? Now it's "you're the bad guys" (so the Metayuck won't let me stay here with you) or "In Heaven!!" (because this bookshop is compromised and now nowhere in Earth is safe) so not only would it absolutely not help*** if Aziraphale broke down and was like "DO IT AGAIN I LOVE YOU" it would break whatever weird undercurrent is going on in their communication. So he says the Heaven approved thing that's always in his vocal queue when he's feeling a bit emotional, and Crowley's "Don't Bother" just scans at this point like exhaustion, yes, but not grief. It's "well fuck, let's get on with the rest of this goddamn circus then."

+ I agree that Crowley looks disassociated and absolutely broken and exhausted by the time he puts his glasses on before kissin' time. He hadn't figured it all out yet and thought it was this stupid fucking argument again only way worse and Aziraphale is in stupid danger and their separation will probably be hundreds of years long****. He rushed back because it all completely clicked.

+ and then he waits, knowing Aziraphale is going bonkers, watching the Metafuck come back in, seeing Aziraphale see him through the window, crossing the street, at the elevator. He's not waiting to see if he changes his mind, he's watching his husband march away to war but can't even wave his handkerchief*****

+ and the Bentley, who let Aziraphale turn her yellow and was generally receptive to his desires, lets him play the song through her anyway, Aziraphale saying "This time Crowley, I have the plan. It'll be ok, we can be safe again. I love you."

*since Job

**try to accidentally replace all those Fs with Ls. You are at an advantage since you weren't just kissed by David Tennant, but Michael is at other advantages which I'll cede to him.

***help them get out of the Situation. It would definitely help them make out.

****or, he was with all of us emotionally and it felt for a second like it could be eeeeternityyyyy

***** Aziraphale is the handkerchief waver in the relationship anyway

Thank you so much for the tag, @sirianasims and @lynzishell! This was so fun to do and I am Gideon is very grateful.

I am going to tag...Hmm...Eenie-meenie-miney-mo...Just kidding: @agena87, @alinelie, @stargazer-sims, @moonfromearth, @thebramblewood, @simarcana, @damseljamsel (because I am thinking of you, fren), @eljeebee, and -hiatus shmiatus!- @greighish OH AND GUESS WHAT? @sirianasims and @lynzishell because I want moar of your ocs.

How did I never notice this before....

The literal Bentley logo has angel wings on it