Hi tumblr I started animaticing the duel. I’m insane so I want to have the scene before hand as well. Was only able to finish the pre-scene before school starts back up again, but hopefully I’ll continue over winter break! Incase I don’t lmaoo ^^^
There is nothing better than a cheese tour through time and space except. . .
It's cover reveal day for @ellebeaumontbooks & I's first co-author project Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back time!
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Verona has 99 problems—including a time machine.
All Benvolio has ever desired is a peaceful life alongside his spirited—albeit quarrelsome—roommate, Mercutio. But as the story goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and when tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets reach a boiling point, Benvolio and Mercutio are dragged into the mess Romeo makes of all their lives.
Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives, offering the opportunity to change fate, Mercutio does as he always does—seizes the chance. There's just one problem: no deal is without strings, and this one involves a deadly secret that Mercutio is determined to take to the grave.
What follows is a lively adventure through the ages, replete with love and heartache. Amidst the chaos, this inseparable duo will unravel the true depth of their friendship.
A riotous romp of a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. Side effects of reading may contain laughter, heartache, and a need for more. This light, sci-fi fantasy is the perfect shelf companion to The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall, and The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles.
Publication day: July 31, 2024
Genre: Adult Sci-fi Fantasy Romcom
Tropes: Friends to Lovers, time travel, retelling, and they were roommates, deal with the devil
something something benvolio and horatio are the same in being the peacemakers of the story and yet the only living victims of great tragedy something something
anyways I watched Rosaline (2022) and it makes me insane how that movie and Bridgerton exist because of Still Star Crossed but neither manage to hold a candle to the moment in the ssc finale when Benvolio is being interrogated by the Prince over why the hell Rosaline is risking her life to vouge for his innocence and with his whole broken heart in his chest he says, "kill me today, kill me tomorrow, it matters not to me. But I will never lie to her. That is why she trusts me." But he says it like a prayer because he's really only hoping, but then Rosaline rushes to his cell to tell him she DOES trust him and kisses him through the bars of his cell because finally after being the burdens of their families, losing loved ones in their care, and being betrayed by those who claimed to love them they both finally found someone to trust and it's the most love they've ever known yet here it is being torn apart by lies. I'm bleeding from the mouth, honestly. I'll never be over it.