Okay we're on The Book Of Bill lockdown for the foreseeable future, it's all book of Bill all the time.
I haven't read all of it, but I've read 60% of it and skimmed 90% of it and am about to finish the rest. I am good to go for spoilers. You can talk to me about them, you can ask me about them. If I'm not here making posts it's because i'm busy combing the book, this is the only thing I'm doing today.
I am EXTREMELY excited.
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Robbin asking Whisperian for movie recommendations? or to watch a movie with her? idk, I just found out that Robbin invites her to watch a movie in her op rec and want more....
"Excuse me? Miss Whisperain?"
"Hmm? Oh, hello Robin. Did you like the movie?"
"Oh, I thought it was fascinating. I've seen a lot of old Columbian movies, but this one...it was like it used all the same cinematography, but the story it was telling was completely different."
"Ah, that's because it's actually adapted from a famous Siracusan opera. The director is a theater connoisseur, and he does a good job adapting it to a more Columbian setting, but I do still prefer the original."
"Ahhh, I see. I thought the pacing seemed slow for an action film - but if it was originally a show, of course you're going to focus more on the characters."
"Naturally. Ah, I'm sorry, you wanted to ask me something?"
"Ah! I - I just wanted to ask what movie you were planning on showing next week. I like to try and read a little about them ahead of time."
"Well, I have a few in mind, but I haven't made a final decision quite yet. You seem to know quite a bit about the history of Wrankwood, however."
"Ah, it's - just a hobby of mine..."
"Well. Would you be open to joining me for lunch tomorrow? I'm most interested in hearing your thoughts on the titles I'm considering."
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Gasp. So cool you gave human bill birthmark of his cracks. Would love to see them drawn sometime in the future
beach episode's still coming up!!
the only reason i was able to retroactively add a birthmark to an earlier chapter is because i always draw him with torso covered so I didn't have to edit any fic art lmao. "Oh yeah it was there all along."
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Catharsis scene
Done by request.
"Fiddleford?"
He kept humming that Ralph Stanley piece while he tidied, eyes soft and hands steady. Anyone else might take him for relaxed, but she knew that quiver to his lips.
"Fiddleford, sugarplum, talk to me."
"What about, hon?" He folded the throw blanket that Stanley had been using, and gave her a weak smile as he did.
"Darlin, I ain't heard you say a word about what happened in the three days since it's been done."
"Well," Fiddleford said, sitting down in the couch and smoothing the blanket on his lap, "I guess we been busy."
Emma-Mae had been trying not to feel afraid. There wasn't time to be afraid. But now her Fidds needed her, and she could tell.
But, well, she started sobbing first, naught to be helped about that. Fiddleford, the sweetheart, was up immediately, one arm around her shoulders, hand in her curls.
"Oh, sweetpea," he said, "I'm here, I'm here-"
"Fiddleford, I'm so sorry."
"What? Aw, hon..."
She pulled back, put both hands on his cheeks. She cried freely, she didn't care, he could see her raw. "All of this was happening to my husband, my sweet little Fiddlebow, and here you are still carrying it like it's your burden when it oughtn't ever be."
His composure began to break.
"Fiddleford, talk to me."
Fiddleford sat down on the couch and pulled his shoed feet up like Tate would never be allowed to, pushed himself small into the armrest. Emma-Mae sat beside him.
He stared at something huge and far away, past the walls, probably past the stars.
His lip wobbled. "He's gone."
Emma-Mae leaned her head against his shoulder. He said it again, high pitched and thin, like he was waking up from a dream:
"He's gone."
He couldn't quite cry, funnily enough, with all the tears shed so far. Emma-Mae held him and cried for the both of them, her husband trembling in her arms.
(@forbiddenforestofdesire wanted to tearful recovery and catharsis. I tried.)
Fiddleford actually cries a lot in the series, but he stops crying or panicking visibly in the aftermath of traumatic events after a while. He has to normalize them. There's a scene on AO3 where we see this in play - it's one of the last of Bill's assaults before he's banished, and Fiddleford handles it with practiced skill, even in the wake of severe trauma. You can read it here. [Mind the content warnings! They're hidden in a details tag in the summary in case you want to avoid spoilers, but please read them if there is any chance you might be upset by the traumatic descriptions! Reminder that this story is graphic.]
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