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Pendergast taking Constance out for a stealth Valentine's Day date. He buys her something nice, takes her for a nice dinner but never explicitly says (or admits) it's a date.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Preston & Child
3.5/5 - Another classic Pendergast romp! Too much fantasy, not enough murder for me
Constance finds a way to the 1890s, trying to prevent her siblings' deaths, but serial killer Dr Leng is lurking around every corner. Pendergast is stressed about her and this. Coldmoon & D'Agosta have to investigate a murder within the Lakota community.
So, all in all, very solid writing from this duo. They're usually pretty reliable for a fun murder mystery.
Admittedly, I have never been the most entranced by Constance's storyline, but this duo's occasional forays into the fantastical usually pay off over the course of their mini-arcs. This book in particular is a well-done exploration of grief and the ramifications of time travel. I could have done with a bit less exposition and fewer "science" explanations, but it's narratively well-paced. KILLER cliffhanger too!
Enoch Leng is creepy, but no more creepy than anything you might see in the first season of Supernatural. It's very standard evil doctor territory,
Frankly though, I found myself much more interested in the Agent Coldmoon/D'Agosta plotline than Constance. Their plotline, following the murder of a Lakota artist and the forgery/theft of their work, was super engaging and it eventually wrapped back around to meeting Pendergast/Constance. Seeing Coldmoon get more screen time (page time?) and some character development is always a pleasure, while D'Agosta always seems to be running into problem after problem.
Overall, if you like the Cabinet of Curiosities or Relic, two of Preston & Child's earlier books, you'll like this one. Warning that the next book won't be released until next August!
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10 Characters, 10 Fandoms
thank you so much for the tag @eviebane !!!
Aziraphale - Good Omens
Constance Contraire - The Mysterious Benedict Society
Whizzer Brown - Falsettos
Ruth Jamison - Fried Green Tomatoes
Chris Chambers - Stand By Me
Richie Tozier - IT
Beedle - The Legend of Zelda
Travis Phelps - Sally Face
Eleanor Shellstrop - The Good Place
Connor - Detroit: Become Human
no pressure tags - @ninja-grace @sc4tt3rbr4inn @the-chesapeake-dipper @justobsessedwithlove @yet-still-just-a-moth @eddies-real-second-fannypack
and anyone else who wants to join!
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#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising | Irish patriots, Michael Mallin, Eamonn Ceannt, Cornelius “Con” Colbert and Sean Heuston are shot dead in Kilmainham Gaol.
Executions of Easter Rising Leaders continue by a British regime in Stonebreakers’ Yard at Kilmainham Gaol, completely insensitive to the fact it was creating numerous martyrs and generating an emotional calling cry for Irish rebellion that would culminate in the War of Independence.
Shot dead on this day:
Michael Mallin | Born in Co Dublin, he was a music teacher, devout Catholic and teetotaler.…
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ermmmm hi tumblr. I need to be able to post my art on social media im rlly nervous :) plz dont kill me waaaaa i hope i did this right
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Imagine
Pendergast and Constance watching the eclipse. They don't usually talk about the specifics of Constance's life before Pendergast found her but today Constance tells him about all the other eclipses she's experienced in her lifetime.
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Why I Find Green Plaid So Annoying, And What I Intend to Do about It: An Explanation of My Heroic Actions by Constance Contraire
For one thing plaid’s hideous, a pattern cooked up
By dimwit designers who must have been mad
It’s also perfidious(a word I looked up—it means lots of different things, all of them bad)
Why, it’s nothing but lines! Lines and more lines!
Not one single curve! Not one polka dot!
What monstrous minds could have called these designs?
They ought to be caught and tied up on the spot!
But worse, even worse, is the fact that it’s green,
The color you turn when you’ve eaten a bug,
And all of the gross and nasty things I’ve ever seen,
Like pond scum and slime molds or that horrible slug,
All covered with fungus out in the backyard
That I saw Tuesday night right before I got sick.
No matter how hard I have tried (I’ve tried hard)
I’ve never seen green things without thinking, “Ick!”
So what can I do? There isn’t much for it
If I’m to get rid of this hideous sight:
If green plaid I hate (and I do abhor it)
Then action is called for! A battle! A fight!
I must free the man who has been held
Behind prison fences (that crisscrossing plaid!)
Long covered by so much grass green it’s a veld!
I must free this man who will soon be my dad!
(For if he’s my dad, with him I’ll be seen! So away with this plaid, and good day to this green!)
wiping tears from my eyes…. this was beautiful. another one of the mizz contrarie’s masterpieces, truly.
i am awed and deeply inspired, and i will be sure to never side with the evil, shenanigan-doing green plaid.
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