Glimmerbrook's apartment is coming along, I basically took all of their furniture with them from the lighthouse to re-use!
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on the one hand i do wish tfw had dedicated at least a few brain cells to trying to get adam out of the cage but on the other hand we got midam out of it so idk that’s a tough one
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2024 reads / storygraph
Our Lady Of Mysterious Ailments & The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle
books 2 & 3 in the Edinburgh Nights series
paranormal mystery set in a climate-ravaged future Scotland, plagued by ghosts and magic
follows a 15yo Black girl who’s finally gotten an in to learn scientific magic properly - but it turns out to be an unpaid internship, so she has to take more jobs delivering ghost messages and investigating mysteries to take care of her gran and little sister
in book 2 she’s investigating a strange illness centred on a magic school for boys
and in book 3 she’s attending a global magician conference held in a creepy castle - when someone’s murdered, and they’re locked in until she figures out the culprit
Zimbabwean magic, friendship, disabled characters, no romance (so far)
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hi, I saw your previous replies stated that (The manga, which is currently tackling the events of Book 7, is said to have already entered its 'final decisive battle) do you actually means that the manga is ending soon ? Correct me if I get your point wrong.
'Soon' might still be quite a way away, especially given that the manga is on a monthly release schedule, but yes, you got it right. It hasn't been explicitly stated (all I have seen is that 'final decisive battle' reference) but it's almost 100% certain now that Arakawa's manga will not cover the second half of the novel series. However, she seems to be covering the events of Book 7 while building towards a conclusive ending that will deal with the issue of Zahhak rather than leaving it as a loose end.
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how far into planning this slice of life story do i decide i don't like slice of life and add vampires
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it's probably bound by visuals, a good looking supernatural horror movie is unmatched where bad looking cgi creatures and ghosts can sort of ruin the entire thing & it's probably easier to have good looking effects in "realistic" horror even if the plot is dumb as hell
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hey who’s got book recs for horror, i’m going to the library tomorrow
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Might be a dumb question but are feral/wolf queen vans injuries worse than canons? Because the way you describe them make it sound like they are but im not sure
It’s less that her injuries are worse and more that she doesn’t heal as cleanly. There’s a bit of suspension of disbelief to how canon Van’s scars work, which makes a lot of sense from a television perspective. There’s an actor to take into consideration, and really leaning into how gnarly those wounds would be—how they’d fuck up Van’s face permanently—would mess with Hewson’s performance for the rest of the show. I’ll never begrudge them the surprisingly solid healing process Van manages in the middle of the woods with no real medical help, cuz…television. (Also, it really works with Van’s whole immortality thing.)
But in that story, there’s no such consideration to be made. The injuries are about the same, but I chose to have them take a greater toll. She hasn’t been held down for a stitching process, she’s violently flailing around the whole time, so the scars are going to be a little more grievous. Her left eye doesn’t function anymore. She’s not necessarily more injured, she’s just more permanently devastated by those injuries.
Beyond all of that, the thing I really wanted to play with in that story was less the physical transformation and more…how far having just a little faith goes, in canon, for Van’s well-being. In that story, I took it away. I took away the necklace, I took away her belief in Lottie. Her injuries are really messing with her, but so is her mental state. Even when she heals on the surface as best she can, what’s going on inside is what really counts.
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I also think that hs/the hs fandom was responding to the way the internet was in the early 2010s. it's probably a cycle of influence but I will say that with books like htn whose authors originally wrote like. complex gothic sff angst fic, that type of writing isn't limited to the hs fandom at all. There was a whole time period where if your fandom was even a little sff oriented you would have people writing these epic fics with fantasy elements where two characters would have a wildly complex and fraught relationship destroying everything else in their path for the same amount of words as the holy bible. It's so hard to describe this vibe but I'd say like, gothic sff melodrama with unreliable narrators really had a moment in fandom in the hs time period. Some of that stuff influences the way I think about fiction to this day and like. I do believe muir a little when she says she didn't take anything in particular from hs because even though there are some similar choices she makes in her writing, that was kinda just the vibe back then too
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I read a very fun supernatural murder mystery today and I just picked the author's second book in the series only to see the Other Novels By Author page and realize they also wrote the She Topples Giants, a book which I've seen twice recently and keep insisting on misreading as The Topless Giants 😂😂
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Doomsday // Конец Света (2022)
Varvara 'Varya' Bazhenova & Azazello 'Azik' Mitrohin
- Why didn't you tell me about all of this?
- Because you fell for a demon. For the beautiful and magnificent one!
- Are you dumb? I fell for someone who talked to me when nobody else gave a shit and who looked at me differently!
- And you don't care for who I am?
- And you left me because of this?
- I didn't. I just... panicked. I felt awful, scared, anxious and...
- It's completely normal. You're human now, remember?
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