#A Requiem for the Dead

[sandythereadingcafe]

REVIEW:

A REQUIEM FOR THE DEAD (Benoit and Dayne Mystery 4) by Winter Austin at The Reading Cafe:

'The premise is intriguing, dramatic, raw and twisted'

[thereadingcafe]

[courier-req]

The Sierra Madre Casino hopes you've enjoyed your stay.

Req, for all her traits, faults, flaws... she's best known for money being the driving force in her life. That, combined with her lifetime of surviving things no one else could and her staunch refusal to take orders from anyone but those paying her, would spell doom for Elijah. He had no idea the fate he brought upon himself when he locked that bomb collar around her neck.

(Her hair was still growing back after her stint in the Big MT at the time. She was able to talk Dog/God into a semblance of sanity. She killed Dean with her bare hands. She did all she could to save Christine, and respected her choice to remain behind. She kept Vera's dress for Veronica, and a poster of the starlet for herself. And she took every last gold bar and dollar bill out of that vault, trading them for Elijah.)

[kazu-naito]

i just noticed something...

first time reading this i immediately jumped to conclusions because of the name but.. look at the background, this is yan's memory not cain's

cain's only start with the chain, cross and piano

[memsrequiem]

Pls i can't he's everything i wanted. Marry me you grumpy ass man.

[figures4fun]

Made with our good friend @stainedrevenant

Jack Sparrow becomes a part of the (figure) crew!

And Wolf graciously stood in for Davy Jones.

[taemcains]

cain girls... we are so fucking back

[dark-side-blog3]

You ever think about how the effects on the body that Purple Haze's virus has can lead to over a ton of body horror imagery in a Pannacotta Fugo route?

I do indeed.

++++++++++++++

While Fugo is very fearful of his stand, and he tries his best to keep it repressed, he does have moments even he can't get out of without its help. He tries to avoid those moments as much as possible, as the rabid apparition could kill its owner easily; Fugo is not immune to the virus he creates with his stand. Should his manifestation turn towards him in ire, Fugo needs to act fast to repress the spirit again, before buboes of phlegm swell his throat, cutting off air while splatters of blood and plasma erupt from a rash of blisters on his skin, the torn flesh melting and merging with itself as it gets covered in new blisters, each layer covering itself in torn shreds of skin from the previous layer that only emerged seconds before.

If Fugo is unlucky enough to be "saved" by a healer stand before he dies, after suppressing the stand, his skin will carry the scars, stretching and straining under the evergrowing disease under his skin. The disease never left, always mutating at an incredibly fast rate inside of himself.

In mere hours, his body is bloated, and cumbersome, unable to lift parts of himself off the ground and instead dragging them behind, tearing gently at the skin that gets raked over the concrete, oozing viscous strings of colgulated blood and dotted with white, shaving-foam consistency pus. His face is obscured under bulging, beating bulbs of flesh, with thin blue veins visibly trailing clots of blood through his body like threading a bead on a string slowly, and with great difficulty as his cancerous arteries lead back into each other, enough times that some of his- at one time- extremities turn a sickly necrotic purple and black.

You'd barely recognize the shambling mound of flesh as Fugo if it weren't for the fact you'd seen him get attacked by his stand after trying to deter it from you.

And if it weren't for the fact you'd seen birds and dogs die from the same disease as he got close to them, you'd be tempted to offer comfort to the former man. Despite lasting this long with the disease unable to kill him, it seems he's still a carrier for the original death Purple Haze entails.

You'd been running from him for hours now-- though he's not particularly fast, his persistence despite what must be agony is what keeps you moving. Resting in any place for too long will only let him close the distance. The blisters and swelling have no doubt gotten to his brain, killing whatever could have been left in him, causing him to act irrationally and chase you in the open, undeterred by pain, threats, bribes, empty promises, or gunfire. He's not Fugo anymore, unable to call upon his Stand, or even understand his old name (and you've tried to use it to escape before, attempting bargaining with the creature). He's just... A monster. Determined to follow you wherever you go, until it can absorb you with bubbling stomach acid, or infect and fuse with your melted, blistering, corpse.

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

Best Shakespeare Adaptations Tournament

THE BRACKET!

the final round will begin soon!

all tournament related stuff, including the polls, will be under the tag 'tournament'.

"what is 'best'?" that's up to you, but what i'm hoping for is people judging more on individual quality rather than accuracy!

lineup

SIDE A

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Hamlet)

Elsinore (Hamlet)

Hamletmachine (Hamlet)

Lion King 1.5 (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)

Fat Ham (Hamlet)

To Be or Not To Be (Hamlet)

Haider (Hamlet)

Fortinbras (Hamlet)

My Own Private Idaho (Henry IV & Henry V)

The Prince (Henry IV and Hamlet)

American Moor (Othello)

Enter the Body (King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet)

Nothing Much to Do (Much Ado About Nothing)

10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew)

Requiem of the Rose King (Richard III & Henry VI Part 3)

Teenage Dick (Richard III)

SIDE B

Gnomeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

All Shook Up (Twelfth Night)

She's the Man (Twelfth Night)

Duodecimal (Twelfth Night)

These Violent Delights (Romeo & Juliet)

West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet)

Teen Beach Movie (West Side Story)

Prince of Cats (Romeo & Juliet)

Ran (King Lear)

A Thousand Acres (King Lear)

The Witch From Mercury (The Tempest)

Return to the Forbidden Planet (The Tempest)

Love's Labors Lost (same— musical adaptation)

Foul is Fair (MacBeth)

ShakespeareRetold MacBeth/MacChef (MacBeth)

Throne of Blood/Kumonosu-jō (MacBeth)

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

rip gabrielamala you were robbed of a cunty CG set like this

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

Kloktober 2023, Day 16: In Memoriam (Honoring the Fallen): I anticipated that this would feature more one-episode characters' Hamburger Time(s); it wouldn't be difficult to come up with another 10 characters who have also Hamburger Time(d) for Dethklok, in any case.

[0tappaja0arts]

Can I peg Kvothe

Maybe, maybe not...

[eeriedreamer]

istg if i see someone defending alexandra hsr & boris ill lose my shit

I love that I'm collecting Boris haters on here.

No but seriously it's crazy that people actually try to defend her?? Listen, I love requiem and I think it is a great story - but the way Anna's route is handled is straight up disgusting. And I think it's important that we call Alexandra out on her actions. Because the developers actually see our criticism and feedback (otherwise there wouldn't be that new change where the authors have to include female lis).

It's annoying because she said he wouldn't be an li. It's annoying that she's apparently willing to listen to people who beg for the fourth white male li while completely sidelining Anna&Greg. There's no reason for for Boris to keep showing up again - he's dead. Let him go. You want to add another li? Add Kira. Anhea. DONOVAN FOR ALL I CARE.

Why was the corpse in a scene with all the other lis, but the ACTUAL female li wasn't?

[maddiesbookshelves]

Fav books of 2024 (in no particular order and including only one re-read that I had actually never finished so it doesn't count, shush)

[memsrequiem]

When he ran his hand through her hair i crumbled ? The way i giggled, kicked my feet, sobbed because he's not real is unreal just like him 🥹❤️‍🩹

[hexesandroses]

how I'm feeling after the update as a cainlaner