#Devil and the dark water

[full-of-terrors]

If I had a nickel for every time I got obsessed with a piece of boat media where someone had a rival take a shit in their bed I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[goryhorroor]

horror symbols: crucifixes

In horror movies, crosses are often used as protective charms or magical weapons against supernatural enemies, but in horror movies critiquing catholicism, it could relate to a character a tramua of theirs and what is being used to scare them.

[saintofdaggers]

AQUATIC HORROR // White Ring - For Rotation

(youtube link)

[nokkiart]

A friend let me borrow “The Devil and the Dark Water” recently because I loved “7 1/2 Deaths” so much, and I desperately needed something to clear my head after being laid off.

I had no idea that I’d end up coming out of this murder mystery novel with a new otp, but I absolutely love Arent and Sara! They are such a fantastic duo and are too adorable together! 💖

So once I finished the book, I immediately started doodling them 😅💕

[my-jokes-are-my-armour]

Happy Ruin day everyone ❤️

I just wanted to celebrate Scarlet Scarlet and the Blue Furious Boy in their dichotomy and complementarity.

They make me escape with cracked and wrinkled emotions bursting out in notes and voices, with blurred lines between reality and fantasy contained and unleashed by words.

Sources : Joey CV photo and Madeleine photo from on IMDB. Contains freepik resources. Edit with Gimp and Gridart

[zeezeebum]

And it's peaceful in the deep Cathedral where you cannot breathe No need to pray, no need to speak Now I am under all

[bug-juice98]

The Devil’s Bridge, Germany

[moon--boy]

can all of you promise me you’ll read the devil and the dark water by Stu Turton . . . Like guys it’s Sherlock Holmes type shenanigans but they’re trapped on a ship and the sherlock one is imprisoned and his 6’5” fat titted bear of a watson is forced to figure out who is impersonating a devil before three unholy miracles kill everyone on board

[roseraies]

x x x / x o x / x x x

Vergil (Devil May Cry) stimboard for a friend!

[conra]

I'm just trying to imagine such a scene.

Stan: Hey guys, why do you look like you've been working in a factory 24/7?.

Disheveled John, Angela, Charlie Lonnit, Chris Hackett, Jack and Rachel, after what they've been through:🗿

[midnights-wish]

''The sea was keeping her secrets, as usual.''

Stuart Turton, 'The Devil And The Dark Water'.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Devil and the Dark Water | Author: Stuart Turton | Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (2020)

[108garys]

Wait I literally just notified something! The ride that Francis and Bethany rode in the photo is the Inferno as in the rollercoaster the switchback player was traveling to ride with their sister and apparently had a tradition around

[niezrownanyananiasz]

I drew this giant today (instead of studying ❤️)

[raayllum]

“So they might kill you or they might save you,” Callum said. “Exactly.” Rayla smiled. “Just like me.” (—Book One: Novelization)

If Aaravos takes control of me again, you have to kill me. I need you to promise. / We can’t save everyone, Soren. There’s too much at stake. / A Moonshadow assassin who, can this be right, isn’t capable of killing? / I’m not going to kill you! (4x07, 4x05, 4x04, 4x07)

“You killed him!” “He was my friend.” (—After Darkness) 

Rayla’s brave. She saves people, even when it puts her life in danger, and even when the odds seem impossible. [...] That’s what makes her a hero. That’s what makes her Rayla. (3x05)

You let him live, but you killed us all. / You have two choices: you all die, or just the evil wretched human dies. (1x01, 3x01)

Humans call it the south star, y’know, to find their way in the endless darkness of the night. / No one can control your or make your choices for you. What if I’m on a path of darkness? Then take another path, dummy. / In darkness, gaze upon a fallen star. [Rayla shows up, haloed in light] (S5, 4x07, 4x02)

The river may be fast, but you’re basically my best friend. I wouldn’t let anything happen to you, no matter what it took. / Life is like a river. / It’s part of protecting them. Part of protecting you. Going to dark places and making hard choices is an act of love. It’s a gift. [...] Stay safe, and stay in the light. / Soren gasped the darkness like water into his lungs. He could not breathe. He was drowning. (Bloodmoon Huntress, 2x06, Dear Callum, Strangers)

Alright, enough almost killing me. / But then you spread your wings, and you saved me. (1x05, 4x05) 

I’m glad we’re together, and looking at the stars (S5) 

It’s a toy, a piece from a children’s game. I hope it was worth it to you, putting everyone’s lives in danger. / It’s a glow toy! / Are you practicing magic or are you losing to Bait at a game of rolly-cubes? / Already tainted by darkness, and destined to play right into my hands. / They aren’t games. They’re tests. / Those who fail tests of love are simple animals. They deserve to be motivated by fear. (1x04, 1x05, 2x07, 4x04, Changing of the Guard, 2x09)

[noahsbookhoard]

📚May 2024 Book Review (Part 3/3)📚

A slight change of plan: this review was supposed to include a french thriller, Le manuscrit inachevé by Franck Thilliez but since it's a trilogy and I read all three books it will be easier to speak of all three at once!

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

India, 1634. Detective Samuel Pipps is arrested by governor-general Jan Haan for reasons unknown. He is to be brought back to Amsterdam aboard the ship Saardam with his sidekick Arent Hayes, the governor-general, his wife and his mistress. As they board the ship, a leper appears and curse the ship before bursting into flame. With Pipps under arrest, Arent will have to solve this mystery by himself and make sure the ship reaches its destination, despite the lepers prediction.

Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle has been a total hit for me earlier this year, I wanted to read another book of his. I couldn't get his latest book yet but this one was available!

The premise intrigued me, historical novel, a nautical story (with an author's note indicating that there were licenses taken, I knew next to nothing on the subject and the period so if there were, they flew past me) and a murder mystery with a pinch of horror. The balance is really well built, the ship and period create interesting obstacles to the investigation and nook and cranies to build a horror atmosphere. The main character is not the weathered detective who guesses everything and withhold his discovery à la Poirot, we get to see his deduction as he makes them, and it adds to the threat until the very end.

The characters are nicely drawn, I felt like I knew them already and had read about other cases they solved before. The author is great at giving tiny details that makes the characters and their relationships feel life-like, it made the ending hit that much harder.

Nonetheless I wasn't awed by the resolution: I had seen not of it coming, which is frequent eniugh in murder mystery but some aspects of it didn't feel like they had been set up upstream. It was also very down to earth, and I was expecting some supernatural elements to actually be supernatural in the end (I can't be much clearer without spoiling the end). That one is on me but it still tinted my feeling.

In conclusion, I found it a bit less awe-inspiring than The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle but a nice read and a good thriller. Specialist of sailing, and the 17th century might find some historical incoherence but the book is really enjoyable.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams

Arthur Dent is the last human survivor of planet Earth, destroyed to make way for a galactic highway. His friend Ford Prefect, an alien in disguise saved hit at the last second. Together they will explore the new planets, guided by Ford's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and solve such grand questions as "where did all the ballpen go?" and "what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?"

This is a cult classic and, as I get acquainted with SciFi and British absurdism, I gave it a go.

This was a wierd experience. Fun but wierd: I was a bitclost and Arthur's reaction to everything was so far out of what I would have felt that I had difficulty identifying with him. Other characters were really fun, I love Ford and Martin most of all. I admit most of the longer names are blurry for month after reading.

The different adventures were fun, I'm really growing fond of the absurd. Zaphod's ship and its propulsion system, the Impossibly Drive is such a funny yet efficient mechanism!

This was a fun discovery, I probably missed 48% of the references but I finally have context for that "42" easter egg on Google. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is on the TBR for late September or October and I'm looking forward to it.

The Start Beast (Doctor Who 60th anniversary novelisation) by Gary Russel

The Doctor just regenerated, and this new face is strangely familiar. The coincidence is too much when he runs into Donna Noble, still amnesic. She can't remember him, it would be fatal; but as an alien called The Meep crashes in London and has to run to escape pursuit, the Doctor and Donna will run into each other again and work together to save planet Earth.

I was so excited for the 60th anniversary episodes!! David Tennant and Catherine Tate are such an awesome duo and Russel T Davis back on the team was a great news to me! I loved those new episodes and this one especially.

Aaaaand that's about all I have to say! Unfortunately, the book adds very little to the show. I hadn't rewatched it recently but it was still fresh enough that I didn't rediscover it through the book. I should have expected it. So yeah, novelisation doesn't add much but that's still one hell of an episode!