#and Marcone in that series was inspiration for Ciro

[pastafossa]

what is your favorite book? (sorry i saw someone mention that they got dante’s inferno because of trt so i was curious!)

I saw this and my brain immediately became a discord screen as all my favorite books got stirred up, just

THIS IS SO HARD, I HAVE SO MANY, IT CHANGES BY MOOD AND SEASON, fuck, ok, ok I can do this. *whispers to the books* only three of you

FIRST.

Fucking

DRESDEN FILES.

Specifically book 7, Dead Beat.

Urban Fantasy. Has a zombie t rex in one. Snarky investigative protagonist (TRT inspo hello). Lorge dog. Pop culture references. All the titles are PUNS. Cool mythology. MAGIC. BADASS LONG COATS. Is the first book really rough? Yes. Very. But damn I stuck with it and the series took off. I literally have an autographed copy that I got Jim Butcher to sign with, 'Harry loves you'.

SECOND.

Lord of the Rings my beloved.

I do not need to describe it. It is perfection. I have reread it every year since I was 11. GENIUS.

THIRD.

Currently? Dueling for third is Dante's Inferno and Pride and Prejudice since I read them both again in the past year. P&P is my favorite slow burn out there, THE DEFINITION OF SLOW BURN ENEMIES TO LOVERS, and the CHEMISTRY but also social context? The BANTER??? While Dante's Inferno is, in my mind, the most hilarious, gorgeously written, petty bit of self-insert published AU fanfiction ever created. Dude straight up went 'in my AU hell is an onion and the dead philosophers and poets I idolize love me and the Popes I hated are there ha ha get FUCKED, and also my poetry for it will be so gorgeous it becomes a classic and you'll almost miss that I snuck a fart joke in right here' (yes there is a fart joke - a demon signals to his lil army to move on by, roughly translated, 'making a trumpet of his ass') and I love him for that.

Point being Dante is up there so having a story where I can weave references in is AMAZING