#marie/elise

[hyba]

✒❓ Has anyone ever included things like newspaper clippings, social media posts, forum threads, etc. to their books? If so, how did you design or format them?

I'm adding a few of these kinds of elements to Marie/Elise, but my issue is that the formatting is getting a bit wonky. As I'm probably going to release it as an ebook first, that's a bit of an issue...

I thought of designing them on GIMP or something and adding them as image files... I'm concerned that won't go too well with ebook format either! PDF is easy, but EPUB/MOBI/etc is where I'm not too sure.

Any thoughts or ideas?

[emoscot]

Image I saw on TikTok but with some AC characters I love (especially underrated ones)

[mari-lair]

court is now in session

[diioonysus]

hair + art

[armoricaroyalty]

Morley Cottage was the final test for prospective new members of the royal family, simultaneously a beloved familial retreat and a blood-soaking proving ground where ‘suitability’ was formally assessed. Frederick spoke of the moldering old house often, golden-tinged nostalgia dressed up as gripes about frigid showers and forced togetherness. He had no idea about the impending divorce and Emily didn’t want to be the one to tell him.

It was more than six hours from the capital to Morley. A lengthy car ride up the coast, a ferry across the channel, an hour’s drive inland. Frederick insisted that they make the whole journey by land and by sea. Tradition, he’d said, and although he’d spoken in the same dour tone he’d used to lay out his grievances about the antique boiler and the interminable family meals, he’d been grinning. He was excited to bring her there, excited to share this part of himself, his family, and his childhood with her.

Sitting beside him in the car, listening to him chattering obliviously, she wanted to throw up.

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author's note: Thank you to @sirianasims and @hannahssimblr for the help choosing screenshots for this post, I really appreciate it!

Transcript under the cut.

Elise, alone in the sitting room at Morley Cottage, stares morosely at a display of family pictures. She hears noises outside, where two of her children have arrived with their romantic partners in tow. FREDERICK | ...seriously? ROSALIND | What? FREDERICK | You brought her with you? Are you insane? ROSALIND | [ sighs ] Hello Frederick. MARY | Hey Freddy. How was your drive? FREDERICK | Yeah. Hi. Great. Good to see you, Mare. FREDERICK | Roz...aren't you in enough trouble already? She wasn't invited, Dad's going to be pissed. ROSALIND | Dad can get over it. I invited her, and she's not going anywhere. FREDERICK | No ring, no bring. That's always been the rule! ROSALIND | [ offscreen ] I'm not going to argue with you, Freddy. FREDERICK | [ offscreen ] Yeah, because you know I'm right! It had been years since they had all lived under the same roof, but Frederick and Rosalind were still keenly attuned to their mother. When Elise emerged from within the old house, they fell silent at once, their argument temporarily forgotten. The Queen was dressed entirely in gray. The one spot of brightness on her person was the diamond engagement ring the King had given her thirty years before, which flashed like cold fire even in the thin light of an overcast February afternoon. To Emily's eyes, she looked ol: thin and tired, pale and gray as smoke, her gaunt face a mask of exhaustion. When she spoke, her voice was hoarse. ELISE | All of you, keep it down. Your father's resting. [ sighs ] Hello, Mary. MARY | Your Majesty, I'm sorry I've turned up unannounced. I hope it's not a major inconvenience. ELISE | [ sighs [ Stand up. You know we don't bother with protocol on vacation. ELISE | ...I think it's for the best that you're here. ELISE | Come on inside, then. ROSALIND | ...did you say Dad was already here? ELISE | [ sighs ] I said he's resting, Roz. You'll see him at dinner. ROSALIND | Well, when's dinner? I need to talk to him before then... EMILY | [ quietly ] Hey...I need to tell yo something. MARY | [ quietly ] Hm? EMILY | [ quietly ] I need your advice. MARY | [ quietly ] Why? What's up? EMILY | [ quietly ] No, not here! Inside! MARY | Wow, must be some secret. EMILY | You have no idea...

[logray]

SCREAM 2 (1997) ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)

[therealjohnstewart]

Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige, Angela Bassett, Lynn Whitfield, Kimberly Elise and Halle Berry

[kohanavp]

[trashcreatyre]

they’re a duo wether they like it or not

[raeiyyn]

Katherine Leyton, "You and I in This House" All The Gold Must Hurt // Aidan Koch // Sherine Elise Gilmour, Luck // source // Fortessa Latifi "Fingertips" We Were Young // source // Mary Lambert, "Why I Slept With Makeup for Five Years" Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across

[hyba]

Spare a moment to help me decide?

'Tis a new calendar year, and I want to focus on one of my novels for the foreseeable future. One small problemo: I find myself struggling to decide between Murder in Heliopolis and Marie/Elise. Which one should I focus on in the coming months?

Murder in Heliopolis is a futuristic 'solarpunk' murder mystery set in the megacity of Heliopolis, where almost everything is controlled by PATET, the utopian city's all-seeing AI. When Detective Laith Alazraq begins to unravel what seems to be the first unsolvable murder in decades, he realizes that PATET isn't the helpful AI they've always considered it to be, and that perhaps there are darker forces pulling the strings behind the scenes. Unfortunately, this is one investigation he won't be able to walk away from - and one bad guy he might not be able to put away.

Marie/Elise is a psychological thriller and murder mystery set in the fictional affluent town of Blackwood, where the sprawling estates of the rich and powerful hold secrets beyond what one might imagine. When Adrian White moves to Blackwood in hopes of starting a new life with his nouveau-riche father, he thinks his only problems are in his head. When a party at the Bellerose estate turns into a crime scene, Adrian finds himself the main suspect in the murder of town darling and social media celebrity Elise Bellerose. An unlikely team of amateur detectives forms: Adrian joins forces with Marie Bellerose and Perry Baxley to find out what truly happened to the ill-fated Elise. The only problem is, each one of them suspects the other.

...You see my dilemma, yes? They're both SO FUN!!!!! I don't know which one to pick but I'm doing this thing where I don't want to jump from project to project and not actually finish any of them, so it's got to be one or the other for now.

Please help me decide before my brain does a complete 180 and decides to consider The Pirates of Sissa or The Fall of the Black Masks! Those need a full rewrite, whereas MiH and M/E are more of an edit job. I'm more likely to complete them more quickly, and if I'm being honest, I don't want to be working on a novel for too long; I really just need to finish something.

[limoncats]

potential LGTS spoilers?

if OMORI was set in modern-day i have a hc that Mari would play LGTS and love it and she'd envy Elise's clothes

she's happy that she's wearing pants Elise's clothes

[clichey]

Elise Marie Paris Fashion Week Couture AW24 - Giambattista Valli - Elise Marie Book┃IG

[dosthoeyevsky]

its my 28th birthday tomorrow so i want to say while i still can

- i am 27 years old

- i have no money and no prospects

- i'm already a burden to my parents

- i am frightened

[armoricaroyalty]

Domestic press coverage of the Armorican royal family. Dec 2017 - Feb 2018

author's note: soooo many people contributed pics for this, thank you to my collaborators! In order of appearance:

@sirianasims @someone-elsa @funkyllama @empiredesimparte

@officialroyalsofpierreland @trhor @nexility-sims @housekonig

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