#mircass

[pritkinsprettydick]

A Mircass Breakup Playlist

(via https://open.spotify.com/user/sunnydaleslut/playlist/3EoqOGIx7o6VfLiGKvxEKr) 

Sorry by Beyonce - Middle fingers up, put them hands high / Wave it in his face, tell him boy, bye

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac - Listen to the wind blow, down comes the night / Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies

The Last Song by Sleater-Kinney - I don’t owe you anything / I’m not part of you

Oh Bondage, Up Yours! by X-ray Spex - Bind me, tie me, chain me to a wall / I wanna be a slave to you all / Oh bondage, up yours / Oh bondage, no more

Flawless*** by Beyonce - I took some time to live my life / But don’t think I’m just his little wife / Don’t get it twisted, get it twisted / This my shit, bow down bitches

Womanizer by Britney Spears - You can play brand new to / All the other chicks out here / But I know what you are / What you are, baby

Shitlist by L7 - You’ve made my shitlist

You Don’t Own me by Lesley Gore - You don’t own me / I’m not just one of your many toys / You don’t own me / Don’t say I can’t go with other boys

Run the World (Girls) by Beyonce - See, you better not play me / Don’t come here, baby / Hope you still like me / F U Pay Me

[pritkinspalemoons]

Me, a mircea, specifially mircass, but very deeply generally, hater, debating whether to skip their real first convo chapter post the break up: does anything important even happen except my usual desire to stab him in the eyes with toothpicks?

:oh, fred.

[annalane]

C’mon we all know what you’d want to do with the shoe.

Favorite Quotes:

I sighed. “Hello, Pritkin.”

Mircea is “gracefully made”.

“The prostitutes of this era wear more clothes than you currently have on.”

Favorite moments:

Ch 2. First time he grips her upper arms with too much intensity. [later, he knows it’s not Cassie come to rescue him at his fathers castle when she doesn’t show pain at his grip]

Ch 4 Grabs arm again

Pritkin sitting there while Randolph and Chavez chat Cassie up 💀

Ch 7 Augusta and Mirceas adventures in London hunting the surprisingly tricky Jack the Ripper who may have been trying to impress Dracula. Next solo Mircea book, please.

- The vampires crowd closer as Cassie (trying to get Myra) provides the entertainment for the evening. What did these vamps do before her? lmao

Ch 8. He’s already giving her jewelry and clothes 😍 okay sure it’s an anti-fey charm necklace and a trench coat filled with ammunition but still.

Ch 9. “Cassandra, you have returned to us.” - Consul. Oooh this moment suddenly seems so political. Here, we have the vampires hosting a large gathering so all the other supernatural groups can see how she goes to the vampires and they can control her and predict her and contain her BUT they can’t. Mac also deserves the MVP for Shiva in this chapter, saving her ass right from the start. They weren’t expecting Cassie to have that tat and I love that it gets the consul. The consul needs to be got from time to time.

“We don’t have time to waste on verbal sparring,” an old mage interrupted, glaring at me. “The effect won’t last much longer and you know we can’t afford to explode another.” Then a brunette grabs him by the throat and hushes him up, so...

WAS THIS JONAS? He could be showing himself to be an early ally. He is skilled at coming across as a doofus but actually having distinct motives and making shrewd moves. He could have been signaling Cassie that if she could wait it out she could escape and trying from the start to get her away from the vamps.

-Mircea shrugs off the consul and fights against her. This SO could not have helped her paranoia about him taking over.

-Beginning books Cassie was not ready for Pritkin and needed to date Mircea. Hear me out:

"The kiss was hard and brutal, as if he would eat me alive. There was nothing gentle about it, nothing romantic. And it was just what I wanted."

And I may be reading too much into that one line, but I don’t think Cassie is ready for love. I think, after the way she grew up and being on the run and not having anyone, she’s terrified. She doesn’t want love because that would leave her so incredibly vulnerable when she’s doing her best every day to stay strong. And she shows this by choosing (especially now that we KNOW) one of the most emotionally unavailable vampires ever who she sort of knows from the start she can never trust. But that’s what she wants, because the alternative is even more terrifying. But it backfires anyway because it goes way too far (Vampire. Marriage.) and she does really come to care for him and puts herself in a vulnerable position with him. I’m so overthinking.

-Also, this is her first public ‘show’ but not her last tee hee.

-Also, Mircea soooo deserves this geis torture! And the reason he’s so afraid: Cassie feels an overwhelming sense of ‘my home family love acceptance.’ She forgets her problems and anyone else in that moment. Mircea must be feeling the exact same (multiplied by a century) and this is the first time he could finally forget Elena and be happy! And he is so freaking scared of that possibility.

-Also, everyone is so caught up in the mircass drama to realize the null bomb was fading. Hilarious old vampires watching their new favorite soap opera, Cassandra Palmer.

-I actually really enjoy this chapter and the faded pink shoe is still one of the most powerful visuals from the series, imo.

Ch 10. Cassie totally checks out the Golem’s junk.

Ch 11. Tomas let’s himself be vulnerable with Cassie. He’s super concerned with Cassie coming back to save him. Tomas doesn’t ask Cassie to go back and save his family long dead. He comforts her with practical advice (MacAdams was a warrior. Treat him as such). All he wants is to not be a slave to someone, as he’s been most his life...just like Cassie. If that means doing his best to make unconventional allies to get from under the thumb of manipulative masters then...that’s what his resourceful ass will do. Tomas is looking better and better all the time.

Ch 12. Marlowe is the first one who kneels before her (and one of the only vampires to do this ever)? Damn Marlowe is smooth. Even Mircea couldn’t bring himself to kneel before her (from what I can recall). Although, I do think Marlowe has a healthy admiration for powerful women, so it makes sense.

Ch 14. Their first “Oh Shit” moment.

Questions:

Hmhmhm are the birds of prey that gather round as if waiting for the ‘show’ other fae with the ability to become animals? Very intriguing.

Was this he beginning of Mircea’s foot thing? Did Cassie do this to him?

Why the hell did kit Marlowe come along lmao. He’s become such a Dory character to me now.

[overlycaffeinatedwarmage]

Chanceverse Questions!

Rules: Answer these ten questions and then tag 5 people!

- If you could ask Karen Chance to write a novella/short based on one character or ship, what would it be?

I’m greedy, I want more Pritkin POV novellas.  I would love to see either the body swap from his eyes, his thoughts upon waking in RtS, or some of the baby!Pritkin scenes from RtS in Wales.  I want to see how he views Cassie when he first meets her from his time line.

- What is your favorite time traveling scene?

As much as it hurt, I liked the scene where Cassie accidentally traveled to Pritkin 3 weeks in the past in TtS.  The emotions during that whole scene got to me.  It showed us Cassie’s real feelings toward Pritkin, even if she wasn’t able to admit them to herself yet.  The following shift to her parents is pretty emotionally charged too.

- If you lived in the Chanceverse, what would you rather be: vampire, were, clairvoyant, or mage?

Mage, hands down.  It was in KC’s books that I realized that while I enjoy books with vampires, I don’t actually like vampires.  They take so much from humanity and give little back.  I wouldn’t want to be burdened with knowing the future like clairvoyants are.  Having some powerful mage abilities sounds rather fun though.

- If you could change anything from any storyline, what would it be?

Nothing. Everything has been necessary to get us from book 1 to book 8.  Are there things that aren’t my favorite (the geis, fuckin�� Gertie) yes, but they are needed for the story so I’ll keep them.

- Which character would you most want to spend a day with, and what would you do?

Pritkin.  We’d drink coffee and workout.  Maybe makeout (don’t tell Cassie or hothie).

- What are your: OTPs, BROTPs, NOTPs?

OTPs: Casskin, Basarbon, and Rheaco, Rian & Casanova

BROTPs: Cassie & Billy Joe, Cassie & Fred, Cassie with any of her loyal protectors

NOTPs: Mircass

- Do you have any crackships? If so, what are they?

Casanova and Rosier

- What scene from either series made you laugh the hardest?

Cassie in the golem RtW, “consider it fucked” RtS, and the body swap.  All about equally.

- What scene from either series made you cry the hardest?

The cafe scene from TtS and everything that followed it.  Also the related Pritkin POV scene from TtS.  I still tear up reading those.  TtS was hard for me in general.  That whole 2 year wait from the unknown in HtM. Then Cassie saves and loses Pritkin so many times in that book.  It was heartwrenching.

- What are your unpopular opinions?

I’m about 50/50 on my theory of how Mircea found out about Pritkin.  Part of me thinks Cassie, part of me thinks Rian.  At least one of those theories is going to be pretty unpopular.

I nominate @pritkins-little-witch @cassiepalmerfan @hothie I think everyone else has been tagged?

[halfincubus]

Chanceverse Questions!

Rules: Answer these ten questions and then tag 5 people!

- If you could ask Karen Chance to write a novella/short based on one character or ship, what would it be?

like anything that’s like an unseen day in the pythian court from Pritkin’s perspective is a gem tbh. Shadowland and Family Affair were amazing, A+++ would read another 100 just like it

- What is your favorite time traveling scene?

difficult, because there are so many ICONIC places and times... but I’m so so so attached to medieval Wales, fuck I love that place. And then my favourite scene...god in RTW the bit with the troll party and the fire and that CONVERSATION Cassie and Pritkin had about their childhoods and ‘I see you’ and UUGGHH I LOVE IT SO MUCH

- If you lived in the Chanceverse, what would you rather be: vampire, were, clairvoyant, or mage?

mage, easy. I’ve always wished magic was real lol

- If you could change anything from any storyline, what would it be?

GEEEEEIIIIIISSSSSSSS I HATE. EVERY TIME I REREAD THOSE EARLY BOOKS I SUFFER AT THE MIRCASS HORNINESS (although I know the geis is kind of necessary plotwise, because if you think about it, HILARIOUSLY, without the geis Cassie never would have gone back to 18thC Paris and found out Pritkin’s little secret... so in a really roundabout fated kind of way it’s Mircea’s own fault Cassie became closer with Pritkin?? LMAAAOOO (I have thought about this way too much)

- Which character would you most want to spend a day with, and what would you do?

Casanova. Dude OWNS a casino. If you’re friends with him you can drink, gamble and probably shag your day away like a hedonistic fiend (he seems like he’d be a total friends with benefits kind of guy). I love Cassie but she doesn’t get a lot of free time, otherwise I’d definitely pick her MY LOVE <3 <3

- What are your: OTPs, BROTPs, NOTPs?

otp: casskin, basarbon, marlory notps: mircass, Dory x Caedmon (what do we call that, Dormon? Caedry?) brotps: Pritkin & Caleb, Cassie & Rosier, Dory & Ray, Cassie & Rhea

- Do you have any crackships? If so, what are they?

Oh. I have a dark secret called Aesubrand x Dory. I’m not sure when I started light shipping this but like I get that ‘redeemable asshole’ quality from Aesubrand and he’s got this tension with Dory and I knooooww she’s gonna want revenge for that handprint and.... I’m a sucker for those hate-tension feelings lmao. It’s like early seasons Buffy x Spike to me

- What scene from either series made you laugh the hardest?

I always laugh plenty (BLESS YOU KC) when I read so it’s hard to choose just one...I think the scene where Cassie and Pritkin bodyswap in CTD and then she wakes up in his body with a little morning problem when he comes into her room in her body looking all calm and collected... i fucking die every time

- What scene from either series made you cry the hardest?

I’m not really much of a crier. Nothing’s made me shed tears so far!

- What are your unpopular opinions?

every opinion is unpopular if you’re in a fandom long enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But in all honestly off the top of my head I can’t think of one that a lot of people don’t have. Maybe my feelings about my crackship? I dunno

Tag 5 people: @pritkinsprettydick @windsurfingthroughhell @slightlybitchyclairvoyant and anyone in the fandom who hasn’t done it yet!

[emberfaye]

Chanceverse Questions!

Rules: Answer these ten questions and then tag 5 people!

I was tagged by the amazing @slightlybitchyclairvoyant​

- If you could ask Karen Chance to write a novella/short based on one character or ship, what would it be?

I would love to see from Dee’s POV (The drag queen from the earlier books). I also am slightly in love with Radu and Gunther.

- What is your favorite time traveling scene?

Urrrgh. Asking the hard questions. I would say, the first time traveling to Wales, with baby!Pritkin in the water, or possibly that time Cassie introduced her parents. (So freaky. Freud would have a field day)

- If you lived in the Chanceverse, what would you rather be: vampire, were, clairvoyant, or mage?

Clairvoyant. Least likely chance to be controlled unless I’m Pythia. Also, I haven’t read the were stories yet so not sure how their world goes. 

- If you could change anything from any storyline, what would it be?

Like, KC is a pretty great author so everything is so interconnected that changing something makes everything so different, but...I guess. Hm. I guess that Tomas just got off easy, in terms of Cassie’s pov. Or maybe just how Cassie forgives everyone, which is part of her as a character, empathy and all that, but sometimes it cheapens the emotional impact to me. Maybe I’m just bitter, maybe I just hate tomas. I don’t know. .

- Which character would you most want to spend a day with, and what would you do?

Tami! We’d have supper, and I would tell her funny jokes and parenting stories, and she would help me get my shit in order.

- What are your: OTPs, BROTPs, NOTPs?

OTPs: Casskin, Basarbon, Rheaco, Mircea/Elena (the romantic in me is just..hopeful). 

BROTPs: Cassie & Billy Joe, Pritkin & Caleb, Marco and Pritkin, Marco and Cassie, Rhea and Cassie, Rosier and Rian, Radu and Mircea, Dory and Ray (I just love all their dynamics okay?)

NOTPs: Mircass for sure, Dory/Caedmon

- Do you have any crackships? If so, what are they?

Ray/Ming De (hahahaha no.) I don’t really have any, but I do love seeing how the characters would react.

- What scene from either series made you laugh the hardest?

Mostly from the Dory books, tbh. “You diddled me over the desk!” “Which Fae are you buying condoms for? ALL OF THEM!!?!” 

Also, Mac’s cluelessness when Cassie and PRitkin are starting to realize their attraction. And Casanova is just pure gold.

- What scene from either series made you cry the hardest?

When Pritkin got hit with the curse (And then Cassie started to sacrifce herself). When Mircea was sacrificing himself for Dory in her mind. When we thought Rhea was going to die. When Agnes killed herself and Myra. When Mac died. 

(I didn’t think I cried that much but apparently...)

- What are your unpopular opinions?

I don’t hate Mircea, although I intensely dislike a lot about him. I also feel like sometimes the book is too much of a whirlwind and doesn’t give some of the issues it bridges proper introspection (near rape, mind torture, dubious consent, etc). Although obviously it doesn’t lessen my enjoyment of the books. 

Tag 5 people: I think most people have been tagged?

@freespeechfandom @five-star-hellhole @sunnydaleslut @anyonewhohasn’tdoneityet 

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Re: HtM Chapter 26 & 27

@bestbooklover Once he is healed enough to actually take control of the sex he is still not willing to let Cassie in at all. Cassie trusts him to not kill her but he doesn’t and he doesn’t want to get any more vulnerable to Cassie and so he limits it to oral sex and her orgasm.

Yeah good point. While Rosier's prohibition was still in effect, that applies to demon sex, so he was held back more by his own figurative demons I think. It also highlights that Cassie and Pritkin never really make a conscious decision (about being intimate) that they commit to. Without external pressure, neither of them would initiate it.

@windsurfingthroughhell said:

Idk, I just have weird and particular ideas about consent and autonomy. I don’t like people making choices for Cassie, especially as regards her body, but this particular instance of it bothers me less than say, that Mircass scene in TtD, because Pritkin didn’t compromise her ability to consent, Rosier did, and he also apologised for it later

As @bestbooklover mentions, Cassie consented to the process at the start. What I'm curious about is why we’re all focusing on Cassie, when she was a deliberate, initiative-taking active party in the whole ordeal. It was Pritkin who was unconscious, who had his body intimately handled without his awareness or prior consent. He didn't ask Cassie for sexual help, even though he could have; he would have never touched her in any of the scenes if not for Cassie's demands/actions to ensure that he does.

And even when he does yield to her, he is clearly very conflicted. He is torn and upset, more so than Cassie ever was about any of her sexual encounters. It is him, not Cassie, who is broken and guilt-ridden and angry and catatonically traumatized in the shower, it's not Cassie who needs comfort, it's Pritkin. And Cassie has just forced him to relive his worst nightmare and do things he hates and shuns on his own volition.

I did make a satire post about this around April to illustrate double standards and biases, but since nobody addressed Pritkin's consent, it proves that this topic might be worth a more serious post. I'm not sure whether it's actually the books or the fandom that focuses so much on Cassie's more minor experiences and ignores far more traumatic events for other characters, but consent should be a non-gendered topic, just like physical violence (the trivialization of which Cassie also does in the books).

[annalane]

Touch the Dark (Audiobook) Reread

Fave Moments:

Ch 5. Karen Chance mentions Marlowe dropping in to visit Mircea at Tony’s in chapter five!!! WHAT.

Ch 8. “You are not human.” It wasn’t a question. 💯 (fave quote)

Ch 9. The men all waiting for Cassie to come out of the bath really makes me laugh. Just imagining all those powerful men like, she wants to clean herself so we have to wait. *Elevator music plays.

Ch. 12. Mircea’s ooc sex scene: So I’ve thought about this a lot. More than is healthy, probably. But maybe...from his POV...he has just learned his little Pythian candidate has paid off! And is sexually attracted to him?!? Well, I guess he figures it’s now time make his gambit and whore himself out in order to save his brother and wife in the future. It was probably even a little bit of a let down that this part of history was repeating itself. Him + sexing up a Pythia hasn’t worked before but at least this one is embedded in his family. It can’t hurt to try again. He has been using his body and seduction in his pursuit and has been acting way more like an incubus than our favorite half demon most of the time. He says “had I known...I would have arranged something more appropriate” meaning her robe outfit but also I think, the entire affair/seduction. He’s acting strange because - it’s an act. This has been something he’s put on for hundreds of years (smh still hurting over that). I think he eventually realizes that Cassie doesn’t want an act or simply orgasms. He has to actually become invested (explaining his more genuine/ttc sex scenes later) before she gives in (and the geis does a lot of that work for them). Plus, I mean, speaking as a completely objective third-party observer with absolutely no personal interest in the matter, I think it’s just a sexy scene. Sex sells, baby.

Also - According to Mircea, Marlowe thinks she might have as devious a mind as him and can’t wait to meet Cassie. Just a fun line from this chapter.

MVP: Tomas for being sexy as hell in his mesh top. And for being touched that Cassie still cares that his face was burned. And for being naive enough to think he could keep Cassie safe if he aligned with Rasp and Tony. [I’m surprised you guys didn’t say ‘Billy’ for finally stopping that Mircass sex sesh]

Unanswered Questions: Was Mircea upset with the idea of LC and Cassie because he planned him to be his daughter’s boyfriend?

Why did we stop calling the mages dark and white knights? I kinda liked that.

Unpopular Opinion: I don’t hate Mircea (at least not in this book). I think he’s hot. I think them discovering their sexual attraction in book one is compelling. It’s so bold and unexpected for them both. They’re in this room with all these other powerful beings who are probably thinking ‘wtf there’s more important stuff going on.’ Rafe is uncomfortable, Pritkin is disgusted, Tomas is jealous, LC is um, there. I know what Mircea is doing is problematic, but in this book he’s honestly the one who treats her best. LC is a goof who acts like she’s a complete wimp. Rafe is probably in a weaker position than she is and sees her as his little Mia Stella anyway. Tomas has been feeding on her without permission making him very possessive and has been in cahoots with the enemy. Pritkin is trying to kill her, calls her and her mother a ho, etc. Mircea is the only one who comes close to seeing her as an equal and is the only one who actually gives her information about her past and the Pythian position (granted it is difficult for her to get it out of him). It makes sense that she finds herself drawn to him, childhood crush or no.

I do think he was grooming her to be a servant like any vampire would to any potential asset in order to create a loyal servant, but not as a sex partner. He says something like, “you were mine since you were 11” and he carries her around like a swaddled baby for almost an entire chapter so I can definitely see the ick factor although I do tend to think he sees her as a trinket/service/a surprise tool that will help him later. I think the interest he was socked with was genuine, despite being geised and despite his ulterior motives. All that being said, I’m still super mad at him and disillusioned with his character (as much as I was rooting for Pritkin, what Mircea did to Cassie - I took that shit personally).

[pritkinspalemoons]

For a few years there i didnt have a copy of touch the dark so when i reread id start with claimed by shadows. I think thats why digging into the geis isnt nearly as irritating as the mircass ttd sex scene. No ones calling mircea Uncle and i genuinely like the writing of the out of control aching passion spiraling into obsession and addiction. I cant quote any of it off of the top of my head but while reading the words are comfortably familiar.

Fire gathered in that kiss, collected between our bodies and spilled over our skin, sending a shower of sparks through me.

I can talk shit all I want at mircea and mircass, I still love that quote.

[pritkinspalemoons]

Facing down 30 pages until ch 12 and the 30. Page. Mircass. Sex scene.

[pritkinspalemoons]

half the mircass sex scenes are cringe worthy anyway. remember that time mircea fucked ghost cass and almost nutted in front of marlowe?

thats canon people.

[pritkinspalemoons]

Speaking of mixes i have 3 to upload to 8tracks still and they need cover art lmao cassienova art and mircass break up art fantastic

[pritkinsprettydick]

Chanceverse Questions!

Rules: Answer these ten questions and then tag 5 people!

- If you could ask Karen Chance to write a novella/short based on one character or ship, what would it be?

I think it’s honestly going to have to be rheaco. i am DYING to see how that relationship develops, what that dynamic is, everything. i want it real bad, karen. i would pay for that good shit.

- What is your favorite time traveling scene?

yikes yikes yikes ummmm it might be the rtw medieval wales scene where cassie and pritkin are hanging out with those little dark fey guys...because i think the moment where she looks at him and her stomach does flips and they kiss is the moment where she knows she loves him. undeniably. 

- If you lived in the Chanceverse, what would you rather be: vampire, were, clairvoyant, or mage?

normally for questions like this i would choose vampire, but the vampire hierarchy and hive mind thing in this universe is actually super unappealing SO mage it is!! gimme that magic!! lemme fight people!!

- If you could change anything from any storyline, what would it be?

THE GEIS THE GEIS THE GEIS THE GEIS THE GE

- Which character would you most want to spend a day with, and what would you do?

i don’t want to spend a day with cassie because that girl is a disaster and a half and i don’t wanna die. uhhhh...this is hard. everyone is a disaster. okay, you know what? dory. we can get drunk and she can teach me how to fight.

- What are your: OTPs, BROTPs, NOTPs?

OTPs: casskin, basarbon, rheaco, marlory, rian x casanova, 

BROTPs: cassie x billy, cassie x francoise, cassie x rosier, dory x ray, pritkin x caleb, cassie x marco

NOTPs: mircass is probably the only NOTP i feel strongly about tbh

- Do you have any crackships? If so, what are they?

does marlory count as a crackship? also i kinda like rossie (assuming pritkin isn't’ there of course), and i kind of like the idea of marco x tami (total mama meets total papa amiright)

- What scene from either series made you laugh the hardest?

ok i’ve got to choose two, one from each. because i helped write this quiz and i’m allowed to cheat, damn it. from dory: the diddling on the desk conversation that dory and lc have in front of everyone. from cassie: it might actually be the morning wood body swap scene. SO GOOD

- What scene from either series made you cry the hardest?

probably pritkin’s death?? jfc i can’t even think about it these books like to rip my heart out. OH AND WHEN MIRCEA SACRIFICED HIMSELF TO LET DORY GO DURING THE MIND BATTLE AND DORY WAS SCREAMING AT HIM TO WAKE UP AND LIVE I WAS CRYIN FAM

- What are your unpopular opinions?

HMM idk? ok so sometimes it bothers me that the books can sacrifice cassie’s intelligence for the sake of exposition. like these are things cassie should know, but she’s asking dumb questions in order for us to get the exposition we need, and that bugs me. 

Tag 5 people: @windsurfingthroughhell @slightlybitchyclairvoyant @halfincubus @marcosburlybiceps @miss-rhea-silvanus

[halfincubus]

tagged by @soulfulspikethekiller tagging: @whoawhatwhoa @ghoshts @pauldrons

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

It’s either my Famous Five collection or my Agatha Christies. My grandad gave me both around the same time, so I’m not sure which I started reading first.

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?

The last book I read was The Knife of Never Letting Go (And I’m never going to let go of the shitty way that book killed the dog, not touching that pointlessly miserable series again) and I’m probably going to start reading Cormoran Strike next because my friends recommended it and I’m a glutton for murder mysteries.

3. Which book does everyone like and you hated?

I have a fair few books that still make me Angry, many of them from the Victorian novel period I was forced to study in uni. Madame Bovary stands out as a novel full of boring twats who don’t know what they want and all they do for like 300 fucking pages is have their heads in the clouds. Why is it a fucking classic, it’s so damn irritating. If we’re talking about more modern novels I particularly despise that Fever series by Karen Marie Moning. The ‘romantic’ lead in that is honestly such an arrogant unloving knobhead I don’t understand why he’s allowed to exist. To say nothing of the GROSSNESS of many different aspects of the way females are treated… yeah I would say if you value yourself as a woman just don’t read it.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?

I bought the first two instalments to Anne Rice’s vampire books since I loved the film Interview with the Vampire. I remember trying to read it at one point but I think I got bored 1/5 of the way through and never tried again. I think I’ve grown too out of my vampire phase to read it now.

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?”

War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables. Any one of those massive classics that everyone is supposed to read but is just too long and requires too much brainpower after a long week at work to bother with.

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?

Let it be known that I have never once looked at the end. I am pure and disciplined in this. I’m not even tempted.

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

They can be interesting, and lovely. Karen Chance’s recent one was for the fans and I loved it. Same for the last Harry Potter book, however many years ago it came out, I remember it because it included an acknowledgement to the fans. Definitely worth perusing when you’ve finished an amazing book and don’t know what to do with yourself for like a week (which is when I start absentmindedly flicking through the entire book).

8. Which book character would you switch places with?

It would have to be a character that can do magic and cool stuff like that, but without all the difficult lifeyness of a Harry Potter character. I think I’d be someone from The Worst Witch, like one of the minor characters that never gets in trouble.

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

Yeah, who doesn’t? All my Cassie books remind me of summer holidays because that’s when I like reading them the most. My Japanese murder book Out reminds me of the girl in my history class who lent it to me. My Agatha Christies remind me of my grandpa (who still loves the odd Poirot episode). I have lots more, too many to list.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

I entered a random giveaway and won an advanced reading copy of RTS. I don’t know how many people entered but I was one of the first to win, which is pretty cool.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?

No. I lent my sister When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit once and she left it on the plane. I’ve never let anyone have one of my books since.

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?

I think my Catch 22. Before I got my Cassies, that was my go-to book to read on holidays and any free time I had. I don’t even know how many times I’ve read it, it’s so good.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?

I thought Winter’s Tale was stupid for the longest time (and I still think Leontes is a massive idiot) but when I had to study it again in uni I found its familiarity oddly comforting. It wasn’t ten years, but hey, I’ve only just reached that milestone.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?

I can’t remember that sort of thing unfortunately, even if I did ever find anything. I’m sure I’ve never found anything odd, I mostly buy new books.

15. Used or brand new?

Brand new. I don’t have anything against used books but I guess it’s just easier for me to buy new?

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?

Never read one [shrug]

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

Lord of the Rings might actually be better than the books. You know what, it is. The books had some funny things that weren’t in the films, yes, but they also had useless stuff like Tom Bombadil that were thankfully cut out. The films made me FEEL SO MUCH. I FEEL SO ALIVE WHEN I MARATHON LOTR.

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

I’m gonna go ahead and copy Mai here because I TOO LOATHE ‘2005 Pride and Prejudice’ WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING IT WAS TERRIBLE THE CASTING WAS TERRIBLE IT WAS ALL WRONG WRONG WRONG WHY DOES EVERYONE LOVE IT IT WAS AWFUL COLIN FIRTH IS THE ONE AND ONLY SUPREME DARCY. Also Northern Lights (Golden Compass) was so perfectly casted (except for Lyra) and then they just fucked up the entire film’s adaptation idk I think maybe the book was just meant for TV more than film, like Harry Potter.

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?

God all of the Famous Five books ALWAYS had food and even though it described stuff that was gross in theory like ‘tongue’ I would get hungry and salivate because it was so deliciously and meticulously written.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?

Oh man any one of my supertrash gang are 100% trustworthy.

book meme 2

1) Do you have a certain place at home for reading?

My bed, most often.

2) Bookmark or random piece of paper?

I have homemade and bought bookmarks, I practically collect them.

3) Can you just stop reading or do you have to stop after a chapter/a certain amount of pages?

It’s very difficult for me to stop reading once I get a good rhythm going. It’d be like stopping your dinner in the middle of your meal and going out for a walk or to do chores and it’s just weird I can’t do it. If I’m really in love with the book I’ll go without food and sleep lol

4) Do you eat or drink while reading?

Depends how much I’m into the book. If I’m really enjoying it, I’ll forget to do basic human functions like that haha (see above). If I can manage to tear myself away for a few minutes I’ll grab some easy insta-food like bananas or snacks and eat while I read.

5) Music or TV while reading?

NOTHING. THERE MUST BE ABSOLUTE SILENCE. But once I get into the book you could fly a plane into my room and I wouldn’t notice.

6) Reading at home or everywhere?

Has to be somewhere I can be mostly by myself and I’ve got at least an hour of peace ahead. If in public, only on a long journey and I have nobody sitting next to me on a seat.

7) Reading out loud or silently in your head?

Silently. I don’t think I ever read out loud, even when I was a child.

8) Do you read ahead or even skip pages?

I might sometimes come upon a scene that makes me go UUUGGGGHHH but I will struggle through it rather than skip ahead. I might read it faster and with less attempt at full comprehension though (rest in pieces Mircass scenes)

9) Breaking the spine or keeping it like new?

Fuck keeping it new, you need to break in the spine so your hands don’t hurt when you’re reading it.

10) Do you write in your books?

Nope. They made us do it for high school but it always felt wrong to me on some level. I couldn’t just 100% focus on reading if I had a pen in my hand the whole time. I’m starting to do it with my kindle though, I like it there.

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Chanceverse Questions!                                                        

Rules: Answer these ten questions and then tag 5 people!

- If you could ask Karen Chance to write a novella/short based on one character or ship, what would it be?

jonas and rhea

- What is your favorite time traveling scene?

cass meeting her dad and mom and her little baby self (it was a thing for years w me wondering if wed ever see them, if shed ever talk to them, and then she did and i died and i cried and cherished every second)

- If you lived in the Chanceverse, what would you rather be: vampire, were, clairvoyant, or mage?

umumum ive only seen weres in the context of the short stories she published in groups and i believe they were attacking someone (maybe? its been a while tbqh) and clairvoyant would lead to shitty mean power hungry alcolyte groups soooo can i cheat and say necro? like. zombies. ghosts. so cool.

- If you could change anything from any storyline, what would it be?

“THE GEIS THE GEIS THE GEIS THE GEIS THE GE” keeping this just to respond that the geis brought ‘’‘’a kiss made of apologies’‘‘‘ so like....if it could have been changed but a sweet beautiful apology kiss kept thatd be sweet

another change is......not really a change? more of I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE WITCHES I WANT TO SEE THEM I WANT TO MEET THEM I WANT CASS TO DEVELOP THOSE POWERS I WANTITNOWPLEASE whyhasntithappenedyetpleasegimmie (but i can wait.....please..........)

- Which character would you most want to spend a day with, and what would you do?

marco touching his massive bear body looking at his scars forcing him to quit cigars *eyebrow wiggles*

- What are your: OTPs, BROTPs, NOTPs?

OTPs: casskin like golden, rossie is climbing up there surprisingly? i know i know i wrote the fic haha but it wasnt /quite/ otp, but Buns changing that

BROTPs: billycass, idk name a canon bro and its my brotp that ive also considered what if makeouts? for like a big old perv

NOTPs: mircass and tomascass tho i doubt anyones brought it up before?

- Do you have any crackships? If so, what are they?

marco and tami is actually really good idea. um, name two characters, make it gay, thats my ship. ive been feeling radella/francoise lately

see this post for more

- What scene from either series made you laugh the hardest?

casskin bodyswap or that time casanova fed cass plastic food

- What scene from either series made you cry the hardest?

cass staring into p’s //////////////beautiful////////////// green eyes before being dragged back to hell

- What are your unpopular opinions?

ummmm? uh u tell me?

@bsmr261 have u been tagged? other than that idk who has or has not done this yet and i gtg so genuinely if u havent done it and want to, i am tagging u. yes, u.

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Marlowe manages to save the chapter from mircass

Unfortunately it had to happen while doing weird sex stuff