#o'sullivan twins

[do-you-know-these-multiples]

*(I am aware it’s a book series, but there were way too many book cover versions to pick from that I simply chose the anime adaptation version. Btw this anime has a banger intro)

[twinsoftheday]

today's twins of the day are:

patricia and isabelle o'sullivan from mischievous twins: the tales of st. clare's

[stochastique-blog]

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[sanityshorror]

hi. its me again....how are you?

some questions:

how was maeve ? did she now that oran was gay?

orans other children...how they think about oran?

how was Qinn?

good day / night / whatever

<3 teddy

Hey there! Sorry I'm just getting to this now, my asks have been backed up to hell recently and I've also been dealing with a lot so I just haven't had to get to asks much! Anyway, here we go!

Maeve was very small, frail, quiet and a massive push over. She wasn't directly physically abusive to her children however she enabled Oran, whether it be from agreeing beatings were needed or simply pretending to be unaware of other abuse that went on. She was very emotionally abusive however, including her pretending Julius didn't exist for multiple years at one point.

It's really hard to say whether Maeve knew or not about Oran being gay because she would have pretended to have never heard or seen anything that would have given it away. Whether or not she knew is further irrelevant because Maeve and Oran had a loveless marriage, it was really only formality. Oran was expected to marry, Maeve was expected to marry. Oran came from a working class family on the city outskirts whereas Maeve lived in poverty out in the rural lands, so while by no means was she marrying into money, she was still moving up the the classes by marrying Oran - she found that appealing. Their marriage lacked any intimacy other than for reproductive purposes.

Oran and Maeve had six children. The first were fraternal twin boys - Aidan and Alexander. Then their daughter, Niamh, followed by another daughter, Annabella. After Annabella, there was an infant who died, then following said infant, Julius. After Julius they had another son, Rian.

Aidan and Alexander both had a very shitty relationship with Oran. He wasn't good to them and they both ran away when they were 18, and rarely would come home to visit.

Niahm was very quiet and distanced emotionally from everyone. She was easily the most stable out of the entire household and being a girl, she did not suffer the same treatment as her brothers, which left her with the ability to realize how terribly dysfunctional her family was as well as allowing her to be able to recognize abuse when she saw it. Being a child herself, she never stood up for any of her brothers and I can't blame her, as Oran would slapped her the one time she did and would have if she did again. She married at only 16 in a desperate attempt to get away from hert family.

Annabella was very close with Oran, she was the family golden child. Annabella was oblivious to the worse of the abuse her brothers suffered through - like her older sister, the worst she ever experienced from Oran was getting slapped across the face a few times. She did stand up for Julius rather often which is why she did get hit multiple times. However - and by no means is this to say getting smacked isn't abuse because it absolutely is abuse - this was very mild compared to what her brothers went through, Julius being the one to have the worst of the abuse. She was a "Daddy's girl" and went along mindlessly with everything Oran taught her and expected of her.

Julius, as we know, didn't have a good relationship with his father, not at all. He was horribly abused.

Rian was abused as well, though whereas Julius suffered through it since he was four years old, Rian was 13 when things first began to get seriously bad and everything went to hell when he was 14½. Rian used to love Oran as a child but after watching the way Julius was treated, the love started to fade for his father. It turned into numbness and eventually blind hatred as the years went by.

Aidan, Alexander and Niamh all remained in Ireland when Oran and Maeve made the choice to immigrate to the United States with their three younger children (though they were all adults/nearly by then).

Quinn O'Sullivan was Annabella's husband and Julius' "side piece" prior to Julius' death as a human. Annabella was unaware Quinn was bisexual and she was also unaware about his relationship with Julius. She found out briefly before she killed Julius, because Julius told her while laughing in her face. Julius started hooking up with Quinn as 'revenge' towards both Annabella (despite her not knowing) and Killian (he did know) after he found out Killian had slept with Annabella.

Quinn started hooking up with Julius after Julius told him about Annabella sleeping with Killian. Quinn always questioned if his third child was actually his, especially since said kid had blonde hair (Quinn had light brown hair) and was always a bit tall for his age (Quinn was tall but not that tall).

Killian and Quinn got into a big brawl a few times, due to jealousy on both sides. Quinn was mad that Killian slept with his wife (and possibly fathered a child with her), and Killian was mad that Quinn was sleeping with Julius. The fights always had to be broken up by Julius and Rian.

Quinn cared a lot about Julius and considered him to be one of his best friends, though he was aware that was a one sided friendship. Julius only saw Quinn as someone to keep him company when Killian wasn't there and to keep him amused.

I'll stop here since this has gotten long lol please feel free to ask if you want to know more!

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

F2 is racing in Austria this week so here is motorsport number twos US edition for the drivers. Enjoy 😊😊

Juan Manuel Correa (9th August 1999) & Ritomo Miyata (10th August 1999) - Destiny's Child - Bills Bills Bills

Kush Maini (22nd September 2000) - Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter

Richard Verschoor (16th December 2000) - Mya - Case Of The Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do)

Victor Martins (16th June 2001) & Enzo Fittipaldi (18th July 2001) - Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment

Rafael Villagomez (10th November 2001) - Jennifer Lopez ft Ja Rule - I'm Real

Amaury Cordeel (9th July 2002) - Eminem - Without Me

Dennis Hauger (17th March 2003) - Jennifer Lopez ft LL Cool J - All I Have

Franco Colapinto (27th May 2003) - 50 Cent ft Nate Dogg - 21 Questions

Zane Maloney (2nd October 2003) - Beyonce ft Sean Paul - Baby Boy

Joshua Durksen (27th October 2003) - Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft Ying Yang Twins - Get Low

Paul Aron (9th February 2004) - Outkast ft Sleepy Brown - The Way You Move

Roman Stanek (25th February 2004) - Usher ft Lil Jon & Ludacris - Yeah!

Taylor Barnard (1st June 2004) - Mario Winans ft Enya & P.Diddy - I Don't Wanna Know

Isack Hadjar (28th September 2004) - Terror Squad - Lean Back

Gabriel Bortoleto (14th October 2004) - Usher ft Alicia Keys - My Boo

Zak O'Sullivan (6th February 2005) - Ciara ft Missy Elliott - 1, 2 Step

Jak Crawford - (2nd May 2005) & Ollie Bearman (8th May 2005) - The Game ft 50 Cent - Hate It Or Love It

Pepe Marti (13th June 2005) - Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl

Kimi Antonelli (25th August 2006) - Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

All added to this playlist 😊

[tolerateit]

five comfort characters & five tags! tysmm for tagging me @loumands <3

Pat from Enid Blyton's The O'Sullivan Twins

Malcolm Bright from Prodigal Son (he is a comfort character im not accepting any other opinions)

Aza Holmes from Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

Leslie Knope from Parks and Rec!

this guy

@bettyrightnow @littleoblivions @singlethread @barbielifeinthematrix @withyouagain <333

[cheshirequeenwithoutaheart]

Info

aka no i am not calling it an introduction bc i've been vaguely on tumblr for several years, at this point.

heya! the name's louise, or chesh. variants on cheshire are also accepted. my pronouns are she/her/they/them.

i write fantasy, mostly. or, well, everything i write is fantasy related in some way. urban fantasy, fantasy horror, fantasy sci-fi- you get the point. i also write romance and comedy which is, you guessed it, also fantasy related in some way. i have a type, what can i say?

most of my projects are relatively small, mainly because i don't spend a lot of time on them. that list includes the o'sullivan family (formerly daily life of a witch PI) and wolfsnare avenue.

my biggest project, and personal burden, is much larger in comparison, called farious pages (or tsenpha).

other places you can find me/sideblogs

lampea by lamplight - a tsenpha sideblog where i post character profiles, writing, moodboards and other assorted stuff (probably). a lot of it gets reblogged to the main blog and a lot of it is reblogged from my main so.

on the twin wave shore - a td(ocs) sideblog which is mostly storage for stuff on my main, but maybe i'll get inspired by td(ocs) and do more with it. who knows.

midnight at the witch house - an o'sullivan family sideblog, where i reblog stuff from the main, post new stuff and other assorted hyjinx.

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JUDE & JOSH & MILES — DAY THIRTY-SEVEN.

location :   bedroom.

time :  jude and miles watch victoria try to pull their girls. josh is there, too for moral support.

featuring :   miles /  @heatwayve​  ;   josh  /  @graftisms​

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

"oh, look at that. jenny's making a salad," josh snickers, arm perched against the edge of the terrace, practically leaning over to get a better view of the kitchen below. watching from above, he feels a bit like a sports caster, throwing in his two cents as the girls buzz around the kitchen. "you think she knows how to make anything else, or she's trying to scare the girl away? i guess it's better than giving her food poisoning." he highly doubts jenny has much of a talent in the kitchen.  

miles o'sullivan

"is it possible to burn a salad?" he leans over the terrace, "something reeks."

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

“she’s hot,” jude notes, foot thrumming against the balcony, brows knitted as he watches the scene below them. “she actually looks a bit like eden.” hadn’t she also tried to snag jenny? or was that evie? there’s something unsettling about all these new girls coming in and going straight for his girl. “what if jenny decides she’s a rug muncher now? can you still say rug muncher?”

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

"you definitely can't say rug muncher, man." and that's coming from josh! "they're both just blonde, i don't know. maybe when they're next to each other they'll look more alike. we don't have another set of twins, do we?" hot.

miles o'sullivan

"to be fair, jenny was looking in the mirror in the bathroom this morning for bare minimum ten minutes. just wanted to wash my hands, i thought she was possessed," miles points outs. "she'd totally fuck her own doppelganger."

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

“i’d shag jenny’s doppelganger, to be fair,” jude comments, mostly to himself, still watching the scene beady-eyed and restless. “i don’t know why i’m so para, man.” sighing, he drags his eyes away from the dates happening below to land them on the two guys. “like, we’ve already sorted our shit out.” he tries not to look at josh at the mention of their shit, since josh was one half of it, adela being the other half. “she’s not gonna jump ship to some new hot chick if she didn’t go for charlene. there’s no way.”

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

"don't tell jenny that. unless you make it a threesome, she'd probably take offense to it." there's no way that he's letting jude ruin the fun vibes of watching the dates going on with his jenny drama. except— "when was jenny gonna go for charlene?" that gets his attention, head whipping towards jude with eyebrows raised. "was that a thing?"

miles o'sullivan

that gets his attention, too, since he'd picked up bits and pieces from yesterday. "she said something last night, about knowing whether charlene was good in bed?" miles offers. he's half paying attention at all times. jude will have to elaborate.

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

“mate! you don’t know about this? in casa jenny and charlene fucked. i mean, it was a threesome. dante, the italian dude who’s now with romi, he was also there…” he doubts either of them know dante that well, since they weren’t in the same villa during casa, and dante seems to keep to himself, but honestly to jude he’s pretty much a background character in this scenario anyway. “that guy’s fucking lucky. they’d be in my squad for fantasy threesome for sure.” he wonders if miles is into fantasy football, since he actually plays for a living. “wait, is there like, a fantasy football character of you? if i got the game up, could i put you in my squad, or are your team not big enough for that?”

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

his mind is blown. makes a moment for him to remember how to talk again, picking his jaw off the ground. "jesus." guess jenny really hadn't been missing him in casa. is there anybody else she had fucked? part of him is curious to know how romi plays into it, since it's her italian, but also this makes him like dante even less. and charlene. "who'd your dream threesome, jenny and charlene? no way, i don't buy it. what about adela?"

miles o'sullivan

he likes that jude is talking about genuine fantasy football and josh is pivoting back to fantasies period. "nah, you gotta wait 'til they recognize me for the star i am," he jokes, leaning back. got one eye on the kitchen, mysterious smells aside, he's hoping for leftovers. he'll probably be able to sus out whether frankie's in love with the new girl based on whether she sneaks him anything...heart pitches slightly at the thought, trying to tune back into the conversation. "what? why don't you believe that? charlene's fit," miles interjects.

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

jude shrugs, not looking to land himself in any more adela-related beef, though he can't help but bite when you dangle a carrot right in front of his face. "what about adela? that's old news, fam. been there, done that." and clearly didn't get a name with her number. "charlene is fit, yeah," jude agrees, although he's more keen to talk about the football thing. "you ever met marcus rashford?" he asks, attempting to play it cool, and not get excited by the prospect of being two degrees of kevin bacon away from one of his heroes. "the things that lad has done for kids from estates on free school meals... guys a ledge." and he's from manchester, which makes him even more of a hero in jude's eyes. 

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

"what, you're telling me adela wasn't good in bed?" he's sure she's going to love to hear that, once josh tells her what he said. "fine, she's hot, but she's annoying. there's, like, at least five other girls i'd rather..." josh realizes midway through that sentence that he probably shouldn't be saying it. instead he just rolls his eyes at all the football talk, because i'm too lazy to do research and make josh like it as well.

miles o'sullivan

"i play in the irish league, my guy," he laughs, but can't help but agree, "breathed the same air as him before, swear, i played better that day." but that's as close as he gets, he's not british, not played with manchester united.  "didn't you call her something else?" remembers adela having to tell everyone her name wasn't kim. miles grins, "couldn't have been that good." though he thinks adela's fit, too, would definitely not mind seeing what's up. for science. "wow, at least five," miles snorts. "gonna elaborate?"

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

"i ain't tellin' you shit about adela, fam..." jude responds, far more diplomatically than he's been for most of this show. it's finally starting to click with him that whatever he says gets back to jenny, one way or another, so the only shit he wants to say is shit he'd hold his hands up to in a court of law. not that he'd ever go to court. they'd have to cuff him first. "ohh..." jude notes, to miles. "i mean, there's always the world cup. mind you, ireland never really get into that." he winces, makes a note to mince his words. "euros? i'm crossing my fingers for you, bro." he's crossing his fingers for him more like. if he makes friends with miles, and miles makes friends with manchester united's star player, then maybe in like two years time he'll get to be at the same new years eve party as marcus rashford and bulldoze his way through an embarrassing conversation with him in the kitchen.  "yeah. i called her the wrong name. we've all done it. sometimes i do it on purpose so they think i've got mad game. like that jake gyllenhaal scene. hey lisa."  he thought that was fucking genius, even though the movie probably intended it to have the opposite effect. "are you including naomi in the five, or nah?" jude asks, suddenly invested in this game. i'm gonna hazard a guess and say romi would be one of them." jude starts, pulling up a finger. "and adela, since you asked. eden..." he hesitates, trying to think of who else josh might want to park the mazda in, so to speak. maybe it's a fiat, actually. but tall guys are usually packing. "frankie?" jude doesn't actually believe that, saying it more to gauge miles' reaction since the guy seems a little too invested if you ask jude, but funny if true. "i'm trying to remember who you did at the heart raiser challenge... the five people are deffo in here, though, right?" otherwise it's hardly fair.

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

"oh, yeah. you totally forgot her name to be cool," he rolls his eyes, convinced jude is trying to save his own skin. as if girls actually like being called the wrong name; the few times he's done that, he's usually ended up with a drink thrown in his face. "wait, are you guessing for me?" it takes him a second to realize what he's doing, scoffing once. convenient that jude doesn't mention jenny, which would definitely be on the list, but it seems like a bad idea to say that. this whole conversation seems like a bad idea, so he just shakes his head. "quit while you're ahead, i was just saying it because i'd never hook up with charlene," he says. omitting the fact that it's because charlene would never hook up with him. "what the fuck is frankie making down there? she looks like she's on some cooking competition." as opposed to jenny, who's just making a salad.

miles o'sullivan

mention of frankie and he's no longer that bothered by josh's top five, which is also silly, because there can't be that many more than five birds in here. just say they're all fit and go. "is that a blowtorch?" miles starts laughing, watching the way it ignites, "what producer gave frankie an open flame?"

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

if josh wants to shut this conversation down, jude isn’t going to fight him on it. especially not if it pans out that jenny’s in his top five or whatever. still, he isn’t a fan of the way josh totally dismisses charlene. “nah, bro. i’m with miles on this one.” miles hadn’t explicitly said he’d fuck her, but he’d said she was fit, which is basically the same. “girl tried to drown me and i’d still tap that. she’s got bags of personality. jenny said it was a good time.” though it’s not like she’ll be queueing up to get frisky with them now she’s got two bombshells on her case. damn. should’ve struck when she was in her drought. jude leans over the balcony to see what the other two are looking at. “fuckin’ hell.” it’s a bit attention seeking, isn’t it? “i mean, just give her some yoghurt and move on, hun.” not that jude would do that, he loves to cook, but he has a feeling frankie’s just doing it to beat the other girls. “reckon there's some competition we don’t know about?”

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

"why the fuck did she try to drown you?" he asks, ignoring any talk about frankie from miles—because man, that guy is whipped. "yeah, she's got personality alright. that personality wants me dead for sure." then again, a woman wanting josh dead on this show may as well be a rite of passage, just ask adela. only when jude brings it back to frankie does he glance over, already rolling his eyes. "i can't believe they even have a blow torch on set. seems a little unsafe." good thing dejan never knew, otherwise he might have tried to literally burn the place to the ground.

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

:blurryeyes:

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

:happydavide:

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

🤔

𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘆.

"i dunno, man. i made some backwards comment or something. i don't even remember." honestly, he'd rather not get into the intricacies of why charlene dunked his head beneath the water. baller move, but kinda fucked. his attention's snagged then by movement in the garden beneath them—namely victoria leaning forward to claim the space between her and jenny, meeting her mouth, and jenny not pulling away. on the one hand, it's hot. sure, jude feels something in him tighten, a twitchy kind of energy as he watches the scene, but at the same time, it's not fucking hot. makes him feel a bit like an idiot, actually. like, sure, it's a girl, jenny's mostly straight, probably just sees it as a bit of fun or whatever, and if it's making him horny she's after then a congratulations are in order, but adjacent to that is anger that creases in the line of his brow, and beneath it a swilling vulnerability. "do i have a handle coming out the side of my head?" he asks, turning to the other two lads for confirmation. "no? then why the fuck's she making me look like a mug?"

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝙫𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙨.

it's the way jude completely freezes up beside josh that he notices something's off, eyes casting down to see the two blondes locking lips. from where josh sits, it almost looks like jenny's kissing a clone of herself, and it's hot enough to make him give a whistle just loud enough for everyone on the terrace to hear. it feels like classic jenny to kiss the new female bombshell for attention—but if it's attention she wants, it's attention josh is giving her, unable to take his eyes off the interaction. it's only when jude speaks up does he drag his eyes away, a noise coming out of him that's a mix between a scoff and a laugh. "you're not seriously intimidated by this, are you?"

[vvarcrime]

HtaH Dashboard Simulator

🦆bitethehandthatpromises Follow

I will be honest keeping jean-luc in a room for 20 years was probably not the nicest thing to do to him but he DID directly cause thousands of deaths. It was that or killing him outright. At least this way he finally gets to live his shit dream of being mark van santen's loser boytoy in his 50s. Honestly i think the fact that he was still into him is what really needs discussing here. Is the grand archon okay.

🌅 patricides Follow

No way Manon Delaforêt is doing prison state apologia on my fucking dash rn

🦆 bitethehandthatpromises Follow

Oh hi there giselle "patricides" o'sullivan id love to hear more about what you think an appropriate, constructive reaction to violent murder is

🌅 patricides Follow

Hey

🦆bitethehandthatpromises Follow

Please tell me more about how you think i should have dealt with my dad

🌟vvarcrime Follow

I love learning about the Fall of the Rationalists' League, honestly. There is a nonzero chance that manon's dad having workplace relations would have prevented mass murder.

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btw just so everyone knows whilst trading pows was absolutely in the talks. manon pulling jean-luc delaforêt our of her literal basement and selling him back to the ga for a full release of all coalition pows and then some was not discussed because she failed to mention that he was even alive. that level of resource cultivation would be so impressive if it wasn't basically land mutiny.

🌟vvarcrime Follow

Cranky cos u didnt get to grill him before he got traded off? 🥺

🫒unidentifiedbaby Follow

JUST A TAD.

🌟vvarcrime Follow

🗿fiendberg Follow

My dick is NOT that good

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Jack Valerian has been coping and seething abt the Jean-Luc thing all day which would be hilarious if I wasnt also so miffed. About the Jean-Luc thing.

🌅 patricides Follow

Hey boss its ok im sure youre great at unlawful detention too

😈 vixiegracebignaturals Follow

o so NOW people care about illegaly ditaining ppl in basements? white man privilige smh when i was illegaly ditained in a basement nobody cared exept ophelia and she put me there 💀

🌟vvarcrime Follow

KAEDE???

😈vixiegracebignaturals Follow

no. someone else. sorry vivienne lorelei grace, who i do not know

⁉️cassandyass Follow

I cant believe jean is still alive i hope mark rides his shiny new boytoy so hard he has a heart attack and dies

🥶likefromwaterhouse Follow

mark or jean-luc?

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Yeah

🌅 patricides Follow

JEAN-LUC DELAFORÊT IS MANON DELAFORÊT'S WHAT

🫒unidentifiedbaby Follow

With all due respect, they have the same surname??

🌅 patricides Follow

Thank you for your input, Jack! Do you also think i am related to the fucking twins at st. Claire's

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You know usually i get very annoyed thinking about the amount of work i did for the GA & the fact that they keep using it to make god-men out of war criminals but i do genuinely hope they devote the time and resources necessary to clone Jean-Luc new eyes, only to completely forget that 20 years of total blindness will have resulted in his brain completely overwriting the parts that he used to see with Other Stuff. & completely waste their time.

🌟vvarcrime Follow

That can HAPPEN?

🥶likefromwaterhouse Follow

Yeah 👍

🛫sanguineish Follow

Hholy shit jeanluc alive

🌟vvarcrime Follow

Hey man hows it going

🛫 sanguineish Follow

We should. Killhim

🦆bitethehandthatpromises Follow

Sorry

🛫sanguineish Follow

My apologies! Did not mean to Qjestion yoir decision

🌅 patricides Follow

Anyone in this thread smoke weed

[twinsoftheday]

today's twins of the day are:

patricia "pat" and isabel o'sullivan from the st clare's series

[blackholesandpuppydogs]

did you guys know theres a real life evil twin of mr bean?

his name is ronnie o'sullivan and he's a real grumpy guy that plays snooker

[gmlocg]

2,820.) Overwhelm

Release: June 11th, 2018 | GGF: Action, Platformer, Twin Stick Shooter, Horror, Souls-like, Metroidvania | Developer(s): Ruari O'Sullivan, Randomnine Ltd. | Publisher(s): Alliance Media Holdings | Platform(s): Macintosh (2018), Windows (2018), Nintendo Switch (2019), Windows Apps (2022)

[fairrryprose]

[BOOK TOUR] WILD AZURE WAVES (ROCKIN' FAIRY TALES #3) // LESLIE O'SULLIVAN

I'm incredibly thrilled today to present WILD AZURE WAVES, the third book in the captivating swoonworthy magical romantasy ROCKIN' FAIRY TALES series of Shakespeare/Fairytale mashups by LESLIE O'SULLIVAN, hosted by ESCAPIST BOOK TOURS. I've previously talked about the first book, Pink Guitars and Falling Stars, and Wild Azure Waves is every bit as deliciously romantic, every word like a shot of magic into your veins. Such seamless blending of magic and whimsy and romance makes this series quite beloved in my heart, and I so look forward to every book. This third book, additionally, is laced through with an undercurrent of melancholy that makes it at once heart-wrenching as it is heart-mending. To check out other stops on the tour: https://escapistbookcompany.com/2023/01/30/the-heros-journey-wild-azure-waves-by-leslie-osullivan/

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Book Blurb:

In book three of the Rockin’ Fairy Tales series of Fairy Tale/Shakespeare mashups, The Little Mermaid meets The Tempest in a fantasy romance where fated mates, second chances, and a supernatural love triangle determine the destiny of all.

Rai Cloud, a once promising singer, faces the loss of his record company and his career until one fateful night a mystery woman saves him from a stormy sea and sings him back to life. The voice of his elusive rescuer must be the missing piece to reignite his musical gifts. If only he could find her!  

Before Tani Emerson’s spirit can cross over to the afterlife, the Sea Witch, Sulaa Kylock, intercedes to offer Tani a bargain to earn a way back to the living and reunite with her first true love, Rai Cloud.     

Tani must now succeed in challenges set forth by the Sea Witch. In spirit form, she’s charged with convincing Rai she’s not merely an illusion and they will be granted a second chance at love. 

Harder still is the need to sabotage the steamy romance brewing between Rai and Azure Tempesta, a sweet and sexy singer from the popular musical act, The Mermaids, who inspires Rai to make the music he thought only his mystery savior could awaken.      

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Mermaids Are Real • Splash and Sing • Tattoos Never Lie

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Book Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Azure-Waves-Rockin-Fairy-Tales-ebook/dp/B0BS74YYFH/

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My review:

4/5 stars

At the heart of this book is a tale of heart's fate and destiny's message, of redemptive love and soul-twines and music and passion, greed and parental control and what it means to be alive and to belong. All our characters here are dealing with grief in one way or another -- Rai Cloud, our island rock musician, sweet and sensitive, grappling in the aftermath of losing his whole family and first love to a tragic fire, pining after lost and imagined and newfound loves, while facing a decision as to what to do with Cloudpath Music, the record label lovingly started by his parents, to honor their legacies and wishes; Tani, half-alive and longing to return to form to be with her first love Rai, so much so that she strikes a deal with a manipulative sea witch; Azure Tempesta, mermaid and daughter of said sea witch and part of the sister musical ensemble The Mermaids, the name so apt in more ways than one, bound by her mother's expectations to a life confined underwater when she wants to roam both land and sea -- and manipulations and magical battles ensue.

Melancholy and magic are intricate twins in this tales, woven delicately and with gorgeous evocative prose as always, set in a beguiling island landscape of moon deities and sea songs and fate. Sweet, sexy, and stirring all at once. Oh, and as you can see in the artwork above, we have a cute feisty little fox Kitae, Rai's companion, who is so fun and adorable!

As a reimagining of The Little Mermaid, I read it as Azure, being the titular mermaid of course, and Tani both representing different aspects of the fairytale. Azure, the mermaid who falls for and rescues the washed-up Rai (singer, dreamer, wanderer, lover) on the shore; giving up her singing voice; longing to belong to both land and sea. Tani, half-alive and unseen, desperately longing for human form, to pursue her prince. Both of them are The Little Mermaid, and you can't help but feel for both of them and the love that drives them, the quest for humanity.

The only things I would've appreciated being added to the tale is more exploration of Tani and Rai's relationship before her death, to cement the desperation that drives Tani to the deal with Sulaa the sea witch to get back to Rai, and more of Azure and her sisters, whom I feel have untapped potential for more exploration of their characters and struggles and their bond.

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Book Information:

Wild Azure Waves by Leslie O’SullivanSeries: Rockin’ Fairy Tales #3 Genre: Romantasy Intended Age Group: Adult Pages: 275Published: February 9, 2023 Publisher: City Owl Press, Mystic Owl imprint

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Content/Trigger Warnings:

Shown on Page (things clearly told to the reader): 

Supernatural captivity

Fairy tale violence

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Author Bio & Information:

Leslie O’Sullivan is the author of Rockin' Fairy Tales, an adult romance series of Shakespeare/fairy tale mash ups set against the backdrop of a fictional Hollywood music scene. Coming in September 2022 is her Behind the Scenes contemporary romance series that peeks into the off-camera secrets of a wildly popular television drama. She’s a UCLA Bruin with a BA and MFA from their Department of Theater where she also taught for years on the design faculty. Her tenure in the world of television was as the assistant art director on “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show.” Leslie loves to indulge her fangirl side at cons.

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I got inspired by a drawing by @_sweetkiwano_ on Instagram did with @_adultbeverage_'s (another user on Instagram) OC Mellissa (Don Vizioso's daughter),I decided to come up with an OC of my own.

This is Vizioso's goddaughter, Vivianna (Viv or Vi for short). She is an Irish/Italian/American little girl (Irish on her mother's side) who came to New York to live with Don Vizioso after she became the only survivor of a car crash that killed her mother and father. 

She is often babysat by The Hammer and the Fulci Twins because Vizioso wants nothing to do with childcare. She often sneaks out of the restaurant without the henchmen's knowledge and has little adventures of her own with her toy fox, Vixey, by her side.  --- Name: Vivianna Ophelia Vizioso 

Nickname(s): Viv, Vi

Age: 3

DOB: December 19th

Ethnicity: Italian/Irish/American 

Skin Color: Light Medium Golden

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Sky Blue

Marking(s): Freckles on her Cheeks

Clothes: She has her hair tied in a braid with a mint green hair tie, wears a white and lavender dress with dark purple lining and a dark purple bow on the middle, beige socks, and blue suede shoes with gold lining on the top. Behind her head is a big red bow. 

Family: Giovanni Vizioso (Father), Erin O'Sullivan-Vizioso (Mother), Don Vizioso (Godfather) 

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The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)

Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, Harold Huber, Cesar Romero, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis, Cyril Thornton. Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Robert Kern. Music: William Axt.

I have seen W.S. Van Dyke’s The Thin Man several times, and I’ve read Dashiell Hammett’s novel, but I still can’t remember whodunit. Which is, I think, because it doesn’t really matter: The mystery is secondary to the banter of Nick and Nora and the eccentricity of the characters they encounter as her world of privilege marries with his world of cops and lowlifes. Most of the best mysteries, by which I mean those of Hammett and Raymond Chandler, are about atmosphere rather than crime: Those who want to try to solve the mystery along with the detective should read other writers who are more involved with planting clues and red herrings. The Thin Man may have benefited from MGM’s lack of interest in the project, which could have been swamped with the kind of second-guessing from the front office that often stifled the studio’s films. Instead, it was treated as a routine programmer whose stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, were second-tier and whose director, known as “One-Take Woody” Van Dyke, was known for getting things done quick and dirty – filming took only 16 days. But Powell and Loy became first-tier stars, and the movie earned four Oscar nominations (picture, actor, director, and screenplay) and was followed by five sequels. Powell has often struck me as a surprising star, with his big nose and his dubious chin, and I used to have trouble distinguishing him from Melvyn Douglas. Even now, if you asked me to say without hesitating whether it was Powell or Douglas in My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936), or Douglas or Powell in Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), I might stumble a bit. But he had undeniable chemistry with Loy, so much so that they got re-teamed in movies outside the Thin Man series like The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard, 1936),��Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936), and others. The Thin Man also has a little more zip and zest than some of the films made after the Production Code clamped down, though Nick and Nora, like other married couples, were forced into twin beds. They still drink to an unholy excess, of course.

Al Hirschfeld's stunning THE THIN MAN cast

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