#standalone series

[aesthetic-solar-space]

Throttled by Lauren Asher

355 pages, published January 9, 2020 - 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This is book one of the Dirty Air series, and though I was at times confused due to F1 racer lingo, I loved this book so much, and I am so excited to keep reading. The only reason I haven't yet is cause I wanted some fantasy - but soon we will be back on the racing life.

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part 2!!!! [read part one here]

transcript below the cut arranged into stanzas to help show where the rhymes are:

“that’s why they brought gem in? as a failsafe?” as a pawn. we were told to point her at whoever we need gone

“gem won’t hurt her allies. …yet.” the curse she carries will it’s had its eye on her since she lost the other eye she was specially selected for her hunting skill it’s quite the high honor. “wow. how generous.” we try

think about it: why does almost no one fight the curse? “given how fast scott killed skizz last season, i can guess.” [“any pain you spare your friends, you’ll have to suffer worse”?] it’s designed to shut down higher reasoning with stress

[technically-human]

Can you draw something with Doom Patrol!Edwin and Netflix!Edwin?

Maybe something about Dp!Edwin talking about his feelings for Charles with N!Edwin?

It's just something I've been thinking of, make it a little angsty?<3

Glad you asked

ko-fi

[prettysweetprettysweet]

it's RIDICULOUS how the loumand fight scene just stays the same god-tier level of satisfying no matter how many times you watch it, no matter how many times IN A ROW you watch it. it's like every second, every inflection and change in pitch, every microexpression, every movement from every body part, every vastly different emotion flying in your face out of nowhere, every line of bewildering poetry that is the dialogue, is feeding a very specific hungry animal inside me. a hungry animal that sustains itself singularly on the insane gay chaotic energy beams fired off by the world's most insane gay chaotic wizards

[kingkestrel]

Silence is Golden (You’ve got my hopes up)

(rating e, Lando/Oscar/Franco, smut, threesome, gags, spit-roasting, choking)

Lando found Franco and Oscar at a booth in the corner, laughing and drinking, completely engrossed in conversation.

If he was feeling less needy he may have left them to it but instead decided to insert himself into the conversation. In perhaps the most Lando way possible.

“Franco’s really great with his tongue, you know.”

Part 2 of the Talk Too Much series

READ HERE

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(original video)

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Something's coming... 👀

The Hunter's Elegy. Deadname ghosts and name necromancy in a dystopian future. A private detective novel full of cover-ups, cults, and penance. #acab

Starring discredited cold case documentary maker Reese Keyes and his justifiably egotistical new boss, private investigator Hunt Cheroneau, who's having him record their every arrogant word while the two of them solve a case that cuts far far deeper than either of them are prepared for.

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The extremely visceral cover art there is by the very talented @morggo. Go check out their work! It's sick as hell!

[lonelyslutavatar]

I am in love with the idea of post-canon jmart just catching up with the stuff they missed from having a shitty childhood/spending their twenties stuck in a shitty job.

[galedekarios]

i finished lucanis's ep in vows&vengeance

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Cinnamon roll x edgelord prompt!!!

[rowanisawriter]

psychopomp

lucanis/rook - pre-weisshaupt angst - 3k words

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“Do not deny me my vengeance.” A note of pleading touches Fahad’s words. He’s leaning over the table now, the candlelight flickering in his eyes, brown and green and so alive. Like a forest canopy, teeming with life. “How many times have you hurried others to their deaths, only to try and stop me now? It isn’t fair.”

“It isn’t.” Lucanis wants to look away. But he can’t. He can’t. “It isn’t fair. It is selfish. Selfish of me.”

The evening before the siege of Weisshaupt, an assassin possessed by a demon and a Warden possessed by a death wish strike a bargain.

[mossistyping]

Out the game, I think I could

Charles Leclerc / Max Verstappen | Words: 24,215

Summary:

“Uh. Have you been reading the weird Deltaverse fics out there? Are you that bored of winning everything this season that you’ve picked this as a hobby?” Charles asked, deadpan.

“Deltaverse?”

“Yeah, you know. Like the greek letter delta, a triangle – a world where first genders are balanced, they don’t have a second one,” Charles explained, like Max was missing a crucial part of pop culture.

Ah, fuck.

Or: Max is from our world. He is displaced to the omegaverse, where he finds a very sick looking Charles. He takes care of him.

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my current royalty!reader wips that should all come out soon :)

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Original title: Kôkaku Kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex | 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX.

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Hi so is it okay to read novels and start from lust arc, then gluttony arc ect. Instead of reading pride arc novels first? Because my friend wants to read the novels but the time line is confusing for her and I know know in which order I should tell her to read the novels because I don't want her to get even more confused than she already is.

It's "okay" in the sense that this is a fictional series meant to be enjoyed casually and no one should be shamed about their choices regarding how they consume it (even if I do think it leads to a lesser reading experience), but if your intention is specifically to make the series less confusing then I personally think you're going about it the wrong way.

Issues with the timeline aside, Evillious as a series has a lot of concepts and worldbuilding to learn. Who certain characters are, how magic works, how demons work, the nature of the world, its countries, etc. The Daughter of Evil series (the Pride novels) introduces these concepts gradually. The plot of Cloture of Yellow can be easily described as "Fantasy French Revolution with some magic elements on the side"; the demons are barely even mentioned in them. It's mostly a political and character drama. Wiegenlied of Green, being an alternate perspective of Cloture, is able to explore more of the worldbuilding and fantasy concepts while still having the familiar setting and characters (and mostly being a romance, besides). Praeludium and Praefacio are then able to take the same setting and characters in a new direction that introduces yet more mechanics and character development for the bigger players in Evillious overall (like Elluka and Irina, the demons, etc).

The Lust novel then assumes you are already familiar with these concepts and just drops you immediately into how HER works, demonic contracts, etc.

To put it another way--the Pride novels prime you for the rest of Evillious. You build upon the foundation of your knowledge as you go. Like, I'm not going to judge someone who skips them because they find them boring or just aren't interested but I personally don't find "this book is a prequel to X" to be so difficult a concept that it's worth going out of order.