#that does leave Sophie as Dracula. and I just think she would Kill it no pun intended

[the-crooked-library]

Eliot Spencer in 1890s clothing is Exactly what I picture Quincey Morris looking like and I will take no criticism of that. if they ever did a Dracula ep (à la DB Cooper case) Nate would have been Van Helsing

[anthonybrxdgerton]

Shadow of Night reread

A few days ago I re-read Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness. It took me very little time to do it (which was surprising, considering the fact that i re-read the first book for almost 2 months). I will be doing my reactions about episodes as well (as soon as I re-watch them) and comparing the show to the first book.

My reactions, notes and everything under the cut. There are some trivia I forgot about, things i hope to see in season 2 of A Discovery of Witches, some stuff referencing the next & previous books and what not.

BEWARE OF SPOILERS FOR THE BOOKS. IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE BOOKS, DON’T READ THIS POST. Enjoy!

[ a discovery of witches | shadow of night | the book of life | time’s convert ]

the book takes place in 1590 & 1591 (matthew & diana scenes) and 2009 & 2010 (present day scenes) in the span of 7 months

diana's hair change colors when she timewalked into 1590 - they're long, red and curly, and they change - not exactly back - when they return to the present - they're straight, silky strands that were brighter redish gold - just like my mother's hair. it does't say anything about the length though (probably in the next book);

2 of my favorite quotes describing Matthew in this book: The man was as tall as a giraffe. | Bloodred stockings would do more than capture a wandering eye, given that the man who proposed to wear them was a six-foot-three vampire, and most of his height was leg..

“Surely you’ll let me kill him now, de Clermont. I’ve wanted to do so for ages,” Hancock said, cracking his knuckles”. “No. You can’t kill him.” Matthew rubbed a hand over his tired face. “There would be too many questions, and I don’t have the patience to come up with convincing answers at present. - Hancock never liked Kit, I also love Matthew's reasoning lol 

- AT THE SIGHT OF PHILIPPE'S LETTER MATTHEW CRIED VAMPIRE TEARS ESPECIALLY THAT THE LAST TIME MATTHEW SAW PHILIPPE HE COULD BARELY HOLD A PEN IN HIS HANDS AND PHILIPPE LOVED WRITING I AM NOT OKAY 

“Then who . . . ?” I trailed off. “Ysabeau? Baldwin? Surely not Marcus!” I couldn’t believe that Matthew’s mother, his brother, or his son could be involved [in the Congregation] without someone letting it slip. - oh, diana... Question: did Deb knew it was Baldwin when she was writing it? In A Discovery of Witches Matthew acted like he didn't know who was on the Congregation "And Marcus? Find out who besides Peter Knox and Domenico Michele are members of the Congregation."

- Until I have made peace with the past, I will not set foot in France. - we know Gallowglass showed up in Sept-Tours in 1945 when Philippe was dying. Did he go there before too? 

“Explain yourself.” The words were quiet, but they didn't conceal Philippe's fury. - he is nor just mad because Matthew has a wife now. He is furious because he can sense that BOTH Diana and Matthew are from the future - this is what Philippe wants Matthew to explain.

Also, interestingly, reading A Discovery of Witches I've noticed that Baldwin called Philippe "dad" while Matthew calls him "father". Coincidence? But then in the Book of Life Baldwin calls Philippe “father” so... Idk anymore. That being said, verin calls him “Atta”;

“The twelfth century was not good for you, and we allowed you to read entirely too much poetry." - I need to know more now! What exactly did Matthew read in 12th century?

"It is regrettable that you are not going to Florence, then. But it will be a long time before you will be welcomed back to that city, after your latest escapades there." - Matthew, what the heck did you do there? Please tell me you were NOT behind the siege of Florence, i beg you... But then again, Ysabeau did say that Matthew caused wars in Italy when he was bored...

Tamen mea lingua graeca est peior.” “Then we shall not converse in that language either,” murmured Philippe in a pained tone. - HE JUST WANTS TO SPEAK IN GREEK, THAT'S HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE, WHY DOES NOBODY BUT YSABEAU SPEAK IT. BUT that explains why he made sure greeg was still taught in schools later - he wasn’t only looking for Diana, he wanted people to speak his native language too

“Philippe doesn’t seem to think so.” “Then bed him. - lol, if only

"He is my son. I will not fail him.” Philippe’s mouth tightened." PHILIPPE I LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS

“For someone wedded to a witch you are quick to judge the passions of others, Matthaios. Louis is your brother.” Goddess bless us, another brother. - Diana is not happy having huge family lol

I had been wrong. Philippe had not been trying to break Matthew, but only his guilt. Philippe had not failed his son after all. - MY FEELS

“I forgive you,” his father repeated, throwing his arms around his son in a fierce embrace. “I forgive you.” - IT KILLS ME EVERY TIME, THEY BETTER KEEP THIS IN THE SHOW

i love how Philippe just makes Diana his blood daughter without a second thought lol

“Think—and stay alive.” Philippe clapped his hands. - one of my favorite quotes 

Alcides Leontothymos beseeches you to hold this child Diana in your hand. - i am right to  think Philippe is in fact Heracles, right?

Philippe trying his hand at engineering and failing every time will always make me laugh. You may be thousands years old vampire, but some things you will never learn 

Philippe, Diana and Matthew's goodbye always kills me SEASON 2 BETTER DO IT JUSTICE

“Anomalies,” Ysabeau murmured. “Philippe was always looking for anomalies in the world. It is why I still read all the newspapers. It became our habit to look through them each morning.” - Phiippe knew he would not be alive by the time Matthew and Diana were together, but he was always hoping he could see her again. he hoped that Diana would be at least born while he was still alive and he always knew that when Diana and Matthew came back to their times, there would be anomalies throughout history. That's why he told Gallowglass and Verin to search for them too, to keep Diana safe.;

“That’s what Philippe says about Granny,” Gallowglass muttered under his breath. “Just before all hell breaks loose.” Give me more Ysabeau and Philippe you cowards; 

“Matthew knows the book, for his brother gave it to me.- So Mary Sydney knows Godfrey too. Does she know the rest of his siblings?;

[Marcus] made a muffled oath. “Tell your intuition to take a break, for God’s sake.” I need to see Marcus and Ysabeau interacting in season 2, their banter will be amazing

Every time I read Marcus seeing miniatures for the first time and missing Matthew so much kills me too - the show did them dirty, i need more of them together too; 

I forgot how much I ship Marcus & Phoebe;

I wish we could see the requests for magic Diana has received in season 2 and her not being able to do anything about that, i need this conflict SO MUCH. Does she help? What is she doesn’t and her neighbors will out her as a witch? This could be SO GOOD please show, deliver;

Diana’s symbol is rowan tree;

“Baldwin’s never lost a million of anything in his life.” - just throwing this out there because I love Baldwin with all my heart; 

917 is the Knight's of Lazarus telephone number. it belonged to Philippe, then to Matthew and now to Marcus. Philippe chose it to honor Ysabeu's birthday (September 17th). What i wanna know - is it her birthday or re-birth. ALTHOUGH it should be 179 - In Europe (and Philippe was Greek after all) we, unlike Americans, write the day first and the month later;

When Gallowglass learned that Baldwin had been called to Sept-Tours at Ysabeau’s behest for some unspecified emergency involving Matthew, the Gael knew it was only a matter of time before the historical anomalies appeared. i think it was when Diana was kidnapped by Satu, right? Just want to be sure;

Gallowglass is smoking, i completely forgot about it;

Rudolph is flirting with Diana so much (ughhhh) because his source in Congregation told him that Matthew only married her to save her life a.k.a. charges of witchcraft;

Matthew helping Jack with his nightmares is the sweetest thing he's done so far;

One of Philippe's names is Ariel, what are the others?;

 Abraham (Jewish weaver in Prague) comes from Chełm. Is this why Benjamin moved there?;

I need to KNOW the story about Baldwin and Dracula, Deb. Come on.;

“He did. I swear it. Baldwin ordered him to leave or face the same fate as the Impaler. You should have seen Baldwin’s face. The devil himself wouldn’t have disobeyed your brother.” i want to see it too lol;

apparently, Gerbert told Ysabeau about the prophecy about a witch with the blood of the lion and the wolf. I wonder if this was one more reason she was anti-Diana at the beginning or did she dismiss it as something not important;

And speaking of colleagues: How, after years of buying you Harvard bibs and mittens, did I end up with a daughter who teaches at Yale?” good question lol I WANNA KNOW TOO;

Bennu, Stephen's familiar, is a bird.;

#saveEm2k19;

Matthew nearly had a heart attack when he discovered that his beloved Range Rover was not waiting for him in the underground garage. Instead we found a navy sports car with a soft top. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha it always cracks me up; 

Edward Kelley sent the first page to Rabbi Loew, the second to Hubbard. Who gt the third and who sent it to Diana’s parents?; 

Annie stayed with Shakespeare after Matthew and Diana left and Jack was with Hubbard.;

Also, Matthew made Diana a diplomatic passport for easier traveling;

Overall, I loved this book. There were some boring moment that didn’t move the plot forward at all (like most of Prague, especially the hunting or the play, making the philosopher’s stone with Mary Sydney) that I hope the show will cut it out completely or shorten it. Hopefully, they give us at least 2 episodes of Philippe at Sept-Tours - now that they got 10 episodes, they have a chance to do it properly. I also love the magic lessons from Goody Alsop and other witches, though I suspect, season 2 will only give us 1 witch (but I hope we will see Sophie’s ancestor too. My favorite characters are Philippe, Pierre and Jack and I hope we will get plenty of them (please include Pierre, show!)

[epickendall]

The Thrilling adventure of Spider-Man and Harley Quinn part 10

Peter, Harley, and three Navy seal people go into the prison when they step inside they see the prison had into turn an inside of a gothic castle with fancy furniture, creepy statues, candles, and blood mark stain were in and out of the prison cell.

"Yep this guy wants to be Dracula so badly," said Harley

"No kidding Harley I expect he sleeps in a casket and had some blood fountain next to it," said Peter that cause Harley to giggle

"If you two done joking we should find Alucard quick I'm getting a bad feeling," said Tyler

"Why is that?" said Chandler

"This place is too quiet for my liking,"

Then Peter spider-sense goes off as the ground shook and large bloody hands come out and grab Tyler by the waist then coming out of the ground still holding onto Tyler picking him up in the air was a large ghoul wearing torn and tattered prison guard uniform. The ghoul guard holds Tyler over his head, and drops in him in his mouth Chandler, Sophie, and Harley shoot at the ghoul to release Tyler, but it just chomps down Tyler heads off drops his body and spits out the head.

"Holy shit!" said Harley she then used her light gun, but it seems to do less damage to the ghoul "you gotta be kidding me,"

The ghoul correctional officer smacks Chandler into Sophie, knocking them to the ground Peter webs the creature feet and hands down on the ground, and he tries to cut his head off with his machete. However, the ghoul managed to free one of its hand and grabs Peter threw him in the air Peter quickly stick on to the ceiling and jumps off to land hard onto the ghoul's head, knocking it out.

"Quickly Harley your light gun," Peter open the ghoul prison guard mouth

Harley shoves the light gun into the ghoul's mouth "eat this asshole," Harley pulled the trigger, and the light immediately did massive damage to the ghoul as its whole head turn into ashes, and so does the rest of it body.

"That was rough," said Harley taking a breath she looks at her light gun to see it was running out of power with it battery life at 15 percent "and this gun is going to be useless in a few minutes great,"

Chandler gets up and picks Sophie up he looked over Tyler dead body "Tyler you were a good soldier you didn't deserve this," Chandler thought

Peter looked across the prison area to find two sets of staircases one goes up the other goes down "guys I found two staircases," Harley and the two remaining soldiers go to him and see the stairs

"Where do think Alucard is up or down?" said Sophie

"No idea we should split up two take the down staircase, and the other two take the up staircase," said Chandler

"Yeah splitting up in this Creepshow does not sound like a great idea," said Harley

"Do you have other plans?"

"No,"

"Then we're going with my idea Spider-man go with me we'll take the downstairs, and Harley you and Sophie take the upstairs,"

"Fine Spidey don't miss me too much," Harley goes upstairs as Sophie fellow her rolling her eyes at Harley comment

Peter and Chandler walk on the down staircase going into the prison basement the took care of a couple of ghouls, and they found a door that was barely open Chandler opens it and the two walk into a room filled with gold bars, dollar bills, jewelry, diamonds, and old paintings. 

"Really Alucard got a treasure room what next a torture room," Peter thought

Then a voice in the shadow speaks to Peter and Chandler "you and your spandex friend are not going touch any of my master money and fortune, or you would suffer a horrible death,"

"Seeing how he's not going to live when sunrise hits then it'll be ours," said Chandler

"Chandler not good idea to piss off something we cannot see," said Peter

"Yeah well, I ain't afraid,"

Chandler grabs a gold bar from a pile of it then Peter spider-sense comes again, and he dodges ninja stars coming above. Then a red cloth ninja comes down from the ceiling with a katana and cuts the Chandler handoff that was holding the gold bar. Peter quickly webbed Chandler's hands to stop the bleeding.

"And who are you?" said Peter pulling out his machete

The ninja reveals his ghoulish face "I'm Akira the protector of Alucard treasure and you two won't leave this room alive,"

"We'll see about that,"

Peter and the ninja fight the ninja managed to make several cuts to Peter's body and his left arm however due to Peter sparing with Daredevil Peter managed to use his machete to cut off the ninja's arms and then right for it heads chopping it off killing the ghoul ninja.

"Spider-man 2 Ninja 1," Peter thought Peter goes to Chandler picks him up, and they walk back to the staircase "I hope Harley doing better than us,"

Harley and Sophie had to take down three ghouls that were guarding a room Harley had to her shotgun instead of the light gun to save the battery life on it.

"Those ghouls could have been guarding Alucard," said Sophie

"I suppose we wait for Spidey and Chandler," said Harley wants to blasts the vampire, but she did not want Peter to be mad or doing something that dumb

Then two heard crying from inside it sound more like a woman crying then a men Harley quickly loses thought and kick open the door.

To find a woman wearing a purple dress, she had light brown hair and black eyes, she was standing in a fancy bedroom with balls on the window, but the outstanding feature on the women is her pregnant belly.

"Who the hell are you two and what are doing here on this island?" said the women stop crying and tries to put a serious face on

"We're here to stop Alucard and who are you preggo," said Harley pointing at the women

"I'm Eva Rogers,"

"Eva why are in this room that was guard by ghouls?" said Sophie

"Because I'm the most important thing to Finn...I mean Alucard,"

"What how are you important to him and did you say his real name," said Harley

"That because I'm his wife and I'm pregnant with his child," Eva rubbed her belly leaving Sophie and Harley shooked