my terrible nerds have officially sold over 10k copies and i can't believe it
thank you all for continuing to read and love Lorena's story! this book meant a lot to me for a lot of different reasons, and it makes me so happy that a lot of you loved it too 🖤💀🖤
Blurb: Lorena Adler has a secret: she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She has spent her entire life hiding from the world and her past. She’s content to spend her days as an undertaker in a small town, marry her best friend Julian, and live an unfulfilling life, so long as no one uncovers her true nature...but when the notoriously bloodthirsty and equally Vile crown prince comes to arrest Julian’s father, he immediately recognises Lorena for what she is, so she makes a deal: a fair trial for her betrothed’s father, in exchange for her service to the crown. The prince is desperate for help. He’s spent years trying to repair the weakening Door that holds back the Vile...and he’s losing the battle. As Lorena learns more about the Door and the horrifying price it takes to keep it closed, she’ll have to embrace both parts of herself to survive.
The building had been crawling with gentle humans who noticed not a thing as they’d stolen the clothes they now wore, uniforms of the young, and left by a broken door into an alley. Not my brothers and sisters anymore.
— QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
Michael Sheen playing Aziraphale so much more markedly effervescent in GO2 is delightful, and campy, and perfect in the narrative arc, but damn, it’s also a very cruel way to set up the contrast of how stiff and restrained he will have to be in GO3, like putting a geode back together to hide all its color.
im probably being insane and reading too much into this but is it common for andraste to be referred to as maferaths "heart"???? you know. maferath the BETRAYER. calling his lover his HEART. because uhhhhhhhh i can think of another very significant great betrayer who also calls his lover, the herald of andraste, his heart...
im not even sure what this metaphor is supposed to mean or if "his heart" even refers to andraste, it could definitely just be a way of saying maferath had become heartless and "devoured" by jealousy and thats why he did nothing to save her, but the language is so familiar? genuine question if this is done in other places in the lore because it seems a little bit of a suspicious parallel???
—I once ventured deep into the abyss and came face-to-face with an enormous beast. I don't know its name, all I know is the sight of it chilled me to the bone. But mark my words, one day I will march back in there and behead that beast, and you, comrade, will be my witness!