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10 and 5 for the TSH ask game!💐💐

Thank you for the asks 🥰 I will elaborate more in a review, but here are the short answers:

5. What message was the book trying to convey? Do you agree with it?

That FOMO is real, you guys. Beyond that, it’s a satire of dark academia, and a lesson in why you shouldn’t mindlessly chase the Greek mythology aesthetic.

10.  How did you find Richard as a narrator? How do you think having Richard as a narrator affected the story?

I liked Richard, though I’m in the minority (except when he had that one violent thought). He was awkward and always on the outside looking in, and that definitely influenced how we experienced the story. He was also pretty unreliable, which I love in a narrator, like please lie to me and make me doubt everything. It definitely helped make the Murder Group more mysterious, and made you want to know them too.

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Hi! I have almost asked you about every succession character but in the fandom I don't really see Marcia being appreciated and feared as she should be. Thoughts on her, her relationship with roys and her future? I loved her when she said that Logan was boring, a true queen👸👸👸

Marcia is definitely one of the most fascinating and mysterious characters on the show. We know next to nothing about her. I think she has the potential to be one of the most important players in season 3. Since she left Logan in season 2, I do think she might team up with Kendall and company. She knows about the accident, so it might give her leverage with Kendall, not that she’d necessarily use it against him. I do think she sees Kendall for what he is, a “nice boy” who has been torn apart by what happened, someone who wants to do good but his hand has been forced by his father.

I do think Marcia is very intelligent and calculating, and I’m not totally sure what she wants, maybe power, maybe money, but I genuinely do think she loves (or loved) Logan. Hiam Abbass said in an interview that Logan and Marcia were drawn to each other because of their suffering and the survival skills that pulled them through that suffering. So this leads me to believe that Marcia might know more about Logan’s upbringing than his kids do, something darker maybe? I think she has a bit of power over Logan in this way, and she doesn’t seem scared of him in the slightest. And Logan does seem to love her too, going as far as to want to leave his board seat to her after his death.

Marcia has obviously not had an easy time of things in her life, but then again, we don’t really know the exact details! I really, really want to know. Her tension with Shiv over this is so interesting. And I think she might see Shiv as the most spoiled out of the Roy kids, probably because of her status as a daddy’s girl. Shiv’s tension with a lot of the female characters in the show is super interesting, but I digress.

Anyways, I’m super curious to see what happens to Marcia in season 3. Sorry if this analysis is kind of lacking because my memory of season 2 isn’t great right now (which is why I’m rewatching and planning to pay way more attention to Marcia this time round.) She does need more appreciation.

Thanks for the question!

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“You’re molded out of velvet.” - Violette Leduc

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Hi! Have you seen Mother! ? Because it really relies more on the psychological and social component than on the shock values and the violence is more subtle. It really terrified me a lot and even now it does

Ah, Mother is that new sci-fi one where that lass is raised by the androids, yes? 

I didn’t think it was mindblowing or anything, but I really enjoyed that one - it was clean, well-executed, with a very like, consistent tone and structure throughout? I wouldn’t say it was a favourite of mine because I felt that they didn’t take that many creative risks with it, but I appreciated it so much as just, this genuinely thought-out and cohesive piece of cinema. It’s so rare that you find a film that feels like it was really thought out from every single angle, and where the cohesiveness of the final piece is so complete. 

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name aesthetic ↝ Martina

“Oh, I could live a thousand lives and never forget those eyes of her’s. They were lit with curiosity and beauty but covered by rightful danger. Like the ocean, she dared you to come in; one false move and she’d pull you under.”

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20 Questions

I was tagged by @isolatedpunkrockalien thank’s babe ♥♥♥

Rules: answer 20 questions and tag 20 people

Name: Simona

Nickname(s): Simi, Sima

Zodiac Sign: capricrunch

Height: 5’3

Orientation: Chaotic Bisexual

Nationality: Slovak

Favorite Fruit: Mango

Favorite Season: Early Fall and late Spring

Favorite Book: too many.. Dorian Gray idk

Favorite Flower: roses, gypsophila, violets

Favorite Scent: Sandalwood, jasmine, rose

Favorite Color: Violet, Scarlet

Favorite Animal: Borzoi

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea usually

Average hours of sleep: like fucking ten for past two weeks

Cats or Dogs: y e s

Number of blankets you sleep with: 1

Dream trip: grand tour

Blog created:  march 2015

tagging @dandy--darling @jawnkeets @cutemercutio @almiqhty @conan-doyles-carnations @pendragoth 

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💫 Your favourite historical novel ;D

oh no, this is really hard! as many of you may know, historical novels are my third favorite genre (guess the other two. Go on.) and I have read and loved a lot of them. so.

The name that first leapt to my mind was Mary Renault's The King Must Die, which is a retelling of the Theseus myth, up to the departure from Crete, told in historical terms, with no magic, which is a sub-genre I usually don't like, but I love her prose, and I loved, in this specifically, the way Theseus draws the Athenians together to become a real bull-leaping team (and, of course, also the heart-pounding, joyous descriptions of the bull-leaping, which are what give this the slight edge over The Bull From The Sea, which is great because it has whatever she calls Hippolyta [Antiope, I think?], who is wonderful). So, I think I'm going to trust my first instinct and say that, but in close second is Umberto Eco's Baudolino, the story of a group of friends in 1200 who decide to go find the land of Prester John; involves lots of in-depth description of heresy, which I love.