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When you realise that now that HTV is out Rina will finally start posting Preston and Markus sneak peeks:

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HUNT THE VILLAIN SPOILERS

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When two worlds collide🤣🤣🤣

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Vipers Series boys(and a bit of the girls), but as funny hockey pics I found on Pinterest

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For those who don't know, you can read the first 3 chapters of Tempting Venom at Penguin UK's site.... I read them..... that goddamn prologue is going to be one of my 13 reasons...

Lots and lots of spoilers below the cut because I was going through it:

Hahahahahaha this feels like premonition hahahaha *rocking back and forth on the floor*

Cut the lights y'all, I can't do this anymore, I'm done. THEY FIRST MET WHEN THE WERE SEVEN!?!?!?! ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?!?! MARCUS THOUGHT PRESTON WAS A FAIRY!?!

STOP!! NOO!!! GOD!!! THE FIRST THINGS HE FELL IN LOVE WITH WERE HIS DIMPLES AND THE SOUND OF HIS LAUGHTER!!!!!! *sobbing on my pillow*

Oh god.... he never called him Prince because he was the league's prince... he called him Prince because he was his prince first..... and Preston doesn't know..... *agonized screaming*

THAT'S WHAT THE CANDY AND THE LOLLIPOP AND THE FLOWERS IN THE COVER MEAN!?!?!? HE WAS SPREADING PRESTON'S FAVORITE CANDY AT THE SITE OF HIS VICTIMS SO EVERYONE KNEW WHY HE DID IT!! WHO HE KILLED THEM FOR!!!!!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP I CAN'T DO THIS!!!!!

My oh my, you don't say Preston.... You don't say....

On god, I can't even blame Pres for going after Marcus after this BECAUSE WHO SAYS THAT SHIT MID GAME!! MARCUS OSBORN APPARENTLY!! JESUS DUDE FLIRT LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE FOR ONCE!! (don't this is funnier)

Kane in that moment, sensing the shift in the fabric of the universe:

You know what really fucking hurt while reading? Those few moments where Preston's facade broke, and you could catch glipses of how he truly views himself and how disgusted by his own image he feels:

HE TRIES SO HARD TO NOT SHOW IT BUT HE ALWAYS THINKS THE WORST OF HIMSELF AND IT HURTS!!! IT'S SO OBVIOUS EVEN IN HIS POV WHEN HE PRAISES HIMSELF!! HE ONLY TALKS ABOUT HOW PEOPLE THINK OF HIM AND HOW HE MIGHT HELP PEOPLE, BUT NEVER WHAT HE THINKS OF HIMSELF, BESIDES THESE FEW INSTANCES!!

I GODDAMN KNEW PRES HAD A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS SIATER!!! I KNOW THAT HE TRULY LOVED HER!!!! MY BABIES!!!!!!

Ok that's all I'll share here, there are some other parts that I want to make separate posts about

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You know, no matter what agony awaits me in Tempting Venom, I will always be comforted by the fact that Dahlia will be giving Preston sooooooooooooooo much shit when she finally figurs it out that the reason Preston dislikes her is because of her two weeks mistake with Marcus. He will NEVER hear the end of it. And the worst part? Marcus would probably join her.

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Dahlia every time she's within 5 feet of Marcus when Preston is around: Oh no Marcus I mustn't be so close. We have shared history you see, I do not wish for other people to presume-

Preston: DAKOTA I SWEAR IF YOU DON'T ZIP IT-

Marcus: Oh but of course Dahlia. We can't let other people make assumptions-

Preston: I WILL END YOU BOTH!!

Dahlia and Marcus: *wheezing* TOGETHER!? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE RUMORS!?

Preston: I hate you both so much.

Dahlia: Because we dated once?

Preston: That's it. Kane say goodbye to your girlfriend.

Kane: *without even looking up* Now that's exessive, she only dated Osborn for two weeks, even I'm not that mad.

Preston: *walks away flipping them off*

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This is the height difference that Preston "The People's Prince" Armstrong deserves ✨️🥹👏

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Someone pointed out that Preston's skates in the first art match Marcus' jersey, so what if they're actually Marcus' skates??

Considering that Rina confirmed that the first art is in the very beginning of the book my theory is this:

The Vipers and the Wolves play against each other, and this is either the first game Preston plays against Marcus or the first game where he attempts to target him with his taunts on the ice, but it backfires because, as we all know, Marcus always seems unaffected by Preston's taunts and ends up ragebaiting HIM instead.

So Pres loses it, and they end up losing the game as a result. So after the game is over, as a form of petty revenge, Preston steals Marcus' skates and takes them out on the ice to dull the blades or ruin them. He ends up having a sort of episode where he drinks and breaks the hockey sticks on the ice.

That's where Marcus comes in, explaining why he's wearing regular shoes because Pres took his skates, finds Preston causing havoc there, and threatens him to never touch his stuff again, maybe calls him crazy, etc. Preston retaliates, calling him a bastard or a dog, etc. And this is how their game of chase started.

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10 things I'm most curious and excited about finding out in Tempting Venom:

When exactly Preston finally gave in and started hooking up with Marcus/having a relationship with him (My headcanon is that it was the night of the club scene where Pres was dragging Marcus by the throat)

What the candy means. Did Preston give it to Marcus during a rare sweet moment between them? Does it become like a secret code for them? WHAT DOES IT MEAN!!!

90% of the things Marcus is constantly whispering to Preston during their games. WHAT IS THAT FREAK SAYING TO HIM!!

Marcus' reaction to his bike being blown up.

What Preston told Marcus in the woods that finally got him to snap and beat the shit out of him.

Why they broke up or fought before the picnic because it was very obvious from Preston's dimmed mood that things with Marcus were not going well.

What Marcus was whispering while turning Grandma Armstrong into human pork chops. (I feel like he wasn't even talking to her anymore, and he was mostly talking to himself or, god willing, for the sweet glorious angst, Preston if he's hallucinating him)

Marcus' reaction to finding out Pres is alive. I want him to cry. And beat the shit out of him. (And hear me out here, I think Marcus will draw away from him after this, and Preston will be the one to chase him this time.)

Marcus' mom and his relationship with her. Also, how that relationship will be affected now that Marcus willingly gave himself to the Osborns to attend Preston's funeral. And I think his mom would love Preston so I hope that's true.

Preston's relationship with his dad and with his sister. His sister looks like the only person who actually cared about him in that household and it looked like they had a close relationship. Meanwhile, his relationship with his dad feels complicated af and riddled with misunderstandings

I CRAVE THIS BOOK WITH ALL MY BEING!! THERE IS JUST SOMETHING SO CATHARTIC ABOUT TWO BATSHIT INSANE PEOPLE BEING BATSHIT INSANE FOR EACH OTHER!!!!