#riddermarked

[helenvaughans]

1, 3, 20, 29, 30, 40!

sorry i’m just getting to these. i was kind of busy last night.

1: Currently Reading

For school: The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell, The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert. O Paxton

For pleasure: The Likeness by Tana French, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by Vitezslav Nezval

3: First book that had a major influence on you

There were a lot of picture books, specifically fairy tales, that were read to me as a child that had a big influence. Honestly, the books that I remember most clearly as being formative for me as a child were the Harry Potter books. 

20: A character you like but you really, really shouldn’t.

Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre, full stop. I know that even in the most generous interpretations he’s a massive asshole, or at least enormously misguided, but I spent large part of my formative years being kind of in love with him, so yeah. I still don’t think he’s as evil as some people seem to think he is lol 

29: Favorite female protagonist.

lol thinking about this, I’m realizing how few female protagonists there are and it’s depressing me. The one that comes immediately to mind is Cassandra Mortmain from I Capture the Castle. I also like Jane Eyre from Jane Eyre, Iris Chase from The Blind Assassin, and Clarice Starling from The Silence of the Lambs. There are probably more, but I can’t think of them. 

30: One book everyone should read

I don’t really know? I feel hesitant giving an answer to this, but I feel like more people should read Paradise Lost. I read the whole thing for a paper last semester, and I thought it was a very rewarding as well as challenging experience. If you have the ability to read it, I think you should. It’s one of the few ~canon works that I truly love. 

40: Has there ever been a book you wish you could un-read?

Honestly, no. I’ve read a lot of books that I’ve really disliked or even hated, but I feel like even those have something to contribute to your personal experience. 

[futilebeauty]

riddermarked damn i hit the wrong button!!

March - favorite color?

different shades of purple beat even black

23 - what is your favorite app?

cool reader (i don’t remember which version i have installed)

send me your birthday and i’ll answer two related to it questions

[helenvaughans]

riddermarked said: oh, i just noticed there were 2 thaddeus hickman questions, and meant the second one: If Strange and Norrell could appear in any other time period, “when” would you like to see them?

Sorry I’m taking a while to respond to this. Hmm... this is a tough question. I think it would be interesting to see them later in the Victorian period, like around the 1860s-1915? I would be interested to see magic, which is by nature wild and primal, contrasted with a world with even stricter and more conservative social and cultural mores than the Regency. 

I think it could also be cool to have Strange and Norrell in the interwar (1920s-1930s) period? I’m sort of imagining an Evelyn Waugh novel with a lot of magic thrown in, with Strange being a Bright Young Thing who goes to a lot of wild parties and listens to jazz and performs increasingly dangerous and theatrical feats of magic, while Norrell, who’s some kind of stodgy, Victorian relic, looks on in horror, equally for the fact that Strange listens to jazz as for his penchant for dangerous magic

The other time period which I think could be interesting would be the Wars of the Roses, where Strange and Norrell are magicians supporting opposing sides. I feel like Norrell would support York, and Strange would probably support Lancaster. A magical duel at the Battle of Bosworth Field would be so cool. 

[helenvaughans]

John Segundus, Valentine Munday, Nicholas Goubert, Thaddeus Hickman, please? :)

John Segundus: Favorite spell (book or series)?

I suppose the spell Strange uses when he brings back the dead Neapolitans? It’s so dark and primal and creepy, especially with the blood magic aspect. That entire scene, both in the book and the series, is one of my favorites actually. That being said, I haven’t read the book in a really long time, so there might be something I’m forgetting.  

Valentine Munday: Favorite quote (book or series)?

Probably the Raven King’s prophecy (the book version)? I’m not going to reproduce it here because it’s too long. Also:

“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”

Also:

“There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.” 

There are probably more, but I can’t remember them. 

Nicholas Goubert: Character who is the worst roommate material?

The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair, because he’s completely oblivious to everyone but himself. He would probably turn the room into a pigsty and have lots of weird parties at inopportune moments and just be wildly inconsiderate and infuriating. 

Thaddeus Hickman: Favorite Aureate or Argentine magician?

Yikes, I’m not sure. Again, I haven’t read the book in a really long time, so I don’t completely remember all the different magicians, but perhaps I can tentatively say Catherine of Winchester? Mostly because she’s a woman, and if I remember correctly, she teleported some fuckboy who kept pestering her to marry him instead of studying magic to Spain, which is something I can always get behind. Also Maria Absalom, because she’s a woman, and she seems cool as well.

[nereiids]

COUP || listen

songs to play during a heist montage

montecristos asked: oooh flesh out ur heist montage mix that’s my shit

[shrinemaidens]

riddermarked replied to your post: me: 20 hours into the witcher and i’m ...

i must have spent around 15 hours or something just in white orchard doing every little quest until i completed the map! it was the same with da:i, these big open world rpgs really are kryptonite to the completionist in me 

the sheer amount of question marks on the velen/novigrad map gives me so much anxiety? like??? i know the likelihood of it just being monster nests or hidden/guarded treasure or bandit camps are high but... i just need to find out. i’m such a completionist and the NUMBER OF MANUAL SAVES i have made my god

i completed inquisition in 80 hours and i’m at 25 w/ the witcher now and nowhere near done like... how big is this game

[nereiids]

playlist: "songs for sipping your tea on a grey and foggy sunday morning" and playlist: "songs to play during a heist montage". it's up to you if you want to do both or just one :)

SONGS TO PLAY DURING A HEIST MONTAGEred right hand, nick cave & the bad seedsthe world is not enough, garbagelazaretto, jack whiteif you were there, beware, arctic monkeyscome on over, royal bloodSONGS FOR SIPPING YOUR TEA ON A GREY AND FOGGY SUNDAY MORNINGpostcard, iron & wineorange sky, alexi murdochangeles, elliott smithre:stacks, bon ivertransatlanticism, death cab for cutie

[plain-white-knuckles]

I was tagged by deductivly (ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ) to list my favourite TV shows (in no particular order, but just so you know Sherlock is always the first. i stole this from sharon as well cause you know it's true).

1. BBC Sherlock

2. Shameless

3. Peaky Blinders

4. Game of Thrones

5. Parade's End

6. Band of Brothers

7. How to get away with murder

8. Pusing Daisies

9. Supernatural

10. In the Flesh

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