Conclave made me do it

Jun. 10th, 2025 10:43 pm
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Cover for Sophie Clark's Cruel is the Light


I first got interested in Sophie Clark's "Cruel is the Light" because the cover is really pretty. I wasn't going to read it because while the marketing said "enemies to lovers" the summary wasn't sound "enemy-ing" enough.

Then the Pope died.

And I thought I'd read a book sent mostly in Rome because I had no idea what to read next, fiction-wise.

Cruel is the Light is... Fine. It's fine. It indeed isn't enemies to lovers, it's more rivals to lovers forbidden love fake dating. The love story isn't unbelievable, anymore than any two week love story is. I guessed both that
from the summary Jules was a demon
and
from early in the book the Vatican's god was a demon
but not how those two tied together. There's one image I really liked and might draw at some point, idk. The demon/exorcist worldbuilding reminded me of the manga Claymore. Anyway. I don't regret reading it, but I wasn't going to read the sequel. I'd give it a 13/20. (Disclaimer: I read something like half of it while stuck on a stopped train.)

Then the Pope died.

Ok, in the book he's "Exorcist Primus". Point is they're going to be doing X-Treme Conclave next book and I am intrigued.

"We don't trade lives" sure, man

Jun. 8th, 2025 09:24 pm
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I was rewatching Avengers: Infinity War and it, again, struck me how bloody hypocritical Steve's "we don't trade lives" line(s) is. Friend. Pal. Bro. My man. Do you really think no Wakandan is gonna die fighting Thanos' armies. Like. Get a fucking grip, omg.

DocWho

Jun. 4th, 2025 12:19 am
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8 episodes is way too short for Doctor Who. The core of the show is the Doctor + Companion(s) relationship(s) and there isn't any time for that in these Disney seasons.

Activate external deadline!

May. 31st, 2025 11:45 pm
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R. F. Kuang has a book called "Katabasis" that comes out on August 26, 2025. /insert here "good for her" gif

I have a duology of MCU fics I've been calling "katabasis" that I've been working on since I saw Endgame. It's about Natasha and Gamora making their ways out of the afterlife -- except, despite interacting, they're going through different afterlives: Natasha's is Dante's Hell, Gamora's Irkalla, the Mesopotamian underworld. Yes, I'm lots of fun at parties.

Anyway, point is, I want to finish and post those fics before Kuang's book comes out? Deadlines tend to help me do things. Technically the Natasha fic is finished but not the Gamora one and besides I need to make sure their dialogues make sense in both contexts.

Have a handful of lines I'm proud of, idk, I need validation.

1. It took a village to raise a child soldier.

2. Sirens, sirens everywhere and not a song to sing.

3. "I recognise the afterlife has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

5. Dis was a necropolis in the purest sense; a city of the dead, skyscrapers of graves and tombstones reaching upwards like the drowned's grasping hands.

6. There on the rock sat Tony Stark. Not Iron Man, not the man who'd escape from a cave to dive into a wormhole with a nuke, but Anthony Edward Stark, self-made billionaire, Forbes' golden child, arms dealer, merchant-king of war and woe, Mammon of the Modern Age.

7. "I know I told you to die in a ditch, but I didn't mean it," continued Rocket's voice.

8. "It seems a terrible thing, to believe in sin," Gamora said.

9. But a poppy pod is a thing of death. It weeps sleep and bleeds a painless end.

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