#pasiphile

behold. the unofficial TVD/FIF locations project companion piece

a (mostly complete) guide & pics of places from the fic, & directions for a walkable tour if ur feelin nasty

powerpoint link

pdf version (might need to be downloaded due to size)

the map

When I opened my inbox back in December 2025 and saw the notification that @pasiphile had published the very first chapter of Fast In Fire, I - like so many others alongside me - was absolutely elated! After all, it had been 12 years since These Violent Delights, the first part of This Life Is A Trip (When You're Psycho In Love), had been published, dutifully offering a gateway into mormor for many, and stealing hearts right, left and center.

As a fan of pasi's writing and with my first semester at uni studying computational linguistics under my belt, the 12 year gap piqued my interest in particular. How would the writing differ? Would you be able to spot differences in regards to the average word or sentence length?

All that accumulated into me asking pasi for permission to analyze their texts, and then went to code. This post now aims to share/document the findings of this endeavor.

Disclaimer: The findings may be a tiny bit inaccurate - while I am absolutely having fun and enjoying this project immensly, I am still very new to this skill set,,

That being said, the findings are as follows:

I am throwing up.

Very funny, you asked almost the same questions as Thea!

1. Favourite kitchen appliance? My new beautiful pfas-free rice cooker that allows me to so easily make sushi bakes and onigiri and rice for with chicken tikka masala and steam dumplings and everything.

5. Favourite furniture? Bonus round: our bed, which is a wood coloured ikea malm with four drawers underneath. I love it mostly for the storage, the cute bedding (ikea strandlummer) and the fact that it's the first piece of furniture we bought Together and it's followed us for over six years now. If one (and soon two!) toddlers keep ending up in our bed on a semi regular basis, we're gonna have to go from a 160 to 180cm, though, bc I have No Room when smurf ends up in our bed.

20. Go-to minimal effort recipe? Already gave two but I'll give some more:

Buy a bag of frozen Mediterranean vegetables and some small/diced potatoes. Put on drip tray lined with parchment paper. Top with sliced halloumi. Bake at 200 Celsius for about half an hour or so. In the meantime, throw a bunch of parsley, an unreasonable amount of garlic, olive oil, lemon juice (ratio depending on taste preferences) and salt and pepper to taste in a mixing bowl or food processor, mix into sauce (it's called a persillade). Serve oven bake with a generous helping of persillade.

Also super easy soup:

Put one tablespoon of red curry paste in the bottom of a pot, cook at medium heat for about a minute.

Add 1kg of diced pumpkin (buy frozen for ease). Can be replaced by 500g bell pepper/500g carrots for a more summery taste (also frozen for the love of god). Cook until no longer frozen/a bit soft.

Add 1l of vegetable stock (aka 1l of water and two blocks of stock)

Bring to a boil for about ten minutes

Mix

Add 200-400g of coconut milk (depending on whether you prefer a more veggie or coconut milk heavy soup)

Done!

In general I make all my recipes low effort by buying all my vegetables (including garlic and onions, and excluding tomatoes, and zucchini if making soup) frozen.

23. Coolest place you've visited? Rapid fire: in addition to All The Caves and prehistoric sites in France and Belgium (can provide list if of interest - fave place in Belgium was the musée préhistorique d'andenne associated with Scladina cave), cradle of humankind in South Africa, pilanesberg nature park in South Africa, Gaspesie (Québec) in general (the latter two is just. Unimaginable nature for a little Belgian), the Algarve in Portugal and the Danube delta in Romania were unexpectedly awesome, the Forum is Rome is absolutely Wild to witness, the Memorial de Caen and Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg) both knocked me on my arse, and I'll stop here bc this list is getting way too long

Yay, thank you!!

5. favorite form of potato?

Frietjes natuurlijk!!

Belgian fries are the best fries, fight me on this.

19. the veggie you dislike the most?

Chicongs, witloof, chicory

Don't like 'em raw or cooked.

27. what’s your favorite or go-to outfit?

Mostly simple actually. I take fancy selfies on here yeah, but a black flared jeans and a band/star trek T-shirt is my go-to outfit mostly.

25. would you say you have good taste in music?

pasiphile replied to your post “fucking hell fred i'm so jealous”

wait. waitwaitwait. is that ENZO CILENTI AND ANDREW SCOTT IN THE SAME PLAY???

YES IT IS!!! ENZO CILENTI IS THE SLUTTY BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND OF ONE OF ANDREW SCOTT’S MANAGERS AND SEDUCES HIM IT’S A WHOLE THING

pasiphile replied to your post “fucking hell fred i'm so jealous”

yeeaaah that's fucking france, that's probably not going to work out :(