#trtr

Like look at them, they're so frigging cute!!!!

P.d. @pastafossa do you think Jane would ever fill in for Matt???

This is a tag created by the reading rush hosts Ariel and Raeleen so I'm doing it in the form of a tag post for people on booklr because the questions looked interesting! I was tagged by @princessofbookaholics.

1. Warm Up: A book that stretches your mind

I’d say The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho because it really makes you think about your place in the world and introspection. 

2. Start Line: What’s a book that you started but never finished?

I started reading Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, but the book was so encased in misogyny that I practically threw it across the room and vowed never to open it again. (I donated it to a free library with a note that says “This book sucks”)

3. Sprint: A book you read really quickly

I read Dear Martin by Nic Stone in a day or two and it was so good. I had trouble putting the book down. 

4. Marathon: What’s your favorite long book?

Watership Down by Richard Adams is my favorite longer book, even though it’s only roughly 476 pages. It’s an adventure through and through.

5. Hurdles: What’s a book that had ups and downs?

When I was reading Emma by Jane Austen, there were just some parts where I really thought about giving up the book or stopping for a long time. I ended up finishing it, though!

6. Finish Line: A book you were proud to finish

Dracula by Bram Stoker! I love this book and the first time I had read it, it was one of the longest books I had read (418 pages), so I was really proud of myself.

7. Gold Medal: Best book you’ve read during a readathon

I’ve never participated in a readathon before. The closest thing I’ve come to one was in elementary school when we would read to raise money, getting pledges from people. In that case, the best book I read was The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

8. Participation Ribbon: An underrated book you wish got more attention

Creepers by Joanne Dahme. I got this book as a gift on my golden birthday after asking about it for months. It’s a mystery and a ghost story and the book is super beautiful! I haven’t found another person, though, who has read it. 

Relatedly here's how Chapter 9 is looking

Okay, you say, so that's one au, now what?

But NOPC is such a LARGE au, that it's really not "just one au". I've spent years rounding out these characters and picking their arcs and dynamics. Fay Dunbar is instrinctically linked to this version of herself, now. Faith Dunbar-Black IS Fay Dunbar, and that carries into any other au.

In DMFD, Fay is just as bright, she still lives above a morgue, but now she's the adopted kid and her parents don't foster. She goes out and befriends ghosts and hunts down horcruxes on ACCIDENT and is still best friends with Harry, even though it's an entirely separate au with a completely different premise and genre.

In Anerythristic, Fay is bright and violent and traumatized, but it wasn't HER who was viciously murdered, it was her sister, and she grows up, yes, but she never RECOVERS from that.

Even in TRTR, where she's barely showed up, she still operates as usual - incredibly bright and high energy, because she knows that if she's loud enough, people will ignore her. Her dad is still a mortician. Her childhood puzzles were piecing skulls back together for funerals.