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hilary - 35 - she/they - tired historian
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THE WIVES is here!

After much procrastination, I have finally gotten my act together and published one of my two finished original novels. I have worked hard to create multiple options for purchase (i.e. not just on Amazon); you should be able to order it from most ebook retailers and hard-copy distribution platforms, such as Barnes and Noble and Ingram. However, I will link the direct purchase options here.

Title: The Wives Genre: Fiction (Literary, Thriller, Crime) Summary: One day, a young woman marries a famous Hollywood movie star two decades her senior, and is drawn into his glamorous world and its dirty secrets. She begins to uncover the scandals around powerful men in the industry, and the measures taken to keep them hidden. When she discovers the truth of just what one of those abusers is willing to do, she takes matters into her own hands. Her targets: all the men who think they can get away with this. But as the project spirals out of control, and she is drawn into increasingly dangerous attempts to go after more and more powerful players, it runs the risk of destroying her marriage, her life, her husband's career, and everything she has ever believed in.

To Read If You Like: Thrillers (crime, suspense, literary, feminist); Margaret Atwood; Gillian Flynn/Gone Girl; feral female protagonists; unreliable narrators; social and political critique; black satire Content Warning: While it focuses on abusers getting their violent comeuppance -- think the film Promising Young Woman -- the novel deals heavily with themes/depictions of sexual assault and abuse. If this is a trigger for you, please proceed with caution.

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For me the funniest thing to come out of the goncharov meme was not any of the fake scenes or the nyt articles about it or whatever but the fact that due to the fact that he'd found it funny when I told him about it I got my dad several books by ivan goncharov for christmas that year as a joke fully expecting him to not even touch them BUT to everyone's surprise he read every single one cover to cover and liked them so much that he read dostoevsky and then read tolstoy and then pushkin and then gogol and now barely reads anything that isn't nineteenth century russian literature and also has started watching academic talks about crime and punishment and will randomly bring up shit like the politics present in bulgakov's writing in at LEAST half of our conversations. all because of goncharov

We'll be talking about something normal and he'll go "this reminds me, in tolstoy's essay what is art--" and I just have to quietly live with the knowledge that he only talks like this because of a fake martin scorsese movie that was a joke on tumblr.com

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when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

Transylvania approved defense. I know Dracula was SHAKING in fear when he tried climbing through my window that night.

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Why do witches like always wanna fatten kids up before they eat them?? fat is like the grossest part of meat

“Why hello there, little children~. Please follow me to my magical… FITNESS ROOM. NO P A N S I E S ALLOWED BEYOND THIS POINT. LEAVE YOUR WHINING AT THE DOOR BECAUSE IT’S LEG DAY AND WE’RE ABOUT TO GET R-R-R-RIPPE D.”

Because they’re always cooking said kids in cauldrons and ovens - aka long cooking times at lowish heat. If you do that to fatty meat, the fat melts completely and the meat gets tear-it-apart-with-a-fork soft. If you do it to lean meat, you get tiny little sad meat bits that bring no joy to anyone.

well you did ask

Also there’s wisdom in fattening them up on sweets and other carbs. A meatless, carb-rich diet makes for more tender and flavourful meat.

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mrtacomam

you are arguing over the semantics of EATING CHILDREN

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kariachi

Well yeah, you gotta get this shit right or it’s a waste of 40-80 lbs of meat.

plus if you feed them a high fat, low nutrition diet, they’re easier to subdue and less likely to run away, which would be a concern for an elderly crone.

Thank you, Old Witch With Candy House side of tumblr.

Now THIS is a Tumblr heritage post.

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Anonymous asked:

https://chng.it/cYQZcPXrHr

Hi!! I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet, but there’s a pretty impressive petition going around to save Shadow & Bone and the SoC spinoff, not to mention the efforts of the fandom in emailing and tagging and sending mail to netflix asking to renew the show. If you’re at all willing, would you be able to share this petition because you have a pretty large blog with a significant S&B fanbase? Thank you so so much!!

Signal boost for any of my SAB/Fivan friends who feel like giving this a shot. :)

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Re: your question about your lease (assuming you are in the U.S.) I would HIGHLY recommend looking at your individual state laws. Depending on where you live, there may be good free resources (I would search "housing law help [your state/city]"). Housing law varies GREATLY state by state, so even if you can't get individualized advice (best case scenario), it's still a good practice to make sure you are looking in the right places. (Many places have a lot more or a lot less legal protections for tenants than you might expect - especially if your landlord is frequently doing shady-seeming stuff, it's definitely worth your time to check out.)

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Yeah, I will be doing that. I am at least fortunate to work at a university with a large and well-regarded law school, and it would be surprising if they didn't have a legal aid clinic or other resources. (If worse comes to worse, my dad is also a lawyer, though no longer active/practicing.) Believe me, I am going to be investigating options and making sure that everything is EXTREMELY legit before I sign ANYTHING. Because yes, the management at this place is Bad, and if moving was financially feasible, I would. But you know, it's not. So.

Anyway, I will also be checking into several different resources and making sure my bases are covered, whether via the law school or local housing aid or whatever. Sigh.

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Anonymous asked:

It depends on the jurisdiction you're in, but generally contracts can't be 'undone' unless by a specified clause in the contract itself and they are, instead, 'breaking' the contract which should have specified penalties in the contract itself. Some places do have 'cooling off' periods though, for certain types of contracts (not rental, generally afaik), so you'd need to check the local laws on that? Are there local groups that support renters? They may have better information and resources.

Update: talked to the leasing office. They claim it is because they have a new website and the lease renewal was only executed on the old one and not on the new one. Theoretically, I only have to sign an exact copy of the lease I already signed, but I will be reading it VERY carefully and emailing the building manager if there are any discrepancies. Frankly, this is still fishy, and it is par for the course that they don't communicate shit (my lease was supposed to renew on the 14th, I paid through the 14th at the start of the month, and then on the 7th they tried to be cute and stick a "30 Day Notice For Payment Or Possession" on my door in the dead of night. After I spent much of the summer without air conditioning and have had going on a month with very little hot water because of how fucking slow they are with maintenance. But because of how much of a hassle it would be to move and because I can't find anything cheaper in this overpriced city hellscape, SO.)

ANYWAY. I feel bad for the very nice front desk lady, who has been very sympathetic and tried to help me, but obviously cannot do anything about higher-up corporate bullshit. Story of everyone's life.

Basically, I will be reading the lease carefully and making sure it is COMPLETELY identical; if not, I will email the property manager and/or see if any pro bono help or employee resources can be solicited from the university's law school. We also had to last-minute push back our meeting with the department chairs tomorrow by another hour since they want to have a budget meeting with the deans first, whereupon I suspect the underlying message will be "there's no money for raises, so just keep working/running the whole college for your same shit wage" and I am. Preemptively Not A Fan. I would love to be wrong. But.

Thanks for this, though, and for letting me vent a little. Adulting, man. What a ripoff.

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Basic legal question for my friends/followers who are lawyers: if my apartment complex has offered me a lease renewal for a certain rate and duration, I have accepted and signed that lease, they have also signed it, and I receive an email confirming it is in effect/executed, they cannot literally fucking send me a "renewal undone due to unspecified error!" email a week later, along with a new lease, and try to get me to sign that. Correct?

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Because I could not resist adding to this scene, despite know it is not anywhere near the current events of my series:

They set up the game at a side table in the parlor, and the more Vargo thought about it the more fun he realized this could be. They both played it safe with their first hand, and only gained a few points each. Vargo undid his cufflinks and set them to the side, and shortly added his cravat pin to the small pile. And waited.

He knew he'd played right into her hands when he saw the smirk start to curl across her face, once she realized those were his offerings to match the three points she'd won.

"I was so hoping you would be a sly bastard about it." She slipped off the ribbon holding back her mass of braids and slowly set it on the table. "I have been in need of a wash." Another tie followed, from the end of one of her braids. As he watched her slide her fingers through the braid, unbinding it completely while continuing to give him a lazy, self-satisfied smirk, Vargo realized he hadn't seen her hair unbound since the wedding.

Presumably, no one but Grey had.

Attempting to distract himself from that thought, he said, "We'll reach nitza by the time you're done with all those."

Somehow, her grin grew wider, and she picked up her cup to toy with it playfully. "Oh, didn't I say?" She took a small sip, and lowered her cup enough to say, "We're not going to nitza," another sip, and he knew she had him exactly where she wanted him, "We're going until someone breaks." He knew by the sparkle in her eyes that this time, when the cup went up, it was mostly being used to hide the wicked grin she was sporting.

"Well then," he reached for his cards, his own grin spreading, "if that's how you want to play."

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