Tina > Recent Status Updates

-“To have and to hold where even death cannot part us. In this life in the next. For however long our souls remain mine will always find yours. These are my vows to you.”
- [ ] “I’ll romance you until you get sick of me. I am horrendously, horrendously in love with your dreadful face.”
- [ ] Roma, Elisa, & Juliet betrayed at the waterfront. Roma & Elisa taken away somewhere & Juliet taken to her parents.

- [ ] “I think you do yourself a disservice by refusing to hope.”
- [ ] “Why?” “Because I love him and you tried to take him from me.”
- [ ] “Pain always faded even if it refused to fully disappear.”

- [ ] Someone is trying to convince the gangs that they are being blackmailed by each other to ignite the blood feud further. Benedickt figured out it’s a ploy but Tyler is launching an attack
- [ ] Roma & Juliet have a real physical fight. She jumps in front of a blade he threw when his sister popped up so she wouldn’t get hit - Juliet took the blade in her shoulder. Roma stitches her up

Their fathers want them to work together to find out who is blackmailing them
- [ ] $10 Rosalind is the spy & working with Dimitri
- [ ] “It was always going to be hope that ruined her.”
- [ ] Get stranded overnight in the town they traveled to and the only place available to stay is a whore house! The girls all want some of Roma so he lies and says Juliet is his wife. 🤣

- [ ] “I made my choice to believe in you. Now you make yours. Will you keep fighting or will you crumble?”
- [ ] “Even the land of dreams needs to wake up sometimes.”

- [ ] I just really love her writing style. She sets the scene wonderfully.
- [ ] She asks why he betrayed her 4 years ago and he said he had no choice. We find out that attacking all those people was a compromise because his father wanted him to kill Juliet and he refused because he loved her.

- [ ] Roma’s little sister infected! Able to knock her out before she tore out her throat
- [ ] Roma & Juliet agree to work together in secret to find answers
- [ ] Someone is stalking & trying to kill Roma & Juliet
- [ ] Unable to cut out the bugs

] Someone blew up the servants house at Juliet’s family home. Leaves a white rose with a note pinned to it “my son sends his regards.” That’s why she was sent away.
- [ ] Roma’s mother has killed by the Scarlet Gang 4 years ago in retaliation.
- [ ] The bugs are burrowing under the skin and into brains
- [ ] “The most dangerous people are the powerful white men who feel as if they’ve been slighted.”

- [ ] Shanghai
- [ ] Gang wars. The Russians - the white flowers vs the Scarlet Gang. They’re all attacked by something in the water?
- [ ] 1926
- [ ] Juliet just returned after 4 years away. Her father runs the city’s underground.
- [ ] She’s been sent to the West for education
- [ ] Roma, heir to the Russian mob shows up. They have a history.

- [ ] “When something is not longer true it is no longer real.”
- [ ] “Pain makes animals mean but I must be more than just an animal now.”
- [ ] “But you understood, as I do, that survival is not a battle you win only once. You must fight it again every day.”

Paganism vs Judea-Christian vs Slavic folklore

- [ ] Reflection of Patricia’s time at magic school

- [ ] Love that Patricia keeps making Dr. Who references
- [ ] Patricia has to save a friend of his that accidentally got sucked into another universe. She had to make a magical bargain with Laurence to get it to work and he has to give her the smallest thing he owns… not realizing that would probably be his grandma’s engagement ring!
- [ ] Two different types of magic: healers & tricksters

- [ ] They are attacked by monsters while they sleep and only she and the one-eyed captain survive. Only, he’s not just any captain - he’s the prince!
- [ ] People like his bastard half-brother better than him because their country is at war with the country Gáspár’s (the prince) mother was from
- [ ] Stumble upon a small village whose people are disappearing

- [ ] Her mother was taken by the Woodsmen
- [ ] The old seer has a vision that the Woodsmen are coming to collect a seer. They disguise Évike, against her will, as a trick so the village won’t lose their next seer

- [ ] Évike is the main character. Women inherit magic and she’s the only girl in her village without any magic

- [ ] “Instead these people seemed to accept one another and feed each other tacos.”
- [ ] Laurence makes a stupid deal when drunk with wizards.
- [ ] Really hate that Patricia’s magic friends keep saying she has an ego when she’s genuinely just interested in helping people

- [ ] “Boredom is the brains scar tissue.”

- [ ] Starts with Alexis & Raina. Reimagining of their first time
- [ ] I forgot how fantastic her sex scenes are
- [ ] NSFW
- [ ] Next one is a reimagining of a scene from City of Ruin. Fucks her against the garden wall
- [ ] Story 3 is from City of Ruin - Helena & Ronan’s first time
-Ronan is a virgin!
-Story 4 Alexus, Petra, & Colden
-One bed trope!
-Colden and Alexus don’t have problems “interacting”

- [ ] Appreciate her speaking about knowing when to start and when to stay. Brings me a lot of peace at this time.
- [ ] I love all the book references

- [ ] Laurence and Patricia get stoned and talk about relationship problems
- [ ] Love that Roberta keeps getting arrested or ending up in the ER 🤣
- [ ] Lord Umber is a genius name for an umbrella

- [ ] Starts with her shitting on Trump for standing in front of the Episcopalian church holding a Bible (upside down) during the BLM protests (St. John’s church)
- [ ] talks about decisive moments with humility, grace, and encouragement.
- [ ] Appreciate that she goes out of her way to call our white privilege in the church and raising black voices

- [ ] Red drugs Charlie because he knows she won’t undo their tether. He needs to go somewhere and knows she wouldn’t otherwise go willingly
- [ ] She wakes up to find the tether is gone!
- [ ] Red almost killed. She finds a remaining vial of Vince’s shadow and combines them.
- [ ] Red admits he has feelings for Charlie

- [ ] Red has to pretend to be Remy for an evening with his friends. Charlie gets wasted
- [ ] Incestuous relationship with Adeline against his will
- [ ] Something weird is going on with the shadows

- [ ] Starts w/ Charlie fighting the Blight
- [ ] One of the Kabal leaders wants Charlie to find the blight that was part of. Church massacre
- [ ] “You didn’t grow old with a monster. You set the world on fire together and burned up with the blaze.”
- [ ] Mark, get ex, who shot her, gets out of prison and shows up