#parasolverse

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Nicky Hemick- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

Genevieve Lefoux- The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

Jack Wolcott- Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire

Benji Ovich- Beartown by Frederik Backman

#Nicky Hemick #aftg #the foxhole court #tfc #the kings men #the raven king #all for the game #Nora Sakavic #Genevieve Lefoux #The Parasol Protectorate #Parasolverse #The Parasol Protectorate series #Gail Carriger #Jack Wolcott #Wayward Children Series #Wayward Children #Seanan McGuire #Benji Ovich #Beartown #Frederik Backman #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[rebuke-me]

sometimes a family is a bubbly lady who was raised by an eccentric gay vampire, her french engineer lover, a practical minded lesbian, a werelioness with an affinity for tassels, an academic redhead who gets pegged, and a female doctor with an assassin mother.  plus the bubbly lady's cousin who tried to kill her and his trans woman interpreter/spy wife

#parasol protectorate #parasolverse #custard protocol #the custard protocol #gail carriger #rue akeldama #quesnel lefoux #primrose tunstell #tasherit sekhmet #percy tunstell #arsenic ruthven #rodrigo tarabotti #anitra floote

[forthehonor0fgreywhales]

I recently started re-reading the finishing school books because I cleaned my room and finally found my copy of Etiquette and Espionage. Bean is having lots of fun chewing on the cover and pouncing on the pages whenever I try to turn them!

#parasolverse #parasol protectorate #etiquette and espionage #I forgot why I loved these books so much. they’re just incredibly well-written and so fun to read #I’ve practically read them a million times each but they never get old

[soufre-de-paris]

okay so with ds2 done (rah rah) and only one book in this series left to read, i'm going to get back to working on 「midsummer」 and hopefully finishing it, starting tomorrow. today i'll laze and finish reading and maybe reread the lyall x biffy part for the third time

#paris on paris #paris midsummernight #dark souls woes #parasolverse

[lingeriewitch]

I wonder what other historical characters would be supernatural in the parasolverse. 🤔 Specifically, I’m curious @gailcarriger , how about Wu Xetian? She feels like vampire material.

I feel the the Boxer Rebellion would also make for an excellent supernatural conspiracy.

#just parasol thoughts #gail carriger #parasolverse #parasol protectorate #custard protocol #carrigerverse

[unconnectedreads]

I'm currently rereading Gail Carriger's Parasolverse books in chronological order. Of course I decided to do this after I was already 80% of the way through Soulless but what can you do?

So far I've read

The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't

Etiquette and Espionage

Curtsies and Conspiracies

Waistcoats and Weaponry

Manners and Mutiny

Poison or Protect

Defy or Defend

Meat Cute

Soulless

Changeless

Blameless

Heartless

Timeless

Romancing the Inventor

*Waiting on Ambush or Adore to be returned to the library.

I think this leaves me with 7 more books? Might be wrong. I'm good at reading not math.

#gail carriger #Parasolverse #alexia maccon #reading goals

[habitat-enrichment]

Parasolverse by Gail Carriger

As a general concept, I cannot express how much I adore every series in this universe. Each series has a cast of interesting and dislikeable characters, and there's a nice sprinkling of LGBT characters. That said - there are some problems. Some of which are centered around the author's world building continuity, and some of which are centered around narrative issues in the audiobooks.

Since the narrative issues are mostly personal preference and not critical to the consumption of the books, let's discuss that first and then move on to the meat and potatoes of the situation. I absolutely understand that it's not feasible or even sometimes desirable for extended universe's like this to have one consistent narrator. I do not understand how people get paid to narrate a series in the midst of an extended universe and don't even bother to listen to name pronunciations in the other books, or to learn anything about the characters. It's annoying enough that we apparently can't agree on a single pronunciation for Lord Akeldama (sp), but in the Custard Protocol series the narrator literally CHANGES THE NATIONALITY of a character by giving an Italian accent to a dandy who has never in his life left London and is **not** Italian. It takes a character readers have spent 5+ books with and completely changes the entire perception of him in a way that is not a good representation of the books.

Now, the continuity issues within the books themselves are significant enough that it seems ironic to complain about narrator continuity issues. From this point on, there will be spoilers.

I'm only going to be discussing the full length novels, not any of the novellas.

The Finishing School [FS] series which introduces us to the series is a solid, entertaining read that I have basically no complaints about.

The Parasol Protectorate series follows the 20's portions of the life of, we can safely assume, the child Sophronia was hired to to guard at the end of the previous series. All good there. Lord Akeldama is a delight. Alexia is a likeable yet flawed main character.

My only real continuity mention in this series is that Sidheag and Vieve seem to not know each other? But potentially they're shamming because its the sort of thing they learned in FS.

The Custard Protocol is particularly fun because we are seeing the aetheric science of the future that was discussed in FS, and we see many returning characters from FS. That said... We have some issues here, y'all.

1. The Alpha's Curse: the author sped things up to make a more tidy and exciting timeline. It was unnecessary. Lord Maccon could have retired to Egypt in dignity, and would have, had the progression of the curse gone according to previously established parameters.

2. The LeFoux preservation tank: in the PP series kept Madame Lefoux from FS in ghost form for *years*, and yet Formerly Floot is a ghost for months at most. At the end of the series, Q says the preservation tank was inspired by Rue disliking baths but this is inaccurate, as the original and apparently significantly better designed tank was invented many years before Rue's birth.

These problems can ultimately be summed up in the same way: if you're going to make the "science" and call it such, you cant change it willy nilly just to make your timeline more dramatic.

3. Timelines - Ivy Tunstall was not a girl at the same time as Genevieve L, they should be approximately ~10 years apart in age.

#gail carriger #parasolverse #finishing school series #parasol protectorate series #custard protocol series #continuity errors #fav comfort reads

[klm-zoflorr]

What do you call it when Madame Lefoux gets called a slur while working in her shop ?

A hat crime

#the parasol protectorate #soulless #gail carriger #the parasolverse #madame lefoux #klm-zoflorr #joke explanation: She works in a hat shop. it would be a hate crime. #top tag

[doronjosama]

Bleach Brave Souls GET!!! 5* Izuru, 5* Japanese Parasol Nelliel, 5* Ichigo and 5* Toshiro! The Parasol Nelliel is really cute, I wish more people cosplayed these game variants. #BleachBraveSouls #bleach #TiteKubo #PhoneGames #GachaGames #izuru #nelliel #ichigokurosaki #toshirohitsugaya #parasolversion #SoulSociety #SoulReaper #5star #UltraRare #tickets #summons #get #vidya #GamerGirl #FilthyCasual #Fujoshi4Life #klab #klabgames https://www.instagram.com/p/CdZ6j5JsSHn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bleachbravesouls #bleach #titekubo #phonegames #gachagames #izuru #nelliel #ichigokurosaki #toshirohitsugaya #parasolversion #soulsociety #soulreaper #5star #ultrarare #tickets #summons #get #vidya #gamergirl #filthycasual #fujoshi4life #klab #klabgames

[neptune83]

Yooooooo I just finished The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger and it was so good!!! I don’t read a ton of non-fiction, especially not about writing, but  I picked this book up because I love Gail Carriger’s writing (I’ve read most of her Parasolverse and I’m planning on reading her other series eventually) and it was definitely worth it! Would highly recommend to “writers, readers, and fans of pop culture” as it says on the cover. 

#gail carriger #the heroine’s journey #books #books recommendations

[definitelyyessnakedemons]

so i ordered a series of books that i've been meaning to re-read but i got them secondhand off ebay and one of the books got here yesterday but it's the FOURTH one in a series of 4 so yeah, i am impatient for the rest of them to get here (if anyone is wondering it's the Custard Protocol series by Gail Carriger, which is the only part of the Parasolverse that's been missing from my collection.)

#real life stuff #book stuff

[rebuke-me]

#jupiter's blorbo battle #jeremy heere #be more chill #Biffy #parasolverse

[verityreadsbooks]

Series I love redux: Parasolverse

It was Halloween this week, so it seems an appropriate time to remind you all of one of my favourite universes – and one of the not many I read that feature the supernatural. I’ve mentioned my slightly iffy relationship with books with vampires, werewolves and the like before, and my total inability to work out in advance what sort of supernatural series I’m going to like, and which I’m not. But…

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#series redux

[soufre-de-paris]

and What Hells Yesterday Brought have continued into today, and will continue until they resolve. there is nothing i can do to help, except research and comfort and support and gentleness. and seethe, but that's more on me and my inclinations than anything else.

i reminded those involved again that amongst chimpanzees, should one chimpanzee turn greedy and cruel, rather than tolerate that individual, the group would kill the offender. and then eat them. smart creatures, chimps.

have i mentioned recently that guillotines are markedly easy to build?

back to ds2 interspersed with reading, and here is probably one of my favorite Ivy-isms from the parasolverse.

#paris on paris #afk shit is excruciating as always #dark souls #parasolverse

[quoteablebooks]

"Turns out I was looking for you." "You're being sweet to me. I don't know what to do when you're sweet." "I shall go back to being a cad momentarily"

Major Channing Channing and Faith Wigglesworth How to Marry a Werewolf by Gail Carriger 

#major channing channing #Faith Wigglesworth #How to Marry a Werewolf #Gail Carriger #A Claw and Courtship Novella #parasolverse

[forthehonor0fgreywhales]

Important question: are werelionesses catgirls?

#parasolverse #the parasolverse #custard protocol #finishing school series #parasol protectorate #tasherit sekhmet #primrose tunstell #fanart