#but they're all on the run back to Montfort

[lilyharvord]

Hey! I just recently finished reading all your fanfics and I was wondering if you are planning on writing more about Shade and Coriane... I can’t stop reading your story “Forelsket”!!! Coriane and Nik are too cute!!! Anyways, I finished the Red Queen series a few days ago and I just can’t help but feel like we needed a 5th book so I’m just reading all the fics that I can and yours are DEFINITELY the best! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible writing!

You’re so sweet!! Thank you 🥰

I’d love to write more about Coriane and Shade!!! (: As for Nik and Coriane, I love them. Like I love them unconditionally. Talk about a match I never intended to happen but then it did. 

Welcome to the Red Queen Family!!!!! We definitely needed a 5th book and the more I comment and give my hot takes on how the series could have worked a little better, the more I definitely want a fifth book *side eyes my mountain of WIPs* if I only had TIME. 

#(*ask lily*) #(*shut up lily*) #FUCK now I have secret project 3 #god dammit #red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #broken throne #post broken throne #damn #listen #hear me out on this... #they lose the fight in Archeon #Maven doesn't die... just yet maybe #but they're all on the run back to Montfort #and now Mare and Cal have to deal with shit #have to deal with each other #Cal's technically not king so his whole abdication arc occurs in the fifth book #give me more Maven being a sarcastic shit or give me death #Farley and her daughter are featured more with the Guard #they have to beat back the lakelands #and its just a battle fest and pinning infested book #More evangeline dealing with the trauma and not knowing where she belongs #more iris and her mom #holy shit #oh no #its becoming a real thing

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

The Rome Vêpres Ballet

it was pretty bonkers. a lot happened.

so there's this big ol' slab of rock that's been sitting there for a while and after Henri storms off, the ballet starts with Montfort taking a sledgehammer and breaking the slab, only to reveal (surprise!) that inside is Henri's dead mother...

who proceeds to rise from the grave.

then what I think happens is that we get a flashback to a party where Montfort is dancing with Henri's mother and lots of people are dancing:

fun times!

and then it turns into mass r*pe, which I am obviously not going to include pictures of that.

then some other women come in to help the victims and Hélène is one of them??? even though this is supposed to be a flashback to 20-some years ago I think???

and then they all clean up and eventually start throwing water at each other, playing with each other, it's all quite fun.

then Henri talks to his dead mom because yeah:

then they leave and the women come back on and it turns out they're apparently all pregnant??? and then they imitate giving birth???

and then their kids come running on and in a really sweet moment, the moms and kids all start playing:

then a bunch of French soldiers come in and ruin it but the kids are resourceful and they throw stones at the soldiers until they collapse and roll offstage:

next all the kids except one little girl run off and a bunch of Sicilian guys come in and put Henri's mom's crypt thing back together while Procida becomes Sweet Father Figure and starts playing with the little girl:

and then she runs off and then more Sicilians come on and Procida leads Stoning the French practice:

and then they get chased off by some French people who are preparing the stage for the ball scene and a bunch of streamers drop down and a bunch of drunk French party guests stagger on:

and then the ballet ends with more party guests arriving and everyone starts bopping with the music:

idk. it was all over the place. very trippy.

#opera #opera tag #Les vêpres siciliennes #The Sicilian Vespers #I vespri siciliani #but what was actually going on? what is this supposed to be? #ballet #Verdi #Giuseppe Verdi