#The Parasol Protectorate

[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

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#soulless: the manga #soulless #parasol protectorate #the parasol protectorate #gail carriger #yen press #eol manga #manga #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[mygeekcorner]

For the book ask

8 13 16 23 25 38 52 53 90 and 135 :)

8 a book you finished in one sitting

It wasn't the first time I read it so if that's how we're counting this isn't the right answer but:

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis. Growing up my mum would read us Narnia and when I was old enough to read myself it was the first series I devoured so I have a very nostalgic glow about the whole thing. When I was somewhere in my mid-20s my parents asked me to house- and dog-sit for them when they went abroad for a week. Which was all well and good until I got the flu halfway through. I remember going into their library and finding The Horse and His Boy, mums favourite from all seven books, and then just laying in their bed reading it as I waited for my fever to go down, and with a blizzard howling outside the windows. I finished the book before I finished my coughing fits, but it was a very comforting night thanks to all the memories attached to the book.

13 your favorite romance novel

Oh god. So here's the thing, right? Here is The. Thing. I read a lot of books that Have romance in them - are they very good books? Yes. Are they romance novels? No. Do I read romance novels too? Yes. Do I like them as much as Stories? No.

But I guess if I had to pick one I like that has romance as the focus I enjoyed Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen when I read it in school. Even if I was more interested in the family dynamics than the romance. Sorry.

16 a book you’d recommend to your younger self

There are quite a few I think baby Geeky would have liked, but also many of them weren't out when I was the perfectly intended age so I don't know if it disqualifies them?

Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist was a very good book I got in a gift-exchange with an online friend and I think I would have liked it just as much if I had read it in school as I did in my 20s. And back then I might have had the energy to get my hands on the whole rest of the series and not just one more book rip.

23 a book that is currently on your TBR

We do not speak of my to-be-read pile.

This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone is the most recent buy to be added to it after I happened upon it earlier this summer. Trigun twitter tells me to go in blind though so I still have no idea what awaits me.

25 a book by your favourite author

Ok so I haven't actually had a favourite author since I was a preteen. Not because there aren't good authors out there, I just haven't been like Dedicated(TM) to reading all of their books like that. But the last time I had a favourite it was Eva Ibbotson because she had so many .. I want to use Finurlig but there's no proper translation for it .. clever in the tingly exciting way that makes you want to poke it? delightfully innocent yet clever stories and I just reveled in them as a child. Especially Not Just a Witch, the one where the two witch besties broke up because they both wore the same hat made of snakes to graduation, but then they came together to defeat the man who was two-timing them for capitalistic reasons.

38 your favourite series

I don't have favourites as such. Anymore. But I always have a blast reading The Parasol Protectorate Series by Gail Carriger, there is just something about a supernatural Victorian London with romance and queer rep that just tickles me. I love watching Alexia have tea with the most flamboyant vampire ever, admiring her werewolf husband´s behind, and hitting evil scientists with her umbrella. All while her ditzy bestie is trying to tell her all about the latest fashion in hats. Who wouldn't love to read about chaos like that?

52 a popular book/series that you love

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a brilliant trilogy and we are all correct for saying it.

The themes! The brutality! The way I was bawling on the bus and couldn't stop for hours after finishing Mockingjay? Fucking superb you funky little YA-book.

53 a popular book/series that you hate

Is it cheating to say Twilight here? ^^;

It really wasn't for me, sorry to anyone who hoped differently. I did finish it for research (fanwar) purposes though. That's a week I'll never get back.

90 the longest book you’ve read

So I said when I got this ask before that it was probably Gone with the Wind (418,053 words) or one of the A Song of Ice and Fire books and apparently A Storm of Swords (424,000 words) and A Dance with Dragons (422,000 words) would all look very promising for longest novel I've read. And they were all worth the pages they took.

135 recommend any book you like!

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, listen I know none of us tumblrinas actually miss anything that Neil puts out, and this was a big one at that. But it really was so good and scary and inventive and I had a really good time being creeped out by the coins showing up in peoples mouths over night.

#ask me stuff #books #disturbnottheharmony #narnia #chronicles of narnia #silverthorn #this is how you lose the time war #eva ibbotson #not just a witch #The Parasol Protectorate #soulless #hunger games #ocean at the end of the lane #game of thrones #gone with the wind #sense and sensibility #jane austen

[ghostieliving]

Dandy ex machina: when Lord Akeldama's drones swoop in and save the main characters from perilous situations

#gail carriger #the parasol protectorate #lord akeldama #lord Akeldama's drones #i was also thinking but that would be like... god in the dandy which is a likely thing to happen but not really #what i was going for #dandy ex machina

[jojotier]

can’t wait to do my yearly reread of the parasol protectorate manga adaptation and also yearn for a comic adaptation of that spin off short story where the gay werewolves keep finding babies left on their doorstep and are increasingly baffled and worried about it

#things i've read #the parasol protectorate #speaking of i gotta keep an eye out for that akeldama spin off hbhm

[ghost-inacup]

Would anyone be interested in a gail carriger's books' discord server?

please tell me cause i dont want to put in more effort than i have to before exams

#gail carriger #the finishing school series #the parasol protectorate #parasol protectorate #finishing school #custard protocol #the custard protocol #Alexia Tarabotti #Lord Conall Maccon #Professor Randolph Lyall #Ivy Hisselpenny #Lord Akeldama #Countess Nadasdy #Biffy #Lord connan #Tofa Borregaard #Sophronia #sophronia temminick #sidheag maccon #felix mersy #agatha woosmoss #Dimity Ann Plumleigh-Teignmott #dimity plumleigh-teignmott

[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

[little-lady-bird]

My favorite author isnt accepting asks or messages right now but I needed Ms.Carriger to know that I love her series The Parasol Protectorate. It gives me life and I'd kill (figuratively) for signed copies. Please go read it if you haven't and you like supernatural themes and steampunk

@gailcarriger sorry to randomly tag you but all the above!!

#reading #The Parasol Protectorate #it's an amazing series i love it so much

[cricketnationrise]

20 questions for fic writers

Thanks to @cha-melodius, @kiwiana-writes, and @happiness-of-the-pursuit for the tags!

How many works do you have on ao3?

253

What's your total ao3 word count?

481,635

What fandoms do you write for?

RWRB, Check Please!, Tortall, verrrry occassionally The Parasol Protectorate

Top five fics by kudos:

Going Platinum - camboy!Alex AU

Burnin' Through the Sky - speed dating meet-cute

Set in Platinum - camboy!Alex sequel

warm from the inside out - some stuff happens under a desk 😉

Downburst - In The Shadow of Two Gunmen/West Wing AU

Do you respond to comments?

I have responded to every comment so far!

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't tend to write angsty endings. That being said, this Check, Please! ficlet I wrote for @shygryf is very angsty: Hotel Room, Mar. 1 (I did fix it with a later ficlet, but on it's own...)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of them tbh. I'm an unrepentant happy ending lover.

Do you get hate on fics?

Nothing that comes to mind--I've been extremely lucky. I've gotten some baffling ones and some with a strange tone, but I think that's more down to English not being their first language, not hate.

Do you write smut?

Yes.

Craziest crossover:

I tend toward fusions/AUs rather than actual crossovers. Although there are Check Please! easter eggs in the Going Platinum universe.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of, although I would hope that any translator would have let me know so that I can flail in overwhelmed gratitude.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not yet, although there's one that's been sitting for a year-ish that I'm gonna be really excited to finally get to.

All time favorite ship?

I won't choose and you can't make me.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Not right now. All the wips I've got that are more than just like, one line or a title, I'm really excited about writing and sharing.

What are your writing strengths?

Immersive descriptions, humor, and metaphors. This bitch loves a metaphor.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Action scenes. I'm getting better, but any time I have a particularly big action scene I beg on my knees for @cha-melodius to get into the doc.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Only If I feel confident about the translation. I'll usually get a native speaker to check it over if it's more than an easy phrase I already know/can google, especially if it's a whole conversation.

First fandom you wrote in?

Check, Please!

Favorite fic you've written?

You're so mean to me making me pick. Le sigh, fine.

Check, Please!: How Delightful if that Were True - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society AU (100% homegrown epistolary baybee)

RWRB: More Than Brick and Mortar - sentient Brownstone AU, magical realism

Tortall: i'll rise up in spite of the ache - hockey AU of First Test

Parasol Protectorate: No Small Matter - 5+1 pranks on Conall that I wrote for @homobiwan

(narrowing these down was absolute agony, btw. hope you're happy.)

Tags under the cut, but if you wanna do this, who am I to stop you? Aka consider this your open tag.

@celeritas2997 @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @inexplicablymine @leaves-of-laurelin @anincompletelist

@firenati0n @missanniewhimsy @montrealmadison @doggernaut @parvuls

#cricket writes #writer games #20 questions #rwrb #omgcp #tortall #parasol protectorate #check please #personal faves

[rebuke-me]

being in obscure fandoms that have been largely dead be like *three fics for a main ship* *two fics for a ship you cannot even fathom happening* *crackfic from 2015 that includes some sort of not typical drug use* *everything is unfinished* *two fics that are actually good* and thats it. u scroll through one page and ur two years back.

#parasol protectorate #we are the tigers #we know the devil

[best-childhood-book]

My fantasy book suggestions:

The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

The Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente

Added them all!

#ask #submission #parasol protectorate #world of the five gods #fire and hemlock #fairyland

[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

[googleyfish]

If anyone has read The Parasol Protectorate books and the Custard Protocol books and wants to talk to me about the please do I’m begging you I have no one to talk to about them

#gail carriger #parasol protectorate #custard protocol

[ghostieliving]

Yknow, when you go to those sanctuaries where they have wolves and wolf dogs that were rescued from the pet trade, the guide asks if you'd like to be informed if the wolves signal that you're pregnant. Cause like the wolves can smell that you're pregnant and will act differently towards you, and they'd had issues with guides asking how far along people are n stuff because the wolves knew but the pregnant people didn't. Just makes me surprised that Lord Macon didn't already know that Alexia was pregnant in Changeless. I guess werewolves could just not have the ability to sniff out pregnancy because they generally don't reproduce like that?? Idk

#wolves #werewolves #the parasol protectorate #pregnancy

[jojotier]

It has come to my attention that "lusus" is actually Latin and the first half of "lusus naturae", roughly translating into "sport of nature" or "playing nature". A lusus is Literally A Simulcarum Of A Real Natural Animal and implied to not actually be a real animal that evolved from the land, meaning: Where Did They Come From And What Did Alternia Do To The Real Animals

#homestuck #hs^2 #also #in light of the [REDACTED] Rose is up to #thank you parasol protectorate your victorian steampunk wiles assist me daily #lusus #homestuck lusus #lusii

[colorsandwords]

I understand the appeal of erotica in werewolf novels, okay? We’re all monsterfuckers here. But I am asexual and sometimes want my werewolves without the smut.

The Parasol Protectorate and Finishing School series by Gail Carriger are really good, I think they have some of the most interesting takes on transformation and pack dynamics. But I finished the first, am almost finished with the second, and my local library doesn’t have much of the other related series.

So does anyone have recommendations for other werewolf books that aren’t just smut or weird, straight omegaverse?

#book recommendations #book request #parasol protectorate #werewolf