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agardenandlibrary · 3 days
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I read Rivers of London for the rivers 🤷‍♀️
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evenaturtleduck · 7 months
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One thing I really love about the Rivers of London series is that the narrator is this guy who is canonically interested in almost everything and periodically gets distracted during stakeouts because he stops to read a plaque, so it's very natural in the course of the narration for him to be like, "Hold that thought and let me tell you the history of this very tasteful lingerie shop in Soho."
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philcoulsonismyhero · 1 month
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I'm doing some rereading, and this bit in Broken Homes always cracks me up. You're both nerds, lads, let's move on
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DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?
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micamicster · 9 months
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A soundtrack for an as-yet theoretical tv show
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softest-punk · 2 months
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Hello friends I have finished a WIP 🎉
Sandman/Rivers of London crossover | Dream/Hob + Nightingale/Molly + Hob & Molly | 8k | G-Rated | Complete
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June 17th, 1989
“This would be a much more straightforward question if you could give me some indication as to what your friend is,” DCI Thomas Nightingale says between sips of tea. Robert Gadling, known to his friends as Hob, world’s only—as far as Nightingale knows—utterly non-magical immortal, gestures vaguely.
The high summer sun floods the Folly’s atrium with light as they sit over afternoon tea. A light sheen of sweat beads on Hob’s forehead. A consequence, Nightingale suspects, of his insistence on wearing an up-to-the-minute polyester suit. In his own summer linens, he finds the temperature very comfortable.
“I don’t bloody well know,” Hob says. “One of your genius loci maybe? Or something like it. All I know is that he’s at least as old as me and I have never run into him between centennial meetings. But he’s always showed up. Until this one.”
“After a fight at your last one,” Nightingale points out between sips of tea. A new blend? There’s a lightness to it that feels very appropriate to the season. He’ll ask Molly later.
“Yes,” Hob admits. “And okay, maybe he just didn’t want to see me. But maybe something’s wrong. You’re the bloody magic police, I’m here to report a missing, almost certainly magical person. Sort’ve your job to do something about it.”
“Arguably,” Nightingale allows. “But without so much as a name or an idea of what—”
“Thomas,” Hob interrupts. “Please.”
Hob Gadling has at this point employed the use of velvet brown eyes and a softening of his brows which Nightingale had once been quite enamoured with, and which he suspects are the secret to a relatively successful six hundred years. They are difficult to refuse.
Their brief affair some fifty years ago had ultimately led them both to the conclusion that they were better as friends. Not due to any inherent incompatibility between them, but because their hearts were each already spoken for.
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suddenly-frankenstein · 2 months
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the bunch of Thomas Nightingale (and Toby) from the "Rivers of London" commissions I did for @buntcadger
god, I haven't read the books yet (!!) but I already love this man sm :)
+ a lil silly photo booth series
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thesporkidentity · 3 months
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things that only really hit on a re-read. nightingale you little shit you think you're soooo funny don't you xD
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corainne · 8 months
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Reasons I love Beverley Brook, an incomplete list:
No respect for authority and no fucks given
Fucking nerd
Passive agressive about pollution
Brought a shotgun to a magic fight
Practically adopts her boyfriend's weird kid cousin
Shit at housework
Better friends with her boyfriend's boss than her boyfriend is
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jmswallow · 5 months
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All issues of the Rivers Of London: Here Be Dragons mini-series from Titan Comics are out now!
I had a great time working on these comics and I hope fans will enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them...
I want to thank Ben Aaronovitch for inviting me to write a story in the Rivers of London world, and top folks Andrew Cartmel, Jose Maria Beroy, David Cabeza, Jordi Escuin Llorach, Jim Campbell, David Leach, V.V. Glass (@anadapta), Veronica Fish, Patricio Clarey, David M. Buisan (@davidmbuisan), Gyula Nemeth (@gynemeth) and Abigail J. Harding (@abz-j-harding), who were a pleasure to work with! 🐉 🚁 🎸
The collected edition of Rivers Of London: Here Be Dragons will be out in December!
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agardenandlibrary · 2 months
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Peter: you can't call them black magicians.
Nightingale: given that we are likely the only people who will ever use this terminology, how important is this, really
Peter: Some people would call *me* a black magician.
Nightingale: then what should we call them?
Peter: ethically challenged magicians.
One book later:
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garglyswoof · 3 months
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@jinxedwood I put the rivers of London on my wishlist and got it for Christmas. Page one is off to a hilarious and relatable start.
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philcoulsonismyhero · 5 months
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I Should be sleeping, but unfortunately I finished relistening to Moon Over Soho again earlier after I finished Amongst Our Weapons again the other day and decided to just loop back around, and I continue to be Deeply not normal about Thomas Nightingale.
2396 names of wizards who died in WWII and he personally carved every single one of them into the remembrance wall at Casterbrook. 3 out of 5 of every military aged wizard in Britain died and the rest of them gave up the craft due to injury and/or trauma, but he persisted, alone. He started aging backwards in his 70s but stopped at the approximate age he was during the war. He still remembers how and where all of his friends died. "Some days, it seems so long ago, and some days..."
I keep thinking of the DS9 pilot and the Prophets bringing Sisko back to his wife's death over and over again because "you exist here". Nightingale still exists in the war. And then Peter comes along and drags him into the 21st century and refuses to let him stay wallowing in his grief and spots Exactly all the ways in which he's broken and needs someone to keep the cracks from widening. Peter’s mum says what would one more killing be to a man with blood on his hands, and Peter thinks of the strain he's seen in Nightingale and decides no, no more, there's Always Another Way. For moral and ethical reasons, but also because Nightingale has been damaged enough. And it started when he put his foot down over the jazz vampires and threw 'what did all your friends die for?' in Nightingale's face.
I am. So very Not Normal about them in general and about that conversation in particular
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doctorhimbeere · 7 months
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Nightingale: I'm at a loss for words
Abigail and Peter: Despite being at a loss for words, Nightingale yelled at us for the next 45 minutes
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clunelover · 7 months
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Okay book rec - I’m obsessed with this series, Rivers of London, about a young London police officer who meets a ghost and then ends up being inducted into the magic arm of the police. Then the books are sort of combination crime and sci fi/fantasy? I’m always hesitant to tell people about them cause they’re not Literary Fiction (🙄) but - they’re funny and interesting and exciting and unique…I can’t speak to what it’s like to just read them, because I do them as audiobooks, which I really really recommend - they’re read by a Ghanaian-British man with the most amaaaazing voice that IMO is essential to the books as I’ve experienced them. Anyway, without giving too much away, some of the things that make them unique:
- the protagonist is biracial, his dad is a white British guy and his mom is from Sierra Leone. The author is himself a white guy married to an African woman, and they have a biracial son, so I think he draws from that, in a way that feels…idk, like, smart about race, but in a casual way that sometimes comes close to skirting the lines of what is PC, but always stays on the right side of that, and seems true to the character, and nobody is a stereotype? Very deftly done.
- the protagonist has an interest in architecture so there’s random sprinklings about architectural styles and history of London that again feels true to the character and not forced, but also very unique and interesting
- the supernatural elements are very well realized and not hokey
- Like the pitch perfect way race and class are handled, there’s a similarly deft touch to addiction, sexuality, gender identity, etc. (but again not in that heavy handed “there are Diverse Characters in this book!” way). Like…okay I am going to spoil one little moment from like the 8th book in the series because I keep coming back to it as a great example:
The detective is meeting a group of people and identifies one as “a white woman with short brown hair” and then when the introductions are made (paraphrasing this to the best of my memory):
“She said, ‘my name’s Victor,’ with a particular emphasis on the name, as if to say ‘here’s a clue, let’s see if you get one.’ I shook his hand and said I was pleased to meet him.” Like - it just felt so real, he thought it was a woman, he found out he was wrong, he switched pronouns in his mind.
- And then the intrigue and suspense and all that across the books is great too
So, I’ve listened to all 9 of these books (and am DYING for the next one) multiple times, just like any time I’m doing something and need something to listen to, I re-listen to one of them because repetition is so soothing to me. I strongly recommend them AS AUDIOBOOKS
Oh also I think they’re being developed into a tv show, so get on it now so you can say you liked the books better!!
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