Unconventional Post

[thisbluespirit]

1. genprompt_bingo is open for sign-ups for its latest round! (I have a bingo to post from my last card, so I think I shall get a new one! soon! \o/)

2. allbingo is having a Gothic Bingo for April, which I haven't looked at properly yet, but I feel I should. I mean, I haven't done the flowers one yet, but it's not as if anyone minds at allbingo and I am making progress.

3. unconventionalcourtship is back! And this time it's 10, can you believe it? Anyway, snag yourself an improbable romance novel summary and then commit fic crimes with it. What more could anyone ask of a fest?

3b. Never forget you can ask the UC Generator for ideas. It may not help but it will make life seem brighter, and is exactly what those summaries deserve, really.

4. Not quite on the same lines as the above, but you know how sometimes you're looking at the books on the supermarket's charity bookstall and then you see one so terrible you have to pay 50p and bring it home with you to examine more carefully and also show your internet friends exactly what a terrible thing you have just acquired?



It promises to be just as terrible as it looks, but I think I will have to at least skim it sometime to check.

Comments

[lurking_latinist]

It's the Penguin-looking cover that does it for me!

[thisbluespirit]

It is very authentically done!! XD

[scifirenegade]

Went to check the gen prompt bingo and... oh dear... Henry VIII Wolfman is sure going to live in my brain now.

[thisbluespirit]

genprompt_bingo is a lovely one to do, I think! And, yes, um, Henry VIII: Wolfman - just think how I felt when I suddenly saw it staring up at me from the table of old books in the supermarket!! XD

[osprey_archer]

Henry VIII: Wolfman is SO MUCH.

[thisbluespirit]

*nods* It really is a LOT.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

It promises to be just as terrible as it looks, but I think I will have to at least skim it sometime to check.

Please do, because I have questions! And we might need a "The shadow of the tower" werewolf AU! XD

[thisbluespirit]

Please do, because I have questions!

It looks very easy, so I will! idk when, because I can't stop reading Chalet Schools* until I'm finally done and I'm only just past halfway. /o\

And we might need a "The shadow of the tower" werewolf AU! XD

Henry VII did fear his house was accursed of God! And see what happens; it can only mean a curse. *nods* <3

*It is sensible to check your emergency comfort reading series is shorter than 62 in number, really.

[corvidology]

So you just bought a regular history book. FACTS!

[thisbluespirit]

Henry VIII totally ate people, obv. Apparently Queen Victoria fought demons as well, but that one wasn't lurking on the charity book table!

[corvidology]

There's a t-shirt I've seen several of our students wearing which is Abraham Lincoln fighting off three bears.

[thisbluespirit]

He and Queen Vic should team up: bear and demon fighting duo!! XD

[corvidology]

well, there was the film, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter! ;D

[romanajo123]

Playing with the UCG

And whoa… this is weirdly plausible!!

568) The Scarlet Domino by Sylvia Thorpe
the Eighth Doctor was strikingly handsome, full of brooding hatreds, and raised in a sheltered world. Melanie Bush was exceptionally beautiful, charming, and something of a vamp. Within an hour of meeting they were married.
They were both surprised by what happened. They fell in love. And Eight found the freedom he had always been denied. And Mel discovered that her life was in danger.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, just saw lurking_latinist getting Nine/Mel on tumblr last night, so clearly romance is in the air for Mel!!

[sovay]

and then you see one so terrible you have to pay 50p and bring it home with you to examine more carefully and also show your internet friends exactly what a terrible thing you have just acquired?

If it is even slightly as good as its tagline, it'll be worth it! (It's probably worth it even if it's not.)

[thisbluespirit]

It was worth it just for everybody else reacting pretty much as I did when I saw it there! One had to investigate, obv. XD

[astrogirl]

I still haven't finished my Gen Prompt Bingo card from the last round. But will that stop me from signing up for another one? No. No, it will not. An answer which, I am sure, surprises absolutely nobody.

Also, wow, that's.... that's quite a book. Yep. :)

[thisbluespirit]

But will that stop me from signing up for another one? No. No, it will not. An answer which, I am sure, surprises absolutely nobody.

Hurrah! I must a) post the bingo I actually did and b) sign up again without waiting till I reinstall the printer so I can print out the bingo or c) (radical) reinstall the printer in fact and then sign up.

Also, wow, that's.... that's quite a book. Yep. :)

It wasn't what I expected to see looking back at me on the charity book table!! XD

[astrogirl]

I've found the only time I've really needed to print out the bingo card is when I was doing the blackout. But it was very helpful then.

It wasn't what I expected to see looking back at me on the charity book table!! XD

No one expects King Henry the Werewolf! I mean, werewolves are sneaky that way, right? :)

[thisbluespirit]

I always have to have my ongoing prompt sets available offline (being an old-fashioned sort who still writes longhand) so when my printer's not working, I have to write them all out and not only is that annoying, it's just somehow never as good for working from either! XD

[persiflage_1]

If I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes, I wouldn't have believed that book was real!

[thisbluespirit]

I felt pretty much that way seeing it in the flesh (as it were). Obviously I had to bring it home and show it to the internet. XD

[persiflage_1]

Ofc! It's the only suitable response! Well, besides 😱

[lirazel]

This has to have been written in the immediate aftermath of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. What a weird trend that was!

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, that was my thought, too! It's very much the same sort of idea, only he had to write it all himself and not try and mush up Austen-prose with zombies.

[executrix]

There are several other Monster!Austen books but no Zombey and Son. Dickens Erasure!

BTW you could have just snapped a picture of the cover and saved your 50p plus however long it takes to read and throw it against the wall.

[thisbluespirit]

Zombey and Son is definitely a lost opportunity! You should get in there.

I could just have taken a picture of it if a) I had had my phone with me (I did not) and b) I was happy taking random photos of things in the supermarket (I'm not) and also c) I was not so curious that I wanted to skim the thing just for the lols myself. Otherwise a damn' fine plan, of course! ;-p

[john_amend_all]

I took a photo of a random thing (well, a romance novel) in the supermarket yesterday. By now it's in the generator and spreading its malign influence...

675) The Marriage Market by Leigh Michaels

A wedding assignment?

Leela loves running her own business, and finding a husband is far from the top of her agenda. But her friends are convinced they've found the perfect way to meet eligible men - too busy with their careers to play the dating game, they decide to throw a party and each invite two gorgeous, unattached males.

Flashheart is surprised to be on the guest list, but not as stunned as Leela when she comes face-to-face with her biggest business rival — who happens to be far too arrogantly sexy for her peace of mind. Only, Flashheart seems convinced he can solve all Leela's "problems," professional and personal, with one proposition!

From career woman... to corporate wife!

Solving any lady's problems with one proposition -- yes, that's Flashheart.

[thisbluespirit]

too busy with their careers to play the dating game, they decide to throw a party and each invite two gorgeous, unattached males.

Ah, a trilogy! XD

And, lol, that is definitely a combination, that is...

[liadt]

Thanks for the UC mention \o/ Also I fear I have missed a trick: be UC and commit fic crimes;p

I'm jealous of you just walking up to the supermarket charity table and hitting instant gold! Glad you didn't have to elbow shoppers out of the way to snag it. Love the cover: like a proper history book cover, almost! It all makes sense as to why Henry VIII was the worst husband now *nods sagely* I guess you'll have to do the gothic bingo now, woof.

[thisbluespirit]

Although, in all honestly, it's the original summary writers (and possibly the authors) who are usually committing the literary crimes! :-D

I'm jealous of you just walking up to the supermarket charity table and hitting instant gold! Glad you didn't have to elbow shoppers out of the way to snag it.

I was unaccountably the only one interested! XD I feel sure your wolves book person would disapprove highly of this sort of wolf-person approach, too.

I guess you'll have to do the gothic bingo now, woof.

I should at least look at the prompts, right?

[liadt]

True, but I like to think UC-ers are extra criminaler for going near the summaries, lol.

What's wrong with people these days? On the upside for real wolf book lovers at least Henry VIII gets to keep his coat on, werewolves usually tend towards the headless chiselled male torso covers (Ghosts x-over?).

(I don't think the knitting is that bad, Dr Seward)

[thisbluespirit]

werewolves usually tend towards the headless chiselled male torso covers (Ghosts x-over?).

LOL! I feel like Humphrey might object, really. But then when does his body take any notice of him these days?

(I don't think the knitting is that bad, Dr Seward)

:D

[paranoidangel]

That book is amazing and insane. I can see why you had to buy it.

[thisbluespirit]

At 50p, who could resist? Not me! XD

[dimity_blue]

King by day, wolf by night? Um. You're right, it sounds terrible!

[thisbluespirit]

Too terrible to leave behind! XD

[singe]

Yeah, nothing inside that book will match the outside. As if the actual history wasn't bonkers enough.

[thisbluespirit]

Why not add werewolves, tho? XD

[lokifan]

oh my goddddddd

[thisbluespirit]

LOL! It is a real thing that exists in the world. XD