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3 years ago @ http://markspoils.blog... - The Black Market · 0 replies · +2 points

Fantastic idea! I have some. Where should I put them?

I don't have everything he's done, but I do have some complete books from Tamora Pierce and Diane Duane.

3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Cold Fire'... · 0 replies · +1 points

I had no idea it was Ben at first, my feelings about him had time to get incredibly complicated before I twigged! I'm honestly not sure which is scarier. To know this soon and be TERRIFIED of him from this point on might arguably be worse!

3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Cold Fire'... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm imagining Tammy watching this moment with the UNHOLIEST GLEE.

And then the part of her that is the Graveyard Hag would chortle about how cute Mark's suffering is and pat him on the cheek in response to the cursing...

3 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Street Mag... · 0 replies · +1 points

Woohoo! I am irrationally delighted that I knew instantly what this was referring to. :-D

6 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Trickster'... · 0 replies · +1 points

She DIDN'T marry a commoner whose name was George. XD

King Jonathan knew who George was and one of his really great friends being King of the Rogues could have been a problem, as I recall, plus it would have been difficult for the greatest living emblem of honour, law and order (the Champion) to be married to a criminal, and King Jonathan knew how much George loved Alanna. He pardoned George and made him Baron of Pirate's Swoop. I remember George being incredibly pissed off at the idea at the time, because he didn't want to be all respectable. He came round to the idea though.

Anyway, the Baron of Pirate's Swoop proposed to and married Sir Alanna of Trebond and Olau, all very respectably, so the King's Champion just married a random member of the minor nobility.

You'd have to be seriously nerdy to know all the names of every single major and minor noble of a foreign country. If you were a major Lioness fan then you might know the full name of her husband prior to being ennobled, but even if you did, Cooper has to be a common name. You certainly wouldn't know the extent of his rogue/spy talents, it would be Alanna's talents you'd know most about.

9 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Daja's Boo... · 0 replies · +4 points

Ah, perhaps my family were the unusual ones. We had it on bread and toast occasionally, just not in sandwiches. It's good on toast, the heat means it sticks to your mouth less. I'm from York. :-)

Never heard of it with banana! I can't decide whether that idea is really interesting or realy alarming.

9 years ago @ Mark Reads - Help plan the Mark Doe... · 0 replies · +2 points

If the tour guide ever mentioned [Hazel removes ableist descriptor] Amy, who sings "Ring a Ring a Roses" to herself in the dark, I played her in a production of Run Ragged. Not a known play, it was written by our director who based Amy on one of the local ghosts. In the play, Amy was killed by the drunken master of the old Victorian workhouse - I'm not sure what's supposed to have happened to her in real life.
http://www.theoriginalghostwalkofyork.co.uk/image...

I'm right at the bottom of that image, in the middle with the thick fringe. No idea if you'll have been on this tour or not! Been going forever though, so you could have been. :)

9 years ago @ Mark Reads - Help plan the Mark Doe... · 0 replies · +1 points

York is defo good, and you'd be able to go and see a street which has similarities to one you've seen in fiction. Nowhere is too far from anywhere else in York, it's the tinest city ever. Excellent rail links as HK says, you can be in London or Edinburgh in a couple of hours (direct routes to many other places too - Leeds, various bits of Manchester, Liverpool etc - and you can get a passenger ferry over to Ireland from Liverpool), and we have buses going all over the city. I don't know a thing about the accomodation side of things. We do have a Youth Hostel but I don't know if the rooms are single.

9 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Daja's Boo... · 5 replies · +7 points

Brit here. :) We do use peanut butter sometimes in the UK (there are some gorgeous dishes that contain it in the sauce) but peanut butter sandwiches aren't a thing, to my knowledge. I had peanut butter on bread a few times when I was a kid, but not often, and certainly never in a sandwich. And the whole concept of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches definitely doesn't exist here, and gets the *serious* side-eye. Even once we get over the language difference and understand that you're not actually eating peanut butter with Jell-O (I genuinely thought that for years and was very confused because WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT), we still don't get it!

EDIT: Delurking after following Mark for a year or so. :oD

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