1. Day 21: Dream Cast (with pictures)

    Remember in the last question how we were like uhhhhh welllllll there’s sort of a lot of logistical issues with this whole potential film adaptation thing

    Yeah that hasn’t gone away

    Initially we were like no, this is uncastable

    But then we found a few solutions to our problem:

    Doctorow is this guy

    not Mads Mikkelsen, but specifically Mads Mikkelsen in that movie, plus eyepatch


    Maria is Louise Brooks


    this picture of Paul Dano as Ireneo


    this particular picture of Rupert Graves

    would sort of look like Herr Inspektor if he were blond and German and had less intense eyes


    Rainer is definitely not Tom Hiddleston, sorry to our one reader who really wants him to be Tom Hiddleston but he is just not the right guy

    Rainer could possibly be Tilda Swinton


    Jemand would also have to be Tilda Swinton


    we would accept a large, German George Sanders as Althausen


    Farley Granger could be Alma in the genderbent version maybe


    Kyoya from Ouran High School Host Club is the only person we would accept for Klein


    obviously Conrad Veidt is Cesare


    and Gwyn too, actually


    actually nevermind, Starring Conrad Veidt as Everyone


    with Peter Lorre as Himself

    oh and Ibsen is this cat right here



    Yeah, so, maybe this film adaptation idea isn’t so impossible after all??? oh wait

     
  2. saint-salvage replied to your post: Day 5: Main Character Bio

    My personal headcanon is that Herr Inspektor’s given name is Slut Bunwalla.

    And when he finally left Gottingen, he swore to himself

    NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW

     
  3. Origin Story

    Basically what happened was this:

    Many months ago, well before Chapter 31 had been drafted, Emily sat in conversation with friend and fan saint-salvage. They conversed about many things, chiefly Herr Inspektor and how he is a big sad sadperson who clearly needs to get laid. Salvage’s comments ran more or less thusly:

    “If I ever met Herr Inspektor I would be like I WANNA TAKE YOU TO A GAY BAR.”

    And it was good.

     
  4. Allison went mad and did this.

    There are no words.

     
  5. This Has Nothing To Do With Anything

    1. Emily: Man, this book is all biased against the Many Worlds Interpretation.
    2. Allison: Whaaat?
    3. Allison: What's the alternative, anyway?
    4. Emily: The Copenhagen Interpretation!
    5. Emily: The Copenhagen Interpretation is the most mainstream of explanations offered for decoherence, which is the fancy term for what happens when you try to observe two potential particles and one of them always disappears
    6. Emily: as immortalized in the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment
    7. Emily: and... I forget what it actually says/means.
    8. Emily: This book is not helping me.
    9. Emily: Basically, the Copenhagen Interpretation as devised by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg is more mathematically supported/provable? But also BOOOORING.
    10. Emily: That's the impression I'm drawing from a rudimentary skimming of Wikipedia.
    11. Allison: WEAK SAUCE, DUDES.
    12. Allison: Way to limit yourselves and make everything WAY LESS FUN.
    13. Allison: Is it not TEN BILLION TIMES MORE FUN believing that the world is actually a JILLION WORLDS?
    14. Emily: "Science is not supposed to be FUN!" - Niels Bohr
    15. Emily: I legitimately believe that to be Niels Bohr's actual stance
     
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    HEY THERE BABY
Pictured: Dr. Caligari, Cesare, Herr Inspektor

    HEY THERE BABY

    Pictured: Dr. Caligari, Cesare, Herr Inspektor

     
  7. Hellequin and Rune of Derpworld, I guess

    Hellequin and Rune of Derpworld, I guess

     
  8. I don’t even know what to do with this.

    It can now also be viewed here.

     
  9. Boring Author Confessions

    “Well, now,” said Althausen, and he interlaced his fingers beneath his chin, elbows resting on the arms of his throne, the very image of a wise and benevolent king.
                —Chapter 17

    I am incapable of writing about any character interlacing or steepling his fingers without inadvertantly thinking of Mr. Burns.
                —Emily

     
  10. image: Download

    If that, you know, clarifies things.

    If that, you know, clarifies things.