The Eve of Destruction

Hey everybody! I hope you haven’t melted in the heat and humidity. And if you don’t know what i’m talking about, count your lucky stars! Speaking of, did anyone catch any of the Perseid meteor shower? I live in the city so no shooting stars for me. I’ll just have to hope one of you made a wish for me.

First, I have to confess that in the last chapter I had the meeting between Eric, Sookie, and Desmond happening during the daytime. WHOOPS! It’s because of what was coming in this chapter, but I got ahead of myself. You don’t need to reread the last chapter, just know that I changed it so that meeting happened just after sundown.

Onto the meet of this update. I apologize that these chapters took longer to get out than I expected. You’ll see why. Lots of research and random questions to my sister this time around. Originally this was all one chapter, but it ended up super long, so it got divided up into two. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂

These are the last chapters before we actually begin the actual play. Up until now, I’ve only worked with the backstory that was never fleshed out in the original text. Most of the theater-goers at this time would well versed in the war that Shakespeare mentioned, which, if I recall correctly was supposed to be all the crazy shit between England and Spain that led to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The Spanish Armada happened in 1588 and Much Ado was written in 1598…so I could be wrong. It is summertime and I gave my Shakespeare brain a vacation.

Anyhow, lemme know what you think! Leave comments! Reviews! Unicorn smiley faces! Whatever floats your boat.

As usual a mad amount of love goes out to my sister for beta-ing. As well as to Kittyinaz and Realjena who were immense helps on these chapters.

But any way it goes, ENJOY!

Chapter Four
Chapter Five

Mad Lovely,
Secret Nerd Princess

PS. If you haven’t jumped on board Much Ado About Vampires, just click and it’ll take you to the beginning!

Baseball and Bawdiness

Hey folks!

Happiest of Sundays! Well, it’d be a better Sunday if I didn’t have to work, but I do get to go see the Detroit Tigers play against the Baltimore Orioles next week in return–so there is that. Bet you’d never have guessed I was a huge baseball fan, would ya? LOL. But yup, been watching them since I was a kid when my grandfather only allowed three shows on the television: The news, The Tigers, and Star Trek.

Guess what? Y’all get a new chapter of Much Ado About Vampires! If you haven’t started reading yet, just click on that little link and hop on board the Shakespeare Sookie express.

Once again, I have to thank Meridian & Kittyinaz for all their help! These ladies let me pick their brains at 2 am while I explain scenes that come later and they ask me great questions. This story owes much to them! Also, once again, huge thanks go out to my little sis who has become my beta. I never really officially asked her, I just began sending every chapter for her to look over.

Well, without further ado…

Chapter Two — Prologue
Warning: Lemons/Naughtiness

We’re still in the pre-story, if you will. The basis for which, if you’re a Shakespeare’s Much Ado fan, developed out a few lines in the play that insinuate that Beatrice and Benedick had a pre-existing relationship of some sort.

But like I’ve said before: It’s not really necessary for you to know the original text. It just makes it more fun for me, the English major who graduated and is really missing professors who give me an assignment and I go…”Well what do you think if I interpret it this way?”

Any way it goes. ENJOY!

Mad Lovely,
Secret Nerd Princess

PS: You can also start at the beginning of Chapter One — Prologue if you haven’t read that yet.
PPS: (LOL) You can also check out Pride & Pride & Vigilantes iffin yr feeling like an Arrow story.

I Would Eat His Heart in the Marketplace

HI HI! I’m back with a brand new adventure, or wait, was that Vanilla Ice? Anyhow! Finally, the first chapter of Much Ado About Vampires is ready for you! It might be my most ambitious story yet. Lots of world building, which thanks to Meridian, Kittyinaz, and RealJena is not the hot mess  it was when it started out. Also my baby sis has the beta skills to end all beta skills. I thank her highly!

So about the story:

Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, is also one of my favorites. But…it’s Shakespeare and many people hear his name and immediately zone out. So I started thinking, what could I do to make Shakespeare more accessible? I was rewatching Joss Whedon’s fantastic version of the play when the line that Beatrice says, “—O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place,” really struck me. You know who would eat a heart in the marketplace? A vampire.

Thus, Much Ado About Vampires was born. Set in an alternate version of America where the vampires and the fae have joined together to run the country, Sookie Stackhouse is sent on an undercover mission by her great-grandfather Niall to infiltrate the Fae Court based in Bon Temps, LA. Sookie walks a dangerous path with only her wits and her heart to guide her. Along the way she meets Eric Northman, Sheriff of Area Five, who is frustrating, high-handed, and gorgeous. Can two societies so at odds with the modern day be changed by an ex-waitress turned fairy princess?

I would like to note that there is darkness in this story; the world it takes place in is a frakked up place. That being said, everything will be resolved in the end, trust me. I’m not going to leave these characters in this unbalanced misogynistic world.

Warning: This fic will contain exactly one non-violent, non-graphic rape, and readers will be warned in plenty of time to avoid that section. There is second situation that also will not be comfortable for all readers. I will absolutely forewarn in both these circumstances. Please know that they are necessary to tell this story since they are included in the original text. I understand if you choose to avoid these situations and skip a chapter, I will do my best to make sure you understand what happened without providing any detail that might be triggering to some readers.

That being said, this story will have a lot of fun and light. It’s based off of Much Ado, which for the most part, is a comedy.

I’ve chosen to ignore much of Sookie canon here, but the characters are all from the Sookieverse. One of my original characters from Dead on Arrival might make an appearance, though that’s not set in stone. Otherwise, enjoy!

Chapter One–Prologue

Mad Lovely,
Secret Nerd Princess

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