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rosiethorns88 · 6 months
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Aaaaand (after a small delay) the fourth and final bonus Sketch-a-Wish from my 2nd Patreon anniversary - a frequently requested scene from Uprooted, featuring Sarkan (the Dragon) and Agnieszka! Phew, I'm art-pooped after this one. 🫠
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spicymotte · 2 months
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locked in a cage for a really long time
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molecoledigiorni · 6 months
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Ph. agnieszka nienartowicz
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collageofnudes · 1 month
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Agnieszka by Jan Morfi
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darkles--sparkles · 10 months
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“What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.” remains one of the best literary insults ever written
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lesyablackbird · 2 years
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"Agnieszka" from Uprooted by @naominovik
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lucimiir · 1 year
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If you described the plot of the winternight trilogy to someone they’d say “that’s spinning silver” and if you described the characters of the winternight trilogy to someone they’d say “that’s uprooted” but it’s NOT
It’s like Naomi novik and Katherine Arden thought of the same book and then wrote it completely completely differently
At face value vasya and morozko are literally just agnieszka and sarkan but they’re so completely different with such completely unique complex inner thoughts
And that’s just good writing on all sides of the equation
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tastyfishistasty · 11 months
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Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Does anyone else know in their bones that Sarkan is autistic?
The whole attitude to magic, the social issues being mistaken for rudeness/snobbery, the complete lack of understanding of what other people think until it's explained to him (re: kidnapping girls my dude, it's bad...!), the particularity about appearance and who does what??
Also!
Agnieszka has ADHD. The whole doing magic instinctively, having some of the worst metaphors based on her special interest (still not sure what gleaning is), her focus on justice and not understanding how people can be that evil or how to manipulate court etc.
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belpheg0r-luna · 8 months
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I dont believe i can ever eat fruit and drink water in the same way after reading this book.life is so calmingly heavy. I just need to become a stream. Flow as water does.
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jaded-envy · 1 year
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Uprooted (Naomi Novik)
"You're trying to capture something that can't be captured," Agnieszka tells him reproachfully. "It's not like - magic isn't some sort of math equation. It has a life of its own, like a stream, and you just guide it to where you want it to go." And then she's off again about forests and gleaning and picking trails and other words that sound more like they belong in a guidebook for hiking than a treatise on magic. It's like they're speaking two completely different languages. Sarkan has never felt this mystical "consciousness" to his magic, no sense of a will or instinct. Every spell he's ever done on purpose has been the steady, patient work of building: the spells providing the blueprints, his words placing the bricks, his magic holding them together like mortar.
- untitled fic with role reversal between Agnieszka and Sarkan, where Agnieszka is the centuries old witch of the woods and Sarkan a 17-year-old orphan who just wants to steal her magical books
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checkoutmybookshelf · 9 months
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Scary Trees and Making Your Own Magic
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This standalone novel is amazing in how it discusses the differences between institutional and individual magic, myth and reality, reclaiming and renewing lands and communities, and at what point wishful thinking becomes a clear and present danger to you and everyone around you. There is also an extremely grumpy mage, the worst prince in the history of ever, the best ride or die BFF ever, and lots of scary trees. Like John Ronald Ruel "Scary Trees are Kind of My Jam" Tolkien took one look at these scary trees and said "Whoa, rein it in there, I RESCUED Merry and Pippin from that." Let's talk Uprooted.
Agnieszka never expected to be chosen from her village by the Dragon; that was supposed to be Kasia, her best friend. But life got weird, and Agnieszka ended up in the Dragon's tower utterly failing to be "ladified" into learning his kind of magic. Until, that is, she finds Yaga's book and learns on her own to do a type of magic that is better suited to her. (She also quite literally brains a dickhead prince who had toruble keeping his hands to himself and hearing "no" and it might be my favorite thing ever.) The theme of finding what works for you a trusting yourself to find your way through the woods at night without a lantern is one of my favorites, and Agnieszka embodies the heck out of it. She learns to own rooms by being herself, and then turns around and goes home to heal her community and the really fucking terrifying creepy forest that has been plaguing them.
We need to talk about the supporting cast for a minute here. First and foremost--and yes, I'd argue that she is more foremost than the Dragon--is Kasia. Agneiszka refuses to write her best friend off when she gets half-eaten by a scary, cursed tree. Kasia then basically gets tree-based superpowers, and ends up as both Agnieszka's ride-or-die BFF and adopted big sister to a little prince and a little princess.
Then we have the Dragon, an unapologetic asshole who is doing his damnedest to keep the cursed forest from eating the entire country and getting crap from literally everyone for it. I'd be an unapologetic asshole too, in his shoes. But he is Agneiszka's conduit to magic, and once the two of them get used to each other's rough edges, they find that they are somewhat complimentary.
What is super creepy and possibly the best antagonist I've seen in a long time is the Wood Queen. She inhabits the body of the country's queen and basically tries to orchestrate a global war. She is also damn-near impossible to kill...which makes life complicated. I won't give spoiers here, because frankly this book is amazing and I highly recommend it.
Naomi Novik has literally never written a bad book in her life, and if anyone understands the magic she uses to pull this off, please share with the rest of the class, because it is DAMN impressive.
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spicymotte · 2 months
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thegrimmlibrarian · 3 months
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bestshipsmackdown · 11 months
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Pre-qualifiers; Group Two: Subsection Four
Captain Kirk x Spock from Star Trek
Chidi Anagonye x Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place
Westley x Buttercup from The Princess Bride
Vasya x Morozko from The Winternight Trilogy
Agnieszka x Sarkan from Uprooted
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Mary Lennox & Colin Craven
Kate Maberly & Heydon Prowse in “The Secret Garden” (1993) | Dir. Agnieszka Holland 🦢
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sarkie-snarkie · 4 days
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Not a Beauty and the Beast AU without dancing~
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