#Cold Fire

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Victor Vale- Vicious by VE Schwab

August Landry- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Daja Kisubo- The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

Neil Josten- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

#Victor Vale #Vicious #Vengeful #Villains #VE Schwab #August Landry #One Last Stop #OLS #McQuistonverse #Casey McQuiston #Daja Kisubo #The Circle of Magic series #The Circle Opens series #The Will of the Empress #Daja’s Book #The Fire in the Forging #Cold Fire #Emelan #Tamora Pierce #Neil Josten #aftg #the foxhole court #tfc #the kings men #the raven king #all for the game #Nora Sakavic #lgbt books #polls #queer book character tournament 2.0

[number-1-haxorus-fan]

Guys I was trying to cast light magic but I sneezed halfway through and now my book is on fire and the table is on fire and I'm on fire and the water is on fire but it's cold but it's hot and what the fuck did I do????? Please help me

#wizard posting #fire #cold fire #hot fire #water #water on fire #light magic #wizardblogging #wizardposting #wizard tumblr #wizard #wizard shit

[khlegacynexus]

#rottmnt #save rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise mikey #rise leo #rise alopex #prodigy Alopex #prodigy mikey #prodigy Raph #prodigy Mona Lisa #rise mona lisa #rise ramona #cold fire #TMNT Stink Bomb #rottmnt separated au #mystic prodigy news #mystic prodigy propaganda #mystic prodigy series

[checkoutmybookshelf]

The Circle Opens Quartet

There is something deep and rich about the Circle Universe that the Circle of Magic quartet illuminated but kind of didn't have space to fully explicate. That's why I am fully and forever grateful that Tamora Pierce followed up Sandry, Briar, Daja, and Tris on their adventures with their teachers after they're granted their mage credentials. Let's talk the Circle Opens quartet.

While the Circle of Magic books focus on the four protagonists as a quartet in each book (even if the plot might center on a single protagonist), the Circle Opens books see our protagonists hundreds of miles apart and truly having to stand on their own feet and grow their own strengths. They also all get their own students in these books, and seeing how their personalities, teachers, and backgrounds affect how they interact with their students makes these books very, very fun. It also makes these books feel more like true YA than advanced middle grade (which is kind of how the Circle of Magic books read, but that's not a criticism; those books are amazing).

Magic Steps finds Sandry in Emelan caring for Duke Vedris after a stroke and basically low-key running the country while her uncle recovers. On a morning ride, she stumbles across Pasco Acalon as he dances a luck spell for a friend's family of fisherfolk. After some...creative convincing...Pasco agrees that yes, he has magic and needs training. This is where Sandry learns about the condition of her new credentials: If she discovers a new mage, and a teacher with a complementary power set cannot be found, the discovering mage is ethically and legally bound to teach the new mage at least the basics.

As though teaching a reluctant 12-year-old with family baggage and a formerly unknown type of magic wasn't enough, Sandry also has to deal with a blood feud that followed a merchant family to Emelan and has turned ugly. An unmagic mage is helping two assassins commit murder, and in the process is contaminating the city with unmagic.

Unmagic is a super cool concept, because it is the absence of everything and it consumes everything it touches, especially magic. It is horrifying in that it simply is; it's not evil in and of itself but it consumes with no care or compassion, and so in practice, it tends to look evil in an implacable, inevitable sort of way. There was a sense of existential horror to the magic itself that is unusual in Tamora Pierce's work, but was highly effective when pitted against Sandry's radical hope and optimism.

Ultimately, Sandry and Pasco work together to get Pasco's magic under control and bring peace back to the streets of Emelan.

Street Magic finds Briar and Rosethorn in the great, ancient city of Chammur, working with the local Living Circle Temple and beginning Briar's side hustle as a shakkan shaper and merchant. Chammur also brings Briar's past slamming into his present, since the city has a strong gang presence--so strong that they are practically their own political and social force.

This becomes more complicated when Briar discovers that Evvy--a street rat who makes a few coins by polishing stones for souk merchants--is, in fact, a stone mage. When Chammur's official stone mage is revealed to be the world's biggest douchecanoe and Evvy--quite rightly--refuses to have anything to do with him, Briar takes her under his tutelage.

Honestly, the best parts of this book are Briar's relationships with Evvy and Rosethorn. Evvy pokes all kinds of holes in Briar's past worldview and how he sees gangs' function in society. She's also delightful on her own merits, whip smart, and a devoted cat mom.

Briar and Rosethorn's relationship is delightlfully complicated and simultaneously dead simple. After her death in Briar's Book, Rosethorn is a bit physically delicate, and Briar has quietly taken on the role of surrogate son and caretaker, even as Rosethorn is his surrogate mother and teacher. The two of them have complimentary rough edges, and as Rosethorn herself says, they've come so far beyond who owes what to who, and simply are each other's. I love these two.

Cold Fire locates Daja and Frostpine in Namorn in the dead of winter, as Frostpine continues on his quest to expose Daja to as many smiths and craftspeople as possible, broadening her already deep education. While visiting an old friend and his family, Daja discovers that their twin children are mages. Now unlike Sandry and Briar, Daja is able to find mage teachers for her young students, but neither teacher has the time or space to do the basics--so that falls to Daja to teach.

In addition to her very energetic students, Daja is wrapped up in the Kugisko community, including local firefighter Bennat Ladradun. Daja expands her already prodigious skillset to include walking through burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside. She unfortunately has to do this rather a lot, because Kugisko has a firebug.

Ultimately, Daja's story in Namorn is about compassion, patience, and learning to see things as they are, not as she might wish them to be.

Shatterglass shows us Tris and Niko at a magical conference in Tharios, right in the middle of the reign of a Jack the Ripper-esque criminal who is attacking and murdering Yaskedasi--female street dancers. In the midst of academia and murder, Tris finds herself two students: Keth Warder, a journeyman glassblower recovering from a lightning strike, and Glaki, the orphaned daughter of a murdered Yaskedasi Keth was friends with.

Poor Tris never plays life on easy mode. While she isn't the only one of the four mages to take two students, she is the only one with students with such diverse needs. Keth is a grown-ass adult who had training and a career before a lightning strike awakened his ambient magic, whereas Glaki is like four years old and an academic mage. And yet, somehow Tris manages. She looks after both her students and helps the police catch their murderer.

Overall, this quartet is a phenomenal follow up to the Circle of Magic quartet, and I love how the world expands beyond Emelan here. I also love that the tables turn and our students become first-time teachers themselves. If you are any sort of Tamora Pierce fan, I cannot recommend the Circle Universe enough.

#tamora pierce #circle universe #the circle opens #magic steps #street magic #cold fire #shatterglass #ya fantasy #books & libraries #books and novels #books and reading #book recommendations #books #emelan #sandry #daja #briar #tris

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Uncle Slam - Cold Fire

#Uncle Slam #Will Work for Food #Cold Fire #January 19th 1993 #Genre: Thrash Metal/Crossover #Lyrical themes: Humor Politics Rebel themes Death Pain Violence #USA

[brightlotusmoon]

What are your thoughts on the 2007 canceled movie where Mikey was supposed to become a foot solider? because he felt underappreciated by his family like that's really sad and dark. I'm making a fanfic on it right now I can drop it later when I'm done if you would like to read my take on it.?

*clears throat*

*runs around yelling*

I have, uh, talked about this in the past under my 2007 tag. I was Very Very Very Unhappy that production was canceled. Not just that film, it was supposed to be a trilogy and we could have had Donnie versus the Triceratons. It would have been like a sequel trilogy to the 1990s trilogy.

Therefore! Yes, I will read your take on it. I would cherish your fic, in fact.

You know what? I'm tagging @fire-fira and @valpoet because of our Splonter Theory starting with the 2007 film, and because in the server we've talked so much about the darkness Mikey holds inside him and how his sunlight still burns.

Anon, you're making me want to dive into my 2007 tags again. Thank you.

#tmnt 2007 #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #anyway #poor Mikey #let mikey be depressed #we could have had something beautiful #they call me the queen of tmnt Mikey Whump #canon adhd #cold fire

[leohtttbriar]

#cold fire #star trek #kes #tuvok

[rosalie-starfall]

Janeway and her Girls: B’Elanna

Star Trek: Voyager - Cold Fire

#Capt. Kathryn Janeway #Lt. B'Elanna Torres #Kate Mulgrew #Roxann Dawson #Star Trek: Voyager #Janeway and her Girls #Kathryn Janeway #B'Elanna Torres #Star Trek Voyager #Star Trek #Voy #stvoy #stedits #my gifs #my edits #tv edits #tv : Star Trek #Star Trek Voyager Episodes #Cold Fire #No I'm not crying over this... not at all #Tuvok #Tim Russ #Science Gals being Science Pals

[fiction-quotes]

Nia's eyes filled with tears. “I'm sorry I'm a coward,” she said, and sniffed.

Daja sighed. “You're not a coward,” she told her second student gently. “You just don't know what you're brave at.”

“I'm a coward,” Nia insisted, tears running down her cheeks. She wiped her eyes on her sleeve. “Jory says I'm always squeaking and jumping, I always hide, I don't argue...”

It bothered Daja to talk so long to a kneeling girl. She knelt and helped to gather buttons. “The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. There are all kinds of courage. You'll find yours.”

  —  Cold Fire (Tamora Pierce)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #tamora pierce #emelan universe #the circle opens #cold fire #daja kisubo #niamara bancanor #psychology #fear #shyness #cowardice #bravery #philosophy

[liloli-art]

⌑≫━━━ • cold and fire • ━━━≪⌑

Oh oh, that turned out to be dynamic! I love the result ^..^ Thank you Mellow and Aggro!

#art #furry #anthro #furry art #furry dragon #furry owl #armor #clothes #fantasy armor #fire art #cold fire #fight #furry bird

[queer-book-character-tournament]

#daja kisubo #the circle of magic #the circle of magic quartet #cold fire #the will of the empress #tamora pierce #Judith Deuteros #tlt #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #polls #lgbt books

[elvencantation]

are there no audiobooks at all for cold fire and shatterglass??

#tamora pierce #emelan #the circle opens #cold fire #shatterglass #blue rambles #and mark reads is no longer on youtube 😭 #idk what i’m gonna do

[khlegacynexus]

Doodles of my Rise!Alopex Krysta with a dash of ColdFire in @lara-cairncross Fairy AU I’d imagine the earrings are gifts from Mikey and my original idea was Mikey would see her frosting a Flower and become in tranced with the beauty of her powers contrast with his belief that he’s useless. But apparently Mikey isn’t that ecstatic about Winter Hollow so I’d imagine it’s now the other way around. I’ve also got a little colored Doodle of her in a Dandelion dress.

In the Mystic Prodigy AU her mutation granted her Ice Powers. So her being a Frost Fairy instantly was the first thing I thought of because of that. In that same AU she was injured protecting Mikey and that’s how she got those scars. Maybe here she was accidentally struck by Mikey’s powers and got them that way?

I’ll let @lara-cairncross decide if she likes it

I’ll give this a bit of rendering later

#rottmnt #save rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise michelangelo #rise alopex #fairy au #mystic prodigy series #cold fire #winter fairy

[youre-only-gay-once]

Oh

#spn books #cold fire

[baylardian-1]

treksona doodles hehehehe

#My Art #Baylard #Maliciousalice #Sona #Treksona #Aurelian #Caitian #Star Trek: Voyager #Kes #Ocampan #Cold Fire #Other's Art

[brightlotusmoon]

(he's my height)

(Zen master party dude pizza lover sounds good)

#the 2012 tmnt are autistic #michelangelo appreciation #mikey is my muse #mikey is more than just a goofball #michelangelo is my hyperfixation #cold fire #writing ninja turtles as neurodivergent symbolism #mikey has depth #mikey has a dimension x psionic brain