#Deeplight

[andytheoverthinker]

i am in desperate need of a frances hardinge fandom, please more people need to read those books

#where are yall #i need someone to appreciate these masterpieces with me #and fangirl over saracen the winged warzone #and the amazingly chaotic duo that is eponymous clent and mosca mye #as well as the queer and neurodivergent metafor masterpiece that is the cuckoo song #actually you know what #i’m gonna make a separate blog for this #when you cannot find the fandom you make the fandom #diy #if these books are ever adapted for like a movie or series i will freak out #anyway #frances hardinge #the lie tree #the cuckoo song #a face like glass #deeplight #gullstruck island #a skinful of shadows #fly by night #uh this is a lot of tags #is it okay to add this much? #i don’t really care #bye

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#deeplight #frances hardinge #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[the-laws-of-physics-were-harmed]

Why you should read Frances Hardinge's books:

Most of them have little to no romance (I hate amatonormativity)

She is really good with words? Like idk how to explain it but the way she uses them is... idk how to describe it

A lot of her protagonists can be seen as autistic or having ADHD if you autism hard enough /hj

The book covers are always absolutely gorgeous

Some of my story Under a Golden Moon's worldbuilding originated because of Deeplight (I will not elaborate for reasons of Spoilers)

Her social media is full of things like this:

which is just. Relatable.

I occasionally make references to her books. I don't think I've made any here but there's a first time for everything :)

Her worldbuilding is so cool like seriously

The first book of hers I read was A Face Like Glass when I was about eight or so (I think?) I got it for Christmas last year, and it's somehow better than I remember?

She's definitely influenced my writing style a lot because her writing is just ridiculously good???

I think I've read most of her books, if not all

#frances hardinge #deeplight #a face like glass #<- if I tag the post with the books I mentioned more people will see it right? /hj #Apparently she has a blog on here where she mainly just lurks and doesn't post anything and I'm really hoping she sees this #because yes I could send her an email but I'd have to set up a new one because I don't want it attached to my deadname #and that's just effort tbh

[best-childhood-book]

Hi! Can I submit:

The Gentleman Bastards sequence by Scott Lynch

The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Deeplight by Frances Hardinge

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher

Added them all!

#ask #submission #gentleman bastards #the lighthouse witches #deeplight #gormenghast #stoneheart

[i-want-my-chirfugging-goose-back]

i’m writing an essay analysing the prologue of deeplight ✨

i’m probably gonna post it here when i’m done

#frances hardinge #deeplight

[aspec-friendly-reading]

Deeplight by Frances Hardinge contains no sexual content and barely any romantic content!

In terms of romantic content, a relatively major side character mentions that he did something because he was in love with a girl, but that's the most detail there is if I remember correctly.

Genre: fantasy and horror. Young adult.

Thank you!

#book recs #smut-free books #romance-free books #deeplight #aroace books #mod jay

[gonecartographic]

i think it is absolutely criminal that these wretched harry potter fans can go and find out their patronus or their house but I, a sophisticated frances hardinge reader cannot find out which patron beloved i would be born under!!!!! or which island in the myriad i would live in!!!! WHICH ELDRITCH SEA GOD AM I???????

#frances hardinge #fly by night #twilight robbery #deeplight #seriously wheres the personality quizzes for hardinge books i need them

[bracketsoffear]

From Below (Darcy Coates) "No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course...a silent graveyard deep beneath the ocean's surface, eagerly waiting for the first sign of life. Cove and her dive team have been granted permission to explore the Arcadia's rusting hull. Their purpose is straightforward: examine the wreck, film everything, and, if possible, uncover how and why the supposedly unsinkable ship vanished. But the Arcadia has not yet had its fill of death, and something dark and hungry watches from below. With limited oxygen and the ship slowly closing in around them, Cove and her team will have to fight their way free of the unspeakable horror now desperate to claim them. Because once they're trapped beneath the ocean's waves, there's no going back."

Deeplight (Frances Hardinge) "In the old days, the islands of the Myriad lived in fear of the gods, great sea monsters that rose up from the Undersea to devour ships and depopulate entire islands. Now, the gods are no more. They tore each other apart in an event known as the Cataclysm. Fragments of their bodies (known as godware) are dredged up and sold. Hark and his best friend Jelt are petty criminals. When they embark on a dangerous scavenging expedition, they stumble across a strange, pulsing piece of godware and things begin to go very, very wrong."

Gods, the ocean depths, and poverty all play into the themes of insignificance in this novel.

#vast poll #the vast #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #From Below #Darcy Coates #Deeplight #Frances Hardinge

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

we’re doing book recs?!?! ok, the book that was my first special inteest… hark, from deeplight (by frances hardinge) — avatar of the vast ?

mod: Sunny

#deeplight #frances hardinge #the magnus archives #tma #polls #poll created #the vast #sunny ✨

[lindensea]

Deeplight started pretty slow and wasn't quite grabbing my attention, but a little over halfway and broooooooooooo NOW we're getting somewhere!!!!

#frances hardinge took toxic friendship and RAN WITH IT #truly some fascinating stuff happening now #deeplight #frances hardinge

[andytheoverthinker]

Deeplight: is it amazing, fantastic, fantabulitious, or absolutely epoch-defining in your opinion?

tis a truly difficult choice, so it seems i must settle for a of the above

also hark my beloved

my boy

the story lover

i love him and his god-killing-monster-prevention friend group so much

#deeplight

[geraniums-red]

Frances Hardinge - Deeplight

I think I'd classify this book as unsettling rather than full on horror, but it probably helps that I don't have any particular fears of huge under-sea creatures or being trapped in small spaces or under-sea exploration. It has a lot of those, and also an extremely messed up friendship where our protagonist doesn't realise how abusive it is for quite a chunk of the book, which I found more disturbing than the standard horror elements.

This is a book about an archipelago where the monsters are gods and the gods are monsters. Or were monsters - they're dead now, and salvaging and processing their body parts is the trade that the island economy depends on. It's a dangerous trade both in terms of the chance of mechanical failure and the possibility of sabotage from your competitors, and it's a harsh society where risking your life in salvage is one of the better options out there.

It's a book about the importance of the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories we tell other people. It's about making bad decisions, and the consequences of those bad decisions, and the ethics about doing things to or for people without their consent. It's also ultimately a hopeful book, about healing and second chances and friendship and community, although the journey to get there is pretty gruelling.

There are a lot of disabled people in the archipelago as a result of the diving trade, and one of the two view-point characters is deaf. The culture around disability and deafness seemed plausible, and sign language is a common second language with variation in dialects depending on which island it was from.

It's a good book. I don't expect to reread it any time soon. You may well enjoy it, but you'll need a decent tolerance for horror and bleakness to make it to the part where things start getting better again.

#frances hardinge #deeplight #review #spoilers

[the-laws-of-physics-were-harmed]

Trying to work out if the dream I had last night is primarily because of Deeplight or Fallen London

Deeplight seems to have had the most influence because I talked to an underwater woman with crab legs and also I was breathing the sea water like it was air (also in the unofficial Frances Hardinge Discord server somebody said, and I quote, "Omg you literally spoke to the hidden lady that's crazy")

But on the other hand I've been playing A LOT of Fallen London recently and I just got a zubmarine a few days ago. And I have been just zailing around everywhere (side note: zailing autocorrected to failing. I have not yet died at zee I am in fact doing remarkably well. Which is weird because Fallen London me is constantly dying because I like to just throw hir into stupid situations and see what happens /hj)

#fallen london #frances hardinge #deeplight

[boatmediatourney]

🧭Submarine Media Tournament🧭

Round 2, match 4

#submt polls #submt round 2 #submarine media #boat media tourney #deeplight #crimson tide

[i-want-my-chirfugging-goose-back]

Behold

Alternative titles for Frances Hardinge books

A face like glass - an empath plays among us in a cave

Gullstruck island - if dissociation was a superpower

A skinful of shadows - and you thought your family was weird

The cuckoo song - puberty gone wrong (feat. sister bonding time as well as “are my tears supposed to be cobwebs??”)

Deeplight - TIFU by resurrecting my bestie with a sea god’s heart and now he’s acting weird

Fly by night - a girl, her goose, and a professional liar take down a city

Twilight robbery - a girl, her goose, and a professional liar take down another city

The lie tree - daddy issues meets sexism in this thrilling murder mystery

#frances hardinge #fly by night #a face like glass #the cuckoo song #gullstruxk island #the lie tree #a skinful of shadows #twilight robbery #deeplight #alternative titles

[dontforgetthedragon]

if deeplight were from jelt’s perspective it would be such a classic tragedy

#deeplight #hes so shitty but also #doomed by the narative #by his circumstances #by himself #he was still a kid still so young but he never could have been saved #hes a murderer hes scared hes out of his depth #but he can never admit any of it #hes an adultified child aping a maturity he never had the luxury of developing #making it up as he goes along because it was always all an act #he dies so early and it takes him the rest of the book to realise it #the last thing he saw before he died was a bright bubble of air escaping upwards #and all he could think of was his bright shining only friend who he needed so badly but who was always destined for more than him #agonising