#The Life Giver

[aroaessidhe]

ARO WEEK 2023

a couple of books that have a platonic relationship in the place where most books would have a romance :) most of these have word-of-god aro characters, though it might not be mentioned in the text, and tbh for me the depth of a complex and centred platonic relationship is equal or more important to me than just having an aro mc. i love all these a lot!

THE LIFE GIVER / YA dystopian high fantasy / centres a boy who translates the dreams of a girl who gets dreams from their god and their friendship

ARCHIVIST WASP / YA post-apoc fantasy / a lonely girl finds a mysterious ghost who’s searching for his friend. they have a complicated relationship. the two ghosts also have a tragic platonic soulmates vibe.

RADIANT / YA dystopian scifi/fantasy / a lonely girl meets a ghost girl and they become friends while dealing with people who want to use them for their powers

COME DRINK WITH ME/TALES OF THE THREAD / fairytale-like fantasy / short story series centred around platonic relationships from an aro perspective

THE HERETIC’S GUIDE TO HOMECOMING / adult high fantasy / slow & introspective fantasy about two people travelling across the land, centres platonic relationships and stories

FIREBREAK / adult dystopian sci-fi / MC has a ride-or-die best friend relationship, and also has a kind of complex parasocial-friend-crush with someone she ends up meeting and starting a revolution with

#this is NOT about qprs I have a specific post about that; though some of these are qpr-ish #and also like. centring a friendship between two people; not a friend group sort of thing #aroweek2023 #asaw #aro week 2023 #arospec awareness week #the life giver #towers trilogy #the heretic's guide to homecoming #tales of the thread #archivist wasp

[dailypearldoodles]

What if

Evil Empires Pearl (Either corrupted by Xornoth or she's more active in the wra's shenanigans)

She's a self proclaimed 'angel'

Day 548

Evil versions are seriously so fun to draw and design, I also love leaning into the dichotomy of Pearl affiliated with sunflowers and wither roses

#daily pearl doodles #pearlescentmoon #empires smp #mod morph #see the giver of life tends to be the taker as well

[front-facing-pokemon]

#xerneas #giver of life right here btw #i think. isn't that what xerneas does? something something life and yveltal does something something destruction #idk all i know is this is the guy who lets you evolve in psmd. right #at the very end‚ i mean. permanent evolution. instead of the temporary evolution with the harmony scarves

[annabelle--cane]

sitting on my hands so hard every time I see a tmagp theory post based on inaccurate information because it's impolite to constantly tell random people on the internet that they're wrong and it is in fact completely normal to not have encyclopedic knowledge about these podcasts and I, magnus trivia marina, am the outlier in this situation

#for my own sanity. a few things: #from a q&a stream we know tim fearon is going to be playing augustus #the magnus institute in this universe was in manchester not london and ran 'educational programs' and burnt down in 1999 #sam (and gerry) (and maybe alice) were involved in these educational programs during young childhood #in mag 114 the statement giver had never heard of the magnus institute despite being v familiar with the area of london it was in #tmagp #marina marvels at life

[the-mcyt-crackships-brackets]

#mcyt crackships bracket #polls #crackships polls #PURGATORY #wood givers #keralis #mythicalsausage #clownscar #clownpierce #goodtimewithscar #hermitcraft #life series #empires smp #sos smp #kaboodle smp #lifesteal smp

[silverlinedeyes]

The Rot In The Land…

Is it corrupting the people who live there as well?

I was talking to @wingedblooms about her and @offtorivendell and others’ theory that Elain will heal the barren parts of Prythian through her lifesinging powers, or healing powers, or raw magic, or maybe even the magic of the Mother (too many questions about and options for Elain’s magic 😅), including in particular Ramiel.

And it got me thinking about the barren lands we’ve seen in Prythian and Midgard that seem to be leeched of life, almost infected somehow: Illyria, the Court of Nightmares, the Prison, Avallen, the Middle.

In all of those lands that have people living there currently—Illyria, the Court of Nightmares, and Avallen—we see that those societies appear almost corrupted. They’re backwards. The people seem bad. They treat their women poorly and oppress them. There is almost a rot within the culture, within the people themselves. And in those lands that don’t have people living there, monsters live instead, perhaps feeding on the rot and darkness in the land, or at least thriving from it?

Why are all these “backwards” corrupt cultures located around these barren lands? Is the magic or essence that is draining the life from the land and corrupting it also infecting and corrupting the people who live there? Is it draining their goodness from them? Darkening their souls?

Will healing the Land heal the People?

When Bryce revived Avallen, did that remove what was corrupting the people who lived there? Will it cause a change in the Avallen people and culture over time because the infection essentially is gone?

And if Elain heals Ramiel and the Court of Nightmares, will it not only bring spring back to the land as @wingedblooms so brilliantly has predicted and heal the land, but will it also allow free the people and societies who live there of the rot (dark essence) that has the infected and corrupted them for millennia, and allow them to move forward free of this darkness and evil towards goodness and the light?

Will the Illyrians and the Court of Nightmares be able to finally reform themselves and move towards an equal and just and good society once they are freed of this rot that has corrupted them?

#Elain #acotar #acotar theory #a promise of spring #will elain healing the land heal illyria? #Elain life-giver #crossover theory #Illyria #court of nightmares #avallen #life and death and rebirth

[oldschoolfrp]

Avalyne the Life Giver, one of Larry Elmore's most well-known paintings, used as the cover of Dragon 140, Dec 1988

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Larry Elmore #fantasy #fantasy art #Avalyne the Life Giver #cleric #giant #healing #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons #Dragon magazine #1980s #snow #winter scene #TSR

[deateath]

#hyper specific poll #super specific poll #poll meme #polls #life stuff tag #maybe rb this? it’d be cool to find another library oral giver

[dumblr]

If you are a giver please learn your limits because the takers don't have any.

#quotes #feelings #emotions #facts #the giver #soul taker #limits #wise words #be wise #be careful #thoughtful #life quotes #lessons learned #dumblr

[cwonusirl]

various traffic mspaint doodles. grian is so lonely coded its insane

#tma #trafficblr #third life #3rd life #grian #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #itlw #martyn itlw #inthelittlewood #mspaint #my art #jimmys a statement giver victim of the end btw #if you even care #and obviously martyn is the archivist because cmon

[vixvaporub]

Life 2: Giver Taker | ライフ2 ギバーテイカー – Chapter 1: Killer Knight 

#Life 2: Giver Taker #ライフ2 ギバーテイカー #Keiko Suenobu #life2edit #Seinen #manga #mymanga #vixmanga #manga cap #mangaedit #itsmangacap #anisource #animanga #monochrome #black and white #B&W

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread      

The Life Giver

YA stand-alone high fantasy in a dystopian underground city

a scribe who records prophecies from his dreamer, who talks to the sun (their god) each night

the dreamers are being picked off one by one by something dangerous and unexplained in the dreams

no romance

#The Life Giver #jase puddicombe #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #this makes me nostalgic for a specific era of ya fantasy…..like i guess the fantasy version of YA Dystopia but also from a bit before YA Dys #Dystopia became a Thing? a lot of nz/aus books from like the 2000s and also just the random ones i read in school…. #also uh city of ember and tunnels bc underground #i think there’s nothing particularly groundbreaking about it - other than it’s nice to have no romance! yay! #i do have some worldbuilding questions like what so they eat. when do they eat. i don’t recall it ever being mentioned #the priory comp is……….ambitious and i don’t really get it lmao #BUT like i enjoyed this i gave it 4.5 stars. give me friendship n no romance and my standards are low anyway lol #no romance #i think the characters are word of god aroace but like there's no indication of anyones sexuality at all or amatonormativity or anything

[redheartstollen]

~ "The Giver" by L. Lowry

#quotes #poetry #classic literature #life #love #book quotes #the giver #writers and poets #aesthetic

[rinaforreal]

Gina couldn’t be a maybe anymore. Ricky made her a forever.

#rina #hsmtmts #like WHAT like honestly wAtH??? #her whole life she treated herself as a maybe because she didn’t think she could ever plan for the future or forever #but because of ricky giving her a place and seeing her she was able to finally see her worth and chose herself and believe she is worth #more than she used to giver herself credit for and she chose the wrong person who could t give her what she deserved #but because ricky is her RIGHT person he was able to give her the one thing she could never count on before and that’s FOREVER #oh true love #anti portwell

[annabelle--cane]

the statement giver in mag 58 is very adamant that she is not going to give in and eat her husband, but I do think there's a possibility that she did, given a) that her unsigned letter she meant to leave in a cave in the middle of winter on the oregon trail ended up in jonah magnus's personal collection presumably not too long after she wrote it, and b) that the flesh avatar in mag 18 also has the last name carlisle, which feels like a bit too strong of a connection to be a coincidence. I also wonder about her husband a bit, and whether something in his mysterious backstory made him susceptible enough to the flesh that it took over his body after he died.

#tma #marina marvels at life #something something the flesh and reproduction #the statement giver and benjamin got married explicitly because more land was being given to married couples #presumably to encourage populating and overtaking recently stolen territories #there's a very practical and physical feeling to it. we tied ourselves to each other because the powers that be favor breeding pairs. #and then she keeps him alive on trail for months and his corpse offers to keep her alive in return #hmm.

[l1m3g0r3]

I did it again

#no I will not stop making memes of them #this goes with that one post I made of them of the doll that gives you Pepsi and the one that calls you a bitch #fnaf #nightmarionne #puppet #fnaf puppet #fnaf marionette #marionette #whatever else you call them #life giver #death giver #that’s it Nightmarionne is death giver now #fnaf nightmarionne #fnaf memes