#damaya

[fantasiadelux]

#the fifth season #nk jemisin #science fiction #fantasy #scifi #broken earth trilogy #hugo awards #syenite #innon #the broken earth #the stone sky #the obelisk gate #damaya #essun #nassun #fanfic illustration #luxmeteora #luxnieve

[genspiel]

"Do you fear me?" he asks.

For a moment the desire to lie rises within her. It will not please him, she thinks, for her to speak the truth. But she hurts too much, and she is too numb right now, for fear or duplicity or the desire to please. So she speaks the truth: "Yes."

"Good. You should. I'm not sorry for the pain I've caused you, little one, because you needed to learn the lesson of that pain."

(Obelisk Gate spoilers below.)

He remembers breaking Damaya's hand and flinches with it. Why would he do such a thing? Why did he do any of the horrible things he did, in those days? [...]

He finally blurts, "Nassun. Are you afraid of me?"

She blinks, barely lucid - and then she smiles. It untwists something within him. "Never." [...]

"Never again," he whispers, and twitches with the memory of that, too. Then the feeling changes and his resolve refocuses. What happened before does not matter. That was a different Schaffa. He has another chance now. And if being less than himself means being less than the monster that he was, he cannot regret it.

#broken earth spoilers #tre reads #broken earth #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #nk jemisin #quotes #damaya #schaffa guardian warrant #nassun #.......and then he goes and abandons the other found moon orogenes on the road </3

[bookwyrminspiration]

“I, I picked a rogga name.”

#the fifth season #the broken earth trilogy #i suspected but didn’t think much on it #but now #WOOF #so how does this connect to essun is my next question #and WHEN is syenite #it doesn’t seem to be season yet #i have a thought we’ll see if I’m right though #are they all. the same person #is my thought #damaya is syenite is essun #?

[jedaos]

#i am unwell #first damaya..... now nassun #broken earth trilogy #the obelisk gate #📚

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Claudia:

she’s so fucked up. turned into a vampire as a child, mentally matures to a woman while being stuck in a girl’s body, commits a LOT of murder. plotted with her fatherbrother to kill his husband/her brotherfather. has a little notebook where she writes down the final words of her victims, and in the case of said brotherfather, STICKS HER PEN IN HIS SLIT THROAT TO WRITE HIS FINAL WORDS IN HIS OWN BLOOD. Literally she is the peak of girlbossery and also my dotter my little 🐞 🤏 eensy. Dotter.

Essun/Syenite/Damaya:

She is an orogene meaning she has the ability to manipulate and redirect kinetic energy and can use it to stop or create earthquakes (among other things). In order to test her control over this power the guy who was taking her to the Fulcrum (orogene institute) broke her hand to see if she would lash out when in pain (if she had been unable to control her reaction he would have killed her). She later did the same to her daughter (not under threat of death). She accidentally destroyed a port town when she escaped from Fulcrum agents. She killed her first son rather than let Fulcrum agents capture him as she suspected they would subject him to a fate worse than death. Her ex started the apocalypse and charged her with catching the moon (that has been flung away from earth) when it comes back to save the world.

#poll #tournament poll #round 1 #claudia interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles #essun/syenite/damaya #essun broken earth #syenite broken earth #damaya broken earth #broken earth #broken earth trilogy #the broken earth trilogy

[naiaverse]

The Zeneca Sisters

In honor of National Siblings Day, I made something smol for the Zeneca sisters!

Some backstory: Damaya is adopted into the Zeneca family after a massacre kills her birth parents and there's a law that's passed that all of the wealthier/stable families are required to adopt at least one orphan impacted by the massacre.

#afwhi #writeblr #writing community #writers of tumblr #ch: calyx zeneca #ch: damaya zeneca

[bookishmemes]

I love it when authors sprinkle foreshadowing!!!! I was only 8 chapters in (maybe less??) when I it hit me. these are all the same people just different perspectives and then the reveal happens 100+ pages later

So curious now to see when this clicked for other people

Anyway mwah i love reading

#so so cool #I KNEW Damaya was syenite but was like 85% sure they were all the same person #the fifth season #broken earth trilogy

[werewolfpdfs]

Alabaster for the character bingo!

hiiiiii this is so so good wow okok

the thing about alabaster is that i absolutely could not fix him but you know what i could do!!! give him orange slices or even a mango flower (see below)…hold his hand even….help him explode Yumenes also

the baster thing that makes me insane is of course his corepoint journal entries. hole. mods are asleep post stone sky chapter 12 etc. also. don’t bury me Syen. (i am very normal about this)

i do not myself traumatize baster because i am not emotionally capable of writing baster but i dig up his trauma constantly and that feels the same. narratives and repititions and capital S Stories and such.

broken earth thesis is that it is a moral imperative for baster to bite and kill and maim actually. he even saved the world doing it!! back off!!

#he is always on my mind #like essun is also always in my mind but in a different way #in terms of haunting the narrative obviously there’s coru’s absence which is louder than his presence etc. then there’s syen and damaya #which alabaster forcibly drags out of the past and into the present like…..!! hello!!! #ok fine separate basterpost this can’t happen in the tags but the point is i love him obviously #basterposting

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

picrew

he/him

this is my starfinder oc, geeze (hard g sound, long version is old geezer,) in his purest form, minus the antennae/head feelies.

#myevilposts #my ocs #he is a lashunta damaya 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[boyfeminism]

just read a bananas spoiler about the fifth season. sorry.

#me: oh i thought damaya and syenite were the same person. guess not. #me: these narratives dont seem to be happening at the same time #sorry for trying to figure out what a stone eater is and then getting curious -_- #the fifth season

[coffeeshelves]

u guys. i started reading the fifth season

GAPED I TELL U. I AM GAPED

the sections w damaya and schaffa so far are def my faves and its so insane how it was like. omggg schaffa taking her awayyyy schaffa her new friend!!

and then you get to their second chapter and he breaks her hand and its like. oh. ok

i have many thoughts about orogenes and guardians and i will return to them when im more cohesive. but omg

i like the narration of damaya's chapters too i think second person is very fitting for a woman who's probably a little disassociated since she lost her kid. jury's still out abt hoa tho

and ngl i dont really care for syenite yet altho ive only read one chapter of hers. the whole like. she's gotta get preggo to birth a strong orogene is gross. really gross. but in the context of the book i get it

#.txt #the fifth season #log #im still like. intending to read the other book. the michelangelo one #its just that ive had the fifth season on hold since like mid january and i finally got my hold

[genspiel]

how did Maxixe get his orogene name?????

this is like. so random i know but like. Damaya and Maxixe were both ferals, right -- he said his name was Arkete, before. Damaya didn't get hers until she had to face her first ring test, and then she chose it herself. I don't recall Maxixe ever being mentioned as having rings in TFS and anyways he wouldn't be a grit anymore if he did, I don't think, so like........??????????????? how does this work TvT did Schaffa just give Damaya preferential treatment or were there like rules about this that were never explained because they weren't relevant enough to the story or like. what. i don't understand shdfkjhdsfjkhdfdsf

#tre reads #broken earth #the fifth season #damaya #maxixe #this suddenly struck me at work today and idk why #literally nobody is gonna see this lmao but hey #i'll toss it off into the void anyways #just in case XP #also apparently “maxixe” is pronounced like “mashishi”???? #wild lol #ngl every time i saw his name my brain just went “oh yeah that guy” and glossed over it without any pronunciation at all LMAO

[asterdotash]

once again i must apologise for the person baldur's gate has made me

i haven't even got that many hours (tbf i started playing it mid november not at release) and yet it consumes my every waking thought

blame the devs at larian that redesigned gale between EA and full release because *gods* that man does things to me.

also astarion i guess (but like slightly less)

anyway how do we feel about dragonborn warlock for my next game?

ALSO HERE'S MY TWO TAVS AND MY DURGE

Teris (currently between Act 2 and 3) Mephistopholes Tiefling College of Swords Bard Charlatan Gale Romance

Rexl (currently midway through Act 3) Lolth-Sworn Drow Oathbreaker Paladin Resist Dark Urge Astarion Romance

Damaya (Finished game!) Asmodeus Tiefling Dragonic Origin Sorcerer Folk Hero Gale Romance

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #astarion #the brainrot is real #rambles #bg3 tav #durge #the dark urge

[wutheringmights]

So I finally finished rereading "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin, and-- actually, hold on. I need to start from the beginning.

The first time I read "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin, it was early COVID. Quarantine was in full swing, and my university had gone fully remote. I was taking a seminar class entitled "Ethno-Futurism," which focused on analyzing the ways in which sci-fi novels and short stories have discussed and commented on contemporaneous racial issues through the lens of sci-fi. Alongside other works like Octavia Butler's "Kindred," we were assigned "The Fifth Season."

I was actually pretty good about getting my readings done. But by the time Jemisin rolled around, it was the end of the quarter, and I was exhausted. I decided to strategically skip reading the book to focus on other end of the quarter projects.

Except, one of those projects was for an informational sciences class I was taking for my degree specialization. I had spent the entire quarter creating an info graphic about the diversity of Hugo Award Winners for best novel and short story. Jemisin is not only the first Black American to win the Best Novel award, but she went on to win it three times in a row for the Broken Earth Trilogy. You know, the trilogy that begins with "The Fifth Season."

Day before the reading is due, the sheer stupidity of what I was doing hit me. Why the fuck was I going to skip out on reading the book I had been researching the controversy behind for the past how many weeks? Am I that stupid?

So, yeah. I buckled down and read all 400+ pages in 24 hours.

Reading for academics is different from reading for pleasure. While I understood the plot and the characters, I was focusing more on stuff that was related to the seminar (primarily, racial castes). Which isn't to say that I didn't derive any pleasure from the book. On the contrary, I was blow away by the way Jemisin not only built this rich, complex world, but how she also deftly handled unique play at shifting narrative perspectives.

I knew at the time that if I was going to finish reading the series, I would have to start over and reread "The Fifth Season," just so that I could pay more attention to the characters and world building.

Cut to now. I had bought the last two books at a bookstore a few months ago. Now felt like the time to finally go back to the first book and actually read it for pleasure.

So... what did I think about it?

I like this book. I like it a lot. But it might not be made for me.

I'm not big into complex world building. Surprise, surprise: I prefer character drama. That's not to say that the book doesn't have fantastic characters (it has incredible characters, each one more fascinating from the last). But the world building is so intricate, there is always exposition that has to be given, to the point where I felt like I didn't get to see as much of the characters as I wanted.

To me, Essun and Damaya had the most interesting story lines. Essun's story moved really slowly, so much so that I felt like nothing much happened. In fact, nothing really happens with her by the end of it. We also see very little of Damaya. I think she has four chapters to her name. Maybe five?

Syenite has the most to do, and it feels like we linger on her the most. But as much as I like her and Alabaster, I never really got into her story line. Again, I felt like there was so many character moments I wanted them to have that kept being set aside in favor of the world building.

The story all together moves really slowly. In the end, not much as really happened. But at the same time, Jemisin is really obviously running a marathon. I have to give it time, even if it takes all three books.

For me, the most interesting part of the book is the way the prose plays with narrative perspectives. It's great. But I wonder how effective it is when the story feels so out of balance. Does the structure make sense when the novel reveals it's proverbial hand? Sure. I feel like I understand [redacted character name] really well, and they're definitely going to go on to be an icon character in the sci-fi /fantasy canon.

But... I don't know. Something feels missing. Maybe it's just lost some of its shine, now that I know the twist?

Part of the reason why I wanted to reread "The Fifth Season" now was that I wanted to study how to world build from nothing. That's an area I've always struggled in. I was hoping for some kind of epiphany moment where I would learn the secret to great fantasy/sci-fi. But I don't think I learned anything new. It's the same lesson about pacing out exposition and lore to not overwhelm the reader. I think I'm a bit bitter about that.

All that being said, I respect the hell out of this book. I don't even think that this is a book that needs people to like it. It's so confidently itself that I can feel it telling me that is I'm not the ideal reader why should it try to impress me?

And it's right. I can't be too hard on a book when it's made for people who like the extensive world building stuff. My opinion is pretty worthless here.

Overall, this is a 4.5/5. Almost perfect. Now let's see if I can finally get to those other two books.

#this good really gets the gears moving #is this my personal favorite? no. but fuck is it objectively high quality #again i just don't think this is the book for me #i think a lot of people mistakenly think i am really into world building but jokes on you it's my least favorite thing ever #Do Not Give Me More Lore Than I Need. I Want the Bare Minimum To Understand The Story And That's It. Do Not Explain the French Sewer System #To Me. #me rambling #me reading #the fifth season #the broken earth trilogy #broken earth #fifth season by NK Jemisin #NK Jemisin

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Alright, I've got all the pictures and propaganda! There are twenty characters I've had to use cover artwork or logo artwork for. I would be willing to replace these images with actual character artwork, but only if I'm provided with proof that it can be traced back to an official source, or if it can't that the fanartist approves the use of their work in this context. A piece of artwork appearing on a Fandom/Wikia page does not make it approved for this context. To put it bluntly, I do not trust Fandom or the mods of any wiki hosted on it to have any respect for other's intellectual property.

I'll give it about a week and then set the polls up to start going out.

All that said, the characters that I don't have character artwork for are under the cut.

Margot "gottiewrites" Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise)

Anna Limon (Mabel)

Dame Obsidian (Murdle)

Akua Sahelian (A Practical Guide to Evil)

Bryony Halbech (Red Valley)

Lariska (Bionicle)

Adelina Amouteru (The Young Elites)

Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song of Ice & Fire)

Avrana Kern (Children of Time)

Liraz (Daughter of Smoke & Bone)

Odin (The Bifrost Incident)

Essun/Syenite/Damaya (Broken Earth)

Perihelion/ART (The Murderbot Diaries)

Juliette Cai (These Violent Delights)

Manon Blackbeak (Throne of Glass)

Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359)

Fang Runin (The Poppy War)

MegaGirl (Starship)

Sloane Parker (Eidolon Playtest)

Paige Duplass (The Silt Verses)

[proceduralpassion]

LEAF - How do the rich treat the poor?

CABBAGE - What do the children of this world hate most?

LETTUCE - What do the people of this world fear most?

LEAF - How do the rich treat the poor? Not good but people are more so judged based on their "species/form." For example: my character Damaya is adopted into a rich, powerful family but still experiences a lot of vitriol and hostility due to her being a "sanguinx" instead of a "synoid." With that being said, being poor definitely does not help in social situations and there's often an inherent implication that poor people will not amount to much in terms of career/power and are expected to take the "lowly" jobs in the community.

CABBAGE - What do the children of this world hate most? There's a high level of expectations that come with kids once they reach high school age including volunteer work, exceptional grades, and rigorous training in respective fields. Downtime is frowned upon and consequences for unacceptable behavior can be strict. There's even less freedom for children born into aristocratic families because eyes are always on them and so they're given very little leeway to actually be children.

LETTUCE - What do the people of this world fear most? Another war breaking out, more massacres, major shifts in regime, necronixes (emotionless, dead forms of synoids that seek destruction), collapse in society, potential apocalypse.

Thanks for both posting these questions and sending some asks in!

Ask me some worldbuilding questions!

#n answers #afwhi #writeblr #writing community