#gotta love this book series

[churrofoxart]

They are siblings your honor!!

#riordanverse #trials of apollo #meg mccaffrey #apollo #lester papadopoulos #the dark prophecy #the burning maze #the tyrants tomb #toa #sun flower sibs #they are my roman empire #no spoilers im only on tyrantstomb #gotta love this book series

[tallbisexualwantstobeloved]

this quote feels like it'd be featured in an angsty blog, when it actually is just a bunch of pirates poorly dressed up as various monsters from literature, trying to pull a fast one on Dracula and make him jealous, thinking he wasn't invited to a great monster party held in his own castle.

#i imagine them going “hellooo” like mr bean yk #gotta love this book series #no gatekeeping here. the book is #The Pirates! In an Adventure With The Romantics #dao's bullshit #it didnt work btw #dracula isnt real. even in that book

[strwrs]

GRAND ADMIRAL THRAWN IN AHSOKA S1E6

#star wars #swedit #thrawnedit #ahsoka show #ahsoka #ahsoka series #thrawn #ahsokaedit #*strwrsedits #xuserann #userlogray #starwarsblr #thestarwarsdaily #swsource #the way i screamed............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #the way i jumped straight out of my seat and started dancing and yelling #so loUD that my fiance had to close his ears lmao #it's my freaking blue guy #my blue blorbo from my books and my shows #also. gotta love that smile of his in the last gif #like. yeah he's happy to be out of exile soon (for the second time like thrawn. buddy. don't make this a pattern lmao) #but. he's also 10000000% thinking about his people the chiss #bc everything he does is to protect them #and bringing back the empire is the best way he sees to do that #love him as a character bc he does horrible things all for the good of his people #blue guy my beloved <333333 #we love a morally grey (and blue) king

[bird-inacage]

Only Friends: How Mew criticises Ray VS How Sand criticises Ray

Something I've really noticed since Episode 4 is the increasing distinction between how Mew and Sand school Ray. The scenes in Episode 6 and Episode 7 provide a perfect point of comparison. Both Mew and Sand use the phrase 'love yourself' towards Ray but the tone and delivery is completely different.

Unsurprisingly, what Ray desperately needs in his life is a mother figure. Someone who can be firm and stern when necessary but still caring at the same time. Sand's approach feels better suited to Ray in this respect.

Sand starts by acknowledging that Ray's hurting but it doesn't excuse his behaviour and it isn't going to stop Sand from calling it out. He makes sure to explain why it's problematic, why it's hurtful, why it's dangerous. Sand's words are driven by concern. He's even worried about the guilt Ray would have to shoulder if he did hurt anyone else.

Whereas in the scene with Mew, he makes immediate assumptions (I still maintain that Ray was not high here, he looked pretty darn sober throughout the bathroom scene to me), but that's where Mew's mind goes. His question "why don't you love yourself at all?" implies that Ray doesn't have any self-respect to take care of himself, and so what he's saying sounds driven by disappointment. Mew's tone also carries an air of exasperation, 'I've told you again and again'. @thatgirl4815 does a great job of commenting on Mew's attitude towards Ray in Episode 6 (here).

After Sand has said what he needs to say, he still doesn't want Ray to feel too bad. Sand's little pat on Ray's knee is an attempt to soften the blow, paired with a slightly helpless feeling of, 'I just want what's best for you'.

Now let's observe how Ray reacts when schooled.

Ray may not always implement the stern talking to he's getting, but you can tell that when with Sand, Ray is listening. He doesn't try to deflect, retort or dodge. He usually looks guilty. Guilt suggests remorse. Which means you realise what you've done is wrong. Whereas Ray's initial reaction to Mew is slight shock. This is the biggest indication to me that Ray wasn't getting high here. When he finally responds to Mew, it's brushed off with a laugh - 'yeah, yeah, I'm fine, it's nothing, no matter' - it doesn't seem like any of what Mew's said has really sunk in, just that Ray doesn't want him to dwell on this point any further.

How Mew delivers his pep talk feels authoritative, 'I told you to quit using drugs' (and you didn't listen). Your mistake is not taking my advice. On the other hand, Sand never once says anything along the lines of, 'I told you so, I warned you, I tried to stop you'. It's not about Ray following his orders, it's Sand providing Ray with the context to hopefully avoid making reckless decisions for himself in future.

Mew seems to have accepted Ray's inability to change, and his criticisms are merely a matter of routine at this point. Whereas Sand seems genuinely driven to encourage Ray to do better for both the sake of himself and others around him.

#only friends #only friends the series #ofts #only friends meta #ray x sand #sand x ray #raysan #sanray #mewray #raymew #khaotung thanawat #first kanaphan #book kasidet #sand was definitely giving mother hen vibes this episode #uh gotta love it when the parallels be parallelling

[crazy-fangirl2524]

So for people worried about potential renee and Jean, you can rest assure. These are in the tags of a recent post on tumblr so it is new news so.

Also, once again please don’t bully nora offline again I swear to god. And I love jerejean like the sun but we have to respect nora and her books and characters. I don’t want Nora to write this book as a fan service. I want her to write whatever she wants and she see fits for her beloved characters and world.

Nora maybe you are doing this for us, for yourself for Jean. But we trust you and cannot wait to read the books.

#even if jerejean isn’t canon we gotta respect Nora okay Istg #but at least renee and Jean won’t be canon LMAO #BUT PLS LET JEREJEAN BE CANON LIKE IFS LITERALLY TITLED THE SUNSHINE COURT #AND I SWEAR IT WAS MENTIONED IN THE BOOKS HOW JEREMY HAS A SUNSHINE SMILE I SWEAR ITS CANON AKDKSKSK #But nora we love you thank you so much for this #the sunshine court #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #aftg series #aftg fandom #Jean moreau #Jeremy knox #usc trojans #jerejean #tsc #aftg thoughts #nora sakavic

[rotisseries]

chapters 51 and 58 of bloodmarked are absolutely CARRYING bree/nick/selwyn polyamory truthers

#selwyn is kind of a stupid name I realized as I was typing this. like I've gotten used to it over 2 books but it's so silly. selwyn #anyway. me disappearing for days and only showing up for like 30 minutes to reblog 3 things #and make a nigh incomprehensible post letting you guys know what book I'm reading now (read. I finished it yesterday actually. #now I'm rereading legendborn bc I'm apparently not ready to move on to a new book and also I forgot most of the shit from that book) #anyway I've been on the polyamory train for these 3 since I read legendborn in 2020 but I swear it's only gotten stronger #like what do you MEAN selwyn (magically oathed to protect nick) FEELS SAFER with nick around #THE SAME WAY BREE DOES. AND BOTH SELWYN AND NICK LIKE. AGREE ON HOW MUCH THEY LOVE BREE. AND THERE'S NO WEIRD JEALOUSY ABOUT IT #AND SELWYN CANONICALLY WAS AT ONE POINT IN LOVE WITH NICK???? #AND NICK LITERALLY SAYS TO SEL “I CAN'T LOSE YOU AND I WON'T LOSE HER”???? #LIKE????? #THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS YOUR STANDARD ASS LOVE TRIANGLE IT'S GOTTA BE AT LEAST A LITTLE POLYAMORUS #IF NOT A FULL TRIANGLE BREE SHOULD AT *LEAST* GET 2 BOYFRIENDS. SHE DESERVES IT #even if it does end up a standard love triangle though this is honestly a genuinely good one #like I genuinely like both love interests neither of them are weird or annoying or creepy about her #anyway. need book 3 out as soon as possible I swear to god I almost can't see how this ends in monogamy #I'm talking about the legendborn series by tracy deonn btw everyone #another arthurian inspired book series which if you saw my other post the other day I swear this isn't intentional #legendborn #bloodmarked #the legendborn cycle #tracy deonn #bree matthews #nick davis #selwyn kane

[mysweetsinfulobsessions]

Another banger of a book!

#thought it wasn’t up my alley but it was great!! #has all the things I love: a character who’s guarded and the one whose bold #sex scenes with detail #a happy surprise that makes you giddy #and it isn’t too plot thick and mostly focuses on the characters and what is strictly necessary for their development #and i gotta give it to the author she has some killer lines in there PLUS it’s got just the right touch of feminism #a lady’s guide to celestial mechanics #apparently this is a series so i am now heading to the next book of olivia waite! #lgbtq books #lgbt books #lgbt book recs #lgbtq book recs #lgbt book recommendation #queer books #wlw books #sapphic books #saphic books #olivia waite

[feelingtheaster99]

I love the addition of the subtle way Sally and Grover were training Percy for future monster fighting for a long time, through stories and mythomagic cards, respectively

#I don’t believe there was much emphasis on Sally telling him stories in the books #but you gotta fucking love it #she talks in the books about being or feeling selfish for keeping him away from camp #but this shows she really was trying to keep him safe #and the mythomagic cards as training??? #yes please #hell yes #pjo #pjo tv series #pjo spoilers #pjo show spoilers #pjotv #pjo show #Percy Jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #sally jackson #grover underwood #mythomagic #mythomagic cards

[call-me-cosmic]

Gandalf is Gan-done

#art #artists on tumblr #artistsupport #drawing #sketch #pen sketch #scribblings #the hobbit #gandalf #Gandalf is tired #he’s over these stubborn dwarrow #lmao #random #I just rewatched the movie #jrr tolkien #silly wizard #thorin oakenshield #thorin son of thrain son of thror #movie series #book #sketchbook #annoyed old man #the hobbit an unexpected journey #just wizard things #THE DAWN WILL TAKE YOU ALL #fool of a took #gotta love him #idk what else to tag #uhh #hmmmm

[vroomian]

Forever mad that the Anita Blake series wasn’t about the adventures of Edward and Anita, platonic life partners, killing things and being so weird about each other >:/

#like we got one book in obsidian butterfly but it’s not enough!!! #laurelll k Hamilton i will n e v e r forgive you for straight up ruining your series #i love Anita and edward!!! i think they should be bffs forever!!! #i stopped reading after the series turned into gotta catch ‘em all: Anita’s harem addition #so if they ever bone? do not tell me. i do not see it 😔 #he’s an amoral hit man and she is his only real friend in the world!! #she’s a good person with a moral compass and he’s got no conscience but she likes him anyway!!! #Alexa play we could’ve had it all by adell #vrrm vrrm #sorry for the rant I remembered the books exist and got mad all over again lol

[transvaltrans]

Looking back on the books I read this year, and was reminded of just how much Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief- absolutely frustrated and disappointed me. Spoilers ahead.

To some degree, this was going to happen; the whole series has been heavily hyped up to me, it's hard for any book to live up to such lavish yet vague praise. But, you know, I actually got through most of the book without being distracted by my own expectations. It was tense, and spare- it felt like every word mattered and hinted at an underlying truth. I love when books withhold from the reader, and nudge at you to consider what might be left unsaid. And I was so, so satisfied when my predictions paid off (totally called Gen palming the stone rather than losing it).

The worldbuilding was interesting and unique, I enjoyed that the author wasn't committed to a super specific and our-world-accurate timeframe for technology, and I found the characters compelling and variable. I always enjoy travel stories, nevermind stories about thieves.

Which is exactly why I was so annoyed by the ending.

Again: I love twists. I love being able to predict them, and I love being surprised. I did not feel like any of the twists in The Thief were unearned; it's a well-composed book, with plenty of foreshadowing.

However, one of the twists, despite being foreshadowed, absolutely blindsided me- because I would not have considered it as a possibility, due to undermining exactly what had me so excited to read The Thief in the first place. Fantasy literature sometimes shies away from politics, into pure escapism and fluff. Even some of my favorite fantasy books are pretty hollow when it comes to their fundamental beliefs, and shy away from challenging the status quo- unless it's to restore old glory (cough The Old Kingdom series).

But I can almost always count on stories about rogues, and thieves, and con artists, to at least bring up the issue of class. These characters so often come from disenfranchised backgrounds, from the poor and displaced. They're street rats and gutter scum, who have clawed their way up from the bottom, and never forget where they came from- can never forget, from the way others treat them. Theft is subversive; there's a reason we won't let go of Robin Hood, but even more self-motivated thieves often have something to say about the unfairness of wealth distribution. Stories about thieves almost always have something to say about the relationship between the wealthy and the poor.

So, yeah, I was really fucking annoyed at the reveal that Eugenides was actually the Queen's cousin. That pretending to be from a lower class background was so insufferable to him; that of course he's only so educated and knowledgeable because he's a noblemen, that it was so hard for him to pretend to be stupid and crass like a peasant. That the reason he was so pissed about being disrespected by his captors wasn't because they beat him and imprisoned him and insulted him constantly, that they treated him as less than human because he was poor and a criminal, a tool for their own use and disposal- but because he was one of them, and it injured his pride- his noble pride, not his human pride- to be treated like that. Like he wasn't one of them, and deserving of their respect.

Fuck, I hate it so much. It immediately took away my favorite parts of the book- the tension between Gen and the magus's companions, the weight of the magus having been a commoner once, the way Gen constantly stuck by himself and refused to just accept his shitty treatment- the way every monarch treated him as a means to an end. I thought there would be more tension in Gen having conflicted feelings of resentment and camraderie with the magus- I thought it would pay off with either some of them acting in his interest for once, and/or some of them rejecting their freindship and leaning back into that class difference between them.

I'm not opposed to Gen having been working for the mountain kingdom the whole time! But there are so many other ways to do that- I was suspecting that someone was holding his family hostage in some way. It's easy to imagine a story where Gen is a lower-class thief, who was also being used by his own country's royalty.

But, making Eugenides a nobleman is a subversion of the classic trope- which means it's clever and interesting. Uugh. It just exhausted me, and- disappointed me. I loved so much of this book, and it had been a while since I'd read a good low-fantasy story about thieves. It was suspenseful, with rich descriptions, and interesting character dynamics. I thought I was getting something like Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge, or The Goblin Wood by Hillary Bell- not necessarily stories about thieves, but stories about the underestimated and undervalued, peasant con artists and hedgewitches. But with more of the tension and bite of your average dnd rogue getting up to stupid shit (my go-to class since I was a kid).

I totally understand why people love this book. There is a lot I really admire within it. But man, I don't think I can get over how much that final twist- not just rejected my original interpretation of the story. That's fine, plenty of good science fiction or horror does that. But that it specifically rejects the character and story type of the lower class thief. The very name of the series, The Queen's Thief, had me expecting a story about that seeming contradiction; about the power imbalance, and a constant game of cunning, of maintaining autonomy despite being bound to a royal power. And I expect there will be some of that, in the later books; it just loses a lot of its appeal, when it turns out Gen himself is a nobleman, who was doing a favor for his cousin, the queen.

I liked that the book ended with more insight into the mountainous kingdom, and Gen's feeling of belonging and pride to a cultural group everyone else had been deriding- but that didn't have to be accomplished by him being related to the nobility of that country. None of this had to be accomplished through Gen being a nobleman; it just felt like a 'gotcha' subversion, taking away, rather than adding more.

#I emerge from the mists a hater sdfghjdf #god I wanted to love this book. and I did- up until the very end. #also gotta be clear: I was not expecting The Most Class Conscious Themes- just the basic ones all thief stories dip their toes into #anyways I read this several months ago ergo me not naming the various kingdoms. because I'm lazy and just needed to get this out of me #going to main tag it because- I'm curious if anyone else felt the same way! I've seen so much love for this series on tumblr #and again: totally get why! It's well written! it's fun and compelling and tense! #but boy it was a let down for me personally #the thief #the queen's thief

[fairybluedreams]

Vote HTTYD!!

Hiiiiiii, back on my campaigning bs. Here's why you should vote for How to Train Your Dragon in the @book-was-better tournament!

Disclaimer btw I'm not saying the first movie is a bad movie or bad story as it's own separate thing -- I'm saying it's a bad Adaptation of a book series -- in that it does nothing to Adapt the book series into a film series, just uses the name and goes off to do it's own thing. Other explanations and analysis of this aspect under the "how to train your dragon propaganda" tag in the tournament itself.

#httyd books #how to train your dragon #how to train your dragon books #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #polls #campaigns #book-was-better #okay brb gotta go cry over my girl Eggingarde and her brother Bearcub #the books are just so damn good #disclaimer btw I LOVE the first movie #i saw the movie first and this one little question i had to know about it made me look the question up online #and I got a character wiki for Book!Toothless instead of Movie!Toothless and I was SHOOK #by the absolute differences #put off by it at first but then curiousity got the better of me and 12 books later i've been consumed by one of my favorite series ever #they're just SUCH good books ;_; ;_; #would've loved to be able to see them play out on screen #cry my eyes out

[alabasterpickles]

I’ve been debating posting this here too but I think I will

I was working through some burnout and a cold last week and decided to read The True Meaning Of Smekday after I watched Home and found out it was based on a book!

I loved EVERY second of it — so funny, heartfelt and crazy original with gorgeous illustrations to boot!!

Here’s my little tribute, which there’s sure to be more of!

#Tip and J.Lo #the true meaning of smekday #Home #Dreamworks home #genuinely loved the hell out of this book #I’ve been thinking about it for three days #their relationship is so pure and wholesome #I totally bought the next in the series because I gotta #tip and Oh #my art #fanart #sketch #art #character design #drawing #animation #drawings #illustration #cartoon #YA novels are a severely under appreciated art form #literature

[awzominator]

Gideon my beloved ❤️‍🩹

Inktober is turning into drawtober which works just fine for me

#gideon the ninth #gideon nav #the locked tomb #inktober #inktober 2022 #i love her so much #I gotta finish the series soon but I am still recovering from book 1 #Awzominator art

[aria0fgold]

My overanalysis of The Cursing of Château Castle has led me to overanalyze isat's worldbuilding, we've come full circle yall.

#aria rants #i feel like im the only fan out there that went straight for isat's world instead of characters #which is smth i also didnt expect for myself either. like i went in there thinking ill get attached #to a character within the cast or ANYONE else but no i got attached to BOOK CHARACTERS within the game #and in order for me to fill in the blanks in a way that does justice to the ingame series i gotta #understand the structure of the entire isat world like im some sorta historian in the wrong world #like if anything Im the researcher here and not odile. im scrambling for ANYTHING about the book series #and then overanalyze all the crumbs i get cuz its all i have. i have crumbs and a dream #like i also still love the entire isat cast but my brain is just sooo attached to three characters with only a name and no face

[darkfrog24]

The one that got away

Still haven't seen the new Percy Jackson show but I have seen some fan reaction and here's what I'm getting:

In the show, there's a lot more Poseidon+Sally interaction. In the show, Sally Jackson is the woman he loves.

In the books, Sally is the ex who very much dumped him.

#I'm all for stories about exes who became for-real friends #Riker and Troi on TNG #Chloe and Daniel on Lucifer #adaptation #Percy Jackson #Percy Jackson TV series #when the adaptation adds to the original #Poseidon is never shown as too stupid to understand that Sally makes choices to protect Percy #including marrying Gabe #but it still had to be an ego hit #he's gotta be like 'okay so many she didn't want to settle down at the bottom of the sea for my albeit divine ass' #'but COME ON' #don't get me wrong I don't think book Poseidon doesn't care about Sally at all #but she's not the love of his life #she's one of his many girlfriends #yeah he respects her and might love her in his way #but her getting older and marrying Paul is something he very much takes in stride #kind of like Riker and Troi in early TNG 'cool bro I'd love to see her happy'