#paper and fire

[sspace-aart]

rereading paper and fire bc my library didn't have ash and quill so here are some more the great library sketches :)

i saw @jellsmells draw glain w a rlly short haircut and overall very masc and it legit opened my eyes fr so idk anymore how i'll draw her but we'll figure it out

#dario is also not set on stone but i like this look for him #finally drew the husbands and anit and a rlly like my designs for them #still not sure on neksa but oh well #yg i reread the scene for dario's contact and jess running from the sphinxes SO many times #it's so so good #(take the dialogue with a grain of salt i'm not grabbing the book to find out exactly how they say it #my art #art #the great library #paper and fire

[confusedartblog]

crepi al lupo

#heres the image #if anyone wants it without the flashing lol #the great library #the great library fan art #the great library series #my art #ink and bone #ash and quill #paper and fire #smoke and iron #sword and pen

[spillingskies]

jess brightwell being so full of love and loyalty without ever knowing it from his family is my roman empire

#he’s so pure #him against the world for the ones he love #the great library #jess brightwell #rachel caine #niccolo santi #christopher wolfe #brightwell #ink and bone #khalila seif #Morgan hault #thomas schreiber #ash and quill #paper and fire #sword and pen #smoke and iron #the great library series

[moodindigov]

“No, he won’t. You know he won’t! He’s not like you! He wants to show you that he can be just as clever, just as fast, just as . . .” [Khalila] hit him again, this time a knee square to his family jewels, and he did let go. “Just as ruthless! And if you ever lay hands on me again, I will kill you, Jess Brightwell!”

Paper and Fire, Rachel Caine

#jess brightwell #the great library #tgl #khalila seif #paper and fire

[jellsmells]

compilation of every character description i caught in the great library series while listening to the audiobooks (might be unreadable for anyone but me—esp bc these r from every single book w no clarification of which parts r from which books and r just dumped haphazardly into my notes—but if u can decipher it, it might b useful!):

Jess: 16/17, tattoo of a closed book on his chest over his heart, scars/cuts on his hands

Brendan: shaggy hair, can raise one eyebrow, tiny scar on his chin, scar on his upper face (“as if he hadn’t a care in the world except for the bloody wound in his head”)

Liam: sharp nose, shaggy blonde-ish hair, died at 17

Thomas: blonde hair, pale eyebrows, blue eyes, is large (looked big enough to bend iron, mugs look like teacups in his hands), neat square writing not a spare loop or line

Khalila: hijabi, dark skin, intense big brown eyes, can also raise one eyebrow, short, dimples, wide eyes

Glain: “raw-boned”, long legs, not light, curling brown hair, dark eyes, tall, chopped her dark hair closer for convenience/short-cropped, solid curves of endurance and strength, warm woody brown skin under sun, sharp impatient print, three tattoos

Zara: dark green eyes, dark round face

Anit: copper skin, straight black dark hair worn in a shoulder length cut, petite and pretty, ring necklace, 14 in paf

Dario: bronze skin, wavy black hair, a goatee, black/dark brown eyes, very white teeth, light muscle, shadow of a beard, longer hair

Wolfe: black eyes, dark skin, shoulder length black and grey hair

Santi: hazel eyes, tattoo inked high on his bicep is a lion, unscarred face, not overly tall, sharp chin, long straight nose, heavy dark brows, close cropped dark hair, deep brown Italian, lines on his face

Morgan: light brown honey eyes, pale skinned with lustrous brown hair, thin and smoothly curved, pointed chin

Brightwell: a smaller man, runted in his youth

Mrs brightwell: ash blonde hair streaks of silver

Danton: pale with flaxen blonde hair, eyes more silver than blue, light grey eyes

Artifex magnus: white hair shorn close to the scalp, square face that’s lean and strong, frosted blue eyes like winter, purple robes, gnarled fingers, old man/old face, shocking white beard, intimidating

Keria Morning: tall bronze woman, sharp features, backswept dark hair that falls to her waist, streaked with silver, LOOKS nearly 50 according to jess

Neksa: hair swept back in a braided queue, pretty, shark cheekbones, blushed copper skin, Egyptian

Eskander: silver hair cascading over his shoulders dark eyes dark amber skin

#the great library #the great library series #the great library fanart #ink and bone #paper and fire #ash and quill #smoke and iron #sword and pen #jess brightwell #brendan brightwell #glain wathen #thomas schreiber #morgan hault #christopher wolfe #dario santiago #khalila seif #niccolo santi #neksa #anit

[bookwyrminspiration]

you know what guys that one’s on me the book’s literally titled paper and fire. and the tag line is let the world burn. my bad for interpreting that metaphorically, I’ll take the L there

#tgl #paper and fire #I was thinking metaphorical fire #like the spread and/or destruction of ideas #but you know. ideas can be inked on paper #and paper can burn #I’ve learned my lesson that title was not. it was not metaphorical #<- if I think about it too hard I will genuinely be legitimately and actually upset and for real cry #over the loss of fabricated knowledge #mayhaps. mayhaps I am a little too target audience in that regard

[phireads]

#mine #polls #tgl #the great library #the great library series #rachel caine #ink and bone #paper and fire #ash and quill #smoke and iron #sword and pen #jess brightwell #morgan hault #thomas schreiber #dario santiago #christopher wolfe #niccolo santi #glain wathen #brendan brightwell #khalila seif #books

[confuseds-library]

HEY YOU GUYS

#The Great Library series #The Great Library #rachel caine #Ink and Bone #ibpfaqsisp #paper and fire #ash and quill #smoke and iron #sword and pen

[spozzthewozz]

The Great Library and Red Queen are living rent-free, both with their own suite, in my head.

#the great library series #the great library #ink and bone #paper and fire #ash and quill #rachel caine #red queen

[spacedace]

DPxDC snippet/prompt:

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“John.”

Zantanna’s voice had that cadence to it. Faintly strangled. Forcibly calm. Her rising blood pressure and rapidly approaching limit for his special brand of excitement evident in every single letter of his name.

Felt like old times.

“Z.” He said, smoke curling out of his mouth and billowing towards the dreary grey sky above. The one nice thing about Gotham, it had the same gloomy dark ambience of ol’ London town. “Long time no see. How’s show biz been treating you?”

He saw the faintest of twitches at the corner of her eye. Could almost hear her counting to ten in her head. He smiled at her winningly, leaning back against the damp bricks of the alleyway as he waited. More smoke drifted upward from beside him in time with a bored sigh. Patience was running out on all sides it seemed.

“That’s a child.”

“Sharp as ever.” He said, taking another drag. He nudged the child in question beside him gently with his elbow, glancing down with a sly grin. “See this is why the Justice League pay her the big bucks. Nothing gets past our Zantanna Zatara.”

He got a cloud of smoke blown directly in his face for that, little shit.

“John.”

“Z.”

“Why do you have a child? Why is the child smoking?”

“Long story.” He said with a wave of his hand.

“I learned it from watching him.” The kid said, with the same cadence as that old American commercial. All dramatic and overwrought emotion. The gremlin swooned against John's side in an imitation of collapse, hand holding the lit bifter coming up to their forhead to really sell the melodrama. He nudged his ghostly companion off, grinning at Zantanna’s slipping patience as he did.

“Don’t worry about it. Kid's fine.”

“A child wandering around with you in a dark ally in Gotham smoking cigarettes is fine?”

“I mean, I’m already dead. And short. It’s not like smoking is gonna be able to do any worse to me.”

#dpxdc #dpxdc prompt #john constantine #zantanna zatara #dani phantom #danielle phantom #elle phantom #danny fenton #i wrote this with Elle in mind since I have an entire Paper Moon AU brewing in my head with her & John #but it absolutely could be danny instead #zantanna is already so done with all of this #she's having flashbacks of John smoking in the corner with baby Jason Todd when the kid was still Robin and Bruce losing his shit about it #she wants to say not her circus not her monkeys *so badly* #but very unfortunately John and his bullshit probably is her deranged little monkey in her very on fire circus #and now he's got a feral dead kid following him around this can't be good

[confusedartblog]

Polaroid

The first of hopefully many

(I think at this point we’re crediting Mazeem for the idea? Whoever it was thank you lol)

#The Great Library #The Great Library series #niccolo santi #Christopher Wolfe #Ink and Bone #santi x wolfe #paper and fire #ash and quill #smoke and iron #sword and pen #can we call it domestic bliss? #The note says #amman #summer #the apartment

[otiksimr]

I lost motivation while coloring this.

It's Battlewinner btw, as a royal she got the special perk of getting to hatch in the hatchery which has lava constantly flowing through it thus she is very red.

#I forgor to take off the paper texture so have fun with that hah #my art #art #artwork #digital art #artists on tumblr #dragon #dragon art #wof #wings of fire #wof fanart #wof nightwing #wof battlewinner #battlewinner #nightwing #Queen Battlewinner

[sammjammin]

booping my favourite guys

#boop #april fools #sjamm art #look at all those fandoms! #adventure time #ninjago #pikmin #wings of fire #super paper mario #mother 3 #paper mario #animal crossing #murder drones #pokemon #sewaddle #ninjago morro #morro ninjago #morro wu #april fool's day #april fools boops #ninjago fanart #dimentio spm #dimentio #spm #fern adventure time #fern the human #my art #art #at fanart #lego ninjago

[moodindigov]

“He felt curiously reassured by that vision, and by knowing that though he wouldn’t trust his family to save his life, he could trust them to see the profit in what he was bringing them. His life was just part of the deal.”

- Paper and Fire, Rachel Caine

#jess brightwell #tgl #the great library #brendan brightwell #callum brightwell #paper and fire

[jellsmells]

a burner, an obscurist, and a smuggler.

i like to think in different circumstances they could’ve been an unstoppable trio . all children who have been mistreated by the library but who—against themselves—can’t stop trying to help it improve. i know danton wasn’t around long but i feel like he could’ve been so much more if he lived … then again! all just wishful thinking haha

#the great library #the great library fanart #the great library series #jess brightwell #morgan hault #Guillaume Danton #ink and bone #paper and fire #ash and quill #smoke and iron #sword and pen

[bookwyrminspiration]

heeeeyyy morgan…how did you…get here??that’s so…mysterious…

#tgl #paper and fire #maybe she explains exactly how she does it in a paragraph or two #but I stopped mid scene #but like glain i. have questions #how did you get out how did you get the collar off how did you get here how did you know #they’re were going there #the whole squad just magically assembled… #also that baby thing was pretty fucked up and we haven’t heard mention of it since #so I’m just sitting here like #what are the limits of this series #would they make this 16 yo pregnant against her will woild they do that #and I’m not sure the answer is no! #so I’m! a little worried for her! #girl did they or did they not force you before you could get out blink twice if yes