#the mossheart's promise

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: From New York Times bestselling YA author Rebecca Mix comes the first book in a breathtaking middle grade fantasy duology about a young fairy who has always lived in her heroic grandmother’s shadow, but now must step up and embark on a quest to save her mother from the ever-creeping mold overtaking their world. Perfect for readers who loved Brandon Mull's Fablehaven, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, and Endling: The Last by Katherine Applegate.

The mold takes all.Twelve-year-old fairy Canary Mossheart knows this better than most. A few years ago, the mold took her papa, and even her famous, former-chosen-one Gran never found a cure. So when Ary's beloved mama falls ill, Ary decides it’s taken enough. Armed with only a bucket and a prayer, she sneaks out to find a magical, underground lake whose healing waters are straight out of Gran’s adventures.But when Ary gets there, the lake’s bone dry, and instead of healing waters, she finds a terrifying secret: Her entire world is actually trapped inside a giant terrarium—one they were meant to leave centuries ago. Worse, Gran knew and hid the truth, dooming Ary and her generation to a dying, rotting world.Now, allied with only her doomsday-obsessed frenemy, a timid pill bug, and a particularly grumpy newt, Ary has one week to unravel the clues and find a way out of the terrarium—or they’ll be trapped for good. .

Review:

In a world where fairies live inside a terrarium that is being consumed by mold and slowly dying... one girl will have to find a way to go on the journey that her grandmother had gone on, break the curse, and free the fairies from the terrarium if she wants to save her mother. Canary Mossheart is the granddaughter of the great hero who saved the terrarium... or so they say. The terrarium is being overrun by mold, food is scarce, and people are dying. When the mold starts increasing and Ary’s mother is infected, she knows she must go find a way to cue her mother and that means going on the quest that her grandmother had gone on all those years except her grandmother has been hiding so many secrets and has so many lies and when she discovers the truth, it will change everything she ever knew about her family and her world. Ary embarks on a journey with nothing more than the hope in her heart, making unlikely friends, and discovering her own family secrets. This was such an enchanting and epic adventure, it’s the first book in the duology but it ends so well and I can’t wait to see where the next book goes. Arya is just trying to save her mother and living in her grandmother’s shadow is not easy, especially when everyone compares her to her grandmother. Arya just wants to find a place for herself, to save her family, and to prove that she is worthy. The story blends magic with adventure and high stakes with a bit of horror and I had a blast!!

*Thanks Netgalley and HarperCollins Children's Books, Balzer + Bray for sending me an arc in exchange for na honest review*

#book rebiew #bookish #the mossheart's promise

[heyyoitsbooks]

Adults love to dream that children will fix the messes they were too selfish to take care of.

Rebecca Mix, The Mossheart's Promise

#the mosshearts promise #book quotes #bookblr #fantasy book quotes #fantasy book #queer books #books #literature #quotes #book blog #rebecca mix

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💜 Queer Book Releases Coming Out September 2023

🦇 Trying to read queer all year? Make sure to check out these queer September releases!

❤�� Forget I Told You This by Hilary Zaid 🧡 The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans 💛 The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan 💚 Every Star That Falls by Michael Thomas Ford 💙 Fly With Me by Andie Burke 💜 Wound by Oksana Vasyakina 🖤 Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline ❤️ A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee 🧡 Straight Expectations by Callum McSwiggan 💛 Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson 💚 Deephaven by Ethan M. Aldridge 💙 The Mossheart’s Promise by Rebecca Mix

💜 Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson 🖤 The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars ❤️ Ryan and Avery by David Levithan 🧡 What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell 💛 Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass 💚 The Meadows by Stephanie Oakes 💙 A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien 💜 Monstrous by Jessica Lewis 🖤 OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro ❤️ Cursebreakers by Madeleine Nakamura 🧡 The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu 💛 Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz

💚 You, Again by Kate Goldbeck 💙 Godkiller by Hannah Kaner 💜 The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven 🖤 Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo ❤️ A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey 🧡 A Crown So Cursed by L.L. McKinney 💛 In the Ring by Sierra Isley 💚 How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok 💙 This Spells Disaster by Tori Anne Martin 💜 The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern 🖤 Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas ❤️ Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in NYC by Elyssa Maxx Goodman

🧡 Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner 💛 Mall Goth by Kate Leth 💚 The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda Hall 💙 This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson 💜 A Nobleman’s Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel by KJ Charles 🖤 The Problem with Gravity by Michelle Mohrweis ❤️ Alex Wise vs. the End of the World by Terry J. Benton-Walker

#books #reading #book releases #book blog #booklr #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #queer book recs #queer fiction #queer books #queer #queer community #read queer all year

[secretly-small]

New G/t Alert!

I just found The Mossheart’s Promise, a middle-grade novel by bestselling author Rebecca Mix. It looks like an absolutely beautiful G/t story about a strong-hearted fairy trying to save her family.

Definitely look into it! The more we consume G/t media, the more G/t media will be produced in the future.

#g/t community #gentle giant #giant/tiny #g/t #g/t concept #g/t related #borrowers #size difference #gt #gt community #g/t scenario #g/t writing

[cathleen-mcallister]

this cover for Rebecca Mix's book, The Mossheart's Promise, was a dream project for me. Terrariums, fairies, AND mushrooms? I keep isopods to clean my gecko's tank, so I love this little guy in the front (his name is Shrimp!) the book is available for pre-order so definitely pick up a copy if you can! Many thanks to my wonderful agent as well, Jennifer Azantian. Art direction by Molly Fehr Please support the union members at HarperCollins who have been on strike for over 50 days just to get a live-able wage. You can find out more and donate at their IG page @hcpunion

#kidlit #kidlitart #literature #fantasy

[libraryleopard]

December reads

asterisk = reread

Blood to Poison by Mary Watson

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

The Mossheart’s Promise by Rebecca Mix

The Body’s Question by Tracy K. Smith

Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV et al 

The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan

Something More by Jackie Khalilieh

The Tent Generations: Poems edited by Mohammad Sawaie

Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey

Hijabi Butch Blues by Lamya H

Old Enough by Haley Jakobson

Prom and Other Hazards by Jamie Sullivan

Poems on Friendship by various authors

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Palestine, Ferguson, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

Before the Next Bomb Drops by Remi Kanazi

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee

Rosewater by Liv Little

Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Unraveller by Frances Harding

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty

OKPsyche by Anya Johanna DeNiro

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall

Arden Grey by Ray Stoeve

The Best American Poetry edited by Matthew Zapruder and David Lehman

The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill edited by Jericho Brown

The Adam of Two Edens by Mahmoud Darwish

The Feast Makers by H.A. Clarke

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Gay Club! by Simon James Green

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

The King’s Assassin: the Secret Plot to Murder King James I by Benjamin Woolley

All Systems Red by Martha Wells*

Judas & Suicide by Maya Williams

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Currently reading

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju

The Secret Life of Albert Entwhistle by Matt Cain

#december felt very long and busy so i truly do not know how i managed to read this much!! #and yet somehow i did #2023 reads #lulu speaks #books #lulu reads

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

All ShadowClan Medicine Cats (in this blog and canon) And Their Quotes

[....] -> indicates unspecified gap

Unbolded = oc.

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FOREST TERRITORY, FIVE CLANS

Pebble Heart

"No cat likes change, but change comes all the same."

[....]

Dapplefire

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Gorsedaisy

I know what you are, you vile fox! I've known for a long time. The only reason I haven't killed you for the greater good is to ensure my place in Starclan. I'm seriously starting to doubt that choice now. [....] They will see reason. They will know that what I do, I do for them. If they don't, Starclan will. [....] I tried to warn him, you know. So many times, I told him that you would be the death of him and our Clanmates. Part of that may be true now, but rest assured, I will not let you hurt another of my Clanmates again."

.

Hickoryskip

"You're wrong. He's just a kit, but all you can see is a monster. He's not haunting you, no one is haunting you. You're just...you've been through too much, Gorsedaisy. I'm sorry. It's not your fault, but, I'm telling Cuckoostar that you should retire. [....] I hope one day you can find peace of mind. I miss the cat you used to be. [....] I hope you can forgive me one day."

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Myrtlewing

"Ah, but–if your accusations were true, dear Gorsedaisy–how would attacking me fix anything? You plan to kill me, but can you be sure to make it so far before you are stopped and driven out? And with you in exile, how can you save our precious Clanmates? [....] Will they? The way I see it, you've lost your mind in their eyes ever since you refused me treatment for all my scrapes and bruises as a kit. Heck, maybe even before then, huh? You've jumped to growls and hisses over the smallest of problems, making big deals out of things that weren't there. Yet you think that after all of that, they will believe your side if you try to hurt me? Oh Gorsedaisy, perhaps you really have lost your mind. [....] I think we've established that you can't stop me."

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Fernpaw

TBA

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Cedarsky/fern

TBA

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Redscar

"My name is Redscar. I am the medicine cat who told Flowerstar that StarClan had chosen her as our new leader. But you need to know something: I faked that sign. I picked the snowdrop, severed the blossom, placed the stalk where I could find it in the middle of the camp and announced to everyone that our ancestors had spoken. We needed a leader, and I found them one. Listen to StarClan, but do not let that deafen your own senses. I give you a life for trusting your own instincts as well. StarClan will guide you, but only you, as leader, can steer the paws of your Clanmates."

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Bluefoot

TBA

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[....]

Mossheart

"Every battle is a loss."

[....]

Molepelt

"A long time ago, I was the ShadowClan medicine cat [...] My Clanmates and I did a great wrong to another Clan—a Clan that belonged in the forest as much as any of us, but was driven out through our selfishness and hard-heartedness. I knew what we did was wrong, and I have waited, my heart filled with dread, for the Clans to be punished."

Hollowbelly

"There's no reason to punish ShadowClan. What happened was too long ago. The medicine cat code will keep the Clans safe."

"Please say nothing about this. There is no need to spread alarm, not when the future is spread in mist even to StarClan. Promise me that you won't tell any of your Clanmates. Promise on the lives of your ancestors!"

FOREST TERRITORY, FOUR CLANS

(Mp)

(Hb)

[....]

Sloefur

"He's dead."

[....]

Redthistle

"Time to go home. It's so cold, I can't feel my paws."

Sagewhisker

"You could have easily defended yourself from this kind of injury, but you've been badly hurt because you couldn't bring yourself to fight. You know too much pain to inflict it on other cats. And that makes it impossible for you to be a warrior. It's time to face your destiny. You have to be a medicine cat."

"Sagewhisker had a prodigious memory for herbs and a gift for listening to StarClan, but her greatest strength lay in observing the cats around her."

Yellowfang

"Thank you for bringing me to ThunderClan. Tell Bluestar I have always been grateful for the home she gave me. This is a good place to die. I only regret that I will miss watching you become what StarClan has destined you to be."

Runningnose

"In the meantime, I have to stay here. I'm ShadowClan's only medicine cat now...and if there's one thing we need with all this bloodshed, it's a medicine cat. So I'm not going to fight my leader. I'm going to stay here and take care of sick and injured ShadowClan cats. That's what I need to do. That's what Yellowfang would want me to do."

Littlecloud

"We all make mistakes. Some have echoes that last forever."

Flametail

"With this life I give you love. You have known so much, but still have much to give. Leadership without love will never be enough to draw your Clan from the shadows. Let your heart lead when your head does not know the way."

"I'll protect my Clan, whatever it takes."

Puddleshine

"I can't leave. I have sworn to protect my Clanmates."

Shadowsight

"As a medicine cat, I'll never understand a parent's feelings for their kits, but I have many cats that I care for, and worry about, and I'd do anything for them. Rootspring saved my life once, and I feel such a strong sense of duty and loyalty to him because of that. But what I feel even more is a sense that all of this—everything that's happened—is vital for the Clans' survival. All five of them. I could not turn my back, even if I wanted to."

#long post #shadowclan #medicine cats #warrior cats quotes #warrior cats #shadowsight #puddleshine #molepelt #hollowbelly #myrtlewing #gorsedaisy #eye-out poly #eye-out #sprouting thorns #hickoryskip #redscar #dapplefire #pebble heart #flametail #littlecloud #runningnose #yellowfang #sagewhisker #mossheart #redthistle #sloefur #warrior cats oc #wc oc #wc #warriors

[sugar-free-daddy]

Do you have a favorite artist/band and/or album?

There's a caveat where a really traumatic past 4 years at medical school, not being able to study with music, letting my musician brother keep a drum kit and being too poor to afford earbuds right now mean I don't listen to music as much as most people. This reminds me to get on it and heal, but I'll be working 6-day 80-hour weeks for months on end so it won't be easy.

With that said, the first thing that comes to mind is Jack White. I bought the White Stripes album Elephant as a kid and his work with supergroups: Alison Mossheart in the Dead Weather, and with the Raconteurs and Alison Mossheart in the duo the Kills. Those are good recommendations for sure.

Now you have to tell me your artist/album/band/album and I promise I will listen :)

#asks and replies #196 campfire #asks

[pikaclanstory]

Moon 0 (Newleaf)

Nightpaw is worried that they’re falling behind on training, Their mentor Cicadabelly is too busy organising hunting patrols, so they leave camp alone to do a bit of training alone.

They wander through PikaClan territory, and think about a weird dream they had.. Did StarClan send it? More specifically.. Did Hazelgoose send it? But why? Nightpaw wasn’t a medicine cat!

They stopped training to properly think about it, they would have to talk to Mossheart about it when they got a chance. 

Meanwhile, Cicadabelly has sent out the hunting patrol, consisting of Dovequiver, Graytwist and Weedbeam. After the patrol leaves, she calls out to Nightpaw to join her for training. There’s no answer and she worries, leaving camp to find them. She heads towards the training clearing, where apprentices learn hunting and fighting techniques. Cicadabelly wanders around, calling out to Nightpaw, they eventually find each other and Cicadabelly yells in worry “Where were you?! I was worried sick!”

“ I’m fine! I was just trying to train alone, you looked busy so..”

Cicadabelly looked at her apprentice apologetically “I promise I’ll try to take you out more often”

Nightpaw nuzzles their mentor “Thank you” 

#PikaClan #clangen #warrior cats oc

[dyrewrites]

Weald and Wen - a peculiar passing

The fire crackled, bright and green, spitting burning embers onto Mitra’s wiggling toes as she stretched beside it. Her story long over, the grief of it yet gripped tight, and the little beastie slept deep but fitful on a log bed.

She had told of Mossheart and nostalgic sap, of how the kindly mushrooms stole their blood while they slept under its spell for longer turns than they could count. And, though she had thanked Mitra for informing her of the half cycle of time Sorrow lasted, it did little to soothe her aches.

But, it was not until Faerai told of how she woke, weak and alone. Of how she found Delgrij and ravaged the limbs of the Mossheart to make their escape that Mitra heard the cracks in her tale. More than heard, she felt them, jagged and sharp. With those cracks laid bare Mitra needed no further reason to hold her promise.

Mossheart were once frequent trading partners, fanatical for all the trinkets her brother draped her in, trinkets laced with her crystal and her blood. Yet, even as they accepted her shiny treasures without need for disguise, she only dealt with them in brighter lights…due to their far more accommodating keepers.

Mitra had no need to ask for more of the little beastie’s tale, or beg for reasons to Delgrij’s sour mood; she understood enough. Her friends had suffered scuffs no comfort could buff and so she insisted that Faerai nap, out in the relative safety of open air.

“I’s takes first guards,” Mitra had assured her, “ans burn any shroomies what’s rolls ways.”

Yet the little beastie’s whimpers suggested no comfort was found in sleep and Mitra flickered at the added sight of her shadow—its yellow eyes stuttering with each breath as it pooled darker on her chest.

As her rage began to boil, however, an outlet presented itself. Sweet and easy it gurgled threats through the tall grass, “Said we would have your sap.”

Ten in all shuffled–a full cluster–towards Faerai and Faerai alone. And Mitra grinned as she flared, burning up the spores that rushed after them.

Then she creaked, “Shiny shroomies digs us out,” and, heating her hands until they all but throbbed, she tittered, “Is alls bright ans burny ans itchin’ for stabs.” 

The Mossheart burbled and wriggled from her lunging fingers and burning kicks, but the largest of them slipped clear away. It made not a sound as it snuck beneath fresh clouds of spores and stabbed its tendrils into the sleeping Faerai.

But the little beastie yelped with the touch, despite the clinging sleep, and Mitra met the Mossheart’s cap with a solid kick. It gurgled and swatted as its sponge singed but the remembered droop in Delgrij’s eyes and stiffness of his shoulders flashed in Mitra’s thoughts and drove her for more. She bit into the Mossheart’s tendril, spilling the drops of blood it had stolen, and then she burned.

Hotter and hotter she burned, until the mushroom’s gurgling scream flowed as a wave through the others. They swarmed her then, reaching their thin limbs to grasp for wings, arms, legs and hair. But Mitra only flared brighter and brighter still, searing every tendril that touched until every Mossheart fled in smoking terror.

“Shroomies is scuffed flecks of dross,” Mitra teased their burnt and flailing tendrils, “nots so craggy without yous keepers!” But her bravado flickered as Faerai stirred and continued to flicker until she settled.

Only then did Mitra settle, did she breathe.

Then a new voice whispered, “Iode so sharp.”

Mitra searched in the grass, in the brush, up in the caps, but no Mossheart wriggled or tittered there.

“Not shroomies,” the voice called again, and its creak flickered Mitra faster, familiar as it was, so much like her own, “alls rolls way, but shiny Iode needs snuff her light or more than little shroomies will bite.”

The pale bulb jerked just beyond the bright of the fire, and Mitra snarled as five more ignited to shine around it, “Gormies.”

The Myr tittered their response, floating closer and she squeaked as the green of the firelight illuminated their surfaces. Dark, jagged and deeply scarred, her little forgeries lacked chunks of stonecover, their crystal gleaming all too dull beneath. Mitra dimmed then, at the ragged holes in some of their sockets, and how all of their cores, every one, smoldered near to black. 

“Iode and shiny friends are too smooth,” The least damaged of them warned, “and alls shimmer too bright in firelight. Must snuff or alls will shatter.”

“Iode?” Mitra scoffed, the reverent term slapping at her concern, “Since whens is Is Iode to craggy Gormies?”

They tittered again, as one, their meager cores brightening as the less damaged explained, “Wen has changed since we last peek our Iode. Oh, how scuffed are dull Gormies for daring to snatch Iode’s shinies and chase from our glow.”

“Dross is we, dross!” a one-armed Myr cracked, tittering as Mitra backed from her reaching hand.

“Iode is so warm and bright and oh so shiny,” creaked another, a single eye flickering in her dark face.

“Let us pile as one,” All six spoke together, circling tighter, “If only for a beat, let us hold some fleck of Iode’s gloss, a single glimmer of shiny glow—so warm, so bright.”

Mitra flared and they gasped. Then they moaned, keeping close to her light, their eyes closed as the intact one said, “We are so cold now in these stalks, beneath these spongy caps,” flitting closer to rest her icy hands on Mitra’s shoulders, she moaned at her heat, “So wet, so dark, so cold. Alls is crooked now. Light shines ins beastie’s paws, our light. It shimmers as shining gems and cracks and carves as we reach for snatch.”

“Those cracked beasties!” The one-eyed Myr added, “They hunt in low lights, chomping for our shine and these beasties are cracked deep. So empty are they now, their shiny eyes so dull, so cold.”

“Cold,” they repeated as one.

A One-armed Myr flickered then, presenting her fresh stump, the crystal still jagged and bleeding, “Their edges are sharp, teeth gleaming but bellies ever empty.”

Mitra flicked her eyes toward her beastie and found her and her shadow yet sleeping, fitful but undisturbed. Then, turning full around, sure to latch her eyes on each of the Myr, she dropped out of their floating circle and onto her rock.

The Myr followed, alighting on the moist moss around her and Mitra asked them, “How beasties chomp Gormies? Teeth too thin to breaks surface...”

“Theys holds tools!” A Myr with a missing leg cracked.

“Shh!” Mitra hissed, waving her voice down and motioning to her own beastie. 

“Beasties hold craggy weapons...and sharp tricks. Play with thoughts then stab and crack and snatch our cores for lamps,” the intact Myr explained and then she eyed Faerai, “Why Iode have beastie?”

Cutting her off as she made to poke the little beastie, Mitra pushed the intact Myr back toward the rock and said, “This beastie is me friend, nots cracked.” Then she sighed and motioned for the Myr to settle their dull flickers, “Is holds treats. Shiny treats Is share with Gormies ifs yous rolls way from me beastie.”

They creaked and bobbed, whispering careful and quiet to one another, but then one by one they nodded.

And Mitra’s throbbing core settled with each one of those nods before she guided them back to the rock.

The sight of the glittering black treats sent flashes through every core that spied them, burning them ever brighter as the crystal flecks cracked between their teeth and burnt up in their cores.

But the intact Myr had warnings still to share.

Around spilled bites she creaked, “Treats is shiny, but fire too bright. Snuffs now or Iode and friends peeks for selfs how cold and sharp beasties are.” 

Mitra sighed but motioned for the other Myr to join her as she dug handfuls of moss and dirt and tossed them onto the flames. Then, with the fire doused, the Myr crunched the last of their shared meal and huddled around their Iode in the center of the scorched pile of stalks and moss.

And despite the strangeness of their compassion, their stone burned too sweet on Mitra’s surface and she nuzzled closer, tighter. She soaked up the scratches and tinks of rock and crystal and soon the Myr’s warning of the Auru, the pain of the past turns, even the dread of what surely waited for them on the Rim melted.

#writeblr #snippet #novel #writing #nonhuman #darkfantasy #weald and wen #i clearly lied about not sharing more snips #it is important to know that myr do not talk like mitra #but they are still largely incomprehensible

[wesper-ao3feed]

promises

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UiJ18QI by artsypretzel for @mosshearted’s 2023 flufftober prompts! day 2: promises Words: 532, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Flufftober 2023 Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Multi Characters: Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Kuwei Yul-Bo Relationships: Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck/Kuwei Yul-Bo, Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck, Wylan Van Eck/Kuwei Yul-Bo, Jesper Fahey/Kuwei Yul-Bo Additional Tags: Drabble, Flufftober, Promises, Meeting the Parents, Mentioned Marya Hendriks - Freeform, Kissing, Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Plans For The Future, Daydreaming, POV Kuwei Yul-Bo, Nicknames, Pet Names read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/UiJ18QI

#wesper #wylan x jesper #wesper fanfiction #wesper ao3feed #ao3feed #fanfiction

[star-struck-wonderland]

i also have some issues with my eyes so i understand a bit ^^ it’s hard when you want to read but can’t, sendin you so much love n healing (again hehe) 💖 okay //.\\ i’m really looking forward to the whispering dark by kelly andrew, summer sons by lee mandelo, the darkness outside us by eliot schrefer, the sunbearer trials by aiden thomas, the wicker king by k. ancrum, a dark and starless forest by sarah hollowell, icebreaker by a.l. graziadei, fence vol. 5 by c.s. pacat, and a lot more! i’ll also name a few books that aren’t out yet that i am super duper excited for! hehe 🥰 the borrow a boyfriend club by page powars, the spirit bares its teeth by andrew joseph white, system collapse by martha wells (which is book 7 in one of my favorite series!!!), alecto the ninth by tamsyn muir (book 4 in my absolute fave series, gonna be the last book of the series,,), and the mossheart’s promise by rebecca mix! gosh this got so long n i didn even finish hehe but here you go~ 🥺 hope is not too much //.\\ -🧸

Aww I'm sorry you have issues too! I'm sending lots of love and healing right back at you dear!!🧡🧡

Those all sound sooo good!! I've heard of a couple of the ones that aren't out yet, and I love The Whispering Dark, Icebreaker, and Summer Sons!! What are the series you're talking about? I'd love to hear about them, especially your favorite one!

Feel free to send me more dear! It's never too much! I'm loving this! Have you ever heard of the 13 Treasures trilogy by Michelle Harrison? Based off of some of what you're naming I think you'd enjoy it! It's a bit silly cause it's written for younger readers, but I still quite love it!

#Lex Speaks🍄 #answered ask #thanks for the ask! #🧸 anon

[heyyoitsbooks]

Representation: Queer main characters

Rating: 5/5

Pages: 297

This book will be released September 5th, 2023

I was very fortunate to be able to read an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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This story honestly made me cry. I had tears in my eyes as I finished the last couple chapters, and usually I am a huge crybaby but I tend to hold it in during a sad story. That was not the case.

Ary is an unlikely hero. She never got the official title she was just mistaken for one. Follow Ary as she journeys to right the wrongs of her grandmother, save her world from a thick mold and make unlikely friends. As she journeys farther down into the terrarium she struggles with growing up, loving a person who has wronged her whole world and dealing with the fact that everything she's ever known was a lie.

This story is great for when you want an adventure to read before going to bed. It's an easy read with loveable characters and a very interesting premise I think everyone should read. It offers the unique insight from the family of a chosen one and that's not a usual insight we see very often. I can't wait to read more from this author and see what other stories Rebecca Mix will write.

#the mosshearts promise #netgalley #fantasy books #queer books #queer fantasy #bookblr #cozy fantasy #literature #book blog #rebecca mix #books #lgbtq+ books #lgbt books

[lgbtqreads]

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Adult Fiction and Poetry C.E. McGill‘s OUR HIDEOUS PROGENY, pitched as a queer take on the Mary Shelley classic, in which an aspiring paleontologist and great-niece of Victor Frankenstein attempts to make her name in the patriarchal world of Victorian science by creating her own monster, only to reevaluate what monstrous truly means, to Wendy Wong at Harper, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for…

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i dont think i’ll ever have the Spoons to write it out but one of the aus i have (thats apart of my big blaineverse for wc) is the au that mosskit actually survives via Dark Forest Interception (think how crookedkit was able to get out of the river via mapleshade) n is found by twolegs and becomes a kittypet - she grows up not knowing where she came from but keeps having Mysterious Dreams....

as she matures, she finally meets mapleshade - mapleshade uses a similar front that she did w crookedstar, but instead promises mosskit (who just uses a simple kittypet name, but i’ll call her mosskit to make it simpler) that she’ll help her understand her dreams and help her discover Who She Is. mosskit deosnt realize that mapleshade is only moving on to mosskit due to crookedstar spurning her - mosskit is oakhearts daughter afterall, and now she can use mosskit to get back at appledusk AND crookedstar if she plays her cards right. win-win.

i was planning for it to be like - mapleshade isnt dumb and realizes that theres something Special abt thunderclans newest apprentice, firepaw, and she lightly pushes mosskit towards thunderclan in the guise of “helping them out/finding her destiny” etc. mosskit is a loner for the better part of the first arc; she’s mostly on the sidelines of thunderclan, appearing every once and awhile whenever mapleshade pushes her to try and “help” fireheart......i feel like mosskit and fireheart do have a friendship, mostly forged cus mosskit cant help but feel a connection to thunderclan although she doesnt Get It. something seems right to her abt it, and her and fireheart get along due to feeling like outsiders connected to a place that they Dont Understand.

after tigerclaw is exiled and bluestar becomes extremely paranoid, mapleshade def pushes mosskit into getting closer to thunderclan to try n let her Master Plan play out.....i think mapleshade finally is the one who tells mosskit that bluestar is her mother, which ofc mosskit doesnt believe at first but the Evidence is too much to ignore.....it all clicks for her tho after awhile. like everything makes more Sense now, n i always had the scene in my mind of mosskit finally introducing herself to bluestar again (dangerous path era), but bluestar is very very upset when she meets mosskit. she thinks its a trick and a sick joke tigerstar is playing on her and orders mosskit to never come back to thunderclans territory, which mapleshade uses (knowing bluestar would probably not accept mosskit) to try n make mosskit turn against her mother.....mapleshades master plan is for mosskit to take over thunderclan for her - she thinks it’ll be pretty amusing to see a cat who wasnt raised in thunderclan or trained as a warrior at all taking the clan over and thunderclan Therefore crumbling apart....mosskit ofc wont do that and her n bluestar finally are able to reconnect not long before bluestars death

after bluestars death firestar allows her to join thunderclan n i think mosskit trains with cinderpelt as a med cat!! it suits her. she takes the name mossheart :D

im very much summarizing cus atm im not good at Describing but i hope that could help paint a picture of one of my favorite aus that i made apart of the blaineverse

#wc #shark noises

[the-true-earthshaker]

Earthshaker,

I am writing you this note as a show of gratitude. Your support put my beloved gem at ease, and the assistance given by your dragons who came to join the search for my son most certainly turned the game in our favor.

Thanks to the help of you, Plaguebringer, and all the non-deity dragons who aided us, my son is safe at home where he should be, in the nursery with his siblings and their father. Nothing I could ever do could ever repay you for the service you have done for my family, but while my allegiance lies in the shadows, I promise on my honor that I will do anything you request or command of me to try.

Enclosed in the bag that accompanies this scroll, you will find treasures from my personal collection. I have no doubt they are meager in comparison to the luxuries and hoard a god must have, but they are the most valuable items I can offer you in a show of gratitude. I hope you find them acceptable- I asked my gem what sort of treasures Earth dragons preferred most.

-Mossheart

[Tucked in the black bag that was delivered with the letter are 30 gemstones of various cuts and types, all roughly the size of a soccer ball.]

The only thanks I need is the happiness of your family at their reunion. The earth holds many treasures, but those of the heart are just as valuable to me.