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avara-avara · 10 months

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journal entries from the last few months

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eyes-of-nine · 3 months

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pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

#ahsjgdh i love the young xianle quartet sm they're almost barely not traumatized...kinda #they're very silly especially in retrospect #aaa i do also really want to draw young xie lian and mu qing but the idea of rendering that much gold detailing sounds like hell ywy #i'll do it but christ alive #my art #fanart #tgcf #tgcf fanart #tgcf spoilers #technically #also i haven't read past book 3 for now ywy #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #feng xin #hua cheng #...he gets one tag bc i'm not keeping track of all the aliases #every time i draw hc his hair gets worse and worse #my man has not seen a hairbrush in the past 800 or so years of his existence

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onceuponaneverafter · 6 months

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no bc i‘m obsessed with how the jacks from caraval who was literally plotting to take the throne and didn’t care about anyone or anything is the same person who spends almost two books in the ouabh trilogy just trying to keep evangeline safe because he loves her

✨character development✨

#i have assignments to work on and i can’t dive deep into my ouabh obsession rn so take these shorter posts for now #can’t wait to get back to my acftl reread!#once i do?#it’s fanfiction writing timeeeee #and possibly theories if any come to mind #ouabh #jacks prince of hearts #caraval #acftl #he saves her life so many times in tbona you can’t tell me he doesn’t spend that book too just trying to keep her alive #he’s so in love with her <3

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magnusbae · 4 months

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" They had tortured Anakin’s mother for a month. Just to test her resolve. Was it any wonder that Anakin had been left with such a deep, festering wound?" " He could do this for Anakin. His Padawan was dead, his brother, his son, his friend. He could give him this. A fearsome anger unleashed. Vengeance." " He felt his anger rise, and he took pleasure in it. It was growing inside him and obliterating everything else. He wanted to be overtaken. He didn’t want to be careful. He wanted only the white heat of satisfaction." -The Last One Standing - Jude Watson

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whumpypepsigal · 1 year

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Shadow and Bone s02e03: Working through physical trepidations, Kaz tries his best to help inej with her wound.

“The room was too bright. His chest felt like a clenched fist. …He pressed two fingers together. He slid them beneath the bandage. Everything in him recoiled. The water was cold against his legs. His body had gone numb and yet he could still feel the wet give of his brother’s rotting flesh beneath his hands. It’s shame that eats men whole. He was drowning in it. Drowning in the Ketterdam harbor. His eyes blurred.”

Excerpt From Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo

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cavalier-prime · 4 months

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So many people on here have like the worst fucking possible takes on tlt 😭😭 like did we read the same books!!!!!

#''ianthe is keeping coronabeth alive to do a huge necromantic act'' ARE YOU READING THE SAME BOOK I AM!!!!!!#like!!!! what the fuck!!!!#are you not seeing the themes?? are tou not understanding the lessons???#are you not seeing the true horror???? that to love and be loved changes you in ways you cant control??#that love owns you and ties you to someone irreparably? that touching something is also being touched by it?#WHY WOULD SHE BE SAVING HER FOR ONE HUGE NECTOMANTIC ACT YOU ARE SO STUPIDDDD YOU ARE SO STUPID #READ AND UNDERSTAND THE THEMES AND VALUES OF THE TEXT #MY. FUCKING. GOD THE READING COMPREHENSION ON THIS SITE #shes not saving her for death power. she's utterly unable to kill her you fucking idiot.#dont ever speak to me again #tlt #the locked tomb #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius

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kexing · 6 months

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so many fan clubs around the world united to wish book a happy birthday

#forcebook fans singlehandedly keeping my faith in humanity alive #thanks to force and book’s biggest fan clubs coming together and supporting each other we get to be a solid fandom today #and i think it’s beautiful how they’re always helping each other. holding each other’s hands #as it should be 🥺🥺🥺#mj talks

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lyraofthestarsss · 4 months

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With the final secret task being to “win Secret Life” and Scar not dying at the end like all the other winners, I guess you can say he’s taking that secret to the grave

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nikolailanstovswife · 10 months

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If there is a six of crows spin off please please PLEASE can they not kill Matthias - YES I KNOW it happens in the books BUT they've changed so much already? Like excuse me - Mal leaving to be a pirate I wanted my cute little Mal and Alina happy ending - so if they can do that SURELY THEY CAN KEEP MATTHIAS ALIVE

Let's manifest for this guys - if there is a spin off I wouldn't be able to lose Matthias for a second time okay.

#grishaverse #leigh bargudo #shadow and bone #six of crows #crooked kingdom #shadow and bone tv vs books #shadow and bone tv #nina x matthias #nina zenik #matthias helvar #helnik #keep Matthias alive please #dont kill Matthias #i love helnik #dont break my baby ninas heart again

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cleromancy · 7 months

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listen. to ME jason puts catherine on a pedestal and she never did anything wrong in her life and the way he talks about willis as an adult makes people assume willis was like. way worse than he actually was but really jason resented him for always being in and out of prison. and he will freely admit hes not being fair about willis imo. he'll be like sure its hypocritical of me sure his options were limited but what it comes down to was this: we needed him and he wasnt there. (and what he wont actually admit out loud is that he blames him for his moms death. but like... u can read between the lines. hes not hiding it either.) but that also doesnt mean he wasnt fucking traumatized by Willis being fucking killed by twoface and bruce not telling him until Jason found out for himself ykwim it doesnt mean he didnt love him it doesn't mean there are no good memories. he just goes to opposite extremes with both parents and he 👏does👏not👏think👏about👏sheila👏haywood👏

#keeping up with the todds #dc #jason is not like... a fair person. okay.#like if willis was still alive itd probably be a different story #but as it is he has no particular incentive to like reframe his childhood trauma #his mom can be a saint if he wants bc fuck it he couldn't have loved her more if she was #and if that makes his dad the devil or whatever. hes dead he dont care #like unless you are actively sitting down and putting jason through a Therapeutic Character Arc and forcing him to acknowledge the nuance #hes just not going to. lol. hes got other things to worryabout #people to kill. chilidogs to eat. etx #etc*#hes booked #im editign the wording on the Og post in case it gets reblogged without my amendment

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straightuppotato-art · 1 year

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Can we also talk about Rebecca being praised for “sacrificing her job” when she uses dmb in book one. Sorry queen, I’m not gonna give you points for putting your kid before your job 1 (one) time <3

#LIKE GIRL!!!#YOU DID NOTHING LMAOOOO #the bare minimum is that parents keep their kids alive #anyway I might be a Rebecca hater 🤔#anyway anyway BOOK 3 DAY AFTER MY BDAY LETS GOOOOOO #the wayhaven chronicles #twc #twc Rebecca

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atopvisenyashill · 2 months

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If you had the chance to change something about the dance of the dragons (TV show or book), what would it be? For example, how a character dies, which team a house is on,or an entire character personally. How would you change it to make the story better, in your opinion? 💙💚🖤♥️

JUST ONE THING. ANON U R A SADIST.

aksjdjd no okay thank you great ask. sorry if it’s a lil all over the place, i think obsessively about how i would adapt f&b and asoiaf if i was a millionaire lmao.

for the show it’s so easy (besides just giving it like ten more episodes to cook before getting to the Dance, I mean) - lean into the dueling protagonists of alicent & rhaenyra by giving them dueling deuteragonists in aegon ii and jacaerys. i realize this would completely reframe the whole show lmao, but we can even compromise and say once they do that ten year skip, the narrative should focus in on building up the two sides through the dueling protagonists alicent & rhaenyra, and dueling deuteragonists aegon & jace. it makes way more sense to have the character they most interact with be their sons & “heirs” and contrast those relationships & all the politics that exist in how they act as mothers towards their sons. rather than focus in on daemon as the second main character for rhaenyra and…this weird fucking musical chairs male protagonist with the greens they’re doing. it doesn’t fix everything but i think shifting the focus from rhaenyra’s marriages to her as a mother and queen regnant, and from alicent’s conga line of abuses to again, an active role as a mother and queen consort/queen mother, as well as fleshing out the two men who are objectively thee most important men in their lives (argue with the wall jace & aegon haters!!!!). explaining why jace & aegon developed into the sort of men they are through how they exist in the most important relationship in their lives, literally until the day they both die. (and if you’re curious, daemon’s counterpart is aemond, they get to be number three for both their sides. viserys isn’t on a “team” but he does have a counterpart and it’s QOREN).

i think the way they did it in the show really does a disservice to the potential of aegon and especially jacaerys as characters, as well as downplaying the importance of a lot of critical relationships like rhaewin, laenyra, criston’s entire demented relationship with both women, rhaenys’ relationship with laena & rhaenyra, alicent’s whole ass relationship with her kids, AND rhaenyra’s whole ass relationship with her kids. imo they go for this kind of half in half out “we want to appeal to the insane targ stans who genuinely believe incest will save westeros” and “we want to write a story about the complexities of motherhood & sexuality in a patriarchal society” and wound up in a weird place where daemon & alicent are both bisexual but only in deleted scenes and completely drop rhaenyra’s gender fuckery the moment she’s played by an actually non-binary actor and also completely bury the other non-binary actor (rhaena’s actor, phoebe campbell) by giving their character like two fucking lines and no depth.

also better wigs jesus FUCKING christ hbo i know you have the budget!!

for the books….a lot of the problem with the dance is that f&b is so antithetical to how george writes. it’s effectively a very long and detailed outline of a plot and george doesn’t write exclusively by outline. as he says himself, he gardens - he writes and he sees where the writing takes him. if he had actually sat down and written out the dance as a series of short stories the way he does with dunk & egg, i think the plot would not only be massively different it would also be leaps and bounds better. what i want to change is to make george actually WRITE the dance and not just outline and call it a day!!!!

BUT. Okay if I can change ONE thing. fuck that’s hard.

I’d make Larys’ motivation more clear, and when i say more clear i mean my theory is that Larys just straight up hated the Targaryens and Velaryons bc he believed one of them killed Harwin, and decided to get revenge by completely fucking over the whole family tree. i get why people like his show version (I like parts of him a lot too and the actor has some galaxy brained takes!!!) but i think while Larys is well done, his character adaption & the way he’s completely unknowable in the series itself is just a rehash of Tyrion. We already have a disabled younger brother who hates his older brother for being condescending in his love & conditional acceptance, and hates his father for being a patriarchal monster, and is a sexually abusive menace to teenage girls, and I don’t think they are saying anything new or groundbreaking with Larys in the show or book. He is just there to be the evil crippled henchman, and then die.

No, what I want is a true chaos agent to rival Littlefucker, a man who becomes obsessively and uncomfortably devoted to Harwin, the only person in his entire life who ever treated him with any love or respect or care, who launches this bloody, demented quest to completely wipe out every Valyrian left alive for the misuse and murder of his brother. Willing to help kill his own nephews. Willing to burn the kingdom to the ground. Willing to destroy his own house if it means Harwin will be avenged, if it means the dragons die. All leading to Larys getting his Pyrrhic victory and choosing to die because he feels he has nothing left.

Why the extreme change? I think it fits better with a lot of the themes in F&B and the dance in particular - not just family, and “the things we do for love” but the legacy of Valyria, of the Targaryens and the dragons, the clash and growing pains of this group of interlinked cultures learning to tolerate each other’s existence on the same continent, and of course, what being told every day of your life that you’re a monster does to how you view yourself. You can keep all the rest of his weird behavior from the show and the books even - the sexual abuse of Alicent being Larys unable to stop himself from turning into the same sort of awful man his father was; of him switching sides without a care or without any seeming sense in the books, always ready to be the devil on a shoulder to Viserys, Aegon, Alicent, and Corlys - but a little bit here and there to let us know that Larys genuinely loved Harwin until the bitter end. We already have several stories about a brother who grows to resent another and lets the resentment fester until he’s willing to cross a line you can’t come back from and murder his brother for a perceived sleight. I think Larys & the dance as a whole benefit from him being a brother who romanticizes and saintifies Harwin (but not lyonel!) so much that he weaponizes his years of resentment & turns it against the entire world and damn the consequences. I think he fits in much more with Rhaenyra, Alicent, Corlys, Viserys, Daemon, and Rhaenys that way and steps away from being Tyrion but slightly to the left and into his own type of character instead.

#if i can get a buy one get one i want to reimagine mysaria as well bc like larys she’s just a rehash of varys but worse.#hotd critical #asks #anons #you can even KEEP the clumsy angry protectiveness of harwin in the show or the relative distance in their narratives in the books #bc the point is that larys romanticizes this relationship bc it is the only thing that resembles love he has ever experienced.#how harwin acts doesn’t matter; what matters is that larys turns him into a shining example of the warrior and father in his mind & losing #this touchstone breaks him open just like rhaenyra alicent viserys etc all break at their own losses. it’s just that larys is smarter and #plays the game better and actually accomplished his goal before he let the war eat him alive!#damn i should add house strong to my list of blorbo houses aksjdjd

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keldabe-kiss · 2 years

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I just think he’s neat <3

#star wars #tbobf #boba Fett #the book of boba fett #attack of the clones #fun fact it took me months to watch the mandalorian bc my thought process was #‘oh Star Wars is making a show about a mando bounty Hunter? and it’s not my guy boba? I’m don’t care #obviously mind is changed BUT #I <3 boba Fett #also in a better universe that tusken child somehow survives and lives in the palace with Boba and Fennec #by god boba is going to keep at least one family alive so help me #my art #🪐

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thekenobee · 1 year

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Aubreyad fandom, where are you at

At times of stress I make jokes

#memes are one of the few things keeping me alive #aubreyad #jack aubrey #you can say that THE DEBAUCHED SLOTH is deffo my fav #and the 60 k bees #Stephen Maturin #patrick o'brian #master and commander #master and commander the far side of the world #memes #funny #my edit #Russell Crowe #paul bettany #aubrey/maturin #aubrey maturin #books #perioddrama

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oifaaa · 2 years

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Watch Jason write home to Mama Talia about his latest villainous deeds and she sends him back letters about how proud she is

Talia is happy to help fund Jasons little crime empire bc she knows that it will drive Bruce insane and there's no greater joy in life then talia causing chaos to her (ex??) husband

#Ask #Anon #Talias just like #So proud of my eldest #Causing chaos for his father and half siblings #As long as he doesn't kill Bruce that's all okay in her book #She needs him alive to look after damian for a bit #Last time Bruce died dick got custody somehow #And dick doesn't like talia for some stupid reason #So gotta keep Bruce alive so that doesn't happen again

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frayed-symphony · 9 months

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I don't have much lore to share but here's a character concept dump for my 3rd and final self-published picture book The Midnight Chimes;

Concepts for Josie (main character)

Concepts for Marina

Concepts for Titania (both fairy queen/flower shop owner forms)

Character sheets

Green Man concepts;

Bonus sketch of three of my childrens book protagonists together;

Might do a part two soon!

(And can't forget to add places you can read my book) Limited edition gold foil paperback (listing currently closed); https://etsy.com/uk/listing/1035131739… eBook; https://frayedsymphony.gumroad.com/l/duvee

#the midnight chimes #childrens books #picture books #kid lit #indie authors #myart #forgot if I mentioned this anywhere as well #but the name of the book was a bedtime story my parents used to tell me before sleep #they would make up random things happening to tell me #the story always changed #but I wanted to keep it alive my own way

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