#tortallrecall

[arofili]

[id: a 3x3 moodboard. 1: a single flower on a muted green background. 2: art of several small green hearts on a white background. 3: an outline of a heart on a green background with the words “kind heart / fierce mind / brave spirit” inside it. 4: cursive handwriting on a white background of the underlined word “brave.” 5: keladry of mindelan as depicted on the original cover of lady knight by tamora pierce on the background of the aromantic flag. 6: a black-and-white drawing of two knights in combat upon their horses; one is holding a crossbow and the other is wielding a spear. 7: a black-and-white close up of the hilt of a sword. 8: black text on a grey background reading “fight like a girl.” 9: the head of a black horse on a grey background. end id.]

moodboards ♡ aromantic keldary of mindelan ♡ happy arospec awareness week!! ♡ @tortallrecall ♡ @tamorapierce

#keladry of mindelan #tortall #tortallrecall #tortall recall #tamora pierce #aromantic #aro #my edit #tefain nin #my moodboards #asaw #prideboards

[zombee]

The Hero’s Appraisal

@tortallrecall​ asked for a chamber of the ordeal fic so you know i had to do it to em

There are many who wish to be heroes. Rich and poor, proud and humble - a hero needs no class or race or gender to be.

That is why I am here. That is why I have always been here.

If I was born, I do not remember. If I can die, I do not know how.

I have been many things. A cloud, a crone, a coincidence. There are many tests. There are as many outcomes.

Despite what most believe, a hero need not be good, or pure, or righteous. There is always a cost, and all you must do to pass through me is pay it.

The ones who come to me now, they all have training. Most are disciplined enough to pay the price. But there are always those who will not bend themselves.

And so they break.

It happened more often, before. There is a reason youngest sons had more luck than oldest. There is a reason paupers had more luck than princes.

Perhaps it is not luck. I do not know the souls of humans. I am here to test them and to judge them, not to know them.

Now they call me a chamber. A man who passed through me settled here and made himself a king. His people built walls around me, and then a legend, thicker than the stone. I make their knights, or I break them. At times I hand out a hero's quest. Those are their own sort of price.

I will be here long after the stone walls around me crumble to dust. I will be here so long as those who would be heroes find me.

Perhaps, when they are gone, I will be gone as well.

#tortallrecall #tamora pierce #tamora pierce fanfic #tortall #tortall recall #my writing #my fanfic #dotl #pots

[jehanthepoet]

Reasons I’m excited for the next episode of @tortallrecall

- My girl, Kel, whom I have been anxiously awaiting since episode one -objectively speaking this series has the best friendships -NEAL -that scene where neal fixes all his clothes before knocking on Daine’s door -Keladry, the actual love of my life -boys reacting rashly to situations, meanwhile Kel is like “hey, lets try to see this from each other’s perspective -Kel -Neal losing the ability to speak when Kel picks a fight with Joren -Keladry of mindelan - "My aunt lit barrels of lard and had them catapulted onto Scanran ships this summer." “As would any delicately reared noblewoman”

In conclusion: I would die for Kel, and cannot wait to hear about her

#tortallrecall #guys whenever a new book started #it was really just a countdown to kel #practical heroines 2kforever

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

Pass the happy along! When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy. Then pass it along to the first 10 people in your activity :)

Ahhhhh! We can all use a little more happy :) I’m going to list my 5, but let every choose to do it themselves if they want. Spread the happy! And tag me if you choose to!I want to know what things make you smile, too!1.) Podcasts. I’m so, so lucky that a friend got me into the medium a few years ago! From life advice (lookin’ at you mbmbam), to crazy good narratives (@lessergods), to book clubs I’m dying to be a part of (@Tortallrecall), They make me smile at least once a day. 2.) My coworkers. My last work place was pretty toxic, but coming to this job a year ago was just so eye opening! We laugh, we encourage each other, we force each other to go on lunch-time walks. They are all such good humans, and I’m lucky to work with them.3.) The ever growing and expanding world of Botanists and Natural Resource kids on Tumblr. I love what I do, and I’m always inspired to do it more by y’all wild and crazy kids. 4.) Polygon Content(tm). Maybe a little crossover-y with #1, because I totally found it through podcasts, but all of the video staff is so funny and kind and friendly that they make my day brighter. Even if I, like, almost never play video games. 5.) The New Year! Usually I think new years resolutions are bull, but I’ve set myself some good, achievable goals this year, and am excited to make progress towards them. Do you guys have any good goals too? 

#Asked and answered #join me in being happy! #or fake it till you make it! #Tortallrecall #Lesser gods #Anonymous

[theharrowharkening]

I’m generally more into the Tortall than the Emelan books, but @tortallrecall is reminding me how good the Emelan books are! There’​s so much good friendship and found family! And I love all the characters so much!

Daja’s canonically a lesbian, Rosethorn is canonically bisexual and polyamorous, and Lark is canonically wlw, but here are some of my LGBTQ+ headcanons for other characters:

Briar is a bi trans boy

Tris is aro ace

Sandry is an ace lesbian

#circle of magic #emelan #emelan headcanon #briar moss #trisana chandler #sandrilene fa toren #daja kisubo #rosethorn #lark #tamora pierce

[the-aliens-believe-in-you-too]

Will I ever stop making @tortallrecall memes? No. No I won’t. Anyway this is 100% the dynamic between Kel and Raoul and I love them.

#tortall #protector of the small #Kel #Raoul #Keladry of Mindelan #Raoul of Goldenlake

[tortallrecall]

Seeking Perspectives on Trickster’s Choice

We’re discussing race and colonialism in Trickster’s Choice, and we’d like to boost perspectives from PoC! If you have any resources on colonial narratives—or this specific colonial narrative—that you would like to share, please email us [email protected]!

We’re also interested in hearing the individual experiences of Tamora Pierce fans of color! No pressure, but you’re welcome to email us with your opinions and indicate whether you are open to having the text your email read on the show.

#tamora pierce #trickster's choice #trickster's queen #tortall

[scienceandstarlight]

[id: the expanding brain meme, with four images. the first is labelled “meeting daine for the first time,” the second “talking to daine,” the third “spending a lot of time in daine’s vicinity,” and the fourth “drinking daine’s blood”]

@tortallrecall

#tortall recall #is a great podcast and you should listen to it

[roses-and-railways]

Protector of the Small: Race-based commentary

[Hey everyone! This isn’t a history post, but my friend @buckybatnes and I wrote some contributions for @tortallrecall‘s Tamora Pierce podcast, in particular for their discussion of the Kel books. For the sake of listeners there, I’m posting the full discussion below.]

#non-history #personal #POTC #buckybatnes #tamora pierce #keladry of mindelan #tortall

[hulklinging]

Hey Tortall fans, any of y'all listening to @tortallrecall? It's a cool new podcast with a bunch of folks talking through a group reread of the Tortall series. They're addressing the nostalgia and the importance of the books on them as kids and as adults, while also tackling the stuff that isn't so great in them, what has and hasn't aged well, and also super important stuff like the animal friends and best friendship moments in general. I just finished their episodes on The First Adventure, and really enjoyed it, and I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone talking about them on here yet (although maybe I'm just fashionably late to the party).

#Tortall #alanna of trebond #song of the lioness #Tamora Pierce #queen's readers

[sophieakatz]

Thursday Thoughts: Redhead to Redd - Retelling Old Stories

This article includes a brief description of a fictional portrayal of human trafficking, several uses of the word “rape” and “rapist,” and several even briefer mentions of various kinds of bigotry.

In the classic Disney Parks attraction Pirates of the Caribbean, a popular, much-memed-upon scene focused on the pirates holding a “bride auction.” The Guests see that the pirates have lined up several women, their hands bound with rope, to be sold. While one pirate encourages the women to “show off” their bodies, the prospective buyers on the other side of the river ogle and jeer, chanting, “We wants the redhead!” in reference to one of the women on sale.

As of a few months ago, this scene no longer exists. Walt Disney World remodeled the ride to instead include an auction of the various treasures that the pirates have stolen from the town. The dialogue is replaced with the humorous attempts of the pirate salesmen to get the others to bid on some chickens, while they’re much more interested in buying rum. And the redhead? She’s now a pirate herself, a pistol in one hand and a bottle of rum in the other. Her name is Redd. You can meet her in Disneyland, walking around New Orleans Square, and she’ll tell you about her adventures.

The new scene is funny, and fits with the general premise of the ride as a glorification of (white) pirates. Best of all, it isn’t about human trafficking anymore. Because, you know, kidnapping and selling women to rapist “husbands” is not funny.

But when this change was announced, there was an uproar. On the last day of the bride auction, crowds gathered outside the ride as it was temporarily closed for technical difficulties, demanding to be let in and chanting “We wants the redhead!” at the top of their lungs.

As far as I’m aware (though I could be wrong), no one actually said that they wanted Pirates of the Caribbean to continue to be about human trafficking. Instead they said that it would be wrong to change the ride, that it should stay the way that it had always been, that it should remain true to Walt Disney’s original vision.

But here’s the thing: Walt Disney never wanted the parks to stay the same forever. He found it frustrating that once a movie was completed, that was it, and you moved on to the next thing. He wanted to be able to respond to a changing audience, to fix things that no longer worked.

When asked when Disneyland would be completed, Walt responded like this:

“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. It is something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing and adding to.”

With this philosophy, Walt set a very valuable foundation for his company. He might not even have known just how valuable it would prove. It’s hard to look into the future and know that the stories we enjoy today will one day no longer be enjoyable. But we all have something, probably many things, that we enjoyed when we were young and didn’t know better.

A part of growing up, especially as the world around us grows up, is that we can look back at things we loved and see the good and bad in them. The lovely folks on the podcast @tortallrecall do this very well, taking a critical look at the fantasy novels they loved as children, laughing over the parts of the books that they still do love, and pointing out the sexist/racist/homophobic/rapey/etc. parts. After every book, they discuss who they’d recommend these books to, and often conclude they wouldn’t give these books to their target child audience anymore. They don’t conclude that no one should read the stories; rather, they recommend giving them to adults, and creating new stories with the tropes that they love without including the problematic parts.

Our love for an old story doesn’t mean that we have to continually unconditionally love and keep it. It also doesn’t mean that we have to totally throw out the story. People rarely do; it’s not our nature to throw out stories. It’s our nature to find ways to keep them, and to keep loving and telling them.

Every time Disney announces a new live action remake, I overhear the same complaint, from people on Facebook and in person: “Why do they keep just remaking old films? I’m gonna go see it, but why do they keep making them?”

There’s a simple answer and a more complicated answer to this question. The simple answer is, they make it because you’re going to go see it. That’s how the entertainment industry works as a business.

The more complicated answer involves why you’re going to go see it. None of Disney’s remakes (both the live-action/CGI version of the films like The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast and the new runs of animated series like DuckTales) are carbon copies of the original film. They’re close to the original plot, and full of references to previous versions. They are also advanced, in the ways that the world has advanced since the original stories were created: technologically, and more importantly, socially.

These new versions of the stories are more progressive than previous versions. They’re less sexist, less racist, and more willing to confront complicated and often taboo topics like familial abuse and societal roles. And these versions of the stories sell very well. People don’t want to feel guilty for enjoying something in the past that they now know was problematic. We want to have more progressive versions of the stories we loved as kids, so that we will feel comfortable sharing them with our own kids.

I would love to share the story of Dumbo the flying elephant with my hypothetical future children, because I loved it so much as a kid. But I don’t want to show them the original film, because it’s chock-full of racism. I would love to have a version of this story that I feel comfortable sharing with children. So if the upcoming Dumbo film directed by Tim Burton has all the things I loved about the original film – namely the adorable elephant – and is not racist, I see that as an unquestionably good thing.

Completely new stories are good and exciting, yes, but we can’t ignore the soft spot that we have for stories that we already love. And making old stories better is a good thing. If we’re going to glorify pirates, let’s at least make them not rapists.

More Thursday Thoughts coming soon! For now, check out my previous articles at The Odyssey Online.

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#thursday thoughts #walt disney world #pirates of the caribbean #disney #disneyland #tumblr originals

[arofili]

BOOKS I READ IN 2019 ✧ trickster’s queen by @tamorapierce

     Ulasim shook his head. “You were born a spy, Aly.”      She smiled cheerfully. “No, but I’m a very fast study.”

#trickster's queen #trickster's duet #tamora pierce #tortallrecall #tortall #tortall recall #my edit #tefain nin #bk19 #aly #dove #dovasary balitang

[zombee]

i fully blame @ponyregrets for how seriously i’m considering how i could write a tortall tv series. and @tortallrecall i suppose.

#laura this is what we're going to do between the end of orchestration and nano in november #just you wait henry higgins

[jehanthepoet]

In Squire Kel talks about how her ordeal differs from everyone else's because she has to wait until after her bath to get instructed BUT doesn't Neal also have to wait? Because Alanna is instructing him? @tortallrecall thoughts?

#Tortall #Squire #keladry of mindelan #Neal of queenscove

[knightet]

Listening to @tortallrecall on the many plane rides I have this week

So, being a child that was obsessed with Tamora Pierce for my whole childhood, I met her a couple of times (let’s leave it at more than once...) and she was great at answering questions about the inspiration for her different countries.

So, this is over ten years ago (yikes!), but she did confirm that Carthak was originally based on Carthage but “because it’s hard to find information on a place that was burned to the ground and it’s fields sowed with salt” she ended up using ancient Egyptian society instead. So the “Ancient Roman” aspects that y’all picked up on in Emperor Mage could very well be from that.

Also, I am also pretty sure that the Copper Isles are indeed Fantasy Southeast Asia, based on the cultural aspects that are included, though perhaps this can be explained by the fact that Tamora Pierce wasn’t aware of this when she was writing Daine... I don’t think it would be totally out of line for her to not know that Aly’s books were coming.

Finally—I don’t think that stormwings have dexterous feet, I just assumed that they were transformed with braided hair?

[wanderingandfound]

So... even though podcasts are kinda perfect for being productive to, I was not productive while I sped through all of @tortallrecall this morning and I've got to say, it's been a long time since I've been so excited about Tamora Pierce.

#personal #Tamora Pierce #Very good podcast I do enjoy when people are critical because they love something.