#wise man's fear

[qpjianghu]

“It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them, too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear // Mysterious Lotus Casebook

#fanghua #li lianhua #fang duobing #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #I just... I'm obsessed with the idea that fdb loves lxy BECAUSE and loves llh DESPITE #I am. I am unwell #I am sighing like an ill victorian lady #I'm also still on this extremely niche kingkiller chronicle / mysterious lotus casebook jam #mlc #lhl #my mlc gifs #the kingkiller chronicle #patrick rothfuss #wise man's fear

[climbthemountain2020]

I can't live laugh love in these conditions, Patrick

#kingkiller chronicle #kvothe kingkiller #kvothe #the name of the wind #wise man's fear #patrick rothfuss #this fucking lute i stg #please hire a cpa kvothe im begging

[simauita]

Props to El'the Mola for being the only sane person at the whole University.

#the kingkiller chronicle #kingkiller chronicle #kingkiller chronicles #king killer chronicles #name of the wind #wise man's fear #kvothe #mola #patrick rothfuss

[bookcub]

#kkc #kingkiller chronicle #patrick rothfuss #wise man's fear

[lorian-ain-dal]

Bloodless Child

Where were you when blue flames swallowed their bodies? Encased in iron, their souls weeped. Decay eating through their flesh, restlessly, when silence reigned over their eternity?

Where were you when sickness drank their souls, and shadows followed them even in death?

My poor songbird, you were sent in too late, offering them nothing but forgetness and crawling pain. My bard of silver tongue, you were sent too early too, too early for trying to break the ice that chained the world. As I am made of darkness and night, sharper than edge of the knife.

And you will fail, bloodless child.

Because I have waited for eternities and you... you are only a voice of the mist, song of the wind. Beautiful. Enchanting. But so frail. Eager to be blown away with the first gust of darkest of the storms.

Feel how it approaches, its skirts in taloned fingers, shadows wail behind it. The storm which's silent growl will silence your song and your spellbound music.

Like gossamer torn with the indifferent hand.

#kingkiller chronicle #kvothe #ferula #cinder #writing #literature #fantasy #patrick rothfuss #name of the wind #wise man's fear

[lifeimitatesmeme]

Run outside. Run and hide.

(clipped image of Cinder from the wonderfully eerie illustration "Late visit" by Marc Simonetti)

#kingkiller chronicle × lotr #kkc #chandrian #marc simonetti art #cinder #gandalf meme #chandriandalf #patrick rothfuss #name of the wind #wise man's fear #incorrect lotr quotes #lotr memes

[jinxstark]

As I work on my dress for graduation atm I've been listening to the audio book of 'Name of the Wind' and am struck again by how different audio books are to experience vs reading.

When I tell you I have read Name of the Wind and Wise Man's fear at least five times each, I am not exaggerating. I have read these books once a year every year since I was introduced to them at 15(ish). But I listened to the audio book for the first time last year and it is a WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE!!

Before I didn't really care for Wise Man's Fear as much and I found Denna to grate on my nerves. But listening to the books, I've absorbed so much more, I like Denna now, Wise Man's Fear is just as good as Name of the Wind, I could not pick a favourite. It's completely changed my perception of the books. I've also picked up on a lot of Rothfuss' repeated language - like Kvothe repeats a lot about how he though the current bad thing he was going through was the worst it could get, and then apologising to the reader because he was young and stupid and didn't know how much worse things would get.

Anyway listen to the audiobook

#name of the wind #wise man's fear #patrick rothfuss #kvothe #denna #audiobook #books #reading #reccomentations

[sunlit-music]

This is one of my most favourite music songs based on the Kingkiller Chronicles. The song is called Denna, and it's composed by Jonas Bunse and sung by Caro Saia. The video is from the YouTube channel JonasBunse. I've noticed that a lot of Kingkiller stuff is missed by Kingkiller fans because a lot of them on tumblr use the tag Kingkiller Chronicle instead of Chronicles (Chronicles is what the book series is called by bookstores and the author, but tumblr fans here call it Chronicle for some reason). Regardless, here's the video. I hope you like it! Feel free to check out the composer's YouTube channel too, as they write other songs.

#violin #piano #Jonas Bunse #Caro Saia #Denna #Kingkiller Chronicles #music #music based on books #Name of the Wind #Wise Man's Fear #Kingkiller Chronicle

[automaticchaosmilkshake]

I am a thousand years late to this series but I forgot how to read for pleasure for a while. BLeeM used The Kingkiller Chronicle as an example while talking about the importance of details-when-they-matter in an an old episode of Adventuring Academy, the podcast I binged while painting my garage last fall.

I'm about 7/8ths from the end, have a pretty good idea of where this is going now, and am doing my best to enjoy the ride that I know isn't going to land. It's fine. I was adequately warned and waded this deep on my own accord.

I've been kind of put off by the way he wrote about women (or more specifically, left women *out* of his story), but dismissed it as a relatively minor negative compared to the parts I really like as positives. Oooh baby, let me see those satisfying tangible magic systems. Look at that monomyth. Gimme stories-within-stories-within-stories all day. I guess I could try to find this kind of story from a feminine lens, and I have indeed been searching, but for now I'm going to think about this story I've been chewing on since September.

I put the book down a few minutes ago to write something lighthearted about Adem women, and now I can't stop thinking about how *of course* that sounds great, it's not patriarchy.

I dunno, I think I'm probably writing above my pay grade now, but I feel like before he went through the abyss, women were left out of the story purposely, because he had no experience with them. Now that it feels like I'm landing this book between transformation and atonement, it feels different. The protagonist has never acted misogynistically, and in fact has several times fought the patriarchy of his world. Because of that, it's hard to illustrate what specifically has changed about the writing that feels better now. Is it just the exponential increase in women who have names and stories of their own now? In the first book there was Only One Girl in The Entire World. This is progress, my friends. We've nearly got binders full of women.

After I'm done with The Wise Man's Fear, I'm taking suggestions for which direction to go next. Like I said, it's been many years since I've regularly read for pleasure. I'm going to give Mistborn a try because if this many people love Brandon Sanderson's books he must be pretty good and it does tick those boxes I mentioned before. Considering he's a Mormon who is buddies with OSC, I don't expect him to address matters of feminism in any capacity, and certainly not as well as Rothfuss has so far done. Maybe that's why I am more excited about The Priory of the Orange Tree, but I have heard it can be unapproachable and I worry it won't hold my attention. I feel like my reading habit is fragile and I want to baby it before I give it anything where "slog" is a recurring theme in the reviews? But what do reviewers know anyway. I have been assured that despite the volume of Sanderson's work, it's fairly "light" in terms of effort.

#bookworm #wise man's fear #patrick rothfuss #brandon sanderson

[logarithmicpanda]

Let's obsessively analyse wmf! Part 1

- there are Selas vines behind the Waystone Inn 😭

- which poet did Kvothe kill? Please don't say Sim

- Denna definitely dropped her own earring so she could talk alone with Kvothe 👀 and she is definitely pretending not to be able to put it back herself so he'll have to come close

- Kvothe keeping a knife strapped to his leg, just like Denna taught him 💜

- For all the casual misogyny sparkled around these books, the fact that Kvothe, even drugged and with no inhibition, cannot conceive of raping someone? That's worth a lot imo

- I really really hope book three won't turn the relationship between Kvothe and Auri romantic because I value their relationship in their current form so, so much

- Denna's interest in "magic where you write things down" makes me think she has seen something the likes of which we haven't seen yet in the story

- curious to see how Kvothe will feel about leaving auri when he leaves the university for good. She managed fine before she met him, but he's so protective of her I worry something happens to her

- absolutely love than Elodin canonically has a tidy handwriting

- why didn't Denna ask Ambrose what she wanted to know about magic?

- i wonder if the yllish knots on Denna's ring are supposed to be some magic too - she seems surprised Kvothe saw the ring at all....

- Fela: "buy me dinner first" Kvothe, entirely oblivious to women as usual: "I'll buy dinner to everyone when we're done" like bro. Bro. Even I am not that bad at noticing when people try to flirt with me

- Kvothe getting suspended from the Archives because he tried to do the right things stings haha it reminds me of some stuff I did as a kid, that still make me feel bad almost two decades later

- "sort of foreign apple from off in Atur" at least we know the Waystone Inn isn't in Atur I guess.

Kvothe is leaving the University so I'll leave it at that for now 👀 one last note: up to that point, Kvothe actually has only been studying for one year! Exactly four terms!

#let's obsess over kkc #wise man's fear #panda talks #reblog later

[adderbelly]

#Dark #dark academia #Reading #Glow #Books #patrick rothfuss #Wise Man's Fear #Rain #Rainy night #Autumn #Autumnal #Cosy #Aesthetic

[qpjianghu]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook / The Kingkiller Chronicle

#li lianhua #li xiangyi #difanghua #mlc trio #mysterious lotus casebook #look I think I just have a thing for depressed former child prodigies who are unreliable narrators #wake up babe new (old) blorbo dropped #kvothe #wise man's fear #patrick rothfuss #mlc #also look ma I learned how blend! #my mlc gifs

[dearjewels22]

In order to have a valley, there must be a mountain on either side... get up and try again.

#dust yourself off #try again #it's okay to fall #wake up #dreamer #lessons not losses #lessons #after the storm #rainbows #rain is necessary #life #quotes #inspiration #dear jewels #pray through it #God can #have faith #faith over fear #wise man's fear #patrick rothfuss #reading #books #fear is not my future #fear is a liar #confidence #valley low #mountain high #peaks and valleys #get back up #get up

[simauita]

Kvothe when saying goodbye to Dedan, Hespe and Marten so he could accompany Tempi to Haert, and instructing them to report to the Maer:

Kvothe: While I'm gone, Dedan, you're in charge.

Dedan: Hell yeah!

Kvothe whispering to Marten: Marten, you are secretly in charge.

Marten: Obviously.

#kkc #kingkiller chronicle #kingkiller chronicles #king killer chronicles #kvothe #patrick rothfuss #the name of the wind #name of the wind #wise man's fear

[bookcub]

#kkc #kingkiller chronicle #patrick rothfuss #the name of the wind #wise man's fear #i refuse to put a third option #making people choose

[nowtransparent]

I finally own both, "The Name of the Wind" and "Wise Man's Fear" .... Now when is Patrick Rothfuss going to get that third book to us!?!

#kingkiller chronicles #the name of the wind #wise man's fear #patrick rothfuss