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yes i logged back into this account for the sole purpose of reblogging that coad post,,, can u believe thatâs rly happening holy shit
a mood yet again, turns out iâll only log into this account for coad huh
Vipers daughter
So Michelle just revealed that Vipers Daughter is going to be about Renn discovering that Torak is in danger, and that she is the danger. They've been happily living in the Forest together for two years, as mates, and now they have to defeat the new evil. They're going up north, beyond the Far North, and are going to see mammoths. I don't know if they're going to meet new people though. We don't know yet why Torak is in danger, but I guess it will be revealed when the book comes out...
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yes i logged back into this account for the sole purpose of reblogging that coad post,,, can u believe thatâs rly happening holy shit
The Big Announcement!
reasons to read The Chronicles of Ancient DarknessÂ
wolves!!!
really well researched omg. excellent all round. honestly??? @ all authors take notes tbh (like the details dude tHE DETAILS lemme go live then tho they no eat their 5 a day bad children)Â
u get my love forever what more do u wantÂ
i can impart the horror of the raven clan rap onto u (actually scrap the prev bullet point #betrayal)Â
renn the actual badass ⢠??!!! like!!!!!!!!Â
torak my sweet summer child i will protect u (or renn will IF YOU STOP LEAVING CUE: HACKING COUGH)Â
pretty problematic evil dudes so read read read this if ur sick of the Snape Debate ⢠(this doesnât exist here, there is no grey ground to be found)Â
cool kid stuff like magecraft and spirit walking yes yesÂ
i need someone to hold me as i cry over /that/ scene in oath breaker (erm this is open to interpretation tbh erm?? both?? of them?? screw it all of it hahaha i cri )Â
i hate outcast with all my soul why why why why (aka u should deffo read it 10/10 rec)Â
all the characters are a*** (Dark #underrated character 2kforever )Â
?! pls bring fresh blood into the coad tag *finger guns*Â
itâs my childhood. do it for the throwbacks.Â
may the guardian run with you okay okay byeÂ
⌠so Iâm probably going to regret writing this, but I saw the same idea implied on another post, and I take issue with it a bit: the idea that COAD is awesome because of the strict delineations between its good and evil characters. That grey areas are unnecessary and you need to avoid them if you want good literature.Â
I could make the argument that there are areas of grey in COAD. And it seems like Michelle brushes over them a bit, but that doesnât mean they arenât there.
Torakâs fatherâs on the white side, right? I mean, heâs the main characterâs role model and everything, he defeated the Soul Eaters the first time - but heâs still a murderer (if you donât believe me, hereâs the Canadian Criminal code). He sells his child to a god in the full knowledge of how sucky that will make the childâs life, and then proceeds to withhold from him all the relevant information. And he doesnât ever think to get his kid away from the certain danger that follows him. Thatâs irresponsible parenting, that is. Also, I would like to point out that what we see of him in Ghost Hunter implies that redemption ainât a thing in Michelleâs presented worldview.
Fin-Kedinnâs on the white side, right? He orders Torak killed in the first book and cast out in the fourth. He also turns his best friend and pregnant wife out into the wild. (To me, that was, and still is, viscerally horrifying. Almost everyone in this series practices sacred hospitality, and that is an outright violation of it.)
Tenris is on the black side, right? Well, he screwed up my carefully-considered Cain-and-Abel dichotomy by being the Abel.
Nefâs on the black side, right? Except sheâs never cruel to anyone or anything, really, and she believes - truly believes - that sheâs doing what she must for the sake of giving everyone a better life. And when she realizes , she puts her âdonât hurt peopleâ values where her mouth is and saves our mains.
Akiâs on the white side, right? He kicks off the entire conflict of Outcast and is just an outright jerk to all the protagonists.
Hordâs on the black side, right? Except he and Torak have the exact same goal. He just thinks that since he put everyone in danger, he should do the dangerous quest, instead of this strange confused boy he has no reason to trust. His flaws come from prioritizing his clan and place in the world very highly.
All-white stories are aspirational. All-black stories are cautionary. But stories with grey in them are the ones that illustrate the reality that morality is sometimes messy and sometimes hard to judge. That approaches the questions of how to make the right choices when itâs hard, and how to go on after making the wrong choices. My interpretation was that the lesson in the books was never supposed to be âthis is good and this is badâ. It was more about how to develop oneâs own principles, to be used to judge between good and bad. How do you make a choice when none of the options are good? How do you go on when youâve messed up? In a world that is a messy moral patchwork, where do you walk?
Maybe this is just personal for me, because most of the material I want to write on COAD is about finding and expanding those grey areas - the light characterâ dark sides and the dark charactersâ light - and I thought this would be a safer fandom to test that in. But⌠do people really think thereâs no nuance in these books? And that that makes them better? I donât get it. I simply donât.
Okay so I donât use this blog anymore really so this is a super belated reply. Better late than never I guess? (My original post is more than 2 years old so Iâm cringing reading it yikes.)
So I believe that the base of your argument is based off this point in my post?Â
âpretty problematic evil dudes so read read read this if ur sick of the Snape Debate ⢠(this doesnât exist here, there is no grey ground to be found)â
To clear things up, Iâm absolutely certain that I was thinking solely about Eostra, Seshru and Thiazzi. Not Fin-Kedinn, or Torakâs father or any of the others you listed. I was referring to the evil dudes⢠as it were, perhaps I should have specified but I donât think I ever intended for âevil dudes with no grey groundâ to be interpreted as a blanket statement for any character that had done anything wrong.Â
There wasnât any point in the books that I sympathised with Eostra or Seshru or Thiazzi if i recall the books correctly. They werenât portrayed as morally grey characters nor as characters you were meant to want redemption for. At least, that was my take on it. And the impression I got from the (albeit very small) fandom on here, when I was active, was that no one was defending those charactersâs evil actions. There wasnât any of that Snape bullshit in the fandom where people defended and excused some of his pretty nasty actions and paint him as some hero. That was what I wanted to address. Not the moral depth of the books.Â
Hopefully that clears up where I was coming from and all the best with your CoAD writing!Â
tbh you probably won't see this. i'm not sure you're gonna come back to see this, but here i am anyway. i miss you. you were the best friends i've ever had, and talking to you was honestly a gift. i think about all the conversations we had fondly and i want you to know i hope you're having fun, enjoying life and being brilliant. good luck my friend.
i donât think thank u is a sufficient response to this message but iâm going to say it anyway and hope u know that i mean it so so so much. thank u thank u.
i honestly miss u too a lot okay? all these sentiments go right back @ u. you meant a lot to me and u still do.Â
a confession, that idk how to word bc regardless i was a shit in this situation, and it makes me an absolutely rubbish friend but u deserve to know, so iâm going to be honest with u. i did actually create a different account and iâm p active on tumblr (which,,,, has also been Not a Good bc exams and stress and all that but i digress, thatâs my own issue of procrastination that doesnât play a role in this tale). iâve just been too of an absolute dumbass to message or contact anyone i knew on this blog abt it - idk if it was initially a case of not wanting to bother people or being scared ppl didnât actually want to keep in touch or wanting to move on but like either way? how fucking shitty and stupid and downright yikes of me in hindsight. iâm not good @ keeping friends and valuing them properly and for that, a million apologies im so sorry. iâm sorry for just thinking to check into this blog now. iââm so sorry.
i hope ur doing well, and i know uâll think iâm a bit (a bit? a lot. a huge metric tonne.) of a shit for creating another account and pretty soon after i left this acc too (like iâm talking a few weeks) (fucking hell am i rite)âŚ.and just. not. telling. u. im mad @ me and if ur not, then pls do be. i 100% deserve it. thatâs not what friends do. iâm sorry. âiâm sorryâ isnât really a sufficient apology just like thank u isnât enough but pls know it had nothing to do with how much u matter and more to do with my own shitty af personality.Â
if you do want to keep in touch, pls pls pls do message me. iâm so so so sorry. ur welcome to have my other blogâs url or if u want, i have discord which is pretty lit. (probably a better idea bc i kinda,,, feel like moving blogs again ffff,,,, tumblr in general is shitty for my emotional state sigh)
i mean thatâs if u do want to keep in touch - i wonât blame u if you donât. itâs 100% okay. some memories are better left undisturbed etc. (i feel like i could be making the same mistake again but i think this time is different. i think. Iâm sorry iâm kinda a mess) but all that said, this message seriously means so much. iâm sorry if iâve ruined those fond memories but pls know i think of them just as fondly even if iâm a shit human. you mean a lot my friend.Â
indefinite hiatus
god i feel so weird making this post but gotta go with the gut instinct you know just gotta (before i decide not to)Â
so iâve decided to like not tumblr anymore because i need to find myself (wowzas deep *slow clap*)
and yh yh i could have just upped and deleted my blog and no one would really mind but i just wanted to say a quick thank u to a couple of ppl who have made this experience a cool one ily didnât want to leave u in the lurchÂ
(i may be back? but like not any time soon so feel free to unfollow!!!!)
this is not in order i donât like rank ppl thatâs weird... (+ iâm so sorry i canât do the meaningful message thing pls donât sue me)
@princesshavilliard my ask void co-queen, my tea/coffee dislike squad, the first person i talked to on here??? (itâs been like a yr???) ilysm becca omg i donât know what to say other than u r a radiant being and all the best cuz youâre going to kick yr 13â˛s ass and omg iâm going to miss u <333 (we were talking like just earlier and ack i just ily ily sorry to spring this on u :((( ).Â
@leftsockofrassilon nerd. u nerd. nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd. nerd. (i feel like a bully tbh whyyy now conscience why now). please donât hate me for making the coad fandom even more ridiculously small hah. pls remember to keep the caffeine low + sleep relatively early yup the mom is back sue me  but yh nerd, thank you for putting up with my spam *finger guns* (okay but i have to point this out: we first started talking becAUSE DRAGONS ffs so idk honestly where your previous illusion of not being a nerd even stemmed from...) #celery dr #anon war #nerd war 2k16 + i gotta stop because our convos are so random i canât #them all (urs is the least sappy cuz i lowkey blame u for indirectly bringing to my attention that post abt studio ghibli + coad. like not cool. at all. gah.) edit: i feel bad okay ur my fav and u know it, stay cool + have fun adulting
@linebetween ur the sweetest and unfailingly kind ilysm <3. your positive comments never fail to make my day so thank u!! <3 all the best with everything u deserve it!!
@the-girl-with-the-books jess!!! remember the good ol days of fanmail haha. all the best with uni and honestly, u are so kind and a bundle of sunshine u all the happiness vibes @ u <33Â
@velutluna @happybibliosaurus @jess : #darcysquad hehe ily guys for making my booklr experience epic!! i wish u all the best and i hope your book reading adventures are awesome hehe :) youâre all so infinitely sweet ily ily thank u so much for everything <3Â (i didnât say bye on my booklr and i still feel a bit bad abt that... : / so this is a belated ty sorry sorry ily )
+ iâve probably missed out people and for that iâm so sorry u know i love you <3 all the infinite good vibes @ u allÂ
+ @ all my mutuals : ty for sticking with this blog even when it slowly disintegrated and no longer represented a blog ooops *jazz hands*
toodles yâall are awesome remember that.Â
okay but you should all watch primitive technology on youtube itâs so satisfying how why just.Â
Literary quotations that sound better when yelled, presented without comment.
I WILL SHOW YOU FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS, NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
THESE FRAGMENTS I HAVE SHORED AGAINST MY RUIN
NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; IT TOLLS FOR THEE
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE
THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE, I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL
SURELY THE SECOND COMING IS AT HAND
ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM IS BUT A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
WHO IS IT THAT CAN TELL ME WHO I AM?
WHATâS DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE
THINGS FALL APART; THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD
THIS IS THE HOUR OF LEAD
DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?
I SAW THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DESTROYED BY MADNESS
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR
i am all about gray foggy mornings in late autumn when thereâs a chill and a shiver in my body. mornings that call for large sweaters and rain boots. standing in the woods with pine and rain and smoke in the air. or standing at the edge of the ocean with salt in your mouth and the wind in your hair. the feeling of being both lost and found at the same time. the promise of returning home in your hands. a lick of winter at your heels.
Resurrection stone idea
Its two generations after the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry and Ron are now both grandfathers.
The map has been passed down to James Siriusâ son, along with all knowledge on pranks.
There is a competition between Harrys grandson and Rons granddaughter for who can do the best prank
the granddaughter goes into the forbidden forest for part of hers.
she finds something on the ground and picks it up, spinning it around her fingers.
A young man appears in front of her, his hair just as ginger as hers. She frowns up at him. âUncle George?â she says, having seen a picture of the now ageing man when he was her age.
the person shakes his head, smiling slightly.
And she knows its the one they lost, the boy that became a hero to her family. Fred.
They talk late into the evening, Fred passing on all his own knowledge and helping her pull off a prank- one that turns the entire third floor into a sandy beach. Complete with crabs that chase the staff away when they try to get it back to normal.
She keeps it secret what she found from everyone, until the end of the year when she is back at the Burrow, which is now three times as big and is open to anyone who needs a place to stay.
She walks up to George, who is half asleep on his chair, and hands him the stone.
âYou will want this.â She says.
That night, the twin looks at it, spinning it in his hand.
âBrother.â He hears in a voice he never really forgot.
And he looks up to see his twin, smiling at him, looking just the same as they had in school.
âIts time.â Fred says with a smile, reaching out his slightly translucent hand.
They find George the next day, a smile on his face, a small stone in his hand.
Harry, seeing it, places it in a box, knowing that if they ever needed help in the future, those that they held in their hearts would be just a stones throw away.
GUYS. Â WEâRE GETTING A HARRY POTTER GO APP!!!!!!!
âWe have acquired the rights for the app. The demand for this title was absolutely insane, so we figured weâd give it a shot. If weâre lucky we might see a launch by early 2017, but itâs hard to tell this early in the project.â
What will/could be included in the game:
schools of witchcraft and wizardry (similar to pokestops in Pokemon GO)
quests system
possibly large scale completely interactive events
horcrux hunting
duelling club
the sphinx from GoF (books)
Iâm so excited!! Reblog to tell a friend!!!!
is this my dream closet? yes, yes it is.