get karys therapy 2k24

i read the ARC of asunder in february and i have been thinking about it ever since

[asunder2024]

hi i couldn't sleep last night have some more domestic ferain/karys

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[bubblesandpages]

Karys and Ferain really do have everything they're star-crossed star-bound star-doomed even.

[luckiestgirl13]

i haven't felt anything since finishing asunder back in january. its put me in such a bad slump. it was so good that every book since has left a sour taste in my mouth. i want asunder. i need to bond souls with that book. i need to seal it in a stasis dimension from within. i need a locked door and a melted key

[bubblesandpages]

Resident scholar getting high off of corpse drugs should not be the segue into humor that it is

[bubblesandpages]

Don't you just hate it when you're interrupted mid rock cave train transit by passengers getting on who turn out to be assassins hellbent on killing you for your incorporeal shadow, and even they don't know what kind of ammunition they're packing?

[asunder2024]

i need to comfort reread asunder like rn. the part of the book where karys and ferain are comfortable with each other and he's watching her back would do wonders for my brain 🥲

[clytemnestraaa]

the most important thing a female character can be is cruel and ambitious. the most important thing a male character can be is a liar and a coward. i will be taking no questions at this time.

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[asunder2024]

asunder is out in paperback today!!! she's so pretty and nicely heavy!!!!

[asunder2024]

also I knowwwww you aren't a crossover person but. Thinking about instead of Harrow carving her brain up and forgetting Gideon, her finagling something that ends w Gideon getting stuck in her shadow.

OKAY WAIT I COULD BE TALKED INTO THIS. stealing a magic concept from a different work is something i can get behind!!! god, this would make htn even wilder, especially if gideon was able to talk directly to harrow. poor girl would be even more fuckin haunted than normal 😭

[asunder2024]

Reading the new Asunder fic and struck with the realization that Karys is gonna cry so fucking hard when she finally finds Ferain. To finally be able to touch him and see him and smell him and taste him but all in the knowledge that it is not really him. Deeply TLT coded and tbh it's fucking ending me.

(yes I'm still insane about these books)

IT MAKES ME WANT TO SCREEEEAAMMMMM bc she literally never even got him physically before she lost him so the reunion is going to be truly wild. and i know hoping for a happy ending w a horror fantasy may be asking for trouble but i genuinely believe it'll be a happy ending. i need to write it 😭😭😭

[asunder2024]

update: not me making an ao3 account only to be informed that i have to wait until JUNEEEE TWENTY FIFTH to receive my invite. i can't believe mr archive hates me personally, during pride month to boot. i am standing out in the rain. i am undone and wretched. i am turning these two over in my head like dolls. i have been seized by The Characters and i am an experience about it.

i promise to stop flooding your ask box now lmfao. ive taken up the fight and recommended asunder to some Gideon enjoyers. here's hoping!!!!

MR ARCHIVE HOW COULD YOU. you got in right??

omg rotating The Characters is so real and i love it so much. we can suffer together!!

ahhhhh so happy to hear the rec chain continues 💖

[asunder2024]

I just genuinely can't believe it. i was halfway through this book and CONVINCED that it was going to end well. i was like, well it's fine, because this isn't gideon the ninth and so everything is going to be fine and end happily :) :) :) despite NO evidence of this. and then shit was hitting the fan in the last couple chapters and i was like no....... no, it cannot be........... ALAS!!!!! MY HEART TBH.

hitting the 50 pages left mark and realizing So Much Needs To Happen and then So Much Happens and then THE ENDING????? it is a rollercoaster.

[tragedybadgerart]

Karys and Ferain from Asunder by Kerstin Hall. Quote from the book, image inspired by the text and by @asunder2024's fix-it fic. It was the balm my soul needed after finishing the book. You too can read it and be comforted at the following link:

(stuck in the) sunshine riptide @ ao3

I...think my soul is going to vibrate out of my soul as I wait for the sequel to this book. I don't know if I'm going to make it.

Please Tor Publishing. Please. Sign and publish the sequel before I combust. PLEASE.

[asunder2024]

[asunder2024]

🤔 Ferain gender feelings about being in Karys' body for a bit

OKAY LITERALLY. say more cause im kicking my feet and twirling my hair.

[mar1066]

Transfem/Enby Ferain HC, quick n dirty:

- Ferain already feeling disconnected from his body, and so finding being shadow-fied less uncomfortable than one might otherwise

- Ferain having Feelings about Karys clearly being into Winola and Haeki (even if she won't admit it)

- Ferain not really taking the time to process much during his brief stay in Karys' body but having a lot of Thoughts and Feelings about it afterwards

- Quick 1-2 punch of that & Ferain immediately witnessing Lindlee get deadnamed by her senile grandmother & realizing what she is & being hit in the face with what is possible

I may expand on this later but this is what I have so far. The problem with all of this is he doesn't really have the agency to *do* anything about it at... any point throughout the book and for the foreseeable future as well? So... Yea.

[asunder2024]

my coworker is reading asunder on my rec (they're a big tlt fan so i was like GUESS WHAT ELSE U SHOULD READ) and texted me this and i'm dying

[asunder2024]

hi, I actually just finished this book 30 minutes ago and immediately went to ao3 and there are only three ((3???? THHHREEE???? TROIS? ¿?¿) fics dedicated to this absolutely wild ride of a book. I am weeping and gnashing my teeth and so grateful to have found this blog. i don't usually send asks but i don't know what to do now that i don't have endless content to consume about this book and also nobody to talk about it with. so hi, and also what the fuck was that???? will I EVER recover??? remains to be seen. but unlikely.

AAAAAAAA!!! i know omg only 3 fics and one of them's me 😭 hi!!! so sorry for the suffering but so glad to have you! i will personally never recover ngl.