dragon girl

not sure why i'm still on this website but here we are

[charlesoberonn]

Men want her. Women want to be her. Children befriend her but their parents fear her. Doctors hate her and police officers' heads explode in her presence.

Scientific consensus on her nature and origins has not been reached.

Authorities warn civilians to stay away from her and report any sightings immediately.

[weissroseschnee]

Jolene

[divineandmajesticinone]

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021) | Exclusive Clip “The Big Three”

“Every time we fight, we fight one of the three.”

[bijoushka]

In case it isn’t obvious by the reblogging spree, I have briefly returned to tumblr to help with the recent exponential growth of my Craft Sequence obsession. Sadly (or fortunately for you, dear friend reading this) there are very few Craft Sequence things to reblog.

Anyway, you should read the books. Start with Three Parts Dead.

[boyangart]

A goddess blinks.

FOUR ROADS CROSS Get it  here https://www.amazon.com/Four-Roads-Cross-Novel-Sequence/dp/0765379422

[boyangart]

we all know who Elayne was talking about in Four Roads Cross.

[boyangart]

FOUR ROADS CROSS comes out TODAY!!!! 

Get it  here https://www.amazon.com/Four-Roads-Cross-Novel-Sequence/dp/0765379422

[boyangart]

Four Roads Cross of by Max Gladstone came out July 26!

FOUR ROADS CROSS Get it  here

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Roads-Cross-Novel-Sequence/dp/0765379422

[boyangart]

The God Wars

In the beginning…

belief and rituals shaped the first gods from the dreams of man.

As the civilizations of man grew, so did the strength and influence of their deities. 

In return for sacrifice, the gods gifted their followers with mystic might.

But the people wanted more than these gifts could provide.

In their souls the people found their own power. They called it “Craft.”

The gods, jealous and afraid,

struck down the firsts of these Craftsmen.

Thus the God Wars began.

But the gods were formed from the faith of man. It was a war they could not win.

And so the Craftsmen took up the mantle of the gods and rule in their stead.

[boyangart]

Full Fathom Five was REALLY GOOD. 

But have something from Three Parts Dead instead. 

MUAHAHHAHAHAHA I HAVE ANIMATED SOMETHING! 

Right. It’s Cat turning into a blacksuit. I’ll get to her turning into a gargoyle later. 

[boyangart]

Character designs for Two Serpents rise. 

From left to right: Mal, Tamoc, Kopil, Caleb, Teo, Alaxic, Sam

[boyangart]

Howl, bound world.

Story board practice of the opening of Full Fathom Five

[yukinojou]

Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence

My bouts of plague (this time: three weeks off in the last six because I literally got the flu the moment the vaccine was available) can be tracked by my Goodreads activity. This week brought to you by yet another damn cold and Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence books. Suffice to say I inhaled all six without taking a break to read anything else, which is rare for me and series.

Still a bit too out of it for a coherent review, but Reasons I Think People Would Enjoy Them:

Fantastic worldbuilding that’s not Western-centered. You can see the bits used (Dresediel Lex: mix of Mexico City and Los Angeles; Alikand: Baghdad and Silk Road cities; Kavekana: Hawaii and general Oceania; Iskari: exceedingly French; Camlaanders: taking the piss out of the British in a time-honoured way) but it’s all mixed up and shaken with new bits added.

Ecology themes! #2 does it the most directly (water crisis), but in the essence this is a world where our struggles of technology vs old ways are incorporated in Craftsmen (magicians) vs gods, which allows a farmer’s market to sock a corporation in the face.

Speaking of corporations, there’s a deep magic/spiritual power/money metaphor going on, which means the more powerful characters function in the world of multinational corporations, investment banks and international development with a tentacle twist. I love the fact legal trials are magical battles.

The writing style is a bit like a more serious Pratchett - he trusts the readers to be intelligent and get it, and sometimes you just have to put the book down and laugh.

Casual diversity. Every book has queer people, people of colour (fun thing: having actual gods meant the not!Aztecs crushed the conquistadores like a steamroller), offhand gender diversity. Not one of the mains in various books is a white guy - we have a very Slytherin black woman lawyer, a Native American corporate manager, his father the community leader and tradition-maintainer, likewise Slytherin white woman lawyer with a child soldier past,  a vaguely-Arabic refugee girl,  a Hawaiian investment manager/priestess (it’s complicated) who happens to be trans…

Did I mention Kai is awesome? I adore Kai. Tara, too. And the big gay skeleton CEO necromancer who sulks by sitting on the beach with froofy drinks, dresses fabulous and never cleans his room because he has nothing left to prove.

By my count in Two Serpents Rising, the first book set in not!Mexico City, there is one white person with lines in the whole book. She’s a pretentious artist lesbian activist who knows how to throw a punch, so I’ll give her a pass.

You know how people complain about it not being realistic that there’s only one queer person in a friend group? Ruin of Angels has a friend group of geeky lesbians that read very true.

And for books written by a white guy, stuff is treated rather well. No fetishisation or salaciousness (which has really put me off several male-written books with female POV characters lately). Sex scenes are elided, female gaze is written in a way that reads true, and descriptions of workplace abuse in the first book especially are very well done from the perspective of female characters. Class issues are addressed, which is rare in high fantasy or corporate thrillers.

Good relationship writing without hitting people over the head with it. I’m convinced Kai has an epic crush on Jax based on the fact that Jax working out is described from her POV as “radiant”, she decides she can’t pass as his girlfriend during a deception, and before going off to save the world she kisses his cheek “because she felt like kissing someone”.

[detectionartifact]

The Craft Sequence

Time for some book recommendations. Namely “The Craft Sequence” by Max Gladstone.

Backstory first. A friend who’d only read the third book suggested I read them because he liked the magic system and thought I would too. So I picked up the first book and promptly forgot about it for a few months. 

Bad idea.

These books are some of the most interesting, witty, inclusive, and just enjoyable books I’ve ever read.

I’m not good with putting words together to explain my points, hence why I just read books and not write them, so I’m just going to list a few reasons you should read these books.

 Complex mix of main characters (men, women, POC, pretty much all of the LGBT acronym).

A really cool magic system based on souls as currency and law.

Interesting takes on various real world cultures from Catholicism to Pacific Islands by way of the Aztecs.

Having to pay back student loans safe in the knowledge if you don’t do it before dying then you’ll come back until it is payed back.

A really well thought out world in which it all takes place.

Mid-level employees in a water utility company (just trust me on this one).

The list could go on and on, but I can summarise it quite simply and shortly.

Read the damn books, you’ll enjoy them, and I can be right for once.

[cly-art]

She was a mob, given a single voice. But she believed she was fair.

 - Craft Sequence: Three Parts Dead // Max Gladstone

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[emiett]

Here’s a little thing I drew for the comic @dandelionfoyer, Max Gladstone and I are working on. Just Teo and Kopil chilling 

[linovadraws]

Izza and the Blue Lady from the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone. Ruin of Angels gave me….so many feelings.

[linovadraws]

The audiobooks for Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence are out and I am thriving. THRIVING.

This is Teo breaking out of the Penitent during Full Fathom Five. We stan a legend.