creepy trees & winter kings

Side blog for the Naomi Novik books Uprooted and Spinning Silver. I also run the @uprootedficathon. Occasionally NSFW.

[folkfashion]

Polish dancers clothing, Poland, by Hrubieszów dom Kultury

[fluffypotatey]

has anyone read spinning silver? will anyone read spinning silver? when will you read spinning silver?

[hollowvok]

Solya at the end of Uprooted

[svandendragon]

Irina from Spinning Silver ❄️ WIP

Here are a few new sketches of Irina, the young Russian aristocrat from Spinning Silver, and one scene in particular that immediately made me want to draw. 👀

[saltedsnailstudio]

homesick for something not yet known:

spring-fed, heart-led, overgrown.

linocut print on lokta paper.

[draconym]

Bothers me when the distinction between Witch and Wizard is drawn according to gender. The Witch/Wizard distinction is one of class. Wizards live in towers and have cursed artifacts. Witches live in shacks and have crooked teeth.

[draconym]

Both witches and wizards can be evil, of course. But when a witch is evil they turn you into a frog. When a wizard is evil they try to tear a hole in reality or raise an undead army. You don't see witches doing that shit because they're working class.

[ecoeschatologist]

The witch is looked down upon because they are competition to the hierarchical work of wizardry; they present an alternative to state monopoly on magic.

[draconym]

Absolutely. Witches perform folk magic--you'd never catch a wizard getting overly preoccupied with practical magic like soothing ulcers or curing the flu, but witches are always brewing up stuff for those kinds of reasons.

Magic is like programming. When it's seen as practical and tedious, it's "women's work." When it's seen as academic and intellectual, you get a huge salary and an audience with the king.

[mzannthropy]

“So the fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice. We should put them in a room together and let them make us both widows.”

Me shouting: do it, do it, DO IT!!!

[lakevida]

its like they always say: Id rather be eating oranges in the shower than imprisoned in a tower

[mzannthropy]

I was glad to be beneath the notice of the tsar, who was young and handsome and cruel, but I would have liked to be pretty enough or charming enough that at least someone might want to marry me, instead of only taking me as a codicil to whatever begrudging dowry they could wring out of my father.

Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

[heronbrew]

I think it's hilarious that hands down the worst way to learn magic is the actual rulebook. Please do not read that. It's just there for reference when something weird happens

[lesbianralzarek]

posts that i know are about magic the gathering but i have to check to make sure op isn't just living in a way doper world than me

[galexibrain]

"Do you consent to this marriage?"

Miryem: "I don't."

Staryk King: "I do not."

"Congratulations you are now husband and wife."

[papayajuan2019]

let me slip into something more harder to get out of

[folkfashion]

Polish dancers clothing, Poland, by Hrubieszów dom Kultury

[unusual-suspects]

Die Heldenreise" (The Hero's Journey), created by artist Franco Luccarda

[ever-hungry-aria]

“Borders” 

“ A series of photographs by Piotr Sikora, created in collaboration with Piotr Bondarczyk, depicting Polish folk costumes in the context of contemporary multi-ethnicity. The project deals with the recent changes taking place in Polish society, which became almost entirely homogeneous after the Second World War when communism took the country in control and which is today experiencing a groundbreaking openness towards other cultures. . “

Rana, USA, Kurpie costume  and Maya, Algeria, Nowy Sącz costume

Nutsuko, Japan,  Lublin costume and Thesus, Puerto Rico,  Kraków costume

Folake, Nigeria,  Opoczno costume and Umi, South korea, East  Kraków costume

Leandro, Italy, Nowy Sącz costume and Maya, India, in Kaszuby costume

Jevone, Jamaica,  Highland costume and Miu, Japan,  Łowicz costume

Carmen, Dominican Republic, Lublin costume

Chris, Saint Lucia, Opoczno costume

Christian, Thailand,  Rzeszów costume

Farhana, Bangladesh,  Rzeszów costume

Verneille, Trinidad, Silesia costume

Rich, USA,  Łowicz costume

Peju, Nigeria,  Kraków costume

Jonathan, Mexico, Kaszuby costume

[im-not-anybody]

so i was rereading the scholomance for the third time, and i just finished the second book-- and i guess this is the first time i've actually read the author bio on the back?? because oh my god-

a founder of AO3???

[molotovblogtail]

ABSOLUTE MONARCH

[hismajestysaerialcorps-temeraire]

Wait she’s who and did the what in the what now? 😮

[milk5-deactivated20260704]

If someone is a necromancer its cuz they have no money to hire men and no charisma to convince people to their cause u have to understand they only fuck with skeletons because they have no other option