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Does the iron realm end up getting a name? I don't rememeber.
Like we have Arcadia and Tir Na Nog, and I know the Iron realm has the capital name, but what about the whole realm?
I believe that tir na nog and Arcadia are also just the names of the capital cities
You know like. I always have this image that the Winter Princes are badass, capable, smart. But then...
Sage gets killed by 4 iron fey in the middle of his own realm with his wold and the scepter by his side.
Rowan believes that by smacking some iron on his face, he can overcome the biggest weakness of fae and be 'reborn'.
Ash is... Ash. Dramatic. Emotional. Self sacrificing.
I'm sorry Mab but. What the hell.
The problem it that they were raised to never ask for help or allowing being supported outside of politics.
Sage can't really explained that way.
Rowan should have had someone around going: "are you sure sir? That sounds stupid!" But that person would have been killed. So they didn't exist
And for ash we all know how fucked up he is thanks to his upbringing.
I am actually way more surprised that rowan and especially ash survived into adulthood. Seeing that they are rivals to the throne sage could have easily killed them off before they could become problems.
Anyone else think Sage was done a little dirty?
Like he barely has any time in the books, which sure, fair. But then he loses to *checks notes* four iron fae assassins. In the heart of his own court. With a wolf on his side and the scepter right there (which may or may not give him extra power, I don't know, just seems like it would.)
And it's not like he was caught off guard. Sure, a bit, but it wasn't a sudden ambush. Tertius even told him 'nah I'm not Ash', so it wasn't like he thought he was fighting Ash and that was a shock. Seeing something that looks like his brother can't be the most shocking things he's seen in his life.
I don't know, we just see some crazy stuff throughout the series and characters fight it off. I just wished Sage got a little more respect, I guess? Maybe some cool moves or powers because of him having the upper hand in his own realm. Being Mab's first son, you'd think the Winter Realm would be happy to help him.
It would be very cool if something like that was shown, and then maybe yeah, they could utilize Tertius again. Pretending to be Ash, Sage thinks ah nice, my brother is here to protect the scepter, and gets stabbed in the back. Especially cruel if he dies thinking Ash betrayed them.
@jkags-doodles Right? Ash only gets defeated in the Iron realm because he makes a mistake because he's shocked to see himself. In the iron realm! And Sage can't easily overcome a few iron fey while healthy in his own realm? And Rowan survives getting stabbed, but Sage just instantly dies? Like. Instantly.
What does this imply? Mab's oldest son just isn't good at combat? Maybe it makes sense, he seems more into politics than fighting but. He's still a winter prince. They're good at combat because that's life.
I just wish there was a little more to it. Something special to take him down.
I do love the tragedy of Mab losing all her sons. But also yes this would be so interesting.
Either give him a proper death or let him live :(
Justice for Sage and his wolfie which needed a name I swear. What do we name the wolf?
I do love the tragedy of Mab losing her sons, but I raise you: the book 3 banishment would be so much harder on Ash if there was someone who actively wanted him back. Mab pretty much dropped him the moment he refused to renounce Meghan, and even if she did feel bad about it, Ash didn’t see any indication that she still loved him or wanted anything different. But Ash getting visits from Sage, even while Sage is still injured from “sword through heart” and clearly in pain, asking him to renounce Meghan and come home. Making it incredibly clear that he’s still wanted back home. That would make the banishment actually hurt. (And then we get the good Meghan/Sage parallels)
(And Mab handling a permanently disabled son rather than one who died an “honorable death” would do interesting things for her character. It’s no longer enough to acknowledge she loved them, she needs to accept that the one who’s choosing to stick around will never be strong in the ways she wanted)
The wolf is named after whichever family member is most annoying to Sage at that moment. He spends a lot of time as Rowan or Ash, but he’s also been called Mab quite a few times, and there was a brief period in adolescence when he was “unidentified parental figure” up until Mab took away wolf privileges for a full year.
Alternately, Wolf got Ash’s deadname when he transitioned. Ash dislikes this but at least he can respond to any attempts to deadname him with looking at Ashlynn, second to his name, True Princess of the Winter Court and Personal Guard to the Crown Prince, like he can respond.
Maybe sage was already disabled in a similar way Glitch seems to be. And then the glamour couldn't heal him.
But to the wolf getting named after family members: ash will never tell puck that the wolf got called Goodfellow a couple of times. When it was only sage and ash.
The crimes of Iron Fey’s official art/face claims include:
Always putting Meghan in a dress when she is canon a backwoods farm girl who resents femininity to a toxic degree
Ignoring that Puck is consistently described as bronze skinned and bony to the point of his limbs looking like they don’t fit properly, and instead making him a muscular white boy
Whatever they’re doing with Ash’s hair
Rereading the first description of Ash, and discovering more crimes as we speak:
Ignoring Ash's canon description as "prince-of-a-foreign-nation beautiful", "slanted eyes", and "shoulder-length hair with jagged bangs" and instead making him YET ANOTHER white boy with 2010s floppy boy band hair.
Idk maybe it's just me but Meghan's description of Ash points him out as looking "foreign" to her, and slanted eyes falls under a similar category as bronze skin in signalling ethnic ambiguity. Our boy is not reading as white.
Slanted eyes is actually something that is often mentioned in fey lore. Similar to the pointy ears the eyes of half human Fae are sometimes described as less slanted as well.
This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8
I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct
I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.
This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.
As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.
Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:
Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.
There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.
And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”
The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.
This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.
From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.
Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something
there's art now
Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.
I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.
This is my new favourite post in the world
everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension
narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"
"The frown was completely unreadable. Thankfully, the loaded and raised gun offered a clue."
Puck and Ash absolutely not understanding AI. They think there must be a creature in the computer or something.
Meghan tries to explain but it won't click.
Glitch is the reason AI sucks. They are the creature in the computer and are purposefully putting misinformation into the data banks.
They can’t get therapy, haven’t been able to take place in a political upheaval, so laying out the dominoes to destroy a whole industry is their next best option.
Reasons why I still think Glitch X Puck is a valid ship. The chaos they could cause
JKags drop the 25 hour debate between Oberon and Puck centered around “do hoodies count as mortal clothes”, “you wear silk linen and wool all the time and those were originally from the mortal world, why would a hoodie be different” and “okay fine, what if I take the sewing pattern and make it from scratch, then it’s not mortal clothing because I made it, CHECKMATE, Oberon.”
Ah, unstoppable force meets immovable object. Puck will pull any argument out of his ass and never stop the argument, Oberon is too proud to not argue back. Ordering Puck away? Lol, you just don't have a counter argument. He can't do that.
I also always assumed that "presentable" did not mean "exactly what Oberon wants, but something he won't immediately yell at"
Machina really is a little bitch. Ferrum ruled the iron courts since 1200 BCE, Oberon and Mab ruled their courts since far before that, and Machina got what??? 20 years at most?? Probably less. And then got killed by a 16-year-old with no training in his own tower.
Loser.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you know what this made me realize? Puck is basically the reason why Machina died.
Hear me out.
Machina's plan is kinda weird. Kidnap Ethan and then hope Meghan manages to get to you. But! The reason for this plan is because she was so well protected. He couldn't get to her, he could get to Ethan.
And who was protecting Meghan? Exactly.
I will give one (1) thing to Machina, and it’s that I do think that kidnapping Ethan was a stress test. It wasn’t just to lure her to the nevernever— if he wanted her as his queen without any caveats, he could have gone about it in a much less lethal way. But he wanted to see if she had what it took to actually get to Ethan. He wanted to see what she was made of.
Unfortunately what she was made of was “enough love for her brother and her friends to commit regicide”. RIP idiot.
Meghan: passes all trials and makes it to him
Machina: Heyy underage girl😏 Marry me. It'll be great! We will kill everyone though. Oh and if you don't I'll torture your brother.
Meghan: Ew. Stab.
Machina, who had sent all his knights away: Huh. The fuck?
I love how that wasn't even Meghan's inner struggle if I remember correctly.
For her the problem was more: he tells me this, but I learned from puck and ash that Fae can lie without lying and I don't know if he left open any loopholes... Fuck I can't really afford to oversee a loophole. Better kill him myself
Machina really is a little bitch. Ferrum ruled the iron courts since 1200 BCE, Oberon and Mab ruled their courts since far before that, and Machina got what??? 20 years at most?? Probably less. And then got killed by a 16-year-old with no training in his own tower.
Loser.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you know what this made me realize? Puck is basically the reason why Machina died.
Hear me out.
Machina's plan is kinda weird. Kidnap Ethan and then hope Meghan manages to get to you. But! The reason for this plan is because she was so well protected. He couldn't get to her, he could get to Ethan.
And who was protecting Meghan? Exactly.
Also: who decided against orders to fucking take Meghan to the nevernever and thus allow her to go on this wacky killing a king adventure? Exactly.
And then instantly lost her in the woods and-
Ah. Fuck.
And then got shot and lost her to the enemy. Yeah, he fucked up a bit
Machina really is a little bitch. Ferrum ruled the iron courts since 1200 BCE, Oberon and Mab ruled their courts since far before that, and Machina got what??? 20 years at most?? Probably less. And then got killed by a 16-year-old with no training in his own tower.
Loser.
Oh my god.
Oh my god you know what this made me realize? Puck is basically the reason why Machina died.
Hear me out.
Machina's plan is kinda weird. Kidnap Ethan and then hope Meghan manages to get to you. But! The reason for this plan is because she was so well protected. He couldn't get to her, he could get to Ethan.
And who was protecting Meghan? Exactly.
Also: who decided against orders to fucking take Meghan to the nevernever and thus allow her to go on this wacky killing a king adventure? Exactly.
I think that if the winter court was going to have the whole “Rowan flirting with Meghan” and “those girls being catty to Meghan because she likes Ash” scenes it should have committed and gone full harem anime. Ash is of course your tsundere archetype, Rowan is trying to seduce her for sport, Tiothian is going full on flirtation/insuendos, Snowberry or whatever her name is doing rivals-to-lovers, Sage absolutely refuses to engage in any of this but while he bleeds out Meghan calls him honey to try to comfort him, making Ash genuinely think they were seeing each other behind his back. The winter court is in shambles over this half-human girl. Mab wants to ice her over just to get them back to normal but fears making her into a statue will make everyone MORE weird.
By the time Meghan and Ash finally get to sleeping together in book 3 Ash says “wait this is your first time so you need to tell me if I need to be more gentle” and Meghan goes “buddy Tiothian beat you by at least 5 months” and this derails everything for at least 30 minutes.
This would be even more fun when literally no one except puck is interested in her from the summer court. And Oberon and mab are just standing there screaming that she is a SUMMER fae
That’s such a good NO ONE in summer is interested (Except technically Puck but for the sake of comedy, I think no one can tell if they’re romantically in love or just really, really territorial about their friendship) and at this point Mab would just give her back to make people go back to normal, except that would be a showing a weakness so she has to keep her. Meghan is building serious connections in her rival’s court through playing a dating sim and doesn’t even seem to notice or care about the political implications.
Titania thinks Oberon deserves this.
I see Meghan just having a huge folder full of information about each fae. Full of likes, dislikes and stuff. And her calculations of her current friendship score with them xD
She wanted to be a tech girl. Let her do her weird science. And when she meets Virus they can just discuss science
AU where, armed with her trials and errors of the winter court, Meghan tries to save Ash via romancing Virus.
Virus is disgusted that it works on her because while not computer science it is a form of science and behaviour study and she is into that stuff.
Puck is kinda sad Meghan did not already pull that stunt in school because that would have created great chaos
I think that if the winter court was going to have the whole “Rowan flirting with Meghan” and “those girls being catty to Meghan because she likes Ash” scenes it should have committed and gone full harem anime. Ash is of course your tsundere archetype, Rowan is trying to seduce her for sport, Tiothian is going full on flirtation/insuendos, Snowberry or whatever her name is doing rivals-to-lovers, Sage absolutely refuses to engage in any of this but while he bleeds out Meghan calls him honey to try to comfort him, making Ash genuinely think they were seeing each other behind his back. The winter court is in shambles over this half-human girl. Mab wants to ice her over just to get them back to normal but fears making her into a statue will make everyone MORE weird.
By the time Meghan and Ash finally get to sleeping together in book 3 Ash says “wait this is your first time so you need to tell me if I need to be more gentle” and Meghan goes “buddy Tiothian beat you by at least 5 months” and this derails everything for at least 30 minutes.
This would be even more fun when literally no one except puck is interested in her from the summer court. And Oberon and mab are just standing there screaming that she is a SUMMER fae
That’s such a good NO ONE in summer is interested (Except technically Puck but for the sake of comedy, I think no one can tell if they’re romantically in love or just really, really territorial about their friendship) and at this point Mab would just give her back to make people go back to normal, except that would be a showing a weakness so she has to keep her. Meghan is building serious connections in her rival’s court through playing a dating sim and doesn’t even seem to notice or care about the political implications.
Titania thinks Oberon deserves this.
I see Meghan just having a huge folder full of information about each fae. Full of likes, dislikes and stuff. And her calculations of her current friendship score with them xD
She wanted to be a tech girl. Let her do her weird science. And when she meets Virus they can just discuss science
I think that if the winter court was going to have the whole “Rowan flirting with Meghan” and “those girls being catty to Meghan because she likes Ash” scenes it should have committed and gone full harem anime. Ash is of course your tsundere archetype, Rowan is trying to seduce her for sport, Tiothian is going full on flirtation/insuendos, Snowberry or whatever her name is doing rivals-to-lovers, Sage absolutely refuses to engage in any of this but while he bleeds out Meghan calls him honey to try to comfort him, making Ash genuinely think they were seeing each other behind his back. The winter court is in shambles over this half-human girl. Mab wants to ice her over just to get them back to normal but fears making her into a statue will make everyone MORE weird.
By the time Meghan and Ash finally get to sleeping together in book 3 Ash says “wait this is your first time so you need to tell me if I need to be more gentle” and Meghan goes “buddy Tiothian beat you by at least 5 months” and this derails everything for at least 30 minutes.
This would be even more fun when literally no one except puck is interested in her from the summer court. And Oberon and mab are just standing there screaming that she is a SUMMER fae
Okay on one hand I know that Meghan has been magically inclined not to think about Robbie’s past or his family, but also there’s reason for that to extend to things like interests and interpersonal relationships. Meghan why have you not asked Robbie about his favorite music. Why haven’t you engaged with his hobbies. Why haven’t you asked if he’s had crushes. Meghan this makes you seem like a bad friend.
We have this:
“Who’s Ash?” I repeated, turning back to Robbie, who seemed to be in his own world. “Robbie? Hey!” I poked him in the shoulder. He twitched and finally looked at me. “Who is Ash?” “Ash?” For a moment, his eyes were bright and feral, his face like that of a wild dog. Then he blinked and was normal again. “Oh, he’s just an old buddy of mine, from long ago. Don’t worry about it, princess.” His words slid over me strangely, like he was willing me to forget simply by requesting it. I felt a prickle of annoyance that he was hiding something, but it quickly faded, because I couldn’t remember what we were talking about.
Seems like she has, she is just made to forget and we know how good Puck is at talking without saying anything, even without magic.
It's kinda super angsty. What's worse? If he outright lied to her, or use magic that affects her memories and interests? It's almost like being drugged.
She can't even be annoyed about it, I didn't realize how extreme this was actually.👀 The fact that he does it so easily here shows this isn't something rare or new.
Oh, now I want them to go into this, and Meghan being pretty upset by how long and how much she's been essentially mind controlled by someone she trusted 💔. On one hand she'd get why, on the other hand... oof.
( It's an interesting thing I now wish they explored, rather than 'Im just not into you'. It's huge that Meghan realized her friend is someone else entirly. Her friend apparently lies very easily and used magic to manipulate her. He had his reasons but so many boundaries were crossed... (BBC Merlin vibes, anyone?) )
This is something The Cruel Prince books handle better. But in Meghan's case, can she even be mad as him about it? She doesn't fucking remember it happened. She does see him do it later on to different humans. Or at least we see him do it to a priest in the short story before the even fall series and we see Kieran do it to Kenzie's parents. Kieran also has had to learn it from someone.
The question really is: Does Meghan know she has been manipulated? Because the Fae, and that includes puck, do not think twice about manipulating a human mind. They don't see it as problematic
Okay on one hand I know that Meghan has been magically inclined not to think about Robbie’s past or his family, but also there’s reason for that to extend to things like interests and interpersonal relationships. Meghan why have you not asked Robbie about his favorite music. Why haven’t you engaged with his hobbies. Why haven’t you asked if he’s had crushes. Meghan this makes you seem like a bad friend.
I always saw that as a part of: she is currently still a human and humans tend to forget Fae when they don't interact with them.
Yes, she would be a human with the sight. But the whole deal of puck watching over her was to get rid of her Fae half and let her live a normal human life. So maybe some side effects of whatever "medicine" miss Stacy and puck had to give her to keep her oblivious of the fae
A list of things I've looked up while researching for Iron Fey Fanfic:
Monopoles
Function and creation of magnetic fields
1200 BCE India
Kuru-era caste system versus modern caste system
Time dilation/general relativity (SIMPLIFIED)
Kofun period
History of the Othosk region
Ferry schedules Denmark-Iceland
More bullshit to follow
Ley lines are a fun thing to research as they are also called fairy paths
