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Hi, I'm Isa and I cyclically hyperfixate on Deltora Quest and the Roddaverse. Blog is on hiatus until it comes back. / I always tag the book a post is from, so you can block spoilers. / I follow from @hard-times paramore.

[hard-times-paramore]

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

I have some stuff posted, so here's my ao3. In case anyone sees it and is in one of the fandoms I wrote about.

My secondary account where I post my fics in Portuguese is here. Tertiary account here.

And this is my art blog

I draw on lined paper

Hello! I'm Isa (she/her - 20+), and this is my art blog! I post my art across all my sideblogs, and...

Now you have access to all my art!

[doomsupportgroup]

I completely forgot I drew this, must've been 5 years ago. Found it today while cleaning my old notebooks.

Lief and Dain first meeting lol

[ered]

Here’s my take on the whole audio books vs. reading:

Oral tradition of storytelling predates written ones by millennias, and honestly, which one you like is just a personal preference.

The actual difference is

when listening, you have no idea how to write characters’ names

when reading, you have no idea how to pronounce characters’ names

hope this helps!

[hard-times-paramore]

Houseki no Kuni - a summary

Since I've been posting nonstop about it, I might as well let my mutuals in on what it's about!

The manga is heavily Buddhist-themed, talking about repeated cycles of violence, death and rebirth.

It's not actually that similar to Steven Universe, from what I heard. It's indeed a serious story with a lot of trauma, and it has genderweird gem people, but they take different routes.

The manga is now finished and there's a 12 episodes 3D anime, that encompasses roughly the first 35 chapters of it. But Studio Orange has no intentions of continuing it, so you have to read the manga to finish the story.

The summary is under the cut!

Millions of years ago, the apocalypse happened. Every species on Earth was wiped out by 6 comets that later became 6 new moons in the sky.

But after millions of years, Earth is recovering. There is one island, after the flood brought by those comets, that started bearing life again.

The intelligent species are the Gems, sexless, genderless people made of precious minerals.

They're cared for by Adamant Sensei, a huge buddhist monk-looking guy. He raises them like his own children, teaches them to read, write, fight, etc.

They have a small society, always in small numbers, because of how long it takes for new gems to emerge (they come out from a cliffside in the island). And because there's a race of people from the moon, called the Lunarians, who seek to harvest the Gems for their precious crystals. Often, Gems are kidnapped to the moons for this reason.

This is why they learn to fight and to patrol, because they have to fight the Lunarians.

They can break, but even if they do, they can be put back together. They're essentially immortal, what makes them alive are microscopic lifeforms in their body, that feed off sunlight, called inclusions.

Millions of years passed like this. New Gems are slowly formed and emerge from the cliffside, Sensei takes care of them, they find a place in society to contribute, and some eventually can't outrun the Lunarians and are taken to the moon.

Until Phosphophyllite.

The youngest of them, only 300 years old at the start of the story, starts on a journey that brings change to the Gem society.

And change to themself.

Some more thoughts:

I wouldn't be reccomending this story if I didn't love it. And I love it so much. At least 70% of it is genuinely good quality. But mind you, I do have some criticisms to it, so I'll say it now so whoever decides to read it is warned. I feel (and many peoole agree) that the narrative really sabotaged itself towards the last 3 volumes, flattening all characters ane plotlines for everything other than the protagonist.

Not only that, the manga is a nightmare to read, for design reasons. Because of lore, all the characters have the same clothes, body type and skin color, only changing their hairstyle and hair color. Which in a black and white manga can be impossible to tell apart.

It helps if you watched the anime first and know everyone's colors, but oof.

Either way, I feel like it was worth my brainrot. If you wanna come on that journey with me, then let's take ibuprophen together!

[doomsupportgroup]

Reblogging on this blog only because of the crossover gems I drew

[sisterofthesouth]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a deltora blog, this

[memeuplift]

[hard-times-paramore]

The Deltora Quest gems but they're Houseki no Kuni.

I'm trusting those two fandoms overlap for someone else out there, after all we love rocks.

I like to think Diamond is the youngest and Amethyst is the oldest, and Opal does the winter patrols.

[valtsv]

my 5 year plan is i find a weird egg and bond for life with the dragon that hatches from it

[throathole]

What if we lived in this world

[pretend-wizard]

[sansheritageposts]

papyrus heritage post

[hard-times-paramore]

You know what, it might seem silly but as I was making my last post I started thinking... maybe headcanoning your blorbos as having mental disorders that are demonized by society can be a small way to fight that ableism. Because you learn to research these conditions, and since they're your favorite characters, you see them as the complex people they are, and not as having "bad person disorder".

Tell me about your blorbos' mental illnesses. I'll go first.

Chloe Price from Life is Strange: Borderline Personality Disorder

Lucifer from the Netflix show Lucifer: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Dante from Devil May Cry: Bipolar Disorder

Alice Liddel from Alice Madness Returns: Schizophrenia (that one is canon I'm pretty sure)

[djenaha]

Deltora Ladies - Jasmine (wedding edition), Marilen, Verity, Gla-Thon (based on Dread Gnome designs by @citrinesunshine), Lindal, Sharn, Tira and Neridah. Sorry for any inaccuracies. 

[wendywhite13]

Roddacember Day 11: Illusion

I’ve never actually drawn Dain before? Problem remedied

[cheeseandcake-from-ao3]

My brother decided to make some Deltora Quest Fanart and I want everyone to look at it-

[valtsv]

i love how fucked up the concept of hereditary guilt is (like the idea of the "sins of the father" or bastardry laws). what if your ancestors fucked up so bad that your agency in whether or not to accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions was considered forfeit before you even existed. doomed by the narrative that was chosen for you at birth.

[valtsv]

bloodline's haunted

[dimmadoome]

Favorite mostly forgotten early 2000s (or older) book series?

Leven Thumps

Deltora Quest

Leviathan

Keys To the Kingdom

Maximum Ride

The Five Ancestors

Inkheart

Uglies

Gregor the Overlander

Cirque Du Freak

Circle of Magic

Other/put in tags/reply with it

Voting ended onAug 22, 2023

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[depsidase]

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[null-is-sparing-you]

the "you aren't friends" really sells it.