Rikkard Ambrose's Teen Days in the Colonies

~~~Now you know why he wears all black~~~

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Hi people! Been awhile, gimmie updates who died

[icantwithstormandsilence]

Three years later😭

✨Spoilers✨

-The 8th book is a shit-show. Lilly and Rikkard are pirates. With my guess, they've been pirating up until Lilly's 9th month of pregnancy. they come back to london with a kid they found on the pirate ship and just leaves her at a factory as chief toy tester and we don't get to know what happens to her after that for the entirety of the series. the book ends with Rick getting a letter that his dad is going to force Adaira to marry some french dude who "tried to kill Lilly and Rick" which caused them to be pirates in the first place and with Lilly's water breaking.

-9th book is honestly tolerable. just kidding. Opens with Lilly giving birth, the baby isn't crowning, lilly is under anesthesia still conscious, doctors don't know anything so Rick get his hands dirty. I mean that literally. That man puts his hand inside her (yup 🙂) and flips the baby. According to him, he's got plenty of experience birthing cows in farm he use to work at💀. It's a boy, YAY! A week later, they head to Battlewood(yes just a week after her giving birth) to save Adaira. Rick's brilliant plan was to declare Victor Linton, AKA Lilly as a man, and Adaira is in love. So now the entire book is post-partum Victor/Lilly(how the women is not utterly exhausted from her birth giving needs to be studied) having a Macho-out with the French dude, because she wants him dead for trying to sink her while she was pregnant, only to find out he actually wants to marry Adaira and not faking his love to get to Rick and never actually tried to kill them, it was dogleash(obviously) tricking them into believing it was the french dude. then Rick's dad was like you either become the next Marquess(which is bad bcs the rich white nobles back then were not allowed to have jobs bcs working is a lower class thing, hence Rick cannot have a business empire) or he'll force Adaira to marry who ever he says bcs she's not of age yet and he has authority over her. But Rick says fuck you and now Adaira can inherit the title(apparently women could inherit titles) so grandpa Ambrose does not want to marry her off to a rando but he'll still do it. So Adaira runs away and hence forth we go to the next book. Also the baby starts talking. that guy is 3 weeks old and he talks... his first words are "papa gimme mon-nee". No joke. Oh, and Lilly and Rick does the hanky-panky even if its only been a few weeks since she gave birth :)

-10th book they go to india bcs Adaira left lilly a letter saying she's off to find Captain Carter bcs they love each other (yea they interacted for 5 minutes in the 6th book and they started sending each other letters.) and he's stationed in india. this book we get POV from Adaira and James Carter (this book is so shit btw). Adaira tries to join the army, dressed as a man only to get called a chest-hairless noodle boy, but she's desperate to get to india. while Rick prepares for the india trip, lilly looks for a governess(nanny) and put ads out with "Yo i need some nans to take care of my money munching baby. we going to the land that our ppl are colonizing". Adaira sees the ad not knowing it was lilly, gets cuaght, makes lilly promise to never tell rick, lets her be in disguise while lilly lies to rick that adaira is till not found, in the yacht they took to india rick discovers nanny is actually adaira, tries to turn yacht around, he sees adaira's letter to carter and says "uh fine we'll rescue him from the revolution in india that i set off". Oh yea, rick set of a revolution in India by revealing dogleash army has bullets greased in cow and pig fat, so that would mean this book is taking place around 1852-1853 (the first book is 1839). I cannot tell you how much I was enraged at having a real incident be portrayed in this book as a side plot to bring tension between the main characters. I could punch the author in the face :) anyway, Adaira now has Lilly's personality and carter is a flirty weirdo. Ah yes, last but not least, if i'm not wrong lilly, rick, and adaira does brown-face and wear indian mens clothes to disguise themselves. Rob writes it off the brown-facing as "them getting a fake tan to fit in". the reason i'm sure they are brown-facing is bcs rob describes indians as tanned people🤡🤡🤡. I'm still in the process of finishing the book.

As much as I hate the series, reading them at my peek teenage depression era made it my guilty pleasure. I hate that I like reading a book that had actual plot, eventually become a shell of fan service that is not even historically accurate as the author wants to make it to be.

Yours truly,

An avid Hater and lover of storm and silence painfully trying to finish reading it to get some closure :)

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Please say sike

[emobrose]

not sir rob using the n-word twice—

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

The word "fat" is censored in the first chapter because Lilly finds it "too much", but the n-word? Nah

[emobrose]

Precisely

Sir Rob said in his author’s note he prefers historical accuracy over political correctness in his books, but surely, with the amount of pride he takes in knowing the history of the time period present in his books, he knows how degrading this slur is and why it should be censored (especially considering he isn’t black).

He could’ve censored the word and the message of accurate historical portrayal would’ve come off the same. He’s taken a few liberties with historical accuracies here and there too, so why now be so explicitly adamant with a slur? And there was no need to repeat it so explicitly in his author note; he definitely could’ve censored it there.

[reneereadsstuff-deactivated2021]

On point, OP! 💯 Completely dismantled that lame excuse.

Not to mention, in the recent chapter on Radish, he actually used the term "bitch slap", admitting in the A/N that he couldn't find a fitting historical phrase that could "convey the same amount of female rage" or whatever, and...like... Wut? So, let's sum it up, shall we?

Historical accuracy > political correctness (and basic human decency...)

And

Fun or humour or just "badass" language > historical accuracy

Conclusion: Fun or humour or just badass language > basic human decency

(Because let's face it, political correctness is decency - it's in the damn definition! "The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.")

Seriously, Thier?

[emobrose]

not sir rob using the n-word twice—

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

The word "fat" is censored in the first chapter because Lilly finds it "too much", but the n-word? Nah

[emobrose]

Precisely

Sir Rob said in his author’s note he prefers historical accuracy over political correctness in his books, but surely, with the amount of pride he takes in knowing the history of the time period present in his books, he knows how degrading this slur is and why it should be censored (especially considering he isn’t black).

He could’ve censored the word and the message of accurate historical portrayal would’ve come off the same. He’s taken a few liberties with historical accuracies here and there too, so why now be so explicitly adamant with a slur? And there was no need to repeat it so explicitly in his author note; he definitely could’ve censored it there.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Lesbian Storm and Silence AU

Lilly Linton is a feminist activist

Ambrose (F) is, I guess, a lady and shit like Adaria

Ambrose passes through the park while Lilly and her friends protest and like, is interested

Because Ambrose, regardless gender, aspire for this independence and control

And it must be frustrating to have your fate controlled by men when you're just as capable of creating your own empire

She had been taking steps to try to gather control of her father's estate tho, she just needs to marry

And oh what a misery it is to be gay in Victorian England

So when she run into Lilly dressed as a man, trying to vote, she recognise her instantly

And Lilly pass good enough

So she corner Lilly, trying to seduce her into marriage

It's risky but god Lilly is pretty

And they could fool everyone if they try hard enough

And get actual power

Oh my god I actually wanna write this now it sound so gay and amazing

[dickstailcoat]

So, I’m finally near the end again of SNS 1 (who needs sleep anyways) and I already have thoughts when comparing it to later stories he has written, be it in the SNS series or entirely new ones. I’ll provide a more thorough in-depth analysis once my notes are organized and I don’t have to deal with my day-job, but here’s a huge observation that I already see in book 1:

Rob is way in over his head.

From the get-go, we see a feminist character who is not as inclusive as many readers would like to think or feel. Repeatedly, she body shames herself, as if this is all women think about when considering their appearances, and judges other women for their ideals. She defies expectations of women, yet bows down to a man, ignoring that strong pillar of her personality. She preaches inclusivity yet shuns other women in the story who are bound by society and literally have no choice. There is something strange about her, as if she is a hero, but not one who knows the depths of the problems she faces, or the consequences of what her actions might bring.

In layman’s terms: throughout the story, there is just something off.

Eventually, the plot dwindles into some far-off abyss (let’s be honest, since book 2, the plot has gone south), and we get a more and more superficial character who appears to be all over the place in her ideals and morale, and less and less a strong woman. As a consequence, we see that core pillar of her personality, being a feminist, disappear.

This is when as the reader, if you take a critical eye to it, you realize what that ‘something’ is. She reminds you of your brother, father, uncle, grandfather, boyfriend, husband, and male friend. She knows the issues exist, she sees them, she can critically assess them, she even constantly makes light of them, but she doesn’t truly experience them fully as all women do.

Now, I’m a clown myself who often tries to make light of situations; however, I know even I will break sometimes because being a woman sometimes really sucks. I know Lilly hasn’t experienced sexual assault like have, but she has experienced restrictions and worry over what will happen to her if she doesn’t conform to the expectations. I’m living in an very open society, and I still feel anxious, nervous, and upset over that. I still sometimes feel sad because there will always be a man saying I can’t. This happens to her too – repeatedly – and she barely bats an eye. But, she is a female character, so why doesn’t she?

The reason for this is simple: Rob is a man, and can never fully comprehend the true worries, fears, and issues women faced now, let alone then when they were much more severe.

As you read on, you begin to wonder as a reader: whose voice is this? Is it the author’s or Lilly’s? It is normal for an author to put a little bit of themselves in a character, sometimes even more so! But there is a problem when it is a man doing it to a female character. We start to see the mix of ideals and experiences; we start to see the boundary where a male writer cannot grasp what women go through on a day-to-day basis.

That would be fine initially, perhaps, for any new author. Why should we limit artistic expression? But it starts to blur into the reader’s perspective as to whether Rob himself feels this way. Because in this story, it is one single ‘joke’, and is never dealt with - not once - properly. We don’t know for an absolute fact if he himself feels this way, he’s never made it clear! But it starts to look worse and worse as the stories go on and women are less and less powerful except when they are needed to bring the reader back in from the lost plot, as if to say “Hey look! I do care sometimes!”

The result is an author writing about inclusivity, but instead, it comes across as discriminative. We have a single flat tone, as if someone is pressing a C note throughout the story, and never progressing. I don’t know about you guys, but if Taylor Swift played one single note for her entire career, none of us would be listening. It stays there the entire time, a ruler-straighter tonality of constant comedy, turning and warping the inclusivity into cheap plot devices, and mental walls for the readers that he has to shakily try to break every so often.

With that in mind, after a few books the author’s ‘colours’ start to show if this continues.

I started this series way back in the age of the dinosaurs, and adored it. I still do! I have nothing against the stories themselves or characters, I love me a good Victorian romance, but my goodness – the way the subject matter is dealt with is practically insulting of late!

I decided to go back to SNS 1, and look at it critically, as if I’m back in uni trying to dissect Shakespeare. Worryingly, it’s already visible in book 1, and is excused repeatedly with commentary by the author using what I like to call ‘false empathy’.  An Instagram commenter recently mentioned that A/Ns are unprofessional, and I agree, I think they’re dangerous. It is better to be upfront in the Prelude or Foreword, or shameless about the fact that you don’t care (G.R Martin, anyone?) because this starts to add the author’s view. With Rob constantly trying to excuse things, it makes everyone question things more and more – although perhaps in light of recent events, this is a good thing.

The fact of the matter is, at the end of the day, “This was how it was in the time” is not an excuse to have the main female character constantly beat her appearance and dismiss other female characters whilst her own personality is diminished. It tricks readers into thinking a male author cares - but does he? Can he? Will he ever truly understand?

Probably not, it’s impossible.

However, this doesn’t mean he needs to stop, and that I despise his stories (okay, maybe a little bit 😉). It means he needs to change. It can’t be ‘this is what happened and this is how it was’. It needs to be this is how it was, this is what happened, this is how it felt, and this is it’s impact. It means he needs to read a book on feminism and issues women experience. It means he needs to ask women to gain a view as to how these things actually feel, and to gain insight into how it’s not something to make a 24/7 joke out of for multiple years. He needs to read up on how those who do not fit the particular ‘box’ of discrimination he is dealing with tend to not like it when you constantly make fun of it tactlessly. There are ways to go about it, you can be funny and deal with serious issues.

Instead, Rob has chosen (and I mean chosen, the OG fandom has been trying for years to message and help this get fixed) to continue on this flatlining path where the star of our story is turned into a joke and a male stereotype of women. It is a shame, because Lilly is pretty damn cool, but he conveniently plucks that core principle out of her as the books go on, until she is eventually a husk whose only purpose is to be funny.  

In case you guys ever wondered why the OG fandom stopped reading, stopped being active on the content, and why we only post memes and have turned these two into a running joke, but still keep original Lilly in our quotes, this is why.

[emobrose]

not sir rob using the n-word twice—

[emobrose]

Wha-huh?

[storms-ships-and-ifrits]

Lillian Linton got arrested today at this exact time 181 years ago.

Happy Birthday to Storm and Silence in-universe 🥳

[floralpinktaylor]

when he confesses his love for you while insulting your family >>>>>

[emmaa-paints]

Just Ambrose things

(and Mr Darcy things)

[stormandsalt2]

spoilers to the ending of Storm and Silence :)))

Keep reading

[emobrose]

I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it now: if for some reason people never find out that Mr Linton is actually Lily, then there will always be people in history who will believe that the only reason Mr Ambrose married Lily, was to “get closer” to Mr Linton

[killingsweetly-deactivated20220]

lilly on her period

Lilly on her period.

Lillian Linton on her period.

SOMEONE GIVE ME A GODDAMN HEADCANNON WITH LILLY ON HER PERIOD I SWEAR TO THE GOOD LORD

[just-shower-thoughts]

The Krusty Krab runs extremely efficiently for having only 2 employees

[emobrose]

Mr. Ambrose after reading this post: *fires every employee except Lilly and Karim*

[emobrose]

FOR SOME REASON I CANT MESSAGE U ON MY SNS ACCOUNT SMH MESSAGE ME ON @the_stormandsilence (#spon) or whatever my tumblr name is at this point lool

Okay!

[emobrose]

Wait, but you aren't showing up! What is your Tumblr Name at this point???

[emobrose]

FOR SOME REASON I CANT MESSAGE U ON MY SNS ACCOUNT SMH MESSAGE ME ON @the_stormandsilence (#spon) or whatever my tumblr name is at this point lool

Okay!

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Ambrose have big ears

[blurggghhh]

I’m gonna have to disagree here op, there is no literary proof in any of the 15 books of the Storm and Silence series that relates to Mr. Ambrose having large ears.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

No no no because look right here on page 496 of the printed copy!

Ambrose clearly want to eat pig ears because they are similar to his own!

[storm-n-silence]

Ambrose has big ears? Can you READ?? There are specifically 3 chapters in which Lillian describes his discription and in no way mentions big ears as a distinguishing feature - at this rate you’ll be saying Ambrose has a big ego next. Op is obviously illiterate and has bias against Ambrose 😑😑

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

But did she said he DOESN’T have big ears? Huh? I’ve proven my point

[blurggghhh]

Op is ignoring the fact that ofc as Lilly is an unreliable *Female* narrator her saying anything about the illustrious Mr. Ambrose’s large ears is most definitely wrong and ofc to quote Jane Austen, “Any man possessing of small ears must be in want of a wife.” Seeing as Ambrose now wants a wife, his ears are in fact, small. Also @storm-n-silnce Ambrose does have a big ego, but you an Ambrose supporter would evidently disagree.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

YES. But you forget Ambrose didn’t wanted a wife in books 1-3!!!! because we all know how women are a weakness,,,,,, Only on BOOK 4 Ambrose decided he wanted a wife. So of course his ears shrank at that moment! This is how male body works!!!

[blurggghhh]

Op ur a fake fan. @floralpinktaylor can sypport my point that Ambrose has always had small ears.

[floralpinktaylor]

YALL HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS MR AMBROSE HAS ELF EARS!!!!!!

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

I SECOND THAT. BIG ASS ELF EARS

[floralpinktaylor]

SMALL ELF EARS

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

I think you are confusing between his dick to his ears. One of them is small, and it’s definitely not the ears

[grecias-stuff]

Hot take maybe Ambrose has neither big or small ears, but has normal sized ears

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Blocked.

[grecias-stuff]

Another hot take, what was considered normal sized ears back then is considered big ears in this year of our lord 2019

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

@historians where is the truth

[grecias-stuff]

Mr. Ambrose doesn’t have ears at all, throughout the whole series Lilly compared him to granite or a rock, he is a rock and experiences sounds through vibrations so the lack of ears does not affect his everyday life and is never mentioned because it wasn’t relevant to the plot

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

SO TO WHAT EARS IS SHE HISSING

[grecias-stuff]

He got an ear tattoo where his ears are supposed to be

[blurggghhh]

So according to the theory of flat earth Mr.Ambrose ears cannot possibly be small seeing as the earth’s axis is truly tilted at an angle of 98 degrees and therefore all males in Britian are lizard men who have large elf ears. Facts are facts.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

And since they are lizard people, their ears grow back. So Ambrose have to have ears. Big ones.

[blurggghhh]

Why tf you lyin?

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

I just agreed with you?

[blurggghhh]

Huh? Ur ear racist anyway so idc.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

BLAME ROB’S INFLUENCE ON YOUNG TEENS

[emobrose]

Okay, but Ambrose’s ears must be big if Lilly put her finger in there and didn’t notice

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

No one said he doesn’t have a big head ;))

[emobrose]

It's all coming together

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Ambrose have big ears

[blurggghhh]

I’m gonna have to disagree here op, there is no literary proof in any of the 15 books of the Storm and Silence series that relates to Mr. Ambrose having large ears.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

No no no because look right here on page 496 of the printed copy!

Ambrose clearly want to eat pig ears because they are similar to his own!

[storm-n-silence]

Ambrose has big ears? Can you READ?? There are specifically 3 chapters in which Lillian describes his discription and in no way mentions big ears as a distinguishing feature - at this rate you’ll be saying Ambrose has a big ego next. Op is obviously illiterate and has bias against Ambrose 😑😑

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

But did she said he DOESN’T have big ears? Huh? I’ve proven my point

[blurggghhh]

Op is ignoring the fact that ofc as Lilly is an unreliable *Female* narrator her saying anything about the illustrious Mr. Ambrose’s large ears is most definitely wrong and ofc to quote Jane Austen, “Any man possessing of small ears must be in want of a wife.” Seeing as Ambrose now wants a wife, his ears are in fact, small. Also @storm-n-silnce Ambrose does have a big ego, but you an Ambrose supporter would evidently disagree.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

YES. But you forget Ambrose didn’t wanted a wife in books 1-3!!!! because we all know how women are a weakness,,,,,, Only on BOOK 4 Ambrose decided he wanted a wife. So of course his ears shrank at that moment! This is how male body works!!!

[blurggghhh]

Op ur a fake fan. @floralpinktaylor can sypport my point that Ambrose has always had small ears.

[floralpinktaylor]

YALL HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS MR AMBROSE HAS ELF EARS!!!!!!

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

I SECOND THAT. BIG ASS ELF EARS

[floralpinktaylor]

SMALL ELF EARS

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

I think you are confusing between his dick to his ears. One of them is small, and it’s definitely not the ears

[grecias-stuff]

Hot take maybe Ambrose has neither big or small ears, but has normal sized ears

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

Blocked.

[grecias-stuff]

Another hot take, what was considered normal sized ears back then is considered big ears in this year of our lord 2019

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

@historians where is the truth

[grecias-stuff]

Mr. Ambrose doesn’t have ears at all, throughout the whole series Lilly compared him to granite or a rock, he is a rock and experiences sounds through vibrations so the lack of ears does not affect his everyday life and is never mentioned because it wasn’t relevant to the plot

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

SO TO WHAT EARS IS SHE HISSING

[grecias-stuff]

He got an ear tattoo where his ears are supposed to be

[blurggghhh]

So according to the theory of flat earth Mr.Ambrose ears cannot possibly be small seeing as the earth’s axis is truly tilted at an angle of 98 degrees and therefore all males in Britian are lizard men who have large elf ears. Facts are facts.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

And since they are lizard people, their ears grow back. So Ambrose have to have ears. Big ones.

[blurggghhh]

Why tf you lyin?

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

I just agreed with you?

[blurggghhh]

Huh? Ur ear racist anyway so idc.

[captaincartersepicwaistcoat]

BLAME ROB’S INFLUENCE ON YOUNG TEENS

[emobrose]

Okay, but Ambrose's ears must be big if Lilly put her finger in there and didn't notice