[comfiecore]

baru and tain hu commission for @athetos !

[anthyies]

[kiddokori]

baru cormorant is awesome if you love watching women destroy the economy fuck nasty and then engage in self destruction so severe they start hallucinating ghosts. who is doing it like her

[anthureums]

"baru," iscend said, "what's been done to me can never be undone. do you understand that?"

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commission for harrowofhell on twitter. baruscend and this specific scene has been on my mind for months ever since i finished tyrant so i drew it out instead of crawling up the walls and eating cement. some notes on the paneling below the cut !

bottom half of page

panel 2

iscend's command word being what closes the gap between her and baru

crop showing only iscend herself her desire and the object of it - only baru's mouth being visible and not her eyes (subversion of how she keeps "denying [iscend] a certain degree of humanity"... in iscend's words lol)

panel 3

iscend's hand taking action to pull baru in as she says kiss her.....go girl

anyway i love them your honor messy homoerotic-not-romantic dynamics has always been my weakness. here's to a beautiful and tension filled friendship in book 4

[mobiusstripper]

Baru doing thought experiments like, “Imagine a hypothetical lesbian. Lets say shes hot,”

[julesdap]

"Baru saw in the city what she felt in herself. The two-faced allegiances...."

— The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Chapter 15

"You are not half blind. The wound runs deeper than that. [...] Your brain can no longer understand that half of the world."

— The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Victory

[anthureums]

gee baru how come they let you have four girlfriends

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[anthureums]

"Who would want to kill the thing that makes maps like this?"

Baru would. Because she would never share this world with Tain Hu. She would never point from a ship's mast and say, See that mountain? I've named it for you.

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i started reading book 3 of masquerade very recently but i'm still devastated about the monster baru cormorant. some notes about this piece under the cut!

[julesdap]

"It has all been for Taranoke."

— the traitor baru cormorant

[fuwafuwashi]

They’re calling her the realest motherfucker alive

[anthureums]

"Who would want to kill the thing that makes maps like this?"

Baru would. Because she would never share this world with Tain Hu. She would never point from a ship's mast and say, See that mountain? I've named it for you.

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x

i started reading book 3 of masquerade very recently but i'm still devastated about the monster baru cormorant. some notes about this piece under the cut!

[kanakori]

important meeting

[alenseress]

[melsglasses]

sort of a spiritual successor to my rooftop comic

[ancientannoyance]

And Baru cast the first dart at hand, the words that set the coopers and the fishmongers and the bannermen of Lyxaxu and Oathsfire and Unuxekome roaring: “Show them who should rule Aurdwynn, and why.” Vultjag! the poorer parts of the crowd screamed, a raw astonished sound. Vultjag!

[thematicparallel]

when you're just trying to do some imperial accounting & the lesbian duchess who owns the estate you're staying at reaches deep into your psyche then later on she trains a bird to dance while she's on her way to die by your own hand which also involves birds because it was a practice in your homeland from which you cannot come back. time cast a spell on you but you won't forget me

[kiddokori]

baru cormorant is awesome if you love watching women destroy the economy fuck nasty and then engage in self destruction so severe they start hallucinating ghosts. who is doing it like her