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I know I've said this but... csethiro has an utterly impossible task to do post-book. it's kinda horrific. of the previous five zhasans, three are dead (at least one, maybe two, in childbirth), one is her barren great-aunt who was relegated, and the other is her childhood rival who was widowed at 22 and lost all her power and security with it. there's also stano bazhevin, whose fiancé died before she could even be married properly (and csethiro came close to that, maia has already survived one coup and one assassination attempt by the skin of his teeth) and then got stuck in limbo and eventually relegated for being complicit in treason. csethiro's mother is evidently either dead or relegated, most likely dead. her namesake from the celehada is also dead. there is not a single success story from the last sixty years, but ceredel still barters her off into the frankly fucking cursed role of zhasan. csethiro, daughter of only daughters, great-niece of the famously barren empress, has to go and 1. untangle all the resentment and paranoia and tension between ceredada and drazhada that varenechibel caused, 2. wrangle the nobility and choke their access to maia as well as 3. managing the social sphere in a way beneficial to the emperor, and 4. bail out an entire ruling dynasty by having sons. alone. there will be no one else even remotely similar to her situation until idra marries, and it's clear that idra wants to be supplanted in his role of heir and she is entering a household dynamic which is already immensely loyal to maia, even more than a typical imperial household. those mad little lads (+kiru) will kill and die for him. for him. where does she even fit into that? does she count at all? and, she has to do it all under a courtly microscope that clearly already considers her to have improper 'notions'. and then any children she may have will belong to the drazhada and the emperor, not her, and so will she; even when she dies she'll still be drazharan. it fucking sucks!!! so much!!!!
but for all of that, she still has the strength of character to surrender her resentment and panic and go all-in on maia anyway. you literally see her decide in real time, when she drops down to the informal at the end. I cannot emphasise how much she did not have to do that. it says a lot about maia's character, but it says even more about hers. she's actively making it worse for herself + maia if she has to be put aside or dies, but she's doing it anyway, bc she thinks he's worth it and is willing to try and do it with him, despite all the obvious pitfalls and horrible bits and likelihoods of disaster. she's so brave I'm gonna be sick #mycsethiro
It’s nearly 3 am so I’ll probably write more detailed thoughts in the morning but Tomb of the Dragon is one of my fascinating ends to a series I’ve read on a meta sense. I have to imagine that a large portion of the audience despise it because it is genuinely crazy that Thara and Iäna didn’t get together.
Addison makes such strange choices and I’m so fascinated by them. She’s writes very compelling stories and has a lot of strengths as a creator. But she also has glaring flaws that are throughout this series.
I love the end of Tomb of Dragons. I was genuinely surprised to learn people didn’t like it. It took me a bit to understand how the pacing worked but i was so happy once i did.
Are you saying that people's main problem is pacing? Because yeah it kind of dragged at certain points but I would think what people are upset about (and what I'm like fascinated about) is some of the really STRANGE choices Addison made. Specifically the Iana relationship switch and Thara not staying in Amalo.
The first one because, if Addison's plan was always to have Thara have unrequited feelings towards Iana, she should have hinted at it more. She didn't need to make confrontation earlier in the series but there wasn't enough foreshadowing that Iana wouldn't be interested. And then there's the other problem of this new relationship with the captain being really underdeveloped and not nearly as dynamic as Thara's relationship with Iana. Thara and Iana have stark, different personalities that work well off each other. While Thara's relationship with captain is...nice. It's not terrible and it can be endearing but there should have been more.
The other one being Thara leaving Amalo. The main overarching story for this series is Thara healing and learning to open up to people. He's essentially building a life for himself and so leaving that is just weird. Thara admits to himself that he's lonely and at points desperate for connection with other people so having to leave that should be more impactful to him as a character. Also the reason for him needing to leave feels kind of bullshit when...Addison has a tendency to want mostly clean endings and basically go "and then everything was fine" when there should probably be more problems. If Addison wanted to, she would have just written, "and then off screen someone found correspondence about who was trying to kill Thara and they were all captured. Thara was safe to live in Amalo. The End."
Addison writes extremely compelling worlds and characters but my god she is a flawed author. I imagine if this series was more popular there would be a lot of backlash for the really strange choices she makes.
It’s nearly 3 am so I’ll probably write more detailed thoughts in the morning but Tomb of the Dragon is one of my fascinating ends to a series I’ve read on a meta sense. I have to imagine that a large portion of the audience despise it because it is genuinely crazy that Thara and Iäna didn’t get together.
Addison makes such strange choices and I’m so fascinated by them. She’s writes very compelling stories and has a lot of strengths as a creator. But she also has glaring flaws that are throughout this series.
I love the end of Tomb of Dragons. I was genuinely surprised to learn people didn’t like it. It took me a bit to understand how the pacing worked but i was so happy once i did.
Are you saying that people's main problem is pacing? Because yeah it kind of dragged at certain points but I would think what people are upset about (and what I'm like fascinated about) is some of the really STRANGE choices Addison made. Specifically the Iana relationship switch and Thara not staying in Amalo.
The first one because, if Addison's plan was always to have Thara have unrequited feelings towards Iana, she should have hinted at it more. She didn't need to make confrontation earlier in the series but there wasn't enough foreshadowing that Iana wouldn't be interested. And then there's the other problem of this new relationship with the captain being really underdeveloped and not nearly as dynamic as Thara's relationship with Iana. Thara and Iana have stark, different personalities that work well off each other. While Thara's relationship with captain is...nice. It's not terrible and it can be endearing but there should have been more.
The other one being Thara leaving Amalo. The main overarching story for this series is Thara healing and learning to open up to people. He's essentially building a life for himself and so leaving that is just weird. Thara admits to himself that he's lonely and at points desperate for connection with other people so having to leave that should be more impactful to him as a character. Also the reason for him needing to leave feels kind of bullshit when...Addison has a tendency to want mostly clean endings and basically go "and then everything was fine" when there should probably be more problems. If Addison wanted to, she would have just written, "and then off screen someone found correspondence about who was trying to kill Thara and they were all captured. Thara was safe to live in Amalo. The End."
Addison writes extremely compelling worlds and characters but my god she is a flawed author. I imagine if this series was more popular there would be a lot of backlash for the really strange choices she makes.
at the Vermillion Opera of Amalo
"There will be an eclipse of the moon in a fortnight's time, Serenity."
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first, second, third (or; finally trying to get a handle on how to draw these guys like 5+ years after reading the book)
Before she could talk herself out of it, she said, “Confess or don’t, Serenity, but here is thy thanks—”
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Witness for The Dead
*pastel cartoon of artfully mud-splattered Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan smirking at each other, arms crossed*
House of the Dragon meets Murderbot in SHARDS OF HONOR, a swoony new sci-fi romantasy by debut author Lois McMaster Bujold, perfect for fans of Andor.
Enemies-to-lovers ⚔️
Forced proximity 🏕️
Marriage of convenience 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️
He falls first 😍
“Touch her and die” 😠
Silver fox 👨🏻🦳
“Gorgeous!” -Emily Broccolini, #1 NYT-bestselling author of An Heir of Storms and Sapphires and A Queen of Tornadoes and Topaz
“Screaming, crying, throwing up 😭💕” -Goodreads reviewer
“Step on me Cordelia 😩🥵” -Goodreads reviewer
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^ absolutely, and only because I made this post before I got to that part
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and a great point here:
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I refuse to believe that these is a single person in the Nexus who can resist Cordelia. (Except her scummy ex. Congrats, you got a ship. She got a *planet*) One of those things I re-read again and again.
Just got to that part in The Tomb of Dragons where Thara and Iäna have that talk
i have not seen an author pull a full JJ Abrams/The Rise of Skywalker treatment on their own book series before but that was before i read The Tomb of Dragons.
Katherine what the actual fuck was that conversation
I’m a little over halfway through The Tomb of Dragons and yoU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME
The upshot is The Tomb of Dragons set a new high bar for how badly a book series finale can disappoint, so future disappointments will seem less bad by comparison!
love how the goblin emperor is like a very particular bildungsroman with almost no magic, focusing on the social and emotional agonies of the fantasy of manners genre and reconsidering the classic fantasy 'quest' as a more strictly internal journey... and then you go onto the cemeteries of amalo and it's like ok so othala celehar is getting his shit absolutely rocked by the Zombies That Eat Prelates rn but after he's suffered his physical and mental wounds he'll probably go to to the teahouse and you say yayyy the teahouse #theteahouse
I am being driven to contemplate fix it fix because FINE OKAY I GUESS we can't have the OBVIOUS CONCLUSION THAT'S BEEN BUILDING FOR TWO AND A HALF BOOKS that Iäna Pel-Thenhior has been cracking open Thara Celehar's calcified melancholic heart but like if we REALLY needed to have a different love interest come SWINGING out of nowhere, Sub-Praeceptor Azhanharad has been RIGHT THERE, being a guard and slowly expressing his esteem and respect for the Elfland's most depressive unreliable narrator who can't figure out that the Arch-Prelate and His Whole Entire Imperial Serenity Edrehasivar VII hold him in EXTREMELY high regard (and BY THE WAY I've tried to compose this rant about eight times but I always get distracted by trying to figure out the goddamn spelling anyway) SORRY 2 CAPTAIN OLGAREZH YOU ARE A BRONZE PARTICIPATION TROPHY
also this is what bridgerton or w/e looks like to me
