My Little Infinity Book List

A blog for reading reactions and reviews. multi fandom. masterlist coming soon.

[feral-ballad]

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Journeystones I-XI”

[Text ID: “my heart grows / confused / between your need for love / and your need for destruction.”]

[beginnerblueglass]

Bless Kaladin for slotting every person in the world into the categories of “Me,” “Tien,” and, “evil lighteyes,”

[its-cosmerely-an-obsesh-wound]

As Kaladin joined Skar, the man picked up another spear from beside the wall and tossed it out the window.

“Storms,” Kaladin said, glancing at the squires—who in their haste to assemble their camps hadn’t yet noticed that Skar was stealing their weapons. “This group is particularly oblivious, aren’t they?”

The nearest group of squires finally saw what Skar was doing. Several of them yelped as they realized he’d managed to dispose of every spear in the place save three.

Skar doubled his pace, tossing two more spears out the window before—at last—one of the new recruits managed to grab his weapon and hold it tight. Like a mother with a newborn, eyes wide. The rest simply gaped out the window.

Skar grinned. The man enjoyed all this a little too much. 

“We’re under attack!” Skar bellowed. “Squires, to arms and form ranks!”

Stunned silence.

Then mass chaos.

Skar gave Kaladin a wink.

“Sir!” one of them shouted. “Our spears!”

“Stolen by the enemy when you weren’t looking, you dun spheres!” Skar bellowed. “Might have thrown them out the windows!”

“What do we do?” another asked.

Skar gave her the most withering of stares. “You go and get them.”

[shewhodoesnotexist]

demonstrating the surge of perfect comedic timing

[the-prince-of-the-ravens]

AND THE CROWD GOES ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WILD!!!!!!!!!

[planned-obsolescence]

god-tier sydcarmy fics

no one asked but i'm suddenly overcome with gratitude that fic writers just drop these gems for FREE. we are so lucky. these are the ones i constantly reread because they make me feel so much.

all of these are rated M or E because if they ain't fuckin, i ain't reading.

five times at a simmer; once boiling over by seh28 my kink? emotional intimacy. that's what these two need more than any bullshit stars. this fic serves it up like it's a floor donut and i'm carmy straight up eating that shit.

friends, partners, and intimates by sashafiercer i'm always here for it when syd gives carmy what he deserves. and i'm DEFINITELY here for it when the dialogue between the two is so on point it gives me whiplash. written by an all time 🐐.

forget about your house of cards by minecrafter42 i love reading about how carmy can't get it together in sydney's presence. this fic presents their dynamic so viscerally that the slow burn is more like a slow simmer. i needed a cigarette after i finished this one.

temper, temper by malariamonsters have you ever read anything so beautiful it made you cry? yeah, this fic. it's at the top of the tag for a reason because it captures carmy's consuming love for syd so perfectly. i want to live inside this fic.

child with a child pretending by emilybrontay sydney has a baby before she starts working at the beef, and carmy knows what bluey is. i'm done. i am very picky when it comes to stories set in sydney's POV (my girl is a complex masterpiece, you better get her right), and this is one of the greatest, most thoughtful.

Mise En Place by badcircuit love fics that present syd and carmy as partners in every sense of the word. beautifully written, hot as fuck. another one that gets syd right. again, i take portrayals of my girl so seriously and this one is gorg.

Take Care by oysterknife oh boy. this one literally came out last week but i already read it upwards of 10 times. i will read anything oysterknife writes but GODDAMN. this one changed my brain chemistry with the emotional intimacy between the two. i love longing and yearning and this one is like a masterclass in it. the literary references made me kick my feet and giggle. as a brooklyn girlie, THIS is the nyc i wanna see: flushing, crown heights, greenpoint minus the condos, shitting on the residents of murray hill, i want it all. also the ending made me sob. not joking.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

emma woodhouse is the funniest austen girl. she has one-sided drama with the most reserved girl who has done nothing but literally just mind her business. she gets angry about not being invited to a social event even though she would have said no just because she would have liked to be asked. she's said she's aiming to read more for years but has never actually read more. she refers to her best friend as being naive and not very smart and kind of manipulates her while simultaneously both complicating her life greatly from the moment they meet to being her ride or die. she is literally The Problem. she denies that she is The Problem. she makes me want to pull my hair out. I love her more than anything.

[anjukoneko]

[angelaanimates]

My current read is Words of Radiance by @brandsanderson. Here’s Shallan and Pattern 🖤

[thraxusrelaxus]

kind of getting emotional about Pattern right now. he knew Shallan would probably end up killing him. he knew. he was there when Testament died, and yet he still bonded her. he was so invested in learning about humans and finding a way to save his people that he chose to go on what he believed was a suicide mission because he thought the knowledge he’d gain would protect them. i know he’s a Cryptic, but he is Honorspren to me

[stardustravens]

The main reason I want a live action Stormlight adaptation is for the edits.

More specifically, I need to see 1000 edits of ‘My father thinks I’m a better man than he is. Unfortunately for you, he’s wrong’ followed by every Adolin Kholin duel scene in existence.

[piano-hoarder-deactivated202602]

Dalinar writing Oathbringer

Jasnah: Uncle, a good scholar always cites their sources, for the benefit of the reader and other scholars.

Dalinar:

Dalinar:

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

[lgbtlunaverse]

this connects to some REALLY good writing advice i remember from @batshaped

Characters are contradictory, just like people are. What would it take for them to do the thing they've told themselves they'd never do, and how would they try to justify it?

[byjove]

I think Odysseus is the guy everyone else makes talk to the cops when they show up to bust the party.

[byjove]

I think he could do a really good “Hello officer, how are you?” if he had to.

[byjove]

YEAH EXACTLY

[byjove]

Athena is standing behind him whispering the bylaws into his ear.

[emptyheadmybeloved]

hold on i need to look this up

[byjove]

it’s been 15 minutes have you finished reading the Odyssey yet?

[lemon-embalmer]

fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

[lemon-embalmer]

this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up

[she-who-fights-and-writes]

W H A T

[slumpyspaceprincess]

@rogha

[thewhisperingescapes]

[mirkwoodest]

In moments like this I always fall back on the fact that they also aren’t speaking English because they don’t have England or the many languages and conquering peoples that contributed to the creation of the English language and therefore the work musr be a translation into recognizable terms in our world’s terms. Call that Tolkien Brainrot.

[bellbottom-jeans]

Definitely funnier if you make fantasy explanations though,

Champagne is a wizard who sells bubbly alcohol.

It’s called English because of the original Lish people, all languages start with En here.

French fries are not potatoes they’re roots of the french plant.

Goodbye is now short for ‘good be your eye’ wishing you luck seeing the path ahead.

Jesus Christ is a long dead lich who used to cause everyone problems and we haven’t stopped saying her name when things go wrong.

[thatgaydemigodnerd]

And that’s the Pratchett approach

[rogerdeakinsdp]

DREW BARRYMORE as Casey in MAD LOVE (1995) dir. Antonia Bird — costume design by Eugenie Bafaloukos

[soulcontact]

when he says “your eyes are beautiful” but mahmoud darwish wrote “I have passed by many eyes, but I only got lost in yours”