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2025 Book Wrap Up

I didn't read many amazing books this year to be honest, but still! Blacktongue Thief was a lovely surprise, fantasy of the classic kind that I missed without falling into mediocre white guy nonsense! I'm excited to read the prequel

Rebel Blade was a great conclusion to the series, and I need to reread them all soon

The Spear Cuts Through Water is the most challenging and complex narrative I've read in a while. Layers upon layers.

The City in Glass is my favorite of the year: a demon and an angel vying for control of a city over centuries

Oathbound was masterful, I cannot wait to see how this series conclude!!

[fishtrouts]

Winter’s Chill - Part 3

This is a continuation of the winter’s chill comics Part 1 and Part 2! The links lead to the previous parts :)

[fageleh]

hobbies should not take up this much space. there ought to be a hobby pocket dimension, where I am able to store everything I need in a breadbox that weighs no more than my cat.

[sparrowlucero]

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"

[wordcubed]

[remnantglow]

been reading witch hat atelier ✨

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Still doing OC numbers ? I want number 7

Yes! Thanks hehe number 7 are Roena (left), Igrid (middle), and Orion (right)

(art by @starling-illu 💜)

You already know them a lot haha but for the rest of the crowd, those three are the main characters of a short story (Velvet Hand, Iron Glove).

Orion is the Mad King who invaded Roena's country and torched her village. He became immortal after slurping stealing the Source from Jacomius's staff and immediately proceeded to kill the guy. To be fair Jacomius was a tyrant who unleashed a magically engineered plague upon Orion's home country, so, really, he had it coming.

Roena joins the army and spends most of her adult years fighting back against Orion's conquest, eventually meeting Igrid, a priestess of Kalla that follows the battalion, hoping to give them some relief and offering peace to the souls of the dead.

Igrid is genuinely convinced of humanity's inherent goodness on one hand, and of the protection of her goddess on the other so she keeps putting herself in danger. Of course, Roena keeps saving her. It is as the goddess wills it.

Orion is possibly my favorite character in that universe because I can literally plop him into any event occurring after his birth 😂 and inflict huge amounts of bodily harm upon him.

Send me a number between 1-20!

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OC: 4?

Thanks for the ask! 4 is Ganiru Fatai

(art by @starling-illu 💜 cards by @drawnecromancy ✨)

Ganiru shows up in the prequel story (The Price of Wonder) initially as an adversarial figure. He challenges Elaine and Amaris as they try to defend magic against the Inquisition - despite the fact that it's clear to them both he is a mage himself.

He is mostly an agent of chaos, though he has his own goals that he pursues behind the scenes. He is also a consummate liar and a gambler, which would be more worrying if he was not so talented at cheating at cards 😂

Send me a number between 1-20!

[liarsblade]

It's so obvious that a lot of people on here are inexplicably convinced that bad books are a recent invention

[nostalgic-teddyy]

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

[wuekka]

Hey, so this looked cool too :D

[piracytheorist]

Among all the things that eat away at me about orufrey is how wrong Olruggio is about Qifrey's feelings for him, due to the repeated memory wipes. How he probably thinks that Qifrey isn't interested in him (while Qifrey actively pines and yearns for him), that Qifrey doesn't like to be held close (while Qifrey constantly holds himself back from touch out of caution and not aversion to touch), that Qifrey doesn't know or doesn't acknowledge how Olruggio feels for him (while Qifrey fights to live in order to honour Olruggio's sacrifice for him).

Like just the fact that Olruggio genuinely wants to be with him and after all this time he's convinced Qifrey doesn't and will never reciprocate, and still stays by his side because just being allowed that is enough. And just how wrong that is. How Qifrey is determined to make a fulfilling life for himself and be free of the silverwood so to not let Olruggio's multiple sacrifices go to waste. Olruggio knows nothing but respects Qifrey enough to not impose unless other people are put at risk. Qifrey knows everything but cannot speak out of risk of death. His way of honouring his sacrifice is by letting him think his love is unrequited. And that is something Olruggio consented to, but forced himself to forget.

How relieving it must have been for Olruggio, to know Qifrey feels the same, but also how devastating to know this love is what kills him. And so he chooses to forget that. To carry a burden of feeling that his love is unrequited, as a mere sample of the burden Qifrey carries. Partners in pain.

[asexualbookbird]

I made a suncatcher for the yarn shop window :3

[bookcub]

life update under the cut

been a minute since ive updated people but hetty and i are slowly but surely making progress through the immigration process. we are creeping up on her interview, which will be scheduled soon. i am ....cautiously optimistic this means she can move here by the end of the year and then we will get legally married asap. and then two ish years down the road we will plan a ceremony. so progress is happening and i will be married ..... i think in under a year.

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17

Thanks for the ask! 17 is Nehja

(art by @starling-illu 💜)

They are not so secretly my fave. They're a year above Rae, and when Heart of Stone takes place, they're a little bit of a manic pixie nb, ngl. Rae likes them overall but is also really irritated with their inability to give straight answers and connect with people. She has her own stuff to deal with, so she doesn't really go out of her way to spend time with Nehja.

Nehja is a follower of Asynos, the divine of Knowledge and Balance, but at that point in their life they're essentially lost. They're taking every elective they can, and hoping something will stick. They like to pretend they know where they're headed, but really they just avoid connecting with others because they worry whatever they'll end up doing won't be their decision if they get too close.

Send me a number between 1-20!

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14!!

Thanks for the ask!! 14 is Rae during her second year of school

(art by @areyousanta 💜)

This is probably the happiest time for her over the course of Heart of Stone: she is finally getting her bearings and no longer constantly afraid of failing out, and possibly for the first time in her life she feels like she's truly fitting in with her peers, not just pretending to.

She's still picking practicality over raw aesthetics when it comes to clothes, but she's also determined to look the part of a mage and allowing herself more color and fancier fabrics ✨

Send me a number between 1-20!

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Send me a number between 1-20 and I will ramble about a corresponding OC from my folder of commissioned art 👀

[sickropia]

Olruggio's Mannerism's as a Reminder of the Tassel Swap, Witch Hat Atelier Analysis

(Spoilers through chapter 93)

So Olurggio has this nervous thing he does where he rubs or scratches at the back of his neck. Fun little character quirk that does a lot to let us know whenever something is making him uncomfortable, stressed, nervous ect. Here are some examples.

(In order these are Chapter 8 after Qifrey says he should erase his memory if they erase Coco's, Chapter 40 need I say more, Chapter 88 after lying to the Knight's Morales) There are so many more examples he is always pulling this move.

We also see him do this right before confronting Qifrey about the tassel swap.

Whenever we see Qifrey and Olly arguing as adults, Olly usually rubs his neck either after relenting the argument, or if he's about to say something confrontational. This is exactly what's happening in this scene. But what's also fun here is that the first panel looks to me a bit like hes grasping for where his ribbon would be, and given his reaction afterward he hadn't noticed the switch until this point.

My initial theory from this is that Olruggio's nervous habit of reaching for his neck, was originally a habit of fidgeting with his ribbon. I still believe this, however there is no other point in the flashback ark where he does this, which could mean nothing but could also be extremely intentional.

It's significant that the first time we see him do this is after he's had his memories erased. He is grasping for something that is not there, both literally and figuratively.