All for One and One for Tortall

A Tortall Fandom Side Blog

[theroguequeenaniki]

Turn a man into an apple tree for her.

Tear down a whole palace for him.

Kill her attackers and leave them in a fountain.

You know.

Simple showcases of love that anyone can do.

[kettlebaron]

My Tortall Ships - Aly + Nawat (Trickster’s Choice/Trickster’s Queen)

“I am no longer a crow who turned into a man, Aly Bright Eyes,“ he told her soberly. "I am a man who can be a crow at need, but I am still a man, and I love you. I have seen so many people die since I left you. I do not want to wait for priests to say words or for you to want chicks. If I go to the Peaceful Realms tomorrow, or the day after, I want to go with the taste of you on my lips.”

[sindirimba]

what was your childhood book series

wayside school

bunnicula

scary stories to tell in the dark

choose your own adventure

the baby-sitter's club

goosebumps

ramona

american girl

calvin & hobbes

the eyewitness books

improbably something else not contained by this list

Voting ended onOct 7, 2025

this list is very relatable and applicable to everyone of all ages and locales and interests

[bethanydelleman]

I don't know exactly how to articulate this but... if you repeatedly show historical fiction women rejecting traditionally female skills/duties and doing swords instead, because swords is obviously the Most Important Thing, you are kind of implying that all the work that has been traditionally done by female hands for millennia was useless all along and not, you know, keeping civilization going. Because it's usually rejected not as a personal preference but as This Is The Important Stuff (male work) and That is The Dumb Useless Stuff (women's work) and that kind of bothers me. The message was supposed to be Vital But Underpaid and Underappreciated, not women's work is insignificant so let's all go do swords.

[onefortortall]

You know who did a great job of Woman who wants to do sword and respecting traditional woman roles? Tamora Pierce.

It's actually a large repeating theme in her books.

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Favorite Book Twins

Quarterfinals

Jacqueline "Jack" and Jillian "Jill" Wolcott (The Wayward Children series) VS Alanna and Thom of Trebond (The Song of the Lioness series)

Jack and Jill

Alanna and Thom

Show results

Voting ended onSep 15, 2025

Info under the readmore

Jack and Jill Wolcott (The Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire) :

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Alanna and Thom of Trebond (Tortall series by Tamora Pierce) :

"They switch places at ten years old so Thom can learn magic and Alanna can become a knight"

[melodypowers65]

This poll seems appropriate when I just got my Illumicrate special edition of the Alanna books!

Thom saying he loves Alanna, right at the end, always makes me tear up. They were always on each other's team, even when it didn't seem like it.

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

submissions needed

Prompt: the last book you finished

Rules:

only one book per person

No sequels

If youre unsure search the list (linked in the pinned post) to see if the book has been posted or queued

thank you! ☀️

[illinicoise]

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

ain’t risking it

[girlfromenglishclass]

What is the longest book series you have read?

I only read stand alones

Duology

Trilogy

Quartet

5-10

10-15

More than 15 books in the series

Voting ended onSep 8, 2025

For the purpose of this poll, books in the same world but not Directly sequels count. If they're grouped on Goodreads, it counts. So like, Percy Jackson but also Magnus Chase count as the same series.

[onefortortall]

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Imajica by Clive Barker (1991)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onSep 6, 2025

[onefortortall]

I like Clive Barker, I'll have to find this one.

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Masterpost: How to write a story?

Compilation of writing advice for some aspects of the writing process.

How to motivate myself to write more

How to get rid of writer’s block

Basic Overview: How to write a story

How to outline a story

How to come up with plot

How to create a character

How to make a character unique

How to name your characters (Masterpost)

How to start a story

How to write a prologue

How to write conversation

How to write witty banter

How to write the last line

How to write a summary

How to write a book description

How to write romance

How to write friendships

How to write emotions (Masterpost)

How to write an argument

How to write yelling

How to write anger

How to write betrayal

How to title fanfiction

How to write an unreliable narrator

First Person vs. Third Person POV

How to write character deaths

How to leave a strong first impression

How to use songs in a fanfiction

How to name fictional things

How to write self-insert fics

How to write multiple points of view

Introducing a group of characters

Large cast of characters interacting in one scene

How to write dual timelines

How to slow down time

Redemption arc

Plot twists

Fatal Character Flaws

good traits gone bad (Masterpost)

Slow burn

Explanation posts about writing terms

What is…

AU ideas

Favourite tropes

Tropes of the day

List of Genres

Drabble vs. One-Shot

Advice for writing relationships

Masterpost: how to write relationships + romance

More specific scenarios

How to write a bilingual character

How to write a character with glasses

How to write heterochromia

How to write a girldad

How to write taking care of a tired partner

How to create a villain

Reasons for becoming a villain

How to write a morally grey character

How to write an inferiority complex

How to write a road trip

How to create and write a cult

How to write amnesia

How to write being stabbed

How to write a stratocracy

How to write a heist

How to write the mafia

Criminal past comes to light

Ideas for traumatic experiences

How to create an atmosphere (Masterpost)

How to write a college party

How to write royalty (Masterpost)

Paramilitary Forces/ Militia

Superpowers Masterpost (Hero x Villain)

Inconvenient things a ghost could do

A Queen’s Assassination Plot

Reasons for leaving their land

Crime Story - Detective’s POV

Evil organization of assassins

Evil wins in the end

Causes for the apocalypse

Last day on earth

Liminal Spaces

Workplace AUs

Signs of co-dependency

What to wear in a desert

What to wear in the arctic

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[charitysstories]

Writing masterpost!💕

[boymenagerie]

In my opinion we don’t talk about how genuinely terrifying Ralon of Malven/Claw is. Maybe it’s just because I grew up in the south but his character genuinely invokes fear in my heart because I’ve met so many boys just like Ralon. He’s such a real villain that it’s terrifying. I’ve heard exactly 3 times in my life that the boys that used to beat me up in grade school are now either in jail or on The List now. And his whole arc is that he beat up the weakest, most gay looking boy for multiple years until said “boy” kicked his ass and he got so butthurt that he left page training all together only to show back up a few years later as a serial killer who was disowned by his family for being a convicted r@pist. I’ve met guys like Ralon and they’re terrifying.

[qwahaxahn]

Barely 40% into The First Adventure and they’ve already saddled Alanna with “I should have saved my friend” guilt

This is gonna be a ride 😌

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Thinking about that Immortals book where Daine goes to a new continent and everyone knows about her animal speaking ability (she's there to help the emperor with his birds) and that one zoologist is like "you HAVE to help me" and he just wants her to go around all his animal enclosures and ask the animals if they're happy and if they need anything

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce (1997)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onAug 21, 2025

[manda-kat]

AI is getting harder to spot, but I think we'll be fine if we just make a point to enjoy media that's actually good. If we just mindlessly consume, we'll end up supporting whoever can churn out slop the fastest, regardless of if they use AI or their garbage is manmade. Hold your media to a higher standard and don't settle for things that feel soulless. If you can't feel a heartbeat, you should pronounce it dead and move on.

[animentality]

[grimmusings]

Given the recent resurgence in purity culture and anti-villain sentiment on Tumblr, this feels like a good time to talk about censorship and bullying. This is not a call-out post for anything that's happened recently, just some commentary on what, to me, is a disturbing trend and some general guidelines for how to conduct yourself in fandom spaces.

Essentially, it boils down to this: You have the right to not interact with anything you choose in a fandom. You don't have the right to make that choice for anyone else.

Do you know why AO3 doesn't have content bans? It stems from anti-censorship beliefs and First Amendment rights, and it also comes from a long history of watching things like this go down in fandom. The thing about banning one kind of content--or that kind of mindset--is that it hardly ever stops with one thing, until fandoms are so scrubbed from anything that has the potential to be problematic that they collapse under any perceived threat to their rigid moral standards. If you doubt that, consider how it's taken less than a month for this to jump from Marvel to include other groups of villains and fandoms. Guaranteed, it will not stop there. (And that's to say nothing of how, historically, censorship leads to silencing marginalized groups, but that's a different post.) Conservatism is insidious and takes a lot of forms, but censorship is ultimately a conservative, even a fascist, action.

The fact is that what you enjoy reading or writing is actually no reflection on what kind of person you are. There's even an argument to be made that exploring darkness in fiction a) makes you a more empathetic human and, b) makes you better-equipped to handle those topics in real life (but that's another post too). I don't care what you want to write on your own blog. I don't care how controversial your muse or your ship is or if you write the darkest of dark fic out there. I may not want to write it, engage with it, or even see it on my dash, but I'll defend your right to write it.

Writing fascist characters (HYDRA, Empire, Death Eaters, etc.) doesn't make someone a Nazi any more than writing Hannibal Lecter makes them a cannibal or writing the Punisher makes them an advocate for gun violence. Saying they are breaks one of the primary tenets of roleplay: that mun does not equal muse. It's widely accepted in the roleplaying community that we don't agree with our characters' views, and we would never in a million years condone the things they do in real life. That rule doesn't go away just because you personally don't like the character.

So let's talk about what to do when you come across writing you don't agree with.

What you have a right to do: Feel however you feel about it. Ask for tags and readmores (they have a right to refuse). Decline to explain or justify why it makes you uncomfortable. Decide not to associate with people who write that thing. Blacklist. Unfollow. Block. Add to your DNI list. Vent about it in a safe space with your friends. Take a step back from the internet. Remember that the people on the other side of the screen are real, actual humans, while characters are imaginary. Embrace the fact that engaging in fiction is optional, and you can choose to stop any time you want. Trust that grown adults have the basic media literacy to understand the difference between reality and fiction. Remind yourself of the first rule of fandom, the one AO3 is built on (Don't like; don't read). Recognize that it's perfectly valid to not want to engage with something, but that expecting other people not to write it at all isn't your call to make and can lead down a dangerous path.

What you don't have a right to do: Bully or doxx other writers. Shame them for their choices when they don't agree with you. Demand explanations or justifications from them. Gaslight them into thinking nobody else will write with them if they continue to write this thing. (You don't speak for the entire fandom. You are a very small minority making a lot of noise.) Create call-out posts. Participate in witch hunts. Send anon hate or death threats. Make people feel unsafe in their own spaces. Police other people's content.

If you descend to bullying someone because you don't like what they're writing, you don't have the moral high ground. I can't believe it needs to be said, but real bullies are worse than fictional antagonists. Bullying and censorship are far more alarming threats than people who enjoy exploring dark topics in their writing. Nobody's asking you to like it, agree with it, or even look at it. And if you don't? Now is the perfect time to say nothing about it, block, and move on. Rest assured, we don't want you on our blogs any more than you want us on yours.