Ba Dum Tish!

HI! Amanda here. I fangirl over all things nerdy and awesome. Care to join?

[cosmerequotes]

Brightness…I believe you stray into sarcasm.“ "Funny. I thought I’d run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.

Shallan Davar, The Way of Kings (via cosmerequotes)

[patrickdiomedes]

I am not going to stop talking about The Way Of Kings until everyone reads it

Seriously this is such a good book. Fuck Game of Thrones, this is where it’s at.

Epic Fantasy

All but one of the viewpoint characters are POC. There is only one race on the planet that doesn’t have the epicanthic folds on their eyes, and the author has literally said that the Alethi people are POC.

One character has serious depression, and it’s incredibly well written and not at all insulting. He’s also a badass and a battlefield surgeon and jesus he is amazing.

Interesting, original magic system.

Not a white cishet dudebro fantasy type thing. (Further explanation: While there are pretty rigid gender roles in Alethi society (men and women even eat different food), women aren’t really portrayed as “lesser”. In this society, men don’t even learn to read, they have to stick to Glyphs. Almost all the scholars are women, and the Alethi king’s wife is the one left in charge of managing the kingdom while he’s away at war, and no one ever thinks she’s incapable of it.)

Awesome worldbuilding.

Now, I’ll admit, the ratio of male characters to female characters does leave something to be desired, but the next book in the series, which is comign out in March of 2014, will be focused on a woman.

Sidenote: in the time it took GRRM to write A Dance With Dragons, Brandon Sanderson wrote 13 books, including a 4 book YA series, the Mistborn Trilogy, and The Way Of Kings, which is 1007 pages long in hardcover. Oh, and he released 2 of the three final Wheel Of Time novels, after being asked by Robert Jordan’s widow to complete the series because she was very impressed by his writing. What I’m saying is the guy’s a fucking MACHINE.

[torpublishinggroup]

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

—Hoid from The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson. (via torbooks)

[alexallenart]

Client work, illustration of Kaladin from ‘The Way of Kings’ by Brandon Sanderson. Big fan of the book!

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[infinitebookshelves]

just to remind the world that this exists on Brandon Sanderson’s website

[paperfury-deactivated20260224]

ALL books should have maps. I am just sayin’.

[sparkitors]

We love only two things in this world: Netflix binges and Harry Potter. @vitoriabas has combined the two, and for that WE ARE FOREVER IN HER DEBT. Check out 10 of her hilarious illos here, then head to SparkLife to see all 13!

PS. WE’RE NOT CRYING OVER REGULUS, YOU’RE CRYING OVER REGULUS. 

[vanscribbles]

This is amazing. Oh my gosh Dobby.

[marauders4evr]

REGULUS!

[kristaferanka]

that hagrid drawing is super cute

[lovelynaildesigns]

Lavender and White Floral Nails

[margaretzhang]

[torpublishinggroup]

Curl up with a good book and stay warm this weekend, readers!

[whathappenedtomyweekend]

[jynandor]

[who-am-i-hedwig]

Tumblr+The Lord of the Rings

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

But things work out, you know? Even if it doesn’t feel okay for a long time, or even if it feels like things will never be okay again, everything works out in the end.

(via suspends)

[nolikereally]

in all this excitement, let’s not forget the TRUE reason for the season

on February 14, 3019, Gandalf the White arose from death in his true form and set out once more to walk the stones of Middle-Earth

MERRY GANDALFMAS

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[princessariel2323]

Even if we’re married for 23 years, I still want you to flirt with me.

A novel written by me.  (via bl-ossomed)