Sarah Rees Brennan

A perpetrator of great cruelty against innocent words. Yes, that's right! Author of IN OTHER LANDS, TELL THE WIND & FIRE, and the #1 Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling meta portal fantasy LONG LIVE EVIL and sequel ALL HAIL CHAOS.

[ohmovie]

Death cannot stop true love. 

[epifaniacintilante]

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fun little malware ridden true finale conspiracy

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now lets not rewrite history

[hightechzombie]

To be fair, they did successfully pressure Artur Conan Doyle into resurrecting Sherlock Holmes. You just have to pick easily influenceable solo authors.

[sunflowerdigs]

Dickens was also pressured into writing a second ending to Great Expectations because the ecpected ship didn't happen. I'm not even kidding, lol.

[sarahreesbrennan]

just read in other lands for the third time. it's somehow better than i remembered (i already considered it one of my all timers). my only complaint is that somehow it always ends. I'll be reading long live evil to ease the ache next. love yaaa 💜💜💜💜

It is such a great compliment to be re-read and remain a favourite. Thank you!

I hope you enjoy Long Live Evil even more. 💙😈

[geryone]

Bakandamiya: An Elegy, Saddiq Dzukogi

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

We need to bring up that Ursula K LeGuin quote about commodified fantasy more often. We need to be meaner.

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

[alysmond]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON | Season 3, Episode 8

[sarahreesbrennan]

I liked the specific use of the word ‘imbecile’ here.

This was the only reply made to Aegon when he asked his mother if she loved him. The same day he was crowned, his mother tried to shield him from a dragon with her body, and he must have felt loved.

So someone beneath extreme anger at being burned alive by his own brother might love his sapphire eyed kinslaying little brother, and have betrayed that with the first three words out of his mouth.

TLDR, love me a very specific meaningful echo as a writing technique.

[petaltexturedskies]

There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn't that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life.

Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides; Tragedy: A Curious Art Form

[clementine-kesh]

imo you get the most out of engaging with media when you strike a balance between treating characters as people (reading interiority into their actions, considering the effect of various aspects of their identity, etc etc) and as vehicles for storytelling (what narrative purpose do they serve, how do their actions and personality function to convey the themes of the work, etc etc). because of course characters are literary devices but also there’s a reason we use literary devices written to embody realistic people in order to tell stories

[louisegluckpdf]

compiling a list of men yearning with such naked desperation it feels all but indecent. darcy you have bewitched me body and soul obviously, anakin if you’re suffering as much as i am please tell me, laurie confessing his love to jo in little women, you said i killed you—haunt me then. open to suggestions of course

[susandsnell]

feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is “weird girl literature” and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns

[susandsnell]

Women did not fucking pioneer horror, thriller, and science fiction as we know it for publishing to infantilize it into a high school phase

[xphaiea]

Monica Bellucci as the Mirror Queen in The Brothers Grimm (2005)

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[aboutmercy]

The Essential Tanith Lee

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and his

silvia moreno-garcia wrote a profile for the NYT about tanith lee and discusses where to start with her if you’re a beginner! i know tanith and her works are of interest to many of my mutuals and myself, so posting it here for reference.

[sarahreesbrennan]

Silvia Moreno-Garcia based as usual.

[missmisdemeanor]

it is a rookie mistake to assume that the person making deeply anachronistic, inaccurate, and fairytale-esque knightposts knows nothing about real knights. i know all about real knights. i just think overseeing the farmland on your estate, explicitly being in it for (more) land and money, fighting less than half the year, and dying of cholera is sort of boring while swearing undying oaths is really sexy

[rhibbet]

top tier character trait will always be “I care about you deeply, even though I betrayed you. even though I would do it again” I don’t make the rules

[ontologicalevil]

that's my emotional support bad person