#avoliot

[lifelinebooks]

My favorite type of guy is a vicious combination of sarcasm and malicious compliance. Also gay

[everina-maxwell-updates]

courseofhonourupdates -> everina-maxwell-updates

Anyone who was following courseofhonourupdates, this is now everina-maxwell-updates for what are probably obvious reasons. Thought it would be a good time to explain the split so you can pick the blog that suits you:

everina-maxwell-updates: 'official' blog, strictly book stuff. Follow this if you want infrequent updates just about the books, occasional fanart.

avoliot: reblogs, gardens, other people's unrelated art, small book fandoms I will never let die, Winter's Orbit-universe fan stuff because it's still my blog and nobody can stop me. These two blogs will probably reblog each other a little bit for announcements but I'll try and keep that limited.

That's all, thank you for your attention, enjoy the rest of your dash!

[queenklu]

I meant to make this rec post A G E S AGO so here it is, months and months late! 

Winter’s Orbit by @avoliot aka Everina Maxwell

Prince Kiem, a famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, has been called upon to be useful for once. He's commanded to fulfill an obligation of marriage to the representative of the Empire's newest and most rebellious vassal planet. His future husband, Count Jainan, is a widower...and murder suspect. Neither wants to be wed, but with a conspiracy unfolding around them and the fate of the empire at stake they will have to navigate the thorns and barbs of court intrigue, the machinations of war, and the long shadows of Jainan's past, and they'll have to do it together. So begins a legendary love story amid the stars.

If this sounds familiar it’s because this started as an already stunning OMC/OMC fic on ao3 called Course of Honor! YES THAT ONE! And now it is an EVEN MORE enthralling, entrancing, engaging piece of otherworldly fiction. 

Do you love good writing? Miscommunication with good reason? I swear, this is best example I have ever read of two people talking at cross purposes, and it absolutely makes sense. 

But most importantly, DO YOU LOVE SPACE BEARS WITH SCALES AND SIX LEGS?

I thought so. 

Go read Winter’s Orbit.

[what-on-io]

feel like i need to check it’s okay before i start writing the winter’s orbit fic that is now living rent free in my head

[fahye]

avoliot replied to your post: how's your original writing going? i know it's in...

ahaha from 70-90k it goes ‘hey look at all these words, I am a genius, this is a great length for a novel I am on a ROLL’, then you stop looking at the counter while you do the climax because you’re near the end, right, then… oops, now it’s kill-a-small-child size.

the good/terrible thing about being >100k is that now the wordcount has lost all meaning, because every other number is just something dangling off the end of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS. right now it is at 108,443. what does that even mean? nothing.

[thelioninmybed]

Homestuck: important and also, too short

i……tried to read problem sleuth once and got bored. 

8D

[mhalachai]

story rec: The Course of Honour by Avoliot

hey! have you ever read something so great you think about it for days on end? And re-read pieces of it while waiting for the bus and while on hold on the phone? that’s so amazing you need to share it with everyone you know? 

this is the best original story I have read in months - it’s got everything  - futuristic space politics! arranged marriages! slow burn! space pirates! danger and intrigue! you-fell-in-an-icy-river-and-we-need-to-cuddle-naked-for-warmth! 

The Course of Honour by @avoliot 

When Jainan arrived on Iskat to represent his home planet in a diplomatic marriage to Imperial Prince Taam, he was naïve enough to hope the match would work. Taam knew better. Five years later, his confidence shattered, Jainan is released when Taam dies in an accident, only to be faced with another marriage to help salvage his treaty. Jainan understands how the real world works now; but Prince Kiem - the cheerful, scandal-prone darling of the Iskat celebrity magazines - keeps breaking all the rules he's learned.

it’s a story with great characterization and an amazing plot and when I read the first line, I said to myself, now that’s how to open a story. 

so yeah check it out :D

(read the warnings on the story as they’re quite relevant to the entire story)

[fozmeadows]

The Course of Honour by @avoliot: a summary Bel: Your husband is ridiculous. Stop him. Kiem: Are you talking to me or Jainan? Bel: Yes. (btw @w4rgoddess YOU NEED TO GET IN ON THIS)