Rereading the Septimus Heap series after all these years and comparing it to the other Magic based book series that came out a few years earlier… how the hell did it NOT become widely popular?
You got:
A ‘lost’ princess
A magical boy of prophecy
The best friend trope of the two who is crushing hard on the princess and it’s a childhood friends-to-lovers slow burn
One-sided gay crush sub-plot with boy of prophecy
A supposed crazy lady who lives in the woods, but she’s actually pretty chill
As you read, you learn about the lives of each character you meet, lore about the locations visited, and grow attached to it all as time goes on. You actually can envision what’s happening with how detailed things can get.
The author is pro-LGBTQIA+/trans rights
There’s small illustrations at the start of each chapter and they’re so beautiful
The book cover artwork?? Hello?!
Guns.
Like… bruh, the first book came out in the early 2000s, and Tumblr has YET to find it?! Y’all were asking for recs when JKKK Rowling outed herself and NO ONE talked about this book series!
It’s time to talk about this book series! Read them!!!!! I promise they are infinitely better than the Harry Potter series.
If you could convince people to read the first book of the Septimus Heap series - without spoiling the book - by telling them about one thing in it, what would it be?
Other than the world building and lore dumps you get just about every other paragraph? I’d have to say that reading about the existential identity crisis of a millipede is probably up there in the top 3 funniest things I’ve read in a published novel.
Paladin Danse: I hate Ghouls. They’re the scum of the earth and must die.
Also Paladin Danse: I’ve only known Billy Peabody for two minutes and if anything happened to him or his parents, I’d kill everybody in the room and then myself.
I’m only on episode 3 of the fallout tv show, but so far none of the inconsistencies from the games that people have bitched about have made sense to be bitched about.
Spoilers obvi.
Why is Cooper/The Ghoul ‘impossible to kill’? Bro uses V.A.T.S. in combat to get his shots. Plus Lucy at this point in time uses a tranq gun and Maximus is a terrible shot. Cooper’s got 290+ years on them! He’s figured out the game!
The hand jets? Did y’all forget The Brotherhood of Steel ALSO invents shit? They don’t just hoard technology they believe is dangerous? Again. It’s been 290+ years since the bombs dropped. After trial and error, they most likely found a way to mod the T-60s to allow hand jets OR jet packs if wanted. Plus Knight Titus, the asshole he was was definitely the type of asshole to think he’s cool enough for hand jets.
Dogmeat being a girl? Get the fuck over yourselves. She’s a fucking dog. Also do you know why most trained stunt dogs are female? It’s because no one wants to look at dog dick in 4K if they’re hired! Plus something about female dogs being easier to train due to their temperaments.
‘But- but the Enclave was destroyed-‘ they were mostly destroyed! The remnants that survived what happened in Fallout 3 -get this- scattered. Some went to the Mojave which we found out in New Vegas which later found their way to the NCR which we jump to in the tv show, some were found in the Commonwealth thanks to DLC for Fallout 4. They weren’t where they were during the events of Fallout 3. Far from it! But because of Dr Wilzig, we got Dogmeat and she’s the goodest girl.
I get some people are newer to the fandom, but also a LOT complaints are coming from older fans who -not gonna lie- forget that Fallout as a series has some wacky shit going on. You have Mysterious eldritch human-like entities with godly weapons who can greatly damage and kill your enemies in one to two shots or bestow misfortune upon who they shoot or help you if you’re downed.
You’ve got a cult who worships atoms because they believe we’re all just different universes waiting to be renewed by a nuke going off. At the same time there’s a cult that worships the 4 horseman of the apocalypse and believe they called each of the 4 groups to bring each of the signs with them (war, famine, pestilence, death).
You get to meat a plethora of companions on the games from humans to animals, super mutants and ghouls to robots! Hell, in the first game you had a hyper intelligent deathclaw as a companion only because when the Enclave made them the group of deathclaws decided they didn’t want to kill humans and instead wanted to befriend and trade with them within the vault they were shoved into after the Enclave slaughtered basically the entire vault.
In Fallout New Vegas in the Big Mountain DLC you can fucking flirt with your own brain if you choose to do so (they will be appalled by your actions to do so).
Yes, the game is anti-war and about how governments are corrupt and War never changes, but there’s so much goofy ass shit in the games and lore that you need to allow yourself to have a bit of fun and use some game logic when dealing with the tv show or you’re just gonna be fucking bitter about everything you find inconsistent with the games. (Remember, they still have yet to tell us HOW exactly a ghoul is created and keep changing HOW they’re created. It’s never been consistent throughout the games)
Redraw time. I’m very happy with how the rot and decay on Narinder turned out vs the original sketch I made back in 2022. I also really like how Lambert turned out in this redraw.
I have a new headcanon where the reason Darkwood was so easy (and why you start out there) was because Lambert’s family actually worshipped Leshy before everything went to shit for sheep-kind, so Lambert knows the woods well.
