#book seven

[evelynhawth]

*Mordecai when he found out Stalwart punched Chaco*

Mordecai: YEAHHHH!

*Mordecai when he found out Odette made Donut her champion*

Mordecai: NOOOOOO!

[squibwashereat3am]

BOOK RELEASE DATE: 2027 - 2028

Hello! You can call my Squib for now, but I am happy to announce that the first book of my book series, BloodCross, has finally earned a release date. I will now be updating fanart and will release a more precise date for my first book

BloodCross, Volume 1, Murder Mansion

We All Seem Black or White Until We Cut Ourselves Open and Bleed Grey

[violinviolence]

Happy birthday to Idia aka the REAL hero of Book 7🥳💙🩵💙🩵 <plays the zero to hero song>

(Also I'm petty that Silver didn't come home, but I have Idia's knight get-up, that's technically a cosplay, but it works with the setting 🤧).

[shojostwistedwonderland]

[beautifuldreamertwisteduntome]

Hey people that read the ending of book seven, was there anything about the blot rock or Grim finding one? I’ve seen a lot of people live posting about the finale of book seven but no ones mentioned anything about it so I have to believe thus far that it’s just not in it, but I’m still curious if there’s any mention about it

[avionvadion]

Ummm Trey? Trey?

AHHHHHH THE BAKER MAN IS HERE TO BAKE AND HE IS SERVING!!!!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏

[ultraericthered]

Slept on the final season of TDP 2 (Mystery of Aaravos) after having watched it yesterday. The season's overall quality was thankfully closer to the previous one than Books 4 and 5, even though there were some serious, serious issues, particularly in the home stretch.

I watch the show mainly to be entertained and even engaged by what it offers, but what really struck me with this season is how I really do love the ideas behind what it's giving me even when I do not so much like the actual writing and execution at all. The whole outcome with Everkind was the perfect example: the idea of the old world having crumbled and burned utterly so that then rather than rebuild, you build something new and greater in its place? In the mid-2020s, that REALLY speaks to me in a way it might not have in the 2010s. It's a great direction for the narrative to take and, for now, close out on. Shame the journey to reaching that point didn't really do it justice.

Some other stray thoughts:

- Aside from ending up surprisingly less of a physical, magically powerful threat than he was hyped up to be for all this time, Aaravos could do no wrong for me from start to finish. He's always been the best creation to come out of this series and that's only been proven more true with each season of his saga. He is not only a fantastic and effective main antagonist, he's such a fascinating and layered character on top of that. In a way, he didn't even totally lose in the end - all of the archdragons save for Zym are now gone and the world is left in shambles and changed forever as a result, which could make his later work easier. Really hope we can see him again, even if in seven years.

- I love Claudia's character, but her story has just been one massive letdown after another ever since TDP Book 3. With that said, I think I slightly prefer where this saga left her off compared to the previous one. The infuriating butchery of Terry and breaking him up with her notwithstanding, her self-acceptance of who she is, what she wants to be and what she decides she needs to do with her life even if it doesn't hinge upon her bio family has at least left her with more sanity and clairity than the Azula copycat she'd been turning into. Plus, she's finally rid of her shitty father and we know for a fact that Aaravos loves her, which is why she's now his faithful disciple. Whatever she's getting up to out there, I am 100% rooting for her.

- In general, I think TDP 1 had a stronger conclusion despite the story having to get rushed in order to reach it, as it wasn't left on a note where so many threads were still loose and unresolved. But on the flip side, the hooks for a continuation being written in as an organic part of this saga is kind of preferrable to seeming to end it very conclusively only to throw at us a last minute stinger that turns out to be how the next saga opens up anyway. So it's like one lesson was learned here: let's not see a cut to years later until we get there.

- I am very confused by how the archdragons' deaths were handled. Two of them were straight up murdered in very agonizing ways, while the other three (one who was kind of already dead) sacrificed their lives. And as we skip the immediate aftermath of the latter, we are given ZERO time for grieving. Zym had to lose both of his parents all over again and it is followed up with NOTHING out of Zym except a humorous scene where he starts speaking words for the first time in Dante Basco's voice. This combined with the earlier death of an elf (Karim), which is comically brief and moved on from quickly after a small display of grief from his sister, suggests that non-human characters dying just don't get to hold the weight that even the death of fucking Viren was allowed. Suddenly, humans are not considered inferior by the narrative and it's Xadian lives that don't matter! Huh? Wasn't it the other way around before? So much mixed messaging!

- Lastly, I don't know how to feel about the sheer AUDACITY to wait until this seventh, potentially final Book to drop the confirmation that King Harrow's soul got switched with his bird's, at a point where said bird has flown the coop. It's like Aaron Ehasz was trying to leave us with a "Where. is. my mother?" moment, forgetting that doing so does not give any guarantee that there will ever be a follow-up.