#fantasy ya

[kindredwhimsy]

"Did you love me then?"

"I hated you then. For being the only warm, bright thing for miles."

The Wolf and the Woodsman – Ava Reid

[snowie130]

So I am on my 5th reread of The Darkest Powers, and I always felt (since my first reread) that - despite the fact that apparently Kelley Armstrong somehow didn't write the first book with chlerek endgame in mind - there is some chlerek foreshadowing in book one already... But this time I feel like it's not subtle, it's not foreshadowing, it's just straight up pure crush in front of my salad!

Maybe it's the rose tinted glasses of an obsessive shipper... But I swear I found so many tiny tiny things-

[fourteentrout]

I honestly think that the ACOTAR series and it's characters are more complicated than fans give it credit for. Like a lot of fantasy readers in the modern age of booktok and all that shit always seem to crave a morally gray character, but when a character is actually morally gray they sort of...don't acknowledge it?

Because pretty much every single character in that series except for the obvious villains (Amarantha, king of hybern) are morally gray. Including Tamlin.

He's a really interesting case because he has these abusive behaviors, this consistent like Giving Up where he just heeds to his anger and his powers, but his entire driving force is that he doesn't want to be like his cruel, murderous father. Like, his essential action as a character is in direct conflict with his base characteristics, like isn't that so interesting??? But he's always just chalked up to the abusive anger issues ex who doesn't deserve any more chances because he already gave so many up. Like...do people know that even if a character is a Bad Guy, like a real bad guy, not your charming, suave, comedic villain bad guy, but like a guy who's fucked up and broken and mean and sad, can still be a compelling, multi-dimensional character?

And Rhysand. He's a super interesting character because though his intentions all come from the same place of like striving for peace and unity and other virtuous shit like that, he's still willing to overwrite his OWN MORALS if it means working towards getting what he wants--remember when he left a head in Tamlin's garden? I had totally forgotten about that because he never really exhibited any behavior that matched that, but if we think about it it was pointing to this facet of his character where, at least a the start of the series, he was willing to do a lot of fucked up shit for the greater good.

Which is like the definition of a morally gray character. But when comparing the two, often he's just taken as The Better One who can do no wrong and like rose above his role in society and would Never Ever treat Feyre like an object...which...he kind of did? Obviously not to the same level as Tamlin, or in the same way, but like for a lot of the beginning of ACoMaF he was pretty much Also using her as a piece in his personal war effort that he like didn't really fully inform her about for like...kind of a while.

Idk I know I'm rambling, sorry this is so long, but like I could make an entire other post about how FEYRE is ALSO super morally gray and like a lot of the point of her character is that she's like kinda fucked up and does fucked up things and has a lot of healing to do and makes mistakes even when she's still in the active process of like getting better, like the whole essence of her is that she's Not perfect, not that people don't get that, just that it's interesting that people will uphold these characters, her and Rhysand and the whole inner circle, and praise them and love them unconditionally, but when it comes to characters like Tamlin, they are deemed undeserving of a second chance because the bad shit they did was a) done to the main character(s) and b) magnified much more than the protagonists misgivings. Idk it's super early, I'm just rambling, I'm sorry

[louisondevlog]

Currently drawing the new cg ^^

[heather--moors]

Beautiful books everywhere 🌿

[murasaki-cha]

I AM GOING TO READ "FOURTH WING" AND "IRON FLAME" EVEN IF IT'S NOT A FINISHED SERIES AND WILL PROBABLY LEAVE ME IN A HORRIBLE CLIFFHANGER NO ONE CAN STOP ME MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!

I'm also reading the Serpent & Dove trilogy since people have recommendedit to me because of my TFOTA obsession love!!

I need to go back to fantasy ya it is my roots, my home and where my soul lies free of life's burdens!

[secondlina]

Casual reminder to read my webcomic, Namesake. 

It’s 2xweek (at this time, normally 3xweek) and already 33 chapters in! It’s a fairy tale fantasy webcomic about Namesakes - people who can travel to other worlds thanks to a power that chooses it’s recipients by their name. There’s rules - Alices go to Wonderland, Wendies to Neverland, and so on, and so forth. Emma discovers she is a Namesake when she travels to Oz, which is a surprise to everyone since she is not a Dorothy. She eventually discovers she is a Skeleton Key, a namesake that can travel anywhere and forge vorpal, and is tied to the well-being of the universe. Along with her sister, a writer who can alter reality, and her friends, she goes on a quest to fight giant eldritch bugs and find the power of the muses who created the universe. 

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