#graceling fire

[squidsyes]

I've been rereading the Graceling series

[babbletaels]

Re-reading Fire now, and while it's another "young woman is different and can't relate to other women and only has males surrounding her" (I'm glad she makes some friends with the women in her guard squad later) which made it difficult to get through in the beginning, I still love this book obviously (though I am not a fan of weeks of travel and I can't wait to start re-reading bitterblue so we don't have to travel so much). One thing that stood out to me that didn't stick with me that much when I read it in the past, is Fire's longing to have a child. Many times the text deliberately likens objects or animals to babies when Fire is holding them, not something that happened with Katsa who doesn't want to have kids of her own. Fire really wants to have kids and I know how this story ends and I feel sad for her. When Fire finds out Brigan has a daughter it's like they're meant to be together (which they are obviously) like everything is falling into place. Also this story is very interesting from a feminist point of view. We've all heard of women controlling mens minds with their beauty, the sexier a woman is the more empowered, if a woman is hot she is at the top of the food chain etc. Meanwhile here we have Fire with her magical abilities involuntarily making her the most attractive and beautiful woman in the world, and all it gives her is problems. She's assaulted and hated for what she is, she needs guards to protect her from being sexually harrassed or worse. Fire keeps thinking that her using her powers voluntarily makes her a bad person, even worse than a man who hurls rape threats at her, she thinks it's justified because she uses her powers to get information from him. In the beginning it was a little "woe is me, I'm beautiful and a prodigy at literally everything I do, everyone envies me, how horrible life is" but from a feminist lens this book discusses and dissects the idea that women who are beautiful have any control over what men do, can protect themselves against rapists, etc. Now we don't have women who are as beautiful as fire in the real world, but we've all heard those sexist statements before when men talk about beautiful women and a book actually discussing this in such a well crafted way idk it feels rare and I love the book for this. The most gripping part of the book for me of course is still Fire's struggle with longing for motherhood. Her decision in the end is logical but I feel like it could be misinterpreted if we look at it as a metaphor for real life, so I won't

[strawberryshortpace]

I just read Fire by Kristin Cashore and I absolutely loved it so I looked into the other books in the series and realized that my library app did me dirty and for some reason didn’t tell me there was a book before Fire

So I read Fire, fall in love with all the characters and the world it built, look more into the series, am told said characters really aren’t in the other 4 books beyond mentions, and now I’m sad

Only character I’m pretty sure is significant in any other books is the one I was praying for the death of every time he was even mentioned

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Fire from the Graceling series, who is an amputee with an unspecified trauma disorder

Requested by Anon

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cinematic parallels

hey did anyone notice fire and bitterblue both pine on roofs while doing crime?

[chuchunachu]

Here’s my recent finished commission!! 

Fire from Graceling! I’m really really proud of how she came out ; w ; 

Commission info here!

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inspired by @skatzaa’s lovely fic ❤️🧡💖

[babbletaels]

In the back of my Fire book there's a text saying "don't miss the third and last installment in the graceling series!" and the entire prologue for the "upcoming" book Bitterblue

Can't believe I bought this book more than 10 years ago