#jadesabre301

[loquaciousquark]

[cue an instant 1500 words from @jadesabre301, @servantofclio, and myself, including several calculations of travel distances, the average mile-per-day speed of horses vs. ships, and a discussion of error bars and the latitude bands for doldrums]

[romanitas]

BOOK ASK MEME 1 2 5 3 SIR

1 - What’s your favorite book? i do not know if i can pick just one. but SOME faves off the top of my head: the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon, the book thief by markus zusak, homage to catalonia by george orwell. the odyssey LMAO. i really loved mrs frisby and the rats of nimh as a kid. read the book first, hated the movie after.

2 - What’s your favorite book series? i love the diviners series by libbra bray, even if the last book felt a little weak in comparison to the first three. also really love the daevabad trilogy by shannon chakraborty. also love pjo, obviously, but would probably only consider the first series as a favorite.

5 - How many books have your read this year? just finished up number 29 yesterday! my goal for the year was 30 which means i am going to hit it AND surpass it and i am very proud of myself bc the last couple years my goal was 25.

3 - What’s a book/series you love to recommend to people? daevabad trilogy!!!!!! PLEASE. the singing hills cycle by nghi vo. the burning kingdoms trilogy by tasha suri. the adventures of amina al-sirafi (also by chakraborty) is only one book so far BUT IT'S GONNA BE A SERIES and i rec it constantly.

[theodysseyofhomer]

SCREAM. that's so true. they did do that to my man. could he die at any point? there's no sequel about him or anything so it's impossible to know

[agentmintea]

Tagged by the beautiful and talented @jadesabre301 💜

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Tagging: @mithrilwren @koboldkatalyst @booksbardsbway @daevranni @redvanillabee if you'd like! and anyone else who feels up to it :))

[perahn]

@bettydicebettydice said: BG3 fic #2 sounds INTERESTING!!! snippet pls

jadesabre301 said: GIVE ME THE GITH HEADCANONS

I regret that there are not, as yet, any actual sentences in this story, just a pile of headcanon and some plot notes that are sitting in a gmail draft because that way I can get at them almost wherever I happen to be.

I will say that a lot of the fic is about family. Daddy Halsin is, of course, in his element with those wagonfuls of orphaned children to love and care for, and all of them adore him. It is not nearly so effortless for Varash, who also has a great deal of ongoing culture shock to deal with on the Prime (and was told by one of the kids, in no uncertain terms, that she is too bony and skinny for cuddling).

It's Oliver, who always wanted a papa and a mama and a dog, who starts calling Varash ghullva'ye one day - much to her surprise, because he pulled the gith for 'chosen parent' right out of her mind. Then a few of the other kids pick it up, and eventually Varash has a smaller number of kids (mostly older) who attach harder to Ghullva'ye than to Daddy Halsin. And many of them are happy to learn gith so they can talk properly with her, and with the hatchling githyanki Lae'zhan (this needs finessing: the fist part is, of course, for Lae'zel, and the latter for Xan, which is what she calls the hatchling, But Lae'xan looks odd to me. zh- feels like a more appropriate githerai spelling, but it doesn't look right either and the connection gets lost. It sounds much better than it looks).

And it's about that time that Gale teleports in, having finally remastered plane shift, and takes Varash, Halsin and Lae'zhan off to Limbo, so that Varash can see her mother (who is shocked to have a githyanki grandson but comes around) and make a full report about the whole Absolute crisis and what the recovery of Prince Orpheus might mean for the githzerai.

I promise, she was going to make that report to Zaerith Menyar-Ag-Gith even before the epilogue!

As for headcanons... I don't want to get too deep into how I decided the egg-laying should work, because I'm not 100% happy with it yet. BUT I can give you some random bits, like:

Githzerai settlements are generally centred around the pools. This is a relic of illithid colonies and their brine pools, but gith eggs still require incubation in warm water at a constant temperature to hatch. Eggs are kept communally, but most parents will chose to raise their own, once hatched.

There is something like a creche system, but the only children raised entirely by creche are those whose parents reproduced solely as a duty to the species. There is no particular stigma attached to this, and often these children will be adopted by other parents anyway. The creche therefore serves more as socialisation and early education.

I was talking about the pools, whoops. So one corner of them is for the eggs, but the rest is available to any gith who wants to come and swim or soak. Githzerai gather there to talk and relax, tend the eggs, meditate, etc. It would be the first place you'd look for a gith who you knew wasn't engaged in any particular work at the time or at home.

[faejilly]

@jadesabre301 replied to your post “”:

HOW DO YOU...NOT CAPTURE THEM...I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS GAME...and now my children are confused

If you just, idk, wave your mouse over them without clicking on desktop, they become first befriended and then BELOVED.

I did go a little overboard on mobile this morning tho... I kept landing on crabs when I was trying to scroll and then nothing happened 🤣😅

​@soloragoldsun replied to your post “I should be writing But instead I'm going to play...”:

Literally me right now!!!

YAY! #WyldeFlowersAppreciationLife

[wizardysseus]

ranking all of robin mckinley’s books

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“these are just fine” / “frustratingly slow but certain parts are incredible, so it evens out” tier

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the blue sword

the hero and the crown

the outlaws of sherwood

a knot in the grain (varies by story)

dragonhaven

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“i like so much of this book but it’s missing something crucial” tier (the thing is lesbians)

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spindle’s end

deerskin

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“i love all of this book except for one thing” tier

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rose daughter

sunshine

the door in the hedge (the first two stories are ok but the last two would be perfect if “the hunting of the hind” were just a little more gay)

pegasus, oh my god, pegasus, and the thing is that it ends like that!!! why does it just end like that

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“to me you are perfect.” tier

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chalice

beauty

[mystery-moose]

Oh man it’s like those Italian knockoff movies where they just slap whatever branding they want on the poster because what are they gonna do, sue us? They have to find us first!

That… would track! What if they happened to know another guy with the last name Scorsese and they got him to legally change it for like a week so they could put that name on the poster as a producer and not get sued??

Okay everyone, canon now isn’t that Goncharov is a classic of 70’s cinema and the greatest mafia movie ever made, it’s a z-list Italian knockoff of a Scorsese movie that has “The Greatest Mafia Movie Ever Made” as its tagline and the film is covered in tits and dicks and bloody shootouts, just absolute x-rated exploitation garbage full of stereotypes and violence. Correct your metas at your leisure.