#lireal

[nimuetheseawitch]

Another reason why I love the Abhorsen Trilogy: all the young women are competent individuals who know they have limits and think they've reached them but then find the strength to push past them, while the only male POV character is a whiny privileged teenager who seriously fucks up before realizing his own strengths and valuing what he's good at (which, surprise, is not what anyone expected him to be good at).

[fullibooked]

Despite staring at these book covers every time I went into my high school library, it still took me to adulthood to read the Old Kingdom books by Garth Nix. As a kid I read and loved Nix's Keys to the Kingdom books, and had started reading Sabriel many moons ago, but never finished it. Until this year, when I was doing a lot of short trips by bus and needed an audiobook. I then simply Had to read the other two books in this trilogy. (And yeah I know there's more, I was just doing the og 3). Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. The first about the daughter of the one good-guy necromancer in the whole Old Kingdom, a soldier out of time and a cat (?). The second about the one child of the Clayr who cannot see the future, a prince and a Disreputable Dog. And the third about the whole lot of them struggling to keep the world from ending, one lightning strike at a time. I genuinely enjoyed these books, even if I was older than our young protagonists. The world-building is iconic, the stories deep, the adventures strong. These truly are for all ages. Classic fantasy, so of course I got my sword out, and added my own Kibeth, (though I would so prefer her incarnate version rather than the bell version).

[browncoatforever]

Got myself an early birthday gift

[the-water-room]

you know how

you finish a book and you're all excited to start the next one....Then you start the next book only to find out that some of the main characters die.. right off the bat... yea... I did .

I'm angry. and completely just....shit. I'm shit right now.

Also, my heart is just... broken. Why Garth? Why?!

[horrorqueencosplay]

Lirael was certainly an experience. Since she is from a book series, The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, it was tricky to put it all together. I went moreso with the book cover art of the older editions, with some modified details.

Everything except the boots and base bells were made by me. It took 23 hours spread over a few months. The overcoat was hand painted using stencils. The under bodysuit took 8 hours alone! I used shiny spandex to mimic chainmail.

This was my first time making an eva foam sword, so it may not be the best. I used a dremel to carve all of the charter marks in. The bells are fully functioning and each have the charter symbol on them in correct order of name/usage in the book. I added the keys as a reference to the second book when she worked in the library. The belt buckle and Disreputable Dog statue were made from model magic, sculpted by me.

I spent only $60 on this! Part of it came from using a leftover wig, fabric, and foam from previous projects

When will I wear this to a con or proper shoot? Who knows.

[justmaghookit]

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

[perksofbeingalittletwat]

Old Kingdom/Shadowhunters FANS

1. I need you in my life

2. I’m gonna write a Malec Abhorsen!Alec, Mogget!Magnus fic and I need help and love

3. help and love me and talk to me about Old Kingdom shit

[megandragonfruit]

I'm currently reading the Abhorsen Chronicles by Garth Nix I feel like not many people have read these and like mad concerned like are they good? Bad? If you've read these message me I wanna talk about them as I'm reading them.