#plot!

[askcollegehornets]

BROADCAST DISTURBANCE !

find the continuation of this story at @seth-totheark (which i cant mention?? idk man)

[dunnowhatimdoin]

Triangle: the finest shape.

Mostly just for reference, so when I draw him I don't change the marks every two seconds-

(So please, if I happen to get 'em wrong, let me know, I need to learn consistency)

Edit: how did that get posted twice?

[theanoninyourinbox]

pegasus dovewing & shadowsight!!!

Local 1/4 zony pegasus is

overwhelmed

She's hearing the voices of the possessed, begging for help or laughing wildly, and she hears the voices of the elements themselves, claiming that they can make her an alicorn. She just wants to cuddle her sister or hug her mom White Wing or get a kiss from her dad Birch Branch or go on a date with her boyfriend but she NEEDS to listen so that the town can formulate a defense but she jUST WANTS EVERYTHING TO BE

QUIET

and then her sister calls to the moon for help

and an Alicorn princess answers

followed by the Element wielders

and everything finally gets quiet

[nike-ravus]

Christine Chapel/T'Pring

It has been only a few months since Sybok escaped once more and built an ugly trap for Spock--you can only save one, love (Christine) or logic (T'Pring), but the trap goes wrong and both women are sucked into a mysterious time vortex.

When the efforts of the Enterprise Crew get them out again, both women are changed, but with no memory of their time in the vortex. Christine struggles with depression and a feeling of futility, and T'Pring is plagued by uncontrollable rage.

Will discovering what happened inside the time vortex heal their damaged minds? Or must they choose to take more drastic steps?

[questionable-bones-n-slime]

[ancients-and-youth]

(art by Mod Nether)

The Ender Dragon, Mother of End

The formerly kind reigning force of the End, the Ender Dragon wears her name with broken pride and regrets. What once was her beautiful thriving home is now mercilessly trashed by the foreign beings that arrive, and while they may not be villains, they are not heroes often. 

Once a wonderful queen, held dear by her subjects and kin, stress from defending her realm from destruction and forced reincarnation as simply the husk of herself has destroyed the hues of personality once there. Now, she is only a careless, angered “boss” to the foreign ones, mindlessly flailing to defend herself and her realm despite it being pointless now.

Rumor has that a strange, new ‘foreign one’ has wings almost exactly like hers, with fur as dark as the Endermen. But this is only a rumor, of course.

…and wouldn’t you like it to be confirmed.

- Description written by Mod Ocean

[badbookopinions]

Return of the Thief - Queen’s Thief #6, Megan Whalen Turner

It’s so good, you guys. No spoilers for major plot points below the cut, but I do mention stuff that was kept secret like the narrator and new characters, so be warned for spoilers.

The culmination of one of the greatest SFF series of the 21st century - I’m not even a little bit exaggerating - is finally here, as is the long-awaited war with the Mede Empire. Can Eugenides and his buddies come up with a plan to stop them?

Obviously. It’s Gen.

Turner is so NICE to us this book - especially in the first half, there are so many conversations and jokes that are meant just to have fun, with little to no plot significance. And I ate them up - I love these characters and this is the last time I’ll see them, so I was so thrilled to have enjoyable scenes of them as well. It never crosses the line into sacrificing the plot.

I had to go to bed in the middle of reading this and then woke up at two to stare at the ceiling for an hour trying to figure out how it was all going to work out and what the twist was, because it was so suspenseful and had me so excited I genuinely could not sleep.

Characters are just - perfect. Turner advances their character arcs while still keeping them true to the people we love. 

Speaking of people I love, the new narrator, Pheris, is fantastic. He’s so clever and kind and I want to squish his cheeks because he’s ~10-15 and adorable. 

Three groups of people who will be pleased by this book: math nerds, gay people, and people who go crazy about the concept of deification and stories. Pheris is an adorable math nerd and the scenes where he’s being tutored are fantastic. The diversity massively increases in this one, with casual queer representation all over the place (and of course a large portion of the characters are people of colour, and have been since the 90s when this was a very impressive and progressive thing). And the themes of deification and stories? They are intense and beautiful.

Plot: so good. I’m not going to risk saying anything else. Be assured that the twists are twisty and the tricks are tricky.

Characters: so so good. Every single time one of them showed up I started grinning like an idiot. At one point when Costis appeared I had to put the book down and go tell my sister, I was so excited. And Pheris jumped the list to one of my favourite characters so quickly. Everyone has a moment to shine, everyone's arcs went to interesting and natural conclusions, and our main six (now main seven!) characters are just - so good.

Setting: so many borders were filled in this book! This series has always been special for the Byzantine vibes that you can’t find anywhere else. It’s immaculately described and researched, and time periods and concepts are blended so beautifully. But we also got to learn about the Greater Powers of the Continent this book, as well as more about the cultures of the Peninsula, and it was all so interesting. 

Prose: it is funny! It is subtle! There is banter! Seriously, so much banter, and I was having so much fun. Smarter people than me will dissect the foreshadowing later, so I’m just going to say the gut-punch moments hit hard. 

Diversity rating: very very good. 

Bonus: look under the cast of characters to see Turner lowkey call Relius a ho.