#side books

[descendantofthesparrow]

From Uma's wicked book (for villain kids); the lost revenge chore sheet

for refence for anybody who was wondering what the crew did (there's probably alot more for the crew to do but here's the canon stuff) 

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

so, the side books are of.... uh..... dubious quality, but there are actually some good (or at least potentially good) characters to scoop out of it and enjoy. the annoying part of this is people having to buy and/or read the books in order to know what their deal is, which is both inconvenient and uhhhh not to everyone’s taste. especially since content in the books can in fact be genuinely, deeply upsetting in ways the author did not intend. and it can be difficult to convey information about their character to people solely through making content of them.

so! i’m considering making compilation posts for different books characters and/or lore, with screencaps/excerpts from the books as well as summaries, to get across What Their Deal Is in (questionable) canon. (as well as maybe either interjecting or adding on some fanon of my own in reblogs.) this would allow people to get familiar with them without having to either subject themselves to the books, or get the info in bits and pieces and all secondhand.

i’m going to start with the characters and threads/bits of lore i’m most interested in myself first, but i might take requests for other stuff later. in the meantime, who’s interested in summaries of which characters/concepts first?

• tellad-urr (trollhunter from before the journey to north america; was worn down physically and mentally by his job and mistreatment by other trolls, finally went mad and allied with the gumm-gumms in an effort to end his slavery to merlin. source material: age of the amulet.)

• skarlagk (gumm-gumm queen of a population living in the darklands who are not allied with gunmar, who has been waiting a long time to take revenge on him for murdering her father. she helps jim survive in the darklands and get to gunmar. source material: welcome to the darklands.)

• rob (half-changeling, half-helheeti, who was born and lives in the darklands; is actually the ‘WHOOOO ARRRE YOOOOUUUU’ guy from the episode with the fetch in strickler’s office. is an obnoxious weirdo who you will probably either find endearing or annoying. source material: welcome to the darklands.)

• kodanth (changeling who was sent to the darklands when deya sealed the bridge, and has been gunmar’s advisor alongside dictatious ever since; ended up being one-upped by dictatious and fed to gunmar’s army of monsters. source material: welcome to the darklands.)

• the dishonorable bodus (mentioned once or twice in the main series, author of the dangerous, future-predicting book of ga-huel; faked his death centuries ago and has been on the run from the janus order with his book ever since. is in fact an asshole and neutral evil as hell. source material: the book of ga-huel.)

• eloise stemhower (polymorph who disguises herself as a cute librarian; is actually an albino changeling with a prosthetic metal arm, and bodus’ double-agent bodyguard. is not afraid to go for some mix-and-match shapeshifting body horror. source material: the book of ga-huel.)

• ballustra (draal’s mother and kanjigar’s bond, who has outlived them both, is a badass, and is in search of her son’s body to avenge his murder and give him a proper burial. source material: way of the wizard.)

• angor rot’s love of and affinity for animals (source material: multiple.)

• angor rot’s trauma history and manifestations of PTSD, and some of the motivations stemming from it (not for the faint of heart because spoiler alert it’s treated fucking shittily lmao) (source material: primarily angor reborn, might be some scraps in other books idr)

i am probably missing some things off the top of my head, especially since i never finished, and bear in mind that a lot of the timeline of events is uhhhhh almost certainly not actually canon, and it may take me a while to make each summary post, but! i figure it’s an undertaking worth doing if anyone is interested. let me know what you think!

[descendantofthesparrow]

so i just got the D1 and D2 Mal spell book and the D2 one with Uma's pages/little excerpts are just giving me life

she called Harry and Gil “her boys” I THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST A FANDOM THING OMFG MY HEART

oh i also got the D3 novelization and i’ve read like three pages and oh my fucking god i feel like its completely written in Mals perspective (which like, the first page is since its like her narrative like in the first and last movie where she's talking n stuff)  because its KISSING her ass SO damn much 

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

"Its time to start something new and trust the magic of a beginning" the voice sounds through the darkness. Tellad-Urr looks down at his claw glowing red in the murky fog. He died and yet here he is, free of pain at last. "I give you a new life to build, may you have a choice once again" Tellad takes a deep breath. He wants to believe. Light shines in the fog, he takes a step forward. A new lease at life is a temptation he will not resist. (Hi, I think your blog is great <3 ~Adam)

B L E S S, LET THIS MAN GO FREE

thank you so much for the sweet message and the good good tellad-urr content, friend, i’ve actually been having a pretty bad day and this helped a lot ;~; 

listen, though. resurrection, reincarnation, literally any loophole imaginable, if it means he gets away from merlin’s control and can build a happy life for himself i will smash that like reblog subscribe and fund button so hard

e s p e c i a l l y if he gets a support system/found family in the process. imagine this man getting to slowly learn to trust over time that the people he loves genuinely care about him and aren’t going to throw him away like trash. imagine him getting real actual love and affection and attention, when he was so starved for it that he immediately perked up and got super excited and hopeful when (he thought lol) that someone said it was good to see him. just. god. let him be happy okay

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

@tervaneula said: Oh that sounds awesome!! The books seem heavy in a way that I wouldn't be able to read them so if you really have the time and stamina to do this, I bet lots of people would be grateful. I'm especially interested in hearing more about Skarlagk and Ballustra 👀

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absolutely!! and it's not all that much bother at all tbh, these books aren't too long and even the characters with the most screentime aren't too hard to collect. the posts are definitely going to be image-heavy though (unless i just make text transcripts instead of doing them alongside pictures of the book pages), so i might or might not split the longer ones up into multiple posts. i'll also try to edit in references/cameos of a character from other books as they pop up, like happens with skarlagk in age of the amulet for example.

i've already got tellad-urr's screencaps and am working on transcripts and character-relevant summaries to go in-between, i'm hoping to have it up before too long.

[kstarlitchaotics]

I really wanted Tolkien's books to be free on Spotify

Because I know once I hit Silmarillion I'm gonna need to have it spoken to me

[signourneybooks]

Discworld Side Books | Turtle Recall Guide

Not only does Discworld have many, many books as the main story, there are also countless side books that go along with the books. Now I haven’t quite read many of those yet but I do know which exist so here I am, giving you a guide to see what you would find interesting.

I will be doing a different post on Discworld Companion books because there are 24 on that list alone.

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