#spinning silver

[queenofheartsdeservedbetter]

"How do you read so many books??" I am simply trying to avoid reality, what are you doing

[mikkeneko]

Having finished my yearly reread of Spinning Silver, once again I am reminded that Isaac is the luckiest motherfucker in this book.

He gets to work a commission with a REALLY INTERESTING material, his work gets bought BY THE DUKE and worn by the woman who later becomes THE TSARINA, he makes a ton of money off the commission, gets married to a gorgeous girl he loves, and the fucking king of the fey comes to bless his wedding

AND he didn't have to get dragged through the wringer like all the other main characters. King just put in a solid's week worth of work, got paid and went home.

[ekbelsher]

I am unreasonably excited about this sketch. I've been meaning to make a Yule card for three years and kept putting it off because it meant figuring out how to draw antlers. I think I understand how they work now. Happy December 🦌❄️

[i-prefer-to-mosey]

spinning silver is funny as fuck because the staryk king and miryem arranged their own arranged marriage. like they're both complaining and furious but they came up with that idea themselves

[galexibrain]

I love Miryem as a protagonist so so much but especially I love her anger. She's angry, and she's justified in it. She's angry about her parents being passive to a point of letting the family starve, she's angry about the people in town and the anti-semitism thrown against her at every turn.

But her anger never makes her irrational or HySTeRiCaL as so many might say. She's angry with her parents but still loves them and shows her love, she's angry at the people in town for trying to get out of paying their debts but never unfair to them in what she asks. Even though she doesn't care about them because they all treat her family and her people like shit she accepts what little they can give her and doesn't force anyone to starve themselves to repay her debt.

And she's so angry at the Staryk king for very good reason but even so, she never extends her anger at the other Staryk; she loves Flek and Tsop and Shofer, she loves Rebekah and when her anger at the Staryk king hurts the entire Staryk realm she goes and tries to make it right.

She's angry and she's proud and it's oh so easy to believe that even the Staryk king would fall for her.

She's easily making it to the top 10 of my favourite female protagonists. What a queen indeed.

[emeryanden]

I know I'm some years late to the party but wow. Tsar mirnatius guy of all time. Naomi novik really said, what if howl movingcastle but x10 times more pathetic and what if calcifer but evil

[goblins-and-gloves]

The average amount of Rumpelstilskin retellings in a given folk inspired novel is actually pretty low, Spinning Silver Georg that was written by my queen Naomi Novik and contains four retellings of the narrative is an outlayer and should not have been counted.

[svandendragon]

❄️The Staryk King ❄️ from the Spinning Silver story. He's the Winter Lord. Haughty, cold, often annoyed. But quite fairplay.

A new character board from the book, you can search my other wips and drawings posts about it with the tag #spinning silver⭐