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If you think The Priory of the Orange Tree was gay then just wait til you read A Day of Fallen Night!

Just sayin'

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A thing I really, really love about The Roots of Chaos series is how Shannon just completely refuses to incorporate internalized homophobia into it, even though, logically, it would make perfect sense to do so.

Shannon made a world dependent on bloodlines, but instead of making heterosexuality a norm, she gracefully avoided it. In any instance when she introduces an LGBT character, she provides a simple, yet very effective explanation as to why this doesn't propose a problem to their heritage at all.

Sabran marries and gets pregnant, but ultimately ends up with Ead and their relationship works out.

Wulfert's parents are two Lords that had children through former marriages, so they have a secured heir.

And probably the most interesting take is the Priory itself, especially with Tunuva and Esbar who are both in love with each other, but have decided to have children with men in order to serve their community. Their relationship is never hindered by their need to lay with a man. There is neither jealousy nor misunderstanding.

Shannon basically doesn't offer a single opening for the reader to question why homosexuality is so normalized in her world because, in the end, it doesn't really matter. LGBT characters are a crucial part of this story and Shannon eradicates any potential opportunity to undermine their existence.

It's refreshing. It's enjoyable. And, most of all, it's satisfying.

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tragedykery

so I was browsing through the character list in priory and–

[ID: text from “persons of the tale” in the priory of the orange tree, reading, “Wulf Glenn: Friend and bodyguard of Glorian III of Inys. One of the most famous knights in Inysh history, an ideal of courage and gallantry. He is an ancestor of Lady Arbella Glenn.” /end ID]

#WULFIE #MY SON #adofn #a day of fallen night #the priory of the orange tree #tpotot #the roots of chaos

tragedykery

me for the entirety of adofn:

[ID: a meme of josh from drake and josh, saying, with an expression of realisation and resentment, “kalyba”. /end ID]

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a-devout-shannonite

Samantha Shannon writing ADOFN:

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shallanspren

i love you tané. i love you nayimathun. i love you eadaz. i love you sabran (IX). i love you loth. i love you glorian. i love you dumai. i love you wulf. i love you tunuva. niclays.

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randombookposts

Reading the Priory first and then reading a Day of Fallen Night adds a lot of context for some characters. Like when we’re introduced to Glorian Shieldheart, she’s been a legend for centuries, a force of nature, a warrior who carried her baby on her hip as she led her people to victory. However when she appears in a Day of Fallen Night, it’s like she’s a child, she’s loves sweets and playing in the snow with her friends, she loves horseback riding, she loves her papa, she’s scared of her mom, she just wants her mom to be proud, she wants to be a good queen, there’s so much burden on her, she’s a child who just lost her parents and now needs to bear a child herself. She’s a child and she now must lead to country to war. She’s just a child.

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fallenight

samantha shannon writing the roots of chaos:

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maines

She was lost and found and wandering, all at once. At the cusp of dreaming, yet somehow never more awake.

THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE, by @sshannonauthor » @pscentral event 11: 2023 releases → A Day Of Fallen Night

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rebiesque

Tuva and Esbar 🧡🍊

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shallanspren

i actually really love how samantha shannon is handling trans/nonbinary characters in her roots of chaos world. they blend seamlessly into her world building, so much so that i don't always notice there's something different. non binary noble? they sure as fuck don't want to be called lord or lady! they are styled 'lade'.

someone uses they/them pronouns? cool! we're not going to waste time going through an explaining that. it's just instant, all our characters refer to the person's preferred pronouns without any second thought.

she really keeps saying, yeah? this story has dragons and witches and wyverns. and it's gonna be queernorm too. don't like it? well fuck off.

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