obsessed with the poppy war

teenager || books!!! || fantasy but also graphic novels || currently freaking out over heartstopper

[theblueribbon]

If I ever reblog a very old post, it's because I'm clearing out my drafts

[yesterdaysprint]

Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota, January 4, 1884

[thememedaddy]

[theblueribbon]

Rereading fairest right now... So much nostalgia

[nepenthean-sleep]

obsessed with the fact that there’s just inexplicably some dude named “kevin” in the new book in a series with characters named shit like “mercymorn” and “priamhark” and “awake remembrance of these valiant dead”

[adamarart]

Just wanted to show you all my latest personal illustration I did. This time I did Sarai from the Strange the Dreamer duology by @lainit. I really wanted to do this character for a long, I just like doing different skin colors, it’s really fun 💙. Well! Hope you like the final result.⠀⠀

[queensinchains]

@fantasysociety​ event 1 | favourite media | strange the dreamer

you’re a storyteller. dream up something wild and improbable. something beautiful and full of monsters. beautiful and full of monsters? all the best stories are.

[moon-rabbit666]

Recently I’ve read a book called “Strange the Dreamer” and immediately fall in love with it. The plot is sooo good and the idea feels so unique among other fantasy books that I couldn’t resist the desire to draw Lazlo Strange in his natural habitat👀👀

Don’t mind me, I’m just obsessed and probably will randomly draw more Strange the Dreamer arts

[rosiethorns88]

Next up on the papercraft backlog - this one! Inspired by StrangeTheDreamer by Laini Taylor , featured on the Illumicrate mug that was included in the recent DOSAB Collections Edition box! I really love how both of Laini’s series have drastic contrasts of themes between light and dark, good and evil, ally and foe - and those themes really directed concept for this. The chaotic field of moths dissolving out of Sarai’s dress balanced out the buttery-smooth golden beasts flowing from Lazlo’s book as the two are joined in the middle, meeting somewhere halfway between dreams and nightmares.

[theblueribbon]

The tiktok girls have discovered tori spring and I don't know how I feel about this

[crowley-anthony]

laura’s 11k celebration (top 40 characters as voted by my followers) ✵ 38 ➳ kaz brekker

↳ “I’m a businessman,“ he’d told her. “No more, no less.”

[2impostors]

my absolute favourite FAVOURITE thing about john/alecto is that they are both each other’s fucked up little science project that got Very out of hand.

they are both simultaneously victor and the creature to each other at all times. they love each other they ARE each other, they are divorced and married at the same time. they (literally) can’t live without each other and each will be the other’s end. they still love each other despite this.

[sigaloenta]

The way I personally stay true to the story I started down on is to give myself permission to not teach anyone anything. I’m not writing a manual. I’m not delivering bromides. I know that a lot of people do take enormous pleasure and relief in lines or phrases or ideas from stories that ring true to their own lives, but it’s important for me that I tell a story and that I’m not writing Chicken Soup for the Necromantic Soul. It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t ‘this is to succour all my marginalised people’. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think <is prevalent> nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut. I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used.

I am writing for my younger self and it would be disgusting of me to try to teach her anything.

Tamsyn Muir, Interview with Ciara Seccombe, 2/5/22

[slayer-barbie]

#two types of couples

[theblueribbon]

Amazon won't release wheel of time too close to rings of power!! Amazon won't release wheel of time too close to carnival row!! does it ever end!!

[may12324]

Gideon the Ninth is trending? Here, have a compilation of art I have done

[procrastinationaccount]

Either a) Cytherea brought multiple trashy romance novels with her on her little expedition to Canaan or b) Dulcinea was some kind of trashy romance aficianado. Imagine if she brought along "The Necromancer's Marriage Season" specifically to trash it with Palamedes.

[lady-harrowhark]

Dulcie rocking up to Canaan House with a trunk full of the worst romance novels she could find to share with Palamedes:

Palamedes debating the merits of Abella Trine’s various suitors with her: