Tortall Recall

A podcast about Tamora Pierce's Tortall universe. Currently reading Protector of the Small. Updates on first and third Saturdays. twitter: @tortallrecall | email: [email protected]

[lichensys]

Slowly figuring out how to draw and paint again…

[ladylingua]

is this not exactly what happened?

[nightmaskart]

Alanna The Lioness

[minuiko]

OWENNNNN you little scamp

(commissioned by Mira-Yu on dA!)

[tortallrecall]

Seeking Perspectives on Trickster’s Choice

We’re discussing race and colonialism in Trickster’s Choice, and we’d like to boost perspectives from PoC! If you have any resources on colonial narratives—or this specific colonial narrative—that you would like to share, please email us [email protected]!

We’re also interested in hearing the individual experiences of Tamora Pierce fans of color! No pressure, but you’re welcome to email us with your opinions and indicate whether you are open to having the text your email read on the show.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

it’s… Time. it’s happening. it has come for me. we’re… we’re doing this

[tortallrecall]

if you have an interest in Animorphs content outside of the podcast realm, this whole reread has been gold so far. it’s only at the first book, so it’s a great time to start following along!

[tortallrecall]

Episode 31: Animortall Recall, Part 2

Amy, Abby, and Grace still can’t tell you who they are, but boy, can they ever tell you more about Animorphs. Part 2 of this patron-supported bonus episode continues their discussion of the first f…

Trigger warning below cut.

Amy, Abby, and Grace still can’t tell you who they are, but boy, can they ever tell you more about Animorphs. Part 2 of this patron-supported bonus episode continues their discussion of the first four books of K.A. Applegate’s Animorphs series. Join them to talk about: Can’t a Book Restructure a Government? Tobias: Prince of Hawks, Hawk Forever! Shormship Cormorm! Cute Teen Crushes, Cute Teen Friends!

Abby and Grace guested on episode seventy-seven of Wheels Up in Forty.

Our Patreon is www.patreon.com/tortallrecall. Check it out for our new stickers! Our Patrons for this episode are: Jo, Abigail D, Vague Dark Entity, Ethan, Lemons, Math, Emmie, Isabel, Katherine, Abigail L., Courtney, Sophie, Michaila, Emilie, Rebekah, Gretal, Starbit and Negev.

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Content discussed in this episode includes: Discussion of children in life-threatening situations. Discussion of ableism and and ableist language. Discussion of war and warfare, violence and death.

[tortallrecall]

Episode 30: Animortall Recall, Part 1

(Trigger warnings below description.) Amy, Abby, Grace, and Gus can’t tell you who they are, but they can tell you that this Patron-supported bonus episode is about the first four Animorphs b…

(Trigger warnings below cut.)

Amy, Abby, Grace, and Gus can’t tell you who they are, but they can tell you that this Patron-supported bonus episode is about the first four Animorphs books by K. A. Applegate. Join them to discuss: All-New, All-Different Segment Names! A Very Rude Boy! Censored Cuss Words! The Emotional Toll of Being a Hawk!

Our Patreon is www.patreon.com/tortallrecall. Our Patrons for this episode are: Jo, Abigail D, Vague Dark Entity, Ethan, Lemons, Math, Emmie, Isabel, Katherine, Abigail L., Courtney, Sophie, Michaila, Emilie, Rebekah, Gretal, and Starbit.

Our music is Greensleeves by Zetta. Additional sounds used in this episode include Charm.

Content discussed in this episode includes: Body horror. Discussion of children in life-threatening situations. Allusions to death and suicidal ideation. Mild derogatory terms for women. Discussion of war and warfare. Allusion to disordered eating.

[minuiko]

Shinkokami x Roald

[minuiko]

I suddenly started thinking about Neal and Alanna’s height difference and how hilarious their squire/knight-master years must’ve been

[robinrosenblad]

studying action poses with Kel, of course 

[falliblefabrial]

Made a patch! Keladry of mindelan’s distaff bordered shield.

Would be open to making more if people are interested!

[turnpikeghosts]

protector of the small characters as john mulaney quotes

kel: I’ll keep all my emotions right here, and then one day, I’ll die.

neal: If it’s a true or false question, you should be able to add a third option, which is “who’s to say?”

duke baird: Psh. You’re not gonna faint.

alanna: First of all, no.

raoul: In terms of instant relief, cancelling plans is like heroin.

lalasa: Everybody get out of my way. I just want to sit here and feed my birds.

tobe: I have had a very long day. I am very small and I have no money. So you can imagine the kind of stress I am under.

cleon: All right! I am Too Blessed to be Stressed, let’s do it.

wyldon: Sometimes babies will point at me, and I don’t care for that shit at all.

peachblossom: You know how I’m filled with rage?

owen: You’re never too young to learn our national no snitching policy.

[minuiko]

You’re my best friend.

[arofili]

Aro Kel Masterpost

After Tamora Pierce revealed that Kel is aro, I was elated. To finally have representation of any kind, especially from an author and a character I really love, felt so good. Now, it’s not really good representation - I would have preferred to have it explicit and there from the beginning, but this is still incredible for me. So, naturally, this new information spurred me to reread the Protector of the Small series with Kel’s aromanticism in mind, and I unearthed a whole lot of interesting things.

A lot of this was fairly obvious, but much of it was subtext, and there’s still a lot of parts of Kel’s love life that required a bit of effort to see as part of her arospec experience, but I would say that she reads as pretty darn aromantic to me now. In this post, I’ve compiled a bunch of quotes/scenes (mostly paraphrased, sorry) and thoughts about Kel’s aromanticism and how it was portrayed in the books.

This post has been more than a year in the making, mostly because I’m lazy as fuck, but I finally managed to finish it up for @aggressivelyarospec​ week 2018! Also, the wonderful podcast @tortallrecall is coming up on Kel’s arc soon, and I hope they’ll discuss Kel’s aromanticism, so I wanted to provide an aro person’s opinion on Kel being aro for them to have as a resource if they want to use it :)

Overall: I don’t think Tamora Pierce wrote the series meaning for Kel to be aro, because I doubt she would have included the “romance” with Neal, Cleon, or Dom, though that is still justifiable with her being aro [see my explanations below], but I think that she did write it with her being less interested in romance than her peers and Pierce’s other heroines and I think she very intentionally gave Kel a happy ending without romance. And so looking back, the aro label fits. She is definitely arospec, and I am delighted to read about an aromantic character.

Keep reading

[minuiko]

The next morning he sent Owen with her to write down her choices. When they reached the storehouse, Kel stopped to look at her unusually quiet friend. Owen wouldn’t meet her eyes. She put her hand under his chin, startled to feel the scrape of newly shaved whiskers, and made him look at her. “You didn’t know,” she said.

Owen grimaced. Words tumbled from his mouth: “Kel, I swear I didn’t! He told me this morning. He - he apologized, for keeping something important from me, he said, specially when I have to learn about making camps like this, but he said you’d see it on my face, and he wanted to talk to you first. Kel, if I knew, I’d’ve argued him out of it. Well, I’d’ve tried to,” he amended as Kel took her hand away from his chin. “He’s hard to argue with. But I would’ve tried! I’m so sorry!”

- Lady Knight

[tortallrecall]

Episode 29: Lady Knight, Part 2

Abby, Amy, Grace, and Shelby wrap up our coverage of Protector of the Small. In this episode: What Even Is Adoption, Really? The Dumbledore Question! Extremely Heroic Cats and Other Non-Cat Animals!

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