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01/11/2018 ~ It’s a Sheep
Back with one of my favourite scenes from the Discworld series. Ink and digital colours.
Nightmare fuel, tearjerker, and hilarious all in one scene, Vimes and the dark, in the dark.
My miniature Terry Pratchett Discworld novel library!
Made from an Altoids tin, Popsicle sticks, cardstock, copy paper, and a whole lot of patience. All of the miniature books open and have real printed pages you can leaf through. And the insidevof the lid has a sort-of-3D scene of the UU Library.
Contains the novels from The Color of Magic, all the way through Raising Steam
Hand Leather Bound Books from annabuchwunder
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All time favourites - The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
Nysander, Alec and Seregil by Jan Patrik Krasny
Updated Shelfie!
Book clasps whooooooo
From top to bottom: xGT509 V4 1664 Springer 332.6 H77s Ranny fB C726S xfPA6519 A3 1480 xN7433.4 C655 U55 1995 xBX2079 G4 1610
All from the University of Iowa Special Collections.
-Lindsay M.
I’m taking this time to say that everyone should and needs to read the Nightrunner Series and the Tamir Triad by Lynn Flewelling. NOW GET TO IT.
Let me elaborate. Lynn Flewelling is a wonderful fantasy author who is very good at writing what would otherwise be a very typical fantasy story in a very not typical way. Her books are definitely in the high fantasy realm with your basic elements such as a race that can be likened to elves and a school of wizards. It takes place in a world where there is a considerable amount of war and much political intrigue. Her books have thievery, rogues, backstabbing, dastardly plots, evil magic, war, and so forth. Her characters are all richly developed with deep back stories that shape their lives and actions. The country in which most of the action takes place is ruled by a long line of Queens. Lynn is not afraid to put her characters through tremendous acts of violence, torture, emotional and physical trauma, and abuse. The stories can be quite dark at times. She deliberately and respectfully examines the role of gender and sexuality.
In the Nightrunner Series, Lynn Flewelling features main characters who are bisexual, in a world where their sexuality is accepted as it is and they can learn about themselves while putting most of the story’s focus on the overriding plots of intrigue and danger. In the Tamir Triad, the main character is a female trapped inside the body of a male, and she must come to understand herself both personally and in regard to the political situations around her.
The Nightrunner Series contains six books. The books are sometimes very heavily connected via the plot, and other times only lightly. They are wonderful books of political intrigue, stealth, and treachery. Lots of adventure in these books, but also very much a good deal of heart. The characters, over the course of the series, undergo terrible situations of torture, abuse, kidnapping, and severe emotional damage. Lynn Flewelling really isn’t shy about making her characters suffer tremendous amounts. That said, the characters are very enjoyable to follow. They are fun and energetic, each so very individual, which makes it all the more frightening when they experience such difficult times. These books had some very creepy moments, very traumatic moments, and also very humorous moments. The times of self discovery and examinations of sexuality are dealt with honesty and as necessary, never too much or too little. The story allows for personal growth and self discovery while still letting the plots of wizards and magic and the dangers of ultimate destruction take up the bulk of the novel.
The Tamir Triad, as a triad tends to go, contains three books. The characters are wonderful and before the first 35 pages were up, I’d already been a little creeped out and disturbed by the events. It is a story of secrets, ghosts, war, gender identity, and usurping the crown. It’s really a wonderful series that I could not stop reading. A prophecy has stated that the country of Skala will always be safe as long as a Queen sits on the throne. One queen goes a bit mad and begins killing everyone for no reason. The daughter who should get the crown is only three years old when the queen dies, so her grown son steps up to take the throne. Years later after the daughter is grown and pregnant, with what should be the next legitimate female heir, girls who might have a claim to the thrown are conveniently disappearing and dying. In an effort to save the female heir from the same fate, she is given the disguise of a boy’s body via magic. Concealed as a boy, she must now grow and slowly learn of who she really is and of the throne that she must try to take when the time is right. It is a very politically and gender identity driven book that’s really quite disturbing and such a great read.
Ultimately, you should read all of these books. Which one should you read first? It really doesn’t matter probably. They take place in the same world, about 500 or 600 years apart, with the Tamir Triad taking place earlier in history. The Nightrunner Series came out first, so that when reading the Tamir Triad second, you get an expanded view of the history of Skala as only hinted at in the Nightrunner Series. However, as the Nightrunner Series continued after the completion of the Tamir Triad, it is also easy to see how the Triad influenced the latter books of Nightrunner.
Take your pick, you should be very well informed about the world either way. Just read them, immediately.
The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.
FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.
BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.
It is the civic duty of everyone to read banned books.
ex-librīs [Latin, “from the books of…”], is usually a small print or decorative label pasted into a book, often on the inside front cover, to indicate its owner.
01. HP. Lovecraft 02. Charles Dickens 03. Jack London 04. Lewis Carroll 05. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 06 Rudyard Kipling
Staff needs to listen
Anyways I’ve been getting over 380,000 notes a month easily and now I’m getting supposedly less than 1,000 a day. The ‘best stuff first’ feature has downgraded this site a tremendous amount, not only is the feature destructive to smaller blogs, they also somehow fucked up the activity page, and is no longer accurate or useful.
Staff on tumblr rarely responds to unanimous disapproval unless shoved in their face, so I’m asking you guys to spread this post, and others like it around as much as possible as to get the message into their thick heads - that this greatly devolves the tumblr experience.
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If you like to play The Last of Us, then try Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
If you like to play Beyond: Two Souls, then try The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
If you like to play Call of Duty: Black Ops (Zombies), then try World War Z by Max Brooks
If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator
If you like playing Mario Kart, then try The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia
If you like playing Dark Souls, then try Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
If you like playing Life Is Strange, then try We Are Okay by Nina Lacour
If you like playing Stardew Valley, then try How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
If you like playing Fable, then try Young Elites by Marie Lu
If you like playing Borderlands, then try Velocity by Chris Wooding
If you like playing Dishonored, then try Airman by Eoin Colfer
If you like playing The Oregon Trail, then try Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
If you like playing the Elder Scrolls series, then try The Naming by Alison Croggon
If you like playing Red Dead Redemption, then try Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman
If you like playing Bioshock, then try Dark Life by Kat Falls
If you like playing Fallout, then try Razorland by Ann Aguirre
If you like playing Assasin’s Creed, then try The Way of Shadows Night by Brent Weeks
If you like playing Dragonage, then try Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
If you like playing The Legend of Zelda, then try Graceling by Kristin Cashore
If you like playing Until Dawn, then try Ten by Gretchen McNeil
If you like playing Sonic, then try Maximum Ride by James Patterson
If you like playing Overwatch, then try Bluescreen by Dan Wells
If you like playing Uncharted, then try Passenger by Alexandra Bracken
If you like playing Pokemon, then try Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by JK Rowling, and Newt Scamander
If you like playing Mario Party, then try Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
This is amazing!!
I have to reblog for two reasons:
1)This is actually a good way to get people into reading.
2)That passive aggressive joke in the last one is pure genius.
I want a huge library. Children or adult literature doesn’t matter. I just simply love and enjoy books
project a-ko subtitled vhs tapes. two through blue side are sealed, which i was very excited to find.
Used Comics Haul! 01/31/2017 :D
Sin City Vol. 04 That Yellow Bastard By: Frank Miller Tomie 富江 By: Junji Ito 伊藤 潤二 The Walking Dead Compendium Vol. 02 By: Robert Kirkman Fables: The Deluxe Edition Vol. 03 By: Bill Willingham Saga Deluxe Edition Vol. 01 By: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
I have donated a lot of my bookshelf to make room for these, looking forward to cracking these open! :D
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