#Jade city

[polartss]

The White Rat🐁

Wen from the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee :)

[literatureaesthetic]

jade city | playlist

[klexos]

The Twice Lucky from Fonda Lee's Jade City. Modeled in Blender and painted in Photoshop.

This painting is many many months in the making, glad to be finally put the final touches on it and send it out into the world. Please read the Green Bone Saga!!!

[fionacreates]

Kaul Shae, Jade City/Jade War era. Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee.

Day 3 of “I can’t get this series out my head so might as well draw my way through the obsession.”

I get a very 80svibe from the early series, Shae walking into a high powered “man’s” role would definitely power shoulderpad it up…

[aytmadashis]

Do you ever stop to think about the official Green Bone Saga pre-order campaign and Illumicrate art by merwild

[mythrender]

Map endpapers for the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee The Broken Binding special edition 306mm x 234mm, LB Royal format, 2024

The Green Bone Saga is one of my favourite series of all time, so getting to make the maps, endpaper illustrations, and edges for TBB's edition of the trilogy was a dream come true.

For the maps, I wanted to use paraphernalia as storytelling: conveying a sense of the plot and cultures through items that are significant to characters, such as Anden's training band and the Duchesse car keys, or media that might exist in the world, such as pamphlets, ferry tickets, and news broadcasts.

Art director Petrik Leo and I spent lots of time discussing the little details for each map—what to include, how much to reveal without spoiling the story for new readers—and we'd go to Fonda for feedback on any new inclusions (some of the locations are shifted, compared to the original maps by Tim Paul, and the world map has new places labeled).

Close-ups of some of the paraphernalia details:

The city map of Janloon is printed as a foldout, while the other two are endpaper spreads at the back of the books. You can find plenty of beautiful photos of the books on Instagram; I'm still waiting for my set to arrive, or I'd post pics too! If you aren't a TBB subscriber, the extras will go on general sale some months from now, so keep an eye out for that.

Prints available.

[phoebebuggers]

if the whole “romantacy” genre gets big and we stop getting darker more political fantasy like the poppy war, jade city, and etc i will be so upset

[shioriseryu]

— kaul shae

[merry-thieves]

the final version — thanks to everyone who helped :)

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[howlsmovinglibrary]

my current experience of reading Jade City for the first time is watching myself get attached to a Ned-Stark coded man, and wondering how badly this is going to end for me.

[polartss]

Maik Wen (u mean MY actual gf?????) i love u sm

[literatureaesthetic]

my most recent read — jade war by fonda lee

i've been really struggling with fantasy this past year (i blame wheel of time for putting me into a slump😵‍💫), but i finally feel my sff mood returning and picking up jade war was the perfect re-entry into the genre.

i surprisingly LOVED this book. the characters are absolute perfection, the slow and intricate politics worked so well for me, and this series is so propelling. there's never a dull moment. everyone always pitches this series as 'the godfather but asian and fantasy', and i absolutely agree. beyond excited to continue!!

[a-menaceinpink]

read the green bone saga this week and i’m just saying. if you want an in-depth political fantasy mafia thriller (yes all of those words apply) set in a post colonial nation that is navigating an unsure global political position and the potential exploitation of its culturally significant resource that simultaneously explores the bonds between family and how they can take different shapes in the wake of loss and love and life, with brilliantly developed, fleshed out characters and realistic pacing (both in world and in the actual delivery of the story). i HIGHLY recommend.

[fionacreates]

Day whatever of drawing through my obsession with Jade City/Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee

Kaul Lan, oldest idiot of the Kaul siblings.

[aytmadashis]

The full textless cover art for The Broken Binding limited editions of the Green Bone Saga. Illustrations by Randy Vargas. [x]