#Tamora Pierce fanfiction

[isnt-it-pretty]

Fandom: Tortall, Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness

Rating: General

Catagory: Gen

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Thom of Trebond & Alanna of Pirates Swoop and Olau (of Trebond in the fic though)

Characters: Thom, Master Si-cham, The Black God

Additional Tags: Alternate universe canon divergence, temporary character death, Champion of the Black God Thom, Tusaine War

Summary:

Alanna dies; Thom isn't about to let that stand.

[lawsofchaos1]

Tamora Pierce was my absolute favorite writer as a kid (and honestly still is), and let me just tell you that it is an absolute crime that there aren't more fanfics with dramatic reveals of Copper Isles slave Aly Homewood really being Alianne of Pirate's Swoop, daughter of the King's Champion of Tortall.

Where are the fics with a Tortallan treaty delegation being served drinks by their Champion's daughter and having to swallow their tongues because they know she's missing?

Where are the fics with Numair doing some sort of magical exchange/teaching thing and being ready to drop a magical nuclear bomb on Rajmuat for enslaving his niece before Aly hug-slams him and explains? Where are the fics with a Tortallan lady marrying a Copper Isles nobleman and wondering why their childhood friend is swanning around court in a sarong?

It just ... it makes no sense and I need an assorted bakers dozen of Identity Reveal Shenanigans, please and thank you.

[esseastri]

Bookbinding Commissions!

Hello fronds!

I'm a little short of income (and job hunting is slowly killing me), so I'm opening up Bookbinding Commissions!

If you are interested in commissioning me for a custom-designed, hand-made, hand-lettered, hand-drawn book cover, hooray!! and thank you! You can do so by emailing me at casebycasecovers@gmail.com!

You can find examples of my work here! (This includes the somewhat famous This Is How You Lose the Time War red-and-blue cover.)

Commission options include:

Custom Cover: $100usd. Hand-crafted hardcover case for your favorite paperback book! Can also be applied to blank journals for an extra $25.

Comics Bind-Up: $200usd. Combine your single-issue comic books into one or more volumes with a hand-crafted hardcover case. Can also be applied to printed-out fanfiction, with the fanfic author's permission!

Full Series Matched Set: $150 +25usd per book. Matching hand-crafted hardcovers for your favorite paperback series!

All payments will be in US dollars and made through Paypal.

If you want to give your favorite book the fancy new dress it deserves, please email me! I want to work with you to make a beautiful object!!

[six-of-snakes]

Fandom Trumps Hate 2024: Tortall series offerings

Browsing for the @fandomtrumpshate 2024 auction is open now! Bidding runs from March 5th at 8 am EST to March 9th at 8 pm EST! View all offerings here.

This year there are 5 total offerings for Tamora Peirce's Tortall universe!

Fanfiction

Chash (@ponyregrets) is offering a 10-20k fic with a max rating of E. Her favorite characters to write about are Alanna and Kel.

six-of-snakes (@six-of-snakes) is offering a <5k fic with a max rating of M. He likes to write Ozorne/Numair, Alanna/Thayet, Roald vi/Neal and aroace!Kel.

cricket (@cricketnationrise) is offering a 5-10k fic with a max rating of E. She is especially interested in writing Protector of the Small era, aroace!Kel, AUs, and alternate POV.

kitsuneri88 (no tumblr) is offering a 5-10k fic with a max rating of M. kitsuneri88 prefers to write Neal/Yuki and Numair/Daine.

fan labor

aliteralgarbageheap (@aliteralgarbageheap) is offering a podfic up to 5k, length depending donation. They especially like Alanna/George, Alanna/George/Numair, Kel & Neal, Kel & Dom, Aly/Nawat, but are open to other pairings.

if i messed up or missed someones @ or other info, please let me know!

[petals2fish]

Petals’ Favs of March Round Up:

Favorite Art: Painting the House by @constancezin

Favorite Fic: In Search of Something More by @kay-elle-cee

Favorite Song: Opposite by Sabrina Carpenter

Favorite Book: The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Peirce (finally finished my re read of the series)

Favorite TV Show: Avatar the Last Airbender Season 2

[idreamtiflew]

Ya'll. My favorite fanfic ever seems to be gone. I read that Archive of Our Own was being cyber attacked or something, and that some works did not make it. Lisafer on AO3 and Fief Goldenlake wrote a phenomenal fic about a romance between Sir Myles of Olau and Wyldon Cavall whilst he is at the castle training to become a knight. It is called "Paragons of Knightley Virtue." It. Is. So. Good. And it's gooone!! I hope to someday find it again, because Great Mithros, it is so fire.

[invisible-mirror]

Me over the past week: working on an old David/Jonathan fanfiction I pulled out of WIP cold storage

Also me: read Tamora Pierce's "Alanna: The First Adventure" for the first time

Now running amok in my head: a fusion fic in which Alanna slays Goliath, "the gift" refers to the ability to banish evil spirits, Sir Roger is acting king-regent for some reason, and Prince Jonathan does literally everything exactly the same

[isnt-it-pretty]

Fandom: Tortall, Tamora Pierce, Song of the Lioness

Rating: Teen+

Catagory: Gen

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Categories: Gen, M/M, F/M

Relationships: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Thom of Trebond, Alexander of Tirragen & Alanna of Trebond, Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & George Cooper, Alexander of Tirragen & George Cooper, Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Baird of Queenscove

Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau, Thom of Trebond, Alexander of Tirragen, George Cooper (Tortall), Gary of Naxen, Baird of Queenscove, Jonathan of Conté, Additional Song of the Lioness Characters, Roger of Conté

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Blind Character (not actually she's just visually impaired but ao3 doesn't have a tag for that), visually impaired author, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Past Child Abuse, Child Neglect (Alanna and Thom have Feelings over their father), Emotional Manipulation (via Roger), general warning for Roger of Conté being Roger of Conté

Summary:

Legends say that to have purple eyes means one is touched by the gods. To Alanna and Thom, all it means is that their eyesight has never been as good as it should be.

Unfortunately, both are true.

(AU where the twins are visually impaired.)

Here it is! The first (and second) chapter of my NaNoWriMo piece; the fic that's been bouncing around in my head for years.

[elumish]

My true genuine wish for the very shortly upcoming new year (hello from Still 2024) is that everyone who thinks that fanfiction is better than all professional/published fiction reads more published fiction.

Not because I think fanfiction is bad, or even because I think that it's inherently worse than published fiction, but because there are amazing, innovative, clever things happening in published fiction that I have not seen in fanfiction (just as there are amazing, innovative, clever things in fanfiction that I don't see in published fiction), and you are genuinely missing out by only reading fanfiction.

Read N. K. Jemisin. Read Arkady Martine. Read Tamsyn Muir. Read Jane Austen. Read Brandon Sanderson. Read Nora Roberts. Read Tracy Deonn. Read Tamora Pierce. Read John Chu. Read Ursula K. Le Guin.

Find genres that you like, find authors that you like, and read published fiction. You will be better for it.

[bakanokiwami]

TOP 10 BOOKS ON FANFICTION.NET BASED ON NUMBER OF FANFICTION (1999-2022)

To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Books Section on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

Hitchhiker's Guide to [...] is short for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Romance of the 3 [...] is short for Romance of the 3 Kingdoms.

In 2000-2003, FFN used Miscellaneous Novels as a catch-all tag for all books that didn’t have their own category yet. It was then renamed to Misc. Books in 2004-2007 before it was removed by 2008.

In 1999, fanfiction weren’t divided into sections like Anime/Manga, TV, Books, etc. yet. It was just a small list of mixed fandoms.

Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles was actually in third place in the year 2000 with 126 fanfiction. However, it was the only year FFN had fanfiction for her works, that’s why it doesn’t turn up in the bar chart race.

In 2001, a new category called Harry Potter Author Fics was in 4th place with 888 fanfiction, but this category was removed by the following year.

FFN also hosted Vampire Hunter fanfiction in 2001-2002, but was later on removed because its author L. K. Hamilton didn't want fanfiction of her works.

The Tamora Pierce category was in the Books Section from 2001-2009 as a catch-all category for Pierce’s works before it was removed by 2009.

Similarly, the L.J. Smith category was in the Books Section from 2000-2007 as a catch-all category for Smith’s works before it was removed sometime in 2009.

I've decided to keep the author categories in the bar chart race since most if not all of their series did not get their own category until their author's category was removed.

Originally, the fanfiction list was sorted alphabetically too, but was changed to number of fics at around early 2013.

By November 2013, FFN started abbreviating numbers above 1,000 to K, so exact numbers aren't available for series with more than 1,000 fanfiction.

This bar chart was made with the assumption that the numbers listed in the Books section are correct. I can't seem to get the same numbers for some of these series when I go to the specific series' page and toggle ratings, other filters, and language to All though... I'm not sure where the discrepancy is coming from. (And it’s not the crossover fic numbers that need to be added to serie’s total fics from what I’ve observed.)

For example, HP currently has 844k fanfiction, but if you go to HP’s page and toggle ratings, other filters, and language to All, you’ll only get 800k fics. HP also has 51.3K crossover fanfiction, but adding those two still doesn’t equate to 844k...

Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

[jesterbells]

What if Kel was executed for treason in Lady Knight? What if it caused a rebellion? Because you can't tell me that what the world will hear in canon isn't that Wyldon ordered her to follow the refugees. Anything else would create resentment. For all Wyldon's pretty talk, surely he noticed that. And if they tried to hush it up? I don't see Raoul and Alanna letting that happen. And if you knew your king executed nobles for rescuing commoners from a fate worse than death, wouldn't you rebel?

No, no, no, no I can’t do it. Kel is my lady, my light, my love–and I can’t imagine a world where the people on that war front would ever have allowed her death. So let’s tell this story–she was found guilty of treason. She was sentenced to death, kneeling on that Tortallan river mud, enemy territory a stone’s throw behind her, hundreds of abandoned souls saved by her stubborn hands. 

Dutiful misery was stark in the grip Wyldon used to pull her to her feet and tie her hands behind her. (He would not leave that job to a lesser man.) Rage poured off Raoul, simmering, trapped. The King’s Own protested–when they shut themselves up it was not at their commander’s order but at Kel’s quelling shake of her head.

Wyldon could protect Owen, who was his squire and his responsibility. The King’s Own had technically, roughly, been following orders. The rescued civilians were ushered toward safety with faintly awed hands. Kel, Merric, and Neal were ushered forward, too, by awed hands, but it was with their own hands bound behind them and it was not toward safety.

But the awe was there– these knights had done the impossible. They had gone into enemy territory, after monsters made of death and metal, and saved their people. They had done the impossible– they had put protecting homeless peasants above obeying their lord. Wyldon tied each of their hands behind their backs and they did not apologize. Neal raised his chin like he was challenging Wyldon to demand it of him.

But the Giantkiller fortress was flooded with children and civilians who had been written off as collateral damage. After days of hard travel, the children were no longer unnaturally clean and coiffed; they would always be scared. They would always be brave. They would not allow Kel to be the price paid for their lives.

A pretty young woman who had once stabbed a Scanran slaver to death found out where they were keeping Kel and her knights. Children threw tantrums to distract while the ex-convicts picked the locks on their doors. Tobe got the horses and kept them quiet. When they got to the main gates again, Neal ready to put them all to sleep, the guards turned around the same way they had days before and let them through.

Up in the commander’s quarters, Wyldon slept restlessly. He had told Keladry of Mindelan once that he believed the best thing that could be said of his tenure as training master was that she had been in his care. He still believed that to be true, but he had his orders. When they woke him, he would be stranded somewhere between rage and relief.

Only a handful of Haven civilians came out into the woods with Kel that night. Neal tsked about Giantkiller’s healers and worked on them all while Merric went though their stolen saddlepacks and took inventory. Fanche pulled bread, cheese, and knives out of her bulging skirts and passed them around.

Kel sat, staring at the space they would have put a fire if they had thought it was safe to light one. Neal bullied some bread into her and Merric asked, “What do we do now, Kel?”

She considered saying, “Why are you asking me?” but Kel had always been very bad at lying to herself. She looked up at the trees. Fir. Spruce. “There’s a war on,” Kel said. “No matter what they say back there, we still have a sworn duty. Or at least I do.” Her school friends were looking up at her like she held their allegiances in her callused palm. The Haven people were careful shadows, tired, certain. Tobe looked at her like he was never letting her out of his sight again. “I’m going to keep fighting.”

They took down their first Scanran raiding party the next day, finding them almost on accident. The first Haven dogs and cats skipped and sauntered into their makeshift camp the next night, curling up by the fire and dropping rabbits for the humans to clean for them.

Haven civilians and convicts began wandering in, grinning tightly, bringing stories of Giantkiller all up in arms. After the first week, once she’d figured out they might be there for good, Kel had started looking for clerks.

When Dom and most of his squad of the King’s Own walked into their camp without a single piece of official Crown livery on, Kel seized Dom by one rough, plain sleeve and dragged him to the side.

“You can’t be here,” she hissed. “Neal and Merric are as damned as I am. The refugees have nowhere safer to go, and I’m not going to keep them from a fight if they want it. But you– Raoul needs you, Dom.”

“Raoul needs us to win this war,” said Dom. “And neither of us could think of any better hands for my squad to be in than yours. If we’re going to win this, we can’t keep our best commanders in the dark.” He grinned. “Even if they’re grumpy giantesses of fugitives.”

Keep reading

[idreamtiflew]

My Kel and Dom Fan Fic

Finally posted my steamy Kel Dom romance fic!! I'm proud of it, take a read! It gets spicyyyyy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

extremely minor pet peeve but it bugs me when, in fanfiction, characters say "gods damn it" or "oh gods" in a setting without culture-wide polytheism

like it absolutely makes sense in a story based on a D&D campaign or a Tamora Pierce novel or Viking history, like, one where polytheism is Definitely A Well-Known Thing In This Culture

but if you have Very Catholic Nuns and Very Catholic Priests and Very Anglican Vicars running around your canon setting, you're going to need to establish for me that this character is pagan and in what way before they start swearing by multiple unspecified gods for no fucking reason

[spinfins]

Author Ask Tag

Thank you @sunny374940! I have been enjoying your fanfiction immensely! (Go read their stuff! Right now!) Thanks for thinking of me.

Here’s my two bits:

What is the main lesson of your story?

For “Gift of Elgarnan” it would be as follows:

In a world like our own, or Thedas, where life can seem cruel or meaningless, we create meaning by choosing to be kind like Emmrich, or brave, like Rook. If you can do that, you win. It doesn’t matter what happens to you after that. Your life had meaning, and it was good.

What did you use as inspiration for your world building?

The world was already built! Dragon Age. But the Sherlock Holmes stories, and the Tamora Pierce books had a lot of influence on the way I write. I find a combination of humor, dark adventure, and hopefulness to be my best combination.

What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, or help them grow as a person?

Rook doesn’t know it but she’s looking for purpose. For the reason that she exists. And she’s found someone who embodies what she wants to see in the world. Now she must protect that person.

I would like people to realize that its okay for us to be kind to each other. It doesn’t make us weaker in a cold world. Quite the contrary, as Emmrich would say.

But also, if it just entertains you that is magnificent!

How many chapter is your story going to have?

Pfffffftt! *throws up hands* it was supposed to have five.

When did you start writing?

My first conscious attempt at writing a story was 8. It was for school about a vacation I took. I wanted everyone else to understand how cool it was, so I was very descriptive.

Do you have any words of encouragement for fellow writers of writeblr?

If you have a spark of inspiration, like a soundbite about what a character might say, just start there. You don’t need the beginning or the end, or any sort of framework. That will come. Get on that sled and go.

No pressure tags @sevenheven7011 , and @emofthechoir

[bluenotemagpie]

addendum to this post: i've been properly delving into the fic on ao3 for the first time, and there's so much good tortall fic out there, y'all. so much good tortall fic. maybe i oughta make a roundup post one of these days

i thought that making the cats powerpoint (tm) would free me from my anguish to focus on, idk, usual stuff again. instead it has apparently freed a part of my brain that needs Something to Be Unhinged About and which has therefore flung itself back into tamora pierce's novels. for the first time in years it has occurred to me that i could, theoretically, write emelan fanfiction if i wanted to. like. i could just do that. i might start making a powerpoint about why keladry of mindelan is best character of all time. it is sunny out and i am going to take my kindle to the park and reread terrier.