#The Circle of Magic series

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Victor Vale- Vicious by VE Schwab

August Landry- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Daja Kisubo- The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

Neil Josten- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Briar Moss.

[spokenfromtheheartandsoul]

ngl boeing and boston showing up in the preview together for next week's episode had me laughing out loud because it just took me so off guard

like say what you will about the plot cohesion and character arcs etc. etc. and it's all fair! but also objectively i must admit that it is soooo funny to me that boeing was introduced to the show purely to be yeeted around from one couple to the next like he's Only Friends' gay version of a final boss level enemy that each pairing must battle against in order to win their happy relationship endgames

[franticvampirereads]

August was a really great reading month. I think I read more fantasy books this month alone than I’ve read in the last four years combined? It’s been so nice! Here’s what I read this month:

Street Magic 4⭐️ {review}

Off Key 4⭐️ {review}

Fresh Ink 4⭐️ {review}

Therapy Game Restart vol 3 4.5⭐️ {review}

Alpha Dragon’s Eagle 4⭐️ {review}

Kings Rising 5⭐️ {review}

Mr. Villain’s Day Off vol 1 4⭐️ {review}

Intoxicating 4⭐️ {review}

That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf 5⭐️ {review}

My favorite books this month were Kings Rising and That Time I Got Drunk, both were fantastic and I just want more of them 😭❤️.

[kanansdume]

I read a post recently discussing how great Tamora Pierce's Winding Circle Temple from her Circle of Magic series is both as a school and a home for the people who live there and oh boy did it give me Jedi vibes like nothing else. I'm going to straight-up admit I was more of a Tortall universe fan as a kid than an Emelan universe fan, but I recently went back and re-read all of the Circle of Magic books as an adult, so I still feel qualified to discuss this a little.

The post discusses how a religious Temple is actually such an interesting place to use as a location for the main characters' adoptive home, with the little routines and philosophies and general lifestyle woven into the worldbuilding. It's not just a school, although it very much is a place of learning, but it's a HOME. There are people who just come to the Temple to learn, of course, but a large amount of the people who are learning there also consider the Temple their home. And it's this community built of people who have CHOSEN to be there and/or have been cast out of other societies for things they cannot choose or change about themselves.

While Star Wars has not truly delved into what life is like in the Jedi temple (not in high mainstream canon at least), I've seen plenty of fans coming up with detailed headcanons about what life would be like in the Temple, what kind of holidays the Jedi might recognize or practice, what the classes would look like, what kind of food they'd eat and the routines and traditions surrounding their food. Because the Jedi Temple isn't just a boarding school, it isn't a university, it's a HOME and a community made up of people who have chosen to be here above anywhere else and those who were cast out of their own societies. The people who live there consider each other a family.

The adults at the Winding Circle temple aren't PERFECT, but they are genuinely good teachers who take care of the children they have adopted. They're responsible and loving simultaneously.

The Jedi all encourage their children to question things, to tease each other, to take responsibility for their own emotions and their own actions, but also simply to enjoy the moment as it happens rather than getting caught up in thoughts about the future or the past. They love each other and are perfectly capable of being playful, but they also ensure their children learn discipline and good mental health, as well.

Each main child character is raised relatively communally by the Temple, capable of being taught by just about anyone, but are also being housed with two specific Masters and then each taught their specific magical abilities by one teacher who has more of a specialty in their type of magic. We see a similar set-up among the Jedi who have the children brought up by Masters who are specifically assigned to taking care of their physical needs, but are eventually matched up to a Master who can help them hone their SPECIFIC skills, and all the while they are being raised pretty communally with access to every Jedi Knight, Master, and Padawan in the Order who might have something to teach them. The Winding Circle Temple takes a very adoptive/found family approach to their relationships, same as the Jedi do.

What's interesting is I don't know if I've ever seen as much discourse about Tamora Pierce setting her series at a religious Temple as I've seen aimed at the Jedi. I don't know that ANYBODY who's read Pierce's works in the Circle of Magic series would claim these characters not to be a family or that Winding Circle isn't their home or that it was repressive and abusive because they asked their members to take responsibility for their actions, especially when they have such large amounts of power at their disposal.

[acourtofquestions]

"You find Celaena Sardothien. Give her this. No one else. No one else. Tell her that you can open any door, if you have the key.

And tell her to remember her promise to me—to punish them all.

When she asks why, tell her I said that they would not let me bring the cloak she gave me, but I kept a piece of it.

To remember that promise she made.

To remember to repay her for a warm cloak in a cold dungeon."

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 3 Poll ZZ

(Nightshade, briar and moss)

[malkaleh]

What does ‘saati’ mean? I always assumed from your tag that it was a Jewish/Hebrew word that meant a close friend, but I googled it and it doesn’t turn up anything?

It’s actually from a Tamora Pierce series! In universe it means a true friend/friends who are family (sometimes it can mean closer than family/ chosen sister.

[cantheywinthehungergames]

Daja Kisubo from Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic series

Relevant Skills: affinity for and control over metals (including high heat tolerance), has living metal in her hand and is skilled at making things with it (eg a prosthetic leg), has a quarter staff and is unafraid to whack people with it, pretty sure she’s trained in hand to hand combat and how to take a fall, grew up in a seafaring trading family

Other info: calm demeanor, used to getting along with prickly people but watch out if she gets angry - she definitely has a temper. Orphaned and banished from her people after being the lone survivor of a shipwreck, regains her position after saving a large number of people from an enormous wildfire

Name: Daja Kisubo

Age: 14 (From what I read, that seems to be her age)

Restrictions: No magical abilities

[elvencantation]

when i started rereading the circle of magic books i did not consider how briars book would hit given the current state of things 😂

[ellynneversweet]

I’m on to Lirael now, alternately laughing (Lirael’s overwrought imagining of her beautiful death and funeral is just so plucked-directly-from-the-mind-of-a-teenage-girl, bless) and tearing up (her conversation with Filris), and the line that always makes me go flat out snotty:

‘You needed a friend,’ said the Dog. ‘I came.’

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace - The Camp Halfblood Chronicles by Rick Riordan

Whisper/Prince Julien Sandry - Prince and Assassin by Tavia Lark

Wylan van Eyck/Jesper Fahey - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Lark/Rosethorn - Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce

[tv-moments]

Beef

Season 1, “We Draw a Magic Circle”

Director: Jake Schreier

DoP: Larkin Seiple

[frascospecimen]

In bed crying real tears thinking about madoka magica

[franticvampirereads]

December has been one of my most successful reading months in a really long time! I think I finished 9 (?) book and I honestly don’t remember the last time that happened. 😊 So, here’s what I read in this month:

Circle of Magic books 1 & 2 5 ⭐️ {review}

Shelter In Garnet Run 5 ⭐️ {review}

A Short Holiday 4 ⭐️

A Reluctant Santa 4 ⭐️ {review}

Santa’s Favorite DNF @ 50%

Victor & Nora: A Gotham Love Story 3.25 ⭐️ {review}

Captive Prince 5⭐️ {review}

The Training of Erasmus 4⭐️

Let Your Hearts Be Light -currently reading and hoping to have done before midnight!

My favorite books this month were Shelter In Garnet Run, Captive Prince, and Let Your Hearts Be Light. I’m so happy with everything I read this month!

[readingcircletemple]

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