#a ballad of thorns and roses

[positivelyruined]

*wanders out of the wardrobe*…oh hi there. What year is it? I may have forgotten that the majority of the audience hasn’t read all twenty chapters of this — oops. Welcome back to Prythian. An all new chapter of A Ballad of Thorns and Roses has been posted.

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As always, big thank you to all of my betas, who sometimes read four or forty different versions of these scenes before convincing me that it is good enough to move on. Bless them for joining a discord, dealing with my endless spam of questions, and continued fascination with this character and his haunting narrative. Betas: @farintonorth & @honoroverpleasure 👏👏👏

Shoutout to everyone who encourages me to keep writing through their likes, reblogs, kudos, comments, DMs, etc. You are a big reason why this story keeps going and why I am brave enough to publish it. If I was writing this for only a few — it would be worth it. Yet, the audience remains big and I am beyond grateful!

Extra shoutout to @shadowqueenjude for just being really awesome, ok? I love you and you inspire me.

Updates: Small updates (mostly grammar and sentence structure) are continuing to be made to earlier chapters. A tag update will go through soon to remove tags that are no longer appropriate and add new ones which are — writing fanfic is a long haul process.

Tag List under the cut:

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[shadowqueenjude]

Moodboard for Eiley, an OC by @positivelyruined for her fic A Ballad of Thorns and Roses🥰

[etchedjade]

Nesta Archeron Headcanon! (With the help of the lovely @abbeysxlibrary 🫶🏼)

Nesta sings like Lucy Gray Baird! Okay, hear me out:

The human lands actually have a Southern (American) accent. Nesta has a soft, southern bell accent that may be easy for her to drop. I know Lucy’s is more pronounced but Nes would likely have been taught to suppress it.

Along with Nes’ dance and ettiequte lessons, she also had singing lessons. They weren’t as strenuous or emphasized upon like her dancing but she still had them. While singing in front of members of high society, her mother expected her to tone down the accent.

BUT when she’s ALONE?! She’d sing hymns and softer songs to herself, letting the accent come through. She didn’t do it in front of Elain, Feyre, or Papa Archeron. It’s only when she’d make trips to the village, obviously alone, that she’d sing/hum to herself!

Perhaps she stopped after the Cauldron but hearing Gwyn sing during services has sparked her want to do it again. Gwyn would be over the moon to know they share that interest too. I’d also like to imagine Em could too and all three women have their own styles derived from their regions of origin.

And in the future, the Valkyries all sing together in a chorus of accents and pitches. They’d do it as a way to calm themselves before going into battle. As a way to promote mind-stilling even!!

Some songs for reference:

Disclaimer: Idk if anyone has come up with this before so I apologize if this has already been said lol

[nanstgeorge]

It wasn't because she was fearless of terribly heroic; it was because Evangeline simply had more hope than most. Jacks had told her that her only option for a happy ending was to walk away; that if she drank the poison, she'd be stone forever. But Evangeline couldn't believe that. She knew her story had the potential for infinite endings—and that belief hadn't changed. There was a happy ending waiting for her.

Elain had always been gentle and sweet—and I had considered it a different sort of strength. A better strength. To look at the hardness of the world and choose, over and over, to love, to be kind. She had always been so full of light.

[ghostedgrim]

I am BORED, so...

Create an argument that relates to one of several of the fandoms below and let's debate it!

Divergent, Hunger Games, ACOTAR, Fourth Wing

(Pls avoid Iton Flame spoilers i just started the book)

[hollowinmyheart]

The Sexiest Love Triangles

Juliette - Aaron - Adam ( Shutter Me Series )

Feyre - Rhysand - Tamlin ( ACOTAR Series )

Evangeline - Jacks - Luc ( OUABH Series

[sayuki-xo]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOU

When I hold a rose, I see the soft, velvety petals

and smile, because tucked between those precious petals is a special gift - the one of a fragrance, pure and sweet. ❁⋆｡˚ .

❁⋆｡˚ . When you hold a rose, you see the thorns along the stem, and you frown because those thorns can bring you pain and cause you to bleed.

.▪︎°.🌹.°▪︎.

I see the gift.

You see the tragedy.

- Lisa Schroeder

[goforth-ladymidnight]

Amarantha: If I give you an eye in a ring, will you give me a kiss? Tamlin: *staring at Jurian's eyeball* What in the actual...

Inspired by @kateprincessofbluewhales hilarious post.

In all seriousness, though. Why are eyes Amarantha’s thing?? Eye know why. ;)

OK, OK. Now I'll be serious.

So, it turns out that it's a reference to the original Ballad of Tam Lin (well, one of many versions). When Janet wins Tam Lin back from the faeries on All Hallow's Eve, the Faerie Queen is naturally furious.

'But had I kend, Tam Lin,' she says, 'What now this night I see, I wad hae taen out thy twa grey een, And put twa een o tree.'

Translation:

"If I had known that this [your rescue] was going to happen, I would have taken out your eyes and replaced them with wooden ones."

Savage.

Depending on the version, she also says that she wishes she had thought to replace his fleshy heart with one of stone, so that he could never feel Janet's love. (That explains why SJM added that detail into ACOTAR, too.)

While the eye thing can be interpreted in a similar fashion (so that he cannot look upon his love), there's another reason she might have wanted to blind him. At the time the Ballad was written, there were folk tales that told of mortals that obtained faerie sight (and wisdom) that they should not have had, and were later blinded (or had their eyes plucked out entirely) by the faeries when their knowledge is discovered.

So, there you have it! There was a precedence for Amarantha’s weird obsession with eyes, after all. :}

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

[phantomrin]

Art summary 2022

So it's time to make art summary of 2022.

This year I got to work on many interesting projects, met new people and caught up with old(er) acquintances :)

Below are some of the illustrations i created in 2022:

1- Lenore & Draven ("ARKANA") for RuNyx. 2- Colton & Delaney ("The Whispering Dark") for Kelly Andrew. 3- "Gothikana" (RuNyx) dust jacket for Mainstream (AST Publishing). 4- Samarius & Deianira ("Ballad of Nightmares") for Jack Whitney. 5- Isolde (OC, commission). 6- Azriel & Gwyneth ("A Court of Thorns and Roses") for @amandapearls, @booknerd87 and Taylor. 7- Lin & Wes ("Whispering of Souls") for Stephanie K. Jules. 8- "The Star called the Sun" (personal work). 9- Circe (Inktober 2022). 10- Finist the Falcon (Inktober 2022).

[positivelyruined]

Poll time! ABOTAR is meant to be in Tamlin’s perspective. That is its main purpose — to bring a voice to his side of the story.

However, there are some scenes where hearing from Lucien and Feyre could add depth, and I enjoy writing in their perspectives as well.

Are you interested in eventually reading extra chapters in either of their POVs? It would add many different angles to this story. They would likely be posted as a companion piece.

[heavypedia]

No dia 12 de Outubro de 1988, Poison lançava "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" como single do álbum Open Up and Say... Ahh!

Tags: #Poison #PoisonBand #EveryRoseHasItsThorn #OpenUpAndSayAhh! #BretMichaels #CCDeVille #RikkiRockett #BobbyDall #UKSinglesChart #BillboardHot100 #Rock #HardRock #GlamMetal #HairMetal #PowerBallad #CountryRock #BluesRock #1980s #80s #1980sMusic #1980sRock #80sMusic #80sRock #Heavypédia #Heavypedia #Heavycast #WilliamWayne #GaleriaDoRock #NaçãoRoqueira.

[chelsea-lat3ly]

You don't get to tell me about sad...

[wickedpeachie]

[lintsins]

Father Coriolanus, the Reluctant Ascetic

Better quality under the cut

[shallyne]

H and X for fandom related questions

H: Do you prefer real-life TV shows or animated TV shows?

Adaptions animated and the rest idc

X: 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.

Feysand, Evajacks, Wrathemilia

Bonus: Zutara