#a day of fallen night spoilers

[saint-sebastian-coded]

thinking about how prequels are almost always tragedies. there cannot be honour. there cannot be happy endings. the hero isn't here. the hero isn't even born yet.

[kienava]

you’ve got to be careful reading fantasy books that are also romances because when the horny scenes arrive they’ll say shit like “i had a dream you were still a godsinger, and i was your shrine” and “i may not be your queen, but i am yours, and you will find that i can be very generous”

[shallanspren]

i actually really love how samantha shannon is handling trans/nonbinary characters in her roots of chaos world. they blend seamlessly into her world building, so much so that i don't always notice there's something different. non binary noble? they sure as fuck don't want to be called lord or lady! they are styled 'lade'.

someone uses they/them pronouns? cool! we're not going to waste time going through an explaining that. it's just instant, all our characters refer to the person's preferred pronouns without any second thought.

she really keeps saying, yeah? this story has dragons and witches and wyverns. and it's gonna be queernorm too. don't like it? well fuck off.

[a-devout-shannonite]

Me and the girlies in the haithwood trying to summon Kalyba:

[standardissueplottwist]

Live reaction

[tragedykery]

me for the entirety of adofn:

[ID: a meme of josh from drake and josh, saying, with an expression of realisation and resentment, “kalyba”. /end ID]

[cronchy-dumbass]

Dumai gains and loses two little sisters over the course of adofn. What if I screamed.

[nerdferatum]

Day 27 + 31: Beast + fire

A little scene from A day of fallen night, by Samantha Shannon for the last day! Still no spoilers, please. If you want to check out some of my other pieces for this month, you can do so here

[dreanner95]

I don’t know who is interested in this take but the most beautiful part of “A Day of Fallen Night” wasn’t something mentioned in the book. Glorian’s arc ends with her being desperate for her daughter to not have to suffer like she did but not having much hope. But there is a titbit from “Priory” I remembered throughout all of the prequel. There was a Queen who got together with one of her own handmaidens after she relinquished her throne to her daughter. This Queen is Glorian’s daughter Sabran. So it seems like the way Glorian raised her daughter lead to Sabran following her own happiness beyond having to give birth.

[bbygirlsunite]

re reading “The priory of the orange tree” and seeing the line that all the Berethnets look a like but there are small differences made my “Glorian Shieldheart has freckles and curly hair” self leap with joy, THERE IS STILL HOPE FOR HER TO LOOK LIKE HER FARTHER IN SOME WAY

[magic-is-something-we-create]

im currently reading A Day of Fallen Night (im almost exactly half way through) and it's been a year or so since I read Priory but HHHHH. HHHHHHHH

GOD I LOVE HAVING THE CONTEXT OF PRIORY BUT THE DRAMATIC IRONY IS KILLING ME BECAUSE I KNOW WHO THIS PERSON IS AND THE CHARACTERS DONT AND I DONT TRUST THIS ONE BIT

[orangelit]

Once again I have to say. Tunuva is so unbelievably beautiful to me. she’s strong mentally and physically, she’s a lover, she has piercings, she’s tender, she’s introverted, pensive, she’s got freckles and a mole right at her cupids bow, she’s got so much grief, and she has the biggest heart. She deserves the entire world. The part where she finally had all she wanted in one place broke me.

[thewinterken]

LISTEN I knew, since the begginning what was going to happen with the whole Noziken shennanigan but that did not stop me, even for a second, to HOPE and weep like a fucking idiot for my sweet Dumai and poor Suzu

[shallanspren]

you know dumai is the rightful heir to the rainbow throne because she's just a massive lesbian. it was fate.

[a-devout-shannonite]

[standardissueplottwist]

The mood around 200 pages in.