#a queue we shall keep and our honor someday avenge

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okay, i'm taking that as an invitation: PLEASE post your annotations for the kencyrath playlist?

OKAY SURE TWIST MY ARM I GUESS

Actually this playlist is...long as hell, BUT there’s only like twelve people in this fandom and I’m in a group chat with half of them, so everything is here but it’s got a cut for length because my annotations are Specific.

THE BASICS (in no particular order)

Can’t Cheat Death by the Ballroom Thieves, for Jame, no further comment, I am Correct

I spilled blood in the water Then let the storm roll in I put my hands in the fire Watched my welcome wear thin Salt in my wounds and spit in my eye I burned the path you walk on And I let none survive

Thistles and Weeds by Mumford & Sons, for Torisen, who is a good leader and also falling apart

Spare me your judgements and spare me your dreams Cause recently mine have been tearing my seams I sit alone in this winter clarity which clouds my mind

Hey Brother by Avicii, for Jame and Tori, in all ways

Hey brother, do you still believe in one another? Hey sister, do you still believe in love, I wonder? Oh, if the sky comes falling down For you, there's nothing in this world I wouldn't do

Human by Rag’n’Bone Man, for Kindrie Soul-walker, out of his depth and doing his best

Maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'm blind Thinking I can see through this and see what's behind Got no way to prove it, so maybe I'm lying

Soldier, Poet, King by the Oh Hellos, for the Tyr-ridan (I have considered learning to draw SPECIFICALLY to do a comic of this song featuring Jame as the soldier, Kindrie as the poet, and Tori as the king, but I couldn’t pick a verse because it’s not a very long song)

Home to Me by Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, for Jame and Tori, which I would ALSO do a line-by-line breakdown of as a duet, because I love it for them

(Tori) How dare you love me like you've never known fear When you've got more troubles than minutes in the year (Jame) And a voice like your father's tells you nothing good's for free Well that may be, but you're walking home to me

Dear Wormwood by the Oh Hellos, the ORIGINAL Bane/Jame song, for which I could easily do a line-by-line breakdown cast as a duet between them, the song that I, personally, would set over their last conversation before Bane’s death and over Jame’s flight from the palace, if I was making a TV series, just, you know, if anyone wants to kick me a couple million bucks

I know who I am now And all that you've made of me I know who you are now And I name you my enemy

Glitter & Gold by Barns Courtney, for the Kendar, survivors to the last

Do you walk in the valley of kings? Do you walk in the shadow of men Who sold their lives to a dream? Do you ponder the manner of things In the dark?

Delilah by Florence + the Machine, for Jamethiel Dreamweaver, the first unfallen darkling, the finest weapon and cruelest victim of the Master’s schemes, and for her daughter, who saw more and ran faster

Too fast for freedom Sometimes it all falls down These chains never leave me I keep dragging them around

We Have It All by Pim Stones, for Tyrandis, just...listen to it, I’m right

There's glory ahead, but our love will be forgotten If my heart was still mine, I would go to the bottom And apologise to you until the day it went rotten

Mercy Down by Shayfer James, which is THE definitive song for the entire Kencyrath--half-desperate for their missing destiny, half-terrified of that destiny when it shows up at their door.

It’s getting mythical now You better pick your weapons up And throw your mercy, throw your mercy down

THE EXTENDED STUFF (loosely sorted by topic)

Control by Halsey, for Jame, heir to the Dreamweaver, Snare-of-Souls, and learning to dance and running away

They sent me away to find them a fortune A chest filled with diamonds and gold The house was awake, with shadows and monsters The hallways, they echoed and groaned

Little Boy by Barns Courtney, for Torisen holding the bones of a little girl who died at the same age as his long lost twin sister

Little boy inside my chest Breathe some life into my bones I've been lost and wandering Down and out and missing home

The Draw by Bastille, for Torisen and the shade of Ganth and the promise of madness on a sleepless night

Don't listen to your friends See the despair behind their eyes Don't listen to your friends They only care and want to know why

Carry Your Throne by Jon Bellion, for Jame and Tori at their best, kissing in the ashfall and dancing in Tentir

Two crowns and a gold cup And they're coming for the throne, love But if your heart is a dog fight Then I'm ready to go to war like

Coming Down by Halsey, for Jame and the twin she loves, who is always, always running away from her

Every single night pray the sun will rise Every single time make a compromise Every single night pray the sun will rise, but It's coming down, down, coming down

Graveyard by Halsey, for Jame and Tori and dreams and the soulscape and running and chasing and trying

I keep running when both my feet hurt I won't stop 'til I get where you are Oh, when you go down all your darkest roads I woulda followed all the way to the graveyard

Thick as Thieves by Shinedown, for Jame and Tori, who can barely have a civil conversation but still manage to be each other’s answer to the concept of ‘home’

Evidently, we can't work it out I guess that courage ain't allowed Evidently, you're not in the mood And everything I say just bothers you

The Horror of Our Love by Ludo, for Bane and Jame, and blood and binding, and shadows crossing continents

I'm a killer, cold and wrathful Silent sleeper, I've been inside your bedroom I've murdered half the town Left you love notes on their headstones I'll fill the graveyards until I have you

Irresistible by Fall Out Boy, for Bane in Tai-tastigon, a prince of the city and a monster in his beloved’s kitchen

Too many war wounds and not enough wars Too few rounds in the ring and not enough settled scores Too many sharks, not enough blood in the waves You know I give my love a four letter name

Hellfire by Barns Courtney, for Bane, giving your soul to the wrong person, and the Lower Town

Run in an alleyway Through a dead end street Murdering promises That I just can't keep

Punch Drunk Grinning Soul by Flogging Molly, for all the Kendar who keep surviving disasters while their people fall all around them, and especially for Marc and Brier

But these tired eyes are crashing down on me While the paint never dries on these four walls that now suffocate me But tonight, maybe tonight all will be free

Sleepsong by Bastille, for soulscapes and locked doors and armor and hidden gardens and a whole race with a collective unconscious who still manage to be awfully lonely

Oh, in the strangest dreams, walking by your side It is the hole you impose upon your life When you're out, loneliness, it crawls up in the ground It's what you feel, but can't articulate out loud

Bad Decisions by Bastille, for Tentir and all the children there who thought they were immortal

Do you remember what you said to me? 'Cause we lost track of time Yeah, we lost track of time You always let me down so tenderly So live fast and die young and stay forever numb 

For The Departed by Shayfer James, for every Kendar who’s ever sold a soul, broken under Honor’s Paradox, died in service, and gone unremembered

So dry your eyes and count to ten They'll have me on the pyre by then Forget the man I used to be You'll move along more easily

Bones by MS MR, for death banners, and for the dead of Kithorn, and for Dalis-sar, depending on my mood

Dig up her bones but leave the soul alone Let her find a way to a better place Broken dreams and silent screams Empty churches with soulless curses We found a way to escape the day

I Am Stretched On Your Grave by Dead Can Dance, for sisterkin, for the massacre of the Knorth women, but especially for Brenwyr and her ghost and her maledight madness

Calling out to the air With tears both hot and wild Oh I grieve for the girl That I loved as a child

NFWMB by Hozier, for Brenwyr and Aerulan (and could be for Jame and Tori but he’s, you know, an ostrich with his head buried in his own trauma)

Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves? Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes? Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay? Ain't you my baby, ain't you my baby?

Church by Fall Out Boy, for everyone who’s ever fallen in love with Jame, from Dally to Torisen

Oh, the things that you do in the Name of what you love You are doomed but just enough

Renegades by X Ambassadors, for the good times in Tai-tastigon with Dally and Canden

It's our time to make a move It's our time to make amends It's our time to break the rules Let's begin

Breath of Life by Florence + the Machine, for everyone who’s ever fallen to the Knorth glamour and paid dearly for it

But I needed one more touch Another taste of heavenly rush And I believe, I believe it's so

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I just read your post about Jin Ling, and I don't know if you've read it yet, but Ariaste's A Civil Combpaign series (/series/1590286) has a GREAT 'Wei Wuxian helps Jin Ling Feel His Feelings (And Then Process Them)' plot. It also heavily features - Lan Sizhui: Best Boy, the AGONIES of Teenage Romance, and LWJ/WWX being The Most Married. It's also one of THE funniest fics I've read in this fandom (and possibly any fandom). I HIGHLY recommend it!

OH BABE I’VE READ SO MUCH FIC LATELY here are some choice ones that have Jin Ling and the ducklings in them

THIS is a Civil Combpaign (the superlative duckling fic, also ft a sequel from WWX’s point of view that is actually The Best Thing In This Fandom), and THIS is a modern AU one where the ducklings matchmake their dads, and THIS post-Yi City fic only has the ducklings in it for a minute but they’re very sweet, and THIS is the one where the ducklings write a romance novel, and THIS is a different modern AU where the ducklings are legal interns, and actually THIS doesn’t really have the ducklings at all but it is one of my top three social media fics in the fandom and I wanted to add it to the list.

EDIT: fixed the legal AU link!

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hey have you heard of nothing much to do bc it's an adaptation of much ado as the vlogs of a group of high school teens and it's Amazing

HOLY SHIT

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"#every talking sword in fiction is an asshole and i enjoy that hugely" Nightblood from Warbreaker isn't an asshole, he's just very eager to do things. He was just created to destroy evil without having a clear idea of what evil is.

I know this is...fantasy reader heresy or something...but Sanderson’s books are not generally my jam.  I really liked Steelheart and keep meaning to get the rest, but I took a whack at Mistborn (whatever the first Mistborn book was) like three times and never got more than halfway through it.  This is not an indictment of the book so much as it is the reality that certain types of slow-building fantasy are INCREDIBLY hard for me to read because my attention span is about four pages long.

That being said, the idea of your stock DnD paladin But A Sword is so intrinsically hilarious to me that I might actually go add this to my vast list o’ books.

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Kdjdhdbdhdh IM READING UR ANIMORPHS FICS AND THEYRE KINDA GIVING ME LIFE LIKE DAMN I MISSED THIS SERIES SO MUCH AND RACHEL DYING KILLED MY SOUL SO TO SEE HER IN FICS AND UR FICS WITH HER BEING SO -Rachel- IS JUST LOVE SKDJDHHD (yes I’m two years late since you published them but who cares?)

GOD I need to get back into writing those, I should binge read the series again and fuel my obsession with writing niche Animorphs fic (lately it’s mostly been niche MAG fic or niche Kencyrath fic).

Thank you so much!  I love writing Rachel more than anyone except Tobias (writing Tobias is my favorite), and I just…want more people to talk about her relationship with Jake.  Listen.  Jake and Rachel are family and he uses her and she lets him and together they save the world at the cost of themselves, and by God if I cannot FIND the fic about it then I will CREATE it.

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Another good podcast is the film reroll. It's a podcast that replays movies. They have a particularly good one that's Friday the 13th where the players think they're in a teenage coming of age story. It's typically 1 or 2 parts per movie. They also did weekend at Bernie's. It's excellent.

Anonymous asked:

IDK if you like light and funny stuff, but if you do you could check out The Film Reroll podcast. It's a DND podcast where instead of a normal DND campaigns they play different movie scripts. The characters start out by playing the movie like it actually happened, but things inevitably go absolutely bonkers. Like, when Doc Brown tases Marty in Back to the Future 2, or when Jafar falls in love with Aladdin, or in Friday the 13th when only the DM knew they were doing a horror movie.

Oooh, very cool!

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To be fair, I sincerely doubt Eira ''suggested'' to High King to send Quentin to Mists (and given what she is like, whenever she is talking to Daoine line between suggestion and brainwashing gets incredibly blurry) out of honest wish for Quentin's safety. She probably had some plan with him (or even worse, plan is still on going but we won't learn what it is until it's too late). Also rereading some things and I gotta give her: she has taste for dramatic decorating. I mean entrance to 1/2

Goldengreen is jumping off the cliff? I mean, that is just awesome and horribly trollish (unless it wasn't her who established that entrance, but Amandine. Honestly, Firstborn at their absolute best of sibling dynamics were ''turned in snake then stabbed me'' level.) 2/2

I mean, I’m assuming that whatever scheme Eira had re: Quentin’s blind foster was dependent on, A, being in a position to groom and manipulate the next High King (not so much, on account of how Toby got there first and turned him into a Noble Person and shit), or, B, having him hidden away somewhere so that he could be quietly bumped off and replaced with someone more biddable in the event that Plan A failed (also likely to be challenging, on account of how incredibly poorly concealed Quentin is).  Or, possibly C, in an attempt to consolidate her political sway into the Mists between the false queen, the heir to the Westlands, and multiple Firstborn, plus the entirety of the family line destined to save Oberon, all being in the same zip code, which might work better if, again, Toby wasn’t out there making friends and breaking thrones.

Eira just wants to fucking run the show and while I don’t find that to be a particularly interesting motivation, I can respect that she’s absolutely deadly in her pursuit of it.  She just might’ve gotten further in the Mists if Quentin didn’t look fucking identical to his father, which she should probably have seen coming.

(Also, Pete, when questioned by a curious and fearless Quentin: “Oh, yeah, Eira and I always hated each other’s guts, she never wanted to admit that the Merrow were worth anything.  One time I turned myself into a fish and when Eira came over to throw me into the water, because she hates fish, I turned back into myself and went ‘AHHHH’ and stabbed her.”)

(The Luidaeg, amused: “I love one (1) child of Titania.”)

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Am I the only who has an adhd mood(tm) which is pretty much just shove/shake??? Like I want to shove things, or shake things or shake myself all crazy like I'm listening to metal, and I was wondering if that's just a me thing or an adhd thing????

That’s an ADHD thing!  We share it with our closest brain-cousins, autistic people.  I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the concept of “stimming” but that’s the feeling people are talking about when they say that word.

Other people than me have explained this better, and I took a stab at explaining it in a little more depth here, but basically stimming is some kind of overwhelming impulse toward a specific activity as a self-soother.  This can be due to basically any emotional state that needs some kind of outlet, whether it’s because you’re really happy or really upset or anything in between.  Sometimes people can stave off the impulse to stim or shift it into another sort of gesture (stims can be destructive just like any other impulse), but generally being strictly denied some kind of outlet is upsetting.  People stim in lots of different ways, from vocal to auditory to the kind of physical stim you’re talking about.  I’m a bouncer and a hummer.

Neurotypical people also have similar impulses (processing emotion through activities or stimuli is why people laugh! or listen to sad music after a breakup! or lots of other things!) but autistic/ADHD people have difficulty processing emotions.  So the need to manage input by self-soothing is stronger.  This is related why we need outside stimulus in order to focus, and the reason that stim toys work for us!  When you can’t really decide where your brain’s energy goes, outside help is Good, whether it’s a little spinny thing or bouncing on your toes for thirty minutes straight.

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Katherine Arden tweeted recently that animated adaptation of The Bear and the Nightingale might happen in the future.

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Arden hinted there might be a movie, maybe. It’s on her Twitter (along with some tiny hints about what Vasya and Morozko get up to post-series)

YESSSSSSS

I WANT AN ANIMATED TRILOGY!  CGI IS NICE AND ALL BUT: ANIMATION

COME ON

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I LOVE MISS FISHERS MURDER MYSTERYS SO MUCH. THIS ROCKIN, FREE LOVIN, AND MILDLY ROYAL LADY GET ALL MY RESPECT. LIVE THAT LIFE, PHRYNIE!

It’s about the tenderness.

This show honestly has everything I’ve ever wanted in a detective show and I am going to profoundly mourn having to pirate it rather than being able to acquire it easily on Netflix.

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Yo, that's exactly how Chartreuse looks in my mind too. Personally, I see it as red because something about the way the prefix sound pings off my "that's red!" senses

What I am realizing based on the notes on that post and the people I’ve talked to, there are two types of people in the world: people who for some reason were drowned in chartreuse as children and therefore know the color perfectly, and people who are right and believe that it should be red.

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So i just finished season 1 of MAG (thanks to yous holyshit i wasnt disappointed) and honestly, hearing Jon open himself up to Martin like that in a moment of desperation, how in the end, he's just as scared and as much a believer as Martin, this gave me a HUGE boost of sympathy for a character I was honestly starting to dislike. And the beginning of season 2 only reinforces those positive feelings towards him. Man I hope it keeps being this good bc rn 😘👌

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Congratulations! You’ve converted another person to the Magnus Archives. I don’t even like horror, horror is not my thing, I can only listen to the episodes in daylight, and yet I love it.

I cannot BELIEVE what a good success rate I’ve had on convincing people to listen to this podcast!

And honestly yeah, the end of S1 slam dunks you so effectively into sympathizing with Jon, who thus far has just been all cutting remarks and skepticism, I love my idiot boy.

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Have you read Spinning Silver?

Not yet!  I really love the Temeraire series, which are also by Naomi Novik and I think (?) that Spinning Silver includes someone falling in love with the embodiment of winter, which may be why you are recommending it to me at the moment, given my current hollering about the Winternight books.

*plays UNO Reverse card* Have YOU read the Winternight books?

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[Insert high pitch screaming here] i love heartlines! It was so great!! Chess and Hannah are wonderful and their friendship gives me life! Chess saying that to Thierry made me laugh so hard and i am like "fingers crossed, they need to be friends"

OH MY GOSH HELLO FRIEND WHO HAS READ THE NIGHT WORLD BOOKS!!  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Hey new friend you want a preview of my 32 page and counting Quinn And Rashel Join Circle Daybreak fic?  It liveth under the cut.

“Rashel,tell us your coordinates,” Keiko said, her young voice high and thin butdetermined.

Quinn seemedto brace himself, then turned on the radio and said, “This is Quinn.  I believe we’ve met.  I got Rashel off the island.”

The radiowent silent.

“You’re evenstupider than I am,” Rashel told him, and it seemed worth saying aloud.

“Notpossible.”  Quinn waited a few moremoments before switching the radio back on and saying, in his most cheerlesslyupbeat tone, “So, with the question of how Rashel survived resolved, again,you’d be best served to make landfall without us.  If you give Rashel your coordinates, I cangive you a heading back to Boston.  Youshould have enough of a head start that you won’t need to worry about uscatching up.”

Rashelcounted sixty seconds of silence before she said, “I think they turned theirradio off.”

“That girlwent back into the jaws of death with you, she didn’t turn the radio off,”Quinn said with absolute confidence.

Rashelcounted another thirty seconds, and then—

“If you hurt her, I’m gonna rip your fucking heartout,” Daphne hissed, and Quinn smiled.

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I’ve been really enjoying your temeraire focus because it means I can periodically open your blog and shovel a bunch of one of my own favorite recurring hyperfixations in at top speed. A True Delight.

@beware-the-ravenstag asked:

SO sorry for spamming you but your posts & tags on temeraire are a delight and I couldn’t help it

I LOVE THESE HONORABLE IDIOTS

I’m taking a break before I slam through the last two books, but they’re SO GOOD.  Please never apologize for validating my constant rapid-fire chattering about whatever specific thing I’m currently interested in, it’s literally the entire reason I’m on Tumblr.

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I think you will like the flow of loyalty and possession in Spinning Silver, but I *was* reminded by the Russian Winter vibes of your current book interest.

Ooooh, I should add it to my list of books to read!