#anne marie wells

[blade-liger-4ever]

Review: Jade Torch: The Killing Thought, by Anne Marie Wells, otherwise known as @dragonanne!

First of all, let me just praise Miss Wells' artstyle. It's beautiful, and captures the reader's attention, instantly giving them a greater scope of the characters and their world.

As for the story, Jade Torch presents itself as a medieval fantasy world, and as a huge dragon nerd and admirer of the High Middle Ages, I can tell you that The Killing Thought does not disappoint in it's setting! You have dragons and their riders protecting their large kingdom, a neighboring monarchy with a tainted history, a bloodthirsty nation in the north, and unknown islands far away from the continent, all of which take place while the author plants the seeds for a deeper, magic-filled history that feels organic and richer than the Lonely Mountain of Erebor (Tolkien fans, I apologize for any misspells/offense.)

The plot is superbly written, with the unsavory medieval politics and conniving aristocrats presented within the world in such a way that it instantly feels like cracking open a door to look into the distant past of Western Europe. The characters have various personalities that don't overlap with each other, with the possible exception of two (and given that both these characters took on paternal roles to young future rulers, it's a given that they'd have similar approaches to life. Not to worry, they still retain their unique individuality!) They are also all written competently: the men are allowed to be manly defenders/protectors/rulers, and the women are allowed to kick butt without dragging down their male counterparts, something that greatly pleased me.

The heroes are heroes and the villains are villains, an old style of writing I have dearly missed in modern media. Furthermore, there is only one - ONE - character death on the heroes' side, and while it did break my heart, I instantly realized it was a necessary decision and felt that it was not out of place. And while said character's murderer was not killed, another, equally despicable villain was permanently dispatched, something that literally had me cheering in my seat as I read, so enraptured was I by the story unfolding in my hands. I tell you, that is an uncommon occurrence in my reading experience!

And the ending presents a perfect opening for a second installment, with it's ominous atmosphere and the fragile peace left in the plot's wake gripping the reader's attention with a degree of fear for the heroes. I must say, I simply itch to see what happens next, and the path that awaits the protagonists!

I would be remiss, however, if I did not voice one, albeit small, complaint. The naming conventions in the story, while enjoyable, were a bit odd when it came to a select few others. For example, you have the crown princess, whose name is Lunerata Bridth, and yet her father's given name is Kent. There is only one other "ordinary" name such as Kent in the novel, and while it did not take away my love of the story, it did strike me as odd quite a few times. Regardless, I still reveled in reading the book, and happily give it eleven out of ten stars.

Now enough of my rambling! I gave a simple, relatively spoiler free review of this novel. Now, I task all who read through this post: go out and buy a copy of Jade Torch: The Killing Thought. It's a fun read, and will captivate your mind and imagination for a long time!

Fly high, my fellow readers and dragon riders!

[whiskeyandtheraven]

“I am a ghost town, my body still exists among the remnants and relics, but no one lives here anymore. The locals moved out with the post office. The shelves at the corner store stand as tombstones marking the prices of items that once waited for hands to toss them in their basket. Spiders and the remains of their kills fill the fluorescent lights. The crows don’t even stop on the wires when they fly over.”

~ Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

[technically-human]

St. Hilarion's ghost story

[dolorygloria]

Dawn Wells (1938-2020)

[natjennie]

rip to people who wanted rat grinder redemption arcs. I understand you and I have been in your place but also. fuck them kids.

[tgsclassics]

Miss Nevada 1959, the lovable Dawn Wells.

[picnicbask3t]

I LOVE RPG HORROR GAMES SO MUCH GODDAMNIT

[72crowe89]

Could you imagine Channing Tatum's Gambit with Anna Paquin's Rogue?

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

Cursed marmont doodle dump

What can I say....I was in a drawing mood 😭

I assaulted the discord server with these 💀💀💀

Will you guys ever forgive me ? 🥺

Ps. Vicenzo Dandolo tea is explained in the comments

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

When the ceremony reaches its end, when Kipperlilly’s parents are sufficiently distracted in conversing with the officiant about burial plots and mourning periods and all of death’s bureaucracy, Lucy drifts up the aisle and halts beside Kipperlilly’s closed casket.

Closed.

Mary Ann told her how Kipperlilly died in the final battle with the Bad Kids. Caught by Hold Person, submerged into lava, screaming with fury—always rage, never pain—as her flesh melted off her body and blended with her burning cardigan.

‘Pathetic’ was how Mary Ann explained Kipperlilly’s end, a description not acerbic or vindictive but flat and monotonous, giving voice more to Kipperlilly’s perspective than to Mary Ann’s own.

Lucy studies the lacquered wooden top of the casket. She knows not whether it’s closed to disguise charred bones or to disguise—

“It’s empty.”

Lucy’s head snaps around to see that Kipperlilly’s parents now stand behind her, the officiant newly vanished into the depths of the holy building.

“It’s empty,” Landynleaf Copperkettle repeats. “There weren’t no remains left for us. Not from a reborn divinity’s lava.”

“It’s empty,” Octavia Copperkettle echoes. “Just like yours.”

—an excerpt from my post-canon frostkettle wip where lucy brings kipperlilly back through divine intervention

[austin-friars]

I think of Anne Neville as the last, true Medieval Queen and that is so enchanting to me. Like, she is still a very 'magical' queen in a sense where she existed in a time period that covered the Arthurian legends, tales of dragons, giants, mythical beings. It's as if, with her death ends such a huge era of what made England a magical place (if that makes sense). Because with the Tudor era, we are slowly falling into some form of modernism. Not exactly with the Henry's, but we're entering an age of Renaissance, that is turning it's back on the past, and making new scientific discoveries.

The same way I feel about Anne's death, is also how i feel about Mary Tudor's death too. With her death, comes the end of what made the Tudor era interesting, and ancient, and what tied it back to Medieval times, old times, etc. What made Tudor England, seem like a fairy tale, what made it seem more whimsical and less tangible - but that's for another post.

I was looking at a picture of Queen Guinevere and I couldn't help but be reminded of Anne Neville, there is just a likeness to both and they remind me of magical times, elusive, magical queens, mythical like queens, etc.

Also im drawing her.

[blade-liger-4ever]

Memes for @dragonanne's Jade Torch: The Killing Thought!

(Warning: This post contains spoilers, so beware to those who have not read this wondrous novel.)

Poor Gabryl, most of these memes are him just trying to survive his circumstances 😆

[nonbinarysucrose]

LAST BIG NARZISSENKREUZ ORDO WORLD QUEST SPOILERS

Alain. hey. Hey. Alain. can we talk. can we talk for a sec.

"It can only be inferred that something was built."

I'm sure it's purely coincidental that the mysterious character that we only know has something to do with meka looks exactly like the at one point presumed dead sister of THE meka guy ever :)

[bellamysgriffin]

get to know me meme >> Favorite Female Characters [24/?] Mary Anne Spier (The Baby-Sitters Club)

Talking to people I don't know makes my stomach fall out of my nose.

[retropopcult]

[tgsclassics]

Raquel Welch auditioned for the role of Mary Ann in the 60s tv series "Gilligan's Island", but was considered 'not wholesome enough' for the part. The role went to Dawn Wells