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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!
#jade torch: the killing thought#jade torch#anne marie wells#dragonanne#dragons#medieval#high middle ages#dragon riders#lord of the rings#the hobbit#names#the killing thought#western europe#horses#phoenix#phoenixes#animals#griffins#fantasy#medieval fantasy#knight#fantasy art
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“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
#whiskeyandtheraven#a man called moone#Anne Marie Wells#Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems
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St. Hilarion's ghost story
#payneland#edwin x charles#dead boy detectives#dbda#pre canon angst brought to you by the weirdo who's always drawing post canon fluff#something about oral tradition and old timey slang#i took quite a lot of decisions with this one so buckle up#first of all the female ghost keeps edwin's eyes color because there's still some truth to the legend#the background is the same shade of green to reference hell#just like it is when he's having his flashback#alive charles is dressed all in black because he's not a happy boy#i also made it so that he grips his clothes when his mate punches him even as it's intended to be friendly#because well#these people will end up killing him so it's less friendly when you remember THAT#charles obviously doesn't mean anything by the mary ann comment#he doesn't know the slang meaning and just blurted out what he remembered from the legend#he will find out reach some conclussions and go punch a wall about it probably#about edwin tho his escape is still very recent and he didn't expect this#but even so early on he knows charles means no harm and allows himself to be comforted#it wasn't intentional but hey edwin shruggin off charles' touch is a good parallel to that one scene after charles “kills” the night nurse
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Dawn Wells (1938-2020)
#dawn wells#mary ann summers#gilligan's island#old hollywood#old films#movie stills#film stills#films#black and white#classic hollywood#actors#vintage#cinema
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rip to people who wanted rat grinder redemption arcs. I understand you and I have been in your place but also. fuck them kids.
#mostly. I hated them and wanted them to die#well. not Mary Ann or Buddy.#but everyone else is fair game#if you weren't cheering and clapping when fabian said he was gonna skin ivy alive idk what to tell you#fantasy high#d20#dimension 20#fhjy
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I LOVE RPG HORROR GAMES SO MUCH GODDAMNIT
#joe moment#omori#hello charlotte#fear and hunger#yume nikki#pocket mirror#ib#mad father#misao#witchs house#alice mare#end roll#your turn to die#little goody two shoes#studio investigrave#off#corpse party#forest of drizzling rain#mermaid swamp#the strange man series#ao oni#stray cat crossing#angels of death#lieat#1bitheart#dreaming mary#ann#lilys well#gu-l#and so much more
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Miss Nevada 1959, the lovable Dawn Wells.
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Could you imagine Channing Tatum's Gambit with Anna Paquin's Rogue?
#But what about Bobby?#Well he's gay so...#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool 3#gambit#remy lebeau#channing tatum#x men rogue#rogue#x men gambit#anna paquin#x men films#x men#rogue x gambit#romy#anne marie lebeau#x men film series#fox xmen
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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.
#anne neville#mary tudor#richard iii#richard plantagenet#tudor history#war of roses#what the hell else do i tag this as#english history#i kinda wanna make her look like queen gwen#oh wells
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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
#napoleonic era#auguste de marmont#napoleon#marmont#napoleonic wars#auguste marmont#im losing my damn mind#history memes#memes#my art#stupid doodles#doodle dump#marmont shitposting#i have a love-hate relationship with the fact marmont had a mullet in the 1790s#Vicenzo Dandolo#Anne Marie Hortense Perregaux#im sorry....i just had too#😭😭😭#someone should put me down like a old mut/j#i promise im cooking up an actual post soon#i will have content soon#damn i have to finish reading his memoirs.....oh well better procrastinate by drawing him being silly 🤷#VICNEZO YOU HAD THAT COMING#THAT FERMENTED FARMER TWINK DESERVES DEATH 👹👹👹#napoleonic memes#😔🙏#im a professional shitposter#amen
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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
#lucy frostblade#kipperlilly copperkettle#frostkettle#oh lucy we're really in it now#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#mary ann skuttle#fhjy wip#i love lucy introspection!!#this fic is really an excuse for me to do a deep dive into lucy's post-canon physical and emotional recovery#with a dash of frostkettle bc how does one reconcile their love for the person who killed them?#im so excited to write lucy&fig and lucy&kristen as well#amy writes
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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 😆
#jade torch#the killing thought#anne marie wells#dragons#books#jade torch the killing thought#gabryl#lune#aril#ferthe#korthi#gardzrin#zezri#kenneth#king kent#king midaz
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so tired of tudor dramas where there are no women… and even when there are women… there aren’t…ykwim?
#im occasionally on the cusp of rewatching the tudors and then im just like… naur#it’s very annoying that we see men ‘networking’ and not women even tho we know that they were#like the ladies of each queen being basically decorative . it is annoying to me that henry has friends#more or less#we never see his sister interact with other women in a substantial way#we never see anne and mary boleyn with their mother#that he has these long talks with and his wives… well. don’t . you only get the shape of that (even Margaret pole and coa seemed like …#idk. affectionate but weirdly distant )#we only really see mary interact substantially with Chapuys#and pretty much surface-level with other women#and wolf hall/TmATL it’s the same thing . it feels like women are there only when the story cannot AVOID mentioning them.#and those are the two longest series about the Tudors . and one is prestige and one is not but it’s where you have the most ~material ~#some of these tags are out of order . im typing on my phone#you can all . sort them out if you made it this far lol#i just need to reread my fav Tudor books instead … I think ….#there are like . three-five novels i reread in rotation#also honestly I’ll say it : I think that dearth explains PGreg’s popularity#the way she writes women is um… horrible#but they are very prominent . they’re the main characters#in a way they’re just not in other Tudor stuff#(& also in wolf hall/TmATL they are only there in relation to crom…#how is this in any way a substantial improvement#from the precedent of that series which is all the women#only as they are in relation to hviii?#like all that was ‘subverted’ was picking a different man to centre the story#where all the women are just satelliting him)
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srry guys you may need a translator for this. In short: Prost family and who's Anne-Marie and why it's really interesting to learn everything about everyone.
Ночной тейк ради которого мне пришлось перейти на русский язык ибо мне нужно в полной мере выразить свои мысли.
Меня раздражает, что многие люди мало что знают о личной жизни Алена. Я имею ввиду да, мы теперь начали больше говорить о Даниэле (спасибо Богу!), в принципе Нико тоже тема вполне изученная он же тоже был гонщиком как и его отец. Виктория очень активна в социальных сетях и те кто хотят — знают её, следят за её обновами искренне она мне очень импонирует, мемы 10/10, но это другая тема. Саша Прост вот это уже что-то сложнее, он конфиденциальный человек. И Анн-Мари, бывшая жена Алена, очень, очень конфиденциальна.
Но даже так читая фанфики я вижу какой-то полный НОЛЬ понимания того, что за Санта-Барбара происходила в этой семье. Поэтому я хочу всё разложить по местам из того, что знаю я сам. К вашему сведению: я не нарушал личных границ кого-либо, всё что я знаю — есть в открытом доступе, просто иногда нужно поискать.
Анн-Мари Барж (Анн-Мари Прост после того, как вышла замуж за Алена). Первая и единственная законная жена Алена Проста (официально заключённый брак. Ален и Бернадетт не заключали официальный брак, они живут вместе, но официально не женаты), также мать Нико Проста (1981) и Саши Проста (1990) . Анн училась с Аленом в одной школе, они ровесники, а если точнее, Анн-Мари старше Проста всего на 10 дней и они знали друг друга как минимум со старшей школы. Они буквально teenage sweethearts or whatever, начали встречаться уже тогда, потом женились. Анн-Мари очень образованная женщина, у неё оконченный бакалавр преподавателя и она работала (возможно работает и в данный момент) учительницей в школе. Более того, в своем интервью для Плейбоя 1988 Ален говорил: "У неё была мечта окончить бакалавр, а у меня была мечта стать чемпионом мира. Мы помогали друг другу на этом пути и исполнили свои мечты". Ален также в автобиографии упоминал, что Анн была для него стержнем и поддержкой и Анн-Мари единственная, кто знает его настоящего, она видела его и в хорошие, и в плохие моменты и исходя из слов самого Проста — она была для него опорой, как и он для неё. Вообще если читать автобиографию Алена, его интервью, то можно увидеть, что он очень сильно любил свою жену.
Но тут вы спросите: так они же разошлись в 92м нет? И что насчёт того, что Ален крутил роман с Бернадетт Коттин?
Вы абсолютно правы. Но меня самого удивляет эта ситуация ибо официально, по документам, Ален �� Анн-Мари развелись только в 2017!! году. Причем исходя и из слов Анн, и в принципе из фотографий, да и многих других вещей, Ален до конца поддерживал Анн-Мари и финансово, и морально. Они разошлись на очень хорошей ноте и были в достаточно теплых взаимоотношениях. Но наверное самое интересное, что Анн-Мари и Ален продолжали находиться в отношениях даже после того, как Ален съехался с Бернадетт и у них родилась Виктория??? Что тут черт возьми происходит??? Причем! Ален находился в открытых отношениях с Бернадетт (во время существования Прост ГП они появлялись вместе на мероприятиях) оставаясь в браке с Анн-Мари и участвуя в жизни всех своих троих детей. Is this....polyrelationship... perchance...? Who knows
Причем Анн-Мари ни разу не говорила об Алене плохого слова, как и Ален о ней. Причем я уверен, что в документальных сериях "Прост" Ален не упоминает Анн-Мари как раз из соображений её конфиденциальности. Анн никогда не любила внимание и тем более славу.
И к интересным фактам: Анн увлекалась модой, любила красиво и хорошо одеваться. Также она коллекционировала кучу вещей с Микки Маусом, так как это был её любимый персонаж. Что иронично, Ален мне чем-то Микки Мауса напоминает, наверное это его уши... И кстати к этому, упоминалось и не раз, что Ален носил футболки, кофты с изображением Микки Мауса.... сразу видно жена одевала беднягу.
И к ужасным фактам? 1990 год, боже, у Алена ничего не слава богу было. До Сузуки 90 он уже нервы потрепал. Дело в том, что пока Анн-Мари была беременна Сашей, она попала в аварию, а если точнее: машину буквально сбил поезд. Автомобиль отбросило на несколько десятков метров, но к счастью, все остались живы и не пострадали, а Саша родился здоровым.
Но просто представьте, Ален в той аварии чуть не потерял сыновей и жену. А через пару месяцев на трассе Сузука в него на скорости под 250 км/ч влетит Сенна, ставя под риск его жизнь. Я считаю это реально серьезная вещь и мы слишком мало об этом говорим!!
Короче, итоги этого эмоционального ночного разбора: я люблю всю семью Простов, да у меня гиперфикс и возможно я изучил СЛИШКОМ МНОГО (у меня есть фотография могилы Даниэля Проста... Но опять же!!! Всё в свободном доступе было я просто искать умею), а ещё я очень люблю Анн-Мари и мне кажется, не будь её рядом, Ален бы не смог пережить всё то, что он пережил. Он потерял множество друзей, ему пришлось сбежать из Франции под угрозой жизни, его постоянно оскорбляли в медиа, в конце концов он потерял своего единственного брата. Это всё невероятно травмирующие вещи и к счастью, Анн была рядом с ним и у Алена была опора. И потом, несмотря на всё, что происходило, они оставались близкими людьми, да даже просто оставались друзьями. Это очень важно и реально жаль, что эту тему никто не раскрывает.
Peace and love хз
#classic f1#f1#alain prost#formula 1#just ughhh thoughts#prost family idk#sorry I really needed to talk about how great Anne-Marie was#and well I wanted to share some info because APPARENTLY a lot of people don't know a thing#Imagine I'm yapping just because someone really pissed me off
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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 :)
#not my own find btw saw someone else point it out but I am NOT well about the implications#or rather. things that can be speculated from it#also I really want Alain to still be around somewhere. I want him to meet Mary-Ann and Ann and also Caterpillar#narzissenkreuz ordo#genshin spoilers
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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.
#maryannespieredit#tbscedit#bscedit#tvedit#netflixedit#cinemapix#userbbelcher#dailyflicks#*#gtkm4#this show is so nostalgic to me like i LOVED this series when i was ten#so despite being way too old for it it's like coming home <3#and it was SO well cast#mary anne spier#the babysitters club#usercharisse#singinprincess#userchristie#rogerhealey
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