#ava typhoon

[itslilacokay]

weeks(?) old doodles i found that idk if i sent to blog yet

[fuzzypuppybuddie]

[zishu-arts]

my contribution to the new avam lore

[inksandpensblog]

spoilers for Cartoon Physics

more of this

[dr3am-b3an]

a toon

[sephys-sticks]

Um uhh Typhoon (that's the new stick's name)

[crystalcyanyellow]

do you like to meet cartoon little guy? (you know cartoon physic)

ofc, I do like to meet each other! :D

I'm look short than "typhoon"

[crystalcyanyellow]

HOW MANY TIMES EVERYONE ADD THEIR OCS?!

and don't forget typhoon was here :>

I wish I could join them but there's too many ocs :<

Have dis

[eppilem]

There are at least three communities debating on the new AvA Short dude's name

I shall call the cartoon... carti...

playboy carti...

what do you mean his name is typhoon

[dimension20pcbracket]

final call for votes:

Twyla v Marcid the Typhoon

Boomer Coleoptera v Chirp Featherfowl

Gorgug Thistlespring v Lilith

Rosamund du Prix v Lars Vandenchomp

Adaine Abernant v Ava

Kristen Applebees v Squak Airavis

Buckster $ Boyd v Tula

Wetzel v Jet Rocks

Conrad Schintz v Iga Lisowski

[itslilacokay]

MORE NS?AVA POSTING featuring tr and co,!

an now some old doodles (you can tell because of the aliasing)

lore jumpscare! get em

this is also why ballista still gets vaporized by the staff's blast since (fun fact) yellow made it so that tcl's code specifically didnt get affected

since tcl, tr and scn share a creator; alex. they have the same animator code, which also means theyre "saved" from getting vaporized

[storgicdealer]

this is in my heart forever

RAAAAAHHHH TYPHOON

I was bored and did this little animation

Typhoon going crazy 🤪😧

[fuzzypuppybuddie]

...it knows

[solesoldier]

A STUDY IN HEROIC FATIGE

Hero,  Regina Spektor  /  Ava,  dir. Tate Taylor (2020)  /  Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus,  Mary Shelley (1818)  /  Body,  Mother Mother  /  Miss Sloane,  dir. John Madden (2016)  /  Forgive Me My Salt,  Brenna Twohy  /   Miss Sloane,  dir. John Madden (2016)  /  Heel Turn 2,  The  Mountain  Goats  /  Mass Effect 3 (2012) / Bergeron,  Typhoon 

[inksandpensblog]

I find it amusing that so many people here were like “oh Typhoon wouldn’t trust Green because of what happened to Bob” meanwhile my first thought was “oh Typhoon is the perfect person to help Green with the silverfish.”

Like never has there been a more classically-cartoon-structured full episode, if they wanted to keep playing off of that formula Typhoon could fit right in.

[the-merry-librarian]

Set in an apocalyptic, mythical future, after the death of the gods and the Collapse of the world, Threads That Bind is an intriguing, layered mystery. Io Ora is moira-born, a descendant of the three Greek goddesses of fate, and as the youngest of three, she is representative of Lachesis—or, more colloquially known, a cutter: a severer of the threads between people. Stumbling across the scene of a violent and unexplainable murder, Io is drawn into the teeming underworld of half-sunken Alante, and into a conspiracy that changes everything she knows about her life and her family.

Genre: Fiction, Fantasy

Target Age Group:

Grades 9-12

Justification:

I love Greek mythology. This is probably something that people can intuit about me very quickly, just sort of based on the kind of person that I am. I grew up with D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths and devoured the Percy Jackson series as a middle schooler, so when I read the synopsis of Threads, I was captured immediately by the premise—descendants of the gods with peculiar, miraculous powers. As for how I found it, I was browsing the BookRiot list of Best Books for Teens 2023. (Pretty prosaic.)

Evaluation:

For this review, I will be evaluating characters, plot, and setting. I’ll admit, it took a while for me to warm to the characters in this book. In the beginning, Io feels a little generic; she’s the typical troubled YA protagonist, with powers that ostracize her from others, and her personality felt muted and a little too understated. However, as the novel went on, more facets of her personality were revealed—her humor, her compassion, her strong senses of loyalty and justice. Other characters are at first presented a little one-dimensionally and could be summed up with brief titles: The Love Interest. The Mob Boss. The Older Sister. By the end of the novel, though, all of these characters have a little more depth to them. Edei, the love interest, is a lovable but quiet boy, with his own demons to face; Bianca, the mob boss, is more than a swaggering threat; Ava and Thais, the older sisters, offer their own unique brands of familial love and betrayal. While each of the cast has room to grow, I think that Threads reaches farther than many YA novels in their characterization, and allows further development in the sequels (one of which is already published; I anticipate a trilogy). The plot is also more ambitious and far-reaching than many YA novels I’ve read. It’s a mystery that begins with a murder, but it’s far more than that—Io finds herself hip-deep in a conspiracy from over a decade before, the consequences of which are still rippling through the city. Without giving away too many spoilers, I found the plot of Threads to be genuinely engaging. Intrigue didn’t have to be manufactured, it was simply generated by every new fact and twist that we discovered through the protagonist. The only aspect I didn’t immediately enjoy was the romantic subplot, although I suspect that’s a matter of personal preference: I’ve never been a huge fan of the soulmate trope. Finally, the setting of this book absolutely blew me away. Hatzopoulou’s description of this postapocalyptic world is rich and riveting—a moon that shattered into three, continents drowned under tides, cities that flood in the onslaught of neo-typhoons, isolated city-states that jealously guard resources, swarms of chimera-like beasts that crawl from the seas, and wars over the last clean water in the form of icebergs… and that’s everything that’s talked about in any kind of detail. There are references to parts of this world that haven’t even been explored in text, such as the Flying Orchards, but Hatzopoulou does such a good job of establishing the state of the world that once the Orchards are mentioned it’s easy to guess what they might be. The existence of other-born, humans with some kind of ancestry from a god or goddess, is almost unremarkable when compared to the rest of the world; it’s just a part of this new world, one that Hatzopoulou clearly put just as much thought into as the rest of it. I really enjoyed this book. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t hooked right away—it did take me a while to get into. But, I think, if one can get past the first fifty pages or so, it’s worth finishing. I absolutely recommend it to fantasy-loving teens, readers of mystery stories, and anyone interested in new interpretations of mythology.

References:

Doherty, A. (2023, October 5). The 20 best books for teens: 2023 picks. BOOK RIOT. https://bookriot.com/best-books-for-teens-2023/ Hatzopoulou, K. (2023). Threads That Bind. Penguin Young Readers Group. Penguin Young Readers. (n.d.). Threads that bind by Kika Hatzopoulou. PenguinRandomhouse.com. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713492/threads-that-bind-by-kika-hatzopoulou/