#ayt mada

[one-1-eye]

the fact that there are only 31 greenbone saga fics on ao3 and not ONE of them is ayt mada/kaul shae is a CRIME and i am taking it personally

[danhn10]

My cousin has been listening to the Jade war audiobook and he said that Ayt mada sounds like Yzma in the audiobook and I can't unhear it.

[teartra]

MAWS Lois and Vicki’s dynamic reminds me of Kaul Shae and Ayt Mada from The Green Bone. They’re not exactly the same but still

[goblinsngremlins]

Ayt Madashi could step on my neck and I'd thank her

[fauvester]

reading Jade City and its sooooo so so good and sooooo fun and soooo oc-ish but I got to say man. getting to the end of book 1 and its looking bleak. this shit isnt even fun anymore

[jadebone]

i dont like only exploring romantic connections etc etc whatever but i think shae... should have a gf..........

[kikuism]

ayt mada backstory in the new collection of prequel short stories from the green bone saga????

[the-tropes-are-hungry]

Oh. A whole AU just dropped fully formed in my head.

Here tumblr have this:

Lamb is either a street criminal or corporate-sector intern/low-level associate who gets sent by their boss, Narinder, to corporate-espionage and destroy 4 competing companies. Whether the AU includes these several years of backstabbing, paper-shredding, phone-tapping and one or more possible bodies sunk in the local river is unimportant.

What is important is when Lamb realizes that as Narinder’s greatest legal liability, they’re about to go in the river too. Obv they backstab and undermine Narinder’s whole operation the same way they did the other 4, using their own resources this time instead of his. Lamb has their own connections (your favourite NPCs), their own money streams, their own power.

Narinder avoids death (org. Crime version) or jail (corporate version) on Lamb’s say-so.

Lamb then has to deal with the fact that his arch nemesis/mentor/notice-me-senpai is now a washed up mid-40s single dad with 2 teenage boys.

Tl;dr: sure you can woo the cat after demolishing his pride and empire. But can you woo his kids whose lives you completely derailed and whose existence was always one way and is now something else?

Basically I want Aym and Baal to be more important to lamb than what I usually see.

Yes this is the result of me reading Jade War this week. Ayt Mada would never kiss the Lamb.

[tridentarii-trash]

I simply think Kaul Shae and Ayt Mada, Pillar of the Mountain, should have a homoerotic toxic lesbian rivalry with a body count in the thousands

[qqueenofhades]

Do you have any other OT3 recs? Rook & Rose rewired my brain

Alas, my beloved Rook & Rose OT3 is the only one that I can think of in that exact configuration, but two other recs if you (like me) enjoy Big Fat Plotty Fun Fantasy Trilogies In Well-Drawn Worlds, which is the essence of the Rook and Rose series:

The Daevabad Trilogy (City of Brass, Kingdom of Copper, Empire of Gold) by S.A. Chakraborty. I have recommended this before, but I will continue in my dedicated quest to get more people to read it. Set both in 18th-century Cairo and the magical djinn city of Daevabad; politics, magic, intrigue, morally grey characters, sass, snark, Garbage Men (Muntadhir al-Qahtani, my beloved), and much more.

The Green Bone trilogy (Jade City, Jade War, Jade Legacy) by Fonda Lee. Set in a modern Asian fantasy world inspired by 80s Hong Kong gangster movies; tons of martial arts action and family drama; possibly one of THE best-built worlds in fantasy I have encountered; also Garbage Men Galore AND my Garbage Queens, Kaul Shae and Ayt Mada. (They hate each other but I still think they should have ended up together sshhhhhhh.)

[sowlmates]

Bero is to us what hilo is to ayt mada. We want him to die but he's unkillable like a cockroach

[luckydicekirby]

erin hasn’t read jade legacy yet and i have 700 pages worth of Opinions about it and you can’t put stuff under a cut in tweets so i am finally returning to “posting on tumblr”

this book did not fully work for me! and i am really chewing on why. I enjoyed reading it, and it made me cry several times, but it felt structurally disconnected and didn’t really come together for me like, Thematically. the ending was just kind of eh. points for ending on bero and the twice lucky, because i’m a simple woman i love a good bookend, but it feels really weird that the end was basically like “well, we won bc our family likes each other and the mountain all hates each other” guys your family is a nightmare!!!!!!!! 

on some level I think I had expectations the book ultimately wasn’t interested in fulfilling so I’m not a super fair judge--my called shot for this book was that niko was going to kill hilo for murdering his mom, or that at least that was going to be a major point of contention between them. at a certain point it became obvious this was not the direction we were going in, which is fine, but eyni’s murder was SUCH a great momentous “oh shit” moment in jade war and I feel like we never fully followed up on it--it makes perfect sense that hilo would see it as necessary and like it was the right thing to do, because he’s a freak and he sucks (affectionate), but we barely get to see niko react to it as an adult. like I really thought we were going to get a moment in jade legacy that was like, hey hilo, turns out you cannot just kill your nephew’s mom and kidnap him as a toddler without consequences, but I guess......you can? i feel like we missed out on sooo much meaty crunchy stuff in this vein.

also this should have been at least two or three books. I was excited about the time skips, because I wanted to see the kids as adults, but a lot of specific moments had to get skimmed over to fit everything in, and the kids kind of got the shaft as far as characterization--we get the most interesting character stuff with niko, and he barely has any POV! I liked what we got of Ru (and his death made me cry like a baby), but jaya was cool but completely flat. my mind palace ideal structure is like. one book still centered on the adults while the kids are growing up, and then one book centered on the adult kids where we actually get to dig deep into their character stuff/their relationships with each other. 

anyway, stray thoughts:

making anden and lott narrative foils but then not having them get together honestly kind of a power move. i kind of respect it. my read is that lott is gay but decided he would never be able to be out and be the horn, and stuck to that. which WOULD sure make him feel real weird about anden!

shae/ayt mada real and no one can convince me otherwise. they both tried to kill each other they both saved each other’s lives that is romance baybee

i did really enjoy the continuing bero throughline/his ultimate insignificance, and inability to even MAKE himself significant by confessing to lan’s murder to niko. that scene was so good. 

it feels like all the interesting thematic stuff in this book was coming together in the wake of Ru’s death, and then it all had to get dropped bc we were once again at like, “uh oh mountain’s gonna take over”. like no go back i want to talk more about senseless death and about how vital it is to die for a cause as a green bone but ultimately lan’s death was also a senseless accident and hilo HAS ALWAYS KNOWN THAT AND ALWAYS LIED ABOUT IT AND THAT’S THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WAR!!! CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT!!

2 black 2 green made me lose it. 

anyway i AM staring at my hands like is it just that i’m a slut for tragedy and wanted a worse ending to this book where like five major characters died....am EYE the problem for wanting this family to be irrevocably broken...am i too successionpilled.....

[womanguy]

end of jade legacy

anden: so basically you’re gonna be jade-stripped and exiled

ayt mada:

anden:

ayt mada: ok but why didn’t shae come to tell me this :(

[cronchy-dumbass]

You ever think about how Hilo almost died in the KJA bombing because he was too focused on making sure Ayt Mada would be killed instead of heeding the warning that he was in danger

and how Ru died because he kept trying to kill his opponent even after he'd conceded, making him desperate enough to dirty his blade

[austenwazright]

Hilo's interaction with ayt mada when he went to beg for shae's life is so deep in some ways, they have been enemies for 20+ years, they have both tried inumerous times to get the other killed, ayt mada herself admitted she lost time of how many times she whispered hilo's name. And then there they are, the devil you know and all that, hilo went because he knew he'd be leaving there alive, he knew he'd leave with what he wanted, it was risky but not really a risk we all knew ayt mada wouldn't kill him then, hilo knew it because who knows you better than your enemie after all??

[devotionconsumed]

kaul shae: may thy knife chip and shatter

ayt mada who was taken aback by the duel: may thy knife chip and shatter~