#bloomsberries

[fleursscaptives]

took this photo a year back when i went to monk's house, still think it's very pretty

[scrivisempreamezzanotte]

Guess who bought Olivia by Dorothy Bussy cause she's actually a STRACHEY and Is BISEXUAL and had an affair with lady ottoline and dedicated Olivia to the memory of Virginia Woolf and the book was also first published by the Hogarth Press. So yes I spent some real adult money on a first edition to add to my Bloomsbury collection

[isaidquirky]

the hair, the ammel, the fact she deserved a better career …

it's so wrong, Jen. i can't believe this is how it went. pfunk doing podcasts. taylor's bff blake lively. AND THIS.

[pandaimitator]

If you write two (albeit short) chapters in one day, you must surely post one of the already completed ones, right?

Have another sample

Tennington’s cheeks reddened. He hadn’t had enough to drink to speak so frankly quite yet, but the members of the Bloomsbury group rarely thought discretion was the better part of valor. He took a big swig of his drink, and shuddered.

That's right! A member of the Bloomsberries, the OG ragtag team of polyamorous bisexual avantgarde intellectuals is back!

Read the full story here

[sheepinthebigcity]

Propaganda under cut:

Junior: "HE'S the one with the ponytail! (and my introduction to the incomparable David Cross, and my childhood favorite villain. he's so funny)"

Janja still has no propaganda :-(

[mywingsareonwheels]

BRIAN BLESSED as Augustus in I, Claudius voice:-

IS THERE ANYONE IN BLOOMSBURY WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH DUNCAN GRANT?!?!!!!

[elssbethtascioni]

So you'll come with me? No, sorry. Not a gala gal. That's what I said.

for @bloomsberries

[voidcommascreamintothe]

Cassian is not going to die in the next acotar book, what are y’all on?

I’m talking about acotar again. I gotta. The thoughts must be let out!

Come, walk with me here.

I’ve seen a couple of tiktoks saying that Cassian is likely to die, or that he is fated to die. But I am convinced that media literacy is much lower than the experts thought, because some of the arguments are just… inaccurate interpretations of canon?

My arguments are as follows:

1. Elain saying it wouldn’t take much to kill him, was only in the context of the battle with Hybern. And i know this because acotar was supposed to be a trilogy!!! You dont even need to read between the lines here, you just have to read. It was supposed to end with Wings and Ruin. It was planned out and plotted as a trilogy; altho i am partly convinced that Maas never intended the books to continue past the first one (more on that another time). Elain either saw that Cassian dies and intervened because she saw that his death leads to Nesta’s death, or she warned him, to let him know that he is not infallible. His death means Nesta will probably die too, as is established when Nesta refuses to leave Cassian and covers his body with hers, so Elain warned him to not do anything stupid. Altho the fae people have long lives, they are not Deathless. They can still die. So that warning of Elain’s, only served as a reminder to Cassian.

2. We have canonical resurrections. Rhysand died and came back. All three Archeron sisters died and came back.

2.1. We also get a cop-out. Near the end of acosf, when Bryarlin is controling him, he turns the knife on himself and pretends to fall to his death, so that Nesta can unleash her power to its fullest. This fake “Cass dying” scenario happens like two or three times over the course of the books. It would be poor cheap writing on Mass’s part if it happens AGAIN. And poor and cheap writer she is not.

3. What would be the point?

No, i am serious here. Narratively, what purpose would a Major Character Death serve at this point in the story? When has an important character died, and stayed dead in these books?

I truly believe that Amren’s death would’ve served a narrative purpose. If she sacrificed herself - and stayed dead- for the sake of everyone else, it would’ve been definitive proof that she was more fae than cold blooded monster. She was not one for sentiments and warm hugs. This act would have been her showing just how much she changed, how much the love she received from her friends changed her for the better. But no, she gets scooped up from the magic cookware and becomes yet another powerful female character that looses her powers.

Side eye. Major side eye to Maas for that one.

And thats for Amren, a secondary character. I do not for one second believe that permadeath is in the cards for any of the acotar characters.

4. Maas got her start in writing Sailor Moon fanfics. Do you think that someone who writes Sailor Moon fanfics would NOT write a HEA?

Ok this is more of a meta-textual reading of the text, looking at the bigger picture and incorporating details from real life into the contextual interpretation of the text, but it is important still.

Maas’s stories are high fantasy with a hard magic system and also a focus on love and loving relationships between people. Throne of Glass specifically, but the Maasverse generally, follow this kind of pattern and genre. A Court of Thorns and Roses is much more of a Romantic Fantasy. Romantic not as in smut, but as in Princess Bride. Romantic as in the Romantic movement in literature. It is idealistic. It shows a world through pink lenses in the shape of love hearts. It is much more of a 80s or 90s fantasy movie than anything else.

Game of Thrones these books are not. GRRM, Sara is not. The tonal shift that would come with a Major Character Death would be jarring. It would be off putting to a lot of the core audiences, and if Maas doesn’t see this, then Bloomsberry does. Or someone on her team does. If they cut a threesome scene, citing messiness and over complicating character relationships, then they most likely advise to stick with the status quo: HEA.

Love and loving connections is a huge part of the plot in Sailor Moon. The meaning of love, life, bonds with other people, all of this warm fuzzy way of telling a story is the point of the immaculate conception of Maas’s world building. She will bot go against it. It is not within her style nor her pattern of storytelling.

4.1. My loves, Aelin made it out of the box. Aelin got her happy ending with Rowan by her side and a crown on her head. Her Majesty the Queen of Therassen, got out of the box and got her happy ending- without her powers (side eye) but that is for another post. We were worried for a second there, but it was a HEA at the end wasn’t it?

When Maas said that we should be worried for Hunt, (or Rhun really, both are in a bit of a pickle at the point the story left them), I am confident she meant we should worry for them in the same way we were worried for Aelin. Who went through hell, but came back. To her HEA. Do you see what in putting down?

4.2. I also don’t really have a way of saying this, but smutty romantasy books do not kill off their breeding pairs. The style/subgenre of smutty romantasy does not come with main girl/boy death. Side characters, maybe; parrents or siblings (often off-screen) definitely.

But not your breeding pair. Cmon. We’ve read enough of those books to see the established pattern right girls?

I am by no means an athority on ACoTaR lore. Im just a girl in the world, reading smut. But I do have reading comprehension skills. Well developed ones, in thanks to all that classic literature i read as assigned reading in school. If I can analyze the motivations and traits of Raskolnikov and the original Lady Marmalade, as well as accurately surmise the plot of War and Peace, a book that gave me no peace and gives me war flashbacks, then a book about hot people having hot skysex is not an issue babez, truly it is not.

Bonsoir.

[nikethestatue]

I read the ACOTAR book series for the first time in 2022. I felt that Sarah was setting up Nesta + Cassian, it was interesting and obvious. 

But when I read the moments of Elain and Azriel, I thought, "wtf??? they match so perfectly, why is her mate Lucien??". Elain and Azriel had so many interesting, deep moments, as if Sarah herself was pushing us to think that something was wrong with L+E, I so wanted to see Elain and Azriel together, because it's so OBVIOUS how they fit together …

Then in BC ACOSF we see that Azriel REALLY has feelings for Elain and he HIMSELF is already asking the question "what if Cauldron was wrong?", and then in BC in HOFAS we find out that Cauldron was INDEED damaged and Azriel was right!!!

And then I go to IG, I see Sarah's post with "ACOwhat" and I see HOW MANY people want and ARE STILL waiting for G+A and hate ELAIN... Gwynriel are so loud and aggressive:(To be honest, it really upsets me, because when Elriel's book is released, Sarah will have so much negativity in Instagram…

Do you think Bloomsberry is afraid to announce the book, as there will be a lot of negativity from Gwynriel? 

How do you think - have there been more Elriel lately or Gwynriel are just too loud and aggressive on social media, so it seems like there are more of them?

PS. Sorry for my English, it's not my native language and I'm in the process of learning 🙏🏻

Your English is perfect! :)

There are way more Elriels now than there were a few years ago and all the newer readers understand that Gwynriel is a crack ship and nothing more and expect Elriel to be the next couple.

GAs have always been aggressive, so it's nothing new. But I think it's because they know that the ship is sailing nowhere.

As for BB--i understand that if they have nothing to promote, they won't do anything--but I wish they'd made different decisions earlier. However, they got a ton of free publicity too, for YEARS, so therefore, they tried to ride the wave for as long as possible. May it turn against them? Maybe. However, I also think that they've waited long enough for it not to cause a lot of backlash when it's an Elriel book, because there are way fewer Gwynriels out there now.

So I don't think they are too worried. Besides, most people will still buy and read the books.

[arson-09]

“sjm has 7 more books slated with bloomsberry”

PLEASE BE FALSE INFORMATION PLEASE DONT TELL ME SARAH JANET MASS IS GONNA WRITE EVEN MORE ACOTAR AND CC BOOKS. PLEASE NO

[fleursscaptives]

some items owned by lady ottoline morrell, from the "bring no clothes" exhibition

[ephemeral-winter]

finallllly i get to talk about yuletide 2023, which was a true delight this year because i got to give and receive fics in the WoT fandom and it is always nice to feel supported in your fixations!

for ao3 user thestarsapart i wrote this fun exploration of the very early days of the warder bond:

and i *received* this delightfully painful moiraine/siuan oneshot from @bloomsberries (thank you again!!!):

[isaidquirky]

lol and ew @ Karlie buying up all those magazines but also I guess she doesn’t care if girls can code anymore 🤣

fdghgfj she is still doing the code scholarship, but now they're also doing this media company thingy that's into rescuing magazines, apparently???? josh and karlie are very into ~capitalism for the greater good~ and i'm very into getting a simple ask and then taking it way too seriously (like, if you're putting out a press release about "artisanal storytelling (ok) and creator authenticity", i'm assuming the plan isn't to buy a recognizable shell, gut it and fill it with AI-generated slime/clickbait garbage like it's happening to other places - I KNOW YOU CARE ABOUT BAD PRESS, MISSY. so how are they gonna make money? subscriptions? what's your big bet there????? EXPLAIN)

[swashbucklery]

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words. tagged by: @amaltheaz​

And Elora just like look i bet you're not cool and collected when you're ~like that and Kit like oh I'm SO cool and Jade laughing like no she's not she's a big nerd too and idk more gay sex?

(Look I WAS WRITING AN OUTLINE this is what you get, enjoy the window into my ~process).

Tagging: @badlance @bloomsberries @isaidquirky @zaritarazi and anyone else who is writing something right now and thinks this would be fun I’M NOT TAGGING FORTY OF YOU.

[sheepinthebigcity]

Prop a gander under the cut!

Gauge: Gauge is another Dealer's Choice character! I nominated Gauge because her whole thing in Firebuds is not getting recognized as part of the Riley Gang, especially when it's just her and Wiley. I thought it'd be funny to turn that on its head.

Junior: "HE'S the one with the ponytail! (and my introduction to the incomparable David Cross, and my childhood favorite villain. he's so funny)"