#earstripe!!!

[shiroikabocha]

I’m about 90% of the way done with Paladin’s Hope and I’m already mourning that there are no more books (yet) set in the world of the White Rat. Ugh this world is so COOL I want to EAT IT

[palabarian]

What dya mean this ain’t the plot of paladins hope????

[silverskye13]

SoS book 1: Steven is encouraged to pursue his love interest by Istvan

SoS book 2: Istvan is encouraged to pursue his love interest by Galen

SoS book 3: Galen is encouraged to pursue his love interest by Earstripe

SoS book 4 prediction: Earstripe is encouraged-

T Kingfisher, we need a gnole paladin stat!!

Barely, barely related, but I found this SoS fic today and I'm plugging it at you because its the hardest I've laughed since Tuesday.

[krakenartificer]

Earstripe: humans can’t smell

Davith: EVEN HUMANS CAN SMELL THIS ONE BUDDY!

[goodgrammaritan]

“Helped a little,” [Earstripe] said. “But didn’t help enough.”

“But you did help,” said Galen. “You made a difference for your people. One you couldn’t make anywhere else. You could keep making a difference.” He looked at Piper for backup.

“Such a paladin thing to say,” said Piper. Galen blinked at him. “It’s a noble sentiment, but you can’t ask people to pour themselves out for something that doesn’t care and can’t be fixed and at the end they’re empty and nothing changes.”

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[sigridstumb]

New fic: The Clamor of Imprudent Hearts

Written for Fandom Trumps Hate 2023 The Clamor of Imprudent Hearts

Fandom: Saint of Steel, T. Kingfisher (aka Temple of the White Rate series) Gen Casefic

When Bishop Beartongue falls ill, Zale, Stephen and Earstripe solve a mystery.

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[reviewsthatburn]

PALADIN'S HOPE features Galen, one of the paladins of the (now dead) Saint of Steel. He appears in the first two books in the series but now gets a story of his own. The main story is entirely new, as Earstripe the guard-gnole requests that Galen and the lich-doctor, Piper, help him find out the cause of several mysterious and violent deaths (which are both introduced and resolved). Very late in the book I figured out that this wraps up some things left hanging from other White Rat books, not just the first two Saint of Steel books (though it does that as well). The epilogue, in particular, exists to show the state of Galen and Piper's relationship some time after the main story, and to continue the underlying thread of the death of the Saint of Steel. It leaves the book on a bit of a cliffhanger, but one related to the general course of the series and not to the central plot of the book. 

[krakenartificer]

OMG the textiles thing. I think this is the only fantasy series I’ve seen that even comes close to acknowledging how essential fiber arts are to civilization, and how many damned spinners it takes to keep an army clothed. Also Stephen’s comment about how soldiers always love new socks. Also Stephen’s comment about how you could absolutely kill someone with a DPN to the eye, although you wouldn’t of course because you’d have to rethread the needle after. The fact that it leads to “I am a sock knitter person. Who knits. Mostly socks” is just icing ����

The diversity! The woman who doesn’t want children, and that works out because her soulmate is like the only man in the world who can guarantee she won’t get pregnant. Multiple plus-sized protagonists who are plus-sized in different ways (plus-but-otherwise-nondescript; curvy as hell; just larger than everyone around her). Gay couple who are just as adorable and stupid as the straight couples! Lesbians and trans men and enbies who aren’t a dramatic queer sob story but just exist in the world because that’s how the world works!

Gnoles! I love everything about gnoles in every way. I love the way their language is so much more specific, with gestures and scents, that it ends up coming across as vague to humans (a gnole knows how to fix this, but I’m not telling you which gnole). I love the way they look down on humans the way humans look down on them. I love the way their gender works. I love each of them individually: Brindle forcibly adopting an ox, Earstripe trying so hard to be a good cop and also a good person, Skull-of-Ice exchanging exhausted-doctor stories with Piper even though they don’t speak a single language in common. Gnoles!

The White Rat! Just… fixing problems. Just finding ways to make the world better and doing it. Thoughts and prayers AND action and change. Finding ways to make problems solve each other (“prostitutes as court scribes?” “Well, if there’s one profession that’s good at remembering names, faces, and respective deviant acts…”)! Recognizing that everyone is an individual and just accepting that this person is good at guard duty and this one is good for intelligence-gathering and this one is good for doggie daycare and the Temple needs all of those to function so no one has to be different than they are, they only have to be willing to help.

Just a lil rant about my newest beloved fantasy author

Something I love so, so much about T Kingfisher's (@tkingfisher) work is how she portrays the mundane as something so beautiful and wonderful. The majority of her protagonists are all quite regular people, with regular lives, regular hobbies, and regular bodies. And how despite that, all her characters are so interesting, so lovable, and so deeply and utterly human.

Its amazing seeing a series where multiple female romantic leads are plus sized, and there is a mix of both body positivity and body neutrality. Because like yeah, they are gorgeous. But also, at the end of the day bodies are just bodies. A bit in Paladin's Faith got me thinking about this, where the male lead asks about the female lead's stretchmarks, and its very much treated as just a normal thing that she has as a woman, not detracting from her beauty, not adding to it. They just are.

And don't get me started about how nearly all of her male romantic leads, who are for the most part, big, strong, sword-wielding paladins, have knowledge of some form of textile craft, and how it doesn't detract from their masculinity at all. And instead it is something that would actually be very useful for a soldier to know.

Tldr if anybody else is obsessed with T Kingfisher's work as much as I am please let me know so that my long suffering reading friend can have a break from it.

[lostinthehubbub]

RQntz & Earstrip - Deep Thoughts

[odlmusic-blog]

(OH! MY BASS)

[thaynadelgado]

Soultripfestival | Scarlatelli, Earstrip e Naah

[krakenartificer]

"If you're implying I can't take care of myself, Thomas --" Alice began, a dangerous edge to her voice.

"That is not what I'm saying --" Thomas said wearily.

Earstripe eased himself back out the door. "Humans can't smell," he muttered under his breath. He turned to find a small brindle mouse regarding him thoughtfully. He waited, ears cocked, until it nodded, slowly.

"Humans Can't Smell," it proclaimed. "Verily, it is So."

Regarding this Incryptid/Saint of Steel crossover fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41989896?view_full_work=true

(In a separate post so @yojfull can ignore it if she wants to)

My brain gremlins are making up names for the paladins

***

"For lo did the Pragmatic Priestess say, 'Don't make me break out a theological argument, I'll do it.'"

Beartongue blinked. "I know you weren't present for that."

"We were not Present, but we have Heard!" said the mouse proudly.

Thomas sighed. "Privacy. I remember when I used to have it." He turned to the mouse. "When and how did you hear that?"

The mouse combed its whiskers. "Two days ago, in the hallway to the Room Of Swords, did the Reliable Paladin --"

Thomas glanced at Beartongue. "Stephen," she nodded.

The mouse continued. "-- say, lo, 'We're not even paladins anymore.' And then did the Paladin of Iron and Axes --"

"Wren"

"-- say, 'Shane already tried that on her, and she said, and I quote, 'You still serve. Don't make me break out a theological argument, I'll do it.''"

---

"And then did the Tomato Paladin say --"

Galen put his face in his hands. "Did you have to let them talk to the gnoles?"

---

"For we have been in discussion with the Aeslin Paladin --"

Alice glanced at Beartongue. Beartongue looked, baffled, at Thomas. Thomas shrugged. Alice looked back to the mouse. "The Aeslin Paladin?" she interrupted.

The mouse pulled itself upright. Thomas and Alice, recognizing the onset of religious ecstasy, put their hands over their ears. Beartongue and Stephen, slower to react, winced at the volume of the next proclamation.

"This is what it means to be of the Aeslin: to serve our gods and our colony. Oh what bliss! Oh what joy, to be born into the never-ending spiral of true faith. How small the worlds of those who do not believe! Here, in this world, we have found one human who understands the lure of veneration! We serve because it is the Aeslin way."

Stephen blew out a quiet breath. "Shane," he said softly.

[goodgrammaritan]

Earstripe gave him a drop-jawed gnole smile. "A gnole worked in a human borough, before. Old human there used to walk always with hatchet with red paint. Old human said, ‘Any nasty buggers who want to rob an old lady will think twice when they see Betsy.’ Said it many times.”

Both humans in the room digested this. “She sounds very…impressive,” said Galen.

“A gnole does not think she was ever robbed.”

Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher

[djdennisswe]

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