#ender wiggen

[americascomic]

[Orson Scott Card typing]

Homosexuality is a sin. So anyways, the naked teen boy lathered himself up in the shower as the gang of other teen boys descended onto him in the shower....

[ethan-acfan]

Every interaction between Ender and Alai is so homoerotic that you really begin to question if the author was doing that on purpose

[cauchesque]

underrated aspect of enders game is in the eugenics-focused sequal series when the wiggen father reveals that like he could have done all that shit too but he didn't presumably bc of catholic guilt

[irradiate-space]

Ender Wiggen is to Bean

as

Harry Potter is to Harry Potter James-Evans-Verres

[regexkind]

Do you think that when Ender Wiggen went to the lake, his position as future Genocide was protected by FMLA

[wilartoffic]

Hhhh I haven’t posted in over a week so here’s a sketch I’m working on

[popeye1357]

Characters Lily would kin:

Princess Bubblegum (obviously)

Heather Chandler

Several Marina and the Diamonds songs

Both Mommy Fortuna and Celaeno from The Last Unicorn

Rose Quartz from Steven Universe but also Lapis

The UB Funkeys Twinx and Sprout

Sunset Shimmer

Ender Wiggen

Rachel Amber

Golden Guard from The Owl House

Unrelated but she would enjoy Gabby Hannah's music a little too much

[locke-writes]

Interests Tag

Rules: Tag 9 People to learn about their interests

Tagged By: @stars--above​ (thank you Olive!)

MUSIC

fave genre? Punk. Or anything of that sort

fave artist? Green Day. Always has been, always will be

fave song? Depends on the artist, I don’t have a singular favorite song of all time. Considering I listed Green Day as my favorite artist it seems only appropriate to pick Basket Case for this question

most listened song recently? Looks like that would be Small Talk - Briston Maroney or at least that’s what Spotify says

song currently stuck in your head? None at the moment which is surprising. Last few days though it’s been songs from Bo Burnham’s Inside

5 fave lyrics? Now this is completely random and based on me picking random songs but:

1. “Waking up this time to smash the silence with the brick of self control“ - She - Green Day

2. “Someone who'll help me see things / In a different light / All the things I detest / I will almost like” - Somebody - Depeche Mode

3. “It's not a miracle we needed, and no I wouldn't let you think so“ - 1901 - Phoenix

4. “The passion that makes me feel alive again / It's gonna be the death, the death of us” - AWOL - Every Time I Die

5. “If dreams came true i might have been a better man. / If dreams came true you might have set me free. / But god is kind, for you he had a better plan / And saved you from the pain of loving me.” - A Tale of Two Cities Musical Cast

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | louder or silent volume I slow or fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio on

BOOKS

fave book genre? Fantasy or Science Fiction

fave writer? I have no idea. I love a lot of writers but I don’t think there’s a singular writer I would call my all time favorite 

fave book? Venomous - Christopher Krovatin

fave book series? The entirety of The Shannara Chronicles (like every book and individual series combined)

comfort book? Venomous isn’t just my favorite book. But also if I had to provide something else maybe The Child Thief - Brom

perfect book to read on a rainy day? It would have to be something that could stand alone and not be a series so maybe The House of Tomorrow - Peter Bognanni

fave characters? So many. 5 choices are: Peter Pan (The Child Thief), Ender Wiggen (Ender’s Game), Walker Boh (The Shannara Chronicles), Katsa (Graceling), and Cadel Piggot (Evil Genius)

5 quotes from your fave book you know by heart? - I have a notebook filled with favorite quotes from books I’ve read. Here’s a few

1. “The only stupid man is the one who doesn’t know he’s ignorant” - Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card

2. “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmares of my choice” - Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

3. “There is more to family then shared blood. There is trust and friendship and committment” - The Gypsy Morph - Terry Brooks

4. “She was trying to construct a life that made sense from things found in gift shops” - Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

5. “The truth will set you free, but not until it is done with you” - Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | standalone novels or book series | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | listening to music while reading or reading in silence | reading in order or reading the ending first | reliable or unreliable narrator | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or by the summary | rereading or reading just once

TV AND MOVIES

fave tv/movie genre? Anything if I’m being honest. It just has to interest me plot-wise

fave movie? Tie between Spring Forward and Velvet Goldmine

comfort movie? At the moment I’d have to say The Sword in the Stone

movie you watch every year? The only ones are holiday movies so Jack Frost (1979)

fave tv show? I don’t have one, at least not one I’d watch all the time over and over again. I suppose I could say something like New Girl mainly because I’ve not tired of that yet

comfort tv show? Again I don’t think I have one although if I had to choose I would most likely say something like Halt & Catch Fire

most rewatched tv show? I don’t rewatch shows a lot only because there’s so much tv to catch up on that it’s hard to find time for something new and a rewatch. Truthfully though it’s probably an old cartoon or something like Looney Tunes, Rugrats, Powerpuff Girls, etc.

5 fave characters? Nick Miller (New Girl), Frederick Chilton (NBC Hannibal), Eames (Inception), Randal Graves (Clerks), Shawn Hunter (Boy Meets World)

tv shows or movie | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watches online

[herpudakodihnf-blog]

LEMME RANT

okokokokokookokOK i just got done reading Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. HOLY FREAKING HECK THAT WAS SO GOOD LIKEJIOEWJIJO;I  why whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy THAT BOOK WAS PERFECT AND IF YOU DISAGREE YOU ARE NOT LIKED BY ME. I don’t want to spoil anything but immmm?????? BUT DONT SPOIL ANYTHING TO ME FOR THE OTHER BOOKS. Right now I'm reading Ender’s Shadow but it’s by Beans point of view i  think (I'm only 10 pages in) i don't remember anything about the movie though. 10/10 recommend

[democratitty]

thinkin bout ender wiggen and his gay ass feelings for alai

[whoopsiedaisiedoo]

✨ FUCK ALSO VALENTINE WIGGIN

!!!!!! FUCK YEAH IF I COULD BE MORE LIKE VALENTINE WIGGEN THAT WOULD BE AMAZING

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I'm just curious, you've given some speculation on where you think the characters would be without the war and it seems you view Jake's future as pretty dismal. I'm curious why that is. To me, I think he'd be just pretty average but you portray him as a dropout who never does anything, I believe. I mean, I know he's not super motivated at 13 but that's 13 and he can be incredibly driven and move mountains when he wants something.

To be honest, a lot of what I find so appealing about Jake as a character is that he is so very ordinary.  He says in the first couple pages of The Invasion that the two things he’s best at are basketball and video games—and yet he’s not good enough at basketball to make his school’s team, and not good enough at video games to beat Marco (who has considerably less experience).  He’s a C average student as of #1 and an F average student as of #23.  He mentions no specific ambitions outside of “be a decent person for a day” (#31) at any point during the war and seems to want to do nothing more than marry Cassie, have her kids, and retire young (#47).  When Rachel asks him what he’d do if the war ended tomorrow, he has no answer for her (#22), and when Cassie asks him on the eve of the final battle about his plans in case they win, he can’t come up with anything outside of marrying her and going to basketball games (#53).  

Jake is also a hardworking, dedicated, loyal, unbelievably brave individual who (as Marco says in #54) achieves the impossible through courage and determination more so than brilliance or skill.  And the thing is that he doesn’t have much in the way of skills.  He’s a “dumb jock” (#35) who admits to being bad at math and other academic pursuits (#4), fairly clueless at figuring out other people (#21), and too much of a klutz to be much of a jock (#6).  When he finally moves out of his parents’ place after the war and gets a job, he seems apathetic toward it at best and literally willing to go on a suicide mission to get out of it at worst (#54).  

Anyway, most of the reason that I adore that side of the character (and celebrate it in some of my AUs, you are correct) is that IMHO there are not nearly enough heroes like Jake in young adult science fiction.  The huge majority of YA SF heroes are smart, talented, misunderstood, artistic, and usually otherwise special as well (Ender Wiggen, Katinss Everdeen, Tris Prior, Meg and Charles Wallace Murray, etc.)  The huge majority of YA SF portrayals of “dumb” or otherwise untalented characters, especially dumb jocks, show those characters as villains (Vladimir Todd, Blue Bloods, I Am Number Four, My Teacher is an Alien, Valiant, etc.)  Tobias is a classic YA SF hero (artistic, intelligent, misunderstood, descended from an ancient line of warriors); Jake is a genuinely unlikely hero according to the conventions of the genre.  I like Tobias perfectly well, but I love Jake (even more than I love the other five cinnamon rolls on that team) largely because K.A. Applegate does a very convincing job of suggesting that Jake is heading nowhere fast with his life before an alien invasion lands in his lap and he rises spectacularly to the occasion.  

[earthdungeon]

I know orson Scott card is a homophobic little shit but I fuckening love ender wiggen so much,,, small sad anger child,,

[figmentsoutoffundamentals]

I can't be the only one to see the parallels between Arima Kousei and Ender Wiggen??

[hardbackhero-blog]

Enders Game & Speaker for the Dead

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t read both of these, come back when you have or continue at your own peril!

So in my quest to read my long standing pile of unread books, I started with a re-read in the hopes it would lead to crossing an unread book off my list. I had just finished reading Far From the Madding Crowd, which although I enjoyed, led me to realise that Classics are not my forte. I picked Enders Game and couldn’t have been happier. If you are not familiar with the book and love science fiction (as I do), I urge you to give it a read. And, although there was a movie a few years ago, the book is far better (as is more often the case). Enders Game follows Andrew ‘Ender’ Wiggen as he is taken from his family and put through Battle School in order to fight for the survival of the human race in the coming war against the Buggers. The writing is excellent as it gives you an insight to Enders brilliant mind, who at 6 years old is humanity’s best hope. Ender is put through a series of tests and mind games to keep him working at the peak of his intelligence, and at the tender age of 11 (or is it 12?) becomes commander of his own group. In the end he does exactly what his superiors were hoping he could do and he wipes out an entire alien species, saving the human race. What he doesn’t realise, however, is that the War was all a misunderstanding. He grieves for the lives he has ended and in an act of redemption writes a book detailing the lives of the Buggers to help everyone else understand the true value of what he has done.

Speaker for the Dead is a different kind of novel entirely, but puts good use to the brilliance and understanding we saw from Ender in the first book. The Speaker for the Dead is an almost holy presence who can be called to speak for someone following their passing. They find out who the person is, what makes them tick and tells their story as true as can be in all its glory, and sometimes all its darkness. Within the first few chapters a Speaker is requested and Ender just so happens to be the closest one. By the time he reaches the planet requesting his presence, there have been 2 more requests and with 3 deaths to investigate, Ender has his work cut out for him. At its core it is a science fiction novel, there are elements of interstellar travel, alien life and humanity has spread out in all directions to the depths of the universe using fantastical technology. However, the themes that this book investigates are deeper, leaving you to question your own moral grounding. I, for example, loved the idea of having a Speaker for the Dead, someone who would ask the questions needed to understand you. I’m not sure a Speaker would have much to say about me but the idea of hearing the whole of someone’s story and not just the highlights would give more to those grieving. There is a religious presence throughout the book, but it also explores how different belief systems can work together to overcome any obstacle.

The Speaker for the Dead did take me much longer to read (partly due to the significantly smaller font) but it had me just as gripped as Enders Game. There are many more books following Ender and even some that follow other characters in parallel storylines. Whether I’ll read these, I don’t know. The opinions of the others seem to be mixed and I’m not sure I want to taint my love of the novels by adding lesser books into the mix. Either way, I hope you enjoyed these books as much as I did.

[locke-writes]

10 Favorite Male Characters

Tagged by: @lotsoffandomimagines (thank you Ace!)

Rules: List 10 favorite male characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 different people. Tagging is optional. 

tagging: @aryn-the-bearheart @welldonebeca @ada-carisi @clarkimagines

Aiden Waite (Being Human US)

Jim Hopper (Stranger Things)

Mac (IASIP)

Scott Lang (Marvel)

Bruce Wayne (DC)

Mike Dodds (Law and Order SVU)

Walker Boh (The Shannara Chronicles - Novels)

Ender Wiggen (Ender’s Game)

Percival (BBC Merlin)

Sick Boy (Trainspotting)