#fox’s tongue and kirin’s bone

[embarrassingbog]

Please please please people in the fox’s tongue and kirin’s bone fandom please tell me all of the songs you connect to the series because I cannot think of any for the life of me or find a playlist made by someone else and it’s driving me nuts

(And any of my mutuals who haven’t heard of the series please read it’s so good, Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s bone by @muffinlance is the first book)

[shadowofaghost5]

Give it up for everybody’s favourite street rat!!!

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Fanart of Aaron from Fox’s Tounge and Kirin’s Bone, an incredible book by @muffinlance

I worked hard on this an am incredibly proud of how it turned out. If you wanna hear about the process, feel free to check out me rambling in the tags.

[bayofalgecirascranes]

Good ol’ Aaron Foxstongue, the only human with two deaths and neither of them want anything to do with them.

but to be quite honest I am fascinated by the behavior of the deaths in Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s bone and The Skin Stealer’s Son. So many of them seem to be completely apathetic towards anything and everything unless and until it gets in the way of their charge’s Predicted Time of Death (ie: aaron is involved). I’ve seen deaths that are kindly and deaths that are hostile and deaths that are solemn and deaths that are hungry and deaths that revel in their nature, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a death that’s apathetic before. They treat attempted massacres like ice cream socials and don’t give a second glance to the victims or the perpetrators. And yet some of may or may not have plans for aaron?

anyway please buy Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s bone and then read its sequel on royal road, it’s really good.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

Just finished fox’s tongue and kirin’s bone. Ohhhhh my god that was a good book. I knew it would be since I’m a longtime fan of the author but still. Everyone check this book out literally rn it’s nowhere near as popular as it deserves to be.

[awritersbro]

Come to the Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone Fandom we've got:

An asexual bilingual vegetarian who missed his own murder and is making every day of his continued existence other people's problem (sometimes as a means to an end).

A thirteen-year-old Princess with a birthmark who Is In The Walls and Will Not Be Contained.

A thirteen-year-old Prince who loves the baker's apprentice's pastries and his own family in that order, and who does not want the weight of the world on his shoulders no matter how many people want to thrust it onto him.

A 20-something Prince who does not know whether or not he's a Trojan Horse.

A long-suffering lieutenant who is Trying His Best.

A royal spymaster known only as "The Lady" who wears the skins of shapeshifters to turn into different animals and who can fight toe-to-toe against dragons.

An absolute cinnamon roll who can do no wrong, who braved the journey alone from the outermost parts of the kingdom to the capital in order to become the baker's apprentice and serve his nation.

And all of them can and will stab you if the situation calls for it.

[complainblogforthevoid]

There is a trend in things marketed as aro/ace that is vexing me.

When I, an aroace person, am searching for a book with an aroace protagonist, what I am envisioning is a character who is going around doing plot things and riding dragons or fighting monsters and rebuffing every attempt to flirt with them with rock-like obtuseness.

When I find a list of books that are being specifically marketed as aro/ace though there are generally two flavors:

MC is asexual but not aromantic. The story is wholly and explicitly a romance and the driving plot is either that it's chill not to have sex in a relationship or MC grappling with do I really feel love if I don't want sex which then resolves of course

MC is aromantic (may or may not be asexual as well) and the driving plot is am I a monster because I don't feel Love???

These are not bad plots of course, I enjoy a good story explicitly about rep as much as the next starved minority, but I have realized that I'm in the minority of not wanting it to really be important. I don't want a story about being aro/ace, I just want characters who are.

I want a story about aro/ace people who literally don't have to mention it. What's it to you? Like maybe they do drop the term, that would be fun, but why for the love of god can I not find any books marketed as aro/ace that actually don't have to do with romance.

Give the people (me) what we (I, just me) want

(Before someone asks yes I am actually writing the story I want to see in the world but I want other people to do that too)

(Shoutout to Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone by Allison M. Kovaks which is a dramatic fantasy political drama story in which the main character is asexual and I only know that because she mentioned it in an author's note once. It is not marketed as an Asexual book I don't think. It's not really relevant to the story, and there is no romance to be had in said story to make it so, but it's clear by the way he acts that he's not really interested and THAT is what I want from ace rep please and thank you)

If anyone does have recommendations please share

[art-emisz]

COVER REVEAL for @muffinlance's novel The Skin Stealer's Son, sequel to Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone!

[bayofalgecirascranes]

@windwalker-chrysalis the reader screams thing is true I’ve experienced it once or twice myself

If you have the time, I have a few questions about ftakb, if there's any you wouldn't mind answering! (some for curiosity sake, some maaaaaaaybe for potential fanart purposes.... ;)

-what is aaron’s hairstyle like? (i forgot :( )

-how do people in onekin/ twokins dress, in terms of cultural inspiration and styles? same with architecture!

-about how large, relative to our world, is lastrin? like the size of japan or so approximately?

-can you telepathically hear when your readers are screaming into pillows?

-do you giggle and kick your feet when it happens?

Hairstyle: straight black hair, currently in a short ponytail as he lets it grow out

Cultural inspiration: Ireland had the greatest influence on the capital (...not that Ireland ever existed in their world but ssh), with various southern Asian cultures also being prevalent fashion-wise, though that architecture would mostly be in the south of the isle

Size: TINY. Ireland-ish-sized in terms of land, with lower population density; Onekin is their biggest city, and its population is ~20k. Woo the slow slip into extinction!

Reader screams: are transmitted and absorbed similarly to cosmic radiation, but on a frequency tuned specifically to writers

Giggling and kicking of feet: is an excellent way to bleed excess screamenergy when the screampacitors are full, yes

[frankencanon]

It has arrived...!! 🦊❤️‍🔥🐲

Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone by Allison M. Kovacs (@muffinlance)

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Hmmm. I see. So what modernity wants in their stories is morally grey characters - not in the sense that they are merciless killers with good hearts but in the sense that they are flawed but that the lines between good and evil are too blurry to properly make out. And they want those characters of ambiguous morality to make choices that still end up for the better or everyone and those they care about because perhaps what matters deep down inside is caring. More than a story where the definitions of good and evil are properly outlined, we want a story where the choices we make matter, that even if the skies are grey, we can still paint color in this world

[therealslimshady]

Aaron fox's tongue and kirin's bone is not doomed by the narrative or saved by the narrative but a secret third thing (his existence throws the narrative off it's tracks and several important people are very put off by this)

[sammusbird]

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/sammusbird/778846502321864704

This is how it’s pronounced in the audiobook! In my head I hear more of the Welsh ‘ch’ than a ‘ck’ too, to the point I can’t actually tell which he is doing 😳 (and sorry to link it like this, I totally forgot that Tumblr doesn’t let you embed videos in reblogs haha)

So I FINALLY finished Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone and I'd really just love to have nuanced opinions about the themes and politics and world building but all I have is I just really like Lochlann, he's such a sad wet cat man (my favourite type of blorbo) and also how do you pronounce Lochlann? I've just about got my two braincells to agree that this is based off Gaelic mythology, not Celtic as I initially thought (and then was confused by until I put two and two together) so presumably Lochlann is pronounced like Lock-lan. Except I can't for the life of me read it that way. I think it might help if someone could tell me whether I'm right or wrong and maybe that'll help

[bayofalgecirascranes]

have you read the last chapter of the skin stealers son yet ಠ⁠_ʖ⁠ಠ

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHGGGHHHHH! (Positive) (laudatory even) (how am I expected to act Normal after all this) (I need to reread everything Janalistrin has ever said to Aaron now) (the rest of my family has only just met duke sung so I cannot scream with them about it)

[daylyluck]

I made some memes to tide me over until the next chapter of @muffinlance's fox's tongue and kirin's bone drops and i get to hear what my beloved boy aaron is up to (i'm sure he's having a normal day and no poison is involved):

and finally, my constant state of being for the last year, but ESPECIALLY after the second-to-most-recent chapter:

[anaurorafanblog]

Aaron from Fox's Tongue and Kirin's Bone would really like Falst i think. Maybe even to the point of trying to befriend him without any ulterior motives.

I'm... not sure if that feeling would be reciprocated. Considering the fact that literally everything about Aaron is sketchy at best and this feeling only increases the more a person talks to him.

Despite all their disagreements regarding things like "how much murder is too much murder" and "what's better: being honest and upfront with people or playing them to your advantage like a Rakhn-damned fiddle" their most heated argument is about the benefits of keeping a pocket pantry vs just eating food when you have it. ("If you save it for later, you've something to nibble on the next time your stomach decides that it's hungry." "Well you wouldn't feel that hungry again so quick if you just ate it all in one sitting!"

One thing they do agree on: neither of them are big fans of Open Sky.

[awesomeferret10]

I have not stopped thinking about the concept of a playlist. So I made one. Thanks to @wrylylichen who’s playlist I almost entirely lifted (minus some of the non English songs which I could not for the life of me find on YouTube music) and @bayofalgecirascranes who’s songs I also added! If anyone else wants to add to any songs feel free to message or @ me with anything. ( @sammusbird and @yetanothergreyjedi since you both seemed interested I’m tagging you too)

Here’s the link to the YouTube playlist: Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone Vibes

The YouTube music one: Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone Vibes

And the Spotify one: Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone Vibes

(I linked the YouTube and YouTube music one separately because even though they’re the same playlist they do create different links and I figured it’d be easier for anyone who has one app instead of the other. The Spotify and YouTube ones are different though as the Spotify one is missing one of the YouTube songs since they’re pickier about what is on the platform, and the Spotify has ones that YouTube is missing because I was able to directly take them from @wrylylichen)

Hope everything works for everyone and the versions are all correct, same deal as wanting to add a song, if there are issues feel free to message me or tag me

Please please please people in the fox’s tongue and kirin’s bone fandom please tell me all of the songs you connect to the series because I cannot think of any for the life of me or find a playlist made by someone else and it’s driving me nuts

(And any of my mutuals who haven’t heard of the series please read it’s so good, Fox’s tongue and Kirin’s bone by @muffinlance is the first book)