#gildedcage

[storizenmagazine]

Posted @withregram • @rupa_publications @sandeepbamzai's #GildedCage examines the role of Nehru, Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah, Maharaja Hari Singh and several others important players in the making and unmaking of Kashmir. To read the step-by-step narration on what went behind the accession of Kashmir to India grab a copy now! #Kashmir #Read #NonFiction #India #JammuAndKashmir #MaharajaHariSingh https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0vMXJLWn1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gildedcageif]

Demo Release!

The prologue is out everyone! You can check it out on itchio. Just click on the link below!

Thank you for all the support and I hope the prologue, though a small part of the wider story, was worth the wait!

[our-flag-means-death-ao3feed]

Before The Fall

by GildedCage (DemonicHoarde)

Stede Bonnet rescues the marooned crew and returns to the Revenge. He is intent on explaining his disappearance to Ed, and confessing his feelings for him.

How will Blackbeard respond to this unexpected reappearance?

The events of this work take place shortly after the end of Season 1, Episode 10: Wherever You Go, There You Are.

Words: 3771, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Blackbeard's Crew (Our Flag Means Death), Israel Hands, Oluwande Boodhari, Black Pete (Our Flag Means Death), Lucius Spriggs, Wee John Feeney, Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death), The Swede (Our Flag Means Death), Jim Jimenez, Fang (Our Flag Means Death), Ivan (Our Flag Means Death), Buttons (Our Flag Means Death), Roach (Our Flag Means Death)

Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet

Additional Tags: Hurt Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Kissing, Rough Kissing, First Time, First Time Blow Jobs, Angst, The Revenge's Auxiliary Wardrobe (Our Flag Means Death), Mentioned Crew of the Revenge (Our Flag Means Death), Post-Episode: s01e10 Wherever You Go There You Are

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/46153558

[uncannyfantastic]

A Gilded Cage by Daniel Horne. . #danielhorne #gildedcage #fantasyart https://www.instagram.com/p/CMtLdzmlk7M/?igshid=1t063j59r3k14

[atouchofstarlightblog]

This series was one of my luckiest finds at the last @warehousebooksale_bb ! I found the first book really intriguing and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of them! The series is somewhere between fantasy and dystopian, which is a cool combination! What are your favourite genre combinations? #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #unitedbookstagram #reading #bibliophile #booklove #booklover #ilovereading #ilovebooks #SAreaders #bookblogger #booksofinstagram #bookstagramsouthafrica #bookstagramafrica #bookstagramza #gildedcage #tarnishedcity #fantasy #fantasybooks #igreads #booksofinstagram #ya #yabooks (at Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rt5jlgcYf/?igshid=5g09yarffd1e

[bookshelfsos-blog]

This cover is even more beautiful in person! I’m looking forward to reading this in December when I read #fivestarpredictions - I’m already planning next month’s reading list. 😂 • • • ❓Do you judge books by their covers? I try not to, because I’ve been burned so many times by a pretty cover and a lame story. And I’ve read so many great books with super ugly covers. 🕶 • • • CHALLENGES! 📋📖 #novinbooks18 📚 “gorgeous book cover” 🌹 • • #gildedcage #vicjames #book #bookstagram #bookish #bibliophile #booklover #booknerd #booklove #igreads #bookphotography #fantasy #ya #yafiction #yafantasy#speculativefiction #ilovereading #photooftheday #flatlay #aesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/BqVY20KHNoS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dqwjqkgihaio

[bookstagramofmine]

Gilded Cage ~ Vic James

Have a quick ten years…

If you ever got tired of the whole YA dystopia you won’t be after Gilded Cage. You also don’t need something sexy and a love triangle to make things interesting.

In this world, all the non-skilled people (magic is referred to as ‘skill’ here) have to go and serve as slaves for the skilled for ten years, either in work-villages or on the estates of the skilled. Here we have the Hadley’s, a regular family where the parents decide that all of them will serve their mandatory years together on the estate of the Jardine’s (one the most powerful and influential skilled families). But, since their son Luke is not needed at the estate, he’s sent instead to a work camp becoming a part of the resistance against slavedays, realizing that he had never questioned the need for slavedays, that they had been made to seem natural, and that the brutal nature of the villages was made so that people don’t think about the need for slavedays themselves, and are too exhausted to fight back. . Meanwhile, at the estate, we see the Abigail understand more and more about the history of the place, the people involved, and even start to try and help a slave who’s being treated like a dog (quite literally). We’re not just limited to the Hadley’s though; we also see the thoughts and actions of Gavar and Silyen Jardine, and Bouda Matravers, introducing us to the politics of the area, and how the seemingly natural power of the skilled may not be so natural, not so permanent, and not truly inevitable. Power was depicted in the book beautifully; it was found in the indoctrination of people and the monotony and inevitability of the slave days. It was found in the violence of the skilled against the skilled, each other, and themselves. It was found in the torture, and the erasure of memory, and the nature of collaboration.

Do your savedays too old, and you’ll never get through them. Do your slavedays too young, and you’ll never get over them.

What really shows off James skill is that she can take her whole host of characters and actually show them as people, with different strengths and weaknesses. It’s more than just creating a cast of characters that you can relate too, but also she can also then show the problems within revolutions and the way people justify their own behavior. Lord Rix, Angel and the Doc make up an interesting set in this. They’re skilled trying to help the revolution, with a combination of their own power and privilege, and we can see why that gets Luke so mad –it could all just be a game to them. It casts doubt on their actions to Luke, until of course, we see that Doc is ready to step forward. Even then, despite seeing Angel in action, it could still very well be a game for her, as most things are according to Bouda, or a part of her infatuation for Meilyr (I can, of course, be proved very wrong when I read the next book). We also see Lord Rix just passing the dirty work onto Luke, not taking any of the fall for it and thinking that it was all well and good, as Luke’s life didn’t really matter –he was just a necessary sacrifice. Meanwhile, we see Daisy (Luke’s younger sister) fall under the spell of the kind attitude that Gavar Jardine has towards her and his daughter, in spite of her being his slave and throwing temper tantrums and being physically abusive towards Bouda at times.

There is also an art in not including certain voices –Jenner Jardine for example. It could have taken away from the book by inserting a Romeo and Juliet dynamic to the text, and would have detracted from Abigails own voice in the sense that we would have seen half of her from the point of view of Jenner, rather than learning about her through her own thoughts and actions. More than that, even as the plot takes its twists and turns, nothing seems unnatural, her characters seem come to life and take action for which there was potentiality within them.

“Your allies aren’t always who you think they are…and neither are your enemies”

[decoratingreader]

💭Do you use headphones a lot? . I do daily. I use them when I work out, while I clean, and at night when I listen to audios or music in bed! I’ve always used the basic ones that come with the iPhone but these new wireless earbuds from @sudio have changed my life! The clarity of these have made me not be able to use the basic ones anymore 😱I also love that they are wireless so I don’t have to have my phone connected to it! . I really urge you guys to head over to @sudio and check them out! You can use BOOKIEMOJI to save 15% when you order! . In other news we have strep in my house. We seriously can’t catch a break around here 😞 but I it did give me some time to slow down and read this weekend! I’m going to be posting about that book later, for now I’ve decided I’m going to finally start Gilded Cage & would love to know what you guys thought of it if you’ve read it 🤗 . •Notebook by @_iceydesigns •Face Mask from a previous @fairyloot box . . . #sudio #sudiomoments #vicjames #gildedcage #tbr #mustread #currentlyreading #fairyloot #earbuds #bookish #bibliophile #bookgram #bookworm #bookstagramfeature #totalbooknerd #bookishfeatures #bookstagramit #bookporn #bookstagram #bookblogger #read #goodreads #booklover #bookphotography #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #📚 #📖 #followme #bookster

[geeky-clean]

‪The sparkly DARK GIFTS bath bomb scented with Vanilla and pepper✨ This bath bomb was curated by @drvictoriajames and inspired by her Latest novel Tarnished City a follow on from Gilded Cage! I can’t bestow dark gifts you’ll have to ask Vic how to get one!🤩‬ #gildedcage #tarnishedcity #bookish (at GeekyClean)

[nocaptainreuben]

Renie is both small and adorable, and incredibly fierce and sassy, so I'm using her as my day 27 & 29 of #janbookstagram18. 📚 I just got a copy of Tarnished City and I can't wait to read it! I think I might treat myself to a quick Gilded Cage reread before I do as well. 😊 #book #books #bookish #bookstagram #booksofinstagram #instabook #photochallenge #bookblogger #booknerd #bookworm #bibliophile #booklover #reading #YA #yabooks #yalit #UKYA #ireadya #yalovin #epicreads #gildedcage #darkgifts #vicjames

[gildedcageif]

me - also a non-native english speaker - not noticing what's off with the language lol. I loved the demo!

We non-native English speakers need to band together, goddammit!

Jokes aside, I thank you! I am very glad you enjoyed! I enjoyed making it too and I hope Chapter 1 will be even better!

[palmbeachvintage]

I love her sense of humour in the midst of all that glamour. Gilded cage, indeed! #womaningown #greensatingown #manincage #ahtheweekend #louisedahlwolfe #gildedcage #weekendfollies #palmbeachvintage #antiquerowwpb https://www.instagram.com/p/B9HNeeGpw41/?igshid=15ainfv9hwtw2

[see-of-stars-blog]

The Caged Universe

SOLD

Auctioned at the Eye of the Artist 2017

Watercolor and acrylic on cold press watercolor paper

[atouchofstarlightblog]

I'm currently trying to decide what books to take with me on holiday! What are your holiday reads? #bookstagram #bookish #bookworm #unitedbookstagram #reading #bibliophile #booklove #booklover #ilovereading #ilovebooks #SAreaders #bookblogger #booksofinstagram #bookstagramsouthafrica #bookstagramafrica #bookstagramza #gildedcage #tarnishedcity #brightruin #fantasy #ya #yafantasy #booksbooksbooks #whatIread #igreads #bookphotography (at Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6TBr6QABFQ/?igshid=1q10fxwsft9vz

[patrickmcmullan]

@aiww inside the #gildedcage #congrats @publicartfund #installation 📸: @anitaantonini (at Doris C. Freedman Plaza)

[travelsofastylist]

And we got to play with all things @gildedcagebeauty tonight 💄🖤 Which also included an amazing masterclass session with @michellecoxmakeup 🙌🏼 #gildedcage #ccxbeautyseries . . . . . #travelsofastylist #fashion #style #contentcreator #digitalcontentproducer #influencer #makeup #beauty #beautyblogger #masterclass #flatlay #lipstick #antipasto #pressdat #event #mumlife #fashionandfoodaroundtheworld #aprilxing #sydney #australia (at Gravity Coworking)