#graceling series

[airyfrasc]

Got hit with my annual urge to paint Fire from the Graceling realm novels by Kristen Cashore 🔥

[aelinfireheartgalathynius]

I've been doing some book binding for fun lately and I rebound a thrifted paperback of Fire by Kristin Cashore today so enjoy some photos bc I'm obsessed with this fabric:

[boogerbrat]

i love this series so dearly. it might seem to me like i have forgotten everything that has happened in the past books (except for fire because i live in that story) but now that i am reading Seasparrow i am reliving so many of their stories, and all through this new perspective of Hava who thinks she knows way too much, but i know she doesn't know tha half of it. especially the return to Bitterblue City is so special – here Goldie is mentioned, who Bitterblue had appointed to her place because her graced singing brings at least some joy to the prisoners. here Hava slinks across bridges that previously carried you over the narrative. here Linny admires the statue of the tower girl in the library that Bitterblue has so loved and that Hava doesn't even know carries so much strength for her sister. this series, and cashore herself, incorporates so many little hidden messages to the reader that all say, "look how much love. from them who live, from you who recognises, and from me who remembers it all." i love it so much. these books are as much family to me as Hava and Bitterblue are with Brigan as they plot the coat distribution in King's City, or as Katsa and Po laughing at Giddon's jokes, or as Lovisa is in Linta Massera's notes. i love this series.

[royalberryarts]

Quick painting practice with Queen Bitterblue 💙

Might work more on it later but I wanted to share regardless

[3lectra-he4rt]

does anyone else feel like the graceling fandom is dead even though Seasparrow is relatively new

[greenteacology]

i decided to actually write the beaujester graceling au

i've never actually posted a fic before! so lemme know what you think but please be nice :)

[wizardysseus]

the truth is like blood underneath your fingernails, a mix for queen bitterblue of monsea

they have little reason to exist, except as a monument to the truth of all that's happened, and because they're beautiful. i suppose those are reasons to exist.

[strawberryshortpace]

I just read Fire by Kristin Cashore and I absolutely loved it so I looked into the other books in the series and realized that my library app did me dirty and for some reason didn’t tell me there was a book before Fire

So I read Fire, fall in love with all the characters and the world it built, look more into the series, am told said characters really aren’t in the other 4 books beyond mentions, and now I’m sad

Only character I’m pretty sure is significant in any other books is the one I was praying for the death of every time he was even mentioned

[brick-van-dyke]

Rereading Winterkeep and remembering how hard I ship Mari-Lovisa-Nev as a polycule. 🥺

[annafromuni]

Kristin Cashore's Bitterblue - One of The Darkest YA Books I Have Read

Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue is like nothing I have read before because of its unabashed confrontation of abuse and trauma. It’s heavy-hitting in its detail, in the way characters interact with each other or react to triggers, and it creates such a complex world and multi-layered situation to unravel. Before you decide to read it, I must note that this is a story world that has already dipped its…

[shy-peacock]

So do Nev and Lovisa become a couple or is this series going to disappoint me again?

[3lectra-he4rt]

@liljafish graceling fanart.

ohhh boy i love fanart!!

[starfish-enterprise]

super random question but idk where else to ask it. what is the spelling of (?)ashok/ashoken (tiny indivisible particles from the graceling series??? I have done extensive googling and found nothing, and I don't know where my copy of Seasparrow is. help lol

[boogerbrat]

*looking at my 56 books high tbr pile* yes i think it is high time i reread Fire

[malicocks]

my beloved blorbos, you mean absolutely everything to me <333

Patrick Bannon (Not For Broadcast) & Noid (Disco Elysium)

Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim) & Amanita Caplan (Sense8)

Gary King (The World's End) & Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb)

Mera Chisato (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K) & Valtr, Master of the League (Bloodborne)

Vanasha (Horizon: Zero Dawn) & Oliver Blackwood (Boyfriend Material)

they're all so wonderful i need them all in one post please look at the beauties <3

[3lectra-he4rt]

kristen cashore should be a NATIONAL TREASURE from this

genuinely upset that the Graceling series isn't popular because it's prime Tumblr fandom material like genuinely the world building is fantastic and the whole graceling thing AND seven kingdoms thing makes it perfect for OC creation, the stories are fascinating and entertaining and the leading characters in all 4 books are women, written in an interesting and stereotype defying way, there's explicit poc, queer, disabled representation (both main and side characters!) , discussion of class disparity, a great analysis of how a world would work when a section of the population has randomly assigned magical abilities, THERE'S AN ENTIRE NEW ALPHABET, and most importantly the writing is genuinely entertaining and fun and capturing. if I could change one thing about Tumblr it would be to make this fandom more popular Kristin Cashore deserves the world