#ilisidi

[calmnivore-new]

fanart for foreigner by cj cherryh

[fansideblogtocjcherryth]

Here I made some Transparent png of the foreigner book covers if any one needs them. probably part 1 of something 1/?

[sylvanauctor]

I love the Foreigner books, but they're based on some very unrealistic premises. For example, the idea that humans don't experience man'chi.

[queerian]

I love Ilisidi so much

Eavesdropping on Bren, sending him useful information in response before Bren could go ask her opinion, and then telling him to go the fuck to bed

[fansideblogtocjcherryth]

Question, like what do you think would happen? Like would it get chaotic or something else?

I think they should've put Ilisidi in charge of the space station. Think of how funny it would be.

[readandneedle]

My special skill at small child birthday parties is making custom coloring pages.

[gravything]

Conspirator: Bren Cameron’s working vacation accumulates troublesome houseguests :( :(

the themes are strong in this book and the action is terrifying! yes there is adventure, yes there are buses driven wildly overland, yes there is elite verbal knifework (Ilisidi my beloved great-grandmother) and rigid social protocol—

and then there is, basically, zoomed-in exploration of frayed social fabric post-coup-and-re-coup, examination down to the level of family ties and up to what’s holding clans and nations together or what’s not, because those are the same things. cherryh’s been laying down details for books now in things like missed messages and weird guys out of place and unmaintained roads.

one of the main points in this one is, like, what if we had cell phones. part of the world has them and it’s a plot point that the rest is considering whether and how to adopt them too. there’s worldbuildy alien social reasons this is complicated.

and the story itself is throwing up all these situations where instant person-to-person communication would be expedient and situations where it would be disastrous, and situations where you are thinking about, well, these people would be in reach of each other but would they be connected? in the way they need to be?

while the main characters directly and indirectly grapple with those questions, too!!! in the ways they make decisions about each other!! a bunch of Things about the main character are About This Question: where am I connected, how securely, how properly, how do I maintain it?

this is one of those books that makes me want to be writing proper reviews/analyses.

and this is number 10!! the opener of trilogy 4! (smart me, to have gotten 11 and 12 at the same time, except for how maybe I will not be able to put them down.) who knows what she’s got planned for this trilogy.

Pretender (#8) was my absolute favorite so far (the theeeeeemes, the bonkers action was delivering hard on the underlying themes of the series, and the physical description was so sense-evocative) and this one is giving it such a fight.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: When the Redanian government decides to revive the ancient legal tradition of Correctional Marriage, Eskel is forced to take on his strangest Witcher contract yet: he must marry and "rehabilitate" a convicted smuggler who also happens to be a bard, a Viscount, and the longtime companion of Eskel’s best friend, Geralt of Rivia. Jaskier expected to waste away in a dark prison cell under the streets of his beloved Oxenfurt. Instead, he is given a simple but impossible choice: agree to marry a strange Witcher, or hang for his crimes. Jaskier soon finds himself handfasted to Eskel, a man he barely knows and cannot afford to trust. Bound together by fate, marriage, and a powerful spell known as the Ringbound Curse, Eskel and Jaskier’s destinies were linked long before their first meeting. Now they must learn how to work together, break the deadly curse, and find Geralt of Rivia before it’s too late.

Author: @flightsfancy22

[humanjeff]

"average academic battles 3 giant assassins every day" actually just statistical error. bedraggled translator Bren Cameron, who survives 10,000 assassination attempts every novel, is an outlier and should not have been counted

We feel that Bren Cameron would be a perfect skrunklo for the tumblr set, if only they knew him. With special guest Ann Leckie!

[geoderocks]

I made some sketches for C.J. Cherryh’s amazing Foreigner series. (I’m no great artist, obviously, but had a lot of fun doing these).

In the first book Cherryh describes atevi faces as ‘not by any remote kinship human, but sternly handsome in planes and angles’. So here is my attempt with the Banichi portrait - and of course Bren in one of his long coats (subtle lace included). I haven’t dared to have a go at Jago, Ilisidi or Cajeiri yet, but maybe will put my subpar drawing skills to the test sometime ✏️

[karalynlovescake]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass it on to some other writers if you like. Let’s spread the self-love 💜 (i personally hate these sorts of chain-letter things, so no pressure, but i do like to know which of their works a given author particularly loves, so consider this an opportunity to celebrate your work!)

Man, my instinct was "but I haven't written enough to have five favorites" and then i looked at my works page and I was like. Huh. Ok, actually that's wrong somehow.

Anyway.

The Next Level - Sandman/Good Omens crossover.

Originated entirely from that post where Neil said that Aziraphale and Crowley like to hold hands. Wrote it during a work training conference instead of paying full attention. As you do.

Put that Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me - Sandman,

My gen Gault and Jed buddy adventure story that took me a while to write but I got there in the end. Unfortunately for me, the readers don't go for gen-fic, so it has a third the reads of my other stuff. QQ

Wash these Sins On Down the River - Dreamling AU, written to go with @teejaystumbles art.

Vampire Hob, mysterious supernatural entity Dream. Gosh this was fun to write have take over my entire brain for like two months.

The Vampire, Formerly of Surrey - for The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison.

I just really wanted more Crow and Doyle, and also there's only eight works in that fandom and I got to deal with my personal feelings about both vampires and chronic illness.

Lowdown and Dirty - for the Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh

Still really proud of this one, even though it's from 2017, before I took my five year fanfic writing hiatus. This was just me going "wouldn't it be fun if Ilisidi Filed Intent on Bren for sneaky political reasons? he would be so hurt and annoyed and inconvenienced."

[not-a-space-alien]

Hi , I have a question.

So do you have any ideas for ship fiction situations based around bren × his ashid , Bren x tabini and/or bren x ilisidi.

You see I was planing on making a fiction for you but I do not have a lot of ideas.

The only idea is this very nsft wet dream or just romantic dreams fiction of bren having dreams around tabini , tano , algini , jago , and banichi separately.

Any better ideas then the one I got?

OH FOREIGNER FANDOM OUT OF LEFT FIELD!! :D

I think those are great ideas! :D

Personally, I love scenes with Bren x Jago, since there's a line in one of the books about it being awkward due to their size difference 😳 I also uhh love the idea of Bren x his entire ashaid just in a big pile because they can 😳😳 👉👈

if you're writing it specifically for ME (that's great ♥) Let's just say I uhhhh don't mind nsft 👀 not in the slightest

I don't have any good ideas though, unfortunately xD

[fansideblogtocjcherryth]

I have an reason why I have not been updating my blog.

so I kind of got distracted by two games, "EGGLIA: Rebirth" and "Palia". the latter is what I will be talking in depth about for one of the Characters reminds me of a certain character from the Foreigner series.

So for an introduction , Palia is a Free to play MMO that just released on Switch last month I think (now it has some flaws for example you can not delete your character , Yet according to the devs so if your interested in the game just b please know about that before diving in blind. and look up a few play troughs to see if this is kind of interesting. ) but what it makes up with is the world and the characters that are defiantly wonderfully written. like I can find a reason why I adore each character in there.

to sum up the basic plot it is about humans that start showing up in Palia and you are one of those humans that now have to get involved with the world around you and try to figure out why humans are returning.

now there is a character who goes by the name of Eshe. this is Eshe:

so you might be thinking "okay this is just an old lady with a cane, what makes you think of Ilisidi about her?" Well to start here are some similar stuff about ilisidi and eshe:

the two are politicians

They are kind of funny but can be a bit tense.

They are politically powerful and good at their jobs.

Known for being sort of argumentative .

they both are kind of distrustful of humans at first.

Yes there is some key differences, like how:

ilisidi has a fuck ton of guards and travels more then eshe.

while eshe just has a daughter instead of a grand son and great grandson that is tied to the story like ilisidi .

Ilisidi has to deal with legal assassins while Eshe doesn't.

that's all I currently got that dose not go into spoiler territory at first.

[sylvanauctor]

chrisjen avasarala and ilisidi-aiji should hang out. nothing bad at all could result from this.

[queerian]

on Man'chi in foreigner

Warning! Spoilers for Foreigner (book 1) and Defender (book 5).

Tabini places extremely valuable players (or pivotal moments) in extremely risky situations, expecting those who feel man’chi to him to fulfill their duty to the best of their abilities. It's the same thing when there’s a dangerous situation brewing and Bren says “I have every confidence in you, nadiin” to his staff.

When you feel man'chi, “not only do I trust your loyalty but I trust your understanding and your skills and that despite all the risks and dangers you will be able to rise above it and achieve what is necessary” just goes unsaid.

When Tabini or Ilisidi don't give him what he feels is crucial information, or take actions without informing or warning him, he interprets that as them not trusting him but it actually means they trust him more!

They trust him to operate independently of instruction (and in some cases trust him to know better than they do!), they trust him to intuit the needs of his aijin and carry out what is necessary.

This is why Tabini sends Bren to Malguri in Foreigner and essentially invites/challenges Ilisidi to test Bren, knowing or trusting that Bren will not break or do the wrong thing.

This is why in Defender Tabini sends Ilisidi and Cajeiri up to go on the ship to go on the mission Reunion, knowing how valuable they both are to him and the whole aishiditat, but trusting in Bren's man’chi to him and Ilisidi, and trusting that the man’chi of the ship captains and crew to each other, all will ensure a felicitous outcome. As long as there is the treaty, Tabini can trust that all parties adhering to the treaty will maintain their common interests.

Man’chi is basically a biological assurance of stability and trust that allows atevi to operate under high levels of risk, stress, and uncertainty. As long as man'chi is clear, they know more or less what the involved parties can or will do, and this allows them to take action easily. It comes back to this so often in the series - man'chi allows you to predict fairly well how someone will act under pressure.

Man'chi is not a choice for atevi, it's biological. If they fail at something, it's either because they lack the ability/skill to accomplish the intended goal, or there is a conflict of man'chi. So if an atevi folds under pressure, they lose their value to their lord because they are not reliable - either in terms of skill or man'chi.

And this is why, in the first trilogy, Bren’s staff is initially so perplexed by his constant need for information, because they see it as him lacking confidence in them - their skills and man’chi.

As Bren says to Yolanda in Defender: "Don’t back down from Tabini’s baiting you. If he thinks you'll fold rather than argue with him, you’ll be out of his confidence in a heartbeat.” To me, this is a way riskier cultural mixup than “friend” that Bren keeps harping on about.

[karalynlovescake]

Uh, and we met his mom so we even know why.

Tabini: You're doing great. 10/10 no notes. Everyone's happy with you, just finish the job and don't worry about me, other people are keeping me posted. I'll back you in whatever you need.

Bren: ... ah, I must be misunderstanding this letter. Is this a trap?