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Half-Fey Urban Fantasy Katherine (Livesies) Mood Board, pretty please?
Hi there sorry for the wait! I mixed up urban fantasy woth cyberpunk and cyberpunk with steampunk (so basically i did steam punk) lol
Anyway tysm for the ask! I tried to keep it in her colors but i couldnt find any faun/satyr stuff that wasnt green smh. Because fae katherine absolutley would be a faun/satyr dont even dare to correct me. Specifically deer/stag
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"Skeptic," investigator Trait from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. Every investigator has 3 to 6 Traits!
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Review: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Author: Katherine ArdenPublisher: Del ReyReleased: February 13, 2024Received: Own (Aardvark)Find it on Goodreads | Aardvark | More Fantasy | Historical Book Summary: Laura Iven worked hard as a field nurse during the war, saving as many soldiers as possible. That was until she was wounded and sent home. Not that coming home proved to be any safer. Now Laura is facing the death of her parents…
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January Wrap up
I had such plans for January, but alas! I did read a bit, but not all the books in my list were finished. Some I gave up on, because I just couldn’t get into them. Without much ado, let me quickly recap my January reads SPSFC Reads Tasmanian Gothic A fast paced and entertaining read, this one made the semi finals of the SPSFC The Mimameid Solution Perfect for fans of slow paced books with…
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Book recs: angels
Want some cool fictional angels? Good news! Whether you prefer traditional winged angels, scary eldritch angels, possibly-human-angels, incredibly creative in-name-only-angels, angels separated from or exploring concepts of faith and religion, romance, horror, fantasy, or sci-fi; this list is sure to offer something to chew on!
For more details on the books, continue under the readmore. Titles marked with * are my personal favorites. And as always, feel free to share your own recs in the notes!
If you want more book recs, check out my masterpost of rec lists!
Historical fantasy angels
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb*
The angel Uriel and the demon Little Ash have been friends for centuries, living and studying together in a small jewish community in Europe. But times are changing, and many of the community have left for a new life across the sea. When one of these emigrants go missing, Uriel and Little Ash decide to leave their peaceful life and go find and, if needed, save her.
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèli Clark
Set in an alternate 1910’s steampunk Cairo, where djinn and other creatures (among other things, creepy steampunk angels) live alongside humans. We get to follow an investigator as she races to catch a criminal using a powerful object to control djinn and stir unrest. Fantastically creative and fresh, and also features a buddy cop dynamic between two female leads as well as a sapphic romance.
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison*
Sherlock Holmes retelling. After having been injured fighting a war against fallen angels, Doyle returns to London to survive on only a veteran's pension. To afford a place to live in the city, Doyle finds a housemate in Crow, and eccentric angel with a great curiosity for humans and a knack for solving crime. And London needs its protector - supernatural beings walk the streets, and a someone going by the name Jack the Ripper terrifies the citizens at night.
Modern day fantasy angels
Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Novella, young adult. Bitter is an art student in Lucille, a city on the brink. Injustice plagues the citizens and protests shake the streets, and Bitter doesn't know where her place his - whether to fight or stay safe. When her art calls upon a creature of bloody justice, she must ask herself just how far she’s prepared to go and what price she’s ready to pay for justice.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Young adult portal fantasy. Young Karou is a student in Prague, but she’s also a mystery. She fills sketchbooks with drawings of monsters, trades in wishes, speaks languages that aren't all human, and has hair that grows out blue. When strange signs start appearing around the world - handprints scorched into doorways by winged strangers - will Karou finally find out who she really is?
Angelfall by Susan Ee*
Young adult post apocalypse. Six months ago, the angels descended on the Earth - and brought the apocalypse with them. Between ruling street gangs and vicious angels, Penryn is just trying to keep her family alive. When angels fly away with her little sister, Penryn does the unthinkable: strikes a deal with an injured and outcast angel to rescue her.
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin*
Urban fantasy. Two years ago, sorcerer Matthew Swift was killed. Today, he woke back up. And he isn't alone in his body, but rather in the company of the blue electric angels, who lived in the telephone lines and are now experiencing the world for the first time through him. Now, he seeks vengeance not only against the one who killed him, but also against the one who brought him back.
The Fall that Saved Us by Tamara Jerée*
Cassiel is of angelic heritage, raised to fight and kill demons alongside her family. But Cassiel has left the hunt and her family behind, wanting a normal life. For three years she's built a life for herself, cut off from her family, but now a demon has found her, sent to collect her soul. Except, the demon isn't any more interested in following the orders of her family than Cassiel is. Can they work together to free themselves from the expectations placed on them? Sapphic romance.
Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron*
Young adult, sapphic main character. When angels started falling from the sky, the world went mad. So far not a single angel has survived the fall, but that doesn't stop teenage Jaya's father from growing an obsession with catching one, going as far as uprooting the entire family to Edinburgh in hopes of finding one. Jaya, busy mourning the recent loss of her mother, finds his obsession pointless - until an angel crashes right at her feet. What’s more, it's alive...
Full on fantasy angels
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
Novella. During Heaven's War, the rebel Abaddon died and fell. Now, long after, what remains of his body is a valuable element called divinity, which is mined by Fallen, descendants of those who fell and the only ones capable of perceiving divinity. Celeste, a Fallen raised among the privileged Elect, is deeply protective of her little sister Mariel. When Mariel is accused of having murdered an Elect, it’s up to Celeste to find out what really happened and save her sister.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Middle grade. In Lyra's world, every person has a daemon: an animal companion who follows them throughout life. When children begins being stolen off the street, among them Lyra's friend, she must embark on a great journey to save him, taking her to the furthest north - and beyond. A note: the angels do not appear until the second book, however this trilogy is very much worth a read from the start.
Gunmetal Gods by Zamil Akhtar
Dark fantasy inspired by the crusades. Seeking revenge, Micah the Metal leads an army of men baptized i angel's blood against the kingdom that stole his daughter. It’s up to Kevah, legendary fighter, to stop him and save his people. But ever since losing his wife a decade ago, Kevah has lost his fighting spirit. To defeat Micah, he must find it within himself a will to live again. While featuring (scary eldritch) angels, they serve more as a driving background/world-building force than as actual characters.
Horror angels
The Unnoticeables by Robert Brockway
Angels watch over humans, but not to protect us but to solve us, seeking to make the universe more efficient and clean away the undesirable. Carey, a 70s punk, doesn't like the idea of being solved. Watching fellow punks disappear off the streets, he becomes embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy. Decades later, stunt woman Kaitlyn has her own encounter with the angels and their creations - as well an older punk who might have the answers she needs.
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Young adult post apocalypse. The world has ended, and sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that caused armageddon. Infected with the bioweapon they released to bring about the end, Benji is slowly transforming into something not quite human and desperate to find someplace safe. When coming across a group of surviving teens, Benji finds something new to fight for. No traditional angels, but it does play with the concept.
Angel Radio by A.M. Blaushild
Young adult post apocalypse. A week after strange and terrifying angels appeared, humanity is dead. Sole survivor of her town, teenage Erika is left wandering on her own. That is, until she catches an odd broadcast on the radio which lures her into the newly emptied world. There she encounters dangerous creatures, but also fellow survivor Midori, who has a cryptic connection to the angels.
Sci-fi angels
Archangel Protocol (LINK Angel series) by Lyda Morehouse
Cyberpunk. In a future where religion has become the law of the land and people spend as much time in cyberspace as in reality, ex-cop Deirdre has lost everything after having been accused of a crime she didn't commit. When approached by a man calling himself Michael and asked to solve the mystery behind the so called link angels - supposed angels who show themselves in cyberspace - Deirdre is given a chance at redemption and answers.
Archangel by Sharon Shinn
For twenty years, archangel Raphael has ruled over the lands, leading to corruption among both angels and mortals. Now the time has come for the angel Gabriel to become archangel, but first he must find his Angelica, a mortal woman chosen by Jehovah to be by his side. But his chosen partner, Rachel, has lived under oppression and fear, and she has her own ideas of what she wants - ideas that don't include Gabriel.
Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds
On a dying earth, society is separated by zones in which the laws of reality shift, allowing for different levels of technology and life. At the top of Spearpoint, the only surviving city, lies the Celestial zone, in which only angels can survive. Quillon, former angel who's had his wings removed and body changed so he can survive and infiltrate the lower zones, has been in hiding for years when he receives a warning that his former people are hunting him. Forced on the run, Quillon must leave Spearpoint for the dangerous wastes beyond, where he will discover ancient secrets of his world.
Space angels
Dust by Elizabeth Bear
In a dying spaceship, orbiting an equally dying sun, noblewoman Perceval waits for her own gruesome death. Having been captured by an opposing house, her wings severed and life forfeit, Perceval’s execution is imminent - until a young servant charged with her care proves to be Perceval’s long lost sister. To stop a war between houses likely to doom them all, the two flee together across a crumbling, dangerous spaceship. At its core waits Jacob Dust, god and angel, all that remains of what the ship once was. And he wants Perceval. Sapphic and asexual characters, however be prepared for kinda fucked up relationships.
The Outside by Ada Hoffman*
AKA the book the put me in an existential crisis. Souls are real, and they are used to feed AI gods in this lovecraftian inspired sci-fi where reality is warped and artificial gods stand against real, unfathomable ones. Autistic scientist Yasira is accused of heresy and, to save her eternal soul, is recruited by cybernetic ‘angels’ to help hunt down her own former mentor, who is threatening to tear reality itself apart. Sapphic main character.
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
Space opera inspired by Joan of Arc. Misery Nomaki possesses rare stone-working abilities usually found among only saints and the voidmad. Not believing herself the be former and desperately not wanting to become the latter, Misery is trying to keep a low profile. Her attempt fails when the voice of an angel - or a very convincing delusion - leads her to become the centerpiece of a dangerous battle between two warring factions hoping to use her. Very unique and cool conceptually, but a little all over the place in how it handles its plot.
Bonus AKA I haven’t read these yet but they seem really cool
Dusk in Kalevia by Emily Compton
Toivo Valonen is a secret agent in more ways than one. An angel masquerading as human, he's acted as a source of hope for humanity in wartime throughout history. In 1960, he embarks on an undercover mission to Kalevia, allied with a rebellion against the government. In his way is fellow angel and rival agent Demyan Chernyshev, who’s working for the KGB.
The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard
Having just barely survived the Great Houses War, much of Paris lies in ruins. Morningstar, founder of the House Silverspires, has gone missing, and something is stalking the people within the House's walls. Three people, a Fallen, an alchemist, and a man wielding spells from the far east, may be prove to be Silverspire's salvation.
The Worst Perfect Moment by Shivaun Plozza
Young adult. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is dead and i heaven. There, she's supposed to be reliving her happiest memory. Except the moment Tegan has been placed in isn't very happy at all. Guided by an angel, Tegan is brought through her past to understand what most matters to her. If she fails to see the happiness in her assigned memory, the consequences would be dire for both her and the angel.
Honorary mentions AKA these didn't really work for me but maybe you guys will like them: The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
#nella talks books#when the angels left the old country#a master of djinn#the angel of the crows#bitter#daughter of smoke and bone#angelfall#a madness of angels#the fall that saved us#out of the blue#tread of angels#the golden compass#gunmetal gods#the unnoticeables#hell followed with us#angel radio#archangel protocol#archangel#terminal world#jacobs ladder#the outside#the genesis of misery#angels
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Introductions (2.1.1)
About me:
↪ Leah, she/her/any pronouns
↪ In my early 20s
↪ Reader, writer, sometime animator and artist
↪ Big cannibalism fan. Huge, really ;)
↪ Been doing martial arts for over a decade
↪Fan of CJ Cherryh
↪I reblog stuff from @leahpardo-pa-potato
My writing:
↪ Generally horror, with sides of fantasy
↪Posted in regular chunks of 500-1k words
↪I love tag games, esp OC ones :)
↪I do mini-series, one-shots, and novels
↪I will love you forever if you send me an ask
↪See my full list of one-shots here and my longer pieces below
My art and animation:
↪Masterpost here
↪Mostly blender 3d animations, though I do a bit of drawing too
↪ Don't expect it quite as often as my writing ;)
↪Just interact here to join the taglist!
WIPs / Longer stories
The Unwanted Visitor: (Completed)
Aida's house has been haunted by a spirit for as long as she can remember. Thing is, she's grown used to her Unwanted Visitor (or Vis, as she likes to call him). So when exorcists come after him, she does what any sane person would: protect her brother friend.
↪ Urban fantasy-comedy, very light-hearted
↪A lot of found family and sibling squabbling
↪If you like teens causing chaos, this is for you!
↪Final bit here
A Perfectly Normal Schoolgirl: (Completed)
All Katherine wants is to eat mortal food, bask in the warmth, and be a normal schoolgirl. But when a boy begs her to help him save her parents, she finds herself fighting for her (and his) life once more.
↪Urban fantasy with a side of horror
↪ Basically an inversion of a bunch of tropes
↪My attempt at writing fantasy without mentioning magic by name
↪Full thing here
Convenience Store Vampire: (Completed)
You'd expect vampires to be imposing and terrifying, masters of the night and princes of darkness. But that's not Davie, no siree. He's stuck down by Sunny Mart, working all day to scrape by. The last thing he wants is any trouble. Unfortunately for him, that's exactly what he's getting.
↪Silly urban fantasy shenanigans
↪ What it says on the tin + slice of life
↪Full thing here
A Tale for A Mouse: (Completed)
Who doesn't like to listen to evil old dark lords monologue about their childhood? Take a seat and come hear the story of the Spirit Emperor, as told by the man himself!
↪Cannibalism. Lots of it. World building too :D
↪High fantasy told via monologue
↪I cannot stress how proud I am of this.
↪Full thing here
Fast Food:
An embarrassment to his entire tribe, Hash is lazy and uninterested in anything. So, when he reaches majority, he gets unceremoniously booted out of home. Follow his adventures through Triworld, as he somehow ends up in every single single conflict across the continent.
↪High fantasy with a side of humour
↪Very heavy Lore™ and Worldbuilding™
↪ My excuse to ramble about fictional history
↪Latest bit here :)
A Tale of Love, Death, and Maggots:
Doc's been wandering through hell for a good twenty years, now. He thought he'd seen it all. He thought he'd felt it all. He thought he'd lost it all. But it turns out love just has a way of crawling back into his chest and breaking his heart again.
↪ Tragedy, fantasy?, horror?, Idk it's a weird little thing
↪I hope you like death because this sure has a lot of it
↪Latest bit here and here's a moodboard of it
Lich-Queen (Completed):
Iraela has all but won: the King of Ceredell and his bride are gone, the cities fallen to her army of undead, and the way to the throne cleared for her. But her coronation, and her sanity threaten to fall apart under the weight of duty. Can she hold it together until she truly becomes Lich-Queen?
↪High, dark fantasy with some horror and gore
↪Watch Ira slowly lose her mind in real-time
↪If you like cannibalism, you'll love this
↪Full thing here
The Novel™ (Mind of a Mercenary):
Luna, Terror of Garvenoi, mind-mage extraordinaire, has been caught at last. Whilst everyone celebrates, she is given an ultimatum: Be an indentured hunter for the government, or die. But when she signs on with them, she finds that perhaps death might have been a better choice...
↪ Urban Fantasy set in a Non-Earth world
↪Starring a sassy, mean-girl villain protagonist
↪Enjoy several hundred pages of Luna trying and failing to run from her duties
↪Find snippets here (find the others on my masterlist of writing)
Finally, my taglist! If you interacted with this post/already asked me to add you, and you don't see yourself here, please remind me! I may have accidentally missed you :')
Oh pls kill me I felt so silly doing this- Anyways bye guys hope to see y'all around don't judge me for this
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Anticipated Upcoming New Releases
Anticipated by Me. Asterisk for titles where I haven't read anything by the author previously (ie sounds cool but unvetted)
*Hammajang Luck, Makana Yamamoto (14 January). In a far-future world, a thief is approached by the partner who betrayed her for one last job just after getting out of a prison planet on early parole.
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett (11 February). Book three of a series, in which Emily deals with the repercussions of being engaged to a faerie king.
Wooing the Witch Queen, Stephanie Burgis (18 February). Romantasy in which an evil sorceress queen gets catfished by a disguised imperial archduke pretending to be a librarian in a gaslamp setting.
The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (11 March). Reportedly actually coming out this year! In book 3 of the series, Thara Celehar investigates a case involving an old cemetery and a miner's group.
A Gentleman's Gentleman, TJ Alexander (11 March). Alexander sticks their nose into the Regency genre with this t4t lord/valet romance.
*Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (18 March). A sci-fi mystery novella set on a generation ship, where a ship's detective investigates a mysterious murder.
*Aunt Tigress, Emily Yu-Xuan Qin (18 March). Reformed monster Tam investigates the murder of her aunt in Chinese folklore inspired urban fantasy Canada.
A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (1 March). Sequel. Our Sherlock Holmes coded detective investigates the disappearance of a treasury officer with the help of her trusty assistant in a complex secondary fantasy world.
Don't Sleep With The Dead, Nghi Vo (8 April). Vo returns to the fantasy Great Gatsby setting with this novella from the POV of Nick Carraway post-novel events.
*The Gentleman and His Vowsmith, Rebecca Ide (15 April). An accidentally falling in love with your wedding vendor by during your arranged marriage book, now with a locked mansion murder mystery.
Advocate, Daniel M Ford (22 April). Book three of a series. Insufferable lesbian necromancer Aelis is summoned back to the capital to investigate an accusation against her former teacher.
Saint Death's Herald, CSE Cooney (22 April). Sequel to my particular favorite Saint Death's Daughter. Lanie Stones must contain her murderously ambitious (and dead) great grandfather before he conquers the world.
Ascension, ST Gibson (13 May). Sequel to Evocation about the contentious urban fantasy wizard polycule.
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (13 May). A professor at a magical academy deals with some troublesome demons. (I'm VERY excited for this one)
The Mercy Makers, Tessa Gratton (17 June). Criminal heiress Iriset uses her ability to create magical disguises to infiltrate the palace and free her father, insinuating herself into the lives of the emperor and his sister in the process.
Last Night Before the War Was Won, Emily Skrutskie (24 June). Two redshirts unexpectedly don't die in a fantasy apocalypse after a band of plucky heroes intervene, forcing them to contemplate their one last night stand.
The Memory Hunters, Mia Tsai (29 July). Secondary world academia about using memory magic powers for archaeology.
Hemlock & Silver, T Kingfisher (19 August). A retelling of Snow White from the point of view of a healer trying to cure the poisoned princess.
#it's a fun challenge to try to get these summaries down to one sentence#this is very early for next year releases and I know I'm definitely missing something#multiple somethings#so I will be coming back to update this#on the tbr#watch me daringly release my list three months before the tordotcom first half new releases post
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A request
Please suggest books to me! Preferably in the glove kink/lesbian space atrocities, urban fantasy or dark academia genres but I'll happily try any SF/fantasy at least once.
So far I've read and loved:
Before 2023
The Imperial Radch (Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy) - Ann Leckie
Jean le Flambeur (The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince/The Causal Angel) - Hannu Rajaniemi
The Windup Girl/The Water Knife - Paolo Bagicalupi
Memory of Water/The City of Woven Streets - Emmi Itäranta
2023
The Locked Tomb (Gideon/Harrow/Nona the Ninth) - Tamsyn Muir
The Masquerade (Traitor/Monster/Tyrant Baru Cormorant) - Seth Dickinson
Teixcalaan series (A Memory Called Empire/A Desolation Called Peace) - Arkady Martine
Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit/Raven Stratagem/Revenant Gun/Hexarchate Stories) - Yoon Ha Lee
The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red to System Collapse) - Martha Wells
The Broken Earth (The Fifth Season/The Obelisk Gate/The Stone Sky) - N. K. Jemisin
Klara And The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Xuya universe (The Citadel of Weeping Pearls/The Tea Master and the Detective/Seven of Infinities plus short stories) - Aliette de Bodard
This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Goblin Emperor/The Witness for the Dead/Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison
Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
2024
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
The Craft Sequence (Three Parts Dead/Two Serpents Rise/Full Fathom Five/Last First Snow/Four Roads Cross/Ruin of Angels) - Max Gladstone
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang
Dead Country - Max Gladstone
Hands of the Emperor - Victoria Goddard
Read and liked:
The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Great Cities (The City We Became/The World We Make) - N. K. Jemisin
Autonomous - Annalee Newitz
Dead Djinn universe (A Master of Djinn/The Haunting of Tram Car 015/A Dead Djinn in Cairo/The Angel of Khan el-Khalili) - P. Djèlí Clark
Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk
Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty
The Mythic Dream - Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe
Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic/A Gathering of Shadows/A Conjuring of Light/Fragile Threads of Power) - V. E. Schwab
The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling
Last Exit - Max Gladstone
The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley
Ninth House/Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo
Machine - Elizabeth Bear
Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield
She Is A Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran
Sisters of the Revolution - Jeff & Ann Vandermeer
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher
Monstrilio - Gerardo Samano Córdova
Was uncertain about:
Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki
The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher
The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard
Uprooted - Naomi Novik
What Moves The Dead - T. Kingfisher
All The Birds In The Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
And read and disliked:
To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
The Passage - Justin Cronin
In Ascension - Martin MacInnes
(My pride insists I add that I have, in fact, read other books as well. Just to be clear.)
#books#lesbian space atrocities#imperial radch#ann leckie#locked tomb series#the masquerade#baru cormorant#seth dickinson#teixcalaan series#arkady martine#machineries of empire#yoon ha lee#the murderbot diaries#martha wells#broken earth trilogy#nk jemisin#tamsyn muir#this is how you lose the time war#the goblin emperor#katherine addison#aliette de bodard#annalee newitz#paolo bagicalupi#some desperate glory#emily tesh#hannu rajaniemi#a master of djinn#max gladstone#craft sequence#t kingfisher
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“I was excited about the prospect of exploring fashion in Paris in the late '20s," Colleen says. "I pushed it into the early '30s because Paris is always ahead of the fashion curve; it’s [a] city known for its elegance and style and that was a great period for design.”
Can you take us through your creative process for designing the costumes?
"The first part of the process was meeting with the director and reading the script where you get the idea of what the story is. The next step is meeting with the production designer so you see the world that he's creating. This particular movie is set in Paris and a little bit of New York. I start and go do my own research, and look for inspiration from that time period in Paris, which was a very rich and amazing time for design where so much was going on.
“Newt still has his beasts, but his shell is a little slicker. We put Eddie in clothes that are close to the same silhouette, just a bit better fit.”
"I took all the layers from the art world, to the carnivals, to Moulin Rouge, all the things in Paris that make it such a spectacular city, back into with the different levels of humanity that I'm creating for the film, for the real world, and for the wizarding world. [The wizards] are living not seperately from the muggle world, they have a double life. So they live amongst the regular folks but they have a little flare so I had fun with them with different shaped hats, and different things that were subtle so you could kind of tell it was them when they were mixed with the muggle world. But then when you separate them, I pushed reality a little bit more. They're more strange looking, with different kinds of color and things like that. In this case, because I know the main four from the previous film, I take each character and think about how they evolve and how they've grown from moving through a couple of years into their lives and breaking that down with each of them."
"[For Grindelwald] The name begged for an Alpine twist, and I’ve always loved Bavarian clothing. We made the lederhosen a little bit longer, coupled it with a tall boot, and ended up with a kind of Bavarian meets the New Romantic."
How would you describe the evolution of the costumes from the first movie to the second one?
"Since they went from America to Paris, they have a more European flavor in general. The principal characters are more sophisticated, they've evolved. Katherine Waterston's character Tina has moved back to her old vision as a higher up. Queenie has evolved and become a more grown up, less flippant character. She's in darker colors and a more grown up look. Slightly pushed into the '30s. For Eddie Redmayne's character, it was sort of similar in silhouette and shape as his previous costume, but with a more urban flavor, a more sophisticated fabric, and [with colors that are] a little less bright."
"[For Queenie,] it’s a bit more grown up and has a slightly darker edge than her dress in the last film, but at the same time, it’s feminine and has the whimsy of that big bow in the front. "
How would you describe your designs for the movie?
"In general, I think my designs defnitely have a flavor of movement and color, and a sort of trajectory into the '30s that was different from the first film. I think they're quite sexy in a quiet way, not in an obvious way. I have some amazing beautiful characters like Claudia Kim who is Nagini. She has a very amazing dress that transforms into other things so I had a really magical times with the costumes."
[For Nagini] “Throughout the film, she is wearing her performance costume from the magical circus, so I wanted to amplify the fantasy aspect. For the material, I took lace and screened over it with metallic foil to give the look of snakeskin, and then added ruffles around the bottom and the sleeves to suggest the coils of the snake.”
Did you face any difficulties in designing the costumes?
"I think for a movie like that, the most difficult part is just the time you have to create a lot of ornate cotumes. Getting them ready and getting them aged and looking interesting takes just about enough time to get it done. For instance, Queenie's dress is a beautiful piece of fabric I found in Germany from the '30s, but in order to make it work for her costume, I needed enough to make 12 costumes. In order to do that sometimes I take the inspiration of that fabric and print it myself so I create the fabric for the characters before I make the costume in order to have the feeling of the period and the kind of fabric I want for that particular character. In doing that, everybody's costumes shouldn't look like it just came from a store, it should have a lived in quality. So the same people that do the printing and stuff make things look dirty, if there's a fight they tear it, they do dyeing of fabrics for making different colors and all kinds of things. It's a huge creative department painting, taking the leather coats—when I first get them they look very stiff— and breaking down things so they look like they're comfortably lived in."
“David Yates and I wanted Dumbledore to be the professor the kids all love, their go-to guy. He needed to look professorial but at the same time approachable, so I used softer fabrics and textures in tones like heathery grays, which add to the approachability of the character. I also love corduroy, so I made a wide-wale corduroy coat for him and Jude just loved it.”
Would you say each character's costume says something about their personality?
"I think that each character's costume is part of their character, so for instance, the idea of Tina's leather coat gives immediate authority with its silhouette. I would consider how each character looks not only close up, but how they look far away, standing in a doorway or something like that. They don't have a lot of changes, but they have a look, and I think that's part of the design of the character that's the most important thing to find."
“Tina has more self-assurance since her reinstatement as an Auror. She looks like a true detective in a great blue leather coat. We were fond of everything about it…except how much it weighs.”
Did you have a favorite character to design for?
"That's a hard question! Not really, it was fun working with Zoe Kravitz on the film because she's so sylish and it's great to design things that are chic like that and more sophisticated.
“Leta is from the manor born, so her clothes are all very elegant and rich in color. Zoë looks fantastic in anything, so it was fun to dress her for the period.”
#fantastic beasts#crimes of grindelwald#coginterview#colleen atwood#newt scamander#gellert grindelwald#tina goldstein#queenie goldstein#albus dumbledore#nagini#leta lestrange
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Hi Rachel!! 💖 For book recs: I'm looking for books similar to Among Others, especially the world building aspect of it. Looking for atmospheric and thoughtful "urban" fantasies.
ooohhhh i got you!
the wild hunt by emma seckel (adult)
tam lin by pamela dean (adult)
ink blood sister scribe emma törzs (adult)
fire and hemlock by diana wynne jones (adult)
when among crows by veronica roth (adult)
the inheritance of orquídea divina by zoraida córdova (adult)
the rules of magic by alice hoffman (adult)
the left-handed booksellers of london by garth nix (ya)
the hazel wood by melissa albert (ya)
a study in drowning by ava reid (ya)
a far wilder magic by allison saft (ya)
ghost wood song by erica waters (ya)
the ghosts of rose hill by rm romero (ya)
the coming storm by regina m hansen (mg)
the grey king by susan cooper (mg)
small spaces by katherine arden (mg)
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I just finished Chasing Dawn (The Alters) by Terra Katherine McKeown and aaaaaa!!!!
aaaaaaa!!!!! It so good!!!!
I don't have the time right now to write up the review, but if you want a thrilling urban fantasy with a really cool take on DID and magic, please check this out, it's so so cool!!! I am Hooked! I Am Compelled! In less pages than other certain books I've read, I'm so much more connected to each of the alters and their personal journies, as well as the magical lore.
If you check it out, please be mindful that there's some detailed fight scenes that get pretty bloody, implied sexual abuse and a chapter detailing ritual abuse(the chapter is titled Sigils and Scars Faded). I'll do a more detailed TW list when I can write my review
But yeah!!!! I loved this one
#did in books#did media#dissociative identity disorder book#dissociative identity disorder#media reccs#media recs#chasing dawn the alters#did in media#actuallydid#I am moving out very quickly and suddenly!! like literally just back from being with chimera we went wups no more house <3#im very very fortunate to even have a house to stay in#but ill be off to see R in two weeks anyway#so yeah sorry to get personal! i want to write a review but itll have to wait for a moments respite
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WIP Intro: The Legend of Orian Goldeneye
I've been tagged by @illarian-rambling to do the Wip Intro tag game, so here I am, finally composing a legitimate intro!
Rules: Fill out the questions for your wip! Blank Questions: Title: Genre: Audience: Tags: Stage of the Writing Process: Synopsis:
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Title: The Legend of Orian Goldeneye
Genre: Portal Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Audience: Around YA/Adult by publishing metrics, TV-14 by show metrics
Tags: #the legend of orian goldeneye, #orian goldeneye, #jasper katherine, #killian cory, #azura lazuli, #diana ozborne, #henrik bronze
Stage of the Writing Process: Rewrites
Synopsis:
On the planet Somnia, there are two worlds, hopelessly intertwined: the physical world, and the dream. In the dream, anything is possible.
...Unless it involves black glass.
The city of Saint's Shoal is in a state of unrest. A dreamshaper by the name of Azura Lazuli seeks vengeance, and she will stop at nothing to see it through. The responsibility falls to Orian Goldeneye, mythical child of balance, to stop her before her actions harm innocents. But he's only one dreamshaper, and every battle between them ends in a draw. He's getting desperate.
So what happens when two strangers get tossed into a prison designed for dreamshapers? An opportunity is siezed, and it just might tip the scales in his favor.
But time's running short, and Orian's new allies, Jas and Killian, may be far more than meets the eye. Will they aid him and put an end to Azura's reign of terror? Or will they bring more problems than he started with?
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Gently tagging @fourwingedwriter @thewritingautisticat @phoenixradiant @crwn-nrth @catwings-writes-things
@pluppsauthor @pluttskutt and anyone else who wants to give it a go! :D
#the legend of orian goldeneye#my wips#wip intro#wip intro tag#fantasy writing#fantasy writer#writeblr#tag game#writeblr tag games#open tag#tag games
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This is to explain about my fic. I recommend reading it first:
Because I put several Easter eggs, references, and other things you may didn't notice on the first reading.
I try to be careful here, with how/what I write - especially as I'm speaking about religious and culture I'm not a part of. Also, please consider that I don't speak Spanish and that English is a second language for me.
However, I tried to learn and educate myself. I tried looking for mexican writers, and looking more for what PEOPLE said, instead of researchers.
If I wronged anything, please let me know! I'm open to fixing and learning.
Short bits:
1. "His mom's culture" - I HC Katherine Todd as For this fic (and several others) I went with Mexican, because it worked better with my ideas.
2. "Santa Muerte" - Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Our Lady of Holy Death). Some celebrate her day on August 15th.
3. "Catrina" - refer to "La Calavera Catrina" ("The Dapper [female] Skull"). Hispanic version of Katherine.
4. "there are more things on heaven and earth"
5. Abchanchu.
6. la Llorona
7. wak-wak
8. Camazotz + "getting his head turned to a basketball"
9. "Say hi to the big guy for me"
10. He met his mother
11. "He wakes up... 6 months and 5 days later"
More detailed:
2. "As Señora de la Noche ("Lady of the Night"), she is often invoked by those exposed to the dangers of working at night, such as taxi drivers, bar owners, police, soldiers, and prostitutes. As such, devotees believe she can protect against assaults, accidents, gun violence, and all types of violent death."...
"Santa Muerte also has a saint's day, which varies from shrine to shrine. The most prominent is November 1... Others celebrate her day on August 15."
Another reason I focused on Santa Muerta was her being very important to the "lower classes". It works well with the way I see this universe and Urban fantasy. It actually got so long, I had to make it into a whole post.
3. "Catrina" is a version of 'Katherine' - that also means pure, unsullied. I HC her as an immigrant, and therefore wasn't probably originally called "Katherine" - but started using it in USA, as she try to 'blend in', or just as a preferred "mistaken name".
4. Shakespeare quote!
4.5. "crime ally attracts all sorts of beings" - I have a separate post about the worldbuilding.
5. Abchanchu - "a legendary Bolivian vampire who shapeshifts into the form of a helpless, elderly traveler. When a passerby offers to help him, Abchanchu victimizes him and drinks his blood" (wiki)
6. la Llorona - ("The Weeping Woman" or "The Wailer") is a Mexican mythical vengeful ghost who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned because they had no food.
7. wak-wak - "a vampiric, bird-like creature in Philippine mythology. It is said to snatch humans at night as prey".
Honestly? The moment I read about it, I was like - "yea, it's perfect for the worldbuilding". Why wouldn't people believe Batman is a wakwak? We have here the vampire features (bat), but also birdy, "snatch humans at night", cryptid.
(Another bonus? Remind me of the word "Witwat". If you read my fic "Witwat and the Jin" you understand why I associate it with Batman)
8. Camazotz - In the Late Post-Classic Maya mythology of the Popol Vuh, Camazotz is a bat spirit at the service of the lords of the underworld. Camazotz means "death bat" in the Kʼicheʼ language. In Mesoamerica generally, the bat is often associated with night, death, and sacrifice.
Do I have to explain?
*8. "getting his head turned to a basketball" - there's a story where the Maya hero-twins Hunahpu and Xbalanque go to the underworld. They have to stay for the night in 'the house of bats' and hide themselves inside their weapons. Hunahpu stuck his head out to see if it's day, and one of the bats snatch his head and hang it as a ball for the gods to play with.
(I hope I'm not too wrong here).
So, 1- kids like disgusting things. 2 - think about Kid!Jason, who grew up with this story in his head, being taken away by The Bat to HIS HOUSE. (He was probably terrified af).
9. "Say hi to the big guy for me" - a quote from the Joker. I built a tiny parallel here - it's the last thing he here before he dies (Joker) and before he re-lives (His mom).
10. I sort of use it as an anthropomorphism - I don't go into religion here. I see it as - faith and beliefs and community can turn into something. I see it as one face of Death, but also different. idk. I hope it's understandable.
11. Jason died on April 26/7th. He comes back to life on October 31/November 1st - AKA Día de los Muertos. But, as I understand, Mexican tradition has 2 days - November 1st honors the souls of children (día de los angelitos), and November 2nd remembers the souls of adults.
So - Jason, on the edge of adulthood, comes back to life on the day of the angels, but crawls out of his grave on the day of the adults.
[better explanation:
and with photos: https://danestrom.com/dia-de-los-angelitos-remembering-children-day-dead/ ]
#batman#jason todd#red hood#crime alley#resurrection#Camazotz#Abchanchu#la Santa Muerte#La Calavera Catrina#mythology#mexico#Latino jason todd#Día de los Muertos#día de los angelitos#fic recs#fic analayzis#my writing
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10 and 19!
10. How many books have you read in the last six months?
33 books so far! I've already surpassed my goal for the year thanks to the help of audiobooks
19. Top 5 favorite books?
Yay now I have an excuse to ramble about my favorite books!
1. Babel by R. F. Kuang
I was glued to this book while I was reading it! It's a story about the magic of translation (literally and figuratively) and resisting colonialism through the power of collective action and violence. I love the dark academia atmosphere of the book and I thought the characters were (mostly) likeable and easy to connect to.
2. The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
This book is a retelling of Sherlock Holmes but in a victorian urban fantasy setting. The Sherlock equivalent in this book is a character named Crow, a cheerful, dense, hyperactive angel with a special interest in solving gory murders and I love him so so much. Crow is my boy. The best angel of all time. (And the narrator for the audiobook does such a good job with his voice.) The Dr. Watson equivalent of this book also has his own supernatural affliction to deal with.
This book plays with gender a bit which is something I always appreciate. Apparently it follows the original Sherlock mysteries pretty closely but I've never read the original books, so it was all new for me. Mystery aside, as an urban fantasy adventure this book is so much fun.
3. Circe by Madeline Miller
I looove Madeline Miller's prose. It's so pretty and lyrical but also simple enough to be easily understood. She puts a lot of effort into crafting the voice for her narrators and it really shows in her writing. This book (and Song of Achilles, her other mythology retelling) are rides with so much emotion.
4. Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
I read this book back in high school but Neal Shusterman is a long-time favorite author of mine. There are two sides of a story being told in this book, one side is a pirate adventure and the other side about a teen struggling with schizophrenia. The two sides eventually combine in such a creative way. It is an amazing book that breaks down the perspective of mental illness understandably, and the subject is handled with a lot of care as the author's own son has schizophrenia. It really opened my eyes to what schizophrenia is and after reading this book I've honestly been upset at other ways I see schizophrenic characters depicted in media. I usually see schizophrenia villainized in pop culture when it should be treated with empathy.
5. The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
This is definitely not a fast-paced story but a story with well-written court politics with a main character you can root for. A sweet, shy, ostracized prince is suddenly thrust onto the throne when the favored members of his family pass on in an accident. The entire story is him navigating court politics and dealing with dissent from all sides when all he wants to do is do the right thing and also have friends. Let him have friends!! Addison is the best at writing Good Boys.
Incidentally the audiobook is also voiced by Kyle McCarley! (Though sadly, because Kyle is a wonderful actor the narration does not sound much like 9S 😔)
thank you for the ask! 😊
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22NB looking for a partner aged 18+ to play as at least 1 of the following against my OC (yes, I double up if asked!):
Jaime Lannister (Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice & Fire) - would be an age gap ship
Kai Parker OR Katherine Pierce (Vampire Diaries) - would be an opposites attract/hatesex thing
Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) - aged up & takes place after the show
John Wick (John Wick movies) - age gap ship
the mid-30s ex-military guy & werewolf who rescues & falls for my 20 yr part-fey female OC (fandomless/urban fantasy)
I can write on Discord or Tumblr (via posts) 🎃
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#eighteen and over#oc#oc roleplay#oc rp#ocxcanon#ocxcanon roleplay#ocxcanon rp#got#got roleplay#got rp#asoiaf#tvd#atla#john wick#fandomless#urban fantasy#fantasy
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(Answer to a very belated AU combo ask game)
Okay I am so sorry this took so long to answer, unfortunately the brain gremlins went on strike :( But I'm here now! This is why I asked you to pick a genre the other night!
Anyway, I guess genre twist just means. same story, new genre? And you gave me urban fantasy, so here goes.
I think this is going to be a world where some people have powers or are human/[something] hybrids (werewolves, etc.), and many of those people are not treated very well. Given that it's a 21st century AU, I don't think it would make sense for the newsies to still work as newsboys, but there would be similarly terrible pay and hours - most of them are magical beings of some sort, and given their age combined with the fact that most magic users/human hybrids face a lot of discrimination, they can really only work awful jobs that pay cash under the table.
Anyway, Davey enters the picture for the same reasons as the original plot (his father getting injured on the job), but maybe he's in a situation where he is a magic user but has been trying really hard to hide it so he can make it in the world? And then pretty soon after Davey joins the group, their employer announces that they'll be taking a bigger chunk out of their pay for tax reasons or whatever (even though they get paid under the table), so the newsies decide to go on strike.
Katherine is still Pulitzer's daughter, but instead of being a journalist I think she works in something to do with unionization/labor relations/non-discrimination clauses, so when it comes out that she's Pulitzer's daughter, Jack thinks she was trying to union-bust from the inside (she wasn't, obviously). But since there still needs to be newspaper coverage of some sort, we'll throw Denton in here just for fun - Katherine is someone he works with pretty regularly when reporting, and he wouldn't get most of the stories he gets without her.
The rest of the plot would be...fairly similar to the original? I'm stuck at home today because I'm sick, so sorry if none of this makes sense.
#asks#ask game#newsies au#newsies#alex!#i hope you enjoy this mess of a concept#i'm not great at fantasy worldbuilding as you can see#and i feel gross. oof ouch my sinuses.#anyway hopefully i feel less sick soon
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