#light fantasy

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Inktober day 13 : Robin, Friend of Birds

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The Hunter, perhaps a part of a series 👀

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Fondation Monet in Giverny, France ⋆ ౨ৎ ˚ ˖ ࣪ Unknown photographer

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name moodboard for “aelin” for @aelinthesunlight

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Six Sentence Sunday

Huge thanks to everyone who has been tagging me recently whilst I've just been a loitering phantom. I love seeing everything you're working on. Thanks to @artsyunderstudy for the tag today and @shrekgogurt and @wellbelesbian for the tags on Wednesday.

I'M BACK!! The muse is finally working again, and I am back writing! I swear, it's an understatement to say that I'm relieved the words are finally flowing again! I have been stuck in this word purgatory for MONTHS, but finally, FINALLY, something has clicked into place.

I'm not doing NaNo this year, but instead doing PaWriCo with the Pathfinders Writers Collective. This challenge is a lot less restrictive than NaNo can be, you can choose your timeframe, your project type, and your own goals, and my aim with this is to finish a full redraft of my original novel.

So, once more unto the breach! I'm going to be participating over the next three months, with the aim of writing 100K words and finishing a full redraft. Not only am I changing up the plot, I've also changed the tense I'm writing in. I think that change up in tense is what's lead to this flow of words again.

With that, I present a little more than six sentences from my opening chapter. I don't know exactly how many POV's there will be with this novel yet, but it will at least be dual. Here is one of those POV's, Vanessa Archer, Elite Faction Lead with MI6.

The paperwork I have clutched to my hip feels leaden in my hands, the harsh words stark against the pure white printer paper. Clarissa would suggest something of this gravity be printed on something appropriately coloured, black probably. The thought makes my eyes roll, and then the beginnings of a smile tug at my lips as I imagine what Ada would have to say about that. If I’m thanking higher powers for coffee, I should be kneeling before an altar in thanks for the pair of them; without them, this last mission would have resulted in far more casualties.

There are already far too many for me to be entirely at ease walking into this morning’s debriefing.

My head pounds again as I pass under a particularly bright light and I run my fingers over my eyes, careful not to smudge my reapplied makeup; what I wouldn’t give for a hot shower and a freshly made bed right about now. As it is my hair has been sprayed with enough dry shampoo to mostly hide the few grey hairs sneaking into my blonde waves, if only by making my entire crown look dusty and pale. To circumvent this, in my wisdom, I’d piled it up into a high bun and stabbed it with bobby pins. 

Aah, time to play my favourite game: is it a migraine, or is this blasted bun just too tight? Place your bets now!

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Evaluating my book collection earlier today was tiresome. And now I'm just tired, regularly. I almost don't want to post. I could gladly fall into my sedentary routine of using the stupid addictive chatbots. But I promised to try and evaluate my reading taste, and so I will. I also promised myself i'd try and work on my christmas list too, but we'll get to that. So anyway, let's begin the self evaluation:

I find that I almost exclusively enjoy middle grade fiction. Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, The Land of Stories, Alice in Wonderland, etc. This is all stuff predominantly targeted at teenagers. And despite me being 19, it's still the only stuff I seem to enjoy reading. With exceptions, of course. I enjoyed some Sherlock Holmes short stories once (and I did enjoy the Lord of the Rings once, although I feel no deep desire to revisit it soon), but I still don't enjoy a lot of stuff aimed at adults. So yeah. It's clearly middle grade or lower for me. (Also, I haven't really revisited Harry Potter since I learned of the controversies, but it's still an apt example here).

I also like very Lighthearted Fantasy. Again, look at some of the things I've enjoyed most. Percy Jackson, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter. Do you know something shared between these three things? It's that they're not 100% dark and edgy and sad. They have comedy in them. Percy Jackson is a book series that can cover a lot of serious stuff, but it's usually delivered in a fun way. And Alice in Wonderland is just completely comedic, with dozens of weird and humourous scenes. I don't like death in my books (usually if a character i like dies, the whole thing is ruined for me). So I need my stuff to stay somewhere on the funny, optimistic side of things.

And this now shows why it's so hard to find stuff I might like reading. Because there's only so much that can fit within my very narrow range of criteria. So that's why Christmas is sometimes a lot of hassle. I want to put books on my list (books and video games usually end being the only items i can think of, so they fill lots of space), but how can I think of books when it's already mid november and i'm working with my very, very picky tastes? That's the hard part. I'm half tempted to ask for recommendations. Just to see what anyone can share, based on my criteria. And if anyone wants to know what i've read before, there's three posts that I made earlier dedicated to that.

[rhaenryawifes]

Imagines from Etsy. “I’m a master of speaking silently all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence.

[faeologist]

Day Court☀️

[annafromuni]

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a Delightful Cosy Fantasy For All

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett has been popular book for light academia lovers, fairycore fans, and whimsical romance readers over the last two years. I have finally joined the party, and I can attest to the wonderful world building and delightful dialogue within these pages. It is a historical fiction fantasy set in the 1900s and it is sure to be a heart-warming…

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126

5/5

(Nov read- just one more and I can post my Dec book)

This was a great comeback from Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (and I enjoyed that one too just lot as much). This felt very nostalgic to me, and the writing was vastly different than Yumi. It definitely shows this author’s versatility.

This is a must read for anyone who likes Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, Legend (with Ton Cruise in the 80s or so), Stardust, and The Princess Bride. Maybe even The Last Unicorn (though I haven’t seen or read that yet, I’m just guessing) Those light fantasy stories.

This is about Tress who is very content to stay on her home island, and she collects teacups, and she is very content for her only worldly connection to be those cups. But one day, her life changes dramatically when she finds out her best friend is actually the Duke’s son and now he’s been sent away to get married and find a wife. Tress takes it upon herself to find him when the Duke comes back with someone he claims is his heir…but it’s not her friend. Her friend was apparently given to the Sorceress and Tress embarks on a journey to find him.

I love this book. I’m definitely going to be selling my copy, so that I can re-buy the hardcover edition. I love this one so much.

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Old project character designs

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apple orchard

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