#midnight tides

[septemberkisses]

"I know girls who spill I'm sorry's from their mouths like they pump blood to their veins. Sometimes, I am one. I know girls who apologize for asking to go to the bathroom in class, who apologize for everything because they feel like they are taking up more than their fair share of space on this planet. Everything starts with an I'm sorry and ends with one too, constant bookends that we don't even notice anymore. We delete her apology the way we delete likes and ums from speech. I know girls with ten times more apologies than misdemeanours and I wonder how often they hear It's okay. You're more than okay."

— "I'm Sorry" by Claire Luisa ( @claireluisa )

[fallowhearth]

Sometimes the genesis of Malazan as a shared roleplaying homebrew setting really makes itself apparent. Like, Iron Bars—a character that as far as I can recall, has not been mentioned in the series up to this point, but whose name is dropped as though we are expected to cheer and clap—shows up out of nowhere in Midnight Tides to be cool and awesome. And the worst part is that he is cool and awesome. And it's so fun to see some Crimson Guard. So it's good actually.

[smokingchagga]

I LOVE Tehol and Bugg!

[chloristoflora]

Tehol collected his cup and cautiously sniffed. Then he frowned at his manservant.

Who shrugged. "We don't have no herbs, master. I had to improvise."

"With what? Sheep hide?"

Bugg's brows rose. "Very close indeed. I had some leftover wool."

"The yellow or the grey?"

"The grey."

"Well, that's all right, then." He sipped. "Smooth."

"Yes, it would be."

"We're not poisoning ourselves, are we?"

"Only mildly, master."

"There are times," Shurq Elalle said, "when I regret being dead. This is not one of those times, however."

The two men eyed her speculatively, sipping at their tea.

"Ideally," she continued, "I would now clear my throat to cover this moment of awkwardness. But I am incapable of feeling any more awkward than is my normal state. Secondly, clearing my throat has unpleasant consequences."

Midnight Tides, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #5)

[eminjbrylv]

Nəhayət qovuşduq ❤️

[malazanquotes]

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.

Midnight Tides, pg 463

[literatureaesthetic]

[ reading update + book haul ]

[exponentiate]

There’s no way I’m overhyping myself

Text from image is a selection from the Dramatis Personae section of Midnight Tides. Text is as follows (line breaks replaced with semicolons):

“Huldo, an establishment proprietor; Bugg, Tehol’s servant; Ublala Pung, a criminal; Harlest, a household guard; Ormly, Champion Rat Catcher; Rucket, Chief Investigator, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Bubyrd, Rat Catchers’ Guild ;Glisten, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Ruby, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Onyx, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Scint, Rat Catchers’ Guild; Kettle, a child; Shurq Elalle, a thief; Selush, a Dresser of the Dead; Padderunt, assistant to Selush; Urul, chief server in Huldo’s; Inchers, a citizen; Hulbat, a citizen; Turble, a citizen”

[thethornofcamorr]

this book is gonna make me dnf the series

[pippenplayz]

So Rise TMNT Duo names I've heard:

🟪Don & Leo🟦

Disaster twins

Midnight Duo

🟦Leo & Raph🟥

Magnetic Duo

Leader Duo

Switch Duo

Blue Raspberry

A-Team

🟧Mikey & Donnie🟪

PB&J Duo

Smarts and Crafts

B-Team

Sun & Science

🟦Leo & Mikey🟧

Baja Blast

Portal duo

Sun and eclipse

Sunrise Duo

Tidepods

Unicorn Bros

Dr Duo

🟥Raph & Mikey🟧

Sunset Duo

🟪Don & Raph🟥

Brains and Brawn

Jampackets Duo

🟨April & Don🟪

Bannana Pancakes

DNA Duo

🟦Leo & April🟨

The gay agenda

Ikea Duo

🟧Mikey & April🟨

Orange Lemonade

Citrus Duo

🟥Raph & April🟨

Eldest Siblings

Pink Lemonade

🟥Raph & Cassandra🏒

Shred Red

Cherry Duo

🟦Leo Future Boy🔑

Father and Son

Sensei and Student

Edit: This is constantly updated with every Duo name that gets commented that I don't have in here.

[fallowhearth]

It might be stockholm syndrome at this point because the book is so long, but. The recurring cutaway gags and punny references to Bugg being [redacted] are quite funny. I'm not too proud to admit it.

Also, I like Chief Inspector Rucket of the Rat Catcher’s Guild. Much more effective deployment of the sexually abnormal fun little freak than early-book Shurq.

[bekaterrier]

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[chloristoflora]

"You asked, a moment ago, how I honour the memory of our parents. I can tell you this, Brys. When I see you. How you stand. The deadly grace – your skill, taught you by his hand – well, I have no need for memory. He stands before me, right now. More than with Hull. Far more. And, I'd hazard, I am much as you say – like her. Thus," he spread his hands helplessly, "you ask for help, but will not hear what I tell you. Need there be reminders of the fates of our parents? Need there be memory, Brys? We stand here, you and I, and play out once more the old familial tortures."

"You describe, then," he said hoarsely, "our doom."

"She could have saved him, Brys. If not for us. Her fear for us. The whole game of debt, so deftly contrived to snare Father – she would have torn it apart, except that, like me, she could see nothing of the world that would rise from the ashes. And, seeing nothing, she feared."

"Without us, then, she would have saved him – kept him from that moment of supreme cowardice?"

Brys was facing him now, his eyes glittering.

"I think so," Tehol answered. "And from them, we have drawn our lessons of life. You chose the protection of the King's Guard, and now the role of Champion. Where debt will never find you. As for Hull, he walked away – from gold, from its deadly traps – and sought honour in saving people. And even when that failed… do you honestly imagine Hull would ever consider killing himself? Our father's cowardice was betrayal, Brys. Of the worst sort."

"And what of you, Tehol? What lesson are you living out right now?"

"The difference between me and our mother is that I carry no burden. No children. So, brother, I think I will end up achieving the very thing she could not do, despite her love for Father."

"By dressing in rags and sleeping on your roof?"

"Perception enforces expectation, Brys." And thought he saw a wry smile from his brother.

Midnight Tides, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #5)

[the-evil-duckling]

Part 5 (will I ever stop? Perhaps not):

"I am a caster of nets.

Tyrants and emperors rise and fall. Civilizations burgeon then die, but there are always casters of nets. And tillers of the soil, and herders in the pastures.

We are where civilization begins, and when it ends, we are there to begin it again."

The Kenyll'Rah demon Lilac, to Trull Sengar

A short series of malazan quotes, part 1:

"The flower defies."

Tiste Andii poem, in its entirety.

[jmmangkukulam]

One of my fav panels of Basilio 🐈

The Executioner’s Squad. Trese: High Tide at Midnight, written by Budjette Tan, illustrated by Kajo Baldisimo, book 6, case no. 25