#mourning glory

[inkerdinker]

"I depend on you."

I've mentioned before how their relationship isn't the healthiest. It depends on how desperate Obitus is to get her husband back. This is one of the bad endings resulting from her downward spiral!

[garbage-owner-bag]

Have anyone received Mourning Glory yet? Because I haven't received any of it and it's been a year and a month, please tell me so I make sure Ion get scam

[cottoncandycasketspray]

[northernreads]

book review

My rating: ★★

I received an e-arc copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

When I requested this book I did so because I have enjoyed previous books by these authors, and did not realize that Mourning Glory was written not as a traditional book, but with the intention of it only being an audiobook. As such it's really more of an audio drama or fiction podcast than a book. Normally when accessing a book through audio format I try not to let any issues (if any) with the audio narration cloud my view on the book. Mourning Glory, however, was intended to be published as an "audiobook" and so I will include comments on it's format in this review.

First though, the story itself. Mourning Glory is following three sisters and their cousin as they try to deal with their family history legacy and also the demon that haunts their family.

The characters are all so likeable and distinct and I loved seeing how they interacted with each other and with other family members. I loved how family-oriented the whole story was, with the main relationship plots being sisterly ones.

I also really liked the A plot in which the family trying to deal with this demon and learning about how they came to be haunted by this demon in the first place. Rooted in southern American history and those horrors, this book was giving characters the agency to take on the past.

The only B plots in this story were the relationship plots between the four main characters, which should have been enough, but some how came across as shallowly done. Without enough B plot, this story seemed to lack dimension.

There was one scene I was confused about near the end in which two of the protagonists wind up having to kind of time travel and steal souls, and rather than follow them do this, we sit with the other two girls and listen to them wait and chat. I truly don't understand why we couldn't have seen both perspectives, and if we were to only get one why we only get the duller one?

The ending was also wrapped up far too neatly. There was no real hitch in the plan that our characters had to overcome. They made a plan and followed it through and that was it, it was rather uncompelling.

On to the format. This story was narrated by none other than Bahni Turpin, who is a favourite audiobook narrator of mine. Her voice truly brought this story to life and added so much dimension to the story. The story itself, being written with audio narration in mind, would lose a lot if ever published in print as it currently stands.

This story also came with so. many. sound effects. Too many. I was continuously pulled out of the story by the sound effects, some of which didn't even exactly match up with the sound described. There was also often background music alongside the narration that made the scenes feel cheesy rather than actually adding anything.

Then on top of all of that there were some lines delivered at half the volume as the rest of the narration because the character was mumbling or was supposed to be further away that I just could not hear at all. I did however, check out this story on spotify to see if the quality was better and it did seem to be a bit clearer than the file I received.

If I hadn't received this story as an ARC I would not have included it as part of my reading and probably would have DNFd it for the sound effects alone, however I promised an honest review so here we are. I would recommend this to people are already fans of fiction podcasts or audio dramas as the format may be more to their tastes.

[selfportrait27]

Freeman - Molly (by Ween)

November 1, 2014

Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, Oregon

Video by Wet Coast Productions

[azucarera-art]

when u, a queen, come across another king, & u discuss how best to maximize ur joint slay 💅🏽✨

[soundleer]

Hello,Soundleer I'm your fan, I love your drawings of Jevin. I can tell you something: can you make a drawing of Jevin and his multiple ships (of course you can)

whee thankii im flattered!! yea i would draw multiple of jevin ships but for my drawing flow at the moment, ill be drawing my top 3 fav jevin ships here. hope that's fine yee

two popular ships and a rarepair hyeee :33

[gingermintpepper]

I know everyone knows the story of Actaeon and how he met a terrible fate by stumbling upon Artemis bathing in her forest but did you know that Actaeon was Apollo's grandson? That his father was Aristaeus, lord of the bees and the rustic arts and his mother was Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus and princess of Thebes?

Did you know he was trained by Chiron? That he was considered a hunter so skilled his talent was considered divine, that he was his parents' only child and that he was loved?

Did you know the grief that consumed the household when word of Actaeon's fate reached them? That Cadmus cut his hair, that Harmonia wept and was disconsolate and that his parents... well, Autonoe walked the length of the forest, keeping a sharp eye out for her son, but all she saw were the scattered bones of a fawn. Aristaeus too, had heard his son was torn apart and so fruitlessly, foolishly searched for the bones of a man. (There was none to be found)

Did you know that it was Actaeon's ghost, unhappy and unburied, trapped on the earth, who leaned over his sleeping father and told him of his fate? "You will not find me as you knew me, gather me as a stag." And Aristaeus immediately woke his wife and told her the truth, and together they grieved all the night long.

(Did you know that this is why Aristaeus abandons Boeotia? He could not stand the sight of it and so he went to Ceos. And there he slayed the dog-star. And there he became a healing wind. All in the name of his only son, that foolish, beloved Actaeon.)

[rachiebeee]

trials of apollo but instead of leo getting revived its octavian. calypso not understanding who he is, what he's done, grieves leo's death but doesn't blame octavian.

and then they make it to camp half blood and apollo - his ancestor, the one who had supported him and let him see into the future. a future where the greeks destroyed new rome, one that he had been desperate to avoid. even at the cost of his morality and his sanity.

the same ancestor who had rescinded his support, and octavian had convinced himself it was because the damned greeks were trying to control his gods.

that ancestor was disappointed to see him alive, had been hoping that the other one had survived. and it wasn't just apollo. everyone at camp treated him with varying levels of disgust, every single one of them made it known to him in some shape or form that they hated that he was alive. that they would have preferred him dead.

anyway i haven't actually thought this through, but something about an 18yo who was driven to insanity not just by himself but because of gods who had manipulated and used him. that 18yo needed reviving to a world that hates him, a city that he had wanted to protect which now shuns him.

for funsies make leo's ghost unable to pass on and be tethered to his. or something. have the prophecy force octavian to go along with apollo, meg and calypso to the waystation. have him question everything he stood for, everything he believed in, everything he became. give him a second chance because he was 18 and a pawn of the gods like everyone else.

[aurorabiggs]

When I started BG3, I returned to writing fanfiction.

When I fell into Dragon Age, I started making Powerpoints. Let me know if you want to know all about Johanna Hezenkoss and her hatred of peer review.

[inkerdinker]

I'm in a silly mood, have these idiots

[starker-sorbet]

⚘ Morning glory ⚘ - symbolizes love and mortality

Tony wasn't meant to be the one in this position. It should be the other way around. He was the older one, the one who put his body through who knows how much shit. It shouldn't be Peter beneath that stone it was meant to be him first. But it wasn't him, it was Peter. And Tony now had to live with that fact for the rest of his life.

[magesdelight]

two necromancers, one hand of glory

[veil-jumping-into-love]

A few screenshots of Klara and Emmrich to commemorate my first run.

[sketchbook-gal-xe]

Mourning glory🥀

A (slightly late) Birthday gift for @kwispyhamburger!

I've wanted to draw Mewna for a bit, especially after This art about her last moments with Glace, So to counter the sadness wanted to draw something a little more happy/peaceful for her :)

Happy birthday!! hope you like it!