#nehemiah

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Best friends and nothing bad happens to them 🤍

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Throne of Glass Series: A Brief Summary

Women get shit done

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Aelin Ashryver Galathynius from “Throne of glass” by Sarah J Maas.

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TOG IG: Females

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[theweeklydiscourse]

i'd be fascinated in seeing you write discourse on throne of glass, it really has a lot to unpack... i love your acotar commentary!

Now that’s an interesting idea! I got halfway through the first book in 2020 before I got distracted by another series, but I picked it up again in 2021 and read all the way to the end in rapid succession. I’d heard about Sarah J Maas’s writing before and I was exposed to some divided opinions on the qualities of her writing. Some hated it, but most people loved it and I decided to read the series so I could draw my own conclusions about the state of her books.

Long story short, I did not like her writing. But, there are certain aspects of TOG that make me prefer it to ACOTAR.

But, I read the series all the way through so I could make an informed assessment and critique of her writing without getting things wrong. Like you said, there is a lot to unpack and if I decide to reread the series at some point I’ll definitely write about it. Off the top of my head I have about three things in the TOG series (in no particular order) that have captured my attention.

1) The books in the Throne of Glass series should not be nearly as long as they are

One of my professors always told us to make every word count in our essays to create concise writing and I wish Maas had an editor who would tell her the same thing. Many of the books in TOG are bloated and could be improved if Maas would just cut down on some of the material in her books. There’s a lot of unnecessary fluff that pads out nearly all of her novels and it makes the pacing of the story very poor and uneven. This is particularly noticeable in her habit of creating a vast wasteland of nothing for chapters and chapters before finally reaching the REAL action (at which point the book ends and the reader questions their life choices)

2) The racism in TOG is impossible to overlook

I can’t even discuss Nehemia’s death without raging. Describing the way she died feels so surreal, it’s like Maas shoved her hand into a glass jar of racist tropes and pulled out a handful of them. Another detail I distinctly remember from reading Heir of Fire was when I was reading Sorsha’s description for the first time and noticed that she had “tan” skin and looked like she was of Eyllwe descent and I thought: she’s going to die, isn’t she? AND LO AND BEHOLD, yet another WOC killed in the most brutal way imaginable to advance the character arcs and angst of white characters. I got downvoted to hell on the Throne of Glass subreddit for pointing it out, but it must be said.

3) I was disappointed by Manorian.

This particular grievance is something I’ll elaborate more on in the future because to me, it represents a larger problem in Maas’s writing that should be addressed more often. I intend to write about his more in the future.

Also thank you so much for the compliment! I’m so glad that you liked my commentary on ACOTAR :)

[bamgory]

you Will look at my oc. ill introduce his boyfriends travel mates at a later date. say hi to him 🫶🏼

his names nehemiah but not pronounced the biblical way bc i mispronounced it when i first named him and it sounds so much better (neh-heh-mai-yuh)

yes hes a vampire. yes he has big droopy ears. yes he has blue hair and pronouns. yes i designed his side profile after kim hongjoong

[dylanswiftacheron]

saw a tiktok of someone talking about ToG and they said “so far my favorite character is princess nehemiah….” and i never closed an app so fast i can’t go down that rabbit hole tonight

[sarahsoba]

My mental health has been wack lately but I managed to finish Crown of Midnight. In case my mental health decline is BECAUSE I finished CoM, I will be sending my therapy bills to SJM. Anyhow, here's Nehemia! (Also I have a conspiracy theory that Ugandan Knuckles' queen is Nehemia. It's my new headcanon.)

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[craigtowens]

Stewarding Your Gifts Into Strengths

What do you do that thrills you because you ran to it because it was killing you, and now it fulfills you to keep doing it? This is where you find your “sweet spot” in how God has gifted you.

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible.  https://craigtowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/stewarding-your-gifts-into-strengths.mp3 We have been learning about how God gifts us so that He can use us to build His kingdom. Discovering these gifts and then living in this gift zone is going to require us to…

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“Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10b)

[dandylion240]

“So are you. You’re sightless. Why are you alive?”

“My parents liked me,” Cecil explained, knowing that many dragon parents would have gotten rid of him before he was born.

“Lucky,” Miah said, “mine nearly ate me.”

“Well,” Cecil grinned, “no one will try to eat you here. You’ll have plenty of food as long as you behave.”

“Cory is teaching me.”

“Good, that’s all I ask.”

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[acourtofquestions]

Does anyone have a fashion blog for Throne of Glass? Cause the styles described I NEEEED to visualize & fangirl over!!!