#red winter trilogy

[creative-hanyou-girl]

ATTENTION IY AND KAMISAMA KISS FANDOMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ANNETTE MARIE IS HAVING A LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER COPY OF ALL 3 OF THE RED WINTER TRILOGY BOOKS IN ONE BEING OFFERED!!!!

The Red Winter Trilogy is a masterpiece especially if your into Inuyasha and Kamisama Kiss or Japanese mythology in general. You guys won't be disappointed!!!!!!

Here's some more stuff:

AND I KNEW THIS SERIES WAS INSPIRED BY INUYASHA!!!! I FREAKING CALLED IT!!!!!

I will say that this offer is a big project and that nothing is guaranteed until Annette and her team have reached their pledge goals and have some stuff finalized. Already though, some of their purchasing offers involving this hardcover have been fully met. By the time I got to this, they had only 2 offers for the hardcover open, so this is a limited time thing!!!!!

You guys can go to KickStarter here where Annette Marie is making this offer:

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[uptonogoodart]

Finally, the digitally colored version of my yokai Tomoe. I hope you like it 🩵

[alexlutecea]

Yumei: fast and reliable food delivery 🤭

“Is that food?” Shiro asked, pointing at the large paper bag in Yumei’s hand.

Emi blinked at the bag. “Is that a takeout bag? How did you order takeout?”

“I stole it. I have no idea what it contains.”

[maikswen]

in case anyone needs it like i did, a week or so ago i needed something to get over the post-acftl slump and got recommend to me "red winter" by annette marie for having some similarities (the couples dynamic did remind me of evajacks) and i just finished and even though i didn't like it as much, worked so well (and has a much better ending) and now i need something else to get over this new slump lmao

its a really fun story with japanese mythology and yes, its slowburn too

the only downside imo is the ugly cover. but there's gorgeous inside art that kind of makes up for it

just leaving the rec in case someone is looking for something like this

[redemptiionss]

So if you’ve read the Red Winter trilogy and liked it, the author is having a kickstarter right now for a special limited edition omnibus 🥳 The cover art is absolutely gorgeous! Go back it so we can reach the ultimate stretch goal and bring all of the goodies home lol 🫣

[flowerish-cherry-blue]

red winter by annette marie

«you’ll forget me someday, little miko.» his voice was even hoarser than hers, rough and coated in a hint of an animal growl.

«i’ll never forget you,» she told him. «i’ll remember you to my last day.»

«do you promise?»

her heart gave an odd little flutter. «yes, i promise.»

[creative-hanyou-girl]

Rereading this series for the 3rd time and it's still the absolute best. I love Emi, Shiro, and Yumei. They're one of my favorite trios in media. I'd kill to see this series animated, or at least made into a full length comic or manga at least

Manifesting that the artist doing The Guild Codex comic series over on webtoon decides to do more of Annette Marie's stories as comics, especially Red Winter.

Seriously I need more of this series, especially since there's really no fanfiction for it that can quench my Red Winter thirst.❤❄

I would pay good money for an animated series of the Red Winter Trilogy.

I mean. Look at my babies.

Look how beautiful and powerful they are.

[darrowsrising]

Darrow and Virginia being equally obssessed with each other is everything to me.

Virginia gets territorial, feels instant lust and love the moment she sees him and he is the only one awakening these feelings in her. Meanwhile Darrow cannot conceive that non-Virginia people could have romantic feelings for him, so his every bit of romantic love is hers only, he is her devoted bitch, her biggest stan, no questions.

It's majestic, it's intense, just absolute perfection, I stan 😤

[winterinhimring]

Talk about your fanfics ask:

1, 3, 9, 12

Thank you for asking this! I am always delighted to talk about my stories.

What story (stories?) are you writing rn that you’ll most likely publish next?

Probably the ever-elusive original novel, honestly. After my current fanfic projects, I don't have any more planned, though that doesn't mean I won't get walloped with a new idea soon. But I'm going to start a new arc of A Lot Can Happen In Twenty Years with a completely new character as the bad guy soon, so I guess that sort of counts since that story is more of a catchall for shorts set in the same universe anyway.

3. What tropes do you like writing about the most?

Answered here.

9. Top three fics you’ve written (in author’s opinion)?

AUGH. How can I pick just three? But...if I HAVE to choose...

First place MUST go to The War of the Ring, my massive LOTR rewrite and probably, if you applied thumbscrews, the story I'd admit is my actual favourite out of all the ones I've written.

Second and third place are a lot harder for me to decide on, because my favourite fic is usually the one I'm writing right now! I managed to narrow things down a bit by picking a favourite from each of the fandoms I've written for and comparing those, but that only managed to reduce the number of contenders to five.

Help.

You know what, you're getting all five (in no particular order because IT'S TOO HARD TO PICK OKAY).

Oath of Fealty, a Dune ghost story that I'm very fond of because I imitated the original's made-up chapter quotes and it involves one of my favourite characters in the novel! Book canon, but it's canon compliant for the first movie too.

Kad'au, one of the entries in my Cin Vhetin series, featuring Obi-Wan raising Luke, Jedi-Mandalorian bonding, grief, healing, Jedi history, and hope.

Bullets and Reactors, a fix-it fic for The Hunt for Red October which largely consists of a very tired submarine captain dealing with the aftermath of Shenanigans while trying to make sure that none of the self-sacrificing idiots he's acquired dies before he can get them all home.

Our Fathers Lied, canon-compliant Spider-man 3 angst. Mostly on this list because the title is taken from a terribly beautiful and grievous poem by Rudyard Kipling that fits the main character so perfectly that I almost couldn't believe it when I found it.

Kintsukuroi, a Bucky-centric fic about grief, hope, and picking up the broken pieces of what you had to build something new. Also features Shuri being awesome.

So...yeah, that's a lot more than you asked for, but I couldn't pick just one, darnit!

12. Write another line in your WIP (rude, productive, but okay).

Oy! Rude! (Just kidding.) Here's the line:

Someone will need to turn the power back on as soon as he's contained, Gwen had said about Max, but Harry was starting to have serious doubts about whether Max could be contained.

Ask game is here.

[aurorawest]

I got my prints from @vkelleyart today!! The freebies were such a lovely surprise 😍

[creative-hanyou-girl]

I think being a fan of InuYasha has awakened in me a craving for mythology series where it's always an adventure focusing on a human befriending/falling in love with a mythical person from the mythology. Doesn't matter what kind of media it is, if it's like InuYasha, I'm like "sign me up".

Like seriously, my favorite series aside from InuYasha are literally Kamisama Kiss, The Red Winter Trilogy, the Guild Codex: Demonized (not exactly mythology per se, but it's still a human x mythical person adventure series) and now I'm about to watch the Kdrama Tale of the Nine-Tails on Netflix. Literally InuYasha as a series has awakened in me a craving for the mythology fiction genre and I can't even be mad about it.

[uptonogoodart]

Hi everyone, I hope you are safe and well! I haven't been drawing for a looong time but I'm finally back with the first sketch of the Tomoe from Kamisama I promised! I'm already coloring the digital version with background and will post it soon.

I need to tell you that I am reading Red Winter by Annette Marie, which is totally amazing and sleep depriving and gives off a lot of Kamisama and Inuyasha vibes. Very much recommended 🩵

[pastel-blogs]

Since planet of apes trilogy is the winning vote and I am in the process of watching the third movie. Let’s start with small headcannons;

My reason as to why reason behind Caesar motives on peace and wasn’t keen on fighting the humans was not only for his kinds safety but also because will (his dad) was a calm and caring human.

I read somewhere that in the books Koba’s mom was a mistreated circus animal. Which made me think that maybe after Koba was born she may have tried to protect him and run away with koba. Like when bright eyes did for Caesar when he was born. But it ended with the same outcome.

In the first movie when Maurice mentioned he learned ASL from when he from time in the circus. I believe that he must have been either taught it by a caretaker working in the circus or he observed it from everyone that walked past his enclosure.

I feel like it is a long stretch but I feel that if raka was still alive and managed to make it to the second movie. He would have been a good bodyguard to Cornelia especially after Blue eyes, and Cornelius were born.

Cornelia and Lake would gossip about random things if a day feels particularly long. It would range from medical remedies to who is dating. But I believe it mostly depends on if they’re close or not.

I haven’t seen much in the first two movies but I like to think that Cornelia’s personality must have been the most sweetest and loving to all. But also she must have been stubborn and resilient especially towards Caesar. Since in the book it stated that she had challenged some of what he said at the beginning of their courtship.

Lastly winter is a character I don’t know much about but as far as I have seen. He must have been either easily influenced into helping like red donkey or winter may have been scared into helping the soldiers like he said. But I feel like the second option has not much solid ground to stand on.

Thank you for reading!! Be sure to send me more headcannons!

[squireofgeekdom]

okay i know we're only at the start of fall but time passes faster than you think it will (see we went from the start of september to past mid september in approximately two days) and what if. what if i made rereading the imperial radch trilogy another winter tradition. rewatch lord of the rings with the fam and reread the imperial radch trilogy.

is 'reading the left hand of darkness for the first time (and then immediately rereading it)' good enough reason to do an imperial radch reread when i just did a reread ... wait, was it really back in december/january? i was gonna say 'sources say: possibly' but no im def putting that on my list. i already have Thoughts and im delighted

[treeroutes]

what's up ! non-exhaustive list of stories featuring weird plants :

The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Night of the Triffids, Simon Clark

In the Tall Grass, Stephen King and Joe Hill

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', William Hope Hodgson

The Man Whom the Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood

The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

The Nature of Balance, Tim Lebbon

'Bloom', John Langan

The Ruins, Scott Smith

The Wise Friend, Ramsey Campbell

'The Green Man of Freetown', The Envious Nothing : A Collection of Literary Ruins, Curtis M. Lawson

The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley

The Ash-Tree, M.R. James

Canavan's Backyard, J.P. Brennan

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher

'Reaching for Ruins', Crow Shine, Alan Baxter

'Vortex of Horror', Gaylord Sabatini

Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss

Vaster than Empires and More Slow, Ursula K. Le Guin

Odd Attachment, Ian M. Banks

Deathworld #1, Harry Harrison

The Bridge, John Skipp and Craig Spector

'The Garden of Paris', Eric Williams

Apartment Building E, Malachi King

The Seed from the Sepulchre, Clark Ashton Smith

Rappaccini's Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Nursery, Lewis Mallory

The Other Side of the Mountain, Michel Bernanos

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

The Root Witch, Debra Castaneda

Semiosis, Sue Burke

The Wolf in Winter, Charlie Parker #12, John Connolly

Perennials, Bryce Gibson

Relic, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Gwen, in Green, Hugh Zachary

The Voice in the Night, William Hope Hodgson

Ordinary Horror, David Searcy

The Family Tree, Sheri S. Tepper

The Book of Koli, Rampart Trilogy #1, M.R. Carey

Seeders, A.J. Colucci

Concrete Jungle, Brett McBean

The Plant, Stephen King

Anthologies/collections :

The Roots of Evil: Weird Stories of Supernatural Plants, edited by Michel Parry

Chlorophobia: An Eco-Horror Anthology, edited by A.R. Ward

Roots of Evil: Beyond the Secret Life of Plants, edited by Carlos Cassaba

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness, Richard Gavin

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic, edited by Daisy Butcher

Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain, edited by John Miller

'But fungi aren't plants' :

The Fungus, Harry Adam Knight

Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay

The Girl with All the Gifts, M.R. Carey

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi, Brian Lumley

'The Black Mould', The Age of Decayed Futurity, Mark Samuels

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher

The House Without a Summer, DeAnna Knippling

Mungwort, James Noll

Fungi, edited by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Trouble with Lichen, John Wyndham

Notes :

all links lead to the goodreads page of the book, mostly because i like to look at book cover art ;

list features authors/books that i love (T. Kingfisher, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ursula K. Le Guin, the collections from the British Library Tales of the Weird, etc.), but also a few that i don't like and some that i have not yet read ;

if upon seeing that list the first novel you check out is by Stephen King's you have not understood the assignment ;

not all of those are strictly horror stories, some are 100% science fiction (Brian W. Aldiss' Hothouse for instance).

[romancomicsblog]

Movie Redo: Fixing Marvel's Thunderbolts*

Marvel's Thunderbolts* recently came out with a stellar trailer, watching some of our favorite MCU anti-heroes going through the motions while uncovering a mystery and becoming a team.

While many have praised the trailer for its style, action and tone, I have had some problems with the movie from the beginning. For one, the group Thunderbolts* tends to be villains pretending to be heroes as opposed to morally gray characters.

The movie tackles the spirit of this by having several characters fill in classic roles of the MCU Avengers: Yelena as Black Widow, U.S. Agent as Captain America, etc. But this stops at about half the team.

For example, we have three different variations of Captain America. Each are not Steve Rogers, morally gray super soldiers. The main difference is their range of comedic quips.

We also have two different variations of (basically) Black Widow.

This makes the lineup a bit stale power wise, and makes most of the lineup side Black Widow and Captain America characters.

While it makes entering the film easier, this doesn't give us the same feeling of "assembling" characters from the MCU like the Avengers did. The characters should come from many different projects as opposed to 2.

Finally, the team is made up of 7/8 white people. So in so many ways, this movie is suffering from a lack of diversity.

My goal is to liven up the team with characters across the MCU, villains and antiheroes alike. I'd like this team to:

Fill roles of the classic Avengers

Have a wide range of abilities

Reward long time MCU fans for watching along

Lets get started with an obvious question:

Who Stays & Who Goes?

While this group is full of some great MCU characters, too many unfortunately are redundant.

We will be saving 4 Characters, starting with:

1. Yelena Belova - White Widow (Black Widow / Hawkeye)

One of the smartest moves made by this movie is having Yelena be the lead. I love Florence Pugh, and one thing that can differentiate this team from The Avengers is having White Widow be the leader.

She is the clear and funnest Black Widow stand-in, so I will be choosing her over Taskmaster.

2. John Walker - U.S. Agent (Falcon & The Winter Soldier)

Of the Captain America knock offs, U.S. Agent is by far the most interesting.

No hate to Red Guardian's jokes or Winter Soldier's angst, but having a sad, broken not as good Captain America who is not a good man but a perfect soldier, there's so many ways you can go with it. He can be a traitor to the group, the eventual villain or just the guy who thinks he's the leader.

He is also the character we've seen least of the 3, and deserves his time on the big screen.

3. Ava Starr - Ghost (Ant-Man & The Wasp)

One of the most underrated characters in the MCU, Ghost was a highlight for me in the Ant-Man trilogy. With a tragic backstory, skills to match the Winter Soldier and an actual interesting power, I'm really excited to see where they go with this character.

Plus I love her new suit.

4. Bob - The Sentry (Thunderbolts*)

Lewis Pullman is playing "Bob" who is most likely Robert Reynolds AKA The Sentry, a Superman like superhero who struggles with memory loss, and has the power of "a million suns".

Due to the S in the trailer and his general confusion, Sentry will likely join the team, and his archenemy The Void will may even be the main antagonist.

As a powerful longhaired hero, he fills the role of a Thor for our Avengers, which is a definite need.

The mystery behind Bob as well as the inclusion of a new Superman like character is very fun. I do think a need for every MCU movie is an addition of a new interesting character, so Bob must stay.

Now that we have our 4 stays, let's make some fun additions.

5. Agent Dex Poindexter - Bullseye (Daredevil Season 3)

Agent Poindexter fills a couple of significant roles from the Avengers and from the Thunderbolts* who we took off the list.

Like Taskmaster, Bullseye is an assassin, who worked for a puppet master who is still very much alive and around in the MCU. But unlike many of the other killers on this list, he enjoys killing. As the teams resident sociopath, he can be the devil on their shoulder, egging the team on to go further than they have before.

He also nicely fills the teams role as their Hawkeye. The both have perfect aim, have taken on new identities to commit atrocities, and started off as law men.

It also gives all viewers great homework, because everyone should watch Daredevil.

6. Aaron Davis - The Prowler (Spider-Man Homecoming / Across the Spider-Verse)

The Spider side of the MCU has very much stayed in its place due to Sony. One character who has appeared in both Sony and Marvel, portrayed by the same actor I might add, is Aaron Davis.

Aaron Davis first appeared in Spider-Man Homecoming, and if we believe him to portray the same character in Across the Spider-Verse, has evolved into his role as Prowler now.

Prowler with his tech, claws, skills, and general goofy vibe, could fill the role of a Black Panther or Spider-Man for our group, and much like Spider-Man, be the ground level criminal entering this world of Assassins and Gods.

You can also view him as more of a thief than anything else. Like Aladdin or Star-Lord, fitting him into this team but definitely bringing a different perspective as opposed to Bullseye.

I see Prowler as a secondary lead character, one who has Yelena's back over some of the others, and hopefully makes it out of this mission alive.

7. Titania (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law)

Where there are Avengers, there is need for muscle.

Titania is one the secondary villains from Marvel's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, notably played by Good Place actress Jameela Jamil.

Titania fills the role of a Hulk / Captain Marvel to the group as our resident strong woman, but also takes up Red Guardians role as comedic relief.

As a social media influencer and fashion icon, she'll bring a very different energy than our other two heroines. She also has the tendency to back whoever to keep herself alive, meaning she may team up with the worst of our titular team if there is a coup.

Plus I'd like her to dawn her wrestler outfit.

8. Justin Hammer - MACH-1 (Iron Man 2)

With many of the Avengers roles filled, all we need is left is a billionaire genius playboy.

Since his debut in Iron Man 2, Sam Rockwell fans have been clamoring for the actor to return as Justin Hammer. While we have inklings of him in All Hail to to King & What If, having Justin as comedic relief and the teams resident tech expert can add a different flavor to the team.

While Justin Hammer doesn't have an alter ego in the comics, he could take on the role of Titanium Man like he does in the animated show, Iron Man Armored Adventures.

My only gripe is the name is a little too close to Titania, so I recommend he takes on the name Mach-1, the alter ego of the Beetle when he joined the Thunderbolts.

While he is not The Beetle, he is still a villain pretending to be a hero, and several have taken on the name of Mach-1, so I think it'll be fine.

With just a few notable changes, my MCU team is now complete.

We now have heroes and villains from across the MCU, all with unique skills, powers, tools and motivations.

And once they all suit up...

They'll make one hell of a team.

Thank you so much for reading! Please consider following, and check out my socials and other sites here! And let me know: Who do you think should be on the Thunderbolts*?