#red country

[janesmitish]

I'm watching Unforgiven for the first time and all I can think is wow Joe Abercrombie sure loved this fuckin movie when he wrote Red Country, huh?

[xserpx]

Inspired by @zarovichs 's post, I decided to make one for (most of) the POV characters from the standalone trilogy: Best Served Cold, The Heroes, and Red Country.

Say one thing for Joe Abercrombie: say he writes fuckable characters.

[catherinekal]

Red Country was a goddamn masterpiece. More people here need to reach the First Law books so I can finally gush about them to someone. I could never dream to write something as good as those books, not now at least.

[rookamell]

Red Country was defintely my least favourite of the standalones so far but seeing Cosca have a meltdown might just have made up for the first 60% of the book

[scelestic-reveries]

People have often accused me of inconsistency but I feel that I have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what I pleased.

Joe Abercrombie, Red Country.

[fantasy-hoe-25]

Inside me there are two wolves. Savian/Lamb and Majud/Curnsbick. And they both demand fanfics to be written about them.

[tarabyte3]

"Should have known better but hope's like damp— however much you try to keep it out there's always a little gets in."

- Joe Abercrombie, Red Country (The First Law series)

[nocontextfirstlawtrilogy]

He squatted beside a stricken chair, latest casualty in his war against furniture.

~ The Heroes

[prlssprfctn]

Jason refusing to admit that Bruce and him are alike, while Bruce being oblivious to their raging similarity is the funniest case scenario ever.

Tim, waking up after a nap, and seeing a familiar big figure standing with his back to him: Hey, Jason.

Bruce, turning around, confused: Jason left an hour ago.

Tim: ...Sorry, you look like twins

Bruce, sighing: I wish. But we are not, really.

Tim: ??????

Some goon, shivering from fear: B-Batman, please, spare me!

Red Hood, leaving the shadow, even madder than before: Do I look like fucking Batman to you, man?

Goon: I-I mean, when you are standing in the darkness with your arms on your chest, and say "Now, talk"—

Red Hood, irritated: One word, and I am putting a bullet in your empty head.

Goon: Yesss, sir.

Damian, staring as everyone in the house first put cereal in the bowl, and then add milk, while Jason and Bruce demonstratively (and obliviously) do it in the opposite order in the perfect synchronisation: Why do they—

Alfred, shaking his head: Please, don't point it out, Master Damian. Either way, they will start arguing, and Master Jason will instantly teach himself to do it in the opposite way.

Damian, rolling his eyes: Whatever.

Dick: So, do you all know that Bruce and Jason refuse to admit that they are alike?

Everyone: (nod)

Dick, smirking: I fucked up Bruce's files and Jason's guns in the span of a minute...

Everyone: Why would you do that—

Bruce and Jason, from the opposite sides of manor, in the same furious voice: RICHARD JOHN GRAYSON

Dick: ...Just to demonstrate to you THIS. Now, if you don't mind, I'll go get back to Blüdhaven.

[hunne-writes]

~ October Reads ~

[xserpx]

‘Logen Ninefingers, then. The one they call the Bloody-Nine. I have heard stories about you, even shut up here in my library.’

Logen winced. He could guess what sort of stories the old man might have heard. ‘That was a long time ago.’

‘Of course. We all have a past, eh? I make no judgements on hearsay.’ And Bayaz smiled. A broad, white, beaming smile. His face lit up with friendly creases, but a hardness lingered around his eyes, deep-set and glistening green. A stony hardness.

Logen grinned back, but he reckoned already that he wouldn’t want to make an enemy of this man.

— The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

‘Your name hasn’t always been Lamb, has it?’

He looked at her, and then away. Hunching down further. Pulling his coat tighter. Thumb slipping out between his fingers over and over, rubbing at the stump of the middle one. The missing one. ‘We all got a past,’ he said.

[catherinekal]

I don't really like Westerns. Red country, the current book I'm reading, is a Western fantasy book in the First Law series. I'm really fucking enjoying it. Joe Abercrombie is a goddamn good writer.

[daisylambs]

[scelestic-reveries]

Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Joe Abercrombie, Red Country.

[fantasy-hoe-25]

I am passionate about bitter old men kissing

yes, I wrote Lamb/Savian fanfiction