#sabran berethnet

[martellspear]

missing her (female character that's just so special to me) hours

[jennywebbyart]

“it is you I want. No one else.” - Sabran. (page 579)

[9musesandanoldmind]

Day 14 - Forbidden Love

(I've wanted to draw the Candle Dance since I read it, here it is finally)

(Sabran and Ead from The Priory of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon)

[the-quasar-hero]

Queen Sabran: *says something*

Ead, sees this in the corner of her vision:

[artbyflor]

"I would live alone for fifty years to have one day with you"

[jellolegos]

Priory of the Orange Tree

(Kylie Bunbury as my Ead // Katie McGrath as my Sabran)

[that-one-transfem]

[arayala-art]

i just remembered this account exists. sabradaz anyone?

[edit: tumblr isn't loading pictures for me right now so here's the link to the instagram post for those who can't see it too :<]

[abracazabka]

I love the romantic quotes from The Priory of the Orange Tree but when Niclays said, “I loathe you. I loathe every lash of your eyes, every finger on your hands, and every tooth in your mouth. I loathe you to the very marrow of your bones...You cannot fathom the depth of the enmity I have felt for you. I have cursed your name with every sunrise”...that went pretty fucking hard 

[fallenight]

the priory of the orange tree and a day of fallen night are so perfect bc you have povs of many strong, amazing, interesting and complex women and then you have that one pov of some pathetic little guy who is miserable 24/7 😭

[jennywebbyart]

I finished reading The Priory Of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and I wanted to do a study of Eadaz du Zāla uq-Nāra.

[mylittlenookcorner]

Everyone being afraid and tiptoeing around Sabran when she’s throwing a fit and then there’s Ead who just deadpans “You’re an idiot” to the queen of Inys.

[seppez]

[jupitermaedchen-blog]

[lizormianillustration]

I will meet you on the sand of Perchling. And we will find our somewhere.

Ead and Sabran, from The Priory of the Orange Tree

ID by the lovely @maileesque

[ID: two digital portraits of eadaz uq-nāra and sabran berethnet from the priory of the orange tree. they both have their hair down.

the first is of ead. the image is heavily tinted red, and she’s facing right with a neutral expression. a big golden sun-shaped earring dangles from her ear, and a simple golden diadem consisting of a thin frame interspersed with stars wraps around her head/hair. in a solid red lighter than the background, a branch of flowers frames her head in a circular shape. text reads, “my heart knows your song, as you know mine,”

the second image is of sabran. she’s facing left, also with a neutral expression. like ead, she’s wearing golden jewellery. it consists of a large crescent moon shaped hairpin, a plethora of small star-shaped hairpins, a double star dangle earring, and a choker with circular moon and star designs. like ead, flower branches encircle her head on the background. text reads, “and I will always come back to you.”

the third image is the two illustrations next to each other, making it seem like ead and sabran are looking at each other. together, the text reads, “my heart knows your song, as you know mine, and I will always come back to you.” /end ID]

prints of these available on my shop :)

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 2

Book summaries below:

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.

Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.

Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.

Fantasy, epic fantasy, secondary world, adult

The Radiant Emperor series (She Who Became the Sun, He Who Drowned the World) by Shelley Parker-Chan

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.

When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future her brother’s abandoned greatness.

Fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, epic fantasy, series, adult