#shuthmili

[arianwells]

[exmakina]

Some downtime for Csorwe and Shuthmili.

[chocolateteapotthinksfanfic]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Serpent Gates - A. K. Larkwood Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Csorwe/Qanwa Shuthmili/Zinandour Characters: Csorwe (Serpent Gates), Qanwa Shuthmili, Zinandour (Serpent Gates) Additional Tags: Humor, Angst, Hiding, Pursuit Summary:

Zinandour cannot just let Csorwe leave. She has to pursue. Oneshot.

[randombookposts]

Got to the time skip part of the Thousand Eyes and I am DEVASTATED, feel like pure shit just want Csorwe back.

[libraryleopard]

Adult fantasy novel (sequel to The Unspoken Name/series conclusion)

After dying Belthandros Sethennai and stealing his magical gauntlets, Csorwe and Shuthmili have struck out to create a life of their own investigating relics from dead civilizations

When they awaken a dormant power, old gods begin stirring and threaten the fate of the worlds themselves

Lesbian main characters; F/F romance; Black, gay main character; nonbinary side character

[anoras]

the thousand eyes actually ticks me off more every time i think about it

[zinandour]

The story of a grief-stricken young woman with potentially catastrophic power turning herself into a dragon, living forever for the sake of keeping safe the one she loves? No one will do that better than Qanwa Shuthmili

[midnightliar]

saw a thousand eyes review complaining about the possession and like. sorry you can't see that it was actually really hot. get well soon i guess

[puffywiz]

I'm so happy you've enjoyed the unspoken name!!! Every time a new person reads it I get so excited I believe we Can get enough people to build a fandom 🙏🙏

Hope you're ready for the next book too haha...

Yes!! I just started book 2 and I know I only just finished the first one but I got so emotional… Shuthmili pov 😭💕

here’s a little Csorwe 😈 I love orcs so much

[kingcriccket]

hey the bit in the unspoken name where Csorwe is like briefly & unbearably grateful to have someone (shuthmili) actually thank her for her help. kind of extremely tragic actually.

[rockislandadultreads]

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Recommendations

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a trail of fiery destruction in their path; and took to the skies. Was it their choice? What will become of those left behind? Why did Alex’s beloved aunt Marla transform but her mother did not? Alex doesn’t know. It’s taboo to speak of.

Forced into silence, Alex nevertheless must face the consequences of this astonishing event: a mother more protective than ever; an absentee father; the upsetting insistence that her aunt never even existed; and watching her beloved cousin Bea become dangerously obsessed with the forbidden.

In this timely and timeless speculative novel, award-winning author Kelly Barnhill boldly explores rage, memory, and the tyranny of forced limitations. When Women Were Dragons exposes a world that wants to keep women small—their lives and their prospects—and examines what happens when they rise en masse and take up the space they deserve.

Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

This is the first volume in the “Her Majesty’s Royal Coven” series.

The Thousand Eyes by A.K. Larkwood 

Two years ago, Csorwe and Shuthmili defied the wizard Belthandros Sethennai and stole his gauntlets. The gauntlets have made Shuthmili extraordinarily powerful, but they're beginning to take a sinister toll on her. She and Csorwe travel to a distant world to discover how to use the gauntlets safely, but when an old enemy arrives on the scene, Shuthmili finds herself torn between clinging to her humanity and embracing eldritch power.

Meanwhile, Tal Charossa returns to Tlaanthothe to find that Sethennai has gone missing. As well as being a wizard of unimaginable power, Sethennai is Tal's old boss and former lover, and Tal wants nothing to do with him. When a magical catastrophe befalls the city, Tal tries to run rather than face his past, but soon learns that something even worse may lurk in the future. Throughout the worlds of the Echo Maze, fragments of an undead goddess begin to awaken, and not all confrontations can be put off forever...

This is the second volume in “The Serpent Gates” series.

Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón

Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye, a faceless, formless spiritual entity that has infiltrated the world to subjugate the human population.

A’tugwewinu is the last survivor of the Andwànikàdjigan. On the run from the Madjideye with her lover, Bèl, a descendant of the Warrior Nation, they seek to share what the world has forgotten: stories. In Pasakamate, both Shkitagen, the firekeeper of his generation, and his life’s heart, Nitàwesì, whose hands mend bones and cure sickness, attempt to find a home where they can raise children in peace, without fear of slavers or rising waters. In Zhōng yang, Riordan wheels around just fine, leading xir gang of misfits in hopes of surviving until the next meal. However, Elite Enforcer H-09761 (Yun Seo, who was abducted as a child, then tortured and brainwashed into servitude) is determined to arrest Riordan for theft of resources and will stop at nothing to bring xir to the Madjideye. In a ruined world, six people collide, discovering family and foe, navigating friendship and love, and reclaiming the sacredness of the gifts they carry.

[mybookhaven]

The Serpent Gates Duology - A.K. Larkwood

Fantasy - Sci-Fi - Queer rep

⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

I think i just figured out my favorite kind of romantic trope, and it says A LOT about me.

A.K. Larkwood's world building was so beautifully done in this Duology that I think I'm gonna be a little bit in love with it for the rest of my life. The combination of cultures, creatures, and worlds is probably my favorite thing about this story, and I consider myself to be a very harsh critic of world building. I loved the plot(s) I loved the characters, and I loved the language, so let's get into it.

Original Cover Art (respectively): Billelis / Katt Phatt

This duology follows 5 (6ish) main characters through land reclamation, seeking magic objects, fighting gods, becoming gods and much more. A LOT of things happen in the span of two books that keeps you hooked and on the edge of your seat wanting to know more.

Csorwe, an almost 14-year-old girl on the brink of sacrificing herself to her god, meets a mysterious wizard who convinces her to abandon everything she knows and follow him away from the people who want to gift her corpse to their god. From there everything falls into chaos. She meets Talasseres Charossa, her future chaotic sword gay brother (nonbiological), and they both start working for the mysterious wizard in hopes of gaining a drop of his favor (A LOT of father issues in that regard).

Sethennai, the wizard, is after an object that is rumored to contain the secrets of great magic, and in all honesty, I've never hated a character that much. he was brilliantly written to make you doubt your emotions towards him until finally you come to realize at the same time as Csorwe and Tal that he is the shittiest person to have ever existed (in any book you've ever read). I LOVED how A.K. Larkwood was capable of doing that, and then she went and did the exact opposite with Oranna, a librarian from the House of Silence, the cult that sacrifices children to The Unspoken Name (their god). My feelings on her progressed from complete hatred to what I call "me falling in love with every morally gray character that shows a bit of affection after committing unspeakable war crimes".

Finally, I just have one comment on the plot process. I think the series in general would've been even better if it was divided into more than two books. A LOT of things happened that were essentially skimmed over to a certain extent. A.K. Larkwood could have published at least 4 books with the events of these two if she went more into detail of some "in-between" events.

Regardless, I LOVED this duology, and I can't wait to read more of A.K. Larkwood's worlds.

P.S. I wanted there to be more exploration of the romance between Csorwe and Shuthmili. I loved every moment between them I just wished we saw a bit more.

P.P.S. My favorite trope is overpowering "bad-guy" royal Goddess impossibly in love with a troublemaker idiot that is the noblest person in existence.

[chocolateteapotthinksfanfic]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Serpent Gates - A. K. Larkwood Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Csorwe/Qanwa Shuthmili Characters: Csorwe (Serpent Gates), Qanwa Shuthmili Additional Tags: Dialogue Heavy, Romance, Plans, Adoption, Discussion of Pregnancy, Mentioned Child Sacrifice, Fluff Summary:

In a quiet moment on Cricket Station, Csorwe and Shuthmili make plans and make out. Oneshot.

[awildofnothing]

I have the same reticence as you when plot or character development hinges on romance.

I think you’re right- Tal and Oranna are the perfect foils and the book would suffer hugely without them.

For me it works in The Unspoken Name because at the turning point Csorwe is actually saving a younger version of herself. She hasn’t known Shuthmili long enough to have romantic emotions strong enough to overrule her primary lifelong quest, and the book doesn’t pretend that she does. She decides to let Shuthmili be sacrificed, but something in her brain can’t tolerate someone else experiencing a fate so similar to what was meant for her. And then acting in that savior role is the first step in her unlearning the premise that she’s built her entire new self around (that she owes Sethennai unwavering devotion).

TLDR: Csorwe and Shuthmili were both raised as pampered tools, seen as above personhood, and that foundational understanding makes their interactions really meaningful. Big plus that the book allows them to not prioritize romantic gestures when it would not actually make sense for them to. Their romance is a turning point because it is part of how each of them outgrows learned dependence on a belief system or authority figure that doesn’t value or suit them as people.

Idk why Unspoken Name works so well for me when many books with romance as the turning point don't - is it because the characters are drawn so well and are so entertaining? Is it because Tal is there, answering the question of what happens to the person who isn't saved? Or Oranna, who uses her own desires as a weapon?

[libraryleopard]

i'm being so normal about shuthmili in the thousand eyes

[silverscorpio11]

Every day I wish I can go back and reread this part for the first time