#sidheag

[wisterialust]

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

— Hozier, From Eden

[moonstalkerwerewolf]

The Legendary Witches

All 5 of the recent witches I've drawn, who are all considered Legendary in the Realm, due to both their power and calamity.

Artwork and character © @moonstalkerwerewolf. Please DO NOT repost or remove the source and comments!

[princessasmosprincess]

I listened to the entirety of the Finishing School series when I was in college and I really liked it, but I could not tell you anything that happens in it except for how the love triangle ends.

[sukaridragon]

💸 2018 - Ceana Sidheag

💀This is old art! I'm just uploading all my artwork to have a full gallery on Tumblr💀

Got a bunch of commissions from ceana.sidheag.original on Instagram of their demon wolf character, Ceana!

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[habitat-enrichment]

Parasolverse by Gail Carriger

As a general concept, I cannot express how much I adore every series in this universe. Each series has a cast of interesting and dislikeable characters, and there's a nice sprinkling of LGBT characters. That said - there are some problems. Some of which are centered around the author's world building continuity, and some of which are centered around narrative issues in the audiobooks.

Since the narrative issues are mostly personal preference and not critical to the consumption of the books, let's discuss that first and then move on to the meat and potatoes of the situation. I absolutely understand that it's not feasible or even sometimes desirable for extended universe's like this to have one consistent narrator. I do not understand how people get paid to narrate a series in the midst of an extended universe and don't even bother to listen to name pronunciations in the other books, or to learn anything about the characters. It's annoying enough that we apparently can't agree on a single pronunciation for Lord Akeldama (sp), but in the Custard Protocol series the narrator literally CHANGES THE NATIONALITY of a character by giving an Italian accent to a dandy who has never in his life left London and is **not** Italian. It takes a character readers have spent 5+ books with and completely changes the entire perception of him in a way that is not a good representation of the books.

Now, the continuity issues within the books themselves are significant enough that it seems ironic to complain about narrator continuity issues. From this point on, there will be spoilers.

I'm only going to be discussing the full length novels, not any of the novellas.

The Finishing School [FS] series which introduces us to the series is a solid, entertaining read that I have basically no complaints about.

The Parasol Protectorate series follows the 20's portions of the life of, we can safely assume, the child Sophronia was hired to to guard at the end of the previous series. All good there. Lord Akeldama is a delight. Alexia is a likeable yet flawed main character.

My only real continuity mention in this series is that Sidheag and Vieve seem to not know each other? But potentially they're shamming because its the sort of thing they learned in FS.

The Custard Protocol is particularly fun because we are seeing the aetheric science of the future that was discussed in FS, and we see many returning characters from FS. That said... We have some issues here, y'all.

1. The Alpha's Curse: the author sped things up to make a more tidy and exciting timeline. It was unnecessary. Lord Maccon could have retired to Egypt in dignity, and would have, had the progression of the curse gone according to previously established parameters.

2. The LeFoux preservation tank: in the PP series kept Madame Lefoux from FS in ghost form for *years*, and yet Formerly Floot is a ghost for months at most. At the end of the series, Q says the preservation tank was inspired by Rue disliking baths but this is inaccurate, as the original and apparently significantly better designed tank was invented many years before Rue's birth.

These problems can ultimately be summed up in the same way: if you're going to make the "science" and call it such, you cant change it willy nilly just to make your timeline more dramatic.

3. Timelines - Ivy Tunstall was not a girl at the same time as Genevieve L, they should be approximately ~10 years apart in age.

[another-fucking-bookworm]

Book: The blood queen

Author: David H. Millar

Genre: historical fantasy

⭐️ ⭐️/5

“It is a king’s decision,” said Brion.

“It will not be you who deceives and delivers the lamb to the butcher’s block,” retorted Eimhir.

True evil is a persistent and tenacious beast. Its desire for existence is eternal and insatiable. It needs to infect only one mind for its insidious philosophy to take root and spread.

It is 394 B.C. At a remote loch in the highlands of Northern Albu, a priest sacrifices nine innocents. Below the water’s surface, a shape feeds on their blood and begins to take form. Soon it becomes sentient and begins to hunt. Sidheag has risen.

Humans cannot defeat the abomination. Neither can Mongfhionn, the powerful leader of the demi-goddesses of the Aes Sidhe. The only remedy is the Blood Queen and Gràinne is the sole heir to that throne. Will the Blood Queen stand alongside Mongfhionn to confront Sidheag?

Yet the cost for Gràinne may be too much—unless her daughter, Brianag, is in jeopardy.

Passions, always near the surface of the Celts, burst into flames in The Blood Queen where father is pitted against son; mother against daughter; sister against sister; brother against sister; and father against daughter.

I really wanted to enjoy this book, but unfortunately I found it a bit hard to get into. There are a lot of characters introduced at once, so it is hard to keep track of them all.

There is also quite a bit of battles and war in the book, which is not an objectively bad thing, it’s just not my cup of tea.

I had a bit of a hard time grasping the plot of the book, but that might just be me having a hard time keeping the characters apart since I’m not used to only having Irish and Scottish names on the characters.

[ohyouillustrate]

Long time no art! Well, I have been drawing, just taking a break from posting on socials... Here's what I've been working on between commissions and  regular work - NPCs for an RP group I help run ^o^/ 

Top left is Sidheag, top right is Isaac, bottom left is Pip, and bottom right is Basile.

[ghost-inacup]

Would anyone be interested in a gail carriger's books' discord server?

please tell me cause i dont want to put in more effort than i have to before exams

[anonymousrobinhoodqueer]

I’m listening to the second parasol book.

Capt Niall is dead?? Do we get to meet sidheag (that’s definitely spelled wrong I’m sorry) she will be like 40? Is she a wolf yet? Did she marry Niall? Has she seen her grandfather since he denied her the bite?

The fourth finishing school book is in. Cant wait to find out what happened the set technology back 20 years before the parasol series

[moonstalkerwerewolf]

The Wolf Tamer (Sidheag)

Sometimes, the witch is worse than the monsters. Artwork and character © @moonstalkerwerewolf. Please DO NOT repost or remove the source and comments!

[carrigerpigeon]

Honestly me on this blog with Gail following me is a compilation of literally every single “don’t be suspicious” Tik Tok in existence

[ayzrules]

finishing school girls + runway details! og pics from my lovely friend @bebemoon

[prodigaldaughteralice]

Found this in pencil in the front of my library copy of Curtsies and Conspiracies by @gailcarriger . Thanks, previous library patron. I’d already looked it up but I’m sure others haven’t. 💕

[rainytuesdayart]

Sophronia, Dimity, Sidheag and Agatha form the Finishing School series, reblog if you like them :)

Check out my parasolverse tag for more fan art!

[cicatrixtwigs]

So it struck me while reading Reticence that i feel the same way about the Finishing School ladies as i do about The Maurauders in Harry Potter. Only we’ve actually have a bunch of books about the Finishing School ladies. And they are a lot less... well... deceased.

I really love the choices Gail has made in setting her various works across different generations and timezones. We get to see the mortal characters at various life stages, and the immortals continuing their long games throughout the series.

Now... give me that book about the trio in Egypt please Miss Carriger. *grabby hands*

[transannabeth]