#siege of macindaw

[bronze-oakleaf]

While I really enjoy the Sorcerer in the North/Siege of Macindaw, I loathe Flanagans descriptions of Malcolm’s people. “Hideous disfigurement” “terribly misshapen” “dreadful caricatures of normal people” “malformed” it all just reeks of ableism and disgust of disabled bodies. There are so many other ways he could have described them without insulting them. Even just leaving it as a neutral description, without use of “hideous” or “disfigurement”, would be better.

[burnin0akleaves]

Knight stumbles around in the forest for five minutes leaving his poor boyfriend to fend for himself against seasoned warrior

This is a collab between me and @ragingadhd, you can view his part with Will here! Very happy to get to draw this scene with number one Whorace artist and writer himself. We've been talking a bit and I've started feeling the same passion for this ship as when I discovered it for the first time, which is a very nice feeling.

Some extras under the cut.

Here is the background without Horace covering all of it with his panicked ass

And here is the man himself without the speech bubble so you can truly feel what it's like to be covered in blood and doted on by a handsome knight

[findingcrow]

Please ignore how this is my third post telling people to shut up and talk about a certain scene but seriously THERE ARE SO MANY MOMENTS NOT TALKED ABOUT??? Siege of Macindaw wasn’t my favorite book, I won’t lie, but there were some moments that made me cry. After Will fights Machaddish and Horace rescues him, and Will is shaking and freaking out, did we forget that Horace sees his friend covered in blood and starts PANICKING. He immediately is checking for any wounds that might cause Will to bleed out, and asking him questions, and Will is just super frustrated and wants Horace to leave him alone but he WONT, until eventually Horace realizes Will is fine and Will realizes that Horace was just keeping him safe. It just shows how much their friendship has evolved. AND obviously we all know that halt sees Will as his son and everything but you guys realize that the first time he calls him son IS IN SIEGE OF MACINDAW RIGHT??? Halt can tell something is wrong, Will does his whole “yes, no, well kind of, I don’t know” thing, Halt gives him what he hopes is an answer that will help him, and then Will tells him goodnight. And Halts response? “Good night, son.” SON HE CALLED HIM SON LIKE HE SAID IT TO HIM. IT WAS SPOKEN. AND THE LINES AFTER THAT??? “Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn’t solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of the pain of being a mentor.” I SOBBED. I BROKE DOWN I CRIED ALL OF THESE CHARACTERS MEAN SO MUCH TO ME

[iwanttobepersephone]

Posting this good night gif even though I'm going and working on my painting not sleeping lol

[ask-lord-morgarath]

Who's a more powerful hypnotist, you or Keren?

I am hardly a hypnotist, but... do I require some silly blue stone and drugged water to... ah... bring my victim subject around to my way of thinking?

No?

I rest my case.

[biggestqiblifan]

I agree Keren's death was pretty horrible.

But then there's Alyss's.

She died in a fire so intense that her remains were not found.

Why do I still feel like Keren's is more painful.

Hmmm....

In the fire Alyss probably would have passed out from the smoke, lest she wasn't crushed first. So it could have been painless.

But Keren was still alive when the acid was eating away at his flash and eyes, before falling out the window and plummeting down the tower until he hit the ground and went splat.

Pretty horrific.

What was the worst death in RA? For me, it was when that bad guy (I forgot his name) got acid poured on his face and he also fell off the building 🙂... Maybe there were worse deaths, that was just the first one that I rememberd. (It was in 5 / 6 book I think)

I need to know your opinion, guys.

[what-life-is-really-like]

[During The Siege of Macindaw]

Horace: What time is it?

Will: I don't know, pass me my mandola and we'll find out.

Will: *plays mandola loudly and out of tune*

Xander: WHO THE FUCK IS PLAYING THE LUTE AT TWO IN THE MORNING?!

Will: It's 2am

[juicingbeetles]

[b-plot-butch]

LOVE it when horace is annoying on purpose. handcart sketch conversation from the siege of macindaw, i love you so very much

[zythebeeking]

Oh. And this is Will trying to figure out how to get Alyss back from Sir Keren and laying siege on the castle with the Skandians and Malcom’s men before running up the tower to get to Alyss

Twenty Øne Piløts brain has met Ranger’s Apprentice brain so. The song Vignette by Twenty Øne Piløts (off their new album Clancy hehehehe) for Will as he succumbs to the warmweed addiction in the yard in Skandia. Listen, I promise. May draw sumn for it.

[eugene-hoe]

idk why everyone agrees that what will treaty did to john buttle was so amazing and petty of him (giving him to the skandians, making sure he’s doing the yard/ice break thingy)??? like??? did we read the same books? it is SO out of character for will to have done that. yeah buttle was a horrible, awful person who deserves horrible, awful things but i just can’t see will giving him into the slavery that nearly killed him??? the skandia/slavery arc was dehumanizing and again, nearly killed will— it definitely traumatized him 100% (even though flanagan is a shitty author who obviously did not address will’s trauma at all) !!! it took will MONTHS to stop begging evanlyn for warmweed, MONTHS for him to even recognize evanlyn and snap out of the mindless zombie haze, MONTHS for him to build up his strength again, etc etc. and that’s not even including how long it took him to fully recover from that experience (again, flanagan did not write about this, but we know). he definitely still has nightmares and triggers from slavery. AND! he was alone for a while before horace or alyss showed up to help him w the mission. all this to say that the will treaty we know— fair, just, kind, awkward, humorous— would NOT have sent someone to slavery willingly, even if that person is john buttle who’s a terrible terrible terrible person. THERE i said it i’ve spoken my mind!

[ranger-raziel]

Y’all omg I’m still on book 6 and let me tell y’all I forgot just how funny Will & Horace’s bickering is, especially when they’re under the cart. Oh my god I love them

[findingcrow]

headcanon that gilan, will, and horace made up a handshake as a joke during the burning bridge, but they continued to unironically do it when they saw each other. and they probably knew they wouldn't always have all three of them there, so they made part of it able to be done with only two people. when horace and will reunited in siege of macindaw? they did it. gilan and will reunite at the ranger gathering in kings of clonmel? they did it. they are just some silly guys with a silly handshake (crowley tried to get in on it, but they just called him old LMFAO, meanwhile halt rolls his eyes everytime he sees them do it)

[iwanttobepersephone]

It's 2 hours past when I was supposed to be asleep lol gn y'all

[bowtifulinsights]

Somewhere in a tavern near Macindaw: local boozer: So, you live around here, in Norgate Fief, mandola boy? Will: *laughing and ignoring the word mandola, because he had too much to drink* No! local boozer: *suspiciously squinting his eyes at him* No? Will: *realizes he screwed up; quickly gathers himself and puts on a serious face* I live in the moment.

[burnin0akleaves]

Ranger Gathering Day 19: Follow

Ladies if your man is telling you to stop while you follow the orders of the guy thats holding you captive, that IS YOUR MAN YOU ARE UNDER HYPNOSIS STOP

Also, the drawing of Keren was actually a redraw of something I drew for the previous gathering, but they match thematically so why not post them together