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Finished Silver on the Road!
Ended up loving this book! It's set in a version of the Old West where a large chunk of what would irl be America is simply called the Territory, and is controlled by a man (?) known as the devil, potentially an Old God. It follows his foster child Isobel as she is tasked with becoming his "left hand"-- travelling the Territory and reinforcing his rule over the distant parts of it.
The magic in this book is super cool. Of course the Territory has its own powers: magicians who sell their souls for power and are guided by the winds, strange creatures varying from spirits to sort-of cryptids to Normal Animals But Weird, people who aren't fully magicians but have some small power tied to the land. It draws from a bunch of different sources, including some Native American lore (though imo it does a good job of not getting racist or exotic about it) and creates a really fleshed-out world. Nueva Espania and the US also seem to have their own sorts of magic, through nowhere near as powerful as the Territory (potentially because they've become "civilized").
Character-wise, I loved Isobel. She's freshly 16 and a wonderful blend of competence in a handful of things and incompetence in most of life, willing to learn but occasionally frustrated, never too overpowered or overly mature seeming (which is something that bothers me in YA--just because a 16 year old suddenly has magic powers doesn't mean they have the experience of a 30 year old!). Gabriel is also quite fun, the grizzled middle-aged trail rider who's able to train Isobel but also very annoyed at the hand fate has dealt him vis a vis all the weird shit that starts happening. Farron is an absolute delight, a "mad" magician who's never as bonkers as people make magicians out to be, but still terribly dangerous and cunning.
Spent the whole book crossing my fingers that this was a series, and IT IS!! so I shall have to read books 2 and 3 and the short stories as well.
Overall, 4.5/5 loved it, I think the only thing I'd change would be to tighten up the pacing a bit (but that might also be because I accidentally abandoned it for a few days and only got back into reading it last night, whoops).
ALSO! THERE'S NO ROMANCE!! THANK YE GODS!!!
Gabriel and Farron, the only potential romantic leads really, are both ~20 years older than Isobel (Farron probably even older since he seems to have an immortality thing going on) so it would have been Weird, but I was worried this book would do an Immortals/Pellinor thing where the teenage heroine has to fall in love with her adult mentor for....no reason whatsoever and it's just really uncomfortable.
Anyway, can't wait to pick up the next books. I hope there's more demons, and more magicians, and more Eldritch horrors lurking in unknown places.
#silver on the road#laura anne gilman#books#thinking about reading#listen im really not a Wild West person I usually find it boring#probably bc im from fucking Calgary and im so tired of yeehaw cowboy culture (its the middle of the stampede rn send help)#BUT!! THIS BOOK MADE IT REALLY INTERESTING!! AND DESPITE THE FAMILIAR SETTING IT'S ALSO COMPLETELY UNIQUE!!#the author does some great work with classic tropes
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Diasomnia waiting for their youngest to get his driver's license because Lilia shouldn't, Malleus couldn't, and Silver wouldn't.
#i love how abnormal they are#malleus and lilia don't even need a car but wouldn't a road trip be a fun experience for malmal?#silver is too responsible and knows himself too well to even attempt to drive#sebek is their salvation#a guy who'd definitely road rage every minute#they don't need spotify when Sebek's shouting is music enough to their ears#twisted wonderland#ventique rambles#malleus draconia#lilia vanrouge#sebek zigvolt#twst silver#diasomnia
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#happy birthday abbey road#the greatest breakup album of all time#so many good songs from this album#except maxwell's silver hammer#that shit can burn itself and go to hell#abbey road#you will always be in my top 5 albums#the beatles#george harrison#paul mccartney#john lennon#ringo starr#beatles#memes#1969
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Possession (1981) Lolita (1997) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Revolutionary Road (2008) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Hereditary (2018) Marriage Story (2019) Ready or Not (2019) Pearl (2022) The Menu (2022)
FEMALE RAGE IN FiLM
#possession 1981#lolita 1997#girl interrupted#revolutionary road#silver linings playbook#hereditary#marriage story#ready or not#pearl 2022#the menu#edits#cinemapix#cinematv#filmedit#mediagifs#usersameera#fyeahmovies#tusermary#usermorgan#moviegifs#useralessia#userrobin#glamoroussource#tusertha#ryancoogler#userfrodosam#usermandie#userlau
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#poll#the beatles#abbey road#maxwell's silver hammer#paul mccartney#john lennon#george harrison#ringo starr
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BLACK SAILS || XX.
I'm useless to 'em up top. Gotta do my part somehow.
#sadly muldoon had to go because silver was starting to go down the maybe i can be a normal bisexual road#and the narrative was like NOPE.#blacksailsedit#bsedit#black sails#john silver#luke arnold#muldoon#richard wright-firth#beegifs#muldoonsilver
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Club Ruby (Team Dark) members in the Road Trip AU! (they're under the cut, I just don't want to take up too much of your space)
I have shown off Shadow before because Fearless: Year of Shadow was announced, but I have the rest of the family done too!
The clothes drawn on them are just an outfit, they change clothes all the time (like regular people), so don't be surprised if I draw them wearing something different from what was drawn here.
#roadtrip!sonic au#shadow the ultimate lifeform#shadow the hedgehog#black arms#shadow android#dadow#e 123 omega#rouge the bat#silver the hedgehog#sonic fanart#Sorry I just really didn't feel like drawing a doodle request today- I think I'm just really tired today from work.#Gonna have to rename Road Trip to the Dad au with how many freaking parents there are in this au wha-#I didn't realize just the SHEER amount of dads in this au. It's not just Sonic and Shadow- there are others too not shown yet!#Also Surprise! Silver is a member of the club! Well- kinda. He's not exactly old enough to work there. But he's a part of the family no les
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Fanfiction of fanfiction is so fucking fun actually. Especially when you read it both without reading the original fic or the original media. Like. Have I ever read or watched naruto? Nope! Have I ever read Silver Queen's dreaming of sunshine? Double nope! Don't want to actually I have interest in the negative degrees to actually sit down and read it. However, do I read fics about our queen Nara Shikako fucking shit up? Absoloutley! They're so fun I have learned to love her!
Same for Road to Nowhere: have I read it? Nope! Will I read fics about and or set in it? Can, have, and will, babyyy
There's something so fun and fascinating about media spawning media that then spawns media. Fandom within fandoms, or fandom³, if u will
You have to cultivate such a specific fandom biome for it to happen naturally. Sometimes you'll stumble into it without even realizing, read one or two fics about fics before realizing they're spawned from the same place. It's so cool!!
#birds rambles#fanfic#ao3#naruto#fanfiction#silver queen#silver queens dreaming of sunshine#dreaming of sunshine#road to nowhere#bnha#media#nara shikako
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Am I crazy or is Immortan Joe kinda. . .
His power. His stare. His attitude.
Just in Furiosa, not Fury Road.
#immortan joe#furiosa#furiosa a mad max saga#mad max#fury road#mediocre#powerful men#silver fox#don't judge me
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I don't need to explain myself to anyone, as what I'm into and what I'm not is only my business...
So I made this.
#fictional crushes#dreamworks animation#disney movies#arcane#silco arcane#rameses#the prince of egypt#the road to el dorado#tzekel kan#silco#tlok korra#the legend of korra#tarrlok#treasure planet#john silver#long john silver#milo thatch#atlantis: the lost empire#milo is the only one normal here it's scary
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This is exaggerating a lot, and most of these photos are from the white album session, but still
Gits and shiggles
#the beatles#paul mccartney#john lennon#george harrison#ringo starr#beatles memes#abbey road#maxwell's silver hammer#not guilty#fruity granny songs... just how i like it#bang BANG MAXWELL'S-
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#art#one piece#bunbunsart#artists on tumblr#digital art#illustration#fanartist#fanart#doodles#buggy the clown#sir crocodile#dracule mihawk#silver rayleigh#road#one piece road#monkey d. luffy#cross guild
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One night Billy awoke from a terrible dream calling his wife's name / She lay breathing beside him in a peaceful sleep a thousand miles away / He got dressed in the moonlight and down to the highway he strode / When he got there, he didn't find nothing but road...
Cautious Man by Bruce Springsteen / Black Sails (2014-2017)
#black sails#bsedit#blacksailsedit#john silver#bruce springsails#i had a much longer set for this but i really think these three lines are the core of it... he was a cautious man of the road :(#oscar can't wait for you to see this one lol
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*my first coherent thought when seeing this image*
Hmmmm...... Looks like Fo/rd's womb is occupied 😏🤭
This image is official btw..... from the website.... I'm normal about this😳
#now as for who's ultrasound this is isn't said#but in my heart it's Fo/rd's lmfaooooo#Might have to dabble in some B1llF0rd preg later down the road who knows👀#that silver fox needs a supernatural baby in his belly huehuehue
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Sorry for being so inactive lately... been busy irl, and have been meaning to post here more often, but also, like... I always feel a bit shy approaching the 'kin communities on here because it kind of feels like everyone is sort of... "internet poisoned"? For lack of a possibly-better word. A lot of folks here on tumblr in the 'kin and alterhuman communities are children, and a lot of more prominent community figures treated like "elders" are only about my age or younger, and it feels really strange, to be honest. There's a lot of discussion of feelings and terminology, but very little "lifestyle"? It's like there's a universal expectation for everyone to just figure everything out on their own; you get some definitions here and there yeah, but the amount of variance says much more loudly "just figure out what it all means on your own, pal". ex. Not only can no one actually explain what "otherhearted" actually means sans relation to otherkin, but it feels like I never see anyone talk about dealing with what one could call "kin feels" in the workplace, when unable to acquire your habitat, etc... Othercon is online-only, and while I'm pretty sure I'd be unable to attend an in-person event, part of me has a hard time feeling like everyone is really taking it all seriously and is really unafraid of being "cringe" when obviously it's so much easier to act like you're so confident online. I kinda feel like meeting some wolfkin stereotypes in a park for snacks and doing a group howl would do more for me than years of reading essays on tumblr ever has.
I dunno, I tried watching a recording of an Othercon panel I felt would be relevant and useful to me once, and was floored at just how... utterly useless it was. Despite its promising title, it was just shallow "you're valid" garbage and internet discourse... Makes me feel severely alienated, to be honest.
#'youre valid' this 'just journal' that I'M ALMOST 30 WITH JOB AND TERRITORIAL why doesn't anyone have anything irl useful to say to me#otherkin community#othercon#alterhuman#otherkind#otherkin#fictionkind#fictionkin#I'd LOVE to visit the Silver Elves or something just to see someone in person who I know takes this stuff seriously#like... people who are actually trying to live AS their kintype and I KNOW they are. because all this online posturing makes me feel alone#but they're in HAWAI'I and so I can't just take a road trip + am not Doing That to the already-colonized-and-sick-of-tourists-Hawaiians
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seeking recommendations... does anyone know of any polyam romantasy books
#im sick so i will be playing stardew valley in bed and listening to the most self-indulgent audiobooks i can find all day 👍#.txt#ive read silver under nightfall + road to ruin + mistress of lies btw
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