#tess dombegh

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Made a discord for fans of Seraphina/Tess of the Road duologies!

[brianvalez]

Tess really thought it be safe getting close lol.

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Group D Round 1

[image ID: the first image is the book cover of Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman. it depicts the silhouette of a dragon made up of a dark, mountainous town. a figure stands below the dragon, facing it. the second image is of Heart, a Thai man with short black hair, wearing a blue shirt. end ID]

Tess

Tess is a wonderful, nuanced depiction of a girl who has been betrayed by a man and by the religious patriarchy she lives under, and is judged by everyone for it, including herself. But she’s a deeply hopeful and curious person, and the story she walks on is one that allows her good nature to blossom and unfurl even when her society would rather condemn her. Other things to know about her: she’s a science nerd in a medieval context; she named her child after a storybook pirate; on her sister’s wedding night, she broke the nose of her sister’s brother-in-law; she tries to fight colonialism; she’s a friend of funky little dragons; she has a male alter ego with a rude name; her half-sister is a saint.

Heart

Look, I just got a give a shout out to my special son! He's the first ever deaf love interest in a Thai drama AND he's gay. I love him so much okay and I just want people to see him please

[powerpolyculeshowdown]

Soooo these are just the ones I need to run the preliminary round :) I'm actually missing quite a few if I want to have something for every contestant + the honorable mentions...

i've decided any submissions without a description won't be included, or mentioned. I can't really introduce people to a polyship if I can't describe them. If your submission is in this list, please help me! It doesn't need to be a long description! Just something that explains their dynamic a bit! Examples:

about a canon submission:

Not only do they live through an incredibly complex and co-dependent youth together, they come out of it on the other side and heal and raise a kid together.

about an implied canon submission:

The interactions between the three of them throughout the story mode and other dialogue sources throughout the game at least imply it. The dynamic between the three's personalities makes it clear they've at least known each other for a super long time, and that them being in a polycule wouldn't be too far-fetched.

(these examples aren't necessarily from contestants, again, i want to describe the mentions as well.)

As for the prelim round ones, I'll wait until tomorrow night, and whichever is still missing a description will be auto eliminated.

I know some of these have been described to me in asks before the nominations even went live, but there's too many asks in the tag and I simply can't look through all of them to find them, that's why I need your help, please!

So here are the full lists of stuff i'm missing, under the cut

Needs description:

-Miw/Neo/Shin (3 will be free)

-Camina Drummer/Michio Pa/Josep/Serge/Berthold/Oksana (The Expanse)

-Cinrak the Dapper/Queen Orvilia/Loquolchi (The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper)

-Zahava/Akila/Terrence (This Planet Needs a Name)

-Mairwen/Rhun/Arthur (Strange Grace)

-Zoe Benson/Madison Montgomery/Kyle Spencer (American Horror Story)

-Nacho/Ana/Sebastian (Somos Tr3s/We Are Thr3e)

Needs Image:

-Camille/Nyra/Dendro (Muted)

-Syenite/Innon/Alabaster (Broken Earth)

-Dianda/Simon/Patrick (October Daye)

-Jack Rossi/August Bateman/Rina Medina (The Wicker King)

-Turtle Heart/Melena/Frex (Wicked book)

-Breq/Mercy of Kalr/Seivarden/Ekalu (Imperial Radch)

-Cinrak the Dapper/Queen Orvilia/Loquolchi (The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper)

-Cinnamon/Marie/Klaus (Will Do Magic for Small Change)

-Pyrrha/Commander Wake/Gideon The First (The Locked Tomb)

-Travis/Gable/Margaret (Campaign: Skyjacks)

-Storm/Helen/Mira (Love and Luck podcast)

-Zahava/Akila/Terrence (This Planet Needs a Name)

-Mairwen/Rhun/Arthur (Strange Grace)

-Enrique/Hypnos/Zofia (The Guilded Wolves)

-Taylor/Theo/Josey (3 - Hanna Moskowitz)

-Tess Dombegh/Jacomo/Margarethe (Seraphina)

-Nacho/Ana/Sebastian (Somos Tr3s/We Are Thr3e)

[hungryblueghost]

"She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy.

"It was history, and it was hers."

—Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

Book Rec

Happy Friday, friends! *vine voice* Back at it again with another book recommendation, this time for a few of my all-time favorite books. Okay, shall we? Great, let's go. :)

Titles: Seraphina, Shadow Scale, Tess of the Road

Author: Rachel Hartman

Genre(s): Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, High Fantasy

Order: I recommend reading both Seraphina and its sequel, Shadow Scale, before Tess of the Road, but you don't necessarily need to. However, Seraphina DOES come before Shadow Scale, so I'd say you shouldn't start with Shadow Scale.

Length: Seraphina: 528 pages, Shadow Scale: 624 pages, Tess of the Road: 544 pages

Summaries:

Seraphina: Seraphina Dombegh, a music prodigy with a deadly secret, must navigate political intrigues and rampant prejudice as she works to uncover a sinister plot that jeopardizes her country's fragile peace.

Shadow Scale: Now, finding herself at the center of a tangled web of alliances and complexities where one misstep could mean all-out war, Seraphina travels across multiple countries and realizes that danger is around every corner--and even in her own mind.

Tess of the Road: Tess Dombegh, "fallen woman" and disgraced pariah, flees her home and, disguised as a man, sets out on a journey to rediscover who she truly is.

Awesome Things in These Books

A large, diverse cast of characters

Innovative worldbuilding, interesting languages, and a fleshed-out religious structure

Dragons! Dragons who are neurodivergent!

Deals with some really pertinent and heavy themes

There's a culture where the absolute peak of boorishness is to not ask someone's pronouns when you meet them (and the language has six or seven sets of different gendered and non-gendered pronouns)

Lots of LGBTQ+ representation

Disabled representation as well (a main love interest in one book as well as multiple other characters)

Lyrical and poignant writing

Feminism!!

They have real wit and humor

Genderfluid dragon-esque beings who build intricate mechanical devices and also steal

A healthy and adorable polyamorous triad

Content Warnings: while there's not much that I can think of to be concerned about (trigger-wise) in Seraphina or Shadow Scale, Tess of the Road handles a lot of potentially upsetting stuff including suicidal ideation, sexual assault, miscarriage, religious trauma, child abuse, PTSD, and depression. Just be aware of that before you read, okay? ❤

Anyways, I think all of these are wonderful books and I hope that, if you read them, you enjoy them too! Feel free to message me or drop something in my ask box if you have any questions, comments, or just want to chat. :)

[glisselda-of-uplands]

i spent a little too long on this bad meme just to say i’m back, but... i’m back!

[incorrect-seraphina]

Tess: What do you call an elephant that doesn’t matter?

Seraphina:

Tess: An irrelephant.

Seraphina: I didn't ask.

[specks-of-time]

just gotta say, in terms of nicknames alone Tes’puco does give Dirtyhands a bit of a run for his money

[imagine-lilareads]

TESS OF THE ROAD, SPOILERS!!

[sdombegh]

Rachel Hartman characters as Parks and Rec gifs

Od Fredricka

Eskar

Glisselda

Tess

Orma

Blanche

Seraphina

[brianvalez]

Whats up with this family and giant lizards?

[foughfaugh]

On an unrelated note, teaching myself to draw is going, um...better, I guess?  I’ve improved, although you wouldn’t know by the overall quality of my art lol

It’s Tess!  Someone else please draw her, too.  Please.  I need Tess fanart.  She deserves it.

[treehousereads]

“let me alone, I want to be a pirate” (my new favorite YA genre)

Lila Bard of A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab

Inej Ghafa of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Tess Dombegh of Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

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No one:

Claude from Seraphina:

[darlingtons-voyster]

Imagining Glowing by the Oh Hellos as a Seraphina song is causing my soul to astral project someone wanna feel that with me