#the ascendance of a bookworm

[rozemynelovebot]

it’s been six months since my bookworm hyperfix overtook the rest of my other ones and i’m about to start my fourth? reread of the series after finishing it again…. life is so beautiful when you have bookworm escapism

[papirnyuszi]

:3

[valkylander]

Maomao and Ferdinand would absolutely adore each other.

[stariwei]

[betterbooksandthings]

Best Fantasy Anime (with mostly female leads)

Listen, I love fantasy anime. They are fun and I love a fight scene as much as the next girl. I am relatively uninterested in male leads mostly because of the *cough, cough* excessive fan service. So, without further adu, if you are interested in some fantasy with women at the helm here's what I got.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

Yona of the Dawn

Inuyasha

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina

Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!

Fluffy Paradise

Ascendance of a Bookworm

I Shall Survive Using Potions!

The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent

Tearmoon Empire

My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts

Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Reincarnated as a Sword

Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-

The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess

Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

Management of Novice Alchemist

I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History

Nina the Starry Bride

Snow White with the Red Hair

ZENSHU

These ones I am keeping an eye on but signs point to a favorable outcome.

The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor

Promise of Wizard

The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom

The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl

[amarcia]

The Saint of Ehrenfest in the middle of performing a ritual.

✨🌙 ART LOG -> @404ama

[dragonfairies]

The tragedy of Rozemyne having 4 mothers and not getting to be mothered by any of them for years.

Her original mother, back in another world she'll never see again.

Her second mother being cruelly ripped away to protect the both of them, and then only able to indirectly interact.

Her third mother gets her for a scant few weeks before another adoption, and despite being in her life, assumes her fourth mother wants to take over.

And then her fourth mother assumes that her third mother is still taking care of the direct mothering.

This effectively leaves her motherless despite still having 3, for age 6 until what 16? And it's no wonder that the series it full of just this othering feeling. Every time she tries to be part of her families she's shut out

[randompenguinslide]

Thanks to automatic captions I have a new reaction pic

[aubalexandria]

My favourite character is the highly competent, intelligent, loyal, high born, some what obsessive, but highly respected right-hand man, willing to go to extremes to protect or grant the wishes of their kind, happy, overpowered but humble, blue haired isekai protagonists who accidently rose to power...

[wingedcreatorhlebushka]

It was a very funny idea.

2022

- Your headache is quite small. (Signed "Poor bastard")

- Don't underestimate her. (Signed "Idiot")

[yurgenschmidt]

[honeyjello]

The Bookworm Official Fanart book is finally out!!

This is the illustration I submitted to the contest! I'm a really big fan of Nicola and Angelica's short story; it really endeared me to them. I like to imagine that they remained friends even as their lives got more complex.

I'm so happy I can finally share it!

[likesdoodling]

Modern au~ :D

Continuation of the conversation:

Ferdinand: If I recall correctly, you said it was 'that new book series you started the evening prior' that was the problem, not medical issues.

Rozemyne: ...... I stand by my earlier point.

Ferdinand: *smugly sips coffee

Rozemyne: *muttering to herself - just you wait till I replace your coffee with decaf-

[meganedere]

Too tired to make a neat essay but I am greatly intrigued by Miya Kazuki's choice to touch on both the power possessed by and abuses towards women of all classes in her world.

Common women can own property and businesses and be acknowledged as experts in their crafts but waitresses are still expected to be prostitutes and birth and child rearing is still their burden largely seperate from men. Devouring girls in the right situations have a lot of room for social mobility but mostly risk being enslaved for power or childbearing.

Temple shrine maidens can be just as powerful and influential as men, fully capable of possessing the bishopric and commanding those beneath them, for better or worse. While grey shrine maidens are more prone to sexual abuse, a blue shrine maiden is equally capable of perpetuating the same on grey priests. That's a misuse of power, but it is unfortunately power all the same.

And noble ladies have a slew of checks and balances. Young noble women can be knights! And this is not a lesser choice for them socially compared to being a scholar or attendant, though it is a limited term for them in comparison due to the expectation of motherhood. They can be Giebes, Aubs, and Zents, though once again motherhood makes this a more difficult position for them to get, but it is something they are fully permitted to be by law. But at the same time noble wives without titles are by definition more subservient and cheaper in a sense, they are expected to do social and household management for the sake of their spouse who yet has the option to marry more wives without their consent resulting in conflict that true equality would never permit. They also are technically at the whims of their paternal figures on marriage but just as many can achieve their own choice by their strength and wit. Then comes the politics of mana, where high mana can equally promote social advancement and critical danger, lower mana and status can result in discardment, servitude, and sexual abuse.

Tl;dr: By deeply exploring the relationship of women, their agency, and power throughout class divides Ascendance of a Bookworm could be read as critical feminist spec fic, send tweet.

[stariwei]

[salmalin]

I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate that in Ascendance of a Bookworm (spoilers obv), Myne does not descend upon Ehrenfest and the country at large with the intent of changing it. At first she wants to change things, and she tries. However, she quickly finds that she needs to do so while following the rules of the world around her. Even as the story goes on, as she rises in the ranks of the world, she does so in the context of that world. Yes, she brings technologies from Earth, but they are all modified to suit needs not being met in that world, and to suit the people there. Even more, even with the printing Industry, she quickly learns that there's no way to bring Earth stories to this new world because they're so incompatible, socially.

But what's most impressive is that, as time goes on, the focus stops being about bringing Earth technologies into their world. Instead, she spends a lot more time focusing on reviving the culture already present. She learns a dead language, translates it, and proceeds to make that knowledge more readily available than it's been in generations. Not to mention... *Points to everything in part 5.*

Myne enters the world isolated and alone, desperate for her own culture. She wants to beat Earth into everything she sees. She ends it by bringing the parts of the world dying around her back to life, for the betterment of everyone around her.