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So, I really need some book recommendations.
I usually read fantasy but I also like dystopian, sci-fi and stuff. As long as it's fictional. I also like rewrites (if that makes sense).
Since the request wasn't super specific, for this one I just picked a couple of very different fantasy books that I read recently and have not yet discussed. I don't have a lot of recent dystopian (publishing currently believed dystopian is dead, I think). For sci-fi, check out this post
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen is a retelling of the Goose Girl. That's a relatively unknown Grimm fairytale where a wicked maid steals the identity of a princess. This book tells the story of the maid, Vanja Schmidt, who is the adopted daughter of Fortune and Death. She used to be Princess Gisele's maid, until she stole Gisele's enchanted pearl necklace that changes her appearance and takes her place. Now, Vanja leads a double life as princess and jewel thief, seeking to make enough money to escape before she has to marry her creepy fiance, and so she can escape her mothers. But when she crosses the wrong god, she is cursed to slowly turn into a statue of jewels as punishment for her greed, unless she finds a way to make up for what she stole. I'd recommend this book if you like unlikeable main characters.
Vanja is very selfish, but she if she doesn't put herself first, no one else will, so it is definitely understandable. She has a tendency to push everyone away, but deep down she's very lonely. She's a gremlin, and I love her.
There are also some very charming side characters, including the daughter of the god who cursed Vanja, a shape shifter who does not quite understand human behavior, and a prefect (a magic detective of sorts) chasing the jewel thief.
This book also makes some great social commentary on class and wealth. Vanja might have done a bad thing stealing Gisele's life, but Gisele wasn't entitled to all that wealth and prestige in the first place, and this book heavily criticizes nobility.
The Forever Sea and the Endless Song are part of a series and I have only read book 1 so far (book 2 just came in yesterday). This is an adult fantasy series and as such it is heavier on the world building and more complicated than most YA fantasy, so if you've only ever read YA fantasy I don't think this is the best book to transition into adult, but if you're used to reading adult this is a good series to try.
The Forever Sea is one of the most unique fantasies I've read, and this mainly lies in the world building. The premise of this world is an ocean made out of very high grassland. Ships can sail on this grass with the help of a magic hearthfire, and if this fire would go out you would very slowly sink beneath the grass. Sailors go out onto the sea mainly to harvest all sorts of plants used for food and medicine.
Kindred was raised by her grandmother, the Marchess, a legendary captain and hearthfire keeper. When her grandmother disappears beneath the sea, everyone assumes it was a suicide. But Kindred finds a note from her grandmother implying that it was not suicide, but that she was searching for what is down at the bottom of the sea, and might still be alive there. So Kindred sets out to find her, traveling across the Sea and through a legendary pirate city to see if her grandmother could still be out there, and what is at the bottom of the sea.
This book is very plot driven with a huge emphasis on the environment and descriptions on it, but also lots of world building on how this works exactly. There isn't a lot of emphasis on it, but there is also a sapphic relationship in here between the main character and another sailor. As I said, I haven't read book 2 yet but will start it soon. It's also not out in the US yet (coming 14th February, but the UK edition was released already) From the reviews I gathered there's going to be a third (last? idk) book.
In the Ravenous Dark is a dark fantasy that is marketed as YA, but I think it's very upper YA, maybe more NA but publishing doesn't think that is a thing, so YA it is.
This is set in a world inspired by ancient Greece, but only vaguely (clothes, buildings etc, much of the world building is completely made up), and Rovan, the main character, is a blood mage. Since her father's death, she's kept her blood magic hidden, but when her magic is revealed she is taken to the palace and bound to Ivrilos, a dead spirit who can control here, which is something that is done to all blood mages.
Rovan falls in love with two people she can't trust, the spirit Ivrilos, and princess Lydea, another blood mage, and together they uncover a plot of what is going on in the world of the dead and living, and why blood mages must be bound to spirits.
I think the magic system in this book was very well done, including the way spirits work and the realm of the dead. The book was at times a little messy, and I think it might have worked better as a duology since there was so much going on, but I don't bother me much while reading it.
There's a poly relationship between Rovan, Ivrilos and Lydea, which I really liked, and there's Japha, a really cool non binary side character who's essentially the fourth part of the found family.
Unseelie by Ivelisse Housman is a YA fae fantasy set in a second world focusing on an autistic main character
Seelie is a changeling. Though she looks exactly like her twin Isolde, she's actually a fae creature trying to control her unpredictable magic. She and her sister had to flee their home due to prejudice against changelings, and end up stealing to survive. When they get caught up in a heist gone wrong, they team up with unexpected allies to go on a quest and unravel a mystery to do with fae and human history.
The plot of this book is what you'd expect from a YA fantasy, fast paced, not super unpredictable or anything. The strenght of this book is the main character. Seelie is autistic and written by an autistic author, and while it is set in a world where the term autism does not exist, it is portrayed really well and I found Seelie very relatable as an autistic person. In this world, changelings are typically autistic (because real world changeling myths often derive from disabled children, including autistic children). The sister relationship is also intersting, because Seelie and Isolde are so different, and have very different ideas of what their life should be like once they're finished with this quest.
It is the first in a duology and I have no clue when book 2 is coming out
The last book on this list is the Dream Runners by Shveta Thakrar which is a contemporary fantasy inspired by Indian mythology, specifically, the naga. Naga in this world can't dream on their own, so they have children taken from the human world who become dream runners. They travel to the human world to collect dreams from humans for the naga.
Tanvi is such a dream runner, she's been in Nagalok for the past 7 years. Dream runners don't dream themselves and are devoid of emotion, but for Tanvi this is slowly returning and she's desperate to make it stop.
Venkat is a dreamsmith, the only human in Nagalok who is not a dream runner. Instead, he shapes dreams collected by the dream runners into dream stones used by the naga.
They team up to figure out what is going on with Tanvi, and uncover a plot that could destroy the naga world.
I loved the creative world building in this book, with how the dream runner system works. Tanvi was a little difficult to relate to at first, because she was very obsessed with earning a charm bracelet in exchange for her dreams and I found this confusing, but this will make sense later on, and this book had some twists I really liked.
I hope this helps!
#book recommendations#nina's 150 follower celebration#150 followers#little thieves#margaret owen#the forever sea#the endless song#Joshua Phillip Johnson#in the ravenous dark#a.m. strickland#unseelie#ivelisse housman#the dream runners#shveta thakrar#ask answered#anon ask#thanks for the ask!
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Whereabouts do you live, roughly speaking, and what drew you to that place in particular?
I'm in Michigan, and that's as specifically as I will answer that question! We have really lethal lakes.
#i think a lake should be willing and able to kill you and if not#then that is a pond actually#and she should sing you songs of endless summer and bring you the cold rolling fog of fall#and howl the vast empty spaces in winter#and break like a bone in spring.#swim out drink deeply the water is cold and clear#and she should keep the souls she takes and hold them in the old towers of flint and granite where the memory of glaciers sleep because#michigan is hers and hers and hers and hers
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Endless NSBU
#brennan lee mulligan#izzy roland#jacob wysocki#rekha shankar#ally beardsley#alex song xia#dropoutedit#dimension20edit#d20edit#never stop blowing up#nsbu#nsbuedit#myedit#dimension 20#d20#d20 spoilers#nsbu spoilers#dropout#endless nsbu#never stop blowing up spoilers
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stop putting Mobius in the same bracket as Aziraphale and Stede Bonnet he needs to be here:
I’m not entirely sure what this type is called so I’ve decided to go with:
human turned immortal and head over heels in love with the non-human being that fell out of the universe and changed their life forever
#loki#lokius#mobius m mobius#loki x mobius#Doctor Who#river song#the doctor#the doctor x river song#the sandman#hob gadling#dream of the endless#dreamling#dream x hob#tumblr culture#tumblr ships#aziracrow#blackbonnet#gentlebeard
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Once I wondered what was holding up the ground But I can see that all along, love it was you all the way down
#my art#the sandman#the sandman comics#dream of the endless#hob gadling#dreamling#song inspo: Hozier - I Carrion (Icarian)#colors picked from Sunday Mourning because I was bawling my eyes out over it
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FRI(END)S for @thv-hyung ♡
#btsgif#dailybts#btsedit#userbangtan#kpopco#bts#bangtan#btsgfx#gfx#usergif#usersky#usermaggie#userkelli#usersan#tuserandi#userpat#underbetelgeuse#*th#*gifs#*gfx#hi my love....this is for you <3#I peeked at our chat and saw you talking about loving the song and video#so I took the opportunity!#this is rather silly but then again it was a silly mv#this is now a proper 'thank you' for your endless kindness and generosity#I'm so lucky to have you and I love talking to you so much#I love you natalie!!!
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This is the loveliest video I've seen , it shows just how many incredibly talented people had been involved in the production of this show, and the bond they all have after years of working together, I love it!
Source: George Rexstrew on Instagram.
#i love this cast so much#also someone plz give george a cape. he's begging for it at this point#ghosts on camera#dead boy detectives#dead boy detective netflix#dead boy detectives cast#dead boy detective agency#dead boy detectives agency#dbda#dbda cast#george rexstrew#kassius nelson#yuyu kitamura#jayden revri#joshua colley#ruth connell#jenn lyon#donna preston#charles rowland#edwin payne#edwin paine#crystal palace#niko sasaki#monty the crow#despair of the endless#song: pierre (sped up) by hiko#edit#paineland#payneland#bts
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“When you love the Doctor, it's like loving the stars themselves. You don't expect a sunset to admire you back. And if I happen to find myself in danger, let me tell you, the Doctor is not stupid enough, or sentimental enough, and he is certainly not in love enough to find himself standing in it with me!” -River Song (Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song)
Inspired by this post by @ibenology
My rambling about this below 😎👍
These three pairings actually hurt me in how similar they are, not to mention how River’s quote here could apply to both Hob and Mobius as well as of course- herself. The three of them(River, Hob, and Mobius) all fall for this seemingly timeless ethereal being; the sunset that they don’t expect to admire them back.
But the quote I referenced above is shortly followed by The Doctor revealing that he’s been next to River this whole time, and that can kind of tie into both Morpheus and Loki in how they admire their partner back in their own repressed way. River, Hob, and Mobius are all under this assumption that there’s no way that their affection will be reciprocated, but they don’t realize that The Doctor, Morpheus, and Loki have been by their side through it all and it just- UGH. THE PARALLELS BREAK ME.
Anyways, if you can’t tell I’m not used to drawing real people but I did my best to make them look like the actual actors while somewhat retaining my art style 💀
#doctor who#river song#12th doctor#doctor who fanart#river song fanart#the sandman#hob gadling#morpheus#dream of the endless#the sandman fanart#the sandman netflix#loki series#loki#loki laufeyson#mobius#mobius m mobius#loki fanart#mobius fanart#the doctor x river song#dreamling#lokius#artists on tumblr#raine’s art
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and it rings in the day and it rings in the evening oh, i could pray, but it won't stop you leaving —phildel, “funeral bell”
#sandman#the sandman#the sandman comics#mother night#father time#delirium of the endless#destruction of the endless#death of the endless#dream of the endless#sandmanverse#sandmancentral#*#*my gifs#*my edits#flashing cw#i fucked up the delirium gif but i didnt save the psd SO HERE WE ARE#lessened the colors to make up for the size but i dont think its that noticeable...#oh i switched up the order of the lyrics for ~aesthetic~#anyway........ shoutout to vi for the idea thank u for absolutely obliterating me with that song#just had to make a set for it idk.#plus im warming up for something else! hehe#and why yes this is about dream of the endless lord morpheus prince of stories lord of nightmares etc etc#and yes this is about his ending#i wanted to do something with the hands lyric but . idk how to insert... also im way too excited to get this out there#GOOD NIGHT ITS 330AM#edit: oh mobile app makes this set look sooo Bad. especially the death one. pls do me a favor and look at it on desktop or mobile browser.
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every time I think I've read the best spuffy fanfic I ever I come across one that was written in like 2002 and it's like a revelation all over again about how you can cry over fictional characters over a show that ended like 20 years ago
#btvs#spuffy#anyway im very normal about spuffy i definitely dont cry about them nono i don't listen to songs and think this is so them#i dont react endless hours of fanfic that gets me to tears#claritalks#*read
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and you just watched it happen...
#barry.txt#taylor swift#been thinking about this literally since the song dropped#also the lover one took so long bc it wssnt a glitter font so i had to use a corse pencil preset to add the shine but then i had to restart#bc I wanted to move up the text and make it bigger. the endless suffering of the artist
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And I'm askin' why lord
If this is how I die, lord
Why be left with no family and no friends?
Ooh
I've got no celebration
Just this consolation
Time eats all his children in the end
-The Ballad Of Jane Doe
#the sandman#the sandman comics#daniel hall#dream of the endless#neil gaiman#Father time is an asshole you know he would be shaking that mf like a snow globe#yes nat is posting yet another song lyric illustration#i get bangers stuck in my head for whole days and im gonna make it everyones probblem#my art
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Endless NSBU
#rekha shankar#izzy roland#ally beardsley#alex song xia#dropoutedit#dimension20edit#d20edit#never stop blowing up#nsbu#nsbuedit#myedit#dimension 20#d20#d20 spoilers#nsbu spoilers#dropout#endless nsbu#never stop blowing up spoilers
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growing up queer in an ultra-conservative southern evangelical church gives you deeply ingrained guilt, shame, and grief that haunts you long into your adulthood, sure
but it ALSO gives you the bunny, the bunny, oooh I love the bunny I gave everything that I had for the bunny I don't want no health food when it's time to feed a big bag o' bunnies is all that I need
#no? just me?#this song has been stuck in my head on an endless loop since I was in second grade#anyways I’m starting a band called Shack Rack & Benny if anybody wants to join#veggitales#veggie tales
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hooo
#the fact that d20 official account posted the hold person short right now and i saw it right after posting#i am once again realizing ive made a hilarious moment overly serious but hey what’s new?#it’s just that i overly and uncomfortably relate to kipperlilly in some ways#and the song came on randomly and i had such a clear vision if i didn’t draw it i’d suffocate#and i feel like i’ve come very far to be able to draw what’s in my head like this. but i also feel there’s still a long way to go#and the continuous need to whip your lacking self into better form … always not quite there yet … always your own endless disappointment …#anyway. time for me to go back into hibernation until a new d20 season bewitches me heart and soul
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sonic music from the evil mirror dimension:
DIE and FORGET
NIGHTMARES of a PUNISHMENT
DEFEATABLE
it DOES matter
BUSY days (DYING in paradise)
FINITE
LIMITED possibility
#is this anything.#you can tell im listening to sonic music based on my posting#also hi i had to wake up really early today my dash and notifications are almost dead. like the sonic song#where is everybody#also if anyone doesnt get the jokes:#live and learn. dreams of an absolution. undefeatable. it doesnt matter. lazy days (living in paradise). infinite. endless possibility
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