#the forbidden wish

[moondustbooks]

October JOMP Day 13 - Purple Books 💜

My favorite color! 💜

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

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[friendly-neighbourhood-librarian]

Fairy Tale February: Week 3 Book Recs

The Forbidden Wish - Jessica Khoury

A magical, imaginative retelling of Aladdin. The first law of the jinn is: Do not love a human. Zahra has already broken it once. Now, with a chance to earn her freedom at stake, her growing attachment to the newest master of her lamp might cause her to risk everything. Every wish comes with a price; the Forbidden Wish has the steepest price of all.

Ella - Sarah Price

Another sweet, lovely little Amish romance, this one with a Cinderella twist! Navigating life with her awful, unappreciative stepmother and stepsisters, Ella feels the first glimmer of happiness she has felt in a long time when a young man comes to town on business — and stays for her.

Hunted - Meagan Spooner

The second Beauty and the Beast retelling I've read this month. When her father doesn't return from a hunting trip, Yeva sets off into the forest to search for him, and encounters instead the Beast her father had been raving about. Taken captive for an unknown purpose, Yeva finds the lines blurring between animal and human, hunter and hunted, fairy tale and reality. A captivating retelling!

Sadie - Sarah Price

The third and final book of the Amish Fairytale series is a retelling of Snow White! Sadie Whitaker meets a kindred spirit in the woods near her house and soon begins her first courtship. Meanwhile, her life at home becomes increasingly troublesome as her stepmother's true colours start to show. I love how human Sadie's stepmother is! From the beginning, her pain and anger are very real and empathetic, and the way she chooses to direct her jealousy toward her stepdaughter is understandable, as wrong as it is.

Amish Fairytale series: Belle | Ella | Sadie

Fairy Tale February: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Masterpost

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Title: The Forbidden Wish

Author: Jessica Khoury

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2016

Genres: fiction, fantasy, retelling, romance

Blurb: When Aladdin discovers Zahra’s jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn’t seen in hundreds of years...a world where magic is forbidden, and Zahra’s very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive using ancient shapeshifting magic until her new master has selected his three wishes. When the king of the jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity...only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. When saving herself means betraying him, Zahra must decide once and for all: is winning her freedom worth losing her heart?

[mysillycomics]

[tubbytarchia]

Hanging with the homies...

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BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2022

BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2022

THE RARKYN’S FAMILIAR by Nikky Lee GENRE: Young Adult, High Fantasy, Dark Fantasy If you haven’t read my review, here’s the link.  This young adult fantasy is for those who enjoy Garth Nix and Trudi Canavan. The worldbuilding is amazing and the characters are complex. The second book in the series, THE RARKYN’S FALL, is yet to have a release date, so I’ll be keeping an eye out for that. THE…

[skullamity]

PARSNIP YOU LITTLE SHIT! THERE WERE EXACTLY 17 MINUTES IN BETWEEN WHEN I TAPED THIS SIGN UP AND WHEN HE CLIMBED OVER.

BEHOLD, MY SON, THE ONLY CAT IN THIS HOUSE WHO DOES NOT SEEM TO COMPREHEND THAT THE GATE MEANS NO CATS IN THE KITCHEN WHILE WE ARE COOKING! >:(

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wei Wuxian 🤝 Maleficent: Not being invited to a child's birthday party but showing up anyways (to make things worse).

(for @youremysunshine8)

[likesummerrainn]

AEW Forbidden Door | 06.30.24

[zomibom]

very quick doodle break

characters:

Scarab - Fionna and Cake Prismo - Fionna and Cake/Adventure time

[nerd-artist]

Horizon Forbidden West launches on PC tomorrow.

Enjoy the ride, PC gamers!

[pineboots]

the thing that i can’t get over is gerard *told* elody he didn’t want to leave her, that she had a place in his adventuring party when shit hit the fan, and that if he went to find rosamund the princesses might stop him from coming back to get elody, but she told him to leave so he left,

and he DID the hard brave thing and ventured deeper back into the castle to find elody when everyone else ran, but immediately got almost killed in one turn and was FORCED to run away this time, there was no fighting back, staying would have meant leaving elody with his dead body for a SECOND time, but the princesses are so wrapped in their own misery they’ll never tell her that

[internetskiff]

honestly, and this is coming from a Wheatley enjoyer here, methinks some people in the fandom either forget or consciously suppress the fact that he has an undeniable egotistical and self-serving streak to him that's prominent even before he gets put in the GLaDOS Chassis. Like, let's be honest, when he broke Chell out and assisted her he was in it for himself at least PARTIALLY, and personally I think initiating a core transfer was at least slightly motivated by his desire to retaliate after GLaDOS crushed him like a tin can and tossed him away. He was very clearly enjoying himself as he carved her head up to stuff into a potato. He also like.. blatantly has bottled up resentment towards Chell that he lets pour out after he secured his spot on the Chassis.

I feel like part of the tragedy to it is that a healthy dynamic between him and Chell is literally physically impossible because he only pauses to reflect on his own actions after he has been tossed out into space. Even if he was detached without being sent out into orbit he would be immediately tortured by GLaDOS while Chell is sent to the surface with her Companion Cube. The Companion Cube is quite literally the only object within Aperture that provided Chell with companionship without expecting anything from her in return. Wheatley had her running around sabotaging equipment to further his own plans - the game quite literally makes a point about this during his boss fight, when he rants and raves how in reality he's the one who's been bossed around. He's quite literally spent his entire existence as an object used and passed around from odd job to odd job by Aperture's staff, and unfortunately for Chell she's the only human being left that he can finally take his anger out on.

Let's be honest, much like GLaDOS, Wheatley isn't a good person - that doesn't mean he can't become one, but the whole point of the ending is that that ship has sadly sailed for him, he can't apologize to Chell, leaving him with nothing but an eternity of self-reflection as he floats among the stars. He was designed to be stupid, and that's all that was expected of him. And he only begins to see his own flaws when he's stuck in an environment where he is physically incapable of making stupid decisions.

[hellenhighwater]

You're so cool, how do you have the energy to do so many cool things?

I'm what you get when you make a person with really bad ADHD, insomnia, a nigh limitless supply of caffeine, and absolutely zero ability to play video games.

[a-certain-nerd]

What I'm getting here is that rontoto are canonically dating now.