#tristan pov

[jessread-s]

✩🕯️📜Series Review:

Core concepts

⋆ The Atlas Six - Physics

⋆ The Atlas Paradox - Psychology

⋆ The Atlas Complex - Philosophy

“The Atlas” series is so much more than dark academia or romance. This series studies what happens to human beings when they are promised access to infinite knowledge and power. It is about how quickly we turn on each other and abandon our own morals to gain. said knowledge and power. Each installment blew me away as I watched Blake’s six protagonists gradually find and/or destroy themselves. My mind was continuously expanded by her prose and it made me question my every decision. It’s a soul crushing read, but perhaps also a necessary one.

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[thosesillylittlegayghosts]

Oh tis the damn season x false god surprise songs you are so ody3 coded

[joseopher]

it's just you and the girl you think will fix you, the boy you think will break you, the woman who is seducing you, the manchild who stims by murdering you, and the random lady who talks to plants against the world🩷🩷🩷

[goldenhallas]

I couldn't have picked a worse time to become obsessed with a new book series lol but I just read the Atlas Six and boy was it delicious. I'm starting the Atlas Paradox right away bc I simply MUST know what happens next

[somthing-lavender]

I love Tristan and Gawain's dynamic

123 spoilers under cut

[void-botanist]

‼️"what has stayed consistent across all drafts?"

💻"what perspectives do you write in?"

For whichever WIP is on your mind lately

I always have all the wips on my mind to be honest. But I think Nicea is interesting from a multiple draft perspective, given there have been multiple iterations of Spinder and Isabel especially:

Isabel has always been a trans lady, even when I had some weird worldbuilding around that. She's also always been a musician and tended toward being a domme.

Though his exact look has changed Spinder has always been a congenital arm amputee with a facial birthmark. And he's always been a fancy dresser and the mechanic guy.

Rodney's always been the "innocent" sibling, at least compared to Isabel, but he's had the most design changes of anyone. He and Isabel have always been from "somewhere else", except that somewhere else used to be earth/the united states.

Fay and Lou have always had F and L names. I gave them their original names and then renamed them something similar like five times.

Declan always loses Cady, except in past versions Cady was actually dead. Cady and Spinder have always been bros which has always led Spinder to have some kind of weirdly close yet distant relationship with Declan after Cady's death.

Cady has always had red hair and glasses and been obsessed with his bike and also Declan.

Martin has always been there and been tall about it.

Michael and Spinder have always hated each other's guts, and Fabian and Spinder have always had some kind of doomed attraction (and to be honest Fabian and Michael have had almost zero design changes since Old Canon like a decade ago).

As for perspectives, I pretty much write in third person limited, but my POV characters went from being Spinder (Old Canon) -> Spinder, Isabel, and Rodney (Middle Canon) -> Spinder, Isabel, Rodney, Declan, Tristan, and Cady (Nicea/New Canon).

Nicea taglist: @kahvilahuhut @kk7-rbs @outpost51 @writernopal @athenswrites

[orphanheirs]

Character Voice tag

Thanks @leahnardo-da-veggie for the tag!

My line: "Is that really all you've got?"

Tristan: That is it? That is all you can do? That is your worst? [breaks into mocking giggles he can't seem to stifle] What a singularly dull and stupid creature you are! [laughs so hard he starts wheezing and finally shuts up, thank god]

Crispin: Is this the sum of thy powers? [genuinely asking] Thou art very bad at this. [stating matter-of-factly]

Tagging: @cowboybrunch, @sableglass, and @somethingclevermahogony !

Your line: "Did I stutter?"

[melymbrosia]

i feel bad for, so far, not including Galehaut in my Lancelot story, especially bcs his wikipedia page talks abt how Galehaut being left out so often erases Lancelot's bisexuality, but I already made my Lancelot a lesbian and I genuinely dont know much abt Galehaut. He sounds cool but like I wouldnt want to include him w/o him being a big thing and the ending I have requires Lancelot not having a v powerful friend to bail them out of it. I think it may end up as a side story or in the sequel I'll likely never do.

[trissyfarnon]

"Hello, old chap. Had a good night? (:"

[lordofthestrix]

A trembling chess board about to fall. And the last look you give when you are forced to realize it is over. Everything following this point, he makes sure is about his sister. This is the final glance Tristan allowed himself. I wrote about Tristan and endings before. As a follow up to that: I think it is very harmoniously thematic for Hayley's promise to Tristan before sending him to drown in the ocean to be "You will be forgotten." And to encounter him again because, even after all coherent, practical methods of keeping him on the board are gone, The Strix had not given up on him. Tristan's last declarations of difference between him and Elijah are some of those quotes I don't insanely over-analyze all that much compared to others. And that's because I think they are instances of Tristan sincerely expressing his view without any other persuasion or double meaning involved: "You realize that I'm here because my people love me? You're here because those very same people loathe you. You have driven them to this." "... But nothing more important than how to not be you. Where you betray, I remain loyal. Where you abandon, I remain." Tristan is...Wicked. In numerous ways. But amid that viciousness I always enjoyed that he stays truthful to his very particular set of exclusively personal loyalties and extremely singular interpretation of honor. In a way it is a bittersweet end for someone even Elijah describes as "pathologically devoted", assuring danger in his kind of acute loyalty. I think in the end it would have meant something for him. To know that after all those centuries his Strix were willing to try to return the favor.

[jessread-s]

✩👁️⌛️Review:

This book turned my brain into scrambled eggs and I’m honestly okay with that.

The conclusion to “The Atlas” series follows Callum, Reina, Parisa, Libby, Nico, and Tristan as they fight to survive the lethal terms of their initiation and face the consequences of limitless power.

The beginning of the “Atlas Complex” is so slow I nearly gave up on it, but if you find yourself in the same position, do NOT do it! Blake intentionally takes her time leading up to the novel’s explosive ending so as to focus on how the characters develop when they are given endless knowledge and power. I was gripped by each character’s point-of-view as they become corrupted by Atlas’ promise of making their wildest dreams come true—the cost of which was losing themselves and even then that proved to not be enough, a realization that came too late. Gone are the people they once were in “The Atlas Six”. Callum is consumed by obsession, Reina devotes herself to things she cannot control, Parisa sheds her vanity, Libby loses her moral compass, Nico becomes too trusting, and Tristan wants for too much. Their fates were sealed once the Society, the Archives, and the Forum became a part of their lives and this just goes to show that human beings will do anything to achieve greatness, even if that means compromising their goodness. Blake’s commentary is haunting and will make you reflect on your own choices and question what you would do and who you would betray for glory. The final chapters are an emotional overload as each character is confronted by the repercussions of their actions. It’s utter chaos…just as it should be. There was never going to be a “happily ever after”.

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[niallandtommo]

the last scene in the predator is one of the best scenes i've ever read

[joseopher]

POV: the most sleep-deprived and deranged-looking motherfucker shows up at your door, looks into your soul with a thousand-yard-stare and says "I see you👁️👁️" before pleading with his pathetic slutty eyeballs for you to let him into your room. What do you do?

[flythesail]

No I have not started writing the George/Tristan fic

Yes I am still outlining

[zayadriancas]

Honey

“All I know is I can’t get out of Paris soon enough.”

[mapplesand]

i'm not sure why I decided to include a shower scene between Marco and Tristan there's clearly someone between these two who isnt gonna react to it in a mature way at all