#try her
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
starfieldcanvas · 3 months ago
Note
So if it's not Paladin of Souls, which is the Lois McMaster Bujold book you talked about in your notes? I'm curious 😊
The Sharing Knife! It's a four-book fantasy series in a setting based on the Great Lakes region. I was clueless enough the first time around (and so heavily used to vague-medieval-renaissance-Europe-expy fantasy settings) I didn't realize it the first time I read the series, but it's very obvious once you think about it at all, and sometime in the last two years my library updated the audiobook covers from the original "beautiful high-effort romance novel painting where they're both white" style to the "expressionless racially ambiguous cutouts that make the setting explicit" style:
Tumblr media Tumblr media
(These are the same book.)
It's a story about fantasy Native Americans ("Lakewalkers") and fantasy white settlers ("farmers"). The actual cosmology and history of the fantasy world is very different from our own—everyone is native to the same continent, and have been living in roughly the same area for at least a few hundred years—so the politics of settler vs. native don't actually apply in the same way. However, the tension of "people who share the land" vs "people who parcel off the land to sell" is still very present, as is the tension of quasi-nomadic groups with seasonal camp rotations vs. people who stay in place and build large towns with industrial capacity.
And then, of course, there's the magic. The Lakewalkers have limited hereditary magic powers, plus magic monsters they're sworn to fight; the farmers have no magic and no defense against it either. Farmers tend to mistrust Lakewalkers and misunderstand Lakewalker magic; Lakewalkers keep the secrets of their powers under wraps and often look down on farmers as a kind of invasive pest species. As I mentioned in my tags, Lakewalkers' most important magical tools involve someone choosing the time of their death—though typically only when already dying of terminal illness, old age, or a mortal wound.
If you love the movie Ever After like I do, you may remember the part where Danielle says to Leonardo, "A bird may love a fish, Signore, but where would they live?" The Sharing Knife is a series about a bird (Lakewalker) and a fish (farmer) that get engaged halfway through the first book and then spend the next three and a half books figuring out where the hell they're going to live...and slowly realizing they may have to remake society in order to find their place in it.
Even the book where they first get together is not really what you'd call a romance novel, but every book in the series is a lot more focused on a central romantic relationship than most fantasy adventure books, so it's interesting from a genre perspective. "Established relationship" is normally my second-least favorite AO3 (my least favorite being major character death) but the political and magical worldbuilding, and the family dynamics on both sides, kept me very invested even with the amount of meandering domesticity on display throughout the books.
There are some potential triggers to ask about if you have common trauma triggers, and the main romance has a pretty big age gap, which I know is a turn-off for some. But if you ever found yourself asking "why is the Wizarding World's excuse for keeping muggles in the dark so fucking flimsy?" or "how the hell does Wei Wuxian stand living in the Cloud Recesses when most of Lan Wangji's sect hates him?" or "why aren't more fantasy authors as obsessed with craft skills as Tamora Pierce" or "why aren't there more permanently disabled fantasy protagonists who actually have to cope with the limitations created by their disability?" or "why aren't there more fantasy protagonists who genuinely lack magical powers?" then this may be the book series for you.
9 notes · View notes
fanfabled · 8 months ago
Text
rip keiko you would have loved tasers
3 notes · View notes
ryathenaughtykitsune · 10 months ago
Text
@heavens-sin
@sukunarp
2 notes · View notes
lrndvs · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
compliments from girls go hard
118K notes · View notes
blorbopolis · 10 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
im cooking
60K notes · View notes
kensatou · 4 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
i'll let phie-san say it:
25K notes · View notes
soundwavefucker69 · 11 months ago
Text
bastille has done more for the queer community by just making all of their love songs about "you" instead of specifying a gender than taylor swift has in all of her discography. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
59K notes · View notes
wildbasil · 7 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷
33K notes · View notes
themouthwashes · 28 days ago
Note
Could you draw Anya getting angry at daisuke over their game. I think she deserves being more than just sad or scared
Tumblr media
I bet Daisuke won with probably the worst card i can think of.
12K notes · View notes
bacchuschucklefuck · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead
13K notes · View notes
mydairpercabeth · 11 months ago
Text
just saw the most heartbreaking annabeth take from ep 3
Tumblr media Tumblr media
32K notes · View notes
leisi-lilacdreams · 2 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
7K notes · View notes
theoldkyokodied · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, gale’s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion 😐😑😐😑😐 (that’s me blinking)
29K notes · View notes
girlboyburger · 8 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
alright tumblr, here's your homegrown cowgirl C:{
what do you think of her?
16K notes · View notes
chloesimaginationthings · 1 month ago
Text
Tumblr media
“Cassidy, stop doing the FNAF golden Freddy pose”
6K notes · View notes
pangur-and-grim · 30 days ago
Text
my mom was saying that I'm pretty unlucky when it comes to cat health, but I was saying that a lot of folk have issues like mine, it's just that they don't deal with them and then the cat dies.
she said "that's not true at all," and I had to list how many cats my aunt and uncle have burnt through in the same time I've had Pangur and Grim. and then I talked about an old friend who would never even name her kittens, because they always died within the first year. and of friends who've watched their cats deteriorate without going to the vet, while saying "there's nothing I can do." in mainstream culture, cat death is normal and invisible. it's just that a lot of time the cat dies outside of the house (whether through illness, accident, or predation) so people get to maintain deniability.
5K notes · View notes