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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:
(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.
#i think there are also some short stories set after the main 4 books?#i have not been able to track them down yet#the sharing knife#fandom#dove.txt#asked and answered#the written word#commentary#tropes on parade#lois mcmaster bujold#then once you've read the sharing knife you have all of the vorkosigan saga waiting for you#the week i read that series was the same week my husband got obsessed with persona 5#neither of us were online all week. my best friend thought i was dead#anyway. bujold is good#try her
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rip keiko you would have loved tasers
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@heavens-sin
@sukunarp
#mun and muse#writing music#muse music#spotify#try her#she will step up and attempt#to slash throats#Spotify
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compliments from girls go hard
#comic#the girly girls are girling girling#this one popped off on twitter and there are SOOOO many wonderful positive comments about shared experiences omg#anyway lmao this happened at a friends birthday and we spent so long trying to find out who this was#all i remembered was “petite/shorter than me / nice hair / one could define her style as ”pinterest coquette“ lmao
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im cooking
#bg3#gale of waterdeep#astarion#karlach#shadowheart#lae'zel#wyll#halsin#not art#didn't try to fit jaheira or minsc in there. or withers#or minthara#haven't played with minthara yet so idk her. but. got the rest of the polycule pretty good i think
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i'll let phie-san say it:
#the vids i've seen on tiktok picking at her immediately get a block...#bitter otaku sitting in their socks in their mom's basement feeling threatened/enraged by a hot successful black woman outnerding them-core#also this kind of criticism is so demoralising and damaging to people who are trying to learn another language#also. accents are NORMAL and not a bad thing#i don't think that the end goal of picking up a new language necessarily has to be sounding native#and i know sometimes the way japanese people react like SUGOIII? *W* when a foreigner says like one (1) word in japanese is joked about#but like... genuinely... i always love when someone clearly has made an effort and took the time to learn some of the language#anyway she can step on those haters <3#also like. it’s just some lines in a song people need to relax…#megan thee stallion#autoplay warning#japan#japanese#language#mamushi
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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.
#shrooms is talking#anti taylor swift#i can't believe y'all got mad at this woman for being straight#of course she's fucking straight#gods bless#stop trying to turn her into a queer icon#she's never gonna be a queer icon
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things haven't been great but i think they will be. eventually 🌻🌼🩷
#personal#comics#tw abuse#digital art#personal comic#for the record no i don't think my mother loves me#but the idea that she did kept me in an awful situation for a very long time#the number of times people said “she's your mother. she's trying her best. of course she loves you” etc etc#but i don't think “love” and abuse are mutually exclusive#like even if someone DOES love you it doesn't mean it's not abuse and it doesn't mean it's ok#art tag
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Could you draw Anya getting angry at daisuke over their game. I think she deserves being more than just sad or scared
I bet Daisuke won with probably the worst card i can think of.
#mouthwashing#art request#send asks#koky's art#artists on tumblr#artwork#digital art#digital illustration#sketch#mouthwashing anya#anya mouthwashing#daisuke mouthwashing#mouthwashing daisuke#daisuke#anya#anya trying to keep her cool#fan art#fanart#mouthwashing game
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couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead
#calne ca#hatsune miku#VOCALOID#cw: body horror#<- And I Fucking Mean That We Are Not Fucking Around Today#well we are. as in I drew this as a fuckaround treat for myself#but the body horror tag is the most warranted its ever been on this blog#ask to tag#I am as ever on my journey to make calne ca Worse. her OG version is too cool. even the crab ver is too cool#I need her to be worse to look at. I am also getting myself into to mood to test my hand at boarding a pmv for my friend's cover#I think my thought for this was ''I should try and give her a more insectoid bodyplan''#which in this mostly means gently three-part body and six limbs (my favourite amount of limbs to draw rn)#actually almost gave her eight but didnt like how that silhouette came out so I mermaided her uh. abdomen I guess#though maybe next time I do this I should push that idea more. the head and torso are still very distinct for one unified part#I feel like one of my old attempts was onto something with like. a more horizontal body plan... well! live and learn etc#happy late mid autumn I guess. I should play with touys about it... I miss model kits. mayhaps...
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just saw the most heartbreaking annabeth take from ep 3
#brb gonna go violently sob in the corner#MINIBETH#MY BABY#SHE JUST WANTS THEM TO LIKE HER#SHES TRYING#PLEASE DONT LOOK AT ME WHILE A CRY#annabeth chase#percy jackson the lightning thief#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#pjo#pjo tv#pjo tv show#percy series#percabeth#pjo series#LITTLE DOES SHE KNOW SHES THE MOST LOVED GIRL EVER
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#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#my art#rise of the turtles#rise of the tmnt#meme redraw#raph should be scolded from time to time#reminder they have one brain cell that ping pongs between the 4 of them like the DVD logo screen#april should start a tiktok where she casually mentions all the jobs she's had#and then makes an off hand comment on why she got fired#comments would be wild trying to piece together her work history
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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)
#bloodweave#astarion x gale#gale x astarion#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#astarion ancunin#they are so funny god help. thank you to whoever sat Neil next to Tim#my roommate turning to look directly at me whenever they were interacting lik bestie please stop I am trying to be normal. don’t look at me#my roommate also said Neil acting low-key obsessed with gale and I could only say wow he’s just like me fr fr.#if I didn’t still struggle with getting shadowhearts likeness you would get a drawing of her hugging bing bong too but alas …#anyway the stream was so fun#can’t wait til tomorrow hehe
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alright tumblr, here's your homegrown cowgirl C:{
what do you think of her?
#this was fun! took me awhile since life is nuts rn trying to move but#id like to do smthg like this again somwtime#my art#furry#fursona#anthro#furry fandom#cow#cow girl#fat#< - not enough art in the fat tag. i will change this o7#tumblr polls#sketch#doodle#edit: bf pointed out the tummy could be bigger so i biggified her a little
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“Cassidy, stop doing the FNAF golden Freddy pose”
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf cassidy#michael afton#fnaf 3#golden freddy#honestly her right to do the pose whenever#tbh I think Michael can see the ghost kids#dude is covered in remnant and has hallucinations like all the time#it just depends on if they wanna talk to him pff#Michael is not phased by most scary things now of days#he’s been jumpscared scooped burned etc#dude is just trying to do his minimum wage job
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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.
#pangur easily could have died 10 years ago when she first got pancreatitis#and Grim..... I dunno. she needed her teeth out pretty young#because of an autoimmune thing#so they could've rotted in her mouth and led to some sort of massive infection without treatment#I just keep saying “NO” >:( whenever they try to die
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