#where are the firebringer trilogy fans!!!!!!!!!

[recurringwriter]

In his youth he was a battleprince, by Alma blessed: a warrior, a dancer, a bringer of fire.

[starcanwreckedpulpparentspoll]

Ok I've been off my game recently bc of the holidays and going on vacation but I'm gonna be back home soon so

Here's another post about the StarCanWreckedPulp Awards! This is the form where you submit people for different categories. You can submit yourself and others and submit as many people or forms as you'd like. A person only needs one submission to end up in the final voting form, however if not enough people are submitted for a category (I need at least 2) then I won't I include it in the final vote and will simply declare the one person submitted as winner or if there were no submissions in a category I won't include it all.

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Biggest A Very Potter Trilogy Fan

Biggest Twisted Fan

Biggest TGWDLM Fan

Biggest NMT1 Fan

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Biggest Ani Fan

Biggest Firebringer Fan

Biggest NMT2 Fan

Biggest Flop Stoppers Fan

Biggest Solve It Squad Fan

Biggest Emma Perkins Fan

Biggest Paul Catmews Advocate

[blackkatmagic]

While we wait for you to finish your book (will buy!!!), do you and the other followers have any rec for good unicorn reads? Both book and fics of any fadom, I'm not picky! (and often fan writers are better than press writers, as you prove)

I don’t know that I’ve read any fanfic where they feature heavily, but for books:

The Black Unicorn series by Tanith Lee

Rampant by Diana Peterfreund

The Unicorn Sonota by Peter S. Beagle

The Magic and the Healing by Nick O’Donohoe

The Firebringer Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce

Zombies vs. Unicorns (Anthology edited by Holly Black)

Airs Beneath the Moon by Toby Bishop (technically a pegasus book, but the plot is interesting. Warning for some weird themes relating to the villain, though. Potentially transphobic? It's been a while since I read it.)

Pegasus by Robin McKinley (also a pegasus book, but it’s Robin McKinley)

[mimymomo]

Starkid Shows Ranked

So I’ve seen others do it and I want to jump on the bandwagon. Plus my list so SO different than others I’ve seen so I’m either gonna interest, delight or piss people off. I love every Starkid show, I just love some more than others lol. This is just my opinion so please dont take it too seriously:

11) Me And My Dick - oh shit not Ani! My list is already starting off controversial. Yeah I’m sorry I’m just not not the biggest fan of this show. I love a few songs and every scene with Joeys Heart or the Old Snatch is genius and Sally is the sweetest bean alive. But besides that, there’s nothing else that really keeps me coming back. I usually just watch the listen to your heart, the choir room scenes and the finale and I’m good. Plus Joey (the character not the person) pisses me off half the time. Sorry...

10) Ani - originally Ani was the only Starkid show I nearly stopped watching cause I couldn’t get into it. But by the end of the first act I was starting to enjoy it more (I really liked the act 1 finale). And I actually really like Ani’s second act. The songs in this show are really good and Nick Lang as Obi Wan is everything it’s just the first act that holds this show back for me.

9) A Very Potter Sequel - yeah controversial opinion again but AVPS is my least favorite of the AVPM trilogy...please don’t kill me!! It has my least favorite of the AVPM songs (I don’t like Guys Like Potter or Harry Freaking Potter...I’m so sorry I’ll go crawl back in my hole now). But I still fucking adore it though!! Brian as Lupin and Joe as Umbridge saved my life and Days of Summer makes me weep while No Way and Stutter fill me with chaotic energy.

8) A Very Potter Musical - the show that started it all! It was my first Starkid show that I’d watched back in like 2011/12 before I’d actually finished Harry Potter (I just watched all the movies last year...don’t judge me). This show is a classic: great songs, jokes, quotes.

7) Holy Musical B@man - Im not a huge DC fan but love this show. Joe and Nick are great as Batman and Robin respectively and Brian and Jeff are stand outs as Superman and Sweet Tooth. The costumes and songs are great and casting is spot on (I saw comment online saying that the show was gray but the casting of Lauren as Comissioner Gordon was weird and someone pointed out that was the joke it made me crack up). Plus Two-Face, TGI Friday’s girl, the line about Spider-Man being agile as hell and Meredith’s chess line in American Way still crack me up every time.

6) The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals - this was the show that officially brought me into the Starkid fandom. The story, characters and atmosphere of the show is something so distinct from every other Starkid show. The whole cats is freaking fantastic especially the newbies Jon and Mariah and I look forward to seeing them and everyone else in future shows. To me the weakest part of the show was the music (sorry I know everyone loves the songs in this show). Some songs are fine but others I just skip and at this point I can’t listen to Show Stoppin Number anymore. I have this thing where if shows/songs/characters get super popular I immediately start to like it less which I think is what happened for this show and the one next on my list.

5) Twisted - okay this is probably where I lost/pissed off most of you but let me explain: when I first watched this show I actually didn’t really like it. Aladdin was never a movie I really liked so a Aladdin/ Wicked style parody was not my thing. Now however I really enjoy Twisted. It’s still not my favorite show but the music is really good and Dylan and Meredith confirmed in this show that they have amazing stage chemistry - Ja’far and Scheherazade are the second best Starkid relationship solely because how integral the relationship is to the story without being grating plus they’re super cute. This show is hilarious and heart warming and wrenching at the same time. I may not like it as much as everyone else but I will fully preach how amazing it is.

4) A Very Potter Senior Year - yep AVPSY is my favorite in the trilogy. I think it partially has to do with the fact it’s just a stage reading. There’s just something about it not being perfect with all the technical issues and character breaking that makes it feel more personal and intimate to me. AVPSY has some of my favorite scenes (the scene with Meredith and AJ is one of the best scenes in Starkid history), songs (Always Dance is in my top five favorite Starkid songs ever) and character moments. Ron is such a standout in this show and I really care about his a Hermiones relationship in this show. I could never fully be invested in them before I hated how much Ron constantly insulted her but in this show it shows just how good of a boyfriend and best friend he really is. And I know people hate how they made Harry act in this show but to me it was essential to his character that he acted this way (I could write a whole essay about Harry and his character and how his actions in senior year make sense).

3) Starship - Starship is just really good okay!! Bug is precious, Mega-girl and Tootsie are adorable, the songs are amazing and the story while predictable since it’s just the Little Mermaid in Space is still great and it’s funny as heck. What more do I have to say? And Starship Requim nearly made me cry when I heard it for the first time.

2) Firebringer - I’m gay. Okay but seriously while TGWDLM was the show that pulled me into the fandom, this was the show that truly introduced me to Starkid as a more than AVPM. I know this show has a lot of problems. But you know those things that you recognize has a lot of issues and isn’t perfect but despite all the faults you still love it to death? Yeah Firebringer is one of those things to me. I love Jemilla and Zazzalil, I love their relationship, I love that they’re played by my two favorite Starkid members: Lauren Lopez and the love of my life Meredith Stepien!! I love the music since it reminds me of Jim and the Povolos music (since Meredith and Mark wrote so it kinda is JatP music lol) and all harmonies and costumes and I think the show is hilarious (not their funniest but still funny). Again I know this show has its problems especially in the writing but after watching the behind the scenes I’ve come to really appreciate this show and understand why and where the issues came from. To me this show is just plain fun and sometimes that’s just why I need.

1) The Trail to Oregon - this show is just everything to to me. It’s so freaking funny and I love every single song in it (Lost Without You hits too hard as a girl in college who is hours away from her family). At face value it’s a road trip musical that parodies the game abut at heart is a show about a distinctions family reconnecting and dealing with life. The Dikrats family plus McDoon (and really every other role Joey plays in this) and Cletus Jones are some the funniest characters and some of my personal favorites due to how over the top but insanely real they feel. I really became attached to this family and their struggle and I just wanted them to get to Oregate in one piece. Plus this show actually has not one but two songs about dying of pooping and I love both of them!! Trail to Oregap is just so unique and I adore it.

So what did I learn making this list?? I have really weird taste and extremely different opinions on shows than everyone else. Why did I make this list?

Well I hope someone liked it and didn’t get too mad at me lol. And I hope more people who have vastly different rankings make more top list because it’s fun seeing where others place shows especially if it’s really weird placings and not just Ani at 11 and Twisted at 1 (not saying they can’t be! Absolutely no judgment on my part!!).

[jazzforthecaptain]

I didn't realize it was a trilogy for years! I 'borrowed' the grade school library's copy of Birth of the Firebringer for three years and lived in that book. I gave it back out of a guilty conscience in junior high, visited it all the time to make sure I knew where it was. I went back on my last day as an eighth grader with intentions to 'borrow' it again in perpetuity, only to find it was already missing. I didn't see the book again until I was in college, when my grandmother found a copy through a local used bookstore - and that book had a page that the first one did not. That was how I discovered at 19 that there were two more books! The hunt for the other two was how I found IFAS, which became my first fandom community.

All of the books were out of print and horribly expensive at the time. I used inter-library loan from the university library to read the sequels eventually (and returned them on time because I was a reformed book thief by then).

Although I love all of the characters, my favorite has always been Teki the healer. He was the storyteller, the mentor, and the caretaker of the Ringdancers. I wanted to be one of his students and I wanted to be him, at the same time. I remember the moment when he stood up to Korr towards the end of BotF, because until then he'd been endlessly patient. Mild-mannered doctor turned out to have a steel spine, and I felt like if he could do that and still be kind, so could I.

Tek is brilliant. She leaped to life right from the opening scenes of the first book, and every interaction with her opened up more layers. Fierce and sure enough to be the prince's easy favorite, to chew out the prince's son for being an idiot; but still angry, still trying to prove herself, still missing her mother.

Eesh, I wrote you a novel! It's so nice to meet another fan! I've read the first book so many times that sometimes passages randomly pop into mind when I watch a storm rolling, or wind rippling through a pasture during my commute.

B. Dalton was the source of so many delightful clearance photo books about horses. That was also where I got my full set of the Firebringer Trilogy when they briefly came back into print! I wish I'd gotten a second set to lend out.

Do you have a favorite antagonist in the series? The Wyvern Queen with her firebowl has always fascinated me. But the Complicated relationship with the gryphons made them interesting too, especially Illishar.

Wait hold up, I've been following you for months and months, then did a tumblr tag search for Birth of the Firebringer on a whim... and there you were! Hello (again) from one fan to another. It's been years since I've met an FT fan in the wild. If you were ever a member of IFAS, hello also from another Valedweller!

I wasn’t on the web at all for the IFAS, but if I had been, I would have been there!

I LOVE those books so much.  I read my way through two copies of the first book when it came out, picked up at B. Dalton on clearance (!!!) at a mall that is now defunct, and I still have my beaten-up third copy and the three-in-one book club volume.  I didn’t even KNOW there was a second and third book until I was about 22!  I was so delighted.  The first is still my favorite.  It’s a flawless story, I love it so much.  I wish there was a way to tell Pierce how much it meant to me, how it was there for me to escape into in a way I never escaped into any other book except, at about the same time, Tailchaser’s Song.

Who was your favorite unicorn?  I was in love with Tek.  I am still in love with Tek.  I will always be in love with Tek.  She was magnificent.