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fallenclan · 3 months
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not only is Kestrelkit a male tortie, he's also a wildcard. brambletuft gave birth to a fuckin shiny pokemon
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shirekai · 1 month
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Fallenclan fan art
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I love fallenclan so I made this fan art, I'm publishing it before the shame catches up with me hahahaha
My favorites are without a doubt the Crowflame and Blizzardfang family, and there is also Ravenstar and who I suppose could be her evil entourage (along with Poppyfeather looking at him with hatred)
Sorry if my English is bad, I'm using Google Translate hahaha
@fallenclan
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gooseclan · 3 months
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I’m too excited not to post this today so double upload! Yayyy!
SPECIAL @fallenclan MENTION! I got them to do a collab! I’m so happy :D
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lunamond · 5 months
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In keeping with my recommendation of Cruel Beauty, an actual good YA book, instead of 🔥hotfire garbage🔥, aka Acotar, I thought I'd recommend another favourite of mine.
So, this time, I'm going to give an alternative recommendation to Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. This post is definitely not inspired by the release of Iron Flame.
Instead please try:
Fireborne by Rosaria Munda❤️‍🔥
This recommendation is especially for anyone who fell for the advertising when FW first came out, and it was sold as a YA adjacent military dragon fantasy with a slow burn romance.
So if that sounds interesting to you and you want to read an actually well written story, go check out Fireborne.
Fireborne is a YA fantasy, the 1st book of the Aurelian Cycle (a completed trilogy).
It follows its two main characters in a military academy through their training to become dragon riders.
I personally have pitched this series to irl friends as a genderswapped Anastasia (animated movie) with dragons.
The story takes place right after a big revolution. The people overthrew the dragon riding aristocracy.
Our main characters meet up in an orphanage, where they grow up together and end up joining the military academy to become dragon riders.
A lot of the story revolves around the questions that come up when a newly formed government is put through crisis.
All seen through the eyes of the protagonists, who as teenagers are old enough to know what life was like before the revolution, but young enough to have grown up in the new system.
The story does a great job of dealing with the struggles that come with uprooting old deeply ingrained systems of oppression while trying to build a newer fairer system.
The dragons are an integral part of this theme. Unlike FW, in which magical abilities and creatures are added without regard for how they might impact the world or themes, in Fireborne, the dragons are the embodiment of political and military power.
When the aristocracy ruled their oppressive regime, they were the only ones allowed to own and ride dragons. After their fall, the new regime allowed regular people the opportunity to become riders.
However, the number of dragons is still limited, and the new regime, comprised of former revolutionary leaders, want to keep the new riders under their control.
So, in the end, they still come up with a system that allows for abuse and oppression because access to power remains restricted to a chosen few, the dragon riders and those who control them, the newly established government.
These themes make for really complicated and nuanced conflicts without easy solutions. The sequels make a great job with further expanding on these themes.
The military elements also all make sense in this series, and they employ logical means to train their most valuable military assets, their dragon riders unlike FW.
It also features one of my favourite slow burn romances (at least in YA), the relationship has actually depth and tension, while also providing believable reasons why the characters can't just get together.
I'm actually really salty that Fourth Wing took off practically overnight, while Fireborne has been out for ages and has consistently remained underhyped. But I guess it isn’t spicy... 😒
So, for anyone who picked FW up without realising that it is actually just a very trashy smutty romance mascarading as a high fantasy, I highly recommend reading Fireborne which comes with the added perk of not being written by a known zionist.
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katiifaye · 1 month
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“Together?”
“Together.”
Lee and Annie walking into the Fête of the Fourth Order from Flamefall, chapter 7. I know it's in the evening but I love sun rays so 💁‍♀️🌟
the Fireborne fanart continues....
Annie sur Aela x Lee sur Pallor
It's also on insta
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moshypants · 3 months
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My Rough interpretation of the three main dragon breeds from the Aurelian Cycle Trilogy. I might mess with the designs more in sketches later as I reread the series. I feel like I especially struggled to nail down a color I was happy with for the Aurelian in the middle. For a first go at their designs without roughing out thumbnail ideas first I'm pretty happy with them. I gave up a little on coloring towards the end 😅. I need help finding a way to increase my love for the coloring process. I like to sketch and line and then I start to lose interest.
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allaboardthexwing · 2 months
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its just some of my faves from Fireborne, the first book of the Aurelian Cycle
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theskysungqueen · 5 months
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I feel like The Aurelian Cycle's obscurity in comparison to other dragon-related YA books (*cough* a certain romantasy whose sequel just recently came out *cough*) is partly because it's not heavy on the romance at all, the author almost never describes the more romantic scenes in detail, it's more focused on the nature of the relationships and how the charactere reflect on it
I mean, think about the tropes in Fourth Wing. Enemies to lovers where one's parent killed the other's. War college. Dragonrider military. Politics. The regime hiding secrets. All of these are present in The Aurelian Cycle, albeit with much, much better execution.
Fireborne did start slow, but I feel like that benefited the story. We're introduced to the status quo and established the world–this series is heavy on politics and questioning the government, less so on action and death.
The tropes are present, but not how most mainstream YA normally does them. It's not their lives at stake, it's their freedom, their identity, their values. It understands that death does not necessarily raise the stakes; they could lose more than that. Annie and Lee in technicality are enemies turned friends to lovers, but there's layers to their relationship. Even Power, the bully character, has layers. The Guardian school simultaneously gave and stripped them of freedom, instead of being straightfoward good or evil. It's all complicated, but it all works together to serve the theme of trying. "The point is trying."
I'm upset the series has ended, but I look forward to more of Rosaria Munda's work!
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bookwyrminspiration · 6 months
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I want to shake Annie she’s so caught up in the idea of a system where you can rise from the bottom straight to the top, because that’s what it gave her, that she’s failing to consider just how rare her “miracle” was and that this system still has a horrible bottom. and that the solution is to no longer have it, not to escape it. she doesn’t see it’s keeping those people at the bottom at the bottom and claiming it’s better—and it’s doing that WAY more than it’s saving people like her
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griffsursparker · 7 months
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thinking about how Julia and Griff's dynamic is told almost entirely through absence, which is like. because she's physically not there when we're learning about their relationship. but also says so much about how the two of them interacted. even the few flashbacks we do see still feel like they play on that absence in a way. their entire relationship was always hollow, and Julia was never kind so much as just absent of the cruelty so many of the other dragonborn had. and so then to see their relationship only from the moment she's gone is so brilliant, because that absence (and the absences that come with it, like Agga's medicine) says so much more than showing their dynamic ever could have
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fallenclan · 4 months
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sometimes a little comfort from your big siblings goes a long way
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aurelianmusings · 8 months
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Annie to Lee, Furysong ch. 29 // Andromache to Hector, Iliad b. 6 Delo to Griff, Flamefall ch. 21 // Patroclus to Achilles, Iliad b. 23
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crissaeatscake · 9 months
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The Aurelian Cycle by Rosaria Munda is so underrated
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Title: The Aurelian Cycle
Author: Rosaria Munda
Series or standalone: series
Publication year: 2019
Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance
Blurb: Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone - even the lowborn - a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Now, they are both rising stars in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn’t be more different. Annie’s lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee’s aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven years of training have made them rivals for the top position in the dragonriding fleet...but everything changes when survivors from the old regime surface, bent on reclaiming the city. With war on the horizon and his relationship with Annie changing fast, Lee must choose to kill the only family he has left or to betray everything he’s come to believe in; Annie must decide whether to protect the boy she loves or step up to be the champion her city needs.
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katiifaye · 2 months
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Bring what fury you have and I will answer it with ours.
~ Annie sur Aela
Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
I added a dragon crest with a wreath to the background bc I think it reps the Revolution well. Also I posted the sketches on my reblog acct oops but I guess I'll leave them there
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moshypants · 2 months
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Duck Sur Certa Work in progress
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