“Truths are dangerous.” “Then why are you writing them in a book?” “To catch them between the pages.”

artwork by miaiminnis (insta) (tumblr)

ngl i'm not even doing inktober anymore, but here's giddon from graceling <3

Got hit with my annual urge to paint Fire from the Graceling realm novels by Kristen Cashore 🔥

Katsa 100% taught Bitterblue how to cuss and thats a hill im willing to die on

rereading the graceling books and being like ohhh the country names are soooo uncreative why are they wester estill nander sunder and the middluns. and then remembering that england contains wessex essex sussex and the literal actual middluns (i think)

hava from seasparrow: finally characters whose personalities are as unpalatable as their upbringing

me at age 12 starting Graceling: fun! a fantasy book about a girl who stabs people!

me at age 25 finishing Seasparrow: I Have Been Irrevocably Changed By These Characters

I’m definitely not crying over the authors note at the end of BitterBlue where the author acknowledges that earlier in the series she disabled one of her characters just to immediately magic cure him and when writing a later book had someone to consult with about if she could get around said magic cure and have him still be disabled character so she could show him being whole and happy while also being disabled

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Quick painting practice with Queen Bitterblue 💙

Might work more on it later but I wanted to share regardless

“Wanting is confusing for me…I don’t think it happens to me like it does to other people. I’ve watched people do sexual things. I’ve seen the way it takes them. And I have an imagination, I have yearnings sometimes too. But it’s like yearning to be a bird. It’s like yearning for something that exists only on the moon.”

-Seasparrow by Kristin Cashore

katsa / fire / bitterblue 

realized something amazing just now which is that saf is sooo jess from gilmore girls coded. jess mariano core. i love him so dearly. bisexual mean boy with tragic past and pretentious poems in his heart i cracked the CODE

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pov - you took the long way round to your bf's castle only to find the evil king youre running from has already moved in by the time you arrive