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My favorite did not die but is like being corrupted???
This is worse?
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Wheels squeaked as her sister, the Crown Prince made himself known, crossing from the corner of the vast room to the bed.
“Watching me sleep?” managed Fraxinus, voice hoarse and dry. She licked at her lips, but it did nothing to moisten them.
Fennec, to his credit, ignored her. “Pa thinks you’ve died.”
“Is he sad, at least?”
“He cracked open the good wine before the maids had a chance to mop your blood out the entry way.”
“I’m taking that he’s positively beside himself, and not that he’s celebrating.”
“You weren’t supposed to live.” Fennec sighed, busying himself with picking at Fraxinus’ bandages in a way that made her nauseous. “He sees the fact that he couldn’t successfully sacrifice his child as a weakness. If you’d died, it would be easier.”
King Lysander had been the middle born of his litter, his mother had carried five perfectly royal etain cubs, and his father had sent four of them away to be killed. It was something to do with succession, but Fraxinus had never understood. Given the chance, she still wouldn’t get in the way of Fennec’s ascension to the throne. She was the warrior, Fennec’s sword and shield, but given that Fennec survived his fall from the library ladder with nothing but the inability to feel his legs, it was Fraxinus’ turn to perish.
She was never the favourite.
Her chest ached where Fennec pressed on it in sick fascination, feeling every broken rib as it lit her insides with electricity.
“Do you hate me?” she wheezed.
“You’re my sister, my twin. Of course I hate you.”
Having fun on this draft 0. Definitely a lot different so far than the old version.
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I finished The Kingfall Histories series by David Estes in less than two weeks.
Those were not short books but I was so hooked.
The stakes are pretty high through the entire series, so the end wasn't a big build up, but the expansive epilogues made up for that. It was a satisfying meandering through the peace most of the characters found after the brutal events of the series.
I am going to read the Fatemarked series at some point by the same author, but I am going to take a break from addictive fantasy series for a minute. lol
#muttering about reading#The Kingfall Histories#I recommend this series#Not perfect but it's very good#Epic fantasy series
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BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2022 EDITION
With one exception, this list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. (There was one serious-seeming book that, as far as I know, exists only in free-floating PDF form.) No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind apart from the aforementioned, etc. Also no children’s picture books.
1. The Blue Castle, Lucy Maude Montgomery
2. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker
3. The Girl and the Mountain, Mark Lawrence
4. There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm
5. Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
6. War and State Building in Medieval Japan, Various (ed. John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth)
7. Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, David Friedman, Peter T. Leeson, and David Skarbek
8. The Revolutions, Felix Gilman
9. Age of Ash, Daniel Abraham
10. When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin
11. Summer in Orcus, T. Kingfisher
12. The Thousand Eyes, A. K. Larkwood
13. Kingfall, David Estes
14. Surrogation, Suspended Reason
15. The Hands of the Emperor, Victoria Goddard
16. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Hakkenden -- Part 1: "An Ill-Considered Jest," Kyokutei Bakin
18. Claws of the Cat, Susan Spann
19. Blade of the Samurai, Susan Spann
20. Flask of the Drunken Master, Susan Spann
21. The Ninja's Daughter, Susan Spann
22. Betrayal at Iga, Susan Spann
23. Trial at Mount Koya, Susan Spann
24. Ghost of the Bamboo Road, Susan Spann
25. Fires of Edo, Susan Spann
26. The Discord of Gods, Jenn Lyons
27. All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay
28. Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
29. Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Bousyan
30. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
31. Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer
32. Dreadgod, Will Wight
33. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
34. Manfred, George Gordon, Lord Byron
35. Friend to Mankind: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), Various (ed. Michael Shepherd)
36. Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett
37. The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee
38. Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima
39. Against All Gods, Miles Cameron
40. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
41. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, J. Bradford DeLong
42. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
43. The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Vol. I, George R. R. Martin, Elio M. Garcia Jr., and Linda Antonsson
44. A Garter as a Lesser Gift, Aster Glenn Gray
45. The Night-Bird's Feather, Jenna Moran
46. Absolution by Murder, Peter Tremayne
47. The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson
48. Shroud for the Archbishop, Peter Tremayne
49. Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter, Richard Parks
50. Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate, Richard Parks
51. Yamada Monogatari: The War God's Son, Richard Parks
52. Yamada Monogatari: The Emperor in Shadow, Richard Parks
53. Pulling the Wings off Angels, K. J. Parker
54. Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin
55. The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups, Richard Parks
56. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2021: 7
[“plausible” and “improving” are being defined very liberally here]
Works written by women consumed in 2021: 23
Works written by men consumed in 2021: 29
Works written by both men and women consumed in 2021: 4
Balioc’s Choice Award, Fiction Division: The Remains of the Day
>>>> Honorable Mention: Laurus
Balioc’s Choice Award, Nonfiction Division: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
>>>> Honorable Mention: War and State Building in Medieval Japan
Series Award for: A Deeply Flawed Work of Luminescent Genius, No Really, This Thing is Artistically and Intellectually Important and Its Flaws Only Make It More So, Dear God What Were They Thinking Not Giving It the Hugo -- the Terra Ignora books, by Ada Palmer
Series Award for: I Cannot Begin to Articulate How Mad I Am That These Books of All Books Have Become Cultural Touchstones of My Local Social and Artistic Circle -- the Locked Tomb books, by Tamsyn Muir
Series Award for: I Must Give Credit to a Brave Author Who Makes Unexpected Moves and Tries New Things with Every Book, Even if Everything She Tries is Terrible -- the Locked Tomb books, by Tamsyn Muir
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Fiction-wise, this was actually a better year than you'd think from just eyeballing the list. The overall numbers are still below par, and there's too much shlocky formulaic mystery-series-type stuff; but there was a lot of real quality in there. I had real trouble deciding on my top two, and I ended up not giving either prize to a book by Jenna Moran writing at her normal level of quality, so that says something. There were a number of books that disappointed by not being amazing but that I'm still glad to have read (e.g. Summer in Orcus, The Hands of the Emperor). Even the shlocky formulaic stuff had more merit than you might expect, in many cases.
Serious contemplatively-emotional litfic is real good, at its best. Turns out.
Non-fiction-wise, this was a shitshow of unparalleled proportions. I read almost nothing, and what I read was uninspiring. (I started s number of things that I failed to finish, which didn't help.) I seriously considered making this a "no award" year. I am once again asking for your recommendations for really good, deeply-informative, blow-your-mind-open non-fiction.
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YESS the RDJ movies have SUCH a cool soundtrack & one of the best watson/sherlock dynamics imo (especially in the 2nd movie)
also !! The podcast is called Kane and Feels: Paranormal Investigators/Kane and Feels: Daytrippers (PI is the first season & Daytrippers is the 2nd season) but its literally my favorite podcast ever !! The dynamic between Kane and Feels is really wonderful and like. Simultaneously really funny while also being really really interesting (esp once you get into the lore)
the sound design & music r incredible, and the world & lore theyve created is so so cool :] I will say that. It might take a couple listens (or not! Who knows) to figure out whats going on (its kinda experimental in terms of storytelling which is REALLY COOL but can be confusing) but I seriously reccomend checking it out :] theres only like. 12 episodes w 2 mini episodes but its seriously the coolest podcast :]
I will also say as a fair warning. It's not primarily a horror podcast, but it does stray into the genre, a little more in s2 than s1
(Also they have a tumblr !! @.kaneandfeels)
OHHH this sounds delightful actually!! It's so hard (at least for me) to find a good mystery podcast (I loved penumbra but fell out of listening, and kingfalls was. Good for awhile before Things Got Weird. Also I'm pretty sure it got cancled??) I love experimental storytelling.. I will definatly give it a go!!
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have you (the mun) listened to the magnus archives? i feel like you'd like it. the main character has aizawa energy, but more insecure and less dadish because there arent many kids in it. its very queer and scary and fun
((That's my next radioshow/podcast story show I'm planning on watching! Right now I'm listening to Kingfalls AM. I'm thinking of trying Welcome to Nightvale again... I keep getting distracted, then coming back months later and not remembering what's happening and starting it over and wash rinse repeat. But after that! I want to listen to Magnus Archives))
#i only listen to an episode a week because i also listen to non-fiction podcasts and audiobooks#takes me forever
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I saw your last post and it made me sad, so here's a bit of a random ask for you :))
What's your favourite of each media type so like favourite tv show, book(s) (i can't just pick one), podcast, etc.
This was so nice 😢💕 thank-you for sending in an ask :))
and as for my favourite show it tends to change quiet often but im always a sucker for my old favourites like teen wolf or 9-11 or the alienist. but right now id say cobra kai- the found family and martial arts aspect along with the comedy has felt nice to watch as of recent- its just light hearted.
as for books the “All For The Game Trilogy” is definitely my current favourite. Im also reading the graphic novels “fence” as well and they are very funny as well. Oh and heartstopper because It is such a comforting series. (Although I read a-lot, so theres definitely more I love haha)
*(Im also reading six of crows)*
For Podcasts Ive been binging : KingFalls, Camp Here and There, along with The Magnus Archives, and Brooke and connor make a podcast.
and for youtube I don’t watch it much but if im in the mood its usually commentary youtubers so like kurtis connor, codyKo, NickIsNotGreen, anthony padilla, etc etc :)
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My #1 post of 2022
When you finally get an ask in your ask box, and are so excited to open it- only for it to be from a porn bot 🙂😔
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Spellblade by Ezekiel Eversand- A Spell-binding #Fantasy to Rival Tolkien and Erikson
Spellblade by Ezekiel Eversand- A Spell-binding #Fantasy to Rival Tolkien and Erikson
Spellblade, Book Two follows all new characters in the territories of Az’Dayne and Goldgarden, in a parallel story happening simultaneously to the characters of Kingfall, Book One. Prepare for the actions of one character to greatly affect the fate of another halfway across the realm.
The youngest daughter of Khomo’Jhuvonus, aliased as Scarless, has forgone any duties aligned with her father’s…
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#5 Star Books#Best Fantasy Books#BnV#BooknVolume#Bookstagram#Epic Fantasy#Fantasy Series#Readers#Readers Community#Reading#~Morgan~
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The frustration of being in a Fandom that doesn't exist.
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18:
vs 24:
I have no idea if I've improved but I'm having fun
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Reading Dragonfall from the Kingfall Histories series and I am afraid for my favorite character and pleading in my heart for Drake who was not my boy until recently and the author is being so mean to him.
I have the feels.
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660 on the dial ((Reader in KingFalls))
You weren’t running away. You were just..driving. That was all. Work was shit, your roommate was shit, your family was..not great, and you just needed to get away for a few hours. So when you got off work you climbed into your car and took off in a random direction. You could just use your phone to find your way back.
You got off work at 11:30 pm, so it was very late as you drove through some fields out in the middle of fuck off no where. The sky was clear and stars twinkled through your sunroof. You were listening to what was supposed to be a rock channel, but after they’d played Ghost by Justin Bieber for the 4th time in two hours you slammed on the breaks and began to flip through the stations with agitation.
A familiar guitar replaced the annoyingly catchy pop song and you paused, brow furrowing as your agitation gave way to a mixture of confusion and nostalgia. You knew this song, from a while ago. You just couldn’t remember what it was. You waited for the lyrics to kick in but none came. Instead, it stopped short and you were greeted with a voice that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
“Good morning, I’m Sammy Stevens and you’re listening to 660 on the AM dial, welcome to KingFalls AM.”
You might have broken your keys had you turned the car off and wrenched them out of the ignition any harder. Flinging the car door open you got out, trying to calm down. Clearly you were losing it. This was some sort of mental break. KingFalls was a podcast. One that had gotten canceled forever ago. And without a proper ending at that, which made you salty to this day. You ran your hands down your face, taking deep breaths, which then caught in your throat as you took in your surroundings.
You stood in a hill, trees on almost every side of you except for where you could see a little town. Rainbow lights twinkled in the sky above, blocking out the stars.
#kingfalls#kingfalls am#sammy stevens#ben arnold#Reader insert#I’m not dead!#fanfiction#fanfic#reader#oneshot#for now#who knows
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Welp, it’s been good, KFAM. A good run, with a good fandom and good characters and stories, and it breaks my heart to know it’s ending like this.
Despite the small drama around it, KingFalls am was a good series that a lot of us enjoyed and I’m sure we’ll relisten to the seasons we have, and remember it all fondly. While I absolute hate when stories get dropped without proper endings, I know that KF will be one I always remember and love, and will have a special place in my heart, probably next to Hanna Is Not A Boys Name.
Abd it’s not like it’s really gone. Like I said, we can always go back and listen to it, and who knows, maybe one the the creators, or someone with their permission, will pick it up and dust it off, and we’ll get to see our best friends Sammy and Benny again one day.
Just remember, bad times are tough, but not tougher than me.
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King Falls am got me like AHHHHHHHHHHH
#kingfalls#king falls#king falls am#kfam#sammy stevens#ben arnold#jack wright#emily potter#podcast#kfamart#kfam art
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I just heard a cover of Blackbird and I’m not saying I’m crying cause it reminded me of Lily and Jack but I-
#lily wright#jack wright#sammy stevens#ben arnold#emily potter#troy krieghauser#kingfalls#king falls podcast#king falls am#kfam#king falls spoilers
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