Skellig Island, Ireland 2023

It's true what they say about writing what you want, no matter what people say.

There was this book. Skellig, in english, in the original. I first read it when I was nine, maybe, and our school temporarily had some books we could loan.That was the first book I ever read where I wasn't sure whether I liked it or not, but it made me think and feel and I was glad to have read it. I gave it to my dad, too. We both weren't sure whether we liked it as such. But it was a good book.

Now, what feels like ages later, I randomly remembered its existence. It's been years and this book stuck with me all this time. While searching for it online (it doesn't exist as new edition anymore, and nobody had the one I read back then, which is kinda a shame because that cover was also amazing), I found a site with reviews. And there were a couple of good reviews, but there were just as many if not slightly more bad ones. It made me kinda sad, because I hardly remembered anything of it but I've come t the conclusion that I probably like it, if it's stuck with me for that long, and that the storyline was just....

Yeah. Anyways, I got a second hand copy of the book. I just read it. It's not long. And it still makes me think and feel and there's so much I forgot but the vibe is still exactly the same and I know that I love it.

It's an amazig book. I know some random person complained that the characters weren't relatable; personally, I'm in love with them.That's just what it feels like to be a kid who thinks too much. I don't know.

Anyways, it's a good book. I don't know why I even red those reviews They didn't even bother to to think about it at all; declared subjective reasons and then said the book was objectively bad. But like. Those people exist. I don't care. Those people don't matter.

Skellig is a wonderful story. I loved it as a kid, and now, as a teen, and it's a story that may or may not have influenced the way I think, a lot. I know it will influence my stories now. It makes me think.

There's bad faith readers. But they don't matter. I think it might be one of my favourite books, if I had to choose any.

Skellig Michael - Sceilg Mhichíl

Why does NO ONE talk about My Name Is Mina??? It's so good, and Mina is so autistic coded, and I love her so so so so much and then you read Skellig (which is also amazing) and NOBODY talks about them????? Kill me

"...The mind too, becomes inflexible. It stops thinking and imagining. It becomes hard as bone. It is no longer a mind. It is a lump of bone wrapped in a wall of stone. This process is ossification."

- Skellig by David Almond

this week's scifipulse.net artwork is a tribute to the titular david almond character from his wonderful children's book skellig.

Round One Section A

Siren!Jaskier hitting on Geralt.

Ard Skellig

endless Witcher 3 gifs

𝘈 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦...

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Because where else can the Queen of Skellige go to take a breather?

Heart beats fast, colors and promises... How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall? But watching you stand alone... All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.

Empress Cirilla, it is said, has had four great loves thus far during her reighn.

One was Queen Cerys of Skellige.

The two came together in solidarity, as the young empress was still being tutored for her role, years ago. They would meet upon Skellige's stormy shores, and would dance, and love, and make merry... taking solace and wimsy from one another in the stolen hours between duties and obligations.

Their entanglement lasted, in near perfect bliss, untill Queen Cerys took her husband to wed.

You see, while our Empress and Emperor Consort had been more than content with their own arrangement, each allowing the other passion outside the palace walls, it is said that Queen Cerys yearned for something altogether more posessive. She demanded from her spouse a sort of love still foreign to her own queendom... and was willing, in turn, to forsake her wandering lover to achieve it.

Today, all that remains of the love affair between these two powerful women is a lingering mutual affection, a steel clad alliance between nations, and the occasional wistful sigh.

𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝟛 𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡𝕤

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