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shoutout to my 54 year old father watching spy x family downstairs as we speak
#suri's ramble#spy x family#yeah hes the one that introduced me to every anime ever#saiki k i love you
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I’m finally reading real books again (thank you Tamsyn Muir for Gideon the Ninth) and I’m exactly 401 pages into The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, and I’m delighted to report that these bitches gay!! Good for them!!!!
Might come back later with more coherent thoughts about this incredible book, but for now I’m squealing and kicking my feet and the people need to know.
Tagging Gideon the Ninth as well because if you liked that you deserve to know about this. If you’ve read both please share your lesbian book recs, I didn’t realise how badly I wanted them and I can’t keep bugging the cute girl at Waterstones
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Did I ever tell you that my friend @claudia-sur made a Boony come to Life??? Lookie him he's adorable so squishable so murderablous I wanna bite him but gently so his insides won't come out bc he's so cute♡♡♡♡
Mimido :3
He even got a little guitar!!♡
#boony's rambles#i got so happy i cried while laughing#just look at him#so precious#i really appreciate being able to have such considerate friends#i never thought someone would do something so cute#i love it so so so much#i'll treasure the images actions and thoughts put into this#truly#thank you so much Suri#boony's emotional#waah ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚♡♡♡♡
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i have literally no idea how mangaka come up with shit for anniversary short stories bc there's always an expectation that you have to feature the mains in a 10 years later sort of thing while not making it feel too different from the original
in the meantime, if you give a little love is having its 10 anniversary this week and here i am, vaguely wanting to go back on fimfic to write an anni oneshot and sprouting up ideas about every character except coco and babs
#fanfiction#alexandria rambles#if you give a little love#the obvious answer would be scene proposing to coco but i have like no motivation to write scene/coco anymore#i know a lot of ppl like him but he was kinda just a guy i liked in high school inserted into a fic and i've moved way the hell on since#my major idea so far is finally doing the suri/sugar belle sister meetup i wanted to do forever#or maaaaybe another part of rotten oranges or something else with valencia#but i have no inspiration for babs/coco/scene and i've since accepted that i use mosely as a crutch for when that happens#i fr would just have an emergency 'mosely starts more shit' button and i've moved past the need to push it#my post
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tagged by @ofpd tyy <33
last song: the deal by mitski
currently watching: nothing? I have many series abt which I’m like omg I should watch that but none of those I have the time/energy for. sad
currently reading: rereading a day of fallen night by samantha shannon, reading the rise and fall of d.o.d.o. by neal stephenson & nicole galland and de vrolijke verrijzenis van arago by tomas lieske (still. I have like. two chapters to go but I keep forgetting to read them lmao)
current obsession: my phonemic/phonetic dutch tengwar mode whoops. also linguistics ofc
@satans-poptarts
#also I Technically have been reading the oleander sword by tasha suri since uh. may#I’m like three fifths through the book but I keep forgetting to read the rest </3#lovely book tho. priya and malini’s relationship & the complicated to fucked up sibling relationships make me Insane#elli rambles#tagged#tag game#chana tag
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i've finally fully grasped the 'sex is a social construct' argument
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IRON FLAME CHAPTERS BREAKDOWN: 1 to 3
Since I'm re-re-reading Iron Flame, and thime annotating, I thought, why not sharing my rambling madness with everyone ?
I envision this a bit as a book-club reading, so you can comment-reblog and add your thought, opinions, theories etc..
I already have red multiple times this book, so to make thing fair to those who might be reading it now for the first time, I'll divide this post in two parts: part one will be readable by all, while the second part will feature the theories, foreshadowing, and miscellaneous that include spoilers for the events who happens later on the book.
Of course, as always under the cut there will be spoilers for Iron Flame (in this post from chapter 1 to 3)
Chapter one
In chapter one we deal with a lot of confusion, and we do not get a lot of weird quotes and informations (or at least that I noticed).
The first thing that I noticed is the name of the scribe who is quoted in the Epigraph: Cerella Nielwart. Who's surname is oddly similar to Jesinia's (Neilwart), maybe it's a typo, or not, but I found it odd, and I would like to know more about Cerella, if they're actually related to Jesinia.
In page 2 we discover that Brennan now goes with a different name (for obvious reason) with is Brennan Aisereigh. I know on the web you'll find that the surname means resurrection, which totally fits, but on the Learn Gaelic webiste you'll see that the spelling for "resurrection" is a bit different (Aiseiright, with an extra I). Maybe again it's a typo, or maybe not idk.
In page 3 Violet tells us two very interesting pieces of information: the first is that Riorson house has been sieged 3 times (that she knows of), one of them being ofc during Fen's rebellion. It would be interesting to know when the other two sieges happened and who was on either side.
Then we get a reminder that the rebellion relic that the marked one carry masks them from Melgren's signet. I don't know Codagh, but it's odd for one dragon to dimish the power of their rider, no ?
In pages 4 to 8 we get the first glimpse at the Revolution's leadership. During the first read I found it a bit confusing to make sense of who they are and how many are present, so I'll bullet-point them for you:
Major Ferrish (whom Xaden is talking to), he's the Hawk-Nose that responds to Xaden's question. He's described as "an older man with an eyepatch and hawkish nose [...], tuft of thinning grey hair [...] lightly tanned, weathered skin, his jowls hanging, [...] thick hands and a round belly."
Trissa, who is described as a "petite woman with glossy black hair like a raven"
Felix (whe learn the name in page 7), who is described as "large, [...] with ebony [skin] hand tugging at his thinck silver beard"
Woman #1, described as " older woman built like a battle ax [...] with blond hair brushing past her square alabster skin."
Suri, a "brunette with olive skin and a single streak of silver in her hair", she also as a giant emerald ring.
We know from page 4 that the Assembly, which would be leadership, is composed by seven people in total, but only 5 are present in that moment ( the ones above ), so Xaden and Brennan in this moment are not part of the assembly, they must have other roles.
And, we need to meet 2 more people.
All of these people are dressed in rider black, Violet notes, so it's safe to assume that they are bonded riders, with signets and all.
In page 8 we also get an interesting line from Brennan: "Knowing that she [Violet] is bonded to Tairn, whose bonds get deeper with each rider and whose previous bond was already so strong that Naolin's death nearly killed him?" So, from this line we know that the rebellion knows that Naolin is dead, just as leadership, and that either Brennan thinks this as well, or is lying about it.
Chapter 2
In this chapter we get a lot more informations, most of which are summarized in a map I made:
The first noteworthy lines are in the epigraph: we learn here that above Riorson House lies the original hatching grounds of the black dragons line from with Tairn and Codagh descend.
The first thing we can assume is that Riorson House, and Aretia, sounds now a lot like Basgiath, with a fortress and a vale with hatching grounds and all. So it made me wander if there might be more places like these around the continent.
In this line we are also given the name of the family line of both Codagh and Tairn: Dubhmadinn, which is a composite word of 2 scottish gaelic terms: Dubh (black, blackness, darkness, pupil of the eye, ink, dark, sad) and Madainn (moarning).
We then get to the first weird thing we encounter, in page 11 Violet spots "a rune shaped scar or his [Brennan] hand", we then cut to Tairn saying that he will no longer speak of his former rider and that "Naolin didn't fail, but that it cost him everything".
I think Naolin is dead. I mean, at the end of FW Tairn promised to always be truthfull to Violet, so I don't think he would hide this from her. But the fact that he died doesn't mean he couldn't have turned Venin. Maybe to save Brennan he channeled from the source, and then either he was killed or he died from the power usage (maybe Tairn killed him to sewer the bond).. Either way I don't think he'll come back in the present.
In this scenario it would be possible that the rune on Brennan's hand would be some sort of protection, something that prevents him from tapping in the source, or using the venin power siphoned in his body from Naolin.
So far one of the most interesting information we get in chapter 2 are from pages 12 to 14.
The first line of information we get is that Dragons used to live in what is now called the Barrens, until General Dramor (he's the villain who faught against the first 6 riders) ruined the land in the Great War. It is safe to assume that General Daramor was a Venin, since we know the first 6 fought them. And that if dragons lived in the Barrens, maybe there was an hatching ground there as well ?
We then get an updated, real, situation of the continent by Brennan.
I don't know about you, but I need to visualize what I'm reading, expecially if it involves battles, travels etc. So here's a map with the current situation which I'll update every time we get more news.
Here's what you need to know to read it:
Castle Icon = Basgiath;
Dragon Icon(s) = Dragons og hatching grounds, every color of dragon icon correspond with the dragon breed;
Light Blue stain = Navarre's wards (which does not cover Aretia & Tyrrendor);
Small orange flags = uncofirmed locations of most recent venin attacks;
BIG orage flags = most recent venin attacks in confirmed locations;
Small red Flags = old venin attack in non confirmed locations.
Red Stain = Venin territory
In this map you notice, like Violet does, that the Venin are moving towards Navarre and following the stonewater river (the rivers close to Braewic provice), and that both Resson and what we can assume is Jahna (from Brennans lines) are on almost the opposite side. We also learn from Brennan that in both of those locations were found lures, that were of Navarrian craftmaship.
So, is someone in Navarre working with, or exploit the Venin ?
Brennan then tells us that the hatching ground of Basgiath have enough energy to sustain the venins for decades, so that appears to be their short time goal.
Violet then reminds us in pages 14 - 15 that 400 years ago (so 250 years after the unification & og battle against Venin) the scribes (and the ones who ordered them to) deleted every knowledge of Venins (& who knows what else) from public records.
It is interesting to note that it happend way after the actual battle against Venin happened, in a moment where Navarrian should have felt protected and forgot about the monsters they faught. Why 400 years ago ? Why not immediately after the unification ? What happend that pushed an entire generation of leadership to delete history ?
Then I'll just remind you that we know it happened 400 y.ago because Violet's dad wrote it a note directet to Vi that he hid in the "fables of the Barrens".
The last two important pieces of informations we get in page 15 are: Brennan telling us that "he thought dragons were the only key to power wards" (weird, is there something else that can be used to power up the wards?) and that "something killed the venin off 650 years ago", which is debatable, considering that there are still Venins I'm starting to think that they just weren't defeated, but just banished, somehow. Which then makes me wonder why are they back now?
In page 17 we close off the chapter with the revelation that Sgaeyl kind of hates Brennan. Maybe she senses the Venin power used to revive him (to connect back with the Naolin channeled from the source to bring Brennan back).
Note that Brennan has been around Sgaeyl since Xaden bonded her, so roughly 3 yars ago, and 3 years after his resurecction.
From here on there are spoilers for the rest of the book.
Chapter 1 - page 2: Considering the Rune talk we get later on, I think it's obvious that the reason why the marked ones are masked from Melgren's signet is the rune Liams (and Sloanes) mom made rather then Codaghs doing.
It would also give leadership one more reason not to teach runes at Basgiath, I mean, one non-dragon-related power just countered what's considered the strongest signet ever. If I were in Melgren's shoes I wouldn't want that knowledge around.
Chapter 2 - pages 12 to 14: Considering that the same lures were found in Basgiath before and during the battle, it is kind of obvious that at least someone inside of Navarrian leadership is working with the Venins, or maybe using them for some other reasons.
I'm not straith up saying some is venin inside of leadership, simply becouse so far we have no evidence of it.
Then it's obvious that in Resson the lure was used to try and kill Xaden (an the marked ones), but the one in Jahna ? Maybe they needed to see if it would work? Or were there another reason?
Chapter 2 - page 15: on this re-read I stopped by this page, because we'll later learn that by using dragon power to raise the wards venins and gripphin riders can no longer wield magic. Which is debatable since in FW Jack Barlowe uses Venin power on Violet (Rebecca confirmed it in an interview, clip is here).
This bring us to two issues: there might be a way to raise a ward using gripphin (or venin) powers, which would solve the Aretia and Poromiels wards problem, or ruin us all, AND that there must be a fault in Navarre's wards if Jack channels Venin power in fourth wing, when Basgiath's wards are still strong.
In Chapter 2 - Page 17 we also get a very important reminder: the poison that the Venin used on Violet @ the battle of Resson cut her off from her bond with the dragons and her powers.
Doesn't it sound familiar? How would the leadership be able to develop (we later learn that it's something they develped this year) a poison that works in the same way of another one the Venins actually have ? I mean, the only difference is in the administration...
I'm more and more convinced that the real enemy of this book are not the Venin alone, but a coalition of some of Navarrian Leadership and the Venins (if they are cooperating or using eachother I don't know).
In chapter three - page 22 Tairn gives an interesting information: " The First Six Riders were desperate to save their people when they approached the dens over six hundred years ago. Those dragons formed the first Empyrean and bonded humans only to protect their hatching grounds from venin, who where the bigger threat."
From this phrase we understand that the first six bonded dragons were one from each breed (they bonded only to protect their hatching ground). So what of Andarna ? So Andarna's breed either refused to bond with a human rider, OR bonded with a rider who already had another dragon. Like Violet.
Note that we already kind of know the Venins background story: a brother bonded a dragon (the first six - or who came defore them -), a brother bonded a griffin, an another, jelous, turned to stealing from the source.
The jelous brother was then vanquished by their sibling who commanded the sky to realease it's power.
We already have a lot of paralles that refers to Violet. So I find it very likely that one of the six might have bonded 2 dragons, and that it was the one who bonded two dragons.
#fourth wing#iron flame#ironflame#rebecca yarros#the empyrean#violet sorrengail#xaden riorson#xadenviolet#fourthwing#violet and tairn#fourth wing spoilers#iron flame spoilers#violetsorrengail#violet and xaden#xadenriorson#xaden and sgaeyl#xaden x reader#tairn#tairneanach#tairn and andarna#tairn and sgaeyl#andarna#dain aetos#liam mairi
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favourite books, or favourite books from this year?
This is too difficult to narrow down to one or two, so here's a top five? (As of the start of September, because this has been sitting in my drafts for a WHILE)
In no particular order
Circe, by Madeline Miller - in terms of prose, Miller might literally be my favorite author writing today. She needs to have written more, please. Just perfectly beautiful and tragic and properly mythic and altogether sublime. Lodged in my head as the canonical telling of the myth of Circe to compare others to.
Downbelow Station, by C. J. Cherryh - I've rambled on about this at length already, but this is the rare piece of SFF that really feels plausible to me? Like, not in the sense of technology, but that there's no main character, that chance and contingency and weight of history matter more than the grand destiny of any individual or family, that the world is fundamentally amoral without being fundamentally malevolent, and just, it reads like it could be the history of the future. That's a really rare accomplishment. Also for what a cultural wasteland the 80s are supposed to have been it really didn't feel dated at all. (I've got two other Cherryh books that have been sitting on my dresser for six months I should really get to)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee - The acknowledgements for this book mention it was inspired by The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and you can tell (in the best possible way). One of the rare pop-sci books that really feels like it expands you understanding of the world and lifts some small few of the scales from your eyes. Also oddly hopeful and inspiring, for all the horrors (the very, very well-described horrors. I went form barely knowing what leukemia was to having nightmares about it).
Radiance, by Catherynne Valente - I do adore Valente's writing, but this is probably the first full length work of hers I've read that lives up to the novellas and short stories. It coasts by almost entirely on style and aesthetic and how perfectly aimed the character and arc of the protagonist is at me in particular, but my god the style and aesthetic are worth the price of admission. The whole thing should really fall apart under the weight of its pretension, and I really love it for the fact that it doesn't.
India in the Persianate Age, by Richard M. Eaton - A rather dry history text, really, and not one I'd really recommend to someone who just asked me for a book to read. But I've got at least a vague view-from-ten-thousand-feet idea of the shape of history from the medieval era on, and India was (and to a lesser extent is) one of the main remaining gaps. So I'm deeply appreciative for providing an organizing narrative of the region's development to use. And just generally, one of those books that really feels like its filling in little blank spots on the map? Sure it's dry, but just incredibly interesting subject matter and well-argued thesis.
(Honorable Mentions: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi, The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri)
#anon#book review#India in the Persianate Age#Richard M. Eaton#Radiance#Catherynne Valente#The Emperor of All Maladies#Siddhartha Mukherjee#Downbelow Station#C.J. Cherryh#Circe#Madeline Miller
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trick or treat!
(may I request to hear something about your current fave WIP? any fandom!)
jing yuan/fu xuan from hsr, set during the propaganda movement!!!! i've actually already posted a snippet of this already
it's. admittedly crazy. the characters are from a chinese game set in a xianxia type of world, but i read ranichi's wonderful sherlock propaganda movement fic (isang suri sa escarlata, tagalog for a study in scarlet) and realized: hey!!! i can do that too!!!!
couple in the fact that we're currently learning this topic in history and boy was i absolutely ready to go hehe
the propaganda movement is basically what we call the political efforts of filipinos during the late 19th century, where they were circulating "propaganda" to bring awareness to all the problems the filipinos experienced as a peoples colonized by spain. a big portion of its proponents were ilustrados, basically middle to upper class filipinos who went to europe to get educated and brought back these notions of liberalism and nationalism. the propaganda movement had several goals but the main one was for the philippines to be recognized as a province of spain and for the filipinos to be granted the rights of a citizen — the movement calling for complete independence would be a little later!
"but poppy," everyone is secretly wondering, "how the fuck did you put chinese people in a filipino nationalist movement"
SURPRISE!!!! ✨ mestizos de sangleyes ✨ (chinese mestizos)
the chinese routinely immigrated into the philippines over the centuries, and a sizable portion would also stay and intermarry with local women! our (unofficial) national hero himself, jose rizal, was ⅛? chinese i think!
so i made jing yuan a mestizo de sangley who's currently in europe with the rest of the propagandists! but then i thought to myself, idk, i kinda don't want to also do that to fu xuan. and then i remembered!! chinese people were STILL coming to the ph to do business or to come settle, like it's not just a one-time thing. so i made her a newer immigrant hehe
this is where my advantage as filipino chinese kicks in, because a HUGE portion of chinese immigrants, then and now, come from the province of fujian. the heritage language would be hokkien for a lot of people including jingfu WHICH IS GREAT BECAUSE I CAN SPEAK IT 💥 (sort of. hashtag diaspora struggles) 💥
soooo. i think that's kinda it HAHAHA but yeah while i was (and am still) researching things for this au i discovered i actually, really really really enjoy reading up on this stuff 😭 especially learning about the chinese presence in the philippines bc even tho im relatively "newer" (around early 20th century i think) it's still something to see how your culture has impacted and continues to impact the country you live in hehe. like do you guys know tagalog also has many hokkien influences!! and some filipino/spanish sounding surnames like lacson, tuazon, etc are actually derived from hokkien words!!!! its very cool long story shirt hehe
thank you sm coco for letting me ramble about thissss <3
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Since i'm still warming up my art-ability for today, y'all get some lore dumping on my two favorite shipkids:
The twins, Suri and Valkyrie!
I explain my character's personalities in songs, and the top of the list for each of their playlist is "Hell's comin' with me" by Poor Man's Poision, for Suri, and "Cecilia And The Satellite" by Andrew McMahon, for Val.
As stated, they are twins, with Valkyrie being the oldest (Or at least, her coding was before Suri's), despite Suri being the taller one.
Valkyrie was built off of Doll's code and build, whereas Suri was built off of Lizzy. Despite this, they act the complete opposite of the parent they were designed after, with Suri being quiet and reserved (She's mute on her own accord), and Val being the extroverted and preppy child.
Suri and Val both possess the powers of the Absolute Solver.
Suri learned to manipulate time with her end of the solver, but she can only go back so far, and if she so chooses, can choose to simply reverse the state of a non-organic item.
Nobody knows what Val can do with her strand of Solver powers, because she refuses to ever use them, both out of fear and because she's simply not a fighter.
The twins are the same age as Ekko and Howl, and with their parents all being close friends {Yes, even Lizzy and Doll}, they're almost always together.
Val is huge history nerd and likes to learn about the humans before them on Copper-9. Suri doesn't care as much, but listens to her sisters rambles. They're very close with both of their mothers- Val was attached to Doll's hip for the first few months that she could walk by herself, she and suri both go to Lizzy for fashion advice and comfort, and Suri spends most of her free time practicing her solver abilities with Doll.
As an added bonus, both Suri and Val understand and speak Russian like Doll. If Val gets frustrated enough, she goes into a fit of angered multi-language cursing.
#murder drones#Murder drones shipkids#doll murder drones#murder drones lizzy#doll x lizzy#Suri looks like she can kill you and will kill you#val looks like a cinnamon roll and is a cinnamon roll.
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we have....... hibiscus tea baxter....... why not......... mint...........
manifesting the green baxter @emile-tb
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💖 your blog is one of my favorite things to scroll through, i always love your tags! and also love suri!
Hello friend!! What a wonderfully sweet message! Thank you so much for sending me lovely note 💕
One of my favorite things about this site are the tags! You can say so much and in such an unhinged way. Thank you for reading my ramblings
Aw! I’m so happy you love my little gremlin! She’s evolved so much with her character over the last three (omg??) years over the last three books - much appreciation to my friends who listen to me chat about her and tell me about their mc/detectives!
Please feel free to drop me a message to tell me about your oc/favorite character!
Thank you again and hope you’re having a wonderful day!
#this really really brightened my day!!#thank you for being so lovely!#hope you’re well#thank you for the ask!#anon ask
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fandom edition ask game: X, Y, & Z 🥰
I love that you went right to the end of the alphabet! 🧡
X - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms
Okay, I'm going to do all three SJM fandoms and then two bonus fandoms, just for fun:
ACOTAR - Gwynriel
TOG - Rowaelin (maybe that's basic but I don't care, I love them)
CC - DayNight
Grishaverse - Zoyalai
Burning Kingdoms - Priya/Malini (iykyk! also this is your regular reminder to read The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri!)
Y - A fandom you’re in but have no ships from
I don't know if I'm in the fandom, since I've never written fic for it, but this is how kind of how I feel about Sailor Moon. I love the characters so much more than the ships... even if I was thinking about Mars/Venus the other day... and obviously Uranus/Neptune are icons... but I don't get excited about the ships the way I do for other fandoms, especially the main Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask ship. I do like that ship a lot more in the manga, though...
Honestly, what you have probably gleaned from all this hesitation is that I have ships in every fandom, I can't really help myself 😂
Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go
One of my strongest feelings is that Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne should have so much more hype than it does. I'm rereading it right now and it is such a beautifully-written, fully realized novel full of badass women, a dreamy slow burn sapphic romance, morally gray characters, basically everything in it is perfect and I love it. I can't bring myself to write fanfic about novels I think are perfect, especially for an unfinished series, but I almost want to on the off-chance that it would convince even one person to read this book.
In case you were anticipating something SJM related (and I don't blame you!), here's something: Sartaq is the best of all the SJM men, with Lucien Vanserra a very, very close second. I feel quite strongly about this!
#fandom asks#asked and answered#gwynriel#rowaelin#ruhnlidia#daynight#sailor moon#tasha suri#the jasmine throne#grishaverse#zoyalai#seriously why is anyone fighting over azriel when sartaq is right there#sartaq#lucien vanserra
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kolyat: drops some dumbass down a well when he was trying to help them not even two seconds ago because he recognized them as that asshole who fucked him over at some point
isra, to suri: ......... yknow that's why father says he's never gonna married
#rev's rambling again#seven year slowburn au tag#teeeeeechnically anyway#my son has feral small dog energy 😔😔#isra tag#suri tag
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the worst part about writing an mlp fanfic based off like one episode is the fact that even now, years after writing the fic, my brain automatically goes "and that's how it's done" in the suri polomare voice whenever i do something remotely devious
#mlp:fim#fanfiction#if there's one thing i would change about iygall in a post-2014 context it would be that suri no longer runs a knockoff business#she runs pony shein#not that there's much difference but only one of these options could actually finagle their way into fashion week#my post#alexandria rambles
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recommending The Books of Ambha Duology by Tasha Suri!! It's an epic fantasy duology of companion novels inspired by Mughal India. Both books are adult, but work well as crossover titles: while the pace and the build up are slow and the world is intricate, they could be a good approach to adult fantasy.
- from a recent interview with the author: "I drew a lot of inspiration from the culture, politics, of Mughal India to give my world structure. Once I started getting to know the characters and story better, I changed the real historical context to meet the needs of the plot, so I diverged from history in a big way, in the end."
- the magic system is well developed and extremely fascinating. The author drew inspiration from the devas in particular.
- both books deal with how minorities are used politically and focus on imperialism.
- the characters' struggle with such topics is a recurrent theme. In both books, the author managed to give her characters nuance and complexity, showing a continuous struggle and growth in how they approach political and cultural problems.
- there's a focus on self discovery and acceptance. The main characters are quite different, which makes for a very interesting look at how people can embrace their heritage or struggle with it.
- both books feature slow burn romance! (Also the second book has a soft prince who can embroider 😭✨).
- book one, Empire of Sand, can be read as a self contained tale (tw: abuse, slavery) and while its consequences are political, it’s set far from the heart of the empire. Book two is more focused on court politics and the author did a great job at showing how the mechanisms of court can influence a character's role (Realm of Ash also shows women in a position of power, there are quite a few complex and morally ambiguous female characters!).
#book recs#book rec#adult sff#sffreads#empire of sand#realm of ash#2020reads#Tasha suri#also shes writing an India inspired epic fantasy sapphic trilogy pls read her books#gio rambles
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