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rosehalls · 14 days

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fireborne by rosaria munda

they watch us kneel, they see the back of our heads, and they think we've given in. they don't realize you can think from your knees just as well as from your feet.

#fireborne #the aurelian cycle #rosaria munda #books #litedit #novelsnet #bookedit #librarysource #booksociety #storyseekers #userkates #userbelin #usercossette #userrobin #usersmia #usercaitlyn #userbea #*mine: graphics

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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

#flamefall #furysong #rosaria munda #the aurelian cycle #fireborne #annie sur aela #antigone sur aela #lee sur pallor #digital art

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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.

#Fireborne #rosaria munda #dragons #digital fanart #fanart #the aurelian cycle #aurelian #stormscourge #skyfish #furysong #Flamefall

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yellowraincoat · 4 months

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I’ve drawn a lot of Antigones since reading the Aurelian cycle, I just never posted any of them 🫠

#the aurelian cycle #antigone sur aela #raincoat’s art

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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

#the aurelian cycle #fireborne #Rosaria munda #Flamefall #Furysong #Aurelian cycle fanart #Annie sur Aela #Lee sur Pallor #Crissa sur Phaedra

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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

#the aurelian cycle #flamefall #antigone sur aela #only just started book 2 so maybe I don’t have her character down yet #but i feel like im onto something #c’mon Annie you’re SO close #bettering people’s lives is good!#doing it through a metals test determining your worth is bad!#im glad it worked for you but do you see how many people it doesn’t work for??? Annie please

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let-them-sing-of-others · 3 months

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claire i'm begging for aurelian cycle art

sorry for the late response I was busy fighting demons (procrastination)

#asks #morethanfantasy #fweeh this piece gave me so much trouble #I’m so sorry for butchering your face lee I cannot draw men.#anyway yeah annielee tarot card 👍#these guys make me so ill #the aurelian cycle #annielee #leeannie #do people use that ship name? idek #antigone sur aela #lee sur pallor #the aurelian cycle art #the aurelian cycle fanart #fanart #claire’s creations!

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haveyoureadthisfantasybook · 4 months

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vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #Fireborne #Rosaria Munda #The Aurelian Cycle #poll #result: no #l: English

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theskysungqueen · 5 months

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"You came back to me." "And you came back to me."

I bring to you some AnnieLee because if I don't see fanart of them then I'LL make fanart of them

I posted this on my instagram (@/risaru.draws) but thought I'd post it here too

#fireborne #flamefall #furysong #the aurelian cycle #rosaria munda #antigone sur aela #lee sur pallor

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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

#the aurelian cycle #flamefall #fireborne #rosaria munda is just so SMART godddd #mor told me to post aurelian cycle posts and they're so right i should because i love this series #it's so fucking good #and i have so many thoughts

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lyssq · 22 days

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If I had a penny for every book about a boy of noble birth who watched his whole family be killed in front of him and narrowly avoided death himself, ran away and hid in an orphanage before someone unaware of his true identity recruits him into the regime that murdered his family (said regime presents the idea of everyone being equal while in reality being deeply flawed) and now has to work alongside people who would likely kill him if they knew who he really was, I’d have two pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

#my job here on tumblr is to draw parallels between book series only i have read both of #the will of the many #hierarchy #fireborne #the aurelian cycle #vis telimus #lee sur pallor #of course the difference is that vis/diago’s family was killed by imperialism while lee’s family was killed by the revolution #so vis (in his head at least) gets to be justifiably angry meanwhile lee has turmoil #and their situations are very different but they go through similar angst #which is worse: the most traumatic goddamn day of your life being celebrated annually with a parade #or it being treated like a footnote. a minor victory hardly worth mentioning

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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

#Annie sur Aela #Fireborne #The Aurelian Cycle #Flamefall #Furysong #Aurelian cycle fanart #Antigone sur Aela #Rosaria Munda #myart

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moshypants · 2 months

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Duck Sur Certa Work in progress

#my art #fanart #dragons #digital fanart #fan art #fireborne #flamefall #the aurelian cycle #dorian sur certa #duck #skyfish

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yellowraincoat · 11 months

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Here’s how I picture the 3 dragons breeds from the Aurelian Cycle!

#the aurelian cycle #Aurelian cycle fanart #raincoat’s art

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myfandomhell · 9 months

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Continuing my Power stan posting:

It's subtle on the first read, but Power is like insanely smart and reads most people like a goddamned book.

He was the only one who learned about who Atreus really was during those private lessons(see the "am I the only one paying attention to that man" line) He realized exactly the kind of leader Atreus was, and the sort of man who could do the things he'd done to get into power.

Then we have Meg, my man took one look at her and KNEW. Like he tried so hard to get the idea across to Annie and she just wasn't having it.

Of course we have how he was able to socially and politically navigate around Ixion and squad in book 3.

This really comes from his more cynical realistic approach to things. Both Lee and Annie really are blinded by wanting to believe the best, and put faith in ideals. Power sees that those ideals are rooted in flawed individuals and acts accordingly. He assesses the person and is like "are they the type to do this?" and actually thinks about if someone is capable of (x action) The best example of this is the end of book 1 when he just straight up explains to Annie that there is no world where Atreus lets Lee live(when she naively thinks if Lee just does what he's told that Atreus will keep his word)

Like the quick reads he has on so many characters is insane.

And what does he use it for? Well kicking ass for one, but also being the best petty bitch we got.

He would have made such a good politician and honestly we were ROBBED.

#the aurelian cycle #power sur eater

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