Sketchy concepts for Alan And Jack from A Power Unbound! I love this series and miss these characters already!

I’m only allowed to create relatively ooc things when it’s these fuckass tweets I promise I take writing more seriously

sometimes i think about alan ross in a power unbound just sitting in a room with a group of people that has read his porn

a marvellous light fanart!

(this took 30 fucking hours)

I don't even know why I'm surprised that Freya marske can write a power imbalance dubcon-esque romance smut and still give such an important study on consent and willing partners and kink negotiation and ugh I wish I was more eloquent to explain how seen I felt when she presented such taboo dynamics in such a supportive way

happy ‘hawthorn catches feelings’ day to all celebrating ✨

petition to start using the word lovely to describe people again solely because i think it’s pretty

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

🌳💜

I love this series so much, so of course I had to make a little drawing in my reading journal.

[text ID: An adventurous, emotional, and fitting final chapter for a wonderful series. I completely lost myself in Jack/Lord Hawthorn and Alan, their complex pasts, and their fiery dynamic as they’re unwillingly drawn into their new found family. /end]

Finished reading A Restless Truth by Freya Marske today, delightful murder mystery with f/f pairing (explicit too 😏) and magic. 'tis a sequel to A Marvellous Light and now I can't wait for the final book to come out 😃 one of my fave books this year with AML one of my faves from last year

alan ross watching the ocean from the lyric and such

heres the ref i used for the main pic

Character, book, and author names under the cut

James St. Clair- Dark Rise Series by C.S. Pacat

Shuos Jedao- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Jack Alston/Lord Hawthorn- The Last Binding Trilogy by Freya Marske

Alastair Carstairs- The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare

So I got an early copy of A Power Unbound (third in the Last Binding Trilogy, after A Marvellous Light and A Restless Truth) and I won't spoil anything, obviously, but hot damn. Wow. That is a) how you end a trilogy and b) uhhh hot damn. Ahem.

I knew what the pairing was gonna be, and after the first two books I knew it would be good, but... look, I've gone from Hands of the Emperor to A Taste of Gold and Iron to A Power Unbound, and it's all about the power dynamic and the route to real, certain consent amidst complicated circumstances and everyone's personal baggage, and asfjhsdkjfhskdjfhsd. A Power Unbound doesn't deal with fealty the way A Taste of Gold and Iron does, but it does deal with loyalty and trust and what it means to have power and honestly, I'm a little obsessed.

If you haven't read A Marvellous Light yet, I highly recommend it (and the whole trilogy). Book one is about a gay edwardian magician and his non-magical counterpart and their investigation into a dangerous curse (and, ahem, each other); book two is a lesbian magician/non-magician pair conducting heist-like shenanigans on a cruise ship (the non-magician lesbian and the non-magician gay man are siblings, and the investigation and the shenanigans are related). Book three is another pair of queer men, who we stay with through the third act of the magical-danger-plot and also through them figuring each other out. The sex scenes are explicit and so is the emotional unravelling, I thoroughly enjoyed all three books and I can't wait for 3 to be out so I can talk to more people about it!!

this is funnier to me that just posting the screenshots w the names you’re welcome

one of my favorite parts of a power unbound was when edwin called hawthorn "jack" and alan kinda just went 👀👀👀

“I didn’t come running all this way for your condolences,” Adelaide huffs. “I would like something a little more substantial.”

Robert’s brow furrows. “Substantial…?”

“Sir Robert Blyth, I’d like to propose a marriage.”

If Adelaide could bottle up Robert’s surprise, she’s absolutely certain she could make a killing. Unfortunately, she’s no magician; the power of it all is reserved just for her, in this moment, and will live on only in her memory.

(In which Miss Morrissey settles her own affairs, seeing as no one else sees fit to leave things as they are.)

sorry for the book spam but it hasn't even been two months since I finished A Power Unbound by Freya Marske and I desperately wanna read it again