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suddenly realised I should keep working on my lirael cosplay, and spent a feverish couple hours making the least essential (but also most important <3) part. dog statue :)
#lirael#the disreputable dog#abhorsen#the old kingdom series#lirael cosplay#i do NOT know what dogs look like
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I finished Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom trilogy*, and I enjoyed books 2&3: Lireal and Abhorsen, I did! But Sabriel cut to the bone, and even two books later it was all I could think about. (TO ME!) It was the best by a massive margin.
*I know there are more!!
Lireal and Abhorsen tell this grand and exciting story of identity, depression, fear, saving the world, and I loved that, but Sabriel was a coming of age story about parental death. Sabriel said that death is something to be managed, respected, but never mastered. It said that even if you can put your fist around death, it’s going to take from you and it’s going to be permanent - because what comes back is never what you lost.
It was so painful to watch Sabriel’s quest to save her father fail, because that’s what happens, your parents die, and you can’t go with them - not right now, anyway. Death waits for you, and you can even look in on it sometimes, but you can’t stay, and if you try to you’ll freeze, or drown. You just live, and mourn, and remember, and find new people to hold onto. You grow into your father’s old coat, you adopt his cat, and you take care of his house because he took care of you, and he loved you.
#sorry lireal and abhorson im being kind of a hater. but sabriel was so good idk how anything was gonna#live up to that anyway 😔#however the stars in the ninth gate and the dog in general… I love#sabriel#the old kingdom#the old kingdom series#abhorsen#double shot
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Charter Marks.
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just doodling
[I.D. a page full of ink doodles of the character Lirael from the old kingdom series. She has long dark hair, wears armor and has her abhorsen bells. End I.D.]
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The Abhorsens new and old 💀
#garth nix#sabriel#lirael#my art#sabriel fanart#lirael fanart#the old kingdom series#the old kingdom Garth nix
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You said that you're ripping off (no offense) the slivers from magic the gathering right? Is it bad to ask how much you do that for your campaigns? I do it on occasion and I always feel like I'm plagarizing.
All the time. One of the things I enjoy most about DM'ing is taking things from my favorite media and playing with them the way I used to play with Lego Bionicles. I rip em apart and make my own stories with the pieces. Off the top of my head:
Eonite, the substance that can supercharge magic: Stolen from the Spellmonger series.
The magocracy: Also stolen from the Spellmonger Series
The goddess of death's religion and the depiction of death: SHAMELESSLY ripped from the Abhorsen trilogy, down to the use of bells.
The earth being used as a prison: In retrospect, unconsciously ripped from The Order of the Stick, probably. Also, *spoiler* Darkest Dungeon.
My Blood Hunter subclass that is very popular: Inspired by Illidan Stormrage from the Warcraft series.
The Suprisi Elves and their culture: Ripped in part from the Golgari from MTG.
The Sasinian Empire's ban on commoners carrying gold: The Black Company
The Grimdark Continent that we haven't gone to yet: The Black Company
My willingness to let lore contradict itself: The Riyiria series, as well as my own experience with studying history
"Are these rocks alive?": Dragon Age
Steal as MUCH as you want from media you enjoy. Shit, just as importantly, steal from media your PLAYERS enjoy. I ripped the death stuff from Abhorsen because one of my players really loved that series. I wrote an entire arc based on a more common (but not what the artist intended) reading of "Running Up That Hill," using a cover to get a different vibe.
There's definitely more stuff that I'm forgetting that I stole stuff from. I'm sure my players could name influences that I'm forgetting, too, because they see stuff with a more objective eye. Sometimes I write stuff not knowing where I got something from, and then my players will mention something about me cribbing it from something, and then I say, "FUCK," and move on with my life.
Steal, borrow, and take inspiration. If you GM for a long time, it's gonna be inevitable and necessary. It's okay and good and right.
#D&D#dungeon master#dungeons and dragons 5e#dungeons and dragons#dungeons & dragons#abhorsen#the old kingdom series#spellmonger#the black company#darkest dungeon#dragon age#riyria
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Still trying to get Lirael down!
#lirael#the old kingdom#the old kingdom trilogy#garth nix#abhorsen#abhorsen series#sabriel#the old kingdom series#my art#myart
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Don't know how alive the Abhorsen fandom is on Tumblr but consider the holiday hit Jingle Bells from an in-universe perspective. Think about the slaying songs they sing.
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My beautiful July, 2023 book haul!
🩵 ~ 💙 ~ 🤎
#beautiful books#july 2023#book haul#terciel and elinor#the old kingdom series#garth nix#stars and smoke#marie lu#once there was#kiyash monsef#amazing authors#bookish#i love books
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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?
i’m on a personal quest to make the nichest niche content possible, anyway someone pls write me the Abhorsen Thara Celehar fic
#thara celehar#witness for the dead#the old kingdom series#i have GOT to stop throwing art up on here two seconds after finishing it#bc i sure do keep missing a lot of things i need to fix#downsides of people interacting with my content: i can't just delete shit and post again w the same results rip#anyway if you saw this already pls like/rb this one :'(#the art tag
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No one has yet taken on the crossover task of The Old Kingdom and the Locked Tomb on Ao3; of course I feel any Abhorsen would just look at that whole situation and immediately start ringing every bell until they got carpal tunnel
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Love that Mogget got sentenced to babysit the Abhorsen family eternally and he said "fine, but I'm gonna turn into a cat so I can do drugs about it"
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I know it's not the show's fault but I hold a specific grudge against Supernatural because one of it's ships made it hard for me to look up fan art of one of my favorite characters from one of my favorite book series. (Sabriel from Garth Nix's The Old Kingdom.)
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Lirael??? What are you doing on my geology lab you little scamp
[I.D. a drawing of Lirael from the Old Kingdom series in purple pen. She is standing with a neutral expression on her face. She wears armor on her chest, shoulders and legs, and a tunic with stars on it. Her hair and tunic blow in the wind. End I.D.]
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the Sabriel-Lirael-Abhorsen to Gideon-Harrow-Nona pipeline
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Rlly funny to me that the Clayr in the Abhorsen books are a whole society of turquoise ringed, sandal wearing, tote bag carrying hippy aunts except they see the future sometimes and some of them also have swords and kill things.
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