#doctrine of labyrinths

[linovadraws]

Beloved! Beloathed!

#doctrine of labyrinths #felix harrowgate #sarah monette #melusine #the mirador #corambis #fanart #i'm helga pataki and in my closet is a gross chewing gum bust of this awful guy and i'm just whispering to it about how much i love/hate it #anyway the second one is when the automaton shows up and he's like CORBIE WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT DIES #THAT'S SO STUPID #MY BROTHER MADE A FUNNY JOKE ABOUT NOT GETTING KILLED BY BEARS BEFORE WE LEFT CORBIE I CAN'T GET MURDERED BY A GIANT ROBOT RN #i meant to add more coat details to it to make it look more worn in but honestly this felt like enough work for what i was trying to do

[fallloverfic]

THE DOCTRINE OF LABYRINTHS BY SARAH MONETTE/KATHERINE ADDISON IS BACK IN EBOOKS IN FULL!!!!

All four books will release same day, July 11, 2023! They're now under the Katherine Addison name and the covers are new! You can pre-order them now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google, and Kobo!!!

#The Doctrine of Labyrinths #Sarah Monette #Katherine Addison #DoL #Doctrine of Labyrinths #Melusine #The Mirador #Corambis #The Virtu #Felix Harrowgate #Mildmay Foxe

[commandercoriandersalamander]

The transition from Doctrine of Labyrinths to Goblin Emperor and Cemetery of Amalo is so funny to me. The editors were like, "Sarah, you're so smart, you're so talented, but your branding is off; we want you to change your name to reflect the new you and leave behind all the incest graphic rape, and unlikable (affectionate) protagonists." And Katherine looked them straight in the eyes and was like "okay, sounds good, but you will pry my ritualistic mazes and fancy earrings from my cold dead hands." Love her.

#katherine addison #sarah monette #doctrine of labyrinths #the goblin emperor #the cemeteries of amalo #it's just amazing the books are so differently tonally but when you read them you can tell “oh the author included this because she thinks #it's cool as shit“ in both books #and she's right #it is #obligatory acknowledgement that I don't actually know why she changed her name and this is a facetious post

[bowen-arrow-art]

Linocut

From the Doctrine of Labyrinths series

#melusine #doctrine of labyrinths #mildmay #fanart #book quotes #book art #fox #linocut #illustration

[lendmyboyfriendahand]

Have my otps broken the bed during sex

Steve/Bucky: yes, several times. They were two super soldiers getting used to their strength. They blame some of the beds on already being damaged by shelling. A priority for them in when buying bed frames in the modern era is if it can be repaired easily,

Steve/Tony: yes, once. Tony had a new bed delivered same day, with new mattress while they're in there

Maedhros/Fingon: no, too much respect for the work it takes to build it, plus good solid Noldorin craftsmanship stands up to them. Also the secrecy meant they stopped when they heard ominous creaking, rather than risk having to explain the need for a replacement.

Maedhros/Maglor: depends on how charitable your definition of "bed" is, and how much credit you give the woodworm.

Celebrimbor/Annatar: yes. After checking they were uninjured, they were too distracted by redesigning a better bed, optimized from first principles, to resume sex.

Felix/Mildmay: not together. Mildmay has broken through the slats under a mattress once, but not a bedframe. You might think Felix would have broken a bed with all his masochism/sadism but you'd be wrong - generally only one person was moving, and the other was too tied up or drugged to resist forcefully.

#my writing #maemags #stucky #stony #doctrine of labyrinths #silvergifting #russingon

[grassangel]

I am 75% through The Golden Enclaves and although it isn't named, places being imbued with emotions and intent is a magical mechanic in the world of The Scholomance.

In another series, The Doctrine of Labyrinths, the negative emotions of pain and suffering that imbue places is called mikkary.

And it's nice to see the opposite of that in The Scholomance series, used to build enclaves and the Scholomance, even if it is unnamed.

(Unfortunately, I am also idly wondering what Felix would think of the Scholomance, both the world and the building. And like. Thaumaturgical architecture, literally.)

#The Scholomance #Doctrine of Labyrinths #I do think both brothers would get along fantastically with El #Mildmay because he's used to prickly but can do gentle #while Felix is prickly too but (as of Corambis) knows that it's his trauma speaking - only some of which is the same as El's #(being seen as a ticking time bomb by everyone else) #book #talky #also to clarify: Doctrine of Labyrinths doesn't have a Golden Stones equivalent it only has mikkary

[veliseraptor]

in another end, in another life (doctrine of labyrinths) for the wip meme! (really all the dol ones, but I will limit myself to one)

oooh yes this is a fun one. it's a time loop fic (a trope I love and still have not managed to finish an actual fic for) set during the mirador, which my little top-of-fic notes describes as "end of The Mirador timeloop fic where Felix keeps trying to save Gideon and failing in new and inventive ways"

I love a time loop fic that is basically "how many ways can this character fuck things up just as bad if not worse than canon? the answer may surprise you!" and that's kind of what's going on with this one. such an opportunity to make felix even more miserable than he is in canon! what fun.

I had never been stabbed before. The pain took my breath away and my mind slipped, or must have, because I was sitting down and someone was pressing down on the wound in my side, which only made the hurt worse.  :Felix,: Gideon was saying, and I didn’t think it was the first time. :Felix, look at me.: I did. He was looking at me, an expression on his face of confusion and horror and distress. I should not have found the latter soothing but in some way I did just the same. I had a feeling Isaac had known what he was doing and made his blow effective.  “Gideon,” I said. “I am...terribly sorry.” I glanced down at myself, at Gideon’s hands red with my blood, the dark spreading stain on my shirt. Mildmay would know something had happened, I thought vaguely. He would be on his way now. I didn’t think I wanted to see his face.  Maybe this was it, I thought, a curious peace settling over me even with the bolt of pain accompanying every gasping inhale, throbbing deep in me. Maybe this time I’d managed to do it right. Isaac would be a murderer of a Cabaline wizard, and his life forfeit. Gideon was alive. Mildmay… I told myself Mildmay would be all right. My brother was stronger than he knew.  Yes, I thought. This must be what I was meant to do.

#conversating #ringsofdragons #fic excerpt #lise memes #doctrine of labyrinths

[nimblermortal]

So I'm reading A Sword Named Truth and I want to talk about survivorship and guilt, but first:

Sherwood Smith's books for adults are lovely and intricate and really finely worldbuilt and I love them. Her books for children are just. so. young. I tried to read Senrid and I couldn't finish it. So now I'm reading a sequel? Well, they're all in the same world on the same continuity and this one was shelved in the adult section... because it's longer and so the characters can cuss, and because there's war and torture, I think.

It's really interesting because it straddles that divide in plot and timeline as well. The children's books started out as CJ's Journals, things Smith wrote when she was a kid, and there's paragraphs here where I go, "Wow, this sure did start out as 'a girl my age who is totally not me fell into a world with magic and a girl her age who was queen adopted her and they lived in a palace over a city built on a cloud and their worst enemy lived under the cloud in a place called the Shadowlands and he was a boy their age and they defeated him by kicking him into mud puddles with a pair of magic boots!"

...and then you're out at, "and that is one tiny, unimportant country on a different continent from most of the action here, which is bound up in political realities between not just multiple continents but multiple planets."

...and they are trying to stop the Forces of Evil from taking over in sometimes-bloodless coups, led by a boy their age (Siamis) who has had a rough last couple thousand years, much like a couple of their allies (Senrid, Jilo). And because this is an adult novel, they can express the desire to kill him, rather than defeat him or kick him into a mud puddle, and because it's a children's novel they can express frustration at adults who try to keep them out of danger and seem to be doing nothing about their problems.

So last night Senrid expressed a wish to kill Siamis, and I had a very adult moment of, "Yes that's all well and good and it should be done, but also, he's a kid going through a rough time, just like you." Which was followed immediately by, "That's an interesting perspective from an adult, but even more so, these child protagonists have an interesting perspective in that it doesn't matter that Siamis is a child - he's their peer, he's not special and innocent for being several thousand years young."

And that brought me back round to Doctrine of Labyrinths and its thesis that having a tragic history can explain your actions, and be something you struggle with, but it can't excuse you. Felix's life sucked! a lot! and continues to! and he's still responsible for every time he pushes that onto another person, whether that's nearly killing someone in his wrath and madness or just snapping at Mildmay on a bad day. Yes, it's his past talking, but it's still talking through him, and he still has responsibility for what he's done because of it.

So these kids are absolutely right about Siamis. Yes, he's a child and he deserves better, but he's also a child perpetrating war crimes and he deserves to be held responsible.

I'm interested to see what happens to him.

#it won't happen in this book of course #750 pages and it's book 1 classic Sherwood Smith #also it was a BIG relief when Derek died #which was an interesting way to set up an arc #Sherwood Smith #A Sword Named Truth #Doctrine of Labyrinths #(but you have to be patient about it) #Nimblermortal liveblogs

[mmysbathotw]

The namesake and his shitty brother 💖

#doctrine of labyrinths

[kenobster]

oh god theyre gonna make posts abt felix like they do abt anakin, and when they do, i, quite frankly, am gonna leap off the empire state building

#mildmay is being abused by felix is a take i do NOT want to see this lovely june 2023 pls for the love of god #im gonna be a bit of a felix & mildmay freak for a hot minute #and thats probably gonna explode into making me a filthy disgusting anakin apologist #did u know anakin never did anything wrong ever in his whole life? #murder is good actually #and if u hate anakin youre evil #^ this is the kind of rhetoric u will invite if any of u touch felix with a 10 foot pole i stg #dont do it #im spewing enough hellfire already #doctrine of labyrinths

[muzaplacha]

at this point in Virtu, Felix himself is an Architectural thaumaturgy anchored by the same 3 points, the Dog(Mildmay), the Stone(his rings? Mirador?), the River (Sim)

oh wait i was joking but the Virtu is kind of just him right? Broken by Malkar, or by himself through Malkar, and by trying to fix it he was sort of trying to fix himself

or maybe not, i'm not a hocus or a writer

#doctrine of labyrinths #books

[linovadraws]

Area Man So Goddamn Tired, Please Let Him Rest

#doctrine of labyrinths #mildmay foxe #sarah monette #i've been reading these for almost 20 years and i somehow just caught on to mildmay having short hair at the start of melusine #anyway love his dedication to his terrible dye job through 2/3rds of melusine #we have 1 - start of melusine 2 - hanging with mavortian and bernard 3 - scaring teenagers in troia and 4 - gonna go kill brinvillier stryc

[yatima]

Ok but hear me out: Doctrine of Labyrinths movie directed by Hayao Miyazaki

#doctrine of labyrinths #hayao miyazaki

[emblazonet]

I'm reading the Angel of the Crows and am rather baffled by its existence? It's... It's ok, but what it IS doing is making me want to do a fresh reread of the Doctrine of Labyrinths.

Should I do a DoL reread for autumn??

#Doctrine of Labyrinths #DoL #Pern friends: I'm being very slow on white dragon I WILL finish someday

[sayitwithsarcophilus]

I have by no means read enough of her work to be an expert (just TGE, Witness, Angel of the Crows, and Doctrine of Problematic Faves Labyrinths), but I’m starting to pick up on a recurring theme in Monette/Addison’s work of “however damaged you are, your trauma has not made you unlovable.”

Maia: Your self-esteem may be in the tank after years of isolation and abuse, but people will still die for you, and not just because it’s their job.

Thara Celehar: You might be traumatized, depressed, tactless, and underappreciated by your own professional superiors, but lots of people still like you (including hot opera directors and the Emperor of the Elflands).

Doyle: You might not be at your best right now, your baggage might be weird and offputting and possibly socially devastating if unsympathetic people get ahold of it, but there’s someone out there who likes and accepts all of you, including the werewolf parts.

Felix: Someone who’s seen you at your worst could still care enough to stick with you until you're in a headspace to treat them better

#this probably applies to mildmay too but i can't think how off the top of my head #sarah monette #katherine addison #the goblin emperor #doctrine of labyrinths #tropes

[calyssmarviss]

asdfghjkl i was just made aware that the Goblin Emperor was written by the author of Doctrine of Labyrinths under a different name so now i have to reorganize my bookshelf to put them together 😭

#maybe i would have realized if i managed to read more than 40 pages of #the goblin emperor #(it’s the thou that bothered me - but now i know so I’ll give it a second try) #doctrine of labyrinths #katherine addison #sarah monette #she does love playing with language doesn’t she