"i grew up reading percy jackson", "i grew up reading harry potter" yeah ok but where are the people that grew up reading deltora quest i need to find my people
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16 - Envy
i was feeling silly asldkfjhas
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Emily Rodda books (Taylor's Version)
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Roddacember Day 3: Monsters and Animals
Now this is a tough prompt to choose for. Rodda's creatures are almost always excellent, especially with the focus on their ecology and how they fit in with their world.
I'll give an honorable mention to the many Australianesque reptiles of Deltora and co, like the unnecessary variety of deadly snakes, and the grachs, the deadly three-tailed repto-beasts that the Zebak use as beasts of burden. But I think for today I'll lay the focus on Deltora's dragons.
Perhaps that's too easy, but you and I both know that dragons are cool as frick.
Deltora's dragons actually stick closer to the tropes than most fantasy series portray them. They breathe fire and fly and dragon around the place. They embody both the ancient, wise guardian of the land, and the dangerous reptilian megafauna (and they do a damn good job at both). They even have secret names that let you command them, and color coding too.
If you're like me, their classic, unsullied dragonliness was plenty to win you over. Dragons are, honestly, probably the ideal subject for Marc McBride's (the cover artist's) fantastical, snaggletoothed style, and the text puts in work to build the right atmosphere as well. Remember the only time a dragon appears in the first two series?
The party is crawling through an overgrown cave (to get to the adventure, of course), and they pass a golden mass, in shadow.
An immense reptilian eye opens and fixes Lief in its gaze for a long moment.
And then they continue on and try to forget that happened.
Chef's kiss.
They don't sacrifice their wildness and their innate power, when they appear as conversational partners.
I do perhaps wish their ways of life were explored some more, and I have thoughts on what we do know of them, but that's for another time.
The Dragon of the Mountain, from Rowan of Rin, does intrigue me in particular. Dragons are very famous to the continent of Deltora; it used to be called the Land of Dragons, even. What's one doing here?
Personally, I subscribe to the theory that this dragon is indeed from Deltoran stock. Dragons are tied as deeply to their homes as the gems of the Belt are. Forta is not quite the last of her stock; over the western sea, a deserter sleeps on high, guarding a land that can't quite sustain them in the same way. But they still muster the strength to roar at dawn.
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Emily Rodda, about to invent the most horrifying monster known to man: i'm a children's book author :3
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Alright, I’m doing it. I’m expanding beyond DQ and am heading into the other series
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Playtest Sign-ups | Low Cantrefs
Playtest sign-ups have re-opened!
I’m re-opening the Tales from the Low Cantrefs mailing list in the lead-up to a new packet of playtest materials going out in January.
Low Cantrefs is inspired by classic works of young adult fantasy like Garth Nix’s Sabriel, A. A. Lloyd’s The Black Cauldron, and Emily Rodda’s Rowan of Rin.
It’s a Powered by the Apocalypse game that tells stories about young people dealing with the hope and struggle and messiness of adolescence while they hold on to their small corner of the world in the face of gathering darkness.
In addition to a new basic move, quality of life improvements, and new tools to support the Chronicler, the new playtest packet adds two new playbooks (the Hearth and the Staff) to bring the count up to 8:
The Bell: Caring, truthful, and sincere, with a real way with words. Will you work to be kind, or grow up clumsy with people's hearts?
The Blade: Bold, brash, and loyal, guardian to those you love. Will you strive to yield and gentle, or grow up careless of others?
The Book: Insightful, inquisitive, and studious, blessed by the Great Trees._ Will you learn to embrace doubt, or cling to the shelter of faith and books?_
The Cloak: Wary, cunning, and crafty, like a shadow in wild lands. Will you dare to let others close, or grow up cowering and alone like prey?
The Door: Staunch, steady, and resolute, guardian of thresholds. Will you deign to soften and unbend, or grow up rigid and brittle as iron?
The Hearth: Solid, certain, and dependable, carrying the legacy and good name of your family. Will you learn humility, or grow up to lord it over your neighbours?
The Loom: Prudent, practical, and discerning, with the gift of foresight. Will you accept you can't control it all, or grow up cold and calculating?
The Staff: Gentle, caring, and dreamy, with healing in their hands. Will you find your voice and footing, or grow up meek and ruled by others?
Sign up to receive the next packet of playtest materials if you like the sound of indie rpgs about petty village politics, childhood superstition, adults who just don’t understand, strange untame magics, wild and ruined landscapes, monsters out of old folktales, and the terrible responsibility of growing up.
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Rowan of Rin was just rereleased in a bind up of all five books with updated cover art if you were interested (though I'm not sure if it's available outside of Australia at the moment).
Ahh, that’s so cool! I don’t need more books to buy rn but I’ll have to look that up!
Mostly I’m sad that the copies I got rid of were the same ones I’d originally borrowed from my local library branch 😢 except that they were in bad condition, which is probably why I managed to pick them up at their book sale (much much later) in the first place lol.
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Idk if anyone else got into this Emily Rodda series as much as I did, but I'm 💯 down for a Rowan of Rin TV series
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Roddacember 2023!!
Roddacember runs during December to celebrate all of Emily Rodda’s books.
With a new prompt every day, make a piece of fan content of your choice. You can draw some art, write fic, make a playlist, rant about something, or whatever you vibe with!
Remember to tag it #Roddacember 2023 so we can check it out <3
I’ve also created an AO3 collection for those who would like to write fics!
Update
This is my attempt at taking the best of the past years and bringing something for everyone.
What I've come up with are three levels of abstraction that (hopefully) serve as different levels of difficulty. The first week-ish draws more from 2019's style, and the last couple weeks are the more recent style, with the middle being a segue between them.
(i kinda struggled to make questions, but you're welcome to use the prompts as keywords for your own!)
Notes
A reminder that you don’t have to commit to every day. Take care of yourself. You can make it more manageable by skipping days.
It’s also okay to alter the prompt slightly for grammatical purposes, if you so wish (e.g. growth –> growing) or to cut out irrelevant words (e.g. animal or monster -> animal). Feel free to interpret the prompts as metaphorically or as literally as you want!
If there’s anything you are confused about, feel free to ask me in the notes or DMs or whatever. You can also check out what the fandom did previously at #Roddacember 2022, #Roddacember 2021, #Roddacember 2020 and #Roddacember 2019.
Prompts in text below:
Your Favourite
01. Character
02. Place
03. Animal or monster
04. Something you wish was real
05. Magic
06. People, culture, or tradition
07. Filli❔
08. Relationship of any kind
09. Symbols or signs
Memorable Moments:
10. Epic
11. Courage
12. Deception
13. Power
14. Foreshadowing
15. Playful
16. Envy
17. Solution
Abstract:
18. Ripples
19. Design
20. Trade
21. Nurture
22. Technology
23. Intricacy
24. Mend
25. Twisted
26. Pathway
27. Watch
28. Growth
29. Time
30. Unity
31. Essence of Rodda
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Roddacember 2023 Day 21 | Abstract Nuture
Love when having allergies and needing to be looked after with medicine saves the day
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Round 1, Poll 3: The Spiderwick Chronicles vs Rowan of Rin
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favorite underrated book series?
Anon when I tell you this ask got me jumping out my bed to sift through my bookshelf. Warning for a lot of words
A while back I read these old books ‘The adventures of the Wishing Chair’ and ‘The Wishing Chair, again’ by Enid Blyton. They’re children’s books, published in 1937 and 1950, respectively.
Another series I’m fairly fond of is Jessica Townsend’s ‘Nevermoor, the Trials of Morrigan Crow’ (fun fact, my copy is signed!) it follows the story of a girl cursed to die on a certain day at midnight, but a mysterious man comes to take her away to a secret city called Nevermoor, there’s three books in the series as far as I’m aware.
For younger readers (or older ones, too!), the ‘Friday Barnes’ series by R.A Spratt follows an exceptional girl surrounded by non-exceptional people. She solves a mystery for her detective uncle and uses the prize money to send herself to an exclusive boarding school. Chaos ensues
You didn’t think I was done, did you? Because I’m not.
ANOTHER great one (and I don’t know how underrated it is) is Australian author Emily Wood’s (AKA Jennifer Rowe) ‘Rowan Of Rin’!! I’m pretty sure her other series ‘Deltora Quest’ is more popular (I haven’t read it) but I do own a large hardback of all five Rowan stories shoved into one book. It follows a timid farmer boy forced to go on a journey up a mountain to save his village
Anon you have awakened a beast in me. Unfortunately I am a fucking nerd, always have been and I love books to death (even if I don’t touch one for months) and am prepared to talk about it for hours.
In conclusion: I don’t have a particular favourite I do, however, have a collection of series that I love that you’ve maybe never heard of.
And you can ignore this part if you want to because now I’m just prattling about the Authors:
So R.A Spratt is an Australian author, also responsible for ‘Hamlet is not okay!’, which surprised me because I know that book but I didn’t know it was by her! Wow
Townsend is also Australian, but she doesn’t really have any books beyond Nevermoor. And actually, I’m noticing a trend, because Emily Rodda is also Australian. Makes sense, because I’m Australian, of course I’d be reading Australian authors.
Anyway Theo is a fucking nerd thanks byeee
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