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#artist unknown unfortunately #I want to write guys I really do #it’s just not there & hasn’t been for so freakin long #I need the stars to shape up or something #mercury is in the microwave too often

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*clears throat*

*inhales*

YOU GUYS I HAVE A BOYFRIEND AND HE IS WONDERFUL AND NO THIS ISN’T REMOTELY FABLEHAVEN-RELATED BUT I HAD TO SCREAM IT INTO THE ETHER THAT I’M MUTUALLY IN LOVE WITH A BEAUTIFUL MAN WHO IS KIND AND CARES FOR ME AND MY KIDS

*thinks*

Honestly he resembles my personal fanon version of Dale 🤔

*thinks some more*

This is far, far beyond acceptable

*inhales*

I’M FINALLY WINNING YOU GUYS!!!!

#he’s my introvert #I adopted him #and he’s adorable and wonderful and all the good adjectives #my princess poppy is showing #off-topic #will probably delete this at some point lol

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*The Squad is on a hike* Stan: It’s beautiful out here. Ruth: And quiet. Stan: Too quiet. Ruth: Did we lose someone? *cut to Warren with a bear in a headlock*

#lol

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Happy Winter Solstice, y’all

Don’t open the windows ;)

#fablehaven

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(From this post here.) @gavin-the-turtle

Sooo... you mean kinda like Dragonwatch 4? 😂 jkjk

No spoilers for anything.

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“Kendra. Stop,” Seth said. “Let’s think about this for a minute.”

“We’ve fallen inside a tunnel at Fablehaven, have been wandering for hours, this path appears to lead above ground, and it’s blocked by a sparkly gem on a pedestal. Let’s move it,” she replied.

Seth hoped she would realize how stupid she sounded by the pointed glare he tried to send her. “Do you realize how stupid that sounds? ‘Ooh, random sparkly jewel sitting in front of what is potentially our only way out of this place. Shiiiiiny. Let’s touch it!’ It’s obviously a trap. Use your brain!”

Kendra harrumphed at him. “We have a problem. I’ve proposed a solution, and all you’ve done is sat around blasting my proposal. Besides, I didn’t mean to move the gem - that is obviously a trap. I meant to move the pedestal.”

He furrowed his brows at her. “The pedestal is probably a trap, too.”

“Shut up and help me move it.”

“No.”

“Okay, fine,” she said. “I’ll do it myself.”

“Kendra, don’t-!” Seth grabbed at his sister’s arm to try and stop her, but she shrugged him off and made a beeline directly for the pedestal. “Stop! What if you kill us both?!”

“Then hopefully it’s a quick death, because I’m tired of wandering around down here. I’m starting to get hangry.” She pushed against the pedestal with all her might, it moved a few centimeters, and then she stopped and looked around. “Nothing’s happening,” she declared. “See? We’re fine. Now come help me finish moving this - it’s heavier than it looks.”

Seth glanced down the other passageways to see if anyone (or anything) was coming, and let out a held breath when he didn’t see anything other than the same paths of dirt and stone they’d been walking on for the past several hours. He gave one final look back the way they’d come, then decided to help his sister. Maybe they’d be alright after all. She did have a knack for getting them out of scrapes, and she was right; dinner was calling.

Still. “What if this does lead us out of here? What if the end of the trail drops us off in ogre territory or something? I don’t want to escape here just to become someone else’s meal.”

“If you keep thinking about what might happen, you’re gonna be stuck down here forever.” Kendra grunted as she strained against the stone pedestal. Seth helped, and they finished sliding it just far enough to the side that it created an opening that each of them could slide through in turns. She stood up and straightened her back. “I’m leaving. Are you coming with me, or are you staying here?”

Seth rolled his eyes. “I’m coming with you,” he stated. “But, for the record, I think you’re rushing into this.”

She shrugged. “If I’m rushing into this, then you’re rushing into it, too, since you’re coming with me,” she said. “Come on. I want out of here.”

“But the ogres-”

“Stop worrying about what you don’t know you’ll find. If there are ogres, we’ll deal with them when we get there. You’re such a worrywart sometimes.” Kendra squeezed through the opening they’d made and motioned for him to come through the gap once she was on the other side.

Seth rolled his eyes at her. “You are getting hangry, aren’t you? One of us needs to think things through.”

“Blah blah blah, you disapprove, let’s get out of here,” Kendra replied. “Look, I see a light up ahead. Let’s go!”

He shook his head as she took off running, but then decided he wanted to keep up with her. They were here together, and they’d make it out together.

And then he was going to have a serious talk with Grandpa about these tunnels, and warn him about the dangers of falling into one.

#fablehaven #aerinm writes #this is silly

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Brackendra head-cannons?

How about holiday style? Just because?

Bracken always wants to decorate the Christmas tree before anything else, and Kendra always wants to decorate the outside of the house first. Bracken usually puts up the lights on the outside of the house first, bc he loves how happy they make her. :)

They both love to decorate for lots of holidays, but they’re not those neighbors whose house can be seen from outer space.

Kendra woke up one Valentine’s morning and found paper hearts plastered all over the walls and windows, in a bunch of various shades of pink and red and purple. She was both shocked and delighted by this and laughed pretty hard.

Bracken and the fairies make wreaths for each holiday out of living plants, and people in the neighborhood are consistently mystified about how beautiful and alive they are.

Kendra takes Bracken to an old church building one year at Christmas time, one where all of the voices reverberate off the walls and create a very echoey effect, and they sit and listen to Christmas carols and hymns sung by choirs in primarily foreign languages for a solid two hours. Bracken calls the experience magical.

The solstices and equinoxes are important days and nights for Bracken. They celebrate those days with bonfires, dancing, music, and special foods. (Obviously these festivities are not held at preserves but rather somewhere away from the ruckus of every other celebrating magical creature who lives on preserves like Fablehaven.) Sometimes they celebrate in the Fairy Realm with Bracken’s family.

#brackendra #❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Dragonwatch finale theories?

Several! In no particular order!

Seth gets all of the gem shards & inadvertently restores power and balance to the Source and the Void once the full gem is pieced back together

Kendra raises an army, liberates Bracken & family, kicks Ronodin’s butt, takes the crown from him, and tries to give it back to Bracken’s mother…

...who turns it down because she’s decided to live in the mortal world with her hubby

This leads to: A, Kendra becomes the new Fairy Queen for real (which could happen but I’m on the fence about whether or not that will happen), or B, Kendra chooses/crowns the next Fairy Queen (I believe this would be Risenmay).

If Kendra becomes Fairy Queen, it makes sense for Seth to become the new Underking since they’ve got the whole yin/yang trope going on (and I love that) (((@fairykam came up with that one)))

If Kendra does not become Fairy Queen, I can see Bracken giving up his immortality for her. (I don’t think this will actually happen in the book, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was heavily insinuated.)

I think Seth will find a way to bring peace to the undead who suffer (like wraiths and phantoms, along with others who would prefer to cease existence instead of continue with their current circumstance) and/or make it his life goal to help them

Seth and Kendra both get level-ups. More full realization of potential for both of them.

There has to be some sort of closure between Ronodin and Seth. (Ok so I want Seth to be able to yell at Ronodin and maybe give him a good punch while he’s at it.)

Kendra gathers the legendary dragon slayers while Seth gathers the gem shards (this one is a given though)

Zzyzx has to be addressed in some fashion. How is Seth gonna get in there in order to nab the demon king’s crown & then get back out? Also, is the prison weaker now that Bracken’s 3rd horn is no longer being used as part of the Font of Immortality? Those questions need to be addressed

Knox & Seth are gonna have an argument when it comes time for Seth to collect the former giant queen’s crown

I feel like there will come a moment when Kendra has to trust that her brother has her back and will have to rely on him, with neither of them being able to really discuss things with each other ahead of time, and she will choose to trust him without a doubt. Together they shall conquer

Celebrant will be at the mercy of Kendra and Seth, who will choose to spare his life

The Sphinx is probably gonna die

Potential new world order where magical creatures and humans are on some different level of cohabitation

The Fair Folk will have a larger presence, and I’m half expecting Garreth, Eve and Lomo to lead an army of them in a stance against neutrality

#🤔 #I was wrong and right #I’m obviously biased but I wish I had been right on all of these points haha #dragonwatch salt

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Thinking about possibilities. This time with Scott and Marla (and probably Knox and Tess’ parents, whose names I don’t remember).

What if all of Dragonwatch thus far had taken place over a period of time which was longer than like 8 or 9 days? The parents come home from vacation to Fablehaven (which is hopefully still standing), and find their children missing. Hank and Gloria tell them that the kids have been called on a mission to Wyrmroost for at least a year.

Like. The anxiety they would feel? That sudden moment of oh shit?

And then, idk about Scott and Marla, but me as a parent? I would demand to join my kids, and there’s no way in hell that I wouldn’t give every single person in that situation a huuuuuuuge piece of my mind. Minus my kids. They’d get hugs and love and probably an overbearing mother for a few days at least. Everyone else would feel my wrath.

If this is pre-barrel-snatching, then I’m sure they’d be like “TAKE ME TO MY CHILDREN RIGHT. NOW.” And if Hank and Gloria didn’t have any sense to not try and resist, then I’m sure Dale would be like “Follow me, right this way!” and take them to the barrel bc I cannot imagine that Dale was okay with sending Kendra and Seth to be caretakers of any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary. (Assuming he was even told about what was happening before it actually happened. Seriously. Freaking. AAAAHHHH.)

And if they came home post-barrel-snatching?

:(:( My heart weeps for them.

Just. Jdkskqkkdjkekdkkrjrjekkekdo.

TL:DR, I like the idea of Scott and Marla randomly showing up at Wyrmroost one day in order to announce they’re moving in and also FREAKING LET LOOSE ON LITERALLY EVERYONE WHO DOESNT RUN AWAY FROM THEM ABOUT HOW IRRESPONSIBLE THEY ARE AS GUARDIANS AND HELL NO I WILL NOT EVER LET YOU TAKE CARE OF MY KIDS AGAIN WTF?!?!?!?

oops I yelled

#dragonwatch salt #there was potential which was lost here too

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A question which was never answered

Also. Something that’s been bugging me for a while now.

At the beginning of Dragonwatch 1, Fablehaven receives a mysterious visitor who gave me wizard vibes (can’t remember rn if the narrative actually stated that the dude was a wizard or not). It wasn’t Agad, and it wasn’t Marat, and it couldn’t have been Andromadus since he hadn’t transformed yet. So. Who was it? And will we see him again?

Wondering if that was the guy who helped Agad reanimate Mendigo?

#dragonwatch salt

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I mean. Clearly, Mad-Eye Moody is far superior to sexist Coulter. 🤷‍♀️ That wasn’t the point of my initial post; I was just drawing connections between characters Mull may have taken inspiration from when he created his own.

Coulter Dixon is pretty much Mad-Eye Moody.

I mean, can’t you just hear him saying “constant vigilance” here??

#coulter is problematic for sure #didn’t hate him didn’t love him #he’s the cranky boomer in the story. just. exists #I certainly don’t blame anyone for hating him though

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There are a lot of things I disliked about Dragonwatch. Today, Mull’s de-Warrening of Warren and semi-Warrening of Bracken is what is bothering me. Just. Whyyyyy.

Maybe I’ll elaborate on reblogs idk I’m supposed to be working rn

#warren burgess #oh Bracken my Bracken #love how that’s my decided tag for unicorn boy now #it annoys the pajeebers out of me when authors screw up their characters. bleeding their personalities is one way this happens #it does all of the characters wrong when they aren’t written to be true to themselves #Dragonwatch Salt

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He is a unicorn, though, [insert “unicorn = purity” lore here] and even though he’s a pretty extroverted one, he’s still an awkward af adorable and somewhat socially inept unicorn boy

Whom I love dearly

Anyway your theory is accepted. You’ve got the official aerinmelina stamp of approval

Okay theory that I've had ever since my first read of RotDS

Spoiler for that so

Anyways I have a theory that when Bracken says "Fewer than you might guess" to Kendra after she says "You've probably kissed a lot of nymphs," he's actually just skirting around the fact that Kendra is his first kiss. Like imagine being alive for that long and not having your first kiss yet? That'd be kinda embarrassing for someone like Bracken, so he wouldn't flat out admit that he hadn't kissed anyone yet

#oh Bracken my Bracken #favorite Fablehaven character #also again I feel like mull made Bracken a little too Warren with that particular line #like. I love my boy but he’s not smooth like warren. one of my favorite things about Bracken is that he’s awkward with Kendra #anyway that’s me being nitpicky

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Biblically accurate photo of Ronodin

#I FREAKIN SNORTED SO LOUD #😂😂😂😂😂 #WTF 😂😂😂😂😂 #Ronodin #accurate

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Found this in my Google docs, too! I think I was trying to fit this scene into In The Darkness, but it just wouldn’t work. So I tailored it a little and now imagine it takes place idk somewhere during book 5 before Graulas torched Fablehaven I guess 🤷‍♀️

It’s a mini therapy session between Dale and Vanessa.

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“Just having a low day?” he asked.

“I messed things up pretty badly.”

He leaned back against one of the porch’s support beams. “You know, if I hadn’t been pinned when you were revealed to be our traitor, I would’ve tried to kill you.”

She bowed her head. “I know.” He would’ve tried to kill her, and she would’ve done whatever it took to protect herself.

Dale looked out across the yard and was silent for a long pause. He glanced at her briefly before he admitted, “I’m glad I was pinned.”

That caught Vanessa’s interest. “Really?”

“Yeah,” he said. His gaze remained focused on some point across the yard; Vanessa couldn’t tell exactly what he was looking at.

“Why?” she asked. “You have plenty of reasons to hate me. Everyone does. I don’t think Ruth will ever trust me again.”

Dale scratched at the scruff on his chin and turned his full attention to her. “I’ve never been particularly good at hating. It takes too much energy, and the days are already tiring enough as is.”

Vanessa didn’t know what to say. She was used to the sideways looks she attracted from what felt like everyone, the conversations which would cease the moment she stepped into a room, sensitive planning meetings which she wasn’t invited to attend.

“You think you’re the only person who’s ever made bad decisions? The only one who regrets their actions? The first person on earth to be duped by someone they’ve admired and trusted? Really?” He shook his head. “Nope.”

“You too?”

“Yes. Not the same circumstances, but yes.” He looked back out across the yard. “All we can do is try again.”

Vanessa turned her attention to a few meandering fairies across the yard as well. “I feel terrible,” she mumbled.

Dale was quiet for a moment, then said, “You should. But don’t stay in that place. Do something about it.”

“How do I redeem myself, though?” she asked. She craved a real answer from him - how could she prove that she had changed?

He began to shrug, but stopped midway and smirked. “Well, we do have a couple of kids with a knack for getting into a lot of trouble. I’m sure something’ll come up eventually. It might be a good move to start there.”

Vanessa leaned her chin onto her knee. “What about the interim?”

“What about teaching the troublemakers some skills?” he suggested.

For what felt like the first time in days, she smiled a little. “I’ll think on that,” she said. “Thank you, Dale. I don’t deserve your kindness.”

“Sure,” he said. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make sure the new barn door Hugo put in today is functional. The chores never end…”

She laughed under her breath a little as he grumbled while he walked away.

#fablehaven #aerinm writes #dale burgess #vanessa santoro #look I will die on this platonic ship hill #Dale and Vanessa as bffs makes me happy

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I've always pictured Trask to look like Cobra Bubbles (from Lilo&Stitch) in my mind. No idea why

#You’re not the only one 😂😂😂

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i truly love siblings duos where there's an older sister younger brother and they annoy each other relentlessly but would literally die for each other bc that's like the most sibling dynamic to ever sibling dynamic

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a quick Kendra and Seth in honor of finishing my Fablehaven reread <3

Were you more of a Journal of Secrets kid or and Emergency Kit kid

#fablehaven #kendra sorenson #seth sorenson #gorgeous fanart