#Emelan

[alwaysfrowningslightly]

If people are sad about The Wizard Facism game coming from someone you used to look up to and admire, may I suggest an author whose books are filled with nuanced characters and strong, dynamic women?

Tamora Pierce has been writing since the 80’s and has two worlds of magic and fantasy and bonus!!! Isn’t a transphobic POS.

#tamora pierce #alanna: the first adventure #alanna the lioness #tortall #emelan #fantasy author #fuck jkr

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Briar Moss.

#briar moss #emelan #emelan series #circle of magic #tamora pierce #book fanart #artists on tumblr #illustration #my art

[minuiko]

Weekend sketchdump of various Emelan/Tortall scenes via discord requests! It's been a blast :)

#daja kisubo #Rizuka fa Dalach #owen of jesslaw #lalasa isran #keladry of mindelan #sandrilene fa toren #my art #tamora pierce #tortall #emelan #protector of the small #the will of the empress

[unfavorableinstigation]

Bless Tamora Pierce for making 'mast buildup' a childhood terror for so many of us. The Bermuda Triangle and quicksand may not have held up, but by god the mast buildup retains its relevance.

#tamora pierce #emelan #daja's book #circle of magic

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Victor Vale- Vicious by VE Schwab

August Landry- One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Daja Kisubo- The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

Neil Josten- All for the Game by Nora Sakavic

#Victor Vale #Vicious #Vengeful #Villains #VE Schwab #August Landry #One Last Stop #OLS #McQuistonverse #Casey McQuiston #Daja Kisubo #The Circle of Magic series #The Circle Opens series #The Will of the Empress #Daja’s Book #The Fire in the Forging #Cold Fire #Emelan #Tamora Pierce #Neil Josten #aftg #the foxhole court #tfc #the kings men #the raven king #all for the game #Nora Sakavic #lgbt books #polls #queer book character tournament 2.0

[lyndentree63]

Forever sad for the people in North America who didn't get the poetic titles for The Circle of Magic Quartet The Magic in the Weaving The Power in the Storm The Fire in the Forging The Healing in the Vine I remember moving to Canada, going to the library and shrieking internally when it was just "Sandry's Book" etc.

#tamora pierce #circle of magic #the circle of magic quartet #sandrilene fa toren #tris chandler #daja kisubo #briar moss #emelan #i mean seriously how could you NOT read a book titled “the magic in the weaving”

[motherofmabari]

#tamora pierce #Tortall #Emelan #The immortals #Winding Circle #the circle of magic #The circle opens #daine sarrasri #veralidaine sarrasri #Briar moss #These two would be best friends I know it

[ladylingua]

so not to stick myself into places where it’s not my business, reading between the lines from press releases and website announcements and patreons, etc about her health and how she’s doing

I think Tammy is getting to a point where fans should perhaps consider transitioning themselves from expectations to just appreciation,

of course I want more books and updates…but more importantly I want Tammy to be well and to not burn herself out. Rather she take all the time she needs and guard her health than go to appearances or churn out new content and I have no doubt many other fans feel the same way, I hope she knows that.

#tamora pierce #tortall #emelan #her updates are just always so apologetic #don’t apologize Tammy it’s ok! #you don’t owe fans your health

[onyourstageleft]

a love letter to my favorite YA lit:

I'm relistening to the Beka Cooper audio books again (a yearly tradition at this point) and every time I hear the opening line of Mastiff, "We buried Holborn today," it takes me back to opening the e-book on my Nook the day it was released in my freshman year of high school and reading that line while sitting on the bleachers waiting for PE to start. I remember flipping back to the previous page to make sure this was the first chapter, thinking I'd never even heard of Holborn. I opened the Bloodhound e-book to compare the dates of her entries and realized the time skip was nearly two years, and got so excited to see what happened to Beka while we weren't with her. We walked the track that overcast day of PE in 2011 and I barely looked up from my Nook, so engrossed was I in Beka's story

that was the first Tamora Pierce book release I waited on; I found her books in probably 2009 and had read most of them by the summer of 2011. I pre-ordered Mastiff so it would be on my Nook as soon as it came out, but I was a freshman in high school and wasn't supposed to stay up till midnight, so I had to wait until the day to read it. it was nearly 13 years (and half my life ago) but here I am, still re-reading and re-listening to the Tamora Pierce books that got me through being a teenager. I remember sitting in my high school's library rereading their copy of Wild Magic over my lunch break to pass the time; drunk crying on the floor of my friend's dorm at a character's death in Terrier my freshman year of college (even though I'd read it 3 or 4 times at that point I always forgot); waiting in the lobby of the technology building of my college campus for my class to start with Spy's Guide on my lap after its release; sitting in my advisor's office in grad school flipping through Mastiff and Page and Lioness Rampant for quotes to include in my thesis; rereading Briar's book at the height of the pandemic. I have a tattoo of Lighting on my arm and a (very rough and needs to be redone) tattoo of Pounce/Faithful on my calf and I genuinely don't think a day has gone by in over a decade where I haven't thought about Tamora Pierce books

the world of Tortall (and Emelan, to a lesser extent) has shaped me, and although this is an attempt to pin it down, I will never be able to explain how much these books mean to me. I know that I may love other series and worlds (I'm currently reading some Terry Pratchett, for example), but they will never make an impact on me in the same way that Tortall and all its various characters has, and that's fine by me

and yet, through all of it, I will never, ever be ready for The Thing We Don't Talk About in Mastiff, not now at a dozen rereads and not in another 13 years

#writing #literature #young adult literature #tamora pierce #tortall #emelan #beka cooper #The Thing kills me every time

[tourneys-by-me]

Round Two - Ferromancy (metals) 2/8

#element specific character tournament #ferromancy #round 2 #tumblr polls #polls #scrapdragon #scrapdragon paranatural #paranatural #daja kisubo #emelan #tamora pierce #circle of magic #circle universe

[checkoutmybookshelf]

No lie is detected. Just pick up a Tamora Pierce book.

#tamora pierce #tortall #tortall universe #circle universe #emelan #books & libraries #books and reading #books and novels #book recommendations #books #ya fantasy

[junipernoon]

I recently binged the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce! I'm pretty happy with my interpretation of the characters (I feel like I could have made Tris fatter, but still better than that one cover, you know LOL), anyway Briar is the most trans, and Sandry is a Wasian.

Let me know how you picture the characters in the notes!

ID in alt

#circle of magic #emelan #tamora pierce #daja kisubo #trisana chandler #sandrilene fa toren #briar moss #booklr #book tumblr #illustration #artist on tumblr #artists on tumblr #fanart #book art #fantasy #ya #ided

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood world #bloor's academy #the children of the red king #emelan #circle of magic #magic tree house #the lake territory #warriors #lyrian #beyonders #fairyland

[relatableblorbopoll]

Round 1 of preliminaries, group 18

The first two places get a place on the bracket

Little reminder: there will be 2 more rounds of preliminaries, the losing blorbos of this poll still have 2 chances of getting in the official bracket

Propaganda under the cut

Tobias (Animorphs)

"his mom left him and hes at least a little transcoded and also hes a bird for the rest of his life"

Isaac O'Connor (Paranatural)

"he's like me but specifically when i was thirteen which should tell you all you need to know about both me and him. emotional wreck of a lad who feels excluded from his friend group no matter what. drew a gjinka of a fruit bowl in art class. canonically a fan of hatsune miku. will apparently be eaten by a cat in the future and survive."

Trisana Chandler / Tris (Emelan book series)

"Grumpy girl just wants to be left alone with her books but oops she actually has such a big heart with so much love in it. Always annoyed about having to put down her book to help her friends or save a bunch of innocents. Also she's got trauma out the wazoo, her family didn't want her and she was always bullied for her weight, and then at like age ten she has to kill a bunch of people and live with THAT trauma."

Sokka (Avatar: The Last Air Bender)

"I also like meat, sarcasm, and boomerangs. On a more serious note, he's the only one out of his group of friends for the longest time without special powers (relatable when you're friends with super talented people), he really likes organization and charts (same), and he completely fumbles his first attempt at public speaking (painful, but same). We're also both just a little bit goofy."

Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran Highschool Hostclub)

"She gets into a rich kid school and immediately goes into debt. Constantly annoyed by rich kid problems (including but not limited to: buying them instant coffee instead of expensive ground coffee). She’s supportive but doesn’t let them walk all over her. The whole show revolves around everyone thinking she’s actually a boy just because she has short hair and wears the boys uniform instead of the girls one— and that’s relatable because i wouldn’t want to wear the girls uniform either it’s not great"

Shinji Ikari (Evangelion)

"THE LAST 2 EPISODES OF THE SERIES??? holy shit I've never actually related to some fictional character so much. his self image, attitude, emotions, decisions, relationships, etc; he's just. me. that's not even funny. also thank god this thing is anonymous i would've delete my blog outa shame"

#animorphs tobias #animorphs #isaac o'connor #paranatural #trisana chandler #emelan #sokka #avatar the last airbender #haruhi fujioka #ouran high school host club #shinji ikari #neon genesis evangelion #preliminaries #tumblr polls #tumblr tournament #character bracket #character tournament

[goodgrammaritan]

#tamora pierce #tortall #emelan

[franticvampirereads]

Another two for one book review! Being snowed/iced in has been good for one thing at least 😅

Daja’s Book:

This was such a good book! And I’m gonna be a broken record here but, it still holds up. It’s one of the best middle grade books that I’ve read. I loved getting more of Daja and seeing how she interacted with her fellow Traders. I loved the growth that she and the rest of the kids had. Both in their magic and in their relationships with their teachers and each other. I just really loved this! It’s getting four and a half stars.

Briar’s Book:

This was the book I was most worried about rereading in this series. Mostly because I thought it would be triggering given that it’s about a pandemic. But it wasn’t. Or at least it wasn’t for me. In fact it was almost comforting in a way? I appreciated Briar’s willingness to jump into caring for the sick, his helplessness and anger when things were out of his control, and his determination to find a cure. This is might be my favorite book in this series. Briar’s Book is getting five stars.

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

Alphabet challenge: D

Alphabet challenge: B

#booklr #circle of magic #emelan #briar moss #daja kisubo #book review #reading #books #read #book #bookish #bookworm #lgbtq+ books #queer books #ya fantasy #middle grade books #fantasy books