#Iron Widow

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

You want to know why Inigo Montoya remains such an iconic and beloved character even 35 years after the Princess Bride came out?

It's because he's one of the few characters in fiction who has a story where he has dedicated his life to revenge, his whole motivation is about getting revenge....and he gets it! and then he isn't empty or despairing! he doesn't regret it! he's totally satisfied!

because so many stories about revenge or rage are about characters "seeing the futility of their actions" or learning "their desire for revenge has only made them the monsters they hated" FUCK THAT.

Inigo Montoya kills the man who kills his father, is allowed to live in the narrative after and be happy about it and it is so satisfying. it's fantastic. it's iconic.

let more characters rage against the world, bring it down with bloodied hands, and let them be FUCKING RIGHT about it. Let them celebrate their success with sharp grins, and let them live happy, full lives where they always remain proud/fulfilled for what they've done

#inigo montoya #my name is inigo montoya you killed my father prepare to die #stories #the princess bride #fiction #writing #william goldman #revenge #rage #revenge in writing #rage in writing #wrath #its rare a few other examples of this #iron widow #sort of #the devil judge #i cant think of any others #six of crows #crooked kingdom #kaz inej genya all get revenge #1 k #2 k #5k #10k #20k #30k #40k #50k #60k

[lamaery]

soooo, on a vacation trip a week ago, I stumbled over @xiranjayzhao's Iron Widow in a book shop in Copenhagen and devoured it last weekend. It was quite the fun read. (And I am not that inclined to mechs 😄 but the rage filled female power fantasy and the setting felt rather refreshing to me) And after finishing the book I had to get at least some art out of my system. As usual it didn't end up what I really intended it to be in my head initially, but also, as usual it has to suffice for now or I'll never post it.

#iron widow #character art #always the next step #I gotta go and do more practice... #but also #triangles are the most stable form #:D #thank you for that Xiran #spoiler #iron widow spoilers

[high-quality-tiktoks]

🤷‍♂️publishing can’t ask us to write bestsellers for them on no money

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #story time #wtf #publishing #book #books #writer #writers #author #authors #iron widow #heavenly tyrant #zachary ying and the dragon emperor #xiran jay zhao #xiranjayzhao

[kajaono]

The German edition from Iron Widow printing Zhaos cow picture extra large on the inner cover 😂

#xiran jay zhao #Iron widow

[the-demi-jedi]

If I had a dime for every ultra-badass, powerful, genderqueer Asian (anti)heroine who is on a path of vengeance against men who wronged her and who fights using an extraordinary weapon made of exaterrestrial material, I'd have two dimes, which isn't a lot but it's awesome it happened twice.

#iron widow #blue eye samurai #wu zetian #mizu blue eye samurai

[mendingbone]

River— ᴀᴇsᴄʜʏʟᴜs, ᴛʜᴇ ᴏʀᴇsᴛᴇɪᴀ//@ɢᴏᴏsᴇᴋɪᴅ ᴘᴏsᴛ//ɴɪᴋᴏʟᴀʏ ᴅʏʙᴏᴡsᴋɪ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅʀᴀ ɢᴏʟᴜʙᴇᴠᴀ, ᴘᴀᴛʜᴏʟᴏɢɪᴄ 𝟸: ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀʀʙʟᴇ ɴᴇsᴛ//ᴡɪᴋɪᴘᴇᴅɪᴀ, ᴘʀᴏᴘʜᴇᴛɪᴄ ᴘᴇʀғᴇᴄᴛ ᴛᴇɴsᴇ//ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ sɪᴋᴇɴ, ᴘʟᴀɴᴇᴛ ᴏғ ʟᴏᴠᴇ//ᴄᴏɴᴏʀ ᴏʙᴇʀsᴛ, sᴀʟᴜᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴs//ғʟᴏʀᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴡᴇʟᴄʜ, ɪ’ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴄᴀʟʟɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀ ʟɪᴀʀ//ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇs ʙᴜᴋᴏᴡsᴋɪ, ʀᴀᴡ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ//ᴀᴍʏ ᴡᴏʟʟᴀʀᴅ, ʟᴀᴜʀᴀ ᴘᴀʟᴍᴇʀ ɢʀᴀᴅᴜᴀᴛᴇs//ᴅᴀᴠᴇ ᴍᴀʟʟᴏʏ, ᴛᴀɴɢᴏ ᴅᴀɴᴄᴇʀ.

#TO HAUNT AND TO BE HAUNTED…… #it was always going to be this way etc etc #original fiction #web weaving #horror #time is a flat circle #doomed by the narrative #the stanley parable #circular narratives #in terms of similar vibes and inspirations….. #macbeth #the haunting of hill house #gone girl #better call saul #yellowjackets #sharp objects #jennifer’s body #the locked tomb #iron widow #lucy gray baird #mabel podcast #killing eve #preachers daughter #twin peaks

[throuple-tournament]

Li Shimin/Wu Zetian/Gao Yizhi created by @xiranjayzhao.

Nathan/Vlad/Ursula created by @thebibliosphere.

Description provided by @mochithewondercat.

Description provided by @powerpolyculeshowdown 's submissions.

#throuple #tournament #polls #hunger pangs: true love bites #joy demorra #captain nathaniel j northland #captain nathan #captain nathaniel northland #nathan j northland #nathaniel j northland #viscount vlad blutstein #vlad blutstein #lady ursula #iron widow #xiran jay zhao #wu zetian #li shimin #gao yizhi

[promises-of-paradise]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT:

All of these edgy science fiction / fantasy novels about overthrowing evil empires and then becoming the very thing that you sought to destroy and the main character ending up as bad as the regime they overthrew and all that, you know?

You could very easily make a dramatised version of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, transplant it into generic fantasy evil empire world, change the names of the historical figures to fictional names, and all the tumblrinas would eat that up.

Picture this: Napoleon Our protagonist is born the second child in a large family on Corsica generic fantasy island, is sent to a military academy in France evil empire, and begins to rise through the ranks of the army. A revolution occurs, in which the French evil empire monarchy is overthrown, and our protagonist, a supporter of the revolution, fights for the revolutionary government against royalist uprisings and the first coalition other evil empires. Along the way, our protagonist becomes increasingly powerful, as well as being an absolute slut. After a series of military campaigns, our protagonist, seeing the corruption of the directory new evil government, stages a coup and becomes first consul generic fantasy leader. However, over the course of the book, our protagonist has acquired a huge ego and lost many morals, and ends up themself the emperor of France fantasy kingdom. "Morally grey" shenanigans ensue. (Of course, our protagonist would have many many love interests, such as Josephine de Beauharnais hot milf, Jean-Andoche Junot hot best friend, and Tsar Alexander I enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies-again.) (Main character would be characterised as being the most pathetic little person to ever exist who is frequently bullied for being quirky and not-like-other-girls)

#THIS POST IS 100% SILLY OKAY PLEASE DON'T TAKE ANYTHING I SAY SERIOUSLY #history #napoleon #napoleonic #napoleonic era #napoleon bonaparte #books #bookblr #fantasy #fantasy books #fantasy writing #writing #writeblr #literature #locked tomb #iron widow #baru cormorant #i'm sorry for this

[natalieironside]

decided to re-read Iron Widow

#iron widow #natalie reads

[thebisexualwreckoning]

i think the funniest story i have about my adhd memory is that once right after the mulan life action was released id gone on youtube to find out what actual Chinese people were saying about it and I found this one video on every single cultural inaccuracy in the movie and at the end of it they advertised their book and I was like that sounds interesting and ill read when it comes out and 3 years later I find the book through completely unrelated means and immediately flash back to when xiran made a whole ass youtube channel because they hated the movie so much and wanted to drag it through the dirt. and I knew. i knew I had to read that book simply for the level of pettiness that they displayed that day. so I got an ebook and now 6 months from that incident later I'm finally buying my physical copy.

So at least the fucking live action mulan movie did something right.

Ps: go read Iron widow by Xiran jay zhao for queer people being angry and taking down the government!

#iron widow #xiran jay zhao

[lamaery]

snake and poppies

One more for @xiranjayzhao's Iron Widow, because when I read the descriptions of Yizhi's tattoos I knew I had to draw it. (I think there were other flowers mentioned, but my copy is back home so I couldn't look it up). I am rather happy with this turned out. :)

#iron widow #iron widow spoilers #gao yizhi #character art #art exercise #procreate #undescribed

[high-quality-tiktoks]

The screenwriters are my comrades and I fully understand how they feel🫡

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #book #books #movie #movies #film #films #strike #strikes #writers guild of america #iron widow #xiran jay zhao #xiranjayzhao

[kajaono]

„Don’t get invested in a love triangle, Zetian“

Zetian: „don’t you know basic physics? A triangle is the most stabile shape“

Zetian: *keeps on bringing up that argument and dates two boys*

Xiran Jay Zhao really looked at this 👇 and said: hold my beer, I am gonna reference that in my book“

#xiran jay zhao #love triangle #Iron widow #ot3 #holla kaja is live blogging books again

[drawitblargit]

"Welcome to your nightmare!"

Finished reading @xiranjayzhaos book Iron Widow recently and can't say enough good things about it. Thought I'd try making a cover for it.

#iron widow #wu zetian #book cover #illustration #xiran jay zhao

[via-rant]

As excited as I am for the PJO show I am going to ALWAYS beg people to pirate it!! Every single time!! I love the series just as much as anyone but I'm not gonna pay for these piles of shits!! Yes I'm also talking about Rick!! Him being "Neutral" about the Palestine Genocide is absolutely disgusting!! The idea that people don't care that innocent lives, including infants, are dying day by day is honestly concerning for them!

That being said there are many other authors who do support Palestine 100%!!!

. Andrew Joseph White - Author of "Hell Followed With Us" + "The Spirit Bares Its Teeth"

. Xiran Jay Zhao - Author of "Iron Widow"

. Aiden Thomas - Author of "The Sunbearer Trials" + "Cemetery Boys" + "Lost In The Never Woods"

All books are very Queer and POC also so you'll be supporting those communities as well!!

Please please please feel free to add any authors you can think of that support Palestine!! FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸!!!

#free palestine #palestine #free gaza #gaza #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #hoo #heros of olympus #rick riordan #andrew joseph white #the spirit bares its teeth #hell followed with us #xiran jay zhao #iron widow #aiden thomas #the sunbearer trials #cemetery boys #queer #lgbtq+ #poc characters #poc #people of color

[mendingbone]

i keep seeing people in their late teens/early twenties having a "[X] content intended for younger audiences does not feel satisfying to me anymore but i don't know where to start to branch out into adult fiction" moment and i thought i would give some recommendations for adult fiction for my fellow creepy crawly queer people. all or at least a LOT of it will be on the darker and more fucked up side bc i primarily engage with horror and thriller media personally but feel free to add on with more or recommendations from other genres :)

edit: i am continuing to add to this list so there might be new recs (highlighted in pink) in here every once in a while! also want to add that there's a variety of POC, queer, and disabled authors in here as well, i am also all of the above (asian, bi/aro, poly, disabled) and tried to incorporate as many of their wickedly talented, compelling narratives as possible. that's all, happy reading!

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E Schwab*

A Dowry of Blood, S.G Gibson

Animal, Lisa Taddeo*

A Ripple of Power and Promise, Jordan A. Day*

Bunny, Mona Awad*

Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi*

Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh*

Dark Places, Gillian Flynn

Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry, Alex Ritany*

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk*

Eileen, Ottessa Moshfegh*

Fruiting Bodies, Kathryn Harlan*

Goddess of Filth, V. Castro*

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha*

Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao

Jackal, Erin E. Adams*

Juniper and Thorn, Ava Reid*

Kindred, Octavia Butler*

Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin*

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee*

Rabbits, Terry Miles*

Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy*

Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

She is a Haunting, Trang Thahn Tran

Slewfoot, Brom*

Sorrowland, Rivers Soloman

Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo

Supper Club, Lara Williams*

The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi*

The Change, Kirsten Miller

The Death of Jane Lawrence, Caitlin Starling*

The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher*

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter, Soraya Palmer*

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

The Locked Tomb, Tamsyn Muir

The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling*

The Red Tree, Caitlin Kiernan*

The Unfamiliar Garden, Benjamin Percy*

Vicious, V. E Shwab

Wake, Siren, Nina MacLaughlin*

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson

What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher*

#the * means i have not read it myself but have heard good things and/or have it on my to read list!! #wanted to add little blurbs on each book but i am disabled and exhausted and truly don't have the energy for anything other than listing #please do ur own research for content warnings etc! be safe. enjoy <33 #adult fiction #adult horror #horror #reference #queer lit #queer adult lit #horror fiction #thriller fiction #book recs #horror media #book list #book recommendations #iron widow #xiran jay zhao #the locked tomb #tlt #tamsyn muir #the dreamer trilogy #tdt #maggie stiefvater #gillian flynn #gone girl #sharp objects #house of leaves #shirley jackson #haunting of hill house #v. e. schwab