#NASSUN

[fantasiadelux]

#the fifth season #nk jemisin #science fiction #fantasy #scifi #broken earth trilogy #hugo awards #syenite #innon #the broken earth #the stone sky #the obelisk gate #damaya #essun #nassun #fanfic illustration #luxmeteora #luxnieve

[normal-draws]

Hoa, from the broken earth. You know when a character is introduced and something about their description just lands perfectly for you and you can see them crystal clear? Yeah. Hoa, from the broken earth. Genius books.

#fifth season #stone sky #obelisk gate #broken earth #sci-fi fanart #Hoa #Essen #nassun #nk jemisin #fifth season fanart #art by op #illustration #fanart

[now-that-i-saw-you]

"He will be Jija forever and never Daddy except out loud when Nassun needs reins to steer him" no no you don't understand HER CHILDHOOD IS GONE her daddy is a stranger! He only doesn't kill her for what she is because of who she is. If she didn't beg for his paternal instinct he would've killed her like he killed his son who wasn't big enough to understand what was happening.

#the obelisk gate #nassun

[genspiel]

"That was wrong," Schaffa says. His voice is so soft she can barely hear it. She turns to look at him in surprise. He is staring at the ground, and there is a strange look on his face. Not the usual wandering, confused look that he gets sometimes. This is something he actually remembers, and his expression is... guilty? Rueful. Sad. "It's wrong to hurt someone you love, Nassun."

#broken earth spoilers #tre reads #broken earth #the obelisk gate #quotes #schaffa guardian warrant #nassun #fuckin' wild that HE'S the one who verbalizes this #like. goddammit you rusting bastard this is technically your fault

[simonimonim]

Took a nap and dreamt up fancasting for a show based on The Broken Earth triology by N.K. Jemisin and here's what I came up with

Khleo Thomas as Hoa

Queen Latifah as Ykka

Madalen Mills as Nassun

Matthew Gray Gubler (my dream described him as rhat white boy from Criminal Minds y'all love) as Schaffa

Laverne Cox as Tonkee (I don't know many trans actresses, but I do know she would slay as an eccentric researcher a la Professor Von Drake)

Coco Jones as Syenite

Lupita N'Yongo as Essun (my brain original cast Whoopie Goldberg and I was like that hoe is 70 ain't nobody gonna believe she had a baby in the last 3 years)

Coleman Domingo as Jija

John Boyega as Lerna

Daniel Kaluuya as Alabaster (giving my brain huge sideeye with this one idk)

#the broken earth trilogy #books #reading #nk jemisin #the stone earth #schaffa #nassun #essun #syenite #alabaster #hoa #the shouting void #fancast #sleep

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

KJ Brandman/Mac Coyle- Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang

Ettian Nassun/Gal Ump Ember- Bonds of Brass/Bloodright Trilogy by Emily Skrutskie

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Tennal Halkana/Surit Yeni- Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

#KJ Brandman #Mac Coyle #Kajemac #Paper Girls #Brian K. Vaughan #Cliff Chiang #Ettian Nassun #Gal Ump Ember #Bonds of Brass #Bloodright Trilogy #Gettian #Emily Skrutskie #Gideon Nav #Harrowhark Nonagesimus #Griddlehark #tlt #Gideon the Ninth #Gideon the 9th #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #Tennal Halkana #Surit Yeni #Ocean's Echo #Everina Maxwell #polls #lgbt books #queer book ship tournament

[perksofbeingalittletwat]

#*I'm counting Nassun/Schaffa/Essun here it's a stretch I know #the broken earth #the locked tomb #steven universe #tlt spoilers #nk jemisin

[sparklestheunicorn]

Essun: *trying to find her daughter*

Me:

#ME! #esp come the end of the obelisk gate #the broken earth #i have adopted her. #also: do ya think she was actually adopted by tonkee and hjarka bc i could so see that happening. not in any real way but in a way that #nassun knows she will have a place to sleep at night if all else fails #the fifth season

[captn-lovelace]

well folks for the first time in my life i’ve started shipping something that doesn’t have *any* fics. i might have to be the change i want to see in the world

#it’s essun/ykka in the broken earth trilogy i genuinely thihhht they’d have a romantic moment the first time i read thru #it wouldn’t be particularly romantic but they have this whole thing going where essun and ykka promise to drink together #when they get out of danger #and essun learns so much from ykka in a parallel to what she learned from her previous love Innon #and then essun ends up in a coma and ykka never gets to share that drink with her #i mean come on that’s prime fic material i can see the summary now: #‘in a rare quiet moment essun and ykka finally share a drink. they discuss the future.’ #Ykka is creating a new world. Nassun is probably going to be with Ykka #I think it’s so poetic that ykka and essun would have a bond #it would be fun to explore what each of them thought about the world. it would give essun a chance to step into the alabaster role #ykka has so much more hope than essun and they both respect each other. let! them! kiss! once!

[jedaos]

#i am unwell #first damaya..... now nassun #broken earth trilogy #the obelisk gate #📚

[lottieurl]

the obelisk gate has me like

#im 200 pages in NO SPOILERS PLEASE AND THANK #the nassun chapters ouch ouch ouch

[now-that-i-saw-you]

"He will be Jija forever and never Daddy except out loud when Nassun needs reins to steer him" no no you don't understand HER CHILDHOOD IS GONE her daddy is a stranger! He only doesn't kill her for what she is because of who she is. If she didn't beg for his paternal instinct he would've killed her like he killed his son who wasn't big enough to understand what was happening.

#the obelisk gate #nassun

[genspiel]

"Do you fear me?" he asks.

For a moment the desire to lie rises within her. It will not please him, she thinks, for her to speak the truth. But she hurts too much, and she is too numb right now, for fear or duplicity or the desire to please. So she speaks the truth: "Yes."

"Good. You should. I'm not sorry for the pain I've caused you, little one, because you needed to learn the lesson of that pain."

(Obelisk Gate spoilers below.)

He remembers breaking Damaya's hand and flinches with it. Why would he do such a thing? Why did he do any of the horrible things he did, in those days? [...]

He finally blurts, "Nassun. Are you afraid of me?"

She blinks, barely lucid - and then she smiles. It untwists something within him. "Never." [...]

"Never again," he whispers, and twitches with the memory of that, too. Then the feeling changes and his resolve refocuses. What happened before does not matter. That was a different Schaffa. He has another chance now. And if being less than himself means being less than the monster that he was, he cannot regret it.

#broken earth spoilers #tre reads #broken earth #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #nk jemisin #quotes #damaya #schaffa guardian warrant #nassun #.......and then he goes and abandons the other found moon orogenes on the road </3

[werewolfpdfs]

still thinking abt when lou was talking about pinocchio’s character and said “it’s like every time i fail or have a misstep i suffer the ultimate consequences, and that doesn’t happen to other kids….and i want to know why. what was the goal? why did i have to suffer?”

#unironically i think this was the most emotionally impactful thing anyone said in the entire season #im having a lot of thoughts about the fifth season and specifically children at the fulcrum+nassun etc etc in this context #‘women are either princesses or monsters’ also hit me like a truck #i literwlly didn’t like this season lmfao but they’re still so talented…..i just cannot believe someone heard this quote and thought #ah yes like gifted kids :) hello?? #neverafter radicalism

[pinknoisemp3]

put in a reservation for the third broken earth book. ready to get hurt again <3

#revolving essun in my mind. revolving hoa in my mind. revolving nassun in my mind. #gi reads the broken earth trilogy

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Zurah Saint Joseph- The Tarot Sequence by KD Edwards

Ettian Nassun- Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie

Zhao Yunlan- Guardian / Zhen Hun by Priest

Blue- This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

#Zurah Saint Joseph #Lady Death #The Tarot Sequence #the last sun #tls #the hanged man #thm #the hourglass throne #tht #KD Edwards #Ettian Nassun #Bonds of Brass #Emily Skrutskie #Zhao Yunlan #Guardian #Zhen Hun #Priest #Blue #This is How You Lose the Time War #TIHYLTTW #Max Gladstone #Amal El-Mohtar #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2