#Obernewtyn Chronicles

[oatflatwhite]

anyway if i was smart i would write an entire essay about the links and comparisons between the obernewtyn chronicles and horizon zero dawn/forbidden west but for now i’ll just say:

“strong” female protag who is raised as an outcast from her own people who has powers/abilities others don’t/are afraid of

post-apocalyptic setting with remnants left behind of a cataclysm that destroyed the world

STRONG focus on environmentalism, anti-human hubris 

beloved cast of characters to support protag and provide her with key learning moments as well as the family she never had growing up

protag needs to learn how to deal with complex computer programs and machinery from the past that people in the new world fear/don’t know how to use in order to save the world from a second even greater cataclysmic event

ANYWAY READ THE OBERNEWTYN CHRONICLES BY ISOBELLE CARMODY I’M ON MY HANDS AND KNEES OUT HERE

#liz.txt #obernewtyn #obernewtyn chronicles #horizon zero dawn #hzd #literally head in hands meme

[br-amblinghostcat]

""Why do you plague me?" he whispered, as if I were a dream or a wraith."

-Obernewtyn, The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody

#underrated quotes #obernewtyn #obernewtyn chronicles #isobelle carmody #a short one but it resonates with me lately

[author-a-holmes]

Fantasy Indies April

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Stumbled over a prompt list for Fantasy Indies on Instagram, so I thought it'd be fun to take part in the list of April's prompts and questions...

April 3rd - Fantasy Indies April

What Books Have Inspired your Writing?

So many. Too many!!

Specifically for The Fey Touched Trilogy, I could name a handful...

The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer; Missing parents and faeries.

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Meade; Vampires, schools, And evil subspecies of vampire.

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis; Found family, portal fantasy, and multiple realms and societies.

But in general terms? Every book I’ve ever picked up and read has added to my repertoir and inspired my writing. Even books I may not have liked have taught me something. Maybe it was what not to do, but I still learned from them.

So many books have inspired me to write. Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobel Carmody, Crystal Singers series by Anne McCaffrey. The Abhorsen Books by Garth Nix. There’s no way I can list them all.

(Promptlist for the rest of April can be found beneath the ReadMore)

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[guiltyonsundays]

it’s actually so sick and twisted that the Obernewtyn fandom is dead and buried and that there’s no Elspeth x Rushton fanfiction on AO3

#DO YOU GUYS EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT ITS BEEN LIKE FOR ME #I HAVE BEEN OBSESSED WITHTHESE BOOKS FOR LIKE 15 YEARS #NOT A SCRAP OF FANDOM SOLIDARITY #how am I supposed to cope with the unbearable tension between Elspeth and Rushton in every scene #literally all they do is stare at each other longingly and trade tense barbed remarks and pretend they don’t care and yearn #OBERNEWTYN #the Obernewtyn chronicles #elspeth gordie #Rushton seraphim #Elspeth x Rushton

[emcscared-whumps]

7 for the ask game!

From this post!

Ty for the ask ^-^

7 - What books have shaped the way you think about writing the most? Why?

Hmmm... the way I think about my writing...

Well, the first series of novels that I read, which weren't specifically targeted at kid kids, was 'Warriors' by Erin Hunter. I was about 11 at the time, and that shaped my writing style, because I learnt to write by example. I proceeded to ace all of the writing related assignments at school in English class ^-^'

Monkey see, monkey do.

In terms of the way I think of my writing, well, I only ever worry about how my prose is because I'm fairly sure my grip on combat and action scenes is already pretty decent.

At the moment, I'm reading 'The Obernewtyn Chronicles' by Isobelle Carmody, and I have been since 2015 >.>

It's looooong reading, (I'm partway through 'The Sending'), with lots of prose, it's good, but sometimes it gets a bit slow, so I can either read half a book in a day, or half a chapter in 3 months lol

((People with mental abilities try to make themselves a place in a healing world full of hostile beliefs))

But that's the main book I'm consciously learning prose from, and also how to incorporate in-character knowledge of their world and circumstances.

It will be very fun and informative to see where I stand when I write more different parts of Shifting Phases :)

Generally though, aside from assessing the quality, I don't tend to think about my writing, I daydream the tastiest scenes, the blorbos, and AUs ^-^'

And then I go and enjoy the bits I have already written lmaooo

Because above everything else, I write for me :3c

#emc answers asks #ask game #ask #answered ask #Warriors by Erin Hunter #The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody #Shifting Phases

[ellynneversweet]

I’m packing up some old books and trying to decide what to do with the Obernewtyn Chronicles, because they went off the rails so hard and disappointed me so bad at the end, and now I’m remembering a partially-plotted fic I had in which Jes turned out to be the big bad rather than, y’know, dead halfway through book one.

(It could have been so good. He was going to go full-bore religious coup in favour of psychic powers being a good thing in post-apocalyptia land, while people without psychic powers were cattle, basically. Do everything Elspeth disregards as ‘fucking creepy even by the standards of me and my psychic buddies’ or ‘horrifyingly unethical’ and do it in the full conviction that he’s god’s chosen prophet of nuclear doom mk 2.)

#idk if I have it on file anywhere anymore #maybe? #but I’d have to reread the books and idk that I’m ready for that kind of heartbreak #and also who has the time? #musings

[best-childhood-book]

The isle of the lost AND Auradon from Descendants by Melissa de la Cruz.

Elster from the book of lies by James Moloney.

Obernewtyn from the Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody

The world of The Power of Three by Diana Wynne Jones

Added all of these :) let me know if you'd like to specify a place within The Power of Three

#ask #submission #descendants #the book of lies #obernewtyn #the power of three

[mercy-misrule]

Folks, I love me a niche focus poll, and I look forward to the responses from all three of you that this is relevant too

#the trick here is that all of these got me apart from tomorrow which is my enemy

[justanotherreadingblog]

14. Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles #1) by Isobelle Carmody

Hello! I know it’s been a while. I am quite behind on my reading goals for the last couple months, what with the whole global pandemic situation. My comfort reading tends to be fanfiction so I haven’t been reading books as much. This is the first book I’ve finished since it started.

Anyway enough about that. This is a re-read actually. The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a series I started in my teens but kept getting stuck on book four and then leaving it long enough that I had to re-read from the beginning and then the cycle continued etc. The last book came out a few years ago so I’m hoping I can get through the series this time round.

The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a post-apocalypse sci-fi/fantasy series set a few generations after an event called The Great White seems to have wiped out much of the population and made large swathes of land uninhabitable. Our protagonist is an orphan girl called Elspeth Gordie who is a Misfit. These are people with special abilities thought to be an effect of the Great White. Although I haven’t finished it I love this series and the spirals it sends me down trying to match up things the characters find from ‘the Beforetime’ (ie. our time pre-apocalypse) that they don’t understand and have no reference for with what they actually are.

#Obernewtyn #Obernewtyn Chronicles #Isobelle Carmody #Australian Authors #Australian Fantasy Fiction #Post-apocalyptic Fantasy #2020 Reading #justanotherreadingblog #Completed #Fiction

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

“It struck me suddenly that rather than spending my time worrying about my destined quest, I should simply live and trust in the fates to bring me where I was needed.”   - Ashling, Isobelle Carmody

The Obernewtyn Chronicles is easily the most intimidating series on my shelves with all but the first two novels being over 500 pages long but I think with the help of some ebooks, I’m gonna give this series another shot over my summer break :)

#obernewtyn chronicles #isobelle carmody #ashling #quotes #loveozya #flowers #portraits #trcc original

[cleo-queen-of-pirates]

"Does not love sometimes strike from the clear sky like a bolt of lightning, unheralded and utterly unexpected?"

The Red Queen, Isobelle Carmody.

#books #reading #bookish #queue at the plank #currently reading #isobelle carmody #obernewtyn #obernewtyn series #the obernewtyn chronicles #obernewtyn chronicles #quotes #love quotes #love #in love #unexpected love #unexpected

[oatflatwhite]

top 9 books

tagged by my fellow natasha pulley stan @renecdote <333

all quiet on the western front / erich maria remarque

the kingdoms / natasha pulley (+ like ren all of her stuff!!!)

jane eyre / charlotte bronte

the charioteer / mary renault

wild / cheryl strayed

the obernewtyn chronicles / isobelle carmody

all for the game / nora sakavic (i know... don't judge me)

a marvellous light / freya marske

henry hamlet's heart / rhiannon wilde

tagging @buckactuallys @leothil @hattalove @clusterbuck @thatbuddie @capseycartwright @dearestdiaz @pegasusdrawnchariots and @mellaithwen <333

#tagged #liz.txt #this was v difficult but i'm happy #honourable shoutout to little women also

[br-amblinghostcat]

"True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather," Dameon said softly, gravely, and all of us looked at him then, into his gentle, serious face, his grave blind eyes that saw more than any seeing eyes ever saw of matters of the heart and spirit. [...] "Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. HOW you absorb them makes you what you are, for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm."

-The Red Queen, The Obernewtyn Chronicles, by Isobelle Carmody

#underrated quotes #obernewtyn chronicles #obernewtyn #the red queen #this one has always resonated with me #sorrow is such a recurring theme in this series from unrequited love to loss of love to loss of values to loss of family #and of course the central quest of the series being centered around preventing future loss of the world

[zalia]

Ah damn just getting nostalgic today for my first proper fandom. The Obernewtyn Chronicles. I need to go back and reread them so I can finally read the last book that I got imported from Australia when it came out. I have not done well with reading for the past... god, not since my MA, and there’s so many books.

I kind of worry I won’t enjoy it as much as I should though? I mean, this is a series I started reading when I was 12, and I’m 36 now. That’s 2/3 of my life that these books have existed in. I think the only other book that’s been an important part of my life for longer is Lord of the Rings. 

I skimmed a bit of The Stone Key yesterday and had feelings over Domick (and oh boy, if I just got into it now there would be fanfic written because him and Ariel is exactly the kind of fucked up I enjoy in fiction). And I do want to find out how things end. Haven’t even skimmed the final page of the last book. Obernewtyn was the first online community I was really part of, back in the old days of Obernewtyn.net and Carmody-Online. My first real fandom back when I was a teen. And I owe a lot to it. 

And I should really see the journey I started through to the end.

#obernewtyn #the obernewtyn chronicles #isobelle carmody

[childotkw]

Have you ever read The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody? I feel like you would really enjoy the series

Post apocolyptic, dangerous religious cult, powerful heroine, mental powers, and a prophecy with two main focal points - one for destruction and the other to save it

Can't say I have, but the book covers look very familiar, so I've probably seen them in bookstores before. Sounds like a cool series!

#erikablair #book recs #the obernewtyn chronicles

[intangibel]

”These fools think everyone who doesn't think or act as they do is evil.”

- Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody

#fantasy is often so on point it hurts #quotes to remember #Obernewtyn #Obernewytn Chronicles #Isobelle Carmody #post-apocalyptic fantasy fiction #bel finally reads fantasy again #not sh #Australian fiction #ya fiction #ya fantasy