You can always count on Charlie Jane Anders for a good read, and Promises Stronger Than Darkness, the third and final book in the Unstoppable YA series, doesn't disappoint. The space opera has come to a heart-pounding climax: can rogue princess Elza, artist and grudging leader Rachael, and Captain Thaoh—once Tina Mains—save the world from total annihilation as the Bereavement threatens to snuff out stars across the galaxy? Or will the terrifying villain (favorite all-time villains, he scares the shit out of me) Marrant and his fascist Compassion get to the Bereavement first, and use it to accomplish their genocidal ends?
I love this series. It's a book with a lot of space drama and trauma, but with a lot of queer joy. It's powerful to read a book where queerness is accepted and pronouns are automatic, because there's plenty of drama to go around, but none where that's concerned. I love Rachael's anxiety and the fact that she can still lead. I love the messages about being selfish where it matters, about protecting the ones we love, about finding ways around violence even in the most extreme of situations. The characters deal with trauma in realistic and painful ways. It's believable, rich, complex, fun, emotional, and cinematic, all at once. It's hard to let go of these characters and their accomplishments and their relationships, but I suppose I have to, at least for now.
If you haven't picked up this series yet, now is your chance to dive in all in one go, without having to deal with a long wait between books. Go do it! There's no better Pride Month read.
Content warnings for death, grief, trauma, body horror, anxiety/panic
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In my honest opinion, Cypher has the best unstoppable card.
I'm 100% biased.
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I would be so fucking happy to watch an adaptation of Victories Greater than Death! One of my favorite book series! I highly recommend it! It deserves the Star Trek treatment, all fanfic and fanart. Especially the fanart!
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Read PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS (Unstoppable #3) by Charlie Jane Anders if you love spaceships, teenagers saving the world, linguistics, body snatching, art, messy breakups, difficult decisions, having your heart broken, dragons, punching fascists, songs, origin stories & donuts.
(I was given an advance copy by the publisher; expected publication date is 4/11/23).
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imagine getting casted as an omega. the showrunners look at you and say yeah you look breedable enough
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RIP Tumblr you would have loved Psych 😭
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i think it's gonna be so funny if eventually somehow, ahsoka 'tired master' tano and sabine 'chaotic padawan' wren meets with din 'no clue' djarin and his little weird green force wielding baby din grogu
like their (somewhat) children are perfect venn diagrams; sabine as a mandalorian jedi padawan, and grogu as former padawan now mandalorian apprentice, and they're both force users (to a degree)
i think din would look at sabine, look at ahsoka, and would have so many questions
din: that is your apprentice?
ahsoka: that's mine
din: you refused to take grogu as your apprentice, but took this chaotic mandalorian instead? really?
ahsoka: it is what it is
*sabine parrying a strike with her vambraces before striking with a lightsaber and her blasters*
din, impressed: yeah okay, i see why now
ahsoka, proud: yep
bonus
ahsoka: what happened to the darksaber?
bo-katan: unfortunately, it was broken mid-duel
sabine: you wielded the darksaber again?
bo-katan: yeah, din won it from moff gideon
sabine: that's cool, for me i had to find and retrieve it from a nightsister witch cave
din: ...you found the darksaber? when?
sabine: when i was a rebel
ahsoka: she wielded it to fight the imperials
din: YOU WIELDED THE DARKSABER?
sabine: yeah, but i gave it to lady kryze after that
din, to bo-katan: THAT'S HOW YOU GOT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?
bo-katan: yes...?
din: *is now more confused than ever*
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Well thanks to the dynamics that Secret Life gave me... you know what teamup I DESPERATELY want to see next????
Pearl, Gem, and Scott.
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News reporter: two people have reportedly broken into a covenant base, single-handedly
John 117: what idiots
*live footage plays of Kai 125 and Perez Naruto running into the building*
John: Wait- those are mY IDIOTS
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It's not a competition anymore!
The last time Vegas & Porsche saw each other vs. This time
Vegas is now defending Kinn.
How the episode started vs. How it ended
They have to work together to help the ones they love. Vegas, Kinn, and Pete had their guns, yet nobody could shoot.
How Vegas & Kinn saw each other vs. How Pete & Porsche view them
I'm confident that Porsche AND Vegas are going to the main house next episode to help the men they love. Both are no longer on the minor/main family's side; they are on their love's sides.
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If there is a 5th life series, I want Gem to be in it and her to team up with Pearl.
Just imagine the power they would hold. Geminislay and 5am Scarlet Pearl.
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meta knightmare headcanon #2
"From the moment you granted it free will, you knew it was inevitable that it would spring into rebellion eventually."
"You're far more powerful. You could have stopped it as it began... but why didn't you?"
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redesigned this thang after 5 years my sanity is healing, followup from my last post bout it
a few notes about the design you may or may not find particularly interesting!
The stripe pattern on his wings was heavily inspired by something that scared me as a child . One day, I had seen an eerie pattern of black lines had formed on the sides of an old wooden dollhouse I used to have that were not there before . While drawing this, I thought of it, so I included it .
Let me cook here---the wings themselves are references to jaws of Venus flytrap plants, and they are functionally like them too, so he could eat someone with his wings O_O
When colored, the jewel on his mask is the same as the jewel on Nightmare's pendant
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all i know is they should be besties
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YO WHOS FUCKING KID IS THIS????
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when mobius, an unstoppable force, meets loki, an unloveable object.
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