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#a deadly education
dawn-the-rithmatist · 7 months
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A Deadly Education really said “stop asking who needs to pay the price of a broken system and start asking who’s going to help fix the broken system”
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hatepotion · 1 year
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so i read a deadly education
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krakenattack · 4 months
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Mild spoiler for The Last Graduate ahead, but:
Having just reread the whole series, I love how at odds El and the Scholomance are. Like, El's pessimism is a great way of making your narrator unreliable, since El is sometimes right and sometimes wrong always expecting the worst response from everyone around her(a thought worthy of another entire post), but it becomes very funny once she realizes that part of the problem at school is that she can't do small spells? Like, she spends the whole first book being like 'this school is the devil tempting me to evil, it wants me to become a maleficier, I can't even ask for a simple cleaning spell without getting horrible spells for summoning mortal flames and enslaving an army of people, I hate it', and meanwhile the Scholomance is flipping frantically through its catalogue of spells gathered over thousands of years, desperately trying to find a spell in a language El knows that she can also cast with her affinity for working incredibly large and powerful spells. El's over here driving a bulldozer and saying, 'I would like to build a Jenga tower' and the Scholomance is looking at her with the weary despair of a preschool teacher knowing they're going to be suffering through a temper tantrum soon but unable to stop it.
El, a furious teenager who doesn't know as much as she thinks she does: I don't wanna summon a mortal flame! I want my room clean!
The Scholomance, a giant building that cleans its own hallways, floors, dishes and various and assorted other workings with mortal flame: Why is this child testing me
Also hilarious in retrospect is El's blithe statement in the first book about how no one would ever give her that much mana to do these high volume spells bc mana isn't free or easy to acquire and so the school is clearly telling her to turn maleficier and kill her fellow students all while Orion is humming to himself as he kills mals and dumps oodles and oodles of mana into the New York power sharers.
El "I'd rather die than ask for help" Higgins: I won't do these spells bc no one will give me mana
The Scholomance, as loudly as a building who may or may not be partially sentient and who can't speak human languages: Wow, those sure are some HIGH MANA VOLUME spells you got there! If only there was SOMEONE around who would be able to provide you with a NIGH LIMITLESS FLOW OF MANA so that you'd be able to cast them!
Orion: :)
El: *hisses like a feral cat*
Orion: :(
The Scholomance: oh my freaking god
Hilarious. Top tier humor.
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readlikeido · 10 months
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dark spines
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nepttunnee · 4 months
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i just finished a deadly education and let me just say i adore el and orion. i love how they fall for each other but for the exact opposite reason of the way other ppl see them. el looks at loved for being a knightin shining armor who can do no wrong orion lake and goes. hes actually cringe and fail. i like that in a man. and orion lake looks at weapon of mass destruction knows multiple languages to roast you galadriel and goes shes actually kind of nice. she shares her food with me. i want to marry her i think. thinking abt them
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bleepabloopa · 9 months
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two lonely kiddos
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emily-e-draws · 4 months
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wip of the faves... at any given moment I am thinking about the scholomance trilogy
(preview from the latest batch of sketches going up on my patreon!)
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jadempress · 1 year
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Imagine you're in school, fall in love, and get pregnant. He comes from wealth, so you think you and your baby are going to live a nice cushy life with your new man. Then he gets mauled by a bear. He's eaten right in front of you. You grieve for him. You go to his family, hoping they'll take you in, but they're awful and they want to harm your baby. So you end up raising her alone. It's tough being a single mother, but you do your best to love and protect her. She grows up and goes to school. The school is known for its bear attacks, but what can you do? It's a good school, and you can only protect her so much. Eventually your baby has to fend for herself. You can't help but worry though. The cell service is terrible but you manage to reach her and warn her to stay away from bears. She seems happy though, and even tells you she's made friends. Finally she graduates, and you're so happy she's safe. She brings her boyfriend home to meet you. It's the bear that ate your boyfriend.
Anyway, that's what happened to Gwen Higgins of the schomance series.
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fullmetalfisting · 11 months
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ok I'm rereading the Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik and I'm at the part in the second book where Orion says, "Even my mom and dad, they always thought something was wrong with me....they always thought I was weird."
And I'm like. Can you imagine being a woman who gave herself a pseudo-abortion to create a child who was a ghastly, already-dead, always-hungry monster and then incubating him in your womb and raising him like a Normal Boy™ and then being like, "It's really weird that this nuclear weapon I made and impregnated myself with shows no interest in anything other than being a nuclear weapon. I should make him feel guilty about his lack of interest in this XBox I bought him."
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lostinhewe · 11 months
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She has such a way with words
*Orion’s hair gets fluffier*
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hmslusitania · 5 months
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JUST REALISED the conclusion of the last graduate is very intensely “alright gang to save this school we’re gonna have to put on the best talent show the Scholomance has ever seen”
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dinoari · 6 months
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every single time i read dark academia im in shock when a crime is committed. and this has happened to me like 4 times. clearly it's part of the genre but everytime im
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witchyamethyst · 5 months
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I love El so much because she's never nice and she never has to becone nice as a part of her character arc. Sarcasim isn't just a tacked on aspect to prove she's "not like other girls" it's core aspect of her that gives her a genuinely witty and entertaining voice that's fun to read.
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kaetor · 1 year
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You're already dead. But stay anyway
cried while reading the end of the golden enclaves so obviously I immediately got to drawing. everyone go read the scholomance series by naomi novik
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ivy915 · 7 months
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I love this fanart!!🤩🤩🤩
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Ladies and gents! Galadriel Higgins. I love her!! I am starting the third book- The golden enclaves!! I am really hoping Orion to be alive. I cried so hard when he died 🥺🥺🥺
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byooregard · 1 year
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the scholomance series is like what if the person destined to save the world fell in love with the person destined to destroy it what if the person who everyone thought was going to destroy the world was the one to save it and what if the person everyone thought would save the world was the one to destroy it what if tearing down the world was the way to save it and what if high school really fucking sucked
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