#a madness of angels

[loiterer87]

Remember when I said that Kate Griffin's A Madness Of Angels had some great visuals in it and I drew Matthew Swift hiding from the Litterbug? Yeah, I decided to try another...

Here's Matthew facing off against the dragon made of bits of the City of London. I included some concrete to break up the metal bits, but tried to stick to the description best I could. Think it turned out alright...

#art #drawing #a madness of angels #matthew swift #kate griffin #urban fantasy #blue electric angels

[best-birdnamed-blorbo-bracket]

Matthew was submitted without propaganda.

Jemima:

When you start to think about it, she's just an incredibly sad story. Also love every scene she's in.

(edited to add: sorry, I forgot to put it right away: Jemima comes from hebrew and means dove)

#best bird blorbo bracket #tournament poll #a madness of angels #bbc ghosts

[demondarakna]

“We are me. And I am us.” - Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels

#kate griffin #a madness of angels #matthew swift #quote #book quote #making quotes pretty

[essegigi]

I’ve been playing around in Hero Forge while catching up on CR and oops, made Matthew and Oda from the Matthew Swift books (aka some of my favorite books that like, 5 people here have heard of).

Blackout under the cut (tw mild eye horror)

Played a bit more with posing and lighting, but you can’t really make it darker other than the “dark magic” option.

(ah shoot, yeah her hair should be different but listen. I forgot.)

#matthew swift #hero forge #a madness of angels #the neon court #kate griffin #blue electric angels #oda ajaja #anyways in case you were wondering matthew is like my blorbo to end all blorbos #...honestly kinda surprising it's taken me this long to make a mini of him #just realized i forgot his gloves blahhh

[occasional-owl]

#reading polls #vita nostra #early riser #jasper fforde #inkheart #cornelia funke #matthew swift #a madness of angels #kate Griffin #claire north

[dude1818]

Just finished The Glass God, the final book in the Madness of Angels/Magicals Anonymous series. The two MA books were definitely the low point of the series, not even close to the four MOA books. The cast of characters in these starts out as ditzy subversions of fantasy monsters (the hypochondriac vampire, the gourmet troll), but the joke drags on far too long. They are not just not-genre-savvy, but boneheadedly not-situationally-aware. I know that you have anxiety about being polite, but it’s simply no longer enjoyable the third time someone is being chased by werewolves with guns or whatever and they pause to ask if they’re allowed to enter a door without knocking

The only new characters I really liked were the banshee and the necromancer. They also spent time talking about their petty problems, but they at least stepped up when situations went south. It’s funny when the undead necromancer bemoans how the youth don’t respect him anymore and the council denied his pension, but then pulls out dope wizard magic in a fight. It’s just stupid when the vampire worries about blood types and airborne particulates, and then does piss-all to progress the narrative

I also strongly disliked the “will they won’t they” thing the new main character, Sharon, and her assistant had going on. Nothing happened in the first book so I just rolled my eyes and didn’t care too much, but they really played it up this book and it sucked to read

All that said, the magic was still incredible. This is the best description of urban magic I’ve ever read (even if the sorcery in the MOA books is a bit more clever with it than the more passive shamanism that drives the MA books). Even the new “small gods” introduced in the MA books are incredibly well integrated with the magic of modern cities, and those are the main reasons I enjoyed this city

I will say there were two deaths in this last novel that took me by surprise, and I only expected there to be one death like that. Griffin is good about writing characters who care about trying to save everyone but acknowledging that violence is inherently destructive, and having supporting characters who are willing to call the protagonist out for killing a bunch of nameless mooks and then sparing the main villain “because they’re better than them.” That’s why Kelly being the one to pull the trigger in book 2 was so shocking but narratively satisfying, or how Sharon dealt with Old Man Bone in this book on a way that’s technically a failure on her initial goal and isn’t how most books would end, but is the only believable way for it to go 

#even if it was exasperating i still enjoyed these books #a madness of angels #magicals anonymous #kate griffin #fantasy books #book review

[lgbtlunaverse]

"Marcille hates all of Laios' freak traits but loves them in Falin" is honestly a really good joke but... you guys do know it's a joke right?

It's such a funny one I honestly find it impossible to get mad at even when people mistake it for an actual truth about the characters but JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR

THIS is how marcille reacts when Falin is predictably just as enthusiastic about eating monsters as her brother was.

That is not the face of a woman who thinks this trait is lovely and endearing as long as it's exhibited by the girl she loves. That is the face of a woman who is taking 7d8 psychic damage and yet knows deep in her heart she won't like Falin any less for it.

The way young Marcille reacts to Falin eating berries Marcille can't recognize but Falin knows are safe is pretty similar to how she reacts to eating monsters years later, albeit with more fear than disgust. The difference in her relationships with Laios and Falin isn't just that she's attracted to Falin, it's because the Touden siblings, while similar, are in fact different people. Not just genderswaps of each other.

Also, I think you all already know this, but just to say it: she doesn't actually hate Laios for any of his freak tendencies either. He's one of her best friends. She's just a lot quicker to be outwardly exasperated with him while she's quieter about it with Falin.

#dungeon meshi #falin touden #laios touden #marcille donato #dungeon meshi meta #again I cannot be mad at fanon jokes when they're actually funny #and also marcille absolutely DOES have different standards for the touden siblings #i'd argue the way she more easily argue with laios than falin is a) because falin is better at EXPLAINING her autistic swag #so after the initial freakout marcille can calm down. laios does NOT know how to do this #and b) because she DOES idealize falin. And so she takes this stuff in a 'well not even my beautiful angel darling can be perfect' way #though in the end their autistic swag is also a big part of what she appreciates in both of them #in different ways as i said but the oddities are part of why she's close with both of them!! that doesn't change the exasperation though!

[coldcoffee18]

Summertime madness

#girlblogging #girl interrupted #girlblogger #cool girl #coquette #coquette girl #girl blogger #girl interrupted syndrome #black swan #coquette angel #lana del rey #summertime sadness #summertime madness #lana del ray moodboard #alanabc #alana champion

[apollos-polls]

#my polls #random polls #tumblr polls #poll time #poll game #polls #gaming poll #rpg horror #rpg maker #rpg maker horror #rpg maker game #ib game #ib kouri #the witch's house #mad father #yume nikki #misao #ao oni #off (game) #corpse party #angels of death #angels of slaughter #the crooked man #the forest of drizzling rain

[somewhere-in-wales]

I feel like as a fandom we talk a lot about Crowley trusting Aziraphale to borrow the Bentley, but we don't talk enough about Aziraphale trusting Crowley to look after the bookshop. This is the angel who will only sell a book when faced with no other alternative, whose bookshop is a collection of his favourite things accumulated over lifetimes, and he waits until he's in Edinburgh to ask Crowley not to sell any books. That's some big trust there.

But of course he hasn't. Not one. It's possible one or two have got a little damaged in the 're-organising,' but hey, what's a demonic husband to do?

#good omens #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable idiots #that's an angel with mad trust for his demon

[loiterer87]

Recently I started rereading Kate Griffin (sometimes known as Claire North or Catherine Webb)'s Matthew Swift series. Basically a big ol' blockbuster Urban Fantasy series of books about resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift and the troubles he usually finds himself in the centre of. Here he is hiding from a Litterbug from the first book! May do more, I really dug the series and there are some great potential for other visuals in the books.

#art #drawing #books #fanart #matthew swift #a madness of angels #urban fantasy #blue electric angels

[magpiefrankie]

8 years!! Holy shit!!

It's the yearly redraw! Had fun with this one :3

alternate versions under the cut

#magpies art tag #undertale #chara dreemurr #chara #frisk #frisk undertale #undertale 8th anniversary #Undertale fanart #can't believe it's been 8 years....that's mad #my kids #angel from the surface #determination

[demondarakna]

“We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free! We be blue electric angels.” ― Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels

#book quote #quote #kate griffin #matthew swift #a madness of angels

[limeykaa]

I know the second Crowley will think Aziraphale is in trouble, he'll break into Heaven and get his husband back (and Muriel will help).

#they found Aziraphale unconscious of course #good omens #good omens art #good omens fanart #aziraphale #aziracrow #crowley #drawtober #ineffable husbands #ineffable plan #ineffable idiots #muriel #heavenly heist #rescue #Crowley cannot stay mad at Aziraphale #Crowley and Muriel are a team #Angel Crowley

[occasional-owl]

#red side story #jasper fforde #luck in the shadows #lynn flewelling #vita nostra #marina dyachenko #segey dyachenko #a madness of angels #kate griffin #polls #my polls

[dude1818]

This weekend I read The Neon Court, third book in the Madness of Angels series. I’ve been on a kick reading the whole series, and while I’ve read the first two books before, this is the first time reading the rest of the series.

Neon Court wasn’t as strong as the first two books, but it was still pretty good. It captured the important elements: the descriptions that go on and on that get across the sense of the sensory weight of the city without feeling like they overstay their welcome, and the magic system that is just the life of the city turned to 11. The downside is that this book seemed to focus more on the political drama between the Court, the Tribe, and the Aldermen, and less on the city itself. It seemed like the individual factions were introduced one at a time similar to in the first book, but for some reason the vibe was different: in A Madness of Angels, the factions were coming to visit for a chapter, but here they were moving in.

There are a few patterns I’ve noticed now that I have three data point. A neutral one is that the author likes seeding a catchphrase for the BBEG, a la Doctor Who’s “Bad Wolf.” In the first two books it fit naturally, but it felt a bit unnecessary this time. There were more than enough other signs of the spell falling over the city and Matthew (the MC) caught on way too quickly.

The worse pattern is that while there are numerous female secondary characters, they don’t seem to survive more than a book or two. Matthew’s current apprentice (introduced book 2) might make it to the final book, but I certainly wasn’t expecting both his rival (introduced book 1) and his lieutenant (introduced book 2) to get killed off this early.

#a madness of angels #the neon court #kate griffin #catherine webb #fantasy books #book review