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a-dauntless-daffodil · 6 months

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ooh can i ask what story the girl turning into the spider is from? it sounds sweet!

oh uh... it's sweet in the sense that, even though pretty much everything goes wrong, some things still go right?

Tavra (spider girl) is a very stoic, somewhat blunt and socially awkward, generally grim, only ever laughs bitterly but will gently stroke your cheek and remind you to keep moving forward main supporting character in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance YA books written by J.M. Lee. (mostly in the third one, tides of the dark crystal) (SPOILERS) She's... kinda like the older sister figure / adopted mom / eventual one half of fav OTP to the three point of view characters? Her whole thing is being ready to sacrifice herself and her happiness for the sake of saving people, enduring pain without flinching even while telling others to be careful, repeatedly almost dying and smiling about it....

....except that she really, really, REALLY wants to see her girlfriend again, too. Especially after kinda sorta dying and getting spider-ed.

Her uncharacteristic rashness and nervousness when showing herself to Onica- and Onica's zero hesitation to reach out to the small spider that sounds like Tavra- is the first clue these two are A Thing.

They've been a thing for a loooong while. A forbidden secret romance kinda thing.

Onica turns out to be outwardly the sun to Tavra's cloudy day, except she's actually still VERY angry at Mayrin (Tavra's mother) for being a jerk, and VERY bitter over how Mayrin treated Tavra over their relationship- and while Tavra tries making excuses for her mom the best she can come up with in the end is a damningly faint "that was a long time ago". Which. Well.

Anyway, up till now Tavra has always taken on the role the Experienced And Steady Advisor and Guardian to her new younger friends, but once she's back on Onica's ship (Onica is a single crew sailing ship captain able to dream of things happening far away have i mentioned that?) Tavra starts finally relaxing enough to show some of the stresses she's been under lately, even going off and 'mope' when her attempt at teaching one young friend how not to get killed with a sword goes badly.

(moping is described as Tavra "just being Tavra") (her kinda new little sister is the one saying this) (Tavra can be recognized in any form by her dower frown) (especially funny when Onica is constantly described as laughing and chuckling and wearing a mysterious smile)

So blah blah blah, Onica is a the good kind of terrifying and almost dies, Tavra saves her via the power of gay flashbacks with the help of their new number 1 shipper-

Then Onica's bestie, who is in huge awe of Tavra, tries to push a traumatized depressed disabled woman in the body of a spider into leading all their people in revolution bc she'd be ideal for it- and Onica very pointed says that you can't help others if you don't take time to help yourself before going off to presumably snuggle her sad spider gf.

The two are last seen in the books as Tavra's sorta adopted teen son Kylan-

(who turned her into a spider to save while committing murder despite generally being a pacific presumably bc of the trauma of watch his birth parents get snatched away by murders as a child)

-decides to look at some runes, and Tavra says she and Onica will stay with him.

So. Tavra never gets her old body back, and her mom is murdered, and part of her soul is drained and eaten, and her sisters probably think she's dead- but she also does not die. By the end of the story she is happy with the family she has found, and finally fulfilling her and Onica's promise to someday live their lives as one.

Oh did i mention there's a parallel between her and Onica's secret forbidden romance and the more tragic example that kicks of the whole story?

Did i mention Onica calls Tavra "my love"?

And Tavra was a swordswoman before becoming a spider?

I don't know if you wanted or needed all this info and I don't care, there will never be enough stuff about these two written but by gods i will take ever chance to scream about them

And that's how my arachnophobia was cured!!!

#tavonica #tavra #onica #age of resistance books #the dark crystal #rant #your honor i love them

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gummybearstastelikesadness · 2 years

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DPxDC prompt

Team Phantom all have an inside joke where they refer to Dani as Danny’s daughter, while also calling Vlad an absentee mother who doesn’t pay child support.

Eventually Danny’s at the Justice league space station and hears some of the senior members talking about how the current Robin has attempted to stab a multiple people.

Danny curiously asks them about Robin and eventually they tell him he’s 11 and he just accidentally blurts out that his daughter’s around robins age.

The league members, stare at “eternally a teenager” Danny and go through mini existential crisis about the member that looks like a child having a child of their own. One of them asks if his daughter’s adopted and Danny says that she’s biologically his.

They ask about her mother or other parent and he says that if his daughters “mother” paid child support then he could have a say in things.

Eventually the conversation gets to Batman’s ears and he corners Phantom, not for learning sensitive information about Robin, but for parenting tips.

Now Danny’s giving Batman advice on how to treat/care for a surprise ex-assassin child with an absentee criminal “mother” who obsesses over their child’s father.

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lordsofthecrystal · 10 months

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Artwork of a gelfling by illustrator Iris Compiet, scanned from The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra. ✧

#fantasy #gelflings #The Dark Crystal #The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance #Age of Resistance #books #art #my post

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moosecow · 1 year

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To all the people out there that had that one show, game, movie, song, book, podcast, fanfic, or whatever other obscure thing that had just kept them going, that suddenly got canceled, dropped, deleted, or discontinued…

I see you, and I feel you. I hope you get another season, a revival, or I hope you find something that you can love deeply again, or whatever it is you need to get you through the hard times.

❤️💜💙🧡

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tossacointoyourhotmess · 8 months

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The Long Night of Londo Mollari + A Christmas Carol

He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them.

#babylon 5 #There are so many parallels it must have been on purpose #Delenn being shrouded in black and pointing Londo in the direction of his redemption like Yet to Come #Sheridan’s uniforms showing him ageing like Present #Just the entirety of G’Kar being Past #A Christmas Carol is one of my all time favourite books so I literally couldn’t resist a gif set #londo mollari

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fictionadventurer · 10 months

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The Year So Far Book Ask Game

(I just remembered this tag game from a couple of years back. No idea where it originated, but I liked the concept, so I'm turning it into an ask game.)

Best book you have read in 2023 so far

Best sequel you have read in 2023 so far

A new release you want to check out

Most anticipated book release of the second half of the year

Biggest disappointment

Biggest surprise

Favorite new author (either new-to-you or debut)

Favorite new character

A book that made you cry

A book that made you happy

Most beautiful book you have bought or received this year

A book you need to read by the end of the year

#books #sure why not #ask games #apologies to the originator of the questions #it took me ages to find this because i was sure it was an ask game #and when it wasn't then bringing it back became more complicated #i hope you don't mind me posting another ask game #it just came to mind today when i noted my book list for the year and i couldn't resist

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fishtail-tavra · 1 month

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Tavra and Naia: aww look at the newly adopted sisters, they’re strangling each other <3 or maybe it’s a hug I can’t tell <3 <3

Tavra and Kylan: she is SO supportive of him trapping her in the body of a tiny spider everybody shut up HER NEW SON DID THAT! HE DID THAT!!! she’s completely traumatized and going to support him through collage

Tavra and Amri: coworkers stuck on the midnight shift together no one else will ever understand their mutual ride-or-die ambivalence

Tavra and Onica: family who? As long as Onica knows she’s alive, Tavra is fine with Everyone Else In Her Former Life Thinking She’s Dead :D however she is NOT FINE with being unable to CUDDLE with Onica D: it is giving her depression

Tavra and Tae: soulmates but she’s piloting Tae’s unconscious body like a mecha bc Tae wanted some of that sweet, sweet self-sacrificing action and hey is it weird to hold your girlfriend’s hand while she’s puppeteering the body of your childhood friend ???? I don’t think Onica cares but I’m watching her do it and wondering

#the dark crystal: age of resistance #tdc:aor #tavra katavra #naia #onica #tae #kylan #amri #tavonica #i love the books for putting tavra is situations with people #very good

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astralstim · 2 months

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A Brea Stimboard From The Dark crystal For Anon.

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X - X - X - X - X - X - X - X - X

#stimboard #stims #stim #plant #plant stim #book #book stim #reading #reading stim #rock #rock stim #crystal #crystal stim #purple #purple stim #the dark crystal #the dark crytsal: age of resistance

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zee-rambles · 2 years

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You ever really get into a thing?

And then you find out there isn’t much of that thing?

But you LOVE that thing so much that you need MORE of that thing? So you consume all the fandom stuff and then there’s no more.

And then you get salty that the thing didn’t get as much love as it deserved and that other, dumber things got WAY more attention, and more content.

And now you can no longer even watch the thing you loved in the first place because you don’t want to get sick of it?

And there’s no one to talk to about it?

Or barely anyone you know has seen or cares for it?

…yeah…

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oz-the-sorcerer · 2 years

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TDC MEMES BUT I DON'T EXPLAIN THEM

(contains spoilers from the YA book series)

#i regret nothing #the dark crystal #the dark crystal age of resistance #the dark crystal ya books #tdc aor #tdc #tdc memes #kylan #maudra mera #tavra #tdc tae #SkekLi #SkekSa #gelfling

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sifanjewel · 2 years

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BOOM! Studios on IG:

Prepare to return to the world of THE DARK CRYSTAL with an all new BOOM! Deluxe Pre-Order campaign! Celebrate the 40th anniversary with seven deluxe hardcover volumes, limited edition collectibles, and special Early Bird surprises!

▶️ Check the link in our bio to sign up to be notified when it launches!

Link to Kickstarter:

#dark crystal #dark crystal age of resistance #age of resistance #the dark crystal #gelfling #skeksis #podlings #dark crystal books #boom studios #dark crystal news

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philhoffman · 9 months

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Phil with Andie MacDowell at the Independent Spirit Awards in 1999

#phil carrying me to safety after I broke my ankle <3 #philip seymour hoffman #psh #*#I just finished a prayer for owen meany (one of his fave books) and this reminds me of all the times john talked about owen like #'women and girls of all ages could not resist touching him. they had to put their hands on him in some way.' yeah. yeah #the irresistible urge to handle him

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tinyfaust · 2 months

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I’m about 100 pages away from finishing the dark crystal ya series and I’m at the brink of tears bc I’m going to miss naia and amri so much 😭😭😭 eternally devastated we didn’t get to see their relationship in the show I am Obsessed with their quips and banter and everything within them as a duo. Plus every time I look up fanart and such I never see anyone talk about him and I am scared I’m about to be the only fan. If amri has no fans it’s bc I’m dead Frfr

#the dark crystal #dark crystal age of resistance #jim henson #why isn’t anyone reading these books #plz tell me I’m not the only one

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ghostsessioned · 2 years

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various wips of the rian’s !

hunter rian is mine, feral rian is @domibomz’s !

#artfart #the dark crystal #the dark crystal age of resistance #age of resistance #tdc age of resistance #tdc aor #rian #stonewood #hunter rian #feral rian #seismic fic #ah yes how i adore thee #also yes the first is a more accurate depiction of book rian #feral is supposed to look more akin to show rian while hunter is closer to book rian

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thebibliomancer · 5 months

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I wonder if Deet (accidentally?) twisting the forest around Stone-in-the-Wood as she walks silently away from Rian is meant to get it on the same level of weird, uncanny Darkened place as in the first YA book.

It just seems like a normal forest in the show but maybe Deet created a deep weirdery

#dark crystal #the dark crystal #dark crystal age of resistance #Deet #In the adventure game book you can encounter Deet like a cryptid in the Dark Wood #she just runs away from you

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starwarsbookclub · 1 year

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Hello There Readers,

The theme poll has closed and the votes are in! We are excited to announce that the theme for March is DISNEY!

The novel and comic polls are now live in our Discord Server, and you have until 10pm GMT (5pm EST) on Thursday February 9th to vote for what book/comic we will be reading together. Our options are listed below:

NOVELS

1. Before the Awakening by Greg Rucka 2. Bloodline by Claudia Gray 3. Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse

COMICS

1. Age of Resistance - Heroes (2019) 2. Chewbacca (2015) 3. Poe Dameron Vol. 2 - The Gathering Storm (2017)

Let us know what you want to read in the Discord Server! Happy voting and may the force be with you!

- Star Wars Book Club

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