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jorgesantiagojr · 3 months

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I'm reading an advance copy of @erinmevans Erin M. Evan's next book, Relics of Ruin, and I love it so far! These are sketches I've done while reading it, with more to come! If you haven't read Empire of Exiles, I really recommend it. It's an original fantasy world with a gripping mystery, great characters, and a really intriguing threat that keeps you guessing.

For those of you who are D&D fans, Erin was the creator of the Brimstone Angels books set in the Forgotten Realms. Those books are also fantastic too, and I'm loving Erin's newer works where she's making really vibrant and diverse peoples and cultures. I want to know more about everyone, especially so I can draw them.

Empire of Exiles came out in 2022, and Relics is out later this year, so if you haven't had a chance to read it, pick it up!

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most-tragic-character-tournament · 7 months

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PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AHEAD]

POOR BOY:

KARIMO DEL NANOVA:

#poor boy #karimo del Nanova #chulip #empire of exiles #most tragic tournament #polls #most tragic round 1

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kitausu · 4 months

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This is the book that's going to carry me into 2024. I'm actually SO intrigued because I went in not really knowing anything, and now I'm on a fantasy novel murder mystery political intrigue ride.

#kit reads fantasy #empire of exiles #booklr #bookblr #fantasy books

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geeklyinc · 8 months

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Empire of Exiles Review - Pay No Mind to the Bygones

It’s the kind of book I’ll recommend to everyone to read simply so there are more people to talk to about it.

#books #changelings #empire of exiles #erin m evans #erin m. evans #fantasy #joshua macdougall #mystery #no page unturned #Reviews

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twilight-skies · 1 year

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Not even finished reading it and I already know for certain that if Empire of Exiles (Erin M. Evans) was a tv show or a movie the fandom would be immaculate

#cry why can’t novels have fandoms like visual mediums do #already can’t wait for relics of ruin #books #empire of exiles #Erin m Evans #books of the usurper #I know y’all (fandomblr) would looove this plot #if anyone else who has read it sees this I’m at the scene before the part where Yinii gives Amadea The Letter in front of the Maschano house #WHERE are the Yinii fanartists? the Changeling theorizers? my fellow gay Shrike simps? the specialist-crew shitposters?#the no-one-dies-and-Quill-gets-to-be-happy AU makers? THE COUP-ERA FIC WRITERS???#y’all this thing is so awesome

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thecosmiccircus · 1 year

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#Empire of Exiles #Erin M. Evans #Books #book review #fantasy series

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biblionerdreflections · 1 year

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ARC Review - Empire of Exiles

✨New Book Review✨ Today I'm reviewing Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans. Thanks to @OrbitBooks for the copy via #NetGalley! "This book was a murder mystery with political intrigue all wrapped up in the trappings of exquisite high fantasy." 5⭐ #booktwt

Hello, everyone! Today I’m reviewing Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans. If my review sparks your interest, the book will be released on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. (more…)

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#ARC #Book #Book blogger #Books #Empire of Exiles #Erin M. Evans #Netgalley #Reading #Review

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darubyprincx · 5 months

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if tumblr existed in empires s1 then the dashboard would look a little bit like this i think

🏜️ cactus-abolitionist

MY CAT JUST RAN OUTSIDE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SANDSTORM IM

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oh no are they okay?? i don't know how serious sandstorms are but maybe you could go after them?

🏜️ cactus-abolitionist

Sand blowing past you at upwards of 75kmh. It's also really hot sand. It's been known to literally strip the flesh off of bones wait post cancelled my cat just walked back in she's fine guys

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visiting the Mythlands today and me and my family found a neat lil natural floating island while hiking

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to the people in my notes going "what the fuck": have y'all never heard of physics?

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OP WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU LIVE WHERE THIS IS NORMAL

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western mezalea?? lol

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well that explains a lot.

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Can I Help You

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ain't emperor joel dating a fish

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yeah, they're married. Isn't Emperor Joey a demonfucker????

#dude why are the notes arguing over the ethics of being ruled by a demon 😭 what the fuck #op im so sorry

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...i'm in this class thats being taught by the headmaster today and she smells like weed. i'm not gonna say anything but like. what

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yeah the academy's just like that. as long as she's not like, actively dying or anything she's probably fine??? idk o7

#reblog

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I JUST GOT BACK FROM A BUSINESS TRIP WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE COPPER KING'S GONE

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I DONT KNOW I DONT LIVE THERE BUT apparently nobody expected it either?? like some people are saying it was the Dragon Fight that did it (i know Emperor Joey came out with statements that Emperor Riffs actually helped kill the dragon and unleash the demon but its been two days and we all know that he hates that guy so idk) but nobody actually knows anything. it's crazy bro

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my mom said the royal housekeepers found a note from him alongside like everything he owned but they're not saying what's on the note yet. holy shit

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🐠 fishfucker997

this will definitely have an impact on the local trout population

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the Guardian of the Thirteenth Empire just died and you're worried about fish???? be for real omg

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have you people never heard of references in your life

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why are you interacting with me i literally have "codlanders dni" in my bio

🐠 fishfucker997

my brother in cod you literally reblogged this from me??

🐠 fishfucker997

they blocked me lmao

#how is this post only 2 days old

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she dragon fight on my copper king til i disappear

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who the hell let a camel onto this site lol

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You will die at age 87 with nobody to mourn you and no stars still shining to watch you go.

#911 i just witnessed a murder

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🌻 helantheia

anyone know who made emperor pearl's dress? it's really pretty :0

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📷 desertphotography

West of the River of Plenty, Pixandria

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#ray's tag #mcyt #empires smp s1 #empires smp #pix would absolutely still have tumblr btw. hed be posting aesthetic pictures in the middle of exile #this took me way too long to put together you're all welcome #fake post #fake posts #writing #keys' writing

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empirearchives · 4 months

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Napoleon and Water

Excerpt from the book Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811, by Jane Merrill and John Endicott

Aaron Burr lived in Paris for 15 months, and this book goes into detail about those years living under Napoleon’s rule. This part focuses on Napoleon’s water related reforms.

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Napoleon’s fountains gave drinking water to the population, that is, children drank water, not beer. The water was free, not purchased. And the apartment would have had a separate water closet equipped with squat toilets (adopted from the Turks) and a bucket to wash it after use. Some restaurants and cafes had W.C.s, even one for ladies and one for gents. These were hooked into the sewer system that branched under each important street.

Napoleon merits points for delivering fresh water to Paris. If serving Paris with water from the d'Ourcq River by canals was not be a consummate success, Paris gained 40 new fountains, and the emperor commanded that fountains run all day (instead of a few limited hours) and that the water be free of charge.

Perhaps the most laudable of Napoleon’s policies were utilitarian city works, especially bringing clean water and sanitation to Paris. The improvements to infrastructure included new quays to prevent floods, new gutters and pavement, new aqueducts and fountains, and relocating cemeteries and slaughterhouses to the outskirts of the city. This was also a way of keeping up employment. An Austrian aristocrat in town during Napoleon’s wedding to Marie-Louise wrote his mother, in Vienna: “Nothing can give an idea of the immense projects undertaken simultaneously in Paris. The incoherence of it is incredible; one cannot imagine that the life of a single man would be enough to finish them.”

It was a tall order. Previous rulers had been aware of the problems and one big engineering initiative, a failed marvel, had been the waterworks at Marly, located on the banks of the Seine about seven miles from Paris. Louis XIV had it constructed to pump water from the river to his chateaux of Versailles and Marly. This was the machine marvel of its age, with 250 pumps that forced river water up a 500-foot rise to an aqueduct, and it was a sight Burr mentions going to see. By 1817 the “Marly machine” had deteriorated because it was made of wood, and the waterworks were abandoned.

Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, the prominent 19th century literary critic, wrote that there had been “ten years of anarchy, sedition and laxity, during which no useful work had been undertaken, not a street had been cleaned, not a residence repaired nothing improved or cleansed.” Postrevolutionary Paris was at a nadir in terms of both the inadequate, disease-ridden water supply and the filthy streets, which were basically open sewers, deep with black mud and refuse.

“Napoleon,” writes Alistair Horne, “was obsessed by the water of Paris, and everything to do with it.”

Parisians had mostly been getting their water directly from the Seine or lining up at the scant pay fountains. In 1806, nineteen new wells for fountains were dug that flowed day and night and were free. Napoleon had a canal built 60 miles from the River Ourcq, ordering 500 men to dig it, while still a consul in 1801. It brought water to the Bassin de la Villette, opening in 1808. Some doubted the wisdom of having such an abundance of water—an oriental luxury that might incur moral decay. Now the supply of water for firefighting was also much improved. The canal had light boats, as Napoleon tried to make back some of the huge expenditure by licensing navigation, and a circular aqueduct from which underground conduits went to the central city. In 1810, there were still many water porters wheeling barrels through the city.

Now Napoleon attacked the problem of the Seine as a catchall for pollution. Parisians were so used to it that men swam naked in the river and a contemporary guidebook advised merely that the water of the Seine had no ill effects on foreigners so long as they drank it mixed with wine or a drop of vinegar. Thus houses on bridges were demolished and an immense push began to clean and modernize the city sewers.

As this book is about Aaron Burr, here is section about Burr taking inspiration by a new water related invention during his time in Paris:

Remarkably for someone who was very aware of his health, he never complained of the water. He did, however, take an interest in an invention to make it easier to dig a well. When the inventor of a process to make vinegar from the sap of any tree was not in his shop, Burr and a friend, “Crede”, went to see another invention: “We went then to see Mons. Cagniard, and his new invention of raising water and performing any mechanical operation. His apparatus is a screw of Archimedes turned the reverse, air, water, and quick silver. Cagniard was abroad; but we saw a model, and worked it, and got the report of a committee of the Institute on the subject. If the thing performs what is said I will apply it to give water to Charleston.”

[Bold italics for quotations by me]

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salemoleander · 10 months

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Joe is exiled from Hermitopia, a stranger in a strange land. And there's barely even any time to wander the lands in a bildungsroman journey of poetic self discovery, because he's being hunted.

The Empires people keep trying to kill him for tag. Which is fine!

He's not one to interfere with whatever ritualistic murder games Grian invents. Cultural relativism is an important skill in today's day and age, and the Empires culture seems relatively violent.

However, False is also trying to kill him, and he just can't feel quite as relaxed about that. Partly because she's way more competent at murder than Oli or Fwhip, but mostly because they're friends and Joe's not sure what he's done to earn being murdered.

Sure he left Hermich-

Sure he left Hermitopia, but the exile and banning were quick and honestly- in his humble opinion- kind of uncalled for. Also also, False doesn't do anything she doesn't want to. She wouldn't ignore (exceedingly well-penned) Royal Decrees and then actually believe Xisuma's scrawled notice on a single sign had to be followed.

Joe and False banter as she hunts him, but there's a brittle quality to the humor. It feels like she's actually mad about something, but "reading private signs" posted in the middle of a public base without doors seems like a bad excuse. Admittedly sometimes things seem like bad excuses to him, while everyone else agrees they're good excuses. But this seems particularly flimsy.

So he writes and he thinks and he wanders but it's lonely. It's lonely.

Maybe this is his fault. Maybe Joe just hasn't been helpful enough- maybe he's just bad at herding cats.

And he knows that's a metaphor- an idiom? An expression! He knows it's an expression, but herding cats sounds like it could be fun! Certainly less painful than returning.

So he finds a cat, and then another. And then Joe spots a cat that looks exactly like Scar's, and his face lights up in a grin. He kneels and tries to beckon it over, and the cat darts away.

He tries not to take it personally- some cats just like to be alone, after all.

#joe hills #hc s9 #falsesymmetry #false #empires x hermitcraft #fic #salem tag #ive had this sitting in my drafts since the crossover and ive finally resolved i wont finish it/ add more #so here you go! a normal amount of feelings about joes exile arc #salem fic

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jorgesantiagojr · 1 year

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Playing around in Procreate, this is a fan art of Yinii, the most adorable character in Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans! She wrote the Brimstone Angels books, so if you like those, you’ll like her newest series.

#drawing #empire of exiles #Erin m evans #fantasy #fantasy art #character design #orbit books #dungeons and dragons #dnd #cute #magic #art #procreate #fan art

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theallstore · 4 months

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hello hello hello!! my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @cohnal !

words are from maize stalk drinking blood by the mountain goats + i have no idea if tumblr will keep the resolution or not so if it doesn’t this should be high res -> https://postimg.cc/wysKZc5j

#ITS FINALLY DONE!! WAHOO #‘yeah i’ll do my first ever comic full stop and i’ll fully render it for a timed gift exchange that’ll go great!!’#i keep fuckin saying it but godDAMN hubris as ever proves my fatal flaw #anyway #pixlriffs #empires smp #empires smp fanart #empires smp s1 #empires season one #scott and fwhip are technically there too but i’m not tagging them #i am so abnormal about pixlriffs exile era always and forever <3 #anyway time to dissapear off the face of the earth again now there's nothing stopping me from playing baldurs gate 23 hours a day

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kitausu · 4 months

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I love Tunuk and I love this book. I hope he's in the sequel a ton!

#kit reads fantasy #empire of exiles #erin m evans

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fromthemouthofzabe · 7 months

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I'm loving the idea that Thrawn allowed himself a little time off while in exile and has therefore developed a lil tummy(tm)

It's so cute he's grandpa shaped

#ahsoka #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers #thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #he's been through some crap and running an exiled empire aint easy #he deserves a few of his favorite snacky-snacks and skipping arm day every once in a while #not trying to body shame I legit thought it was a fun touch

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ao3-anonymous · 2 years

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Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (08/15/2022)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms. Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

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cheese-water · 1 year

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Just watched Jimmy’s newest episode and first of all go watch it it’s great and second of all I’M SCARED.

Everyone’s saying “oh it’s villain arc time! Time to watch the small man have his vengeance and eat it too!” (what am I even saying) And while it will most likely happen, which I’ll enjoy thoroughly, I hesitate to call it right now. For I have flashbacks…

For a time not long before, where we all desired a “villain arc” for a character who, like Jimmy, was never treated with respect. So when given the option, we proudly begged to put this character where he had no other choice but to go against his values and put himself first for once…

A seemingly perfect recipe for some well deserved chaos…

WELL BOY HOWDY WE WERE WRONG

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