#joe tournier

[saintlygames]

"But not the man who waited. He wasn't giving Kite that, not for anything."

#the kingdoms #natasha pulley #missouri kite #joe tournier #jem castlereagh #joe zhang #fanart

[vanillaflowerstuff]

some kingdoms stuff for @thenatashapulleyuniverse 's inktober thingy

#i don't think i'd finished a drawing of them since the first one i did last year #it was nice to revisit them :) #the kingdoms #my art #joe tournier #missouri kite #book fanart #sorry it's not ink

[msunitedstatesjames]

Every Natasha Pulley book ever:

Bulky Man is unintentionally bulky, he's just sort of stronger than everyone because that's the nature of his life. Everyone assumes Bulky Man is violent because of his girth, but he actually hates violence and is really just the nicest little dude inside.

Fragile Dude is little and/or easily breakable. Fragile Dude is brilliant and/or powerful. He too is pretty nice, but he's probably had to use his intellect and/or power to commit some kind of atrocity in the past that he will be attempting to keep secret over the course of the story. This will be revealed 3/4 of the way through the book, but the circumstances surrounding the atrocity will be so horrible that everyone will agree it was probably justified.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are both dissatisfied with their lives to some extent.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude meet through a series of unlikely and often unfortunate events.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are forced to work together in some capacity.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are both a little bit afraid of the other, but there's also some quality that they really like or respect in the other nonetheless.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude continue to work together, but now they're starting to reluctantly take a liking to the other. Neither of them realize that the other actually likes them though.

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude have had to help each other out of some sticky situations by now. They're clearly head over heels in love these days, but circumstance and/or society is keeping them from acknowledging it. People have started to hint to Bulky Man that Fragile Dude is actually super shady, so you better watch your back. Bulky Man doesn't really care that much at this point, but he's like, I guess I better look into these accusations.

(Some kind of cute but unusually intelligent animal is usually involved with the plot and/or their relationship by this point. Also, there's at least one loveable child character that usually helps the characters bond.)

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude have a nice, cheerful break from all of the traumatic events they've been experiencing, which inevitably ends in a romantic encounter.

Because of communication issues or societal issues, both chraracters still don't actually believe the other character loves them, and they both act like it was just a one off thing and an accident and that everything is totally fine.

Things are awkward between Bulky Man and Fragile Dude, but the traumatic events have really fired up again so they still have to work together. Plus, they're both just that desperate to be together, even though they think the other character hates them now.

Bulky Man finds out Fragile Dude's secret, but usually he doesn't get it quite right or he's missing some essential information. Bulky Man is temporarily horrified of Fragile Dude. Bulky Man chides himself for being so desperate for affection that he fell in love with some kind of psycho.

At this point, either Bulky Man makes a stupid mistake while being horrified or circumstances just happen to suddenly get a lot worse or both. Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are physically separated, often by force and some kind of authority. At some point in here, Bulky Man realizes he was wrong about Fragile Dude.

A slapdash plot is hatched to save the stolen love interest. Usually Bulky Man has to save Fragile Dude, but occassionally the script is flipped.

Ultimately, the stolen love interest is rescued, though it was a real close thing at some point. The Day is saved, usually through murder/s, caused by a combination of Bulky Man reluctantly bashing some heads in and Fragile Dude using his wits and/or power to get the right people killed. Often, our protagonists are then forced to straight up run away from the Bad Times, leaving their lives and families behind. (The loveable child from earlier will either be tragically left behind or adopted by the now happy couple.)

Bulky Man and Fragile Dude are a little bit sad at the things they've lost along the way, but mostly they're going to live happily ever after.

#natasha pulley #the watchmaker of filigree street #The lost future of pepperharrow #the bedlam stacks #the kingdoms #the half life of valery k #the mars house #thaniel steepleton #Keita mori #Merrick tremayne #Raphael (the bedlam stacks) #Joe tournier #missouri kite #Valery kolkhanov #Shenkov #January stirling #Aubrey gale #River gale #books #bookblr #mine

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Kiem Tegnar/Jainan nav Adessari- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Wyatt Croft/Emyr North- The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

Joe Tournier/Missouri Kite- The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

Aristotle Mendoza/Dante Quintana- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

#Kiem Tegnar #Jainan nav Adessari #Winter's Orbit #Everina Maxwell #Wyatt Croft #Emyr North #The Witch King #H.E. Edgmon #Joe Tournier #Missouri Kite #The Kingdoms #Natasha Pulley #pulleyverse #Aristotle Mendoza #Dante Quintana #aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe #aristotle and dante dive into the waters of the world #aridante #Benjamin Alire Sáenz #polls #lgbt books #queer book ship tournament

[edmundofgloucester]

sooooo obsessed with joe tournier because he spends the entire book plotting how to get away from/kill kite but the MOMENT kite is even in A LITTLE BIT of danger joe is willing to fight a) a tiger and b) an entire police regiment to defend him. god bless

#i love him so much #joe tournier #missouri kite #the kingdoms #natasha pulley

[melissonomos]

there is something about seafaring amnesia narratives. . it’s about the I Have To Get Back There. But I Don’t Remember Where There Is. it’s about the permissive spaces and powerful camaraderies of a sailing ship, formed so organically and then lost so suddenly. it’s about queer pirates and found family.

#archive 81 #archive 81 season three why would you do this #the kingdoms #natasha pulley #joe tournier #naomi novik #his majesty's dragon #temeraire #william laurence #also honorable mention: #star trek iv: the voyage home

[notorious-nincompoop]

natasha pulley did not write "you were my family before any of them" or "I've missed you even when I didn't remember you" or "I cannot live any more counting the number of times I've seen you by the stars on your arm" or "I think you're the same thing in three different lights" or "come home, if you remember" for people to sleep on the kingdoms

#the kingdoms #joe tournier #missouri kite #natasha pulley #pulleyverse

[presidential-raven-boy]

JOE TOURNIER:

#the kingdoms #pulleyverse #natasha pulley #joe tournier #missouri kite #twofs

[miserykite]

forever sobbing uncontrollably at how the happiest joe / jem has ever been in three lifetimes was that day on the victory when he got to see kite after months of being sick with missing him, and got to touch him and soak in his presence

#like a dying plant being given a life saving breath of water.... #can u imagine how heartbroken and hurt he was when kite said no to sharing that hammock #best believe he would QAQed kite for sure #missouri kite #the kingdoms #joe tournier #joe zhang

[tubercloset]

He's eating the evidence

#first human blorbo I have ever drawn seriously :) #I admire all the other book fanartists for figuring out what these people look like and drawing them so well #one of my friends called him a babygirl #reposting this because there were some things wrong with the post earlier oops #the kingdoms #natasha pulley #joe tournier #my art #fanart

[saintlygames]

dearest joe...

#the kingdoms #missouri kite #joe tournier #jem castlereagh #joe zhang #natasha pulley #i love them dearly like a photo softly creased in a pocket

[vanillaflowerstuff]

i was listening to 'spiracle' by flower face and it reminded me of them for some reason

version without text under the cut ↓

#my art #book fanart #the kingdoms #missouri kite #joe tournier #natasha pulley #just reread the book and i forgot how deranged these two are #thinking about red string of fate/soulmates in a negative way #also i love the word spiracle #i know it's referencing sharks in the song but spiracles are cool okay #also i havent drawn a full scene in a while so hopefully it looks okay

[mx-myth]

I had an idea but I’m not sure I’m going to write it so I’ll throw it out into the void for y’all: PULLEYVERSE SOULMATE AU IN WHICH YOU GET A SYMBOL FOR YOUR SOULMATE (POSSIBLY APPEARS AT THE YOUNGEST’S BIRTH OR GAIN COLOUR WHEN YOU FIRST MEET) (SPOILERS FOR pretty much ALL PULLEYVERSE NOVELS) (feel free to use and write/draw/etcetera but please tell/link me because I WANT TO SEE)

Thaniel Steepleton who’s born with a mark spanning from shoulder to calf, a mess of gears and clocks and octopus legs (???) and lemons and random objects (that suddenly become clear the more time he spends with Mori because they relate to his clairvoyance) (his mark takes up so much of his skin because isn’t he just an ordinary man, isn’t Mori his everything?) (he gains a little lightbulb for Six once they “adopt” (cough kidnap cough) her and it moves around wherever she wants; even Mori’s mark makes way for hers because isn’t he the man who would do anything for those he loves?)

Keita Mori who doesn’t get his mark until decades after his birth but who isn’t bothered by it because he knows his soulmate already, and when it comes it’s morse code and piano keys and a single pocketwatch on a chain over his heart (his mark is only over his heart (and small in comparison to Thaniel’s) because hasn’t he held the memories of Thaniel close to his chest ever since he’s been alive, isn’t he the reason he loves and the reason he still lives? His beating heart personified?) (His mark for Six is also a little lightbulb that usually hangs behind his ear on a chain until she decides to make a game of it when she’s bored and rolls a die to decide where it will move next)

Merrick Tremayne who thinks he’s soulmate-less for the first several years of his life before he realises that there’s a spot of grey on the bottom of one of his feet; as he ages it grows up his leg and darkens in colour. He thinks it’s a coincdence that it’s the leg that gets crippled (even if twelve-year-old Keita couldn’t bear looking at it) until decades later Mori confesses that it was the only way to stop him from running after Clem. The last day he ever spends with Raphael it is indistinguishable from true stone; he dies with a rosary held in grey hands.

Raphael who is bonded with the whole Tremayne bloodline; he has a mark for Harry and then one for Merrick’s father (whose name I forgot) and then one for Merrick himself (the marks disappear when the person dies, so sometimes they overlap when father and son are both alive, but how much of it does Raphael really witness, because of his “sleep paralysis”?); he ends with all of them carved into his skin when he fully becomes a markayuq and they all form one big picture (insects and spiders for Harry, tree bark Merrick’s dad (relating to the storybook and the sketch of Raphael in the tree), the leaves of whitewood trees for Merrick)

Missouri Kite with the mark of a lighthouse and two pillars that bursts into colour when he meets Jem Castlereagh, that instantly loses colour and recolours when Jem turns into Joe Tournier, and loses colour again when Joe leaves. Until he finds Joe Zhang, and he never loses colour again.

Joe Tournier with the mark of a lighthouse and two pillars but is confused as to why it’s coloured (he figures that he met them when he was young or something, or tries to reason with himself that it’s Alice’s); Jem Castlereagh knowing immediately once he meets Kite; and Joe Zhang, who learns he has the words Dearest Joe, Come home, if you remember. M branded into his mind, and finally decides that he can’t leave Kite again

Konstantin Shenkov with rusty streaks the backs of his hands, tinged with frostbite, and tiny text wrapping around his wrists that he can only read with a magnifying glass (it’s some stuff about nuclear things that he thinks came straight out of a textbook and doesn’t fully understand until he meets Valery)

Valery Kolkhanov with all of his veins and arteries lined in black; they all end on his back in an untangleable knot (he traces them and retraces them with his fingers and it’s what gets him through prison, the small joy of knowing that his soulmate is coded into his blood, even if he’ll only be a burden to them) (he doesn’t notice until Shenkov notices but in the knot on his back are the names of Shenkov’s children)

#i didn't really have any ideas for valery and shenkov but you can also imagine bananas and octopi #pulleyverse #natasha pulley #the kingdoms #the watchmaker of filigree street #the lost future of pepperharrow #the bedlam stacks #bedlam stacks #the half life of valery k #valery k #twofs #tlfop #thaniel steepleton #nathaniel steepleton #keita mori #missouri kite #joe tournier #jem castlereagh #joe zhan #merrick tremayne #raphael #raphael (bedlam stacks) #valery kolkhanov #konstantin shenkov #six #six (the watchmaker of filigree street) #six mori-steepleton #six steepleton-mori #what is her tag #i love her so much

[tartan-tardis]

“We’re not in trouble until the contingency apple comes out.”

Rereading The Kingdoms again and it really is a top-tier book.

#The Kingdoms #natasha pulley #Missouri Kite #Joe Tournier #fan art #books

[edmundofgloucester]

one thing i think we need to talk about more is how in every POV besides joe’s kite is consistently described as an intimidating ugly man who everyone is scared of but AS SOON as we switch into joe’s POV it’s immediately “i wanted to hate him but he’s just so sweet and kind...” “kite had a way of making everyone around him love him...” like loveability is some actual quality of kite’s and not just Joe Being Incredibly Gay

#they're so good i'm obsessed with them #joe tournier #missouri kite #the kingdoms #natasha pulley

[ancoraimparo26]

sorry but the joe x kite implications of the song my heart with you 🥲

#the kingdoms #missouri kite #joe tournier #natasha pulley #pullyverse #i’ve only ever heard the song covered by pentatonix but it’s apparently by the rescues #don’t worry i’m still currently being consumed by star trek media