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booksteacupandreviews · 7 months

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The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - atmospheric YA fantasy

The Bear and the Nightingale is beautiful, imaginative, and atmospheric historical YA fantasy with amazing world. The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden Publication Date : January 1, 2017 Publisher : Random House Read Date : September 12, 2023 Genre : Fantasy / YA Pages : 430 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Synopsis At the edge of the Russian…

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hedgehogoftime · 1 month

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Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

#Lord of the Rings #LotR #lotr #literature #fantasy #literary analysis #analysis #Galadriel #Gandalf #The One Ring #Sauron #Sam #Samwise Gamgee #Boromir #Gandalf the Grey #Gandalf the White

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cjjasp · 10 months

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Pacing part 2 – plotting the midpoint #amwriting

As I said in my previous post, Foreshadowing and the Strong Opening, I am writing the first draft of a new novel. I am filling in and altering the outline as I go. This means that nothing is canon, and many plot points, even major ones, will have changed by the time I am ready to publish this mess. Some novels are character-driven, others are event-driven, but all follow an arc. I’m a poet, and…

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#writetip #Literary Fantasy #pacing #the midpoint of the novel #writing

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ivynightshade · 9 months

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fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language.

[text id: the world is happening in a room that i can't enter, life is happening in a gathering i am not invited to. / being unwanted is a language i am fluent in.]

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it is okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes. We crack open bedroom doors, step over the creaks, and kiss the children. We are sore from this grief, like we’ve returned from a run, like we are training for a marathon. I’m with you all the way, says my grief, whispering, and then we splash our face with water and stretch, one big shadow and one small."

– Callista Buchen

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randimason · 1 year

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EDITED TO ADD: St. Louis University posted the 2023 St. Louis Literary Award ceremony; Neil’s talk starts about 40 minutes in. (Thanks DanGuyF)

In an interview before the event [Neil] Gaiman said that when he started writing comics, he “wasn’t even in the gutter.”

He said: “I used to look up and admire the people in the gutter. The science-fiction people were in the gutter, the children’s literature people were in the gutter, too, and I was so far down, I was in the storm drain.”

Great writeup by Jane Henderson from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sharing highlights of Neil’s talk at the St. Louis Literary Award!

#neil gaiman #comics #st louis #st louis literary award #it does look like a fountain pen #writing #genre #quotes #book talk #fantasy #with love from florida #Youtube

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thenighttrain · 8 months

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#literary fiction isn’t a separate genre stop tagging that 🙅‍♀️#fantasy is the best btw #books

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camelidae · 7 months

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I did a short literary equine series a while ago, but I don’t think I ever posted this little lady. This is Skata from The Scorpio Races. She likes to drag people to their watery doom when they try and tame her, and you know what? Same.

#fantasy equines #Skata #The Scorpio Races #Literary Equines #horse illustration #horse art

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mostlyghostie · 18 days

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What I read in March!

Lots of variety, one kids book read to my daughter (I read more than 1 a month to her but this was the only new one!), some fantasy, a brilliant, brilliant sci-fi book where the sci-fi part isn’t important (everyone needs to read everything by RC Sherriff!), a book about walking, a great Jhumpa Lahiri short story collection and a comic you can read free online at Substack.

Also read Carisa Lloyd’s book about grief, coincidentally around the 7th anniversary of my dad dying- I found it enormously helpful, her podcast is great too, as a rec for anyone else in the club.

What did you read last month?

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#my art #artists on tumblr #books #booklr #illustration #bookstack #fantasy books #robin hobb #Cariad Lloyd #jhumpa lahiri #literary fiction #fiction books #tbrpost

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reverie-quotes · 10 months

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I imagine it’s always easier to do something monstrous if you can convince yourself you aren’t going to, up to the last minute, until you do.

— Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves

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vulnerableagendaofdeath · 10 months

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"Death must be so beautiful. to lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. to have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. to forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. you can help me. you can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is" with such ease? to touch my soul so casually?

— Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

#oscar wilde #the canterville ghost #dark academia #dark acadamia quotes #dark academism #death note #beauty #literature quotes #romanticism #classic literature #literature #translated literature #lit #poetry #literary #fiction #fantasy #novel writing

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yourqueerbookshelf · 5 months

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Not sure what my motive is here, but . . .

The results will not affect which books I post about, because I actually have to want to read them, but I'm dying to know who likes to suffer!

#please i really wanna see the discourse!#book recommendations #queer books #polls #queer #literary tropes #literary fiction #fantasy books #romance books #science fiction books #historical fiction #books #queer community

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mysharona1987 · 5 days

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#Books #fantasy #musicals #literature #literary genres #sci fi #art

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she-posts-nerdy-stuff · 11 months

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Just re-listening to my ck audiobook and I realised that the oyster knife Kaz used to cut Oomen’s eye out in six of crows is the same oyster knife that Inej uses to kill a Stadwatch officer in Crooked Kingdom by throwing it so it hits him directly between the eyes. Not only is this a great Kanej parallel, but it could also be symbolically representative of their approaches to violence; Kaz’s is slow, deliberate, designed more than anything else to cause pain and to bring across his point, whilst Inej’s is faster, neater, and perhaps more predictable in action because she has clear purpose and intent whilst Kaz’s true intentions are buried beneath layers of façade. She kills this officer on the bridge during the hostage exchange, and Kaz famously kills Oomen after he attacked Inej, so the use of the same knife could also be representative of Kaz’s care for and need to protect Inej, emphasised by him giving her the oyster knife in the seconds before the kill in crooked kingdom. It could also be linked back to Kaz being the one who gave Inej her first knives and how empowered she felt by him believing her to be “dangerous” - even when she thinks she’s going to die she considers what will become of her knives, and decides that “perhaps they could go to some other girl who dreamed of being dangerous”. It’s these moments, these seemingly tiny things Kaz does, that truly solidify him for her and give us so much understanding of all the specific reasons she loves him.

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ivynightshade · 6 months

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s coffin heart? bury me.

[text id: memory is a deathbed. remembrance is a grave. the memory of you is a scab that i keep picking so that it scars. a burn. a souvenir. something to claw at that claws back at me. / i refuse to be haunted by something less.]

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writeouswriter · 16 days

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*banging fists on table* more mentally ill characters in stories that aren't just about them being mentally ill! More mentally ill characters in sci-fi, in fantasy, in romance and fun and high stakes situations and everything in between, as the heroes, as complex individuals, multifaceted and treated with respect, not having their needs and differences ignored or skirted around but, again, not having them be their only trait or plot point/entire premise! Please, I'm begging, on my hands and knees, there's a place for these topics and characters in realistic, reflective and literary fiction, yeah, but there's also a place in those magical, mystical, action packed, mysterious and alien worlds, give them to ME

#books #mental illness #mentally ill characters #writing #writeblr #not so much a problem with writers here but in books and such in general it's an impossible search #because you try and look up books with mentally ill protags and it's giving you either 1. the worst horror rep you've seen in your life #2. secondhand inspiration or pity p*rn #3. just irl biographical or realistic literary fiction which is not what i'm looking for at the present #4. either complete hollow cardboard tokenism or just barely true hc or etc.#&god forbid you try to find a character with psych*sis w/o it giving you killers or big plot twists where it was in their head all along 😑#like i just i want a funky scientist studying aliens who happens to be b*polar #i want a fantasy adventurer or ghost hunter or etc who happens to be sch*zospec is that so much to ask 😔#bizarrely hard to find male protags in this category as well? if you do have recs for scientists in fiction like this hmu 👀#anyway and yeah yeah yeah write what you want to read I'M TRYING #i have all these guys i have this funky scientist but i have the illnesses™️ as well such is the world #so i want something to read or see like... now

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