#meredith ann pierce

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #The Darkangel #Meredith Ann Pierce #Darkangel Trilogy #poll #l: English

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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#fantasy #books #Birth of the Firebringer #Meredith Ann Pierce #The Firebringer #poll #result: no #l: English

[blairtrabbit]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who read these religiously growing up? I remember the exact place I first read the big fucking unicorn incest reveal. I was 13, I was reading in the bathtub and when it happened I almost dropped a library book in the water.

#the firebringer trilogy #meredith ann pierce #book #unicorns #these unicorns FUCK

[recurringwriter]

In his youth he was a battleprince, by Alma blessed: a warrior, a dancer, a bringer of fire.

#recurring arts #unicorns #the firebringer trilogy #meredith ann pierce #aljan son of korr #but not really #where are the firebringer trilogy fans!!!!!!!!! #the son of summer stars #sometimes i need to remind myself that i can still freehand a horse from memory

[nakedinashes]

books cristina read in 2023: the woman who loved reindeer - meredith ann pierce

“Only the wild herds, the reindeer, ran southward over the Burning Plain in winter. No one knew why they went there, or how they survey the cold. But always they returned in spring, surging northward toward the warmer lands to calve.”

#the woman who loved reindeer #meredith ann pierce #fantasy #2023 reads #books i read

[daily-rayless]

Anyone else remember The Darkangel Trilogy, that 80s lunar vampire series by Meredith Ann Pierce?

#the darkangel #the darkangel trilogy #aeriel #irrylath #meredith ann pierce #2011 #i was really into that series for a while #still fond of it #though the ending made me so indignant

[rovingwren]

Got distracted this morning and started thinking about Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy. All the characters are unicorns and I remember wanting to draw every single one of them.

But browsing the tags for it on here, I realize that there are a lot of folks who enjoy novels with animal protagonists, and haven't heard of the Age of Fire series by E.E. Knight. High fantasy from the dragon's perspective. I read these over and over when I was a late teen and into my early 20s, and I still highly recommend them. Maybe I should draw those characters too 🤔

#firebringer novel #meredith ann pierce #e e knight #age of fire #dragon champion #fantasy books i have loved #windy thoughts #just talking

[confessions-of-a-bookworm]

A couple weeks ago, I vacationed in the mountains. Reading on the balcony was the most dream like experience. Now that I'm back to the city life, it's easy to forget about the peace I felt on the balcony. But I hope I get to experience it more often.

If any of you have read Treasure at the Heart of Tanglewood by Meredith Ann Peirce, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it 💖

#confessions of a bookworm #treasure at the heart of tanglewood #meredith ann pierce

[roseunspindle]

The Dark Angel

#The Dark Angel #Meredith Ann Pierce #booklr

[subbyenbywitch]

2022 in review, part 5: novel first reads

my top ten favorite first reads of this year! more or less! idk it’s harder for me to rank books than other kinds of media sometimes, i feel like. i did my best.

1. wolfsong by t.j. klune (2015)

i already wrote a very long review of this so i’m not gonna rehash it here, but yeah this is a gay werewolf book with a very unique/artistic writing style and i’m pretty sure the main character is literally otherkin. (they don’t use the word “otherkin” but his experiences line up so well it’s kind of scary.) obviously i’m a fan.

2. wolf-speaker by tamora pierce (1994)

omfg i need to get back to this series i love tamora pierce’s writing style so much. i keep alternating between kicking myself that i didn’t read these as a kid & celebrating the fact that i get to read them all now. but, yeah, i need to get back to this series. and her stuff in general.

3. any way the wind blows by rainbow rowell (2021)

this is far & away the best book of the simon snow series. it’s just such a godsdamned satisfying ending.

i mean, okay, i do find it a little off-putting that i’m meant to believe that penny is heterosexual, but we can’t win ‘em all. but also we get to see her rules lawyer a fucking demon??? and be a stone cold badass in the process? so i can’t really complain about how that went.

the writing of simon & baz’s intimacy with each other was fucking sublime. it was so heartful & honest, i just ached for them.

i’m a little disappointed that this was such a definitive ending because i could’ve kept following these characters for like a dozen more books, but honestly it was such a perfect ending it’s kind of hard to argue with it.

4. birth of the firebringer by meredith ann pierce (1985)

yeah i can’t imagine what i found appealing about the unicorn book with narration from what feels like an awfully authentic animal headspace whose culture is SUPER pagan and where the main perils are 1) vore, 2) mind control, 3) literally a tornado. just truly drawing a blank here.

5. wayward son by rainbow rowell (2019)

i’m so glad the harry potter books never did an american roadtrip because holy shit it would have been insufferable. this, on the other hand, is brilliant.

everyone at ren fairs is apparently actually a witch or supernatural creature? vampires run las vegas? techbros are trying to contract vampirism for incredibly dumb reasons? yes, yes, yes. perfect.

6. star trek: discovery: dead endless by dave galanter (2019)

we gays are so powerful, you guys. i mean, the fucking butterfly effect of the awful season 1 of discovery unironically employing the bury your gays trope resulting in us ending up with this profic au where culber’s ghost finds his way onto a discovery commanded by a michael burnham who never mutineed and has family dinners with fleet captain georgiou & surrogate sibling saru, and he just immediately starts making out with au stamets who starts working on bending the laws of physics to the will of his multiverse gay love story.

sometimes profic is just fanfic with resources & a stamp of legitimacy, and when it is it’s glorious.

7. star trek: discovery: fear itself by james swallow (2018)

the discovery novels are shockingly good. like, this one is so action packed while also being such a great character study of saru. it honestly surpasses what the show was doing contemporaneously. i’d really like to see more comics or novels set on the shenzhou.

8. murder on the orient express by agatha christie (1934)

this was almost certainly hindered by the fact that i had seen so many adaptations of it by the time i read it that i felt like i had already read it, but i nevertheless enjoyed it quite a bit and am eager to read more mystery novels (and christie novels specifically.)

9. lunatic fringe by allison moon (2011)

patient worldbuilding, imperfect but well-meaning characters having mostly (mostly) good-faith conflicts over strategy, and L E S B I A N   W E R E W O L V E S. yeah, that’ll work.

10. blood and chocolate by annette curtis klause (1997)

this book’s picture is in the dictionary under “problematic fave,” but this really is delightful if you can get past all the ways in which it’s awful. and i can, clearly.

#books #year in review #2022 in review #wolfsong #tj klune #wolf-speaker #tamora pierce #simon snow series #any way the wind blows #wayward son #rainbow rowell #birth of the firebringer #meredith ann pierce #star trek discovery #star trek: discovery: dead endless #dave galanter #star trek #star trek: discovery: fear itself #james swallow #murder on the orient express #agatha christie #lunatic fringe book #allison moon #tales of the pack #blood and chocolate #blood and chocolate book #annette curtis klause

[quirkfics]

Kurogiri with endlessly?

He is endlessly patient with your fleeting touches, with the tangled threads of your words, and the way your hands shake whenever he's close. Kurogiri has never been anything but a polite, if commanding, presence in your peripheral, eyes flashing in the dark. Anyone else would assume you're terrified, and it's true, in a way. You're not terrified of him though, so much as your reaction to him, despite the knowledge you possess.

A revenant is nothing more than a corpse, one of the volumes had claimed, reanimated through ghastly measures. And when you'd asked-

Kurogiri had narrowed his eyes, and placed his hand in yours. Underneath the writhing mist, hidden in the solid shadow of it, was cold flesh. Your fingertips had traced over unseen cuticles, the shape of his fingernails and scars on his knuckles.

You've been overwhelmed ever since, battling with your every desperate urge to warm him, somehow. With emotion, with touch. To drive back the chill - or to seek out the one who so cruelly raised him, if only to seek recompense.

#quirk writes ficlets #kurogiri x reader #bnha kurogiri x reader #revenant or undead au thank you pls #oh man I'd want this to have the vibe #of the darkangel by meredith ann pierce #its been YEARS since i read it #but the thought of it still evokes a certain kind of imagery and idk why my head is just like !!! #but yes kurogiri finding out who he is NOW with you as opposed to being leashed to the memory of what he was

[velvetbunniie-archive]

gentlemen, there are some brave souls on ao3 that have given their lives to write some darkangel fics. i will return after i’ve finished writing a bit for the day.

#🫡 #gentlemen in the gender neutral sense btw. #memorie.txt #book: the darkangel #author: meredith ann pierce

[alexical-gap]

Does Anyone Else Remember that Meredith-Anne Pierce Series

With the murder unicorns. The first one is Birth of the Firebringer and it’s literally three pencil thin kids books-- but because they’re old there’s violence and a whole OH NO IT’S INCEST plotline with UNICORNS.

#Meredith-Anne Pierce #Birth of the Firebringer #Books #to be fair she also wrote one where our brave heroine fucks a reindeer man #that one was not a kids book

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

so what YA books you would recommend?

Ugh, anon, that phrase is death to my ears.

Generally, I do not recommend YA books as a genre. I know I talk about HP and Twilight here, but as a genre it's not something I can recommend/recommend without some ulterior, bizarre, reason such as Midnight Sun being a pile of insanity every other sentence such that it's essentially American Psycho.

However, if you're going to make me pick, here's the shortlist off the top of my head.

(The shortlist being books that probably, generally, aren't really YA but got stuffed into the genre for some reason or another).

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

The Riddlemaster Trilogy by Patricia A. Mckillip

The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathon Stroud

The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#book recommendations #recommendations

[theresebelivett]

so lovely @letsgrow tagged me months ago lolllll and i'm finally doing it!!! so you are only able to keep 20 of your books, only one book per authors / series. So what books are you keeping? So in no particular order, here goes mine! (also this may be easier for me than others cause i'm a Library Bitch and probably own fewer books than one would expect for a former english major lol):

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (yes my favorite book of all time also has my first name, i'm so cool)

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

The Brownstone by Paula Scher (i must have certain books from my childhood close to me at all times)

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

i actually have the first three books of the Vampire Chronicles as a single volume so THAT COUNTS AS ONE BABYYYY (but i'd pick Queen of the Damned if i had to pick, that's my faaaaaave)

D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d'Aulaires

Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam (another children's book and i've got a tattoo from this one baybeeeeeee)

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (my copy is very old and very important to meee)

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (another children's book i have a tattoo from!!!)

Amphigorey by Edward Gorey

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (IF I'M FORCED TO PICK BETWEEN THE THREE UGH)

Dare Me by Megan Abbott (my favorite currently working author so this was TOUGH but that's the one that started it all for me and is probably my fave, The Turnout a close second. read megan abbott. goddammit)

I Spy Christmas: A Book of Picture Riddles by Walter Wick (i literally snuggle up and reread this every december)

Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood by Meredith Ann Pierce (ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS AS A KID AND I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYONE ELSE TALK ABOUT IT EVER IN MY LIFE????)

A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (i only read this a few months ago but it made me feel so safe and heard that i can see myself rereading it whenever i'm having a tough time now)

Dangerous Angels by Francesca Lia Block

Books of Blood: Volumes 1-3 by Clive Barker

oh god okay i'll tag some ppl but if we're moots feel free to assume i tagged you: @asirensong, @dclarkadmin, @spiderslyre, @lesbin, @anneofgreengaybles, & @newwave-cowboy

#about me

[vedurnan]

in the book darkangel by meredith ann pierce all the people live on the moon and they call the sun solstar and the earth oceanus, i read it as a child and a lot of it stuck with me for a long time. sometimes when i see a picture of earth from space where only the ocean and swirling clouds are visible i still think of oceanus. i'm shocked i've never heard anyone mention it but my parents, it's like a fantasy story set in the extremely distant future about an enslaved lunar handmaiden who has to save her mistress after she's abducted by a vampire. i would want to reread it sometime

#there are sequels too but i'm not sure if i ever read them as a kid