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minuiko · 2 months
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Platonic soulmates :’)
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miraclerizuin · 6 months
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I hope Neal’s daughter is his firstborn and when he’s like “are you crazy what do you mean you want to be a knight???” she just looks at him severely and says “a queenscove knight has served the crown for centuries and is a pillar of the kingdom”
“do you see what I have to deal with???”
and yuki & kel are just laughing their asses off
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fytortall · 6 months
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It's kind of weird thinking about how Kelly is 14 years old and her best friend is a 19-year-old. That's that's like that's weird that's like somebody who graduated high school being best friends with like an eighth grader that's weird.
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Translation: It's kind of weird thinking about how Kel is 14 years old and her best friend is a 19-year-old. That's like, that's weird. That's like somebody who graduated high school being best friends with like an 8th grader. That's weird.
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ladylingua · 4 months
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau & Nealan of Queenscove Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau, Nealan of Queenscove Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, period of adjustment, the squire years, canonically Alanna was a good mentor and we shouldn't forget it, they really just have so much in common, Neal was Big Brother Frirend to so many pages, he deserves to get to be Little Brother again with someone, Just as a treat Summary:
Neal and Alanna have more in common than he had realized.
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six-of-snakes · 25 days
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Fandom Trumps Hate 2024: Tortall series offerings
Browsing for the @fandomtrumpshate 2024 auction is open now! Bidding runs from March 5th at 8 am EST to March 9th at 8 pm EST! View all offerings here.
This year there are 5 total offerings for Tamora Peirce's Tortall universe!
Fanfiction
Chash (@ponyregrets) is offering a 10-20k fic with a max rating of E. Her favorite characters to write about are Alanna and Kel.
six-of-snakes (@six-of-snakes) is offering a <5k fic with a max rating of M. He likes to write Ozorne/Numair, Alanna/Thayet, Roald vi/Neal and aroace!Kel.
cricket (@cricketnationrise) is offering a 5-10k fic with a max rating of E. She is especially interested in writing Protector of the Small era, aroace!Kel, AUs, and alternate POV.
kitsuneri88 (no tumblr) is offering a 5-10k fic with a max rating of M. kitsuneri88 prefers to write Neal/Yuki and Numair/Daine.
fan labor
aliteralgarbageheap (@aliteralgarbageheap) is offering a podfic up to 5k, length depending donation. They especially like Alanna/George, Alanna/George/Numair, Kel & Neal, Kel & Dom, Aly/Nawat, but are open to other pairings.
if i messed up or missed someones @ or other info, please let me know!
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Kel: The universe is trying to make me adopt this abused orphan, and I don’t want to, and I am riding into a war, and I am not taking him with me.
Neal a few pages later: What’s that lump hiding from the rain under your cloak?
Kel: a child
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best-book-siblings · 1 year
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the-pontiac-bandit · 1 year
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Neal + waiting
Neal leans on his practice sword as he sulks in the practice yards at Pirate's Swoop, thinking of the myriad of other more enjoyable ways he could spend the third bell after lunch--really, even a ride on Peachblossom sounded more enjoyable than sparring with his new knight-mistress. A knight mistress who's late to her own practice session, he adds resentfully in his mind.
He's jerked out of his reverie by the whistle of a dagger flying mere inches from his ear, followed by a cackle from the wall above and a shout, "If you won't learn vigilance from me, Queenscove, I'm happy to let Aly teach it!"
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skysong-tortall · 2 months
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"Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary."
-Neal of Queenscove, Protector of the Small (Lady Knight), Tamora Pierce
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treefey · 2 months
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Spending four years with Alanna really rubbed off on Neal. I know he's exhausted at the end of Lady Knight, but the way he harps on Kel for daring to get injured strikes me as very Lioness of him
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dr-dendritic-trees · 1 year
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Started listening to First Test again...
Feeling soft feelings about how Neal and Kel clearly both think that they are the sensible one in this relationship.
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minuiko · 2 months
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Yuki gifting Neal her shukusen. Scene from Squire
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Sleep, Interrupted
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Kel sits up, rubbing sleep from her eyes. Jump sleepily thumps his tail on the bedclothes and then closes his eyes again; a few sparrows mutter their irritation at Kel’s movement interrupting their rest but don’t move much themselves. The griffin, thankfully, doesn’t wake.
“Go away,” she mumbles; ignoring her, something plonks against her closed shutters again.
When she opens the shutters and sees who stands in the moonlit courtyard she glowers and turns back to her bed.
“Wait, Kel!” Owen calls. “You’re gone all the time, we just miss you.”
“It’s midwinter,” she says flatly. “All I want is sleep.”
“Lord Raoul keeps you that busy?” Neal asks. “I knew you two were made for each other.”
Tired as she is, hearing Neal’s snark and Owen’s enthusiasm lifts Kel’s heart. “Let me pull on something warmer than my sleeping clothes,” she says.
“Hooray!” Owen claps his hands and Kel can’t help but smile. “The others are waiting, we’ll have a jolly time.”
“You know I’ll see you at tomorrow’s party,” she calls over her shoulder, pitching her voice low so she doesn’t bother the animals.”
“Owen’s never been good at waiting.”
Owen protests. Kel laughs.
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31 days of ficmas, day 19 - all I want…
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peppers-ghost-posts · 2 years
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I forgot how Alanna and Neal are the greatest mentor/mentee combination.  
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Do any of you have ideas about what type of ambient magic Tamora pierce's other characters would have an obvious one I think would be Lalasa from POTS having thread magic?
Molly here, since I have the most familiarity with the Tortall books.
Lalasa would absolutely have thread magic! (And if anyone wants to write a Tortall/Emelan crossover fic where Sandry and Lalasa hang out, I want to read it!!) Here are the others I can think of
Kourrem (I think. It might be Alanna's other student) would also have thread magic. She sort of already does. (Incidentally, Tammy also has a short story in which a type of thread magic makes an appearance. I love how frequently she uses this motif, since it's not particularly common in other fiction.)
I like to think Raoul might also have thread magic, after he and Kel have their little sewing race
Alanna and Neal would obviously be healers (they already are)
I think Coram teaches Alanna and her fellow pages to make their own training swords? (someone does) so he could be a smith-mage
There's also someone in Song of the Lioness who is mentioned is good with fire. I think it was Duke Baird. Do he could have some type of fire-crafting (This is what we determined Goodwin's ambient magic would be, since he has an interest in metal-crafting, but is also an excellent cook.)
Tunstall could have plant magic, since he grows tiny roses
Mistress Knoll is a good enough cook to be a cook mage (I guess it's a shame she wasn't born in Emelan.)
and Rosto plays the flute, so he could have some type of music-magic
That's all I can think of, though I would be very interested to see what the Emelan analog of Beka's gift is. I haven't read Trickster in a long enough time (or Immortals at all) to speak for anyone in those series, so I'd love to see people add to this list!
Thanks for the question!
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six-of-snakes · 6 months
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Some nights, when it was too lonely in his room, Neal snuck out the window and wandered the palace gardens. If he'd still been a page, he would've gotten weeks of punishment work, but he wasn't a page. He wasn't anything, anymore, just a boy with dreams too big to chase and hopes dashed by his own foolishness. Too old to be a knight, too old to be a mage. Too young to be a good noble. Too flighty to settle down, too afraid to even try. He wanded the moonlit paths of the garden, and regretted, with the leaves crunching under his feet and the stars glimmering above. He paused at the ponds that dotted the gardens, and looked at his reflection, but he didn't recognize the man he saw. He should've been a knight. He should've been a mage. He should've done something, anything, that would make his family proud. But he was here, crying silently in the gardens with only the plants for company, while his friends slept, and worked, and ate, working toward a goal he'd never wanted and never been able to achieve. Perched on a bench one night, clouds gathering in the sky above, he watched an owl soar among the towers of the castle, and he thought of Kel, with her iron will and her dreams of being a knight. He hoped she'd fly like the owl he saw, like the owl of her family's crest. He hoped they'd all fly, that they would find success where he couldn't. That they would become knights, and fight for Tortall, while he sat in the garden until he was indistinguishable from the plants.
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