#not really book 3 spoilers

[eyes-of-nine]

pls assume i'm thinking about this moment 24/7 all week every week

#ahsjgdh i love the young xianle quartet sm they're almost barely not traumatized...kinda #they're very silly especially in retrospect #aaa i do also really want to draw young xie lian and mu qing but the idea of rendering that much gold detailing sounds like hell ywy #i'll do it but christ alive #my art #fanart #tgcf #tgcf fanart #tgcf spoilers #technically #also i haven't read past book 3 for now ywy #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #feng xin #hua cheng #...he gets one tag bc i'm not keeping track of all the aliases #every time i draw hc his hair gets worse and worse #my man has not seen a hairbrush in the past 800 or so years of his existence

[mugwot]

funnyjokespunperson

#cozy-comfy reading a book recovering <3 #vulnerability? sorry all they got is puns #love them for it tbh so real for that #i imagine this being somewhen post-game so #isat spoilers #sorry but i do not believe that Vaugarde or really any other place has no constellations at all #they are so usefull! for navigation or for calendar keeping! #so yeah now there Are constellations they are just niche knowledge for like sailing or for understanding how the calendar formed #i guess there is also specifically ursa minor what a coincidence #did you know that there are myths based on how constellations behave through out the year? #scorpio and orion are never seen on the sky at the same time and theres a myth about how the scorpion killed him #but he was immortalized on the night sky (the scorpion also got immortalized because fuck orion) #rant over have a nice day #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #my art

[tragedy-for-sale]

Finished Reading Padawan

These are just some little facts/snippets throughout the book I really liked, really along the lines of temple life.

Spoilers for Padawan below!

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Obi-Wan tugs on his padawan braid when he is anxious

Bolla Ropal (the Jedi that was killed guarding the holocron in TCW) was Obi-Wan's childhood frienemy. The two played pranks on each other.

Obi-Wan paces outside Qui-Gon's chamber doors as he's trying to figure out what to say what he needs to.

Obi-Wan feels most at peace, most calm, when he is practicing lightsaber forms and says he could do it all day and never bore of it.

Jedi specialize in certain fields, such as communication with animals, and if such a conflict arises based in that Jedi's field, they are sent to help

Jedi who are ready to take have a padawan meditate and the force guides them to who they're meant to train, leading to shared interests.

The temple has several dining halls. There is a padawan meal hall and therefore one for the other ranks. They offer such a variety of food Obi-Wan said one could always find something new to try. And I could've made this up but I'm also pretty sure they said the dining hall for padawans was almost always open, so one was always be able to get a meal.

Some Jedi Masters put a table and chairs in their rooms so they can share a meal with their padawan in their personal space

Qui-Gon doesn't even have an extra chair in his room.

Ships can be requested/reserved down in the hangar. A padawan is allowed to do this without approval from their master (Obi-Wan is told by Qui-Gon to do do but is not directly confronted when he does it alone).

Talking and communicating with animals is actually one of the harder skills to learn and master as a Jedi, so many opt not to. Meaning Ezra's ability to communicate with animals as well as he does is not something all Jedi could do, especially for his age

Nautolans, can live outside of water (we do know this) but since they are an aquatic species, there is a constant strain on their gills and results in them being in pain if out of water for too long.

Obi-Wan thinks Kit Fisto is really strong, he notes Fisto does not seem to be affected by this.

Obi-Wan notes some of his padawan friends have dabbled in physical relationships. But he sees it has an obstacle not as a temptation, feeling that, kissing for example, was a betrayal of himself and the Jedi. He wonders if he'd ever get to a point where it does not feel like that.

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Honestly this book was a really cute read and the planet it takes place on was very captivating. I really liked how Kirsten White writes Qui-Gon too and her references that any prequel fan would love catching.

#I really liked the little facts like this #the glimpses into temple life #and seeing how even at 16 #Obi-Wan very much trusted the Jedi and all his faith was put in the Order #also his fear of not wanting to disappoint Qui-Gon mixed with his annoyance at Qui-Gon #I feel his mindset for his age was very on point #him questioning everything #obiwan kenobi #star wars #padawan novel spoilers #padawan Obi-Wan #padawan novel #padawan spoilers #padawan book spoilers #sw #obi wan kenobi #also #he mentions Kit like 3 other times throughout he book #man just really be thinking of Kit Fisto #understandable I suppose #finished reading

[catastrxblues]

reading tbosas and witnessing all of tigris & coriolanus’ sweet moments just hurts knowing what would eventually be left of them 60 years or so later. this tigris could’ve never thought, in a million years, that she could resent her sweet little coryo so bad that she would actually let out a smile when a girl from district 12 told her that she was going to kill him. and this coriolanus could’ve never ever thought to abandon tigris, one of the only two constant people he had since he was a child, the one who had always cared for him and made him happy. this hurts, i hate that this hurts.

#i’m still on page 140 something so i don’t really know what’s going to happen to them in this book though (and please no spoilers!) #nothing too bad i hope #but i do kinda wish we could find out what happened to them (which i don’t think we will in this book) #i just ugh #i feel so sorry for tigris #she was such a sweet soul </3 #i love her #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow #tigris snow #the hunger games #thg #nadirants

[everythingsheneeds]

am i the only one who didnt know they were together ????

#im so clueless wtf #tbosas #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the hunger games #rachel zegler #josh andres rivera #im shitting myself #i havent watched the movie yet </3 #i did read the book tho #it was really good #rip ******* ****** #censoring for spoilers #lol

[greyhands]

#the wayhaven chronicles #n sewell #nate sewell #nate x detective #twc book 3 spoilers #I personally prefered the combat training scene #because of the dialogues #even if the setting in the research scene was more romantic #I have mixed feelings about this book though #I'm glad to learn new things about N's past and his insecurities #but gods I wish we had the opportunity to comfort him and to talk about the fight issue #I really enjoyed the first half of the book then to me the second kind of feels like... rushed ? idk #on the other hand I like how the romance isn't going to be a smooth and easy road #I've also read M's route and oh boi the feelings... !! #Next is A then F because I will probably need some fluff after A ^^;; #But nope no LT's route I'm a coward #my art #no full colors sorry no time ><

[artsyaprilmr]

POV: you are seconds away from confessing

#the wayhaven chronicles #twc #agent m #twc book 3 spoilers #twc b3 spoilers #not really but to be safe #sorry this is simple but i am still. processing everything. #m's route changed my brain chemistry in the best ways possible #q

[markantonys]

i'm thinking about nynaeve's line to egwene in the testing vision about how egwene will be a better "servant of all" than nynaeve ever could be. i love that moment so much! because it plays into one of my very favorite Themes from the books: the difference between heroes who focus on the greater good, sometimes at the expense of individuals (egwene, rand, moiraine, elayne) and heroes who focus on individuals, sometimes at the expense of the greater good (nynaeve, perrin, mat). and neither is inherently better or worse than the other, it's just two different ways of looking at the world! for each character, we see moments where their outlook is a strength as well as moments where it's a weakness/flaw.

i saw someone say that nynaeve undersells herself in that line because throughout the show we've seen HER be a servant of all. and that's very true............IF we define "all" as "the two rivers." nynaeve would die & kill for Her People, and for any other individuals she comes across who need her help, but she doesn't care so much about broader causes or ideals. her arc is really unique because it's an inverse leadership arc, i.e. she starts off in a leadership position but then as the story progresses, she realizes that she is not suited to leadership on the huge scale that's needed for the last battle and steps aside to let people like egwene and rand, who ARE suited to it, take up that leadership.

(if you will allow me a bit of #gawynposting, gawyn actually has a very similar arc in this respect: he starts off expecting to become first prince of the sword, but then when he gets his first real taste of large-scale leadership as the leader of the younglings, he's miserable. he doesn't care about the younglings' cause, he just wants to protect his specific loved ones, elayne & egwene, because at heart he is an Individuals Guy, not a Big Picture Guy. and so in the end he rejects his role as first prince and dedicates himself to protecting one specific person, egwene, as her warder. but the tragedy of his character is that even after all this he still can't shake the My Duty Is To The Big Picture conditioning that's been drilled into him since childhood, and thus focusing exclusively on protecting one single person during the last battle makes him feel selfish & guilty about "wasting" his fighting abilities and he decides it's his duty to sacrifice himself for the greater good. sob!)

anyway, i love this line because it's not true and also it's true. nynaeve IS a selfless servant of all, but egwene will be a better servant of all-all than nynaeve could be. because egwene is more able to set aside her personal feelings to focus objectively on what's best for the greatest number of people, whereas nynaeve just can't stomach the ruthless calculus of war (which, again, is not a knock on either character, they're simply different kinds of people and BOTH kinds are needed to win the last battle). and that's why it could only ever be egwene who got the amyrlin arc, even though you might initially expect it to go to nynaeve due to the setup of her being the most powerful aes sedai of the age.

#wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #wot book spoilers #nynaeve al'meara #egwene al'vere #gawyn trakand #this particular Difference In Outlook is also part of what makes gawene so interesting & enjoyable to me esp their TGS/TOM conflicts #because this really is what's causing those conflicts at the root of it #egwene is focused on her big-picture duties and struggles to make room in them for a personal relationship #gawyn is focused on his personal relationship with egwene and struggles to make room in it for the big picture #but in the end they're able to help each other meet in the middle <3 #gawyn learns to understand the difference between egwene as his girlfriend & egwene as his amyrlin #and to modify his behavior with her to be appropriate for the respective situation #and egwene learns to allow herself work-life balance and to metaphorically take the stole off when in private with her partner #and to share her burdens with him and ask him for help with them

[cinammonelles]

Love how the heavenly officials went, "Ling wen, your war crimes were no good very bad. As punishment we're employing you again, congrats. Go finish these reports by tomorrow."

#obligatory textpost to celebrate finally completing tgcf #being in the mxtx fandom for 3+ years without reading the whole of tgcf was really like playing russian roulette with looking at posts #i can finally be at peace now <3 #tgcf #ling wen #tgcf book 5 spoilers #tgcf spoilers #text #🍀

[coreene]

This is from when Astarion tells the player that he's a vampire

Player: But you've been walking in the sun this whole time. Astarion: And by rights I should be cinders blowing in the wind, but something's protecting me. The same something that's kept us from turning into mind flayers, no doubt. But that's neither here nor there. What matters is everything's out in the open now. Because we trust each other. devnote: He doesn't really believe what he's saying but trying to convince the player

Player: We are a team. We need each other. Astarion: Exactly! I knew I could rely on you. Just like you can rely on me. devnote: Do not rely on Astarion, dear player. He will eat you.

I've seen this being shared before but I wanted to have it on my blog anyway. That last devnote just kills me. And Astarion does, in fact, kill you if you let him. I like that it happens. I think that was one of the moments where it broke that romantic vampire trope. You can't trust vampires - they will eat you!!

I didn't know much about dnd vampires, and having already lived through that vampire loving phase in my teens he wasn't really interesting to me, at first glance. But being a vampire is not really the main focus of his story, is it? It's trauma, slavery and survival. It's how strong he is despite being so goddamned scared.

Which makes him human more than anything else. I think we like him so much because of that.

#I'm really not into the whole let him bite you thing #I still love vampires #but i dont want to be their prey #i want to be a vampire that preys on others #I'm an Anne Rice girlie (gn) #Lestat is really popular but if you guys haven't - I suggest reading the book Merrick #She is so fucking awesome #I love her #Pandora too #anyway i got derailed with my love for Anne Rice again #What im saying is we're curing Astarion post-game in this blog #Astarion #BG3 Astarion #Astarion Ancunin #Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion #Bg3 #Bg3 Spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 devnotes #queue

[normal-thoughts-official]

listen. yes it's pretty frustrating but i think it's so funny how they had aerin be an official LI, made his route fuck so hard even previous haters wanted to fuck him, and then had him dip in the same chapter that he had sex with MC for the first time. and then he's just been gone like it never happened for 9 chapters and counting. like i know ill get death threats for this but i genuinely think this was one of choices' funniest moves. what was going through their minds. 10/10 no notes

#u ppl need to chill tho like guys he was only present in like 3 chapters in book 1..... #i get that u stan and miss him and that's fine but some ppl are acting like pb OWES you a book-long aerin route and they really dont 😭 #also it's not over yet. they're in whitetower and recruiting allies so aerin will probably be back soon #still funny tho #playchoices #blades of light and shadow #bolas #bolas2 spoilers #anyway this is reparations. for once the white male LI is being sidelined and the main LIs are either nonhuman or brown #overflowing trashcan

[i-sveikata]

okay so just finished reading dark heir and let me tell you THEORY TIME:

-okay so my guess is that anharion was actually being magically controlled by the sun king when the lady betrayed sarcean thats why he walked away like it was nothing

-sarcean managed to free him from it and thats why he was able to switch sides in the battle/ follow the desire he feels for sarcean and go against those in the sun kings court and the 'light'

-despite popular belief the collar doesnt actually control him, thats why james didnt feel any compulsion when it was put on again. it was devised by sarcean to ensure anharion has control of his own mind forever and nobody else can ever compel him if he gets magically drained (whilst also being a show of ownership because hes a possessive bastard)

-i also think that how james/anharion was acting once the collar was on wasnt even about being forced to do what will says. it could honestly just be that he understands him so well that he knows the exact right things to say to reassure him? and will was just too afraid at seeing the collar on his throat to look beyond it and consider the possibility of james/anharion actually not being under his control. which could explain that weird moment where he realised james/anharion was mirroring sarceans desires and not actually his own. like those last few moments to me seem like james/anharion trying to talk to sarcean- not will.

-because like maybe they were just genuinely lovers in the past?? Esp if the collar doesnt work how everyone assumes that it does.

-but all the rumours etc surrounding anharion and sarcean and anharions sudden switching of sides could only have been understood as by force because ppl always viewed sarcean and his magic as different and evil?? and anharion being so pure and of 'light' that they could only see it as being corrupted by sarcean and anharion not following him willingly

idk i just feel like theres so much of the story that we havent heard from either anharion or sarcean themselves and these books are about how bad perceptions of people can lead them to ruin and fuel a story rather than the reality of their actions. so anyway im so down for the next book in the hopes that we can learn more about their history!!

#dark heir spoilers #theory time #i just feel like there so much more to this narrative to play with and i really cant wait to find out where the story goes in book 3 #not to say that i dont think sarcean is a dick and that you cant write non con stuff but this would seem like such an interesting twist #like everyone blaming sarcean and hating him for stuff that he didnt actually do would so tie into wills current story too #where he is actually trying to be a good person and is constantly being punished by others perception of him

[beesinspades]

i know astarion's attitude towards sex is all due to his trauma but. listen. there are some aspects of his romance and experiences that can be so relatable as a sex-neutral or sex-averse ace person. in fact him being ace or acespec on top of the trauma makes him even more compelling and tragic to me. it would've been amazing and interesting if he'd been canonically ace and these aspects plus how his asexuality affected his traumatic sexual experiences had been explored as well

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #asexual #bee talks #like i love any ace rep! but so far except in some books i've only ever seen the same kind of ace rep. and it's always really tame #regardless of how he feels about sex (favorable or neutral or averse) a character like astarion being ace would've been groundbreaking afai #btw i've seen it under other posts on the topic so: if you come at me like 'uhm actually' i'm blocking you #this post isn't for you #anyway during my playtest at larian's in april i wrote an essay suggesting the possibility of ace dialogue options for the player character #and ace companions (for future games) #i hope larian listens and gives us ace options + an ace companion in the future #I'm sure they could do something amazing #so fingers crossed

[pretty-haunted]

Something silly and quick for one of my favorite book 3 scenes

#wayhaven book 3 spoilers #the wayhaven chronicles #wayhaven detective #this is dumb #but i really do love this scene #clean sketches? couldn't be me #pretty haunted art

[swordtit]

mortum going "but i know my best friend" in regards to the puppet acting strangely does something to my heart.

it's somehow more impactful then the romanced response of "but i know my boy/girlfriend". maybe its just because its coming from mortum, who has been betrayed and is so very cautious about letting people get close to them, letting the puppet in and having it blow up in their face all over again just as it had before .... and yet.....

i know my best friend.

#speaking #AUGH i love mortum #mortum and chen are my favorite for platonic runs #k and mortum are really close i hope book 3 lets them patch things up (same with jordan) #fallen hero #fh revelations spoilers

[leezuhh]

sunshine court no context

#i'm sorry... i couldnt stop thinking of this meme while reading the beginning #lemme find the line that really set it in for me... ok it was 'have fun whoring your way to the top of another line-up you useless bitch' #the raven hate mail game was insane #anyways yea i just spent like 3 hours straight reading tsc and yes i just finished it #the sunshine court #the sunshine court spoilers #all for the game #nora sakavic #also neil continuing the time-honored tradition of murdering rapists at the end of the book was iconic. king #i need to reread the og trilogy sighhhh the second book is a lil hard for me to get thru though #but i liked this one a ton. all the characters felt very real #i liked the choice to make the trojans not all sunshine and rainbows but have to make an effort to keep up that appearance #and also oml these bitches are worried about jean ruining their reputation when they have LUCAS on the lineup ? yall have bigger problems.. #thats a joke i just think lucas is a bitch #i was also surprised by jean ending up pan vs jeremy just gay because the fandom characterization has always been the opposite #but yknow what i like it a lot #tempted to put a whole book review right in these tags but i won't #aftg // #tsc spoilers #tsc