#privilege of the sword

[sailormoonsub]

please tell me that someone else has read Swordspoint and/or Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. given the high proportion of sword lesbians and people who are so normal about messy relationships in my audience, it seems possible

#im reading all her books and they're making me insaneeeee #i will do a full book wrap up here if you're interested #i read over a hundred books in 2023 since i work at a library now #also if you don't hear from me until the new year it's because I'm on my International World Tour (aka visiting family for xmas) #swordspoint #privilege of the sword #ellen kushner

[alotoffeltthings]

I am making a “book jacket” based on Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. It is going to be in the style of a doublet. Very Elizabethan. This is the back. I have a black rose embroidered on the back to represent a character in the book. I am going to surround the main flower with flowers in bisexual colors. The jacket will be covered in embroidery using white thread to look like lace and swords. So far I have used old curtains (the teal/blue color), leftover fabric from a sale (green velvet) and a thrifted tablecloth (the green floral fabric). So far the base jacket is done. I might add pieces to the shoulder which will require seam ripping. I am not satisfied with the fit. It is not the best work. Most of that is because I made my own pattern for this and I’m learning, part of that is using a sewing machine on the floor. Overall I very happy with how it looks and I am having fun learning.

#privilege of the sword #Book jacket #handmade #embroidery #my art #sewing #my photo #Swords

[squeeneyart]

[Image description: Two digital colored drawings of Alec Campion, a tall, light-skinned young man with light brown hair coming down to the nape of his neck in a green and gold-embroidered jacket with cravat, tan trousers and riding boots, and Katherine Talbert, a shorter, light-skinned young woman with wavy blond ponytail in a similar outfit but with less decoration on the jacket and added shoulder fringes.

Left: Alec stands with a gold medallion dangling from his pinky by a chain and his other hand on his hip. He looks pissed. Behind him, a man with short hair sits in a chair blushing and confused.

Right: Katherine extends one hand back, her other hand wielding a dueling sword. She looks determined. Behind her, a young woman in a dress smiles and blushes with her hands clasped together.

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ive had the phrase 'they got the tremontaine rizz' in my head for weeks, have this

#swordspoint #privilege of the sword #alec campion #katherine talbert #fun fact for most of this ive been listening to the bigtop burger season 2 ost

[the-phantom-peach]

i adore your artwork so much!!!!! you are so talented and your drawings are so beautiful ☺️

PS i love the way you draw skyward sword zelda, you make her look so sunshiny and warm

:3

Thank you! And I’m glad you like how I draw her, she’s a beaut <3

#pretty privilege didn’t spare her from the narrative tho #skyward sword #peachie asks

[thelastofthebookworms]

Feel free to make suggestions. I may make another poll if there are enough candidates.

More polls.

#polls #sapphic reads #queer reads #lgbt reads #sapphic leads #teixcalaan #a memory called empire #a desolation called peace #arkady martine #the stars are legion #kameron hurley #this is how you lose the time war #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #the priory of the orange tree #samantha shannon #ninefox gambit #yoon ha lee #the privilege of the sword #ellen kushner #down among the sticks and bones #wayward children #seanan mcguire #the long way to a small angry planet #the wayfarers #becky chambers #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Patrick O’Hara- The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Alex Claremont-Diaz- Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Maud Blyth- The Last Binding Trilogy by Freya Marske 

Katherine- The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

#Patrick O’Hara #The Guncle #GUP #Steven Rowley #Alex Claremont-Diaz #Red White and Royal Blue #McQuistonverse #Casey McQuiston #Maud Blyth #The Last Binding #The Last Binding Trilogy #A Marvelous Light #A Restless Truth #A Power Unbound #Freya Marske #Katherine #The Privilege of the Sword #Ellen Kushner #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Katherine is WLW and uses She/Her pronouns!

#couldn't find a consensus between lesbian and bi so wlw it is! #katherine talbert #the privilege of the sword #ellen kushner #tumblr polls #fandom polls #poll #wlw #she/her #books #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character #finished

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

based on your asks responses & characterization of yuuta this is what i’ve gathered — yuuta is like that one high school senior who looked at the new coming freshman’s & just adopted them on the spot. there’s no out. now his friends sees the kid & adopted them too. it’s a family now. a very young, close in age family. (i was yuuta in this situation 😔 i was use to be megumi in this situation but i carried the tradition out. as i should. high school & middle school was wild.)

YUUJI THOUGH. we will probably never see him in your sea glass garden au but your asks is killing me. like his one sided beef with yuuta? he’s just like me fr. i too would fight over megumi if it comes down to it.

i just know yuuji thought that yuuta & megumi was a thing at first cause of the whole “his boy thing”. i know he screamed into a pillow about it. i know he went to gojo to ask for permission to court megumi & gojo was flabbergasted at such a medieval act so he had yuuji do the dumbest shit to get his blessing (ha).

i just know nanami is sighing at the idea of his son yuuji being a jealous little brat because of his other son yuuta. i just know yuuta was so confused until he witnessed yuuji & megumi awkward ass flirting. i know he acts like a little shit to get on yuuji (& sukuna) nerves.

you know what. this is my jujutsu kaisen. this is my sorcery fight. gege who? i only know you. PLS TAKE THE PEN FROM GEGE.

Yuuta is absolutely that senior who adopted that new student and made a little family. That is His Kohai now okay megumi is their collectively raised flour sack baby and they will kill for him.

Yuuji came back to life finally met the second years had just leveled up with his cursed energy and gained a new dad got his old friends back he was so so ready to go live his best life and then his new self appointed brother opened his mouth and started rhapsodizing about some impossibly beautiful and perfect man named okkotsu yuuta and yuuji is absolutely whacked in the face a la rubber squeaky hammer that there’s some gorgeous son of a bitch out there already living his best life.

His death sentence was overturned. He’s so powerful that he can save everyone if he wants. He is the legally adopted child of Nanami Kento. The curse attached to him 1) actually liked him and 2) moved the fuck on which some people (Sukuna) could take a few notes on.

Fushiguro Megumi is his boy.

This could not have devastated him more thoroughly. Even his newly acquired self appointed brother thinks okkotsu yuuta is the perfect man, which he manages to express at length in between warnings from the second years that Yuuta’s going to fly back from Africa purely for the sake of kicking his fucking ass for touching His Boy, which yuuji simply cannot handle.

Yuuji lowkey had a new lease on life and thought “hey! Fushiguro tried to kill someone with an elephant for me! Maybe I have a shot and he’ll let me hold his hand!” and then there’s god’s perfect man off in Africa who’s enticing megumi away from movie marathons with his fucking FaceTime calls right when yuujis almost hyped himself up enough to try the yawning arm stretch thing.

He spends at least three weeks trying to figure out if Megumi’s His Boy because they’re in a long distance relationship and it only ends because maki starts finding it more annoying than funny and establishes that it is not in fact a romantic arrangement. She thinks. (Okay it’s still kind of funny.)

Yuuji resorted to a terrible wikihow on how to get someone to date you and it insisted “get their parents approval” was his in and gojo could NOT have been more of an asshole about it. Nanami had to intervene to get it to stop. He is very tired and very confused. Why are you so upset about okkotsu he’s a lovely young man why is this making you more upset

Of course if yuuji ever found out that megumi became Yuuta’s boy after Yuuta personally restarted his heart he’d instantly understand why everyone acts like Yuuta’s the best thing since sliced bread. He is that amazing.

Yuuta and Megumi are completely oblivious to all of this.

Gege pls call me I just want to help gege pls

#sea glass gardens #just remember YOU can forcibly displace gege and turn the creative property over to me #I will be making several. SEVERAL. changes. #yuuji absolutely goes back into his room and screams into his pillow over Yuuta #he was going to try to hold Megumi’s hand and Megumi left to go talk to Yuuta just because he was ‘calling all the way from Africa’ and ‘the #movie ended five minutes ago why were you just sitting there looking like you were really stressed are you okay itadori’ #nobara is exhausted just watching this #she’s the most homophobic lesbian alive why do lgbtq things happen to people who don’t deserve it #god she just wants a girlfriend with a sword and these fucking assholes are the ones who get their high school romance they don’t even #APPRECIATE the gay things happening to them #ignoring all canon since we’re never getting there in sea glass gardens #when Yuuta’s coming back from Africa Megumi’s very simply stating that Yuuta’s an important person in his life and he’s glad yuuji wjll #meet him soon which might as well be a DECLARATION OF UNDYING LOVE yuuji has a total crisis #yuuta gets off the plane and fucking hugs megumi yuuji had to get boyfriend privileges to do that who is this son of a bitch #gojo watching this: do you think I can get yuuji to wash my car again if I tell him I’ll distract Yuuta so he can take Megumi on a date #Nanami: why on earth would okkotsu need to be distracted for that to happen #gojo: that’s the beauty of it it is in no way necessary but yuuji doesn’t seem to know that

[noose-lion]

Fights so well I had tears in my eyes

#blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #every swing of the sword left me in pure awe #it was art #it was glorious #it was beautiful #jester's ramblings #jesters privilege

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #The Privilege of the Sword #Ellen Kushner #Riverside #poll #result: no #l: English

[justabiteofspite]

When both you and your pretty elf bf are melee-ranged fighters but he ends the fight looking pristine while you look like you've bathed in a river of blood.

#and it was a long battle too #lots of people to kill #and yet pretty elf boy has pretty elf privilege i guess #astarion #durge #henri the swords bard #bg3

[orathearsonman]

the vatican’t trio

(imagine they are bouncing to caramelldansen)

#i promised vatican trio art…i will deliver #albeit in the form of memes but. Yes #IGNORE EPHAEL’S ARM BY THE WAY i;m not. i’m not know how to swords. Or arms holding swords #art #my art #doodl #gif #eyestrain #(?) #you can never be too sure #the perks of being an s class heroine #a transmigrator’s privilege #vatican trio #tesilid argente #ephael chaletino #hestio ligenel #“ephael what have you got there?” “self-sacrifice!” “NO!!”

[squeeneyart]

cw suicide mention

[Image description: Series of digital greyscale drawings of characters from Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, including Richard St. Vier, a slightly short man with curly black hair and some scarring and stubble in a plain cloak, Alec Campion, a tall skinny man with long hair tied back loosely with a ribbon in long student's robes, and Katherine Talbert, a young woman with wavy hair tied into a ponytail wearing a swordsman's jacket.

Top left text: Whoops I read Ellen Kishner's Swordboy Yaoi

Top left to right: Richard looks to the side as Alec talks to someone off-camera with a hand on his hip. Text by Richard: This gary stu bitch has purple eyes.

Katherine writing a letter determinedly. Text near with an arrow: Swearing to defend an innocent lady's honor while rp'ing her favorite book's leading man.

Bottom left to right: Alec looking over his shoulder in disgust. Alec and Katherine in t-shirts that say, respectively: "If you mention my ex I'll kill you and then myself" and "I tolerate my gay uncle but just barely".

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i say swordboy yaoi but dont worry katherine is working out her swordgirl yuri as well

anyway i read swordspoint and the privilege of the sword by ellen kushner. im just. im just gonna be like this for a minute dont mind me and please do not look at how much ive drawn alec specifically its fine im gonna punt him into the sky

#swordspoint #the privilege of the sword #richard st. vier #alec campion #katherine talbert #if theres typos in the description. listen. my wrist is funky today and im v tired #riverside

[fourthousandbooks]

A new book tonight, we start The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner, the sequel to Swordspoint, which was a book that I picked up for the oddest recommendation given the source material and thoroughly enjoyed and immediately bought the two following books too.

This book is about Katherine, a young woman who is suddenly brought to the city when her uncle, the Mad Duke Tremontaine, decides to have her trained as a swordswoman in exchange for erasing her family’s debts, and presumably continue to fuck with the city a lot since he’s a returning character with charisma, brains and spite. (He was probably my favorite in the previous book, but I haven’t officially been told by the book that it’s him so we shall both be coy for a bit) but I’m still too early to know all the plots spinning around and which things tie to what. I didn’t have most of the twists called till the very climax of the previous book, which is always fun.

I’m currently 80 pages in and it’s in the part of the story where it sets plot threads spinning and drops hints both about the returning characters and their current states, and establishes the new characters and their agenda, but it’s definitely a slower story than some I’ve read. I’m not complaining, I’m enjoying the slow build and time to get to know what’s going on, it’s an intrigue and swashbuckling book so the set up and the deadly dance is the point and so far I’m enjoying it a lot.

We shall see how long it takes me to read it, it would be nice if I finished it by the end of the week, but who knows! Swordspoint I read 3/4s of in less than a week and then needed a whole month to read the last chunk, so we shall see just what the future has in store.

#new reads #the privilege of the sword #ellen kushner #I like Katherine a lot too #she’s a really fun protagonist and good counterpoint to the other characters #and to the leads of the previous book #I look forward to her having more misadventures #and sticking her nose in other peoples businesses

[ghostlyheart]

Huge massive fumble on Oluwande's part by the way. I'm so sorry pirate queen I would NEVER treat you like that

#i would kill for the privilege of having a sword flirtatiously pointed at my chest. are you kidding #ofmd spoilers

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Zhu Chongba- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Scholar Christopher Wolfe- The Great Library Series by Rachel Caine

Chloe Green- I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Katherine Talbert- The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

#Zhu Chongba #She Who Became the Sun #Shelley Parker-Chan #Scholar Christopher Wolfe #Christopher Wolfe #The Great Library Series #The Great Library Saga #The Great Library #Rachel Caine #Chloe Green #I Kissed Shara Wheeler #IKSW #Casey McQuiston #Katherine Talbert #The Privilege of the Sword #Ellen Kushner #lgbt books #polls #queer book character tournament 2