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yesterday, today, tomorrow - radiance series
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Karis sighs when he opens the door to his office and sees his fiancé sitting in the waiting area. Well, sitting might be overstating the matter. Or understating it. Sprawling is a better word. Ronan is sprawling, somehow taking up two chairs.
Written for the @februaryficletchallenge for the day 2 prompt “Yesterday/today/tomorrow AND/OR Pretend not to be dating.”
#february ficlet challenge#radiance series by tavia lark#karis cooper#ronan vizia#karis cooper/ronan vizia#prompt fic#ficlet#author:whimsicalmeerkat
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Hello and welcome to another reading year! Following the devastation Dark Heir cause in my heart at the end of 2023, I didn't really feel like reading much for about two weeks. I did catch up on a few manga series, most notably 8 volumes of Yona of the Dawn by Mizuho Kusanagi. While it's still very good, I think binge reading helped quite a bit to keep me invested. :'D After that, I read one book that will definitely go into my worst books of 2024. Refer to the later half of the post if you want to know more. Let's focus on the good ones first!
Cursebreakers (Madeleine Nakamura): This one was really good! I was positively surprised. The world is magical, not medieval but futuristic! The story around the conspiracy is interesting and intense and the main characters are difficult people that might be hard to like in real life but they complement each other so well and it's so nice to see their relationship grow (no love story here!). I also really liked the way it is told. The protagonist has bipolar disorder which is a huge factor in the story but he recounts the story from a later perspective, so rather than being right in the moment with every dramatic and sometimes questionable decision we get a little bit of distance and insight into his actions and thoughts which works really well.
Twelve Bones (Sixteen Souls 2) (Rosie Talbot): The first volume was a already a little dark but all the bad stuff involved a limited circle of people (most of them ghosts), this one takes a full dive into the swooping dark threatening the entire city, living and dead! The stakes, my dear. Ugh! Based on that I wouldn't call it fun ... would I? I liked reading it, though! The cast of characters is really endearing. The story is good. The struggle felt warranted. The ending is kinda mangaesque but I like manga, so I don't mind. xD I wonder if there'll be a third volume. If not, I'll look forward to the author's next work. :)
The Necromancer's Light (Radiance 1) (Tavia Lark): I picked up the set of the trilogy which has a much better cover than the indivual books. :'D This one is very simple and straightforward, it's cute. The characters are likable. The hurt/comfort in here is indeed comforting. I think I like the first part with the pining best. This story's animal is a horse! (I read half of the auther's Perilous Courts series and there's friendly animals in every volume there as well. Nice touch.)
And now for the first book of 2024 I did not like.
Heir to Thorn and Flame (Court of Broken Bonds 1) (Ben Alderson): I read the author's self-published Darkmourn series last summer and quite liked it despite its issues with the writing. Now this one has a tradtional publisher so I wanted to know if that made any difference. On a whole, the writing feels a little bit smoother than Darkmourn. But it's still long, repetetive, and tries to hard to sound fancy by exaggerating a lot.
The premise of the story isn't even that bad. Boy finds out he has magic, accidentely kills the prince, has to take his place and political stuff occurs with two countries on the cusp of war over him and his magic.
The first thing that annoyed me: The story feels unnecessarily cruel. It literally starts out with attempted rape which is already the second time protagonist Maxiumus is assaulted in his life. People are killed right in front of him, he is forced to shoot someone he cares for. People violently dig through his memories and still don't believe his story afterwards. And the villains are just caricatures. They have the balding hair, yellowed teeth, bony fingers, stinky breath, and leering eyes. They're ugly and evil! It was so over the top that I couldn't care at all.
The other characters have nothing going on for them either. I don't like Maximus at all. He's whiny and indecisive and only worries about his parents. He does have that superstrong magic he uses to rip people apart when he's angry, wow. He also has two love interests and I don't see the chemistry with either of them (I suppose it tries to be Slow Burn but not very good). But they're so good-looking, the strong arms and nice smell, so tall! (eyeroll)
The second one of these guys is named Simion. He's the only one remotely nice to him in the beginning, so Maximus likes him. Then he hates him. Then he likes him, then Simion reveals stuff and Maximus hates him again (even though he's just the messenger). But then he's suddenly attracted to him again to the point they even kiss … but oh no, Maximus can't kiss anyone, because he is married to the other guy by magic (against his will)!! And everyone treats it as this big thing "oh old magic you are bound to each other now for life" etc, but nobody explains what the handfastening (as they call it) even does for 80% of the book! Until Maximus kisses Simion and the magic causes him pain because he's cheating!!
Here my mind went on a tangent. The magic seems to have a conscious in this story, alright, but I want to know it's moral values then. Does it only detect kisses and sex? Physical acts? Can it differentiate between consensual und non-consensual? Who is doing the touching? Does is only clock sexual attraction or romantic attraction as well? What if he has a crush and never acts on it? Would it still cause him permament pain? What's with platonical kisses? Now you ask, do we have to explain all of this in a book like this? No, we don't (there's also two sequels), but I sure hope the author thought about it when he introduced a complex thing like this.
Oh, also Simion forces his way into Maximus's mind via telepathy several times. Such a nice way to get to know each other.
And speaking of the morality of the magic, it counts how many people are killed with it. On the wand. As tally marks. How does it know? Why does it only count humans, not animals? Why does it care?
Two more things I found annoying (there's more, but this is long enough already): First, the parents. Everything happening in the story hinges on their whereabouts, it's back and forth and very tiring. The Red King has them so Maximus has to stay with him, then the Blue Prince has them, then they get kidnapped so Maximus follows, then it turns out they've never been kidnapped and the Blue Prince kept them all along! In between he freaks out over his father not being his father and when they're reunited, but before they can talk, the father dies. Yay. Tragic. Not.
The same thing happened before already. The one lady Maximus was forced to kill? She survived! She was saved and he goes to meet her, they talk for 30 seconds and then she's eaten by a dragon. :D I was pissed for wasting my time.
Which is a sentiment I kind of share about the whole book, but also not. It made me angry but sometimes it's good to have an outlet for the rage. :'D
#yaku reads#january wrap up#books#queer books#queer lit#lgbtq books#bookblr#cursebreakers#twelve bones#heir to thorn and flame#the necromancer's light#tumblr kept telling me it couldn't save my post because I made my paragraphs too long ...?#you're weird sir
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The Radiance Series by Tavia Lark
Such a fun fantasy romance series!!! Three books in the same universe, each with a different MM pairing. There's plot lines and characters who are present in all three books.
I love the magic system in this series and the pantheon of gods. The first book wasn't super my jam, but I think that might have been all the necromancy, but I still loved it. The second and third books made me absolutely FERAL!! I absolutely LOVED them.
#radiance#tavia lark#mm romance#the necromancer's light#the paladin's shadow#the sword-witch's heart
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(pulls out notepad and pen) twink prince from a romance novel, you say?
LMAO ok listen Tavia Lark IS writing the best romantasy (fantasy romance) on Kindle Unlimited and it isn't close. the perilous courts series and the radiance series are both really good. i like the worldbuilding better in radiance though. specifically the twink prince i was referencing was one half of the main couple of the most recent perilous courts book lololol
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Wish Kindle would let authors know when readers reread their books if only because Tavia Lark would see how much I've read her Radiance series and be like, "Yo man you good?"
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2021 Cornie Book Awards
Genres are a poor way to group books for awards, especially since this is all decided by me and I don't read widely in all genres. I have come up with different categories. These are trial groups that I can't imagine working every year, but eventually I want to make them more solid of categories so people can recommend books for specific categories.
And to be annoying, I'll explain the categories before giving out any awards.
The main award is the Official Cornie Book Award which will be awarded to the book that magically embodied what I wanted to read that year. A previous example would be Spellbound by Allie Therin.
The next award, the Popcorn Award, will be awarded to a book or a quickly published series (self-published usually) that are perfect entertainment with or without depth. The biggest indicator to me will be that I fly through the book(s) without paying attention to the technical aspects of the art form. A previous example would be the Playing the Fool series by Lisa Henry.
The next category I will need help coming up with a name for the award. It is for a book that possessed my brain and made it so I couldn't start another book for days or weeks because I was still caught up in the ideas presented or the amazing twist. This year's winner is the best I've seen of this category, so no spoilers.
The next award is the Best Sequel. I think it is bad for sequels to be put on the same playing field as other books because it is hard to pick it up to read in time for the awards if you haven't started the series. Stand-alone series are excluded from this category as you could pick up them in any order.
Best Graphic Novel. I know they come in a variety of genres, but they are not as prolific as books and so I think they can still stand on their own.
For categories I know I likely will not repeat every year, I will call honorary awards. Honorary Award 1 this year is Reality TV done well in a book (and I wish this was more of a thing, so send me recommendations). Honorary Award 2 this year is "Is this me?" where a character's arc looks a lot like something I've gone through and really resonated with me.
And now for the awards!
2021 Honorary Award 1 goes to The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
2021 Honorary Award 2 goes to Out of Character (Stand-alone Sequel #2) by Annabeth Albert
2021 Best Graphic Novel goes to The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
2021 Best Sequel goes to The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee
2021 Unnameable Award goes to The Darkness Outside Us (YA) by Eliot Schrefer
2021 Popcorn Award goes to the Radiance Series by Tavia Lark
And the 2021 Cornie Book Award goes to Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
#cornie book awards#2021#I thought I scheduled this post#but apparently I saved it as a draft#sorry#meant to schedule this for March 31
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Review: The Necromancer's Light (Radiance #1) by Tavia Lark
Review: The Necromancer’s Light (Radiance #1) by Tavia Lark
Rating: 4.25🌈
I’ve been pretty fortunate in my fantasy reading binge of late. I’ve found no less than six new series, four new authors (to date) and the some terrific series and stories from long-standing writers on my auto read list.
Like I said… great times.
Tavia Lark and The Necromancer’s Light, are new. New author, new novel and the first in this writer’s new series. And it’s a marvelous…
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#A MelanieM Review#author Tavia Lark#first in a series#friends to lovers#HEA#LGBTGIA fantasy romance series#Review: The Necromancer&039;s Light (Radiance 1) by Tavia Lark#Scattered Thoughts Highly Recommended
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window shopping - radiance series
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Leth halts in the bedroom door at the sight of their bed covered in clothes. Clothes he knows they didn’t own this morning. Suspiciously familiar clothing.
“You said we were going window shopping.”
“No, I said I would take you window shopping,” comes Evain’s voice from above him. He leans forward and kisses behind Leth’s ear. “I made no promises to content myself with that.”
“That’s cheating,” Leth grouses.
Evain just hums, spinning him around. He smiles, eyes gleaming red.
“I’m sure I can make it up to you somehow, little Leth. Do you want me to try?”
Leth smiles.
#drabble#100 words#prompt fic#evain marha x leth ka tariel#radiance series by tavia lark#evain marha#leth ka tariel#tavia lark#radiance series#author:whimsicalmeerkat
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Shea’s Earrings - Radiance Series by Tavia Lark
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Arthur watched Shea while he waited for Georgia to finish observing her Riverswords training. It was a bright day, so Shea's earrings sparkled in the sun. Arthur knew most people who saw the silver jewelry that marked Shea as a necromancer were repulsed, but to Arthur they were just another part of the man he loved.
Written for the @februaryficletchallenge prompt “sparkle”.
#february ficlet challenge#ficlet#arthur davorin#shea nightven#arthur davorin/shea nightven#radiance series#radiance series by tavia lark#tavia lark#author:whimsicalmeerkat
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✨Fic Writing Review 2023✨
The ever-delightful @dear-massacre tagged me in this a couple weeks ago, but I decided to wait until the end of the year. I don’t feel like working today, so I figure it’s close enough!
Words
127,727 words posted on AO3
66 works posted or updated on AO3
Fandoms & Ships Represented:
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop (Daemon Sadi/Lucivar Yaslana: 5)
Demonic Disasters and Afterlife Adventures- Shannon Mae (Adam/Minos: 1)
Men’s Hockey RPF (1)
Original Work (2)
Perilous Courts - Tavia Lark (Julien Sandry/Whisper: 2, Bellamy Sandry/Rakos Tem: 1, Daromir Azri/Vana Dire: 1, Corin Marcel/Audric Sandry: 1)
Psy-Changeling - Nalini Singh (Aden Kai/Vasic Zen: 1, Kaleb Krychek/Judd Lauren: 1, Lucas Hunter/Hawke Snow: 1)
Radiance Series - Tavia Lark (Evain Marha/Leth ka Tariel: 3)
Teen Wolf (Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski: 27, Derek Hale/Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski: 1, Derek Hale/Peter Hale: 1, Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski: 7, Chris Argent/Derek Hale: 1)
The Authority - DC Comics (Apollo/Midnighter & Jenny Quantum: 1)
The Hollows - Kim Harrison (Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan: 7, Jenks/Matalina: 1)
Top Fics by Kudos
my heart was connected (Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
Trading Up (Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
won’t you take me from this valley (Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
devil don’t take a break (Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
I think I know a secret (Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
My Fandom Fic Events in 2023
30+ Fanfic (@thirty-plus-fanfic) 24-Hour Drabbles (drabbles)
sterekdrabbles (@sterekdrabbles)
The Sufficiently Advanced Exchange (so we remain the same: The Hollows, Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan)
Rare Male Slash Exchange (ah my love, remind me: Teen Wolf, Chris Argent/Derek Hale)
Battleship 2023 (15 works, multiple fandoms: series)
30+ Fanfic (@thirty-plus-fanfic) Third Serversary (Summer) Holiday Event (some glad morning: Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
Rare Pair Exchange (I’ll Always Know It's You: The Hollows, Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan)
Launch the Ship -⚓︎- Round 3 (We Were Helping!: Perilous Courts, Daromir Azri/Vana Dire, Vana Dire & Bellamy Sandry)
RelationShipping (take me to the edge so I can fall apart: Original Work, Werewolf Brother/Human Brother He Wants to Turn)
Sterek Prompt Meme (@sterekpromptmeme) (Trading Up: Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Peter Hale)
Trick or Treat Exchange (Trick or Treat!: The Hollows, Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan)
SPE (@sterekposevents) Fall In Love with Sterek (I think I know a secret: Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
Wanksgiving (in the middle of the night: Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
We Die Like Fen: We're Dark like Fen in a Storm at Night (then, now, and forever: Radiance Series, Evain Marha/Leth ka Tariel)
30+ Fanfic (@thirty-plus-fanfic) Holiday Bonanza and New Year's Shindig 2023 (Teen Wolf, multiple pairings: 2023 fics in series)
Upcoming 2024 Events & Projects
After making that last list my plan to do way fewer events in 2024 has been reinforced. I’m not going to list all of my projects. Most of what I plan to work on are my wips. Below are the events I plan to do:
Small Fandoms Big Bang
Sterek CollaBang (@sterekcollabang)
Battleship Exchange
RelationShipping Exchange
Various 30+ Fanfic Events (@thirty-plus-fanfic)
Rules & Tags
Honestly, do what you want to with this whether that’s putting in way too much effort like I did, ignoring it, or somewhere in between.
I’m not going to tag anyone, but if you see this and want to do it, consider yourself tagged!
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Fic Master List
All the cool kids have these, so I figured I'd make one as well. Splitting them up by fandom since I have a bajillion fandoms and fics. List updated as of 2/24/2024. Some of the links go straight to my works on AO3 and some go to a post I've made here on tumblr. It's a work in progress.
Drabbles | 3 Sentence Ficathon
Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Derek Hale, Derek Hale/Peter Hale, Derek Hale/Laura Hale
Men’s Hockey RPF: all archive locked, click the link to see pairings etc.
Black Jewels - Anne Bishop: Daemon Sadi/Lucivar Yaslana
Original Work: various m/m and m/m/m pairings
The Hollows - Kim Harrison: Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan, Jenks/Matalina
Spider-Man/Deadpool
The Witcher: Emhyr var Emreis/Geralt of Rivia, Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion
Psy-Changeling - Nalini Singh: Aden Kai/Vasic Zen, Kaleb Krychek/Judd Lauren, Lucas Hunter/Hawke Snow, Judd Lauren/Walker Lauren
Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
The Authority: Apollo/Midnighter, Apollo/Midnighter & Jenny Quantum
Perilous Courts - Tavia Lark: Julien Sandry/Whisper, Bellamy Sandry/Rakos Tem, Daromir Azri/Vana Dire, Vana Dire & Bellamy Sandry, Corin Marcel/Audric Sandry
Radiance Series - Tavia Lark: Evain Marha/Leth ka Tariel, Karis Cooper/Ronan Vizia, Arthur Davorn/Shaesarenna Nightven
Demonic Disasters and Afterlife Adventures - Shannon Mae: Adam/Minos
Chosen One Universe - Macy Blake: Victor Eastaughffe/Orsen Riggs, Victor Eastaughffe/Orsen Riggs & Gus, Bentley "Bebe" Baxter & Eduard Eastaughffe, Jedrek/Nick Smith
The Epic of Gilgamesh: Enkidu/Gilgamesh
Last Binding Series - Freya Marske: Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki/Thor
#author:whimsicalmeerkat#fanfic#original work#original fiction#teen wolf#men’s hockey rpf#black jewels by anne bishop#black jewels trilogy#anne bishop#the hollows by kim harrison#kim harrison#spideypool#the witcher#psy-changeling#psy-changeling by nalini singh#nalini singh#stargate atlantis#sga#the authority#perilous courts#perilous courts by tavia lark#tavia lark#radiance series#radiance series by tavia lark#last binding trilogy#demonic disasters and afterlife adventures#shannon mae#chosen one universe#macy blake
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Writing Patterns
Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!
I was tagged by @thotpuppy and @definitively-different-drivel. I can't keep track of who was already tagged, so if you see this and want to do it, consider yourself tagge!
I did this not long ago, but thanks to @februaryficletchallenge I've posted a lot of new works since then. This time I'm mixing it up and including WIPs. I skipped the 3 Sentence Ficathon collections, though. Reverse chronological order. Here goes!
Daromir walks through the Duchess of Tavorai's gardens, looking for Vana. sundial, Perilous Courts by Tavia Lark, Daromir Azri/Vana Dire, 389 words, T
Stiles stares at the ruins of the Hale house and reflects that he perhaps should have taken Deaton more seriously when he told him starting to practice magic would change how he saw the world. with lightning in his hands, Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, wip with 9k posted, E
"Peter fucking Hale!" Stiles yells, pushing his way into Peter's apartment. pocket watch, Teen Wolf, Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, 596 words, T
“You know what we haven’t done in a while?” Stiles says when they’re sprawled out on the bed, sheets a hopeless tangle. we don’t talk about that, Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, 100 words, T
Kaleb Krychek stands in front of his mirror and considers the fact that all of his previous assumptions about what he would do if it turned out he had a soulmate seem to have been washed away by the reality. a decision deferred, Psy-Changeling, Kaleb Krychek/Judd Lauren, 504 words, T
Derek stares at the wizened fairy in front of him—seriously, he had no idea they even aged—certain he'd misheard. You may now kiss the bride. Or the other groom. Teen Wolf, Allison Argent/Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, 651 words, T
Stiles would like to say he first realized his best friend had been turned into a werewolf because of his keen powers of observation and knowledge of both Scott and the supernatural world. devil don't take a break, Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, wip with 16k posted, E
Judd stands on the slope of the mountain that rises high above SnowDancer's caves and watches the light change as the sun rises. the creeping light of dawn, Psy-Changeling, Judd Lauren/Walker Lauren, 200 words, G
Arthur watched Shae while he waited for Georgia to finish observing her Riverswords training. Shae's Earrings, Radiance Series by Tavia Lark, Arthur Davorin/Shaesarenna Nightven, 259 words, T
"Stiles. Stiles, wake up!" long after midnight, Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, 606 words, T
Patterns: Looks like I tend to either go for dialogue or what someone is doing. So much standing and staring.
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Back in the Old Days, I used to write meta about Stiles, Scott, and Derek (which lines up with the triskelion!!) and how their relationships worked.
It was... lengthy lmaoo. And it convinced several people to watch Teen Wolf!!
Honestly, I don’t feel like I’m especially qualified to write Teen Wolf meta. There’s a whole bunch of the show I haven’t seen and a chunk of episodes I’ve never watched sober, which I definitely hesitate before admitting given how much fic I’ve written. That doesn’t mean I don’t have strong opinions about characterization.
When it comes to meta, I’m most likely to write it about Black Jewels, with more recent additions to the list of the Perilous Courts and Radiance series by Tavia Lark.
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26 for 2023 in review please!
26. If you had to choose one, what was THE most satisfying writing moment of your year?
Oh man, this is a really tough one. For writing, I think it was really getting to indulge in writing Black Jewels fics during the Battleship exchange for people’s Creator’s Choice of Fandom requests. Daemon Sadi/Lucivar Yaslana is the ship that first got me interested in fan fiction and I love writing about them, but mostly I’m writing things and flinging them into the void. It was nice to indulge in writing stories about them I knew at least one person would read.
This is more writing-adjacent, but it’s really cool so I’m sharing it anyway. I created three brand new fandoms on AO3 this year: Perilous Courts by Tavia Lark, Radiance Series by Tavia Lark, and Demonic Disasters and Afterlife Adventures by Shannon Mae.
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Listen am I using Tavia Lark's Radiance series as escapism and reading three books over and over? Yes. Is that the wildest thing I've hyper focused on? No......
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