#red tihylttw

[bugcowboyart]

Dreaming of a special edition of “This is How You Lose the Time War” with sprayed blue and red edges and everything. The wolf chapter made me cry.

Oddly enough (because usually I have such solid vibes in my head when reading) I don’t have concrete faces for Red and Blue because they both are so shifting and fluid and I think drawing them would kind of rob them of that for me? But I want to find ways to draw the letters—Maybe that will be how I focus on environments? We’ll see!

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #red tihylttw #blue tihylttw #time war #wolf #flower #tw blood

[dragongirltongue]

I think someone should make a playlist about Red's love for Blue but the joke is the playlist contains literally every love song ever written.

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #red tihylttw #I'll be all the poets #I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn #and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.

[ruinconstellation]

this is the name you give your love

read also on ao3!

This is how Red is named: the Agency dubs her an agent, and she has no name. 

From whichever braid upon which she stands, she is called to her Commandant from across the threads and the strings. She is called to her duty, for she is a soldier in this eternal battle, this war spanning time and space and a thousand thousand realities.

While undercover, she is called upon by fellow agents and given orders, and she is called by her assumed name of the year, of the month, of the day. 

These agents do not stay close, they do not form bonds, and they do not exchange names. There is little point in it; the Garden’s own vines are always seeking, and the agents fall one by one, their places taken by pod-grown cadets, beginning their lives nearer to adulthood than to youth, ready for training.

This is how Red is named: Blue sees her across the battlefield, and in a trap of a letter calls her by the colour of the self-same blood that stains her hands.

The letter is a lure, and Red bites, catches Blue’s love in her teeth and lets herself be pulled along.

They dance around each other, each to her own path but circling, stepping with care, reaching out but never quite touching. There’s a veil between them: a war, and with it the impossibility of that war’s end.

Yet there is audacity in their covert, sly communications and risk every time they leave a letter encoded in the agent’s path. They call to each other, through bones and trees and tea, in all the shades of the colours of their names.

Red for blood, and red for flowers. Red, for a cardinal; a guide, a blot against the landscape of snow. Adressed to her through a lumpy sail, red sky at morning; a warning from the sailor’s poem of some strand long ago when they passed each other by, ships in the night. Sugar Maple, sweet on the tongue, and my dearest, a treasure.

Blue names her for love.

Blue calls her My Heart’s Own Blood, and Red makes it truth. She steals into the Garden, puts crimson into Blue’s veins in inoculation, lets the red become a cure and a prevention and a sign of her eternal love. Of life, together.

Blue calls her Red.

#ruinconstellation writes #this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #op #schedj #red tihylttw #blue tihylttw

[kidovna]

Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all.

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #red x blue #artovna

[just-rogi]

A common misconception about This is How You Lose the Time War is that Red and Blue are augmented functionally immortal godlike super humans created with advanced dystopian future technologies- they are actually just normal lesbians; dykes can just do that

#tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war #red and blue

[abosaniyebe]

"I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand..."

#this is how you lose the time war #time war #red #blue #sani art #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #this book was so romantic #tihylttw

[silvervanadis]

Red and Blue from “This is How You Lose the Time War” by  Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

I love this book. It’s so good just read it if you haven’t. And if you have, read it again.

#tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #red and blue #blue and red #red x blue #wlw art #WLW #wlw books #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt representation #digital art #photoshop artist #fridamarijo #silvervanadis #booktok

[xxrat--punkxx]

In light of uh... Recent trigun events on twitter, here's a tihylttw and trigun crossover

#yhank you bigolas dickolas Wolfwood for your servise #when worlds collide #thisnis literally thr worst timeline #ao much has happned over the past 12 hours and wathing it fuvking live has been interesting #sometimes twotter is amazing #anyway heres blue as vash and red as wolfwood but with a few character design liberties #i always tske my shitpost srt so damn seriously man #im on a huge trigun server and all we cna tlak abt is this situation i am pissing myself #its so funny and just so... random #like top 10 things i never would have tjought would happen ever #anyway im capitalising off of thr fact trogun is trendeing lol #cursed #my art #trigun #trigun wolfwood #vash trigun #trigun maximum #tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war #trigun fanart #trigun art #blue tihylttw #red tihylttw #books #sapphic books

[leggy-lass]

This is How You Lose The Time War

Get it? They’re sumac seeds… btw red is a cardinal and blue is a mountain bluebird

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #red #blue #my art #dahlias art tag

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Blue- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Red- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

#Blue #TIHYLTTW #This is How You Lose the Time War #Amal El-Mohtar #Max Gladstone #Red #lgbt books #polls #queer book character tournament 2.0 #love loses <3

[24-compass-roses]

It’s always “ily” and never “it’s wrong to call you enemy”, never “You’re different colors of flame”, never “I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you”, never “I’ll be all the poets, I’ll kill them all and take each ones place in turn, and every time love’s written in all the strands it will be to you”, never “You and me. This is how we win,” nev—

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #red #blue #garden #agency #they’re in lesbians your honor #compass speaks

[mirefireflies]

“Most letters begin with a direct address to the reader.”

(This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone)

#i love them so very much #this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #red and blue #loves #1k #<333

[d1nosaurpower]

A fan art for a really good scene of a really good book.

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #red #blue

[milkactivist]

Blue from This is How You Lose the Time War

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #read this book forever ago and still haven’t moved on #I don’t plan to either! #blue #red #my art

[arsenicflame]

i love this is how you lose the time wars take on love changing you. you were changed before i ever knew you. i changed you so you could become the person i would fall in love with.

#idk just the. there is red in blue and blue in red gets me. so hard #red realising it was blue out there when she was 13. that pivotal moment that shaped the rest of her life. that brought her here. red didnt #even know the danger just what she saw of blue. #blue talking about getting sick and being cast out and changed and wrong and then red remembering that and using that memory #to save blue. to make her reds. to make her the person who would never quite fit in in garden. someone who would reach out to an enemy agent #i loved you before i never knew you #i was shaped to be yours #nyxtalks #tihylttw #this is how you lose the time war

[queerdesire]

I leave you a letter, sealed in wax, a trace of perfume. Keep this. It's yours. Destroy it on your own, in your own way, if you want. I won't mind. This letter is a knife at my neck if cutting's what you want. I try not to think of you the same way twice. I change your shape in my thoughts. It's amazing how much blue there is in the world, if you look. See? I pour you into things. So in this letter I am yours. Not Garden's, not your mission's, but yours, alone.

- This Is How You Lose The Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #red x blue #amal el mohtar #max gladstone #sapphic book #wlw #books #book quotes #sapphic yearning #wlw yearning #yearning #words