#sartorias-deles

[aelin9]

meanwhile there's Mel

#a mouse in mail #she's enormous and muscular on the inside where it counts #a stranger to command #crown duel #court duel #sherwood smith #sartorias deles #sartorias-deles #Meliara Astiar #Vidanric Renselaeus Marquis of Shevraeth

[greatshell-rider]

my first tries at inda!!

#inda quartet #sartorias-deles #sherwood smith #inda #indevan algara-vayir #one day i'll be practiced enough to draw The Scenes that compel me so from the books :3

[speckledsolanaceae]

Inda’s on sale for the next few days if anyone wants to peer into my heart.

If I loved this series less I would be able to talk about it more (eloquently), but these books have such a profound and intricate sense of events—what drives the people who motivate change, for better or worse. Its characters are complex and rarely flat, and while the series is about battle, politics, and war, and the people are always flawed, its heartache is spectacularly, beautifully woven.

Sherwood Smith calls these books the historical arc, and I think they capture the way history moves, all while allowing you to see the people who created it and why they did. To me, it’s a masterwork of character and sociological storytelling, from the complexities of love and loyalty to the absence of both.

And if you enjoy the first book, I’m pretty damn sure you’ll love the second (and hopefully the third and fourth too).

#Sherwood Smith #Sartorias-deles #Inda #I'm rereading Inda (the first book) for the third time #and really taking my time (circumstantially but nonetheless) #and peering at these characters with a microscope is feeding me like nothing else #I read this series all the way through when I was . . . 13? #their impact was immense enough that it's hard to track #reread them about a decade later to see if they hold water and was just #blown away #some childhood favorites don't #nostalgia acknowledged this series still aged so beautifully for me #and was all the more impactful because I roughly remembered what would happen #might not be everyone's cup of tea but BOY is this series mine #anne speaks #book talk

[peppers-ghost-posts]

Hadand: I became queen by standing between a usurper and a usurped throne, and cutting off the bastard’s hand. 

Danet: I became queen by using my forensic accounting skills 

#sartorias-deles #inda quartet #time of daughters #sherwood smith #hadand alagra vayir #danet olavayir

[elise-nic]

Out of all the characters to be willing to put people in contact with one another, no one in universe saw this coming.

#sartorias deles #young allies arc spoilers #timt #sartorias-deles

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Friend without a tumblr asked:

🎵 Chara Undertale for the fanmix meme? or if you already have (pretty sure you’ve made UT/dr mixes before?), uhh, most recent ship you’ve started shipping

I have not made a Chara fanmix and I'm not going to because, as much as like to use fanmixing as an excuse to broaden my musical palette, I think any reasonable Chara mix would need to be an order of magnitude more graphically violent than anything I currently listen to, and I'm just not up to the task right now. I'm not strong enough.

This playlist is about when the world ends and your nephew gets kidnapped by the authors of Hell to bait you into surrender, and he's all you have left, and even though you barely know him you have to go get him, so you play along and let them kidnap you and you have to watch him get raped and tortured on the regular, and you pretend you don't care because they turned you, let them think you hate each other, and maybe you do resent him a little and resent yourself for resenting him, and you can save the world but it's a shot in the dark, there are too many millions of variables, and of course you want to give him the best life he can possibly have, but you desperately need his help, but you can't rely on him, but you need him, and in any case you have to teach him morals first.

Not a ship, per se, but I am obsessed with their relationship.

#ask #sartorias deles #lex don't look

[mothwizard03]

Tiny sketch of Inda from Sherwood Smith’s Inda Quartet/Sartorias Deles books. Only posting this bc this series is soooo underrated and needs more attention/fanart haha https://www.instagram.com/p/CewPA-3rxCD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[setnet]

W A R G A M E S

A mix for Indevan Algara-Vayir

games without frontiers—peter gabriel | breaking the yearlings—shearwater | exile vilify—the national | lost in my mind—the head and the heart | mutiny, i promise you—the new pornographers | remember the name—fort minor | setting sail, coming home—darren korb | stabat mater—woodkid | run the banner down—shearwater | homecoming heroes—the head and the heart | antebellum—vienna teng | the end of my pirate days—mary chapin carpenter

playmoss | download

explanations below the cut!

wargames games without frontiers—peter gabriel games without frontiers; war without tears

the summer without a banner breaking the yearlings—shearwater the weather holds until it's on you and suddenly breaks

exile exile vilify—the national does it feel like a trial? does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?

merchants/marines lost in my mind—the head and the heart put your dreams away for now; I won't see you for some time

mutiny mutiny, i promise you—the new pornographers here is where you got lost, and here is how you got back and here's the mutiny I promised you

pirates fighting pirates remember the name—fort minor who would have thought he'd be the one to set the west in flames?

the venn setting sail, coming home—darren korb build that wall and build it strong, cause we'll be there before too long

war stabat mater—woodkid hey, do you recall when the war was just a game?

aftermaths run the banner down—shearwater run the banner down and hide in your broken palms

treaty/treason homecoming heroes—the head and the heart so now I know people want a story, one ending in glory and a wave of their flag

life goes on antebellum—vienna teng our antebellum innocence was never meant to see the light of our armistice day

[coda: the king who was emperor the end of my pirate days—mary chapin carpenter I buried all my dreams for someone else to find in my pirate days]

#inda series #sherwood smith #fanmix #inda blogging #sartorias deles

[gaytog]

(Some half-completed thoughts from my recent-ish reread of Inda that I forgot to post.)

“The Iofre’s heart ached from visions of possible futures whose only shared characteristic was danger, visions she could not will away.”

Potential classpect material.

“The redhead glanced at Inda. His gaze went cloudy.”

Somebody has a crush ._.

Okay, Inda is referred to early on as “he who should never have left home” and I want to cry.

Early on, Sponge looks “so carefully neutral he sounded half-strangled.” “Sponge, as always, hid his reaction.” This is not a problem he develops in adulthood; this has always been his life.

“The world narrowed to dreamlike slowness as Dogpiss’ blue eyes teared from surprise and pain, his food went flying, and he landed backward, his head knocking the edge of the bench behind theirs. Bright blood spotted his yellow hair.”

the fucking foreshadowing

“The questions bred more questions, multiplying so rapidly he groaned and got up, his food half-eaten, to try to distance himself from his thoughts.”

Not sure if this is an autistic thing or not?

“No one likes change unless he makes it himself. Then it’s innovation.”

Truth.

“He surveyed the two sturdy, pale-haired boys, and wondered what they would be like when not following Cherry-Stripe’s orders. Impressions streamed through Inda’s mind, most wordless, made up of images, tones of voice, bits of conversation half-heard over the past few days.”

God I love watching Inda do The Inda Thing. Also, classpect material. (Pretty sure Inda is either a Seer of Blood or a Page of Blood. Definitely Blood.)

“Tanrid looked at those moving lips, the averted gaze, and suppressed a desire to slap some sense into the brat.”

averted gaze

“Train your brother well, my son. I was too merciful to my own brother, your Uncle Indevan, who loved his ease. And you know what happened.”

Aand of course Sherwood isn’t content to just let Tanrid be abusive. Every character has a motivation, everything has a reason. God I love this book.

“Tdor said in a low voice, ‘Can hate turn into love?’”

<3<

“While he brooded, with a lifetime of practice Cherry-Strip successfully assessed his brother’s mood; not violent, not yet.”

Everyone is suffering from this horrible violent culture! Everyone!

#sartorias deles #inda #child abuse #shower thoughts

[bellaroles]

Reminisce of the time a few years ago I hunted for these books like a hawk because goodreads rec. them to me. These were quite hard to get and some I regretted having acquired them lol.

Here some of the titles

The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope. I love this one. Very Rereadable. I also like her other book, the Sherwood ring. No regrets on these

An Earthly knight by Janet McNaughton. Nope DNF. (I was in Tam lin phase then lol but this one I shall passed) Regrets!

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. This is so fun. I may reread sometimes in the future.

The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan. I like the book fine but will not reread.

Time enough for drums by Ann Rinaldi. Right this was interesting for me but as the internet keep telling me the age gap in this one is bothering me a lot.

Keturah and lord death by Martine Leavitt. I couldn't really get pass the MC self consciousness and the way the story was told. Regrets!

Summers at castle auburn by Sharon Shinn. I love her Archangel book. (1 st book only) and this one also supposed to be without flaws. Only there are quite a few of issues that disturb me.

The Hollow kingdom by Claire B. Dunkle. Hmm will not reread. On the stockholm syndrome note.

A Face like glasses by Frances Hardinge. Was glued to the pages literally. Could not put it down. Felt the same thrills reading these like when I read Garth Nix's keys to the kingdom. Might reread but y'know it won't be like the first time ever again.

Dragon's bait by Vivian Vande Velde. Felt like a cliffhanger with no second book. Not that interesting. Regrets

11. The Blue sword by Robin Mckinley. Can't say I regret this but I'd felt that this should have been better. Not to mention the weird prequel book that I won't reread again.

12. The Belgariad series by David Eddings. Loved these while it lasted. I got bored with the second series. Not rereadable to me.

13. The Changeover by Margaret Mahy. Like it. Not gonna reread.

14. The Changeling sea by Patricia A. Mckillip. I regreted that this was the first Mckillip book I'd ever come across. Dreamy but not engaging. My favorite of hers are the forgotten beast of Eld, In the forest of Serre, the Riddlemaster series, and Winter rose.

15. War for the Oaks by Emma Bull. Very entertaining. I love it. Haven’t reread this since.

16. Song of the lioness series by Tamora Pierce. I was undecided about these. Well I like the Immortals better than this one. Trickster duology impressed me the most. Not regret these but still haven’t reread them.

17. Sabriel by Garth Nix. Special to me because I read this first on audiobook. What a thrilling experience. I was so crazy about the Abhorsen lore for months. Haven’t reread also.

18. Wildwood dancing by Juliet Merrilier. I was crazy about nearly all of her books for a time. Reread this along with Heart’s blood and Daughter of the forrest many times. It was good but didn’t really hold up to now.

19. Enchanted forest chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede. Like but not love. I like Mairelon’s books better or even the sorcerer and cecelia book.

20. Crown duel by Sherwood Smith. Love the books though Mel’s impulsiveness irked me lots of time. The starts of my obsession with her Sartorias-deles saga. Too many books with vastly different target audience, I gave up trying to read them all at some point lol. Love banner of the damned and the Inda books though.

21. Sally Lockhart’s series by Philip Pullman. Yeah I like his spectacular HDM but I like these more. Sally is so cool. No regrets.

22. The Black magician triology by Trudi Canavan. Used to be my guilty pleasure. because of the ending I will not reread.

23. The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. Love these and the third trilogy also. Regret reading the second. Won’t reread because it was too painful. Also if I could one day reread them, I might continue with the series.

24. Earthsea cycle. By Ursula K. Le Guin. Favorite series. Reread many times. Will continue to recommend them.

25. Mistborn series. By Brandon Sanderson. Love these but won’t reread because I can’t go thru all of that again.

26. The chronicle of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. Read on audiobook. Like them but haven’t reread since.

27. Lumatere chronicles by Melina Marchetta. So intense lol, it was good but I won’t go thru all that again.

30. Tales from the flat earth by Tanith lee. Did not regret. So dark and arabian-ish. I especially love Simmu’s stories and Chuz. Her B&B retelling in Red as blood is also my fav. So unique. But I regret buying her Claidi’s journals and Paradys books.

31. I, Coriander by Sally Gardner. So pretty cover. The stories was good for my teen years. Did not reread since.

32. A Company of swans by Eva Ibbotson. Gosh this was unexpectedly cute. So many weird things but still it works for me. Haven’t reread.

33. The Ivy tree by Mary Stewart. This book lied to me! I was so obsessed with the pseudo amnesia thing. First read on audiobook. One time is enough because the suspense can be experienced only one time.

34. The Seer and the sword by Victoria Hanley. Regrets. The plot was supposedly engaging but I couldn’t care less.

35. The Blue castle by L.M. Montgomery. Beautiful prose. Like the plot very much. Now if I could really find the time to read Anne of green gables.

36. Book of a thousand days by Shannon Hale. Nice. Can’t remember much but I like this enough to draw a doodle. I like her Austenland better. That was hilarious.

37. Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. I love these esp. the Dawn trader one. Haven’t reread yet.

39. The savage Damsel and the dwarf by Gerald Morris. Funny. I remembered that much.

Other books I regret are The books of Pelinor by Alison Croggon. Darkangel triology by Meredith Ann Pierce. Knight and Rogue by Hilari Bell, A college of magics by Caroline Stevermer, Riverside by Ellen Kushner.

#past bookshelves

[aelin9]

I'm squirming at how vulnerable Mel makes herself here. Admitting to her greatest insecurity and weakness? (Unknowingly) to her bitterest enemy? I can't watch 🙈

#literally braver than the marines #crown duel #court duel #sherwood smith #sartorias deles #sartorias-deles #meliara astiar #a stranger to command #vidanric shevraeth

[greatshell-rider]

your honor i ADORE her

#really appreciate a protag who keeps her promise to the reader (said she would bash marquis on the head and by gods has she) #sartorias-deles #crown duel #every 00's-10's YA protag WISHES they could be such a vessel for rage and impulsivity as mel

[speckledsolanaceae]

The Sierlaef is unlike his father and grandmother in not choosing his own sex, but he’s like them in that he’s already found a favorite.

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And if he’s picked Kies as his favorite for the rest of his life, like his father picked dear Uncle Sindan at about the same age, well, he could have picked far worse.

—Chapter 25, from Hadand to Joret, First Book

*looks RIGHT at Evred* romantic monogamy doomed you genetically

#putting this in a post for my own sake #and also to just love on sherwood’s craft #that every conversation leads back to so many other characters #no matter who it’s initially targeting #that’s the way to do omniscient third I suppose #aldren montrei-vayir #hadand algara-vayir #joret dei #evred montrei-vayir #sartorias-deles #inda #book talk

[peppers-ghost-posts]

I’ve decided to buy the entirety of the Sartorias-deles series for my birthday. Help.

#sartorias-deles #inda #the time of daughters #etc

[elise-nic]

Make no mistake, Jilo is not generally having a good time but he's also usually like 2 years behind on world events

#satorias-deles #timt #Jilo Sonscarna #Young Allies arc #sartorias deles

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tagged by @nikita-not-nikola

3 ships: Noelle Holiday/Kris Dreemurr (which includes but is not limited to Noelle Holiday/The Red SOUL), Anne Boonchuy/Sasha Waybright, Connie Maheswaran/Steven Universe

first ever ship: Depends on how you define ship, but plausibly Ash/May from Pokemon. They had a Moment in the Deoxys movie.

last song: They Might Be Giants - Kiss Me, Son of God

last movie: Chinatown (1974)

currently reading: Antiphony by Sherwood Smith—the last of the Sartorias-deles saga, which I have been following for over a decade, so, exciting! Also Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

currently watching: I just finished Disenchantment and nothing has filled the gap. I guess I'm technically in the middle of my American Dragon: Jake Long rewatch.

currently consuming: Veggie burger

currently craving: The ability to sit down and work on an AMV. There are a couple of obstacles to clear before I can do that…maybe tomorrow.

#as always consider yourself tagged if you would like to do this