#the last binding

[ming85]

Third Leyendecker inspired piece for @fahye's The Last Binding trilogy, the other two can be found here and here. To express the overbrimming joy the last book gave me and draw some more hats.

(my The Last Binding tag, and my art tag)

#the last binding #a power unbound #freya marske #my art

[infinite-mirrors]

(They're definitely Up To Something)

#elsewhere Robin suddenly sits up and goes 'Maud is Up To Something' #Edwin: did you have a vision?? Robin: no I can just FEEL IT #the last binding #alan ross #jack alston #maud blyth #freya marske #my art #a marvellous light #a restless truth #a power unbound

[goatsandgangsters]

made some memes

#a marvellous light #a restless truth #a power unbound #the last binding #maud blyth #robin blyth #alan ross #jack alston #lord hawthorn #my pinned post makes the henry cavill meme template even funnier #that man is about to get tackled by so many things #(including maud) #I'm sorry violet and edwin and adelaide no meme templates came to mind

[linovadraws]

In my excitement for A Power Unbound, I've been relistening to A Restless Truth and remembering how much I love this book, ahhhhhh.

A Maud and Violet to match my Robin and Edwin drawing :)

#freya marske #a restless truth #a marvellous light #the last binding #fahye #fanart #anyway no one tell freya but technically speaking maud isn't wearing the right underwear here shhhh #listen drawing a chemise and drawers set looked odd from this angle #let's all ignore that this is technically a set of combinations #not sure if this needs a community tag so i guess yell at me if it does?

[bluebutter-art]

Still one of my favourite scenes to happen in A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske @fahye

Make sure to see the full version on AO3!

#I'm so hyped for book 3 ahhh #Robin Blyth #Edwin Courcey #A Marvellous Light #The Last Binding #A restless truth #A power unbound #my art #book fanart

[daggerofthemind]

any marvellous light fans here? i just read freya marske’s ( @fahye ) the last binding trilogy and completely adored it, so i had to draw edwin and robin

#a marvellous light #the last binding #edwin courcey #robin blyth #not trek #im sorry this isnt my typical stuff but i had to set aside the space gays for a moment to appreciate these two

[jhsjykwpdw]

how it started

vs. how it's going

#edwin courcey #robin blyth #the last binding #a marvellous light #a restless truth #a power unbound #freya marske

[lucidteaparty]

Out of ways I've seen other authors have the MCs reveal their sexualities to each other, this is honestly one of the funniest examples I've seen lmao

#the last binding #edwin courcey #robin blyth #a marvellous light #freya marske #my post

[exhaustedwerewolf]

so I finished A Power Unbound yesterday

#a power unbound #the last binding #a marvellous light #Freya Marske #Maud Blyth #memes #historical fantasy

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Happy book birthday to A Power Unbound by @fahye. Here's Addy in her red dress.

#a power unbound #the last binding #freya marske #adelaide morrissey #artist on tumblr #queer books #lgbt books #my art

[ming85]

A Marvellous Light promotional art, part of a series for Freya Marske/@fahye's stunning The Last Binding trilogy. See the ones for book 2 and 3 here!

My intend was 'how can I pour as much of my love for the arts and crafts movement in one painting'. It's what Robin would have wanted.

(Please also check out this perfect Edwin song that I listened to for weeks while painting.)

my The Last Binding tag for more of these two softies, and my art tag.

#the last binding #a marvellous light #freya marske #edwin courcey #robin blyth #my art

[infinite-mirrors]

@akumastrife you're right, this meme suits them perfectly

#the last binding #a marvellous light #robin blyth #edwin courcey #freya marske #my art #he'd let edwin experiment on him all day. the fool. the besotted idiot. (affectionate)

[goatsandgangsters]

Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, from A Power Unbound by Freya Marske @fahye

Alan looked at his hand engulfed in Jack’s. He said, coming to the realisation along the way, like a sentence that only revealed itself word by word as he wrote it down: “You’re still the kind of arse who’ll pick two fights before breakfast, but you’ve been desperate for someone else to look after, haven’t you?”

#a power unbound #the last binding #freya marske #jack alston #lord hawthorn #ft. bonus elsie and bonus alan #lastbindingedit #through SHEER FORCE OF WILL I’ve brought gifsets to the book fandom! #I would like to buy a fruit basket for whoever sat him at the base of a tree #and handed him a newspaper about important votes in the Lords #lit edit #booklr #bookedit #lgbt reads #my edits #sff books #fantasy fiction #fantasy books

[le-trash-prince]

The Last Binding Trilogy Cover Art - William Morris designs

I love how beautiful these covers are, and I love how William Morris is used throughout the books in little ways.

#the last binding #freya marske #william morris #christine foltzer #a power unbound #a restless truth #a marvellous light #books #bookblr #arts and crafts

[fahye]

@lieutenantkim replied to your post “hi freya! your work with the TLB series is...”:

I'm a little confused, what do you mean by "start as late as possible in the story" and then "have the main inciting incident take place within the first scene"? Did you mean the other way around or?

​nope, I mean exactly that!

the TLB books are slightly unusual in that the real inciting incidents for all three involve the murder (even if obliquely, in book 3) of a third party, so they all begin with a kind of BBC-crime-drama pre-credits-scene chapter in which the murder occurs.

but the first chapter from a protagonist's perspective begins as close to the thing that Starts Their Story as possible. even after it. I could have showed you robin's daily home life, his parents' death, and then his receiving the notification of his new job at the home office. instead I started it RIGHT where he is introduced to the existence of magic, and then only introduced his home life & maud once he was already embroiled with worrying about magic and the curse.

I could have started ART with maud and mrs navenby getting on the ship, or even with maud on her initial voyage out to america. I started the moment AFTER her discovering the dead body: the plot is off! immediately! at once!

there is a tendency for first drafts to start with a character on their way to the plot: waking up on the day in question, or on a train to somewhere new, so the author can get comfy and wriggle around with some narration telling you who they are at the start of the story.

nope. start when they get off the train. or later. by the end of the very first scene, something new should have happened to them which gives the reader the story's first (or even central) unanswered question or point of conflict. you can fill in their backstory and personality and pre-story-status-quo in the narration as you go.

finding the right starting point is often a second-draft thing. and that's fine! but it gets easier with practice.

#writing advice #the last binding #is this a hard and fast rule for every story ever? #no #no piece of writing advice ever is #but if you're aiming for traditional publishing #having a fast-moving opening scene #that sets up the story and character/s well #can make a huge difference

[tartan-tardis]

I’m reading A Power Unbound and had to draw these idiots.

I’ll probably redraw this later and neaten it up a bit ☺️

#a power unbound #freya marske #the last binding #jack alston #alan ross #fanart #a restless truth