#tortall universe

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 2 Poll A

(Papyrus and peach blossom)

#botanic tournament #tournament polls #round 2 #papyrus undertale #papyrus ut #undertale papyrus #ut papyrus #ut fandom #undertale game #undertale #undertale fandom #peachblossom #protector of the small #lady knight #tortall #tortall universe #keladry of mindelan #tamora pierce #bookblr

[checkoutmybookshelf]

No lie is detected. Just pick up a Tamora Pierce book.

#tamora pierce #tortall #tortall universe #circle universe #emelan #books & libraries #books and reading #books and novels #book recommendations #books #ya fantasy

[princesssarisa]

Tamora Pierce has been open about the celebrity facecasting she used for the main characters of The Immortals.

This is what Daine looks like (Trini Alvarado, as she appeared in the early '90s, most notably as Meg in the 1994 Little Women):

This is what Numair looks like (Jeff Goldblum in his late 20s/early 30s):

And this is Emperor Ozorne around the time of Emperor Mage (Ozzy Osbourne, circa 1980):

#tamora pierce #tortall universe #tortall #the immortals #daine sarrasri #numair salmalin #emperor ozorne #trini alvarado #jeff goldblum #ozzy osbourne #facecasting #ya fantasy #ya fiction

[artcake]

My girl! She's back!!

#keladry of mindelan #keladry #kel #protector of the small #tortall #tortall universe #tamora pierce #lady knight #always and forever my comfort series #fan art #my art #art

[moderatelyprosperouspeasant]

I completed my Tortall book collection!! :D

I’m not really picky about book condition, so these are all used (I got all but three of them on Ebay) and many of them have library markings on/in them etc. The only thing I’m really peeved about is the sticker damage on the Trickster spines, since that’s the only part that’s really visible when they’re shelved. (Dear used book sellers, if you could please place stickers in less conspicuous places and stop placing them on pAPER SURFACES I would hold so much more peace in my heart.)

I had mentally prepared myself for the poster that’s advertised with Tempests and Slaughter to have been removed by a previous owner, but to my shock and delight it’s STILL IN THERE??? I never knew what the poster was, now that I know what it says I will surely be displaying it above these books :) ideally it will be displayed alongside the map that I’ve been meaning to get from Dual Wield Studio!

Other than getting my favorite editions of the whole series, I ended up getting extra copies of The First Adventure and In the Hand of the Goddess because I found copies of the gorgeous 2002 edition for really cheap! The other two books are more rare and expensive on Ebay, perhaps I’ll invest in copies one day, or get lucky. I’m super super pleased with these, other than some glue residue on one cover, they so far appear to be in GORGEOUS condition. The pages are so crisp and beautiful and AHHH I just think this artwork suits the series so well! I’m also super fond of small books, but these are hardcovers so they are in far better condition than the paperbacks I got. I also saw Immortals copies that matched these, they are beautiful but generally expensive.

There are other beautiful editions that I would love to invest in just to have them, though my apartment is tiny and I do not need more belongings lol…now that I’ve collected all of these, though, I should really prioritize reading the Circle of Magic series. I’ve been too attached to Tortall to think of exploring a different world of hers, but Tamora is my idol so I’ve really gotta buck up and immerse myself in that world.

#tamora pierce #tortall #song of the lioness #alanna the lioness #the immortals quartet #veralidaine sarrasri #protector of the small #keladry of mindelan #alianne cooper #beka cooper #numair salmalin #arram draper #tempests and slaughter #book collection #tortall universe

[hubristicassholefight]

Swordswoman Showdown Round 2 Part 2

(Better here in a "preferred character" sense, not "who would win in a fight")

Propaganda below cut

(Tain Hu art by @marceline2174

Keladry

She’s in training to become & eventually is the first openly female knight in her realm; She looks out for those weaker than her, trains with weighted weapons to build strength and is the ideal knight. Also I just think she’s *sword* of cool :)

Tain Hu

Lesbian icon!! Wins sword fights for her girlfriend!!; The baru cormorant tag on Marceline2174's blog (beware of spoilers but also...good art)

Wins a one v one duel. I suck at explaining shit, but super cool buff sword lesbian. You're probably going to get a lot of sword lesbians

#keladry of mindelan #tortall universe #protector of the small #tain hu #the traitor baru cormorant #the masquerade #swordswoman showdown #round 2 #poll #official

[bookcub]

they are all amazing but we all have ones closer to our hearts

#tortall #tamora pierce #song of the lioness #protector of the small #tortall universe

[fiction-quotes]

Have faith that the gods know what they are doing with your life, Pounce said, following me down the stairs.

I don't want the gods meddling with my life, I told him silently as we walked out into the street again. I want to do it myself. Gods are trouble.

You don't have a choice, Pounce said.

I don't like the sound of that. I don't like it at all. I can manage on my own, tell them that! I said, glaring at him. And you never mentioned anything like that before!

I thought it would cheer you up, Pounce said.

I began to trot, not to escape Pounce so much as to get away from what he was hinting at. I've accepted for five year gone that Pounce is magic. Kora was the one who first told me he was a constellation, as close to a god as makes no difference. But he's never spoken of the gods in my life before, and I wish he hadn't. Look at all the folk who have had the gods muck with their lives, folk like Jehane the Warrior, that was burned alive, or Tomore the Righteous, beggared and beheaded, or Badika of the Blazing Axe, who drove off the Carthakis, only to be torn apart in one of their arenas! It never goes well for the god-chosen! Pounce can just tell the gods to leave me be.

  —  Bloodhound (Tamora Pierce)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #tamora pierce #tortall universe #provost's dog #bloodhound #beka cooper #the cat (tortall) #religion #deities #gods #magic #independence

[eidetictelekinetic]

So I actually haven't even got to the Trickster duology in the Yearly Reread yet (I decided to swing through Beka first) but I was thinking about the situation in the very beginning of Trickster's Choice - yet again, I think about it often because it kind of makes me want to chew glass.

And I realized: as far as we can tell, Alanna's reaction to Aly's situation is actually the closest to a helpful one Aly gets! Now, Aly rejects it because she knows what she wants, and rightly or wrongly she thinks her mother is about to make her a project and change her. (Which says a heartbreaking amount about their relationship as a whole, actually.)

Of course, some of this is derailed by the return of Alanna's noble snobbery reactions, but still, on the whole, when Aly points out that no one has complained about her assisting with the office work of spying, they just won't let her make a career of fieldwork, all while telling her she needs to find a true career, Alanna acknowledges that! She admits that she should have stepped in, and she says "we'll put our heads together" to figure out something else Aly can do that she'll care about.

Meanwhile, George's brief POV notes that while he couldn't ban Aly from the risks of military life, he can and will bar her from fieldwork, but also Aly's drifting, she really needs to grow up and find something to do. Myles' commentary is offscreen, but from what Aly said, it sounds like he basically said she should be content with the spymaster's assistant job, which is still better than how George's POV comes off but not by much. Myles at least seems as though he might be saying "you could make a career of this part" which is what he's done, of course.

George seems to have expected this, but given the rest of his internal monologue he's also not satisfied with the idea of Aly helping him as enough of a career to count?

And I'm not saying George's protectiveness is wrong, necessarily. I'm also prepared to believe that Kyprioth was meddling to ensure his future chosen one wouldn't be too busy elsewhere.

But it is really interesting that Alanna is the only one who seems to have realized that, hey, we've let Aly do this for ages, if we want her to find something else that requires more than just telling her to. We need to help figure out how to redirect her passions.

Part of me finds the question of what Aly and Alanna might have come up with, if and when they got right down to it, deeply compelling. If I can ever figure out what I think their ideas would be, maybe I'll write the fic, lol.

It's telling that Alanna is the one to acknowledge that Aly has found a calling, at the end of Trickster's Queen, like she's saying "you needed it too, didn't you?"

(Which, speaking of things that make me want to chew glass, I agree that Aly eventually leaving the Isles as Tammy has said happens is right, because it's the raka's country, but I really wish she'd just... not stayed in the Isles at all instead of going back to Tortall later and ending up in a weird almost-traitor status. I get why Jon reacts that way, it fits in-verse but it feels like an unnecessarily cruel endgame narratively, even if Aly makes the best of it.)

#tamora pierce #tortall universe #trickster's duology #aly of pirate's swoop #alianne of pirate's swoop #alanna the lioness

[yourfavelikesnickelback]

Keladry of Mindelan listens to Nickelback!

#tortall universe #protector of the small #keladry of mindelan #tamora pierce #your fave likes nickelback

[sassystudent-me]

Keladry of Mindelam: aged 13 and 18

#tamora pierce #keladry of mindelan #keladry #lady knight #squire #page #first test #tortall universe

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 3 Poll A

Glade is the name we give an open space in a forest.

(Peach blossom and glade)

#botanic tournament #tournament polls #round 3 #protector of the small #tortall #keladry of mindelan #tamora pierce #lady knight #bookblr #gladekeeper #flight rising #gameblr #tortall universe

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Ok, I was relistening to the Emperor Mage audiobook the other day, and holy cow can we talk about Varice Kingsford for a second. Our girl is immensely consistent from Tempests and Slaughter to Emperor Mage that all she wants is to use her gift to make things pretty and use that to smooth diplomatic paths, and there are the seeds of her being...I don't even know how to describe it properly, under Ozorne's power? Ozorne's lackey? In Ozorne's corner? But when it came to the part in Emperor Mage where Daine is wrecking the palace and runs into Varice, the absolute soul-baring honesty of responding to "Did you betray Numair to Ozorne?" with "No, but I might have if I'd been specifically asked to" just hits so hard.

Varice just wanted to plan parties and play house, and literally none of the men in her life accepted that. They kept pushing and pushing and so she ended up in Ozorne's court, watching one childhood friend murder their mutual childhood friend and her lover. That situation will never not be hideously messed up, but the tragedy is how clearly Varice can see the dynamics in her own relationships.

Just let the kitchen witch do kitchen witchy things that make her happy!!!

#tamora pierce #tortall #tortall universe #emperor mage #tempests and slaughter #veralidaine sarrasri #varice kingsford #arram draper #numair salmalin #ozorne

[first--lines]

George Cooper, Baron of Pirate's Swoop, second in command of the realm's spies, put his documents aside and surveyed his only daughter as she paused by his study door. Alianne – known as Aly to her family and friends – posed there, arms raised in a Player's dramatic flourish. It seemed that she had enjoyed her month's stay with her Corus relatives.

  —  Trickster’s Choice (Tamora Pierce)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #tamora pierce #tortall universe #tricksters series #trickster's choice

[redrikki]

Miscellaneous Literature Masterpost

Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

The Start of a Long Summer - Azula steps through a wardrobe to find a kidnapping faun and a wintry kingdom ripe for regime change. (Chronicles of Narnia/Avatar: The Last Airbender crossover) Azula, Tumnus.

Earth’s Children - Jean M. Auel

Only a Motion Away - The mother and child reunion is only a motion away. (Druc, Nezzie)

Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling

An Odd Place For It - Southern California is an odd place to find a horcrux but there are stranger things in the Sunnydale High School library. (Harry Potter/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover) Harry, Hermione, Ron, Scoopy Gang

Have to Start Somewhere (The Words to Rebuild Remix) - This diary belongs to Ginevra Molly Weasley and no one else. (Ginny)

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

Panem and Circuses: A look at the woman who made the Games - As Panem prepares to celebrate the Third Quarter Quell, Games Gab takes a look back at the brilliant innovator who almost single-handedly transformed the Hunger Games from a rather tedious affair mandated by the Treaty of Treason into the entertainment juggernaut they are today. (written before A Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes)

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Requiescat in pace - In which Jonathan Strange discovers that returning the dead to their natural state is more difficult than he would imagine. (Jonathan Strange)

Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis

Primary Sources - In the dark years when the net won’t open, Colin has a lot of growing up to do. (Colin Templer, Kivrin Engle)

Not the Last Goodbye - Polly isn't ready to let Eileen go without saying one last goodbye. (Polly Churchill, Eileen Reilly, Colin Templer)

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

Epistolary - Dear Lady Allendale….yours, etc., Emily Roland

The Broken Earth Series - N.K. Jemisin

Seismic Shift - Schaffa tells himself he will stop if Eitz says no. This one will be allowed to say no. The boy says nothing at all. (Schaffa, Eitz) Warning: Child Sexual Abuse

Tortall - Tamora Pierce

Hole in the Sea - The whales say there is a hole in the ocean and a monster stirring in the deep. (Tortall/Pacific Rim crossover) Daine, Kaiju.

Young Wizards - Diane Duane

So You Want to Be a (Space) Wizard - Finn finds a mysterious book, takes an Oath, and starts one hell of an Ordeal. (Young Wizards/Star Wars Sequels fusion) Finn, Rey, Poe Dameron

#my fic #fic masterpost #fic masterlist #chronicles of narnia #earth's children #hunger games #jonathan strange and mr norrell #oxford time travel universe #the broken earth #tortall #young wizards

[welcometololaland]

Fic Rec Friday - Round Up Part 2

Thanks to everyone who participated this week - the theme was: rec a 'gateway' fic. If I've missed any, please let me know!

I say this every week, but just to reiterate - this is a compilation of fics i've been tagged in or which appear in the fic rec friday tag relevant to the weekly theme. The recommendations below do not represent a personal curation of fics. Please read at your own discretion. Heed tags and ratings on each individual fic. Keep yourself safe, friends!

Check Please!

Braced Myself by @porcupine-girl

Chef Bob-ardee by @iboatedhere

dance with somebody by @everwitch-magiks

love finds you by @sincerelyreidburke

maybe not today but eventually by @thewesternredcedar

Someone by @wrathofthestag

when it's over (you're the start) by @whoacanada

Emmerdale

midnight in paris by @capseycartwright

Glee

Fix Verse by rainjoywriting

HP

Everything in Transit by @remedialpotions

Marvel Cinematic Universe

just say you do by @biblionerd07

Red White and Royal Blue

A Distinctly British Take on Events by RevJohnO

all that glitters (is not gold) by @indomitable-love

Before This, After That by @orchidscript

Everybody needs good neighbours by @rmd-writes

forever yrs, for evermore. by @indomitable-love

heart & home by @rmd-writes

Hook(up), Line & Sinker by @rmd-writes @clottedcreamfudge @athousandrooms @the-amber-fox @indomitable-love

Speak for Yourself by Lolaland (me)

the poem you make of me by cmere

Schitt's Creek

A Very Specific Store by @language-of-love

beside you in time by @blackandwhiteandrose

Burn Out the Night by @madlori

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE - 4.02 Pregnancy Test Coda Fic by @cheesecurdsgravyandfries

Definitely A Thing by @beaiola

Happy to Help by @vivianblakesunrisebay

I’d Swing With You for the Fences by @nontoxic-writes

I'll Follow You Down by @fraudulentzodiac

Improv Piecing by @my-nameless-bliss

Incorrect by Lisamc21

just a line in a song by @blackandwhiteandrose

let your heart be light by @blueink3

Molten Glass Hearts by @januarium

Murder, My Sweet by @a-noble-dragon

my heart was broke, my head was sore by @blueink3

PDA: Public Displays of Anxiety by @delilah-mcmuffin

Sometimes Good Things Fall Apart by @blueink3

Such a Constellation He Was To Me by @blueink3

thinking of everything by @doublel27

this is how a heart breaks by @blackandwhiteandrose

You're the only thing I need by @yourbuttervoicedbeau

Suits

To build a Home by TooSel

Teen Wolf

Hide of a Life War by Etharei

Tortall - Tamora Pierce

Miss Atomic Bomb by @ponyregrets

#fic rec friday #fic rec friday round up #Emmerdale #Glee #Check Please! #Schitt's Creek #Teen Wolf #Suits #Tortall #Tamora Pierce #Red White and Royal Blue #rwrb #Harry Potter #HP #MCU #Marvel Cinematic Universe