Want to know what I’m on about when I talk about risers and limbs? Do you know your arrow rest from your nocking point? Or do you just want to hear me prattle on about bows for a couple of minutes? Either way, there’s a new video up in my bonus content place! Check it out 😁
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(Yeah, Yeah, I’m plugging my own page again! But man’s gotta eat, and times is rough! Plus I had a lot of fun making this edit)
so i made a post a while back that was a joke about brandon’s interview questions, and part of the made-up question was about nightblood eating the dor. it was a joke but is that possible? what if you just threw nightblood, most heavily invested object in the cosmere, eater of investiture, into sel’s cognitive realm? would it destroy all of it?
A modern retelling of a Russian fairy tale, the main character lives with her mom and step sisters. Tricked into serving the owner of the local convenience store, the main character must break the curse that plagues the convenience store and her neighborhood.
The One with the Angel and the Demon
A demon and an angel decide to go to de goldene medinato search for a girl they know who’s disappeared on the way over.
High in the mountains, a young girl lives with her mother, who insists they have all they need – for they have each other. The girl’s life is peaceful and protected – until a chance encounter changes everything. When she meets a beautiful young prince at the market one day, she is profoundly moved by new emotions. But the girl’s mother sees the future unfolding – and she will do the unspeakable to prevent her daughter from leaving her…
The One with LARPing
An evil businessman from Earth with a demon in thrall uses LARPing tours to exploit and strip wealth from a fantasy world. A prophecy declares that a wizard geneticist and his oldest son are the key to driving this evil businessman out of their world… so now the wizard geneticist (and his many human and griffin children) get to play the Big Bad in this year’s LARPing tours… and maybe save their world?
The One with Arabian Nights AND Hades & Persephone
Arabian Nights + Hades and Persephone! A mysterious danger plagues an unexpected kingly visit, and a young woman embarks on a quest to find her one true love before all is lost…
The One with Assassin Nuns
The first book of a trilogy about a girl at a magical school, where she’s training to be a nun who kills people. Despite that, we still get to see lots of normal growing up. The planet they live on is almost fully covered in ice, and almost everyone lives on a very narrow strip of land on the equator.
A princess longs to travel so is locked in her room. A lion comes to her. Eventually, she has to choose whether she will stay or go.
The One with the Manuscript
A young, aspiring author receives a manuscript from from his dying godfather. In order to find the writer, he must travel from his childhood home to the literary hub of the country. Once there, he is swept up in the hubbub of the book-based metropolis, but falls victim to his own naivete. The manuscript gets stolen, and he is drugged and abandoned in the deep, labyrinthine caverns beneath the city. In order to get back to the surface he must face booby-trapped books, horrible creatures, blood-thirsty bounty hunters, and the mysterious entity that claims this realm as its kingdom.
War veteran with chronic pain contracted by a goddess to save her chosen queen
The One with the Ex Spy
This book and series follows a pair of brothers and their crew of thieves, and misfits in their search for revenge and cash after their neighborhood was burnt to the ground. One of the brothers is an ex spy for the government with a temper and the other is a master tinkerer with gadgets galore! Of course they all want to go clean and leave all of this rotten work behind but with revenge on the line they push on to find out who’s behind the fire set on their homes.
just saw someone reviewing the erin hunter books like, ‘they should publish the whole series at once, i don’t want to wait a whole year to read it’. like babe i hate to break it to you but,,,, go touch some grass and think about your relationship with consumerism okay, because it’s gotten really weird on you
I’ve heard these kinds of sentiments in regards to novels, as well as readers outright refusing to read fantasy series debuts because “they fear committing to something unfinished” (like refusing to read an incomplete fanfic on AO3…) in case the author dies, or isn’t able/doesn’t complete the work. The GRRM effect, if you will.
Regardless of how people feel towards the authors personally, I will continue to bleat, til the day I die, artists do not owe an audience anything. They are not in debt to you. They don’t owe their works to their readers, no exceptions, there is no “earned/lost trust” or “unspoken contracts.” Capitalism has got people treating artists and entertainers as though they should hop on their bicycles like a chained bear, the moment the audience cracks its whip.
There’s also this fun aspect of capitalism where your favorite (usually marginalized) author doesn’t get another book contract or have the rest of the series picked up or have the money to keep investing their time in that project because you refused to buy the thing until it was finished.
Not only do creators not owe their audience anything, but those who really truly want to give these things to their audience are directly prevented from doing so by this exact mentality!
Maybe I’m currently a puddle of miserable goo (heatwave and migraine is the worst combo), but I’m a very determined puddle of goo with a knife and a Dremel. So - another carved landscape in resin, continue learning. Damned bubbles are, well, damned, but I loooove doing these things
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