just a girl who loves fantasy
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Fictional man obsession of this month:
✨️Lestat de Lioncourt✨️
(1994 movie version, currently reading the vampire chronicles as well)
FitzChivalry Farseer, they could never make me hate you.
currently reading Dark Heir and gosh I love James the tension is insane.. probably not prepared for the rest of this book
forget "wyd" I need a man to tell me he yearns for my presence from afar
" you should be at the club " I should be at cabeswater searching for glendower
I'm so excited for the graphic novel!!
me on august 5th 2025
I desperately want Blue Sargent's place in The Raven Cycle
TW: self-harm
it just came to mind that andrew minyard likely vividly remembers inflicting every single scar upon himself, plus the pain that caused him to do so, and the armbands are a constant reminder and he'll never fully heal from that and now my day is ruined
as a person who formerly struggled with sh and carries scars very similar to his (3 years clean and going strong!) i'm genuinely so glad i barely remember the worst of my pain even if i'll always be marked by it. but having his memory seems more like a curse than a "gift" in this case
i am an open book
it's just that nobody bothers to read it
am i the only one who imagined kavinsky to look just like iceman from top gun?? just looked at fanart after finishing tdt and apparently his hair isn't blond??
Perfect summary of why I adore this book
Does anyone else just sit and think about the fact that Six of Crows is literally the perfect book?
Like, we have a morally grey character who's actually morally grey and has a real reason to push people away other than "once I killed someone in self defense, so I'm a terrible person and we can't be together." And every other character has a super fleshed out backstory as well, including real world problems that don't usually get talked about in fantasy books.
There's just as heavy an emphasis on platonic love as romantic love, instead of "I can fix him", it's "he can fix himself", there's a gay couple that's actually happy and not suffering every five pages, and all of the gay characters have personality traits outside of the fact that they're gay.
And speaking of the romance, it's so not rushed or sexualized. No one even kisses in the first book, but it's still so obvious how much they love each other. Each couple has such a different dynamic, and the way their pasts mirror each other? Perfection. (I also firmly believe that Kanej is the best couple in all of YA prove me wrong)
And then the diversity??? 3/7 of the lead characters are POCs, 4/7 are queer, 3 have disabilities, 2 have addictions, 2 have PTSD, 2 are religious, one was raised in a cult, and it's not one of those books that has diverse characters just for the sake of being diverse!
The plot is so unique, especially among fantasy books, and despite the fact that there's so many moving parts, there is not a single plot hole. And the CK auction scene will forever be one of the best end of series climaxes I have ever read.
So basically I don't get why other authors even try anymore cause I'm sorry but no matter how great their books are, it's not going to be Six of Crows.
fictional man obsession of the month:
Aemond Targaryen
no further comment
shoutout to Belladonna, Foxglove & Wisteria for having the prettiest set of covers i've seen this year
Kevin, leaning over Seth’s coffin: how could you do this to us, we’re so short staffed.
This fucking sucks I’m going to [ remembers suicide jokes are bad for your mental health ] find glendower
just finished the raven boys and gosh that was good. lost count of how many times my heart broke for the characters, especially adam. need the next book asap
dear algorithm, no spoilers please
you might like the same character as me but i like them in a far more concerning and deeply controversial way than you ever will
The thing about me is that I desperately want to be Andrew Minyard ( cool and collected , a little dangerous and kinda mysterious, no one really knows what his deal is ) but I'm really Neil Josten ( wet little meow meow, a little paranoid, a little clueless about social interaction, makes a deer in the headlights face when someone says something nice to me , immediately giving out all my secrets for the sake of drama and chaos ) and I have to accept that
let me be wanted
and if i am not wanted
let me be needed
and if i am not needed
let me be used
until there is nothing left of me.
“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy -
and I will not apologize for it.”
- Brittin Oakman
- Artwork : Sivan.ka
Anatomy of a writing session
I would actually sell my soul for Andrew's internal monologue.
I had a great day today but don't have anyone to tell so I'm just putting it out there
How 90% of my stories came to be
Mood
story of my life
"are you okay?" no I got way too attached to a fictional character and now they're dead
sleep paralysis barkbark
can you imagine being Jean Moreau and waking up in the middle of the night from a horrific night terror only to sit up and be met with the everlasting stare of a cardboard golden retriever named fucking Barkbark Von Barkenstein