rosemuse

Occtis, instantly: "Nope!"

Shadia and Alogar are foils to the children of the Sundered Houses and Shapers. They’re inspired by their family but not controlled by them, they’re deeply loved but not coddled. Their parents want them to be safe, but still have faith that they can hold their own. They respect their children’s autonomy. They take after their parents because their parents loved them and gave them the space to choose their own paths. They don’t need their parents and are not forced into depending on them (as we see with Sylandri.)

and it makes the halovar’s control over and manipulations of hal’s theater even more despicably evil because that is the site of the rungjani’s suffering. it’s the site where their people were forced into worship and where they are trying to reclaim their history and a bunch of human houses blessed by the gods (who are dead and gone and who cares about them anyway), are throwing their weight around with it. the council, or the chamber of the lords advisory decided whether or not hal got this site. the halovar are deciding what history gets told there. not a single orc is involved in that decision making. and when thaisha calls this out, that it’s her people’s history and truth that yanessa’s reshaping, she’s completely dismissed, despite the fact that she is right and also her family name should give her a level of status that the halovar should respect, if not consider an equal (not that she should need that status to be listened to).

I dont think that the insinuation from Einfasen was that Azune is one of theirs. I think Otto's insinuation, especially because he says something like "we'd be lucky if you were one of ours" is that Azune is a sorcerer from a Sundered House. But not one we've seen yet. One of the lost ones that died out in the Shaper's War. And that Otto thinks someone needs to figure out which lost heir to a destroyed Sundered House he's found.

i'm a big sucker for a diegetic piece of art/literature serving as a mirror to the story's characters, so naturally the illustration of the poem about a silverleaf tree falling in love with a star from chapter 47 of WHA *had* to be redrawn as Qifrey and Oru ✨🍃

tip jar!

aaand a rotated version under the cut for easier Oru appreciation!

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

Sooooo guess who went a bit nuts and made a 10 pages comic of the continuation of last night’s drawing? Me!

Idk if I gave Aldreda too much credit, but I do feel like she’s more upset in Lucien ignoring her letters and went awol than really criticizing on his lifestyle, and combine that with her being post partum at that time, hence why she was like that in the novel..

Essek is a bit ooc i think, but i think his train of thought is Aldreda made Kingsley upset in the street => enemy! And he’s just genuinely protective of the Neins in general~