Jun 26
when dumai and nikeya kiss for the first time and nikeya is like "it's just us...no one will know" canthe's in the back of dumai's brain getting ready to pounce and ruin another moment like
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when dumai and nikeya kiss for the first time and nikeya is like "it's just us...no one will know" canthe's in the back of dumai's brain getting ready to pounce and ruin another moment like
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not samantha shannon saying that her next book is a small roc book then saying she's doing hróth research.... girl say more
canthe pretending to be glorian and then betraying dumai's trust and ruining their little dream connection i fucking HATEEEE it HEREEE
tuva to esbar : yeah babe i'll totally stand by your side when youre the prioress and will be your sail and never leave you
tuva the NEXT day; the second ez makes a decision she doesnt agree on : leaves
girl.
I’ve been reading the Broken Earth trilogy and was thinking of a Day of Fallen Night, and realized that I don’t dislike Esbar because she’s a bad mother, but because we rarely get any interiority or insight into why she’s a bad mother. I’m on the second book of the Broken Earth trilogy and we just got Essun’s daughter’s perspective and we find out that Essun is actually not a great mom at all to the point her kid genuinely thinks she doesn’t love her. And we can fully understand why the daughter feels this way when we learn about how Essun treated her, which is not something that was known to us in the first book. But even though I was disappointed in hearing this, I still haven’t stopped liking Essun as a character. I think it’s because we see Essun’s whole life and the horribly abusive ways she was treated as a child and we understand that she is just replicating this with her own parenting because she doesn’t know how else to raise an orogene child in a place that wants to kill them. And it’s also a parallel to her complicated relationship with Alabaster. It doesn’t justify her treatment of Nassun, and I think Nassun is justified in how she feels, but we understand what made her this way. (Which is also a parallel to how generational trauma and racism irl can have negative effects on Black parenting) But with Esbar we don’t get as much insight into her trauma and what’s going on in her head so she just comes off to me like an asshole, and it feels like the narrative kind of hand waves her treatment of Siyu. I really wish that she could be explored more as a character and we could explore more of how the Priory itself causes this sort of trauma, because I feel it was touched on but I’d really like to dive deeper.
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actually obsessed with this description in adofn when dumai and kanifa see the soldier with the red sickness on the way to brhazat
"Nayimathun got there first. Taking Dumai and Kanifa by the pelts, she picked them up with her teeth, like kittens by the scruffs of their necks, and placed them next to Furtia."
nayimathun my beloved
I think something interesting about ADOFN is the fact that the book as a whole is about people staying in toxic systems and the reasons they do. This makes sense because it is a prequel, and you can’t have people rebel too much before TPOTOT in order for the timeline to make sense.
Like for instance, Glorian stays with Virtudom because she knows no other way and the only people who tried to introduce ways outside Virtudom to her were very untrustworthy. She feels terrible for subjecting her daughter to the same fate, but because she genuinely believes her line will keep back the Nameless One, she can’t do anything about it.
The Priory characters have this too. Tunuva is somewhat aware that the Priory is very flawed and partially responsible for the grief she experiences. But her sense of duty when it comes to keeping people safe from wyrms and her love for Esbar keep her rooted there and somewhat content. Siyu, on the other hand, is not content at all, but eventually chooses to stay with the Priory despite how terribly they treated her because she went through the trauma of seeing Anyso’s family killed by wyrms and wants to protect other people from that. She also likely wants to keep her daughter in a place where she’ll be protected, even if she does feel like it’s a cage.
Even Wulf cannot stay in the Priory because as a man, it has no role he would be content with within a matriarchal system, despite his love for Tunuva. He goes back to Virtudom, a system he knows is false, not only because of this, but also so that he can be closer to his daughter and the boy he loves.
Dumai arguably is the one who rebels against the system till the end, and she is rewarded with her demise (?) and existing in an ambiguous state (at least until Wild Winter comes out). Nikeya does change the system, but really she creates a new status quo that lasts until the present timeline.
I find it interesting because a lot of TPOTOT is about rebelling against systems for the purpose of achieving a greater goal, and many of its characters are descended from ADOFN characters who stayed in systems because of their duty.
I REALLY DIDN'T THINK SUZUMAI WOULD DIE OH MY GOD