#icemark

1) hotheaded young royal who longs to prove themself in battle and is a proficient fighter.

2) said young royal’s father who started a war against magic and/or magical creatures

3) guy with magic and tendency for healing. who starts off a pacifist and gradually gets more proficient at violent fighting.

4) magic guy initially thinks young royal is prat and far too full of themself, yet nevertheless becomes extremely protective of them.

5) they go on adventures to protect the kingdom together.

6) point of story is magic/magic creatures aren’t evil and are instead a strong ally.

7) young royal wants only to do the best for their people. even if that means dying.

The Icemark books were GREAT. Stuart Hill (I just looked up his name) was really like, "I'm going to write a book where a 13yo Viking princess has to abruptly take up leadership of her people as both a warrior and diplomat, and create and manage alliances with vampires, werewolves, giant talking snow leopards, exiled Amazon warriors, and the one other teenager whose magic comes with a whole Summer/Winter King aesthetic, in order to save her country of Fantasy Denmark from the invading Fantasy Roman Empire (who have airships)."

And then he DID THAT.

Genuine, real talk: I would LOVE a big studio movie of Cry of the Icemark. I'd fucking kill for it. It'd have oodles of CGI and dramatic fight scenes and it'd be great.

(I do remember being annoyed at the second and third books, because a) I didn't like how Charlemange's disability was handled and b) there were continuity errors between books 2 and 3 - I remember distinctly that all the royal snow leopard children seemed to disappear from existence except one, but I think there were others. And tbh it all had strong...the first book stood on its own, I didn't need the next-gen sequels. The first book was fucking INCREDIBLE.)

The death that has stuck with me was the Vampire King, personally. His elegance and confidence vs the sudden shock and brutality of the barrage of stakes and splinters, the way it was abruptly like, "oh shit the fantasy Romans can adapt to fighting the supernatural."

So, i’ve notice that is a long time since my previous Icemark session... and i’ve this idea of a series of crack couple. I made a series of cards in a jar with all names of the ‘human’ characters, and then i extract two of those cards and... ta-da! crack couple! Only i’ not draw blood related characters (like son/father, sister/Brother, etc...) 

and this is my list of the future cracks: sometimes interesting, sometime they leave me a little puzzled...

1) general Andronicus/Scipio Bellorum

2) Eodred/ Vampire Queen

3) general Andronicus/ Octavius Bellorum 

4) Octavius Bellorum/ Eodred 

5) Redrought/ Vampire King 

6) Oskan/ Octavius Bellorum 

7) Medea/ Vampire King 

8) Charlemagne / Vampire Queen 

9) Mehkmet/ Charlemagne 

10) Mehkmet/ Vampire Queen 

and others ten pairings,(because they’re like the cherries ;P ) 

11) Medea/ Ketshaka III 

12) Oskan/Redrought 

13) Medea/Sulla Bellorum

14) Cressida/ general Andronicus 

15) general Andronicus/ Maggiore Totus 

16) Charlemagne/ Ketshaka III 

17) Vampire Queen/ Ketshaka III 

18) Oskan/ Vampire King 

19) Thirrin/ Sulla Bellorum 

Hey there! Welcome to the party. As @madam-du-batty has said, we’re as if five people were headbanging to Norwegian metal in a broom closet.

But actually, there are more of us than you think! This blog currently has 72 followers. The fans of Icemark are devoted, and love this series.

Of course, a good place to start would be on the tumblr tag. Personally, we at this blog track “icemark,” so we see anything new that pops up. There’s also the Icemark forum, as well as the small but delightful section of fanfiction.net. In fact, one of the mods of this very blog has been (very, very, VERY) slowly but surely creating her own fic for it.

Of course, this blog does sort of work as a place to geek out! We always take submissions and questions. We ran a fic giveaway with our 50th follower!

As for devoted individuals with whom to discuss the delightful books we all adore, the mods for this blog (@cryptidappreciator and @thefutureisyellow) are always available. The aforementioned @madam-du-batty is excellent at headcanons and has been known to partake in an informal Icemark con or two. @morriganbia is the most active fanartist on the tag, and I have it under good authority that @whydocowsfall would love to discuss it with someone.