#stealing fire

I think I might have posted this one awhile ago, but I adjusted some stuff with it so I'm posting again.

This is (left to right) Theo, Maddie, and Andreas from my Stealing Fire book that I've been writing. Theo and Andreas are cousins, with Theo being the crew boss (kinda, but that's spoilery... :P) for their family's private wildland fire crew. Andreas is new to the crew after quitting college due to his ADHD. Maddie is Theo's best friend and right hand. The dynamic between the three of them is oh so fun.

Art. Michael Seif, "Figures in water" collection

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These fragile bodies of touch and taste / This vibrant skin, this hair like lace / Spirits open to the thrust of grace / Never a breath you can afford to waste

Bruce Cockburn, lyrics from “Lovers in a Dangerous Time,” Stealing Fire LP (True North, 1984)

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The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

Bellamy Blake in Every Episode (37/88)

↳ 3x09 Stealing Fire

Every Afictionados Best Line Award (Sam)

The 100 Episode 309: Stealing Fire

I’m been thinking about stories and the types of things I like to read.  I usually think in terms of genre, I love fantasy and space opera and very specific types of romance to name a few.  But one type of story I really gravitate to isn’t tied to genre at all (though most of my examples are fantasy).  I love stories about genuinly good people doing their best to make the world a better place.  Now that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy stories about anti-heroes, rogues or very flawed characters, I do.  But there is a very unique flavor to these stories despite wildly different settings so thought I’d make a list of these types of stories.  Characters who, when given a choice, choose kindness.  I’ll add more as I think of them but please feel free to add on to this list with your own recs.

The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane  Book 1: So You Want to Be A Wizard 

All the Heralds of Valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey  Book 1: Arrows of the Queen

The Order of the Air by Melissa Scott and Jo Graham  Book 1: Lost Things

Chapter 6, Page 20.

countdown to 6x01 - Clarke hears the ascension call for Lexa's successor.