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I really like Malcom Fade.
That's it.
The Blackthorn Key / Book Series / Thoughts
spoilers. I've read 1-4 I think? i dont know if I read the 5th I cant remember ngl and the 6th is yet to come out yet I believe
i wanna say something
honestly, I just.
This story introduced me to ciphers and honestly a few of them are my favorite, and while some I can't actually remember the name of at all, it's easy to understand the basic idea and I like that at times it goes step by step when deciphering things, like it shows you when you do one thing and it also shows you what clues say so you can try to figure it out but be kinda a little clueless like the characters until they figure it out in a way thats a little complex, but in a way that you the reader can understand and not get lost or overwhelmed.
bro benedict man- sobbing. i didnt know him for long but i got attached. AND THEN HE HIT CHRIS AND IT CONFUSED ME SO BADLY because while i know that its common benedict doesnt do that to chris and then like AND THEN HE WAS DEAD AND WE LEARN THAT HE DID IT FOR CHRIS' SAFETY- I CANT. THIS MAN IS SO FUCKING SELFLESS
chris and tom are pretty young i believe. i dont think we ever got an explicit age but like.. what the fuck? so much stuff happened. so they encounter.. heaven fire thing i dont know- it was like this special type of fire that Benedict was trying to hide but like they got attacked (even though i believe it was trapped) and i just O W and jeez. haha nothing else will totally go wrong then theres like this group of scammers scamming people during the plague and chris and tom of course get involved in it. I mean they solve it eventually after a scare and.. but.. IM PRETTY SURE SOMEONE GOT STABBED (and if im not wrong diED???) FOR THEM sobbing later they discover a persons dead body? i think one of them almost got strangled to death or something i dont know but i just i WHAT they stop this assassin? i think that was trying to kill the thing (i think one of them threw something at the king to stop him from drinking a poisoned drink???)- i think Christopher was at knife point at one point, though I dont remember if it was somewhere at this part or not but i- WHAT and then lets not even TALK about how Christopher lost his memory when he fell off a boat due to a storm i think, and like another time shot at with arrows, SHOT AT WITH BULLETS OR SOMETHING BY THESE LIKE PIRATE PEOPLE-- and they saved like kidnapped children and i just wh AT a LOT happened. and there were STILL puzzles and it wasnt overwhelming, and I actually really liked it and how the author decided to write it like Its gold. i would recommend giving it a read if you like ciphers and puzzles n stuff and just mystery- The story is set in the old times in the UK, England I believe i dont know why im putting the recommendation here at the end when people who assumedly havent read it wont read down to this point lmAO
Sketchavember 2012 - Part 1!
I missed doing Inktober because I was super-busy, so I decided to try to ink all my Sketchavember pictures instead. Last year I tried to draw all my characters, in age order, so I picked up where I left off. Then sort of wombled off topic. Anyway these are:
1 - Blackthorn, an elf in the Tolkein mold. I never did much with her but I quite like her design.
2 - Louise! She's got her own tag if you want more pictures of her. She lives in a pre-industrial time and has many encounters with fairies.
3 - Louise again. I was reading Hemlock and tried to draw her in the same style.
4 - And again! I'm not sure what happened to your face here Louise but I promise I'll never do it again! Louise is one of my characters in an arranged marriage, but she and Edward get on quite well. He doesn't believe in magic before they marry, and is much more uncomfortable with magic and the supernatural than she is.
5 - Franz, who doesn't appear very often on account of being hard to draw. He's very proud and hates showing any kind of weakness. He probably checked nobody was watching before blowing on his hands like that.
6 - Jemima, who appears more often on account of being fun to dress up. She has very low self-esteem and is bullied by her 'friends'.
7 - And then it was Friday so I drew Marceline the Vampire Queen!
8 - Lucas didn't come out great last year, so I tried again. This is much more on-model, although I still haven't worked out where his scars go.
9 - This is Lucas's sister, Lena, who has the gift of prophecy.
10 - At this point I'd started watching Gundam Wing, and had to try very hard not to just draw fanart for every subsequent picture. I could not resist drawing everyone's favourite pilot though.
Part 2 next week!
(Yeah yeah I know Sketchavember was months ago, but my scanner is old and senile and it took me a long time to get these onto my laptop.)
Despite Tatiana Blackthorn being shown to have become a vile and horrible person, I really appreciated her as a character.
Because this was a girl shaped in a very strongly patriarchal environment. She was raised to never be her own person. She was raised to always be the supporting character to another person. Someone’s daughter, wife or mother. Never her own woman. This left her vulnerable, dependent on the men around her. And as that patriarchal system fell apart around her, her father and husband being slaughtered and her son withered away, she was nothing. She was no longer a daughter, wife or mother. She was left on her own, with no idea of how to be on her own. She no longer had anything to define her by. And in her case, that turned her revengeful and bloodthirsty to destroy those who reduced her to the nothingness she was.
Tatiana Blackthorn was a victim of a patriarchal society, was both molded and broken by the system that raised her, and if that is not an analogy to the female struggles during the Victorian era, I don’t know what would be.
It's so cute that the characters look at the person he loves ❤️
Alastair looks at Thomas, Thomas looks at Alastair, James looks at Cordelia, Cordelia looks at James, Matthew looks at Cordelia, Lucie looks at Cordelia, Jesse looks at Lucie, Grace looks at Christopher, Christopher looks at Grace , Ari looks at Anna and Anna looks at Ari
Wait why is Lucie looking at Cordelia instead of looking at Jesse?!?
How I saw no one talking about it and when I realized this problem, I couldn't stop thinking about it
the relationships in chain of gold and chain of thorns are a weird mix in the family tree and bordering on incest (it's not incest because they don't have the same blood)
I can give you an example :
- Lucie and Jesse who share an uncle and an aunt and three cousins in common
- Christopher and Grace who are cousins (adoptive)
for the last example it's not really James and Cordelia's fault but - James Herondale is married to his stepfather's cousin and his who is also the father of his half-sister