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Just a lil rant about my newest beloved fantasy author
Something I love so, so much about T Kingfisher's (@tkingfisher) work is how she portrays the mundane as something so beautiful and wonderful. The majority of her protagonists are all quite regular people, with regular lives, regular hobbies, and regular bodies. And how despite that, all her characters are so interesting, so lovable, and so deeply and utterly human.
Its amazing seeing a series where multiple female romantic leads are plus sized, and there is a mix of both body positivity and body neutrality. Because like yeah, they are gorgeous. But also, at the end of the day bodies are just bodies. A bit in Paladin's Faith got me thinking about this, where the male lead asks about the female lead's stretchmarks, and its very much treated as just a normal thing that she has as a woman, not detracting from her beauty, not adding to it. They just are.
And don't get me started about how nearly all of her male romantic leads, who are for the most part, big, strong, sword-wielding paladins, have knowledge of some form of textile craft, and how it doesn't detract from their masculinity at all. And instead it is something that would actually be very useful for a soldier to know.
Tldr if anybody else is obsessed with T Kingfisher's work as much as I am please let me know so that my long suffering reading friend can have a break from it.
Marguerite Florian from Paladin's Faith by T Kingfisher
I hadn't thought about that, but you make such a great point! The books do such a great job of just normalising trauma and mental health problems! Like its very much treated in a way of accepting their responses to trauma, but also reigning them in when they go a lil too far. Like, accepting that doing a whole bunch of drills will make them feel safe and helps them regulate emotions, but also knowing that letting them overwork themselves is damaging.
On another note as well, I think its great how the books also show the negotiations that go into a relationship with a traumatised person. Like for example, Stephen respecting Grace's boundaries in terms of sex, and Piper being chill about not sleeping in the same bed as Galen cause night terrors. I think it demonstrates how trauma changes people, and how you have to adjust your relationships because of that. And even if you find 'the right one', it doesn't solve your problems because a lot of trauma will be with you for life. Love me some t4t (trauma 4 trauma) relationships haha.
Just a lil rant about my newest beloved fantasy author
Something I love so, so much about T Kingfisher's (@tkingfisher) work is how she portrays the mundane as something so beautiful and wonderful. The majority of her protagonists are all quite regular people, with regular lives, regular hobbies, and regular bodies. And how despite that, all her characters are so interesting, so lovable, and so deeply and utterly human.
Its amazing seeing a series where multiple female romantic leads are plus sized, and there is a mix of both body positivity and body neutrality. Because like yeah, they are gorgeous. But also, at the end of the day bodies are just bodies. A bit in Paladin's Faith got me thinking about this, where the male lead asks about the female lead's stretchmarks, and its very much treated as just a normal thing that she has as a woman, not detracting from her beauty, not adding to it. They just are.
And don't get me started about how nearly all of her male romantic leads, who are for the most part, big, strong, sword-wielding paladins, have knowledge of some form of textile craft, and how it doesn't detract from their masculinity at all. And instead it is something that would actually be very useful for a soldier to know.
Tldr if anybody else is obsessed with T Kingfisher's work as much as I am please let me know so that my long suffering reading friend can have a break from it.
And even though all her protagonists are a bit different and odd, the books don't go in for the 'not like other girls' line. Currently 1/3 of the way through The Raven and the Reindeer, and found this quote:
“I don’t like the other girls,” said Gerta, scowling. “Besides, I’m not like them.” (Kay had told her once that she wasn’t much like other girls. It was one of the phrases that she held very close, tucked up in the space beneath her breastbone.) “In this very town,” said her grandmother, “there are at least a dozen girls standing at windows right this very minute saying the exact same thing.” She shook out her knitting. Gerta scowled harder. “I did the same thing when I was your age,” said her grandmother. “I daresay I wasn’t like other girls harder than anyone else ever was. I was so unlike other girls that I wasn’t even like myself, except on Sundays.”
Instead there is a lot of women supporting women. In the Seventh Bride, even though they are in a situation where they could theoretically be pitted against each other (what with the whole multiple wives thing), but instead they recognise that the real problem is the man keeping them captive. Even Ingith (spelling may be wrong, listened to the audiobook) is treated with a lot of nuance, despite being on the evil guys side (in a way) for a good portion of the book.
Just a lil rant about my newest beloved fantasy author
Something I love so, so much about T Kingfisher's (@tkingfisher) work is how she portrays the mundane as something so beautiful and wonderful. The majority of her protagonists are all quite regular people, with regular lives, regular hobbies, and regular bodies. And how despite that, all her characters are so interesting, so lovable, and so deeply and utterly human.
Its amazing seeing a series where multiple female romantic leads are plus sized, and there is a mix of both body positivity and body neutrality. Because like yeah, they are gorgeous. But also, at the end of the day bodies are just bodies. A bit in Paladin's Faith got me thinking about this, where the male lead asks about the female lead's stretchmarks, and its very much treated as just a normal thing that she has as a woman, not detracting from her beauty, not adding to it. They just are.
And don't get me started about how nearly all of her male romantic leads, who are for the most part, big, strong, sword-wielding paladins, have knowledge of some form of textile craft, and how it doesn't detract from their masculinity at all. And instead it is something that would actually be very useful for a soldier to know.
Tldr if anybody else is obsessed with T Kingfisher's work as much as I am please let me know so that my long suffering reading friend can have a break from it.
Marguerite Florian from Paladin's Faith by T Kingfisher
The spirit was willing, but the spongiform erectile tissue was weak.
Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies
World of the White Rat (collapses and dies) (full image undercut)
awww yis
Good evening, I just spent two hours on a World of the White Rat "what religious order do you belong in" quiz.
This gives a lot of interpretation for Marcus.... like 25% of romans were called Marcus lmao.
Marcus Antonius aka Marc Antony, ally of Caesar who fought against Augustus/Octavian...
Marcus Aurelius, roman emperor and philosopher, considered the last of the 'five good roman emperors'
Marcus Crassus, richest man in Rome in the late republic and patron to Caesar.
God damn romans, they only have like 7 names...
I looked it up and I was right, Istvan is a cognate name of Stephen. Except it's Hungarian, according to my source, which I didn't guess.
It's RenFaire crunch time!!
Original art by @magpiemalarkey based on the World of the White Rat novels by @tkingfisher
Faire is in two weeks. Send help.
@beradan and I went to the Connecticut Renaissance Faire today as unnamed White Rat and Saint of Steel acolytes.
Emily's embroidery is from art by @magpiemalarkey, mine was designed by my partner based on art from various Kingfisher romance covers.
Its giving Brindle from world of the white rat.
So I haven’t really been seeing folks talk much here at all about what’s been going on with Hurricane Helene recovery- but I thought I might share something I thought was cool and important.
Because of how roads have been washed out making homes and towns inaccessible to vehicles, the Cajun Navy (organizations that performs search, rescue, and assistance during disasters) has partnered with Mountain Mule Packer Ranch to use the mules to get medications, food, and water to people in need.
I just think it’s incredible. Despite all the technology you’d think is accessible to help people out, mules are still the most reliable form of transport to save people’s lives
World of the White Rat (collapses and dies) (full image undercut)