You Only Feel It When It’s Lost

the raven king was a rly fun book, genuinely scary in moments and had excellent beats for blue gansey ronan & adam, im so glad i finally read this series to the end 13 YEARS after starting it as a kid, but every time i think of a character who vanished from act 3 with zero follow-up or even a passing mention in the epilogue i take another half star away. where are my sweetie peas. artemus maura calla seondeok helen declan gwenllian mr gray laumonier i said where the FUCK are my FUCKING sweetie pees

my somewhat unpopular opinion is that "famous story retold from female character's pov" is a good concept, actually. it's just that it became gimmicky very fast and spawned a storm of lazy works that refuse to engage with the source material in any meaningful way and flanderize everything into generic YA tropes. but at its core taking a known story and exploring it through the perspective of a female character even, and perhaps especially, when said character is not a particularly active agent on said story, is a way to remind people that women are still people with rich inner lives and that the real life women that we learned to think as pawns in the lives of men were/are still humans whose complex interiority deserve exploration on principle that everyone, but especially the people who live on the margins, deserve exploration. but that's a concept that gets defeated when most people writing those lazy retellings can't write complex interiority to save their lives.

Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

Begin.

i think. i think i hauve covid

"to be loved is to be changed" but as in a horrific unasked for transformation. 🤍. btw.

STOP this is the feminism checkpoint. you have to comment something you like about a flawed female character. or explode

pov: you’re a waitress at nino’s and one of the aglionby boys just called you a prostitute

Iron Widow • Xiran Jay Zhao (@/xiranjayzhao) ⭐️⭐️

The Penelopiad • Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️

On Palestine • Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé ⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the Garden of Iden • Kage Baker 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 The Raven Boys • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Bruising of Qilwa • Naseem Jamnia ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Dream Thieves • Maggie Stiefvater ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Blue Lily, Lily Blue • Maggie Stiefvater 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Into the Riverlands • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

🔄 The Fifth Season • NK Jemisin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Sky Coyote • Kage Baker ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spear • Nicola Griffith 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Siren Queen • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️

🔄 Outlander • Diana Gabaldon 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 Gullstruck Island • Frances Hardinge ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

House of Open Wounds • Adrian Tchaikovsky 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated Classics) • Howard Pyle ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Babel • R.F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

Chainsaw Man Vol. 1-11 • Tatsuki Fujimoto 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 The Bloody Chamber • Angela Carter 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Haunting of Hill House • Shirley Jackson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Sacred Bodies • Ver (@/sticksandsharks) 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔄 American Gods • Neil Gaiman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mammoths at the Gate • Nghi Vo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Key:

⭐️ stars out of 5

✨ 1/2 star

🔄 reread

💀 did not finish

📌 in progress

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