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I've been thinking about all the vehicles I've own over the years. I am curious to know what your very first vehicle was or I still is? Answer if you'd like. I think I'll make a list of all of mine if I can remember all of them. I certainly remember my first....a giant 1973 caprice classic two door hard top dark blue with a white vinyl top. It had a 400 SBC and a turbo 400 transmission with a 2.73 gear in the back. It would fly on the top end but wouldn't hardly spin the tires out of the hole. But what I remember most.....is it was freedom. At 14 yrs old... freedom was everything!!! Good memories!!! 😊

[bookwyrminspiration]

ik i still have your long fireborne ask to answer but!! flamefall!!!!! you get to meet griff i love him

don’t worry about it, it’s there for whenever you want/can answer it, im not worried about time at all

And yes!! When Griff first showed up I was like…tf is this I wanna know how horribly fucked up Lee is. But I’ve acclimated (I knew I would, the new pov just threw me for a loop at first) and I love him. Griff I’d like to teach you this word, sound it out with me: R-E-V-O-L-T

Also am I imagining things or is there something going on between him and Dilo (however it’s spelled). I’m sensing things, I’m Watching

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[caprifiles]

one year ago, i read a book about two dragonriders who perfectly knew each other's styles of flying and fighting. and they both were title contenders in the firstrider tournament.

then, i thought that it's too special for the connection between two real people... that it would be crazy if someone had it irl...

a few months later, i found out about charles leclerc and max verstappen...

“fireborne”, rosaria munda, ch. 2:

“they move with a perfect balance of fluidity and precision, never overshooting, never falling short, never holding back. it’s so beautiful that i find myself holding my breath, aching to get in the air myself. i want to be the one responding to their attacks and retreats, to feel the intoxication that comes from sparring”

[katiifaye]

Annie after getting hit during the Firstrider Tournament, in Fireborne.

Tried to make her look scorched. I figured their helmets would cover most of the face so there'd be ash around the eyes and all over her armor.

the Fireborne fanart continues!

[griffsursparker]

so like. throughout the series (especially starkly in Fireborne I think) the people around them (both those who know Lee's identity and also those who don't) very much tend to view Lee as superior and Annie as inferior. Lee is the one who 'deserves' to win firstrider, and Annie is the one encouraged to throw the tournament. and obviously none of this is anything new, it's right there in the text, but what i'm really fascinated by is the realization that like... I feel like you'd assume that the way they view themselves would echo these sentiments, but if anything, I think it ends up being the opposite

there are, of course, times when they slip into these ways of thinking about themselves. Annie starts to doubt herself after receiving the note suggesting she's not suitable for firstrider. actually, Annie doubts herself a lot—I don't think that negates this, though, I just think it's why she's still likeable despite this sense of superiority she has, because there's always shades of grey with this series. but anyways, then of course Lee also definitely does sometimes fall into thinking things like how he deserves firstrider because he was born to it. however. they both stamp these thoughts down and don't let them take over!

it's certainly not that Annie never thinks poorly of herself or that Lee is never prideful, but because of their backgrounds, those are the traits they refuse to let themselves be defined by. and I think they succeed at that, maybe more than they always even realize. Annie's self-doubts and Lee's pride end up being very secondary parts of their characters; things that pop up and cause them issues on occasion, but things that ultimately are not what they fundamentally believe about themselves

in Lee's case, it feels very much like a lingering echo of his family's values (reinforced by Julia's rhetoric in Fireborne), not a true reflection of how he feels. ultimately, he's able to admit to himself that he got where he is today largely because he was raised to it. he knows he's good at being a guardian not because of some inherent quality in him but because he has the training (both from before the revolution and his guardian training). i think deep down, Lee feels like he doesn't deserve this. he feels like he's here because he's benefiting from his family's awful legacy more than he is because of any merit of his own. this ties into his Flamefall arc too I think—he has a few reasons for it of course (like feeling betrayed by Atreus), but I do think it's very crucial that because he does not feel he is here because he just naturally deserves it, he is able to question the legitimacy of the metals system

Annie, meanwhile, has a much harder time questioning it, because she is clinging desperately to this idea that earned this. the metals test gave her everything, and so she clings to the idea that it is right and just, because that means she deserves her spot as a guardian. for a while in Flamefall she even starts to slip into looking down on the lower class metals, while Lee is increasingly siding with them instead

I do think Annie's arc maybe gets a little more complicated in this regard. she does, of course, spend much of Furysong feeling like a failure. I'm not sure it's quite the same as thinking she's inherently inferior, because it's very much based on actions she took, not her inherent character, but it is definitely another layer here, and one I'm not going to go into too much because this post is long enough already holy fuck. I also think her arc in Flamefall really involves an interrogation of her pride that leads to some character growth away from this tendency

overall, I just find it really fascinating the way, although of course there is nuance and character growth, they do tend towards seeing themselves in a way that is quite the inverse of how the people around them see them

you can really see where it comes from with their backgrounds, too, even if it does seem counterintuitive at first glance—because Annie was raised in a world where she was told she inferior, and Lee was initially raised in one where he was told he was superior, they've spent the rest of their lives trying to overcome those narratives, and have ended up overcompensating, in a sense

anyways i'm going to stop rambling now, but this series is just sooooo fascinating and incredibly well written and there are so many layers and i love it so much and i'm going to go scream into the void about annie and lee's character arcs now

[aurelianmusings]

(Spoilers from Furysong below)

I was rereading Power's speech yesterday and I have sooo many thoughts about healing and being oneself and how important role models are for that, so I thought I'd share some of the ones about our three tragic dragonborn figures:

For most of the series, Lee struggles to reconcile the trauma of his family’s death with the acceptance of the regime that caused it. He has to hide his identity and grief, because in the new Callipolis that’s tantamount to approving of the old regime. Atreus shows this in Fireborne: he tries to kill him because he can’t see the loyal Firstrider and the dragonborn’s son in the same person; as soon as he finds out that Lee is Leo, the latter cancels the former. Lee sur Pallor is Leo Stormscourge is the Revolution’s Son, yet society only sees him as three separate figures. Even when the Passi leverage his legacy for their own propaganda they do so as if Leo Stormscourge were a closed chapter of his life. Only Annie understands how his identities intersect, because she knows him so well. She was able to recognize that the wrongness that had been done to her family didn’t justify the wrongness that had been done to his, long before he allowed himself to (thinking of that scene in Fireborne during Atreus’ lesson when Annie argues against Palace Day and Lee excuses it). She lets him talk about his family, sees the boy who shared his food in the man who argues for rations to be fairly distributed, and even gives him his father’s knife.

Sty is the Lee of the new generation: same origin story but with a slight deviation that’s enough to change everything. While Lee only had Atreus as a role model, Sty will grow up with two: Griff, quite literally Sty’s Atreus, who rebelled in the name of a better future and caused the death of his family, except Griff was able to see beyond what Sty was to who he was and spared him, and later became family (to contrast with the scene in Flamefall where Lee ironically calls Atreus a father figure, when he was anything but); and Delo, a dragonborn who rejected the imperatives of blood to follow his heart, proving that birth doesn’t determine who we are.

Which is significant because Delo himself struggled with the lack of that kind of example in his life, and his arc culminates once he finds it. At the beginning of Furysong, he is still contending with his family’s worldview: when he drops Griff he talks about “the wrong type of courage”, when he’s moved by his pain he’s “crying for the wrong reasons”, when the Norcians treat him badly, despite recognizing his role in their oppression, he “might have thought to regret” saving their children from the fire. What pushes him to switch sides once and for all is witnessing Power’s loyalty to Annie. Another dragonborn, a relative even, who’s not ashamed to act against his lineage or to declare his love for a peasant, and in front of Ixion of all people, something Delo never had the courage to do.

It’s the kind of solidarity of thought that Delo had been needing all of his life, that had to come from another dragonborn to truly matter, that Lee also craved from Atreus and never got and would have made all the difference if he had. But Sty will have it from the start. He won’t have to reject his past or repress his trauma to be accepted into the new world. I imagine him as becoming a well-adjusted version of Lee, someone who embraces his roots even while helping Norcia heal from the damages caused by his family.

[wondereads]

Review of Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

Genre: Fantasy

Age Range: Young Adult

My Rating: ★★★☆☆.5

This book was directly recommended to me, and it's often lauded as a great dragon-riding fantasy book that properly builds its world out with great characters and an interesting plot. For me, it really only delivers on some of those things. Fireborne follows two main characters, Lee and Annie (Antigone). Even though they are both orphans and childhood friends, they couldn't come from more different worlds. Lee is the son of a dragonlord, the previous rulers of Callipolis that were unseated in a violent revolution. Annie is a former serf who was among the worst affected by the dragonlords' tyrannical rule. Now they fly alongside each other as the new era of dragon riders after the revolution, and they are facing each other in a battle for the prestigious position of Firstrider. However, as war begins to encroach on Callipolis, they will have to face the brutal reality of what it means to rule.

On a surface level, Fireborne is everything I love in a book. There's basic tropes I love, such as dragon riding, cutthroat magical academies, and a light friends to lovers subplot. The plot of this book is interesting, and I like that it takes place after the big revolution. It tackles a lot of interesting dilemmas concerning the decisions rulers have to make, and no one has easy answers. A lot of YA books with class differences, especially when the relationship occurs between a class difference, tends to kind of gloss over it, but Fireborne takes a lot of time to consider how Lee and Annie's backgrounds impact their lives and decisions. This is doubly important since they are public figures of a new government.

However, a lot of this book is not executed in the best way, and most of it comes down to the writing. This book is over 400 pages long, but it skips through a lot of important things. Basically, it has a big issue with telling instead of showing. Instead of getting Annie's big speech she's been working on, we essentially get the gist of it described to us. There are a lot of moments like that where characters will be talking for a while and conveying important information but we as the readers just get a description in the narration rather than the actual dialogue, and it irked me. This kind of quick-paced, sparse writing works well for the action, which were often the scenes that went by the fastest, but it makes a lot of big plot and character moments fall flat. It also made it very difficult for me to get properly invested. It definitely picks up in the latter half when war is hanging over everyone's heads and those ethical dilemmas I mentioned start cropping up, but the first half is kind of a slog.

Because of the writing, I don't feel as attached to the characters as I'd like, but I do find them interesting and generally like them. Lee and Annie are both great main characters with well-established personalities, motivations, and weaknesses. Most of the side characters didn't really catch my eye except for Power, who is a character you love to hate. Lee and Annie have pretty amazing arcs throughout the course of the novel, and I was very invested in both of them. However, and the writing contributed to this, the romance didn't do it for me. For most of the book it doesn't even feel like they're that into each other; them trying to move past each other and possibly getting involved with other characters had a ton of potential for big emotional moments, but they were often dry and lacking feeling. Overall, this book was very good in terms of base character, the worldbuilding, and the plot once it picked up, but the writing fell short and any emotion the story held suffered as a result.

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[bookwyrminspiration]

and the thing is annie's not dumb. she's well aware that this new regime isn't perfect--every day she's dismissed for her gender and blood. she was horrified by the rations distribution math. I know with the right words and examples she could realize all this and how she is one in a billion, and that those odds are not proof of a successful system--in fact, they're evidence of an already failing one, because there's nothing she has that others lack that warrant how lesser they're treated. but right now she can't get passed how amazing what happened to her was--lowly serf turned firstrider of callipolis.

so she goes to that school to recite the metals test propaganda and all she can think is if you score high enough, you can be anything. without registering the massive importance of that if. what if they don't, annie?

I want to shake Annie she’s so caught up in the idea of a system where you can rise from the bottom straight to the top, because that’s what it gave her, that she’s failing to consider just how rare her “miracle” was and that this system still has a horrible bottom. and that the solution is to no longer have it, not to escape it. she doesn’t see it’s keeping those people at the bottom at the bottom and claiming it’s better—and it’s doing that WAY more than it’s saving people like her