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Book the fifteenth complete!

Credit for the bingo board goes to @batmanisagatewaydrug; if you want to play along, you can get a clean version here.

You can check out the rest of my main entries for the book bingo here and my bonus reads here.

Title: The Colour of Revenge

Author: Cornelia Funke; translated by Anna Schmitt Funke

Square: 2024 award winner

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After five happy years, Meggie, her father Mo, and the fire-eater Dustfinger, along with a host of new friends, feel safe and settled. But their nemesis Orpheus has returned, and has found an unexpected way to wreak his revenge on the Inkworld. With a master stroke of evil, he is commissioning portraits that will destroy his enemies forever. It falls to Dustfinger and the Black Prince to save them, with the help of Dustfinger’s brave stepson, Jehan, and his enigmatic young friend, Lilia.

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Another sequel to a book series I used to love as a child, and despite my concerns in my post about the main trilogy, this actually added to my enjoyment of this universe and its characters. I can definitely see why it won an award for Children’s Book of the Year (from Blackwell’s, of all places – it might be a good book, albeit with some heavy themes, but it’s hardly what I would call academic!).

I think part of the reason that I liked this sequel (unlike Quicksilver, which I recall having mixed feelings on) is because it works reasonably well as a standalone story; it features almost entirely new POV characters (except for Dustfinger and Orpheus, who both get a lot of backstory expansion in this one) and the plot is fully understandable without having to read the original series (although obviously there are some references that hit harder if you have).

Content warnings for animal death, child death, grief, imprisonment, kidnapping, murder, parent death, racism, and suicidal thoughts.

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I hurt my own feelings with this one y’all 😔👍

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“A pop can tab opener? Who needs that?”

It’s not for you.

“Why would anyone get a hairdryer holder, just use your hands to hold it.”

It’s not for you.

“Portable collapsible stools are proof of how lazy this generation is getting.”

It’s not for you.

“A chord assist for a guitar? Why don’t people just user their fingers like everyone else?”

IT’S NOT FOR YOU.

Fun fact! Not everything is about or for you!

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The child is not even two pounds, he is in the intensive neonatal care unit. He is blind, may be unable to walk and he may not survive at all. Adriana Smith's mother, April Newkirk has affirmed that the decision to stop life support should have been the family's. The baby's name is Chance. Fuck Brian Kemp, I hope he gets sepsis.

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Source: alexhaagaard.bsky.social‬

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immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

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donald trump jumpscare in my books from the early 2000s, hate that 😬

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don’t kys, you never know when a new type of wet pathetic character is about to be introduced to you via tumblr.com/dashboard thanks to your mutuals

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there will be a show with two guys in a fucked up power dynamic that is the core of their relationship and all the posts will be like "i love them but i hate the power dynamic" and all the fic is like "what if there was no power dynamic" or "what if the power dynamic was switched". like okay actually i think the imbalance is fun and awesome. anyone else

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i hate the "meta glasses" with their invisible cameras i hate when people record strangers just-living-their-lives i hate the culture of "it's not illegal so it's fine". people deserve to walk around the city without some nameless freak recording their faces and putting them up on the internet. like dude you don't show your own face how's that for irony huh.

i hate those "testing strangers to see if they're friendly and kind! kindness wins! kindness pays!" clickbait recordings where overwhelmingly it is young, attractive people (largely women) who are being scouted for views and free advertising . they're making you model for them and they reap the benefits. they profit now off of testing you while you fucking exist. i do not want to be fucking tested. i hate the commodification of "kindness" like dude just give random people the money, not because they fucking smiled for it. none of the people recording has any idea about the origin of the term "emotional labor" and none of us could get them to even think about it. i did not apply for this job! and you know what! i actually super am a nice person! i still don't want to be fucking recorded!

& it's so normalized that the comments are always so fucking ignorant like wow the brunette is so evil so mean so twisted just because she didn't smile at a random guy in an intersection. god forbid any person is in hiding due to an abusive situation. no, we need to see if they'll say good morning to a stranger approaching them. i am trying to walk towards my job i am not "unkind" just because i didn't notice your fucked up "social experiment". you fucking weirdo. stop doing this.

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Ao3 doesn't have ads. Thank you Ao3.

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what do you MEAN Buck and Tommy were together for 217 days in real life??????

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝