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Illustrations from Pierre Louys’ Les Chanson de Bilitis by Georges Barbier (1922)

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Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen: Madonna Medley | Montreal 2024

choreography: Massimo Scali, Luca Lanotte, Nicolò Tacchetto, Sini Parkkinen This was the pair's debut at World Championships. Orihara and Pirinen on their goals in skating (for Europe on Ice): J: “Of course, everybody wants to be world champion. <...> Of course, we want medals, and go as high as we can and I think we have the potential to do it.” Y: “I also know that it’s not everything about the results”. J: “Our coach Maurizio says that we are able to entertain the audience so that’s our strong side. One goal would be that we want to be remembered by the audience because there are champions that the audience doesn’t remember and then there are couples or skaters who were not champions, but they still are remembered because they were something special. I think that’s something special we want too.”

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Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune. As a child, Deri was sold to one of the Market’s most powerful merchants. Now, after years of watchful servitude, Deri finally spots a chance to buy not only his freedom but also his place amongst the Market’s elite when he stumbles into the path of a runaway princess desperate to sell her royal destiny. But news of the missing princess and her wayward destiny spreads. Royal enforcers and Master Merchants alike are after it. Outmanoeuvring them all would all be hard enough had Deri not just also met the love of his life, a young man called Owain, whose employers are using the Market for their own nefarious schemes. Deri soon finds that the price of selling the royal destiny, making a name for himself, and saving the man he loves is dear. The cost of it all might just change the destiny of London forever.

"True Love? That’s worth far more".

Trip Galey's A Market of Dreams and Destiny is a fun adventure set in an alternative England where Henry VIII turned to druidry to achieve his divorce, and Elizabeth I made a pact with Titania; where magic permeates every dealing, and the goblin market is the place where one can find anything, ruled by its own fay rules, but also a place where great injustice abounds.

The setting is intriguing, and yet the execution feels a little lacking; much more could have been explored. We follow the lives of two indentured servants as they navigate the market and face new threats, attempt to buy back their contracts, fight against the system, and fall in insta-love. Their relationship isn't fully explored, and this takes away from the shock that the big resolution should provoke.

Deri is a great protagonist, mischievous and very smart, able to male do with less than nothing and find new ways out of trouble. A thorough planner, it's a joy to watch him outmaneuver almost everyone in his quest to find the best solution with the least loss, even though his more altruistic plans are almost an afterthought. His ability to hear words when the London bells ring makes for an interesting power that could have been explored further.

The prose is phenomenal, lyrical and vivid and filled with great imagery, clever turns of phrase, and memorable characters populating the goblin market, from Deri's master who can speak with gold, to the cat that decides to take an interest in Deri's affairs, and many others. The goblin and fae, being genderless, are referred to exclusively with a neutral pronoun of the author's design.

A Market of Dreams and Destiny is a book that's filled with wonder.

✨ 3.5 stars

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📚📚📚 IF YOU LOVE THIS, YOU MIGHT LIKE:

* Lava Red Feather Blue, by Molly Ringle

for: faerie, mischief

[You can find more of my reviews about queer speculative fiction on my blog MISTY WORLD]

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Help I’ve hit Rohan and it’s like watching Fullmetal Alchemist in English… this is our military dictator, firstname King… everyone else is named after a WWII fighter jet but don’t worry about it… only this experience is packed in alongside some of the most beautiful, lifechanging prose you’ve ever seen in your life. Again not unlike. Fullmetal Alchemist.

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With her blood I wrote a poem of love (Available as a print)

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Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT): Hallelujah | 2024 World Championships

🗣️: From Switzerland, Lukas Britshcgi! ⛸️: 😠 🗣️: Representing Latvia, Deniss Vasiljevs! ⛸️: 😌☝🏻

bonus:

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CMON: Marvel United - Dark Avengers Crew

Bonus: teaser of the unreleased Daken/Fang card:

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another lotr trilogy piece. i love liv tyler as arwen 🤍

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Knights of X cover revealed for AIPT’s X-men Monday.

Oh Marvel are going There, aren’t they.

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2024 Prince Ice World: Yokohama - April 27, 2024 Wakaba Higuchi → Music from "Dune" and "Dune: Part Two" by Hans Zimmer: Herald of the Change, Worm Ride, Harvester Attack

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

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Anyone else been thinking about the camraderie of Lightweavers and the stories they tell each other?

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galadriel & melian 🕊️

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Zhu Yi (CHN): The Sound of Snow Falling | 2023 Cup of China

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements