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So the cover for the Japanese translation of TDP just dropped. Looks really neat!! Lookat him! Clay!!

Art by Lee Yamamura

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................so would anyone happen to have pdfs

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/SRS BTW i have this spiritual belief that keeps me from completing things so i read to book 14 and then stopped. I want to return to writing wof fanfiction but i dont know if book 15 changed canon in any important way or if i should bother reading it

(Scared) so uh. What happened in book 15

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(Scared) so uh. What happened in book 15

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"Then I could change the world. I could fix so many things, if only I had anything special or magic about me."

i've always liked qibli's inner conflict about how others were "special" and how he felt that he couldn't compare

do you think qibli should've become an animus?

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amazon sellers being chaotic as hell

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Stop interacting with my posts from when i was literally 16 (hisses)

Jk i dont give a shit but pls remember every post of mine with 100+ notes wasnt meant to be seen by ppl. This was supposed to be my personal wof blog where i spitballed ideas and enjoyed content i liked and criticized content i didnt. I was 16 and never expected or wanted to become some spectacle to view or judge. This is my house, i really never tagged any of my harsh posts as wof for this very reason -_-

My opinions on wof in the past were stupid bc. I was 16 and had fandom hate rot brain LEL nothing matters especially not a subpar book series. Hope everyone who loves wof loves wof even if i think your opinions are wierd i dont care

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Snnfff.. i miss wof rp.. i should really touch up drift or aa.. especially now that ive got some new friends.. and once i read book 15 ill feel more secure on teh lore

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them!

Top is Whiteout, bottom is Darkstalker.

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my problem is wof is supposed to be for children TO TEACH CHILDREN LESSONS. if it was less advertised as an inspiring or insightful adventure for children and instead was marketed as just “this is fucked up, huh?” it would be way better- though i cant judge tone, i think we should know that its important to be careful what you let children read, but also that yes villains and conflict are necessary for a book, but some things are gratuititous or peddled by the author-- really the point is just. you cannot write one bullet point on a journal about all of this and you cannot read that one bullet point and repeat it over and over and have it lose its meaning

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dragging my feet to post this bc ive meant to for like 2 days but ive been terminally sleepy BUUUUT i feel SOOO bad that i shared that journal. IDK i got @’d it and  every single time i post shit on this blog i never expect anyone to interact with it! the warning was baffling and i wanted to point it out to chortle over but i didnt think that anyone else would take it and run with it.

so the point is; DO NOT JUDGE THE BOOK BEFORE YOU READ IT fuck genuinely guys. get critical thinking skills all i want to peddle on this blog is that you judge things critically. i was intrigued by the first passes but seeing other first passes and rethinking abt whats in the journal im just like man.

look. you all know i have my beef w wof, but i urge you, if you want to push the actually bad parts DONT FUCKING MAKE SHIT UP! then no one will believe you! why talk about selective breeding as eugenics when its NOT in the text when you can point towards the skywing and silkwing breeding projects that ARE in the text? now when ppl mention the breeding thing they know that the former didnt happen so theyre less likely to take the latter at heart...

and with wof, like. i complain about the messages because its supposed to be for children, but there is an  amount of cruelty and fantasy we expect from, yknow.. fantasy. and its not all analogous, and the text is allowed to be way fucking grosser than if they were people, because theyre not people. theyre fantasy dragons having a fantasy war and its getting tiring seeing people ascribe human morality to the dragons intensely fantastical situations-- theyre stand ins for humans but i dont think the infant death than can really be judged fully until i read it because honestly. its fantasy, there are extraneous circumstances entirely outlandish to reality, its not that bad because the lesson cannot be taken out to reality- i WILL trouble myself with lessons such as, forgive your abuser. i dont care about lessons such as, if someone is a zombie should you kill them, because one effects reality and the other doesnt

(this entire section is soft baked, feel free to rip into me for it or disregard it because i havent had much time to think about it and im very tired, and id like to hear others input) and re; race. im not super into race politics, but as a (mixed) poc, as said above it is not straight analogous so i cant make judgements. i WISH there werent feathers in the hair mentioned and if anyones indigenous they could give more input, but it is important when we criticize it that we remember that ALL of the characters are unspecified poc and so i wouldnt really call it bad representation because its NOT representation. unless theres further coding in the text creating connections to real cultures that i havent seen, its not unflattering stereotypes to a race because the characters are not in any race because they do not have human cultures-- like a scavenger being asian coded in wof doesnt do anything for me because there is no wof asia. yknow??? its DEFINITELY unflattering and from the white tui should be examined but with way way way more nuance and notes on the context...

thank ya for listening please god all i want is for you all to read and make proper judgements. come to your own conclusions on the same evidence thats all i ask

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TO THOSE INQUIRING

SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS IN IT!!!

My consensus: dont judge the book b4 it comes out but do be normal critical about it okay? Wofs always been fucked up. I dont think book 15s gonna be worse than the former books but its still something to mull over

ID REBLOG A RECENT POST IN THE WOF TAG BUT I DONT WANT SPOILIES ON MY BLOG!!! but yah again take that journal w a grain of salt, the phrasing is ehhh weird and seems to be mostly talk on the implications which is like *shrug*. Im just sayin wofs always had its tone issues, dont think book 15s muuuuch worse but. Keep ya eyes open. If you couldnt handle baby murder in the prologue of the dragonet prophecy then howd you get this far

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ID REBLOG A RECENT POST IN THE WOF TAG BUT I DONT WANT SPOILIES ON MY BLOG!!! but yah again take that journal w a grain of salt, the phrasing is ehhh weird and seems to be mostly talk on the implications which is like *shrug*. Im just sayin wofs always had its tone issues, dont think book 15s muuuuch worse but. Keep ya eyes open. If you couldnt handle baby murder in the prologue of the dragonet prophecy then howd you get this far

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scarlet must have thought she was so clever when she made pyrite yellow and named her fools gold she must have gone to chameleon lie "oh my god girl you have to hear this"

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EVERY TIME I MAKE SOME VAGUE POST FOR MY FOLLOWERS IT GETS REBLOGS AHHHRH THE ATTENTION ON POSTS WHERE I SAY SHIT LIKE CANNAE 

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re the twigger warnings (<- this was a typo but im keeping it because its funny) againnnnn i havent read the book so i cant know the extent of how bad it actually is and it really seems like. not intentional and not suffocating but definitely noticeably bad which is to be like. expected. i wouldnt be surprised if it IS real bc liek. this is how the moral gray area of wof was always going to turn out, huh? cannae articulate it but like. ive been saying this since arc 3 came out. tui is just allergic to writing about the realistic complexities within the dystopia she made so she pins the badness on one persons vague actions and refuses to examine them but when the moral of the story is that thats bad there really needs to be more on the table 

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its cool that i got @’d the trigger warning post in a random server id never been active in bc like ive been meaning to say for. straight up like a month+ that i keep getting notifs from this blog which is WEIRD!! because i dont rly care about wof anymore. i mean i see all of my old posts and im like sir you were insane as hell for saying this.. in public? w your whole chest?

what ive learned; do what you like with fiction but i still hate tui. i just hate the fandom less but thats my own personal right. but i get into peoples own homes about it too much. idk you can believe whatever you like and i can believe its sillayyyy. and we can all hate tui