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Sleepwalker deck is just so so beautiful 😍

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I hope that Namgi and Kirin would get a spinoff but it might be hard to go around it with Namgi's past and in this political climate

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I just finished reading The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea and it was brilliant! It definitely made me go online to talk about it because I couldn't keep my excitement in

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Chapter 32 plot twist is my favourite throughout the book! The build up to that very moment, and the relationships formed are so good. I would accept no one else as Mina's family but them. They're perfect!

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Things I appreciated so so much about The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, in no particular order:

- ✨Women supporting women✨ So many YA books with female leads rely on the I’m not like other girls/not like everyone else, but so much of tgwfbts hinges on the ways that the women in the story inspire and uplift one another and it’s literally so sweet

- A full cast of sympathetic and lovable characters. They are all wonderful and I would protect them with my life. ‘Nough said.

- The dynamic between Namgi and Kirin. This is simultaneously one of the most tragic and hopeful relationships that I have read in a long while and it had me tearing up more than once.

- Mina’s willingness to solve any and all of her major and minor inconveniences with her great-great-grandmother’s knife

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New Sketch-a-wish illustration, voted by my wonderful Patreons for January!

Featuring Shin and Mina from The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh! I absolutely ADORE this book, and was happily re-listening to it while I worked on this piece! There’s a funny quip about this scene intending to be where the ‘land meets the sea’, and instead is described where the 'mountain meets the sky’. But as Mina and Shin respectfully represent land and sea, I managed to squeeze all four in here, with a sea-like sky!

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"It's... strange. When I was feared, I hated everything and everyone. But now that I'm loved, I can't stand to see those who love me suffer one moment of pain. I blame you, Mina. You've turned me into a kindhearted goddess."

– Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Chapter 36

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Goddess of moon and memory: "Are you saying that I should become the goddess of women and children?"

Mina: "Because like the women in my family you have the wisdom of a crane, the heart of a tiger, and the goodness and love that only a goddess who treasures children can have."

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"I may be soulless and haven't a red string of fate, but I don't need either to tell me that I love you"

– Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Chapter 33

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"This room was empty before. And then you filled it with all these things. Is that a good metaphor for how you've filled all our lives?"

– Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea. Chapter 26

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"Mina, why do I feel like this? I don't need a Red String of Fate to tell me that if you should die, so will I."

– Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Chapter 26

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Mina's attempt to tell Shin how to break the red string and Shin interrupting with "I think I have a fever", when spirits and gods can't get sick 😆

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Kirin defending himself from Mina's accusations, and having a moment of realisation that he broke character 😆

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Mask leans forward,

"What if someone told you, your fate was to climb up the highest waterfall and jump off? Or to hurt the person you love the most in the world? Or worse, to hurt the person who loves you most in the world? Fate is a tricky thing. It's not for you, or me, or even the gods, to question what is… or is not."

Shin waits for me on the shore.

"Don't chase fate, Mina. Let fate chase you"

– Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Chapter 16

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"That's just like a human to think the world revolves around you, to think the rivers are for you, the sky the sea is for you. You are just one of the many parts of the world, and in my opinion, the one that blights them all."

– Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Chapter 11

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"Your people suffer not because of any great will of the gods, but because of their own violent acts. They wage the wars that burn the forest and fields. They spill the blood that pollute the rivers and streams. To blame the god is to blame the land itself. Look up upon your reflection to find your enemy.

- Axie Oh. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Chapter 3

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Books read in 2023 ♥

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“Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.”