#Full Fathom Five

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Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone

From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.

Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.

On the island of Kavekana, Priestess Kai builds gods to order—sort of. Kai's creations are perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the Old World. For beyond the ocean, true deities still thrive, untouched by the God Wars that stransformed the city-states of Alt Coulumb and Dresediel Lex.

When Kai tries to save a friend's dying idol, she's graveley injured—then sidelined from the business, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability. But when Kai gets tired of hearing her boss, her coworkers, and her ex-boyfriend call her crazy, and digs into the cause of the idol's death, she uncovers a conspiracy of silence and fear that will break her if she can't break it first.

Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society.

[shadowdancingpoetry]

Full Fathom Five

Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the tide's coming When seas wash cold, foam Capped: white hair, white beard, far-flung, A dragnet, rising, falling, as waves Crest and trough. Miles long Extend the radical sheaves Of your spread hair, in which wrinkling skeins Knotted, caught, survives The old myth of origins Unimaginable. You float near As keeled ice-mountains Of the the north, to be steered clear Of, not fathomed. All obscurity Starts with a danger: Your dangers are many. I Cannot look much but your form suffers Some strange injury And seems to die: so vapours Ravel to clearness on the dawn sea. The muddy rumours. Of your burial move me To half-believe: your reappearence Proves rumours shallow, For the archaic trenched lines Of your grained face shed time in runnels: Ages beat like rains On the unbeaten channels Of the ocean. Such sage humour and Durance are whirlpools To make away with the ground Work of the earth and the sky's ridgepole. Waist down, you may wind One labyrinthine tangle To root deep among knuckles, shinbones, Skulls. Inscrutable, Below shoulders not once Seen by any man who kept his head, You defy questions You defy other godhood. I walk dry on you kingdom's border Exiled to no good. Your shelled bed I remember. Father, this thick air is murderous. I would breathe water.

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone

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On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren’t conscious and lack their own wills and voices, but they accept sacrifices, and protect their worshippers from other gods—perfect vehicles for Craftsmen and Craftswomen operating in the divinely controlled Old World. When Kai sees one of her creations dying and tries to save her, she’s grievously injured—then sidelined from the business entirely, her near-suicidal rescue attempt offered up as proof of her instability. But when Kai gets tired of hearing her boss, her coworkers, and her ex-boyfriend call her crazy, and starts digging into the reasons her creations die, she uncovers a conspiracy of silence and fear—which will crush her, if Kai can’t stop it first.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book yet, but I liked other books by Max Gladstone, so I want to check it out someday

[hiddenschools]

Wait, when does that happen? A Craft Sequence timeline

Being published out of chronological order has confused the hell out of many Craft Sequence readers, myself included. So I went through the series and figured out an approximate timeline and all the main characters ages YOU'RE WELCOME.

...and then I found an official version in the inside cover of the German translation but shhh mine's better

[ripplefactor]

Corals and pearls, seaweed and shells .. Norman Hartnell ballgown, London, 1953, detail, V&A ..

[bartonsedai]

We make our own choices. If we are lucky, we last long enough to live with them.

Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone

[squid-in-the-tardis]

The Doctor Who Unbound series includes an episode called Full Fathom Five, which I think includes evidence of the Doctor being a fundamentally good (but flawed) person.

Spoilers for the entire episode below the break - the unbound series is about a few different "what ifs", set in AUs with alternate doctors, but full fathom five is the only one where the premise is not clear from the start.

Doctor: I'm not convinced you believe your own rhetoric, Lee.

For the first half of the episode, it seems like a fairly standard doctor who episode. But then the doctor gets his hands on a gun (by disarming the villain) and has a little monologue which ends with him revealing the twist: this alternate doctor believes the ends justify the means. And he shoots the villain

And the story continues to escalate from there, with the doctor taking more and more horrific actions in an attempt to create the end he seeks, and ultimately fails. By the end point of the episode you're rooting against the doctor.

I think it ends up producing a really good insight into the real doctor, who is fundamentally against this mentality, and very much trying to be a good person.

[falkonryderz]

Clutch - Full Fathom Five / video field recordings / 2007-2008

[spilladabalia]

Full Fathom Five - Arkansas

[belghast]

The Craft Sequence

The Craft Sequence - Last night I finished the third book in the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone and talk about the series so far.

Good Morning Folks! I’ve been working through the Craft Sequence series by Max Gladstone. The problem is I have no clue why I even know this series of books exists. Generally speaking, I can usually pin down a recommendation to a specific friend or group of friends who have been actively reading a given book. For this one however I am at a bit of a loss, but at some point over the last few months…

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Full Fathom Five Your dangers are many. I Cannot look much but your form suffers Some strange injury Öyle çok ki tehlikelerin. Gerçi belli etmiyorsun ama, Tuhaf bir yarayla acı çekiyor Senin bedenin sylvia plath

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[a black and white image of a young girl laughing, with the caption underneath in all caps *giggles diabolically* end ID]

Doctor Who, Unbound: Full Fathom is the most morbidly delightful audio I've ever listened to.

[hiddenschools]

“I went to Alt Coulumb, where gods and Craftsmen get along okay.”

“Seril,” Kai said. “The moon goddess.”

“Right. The one who died and got better. One of our main sponsors killed her, back in the God Wars. We figured if she signed on with us, that would get a lot of attention.”

Full Fathom Five

I heard it was an important moon anniversary so have some Seril

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full fathom five

[daguerreotyping]

Tintype of two seasoned sea dogs sitting calmly before the storm, c. 1860s

[no-tengo-ojos]

This may be the comment section regarding the geography of Scandinavia however that doesn’t mean I still didn’t get caught completely off guard when reading it