#abhorsen series

[teresiel]

Seeking some help from fans of Garth Nix's Abhorsen/Old Kingdom series.

I posted this fanart of Lirael inspired by Nico Parker (ignore the misnaming in the post) to the Abhorsen subreddit.

There's a user there who is claiming that I've done wrong in how I've drawn her. They claim I've done POC a disservice by raceswapping.

I attempted to defend myself and my rightful pride in offering a fanart of mixed-race Lirael on a subreddit where that's severely wanting; Lirael is mixed-race: Nico Parker is mixed-race.

They seem little able to back up their critique and claims and go on a bit of a more than inadvertently self-deafeating and hypocritical tangent (seriously, even if you don't contribute, it's worth looking at for entertaining bafflement).

I don't feel in the wrong or seriously upset with my art (ike at all) but this was an irksome and downer start to my morning (insert a begrieved "but it's Christmas!!!!").

I'd appreciate any comments you might be able to add, any rebuttals, support, or conversation that might otherwise help this post be about something besides silent supprt for this dude's argument (they keep getting up votes, even if they're balanced with downvotes).

Anyway, tldr tear this fool apart.

Also here's the fanart in question:

[sashamini]

For the drawing ask-6 for the Old Kingdom royal family-either siblings of Ellimere and Sameth or any permutation that you'd like but a combo with Sameth. He's my favorite and there's not enough art of him. Love your art.

Drawing Ask Game: 6 - A family dynamic

Sameth & Ellimere (Old Kingdom/Abhorsen Series)

Thank you for the ask! There really isn’t enough art of Sameth or Ellimere, so this was fun to do. I have this headcanon that they visit Ancelstierre once in a while mostly so that I can dress them in, uh, contemporary clothing. I also like the idea of Ellimere in pant suits. Can’t remember if there are colors associated with the Wallmakers, so Sameth is in the blue/silver of Sabriel’s abhorsen coat, and Ellimere is in the royal red/gold of their father.

[attackfish]

5 hc from your favorite au right now? i love all your writing ❤️❤️❤️

Continuation of the Garth Nix Old Kingdom fusion AU, which could use some love: [Link], [Link], [Link], and [Link].

1. Let's talk Toph, Suki, Mai, and Ty Lee. I've barely touched on Mai and Ty Lee, and I haven't mentioned Toph or Suki at all. Toph was the daughter of a wealthy family from Belisaere, who had the good sense to flee to Ancelstierre when Ozai first killed the royal family a hundred years ago. Perhaps they were the last of the family to have any sense. Certainly Lao and Poppy Bei Fong have never shown any. They have done everything they can to assimilate into Ancelstierre society, and have kept their daughter close, not allowing her to attend school, but only study with a governess. It probably doesn't matter anyway because Toph is blind, and it's not like she's ever going to find a husband anyway. And this is probably why Lao allows it when his wife, in a fit of superstition, has their daughter baptized with a charter mark.

2. Toph comes from no great family tradition of strong charter magic, and the only charter instruction she gets is from slimy old Master Yu, who is there to teach her little spells to amuse and delight, nothing useful or powerful. But he teaches her a charter spell that can read books aloud to her, and with that, he unlocks the world for her. Her parents have books on charter magic hidden away in a dusty corner of her father's office, and one by one, they find their way into a hole in her bedroom wall, hidden behind a painting. Soon, she has far surpassed Master Yu, and she has to work hard to keep her power secret.

3. Neither Mai nor Ty Lee remember their parents. They know the vague outlines. Their parents never gave them a charter baptism, but instead traded them to necromancers in exchange for temporary safety for their villages. It happens all the time. Usually it's poor and orphaned kids, but not always. Their parents almost certainly think they're dead. That's what usually happens to kids like them, it's not like a necromancer has much use for a living child. But they were lucky, or maybe very very unlucky, because their parents traded them to a necromancer in Ozai's service, and he decided they would be good playmates for his host's children.

4. It wasn't like there was ever an adult who is responsible for them. They grew up on the edges of Ozai's forces, scrabbling and clawing their way through life. There were other kids too at first, but one by one, the other kids disappeared, killed as necromantic sacrifices. But somehow, it was never their turn to die, maybe because Azula liked them so much, or maybe because they picked up enough free magic to start looking like they might be useful. By the time Zuko makes his great escape, both girls are powerful free magic sorceresses. And both know that there is a dangerous trade they make every moment of their lives, because the more power they have, the more useful they are to Ozai, but the more his other sorcerers and necromancers see them as threats. There is no safety for them, only the constant watchfulness of wolves in a cage.

5. Suki is the daughter of the leader of the Kyoshi people, one of the many northern peoples called barbarians by ignorant Old Kingdomers. She leads a band of warriors, and it's she who first finds four Old Kingdomers trespassing on her people's territory. And one of them, an old woman, carries a dark and unsettling power, and sometimes, deep in her her eyes, Suki swears she can see a fire burning her up from within. She wants this woman off her land, but almost more than that, she wants to shield the three children with her from whatever this woman has planned for them.

[a-mermaids-heart]

I’ve never done this before so idk if it’s already been done—any interest in an old kingdom series holiday exchange??

[fira211]

I don't know how it would work, I don't know where the idea came from. But I'm rereading the Abhorsen series and I had a rare pair thought:

Disreputable Dog/Mogget enemies to friends to lovers (though almost certainly ace rep or something mystic like Good Omens angel/demon feelings sex and not bodily sex [not that GO body sex fic isn't also delightful but I digress])

Also, Good Omens/Old Kingdom crossover in general but I would love for Aziraphele and Mogget to be friends (library cat) and Crowley and the Dog to be friends (chaos twins)

[aroaessidhe]

suddenly realised I should keep working on my lirael cosplay, and spent a feverish couple hours making the least essential (but also most important <3) part. dog statue :)

[recurring-polynya]

"Just do as you're told," Mogget said firmly. "Think of yourself as Abhorsen's sworn sword-hand, if it makes you feel better, though in this present era, you'll find common sense is more important than honor. "Very well", Touchstone muttered, humbly. He stood up and put on the underclothes and shirt, but couldn't get the trousers past his heavily muscled thighs. "There's a kilt and leggings in one of the chests back there," Mogget said after watching Touchstone hopping around on one leg, the other trapped in too-tight leather."

if you, as an author, aren't introducing your male love interests like this, what are you even doing with your life?

(from Sabriel, by Garth Nix)

[mindfulofbrit]

I drew Haou again

Sleep Token is a nice inspiration.

He can never die - a fixture in the universe that is constant. Though he does experience the end of a life, he is always reborn. He sleeps long in the river styx awaiting his rebirth, bathed in the River of Souls.

[cafffine]

I finished Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom trilogy*, and I enjoyed books 2&3: Lireal and Abhorsen, I did! But Sabriel cut to the bone, and even two books later it was all I could think about. (TO ME!) It was the best by a massive margin.

*I know there are more!!

Lireal and Abhorsen tell this grand and exciting story of identity, depression, fear, saving the world, and I loved that, but Sabriel was a coming of age story about parental death. Sabriel said that death is something to be managed, respected, but never mastered. It said that even if you can put your fist around death, it’s going to take from you and it’s going to be permanent - because what comes back is never what you lost.

It was so painful to watch Sabriel’s quest to save her father fail, because that’s what happens, your parents die, and you can’t go with them - not right now, anyway. Death waits for you, and you can even look in on it sometimes, but you can’t stay, and if you try to you’ll freeze, or drown. You just live, and mourn, and remember, and find new people to hold onto. You grow into your father’s old coat, you adopt his cat, and you take care of his house because he took care of you, and he loved you.

[dachosmin]

Charter Marks.

[spectral-musette]

For the "shadows and spells" prompt, Sabriel (from the Old Kingdom novels by Garth Nix) getting ready to bind and banish some kind of Dead Monstrosity with Mogget's "help"

[teresiel]

Still trying to get Lirael down!

[raggedlyshorn]

just doodling

[I.D. a page full of ink doodles of the character Lirael from the old kingdom series. She has long dark hair, wears armor and has her abhorsen bells. End I.D.]

[attackfish]

Sabriel, Mai, Neal Caffrey

Wed: Mai. Knife. Wife.

Bed: Sabriel. Look, I fully admit to having a type, and my type is the two lovely ladies afore listed.

Behead: Neal Caffrey. Sorry Neal.

[a-mermaids-heart]

every day i wake up and wanna write old kingdom fic about Sabriel, Ellimere, & Elinor, or make up the very first Abhorsen (b/c I want a book with her !!!!)

but i don’t really have anything coherent & i should write my books.

[boguinbud]

Lirael and Nick on the raft like: