#age of darkness trilogy

[cryptidjade]

reviving my tumblr acct bc im rereading the age of darkness trilogy and THE BRAIN ROT IS BACK!!! i missed my boys :((

[biryuart]

[antonscarrots]

i’m finally rereading there will come a darkness (and eventually the whole trilogy) and boy the obsession is returning !!!

[enchantedbreez]

Hey Age of Darkness people!! i am currently writing the script of a AOD recap in the format of those unhinged recaps, and would love anyone's input :) If youre intrested in helping me out with fact checking, characterizing or just talking about the bookseries shoot me a DM please!!

[tthebooknook]

Ephyra: I wanna go to a pumpkin patch. Watch horror movies. Drink apple cider. Murder someone!

Beru:

Ephyra: You know, fall shit.

[age-of-dorkness]

Haven't been active in Ten Billion Years (planning to reread the books soonish, we'll see) but came here to say that Katy Rose Pool was so real for listening to a truly worrying amount of Sufjan Stevens while writing thousands of words of gay pining. And by this I mean same

[violetqueenofwands]

Lysander fans: Lysander is the main character now because he’s trying to rebuild what Darrow broke!

Me: You mean the CHAINS?!?!

[darrowsrising]

I miss Ragnar, because Ragnar always had his head firm on his shoulders, not stuck up his own arse. He was the only person who showed care for Darrow in the same ways Darrow showed others. And obviously, Ragnar cared for others as well, he did not get stuck on the mission as much as Darrow does, I think.

Even through tumultous emotions, he took time to really care selflessly when he was able to. That was what made him the best leader for the Obsidians in many ways.

Darrow hasn't experienced this sort of friendship in years, aside from Screwface's attempt in Dark Age. That is heart-breaking as fuck.

RAGNAR WOULD HAVE NEVER ABANDONED DARROW ON MERCURY. RAGNAR WOULD HAVE NEVER HARMED DARROW BY CHOICE. Period.

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

QUALIFYING ROUND: 57th Tilt

Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) VS. Prince Chauncley, Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020)

Propaganda

Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014)

Portrayed by: Martin Freeman

“He is the most relatable man to ever exist, and that's hot. He likes tea and handkerchiefs and archaic-maybe-evil-jewelry. Introverted braincell with bravery and a soft spot for crazy old wizards. And dwarves. And-“

Prince Chauncley, Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020)

Portrayed by: Daniel Radcliffe

“How can you not love a prince played by Tony-winning mensch Daniel Radcliffe?? Chauncley is also such a sweetie, even if he can be air headed at times. Plus his romance with Geraldine Viswanathan's character is very cute.”

Additional Propaganda Under the Cut

Additional Propaganda

For Bilbo Baggins:

For Prince Chauncley:

[bookishwithathought]

“Until then, endure, my love. Endure.”

Endurance was the name of the game for both the characters and me as a reader. Dark Age carried many heavy themes, pulling us into the darkest depths of war and the complexities of its consequence. Liberation isn’t pretty or clean. It is messy, it is long and it resides in a world of muddy grey.

Initially I was going to rate it 3.5 stars because there were a couple of deaths that felt wasteful and meaningless, and I very nearly discontinued the book. It didn’t feel like those deaths drove the plot forward. But now that I’ve had some time and distance from Dark Age, I’m able to gain some perspective. Plainly, in war and life, not everything carries meaning. It is a part of the human experience in its most basic understanding. And that is ok. For the visceral reaction Pierce Brown pulled from me alone, the ratings go up 😂

A standing ovation for the female characters. They were the stars of this beautifully chaotic story. Amidst loss, betrayal, grief and rage, time and again the women rose up to meet the challenges thrown at them.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Images: Pinterest + Canva

Edited by Me

On the Playlist: LIMBO - DPR IAN

[cryptidjade]

my recent reread of AoD has made the worms in my brain go crazy so i wrote some jude angst!! i figured id throw this into the void that is a AoD fandom

[peach-au-barca]

Reading Dark age makes me feel kinda dumb. Like they are telling me all about the battle strategy and the politics.

I’m like “Mrs. Mustang, idk what’s going on with quicksilver but I feel like we’re winning. We must be doing a scheming”

Then we switch to Darrow and I’m like “Ah yes the big battle plan you’ve put together on the spot! Sensational! I hope we don’t kill the entire population of the planet”

Then I will be promptly disappointed but we will have certainly won said battle. Every nuance between that is lost on me.

[wellwhatnowlove]

“He looks down at his feet, searching for words. When he finds them, he looks up at me with the raw emotion of his father, but without the anger or the pain. “Mother, your inheritance was guilt. Father’s was surrender. Because of you, because of Father, mine is struggle. That is better than guilt. It is better than surrender. I do not blame you. I thank you. You never pretended the world wasn’t broken, even when a broken world favored you.”

Light Bringer, pg.144

I GOT TO THINKIN TODAY ABOUT WHAT PAX SAID ABOUT HIS PARENTS’ INHERITANCE AND I HAD A REVELATION. okay sorry VERY LONG WINDED ESSAY BELOW. (Light Bringer spoilers too)

If Darrow’s inheritance has always been surrender and Virginia’s has always been guilt, then Light Bringer is a study in how they’ve swapped those burdens, and both grew immensely because of it. Virginia is forced to face the reality of surrender to keep Mars from falling. She must learn to sacrifice lives on an unimaginable scale. She literally has to surrender Phobos in order to hold Mars and save lives from a bloody battle over pride. She routinely seeks out the injured and dying to confront those she sacrifices. It’s heart breaking and hard to read at times, but not once did she not feel like the character we grew to love. She stays true to herself while mentioning multiple times that she now understands Darrow’s plight more than ever from the last decade.

Then on the flip side, Darrow is forced to reckon with his insurmountable guilt when he is put on trial before the daughters in the rim to answer for betraying them in order to secure a victory for the core rising/republic. He talks about how that guilt put a wedge between him and his family. That guilt made him feel unworthy of love, and, therefore, unable to properly express his love to those he would give everything for. This mirrors Virginia’s past struggle with one particularly potent example being her inability to believe that Darrow could love her after he reveals his true identity as a red in the tunnel under Lykos at the end of Golden Son. She says

“They are my family!” she shouts, face collapsing into grief. “My father hanged your wife. He hanged her. How can you even look at me?”

I think it’s this guilt (and probably some feelings of utter betrayal, panic, and overwhelm) that led her to leave Darrow in that tunnel and indirectly led him into the Jackal’s trap. Which I’m sure she also feels immense guilt for. But I think a large part of her journey off page and into morning star is her coming to terms with that guilt. In confronting it she learns to be vulnerable with Darrow again and comes to accept that he loves her despite the insane complexity of their history. This culminating with her leaning into her understanding of her part in the society and realizing that it puts her in a place to make a true change. All of this accomplished with an education in immense humility, flexibility, and compromise. Which is the lesson Darrow grapples with and I think truly leans into throughout this book. In a way, he is forced to reckon with how his guilt drove him away from Virginia and Pax and even veered him away from Eo’s dream.

I think on a character based level, this will exponentially strengthen their relationship when (please please Pierce) they finally reunite, and will make them a more formidable pair than even before. They now understand each others struggles in such intimate ways that idk if anyone can stop these two.

Then, on a plot based level it speaks to the larger themes of resilience, understanding and the fight for humanity. Virginia finds strength in surrender and Darrow finds redemption in humility and compromise. 

Then, add in some struggle, grit and pixie dust (and a cool head tattoo I guess. WE SEE YOU OVER THERE PAX AKA ADEPT AUGUSTUS. HELL YEAH KEEP IT UP BABY WOO) and the rising might just have a true shot. Not only at victory, but at redemption and continued effort in the name of what is just and good.

[constant-book-hangover]

Me half way through lightbringer:

Maybe I have judged lysander too harshly. Maybe he isn’t garbage. I will stop my hate and give him a chance.

Me at the end of lightbringer:

[boneskullravenriver]

🥺🥺🥺but but--- UwU, didn't u wike bwing tweated wike subhuman scum at the bottom of my shoe?? UwU🥺🥺🥺

[omercifulheaves]

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