#authors-haven

[hisyetisgirl]

💥Updated fic alert!💥

After a several years long hiatus this oldie, but a goodie has been updated, edited & completed in 2025! 🙌

The Maid(en) Fair - Chapter 1 - GrannySmut - Game of Thrones (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16003112/chapters/37339610

[batcavescolony]

I was talking to an idiot and I need validation.

[greensaplinggrace]

"You can say 'all are welcome' but if wolves and sheep are both welcome you're only going to get wolves" is a quote that I think maybe end of season two alina needs to hear at some point tbh

[aryburn-trains]

New York City, NY April 13, 1986

[wingsofhcpe]

Just finishes Blood Over Bright Haven, went to check some goodreads reviews, and people are shitting on M. L. Wang and calling her work "white saviour complex" and "coloniser romance", also saying that her work is a copy of RFK.

And this is why I think reading comprehension is dead, because if you read BOBH and THAT was your take from it, I'm pretty sure you read it with your eyes closed.

Anyway, if yall actually want an amazing dark academia and steampunk-y book with nuanced discussion about societal issues, amazing writing, a morally grey female protag and unique kickass worldbuilding, you should read BOBH by M. L. Wang.

[day-shall-come-again]

Ever since reading this, I’ve been thinking about it:

I stand by the ocean. There is a ship at the quay… I stand on the beach and watch as it disappears as a speck on the horizon. At that moment, I hear someone by my side speak, “Now she has left us.”

Left us for what? She has only left my line of sight. That’s all. She is as beautiful and sturdy as when she left this beach.

That she has lessened and disappeared is only a matter of perspective, and as the voice from beside me says that she has left us, on another beach, someone watches her appear on the horizon, and another voice yells, “Here she comes!”

…And especially in the context of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

The comparison is fairly obvious when you look at it, but I found this piece to be especially poignant (and as far as I know, the author is unknown. As I’m translating this, I’m also going off of a copy I found online and not the physical I read, so there are some ever so slight differences that may make it resonate less. Apologies.)

It’s particularly haunting to me, and I couldn’t believe that I’d found a piece that was exactly on the mark as far as Tolkien’s Elves and Sailing went, and I mean exactly on the mark emotionally.

It came from an old newspaper clipping, with a bit of an introduction from I believe, a member of the church (this was from a Swedish newspaper, so I’ll love you forever if you can identify the person referencing the poem or any background information, because I sadly can’t remember. Here it is: closer to the abridged version I read in the paper.)

It read something like this: What is death? It is not an end, but a beginning. For as we have to say farewell, there is a chorus of helloes! on some far shore. What is death? It is a ship passing, and as a voice from behind me says, “She is gone now,” on some far shore another says, “Here she comes!”

What is death, but the passing of a boat from one shore to another.

Many thanks to anyone who can help me identify! I felt I needed to share this wonderful, underrated piece with the wider Tolkien Community.

TL;DR: I may write more on the matter, but for now here it is.

Art credit: John Howe’s The Grey Havens

[lae-zels]

i ordered one of the 10th anniversary editions of the southern reach series, acceptance to be more specific only because it was $20 cheaper than authority and, in my mind, without doing any further research, that meant that the cheaper version must have been the older one, thus the next one after annihilation. SO I ORDERED IT. i was so confident❗❗❗❗ the bookstore did me dirty 😭 and also, im stupid

[hughesgarnet]

went out to have a rabies shot and went home with an empty bank account and 3 books (it was hours later when i realized i bought books that were written by Asian authors ugh we love it hereeeee)

[writingwiring]

Omg how did I not notice. You like Servamp too!? Bro, mate. My man. I love kuro so much. Best little kitty. I dropped the manga inthe hunter falicity arc but I'd love to get back into it.

!!! yeah i love servamp!!! im a massive fan of chuuni3 (tsurugi, yumi, and jun) especially, as well as mikuni!

the manga is really good sometimes the classical literature references can get pretty dense and specific (though it is more thoughts to have and concepts to ponder!)

im really fascinated by the servamp-eve pair dynamic in a narrative sense; having characters intended to complete one another by holding something the other needs is such a good idea and i like how varied the cast is

i also really enjoy how the themes show compassion as a powerful trait, not a weak one, and violence failing to bridge the gap between people...

[mydarlingdearestdead]

Her memory haunts me still.

Decades after I was last in the company of one Haven Desmond and still- Yes, still- her memory haunts me. Her shadow pursues me during each evening ramble within the grounds, her voice sings throughout the foyer when any treasured student deigns to practice upon the pianoforte. Even the rhododendrons on the sill in my bedroom, her favoured bloom.

The gates to her infamous academy have long rusted, the impact of too many harsh winters. In gale conditions this previous autumn, in fact, they flung themselves inward, creating a tortured scraping noise upon the gravel. I awoke with a start on this occasion as, foolishly, I believed her ghost to have taken upon a tangible form. Although, there is no doubt to the matter in which she haunts me regardless.

Violet acts as caretaker now, overseeing the academy’s student body. Without ever teaching a class, she has more power than I could dream of. Myself, I am perhaps stricter than I might have been in my youth. Perfect pitch. if the dazzled faces of my youngest students are any indication. For the most part, I limit myself to the teaching of string instruments- That is, excluding the pianoforte. We admit few students who claim talent in that particular field, you understand. Prodigies grow up, yes, but the notes remain as they always have. Violin is my main co-conspirator.

My hands, now too weak to play, are gnarled and wrinkled with predominant callouses. Hers are still as soft as the days of our youth. Or, at least, such is true to my mind.

Forgive me for I have all but neglected to introduce myself. In my youth, I thought it wonderfully unique to travel under the pseudonym of Wren. Now, the wisdom of age on my side, I respond only to Winnifred Desmond, nee Emerson. Madam Desmond, they call me. Sometimes I wonder if I would respond if not merely turning to search for her.

[travsd]

A New Book on Buster

Today is the office pub date of Lisa Stein Haven’s new book Early Buster Keaton: From the Vaudeville Stage to Comique Films: 1899-1920. This book is of especial interest to this reader as it focuses entirely on Keaton’s vaudeville years, presumably at a much more granular level than most general biographies of Keaton. There is much to be learned from such details. There are many mysterious…

[acidsneeze]

Sanctuary

'There is a quiet corner, spun in light; / you will find me there.' This week's poem is a short but soft one called 'Sanctuary' - you can check it out right here on my blog!

Just a short poem for you today – rather than being from the collection of fantasy poems, or anything to do with the new short story collection I announced next week, this is just a random little poem that I came up with. Still, it’s a soft one, and I hope you enjoy it. Sanctuary There is a quiet corner, spun in light;you will find me there. Touch it: it is soft. It is the equilibriumbetween…

[aryburn-trains]

METRO-NORTH--231 at Lower Mine Road s of Brewster IB.

This train rated a New Haven-painted Genesis. 5 July 2011. © 2011 Peter Ehrlich

[sevensdeadly-if]

Not game related at all but I’m playing zombie exodus safe haven and these are the names of my save files can you see I’m struggling??? 😭🫠

[imjustheretomooch]

Sciona, crashing tf out bc she’s realized her entire livelihood is built on the blood of refugees and the lives of innocents, but remembering she’s also a huge bitch and too prideful to kill herself: wait a minute... queen never cry

[lyrahaven]

Book two of my M/M fantasy trilogy, Ash to Ember, officially comes out in seven days! There's still time to preorder the ebook and book one, Dust to Ash, is out now (also available in Kindle Unlimited). Both links are in my bio/Linktree.

As an indie author, I appreciate every single reader who takes a chance on my books!