#glitzandshadows

[ignitesthestxrs]

glitzandshadows replied to your post “can I ask why you got canceled by kpop stans XDD”

Oh my god

LIKE. IT’S A SITUATION THAT I FIND EXTREMELY HILARIOUS IN HINDSIGHT AND EVEN AT THE TIME but it was also genuinely traumatic and i dont wanna do it again!

[the-noveltea]

Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan

My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Review: 

ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not impact my opinion. All quotes used are subject to change upon final publication.

Ruthless Gods is the second book in the Something Dark and Holy trilogy by Emily A. Duncan. I was fully impressed with the first book--it features some of my favorite types of characters and character dynamics--and somehow, this book blew the first one out of the water.

This book is difficult to describe without giving away too much. It is set not too long after the shocking ending of Wicked Saints. Nadya and Serefin are still in Tranavia, both changed after the events of the first book. Nadya is lost, no longer sure of her purpose and place; Serefin is a young king with stars in his eyes and a moth entourage (and is, shall we say, in a dark and strange place after his resurrection). And Malachiasz...well. We all know what happened to him, and can almost imagine what he is up to between these two books. Almost.

“Some of us make our own families. … Not sure where I went wrong that mine has a monster boy in it, but there it is.”

Ruthless Gods takes the relationships in the first book and makes new connections, breaks old ones, and strengthens others. It made me fall in love with the characters all over again, and gave me new appreciation for others. The worldbuilding is expanded upon and new characters (and gods) are introduced. 

Duncan managed to make me laugh, cry, swoon, and scream while reading this book. It’s simply incredible. I think that her writing skills improved between books one and two, and those who found Wicked Saints to be okay should give Ruthless Gods a chance, even if they hadn’t planned on it. I absolutely plan on re-reading it as soon as I get my finished copy! The wait for book three is going to be rough... 

Ruthless Gods releases on April 7th. Pre-order your copy now and get an awesome moth art print! (I will affectionately call it my Goth Moth.)

Tea Pairing: I’ve curated a Malachiasz Blend on Adagio, made to replicate the tea that Malachiasz makes in Ruthless Gods. It’s primarily black tea, with raspberry and apple pieces.

Disclaimer: I make no profit from this tea blend, it was done for fun.

[gizkasparadise]

glitzandshadows replied to your post: the more i think about it, the less i like tros

literally people started clapping in my theater and i had no idea what the moment even meant

i! hate!! it!!!

if for some reason i am ever asked to articulate why we don’t pander to fanboys in the creation of media, i am going to produce screencaps of that stupid stupid scene

and to throw salt on the wound, the part where chewie reacts to leia’s death is one of 2 scenes where i was like omg Emotion is happening!

cut to that fucking medal 

[mermaidsirennikita]

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when you wander onto the Grishaverse~ fan wiki...

Grisha fandom is…. questionable lol

Like..... I wasn’t a part of it for the OG trilogy but now that King of Scars destroyed me (and to be fair so did Six of Crows but King of Scars is just more specifically Me) I’m wading into it and....  the degree of false authority people have over characters that aren’t ultimately theirs is surprising even for the fandom???

[inspiredbyabook]

read in 2019 [3/?] ↝ wicked saints by emily a. duncan ( @glitzandshadows )

dazzle the monsters, nadya. you've already charmed the worst of the lot; the rest should be easy.

[dainesanddaffodils]

I’ve been bouncing in my seat all day this is the best way things could have gone!

His tweets have been amazing too he’s so enthusiastically into it!

[jenster21]

IT'S HERE IT'S MINE I'M SO PUMPED @glitzandshadows

[ignitesthestxrs]

glitzandshadows replied to your post “tumblr: respond to your replies in the post they’re related to! me,...”

Xkit still works to do the funky text reply but you gotta do it from the activity page

oh big dumb of me LMAO i was clicking on the button that said ‘reply’ like WHY IS THIS TAKING ME TO THE TUMBLR POST I WANT THE NEW POST???????

before realising that to access the xkit function you have to use uuuuh the xkit button

[joons]

glitzandshadows replied to your post: mooncactus replied to your post: ...

AW YEAH THIS I KNEW ID GET THE GOOD POSTS ON TUMBLR

you should know better by now! we’re hip!

[linseymiller]

I AM VERY READY FOR THIS GARBAGE SON OF MINE

glitzandshadows replied to your post: I don’t go on Goodreads much anymore except to...

reads your tags and scREAMS

IDEK if he’ll have a PoV but oh man is he a disaster. The demon is also a disaster but he’s trying. He’s trying so hard to fit in.

[gizkasparadise]

glitzandshadows

  body count under the cut for those curious[[MOR]...

(Thank you for posting this lol)

hahaha i figured give the people what they want :’D

[mermaidsirennikita]

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Goodreads Blogger Voice: and I am giving this book...

and that kind of approach with books is encouraged on Twitter where authors are actually present and have to suffer through it and just. like. Goodreads and twitter are Bad.

Yes!  The people who will write elaborate, dissertation-length reviews and/or Twitter threads about the ~feelings~ of hypothetical niche readers (you wrote about cupcakes falling in love?  WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALLERGIC TO CUPCAKES) or fictional characters completely ignore the fact that they are often directly interacting with writers who are actually real people.  I mean, a joke is joke, right?  I’m not going to get my panties in a bunch about people joking over how a writer may use a certain word too much or lean too heavily on a certain trope, but idk.  It kind of reminds me of that time on this site where people were basically saying that because John Green (who, I get it, may not always have the type of prose or even personality that you gel with, you don’t have to like him) wrote sometimes from the perspectives of or about teenage girls who had sex with teenage boys, he MUST want to have sex with teen girls!!  That shit is really harmful and toxic.  There was no discussion of what John Green was doing, no evidence that he was in any way shape or form a predator.... It was basically a personal attack that was trying to find a way to justify a hatred for his writing?

(And, uh, for the record I like John Green’s books quite a bit.  Nobody else has to, but I do.)

Like, you can Not Like A Thing just because you dislike it.  It can just... not be for you.  There does not have to be some intense political or social reason for you not liking a thing.  It’s gotten even worse in recent years, imo, because it’s become easier for people to get ARCs (good!) and a result has been that if one person decides, after reading an ARC, that this author Must Not Be Allowed, their word is law because they’re one of the few who has read the book (bad).  The fact that books are currently not being published because of bad press around early ARCs is really sad to me.  If these books are bad, let them be bad and flop and get eaten alive by the audience at large upon publication.  But if a good book is crushed early because someone had a personal issue with it, an issue I might not have, that bothers me.  And it bothers me even more that a person’s career may be crushed because one reviewer’s opinion prevented thousands of others from having a potentially different opinion.

Let’s also be totally real here: you get more attention for posting a ridiculously inflammatory review than you do for posting a positive review. You get Do Gooder points, for one, and everyone likes you and you get more followers.  But in this day and age, increasing your social media presence means that it might be easier for YOU to get a book deal down the line, or for YOU to get your article published, or for YOU to be paid for your reviews or increase your website’s traffic/ad revenue.  It’s all a fucking cycle.  It’s asinine and toxic.

[ignitesthestxrs]

glitzandshadows replied to your post “glitzandshadows replied to your post “@ mutuals & long time...”

the music just doesn't work for me, i've tried and i don't think i've ever listened to a whole song ALAS

cackles yeah they are sort of the polar opposite of most of the music you’re Typically Into

[joons]

glitzandshadows replied to your post: Honestly I’m begging Reylos not to give the...

Also like…. there’s no hope for that novelization “fixing” anything. The move is fundamentally broken.

oh yeah. if anything it’s just going to be explicit about the way things are broken in a way that you can kind of shut your eyes to in the movie because it’s THAT VAGUE AND CONFUSING.

[linseymiller]

I have 0 regrets.

glitzandshadows replied to your post: I can’t really talk about next book (By Grace and...

this is the most linsey thing i have ever read

two gross nerds sacrificing it all for knowledge who realize they’re in love while everyone around them goes “now you realize it right now for real? could idk finish solving this major issue first? no ok cool?”

[gizkasparadise]

glitzandshadows replied to your post “finally got around to watching he’s a dragon/i am dragon/ Он - дракон...”

MY FAVE MOVIE.

P MUCH HIT ALL THE TROPES BINGO