#legendborne

[ellapastoral]

Y'all, this book series is everything I ever wanted in a book series. I don't know why people tried to push it as a romance book 💀. It deals with generational trauma, racism, and demons, with just a tiny pinch of romance. Lowkey thinking about making a video about this but we’ll see.

[purplepotatobread]

If I had a penny for everytime I've read a book with a nice, gay, blonde healer named William who lives in a world where there's a secret society of teens with superpowers and is the child/desendant of a god/high being, I'd have two pennies, which isn't a lot but it's funny that it happened twice.

[bookcub]

i think it is unrealistic for fans to expect sequels to be published a year after the first one and also want the book at its highest quality. it's okay to expect a few years in between and i think it weird how much pressure authors face to publish their next book immediately. that's a lot of stress on authors and i think it often leads to books being put out before they are ready.

[fandom-witch]

"Nick's mother, Sel's mother, mine. How many mothers has the order taken?"

👩🏿‍🍼👩🏻‍🍼👩🏼‍🍼

"Mothers, gone. Mothers, taken. Mothers, lost."

Happy (early) Mother's Day to Faye, Natasia, and Anna with their little ones 💕

The amazing artist: @marf244 thank you so much for making these!!

[sangrefae]

now that we have even more confirmation than we ever needed of r*wling's dangerous bigotry, here's a non-exhaustive list of media similar to the shitty wizard franchise that DOESN'T platform transphobia:

discworld

little witch academia

percy jackson & the olympians + heroes of olympus

witch hat atelier

the books of earthsea

artemis fowl

skullduggery pleasant

witch hat atelier

legendborn

the cinder series

witch hat atelier

please read witch hat atelier

[bookishsongs]

We created a fan soundtrack for Legendborn called “Legacy” and it’s streaming everywhere. Here is the artwork that @viinas did specifically for each of the songs!

[viinas]

Does she know the moon lives in you, too?” “She does. Just like she knows the sun lives within you.”

in case anyone was wondering, i'm still unwell about oathbound

[albinodino]

how it must feel to be my mutual rn

[chiaseedlingwithlove]

Nothing hits more than finishing a book and immediately opening tumblr to repost everything you’ve been avoiding

[amazingcreek]

rapid fire oathbound thoughts:

holy shit we got queer bree AND transfem zoe. is anyone in this book series straight? no? good.

natasia kane my beloveddddd you are such a bad parent but such a proud mom

Nick and Bree on the roof?!?!? I haven't seen anyone mention this and it's making me crazyyyyyyyy

also one bed, yes ma'am there's only one bed ty mrs. deonn

William having a crush on Lark and Lark having a crush on William and neither of them ~actually~ addressing it is so frustrating I can't even

LARK CALLING WILL SWEETHEART ugh my heart

bring. back. Alice.

sel's "got you" IS FROM THEIR FIRST INTERACTION. BUT ALSO A PREY THING. GODDAMNIT

Zoe was so real for forgiving Bree after learning all this had been less than a year. like yeah ok that's too much in too little to expect normal communication

Mariah and valec's opinions on the whole "powerhouse" and "point of our spear" thing is soooooo good. I love nuance tracy deonn take my money

nick talking about sel constantlyyyyyyy. oh my god these two are gonna kill me. "please tell sel that when we find him" "sel would draw and quarter me" UGH

NICK HOLDING EVERYONE ACCOUNTABLE. truly that moment at his council hearing when he says we must name them when Bree is here AND when she isn't is just. yeah. go him. AND THEN the perspective of William checking himself and going "oh shit I have NOT been doing as much as I thought" was so good. tracy you're a literal wizard and changing the world thank you.

valec calling the merlins cops. fuck yeah they are. tbh doing a whole analysis on merlins abuse of aether users/experimenting on Black bodies would be so good. maybe I'll write a paper who knows

valec and zoe. make them come back

bree knowing she's loved as she meets everyone, not being able to love them back in the same way because of her memories, BUT choosing to love and support them regardless is just like gorgeous. the amount of hugs she just accepts and goes, yeah I need this, even when she can't do the same in return is perfect

the ending. the ending. hooooollyyyyy shit the ending. "a king, a knight, and a prince" AHHHHHHHH. selwyn kane you can do no wrong in my eyes but oh my god. I am so scared someone hold me

ALSO after reading the ending going back through the book and seeing that there are several places where Bree and Nick are talking about sel and HE is the one calling her bloodmark. oh em gee.

this is not comprehensive and I'll probably think of more but yeah. how're we doing gang?

[bookwyrminspiration]

sel and nick are bonded through the kingsmage oath, nick and bree are bonded through the arthur lancelot thing, and now bree and sel are bonded through the inherited bloodmark. and me? well i'm going to launch myself into the sun

[katsitsiyo]

Here’s a Legendborn Cycle piece I comm’d from the amazing @mageofspace924! (tysm!!)

Bree is one of my absolute favorite protagonists in any book I’ve ever read. 🥰 She, Sel, and Nick have some of the best interactions and chemistry. They’re all my fave bbs and I just want them all to be safe and able to live their lives happily together. 🥹🥹

[elisegeese]

“Does the know that the moon lives in you, too?”

“Just like she knows that the sun lives within you”

[fandom-witch]

Oathbound brain rot day number...continues! Pls feast ur eyes on this beautiful art of Bree Matthews looking very strong and very deadly! I got this after reading bloodmarked and oathbound confirmed that she really grew so much

Thank you @/VENNro0 (twt) for bringing this to life!

[skepticalcatfrog]

"You were never a monster and we were never brothers" was INSANE Nicholas Davis kiss me on the mouth

[black-is-beautiful18]

No cuz let’s talk about it. When it comes to the book community, y’all are some of thee most anti-intellectual people I have ever seen. We say address problematic writers and the themes they put in their books and y’all say “It’s just a book! Let people read what they want!” Y’all get on the internet complaining about long paragraphs and saying y’all skip paragraphs and dialogue as if that makes any sense. Y’all can barely grab ahold of the themes of racism, grief, generational trauma, or the experience of being Black at a white institution in LegendBorn because you’d rather focus on the 5% of romance as if romance can’t also be political. Yet somehow you refuse to read books by Black and Brown authors cuz they’re “too political.” It can be right there in your face and you’d still use the excuse that reading is your escape so you don’t have to pay attention to those things when those things literally drive the book along with the characters. Percy Jackson is about a boy trying to dismantle the system of the gods cuz they got a bit too much dip on they chip and it literally almost always leads to their own children dying. Not to mention they suck as parents too. I’ve yet to read The Poppy War but it’s based off of an actual war. It’s historical freaking fiction. Rin literally sees a chance to have control over her body and takes it. Don’t think I don’t remember y’all being mad about that either. Y’all love The Song of Achilles as if it’s also not about war, touches on the romantic relationship between Patroclus and Achilles after historians have tried so hard to deny that they were in fact lovers, and let’s not forget the misogyny littered throughout the text that’s either there purposefully or the fault of the authors own biases. Like y’all are dumb and you don’t care.