#ravensshadow

[thewyrdwritere]

Queen of Fire

Queen of Fire by Anthony Ryan My rating: 3 of 5 stars An epic conclusion to an epic trilogy, Anthony Ryan’s Queen of Fire brings the Raven's Shadow trilogy to an end in suitably grand style, yet somehow it feels like a missed opportunity. The first two books in the series Blood Song and Tower Lord were high energy and moved along with a real sense of urgency as mysteries unfolded or characters raced to conflicts. Queen of Fire has both mysteries and conflicts galore, in fact it echos the climax of Tower Lord to an extent yet doesn’t have quite the same climatic impact. The narrative of Queen of Fire picks up where Tower Lord ended with armies manoeuvring in the rubble of the Unified Realm. Queen Lyrna renewed by the dark with her burns healed is now worshipped by her armies and seeks justice for the Realm from the Volarian slavers attacks. There is a good counter point to Lyrna with the Blessed Lady Reva also worshipped by her Cumbraelin archers. There is some foreshadowing, some insinuation that Lyrna’s renewal only goes skin deep and that the desire for justice is hiding a darker more vengeful motivation. A motivation that will of course set the Unified Realm’s Queen against its most moral defender in Vaelin. It is good characterisation and plot development that hints at an intriguing narrative pitting characters against each other into deeply personal moral conflicts, all the while facing the existential threat of the Ally and his servant the mad and sadistic ‘Woman’. There are plenty of these intriguing moral dilemmas set up, Frentis’ reckoning for actions taken under duress, Lyrna’s terrible use of Vaelin’s sister Alornis, the potential Queenly rival in Reva, even sexual jealousy of Vaelin’s love Dahrena. It really seems like Queen of Fire is set to challenge the cohesion and loyalty of the Unified Realm heroes to their new Queen. Sadly, for me at least, it is a narrative strand that is barely followed through with, and in the end all too neatly avoided… like I said a missed opportunity. Part of the issue with Queen of Fire is that it is rather to epic for its own good. Throughout Blood Song and Tower Lord the villain of the piece has always remained an existential threat, a mystery working through the intermediaries of the Volarian Empire. With Queen of Fire Ryan has come to the point where the enemies need to be explained and this results in a narrative chocked full of exposition and lore dumps as the Valorian Empire’s history and its function in the Ally’s plans is explained. Another issues is the machinations of the quite frankly scenery chewing ‘Woman’ who spends a lot of her time telling Frentis her life-story or hinting at nefarious plans in shared dreams. I think she’s ace by the way, like Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham but 100% more blood thirsty. But alas there is not enough of her interacting with the heroes in any meaningful way until the very end when the batshit gets dialled up to 11. Anyway, all the exposition and lore does give Queen of Fire epic scope and scale it however detracts and drags taking away the urgency and energy that made Blood Song and Tower Lord such engaging reads. Queen of Fire does have its high points, there are plenty of action sequences and battles, sword fights, nefarious plans and terrible monstrous enemies to combat. The lore and exposition is interesting stuff and the climatic scenes are a brutal and bloody denouement as you could want. It’s just in the end there is a lack of depth or follow through on the characterisation and you are left with the strange feeling that Queen of Fire could have been something more….like I said a missed opportunity. View all my reviews

[natowe]

Everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls I'm sorry, secret siren, but I'm blocking out your calls I've had my adventure, I don't need something new I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you Into the unknown

Commission for @wormdelivre and @thefandomless! It was quite a challenge but thank you for this opportunity ♡

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[lashaan]

The Wolf’s Call is an epic adventure set in the Raven’s Shadow trilogy with a touch of reminiscence of past warfare and interspersed with excellent and thrilling action. Find my full review on my blog. 😉 . . . #TheWolfsCall by #AnthonyRyan. . . . #QOTD: If you could get a spin-off of any fantasy series, which one would it be? 😍 . . . #fantasy #ravensblade #ravensshadow #read #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookblogger #igbooks #bookish #booknerd #bookworm #books #bibliophile #book #bookaholic #booksofinstagram #bookfeaturepage #bookphotography #review #bookidote (at Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0v4kI8Ak3z/?igshid=2b4dbj2geccf

[darrengallagherauthor-blog]

Finally on to book 3 Queen of Fire in the Raven's Shadow trilogy by Anthony Ryan. I love this series, absolutely incredible. Hopefully #QueenofFire will be just as good as the first 2..👌😊 #AnthonyRyan #RavensShadow (at Donegal, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJ0PvBHy6E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1liss003kdtod

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

It has been roughly 24 hours since I made a Twitch account, and I’m still vaguely seething about this.

Who the fuck stole my Signature Screenname on Twitch???

I’ve been the one and only ZiraShield since Sony wouldn’t let me use ShadowShield on DC Universe Online in 20-fucking-11.

TEN YEARS!

My nickname being “Shadow”, which Zira comes from, goes back as far as 2005, to Teen Titans and Evanescence fan forums alike, waaay back when I was RavensShadow and MissingShadow. It’s a name with a Long History for me, okay.

Yesterday I went to follow a couple friends on Twitch and had to make an account for that, of course.

And “ZiraShield” wasn’t available.

Who the fuck stole my name.

And why can’t I find them to make sure they’re at least doing something Nice with it.

(I went with ZiraShield9 because I’m Ninth House trash now, and I refuse to not be ZiraShield, but I’m really annoyed about this, actually.)

(( P.S,: Don’t bother following me because I’m never going to stream. Definitely not while I hold a full-time job, and deeefinitely not on a laptop that slows down when Firefox is the only app open and there happen to be six tabs open. I just made it so I could follow people.))

[reader44ever]

ARGH! I had a comment all written, but lost it! 😭 . . . . Today's July 10th task for the #TomeTopple #TomeToppleChallenge was to share a #TowerofTomes. This photo is of ALL of the fiction hardcovers I have in my collection, as far as I can recall. (And I'm 99.9% positive that this IS all. I mostly collect paperback books, after all.) 😊😍❤ . The books are, from bottom to top, The Lord of the Rings trilogy omnibus by J.R.R. Tolkien, Blood Song by Anthony Ryan, Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, Harry Potter books six through four, and Harry Potter book seven. 😊 . . . . I've only read these editions of Harry Potter books four through seven and The Lord of the Rings trilogy omnibus. I've read The Name of the Wind, but never via one of the editions I own (I have two: this illustrated anniversary edition and a mass market paperback of it). 😊 . . . . I hope to read the Six of Crows duology and Blood Song in the next Tome Topple. Hopefully there will be another one in the fall of this year. And yes, I know the hardcover of Six of Crows is not +500 pages, but in paperback form it is close enough (495 pages), so I'll count it as a tome, too. 😉😊❤ . . . . Max participated in this #tongueouttuesday because he was panting. We had a family of at least eight javelina in our front yard at the time I took this photo. He was watching me very carefully so as to see if I looked away. Had I looked away, he'd have been off like a shot, back to the window to bark his head off at the javelina. It's good that he's so cute, is all I'll say about that. 😉😍❤ . . . . And lastly, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is on top because it is my #CurrentRead. Only I'm reading the audio edition of it. 😊❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #CurrentlyReading #TomeTopple6 #bookstagram #JKRowling #PatrickRothfuss #LeighBardugo #AnthonyRyan #JRRTolkien #books #series #HarryPotterSeries #TheKingkillerChronicles #SixOfCrowsDuology #RavensShadow #TheLordoftheRingsTrilogy

[fenris02]

#anthonyryan #bloodsong #ravensshadow #hostbrno #pisenkrve #stinkrkavce #bookstagram #bookworm #booknerd #booklove #bookaholic #bookporn #booklover #bookphotography #bookgasm #insanebookholics

[willfindmywayhome]

Third book of the #RavensShadowSeries 🙌🏻 #AnthonyRyan #BirthdayPresent #Reading #Book #RavensShadow

[ravenwolf-worlds]

Hey guys if u want to play with me on Wii u send a friend request to RavensShadow and from there I can give you my friend code for switch and ps4

[darrengallagherauthor-blog]

Absolutely loving this book..😊 Any #AnthonyRyan fans out there? #TowerLord #RavensShadow (at Donegal, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsoZYdNHkf-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11blbb6y3lrqf

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

So, because I Only Just Listened To That Version TODAY, I checked myself on the lyrics via EvRef, and, well...

...You ever get really nostalgic for a thing that used to exist but doesn’t anymore?

Because the article for My Immortal mentioned something Amy had mentioned on EvBoard. Which, if I remember correctly, you could only access if you had a fan club membership?

Guess which kid grew up a member of EvClub, the official Evanescence fan club! (Hint: it’s me.) I mean, it only existed for 4 years, but I was there for all 4 of them.

So naturally, I was on the message boards. (The nickname “Zira” comes from the Hebrew word for “Shadow”, which comes from my chosen nickname on those forum boards, MissingShadow. And on a Teen Titans fansite’s forums, I was RavensShadow [where my avatar was the Evanescence logo from their website], and then there’s the theme of being in the shadows, working with the shadows, shadow magic, shadow work, just, lots of Shadows in my life. It’s a Thing.)

Anyways, I just flashed back to the very day I found that post. Someone had asked Amy about her hair care routine, she mentioned her natural hair looking that way, and I think that’s the very message the article is talking about! I was there! I saw it! I remember that exact post!

It was unusually long for her, she rarely went into so much detail on there...

I’m gonna challenge myself to find it!

When I was a blossoming babe, I really admired her hair. In case it isn’t obvious. 

I mean... she was only one third of the inspiration for me to have such long hair. Half was 80′s!Raven, and the rest was my Nana’s hair, because hers has always been that long, too. And then Tarja came into my life just absolutely rocking it also, and my hair’s fate was sealed.

And then you get into the whole abuse thing, where my stepmother wouldn’t let me grow my hair out past my chin for my whole life. Up until I was aboooout 7, I had been trying to grow it out because I loved my Nana’s long pretty hair. But stepmonster decided I didn’t deserve bodily autonomy and forced me to cut it short. I cried. I legitimately broke down and cried. (Not just for appearance, but she wouldn’t listen to me and it’s the whole controlling and manipulating thing, you know? Even as a kid, I RESENTED that. I didn’t even like the way it looked, and I put up a huge fight every time she thought my hair was getting “too long” and decided we’d get it cut. I hated it.)

So when she finally got off my back about it, by the time I was 14, I realized: My hair passed my shoulders! I could maybe finally start growing it out! She couldn’t FORCE me to cut it short; I wouldn’t LET her!

And I’ve been growing it out ever since. 

So when Amy posted how she takes care of three feet of hair, when I had just started being able to do what I want with my own body (not because stepmonster stopped trying to manipulate me, but because I stopped caring what she thought), it felt super important to me to know how to keep my hair healthy and get it as long as I liked. 

So you can imagine how growing long hair was really special to me when it finally happened, right? It’s so special and meaningful to me, it was this whole Big Deal when I finally let my cosmotologist sister cut off all the dead ends and I lost about three inches of length. 

It’s still down to my tailbone, but I don’t have to grab it aside to sit on the toilet anymore. :P

[reader44ever]

Here are almost all of the books I have in my November #TBRpile! On the left, we have all but one of the books I hope to read in the first half of November. And on the right are all but one of the books I hope to read in the second half of November. The stack on the right is also known as my #TomeTopple Round 5 #TBR! 😄😃😍❤ . . . Missing from the left stack is Firestorm by Rachel Caine, book five in the Weather Warden series, which I have checked out as an e-book on my phone. Missing from the stack on the right is Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things by Ted Naifeh, which is an Interlibrary Loan book ready for pickup at the library (tomorrow! 😄). . . . And I believe this is it for those books I am hoping to read in November. Ambitious? You betcha. Will I be successful? It's anyone's guess at this point, but I hope so! 🤔😥...😄😃😉😍❤ . . . I am now going to read more in The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois. I hope to finish this book tomorrow, if not later today. I also need to read Eighty Dollars to Stamford by Lucille Fletcher today, though, as it's an Interlibrary Loan book and due back tomorrow! 🤤 . . . So, wish me luck? 😃❤ . . . #ReadingWithDogs #DogsofInstagram 😍❤😍❤😍 . . . #TomeToppleTBR #TomeToppleReadathon #NovemberTBR #ImNotPanickingYet #OverlyAmbitiousTBR #ElementalAssassin #DresdenFiles #TheWickedTheDivine #RavensShadow #CalLeandros #EightyDollarsToStamford #LucilleFletcher #TheLegendOfDrizzt #TheBookOfSwords

[darrengallagherauthor-blog]

Time to continue with this series. Been looking forward to reading this since I finished the first book 3 years ago..🙈lol #AnthonyRyan #TowerLord #RavensShadow (at Donegal, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMGCdwnzB8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bsmklksa9qlc

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Space questions~

Taken from here:  https://sentencestarters-and-asks.tumblr.com/post/130290639605

Planets: Life

Mercury: What’s your full name? The one that matters? It's very personal, but the "Rae" my closest friends call me comes from RWT. (That's a bit of a secret and deeply meaningful name, so I'd rather not share that... publically, anyways. You're welcome to ask in dm if you'd like, and if I trust you, I'll tell you.) ~ "Zira" comes from ZiraShield, my gaming/etc tag. "Shadow" (+Zira, the Hebrew word for shadow) comes from waaay back when the Evanescence fanclub was around and my tagline was "MissingShadow", and when my Teen Titans forum site nickname was "RavensShadow". ~ “RHS” comes from "RavensHiddenSoul", my name on YouTube, dA, and probably some other things I've forgotten. ~ "Blue" comes as a reference to Blue Diamond because Just Trust Me, It's Very Relevant. ~ Birth name? I'm not comfortable sharing that online. (Even though dozens of people share my name in Ohio alone, apparently. Common first AND last name. It just doesn't mean anything Good to me.)

Venus: What’s your first language? Midwestern American English.

Earth: Where’s your home? ...you know, for the longest time I didn't feel my home WAS on Earth. The place where I feel more "at home" than anywhere isn't even on Earth, it's astral. My mindscape, places with my spirit guide and matron... Even where I am now, having been here for three years, it's no a home. Just a place where I can rest while in transition.

Mars: What’s your sexuality? Asexual, though only by a very rare show of technicality am I actually demigray pansexual.

Jupiter: Do you have any siblings? Dear heavens, so many... Okay, so! My older half-brother by mother (rarely seen), my younger full-sister, then parents got divorced and Dad met Stepmother who was pregnant from her prior marriage (hence my younger stepbrother that I've known since he was born), my stepmother and father had a daughter (my younger half-sister by father), and my mother had an eventful night with someone that resulted in my younger half-brother by mother. Whew.

I was raised with my two sisters and stepbrother, so they're the default ones I imagine when people ask about siblings.

Saturn: Any pets? Used to be a lot more! Right now I just have two chinchillas and four diamond doves (but diamond doves are so tiny, so they're all in one cage-- and the chins are in the same cage. Though all my pets are housed in Big Cages, even most of my betta were never in anything smaller than 3g....)

Uranus: What’s your hobby? ...I have so many of those, too... Writing is my favorite, particularly about my OCs or Raven-centric TT fanfics. And roleplaying, I absolutely love writing with someone else! I also love music, mostly singing but I'm also quite literally addicted to concerts, I love exploring new artists, I've written a few songs and I improvise very Unfinished Songs on my keyboard, but I mostly play with sheet music and improv because I can't play by ear for shit.

Neptune: When’s your birthday? March 30th

Pluto: What time is it right now where you are? 6:34pm

Moon: What are you currently studying/hope to study? Academically? Nothing! A big stinking heaping hunk of NOTHING! HA. Miss me with that student loan debt and a useless degree that doesn’t guarantee you the job you were promised. But as far as actual practice, I'm learning how to be a leader and a bu\siness ow/ner with with my org, so, you know. Studying from THEM, for sure. Also studying a lot of self-help and personal growth, learning how to Heal.

Stars: Experiences

Sun: Have you ever had alcohol? Yes, just a few times and very, very sporadically, but I can't say I'm a fan.

Sirius: Have you ever failed a class? I came very, very VERY close. I got a D- on one of my AP Physics progress reports. I don't do well with math, guys. Luckily my teacher understood that I grasped the science but just couldn't grasp the math, even after he'd tried coaching me through it and attending after-school study sessions and everything, but because he knew I was Trying and appreciated that, he gave me two extra credit projects and I brought my grade up to almost a C.

Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster? Yes! I used to do a lot better on them, now even Dramamine doesn't hold the kinetosis back forever. /:S And I've been getting light-headed on them in recent years, so that's, uhh, concerning. But for the first few rides, I absolutely LOVE them! The sensation of FLIGHT, baby!!

Deneb: Have you ever been out of your home country? Closest I've gone was.... mmh, a tie between San Diego and Niagara Falls. Not QUITE, but I've been very close to the borders. I’ve been on both sides of the continent, though! And I’ve been to... probably 12 US States now?

Arcturus: Have you cried out of something other than sadness? Oh hell yes. Music and Steven Universe. (I think the first time I cried from happiness at SU was Jungle Moon? I was absolutely ECSTATIC at our first glimpse of Pink, you have no fucking idea.)

Betelgeuse: What’s something you can never forget about? the real answer seems to be things from past lives that i'd actually tried to permanently forget via magic and yet they still carried over into this life... But there's quite a lot from THIS life, too. My friends. My OCs. Raven's impact on my life and meeting Marv Wolfman. My familiars, Fizzy especially. The first time I realized my astral projections were So Different. Discovering the Nexus weirdness. The first time I opened up to a friend about The Real Reason I worked so hard to control my emotions, and the way he was so supportive and reassuring and wouldn't let me get down on myself. My mentors, even the first one who is all the way in Florida but told me before she moved that I was so much better than who my stepmother told me I was. Just... a lot of life-changing things, you know?

Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about? My friends and their well-being, safety, and happiness.

Canopus: Have you ever broken a bone? Not to my knowledge? Though I might've sprained my right ankle. I was too afraid of how my stepmother would react to tell someone when I hurt it, but it didn't hurt badly enough to think I had to. To this day, almost 20 years later, it still cracks and rolls a bit too easily for comfort.

Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret? Nobody on the planet could FORCE me to lie. Secrets, however... I will loyally and stubbornly keep a secret of my own free will.

Alphard: Have you ever lost a friend? ...yes... Dear friends, many times. Largely due to them moving, sometimes due to reincarnation or whatever weirdness you want to ascribe to that.

Vega: What’s something you’ve done that you wish you hadn’t? ...I don't like questions like this. They take me to dark places. But... I wish I hadn't divorced myself so far from my own hopes and dreams and desires that, four or more years into trying to reconnect with myself, I still don't know what I'm Truly Feeling half the time. It was my coping mechanism, hell it was A SURVIVAL mechanism. But I wish I hadn't taught myself that The Only Way to Get Through Life is to Shut Off My Emotions Entirely.

Constellations: Favourites

Centaurus: Favourite holiday? Samhain, Halloween hands-down!~

Orion: Favourite month? Ooh.... a nice tie between October and February.

Cassiopeia: Favourite book? The New Teen Titans, as written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by George Perez! As far as novels though, maybe... Bruiser, by Neal Shusterman? Pretty much any novel Shusterman has put out in the past 10 years is eligible for this list.

Delphinus: Favourite study? Meditation and the occult.

Hercules: Favourite instrument? To play? Piano! To imagine myself playing (because I've never been able to try but have a Visceral Gut Instinct that I would LOVE it), the theramin!

Gemini: Favourite song? Right now I'm really stuck on Serene by Tarja! (I sang my heart out to it during my walk yesterday and a neighbor complimented my singing!)

Pegasus: Favourite place to be? All in all, the astral. But on Earth, probably the forest that first opened its heart to me.

Libra: Favourite colour? Deep, rich dark blue!

Phoenix: Favourite thing to wear? Cloaks and skirts. They make a damn good show when it's windy!

Aries: Favourite movie? I'm not much of a movie person, honestly... I love the first few Crow movies. Powder struck a chord. The Covenant was fun, but it has been over a decade since I watched it, so I’m not sure if I’d still enjoy it?

Cygnus: Favourite weather? Thunderstorms and cool breezy days.

Hydra: Favourite sound? The crowd at a concert singing along to a song you all know by heart. ~<3

Galaxies: Love/Friends

Milky Way: Who’s your oldest friend? My now-girlfriend, @banishedbandit

Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social? Not terribly, no. I can coast through a social situation and make for good conversation when I connect with someone, though.

Black Eye Galaxy: Do you believe in love at first sight? I don't. I believe in infatuation, admiration, appreciation, crushes, and lust at first sight. But “true” love doesn't happen just because of the way someone looks, or walks, or presents themselves. Love can only be achieved through knowing enough about them to love them for who they are, not what they look like.

Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss? Given a kiss outside the family, second grade. A friend walked by and pecked me on the cheek in the lunch room.

Cigar Galaxy: How’s your flirting skills? Depends on how comfortable I am with the present company. Among friends on a good day, I can have a wit sharp as a knife. But that's mostly the "flirty" kind of banter and such. With total strangers, I don't do "flirting", I do "trying to get to know you on a deep and sincere level". You have to unlock my playfulness like a level-up award.

Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much? Mhh, not romantically, no. But platonically, even familially, there are a lot of people I don't talk to anymore because I learned some very unsavory things about their bigotry.

Pinwheel Galaxy: Would you date the last person you talked to? Mmmmmmaybe? If they asked, maybe?

Sombrero Galaxy: Do you have a crush right now? Is my girlfriend a valid answer? Because I have like, a perpetual crush on her.

Bode’s Galaxy: Have you ever had a secret admirer? I had a feeling someone was crushing on me from afar, but I've never gotten any notes or any sort of admirational gestures.

Sunflower Galaxy: Would you date/make friends with someone out of pity? Hell no. My time and their time are both more valuable than that! I can make friends with someone I happen to feel pity for, but I won't try to maintain a relationship purely because they're pitiful.

Tadpole Galaxy: Would you deny a relationship/friendship? No? What good would that do? I'm proud of the people I've befriended, and if someone has a problem with one of my friends, that's their issue, and I am absolutely not going to feed into that.

Whirlpool Galaxy: Have you ever cried over a breakup? Nope.

Other stuff: Wishes

Comet: What’s your big dream? DM me for this one, because it's an entire fucking essay on its own! The tl;dr version goes like: Escaping Capitalist Hell, Healing Whatever Is Wrong With My Stomach, Free Time to Live my Life, Showering my Girlfriend and Friends with Love and Affection and Time, Huge Home, Space For Pets, an entire library, space to meditate, altars for my deities......... There's a lot I dream about, especially in recent years.

Asteroid: What does your dream life look like? See above; the Free Time Lifestyle IS my dream.

Meteor: What’s something you wish you could tell, but can’t? The story behind RWT? All the details of the Nexus? My past lives and identities? Just what it's like being an empath? Why I relate so hard to Raven? How much my friends mean to me? How much I love my girlfriend? Any kind of Emotional Expression would be Lovely but my brain has Blinders around the Pretty Phrasing for it, apparently???

Nebula: If you could undo one thing in your life, what would it be? ...I'm not sure how I could choose just one... Maybe, going to public school for as long as I did? If I could have gone to an online school earlier, I probably could've graduated earlier, and won more of my life back. Maybe even gotten a job, and gotten free from my stepmother earlier, and more permanently.

Shooting Star: If you could bring back one thing, what would it be? the answer to that is too Nexus and painful and I know it's not wise, but... There are two, really, but I don't think either of the Things I'd want to be bring back would want to COME back... a dearly beloved one i still get spasms of grief for, and a place long lost, and apparently happy to stay that way.

Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years? GET FREE.

Supernova: What’s one thing you want to do before you die? Be a positive force in as many peoples' lives as I can. Do some GOOD in the world. And believe, well and truly, that I am a good person after all.

Quasar: If you could spend the rest of your life with only one person, who would it be? I can't fucking answer that, I would need at least Four!

Wormhole: What’s something you wish would happen, but know won’t? ...mmmh, Steven Universe continuing? Or the collapse of capitalism and the rise of climate-conscious policies OVERNIGHT!

Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see? I'm not sure. Something hopeful, maybe? I suppose I won't know until I get there.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Real Life Character Developement.

Neopets screen name I chose at age 10: nofairiwantacybunny (”No fair, I want a Cybunny”)

Fanfiction.net name, 12: “Raven’s Secret-Keeper”

YouTube and DeviantArt account from 12 to 24: “ravenshiddensoul” (”Raven’s Hidden Soul”)

* TitansGo.Net, 12-16: RavensShadow * EvClub forum name, 13-16: MissingShadow * Anatheria url: SnowWhiteCrow * Gaming tagline from age 18: ZiraShield (”shadow shield”)

General name, age 20+: “Stellar Secret-Keeper”.

........So, if you were ever wondering why my nicknames include Shadow, Snow, Stellar, and Crow.....