#tunuva melim

[sleazyjanet]

esbar and tunuva feeding each other an orange under the orange tree 🍊

EDIT: ID ADDED:

ID: digital art of tunuva melim and esbar uq-nāra lying underneath the orange tree, feeding each other an orange slice while looking intently at each other. juice dribbles down their hands. /end ID

[winter-wise]

So Kalyba fumbled Ead in TPOTOT, fumbled Tunuva in ADOFN, and Samathan Shannon has both another prequel and a sequel planned for the series. Odds are Kalyba will fumble Galian Berethnet in the prequel. For the sequel, she's technically dead, but I believe in her failwoman energy. I believe she's capable of fumbling a baddie from beyond the grave.

[brbarou]

adofn dump...i just really love this book ok

[sncinderdoodles]

ADOFN character sketches

From top left to bottom right, Thrit & Wulf, Nikeya, Dumai, Wulf again, Esbar, Tunuva and the queen of sus Canthe

[fallenight]

can't stop thinking about this tweet i saw a few days ago so i had to make adofn version of it

[freddycartr]

i saw a post saying why a reader loved sjm is because her female characters don’t work out to be skinny, but to be strong so i thought i’d provide an alternative list filled with actual good authors/and badass (mostly women of color) characters who are fucking strong no matter what body type they have:

• helene acquilla - ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir

• linh cinder & scarlet benoit - the lunar chronicles by marissa meyer

• nova artino - renegades by marissa meyer

• inej ghafa and nina zenik - six of crows by leigh bardugo

• esbar uq-nara and tunuva melim (aka my best fucking middle aged lesbians who are warriors) - a day of fallen night

• anoor and sylah - the ending fire trilogy by saara el-arifi

• eadaz uq-nara - a priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

• glorian shieldheart - a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

• tane - the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

• paige mahoney - the bone season by samantha shannon

• lila bard - a darker shade of magic by ve schwab

• sorasa sarn - realm breaker by victoria aveyard

[portrait0fthem00n]

POV : You’re Canthe playing the newest, hottest dating simulator

Canthe is also really good at loving ‘em and leaving ‘em, the seduction skills are on another level

[ID: A digital coloured drawing of Tunuva Melim standing in front of the priory. She says, “Canthe, welcome to the Priory!” Like in a dating simulator /video game, there is a box with a choice, “How do you seduce her?” the options are: “flirt with her”, “compliment her hairstyle” and “send her visions of Esbar killing her”. The last option is selected. /end ID] (thanks to @tragedykery for pointing out the lack of image description!!)

[randombookposts]

One of my favorite things about a day of fallen night is how the mage being sent to Inys thing was started because of Tunuva's and Esbar's desire to protect their grandchild, which in turn led to Sabran and Ead meeting. Their love was possible thanks to another sapphic couple in another lifetime that's so fucking sweet I'm gonna eat drywall.

[mylittlenookcorner]

Kuruk & Hei-Ran never getting together in the Avatar Chronicles but falling in love in the next life through Kyoshi, Kuruk’s reincarnation, & Rangi, Hei-Ran’s daughter.

Meanwhile Ead and Sabran IX falling in love hundred of years later like their ancestors, Esbar and Tunuva.

Destined soulmates, “I will find you and love you all over again in another life” trope will be the death of me.

[themuseoftheviolets]

its crazy to me that canthe is the only translator available for wulf and tuva. like. she was the one who took wulf away from tuva, who killed his birthfather and kidnapped him and took him to another country, into the land of the deceiver no less. and then she brings them back together, and now she's the only way they can communicate with one another. she's the one who tells tuva about the child of the woods, and she's the one who tells wulf who tuva is. she's the only person who speaks both of their languages and can teach them those languages. she's always controled their relationship since she took wulf from tuva as a baby

[tragedykery]

gonna fucking sob

[ID: two excerpts from a day of fallen night. highlighted text is marked with asterisks.

excerpt 1:

Esbar had only ever beseeched her like this once, when Tunuva had sunk to the lowest point of her grief, into a night that had never ended. All she had wanted was for it to end.

Please, Tuva, fight. Esbar had knelt in front of her and gripped her face, tears in her eyes. Fight your way back to me, my love, or I must go with you into the dark. I will not leave you in the dark …

*'I need this,' Tunuva said.* Tears flowed down her cheeks. 'I'm sorry. I can't let him slip away.'

excerpt 2:

'I want to see it,' Wulf forced out. 'Father, it's clung to me all these years. I might be able to remember the way.'

"You were no more than two when I found you. You won't remember.'

'I might. Let me see it's just trees. *I need this,' Wulf told him.* 'I need it.’

/end ID]

[chanelslibrary]

🌙𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🌙

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. She has trained her whole life to slay wyrms and defend her people against The Nameless One. But none have appeared in years and people are having doubts. In the north, Queen Sabran of Inys has married the King of Hroth and solidified two unstable realms. Their daughter, Glorian, has the duty of stepping out behind their shadows to eventually rule two vast empires. In the East, Dumai loves her quiet life in the Seiikinese mountain temple. Soon someone will upend her peace and the long slumber of the dragons many thought would never end. Why are volcanic eruptions causing panic and chaos across the lands? And how will these women connect, collide, and come together to protect humankind from a monstrous threat?

I can’t praise this book enough!!! It was a total five star read (and a THICK book!)! Game of Thrones is one of my favorite series to watch and read, and this book blew it out of the water!! ADOFN has everything I didn’t know GOT was missing: diversity (!!), queer characters/storylines, and women written well.

ADOFN has kindgoms/queendoms, dragons/wyrms, warriors, political schemes, tasteful smut and all the great parts of any fantasy but it centers around female characters. It shows their complex nature, the good and bad, their relationships, their strengths and struggles. I recommend this book to anyone who is a true fantasy fan. It is the prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree, but you can read either book first.

Read if you love:

🐉 Dragons/wyrms

⚔️Fantasy

🌈LGBTQ rep

✊🏾Diversity rep

[winter-wise]

Canthe when she meets Tunuva:

Canthe when Tunuva won't break up her 30-year relationship to date her:

[harrowharksboner]

so thoughtful of her 🥺🫶

[fallenight]

a new adofn twitter au by yours truly <3 i hope you like it!

[thealternatemind]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP