#valhalla by ari bach

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What's a quark?

It's part of a proton, but acts like it's better off on its own so the proton has to use a shapeless "odo" particle to keep it in line.

[the-walrus-squad]

I was sad to learn today that Alexi Laiho died some time ago. Aside from his band Children of Bodom being referenced around the Valhalla Trilogy, his appearance and character were very much what I had in mind when writing Veikko. RIP (1979-2020)

[pyromanicfeline]

Walrus Hole

[incorrecthungergamesquotes]

I might have disembowled him. Just a little.

Clove, after getting in a fight at the academy

[lyricsandpapers]

It’s nearly 6pm on a Wednesday, you go to the gym ready to work out. You walk into the locker room and someone is standing there using a hair dryer to dry pages of two separate books. How do you react?

[fratboycipher]

if veikko had been allowed to have gay sex.... well okay i doubt it would've fixed anything but he should have been allowed to try. just in case

[keystonewarrior]

Six pints and a shot of whatever that dude at the end of the bar was buyin.

Half sober enough to self edit as I go

Now wewatching Prometheus, after watching the end of Jurassic Park w~ Ari (love you Ari).

[kvothbloodless]

Ooo okay this looked fun. Gonna see whos read my favorite books/series which I never see on my dash, and which tragically seem to be almost completely off tumblrs radar

[crow-caller]

hiya papaya! my partner and i love your youtube videos, and we recently started a book review podcast focusing on books with queer themes. i wanted to ask if you had any lesser known queer ya book reccs, cuz i'd love to hear about them of so! also, i would love to cover your book at some point and perhaps talk with you about it, but that's future things cuz i don't want to fully ask that when we're only one episode in ourselves. thanks for making such awesome videos!~

I'm a huge huge huge podcast nerd so I may check out yours and would totally love to be on it! I really do despite all appearences spend most of my time gaming while listening to podcasts. Most of those podcasts are old episodes of mbmbam but look, we don't choose our autism.

I so don't do enough reading of NOT bad books in truth. Reading is hard and I take my occasional bad book breaks to read... like random stuff rather than specifically lgbt ya. But digging through my review archives and memory:

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention The Butterfly Assassin series by Finn Longman, which is foremost a spy assassin story set in a closed city but also has (and goes into more later) an aro ace lead character! And a very keen specific focus on close platonic bonds!! Stuff like that always gets passed over talking queer lit because it's not that bombastic I think to go 'there's good friendship here' but honestly so important to me to see books on purpose intentionally highlight platonic bonds as just as important as romantic or sexual. Anyway, great books. Caveat I know the author a bit but like, I am too autistic to hype up a friend's book that I DIDN'T genuinely love.

The aro/ace database is a key friend and work of art.

I think Angels Before Man is very widely known but a very interesting queer angel book!

Valhalla trilogy by Ari Bach is a very fun far future sci fi action fest with norse mythology parallels and dangerous lesbian valkyries

Archangel Protocol series, Lyda Morehouse isn't YA I think. Maybe. The fourth book could be, that one has a teen lead. Anyway, look!!! My fav angel weird sci fi universal unitarian religious 90s cyberpunk series...

I don't think my reccs help much at all here but there you go! I KNOW a lot of indie lgbt books. I just haven't actually read them.... yet......

[mysticarcanum]

genuinely so fucked up to me that the valhalla trilogy by ari bach isn't. like. a wildly popular and beloved series. because EVERY time i reread it i pick up on more details and am floored by how brilliantly constructed it all is and i want to TALK to someone about it and engage with fan content but by god the well is DRY

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Facts about Fanfiction?

Someone wrote a crossover fic about my books with Homestuck. Honestly and seriously that's pretty dang cool and makes me happy every time I think of it.

[the-walrus-squad]

Epic Valhalla fan and exceptional friend @livingdying sent me an actual friggin tikari to build for crimus. So fuckin’ cool!!!!

[wizardsvslesbians]

Have you guys considered doing the Valhalla trilogy by Ari Bach? It cemented my love of angry toxic yuri when I was a freshman in college and I'm curious how it holds up. It has an interesting backstory and feels proto-wizlez in hindsight. (Feel free to ignore if you're tired of this type of ask. Alternatively, I can also write a longer pitch if the well is running low.)

Looks like there's some interesting politics afoot in these, too. We'll put them on our to-read list.

[bitd]

sorry to be autistic but i think i'm going to reread valhalla on the bus because it's on the mind (last rb). ari bach is kind of a master of presenting a character who's horrible and still making her compelling and interesting to read about. you can tell exactly whats going to happen a full book before it happens because of the people she idolizes and the person she is and the person vibeke is. it's literary rubbernecking at its best and i could probably sit down and talk about it for years -_-

i think i'm just particularly inclined towards valhalla as well because he does a remarkable job of tastefully like. you see where violet is coming from and it's horrible but it scratches a very specific itch in me of like. sometimes when it's really dark i sit there thinking Why Did That Happen To Me? and having a perspective from that other side is kind of cathartic. to see her thoughts and reasons and feelings about what she's doing and what she's done be simultaneously candid and not being explained away as 'but actually this is bad!' but a narrative that so clearly portrays violet is horrible and her thoughts are horrible from an outsiders perspective. i don't know how to articulate this but >_> <_< i like it

[postingfromanewlow]

I rewatched Hazel's video on Elfen Lied recently (https://youtu.be/trwdaJA-6z8) and I realized that I think the Valhalla novels by Ari Bach are *my* Elfen Lied. Tremendously impactful, edgy, transgressive, and downright distasteful works that were super important to my development as both a Teen Emotion-Haver and a Certified Fiction-Enjoyer. Would not necessarily recommend them, kinda scared of what I would find upon revisiting them, but super appreciative of what they meant to a younger version of myself.

[pyromanicfeline]

the valhalla trilogy (ari bach) walked so that the locked tomb series could run