Like I Know Everyone’s Like Heliotrope For Laura Lee (eternal Love Yada Yada Yada) But I Never Made

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The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree.

Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory’s purpose. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hróth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. Now someone from her mother’s past is coming to upend her fate. When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat.

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Color Theory and Wes Anderson’s Style: Sad Characters in a Colorful World

With such bright and saturated fairy tale color palettes, Wes Anderson movies can touch on deep, existential issues without bumming people out. And if it weren’t for the dramatic content, the exaggerated colors would be unbearably optimistic and cheerful. In standard film theory, color in film is usually seen to “support” the tone of the subject matter, but Wes Anderson movies complicate those expectations. ∗

this is amazing.

Fan art for The Priory of the Orange Tree, which I finally read (and loved) early this year.

good morning to gay mages of the priory, depressed disaster bi clone queens and honourable eastern dragon riders with ancient magical star jewels sewn into their sides only 

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CLICK THROUGH TO MEET THE CHARACTERS IN A VERY NORMAL WAY

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The Priory of the Orange Tree Quotes

“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.” p. 109

“We are charged for today, not for yesterday.” p. 139

“Ghosts were the voices the dead left behind. Echoes of a soul taken too soon.” p. 146

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed — but never think that you are the night.” p. 203

“Let us not speak of death when there is still so much life to be lived.” p. 346

“When history fails to shed light on the truth, myth creates its own.” p. 536

“Fair roses have grown from twisted seeds.” p. 542

“My hearts knows your song, as yours knows mine.” p. 615

(These page numbers are from the paperback)

if you don’t get to strap a knife to your thigh underneath a flowing ballgown while dancing with your rival at least once then what is the point

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