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Chain of Thorns Reverse Cover Reveal

Hello everyone and check out Charlie Bowater’s gorgeous reverse cover art for #Chainofthorns! We worked together to get a spooky, dark London vibe, which will make a ton of sense once you’ve read the book. I love how Batman James looks here, gazing out over the rooftops of London. So you can switch up your covers, but remember you have to pre order to get the first collector’s edition! Later editions will just have a regular cover. As for those of you in the UK/Ireland/Aus/NZ, while the books there don’t have dust jackets, this art WILL be incorporated into their collector’s first editions as well. I’ll keep you posted on how.

if i become a doctor does that mean i can’t eat apples anymore

oh wow holy shit they changed the story completely huh

THIS IS EXACTLY ME LMAO

I’m starting to really appreciate fictional characters who either

A. Have no idea what genre they’re in…. OR

ex: Fessik, Lydia Martin, Han Solo, Alina Starkov, Magnus Bane, Anthony Bridgerton

B. Know EXACTLY both what genre they’re in and their archetype

ex: Inigo Montoya, Artemis Fowl, Kaz Brekker, Jace Herondale, Daphne Bridgerton

These categories are flexible. We also accept….

C. Characters who know their genre but not their archetype

ex: Colin Bridgerton, Zoya Nazyalenski, Obi-Wan Kenobi

D. Know their archetype but not what genre they’re in

ex: Count Olaf, Butler, Nikolai Lanstov, Din Djarin

Last night felt like 13 sleepless nights in one. 🥱 But it was worth it because now we know ALL 13 TRACKS on Midnights. Question…? Have you pre-ordered yet…?

One of the most painful scenes. @whydamnitwhy thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support again! I’m not used to drawing Wymack, but I always imagined him as a father who would protect you, listen to you, and always understand you 💔

I know this nose art is for the Bad Batch, but I can’t help but imagine another Clone Unit with a stronger claim on the Senator as a mascot. (And how much Anakin would FLIP THE FUCK OUT)

— Morale Booster

“REX!”

… And it looks like the paneling repair will have to wait, as his General’s boots appear next to his head beside the transport’s landing gear. He pushes himself out from under the machine on a dolly, flat on his back.

“Sir?”

“What is THAT?!” his fearless leader yelps, pointing dramatically, emphatically upwards and towards the nose.

He scoots out farther, past General Skywalker’s legs, and props himself up on his elbows to take in the three-quarters-finished pinup Hardcase has been taking such pains with for the last four hours.

“Morale booster, sir. Couldn’t do something clever like the 104th and their Plo’s Bros or anything, so–”

“So you chose SENATOR AMIDALA?!” Did his voice just crack? It did.

He shrugs. “Sure. She’s been through enough hell and high water with us.”

“She’s a SENATOR!”

“And she’s a keen eye with that blaster,” he reasons, jerking his head up to the painting, and the flawlessly detailed replica of the Senator’s favored sidearm, primed to fire and held at a jaunty, confident angle. He even got the chipped paint over the trigger guard right.

“Got the looks for it too!” Hardcase yells down from where he’s shading in a long bare stretch of thigh, pausing to vigorously shake his can of spray paint. “We might finally be able to give the 327th a run for their money, with General Secura and all.”

“GENERAL SECURA is half naked on the nose of a transport?!”

“What? No!” Of course not, that’s just tasteless.

There’s a clatter from up above as Hardcase puts his paints down and leans over the scaffolding, a hand wobbling skeptically. “Well… Technically…”

“She’s in her usual outfit, y’know, with the–” Rex explains, and zig-zags a finger down from his head, mimicking the General’s lekku straps. “–and the leather pants.”

“It’s just a little leg, Anakin, I don’t see what you’re so upset about.”

Oh thank all the stars and little planets. Backup. General Kenobi steps up beside his former Padawan to admire the paint job himself. “Excellent work on her hair, Hardcase,” Kenobi continues, tilting his head.

“Thank you, sir. Run a probe with some white and a little metallic gold through the wet paint, gets it to streak so the shine looks real.”

General Skywalker is starting to do that thing where he puffs up like an angry coppi lizard and splutters furiously while he tries to think of something else to be upset about. He can hear Fives rolling his eyes from the opposite side of the transport. General. Honestly. If you’re trying to keep a relationship secret, openly displaying your klik-wide jealous streak is not how you do it.

“The 212’s is worse, anyway,” Kenobi muses idly, as Hardcase carefully adds the supposedly “very distinctive” freckle high on the Senator’s hip, just below the split in her modified favorite Council dress. Skywalker starts to go wide-eyed at that, because his sabacc face out of genuine combat is complete sleenshit, and startles when his master continues.

“She’s on the 212th transport too?!”

“Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. We can’t have duplicates, that defeats the purpose,” Kenobi says, in that too-reasonable tone he takes on when he’s deliberately fucking with his former Padawan.

“'Cept Master Ti,” Echo yells, from somewhere inside the paneling he and Rex had been working on.

“Except Master Ti, yes,” Kenobi agrees, and shrugs. “But that’s to be expected. Rather like how so many people have that arm tattoo of a heart with the ribbon that says ‘Mom’.”

Rex personally knew of at least eight other clones that had that exact tattoo, though the ribbon was usually striped like Master Ti’s headtails, and nods agreeably. That seems to have sufficiently diverted Skywalker, or at least confused him.

“Then how is it worse?” Skywalker asks, a little desperately, then his face lights up completely with slightly malicious anticipation. “Is it the Duchess?!”

Oh boy. Rex looks up at Hardcase, who is biting down on his paint-splattered fist to keep from laughing, as General Kenobi gets that look.

“Certainly not,” Kenobi says sternly, and waits a full beat to drop his bombshell. “It’s me.”

Skywalker just stares.

“Though I’m reasonably certain Duchess Kryze had something to do with it, given the way I’m half falling out of my robes.”

Now he looks vaguely green.

“Or it’s some perverse joke of Master Windu’s. It seems his style. Cody refuses to tell me.”

And before Skywalker can come up with anything else to protest, Kenobi adds:

“Besides, Senator Amidala loves it. Hers, I mean. I haven’t asked her about mine.”

Apparently even Jedi can choke on air when sufficiently surprised. But really, where did he think they’d gotten the preliminary sketches from?

wow so this season of shadow and bone is the same in that each individual actor is killing it in embodying their character but the plot is nonsense!!!

Like we’re not going to get the not just girls soft wesper scene, jasper is outed as grisha, the darkling didn’t dramatically interrupt the sea whip hunt and there was no flying Nikolai dramatic act yet :’)

And I’m only through episode two but I guess we are skipping all the apparat religious plot which honestly was looking forward to with the creepy priest in season one, and the interesting play that would have had with Tamar and tolya…. And missing hungry for power Alina it’s like oops she has two now and almost destroyed the boat! No like in the books she looks terribly ill from the fold encounter and not using her ability, she has the scary choker she has to hide and is desperate to find another amplifier

And again it’s jarring the cuts between the two plots - six of crows should have been it’s own show stand-alone. And now it feels like we are in the crooked kingdom plot without ever getting the ice court heist or the outing of parents. Like the editing is really awkward.

I guess I’m just disappointed because the costumes and sets are PERFECT the characters have the right edge for each of them, but they’ve been dropped in a fanfic where the plot bones and the pacing that make each character and relationship feel earned and put together are missing!!!

Although I think the bit we’ve had of malina has been very well done, the Kanej is pushing it for more because .. they shouldn’t be here yet. And Nina calling Matthias the love of her life right when they meet? Opposite the book UGH

I will finish this season to see Ben Barnes go full villain but really am sad that we waited so long for this and as a fan of both series feel we realllllly got jipped

head FULL thoughts OVERFLOWING