Guardian Book Crates

Hey everyone! My Guardian series books, Echoes of Azure, Variables of Sky and Overtones of Midnight are going to be in book crates! You can sign up on my Patreon page.

The first crate, for Echoes of Azure goes out this week. It’s full of unique handcrafted goodies, like jewelry, bath and body, and sewn items. As well as some sweet treats and a few other cool things. And of course a signed copy of Echoes of Azure.

If that sounds like something you’d like to get shoot me a message! It’s too late to sign up for this box via Patreon, but I do have 2 extra boxes that I am selling for $35 each including shipping (US only. If you’re from another country contact me and I can check to see what the shipping would be)

also tagging @sunsetsrmydreams @papofglencoe and @sometimesrosy who promised to promote this for me!

Hey all! I don’t know if any of you guys remember my fic One Everywhere, but this is the book series I wrote based on that fic. Help me celebrate bringing it out in print!

Forbidden Planet

It’s a surprising thing to find your likeness hanging on the wall of an art gallery, particularly when you’ve never even met the artist.

From Iconic Movie Posters prompt.  Forbidden Planet.

Thanks to papofglencoe and flippedchongdai for betaing and advice.

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Reason one million and one I love being here… friends who mail me homebrew and tape it shut with warnings not to drink it until it’s fermented because they know I lack all self-control and would, in fact, pound it tonight while not writing for PiP.

@iamseemaree: this is perhaps the most beautiful alcohol I’ve ever seen. Thank you and I love you!!! <3 Lemme know when I can (single-handedly) polish this bad boy off! (I mean c’mon… I was the baby of the family. Caryn don’t share). 

Nicely styled there

A little Space Opera meets Urban Fantasy AU

Chapter 5 is up!

and thank you to sunsetsrmydreams for the amazing banner!

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Echoes of Azure by Maree Brittenford

Review Copies Available

Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Speculative

Summary: Amy never wanted to be a hero. But when the terrifying nightmare that has been plaguing her for weeks starts playing out right in front of her, she does what anyone would do— she saves the boy from her dreams, Sam Perez.

Except Sam isn’t safe for long, and Amy finds herself racing against time to understand her strange ability and try to protect him from something she hasn’t even begun to understand. Echoes of Azure is the first book in the Guardian trilogy, a world-bending science fiction adventure series that challenges the limits of reality and questions how far a person will go to save someone they love. Amazon  //  iTunes  //  Kobo Books

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"Why do you hate the shape of breasts in plate armor so much?"

Since people often ask “Alright, well this is fantasy!  Why can’t we have boob shapes in plate armor?!“  I decided to make a post about it.  My frustration has nothing to do with historical inaccuracy and I’m all for imagination and freedom– but I’d like to (very quickly) illustrate this for you:

I purposely over-emphasized the shape of the two spheres in the armor so you can really think about this. 

Look at the shape of the blue cups and the green line, think about the form of that on some beautiful ornate plate armor.  A female warrior is charging into battle.  In the midst of this, she trips!  Or is pushed over, or takes a blow to the chest!  So long as the force is on the front of her torso it really doesn’t matter for the conclusion:

She feels a sharp pain in her chest and hears the cracking of bone!  Oh no, what’s gone wrong?  Well she doesn’t have time to think about that, because she is now dead.

Her sternum just fractured, take another look at that green line, that’s where all of the pressure from any front impact is going to go because of the shape of the two blue cups made for her breasts.  The rest of the armor slides around your body, but because of the two cups for breasts that are often made in fantasy female armors, the pressure point is directly on the sternum.  The breasts are not going to stop the force of you falling onto them, and because of that the metal is going to push in and bash you in the sternum.

What does a fractured sternum do?  Why it goes right into your heart and lungs of course.

(that was the sound of all of my followers inhaling a sharp breath between closed teeth at once)

Here are three great solutions to the problem:

GREAT EXAMPLE OF FANTASY TORSO ARMOR THAT IS FEMININE BUT FUNCTIONAL:

It is usually possible to bind the breasts when fighting if they really are far too large to fit into regular looking armor (there’s padding anyway), but most women can actually fit into a similarly sized male counterpart’s armor quite easily.  Even if that’s the case, the armor can be made to have a curve to it without putting all of the pressure in one area, which was actually a style of armor for quite some time as shown here:

And don’t even get me started on the dreaded “Cleavage Window”

The “Cleavage Window” defeats the purpose of having any armor on your torso because it means you’re just going to be leaving open the vital organs the rest of the armor is trying to protect.

If people are going to protect themselves and not have much torso protection, invest in some blocking lessons, because the best defense is to not get hit at all.  There are also advantages to not having plate armor, and plate armor was often really expensive anyway.

– Edit –

supaslim replied to your post: “Why do you hate the shape of breasts in plate armor so much?”

but how else can you sexualize the women if you don’t give them armored boob pods!!!!

Also, breastplates are shaped to redirect the tip of a sword or spear to the side. Boobplates would redirect the weapon right into the middle of the woman’s chest.

A fantasy series (the name of which I can’t remember) dealt with this quite humorously, the girl had armor made, and was angry because you couldn’t even tell she was female!  She had them make a second ceremonial set, because she needed to rally the troupes as queen, and felt that she needed to look feminine, but the armor makers were seriously unhappy about it

“That’s for not telling us about the minefield.”

After everything the 100 did to him and after turning on Connor, Myles, and Bellamy, he still protects them in his own way. Because while they turned on him, broke his trust, and banished him they are still his people. And they may have been dicks to him, but he knows he can’t just let them be slaughtered. He didn’t hold his tongue during torture for three days just for them to be rendered defenseless during the war. Because although they hurt him, they were the closest to family he had in years. And his family was fucked up and they hurt him, but they also patched him up and let him back in. So he would patch them back up, and he wouldn’t tell the grounders about the landmines. And maybe, just maybe, they would survive this battle and he could die at peace. Because he did a lot of bad things, but at least he would go out on a good note. At least a part of him would feel like the good man his father wanted him to become.

I was reading the differences between MJP2 and Mockingjay on the Hunger Games wikipedia and i SAW THIS AND I JUST

THE BABY WAS A GIRL OMG YAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

SO IT IS INDEED WILLOW AND RYE AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 

THIS MAKE ME SO HAPPY!!!! SO MUCH MORE THAN I EXPCETED

seriously? It says “In the book it was the other way round.”  Why exactly is reversing this a Yassssssss and an omg?  Do you get it isn’t Willow and Rye?

I love Effie Trinket, alright? And I will defend her with all I have. She is much more than a shallow little thing who only thinks about clothes.

That’s all you can say about her? Here is what I can tell you about Effie Trinket after reading the books: Effie Trinket can lie like no one else, she’s the best actress you will ever find, she is ambitious, she is organised, she is a lady, she is smart, she is more aware of the system than she wants you to think, she is dedicated to her tributes, when she loves she loves big, she is aware of the system and yet she will declare publicly she stands on her team’s side by arboring a common token all the while knowing what it might mean for her. She is loyal.

And don’t even try to tell me Haymitch is only a drunk who stinks and wallow in self-pity. Haymitch Abernathy is a hero. Haymitch Abernathy won a Quell against the double usual opponents by outsmarting them.

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@iamseemaree: it’s not just us!! Bravo, @ellanainthetardis. I loved reading this!

Firstly Ellanasan, I love you, (you should know this by how closely I follow Invictus), and I don’t know how I wasn’t following you before now.

Additionally?  The fandom does need it spelled out.  I’m tired of seeing Cinna is awesome Effie is stupid.  That was Katniss’ uninformed opinion, not the truth.

That’s it!  Thank you so much

new texting lingo

omfh- o, my frail heart!

ftss- fetch the smelling salts

iatwbb- i await thee with bated breath

fw- forsooth, wherefore?!

aml- ay, my liege