Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 511
September 6, 2014
Алина Старков. Сол Каролева.
Алина Старков. Сол Каролева.
fateturns:
Leigh Bardugo’s Blog - sunandsandprincess:Alina...
Leigh Bardugo’s Blog - sunandsandprincess:Alina Starkov â�� the grisha trilogy by Leigh… - July 12, 2013 13:26 on We Heart It.
hebeldesign:
What a gorgeous picture! @lbardugo FROM...
What a gorgeous picture! @lbardugo FROM @ursula_uriarte:
“I was tagged by @cityofdivergentstars to do the #booksandmerch tag by @moonyandherbooks and I chose Grisha this time around. Those are Shadow and Bone & Seige and Storm German editions and my jewelry is by @hebeldesign pictured are The Darkling and The Tracker charms on bangles, The Privateer bracelet and the Sun Summoner leather bracelet
littleschemer:
More Grisha trilogy art - Nikolai this time :)
I...
More Grisha trilogy art - Nikolai this time :)
I really loved Nikolai, so it was only a matter of time before I caved and drew him. I was worried this wouldn’t turn out as nicely as the Alina and Darkling pictures because of the lack of fancy magic effects, but I’m pretty happy with it!
I’m probably going to draw Mal soon - the set wouldn’t be complete without him.
Love this so much!
nilaffle:
This scene is a loooong ways off so I tried to make...
This scene is a loooong ways off so I tried to make Abbie a little bit older.
I know so little about this and yet I am SO EXCITED FOR IT.
tarntino:
i never want to get married and have kids i want to be 40 and a highly successful...
i never want to get married and have kids i want to be 40 and a highly successful director and show up to my high school reunion dressed entirely in yves saint laurent with blood red lipstick and louboutin heels that could penetrate a man’s soft flesh in the current year’s bmw convertible and wear chanel sunglasses the entire time even while indoors so i don’t have to hold eye contact with the little people
September 5, 2014
stardustbooks:
what if the storm ends?“I’ve been waiting for...
what if the storm ends?
“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina” He said. “You and I are going to change the world.” [click here to listen]
Snow Patrol - What If The Storm Ends? // 30 Seconds To Mars - End Of All Days // Bastille - Oblivion // Chelsea Wolfe - Feral Love // Of Verona - Dark In My Imagination // Daughter - Run // Emmelie de Forest - Soldier of Love // Florence + The Machine - No Light, No Light // London Grammar - Sights // Mumford & Sons - To Darkness // Sia - I’m In Here
So much good stuff here. “What if the Storm Ends?” was on my own Ruin and Rising playlist.
Ms. Bardugo, I loved your first books, but I was terribly disappointed to see you give in to political correctness in Ruin & Rising. You had a great story and then you ruined it with unnecessary lesbianism. Authors don't need to make statements, they just
I was really tempted to ignore this because I don’t believe in giving anon wangs a platform, but the term “unnecessary lesbianism” made me laugh so hard that I caved.
Authors can write good books and make statements. I’m going to make some statements now. (Get ready.)
Queer people and queer relationships aren’t less necessary to narrative than cishet people or relationships. In fact, given the lovely emails and messages I’ve received about Tamar and Nadia (and given the existence of anon wangs like you), I’d say making queer relationships visible in young adult fiction is an excellent—and yes, necessary—idea.
I do agree that story trumps statement or we’d all just write angry pamphlets, but queer people exist both in my world and the world of the Grisha trilogy. I don’t see how including them in my work is making a statement unless that statement is “I won’t willfully ignore or exclude people in order to make a few anon wangs happy.” If that’s the statement I’m making, I’m totally down with it.
Also, I’m going to take this moment to shout out Malinda Lo, Laura Lam, Alex London, David Levithan, Emily Danforth, Emma Trevayne, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and Cassandra Clare, and to link to Malinda’s 2013 guide to LGBT in YA. Because why just give attention to bigots when you can talk about awesome books and authors instead?
