Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 721
June 10, 2013
sarahenni:
And @ransomriggs! So nice! So tall! #dcmafya (...
And @ransomriggs! So nice! So tall! #dcmafya ( @bintdaud @jeskuhbs @ricklipman +3)
For a long moment, I thought Ransom was wearing that umbrella as a hat and I felt such joy.
michealfjordbak:
“It’s because you actually care about what...
“It’s because you actually care about what happens to this country,” I said. “The throne is just a prize to Vasily, something he wants to squabble over like a favorite toy. You’re not like that. You’ll make a good king.”
I don’t know who this is because I live in a shoe, but so excited to see Nikolai fancasts!
Quick GoT thoughts - SPOILERS AS ALWAYS
I’m finishing up the first week of tour and verrrry short on sleep, but I did make time for the GoT finale (of course) and wanted to share a few thoughts.
The opening: KILLED ME. This had the scope and scale I felt was missing from the RW last week. (Though let me say, Michelle Fairley acted the hell out of that scene. Respect.) You can see this is the moment where Arya crosses over. She had started to hope again. She let herself begin to become a child again—eager to see her brother and be reunited with her mother. This is the wound tearing open, worse than the first cut, the loss more complete. I also love that they didn’t shy away from what she may become.
(A brief note on the RW: I am still thoroughly annoyed by the way they played out the Robb/Talisa story. When Talisa revealed her pregnancy, I hoped it was a real plot point not just a spectacularly hackneyed way to manipulate the audience. Guess not.)
Ygritte’s arrows: Consider me schooled, show. After last week, I thought you’d gone soft on me. (Also, her look at the end. Good stuff.)
Yes to even the briefest glimpse of Marie and hell yes to Jaime. NCW is working every glance and I love him for it.
I still don’t believe Shae’s character arc this season. “I love that girl. I would kill for her.” (or was it die? surely it was kill.) NOT BUYING IT.
Yara/Asha - loved the moment with her on the ship, but it didn’t quite feel earned. I know it must be an incredible challenge to tie up so many plotlines, but that was a moment where I really noticed it.
Tyrion & Tywin—holy wow. THIS is what it’s about: acceptance and rejection, ruler and ruled, father and son.
And finally… Dany. They end every season with Dany. Season 1? Mind blowing. Season 2? A little iffy. Season 3? Yikes. I can’t express how deeply uncomfortable I was with this image of the white liberator born aloft by her devoted followers, all of them crying out “mother.” I know Dany is Mother of Dragons and that the title is central to her own journey and loss. But it still positions a slave class comprised of people of color as children and that strikes me as a loaded and potentially ugly choice. I say “potentially” because it’s possible the show intends to address this head-on in future episodes, but that seems pretty unlikely. Race doesn’t get talked about in those terms in this world. (Race is problematic in the books themselves, but the show could have taken a different approach here.)
Also, from a narrative perspective, as cool as that final shot was, the whole thing felt off kilter. I’d hoped they’d choose to end with Lady Stoneheart.
Oh and on a positive note, GENDRY LIVES!!! 
Is the New York event at McNally Jackson still going on? It's not listed on their website.
It is!
I’ll be at McNally Jackson in NYC on Tuesday, June 18th at 7pm. Not sure why the event has gone missing from their calendar.
Before then, I’ll be in Memphis, Miami, Tampa, Raleigh, Madison CT, and Boston. Come and see me, wontcha?
disquietus:
There was darkness inside me. He had put it there,...
There was darkness inside me. He had put it there, and I would no longer deny it. The volcra, the nichevo’ya, they were my monsters, all of them. And he was my monster, too.
Reading through some of the recent developments in the "Shadow and Bone" tag with my tour sisters
(I’m Patrick in this scenario.)
fiercefiction:
Gorgeous darkness from Jenny Lynn at Sooner or...
June 9, 2013
steampunkshadowhunter:
Leigh’s surprise art gift! This is what...
Leigh’s surprise art gift! This is what I’ve been hiding for nearly a week. I was already doing a horde of these for my teachers, so I figured why not. Leigh’s was much more fun, though, cause I got to hide all the book-y stuff in there :) Unfortunately, since I wasn’t there to give it to her, I couldn’t explain it all.
So everything you want to know about this piece (and more!):
- LB = Leigh Bardugo
- Her letters are red & black because she’s a Heartrender (as we all know!)
- The letters are similar style to the cover letters
- Darkling’s symbol in upper left corner
- Those are Morozova’s stag and the sea whip in the B/on the right
- See where the B twirls off into 3 colors? Red, Blue, Purple - Corporalnik, Summoners, Fabrikators
- Alina’s light is the background
- Darkling’s darkness is coming…ooooOOooOo
Lastly, I’d like to point out that this was done pre-Siege and Storm release, so it has nothing from the book (besides the Sea Whip). Oh! And those of you who might have seen the picture of the canvas earlier this week with the rough drawings of the darkness on it? That’s this piece :D
One of the most beautiful and thoughtful gifts I’ve ever gotten. THANK YOU, Tiff. I absolutely adore it. And I loaded your friend down with swag :)
agreyeyedgirl:
The Grisha Party!
The night before we made a...
A Russian Blue cat to go with our Russia-esque fantasy novel!
the Shadow Fold that we made in the dining room
Volcra lurk in the Shadow Fold...
11:30 am, the party is about to get rolling. Seamus wants to 'help'.
Angela is heart-rending a beet
Middle of the afternoon, a surprise arrival by Z! the rest of us are mid-book and slightly flattened by feels at this point
The Grisha Party!
The night before we made a Shadow Fold in the dining room (full of lurking volcra!), and then we triiiiied to sleep even though we were way too excited.
We gathered in the morning, we gathered foodstuffs (nuts! fruit! cheese! sausage! borscht!) and by noon we were settled in and reading furiously.
Fun fact! I am apparently the fastest reader out of the group, followed by Jenn, and then Nia and Angela were neck and neck all day. Melody is our tortoise. We occasionally chose stopping points between chapters to let people catch up, so that we could all talk about the spoilery things that we were bursting to discuss (“I think that ____ is going to be ____!” “OMG can you believe what happened to ______????” “GUYS OMG _____.”)
And then more reading!
so amazing! A Siege and Storm reading party. I love it! (And there was another post with a pavlova, but now I can’t find it?)
You guys are adorable
