lin·gua·phile

toddeade:

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that Deryn Sharp managed to attract and kiss a boy and a girl, both of whom are attracted to girls (well we think Lillit is) all while dressed like a boy.

Reason number 2752418393 why Deryn Sharp is better than you.

(Source: one-in-particular)

jtotheizzoe:

genannetics:

So many things are right with this picture.

Ya heard?

Darwinists for the win!

(Yes, my entire life is a reference to some YA series or another; no, I am not apologizing.)

Descriptive tags for my ships are definitely a thing that is happening. I HAVE SUCCUMBED. For future reference:

Nita/Kit → OTP: partners

Tom/Carl → OTP: wizard husbands

Dairine/Roshaun → OTP: just good friends

Deryn/Alek → OTP: in love with your ship

Elizabeth/Darcy → OTP: fine eyes

We now return you to your regularly scheduled fan musings.

euchroma asked: Prompt: Alek and Deryn. Shenanigans.

They’re already out the door of Deryn’s Glasgow flat when her mum hollers after them, “Be back before dark, and no getting into any shenanigans!”

Deryn rolls her eyes. Back in London she’s a barking war hero—“a perfect poster boy,” Dr. Barlow quipped just weeks before, “excepting the small inconvenience of your actual sex.” She’s trusted by the adults she knows, and valued for her skills—even Volger admits her fencing is greatly improved. She’s nearly eighteen, she pays her own rent, and she makes her own choices. But at home, she’s her mum’s baby girl all over again, and it rankles.

Deryn doesn’t know how she’d manage without Alek there with her.

She slips her hand out of her trousers pocket and loops her arm through his (to hell with what people will think) and smiles as he adjusts his gait, falling into step with her slightly longer strides. “So,” he asks, “where are we going?”

“Somewhere with shenanigans,” Deryn says.

“You are absolutely mad,” Alek says, shaking his head, but he’s smiling.

She stops right there at the street corner, because she can, and tilts her head down and kisses him, quick but deep. “Aye,” she says when she pulls away, leaving him pleasantly flabbergasted, “I am mad. But at least I’m interesting!”

Long story short, I am trying to be diligent and work on this essay, but I need for there to be a light at the end of the tunnel! So leave me a character or pairing plus a short prompt (it can even be a single word) and I’ll write you a short little story.

I’ll write for any of the fandoms listed on my fandoms page, even if I haven’t written fic for them before. Broadly speaking I’m a multishipper, with the one exception being that Tom and Carl are wizard husbands and anyone who ships them with anyone else at any point after their first meeting is WRONG.

I’m actually weirdly wanting to try my hand at a Legend of Korra drabble, but I am anti-spoilers and don’t keep up with promotional material for the show (I just watch the eps when they air) so no asking for fic involving characters we haven’t met in the actual show yet!

Finally, if you leave more than one prompt, leave them separately so I can answer them separately.

gwenfrankenstien:

Give me a fandom we have in common* and a non-character-specific prompt** (song lyrics, themes/concepts, colour palettes, au settings…) and I’ll make you.. Something. A drawing, a fanmix, an icon set, photoshoppery, a BUNCH OF WORDS. But definitely Something.

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This is a very good idea and I am going to steal it! Come at me with stuff!

Fandoms / Ask box

(And also check out gwenfrankenstein’s fandoms and see if you have anything in common with her and give her prompts too!)

Alek to Deryn (via levlove)

alek, when you tell your friend a girl likes him, you’re not supposed to go on about how handsome and charming he is. Just…. a tip.

(via mooncactus)

OH GOD, was literally about to post these entire conversation an hour ago because hello, people who think that Alek could never have liked “Dylan” before he knew she was Deryn, DID YOU READ THE BOOKS? Let’s also mention that right after this he calls Dylan “beguiling” and THEIR HANDS ARE LIKE ALL OVER EACH OTHER. AT ALL TIMES. BUT ESPECIALLY IN THIS SCENE.

This has been an Airman Swagger Appreciation Post.

(via mooncactus)

mellarkios:

HOLY SHIT GUYS. HAVE YOU SEEN THIS OIHVSEDF

Look at the details. And if you can’t see it, click the link down below! It’s pretty. With pretty lines.

You’re beautiful, Deryn by stkidd

Oh god cutest thing ever to cute. I have a disproportionate number of feelings about these fictional people, ‘kay?

Also a disproportionate amount of RAGE for people who think that Deryn should or will ever give up wearing trousers and keeping her hair short and all those other thing that it’s obvious she prefers, god. I feel like every time someone suggests to Deryn that she isn’t a proper girl, she gets all defensive but also sad inside, not because she cares one jot but because she hates seeing how much other people care, and she worries — she hates herself for it, but still, she worries — that Alek might be or might one day become one of those people. 

Except he isn’t. And he never will be. And if it’s something he has to prove to Deryn on a daily basis, he will do it.

I love audiobooks. I have ALWAYS loved being read aloud to, and although this doesn’t happen as often as I’d like now that I’m older (though not old enough to have my own kids to read to!), I get my reading aloud fix through audiobooks. I subscribe to Audible, and as a member I get an audiobook a month plus assorted deals.

Imagine my surprise when, the other day, I found an extra credit on my account, and nothing I wanted to spend it on! I tend to only buy audiobooks of books I have already read and loved (and I tend to re-listen to them obsessively), and none of the books I really want audiobooks for are available (I would, for example, totally buy Kate Elliott’s Cold Magic, or Robin McKinley’s Beauty, or Juliet Marillier’s Heart’s Blood, or Ursula K. Leguin’s The Left Hand of Darkness).

Since there aren’t any more audiobooks I absolutely need at present, I’m going to suspend my membership, but before I do, I’m going to use this extra credit to give some lucky giveaway winner their very own audiobook from Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series or Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan series! Tumblr fans of these two series have definitely made my life a better place, and I’m pretty sure that spreading books, in whatever form, fights entropy.

I already own all of these books as audiobooks, and I personally stand by the quality of the narration as flawless. In fact, the Leviathan audiobooks are so deliciously accented that I am terrified of recording any Leviathan podfic, out of a knowledge of the inadequacy of my own American English!

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Audible has a new (at least I think it’s new?) “gift” function, which lets you email an audiobook voucher to someone; the person receiving the gift has to have or create an Audible account in order to download the audiobook, but accounts are free to create. Audible will let you download the audiobook in multiple formats, so you could make CDs for your car and download the MP3s to your iPod if you wanted. 

Vouchers are only good for the specific audiobook that the purchaser indicates, so if you win, I’ll ask you which book you want before sending you the voucher.

SO HOW DO I ENTER THE GIVEAWAY?

Reblog this post before 11:59PM EST on March 15. That’s it. You can follow me if you like (Young Wizards and Leviathan account for roughly 90% of what I blog about!) but it’s not required. Reblogging more than once won’t get you entered multiple times, and likes don’t count. 

Make sure your ask box/submissions box is open on March 16 so that I have a way to contact you if you’ve won; if your name is drawn but I can’t get in touch with you, I’ll cross you off the list and draw again.

Icon change to celebrate my Inspirational Fictional Female of the Moment, Dr. Nora Darwin Barlow:

If we ever met in real life she’d probably make some pointed comment about the dubious value of my literary studies, but I like to think she’d also grudgingly respect me for being rather like her: a woman who knows what she wants in life, forging a path onwards in order to get it. Even if what I want is to write about oversized outdated novels, and not to bring peace and progress to an unstable world through the sheer force of my intelligence, cunning, and impeccable taste in fashion.