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For the meme if I’m not too late: Since I’m currently reading Immortals, Tamora Pierce?

YAY more meme requests – these are always open/no expiration date

Okay disclaimer I read most of the books in middle school, re-read a few of them maybe five or six years ago, my memory especially of Kel’s later books is really hazy. And I’ll stick to Tortall even if I rather liked the first four Circle of Magic books more as a kid.

  • Favorite character: Thayet
  • Second favorite character: Dove, Teky from the short story collection, Faithful isn’t Mogget but talking cat adviser yes!, Buri
  • Least favorite character: Roger, 
  • The character I’m most like: *shrugs*
  • Favorite pairing: I guess Alanna/George
  • Least favorite pairing: Numair/Diane. HATE teacher/student and the age gap, plus while I love raised by wolves magic girl (starting with Julie of the Wolves and Jungle Book -have I mentioned I spend my summers when I was 8 and 9 reading that book to survive summer camp?- and on to Firekeeper) Diane herself while being every trope I usually loved, she was by far my least favorite Tortall protagonist and uuuuugh~ Numair
  • Favorite moment: Stormwings gonna tell you what it is Diane and then later they are here to stay. The Girl the Kicks like an Ostrich short story, Beka’s plots are good mystery novels
  • Rating out of 10: for YA novels they are really good, so 7/10. Beka’s first person pov lowers it, Diane’s books while more pure fantasy are I feel the weakest written, Lioness Quartet is dated, Kel’s the slice-of-life is perfect, the bigger plot stuff – it’s telling that I don’t remember any of it. But nostalgia inflates it all high. 

lysical:

i want the timeline where instead of tim drake’s ‘batman needs a robin’ it’s stephanie brown’s ‘i’m going to fight crime and defy my abusive dad all on my own no matter what you say’ who eventually becomes the third robin. 

batman would’ve wanted her to stop and spoiler would be all ‘lol no’ and batman doesn’t want another partner after jason but spoiler sometimes reminds him of jason in the best of ways and she’s not giving him the option she doesn’t even want to be his partner she’s just gonna do her own thing with or without his help. 

he would’ve brought her in eventually and maybe just as spoiler because jason’s death still haunts his every moment and he sees a lot of jason in steph and it hurts but they aren’t bad memories and he sometimes still compares them but it’s the good things that make him smile about jason and eventually maybe he’d give her the suit and let robin fly again

DCU (Or just Batman, if you’d rather)

Okay we’re going to narrow it down to Batfam, and narrow it down further into that weird Post-Crisis/Rebirth/decent fanon or we’d be here all night. (Conversely I could stick to individual books I’m following like Green Lanterns or New Super-man or the YJ tv show)

  • Favorite character: Jason Todd
  • Second favorite character: tie between Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain
  • Least favorite character: Joker, if we deal only with Batfam members: Gary Stu!Batman, Barbara Gordon- nu52/Rebirth version holds no interest for me. Post Crisis she’s growing on me as Cassandra’s adopted mother figure and she filled a great narrative niche as Oracle/BoP leader (a foil Amanda Waller?), Harper Row, Gotham Boy or w/e his name was
  • The character I’m most like: I hate these questions. uh … a less awesome Alfred
  • Favorite pairing: Bruce/Selina, Dick/Kori
  • Least favorite pairing: again, ignoring rogues: Bruce/his kids, Damian with anyone not his own age (young teenagers romantically paired with adults, even with the excuse of they grew up and the older person can now think of them as romantically viable is a disliked trope that also explains why Dickbabs can be a NOTP) I hate the most popular Damian ships pre nu52
  • Favorite moment: Stephanie slapping Bruce Jason’s backstory, original or gorgeous art Rebirth version – street kid jacks almost all of the Batmobile’s tires, is confronted by Batman and hits him with a tire iron he has no fear this sassy kid, doesn’t want to be a criminal just doing what he has to to survive, causes Batman to smile/laugh on the anniversary and at the location of his parents’ deaths, Batman has a son
  • Rating out of 10: it’s a goddamn mess I shouldn’t rate it above a five, but my heart says 7/10

Okay because I want to gush about them – Green Lanterns (I haven’t read all the issues yet)

  • Favorite character: Simon Baz/Jessica Cruz (you can’t make me pick one over the other)
  • Second favorite character: Rami grew on me, Dexstar the Cat is the best damn comic idea ever
  • Least favorite character: Volthoom
  • The character I’m most like: Jess
  • Favorite pairing: platonic or romantic SimonJess, Nasir/Sira
  • Least favorite pairing: Barry/Jess
  • Favorite moment: Simon coming over to make Jess pancakes and apologize- plus that entire issue showing how Jess’s anxiety is a daily struggle, Simon trying to heal the leader of the Red Lantern of his rage Jess punching Guy out
  • Rating out of 10: 9/10. great characters, a good introduction into Green Lantern stories without being a complete starting from scratch 

It was Gondor that brought about its own decay, falling by degrees into dotage, and thinking that the Enemy was asleep, who was only banished not destroyed. … [they] hungered after endless life unchanging. Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars.

Faramir, The Two Towers (via one-small-garden)

#tag yourself im the childless lord in a high cold tower asking questions of the stars (via @crocordile)

Well damn, then I’m definitely the childless lord musing on heraldry