Username on DW/AO3/Tumblr: Deanoning myself as macabre_monkey. If Tumblr ever releases a functional mobile app I'll be all up in that shit, but alas. Favorite Valdemar Book: LHM and By The Sword Most hated Valdemar book:It's kind of a toss up between the Owl Series and Foundation. The Owl series is just fucking boring, but Mags is a judgmental ass, sorry not everyone can have as shitty a childhood as you, please get over yourself, thanks bye. Age of first exposure to Lackey: Fifteen or sixteen, and, lol, I started with the Owl books. Thankfully I was a voracious reader and did not care so much about quality as long as I got to read something NEW. Favorite Valdemar protagonist and villain: Vanyel and Kerowyn obv. I distinctly remember reading Pawn in the school cafeteria, and getting to the part of Van's inner monologue about not being ready for a physical relationship with a girl, and thinking 'oh good, because that's sinful' looooool. I NEEDED THIS BOOK IN MY LIFE SO HARD and even then it took until my mid twenties to finally admit to myself I'm gay. Kerowyn, though. It just occurred to me one day that she is pretty much everything I could ever want in a female warrior type character in a fantasy novel. Strong, competent, smart, and she actually DEMONSTRATES those qualities instead of the text just saying she is, SHE CHOOSES HER CAREER OVER LOVE, she doesn't live in a sterilized fantasy world that doesn't discriminate against women ever. She is just 100% badass and I love her. Idgaf about any of the villains, when it comes to Valdemar the conflicts I am into are the internal ones. Least favorite: Mags, who seriously needs to get the fuck over himself. We get it, you were abandoned and basically sold into slavery, and living in Haven is a big adjustment and everything. STOP JUDGING EVERYONE BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T SUFFERED AS MUCH AS YOU. I also really hate Karal. Like, there are sues and there are SUES. I prefer my sues superpowered, beautiful and tortured, thank you very much, not modest and self effacing.
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Favorite Valdemar Book: LHM and By The Sword
Most hated Valdemar book:It's kind of a toss up between the Owl Series and Foundation. The Owl series is just fucking boring, but Mags is a judgmental ass, sorry not everyone can have as shitty a childhood as you, please get over yourself, thanks bye.
Age of first exposure to Lackey: Fifteen or sixteen, and, lol, I started with the Owl books. Thankfully I was a voracious reader and did not care so much about quality as long as I got to read something NEW.
Favorite Valdemar protagonist and villain: Vanyel and Kerowyn obv. I distinctly remember reading Pawn in the school cafeteria, and getting to the part of Van's inner monologue about not being ready for a physical relationship with a girl, and thinking 'oh good, because that's sinful' looooool. I NEEDED THIS BOOK IN MY LIFE SO HARD and even then it took until my mid twenties to finally admit to myself I'm gay. Kerowyn, though. It just occurred to me one day that she is pretty much everything I could ever want in a female warrior type character in a fantasy novel. Strong, competent, smart, and she actually DEMONSTRATES those qualities instead of the text just saying she is, SHE CHOOSES HER CAREER OVER LOVE, she doesn't live in a sterilized fantasy world that doesn't discriminate against women ever. She is just 100% badass and I love her. Idgaf about any of the villains, when it comes to Valdemar the conflicts I am into are the internal ones.
Least favorite: Mags, who seriously needs to get the fuck over himself. We get it, you were abandoned and basically sold into slavery, and living in Haven is a big adjustment and everything. STOP JUDGING EVERYONE BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T SUFFERED AS MUCH AS YOU. I also really hate Karal. Like, there are sues and there are SUES. I prefer my sues superpowered, beautiful and tortured, thank you very much, not modest and self effacing.