Romance with villains, monsters, aliens, elf lords, wizards, robots, demons, gods, cryptids and anything with a Reylo vibe.
WARCRAFT (2016)
This movie features a lot of orcs. Big orcs, small orcs, girl orcs, boy orcs, baby orcs, honorable orcs, bad orcs, magical orcs, sexy orcs, family raising orcs, interspecies romance orcs, …..many orcs. I’m just posting this in case any orc lovers out there weren’t aware this movie existed. 😉
I finished reading The Sorceress’s Orc and I loved it! I didn’t expect some things in this book, especially not being it a fucking terato love story, I had a filthy grin on my face while reading some parts. I mean, I though the book just featured orcs, but along the way I was like “Hold on, wtf, it’s like every orc story on Tumblr I’ve read so far!!” (maybe not as NSFW but it’s not for minors as well ;D)
“At the beginning of the story, Vervain, Mistress of the Magical Sciences, is assigned an orc bodyguard, Riyu. She is less than happy that this is considered necessary, but soon finds out that the prejudices she had about orcs are not true, and Riyu is actually rather pleasant company. When the university where she teaches is attacked, she saves the live of her students, and is in turn saved by Riyu. When it is found that one of Vervain’s colleagues has gone missing, she insists to go on a mission to find him.
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The orcs in the book are awesome, they have very expressive, long and pointy ears, an honour codex, green skin and the main orc character, Riyu, is just so awesome, a fierce warrior, huuuuge, but so gentle and caring towards the main character, Vervain.
Thanks again to @fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains for finding this book and recommending it to me 🙂
Check out this book on Goodreads: The Sorceress’s Orc https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11099269-the-sorceress-s-orc
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Although I recommended the book (because I knew it featured Orcs) I haven’t actually read it yet. Well, after this review it certainly moved up on my long list of books to read.😀
I remember I found this book while I was looking for fantasy and science fiction books that feature a strong romantic element, a heroine that doesn’t conform to established beauty standards (this one’s a bit older than the usual fantasy heroine) AND possibly an interspecies relationship.
…..yes, I’m picky and finding stuff that caters to my tastes is not easy.😉
“It’s all about the hands.”
BEAUTY & THE BEAST themes (1/?): On Drakon (2015)
☯ The Last Jedi (2017)
Ugh still thinking about this beautiful movie ❤ Thank you Guillermo Del Toro ❤
I haven’t been painterly in a long while. Too busy with work and such but took some time aside to get back into it! I have several unfinished thumbs, will post them to patreon and hopefully finish one day- but in the meantime- enjoy ❤
-COEY!
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Prints: https://www.etsy.com/listing/586435663
Many thanks to @fuck-yeah-monsters-and-villains for finding a book that features Orcs and recommending it to me :)) The original title is The Sorceress’s Orc and what I’ve read so far was really good xD
Glad I could help!😀
BEAUTY by Robin McKinley
Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.
When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?”
Robin McKinley’s beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.
Check out this book on Goodreads: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41424.Beauty
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One of the best retellings of BatB. Slow, cosy, the perfect winter read.
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What mortal could rescue Tam Lin from that shadow life but Janet who loved him? She told him she would save him isf she could, and Tam Li described how the mortal must challenge the power of the Fairy Queen. Then he faded into the sun-speckled forest.
From Time-Life Books’s Fairies and Elves, part of The Enchanted World Series, 1984. Illustration by Jill Karla Schwarz
Confession: This is the first place I encountered the story of Tam Lin, and where I fell in love with it. I will freely admit it was largely because of the beautiful illustrations, particularly the last one.
The bare-chested, disheveled Tam Lin resting under Janet’s mantle just caught my attention. I was ten, maybe eleven years old at the time. Thirty years later, seventeen years of running a website, forty four versions of the ballad, more than a dozen related stories, a couple of citations in articles and theses, pages of analysis, maps, well over a hundred books, plays, articles… and here’s the images that kicked that off for me. Enjoy.
little box of favourite films↳ HE IS A DRAGON // он – дракон (2015)The boy understood, that his father was a monster.
And that only awakened the monster in him.#the whole acknowledged monster-as-masculinity thing in this film #really did it for me #like…… really did it #dragon-fathers who burn up stolen women and exchange them as fuel for sons #young men grappling with their fathers being monsters toward their mothers #young het women navigating a world where their lovers have monsters for fathers #it was beautiful i fet like the top of my head was aflame with how good #and the dragon Armand was so beautiful and gentle and trying to be good even with that baggage #the female gaze so sharp framing him – always naked and exposed and vulnerable #i want to rewatch #he didnt want to be a dragon!!!! / @corseque
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