A screenshot from the browser game Fallen London, with white text on a black background. There is a black square in the leftmost corner. The text reads: Have you won more than you've lost?.ALT
A passage from N.K. Jemisin's book The Fifth Season. The passage reads: “Hnh. Yes, you were probably there when it was first set down, I forgot.” He sighs, watching the women walk out of sight. “It’s safe to love you. You won’t fail me. You won’t die. And I know the price up front.” His companion does not reply. He wasn’t really expecting a response, though a part of him hoped. He has been so lonely.” The lines “It’s safe to love you. You won’t fail me. You won’t die. And I know the price up front.” and “He has been so lonely.” are highlighted in purple.ALT
A screenshot from the browser game Fallen London. The text is black on a beige background and reads: You play for yourself. No one is on your side, and neither are you on theirs.ALT
A passage from N.K. Jemisin’s book The Fifth Season. The passage reads: Lastly, he reaches up. For power. He takes all that, the strata and the magma and the people and the power, in his imaginary hands. Everything. He holds it. He is not alone. The earth is with him. Then he breaks it. The passages “Lastly, he reaches up. For power.” and “He is not alone. The earth is with him. Then he breaks it.” are highlighted in purple. The phrase “he breaks it” is also italicized.ALT
A passage from the browser game Fallen London, black text on a brown background. The text reads: You cannot begin to measure the length of your journey unless you recall the person you once were. How much weaker, how much more fragile.ALT
A section from N.K. Jemisin's book The Fifth Season, which reads: “I thought I saw a Guardian,” she says after a while. Very softly. “At Allia.” Alabaster doesn’t reply for a moment. She’s decided that he won’t, when he says, “I will tear the whole world apart if they ever hurt us again.” But we would still be hurt, she thinks. It’s reassuring, though, somehow. The kind of lie she needs to hear. Syenite keeps her eyes closed and doesn’t move for a long while. She’s not sleeping; she’s thinking. Alabaster stays while she does it, and for that she is unutterably glad.” The lines “I will tear the whole world apart if they ever hurt us again.” and "The kind of lie she needs to hear." are higlighted in purple.ALT
A screenshot from the browser game Fallen London. In the left corner, there is a hand-drawn image of a volcano. The text is white on a black background and reads: The Revelation. One [1]. Everything will change. For the better?ALT
A passage from N.K. Jemisin's book The Fifth Season. The text reads: You don't want to understand, but you do. You don't want to believe, but really, you have all along. "You tore the rip up north," you breathe. Your hands are clenching into fists. "You split the continent. You started this season. With the obelisks! You did...all of that." The you's in "You tore the rip up north", "You split the continent", and "You started this season" are italicized. These sentences are also higlighted in purple.ALT
A screenshot from the game Fallen London. In the left corner there is an image of a yellow manuscript page with a small stamp of the Exceptional Hat, a tophat with eyes and teeth. The text reads: Fragments of the Tragecy Procedures. One [1]. Precious. Take comfort – there are arrangements for every reckoning. The word "precious" is bolded and italicized.ALT
A screenshot from N.K. Jemisin's book The Fifth Season. The text reads: I don't want you to fix it, Alabaster says. It was collateral damage, but Yumenes got what it deserved. No, what I want you to do, my Damaya, my Syenite, my Essun, is to make it worse. The section: "No, what I want you to do, my Damaya, my Syenite, my Essun, is to make it worse." is higlighted in purple.ALT

how much have you lost? [fallen london - failbetter games; the fifth season - n.k. jemisin]

parabolan war // prologue: you are here // play as red (the moonlit chessboard) // prologue: you are here // memory of a much lesser self // Syenite, fractured // the revelation (destiny) // you’re all you need // fragments of the tragedy procedures // you’re all you need

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#the broken earth trilogy #the fifth season #web weaving #broken earth posting #fallen london posting #ari don't look #keeping these out of the main FL tags so that my FL mutuals dont see my silliness #let me know if i need to update the image descriptions/alt text in any way and/or can improve them! #sorry for always using the purple higlight color it will happen again #i am normal with baster saying my damaya my syenite my essun (lying) #see this started as solely a baster post and then i remembered all of the ending to FS and was like oo.....the intimacy btwn essun & baster #chewing on the bars of my cage like i need to reread tbet now

pancakeke:

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wikipedia banner I feel a lot of you could use as a reaction image

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cursedthing:

you ever listen to a playlist and all of the sudden a song that has incredible blorbo energy comes on you’re you’re just like this

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#yeah

manywinged:

manywinged:

the his dark materials trilogy has a lot of incredible moments but tbh for me nothing will ever top one of the earliest scenes in the first book where lord asriel shows the scholars a guy’s decapitated head and then asks them for more funding so he can go back to the arctic to continue working on his plan to attack and dethrone god

showing the phd applications board a mutilated corpse before i present my research proposal so they’ll be easier to manipulate when i start asking them for money

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