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I would honestly love to see a Charlie Bone x Inkheart trilogy crossover.
I mean, both book series are set on Earth in the same time period, and both involve a kid who starts off being raised by a single parent because their other parent disappeared under mysterious circumstances when they were a toddler. And both kids find out that they have a magical ability.
They also both have a relative of the main character(s) who is very reclusive and loves books and ends up coming out of their shell a bit over the course of the series.
I do think Paton Yewbeam and Mo Folchart would get along pretty well. Same with Meggie and Charlie.
Also fun fact: if Inkheart is set in 2003, then Resa and Lyell both disappeared in the same year (1994).
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painted-fanbird · 1 year
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Thinking about the Inkworld trilogy and Mistborn Era 1, and how they handled books 2 and 3 and why I like the Inkworld better lol
Why compare them? Because Inkheart was the last series I read before Mistborn, and I adored it, but more relevantly they’re formatted similarly. both trilogies have first books that function as standalones, followed by two connected sequels turning them into trilogies
The actual analysis is under the cut both because of massive spoilers for both series, and because this is long and I’m not about to be clogging up your dashboard lol
I adored The Final Empire (book 1), but Well of Ascension (book 2) and The Hero of Ages (book 3) were both major misses for me. Though I didn’t love tWoA, I did find it generally fine. tHoA on the other hand I actively dislike. Contrasted to the Inkworld trilogy, where Inkspell (book 2) is actually my favorite! With Inkdeath (book 3) as my second favorite. Inkheart (book 1) comes in third, but I still love that book. The other two just speak to me XD
Inkspell expands on the loose ends left in Inkheart very naturally, and I love that! Inkspell opens with Dustfinger returning home, which works perfectly since he just vanished into the night at the end of Inkheart with Farid. It additionally sets up Orpheus, and once we’re in the Inkworld we meet up with the rest of our loose ends! Basta and The Magpie. Additionally, Inkspell has the advantage of the Inkworld being generally unknown to us the reader. Cornelia Funke has basically free rein to do what she wants as long as she doesn’t violate the whimsical, magical vibe she’s already established in Inkheart. Which she does not, and Dustfinger’s initial return to his world is literally my favorite scene in the whole book <3
tWoA, by contrast, doesn’t really do this imo. The biggest loose ends we’re left with in TFE are allomancy as a whole, the missing atium, and low key OreSeur specifically. tWoA chooses to focus on literally none of this in depth, instead focusing on the government and the Siege of Luthadel. Which is logical, obviously rebellion take overs will have some kinks they need to iron out, but it doesn’t pay any serious mind to what TFE set up and I find that to be a let down. We get a little bit of Allomancy exploration in Duralumin, but that’s it. The atium is relevant exclusively because the invading armies think Luthadel has it, but there’s no anything about it outside of that. OreSeur is just straight up dead! Though I did love Vin and TenSoon, that was my favorite part of the whole book <3
tWoA also squanders one of the things I adored about TFE, the character dynamics. The whole crew was so fun, and it was such a delight to see interact with each other and Vin. In tWoA they’re barely even there! Dockson, Kelsier’s best friend, has literally three scenes in the entire book. He dies in the third one. Clubs? Also has like three scenes, including where he dies. Ham is marginally more present, but Spook is only in like two scenes himself. We see the most of Sazed, which is cool because I like him <3 Instead of focusing on the crew, tWoA introduces new characters! Which are… hit or miss. Tindwyl and TenSoon and Allrianne my beloved <3 Then there’s Zane. Whom I can only describe as a Gary Stu and frankly I want to pick Sanderson’s brain and find out what the hell he was thinking when he made Zane because by all accounts he makes no sense lol
Inkspell and Inkdeath however, introduce new side characters without usurping the focus on the main cast. This is admittedly helped by Inkheart having a smaller cast in general XD But Dustfinger, Mo, Farid, Fenoglio, Resa, and Meggie if you squint (her squandered potential is another post lol) all remain major players, and continue to interact with each other like the did in book one. It’s great <3
tHoA is where things get particularly dicey for me lol. In tone and in plot. I just found it to be depressing, boring, and I do not like Ruin and Preservation. I don’t generally enjoy plots on a cosmic, god fighting scale to begin with, and I actively hate twist, “it was him all along!” villains. I find them to be boring, and feel that they remove agency from the villains prior to them. Also, I think they were set up poorly. If you removed them from the plot, literally nothing changes with TFE, and very little would change in tWoA. Not ideal for a villain you’re about to claim was here the whole time.
This book also continues the trend of no one talking to each other by scattering our protagonists to the four winds! Vin literally only talks to Elend, and maybe Ham once this book. Spook is in Urteau with Sazed, Breeze, and Allrianne, and his message never makes it to her. They literally don’t talk once and that’s a damn shame considering what they could have had. Tonally it’s just death and distraction all the way through, and that’s just,, blegh. No thanks.
Also everyone is so grim faced and boring, I hate this version of Elend, there’s no sass, no bite to him anymore. Just a grim and dutiful general who insists he’s struggles with doing hard things but then does them anyway. I also hate that his character arc goes unfulfilled! My man spends the entire book being worried about his inability to keep people safe, then he gets beheaded after watching an entire squad of soldiers get slaughtered by koloss. Like sure he saved the world but uhhhh yeah that’s not a satisfying conclusion. (Elend as a character was actually just generally not utilized well by the narrative imo. Raise your hand if you remember that this man was forced to sleep with a skaa girl at 13 years old she avoided romance because of it!)
Vin is also kind of boring, which is deeply upsetting because she was a fav in TFE and tWoA. She’s just so,, grim. And nothing else. It sucks. Also I don’t think her arc was done well here either. I love the idea of her finally coming to terms with the two parts of herself, but it felt forced! Vin spends basically no time as Valette after book 1, so it feels dragged out. We did not have to wait to book 3 to resolve this, we could’ve sorted this our way earlier lol
Also the whole thing with Sazed and the prophecy is just,, wut? I’m not a fan of the implication that Sazed is less of a man because he’s been castrated, and since I just generally don’t like Ruin and Preservation in general turning Sazed into god is just not where it’s at for me. It felt bizarre and out of place tbh
Inkdeath, on the other hand, does not have these issues. It’s villain, The Adderhead, was firmly established and was also the primary villain of book 2. He is not a god. He’s a king who was seeking immortality and was kind of foiled. A man, at his core lol. Tonally it is pretty grim at the beginning, but when Dustfinger is brought back, about 1/3 of the way through, the plot takes a notable hopeful upswing. Things aren’t easy, but they’re looking better now <3
I’ll also be the first to admit that Inkdeath’s clear cut happy ending is my preferred story ending lol, which is absolutely major points in its favor XD
I also think Inkdeath handles its characters well. Meggie and Farid do kind of end up on the side, but Mo, Dustfinger, and Resa all really shine. This opinion is helped by the fact that Mo and Dustfinger are my favorites, but I think it holds merit outside of that. They’ve been primary characters since book 1, are continuing to participate in the main plot together, and I find their arcs to be constant and wrapped up very nicely <3
TL;DR: I think tWoA and tHoA squandered their potential by introducing new plot threads instead of focusing on established loose ends, and committing several character assassinations by book 3. Inkspell and Inkheart did not do this, they followed up on their loose ends directly, kept the focus on the characters introduced in book 1, and did not go suddenly off the rails in the climax, instead ending with my preferred traditional fairy tale ending <3
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kennabeth · 6 months
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dustfinger will think or tell someone else the most grossly romantic shit about roxane but to her face the best he can do is "why are you here"
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balkanradfem · 2 years
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I finished reading ‘The Ink Black Heart’ by Robert Galbraith, and it was an extensive, detailed, highly engaging, intense and diverse mystery. It has everything you could possibly imagine in a current-age mystery; twitter drama, video game conversations, a smear campaign, research done thru twitter, tumblr, facebook and social accounts, a catfish investigation, detectives uncovering several related mysteries and crimes as they go, painful breakups, character development, pining, extremely capable and grounded female lead, everything coming together in the most eye-opening way possible.
But what I am going to write about, is the exposee part. Because that, for me, was truly the most stunning and heart-stopping part. She exposed them all. The twitter cancel culture being appropriated by the alt-right? Exposed. The neo nazis? We now know all of their secret signs and intentions. The pedophiles who use their twitter fame to groom underage girls? Fucking spotted, explained, judged and exposed. The misogynistic men who use scam pickup lines to locate the most inexperienced women to use as masturbation toys? Exposed, their fucking mindset is exposed, same as their pickup lines. Online incel movement increasing the danger to women, hatred, violence and ultimately murder? It’s all right there. It’s glaring at you.
Nobody who reads this book will go on without absorbing the extensive knowledge of how dangerous, risky, exposed and utterly damaging it is to be a woman online, and to be facing the predatory, exploitative and aggressive population of online men. Women are used to losing friends, social circles, and their innocence and good faith in people, due to online misogyny and predators. Our experience is so well represented in this book, it’s reality-affirming and written so intensely from the female point of view, while also explaining in detail, what the male point of view on the situation is.
I would warmly recommend this book to any woman who has experienced being online and has struggled harassment (that would be, any woman who has been online), and anyone involved with twitter smear campaigns, which are popular to the point that even people off twitter have heard all about them. This book will help you see trough it, and find it’s true purpose, and make you think twice before you get involved. It will also showcase just how easily internet finds it to harass and cancel a woman, while protecting and adoring a man with the exact same ‘crimes’. The author of this book has done her research so well, she’s leading you to understand the same things she does - that hostility to women online comes from the desire to shut us up, banish us from the internet, use us as toys, and ultimately kill us if we disagree.
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schleierkauz · 1 year
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Rereading the available TCoR chapters after rereading Inkheart is so funny. Throughout the whole first book everyone makes fun of Basta for being superstitious and believing in curses, like an idiot. 
Cut to TCoR and 3/4 of the cast is cancelled due to Being Cursed
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maandarinee · 3 months
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could anyone who's read The Color of Revenge and the Mirrorworld books tell me what the connections are?
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We should brainrot about Inkheart.
Who’s your favorite character? Mine is Basta.
Oooo that's gotta be Dustfinger for me! When I was young I had a fictive introject of him. It's been a long time since my last reread but I believe (spoilers) there's a scene where he tells Meggie she doesn't have to hide her face when she cries or something to that effect? And that was something I really needed to hear as a kid. I wasn't a major fan of the weird, almost romantic subtext between him and Meggie tho.
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joannerowling · 2 years
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> Anomie : He’s gone to Valhalla, Mouse.
> Morehouse : … What did you just call me?
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teresafolchart · 1 year
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mo having hair “as dark as moleskin” in canon is such a shame because cornelia really denied us silver fox mo
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essektheylyss · 2 years
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Listen. I am NOT the type to be overly precious about plot details maintained from book to movie in the process of adaptation. I have taken whole classes on adaptation. I understand that sacrifices need to be made.
It is absolutely crucial that you know that I understand that things must be sacrificed in the process of adaptation.
BUT THE TOWER???
THEY CUT THE FUCKING TOWER????
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loadsofcats · 2 years
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Re-reading Inkheart and I think I’m beginning to see some similarities between Dustfinger and Mollymauk. Maybe it’s the “circus man” energy, but for some reason they remind me a bit of each other
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What gets me most about Orpheus’s revenge is how Resa finds out about Mo’s disappearance before she vanishes and her last feeling before being trapped is growing panic and terror for her missing loved ones.
It’s like coming home to an eerily empty house because someone you care about has been murdered and when you finally start realising that something is horribly wrong you are cut down yourself.
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not-quite-graceful · 30 days
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Hey, um… with the whole “Bluejay!Jason” concept… has anybody ever considered it as an Inkheart reference instead of just a play off his name?
Follow me here, and sorry in advance, this turned into a ramble.
In the second book of the Inkheart trilogy, Inkspell, one of the main protagonists adopts a Robin Hood-esque approach to defeating the tyrant king, and adopts the name of ‘The Bluejay’ from famous folk legends and songs written by a beloved poet and often sung by travelling minstrels. He’s -Inkspell spoilers ahead, though this book is unironically older than I am- known for toppling said tyrant’s throne through the binding of a magic book (a recurring theme throughout the series, if you’ve never read it, which you should). He’s a champion among the Motley Folk, who were that world’s equivalent to a travelling circus and also regularly aid him in his quest to topple the Adderhead (the tyrant king mentioned above), and sought to help the poor and downtrodden. The Bluejay is aided and abetted by his family and friends, which include a shapeshifting wife, a daughter with the ability to make anything she reads come true, a fire-dancer who can speak to the flames, and a knife-throwing 'circus' prince with a black bear companion. (They're not called the Motley Folk for no reason, people!)
Now, consider for a moment: Little Jason Todd, in the local library, absolutely devouring the Inkheart series. It's everything a little kid could dream of in a fantasy book! And there's three of these fat books, what more could you possibly want? And he has an excuse to sit in a warm, safe building for a few hours.
Now imagine, Inkspell becomes his comfort book. Of course it does- every kid had one, and I can't imagine an orphan who grew up alone on the streets of Gotham picking anything other than a story about a strange man helping the opressed and downtrodden in a land he grows to call his own with the help of his family- and The Bluejay is an excellent father to his daughter, too, of course Jason pictured himself as part of that family, as whisked away into that world.
And of course, the rest of the series is wonderful too -Inkheart is where it all began, after all, and Inkdeath is the final triumph over evil!-, but Inkspell is a story about becoming. About learning to be more than you were born as- after all, if Mo the simple bookbinder could become the hero The Bluejay, what could Jason the street orphan become?
Maybe, instead of discovering this book in a library, he found it in the trash. And maybe he wondered, as he read it, why anyone would ever want to throw away the tale of Mo the Blujay, of Meggie the Silvertongue, of Resa the brave swift, of Dustfinger the loyal Fire-Dancer? (And maybe the last one took a while to get there, but he did get there! Eventually! And maybe Jason can understand why it took Dustfinger so long to truly come to trust someone again, because trust is a terribly dangerous thing to give to someone, because you can never really know what they'll do with it.) Maybe he read it through without knowing anything about Capricorn or The Shadow or why they feared the man named Basta, because they hadn't thrown away the first book, only the second. Maybe he wept for the death of Dustfinger, at the very end, because he didn't know that Death wouldn't keep him, because they hadn't thrown away the third book.
Maybe Inkspell found its place among his most treasured possessions. Maybe, when he met Batman and Bruce Wayne in one night and his life changed forever, Inkspell came with him, with its familiar story and characters and world and sorrows.
Maybe one of the first things Bruce did, upon seeing Jason reading that same battered old paperback, was to order Inkheart and Inkdeath and leave them in his room. Maybe that was when Jason started to realize that he wasn't going to leave forever.
(Maybe Jason and Dick would play Motley Folk together, because Dick was in the circus and could most certainly throw knives, even if it gave Bruce a heart attack every time he saw it.)
And maybe, after he could no longer have Robin, he remembered that old paperback book, that old story and that old world, and he thought of a new name for himself.
Bluejay, he thought, as he picked up the book that had been his constant companion for so many years. I'll be The Bluejay.
(I don't really know what this is. I saw some Bluejay!Jason art the other day and just started thinking of the Inkheart trilogy and the fact that Jason would absolutely have read it and probably loved it. And then it spiralled.)
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kennabeth · 7 months
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I have very mean color of revenge posts I want to make can you all close your eyes or make sure you're blacklisting the spoiler tag real quick for me
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booktomoviebrawl · 9 months
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We are not judging how bad the movie is, we are judging which adapted the book the worst. There are good movies that are bad adaptions.
Propaganda below the cut (spoilers may apply)
Maximum Ride:
The storyline makes absolutely no sense, and the movie is nothing like the book. You could've given the movie an entirely different name and and keep the plot I wouldn't bat an eye
the movie's just bad mate
Horrendous low budget netflix movie with effects so bad they make me feel physically ill and acting so wooden the cast is in danger of being attacked by lumberjacks. The story already wasn't the best and the film somehow made it worst. I came in with nostalgia for my dear kids with bird wings and left never to be the same again.
Inkheart:
It was all just... flat, with none of the heart of the original book. A couple of the actors were decent, like Brendan Fraser as Mo, and whoever played Dustfinger, but the rest of them didn't even feel like the same characters. Plus it's a story about books and reading, so I don't think it's ever going to translate to film very well.
Listen I was twelve when this film came out and I went to see it and I *immediately* blocked everything about it from my memory because I was so profoundly disappointed in it as an adaptation of one of my favourite books at the time. I can't even tell you what they did wrong because I've blocked it out that completely, that's how bad it was, but the sense of betrayal and disappointment endures.
It was one of those that tried to be a little too children's movie by making the characters more bufoonish than necessary and detracted a lot from the whole thing (I say this as someone who watched the movie in theaters and DO quote it). The script wasn't well adapted, so they tried to lean into the casting but despite having really good actors it flopped. Also they had the big bad evil guy say the line "Duct tape. I do so enjoy duct tape" and at any given moment if you ask me about what the movie contributed to the story, that is the only thing I can respond with in the exact enunciation of the delivery
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story-book-sillies · 9 months
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