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Alan Garner’s debut novel, The Weirdstone of Brisigamen (1960) is set mostly in Alderley Edge, in Cheshire, and features a version of the Sleeping King legend, where the wizard of the Edge watches over a sleeping troop of knights who would one day save the world from an untold evil. To do so, though, requires the titular weirdstone, which was lost, but conveniently comes back to the Edge on the wrist of a visiting girl. She and her brother get embroiled in the machinations of a coven of witches, led by Selina Place (actually the Morrigan) and an evil sorcerer Grimnir, who both wish to possess the stone. The siblings wind up lost in the caves and mines of the Edge, are saved by two dwarves and eventually traverse the Cheshire countryside to deliver the stone to the wizard and provoke a final confrontation between the forces of good and evil.
The underground portions of claustrophobic and terrible — any dungeoneer would think twice about spelunking after reading Gardner’s descriptions of stumbling through perfect darkness, squeezing through narrow openings and, worst of all, getting stuck. Nightmarish. The later portion in the Cheshire countryside is deeply strange — mundane fields and woodland becomes overlaid with a fantastic world, populated by witches and terrible creatures — this comes across in Jack Gaughan’s bizarre cover art. The focus on landscape, and its dual nature, is something just about all of Garner’s novels ponder.
The Moon of Gomrath (1963, cover by Jeffrey Catherine Jones) sees the siblings again embroiled in a supernatural conflict with the vengeful Morrigan, an evil spirit called the Brollachan and the Wild Hunt. As an adventure yarn, Moon is probably superior, but it lacks the raw strangeness of Weirdstone. A third novels was meant to wrap things up, but Garner decided he didn’t like the protagonists, so the sequence remained incomplete until Boneland came out in 2012 (which is weird in completely different ways).
#roleplaying game#tabletop rpg#dungeons & dragons#rpg#d&d#ttrpg#Weirdstone Of Brisingamen#Alan Garner#The Moon Of Gomrath
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Ser Crispin Cole and Alicent when Rhaenyra does anything:
#house of the dragon#harwin strong#rhaenyra targaryen#alicent hightower#ser criston cole#criston cole#hotd#got#alan garner#game of thrones#daemon targaryen#team black
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#filme#filmes#film#movie#movies#cinema#se beber não case#the hangover#alan garner#zach galifianakis#phil wenneck#bradley cooper#stu prince#ed helms
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The Hangover (2009)
#zach galifianakis#alan garner#bradley cooper#phil wenneck#ed helms#stu price#the hangover#film#2009#2000s
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sketches of movies i watched recently
i liked them a lot
#the hangover#phil wenneck#stuart price#alan garner#guardians of the galaxy#rocket raccoon#star lord#peter quill#bullet train#tangerine#fanart#digital art#sketch
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⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️
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#ultimate obscure blorbo#polls#round 9#Roland (Elidor)#Elidor#alan garner#Varvara Lukinishna (The Slynx)#Varvara Lukinishna#The Slynx#tatyana tolstaya
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A more tangible version of Spotify Wrapped- my top 3 things of 2022, illustrated.
Obviously these are my faves rather than ‘the best’ things, because those lists are silly except to be good places to look for recommendations.
ALBUMS:
MARTHA / Please Don’t Take Me Back
MITSKI / Laurel Hell
RICHARD DAWSON / The Ruby Cord
BOOKS:
ALAN GARNER / Treacle Walker
ELIZABETH STROUT / Oh William!
JARVIS COCKER / Good Pop Bad Pop
GIGS:
PAVEMENT @ The Roundhouse
BIG THIEF @ Shepherds Bush Empire
JULIEN BAKER @ The Electric Ballroom
(All in London)
FILMS:
LICORICE PIZZA
CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY
THE HOUSE
#my art#artists on tumblr#booklr#mitski#richard dawson#martha#jarvis cocker#elizabeth strout#alan garner
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Bodachs, from Alan Garner's YA fantasy book The Moon of Gomrath. They were smaller than Susan, a young adolescent; bald, pointy-eared, covered in flat locks of hair like scales, had the legs of birds and bounded along with an unpleasant pecking motion. They served Morrigan, living only for the scream of blades.
The dwarf Uthecar described them as much like Goblins, but, loath as he was to admit it, braver, more aggressive. They stuck with me from reading that book a long time ago. I remembered their spears and odd legs, but falsely recalled horns and scaled armour, because these things are tricky.
I've settled on some raven or crow forms in their kit, and let them have the lamprey as a favourite animal motif. In the story, they can be eerily still and hard to detect; I decided their fur should accumulate algae and leaf litter like a loth to help them along with this.
I had a lot of fun with these nasty little men, and got to horse around with some new digital tricks. Like them!
#my art#The Moon of Gomrath#Weirdstone#Weirdstone of Brisingamen#Fantasy#Monster#Bodach#Goblin#Alan Garner#fae
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okay this is wild - when we were a kid in a prestigious north london children's choir, we were in a children's opera by Gordon Crosse with libretto by Alan Garner (he of The Owl Service and so on amazing children's books), which eventually got broadcast on british tv with a simultaneous stereo radio broadcast (this was in 1973 so all that was a big deal)
anyway we've been longing to hear it again for years, and now someone has posted it up on youtube and we're so excited!
the story is about an embittered old potter who shuns the rest of the village - they invite him to join in their bilberry night/lughnasa day celebrations but he tells them to sod off - then he falls down into caves and has dramatic encounters with the four elements, and then almost wakes up the sleeping knights, before emerging having resolved his grief over having been bilberry king and in love with the bilberry queen, who got taken away because she was too high class for the likes of him - so a part of the ongoing music is a duet between his young self and her
funny sidebar, the very pretty boy who sang the part of the bilberry king turned out to be that awful tory fucker by the name of Bernard Jenkin *rolls eyes* - anyway here 'tis
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Hangover III is my dumb comfort movie
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„Hangover“ (2009-2013)
#hangover#mr chow#phil wenneck#alan garner#stu price#bradly cooper#zach galifianakis#ed helms#ken jeong
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#filme#filmes#film#movie#movies#cinema#the hangover#se beber não case#alan garner#zach galifianakis#phil wenneck#bradley cooper#ed helms#stu prince
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Halloween Day 22
Alan Garner's The Owl Service may be the first what could be considered folk horror novel I had read when I was a tween many ages ago. While there is an air of the sinister and sorrowful to all of his writing that I find myself drawn and wanting to emulate.
Red Shift is a novel of the passage of time and the solidity of place as well as a sort of coming of age story that was inspired disparately by the fairy tale Tam Lin, a family legend of the English Civil War, and a piece of graffiti reading, "Not really now not anymore." Ghostly and strange and haunting without being a exactly ghost story, it follows the fates of three young, troubled men living centuries apart, bound to each other by their experiences on lonely outcropping of Mow Cop and their discoveries of a stone axe head. This is not a kind book, but sometimes we need the sharp shock of unkindness to wake us up, and Red Shift left me very awake and full of wondering.
If you would like to be added to my taglist for the remainder of Halloween or for the sporadic book reviews and recs offered here, please let me know!
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#31 days of halloween reading#halloween#31 days of halloween#halloween 2023#horror#book recs#alan garner#red shift#folk horror
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Muppet Fact #345
The Skeksis were originally going to speak a language based either in Ancient Egyptian or Indo-European roots in the film. The basis of the language differed depending on who you asked about it; Gary Kurts has said the language was created by linguist Alan Garner and had inspiration from Ancient Egyptian, however David Odell said it was his creation with Indo-European roots. This idea was scrapped after test audiences responded poorly to it.
Sources:
"Reflections on Making The Dark Crystal and Working with Jim Henson." David Odell. In: The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Vol. II. Brian Froud, Joshua Dysart, Alex Sheikman, Lizzy John. 2012.
"Producing the World of The Dark Crystal: A new direction for the man behind "Star Wars" and "Empire" Gary Kurtz." David Hutchison. Starlog: The Magazine of the Future. Issue 66. January 1983. Pages 16-20.
#jim henson#the muppets#muppets#muppet facts#muppet facts oc#fun facts#Skeksis#the dark crystal#the dark crystal (1982)#dark crystal#Alan Garner#Gary Kurts#David Odell#starlog#david hutchison#brian froud#joshua dysart#Alex Sheikman#lizzy john
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The hangover Wolfpack and their significant others
Phillip was married to Stephanie and had two kids with her.
Doug married alan's sister Tracy in the first movie
Stuart married an asian woman name Lauren in the second movie
Alan married a woman name Cassie in the third movie and stayed in Las Vegas with her
#alan garner#zach galifianakis#stuart price#ed helms#phillip wenneck#bradley cooper#doug billings#justiin bartha#the hangover
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