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mitskicoded · 11 months

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rudy steiner

#moodboard #rudy steiner #the book thief #markus zusak #web weaving #poetry #booklr #book quotes #quotes #the book thief moodboard #this book has such an impact on me #rudys death had me sobbing clutching my heart and sniffling #i loved him

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midnightripping · 2 years

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“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”

- Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

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alliesbookblog · 22 days

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recipe for love - anne malcom

"and being an expert in sweet, I knew that there was no pastry on earth that could come close to this."

🎀 playlist

🎀moodboard

recipe for love - the ronettes

When I first saw you, I knew it had to be Because you've got what it takes to make a lovin' cake for me Now wait a second, baby Why waste a minute? Let's take a chance We got the ingredients to start a romance

goddess - laufey

You took me for a fool You stole my youth You wanted this so much You watched me rise Then killed my light And now you know I'm not your fucking goddess

too sweet - hozier

I think I'll take my whiskey neat My coffee black and my bed at three You're too sweet for me You're too sweet for me

eyes don't lie - isabel larosa

You know you're my weakness Tell stories with your fingertips Yeah, you're beautiful, don't have to try Darling, you look divine Eyes don't lie

a sunday kind of love - etta james

Oh, I'm hoping to discover A certain kind of lover Who will show me the way And my arms need someone Someone to enfold To keep me warm when Mondays and Tuesdays grow cold

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wannabe-british-fangirl · 7 months

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~ books read in 2023 ~

#26: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.

Rating: 5/5

#the lightning thief #rick riordan #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #2023 reading list #books #book aesthetic #book moodboard #greek mythology #camp half blood #annabeth chase #grover underwood #reread #pjo #pjo series

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paleshelter29 · 9 months

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|| A Sutton Sibling || Benjamin and Henry Moodboard with a Book Thief Quote (mostly cause Ben liked reading so there we go)

#benjamin twd #benjamin sutton #henry sutton #henry sutton peletier #also ben and henry both have a huge moral sense of what’s right and wrong even through all they’ve seen and been through and i love that #both of them deserved better #he had potential and they just killed him #both of them had so much potential which was wasted because they killed them off #I’m still not ok with it #the sutton boys #why can’t one of my favorite characters just survive?#just think how cool it would’ve been if daryl got to mentor him as well and teach him how to shoot a crossbow #my moodboards #Benjamin and Henry moodboards twd #the walking dead #twd #book thief quote

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a-beautiful-fool · 7 months

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♡hi! i’m lou ♡

╰┈➤ [BASIC INFO] my name is lou but i also loooove nicknames, she/they, i’m a minor (15+), a middle child, bisexual mess, certified ADHD haver, infjt, bilingual, scorpio, swiftie, marauders lover (NOT HP!!), book nerd, true crime junkie, im horrible at tagging things, im obsessed with renee rapp, snoopy is life, and im constantly listening to music <3

~~hobbies~~

⭑ playing guitar ⭑ writing music ⭑ reading ⭑ swimming ⭑ journaling ⭑ skateboarding ⭑ binging true crime ⭑ drawing ⭑ listening to music ⭑

~~music~~

⭑ taylor swift ⭑ gracie abrams ⭑ maisie peters ⭑ sabrina carpenter ⭑ conan gray ⭑ lana del rey ⭑ the backseat lovers ⭑ renee rapp⭑ boygenius ⭑ olivia rodrigo ⭑ noah kahan ⭑ claire rosinkranz ⭑ harry styles ⭑ chappell roan ⭑ 5sos ⭑ tate mcrae ⭑ artic monkeys ⭑ cigarettes after sex ⭑ girl in red ⭑ and so many more ⭑

~~shows~~

⭑ heatstopper ⭑ criminal minds ⭑ brooklyn 99 ⭑ the good place ⭑ parks & rec ⭑ never have i ever ⭑ ghost files ⭑ pjo ⭑ superstore ⭑ modern family ⭑

~~movies~~

⭑ legally blonde ⭑ clueless ⭑ 10 thing i hate about you ⭑ miss americana ⭑ knives out 1 & 2 ⭑ the princess bride ⭑ mean girls ⭑ little women ⭑

~~books~~

⭑ percy jackson ⭑ the book thief ⭑ the outsiders ⭑ the 7 husbands of evelyn hugo ⭑ heartstopper graphic novels ⭑ the fault in our stars ⭑ sherlock holmes ⭑ better than the movies ⭑ harry potter (f**k jkr!!) ⭑ the inheritance games ⭑ little women ⭑ nancy drew ⭑ agggtm ⭑ a series of unfortunate events ⭑

~~links~~

⭑ moodboard masterlist ⭑ my spotify account ⭑ my snoopy sideblog ⭑

🤍my inbox is always open!! however i am horrible about responding in a timely manner i am so sorry!!🤍

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴:

"I Hate It Here- Taylor Swift”

01:57 ━━━━●───── 04:04

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#intro post

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esther-dot · 6 months

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Beauty and the Beast

Tokens of Life (give me) 9k WIP by @ihaveastorminme

Jon thought of his mother's family often. But he never heard a whisper from them. Not once. Until the day the northern wind howled through the ancestral halls of the dragon Queens, bringing with it snow and wolves’ cries at its tail. Five hundred different deities in that hall, and nobody whispered when she walked in, tall and forbidding, the skirts of her dress swirling about her like mist and snow glittering unmelted in her flame hair. She looked at him... and everything changed.

No Rose Without a Thorn 24k

Ten years ago, the Others were defeated, the Starks took back the North, the Targaryens reclaimed the Iron Throne, and the Old Gods transformed Sansa Stark into a dread and dangerous beast. Now, winter is coming, the beast remains, and the family would really like Sansa to be a full time human again.

The Beast, the Beauty, and the Bastard 3k

It is a reworking of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, but with a bit of a twist. Hope you enjoy!

Certain As the Sun 22k, incomplete

Sansa is bright, beautiful, and out of place in her little town. After her father is captured in a forgotten castle, she moves to take his place with the cursed prince.

Gifset by @dcbicki and Gifset by @yenstarkofrivia

Rapunzel

From Tower to Tower 10k incomplete

Locked away in a tower for eighteen years by a witch claiming to be her Mother, long-haired Sansa seeks freedom and a chance to regain her crown as Princess of the kingdom. But the tower is high as she has no means to get down, aside from her incredibly long hair, and no guarantee of safety in the outside world she has been warned about. One night, when the witch is out, and a thief who climbs the tower seeking refuge happens upon her, she stuns herself by taking a chance and asking him to help her escape. Assuring him that she will have all charges against him dropped when he returns her to her rightful parents, she embarks on a series of first discoveries with her new bandit friend Jon.

I'll not be climbin' up, I'll only be calling good morning 13k @violetcoloredglasses

Princess Sansa, the rightful queen, has been trapped in a tower by her usurping step-mother for nigh on three years now. Between the benevolent interference of a local woods-witch, the seemingly random appearance of a dashing young man on a horse, and a magical book that Sansa uses to turn a man into a crow, she may have found a way to change her stars.

flower shaped heart 25k, incomplete @missfaber

Alayne Stone has lived her whole life in her hidden tower, forbidden by Mother to leave. But she yearns for an adventure like the ones in the songs, so when a man named Jon Snow crashes into her tower and into her life, she seizes the chance. They travel to King's Landing where the floating lanterns shine each year on her nameday. The new world is exciting and frightening, but Jon Snow is there to guide her every step. He is not nearly as terrible as Mother said men are, though the rest of the world might be. Danger, betrayals, and lies form the steps of their journey as Alayne uncovers terrible secrets. corresponding moodboard

Let Down Your Red Hair .6k

A Jonsa Rapunzel story told in verse. With her father beheaded and her brother marching against the king, the last thing Sansa expects is for her hair to never stop growing. She is soon locked away in the tallest tower of the Red Keep, withdrawn from court as the War of the Five Kings rages on. Elsewhere, rumors of her magical hair have spread to the Wildlings, who see her fiery strands as their last hope against the coming winter.

Tangled edit by @kitten1618x, Tangled edit by @queen-sans-in-the-north, Tangled edit by @sardoniyx

Tangled gifset by @dcbicki

Sleeping Beauty

La Belle au bois dormant 4k

When The North celebrates the birth of Lady Sansa, all the realm is invited to celebrate with them. Each Lady of a Great House bestows a gift upon the little lady, including Cersei Lannister, whose presence at the celebration is both unexpected and unnerving.

Once upon a Dream 1k by @azulaahai

Sansa is under a curse - fallen into a magical sleep, she, according to the prophecy, can only be awoken by a kiss from a dragon. Arya rides south to ask for help from the dragon king Aegon, but the king’s grumpy half brother Jon might prove to be an obstacle.

Visions are Seldom All They Seem 14k

Sansa Stark is sure her life is a great song. She's a beautiful princess. She's been cursed. And the only way it will be broken is to sleep for a hundred years and be awoken by true love's kiss, given by a king's son. She's more then happy to prick her finger if it means getting her happily ever after with a handsome prince all the sooner. But a hundred years is a long time. To be fair to Sansa, Jon did not realize how long it would be either.

Sleeping Beauty Gifset

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

you are my sun, my moon (and all of my stars) 133k

When the white wolf came, the Lord of Winterfell had no choice but to give him his eldest daughter. Eddard Stark had grown up on legends of wolves, on the stories of bargains made by the First Men, on the knowledge of the price that he and his family might one day be forced to pay. His father had explained the reason their house had taken a wolf as its heraldry and “Winter is Coming” as its motto, a reminder of a promise to honor, a recognition of a debt owed that would need, one day, to be paid. Ned had breathed a sigh of relief when his sister’s twentieth winter arrived and the beast had not. And he had watched the dawn sky for the first signs of the snow that would mark that his daughter, too, might also be spared, might escape the fate that had been handed down by their ancestors. But no man could be so lucky. Sansa, too, had been born with the North in her blood, had been raised on the stories of white wolves, had lived her life with the knowledge that one might come for her.

this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty 22k by @dialux

“I fell,” Sansa says softly. “I flew.” [When a strange, hooded man appears out of nowhere, demanding a woman in return for keeping the Others and dead out of Westeros, Sansa goes with him. It’s the best and worst decision of her life.]

PRE CANON - WESTERN - REGENCY - LITTLE WOMEN - HOLIDAY - SEASON 6

#jonsa #jonsa fic #fairytale au #there will be a part 2 #there are a lot of fairytale fics 😅#beauty and the beast au #rapunzel au #tangled au #sleeping beauty au #east of the sun and west of the moon au #dot fic list

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dreamlandcreations · 1 year

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The Bastard Princess

Aemond Targaryen x Daemon's daughter!Reader

• moodboards masterlist •

You were enemies since the moment he claimed Vhagar.

He stole the dragon and you had taken his eye. Both acts are unforgivable in your book.

Being your father's daughter, your temper did not let you rest the case after the king declared it done. While they were preparing to depart, you were fuming on your own, at the beach where the only mother you knew had been buried.

Your anger attracted something dark and sinister.

When the Cannibal had emerged from beyond the cliffs, you thought you were done for but it seemed he had other plans.

After years of dreaming of it, you finally claimed a dragon. And the first thing you did was attack the traitor and the thief. It was only thanks to your father and Caraxes intervening that the young prince could escape.

Even though your wild dragon was almost the size of Vhagar, Caraxes won the fight and got away unscathed as neither you nor the beast in tune with your emotions could either hurt your beloved father or his dragon.

Daemon always cherished you, his eldest, even though you did not have his last name. Your mother was a good friend of his and his Lady wife's, who was one of the women they had fun with, in their years of freely roaming the world. Daemon Targaryen never regretted having you, he was not ashamed of you and taught you to be proud of who you are. A dragon, free even of the name that burdened him with the shackles of his first marriage. And despite loving you unconditionally and as her own, Laena agreed that you would be better off without having their name to tie you down.

You owned the monicker of the 'Bastard Princess' just as proudly as the nickname your father gave you, 'Wild Fire'.

As you grew up, you learned to control your temper but meeting with the one-eyed prince turned you both back into petty children, fighting over a dragon you never really had a desire to own and an eye that you - deep, deep, deep down - truly regretted taking.

But the king, who was still more present than anyone in his family gave him credit for, saw beyond your anger, witnessing the regret every time you realised just how much your words cut into Aemond, deeper than your blade ever could. And Viserys smiled at the glimpses he saw his son gave you when he thought no one could see.

After the little time he had spent with his extended family, the king realized that after his death there would be no stopping their fighting. He hoped, of course, that his daughter could take the throne without an issue but he was also not as blind as they thought.

Looking down on the balcony, he saw you and Helaena sitting in the garden, while his son admired you from a distance.

Viserys smiled, a decision came to his heart rather than his weary mind and he ordered the Grand Maester to him, preparing a future where his family is untied by the two of you.

None of you knew of his last declare.

Only a day after the king's death, the throne taken by his eldest son, you received a message from the Grand Maester, who was residing outside the palace, in a somewhat neutral territory, as the guest of the Tyrells'.

Mere hours after your fight with Aemond and his dragon, and almost losing Luke, you prepare to make a journey, not knowing it would change your life forever.

• moodboards masterlist •

#moodboard #moodboards #aemond targaryen x reader #prince aemond #ameond targaryen #ameond targaryen x you #daemon targaryen x daughter!reader #aemond targaryen moodboard #my stuff #my fics #my boards

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brenninthetaylorverse · 9 months

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minor ☆ entp-t ☆ #1 false god fan ☆ virgo ☆ swiftie since 2017 ☆ pharbie since 2019 ☆ reading and writing are my favorite hobbies though I dabble in poetry and sewing ☆ I love looking at quotes that make me sob ☆ I have misophonia ☆ avid music listener ☆ songwriter but I don't sing my songs ☆ follower of liam mccay's many music projects ☆ she'll be the best you've ever had if you let her ☆

divider credit: @saradika

thank you guys! 296 followers is crazy!

i'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday everyday- I can do it with a broken heart by taylor swift

fav books: (and I literally mean all of them are my absolute favorites)

circe, speak, starfish, the book thief, ready player one, the hunger games series, the twilight series, the harry potter series (I hate jkr, she disgusts me), the percy jackson series<333, you've reached sam, the hate u give + on the come up

currently reading: good girl, bad blood by holly jackson

fav movies/tv shows:

the queen's gambit, speak, all of the twilight movies, gilmore girls, all of the hunger games movies + tbosas, shadow and bone, coraline, turning red, folklore: the long pond studio sessions, i am not okay with this (fav show ever!), miss americana, the rep stadium tour, the eras tour, hairspray

fav singers/bands: (in no particular order.

taylor swift, phoebe bridgers, mitksi, chappell roan, lorde, ethel cain, lana del rey, sabrina carpenter, the weeknd, chase atlantic, billie eilish, boygenius, alex g, hozier, florence + the machine, miserable teens club, sign crushes motorist, beach house, sleep token

random favs:

fall, anything that smells or tastes like pumpkin spice, cats, sweaters + cardigans, great penmanship, lip products, winning, validation, enemies to lovers, butterflies, sad quotes.

it's all in my head but I want nonfiction- hot to go by chappell roan

Do not interact with this page if you are: racist, perv/pedo, homophobe, fatphobe, etc.. I am not afraid and will not hesitate to block you if you give me a reason to.

my pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/brenninthetaylorverse/

my spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/314cvrd4k2w2zydvftoppeeqnyre

my goodreads (i don't post about what i read often but i read A LOT lol): https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/160044403-araya-taylor-s-version-from-the-vault

my album of the year: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/arayabrenn/

my best friend (literally go check her out she's amazing):♡@urfav-mirrorball♡

my alt poetry account that i post on sometimes: @theworldwillkeepspinning

#music ← where you can find my music<333

#brenn's moodboards! ← where you can find my moodboards<333

people who are awesome: @swiftieannah @justalunaticfangirl @blacknailedbird @thepoetsmanuscript @bvrgundys @foaming-sea @percabeths-blue-cookies @yesands @flwergirll @bluewhiteseagull @thetorturedpoetsdepartmentswift @giveuthemo0n @girlfailing @moonlightt444 @brightbookworm @bodybetters @lost-in-reveriie @mqstermindswift @urbanflorals @wonderfulpaper @elliedafish @the-red-archer @stop-ur-losing-me @in-the-sweet-november-rain @mayalovestay13 @skeelly @a-wondering-thought @dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies @svnflowermoon @astraeasparrow @evermore-4-life @holdmyteaplease @isitoversnowtvs @atwtmvftvtvsgavralpsss @folklore-girl @tisthedamnseason-writethisdown @someones-name-inserted-here @trying-to-be-cool-abt-it @jewelledmoths @imperpetuallylost @cherryswift13 @ava-taylors-version @callitwhatuwanttay~~~adore y'all so much

thanks for checking out my intro post! have an amazing day/night!

#music #brenn's moodboards!#billie eilish #mitski #chase atlantic #twilight saga #pumpkin spice #about myself #folklore the long pond studio sessions #about my blog #pinned post #welcome to my blog #blog intro #get to know the blogger #i love phoebe bridgers #taylor swift #ethel cain

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choicesbookclub · 2 months

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Welcome to the Choices Book Club! We are currently reading The Elementalists (book one). We are reading 2 chapters a week and new polls and questions will be posted every Saturday.

This Week’s Chapter: Chapter 11: Double, Double + Chapter 12: Toil and Trouble

Question(s) of the Week:

Did you let Atlas use the Moon Spell so you could see their memories? [Vote Here]

Did you see through the eyes of the Sentry? [Vote Here]

Did you let Beckett help you? [Vote Here]

Did you ask Atlas about your parents? [Vote Here]

How would you rate chapter 11? [Vote Here]

Did you help Beckett collect plants for extra credit? [Vote Here]

Did you purchase the stealth outfit? [Vote Here]

Did you help Aster organize the shop? [Vote Here]

Did you use the red (fire) orb? [Vote Here]

How would you rate chapter 12? [Vote Here]

Are you suspicious of any of MCs friends based on what Atlas said? Do you suspect any of the professors?

What is your MCs schedule like? In HS? At Penderghast? After graduation? [Info Post]

*If you have a question or poll you'd like to see me add, just let me know

Catch up on previous MC related prompts:

What is your MC's name? [MC Name] If you have or create a profile for your MC let me know and I can add it to our MC directory.

What does your MC's dorm room look like? [Share Dorm Room]

Tell us more about your Familiar [Info Post]

How does your MC feel about Thief? [Info Post]

What is your MCs taste in music? [Info Post]

What does MC keep on their desk? [Info Post]

How else to Participate:

Please note that the mod is working full time and has real life responsibilities, so reblogs may be delayed

Post reactions, screenshots, videos, ramblings, theories,… whatever comes to you while playing

Create drawings, edits, moodboards, fics, headcanons, songs, poems, etc based on the chapters and/or characters

Create a profile page for your MC and submit it to our MC directory

Catch up on any of the previous week's questions/prompts

Posts that tag @choicesbookclub and use “#choices book club” will be reblogged here. Please note that tags “#choices book club” seem to be more reliable than mentioning the blog.

If your post is not reblogged within 48 hours, please dm me a link @lovealexhunt. Thank you!

[Please read the full guide to the event and how to participate here]

#The elementalists #the elementalists book club #choices book club te #the elementalists book one #choices book club #choices #playchoices #beckett harrington #griffin langley #aster d'yew #shreya mistry #zeph hernandez

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mitskicoded · 11 months

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#the book thief #markus zusak #book quotes #the book thief moodboard #literature #reading #poetry #quotes

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white-poppie · 2 years

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ऐ वतन, वतन मेरे, आबाद रहे तू

मैं जहाँ रहूँ जहाँ में याद रहे तू

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."

-- Tryst with destiny, Jawaharlal Nehru

India was under the colonization of the British for almost 200 years. Starting from the Battle of Plassey in 1764 to 15th August 1947.

Not only did the British cause enormous damage to the wealth and resources of our nation, but they also caused a fatal wound to the pride of the people.

India can become 'Sone ki chiriya' or the golden bird again, but it won't be possible if the westernized ideology of inferiority doesn't leave our country.

The speech of Lord Macaulay in the British Parliament paints the generational trauma they inflicted upon us.

"I accept catholic beyond the across and across of India and I accept not apparent one getting who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such abundance I accept apparent in this country, such top moral values, humans of such calibre, that I do not anticipate we would anytime beat this country, unless we breach the actual courage of this nation, which is her airy and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I adduce that we alter her old and age-old apprenticeship system, her culture, for if the Indians anticipate that all that is adopted and English is acceptable and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their built-in self-culture and they will become what we ambition them, an absolutely bedevilled nation."

Find pride in your culture and celebrate the independence of our nation!

Jai Hind!// जय हिन्द!// جئے ہند!

Taglist: @sakinotfound, @navaratna, @arachneofthoughts @kaju-pista @hanji-boloji @ji-jii-visha @gaurisays @buttercupspotify @oikawatoorupdf @akumicchi

Moodboard Masterlist

╰┈➤ Book order details (Request Rules) ╰┈➤ Special customers(Taglist)

#indian chaotic academia #india #indian independence movement #white poppie🌼#indian independence day #Jai hind!#India #desi #desi culture #desi dark academia #desi tag #desiblr #desi academia #desi tumblr

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nemo-of-house-hamartia · 9 months

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Hiyo! Evening everyone!

Do you remember that Aesthetic game that I did for my characters a while back? well, I had these moodboards lying around from when I first started to draft this AU, so I decided to share them the same way I did my previous moodboard! so, here you have Dorothea, Colette and Lucia as their counterparts in my "The Witches of Månenshavn" story! Enjoy! <3

⭐DOROTHEA MORGENSTERN🔮

MOODBOARD

"Dorothea is a Lunar/Cosmic Witch. She is connected to the Night Sky, The Moon, the Stars, and the Celestial Bodies. She is mostly up at night, her head literally among the clouds, and works with crystals, compasses, and armillary spheres, studying the lunar Phases and the Planetary movement, being in deep contact with the Vault of Heaven and all the stars above. She has Seer powers, and her magick is connected to dreams and the future, and she leaves stardust as a trail behind her. Her familiar is a Raven that goes by the name of Belial. To her, it's connected the Element of Air, and hers are the Winds."

PLAYLIST:

"Caribbean Blue" - Enya "The Mystic's Dream" - Loreena McKennitt "Follow Me" - Celtic Women "The Arcana: Memory" - Keith Holden

QUOTES :

"If all you told was turned to gold If all you dreamed was new Imagine sky-high above In Caribbean blue" ― Enya, Caribbean Blue

“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ― Janos Arany

“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

🌹COLETTE DE BEAUMONT🐈‍⬛

MOODBOARD

"Colette is a Hearth/Green Witch. She is the literal Heart of the house in Månenshavn, and she generally can be found either in her garden tending to the herbs she needs for her potions or in the kitchen, brewing all sorts of concoctions, oil, and balms, along with protective and cleansing spells. Her magick is connected to plants and nature, and her potions are known to be incredibly powerful. Her familiar is a Snake named Girouette. To her, it's connected the Element of the Earth."

PLAYLIST:

"The Arcana: Magic Hour" - Neil Cross "My Girlfriend is a Witch" - October Country "Mother Earth" - Within Temptation "Élan" - Nightwish

QUOTES :

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” ― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

📜 LUCIA BARBARIGO💀

MOODBOARD

"Lucia is the mischievous one, and she is a Death/Chaos Witch. She is the one that is most attuned with the Spirit world, and she is also the House Medium and the one that practices Divination through tea reading, runes, and tarot reading. She is also the one responsible to create an antidote to poisons, and she is generally found in the kitchen side by side with Colette, often bickering because of the dangerous ingredients Lucia uses. She is the most mysterious of the three, and has quite the impish sense of humor, if a little morbid. Her familiar is an owl named Vieri. She also has a normal cat, Martino, who is always up to bother Dorothea's Belial. To her, it's connected the Element of Fire."

PLAYLIST:

"The Dark Ones" - Karliene "Ballo in F♯ Minore" - Angelo Branduardi "The Circle" - Blackmore's Night "Savage Daughter" - Ekaterina Shehelova

QUOTES :

"Sono io la morte e porto corona Io son di tutti voi signora e padrona E davanti alla mia falce il capo tu dovrai chinare E dell 'oscura morte al passo andare"

― Angelo Branduardi, "Ballo in F♯ Minore"

“Even death has a heart.” ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

#The Witches of Månenshavn #Dorothea Morgenstern #Colette De Beaumont #Lucia Barbarigo #my ocs #my writing #moodboards #witches #Witch!AU

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carewyncromwell · 10 months

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“I’ve always been a smart girl... Always made the grade -- always got the gold star -- I’ve always been a smart girl, But ‘smart girl’ only gets a girl so far... You win at every single game... You want a quest -- they tell you, ‘tough!’ If you don't go, you'll never know If you’ll ever be good enough...”

~“My Grand Plan” from The Lightning Thief (musical)

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Hey all! I thought I’d go ahead and draw up a proper concept for my HPMA girl Anastasia “Ana” Read, since quite frankly I never envisioned her as skinny, short, or talkative as MC in the game is. The lack of body diversity in the MC’s models in particular, or even among MC’s friends, is actually one of my biggest hang-ups with all of the recent Hogwarts games...as much as I understand up to a point thinking it’d be difficult to program a lot of different outfits or animations for different size models, it’s still a little sad to me how the player character is always programmed to be skinny, and in Magic Awakened in particular, that favoring of skinny character designs is only accented all the more thanks to the quasi-Tim-Burton-esque animation style, which favors toothpick-thin necks and limbs. It’s one of the few aspects of poor representation in Rowling’s original books that I would argue these recent games haven’t tried as hard to address -- we’ve seen attempts at more LGBT+ representation, as well as more positive representation for different cultural backgrounds and disabilities (especially in Hogwarts Mystery), but not as much in regards to rounder body types. And I guess for me, being raised by a woman who struggled with her weight her entire life, that’s a little sad. Regardless, it was nice to draw Ana again after such a long time, particularly using the original game’s model as a kick-off point!

If you’d like to learn more about my “Strong But Silent,” daydreamer, Sailor-Moon-loving girl Ana, here’s a masterpost of links to get you started!! Enclosed under the cut is the original unedited sketch, embellished with some extra messy chibi doodles of Ana I did on the same page, in case you’re interested!

Ana’s Moodboard

Ana’s Intro Post and Model Sheet

Ana’s Playlist

Meet Ana’s awesome step-dad, Bradley!

See Ana’s dynamic with her stepdad and stepbrothers!

Bradley’s Moodboard

Preston’s Moodboard

Jasper’s Moodboard

Why Bradley is the best dad ever

The first doodle is kind of based on that first pair of duels with the Frey twins and Cassandra Vole in the game. As I discussed with my friend @dat-silvers-girl, I see Ana being suuuuper quiet the entire time, to the point that everyone thinks she’s really shy or nervous, until she -- seemingly out of nowhere -- uses Wingardium Leviosa to levitate poor Colby a good five feet off the ground and then abruptly drop him, effectively putting an end to the duel before it even got started. (As it turned out, Ana was really inspired by Flitwick’s story about Ron Weasley using the spell on that mountain troll to protect his friends and worked super hard to master the spell herself, with the thought that maybe she could do something that cool someday. It ends up becoming one of Ana’s favorite spells to duel with, though she usually uses it to levitate herself over her opponents to give herself the literal “high ground.”) Ana accepted Cassandra’s invitation to the Dueling Club, as well as challenges Cassandra on the dueling field several more times over the years, out of her strong sense of honor, which is funnily enough rather akin a knight’s -- Ana will never back down from a challenge, and if her loved ones or her view of common decency have been insulted, she will absolutely ask to “take it outside” and fight the dispute out on the dueling field, rather than insult the person back, ignore them, or actively lose her temper and attack them straight out.

The second doodle is Ana in class, a good chunk of the time. Ana isn’t actually that shy, nor is she stuck-up, but she’s much better at writing eloquent essays than coming up with witty phrases or sassy one-liners on a whim. And because of how incredibly sensitive she secretly is (and the bullying she experienced for both her magic and her weight), she’s actually kind of hard to get to know, preferring the company of her fiction books to lots of people. She’s honestly a true “Belle” type, if one thinks of Beauty and the Beast, despite being in the house of Lions.

The last doodle is of Ana with Daniel Page, because, amazingly, these two are on the exact same wave length when it comes to the Statute of Secrecy, though for very different reasons! Ana’s stepfather, Bradley Pinkstone, is a pro-Muggle and Squib rights activist who passionately believes that the Wizarding World should find a way to work alongside the Muggle World, to the extent that the Statute of Secrecy isn’t necessary -- he and his sons even work in a theater alongside Muggles everyday, embracing Muggle technology just as much as they do magic! With Ana being Muggle-born herself, she’s likewise very supportive of the thought that if the two worlds knew more about each other, other little magical kids wouldn’t have to grow up feeling like freaks and outcasts the way she did. That doesn’t mean that Ana would ultimately agree with NOTME’s tactics, though -- she thinks there’s a very big difference between protesting against an unjust law and causing abject terror and chaos. (I personally see Daniel as more of a Ravenclaw/Slytherin type than a Gryffindor type myself, but that’s just my headcanon.)

#hpma #magic awakened #anastasia read #my art #about anastasia #daniel page #cassandra vole #colby frey #fischer frey #bradley pinkstone

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no-where-new-hero · 8 months

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☕ - booktok and I'm cheating to add the state of YA in general 👀

Disclaimer at first that I don't have TikTok (proudly) so that my experience with social media book discourse is through Instagram (which also has a lot of TikToks transferred over, obviously) but I'm not sure if the IG algorithm shows me different things from what TikTok would. Anyway.

I'm going to start with the state of YA actually because I feel slightly more familiar with this but also I think BookTok/Bookstagram trends are absolutely contributing to its hellscape. I may have talked about this in the post about where LMM would be shelved, but I think YA is losing its own identity. It's no longer about finding your place in the world or coming to terms with identity or dealing with themes that will help provide a bridge between childhood and adulthood. Romantasy abounds as much as in adult fiction, maybe just with a little less sex (though that's debatable). Contemporary feels reducible to a Pinterest moodboard (Portrait of a Thief, which I honestly liked in a lot of ways, suffered from this in my opinion). Fantasy without romance is almost nonexistent, and SF is more and more negligible.

All of these issues are perpetuated by BookTok. In a small video, there's only so much of a story you can share. Romantic tropes, aesthetic pictures, over-the-top dramatic lines sell well on there because they're catchy and cater to a romance- and visual-centric society. But I think it has given the false impression that you can stretch a skin of plot over these bones and call it an animal, and because everyone is accepting that this is an animal, the proliferation of such simulacra continues. Especially when the plot itself is none too strong.

You mentioned the trope problem, and I'll drill down on it because I definitely see this as the fanficification of published literature and the deterioration of rigorous plotting: A, because people enjoy it. B, because a majority of new authors grew up in the fanfic heyday and cut their teeth on that style, so they no longer know how to break free of it. C, because it's easy: you have narrative assumptions baked into rivals to lovers, in there's-only-one-bed, the coffeeshop au, etc. They're in fanfic because they're easy and provide a handy template for the meat of the story, which is the characters. But translating that into original fiction runs the risk of creating a predictable story. Predictability can mean palatability, which doesn't hurt on the whole. But it again inscribes this misbelief that if that's all that's on the market, that's all that people want.

The publishing industry absolutely is perpetuating it too: to sell a book now, you need to give comparative titles, "the books yours will sit next to on a display." There's more and more pigeonholing, which the fanfic style enables.

I could also get into the moral turpitude of some of the books on there (cough anything by colleen hoover not to mention HAUNTING ADELINE cough) but that will sound unnecessarily judgy, so I won't. Suffice to say that I feel sorry for anyone trying to "become a reader" by taking their recommendations solely from an app driven by popularity, shock-value, and the cultural capital of prettiness and success.

(Okay I need a last footnote to say that I understand that ALL advertising is driven by popularity, shock-value, and cultural capital. But you remember in the old days when you could go into the library and find a dusty book that was published in like 1990 or something and it smelled like it was growing mildew and it probably had a horrible cover and the author was someone you'd never heard of and none of your friends knew what the book was but you would bring it home and it would completely change your brain chemistry and everything you thought about the world? THAT'S HOW YOU BECOME A READER FELLAS. As a librarian in training, I'm going to die on this hill.)

#i still want to reblog your other post with gogandmagog because you guys brought up other fabulous things i didn't have time to address here #blake’s last braincell #blake’s mail #blake's asks

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i-can-even-burn-salad · 1 year

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Glass Shards

[ID: The title of the story, glass shards, written in a white to pale blue gradient over a picture of a pile of colorful, scattered glass shards. All other images are divider lines, showing a row of glass shards in rainbow colors. End ID]

He seemed to be unconscious. Merridy’s heart beat up to her throat. She knew the rules: no witnesses. Never, under any circumstances, could she leave witnesses behind. But if she made it to the secret passage without him waking up…

📖 Synopsis

Dreams of lavender pillows and stained glass chickens

Merridy is a thief, finding herself in the dungeon after a burglary gone wrong. Locked cells cannot hold her, but the severely injured prisoner between her and her secret way out is a different story. Faced with the decision of having to either kill him or take him along, she doesn’t have to think twice.

Accused of high treason and tortured within an inch of his life, Damien knows he will die; the only question is whether the executioner or the infection will get him first. When a woman passes through his cell and insists on helping him escape, he is convinced it will only delay the inevitable.

But Merridy refuses to give up on him, hiding him from the guards and helping him recover. As they slowly get to know each other, they find they have more in common than they thought—perhaps enough to turn their forced companionship into true friendship.

📖 About

Genre: Fantasy/Romance

POV: Third person past tense, dual POV

Wordcount: approx. 130k

Status: Draft completed

Content Warnings: Graphic depictions of injuries, aftermath of torture, amputation, drowning, violence and (sexual) assault, bruises, broken ribs, talk about a past relationship of a minor with an unhealthy age/power dynamic, discussion of acephobia (some, but not all, internalized), talk about childhood abuse and alcoholism, character death (bad guys)

Vibes: dirty dungeon cells / “why are you doing this?” / sunsets at the beach / cheap inn rooms / light shimmering on broken glass / “please don’t leave me” / endless roads through lavender fields / running from the rain / “don’t touch her” / haunted by the past / holding hands / “you are enough”

Playlist | Moodboard | Character Art

📖 Cast

Merridy

“I’ve seen myself in you.”

She has come a long way from living on the streets, desperate to steal enough food to survive. But she hasn’t forgotten how it is to be all alone, with no hope left—and what it means to be shown a bit of kindness.

Damien

“What if I’ll always need you?”

After a lifetime of mistakes and pushing away people, the consequences of his crimes have finally caught up with him. He knows no one will miss him when he hangs—that is, until a stubborn thief decides he deserves a second chance.

Cedric

“You know the rules, Merry. No witnesses.”

All he wants is to enjoy the many amenities his definitely-not-legal lifestyle offers him; fine clothes, rare gems, and a good glass of alcohol. Injured prisoners crashing at his place are nowhere on that list.

Valadan

“Why did you come here?”

With the birth of his first child, he left the mercenary life behind, settling down with his family. Life could be perfect, if he didn’t know that the brother he left behind to die is somewhere out there, having sworn revenge.

📖 Tags

All story parts have been posted under the #Glass Shards tag, but they're better found on the masterlist.

There’s also tags for the characters, containing mostly ask game answers, but also the occasional other post:

#Damien is his own nightmare

#Merridy steals jewels and hearts

#Valadan doesn’t like glass

#Cedric doesn’t wanna deal with this shit

This one's a bit different than my other WIP. For a year, I have been posting Glass Shards as I wrote it. Chapter 50 has dropped on May 10th, exactly one year after I started.

I will, eventually, edit it properly and put it into a book-appropriate form (ebook/pdf). Since I wrote Merridy's backstory in Nuisance, a few minor details will need to be adjusted along the way as well. But, as far as the story goes, it is complete.

Chronological order of the stories following the life of Merry and Damien:

Nuisance > Undeserved > Glass Shards > Fancy Boots.

All of those are very dear to me, but Glass Shards is the edited translation of the story that started it all; the ace love story I wanted, but couldn't find, so I made it myself.

#Glass Shards #wip intro #writeblr #As of last night I can say: I AM DONE #Guys you have no idea how happy I am #happy and a bit sad but it's been a year and I definitely can use the break :D #(before I start with the editing sometime this summer)#I decided on a wip intro for now because unlike Nuisance it will take forever for the epub version to be done #Also I wanted to put fun rainbow divider lines somewhere #🌈🌈

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