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e-c-guyot-blog · 1 month

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La lumière de la Fantasy...

Fontaine : les mythes, les légendes, le folklore, et maintenant les romans! J’ai toujours adoré chercher le symbolisme humain derrière toutes les histoires fantastiques! Mademoiselle Melusine : et puis vous rencontrez un loup-garou pour la première fois… Emilie C. Guyot est une auteure de romans fantastiques et fantasy qui vous entraînent dans son imaginaire sans limite. Ne partez pas sans la…

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#citation #fantastique #fantasy #imaginaire #inspiration #littérature #livre #magie #mots #paroles #roman #terry windling #windling

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pratchettquotes · 1 year

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Happy Birthday, Sir Terry.

It was later that the story of Windle Poons really came to an end, if "story" means all that he did and caused and set in motion. In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away--until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#windle poons #gnu terry pratchett #reaper man #discworld #terry pratchett #happy birthday #in memory #life #death #stories #meaning of life #ripples #good work #the real morris dance #his story lives on

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six-of-ravens · 5 months

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it kinda hit me today that the main reason I'm so done with the "romantasy" and fairy tale retellings trends are that I'm just so tired of the same few plots being recycled over and over. and like, i know a lot of people are still into those and I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade bc there are definitely plots and tropes I will endlessly shove into my brain!! but it's just wearing on me a lot that the same handful of fairy tales and Greek myths are being spat out again and again, with a different setting and a different romantic lead and hey maybe sometimes it's queer but it's still the same thing. a lot of times especially in YA it's basically a retelling of the fucking Disney movie.

like, unless you've deconstructed a fairy tale and broken it down to it's component parts and researched it heavily and built it back up as something you have to think about for a while to pick the fairy tale out of, I'm not really interested anymore. give me more Jane Yolen Briar Rose, hell even more Pamela Dean Tam Lin even though I was kinda on the fence about that one. I want thinkers, man.

#i am shedding books like a second skin right now yall #also trying to figure out why im not super enthusiastic about A Study in Drowning even though I've loved Reid's other books #terri windling please come out of retirement and save us from this hell. we need real folklore scholars in publishing again #sorry I'm being so hypercritical of books today lmao im Working Some Things Out i think

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dimity-lawn · 6 months

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Poons on the Spoons.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #hogswatch #elf on the shelf meme #windle poons #wizard #zombie #undead #vitally challenged #differently alive #reaper man #moving pictures #holiday #seasonal

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mrscakeishere · 8 months

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So this post is going to be a bit weird, but, bear with me.

I have these four plants. Seriously, bear with me. And for whatever reason, I decided to give them names: two are Good Omens characters, and two are from Discworld. Three of the plants are doing wonderfully-they're happy, healthy, growing like crazy.

Then, there's Windle Poons.

Windle Poons appears to be dying. At the same time, Windle Poons is not entirely ready to give up the ghost, as he recently made a new leaf.

If you've read Reaper Man, you'll know that there are some striking similarities between Windle Poons the plant and Windle Poons the wizard (mostly the dying part). So now, I can't help but wonder if I unknowingly cursed my plant by naming it.

Anyway, moral of the story is, be careful if you name your plants.

Also, does anyone know how to save Windle Poons? I've been trying a variety of things I've seen online to no avail.

#discworld #reaper man #terry pratchett #plants #plant health #Plant problems #I'm sorry Windle Poons please don't become a zombie plant

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innervoiceartblog · 4 days

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The Night Journey

~ by Terri Windling

Go by coombe, by candle light,

by moonlight, starlight, stepping stone,

and step o'er bracken, branches, briars,

and go tonight, and go alone,

go by water, go by willow,

go by ivy, oak and ash,

and rowan berries red as blood,

and breadcrumbs, stones, to mark the path;

find the way by water's whisper,

water rising from a womb

of granite, peat, of summer heat,

to slake your thirst and fill the coombe

and tumble over moss and stone

and feed the roots of ancient trees

and call to you: go, now, tonight,

by water, earth, phyllomancy,

by candle flame, by spirit-name,

by spells, by portents, myth and song,

by drum beat, heart beat, earth pulsing

beneath your feet, calling you home,

calling you back, calling you through

the water, wood, the waste, the wild,

the hills where Dartmoor ponies pass,

and black-faced sheep, a spectral child,

a fox with pale unnatural eyes,

an owl, a badger, ghostly deer

with horns of star light, candle light

to guide the way, to lead you here,

to lead you to the one who waits,

who sits and waits upon the tor,

he waits and watches, wondering

if you're the one he's waiting for;

he waits by dawn, by dusk, by dark,

by sun, by rain, by day, by night,

his hair as black as ravens' wings,

his eyes of amber, skin milk white,

his skin tattooed with spiral lines

beneath a mask of wood and leaves

and polished stone and sun-bleached bone,

beneath a shirt of spiders' weave,

his wrists weighted with silver bands

and copper braids tarnished to green,

he waits for you, unknown and yet

familiar from forgotten dreams;

you dream and stir upon your bed

and toss and turn among the sheets,

the wind taps at the window glass

and water tumbles through the leat

and through the garden, through the wood,

and over moss and over stone

and tells you: go, by candle light,

and go tonight, and go alone;

he's sent you dreams, he's left you signs,

he's left you feathers, beads and runes,

so go, tonight, by candle light,

by ash and oak, by wood, by coombe.

Digital Collage Artwork : The Night Journey by Raine © Inner Voice Art™

#The Night Journey #terri windling #poem #Inner Voice Art #Raine @ Inner Voice Art #digital collage #life #journey #art and soul #heart and soul #story

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raan-miir-tah · 18 days

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new more examples I made for the new base in my FR adopt shop!

#kaan’s #flight rising #dragons #pixel art #windle didnt get one bc i didnt want to draw his gas mask

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godzilla-reads · 4 months

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☀️ Morning Reading in Progress ☀️

#godzilla reads #the faery reel #Ellen datlow #Terri windling #fairy books #reading #book blog #bookworm #booklr #book covers #fantasy books #bookish

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ethereallad · 4 months

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Tanith Lee Roundtable

The roundtable discussion, entitled Storyteller: The Legacy and Work of Tanith Lee panel discussion is now available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube. The Outer Dark hosted the panel, which will be on the OD podcast sometime in the future. I had a blast talking with and listening to fellow panelists editor/author Terri Windling, scholars Lisa Kröger, and Melanie R Anderson. The panel was…

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#Tanith Lee #terri windling #the outer dark #Youtube

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couldtransitionsaveher · 4 months

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WINDLE POONS from REAPER MAN (DISCWORLD)

JUSTIFICATION:

"She's 130 something years old and spent her entire life feeling like she was living it on autopilot and never experiencing the things it had to offer. She mentioned at one point that she would like to reincarnate as a woman and live a life full of adventure. Her arc is about coming back as a zombie (kinda) and meeting a bunch of queer coded societal outliers and finally feeling like she's alive and present. So I suppose she may not be in need of saving anymore, but maybe transition could have saved her sooner" - Anonymous

Reminder: Submissions are always open! Submit here!

#could transition have saved her #windle poons #reaper man #discworld #transgender #trans hc #anonymous submission

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fruitytrollroll · 1 year

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hi ho, hellmaiden 😈`💞

#wendellkat #wendell x kat #windle and wyld #<- if you don't want to see this then i recommend blocking these three tags #wendell and wild #wendell and wild fanart #fanart #kat elliot #my art #demon x human #monster boyfriend #look #we all wanted one at her age #i just think they both deserve nice things #but if yall arent ready to hear that w/k/w is the thematic heart and soul of the ENTIRE MOVIE #then that's fine we dont have to agree #wendell and wild movie #wendell and wild film #wendell and wild 2022

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pratchettquotes · 2 years

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And suddenly it dawned on the late Windle Poons that there was no such thing as somebody else's problem, and that just when you thought the world had pushed you aside it turned out to be full of strangeness. He knew from experience that the living never found out half of what was really happening, because they were too busy being the living. [...]

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and the mundane. But it was strange. It had things in it like screws that unscrewed themselves, and little written messages for the dead.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

#windle poons #reaper man #discworld #terry pratchett #zombies #perspective #responsibility #problems #agency #life #experience #meaning of life #reality #ignorance #mystery #the strange and the wonderful #somebody else #no such thing #somebody else's problem

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checkoutmybookshelf · 1 year

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Fae books are some of my favorite, so in honor of my favorite Irish poet, let's have a quick round-up of books with Fae!

OR Melling's The Chronicles of Faerie Series, which includes The Hunter's Moon, The Summer King, The Light Bearer's Daughter, and The Book of Dreams

Literally 99% of everything Juliet Marillier has ever written, with Dreamer's Pool and Wildwood Dancing being my favorites

Brittany N. Williams's That Self-Same Metal

Not one of my favorites, but Holly Black's The Cruel Prince has a metric ton of fae

Terri Windling's The Raven Queen (and the rest of the Voyage of the Basset Series)

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl and The Fowl Twins series

CE Murphy's Walker Papers series and Negotiator Trilogy

Illona Andrews's Magic Bites

Olivia Atwater's Regency Faerie Tales trilogy

Herbie Brennan's The Faerie Wars Chronicles

Gail Carson Levine's books, including Ella Enchanted, The Two Princesses of Bamarre, and The Princess Tales volumes 1 and 2

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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dimity-lawn · 5 months

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Windle on the Spindle.

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troubled-bog-witch · 2 years

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The VIOLENCE of the contrast between the A plot and the B plot in Reaper Man is killing me. Teehee look at this undead wizard! And his silly undead friends! They are fighting compost heaps that's wild! Meanwhile in an insignificant village in the mountains Mr. Bill Door has just invented six new emotions and I'm feeling them all at once

#reaper man #discworld #magpie does discworld #magpie rambles #books #fucking #what can the harvest hope for #oh my GOD dude #rip to windle poons id love to care about you unfortunately you share a book with bill door

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sarahthecoat · 24 days

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I know I saw somewhere on here a post about Neil Gaiman being selected to give a talk, the Tolkien Lecture, and it included a link to their youtube page where you can listen to the earlier talks. I can't find that post (thought I RB it but maybe not, or maybe it was really more than a week ago? time does fly at this time of the year) or I would append this link to it. BUT ANYWAY I just listened to Terri Windling's talk and it's great! and there are several more to catch up with before Neil's talk gets added to the list.

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#Terri Windling #Tolkien Lecture #reflections on fantasy literature #to listen #to watch #Youtube

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