#also dustfinger

[mad-des-sun]

Watching Inkheart for the first time in years, it’s so cozy and wow did it have a huge impact on my sense of aesthetics/ personal style

#eccentric old lady with lots of books #corduroy and overalls with fun socks #various medival/fantasy looks #also dustfinger

[nejackdaw]

A collection of memes I made while rereading the Inkheart trilogy, of varying effort (incl. the inspirational quotes)

Inkspell 📜

For the life of me I can't find the exasperated lines from both of them that sparked this but this was the vibe (<- forgot to write it down)

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(Dustfinger) "'But I will not take a sword in my hand, if that's what you're hoping. You know I'm no good with such things.'" // (Mo) "And Mo felt a dragging sensation in his breast, as if his hatred had given birth to something, something that wanted to kill." // (Resa) "It was Mortola who taught her to hate." // (Farid) "'We can cut their throats before they make a sound. It will be easy!'" // (Meggie) "I hope you catch the plague here and drop dead like flies."

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"'There's a story... Roxanne knows it,' he said. '... Tell her I'm going to find out if the story is true.'"

❤️📜💀❤️📜💀❤️📜💀❤️📜💀

Inkdeath 💀

"Loving someone merely meant pain. Nothing but pain."

"'Write what you like,' replied Mo, cutting through the leather again. The bookbinder wouldn't feel the words."

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"It sounded as if his mother were breaking into small pieces... But he wanted to keep her... He wanted to go back to Ombra. That was his castle. He was frightened of his grandfather..." // "'Your grandfather has a son now. So his grandson doesn't count for much...'"

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He wished them all to hell. Orpheus and the Piper and his grandfather. He wanted to be like the Bluejay and the Black Prince--and then he'd kill them all. Every last one of them." // "He opened it, and Mo forgot to breathe. Pages soaked in blood. Jacopo was looking at him... Mo clutched the pencil in his fingers and opened the White Book."

"His mere name used to quicken her pulse, but now she hardly listened as he told her about his plans... Her heart leaped only when... Doria was suddenly standing there in front of her." (Girl if I had to play second fiddle to my bf he'd be gone too)

#inkheart #inkspell #inkdeath #think the last time i read them all i was in middle school. now here i am with a degree lol #i couldnt stop thinking about the inkheart movie now here i am again #anyway enjoy the memes like i enjoyed the reread #and also making the memes #please enjoy the dustfingers rough day one specifically its my baby #anyway i kept reading lines about jacopo to my roomie and wed both stare at each other and go 'DO IT. JACOPO.' #JACOPO. IGNORE ALL OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS. REVEAL THE WHITE BOOK #also ignore the fact i used merida for that one meme idk any other redheaded children off the top of my head #you go you deranged little nine year old #ALSO s/o to 'i know little of killing but i could learn for you' get his ass dustfinger #theres a few more memes but tumblr cut me off on adding images so you get only the finest selection lol

[schleierkauz]

OH??? (tcor spoilers/new character)

If you scroll down to the "product description by the publisher" section on the tcor amazon page there's THIS:

(Translation beneath the cut)

...so that's almost definitely the final version of dryope from chapter 14, right?

Lilia

As a young girl, Lilia spent a year living with Roxane and was like a little sister to Jehan and Brianna

She lives with the "Women in the Forest" and is a sort of plant whisperer. Plants obey her the same way fire obeys Dustfinger.

Her forehead is covered with plant tattoos: Brambles, thistles, a wild rose.

#inkworld #tcor spoilers #FORREAL THIS TIME #jkghkjhfglkhjgfkjhgf is she still a whole witch? because then she would be VERY young for one considering they live like hundreds of years #but maybe that changed as well #i just. god. LIKE A LITTLE SISTER TO JEHAN AND BRIANNA #BRIANNA #LIKE A LITTLE SISTER TO #AGHGHG #also lmao at 'women in the forest'? do they mean the moss women? #or is it just like a commune? #and are they even called moss women? i'm so sorry idk all the translations. nettle's people. #...no i cant get over it do you UNDERSTAND. roxane all by herself with two kids. taking in another little girl. #or maybe roxane with that presumably pretty okay guy that was jehans father EITHER WAY i. cornelia. #also what level of 'plants obey her like the fire obeys dustfinger' are we talking here? barely? #or is she out there landscaping the wayless woods? #i. need to go to bed.

[painted-fanbird]

Please consider: chronic father-figure Dustfinger

He just can’t stop being a dad to every unattended child he finds, especially young girls (because he has daughters), and it’s a problem. He’s returning to the strolling players camp with this third teenaged girl of the week and it’s just “what’ve you got there Dustfinger?”

“A smoothie”

#bird caws #inkheart #Dustfinger #I think he’s always been like this btw #he’s got a protective streak in him #it’s just way worse post-canon XD #The Black Prince rolls with this because #a) that’s his best friend #and b) he’s also got a protective streak so he can’t even argue lol #farid turns into a chronic brother figure btw #either the fun older brother or mischievous younger brother #depending on how old whoever Dustfinger has adopted for the day is XD

[straightfacedstrangeness]

Just watched Inkheart for the first time since it came out and it’s a reasonably good adaptation of the book (it’s a story about book characters coming to life and real people going into book worlds, of course it’s a fave of mine) but I’m LOSING IT over the overly-sappy we-have-to-check-EVERY-SINGLE-BOX-for-a-happy-ending ending. Especially Fenoglio. In the book the rewritten story is just about taking out the bad guys and Fenoglio just happens to go into the book by equivalent exchange, something going in every time something comes out. In the movie monsters are rampaging around and Meg just read the bad guy to death and Fenoglio just calls out from across the courtyard “Hey Meg? 🥺” and she goes “I gotchoo 👍 ‘Also the author got to live in his book’” and they lock eyes and smile as he disappears. Get you a pal like that

#‘also all the characters go back into their books but ONLY the ones in my line of sight #cus it’s narratively important that Dustfinger doesn’t go back yet’ #inkheart #rambling

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

GUYS

I READ A WHOLE BOOK IN ONE DAY GUYS

I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS FOR YEARS

Now, the book in question wasn’t long (less than 300 pages) but still, I started and finished it in one day and I’m proud of myself for it. I have had a lot of trouble reading in the past 3 or so years and an even harder time FINISHING a story. But I got through this one!!

The book in question is the first book in the Skyborn series, “Sparrow Rising” which I got on my last bookstore haul trip. And yes I did literally get it because it was about kids with wings and I was quietly hoping that my obsession with Artham in the Wingfeather Saga, my favorite winged human, would carry over into this. Apparently it worked!

Quick little review/synopsis if you’re interested: So at first this appears to be a typical coming-of-age story with the protagonist, Ellie, trying to win a flying race to prove herself worthy of being a defender of the kingdom, a “Goldwing”. She forfeits the race when she finds an injured boy in the field they’re flying over and ends up traveling with him and his thieving misfit friends to the capital to try and enter the kingdom-wide race to join the Goldwings. Amidst the typical coming of age storyline, however, you have magical evil gargoyles that descend out of clouds to straight up murder anyone they encounter outside of a shelter. There is no known explanation for them except myths and legends. There’s also a magical stone that has HEALING POWERS, a floating castle, all the kids have tragic backstories/special powers/abilities/secrets, corrupt rulers, and a surprisingly good lesson about idealism and black-and-white thinking. It’s got some pretty good worldbuilding and plenty of mystery going on that kept me intrigued. Also, unimportant detail but one of the kiddos has a horned marten and I’m cracking up because I’ve never heard of them being used in a story besides the Inkheart books so I’m over here like, “did the author read those and just really like gwin?” because that’s the vibe I get and I love it.

All in all I’d give it probably 4 stars, it was a good little read and helped me stave off a migraine and distracted me from the power being out today.

#reading #books #readers #this is kind of a big thing for me #the struggle has been real #skyborn #sparrow rising #book review #very amused that the last time I read a book about misfit kids with wings was the maximum ride books and I was like 13 ajgjkhahjgdkajf #artham would adopt all these children in a heartbeat #he just comes home with them and beams at arundelle like 'look I found little bird children can I keep them?' and she can't say no #ahjgagdkas also the kid with the horned marten is really good with animals just like dustfinger this theory holds weight xD

[cafffine]

rereading the Inkheart series for the first time since I was a kid KILL ME. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#story about stories of all time. I think about dustfinger nearly dying to protect his story but being frightened that #he might read the ending and I vomit #also found out that Funke supports the transsexuals and the transgenders and all those heathens so i’m at peace #double shot

[pallases]

HELP forgot how much i used to talk like a victorian child

#as you may know i went to europe over summer break and one of the cities my father and i temporarily resided in was paris france. oh how i #wish i could go back for i do think i took it for granted WRDHFN #i was 11 when i wrote this. #[the paintings] were beautiful and how i wish i had one with me right now! #aunt bridget said she thought it to be rather dirty… this is so funny #personal #wait i mention at the end that im in the middle of little women LMFAO that would explain it #‘i would absolutely love to go to athens greece for ive taken quite the interest in greek mythology’ WE MADE IT BABE so glad i stopped #speaking like this tho #also there is scribbled out inkheart fanfiction in here from like a year before. i miss u dustfinger

[kennabeth]

I really really love how the one time the book asks "and how did farid get into this situation in the first place? what of his birth family" he just says "bunch of bitches" and the book moves on lmao

#i mean the implication that they were abusive is very present #but alao you spend 1200 pages going hmm i wonder if he was orphaned and thats why the bandits got him #and hes suddenly like no they're probably fine wish they weren't tho fuck them #*also #daily reminder i love farid like hes a real kid #[beating dustfinger up] MY son #says kenna #oh wait i remembered he told roxane truthfully that his birth mother is probably dead hmmmmmmm #wonder why he thinks that #PLEASE farid backstory in tcor PLEASE #i know his whole thing is like. shedding his identity whenever he gets sent to another world but baby that's a trauma response:( #inkheart #farid

[laylanatorseventeen]

Oh my god I just started listening to the inkspell audiobook and I'm about to die Why does Orpheus have what seems to be an American Southern accent. What the FUCK. I can accept Dustfingers weird Scottish/English accent because altho I failed to realize it as a child, the inkheart universe is set in Europe. BUT WHY. WHY BRENDAN FRASER WHY DID YOU DO THIS

#inkheart #im dying #also if he doesnt start speaking up and enunciating bwtter when he does Dustfinger i might have to get a refund #but as i said i JUST started #Orpheus's voice just took me the FUCK out on like the second sentence he says

[gaygollum]

been a long week at the being insane about media factory

#finally caught up on foundation 🫡 #the last doom patrol episode was saur good #and im halfway through he who drowned the world and ouyang and zhu make me craaaazy #like ive been genuinely deranged all week. as a culmination of these things #also on wednesday i remembered dustfinger existed so i was pacing the floors abt him for awhile. living alone is not good for me i think #mine

[awkward-cantaloupe]

still going insane that Caleb Widogast is basically just Staubfinger from the Tintenherz series

#Bruh they are the same #Depressed #I’m pretty sure in the book he had red hair #German #Also fire related #critical role #caleb widogast #inkheart #tintenherz #dustfinger

[swugflower]

You know I was bored and read through the Inkheart and Basta tag and… uhhhh… some of you have taken the characters and story points a lot more serious than I did?

I read that book the first time when I was about 8 and since then about 10 more times and I don’t think my understanding of the book ever got deeper than it was reading the first time lol

Everyone out here analyzing the relationships between background characters, attachment styles, once mentioned character traits and stuff.

Like everyone analyzing Basta???? And it’s so good???!??? I just wanted to fuck him and that’s all I ever thought about him?

#and everyone likes staubfinger a lot more than I do #what’s his English name? #dustfinger #i hate the English names #who is Firefox? #I only found out who this adderal guy is #natternkopf #also I have read book 2 and 3 and some 7 years and I have legit no idea what I’d happening in them #Inkheart #inkspell #inkdeath #BTW I mean that in a hood way #you should think more about characters than wanting to duck them #swugs ted talk #Tintenherz #tintenblut #tintentod

[schleierkauz]

tiny little cornelia promo interview has me severely compromised

this one

at no point does she say anything she hasn't said before (& that i haven't documented before somewhere in the bookshop Q&A translations) but STILL. her summary of what she can tell us about the story made me Unwell (putting the translation beneath a cut just to be safe)

"Well, the way I write is that I don't want to know anything… don't want to know too much about the labyrinth I'm entering. For me, the excitement of writing is about not knowing what the story will eventually reveal to me. So I'm not going to spoil the adventure the readers hopefully have waiting for them too much. It's about revenge. The title says as much. Orpheus' revenge on Dustfinger. And you could say the revenge of a reader on a character he once loved very much. For that character not loving him back. It is also about the question whether words are more powerful than images. It's also about being young and getting older. It's about a thousand - hopefully - themes so every reader can pick something out that speaks to their own life. Something they never thought about before. I hope it will be a journey from which you can bring back plenty of images and many places you might like to travel to."

#info #tcor #tcor spoilers #not really if you've been reading my posts but yknow #i can translate the whole thing if yall want but it's really genuinely nothing new lmao i'm just emotional #hearing her refer to dustfinger and the black prince as the main characters felt great tho #she's hinted before at that theme of young vs old and turning from one into the other i cannot wait to find out what that means exactly #i have thoughts #also probably very relatable to like 80% of the people waiting to read this book lmao #i have backpain #i remember finishing inkdeath while sitting high up in a tree. probably wont do that this time #oh i also love how she doesnt mince words when it comes to orpheus obsession #new theory: the gay character is just orpheus and he confesses moments before being blown up by magical witch TNT

[fenixburned]

head empty just thinking about the illustrations by alice cao for the 20th anniversary edition of inkheart 😭😭

#tbd #THE MO ILLUSTRATION 😭😭😭 #& also the second one is him reading capricorn; basta & dustfinger out of the book & i'm 🥹🥹🥹 #I want this edition so badly but it's far too expensive and i cry :)))

[teresafolchart]

Fic Snippet for Inkworld Appreciation Day 2 (@inkworld-appreciation-week): Alternate Universe. Resa and Dustfinger manage to escape even though she was bitten by a snake. An unlikely reunion follows.

Resa stood in the sallow light of the drink coolers at the back of the convenience store, trying to remember what cold felt like. Her whole body was flushed with warmth, sweat making the ill-fitting clothes Dustfinger had found for her stick to her oddly. She imagined that the old fluorescent lights did nothing for her complexion, but it seemed the cashier was watching Dustfinger with more concern. The man was loitering by the fresh local fruit, speaking in low tones to the marten on his shoulder. His scars were what set him at a disadvantage here.

Though with her limp and obviously feverish appearance, Resa certainly wasn’t one to talk.

Not that she could if she wanted to. Not without her pencil and a great deal of patience by the other party, anyways.

She had finally decided on the largest bottle of water in the display, despite the price, when the bell on the door of the shop rang. Through the opening door voices leaked in: the whine of a little girl and the laugh of her father.

“You know why you can’t stay in the car Meggie, plus this will only take a minute.”

Resa’s heart stopped. At that moment she was certain the fever had finally gotten to her, and that now she was hallucinating in the back of a convenience store.

Dustfinger had slunk over beside her, “We should go.”

She stared at him through the glass door between them, incredulous.

Behind them she could hear Mo asking the cashier for directions, striking up an easy conversation in the process.

She exhaled onto the glass, causing it to fog. Go? she wrote.

“Resa,” Dustfinger whispered, almost pleading. He knew.

She snorted, and turned back to the cooler, grabbing the largest water bottle from the bottom shelf. It was cold against her hand. Grounding her as she spiraled. Was this really happening here, now?

She exhaled again, silently, and squared her shoulders. Closed the cooler door mechanically. One step at a time, Resa, she told herself.

She turned, and found herself staring at the top of his head as he leaned slightly forward, grabbing something on the opposite side of the shelf between them. His daughter-their daughter-was by his side, a bag of some sour candy in her hands. Meggie stared curiously at the odd pair across from her.

Mo straightened. His face still betrayed his every thought and feeling, even after all of this time. “Resa,” he says, hoarsely.

She can tell he hasn’t even noticed Dustfinger yet, but he will, and there will be even more questions. She holds her water bottle out to him, over the shelf between them, and inclines her head towards the exit. He takes the bottle from her, a slight tremor in his hand, and nods, once. They will properly reunite outside.

She doesn’t know if he is watching her as she limps towards the door, but she hears her daughter whisper (quite loudly, she thinks), “Mo, who is that?”

She doesn’t catch the answer, but she knows the interaction will come soon enough. She leans against the front of the shop, (Dustfinger to her left, agitated but trying to hide it), and tries to figure out how to explain everything with so little paper, and so little time.

#inkworld appreciation week 2022 #resa folchart #dustfinger #mo folchart #the shelves are like half height #short enough to see across easily #also resa is suffering from a probably infected snake bite because she’s been walking/running on it #she and dustfinger are being pursued by people from capricorn’s village bc duh #anyways i might right more of this au someday if people are interested #i can cross post this on AO3 when i have the time but i’m lowkey in the middle of moving rn #also sorry for no read more i am on mobile rn💔💔💔 bc moving