#ascendance of a bookworm

[monster-gender]

Part 5 is really funny because what do you mean THREE morons knocked up their wives at an extremely inopportune moment

#i dont even mean moron in a malicious way its just #how else do you describe it lmao #ascendance of a bookworm

[rollanan]

since Myne had made a homestuck reference i am obligated to draw this

#myne #rozemyne #ascendance of a bookworm #homestuck #art #Myne Motosu is a valid kid name

[aubdrewanchel]

I wanted to make the anime Myne more novel accurate (read cuter):

(original x adjusted)

#If Charlotte isn't cute in the next season ima throw hands #ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #ascendance of a bookworm light novel #Ascendance of a bookworm anime

[drcatco]

Ascendance of a Bookworm P5V11P1

Hildebrand still has hope. Although his schtappe does not have all the elements and only has the capacity of that of an archduke candidate, he can become an expert in magical tools, which would allow him to distribute his abundant mana in such a way that it can be fully utilized.

I feel sorry for Arthur. Although he is surely not dead (by the order of the Goddess), surely his punishment will be severe. Hopefully he can continue to serve Hildebrand and teach him to be a good nobleman.

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #hildebrand

[ahb-writes]

"Do I care about any of this? No. I just want books, please."

"Lady Rozemyne" (Ascendance of a Bookworm #11 (3.4) by Miya Kazuki)

#writeblr #quote #ascendance of a bookworm #lady rozemyne #bookworm #myne #dont know #dont care #books please #mia kazuki #honzuki no gekokujou #j novel club #本好きの下剋上 #aub ehrenfest #本好きの下剋上～司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません

[dailyfigures]

Myne ; Ascendance of a Bookworm ☆ Stronger

#myne #myne figure #rozemyne #ascendance of a bookworm #ascendance of a bookworm i'll do anything to become a librarian #honzuki no gekokujou #stronger #anime #anime figure #figure #anime figurine #figure collecting #figurine #scale figure #anime collecting #myfigurecollection #manga

[soundlesswind]

Celebratory art for the last volume countdown. What a journey it has been! I drew so much artwork of this series over the last few years. It was exciting to see new designs get unveiled each time.

#art #honzuki #honzuki no gekokujou #ascendance of a bookworm #rozemyne #doodle

[yurgenschmidt]

#ascendance of a bookworm #myne #rozemyne #cornelius #honzuki no gekokujou #spoilers

[transdimensional-void]

"ascendance of a bookworm" and the centrality of education

something "bookworm" recognizes that i think a lot of other isekai miss is that myne's greatest advantage from her past life isn't her knowledge of certain technologies or products. it's her education.

this is obviously true in the lower city, where most of the people around her have received zero formal education; but it is even true among the highest levels of nobility, where the standard amount of formal education is six terms at the royal academy. that's three months of the year for six years, and nobles intentionally budget their time at the academy to spend more of it on socializing than they do on education. outside of the academy, many nobles receive some form of private tutoring, but the quality, quantity, and consistency vary widely from person to person.

compare that to urano's university-level education in modern-day japan. she spent a minimum of sixteen years attending school for most of the day for most of the year. and it shows.

one of the moments from the series that has really stuck with me is the scene where ferdinand reads myne's memories and experiences, from her point of view, what her education was like: year after year, across her entire childhood, with many different teachers, in many different subjects, in many different classrooms, surrounded by other children her age. the way seeing that allows him to finally grasp why she seems so uniquely capable of being taught compared to other people he knows. it's not that she's some sort of unparalleled genius. it's merely that she's been conditioned to perform academically and that she's been taught how to learn.

and each time myne "ascends" within jurgenschmidt society and is forced to perform in a new environment with minimal time to learn its ways, this conditioning serves her well. she knows how to sit down at a desk, crack open the books, and study until she's got it. equally, having received a comprehensive education puts her far ahead of the average jurgenschmidt citizen in terms of being able to synthesize information from a variety of sources and see how disparate phenomena are interrelated. when she arrives, she may not know anything about jurgenschmidt's economy, government, social structure, etc., but she knows that they exist, are worth learning about, are having a huge effect on her own life, and can be manipulated to her own ends.

what's more, her belief in the fundamentality of education is the single force driving the greatest amount of change within jurgenschmidt. yes, the printing press is the most revolutionary technology she introduces, but her educational reforms will have more immediate and farther-reaching effects.

by the point in the story we're currently at in the english translation (p5v7), she has improved educational access and outcomes for the following:

specific people in the lower city of ehrenfest (lutz, tuuli, kamil, those wealthy enough to purchase her picture books and toys)

those in the ehrenfest temple orphanage (said to receive a level of education equivalent to the average mednoble)

members of some farming villages of ehrenfest (those who have been visited by gray priests over winter hibernation)

all noble children of ehrenfest (through the winter playroom and better grades committee, as well as her educational materials)

some nobles in other duchies (those who have gained access to her picture books and educational toys, and those who have been personally influenced by her, such as hannelore and hildebrand)

commoners with the devouring in ehrenfest like dirk, who can receive funding from the aub to receive a noble education

no, she hasn't yet introduced mandatory, free public education, but she's laid the foundation for it. she has introduced educational reform at multiple levels of society and, more importantly, impressed its importance upon key authority figures, such as sylvester, charlotte, and melchior. that ensures that her reforms have staying power.

this is one of the things i adore about this series: the realism of the societal changes myne brings about. a lesser story would have shown her introducing free, compulsory education for all commoners within the space of a few years. that would have been nice, but it wouldn't have felt real. instead, myne has achieved every small reform through sheer bull-headedness, with blood, sweat, and tears, with immense effort. and that makes her accomplishments feel meaningful in a way an easy win would not. and yet we see widespread change, inertia that we can envision snowballing into the kind of education system urano enjoyed in japan somewhere in the not-to-distant future.

myne's societal reforms feel earned, and it all begins with the story's recognition of the immeasurable value of the education she received back in japan.

#ascendance of a bookworm #ranting again about the things i love in this series

[stinky-lizards]

just learned a character in the story I'm reading (ascendance of a bookworm) named Damuel was originally going to be named Samuel but the author mistyped his name and just went with it. that's the funniest shit to me. imagine if your parents named you Felix but mistyped your name as Gelix and now you're named Gelix for your whole life. this is exasperated by how Damuel is like the saddest most pitiable poor little meow meow. not even his name is right bro. holy shit.

#ascendance of a bookworm #aoab #honzuki no gekokujou #damuel

[hellsite-yano]

#Ascendance of a Bookworm

[the-alexel-lucas]

On the topic of Myne's chronic illness I also want to talk about the magical cure trope and how the narrative subverts it. The magical cure is more times than not a very harmful trope and difficult to use properly, typically it involves a character who is disabled in some way and a cure of some sort that cures them of their disability. The problem with it however is the fact that for most disabled or chronically ill people there is no cure and that the narrative will typically imply, whether the author means to or not, that a person can only be "whole" if they are physically and mentally fit. With Ascendance of a Bookworm however this doesn't happen, of the three cures Myne receives throughout the story none of them remove the fact that she is chronically ill and the narrative never treats the fact that she is as a bad thing but rather something that she and the people around her have to cope with and work around. This is most telling in how her apprentice attendants lose points in their classes when she collapses at tea parties at the academy, it is seen not as her fault for not being well but her attendants for not being prepared enough to care for their lady.

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #my point is her illness is a facet of the story and not the point #she is not hindered or limited by it even if it does inconvenience her #also narratively it's a great way to nerf a pretty op character

[shamelessdelusions]

Me with ADHD: *Getting overly excited anytime I interact with any of my hyperfixations*

Autistic friend: Are you sure you're not autistic?

Me: maybe

#adhd #hyperfixations #death stranding #skyrim #cult of the lamb #crocheting #jewelry #ascendance of a bookworm #detroit become human #yarn #buttons #neurodivergant

[aubdrewanchel]

I don't mean it as that everyone has read both, but the ones I've seen so far did, or have it in their TR list ( Me included).

#honzuki no gekokujou #ascendance of a bookworm #ascendance of a bookworm meme #apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #the apothecary diaries

[drcatco]

“In the past, candidates compared the size of their Books, looking to see whose had the least gaps. But that would not be fair in this case.” The goddess sat on Erwaermen’s shoulder and pondered. “Whatever shall we do?”

—Ascendance of a Bookworm P5V10P8 "Gervasio — Descend of a Goddess"

*cough*

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #Mestionora #It must have been quite a spectacle to have Zents compare their size with each other...

[novaisabookworm]

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #♢spoilers: part 5 #♦rozemyne #♦ferdinand #♢novas : fanwork #♢video #//SKSKSK I COULDNT RESIST #//the audio was too perfect