#fairyland series

[fiction-quotes]

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

  —  The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Catherynne M. Valente)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making #stories #books #reading #literature #authors #trouble #imagination #wildness

[chaos-has-theories]

Friends, mutuals, beloveds, PLEASE read the Fairyland series by Catherynne Valente. Not even - I mean all her books are fantastic, and the Fairyland books are fabulous, but. Book four. Book four, beloveds.

Cries. Cries forever.

#catherynne m. valente #the boy who lost fairyland #fairyland series #ridiculous amounts of slightly misspelled quotes in the reblogs

[bigjinx]

“I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.”

#the girl who circumnavigated fairyland #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making #cathrynne m valente #fairyland series #illustrators on tumblr #artists on tumblr #amelia art #procreate art #illustration #big jinx

[weathertheraine]

Some rare non-haikyuu content!! Nobody goes here, but this series is close to my heart and I’ve loved coming back to it as an adult ! I don’t think Catherynne M. Valente’s Fairyland residents would have much use for strict human gender binaries.

#the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making #catherynne m. valente #fanart #a-through-l #fairyland series #digital art #artists on tumblr #procreate #queer art #fairyland saturday #fairyland september #comic

[kanerallels]

Do you ever finish rereading a book series that's so whimsically beautiful in such a fairy-ish way? That has such beautiful descriptions of the world and the food and the characters? With worldbuilding that takes up residence in your mind in such a way that you find details from it creeping into your own writing? And it has Winds and wombats and Wyverarys and Marids and Fairies and human girls who find their way into a truly magical world where they learn about magic and growing up and being brave?

And when you reach the last chapter in the last book, you find yourself tearing up because it's goodbye, and you'll miss this series even though you've read it before and you'll read it again but the goodbye and the end is just so beautiful?

Anyways, read the Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente. It's really good

#i thought about live blogging it but i don't think i could do it justice #the simple fact of the matter is that the writing is amazing and beautiful and i love it #fairyland series #catherynne m. valente

[lordofthemushrooms]

S. J. Tucker was so real for reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making (one of the greatest books of all time) and deciding to write and entire album about it. So true queen I see you I hear you

#SJ Tucker #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making #Catherine m Valentie #fairyland series

[whalesfall]

It all just sort of sinks down and jumbles up together into something hot and heavy inside you, and the weight of everything you ever wanted in the world will keep you steady even when the worst winds blow.

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, Catherynne M. Valente

#quotes #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #words

[first--lines]

Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with same small and amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were very large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her and flew to her window one evening just after her twelfth birthday. He was dressed in a green smoking jacket, and a green carriage-driver's cloak, and green jodhpurs, and green snowshoes. It is very cold above the clouds in the shantytowns where the Six Winds live.

  —  The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Catherynne M. Valente)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making

[brianadrawsbooks]

A Hreinn girl from Cat Valente's Fairyland series. Hreinn girls are humanoid reindeers who can shift into full reindeers. They live in a forest of glass and typically focused on farming, reading, and cooking in their underground burrows. Much like selkies, they're often harassed by hunters looking to steal one as a wife. Though they only have a small part in a single Fairyland book, I've always been intrigued by them.

Fairyland is one of my all-time favorite series, so I've done quite a bit of Valente fanart over the years. If you love gorgeous prose, intriguing characters, heartbreaking plots, and fascinating world building, this is the series for you.

#art #book fanart #watercolor #illustration #fanart #anthro art #clean furry #book art #fantasy art #traditional art #artblr #fairyland series #catherynne m. valente

[castingmysilver]

Would like to continue Catherynne M. Valente's The Boy Who Lost Fairyland but everytime I actually open it to do so I am hit with a mix of anxiety about oncoming Feels, and a sense almost of shyness at eavesdropping on the little dude's mind. I really do want to find out the rest of the story mind you, and also not have gaps in my knowledge when I read the last book in the series. But I may have to brave my brain a little to do so.

#personal #books #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #changelings #brainweird

[fiction-quotes]

Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.

  —  The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Catherynne M. Valente)

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #the boy who lost fairyland #magic #shock #change #consequences

[twigstarpikachutroll22]

4th-wall-breaking narrators who have personality and are essentially an entire character themselves my absolute beloved

#the stanley parable #green eggs and ham #ever after high #the Fairyland series #the powerpuff girls #kaguya sama love is war #will tag more if/when i think of them #trope talk

[bigjinx]

September & her wyverary

#the girl who circumnavigated fairyland #cathrynne m valente #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #procreate art #illustration #fairyland series #a through l #procreate illustration #amelia art #fairycore #fantasy art

[francoisl-artblog]

Boy, I love Pikmin 4. I love the Pikmin series, it's one of my favorite.

So, I gathered some sketch from my sketchbook, and made a little compilation ! Most of them were made during the first "Custom Character" trailer, and I was like "Can I make them ? Can I make my comfort character and my OC in the game ?" and, sadly, it turns out I was only able to make a correct Gertrude. (No brown hair for Geraldine, and no option for making a proper Eggman.)

Does it prevent me from drawing them as they should look ? Obviously not ! And I even got some information about them, now !

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Pomme : The new rookie of the rescue corps, Pomme is a kind, yet completely oblivious leader. She's the typical "Head empty, no thought" character. However, when she's asked for something, she sure try her best, and is actually pretty good to resolve any (Dandori) issue ! 

That said, she tend to overwork, and since she joined, she didn't get many sleep (Also because she tend to read the whole pikelopedia before sleeping). So, it sometimes happen to her to make mistakes. She's pretty curious on absolutely anything, and, if she had the time, she would do nothing but contemplate the Pikmin's World.

Geraldmine : The Pikmin!Version of Geraldine. (Because why not ? I wanted to play as her until I found out I couldn't make her in game !) She crashed on the planet while she driving back home. She met up with Red Pikmin in a cave, and she kinda manage to survive with them until Pomme saved her. She's slightly stressed all the time, but she's a loving and caring soul. She will protect every Pikmin she see.

She would actively help to find the other castaway, if she was allowed to buy the other members, but she need to stay safe. Instead, she wants Pomme to takes picture of the planet, so she can show them to her daughter, who's been living with her grandparents waiting for her mom to return.

Gert : The Pikmin!Version of Gertrude. (Once again, why not ? It's the only one I was able to replicate in game !) She's a version of Gertrude, right ? So, not the kindest soul in the world. She has a pretty normal life actually (Unlike the main version, who's completely Picked up), and even got a delivering job on her Home Planet, Aridlyfan. 

She crashed on the planet due to a glitch in her ship, and was saved by Pomme. She used to be a space pirate in her youth, and got some surviving abilities that only her is able to use. She would love to actually lead a Pikmin army, but she's absurdly bad at it. She somehow managed to make a Yellow Pikmin drown and burn at the same time. She only ever talk to Pomme, since she saved her, and is a bit awkward at speaking with the others. She actually only want to get back home.

Dr Ivo : The Pikmin!Version of Eggman. (I mean, you know ? Why not ?) He's a former colleague of Russ, but they both went on different path in life, since Ivo's way were kinda forbidden on most planets. Let's say he doesn't have a very cool moral compass. He's life dream is to make a Theme Park around himself, and filled the planet with nothing but robots. He crashed on the planet as he was searching a new base for his plans. He didn't come alone, since two colleague of him, Dr Stone and Dr Snively, got lost during the crash.

He'll kindly ask Pomme to find them back. (Once they're back at the base, you'll get two vastly different opinion of Ivo from both of them) He thinks he could make robots out of Pikmin's energy, and find great interest in this discovery. He would totally do all that his way, if it wasn't for Russ watching an eye on him.

He find a great interest to upgrade the few mechanical creature on the planet, specially the Man-At-Leg.

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Also, little bonus on the scrapped "D" character from Pikmin 3, that you can kinda recreate in game as well ! I surname him... Dee. Yeah, don't know what to say on that one.

He's a koppian that got lost during a vacation trip. He's completely unrelated to the others Koppian from the game, and doesn't know anything about them. He doesn't speak too much, but he sure love to help, whatever the thing is. But he sometimes goofy, and got lost easily, so you have to find him back.

Pikmin (c) nintendo

Artwork made by me.

#Pikmin #Pikmin 4 #Pikmin fan art #Pikmin series #Pikmin OC #digital art #artwork #illustration digital #digital #digitalart #Pomme #Pikmin Pomme #Pikmin Pom #Dr Eggman #Gertrude #I hate fairyland #I hate fairyland Gertrude #Geraldine #Geraldine and Mona #Geraldine et Mona #character design #illustration #digital illustration #sketchbook

[hellafluff]

Still find it so weird that I can tell myself for years "oh I'll read that comic eventually" and never do but somedays I'll learn the name and 2 sentence description of a random comic then binge it in an evening

#comics ive been meaning to read for years: IDW Transformers a fuck ton of Batman series Gotham City Sirens DC Bombshells #comics i learned about and binged: The Wicked + The Divine (still need to finish it but almost done) I Hate Fairyland That one about dogs #running into supernatural bullshit thats really fucked up but fun #it had a hellboy crossover at one point #crazee talk #comics

[waterfall-ambience]

toyed with the idea of drawing a perpetua parent-clone duo as frankenstein + the creature (like, as a silly halloween thing), but oops it works well with most of them.

minerva & avery - mad scientist and her son, most overt parent-child dynamic. minerva canonically likes the story, they would totally do this for halloween and it would be cute.

luna & damien - starts off as something of a creator/creation dynamic, has very frankenstein-y motifs (damien's lightning, necromancy, (initial) rage towards creator). depending on the adaptation you go off of*, pinocchio could also work well (damien wanting to be 'real', coming of age, etc. also i pitch you: luna as a very miserable geppetto)

icarus & newton - THE mad scientist and his creation. newton carries a lot of that anger towards his creator and tendency to vibe in the woods + classic literature. however newton is not organic, aesthetically he's closer to pinocchio, and i like to think he was more of a troublemaker to begin with, like in collodi's pinocchio.

*lets be real though the story elements & characterisation from the del toro adaptation work best for these purposes

#globeland perpetua #alice & riza could do a shadows house-esque dynamic and gavin & phobos could do jekyll & hyde #with alice and riza though they were specifically inspired by the guardians & astral drops in w.i.t.c.h. LOL #so unfortunately i cant really think of another example thats close to what they are #except september & halloween from the fairyland series. bc alice was inspired by the marquess oops. im sorry women.