#the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two

[t1redr0b0t]

Watchful dress real⁉️⁉️🤯😲

#the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland #tgwcfiasohom

[thegirlwiththelantern]

Insta: @ littlepiscesdreaming

#book #books #bookstagram #booklr #The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two #Catherynne M. Valente #The Fairyland series

[first--lines]

Once upon a time, a girl named September told a great number of lies.

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

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two

[fiction-quotes]

Saturday wanted to say: Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and vicious noises. It is hungry all the time. It has horns and teeth and the force of its fists is more than anyone can bear. It speeds up time and slows it down. And it has its own aims and missions than those who are lucky enough to see it cannot begin to guess. You might see a Yeti once in your life or never. You might live in a village of them. But in the end, no matter how fast you think you can go, the Yeti is always faster than you, and you can only choose how you say hello to it, and whether you shake its hand.

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

#book quotes #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #catherynne m. valente #fairyland series #the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two #psychology #love #romance #relationships #choices

[naivesilver]

@ouattober Day 1 - Favorite Character: Pinocchio | August Booth

The Girl Who Soared over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, Catherynne M. Valente // Strangers, Ethel Cain // And My Father's Love Was Nothing Next To God's Will, Amatullah Bourdon // When They Say You Can’t Go Home Again, What They Mean Is You Were Never There, Marty McConnell // The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

#ouat #ouattober2023 #once upon a time #pinocchio #august booth #words #web weaving #I KNOW I'M A COUPLE DAYS LATE SORRY I WAS LOST IN THE LIES OF P SAUCE #but I will fill SOME days at least #with various kind of media if I can #also the last pic is the one that made me sigh earlier #if you know you know

[araekni]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl who Soared over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Charles Wright, The Fever Toy

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

A. L. Kitselman

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Elie Weisel, The Gates of the Forest

Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

#web weaving #webs #remake #mine #theme: truth #theme: loss #theme: identity #theme: unmaking #jeanette winterson #jerry spinelli #catherynne m. valente #charles wright #neil gaiman #carmen maria machado #margaret atwood #rick riordan #a. l. kitselman #elie weisel #jean baudrillard #again just prettying it up #image description in alt text #image described

[it-its-culture-is]

It/its culture is Almanack from The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two.

(Seriously, though. It is so cool. Also its style is like the very essence of what most it/its users want to look like. And did I mention it uses it/its pronouns canonically?)

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#it/its #it/its culture is #it/its culture

[silvormoon]

Tagged by @thatlittledandere

Parenthesis are mine.

hardcover or paperback // bookstore or library // bookmark or receipt // stand alone or series // nonfiction or fiction // thriller or fantasy / under 300 pages or over 300 pages or the exact number of pages needed and no more or less // children's or ya // friends to lovers or enemies to lovers // read in bed or read on the couch or anywhere // read at night or in the morning or anytime // keep pristine or markup // cracked spine or dog ear

Yay books! Currently reading The Girl Who Soared over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two.

Anyone else want to play?

[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

[ichabodcranemills]

I got tagged by @mafagafa to list my favorite reads since september. Thank you 😊

This was very slow reading year for me, so I'll go a bit beyond September, and my favourite reads were:

1. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente. She's my favourite author and this was one of my favourite of her books. Read it if you love space and music and crying your eyes out thinking about music as a powerful force of good

2. Crush by Richard Siken. It's maybe the third or fourth time I reread this book. It is one of my favourite poetry books ever and I can recite Snow and Dirty Rain by heart

3. A Glória e seu Cortejo de Horrores by Fernanda Torres. This book was really bad until it was very good. It's a tough read but it's good

4. And finally, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, again by Catherynne M Valente, which I finished today. And it was SO GOOD. I didn't really liked the second book in the Fairyland series, but this one took me right back to the feeling the first one gave me. Time is the one true magic and I'm in love <3

Tagging, no pressure, @nikita-not-nikola @rocknghorss @raindropsonwhiskers @taniushka12 @musical-chick-13 @best-enemies @morbidjazz and whoever else wants to do it :)

[musingsforthestars]

Everyone wants so much, more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn’t converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food—for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them. Even the mites and the mussels. But no one can use you up unless you let them.

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

#catherynne m. valente

[t1redr0b0t]

I’m so normal about this paragraph guys

#the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two #literature

[swordatsunset]

2, 3, 9, 25 <3

hiii :3

2. Did you reread anything? What?

YES! I reread The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two (Valente, my second favorite book in the series), In Other Lands (Brennan), Charmed Life (Jones), both The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves and Hamlet. I really like rereading books lol >_>

3. What were your top five books of the year?

Oooh hard. Okay probably Lolita (Nabokov), Earthlings (Murata), They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Abdurraqib), When the Angels Left the Old Country (Lamb), and maybe a split between Abolish the Family (Lewis) and Natural History (Fonseca) because both of them were like, really interesting but deeply flawed but still really enriched my year!

9. Did you get into any new genres?

Hmmm... I was in a British Romantic Poetry class this year and so I supposed I delved into the Romantics pretty deeply (shoutout Beachy Head by Charlotte Smith <3) as well as sci-fi! I read a lot more sci-fi than I have in previous years.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

I have a couple! Obviously I'm not focusing on book counts anymore, lol, because that's a silly metric of achievement. I'm very interested in writing an ecocritical thesis next year so I want to read a lot more theory centered around ecological criticism in literature as well as continuing to focus on some of my favorite topics like fairy/folktales and Arthurian legend, as I'm still figuring out which avenue I want to go down with my thesis. Otherwise, I want to read more works centered around family abolition/reimagining care as well as reading more 'new releases' and music criticism!

#my post #asks #woooo hi EJ !!! this was such a fun year for reading

[prettyiwa]

Every multiple of 10 for the fic writer ask game!

adfadfasdf alright, let's do this—

10. At what point in the process do you come up with titles, and how easy or hard is that for you?

It depends on the story and whether I want it to be an actual fic. Sometimes it's a line that came up in the outlining process, otherwise, I'll go with a lyric that inspired me. Bittersweet Lotus Leaf is one I properly struggled with and that's because the story means a lot to me. I ended up settling on it because I like how it rolls off the tongue.

20. What is your favorite trope to write?

Political Intrigue, but from the periphery. I don't write it often, but it scratches that "I didn't study this for nothing" itch.

30. What's the most inspirational quote you've ever read or heard that's still important to you?

Oof, there are a lot. I'll stick to the topic of writing, though it generally applies to people. It's made writing people all the easier. ❝Everyone is hungry and not only for food—for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.❞ — Catherynne Valente (The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two).

40. Best piece of feedback you've ever gotten.

Mm. Feedback as in something constructive— "To make Y/N more inclusive, you could try something like 'you feel your face heat' instead of 'a blush is seen on your face.'" It was exactly the feedback I wanted, but it also helped me refocus my writing. I don't particularly care for describing the characters or their appearances too much. Receiving this particular bit of feedback helped me shift away from "What can we see?" to "How does this make us feel?"

50. Do you plan or do you write whatever comes to your mind?

I used to be able to write whatever came to mind, but now I have to plot things out.

60. Where is the most dangerous place you've written fic?

. . . . For legal reasons I will not answer this :)

70. Are you very critical of your own writing? How much do you find yourself editing (during or after the fact)?

I expect perfection from myself. No one is ever gonna be as hard on me as I am. I edit as I write and then I write and re-write a ridiculous amount OR I finish and throw it at the wall (tumblr) and check on its status a couple hours later and edit it to hell and back then.

80. Do you try to put themes, motifs, messages, morals, etc. in your writing? If so, how do you go about it?

For longer things, yes. Typically things relating to love. If the story is political, you can bet I'm saying something. A lot of it is subconscious but it's there when I look back. BLL is the first time that I'll be doing everything with 130% intention.

90. Do you notice your own voice in your writing style?

Absolutely. I would like to stop hearing and reading my voice.

#📨.incoming #💜.alisha #ahah thank you for sending me so many!~ #.get to know the author

[aparticularbandit]

me, reading about Puritan beliefs on Wikipedia, and thinking (again) about the weight of Agatha's "I can be good" against her mother's "No, you cannot."

thinking about the weight of those lines in terms of predestination vs. free will; wondering just how much the Puritanical landscape of Salem influenced Agatha's mother and their coven.

thinking about Hahn mentioning in an interview that Agatha's being told all her life that she was evil became a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy - meaning that, eventually, Agatha must also have come to believe that she was evil, meaning that her mother's attempts to prevent Agatha from becoming evil eventually led to her becoming evil.

thinking about self-fulfilling prophecies in narratives in terms of fate and, you guessed it, predestination.

also thinking about it in terms of - self-fulfilling prophecy narratives are usually about someone trying to prevent a prophecy from coming true but in so doing cause it to come true - thinking about this in terms of Agatha's understanding of who the Scarlet Witch is and her subsequent realization that Wanda is such, how this spurred her actions to taking Wanda's power instead of simply learning how Wanda was able to do the magic she did, how Agatha's actions subsequently prompted Wanda to accept herself as the Scarlet Witch, and how Agatha's attempt to subvert the prophecy in the Darkhold potentially led to Wanda starting down the path to fulfilling that prophecy (depending on where the MCU goes with that post-DSMOM).

thinking about Valente and the discussion of fate vs. free will in The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two.

thinking about the possible construction and themes of Baby Agatha Fic and how this should show up in Agatha's relationship with the Ancient One (and how this is ironic because the Ancient One knew when they were going to die - in a sense, they knew their fate - but this freed them to make choices (free will!) they might otherwise have been afraid to take and likely actually makes them a champion of free will over fate - or, at least, of the two interlaced together, as opposed to Agatha who struggles with that self-fulfilling prophecy of being evil - if she is fated to be evil, then what point do her choices to be good make? And is her will truly free if she cannot change the end result? which leads to more fun conflict).

#musings #bandit brainstorms #agatha harkness #the ancient one #agathian #baby agatha fic #wanda maximoff #scarlet witch

[ravenya003]

Stuff I Read/Watched/Played in April...

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Kristy’s Great Idea by Anne M. Martin

Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls by Anne M. Martin

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two by Catherynne Valente

The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne Valente

Robin Hood (1973)

Princess of Thieves (2001)

Scream 4 (2011)

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Death on the Nile (2022)

Scream 5 (2022)

Hilda: Season 2 (2020)

Evil: Season 2 (2021)

The Gilded Age: Season 1 (2022)

Bridgerton: Season 2 (2022)

Laura Bow: The Colonel’s Bequest (1989)

Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992)

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#rav's watching log #rav's reading log