#zamonien

[snippit-crickit]

ah man this is stuff from about 1 year ago but i like coming back to it...

This is hildegunst von mythenmetz, a known Zamonian writer!! Basically, i wanted to redesign the books by hildegunst von mythenmetz Walter Moers in my style for uni....and these were the skecthes i did but to be fair i just wanted to draw more of Moerses characters xd

Ive known these books for a long time and its such a shame so little people know about them! Theyre mostly popular in germany and sadly they stopped translating them... Im not sure how i can sell you this series but City of Dreaming Books is great, it reminds me of grimms fairy tales but theyre humoristic as well, and moers did the illustrations for it himself... Recently a visual novel of the book i mentioned came out and its looking real pretty as well (also the books mostly feature non human characters which is cool for me i like creatures)

#art #hildegunst von mythenmetz #zamonia #zamonien #walter moers #rumo #rumo zamonia #echo

[brsb4hls]

Time for niche posting:

New Walter Moers Zamonia novel arrived yesterday

It's over 600 pages with lots of great drawings

It's a Mythenmetz (Yarnspinner) novel, but since it's not the sequel to the Buchhaim books I'm looking forward to find out how it ties in.

#walter moers #zamonien #zamonia #Hildegunst von Mythenmetz #Die Insel der tausend Leuchttürme #books #ich bin immer noch überzeugt Moers hat sich so in die Enge geschrieben #dass er die träumenden Bücher nie fortsetzen wird #aber immer hin ein Mythenmetz Roman #Prinzessin Insomnia war nix und die Füller auch nicht #bin gespannt

[schmorporatefool]

"Playing a Rumo meant, on one hand, to challenge one's luck and risk losing absolutely everything. On the other hand, it promised the possibility of a triumphant victory."

#zamonien #zamonia #walter moers #rumo und die wunder im dunkeln #rumo and his miraculous adventures #rumo #volzotan smeik #volzotan smyke

[neverpaint]

Bluebear on the back on of Deus X. Machina.

#zamonien #zamonia #walter moers #fantasy art #fantasy illustration #illustration #procreate #dragon art

[rockthistowninsideout]

In time for Hamoulimepp

(or Christmas, as it is known outside of Zamonia) the crew of the Zamonia short film "Eißpin der sehr Schreckliche" / "The Alchemaster's Apprentice" have released a new link for you to watch it!

It's active between 23.12. 4pm and 26.12. 10 pm CET, so bookmark it and then get cozy when the holidays roll around.

to the movie

If you liked it why not go ahead and give them some love on instagram or via mail.

(source: eisspin.de)

(ID: A greyscale painting of the profile of a hunched man in a cloak and had holding an enrolled scroll. The writing on the scroll shines golden. A disshevelled looking cat sits in front of the man. A full moon is in the background. End ID)

#zamonia #zamonien #walter moers #eißpin der sehr schreckliche #the alchemaster's apprentice

[to-hel-and-back]

So, a new Zamonia book was announced on december 19th (I only noticed now #fakefan) titled "Das Eichhörnchen, das rückwärts leben wollte" (translated "The squirrel that wanted to live backwards"), a collection of 20 short stories by Mythenmetz.

EDIT: I just realized it's Einhörnchen nicht Eichhörnchen lol it's a play on unicorn (Einhorn) and squirrel (Eichhörnchen), since the character is a squirrel with a horn.

I can read I swear...

ngl lads, I'm tired...

#zamonia #zamonien #walter moers #i just want castle plzzzzzz

[friftar]

Oh my god @ the Russian cover of Rumo

There is so little in this picture but also So Much.

I don't know if Rumo is tiny or if Ticktack is just a Huge As Fuck guy? And Ticktack is decisively human as well, giving HUGE Doctor Doom vibes? This is clearly meant to be the final fight between them in the Theatre of Beautiful Death with the sparks and the blue rain, but it also looks like a meadow on the ground with some volcanoes in the background?

And while I have questions, I also have a huge amount of respect for this because it looks amazing, even though the original cover and all versions with Moers's art are perfect to me.

#zamonien #zamonia #rumo und die wunder im dunkeln #rumo and his miraculous adventures #im not rifing on the artist in fact it looks great but as a whole i think ticktack is just a very difficult character to depict #NOT EVEN MOERS DID THAT AND PROBABLY FOR GOOD REASON

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher #The City of Dreaming Books #Zamonien #Walter Moers #books #poll #result: no #l: German

[clansocreations]

1. Switches gears between "hilarious" and "profound" and "jaw on the floor because of how emotionally loaded this silly story has just become" with little effort

2. Will name characters after anything

3. Will refer to things from our world, sometimes very subtly, sometimes as unsubtly as getting slapped in the face is subtle

4. "what if this classic storytelling fantasy thing but different"

5. What if WORLDBUILDING, but thought through to it's logical conclusion.

6. Fiction books that contain a surprising level of practical life advice

7. CITIES. Big capital cities that should not WORK. But they DO.

8. Bonus points if I close the book and think "what the fuck have I just read"

So yeah anyways this is me seamlessly going from reading Discworld again to reading Zamonia again, thinking about who would win in a fight between Ankh-Morpork and Atlantis.

((Honestly my money is on Ankh-Morpork. They're meaner. And also Atlantis literally fucked off into space. Which counts for disqualification.))

Anyways, if you're interested in this sort of shenanigans, please read a Zamonia novel.

And by shenanigans I mean that there's a writer mentioned in Labyrinth of Dreaming Books by the name of Eiderich Fishnertz

And I'm here like thinking who is that? (Because of anagram shenanigans)

And then it's Friedrich Nietzsche.

That sort of shenanigans.

My favorite is The city of dreaming books but the 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear is also great, or Rumo, or ANY ONE OF THEM I promise they're so neat!

#discworld #scheibenwelt #zamonia #zamonien #die stadt der träumenden Bücher #city of dreaming books #walter moers

[generalticktock]

i was bored

#zamonia #memes #all of the books are so memable #general ticktock #zamonien

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

finished the new walter moers book last night, and i loved it. it is not flawless - some of it feels a bit too familiar within the series - and he may perhaps never again reach the heights of Rumo, City of Dreaming Books, and whatever Der Schrecksenmeister is called in English, but it feels like a return to form. it's less about plot and more about dabbling in the sending up of northern german island culture/tourism, but more focused, more engaging, more Zamonien than, say, whatever Prinzessin Insomnia und der albtraumfarbene Nachtmahr is called in English, or the two thinner volumes of Zamonia novels that felt more like writing exercises than actual writing.

#walter moers #german stuff #zamonien #SOME people have the theory that Moers is not Moers but rather a collective / someone else writing and the writer of the first five novels #as stopped writing them #which i find very weird #and dont believe #MY theory #and this is really nothing but a theory #is that moers has some sort of mega writers' block perhaps brought on by 'external' reasons like illness (or depression or sth) #which is why he a) had someone else draw Prinzessin Insomnia and write sth that is definitely not Zamonien #b) afterwards wrote those two thin books which as mentioned felt like exercises of trying to get back into it #and c) also sorta why the second part of his two part Dreaming Books sequel has still not made it out after what. 12 years? #including i think changing publishers after the first of them? or around that time at least. #we will never know probably #but this makes me hopeful for a future of the series #maybe even that sodding second part.

[bibliophilecats]

26 May 2023: Black and white

#book photo challenge #justonemorepage #walter moers #die stadt der träumenden bücher #the city of dreaming books #zamonia #zamonien

[jade-from-zamonia]

It's 3 am here in my country but I just came up with something hilarious

Imagine if Homuncolossus' name was like... John or something. Just the most basic white name you can imagine.

Like.. Homuncolossus, the dark bloodthirsty monster of the Bookholm catacombs, the dreaded and renowned Shadow king Steve

#zamonia #walter moers #zamonien #the city of dreaming books #stadt der träumenden bücher

[drachenwiki]

When I read Walter Moers "Der Bücherdrache", I noticed something weird. In the beginning of the book, when Hildegunst 2 tells Hildegunst about the dragon, he drops a bunch of typical dragon motives that are immediately recognized as such, for example the kidnapping of maidens and sleeping on treasure. But on page 25, it says that the titualr book dragon is not a typical chalk eating (German: kreidefressend) giant lizard like the evil dragons but he is good instead.

I never heard about dragons eating chalk in any kind of media, and when I google it (in German or English) I can't find anything about this, either. The only classic chalk eating villain is the wolf from the classic fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats", and as far as I am aware, there is no version of this tale that swaps the wolf out for a dragon.

Does anybody know where the idea of chalk eating dragons comes from? Is it maybe not a general dragon motive but something from another specific book that I've never read?

#der bücherdrache #zamonien #walter moers #western dragon

[to-hel-and-back]

Happy 'Die Insel der Tausend Leuchttürme' release day y'all. I will attempt to snag a copy after work wish me luck I forgot to pre-order 😃

#zamonia #walter moers #zamonien

[friftar]

Moers has no concept of scale in his novels, be it with regards to time or space, but to that i say:

we need to appreciate the maximalist slay he put out there. a giant that's one hundred kilometers tall. an insanely big continent smacked right in the middle of the atlantic that's way too big to fit in there. mountains and buildings that should be poking out of the atmosphere, and ridiculously long-lived species

#zamonien #zamonia