[bluejayfiredancer]

screaming @ this

[ilovebooberfraggle]

why does inkheart have like no fandom? it fucking should

[folcharts]

[abpimenta]

im so terribly sorry for the lack of fanart im going through some shit 🕊️ ill come back eventually

[bastas-bitch]

Yeeesssss

[schleierkauz]

actually that last reblog made me think about basta/farid parallels again while doing laundry just now. i know i talked about it before at some point but lads, the similarities...

abused/neglected young boys unappreciated by the people around them

find a role model with skills/personality traits they want to emulate

latch on to said role model HARD to the point of complete idolization, despite being not necessarily being treated well (at first)

ruthless streak and certain skill for violence (remember when farid assumed they were just gonna kill basta and flatnose and basta was like "damn, we could have used that kid"? also, dustfinger making farid kill the rabbits they caught lmao)

superstitious and scared of ghosts in particular

vain

attention-seeking

hot tempered

enjoying and being (sort of kind of) good at receiving romantic attention* while not taking rejection well**

team up with some guy they cannot stand in order to reach their goals when their idol is dead which goes super well for them

terminally unable to be normal about poor dustfinger

farid easily could have turned out just like basta if he'd stayed with the robbers in his original world, with capricorn in ours or if dustfinger happened to be a different kind of person is what i'm saying

*okay, farid is a ladies' man once he grows up, we know this. but i feel i might have to defend this point a bit with basta - listen. he showers, okay? he showers and smells like mint because ONE girl told him ONE time his breath stank, it's an objective fact this man takes constructive criticism. he wears that stupid flower with his (presumably clean) button-down. cornelia funke, who hates him, did not outright call him ugly. i'm not saying he's a likeable or romantic guy but there's no way he's not getting wenches. thank you.

** okay, no need to explain basta for this one. but farid was a huge baby about it when meggie started dating doria even though he had been the one ignoring her in favor of getting dustfinger back and following dustfinger around and generally just being around dustfinger unless specifically being sent away into time-out. and i'm specifically thinking about that scene in lockdown-tcor when, at her engagement party, farid is like "damn, you really wanna have boring sex from now on forever? :/".*** get a job stay away from her-

***i know i know, that's not canon anymore but this is my blog and i spent one million hours with those chapters. they count. to me.

[tintenherzundseele]

ugh this is so heartbreaking.. and makes me think of the possibilities of basta finding a better father figure than capricorn and taking a similar path to farid.

i know cornelia said that human beings can‘t be explained that easily but i am certain basta would‘ve become a very different man if he had grown up in a better environment. maybe he still has that anger and knife kink inside of him, but he‘d be different. he would.

i‘m pretty sure someone already made a post about this here (creds to them) but basta killing farid was kind of foreshadowing his own death. at that point in the book basta had already given up on himself and when he finally accomplished breaking dustfinger‘s heart, he makes no attempt at killing someone else. i wonder if he knew that killing farid was the last straw and dustfinger would break his silent vow of not killing basta. (hence why we need a good dustfinger/basta confrontation scene👀)

[gaynfl-moved]

he needs enrichment

[macleod]

nosy anons let's go

[yrr977-deactivated20180708]

0: Height

1: Age

2: Shoe size

3: Do you smoke?

4: Do you drink?

5: Do you take drugs?

6: Age you get mistaken for

7: Have tattoos?

8: Want any tattoos?

9: Got any piercings?

10: Want any piercings?

11: Best friend?

12: Relationship status

13: Biggest turn ons

14: Biggest turn offs

15: Favorite movie

16: I’ll love you if…

17: Someone you miss

18: Most traumatic experience

19: A fact about your personality

20: What I hate most about myself

21: What I love most about myself

22: What I want to be when I get older

23: My relationship with my sibling(s)

24: My relationship with my parent(s)

25: My idea of a perfect date

26: My biggest pet peeves

27: A description of the girl/boy I like

28: A description of the person I dislike the most

29: A reason I’ve lied to a friend

30: What I hate the most about work/school

31: What my last text message says

32: What words upset me the most

33: What words make me feel the best about myself

34: What I find attractive in women

35: What I find attractive in men

36: Where I would like to live

37: One of my insecurities

38: My childhood career choice

39: My favorite ice cream flavor

40: Who I wish I could be

41: Where I want to be right now

42: The last thing I ate

43: Sexiest person that comes to my mind immediately

44: A random fact about anything

[de-la-rosa-zombi]

since my last anon was death threats, let’s try this. it also doesn’t need to be for just anons lol

[abpimenta]

Art idea! Basta doing some stereotypically *Italian* things (e.g. driving a Vespa, doing the hand thing 🤌, cooking pasta, being ✨️fashion✨️)

I'VE ACTUALLY SCRIBBLED SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE im crying i need to draw him cooking pasta someday

[i-live-in-dreams]

ITS HIM HE’S GORGEOUS

[britvarama]

[homageforsatan2-deactivated2023]

[brainsanalysis-deactivated20210]

Hello please reblog this if you’re okay with people sending you random asks to get to know you better

[bunchesofstuffs]

Inkheart moodboard   ✦  Basta

[preparedchalk]

[tintenherzundseele]

What did Basta do to the girl that told him he had bad breath?

[wormwombs]

Every time u think he’s cute I hit him with another brick so he gets uglier and more incompetent

[psicodelicahh]

Saw the pose on pinterest and thought of Basta. I've never read Inkheart, I swear I will someday

Drawn for @abpimenta (A totally normal Basta fan), but I'm posting here for other fellow enjoyers

[bastas-bitch]

Forever salty that Dustfinger got such a *chef's kiss* beautiful casting in the movie, whereas Basta's was fucking horrific.

Stick your favourite Basta fancast in the tags, who would have done it better?

[lonnson]

I think Freddy Carter would be great. Basta came to Capricorn as a child, he's a young man in Inkheart and (on top of the movie's other many crimes concerning Basta's casting) they made him way too old. I think Carter has that sly but attractive rat boy je ne sais quoi (you will never be forgotten goodreads user who asked Cornelia Funke whether Basta is young and sexy 🙂‍↕️✊)

[bastas-bitch]

Such a vibe ✨️

[bastas-bitch]

What colour eyes do you envision Basta having? I don't believe it's ever specified in the books...

dark brown

blue

green/hazel

pale brown/amber

grey/dark blue

other (pls comment)

Voting ended onSep 23, 2025