Adventures in Imaginary Worlds

I'm a Catholic writer and reader. I like books, TV shows, and movies and I talk about them here, and I'll reblog anything that catches my fancy.

[fictionadventurer]

I've seen stories where the author acts like the horse is a motorcycle, or that basically any animal is a dog.

Not until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a writer given me, "The canoe is a horse."

I mean, good on him for knowing that horses aren't native to the Americas, but it's really funny how often Hiawatha pats his canoe and it shivers beneath his hand and leaps forward eagerly, etc.

[sailforvalinor]

Modern day adaptation of the “all young ladies keep a journal” scene from Northanger Abbey where Tilney clocks Catherine as a Tumblrina after only ten minutes of speaking with her (there’s no other way she could’ve picked up those speech patterns) (he knows this because he’s been on Tumblr since Dashcon)

[sailforvalinor]

Catherine’s questions about John Thorpe’s taste in books are utterly dismissed and it instead becomes clear that he’s something of a film bro. He then proceeds to go on a fifteen minute rant about the genius of The Wolf of Wall Street and seems on the verge of showing Catherine his Letterboxd until Tilney intervenes by loudly proclaiming that his favorite Scorsese movie is his obscure 1973 mafia film Goncharov

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Literature Moodboards // Persuasion by Jane Austen

When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

[thesweetnessofspring]

And sometimes he and Roaring Abel smoked fiercely the whole evening and never said a word, while Cissy lay in the hammock swung between the verandah posts and Valancy sat idly on the steps, her hands clasped over her knees, and wondered dreamily if she were really Valancy Stirling and if it were only three weeks since she had left the ugly old house on Elm Street.

🏰HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BLUE CASTLE!

For the 100th birthday of one of my favorite books, I commissioned @sparemoon to do an art piece of Valancy, Barney, Cissy, and Roaring Abel. There were certain elements from the book that I wanted in the piece, and @sparemoon combined them all so skillfully and with the beauty and wonder that the book evokes, I could cry looking at this. I'm particularly thrilled that we now have art with Cissy and Roaring Abel, and more of Valancy and Barney.

The Blue Castle may sometimes be an overlooked little book, but it certainly now has a @dustpileofherown thanks to the fandom we've found here. 🩵

[whenthegoldrays]

twinkling watermelon, 2023 // a luc bat by @fictionadventurer

[daily-rayless]

In honor of the hundredth anniversary of The Blue Castle, @dustpileofherown sent out a call for a hundred new TBC fan works. So here's Valancy and her beloved cat Good Luck.

[sirarxen4]

Hmmm.

[smartlovingunitedtough]

Wood block color prints by gustave baumann

[lady-merian]

Progress pictures under the cut

And again the final result!

reference

[awesomebutunpractical]

Fairy tales aren't just ooey gooey fluffy princess stories or grim scare em straight morality tales. A lot of them are Adventures and Funny.

[maxinevee]

Moonrise 🌙🌊

[laurasimonsdaughter]

What if Disney adapted The Three Spinners?

I don't think there's anything ~Disney~ in this story to latch on to, really. But I wish wish wish this one had been included in the Jim Henson's the Storyteller adaptations!

They'd cast someone big eyed and pouty mouthed for the peasant girl and someone startled and wholesome looking for the prince. And the three spinners with the big foot, the big lip and the big thumb could be friendly, troll-like puppets. It'd be darling.

I really like The Three Spinners. Its general plot of a young woman who is mistakenly thought to be able to spin inhumanly fast and is therefore put to the test by the royal family and helped out by three "aunties", shows up all over Europe. But I like the versions that explicitly call the three old spinners fairies or some other supernatural entity the best.

It's also really fun that the "price" for the three spinners help is actually another blessing. They tell the protagonist they'll spin for her, if she invites them to her wedding as her aunts. And when she does this, her new husband is told that her aunts have gotten their big foot, lip and thumb because of all the spinning they've done, so he hastily tells his beautiful wife never to go near a spinning wheel again. It's such a fun piece of trickery and such a merry ending, I love it.

[assassin1513]

🍁✨🍁Autumn Stars🍁✨🍁

[doodleoo]

today I got the most beautiful batch of strawberries

[mirrorsinner]

[jimbles-archive]

[flea-palace]