In A Heart Not Unwilling

A place to celebrate, scrutinize, live-blog, and just generally geek out about the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. THIS IS NOT A SPOILER-FREE BLOG. My Tags: Young Wizards SYWTBAW DW HW AWAB TWD AWAL WH WAW AWOM GWP (ETA unknown, assumed to be within the next year or two) UL NOMP TWY (ETA late 2012) FW series (The Feline Wizards series) TBONWM (FW Book 1) TVTQ (FW Book 2, AKA On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service) TBM (FW Book 3, still being written) TEC (The Errantry Concordance) All posts will be tagged, so if you don't want to see a spoiler for something you haven't read yet, download Tumblr Savior and block the relevant tag/s. If I write something about the books without mentioning any plot points, I'll use the tag non-spoilery so you can white-list it (also via Tumblr Savior) and still see the post. My main blog

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so here’s a thing

and you know what the kicker is? that page was last updated in 2008

the things you find in the errantry concordance…

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there’s also this, though it’s just a stub

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so here’s a thing

and you know what the kicker is? that page was last updated in 2008

the things you find in the errantry concordance...

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DD's ten favorite lines from "Games Wizards Play"

10: “I’d prefer it to rain chocolate frosted donuts in my kitchen on Sunday mornings, but I don’t seem to be getting a lot of that.”

9: “Look, we’re all in The Sims.”

8: “But I’m on your side this time.”

7: “Wizardry is mean to me. I’m gonna tell.”

6: “Just don’t blame me if now she lives long enough to reproduce.”

5: “We’re using such different dictionaries.”

4: “It can probably be seen from space, but don’t let that bother you.”

3: “You may continue to stand in my presence.”

2: “That worked.”

1: “It made my day.”

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I’m still trying to figure out if I posted any predictions for these anywhere, but in the meantime, it’s fun to look back on them now knowing who said them (and in what context)!

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oh yeah, one last thing

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I’M DONE

I have thoughts

I am waaaay too tired to elucidate them

in short: wonderful

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took a break to nap and stuff

just got to the part with Lissa and Pluto

and

yeah

if I weren’t still so groggy from sleep I would definitely be crying right now

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SHIT SON

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see, the thing about the young wizards series is

the thing about diane duane is

she infuses everything with so much life. she gives everything thoughts and feelings and personality. she makes you care about them, makes them matter. from grass chorusing “grow grow grow” to planets explaining how they show affection towards fellow celestial bodies by resonating

it’s beautiful, and it’s vital in the truest sense of the word. and I love it. it’s important on a level that I can’t even fully comprehend. it’s almost spiritual

I never thought of myself as a spiritual person, never felt moved by something larger than me. but the things I’ve read about in this series? the intention and compassion and wonder for all things

that’s something I can believe in

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holy crap

the jupiter thing?

yeah

that hit me hard

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christ

the conversation on the way to javit’s centre

I have feelings

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this goddamn book making me cry and have goddamn pet feelings in february of all months who gave it the right

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I’ve stopped posting as much bc I’m getting into the story enough not to want to distract myself talking about it

but I just had to mention the canadian eight ball wizard

I just had to

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well, shoot

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“We have a fan” oh my gOD spot you precious bb

this is great

this continues to be great

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SKER’RET MY LOVE

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I really wish I could just quote this whole conversation between neets and mela but it would take up space so instead i'm just gonna vaguely gush on here about this conversation between neets and mela lIKE

YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I've gradually come to accept carmela as my lord and saviour and i'm still barely a tenth of the way through this book but i'm already being blown away but what an icon she is, what a glowing bastion of resiliency and confidence and everything good in the world

this universe doesn't deserve carmela rodriguez. this universe would be nothing without carmela rodriguez

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Yeah. I thought I was wrong about something, once. I got over it.

Carmela Emeda Rodriguez, literal queen