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another engelsfors thingy :P (summer 2023)

#engelsfors #engelsforstrilogin #linnéa wallin #cirkeln #the engelsfors trilogy #engelsfors fan art #book character design #book fanart #vanessa dahl

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here we go, this is the beginning of my re-read of this book series that I cherised and loved 10 years ago (when I was 19). really curious to see how it/i have changed <3.

elias malmgren. sweet boy. forgot how absolutely traumatizing the first chapter is.

#the engelsfors trilogy #cirkeln #live blogging my re-read #reading the og swedish books to improve my swedish #engelsforstrilogin #(won't spam the tag #eng

You've got a warm heart You've got a beautiful brain But it's disintegrating

Medicine, Daughter

#daughter #elena tonra #medicine #cirkeln #music #lyrics #indie #rock #alternative #folk

there is nothing more painful and gut-wrenching than joining a fandom that was lively over 5 years ago

#i’ve gotten back into reading now #and i finished reading a book that i initially started when i was around 14?#it’s a trilogy but yeah #and i came to tumblr #and the page that handles all the fandom stuff for the trilogy #was last active seven years ago #anyways #this is a rallying call #people who read the engelsfors trilogy by sara b elfgren and mats strandberg #please interact #engelsfors trilogy #cirkeln #cirkeln 2011 #sara b elfgren #mats strandberg #this always happens to me too ffs #first it was the gone series #then it was the darkest minds #now this

Cirkeln

Music Style: Melodic Black Metal

Country of Origin: Sweden

Years Active: 2019-Present

Current Member: Våndarr - Everything

Discography: Kingdoms That No One Remembers (2020)

Website: https://cirkeln.bandcamp.com/music and https://www.facebook.com/cirkelnband

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBMWkZJ-1w

Monthly Spotify Listeners: ~95

My Thoughts: Really returning to the roots of this blog with this band (yay solo black metal project from Europe). I joke, but I did enjoy Cirkeln’s first full-length album Kingdoms That No One Remembers. It was a well-put together album that had this great energy running through the entire work. I’ve noticed that mixing tends to be where these types of bands tend to have issues, but the music was well mixed and there was a nice balance between the vocals and the instruments. It was also nice to listen to a black metal band with Tolkien-based lyrics that wasn’t another variation on Summoning (I like Summoning, but Tolkien metal has a lot of Summoning knock-offs). Instead, I would describe Cirkeln’s sound as more Bathory inspired, while still being it’s own thing. Cirkeln has announced that his second album A Song To Sorrow will be released soon. I will be looking forward to it.

Side note, I love the album art from Kingdoms That No One Remembers. I want this as a poster.

#Cirkeln #Tolkien Metal #Heavy Mithril #the hobbit #silmarillion #lotr

ok so like. the thing with the engelsfors trilogy is this: it’s giving you the raw, unedited teenage experience. there’s never any pretence. there’s never any preaching. we’re given 6 (ish) teenage girls in all their problematic, unreliable glory, and every single one of them brings her own mess to the table. they fuck up, often irrevocably. they hurt themselves and each other and they get angry and they make shitty decisions and these decisions are never justified. instead they’re explored and looked at from different perspectives and treated with such empathy, and what comes out isn’t a story of “6 girls set their differences aside to become awesome people and save the world!” but rather “6 girls are placed in an impossible situation that is unfathomably shitty and they all deal with it in the way that their specific background and upbringing has equipped them to”. it doesn’t matter which one of them you identify with or w/e cause you’re gonna understand where each and every one is coming from without it ever once being shown as an excuse for their shitty behavior. it’s fantasy sure but at its heart the engelsfors trilogy is an in-depth view of what it means to be 16 and have to re-evaluate your values ane identity alongside people that you would never have chosen for yourself. it’s flawed and it’s messy, and most of all it’s difficult to change and make mistakes and be held accountable for it all, but at the end of the day you don’t have any other choice - and no matter how bad it gets, you’re never, not once, alone. like i love going, found family trope! positive female relationships! girls helping girls as they learn and grow together! well-done and central wlw relationship!, as much as the next person but the fact that these things carry the weight that they do in the narrative is that it isn’t afraid to show just how ugly these things can get, while still managing to treat the characters and structures it deconstructs with respect. anyway that’s it for me thank you goodnight & stan vanessa dahl

#been thinking abt the scene in book 2 where the other girls get a taste of AK’s power #and realize that the question they should be asking isn’t why she didn’t stop abusing it sooner #but how she managed to stop abusing it at all #i........ god #these books made me feel things when i was 12 and haven’t stopped since #the engelsfors trilogy #cirkeln #mine

Adults trust teens with newfound powers to save the world because they are “the chosen ones”

Title: The circle

Author: Sara Bergmark Elfgren, Mats Strandberg

Genre: Fantasy, horror, young adult

Publication year: 2011

Main character: The book follows six “chosen ones”, Rebecka, Minoo, Ida, Anna-Karin, Vanessa, and Linnéa. Other than just starting secondary school, and realizing they are witches and the chosen ones to stop a great evil, they don't have much in common. Rebecka is a popular girl in school, a bonus parents at home, and is a fire element witch. Minoo is a good student, teachers pet, and has no element. Ida is a nice person in front of teachers, but a bully to her classmates, and has metal as her element. Anna-Karin is an outcast and bully victim in school, has a rough home-life, and is an earth witch. Vanessa is an outgoing party girl, seen as a slut by other, and has air as her element. Linnéa is a goth girl and a social outcast with a terrible home life, and is a water witch.

Story: In the first of three books; the school year has just started when a student is found dead in one of the schools bathrooms. It is believed to be a suicide, but in reality, there is something much darker behind his death. No long after, on a night with a blood red moon, six girls are brought to a park without knowing how or why. They are then informed that they are witches and the “chosen ones” who were foretold in an ancient text. They must work together and learn to control their newfound powers so they can find and kill the evil chasing them, before it find and kills them.

Reading experience: Yet another Swedish fantasy book series that I just adore. It has all my favorite things. Witchcraft, magic, interesting magic that is used well, and characters that feel real. It always makes me happy to see a Swedish book series blowing up and spreading across the world. I also appreciate some magic that isn’t sunshine and rainbows, and more blood and rituals.

I was skeptical at first to having 6 main characters, but the book takes its time to flesh out and differentiate the characters. It’s a bit confusing at first, but soon enough you learn who they all are. It does have some intense murder and self harm scenes, bully, language, sex, and almost rape, so if you are sensitive, read with precaution.

I remember plowing through the books as a young teen, shocked by its content, but wanting to know more. The magic and their powers interested me, and some of their reactions to gaining said powers. Some powers align clearly to the elements, like being able to start fires, and some aren't as clearly connected to the element, but cool nonetheless, like turning invisible and controlling people. Their reactions to their new powers are also fitting for the type of characters they are, like Anna-Karin, the bullied one, using her power of controlling people to become popular.

It mixes the real world and real problems well with the magical world and magical problems. The series doesn't shy away from these real life problems, like bullying, drugs, self harm, eating disorders, and such, and doesn't try to romanticize it. The writers are aware that these are teens already dealing with serious real life problems, and now also have to save the world, and watch people die.

A bit of a spoiler, but there's a teacher that is in love with one of the main characters because she looks like his dead girlfriend and everything about that is disgusting and terrifying. Everything about him in general is kinda disgusting and terrifying. I hate him.