#jsamn

[mai-col]

More JSAMN nonsense.

[omnomtonystark]

1.03 - The Education of a Magician"What the devil are you doing up there? His Lordship is asking for you. We've not seen you in days, man."

[a-very-lost-lily]

SOMETHING WITH COLOUR

[corinnasstays]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2015): Onion Headlines (1/?)

[devoutjunk]

“Magic in Clarke’s novel is synonymous or inseparable from the living force of the natural world. It doesn’t seek to refuse reality or deny history. Instead magic functions as a radical rejection of stasis and separateness, a dissolving of borders not just on the level of nations but on the level of individual consciousness. When Drawlight is swallowed up by the enchanted wood, Clarke writes: “The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been.” This is the darker side of Clarke’s vision of interlinkedness, an eco-consciousness that is all-consuming, vengeful even, rather than benevolent. But even this ambiguous force carries with it a kind of hope: Drawlight’s devouring represents a world where humans function as part of nature rather than stand outside of it. He is able to live  “inside” the world while still retaining “something of the man he had once been.” In her depiction of magic, Clarke reintegrates the human into the natural.”

A Candle Burning: Nation and The Agency of Nature in Fantasy, Caroline Shea

[letmeinimafairy]

An old work, from about nine years ago. I had an idea about someone trapped in a lantern for some time, and it finally transformed into a story while I was reading JSAMN. A changeling luring someone with light, then trapping them in a lantern and leaving it on a tree, while stealing their face. Thorny branches morphing into a silhouette, spiderweb weaving into a face.

[fruitblr]

JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL | 1.07

[annabelle--cane]

my current problem is that I'd like to finally read jonathan strange and mr norrel after thinking "yeah I'll get to that soon" for ten years, but there's no way I could read All Of That in the two weeks a library loan lasts. the good news is that I already own a physical copy. the bad news is that it's my mother's and while reading it she dropped it in the bath approximately seven thousand times and it's now split into two halves and resembles a stack of ruffles potato chips. and I know I could pirate an ebook to have Forever but I really don't gel with digital texts of anything longer than a novella. my woes.