#magical libraries

[mjtriestowrite]

Good writers: proper introduction posts to their wips, with moodboards, character info and quotes.

Me:... This.

[transxfiles]

okay but the last dragon chronicles by chris d’lacey is the most underrated children’s series. 

it has dragons. it has polar bears. it has environmental awareness. it has a goth love interest. it has found family trope. it has aliens. it has half-human-half-dragon hybrids. it has witches. it has time travel. it has alternate universes. it has firebirds. it has squirrels. it has paradoxes. it has magical libraries. it has a cast of characters who are predominantly women; all books pass the bechdel test, if that’s something you look for. it combines all of these elements into a believable seven-book series that has been one of my favorites since i first picked it up in the first grade.

[torteen]

Check Out 7 More of Our Favorite Magical Libraries

Speaking in purely mercenary terms, writing about magical libraries is a good bet: readers are readers, which means they likely have many happy memories of libraries as safe havens from the world.

A great list of fictional libraries, including the Evil Librarians of Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians series!

[mephestopheles]

Magical Libraries

Magical libraries where the very air is spelled so sound is muffled. Having on a conversation with your companions doesn’t carry past your table. You write the name of a the book on the calling card and it whisks away in a shower of sparks leaving a trail for the person to follow.

Spaces open up and reading nooks appear and disappear at random. They always have the perfect amount of light to read by and vary by need. Some are plush cozy reading nooks next to a window and reflect the weather preferred by the reader. Others are desks with supplies for note taking.

Spiral stairs cases that go up and up and up a seemingly ending spire to reach shelves and books twelve floors and higher.

Books that put themselves away after you’re done with them. Books floating through the library, rearranging themselves based on genre and subject or author.

Genre sections! Fantasy fiction novels having scorch marks from the dragons inside them. Books that have duels in the middle of the aisle because the reader can’t decide which one to read first. Series novels lining up in order. Book bindings suggesting what’s within. Scales of a dragon for high fantasy, and old leather for something historical.

Stories that change subtly each time you read, affected by the memories you had of it and the influence of previous readers. Books refusing to open until late fines are paid. Late fines are going to the front desk and telling the librarian a story from your childhood or reciting the last story you read and it becoming part of the library.

Magical libraries that are innocuous on the outside, buildings of metal and concrete, but within are unending and appear to be made out of polished wood and marble floor, or appear ultra modern with huge windows.