#spindle's end

[moondustbooks]

A very happy National Tell A Fairy Tale Day to you! 📖

[roseunspindle]

Robin McKinley Books

[gcantread]

February-June 2025 superlatives

these get a separate post because why not

and the name of the game is "wackiest arrow graphics"

previous monthly wrap-ups

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight.”

― Robin McKinley, Spindle's End

[lavenderfables]

Thinking about Spindle's End by Robin McKinley and how genius the true love's kiss was. The layers of it! The exhange and the love! The tragedy and the triumph! Thinking about it forever and ever.

[a-ramblinrose]

Life is all circles isn't it? A fairy tale for my bedtime story tonight... 🌙

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 3D, MATCH 1 OUT OF 2!

Who is the best Fairy Godparent?

Magrat Garlick (Discworld: Witches Abroad)

Katriona (Spindle's End)

Voting ended onFeb 17, 2025

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Margrat:

She inherited the role on the death of an acquaintance and she's doing her best but she's like twenty-one and so, so shit at it. She can't make the wand turn things into anything but pumpkins. She's being followed around by two interfering old ladies who are better at everything. She's up against a far more competent Wicked Fairy Godmother who believes *she's* the good one. It's Mardi Gras, there are zombies, she punches a snake in the face at one point...

Katriona:

An adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, Katriona wasn't originally going to be one of the princess' fairy godparents (she was simply a guest there for the naming day, and probably only 16ish at the time, but I am having a difficult time figuring out her age other than she was a young woman), but when the evil fairy showed up gave her cursed gift, she rushed up and babbled her own gift, and was given custody of the princess to protect her. She and her aunt do her best to raise the princess with the hope that "ordinariness" will protect her from the evil fairy's plans

[dragonbadgerbooks]

“People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.”