#sywtbaw

[spectre-squared]

thinking about how, if So You Want To Be A Wizard had taken place in Chicago instead of NYC, the cavalry of statues coming to fight the Starsnuffer would've included way fewer horses, and a LOT of giant pants

[oathwyrm]

An unspoken corollary, less widely taught; the simple magic of speech, lowercase S, or symbols.

Text, tales, symbolic representation and speech (small S version) transcend time and space even when they are not Speech (capital S).

What's loved, lives. And in words, what's loved can persist for a very long time--far beyond the life of the writer who did the first work of loving.

Think of how some human cultures preserve their loved ones in image or text after death. Consider how much we can know about someone who was loved by a poet ten thousand years before, or how much we can feel the reality of a country and biome that were dear to a writer from another place and time. Words and symbols are Timeheart--a part of it, at any rate--that remains free to all living things, a face of the unconquerable nature of love.

[tea-and-cats-and-books]

Anyone else ever randomly think of Fred and immediately get the hiccups?

[littleglitterbab]

so you want to be a wizard: aka time to feel a lot of feelings about a lotus esprit

[smileystudies]

21.04.2020 // Week 5 of 2020 Quarantine Challenge

Tuesday - What is your favourite book?

This is a damn tall order so I’m going to list three that have had the most impact on me as a person: So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, and the classic Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. One gives me a dream of what I could be, one helped me see who I was, and one inspired me to follow the path I’m on now 🥰

P.D. si estás curiosx, mi libro favorito en español es Hija de la fortuna de Isabel Allende, que me renovó mi amor para la literatura hispánica

[alb-back]

A little moodboard inspired by tom and carl from young wizards.

[ssilverstreak]

My Ideal SYWTBAW Trailer (if a movie ever got made)

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "In Life's name and for Life's sake-"]

[Scene, Nita and Kit meeting for the first time]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "-I say that I will use the Art for nothing but the service of that Life."]

[Scene, Nita and Kit meeting Fred:

Fred: I’ve learned that the Naming of Lights has gone missing-]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "I will guard growth-]

[Scene: Nita talking with Liused about the Battle of Trees]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "-and ease pain."]

[Scene: Kit helping the Lotus.]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way-"]

[Scene: Shot of NYC as they're on the train, glittering and beautiful.

Nita: “Ten million lives in the city, Fred. Maybe four or five million on that island alone.”

Fred: Doesn’t it worry you, packing all that life together? What if a meteor hits it? What if there’s a starflare? If something should happen to all that life—how terrible!]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "-and I will change no object or creature unless its growth and life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened."]

[Scene: Panover of dark NYC]

[Scene: Attack by the carnivorous helicopter]

[Scene: Them running from sentient cabs]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "To these ends, in the practice of my Art-"]

[Scene: Walking on air to get to the worldgate]

[Scene: Talking with Tom and Carl in their kitchen as they fix Fred.]

[Scene: Stealing The Book of Night with Moon]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "-I will put aside fear for courage-"]

[Scene: Nita confronting the bullies.]

[Scene: Fighting the cabs in dark NYC, the Lotus helping]

[Scene: The group facing off against the Lone One.

Nita and Kit: "Fairest and Fallen; Greetings and Defiance!"]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "-and death for life-"]

[Scene: Battle in Central Park, the trees and statues coming to their aid]

[Scene: Reading from The Book of Night with Moon]

[Scene: Horror on Nita's and Kit's faces.

Nita: "Oh my God. The sun. He put out the sun."]

[Black, voiceover, Nita reading: "-when it is right to do so-"]

[Scene: Nita changing The Lone One's name in The Book of Night with Moon]

[Black, voiceover, Nita's voice pauses, then finishes: "-till Universe's end."]

[Scene: Nita and Fred in Timeheart.

Nita: "Fred. Did we do right?"

Fred: Go find out.]

[Scene: Shot of Nita's Manual laying on a table, So You Want To Be A Wizard gleaming softly in golden letters against the red cover.]

[klexos]

Design isn’t totally finalized yet, still have revisions from class and overall I’m not totally happy about it considering how little time I had to work on it-  but I thought I’d post anyways - 

So You Want to be a Wizard cover, done for class!