since the wiki keeps getting vandalized to hell and back, I’ve decided to make this blog as a more proper wiki for The Girl Who Could Fly series.
Hi there, my name is Fynn! I use he/him/his pronouns and I love The Girl Who Could Fly series so much. I was the original editor of the wiki, and maintained it pretty well until the pandemic in 2020 when I got a full time job and around 3-4 people decided to vandalize the wiki. Every time I tried to fix it, around an hour or so later it would be vandalized again.
I’m hoping to get this ‘wiki’ up and running quickly, and I plan to make sure everything is organized and proper looking so that it’s easier to access than the Fandom wiki. (Because honestly, that sight in general is a mess of ads and the layout gives me a headache on mobile.)
Obviously this isn’t my main blog, but if you have any questions/requests I am more than willing to answer!
the fanfic thing would be cool. i need more tgwcf fanfictions. i am starved for content from this fandom so bad. like ive had another book fandom where i think some people say it's tiny or small but even if it is i think its still way bigger than the tgwcf fandom. like i can find way more content for the other book series than i can for tgwcf, i have to scour the internet for tgwcf content and i cant even find like memes for tgwcf. tell me where i can find tgwcf content my crops are dying
Hell yeah there should be more content amd fanfics for tgwcf (I would write one but my writing skills are subpar at best)
For where you can find tgwcf content:
- Fanart : #thegirlwhocouldfly in tumblr and instagram are your best bet. There are around one or two in Pinterest too, by searching piper mccloud
- Fanfiction :
12 fanfics in fanfiction.com + 1 if you check the crossover filter, 1 harry potter x tgwcf fanfiction called "The Girl Who Could Fly is a Witch?" On ff.com too
12 fanfics in ao3 under "The Girl Who Could Fly - Victoria Forester" fandom tag
Only 4 remaining fanfics in wattpad 🥲kinda sucks cause there's one really good multi-chapter one that got deleted around 2020. If you want the links for the remaining fics just comment or message me
1 fanfic in a foreign language that happens to be my mother tongue (Indonesian). I'm kinda iffy on translating it without the author's consent, but they also posted the same fanfic in ff.com which has a built in translator (which isn't that good, but passable if you're hungry for content) so you can read it and support the author at the same time. Again, if you want the link message or comment.
Youtube Videos :
- Mostly just some reviews and audiobooks but I've always like to put them on as background noise!
U KNOW WHAT, I have been dead off tumblr, but I just wanted to express the fact that I have gone back into one of my favorite childhood series aka the girl who could fly by victoria forester. anyways I’m not that good at drawing compared to other artists on this site, but I drew conrad bc he’s literally my favorite character and he’s also my child. he’s supposed to be more lanky here as “he’s growing into himself” stated in TBWKE, and he’s also slightly caught off guard. I am so excited for book 3 frick.
Hey so, I'm super pissed off. I manage The Girl Who Could Fly wiki page, and someone went around changing everything to be about My Hero Academia. I ended up waking up early to fix i, and all day at work I had to fix it as well. It was only because this one person kept going around and messing up pages and referencing the anime.
"But Fynn," you ask, "how do you know it was one person?"
I'm not sure if people are aware of this but if you edit a page on wikifandom and don't use an account, it shows your IP address. So when I was going into the edits to undo everything, I saw the IP address repeatedly.
Look I'm not going to post the IP or anything. But I'm just here to say, if you're in this fandom- you don't know how good you've got it in regards to the fandom wiki. Before I came along to fix everything, it was a mess. People were editing the pages like crazy to include headcanons and other things. This was before The Boy Who Knew Everything was even going to be announced and so not only was there that, there were fighting about sequels and what Forester was going to do.
It took me 6-8 hours to fix the wiki to get up to a reasonable state. I was alone and no one else helped me- it was just me and the copy of The Girl Who Could Fly that I've had since I was 9. It was tedious work but at the end of the day I was proud of it. I still am. I still work on the wiki to this day, trying to keep it as polished as possible as one person can.
But for one person to go through and fuck up my six years of hard work- I think I deserve to be pissed off. I know there's others that contribute and edit the wiki, but I feel like I'm the only one who keeps tabs on the wiki as a whole. So I'm begging the tiny fandom that we have here to please keep the wiki as accurate as possible. I need help and I can't keep up with all the assholes that want to troll the wiki.
as the (supposed) end of the series, I clearly have some thoughts on the book
Spoilers
The book starts out how you think it would. There’s a classic end of the world disaster that Max has planned, and of course the kids go to stop it. But during the team meeting, Lily ‘fixes up’ Piper to catch Conrad’s attention, and this causes the affect of Piper being stung by a ‘bug’ while trying to rescue Jasper. The venom causes her to lose her powers.
Now there’s a lot to unpack there, first and foremost with Piper trying to catch Conrad’s attention. But she doesn’t need to do that- they’re best friends who have died for each other and have gone through what would be considered the worst possible scenarios. It’s the reason why Conrad pushes Piper away from the missions afterwards- he cares about her, and he doesn’t want her to get hurt. With Piper being the unreliable narrator that she is, views it as Conrad not wanting to be around her because she’s different now.
With her being alone and being unable to accept that she’s alone, she tries to help around the house, but fails. She can’t cook breakfast, she can’t even go to church by herself! It’s all of these failures that make her stand out, no matter what. She’s alone, truly and utterly, for the first time in a long time. She doesn’t have any friends to be with in the first place, and then, the most dreadful.
Betty gives birth.
A beautiful and healthy baby girl named Jane. Betty can’t stay to take care of Piper, and Piper can’t go, and Joe is going to be leaving as well. So by some weird happenstance, Millie Mae Miller gets stuck with taking care of Piper.
And, god, the Millers.
Millie Mae immediately sets Piper to do some housework. And, thankfully, it’s nothing as hard as it could possibly be. Piper takes this as an opportunity to try and see if being “normal” is what she can do now. She tries her hardest too, but ultimately, the biggest test comes along: the head of the house, Dick Miller. It’s his house, his rules. None of which are laid out for Piper- she’s expected to pick up on the cues, but she breaks one almost instantly in grabbing some food for herself- the head of the house eats first.
But, let’s talk about the Millers. Specifically, their abuse narrative. Yes, it is abuse. It first stands out with Millie Mae, when she beats her sons over the head with the very same sticks. Now it’s glossed over but that’s the first hint. Then she squirrels away Piper to be out of site and out of mind. Until dinnertime, when Dick Miller asks what she’s doing here and why. Then Mille Mae answers- but she phrases it like this
“Oh, Dick, her ma went and had a baby today for no good reason. They took her off to the hospital, and there wasn’t anyone else who could look after the youngen. I didn’t have no choice- I had to take her.” Millie Mae spoke quickly, as though anticipating a problem.
What kind of problem would there be for taking in your neighbors child? Take notice of how she phrases it too- don’t put the blame on Millie, or the children, or even Piper- put the blame on someone he can’t touch. Which is to say, Betty McCloud, the one who put Piper there in the first place. The addition of Millie Mae not having a choice just adds onto the fact that she’s trying not to cause a problem. Or make a problem with her husband, Dick Miller, who proves again to be abusive.
“Men? You ain’t a man, boy. You dig those fence posts like I told you?”
“Well, Pa, I was...”
“Didn’t think so. If you can’t dig a fence post, how you gonna do this?”
Through this one interaction with Rory Ray, there’s a few things that stand out- how hesitant Rory Ray is to talk to Dick Miller, his father, when he’s upset. Now, we don’t know if Rory Ray did dig the fence posts, but either way, his father isn’t having it. Not only does he dismiss the fact that Rory Ray is wanted and being recruited- he dismisses Rory Ray himself, saying if he’s not going be good at farm work he’s not going to be good at anything.
(little anecdote here: I live in a small town with a lot of kids who live out in rural areas. The hardest thing about farming is the science, and that’s if you’re serious about going into agriculture as career.)
Then we move on with the phone incident. Dick Miller takes off his belt, and that, I think, is the most compelling evidence of the abuse. I, personally, think that using a belt to discipline your child, or using corporal punishment at all, is abuse. But since Lowland County is a rural area, it’s a general rule that how you discipline your child is up to you, and as long as there aren’t any bruises, no one will say anything.
Combine that with the fact that even Millie Mae is scared of Dick, I think it’s safe to assume that we’re seeing an abusive and toxic household through the eyes of a thirteen year old who has never been abused or seen it in her life up until now. Combine that with the fact that it’s Piper McCloud and she already sticks out, now she’s sticking out even more and bringing more attention to herself already. She doesn’t know how the rules work, and eventually, she decides she doesn’t care. The act of defiance against their dad cause Rory Ray, the eldest, and Jimmy Joe, the youngest, to team up with Piper.
She still doesn’t have any powers, and at the moment she’s stuck on the farm, alone, with Rory Ray and Jimmy Joe. It’s not until AnnA teleports to her to bring her news: Conrad and the rest of the gang are trapped in Xanthia because Elder Equilla thinks it is better for them, even when they’re trying to save the world. It takes convincing AnnA that there is hope when it seems like there is none, because that’s what Piper does best. When they get to Xanthia, not only does Piper rally up Chosen Ones to help Outsiders, but she gets Jimmy Joe on her side and Rory Ray. Which is a feat unto itself due to the fact that for all intents and purposes, the Chosen Ones don’t think it’s their problem until Piper says they should be able to think for themselves.
Then, we get onto the finale of the events- Jimmy Joe vs. Elder Equilla. I think about how Elder Equilla mirrors Mille Mae- both want people to stay in their place and not change anything, but there comes a wrench in those plans. A wrench who’s name is Piper McCloud, who encouraged Jimmy Joe to think about it, really think about it, and now he’s rethinking his priorities- until Elder Equilla says
“Outsiders are wicked and violent, and no good will ever come of them for you or Piper.”
Jimmy Joe stopped dead. Equilla sounded just like his Mother. He had heard his mother say just the same thing about Piper and her friends, and he had believed his mother, believed every word she had said.
That’s when he realizes his mother is wrong, his father is wrong, and most of all- Equilla is wrong. Whether or not he has a special talent doesn’t matter, what matters in that moment is what Piper wants. And Piper wants to go home.
Then we have a moment with Piper and the ‘bugs’- who all just want to crawl out. But since they forgot to, Piper uses this moment to try and figure out why- or how, to let the bugs go and finally grow. It’s a moment that she realizes they don’t want to destroy the world, they want out- but they can’t because they can’t remember.
When she wakes up, Piper is told by Conrad to fly. She hasn’t lost how to fly, but rather, she forgot as well. Since it’s hidden in her, and since the bugs are all a hivemind, if she remembers, then so will the rest of the bugs, and the world will be saved. She has to fly. Piper, ultimately, does remember how to fly. When she does, it saves the world. But first she has to accept that she is herself, first and foremost. She must stop thinking about how others want her to be- including the Millers, including Lowland County, including Conrad. She is Piper McCloud, and she can fly.
The finale is sweet. Conrad does ask her to the dance, despite the little spat she and Conrad had the earlier week. And since she doesn’t care what is “fashionable” or not, she does herself up and chooses her own dress. It’s not what will capture Conrad’s attention, it’s not about how pretty she is or not- it’s about how she feels, and she finally feels like herself again. She doesn’t need to change herself to be accepted- as long as she is who she is, then she only needs acceptance from herself.
Obviously the book series isn’t stunning or even the most wonderful writing I’ve ever read. It’s clearly a children’s book and I am but a simple nineteen year old finally finishing a childhood series. Sure it’s an open ending with Max, and with the dragons, but it feels nice. It finally feels like that no matter what, Piper McCloud, Conrad, and everyone is finally happy and finally able to live for themselves. I’m sad that it’s over, obviously, but more than that, I’m happy for these kids. For everything they’ve gone through, they’re finally happy. Which is way better than having a dumb plot twist where someone dies.
This book series will be missed, but I’m closing the final page with a smile on my face.
