i would die for resa

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[allthingseurope]

Carcassonne Castle, France

[srednod]

Józef Rapacki In the library 1928

[themotleyfolk]

What is known about The Motley Folk, aka. the strolling players of the Inkworld

This post might be periodically updated every once in a while!

In Inkspell

The Motley Folk has no permanent residence, they travel between Argenta and Lombrica.

The ruler of Lombrica, The Laughing Prince (now The Prince of Sighs) was the one who wasn’t hostile to them. The Adderhead, ruler of Argenta now orders to hang a strolling player if they’re caught within his land.

Their leader is The Black Prince, who excels at throwing knives. His name, according to Fenoglio, comes from the English historical figure, but the inhabitants of the Inkworld don’t know that, and call him so by the colour of his skin and clothes. The name of his tame bear is unknown, but Fenoglio might have wanted to originally write him with a dog.

The strolling players mainly have their hair down, according to Minerva (Ch 19 - Birthday Morning) but that might risk losing strands as fairies like to tear some out if they have the chance.

There appears to be colourcoding between them: for example, fire-eaters wear red and black and tightrope-walkers wear blue and other sky colours.

The players usually have a stage name, like Cloud-Dancer or Sootbird and we don’t know their civil names, if they have one at all (see The Black Prince or Dustfinger)

[teresafolchart]

call me dustfinger the way i want to steal resa from mo

[7pleiades7]

Fair Rosamund (1854) by Arthur Hughes (English, 1832 – 1915), oil on cardboard, 403 mm (15.86 in) x 305 mm (12 in), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

[katabay]

dustfinger

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

They're making a new adaptation of inkheart??????

[i-live-in-dreams]

OH MY GOODNESS PLEASE

[tintenherzundseele]

OMG

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

They're making a new adaptation of inkheart??????

[donottrustsistergoldenhair]

according to an interview from last month, the BBC are curently revising the book. The plan is to turn it into a tv show.

[kulekrizpy]

if you thought inkheart was about dads you haven't seen anything yet. by inkdeath we're into turbo-dad territory

[rose-red-ink]

Inkheart

Or

"Fanfic is valid: the novel"

[mischievoussilvertongue]

Okay but Cornelia actually said she loves fanfic and invited everyone to please please come up with more stories, to expand the world, etc etc. She gets it.

And yeah to me Firefox and Piper are a secretly married couple what are you gonna do about it

[memories-of-ancients]

Meanwhile in 16th century Europe...

[radvelii]

tried the new procreate sketching pencils with inkheart characters

[inhkeart]

inkheart au where instead of marrying jehan sr, roxane meets and falls in love with a charming blonde scribe who teaches her daughter to read. they are absolutely heartbroken when mortola takes her away and resa later befriends dustfinger specifically because roxane had told her about him. roxane goes with dustfinger to help meggie find her parents in the inkworld and meggie thinks it’s going to be awkward bc she knows dustfinger had a Thing with her mom…she was not expecting roxane to also be Insane about resa and this just makes things weirder for her

[cuties-in-codices]

elaborate border decorations

from a richly illuminated book of hours originally belonging to a bavarian princess. produced in flanders, c. 1520/30

source: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2730

[nostalgiaforinfinity]

here be fairies 

[bunchesofstuffs]

Inkheart moodboard   ✦  Basta

[manletbasta]

The boys are partying like it’s 1360.

What’s going on here? Well the Piper has been playing the same song for hours and Basta has had enough. Why is he riding a snail? I tried to make this look like those medieval paintings, which often had giant snails in them. I just couldn’t resist.