#@sandry

[tucsonhorse]

Do you ever reread something from your childhood and every page reminds you that it was one of the primary things that shaped your personality and morality for your entire life? That's pretty much everything Tamora Pierce for me and I love it.

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Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace - The Camp Halfblood Chronicles by Rick Riordan

Whisper/Prince Julien Sandry - Prince and Assassin by Tavia Lark

Wylan van Eyck/Jesper Fahey - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Lark/Rosethorn - Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce

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Tabià S. Stefano House, Santo Stefano di Cadore, Italy - Sandri Barbara Smaniotto Andrea Architetti

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salmon run after hours

ft. @tigersnails and Sandri

[garadinervi]

Giovanna Sandri, [from: Uomo / o il Tempo], in Italian Poetry, 1960-1980: from Neo to Post Avant-garde, Edited by Adriano Spatola and Paul Vangelisti, Press-mark by Giovanni Anceschi, Designed by John McBride, «Invisible City» 2, Red Hill Press, San Francisco, CA, 1982, p. 97 [© Giovanna Sandri]

[ivorivet]

Book related yarn crimes!!

I will be in a Circle of Magic cosplay group with @pearlybae @knitfreakcosplay and aka.s.mel soon and because I am actively listening to the audiobooks and have no chill about spinning I wanted to make some props for us!

First is Sandry's yarn circle, which is described as being a beginner's first lumpy yarn with four distinct lumps, and also looped back on itself so you can't tell where the beginning is. Drafting huge lumps was a big pain in the butt because the size differential I wanted between the fat and skinny sections of the yarn meant that virtually no twist would get into the lumpy bits. (Could have made them smaller, but I feel like it would have made for a boring prop.) So when I started trying to join the ends of the yarn and even out the spacing between the lumps, the stupid lumps kept drafting out because that's how fiber behaves and the loop kept getting bigger and bigger. To get the loop to hang loosely without plying back on itself, I finger-felted the skinny parts with soap and water and then fried it with a flatiron for good measure.

The other prop is a spindle with some light-up yarn. It's just wool wrapped around some EL wire but I'm pretty pleased at how it turned out. And I got to use up some of the mountain of Icelandic thel wool I have to find something to make with, so win-win!

[anghraine]

@venndaai tagged me in the five favorite characters/five fandoms poll! I think some others did as well, so thank you, all of you! It was a lot more fun to think about than everything else going on right now, and I figured it'd be fun to see the results :D

Tagging @ladytharen, @brynnmclean, @child-of-hurin, @kareenvorbarra, @sqbr, @squirrelwrangler, @him-e, @steinbecks, @scholarlyhobbit, and anyone else who wants to do it!

[isnt-it-pretty]

When I was a kid, I didn't read. One of my learning disabilities is reading, and it was really difficult for me to make sense of words. They gave me as much extra help in school as they could, but it didn't really do anything. I was several grades behind everybody else, and tbh, I was probably halfway illiterate by the time I was ten, but I honestly can't remember.

And then my older sister brought Sandry's Book home from the library as an audiobook. This was in 2008, when audiobooks were a lot less common than they are now. It was on a CD and I remember sitting in my room listening to it, and feeling my chest swell from joy and excitement.

It was life-changing. I was enthralled by the story of these four kids. I read the physical book along with it, and finally, finally, reading made sense. I could finally match up the sounds I heard with the words I saw, and it clicked in a way it never had before.

I taught myself to read from Tammy's books. The first book I ever read cover to cover of my own accord was Magic Steps. The very first piece of fanfiction I wrote was on loose-leaf paper for Tamora Pierce.

As a bullied kid, it was clear I was unwanted everywhere I went. But in Tammy's books? Those four were unwanted too. They were hurt and angry but they often chose to be kind, even when it was hard. They stood up for what they believed in even if nobody else did.

These books changed my life in ways I can't express. I'm not sure I would love reading as much as I do if I hadn't been given her books. If I didn't read, I definitely wouldn't write.

Even if the books aren't complicated technical writing-wise, and the world-building doesn't always line up, they will forever hold a special place in my heart. I wouldn't be who I am without them.

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Welcome to Emelan

My (super subjective and objectively non-empirical) experience has been that Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe is where most of her fans begin, and it seems to be her more popular universe. Heck, I started in Tortall. But as I read more, and found more of Pierce's books, I found the Circle Universe, and I gotta say, for all my love and nostalgia for the Tortall Universe, I think my heart lives in Emelan with Sandry, Briar, Daja, and Tris. I certainly tried to balance my Rosethorn half with my Lark tendencies and my extremely Niko academic oeuvre when I was teaching, and I love that the Circle Universe gets away from more traditional medieval europe settings. Let's talk The Circle of Magic Quartet.

Sandry's Book introduces the world, the magic system, and our four protagonists. Sandreline Fa Toren is almost royalty in two countries and has exactly zero compunction about hopping back and forth between "just Sandy" and "Lady Sandreline" as the occasion calls for it. We love her, and honestly she's perfect. Joining Sandry at Discipline Cottage in Winding Circle Temple are former street rat Briar Moss, neglected and rejected merchant daughter Trisana Chandler, and orphaned and exiled Trader Daja Kisubo.

This book brings the four together and they learn that they are ambient mages--mages who manipulate the power inherent in the world rather than mages who use power inherent in themselves (academic mages). The magic system in the Circle Universe is objectively my favorite, because it is so detailed and so nuanced and so tied to craftsmanship. It's something I've never seen done better than it is here. And because our four protagonists are incredible, they also manage to spin their powers together, making them exponentially stronger together than they could have imagined being individually--which is just a stunnign thematic tie-in. A+ no notes.

Tris's Book explores Tris's past, her magic, and the choices she has to make to keep her terrifyingly powerful weather magic under control despite her deep emotional wounds and temper. Tris is honestly one of my two favorite characters in this series because this girl just has SO MANY feelings and she has to literally learn to take herself in hand to not accidentally hurt or kill anyone. It also explores Tris's relationships to her blood and found families, and Pierce makes no bones about how sometimes family can be irredeemably toxic, and that it's ok to choose the found family that loves and supports you. Honestly Tris needs a hug, but good luck getting through the lightning to give it to her.

This book also really deepens the relationships between each protagonist and their teachers. I love how much time Pierce spends in all of her books focusing on student-teacher relationships, and the ones here, in a literal educational setting (non-traditional though it is), are top tier. This continues to be expanded in later books, but Niko and Tris's relationship really cements here and I love them as a student and teacher.

Also, there are pirates in this book. That's pretty cool.

Daja's Book takes reader and protagonists beyond the walls of Winding Circle and expands the world at the end of a difficult, dry summer that was poised for a firey fall and a possible starving winter. The Duke of Emelan is touring the outer estates to assess who needs what help and what he can do.

Meanwhile, the book explores Trader culture and Daja's relationship to it. This is done so spectacularly that I am loath to give any spoilers, but suffice it to say that not only does this book explore the downsides of exclusionary cultural practices, it also explores the complex emotions of being excluded and both knowing it's wrong but desperately missing being included. Disability is also handled spectacularly in this book, and I love it for that.

While Daja is exploring her own culture from the outside, Sandry, Briar, and Tris are dealing with the aftermath of spinning their powers together in Sandry's Book. This is very much a subplot, but it works beautifully to expand the worldbuilding and magic system.

Briar's Book sees everyone return to Emelan proper, and this book hits DIFFERENT after 2020. Winding Circle must deal with a mysterious plague, and honestly after Covid, I can't actually read this book without sobbing. It's damn good, and Briar and Rosethorn are just the absolute peak student-teacher relationship. This book also really highlights Briar and Tris's relationship, which will continue to grow and develop throuhgout the Circle Universe books.

I absolutely recommend these books. Tamora Pierce is technically YA, but the protagonists are between 10 and 12 in these books, so they might feel more middle-grade than YA at times, but that truly does not diminish any of the very human themes and challenges.

These books also have absolutely stunningly performed and edited full-cast audiobooks, and I cannot recommend those enough either. I now read these books in the voice actors' voices, and that just makes the whole experience more magical.

[tucsonhorse]

"what good is magic, if you can't use it to help people?" That right there is a defining phrase in my approach to the world. No wonder Daja's Book has always been my favorite of the series.

[etinceelle]

Commission for @/SalomeSoubielle (Glory.a illustrations) on Twitter ! Drew her two ocs Opira and Sandrie ♥

[themysticaljellyfish]

I love the contrast of how Niko deals with the four while traveling with them to Winding Circle

Sandry: Stays with her for four months while she is recovering from her parents' deaths and her ordeal in the storeroom, transports her safely to her nearest relative

Tris: does his best to comfort her, doesn't treat her like a monster like she expects

Daja: stays by her side throughout her judging, takes her to someplace relatively safe after she is cast out

Briar: get in the bath, you little gremlin

[antronaut]

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979

Artists and writers include Lenora de Barros, Ana Bella Geiger, and Mira Schendel from Brazil; Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Liliana Landi, Anna Oberto, and Giovanna Sandri from Italy; Amanda Berenguer from Uruguay; Suzanne Bernard and Ilse Garnier from France; Blanca Calparsoro from Spain; Paula Claire and Jennifer Pike from the UK; Betty Danon from Turkey; Mirtha Dermisache from Argentina; Bohumila Grögerová from the Czech Republic; Ana Hatherly and Salette Tavares from Portugal; Madeline Gins, Mary Ellen Solt, Susan Howe, Liliane Lijn, and Rosmarie Waldrop from the US; Irma Blank and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt from Germany; Chima Sunada from Japan; and Katalin Ladik and Bogdanka Poznanović from the former Yugoslavia Edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre

[dr-dendritic-trees]

When we actually see Sandry weave in Circle she's generally using either straight magic or a backstrap loom, which is a very flexible, but also very simple loom, in terms of number of moving parts.

But its very important to me that Sandry actually be able to use all looms. Like, she has backstrap looms and weaving tablets for small pieces/complex patterns/travel but also, like, big 16 or 32 shaft jack or dobby looms that she is totally at home with.

She can move between the two effortlessly.

[garadinervi]

Giovanna Sandri, Untitled, (lithograph), 1977, Edition of 100 [© Giovanna Sandri]