#Dianne wynne Jones

[runfreebirdrun]

been reading the original Howl's Moving Castle books. they're fun despite a bit of poorly researched Orientalism in the second. I can't believe he's actually just Welsh

[betterthanapokeintheeye]

We love Dianne Wynne Jones books, especially Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky.

A team is trying to put together the seed money to run the next Dianne Wynne Jones Conference and Festival in Bristol at the beginning of August in 2024.

They have 5 days on their Kickstarter, and they still need £1,517 to get to their minimum amount.

For more information and to help them out visit...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dwj-2024/diana-wynne-jones-conference-and-festival-2024?ref=thanks-share&fbclid=IwAR2xTWh7P87oznhRkR--n3qVLbx1gHmZQ4cOchdIxbLUtUWfPasPrC8RGCg

[guessillcallitart]

Loving you was easy, that's why it hurts now

The worst way to love somebody's to watch them

love somebody else and it work out

Body Better, Maisie Peters

[bedupolker]

I wonder if there was some unspoken beef or resentment between Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea) and Dianne Wynn Jones (Howl's Moving Castle) because Jones got the good Miyazaki directing her beloved fantasy novel into an animated adaptation

[avelera]

"I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a school novel, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

It's been understandably popular to take pot-shots at Harry Potter lately because of JK Rowling's truly disgusting and reprehensible comments lately. This quote above by Le Guin, which I agreed with even while a teenager, got me thinking about my own views on the series and apropos to nothing, I felt this was a better place to expound upon them than Twitter.

I have a knee-jerk dislike of the very human condition of saying we, "Always knew something," after the fact, that we "Always knew" someone problematic™️ was problematic or we always knew this thing that was popular was Bad Art after it became less popular. I find it intellectually dishonest.

So I'll preface all of this by saying: I had minor issues with the Harry Potter series back when it came out that went against the mainstream view of it, in that I thought it had many good qualities as a book series, but not enough to warrant its popularity compared to other, similar YA and fantasy series. I was genuinely baffled by its superstar popularity but as a fantasy book reader in the days before it was easy to access online fandom, I would take what I could get and I certainly didn't mind fangirling about Harry Potter stuff with friends even if it wasn't my #1 favorite series of all time. I enjoyed the fanfic for Harry Potter immensely so that allowed me to sort of blend in with those who enjoyed its popularity. (Special shoutout to MY favorite Harry Potter book of all time, "Harry Potter and the Battle of Wills" by Jocelyn over on fanfiction.net, that was MY Harry Potter series lol.)

So here's the thing, it's easy to say, "I always hated Harry Potter" or "I always knew it was trash" and that's a lie. For me, the truth is:

I enjoyed Harry Potter much like I did many of the fantasy series of its day.

What they had going for them was their pacing, whimsy, and inherent mystery structure in the first 3 books. They're fast, fun, easy reads with a likable protagonist. They are not bad books. But as Le Guin says, they're stylistically ordinary and imaginatively derivative. There's a lot of books like them.

I did not think the books were better than Pratchett, or Gaiman, or Garth Nix, or Dianne Wynn Jones, or any of the many other fantasy authors I was reading at the time. I was confused by their popularity as compared to better books like Pratchett's Discworld which, while popular, never got a theme park made for them in terms of order of magnitude popularity.

Now, JK Rowling on the other hand I had some issues with from the start, if not the ones that emerged later with her being a bigot. It is worth mentioning for the sake of intellectual honesty that decades ago, she gave a lot to charity and was a voice for tolerance in the early 00's when Bush/Blair, the Iraq War, etc were in full swing. It makes it all the more heartbreaking and baffling to see her swing towards bigotry on LGBT+ issues. Truly, a lot of young people first learned to stand up to fascism and be accepting of those different from them because of Harry Potter, just like they did reading the Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card, and in both cases it's absolutely heartbreaking and so very confusing to see these authors fall to the very dark side they wrote against in their books. I have no answer for how or why this happened. I don't say this to make an excuse for either of them, simply to express confusion and mourn the loss of someone who was once a voice for some level of good in the world.

Now, my issues with JK Rowling were writerly, and they are the ones I feel somewhat empowered to say I "always knew" and "always had an issue with" and that, like the worst sort of hipster, "I talked about before it was cool".

Really my dislike began when JKR very famously said in the early 00s that she didn't read any fantasy before writing Harry Potter. Considering how derivative it is (heck, Neil Gaiman already had a YA series about a black-haired wizard boy with a scar) it left one wondering if she was lying or she truly was that ignorant in the genre in which she wrote. Either way, not a good look, and it soured me towards her pretty permanently as an author.

Terry Pratchett, the author I would actually follow into Hell, criticized her for this comment and got a lot of flack for it, asking how in the world she could not realize she was writing fantasy. This solidified my opinion of her as something of a hack, even if she had stumbled upon a winning story. Neil Gaiman also chimed in saying he didn't feel ripped off but seemed to tacitly agree with Pratchett that her lack of institutional knowledge about fantasy was odd.

As a big fantasy fan of the early 00s, I can say that fantasy was still a bit of a forbidden genre (at least in the Anglosphere), one not taken seriously. So for JK Rowling to be asked if she wrote fantasy had a layer of nuance, basically she was being asked if she meant to write a fantasy novel, ie, in a "lesser" genre, barely above dime story penny dreadfuls in value.

No one literary would admit to writing fantasy at the time, it was a whole thing where if you admitted to writing fantasy you were "downgraded" as an author in terms of prestige (Stephen King went through a lot of this). BUT, if a fantasy book achieved popularity, it was labeled as "literary" so the literary folks could claim ownership of the quality genre fiction, and never have to admit that "literary" is a genre and not a mark of quality (a deep-seated rage button issue for me and a rant for another day).

So when JK Rowling said, "She didn't know she was writing fantasy." That meant something. And what it meant was she was throwing the rest of the genre under the damn bus. With her visibility she could have helped actively tear down the biases against fantasy (something she did indirectly with the popularity of her books). Or she could have simply had humility and said she wasn't as versed in the genre as she should be given where her book ended up being shelved, but there's a lot of good works there and she's honored to be among them.

She did neither. She stuck to her ignorance (what would become a common trait of hers, apparently) and did very little to elevate others in the genre, or the genre itself, and indeed, seemed to try to distance herself from it in what was the safe move at the time.

I cannot stress enough how intellectual dishonest, arrogant, and safe it was for popular writers who got dubbed "literary" when they were in fact writing genre fiction to cleave to that title of literary, guard it jealously, and refuse to acknowledge that literary is a genre of its own, not a mark of quality. To be labeled "genre fiction" was to be considered "lesser" and that stigma is still out there, though much lessened by the wave that began with the Lord of the Rings movies, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and the Marvel films making so much money and really setting up genre fiction to at least be seen as lucrative if not artistic. We have come a long way from how fantasy was viewed 20 years ago.

JK Rowling also said she wrote no other books before Harry Potter. That's another puzzling instance where either she's lying, sold her soul to the Devil (and hey, maybe she did and he's collecting by making her turn into a frothing bigot), or was simply a more lucky and less skilled writer than people realized. Every writer has a closet full of short stories and novels they've written before publishing their first work. I can't stress enough how bizarre it is for her to claim she never wrote anything else before putting pen to paper with Harry Potter, that simply does not happen. Then again, her later books make it seem more likely that is true.

Writerly aside, but JK Rowling is utter garbage at structure. She lucked into the perfect scaffolding for a basic plot with the Harry Potter school year, but as Fantastic Beasts and her other, non-school based plot structures reveal, she didn't realize what a crutch that was for her because the woman does not and has not learned how to build a plot that isn't strung up on the structure of a school year for building tension and story beats.

Look, JK Rowling has always been a weird author. She really did come out of nowhere in terms of previous works. She doesn't acknowledge her peers in the genre that built her fortune, not even to confess that while she didn't know about them, she's now learning about a wonderful rich genre out there. She went the other direction and disavowed fantasy (it's possible she backtracked since and had nice things to say about the fantasy genre, I'd love to hear it if so).

There was in fact always subtle bigotry and a ton of tokenism in the Harry Potter books. That said, in the 90s, that was pretty par for the course, and she deserved some kudos for making the books so explicitly about fighting fascism, even if I'm not sure she fully understood her own themes.

To say these books were unpopular or that they had no writerly merit at all is intellectually dishonest. They were popular for a reason, mostly because they're fun. However, they were not unique, there were many like them, she got very lucky and it's bizarre how little she's acknowledged this or her peers. Of all the negative tendencies any human has, I'm shocked and dismayed that her tendency to stick to her ignorance like she did with the wider fantasy genre is the one that won out and was transferred to LGBT+ issues, to the point of doing active damage to her works and brand. But as her attempts to branch out from Harry Potter have further confirmed, JK Rowling was always a stylistically ordinary writer. Her mean-spiritedness didn't stand out as much in the 90s but it absolutely does now and it's ugly how she leaned more into sticking with the moral heights she reached at that time rather than trying to learn and grow as a person.

JK Rowling went full Whedon and figured because she was slightly ahead of the curve in the late 90s that she had nothing more to learn and it hurts when people who are creative, people whose job it is to have empathy for other walks of life, never learn or grow and stick to their old laurels that are increasingly out of date. I personally don't think myself as a hardcore Harry Potter fan, I have no horse in this race for the redemption or lack thereof of JK Rowling or the book series. I can only offer my view as a fantasy writer and someone who grew up through the cultural phenomenon of these books.

But, as usual, Ursula Le Guin was right, I agreed with her then, and her words have only borne out more and more with time.

[hoeratius]

Tag game - books!

Tagged by @child-of-hurin at a time when I actually have time to do a meme like this (RIP to others who tag me in these, I always mean to and then forget...)

Last book I read: A reread of Golden Hill by Francis Spufford - an astonishingly vivid picture of life in New York as it turns from Dutch to English.

Book I recommend: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation. Quick, engrossing, poetic, with far more mentions of Friesland than you get in most literature

Book I couldn't put down: Rosemary's Baby. It was horrific. It was engrossing. It made my skin crawl. The only moment I put it down was to turn to my boyfriend and go: 'Babe. What the fuck. What the fuck.'

Book I've read twice: Soooo many. Notable recent additions include Golden Hill (first read about 8 years ago), Flowers in the attic (first read about 18 years ago), and The letters of Abelard and Eloise (first read about 5 years ago). Also the entirety of the queen's thief series, my beloveds

A book on my TBR: The silmarillion (yes I started, no I didn't make any progress), and Emily Wilson's Iliad but read out to me by my boyfriend, which slows it down

A book I've put down: Three body project. I finished it in the end for my book club but at what cost?

A book on my wishlist: An art deco illustrated edition of Couperus's Eros and Psyche

A favourite book from childhood: I recently reread Dianne Wynne Jones's The magicians of Caprona and it explains so much about who I am today: magic in urban Italian settings, yearning, eccentrically dressed tall men with tremendous brilliance... truly felt like reading a blueprint of who I am today

A book you would give a friend: Emily Wilson's Odyssey, if only for the introduction.

A book of poetry or lyrics you own: The prettiest love letters in the world, which is partially letters, partially the poetry exchanged by Pietro Bembo and Lucrezia Borgia. Also, about 3 Italian editions of Petrarch's Rime (< has barely read any of his Rime in any language) (I just can't let them go when I find them in second hand Italian bookshops) (<is not good enough at Italian to justify any visits to second hand Italian bookshops)

A non-fiction book you own: Witchcraft in Venice. I have a whole section of witchcraft, actually, in case I ever get my act together and edit that Venetian witches novel lol

Currently reading: A reread of The name of the Rose. I picked up the epic of Gilgamesh but don't think I got far enough yet to justify saying I'm reading it!

Planning on reading next: I'd love to say Gilgamesh but in reality it'll be whatever books I find lying around my mother's house so tbd!

I'm tagging @en-theos @hortensius @newtsoftheworldunite and @terpsikeraunos in case any of you want to share your books!

[notetaeker]

24 books in 2024

taged by @peregrination-studies 💞 thank you!! I'm definitely checking out your list and stealing some titles from there

I'm trying to be more 'go with the flow' and pick up random books like I used to do as a kid instead of planning books beforehand (which brings out my need to research the book into oblivion to try to figure out if I would like it) So I think I'll do the challenge differently where I'll just add books on here as I read them! 24 is a lot though for me asdkjfl last year I think I read? 5? All year.

My interests these past few years have been memoirs, grief, animals, fantasy, classics and studying the genre of middle grade fiction

Done Reading (my rating in parenthesis)

The Reign of Wolf 21 - Rick McEntyre (9/10)

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (8/10)

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy (7/10)

Watership Down (Graphic Novel) (10/10)

The Last White Man - Mohsin Hamid (6/10)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham (7.5)

Forged by Blood - Ehigbor Okosun (Randomly picked up from the library- seems great so far!)

The Heirloom - Beverly Lewis (6/10)

Salt Houses

The Joy Luck Club

Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones

DNF

H is for Hawk - Helen McDonald (writing is great but there’s too many parts that read like a biography of TH white which I didn’t sign up for 🥲)

Empress of All Seasons - Emiko Jean (fast paced but fast paced to the point where it’s skipping the stuff the book is supposed to be about ajsdjdd)

Currently reading

The Phantom Toll Booth - Norton Juster

Am I There Yet - Mari Andrew

My First and Only Love - Sahar Khalifeh

The Lives of Christopher Chant - Dianne Wynne Jones

The Noh Family - Grace Shim

tagging: @dontwannastudybutihaveto, @stuhde, @nuuralshams

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For Fantasy Poll:

The Goblin Emperor by Sarah Monette

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (if danmei is cool)

The Chrestomanci Series by Dianne Wynne Jones

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke

Yes, damei is cool! It's fantasy, it's got chapters, so it meets all my requirements. I actually just finished the last two volumes of MDZS earlier this year!

And I added Dragon Rider since the other two are already on the list

[concealedrecs]

Doing this every month! Here is last months, but below we continue with the suggestions from this month (May).

Fic: Relativity (or the Mutable Nature of Time)

Authors: alpha_hydra, geo039

Fandom: Scum Villain Self-Saving System

Pairing; Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan

Rating: General Audiences

Length: 17936

Recommendation: This is listed as "inspired by Howl's Moving Castle," but what this mostly captures the world of inherent magic from the Dianne Wynn Jones novel. I'm not someone who reads a lot of SVSSS fic - I think this is likely the first one mentioned on this rec blog. I love the way that this writer builds a world, the way that they populate it so fully.

[maybesimon]

books i liked last year (as far as i remember):

Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer

The hands of the emperor, by victoria goddard, which. its very chill. its kinda not fucked up enough for what i usually like, but it was nice

The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa, which was super depressing but good

honorable mention to the kids books i've been reading during conferences

Hexwood, by Dianne Wynne Jones (also her Chrestomagi series is fun)

I am currently still finishing the Inkheart Trilogy which i couldn't get through as a kid but i now like

earthsea, which also made me feel sad

others:

fairy tale, by Stephen King. It was okay, entertaining enough. Bought it at the airport and it did its job

i read more but i forgot.

[raventhekittycat]

I recently got a bookstore gift card for graduation, and I was wondering if anyone had any good fantasy recommendations? I tend to like stuff by authors such as Tamora Pierce, Naomi Novik, Trudi Canavan, Shannon Hale, but I've also enjoyed some Madeline L'Engle (I know she's more SF than fantasy) and Dianne Wynn Jones. I also recently read a book by Foz Meadows, who's title escapes me now, that I also enjoyed. I'll take recommendations in other genres as well, but fantasy tends to be my favorite, and I'd love to get a new book or author to dive into!

[nicnacsnonsense]

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Okay Dark Lord of Derkholm AU. I don't believe you've read that book from what I recall of our Dianne Wynne Jones conversation, so I will be sure to explain the relevant parts of the plot as we go.

Our setting is a world that vibes similar to a standard fantasy setting -- which is a key plot point -- and they have a serious problem. The Badminton Twins who are business men who forty years ago managed to capture a demon, which they use as leverage to make the demon king do their bidding. (I have no strong feelings on who should be the demons, but I do think it would be funny if it were Mary and Doug, and since the demon king does help our protagonists, but really only to secure freedom for himself & his mate, it works). Their bidding being to force the upholding of a contract the people of this world signed to hold Badminton's Pilgrim Parties.

Every year they have to do up their world to look like an even more exaggerated and tropey version of a fantasy setting, all of which must conform to the Badminton's exact very racist and sexist expectations, and give a fantasy world quest to 100+ parties of about 20 Pilgrims (people from our world) which culminates in them defeating the Dark Lord and saving the world. They are paid for this service, but it's significantly less than what the Badmintons earn selling the experience, and also significantly less than the cost of running it in resource and labor on the people in the world.

(It's a colonialism. The whole story is an anti-colonialism & -capitalism allegory that's honestly pretty light on the allegory part of it.)

Our story starts with Spanish Jackie, Chancellor of the Wizard University, having an emergency meeting with a number of other various guild leaders, heads of state, high priests, etc. etc. About how they are going to stop the Pilgrim Parties. Their plan is to go see the two Oracles and do what both of them say. The instructions come down as make the first person you see the Dark Lord and the second person you see the Wizard Guide for the last tour group. Upon exiting the second Oracle, the first two people they see are Stede and his younger human son Olu.

Stede is regarded by people in this universe to be just as cringefail as he is in canon. He did technically graduate from the University and is a wizard, but he did very poorly. The trouble was he couldn't seem to conform to what was required of him -- which was to perform to specific standards to cater to the Pilgrim Party economy -- and only wanted to do his own magic that he was good at. The University was a very traumatizing experience for him and decimated his self-esteem, but he now has a beautiful farm/estate with a whole bevy of animals and a loving husband and many children where he is very happy and can focus on the type of magic he likes (or at least he could until this whole Dark Lord thing interrupted).

His preferred magic is kind of like a biology magic, I guess? Plants and animals. He's super great at using magic to grow any kind of plant. Nana, a high priestess/queen of one region, gives him an orange that she bought off of a Pilgrim because she is fully confident Stede will be able to use the pips from this fruit that isn't native to their entire world to grow a whole grove of orange trees. And as far as animals, at his home he has flying pigs, flying talking horses, Friendly Cows (they are so fucking dumb, but they have kind eyes), invisible cats, super intelligent geese (which tbf, I'm pretty sure are just normal cats & geese), etc. etc.

As to his children, Frenchie is the eldest. He's in training to become a bard. And I already mentioned Olu, who is the next oldest and who wants to train to be a wizard. These two are probably adopted in this version of the story. And then we move on to his & his husband's biological kids.

Pete is the oldest, and he and Olu are often refer to as the twins since they are about the same age. Pete is also a humongous black griffin. Yeah, so Stede took some of his cells, his husband's cells, cells from a lioness, and some cells from an eagle, did some kind of magic, put it in an egg, and out hatched a baby griffin, who is also a whole sapient person. John, Roach, and Swede (and possible Ivan & Fang, haven't decided on that) are their other griffin children.

For the rest of the crew, starting with Lucius, he is an elf prince in this one. He and his people are supposed to pose as dark elves and the Dark Lords minions. Stede manages to get Lucuis to agree to give him some additional help because (and this is different than the book) Lucius is into Pete. Lucius the elf is dtf the massive griffin, because why not.

For Jim, as a reminder Olu is the wizard guide for the last tour group (and Frenchie comes along too as their group bard). Jim is one of the Pilgrims in that group, but it eventually comes out they're here to try to figure out what happened to their parents, who went on a tour when they were just a kid, and never came back. We don't find out for sure what happened, but we are able to conclude that the Jimenezes were probably marked down as expendable.

Because yeah that's another service the Badmintons offer. You can pay an exorbitant sum to get an X put down next to a person's name, and that person will meet with an unfortunate accident and simply not make it back from their trip to the other world.

(Also in Olu & Frenchie's tour group are Evelyn, Hornberry, and Wellington. They are posing as a married couple plus sibling, though I'm not sure which configuration of that would be funniest. Ultimately it doesn't matter because they are all revealed to actually be undercover agents from various government organizations in our world investigating the shady shit the Badmintons are pulling).

Buttons is the nickname that is given to a dragon that randomly shows up, half-crazed and very confused. HE just took a little 100 year nap, and when he woke up the world was entirely different. Stede helps hims recover and reacclimate, and in return Buttons helps him out with the whole Dark Lord thing.

And then, saving the best for last, Ed. Obviously Ed is Stede's aforementioned husband. He is a very well-respected wizard and can do these little pocket universe things that everyone loves. When Stede is volunteered to be the Dark Lord, Ed is likewise assigned the role of Glamorous Enchantress. The vibe here of the Enchantress and her domain seems like it's kind of going for a Fae Queen & her court kind of thing. Anyway, as the Glamorous Enchantress Ed is required to look extraordinarily beautiful and extremely sensual if not overtly sexual. I'm picturing him having shaved his beard for the role and lounging about in his loose plait, pearls, a robe, and probably nothing else. To the point that when Frenchie & Olu's group show up off-schedule because Olu got them horribly lost and this was the first place they were able to find, Ed is running around freaking out trying to find his tiny gold shorts (thinking a real RHPS number here) because his kids are coming and he needs his least slutty outfit.

As for the actual plot beats, mainly what's important is that the story is about Stede and his kids running around trying to fulfill all the requirements of the Dark Lord role through an escalating series of everything that can go wrong, will. Made worse by all the people who have had enough of the Pilgrim Parties and are actively protesting in some fashion or another, and Izzy, another wizard who is supposed to be helping them but is actually secretly working for the Badmintons, helping them to mine magic from the ground and import it back to our world, and Spanish Jackie who has decided that the point of Stede being the Dark Lord must be that he's going to fail so hard that the whole operation is going to fall apart, and secretly actively working to make things harder for him.

The worst of Jackie's actions being the enchantment she put on Ed to compel him to leave Stede, so Stede is dealing with all of this and the additional stressor of his marriage suddenly and inexplicably falling apart. Of course when Jackie finally realizes what an asshole move that was and removes the enchantment, Ed is immediately all over Stede, like oh my god, I'm so sorry, I didn't even realize how I was acting, I love you so much.

So our happy ending when things all come to a head, Izzy is discovered for his crimes and arrested. Mary is set free and she and demon king Doug go off together. The gods show up (finally) and imprison the Badmintons inside the jar they kept Mary in and put Jackie in charge of working toward setting the world back to rights after the mess the Pilgrim Parties made of it. All the Pilgrims go back home to their own world, except Jim who decides to stay. Pete and Lucius official become an item. Buttons is revealed to be king of the dragons. And we end with Stede & Ed deciding to have another baby, this time a winged human. The End.

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

Okay, @lanistas gave me an ask in the Top 5/10 ask game (which I'm still willing to play) about books and it was so hard to choose just five. So now I'm making a list of my top book series. This...is probably not in order, because it fluctuates a lot.

Sarcastic's Top Comfort Book Series in no Real Order Because it's Hard

Warriors by Erin Hunter. Got me into writing, longest book series I've ever consistently read.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky. Same as above, pretty much.

In Death by J.D. Robb. Okay, it might not seem comforting, but I love them and will read them over and over. Also, we have made a big jump in the maturity levels from the other two.

The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D'Lacy. A series that evolves from gentle family magic to a battle for the entire world and the timelines/realities that have spurred from it.

World of Howl by Dianne Wynn Jones. Fun world, love Howl and Sophie.

Terry Pratchett. I know there are several series within Discworld, but I've only read them as they become available to me from a friend and they're all the same world.

Harry Potter by JK. Rowling. DO NOT start a fight about this. I don't need to hear about the author when I appreciated the books as a child and grew up as a Potterhead. I can appreciate books separate from the author.

Also, pretty much any Lisa Gardener. I know there's a separate reading order/list, but I haven't kept track.

Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell. Fun. Always grab them when I'm down.

[bonafidehero]

Thanks for the tag @acewardcullen 🖤

nickname: My friends and family just call me the shortened versions of my name and my online friends call me Scout 🥰✌️

star sign: ♋ cancer

height: 5'2"

last thing i googled: “How to make curly hair more wavy” LMAO I am this 🤏 close to cutting all my hair off because I’m kinda over it 😂😶 I need some change in my life

song stuck in my head: Paralyzed - NF (at least… that’s what’s currently playing)

# of followers: Somewhere around 485 last I checked

amount of sleep: usually around 8-10 😂 I like my sleep.

dream job: I suppose a writer or artist.

currently wearing: sweatpants, my husbands long sleeve shirt and socks ✌️

movie/book that summarizes you: (does tv count?) Because… I mean, Daredevil? 😂 its got everything

favorite song currently: hmmm… I’ve been repeating a few:

About you - The 1975

Oh Caroline - The 1975

The News - Paramore

This Is Why - Paramore

aesthetic: Uh… cozy & dark? 🤷‍♀️

favorite authors: I don’t really have any favs just books I really enjoy but some authors I really respect or admire are Margret Atwood, Dianne Wynne Jones, Gris Grimly, Suzanne Collins, Daniel Handler & like ever fanfic author out there 🖤

random fun fact: I got nothin’ tbh 😔🙏

NP tag: @abandonthebody @joyandpride @andrasta14 @stellarmagu @chxrrysangel @pastafossa @softasawhisper @commander-vas-normandy & anyone else who’d like to!

[acewardcullen]

Thank you for the tag @reysorigins 💜 this was a fun one!

nickname: I don't really have one, except for my name shortened to one syllable or the first letter

star sign: ♋ cancer

height: 5'5"

last thing i googled: school closings and delays - because we have another winter storm and my work hasn't announced the plan yet

song stuck in my head: the goo goo muck - because of Wednesday

# of followers: 🤷‍♀️ I'm pretty much a mobile user so I don't exactly know

amount of sleep: like 10+ - a lot because I'm sick with a flu rn 😞

dream job: a gardener in a cottage at the edge of some woods and the local children think I'm a witch ✨

currently wearing: an old spiderman shirt & PJ shorts

movie/book that summarizes you: gonna go with Anne of Green Gables for this one (shout out Anne with an E specifically I'm still mad it was canceled)

favorite song currently: stick season by Noah Kahan

aesthetic: I'm striving to establish a plant witch vibe

favorite authors: L.M. Montgomery, V.E. Schwab, Dianne Wynne Jones, Edgar Allan Poe, and so many of the tumblr besties!

random fun fact: about me or just in general? Lol here's both

About me- I'm currently laying under a giant (I'm talking like 8ft long) blanket that my best friend knitted for me.

In general- the sun is directly above the tropic of Capricorn for only about 1 minute on the solstice next week

No pressure tagging - @bonafidehero @edwardskhakipants and anyone else who wants to do it 💜💙

[oingomyboingos]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox of the last 10 people who reblogged something from you to get to know your mutuals and followers <3

Aaa thanks for the ask @blkrose96 feels like old tumblr again 🥰

I put off answering this because I had a rough week and couldn’t think of anything happy but things are looking up again. anyway.

my garden

getting new eps of game changer

the audiobook of howl’s moving castle by dianne wynn jones

the lemon curd I made last week for my housemate’s birthday tea party

clean and freshly dyed hair