#books from my childhood

[wishes-upon-a-star]

Who else grew up with these ?! I love all the tinker bell movies too !!!

[sunmontuewrites]

[nyxwolph]

"Mom, can I get a Harry Potter book?"

"We have Harry Potter books at home."

Harry Potter books at home:

Okay but for real this is an underrated series. So what if it's also about a young dark-haired bespeckled boy wizard? So what if they literally used the exact same asterisk-star imagery throughout the books? So what if Galen Longbeard totally gives Dumbledore vibes and Sparr is just Voldemort with a fish theme instead of a snake theme?

These days I recall this series as a kind of fever dream. I kinda always felt like this was Harry Potter with a more animorphs/pulp fiction serial theme. It's a pretty good series that I have fond memories of. The whole thing with the queen stuck in her curse of Quantum Leaping into different animal forms, Sparr's depressing backstory that doesn't even get revealed until midway through, the times and ways the two world clashed. Sparr always cracked me up as a typical mustache twirling villain. It's not REALLY like Harry Potter at all, more like Abbott took the character designs and a few details but wrote and entirely different story. But with all the HP hype of the 2000s TSOD got swept under the rug. I don't know very many people irl who have read it, let alone heard of it. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who has the time to sit through 36 books and 8 special edition books. But iirc they're short with big print and some neat illustrations peppered throughout. Perfect for young or first time readers or readers struggling with dyslexia and learning disabilities. The plot isn't too deep or heavy and in fact can be quite derpy.

[alhilton]

Two more animal books I loved as a kid, which certainly had an impact on all the animals I later wrote. Vulips for all those chases and a sort of doomed grandeur - a piece of Storm there for sure. Brighty for the Arizona landscapes, which seemed like a fantastic, alien world to a Florida kid like me. They soaked into my imagination and came through in the red rock of Lidian.

[sanguinary-dreams]

Waching a P.M. Seymor binge compilation from 5 months ago because it popped up on my feed. ALL I WANT IS TO TELL THE PERSON WHO HAD WORM ARMAGEDDON at 9:23 that you are now the reason there are Dragon Riders and your worms are bright red threads that fall from the sky. You have created an entire industry and culture around your death worms that are written about for ages. Well done.

[enamelhairclip]

remember this one quite well

[violetrains]

i love you tinker bell i love you silvermist i love you rosetta i love you iridessa i love you fawn i love you vidia i love you clank and bobble i love you terrence i love you queen clarion i love you fairy mary i love you pixie hollow i love you neverland i love you pixie dust i love you lost things i love you cute little fairy dresses made of flower petals and leaves i love you pompoms on tinker bell's shoes i love you music box with the ballerina that belongs to wendy darling i love you nature magic powers i love you tinkerfairy inventions i love you animal companions i love you fairy humor i love you fairy lore i love you tinker bell soundtrack i love you credits at the end with the cute illustrations i love you disney fairies movies i love you tales of pixie hollow books i love you tinker bell franchise

[llamahearted]

like it's no big deal at all

songs on repeat

[spoiledmilks]

The thing i drew at 2am

[wishes-upon-a-star]

Very loved books from my childhood

[lazycranberrydoodles]

Who is this sassy.. lost child?

I can now recreate most of chapter 8!!! / bonus features below the cut / follow for more cool stuff

Jin Ling's sprites:

His share code is MVDLXY :)

Congrats, Jin Ling! You have 3 different poses, showing three different levels of irritation, making you the most complex character so far.

His sprites were traced off of Cody Hackins from 1-2. His little puffed-cheek sprite screamed Jin Ling.

(NASA announcer voice) Aaaand we have soundtrack. I thought Luke Atmey's and Furio Tigre's themes both suited Jin Ling pretty well. Other contenders before I decided on Moderato 2004 were Allegro 2002 and Investigation - Middle 2002.

Will take a break from these for Art Fight probably but they have been sooo fun to make. Plus I get to show off my objection.lol skills outside of stupid discord arguments.

Jiang Cheng's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost

[balkanradfem]

Do you ever think about how sad and messed up it is to grow up in this world as a little girl who likes to read. Because you are a child, and you don't get that there's a difference in who writes the books, you read everything you like, you read the adventures and the fantasy and the mysteries and the traumatic stuff and if you're also very isolated and lonely, these books build your worldview. Because why wouldn't they? They're written by humans, so they have the attitudes, opinions, perceptions, morals and spirits of human beings in them, they're telling you what humans think and feel about things, how they go about situations, what they imagine, what they desire. What your role in all this is, or what it could potentially be.

But, since you are not capable of differentiating the material, and you just read what is available to you, you end up reading a lot of books written by m*n. You also have to go thru the required reading at school - 90% written by m*n. And so slowly, since young age, without even socializing or learning it thru interaction, you find yourself in a world shaped by minds who do not have empathy for women, especially not for little girls. You find yourself relating to the male protagonists, but you also find out that girls only play a passive role in their stories. You find that m*n problems are centered, made important, their suffering and violence critical points in the story, while women are cast aside as helpers, servants, givers, caretakers, and generally just exist in the background, not a thought given to what they are going thru.

You learn thru books written by m*n, that your experience is secondary. Even if you cast yourself as the adventuring, immensely important and struggling protagonist, even then the other women in your mind end up being just background characters, caregivers who do not need a thought spared for their suffering.

Books written by m*n, even for children, will trivialize female suffering to the point where they shape the child's mind into one that looks at the world from a male perspective. Where women either don't matter, or are capable only of giving and aiding, to be cast aside for more important matters, such as male aspirations for their own lives.

Thinking back, I understand why I felt myself unimportant and trivial in any social setting - I understood my role from the written word, and I knew adults found me trivial, secondary, only a background figure to someone else's adventure or mission. As much as I could fight it in my fantasies, and make myself the main character, it felt like a pipe dream, like something that was incredible self-indulged and selfish and would never translate to reality.

I wish it had been different. I wish I had been introduced specifically and only to books written by women, for women. I wish I had found empathy for myself in those books. I wish I had found myself standing on high ground, equal ground, with other women, our desires centered, our lives translated into tales of epic importance - because that's what they are. I wish I had been born into a world where female perspective is available from the start, not after years of growing up and finding feminist literature and having to re-write my own role in my brain, from all of those years of reading male perspective as the default.

I don't think any little girl should be exposed to literature that shape her world as a place where she doesn't matter. I don't think books written by males and shaped by their worldview should be allowed into children's literature, or teenage or for young adults. Girls should not be learning from fiction that their most important value is empathy and understanding for male problems, and their second, to be desired and/or helpful to them, all while being treated as nothing but service and background noise until you're desired for something. We need to open books and find out that we matter too. That our lives can be the center of our existence, rather than being in the service of someone else's life.

[therealslimkatieee]

My thoughts reading Twilight at 12yo: Wow Bella’s so mature and cool

My thoughts re-reading Twilight at 16yo: Wow Bella’s so misunderstood and mysterious

My thoughts re-reading Twilight at 25yo: Wow Bella’s frontal lobe is not fully developed AT ALL huh

[kyurochurro]

patchy patchy who has stars in her eyes!!!

[micamicster]

They'll turn me in your arms, lady, into an esk and adder, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your husband dear. They'll turn me to a bear sae grim, and then a lion bold, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your own true love.

The Perilous Gard (1974) by Elizabeth Marie Pope

[slimeysodaa]

okay so you know how in the books, when Pitch wasn’t Pitch and was Kozmotis, how he had a wife named Lady Pitchiner (i heard from sources that Joyce said her name was Jane which if true is adorable) but she wasn’t descripted and no pictures of her were made either (that i could find in the books or joyce’s twitter and also don’t say “mother nature” bc that’s literally pitch’s daughter)

i took it upon myself to make her a design, i think she’s incredibly gorgeous but thats NOT WHAT THIS IMAGE IS ABOUT, i just needed to give context

when i sat back and looked at Pitch and Lady Pitchiner together, i got massive “ponyo’s mom and dad” vibes and i just had to draw them as Fujimoto and Granmamare from Ponyo. and aren’t they just the cutest?? (and yes i drew PITCH, not Koz, mainly bc i like the concept of pitch falling in love with her all over again as a different person)