#caprona

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dana Gillespie - The People That Time Forgot (1977)

[chernobog13]

"Yo, Klaus! You'll never guess what I just s---"

[ginogirolimoni]

https://www.meltingpot.org/2021/10/parte-a-palermo-il-processo-a-matteo-salvini-sul-caso-open-arms/

"Per ch’io mi mossi e a lui venni ratto;

e i diavoli si fecer tutti avanti,

sì ch’io temetti ch’ei tenesser patto;

così vid’ïo già temer li fanti

ch’uscivan patteggiati di Caprona,

veggendo sé tra nemici cotanti".

(Inferno, XXI, 91 - 96).

[no-where-new-hero]

Pls tell me your reasons in the tags!

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

Thinking about dwj writing this—the free and easy way people always bellow for their mothers — with three sons of her own, such a simple descriptor but so much casual Truth in it

[chief-cook-and-librarian]

THEY'VE DONE IT AGAIN

[kink-tomato]

I thought Witch Week was dark, but what do we think was the body count in The Magicians of Caprona? Like yes, the country is miraculously saved at the last second, but the fighting has reached the city, final reservists have been called up, they’re listening to gunfire all through the final chapters, people are taking refuge in the cathedral because they’re about to die. Their military has to have been decimated to get to this point, right? That’s a LOT of dead citizens.

[herbofgraceandpeace]

trying to decide which of any of the other books in the chrestomanci series to reread now that I’ve finished The Lives of Christopher Chant. The trouble is I’ve got mixed feelings about ALL of the others? So…………….

[rainytuesdayart]

"So Tonino put one foot on the Report of Campaign and succeeded, by heaving with both hands, in tearing off a corner of it. Angelica passed him the huge pen, which he had to hold in both hands, with the end resting on his shoulder. Then she stood on the paper to keep it steady while Tonino wielded the pen. It was such hard work, that he kept the message as short as possible." - Diana Wynne Jones, The Magicians of Caprona

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[dragoneyes618]

Christopher was willing to go to the extent to get them their own home in another state, despite barely knowing them and not being supposed to get involved in Italian affairs - and that was Italians affairs like a war, never mind a personal matter like two people getting married against their families' wishes.

Perhaps could he have been thinking of his cousins Francis and Caroline?

[way-by-moonlight]

[incomprehensible-ants]

Take: Chrestomanci (chris’s edition) actually just has some kind of dad power because everytime he goes Anywhere he collects like 6 more children.

Magicians of Caprona??? Tonino is literally going to stay in his castle. He knows Angelica by Name and reputation and clearly knows all the kids well enough to make jokes?? Also all of his jokes are terrible and absolutely no one fin them funny. He makes dad jokes.

Witch Week? Man appeared in an alternate timeline and then metaphorically adopted a bunch of orphans apart from Brian. Estelle is obsessed w that man and you can’t tell me that Nirupam, Nan and Charles who collectively have about like half? a parental figure did not see Chrestomanci validate them and their abilities Once and go wow! parent!

Cat and Janet??? Like not Gwendolyn obviously because she’s too busy being evil i guess but he rly went oh no! Children in trouble! I could do literally anything else Or i could adopt them. they’re mine now.

Chrestomanci is gonna be that guy who comes home to 17 children in his kitchen screaming and is like yeah. this is the life. i need more.

[magickedteacup]

I just really felt compelled to work on this for some reason. Magicians of Caprona WIP. Very, very WIP. But if I don’t share stuff as I go, I could literally be sitting on work in seclusion for months to years….

The town design references the city of Arezzo. Lyrics are supposed to be: Taking a stroll down la piazza; feeling that warm summer breeze; loving each part of Caprona… except for those hated Petrocchi!

The great houses of Petrocchi and Montana go back to the first founding of the State of Caprona, seven hundred years or more ago. And they are bitter rivals. They are not even on speaking terms…Sometimes, however, parties of young men and women of the Montanas and the Petrocchis happen to meet when they are strolling on the wide street called the Corso in the evenings. When that happens, other citizens take shelter at once. If they fight with fists and stones, that is bad enough, but if they fight with spells, it can be appalling

[spiritintheinkwell]

Magicians of Caprona doodle.

[ghosts-of-love]

anyone have any magic book recs? i'm really enjoying reading books that have some kind of magic in and seeing the different world building that takes place and how different authors interpret magic/witchcraft/powers and stuff