#childhood favorites

[brian4rmthe6]

Hey Arnold (1996)

[helena-bottom-farter]

[annelisreadingroom]

I went to the park this morning before heading to the airport. It was so nice and sunny and the park was full of flowers. It's still a bit cold, though. Most days it's around 8°C-12°C. How is the weather where you live and do you like to take outdoor pictures of your books?

[rebelren]

I rewatched Quest for Camelot, an absolute fave from my childhood, and even though I knew some actors, I didn't know exactly how star-studded the film was. It is wild! Gary Oldman, Jane Seymour (and Celine Dion as her singing voice), Pierce Brosnan, Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes... also Al Roker doing some random background voice? Like. What?!

Also, so many good things - a badass disabled hero who is not cured or "fixed" at the end (not even momentarily during the magic pulse), heroine learning to be badass, knighting happy ending (vs wedding), Devon and Cornwall not splitting up, an incredible soundtrack (including, as my friend pointed out, the Superman theme?! 🤣), Silverwing, the griffin's "precisely" that has lived in my head rent free for years now, Gary Oldman having the time of his fucking life...

Also also also the fact that this movie is what The Prayer is from?!?! Like it's sung so seriously and beautifully by Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Celine Dion... and it comes from this. What a goddamn delight.

I don't think I saw a single person of colour, though 🙃 C'mon, people, give me diverse Camelot!

Still, I really enjoyed myself. (And I'm glad that this particular fave hasn't been ruined by time and... increased awareness like a lot of others.)

[house-of-slayterr]

What Pan did y’all grow up with? Cause I had this fucker…

[megankoumori]

Girlhood Icons:

[theophagie]

Taking a quick trip down memory lane instead of studying ╥﹏​╥ they were among little me's "the ship has to have CONFLICT" blueprint ships 🥺

+ old shoujo manga beam

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #7955

 To enjoy my childhood favorite series time and time again.. – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

[1lostsoul0fishbowl]

Joe Triangle 😂

[pictureofdoriaaaaaangay]

chaotic book ramble so I can stop spiraling into the abyss: my childhood favorite books that I've been thinking about lately

I start college in four days, where I'll be pursuing an English degree. I've been both a reader and by extension a writer my whole life. lately, I've been thinking about the books I loved when I was younger that fueled this passion and thus helped me along to where I am now <3

The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer. I still have my old copies of these books, and when I tell you they are well-loved, I mean they are well-loved. they're sort of fairytale retellings, and take place in the Land of Stories, which exists as a parallels world to this one where fairytale characters are real and living beyond their happily ever afters. the books follow twins Alex and Connor, who find out (spoiler?? lol) that their grandmother is the fairy godmother. all sorts of stuff goes down, and honestly I only remember half of it like a fever dream, but I remember really loving it in book five (?) when they get to meet the characters from stories Connor wrote. honestly, I probably read the entire series over fifty times, and that's not an exaggeration. first read them the year the third book came out, when I was nine. waiting for the rest was, I recall, absolute torture.

the Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. this is so funny to me, because these books basically set me up for my later teen years and loving the Folk of the Air series by Holly Black - but I digress. I first read these at age eight in a high-stress time of my life, and as a result they were likely deeply formative. they follow twins Jared and Simon (more twins ??) and their older sister Mallory (thinking back, she was absolutely part of my bi awakening). they move with their mother into the old Spiderwick mansion, and soon discover a fieldguide all about faeries and different fae species that live in the woods surrounding the house. I honestly think that the plot of these books is batshit, but I still sort of love them. there's a movie, but it's terrible, and aggressively condenses the plot into something completely unrecognizable.

Harry Potter, by... Harry Potter. isn't it great that, after his time at Hogwarts, he decided to write a seven-book autobiography?? so funky of him!! anyways - I read these at the ripe age of ten, and stuck by loving them since. HP was my first fandom, and maybe the one I'm fondest of (actually, thinking on this, no), and Hogwarts in general holds a lot of nostalgia for me. this being said, I still love the books, but I have to say that I reread them last year for the first time since I was maybe 14/15 and um. wow. Mr. Potter you are?? problematic??? someone please tell me why the adult man who was allowed to abuse children in a position of power for sixteen years got a redemption arc but the literal CHILD who was born into an abusive and power-hungry family didn't. also why is Dumbedore hailed as such a bloody saint?? he's worse than fucking Voldemort. I said what I said. also it's super confusing that Harry never mentioned in his autobiography that his Sirius and Remus were happily married and living at Grimmauld place. weird storytelling choice I guess!!

all those damned Warrior cats books by Erin Hunter. I swear to god these books had crack in them I ATE THEM UP from the ages of like. eight to eleven?? maybe??? genuinely, I must've reread them a hundred times, but I could tell you NOTHING about the plots. a few vibes, maybe, but zero plots. did they even have plots?? were plots a thing in those books??? how was I so obsessed with them???? funniest part is the fact that I see people talking about them on the internet now and it's just. insane. actually insane.

Lockwood and Co by Jonathan Stroud. full transparency: I read these for the first time at age eleven (around the time the fourth book out of five came out) and now remain an active member of the fandom. I love these books, and these characters, with my whole heart and I want nothing more than them to be happy. the Netflix show, though I have some pretty severe gripes with it, is still really amazing and absolutely deserves a second season. the books are set in London, where ghosts are real deeply dangerous, and follow the main trio of Lucy, Lockwood, and George. I reread them at the start of the year in preparation for the show, and they're genuinely just incredible works. I sobbed a lot reading them. they're absolutely comfort reads for me; 35 Portland Row is home.

wow. that was a lot. there's honestly several more I could talk about (School for Good and Evil, Percy Jackson, etc), but this is a long enough post for now, ha. love you all <3

[stardustandrockets]

What's a book/series you wish more people knew about and/or posted about on booksta?

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones is one of those series for me. I read the first two books (Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant) in elementary school and have been obsessed ever since. For the longest time it was the only thing I could actually reread and not get bored with.

There are very few other series from my childhood that I'm still super into. But between DWJ's writing and the chaos of Christopher, I'm never not laughing in my rereads. I was also lucky enough to find the whole rainbow edition singles at my local HPB a while back. Which means I can FINALLY read the short stories in Mixed Magics.

Swipe for a surprise!

[helena-bottom-farter]

[annelisreadingroom]

Hello, did you do anything exciting this weekend? Me and my boyfriend went bowling with our friend and her new boyfriend. Then we had coffee and pizza afterwards.

[radioproto]

I’m very happy to announce that after months of work (mostly just procrastination), this little concept animation is finally finished!

This was so tedious but it was worth bringing these characters to life through my love of cats and these childhood memories. If you know what movie this is from, I actually love you [/plat]

Context: A young hairless cat is being bullied due to being the only one there without fur.

(You can tell I got lazy towards the end and reused multiple scenes but idc lol)

Also thanks to @shapeshivvter for a little concept doodle as well!!!

[theophagie-remade]

🐜s really make sessrin out to be so much spicier than it actually is