#kingdom of back

[sunpraiserarts]

Prince Hyacinth from Kingdom of Back 🌒🌘 (yep, kinda fairytale about Nannerl Mozart, I highly recommend to read)

[the-ocean-is-scary]

By the way I finally picked up Kingdom of Back again like last week (on page 60 something rn) and I have to say I thought this book was gonna be boring but this imagery is so beautiful and the ties to the book cover is so awesomely played out and holy shit I'm already seeing so much symbolism and internal conflict and I love this book so much what the fuck

[devils-acre]

Some Kingdom of Back Fanart!

[52booksproject]

Book 13 The Kingdom of Back

It was time for a theme book, and boy was I ready for it, so I just puttered around the library's suggestions until I found Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back. You may or may not know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had an older sister, Maria Anna or "Nannerl" as everyone called her, who was every bit the child prodigy her brother was. She and her brother would travel Europe performing for the royalty and nobility of the lands. But all that travel time got very boring and the siblings invented a magical kingdom called Back to entertain them while they were traveling by carriage so much. Apparently a few historical fiction books have been written from Nannerl's point of view, but Lu takes the magical kingdom the siblings dreamed up and makes it a real place in the book.

Essentially this is Amadeus meets Labyrinth. Nannerl starts realizing her brother is going to overtake her, and as a boy he has the freedom to do whatever he wants in a way she does not. Enter the magical kingdom of Back where an impish boy declares himself to be Nannerl's guardian and makes a bargain to help her fulfill her desire not to be forgotten. Filled with real and magical events the book is a great read. I couldn't help but wonder if the real life Nannerl would recognize something of herself in the thoughts or if she would feel embarrassed as being depicted as being disobedient to her father and perhaps disloyal to her brother. Maybe there would be some of both. It was especially refreshing that the only racism was Mama Mozart's slight distaste for the Dutch. Of course sexism is a huge issue, but having the author be on the right side of things makes it easier to get through.

SHOULD YOU READ THIS BOOK? Sure, it's interesting and clever. Lu does a great job of rounding out Nannerl whether it's historically accurate or not (aside from the magic, obviously) which is a warning you have to put on every time you invent something about a historical figure.

ART PROJECT: There's a part where Nannerl has to get a sword from an ogre while she's in her nightgown. I sorely wanted to depict her in the huge wig she wore in all her portraits, but decided to go with the loose, flowing dark hair she had in the books when she wasn't in the wig. The reference picture of her face I used had some music painted in the background which I used to make a brush for the background of my picture.

[redundantz]

Cost

[solarwreathe]

when he finds out you pirated his gloomdredger

[daeyumi]

Happy 1st anniversary to TotK!! 💛☁️✨

Even tho the game wasn’t what I hoped it would be, it still means so much to me.

[st-hedge]

Have some totk Ganondorf

[cheatsyy]

Just koroks doing korok things 🍁

[artoflevity]

i could find you, darling, in any life.

[jascurka]

babygirl........

[haunted-xander]

Well, I guess you didn't have much of a choice either

[charbies]

I missed you

[cuppajj]

interesting business decision

[fizzfog0]

this was 100% inspired by @melonsap's funny totk+fma comic!!

[redbuddi]

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