#lit: tnc

[maddiebuckley]

happy birthday, @enviies !

you think, as you walk away from le cirque des rêves and into the creeping dawn, that you felt more awake within the confines of the circus. you are no longer quite certain which side of the fence is the dream.

[projectourworld]

2023 Nature Conservancy Photography Awards : Grand Prize Winner

“Between the stars” by Tibor Litauszki (Hungary). Grand Prize. “

I photographed this moment underwater. I was able to do it by putting my camera in an underwater case, attaching it to a metal weight and placing it all under the eggs. I waited nearby for it to be dark, and when the newt appeared, I lit it with an LED lamp. I started the camera with a homemade wired remote release. It turned out 1-2 sharp pictures.” (© Tibor Litauszki/TNC Photo Contest 2023) The Nature Conservancy has announced the winner of its 2023 photo contest, which features images that help us connect to the power and peril of the natural world. After doubling the number of categories, the contest saw an explosion in the number of entries. In fact, entries nearly doubled over last year, with more than 80,000 photographers from 191 countries submitting over 189,000 photographs for consideration.

In the end, Tibor Litauszki from Hungary won the Grand Prize for his underwater photo of a newt eating freshly laid frog eggs. Litauszki was able to capture the underwater moment by attaching a metal weight to his camera and placing it underneath all of the eggs. It was a clever move that paid off when the newt came to feed.

Courtesy My Modern Met

[fantasylitnet]

Now that the court has been assembled, the Royal Viziers are eager to send out out the new additions on their missions. However, as they are still new to the kingdom and to everyone else in the palace, we are happy to announce that our first quest shall require each palace inhabitant to get know another. 

Note: This shall be an exclusive event, meant only for the members of the court.

Guidelines;

Allow anon asks in settings

Use the link that will promptly be sent to you privately to find out the identity of your Secret Courtier

Send your assigned Courtier asks on anon to find out more about them

Create any sort of content (i.e. Edits, Fics, Fanarts, etc.) for your assigned Courtier that is personalised and related to books of the fantasy genre.

Caption your work with

@fantasylitnet Quest 01 : Secret Courtier → (your Secret Courtier’s url)

      — [quote / desc / personal note] (Optional)

The palace will stop accepting entries on March 31st EST.

[ladyeowyn]

“The Circus of Dreams,” comes the reply. The girl smiles delightedly.Then the iron gates shudder and unlock, seemingly by their own volition. They swing outward, inviting the crowd inside. Now the circus is open. Now you may enter.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

[nostalgicacademia]

The Night Circus

literature

[jeremy-knox]

@booksociety’s All By Myself Event: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”

[deadsokka]

❝ ‘It frightens me how much I like it,’ Celia finishes, turning her face back to his. ‘How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.’ ❞

for @thenightscircus​ ♡

[celiabowens]

“Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do." "What way might that be?" "As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me." "I am not afraid of you," Marco says.”

[cosettepontmercys]

someone needs to tell those tales. when the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. there's magic in that. it's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. from the mundane to the profound. you may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. that tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. that is your role, your gift. 

happy birthday, @celiabowene !

[wildsdan-moved]

THE NIGHT CIRCUS - Erin Morgenstern

“The circus arrives without warning.   No announcements precede it...   It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”

insp.

[frays]

@booksociety’s all things victorian event:                                                                                                          ⤿ the night circus                                                  

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”

[maddiebuckley]

aish celebrates 100! @she-isoftheheavens asked: favourite quote from the night circus

❝the circus arrives without warning. no announcements precede it. it is simply there, when yesterday it was not.❞ ―erin morgenstern, the night circus

want to celebrate with me?

[macbcth]

“We are the stars,” he answers, as though it is the most obvious of facts afloat in a sea of metaphors and misdirections. “We are all stardust and stories.”

- The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern

[grjsha]

𝐘𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄: [8/10] books or series

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

"People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see."

[nerdkidsontheblock]

Favorite Couples I Marco Alisdair x Celia Bowen

“Do you remember all of your audiences?” Marco asks. “Not all of them,” Celia says. “But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.” “What way might that be?” “As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me.” “I am not afraid of you,” Marco says.

[forsimplicityssake]

books read in twenty eighteen  → the night circus

you may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. that tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. that is your role, your gift.