#the edge chronicles

[ozomatli]

[scattered-winter]

the edge chronicles really has it all huh. fucked up beasts. sky pirates. gore and violence. the cruel and vicious cycle of nature. librarians who either double as weathermen or knights. a goth librarian who wears a plague doctor mask and worships the devil. giant bear creatures who are Big Friends. a character named bungus. literally who else is doing it like her

[natequarter]

the edge chronicles is a foundational work of fantasy. to me

[leona-florianova]

Re-reading Beyond the Deepwoods after about 16 years

...revisiting old traumas..its great

[moritztiefel]

paul stewart & chris riddell, the last of the sky pirates (2006)

[plaguedocboi]

Bruh I completely forgot about the edge chronicles do they still hold up? Never finished them but now I kinda want to

Yeah they’re cool as hell. It definitely starts out as a kid’s series in Beyond the Deepwoods but then it very quickly gets dark and more oriented for like teenagers/young adults. Also epic worldbuilding and fantasy adventures and there’s flying pirate ships which is objectively awesome.

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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[ms-ninja-crab]

I am once again thinking about the traumatizing art in the edge chronicles

[hapalopus]

I remember watching The Boxtrolls for the first time and all I could think about was Twig Verginix. An orphan boy with unruly black hair, named after a random object, raised by trolls in a steampunk-adjacent world, leaves behind the ways of the trolls to reconnect with his human/fourthling origins and fights capitalists. And wears blue.

If they ever make an Edge Chronicles movie, I hope it's stop-motion

[quinn10121012]

Currently reading my way through the Edge Chronicles… I’m absolutely obsessed with this series’ delightfully grotesque creature designs, so I tried my hand at drawing some of them myself!

[drjohndisco]

I do have others, but this is my only relevant note I think.

[natequarter]

a summary of each edge chronicles saga:

quint: what if petty academia feuds could kill? or, we invented dr. frankenstein's monster from mary shelley's hit book Don't Invent Frankenstein's Monster

twig: you know that one itinerant wise old guy in fantasy stories? that's him, except back when he was a teenager desperate for approval

rook: nerd sewer boy becomes adrenaline junkie whilst the lightning cult feeds kids to ravine monsters

nate: anime girl breaks curse haunting family, immediately turns around and jumps off cliffs for funsies

cade: horsegirl oppression is a serious issue

bonus:

wind jackal: How To Go Mad With Grief Fast: Ten Simple Steps To Lose Your Mind, Along With Everyone You've Ever Loved, In 2-4 Weeks!

keris: "generational trauma"? no, i said "generational child abandonment"

[onewakingworld]

Okay maybe I overspent a little at the bookstore BUT I finished my collection of the Edge books in their original hardcover editions*

*The nine that got those editions, that is

Look at them all