#walter moers

[sadclowncentral]

Oh my god. Are you serious?? You're a Walter Moers fan? For real?? 😭😍

i think "fan" undersells the fundamental influence the zamonia series had and has on my my life. my dad used to read captain bluebear to us when we were little and had to stop in the middle of the book when he switched jobs. i, and this is not a joke, taught myself how to read to finish it, making it the first book i ever read. it has shaped my humor and my storytelling so much that you could probably reverse engineer my entire character from it. it is, and i cannot stress this enough, THE book of all time.

i would say to this day roughly every 100th sentence i say is in one way or another a reference to captain bluebear from the overt (knowledge is night) to the more subtle (you dance i go with the hat) to the nearly unrecognizable (let's compare clocks) to referencing books within the book (it was quiet, too quiet as prince kaltbluth would say) or myths within the book (as we all know, witches always stand between briches) to just the outright absurd (i am a pearl of sweat...) but the thing that i quote the most, the absolute most is the ending, because it genuinely shaped my life philosophy, and led to many of the insane decisions i have made so far:

it smelled like a hint of cinnamon, and fire burning in the distance. to make it short, it smelled like adventure. you have to give fate a chance, he thought.

life philosophy right there. and YOU should read The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers. give fate a chance!!!

[snippit-crickit]

ah man this is stuff from about 1 year ago but i like coming back to it...

This is hildegunst von mythenmetz, a known Zamonian writer!! Basically, i wanted to redesign the books by hildegunst von mythenmetz Walter Moers in my style for uni....and these were the skecthes i did but to be fair i just wanted to draw more of Moerses characters xd

Ive known these books for a long time and its such a shame so little people know about them! Theyre mostly popular in germany and sadly they stopped translating them... Im not sure how i can sell you this series but City of Dreaming Books is great, it reminds me of grimms fairy tales but theyre humoristic as well, and moers did the illustrations for it himself... Recently a visual novel of the book i mentioned came out and its looking real pretty as well (also the books mostly feature non human characters which is cool for me i like creatures)

[mapo-leon]

Uh so a certain brain rot is back

Didn't expect that

Anyways so I read all the Zamonien books like 5 years ago and back then I wasn't as good at art as now so with the brain rot back I might be doing some fanart and I'm strating with Hildegunst of course because how else

[alu-cd]

I drew a thing.

Post it again because of troubles with quality👍👍

[brsb4hls]

Time for niche posting:

New Walter Moers Zamonia novel arrived yesterday

It's over 600 pages with lots of great drawings

It's a Mythenmetz (Yarnspinner) novel, but since it's not the sequel to the Buchhaim books I'm looking forward to find out how it ties in.

[schmorporatefool]

"Playing a Rumo meant, on one hand, to challenge one's luck and risk losing absolutely everything. On the other hand, it promised the possibility of a triumphant victory."

[space-diablo]

I decided.. that it's finished and I like it.

[neverpaint]

Bluebear on the back on of Deus X. Machina.

[rockthistowninsideout]

In time for Hamoulimepp

(or Christmas, as it is known outside of Zamonia) the crew of the Zamonia short film "Eißpin der sehr Schreckliche" / "The Alchemaster's Apprentice" have released a new link for you to watch it!

It's active between 23.12. 4pm and 26.12. 10 pm CET, so bookmark it and then get cozy when the holidays roll around.

to the movie

If you liked it why not go ahead and give them some love on instagram or via mail.

(source: eisspin.de)

(ID: A greyscale painting of the profile of a hunched man in a cloak and had holding an enrolled scroll. The writing on the scroll shines golden. A disshevelled looking cat sits in front of the man. A full moon is in the background. End ID)

[to-hel-and-back]

So, a new Zamonia book was announced on december 19th (I only noticed now #fakefan) titled "Das Eichhörnchen, das rückwärts leben wollte" (translated "The squirrel that wanted to live backwards"), a collection of 20 short stories by Mythenmetz.

EDIT: I just realized it's Einhörnchen nicht Eichhörnchen lol it's a play on unicorn (Einhorn) and squirrel (Eichhörnchen), since the character is a squirrel with a horn.

I can read I swear...

ngl lads, I'm tired...

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[clansocreations]

1. Switches gears between "hilarious" and "profound" and "jaw on the floor because of how emotionally loaded this silly story has just become" with little effort

2. Will name characters after anything

3. Will refer to things from our world, sometimes very subtly, sometimes as unsubtly as getting slapped in the face is subtle

4. "what if this classic storytelling fantasy thing but different"

5. What if WORLDBUILDING, but thought through to it's logical conclusion.

6. Fiction books that contain a surprising level of practical life advice

7. CITIES. Big capital cities that should not WORK. But they DO.

8. Bonus points if I close the book and think "what the fuck have I just read"

So yeah anyways this is me seamlessly going from reading Discworld again to reading Zamonia again, thinking about who would win in a fight between Ankh-Morpork and Atlantis.

((Honestly my money is on Ankh-Morpork. They're meaner. And also Atlantis literally fucked off into space. Which counts for disqualification.))

Anyways, if you're interested in this sort of shenanigans, please read a Zamonia novel.

And by shenanigans I mean that there's a writer mentioned in Labyrinth of Dreaming Books by the name of Eiderich Fishnertz

And I'm here like thinking who is that? (Because of anagram shenanigans)

And then it's Friedrich Nietzsche.

That sort of shenanigans.

My favorite is The city of dreaming books but the 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear is also great, or Rumo, or ANY ONE OF THEM I promise they're so neat!

[its-tea-time-darling]

Ten characters of ten fandoms, ten tags.

thanks for the tag ❤️ @swanfloatieknight

teresa agnes - the maze runner

kofun - see (2019)

athelstan - vikings

sansa stark - game of thrones / asoiaf

rumo - rumo und die wunder im dunkeln

kat baker - spinning out

kylo ren - star wars

alex - red white and royal blue

nan - tipping the velvet

katya goncharov - goncharov (1973) (< unreality warning, this is not an actual movie, tumblr made it up)

no pressure tags: @crestfallercanyon @sidekcks @hamartian-cathexis @ulfrsmal @blue-summers @go-catch-a-chickn @thatnerdybookgirliscool @nice-to-meet-ya-shank @ivesterrarium @dumb-bi-thomas

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

finished the new walter moers book last night, and i loved it. it is not flawless - some of it feels a bit too familiar within the series - and he may perhaps never again reach the heights of Rumo, City of Dreaming Books, and whatever Der Schrecksenmeister is called in English, but it feels like a return to form. it's less about plot and more about dabbling in the sending up of northern german island culture/tourism, but more focused, more engaging, more Zamonien than, say, whatever Prinzessin Insomnia und der albtraumfarbene Nachtmahr is called in English, or the two thinner volumes of Zamonia novels that felt more like writing exercises than actual writing.

[bibliophilecats]

26 May 2023: Black and white

[jade-from-zamonia]

It's 3 am here in my country but I just came up with something hilarious

Imagine if Homuncolossus' name was like... John or something. Just the most basic white name you can imagine.

Like.. Homuncolossus, the dark bloodthirsty monster of the Bookholm catacombs, the dreaded and renowned Shadow king Steve