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can you imagine. being an aspiring author. then coming across a manuscript that is literary perfection itself. then finding the person who wrote it AND doing so against all odds. and THEN marrying that person. huh

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hehe!!!!

Leute Ich bin in Tränen

Falls euch das Wort das Wort Zamonien nichts sagen sollte- Zamonien ist ein von Walter Mörs (deutscher Autor!) erschaffener Kontinent, auf dem eine Vielzahl an Fantasyromanen (ebenfalls deutschsprachig) spielen, die natürlich ein hauptsächlich deutsches (kleines) Fandom haben.

Demnach liegt die Erwartung nicht fern, dass der Großteil der Fan-Werke ebenfalls auf Deutsch seien. Tatsächlich könnte diese Annahme nicht ferner von der Wahrheit sein.

Aus den Fanfictions auf ao3 ergibt sich folgende Statistik:

Der erste Blick verrät nichts ungewöhnliches, da der englischsprachige Raum natürlich in absoluten Zahlen mehr Leser*innen hat und sich auch Deutsche Fans für ihre Fanfictions oft dieser Sprache bedienen.

Wenn der Blick eine Zeile nach unten rutscht, finden wir aber dort mit 28 Prozent nicht Deutsch, nein, es ist RUSSISCH, mit 9 von 32 Werken.

Und wenn wir dann mit unserem Blick noch ein wenig weiter nach unten rutschen, sehen wir nicht nur, dass Russisch einen Abstand von 5 Werken zu Deutsch hat, sondern auch, dass es GLEICH VIELE Fanfictions in MANDARIN CHINESISCH wie in Deutsch gibt.

Sowohl in Russland, als auch in China ist ao3 gebannt und trotzdem gibt es mehr/gleich viele Werke als deutsche, für ein DEUTSCHES Buch dass sich unglaublich schlecht übersetzen lässt, weil der Autor ein verrückter Worldbuilding-maximalist ist.

Es ist einfach herrlich absurd

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I finally got into the Zamonia books and I love this little dinosaur man. I very much relate to his artistic crisis after reading the mysterious perfect manuscript haha :')

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i don't know what i expected

zamfandom how are we feeling about this

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zamfandom how are we feeling about this

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Herr Moers. we respect you so much. that being said, respectfully, where the fuck, respectfully, is the Castle of the Dreaming Books. respectfully

The next Zamonia novel is nearing its completion. I can say this much: You have seen the protagonist in Captain Bluebear and it's set in a different dimension.

Walter Moers

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Hildegunst upon seeing Colossus:

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Walter Moers, one day you will be the death of me!

Instead of giving us new information on Castle of Dreaming Books, he announced yet another book that was on nobody's radars.

The One-Horned Squirrel that wanted to live backwards (Twenty Zamonian Flables) will be released on September 4th.

Ein Einhörnchen, das lieber rückwärts leben möchte; ein Werwolf, der ein Wiewolf sein will; eine fleischfressende Pflanze, die gern Vegetarierin wäre; zwei Vampirgeierbrüder, die Aas verachten – etliche Bewohner des Kontinentes Zamonien haben Probleme mit ihrer Identität und daher kein leichtes Leben. Aber ob Dummwolf oder Schlaufuchs, ob Schmiegehäschen oder Halbtagsfliege, ob Froschling oder Buchling, sie alle finden ihren Weg in dieser Welt, in der die Fantasie und der Humor völlig außer Kontrolle geraten sind. Zwanzig zamonische Flabeln* über diverse Spielarten zamonischen Daseins aus der Feder von Bestsellerautor Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, kongenial übersetzt, illustriert und mit einem Nachwort – »Humor ist ein ernstes Geschäft« – von Walter Moers. *Die »Flabel« bezeichnet eine humorvoll-anarchische zamonische Kurzgeschichte und kennt, im Gegensatz zur klassischen Tierfabel, keinerlei Moral.

A One-Horned Squirrel that wants to live backwards; a Whowolf that wants to be a Howwolf; a carnivorous plant that wants to be a vegetarian; two vampire vulture brothers that despise carrion - several inhabitants of the continent Zamonia have issues with their identity and a hard life because of that. Whether Dumb Wolf or Clever Fox, Snuggle Bunny or Half-Day-Fly, Frogling or Bookling, they all find their way in this world where fantasy and humour have completely escalated.

Twenty Zamonian flables* about certain varieties of Zamonian lifeforms penned by bestselling novelist Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, congenially translated, illustrated and provided with a postscript - "humour is serious business" - by Walter Moers.

*A flable is a humorous-anarchistic Zamonian short story and knows, contrary to the classic fable, no moral.

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FANTASTIC

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)

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also PLEASE allow me to share an artwork that i've recently commissioned!!! many years ago my friends and i were fooling around while selecting a fancast for the characters from Moers's books. it was needed because we've always been fond of plain human!AUs and because it made commissioning artworks with our favorite ships so much easier. i believe the post with the initial fancast is still somewhere on this blog, but what matters for this particular piece is the fact that we chose Quincy Brown for human!Hildegunst [https://imgur.com/a/TXHZyyO] and Ashley Radford for human!Homuncolossus [https://imgur.com/a/ZZVL77P].

this is an illustration my friend Dasha [more of her art: https://vk.com/jou_ki] made for a very vague AU in which Hilde is a spoiled 'old money' mr know-it-all attending a fancy dark-academia-styled college, and Colossus is a seemingly phlegmatic cemetery caretaker. i don't remember the plot that this AU was supposed to have, but i'm pretty sure it included magic realism and some mystical detective stuff. also Colossus might or might not have been a mystical creature himself, wielding some hidden special powers (and having glowing eyes). who knows!! i just really really love the picture that my friend made!!!!

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I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO MUCH

GUYS I SWEAR I’LL DO SOME ACTUALLY DECENT SERIOUS FANART ONE DAY  SDJKDDJÖDJSKÖJALJKDSÖKJLSADKÖLADS

UNFORTUNATELY THAT DAY ISN’T TODAY

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YOUR BRAIN IS SO DELIGHTFULLY FANTASTIC

I just recently reread the Dreaming Books series and got a new theory of what truly happened in LoDB.

There may be some similar theory somewhere, but I didn’t manage to find it, so I’m just gonna let it out here for my own amusement (and most of all, to sooth my obsessive troubled soul):

Keep reading

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i feel like millions of English-speaking contemporary romance writers struggle with fleshing out strong and convincing romantic relationships in their works while the craziest, most serious and reckless magnetic 'love-and-affection' magic was accidentally assigned to a couple of barely humanoid creatures in a whimsical fantasy/dark fairy tale book written by a reclusive German author

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Attention tiny Zamonien fandom of tumblr:

For those of you who don't know it yet, one of the zamonien books gets a short film!!!

Its gonna be the first chapter of 'Der Schrecksenmmeister' / 'The Alchemasters apprentice' and it's a project by film students that's been in the works for the past 3 years.

There's only two trailers so far 1 & 2 and it will be shown on a few indie film festivals I think but I hope it will be avaliable online as well. It's only gonna be 15 minutes but it will be the best 15 minutes of my life!!

So go on be excited and support those fellow Zamonians and their gorgeous project!!

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HEY ZAMFANDOM !!!!!!!!! what's good??? have anyone already read the last Moers's book?

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I'm not sorry.

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your honor, he’s neurotic