#Chauncey baker-parnassus

[destialpal]

I need everyone to understand how important Chauncey Baker-Parnassus is to me

[rajamitsu]

So I tore through both The House in the Cerulean Sea and Somewhere Beyond the Sea and when I got to this line in SBtS this was all I could think of.

Yes, Arthur Parnassus is too much of a gentleman to actually do this. …but he should have.

[adhdbisexualramblings]

Chauncey: Oh, no, we’re going to jail!

Phee: Luci’s going to jail. I’m saying I was kidnapped.

Chauncey: Hey, that’s a good plan. You and I were kidnapped.

Luci: If I’m goin’ to jail we’re all goin’ to jail!

[acebedrawing]

The Baker-Parnassus family. In Whimsy We Trust🌊

Old doodles from when I first read House in the cerulean sea and recent digital pieces. I LOVE THIS FAMILY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[tiziamezzosangue1]

I just desperately need an high school AU of the house in the cerulean sea, where there are Arthur, Linus, Zoe and Helen as teenage and they all like volunteer in the orphanage or something like that, so they find the children. And I want a LinXArthur slowburn, whit a deeper analysis of Linus character and his youth (obviously Arthur’s too, but I haven’t seen a fanfic about Linus’ childhood). I want to see a deeper relationship between Zoe and Helen.

I don’t think I am asking for too much 😭.

[vivianna06]

My favorite quote from The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

[myths-tournaments]

Found Family Tournament [Round 1 - Poll 10/64]

(list of characters under the cut)

THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA

Arthur Parnassus Linus Baker Zoe Chapelwhite Theodore Sal Lucy Phee Talia Chauncey

THE LAND BEFORE TIME

Littlefoot Cera Ducky Petri Spike

[readingforsanity]

Somewhere Beyond the Sea | TJ Klune | Published 2024

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.

He's the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. And there's the island's sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home - one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from - Arthur knows they're at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur's story.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.

We have returned to Marsyas Island, where Arthur Parnassus lives with former Department in Charge of Magical Youth employee, Linus Baker, and the six children they hope to adopt. However, these aren't just ordinary children. They have been deemed the most dangerous of children by DICOMY. There is Phee, a forest sprite; Chauncey, an unknown green blob of unknown origin; Talia, a garden gnome whose gardens have blessed magazines across the world; Theodore, a wyvern who loves the strange and unordinary in every day items; Sal, the oldest and who can transform into a tiny pomeranian if he should experience any sort of emotion and finally, Lucy, the Antichrist himself, the son of the Devil.

For years, they have lived quietly and comfortably within their home on the island off to Marsyas. Also living on the island is Zoe, an island sprite and friend of Arthur's, who is also in a romantic relationship with the mayor of Marsyas Village, Helen.

After the events of the last book, the group is dealing with the aftermath of Linus leaving his post at DICOMY and moving to the island permanently. Arthur has been invited at the behest of the government to speak on his past experiences. Arthur had previously inhabited the island as a child, living in the orphange himself before he purchased and reopened it, having been secluded in a cellar for six months before he was rescued. Arthur is also magical, and is the last known living phoenix in the world.

Linus and Arthur travel back to for the hearing. During its proceedings, they are introduced to the interm head of the departments of DICOMY and DICOMA (which deals with magical adults). He realizes that this invitation was never to learn the truth about what had happened to him but instead was to learn intel on his children, of whom he has now sent in an official adoption application. When it is requested of him to let his phoenix free, he does so, but only realizing too late that has played into the hands of the awful woman, Jeanine Rowder.

Leaving the hearing, they are also dealing with another situation. The following morning, they go to another safe house for adults, where they will be picking up another orphaned child named David. David is a yeti, and his parents had been unlawfully murdered by hunters living him without the only family he had known. David is a theatrical child, though is shy and nervous to leave the home he has known to go to the island where there is nothing but unknowns.

But, David takes the chance and travels with Linus and Arthur back to the island. The children are thrilled to meet him, and they as a family have done everything they could to ensure that David is comfortable in their home, even repurposing the cellar from the horrors it once held to a room cold enough for a young yeti to hang out and sleep.

As time goes on, they are also preparing for the arrival of a DICOMY official to do an inspection. It has been hinted at that Arthur has gotten around his past inspections by seducing the people performing them, as prior to his relationship with Linus, he had been in a relationship with another member of DICOMY at the time he had the orphange reopened (as recalled in the first novel).

When she arrives, the children are unhappy, as is Arthur and Linus. She is rude, and though the government makes its claims that they are doing best by the children, they know the truth. The inspection is set to last two weeks, and while David was meant to be hidden away during this time due to being unregistered with the department, they have come up with a plan to allow him to remain visible.

But it becomes clear later, after Arthur finds her hiding away, that the real reason for the inspection wasn't to ensure the safety of the children, but instead for the governemnt to remove Lucy from Arthur's care for Rowder's own personal gain. It is then that Arthur realizes that he needs to come up with a plan.

Knowing that the outcome of the inspection would result in the children's removal no matter how well it went because the inspector would simply lie in her report, Arthur decides to remove himself as master of the orphange, simply becoming their caregiver and father. Zoe also helps by banishing the inspector from the island, a power that she doesn't like to use but will if she feels it is necessary.

A few weeks go by with the government showing up, but during a Saturday outing to the village with the children ends up with a face to face with Rowder, with the inspector at her side. With the help of reporters who have been trailing behind them for their entire visit to the village, and those friends they've made along the way, they stand up to Rowder and her merrymen.

It is now that we learn that Zoe, the island sprite, is the last of her kind; her grandmother, who had died at the hands of humans in the government more centuries before, was the queen and now Zoe is the queen as the last one of her kind. She fully banishes them from the village, as the island and the village had once been one in the same, and with the help of Lucy, has the government officials removed.

In the epilogue, Arthur and Linus finally marry, and the village becomes a safe haven for individuals of magical and nonmagical backgrounds alike.

[leticiahorta]

Recently I’ve read the house in the cerulean sea and I loved it SO much!!! I couldn't stop thinking about them so I HAD to make a least a sketch of these lovely characters who have my entire heart

[aglioeoliocat]

a little family portrait

this book has altered my brain chemistry, made my life better, my days brighter and made me very happy and now I can't stop thinking about it

[kidovna]

This entire book played out like an animated movie in my head so i had to draw the characters as if they were in one 🌊✨

[theitalianerd]

Don’t You Wish You Were Here? - The House In The Cerulean Sea Playlist

1. All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brother

2. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly

3. I Want You To Be My Girl - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

4. Come on, Let's go! Ritchie Valens

5. Searchin - The Coasters

6. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard

7. Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper

8. La Bamba - Ritchie Valens

9. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard

10. Why do fools fall in Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

11. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin

12. That'll be the day - Buddy Holly

13. Ten Commandments of Love - Moonglows

14. We Belong Together - Ritchie Valens

15. You send me - Sam Cooke

16. Earth Angel - The Penguins

17. True Love Ways - Buddy Holly

18. Smile - Nat King Cole

19. Donna - Ritchie Valens

20. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Doris Day

21. You Will Be My Music - Frank Sinatra

22. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin

Yes, I wrote down all the songs mentioned in the book because I have no self control and I needed to dive into the book’s vibes completely. Still do. And I have found I love 50’s music! It’s not just the mentioned ones actually, as some by Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and some others are only mentioned without their songs being played, still I added them because they’re Lucy’s favourites. Read the book again and play the songs when mentioned: it’s a totally different experience. Hope you enjoy! 🌊💙🎶

[house-in-the-cerulean-sea]

Chauncey at the beach 🧡

@dontuwishuwerehere

[beetlegoose01]

hey to those who love fantasy and queer stories might I suggest house in the cerulean sea? it's one of my favorite books and I highly recommend 🥰⛱️🏖🧚‍♀️

I'm so tempted to write fics about it

[acebedrawing]

*Somewhere Beyond the Sea* out of context meme: The garden scene~

The fathers proceeded to sip their tea☕️

[insert-original-pseudonym]

Fanart for House in the cerulean sea.

I freakin love that book. not the final product, very rough sketch.

Lucy (personal favorite)

Sal

Theodore

Talia

Chauncey

Phee

I really loved this book, it made me so happy and it was just perfect.