#Fantastic literature

[reafaol]

✨Guardian of the Heart of Kandrakar✨

[haunting-jane]

the best part about studying fantasy literature — especially feminist fantasy literature — in grad school is witnessing the way humanity has truly never changed. we've always leaned towards the fantastic, seeking out magic in dark corners and conjuring up marvelous tales and beings, letting our imaginations run wild and free. and that becomes extra special when we're talking about fantasy literature written by women, since the beginning of times dreaming about not what is, but what could be. dreaming about true freedom, about a better, safer, more peaceful place. about somewhere beautiful where we're all just allowed to exist as humans and as souls in love with the universe.

now the worst part is def me wanting to kill myself every day.

[fieriframes]

[AND THE BREAD, MMM, EXCELLENT. SUPERSTAR. THANK YOU. HERE'S YOUR HUMMUS PLATE WITH MOROCCAN BREAD. JUDGE THAT METAPHYSICS IS A BRANCH OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE. THE FLAVORS ARE GREAT. THEY JUST EXPLODE IN YOUR MOUTH. VERY, VERY FRESH. JUST FANTASTIC.]

[poempoetryandmore]

i think i‘ll always love you

even if its just a little bit

ten years from now a piece of my heart will still beat for you

maybe its the curiosity of ,what if‘

or maybe its the emptiness speaking

but nomatter why,

i‘ll always love you

[lepetitdragonvert]

Grimm’s Household Tales

Edited and partly translated anew by Marian Edwardes

E. P. Dutton & Co

New York

1912

Artist : R. Anning. Bell

Princess and the Dragon

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Morgan Le Fay's black net dress in Excalibur

[eldritch-elrics]

thinking about rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead again. i think one thing about it is that it's such an excellent example of the sort of thing you can do in a fanfiction/transformative work that you can't really do in an original work? there is no R&G without the greater context of hamlet: hamlet both as a play and a wider cultural phenomenon. we know how these characters' stories will end, not just because we've read the title of the play, but because their ending has been etched into the literary consciousness. the tragedy extends beyond the bounds of either play and seems simultaneously more massive and more absurd because of it

[allamericanb-tch]

rip oscar wilde you would’ve HATED the way netflix is adapting the picture of dorian gray

[vulpinesaint]

I really like your writing style. Do you have any literature you can share that you use as inspo?

going to start by disclaiming that from a specifically stylistic approach, i don't know if i have any writers that are distinctly similar. i do have writers that i find inspiring, though! if none of these are helpful for style, i hope they can inspire you in the same way that they make me aspire to achieve fantastic things with my writing :) i am always a poet first and foremost, whether it's poetry or prose (which is often just poetry hiding in a longer form), so most of my recommendations are poems; i have a few books at the end, though, just in case. everything that i link here should be free to access!

i am like 90% sure that anyone seeing this will already know that i keep all my poetry over at @trickstersaint, but just in case you're coming direct from a quiz, that's the place to read more of my writing! now. onto my list of a bunch of other trans poets with tumblr platforms 🖤

keaton st. james (@boykeats), i think, was the first modern poet that i really found and loved. stumbling across some of his dictionary poems as a younger poet was so revolutionary to me, and reading his poetry changed the way that i thought about and approached poetry as a whole. inspiration in the way of seeing the things that someone can do with poetry. opening up all the limits. this is what every good poem will do for you a little bit, i think, but keaton st. james is always my first recommendation for a modern poet. highly recommend his collections growth and light (i personally really love light. guy who is normal about religion voice) and rural boys watch the apocalypse is to me what that one richard siken poem about being in a car with a beautiful boy is to everyone else haha

other poets whose work i really enjoy and admire include silas denver melvin (@sweatermuppet) and dante émile (@orpheuslament)! recommending the poems an impractical marvel and dioscuri from them, respectively. sweatermuppet also has a full collection called grit, and orpheuslament has one called misplaced organs and various saints (this particular one isn't free but linking it here!) :)

my favorite poem since high school has been gravity by maura o'connor. life-changing. that poem is just like me for real.

for more of a narrative style, if you've read + liked my piece aromanticism, i definitely recommend with those we love alive by porpentine! really gorgeous twine piece with a kind of mysticism to it that could definitely tie back into the kind of stuff you'd see in my little quizzes too :)

if you're looking for actual literature-as-in-books, i can point you towards our wives under the sea by julia armfield and white is for witching by helen oyeyemi. both are novels that i've enjoyed for their kind of eclectic and poetic writing recently! i will also take any chance to recommend my favorite book, which is the hours by michael cunningham; regardless of similarity or inspiration, i find the writing of this book gorgeous and heartbreaking and i think it scrapes at the human condition in a way that draws blood. gently. if you know what i mean.

i hope this was helpful! i constantly feel as if i don't read enough poetry so if anyone has any suggestions they want to give me. i am more than happy to hear them <3 happy reading everybody!

[fictionadventurer]

The second edition of Jane Eyre was dedicated to Thackeray???

Of all the things I expected to see on my first reread of Jane Eyre, I certainly did not expect it to open by singing the praises of Vanity Fair.

[reafaol]

«Una joven que se verá obligada a redescubrir su pasado… y a sí misma».

En 2021 publiqué mi primera novela, «Portales en la niebla», una historia de fantasía urbana en la que Kinu, una joven con el don de ver a las criaturas del otro lado, deberá enfrentarse no sólo a monstruos e incógnitas, sino a sí misma y a los desafíos diarios de una adolescente que no encaja en el mundo.

Amistad, acción, romance, misterios y un elenco variopinto de personajes a los que amarás... U odiarás.

Gente LGBT haciendo cosas ✅

Personajes femeninos chachis ✅

Personajes masculinos con sentimientos ✅

Magia y brujería ✅

Mitología ✅

Armas mágicas ✅

Un colegio grande donde los personajes la lían ✅

“Todo eso suena increíble, Rea, pero ¿dónde consigo mi ejemplar?”

Amazon (kindle y físico, envío 🌍🌎)

Lektu.com (físico, envío España)

Mensaje privado (físico, envío España)

Además puedes leerla gratis con KindleUnlimited o comenzarla en Wattpad 💖

Poco a poco te desvelaré más sobre esta historia y sus personajes.

Si te gusta la fantasía no dudes en quedarte por aquí ✌️

[muzsmocsing]

Peerless Confusion: the ending of svsss book 3

One second we're in a collapsing cave trying to remove Xin Mo's influence in the most painful way one could think of, causing everyone involved severe emotional AND physical damage. Then I turn the page and boom, it's sunshine and rainbows on Cang Qiong Mountain. Everyone is alive and well the world is restored and the suddenly happy couple rides off into the sunset. Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, what the fuck happened??

[nikolay-n-1982]

[poempoetryandmore]

[lepetitdragonvert]

Unicorns ! Unicorns ! by Geraldine McCaughrean

1997

Artist : Sophie Windham

[madbard]

Me, trembling with barely repressed rage, gripping the book as tightly as I can: “I swear, if you introduce another Aureliano, I will throw you at the wall.”

One Hundred Years Of Solitude: “:3”