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fromfairyland · 5 months ago

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My thoughts on Bleakwatch Chronicles: Tinkerbell and the Lost City

I really, really enjoyed this book! I would recommend it to any disney fairies fan, particularly fans of the movie series. It was also a delight to read about a nonbinary fairy in the disney fairies universe! Overall, I don't want to say that I was plesantly surprised, because I was expecting Bleakwatch to be good, but I will say that it exceeded my (reasonably high) expectations. I am very happy about this! A more spoilery discussion below the cut ✨✨✨

First of all, to expand on what I touched on earlier, Clark did an incredible job of imbuing the tone of the disney fairies film into this book. It very much felt like a Tinkerbell film through the characterisation of the characters we already know from the movies: the interactions Tink had with Clank and Bobble at the start literally felt like I was reading dialogue from a df movie. Even Scribble, the bookish fairy from Secret of the Wings, had a mention! Clark did his homework for sure. This doesn't just come through in characterisation and references though, it also moulds the new lore of the series, which is really cool. For example, in bleakwatch, dream talents are necessary because of the lack of the moonstone and moonlight that is required to generate pixie dust. Bleakwatch is firmly established in the canon of the movies and this is done is a very genuine and authentic way. It reads as a natural continuation.

All of the new characters we are introduced to in this book are enjoyable, my favourites being Quin, Danvers and Darwin. I did wonder if perhaps there were a few too many characters apart of the Flutterpunks for such a short book, we don't really have enough time to get to know any of them apart from Quin, but I understand that a team of fairy scavengers would need multiple members and I trust that they will be characterised further in subsequent books.

Though objectively I appreciated this book the whole way through, personally it took me a little while to really embrace it because my favourite thing about the df franchise has always been pixie hollow, it is to this day (and I read a lot lol) one of my all time favourite fictional universes. So at first I didn't think reading a book about a society of mainland fairies would be for me. But the concept of this book is so well done that it really drew me in, particularly the exploration of class and the exploitation of lower classes (which feels silly to be saying about a df book but here we are). The idea of fairies having their talents suppressed by those who wish to guard resources (pixie dust) for themselves is a conceit rife with potential that I trust this series will continue to fulfil. I did think it was obvious that King Bartleby was the one behind the whole scheme but I'm not going to critique a kids book for having a plot twist that was predicatble to me, an adult (also I think plot twists should be predictable to a degree but that's a seperate tangent). The lore and also just, the vibe, of bleakwatch is also so compelling, like baby's laughs attaching to pieces of metal and machinery (what would this look like in present day I have to wonder?) and all these new talents that have emerged. The dreamdross thing is particularly cool to me and i'm excited to learn more about it! Also the image of an underground society of fairies lit by glowing mushrooms is just very cool!

As I mentioned I have a bias towards pixie hollow so I was a little peeved by the constant degradation of it as 'rustic' or 'backward' by the bleakwatch fairies, not because i'm that easily offended, but because it didn't really make sense to me that bleakwatch fairies would feel this way about pixie hollow when it would provide a far better living situation than they have, even before they knew that their talents were being suppressed. I even had an annotation that was like 'man when I learnt about never fairies i'd be PISSED'. But when it's revealed that the only source of information the bleakwatch fairies have about pixie hollow is King Bartleby, who would obviously present it in this way so that no one would ever want to leave the society that he is presenting as better, I decided that this is one of the most clever aspects of the book.

I'm very interested to see how these relationships between pixie hollow and bleakwatch will progress in future novels. I have to wonder if queen Clarion will be as accomidating as Tink assumes, maybe she will decide that it's too dangerous to go back to help right away and Tink will sneak away with some pixie hollow friends and Elmira to do so (this would be too many characters I must concede... but a girl can dream). I particularly would love to see the Flutterpunks go to pixie hollow and their reactions to it.

My only real critique of this book is the pacing. I understand that the first book in a series such as this one needs to be very lore heavy, and that the balance between story telling and communicating lore is tricky, especially when you also have to tie the work to a pre-existing canon. Yet it did kind of feel like we took 90% of the book establishing the set up for the story that then happened in the last 10% and I do feel as if it could have been balanced a little better. The was so much fun and built tension really effectively. I would have loved to see a few more moments like this in the book. I have faith that this will operate better in subsequent books but I am a little nervous considering that there's so much we still don't know about the Bleakwatch-specific talents, it makes me worry that the next books will also be kind of lore-dumpy. This is nitpicky for a middle grade novel, but I also think the relationships between Tink and the Flutterpunks felt a little rushed, Tinkerbell remarks at the end of the book that she was sure she'd made friends for life and I just didn't really feel a sense of that strong of a bond between them from what was shown in the rest of the book. I don't know if Clark was given a hard limit in terms of how long the book had to be, but i've certianly encountered middle grade novels that were a little longer and I think this could have benefited from a longer length, just so these aspects of the ending didn't feel quite so rushed.

Overall though I found this to be incredibly well executed, both as a middle grade novel and as a continuation as the disney fairies franchise. I'm very excited to see where the series goes!

My favourite part was when Tinkerbell told the Flutterpunks to touch grass.

#if you actually read all of this you have my eternal gratitude #pls comment any thoughts you had on the book i'd love to discuss #ella's magical musings #disney fairies #tinkerbell #pixie hollow #bleakwatch #tinkerbell and the lost city #bleakwatch chronicles

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tchilidogs · 2 months ago

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Hi! I just found out about your fic and I loved it! Gosh, if we compare it to Canon, then Tails made the difference and it didn't end up being a happy ending. (Poor thing)

By the way, about Tails, I love his jacket, it's a nice detail.

I have a few questions, if you could try to answer them:

1) What is the age of the characters at the beginning of your comic? (I don't know if it was mentioned before) 2) I remember a question about what would happen if Sonic and Shadow met their Canon version, tell me what would happen if they met the Canon version of Tails (from the happy ending) what would they think? What would Tails think (canon)? 3) I saw a picture of Tails all grown up (he looks depressed), he might still be alive (obviously you won't answer me), but it would be great, even if it's just to see how the guilt eats away at him little by little, (damn, just thinking about it makes me want to see it). Sorry, Tails. But right now I have a love-hate relationship with you.

I'd appreciate it if you could answer me.

Thank you so much for reading 😊! The jacket was something I always thought would fit his personality and design, also, an emotional item since Sonic gifted it to Tails!

1) At the beginning of the story (the prologue) these are their ages:

Sonic: 16, Shadow: 17, Tails: 12, Amy: 15, Knuckles: 21, Eggman: 40

Of course these don’t follow canon at all, but hey! AU magic 🪄

2) That’s an interesting question, what I think would happen is: Canon Tails trying to figure out the possibilities on how the events could’ve gone so wrong, while AU Sonic just lets him theorize and decides not to tell him. AU Shadow on the other hand, wouldn’t be able to stand to look at Tails at all.

3) Guilt plays an extremely important part in the whole comic, it will slowly eat away, consume and destroy who someone is. Mix that with being surrounded in a rather unconventional situation and you get… many outcomes, some worse than others. That is for sure.

I’ve said it once before but I will keep saying it, during the next chapter (chapter 2 and 3) there will be many content warnings as some topics portrayed may be a bit much for some people 🥲 (don’t worry, there won’t be any explicit things shown, however the topics of SH, Attempts and mental illness will be included).

Thank you for your questions ✨ I’m always so happy to answer 🥹✨

#ask box open #sonic au #team chillidogs #ask answer

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cecebeanie · 9 months ago

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Omg thank you for the taggg🩷

1. Fave character: Suga 🥺 It's very predictable, but he's been my boy since day one, I just can't stop thinking about him and I'd really like to hug him

2. Fave ship: This is HARD but probably Iwaoi, I'm a sucker from childhood friends to lovers

3. Fav friendship: AHHHHH I'll go with asahi, suga, daichi and shimizu, but this question is HARD. Special mentions to Kuroo and Bokuto, their bromance is fantastic

4. Underrated character: can I say Takeda? He definitely doesn't get the appreciation he deserves

5. Underrated ship:... Ah I feel like this is VERY impopular, but I'll say Oisuga 💀 it's just, they have these parallels between them, and they sort of complement each other in a way? Honestly, I'll read every ship, but I don't know, they sparkle ✨

6. Random headcanon: Kageyama and Hinata started dating without realizing, they realized that they were, in fact, dating around their second year. I feel like Suga was probably talking about something romantic he and Daichi did on a date, and Hinata was like "ah yeah we do that too" and it just clicked that, oh, they were in fact dating, but was probably too stunned to actually say that to Kageyama. On the other hand, Tobio probably realized it because he went to ask for advice about something (about Hinata, of course) from Oikawa, who made a snarky reply about the two of them dating, and was stunned too. Eventually, Tsukki, tired of the whole situation, told them.

I... I'll be very honest, I have no clue if any of my mutuals are in the Haikyuu fandom (please tell me if you are 🥺) so I won't tag anyone because I see that most of my mutuals who do watch Haikyuu are already tagged, so please tag along if you want to!

Haikyuu!! ask game ♡

Bc these r so cute and i always get happy when someone tags me in one of these so i wanted to make one lol. Reblog with:

That One Fuck™ (aka: fav haikyuu character)

Fav romantic ship

Fav friendship

Underrated character

Underrated relationship (romantic or otherwise)

A random hq headcanon

Tag a few friends/mutuals!

Hope you're all having a nice day, stay safe ♡♡♡

#tag game

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