#Road of the Lost

[aroaessidhe]

read in 2023: fey (or fey-adjacent)

That Self-Same Metal

Desdemona And The Deep

Hamra and the Jungle of Memories

Wander The Night

Road of the Lost

Unseelie

The Buried and the Bound

The Faerie Hounds of York

The Story of the Hundred Promises

[scienceandfandoms]

With all this Wicked talk reminder that in the Oz books the rightful ruler of Oz was actually a trans girl named Ozma who explicitly named Dorothy a princess of Oz and considered her a "constant companion."

Also, this art from "The Road to Oz"

[ionomycin]

Low tide

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Road of the Lost | Author: Nafiza Azad | Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (2022)

[yuyuvasya02]

Just read jojolion I like gappy so much 😭

I almost forgot how to draw normal skin color (Last one looks like a scene from lion king… from jojo lion I mean)

[mother-lee]

farmhouse 02

[tolkien-povs]

Reading The Hobbit has a warm, cozy feeling to it, like sitting by a fireplace and downing a warm mug of hot chocolate. There are times when you want to cry, times when you want to laugh, times when you want to fight alongside Thorin’s Company. But at the end of the story, you realise that you will never experience that, because The Hobbit is fictional in reality, but so real in the heart and mind.

Reading The Lord of The Rings has a cool feeling, neither warm nor cold, but a comfortable one; it’s as if you’re sitting by a window, staring into the rain, and wishing you could go outside and relish in the rain but you can’t because it’s cold. There are times when you want to laugh, cry, dine with the Fellowship, fight with the Fellowship. But you can’t, because The Lord of The Rings is only a figment lodged in your heart, tucked away in a cozy spot.

Reading The Silmarillion has the feel of sitting in an enormous library almost abandoned, and fishing out an old, dusty book from a nook long forgotten, written about the history of the world. There are cases when you want to delve into that world and explore it, revel in it, fight it, love it, yell at the people in it. But you can never do that, because it is a history long past, existing only in the minds of very few.

Reading the old stories narrating the entire history of Arda has the feel of travelling back in time to the Library of Alexandria, reading and studying all the library can give. There are times when you want to cry, mourn, grieve, celebrate, laugh, revel in the world. But you can never, as that world, those people, are all part of your heart and mind, tucked away into the most precious part of you.

Reading the legendarium doesn’t make you want to be a part of that world because you love it. It makes you want to be a part of that world because the characters are normal people, like you, who got roped into an unlikely adventure, forever narrated in song, poems, ballads and laments.

They are simple stories, of simple people, in a simple world, where if you existed, you could have been one of those souls both fortunate and unfortunate.

Reading the legendarium makes you want to be part of it, because it makes you think you can survive it.

And certainly, if you have read this amazing mythological masterpiece, you absolutely can survive it.

[southern--downpour]

deer in headlights

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread  

Road of the Lost

YA fantasy adventure,

a brownie girl raised by a hag discovers that she’s been under a spell hiding her identity all her life

so she travels through the fey otherworld to find her true self, and uncovers the mystery of the rulers of the kingdoms

[oksurethisismyname]

Zosan coffee shop AU where zoro works at Namis coffee shop to pay off a debt (he broke her tv or some shit)

From Zoros perspective: every time Sanji comes in, he orders a new drink and zoro thinks he’s just being a dick by changing it up so often but jokes on Sanji because he has a little binder with the different recipes. Curly is always smirking when he gets his drink so Zoro KNOWS he’s doing good.

From Sanjis perspective: the first day he ordered a latte but zoro made a mocha. The next time he comes in he orders a mocha but zoro makes a macchiato. It’s so different that it HAS to be intentional. Every time he orders, zoro makes the wrong drink and sanji just orders that the next time. He thinks they’re playing some sort of game / flirting.

2 weeks in zoro realizes he’s been making the wrong drinks the whole time because Nami finally sees him make a cappuccino when Sanji ordered a drip coffee (literally how did he fuck it up this bad) and zoro is just more confused as to why Sanjis been smiling when he gets the wrong drink

[icecry]

👤 NEW YORK 🎵 1990'S ⏪ ▶️ ⏩ Come spend a summer in New York. The sun sets a little differently over the Empire State. 

「 Bruno's always been the odd one on his block. He works as a drywaller but has hopes of making a living writing for Broadway. His family is pretty well known around town, but he's always preferred to keep a low profile. Bruno's best friend, Luigi (Super Mario Bros.), runs a plumbing business with his older brother in Brooklyn. They've known each other since they were kids, always being picked last for basketball or bonding over the color green.

Their other best friend is Kuzco (Emperor's New Groove), a rich kid from Upper Manhattan and up-and-coming heir to his family's billion-dollar empire. However, due to his lack of maturity and wild party-boy behavior, Kuzco has been temporarily cut off financially, forcing him to take a job as a Taxi driver.

Despite being cut off, Kuzco still has access to some perks, like the rooftop basketball court of the Sports Club his Dad owns. But Kuzco's not the only one with a hookup.

Audrey Ramirez (Atlantis: The Lost Empire), a chief mechanic engineer, can come and go as she pleases thanks to this being the gym where her Boxing Champion sister trains. She's always with her best friend and roommate, Chel (The Road to El Dorado), who is originally from Colombia and works at The Met.」 For @wdtajn crossover week!

(All backgrounds are photos taken by me in New York from my last visit with my family.) Insta- @icecry1

[reigen-small-naturals]

OFFROAD GAVE DAOU A RING THE SAME WAY SAN PROPOSED TO VAD

[chipthekeeper]

ADRIA ARJONA as BIX CALEEN in Andor episode 12, Rix Road

-for @e-the-village-cryptid

[mother-lee]