#The Engelsfors Trilogy

[herikutsugaaru]

another engelsfors thingy :P (summer 2023)

[svnsetromance]

THE ENGLESFORS TRILOGY ▲ THE CHOSEN ONES              I am you. You are me. We are one.

@lgbtqcreators • creator bingo — blending

[lampmanliveblogs]

"Spoilers for a series none of you will read" Jokes on you, I got an English translation of the first book from my local library, specifically because you kept mentioning it! Admittedly, I haven't read it yet, but I'll give it a go soon.

Wait, really? Oh, that’s funny.

For funsies, here’s a picture of my collection of the three books:

You know, one of these days, I’m gonna sit down and write a bunch of rambling posts about all the little things in this series I’m oddly obsessed with. Like the underdeveloped worldbuilding and magic system. Or how all the fire witches get the short end of the stick in their own unique ways. Or how earth and metal witches are totally overpowered and need to get nerfed.

I think the best way I can sum up my experience and relationship with these books is with this anecdote. I reread the books a while back, about half a year, or maybe a year ago. I got maybe a fifth through the first book, so not very far at all. I don’t think it was any one scene in particular, but more so a combination of things that made me close the book and sorta hold it at arms length. And I said to myself ”Wow, no wonder I was depressed in high school if this is what I was reading.” I briefly considered sopping, before I inevitably took the book up again, and I the proceeded to devour the entire trilogy over like a weekend.

The books are heavy, occasionally dreary and depressive. But I still find them compelling nonetheless and the fact that I’m still thinking about them as much as I do so many years later, with the fandom dead and dried up… that has to mean something.

And it’s not all bad and sad. Lumity may have been revolutionary, but they were not the first gay witches I shipped. That’d be Vanessa and Linnéa. And can I just say? Vanessa is low-key my favorite Chosen One. She had some of my favorite lines in the books.

(i have to stop myself now, i could go on for a lot longer. but like i said, one day i’ll sit down and make those long rambling posts)

So yeah. I hope you enjoy the book, or at the least that you find it worthwhile.

[gaykarcist]

Rebecka scrap

[libraryleopard]

learning that levan akin directed the film adaptation of the first book of engelsfors trilogy and that it was scored by one of the members of abba is immensely funny to me because that's. like. kind of all my personal knowledge of swedish pop culture coincidentally rolled into one film

[sapphicbookclub]

Sapphic Books List: Witches

Gather your coven and familiars and dive into magical worlds 🧙‍♀️

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska

Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan

The Scapegracers (trilogy) by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Payback's a Witch (series) by Lana Harper

These Witches Don’t Burn (duology) by Isabel Sterling

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Circle (Engelsfors trilogy) by M. Strandberg & S.B. Elfgren

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

The Lost Coast by A.R. Capetta

All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods

The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

The Reluctant Witch (trilogy) by Kristen S. Walker

The Sting of Victory (series) by S.D. Simper

Not Your Average Love Spell by Barbara Ann Wright

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu

Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve

Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa

Walking Through Shadows by Sheri Lewis Wohl

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Book names + authors under the cut

Shang Qinghua/Mobei-Jun- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/ Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Aurelia “Lia”/Xania Bayonn- Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran

Magnus Chase/Alex Fierro- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

Linnéa Wallin/Vanessa Dahl- The Circle (The Engelsfors Trilogy) by Sara B. Elfgren & Mats Strandberg

[ya-world-challenge]

Fantasy Series by European Authors

The Mirror Visitor Series by Christelle Dabos

Magical floating arks, court politics and arranged marriages

The Reckless Series by Cornelia Funke

Mirror portals, curses, and shape-shifting foxes

The Engelsfors Trilogy by Sara B. Elfgren & Mats Strandberg

Teen witches, ancient demons, and the end of the world

The Raven Rings Trilogy by Siri Pettersen

Norse myths, an outcast heroine, and... tails?

The Arcadia Trilogy by Kai Meyer

Mafia romance, shapeshifters, and Greek mythology

The Watch Series by Sergei Lukyanenko

Paranormal people, magic organizations, and Dark vs Light

The Gifts Series by Caroline O'Donoghue

Tarot cards, psychic cults, and queer rights

Lockwood & Co. Series by Jonathan Stroud

Ghosts, paranormal detectives, and British humour

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(*some series are longer but I limited the images to 3 books)

(*All YA except the Watch series but I wanted diversity in location)

[capybaraonabicycle]

CHARACTERS/CARTOONS THAT I THINK ARE VERY ME-CODED BUT I CAN'T POSSIBLY EXPLAIN HOW

Thank you so much for the tag @trekkingaroundasgard! This was difficult but very fun! (I stole Chidi from your set, because he is basically THE character where I went 'Me! :)')

[ID: images of the characters Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place), Clare Devlin (Derry Girls), Jane Penderwick (The Penderwicks), Jane Bennett (Pride and Prejudice), Jase Connolly (that is: his voice actor) (36 questions), H. G. Wells (Poeparty), Perscitia (placeholder image) (Temeraire), Osgood (Doctor Who), Minoo Falk-Karimi (Engelsfors trilogy) end ID]

There is no official art of Perscitia so to avoid having to steal I put a night sky. She's a green and blue dragon, you can find gorgeous art on the web.

Tagging: @jennyandvastraflint @spacewives-in-spacetime @none-ofthisnonsense @the-12th-doctor @marvellouspinecone @likefish @silly-witch @pia-writes-things @crepuscule-pourpre and whoever comes across this and fancies doing it <3

[sarabelfgren]

I didn't know you had a tumblr! I've been a fan of your writing ever since I read the Engelsfors trilogy, in Hebrew of all languages, when I was probably around 11? I'm pretty sure it was the first time I read lesbian representation and I recall it as being a very formative experience.

I'm now 16 and I'm reading Norra Latin for the first time (translated to Erling Jensen and the Blood Mask) and the more I read it, the more it makes sense to me that you have a tumblr.

You don't have to answer I just wanted to let you know that I was very excited when I went to my local nerd convention and found out you have more books other than the trilogy, and that I'm having a great time reading this book after I reread The Circle and found it's as good as I remembered it.

Thank you so much for your lovely message! I'm so glad that you had that experience with the Engelsfors trilogy. :') Also, thank you for telling me the title of Norra Latin in Hebrew, I had no idea that they chose called it that. Sounds very metal, haha. And there definitely is a tumblr connection in NL. Tamar and her group of friends are inspired by the wonderful queer, nerdy kids that I met during the Engelsfors years. I often had the pleasure of interacting with them here on tumblr. Tamar's tastes are inspired by their tastes, etc. :)

[lexalovesbooks]

I started rereading the engelsfors trilogy on a whim and these books are just so. it’s like, on one hand, they’re objectively not amazingly written (though I’m sure at least some of that is just thanks to the fact that they’re translated from another language), and they’re kind of a hot mess and they reek of that super distinct 2010’s YA urban fantasy vibe, but on the other hand, there’s just something so wildly compelling about the fact that like. this is a story about a group of people that’s been incomplete from the very beginning. One of the kids who’s supposed to be a main character dies in the first chapter and that loss rings through the entire rest of the series! The execution isn’t perfect but that concept is so tragic on its own the series as a whole still makes me feel shrimp emotions

[herikutsugaaru]

Old Linnéa drawing (summer 2023)

[notthepasteldyke]

in my struggles to fix up my old laptop from 2010 (and failing, why the fuck are the drivers i downloaded that claim to be for windows 7 actually for vista once you open the installation program???? they came directly off of the manufacturer's website tf)

and i had to dig up an old usb and found a whole bunch of old fanart i'd saved off tumblr years ago for the book series Engelsfors Trilogy on it, and aaah i remember how much I loved those books. I watched the movie premiere in Stockholm in the middle of the night, it was such a good experience. I also have a lil tattoo of the earth element (haha felix my sad gay who will never be on screen cus it's been almost 10 years and he only shows up in the last book lol). my tiniest tattoo, only like 1.5cm or so, sitting next to my cherry blossom tattoo.

[lampmanliveblogs]

The impending disaster is delayed by the rest of the kids going places, doing stuff, beginning by asking around in this quaint little shop. I do like the ”Ghosts will haunt shoplifters” sign. I also spied another Hexas Holdem’ cameo on a table. Just how many of those bloody things did Eda dump in the Human Realm? Or maybe those are unmagical replicas, since the ones Jacob gave away became popular.

Anyways, moving on to this shot, I do notice Gus looking through that barrel of gems. Heh, gems in Gravesfield. I bet that doesn’t happen often. I bet there aren’t a whole lot of teenage criminal masterminds running around there either.

Also, that is a Ness costume to the left there on the wall. Which makes me think the other two ones are references as well, hm… I wanna say the witch costume on the right is from… Little Witch Academia?

I just looked it up, and yup, that’s totally Little Witch Academia. That leaves the middle one, which I have no idea what it could be a reference to. I’m not even sure if that’s a bow, or cat ears. Or maybe this is a Blake Belladonna situation, and it’s actually both.

Oh, and the shop is called The Magic Circle. Insert Engelsfors Trilogy reference here:____________________________.

Oh, now this is a beautiful frame to accidentally pause on. I just had to include it.

That candy that looks like it’s levitating. Willow looking like she’s about to tip backwards. Vee psyching herself up before a boxing match. The librarian experiencing some Grade A secondhand embarrassment. The girl with the Batman logo on her shirt. Amity faceplanting for the second time this episode. Seriously, that can not be good for your face Mittens.

But hey, let’s look on the bright side. Now Hunter and Amity have something else to bond over: facial scar and a broken nose respectively.

And while I’m paused: I also love Willow paying for the costume with a snail, like she’s Pippi Longstocking with her gold coins.

Willow & Gus also both take notice of the statues of the Wittebane brothers. They exchange knowing glances, both of them undoubtedly seeing the resemblance to Hunter… though at this point only Gus has the pieces to begin putting the puzzle together.

And thus one of the shows longest running gags comes to full circle as we finally see one of these demonic giraffes that much fuzz has been made about. Honestly? I don’t see what it was about, the fuzz. This looks fairly normal by Demon Realm standard. Unless the giraffe people were known for being unusually brutal and violent, I’m not sure why the kids are so spooked by this.

I do love this though, because giraffes have obviously been around on Earth long enough to be considered normal animals by humans. And surely someone somewhere at some point would realize that ”Oh shit, these long necked creatures can unfold their faces. That’s weird.”

Even if giraffes don’t do it in front of humans, surely someone dissecting a giraffe would find it. This leads me to believe that yes, it’s weird, but still considered to be an as of yet unexplained quirk in an others normal an unmagical animal.

It was at this point I went on a long tangent about evolution and biology, and I cut that out because this post is long enough as is. Let’s just say that giraffe taxonomy would be a huge pain for scientists in this universe to figure out.

Called it.

I do believe I said so even as far back as Yesterday’s Lie that we would return back to the Gravesfield Historical Society. I also believe I said I dreaded seeing Jacob Hopkins again, for obvious reasons. Though based on the sign, we might be spared that unpleasantness. Good, Philip is already sneaking around, and one crazy person is enough for this episode.

I’m assuming the previous managers of the Gravesfield Historical Society came back from their vacation, found the crazy man who had broken into the building while they were away, and called the police on him.

Even though this is a shot from behind, you can clearly see Vee looking nervous and uncomfortable, and of course she’d be. The last time she stepped foot (eh… tail?) inside this building, all her worst nightmares came true, all at once. She was captured and put back inside a cage. She was going to be cut open and killed by a madman. Her cover was blown to Camila. All in all, it was a rather stressful thirty minutes or so she had in there.

Ey, it’s the fortune teller from Yesterday’s Lie! Based on a comment or two I got, I had a sneaking suspicion they’d appear again, and would you look at that, I was right. It sure feels good.

And not to toot my own horn too much, but the nickanme I gave them back in Yesterday’s Lie was Mira. Which has the same first letter (M), same last letter (a), and the same number of syllables (2) as Masha’s real name. Which might not sound all that impressive, but try guessing the first and last letter, as well as the number of syllables in my (real) name. If any of you are correct, I’ll… be very scared.

So, are you the new new management here, Masha? I’d think not, since, well… you’re what, fourteen? Fifteen, maybe? I know Jacob didn’t set the bar high, but you know it’s a sad state of affairs when an actual child makes for a better manager at a historical society than a grown adult man.

[phantomofthehoepera]

sorry i've literally been disappeared forever lately. read engelsfors trilogy. my final message

[apricior]

♧ hi boo <333

You’re my: friend!!! bestie!!! one of my favorite people ever!!!!!

How I met you: through the power of the engelsfors trilogy <33

Why I follow you: banger aesthetics and banger taste in everything and also banger person in general <3

Your blog is: very gay and very emo great representation of who you are <3

Your URL is: VERY ICONIC i always thought it was very cool

Your icon is: the guy of all time <3333 hope he's eating enough and staying healthy and sleeping at least 8h every night

A random fact I know about you: god what do i even say here. after all this time there's like a thousand random facts about you up here [points at head] but i'm gonna say. lizard guy :]

General opinion: you're one of the coolest people i know and i'm very grateful that we've stayed friends all these years <333

A random thought I have: we gotta see each other again soon or i am going to explode >:(