#Wings of Starlight

[thejewishninja]

Okay. So. I read Wings of Starlight and loved it but no one else I know has read it because it’s sold out everywhere. I need to go crazy and scream about is it so Here are my Emotionally Charged Thoughts. Spoilers for Secret of the Wings but not necessarily the book.

AHHHHJSIDISODOOF DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG CLARION AND MILORI WERE APART!!!!!! CLARION IS 400 YEARS OLD IN THE TINKERBELL FRANCHISE!!!! *GNAWS DRYWALL WITH BARE TEETH* THIS IS A YA NOVEL AND BOTH OF THEM ARE YOUNG, PROBABLY IN THE 18-20 AGE RANGE. WHICH MEANS IT WAS 380 YEARS THEY HAD TO WAIT TO BE TOGETHER AGAIN. *PUNCHES CEMENT BLOCKS* THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY YEARS!!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE KNOWING THE PERSON YOU LOVE IS NOT VERY FAR AWAY FROM YOU BUT YOU CAN NEVER SEE THEM? NEVER TOUCH THEM OR HOLD THEM?? YOU CAN SEE THEIR HOME FROM AFAR RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW EVERY NIGHT AND YOU KNOW THEY ARE ALIVE AND WELL BUT YOU CAN NEVER BE WITH EACH OTHER?? *FISTFIGHTS THE OCEAN* OR IF THEY DID SEE EACH OTHER, IT CLEARLY MUST HAVE BEEN IN A SIMPLY FORMAL SENSE. CAN YOU IMAGINE SEEING THE PERSON YOU LOVE IN ESSENTIALLY A ONCE A YEAR BUSINESS MEETING FOR 380 YEARS STRAIGHT AND YOU CAN DO NOTHING MORE THAN STARE AT THEM LONGINGLY WHILE RETAINING A PURELY PROFESSIONAL DEMEANOR BECAUSE NO ONE CAN KNOW YOU TWO WERE FORMERLY SECRETLY INVOLVED?  *EATS GRAVEL* HDKFJSKDJFKSJ JAJFKSJDJFEJJ

Yeah I simply couldn’t do it. 

[neverfaerie]

Very excited to read Wings of Starlight 💜✨

Happy to have Disney Fairy literature back.

[solciego]

ever since the last goodbye

life has been less enjoyable.

[dmitryanya]

rewatched secret of the wings while waiting for my copy of wings of starlight to come in, so have some milarion art

[ela-draws]

I'm sooooo excited for the book !! I'm receiving it on the 10th !

I have rewatched the movies during the last few days so have a little fanart of young Clarion and Milori

[dancingdaffodils08]

This might be the thing that takes me out.

[gracie-rosee]

WE’RE SO BACK! (We never left pixie hollow)

Allison Saft, one of my favorite writers (author of A Far Wilder Magic, Down Comes The Night, A Fragile Enchantment,) is coming out with a Pixie Hollow novel in February 2025!!!

The story follows Queen Clarion and her love interest Lord Milori 🥹💛

I’m so excited! Are you guys excited?!

[firadessa]

Please acknowledge Bleakwatch Chronicles, Tinker Bell and the Lost City. I understand that BW chronicles may not have as much fans and are turned off by the art style. Also the author never posted (Zack Loran Clark) much promo for the book unlike Allison, nor mentioned anything about DF on his IG page. It is intended for a younger audience. However, I am much more excited for this book as it pertains to the movie universe. So please, just clap if you believe if you will.

As this is the first book to come out since 2017 that is labeled as "Disney Fairies" and the second spinoff- like this is important. You don't have to buy the book or give it the free promotion, but acknowledge the existence of it at least. WoS is not labeled as DF, if it matters.

Here are some of the reasons why I am more excited for Bleakwatch Chronicles than I am for Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft (Clarion x Milori YA Novel):

It's a post canon story implied to take reference to the cancelled Tinker Academy movie where TB goes to study at the Tinker Academy on the mainland. The art seems like they took references especially when directly compared to the concept art. WoS is a backstory.

It releases first, BWC releases in November 2024 and WoS releases in Feb.

It seems like more of original concept to me, literally because of the new concepts like the Flutterpunks and the implied secret cities of the Bleakwatch and Clockwork Capital.

New characters like Quin and Ozwald will be joining TB on this journey.

It expands on a old concept, and tweaks it in a way that makes more sense. IMO, an idea like a Tinker Academy seems to hold less weight because before the events of Tinker Bell fairies couldn't go to the mainland to spread nature, and it's implied they always stay. It is also implied in GFR that Tinker fairies don't typically go to the mainland even if TB's inventions help them in the intensive summer season (the song implies that's why she's there- it's implied in the first movie she goes there whenever she has a job) Vidia is dismayed by this and says "this is why Tinker fairies don't go to the mainland" whilst TB is checking out the car. In a deleted storyboard for Tinker Academy it is implied that it is a prestigious academy that FM gets into before the events of Tinker Bell, yet to me the idea of underground London tinkers makes more sense to me than the academy. Think about it, it's implied that TB and FM are some of the most brilliant Tinkers in pixie hollow and yet the Tinker population is small. (only Clank and Bobble greet her and we see no one in green outfits) Why do you think that is? I personally like the idea of rogue Tinkers who would scavenge on the mainland for parts and self-exile themselves from Pixie Hollow. It explains why FM calls the lost things junk, if the difference in mindset between the mainland tinkers and the pixie hollow tinkers was that the mainland Tinkers are considered "scraps" (get it) while the PH tinkers are considered more put together and community driven. It makes sense that TB being a brilliant Tinker that outshines even Vidia gets such an audience if brilliant Tinkers do not normally last in PH because they are seen as too curious and ambitious, opting to start their own community of outcast Tinkers in the mainland. Vidia's talent switch in The Pirate Fairy also implies that Tinkers have the gift of thought, and literally think differently (regardless of personality) then their non-tinker peers because it's their talent. There is much potential for this storyline as it adds more nuance to the Tinker Bell movie and the dynamic between the nature and non nature talents, something I think it would benefit from. It makes a lot of sense if the edgier steampunk designs came from a secret Tinker counterculture and not a secret academy imo.

The implication of this book suggest revitalizing the Disney Fairies franchise, possibly not just as a "brand". Not sure what that could mean but it's interesting

IMO, Wings of Starlight has more of a "booktok" vibe I'm getting from it. I'm not just saying that because it's YA, but given the (beautiful) cover design it feels more targeted for what Disney thinks grown fans of Disney Fairies might like based on whatever market research was done (and you know it was). WoS has been receiving better marketing and there are people out here that don't even know two books exist. I'm not saying the book looks lazy, slapped together, or unoriginal- or it will just be corporate and bland, I mean I'm a Disney Fairies fan I don't believe that everything is corporate greed lol and like to see creativity in the "unexpected". But I hope that future Disney Fairies books won't just be going for what is "trendy" to reel people in and instead invest in creative storytelling *in general*, in other words I hope they keep concepts and genres broad and inclusive enough so we have the potential for more creative stories. Not just expanded stories on specific characters and stories like the Twisted Tales series, or sticking to specific genres for this specific niche audience in a way that feels too specific. I feel like there has to be some sort of balance struck, or DF may be a little stuck for a while and may still have "missed potential".

On expanded stories, like I said, Disney has done a lot of that and there is an audience for that. However, I prefer the idea of post canon more than a backstory or expansion. From what I know, we know some details of the Milarion backstory and it will be adding more layers and expanding on the dynamics of the existing characters, where the new book seems to be more lore driven in focus.

I don't like Secret of the Wings that much in terms of lore as a lore fanatic. I feel like this book could also retcon other things when possibly trying to explain things that make sense in SOTW. If BWC is good, I can imagine myself thinking about it more after it releases but I can just imagine myself thinking more of how I felt and my emotional reaction after WoS with fading interest afterward, it just sort of feels like the book could resonate with me more y'know? and I got a pretty good gut feeling for that sort of thing.

Underdog bias, just acknowledge it's existence. Do that with the NG graphic novels from 2022, heck the whole Never Girls series. Do that with the whole DF franchise if you are new here somehow. That's it, that's the post.

The mystery. What is the mysterious pocketwatch and who's on the cover?

Copy and pasted plot summary- Tinker Bell loves nothing more than solving a problem. For her, red buttons demand to be pushed, treasure maps need to be followed, and lost things ought to be found. So when a strange fairy crash lands in Pixie Hollow and leaves Tinker Bell two clues to find a mysterious necklace on the Mainland, she really doesn’t have a choice but to help. However, her journey takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a hidden city of fairies living below the streets of London.

In this city called Bleakwatch, she’ll meet the Flutterpunks, the most infamous band of trinket scavengers around. Helping her may just give them their biggest score yet. But when the Flutterpunks’ plan goes haywire, they’ll be forced to choose between a big payday or saving their new friend.

When their adventure takes them inside the glittering Clockwork Capital, Tinker Bell and the Flutterpunks will uncover a villainous secret that threatens all the fairies in Bleakwatch. It turns out there’s more at stake than just finding a missing necklace, and it’ll be up to Tinker Bell to set things right. Luckily, that’s what tinker fairies do best!

[pidgie-core]

-🧚🏻❄️✨I am so lucky and grateful to my amazingly talented friend Allison Saft for sending me the ARC of her new book ‘Wings of Starlight,’ and as someone who grew up believing in fairies and Pixie Hollow- who adored all the chapter books and films and finds so much comfort in fairies- all I can say for my fellow Pixie Hollow girlies is you will not be able to put this book down, I am in PURE AWE- This book has truly floored me, I’m completely obsessed, THANK YOU ALLISON FOR DELIVERING PERFECTION AS ALWAYS, anywho I need to rewatch secret of the wings to recover from all my crying brb guys 🧚🏻❄️✨-

[defunctfridge]

thank god lesbians are cannon in pixie hollow. that boy to girl ratio is hostile to the straights

[oddballism]

Holy shit they’re making a Queen Clarion and Lord Milori prequel book?

I haven’t thought about Disney fairies in a while but I loved the movies when I was around 7 and 8, and Secret of the Wings was my favorite

I’m sure all the hardcore shippers are freaking out right now, I know I would

I’m very happy for you!

[blackwinterllama]

I just found out

about there a book coming out about the Queen Clarion and lord Milori there love stories.

And I wants to draw them

[the-final-sentence]

It would call her home for the rest of her long life.

Allison Saft, from Wings of Starlight

[solciego]

Come to me in the silence of the night;

come in the speaking silence of a dream;

come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright

as sunlight on a stream.

[thehopeelias]

Answering @dolloly 's comment about drawing Queen Clarion's wings...

I had four seperate layers for them 😆 Then for her back wing I literally just flattened, duplicated, and squooshed the first wing. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful 😆

Meanwhile Lord Malori's wings were just 2 layers 🤣🤣🤣

[fenrysmoonbeamswife]

someone just asked me does Wings of Starlight have spice

the Disney book

about Disney fairies

for children

and then they complained when I said obviously it doesn't because "they're adults (the characters are 17 btw) so it should and it isn't a real romantasy if there's no spice"

I'm sorry but like this is why I have 0 sympathy when I see spice lovers droning on about being judged for what they read like you wonder why? really? "don't yuck someone's yum" (worst phrase on the planet btw) I absolutely will if this is the stupid shit you're coming out with

I have nothing against people who love spice, I could take it or leave it personally but this is only one of multiple issues that have come up with spice readers just in the last few days and like some of people genuinely are so addicted/desensitized it's a problem. And some of them are so mean what in the actual hell it feels like starring in Mean Girls sometimes, getting that defensive and nasty over fictional sex is fucking weird