#christopher carrion

[rocanny]

As thorn and flower upon a single branch sit, So hate beside my love for her will fit. Two pieces of one thing, that make a whole. As you and I, my love, a single soul. - Christopher Carrion ---

Carrion was the boogieman of my childhood lol, thought I'd go and give drawing him a try.

[mercuryislove]

[gh0stlycryptic]

i need Abarat by Clive Barker like i need life. i know he had some health issues recently, but i really hope he will be able to finish book 4 soon. he recently said that he won't be making that many physical appearances so he can focus on his writing, but he said he has like 30+ things he is working on, so i hope Kry Rising is one of them. i am going to be rereading the 3 that are out now, pining for the 4th.

i am also happy that Disney no longer has the rights to Abarat, and they are back in Clive's hands, because they would have ruined it for sure

also, please, please, PLEASE tell me if you are a part of this fandom. i have felt alone for most of my life.

basically, this is a Petition to revive the Abarat fandom and even rope more people in. force your friends to read it, read it to them if you have to. info dump about it, idc, just please, i can't stand feeling like the only one constantly thinking about these books

[variousqueerthings]

clive barker: christopher carrion is a nasty looking man, he's a corpse-like creature with tubes sticking out of his head, nightmare goo swimming around his face, scarred lips, hairless pale weird pathetic fucking guy

me: ok ok he's hot I gotcha

[phyllidaluna]

Hopping on the meme train with everyone’s favorite family

[ligbi]

.....have we never considered malingo/carrion. Ex prince and ex slave. Abuse survivors. Death defiers. Family issues. Scary faces. Lives woven into the fate of the island. Baby. Baby boy. Evil.

[dead-mans-house]

Candy and Carrion have their conversation about love in Tazmagor partway through Absolute Midnight

“Why can’t you let her go?” “Because if I did, I’d have no reason to live.” “Come on,” Candy said with a smile in her voice. “It can’t be that bad.” “Have you ever loved, then lost your beloved?” “No. I haven’t.” “Then let us remember to talk again, when things are different.”

I think most of us are assuming that something horrible is gonna happen with Gazza. Things are going to be such an insane mess if Carrion has to try to comfort Candy. This man CANNOT be trusted to give advice about romance and love.

[grasponreality]

thinking about the character Christopher Carrion from Abarat right now

someone who I never would have found appealing back when I first read the book in middle school

but now

as a fucked up adult with an open mind

.... yeah, I kinda get it

[weirdlookindog]

Clive Barker (b. 1952) - The Resurrection of Christopher Carrion

[silverspleen]

Like, apparently not all of you got introduced to sexually charged horror as tweens and later had a big long think as an adult about it.

[lesbiansloveeddiediaz]

what're your most devastating buddie ship songs?

[ethanmaldridge]

Christopher Carrion, the Lord Midnight

[variousqueerthings]

the abarat tag exists! it has posts on it! (woo!)

anyway shuffles in here with the rarepair (I assume) of christopher carrion/finnegan hob

no they haven't actually interacted, but listen:

canonically hopeless romantics in ways that have hurt them so so much, and made them afraid of loving again, but also they can't help themselves...

were both duped and manipulated by the same woman in the exact same way (boa really played them like cheap kazoos huh)

the themes of night-and-day as something that need to be reconciled carried within both of them

specifically the whole fairytale element of "marriage to heal the kingdom" type story, first subverted with boa dying and then again by her resurrecting and being evil....... then possibly deconstructed by being very gay? (well, that and maybe the fact that it isn't a marriage that was really needed to heal the abarat, so much as candy's different perspective, so they can just do it without all that pressure on them)

finnegan is a fixer and carrion is a fucking mess

also finnegan needing to fix things/be Heroic is something to unpack as well, considering these books are continuously flipping character Types on their heads and I think carrion might like being supportive as a way of building some form of selfhood/finnegan learning to be cared for...

smthinsmthin on that above note carrion could conceivably save finnegan's life right now, considering finnegan is basically boa's hostage and carrion is trying to learn how to do right/interesting reversed damsel in distress tropes?

pretty boys -- I understand that mr clive barker's illustrations and descriptions of carrion have not been giving us pretty boy, but he's got that pathetic goth boy swag to finnegan's jock-hero type pretty

both flamboyant and performative

they hate each other on principle, simply because their stories have had boa in the middle up until a certain point, but she's been deliberately stoking up that enmity/manipulating that story, so now the scales have fallen from their eyes, what better way to counter that than by realising that they... quite like each other when they actually meet, perhaps even-

barker has yet to give us as much queerness in this text as in his other ones, and it's been enough years that I think he could get away with it more in a YA than back in 2003

also as an extra, both of them retiring out of the idea of kingdom/prince type shit, because neither of them have seen that sort of setup have good results (although of course, abarat wasn't really feudal by the time candy came along, so much as just... the idea of an aristocracy as something still to be respected? anyway, tear that down, especially now that most of the aristocracy is just straight up dead), and just retiring to one of the islands

wonders which time would suit them.... feel like a dawn-or-dusk would be their preference...

[phyllidaluna]

Autism prince quivering and crying because he spilled his worms from quivering and crying

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Common Raven (Corvus corax)

Habitat & Distribution

Generalist species, but found especially in urban areas, deciduous and evergreen forests, and coasts

Distributed throughout North America, Europe, north Africa, and Asia

Physical Description

Weight: 0.69 to 2.250 kg (1.52 to 4.96 lb)

Wingspan: 116 to 153 cm (46 to 60 in)

Entirely black, with a thick bill and a wedge-shaped tail

Behaviour

Typically lives in mated pairs, with multiple couples often coming together to form larger groups

Primarily scavengers, feeding on carrion, as well as arthropods, amphibians, small mammals, birds, reptiles, and carrion; they also feed on grains, acorns, fruits, and buds when available

Adults are too large to be targeted by most predators; their sharp beak and talons are effective weapons against potential threats

Key Advantages

Highly intelligent, able to problem solve and use rudimentary tools

Lives in complex societies and hunts cooperatively with other animals like wolves and coyotes

See where they stand in the May Mammal Madness Tournament here!

Photo by Christopher Lindsey

[dead-mans-house]

I am holding out that he gets some therapy

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