#chronicle talks

[limelocked]

It would be funny if we goncharoved a better minecraft movie

It would have to have a proper name and not The Minecraft Movie TM so the abomination doesn’t get clout but

[sarcastic-clapping]

LET YOUR DAD DIE: IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAD.

Lestat + Claudia: Patricide & The Cycles of Violence - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) - Catherine Lacy, "Cut" (2019) / Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) / Anne Rice, "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

[nightcolorz]

nice thing about devils minion is that Armand loves Daniel partly bcus he’s so much different then all the other men he’s been with + experienced, which u would assume based on the context of what Armand has gone through that this means that Daniel is not a creepy sex pervert unlike the bad men of Armand’s past and Armand likes him bcus he is so unusually respectful, but no actually. Daniel is in fact the creepy sex pervert king of pervert land and Armand loves him bcus out of all of the sex perverts he has known in his 500 years of living Daniel is the most entertaining about it. And rlly I think that’s beautiful. “Ur not like the other guys” but in the sense that your pervert kinks are way hotter then there’s and it’s rly fun for me. AMAZING stuff

[sapphia]

no you guys don't get it. the pevensies were always fated to die tragically early, these children whose childhoods were torn away by the brutality of world war i and then who died so early into adulthood, before they'd had a chance to live and to grow up -- in 1949, like so many who made it to early adulthood, just, only to be mowed down on the battlefields of europe. the most common age of death in wwii was 19. the siblings represent an entire generation of lost youth, and Narnia is the gift, the fantasy, the parable of heaven that told the survivors these children got to live out full lives in Narnia before perishing tragically young

susan didn’t get “kept out of narnia because she liked girly things.” she survived because she grew up

[helenofblackthorns]

you ever think about how ending of tid is so bitter-sweet because Jem is forced to take a step away from the two people he loves most and watch their lives on the sidelines. and how 130 years later he gets saved by someone who would have never existed if they all had not loved each other so so much, and could never have saved Jem if people hadn't loved him just as much. no adaptation will ever be able to capture this btw.

[unluckedtj]

“Twist thy head and watch them fall,”

[gilberttheboy]

I have fallen into the dangerous territory of fixating on minutiae to distract from lack of new content, so here's Lestat wearing a bright green tie and what *looks* like a white carnation. Green carnations, especially worn on the left lapel as he's doing here, became a symbol of queerness popularised by Oscar Wilde.

Something something the equivalent of Lestat wearing plausibly deniable pride merch to meet his bf's family for the first time.

[pastelxcrown]

It's me, I'm "fans"

[tiredandoptimistic]

Small detail, but I think it's really interesting how in the first scene where Alec and Isabelle's dad appears in TMI, Clary's narration always refers to him by his full name (Robert Lightwood) until he speaks up in defense of Isabelle (and by extension Jace), at which point she switches to calling him Robert. It's like he earned that level of comfortability with Clary by showing that, if nothing else, he will stand up to the Inquisitor for his kids.

[nadirising]

KuroFai Olympics 2024, Ancient vs Modern Prompt: European sweetbriar, "I wound to heal" I went through many vampire ideas for this, before I realised I was overcomplicating, and canon already had this exact situation... Fai thinks he always hurts people trying to heal himself, while Kurogane willingly wounds himself for Fai's sake. An arm for a life. (but also the canon arm is ugly so we're automailing that shit uwu)

[moominvalley-state-of-mind]

'let them say fuck' this 'let them swear' that

let them cry

let them sob in the shower

let them soak their friend's sleeve with tears

let them wake up with red eyes

let them laugh cry with their friends over a forgotten inside joke

let them cry while kissing their partner, finally finished with whatever hell they were going through

[sunflower-chai]

“there was a boy called eustace clarence scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” - the voyage of the dawn treader

vs

“his name unfortunately was eustace scrubb, but he wasn’t a bad sort.” - the silver chair

c.s. lewis still making fun of eustace’s name, but at least he can acknowledge his growth lol.

[ken-doll-roy]

'The Vampire Daniel' has a crazy, sexy ring to it. We should be calling him that more often.

[witchlingcirce]

Uhm thinking massive thoughts about how one of the few times Janus ever thought to himself while controlled by Sebastian is when he kicked Alec’s dead body where his parabatai rune would’ve been

[judgeitbyitscover]

Enchanted Forest Chronicles (1985-1995) by Patricia C. Wrede

Cover Art by Tim Hildebrandt*

Scholastic, Point Fantasy series published in 1995-1998**

Dealing with Dragons (1990)

Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.

Searching for Dragons (1992)

Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper, is back--but where is Kazul the dragon? That's what Cimorene is determined to find out.

Luckily--or perhaps not-so-luckily--she's got help: Mendenbar, the not-very-kingly King of the Enchanted Forest, has joined her in her quest. So with the aid of a broken-down magic carpet, a leaky magical sword, and a few buckets of soapy lemon water, they set off across the Enchanted Forest to tackle the dragon-napping and save the King of the Dragons.

Calling All Dragons (1993)

A Princess's work is never done--not even when she becomes a queen!

Princess Cimorene is now Queen Cimorene ... and she's faced with her first queenly crisis -- the Enchanted Forest is threatened with complete destruction!

Those wizards are back -- and they've become very smart. (Sort of.) They've figured out a way to take over the forest once and for all ... and what they have planned isn't pretty.

With a little help from Kazul the dragon king, Morwen the witch, Telemain the magician, two cats, and a blue, flying donkey-rabbit named -- what else? -- Killer, Cimorene might just be able to stop them.

And some people think that being a queen is easy.

Talking to Dragons (1985, revised 1995)

That's what Daystar's mother taught him...and it's a very wise lesson--one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.

But the tricky part is figuring out what he's supposed to do with the magic sword. Where is he supposed to go? And why does everyone he meets seem to know who he is?

It's going to take a particularly hotheaded fire-witch, a very verbose lizard, and a badly behaved baby dragon to help him figure it all out.

And those good manners certainly won't hurt!

*The art for the Point Fantasy covers of Searching for Dragons, Calling All Dragons, and Talking to Dragons is uncredited; however, the style of the dragon in particular is both unique and consistent between the covers.

**as best as I can figure it.

[helenofblackthorns]

I'm constantly thinking about this passage & I need other people to talk about

like "here is someone you already know"????????