#famous five

[geese-in-a-frock-coat]

I'm working on something about the inadvertent queerness of Enid Blyton's works. So if you have absolutely anything to say on this matter, up to and including:

the transess of George Kirrin

Bill unorthodox gender presentation

Bill and Clarissa

The lesbian undertones in both Malory towers and St Clares

Adaptations adding/ removing queerness

anything else

Please, please, please talk to me about this in any way shape or form. I would love to hear anything you have to say.

[singaroundelay]

“Colin, you better have a damn good reason for showing up at 7 am.”

“Why, you got someone here?”

“Of course not.”

Meanwhile, the not-someone upstairs…

Not saying this would have been a better ending to S3 — but I’m not not saying it.

[bisexualmultifandommess]

I always find it funny that growing up I was a lot like George from The Famous Five because I refused to wear dresses, hated being called a girl and constantly tried to do what my older brother did but when I read the books my favourite character was Anne who is the complete opposite of me.

[alwaystuesday]

Five Start Armageddon

This week’s prompt in the GO Reference Library study club was the Them. And this immediately popped into my head! I loved the Famous Five as a kid, and Eileen Soper, who illustrated them, made such lovely art.

Edit: This is now available as a print on my InPrnt store - currently with 25% off!

[justswimming26]

why I think George Kirrin is trans

The famous five were my favourite book series as a child and one thing that has always stuck out to me is George.(his perfered name).

He always wanted to be called that, wore boy clothes, cut his hair short and acted a lot like a boy. I think if it was something that was supposed to be seen as a form of rebellion it would have slowly died down though out the series.

George is in my opinion at the very least extremely trans coded.

This is really interessting considerd that the first books were published in the fourties in a time were being lgbtq+ was illegal.

[homohomohoe]

am i considering spending $70 on all 21 volumes of a childrens book series just so i can prove one of the characters was trans? am i that petty? the answer is yes

[sarztomo]

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[atac-agent]

Can someone like pls recommend me a good Y/A Dystopian Trilogy (BOOKS)?

Before ya'll go recommending, here's all the series (IN ENGLISH) I have already read:

(I am quadra-lingual — multilingual you could say ig aah Asian, but I read books in only 2 languages. And no English is NOT my first language, but I am more fluent in English than any other language😭😭)

Harry Potter

Riordanverse

Grishaverse

Hunger Games

Divergent

Lord of the Rings

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

Twilight Saga (don't kill me 😭😭)

Hardy Boys (Like all ... casefiles, undercover brothers, originals, etc etc)

Secret Seven (don't remember a single thing cz i read it like ages ago 💀💀)

Famous Five (same story as Secret Seven)

(Does Sherlock count?)

(Does the Robert Langdon books count?) (so as to speak: books by Dan Brown)

HOLY SHIT–

I have read only these many series? What have I even been doing all these time? 😭

(totally not reading fanfics)

[sutosid]

Love this new adaptation of my favourite children book famous five

[veggiefritterz]

george kirrin is transgender and also who made me go Oh. That's Me

[tis-i-german-potato]

Are audio/radio dramas for children not a common thing in other countries??????

I spent 90% of my childhood listening to audio dramas of Die fünf Freunde(Famous five), Hanni & Nanni (St. Clare's), TKKG and many more while playing with Legos or drawing or whatever.

What did all of you do if radio dramas aren't as widespread???? Sit in silence?????

A N D apparently you're allowed to just....make stories up for radio dramas???

Hanni & Nanni originally only consists of 6 books by Enid Blyton and 2 by Pamela Cox.

Do you know how many audio dramas there are in Germany????

76 episodes.

There are 22 Famous five books.

There are 157 audio dramas.

Are you telling me the rest of the world did not grow up listening to these adventures???? Y'all were robbed.

[perplexingluciddreams]

I read some more of my book in bed with my book light. It is the second Famous Five book.

It is just like I used to do almost every night when I was younger!! Lie in bed, all of me under the covers and use my clip-on book light or a torch to read 😄!

Sometimes I would get so sucked in to the story that I would finish a whole book! I would be yawning every other second by the end, usually. This time I had to really stop myself at the end of a chapter - not even let myself read the title of the next chapter! It is so easy to think "one more chapter, just one more!".

Anyway, bed time now. It feels so nice to do this just how I used to for years and years. It brings me so much comfort and makes me feel so safe, in a familiar world of a familiar book with familiar characters. And the familiar, comforting way of snuggling down in my bed and diving headfirst into a book by the light of a torch.

[aew-kun-age-regression]

Forgots how much I used to love these books!!! I use to have dem all!!! Famous five wanna gets them agains- theymre lots tho so maybe gets on kindle (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦;⁠)⁠ゞ

[astraeajackson]

Famous five stan in the wild holy cow

I had the biggest crush on Julian

OMG YOU READ IT TOO?!

i used to ship george and dick but then i was like wait no they're cousins nuh uh😭😭

[hobbitinthetardis]

seven little australians by ethel turner is a truly beautiful novel. i have read it time and time again and, now i've bought the audiobook, just finished listening to it for the 100th time.

it kind of breaks my heart that, i assume, this beautiful piece of literature is limited to australian readers so i'm coming on here to just recommend it to the broader population. you do not have to be australian to read this book.

if you like anne of green gables or the secret seven/famous five or little women i think you'll like this too. For me at least, they kinda have similar vibes?

ANYWAY read australian literature. there are some truly gorgeous masterpieces that have come out of this country. don't limit yourself to primarily american and british literature which is what i often find myself doing.

[undead-in-space]

Hab dieses alte edit gefunden und dachte, why not ich poste das hier einfach mal