#larklight trilogy

[schistostegapennata]

Please tell me someone on here read the Larklight trilogy growing up! I feel like whenever I mention it to people, no one seems to have come across it, so then I have to start explaining like "...well, it's set in the Victorian era, but in space. And there are hyperintelligent albino spiders, badass blue lizard people who ride moths and have a matriarchal society, a race of pandimensional women who can switch from one body to another and are responsible for making galaxies, Uranus is inhabited by mermaid people, there's a disease that causes people in a Martian colony to turn into trees, a Christmas pudding parasite, and the main character's father is an extremely clueless and attractive ichthyologist who studies space fish and writes obscure books on them. Also a motley crew of extremely moralistic pirates fly around space on their pirate ship after having escaped from being studied by the Royal Xenological Institute."

And I think it's really a shame, because this was such a formative part of my childhood/young-adulthood and it was my first introduction to steampunk, which I quickly became obsessed with. They are hilarious and also the illustrations are gorgeous

[tiptapricot]

Happy 1000 followers! That's definitely a number worth celebrating :D. Here are some asks for your Ask Game; don't worry about answering them all, these are just some questions I thought of, free free to answer whichever ones you want to. :3

What got you into writing?

Is there any books or piece of media that inspired your style of writing, or did it develop in some other way?

What character(s) do you enjoy writing the most and why?

Are there any character(s) or fandom(s) you love that you'd love to write for but never have?

Are there any hobbies or interests you have that you find leak into and/or influence your stories?

When did you embrace the ways of the apricot? (That is to say, when and why did you commit to the bit and start creating your marvellous collection of apricot icons?).

Hope you're doing well :). Enjoy your fame, my friend! 🧡🧡🧡

I will answer 🔥 ☠️ ALL OF THEM 🎸🔥 *sick riff*

What got you into writing?

I don’t really remember a specific point of Getting Into It, because (and this def plays a part) my dad is a writer! He’s written for some video games and has some short stories published, so I grew up with him reading me books and writing his own manuscripts/engaging us in that way. He never like Guided me into writing but it was always a natural presence and I was exposed to a lot of stories early on.

We did nanowrimo in elementary school, and I also made comics when I was younger that were my own narratives and things, and I did a few small stories for other classes along the way, but when I started Really doing it more intentionally was when I got into fic writing. Which… what got me into that was I think like… danganronpa self insert things? That’s my ultimate lost fic. I wrote it in the notes app in middle school and it was super long and then I hated it and deleted it all and I’m SO MAD ABOUT IT because IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY TO LOOK BACK ON NOW! It was kind of just a natural progression though I guess? When I started reading fic more and being online more and getting into more media, I wanted to create for it since I’d already been doing that sort of thing (most comics I did were inspired by superhero shows I watched or DND games I played) so I stated posting. And then I did more original stories for school and started making ocs and it just sorta settled into being part of what I do.

Is there any books or piece of media that inspired your style of writing, or did it develop in some other way?

None consciously? And I can’t really trace my style to anything in specific, but there’s def got to be some input from the books I grew up on. Stuff like series of unfortunate events, larklight, the leviathan trilogy, the keys to the kingdom series, the Roman mysteries series, the Lockwood and co series, Harry Potter to an extent, etc. all were things that I was exposed to growing up. I don’t think I’ve really picked up the quippy narration a lot of those have, but I know they shaped some ideas of description and imagery I do now, at least in inspo. But I guess on a whole it just sort of developed naturally? I really don’t have a very conscious writing process half the time 😭

What character(s) do you enjoy writing the most and why?

At the moment and also in general I like characters that have strong voices. They make the prose pop for me, make it easy to find fun descriptions and forms of speech. Bill and Ted and Steven Grant definitely come to mind immediately as like. When I get to write them stuff just goes fast because I know how they’d talk and narrate and react and it feels like something very solid to shape and work with. So accents? I guess? But on a larger sense of just characters I Like Writing… MK system are all very fun and I really enjoy getting to explore their dynamics and reactions. If I ever get my hands on Din Djarin for a fic (finally) I think I’ll have a good time with him, but idk. I think it’s very dependent on the interests I’m into at the time, as those will be the characters I’m the most excited to engage with and create for, so it varies!

Are there any character(s) or fandom(s) you love that you'd love to write for but never have?

THE ZETA PROJECTTTT!!! AND ALSO MORE OF LEGION 2006 ANDDD THE DCAU ANDDDD MORE LUKE N DIN N ORIGINAL TRILOGY CAST AND THE DAREDEVIL NETFLIX CAST AND MISS FISHERS MURDER MYSTERIES AND TIGER AND BUNNY AND— Ahem. Yes there are and they torment me every day wanting to get to create for them but having finite brain space and time space makes writing everything all the time… a bit hard. I kind of want to do a like niche interest power hour week or somth where I take fandoms I haven’t written for and make a small piece for them—WOLF 359 ALSO GOOD GOD!!!!!!!! But I don’t know when that will be.

Are there any hobbies or interests you have that you find leak into and/or influence your stories?

Not generally, but whenever I’m writing a character as having an interest in something or really liking something in depth it often has to be something I’m also into for me to be able to do research on it. This can mean I sometimes have to find middle grounds between what a character might find fascinating and what I find fascinating, so sometimes my interests are directly or indirectly in stories. Lost media I know has made it in a few times, and so has sci fi and superheroes and action figures. I don’t really have a whole ton of hobbies that are easy to slot in or draw from on a large scale otherwise, as niche toy collecting, a love for stickers and earrings and clown paraphernalia, and performing arts are only applicable under certain circumstances.

INTERESTS is a whole diff thing. My monster/inhuman character love, my love for certain genres or aesthetics, etc. influences ALLLLL of my OCs and a lot of my fics. Stuff that focuses on loving the strange, or the inanimate, or the weird crossover between the two is in a lot of my work (and will be in more haha) but definitely colors the types of stories I want to do, and the original content I end up making outside of fic.

When did you embrace the ways of the apricot? (That is to say, when and why did you commit to the bit and start creating your marvellous collection of apricot icons?).

THIS ACTUALLY HAS DOCUMENTABLE HISTORY!! Ok so.

The username Tiptapricot was what I came up with when I made my Minecraft account in elementary school. I liked apricots and peaches and plums and stuff (still do) so that was part of it, but I was also into semi-tap dancing (AKA being a young kid with some cheap tap shoes from somewhere and doing performances) so tip-tap and apricot combined and… there we were. It became my standard name on sites when I had to make accounts (bar like animal jam I think because it was maybe made earlier), since it was never taken and it was unique enough to slot in.

I guess as I was maybe making an Instagram account or going into highschool or just… for some reason, my sister @dimidarling wanted to make me a cute icon and, based off my username, drew me a little apricot with a face for one! This created what I now call… Prototip on July 14th, 2019

This icon was very cute and I loved it a lot, but it wasn’t quite the vibe I was wanting for myself, so I ended up getting a PNG of an apricot, slapping it on a blue background from looking up “light blue” on Google, and drawing a little face on it. That became the Default Base Tip as is seen in my icon most places, in December of 2019

FUN FACT you will never unsee after I say it: I think at some point I resized or re-edited the image or something, and I wanted to carry over the original face I had drawn on it, so I ended up cutting it out and pasting it over a face I didn’t like as much, and on the left side of Tip’s face (our right) u can see this tinyyy little black mark showing the edge of the main face cut out because I didn’t get it perfectly covered or aligned. I’m sorry in advance.

ANYWAY! So base Tip was made. I don’t remember the following order of events, but still being in my kpop phase in late 2019 I got Twitter briefly and made a Tiptapricot account there. And having an apricot with a face I thought: wouldn’t it be so funny if I was a gimmick account that pretended to be a real life apricot tweeting? So I did that for like a little bit. And then I went: wouldn’t it make the bit even better if this apricot was appropriately apricot aged? And long story short I changed my age to be a year old, then realized that would probably be bad legally, but when changing it back to my actual birthday, Twitter freaked out and banned me for messing around with my age and not being old enough when I made an account (even though I was at the time) so I got booted off Twitter. (And I’m glad about that can you imagine if I had settled in there instead oh lord) But the seed for apricot jokes was planted!

From there it happened somewhat naturally as a way to either make reaction images for friends online without sending my face, or to change my icon to play along with a funny joke. I made edits for friends in the DC fandom and for jokes we had running about each other going to jail or like “I’m gonna beat you up” or whatever, and joined along with a growing bit of giving me Tip related names, it became something I Did.

Now my Tip folder is 200 images strong and my mascot/sona/little guy is somth I actually care a lot about and have a lot of fondness for as a way to express goofy stuff and emotions in a way that’s simple to draw and feels rly truly me.

And there you have it :-D The Ti(nfodum)p

Ty for the questions Charlie, they were super fun to answer!!

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1000 follower celebration

[themetaphorgirl]

6 and 20 for the unique writing asks!

6. What point of view do you tend to write in? Do all of your pieces use the same POV? Do you have strong opinions on the POV used in novels?

Third person limited!! Third person limited!!

I dabbled in first person in my earliest days of writing in middle school, but I don’t enjoy writing it very much. I’ve written a little bit in second person for specific fics, when I wanted to convey a sense of disassociation in a character. I prefer third person limited because for me it’s the perfect balance of inner thoughts and outer experience. 

I don’t have strong opinions on POV in other fics or novels- I think every writer should write the POV that suits them, and any story can be enjoyable in any POV if it’s written well. 

20. If you were published and had complete control over your covers, what would it look like? Do you have any specific artists that you’d like to illustrate it? Do you like when characters are pictured on covers or do you prefer inanimate objects?

Oh man.

I love really pretty graphic covers with a specific vibe- looking at my shelves, my favorite covers are probably The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert, House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig, and the Rifle Paper Company edition of Alice in Wonderland.

But I also love really well done stylized illustrations- I have an edition of Peter Pan with oil paintings by Scott Gustafson, and the covers of the Larklight trilogy by Phillip Reeve are really cool. 

For my own hypothetical book, I’d want one of those two options, probably. My least favorite style of book cover is the “stock photo of a pretty girl” type.

(also if Maeve did cover art/interior illustrations it would be a dream)

ask me unique writing asks!

[storyweaverofgondor]

Top 5/top 10 books/graphic novels you've read you've enjoyed?

The Neverending Story by Micheal Ende

The Dark Glory War quartet by Micheal A. Stackpole

Where the Earth Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan

Larklight by Phillip Reeve

Peter and the StarCatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Dragonback series by Timothy Zahn

The Gryphon Chronicles by E.G. Foley

The Three Doors trilogy by Emily Rodda

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

[inventor-researcher-chef]

Myrtle’s bathing suit from the Larklight trilogy has such asoue vibes

[thothxv]

See for a moment I did a double-take and thought that TikTok had discovered Philip Reeve's Larklight Trilogy.

...I'm so disappointed

Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart

Tiktok sensation LightLark is the final boss of bad fantasy YA— a failure built on aesthetic boards and tropes, unable to pretend it has a heart

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A full summary with spoilers, analysis, quotes- and so much more on the subject of a book you should never read. This is a long piece. Like ‘Youtube Video Essay’ long.

Lightlark is joyless, a husk beyond parody, a checklist of every Island of Blood and Bone and Glass and Hearts that has come out in the last five years, built and sold on tropes and aesthetic boards. This is a book written by an author who is not a writer. It would fit in on the dregs of an amateur writing site with eerie perfection.

But Lightlark is more than that. You see, Lightlark is… a TikTok book.

EDIT:

Thanks :')

There's now a video version. I heard Tumblr likes video essay long watches on obscure very specific content... may I introduce you to:

I'm not making a dime on this, I have no horses, only like 70 hours of work looking at this mess of a book and I just want to make sure everyone knows how bad it is. Let's be bitter at this multimillionaires flop together.

[jaimustailor]

Books!

I asked on instagram what some of your favourite books were, and have compiled a nice long list of some of the titles and authors. Feel free to come back to this list when you're lost and are looking for a new book.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

After by Anna Todd

The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Just Kids by Patti Smith

A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Kafka On The Shore By Haruki Murakami

Hear The Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A Note of Madness By Tabitha Suzuma

Larklight by Philip Reeve

Curious Minds by John Brockman

The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Stoner by John Williams

The Education of Little Tree by Asa Earl Carter

Small g: A Summer Idyll by Patricia Highsmith

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

How To Be Both by Ali Smith

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

In Cold Blood By Truman Capote

Summer Crossing by Truman Capote

The Outsider by Albert Camus

The Stranger by Albert Camus

His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman

Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault

The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman

I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

The Green Years by AJ Cronin

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

Waiting by Ha Jin

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Songs with Our Eyes Closed by Tyler Kent White

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

[silversong79]

ATTENTION!!!!

Hey everyone - (all 375 of you lol, most of whom I’ve made sure are not porn bots) I really really hate having to do this, but I need some help. (The picture is unrelated, I just really love dogs lol)

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Monica. I’m 21 and autistic and had to drop out my last year of high school because of a combination of an abusive teacher and having to help out at home. For now, I’m still living with my parents and entirely dependent on them for food, clothes etc. Something is very, deeply wrong with my stomach and I don’t have a primary care physician yet to advocate for me if I were to go to the hospital, but I’m pretty much constantly in pain at this point. Not always terrible debilitating pain, but it’s there. 

On top of this I’m still struggling with severe depression and self-destructive tendencies, and I’m one of the more ‘able’ people in my house. My dad works a lot to be able to take care of us (which we still need assistance with but I can yell about the Ontario government later); my mother has a very rare autoimmune disease - it doesn’t even have a name, but it’s something close to lupus - and has to stay in bed most of the time, so most of the time I’m the only one able to drive.

I’m not asking for a ton of money for my family or anything. I don’t have a gofundme or a youcaring or anything like that, just a Ko-Fi and a PayPal. And if you happen to have extra money laying around and feel like donating feel free, but I very much doubt that since pretty much everyone I know is also struggling right now. I can’t work for a salary. But one thing I can do, and I’m damn good at it too, is write. Please, if you can, take time to read through the following menu of what I’d be willing to write and how much, and consider commissioning me for a fic. I’ll be reblogging/posting/linking to some of my writing following this post so you can see what you’d be paying for.

I don’t have a concrete amount I want to make, but a few hundred dollars’ windfall to take care of myself so my parents don’t have to would be a blessing.

FANDOMS:

-Star Wars; Original, Prequels/Clone Wars or TFA; haven’t seen TLJ yet!)

-Marvel MCU or X-Men

-DC Justice League or Young Justice

-Harry Potter

-Teen Wolf

-Supernatural (I haven’t seen later seasons but I’m familiar enough with the world)

-Shadowhunters

-Wynonna Earp

-iZombie

-Bones

-Tolkien-verse (though I might need to brush up a little)

-Larklight Trilogy by Philip Reeve

-Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor

-Trollhunters

RULES

-I can write shipfic of any variety (I’m best at f/f or f/m)

-Self or Reader inserts are totally alright with me! Just as with any other, I’d need to know some things about you as a “character” to write it properly.

-OCs are absolutely welcome, (yours and/or mine) as long as you give me enough character refs to go on! If it involves someone else’s oc, make sure you have their permission for me to write them! (If they’re your really good friend and it’s a surprise that’s okay!)

-Crossovers, AUs and Universe Alterations are welcome too but details must be talked out beforehand!!

-Basic or borderline nsfw is okay - discuss it with me before! But nothing especially graphic or fetish-y

-Genfic is absolutely totally welcome!!

-I’d prefer not to write excessive gore, main/pov character death, graphic self-harm, abortions or miscarriages, child harm/death or on-screen animal death (as I’d like to keep my mental health somewhat intact during the holidays)

-Payment is due after I’ve written and delivered what we agreed on; executive dysfunction and a shit memory are my enemies here, so if I’m taking a long time, please feel free to message me again as long as you’re nice about it!

PRICES

$5 USD/ 500w

$7/ 900w

$12/ 1500w

$20/ 2100w

$25/ 3500w

Anything over that is generally another $3/100w, but feel free to discuss with me! I’m flexible with prices

And that’s everything for now. If you’ve read this far, bless you abundantly and thank you! If you have any other questions or concerns, you can DM me here or email me at finnsky2187@gmail.com

[v-for-vibes]

The larklight trilogy is a good choice for a low tech sci-fi, there is the Gatekeepers series by Anthony Horowitz, and there is the Alex rider series by the same authoe

Hi! If it isn't too much of a bother. I am really desperate to the point I've asked every otp-related or book-related blogs I follow. May I ask if you have any books recommended for a someone who is starting to read novels? I don't care what genre or how long it is. It's just I really need to start reading for academic purposes and of course, for the fun of it. Please ignore this if you are busy. You are one of the best otp blogs on tumblr that I have encountered. Thank you and please stay safe and hydrated.

Hi! I don't have any recommendations unfortunately, but if anyone else has a novel they'd like to share or something, please feel free to help anon!

I appreciate the kind words ❣️

[azelfafagereviews]

Larklight, Starcross, Mothstorm, Phillip Reeve

I am including this short trilogy as one entry since they are a relatively easy read for younger kids. However the books themselves are interesting enough to warrant a read for older audiences. Set in a Victorian era Steampunk Solar System where humans have been exploring for about a hundred years, the Larklight books are about young Art and his sister Myrtle as they adventure through the solar system. Early in the first book they are aided by a young human pirate Jack Havok and his rag-tag team of aliens as they fight off a race of white spiders. In the second book they visit an asteroid spa that has a sinister secret hiding in its hatboxes. In the third they fight off an army of lizard-like people who ride moths (through space!). The world these books create is fun and fantastical, interlaced with Victorian era technology and values. Please give these books a try, they’re an amazingly entertaining ride!

[dividedsingularity]

Stories I like/know

Edit (March 2022) - this list is pretty outdated by now, and doesn’t include a lot of the newer additions - I don’t know when I’ll be able to change that or make a new better one, so it’s best to ask, especially if something’s not on here at all.

Here’s a neat list of things I’m into (in no particular order) + my favourite characters. I’m usually up for a conversation about any of them at any time, but not all of them are fresh in my memory.

Video games:

Minecraft

Minecraft: Story Mode - Lukas and Ivor (haven’t played Season 2 yet)

Monkey Island (all parts except 4) - Murray

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

The Neverhood Chronicles - Willie and Bil

Armikrog

A Hat in Time

Patapon (playing Pata3)

Hiveswap Act 1 (+ the Friendsims and Pesterquest)

Five Nights at Freddy’s (novels included) - Will Afton/Springtrap/Purple Guy

Undertale - Mettaton, Flowey and the skelebros. It’s a weird sort of tie between them

Deltarune (what’s out anyway) - Rouxls Kaard

OneShot - Prophetbot

Henry Stickmin Collection - Reginald Copperbottom

Hollow Knight - Quirrel

Machinarium

Portal (both) - GLaDOS

Just Shapes & Beats - the boss

Inside My Radio

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Cuphead

Animated shows/cartoons:

Wakfu (+ ‘Mini’) - Nox

Dofus: the Treasures of Kerub (+ the film)

Gravity Falls (+ comics) - Bill Cipher

Wander Over Yonder - Commander Peepers

Over the Garden Wall (+ comics)

Hero 108 - Commander Apetrully

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (+ comics and some fanfics) - Discord

Villainous

Hilda - Alfur

Beetlejuice - Beetlejuice

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu - Zane, Garmadon

Danny Phantom

Dan Vs. - Dan

Daria - Mr. Anthony Demartino

Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? - Robot (with the original voice)

Avatar: the Last Airbender (+ comics) - Iroh

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts - Dave

Owl House

ET Excursion (+ Haunted Library comics)

Metal Family - Glam

Daystone

Pink Corruption

Tarboy

My Little Portal

Infinity Train

Mickey Mouse Shorts

Avatar: Legend of Korra - the dynamic duo of Varrick and Zhu Li (maybe)

Steven Universe (+ movie and Future)

The Dragon Prince

Voltron: Legendary Defender (+comics)

Invader Zim (+ comics and movie) - Zim

Moominvalley

Superjail! - the Warden (actually, I don’t exactly like them, but I know them, so they stay)

Tangled: the Series (no, I haven’t seen the film yet) - King Trevor

Moomins

I also like Nergal from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, but he and Grim are the only comparatively good things in the show

Books - series and authors:

Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland

Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel

Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl

John Tolkien - The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (in progress)

Stanisław Lem’s science fiction (in progress)

George Martin - Tuf Voyaging

Clive Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia

Jules Verne’s science fiction - the more known ones, like Around the Moon

Roger Lancelyn Green - King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Adventures of Robin Hood

Philip Reeve - Larklight Trilogy (I haven’t read #3 yet)

John Flanagan - Ranger’s Apprentice, Brotherband Chronicles

I mostly read fantasy and science fiction, as you can probably guess

Ask me if you want to know anything else, I only listed the more memorable part of all the books I’ve read

Comics:

Homestuck (+ some fanfics) - all the Noirs, Scratch, Sollux

Problem Sleuth - GPI

Helvetica

Glitch: Jinn Devodist - so far, obviously, Cadwalader

The Property of Hate - RGB, Time

Ava’s Demon

Shenanigansen’s Live With Yourself and Bluechair

xkcd

PVP Online - Scratch Fury/Kringus, Brent Sienna

Garfield

Dilbert

Jake’s Onions

Pilot

Sarah Andersen’s comics

@zarla-s’ Handplates

Nothing Special

Glacias

Gone with the Blastwave

He Is a Good Boy

Vast Error - White Noise, probably

W.I.T.C.H.

D.Gray-Man - Lero/Rero

Noragami

Other:

Doctor Who (+ Dalek comics) - the Daleks (I’m on series 13, Doctor 13)

Star Wars - C3PO

HLVRAI

Asterix et Obelix movies (animated) - Asterix

The LEGO movie franchise

Mythbusters (what I managed to catch on TV (read: not much))

Most Popular Girls in School - not exactly up to my standards with the crude language, but it is incredibly well done in many other aspects

“Atlantis: The Lost Empire” might be my favourite animated film (I haven’t thought about it extensively, but it’s way up the ranks anyway)

“The Book of Life” - Xibalba (It is another good one)

Aviators (musician)

I know “Hamilton: an American Musical”, “Heathers: The Musical” and “Les Misérables” (2012 film)

Minecraft animation in general, there are some great original series out there I could recommend (like Minequest, The Egg’s Guide or Annoying Villagers)

2D animation fan

I love songs about video games

[kitsnicket]

Have you ever read the larklight trilogy? It really seems like your kinda thing

I haven’t! Never even heard of it until now. It sounds really interesting tho

[thecottageinthedark]

The Larklight trilogy by Philip Reeve! Larklight, Starcross, Mothstorm.

Hey, so I'm searching for this book I read a few years back, but have forgotten the name of, I was wondering if you could help? If this isn't what you do, don't worry. The book was set in space, in around the 1800s, about a boy. He had an older sister, and in the later books it had something to do with giant moths. There was also a bit with these lizards people, who had a matriarchal society, and the sister taught the women about wearing make up? If you can help that would be great.

(2) The first book was named after their house, and I think the mother might have ended up being some being that could create universes? Not sure about that. If you’ve heard of it that would be great, if not don’t worry 

Not a dang clue I’m afraid, can anyone else help?

[legimus-ergo-sumus]

Oh the book you're thinking of (and asked dukeofbookingham about) is Mothstorm by Philip Reeve. It's the third book in the Larklight trilogy and is sadly out of print, but I've been able to find it used and at the library.

Thanks!

Yeah i read it at the library a few years ago

[clarislam]

One year late to responding to the OP, but I read the first two books in the Larklight trilogy when I was younger! It was so fun with all the elements mentioned above, and I loved the pirates especially.

I came across the first two books again recently and have been rereading them - and they're just as fun as they were back when I first read them! Looking for a copy of Mothstorm to read later for sure.

I also credit Larklight with sparking my interest in the steampunk genre. I was later shocked when I realized that the author of Larklight is the same person who wrote Mortal Engines.

Please tell me someone on here read the Larklight trilogy growing up! I feel like whenever I mention it to people, no one seems to have come across it, so then I have to start explaining like "...well, it's set in the Victorian era, but in space. And there are hyperintelligent albino spiders, badass blue lizard people who ride moths and have a matriarchal society, a race of pandimensional women who can switch from one body to another and are responsible for making galaxies, Uranus is inhabited by mermaid people, there's a disease that causes people in a Martian colony to turn into trees, a Christmas pudding parasite, and the main character's father is an extremely clueless and attractive ichthyologist who studies space fish and writes obscure books on them. Also a motley crew of extremely moralistic pirates fly around space on their pirate ship after having escaped from being studied by the Royal Xenological Institute."

And I think it's really a shame, because this was such a formative part of my childhood/young-adulthood and it was my first introduction to steampunk, which I quickly became obsessed with. They are hilarious and also the illustrations are gorgeous