#the wrinkle in time quintet

[buttercuparry]

I truly cannot thank you all enough for helping my friend Siraj get away to relative safety!

The $10k CAD would help funding his family's immediate needs in the new camp, and not to forget would help with the transportation costs as well. This means that the fundraiser which was initially set up to help Siraj rebuild his family home, would suffer as it is being dipped into, to survive through the genocide.

Remember, that the cost of living is exorbitantly high in Gaza right now! From food prices to medicines to feminine hygiene products, everything costs 10 times more than it initially did. There is also a high commission rate charged during every transaction, that is to say by the end of it all there would be very little left with Siraj that he can invest in rebuilding his house.

Siraj's next short term goal is hence to get to $20000 CAD . He wants to invest the whole of it in securing basic building materials for his house. We are approximately $9444 away from the next goal! Please donate to his and boost his fundraiser!!

There are 2 raffles going on for Siraj at this moment:

One is conducted by @sheplaysbassdotmp3 and it is a digital art raffle you can participate in for only $10 dollars

The other raffle is being conducted by @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness and it is for the Collector's Edition of the Time Quintet

Please remember that when we chant Free Palestine it doesn't only mean the destruction of the occupying entity. It doesn't only mean the destruction of the empire (s) that are funding the said entity, but it also means rebuilding Palestine. And it is Palestinians who are going to rebuild their home, their country. So please do not overlook Siraj now! Do not overlook his determination to rebuild his home that was bombed in this genocide after it was finally finished after 10 long years of hardwork!

Keep supporting him!! Keep donating and boosting!

Tagging for reach under the cut

Please forgive me for disturbing again

@meaganfoster @briarhips

@mazzikah @mahoushojoe

@rhubarbspring @pcktknife

@transmutationisms @sawasawako

@feluka @terroristiraqi

@irhabiya @wellwaterhysteria

@deepspaceboytoy @junglejim4322

@kibumkim @neechees

@mangocheesecakes @kyra45-helping-others

@marnota @tortiefrancis

@toiletpotato @fromjannah

@omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid

@criptochecca @aristotels

@komsomolk @riding-with-the-wild-hunt

@heritageposts @ot3

@amygdalae @ankle-beez

@communistchilchuck @dykesbat

@watermotif @stuckinapril

@mavigator @lacecap

@socalgal @chilewithcarnage

@ghelgheli @northgazaupdates

@dualdeixis

[esotericreason]

A Wrinkle in Time, anyone? Yes, I'm 16. Yes, I'm reading books for children.

[canniefish]

the mrses, for multifandom doodle

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

A Wrinkle in Time deserves an anime adaptation as it would allow them to avoid a lot of the limitations of live action filmmaking that previous adaptations struggled with. The visuals could be as good as PMMM or a Shinkai film.

[iviarellereads]

The Time Quintet Home Post

There aren't a lot of books written before the current century that I still really hold dear. Obviously, the Wheel of Time is up there. The Neverending Story was there as well, though I'd grown less familiar with it over the years. Not all, but some of Madeleine L'Engle's work was available at my local library, and it Spoke To Me in a way few other books did when I needed it most.

Though the series started in 1962, and the final book is actually the end of a second-generation series as well, the Time Quintet's first four books were extremely my middle school shit in the 1990s. They're coming-of-age stories, with fantasy, and science fiction, and science, and God, but not the CS Lewis kind of God, like, this one's more of a force of truly universal love and less of a preachy lion. (L'Engle was a Christian Universalist, and made no secret of her beliefs in her stories.)

I'm not going to be able to do a very good job of selling this one to a new reader. Partly, this series gets WEIRD in a delightful and occasionally horrific way. Partly, it's too close to my heart to push it away far enough to be objective. I can't even guarantee that if you've liked the other books I've covered, you'll enjoy this one. But, I'd be real honoured if you'd give it a try.

(Necessary caveat: I've still never read the fifth book in the quintet. See above: the point about it being second-gen. I read one of the second-gen books and it sat with me in my heart deeply, but I never got as far as An Acceptable Time because my library never had it, and it never felt like a high priority to finish anything about the series after Many Waters. So, we'll see if I add it to this post when I get closer to it.)

A Wrinkle In Time 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

A Wind in the Door 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

A Swiftly Tilting Planet 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

Many Waters

[the-last-kenobi]

the wrinkle in time series (time quintet) should only appear on the screen as a tv series that is also somehow directed by Greta Gerwig and only people who have read the books know this

[ladysparrow01]

The Time Quintet is one of the strangest sets of books I've ever read. Everytime I think I've figured out where this story is going, it takes the sharpest turn imaginable and leaves me scrambling to catch up.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Madeleine L’Engle: and these space aliens quote the New Testament, naturally

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

You know who should direct the next version of A Wrinkle in Time? Taika Waititi. Not only does he have the right creative sensibilities to adapt a story so 1960s-weird, but an Indigenous creator could make the Camazotz plotline even more poignantly disturbing.

[the-sample-from-the-petri-dish]

Throwback to that time my friend lied about reading a wrinkle in time and when I asked him who his favorite character was he panicked and said “the wrinkle”

[cultivating-wildflowers]

I have officially entered my "owns multiple copies of the same book" era

[none-ofthisnonsense]

Okay time to get to the REAL debate

(there is a right answer)

[boudicca]

help siraj rebuild! 🏡

while it's extremely important to help palestinians escape the current conditions in gaza, we have to do it with faith that the people of palestine will return to their homeland and rebuild. some have already taken up the difficult task of being the first to rebuild. i've had the pleasure of befriending siraj @siraj2024, whose goal is to rebuild his home in a safer location in gaza. his home was destroyed by the idf at the beginning of the war, and the 5 members of his family — including 3 young children — have been forced to relocate over and over. siraj's family recently raised enough money to relocate from the dangerous situation they were in, but for the time being they are still living out of makeshift tents. their current goal is $20 000 CAD for building supplies. i cannot overstate how important it is to help provide this young family with a cool and stable shelter; temperatures in gaza are extremely hot in august (around 40°C/100°F) and there is very little potable water available in the strip. with this new home, siraj can keep his sweet children safe now, and, one day soon, provide shelter to his extended family when they make their return.

siraj and his family are currently hoping to raise $20 000 CAD for basic building materials for an initial building, which will eventually be extended into a real house and home. even a small donation will go a long way toward helping.

the family's fundraiser has been vetted by @el-shab-hussein (x) and @nabulsi (x), among others.

there are currently two raffles going on through which you can support siraj — one for a collector's edition of madeleine l'engle's wrinkle in time quintet and one for a custom art commission!

[iviarellereads]

A Wrinkle In Time, Chapter 12 - The Foolish and the Weak

(THIS PROJECT IS SPOILER FREE! No spoilers past the chapter you click on. Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For the link index for the Time Quintet, read this one! Like what you see? Send me a Ko-Fi.)

In which sometimes you can go home again.

The three Mrs aren't quite as they were when Meg last saw them, and shortly it comes about that they aren't fully materialized, but they're here because they were called. Meg says her father left Charles on Camazotz, and Mrs Whatsit asks coldly what they're supposed to do about it. Meg pleads with her to save her brother, but Mrs Whatsit says they can't do anything on Camazotz. Meg asks if they mean for Charles to be trapped there forever, and Mrs Whatsit asks if she said that, but it's not their way to act themselves.(1)

Mr. Murry interrupts to bow to the Mrs, and Mrs Whatsit requests an introduction. Meg impatiently does the bare minimum of formalities. Mr. Murry says he'd like to learn enough about tessering to go back to Camazotz. Mrs Which says, even knowing he can't succeed? He says he has nothing left if he doesn't try. When Mrs Whatsit says he can't go, Calvin offers, but she forbids him, as well.

There was a long silence. All the soft rays filtering into the great hall seemed to concentrate on Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and the faint light that must be Mrs Which. No one spoke. One of the beasts moved a tendril slowly back and forth across the stone tabletop. At last Meg could stand it no longer and she cried out despairingly, “Then what are you going to do? Are you just going to throw Charles away?” Mrs Which’s voice rolled formidably across the hall. “Ssilencce, cchilldd!”

Silence, however, is not one of Meg's virtues. She cries that she can't go. Mrs Which asks if anyone asked Meg to go, and she starts crying-crying, having a full tantrum on Aunt Beast, who tolerates it. Sobbing, Meg says she'll go, but Mrs Whatsit says they don't want her to go unwillingly, or without understanding.

Suddenly, Meg's tears stop, and she says she does understand. She feels tired, and peaceful, but no longer cold. She even looks at her father and feels no anger, only love and pride.(2) Mrs Which asks what she understands, and Meg says, she knows it has to be her, because she's the closest to Charles.

Mr. Murry, however, will not allow Meg to go into this danger alone, especially not after being so injured by the darkness. Calvin says he needs to go, because he's only on this adventure to take care of Meg and Charles. Aunt Beast offers to go as well, but Mrs Whatsit cuts her off before she finishes saying it. More argument, more accusations of the Mrs being in league with IT. Mrs Whatsit explains that life is a little like a sonnet: there are rules, and defined limits, but there's also so much freedom within those restrictions. They don't know the absolute future, but they can act within the rules.

Meg says she'd like to go and get it over with, and Mrs Which agrees that it's time. Meg thanks the beasts, and AB in particular. She starts to say Calvin's name, but he rushes in and kisses her before she can even finish, but turns away before he can see how happy it made her.(3) To her father, Meg apologizes, because she wanted him to do everything and make it so her way was easy. He says that's what he wanted to do, what any parent wants for their children.(4) He tries again to go in her stead, but is again shut down.(5) Instead, he tells her not to be afraid of being afraid. She starts to give him a message for her mother, but stops and says she'll say it herself after.

This time, the Mrs' gifts are not things Meg can touch with her hands at all. Mrs Whatsit gives her love, Mrs Who gives 1 Corinthians 1:25-28(6) in hopes that Meg will understand it when the time comes, as she understood the tesseract. Mrs Which pulls Meg through the tesseract, and as she stands on a hill on Camazotz, she gives Meg her gift: the knowledge that Meg has something IT doesn't, but she'll have to find it for herself.

Meg walks through Camazotz again, alone, toward the domed building, wondering what she has that IT doesn't. She remembers what her father said, about how IT isn't used to being resisted. She keeps in mind that she's going to save her brother. Soon, she's in front of the domed building, and then suddenly within.

Charles is there. When Meg thinks about what she might have that IT doesn't, he tells her the answer is nothing. He says it's nice to have her back, that Mrs Whatsit is a friend of IT, and tries to take her over again. She says he's lying, about there being nothing and about Mrs Whatsit. He says Mrs Whatsit hates Meg, but that's where IT fails. Meg remembers that Mrs Whatsit loves her, unconditionally, and love is what Meg has that IT hasn't.

Meg stands there, and she thinks her love at Charles, so hard that it calls him back to her. He runs into her arms, and immediately, she feels herself swept away, tessered back out. She, and Charles, and Calvin and Mr. Murry are all back home, in the vegetable garden. Dennys and Sandy come out to call Meg and Charles in for bedtime, and Mr. Murry is off like a rocket across the lawn to hug them too. Soon, everyone is in a hug pile, even Calvin.

Meg knew all at once that Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which must be near, because all through her she felt a flooding of joy and of love that was even greater and deeper than the joy and love which were already there. She stopped laughing and listened, and Charles listened, too. “Hush.” Then there was a whirring, and Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which were standing in front of them, and the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands. Mrs Whatsit said breathlessly, “Oh, my darlings, I’m sorry we don’t have time to say goodbye to you properly. You see, we have to—” But they never learned what it was that Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which had to do, for there was a gust of wind, and they were gone.(7)

=====

(1) Some people have the ability to go out and risk themselves and march in protests and join sit-ins, but not everyone has the endurance or the resources. Some of us sit in the back, cooking and mending and caring for those who need to fall back before going back out there. We need all sorts working together to accomplish the greatest of goals. (2) I don't know how this would've been better done but I know it feels far too quick and convenient. (3) Less than ideal circumstances but I'll refrain from complaint about potential teen age gaps and consent. (4) Pretty sure Calvin's mom proves otherwise but sure, it's what parents SHOULD want to do for their children. (5) We're spending this much time on the same argument and none on how Meg came around to the right side so fast? Sure Jan dot gif. (6) The verse is about how God's foolishness and weakness are still superior to the best of humanity, but God made the foolish and the weak to shame the wise and the strong, and God chose the "despised things of the world" to humble those who would make themselves out to be great. She carefully leaves off the verses that finish the section: that this choice was made so that no one would be able to boast in God's presence, and it's those choices that make everyone children of God. I go back and forth on whether it's with the intention of making the verse feel less Christian-God-ish, or if L'Engle intended the rest by inference. (7) This whole final chapter has no room to breathe at all, but this is the perfect moment to leave it off, I think.

[earthtooz]

thinking about jing yuan and everything he's endured in his long life is so upsetting... but what's even more of a knife to the heart is thinking about how dependent he could get with a partner that's been with him through it all.

from the high-cloud quintet to the current where it's only him still unchanged. he's had to watch his loved ones suffer and change whilst he has stayed stagnant, forced to live as an unmoving boulder that can still recount the days of its formation like it was yesterday. as the waves come and sweep the surrounding sediment away to wash up new ones to the shore, there is only one constant in his life.

you're here, you're beside him still, and if he ever wakes up without you there, he might turn the luofu upside down with the urgency of a divine being wrecked with rage.

as he walks with you through bustling markets, revitalised streets, and even abandoned ones that were once full of life, he's subtly reminded of all the years you have spent together.

in each 'i love you', there has been growth since the last. a new sense of maturity as metaphorical battle scars and wrinkles manifest over time, but jing yuan wants to witness them all.

people may question just how it is possible that the tides of life have not caused you to drift apart. maybe because you have always been someone jing yuan refused to let go, clinging to your form from night to day as a new sun rises, willingly staying with him through all the growing pains. and for long-lives like you and him, there are bound to be countless growing pains.

jing yuan is centuries old now, and although growing pains are a mere dull ache of the past, there are moments that they are revived, hitting him with the force of a speeding starskiff. yet, as if you had shared hearts, you grieve with him, welcoming him into a close and warm embrace.

in moments like these, he's reminded of all the years you have left and he hopes you choose to spend all of them with him.

-- unedited

[skyerana]

The nightmares from the red eyed face kept me from reading the rest of the series 😬

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Top: 1962 Ariel Books first edition dust jacket cover art by Ellen Raskin

Bottom: 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf mass market paperback cover art by Richard Bober

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. “Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract”. Meg’s father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?

When I first decided to post the cover of A Wrinkle in Time, I knew I would be posting the nightmare fuel of the 1976 edition I plucked off my mom's shelf as an unsuspecting kid. It turns out that I'm not the only person interested in knowing who made the red eyed face that haunted so many childhood dreams. The answer (Richard Bober) was a lot more difficult to find than you'd expect of such a popular book.

But then I saw the original and loved it and knew not including it too would be a disservice to Ellen Raskin