#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!

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[vaguecore]

The Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle, art by Peter Sís

[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.

[chai-en-kaadhale]

THEYRE TESSERING THEYRE TESSERING

[esotericreason]

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

[afisho]

the mrses, for multifandom doodle

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[moth-sothoth]

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”

[chai-en-kaadhale]

sometimes you remember the childhood book series that no one ever talks about and feel emotions

[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!

[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.

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