#wizardology

[staticpine]

I think the Ology book series could def be cannonical to Gravity Falls and vice versa (assuming that the Ology books take place in the same cannon, which they do in my heart of hearts)

Im back deep DEEP in a GF interest yet again and i finally got my hands on the 3rd Journal and even The Book Of Bill (which i will read after my first read through of J3) and it reads out EXACTLY like someone was dropped into the ology world with no knowledge of ology books. Ford is a wizard(ologist) with no manual!

Imagine Dipper and Mabel growing up with the ology books like dragonology and egyptology and all that - plenty in them for both of their interests! And THEN they move to gravity falls. Hell! Could be a background reason of why theyre able to yes-and everything so well!

I dunno, my coffee hasnt kicked in yet and im bouncing off the walls already

[picturebookshelf]

A few of my favourite illustrated books that I posted over 2023!

[gracedreems]

Found this in the wizardology handbook and it tickled me

[tigrikorn]

I fleshed out the drawing a bit:

[ambassadortotrilliusprime]

Okay okay fair.... But i had it's companion.

Wizardology.

[lee-hakhyun]

missing the dragonology book.... it can't be translated well into an online format... i will find a way to read you again

[saturnniidae]

DEYA DEYA DEYA. YOU KNOW THE SAMPLES OF LIKE THE “DRAGON SCALES” AND THE “DRAGON DUSK” IN THE DRAGONOLOGY BOOK??? WOULD YOU EVER JUST. TRACE YOUR FINGERS OVER THEM FOR HOURS. I WAS OBSESSED WITH IT. IT WAS MY LIFE BSJSJSKS

YESSS. ALL THE LIKE TEXTURED/INTERACFIVE PAGES SCALE WERE MY FAVORITE. RUNNING MY HANDS OVER YHEM WAS SO AMAZING AND I WOULD ALSO JUST SPEND SO LONG DOING THAT OR GOING THROUGH THE BOOK AND JUST ADMIRING THE PRETTY ART SINCE I COULD BARELY READ (DYSLEXIA) BUT I REMEMBER I WORKED SO HARD TO REMEMBER RUNES SO I COULD WRITE MY DRAGON PLUSHIES' NAMES ON THE LIKE CARDBOARD BOX HOUSES ID MAKE THEM IT WAS ALL ID THINK ABT LIKE ID GO TO SCHOOL AND COME HOME AND IMMEDIATELY RESUME LOOKING THROUGH THE BOOK AND PLAYING W MY DRAGONS

[starcunts]

11:11 I wish for someone to send me MONEY

[picturebookshelf]

Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin (2005)

Text: Dugald Steer -- Art: Anne Yvonne Gilbert, John Howe, Tomislav Tomic & Helen Ward

[milfygerard]

well this peer-reviewed witch thanks you

o7 happy to help. as above or whatever

[cursedauxiliary]

honestly out of the mystical fairy tale supernatural creatures I so so so desperately want/ed mermaids to be real

[microwavedman]

Anyways yeah i would like if i had those

I need all of though ologies books are you fucking KIDDING me i need them NOW

[mousefluff]

[lycorogue]

I'm talking with a friend about Dracula Daily and how neat it is to revive a literary classic like that. How it was able to get published with its new chronological narrative as opposed to the original overlapping timelines.

But we both thought it would be cool if we somehow had a Dracula that included Jonathan's entries in shorthand with Mina's translation next to it.

Then I remembered the -ology books I read in the early 00s (I think... may have been late 90s).

For those who don't know, these were a series of childrens books that presented the fantastical or mythological as "factual" by designing the books like field guides or lost journals.

Their prominent series was Dragonology which had its own spin-offs. There was also Wizardology and Egyptology (which focused on the Egyptian pantheon being real) and Mythology (which was the same thing, but for Greek gods) and Monsterology, etc. Apparently there's 17 books in total in the series! I fell off at about 7!

Point being, these were awesome, interactive, fun books.

And I kind of want a Dracula stylized like them.

I want pages where it looks like Jonathan's original journal entries - written in the shorthand - are secured to scrapbook pages, with Mina's typed up translation nestled next to them. Similar to how Shakespearean plays have the original text to the left and then a modern translation on the right.

I want pages that look like Mina's and Lucy's letters back and forth to each other - printed with different handwriting fonts - are on corresponding pages. Maybe with the torn open envelopes tucked behind the letters.

I want Mina's transcriptions of John's audio recordings.

I want the telegrams being sent by Quincey or Helsing.

I want the actual newspaper clipping about the Demeter.

I want the receipts from the shipping company moving Dracula to Carfax.

I want the visual storytelling of all of these different bits of media compiled like a giant tome of a scrapbook.

I'd also love maps! Maps showcasing the route Jonathan took to and from Transylvania as well as the doomed route of the Demeter. I want a map of England with the various named locations showcased. I want a map of Whitby. I want a map of the interior of Dracula's castle.

So on and so forth.

Anyone know if this is already a thing now that Dracula is in the public domain? Anyone know of an existing shorthand translation of Jonathan's journal entries? Any graphic designers out there feeling where I'm going with this and want to team up to manifest it????

[ghouljams]

I always get so interested by your discussions about the Greek Gods. I was always that kid more obsessed with dragons and monsters over gods and goddesses - like the whole "as a child you were either into the dragonology books, the egyptology books or the wizardology books - I was firmly in camp dragonolofy while my bestie was into egyptology.

I could probably name dozens of Greek monsters, but when it comes to the Gods and Goddesses? Nah, I'm pretty clueless, so I'm always very interested in everything you have to say about them. Every time I've seen something about them they all just seem to be complete assholes, so I could honestly care less about them, but your version of them that fleshes them out is honestly much more interesting.

I was absolutely obsessed with greek and norse mythology as a kid. Read every book of myths I could get my hands on because I loved the way the gods could be clearly wrong and experience semi-consequences (in norse myths at least, more greek gods never get punished for anything).

In college when I'd get really drunk at parties I would just start re-telling greek myths to people around me and slowly gathering a crowd. The human urge to listen to tell stories. People would come up to me and be ask if I was going to have a story time it was great. I loved telling norse myths because most people hadn't heard them before, but sometimes someone would ask about a greek god and it was like the floodgates being opened lol

I was actually really interested in "modern retellings" of greek myths the first part of 2024 and ended getting really frustrated because a lot of them feel like they'd be better served as original fiction than saying "oh no this is about hades and persephone" especially when so much of it actually does a really bad job re-imagining the gods and the story. I dnf-ed Neon Gods because it was pissing me off so bad. Like the political structure was more interesting than the "romance" and I was just... bored.

Anyway re-telling greek myths is one of my favorite things to do because they're so interesting to play with if you know the players and the story well.