maya angelou in a 2010 facebook post / lori preusch - one thousand stories high, 2016 / vintage library card from the public library of toronto / ta-nehisi coates, between the world and me / matilda (1996) / two pictures from “why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming”, a 2018 photo essay with words by neil gaiman & art by chris riddell / caitlin moran, moranthology / istanbul modern library, turkey / tianjin binhai library, china / real biblioteca del monastario de el escorial, spain / jean-paul sartre, the words / lemony snicket, horseradish / ekua holmes - girl - literature, 2015
Chris Riddell
From “The Sleeper and the Spindle” - Neil Gaiman
Chris Riddell
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Hugo Pepper audio book read by me on YouTube. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-YAUq8Aprf/?igshid=1am2i9mkp02ut
Curious about ii.5 and ii.6 in that literary ask thing 😊
Thank you for your asks😊
What is...
…the book you’re most likely to recommend to someone regardless of who it is?
The "Rivers of London" (Peter Grant) series by Ben Aaronovitch!!! So... "Rivers of London" (the first book of the series) would be the book I'd recommend to them. It's such an thrilling story and the characters are wonderful (even tho not all are nice). It has many POC (characters(?)), at least one gay main character, gods of rivers and places, vampires, demons, people who life underneath he city of London..... And MAGIC✨
("Inkheart" or rather "Inkspell" by Cornelia Funke would be the second most likely book I'd recommend - to anyone who loves fantasy. And the reason I'd recommend the second book is just that the second and third book take place in the Inkworld itself and not "just" in our world but with characters from it but all three books of the series are very (!!!) recommendable 💚 other reasons here😊)
…the one you’ve read the most times over?
Surprisingly that's not Harry Potter or "Pirates!" by Celia Rees but "Muddle Earth" by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart.
It's my emotional support story 😉 which is always beside my bed because it helps me when having nightmares, sleeplessness or anxiety attacks ☺️ I have to have read it already about 20 times😅
From this ask game
The Mournful Eye sketchbook. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ekOBsAjuE/?igshid=53azzem1s96n
He reminds me of Mr Spicer (?) from Fergus Crane 😍😍
FOURTEEN PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER
FOURTEEN PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BETTER
I was tagged by @riwaspencer - thank you 😍😍
ONE / name/alias Lilie
TWO / birthday October 18
THREE / zodiac sign Libra
FOUR / height 168 cm (just like Beelzebub's actress😁)
FIVE / hobbies reading, drawing (!!), sometimes writing (when my „muse“ hits me with a brick a new hyperfixation), singing, daydreaming, playing the violin (as soon as it's fixed again)
SIX / favorite colors all colors tbh (as long as their vivid!!), black, gold
SEVEN / favorite books umm...a lot😅 the Inkworld triology, Harry Potter, Muddle Earth (and the other (Paul Stewart/+) Chris Riddell books, Jane Austen, „Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt“ (basically the Russian version of Wizard of Oz), Pirates!…....... (and many more that I can't think of now – a lot of them children books)
EIGHT / last song i listened to According to my phone it’s Makutekahu by Moniker (from Hunt for the Wilderpeople dir. Taika Waititi)
NINE / last film i watched Inkheart (after rereding the books because my 4 year old fanfic had some continuity/plot-wise mistakes😅😅)
TEN / inspiration for muse Music, daydreaming, stories, Tumblr....
ELEVEN / dream job something in the theatre field or writer/illustrator (or musical singer)
TWELVE / meaning behind your url It’s an age-old pseudonym (inspired by „Pirates!“ by Celia Reed which is an amazing book about two badass female pirates that I really have to add to my favorite books😁 - I think @snuffles-groovy-doghouse you agree with that😁
THIRTEEN / top 3 ships Jonathan Brewster/Doctor Einstein (from Arsenic And Old Lace) and um...don't know, it varies – I don't have costant ships – if the story is good then I can enjoy the strangest pairings... currently with Good Omens it's Fileflies (Beelz/Dagon) and from the Inkworld triology it's Baptista/The Black Prince (they're adorable together – I mean the most constant companion of the Black Prince is obv his bear but the second most constant is Baptista – who seems to be around him in almost every scene, who comforts him, doesn't leave his side in times of hardship💕💕)
FOURTEEN / lipstick or chapstick Lipstick - dark red or brown, or dark purple
FIFTEEN / currently reading as mentioned above I'm currently reading the Inkworld series of Cornelia Funke (mostly Inkspell and Inkdeath – who had the idea to change the name „Tintenblut“ to Inkspell???? And why??? The words „Herz, Blut, Tod“/“Heart, Blood, Death“ are important...whatever), and I always have some „comfort“ books beside my bed for when I can't sleep (at the moment it's Muddle Earth by Chris Riddell, if I remember it correctly) and about a dozen or more open tabs on AO3 (including @meiilan 's latest Good Omens fanfic „The case of the missing angel“ ( that I still have to read😅🙈)
I tag: @meiilan , @phantomxqueen3 , @the--queen-of-hell , @natthemess , @once-a-polecat , @edieholmes (I mean I already know you but still😁), @meltingpenguins , @hasturlavista , @stationary-goblin , @patricianandclerk , @severeforever , @snapeingturtle and whoever wants to do this
Beedle the Bard tour.
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Morning drawing.
Listening to Stranger In The Alps by Phoebe Bridgers on my headphones on a flight to Italy and drawing in my sketchbook then looking out of the window and seeing the actual Alps below.
National Youth Orchestra Unleashed at the Festival Hall, London.
She looks stunning😍
Monster hug
Blue Fairy.
Beautiful😍
Grammar’s little helpers.
I wish we had something like this in school :D