Pardon, but your tie is not symmetrical.

I think we as a fandom need more weird quizzes. So I made us one: Let me assign you an Inkword scene that makes me want to lie down <3

here’s the first one btw

Mo fighting off Basta & Capricorn as Dustfinger and Meggie just sat there on the floor

Oh, now those are good vibes. Your vibes are pleasant. Cozy. You know what else was pleasant and cozy? The night the Folchart family spent reading books together as the autumn wind shook their little house. Too bad Mo had to go and Do That. Now. I've said it many times, but I'll say it again: Mo's magical voice deciding to activate during THAT particular moment in the story was some phenomenally bad luck for everyone involved. I'm sure there must have been more scenes involving Dustfinger hanging out with the Black Prince or Roxane or literally anyone other than Capricorn and Basta about to kick his ass. Or maybe not. We know what Fenoglio's like sometimes. Anyway, that entire scene has been living rent-free in my head since I first read it: Basta just dropping Dustfinger on the carpet next to baby Meggie. Dustfinger just staying there. Mo picking up Basta's sword like that's a normal thing to do for a nerdy book dad and pushing Capricorn and Basta out the front door. Them just LEAVING. Dustfinger being understandably terrified of Mo with blood running down his arm and a sword in his hands. Gwin immediately trying to bite Meggie. It's so much. Lots of emotions in this scene. Lots of 'what if's to consider. I often wonder how Resa was doing in those moments, standing wherever Capricorn and Basta had gotten a hold of Dustfinger with two cats and no clue what was going on. And where did Dustfinger go when, the second Mo turned his back, he fled? We know he had a horrible time, especially at first - at what point did he decide it was better to go back to the presumably dangerous sword-wielding wizard than stay out in our world? What happened during those four days he was gone? How many people did Gwin bite? And Basta and Capricorn? What were their first moves? How long until they got arrested for the first time? Was Basta secretely happy to be Capricorn's only company for a while? I genuinely don't know what to think about first. I'll just lie down.

I just think it’s funny that i’m only a few chapters in but the fact that Battista made Mo’s clothes is mentioned several times. 

truth hurts

— Inkdeath (Inkworld #3) (2007)

Gotta admit I love this guy

tall men are OUT, manlets are IN

The whole Inkheart fandom when talking about Basta

I have an Important Opinion™ concerning Inkspell and Inkdeath: 

Cerberus is a good boy. 

Yes!!!!

The pov characters keep describing Violante as both young and seeming very old for her actual age and I'm like yeah thanks it's the trauma

He’s just hanging around one day and sings quietly to himself

“Is this the real life?…”

Meggie overhears him and joins in without even meaning to, somewhat louder.

“Is this just fantasy? Caught in a…”

Mo and Resa.

“Landslide, no escape from reality.”

They go through the whole song, missing the note horribly on the Galileo’s and laughing at Mo strutting about to “So you think you can stop me,” until the end when they realise that the entire camp is staring at them like they’ve gone mad.

Dustfinger, after some battle they just won: we are the champions-

Farid, who’s been out to the real world for just enough time to learn a few lyrics to every Queen song: mY FRIEEEEEEEEEEEENDS

just some casual soulmate telepathy, nothing to see here

I've always pictured the glass men looking like the Michelin tire mascot, like round but also made of solid glass. But I guess they are actually hollow and look more human lol. I was surprised their hair was made up of separate strands. They seem so much more delicate than what I had pictured, I don't understand how they survive.

Also Fenoglio finding out that the glass men are not naturally servile creatures and some do live independently from humans, reminded me of the whole house elf situation in hp.

I always pictured them like little chubby garden gnomes, complete with a little smurf-like hat, although they’re explicitly discribed as having thin, frail limbs^^

Have you seen the pictures/illustrations of them in the books?? Absolutely NOT what I pictured them to look like!!!

so that second chapter-

I have a fic ready to launch but since it's about Jacopo i am really conflicted about publishing it. This fandom doesn't seem to have a thing for him at all and i don't have confidence to publish something that will get zero comments

I sent that ask! (Just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same character). In the version in Spanish he is called "El príncipe Orondo". According to Google, Orondo translates as "round" or "chubby" but it also can mean self-satisfied, or, as you said, someone who lives a lavish life. "Prince of Sighs", though, is translated the same way.

Huh! So German and Spanish kinda went with the same vibe of fat/round/happy, that’s interesting! My Spanish skills are Very Very Very basic, but I think Orondo is a cute word. It really radiates roundness :D

Just out of curiosity, what’s Dustfinger’s Spanish name? 

It is the same, except it's in two words and not one: Dedo (Finger) Polvoriento (Meaning dusty more than dust, but the idea is there).

Rosenquartz, on the other hand, is simply translated as Rose Quartz (Cuarzo Rosa) and I feel robbed of the great Hamlet pun.

Wonderful. Dedo Polvoriento sounds exactly as dramatic as I’d hoped, thank you. I love it. I shall name my next cat Dedo Polvoriento.

In German his name is Staubfinger which also just means Dustfinger. Cornelia Funke once said that she chose the name because dust has such strong associatons with death and misfortune... but also, in German you can say “sich aus dem Staub machen”, which literally translates to “to make yourself out of dust” and it means to disappear/run away without being noticed. So he really has the name of a tragic coward.

And same!! In German his name is just Rosenquarz, which is the name of the stone with no connection to Shakespeare. That’s why I was so confused by the English version until @firejugglinghobo​ pointed out the pun - it looked like they forgot to translate the first half of the name :’D

So interesting about the connotations of these names in different languages!

In French, Dustfinger is Doit de Poussiere.  It’s a pretty literal translation, but poussiere can be a single speck of dust or plural as a whole bunch of dust.  Also it’s a big vague in that it can mean a finger made of dust or a finger that has properties of dust or even spreads dust, similar to other genitive/”of” phrases in other languages.