it asked a question and i said "yes i do need another sideblog"
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i don't know how to tell him i like him, but I did kidnap him, lavish him with praise and promise to make him the king of england. so i think he gets it
jonathan strange and mr norrell is hands down one of my favorite shows, but a little while ago I realized. that I’ve never actually. read the book.
like I loved the show so much I am absolutely fucking baffled that I never once thought ‘oh let’s check it out from the library and have a good time part 2’
& something about the weather lately (extremely windy) brought it to mind, so I checked it out from the library and I’m having a great time reading it so far 🥳
It has been no small inducement, in my coming to York, that your excellent and, er, distinguished society exists here - not to mention your extensive library of magical books! I have studied magic, gentlemen, for many years. The histories of the Raven King, the great magicians of long ago. I’ve read the new publications and even made my small contribution to their number. But I have recently begun to wonder why the great feats of magic that I read about remain in the pages of my books and are not seen on the street or on the battlefield. I have begun to wonder why modern magicians are unable to work the magic that they write about. In short, gentlemen, I wish to know… why is magic no longer done in England?
so funny of susanna clarke to write a nearly thousand page book + several short stories involving people being made miserable or captured forever or driven mad by the affection or malice of powerful fairies & then at the end of it give us a short story where this guy & this fairy are just friends. fully a buddy duo. there's no angst or anything they just genuinely like each other & call in at each other's houses & go on little sightseeing trips together and bicker endlessly about morality. the fairy reads the newspaper. the guy criticises the fairy's parenting choices. they build a bridge