"Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread..."
hello hello! this september 1st marks the 20 year anniversary of gregor the overlander, the first book in the underland chronicles series by suzanne collins! i wanted to do something special to celebrate and i thought a little (re)read event would be a lot of fun!
all of the details are in the images above (image descriptions provided), but here are the dates once more:
Aug. 7th-11th --- Gregor the Overlander
Aug. 12th-16th --- Prophecy of Bane
Aug 17th-21st --- Curse of the Warmbloods
Aug 22nd-26th --- Marks of Secret
Aug 27th-Sept. 1st --- Code of Claw
and remember to use the tag #TUC20 during the event to meet and interact with other fans + #TUC spoilers for any new readers we may have during this time. i'll be going through and reblogging posts, so feel free to tag me (@prophecyofgray) as well!
one more thing: i think it'd be a lot of fun if we did something extra special on the anniversary itself, but im not sure what. feel free to share ideas in the tags <3
that's it for now! boost this if u can + spread the underland chronicles agenda to your friends >:)
fly you high!
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amity with alador's nose means So Much to me
a bit because representation of girls with big/hooked/bumpy noses is important to me
but also a lot from a writing and character design perspective with Metaphors
like, her canon design is the spitting image of odalia, aside from hair and eye colour, and being a bit slimmer than young odalia
and that does have its interesting symbolism. something about sharing traits with her but becoming a good person anyway. and the angsty but relatable feeling of looking in the mirror and seeing your abuser's physical features and having to live with that.
and of course the hair symbolism. she has alador's natural hair colour. but odalia tries to cover that up, replace it with her own hair colour. tries to make amity more like herself and less like alador, both physically and personality-wise. but no matter how hard she tries, amity's natural self pushes through, even in early s1 when she's most under odalia's influence.
and then amity, when she sheds her mother's influence, gets rid of the green. and she replaces it with purple. it's neither of her parents' hair colour. it's her own. it's the colour of her magic (sidenote: how tf is a witch's magic colour determined? it usually matches with their track/coven but there are plenty of exceptions, like how raine's is yellow rather than red). it's also a colour we associate with luz, the character who helped her be her real self. and, of course, it's abomination coloured. it's her power and interest and her hard work.
abominations are also something she shares with alador. but the way she uses abomination magic is often different than how alador uses it. first off, she doesn't incorporate any of the mechanical elements that he does (elements that are connected to the specific way odalia abuses him that he tried to protect the kids from, but also the way he neglected his children). but also, iirc, he almost always uses abomination matter in its normal sludge form or as standard abomination constructs/creatures. but amity, as the series goes on, starts showing her own style of abomination magic, where she forms abomination matter into different objects. we see alador do this once, and it's to give *amity* a pair of mittens.
she keeps a tiny bit of brown, though. it's her natural hair, and it's something she gets from alador.
OKAY NOW IMAGINE if amity had alador's nose instead of odalia's
we keep all of the above hair symbolism, of course. that doesn't change at all.
and we keep a lot of the ways that she looks like odalia. we keep the reminder that she chooses to be a good person despite having similarities to her mother.
but we get a reminder of her connection to her dad right smack-dab in the middle of her face. it's something odalia couldn't get rid of, no matter how hard she tries. it's a reminder to her that she can't force amity to be a copy of herself, something odalia probably resents. sure, we get that a bit with the kids' golden eyes, and it ties in with amity's brown hair. but having more features from her father would further drive the point home
not to mention, it ties in with the reason i want more representation of big/hooked noses in the first place. in real life they're often considered flaws. i should hope this idea does not exist in the boiling isles, especially with its roots in eurocentrism. but us, as viewers, know about that prejudice. and it would feel important to me, to have a character, who represents everything wrong with wealth and privilege, be implied to dislike that feature AND THEN have every part of her mindset be repeatedly shown as wrong and harmful and evil
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tagged by @midnight-fangirl01
Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs
Works, not including posted ones:
snek
red wedding
they stole a shopping cart
gay cat hunter
bbh manhunt autumn design
sammy wammy
merry crisis vamp bois
the gay boy
concepting shit
cathedral painting
em sketches
mr nap
page 1-6 (each a separate file)
these are all about 1 year old at most and have a chance of me coming back to them lmao - I'll leave this open thru the night and answer any asks once I wake up tomorrow
I don't know who to tag cause I think I've seen most of the people on my tl already did take part so this is for anyone who hasn't been tagged yet! (yes! even you! my no-light mutuals!)
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One time I got really stoned and thought I'd found a SUPER good deal on a Sheer Heart Attack vinyl (~$5, like new) but then it came in the mail and I realized my dumbass had bought it on CD lol (<- doesn't have a CD player)
Anyway, I got all my tapes scanned into Discogs this evening. I didn't scan my tiny CD collection in because, well, I can't listen to them: discogs.com/user/DAEMONSKULL/collection
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WIP Tag Game: I’ll be your home, please?
hi sweets!!! thank you for asking <3
this is going to be a fic based on a request from my sweet friend @themarvelousbee about being homesick!! its going to be about eddie comforting you about going off to college <3 I'm excited to write it bc i remember that feeling and know it well and i hope its going to be like a giant hug for all of you!!
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