#dj machale

[arcadialedger]

Did anyone else read the Pendragon books when they were younger?

That series deserves new covers/ a re release and facelift.

#pendragon #pendragon series #dj machale #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology #books #the arcadia ledger

[pendragonthegreat]

happy birthday bobby pendragon and dj machale!

wonderful art by my good friend todd! :)

#pendragon #bobby pendragon #dj machale #fanart #bobby #:3

[worldssmallestghost]

Journal 37. The end. A last look at Pendragon.

It's finally come. I finished my re-read of the Pendragon Adventures. I apologize, this is going to be another essay. Thank you in advance to anyone who reads this, especially my regulars. Y'all the real ones, I'm glad this fandom isn't quite dead.

I'm probably going to come back, write theories and such over time as well. I'm going to do one more re-listen and then shelve the series for the next stage of my life that I think it's appropriate to come back.

I finished Soldiers of Halla last night. As an adult with a different mindset, I didn't hate the ending... But I still have issues with it, as a writer myself now. I'll get into that later.

The ending did, however, nearly bring me to tears. The series meant a lot to me as a teenager. The kind of teenager that ran to the "haunted" bathroom at school to get some time alone like Mark. Now that I've grown and gotten married and well, learned to write, Bobby's last moments in his re-written life hit different. Especially hearing about how he found his niche, wasn't super successful, but still made the tiny change he wanted to make in the world. That's the whole reason I want to become an author, so hearing that love of the craft portrayed by an author I looked up to made me feel a kind of sentimental kinship.

It did feel rushed, there's a lot of questions that if I ever met DJM, I'd ask about. Was the timeline reset? Was there an isolated bubble for the travelers? Was that the real Courtney and Mark that Bobby got to finish that life around? If not, what happened to the real ones?

I guess I'll have to come to peace with another aspect of that ending. Damn you, DJ.

If I'm gonna be honest, I feel almost... An emptiness after finishing the series again. I've been on and off listening to the audiobooks for the past three or so years. I started during the pandemic. In that time I've met, and married, the love of my life. I wanted to involve "Hobey ho" in my wedding vows despite nobody knowing what that meant. It didn't pan out for logistical reasons, but I will during our second ceremony down the line.

I have so many amazing memories I now associate with the series. Nothing will ever take that away. I'll never forget listening to The Reality Bug while meeting my now wife. Listening to Courtney and Dodger's adventures on First Earth while I actively planned my wife's immigration. Or delving into the secrets of Ibara again while trying my best to get through pre-wedding jitters.

I'm never going to let those memories go.

I'm not done with the fandom, I've got theories and a lot on my mind. I think I'm firmly stuck here now.

If I ever met DJ, after all the questions, I'd thank him. His little book series that hasn't gotten nearly enough attention it deserves meant something to me. It helped inspire me to become a writer myself. It gave me perspective on what it means to do the right thing in the face of adversity. Helped me realize that for every victory, there are some failures, and that's okay.

I'd also reprimand him for killing off Mark to... *checks notes* cancer. But that's a personal thing.

Looks like I've got another stage of my life to look forward to.

This isn't goodbye. Just another stage.

And so we go.

#pendragon adventures #bobby pendragon #books #dj machale

[bi-luminescentdragon]

Maybe I'll get chewed out for this, but I really don't like Courtney Chetwynde (I don't even remember how to spells her last name and don't wanna 😂) Come at my bro.

#bobby pendragon #pendragon series #pendragon #dj machale #machale #courtney #books

[junkydrawr]

Nevva Winter

#Pendragon #Dj machale #Sketch from 2022 #Nevva Winter #She's a B #junky's junk

[secondbestaquaneer]

sometimes I worry that my generation wouldn’t find pendragon relatable, but then I see things like this:

“Bobby, doing everything wrong: ‘Like that?’”

And I think that we’ll be okay.

#bobby pendragon #pendragon adventure #dj machale #source: that one meme where they reference the greek theater quote w/ dionysus

[tandonshows]

Have you ever wanted to be whisked away to a magical world where you could make a difference?

This week, Harrison Prince, writer and host of the upcoming Ruff Boys podcast, joins to talk about the Young Adult Sci-Fi series, The Pendragon Adventure by D.J. MacHale.

We discuss how the books helped Harrison escape during a tumultuous time, the way the first book's format broke the rules of writing, and how the series helped Harrison to start to hone his own craft.Tangents include whether books have to be good to be worthwhile, controversial reader takes, and Matthew McConaughey.

Part 1 & 2 of this conversation are available now. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or find You Are What You Love on your favorite podcast app now!

#podcast recommendation #podcast #pendragon #pendragon adventures #dj machale #pendragon books #books #fandom #podcasting #marissa tandon #harrison prince #you are what you love #yawyl

[eightfoldzangetsu]

I'm still not sure what the slogan "imagine the unimagined" had to with Pendragon. It feels like it was swapped with another young adult series or something

#bobby pendragon #the pendragon adventure #pendragon series #pendragon books #dj machale #Pendragon

[dracereads]

So I was brainstorming something else, and I went down an ADHD rabbit hole again. What's important to note that I remembered another one of my favorite Middle Grade reads was DJ Machale's Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure through Time and Space. I used to rent them at the library all the time. Leaving this here for a waffling Drace to mull over in the future.

Side note: trying to recall the name of something that lives in your head rent free from time to time without remembering the source material is like trying to grasp a ghost.

#misc #DJ MacHale #Pendragon Travellers #genre: middle grade

[bedlam-moon]

she hobey on my ho until i-

*extremely loud incorrect buzzer*

#shitpost #inspired by real life shitposts #pendragon #dj machale

[ammonitetheartist]

Various meow-meows

#ena #ena joel g #joel g ena #ena shepherd #deltarune #deltarune tasque #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots tlw #pib the last wish #pib tlw #puss in boots kitty softpaws #kitty softpaws #pendragon #pendragon dj machale #kasha #boon

[chaotictissuebox]

#Pendragon #pendragon dj machale #Patts #this might get me cancelled but I’m not wrong #Nevva winter #per usual #Bobby pendragon #Loor #loor with no last name #aja killian #im crying #courtney chetwynde

[pendragonthegreat]

THE LOST CITY OF FAAR was published 21 years ago today! (1/1/2003)

#bobby pendragon #dj machale

[worldssmallestghost]

Pendragon and being an adult.

So, I've been making a lot of Pendragon Adventures posts while I'm here. I found the series when I was in middle school. I started with the first book and got hooked pretty quickly. I've always been a sucker for, well, for lack of better terms, isekai stuff.

I spent the next few years chasing the books down, being there when books nine and 10 were released. So, if I was a teen when I read these books, why am I talking about them now, as a thirty something year old? I've grown to read more adult series, I've begun even writing my own dark fantasy novel. Why am I here?

I was in a dark place during 2020, but who wasn't? I didn't have much going for me aside from a job that had only one perk; being able to listen to audiobooks while performing my menial tasks. I decided, after finishing A Song of Ice and Fire, that I'd move onto something more light-hearted. In hindsight, yeah, maybe as an adult reading a book meant to deliver darker themes to kids was a bit of a weird decision.

I started listening and begun to pick up on themes I hadn't in my youth. Sure as a teen, I noticed the themes of hardship and found family and friendship pushing through even the darkest times.

But as an adult during these... Quite frankly, uncertain times...

Book six is what made me think. The themes of fascism and disease and humanity's stubbornness in the face of what's right, being blinded by hatred...

I envy my younger self for not being able to identify with those messages. With finding them to just be fantasy elements made to raise the stakes in the story.

I finished Raven Rise recently. I'm on Soldiers of Halla currently.

Ravinia is real, to an extent. Not literally, Halla and Alexander Naymeer and the travelers and Saint Dane aren't real. But the fanaticism? The very real levels of approaching fascism that humanity is speeding towards, despite the fact that some people who *lived through that* are still alive?

God.

I wrote earlier about learning to appreciate Soldiers of Halla's ending. As a teen, I hated it. I hated the idea that Bobby would throw away his friends and memories. I hated that everything had just gone "the way it was supposed to be". I wrote about how as an adult who's gone through some really hard times in my life, I can see why Bobby would throw all that away. Throw his trauma away. He lost a lot, but gained peace. Something I, an adult with stress and trauma disorders, wish I could do.

"Hobey ho" has stuck in my mind all these years as a triumphant "I CAN DO THIS!" hail Mary. As dorky as it sounds, on my wedding day, I had planned to say it in my vows to the person I love more than life itself, someone who has never read these books. Nobody in the room besides me ever had. I wanted to take this next challenge in my life on with the same enthusiasm as an over-energetic aquaneer about to take on a space fascist.

It brings me back to a time I was more care-free, where my biggest problems were if the girl I liked wanted to say she liked me back. While also reminding me of a grim future lurking around the corner, and that there are good people out there who just want the human species to make the right choices.

Once I'm finished book ten, I'm gong to listen to them all again in a row and then leave the series for a while. Until I feel I've reached another turning point in my life worthy of looking back at Bobby Pendragon's struggles through space and time.

I'll ride down the flume again someday and face whatever comes next with two words in my heart.

Hobey ho.

#pendragon adventures #bobby pendragon #pendragon #dj machale #books #A stupidly long essay that nobody will ever read but I want to get this off my chest

[bi-luminescentdragon]

Some good book series I forgot (or almost forgot) about but really enjoyed and would like to share(possibly read again in the near future):

The Morganville Vampire series by Rachel Caine

Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan

Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale

Shadow Falls by C.C. Hunter (not my favorite but it appealed to my inner teen lol)

Life After series by Julie Hall

Dirty Blood series by Heather Hildenbrand

The Testing Trilogy by Joelle Charbonneau

The Tide series by Anthony J. Melchiorri

The Extinction Cycle by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

The Extinction Cycle: Dark Age series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Anthony J Melciorri

The Deadland Saga by Rachel Aukes

The Zulu Chronicles by Steven Konkoly

The Scattered and the Dead series by Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus

Slow Burn series by Bobby Adair

Vampires are in red and zombie or zombie like creatures are in purple :)

#morganville vampires #rachel caine #cirque du freak #darren shan #pendragon #dj machale #shadow falls #c c hunter #life after #julie hall #dirty blood #heather hildenbrand #the testing #joelle charbonneau #the tide #anthony j melchiorri #extinction cycle #nicholas sansbury smith #deadland saga #rachel aukes #zulu chronicles #steven konkoly #the scattered and the dead #tim mcbain and LT vargus #slow burn #bobby adair #vampires #werewolves #zombies #books

[junkydrawr]

From DJ MacHale's Pendragon book series, Saint Dane.

Baldy version

#Baldy Saint Dane is my least fave look #Why you get rid of your long gray locks dude? #Dj machale #Pendragon #junky's junk #Drawn in '22