#earthsea

[dragonforsale]

The four wizard genders are evil, dramatic, gay, and hubris

#or any combo of them or all of them #i dare you to name a wizard that is not at least one of these #wizard #wizards #howl #howls moving castle #ged #earthsea #caleb widogast #cr #critical role #essek thelyss #yussa errenis #theres probably more wizards but cant think of them at the moment #thoughts

[fandomsandfeminism]

So you want a *different* book about magic schools...

Carry On is an obvious choice if you are a big fan of *certain* magical school chosen one stories but really want something new. Its gay, it subverts tropes, it's fun.

The OG! Wizard of Earthsea is really the grandfather of the wizard-school idea. Ursula K LeGuin is one of the best fantasy writers of the last century. Start here and follow the series as it grows and evolves.

Equal Rites- how could I not recommend a Discworld book? Many Discworld books take place in the Unseen University, but this is the first, and Esk is an amazing protagonist.

Lobizona- girls are witches, boys are werewolves...except that this girl is a werewolf too. Very fun world building, and a great example of bringing latinx influence into this well worn fantasy trope.

The Lightning Thief- ok, its summer camp for demigods, not school for magicians. But the vibes are going to feel very familiar for fans of he who shall not be named, the series only gets better as it goes, and the fandom rocks.

The Fifth Season- the darkest and certainly most adult suggestion here. NOT a YA rec. But incredible world building. Tragic and fascinating and powerful. Jemisin really is one of the front runners in fantasy, especially Black fantasy, right now.

#harry potter #read different books #pjo #Discworld #lobizona #broken earth #earthsea #carry on #simon snow

[spokenitalics]

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great storytellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.

What the commodifiers of fantasy count on and exploit is the insuperable imagination of the reader, child or adult, which gives even these dead things life—of a sort, for a while.

Ursula K. Le Guin, foreword to The Tales of Earthsea

#ursula k. le guin #earthsea #the tales of earthsea

[mostlyghostie]

Fantasies. I love most of these, could not stand one of them and one I loved until halfway, when it became intolerably annoying. Guesses?

#my art #artists on tumblr #drawing #illustration #old books #booklr #booklover #fantasy #earthsea #neil gaiman #his dark materials #discworld #tolkien #hobbit #lotr fanart

[turnipwine]

earthsea drawings from 2020

#my art #le guin #earthsea #figured i’d post them all in one #i really liked the 3rd book idk why i never drew anything for it

[ghost-wyvern]

A young goat herder on the Isle of Gont.

#earthsea #ursula k. le guin #sparrowhawk #Ged #art #earthsea fanart #a wizard of earthsea #traditional art #pencil #fanart #sketch #my art

[jpechacek]

a wizard of earthsea

#earthsea #a wizard of earthsea #art #ursula k. le guin #illustration

[dndspellgifs]

So I was looking up whether Ursula K. Le Guin was in influenced by Terry Pratchett when she wrote Tehanu when I came across this transcript of a talk by him. Pretty interesting and if you're like me and miss Terry with a heartaching intensity, the comedy is like coming back home. This is before he publishes Equal Rites two years later, and before Le Guin subverts her patriarchal world 5-ish years later with Tehanu.

#off topic #books #discworld #terry pratchett #tehanu #earthsea #ursula k. le guin

[sannartsies]

A wizard of Earthsea

#Earthsea #a wizard of earthsea #sparrowhawk #ursula k. le guin #fanart #art #Illustration #I'm really into those spikey shapes lately aren't I

[ehlihr]

quick earthsea sketchdump (+ a little tombs of atuan :) )

#a wizard of earthsea #earthsea #ged #ged sparrowhawk #vetch #tenar #ogion #my art

[blurryhumanoid]

(ID: meme that on the left side is labeled "Earthsea wizards" and shows a grayscale picture of a person sitting against a wall and clutching their head, with the text "No power comes without a price. Magic is dangerous and unpredictable and could have unintended consequences. Such as Summoning Things." On the right side it is labeled "Discworld wizards" and shows a brightly colored picture of a person wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, smiling and giving a thumbs up to the camera, with the text "No power comes without a price! Magic is dangerous and unpredictable and could have unintended consequences! Such as Summoning Things!" End ID)

#earthsea #Discworld #personal #anyway i think earthsea and discworld witches would get along but the respective wizards would NOT #ursula k le guin #terry pratchett

[beetleb0ne]

a personal comic about Ursula K Leguin and A Wizard of Earthsea

#earthsea #a wizard of earthsea #ursula k. le guin #uklg #original comic #comics #booklr #booknerd #bookblr #my art #my comics #earthsea fanart

[misconceptionsofus]

Ged and Vetch by Marian Churchland

#upload #ursula k. le guin #earthsea

[hazeism]

THERE IS A HOLE IN THE WORLD, AND THE LIGHT IS RUNNING OUT OF IT. THERE IS A HOLE IN THE WORLD, AND THE SEA IS RUNNING OUT OF IT.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s THE FARTHEST SHORE && angelo musco  / isabel allende / franz kafka /  marina tsvetaeva / anastasia ax / simone de beauvior / linda vachon / alexandra chu

#web weaving #the farthest shore #Earthsea Cycle #I'm just doing whatever I want my bad #some of this is good but some of it's not as good as the rest so maybe I'll just make it. again sometime. #visual #text #it doesn't fit but also imagine this being there #On Kaltuel I saw villagers killing a baby on an altar stone and on Ingat I saw a sorcerer killed by his townsfolk throwing stones at him. #Will they eat the baby think you Ged? Will the sorcerer come back from death and throw stones at his townsfolk? #earthsea

[mr-craig]

"I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed."

~ Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Other Wind

#The Other Wind #Ursula K Le Guin #Ursula Le Guin #Earthsea #quotes #there's always at least one bit in a Le Guin book that absolutely demolishes me #and this was it for The Other Wind

[lakefama]

finished a new music animatic!*

a retelling of Ursula K. LeGuin's The Tombs of Atuan (2nd Earthsea book)

my goal was to make this somewhat comprehensible to those who haven't read the books but if not i hope u enjoy the vibes at least ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ there’s a summary in the youtube description (captions available too)

*(animatic?animation? somewhere btwn these two, really) 

#lake art #storyboard #animation #earthsea #tombs of atuan

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Bantam (1975)

#Paperbacks #Paperback Art #A Wizard Of Earthsea #Ursula K Le Guin #Fantasy #Fantasy Art #Fantasy Illustration #Bantam #Bantam Books #Dragons #1975 #1970s #70s #Earthsea

[jpechacek]

the tombs of atuan

#art #illustration #earthsea #the tombs of atuan #ursula k. le guin

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe.

- Ursula Le Guin, Foreword to Tales from Earthsea

#book quotes #literature #books and libraries #ursula k. le guin #ursula le guin #earthsea

[metacarpus]

'The eventual statement, on Le Guin’s part, is that fantasy does not need to be conflict-driven in order to remain fantasy; in fact, neither does any kind of story. Instead of simply putting a sword in a woman’s hand and call it a feminist story, she questioned the usefulness and value of the sword itself.'

-- excerpt from the conclusion for my master's thesis (2021)

#earthsea #le guin #research