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Mommy Fortuna's Carnival, The Last Unicorn

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Rae Klein

‘Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”

― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

I've met him in person btw and he's a fucking sweetheart

[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]

I don't usually talk about celebrities; artists, when I do, and I'm keenly aware that one needn't be a good person to be a hell of a heartwrenching artist. But Peter S. Beagle has written a few of my favorite things in the world, he's an excellent singer and filker, and this Twitter thread was dreadfully important to me. I don't want it going away as Twitter becomes Shitter, because it's so often bad news, isn't it? It's important to me to share trans joy.

I am a hero. It is a trade, no more, like weaving or brewing, and like them it has its own tricks and knacks and small arts. There are ways of perceiving witches, and knowing of poison streams; there are certain weak spots that all dragons tend to have, and certain riddles that hooded strangers tend to set you. But the true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

The Last Unicorn; Peter S. Beagle

Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to?

The Last Unicorn; Peter S. Beagle

I am myself still. This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How is anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?

The Unicorn (The Last Unicorn; Chapter 8)

happy ending, Mika // eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, dir Charlie Kaufman // the last unicorn, Peter S Beagle // every thing on it, Shel Silverstein

This movie has always been and will forever be my favorite thing ever. I love absolutely everything about it: the animation, the voice acting, the characters, the plot, the music. And boy, does it hit you hard from the very beginning. The pre-Ghibli studio seamlessly combines their animation with the Unicorn tapestries, over this hauntingly beautiful opening song by Jimmy Webb and America. I get teary every single time. Thank you, Peter Beagle for this timeless, amazing novel and Rankin and Bass for the film (and allowing Peter creative control over the screenplay).

The Last Unicorn Opening [High Quality]

The Last Unicorn opening song. I love the opening of this movie.

this is the definition of Nostalgia

Is this bitch quoting the skeleton on the mantle from The Last Unicorn?

TUMBLR?????

ARE YOU AWARE THAT ALEX HIRSH JUST TWEETED?????

IM SCREAMING

but i seriously dont know if this is literal or not but aahshshfjskseb