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Don’t forget the antisemitism and drapetomaniacal propaganda!
“Be gay do crime!!” “Eat the rich!!”
And you can’t even boycott the most famous TERF in the UK
Book shelf clean out: young wizards
I loved this series! I don't know where my copy of the 1st book went but the others are on their way to the library bookstore, and I hope they find a new home there
It was hard to say bye to these books (but I plan to get the new millennium editions in ebook soon... and i need the space). I read them when I was in high school and college.
They're really excellent, set in Our World (not fantasy whatever land). They remind me in some ways of Terry Pratchett's work--not the setting or voice, but in the underlying ethos of the work. Although the characters go through difficult things (big warning for A Wizard's Dilemma), the world overall feels... kind?
More things to love about this series
Hispanic & queer representation, if you pay attention. In other, more recently-written series, these aspects of the characters might have been played up. In this series, those aspects are still present but more subtly. I actually like this because it's more fitting with my experience of the world. It also serves the story itself better and allows the characters' choices and actions to be the focus of the story.
Even in the case of the antagonists, the characters are... They extend civility and understanding to the antagonists, but they don't veer into "all-forgiving hero" territory. The story doesn't get into really black-and-white good-and-evil morality, but it isn't that tiresome "everyone sucks enjoy your undifferentiated grey." The heroes are heroic because of how they choose to treat others.
I love it when stories say "the way you treat others does matter." Kindness is repaid with kindness.
The styles of magic are cool too! I think many people have read "this character has a connection with plants and growing things" magic before. One of the other characters has a connection with mechanical and technical things! There's a scene in one of the books where he communes with, I think it's an airplane? And he can feel its eagerness to be flying, its fierce joy in speed and movement. I think that's lovely.
There are some good jokes in there, like the pig!
If you love space and astronomy, you'll probably like this series :) Especially the later books.
If you like alien cultures (and more traditional fantasy other-cultures) you'll probably like this seriies
Overall I just really enjoy these books and recommend them okay byeeee
So Cute!!!!!!
Back when I had a go at drawing chibi-style Kit and Nita I actually sketched ideas for a bunch of other YW characters. I actually finished the Filif and S’reee ones back then, but came across the file and finished up Sker and Darryl as well
What she says: I'm fine
What she means: I am never going to be over the fact that Nita Callahan, at thirteen years old, went through a traumatic experience in a warped alternate universe based on her home town and then looked at the thing that created all the evils she'd faced, the very root of all the evils she and everyone else in the universe had ever faced, and decided it was worth forgiveness and gave it a chance to change
Amazing
@shortforemily ‘s space queen Dairine design is so great that I had to draw it :0
I drew Mehrnaz again! The floaty crystals don’t have any significance, I just thought they looked nice *:･ﾟ✧
I swear, the artist was channeling Carmela Rodriguez…
“Alien Abduction” by Matt Dixon
Prompt: Character A drags character B to a club and promises to be home by midnight. Now it's 3 am and theyre just leaving.
Alien clubs, Nita decided, were not her thing, but were they ever Carmela’s.
Nita was lurking at their barstool table, her manual opened and reading new information about kernels while Carmela was introducing some of the host species to the wonders of earth styled dances, all ranging from The Cotton-Eye Joe to something from recent school dances.
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so would you go for the Giant Centipede the Pine Tree or Teenage Angst Lee Pace this is a very important question
Wow, what an amazing idea. I’ve always liked the idea of some incarnation of Ed finding his way back into the world and having the chance to be a wizard. The fact that he died as a wizard because Nita gave her power to him always struck me.
Headcanon: Years after the books, Kit and Nita have twin boys. Nita insists on naming them Frederic and Edward, despite Kit’s reservations. (She’s always *naming* things and it never ends well.)
Fred is a powerful wizard with a knack for manipulating energy spectra and a near irresistible charm. He loves helping people and going to new places.
Ed is a quiet, gentle wizard who focuses on healing and maintaining balance. He has a powerful affinity for water and anything living in it, but downplays it around his parents so he won’t freak them out.
Years later, Kit asks Tom and Carl if they are the way they are because of their names, or if Nita named them because of what they are. Carl tells him that it’s a chicken and egg question. Tom adds that maybe it’s just a matter of symmetry. Phred and Ed died for Nita and Kit. Nita and Kit brought Fred and Ed into - or back into - the world. It works out.
This is really amazing. You truly capture the feel of the scene and I recognize it instantly.
And so I begin my book project!! This is from the first book, when Kit, Nita, and Fred are stuck in the “Other Manhattan.” :)
This is such a Young Wizards thing. Seriously where are Nita and Kit?
Sometimes on the subway we time travel.
Question. Any Young Wizards fans attending Philcon this weekend? And if so are you interested in trying to meet up and/or playing Cards Against Errantry?
Diane Duane is awesome. And its even more fun when Peter Morwood is egging her on.
Jupiter just wants to know if you like his sweater.
the moon is proud of you
11/2 Today Goofus the Peacock killed a mouse and instead of eating it right away, decided to wander around the pasture carrying it in his beak. The feral cats always appreciate dead-rodent-based performance art, so they followed behind Goofus single file to make a Very Exciting Dead Rodent Parade.
At one point Goofus stopped and put down his rodent and one of the feral cats dared to sniff at it, and Goofus unleashed The Most Terrifying Honk, something along the lines of I WILL END YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE AND YOUR BONES WILL BE FORGOTTEN ON THE FROZEN EARTH WHEN I SNUFF OUT THE SUN AND SING THE STARS TO DARKNESS I AM THE DEVOURER AND DESTROYER OF ALL THINGS
The feral cats, previously unaware that the Death Of The Universe And End Of All Things is currently living as a peacock, ran off at about fifty miles an hour and hid under the barn for the rest of the day. They didn’t even come out at milking time to beg for goat milk, which is a first.
We probably should not have named the Death Of The Universe And The End Of All Things “Goofus,” actually.
Go ahead and send me an ask. I love talking Young Wizards.
YOUNG WIZARDS ASKS
Because why not?
What form would your manual be in?
Would you specialize? What in?
Would you eat the blue crossings food?
Would you have any adjuncts? What would they be?
Have you written your own oath? Share it if you’re comfortable.
What would you see the lone power as?
Do you think you’d have a wizardry partner? Is it someone you already know?
What would you ask the transcendent pig?
Where do you think your closest worldgate would be?
What would you store in your other space pocket (assuming you had one)?
Where in the solar system would you go first? Second?
favorite spells(s)?
Would you sign up for an wizardry alien exchange program?
Who would you tell about your wizardry?
Do you have a favorite crater on the moon?
Would you go help dust off the mars rovers, if given the chance?
Would you rather hang out in the crossings during the day or night?
Feel free to add questions!!
I love it, really wonderful art. I love how they are holding hands. And Ponch.
A quick sketch of Kit, Nita and Ponch from Young Wizards.
Again, if you’re not reading these books, you should. They are awesome and wonderful. Dairine is my favourite but her sister Nita is a close second.
everyone ever: please stop destroying all life and happiness
the lone power: stop kinkshaming me