Tara the Bard

If you’re 11-17 (rising 6th-12th grade), you should check out Magischola Prep!  It’s a week-long summer camp where you get to act out the life of a young mage at magic school, complete with wands, sorting, houses (called “courts” at this school), crazy professors, and all manner of magical beasts.  You get to live with your house, eat meals in a great hall, go to magical classes, and maybe even sneak off into the forbidden forest.  Check it out at https://magischolaprep.com/

It’s by the same people who run New World Magischola, if you’ve heard of that, and oh my goodness the world building makes me want to cry tears of joy.  

It’s also held at Swarthmore College this summer, which seriously looks like a magic school.  There’s a giant amphitheater in the woods that looks like fairies were just there a second ago

A huge belltower that feels like you could do an illicit dragon trade there at midnight

And a courtyard where I can just see a wizard duel happening

Seriously those of you who are 11-17, I am jelly, I wish I could be a camper here.  If you, like me, are feeling elderly at age 21, please pass this on to anyone you know who might have their dreams come true at this camp!

Also, here’s a video, with more fun aerial footage of Swarthmore:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B56xvLpJWAw

Round one of New World Magischola: Winter’s Cry pics.

Savia lurks in a dark corner while the other Artificiers work

Angrily talking about people messing with her mind to Minerva

Being super Unsoiled with Maridia

Working to cleanse cursed bones with Oleksander and Lottie

“If you have to ask, darling, you can’t afford it.”

Disapproving of, oh, everything

Drinking a cracked dragon’s egg in tea as a hangover cure

Thor x Jane Foster