“Aber er wollte nicht denken. Er wollte ihn nur ansehen.”

Couple shirts for Will and Nerron:

Will's: "I'm the fucking Jade Goyl."

- …as well as a trans saxophone player called Sara(h?) who plays beautifully, often right outside Cornelia’s window and it’s very distracting to her productivity. They’re working on a christmas project together

- Despite wanting to stay in Italy, Cornelia realised that she’ll have to spend time in the USA regularly so she won’t lose her Green Card and it’s all very complicated - she thinks it’s worth it, though

- Right now Cornelia feels like helping younger artists begin their careers is just as important as working on her own books

- The library is not yet finished but it already doubles as a recording studio for visiting musicians. Cornelia says she can even record radio shows in there. It works great because all the books everywhere help with the sound quality

- A british publisher has asked Cornelia to translate 15 of Grimm’s Fairytales from the original German into English and “tell them her way”. So she’s currently translating/retelling one fairytale per month. She is doing this by introducing the book itself as the narrator, who is a little upset at how the Brothers Grimm told its stories.  The last one she finished was “Jorinde & Joringel”.

- Porcupines sound like Ewoks. Cornelia demonstrates it for us and highly recommends googling “porcupine noises”

CORNELIA’S WRITING ROOM

- Cornelia shows us a bit of her writing room. It has no door, because she likes to “write while anyone can come in” (I think she’s probably talking about characters but still - couldn’t be me)

- There’s a painting of a centaur that she made for Reckless on the wall, a cozy little corner to sit down, her desk and a bunch of books mainly related to Inkheart and Reckless, which are her current projects

but really… so far this story is confirming a feeling i already had with the first book and that feeling is… the mirrorworld fucking sucks.

not as a setting but as a place to live, i mean.

like, okay, there’s magic and shapeshifting and fairytale treasure but the people in the cities are working themselves to death because workers’ rights haven’t been invented yet. fairies are being factory farmed so people can spike their drinks with fairy dust. penicillin still isn’t a thing. will you die because a feral cinderella or whatever rips your throat out or will you die because there are no safety protocolls at your workplace? it’s like the worst of both worlds.

“schleierkauz i think you just hate civilisation-” YEAH. AND? listen. if my life is ruined because some lord decides to sell my family to a witch i want untouched nature and unicorns. if my life is ruined because of capitalism and pollution i want a fridge and video games.

André Kaczmarczyk in “Reckless II - Lebendige Schatten” (nach Cornelia Funke) - Staatsschauspiel Dresden

us: let’s talk about goyl hair, we’ve been dying to talk about goyl hair—