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kinda late, but a sketchy lil Baz for his late birthday because I love my millennial icon son
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Italy's most prolific author, a stupid post by me
Note: my translation of the book titles might be bullshit
So here in Italy we have the Geronimo Stilton books (a pseudonym created by an author, Elisabetta Dami, but then used by like a hundred different authors)
Basically there's this fictional island populated by antropomorphic mice and we all pretend that this thing is real and one of these mice, Geronimo Stilton is a famous journalist and acclaimed author of children books (or well "reportage" books in which he tells his adventures)
So there are other mice characters who have their spin off novels or who write novels themselves and it's a real mess, like if you count all the books that are canonically part of this universe you get like two hundred books if not more. Now, another weird thing is that some books have mice as characters but others have human or at least humanoid characters and it's confusing.
These books are insanely popular. Like real nostalgia stuff. Everyone I know has at least one Geronimo Stilton book. The children section of our bookshops are filled with these books. We have a Geronimo Stilton cartoon series, comics and figurines.
So the most popular books are the Geronimo Stilton "classics" :
his "everyday" adventures
the "voyage in the kingdom of fantasy" series (famous for an insane amount of characters, cool character designs and those special pages that you can smell).
the "travel through history" series
(all of these are famous for the funny artsy fonts)
But there are also others, like the mistery series about the detective "Ficcanaso Squitt" or a lot of specials about holidays (I had one about valentines day for some reason, it was embarrassing) and many others. Seriously this world is full of characters (yes all mice), but most are awesome (like Geronimo's nephew Benjamin, what an adorable kid)
Then there's the "girls' books" (I put this in quotes because no one actually genderised these books, no one cared, we read everything): the Tea Stilton books.
Tea Stilton would be Geronimo Stilton's badass sister. She's a mouse and an author too (and she rides a motorcycle, it's not really relevant, but Geronimo constantly brings it up so I'm doing it too) and her books are also insanely popular.
She has two main series:
The "Tea sisters" series, which is about a group of girl friends from all over the world solving misteries and doing all sort of amazing things (probably a mile stone for every wlw girl in this country)
The "Princesses of the kingdom of fantasy" series, which is about five princesses who are sisters (but for some reason they are almost all of different ethnicity) who live in separate awesome kingdoms and they are all awesome (this is also probably a mile stone for every wlw girl of this country, well it was for me okay?)
Now, I would like to point out that the Geronimo Stilton "voyage in the kingdom of fantasy" series has also a lot of amazing female characters, some of which might have been important for the wlw girls of this country (I'm looking at you Alys, princess of the Silver Dragons Kingdom)
Anyway the Geronimo Stilton books are weird and amazing and nostalgic and I will always love them very much, but the Stilton Universe (not an official name, just made it up) has a confusing lore and set up and yeah...
(about the "we pretend this is real" thing, I'm not joking. I never discussed this with my friends, but I think that we don't believe in any of that stuff, but we still pretend there's actually an island populated by antropomorphic mice because Geronimo Stilton must be real. It's like pretending the Fairy Oak books' village is real.)
Things I love about TOG:
How Fenrys is genuinely caring. He doesn't really know Aelin all that well. He's still pretty ticked off at Rowan. But he literally cradles Aelin in the water and protects Rowan to the death. He knows he won't get much from it, but he does it anyway
Things I love about ToG:
The way how Celaena and Nehemia and Aelin and Lysandra would just randomly sleep in the same bed. Like, as a girl, I can tell you nothing is more relatable than just being like "I'm sleeping here" despite SO/society/etc. Girl friendships ftw
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revisiting old books
it's so funny i used to read this series of books all the time, i'd literally read through it in a week and just want to restart it all over again. the pictures i'd imagined of the characters, rooms and scenes were all so vivid i felt like they were actual people- they were my favourite books for a couple of years and then life happened and i stopped reading anything for ages. a few days ago i decided i wanted to try and start reading again because whenever i had tried before then i just couldn't get into books and found myself getting distracted. so why not pick up my old favourite book? i honestly didn't expect much, i have changed in two years. but... as soon as i started reading it was like i was sucked straight back into the universe again. like i'd never left. and there is this one scene that really surprised me- the first time the main character's bedroom is described. quite a lot of the story happens where they live and in their room- it was so odd. without meaning to, the description of the room conjured up the same room i had imagined years ago- it was so strange and like visiting a friend you haven't seen in years but you knew so well. it's like moving out of your parents house and coming back years later to see everything exactly the same as you left it, as if no time had passed at all. reading about the characters again was like seeing old friends or family, it was just to strange to me. i had thought i would never be in that place with books again but it's as if once i closed the pages time had frozen, all the emotions and feelings and thoughts of 14 year old me were captured in that one moment and put on my bookshelf. things i had thought i had forgotten about sprang back to me: the poem i had half written in the front cover of another book people and conversations and hours scrolling through fan art on the internet it is a little strange that a book can make you feel all of these things, a little disconcerting that such strong emotions and feelings and memories are preserved in the ink and paper and stored on a shelf. right there but hidden. pick up that book you used to love when you were 14 relive it and then, make more memories. -e
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