THE STARLESS SEA TAROT CARD COUNTDOWN: The Mouse & The Moon
“No one dared to intervene
Save for a small brave mouse
Who snuck into the fray,
Creeping unnoticed
Through the blood and bone and feathers,
And took Fate’s heart and kept it safe.”
– From a story whispered by Dorian to Zachary
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“The Moon had never asked a boon of Death or Time
But there was something that she wished, that she wanted,
That she desired more than she had ever desired anything before.
A place had become precious to her, and a person within it more so.
The moon returned to this place as often as she could,
In stolen moments of borrowed time.
She had found an impossible love.
She resolved to find a way to keep it.”
– Found by Zachary in handwritten text on a folded piece of paper
Welcome to our magical tarot card countdown to Erin Morgenstern’s THE STARLESS SEA, featuring art by the amazing Erica Williams. Follow @doubledaybooks and @erinmorgenstern to keep up with the day’s themes.
A new papercraft inspired by The Night Circus, featured as a blanket add-on and print item in the Gillywick Goods Night Circus Halloween Box!
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I only just recently finished listening to this book, and like many, was pulled in to its magicry and magnificence. It was really easy to snatch up symbolisms for this piece - the storytelling was just overflowing with them. Easily one of the funnest papercraft designs I had the pleasure to build.
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Who’s excited for #TheStarlessSea in a few days!? I’m super stoked with the audiobook’s casting - can’t wait to dive in!
One of my favorite illusionary descriptions of one of the paintings from the novel, The Starless Sea by @erinmorgenstern.
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Aaaaaaah Y'ALL. You have no idea how much this book shook me. If you follow my captions, you’ll know that I’m a HUGE fan of tweezer-plucking out symbolisms from novels to integrate into my pieces. It’s no irony that this book is freakin OOZING symbolism and metaphors, dripping from its pages like honey, and @erinmorgenstern basically served this painting up for me on a platter. Took a few liberties with the key accents, but it otherwise closely follows her description from the novel. ( Somehow Dorian’s character design ended up channeling sexy Aladdin? Not mad? )
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Truly one of many more opportunities to illustrate fantastical scenes from this world.
— I got lost so I started looking for something familiar and I found you.
Across the Stars
So @lythelia-art drew the first half and was kind enough to let me draw the companion piece and it was so much fun! Please please please go check out his blog, he let me post them together and his art is wonderful and deserves all the love!
teddy is fucking using excelsior, the goddamn magic sword that made him the freaking king of SPACE as a table to eat his motherfucking cereal
