Happy 'Die Insel Der Tausend Leuchttrme' Release Day Y'all. I Will Attempt To Snag A Copy After Work

Happy 'Die Insel der Tausend Leuchttürme' release day y'all. I will attempt to snag a copy after work wish me luck I forgot to pre-order 😃

Walter Moers, one day you will be the death of me!

Instead of giving us new information on Castle of Dreaming Books, he announced yet another book that was on nobody's radars.

The One-Horned Squirrel that wanted to live backwards (Twenty Zamonian Flables) will be released on September 4th.

Ein Einhörnchen, das lieber rückwärts leben möchte; ein Werwolf, der ein Wiewolf sein will; eine fleischfressende Pflanze, die gern Vegetarierin wäre; zwei Vampirgeierbrüder, die Aas verachten – etliche Bewohner des Kontinentes Zamonien haben Probleme mit ihrer Identität und daher kein leichtes Leben. Aber ob Dummwolf oder Schlaufuchs, ob Schmiegehäschen oder Halbtagsfliege, ob Froschling oder Buchling, sie alle finden ihren Weg in dieser Welt, in der die Fantasie und der Humor völlig außer Kontrolle geraten sind. Zwanzig zamonische Flabeln* über diverse Spielarten zamonischen Daseins aus der Feder von Bestsellerautor Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, kongenial übersetzt, illustriert und mit einem Nachwort – »Humor ist ein ernstes Geschäft« – von Walter Moers. *Die »Flabel« bezeichnet eine humorvoll-anarchische zamonische Kurzgeschichte und kennt, im Gegensatz zur klassischen Tierfabel, keinerlei Moral.

A One-Horned Squirrel that wants to live backwards; a Whowolf that wants to be a Howwolf; a carnivorous plant that wants to be a vegetarian; two vampire vulture brothers that despise carrion - several inhabitants of the continent Zamonia have issues with their identity and a hard life because of that. Whether Dumb Wolf or Clever Fox, Snuggle Bunny or Half-Day-Fly, Frogling or Bookling, they all find their way in this world where fantasy and humour have completely escalated.

Twenty Zamonian flables* about certain varieties of Zamonian lifeforms penned by bestselling novelist Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, congenially translated, illustrated and provided with a postscript - "humour is serious business" - by Walter Moers.

*A flable is a humorous-anarchistic Zamonian short story and knows, contrary to the classic fable, no moral.

i swear if moers was more popular there would be like thousands of hildecolossus coffee shop aus and angsty fics out there ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

i feel like millions of English-speaking contemporary romance writers struggle with fleshing out strong and convincing romantic relationships in their works while the craziest, most serious and reckless magnetic 'love-and-affection' magic was accidentally assigned to a couple of barely humanoid creatures in a whimsical fantasy/dark fairy tale book written by a reclusive German author

ah man this is stuff from about 1 year ago but i like coming back to it...

This is hildegunst von mythenmetz, a known Zamonian writer!! Basically, i wanted to redesign the books by hildegunst von mythenmetz Walter Moers in my style for uni....and these were the skecthes i did but to be fair i just wanted to draw more of Moerses characters xd

Ive known these books for a long time and its such a shame so little people know about them! Theyre mostly popular in germany and sadly they stopped translating them... Im not sure how i can sell you this series but City of Dreaming Books is great, it reminds me of grimms fairy tales but theyre humoristic as well, and moers did the illustrations for it himself... Recently a visual novel of the book i mentioned came out and its looking real pretty as well (also the books mostly feature non human characters which is cool for me i like creatures)

Thinking about how the Hellings are arguably the most human-adjacent group native to Zamonia when it comes to appearances (although with stereotypical demonic features and grotesque in a very Moersian way) and how this plays onto the evils humanity is capable of such as extreme cruelty, voyeuristic bloodlust, and egocentrism that ignores all suffering until you yourself are affected

Sooo, i really like general ticktock, i decided to make some fanart

i really love ,,rumo" and general ticktock is by far my favorite character

(no one can tell, my profile name is totally neutral)