Hookland 1/2/21 10:40:55

@NuitsdeY @SongsBone Even at seven, I resented all narratives of working class child made to know their place and forgive their tormentors, not complain and get on with it.

Hookland 1/2/21 10:43:33

@NuitsdeY @SongsBone I also hated the clever girl bullied when family fortune was lost. All the class structures of Bunty really grated. A stay in your lane and othering approach to what you should like never sat well with me.

Hookland 1/2/21 10:48:47

@NuitsdeY @SongsBone Oh it was a big part of a lot of the stories in Bunty. I also really disliked Takeaway Terry – not just due to the characterisation of Mr. Chung – but the suggestion that it was only working class fathers who spent every night in the pub, only working class mothers at bingo.

Hookland 1/2/21 20:45:08

He dreamt of incense golems, dust homunculi. A patrolling of the undercrofts. Even the chains that held the books grew iron mouths and screamed if he went to touch them. The Black Library was impossible to steal from even in reverie. – #CLNolan

Hookland 1/2/21 22:14:44

As kids, there were museums we wanted to visit, that we always tried to look through the windows of. The Museum of Curiosity obviously, but also Mother Vosper‰Ûªs Cottage, The Museum of Fisherfolk – though that was only because they had a pickled merman‰Ûªs hand. – Lynne Binns #VOH https://t.co/pgAQ04tUj2

Hookland 1/1/21 0:25:56

Folklore recreates a relationship with place, a sense of awe, a revelation of truth. It does so in tales that may be transmitted across vastness of space and time. It‰Ûªs one of our cleverest, oldest inventions. Disparage folklore, disparage humanity. – #CLNolan #FolkloreThursday