I tried to think of video game castles for this thread and decided they're all too small to be satisfactory but as mental soaces i've inhabited i feel them more than most fictions
― The Xylems of the Limes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 April 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
suikoden probably deserves a shoutout re: video game castles that are setting rather than destination
― ciderpress, Monday, 1 April 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
Cloppa Castle theme tune, written by one of *Nirvana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_J9h9VNbw
*the UK one
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 1 April 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
The Library of Babel and even more so the Name of the Rose's palimpsest of that library are pretty much castles in all bar name
Hm, not entirely sure about this. What is it that makes a castle a castle?
Was thinking about Calvino castles earlier but couldn't think of a specific one, my mind was more focused on the many castles of Invisible Cities.
― emil.y, Monday, 1 April 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Mistrinaut
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 April 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
Thinking gothicism and a kind of fractal endlessness emily bit yeah i'm only wibbling
― The Xylems of the Limes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 April 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
(if you want to know what Castle Mistrinaut is, here's a good article about the English translation of Letter For The King: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/tonke-dragts-the-letter-for-the-king-has-finally-been-translated-into-english-50-years-on-9826857.html )
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
castle voldesad
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Kasell
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 April 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
Castle Anthrax and the Castle of Arghhh
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Monday, 1 April 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
yep
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Monday, 1 April 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2016/11/3/3/0/8/308dae04-a1f1-11e6-944d-c2ec2412e9ab.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 1 April 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xnkAAOSwntRcaW-3/s-l1600.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 1 April 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
first drawing of scrooge mcduck's ancestral home by carl barks, from "the old castle's secret" (1948)
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ImxZM-RBi-8/WMC0dhFXaBI/AAAAAAAABIk/gwCSH7MXmOEri0oiftqqh1_rWPRXk-n-ACLcB/s1600/ducktales_trailer_007.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 00:02 (five years ago) link
Tracer Hand - thanks for the link, never heard of that.
One of Ogmor's images is by Ian Miller, who has drawn a lot of very good castles, including Gormenghast.
I feel a little ashamed I cant think of more because castles are one of my absolute favorite things but I hope to update this thread in the future with more finds.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
Just remembered the castle drawings by Victor Hugohttps://benedante.blogspot.com/2016/06/victor-hugos-drawings.html
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
Howl's Moving Castle, with Cadtle Greyskull a close second
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
The Library of Babel and even more so the Name of the Rose's palimpsest of that library are pretty much castles in all bar name and Eco's might be my fave non-video game castle― The Xylems of the Limes (Noodle Vague), Monday, April 1, 2019 6:15 AM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkHm, not entirely sure about this. What is it that makes a castle a castle?Was thinking about Calvino castles earlier but couldn't think of a specific one, my mind was more focused on the many castles of Invisible Cities.― emil.y, Monday, April 1, 2019 7:30 AM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkThinking gothicism and a kind of fractal endlessness emily bit yeah i'm only wibbling― The Xylems of the Limes (Noodle Vague), Monday, April 1, 2019 8:55 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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for me the castle's key architectural feature (distinguishing it from a mere palace) is fortification; and its key etymological feature is its derivation from castrare-- to cut off. a castle can certainly be a mind or universe unto itself (fractal endlessness) but for it to be a castle there must also be an outside it is fortified against. in elsinore to be overthrown from within is also to be captured from without, because death is only change. the forest and the mountains (and the carvers' houses) are as much a part of the conceptual architecture of gormenghast as the castle itself. the library of babel imo is a palace-- it's all there is.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
derivation from castrare
woah, deep dive into the essential boyhood-ness of castles
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
Crenellation or gtfo
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Ranier Wolf just over Frank.
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
i still haven't voted. leaning gormenghast.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
Watched Howl's Moving Castle again yesterday, still good
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link
act iv might steal it for elsinore. it's the way it looks on the page: all those little bitty scenes, characters running screaming in and out of them like rooms, gaps opening in the text like teeth falling from a skull. and structuring it all, this frantic series of settings:
IV.1: A room in the castle.IV.2: Another room in the castle.IV.3: Another room in the castle.IV.4: A plain in Denmark.IV.5: Another room in the castle.IV.6: Another room in the castle.IV.7: Another room in the castle.
frankly shocked there's no modernist novel called another room in the castle
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
good spread
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 04:10 (five years ago) link
Old Lunch, thank you for remembering Otranto. I had a spaced-out think once about a South Korean film adaptation of the novel after watching The Wailing. Think it would do well tbh.
― fancy the Dirkishness of carrying Doré a round (fionnland), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 07:34 (five years ago) link
I think I voted Kafka
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 10:26 (five years ago) link
Just finished looking at Art Of Ian Miller and the castles are just spectacular.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 22 August 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Moon's Spawn
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fcmKMSyToyw/WKTocIUT0iI/AAAAAAAAPOY/vGtzs7BrXs8si3PmOIL6QOZhMt2_i8onQCLcB/s1600/Malazan%2BBook%2Bof%2Bthe%2BFallen.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
Belated write-in for The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit
― Lear, Tolstoy, and the Jack of Hearts (Lily Dale), Monday, 22 August 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Castle, We Have Always Lived in the, Shirley Jackson
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
see also: Castle, I Capture the, Dodie Smith
― Lear, Tolstoy, and the Jack of Hearts (Lily Dale), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link