Mothers In Fantasy Books

2024-05-11ใซๅ…ฑๆœ‰
Happy Mother's Day to every mother who's doing their best and any other people who have struggles with the concept of Mother's Day ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’–
In this video, I'm talking about different representations of mothers and motherhood in some of my favourite fantasy books.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:49 The Default
2:35 Supportive Mothers
4:02 Step/Substitute Mothers
5:44 Mothers Have Lives Too!
8:44 Struggling Mothers
10:46 Motherhood Isn't A Choice for Everyone
12:15 Mothers without Children :(
13:14 Bad Mothers
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  • @amusicalbookworm
    Love these examples and the range of situations that you talk about!
  • @JashanaC
    Love how you approached this video! Great recs!
  • @reading_faerie
    This is a great video penny! Motherhood is a spectrum and youโ€™ve nailed it
  • @reading_faerie
    14:46 my fave mother from fantasy is Orka from the shadow of the gods!!! Absolutely looooove her and of course Silence ๐Ÿ’—
  • @reading_faerie
    5:45 Silence from shadows for silence is also a great quasi mother the older daughter is hers and the younger girl she adopted ๐Ÿ’—๐Ÿ’— and she IS the main character we love Silence in this house l
  • @reading_faerie
    13:27 lol I can attest to this statistic where a lot of the time ITS NOT worth making amends ๐Ÿ˜‚