choptail - Tumblr blog

[choptail]

Behold Don Ross and his non-euclidean guitar (harp guitar)

the contrabass saxophone is such an absurd instrument

[choptail]

Blue Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon"  -   Eline Brontsema

Dutch, b. 1988 -

Woodcut, 68.2 x 51.3 cm

[choptail]

the next level of did you know viggo mortensen broke his toe when he kicked the helmet and is actually also screaming in pain there: did you know sean bean taped the script to his knee because they only gave him the script that morning and you can see him looking down when he says one does not simply walk into mordor

[choptail]

undefined

I did this compilation right after Vine went down, and I thought I lost it, but I finally found it

[choptail]

I think I may have solved a mystery that I didn’t even know was one.

So. In Peter Pan, the novel, this is the first mention of Captain Hook:

“Who is captain now?” “Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word. “Jas. Hook?” “Ay.” Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation. “He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily. “He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Later, we learn this:

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

“Barbecue” is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Jas. is short for James, but in “Captain Hook at Eton,” he’s also called Jacobus. The biblical figure Jacob was renamed Israel.

Blackbeard’s historical boatswain, and also a character in Treasure Island, was Israel Hands.

I’m just saying, if I got a hand chopped off and my last name was Hands… I might want to change it.

[choptail]

[choptail]

do you want to see the best trail cam photo ever

[choptail]

[choptail]

help girl i drifted out to sea [x]

[choptail]

Werewolf: *transforming* You have to go, now! I don’t want you to see me like this…

Human s/o: Don’t push me away! I’m not afraid of you!!

Werewolf: No no I’m just really dumb as a wolf and I don’t want you to see me bark at a mirror for two hours 

[choptail]

"This country is stunning, and to be out there on a horse that can gallop for hours just makes it all that better." - Phoebe de Raeve, Mongol Derby 2023

The Equestrianists

[choptail]

biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it's time for "do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it" and when it's time for "if it sucks hit the bricks"

[choptail]

??? what was going on in pennsylvania in 1796. why was a guy called Master Pancake running around grabbing wild bats

[choptail]

leave your laundry on the floor for them

[choptail]

cancel your plans we’re thinking about the pale blue dot voyager pic tonight

[choptail]

someone recommend me some good fantasy books that aren’t centred on a war, please, my crops are dying