#CotIG

[alopiassupersillyosus]

So I have ADHD to the point it's gotten hard to read physical novels. My friend and I have been listening to the audiobook versions of Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, and there isn't one for Dragons of Winter. As a result, we're going to record a chapter each, alternating as we go, and send the audio to each other. I bought the hardcover online and:

IT'S ARRIVING ON CARETAKER DAY Y'ALL

I'm excited. 10/10 good job Simon and Schuster

[teabooksandsweets]

According to a poll, very many people on tumblr do not know who Tummeler is.

Mr. B. Tummeler is the father of Uncas and the grandfather of Fred, and he lives on Paralon. He is a renowned foodie, playwright and publisher. He also compiled the Library of Alexandria into one volume.

He looks like this:

[tinkerbelldetective]

Eat a blueberry muffin today in honor of our favorite badgers and scowler!

Happy Caretaker Day!

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

I wonder what would happen if Don Quixote after some severe head trauma found himself in Camelot in stead of our beloved Connecticut Yankee. Alternatively, if Hank found himself squire to the good Lord of Lamancha in place of Sancho or a certain badger. Either scenario sounds interesting. Like…what if Don Quixote crossed paths with King Pellinore? Imagine that

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

Need to find the source on this….need to keep this new info in mind for Scowlery reasons.

@anyawen @dragonautical @imaginarydiscographies @feadaeGiven the subject of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Bigfoot feel I should tag the lot of you in particular

Now I just want a Buzzfeed Unsolved esque thingamajig staring Arthur Conan Doyle and Houdini…it would be amazing!

TIL that in 1903, a man named George Edalji was convicted of killing and mutilating livestock in Staffordshire.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, being interested in justice, took up the cause of freeing Mr. Edalji, as he believed the conviction was based on racism rather than evidence. His efforts eventually led to Edalji's pardon and an overhaul of legal proceedings. Edalji went on to become a lawyer, himself.

This is all very interesting and significant, but the punchline of the story is that Conan Doyle, being also interested in bullshit, had an alternative suspect for the livestock deaths. He thought it was Bigfoot.

[caretakerday]

The slim, cream-coloured note may just as well have been inserted into a bottle and tossed into the ocean rather than sent by post, for by the time John received it, the professor was already dead...

It's one week 'till caretaker day, and also the date Prof. Sigurdsson wrote the note that brought John to London.

[Image ID: A note written in cursive with black ink, dated March 9, 1917 which reads:

My Dear John,

Please make all haste to London. There is much, too much I'm afraid, that should have been explained to you well before now. I only pray that this letter finds you well enough to travel, and that you will bear me no ill will for what is to come. I do not know if you are ready, and that is my own burden to bear. But i believe you are able, and mayhap that is enough.

I hope it is.

Professor Sigurdsson

End ID]

[shranstan]

I may be the one of the 5 people in the universe that read Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica as a child and well. The quote (idk how its in the original cuz I read them in my native lang) of [ “Here be dragons” on a map isn’t a word of warning or a threat, they’re a word of reassurement and comfort] has stuck with me for years. I remember as a 10 yo I could barely comprehend what was going on in books 3-5 but the vibes of this series.. maaaaan

[souperluminal]

Happy Caretaker Day!

[cotigreadathon-archive]

(2/2) The Here, There Be Dragons Illustrations.

[galahadiant]

too late for Caretaker Day by a couple of weeks, but a redraw of my four-year-old cotig version of the best McElroy bit (in theory I'll color this later. maybe.)

[alopiassupersillyosus]

Heard it was a special day today, had a thought, it has been peer reviewed.

[teabooksandsweets]

In all fairness, if we're really discussing first lines, well – while I second all (or most) those well-beloved and famous ones, I do want to mention the first line of Here, There Be Dragons as an excellent line to start a series:

The slim, cream-colored note may just as well have been inserted into a bottle and tossed into the ocean rather than sent by post, for by the time John received it, the professor was already dead.

[tinkerbelldetective]

I hope James A. Owen knows he is one of the greatest fantasy writers

[sublimegentlemanalpaca]

Can’t recall if Poe has been brought up in the Amelia Project (save his work being referenced) as a previous client and don’t know if he’ll be brought up later (nearly through season four)…but now imaging CotIG Hawthorne and Poe getting the Amelia Project (though I suppose this would be prior to that name) to fake Poe’s death. I wonder what the Interview thinks about Pistachios…

[imaginarydiscographies]

Only like, two people will get this, but Eskel from the Witcher (Netflix) and Chaz from the Chronicles of the Imaginary Geographica. Here is my evidence:

Trees

Fire

Scars

Stinky rat man version of a Real Boy

[ewokkiddo]

@cannondisabledcharacters His arm is missing in of them except for The First Dragon, but because of time travel, the actual amputation actually happens in The Indigo King or The Shadow Dragons, I think.