#Fantasia Gardens

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Discovering the Magic of Disney's Fantasia Gardens (Part Two)

Need something to do on a non-park day? Want to take a break from the parks Play some mini golf at Fantasia Gardens! (part 2)

In the previous article, we visited the front half of the Gardens course of Fantasia Gardens. In this article, we will visit the back half of the course. Three ostrich ballerinas Finishing the front half of this course, we pay a visit to a few dancing ostrich ballerinas. This hole is a simple, winding course and shouldn’t pose too much difficulty. The only challenge is the length, since it’s a…

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secret garden ⋆｡˚🌿•✧˖°🧚🏻｡𖦹⋆🍃✧°.

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hanging out in the giants garden

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Help.

Is there an order you're supposed to read the Geronimo Stilton books in???? If so which one's the first???

Well, yes there is an order to the books, but you can read them in any order you want! If you wanna read them in chronological order tho then uuuuhhhhhhh depends on the language you read them in because publishing orders differ depending on the language.

Since you said you’re gonna read them in Italian, uhhhhhhhhhhh I’m not entirely sure because I don’t read the books in Italian (unfortunately) and the Geronimo Stilton official website doesn’t have their Library of Alexandria of a catalogue of the Italian main books for some reason (if I’m reading stuff correctly) :/

Soooo ye just grab whatever’s at the thrift store and read away HAHAHAHAH the rest of the fandom I believe can give you book recs if they feel so inclined

Welcome to the Stilton fandom, my friend, hope you enjoy the madness brainrot :3

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81st Annual Golden Globe Awards - Sunday Jan 7th, 2024.

I usually like Margot's red carpet choices, but two shades of pink in my eyes is a big no no. The dress alone is pretty but not the lace. Selena she can look absolutely beautiful, but I'm not sure what this is...

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Você é o que você sonha e ama!

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In the ongoing discussion of aphantasia (see "an aphantasia fantasia" tag for more) an article popped up recently which has some details to share, including a history of how aphantasia was discovered in the scientific sense. I don't have "spatial thoughts" the way the author does, but it's also a pretty good discussion of how people who don't form mental images (or can't access sound, smell, etc in their minds) still interact normally with the world.

Here's some fucked up shit I didn't expect, however:

In a 2015 paper, a group of researchers [...] identified a new syndrome they called “Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory,” or SDAM for short. People with SDAM lack the ability to relive past experiences in their minds. While this condition is rare among the general population, a preliminary survey hints at a link with aphantasia, with as many as 51 percent of a sample of 2,000 SDAM individuals also having aphantasia. My own experience is similar. Past episodes of my life—when I can recall them at all—feel distant and non-sensory. [...] I would describe my recollections as summaries of key facts rather than first-person “mind movies.” When asked, out of the blue, about an experience I’ve surely had—say, any childhood birthday party—my mind first responds by drawing a blank. It feels as if my episodic memories were filed into a “mental cabinet” without an index. Many memories are in there, somewhere, but retrieving them is a daunting task unless I’m provided with very specific prompts. With some groping work of deduction (where did I live at the time? Who did I hang out with?) I can gather enough hints to bring out some locations and non-visual facts: I had a big party in our countryside garden when I was 11 or 12; there was cake; a lot of kids running around and … that’s about it.

This is one hundred percent how I access memory and how I assumed everyone did -- I am well aware I don't remember chunks of my past (or only remember them if prompted by something) but I do the same thing he does. I ask myself where I was living, or what other things were happening at the time, or I snag on a rare memory of a piece of clothing or a feeling, and I extrapolate from there. I don't relive memories in the way that the article implies regular people do, and while I will recognize say, the smell of a specific library, a deeply ingrained scent for me, I don't remember the smell if I'm not standing there smelling it. And this explains my dedication to making an annual photobook documenting the past year, each December -- the photobooks are powerful memory triggers and have more than once reminded me where I was or what year it was when I did XYZ thing.

Also, turns out that one of the key methods for emotional regulation in most people is calling up a happy memory to counteract sad ones, which is why depression is so pervasive, because depressed people have literal biological impairments to remembering or reliving positive memories.

And SDAM, associated with aphantasia, is an impairment to reliving any memory at all, so...

Big ol' neurological yikes, guys.

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posting this on its own as well :) template and idea from @trollmaiden and full guide/sources under cut

"La Belle Dame sans Merci” by Henry Meynell Rheam

by Ayami Kojima 

“The Fairy Lovers” by Theodor Richard Edward von Holst 

Gnomes from the novel The Little Grey Men, written and illustrated by “BB” (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)

Nyform Norwegian troll

“Little Red Mischief” by Amy Brown

Faery from “The Hallow” dir. Corin Hardy, SFX by John Nolan

Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, illustrated by Jane Ray

The Beast from Over The Garden Wall, created by Patrick McHale

“Morgan Le Fay” by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Unicorn foal sculpture by SovaeArt https://www.deviantart.com/indigo-ocean/gallery

Faery from Good Faeries, Bad Faeries by Brian Froud

“Dusk” by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law

Honeythorn Gump from “Legend” dir. Ridley Scott

Oona from “Legend” dir. Ridley Scott

Flora, Fauna and Merryweather from “Sleeping Beauty”, art direction by Eyvind Earle

Bilbo Baggins from a Dutch edition of JRR Tolkein’s The Hobbit, illustrated by Kees Kelfkens(?)

Selkie depicted on a Faroese stamp

Chortlebones from Bella Sara, illustrated by Lynn Hogan

Huldra from the game “Year Walk” 

The Sprite from Fantasia 2000, segment directed by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi

and 23 Costume designs for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Robert Courtneidge

As above

Tinker Bell from Peter Pan (2003) dir. PJ Hogan

Hoggle from Labyrinth, designed by Brian Froud and created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop

Mr Tumnus from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe dir. Andrew Adamson

Tom Bombadil from JRR Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings, illustrated by Tim Hildebrandt

The Green Man (source unclear)

Illustration for Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men by Robyn Haley

Truffle from Adventure Quest

 Littlest Pet Shop fairy

Woodland Furby made by me :) Please do not call him cursed

The Psammead from the BBC’s TV adaptation of E Nesbitt's Five Children and It, dir. Marilyn Fox

Thranduil, King of the Wood Elves from The Hobbit, dir. Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass

Nøkken by John Bauer

Gizmo from Gremlins dir. Joe Dante, creature design by Chris Walas

Gollum from JRR Tolkein’s The Hobbit, illustrated by Tove Jansson

Soot Sprite from Spirited Away dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Gonk

“The Junk Lady” from Labyrinth; concept art by Brian Froud

Domovoi by Vladimir Chernickov

Falkor from The Neverending Story dir. Wolfgang Petersen, creature design by Patrick Woodroffe

Cherry Fairy from Webkinz

Titania from Vertigo Comics, illustrated by Matt Dixon

Wind Drifter, My Little Pony G1

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Discovering the Magic of Disney's Fantasia Gardens! (Part One)

Need something to do on a non-park day? Want to take a break from the parks Play some mini golf at Fantasia Gardens!

Prior to a recent vacation, the Disney World website was having difficulty processing my reservation and recommended I call their reservation line, (407) W-Disney. Once my reservation was booked over the phone, I looked at it online and found, to my surprise, it was a vacation package! Not only that, but the vacation package was cheaper than what I was going to pay, had a better room (water…

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Imagining fairy tales as Disney Golden Age animated films:

Thumbelina

The opening storybook is about her mother wanting a child and planting the flower seed to get one.

The story then starts with Thumbelina's "birth" from the flower. She's presented as not quite an infant, but as a very young child. Long sequences of her exploring the cottage and garden of her home.

A lot of work put into perspective--keeping this at Thumbelina's level, showing the world as a huge place. Extreme work put into details because everything is oversized. It's beautiful, very realistic, almost bankrupts them, and no one appreciates it.

The mother is rotoscoped, while Thumbelina herself is a bit more cartoony.

All the animal friends in this story are extremely cute. The toads sit in this uncanny valley between cartoonish and realistic that makes them scary in a different way than was intended. A particularly silly-looking screenshot of one of them becomes a meme.

Thumbelina's main struggle is staying cheerful through all her dangerous misadventures. She succeeds, with song.

The mouse is a somewhat comic, somewhat anthropomorphized mouse. She's a mother figure who's more demanding than the idealized human mother of Thumbelina's carefree childhood.

Thumbelina is an excellent housekeeper for the mouse and nurse to the injured swallow.

The mole is presented as a comic character who turns unexpectedly sinister when Thumbelina resists his marriage proposal. There's a nightmare sequence of Thumbelina going into his tunnels and feeling trapped and fleeing with terror into the sunlight.

It ends with a very Fantasia-esque ballet-inspired sequence as Thumbelina finds a home among the flower fairies.

The Goose Girl

Opening storybook explains how the princess is sent off to marry a prince, the handmaid is jealous, and steals the princess' identity, forcing her to work as a goose girl.

The goose girl is very kind to her geese. The geese are cute and provide lots of silly little slapstick interludes set to music.

Falada is pastured with other horses nearby, and the goose girl talks to him. He's a very expressive animal companion, but still silent.

The prince meets the goose girl unexpectedly in the pasture. They get a cute little love duet.

The handmaid gets threatened by this and recruits Conrad the goose boy to kill the goose girl.

The wind is presented early on as another living thing that the goose girl is kind to. Perhaps a windy day is causing her trouble, and she unthinkingly is like "Stop it!" as it sends some adorable little goslings tumbling over each other. And then it turns out the wind is a living creature, and takes various shapes with leaves and things, and proves to be a bit bashful at being scolded, and has a long sequence of helping to tidy up and generally being playful.

When Conrad tries to kill the goose girl, she calls on the wind for help, and it becomes this terrifying elemental force that leaves her and us shocked at what she's just unleashed.

The princess flees and runs into the prince, who is unable to get the full story out of her (either because she's too terrified to think straight, can't speak because of some vow, or has some reason to think she can't trust him).

Conrad runs back to the handmaid, who decides to kill the princess herself.

The princess tries to escape on Falada during a thunderstorm. The handmaid tries to chase her down and in the process Falada winds up getting killed or injured so the goose girl either has to flee on foot or just plain stop to help him, thus allowing the handmaid to catch up.

The geese and the wind work to get the prince there in time to hear the handmaid reveal that she's not the true princess and to save the true princess just as the handmaid winds up getting trampled/pushed over a cliff by her own horse.

Very brief happy ending--all sunshine and flowers and happy choir singing--as the goose girl goes back to the palace in the arms of her beloved and takes her place as the true princess.

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Praline (they/it)

A bat from the Keel Toys eco range, bought from the local garden centre before work yesterday morning. It originally had embroidered eyes that didn’t really suit a bat, so I replaced them with beady ones. Also gave it a wing ring made from a bit of ribbon!

Here were the original eyes. This embroidered style is cute sometimes but… could be more batty! I decided to try replacing them with safety eyes.

The cat in the background was waiting her turn.

‘This will be simple,’ I thought, ‘just like unpicking the patch from a Build-a-Bear, I will simply pick through all the threads and gradually pull them out.’

It turned out to be harder than that! There’s a lot of layers of thread to pick through, and the cut threads wouldn’t budge. I opened up the bat, turned the head inside out and tried picking at the other side too. That did loosen them, and I made some progress pulling them out, but…

Aaah! I’d torn a great big hole around the eye! Abort! Abort!

Change of plan! I cut out both eyes entirely.

Now I just have one spare eye like this btw. I should patch this onto something funny.

I ladder stitched both the holes closed. These holes are a significant size, so closing them up did have a noticeable effect on the face shape.

Luckily, the effect in this case was pretty good! Bats should have a pretty scrunchy little face anyway!

I popped a 7.5mm eye in a gap between my stitches to see. Aw yes, this works well! I fixed it in place, did the other eye, restuffed and sewed the back seam closed again.

One more thing to do… one of the feet was a bit blobbier looking than the other. A row of ladder stitching would sort that.

Lacing up the boot.

And pull! Now it matches the pointy toe of the other foot.

Bat salvaged! Didn’t go as planned but I got a good result in the end!

I was watching Fantasia while I did this.

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Rewind the Tape —Episode 7

Art of the episode

Only four days to go until the premiere, and we're finally wrapping up with the last post of our rewatch. Just like we did for the pilot and for episodes two, three, four, five, and six, we took note of the art shown and mentioned in the 7th episode while we rewatched it, and put together our notes for reference. And, now, we're sharing our notes on AO3 too.

Six épigraphes antiques

Claude Debussy, 1914

This suite was originally composed to be played as a duet, but Debussy re-transcribed it as a solo piece the next year.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch, 1503–1515

Original sin is the theme of Lestat's Mardi Gras ball. The triptych shows that sin "starts in Paradise or Eden on the left panel, with Adam and Eve, and is punished in Hell in the right panel. The centre panel depicts a Paradise that deceives the senses, a false Paradise given over to the sin of lust. This deception is encouraged by the fact that the centre panel is shown as a continuation of Eden through the use of a single, continuous landscape." [From Museo del Prado.]

Let them eat [King] cake!

A historical reference this time: this is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette. The quote can be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, published in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution, when Antoinette was nine years old; and was only attributed to her decades after her death.

Autumn at Arkville (again!)

We first saw this painting by Alexander H. Wyant in episode 2, in the du Lac family home! It was there during the funeral too but now, almost a decade after Grace left New Orleans, we see it in Rue Royale. We wonder: was this simple prop recycling, or should we ask ourselves how and why Louis came to have that keepsake from his family?

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Neck

Edgar Degas, 1898 [Identified by @nicodelenfent, here.]

This is the third Degas in Rue Royale! It's part of a series of studies of women drying after bathing, which includes charcoal sketches, and we suspect that the unidentified drawing from the hallway might be one of them.

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor

Ludwig van Beethoven, 1801

The closing song of the season is a classic, better known as the Moonlight Sonata, but the first edition of the score was headed by the title Quasi una fantasia or "almost a fantasy" (a fantasia is a musical composition with roots in improvisation).

The Graduate

Dir. Mike Nichols, 1967

Not exactly a reference, but Jacob Anderson shared in interview with Collider that Rolin directed them to play that scene thinking of the final moments of this movie. Have you taken the chance to watch it during the hiatus?

If you spot or put a name to any other references, let us know if you'd like us to add them with credit to the post! And we rounded up all the unidentified pieces in this post, in case you want to take a look and see if anything feels familiar!

We're super close to the second season, and we can't wait! Of course, we'll keep watching with an eye out for interesting references, and it's always easier to find them if we're working together. So, if you spot any interesting art pieces and other references in the second season, make sure to share with the class in the tag #vampterview, and @ us or use the tag #art of the episode if you'd like us to reblog your post into our dedicated tag for these references.

And don't forget to get your very own bingo card for the upcoming predictions bingo, here!