#I loved this book as a kid
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flickeringflame216 · 2 years ago
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Green.
(For Book Ask Game)
A lovely color for the first ask! Thanks @lightthewaybackhome!
Green-The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
Spring! And the delights of the same, without its cleaning. The divine discontent with whitewash, the rush out of Mole's burrow, the fresh grass of the meadow, the start of the friendship between Mole and Rat, the sunshine sparkling on trees and water and filtering through leaves are the warm, goldeny-new green of April and May.
Drab and lifeless at first, then warming to sturdy, safe, and homey, olive encompasses the peril in the Wild Wood, and the subsequent relief of shelter and the meeting of Mr. Badger. Badger himself is olive green, I think--serious and solid and gruff, yet kind and dauntless.
Holly for the homecoming Mole finds by accident in Dolce Domum, with carols and feasting following upon the wake of tears and fatigue! Joy shall be theirs in the morning!
Toad's story, tumultous and full of puffed-up pride, swagger, and bluster, with just enough lovableness and hilarity to render him a sympathetic (if incorrigible) character, is unmistakably chartreuse.
Duck's Ditty is the cheery iridescent emerald of a mallard drake's feathers.
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is at once the misty sage of moonlight night giving way to foggy morning, the swaying verdant of reeds, the deep viridian of reverence and fear.
Calm and clear, beryl is the Return of Ulysses. After drifting on the sea for so long, at last the chaos of the fight has been cleared away and the four friends have won their happy ending.
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exzistence · 1 year ago
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Thank you Stellaluna
everyone show your respects to stelluna this month you hear me
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chase-prairie · 1 year ago
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Loving reminder from your land history auntie:
North American golf courses have had 50-100 years of arsenic and mercury based fungicide and herbicides applied to their soils.
Do not eat anything that has been grown on a golf course or downstream from a golf course. I know it sounds cool and radical, but you are too valuable to poison yourself with heavy metals.
Protect each other, turn your local golf course into a pollinator garden, not a sex forest or community garden.
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larissa-the-scribe · 10 months ago
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guys I had this realization the other day that Redwall works really well for reading aloud, and kinda half-remembered something about the author reading to kids? So I looked it up to see if I had made a connection.
And it turns out, yes, actually, because he read aloud to kids at a school for the blind. But all the books they gave him to read were depressing. So he wrote Redwall, a story about heroism and courage and making it through struggles, and filled it with so many sensory, visual details so he could give them something better and I just-- that's so wholesome-- help
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chalkrub · 21 days ago
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reminiscing about childhood books after that ask - all due respect to cool sleek movie toothless....but to me, he will always be a mean little gremlin
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applepixls · 2 months ago
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etho upon learning pots can be smashed by flying into them: "wait............. minigame!!!"
its like that one childrens book "if you give a mouse a cookie" except its "if you give a redstoner a new game mechanic"
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egophiliac · 1 month ago
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Hello ! I positively adore the running joke of Idia unknowingly finding Lilia to be the coolest guy ever whenever he doesn't know it's him, like when Silver described his father, or obviously with muscle red. I can't say what'd be funnier, Idia finding out his online best friend is actually Lilia, resident spooky hyper fairy; or them both never finding out, and it'd become even more ridiculous as time goes on. How do you think it'll play out ? You're always so on point
(Also, though it makes sense, I'm still devastated bat boy didn't get a ticket for the Halloween skeleton train : ( does anyone mentions him at some point ? Like how he'd have fit right in with all those Halloween town little freaks, and how he'd have impressed them with his spooks and scared techniques; after all he's been every Briar Valley's children worst fear on Halloween for centuries. I'm on the eng server and I didn't wanna spoil myself by watching the whole thing on youtube)
Have a nice day !
you and me both, Idia and Lilia being oblivious online BFFs (+ Idia being incredibly intimidated any time Silver brings up his jock gamer dad) is my favorite running joke/subplot. 🤝 it's SO good, to the point where I also am unsure if I actually want it to ever be resolved or not...maybe, like, as a post-canon stinger or something? everyone's standing around covered in overblot ink, and Idia and Lilia's phones go off at the same time...
(legit I do think this is part of why Idia couldn't be present for Lilia's dream, because for some reason Lilia decided he was going to just. embody his past self online. he probably quotes his own battle strategies or whatever in the middle of boss fights. Idia didn't pick up on the whole "oh how weird that we both live on a super remote island" thing, but he would spend thirty seconds listening to General Lilia describing siege warfare and be like "w-wait")
all that aside, however it does end up happening, I do see Lilia being very blasé and all "oh! cool!" about it. y'know, taking it very much in stride! and Idia...very much not.
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(can't tell if tumblr is going to chew this into illegibility or not, this will be a fun surprise ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)
as for Lilia sadly missing out on Halloweentown shenanigans...he does get one little mention as part of an offhand reference to the light music club, but so far no one has brought up how this basically is just Lost In the Book of Liliatown (Sebek's been too busy yelling about not getting to be in the same group as Malleus). 😔 honestly though, it's probably for the best that he got left out, because he would just settle right in and refuse to ever leave. canon would shatter. we would miss out on all the delightful angst of episode 7 because Lilia is too busy eating poisonous shrubbery inbetween practicing his very best screams, and no one can pull him away from it.
(I can hope for a sequel next year though...)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#gentle spoilers but y'know. just in case#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#most of the kitchen scene was jade messing with the firsties and that was so delightful that i didn't think til after#that you'd think sebek would have made some kind of reference to lilia 'i lost my tastebuds in the war' vanrouge's quote-unquote cooking#ah well. jade being mean is more than entertaining enough#looking forward to more of it tomorrow!#god. lilia and idia though.#lilia is like. genuinely idia's best friend and neither of them have any idea#and idia keeps doing that 'ha ha what if we were friends out of game too? what if we met offline? jk jk jk uNLESS...👉👈'#and then he immediately chickens out because he's so convinced that crimson will hate him if they ever met irl#(meanwhile lilia is just like 'my online bestie is so cool :) la la la')#they are both so stupid and i love them so much#i've just realized that i actually do want them to find out each other's identities#because idia doesn't just go to school with his online bff#he ALSO goes to school with his online bff's extremely supportive and extremely socially-inept kids#idia is going to get invited to dinner at diasomnia and it's going to be SO awkward#silver is going to give a long formal speech thanking him for being a stalwart comrade and trusted warrior brother to his father#as sebek stews in jealousy that idia got to fight by lilia-sama's side >:(#while idia sits there like 'all i did was link him a video about lane control for his character class'#malleus will make such an effort to learn literally anything about online gaming and he won't understand a word of it#it will be SUCH a disaster and i very much do want it now
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nenoname · 7 days ago
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Cute wholesome fics where Stan teaches Soos or Wendy how to drive were always so funny to me because...
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And while he insists that everyone in town has ran over McGucket before, we also know he ran over Toby too and absolutely did not give a shit (understandable in that case)
But then again...
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Also bless Mr Honeypants
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And another detail I love is that his car is casually filled with parking tickets
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How many tickets are in Ford's name...
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roninreverie · 2 years ago
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Loving this for her considering the US banned Tomie dePaola's books in schools for noodle-related witchcraft!
next year the usps is dropping a strega nonna stamp... Coveting
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softersynths · 24 days ago
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fine. here’s my take on “what if shifty was a fiddauthor yaoi baby with an actual character arc”. some details inspired by fics ive read
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one-real-imonkey · 3 months ago
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I cannot emphasise enough that I love Billford for the message it delivers.
The ship itself is toxic yes, Bill was manipulative and awful and ultimately using Ford. For fictional angst, that’s great. But it’s more than that.
Because Ford gets out.
Ford gathers his courage and cuts Bill out as best he can. He reaches out and it’s not easy but he gets free of Bill. He gets his family back, he gets his life back, he gets to move forward. There are bumps in the road ad setbacks but ultimately he wins. He gets to have an after.
And it shows just how scary that can be. The paranoia and the setbacks and the trust issues. The way people in those situations lash out and close themselves off and the way it takes time to recover and move forwards.
It’s a powerful message, and an important one, and that’s why I love the ship.
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turtletoria · 3 months ago
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the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid
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crustaceousfaggot · 3 months ago
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Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.
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Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too
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hyunpic · 5 months ago
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missshelleyduvall · 9 months ago
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I’ve loved them since day one
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vaguely-concerned · 5 months ago
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are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid
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