#John Ford Point

[rabbitcruiser]

Monument Valley, AZ (No. 8)

Good question. Maps aren’t exactly ALL CAPS-ing its name. And part of the charm of Monument Valley National Park is its remoteness, about 60 miles west of the zero-dimensional Utah–New Mexico border on U.S. Highway 163. (You should probably go ahead and check Four Corners off your bucket list while you’re in the neighborhood.)

A 14-mile graded dirt road will show you around most of the major monuments — The Mittens, Three Sisters, John Ford’s Point, Totem Pole, Yei Bi Chai and Ear of the Wind. Navajo guides can lead you deeper, into Mystery Valley, Hunts Mesa and more. A handful of outfits will show you through the area on horseback, just the way people have been exploring it for hundreds of years. 

There are plenty of things to see in Monument Valley, including natural bridges and a wealth of Anasazi ruins. Find them on one of a dozen hikes nearby (mostly easy with a few that get tricky).

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[davidryanphoto]

Arizona Rocks

My home state of Arizona is a very good place to see rocks, as well as those places that use to be filled with rocks, and since rocks in their natural habitat don’t move very fast I don’t often get blurred pictures. What follows is another sampling of recently scanned transparencies from earlier in my career, photos that have now been saved for posterity (yeah, sure, as if digitalization ever…

[lovz2hike]

Monument Valley Road Trip - Part 1

May 2023 – Valley of the Gods, Goosenecks Park, Forest Gump Highway & Monument Valley Our weekend adventure this time took us to the south east corner of Utah and the north east corner of Arizona. Our road trip was a total of 1460 miles give or take. We started around noon on Friday as we drove through traffic of Southern California Highway 15 to the 40. Once on the 40 we went straight through…

[leavemetoexist]

I do believe fictional characters can fix me with their own mental decline.

[stitched--skins]

The girls are fightingggg

[liliavalley]

someone on twitter had the idea of a malevolent / gravity falls crossover where Arthur and John end up in Oregon instead of 13th century England and now I can’t get it out of my head…

[spockvarietyhour]

Angel S04E01 "Deep Down" (2002) & Stargate Atlantis S05E01 "Search and Rescue" (2008)

[fetchmearum420]

Y’all I think I’m tripping but Is this David Ford? It looks basically exactly like him but I also doubt it’s him. Idek.

HELP

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Ford. Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them. Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid; and our revolted wives share damnation together. Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and wilful Actæon; and to these violent proceedings all my neighbours shall cry aim. [Clock heard.] The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is there: I will go.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act III, Scene II)

[theknitpotato]

Desert Road in Monument Valley, Arizona, is one of the most iconic and picturesque stretches of road in the American Southwest. Officially known as U.S. Route 163, this road winds through the dramatic red sandstone buttes and mesas that characterize the region, offering breathtaking views that have been immortalized in numerous films, advertisements, and photographs. The landscape is marked by towering monoliths that rise from the desert floor, creating a surreal and timeless vista. This area, located within the Navajo Nation Reservation, holds significant cultural and spiritual importance to the Navajo people, adding a layer of historical and cultural richness to the stunning natural scenery.

Monument Valley itself is not just a natural wonder but also a cultural landmark. The road offers access to various viewpoints and trails where visitors can experience the grandeur of the landscape up close. One of the most famous viewpoints is the stretch of road leading up to Forrest Gump Point, where the character famously ended his cross-country run in the movie "Forrest Gump." Traveling along Desert Road, visitors can stop at designated pullouts to take in the panoramic views, enjoy guided tours with Navajo guides, and visit landmarks such as the Totem Pole, the Mittens, and John Ford's Point, named after the legendary filmmaker who frequently used the valley as a backdrop. The experience of driving through Monument Valley on Desert Road is not just a journey through a stunning landscape, but a passage through a living cultural and cinematic heritage.

[g4zdtechtv]

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[rabbitcruiser]

Monument Valley, AZ (No. 9)

​​The earliest people to mark the area were the Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloans, who settled in around 1200 BCE. Their art and building structures remain, hinting at an ancient resourcefulness that found promise in a foreboding desert.

The Navajo culture took root centuries before Spaniards entered the area in 1581, and 250,000 of their descendants still live on the 16-million-acre Navajo Nation. Monument Valley is a window into their culture. Explore their history, their way of life, their cuisine and their art. You can even take a little home in the form of handmade jewelry or a dyed wool rug.

Monument Valley isn't a national park. It's not even a national monument. But it's as American as it gets.

Movie Magic

Monument Valley captured a larger audience’s attention via director John Ford’s Westerns. Beginning with 1939’s “Stagecoach,” starring John Wayne, Ford’s many happy returns to Monument Valley shaped how much of the outside world pictures the American West. 

It has since been featured as a backdrop in countless movies, including 1994’s “Forrest Gump.” Put on your smiley face T-shirt and a trucker hat to pose at the finish line — you know, where the title character said he was tired. Groupies not required. 

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[heavenlymorals]

I feel like a lot of people forget that the Van Dir Linde gang was actually famous in their universe- Dutch Van Dir Linde was as famous as the real life Butch Cassidy. The gang had as much infamy as the Wild Bunch or the Dalton gang. Arthur Morgan, John Marston, Bill Williamson, Javier Esculla, Lenny Summers, Charles Smith, Sean McGuire and more were probably as famous as the real life Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Black Bart, Rufus Buck, Ike Clanton, the Sundance Kid, Wild Bill Hickock, and more.

Sadie Adler would've been just as famous. She was a gunslinger like the real life Calamity Jane and Anne Oakley and she was an outlaw at one point like Laura Bullion, Pearl Hart, Belle Star, The Cassidy Sisters, and more.

The other women of the camp would've probably been less popular but still very intriguing figures to people in the future.

In the newspapers, we see that there are songs about Dutch's boys and books too. Trelawny mentions them being on dime novels. In the future, the pieced together story of the Van Dir Linde gang might've gotten adapted into a movie, similar to "Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid" or "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". They could've gotten biopics, documentaries, and more.

Historians and fans of the wild West era would dig up records, find pictures, and maybe even track down people who were apart of the gang, accomplices to the gang, or victims of the gang. They would try to piece together stories to figure out the mystery of what actually happened to the gang.

People would argue over things that happened in the gang and have their evidence to back it up. Letters written by gang members would become so valuable. If they ever someone come across Arthur's journal, it would probably be considered one of the most valuable pieces of documentation to ever exist for that time period.

The guns of the gang would probably be kept in museums if found. Albert Mason's portrait of Arthur Morgan would be found in history books, same as other pictures.

Dutch would probably be a very controversial figure in history- some would hail him as a failed hero and others would condemn his violence no matter the reason- they wouldn't know what the people in the gang knew- especially in the end. Same with the rest of the gang members.

They'd probably all get romanticized. Hosea and Dutch's friendship, the raising of the boys, Dutch and Annabelle and his fued with Colm, Mary and Arthur, John and his family, Javier being a revolutionary- no one would know the full story.

And then there is Jack- he may live to see the 1960s and 70s and 80s. He may have grandchildren who'd pull him into a theater to watch a retelling of the gang that he was a part of at one point. He'd be amused. He'd think that the actor playing his father was too clean looking, too pretty. He'd think that the movie Arthur was too skinny. He'd think that the man playing Dutch had a funny voice as he tried to mimic the accent. He'd laugh and make notes in his head of the historical accuracy. He'd feel sorrowful at the deaths of the characters- he knew them at some point. And no one at the theater would know that the old man with the rowdy bright eyed boys who brought him there was Jack Marston, the last of the Van Dir Linde gang.

Jack might talk about it to the public. He might do interviews. He might even write a book about his father, the infamous John Marston. Those would be priceless. Even Beecher's Hope might be kept around and visited as a historical site for history goers.

And honestly? It is such a bittersweet thing.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney at the British Library event Why We Need Fantasy 20.11.2023 :) ❤

Neil: I don't remember if it was you or John M. Ford, the late Mike Ford, who pointed out to me first that there is a thing that I do that I was not aware of doing. And it was.. and I remember this being pointed out to me at the time of the publication of American Gods. Or possibly even before it was published, when I sent it out a manuscript. Because it was pointed out to me that one way that you can tell that you're entering the third act of a Neil Gaiman story is there is always a kiss that sort of ends the second act. And it's never a sort of romantic kiss. It's always a kiss that is unexpected and a little bit wrong, but it symbolizes where we're going to go next.

Roz: Yeah, that was Mike, it's too smart for me.

Neil: That was Mike. And I remember arguing with him and then him pointing out that all the places I'd done it. And then I did it again in the Anansi Boys and didn't realize that I'd done it. And then I forget about this thing. And I saw somebody on Tumblr had found an interview with me from 2002 where I'm talking about this and the kiss, and they're like, 'Still doing it then'.

:)) Yep, Neil is still doing it :D <3 (this is the tumblr post)

You can watch the whole event here :).

[bigfootsboytoy]

Robin is positive that Steve isn't straight. At first, she thought she was projecting. Maybe she just wanted to share another aspect of herself with her best friend, but no. She's very confident now. The way Steve acts sometimes makes it so obvious. He's listened to her talk about how scary it is, being a lesbian in a town like Hawkins, and he talks to her about it like he undertands, even if he doesn't realize it. She roped him into watching a movie with a gay couple in it, and Steve's eyes lit up seeing two men kiss on screen. He once cracked a joke about going on a date with a guy that sounded far too sincere to be a joke. She knows, deep in the depths of her very soul, that Steve is a little bit queer.

And she could prove it if she could just figure out what his type is

She's been doing research, real genuine research into what male celebrities are considered hot. Finding movies with said supposedly hot men and making Steve watch them with her. But there's nothing! No reaction, not even the slightest blush when Harrison Ford was sweaty and shirtless right before his eyes. It isn't until she gets him to watch Rocky Horror that she finally catches something. Tim Curry in all his fishnet-clad glory brings a flush to Steve's cheeks. One that gets even worse when the character dons a leather jacket halfway through. It isn't much, but it's enough.

She mentally tallys everything about Tim Curry in that movie. Dark eyes, curls, makeup, tights, and especially the leather. She tries not to get her hopes up too high, knows that Tim Curry was wearing feminine clothes and makeup in the movie, so maybe Steve was just thrown off and confused, but it's a start at least. She makes a new list of movies, and pays close attention to his reactions.

The real breakthroughs come with The Lost Boys and The Breakfast Club. Lost Boys had been planned, one of her choices designed to illicit a response from Steve. Lots of pretty boys, some with dark curly hair, some with big dark eyes, and quite a few wearing leather jackets. Steve had been interested, that was for sure, a lot more than he had in the other movies she'd shown him. The Breakfast Club was a surprise. It had been one of Steve's picks, and Robin hadn't even been paying close attention. But it was impossible to miss the way Steve's eyes shot to the screen every time John Bender was speaking.

So, Robin has an answer. Steve Harrington liked bad boys. Men with dark hair and dark eyes, clad in leather with attitude for miles. Not what she had been expecting, but she's delighted, to say the least.

The delight only grows when Eddie Munson comes into their lives, and she gets a front row seat to Steve Harrington's Big Gay Meltdown. Eddie ticks off all Steve's boxes. Dark curly hair, big brown doe eyes, leather and denim from head to toe, and he has the attitude. But he checks off other boxes too, ones Robin hadn't even realized existed. He checks off the 'great big nerd' box. Because when she thinks about it, yes. Steve surrounds himself with exclusively nerds. He checks off the 'good with kids' box effortlessly, to the point that Robin almost screams when she hears Steve telling Nancy about his six kids and a winnebago dream, because Eddie basically already has part-time custody of Steve's weird gaggle of gremlin children. He tickes off the 'queer as fuck' box too, if Robin's judgement is any good, and she was pretty sure it was. The bandana in his pocket seems like a pretty good sign, if the zines she had smuggled on a family trip to Indy were to be trusted.

Eddie Munson is perfect for Steve, in every way possible, Robin is sure of it. So needless to say, shes thrilled when Steve finally, FINALLY pulls her into the crappy little bathroom at Family Video and asks her how she realized she was gay. This is going to be the start of a beautiful little journey for them both, Robin is going to welcome it with open arms.

Part 2

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Ships

Week Ending October 14th, 2024

Billford Bill Cipher & Ford Pines, Gravity Falls

Poolverine Wade Wilson & Logan Howlett, the Marvel universe

Agathario +1 Agatha Harkness & Rio Vidal, Agatha All Along

Phan +1 Daniel Howell & Phil Lester, YouTubers

Fiddauthor -2 Fiddleford McGucket & Stanford Pines, Gravity Falls

Destiel Dean Winchester & Castiel, Supernatural

Satosugu +2 Gojo Satoru & Geto Suguru, Jujutsu Kaisen

Buddie -1 Evan Buckley & Edmundo Diaz, 9-1-1

Loustat +6 Louis de Pointe du Lac & Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the Vampire

Sonadow +3 Sonic & Shadow, Sonic the Hedgehog

Narilamb +1 Narinder & the Lamb, Cult of the Lamb

Zosan -2 Roronoa Zoro & Vinsmoke Sanji, One Piece

Megop +5 Megatron & Optimus Prime, Transformers

Checkmates Kinger & Queenie, The Amazing Digital Circus

Bucktommy -7 Evan Buckley & Tommy Kinard, 9-1-1

Ineffable Husbands +4 Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens

Togachako Himiko Toga & Ochako Uraraka, Boku no Hero Academia

Ghostsoap Simon “Ghost” Riley & John “Soap” MacTavish, the Call of Duty franchise

Jegulus -2 James Potter & Regulus Black, the Harry Potter universe

Radioapple -9 Lucifer Morningstar & Alastor, Hazbin Hotel

The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from the previous week. Bolded ships weren’t on the list last week.