#Magical: Pippo

[alejumidrawings]

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[zeherili-ankhein]

Hello (｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡)

Intro Post... Everything under cut

Now that I have enough things my blog is dedicated to, I am posting this introduction post hehe...

About Me:

◍ Just call me “Shaku” lmao.... T_T

◍ I'm a minor, 16 year old studying in 11th class from Kolkata

◍ Yes I am Bangali, (bati ami.. maa ghoti, baba bangal lol)

◍ A proud Slytherin 🐍

◍ Bengali literatures I have read

◍ Thakumar Jhuli fan since the day I started watching (which is as a fucking 2 and a half year old lol)

Favourite ones are - ofcourse Shakchunni, Arun Barun o Kironmala, Monimala, Shahasradal o Champakdal, Sath bhai Champa, Lal Komol o Neel Komol and everything else..

◍ Pandob Goyenda fan forever

◍ I love Chhota Bheem and Shinchan so much

◍ And I absolutely love green 💚

◍ If I could I'd become a forest witch maybe... or a blue lotus... or a snake perhaps..

◍ ornithophobic, ophiophile, selenophile and floraphile

◍ Kolkata biriyani is the best 🗿

◍ Official MohiniChanchal child (fight me if you dare deny it)

◍ Pinterest board for Hindu mythology aesthetics

About the blog:

✿ Jily playlist I made –

✿ Incorrect quotes for Chhota Bheem and Shinchan. (I only post when I get enough ideas about the quotes lol)

Chhota Bheem community invitation anyone?

✿ My OTPs — Jily, Hinny, DekiNobi, Ronmione, GiyuShino, Sanekana, Tankana, Zennezu, Inoaoi, ObaMitsu, GojoHime, ChosoYuki, BellaDolphus, VanMozhi, HashiMito, MinaKushi, Ikarishipping, DesimChiyuki and a lot more...

✿ Rp blogs I own

– @peoplecallme-netaji

– @hansome-est-godofwar

– @miss-lily-evans

– @pavbhaji-prabhakar

– @laddoo-hain-drugs-nahi

– @topper-sugi

And some more... But why reveal them 🤭

✿ “The Cult of Vasant 🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🏵️💐🥀🪷🪻”

Cult Rituals, Vasant goes ham at LakshmiNarayan wedding, Vasant and Kamdev, Vasant in Treta Yug, Vasant and Hanuman, Vasant in Dwapar Yug, Vasant urban legend lore, Vasant admirers, Vasant food choises, sun sensetive Vasant, Dance teacher Vasant, Vasant and Holi and everything Vasant

Vasant x Neto shipper all the wayyyyyyyy

✿ Yamraj appreciation, un-villainizing Indradev, defending Shri Ram, defending Draupadi, Arjun better than Karna truer, Behula and Lakhindar are my babies and many more...

✿ The Black Family is my Roman empire honestly...

✿ DADDYMON truer 🗿

— Doraemon Rp blogs

— An original Dekisugi lore, and a small fic written on it curtsey to @/nobita-ki-mummy aka @/hi-avathisside

— Doraemon moodboards

Doraemon moodboard

Nobita moodboard

Shizuka moodboard

Gian moodboard

Suneo moodboard

Dekisugi moodboard

Pippo/Judo moodboard

Riruru moodboard

✿ Mythology, Hinduism, memes, magic and anything and everything honestly...

→ Voices of the Gods part 1

→ Voices of the Gods part 2

→ Kartikeya Da Peacock Dance Master

→ Shatrughan da Ghoomar master

→ Hindu gods modern au

✿ I paint and draw... And do origami. Which I sometimes posts.. (I especially like painting sceneries and Hindu gods and goddesses)

෴ Paper flowers part 1

෴ Paper flowers part 2

෴ Other paper stuff

෴ Kartikeya with Paravani art (with og lore)

෴ Shri Hari (pencil sketch)

෴ Murlidhar (pencil sketch)

෴ silly landscape

✿ Shaku tells stories (a series of me explaining some stories with my own added commentaries)

•• Arun Barun Kiranmala

•• Shohosrodol O Chompokdol

✿ No place for homophobes, transphobes, pedophiles, racists, misogynists or any hateful people on my blog

•• Rajkumar Upendro or Montriputro Shonkor

✿ @/foreignink is my tumblr bestie... I know her irl too and I love her more than most of the things in this world... Donchu dare say anything to her 🔪

[patemi-pk]

This post has the aim of collecting all those stories which have one or more of the following characteristics:

It is a modern story set in the past of our characters (mainly 1930s);

The characters embrace their classic looks (again, the 1930s one) and the artstyle should refer, at least partially, to that era;

It has connection to classic tales and/or there is interaction with their past selves, by time travel or other gimmick.

I think these bullet points are enough, but the kind of stories I'm choosing as the first slate, will explain the criteria better than words.

I TL 2243-1 Topolino e il fiume del tempo (Artibani-Faraci/Mastantuono)

I TLDLE39-1 Topolino e il cerchio del tempo (Artibani-Faraci/Mastantuono)

I TL 2979-1 Topolino e gli esploratori del domani (Artibani/Mastantuono)

I TL 3286-1 Topolino e l'avventura su misura (Artibani/Pastrovicchio)

I TL 3467-1 Pippo e i bracciali di Maciste (Artibani/Pastrovicchio)

I TL 3576-2 Paperino e la banda del lupo (Artibani/Pastrovicchio)

I TL 3543 Quante storie, Topolino (Artibani/Pastrovicchio)

I TL 3130-1P Tutto questo accadrà ieri (Casty-Bonfatti)

I TL 3280-6P Tutto questo accadde domani (Casty-Bonfatti)

I TLSS 1 Che avventure, Topolino! (Casty)

I TL 2861-1 Topolino e il surreale viaggio nel destino (Gagnor/Cavazzano)

I TL 1672-B Paperino e l'insolito remake (Cavazzano)

I TL 1866-B Topolino presenta "La strada" (Marconi/Cavazzano)

I TL 2764-1 Topolino e l'ultimo caso (Faraci/Cavazzano)

I TL 1323-B Topolino e la trottola del tempo (Martina/Asteriti)

I TL 1424-AP Topolino e il cavallo venuto da lontano (Sciutto/Asteriti)

I TP 2-1 Topolino e il circo aereo (Ferrari/Asteriti)

I TL 1948-A Topolino e la magica lettura (Asteriti)

I TL 1716-A Topolino e l'incredibile avventura (Pezzin/Ubezio)

I TL 2262-1 Mio fratello Topolino (Palmas/Sciarrone)

I TL 3591-1 Topolino e il ritorno degli acchiappafantasmi (Barbieri/Vian)

D 2008-373 Lost on memory lane (Carol & Pat McGreal/Fecchi)

D 2000-022 Steamboat Willies (Petrucha/Ferioli)

D 2000-023 Clown of the Jungle (Hedman/Manrique)

D 2000-025 Donald's Snow Fight (Halas/Calvet Esteban)

D 2000-034 Mickey's Trailer (Ferioli)

D 2003-327 The mystery of Freefer Hall (Markstein/Ferioli)

F JM 89216 Mickey agent secret (Cochet/Ferioli)

F JM 94224 Mickey à travers le temps (Corteggiani/Marin)

F JM 2848-1 L'affaire des fraises (Trondheim/Chivard)

KJZ 136 The perils of Mickey (Weiss/DeStefano)

H 2019-058 Peter Bigs Orkest (Geradts/Perez-Fernandez)

H 2019-063 Ruilhandel (Geradts/Perez-Fernandez)

H 2019-044 Clock Cleaners (Gentina/Perez-Fernandez)

F DBG 1 Une mystérieuse mélodie (Cosey)

F DBG 4 Café "Zombo" (Loisiel)

F DBG 8 Horrifikland (Trondheim/Nesme)

F DBG 11 Le secret de Tante Miranda (Cosey)

F DBG 13 Les Vacances de Donald (Brremaud/Bertolucci)

F DBG 15 Terror Island (Nesme)

XPW OMF 1 Lonesome Ghosts... in the Machine (Artibani/Rigano)

XPW OMF 2 Exoplanet Trailer (Artibani-Camerini/Bigarella)

XPW OMF 3 Mickey Mouse Takes a Space Trip (Artibani-Savini/Perissinotto)

XPW OMF 4 Firefighters of Tomorrow (Artibani-Panaro/Soffritti)

XPW OMF 5 Starship Builders (Artibani-Sisti/Sciarrone)

XPW OMF 6 Mickey's Martian Rover (Artibani/Pastrovicchio)

XPW OMF 7 Robot Cleaners (Artibani-Panaro/De Lorenzi)

XPW OMF 8 Thru the Betaverse (Artibani/D'Ippolito)

XPW EM 1-1 Clocktower Cleaners (David/Sciarrone)

XPW EM 1-2 The Game's Afoot (David/Sciarrone)

XPW EM 1-3 One Scary Night (David/Sciarrone)

XPW EM 1-4 The Rubbish Cup (David/Sciarrone)

XPW EM 1-5 Oswald the Lucky Duck (David/Sciarrone)

XPW EM 1-6 There's a Hole in the Sky (David/Sciarrone)

XPW EM GN 1 Epic Mickey: The Graphic Novel (David/Celoni-Mottura)

XPW EM GN 2 Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Graphic Novel (David/Petrossi)

XN HOJ 2010-001 Just Like Magic (Gerstein/Kausler)

I've certainly missed some more of them or other will come to my mind later on and for this reason I'm leaving this as a collaborative work. Feel free to reblog adding stories to this list.

[protect-daniel-james]

mannnn i read ur inzaghis fic and it’s amazing.. i don’t typically read the more “taboo” types but your writing style is so amazing i had to give it a try, and you really blew me away— the way you write simone’s bitterness the way it turns into a twisted sort of loving advantage over his brother. the way u write is so magical and breathtaking specifically the lines “The older boys were annoyed with him, and then subsequently with Pippo as well, because he belonged to Pippo, he was his baggage, put on the bench, out of the way, right next to the jackets and sweaters that they didn’t need while playing.” “Simone realized one simple truth that he could rely on - that his brother adored him.” + that whooole section about the Piacenza shirt. marvelous

Oh my God thank you so much for this comment! This means a lot, especially since I struggled with this story in the past week. One of the reasons I decided to make it a two-chaptered fic was that I couldn't write some scenes that are supposed to be in the second part, and I was just feeling really frustrated and unmotivated, like, who is even gonna read this?, so to have someone who would not normally read a fic like that actually read it and give me feedback means a lot to me! Thank you for your nice words!

I just love exploring this type of relationship, not only for the taboo's sake, but because it's so interesting to me to think about the family dynamic, and how the joint career in football might (must?) have influenced the way they viewed each other... And I love toxic dependent relationships, haha. Hopefully, the second part will be just as good!

[talesofourworlds]

Some ramblings relevant to the Legendia manga now that I've looked through it, mostly just things of note. Under the cut because spoilers. Yes I know the game is eighteen years old now but shush. Spoilers.

We see a bit of Senel and Shirley's life before their arrival on the Legacy in the beginning of the manga before Cashel tracks them down and they're forced to leave. Their arrival on the Legacy is more or less the same, minus Walter's teriques attacking them during the storm. Will is still the first to find them and Chloe arrives on the scene as well. We get a glimpse of Chloe's inability to swim.

Things are peaceful for the group in Werites Beacon for a while before Moses suddenly shows up and kidnaps Shirley. Also Jay shows up briefly to be a butt except Senel is not put in jail because of it. Then the group gets to Moses's lair and the Terrors attack. Stingle is with them, speedrun the reveal that Chloe knows him. Party splits not because Senel went off on his own but because of other reasons.

No Harriet, but Senel does meet Norma and the two do meet Jay. They do not escort Poppo to the village though. Will and Chloe show up too but after Norma and Senel have already been talking to Jay for a while.

We cut to the Waterways stuff and Moses interrupting the attack on the Terrors while everyone's trying to rescue Shirley, everyone goes into the Waterways and Melanie floods them. Interestingly, Jay travels with the group through the Waterways. Walter isn't introduced until after the Waterways stuff and Fenimore travels with Senel and co. Maurits arriving on the scene stops Walter from continuing to fight Senel and co.

There's no Whisper Crystal stuff, so no Grune arrival. In fact Grune doesn't show up until the beginning of the fifth book, after Stella's death. Also the fourth book is when Harriet shows up for the first time before disappearing again. For some reason Senel, Moses, Norma, and Chloe all get thrown in jail. I assume because the people of Werites Beacon thought they were doing something weird with Harriet because Moses had picked her up by the back of the dress. Also it's revealed much earlier that Musette is important.

The war stuff gets pretty condensed and the group gets split to fight one of the Terrors each. Jay and Moses get put against Cashel, Will and Norma are against Melanie, and Chloe and Senel are naturally against Stingle.

Pippo actually gets hurt protecting Jay from Cashel at one point! I honestly thought they killed him for a second from how Jay reacted, but honestly him reacting that way because one of his adoptive family got hurt makes sense. I guess the Oresoren decided to join in on the fight for a bit. Cashel also creates illusions of one of the Oresoren (I think it's Pippo, which is an extra ow factor) to throw Jay off. Moses and Giet save Pippo and help Jay beat Cashel. Pippo's okay, this is no longer the worst timeline.

I can only guess they didn’t want to just have Jay see through Cashel’s illusions and everything like in the game because it made for better storytelling? But it was kind of an odd decision to involve the Oresoren. It almost kind of feels like Cashel is stealing a little bit of Solon’s thunder by messing with Jay and using the Oresoren to do it. But they don’t touch on Jay’s character quest stuff at all so I guess that was all they could do.

I couldn't really tell what was going on with Melanie's fight but Will and Norma fight her. Stingle still gets away after Chloe and Senel fight him and then we just never see him again. Then Senel fights Vaclav.

It also looked like Norma gave Shirley her broach back after the Vaclav fight but I couldn’t be too sure. I’d love to pass these books to someone who could help translate but I don’t know anyone who could do that will just have to be a dream.

Stella still dies saving everyone from the cannon’s blast. Grune appears to talk to Senel for a second and then magically disappears. There's also some kind of argument between Senel and Shirley, I assume having to do with Stella. We still see Fenimore and Shirley having their moment of bonding. Sexist knight is also a thing but he is only around for a few panels total.

Now here's where things get interesting. Fenimore doesn't die during Shirley's ascension to Merines. In fact, she protects Senel from Maurits and joins the party for a while. Then Harriet returns and we see her beef with Will finally. Grune also finally joins up with everyone. Everyone goes to the Quiet Lands and Harriet comes with.

Then for some reason the manga speedruns Will's character quest?? None of the stuff involving the flowers, just... him and Harriet's relationship as father and daughter getting fixed. Which is fine, I guess, but things just come to a screeching halt so that this can happen. The party still learns the story of how the Orerines came to Shining Blue through the monuments but it's all very condensed. Then after all of that everyone goes back to Werites Beacon like nothing is wrong.

AND THEN THEY THROW MOSES'S CHARACTER QUEST AT US.

It's still pretty speedrunned but... it's Moses's character quest! Giet is going wild, he attacks Moses, the whole reveal about Moses and Giet's past is brought up, Giet straight up almost kills Moses from the look of it, Giet goes back to normal and makes up with Moses, and then it cuts back to the Quiet Lands and Moses is letting Giet go.

It's just??? Such a confusing decision for the manga! It brings everything to a screeching halt for this. And it's only Will and Moses that get their character quests represented! I just don't understand! Like the only other thing relevant to the character quests is Schwartz appearing in the background of a panel with Grune. A single panel. And she's in silhouette. I get they probably only had so many books to work with but it's a letdown.

There's no obtaining Sacred Eres either, which is a little disappointing. But then it doesn't seem like Nerifes took away the eres of the Orerines in the first place so? I guess it wasn't needed. Shirley also seems to be fighting Nerifes's hold on her before Senel and co fight Walter. Pretty sure Walter still dies, which is such a shame.

I forget when it was, but there’s also this whole section where Jay and Chloe are having some kind of argument? I wonder if it had to do with the idea of potentially killing Shirley if they couldn’t get through to her. It’s also worth noting that Maurits doesn’t reveal Senel’s past to Shirley at any point. Senel just is able to snap Shirley out of her possession and everything looks fine.

Nerifes still possesses Maurits, but there's also a bunch of background Ferines there during the fight with him that help break him out of it from the look of it. Also Senel doesn't fall off the Wings of Light and there's no Shirley jumping off to save him.

Overall it's not a bad adaptation of Legendia, but it does make some confusing decisions. Still worth it for the icon potential, though.

[stories-by-rie]

I think I actually might have a very loose idea for my very old WIP. I think I might recycle it for real, maybe? I think I might actually do this aaah

[missarrancar]

Topolino e i suoi amici in Disney Magico Artista 2 (1999) ❤️ 

Mickey Mouse and his friends in Disney Magic Artist 2 (1999)

[mariposasky]

Duck twins IV

SCENA IV

- … Quindi, frantumate fino a ottenere una polvere fine. Mi raccomando, schiacciate bene, dev'essere finissima- spiegò l'insegnante Blot camminando nell'aula sotterranea.

Donald afferrò delle zanne di serpente e li mise nel suo pestello. Iniziò a pestare, poi però si soffermò a pensare. Quante ne doveva mettere?

Una mano afferrò la sua ciotola, infilò una zanna di serpente e glielo ridiede, per poi riprendere ciò che stava facendo. Donald diede un'occhiata veloce alla paperotta che gli stava accanto e che lo aveva aiutato. Della era già avanti con la pozione scacciabrufoli.

Pozioni era l'unica materia dove potevano stare vicini di banco. Non era proprio la sua materia preferita con tutti gli ingredienti da ricordarsi e tutti i procedimenti da seguire scrupolosamente. Fortunatamente poteva copiare da lei, ma era difficile stare al suo passo e replicare ogni suo movimento. Della era sempre più veloce nei suoi movimenti e guardava meno spesso il testo di studio, ed erano solo passati due mesi circa dall'inizio della scuola.

Donald riprese a pestare le zanne e si soffermò a guardare Goofy che era un banco avanti. Anche lui come Della era avanti con la pozione e si era alzato dal banco per prendere qualche ingrediente. Vide però qualcuno avvicinarsi con discrezione al posto lasciato vuoto mentre gli altri erano impegnati a pestare gli ingredienti, e senza essere visto quel qualcuno inserì qualcosa nel pentolino di Goofy. Mentre quello si allontanava, ritornava al suo posto Goofy ignaro di quanto accaduto. Nel giro di qualche minuto si sentì uno strano ribollire nella classe. Donald intuì cosa sarebbe successo quindi si abbassò sotto il banco e spinse giù sua sorella.

- Ma cosa... ?- si lamentò Della, senza capire.

Neanche il tempo di reagire che il contenuto esplose in faccia a Goofy e al malcapitato affianco, Mickey.

Alcuni risero e altri si disgustarono perché erano stati schizzati dalla strana poltiglia. Sentì una piccola aquila bionda lamentarsi dei suoi capelli cotonati. Il professore Phanthom Blot era furioso per l'incidente, ma il povero Goofy non sapeva spiegarsi cosa avesse sbagliato. Mickey che gli era affianco cercò di consolarlo.

Donald guardò l'artefice dello scherzo che sghignazzava senza rimorsi e sicuro di passare impunito: era un topo alto con uno sguardo furbo. Non era la prima volta che lo beccava fare scherzi di poco gusto a qualche studente ingenuo, e vantandosene poi davanti a qualche studentessa.

Fece una smorfia indispettita, avrebbe volentieri fatto la spia, ma non era nel suo carattere. E poi non voleva venire coinvolto nei problemi di altri.

Il tempo di ripulire l'aula e finalmente la lezione terminò. Della era stata la prima a terminare la pozione facendo vincere qualche punto alla sua Casa. Gli studenti si avviarono all'uscita dell'aula, compreso il topo spilungone. Donald passò vicino allo studente e senza farsi vedere gli infilò una pallottola in tasca, poi prese Della per mano e accelerò il passo.  

- Cos'è questa fretta?- chiese lei sospettosa. Dietro di loro la voce di un loro compagno si stava lamentando in mezzo a una nuvoletta di gas maleodorante- Dooonald...- disse lei con rimprovero intuendo la situazione.

- Non sono stato io- disse lui con finta innocenza, ma con un sorrisino. Era certo che per un po' quel tizio ci avrebbe ripensato prima di fare qualche altro scherzo.

                                 °^°^°^°^°^°^°^°^°^°^°^°

Si toccò il collo con fastidio. Gli faceva ancora male dopo che lo avevano sollevato in aria per errore durante un esercizio di Incantesimi. Fra tanti studenti l'incantesimo aveva colpito proprio lui. L'autore dell'incidente, Mickey, non l'aveva fatto apposta. Lo sapeva, ma cominciava a stancarsi di venire coinvolto nei disastri altrui.

Entrò nella sala comune attraverso il quadro, e ritrovò la maggior parte dei suoi compagni di Grifondoro lì riuniti a chiacchierare o giocare a scacchi.

Osservò quelle persone e come si stessero divertendo a stare in compagnia.

Incrociò lo sguardo di un topo che lo aveva notato mentre entrava nel salotto. Velocemente sviò lo sguardo per dirigersi nel dormitorio.

- Ah, Donald!- si sentì chiamare da quella persona. Aveva lasciato il suo posto davanti alla scacchiera per raggiungerlo- Perché non ti unisci a noi? Ti piacciono gli scacchi?

Donald non si era neanche girato per guardarlo e si limitò a scrollare la testa. Senza aggiungere altro risalì le scale cercando di dileguarsi.

Non c'era nessuno nel dormitorio. Tutti gli altri erano nella sala comune.

Meglio per lui, preferiva non avere nessuno intorno. Si sdraiò sul letto e guardò il soffitto.

Solo qualche tempo prima lui e Della erano rinchiusi in quella asfissiante villa dello zio, senza niente da fare a parte osservare i numerosi cimeli del parente e antenati. Non buttava niente lo zio, per questo la stanza era strapiena di oggetti magici e non. Alla stanza era stato pure fatto un incantesimo, perché altrimenti non si spiegava come mai da fuori sembrasse un piccolo stanzino e dentro invece misurava come un campo di Quidditch. Lo zio aveva proibito a loro di entrarci senza la sua supervisione, ma lui non c'era quasi mai, quindi non c'era neanche qualcuno a sorvegliare.

Lui e Della ci erano entrati più di una decina di volte, e si erano persi a volte, perché era un labirinto di oggetti. Quindi avevano creato una loro mappa che riempivano tutte le volte che avanzavano la perlustrazione della stanza. Anche per non cadere in certe trappole dimenticate od oggetti maledetti. Per poco infatti non perdeva le piume del suo didietro sedendosi su una apparente sedia innocua.

Dubitava che in altre case di stregoni ci fossero tante cianfrusaglie stipate in una stanza.

Con il tempo era diventato uno dei loro passatempi preferiti, potevano scalare montagne di oggetti, scovare piccoli tesori e scoprirne il loro uso, fantasticare su avventure e imitare battaglie magiche.

Era stato in uno di quelle occasioni che avevano trovato qualcosa d'interessante. Era un mantello buttato in un baule, come se fosse uno straccio vecchio. In realtà quel mantello rendeva invisibili chiunque lo indossasse. Per due paperotti che ancora non usavano la magia, quello era un ottimo modo per nascondersi quando combinavano qualche marachella, e ne combinavano spesso, soprattutto lui nei confronti dello zio.

Finora Scrooge non aveva scoperto che avevano prelevato il mantello dalla stanza, insieme ad altri interessanti oggetti.

Non facevano niente di male in fondo. E poi, era sicuro che Scrooge si era scordato di possederlo, per com'era stato abbandonato. Del resto, che altro potevano fare due paperotti pieni di energia in quella villa?

Almeno quando erano in campagna con la nonna potevano correre per i campi e fare qualche scampagnata nei boschi.

Ripensando alla nonna, non poté evitare di sentire un nodo alla gola. Era così gentile e amorevole con loro, tutto il contrario dello zio Scrooge. Lei era stata la persona che li aveva accuditi come dei figli, mentre Scrooge era visibilmente scocciato dalla loro presenza in casa. Era così indispettito nell'essere stato costretto ad accoglierli, che faceva di tutto per sbrigare affari fuori casa.

Non che a lui dispiacesse l'assenza dello zio, in fondo provava ancora rancore per il suo comportamento nel passato, ma Della... si vedeva che soffriva l'abbandono. Era stato così drastico festeggiare le festività in compagnia con parenti e amici, a passare invece i giorni di festa in una villa vuota.

Era per quello che lui si inventava ogni giorno qualche avventura nuova coinvolgendo la sorella, un modo per divertirsi senza pensare a cose tristi. Solo lui e Della. Due gemelli contro quel mondo di adulti.

E credeva che sarebbe stato così anche a Hogwarts, ma lo smistamento li aveva divisi complicando i loro piani.

Sospirò nel momento che sentì i passi di persone sulle scale. Dovevano essere i suoi compagni di stanza. Si coprì dalle lenzuola e si girò di lato per non farsi vedere che era sveglio.

I ragazzi erano entrati in stanza ridendo per qualcosa, zittendosi di colpo quando si erano accorti che dormiva e cercando di fare poco rumore. Una impresa quasi impossibile per Goofy, che a giudicare dai rumori assordanti, aveva fatto cadere alcuni oggetti.

Non vedeva l'ora che tutti si addormentassero, così da potersi alzare dal letto e uscire indisturbato nel cuore della notte.  

[nickyb7]

Franco Battiato – L'Era Del Cinghiale Bianco

Franco Battiato – L’Era Del Cinghiale Bianco

Ciclicamente, di epoca in epoca, torna prepotente una domanda ad affacciarsi nella società: l’era del cinghiale bianco tornerà? 

Voglio bene a Battiato [voglio bene a chiunque sigh ndr], ma voglio ancora più bene a questo disco: per la canzone che gli dà il nome, per la copertina, per Luna Indiana. 

In tutto questo partiamo da un dato di fatto… ascoltare Battiatonon è complicato, capirlo è…

[esepoimipullula]

Alright, so... this is the utterly self-indulgent essay. XD

For any non-Italian readers: remember the introductory note on my translation of Goofy and The Perfect New Year’s Eve Handbook? About Italian Goofy (Pippo) having a huuuuuuuuuge family? Well, everyone in this family is, ofc, either just as quirky or nearly as quriky as Goofy himself... which makes for a lot of interesting personalities. Like Goofy's cousin, Indiana Pipps. Or Arizona Goof, in English. Presumably to make the joke at least a little bit subtler.

... yes, "the joke" is that he's literally an Indiana Jones parody. Who happens to be related to Goofy and look almost exactly (or exactly, depending on the story) like him. He's an "adventure archaeologist" who spends most of his time scouring South American jungles for lost pre-Colombian temples full of traps and treasure, travelling through scorching deserts to find legendary Egyptian ruins, and stumbling into fantarchaeology/Ancient Aliens/magical/mystical relics. He's brave, smart, passionate, confident to the point of being actually a bit arrogant, kind of reckless and hotheaded, a little rough, rather snarky, and has a strong sense of justice... and a bunch of strange habits and quirks. Like his penchant from entering buildings from the window rather than from the door (because that would be too easy), his preference for sleeping bags over beds and tents over houses (though he does have a house just out of Mouseton... in a dangerous swamp complete with crocodiles), his dislike and distrust for city life in general, and his love for a particular brand of strong-flavored liquorice candies called "Negritas" that almost everyone else finds adsolutely disgusting. Through the years, he's fallen in love with a bunch of female characters (starting with Clarabelle Cow, or so the internet tells me... Goof guys trying to steal her away from Horace must be a bizarre family tradition) and he's had a bunch of female characters fall in love with him, as you can expect considering he's the Dr. Jones of the Mouseverse and everything. But none of these crushes has ever really gone anywhere... whether because of a bout of obliviousness preventing him from realizing his temporary sidekick had been head over heels for him the whole time (sorry, Martina), a misguided attempt to present as a more traditional academic for a nerdy professor who unexpectedly turned out to be really into the adventurer type, or fairy law forbidding him to marry his French fairy sweetheart (yup, that happened).

Ironically, his most constant and long-lasting is with his nemesis, Dr. Kranz. (Nope, no name given.) (Yes, this is going to be an "enemies to lovers" kinda thing... except with, like, A Twist. So if you don't like that kind of dynamic or think people shouldn’t like messed-up ships or anything like that, you'd probably better stop reading.)

Kranz and Indiana appeared together in Indiana's first story, Mickey and Goofy in: Raiders of the Lost Temple by Bruno Sarda, and have been chasing each other for one reason or another ever since. Kranz is an adventure archaeologist, too, but despite being (almost) as skilled and succesful at his job as Indiana, he spends an awful lot of time following him around and trying to steal his discoveries... most often by putting on some disguise, stalking him from a distance, and popping out of nowhere with a gun and a mocking smirk as soon as Indiana finds the hidden lost idol/treasure/artifact/city.

Despite some weird occasional foray into the world of attempted world domination, Kranz is (mostly) into the whole villain business for the money and the fame. The money because he loves luxury (especially fast cars and five-star hotels) and sells a good chunk of what he finds or steals to unscrupulous clients or outright villainous organizations to afford to live the good life, and the fame because he has a big ego and (somehow, still) a reputation as a respectable archaeologist that feeds into it... and he's always trying to overshadow Indiana, because he hates being always second best to him. Which is just as well, because Indiana hates his attempts to steal his own discoveries, his criminal activities, his utter lack of ethics, and his greed. Whenever they see each other without either of them ending up on the wrong end of a gun or tied up for the local authorities to find, they usually still end up at each other's throat anyway. Or at least, insulting and teasing each other the whole time.

Except... it wasn't always like that. Back in the day, Indiana and Kranz were actually students in the same college. And roommates (YES, "and they were roommates!"). And "inseparable" best friends who got along very well despite their differences and genuinely cared for each other. And after graduating, even adventuring partners, at least occasionally. Kranz already loved money and luxury, and Indiana had already started to develop his simpler yet more bizarre tastes, but they were good together.

There's actually a recent mini-series about their college years written by Bruno Sarda himself, Young Indiana. It's pretty much a shipper's delight, as it contains high amounts of fluff, overdramatic (and suspiciously coupley imho) friendship drama with a happy ending, hugs, kisses, straight love drama taking a backseat as the focus stays firmly on the friendship drama, and a certain amount of foreshadowing of (angsty) things to come. But their old friendship was already an established fact before that...

Like in the story Indiana Pipps and the Return of Doctor Kranz, where Indiana ends up telling Mickey the story of how they parted ways and became enemies. Which was apparently inspired by something that happened in the Martin Mystère comics, but I've never read them so I wouldn't know. Long story short, Indiana and Kranz where on an expedition together when they unexpectedly found an absurdly powerful ray gun left behind by Ancient Aliens. As it turned out, by that point Kranz had already been in contact with a shady organization that would have paid good money for something like that, so he proposed they should sell the gun to them and share the profits of the sale. Indiana immediately opposed the idea, of course, being all like, "wtf dude idk about YOU apparently but I have morals and also a sense of professional ethics"... so Kranz knocked him out, took the gun, wrote him a note about how you shouldn't slap good luck away, and fled to the other side of the world, where a man from the organization would await him. But when Indiana woke up, he immediately started trying to track him, eventually ruining the sale right before it could go through and throwing the gun into the sea, where it would never be found again. At that point, Kranz swore he'd have his revenge on him by basically costantly tailing him and ruining his life and career, never leaving him a moment of peace.

Which he's sometimes been pretty succesful at, considering there's been a whole story about Indiana being so stressed due to Kranz appearing out of the blue to ruin his day, it turns into some sort of bizarre mania where he believes everyone and anyone is secretly Kranz in disguise. However, the same story also has Kranz being so stressed due to Indiana constantly foiling his schemes that he goes on a cruise to just forget about him and relax for a while... and ends up jumping off the ship when he mistakenly believes Indiana might be on it, too. So, that's a two-way street, I guess.

So, basically... friends to enemies, genuine affection being ruined by greed and ambition and turning into resentment and spite and straight-up hatred, a degree of mutual obsession and general unhealthiness. But that's not really all there is to their relationship.

There's also stories where they're forced to collaborate to reach the same goal and have to behave more or less civilly, or even where they choose to do so willingly and end up actually still being a good team. There's stories where getting good results while working together makes them behave almost amicably, as much as they're able or willing to. Stories where they acknowledge their past together, if not their old friendship, and even the similarities between them. Stories where they find themselves with someone they both look down down or hate even more than each other, and find some common ground insulting and snarking at them in-between doing the same to each other. Where they grudgingly help each other out.

And then, there's Indiana Pipps e il soccorso obbligato. The story I blame for getting me into this ship in the frist place, when I could be here reading and writing Scroldie or Dimeshipping or Donsy or Mickey/Minnie or literally any other of my Disney comics ships that people other than me actually ship.

In Il soccorso obbligato, Kranz gets kidnapped by some shady guys while he's working on a revolutionary archaeological discovery, except he's not been kidnapped and he's not actually close to finding anything that awesome, and it's all just a convoluted trap to get back at Indiana for laughing at him one time because he's terrible. But Indiana doesn't know that, and so he and Mickey rush to the rescue and fly to a whole other continent to find him...

That story really has everything. From Kranz coming up with a ridiculous and ridiculously cruel plan because he might be used to Indiana insulting him and mocking him but sometimes his former friend laughing at him and acting all superior and better than him still hurts, to Indiana actually falling for it and trying to justify to himself why he does, telling himself that after so many years spent (fighting) together there's a bond between them and he owes it to Kranz... and admitting he’s worried about him. From Indiana still remembering little details about Kranz and their past together and looking almost fond as he talks about them, to Kranz being both petty and obsessed enough to leave a journal full of insults to Indiana for him to find as a clue and setting his password to a mocking phrase about him (and Indiana, who should expect some stuff like that or at least be used to it, still getting riled up and planning on giving Kranz an earful when he finds him). From Kranz assuming Indiana would only come save him if he threw an imaginary fantarchaeological discovery into the mix because then Indiana wouldn't be able to resist his "archaeological curiosity", to Indiana considering said discovery more of a secondary concern and actually regretting and feeling almost guilty for mocking Kranz the last time they saw each other before the supposed kidnapping... and recklessly, unthinkingly running over a thin ice bridge over a gaping chasm just to get to him, throwing all caution to the wind even as he tells himself he doesn't even know why he's doing it. And the way they still KNOW each other despite everything that happened, maybe even because of everything that happened! The angst! The complicated, unspoken, repressed things! Being a softie and a sap, I'm always a sucker for "the hero and the villain actually have a bond and care for each other on some level even if it's not the healthiest or most normal thing"... but considering the history between these two? Though the story in itself is very fun and entertaining, it never fails to break my heart a little.

And in all honesty, I might end up writing fanfictions about them. Fanfictions full of angst and pining and conflicted feelings and "we were never lovers but oh god we could have been --- if you hadn't screwed up everything in the end, at least" college stuff with a mess of obliviousness and repressed feelings, most likely.

[voodoorhythmrecords]

please Welcome to the Festival that don’t take place in a location that disappeared, this is the idea of the bookers of the Ghost Festival in Switzerland, involved are around 300 Swiss bands that mainly make a living from their music (Switzerland is expensive country, the bands they mostly poor), the problem is that most of them are their own Boss of their own company and cant get any money support  from the government .. so are the bookers (the sound guys and stage etc they are not included in that project) anyway its a great idea.. it shows there is nothing going on .. please don’t let that infrastructure Die what we build up for such a long time .. culture grows, you can’t click it on or off.. https://www.ghost-festival.ch/index.php

the Line up.. alphabetically :) hahahah insane....

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[alejumidrawings]

Pippo siendo Pippo

[merzbow-derek]

HUMAN EYE W/ ODD CLOUDS "HORN TROUPE"

An old VHS tape! Human Eye w/ Odd Clouds shirtless "horn troupe" live at Magic Stick 5/14/2005, Detroit, MI: Total freakout destruction!!!! Filmed by Charles Pippo.

[justforbooks]

Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director and designer who reigned in theater, film and opera as the unrivaled master of grandeur, orchestrating the youthful 1968 movie version of “Romeo and Juliet” and transporting operagoers to Parisian rooftops and the pyramids of Egypt in productions widely regarded as classics, died June 15 at his home in Rome. He was 96.

A son, Luciano, confirmed the death to the Associated Press but did not cite a cause.

Mr. Zeffirelli — a self-proclaimed “flag-bearer of the crusade against boredom, bad taste and stupidity in the theater” — was a defining presence in the arts since the 1950s. In his view, less was not more. “More is fine,” a collaborator recalled Mr. Zeffirelli saying, and as a set designer, he delivered more gilt, more brocade and more grandiosity than many theater patrons expected to find on a single stage.

“A spectacle,” Mr. Zeffirelli once told the New York Times, “is a good investment.”

From his earliest days, he seemed to belong to the opera. Born in Italy to a married woman and her lover, he received neither parent’s surname. His mother dubbed him “Zeffiretti,” an Italian word that means “little breezes” and that arises in Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo,” in the aria “Zeffiretti lusinghieri.” An official mistakenly recorded the name as “Zeffirelli.”

Mr. Zeffirelli grew up mainly in Florence, amid the city’s Renaissance riches, and trained as an artist before being pulled into theater and then film by an early and influential mentor, Luchino Visconti. Mr. Zeffirelli matured into a sought-after director in his own right, staging works in Milan, London and New York City, where he became a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera.

His first major work as a film director was “The Taming of the Shrew” (1967), a screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. But Mr. Zeffirelli was best known for the Shakespearean adaptation released the next year — “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in the title roles.

He reportedly reviewed the work of hundreds of young actors before selecting his two stars, both of whom were still in their teens. With a lush soundtrack by Nino Rota, and with its equally lush visuals, the film won the Academy Award for best cinematography and was a runaway box office success. Film critic Roger Ebert declared it “the most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made.”

It “is the first production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ I am familiar with in which the romance is taken seriously,” Ebert wrote. “Always before, we have had actors in their 20s or 30s or even older, reciting Shakespeare’s speeches to each other as if it were the words that mattered. They do not, as anyone who has proposed marriage will agree.”

In the opera, an art form already known for its opulence, big voices and bigger personalities, Mr. Zeffirelli permitted himself to be deterred by neither physical nor financial constraints. “Opera audiences demand the spectacular,” he told the Times.

Mr. Zeffirelli had notable artistic relationships with two of the most celebrated sopranos of the 20th century, Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. But certain Zeffirelli sets seemed to excite the opera world even more than the performers who sang upon them.

One such example was his production of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” an extravaganza set in 19th-century Paris and famous for its exuberant street scene and magical snowfall. After its 1981 premiere at the Met, it was said that the audience lavished on Mr. Zeffirelli a grander ovation than the one reserved for conductor James Levine and the singers who played the opera’s bohemian lovers.

“For the first time,” Mr. Zeffirelli told the Times, “audiences will have a sense of the immensity of Paris, and the smallness of this little group’s place — the actual space of a garret. The acting is now intimate and conversational, which is exactly what Puccini wanted. Since the garret is raised, every whisper and gesture will come across clearly in the theater.”

His production of Verdi’s “Aida,” performed at Milan’s La Scala in 1963 with soprano Leontyne Price and tenor Carlo Bergonzi, featured 600 singers and dancers (including scantily clad belly dancers), 10 horses, towering idols, palm trees and sphinxes littering the expanse of the stage. “I have tried to give the public the best that Cecil B. DeMille could offer,” Mr. Zeffirelli told Time magazine, referring to the Hollywood director’s biblical epics, “but in good taste.”

It was sometimes said that Mr. Zeffirelli was beloved by everyone except music reviewers, some of whom disparaged his style as excessive to the point of taking attention away from the music. Writing in the Times, Bernard Holland panned Mr. Zeffirelli’s set for Puccini’s “Turandot,” set in China, as “acres of white paint and gold leaf topped by the gaudiest of pagodas” and quipped that “if the gods eat dim sum, they certainly do it in a place like this.”

In time, the Metropolitan Opera replaced some of Mr. Zeffirelli’s productions, although the modernistic newcomers — notably Luc Bondy’s dreary “Tosca” in 2009 — did not always prove as popular.

“It’s like somebody decides that the Sistine Chapel is out of fashion,” Mr. Zeffirelli told the Times. “They go there and make something a la Warhol. . . . You don’t like it? O.K., fine, but let’s have it for future generations.”

As for those who had criticized his direction of “Romeo and Juliet” for similar reasons, he retorted, “In all honesty, I don’t believe that millions of young people throughout the world wept over my film ... just because the costumes were splendid.”

Mr. Zeffirelli was born in Florence on Feb. 12, 1923. His father, Ottorino Corsi, was a Florentine businessman, and his mother, Alaide Garosi, was a fashion designer. Her husband was a lawyer, and he died before Mr. Zeffirelli was born.

His mother continued a fraught relationship with Corsi, once attempting to stab him with a hat pin. “The opera? My destiny?” Mr. Zeffirelli observed in a 1986 autobiography, “Zeffirelli.” “I think there is a case to be made.”

After the death of his mother when he was 6, he became the charge of an aunt. He recalled his upbringing in the 1930s in the semi-autobiographical film “Tea With Mussolini” (1999), which he directed and which starred Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright as English expatriates in Florence who take in a parentless child during the era of fascist rule.

Mr. Zeffirelli attended art school before studying architecture at the University of Florence. His studies were put on hold during World War II, when he fought alongside antifascist partisans. His interests shifted more toward film, particularly after he saw Laurence Olivier star in the 1944 Technicolor film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” which Olivier also directed.

“The lights went down and that glorious film began,” Mr. Zeffirelli recalled in his memoir. “I knew then what I was going to do. Architecture was not for me; it had to be the stage.”

He met Visconti while working in Florence as a stagehand. Visconti, with whom he lived for a period, gave him his push into professional work, hiring him to work as a designer for an Italian stage production of Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1949.

Mr. Zeffirelli soon began designing and directing at La Scala and later the Met. He designed, directed and adapted from Shakespeare the libretto for the production of Samuel Barber’s “Antony and Cleopatra” that opened the Met’s new opera house at Lincoln Center in 1966.

Mr. Zeffirelli said he found it invigorating to shift from one art form to another. His theatrical productions starred top-flight actors including Albert Finney and Anna Magnani. On television, he directed “Jesus of Nazareth,” an acclaimed 1977 miniseries with a reported price tag of $18 million and a cast that included Robert Powell as Jesus, Hussey as the Virgin Mary, Olivier as Nicodemus, Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene and James Earl Jones as Balthazar.

Mr. Zeffirelli received a best director Oscar nomination for “Romeo and Juliet.” (He lost to Carol Reed for the musical “Oliver!”) He also garnered a nomination for best art direction for his 1982 film adaptation of Verdi’s opera “La Traviata,” starring Teresa Stratas and Plácido Domingo, one of several such operatic film adaptations he made.

His other notable films included “Hamlet” (1990) starring Mel Gibson and Glenn Close. Less acclaimed was “Endless Love” (1981), starring Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt in a tragic story of teen romance, which Mr. Zeffirelli admitted was “wretched.”

Politically, Mr. Zeffirelli positioned himself on the right, serving as a senator in the political party Forza Italia. “I have found it an irritating irony that those who espouse populist political views often want art to be ‘difficult,’ ” he wrote in his memoir. “Yet I, who favor the Right in our democracy, believe passionately in a broad culture made accessible to as many as possible.”

He described himself as homosexual, preferring not to use the word “gay.” In 2000, he adopted two adult sons, Pippo and Luciano, both former lovers, according to the newspaper the Australian. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.

Looking back on his life and career, Mr. Zeffirelli once told The Washington Post that he was struck by “how much is risked to become something” — “to make something of his life,” he continued, speaking of himself in the third person. To show that “he’s not a bastard.” 

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[forgottenbones]

Crociera Disney Magic attraccata a Genova film sappiamo tutti come tornerà a bordo Pippo. pic.twitter.com/ft21rRwFt3

— Mattia M. (@TobWaylan) 26 giugno 2019

[nonsololibristore]

Buon Venerdì amici di carta e d'inchiostro, ultimi due giorni di SUPERSCONTI in Fumetteria!!! Ma ecco elencate le novità del giorno:

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VI ASPETTIAMO!!!