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Wolf King Character design details I love (pt 3):

Probably the last one I do before Season 1 drops. So I just want to highlight the few characters that have very little time in the trailers.

Only appearing in one fleeting shot in the Official Trailer, I presume this is Mack Ferran. The young man next to him is possibly Trent, but without official confirmation — nor the blonde mop of hair to prove it — it isn’t certain.

Nothing much to say for these two, other than a broad consensus on the clothing of the Cold Coast in the show.

In that they seem to really try to sell this sort of idea that the Cold Coast is the butt end of Lyssia. It’s not one of the Seven Realms, stuck between the rugged waters that give it its name and the hostile Dyrewood. Very little interaction with the greater Seven Realms.

Few people come, fewer still leave.

Perfect place for a former Wolfguard and royal maid to run off to. And if they happen to have a secret prince with them? Who’s going to ask?

Now for another protagonist’s family, Baron Huth of Redmire and Lord Vincent. Hector’s father and brother respectively.

This is the highest quality shot I could get of their few microseconds within both trailers. Well, without spoilers for non-book readers.

If you know, you know.

Their outfits, are not what I expected for them. Given my own image of the Dalelands was basically House Tyrell and the Reach. A very romantic, renaissance style.

So seeing both Baron and young lord in steely blue is… A creative choice.

That being said, it’s partly made up for by the repeated tusk motif on Huth’s character. His cane, his vest and even his facial hair all invoke a boar’s tusks. Appropriate for a boarlord, and in style to numerous other animal motifs in other werelords.

Vincent.

He is exactly the Loki, slime ball I always saw him as. His silhouette is exactly opposite to both his brother and father. At least for now.

If you know, you know.

Duke Manfred, whom we only see in Staglord form, is still fairly interesting to dissect.

He’s wearing full armor — if this is for the battle of Highcliff alone or not is yet to be determined — that even covers his legs and hooves. Most Werelords when they transform don’t have shoes or boots on. Yet Manfred does.

They really want to present this image of a knight of old. A werelord in the closest thing one could wear to plate mail.

Considering he and Mack are going to share a voice actor, that feels intentional. But I’ll get into that at a later time.

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Good Omens filming locations masterpost! ❤ 🐍😊 Part 3

(here to part 1 :))

(here to part 2 :))

Here to the map :)

S2 London (cont):

C rushing to A after Beelzebub's visit (S02E01) - Regent Street St James's, London

Scene: Crowley rushing to Aziraphale after Beelzebub told with that anyone who will be find helping Gabriel will be dealt with extreme sanctions

Availability (as of 2024): street all day

Link on the map

BONUS:

The 1990 book promo photo - Kensal Green Cemetery, London

The photo with Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman that appeared on the 1990 back cover of Good Omens was taken in February 1990 in Kensal Green Cemetery. After the photo was taken and developed they noticed the winged hourglasses and used it as a design motif for the book. The mausoleum is the Hugh mausoleum of Baron John Frederick Andrew Huth, a banker that died 1864.

Availability (as of 2024):

The cemetery is open cca 9-17 but it good to check the opening times on their page since the two entrances slightly differs and times also differ on Sundays and bank holidays.

The mausoleum can be seen from the cemetery path but to get close to it you have to go through overgrown grass and a bit of bramble.

If you go, check if the one of the smol fygo gifts are still there :) ❤ .

Link on the map

Whew! This masterpost took me several weeks, hope you enjoyed it and it might help you plan your trip to see the Good Omens places! :) ❤ 🐍😊 Wahoo! :)

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an apple.

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Overlooked Texts, Overlooked Images (Part I): An Erasmian Album

Fifty-two discoveries from the BiblioPhilly project, No. 40/52

   Album of Engravings and Devotional Texts by Erasmus, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Prudentius, Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Lewis E 179, fols. 46v–47r, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Prayer for Seious Illness; engraving, Christ breaking bread with the Apostles

Sixteenth-century books that combine manuscript text with engraved or woodcut images can sometimes fall through the cracks of scholarship. On account of their hybrid character, they are often neglected by manuscript specialists in favor of entirely hand-written books. At the same time, scholars of early printing, on the lookout for editions by recognizable publishers, tend to cast aside these complex combined works in the search for more easily classifiable items. However, over the past several decades these tendencies have started to change. Increasingly, scholars have taken on the complex interface of early printing and handwriting as a fascinating subject in and of itself.1

Still, the story of one neglected item, preserved in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia, perfectly illustrates the disciplinary pitfalls described above. Lewis E 179 is a modest book of 109 paper folios written in a non-professional, Northern European humanist hand, adorned with forty-five engravings illustrating the Life of Christ from the Annunciation through to the Last Judgment. Based on the texts and images, the book could be dated as early as the 1530s. However, the distinctive watermark visible on some of the book’s pages (with the help of transmitted light) was employed only in the 1550s and 1560s, in the Netherlands and Northeastern France.2 It provides a relatively late terminus post quem and a rough localization for the book’s place of origin.

   Lewis E 179, fol. 35r (detail of watermark visible with the aid of a light sheet); drawing of Briquet 9373 watermark from Briquet Online database

Evidence of subsequent provenance places the book in some important German collections of the early modern period. An early bookplate on verso of first flyleaf dated to 1661 indicates that the book was formerly in the possession of Joachim Enzmiler, Count of Windhag,3 while a second bookplate, from the eighteenth century, records the ownership of Eberhard von Kniestedt. Before joining the Lewis Collection, the book had been in the possession of the great German-Spanish-English bibliophile Henry Huth (1815–1878), who famously preferred intact and pristine copies to damaged books, qualifying the latter rather uncharitably as “the lepers of a library.” Huth spent a considerable amount of time in Hamburg, which may have provided him with access to this item. In both the posthumous 1880 catalogue of Huth’s collection, written by his son Alfred Henry Huth, as well as the 1911 catalogue of Alfred Henry’s collection, the book was described principally by means of its engravings.4

   Lewis E 179, flyleaf 1 verso, bookplate, Joachim Baron Windhag 1661; inside front cover, bookplate, Eberhard von Kniestedt

Since its acquisition by Lewis, the book had been summarily described in only two places: the catalogue of Lewis’ western manuscripts published by Wolf in 1937, and the de Ricci census.5 John Frederick Lewis, the Philadelphia bibliophile who had a penchant for oddities that could help illustrate the history of writing, evidently was not taken in by the widespread disinterest in this sort of book, even if those who catalogued his collection after his death did. Lewis liked “multimedia,” creations—he grangerized (adorned with extraneous material) dozens of his own modern reference books with pasted-down snippets and even full pages drawn from illuminated manuscripts. Lewis probably appreciated the book for its unusual amalgamation of print and script, not to mention its interesting original leather binding, with, on each side, a stamped center panel showing Christ triumphing over Death, with the initials HGV—perhaps those of the binder—, all set within blind-tooled, all’antica borders of scrollwork and portrait medallions.

   Lewis E 179, front cover; back cover

Looking more closely at the composition of Lewis E 179’s texts as part of the BiblioPhilly cataloguing process, I discovered that these consist of prayers and other devotional works by two important intellectual figures of the first half of the sixteenth century: Desiderius Erasmus and Marco Girolamo Vida. Interspersed as well are excerpts from the late-antique Christian apologist, Prudentius. These passages were copied by hand from editions that had been produced recently.

The prayers authored by Erasmus that have been copied into this book stem from three major sources. Eleven votive prayers are drawn from his Precationes aliquot novae, first published in 1535. These are interspersed throughout the work, diverging from their order in the 1535 edition. They consist of votive prayers for Receiving Communion, for Docility, for Penance, Against Temptation, for Thanksgiving in Victory, for Serious Illness, as well as prayers to the Virgin, to each of the three persons of the Trinity, and to Jesus as the son of the Virgin. Seven sections found in the second half of the book stem from Erasmus’ Precatio Dominica, a short work of seven prayers for the days of the week based on the seven parts of the Lord’s Prayer, first published by Froben in 1523. 6This work became immensely popular throughout Northern Europe and beyond, and within five years had been translated into German, English, Czech, and Spanish. Six sections, concentrated in the first half of the book, are excerpts from Erasmus’ paraphrases of Luke, Matthew, and John, each of which was published separately in the early 1520s.

Intercalated within the first half of the book are sections from the Christiad and four extracts from Prudentius’s Liber Cathemerion. The former is an epic poem first published in 1535 but written at the request of Leo X, which provides a Christian counterpart to Virgil’s Aeneid.7Its author, Girolamo Vida (ca. 1485–1566) was an Italian humanist, bishop, and celebrated poet during the early Counter-Reformation period.8 Works by the early Christian poet Prudentius, here represented by hymns for Epiphany, the feast of the Holy Innocents, for before meals, and for after meals, were appreciated by Erasmian humanists for their conflation of classical Latin forms with Christian motifs.9

There are other surviving manuscript compendia that contain assortments of Erasmus’ prayers, such as an unillustrated manual today in Brussels (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 5010).10 However, on the whole, such items remain understudied, not to mention un-digitized. Hopefully, the substantial community of Erasmus specialists will now be able to discover the intriguing Philadelphia volume and provide yet more information regarding its original context.

By pairing a unique selection of manuscript texts with an unusually extensive cycle of printed images, Lewis E 179 provides first-hand evidence for how these popular devotional texts were adapted and recombined by readers as the popularity of the traditional Book of Hours waned. The Prayer Book demonstrates how a new type of devotional manual could provide an idiosyncratic alternative to traditional forms in a period of religious foment. But what of the forty-five engravings that punctuate its pages, which remain unidentified? More will be said about those next week, when we will be joined by guest contributor Dr. Brooks Rich, Associate Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art and recent University of Pennsylvania graduate.

  from WordPress http://bibliophilly.pacscl.org/overlooked-texts-overlooked-images-part-i-an-erasmian-album/

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Popp & Huth -- Lars Baron/Bongarts

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EP 6 HAS VEGA IN THE THUMBNAIL LET'S GO

This is what we get when we don't have Baron Huth teaching Drew how to Wolf but it's cute!!! Friendship!! Yeah!!

PIRATE IS BEST ROLE MODEL SHUT UP HECTOR 😤 He is a GREAT role model he raised his son not single-handedly bc his whole crew pitched in. Very "our baby now" of them.

If they took away my man's ponytail, Owlie will fucking riot.

Update: They took it away. AND HIS CAPE???? 😭😭😭😭

I'M SORRY IT MEANS A LOT TO MEEEEE

Ugh but I can't stay mad at him for too long.... "unknowable... like a ghost of the sea" we get it you do your own publicity JGJGKKDKSK IMMEDIATELY OUTING HIMSELF BY BEING A SHORTSHRIFTING LIL SHIT I LOVE HIM

Oh my his boots have fins on them 👁👁

Vega where is your child. Vega where is your boy. Vega show me Casper. Vega please. Vega.

Vega where is the boy.

Where the fuck is Casper, Vega.

Okay real talk, at least he's not white, this was my greatest fear.

WAS THAT CASPER???

DREW HOW DARE YOU RIP THIS BISEXUAL MAN'S FAVORITE SILK BLOUSE AND THEN SCRATCH UP HIS BABY I MEAN HIS SHIP

Wait. But the shirt.... is back.... yknow what?

Wolf King reactionssssss episode 1 :D

Soundtrack SLAPS!!!!! I love it!!!!!

The buildings and structures in Motley are SO NEAT! The style is much more fantastical than I thought it would be, and I'm THRILLED. Cannot wait to see Cutter's Cove.

Whitley's design remains 🤌 lovely. I understand why they shortened Drew's stay in the Dyrewood, but it still woulda been funny to have the "what the hell are you" at Drew cuz he's been feral for 3 months.

The Ratlord's design??? CREEPY AS SHIT which is perfect. The Wyldermen--at least the treeple design is better than what they became in the books. Good call on that one.

BERGAN!!!!!! DUKE DILF????? HELLO???? INCREDIBLE DESIGN. The way you could see his clothing shifting as he shifted back into human form???? FUCKING LOVE IT. BRAIN GO BRRRRRRRRRR

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A new post from Curtis Jobling today in anticipation of the premiere of Wolf King this Thursday featured this photo.

It features the new cover for the Rise of the Wolf rerelease, now titled Wolf King: His Destiny Awaits. And a deck of playing cards with screenshots from the show for the face cards.

None of the visible cards are shots that have been shown in either trailers.

So, for non-book readers, if you don’t want spoilers (potential or otherwise) prior to Thursday, don’t go further.

Before I start analyzing, I want this deck. I want this as merch. I want an art book and I want these playing cards.

Firstly, the Queen of Clubs, Gretchen presumably during the fight with Vala. The heavy mist and lighting lines up with the scenes of that fight within the trailers.

For the Ace of Diamonds, we have Baron Huth…

Doing his best King Hamlet impression.

Joking and unintentional pun aside, this does not happen in the book. And, as best as I can tell in spite of the picture quality, this takes place in Brackenholme.

As concluded from the trailers, the Redmire section of the book is being moved to Brackenholme. Likely for budgetary or story reasons.

In fact, here’s Huth dead behind Lucas, who seemingly will take Captain Brutus’s role in these events.

So, somehow, someone is seemingly going to commune with Huth’s ghost.

Once again referring to the trailers, Hector can’t be the one doing this. He’s in the lift when Drew cuts it down for them and Gretchen to escape.

There’s only one other character who could do this, Vankaskan. For what reason or purpose, I don’t know. This doesn’t happen in the book, so we’re in uncharted territory.

King of Hearts is — appropriately — Drew.

Nothing much to say here. Red light shining on him. No background to identify where he is.

Now this is the most intriguing card of the set.

The Ace of Spades.

Are we seeing Count Kesslar?

It’s a goatlord, there’s little doubt in that. And the only named or otherwise mentioned goatlord in the series is Kesslar.

Now, if this is our most hated slave trader, this means one of two things. One, this is a flashback to when Leopold conquered Lyssia. The brown/grey monochrome of the shot could indicate that. Kesslar would fit in to the slime balls Leopold has a pension for working with.

Secondly, he’s going to be introduced as a minor villain in season 1 (like a one episode villain) to set up the bigger conflict with Drew in Rage of Lions and Shadow of the Hawk.

Setting him up more as a small time villain for the first half of the series (seasons 1-3).

Last of the fully visible cards is the King of Clubs, King Leopold himself.

For as little context the shot gives, we can have a good idea about where this takes place.

As we have several shots of Leopold in the Highcliff throne room, which has this specific lighting.

Though we’re done looking at the uncovered cards, there are four that are teased.

The Jacks of Clubs and Spades, Ace of Clubs and Queen of Hearts.

The Jack of Spades is impossible to identify. Just some clouds at sunset.

The Jack of Clubs isn’t much better, but there’s a sliver of a pauldron and what is likely a sword. Given that these face cards seem to be exclusively major characters, I think this card is one of two people. Mack Ferran (After he red-equips his wolfguard armor) or an non transformed Duke Manfred (the pauldron doesn’t 100% line up, but there’s no other characters we see with this type of armor).

The Ace of Diamonds is Count Vega, unquestionably. I recognize that shade of blue anywhere. They STILL won’t show his face. At this point, it has to be on purpose.

Now, the Queen of Hearts.

It’s a shot in the dark, but I think it’s Queen Amalie.

There are not many female characters (let alone major enough to be on these cards) in book 1 to have. There’s Gretchen (Already accounted for), Whitley (arm doesn’t match her jacket), and Tilly (the bit of clothes don’t match either). The give away for me is that there seems to be white hair poking around the borders of the cards covered it. One of the few explicit details we have to Amalie’s appearance in the books.

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What's wrong Manfred, don't support gay rights?

We find out what Manfred was getting slick out the mouth about, among other things.

Just a little bit of suicidal ideation

First/Prev/Next

Drew almost didn't notice when they ran into Manfred. He was ready to apologize and move on smiling.

Then he started talking.

"Hello," Manfred said, taking a long pause and staring them both down, "you two."

The way he looked at them made Drew itch. He could feel Hector had gone stiff, under his arm. When had he put his arm around him?

"Manfred." He nodded curtly, taking a step to the side and dragging Hector with him, meaning to move around Manfred and leave to conversation.

Manfred didn't seem to get the hint.

"How's being captain of the guard treating you, Drew?" He asked, leaning leisurely on a tent pole, before adding in an undertone, "I see you're getting friendly with your prisoners."

He chose to ignore it.

"Treating me fine, sir." He smiled, as relaxed as he could, and took another step off to the side. "If we could just-"

Manfred also chose to ignore it.

"And you?" He directed at Hector. "How's it like being on the other side of a cell door?" Bitterness entered his voice as he sneered at Hector.

Hector didn't get a chance to reply, and he wasn't sure if he planned too anyways, before Drew left him leaning on a pole to stand in front of Manfred.

"You were in a cell for less than a week, Manfred." He said flatly, trying to keep his face neutral.

You don't win arguments off of bias.

Manfred just snorted, not taking him seriously.

"Bergan told me what he's been up to, boy." He said, dropping his voice low and bending over a bit so only Drew could hear.

He hoped he didn't notice his breathing hitch.

"And how does that matter to you?" Drew asked, standing a little straighter. Would bringing out the Wolf to make himself taller be provoking Manfred?

"In Icegarden, I told him I'd be there to keep him in check." He said, dropping his voice more so he was barely audible among everything else, "Besides, Bergan and I are friends. Helping him get rid of unnecessary stress is what I'm here for."

Suddenly, he didn't care whether or not he was provoking Manfred. He let the Wolf in, giving him an inch or two, making Manfred back up.

His gums ached with the threat of fangs, but when he spoke he found his teeth to be normal. For the moment.

"What do you mean to do, to keep him in check?" He didn't bother masking the threat, bright yellow creeping into his grey eyes. It stung, and he struggled not to blink it away or tear up.

It made Manfred pause, eyeing him with caution instead of judgement.

"I mean to do whatever I need to." He finally said, not bothering to elaborate. He didn't need to.

Drew clenched his fists, willing his gums not to break. He wasn't sure if he could beat Manfred based off brute strength, but starting a brawl wouldn't help him work with Bergan.

Before he could say anything, Manfred glanced past him, at the pole he'd left Hector leaning on.

"Looks like your prisoner made an escape, Captain." He said, gesturing to the empty space. "I'd go find him, if you want to spend anymore nights in his room."

He walked away before Drew could respond, leaving him to find Hector.

The Wolf didn't recede until he did.

And now he was laying down in his own bed, with Hector asleep curled into his side.

He couldn't find sleep himself, not yet. He struggled to most nights, but for the most part he was wondering what Manfred thought he knew.

And if he was right.

Were they closer than a prisoner and his jailer aught to be?

Was this good, for either of them?

If Hector didn't need to rely on him for social interaction, would he want to be around him? Would it be good if he did?

Drew had cut his arm off, after failing to kill him.

He'd been afraid to leave the room with him.

The first thing Drew did when they met was start risking his and his family's lives.

When Baron Huth died, he'd been mad at Drew, just for the boat ride.

He wondered if he still was.

Maybe he'd be right if he was. If Drew had done something different, maybe Huth would still be alive. Or at least have lived longer.

If he'd agreed to go with them and figure something else out, if he'd warned Huth sooner, if he'd started fighting first. He'd never know now.

Maybe nothing he could've done would've saved Huth's life, and his own.

But then, comparing the pain of losing someone you've known for a month against the pain of losing your father, how much would it matter if he'd saved Huth at the cost of his own life?

He sighed, trying to find something else to think about. He spent enough time running himself in circles wondering about the past.

So he looked down, at Hector's head on his chest.

When they got to the room, he'd intended to give Hector the bed, not wanting to make him uncomfortable.

When Hector insisted he lay down as well, he'd laid on top of the blanket, not wanting to crowd him.

When Hector ignored that and curled up against him with his head on his chest, he wrapped his arm around him again, deciding he was comfortable.

There would be no getting under the covers now, not without disturbing Hector. But he didn't think he'd be needing it.

It was warmer inside, with Hector laying on him.

Whether or not it was good for them, he thought he could enjoy a warm summer night with him.

Just one wouldn't hurt.

Starting to run his hand through Hector's hair, listening to him breathe, he didn't think it could. Something so simple, so calm and pleasant, couldn't hurt either of them.

Things would be alright, if he could convince Bergan.

And even if Hector never wanted this again when given other options, at least he'd have the memory to look back on.

Planting a kiss on the top of Hector's head, he settled down to wait for sleep.

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*baron huth voice* autism be damned my kid can work a communing circle