#gladstone kin

[leafypaws]

gladstone moodboard with a theme of foxes for @eiramuses!

[shittykinaesthetics]

Shitty Gladstone Gander aesthetic: i'm just as much of an anti-capitalist as the next dirty commie but i think if i were in a room with this guy, scrooge mcduck, and a steel chair, you'd have to knock me unconscious with a copy of das kapital to keep me from attacking gladstone first. what the fuck do you mean you have all the luck and this is what you choose to do with it i'll fucking kill you

[notealotgoingon]

2023 Bullet Journal Cover & Lists

- movies - books - physical music stickers

(typed list below cut)

Movies

X (2022) ★★★★★ 1/9

Pearl (2022) ★★★★★ 1/10

Jason X (2001) ★★★ 1/17

X (2022) ★★★★★ 1/26

Pearl (2022) ★★★★★ 2/11

Rosemary's Baby (1968) ★★★★★ 2/11

Harley Quinn: A Very Problematic Valentine's Day Special (2023) ★★★★★ 2/12

Skinamarink (2022) ★★★★ 3/8

Re-Animator (1985) ★★★★ 3/12

Ring (1998) ★★★★★ 3/12

Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) ★★★★ 3/12

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) ★★★★ 4/2

Scary Movie (2000) ★★★ 4/3

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) ★★★★★ 4/5

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ★★★★★ 4/18

Scary Movie 2 (2001) ★★★ 5/3

Scary Movie 3 (2003) ★★ 5/4

The Green Knight (2021) ★★★★★ 5/20

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) ★★★★ 5/21

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) ★★ 6/6

Evil Dead Rise (2023) ★★★★1/2 6/27

Nimona (2023) ★★★★ 7/2

Barbarian (2022) ★★★★ 7/6

Malignant (2021) ★★★★ 7/7

Barbie (2023) ★★★★★ 7/23

Scream VI (2023) ★★★1/2 8/1

Saw (2004) ★★★★ 8/1

Frozen (2010) ★★ 8/2

Resident Evil: Death Island (2023) ★★★★ 8/21

Studio 666 (2022) ★★★★ 9/4

The Exorcist (1973) ★★★★1/2 9/4

Saw II (2005) ★★★★ 9/9

Saw III (2006) ★★★1/2 9/9

Saw IV (2007) ★★★1/2 9/9

Saw V (2008) ★★★ 9/9

Saw VI (2009) ★★★ 9/9

Saw 3D (2010) ★★ 9/9

Jigsaw (2017) ★★★ 9/10

Miss Americana (2020) ★★★★ 9/10

Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) ★★1/2 9/17

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) ★★★★1/2 9/24

Saw (2004) ★★★★1/2 9/25

Saw II (2005) ★★★★1/2 9/26

Dracula (1931) ★★★★ 10/1

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) ★★★1/2 10/1

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) ★★★★ 10/1\

House of 1000 Corpses (2003) ★★★★ 10/8

Friday the 13th (1980) ★★★★1/2 10/13

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) ★★★★★ 10/19

Saw VI (2009) ★★★1/2 10/28

Saw 3D (2010) ★1/2 10/29

Saw X (2023) ★★★★1/2 11/6

Saw IV (2007) ★★★1/2 11/20

Saw X (2023) ★★★★1/2 11/20

Terrifier (2016) ★★★1/2 12/4

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) ★★ 12/4

Saw V (2008) ★★★1/2 12/4

Terrifier 2 (2022) ★★★1/2 12/11

The Green Knight (2021) ★★★★★ 12/18

Sonic Christmas Blast(1996) ★★1/2 12/22

Black Christmas (1974) ★★★★★ 12/23

Black Christmas (2006) ★★★1/2 12/24

Saltburn (2023) ★★★★ 12/29

Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2018) ★★★★★ 12/30

Books

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle 1/2

The Witcher: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sakowski 1/12

We Can Never Leave This Place by Eric Larocca 1/14

Causes and Cures in the Classroom by Margaret Searle 1/29

Vox Machina: Kith & Kin by Marieke Nijkamp 2/1

Black is the Body by Emily Bernard 2/4

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 2/18

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 2/19

Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth 2/26

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 3/7

Ring by Koji Suzuki 4/14

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 4/14

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez 5/8

Circe by Madeline Miller 5/19

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 5/30

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 6/1

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker 6/25

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson 6/28

The Lesbian Classics Get Me Off by Chuck Tingle 6/28

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace 7/5

Teacher of the Yearby M.A. Wardell 7/7

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King 7/17

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 7/31

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle 8/4

The Writing Revolution by Judith C. Hochman & Natalie Wexler 8/10

You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith 8/20

Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson 9/12

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden 9/27

Reforged by Seth Haddon 10/8

Fifty Feet Down by Sophie Tanen 10/23

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 11/22

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett 12/2

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade 12/7

Wildfire by Hannah Grace 12/5

Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice 12/12

Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica 12/19

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 12/20

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo 12/28

Stowaway and Silent Song by Vera Valentine 12/29

Physical Music Media:

(this isn't all of the records/CDs I've gotten or listened to this year, but I figured I'd decipher the stickers I put in the book; these are all of the promo stickers on the outside of the plastic wrapping on the releases)

Beat the Champ - the Mountain Goats

Paradise - Lana del Ray

Red (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

What's it Like? - Sure Sure

Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard? - Lana del Ray

Stick Season - Noah Kahan

The Rest - boygenius

Midnights (Late Night Edition) - Taylor Swift

Raving Ghost - Olivia Jean

The Record - boygenius

Speak Now (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Dark in Here - the Mountain Goats

Bangerz (10th Anniversary Edition) - Miley Cyrus

God Games - the Kills

1989 (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

[straightyuri]

Kinning gladstone feels like kinning a real person to me. Am i him? Sure. But also he's my friend. From real life.

[100yearoldcomics]

August 7, 1922 Bringing Up Father by George McManus

[ID: Jiggs stands, mildly concerned, next to Maggie, who sits weeping on a stool, a handkerchief in her hands. /end] Jiggs: What's wrong? Maggie: My poor brother has the measles and the doctor says he'll be laid up for a week!

[ID: Jiggs merrily hops away, kicking his ankles together. /end] Jiggs: Hurrah! I won't have to take him out with me. So I kin go to Dinty's party tonight an' enjoy meself!

[ID: Jiggs opens the front door and is greeted by a fashionable young woman with a large hat, gladstone bag and cane. He gawks at her, mouth open. /end] Nurse: I'm the nurse sent by Dr. Post to care for the patient with the measles!

[ID: Jiggs stands atop the swivel chair behind his desk and calls out on a telephone. /end] Jiggs: Say, Dinty, I won't be over tonight. Maggie's brother is sick an' I don't like to leave him!

[kinhelping]

hey there!! i’m dewey duck from ducktales 2017, and my friends and i are looking for some canonmates. so far we have donald, gladstone, and ofc dewey. we’re looking for everyone besides that!! our canon follows the show pretty closely, and we all have a LOT of memories. we’re all minors, but we don’t mind 18+ people. if you wanna talk, interact with this post or message @morethanthespare !!

@morethanthespare

[aneldritchmoth]

Would you trust me with your drink based on my top kins? Also known as expose yourself to your followers and let them make assumptions about you game

Brett - Inside Job

Mirabel & Bruno M. - ENCANTO

Emmet Brickowski - TLM

Denki - MHA & Gumball Cookie - CRK

Gladstone G. & Drake M. - Ducktales 2017

If you guys have assumptions about my kins or me feel free to send them through the ask box, I'll reply

[mismess]

Uncle Joey is in fact my ideal self

[mrgladstonegander]

signs you need therapy: you kin gladstone gander.

[randombloops]

Guys, guys i kinned gladstone gander too hard,...

I just found 20 dollars and said, " hey look, 20 dollars :D".

[luckiestplant]

easy, gladstone kinnie /j

dsfjklh

[ankkalinna]

I’m not super fond of Don Rosa’s The Lost Charts of Columbus but the bit with Gladstone is great. He’s just too dumb to be seduced by the prospect of becoming the Emperor of North America

[dwellordream]

“Contemporary readers might find themselves almost suspicious of how little there is in Victorian lifewriting to shock or surprise; can their lives really have been this dull? Deficient in arresting details and blandly uniform, Victorian lifewriting does not foster any illusions that it accurately records the historical past. But lifewriting was not pure fiction, and its very adherence to rules and commitment to typical daily life makes it a far more valuable source than conduct literature, medical writings, or police records for understanding how conventions shaped lived behavior. Consider the example of transvestism. Cross-dressing could lead to scandal and arrests, but lifewriting attests that many youths who adopted the clothes of the other sex were treated as amusing pranksters. 

In her 1857 autobiography Elizabeth Davis recalled “enjoying” herself “extremely” when she dressed as a man to accompany a fellow housemaid to a party and noted that her employers simply “laughed” when they caught her. In the 1840s a young woman living in London wrote to a cousin in the country about putting on a play with other girls for their fathers and mothers: “I have two parts, the good Fairy and the Lord Chamberlain because he sings a song, and he wears a turban and baggy trousers and I wear a beard and moustache.” Other accounts described boys dressing as girls and sallying forth in public to the amusement of all in the know. 

Victorian lifewriting exposes other gaps between myth and reality. Conduct books confined women to the private sphere, but in fact, many informally participated in politics. Amanda Vickery has pointed out the dearth of research on women’s consumption of newspapers, an increasingly political medium after 1750; lifewriting shows that many ordinary middle-class women who complied with gender norms actively read newspapers and discussed political events with their fathers and husbands. Katharine Harris’s journal documents how a middle-class teenage girl tracked the revolutions and cholera epidemics of 1848 as carefully as she followed changes in fashion and the dramas of her social circle.

Women’s diaries and correspondence also modify our image of Victorian feminism as a powerful but marginal movement; though suffrage was a divisive issue, an otherwise silent majority supported female higher education, with many writers asserting that “women have brains, and given equal opportunities, can do as good work as men.” Mary, Lady Monkswell (1849–1930) never formally participated in politics except as the wife of a man who held several government positions, but in 1890 she recorded her pride that a woman had attained the highest score on the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos: “Every woman feels 2 inches taller for this success of Miss Fawcett.”

Female friendship emerges in Victorian lifewriting as a fundamental component of middle-class femininity and women’s life stories. Because the letters women exchanged with male suitors were often deemed too private or compromising for publication, and because wives had few occasions to write to husbands whom they lived with, letters between female friends and kin were the most common and copious source for documenting women’s lives. Anna Bower’s correspondence with three women who had been her friends since school days made up the bulk of a 1903 edition of her diaries and letters.

The Memoir of Mrs. Mary Lundie Duncan (1842) drew heavily on the communication between Mary Duncan and a lifelong friend. The many letters included in the published version of Mary Gladstone Drew’s diaries and correspondence were addressed to her cousin and friend Lavinia. The editor of Lady Louise Knightley’s journals identified the central figure of the early volumes as Louise’s cousin and “inseparable companion” Edith, with whom Louise exchanged daily letters when they were separated between 1856 and 1864 (12). The emphasis on female friendship in Victorian women’s lifewriting mirrored the ways in which didactic literature defined it as an expression of women’s essential femininity. 

In The Women of England and The Daughters of England, Sarah Ellis articulated the tenets of a domestic ideology based on strict divisions between men and women. She counseled women to accept their inferiority to men and to cultivate moral virtues such as selflessness and empathy as counterweights to the male virtues of competitiveness and self-determination. Ellis praised female friendship for several reasons. It trained women not to compete with men by requiring them not to compete with one another; it fostered feminine vulnerability by developing bonds based on a shared “capability of receiving pain”; and it reinforced married love by cultivating the sexual differences that fostered men’s desire for women (Women, 75, 224). 

In The Daughters of England, Ellis explicitly argued that friendship trained women to be good wives by teaching them particularly feminine ways of loving: “In the circle of her private friends . . . [woman] learns to comprehend the deep mystery of that electric chain of feeling which ever vibrates through the heart of woman, and which man, with all his philosophy, can never understand” (337). Ellis argued that female friendship produced marriageable women by intensifying the opposition between the sexes, but she then undid gender differences by positing similarities between friendship and marriage. The emotions fostered by friendship were also those required for marriage, leading Ellis to call marriage a species of friendship, and friendship “the basis of all true love” (Daughters, 388). 

Far from compromising friendship, family and marriage provided models for sustaining it; female friends exchanged the same tokens as spouses and emulated female elders who also prized their friendships with women. Marriage rarely ended friendships and many women organized part of their lives around their friends. Louise Creighton (1850–1936), married to an Anglican vicar and eventually the mother of six children, wrote letters to her mother in the 1870s that often mentioned extended visits from her childhood friend Bunnie and other married and unmarried female friends. 

Just before she acceded to the throne, Princess Victoria wrote of her governess Lehzen as “my ‘best and truest friend’ I have had for nearly 17 years and I trust I shall have for 30 or 40 and many more.” On the day Victoria married Albert, Lehzen gave the queen a ring, and their pledges of an enduring bond held true, with Lehzen ensconced at court long after the queen’s wedding. Like any monarch, Queen Victoria practiced a politics of display, but what she performed most vigorously was her adherence to domestic middle-class ideals.

It is therefore not surprising to find her commitment to lifelong friendship echoed in the aspirations of Annie Hill, a middle-class girl who in 1877 wrote to her friend Anna Richmond, “I do not see why we should not keep up writing to one another all our lives like Aunt Maria and her great friend have done.” The friendships that created bonds between individual women also forged a sense of connection between generations. Friendship and marriage could be overlapping and mutually reinforcing. While engaged to her husband-to-be, Mary Duncan sent him poems and the gift of a hair brooch, and at the same time wrote a poem for her best friend, whom she addressed as “loved one” and “dear one” (163, 179–80, 147). 

Just as Duncan experienced no conflict in loving her fiancé and her friend, other women expressed affection for friends by hoping they would happily marry. Writing in 1865 of the friend who came “to bless my life,” twenty-three-year-old Louisa Knightley fantasized about her eventual wedding with a sense of pleasure rather than incipient loss: “I have grown to love Edie very dearly—the Sleeping Beauty, whom life and the world are slowly awakening. May the enchanted Prince soon come and touch the chord that will rouse her from the dreams of childhood and make of her the perfect woman!” (105–6). 

….Lifewriting confirms the links conduct literature made between female friendship and conventional femininity, for only women invested in portraying themselves as atypical failed to write of their friendships. Women who succeeded in masculine arenas and advertised their exceptional achievements in published autobiographies often accentuated their distance from standard femininity by downplaying the role that female friends played in their lives. Battle painter Elizabeth Butler (1846–1933), pedagogue and professional author Elizabeth Sewell (1815–1906), and radical activist Annie Besant (1847–1933) all omitted the rhapsodic descriptions of friendship that characterized lifewriting by women eager to demonstrate how well they had fulfilled the dictates of their gender.

Outright disdain for female friendship was rare. One of the few extant examples of a woman mocking female friendship is an exception that proves the rule. A sophisticated transplant raised in Paris by parents from the Anglo-Irish gentry who returned to England in 1868, Alice Miles was eager to distinguish herself from her earnest English relatives. In a diary that remained unpublished until the late twentieth century, she wrote that women were obligated to marry for money, not love. Her contempt for British domestic sentiment led her to dismiss the earnest devotion between female friends she encountered in England as hypocrisy or stupidity. She believed instead in “the natural aversion women always seem to entertain towards each other and the still more decided preference they habitually evince towards mankind!”

 Nevertheless, Miles enjoyed forming a friendships with a young woman “perfectly acquainted” with every “naughty story . . . making the tour of London,” whom she praised as “a regular little rose bud . . . looking perfectly bewitching.” Even the cynical Miles, who believed that affection between woman was merely a “sign . . . that a man is at the bottom of the emotion,” could not resist the pleasure she took in a woman pretty and wicked enough to be a potential rival. Successful women who represented themselves as proper ladies defined their lives in terms of their friendships with women as well as their devotion to family and church.”

- Sharon Marcus, “Friendship and Play of the System.” in Between Women:  Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

[fictionkinfessions]

ooh book recs!! ok, im not kin from all of these but they all either give off that good safe home feeling or are just generally Good: a madness of angels by catherine webb (come be we and be free!) , sabriel by garth nix, seconding (thirding?) mxtx , this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone, the nights dawn trilogy by peter f hamilton. artemis fowl. i have other recs but idk if theyre very kinnable? lmao um.. if you havent read the little prince, you should.

[peachhoneii]

Della and Donald are 36...

going on 84.

@ashfangirllisa​ discussed this with me on a discord server and may be able to provide additional theories.

Frank answered the long time question of Donald and Della’s age. On paper, it made sense, and why would Frank lie to us?

Last Christmas grunge teen Donald and Frank’s subsequent ask about Della being a meme icon paints a very 90s picture for Donald and Della.

But the more I think about it, the more the pieces don’t connect. Who doesn’t want to give Frank credit for this tidbit of information, but suspicions persist that his answer was one of his famous OOC ‘Out of Context’ responses.

Don Rosa’s Timeline:

Scrooge McDuck: 1867

Matilda McDuck: 1871

Hortense McDuck: 1876

Quackmore is assumed to be around the same age. It’s possible he could be younger, having been born closer to modern time, but his photograph doesn’t really imply that. I’ll get back to him.

Previous McDuck Sisters post discussed the mysterious and unexplained absence of the McDuck sisters. Of course, it’s obvious this method prevents us from knowing too much that we’re not supposed to know. 

But what aren’t we supposed to know?

Matilda and Hortense exist in this canon. 

It’s been confirmed in-show, but Frank reaffirmed Matilda, Hortense, and Quackmore (the etc) exist in canon, and there’s a plan for them.

‘Our Time Shenanigans’

What an unusual phrase to use for our favorite duck family, but I think this makes the most sense as to a possible explanation as to what happened to MHQ.

Donald and Della are 36.

Frank isn’t lying. Physically, mentally they’re 36, but chronologically, they’re much older than that and probably don’t even realize it. With the classic animated references, Donald and Della were most likely born in 1934, the premiere year of Donald’s debut in the animated short The Wise Little Hen.

But how? How are they so young?

It isn’t like Donald and Della have grandparents living in a castle that grants them immortality as long as they live in said castle?

For some reason, Donald and Della were sent on an extended stay to Grandma and Grandpa’s. I have my theories for that, most likely FOWL/FOWL’S predecessor was hunting them down similar to Lunaris, and their parents managed to time their arrival just right.

Like Della and Scrooge, who silently decided the kids’ safety took priority, Hortense and Quackmore timed their arrival to protect their kids who were now targets of their enemies. 

If family estrangements are a thing, it’s possible Scrooge wasn’t their first choice of guardian but got it by default due to being the wealthiest or something.

That means Donald and Della spent more than thirty years in Castle McDuck, starting at a young age where they really didn’t understand what was going on.

But what about Fethry and Gladstone?

Coot Kin - Duck Family...they’re modest, humble but no less scrappy and adventurous. Clinton Coot founded the Junior Woodchucks, and I don’t think it’s far stretched to say Quackmore’s family may have been able to produce or discover longevity tools. 

Gladstone and Fethry’s parents are much older than people expect, but maybe people expect it since dying of old age isn’t really a thing for these families.

I just don’t believe Donald and Della are as young as they think they are, and depending on how old they were when their parents left, they may not even know it themselves. 

[centesimi]

@dollhousemuses​​​​​​​​ said:

❛ i really hate you , sometimes . ❜ / fr gladstone

                        ►► deadly nightshade. / accepting.

                 she doesn’t look at him. why would she ? he didn’t deserve her gaze at times... she really did LOATHE mortals sometimes... other’s that weren’t her kind. she should have known better than to get TANGLED UP with anyone of scrooge’s kin. she really was a fool.

                ❝ well it just so happens that I HATE YOU. ❞ she says, looking at him. ❝ get out. ❞