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GUYS GUYS LOOK AT WHAT I SAW AT MY LOCAL DANGERFIELD
'ASTARION APPROVES' 😭😭😭
Omg I was so gonna buy the necklace but I thought to leave it on the mannequin for the next bg3 fan.
#it was 19 dollars so that was super good#especially for dangerfield iykyk#but cool reference lol#i love it when chain buisnesses let their employees customise the store#it just brings more life and personality into what would just be another branch of the store#god knows my workplace would never#lets go megacorp buisness#i was gonna suggest making a book reccomend thing for our book section but then again im literally the only one who cleans there#anyways yeah dangerfield is great!!#bg3#baldurs gate 3#astarion
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I wasn't prepared for the carnivore horse named Google Maps
#Long live evil#seriously that is so wild#like they really just casually implied horses are carnivores#and that one is named google maps#gods i love this book#sarah rees brennan#google maps the horse#the cobra#the golden cobra#it's super cute that marius thinks that's a great name for a horse#he's correct#but it's also hilarious
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My comic is so pretty...
The hiatus is letting me take a little extra time on these episodes, and I'm definitely putting it to good use!!!
#almost done with my 8th episode... which will give me. two weeks. of buffer...#id really like at LEAST a month... but to be more comfortable id like two#which means 2-6 more episodes before I come back!#I've got about 7 weeks so its possible. but i do still have to finish book 4#so much to do ..........#I decided for my next comic im doing 3 updates a month.#having 10 days instead of 7 to make an episode is such a huge huge huge difference...#difference in quality and in my health!#anyways the comic is really pretty im really happy with the work im doing rn#the environments especially. im getting to spend a nice amount of time on them and theyre turning out so nicely#its nice to be able to write with a lot of different environments and not have to redo panels when I get to them cause of time#cause every time theres a wild angle? you need a new background...#so sometimes. often actually. there just isnt the time to make the backgrounds for those and i have to make them more flat...#which is fine. it doesnt really affect anything narratively. but. idk. it's kinda sad right?#anyways yeah! 10 days will be much better.#36 episodes a year is about what ive been uploading with my hiatuses on the weekly schedule anyways!#so might as well cut out that super stressful middleman and just commit to that#52 a year is just such a huge difference and i have to accept its not possible to me#i will hurt myself trying to do that. and i want to make comics my whole life!#so i cant push myself that hard now and sacrifice my future. we're gonna go slower after this...#anyways yeah cant wait to come back but also time. if I could get an extra week like a secret one just for me#where theres no chores no nothin just me and my work#thatd be great! so go ahead and do what you gotta do to give me a little pocket dimension#me: ugh i want to return right now...#the more logical me: NO we need the time to finish everything!!!!!! NOT right now!!!!#time and time again#ttawebcomic#comic panels#hiatus stuff#adam and steve
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tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.
Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.
That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.
And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.
By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.
#pjo#riordanverse#rick riordan#rr crit#< i suppose#imo one of the most damning parts of the drop of quality in the later books is you can tell exactly what parts of what books#Rick had planned in advance and which are just filler to get from point a to point b#because characters will jump in and out of consistent behaviors - particularly in HoO - and those lapses where they act weird#are almost always super disconnected from the rest of the plot or storyline or whatever arc that character is on#or are just so clearly sped through because they aren't important#Leo is a great character imo to look at to figure out if it's a filler scene or not lmao#if he's clearly masking being somber by putting on a silly act but dropping it quickly or otherwise largely acting serious/somber#then it's probably a more considered scene and actually paying attention to his overall character arc#or just remembering how the characters are supposed to act (in Leo's case - quiet/thoughtful/somber but masking it with humor/etc)#if he's 100% silly goofy depression arc nowhere in sight then its probably mostly a filler scene or at least his part in it is filler#anyways i highly recommend reading the tlt teaching guide its really interesting actually
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Seeing the ask about the TV show, have you drawn the other duos from Gideon the Ninth in your cartoon style?
i have this! it was gonna be a lil shit post with a title like "GTN but instead of everybody dying they just have a beach party and go home" but i ended up not really liking it all that much and not finishing it, the only thing left is i like didn't color a few of the characters eyes
#tlt#ask#gideon the ninth#the locked tomb#also sorry if they dont be looking like they were described in the book LMAO#i was using the wiki for some of the details since ill be honest i forgor what some of them looked like#but the wiki doesn't have super great descriptions of the characters so i was mostly just pulling shit outta my assss
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from hildegard of bingen - the woman of her age by fiona maddocks
#great book btw super strong historiography and thesis#hildegard of bingen#saint hildegard#medieval history#hildegard von bingen#middle ages
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Fun fact: Imrahil of Dol Amroth is only ever described in LOTR as Denethor and Faramir's "kinsman", with no distinction ever made between how he's related to Denethor vs to Faramir. It's only later, when Faramir briefly thinks of his long-dead mother, that she is called "Finduilas of Amroth" and we can deduce that the family connection was likely between Denethor's wife and Imrahil, making him an in-law of Denethor but blood relative of Faramir. We're still not told exactly how Imrahil and Finduilas were related, though.
I always had the impression of a certain degree of tension between Imrahil and Denethor, and also of Imrahil being particularly concerned for Faramir, but his exact relationships with them are quite vague in the narrative. A lot of the names, dates, and family connections among the members of the house of Dol Amroth that we now accept as a matter of course are mainly from a separate document published in Peoples of Middle-earth that explains the most probable origin story for the house of Dol Amroth and has an attached family tree. IIRC the entire existence of Faramir and Éowyn's son Elboron is based on his inclusion in the Dol Amroth family tree in POME and he's never referenced in LOTR (and possibly not in anything else, actually?).
Tolkien definitely did imagine Imrahil and Finduilas as siblings regardless (e.g. I think he mentions it when observing that Denethor's natural beardlessness as an Elrosian Dúnadan would be reinforced in Boromir and Faramir by their additional Elvish heritage through Imrahil's sister), but he didn't actually say it in LOTR.
I do think it's important, though, because it's with this later information that Imrahil taking charge of Faramir's fallen body is conclusively revealed to not be simply a prince rescuing a vague "kinsman" of political/military importance, but specifically a man carrying his dead sister's last surviving child from a battlefield.
(No wonder he and Éomer bonded so much, honestly!)
#thinking about imrahil finding faramir dying on the battlefield and carrying him on his horse and then presumably on foot to the tower#faramir is like six and a half feet tall. this is not a light task.#in any case imrahil's 'your son has returned. lord. after great deeds' remark to denethor definitely always seemed icily cutting#i don't think contemptuous really��that's not the impression i get at all—just very courteously seething#esp given the publicity in the book of denethor and faramir's last bitter conversation#speaking of stirring the poison in the cup denethor made for himself: faramir may be unconscious but imrahil is here to KEEP IT GOING#but imrahil meeting éomer right after this and being like 'hi we're distant cousins and you seem super cool in battle#by the way have you noticed your sister is still alive?'#the fact that /imrahil's/ sister is truly dead and he just dragged her last remaining child from the battlefield hours earlier#and that son is currently dying of a mysterious wasting mordor illness just like she did AND imrahil's the one to save éowyn#after éomer found her apparently dead body and lost his shit ... i mean. a natural pair to bond with each other really.#(also fun fact: the whole 'death! death!' cry is not standard badass shouting; the rohirrim normally sing in battle#the 'death!' battle cry is /éomer's/ cry in his grief and horror over éowyn's apparent death)#anghraine babbles#imrahil#éomer#lord of the rings#legendarium blogging#denethor#faramir#finduilas of dol amroth#peoples of middle earth#anghraine's meta#house of dol amroth
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Me-made Snorkmaiden figure! Created with air-dry clay, acrylic paint, a lil bit of hot glue and lots and lots of love!
She even has her own collector's card! :3 (1/1 because she's one of a kind 💕)
#funfact I made a full plan sheet for her with everything I needed written n sketched out I was SERIOUS when I got the idea to make her#she came out better than I expected for sure! I wanted to sort of show the colour changing of snorks by giving her this peachy coat but I'm#not sure if it worked too well but meh it looks great on the figure! Had to use hot glue to stick her to the platform bc I was out of#super glue 😭😭😭#I used Snorkmimi's og design cause... my- my design of her isn't *really* figure friendly. Especially for someone as inexperienced as me in#the art of the “clay sculpting”#Snorkmaiden#moomin#moomin books#moomins
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So I went to an early screening for the first two episodes of the Percy Jackson show yesterday (Saturday), and let me just say, it is 100% the adaptation we deserve. It was amazing. Once it ended, I wanted more.
The characterizations were amazing, any changes there were made sense and made the situation more realistic and added tension, the story was straight from the book, it was just amazing.
I went with my mom and she, who doesn't know the books, really enjoyed it. I asked her how she liked it (literary just the first two episodes) compared to Harry Potter (which i had her watch a few years back), and she said there was no contest. She likes the pjo show much more. She said it was engaging and even had her wanting the next episode once it was done.
Everyone needs to watch this show. It was amazing. It lives up to the hype. We need to make sure it gets greenlit for season 2.
#oc it's not perfect#there is one (1) critique i have but tbh it's not a super big deal and could very well be rectified in future episodes#but other than that it was absolutely amazing#the whole theater was clapping at iconic moments and it was a great experience too#once we got home i made my mom rewatch the lightning theif movie with the new context so that she could see what weve had to live with#she hated it lol and she doesnt even know the amount of inaccuracies bc she hasnt read the book#she said it's just a bad movie in general and she's right lol#anyway the show was AMAZING everyone make sure to watch it as it comes out so that they greenlight S2#riordanverse#rick riordan#percy jackson show#percy jackson tv series#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#annabeth chase#grover underwood#pjo series#pjo show#percy jackson disney+#pjo disney+#pjo#no pjo spoilers
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I bought the comic! 💖
I have a couple of my usual little minor nitpicks (as I am want to have), but I don’t even want to get into them because there were so few and they didn’t impact my enjoyment of the comic all that much. I thought it was super cute!
I won’t spoil anything in case anyone’s interested in buying it for themselves (which, I would say… yeah, buy it, totally!), but what I appreciated the most– especially since this is the first issue and it’s establishing who the girls are for anyone not super familiar with them– is that the girls end up saving the day together. It shows the importance of them not just being heroes, but also being a team (and also being supportive sisters, which… 🥹🫶) and that makes me feel like, even on a basic level, they get the characters. And that’s reassuring! Yay!
#and GODDDDDD Ms. Bellum being there….. just……. thank you 🙏#there were a couple of things that just made me very very happy#MINI SPOILERS AHEAD =>#I thought Him’s little robot destiny test-y guys were cute and fun but he’s not really a rooobooottt guuuyyyy ehhhhhh but like whatever#the comic was basically Super Zeroes but for a new comic book run for people not familiar with the characters…#…like I said I think that’s totally fine because the characters are being established!#it had a bit of its own twist and it worked!#buttercup’s compliment to blossom at the end… yeah she’s a great loner SHE COULD CARRY A SERIES BY HERSELF SHE IS THAT GREAT 😤#but she must be bubbles and buttercup’s brain cell… so of course it’s imperative that she leads them haha#there were some weird OOC-ish dialogue but again nothing that made me go like ???????#I could complain but I genuinely feel like this was honestly fine and good and cute and you know what?#hooray and good job to everyone involved I like it 👍#I’ll totally get the next issue when it comes out BUT THE DESCRIPTION OF IT WORRIES ME LMAOOOOOO#comic#powerpuff girls#ppg
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I just wanted to share the sticker my almost 3yo daughter gave me earlier.
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my new favorite kind of amazon review is people who bought manga but don't know what manga is
#not comix#i thought we were past the need for those STOP! THIS IS THE BACK OF THE BOOK! YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO SPOIL A GREAT ENDING warnings#but i guess not?#one time i got the reverse of this and someone was like ''aren't those supposed to be backwards??'' when i was reading a LN#then like two words into my answer she was super obviously checked out of the conversation#why do people do that? why go up to someone and ask them something if you're just gonna get annoyed at them for answering?#rude af. i hate people. which is why instead of talking to them i prefer to spend my time looking at amazon reviews for fun
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ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
(2023) Dir. Shawn Levy
#i dont think theres much of fandom for this book/show this is gonna get like 9 notes#as always these look fine on my computer and horrific on my phone so thats super fun#my gifs#all the light we cannot see#shawn levy#louis hofmann#aria mia loberti#tvedit#usergreta#dailyflicks#filmedit#atlwcs#really wish they didnt cut frederick#also its weird that this was all in english#i was expecting a mix of german and french and english but theres like no other languages just accents thats pretty stupid#also this is just the film bitch in me but when he exploded the door and she was deaf for a couple seconds and you didnt hear anything they#really should have also completely unfocused the shot too to replicate her being blind AND deaf in that moment#the fact that they only deafened the audio for the audience kinda makes you forget that shes blind they just focused on the deaf part#and blindness isnt just darkness she can probably see some light (npi) so just a really blurry shot with no audio wouldve been great#thats the only like film specific thing i wish they did tho#i really love the shot werner on the ground and in bed#i also dont hate that they made em kiss...#even tho when i read this in high school i was the only one in my socratic seminar who was glad they didnt lmao#its not like reylo like it works#ok im done#OH AND IM GLAD WERNER DIDNT DIE THAT WAS VERY NICE OF THEM
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buncha bills
#artists on tumblr#pink octodoodles#digital art#doodles#gravity falls#bill cipher#got the book of bill weeks ago and was great#need to get into solving the mysteries like the website#i actually did liked a post of all the codes for the website but i didn't read them yet i want to figure some out myself first#i was super into the mystery aspect as a kid
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biting my nails nervously ......
if the netflix CATCF desaturates willy wonkas personality (the way that every film did) and does NOT translate the utter delight that was his book self into animation ... im gonna have to put my foot down
#saw the leaks and they did not give him the goatee#i am DEVASTATED#please give him super cartoony physics#if i dont see him prancing around .....#willy wonka#book willy wonka#charlie and the chocolate factory#catcf#netflix charlie and the chocolate factory#charlie and the great glass elevator
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bunch of screenshots from the off book livestream, shoutout shoutout to everyone who was in the chat 🌋🪽🌴
#off book#off book podcast#super fun show#also adding fuel to my belief that zach and jess would be great if they ever did a bloodkeep sequel#let them be funny little tolkien villains they’re ready for it#also I drew Jacques + felipe and the palm tree ents which i may clean up and post or like put in the discord or something
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