#philippe munch

[bones-n-bookles]

My White Fang collection, so far. It's included in The Collected Jack London

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Famous Five Art Nostalgia – Character Portrait: Anne [Annie]

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Character profile (adapted from Wikipedia):

Anne is the youngest in the group, and generally takes care of the domestic duties during the Five's various camping holidays. As the youngest (ten years old in the first book of the series), she is more likely than the others to be frightened, and does not really enjoy the adventures as much as her brothers and her cousin. She sometimes lets her tongue run away with her, but ultimately she is as brave and resourceful as the others. She likes doing the domestic things such as planning, organising and preparing meals, and keeping where they are staying clean and tidy, be it a cave, house, tent or caravan. In Smuggler's Top it is suggested she is claustrophobic, as she is frightened of enclosed spaces, which remind her of bad dreams. But the adventures invariably lead the Five into tunnels, down wells, and into dungeons and other enclosed spaces, demonstrating how brave she really is.

Anne keeps the same general characterisation in Claude Voilier’s continuation series ‘Les Cinq’, although she occasionally insists that her brothers and cousin take part in household-y chores.

Eileen A. Soper, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1944

Click below for more portraits from every illustrator I could find!

(in chronological order)

Simone Baudouin, #02 Five Go Adventuring Again, 1955

Simone Baudouin, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1955

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off to Camp, 1957

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off to Camp, 1957

Aldo de Amicis, #12 Five Go Down To The Sea, 1959

Jeanne Hives, #13 Five Go To Mystery Moor, 1961

Jeanne Hives, #19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks, 1963

Jeanne Hives, #19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks, 1963

Jeanne Hives, #20 Five Have A Mystery To Solve, 1966

Jeanne Hives, #08 Five Get Into Trouble, 1969

Jean Sidobre, #19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks, 1975

Jean Sidobre, #10 Five On A Hike Together, 1976

Claude Pascal, #LC14 Les Cinq vendent la peau de l’ours, 1977

Claude Pascal, #LC14 Les Cinq vendent la peau de l’ours, 1977

Claude Pascal, #LC19 Les Cinq en croisière, 1980

Buci, #LC21 Les Cinq contre les fantômes, 1981

Umberto Nonna, #15 Five On A Secret Trail, 1981

Jean Sidobre, #14 Five Have Plenty Of Fun, 1983

Annie-Claude Martin, #LC22 Les Cinq en Amazonie, 1983

Yves Beaujard, #21 Five Are Together Again, 1988

Anne Bozellec, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1991

Paul Gillon, #16 Five Go To Billycock Hill, 1994

Philippe Munch and Jame’s Prunier, #16 Five Go To Billycock Hill, 1999

Philippe Munch and Jame’s Prunier, #20 Five Have A Mystery To Solve, 2001

Frédéric Rébéna, #05 Five Go Off In A Caravan, 2010

Auren, #LC03 Le marquis appelle les Cinq / Les Cinq mènent l’enquête, 2022

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Thanks for reading!

[the-cricket-chirps]

Edvard Munch, The Kiss of Death (Todeskuss), 1899

Salvador Dali and Phillippe Halsman, Voluptas Mors, 1951

[theserpens]

Serpens' Drarry Recs: Overview

This is an overview post to provide quick access to the first fifteen Rec Lists on this Blog. I could not resist giving each one a dramatic headline and intro picture. But if you are looking for really quick links, look no further: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen.

And now, for the fun part:

Set One: Animal Transformations, Humor and 'That Moment' when Your Cute Bunny, Owl or Dog is Actually Your Childhood Nemesis.

Set Two: Two Grumpy, Traumatized Men Stuck in a Cabin: Working through their Problems and Falling In Love.

Set Three: Angsty, Toxic and Self-Destructive Romance Between Hurt Boys, Shortly After a War. The Fragile Solace of Destruction.

Set Four: Secret or Hidden Identities, Spies and Sleeping Together Without Recognizing Each Other. Drama Ensues!

Set Five: Curses, Love-Potion-Accidents, Binding Hexes and other Magical Hijinks cause a Romance. With Humor and Twists.

Set Six: Draco in the Muggle World, Harry thinking Draco Malfoy is Up To Something. Or He Feels Lost and likes to Follow Draco Around.

Set Seven: De-Aging, Memory Curses and Casework Bring Harry and Draco Together, as they Untangle their Complicated History.

Set Eight: Bound Together, by Magic or by Circumstance, they have to learn to Understand Each Other. Angst, but its Hurt with Comfort.

Set Nine: Former Enemies, now Not-Quite-Friends-With-Benefits. They are not really 'Casually' Sleeping Together, of course.

Set Ten: In Between Hogwarts Classes the Boys are Messing Around. Sixth Year, on Opposite Sides of a Brewing War. It's Angsty, naturally.

Set Eleven: Old Magical Houses are Spooky (meaning Haunted) and Proud (Semi-Sentient). But One Can Fall In Love In Them Too!

Set Twelve: Eigth Year, Dealing with Trauma through Violent Collision, with Fists and Kisses. Antagonistic Love Stories.

Set Thirteen: Eigth Year Again, but Soft and Sweet. Boys leaving the War behind them, finding new Peace and Connection in Each Other.

Set Fourteen: It's Dragons! Including Dragons as Pets, or Our Draco Transforming Into One. Many Scaly, Fire-Breathing Monsters - Yay!

Set Fifteen: Harry stumbling upon Draco in an Unexpected Place. Stories about Growing Up, Coming Out and Moving On.

The cropped artworks can be found full sized in the matching Rec List Posts with credits in the tags, but here is a complete overview of all used artists and works:

David Shrigley - Ohne Titel (Header), Susa Monteiro aka Susana Philipp Baiôa Monteiro - No Title (One), Felix Vallotton - La falaise de la grève blanche (Two), Egon Schiele - Zwei Männer (Three), Renè Magritte - The Lovers (Four), Edvard Munch - Mondlicht (Five), Harland Miller - Blonde But Not Forgotten (Six), Claude Monet - Water Lillies (Seven), Marina Abramovic - Rest Energy (Eight), Mikulàs Galanda - No Title (Nine), Unknown Etching - A lion and a Snake (Ten), René Magritte (Eleven), Denis Sarazhin - Pantomine 3 (Twelve), Vincent Van Gogh (Thirteen), Utagawa Sadahide - A dragon and two tigers (Fourteen), Helene Delmaire (Fifteen)

[exsiopicore]

[REPOST FROM X N°1]

"IT'S MACHA TIME !!" -Macha Towel

I uh... I see that there's already people liking my art? I guess I'll repost more art I once posted on X, our good old Twitter that I left.

Meet Macha Towel (I usually call her PT!Macha), a french madlad (self-insert uwu) who's goal is to calm down her intrusive thoughts by munching Peppino. Careful, she's absolutely CRAZY !! She has a Boss form (the BIG Macha) but eh, she's silly anyway.

There's some other peeps, like Fake!Macha, Oscar, and even a little Philippe LaBaguette cameo and a Nacho cameo (I see u Lolo >:])

[detournementsmineurs]

"Munch" biopic d'Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken présenté par Philippe Piguet - Historien et Critique d'Art - sur la vie du peintre expressionniste Edvard Munch (1863-1944) - avec Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth, Anne Krigsvoll, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen, Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Hildegun Riise et Per Frisch, janvier 2024.

[biglisbonnews]

The Stark Beauty of Tushetian Shepherds’ Journey Across Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains As spring begins to melt the snow in the mountains of northeastern Georgia, shepherds drive thousands of sheep across a perilous mountain pass to the stunning meadows of the Tusheti highlands. The meadows of the Tusheti have been called the last wild place in Europe and make for ideal summer grazing for the hardy, local sheep of the region—but the steep path is full of dangers, dangers that can sometimes prove fatal. Herding livestock to seasonal grazing grounds, a practice known as transhumance, is nothing new. Evidence of such journeys stretches back 10,000 years to when animals were first domesticated. The Tusheti shepherds of Georgia have moved their herds between seasonal pastures for at least half a millennium. Nestled in the Caucasus Mountains, the grassy fields of the Tusheti make ideal summer pastures for the hardy local sheep. Between June and September, the animals munch on high-protein grasses such as alpine bluegrass and toothed bellflower, giving the cheese made from the sheep’s prized milk its unique, strong flavor. In 2019, the gourmet cheese, known as ​​Tushetian or Tushuri guda after the sheepskin, or guda, used in curing, earned a coveted appellation of origin, which verifies that cheese from the region is the real deal. In spring 2022, the Philippe Brothers, a documentary team made up of brothers François, Stéphane, and Michael Philippe, followed along as one group of shepherds made their way up the dangerous trail to the Tusheti. Shepherds are usually related, and the group of four shepherds they followed were all kin and grew up surrounded by the stunning mountain vistas of the region. In 2022, the four shepherds (who preferred not to share their names) set out on their annual trek with 1,200 sheep and eight herding dogs. “The scenery was epic but ruthless,” says Michael Philippe. “It was not a place to live in, yet we walked there for two days with them, alone in pure wilderness.” Days started early with the group easily covering more than 30 miles in a day. Food was basic, says Philippe. A quick lunch might consist of bread, a can of food, like stewed fish, and “lots of alcohol.” Often the shepherds downed shots of ​​chacha, a strong, Georgian liquor made from the leftovers of wine production. At night, they bundled up in their jackets and slept outside on the cold mountainside. Along the way, the group had to cross several raging, freezing rivers—Philippe sometimes opted to take off his shoes and carry them. Wet shoes were worse than freezing feet. But by far the riskiest stretch of the journey was the Abano Pass, says Philippe. The unpaved, 43-mile stretch of road weaves across the Caucasus Mountains at an elevation of almost 10,000 feet. The unpredictable spring weather can cause sudden snow storms, rock slides, and dense fog. Snowmelt from the mountains destroys portions of the pass every year. “All the journey was difficult but the pass was the worst,” says Philippe. “We could [have] died many times because of the state of the road, falling rocks.” Once the shepherds made it to the Tusheti mountain valleys, they settled back into familiar rhythms—milking and tending to the sheep by day and then gathering around the fire to share songs and stories by night. Tusheti villages, abandoned for most of the year, come back to life in summer as entire communities return to their mountain homes. Despite climate change and natural disasters threatening their way of life, every year shepherds continue to make the difficult journey to and from the mountains. The Philippe brothers took these images of the transhumance, revealing the shepherds’ determination and triumph in completing the dangerous journey for yet another year. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/transhumance-tusheti-georgia-shepherds

[labellerose-acheron]

Belle wouldn't have been fussed if the stoat--Elex--had climbed up her leg. She liked animals. Much better than people usually. Philippe was her best friend and always had been. She glanced in his direction but he was simply munching on grass, not paying her much mind at the moment. It did make her wonder if the fairy could hear him too? That felt especially magical to her, but also...kind of intimidating because what if he didn't like her as much as she liked him?

Anyway--

"That's alright. Manners are very difficult," she told Elex. "I am not very good at them sometimes, myself." She wrinkled her nose and then looked up at the fairy.

"Sorry, speaking of: I didn't introduce myself to either of you properly--I'm Belle. And he's Elex...you are?" She hoped they hadn't really met before, because she really was terrible with names. Also, then it would have been silly for her to say her name to the girl...if she already knew who she was.

Daybreak || Open

[booksandwords]

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Read time: 11 Days (intermittent) Rating: 3.5/5

The quote: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. — Victor Frankenstein

I find this a difficult book to review. Some things that I need to say on that rating. It might have been higher in a number of different circumstances. If I was reading it in Mary Shelley's time (think early 19th century). If I wasn't delayed in reading it (think reading slump). Or if I was new to it. I studied Frankenstein in year 11 Literature hence the illustrated and annotated edition, studying a text is one way to ruin a book for me a bit. As a bit of an aside, it is remarkably difficult to read this book and not compare it to other things. Its adaptions or works it inspired. Reading Agatha Christie is much the same I believe, reading her Poirot or Miss Marple novels comes across as been there done that to the modern reader. But she did it all first, she formed these devices so prevalent in modern fiction. While it isn't to quite the same extent with Mary Shelley (at least not this book) those thoughts still need to be kept in mind. I will say one thing though the plot and the ethical questions that arise therefrom very much still stand up.

It is very much up to you to deal with the ethics and the questions raised. For some people it will be plain and simple the creature is a monster and humankind was saved by Victor's choice. For others like me, it is more complicated the creature deserved a chance and was driven to his actions. The creature was not much more than a child with a child's knowledge and ability to process, with an adult's body. He was left on his own to fend for himself to develop. If you look at him that way his actions are understandable. I have many more issues with Victor's choices playing god and abandoning his creation. His regret feels more selfish or self-serving than anything else. The second quote I included is from right near the end of the book. Though there is a section where Victor does almost consider aiding his creature is getting a more human existence. That in itself opens up all the what-ifs. Alternatively, just read and not think too heavily about it. Unfortunately, a side effect of studying a book is your way of thinking about it changes.

One thing I had forgotten in the years since I had read this was the intelligent framing of Frankenstein. The framing is letters from an arctic explorer on a ship to a beloved sister. They allow for the story to be told in the first person but with substantial time jumps and some reflective passages. But it does also allow for an unreliable or at least biased narrator. Shelley also makes it clear that the explorer, Walton, has his own life, story, experiences and ethics. This isn't entirely about Victor Frankenstein. It's also about the creature and to a degree Walton. The choice to give the creature a long section explaining his story was a good one. It covers 2 years as concisely as possible. But shows how something of a fully grown man with an infant's compression became so corrupted by hate and vengeance. How his appearance shock people into rash action. Not allowing him a chance at a life.

Just something that needs a bit of a warning there is something in Frankenstein that is akin to incest to modern eyes. When you read this you do need to remember that it was written in the early 19th century a time with extremely different cultural norms. That said given the societal differences the language remains quite readable with only a handful of words truly falling out of favour. Such as paroxysms "a sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity" (my emphasis). As a side note...which creative fool do I have to blame for corrupting the creature (aka Frankenstein's Monster)? In so many pop culture interpretations he is tall yes but inarticulate and slow-moving. Shelley writes him as superhuman in statute, speed and strength. Articulate and almost polite to Victor.

[aconissa]

IN LOVING YOU I EAT MY HEART; IN LOVING ME YOU EAT MINE

Mary Renault, The Persian Boy Stephen Crane, ‘In the Desert’ Grace Moloney, bite the hands that feed me Yves Olade, Bloodsport Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem Edvard Munch, Two Heart (detail), 1899 Philippe de Champaigne, Saint Augustine (detail), 1650 Dante Alighieri, Vita Nova, trans. Mark Musa Red Dragon (2002), dir. Brett Ratner Margaret Atwood, ‘Two-Headed Poems’

[bones-n-bookles]

White Fang by Jack London, 1906, with illustrations by Philippe Munch, 1998.

This edition has a tooooon of little supplemental blurbs and art pieces/photos added, on top of the book-specific art. It's less travel sized but I love all the extra context that's added 💕

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Famous Five Art Nostalgia – Summer Special (2/3): Camping

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Be it in a tent, a caravan or even a cave, on a mountain ⛰️, on the moor 🍃 or by a lake 🏞️, how better to enjoy nature than camping 🏕️? And once night falls 🌜, come gather around the campfire 🔥 before bundling up in a cosy sleeping bag 😴!

Simone Baudouin, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1955

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Simone Baudouin, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1955

Simone Baudouin, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1955

Simone Baudouin, #08 Five Get Into Trouble, 1957

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1957

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1957

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1957

Paul Durand, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1957

Simone Baudouin, #10 Five On A Hike Together, 1958

Jeanne Hives, #08 Five Get Into Trouble, 1962

Jeanne Hives, #16 Five Go To Billycock Hill, 1962

Jean Sidobre, #21 Five Are Together Again, 1973

Jean Sidobre, #05 Five Go Off In A Caravan, 1976

Jean Sidobre, #05 Five Go Off In A Caravan, 1976

Jean Sidobre, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1977

Jean Sidobre, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1977

Jean Sidobre, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 1977

Claude Pascal, #LC21 Les Cinq jouent serré, 1980

Claude Pascal, #LC21 Les Cinq jouent serré, 1980

Umberto Nonna, #08 Five Get Into Trouble, 1981

Umberto Nonna, #15 Five On A Secret Trail, 1981

Jeann Sidobre, #16 Five Go To Billycock Hill, 1983

Annie-Claude Martin, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1984

Anne Bozellec, #03 Five Run Away Together, 1991

Anne Bozellec, #LC01 Les Cinq sont les plus forts, 1997

Philippe Munch and Jame’s Prunier, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 2000

Frédéric Rébéna, #LC21 Les Cinq jouent serré, 2014

Auren, #07 Five Go Off To Camp, 2019

Auren, #LC01 Les Cinq sont les plus forts, 2021

[foolishhitt]

tagged by @pom277 to share some random photos from my camera roll!

this was fun! thanks so much for the tag 🥰

tagging @abtracing @estebanbicon @babysdrivers & @graveltrip if you’re interested!

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some kinda art moodboard

[pleasereadmeok]

Matthew scene by scene in  season 3

Episode 2 Scene  7 part 2 - KILL HIM!!!

If you haven’t read these before don’t expect any other character arcs - forget it.  Matthew all the way here. AND this is distinctly ‘shallow end’ stuff that is not to be taken too seriously.

Book spoilers in here as well. 

Matthew and Diana arrive downstairs to find a blood stained Baldie II dragging Jack in the house. No, no, no - don’t hurt our lil boy Jack!!

OMG!  Baby Jack has munched on Baldie II  (probably tastes a bit like chicken).   

AND he has BLOOD RAGE!!

Baldie II  is furious that he’s been bitten AND that Matthew has been concealing Jack’s existence and blood rage.  No Baldie II - Daddy Matthew didn’t know about the blood rage.  Everyone present is seeing it for the first time and had no idea this was going to happen.  Hubbard - you worm - why didn’t you tell them?  [Book spoiler - Jack’s blood rage was evident within seconds of his reuniting with Diana and Matthew so I guess this has been changed in the show to give us more drama - and it delivers.  Goode change.] 

Matthew immediately tries to calm Baby jack down “Look at me!”

Jack wants Matthew to tell Baldie that he belongs to Matthew but oh no - Baldie is the boss of Matthew.  He is the head of the family.   As we’ve seen before - vampire chiefs have a terrible way of dealing with misbehaving vamps in their packs.  Munchie time again.  OUCH!!!

But as we know - vampy secrets are revealed this way and Baldie II sees it all. 

Our lil baby Jack is THE VAMPIRE KILLER!!!!

Diana does here thing and stops Baldie II.  “Take your hands OFF my son.”   Yes - go Diana!   Why the hell didn’t Matthew get there first?!  🤬  And now he’s asking Diana to stop hurting Baldie II - what?  Why?  No.  Strangle him!  

Matthew promises to deal with Jack.  WTF??  Deal with him how exactly??? 

Everyone is horrified when Baldie II tells them that Jack is the killer.  Baldie II shouts at Matthew. “You know what has to be done!”  

Matthew has shut his eyes again - so yes - he knows what is coming.   What now?  Wait a minute was this in the book?  This is new?   Matthew drops to his knees and confirms he had no knowledge of Jack’s blood rage.  As far as Matthew is concerned he has to obey Baldwin as the head of his family.  He has to show contrition to protect everyone else in the room.

This makes no difference to Baldie II.  Kill him!! 

Noooooooooooooo!

Matthew is the family assassin.  He’s had to cull blood raged vampires before on Philippe’s orders.  Surely he can’t do this? 

“God help me.”

Nooooooooo!   Baldie II is giving Matthew a direct order.  “Do it!”   OMG - will he?  

Diana pleads with Matthew “Please, Matthew, no.”  while Jack flees. 

Diana suddenly faces the reality that she is not sure what Matthew will do next.

And we’re not sure either at this stage - unless you’ve read the books of course.   Oh and if you watched the rest of this episode. 😂

Next up: Grand Daddy!  

📷 unedited screenshots.

[uncannyfantastic]

New drawings by French comics artist Georges Bess: "Black Saddhu," "Crazy Horse," "Haiku," "Le Cri de Munch," and "Lieutenant Myrtille (Hommage a Moebius)." Each is drawn on multiple sheets of paper arranged in a grid (the Moebius tribute measures 12x6 feet). These and several others are on display at Philippe Labaune Gallery in NYC through October 5. You can also see them on our site: https://www.heavymetal.com/news/georges-bess-philippe-labaune/