#st rudolph

[incorrectpot]

Mizuki: Ah, Fuji Syuusuke. Remember me?

Fuji: Are you questioning my memory or your relevance?

[arlzuteni]

Lesser known tenifacts #8

Academic tenifacts! From St. Rudolph. Nfu.

Students in their 2nd and 3rd years choose 3 electives in addition to their main subjects.

The choices are: bible studies, christian religion, community service, korean language, german language, french language, spanish language, music, art, and calligraphy.

Students are discouraged from choosing more than one additional foreign language because of the immense study load.

Today's tenifacts were from page 370 of the fanbook.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Solemn Requiem Mass for Rudolph Valentino, August 30, 1926. The mass was conducted in St. Malachy's Church by the Rev. Edward F. Leonard, the rector, shown in center at the altar. The Great Lover had collapsed five days earlier and had had surgery for a perforated ulcer mimicking appendicitis at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. He died of sepsis on Aug. 23. He was 31 years old.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[star-trek-fandom-confessions]

Confession #16

"I know it's probably not canon, but I always liked the theory/headcanon that Jack Ransom from Lower Decks is related to Rudolph Ransom from Voyager."

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Bow Tie is admiring a Christmas Tree in the tree festival at St Eustachius church.

In Tavistock, in Devon, England.

[nuisancehelicopter]

"Did Guan Yue teach you these techniques?"

"He did. He's better than you."

"Guan Yue, how could you let Zhuo Yu be hurt like this?"

[relaxedstyles]

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

On this first #Fine Press Friday of 2023, we present a couple of items from one of the more obscure 20th-century American private presses, the Cygnet Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cygnet Press was founded in 1928 and co-managed by two Harvard academics, George Parker Winship (1871-1952) and Philip Hofer (1898-1984). Winship was the long-time curator for both the John Carter Brown Collection at Brown University and the Harry Elkins Widener Collection at Harvard University. Hofer had been curator for the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library and assistant director of the Morgan Library before founding the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard’s Houghton Library. Both librarians maintained a strong interest in fine press printing and printing history.

The first book off the press was a 1934 facsimile edition of Vita de Sancto Hieronymo (the first eight images), an Italian translation of the letters of St. Jerome by Matteo da Ferrara, originally printed in Ferrara by Lorenzo di Rossi da Valenza in 1497. In a 1934 letter that accompanied a different copy of this book, Hofer wrote: “The little book which accompanies this note is one which George Parker Winship and I set by hand and printed a few years ago. It amused us, and, I hope, will amuse you. Of course we would do it differently now - that is always the way!"

The last two images are from a very slim booklet entitled Tanatlus, the fourth imprint from the press, printed for friends in 1937 in an edition of 200 copies. The publication focuses on the color wood engraving of the punishment of the Greek mythological figure Tantalus. The engraving, by the master Czech American wood engraver, illustrator, and type and book designer Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978), was designed after a watercolor by Hans Holbein the Younger, “which the best woodcutter of Holbein’s time could not have bettered.” 

The original watercolor, conjectured to have been intended as a jeweler’s design, had been acquired by someone in Winship’s and Hofer’s circle in 1936. Ruzicka made seven blocks printed in different colors and values “to make an almost perfect counterpart of the original . . . .” To explain the image, the Greek texts of Homer and Pindar and the Latin text of Horace, along with English translations, are printed as part of the booklet.

Our copies of these two publications are gifts from our friend Jerry Buff.

View more posts with work by Rudolph Ruzicka.

View more Fine Press Friday posts.

View more posts with wood engravings!

[magickgirl786]

my dream cast for a potential gilmore girls reboot (season 1)

Avantika Vandanapu as Rory

Tiya Sircar as Lorelai

Amitabh Bachchan as Richard

Jaya Bachchan as Emily

James Lafferty as Luke

Logan Shearer as Dean

Beanie Feldstein as Sookie

Momona Tamada as Lane

Shay Rudolph as Paris

Bambadjan Bamba as Michel

[hobbyph]

Lego City Christmas Village Santa Claus Xmas Tree Rudolph Reindeer Frozen Sven Bricks Build Diorama

[nakeddeparture]

Whitfield Rudolph Thomas, 74, cries, trembling, he does not feel safe at your Hotel St Philip/Dodds - Barbados.

https://youtu.be/LdAfx4qRf0o

Seems as though the prison officers (Daphne’s colleagues) are waiting for a chance…. Have your say. Naked!!

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[arlzuteni]

Lesser known tenifacts #7

Tenifacts are back! Everything you don't need to know about St. Rudolph's dormitory (the "lustrous garden" as featurend in tenifact #2) rules and regulations.

Curfew is 9pm! Students may not leave the dormitory unattended after this hour.

Students have to do their own laundry including sheets.

Students may carry their own cell phones, but there is a landline phone available for common use. It is said there are more calls coming in than going out.

That's it for today's tenifacts! Tomorrow's tenifatcs will also be about St. Rudolph. Tenifacts from page 373 of fanbook 40.5.

[limpbizkitmutual]

More PSII Text Adventures covers. This time, it's Shilka and Rudger (Shir and Rudo). I believe all I have left now is to complete Amia's and start Nei's.

By the way, if you want to play these, my best advice is to avoid playing Rudger's without a walkthrough. It literally makes no sense without one, I've considered doing a playthrough of it just so people can experience the story without all the confusion

[torchflies]

Hi TG Fandom! 

(I love Hallmark Christmas movies and got the Hangster feels, so — here you go. 😉)

Shortly after the mission, so about the beginning of December, everyone on the daggers is fiercely trauma-bonded to each other (and their favorite old men: Maverick, Iceman and Slider 😆) while they form a new squadron under Mav’s command — when Cyclone pulls Jake aside to say that his father is dying and his mother has been trying to contact him for some time now. 

Of course, the daggers are nosy as hell and Slicemav are Slicemav, so everyone knows by the end of the day. 

They are instantly in comforting mode, trying their best to get Jake to just go home — but he insists that he's fine and his father is not dying, he's just a dramatic prick. 

Eventually Ice strong-arms Jake into telling them where he's from so they can buy plane tickets and take the idiot home. 

“Utqiagvik, Alaska.” He finally grumbles, arms crossed and pouting because the old man isn't dying. It’s just a ploy to get him out there. 

But yes, they force him to go home, with Bradley and Slicemav in tow because of course. 

It takes a ridiculous amount of connecting flights and a stint in a very teeny tiny jumper, but they get out there. And Jake takes them farther North still, farther North than they had thought possible. 

There's a whole city in the middle of nowhere in the Arctic, full of bustling people and well-lit stores and dozens upon dozens of warehouses. And oddly enough, when they slip off their hoods, they aren't overly cold. 

There's a strange shimmer in the air here, Jake calls it magic and says, completely unenthused: “Welcome to the North Pole.” 

As it turns out, Jake’s father is indeed not dying because Santa Claus (a.k.a St. Nicky Kringle-Seresin) is functionally immortal and is just a meddling sonuvabitch who really wanted his kid to take over his birthright this year — and to meet his new son-in-law 😉 Jake is absolutely horrified by both those prospects. 

He lays down in a snowdrift in front of the stables and begs one of the reindeer to trample him to death. 

Rudolph licks his face in consolation instead. 

A completely unsympathetic Bradley pokes him with a boot, “Why does everyone here call you JB?” 

“It’s my name, Jake is a better one.” 

“What’s JB short for though?”

“….you already know, Bradshaw. Yes, it’s that.”

Jingle Bell Rock starts playing in the distance and Jake contemplates how far his own immortality extends. 

[ssoupernova]

Christmas for Steve and Bucky

(I love the 20s, 30s and 40s so here's some information about what Christmas was like during this time and the things Steve and Bucky wouldn't recognise/be familiar with)

In their childhoods 'A Christmas Carol' was very popular, and decorating trees with handmade items and electric lights was common. Handmade Christmas cards complete with Christmas cookies would have been a very common gift. (Plus I bet Steve would continue to give them out now).

Oranges were an incredibly popular stocking stuffer during the 20s and 30s and represented an affordable luxury for many Americans.

Steve and Bucky would probably be shocked by how early people began decorating for Christmas, or seeing Christmas things in stores early. During their childhood trees were often only decorated on Christmas Eve.

Christmas tree lighting ceremonies were firmly established during their childhood so watching Christmas tree lights turned on in public parks and places would be familiar to them, typically accompanied by Christmas carols and choirs.

The Rockettes were still rather new but performed their Christmas Spectacular for years during Steve and Bucky's youth.

They likely wouldn't be familiar with advent calendars, which only gained popularity in America after World War 2. They also probably wouldn't know about the Nutcracker, which only made its way to the US in 1944. Candy canes also weren't popular until 1950s when they were mass produced so Steve and Bucky likely wouldn't associate them as heavily with Christmas as they are now.

During the 1920s Santa was referred to as both Santa and St Nicholas, so it's likely the two would use the names interchangeably.

Collecting and displaying snow babies was popular and they are adorable! They were a staple in Christmas decor. Crepe paper was very popular, including instructions on making crepe dresses for one time use!

Steve Rogers would never have heard 'Rudoloh the Red Nosed Reindeer ' before. He may have been familiar with the character, but that's unlikely (however infinitely cuter if he knew the character and got to hear the song for the first time).

Rudolph only became a household name after the song, but in 1939 was a part of a department stores promotions. Rudolph was the main character of a small childrens story they published that year. The most likely way for Steve to know about it is through Bucky and him receiving the book when buying gifts for someone else, maybe Bucky's sister.

Steve and Bucky may have been familiar with the radio show of "The Cinnamon Bear" a children's series where twins try find their missing Christmas star with the help of a teddy bear. Very cute, I could imagine they'd find listening to it now very nostalgic.

There's also a fairly solid chance that Steve and Bucky had been to a white elephant party before, as they have been fairly popular since 1901.

I definitely need to read/write some fics about Christmas time for them, and adapting to more modern Christmas's djekskek

[cloudytardigrade]

things I loved about the new longform (now one of my favourites)

•Luke being so confused in the beginning and then the "ohhh"

•The echoing mic was iconic

•Mrs Claus's sass

•Luke saying "What the fuck is Snowdrop??"

•"I have loved you since 0 AD"

•"I was a wise man" "I was dressed as a sheep"

•"You can call me a giant elf if you want but I don't give a shit, do y'know that?"

•The awkwardness of Snowdrop having to watch Mr and Mrs Claus argue

•"Barbados is on the naughty list. All of it"

•Also Krampus IS one of the best SFTH characters.

•The relationship between Santa and Snowdrop. THE PROTECTIVENESS <33

•"You just gonna keep being an asshole to me?.."

•The eyebrow raise from Snowdrop when Santa says "You slept with Javier!"

•The casual "See ya later" from Mrs Claus after having an argument that will probably end their relationship

•TOM PLAYING VILLAINS HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT.

•"Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Santa's smiles"

•"September, October, yeah I'll do it, then November comes and it's like "fucking hell!!"

•Javier??? Xavier's long lost twin??

•I WILL be making fanart of the characters, specifically Krampus and Snowdrop bc they're my favs

•The hold back of laughter from Luke when Santa says "we recently found out this year that all elves have ADHD"

•"About time, Luke-I mean, Snowdrop"

•Sam singing 😭

•The little hand movements Luke does after Santa accidentalky says "Luke" instead of Snowdrop

•Krampus talking in third person

•The way Krampus and Little Krampus get around

•"You have DHHA" "Damn Hot Attention Awareness"

•The hair caress that Krampus gives Little Krampus, which shows their love

•Krampus holding his leg whilst moving

•"Welcome to the North Pole airport"

•Luke literally throwing his head back with laughter in the sidelines

•Mrs Claus not knowing how passports work

•The banter on how passports work

•I love how happy and enthusiastic Tom seems

•"Oh, bribery!" "That's also a crime!"

•The poses for the photo booth

•Poor Snowdrop :(

•"That's Krampus! The most wanted terror!st in the North Pole"

•Tom's out-loud commentary, and Luke just nodding

•"Where's our bowl full of jelly laughs? This is SHIT"

•"Barbados.. Let me check the map *pulls out map* There"

•Snowdrop's smirk when one of the elves says "We're not allowed passports" and then "There's a photo booth"

•"I'll climb up on your shoulders" "Oh really?" "Yeah" "Okay"

•The name's if the characters on the presents in at the start is really cute (damn they really know the fanbase huh)

•"I have an alternative proposal" "I'd probably prefer mine, to be honest 😏"

•"Oh, actually, fuck yeah, that's great"

•"Rudolph motherfuckerrr"

•"The teddy bears are getting married" dude. how can he say something as pure and wholesome as that and NOT expect me to combust

•Forgetting the reindeers names and an audience member helping them out

•"I was expecting a sexy lady with a big beard"

•Javier turning the elves head to look at him

•"Christmas is ruined, there's no laughter for us to eat"

•"Ho ho ho is gleeful laughter"

•Everyone subtly making fun of Mrs Claus saying "I was caught on a cloud"

•"You're his muse. His inspiration" ☹️☹️

•"Hey, let's not blame someone with a disorder, shall we?"

•"Sometimes, the hyper focus is really useful for making toys. One day, I made a thousand game boys. They said to try and make something else, I said "fuck that!""

•Krampus's song

•"Krampus grows more powerful!!"

•"Little Krampus has a gun now!! Ho ho ho.. 😈😈😈"

•The deep "I'm everywhere"

•"No no no no no"

•"Poor little teddy bear Christmas man!"

•"Ahhh.. A Christmas gun..."

•"One present from every child.. goes to Krampus's tum tum!"

•WHY ARE THEY SOME THE MOST GORGEOUS AMAZING PEOPLE EVER TO EXIST EVER??? LIKE THEY ALWAYS LOOK GOOD.

•"I feast on the tears of the children!!"

•"Find the joy... Santa"

•Definitely wasn't hoping for a kiss scene or something...

•"You are nothing little lady girl.. I'm a sex!st as well"

•"Your wife is my wife now"

•"Hehehehehe"

•"Look at my little piss boy"

•When they all start singing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" very slowly and eerily

•"What is this song? This wasn't around when I was put beneath the ice"

•Most beautiful men ever ngl

•"AVADA KEDAVRA!!"

(So basically the entire play)