#Miscellanious

[teaboot]

Javi says hi

[chaoticnutcase]

[the-twilight-sword]

ceremonial bladework

[marigoldbaker]

i'm gonna be so real here i can't come up with a snappy caption for these images i just wanted them next to each other. the dark age as an episode is such a win for bisexuality. we get the two great loves of giles's life in one episode and they never once interact but they both share this moment of existing on the outskirts of an intimacy they don't/can't/will never understand. yet at the same time absolutely they get it because both jenny and ethan are irrevocably changed by giles and their mutual desire to Get Him Back is what eventually destroys them both in one way or another.

and GOD the difference in the way giles grips ethan's hair vs. cups jenny's face!!!! does that not say it all??? jenny as quietly unnerved by a violence she has never experienced vs. ethan as quietly resentful about an unguarded intimacy he has never experienced. jenny knows he's never gonna touch her like that & ethan knows he's never gonna touch him like that. very different contexts.

[acediscowlng]

i like to think dahlia got his vision, thought okay but i need to find a way to make this about the anemo archon anyway, and went surprise motherfuckers you're getting baptized into the church of favonius, praise be to lord barbatos

[wormthing]

frankenjam. or whatever

[betokeneth]

Nancy Campbell, The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate (2018) / The Terror (2018)

[girlactionfigure]

[ufonaut]

Donald Westlake on Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels and inspirations behind his own Parker series, written under the Richard Stark pen name. Excerpt from The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany (2014), published posthumously.

[ap-sadistics]

hey guys. dan and i have been trying to figure out the title of the "original game" (mostly joking that its manhole) but i just realized on my own.

its "MANTLE".

[the-au-collector]

So I’ve been rewatching season 1 of The Promised Neverland again while waiting to reread the manga (I’m like 10th in line for the library hold 😭😭😭) and I’ve just thought of a new LU AU:

The Promised Neverland x Linked Universe

Basically, the idea is the Links are all kids escaping from various farms. Idk what the names would be but they’d be stand-ins for TPN’s main locations so... As for now the Links and other characters! (Since I don’t want to use TPN’s names, the escapees means Grace Field, game hunt is Goldy Pond, and the bunker is the bunker)

Time, Malon, Warriors:

I feel like they would be the Yuugo and Lucas of the group. Time and Malon would be in Lucas’ place in Goldy Pond, while Warriors is wasting away in the bunker and is found by the escapees. Wars obviously feels a ton of guilt for leaving the rest of his fellow escapees (OoT’s sages, Time, Malon, and maybe some of the fighters you meet in HW) to die. And of course he keeps beefing with Legend, who would be like 13 in this AU.

Meanwhile, Time and Malon are taking care of the game hunt kids and teaching them to survive. Time is a TANK, amazing at fighting the demons. Malon is more of a medic and naturalist, very good with plants/animals/wildlife.

Oh yeah and THEY MAKE IT OUT ALIVE (yes I’m still crying over the bunker dads leave me aloneee)

Twilight, Wild, Champions, Sages, Flora, Dusk:

The said game hunt kids. Twi mostly takes Oliver’s place as Time’s mentee and the oldest that isn’t an adult. I’m debating whether or not I should give Wild amnesia still, but the Champions are dead. They all grew up on the same farm and all got shipped to this Goldy Pond-equivalent. Same with Flora, she’s the technician of the group, really good with mechanical things. The Sages are still alive though. (And Teba and Tulin are not related/have a brotherly relationship instead of being father and son)

As for Dusk, she’s there because Twi is there. I thought of adding Midna here too but having her be dead but since I want the LoZ antagonists to be demons, I might end up making her the Mujika-equivalent. I’ve yet to decide for Midna, all I know is I want her to somehow have a connection to Twi eventually.

Legend, Hyrule, Four, Wind, Sky:

These four feel the best to be the equivalents of Ray, Emma, Gilda, Don, and Norman (yes in that order), trying to escape their farm and such. I feel like, though, it would be Hyrule, Wind, and Sky (or some combination of them) who would end up going to the gate to give the forgotten toy (idk who it would be that would be shipped off, maybe an NPC or minor character from one of their games). Legend would already know the truth, and because he does, Fable would too since I can’t let go of the twins headcanon.

Given these 5 are in the same farm, their respective Zeldas (Flora, Dawn, Aurora, Dot, Tetra, and Sun) would also be in the same farm and because y’all know I can’t help myself, I have to throw Shadow and Ravio in there too. I might make some of these guys Lambda experiments though (I’m especially side-eyeing Sun there…)

Also yes Sky becomes Minerva.

Hylia and First:

Isabela and Leslie. That’s it.

Oh and Hylia is Fable and Legend’s mom like Isabela is Ray’s.

But yeah that’s what I’ve got so far. As I keep writing this I keep getting more ideas (Shadow is Ayshe instead, maybe? We don’t meet Ravio until Paradise where he’s decided he can run the business empire of his dreams? AoC link is in there somehow?) so I’m going to call it here. If I didn’t add anyone I either a) have no ideas for them or b) have an idea but that means they would die and I don’t want them to die (cough, Lullaby and Artemis, cough)

But yeah. TPN on the brain.

(FINAL THOUGHT I SWEAR: The one who gets shipped away and found by Hyrule, Sky, and Wind is Marin… perhaps…)

[laurelwen]

I'm So Beatable

[Like Minds Masterpost - Humor]

[chaoticnutcase]

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBudgieDay, here is the 1st published image of a Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) for its scientific description by George Shaw (as the “Undulated Parrakeet") in The Naturalist's Miscellany of 1804-5.

(Yes, it appears unnaturally elongated, likely due to Shaw working from a skin rather than a living bird.)

Via BHL

[marigoldbaker]

i do really love though that we've reached a point in hacks where ava and deborah's relationship is not this weird amorphous Thing that the people in deborah's life are resentful about or unaware of, there's just this very obvious and consistent understanding from everyone who knows one or both parties that this is a bonded pair. matching set. cannot be separated. do not try to separate them. do not try to stop them from fighting

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

PAUL LANDACRE

Here are a few wood engravings by the well-respected California engraver Paul Landacre (1893-1963) from a biography of the artist, Paul Landacre: A Life and Legacy, by California writer and educator Anthony L. Lehman (1935-1988), published in Los Angeles as "Los Angeles Miscellany Number 15" in a limited edition of 500 copies by Dawson's Book Shop in 1983.

Landacre loved to depict the California landscapes as well as the people, animals, and plants that inhabit them. His life was filled with triumph and tragedy. His Wikipedia entry notes:

Landacre achieved a singular, mature style lauded for its formal beauty—meticulously carved fine lines, delicate cross hatching, and flecking—elements in white which strikingly contrast with velvety blacks. His prints, including the early linocuts, gained early and lasting critical recognition, were awarded numerous prizes, and are found in more than a hundred and fifty public collections throughout the United States.

His biographer Lehman writes:

The manner in which he surmounted a crippling illness that would have left a lesser man embittered, the close and durable bond that characterized his marriage and, of course, the consummate achievement of his art, fill me with admiration and respect. I regret that I never knew Paul Landacre, but his exquisite and radiant wood-engravings survive as an immutable legacy for which we should all be beholden.

Our copy of this biography is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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