#and flight 714

[obseletrix]

all of my original fiction premises are just "tintin but make it goth and get depeche mode to do the soundtrack".

[cryptid-phoenix]

Remember that time this dude read Tintin's mind only to be told to go to hell?

[loveydoveylex]

no talk him!!! he angy!!!!!

[thenerdyolive]

About tintin ask game: number 3

Thanks for the ask :)

3. Villain I hate the most?

Rastapopoulos!

Yes, not becoz he is the prime villain in the series, but becoz this is the guy who just can't live without bothering tintin!! Everytime some different crime business & everytime he feels tintin is a threat for him. It's like he fears every moment of his life that tintin may cross paths with him & expose him.

I mean come on man get a life, you just cant do any wrong thing properly! Each plan of yours ends up getting screwed, still you act like a stubborn ass to return to those things again!!

I just HATE him! especially in Flight 714. just look at that face, feel like hitting him with my shoe 😂

In the lines of tintin himself, all I can say is:

Well said indeed!

Reblog & join my Tintin ask game!

[tintinfarsi]

پرواز 714 به تهران

تن‌تن هیچ‌وقت به ایران سفر نکرد. تنها در اوایل کتاب پرواز شماره 714 به سیدنی، نام تهران برده می‌شود. وقتی که زوت به تن‌تن و دوستانش می‌گوید

این کمک خلبان تازه است. اون یکی مریض شد در تهران بیمارستان، فوری کولومبانی جایش گرفت

[personnage-neutre]

Cabin study for Flight 714, suspected to be by Roger Leloup.

[aboardthescheherazade]

The Tintin Timeline

So the Tintin canon continuity is, uh, a mess. It's a "floating timeline" specifically, which is a literary term for when serialized media takes place during the present of whenever it's being worked on. However, nobody seems to have taken a look at the exact timeline within the canon, and exactly how long the stories take place within Tintin's life. All of the following data is approximate, with most of it taken from the setting boxes (i.e. "Two days later") and by studying how many nights pass within each story.

A quick note: Certain spans of time in the book are designated with vague quantifiers, such as “several” or “a few”. However, 7 days is always designated with “a week”. I explain my estimation where necessary, but I usually see the former spans as being within 3-5 days. Again, these are all approximations and I am not claiming any sort of canon declaration; these are presented for entertainment purposes.

Land of the Soviets: 9 days

Congo: 22 days (Tintin spends at least 17 days in the Congo, while his journey there on the boat is said to take “several days”. Given the mode of transport and the distance, I have estimated it as being about 5 days.)

America: approx. 3 weeks (20-23 days)

Cigars: approx. 2 weeks (15-18 days)

Blue Lotus: approx. 4 weeks (25-30 days)

The Broken Ear: approx. 6 weeks (39-42 days)

Black Island: 7 days

Ottokar: approx. 2 weeks (14-15 days)

Crab: approx. 2 weeks (13-14 days)

Shooting Star: approx. 5 weeks (the main story elapses over 20 days; the last page has a scene “some weeks” later, which I interpreted as a fortnight)

Unicorn: approx. 10 days

Rackham: approx. 48 days (The main story seems to elapse over 45 days, and the last page seems to happen some days later)

Seven Crystal Balls: 9 days

Prisoners of the Sun: at least 41 (there are three unaccounted-for periods, when 1. Tintin’s group is climbing the mountains [“days go by” until “one morning”, which I interpreted as being at least 3 days], 2. when they trek through the jungle [”the days go by”, again 3 days], and 3. at the end of the book [”several days later”, interpreted as 6 days])

Black Gold: approx. 27 days (13 days + “some weeks” estimated as a fortnight. The ensuing album opens with Haddock and Tintin returning home, where they hear Calculus has been gone since three weeks before)

Destination Moon: approx. 144 days (This one has the larges jumps in time. The first 36 pages happen over 41 days, then “some months” pass, estimated at 3)

Explorers: 10 days

Calculus Affair: 11 days

Red Sea Sharks: 30 days

Tibet: 33 days

Castafiore Emerald: at least 21 days (there are 18 accounted-for days, and then a period indicated just with “The days go by”. Given how most time lapses in the book are spans of 3 days, this period was at least three days long as well)

Flight 714 to Sydney: 1 day + 7 days (main story; pages 60-62 take place about a week later)

Picaros: 15 days

Total: The events of the The Adventures of Tintin take place over approximately 613 days.

But is it a linear timeline? We have no word on how much time passes between each album, but we’ll add at least one week between each one - except for America/Cigars/Lotus, Destination/Explorers, Crystal/Prisoners, and Unicorn/Rackham - just to give each album’s settings enough time to transition into a new story. This gives us an additional 17 weeks (17 x 7 days). With all of this calculated together, the series happens over the course of approximately 2 years, 2 days...at least, according to a bored fan who likes to count (ง ื▿ ื)ว

[cynicalclassicist]

You might wonder whether Mik Kanrokitof would have done anything but likely he wouldn't get the opportunity.

I don't think that the henchmen were island inhabitants but nationalists.

Apart from that that's an interesting thought! Haddock's act of kindness to a man who feels thoroughly undeserving of it saved a lot of people!

So I was thinking about Flight 714 to Sydney and I realized that while the aliens saved the day in the end Captain Haddock is the real hero of the story.

Essentially if Haddock hadn’t given Laszlo Carreidas the spare cash, Calculus would not have found the bill making Carreidas laugh and thus granting them a spot on his private jet.  And if Haddock, Tintin, and Snowy weren’t on that ill-fated flight, Rastapopoulos would have succeeded in his plan meaning he would have killed Carreidas, Skut, and Gino.  Additionally he also managed to save the various co-conspirators who did not realize that Rastapopoulos was going to have them killed afterwords such as Dr. Krollspell, Spalding, and the island inhabitants who were hired as mercenaries.  In short, if the plan was successful only Rastapopoulos and Allan would have survived and no one would have been the wiser.

So with a small act of kindness Haddock managed to save about a dozen people, and he’ll never remember it.

[lonestarflight]

"Big Joe ready for launch at Cape Canaveral, FL. The objective of 'Big Joe' was to test the ablating heatshield. The flight was both a success and failure – the heatshield survived reentry and was in remarkably good condition when retrieved from the Atlantic. The Atlas-D booster, however, failed to stage and separated too late from the Mercury capsule."

Date: September 9, 1959

NASA ID: B-59-714

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Dans Flight 714, le personnage de Mik Ezdanitoff s'inspire de Jacques Bergier, l'ingénieur, journaliste et écrivain français. Le nom slave de Mik Ezdanitoff est en fait emprunté au Marollian du dialecte bruxellois. Il est prononcé dat niet tof ? ce qui veut dire ce n'est-ce pas sympa

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[nerd-goes-blogging]

how did I get here?

('bout how I became a dedicated Tintin fan)

You know, there’s a reason I call Tintin and Snowy my favourite.

I met them when I was 12 years old, in a dusty corner of my school library. An instant connection developed between us and since then we had never been apart. 

On his birthday, 9th January, my thoughts turned nostalgic about the young reporter who brightened and inspired my teenage years. Well, back then I wrote a journal entry dedicated to him and his glorious adventures. While creating this blog, the first content that came to my mind was this journal entry.

So, why not?

Here's to all those amazing memories I’ve made so far with this reporter and many more to come.

Back in middle school days, I remember searching for a book series to follow diligently. There were many of them. Mostly fantasies and fictions and dark romance. Some were menacing and awkward. As a whole, not an ideal read for me, I thought. I didn’t (and still don’t) want my head to be occupied with weird thoughts which yield nothing. But I knew my search would end one day. And it did.. 

One day, rummaging through the junior library at school, I noticed some illustrated books, which resembled the comics’s style but quite refined. With the librarian's permission I opened the locked up cabinet which seemed to have jammed due to rust.

That was my pirate treasure, a bounty which I was lucky enough to stumble upon.

The first book which I read from the series was ‘The Castafiore’s Emerald’. The only adventure completely based in the Marlinspike Hall, gives a cozy kind of feeling. Not only did I appreciate Tintin's wits, but I was also amused by Captain Haddock’s funny curses and alliteration which were insulting enough to trash anyone. I really felt that I was where I belonged. I decided to stick to it and started to gather more information and facts about the young protagonist and his brilliant creator, Hergé . The internet, of course, helped me to a great extent as all 24 volumes of the adventures were available there. Also, that was my first year learning french. When Madame came to know about my new hobby, she encouraged me to carry it further and suggested that I'd get the gist of both, the language and the stories, if I read them in french. So, I did that, and how! By the end of middle school, I had read all 24 volumes, some in french as well.

Since then, I’ve read the whole series many times. I've lost count of the number of times I've ...

cheered when Tintin fought Bobby Smiles in Chicago in the book ‘Tintin in America’, 

gasped at the revelation of Rastapopoulos as an antagonist in ‘The Blue Lotus’ (who continued on to become the prime villain in the series), 

chuckled to see (or hear) Bianca Castafiore’s god forsaken singing and Tintin’s reaction in ‘King Ottokar’s Sceptre’, 

been amused at the introduction of Captain Haddock into the series in ‘The Crab with Golden Claws’, 

got my funny bone tickled as Captain Haddock grouched on Professor Cuthbert Calculus’ “hard of hearing” trouble, 

got thrilled with the hero’s treasure hunt in ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’

got terrified at the vengeance of Inca Rascar Capac and Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock’s quest to release the professor from the captivity of the Incas in ‘The Seven Crystal Balls’ & ‘The Prisoners of the Sun’ (this story is hands down my most fav :)

greeted the Emir and his son Abdullah (devil’s incarnation) in ‘Land of Black Gold’, 

followed the friends to the moon and back (literally!) 

visited Borduria and Syldavia, 

cried my heart out (when I first read it, I was so touched) in the joyous reunion of Tintin and Tchang, 

rolled with laughter on seeing the magazine cover of Paris Flash in ‘The Castafiore Emerald’, 

encountered all sorts of people (even aliens! in ‘flight 714’) 

and went to an extent of a military coup for General Alcazar. 

Oh, and not to forget the cliffhanger of the unfinished ‘Tintin and the Alph-art’ (left for fans to complete it with our imagination, I like to believe!)

 

Phew! The list is much longer than this & the memories are limitless!!

You might wonder why I'm so into Tintin's adventures and what makes him different from other comic book heroes? 

More importantly, what made me stay? 

You can find this out and more in my next blog.

Until then, stay nerdy ✨👩‍🎓

The Nerdy Olive :)

[cynicalclassicist]

Haddock is always funny!

Haddock was so funny in flight 714

[lady-and-lyon]

Say what you want about Flight 714 but that popped collar look was The Moment.

[oklotea]

Tintin Character Requests Pt. 2

The series where I draw Tintin characters in funky little outfits cuz they truly are funky little characters

I'm finishing up the last of requests that I've received, and first up, RASTAPOPOULOS aaaand DR MULLER!! ik in a fight between the two, Muller would probably be the one to win, but then I remember flight 714 and then I looked at the pose reference, and I realized rastapopoulos is much much more girly pop, and in his word, is "badder", and hence, this drawing.

I HAD SO MUCH FUN DRAWING THIS AND I HOPE YOU GUYS LIKE IT!!!!!!!

Ty @akasanata and @naradreamscape for the requests!!!! :DD

And last one, we've got Skut!!!! I REALLY REALLY LIKE HIM!!!!! he's got one of my favorite character designs in the series, I like his vibes, and I just really really like him!!!! I've already said that. But unfortunately I can't really say much about him other than that, not cause I like him, but I actually have only seen him in flight 714!!! I haven't watched the red sea sharks, BUT I PROMISE I WILL. HE LOOKS REALLY COOL. AND I LIKE HIS VOICE

Tysm to @daftydill for the request!!!! <333

Anyway, that's about it for today!!! Feel free to send more tintin characters I could maybe draw!!!! I think it's good drawing practice!!!!

Have a good evening everyone <33 take care

[hinge]

Hinge presents an anthology of love stories almost never told. Read more on https://no-ordinary-love.co

[loveydoveylex]

heyo! 2 and 11 for the ask game? :3

thank y'all for the asks! I hope your days are going nicely! 💖

2: Gush about your f/o's voice!

the 1991 nelvana cartoon has my favourite tintin depiction and also my favourite tintin VOICE. ❤️ he has such a sweet and soft voice and I could listen to it for hours!!! I could fall asleep to it! and... I have. LOL. something about him having a bit of a canadian accent is adorable to me too even though it makes no sense considering the fact that he's belgian. but I'm casting that aside because <3 colin o'meara tintin <3

GOSH HE'S JUST EVERYTHING TO ME.

I've also brought this up before, but the 2007 dutch musical adaptation of tintin and the temple of the sun has tintin with an absolutely HEAVENLY AND ANGELIC SINGING VOICE!! it's jelle claymans playing him in the CD tracks and omg. OMGGGGG. he makes me melt into a PUDDLE. I've often listened to the song I linked when I feel down because just hearing those gorgeous vocals can cheer me up in an INSTANT. <3 I love to imagine tintin singing for me...

11: Gush about your favorite chapter/book/episode/scene etc. your F/O is in!

AAAAAAAA THIS IS HARD. see, my overall favourite tintin album is flight 714 to sydney - and he is absolutely adorable in that, don't get me wrong... <3

...but my favourite album when it comes to Tintin Being A Cutie(tm) is tintin and the picaros!! I just absolutely LOVE how he's drawn in that one, I took SO long to read it because I just kept stopping to take pictures of him hfhjhFBSDJFDB ❤️💝💖💓💗💝💘💞

ALSO HE FINALLY GOT LONG PANTS LMAO. teeny tiny detail, but I think it's cute! I know the plus fours are iconic but he looks good in bell bottoms!! (fun fact - hergé got inspired to draw him with those after seeing the belvision movies which depicted him with them!)

I could gush so much more about how he's drawn in this book but oh goodness we would be here FOREVER so I'm sparing y'all and cutting it off here. x')