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This is a funny story about shopping for Carl Barks comics.

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Rereading “Back to Long Ago” for the millionth time. Headcanon: Scrooge subconsciously knows the sailors are Donald and the kids, but suppresses it because he can’t admit to himself that he doesn’t really want to cheat Donald out of his share of the treasure. So he lets them come along but pretends he was fooled, not unlike how he allowed Goldie to find his cache of nuggets “by accident” in “Back to the Klondike”.

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who’s up for some Mickey/Pete

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I just finished reading a book about the history of alchemy, and decided to take a look at Barks’ “Fabulous Philosophers’ Stone” to see how much research he did. It turns out: some!

Physica et Mystica (originally Greek Physika kai Mystika) is the title of the oldest surviving alchemical text, written around 100-200 AD. Bibliotheca Chemica Curiosa is a collection of alchemical texts published in 1702.

A popular theory among alchemists was that all metals are formed from a combination of mercury and sulfur in different proportions, and that by adjusting the proportions you could change one metal into another.

Ostanes was a probably-mythical figure to whom various pseudonymous magical texts were attributed; among other things, he was supposed to have been a master alchemist and the teacher of the guy who wrote Physika kai Mystika.

Like in a lot of modern depictions, however, Barks’ philosophers’ stone merely needs to be touched to metal objects to turn them to gold; whereas the actual ancient alchemists saw it as a substance that needed to be mixed with molten metals to create gold.

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I don’t ship Scrooge/Goldie but this fanvid is pretty well-done lol.

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Science Officer Donald Duck, from a Star Trek themed Epcot Center project, 1980s

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what it takes to be first class: money, a silk hat, and a cane

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Camp Woodchuck in Tokyo Disneyland

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I like it that the Duckburg Cornelius Coot apparently represents Barks’ Standard Statue Pose