#arkville

[transingthoseformers]

G1 SG au: Not sure where exactly the episode-lenght (or two-parter lenght) take on the "To A Power Unknown!" comic would go, but i have some ideas.

In the comic their awareness of PARD's* effects and how things were supposed to be was unclear, but for angst and personal horror lets say the bots under its influence are aware of the personality reversal but aren't bothered by it until they're back to normal. They know what they're doing and will remember what they were thinking, and to their horror they also understand the rationale of why they did whatever they did it after the effect is over.

It would propably be the worst and scariest for Shockwave. Under PARD's influence he would act like baseline Marvel Shockwave or baseline IDW1 Shockwave, and perhaps similiarly to baseline IDW1 (both in that and at IDW1's end), claim that this has freed him from morality to pursue the most logical path. He'd act... Absolutely not normal but also not aggressive or deranged like the other affected Decepticons, so Nightbird and the Decepticons' human allies would be very concerned for him but not afraid. Until logic dictates they're a threat or useless. And he definitely perceives them wanting him back to normal as a threat.

Nightbird is the only Decepticon who isn't affected because she's human technology, and the Autobots are propably all affected, with the possible exception of Cosmos (at least initially) if he was in space when it was activated. Shit goes down and and Nightbird, Josie, and Arkeville need to first figure out what the fuck happened to the Autobots and the Decepticons, and then reverse it somehow. It'd include getting from wherever the bases are, in midwest i guess, first across America and the across the Atlantic to locate the energy source, get to a british military base propably without authorization, and turning the PARD on again (propably while being chased by the PARD-influenced Decepticons).

Of course it'd have a happy ending, eventually, but it's terrifying to everybody involved and then needs to be explained to the human authorities. And there's the angst and personal horror on the Decepticons' part. Shockwave would propably be the most horrified by his thoughts and actions under PARD's influence.

(*Onlookers who haven't read the Marvel comic; PARD was a british experimental defense system whose range is the whole world — it reverses computer-controlled instructions to missiles, returning them to the sender, but until properly targeted and programmed doesn't affect man-made technology. But it reverses cybertronian personalities for some reason. In the comic the lenght of the effect was inconsistent but could be hours)

There was a kind of conceptually similiar G1 episode, "Attack Of The Autobots".

Hmm no yeah that sounds interesting!! It'd be so confusing and intriguing to the humans, and makes sense SG Shockers would have the strongest reaction

[thethirdbear]

[interviewwiththevampireart]

Autumn at Arkville (Alexander H. Wyant, 1909)

1.02 "... After the Phantoms of Your Former Self"

[porcelainapparition]

Arkville, New York

built in 1926

[iwtvfanevents]

Rewind the Tape —Episode 7

Art of the episode

Only four days to go until the premiere, and we're finally wrapping up with the last post of our rewatch. Just like we did for the pilot and for episodes two, three, four, five, and six, we took note of the art shown and mentioned in the 7th episode while we rewatched it, and put together our notes for reference. And, now, we're sharing our notes on AO3 too.

Six épigraphes antiques

Claude Debussy, 1914

This suite was originally composed to be played as a duet, but Debussy re-transcribed it as a solo piece the next year.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch, 1503–1515

Original sin is the theme of Lestat's Mardi Gras ball. The triptych shows that sin "starts in Paradise or Eden on the left panel, with Adam and Eve, and is punished in Hell in the right panel. The centre panel depicts a Paradise that deceives the senses, a false Paradise given over to the sin of lust. This deception is encouraged by the fact that the centre panel is shown as a continuation of Eden through the use of a single, continuous landscape." [From Museo del Prado.]

Let them eat [King] cake!

A historical reference this time: this is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette. The quote can be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, published in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution, when Antoinette was nine years old; and was only attributed to her decades after her death.

Autumn at Arkville (again!)

We first saw this painting by Alexander H. Wyant in episode 2, in the du Lac family home! It was there during the funeral too but now, almost a decade after Grace left New Orleans, we see it in Rue Royale. We wonder: was this simple prop recycling, or should we ask ourselves how and why Louis came to have that keepsake from his family?

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Neck

Edgar Degas, 1898 [Identified by @nicodelenfent, here.]

This is the third Degas in Rue Royale! It's part of a series of studies of women drying after bathing, which includes charcoal sketches, and we suspect that the unidentified drawing from the hallway might be one of them.

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor

Ludwig van Beethoven, 1801

The closing song of the season is a classic, better known as the Moonlight Sonata, but the first edition of the score was headed by the title Quasi una fantasia or "almost a fantasy" (a fantasia is a musical composition with roots in improvisation).

The Graduate

Dir. Mike Nichols, 1967

Not exactly a reference, but Jacob Anderson shared in interview with Collider that Rolin directed them to play that scene thinking of the final moments of this movie. Have you taken the chance to watch it during the hiatus?

If you spot or put a name to any other references, let us know if you'd like us to add them with credit to the post! And we rounded up all the unidentified pieces in this post, in case you want to take a look and see if anything feels familiar!

We're super close to the second season, and we can't wait! Of course, we'll keep watching with an eye out for interesting references, and it's always easier to find them if we're working together. So, if you spot any interesting art pieces and other references in the second season, make sure to share with the class in the tag #vampterview, and @ us or use the tag #art of the episode if you'd like us to reblog your post into our dedicated tag for these references.

And don't forget to get your very own bingo card for the upcoming predictions bingo, here!

[yayoineko]

Not a speculation, only silly musings.....

Maybe this dude, Doctor Arkeville (from Transformers G1), was Mandroid's (Dr. Meridian), Grandpa!

They kind of resemble eachother:

Both worked with Decepticons, both are really on thier own side. Both care about the Earth (though Arkeville wants to rule Earth, while Mandroid wants to save it). Both have biomechanical parts--though, for Arkeville, it's not expained how he got his cyber-parts. Both invent things that can manipulate minds (human mind control from Arkeville, and Cybertronian mind control from Mandroid).

From TFWiki about Arkeville (after he's unconscious from injury) : "He later woke up strapped to a table, having been rebuilt more fully into a cyborg by Medicroids in order to save his life."

Much like Mandroid was rescued by his Arachnamechs, except Arkeville was involutarily made into nearly all cyborg.

But the thing I like most:

Dr. Arkeville: "I, Doctor Arkeville, genius of science, say... Open Sesame!"

Mandroid: "I, Dr. Meridian, will rid this planet of your invasive species!"

It explains a lot of why Mandroid is so campy at times. XD

That Baxter Stockman fellow from TMNT gets different forms too, like Mandroid. (I wonder if Dr. Arkville inspired Doc Brown's design? The Transformers episode featuring Dr. Arkville first aired in 1984. Back to the Future was released in 1985.)

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Works Directly Referenced

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

Blue Book by Tom Anderson

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Graduate (1967)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis by Michael Ranft (1728)

Emily Post’s Etiquette

Bach’s Minuet in G Major (arranged as vampire minuet in G major)

Artworks referenced (much credit in this section to @iwtvfanevents and to @nicodelenfent )

Fall of The Rebel Angels by Peter Bruegel The Elder (1562)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth by Adriaen Coorte (1705)

Strawberries and Cream Raphaelle Peale, (1816) credit to @diasdelfeugo

Red Mullet and Eel by Edouard Manet (1864)

Starry Night by Edvard Munch (1893)

Self Portrait by Edvard Munch (1881)

Captain Percy Williams on a Favorite Irish Hunter by Samuel Sidney (1881)

Autumn at Arkville by Alexander H. Wyant 

Cumulus Clouds, East River by Robert Henri 

Mildred-O Hat by Robert Henri (Undated)

Ship in the Night James Gale Tyler (1870)

Bouquet in a Theater Box by Renoir (1871)

Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (1872)

La Vierge D’aurore by Odilon Redon (1890) credit to @vampirepoem on twt

Still Life with Blue Vase and Mushrooms by Otto Sholderer (1891)

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair by Edgar Degas (1898)

Bust of a Woman with Her Left Hand on Her

Chin by Edgar Degas (1898) credit to @terrifique

Backstage at the Opera by Jean Beraud (1889)

Roman Bacchanal by Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (1898)

Dancers by Edgar Degas (1899)

Calling the Hounds Out of Cover by Haywood Hardy (1906)

Dolls by Witold Wojtkiewicz (1906) credit to @gyzeppelis on twt

Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907)

The Artist's Sister Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Paddy Flannigan by George Bellows (1908)

Stag at Sharkey’s by George Bellows (1909)

The Lone Tenement by George Bellows (1909)

Ode to Flower After Anacreon by Auguste Renoir (1909) credit to @iwtvasart on twt

New York by George Bellows (1911)

Young Man kneeling before God the Father

Egon Schiele (1909)

Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt by Egon Schiele (1911)

Portrait of Erich Lederer by Egon Schiele (1912)

Krumau on the Molde by Egon Schiele (1912)

Weeping Nude by Edvard Munch (1913)

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows (1913)

Church in Stein on the Danube by Egon Schiele (1913)

Self Portrait in a Jerkin by Egon Schiele (1914)

The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriette Ronner Knip credit to @terrifique

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon (1944)

New York by Vivian Maier (1953)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (Undated)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (1954)

Slave Auction by Jean-Michelle Basquiat (1982)

(Untitled) photo of St. Paul Loading Docks by Bradley Olson (2015)

Transformation by Ron Bechet (2021)

(Untitled) sculpture in the shape of vines by Sadie Sheldon

(Untitled) Ceramic Totems by Julie Silvers (Undated)

Mother Daughter by Rahmon Oluganna

Twins I by Raymon Oluganna

@iwtvfanevents made a post of unidentified works here.

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

Music used in Season 1 collected by @greedandenby here

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

Season 2 here

Season 3 here

[nobrashfestivity]

Alexander Helwig Wyant

Afternoon near Arkville, New York,  1890

Carnegie Museum of Art

[snowdaize]

found this lil homie today, tried to feed em salad

[railbikes]

Route Review: Rail Explorers Catskill Division

Launched in 2018, the Rail Explorers Catskill Division River Run starts at the old train station in Phoenicia, NY and runs on track of the former Ulster and Delaware Railroad along the Esopus Creek. Since the Catskill Mountain Railroad ceased tourist operations on this scenic stretch of track in 2016, Rail Explorers has brought new life--and maintenance--to this historic line. I pedalled this route in July of 2018 and some details have changed as described below. Operations are closed for the winter, but will resume on May 18th and bookings are already being taken.

The Site

Nestled in the eastern Catskills, the start of the route is in the yard of the former Phoenicia Train Station, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and houses the Empire State Railway Museum. The yard and sheds are home to a collection of locomotives, coaches and cabooses. Until their lease with Ulster County expired in 2016, the Catskill Mountain Railroad used the station and equipment for tourist rides along the same alignment.

The Route

Running along the Esopus Creek, the River Run is a leisurely 8-mile (12.9 km) round trip beside campgrounds and country homes. At one point, the tracks cross Route 28 and the riders are treated to protection from traffic with crossing gates and signals originally installed for the railroad. 

At the turnaround, riders wait in a seating area while the railbikes are turned around using on-track turntables (shown here in former routes in the Brandywine Valley, Delaware and Saranac Lake, NY).

Given that the Esopus Creek feeds the Ashokan Reservoir, a major element of the NYC water supply, there are strict environmental standards in place along the route. Always innovators, Rail Explorers founders Mary Joy and Alex Catchpoole devised a way to keep the tracks clear of overgrowth without using polluting chemicals. Here is their trailer-mounted mower, which can be towed behind a rail bike.

The 4 miles (6.4 km) used by Rail Explorers are part of 38 miles (61 km) of line owned by Ulster County, which is part of the greater line that formerly ran from Kingston Point on the Hudson River to Oneonta, NY where it met the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. Originally envisioned as a summertime-only connection to resorts in the Catskill Mountains, it eventually ran year-round carrying both passengers and freight and served branch lines to Hunter and Kaaterskill. The second half of the 20th Century saw the demise of the line, with mail and passenger service ending in 1954 and freight service ending in 1976.

The 2.4 miles (3.9 km) from Kingston Point to the Rondout neighborhood of Kingston, NY are now used by the Trolley Museum of New York. The section from Kingston to Hurley is used for tourist train excursions by the Catskill Mountain Railroad. Beyond Ulster County, the Delaware and Ulster Railroad run tourist trains around Arkville, NY.

Closer to Phoenicia, many bridges and creekside tracks have been washed away by storms and flooding since the closure of the railroad, isolating the section from other operations. Furthermore, exposed to similar spacial politics of several routes described in this blog, the future of the line is in question and  subject to a legal battle over the use of the right-of-way, with Ulster County planning to remove much of the track to create a recreational trail. The section in use by Rail Explorers appears to be safe from this plan, although the future of the tourist trains remains unclear.

The Vehicles

I pedalled this route aboard the steel-framed, cast-iron-wheeled railbikes described in my earlier post on the Rail Explorers Las Vegas Division. However, as noted on the Rail Explorers website, they offer a “new Rail Explorers fleet of rail bikes, now with electric pedal assistance!” I look forward to returning to Phoenicia this year to see the new railbikes. Here is a great shot of a tandem from Saranac Lake on Rail Explorers Instagram account.

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Travel Notes

While Phoenicia is typically reached by car, Trailways offers daily buses from New York City through New Paltz, Kingston and on to Oneonta. It is a short walk from the center of the hamlet to the starting point at the station. The completion of the Empire State Trail in connection with the recreational trail planned by Ulster County might offer options for reaching Phoenicia by bicycle in the future.

Phoenicia is a popular tourist destination, perhaps best known for whitewater tubing along the Esopus Creek, and centrally located near many options for hiking, skiing and fly-fishing. Nearby Belleayre Ski Resort offers summertime gondola rides for hiking, mountain biking and sightseeing. Main Street in Phoenicia has a small stretch of shops, pizzerias, bars and restaurants. The nightlife in nearby Woodstock has picked back up in recent years, especially thanks to the Station Bar and Curio, where one can enjoy drinks and live music in a station that used to serve the same line described above.

[poboh]

Ravine at Arkville, New York, Walter Launt Palmer (1854 - 1932) - Watercolor on Paper -

[jdpink]

The idea of the maze and the mythological figures of Daedalus and Icarus and the Minotaur was one that pre-occupied Ayrton for much of his life. The final visual expression of the myth as conceived by the artist over 13 years was the Maze at Arkville, N.Y., built for the New York banker Armand G. Erpf and completed in 1968-69. Consisting of 1680 feet of stone pathways and brick walls eight feet high, at two hundred feet in diameter it was the largest labyrinth built since Classical antiquity.

[cdlhunter]

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[cma-american-painting-sculpture]

Arkville Landscape, Alexander H. Wyant , 1880s, Cleveland Museum of Art: American Painting and Sculpture

Size: Unframed: 41.4 x 62 cm (16 5/16 x 24 7/16 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.389

[chaifootsteps]

Okay, so, basically, my horse au revolves around the Decepticons being rescue horses taken in by a character I've decided to call Alisa Arkville, who helps them heal and recover from their abusive pasts.

Her lead horse is a large Percheron mix named Megatron, whom she adopted from a rescue. His past is largely unknown, but its suspected he may have been a cavalry horse at one point. Megatron was originally thought to be too aggressive and dominant to be trained, even being seen as a danger handlers due to his extreme reactions and large size. Despite this, Alisa took a chance on him and slowly made progress, managing to work through his aggression and tame him to the point where he could at least be handled. However, seeing as he could still be unpredictable and dangerous, and how he seemed to show little to no interest in interacting with people unless necessary, she chose to keep him more as a pasture horse, as to keep him and others safe. He did, however, help kickstart her desire to rescue horses and give them a better future.

Starscream is the first horse Alisa rescued herself, intending for him to be a project horse for her to train and resell. He is a Marwari who was originally raised and bred at a high class stable. While he was well looked after, he ended up in the hands of a trainer with very questionable tactics, which only got worse when he didn't respond as desired. Believing he was simply stubborn, the trainer eventually resorted to borderline abusive methods, which lead to Starscream becoming violently fearful and aggressive towards humans. This eventually resulted in him harming the trainer, which was enough to convince the stable owner that he was a lost cause, landing him in an auction where his aggression only grew, and where he was found by Alisa. He was definitely one of the hardest horses to work with due to how reactive he was towards people and how fearful he could be, but once she was able to win over his trust, he proved to be an amazing dressage prospect and seemed to enjoy having a job and purpose, especially if it meant showing off his graceful physique.

Having bonded with Starscream, and seeing as he and Megatron didnt always seem to get along, Alisa decided to adopt another horse, to ensure Starscream had a constant companion and didnt end up having all his herd mates adopted out. During her search, she ended up finding an arabian race horse at auction, whom went by Red Riot, aka Knockout.

Knockout was an up and coming racehorse. His racing name was Red Riot, but farm hands often called him Knockout, as he would often kick when irritated or excited, and on a couple occasions, managed to knock out one or two trainers with a well aimed strike. Despite his fiery attitude, he was a natural born racer and was quickly making a name for himself as one of the best race horses on the track. Unfortunately, his career was cut short when he tore his suspensory ligament during a race, resulting in a severe limp. Believing the injury was worse than it was and not wanting to waste money on a horse that could no longer race, he was quickly dumped at auction.

It was there that he met a former carriage horse, a belgian draft with a sever eye injury, who the workers had named Breakdown, on account of him being too broken down to work anymore. Despite the name and his poor depth perception, Breakdown showed to be very reactive to people and other horses, not hesitating to lash out when pushed to it, and even having to be tied to a post to prevent him from attacking the workers. He only allowed Knockout close, as he didn't seem to pose much of a threat, and the stallion even attempted to protect Breakdown at times, despite his injury. The two quickly bonded and became eachothers only solace in the auction house, sticking to each other like glue.

Even when Alisa attempted to save Knockout from auction, he fought tooth and nail to stay with Breakdown, who had been sold to a slaughter house. Realizing how close two were, she jumped in and bought Breakdown just before he was shipped off, narrowly saving him as well. Despite both of their injuries, Knockout proved to still be very capable and eager to race, and Breakdown learned to cope with his missing eye and became a pleasure riding horse.

Thats all I've got so far. Still working on the stories for Dreadwing, Skyquake, Soundwave, and Shockwave.

This is beautiful. Knock Out's made me "Awww" audibly.

[420pogpills]

ive been readin your name as ankvilenotfound for some reason ;-;

ahahaha it’s fineee i am very used to misspelling of my name :’) people even misspell my name in work emails all the time, even though i sign off every single email with my name which they could just copy and paste. instead i get akville, oakville, arkville. the actual pronunciation is this - a lot of people think the e at the end is silent but it isn’t, because i’m lithuanian and we don’t really have silent letters in lithuanian, we pronounce every letter :)