#basil’s library

[boypussydilf]

ARE YOU ONE OF THE MANY PEOPLE USING MY BLOG AS A SUPPORT GROUP FOR PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE FIONNA & CAKE ENDING? WERE YOU FINE WITH THE ENDING BUT LIKE TO SEE ALTERNATE WAYS THINGS COULD HAVE GONE ANYWAY? EITHER WAY I FINALLY HAVE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF MY F&C FINALE REWRITE UP YAAAAAAY

not a lot actually um. Happens in this. it’s basically just scenes from episode 9 with some different dialogue. but it seemed like a Necessary First Step. anime girl voice uwaaah im so embarrassed please be nice to me

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. it is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.”

— oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

[tosteur-gluteal]

Again, gouache painting I made to relax

[trainwrecksys]

Big Bentham brothers headcannon incoming!

Firstly, I feel Bentham has a connection to Caul because he remembers who he used to be. Those special moments of connection he even knew he’d remember when they happened. He will never abandon one side for the other because he keeps clinging onto the hope that he can bring Jack back. Back when Caul was gathering support for his cause, he would be worried but think it would never go too far, this is just one of his flights of fancy, you know how he gets so attached to things. He’d never go so far to try this, he didn’t mean that, I know him, he’s a good person at heart, he’d never actually hurt me, he’s just trying to do what he thinks is right, he’ll snap out of it soon. Every other family connection has been severed or at the very least heavily eroded, and he craves that old feeling of collective joy, of lighthearted fun, that there used to be, as it’s the happiest thing he remembers of his earlier years

Those moments in childhood when Jack would stop taunting Alma, when they all agreed it was too much, and he could see that. He could see that. What he’s battling is the thought that he still sees it, but that he ignores it and keeps going. He knows it’s bad but he does it anyway. Evil. (But separately another phrase for that definition might be self harm, depending on how it’s directed.) He’ll never admit his brother is evil. He rejects the word. Bentham used to think he’d do anything for his cause, that he thought everything he did was for good in his mind, but maybe even Caul knows by now that’s not the case, he’s under no kind of good pretences, even for his own wellbeing.

At the core of it, Bentham will never stop trying to save his brother. That’s why he sticks by him, even to his detriment. By now, he’s only trying to save him from himself. His biggest weakness is the light he still sees in Caul’s empty eyes sometimes, or is he seeing things? That childlike wonder that he still nurtures in his collections and his Panloopticon, he wants to see that in Caul again, then maybe everything will be ok. He’ll sacrifice himself to try and change his mind, and he’ll sacrifice others to pursue the thought.

He knows it’s gone too far, but his soul is tied to his brother’s, they’re inseparable, even after Abaton collapses they’re bound together. No matter how deep Caul goes, Bentham has no choice now but to follow him. All he wants is good, and only at the end does he finally realise what he’s doing. He tries finally to achieve some level of agency and power after both of his siblings seemingly show him how they’re too far gone (Caul in that hes gone to Abaton and betrayed him again and Alma that she still doesn’t like him or want to let him free) as he reaches out and grabs his last hope, physical power to maybe defeat Caul and show himself to be worthy of both their validation. Not simply agreement with him but validating his strength (of will and body) to kill Caul and his desire to see Jack again and validating his ability for redemption. He does end up helping to save peculiardom and turning fully towards the ymbrynes’ side, but it’s far too late, and for his everlasting hope he dies permanently attached to his brother’s legacy, with nothing much that is fully his own to speak of.

[thesablequear]

I’ve been being so normal about Redwall today

(Humans ur mice Humans ur mice Humans ur mice)

Og Rakkety Tam textpost

[detroitlib]

Portrait of singer Basil Spears. Autographed on front: "To Stewart Thompson. It's a pleasure to know you. Hoping our friendship lasts forever. Sincerely, Basil Spears, '47." Printed on front: "Bruno of Hollywood, NYC." Stamped on back: "Thanks for credit, Bruno of Hollywood, N.Y.C. 154 W. 57th St., New York City, N.Y."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[book-movie-tv-quotes]

I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Basil Hallward, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[duskneko]

I'm uh... starting to see a pattern

In no particular order:

Two of these are responsible for the deaths of hundreds (one because he wanted to prove he had free will which ended up backfiring on him, and the other because he was pressured into planning the eradication of an entire race)

Two of these are accomplices to their childhood friend committing murder (one by accident and the other intentional) when they were young children

One of these kills the future version of himself in a bad ending in order to stop him from taking over the world (which ultimately results in nothing changing as the events will just repeat again) because he couldn't be bothered to make friends

And one of these is afraid of becoming a mass murderer because of genetics allowing him to rationalize it

[bobafish]

THEY DID DORIAN SO DIRTY HELPPP

[mythicalltea]

“It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”

Basil Hallward, Picture of Dorian Gray

(Catch me trapping myself in this LIBRARY in the Cabin I’m staying in for the holidays.)

[doriansdismay]

O 🧍

[boypussydilf]

it is literally the middle of the night but hello grof nation. i wrote a fic about betty (not) adjusting to ooo. please enjoy

[vioqueenofmushrooms]

I'm reading Pocket Apocalypse and he's only just been introduced but I love Basil so so so so much he's perfect I adore him I *would* marry him and go live in the swamp with him

[contentabnormal]

This week on Content Abnormal we present Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce in The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Unfortunate Tobacconist" followed by a spooky tune from our good friend Buddy Keys!

[daydreamertrait]

💿 day 4: "jason" by bonnie parker

day 4 of the 30 shuffle sims challenge^^

[thebotanicalarcade]

n325_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flore médicale /. Paris :Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke,1828-1832.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32619621