#king fredric

[thewheelhouse99]

Charlene's job at Boulevardez Construction has been really rewarding, and now her managers have given her a promotion, but she's not sure if she's ready for it. Meanwhile Trudy's friends Maddie, Jack and Karen bicker over how prepared well they could live out in the wild.

[hotvintagepoll]

Please let’s make Cagney an unofficial mascot or give him his own poll or something, justice for Cagney, top of the world for that Yankee Doodle Dandy, please and thank you

do you like my new profile pic :)

[uwmspeccoll]

Shakespeare Weekend!

This week we present King Henry the Sixth: Part One, the first of the three part play, and is volume twelve of the thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare, published by the Limited Editions Club (LEC) from 1939-1940. 

Shakespeare’s authorship of these plays has been in question for some time, researchers believed to have found the hand of at least six other playwrights within the text. Modern advances in computer software have allowed Oxford researchers to analyze and compare patterns in the writing styles and they have determined that the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) very likely co-authored the plays with Shakespeare. The plays were first acted in 1592. The second part was published anonymously in 1594, and the third part in 1595. All three parts were published in the folio of 1623. 

This volume is illustrated with lithographs by English artist Graham Sutherland (1903-1980). Sutherland approached book illustration a bit differently. Where other artists wanted to create images that do not distract from the text, and appear harmonious with the text on the page, Sutherland believed that too much attention being paid to creating works that agree with the page will result in “Making the illustration merely decorative, and drained from any personality...” On his own approach to his illustrations he writes:

“I believe that a good illustration translates a story into pictorial equivalents. It should not be either subservient to, or superior to, the story which the author has to tell, but parallel with it.”

The volume in the set was printed in an edition of 1950 copies at the Press of A. Colish, and each was illustrated by a different artist, but the unifying factor is that all volumes were designed by famed book and type designer Bruce Rogers and edited by the British theatre professional and Shakespeare specialist Herbert Farjeon. Our copy is number 1113, the number for long-standing LEC member Austin Fredric Lutter of Waukesha, Wisconsin.

View more Limited Edition Club posts.

View more Shakespeare Weekend posts.

-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[diabolimeservavit666]

[Meanehile, when Hell began] Alastair: Okay, one, two, three... Azazel, Dagon, & Asmodeus: HAIL SATAN! Ramiel: *screams in agony* Lilith: What are you doing?

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Shadow Realm King Mini-Tournament

Many men put up a valiant fight in the first round, but fell to the clutches of the Shadow Realm. Powerhouses of Pretty, Foxy Frontrunners, Head Honchos of Hubba-Hubba...all of whom have reached their demise in round one. Much as Fredric March did at @hotvintagepoll, one of these musicians will rise to greatness as King of the Shadow Realm. As Tumblr only allows twelve poll options maximum, I've chosen a select few from the 128 defeated musicians to fight for the Shadow Realm crown, musicians that came close to victory, some that even led the pack at one point, but ultimately did not succeed. Now, it's up to you, the voters, to pick the hottest of these losing hotties to reign supreme.

[tangledbea]

Who named Rapunzel? If it was the king or the queen, why Eugene couldn't recognize her by the name? And why Gothel kept this name?

If it was Gothel, then why the king and the queen kept the name? Doesn't it mean "lettuce" or something?

According to the series, it was canonically her parents who named her. We know this for two reasons:

In Tangled: Before Ever After, when Fredric is remembering the night she was kidnapped, he calls out her name in his memory.

In the season 3 episode "No Time Like the Past," we see missing posters of her up around Corona with her name on them.

I have headcanons that go way back to before the series existed about her name, so strap in, because this is a kind of involved answer.

First, I'll address the meaning. Rapunzel is not lettuce. Rapunzel is another name for the rampion plant which, yes, has edible leaves and roots and can be used as a salad green, but more closely resembles a radish than lettuce. However, it is also the name of the plant's flower, and just like how Rose, Daisy, Lily, Hyacinth, etc are all names, why not Rapunzel? Furthermore, Disney's Rapunzel was not named after the rampion flower, specifically. She was named after the Sundrop flower that saved her and the queen's life.

Here is what the rapunzel flower looks like:

And here is what the Sundrop flower looks like:

Notice how the center of the Sundrop flower essentially contains a rapunzel flower. This was deliberate on the part of the artists who designed it. Rapunzel was named after this flower.

As for why Gothel kept the name, I have a headcanon for that.

Back in the day, in ye olden tymes, babies were often not named until they were Christened, which didn't really happen until the parents were relatively sure the kid would survive. Now, Corona doesn't appear to be a Christian nation (it appears to be a sun-worshiping one that has the trappings of Christianity, if you ask me, but that's neither here nor there), and the king and queen clearly named their baby. So my headcanon is that the night they lifted the lantern was not the day she was born. I mean, look at that baby. She has the wiggliness and personality of a three-month-old, at the youngest. I think the lantern lifting was their version of her Christening, when her name would be revealed to the people. Up until then, I headcanon she was called Baby Princess by the citizens. Now, since the people only knew her name for one night, they sort of defaulted to calling her The Lost Princess after she was kidnapped.

My headcanon goes on to say that Gothel either didn't know the baby's name and also named her Rapunzel after the flower that she now embodied, or else she did know her name and figured that the girl was never going to see this kingdom again, so was too lazy to come up with anything different when it already suited her perfectly.

Eugene is, canonically to the series, not raised in a Corona orphanage. He's raised in a Vardaros orphanage. If the citizens were by and large calling her The Lost Princess, then that's the name that would spread to other kingdoms and territories. Then, by the time Eugene was doing that job in Corona that was happening in "No Time Like the Past," he wasn't looking at "lost baby" posters around town, just keeping an eye out for the guards (and other things worth stealing). He wasn't consciously aware of the posters, he didn't hear anyone referring to the Lost Princess as Rapunzel, he didn't know that was the princess' name.

All of this is a long way to say that the series actually complicated things by having the king and queen name her Rapunzel. If it had been Gothel, I wouldn't have had to come up with a convoluted headcanon to explain it all.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The good news is that Penguin Random House can't buy all the other publishers

Correction: An earlier draft of this article characterized Frederic Wertham as “a far-right conspiracist.” That was incorrect. While Wertham was a conspiracist, he was not far right. I regret the error.

Last week, a US District Court blocked the merger of Penguin Random House, the world’s largest publisher, and Simon and Schuster, the world’s third-largest publisher. This is very, very good news.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1133032238/judge-blocks-penguin-random-house-simon-schuster-merger

During the trial, the Penguin Random House argued it they would continue to compete with Simon and Schuster for books, bidding against them for prized titles. Stephen King punctured this absurd fiction, noting that this was like a husband and wife bidding against each other to buy the same house:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/business/stephen-king-penguin-random-house-antitrust-testimony.html

With the merger halted (pending appeal) the number of major trade publishers stands at five, which, while better than four, is still not very many. Practically speaking, it means that five corporate board-rooms are in charge of nearly all of our literature, deciding what gets published, what doesn’t, and how those books are sold. That is a lot of power to vest in a very small number of hands.

This concentration of power is obviously bad for authors, since a failure to sell your book to editors at a mere five houses means that it will not come out from a major publisher. As Rebecca Giblin and I document in our new book Chokepoint Capitalism, when publishing is this concentrated, copyright is largely irrelevant to authors’ fortunes:

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

If you’re in Edinburgh, you can come to our talk about the book at the Radical Book Fair on Nov 10:

https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/chokepoint-capitalism-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin

We’ll be at Waterstones in Oxford on Nov 12:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chokepoint-capitalism-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow-oxford-tickets-443951941207

And at The Peale Museum in Baltimore on Nov 18:

https://www.thepeale.org/event/book-talk-chokepoint-capitalism/

And I’ll be in London for Big Ideas Live on Nov 19:

https://news.sky.com/bigideaslive

Concentration in publishing is also very bad news for publishing workers, a notoriously exploited group of people, whose working conditions are so bad that 1% of the entire sector’s workforce resigned en masse last summer:

https://bookriot.com/great-publishing-resignation/

For these workers, a failure to secure a decent wage at just five employers means that they have no hope of working at any major publisher.

And for readers, all this means that the decisions about what you get to read are gathered into a vanishingly small number of hands. A tiny group of fallible humans will make decisions about what books are widely available, and, possibly even worse, a tiny group of fallible humans can be arm-twisted into not publishing works that governments or pressure groups don’t want to see printed.

In 1954, a far-right conspiracist named Fredric Wertham published a scientific hoax called “Seduction of the Innocent” that claimed that comic books were luring American children into a life of wanton sex, drug abuse and communism and/or fascism.

http://www.lostsoti.org/

Wertham whipped up a “groomer” panic about comic books and in response, bedwetting conservatives burned mountains of comics and demanded government censorship. Opportunistic lawmakers took up the cause and threatened the comics industry with unconstitutional regulation of their publishing programs.

The comics industry caved: a handful of cowardly executives formed a self-regulatory body called the “Comics Code Authority” whose seal of approval was withheld from all but the most inoffensive and bland of stories and illustrations. Most comics retailers refused to carry comics unless they bore this seal, and stores that bucked the Authority were raided and their owners fined or even jailed:

https://cbldf.org/about-us/case-files/cbldf-case-files/

The CCA continued to have veto power over most comics until the year 2000 — for nearly half a century, an unaccountable star-chamber of prudes ruled over an entire art form. That was only possible because that industry was first cornered by a handful of unaccountable executives, who then handed power to the CCA.

Readers, writers, retailers, editors and publishers all suffer under publishing monopolies. The fact that the court blocked Penguin Random House from gobbling up Simon and Schuster is good for all of us.

Except…

There’s a reason PRH wanted to devour S&S. Back in 2010, the Big Six publishers entered into an illegal conspiracy with Apple to price-fix ebooks. The publishers wanted to force Amazon to stop subsidizing the Kindle books, selling them below the publishers’ wholesale cost, and ensuring that all ebook purchases were Kindle book purchases, generally locked to the Kindle forever by DRM.

Amazon has bottomless access to the capital markets as well as profitable divisions that it can use to prop up money-losing ones. The Big Six publishers understood that Amazon’s ebook subsidy wasn’t motivated by generosity towards readers — rather, it was about locking readers into the Kindle platform, and using that to secure leverage over publishers.

The publishers knew how Amazon would use that leverage. In the early 2000s, Amazon launched “Project Gazelle,” an internal project to locate weak, small publishers that were dependent on Amazon for sales and then drive them out of business by demanding unsustainable discounts, like a cheetah hunting “a sickly gazelle”:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sadistic-amazon-treated-book-sellers-the-way-a-cheetah-would-pursue-a-sickly-gazelle-2013-10

So they conspired with Apple to only sell ebooks on the Ipad, unless Amazon agreed to end its predatory pricing scheme. That was wildly illegal and the publishers and Apple all paid hundreds of millions in fines as a result:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/apple-450-million-settlement-e-book-price-fixing-supreme-court

More than a decade later, Amazon is an even bigger threat to publishers. For one thing, it has substantially expanded its own publishing program, directly competing with print, ebook and audiobook publishers. Amazon has eye-watering quantities of data on these publishers’ customers — what they search for, which books they buy together, where they are when they read, how many pages they read before pausing or giving up, and more.

The publishers have none of this data. Amazon has mountains of data about the publishers’ products that the publishers themselves lack, and Amazon is a publisher, but it’s also their single most important retailer. The publishers are massively fucked here.

Which is why there’s all this pressure for the publishers to merge. When the CEO of Penguin, the CEO of Random House, and the CEO of Simon and Schuster meet to discuss Amazon pricing strategy, that is an illegal conspiracy. But when the presidents of Random House (a division of PRH/S&S), Penguin (a division of PRH/S&S), and Simon and Schuster (a division of PRH/S&S) meet, that’s just business.

And we’ve just blocked that. Which is good. The highly concentrated publishing industry is a real problem, but there’s concentration all the way up and down the supply chain. For example, there’s one national brick-and-mortar bookseller left.

It’s even worse in distribution: Ingram is the only major national book distributor left. If you’re an independent press who doesn’t want to go with Ingram for distribution, you’ll almost certainly end up being distributed by Penguin Random House — that is, your largest competitor. This is very bad for readers, writers, publishing workers, and literature itself.

This is the problem with monopolies: once there’s a monopoly in your supply chain, everyone else in the supply chain has to form a monopoly or a cartel, or the monopoly will devour them. That’s how the US got its infinitely cursed health-care system. Big Pharma merged to monopoly and price-gouged hospitals. Hospitals formed regional monopolies to fight pharma prices — and then gouged the insurers. The insurers merged with one another and divided up the country like the Pope dividing up the New World, and fought hospital pricing.

The whole health supply chain is monopolized, except for the patients at one end (paying higher prices for worse care) and the health care workers at the other end (getting paid less to work under worse conditions). The giants that run the industry may fight one another over how to divide the pie, but they all agree that we should get crumbs.

There’s a joke whose punchline goes, “If you wanted to get there, I wouldn’t start from here.” The existence of the Amazon monopoly means that when we block mergers elsewhere in the publishing supply chain, we just leave those un-merged companies vulnerable to Amazon’s predation. That’s not to say that un-merged companies are good, or letting them merge is good — just, if we wanted to get there, we wouldn’t start from here.

But here we are, at the tail end of 40 years’ worth of unbridled, uncontrolled corporate mergers. Simon and Schuster isn’t just “Simon and Schuster” — it’s part of Paramount, which owns dozens of TV networks (Showtime, MTV, Comedy Central, etc) as well as CBS and a bunch of amusement parks.

If we wanted to get somewhere we shouldn’t start from here, but here we are, so what do we do? Well, there’s an obvious remedy for companies that have merged to monopoly: break ’em up!

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

But breakups are achingly slow. The breakup of AT&T took sixty-nine years:

https://onezero.medium.com/jam-to-day-46b74d5b1da4

There are other tools in our toolkit, though. Trustbusters once relied on “structural separation,” the idea that companies that provided important platforms for other businesses couldn’t be allowed to compete with those business — for example, rail companies couldn’t own freight companies that competed with the shippers that were the rail companies’ customers:

https://locusmag.com/2022/03/cory-doctorow-vertically-challenged/

Structural separation would force Random House to decide whether to be a publisher or a distributor, and force Amazon to decide whether it was a retailer or a publisher. Structural separation is enjoying a renaissance: the EU Digital Markets Act bans large companies from competing with the apps in their app stores:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/11/01/europe-confirms-its-digital-markets-act-will-go-after-apples-app-store

But even if Random House decides to be a publisher and not a distributor, that leaves Ingram as the only major trade distributor. Even if Amazon stops being a publisher, it’s still the only major ebook retailer. Power is still in too few hands!

How do we pluralize that power? Here’s my idea, which is either a crank notion or a stroke of genius (I go back and forth on this question nearly daily): declare a tax-holiday for capital gains from voluntary corporate breakups.

https://doctorow.medium.com/shovel-ready-3433e0268c2e

I’m old enough to remember when corporate raiders and finance bros were obsessed with taking over companies and selling off their divisions, not merging them with their rivals. If we declare a three-year tax holiday for capital gains resulting from unwinding economically significant (>$1B) 21st century mergers, could we lure those corporate crooks out of retirement for one last heist?

I’m the first to admit that this has lots of downsides. For one thing, we’re paying the finance bros who destroyed our economy rather than, say, displaying them in stocks and pelting them with rotten vegetables. That’s galling. I hate it.

The other major possible downside is that whatever limits we put on this (a three-year expiry, or a 20-year ban on re-merging companies after breakups) will be overridden by finance bros, who will use some of the profits from the program to expand it.

But I don’t know for sure that either of those should be dealbreakers. If all we do is block terrible mergers between giant companies but we don’t break up the monopolies that are choking every supply chain, we’re just handing control to the monopolists who got in under the wire.

It’s so crazy it just might work.

[Image ID: A modified version of Goya's 'Saturn Devouring His Children.' The body Saturn is devouring is labeled with a Simon and Schuster logo and wordmark. Saturn is labeled with a Penguin Random House wordmark. A larger head of Saturn is devouring the Penguin Random House Saturn. It is labeled with an Amazon logo and wordmark.]

[master-of-stupidity]

Fuck it gonna put all my Tangled rants into a single thread that I'll just continue on if needed-

Oldest to newest btww (also spoilers most of these r about Eugene btw ik ik I'm a lil autistic spare me 💀)

That one part of Bruno is Orange but Eugene coded-

"Did you hear about that Father

Sent his own infant son away

And said "It's to *dangerous* for

you to stay so, I had to *save* you" "

I may be cringe but I am FREE

Yo omg ok so my brother is singin a Into the Woods song while I look at Tangled stuff n it made me remember a scene from the play where Gothel yells at the Prince "Rapunzel can think for herself!" n like- dude Cass said the same thing in Cassandra's Revenge to Eugene! Ooo girlll-

The way I would kill so many ppl if it meant getting a series about Lance n Eugene as kids like broooo imagineee-

Its crazy how like I'll be enjoying my day than suddenly I'll see a post of a mf going "Hey what if Eugene thought he was a yr younger cuz he was like a rlly scrawny kid?" Yeah ok sure n what if I hit u with a *metal pole*

My tangled ocs r so random its hilarious- like it goes from a bodyguard,a greedy businessman,a ringleader,n than that one serial killer who turns ppl into meat pies like how did we get here???? 😭🙏

I just remembered like just a few days ago my brother randomly said "vase" while playing Fortnite n my ass just said "vAHse" just to fck w/ him n like that kinda reminded me of that one scene of Eugene n Cass like damn they were sibling coded frrr lmao I miss em

Wdym there was a scrapped Eugene n Lance childhood episode??🧍And WDYM it's literally everything I ever wished for and more???????? 😃

Would love to see Eugene n Martin Kratt interact solely to see Martin be appalled n slowly lose his mind over how Eugene knows jackshit about animals 💀🙏

I think the Eugene genderbends look so weird to me because none of them kept the infamous goatee like cmon man don't be a coward give that girl some facial hair 🗣🗣

I should not be relating Heather's music to scenes from Tangled the Series yet here we r 😭

Omggg thinking about how Eugene proposing to Rapunzel in tts came from his abandonment issues n him literally not being able to see a life without Rapunzel omgg shut upppp leave me ALONEEE

Literally despise with every fiber of my being how the writers of the shitty Wreck it Ralph 2 movie had fcking RAPUNZEL of all ppl say "Do ppl assume all ur problems were solved just because a big strong man showed up?" They fcking HATEE the movie Tangled *so much* bro istggg

OMFG THE VOICE OF KING FREDRIC FROM TANGLED IS MR. FCKING KRABS WHAT?????

The way I wanna be bold n talk more about the "Over the Corona Walls" ep- esp about Staylan n Eugene n all the icky implications of that but I'm also so scared too cuz I fear ppl won't take me seriously or think I'm overanalyzing too much 😭🙏

Lowkey not over the fact Eugene was willing to trap himself back in an abusive relationship, "leaving" the one person he HAS died for n would die for again, all to save his best friend like bro don't TALK TO MEEEE

As u can tell I am totally normal n not at all ill about Eugene or this show 😁

What if I gave Eugene like- slight wedding trauma after the whole "Beyond the Corona Walls" incident??? I think it'd be kinda cool n in character ngll 🤭🤭

[lorekeeper-backset]

I think Ready as I'll Ever Be would make for a great Delta Episode Animatic.

Zinnia's Varian, obviously, doing the wrong thing but with good intentions.

Not sure who Cassandra would be. Wallace maybe?

Rapunzel is May, that's obvious.

King Fredric can be either Steven of Brendan.

And Queen Ariana... Steven's the only character I can think of who would work for that, tbh. So I guess Fredric has to be Brendan.

[orangesand-lemons-234]

Hey so remember the briefly mentioned Ralbert Tangled AU?

Yeah I went a little wild with it.

Albert DaSilva - Rapunzel

After being kidnapped as a baby for his magical hair, Albert has lived in a tower, hidden away from society for all his life. His whole life has been spent in routine. Paint the walls, sweep the floors, bake a treat, try out sewing, bandage his fingers after he pricked himself with the needle, read a book, paint the walls again, sing while his "father" Snyder brushes his hair, make hazelnut soup, go to sleep and repeat.

That's how it's been for forever. But now there's this rather dashing boy who's willing to take him out of the tower to see the lanterns that fly on his birthday every year, and he's starting to realise that maybe that maybe a little change in the routine isn't so bad. And hey, is it just Albert and Race, or does this "Missing Prince" everybody talks about kinda look like him?

Antonio "Racetrack" Higgins - Eugene Fitzherbert

Antonio Higgins, infamously known throughout the land as Racetrack, has spent most of his life on the run. After managing to get caught up helping the Delancey brothers, he's been stuck helping them ever since. Don't get him wrong, he loves the adrenaline rush he gets while being chased by the guards, and some of the things he happens to steal, but this wasn't exactly what he planned for his life.

After running away from the Royal guards after stealing the lost prince's crown, he finds Albert's tower and tries to hide away inside. Instead, he's knocked over the head with a frying pan and forced to take this strange boy with beautiful red hair and a colourful personality out to see the floating lanterns. Slowly, he comes to terms with the fact that maybe all he ever truely wanted, was love?

Other Characters:

Mother Gothel - Snyder

Stabbingthon Brothers - The Delanceys

Maximus (Who is a human in this AU, don't ask questions. He's the Head Guards second in command.) - David Jacobs

King Fredric - Theodore Roosevelt

Queen Arianna - Medda Larkin

The Ugly Ducking Thugs - All the other Newsies, Hook Hand being Tommy Boy and Nasone being Romeo

[glorytoukraine2022]

I always hear so many Rapunzel fans (and the show narrative) saying “Cassandra shouldn’t bottle her emotions!” “None of this would have happened if she had just opened up to Rapunzel!” And yes, I agree that Cassandra shouldn’t bottle up her emotions, but I want to clear up some points first…

I like the Captain and think that he was avoid father to Cassandra. But similarly to how Fredric couldn’t “separate the father from the king”, I felt that the Captain struggled to separate the father from the Captain. He probably figured that parenting involved some form of discipline, but only knew how to do that as a Captain, not as a parent. And as such, Cassandra was raised as a soldier, rather than as a daughter. Keeping your emotions in check on the battlefield is important, but in real life, it’s important to be more open. We’ve seen that the Captain himself struggles in openly expressing his emotions, and as such, probably wasn’t able to teach Cassandra how to handle her emotions in a healthy way. Nor did Cassunzel ever have a parent that she could open up to, which would be a problem growing up.

But now, onto the part that I take the most issue with. According to the narrative, the one answer to all of Cassandra’s problems, is to open up to Rapunzel.

Why would Cassandra want to open up to somebody that has no respect for her personal boundaries? Much the less her privacy. There’s nothing wrong with Rapunzel wanting to help, but forcing Cassandra to open up and disrespecting her boundaries isn’t going to encourage her. It’s a violation of her privacy. You need to back down, while always letting your friend know that you will be there for them if they need you.

I am actually a very private person myself, and don’t spill my innermost thoughts and feelings out to just anyone. Including my closest friends. And if my friend just kept on pushing and demanding that I tell them about “whatever’s bothering me” all the time, it wouldn’t encourage me to open up to them at all. It would push me away.

I think it is also important to add, that Rapunzel is unempathetic and somewhat narcissistic. Rapunzel likes to open up to people, so she can’t understand that other people have different coping mechanisms and don’t like being as open with their feelings. After all, she feels comfortable opening up to everyone, so why wouldn’t Cassandra feel the same?

Does this sound like somebody that you would feel comfortable opening up to? Somebody who disrespects your boundaries and gives you no personal space? Rapunzel struggles in simply being annoyed with Calliope and bottles up negative emotions because she doesn’t know how to deal with them. And this is somebody qualified to help others with their emotions? When you’ve been traumatized, you usually don’t talk about them with the person that traumatized you in the first place. Leaving Corona was the best decision Cassandra ever made in the series.

So Rapunzel fans. Instead of whining about how Cassandra is to blame for not opening up to Rapunzel, consider that Rapunzel is an unhealthy person to open up to in the first place.

[rhmis-user-2020]

My experience as a Tangled the series / Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure fan.

Why hello there, it's a pleasure to meet you and welcome to my rant of myself. Today, I'll be talking about my experiences of being a TTS / RTA fan and why I've been wanting to express my opinions as such don't read if you don't feel like wanting to hear my pet peeves as one of the fans of the show and fandom.

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SO! What I've been doing more often is posting things relating to the fandom itself, I used to post 100% content of Varian. Due to first not knowing about the fandom at first and I've been a Varian fan or stan of the show, I used to act a bit exaggerated and weird but soon. As I learned about the fandom of RTA / TTS, I started to design characters from the show other than Varian. That's not saying that I'll not be posting Varian content, it's just that I admire Varian more like a friend than a crush. Hence why I sound neutral about Varian and not a hyper-loving fan of him. I continued to post content based on any character from the show, except those who are difficult to design in Gacha mods (Yes, I use Gacha mods even though I appreciate Gacha club) but all I'm saying is that I admire characters and not just Varian since even though Cassandra has done worst things, and even if Rapunzel denied and betrayed Cassandra and Varian. I wouldn't wanna blame Rapunzel, since I view myself as her. The one who betrays the trust and promise of either my friends or such, Rapunzel denied Varian's promise but for reasons. She must protect her kingdom from the blizzard, and her parents were in danger her boyfriend and friends went to go save them and there was a good chance they weren't coming back. Varian caught her at a bad time and what happened sucks, I slightly felt bad about Varian but I feel more about Rapunzel and non of it was her fault. I know I may sound like I hate Varian but no, I just view him pretty negatively I soon grew into him in season 3 once he reformed but even then I slightly forgive him and even if I post Varian content, I would write it in a neutral sense.

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Next was my boy, Eugene. I absolutely love him a whole lot in the series, he's one of my favourite characters besides Rapunzel of course. I would love to listen to more songs about him, it brings joy to my heart. He deserved more screen time in the series and a friendship with Lance as his partner in crime and Varian as a team awesome group with Lance and has a couple of romantic moments with Rapunzel, his soon-to-be wife.

And he is fucking hilarious and look at his face.

LOOK AT HIM, HE'S ONE OF THE CUTEST BOYFRIEND AND SOON-TO-BE HUSBAND OF RAPUNZEL AND I DON'T CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT THAT TOPIC.

And he doesn't get any love, come on.

And his dynamic with Lance is hilarous.

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Now, for Cassandra. Well, I am not mad at her at all even though the rest of the fandom is mad at her for her villain arc, she might've been a petty, manipulative, two-faced monster just like her mother and she may commit severe crimes like:

Malefic

High treason

Theft

Abuse of power

Psychological and emotional abuse

Usurpation

Mass destruction

Torture

Kidnapping

Attempted mass murder

Slander

Extortion

The drugging of a minor

Aiding and abetting

Brainwashing

Enslavement

Terrorism

Animal cruelty

Identity theft

Vandalism

Pollution

Fraud

Sabotage

Gaoling

Blackmail

Conspiracy

And I too thought that the king or queen would provide some sort of punishment for Cassandra but they set her free since one user of mine said "I think the reason why she didn’t get arrested and got help was because Rapunzel was in charge and not Fredric. Fredric was in charge of Varian’s arrest and that was handled terribly, while Rapunzel handled Cassandra’s. I do also think that Cass got some punishment off-screen, she’s not the type of character who would be ok with getting away with her crimes, but I just wish we saw that for justification."

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Lance is so fucking underrated this dude wasn't even talked about at all in the fandom and I wished that people to talk about him since I love Lance, he is the first black character and that's right, he is voiced by James Monroe Iglehart a African-American person. And him being the father (or adoptive father) of Kiera and Catalina is wholesome as hell, it's so cute to see him with children.

If any of you who are fans of Lance, I would love to hear your opinion on him.

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Now the underdog himself, Varian. While yes, Varian is voiced by none other than Jeremy Jordan. So it makes sense the fandom would show their love to these characters. He is a fan favourite of the bunch, as he is well-known in the fandom to be one of if not the most relatable and sympathetic villains like Cassandra and Eugene. He is the only one who has character development.

He might've done crimes like:

Kidnapping

Assault

Aiding and abetting

Attempted regicide

Terrorism

Usurpation

Mass brainwashing

Conspiracy

Sabotage

Animal cruelty

Vandalism

Theft

Treason

But the king actually cared about Varian and Rapunzel warned him by saying "Don't be too hard on him, Dad." and he valued her discussion, since he accepts his daughter a whole lot and even mentioned this. "I'll be sure to do everything I can to get him help."

And yes, I do prefer the king's concern over this.

This may come across as valuable but he placed Varian in an adult prison since either a) he messed with grown up stuff and committed crimes that may come across as one adult would do or b) he did so out of pureness to keep him safe only for him to be manipulated by adults.

Who knows.

Varian showed some remorse and shame for his past deeds and thought that he could never be forgiven, which was why he teamed up with Andrew and the Separatists of Saporia to erase everyone's memories so that he could have a fresh start and be friends with Rapunzel again. However, by Rapunzel's compassion and the Separatists' change of plan, Varian turned over a new leaf and helped the princess and her friends save Corona. His rekindled friendship with Rapunzel soon gave him back his dad and the forgiveness of Corona.

And he is admirable and funny. And he does have a trusted friend named Ruddiger which is the most cutest dynamic ever, like an owner and pet relationship.

Why do I analyze Varian way more than any character? WHY?

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And now Rapunzel, she is by far my second favourite character. And I especially loved her romance between her and Eugene as well as her friendship with Cassandra, both Eugene and Punzie might be the most cutest couple ever.

I wished they stayed like this.

[hotvintagepoll]

Some of these brackets really are out here returning brexit-level chaos margins and firing the shots that start the grandma wars aren’t they

Anyway thank you for putting this whole thing on, and long may Christopher Plummer reign over hot old man land. This is what polls were born to do

just under 18 hours left to slam it one way or the other

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it’s Fine Press Friday!

This week we present  another title illustrated by American artist and illustrator, Lynd Ward (1905-1985): Idylls of the King, by English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), with introduction by Henry Van Dyke, and published in 1952 by the Limited Editions Club, in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Idylls of the King was first published as a cycle of twelve narrative poems, between 1859 and 1885. 

Lynd Ward made over forty individual lithograph illustrations for this fine press edition. The illustrations have at least three colors each, Ward drew directly on the printing matrix, an incredible amount of work. This direct process is sometimes called autolithography. The term, autolithography aims to differentiate the direct process of an artist drawing on the printing matrix, a stone or plate, from lithographs that are made by transferring an image to the stone by other means.  The lithographic plates were printed at the Duenewald Printing Corporation. The typographic layout was designed by Carl Purington Rollins in Bakersville types. Goudy Text was used for headers and the title. The type was printed at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press in New Haven, where Rollins had been master printer from 1920 to 1948. It is quarter-bound in vermilion sheepskin and English buckram cloth. The cover is stamped in gold with a design by Lynd Ward.  This book is a gift of Loryn Romadka, from the collection of Austin Fredric Lutter. 

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– Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[aubadesworld]

anyone want to explain to me why our boy Fredric is lowkey serving overblot Azul???

like yes king, slay the house down, I love it, but also… I CANNOT BE THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES THIS RIGHT?

(art is NOT mine, link to the page where I found it is below)

[silas-arlo]

no cus tell me why king fredric is the nexus of every terrible event catalyst in tangled the series. hate that guy