#shoutout to hieronymus bosch

[jitterbugbear]

kaleidoscopian visions

[spiralneko]

it's always rlly fun when a thing with demons in it actually makes them strange or offputting instead of Rawrrr Big Red Pointy Fellow

[staghunters]

hey hey! 2, 8, 12, 14

hoi hoi!

2. Oldest book you own (as in the one you received earliest in your life)

This one!

I got it from my grandpa one pakjesavond (sinterklaas/the dutch boxing day) when I must've been around 8 years old? I can recommend it, though it is very much a children's book in that there is a lot of exposition that feels overdone at times. Still, it's got "fairy tales are real but a bit fucked up in this world", fairies with double agenda's, sibling love, a shapeshifter who's definitely queer in some way shape or form!!, and the main character is basically like an Indiana Jones but for fairy tale artefacts (hijinks included) on the background is this large-scale political conflict that makes it all very witcher-y.

You might know this author from Inkheart, btw! This one has also been translated into english.

8. Best cover

A tie between these two!

I got them both last year on my bday credit at the store and haven't read either of them, but they look very nice. The Bale one is a hardcover that has gold details, but just the whole composition of it all is perfect.

12. Weirdest book you own

Definitely "The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind" by Katherine Hepburn.

I couldn't get it anywhere physically except as an second-hand library edition from the states (shoutout to Boston Baptist College Library!) but read it beforehand on internet archive because you can borrow it there for free! It's just a personal account of making a movie, but Katherine Hepburn is hilarious. It really reads like you're sitting with her and she has to vent about this stupid flick she did but wowza. Please let the following passage convince you to check it out. The full thing is only 150~ pages long.

14. A book you love but wouldn’t really recommend to others

HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt! (I don't have the cover below but really like it so ordered it at work just now asjdkfhlsd)

It was review bombed big time on Goodreads. On some points I could see the validity, but there's something really cool going on in here but that either doesn't translate well cross-culture, or is in general a bit ambiguous. The climax and ending is WILD. Not in a way of "wow some crazy fucked up shit happens here", which it kinda does, but I'm talking fucked up like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, and not like SAW.

I believe Olde Heuvelt did change some things to make it more understandable for american audiences, while sticking close to what he meant in the dutch version. Putting the town in the Hudson Valley as opposed to somewhere near Nijmegen makes sense, but still doesn't cover the typical "dutch small town" feeling from the original, particularly because of how densely populated my country is, making the whole curse that confines you to your super small old town forever till you die thing a lot more frustrating when everything modern and big is within a half hour drive.

Anyways, if you'd still want a rec: A town (name might vary but it's called Black Spring in the american edition) is haunted by the figure of a 17th century witch. the gist of her curse is that anyone who stays in the town for too long or is born there will have to stay till they die, only being able to leave for short amounts of time. Over the years there's been a sort of witch-watch task-force that keeps track of the witch's movements (she otherwise doesn't really do anything). All goes well until some teen boys want to fuck around for a nice video to post online.

Bookish Asks

[dontbotheraziraphale]

16, 21, 49

Hi! Thanks for asking!

16. Describe your favorite hoodie. How long have you had it? What makes it unique?

I have an very worn, over-sized GAP hoodie that belonged to my friend that I'm super attached to. I helped her clean out her wardrobe when she was moving countries and she would have binned it if I hadn't called dibs. She said it was gross bc it was her comfort hoodie and she'd just spend days moping and sobbing it it so naturally I was like THATS PERFECT I'LL USE IT THE SAME WAY It's so precious to me <3

21. What's your favourite period in art history? Favorite famous work and/or style of art?

I don't know stuff about art!! But I like van Gogh and I love Hieronymus Bosch' work. Special shoutout to Dali's Don Quichote and ballet designs.

49. What's your favourite thing to do when it's raining?

Blanket fort lets go

[rrrofthevale]

The Holly Bears a Berry (A ‘Sir Gawain & the Green Knight’ Playlist)

Spotify

If David Lowery could make The Green Knight, then I can make this playlist.

↓↓ See Below for Tracklist ↓↓

01 / Hildegard von Blingin’ & Whitney Avalon - Holding Out for a Hero

Whither have the worthy gone, o where is fair Gawain?

02 / The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge - The Holly & the Ivy (arr. Henry Walford Davies)

Of all the trees that are in the wood, the holly bears the crown

03 / Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

Glitter on the wet streets, silver over everything

04 / Clarence Clarity - It Is Happening Again (feat. twst)

The bind is bitter and the bind is blind, split down the middle while you waste your time

05 / Bat for Lashes - Horse & I

They sang to me, “This is yours to wear. You’re the chosen one, there’s no turning back.”

06 / Blonde Redhead - Falling Man

If you start doubting me, then I start to doubt myself

07 / Kælan Mikla - Næturblóm

Þegar skammdegið er svartast skína næturblómin bjartast / When midwinter is at its darkest, the nightflowers shine the brightest

08 / Woodkid - Iron

Where innocence is burned in flames, a million miles from home

09 / Simon & Garfunkel - A Hazy Shade of Winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend

10 / King Crimson - Epitaph

Confusion will be my epitaph as I crawl a cracked and broken path

11 / Wardruna - Synkverv

Kvervarsyn lyg og løyner, ljodspindel byt lyst for vit / The turnsight hides and lies, the sound-spindle trades you lust for wits

12 / Blood Ceremony - Lord Summerisle

Will they dance with us this night?

13 / Ihsahn - Spectre at the Feast

It’s just how you phrase it, it’s not what you mean

14 / Minus the Bear - Knights

I owe you, don’t I? A little light today, but tomorrow...

15 / Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth

Never again is what you swore the time before

16 / Dead Can Dance - The Cardinal Sin

When all is said and done, it will be you who pays the price

17 / Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies

Oh, no, you can’t disguise

18 / Justin Timberlake - Cry Me a River (arr. Beedle the Bardcore)

You don’t have to say what you did, I already know

19 / Pink Floyd - Careful with That Axe, Eugene

20 / Ulver - Son of Man

Heavenly father, forgive me, for I have sinned against your word in sadness and joy, in rainbow light and the dark woods

21 / Anna von Hausswolff - Källans återuppståndelse

To dissolve myself into emptiness and to rise again with one stone less

22 / An Dro - Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music (feat. James Spalink)

[pargolettasworld]

“But there’s more to it than controversy; the video is meticulously thought through and full of arcane references you need multiple degrees to decode. On his journey to damnation, the star — who rose to fame thanks to his genre-defying “Old Town Road” — goes through scenes from the Garden of Eden to Lucifer’s fall from Heaven, and throws in a wealth of references along the way. The music video’s director, Tau Muino, who has also designed videos for Cardi B and Katy Perry, said she was inspired by “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” a triptych painting by Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch. The title is even a shoutout to the very Jewish, very queer book and movie “Call Me By Your Name.”

“But what exactly did Lil Nas X do to piss off a sector of religious America — and if the biblical imagery is the issue, why aren’t the Jews just as mad about it?”

[guardsbian]

anyways thanks dante alighieri for the hell fanfic I enjoyed it alot. hieronymus bosch I dig your stuff too. shoutout

[watermelon-blues]

Shoutout to Hieronymus Bosch for being so lit