#top 4

[tellsfromninjago]

Face

I just wanted to spotlight some faces I really think they hit out the park with. There is a lot of reasons I love theses faces. Design, story telling, problem solving, recognizability the list goes on. I lack the words to really do them justice.

[nerdycartoongal]

The top 4 highest rated Owl House episodes pre finale according to IMDB

[stephstars08]

My favorite looks so far this season!😍🤩🥵

[kingboohoo37]

Post your four favorite Pokemon

Ok since I saw someone doing this on twitter I'm gonna shamelessly copy it... Well not quite I'm just gonna post my 4 favorite Pokemon.

Feel free to reblog with yours! Don't fear to be basic xD

[winniemaywebber]

pretend this is that letterboxd interview and reblog with your top 4 :)

[starclast]

TOP 4: SHELMA 🍔🔎

...What could I say that I haven't said already about Shelma? 😅 This ship is both in the childhood friend and opposites attract spectrum, so naturally, I find it extremely charming!! 😆 Apart from that, I really enjoy playin with the concept of every incarnation of these two interaction with each other (...as you have already seen in many of my comics and mini-comics 😉). Still, thou it is so charming, it is sad that the ship doesn't get the love it deserves...or a PROPER representation that proves this isn't all bad like most people think it is 😥 But don't worry, I'm not planning on leaving these two behind any time soon!!! 😄😄😄

[moominofthevalley]

emily & trystan’s top 4 movies & last 4 watched!

thought this would be a fun thing to do! :)

emily’s top four movies:

paper moon (1973)

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004)

bones and all (2022)

m (1931)

honorable mentions: everything everywhere all at once (2022), princess mononoke (1997), late spring (1949), fantastic mr. fox (2009)

emily’s last four watched:

the mist (2007)

plus one (2019)

anyone but you (2024)

gonjiam: haunted asylum (2018)

trystan’s top four movies:

alien (1979)

planet of the apes (1968)

aftersun (2022)

10 things i hate about you (1999)

honorable mentions: come and see (1985), 28 days later (2002), autumn sonata (1978), the birds (1963)

trystan’s last four watched:

in the mood for love (2000)

little miss sunshine (2006)

cat people (1942)

house (1977)

[notesonartistry]

Top 4 Taylor red carpet outfits?

Hey Annie, Ok, I tried not to think too hard and I'm going with:

Ask my Top 4 Taylor ___________

[cocotome]

Yay for part 2!! This time I moved the text along myself because I honestly can't take sitting for 30 secs every time the protagonist speaks lol. So we finally mer Tachi-sama's character and we adopt a cat named Beanie! I really wanted Cael to show more emotion but even trying to make him jealous didn't work. I suspect he's holding in his emotions since he's our guardian but we'll find out in time. I love stoic, uptight, no nonsense guys so much 🤤

[godmerlin]

I was tagged by @90soldsoul to do my top 4 favorite movies!

This is so hard because I love so many but I think I managed (feels bad to not have a Barbara Stanwyck movie in but if it had been a top 5 she would have been there lol!)

Tagging @jerrylevitch @tyronepowerbottom @mattybing1025 @animeg2rl and anyone who wants to do this. Also no pressure if i tagged you and you don't want to do it! 😊

[despairs-tyrant-king]

Sex under the influence of some narcotic substance is amazing.

[twistedtummies2]

Four Must-Read Books Based on “Alice in Wonderland”

I know I just finished my “Artists in Wonderland” event, but I’m still in an Alice mood, and especially in regards to literature. So I decided to cover another topic in terms of Wonderland in writing: different books based on the “Alice” stories. Of course, movies, video games, and TV shows have given us countless reinterpretations of the “Alice” stories and characters, but there have been just as many - and probably more - in writing. From stories based on the real-life events behind the scenes, to sequels, reimaginings, and prequels of the Carrollian classics, literature has provided an abundance of different takes on Wonderland. What’s interesting is that - beyond children’s picture books and such other things -  many of these reinterpretations take a darker and more adult stance with the story, creating unique lore and diving into the characters in a way Carroll’s stories do not do. This is nothing new, of course, but literature can do this in a way that most screen-based versions either cannot or do not. Now, there are numerous books based on Wonderland, like I said, and I’ve read my fair share. Today, however, I wanted to provide a short “must read” list with four key books that I feel anyone interested in “Alice” should take a look at. Again, there are a LOT more than four. Some books I enjoy that I won’t be mentioning here are The Splintered Trilogy, The Alice Chronicles, The Queen of Hearts Saga, Still She Haunts Me, After Alice, and Grin: The Unauthorized Biography of a Cheshire Cat. These are just to name a few that aren’t included here: all of them have their own unique merits and are worth looking up if you have time. These are just four books that I would classify as the cream of the crop. I should add that I won’t be including non-fiction books on the list, such as biographies, analytical or informational texts, etc. I’m specifically looking at works of fiction inspired by the stories. With that said, here are Four Must-Read Books for Alice in Wonderland Fans.

4. Alice I Have Been.

I’m starting this off with the most unique and arguably the most fascinating of the whole bunch. “Alice I Have Been,” written by Melanie Benjamin, is NOT an “Alice in Wonderland” story. It isn’t about the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, or any of the characters in the books. Instead, this is a piece of historical fiction that effectively tells the life story of Alice Hargreaves (nee Liddell), the young lady who inspired Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) to write the Wonderland books to begin with. The novel focuses on Alice’s relationship with Carroll, of course, but also just on her life in general, as she squares off her own desires and simple humanity with the fact that she is seen as someone she isn’t. In a way, the book is a lot like the movie “Dreamchild,” but while that film occasionally brings people into the fantasy of Wonderland and mostly focuses on Alice as an old woman, “Alice I Have Been” sticks entirely to the real world, and traces her life pretty much from birth to death. It’s not a biography, as it IS written in the form of a novel, and does take some liberties here and there based on the writer’s presumptions and the themes and ideas they want to play with. However, it does paint a very sincere and true-to-life portrait of the young woman, whose life story so many people never really paid attention to. If you’re more interested in reading about the actual Wonderland characters and world, then the other three books on this list are going to be more to your taste, but I felt I simply could not leave Melanie Benjamin’s gorgeous story out of the running.

3. Unbirthday.

This book is part of a series by Liz Braswell, called “Twisted Tales.” The series is published by Disney, and in each novel, a question is asked about a particular Disney movie. The novel then riffs on that question, usually by presenting a sort of AU or “What If?” scenario, but sometimes by creating a new story, a prequel or sequel, to provide a new spin on the world and characters. The latter is the case with “Unbirthday.” Admittedly, Unbirthday’s premise is not the most inspired: a grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, and finds it has become a darker and more dangerous place than ever before. She thus joins forces with a group of freedom fighters to battle the Queen of Hearts and save Wonderland. This exact premise, in those two sentences, can sum up a LOT of different “Alice” works. And I mean A LOT: most of the more prominent darker reinterpretations of Wonderland follow that basic formula. This book isn’t the first, and it isn’t the last. So, what makes it special? One simple little thing: all other darker Wonderlands with this premise are essentially their own invention. They aren’t based on any specific pre-existing version of the stories, they’re really their own thing, with their own special spin on the setting and characters. “Unbirthday” is interesting because it’s actually based on a very particular version of Wonderland, the Disney one. This makes the story unique, because we aren’t simply seeing newer, darker takes on the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, and other characters. We’re seeing the Disney ones - the ones so many of us know best and are familiar with from childhood, beyond all the rest - being corrupted and twisted in various ways. Similarly, we aren’t simply seeing a grown-up Alice, we’re seeing the Disney Alice all grown up. It’s a bit like watching “Spider-Man: No Way Home” versus “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Both are films with similar concepts at play, but they take very different approaches, and a big part of this is that one uses versions of the characters we’ve seen before and have a pre-established connection with, while the other is totally original. The best part is that Braswell’s writing is so meticulously handled, the characters really DO feel like those Disney versions, from the way they speak to the way they are described as generally behaving. If you’re a fan of dark Wonderlands, a fan of the Disney film, or both, check this one out.

2. Heartless.

This book by Marissa Meyer is a rare example of a prequel to the “Alice” stories. This is something that actually isn’t as common as you would think. Sequels to Wonderland and reimaginings of the story are pretty easy to come by, but prequels - stories that detail the world before Alice - are quite rare. I think this is mostly because, in the books, Wonderland is supposedly just a dream Alice had. And in many strict adaptations, it’s left ambiguous, at best, how much of Wonderland was a dream and how much of it was real. So what’s the point in creating a backstory and lore to a world that doesn’t exist? Well, of course, these works base themselves on the idea it DOES exist, and while they are not common, they are out there. In my opinion, “Heartless” is the single best Wonderland prequel I’ve ever come across. The story ostensibly tells the tale of how the Queen of Hearts - here named Catherine - became the fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant we all know and love to hate. In other words, it’s essentially “Wicked” (the novel, not the play), but for the Queen of Hearts. And much like “Wicked,” it not only gives us the skinny on the main villainess, but also involves multiple other characters from the books, most notably the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Duchess, and the King of Hearts, although other characters show up here and there, too. The primary reason I think Meyer’s book tops other prequels to the stories is simply this: with other prequels I’ve encountered, there’s always this sort of inconclusive feeling. Like, it’s hard to imagine these characters becoming the ones in the Carroll stories. That ISN’T the case with “Heartless”: not only is Catherine’s petulant, furious, rage-filled personality perfectly understandable, giving a once comically cruel and violently nasty villain a sympathetic and complex persona, but other characters feel very natural in their progression from where they start off to where we next see them. They’re written in such a way that they really do feel like those Victorian caricatures of madness we all care about so much, while still existing in their own unique space. This, above all else, makes Heartless one of my favorite Wonderland-based books. Check it out if you ever wanted to know what life was like before Alice’s fall.

1. The Looking-Glass Wars.

Frank Beddor’s “The Looking-Glass Wars” Trilogy is, without a doubt, my favorite book based on the “Alice” stories. It’s another dark reimagining of Wonderland that, on the surface, has the same basic formula “Unbirthday” and so many other stories have, but the way it interprets the world and the characters is totally its own, and wonderfully creative. The premise of “The Looking-Glass Wars” is that the story we all know and love so well is a boldfaced lie: the tale begins when Alyss Heart - the Princess of Wonderland, rightful heir to the throne - has her parents killed and kingdom usurped by her evil Aunt Redd. With the aid of Hatter Madigan, her loyal bodyguard, Alyss escapes through the Pool of Tears to our world…but because of some problems in-transit, Hatter is thrown all the way into France, while Alyss ends up in a slum in England. She is eventually taken in by the Liddell family, and meets Charles Dodgson, who writes a story inspired by the “wild fantasies” she tells him about. This story, of course, becomes the “Alice in Wonderland” we all know and love today. As time goes on, Alice forgets her old life and world entirely…until she’s finally rediscovered by her people, and brought back (along with Hatter M.) to Wonderland, to join the resistance and take back the crown from her traitorous aunt. In essence, the first book is “The Lion King” but with a Wonderland motif…but that’s only where the story starts, as the book would have two sequels, and not one, but TWO spin-off comic book series. I love the imagination and unique perspective Beddor’s books have, and the way it reinterprets classic characters. Some of them - like Aunt Redd, Bibwit Harte, and Blue the Caterpillar - feel very much like the Wonderlandian characters we all know and love, just a bit darker than usual. Others - like The Cat, Hatter Madigan, and Dodge Anders (Alice’s love interest, based on the Dodo, of all characters) - are radically different from the ones we know and love, but that’s kind of the point. The way the books mesh fantasy and history, tradition and new ideas, and so on really is one-of-a-kind, and it’s by far one of my favorite takes on “Alice” in general, and one that I wish more people knew about. I would love to see these books adapted to TV or cinema, or even to video games. Until that day, the stories stand on their own well enough. Admittedly, I’m not a huge fan of the comic book spinoffs I mentioned, but the original novels are truly fantastic. Read this trilogy as soon as you can.

[jeremyfrail]

Updated top for on my letterboxd

[praiseyah]

Top 4 Things about the MessiYah ( Yahoshua) you may not know!

At 12 Yahoshua went missing for 3 days!

In today's time, we would issue an Amber Alert! But, When Yahoshua, The MessiYah went missing at the age of 12 for 3 days, his parents simply searched for him hand and foot until he was found.

Luke 2: 42-46

V.42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Yahoshua stayed behind in Yahrushalom, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Yahrushalom to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

2. Biblically, Most men who entered the tent to deliver Yahs word was around 30.

Numbers 4:3

V.3 from thirty years old and older, even to fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

Yahoshua was no different; As he was around 30 when he started delivering Yahs truth as well

Luke 3:23

V.23 Now Yahoshua himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph ( Yoseph) the son of Heli,

3. Any righteous Ysraylite fights daily to honor Yah and make it to the Kingdom! It's a daily struggle for us all to reach perfection!

deservedly so, Yahoshua named atleast 3 servants who will definitely be in the Kingdom of Yah…. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Matthew 8:5: 11

V.11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom.

4. After Judah (Yahudah) sold out, and betrayed Yahoshua for 30 pieces of Silver causing his death; Judah (Yahudah) felt a great deal of remorse and hung himself

Matthew 27:3: 4-5

V.4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

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Thanks for reading! Yah bless & Shalom!

[karihighman]

[havocinthebluebox]

Current top 4 songs

@taikatalvittu tagged me to share my current top 4 favorite songs. Thank you ! 🗡🎶

La pièce du Boucher by FT-17

Hautavajo by Vermilia

Barefoot Ghosts Dance on Blood Soaked Soil by Blackbraid

The Sacrifice of Faramir by Howard Shore (ft Billy Boyd performing The Edge of Night)

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