The Avalon Archive

Avalon: Web of Magic. SFF book liveblogs and reviews. Sparkly rocks. San Jose Sharks. Ice hockey goalies. Comic pics every Wednesday. Chapter-by-chapter recaps on the main site have been discontinued at the moment. Sorry.

[doctorwhogifs]

[rexim-djm]

[attorneyologies]

Turnabout Holiday Clarification

[spiroandthelacktones]

If you're American will you reblog this with where you grew up and wether or not they had sixth grade camp. I grew up in southern California and every class in sixth grade would take a field trip and go to a camp for a week and this is absolutely bewildering my wife cause she's never heard of sixth grade camp

[18minutemajor]

big high five! (10/19/24 | barracuda vs. iowa wild)

[eshesmites]

It’s impossible to give directions in Boston. Nothing makes sense. There are inexplicable one way streets, there are streets that change their names as you move from one area to another. There’s a road in my area where the gps literally tells you to take TWO full right turns to “stay on” the same road which is at a right angle to the original. There’s like four different Massachusetts Avenues. Sometimes you have to be in the left lane to turn right. The gps can’t even get directions to my workplace correct; it tells me to take a left on a road where lefts are not allowed, and the only way to not have to go across the river and take 15 minutes to turn around is to remember this shit one block early and make the left THERE. Recently, they’ve restricted 1 of 2 lanes on each side of major thoroughfares to only allow bikes and buses, and the government officials seemed to genuinely believe that would somehow EASE traffic. Oh and don't try to drive on Memorial Drive on Sundays; they close it for pedestrians. Just because. And when you DO drive on Memorial, there's one exit that will make your gps lose its mind and start chanting random sequences of numbers for four minutes straight. You can't take a Uhaul on Storrow Drive because the bridges that go over it are too short, and every year some doofus college student ignores this rule and proceeds to "get Storrowed" when they shave off the top of the truck on the overpass and get stuck. I-93 turns into I-95 and makes a big circle around the city, so a lot of the time you'll be on I-95 north but driving east or west.

It’s not limited to driving either. The Arlington train station is not in Arlington, it’s in the middle of downtown. Harvard Square is not a square, it’s more like a pentagon. There are four different green line train routes, and they’re labeled B for Boston College, C for Cleveland Circle, D for… Riverside, and E for… Heath Street. The Silver line is listed on the train map but is entirely run on buses which have to be connected and disconnected from power lines every time you go through the route. The Blue line goes to (and I’m not joking) Wonderland. The two red lines are labeled for their southern points: Braintree line goes to Braintree, and the Ashmont line goes to… Mattapan. To be fair, the train itself stops in Ashmont and you continue to Mattapan on a trolley, but that doesn't make it better. South Station and North Station are 1 mile apart and the easiest way to get from one to the other is just to walk it because otherwise you have to travel through 4 or 5 train stops on two different lines. But make sure you memorize the route because there's a good chance your gps will lose signal in the Financial district because it can't get through the buildings. In Boston Commons there are two train stops within line of sight of each other, on the same street, and one of them screams. To get to the trains at Porter Square, you have to ride down escalators 105 feet below street level, or you could just take the 3 flights of stairs totaling 199 steps (presumably because the engineers had something against nice even numbers). The North End is south of East Boston. Castle Island is part of the mainland.

No matter where you're going or how you're getting there, it takes 45 minutes (no wrong turns) or an hour and a half (one wrong turn). It doesn't matter if you're going one stop on a train; it will take 45 minutes. If it's summer, there's a better than 50% chance you'll be in the train car that lost it's AC; if it's winter, you're guaranteed to be in the car where the heat has it up to 80 degrees and the inside of your winter coat will be a sauna. Check the Red Sox schedule before you go south of the river, or you'll be trapped in the waves of baseball fans flooding the streets and days will go by before you're found again. And just... don't go outside on September 1.

If you're thinking that this sounds eldritch as shit, you're right. The entire city is an arcane lock keeping the ghoulies and ghosties from haunting the rest of the nation. We charge it with every "fuck" we utter while we travel our labyrinthine paths and drink our Dunks. You're welcome.

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[samimarkart]

yellow spotted isopod for invertober on Instagram !

[k-eke]

Owl determination!

[borboric]

[grammarknighty]

Takato and his gang in Halloween costumes. So cute.

[englandhatepage]

“we saw you from across the bar and we really hate your vibe actually”

[makomonogatari]

My page for @/momentsbtwnzine (Twitter) !

One of the very first zines I've ever been in, and it was a great experience :> Any excuse to draw Luffy, Chopper and Usopp in kimono :>

[vintagewildlife]

Cattle drive between the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada By: John Marshall From: Natural History Magazine 1984

[marekdavid]

[halorvic]

[revilonilmah]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles!

[tarantula-bones-deactivated2026]

Being autistic is like. I got into this thing when I was twelve and now my entire personality revolves around. I am thinking about it 24-7, it never leaves my mind. It is simultaneously the most fascinating captivating artwork and the most infuriating piece of shit I have ever seen. I could write entire essays about it. Nobody gets it the way I do. 4/10

[endeus]

goalie pro tip: if you're being threatened in your trapezoid and none of your teammates have their sticks down, the correct response is to bank it off the guy's stick and glove it. and if he bats it down? he won't. don't worry about it. he's too slow. you're gonna shut them out. you're yaroslav askarov. you are simply better than them

[pyllymursu]

Like I promised (or threatened), here's more of the spider and mummy!

I usually dedicate only one drawing in this style per character, but these designs go so hard I had to draw both their human and Digimon variants

Besides, these two specimen are fantastic in any incarnation, Mummymon's defining charasteristic is to be silly (shout-out to Ghost Game's doctor) and Arukenimon keeps practicing women's wrongs without fail (Ghost Game, Survive)