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Not sure if this one's been done yet, but after doing a bit of digging, I found an original, full-size version of Angus Mcbride's art of Saruman and his orb, aka "Pondering My Orb" meme. (Yes, this is actually Saruman.) Unfortunately, I could not find the original title, if there ever was one.
After comparing a couple others, this was the best version I could find in high quality.
Now you, too, can ponder Saruman's orb in full, high-quality wizardry.
Enjoy!
i hope i’m not just a tumblr blog to you but also bad lesbian representation
Once i got into a genuine fight with a friend cuz they thought i was problematic for saying dating a neanderthal would be cool
Like to be clear they considered it BESTIALITY
Anyway need to smoke with her
England isn't a real country, stupid. England is a lie to sell you more Doctor Who
Wales is real though, where else would they film Doctor Who
close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see
Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step
Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum
Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum
This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.
oh yeah reminder not to give the evil fucking scum who run this website a goddamn cent this month when they inevitably roll out whatever theyre selling for it. Find a trans woman to pay instead
I'm at the Boston Massacre site
I'm at the SweetGreen
I'm at the combination Boston Massacre site and SweetGreen
#just down the street from the 300-year-old Chipotle#boston
oldest commercial building in Boston! built in 1718, and once the offices of a famous publisher who worked with the likes of Hawthorne, Alcott, and Emerson
now a Chipotle
IT WAS A BOOKSTORE FOR ALMOST 200 YEARS. IT WAS ONE OF THE OLDEST BOOKSTORES IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY UNTIL IT WENT OUT OF BUSINESS.
BEFORE THAT, IT WAS THE HOME OF ANNE HUTCHINSON, WHO WAS EXILED FROM MASSACHUSETTS FOR HERESY DECADES BEFORE THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS.
NOW...A CHIPOTLE.
I appreciate your passion for historical preservation, but it was not a bookstore the whole way through. And the fact that it's currently a chipotle is in large part why the building still exists
It also was never the home of Anne Hutchinson. It's on the site of her home, but that house burned down in 1711. The current structure was built on the same lot in 1718 and it was an apothecary shop until 1828, when it was first made a bookstore
Then in 1832 it became a publisher's office/bookstore combination, which it remained until 1997, when it became a Boston Globe memorabilia store.
Then a discount jewelry store rented it from 2005 until 2009
Then it became a showroom for crafts made by students of the North Bennet St. school, a well-known trade school here in Boston
And it became a chipotle in 2017
so no, it was not a bookstore for 200 years. On top of that, it was threatened with demolition in 1960 to build a parking garage. That's when the building was purchased by an organization called historic Boston Inc. and preserved formally. Though it would remain a bookstore until the 1990s, the preservation model was always what we call "adaptive reuse," where building stays in circulation for retail or office space or what have you while still being consciously preserved
I find this to be a really useful model especially for demographics who might find preservation a hard sell, like people in the business world. Plus, there's a very true fact that not every historical building in a city full of historical buildings can be set aside as a museum – I even really like the fact that, for many Bostonians nowadays, old buildings are NOT just something you go and visit and then leave behind. They're part of the fabric of our lives, consistently, and I think that makes them a lot more real to us
Personally I would rather the building be a chipotle if it means we still have the building
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Hi yes hello it’s me the local wizard, and I- Ok well “evil” feels like a strong word but yes, that’s me. Anyway, I need your help. I know I stole away the kingdoms 12 princesses, that’s my bad. Listen, I didn’t think this through. It didn’t occur to me that having a dozen angry young women from early teen to early 20s and giving them giant powerful wings would be a bad idea.
I know I’m the one who cast the curse but it can still only be broken with true love. I’m begging you, somebody, please come and fall in love with these girls and make them leave, I can’t take it anymore, it sucks so bad. I can’t keep getting viciously bullied by one of the largest living species of waterfowl anymore. I’ve tried running away but they can fly so they just find me. I’m getting nothing done.
I’ll pay you, I’ll grant you wishes, I don’t care, please just come and fall in love with the mean angry women who live in my yard and hate me so bad
My favorite Tolkien illustrations by Cor Blok in no particular order:
Bilbo and Gollum. Bilbo is the moon for some reason which is cool i guess
Smeagol and Deagol. I love the seaweed in the background, great attention to detail
Frodo serving Robin Hood-realness at his and Bilbo’s birthday party. Literally iconic
Isildur taking the ring from Sauron. Its great but I would like to see more of Sauron than just his hand, because I think he has the potential to look really cool
Pippin jumping into the bath at Crickhollow… no comment
Bilbo gives the Mithril coat to Frodo. Great poses, very stiff and awkward. I like it.
The fellowship. This one is a classic.
Gandalf and the balrog. Amazing
Boromir trying to take the ring from Frodo. I love the way he reaches for his sword, it looks very natural
Merry and Pippin and Treebeard. I like his legs and the fact that it looks like he’s wearing shorts.
The battle of Helms Deep. This one is just great for a lot of reasons. I like how the orcs in the background are just happy and sad smileys. Gimli is throwing a rock at them. I don’t know who the guy with a red hat is in the background, but I love him.
Gandalf, Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli finding Merry and Pippin in Isengard ft fucked up Shadowfax. Look at them smiling!
Sam, Frodo and Gollum. Frodo got rid of his Robin Hood hat which is a shame, but Gollum with a beak makes up for it.
Eowyn protecting Theoden from the Witch King. The fellbeast is a crow or perhaps a raven. Merry is hanging on the side, stabbing Witch King in the leg and he looks amazing
Mt Doom. Frodo looks very chill about getting his finger bit off, and Sam is just kind of floating there. I love everything about Gollum
They don't make art like this anymore (possibly because various laws forbid it), which is a shame.
I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.
I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner
"Thank you for choosing Deutsche Bahn today" darling, I can't drive. This is a forced marriage.
why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....
I do think it’s interesting how the novel Dracula is meant to be a modern setting from its perspective. It’s very much that genre of story about an ancient fantasy archetype finding itself in a modern setting, complete with the rules-lawyering that often comes with modern parodies (that isn’t to say the stories of Olde didn’t have fun with loopholes either though).
Except Dracula is a story that plays itself straight. The vampire himself is not stupid. He’s possibly the oldest vampire of all which means he upgraded from animal instinct and mindless echoes of past memories to someone who’s regained his critical thinking skills. The story begins because he’s already adapted to how the modern world works now by hiring a solicitor who understands modern laws.
He knows now that he doesn’t have to march into London with an army like he used to; He can just buy property and the laws of London are forced to respect that. Similarly he’s already experimented in and discovered loopholes to vampire rules and limitations; Vampires are bound by the permission of owners so he simply uses his solicitor to buy and own a bunch of properties. If he needs to be invited in, Dracula hypnotizes someone to let him in.
Vampires need to return to their grave every dusk/dawn (whichever comes sooner), which causes their coffin to act as an anchor that limits how far from it they can travel? Dracula simply rations the earth of his grave into fifty coffins and spreads them across London so his range becomes exponentially larger.
All of these things make the story almost come across as a deconstruction and it might just be! It’s just that Dracula the novel became such a trendsetter that people nowadays see it as playing things fully straight. It almost feels as if the novel is written with the idea that readers have a basic understanding of vampires and their rules, so part of the thrill comes in the revelation of how the titular vampire is working around these rules. Likewise I’ve heard it used to be a trope in English literature for a traveler to visit some foreign land with a monster and escape by going home. But here the foreign aspect of the story is just the first (and final) arc; The monster’s plan hinges on coming to the UK itself!
So yeah. Dracula isn’t stupid and he reflects the idea that people of the past had just as common sense as the rest of us, they just had access to less/inaccurate knowledge and things worked differently back then. Dracula would be like… That bit of someone showing a medieval peasant a meme as they comprehend it perfectly and aren’t even wowed by the Doritos. If Dracula was set in the 21st century he’d probably understand social media well enough to become an influencer if he wanted to, though the issue of being invisible in cameras wouldn’t help.
