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gattyswriting

Arvid wears his glasses in the car!! (Mexico 2025 FP1)

kobayboshi

@lookingspiffy HIM SPECTACLES!!!!

lookingspiffy

#arvid lindblad #HIM SPECTACLES!!!!!#HIM SPEFNTCRLEES!!!!!!!!#F1

babysdrivers

no cops at pride just sebastian 'gay rights' vettel running homophobes over with his fiat 500

alexanderalbons

#pride #sebastian vettel #a just world

madeline-kahn

@pscentral event 39: pride

"When you’re in a fight as bitter and as important as this one, against an enemy, so much bigger, so much stronger than you - well. To find out that you have a friend you never knew existed - It’s the best thing in the world."

Pride (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus

#pride 2014 #greatest to ever do it

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

I just need a beautiful woman to tell me that my bizarre imitation of human social skills is alluring and sexy

#too many drivers to tag honestly

buffycaps

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

RUPERT GILES in BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997-2003)

#Anthony Stewart Head #anthony head #<3 #buffy the vampire slayer

expergoe

ROGER FEDERER AND RAFAEL NADAL LOUIS VUITTON, CORE VALUES CAMPAIGN

#i don't go here but:#husbands #very obviously husbands #Roger Federer #Rafael Nadal

merlinsprat

if you don’t think this is funny, you are wrong. anthony head everybody!

#anthony head #😢#corpsing at nothing #whatta guy

mont-ventoux

people who don’t watch sports are seriously missing out. You could all be so much angrier

#honestly

christiangeistdorfer

JOCHEN RINDT during the 1969 TASMAN SERIES || [x]

"While on a skiing holiday as a teen, he broke his femoral neck, leading to several surgeries that left one leg four centimetres (shorter than the other. As a result of this, Rindt limped slightly for the rest of his life." - my paraphrasing from the documentary Jochen Rindt lebt [Jochen Rindt Lives] (2010)

#jochen rindt #classic f1

dashaibo

Have I ever shown you guys these weird late 80s Soviet Lord Of The Rings illustrations?

They were made by Sergei Iukhimov, who’s virtually unknown otherwise.

More from where that came from

ask-disneyka

Holy fuck this is absolutely perfect

I hated them as a kid, but I can appreciate them now.

femmenietzsche

Some more reasonably sized ones here:

LOTR art that actually looks like medieval illuminations? holy shit

morgenlich

although i’m not able to find specifically when these illustrations were made, they were in a 1993 russian translation of LotR. it should be noted that there were no official translations in russian until after the collapse of the ussr, but samizdat translations were very common (and as i understand still are)

iukhimov was ukrainian by the way, possibly from odesa though there’s very little info on him i can find in english. his now-dead website exists on the internet archive but text only sadly. someone on the tolkien collector site i’ll link below at one point compiled a bunch of his illustrations on weibo though that link seems to be defunct now unfortunately

Thank you Zionius. Some astonishing ones there that i havent seen. If you want me to send you pictures of the silmarillion and hobbit illust

Добро пожаловать на сайт одесского художника Юхимова Сергея Борисовича

Project MUSE - When Philology Becomes Ideology: The Russian Perspective of J.R.R. Tolkien

astronicht

These look weird because they are repeatedly and actively playing with exactly the early medieval images Tolkien was playing with. A few are more modern storybook, but at least one is FANTASTIC riff on the Bayeux tapestry. Another two are lifted directly from early medieval paleography (handwriting) right out of a textbook on Insular incipits (how an opening phrase or title of a manuscript was written). Another im pretty sure borrows from the Book of Kells; that’s definitely a specific image, I know that image. And Tolkien knew it too.

The figures look like, say, the illustrations in Old English Genesis A. There might be a little Eastern Orthodox icon style creeping in, or it might just be that that style has a lot in common with early medieval British and Irish manuscript illustration (ca. 600-1100 AD). These are great, and an extremely clever nod to the texts Tolkien was drawing from, and even the literal manuscripts in which he was imagining his work (or at minimum Bilbo’s work, in-universe) to be written:

As Tolkien says, “Further information will also be found in the selection from the Red Book of Westmarch that has already been published, under the title of The Hobbit.” (The Fellowship of the Ring, “Prologue: Concerning Hobbits”). Or, perhaps, in the Red Book of Hergest (Welsh, Llyfr Coch Hergest) — another Red Book of the West (or Wales, that is). Obviously The Hobbit does not actually show up in one of the most important medieval Welsh manuscripts (currently housed at Oxford), but from the very first page of lotr, Tolkien was playing with an incredibly specific manuscript history!

And this guy, Sergei Iukhimov, apparently clocked that shit on day one. And got a lil weird with it. Respect.

#art #illustration #LOTR