Three Lines of Scrawl

I'm Maureen. I'm a public librarian from Indiana, as well as a book blogger and occasional writer. I like books and cats and tea and sometimes rant about stuff. Ask me anything!

[incaseyouart]

Little watercolour terrariums! I want all of these and more in my house <3<3

[johnbitchsociety]

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

I got fucking Byron and I was going to add “someone kill me” until I realized that’s exactly what fucking Byron would fucking do

[meeichner]

If I get Byron on this, I swear.

[bettheriver]

au where kylo ren actually agrees to come with han solo and everyone just has a really tense and awkward trip home on the millennium falcon for the rest of the film

[bobakirafett]

Kylo asks Finn to move his chair up and Finn just says “No”

[oldshrewsburyian]

I shudder still at the remembrance of his voice—drone, drone, drone, in my ear—while he sat beside me, prosing away by the half-hour together, and beguiling himself with the notion that he was improving my mind by useful information, or impressing his dogmas upon me and reforming my errors of judgment, or perhaps that he was talking down to my level, and amusing me with entertaining discourse. Yet he was a decent man enough in the main, I daresay; and if he had kept his distance, I never would have hated him.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë (via oldshrewsburyian)

[shadowscapes-stephlaw]

“6 for #Gold ”

#magpie #nursery #rhyme #counting #nurseryrhyme #oneforsorrow #Watercolor

[missmargaretcarter]

[leirelatent]

[thehiddendetails]

[iamnevertheone]

Asgard is dead. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

[diversemovies]

Eighty years ago the Turkish government forced Hollywood to drop a movie project based on The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, then a best-selling novel on the Armenian Genocide by German-language author, Jew and outspoken Hitler opponent Franz Werfel. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, originally written as a warning against Hitler through the prism of the Armenian Genocide, never saw the silver screen. Such a movie could have also raised awareness of the fate of the Jews in Nazi Germany at the time and later of the ongoing Holocaust. It could have shaped the “narrative” of the struggle against Hitler. Many have since been interested to finally turn the novel into a major production, but Turkish opposition and obstruction seemed insurmountable.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-is-losing-battle-online-trolls-992582

It had taken years — and the passionate support of Armenian activist Kirk Kerkorian, who financed the film’s $100 million budget without expecting to ever make a profit — for The Promise, a historical romance set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac, to reach the screen. Producers always knew it would be controversial: Descendants of the 1.5 million Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire shortly after the onset of World War I have long pressed for the episode to be recognized as a genocide despite the Turkish government’s insistence the deaths were not a premeditated extermination.

The Promise, which opens April 21, finally would bring the untold saga to a mass audience. But at the Toronto Film Festival premiere in September, producer Mike Medavoy watched the late billionaire’s carefully laid plans upended by a digital swarm that appeared out of nowhere.

Before the critics in attendance even had the chance to exit Roy Thompson Hall, let alone write their reviews, The Promise’s IMDb page was flooded with tens of thousands of one-star ratings. “All I know is that we were in about a 900-seat house with a real ovation at the end, and then you see almost 100,000 people who claim the movie isn’t any good,” says Medavoy. Panicked calls were placed to IMDb, but there was nothing the site could do. “One thing that they can track is where the votes come from,” says Eric Esrailian, who also produced the film, and “the vast majority of people voting were not from Canada. So I know they weren’t in Toronto.”

The online campaign against The Promise appears to have originated on sites like Incisozluk, a Turkish version of 4chan, where there were calls for users to “downvote” the film’s ratings on IMDb and YouTube. A rough translation of one post: “Guys, Hollywood is filming a big movie about the so-called Armenian genocide and the trailer has already been watched 700k times. We need to do something urgently.” Soon afterward, the user gleefully noted The Promise’s average IMDb rating had reached a dismaying 1.8 stars. “They know that the IMDb rating will stay with the film forever,” says Esrailian. “It’s a kind of censorship, really.”

[lastwaterbender]

I like in the Fellowship of the Rings where they are standing outside the big ass door with the riddle “Speak friend and enter” thing. 

And then they’re like, what’s friend in elvish and Legolas just stands there and says nothing.

[consumptive-sphinx]

Frodo: *looks at Gandalf*

Everyone else: *looks at Legolas*

Legolas: [internally] fuck you, in Eregion they spoke a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT kind of elvish, I grew up with like ten different dialects of silvan, this word is pronounced differently in every one of them, this sindarin and my sindarin probably wouldn’t even be a little bit compatible, who fucking knows the door might want it in Quenya, you know what it’s probably in Khuzdul, that’s the kind of language you’d want a password to be in, the one nobody knows, fuck they’re all looking at me I don’t know this there are dozens of different languages spoken by elves you stupid fucks

Legolas: [externally] silence

Gandalf: “…Mellon”

Everyone: *thinks Legolas is stupid*

[milesphoenix]

This is officially one of my favorite tumblr posts.

[randomoverwatt]

Word. Tolkien’s elves are a long history of factionalism, made worse by their long lifespans.

[alexicon-art]

Ozymandias

my nam is King of ancient land and haf my face is under sand

and on a stone it can be read “the World is mine” but now I’m ded

(Sorry everyone who reads this. I couldn’t stop myself.)

[systlin]

Frame this and put it in the Louve. 

[airspaniel]

[bitrandombit]

@annleckie

[petermorwood]

Oh-kaaay.

So Bredlik has crossed the streams with classic poetry.

Looks at “Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900” (as beloved of Horace Rumpole) and available from Gutenberg. Inspiration, and lots of it. The Bredlik version of “Ode to a Nightingale” or “The Destruction of Sennacherib”? You just know that someone, somewhere, is going to look at “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and go “bring it on…”.

[plaidadder]

My naym is guest

(Am one of three)

Old mariner

He stoppeth me

At feast will be

Gud wines an breds–

“Ther was a shippe,”

Old marner sez

He telth me tale

So ful of whoa

Wen it is dun

I do not goe.

Next morn I hav

A wiser hed.

(I sneak to feast,

Lik crusts of bred.)

[zamboni-whisperer]

@annleckie

[cvctusghosts]

[aelin-godkiller]

I keep seeing tweets like “okay so america is a dystopian novel now wheres the 16 year old girl to save us” and other condescending shit like that and i just….

where are the girls who are saving us you ask?

oh i don’t know, they are at the Oceti Sakowin camp fighting for the right to clean water and treaty rights. They are protecting their land and water against heavily militarized police forces.

They are and have been at many Black Lives Matter protests. Girls have fought against police brutality in black communities. Women, in fact, are among the top leaders of that movement.

They are the muslim girls who continue to fearlessly wear their hijabs in public despite rampant islamophobia.

And there were plenty of teenage girls at the women’s marches across the country. 

So while a single Katniss Everdeen figure has yet to emerge, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t exist. Because young women are protesting every day. They are the Katnisses and the Laia of Serras and the Aelins and the Mare Barrows and the Nehemia Ytgers and the Lihn Cinders that you’ve all read about. These girls exist. 

Realize that the fallacy of most dystopians, and many books, is that they often presents a single cohesive narrative of revolt and change. And in our huge, wide world, that is not how change works. But the books themselves are not incorrect in assuming that young women will be the arbiters of change. They are spot fucking on. 

[the-paintrist]

Rafael Romero Barros - Bodegón de naranjas - 1863

Rafael Romero Barros (30 May 1832, Moguer - 2 December 1895, Córdoba) was a Spanish painter who often worked in the Costumbrismo style.

[meeichner]

Tiffany Aching covers: The Wee Free Men

I’ve been rereading the Tiffany Aching books with two friends and in the course of a Twitter conversation I suddenly decided to round up all of the covers I could find for the series because I wanted to.

This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list--for one thing I’ve left off all the very slight different translated editions--but if I’m missing a favorite, by all means let me know!

Naturally there are a lot of sheep featured, but what I find fascinating is how much the Nac Mac Feegles are assumed to be the main characters.

[starwarsfilms]

[jedijenkins]

YOU CAN SEE HER PUSHING HER HEAD INTO POSITION TO RECEIVE A FOREHEAD KISS BEFORE HES EVEN DONE HUGGING THE PERSON NEXT TO HER

[pentapuslikes]

oh my god the first gif