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Obi Wan….I can’t stop watching this bAwhahaha this man is perfect

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at first i was like “why did they make those things in his head weird growths and not hair??” but then i looked it up on the Pokemon Wiki and

It was never hair and Mr. Mime has always been terrifying

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That’s the only part of that entry you found terrifying?

HUH????

this post gets worse everytime i see it

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is this what growing up is like

me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!

me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES

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In the same vein:

Me at 14: oh protagonists that are 17-20-ish, they’re basically adults, right?

Me at 28: Oh my Gods you’re babies who left you in charge?!

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Ariel: Daddy, I love him! Me at 14: Yeah, girl, you tell him! Me at 30:

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Can’t risk it

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The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

oh my god

Harry Clarke’s Faust illustrations

I took a peek at the lower level of Hell (Tumblr is above Twitter. I wandered over to Twitter…) and I saw that Neil Gaiman also likes the Harry Clarke Faust illustrations.

There are times when I feel like I’m the only one in the world who likes certain things and then Neil Gaiman unintentionally reminds me that I’m not alone. I think I needed that tonight and didn’t even realize it.

These are for you, Neil. @neil-gaiman

This one is a rare one but a favorite.

These ones below were not already saved to my harddrive. The above ones were.

It’s a shame Harry Clarke never did Faust Part 2.

For those who want to read Faust but never have, here is a fairly decent English language translation of Faust Parts 1 and 2 on PDF format. It doesn’t have the Harry Clarke illustrations though.

http://www.iowagrandmaster.org/Books%20in%20pdf/Faust.pdf

Faust is one of my favorite stories but I strongly prefer Goethe’s version to Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. I like the ending in Goethe’s Faust Part 2 better than previous versions of the tale. I like the message about hope, love, and caring about others.

There’s also a beautiful silent film from 1926, from F. W. Murnau (who also gave us Nosferatu). It’s in the public domain so you should be able to find it easily on Youtube. It’s the only film adaptation that I know of that actually tried to adapt parts 1 and 2… well, other than the children’s show, Wishbone.

The Power metal albums “Epica” and “The Black Halo” by the band Kamelot also retell Faust Parts 1 and 2 if played back to back. They just change Marguerite’s name to Helena, and Faust’s name is Ariel. Mephisto’s name is left alone.

I went through a slight obsession a few years back…