#charlottes web

[amnhnyc]

🕷🕸️Happy birthday to E.B. White, born on this day in 1899! Elwyn Brooks White grew up to be the famed author of “Charlotte’s Web,” a timeless story about a pig named Wilbur who befriends a spider named Charlotte, which has charmed children and adults alike since it was first published in 1952. While writing the book, White relied for his research on arachnologist Willis J. Gertsch, a curator at the Museum, even meeting with Gertsch in person with a list of questions in hand. The results are readily apparent in certain details—Charlotte is sedentary, near-sighted, stuns her prey, works at night—all based on spider behavior. White even acknowledged Gertsch’s help in naming his title character—Charlotte A. Cavatica—after a common orb weaver, Araneus cavaticus. 

Photo: White Literary LLC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJun 4

[sugurt]

Ragatha's Room tour

I thought it would be fun if certain characters, by being in the same avatar category, could share traits or abilities only exclusive to them!

so here Ragatha and Zooble can read unintelligible toy scribble language

- and kinger too, but i headcanon only when he's not sane lmao

Thanks @thwarp for ideas on what to put on Rags shelf! there wasn't space for everything unfortunately but I did my best to add a little character/life to the background and the suggestions helped so much!

Also shout out to charlottes web, it's such a banger, it makes me cry but it’s so good

[thefuzzhead]

Most fuckable fictional rat?

Rizzo (The Muppets)

Remy (Ratatouille)

Master Splinter (TMNT)

Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective)

Nicodemus (The Secret of NIMH)

Justin (The Secret of NIMH)

Jenner (The Secret of NIMH)

Templeton (Charlotte’s Web)

Voting ended onApr 25, 2024

Be sure to reblog and spread this to get the most widely agreed decision.

[adventurefan]

Have you ever seen the film charlottes web? i dont know why but i think youd like it :)

I have! I like it, not my favorite, but up it’s there. I always cry at that one scene with Charlotte, I’m guessing you know which one.

Pretty sure Kinger has even read the book version of it once or twice to me before.

[lost-n-sugartit]

[oldfashionedbooklove]

The crickets sang in the grasses. They sang the song of summer’s ending, a sad, monotonous song. “Summer is over and gone,” they sang. “Over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying.”

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into fall—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

Everybody heard the song of the crickets. Avery and Fern Arable heard it as they walked the dusty road. They knew that school would soon begin again. The young geese heard it and knew that they would never be little goslings again…. Mrs. Zuckerman, at work in the kitchen, heard the crickets, and a sadness came over her, too. “Another summer gone,” she sighed….

“Summer is over and gone,” repeated the crickets. “How many nights till frost?” sang the crickets. “Good-bye, summer, good-bye, good-bye!”

… A little maple tree in the swamp heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.

~“Charlotte’s Web,” E.B. White

[johnthebiggestdoe]

Charlotte is that you?