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[whereareyourightnow]

We need? What about you need?

[teethburied]

The Borgias 2.02 Paolo

[slayerbuffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003). coffy moments — requested by @whatisyourchildhoodtrauma

[skiesets]

frankenstein, mary shelley (1818) | wuthering heights, emily brontë (1847) | dracula, bram stoker (1897)

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@lauralot89

[charitydingle]

부산행 | Train to Busan 2016, dir: Yeon Sang-ho

[rylandsgrace]

Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

[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

Sergey Yukhimov

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

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.

[brody75]

Hot Fuzz (2007)

[emipon]

🧡 Queen Amidala and her Handmaidens 🧡

[lindsayslohan]

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2016) dir. Fisher Stevens & Alexis Bloom

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Julius Ceasar has been dead for 2064 slutty, slutty years

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Julius Caesar has been dead for 2067 slutty, slutty years

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Julius Caesar has been dead for 2068 slutty, slutty years

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Julius Caesar has been dead for 2069 (nice) slutty, slutty years

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Costume appreciation series: Sinners (2025) dir Ryan Coogler

Costume Design by Ruth E. Carter

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Happy International Women’s Day

[4o4notf0und]

THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE (2024) – Dir. Guy Ritchie

[indigomood]

Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay in The Mummy Returns (2001)

[nick-nellson]

Hot Fuzz (2007) dir. Edgar Wright

[the-zenith-calls]

My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

Legolas please gain a sense of urgency