so i did not explain why the sunset turns red

and we watched the occurrence in silence instead dax | adult | they/them | musicals | goth and new wave | podcasts | cats | grishaverse | ouat

[lizormianillustration]

whatever was left, that was ours for a while.

sunrise - louise glück

LizzieOrmian.redbubble.com

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[sealsandlacenet]

yo bro.. you gonna eat this one..?

[clementine-kesh]

the emotional throughline between inspector spacetime and captain proton is of course the fantasy of regressing to childlike whimsy with your best friend in the whole entire multiverse but even more than that it’s the fantasy of being a sad and lonely boy who has become a sad and lonely man and then one day this guy shows up out of the blue and not only does he understand you like no one else ever has but he genuinely likes you in a way that no one else ever has and through him and your miraculous relationship with him you get to experience the sort of childlike whimsy you didn’t get to as a kid because you were too busy being sad and lonely. and also he’s the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen and he lets you dress him up in silly outfits when you make him your sidekick on your silly self-written space adventures

[stuckinapril]

(in love with you) (bursting at the seams to talk to you) (heart teeming chest aching) hey how are you

[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.

[crunchin]

let's mistaken a brush for mama...❤️

[spitblaze]

My hedonist faggot ass was not made for a 40 hour workweek

[exai]

i no longer respect the hustle i want universal basic income and dignity for everyone

[fictionadventurer]

The very best thing about The Phantom of the Opera is that it shows us a possibly supernatural occurrence, then gives us a natural explanation that is infinitely crazier than the supernatural one would have been.

What if there was a ghost in the opera house that was killing people?

Requires you to accept the existence of ghosts, but otherwise is a straightforward story.

What if the chief contractor who built the opera house was a deformed circus freak who used his experience building palaces and torture chambers for sultans to keep building secret passageways and torture chambers in the basement when construction halted during the Franco-Prussian War, and then kept living down there working on an opera and killing and blackmailing people who crossed him and also training a pretty opera singer that he wants to marry?

There is nothing in the world that could have prepared me to expect even half of that.

[cat-dragoness]

@o-lei-o-lai-o-lord you are so right about this

[musicalhell]

Honestly, this explains so much about Christine's perspective too when you think about it.

My father sent me a guardian angel from Heaven to guide and comfort me in his absence: "Okay, not something that happens every day, but that is what guardian angels are supposed to do and Dad did indicate something like this would happen."

A hideously disfigured renaissance man, having all the natural skills and education to build himself a secret villain lair in a public building, extort enormous amounts of money from its management, and convince everyone he's a ghost, has developed a massive crush on me and has decided to express that through manipulation, kidnapping, and murder: "I cannot even begin to tell you how much this was not on my Bingo card."

[marzipanandminutiae]

And this whole thing stemmed from a real event that happened in May 1896

During a performance, two counterweights from the chandelier crashed through the ceiling of the auditorium into the crowd, injuring several and killing one woman

Imagine some guy being like "remember that really scary and tragic thing that happened a few years back? what if that was a ghost? No no no – what if that was a tortured and deformed genius hiding in the cellar? :D"

[the-polyhedron]

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

[iridescent-birds]

ok I wanna make a poll now

What was your most beloved plushie as a child?

Bear

Dog

(Domestic) cat

Big cat

Equine (horse/zebra/donkey)

Rabbit/bunny

Sheep/lamb

Sea creature

Other domesticated animal

Other wild animal

Fantasy creature

Not an animal

Voting ended onApr 15

(I know this isn't the most even way to represent animal groups but I tried to go off of what I saw mentioned most in the notes)

Reblogs for sample size appreciated!

[theweirdwideweb]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[vigilantsycamore]

eeby deeby... i haven't heard that name in years...

[jadziacore]

this caption from memory alpha is killing me. "consider reassociation" is THE funniest way to describe the most passionate kiss in the franchise. they're analyzing the pros and cons. straight up pondering their rapport. weighing various options regular style. iconic

[salbertwolf]

Victor Glover (Pilot), Artemis II - April 4th 2026

[lizards-trek]

my favorite running gag in tng thats not really a gag on purpose is the fact that almost every time we see an admiral their uniform design is different. like to a comical degree. make up ur damn minds

the fact that uniform design changes seem to be canon in-universe leads me to believe that somewhere out there is an exasperated starfleet fashion designer that's getting very tired of making new versions of these things

[brucefromfamilyguy]

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.