The Adventures of Mark Twain Director: Will Vinton | USA, 1985

lots of cyrus bits. can you tell he's my favorite or nah

Having finally watched Treasure Planet all the way through for the first time, I vote that we take more classic stories and just fucken set them in space with starships that are actual ships but space cause that aesthetic is killer.

 - King Arthur the Space Opera where all the Knights of the Round Table are various aliens and have non-copyrighted Lightsabers.

 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea but Captain Nemo captains a hyper-advanced stealth ship, endlessly exploring the stars.

 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but he and Jim travel the galaxy in a rickety old jury-rigged escape pod.

 - Dracula in Space

Thoughts? Any ideas of your own?

They are about to get canceled on 19 century version of twitter

Finality listened to the rush Tom Sawyer song it was really good

miss angelfish

(Okay nevermind what I said before actually) this is like probably the best I’ve drawn two characters together wth

Honestly I think the memes/discourse around Huckleberry Finn having the N Word in it obscures the fact that it's, like, a genuinely really good book even if one ignores the very heavy-handed (in a good way) anti-slavery message.

I loved that book so much as a little kid. In a time when I was obsessed with fantasy and sci fi, it was one of only a few books without any fantastical elements that could truly capture my heart and mind.

I AM GETTING EITHER A SIGN FROM GOD OR THIS IS VERY MUCH CREEPY.

backstory, my dad had this book, Adventures of Huck Finn, and I always read it as a kid. Like, it was printed in 1987 ffs. It's missing the spine because me and my dad, as kids respectivly, read it sm

ANYWAY I'M LIKE A GOOD HOUR INTO THE MOVIE, and btw it's amazing. Lots of familiar faces, like Robbie Coltrane. So then the Wilks fam part plays, they get to the house, yadda yadda. who, i ask, WHO? fucking appears, out of all actors.

Renee O'Connor. Fucking Renee O'Connor.

this is some sort of prank holy fuck man.

you guys ever think about how tom sawyer and pride and prejudice take place during the same time period

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Cover illustration from Mark Twain’s The Adventures Huckleberry Finn - 1923.

In our family whatsapp group:

(Mark Twain, left, with John T. Lewis, a lifelong friend and inspiration for the character Jim in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn')

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February 18, 1885: "Mark Twain publishes his famous–and famously controversial–novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876). Though Twain saw Huck’s story as a kind of sequel to his earlier book, the new novel was far more serious, focusing on the institution of slavery and other aspects of life in the antebellum South. At the book’s heart is the journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on a raft. Jim runs away because he is about to be sold and separated from his wife and children, and Huck goes with him to help him get to Ohio and freedom. Huck narrates the story in his distinctive voice, offering colorful descriptions of the people and places they encounter along the way. The most striking part of the book is its satirical look at racism, religion and other social attitudes of the time. While Jim is strong, brave, generous and wise, many of the white characters are portrayed as violent, stupid or simply selfish, and the naive Huck ends up questioning the hypocritical, unjust nature of society in general. Even in 1885, two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' landed with a splash. A month after its publication, a Concord, Massachusetts, library banned the book, calling its subject matter “tawdry” and its narrative voice “coarse” and “ignorant.” Other libraries followed suit, beginning a controversy that continued long after Twain’s death in 1910. In the 1950s, the book came under fire from African-American groups for being racist in its portrayal of black characters, despite the fact that it was seen by many as a strong criticism of racism and slavery. As recently as 1998, an Arizona parent sued her school district, claiming that making Twain’s novel required high school reading made already existing racial tensions even worse. Aside from its controversial nature and its continuing popularity with young readers, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' has been hailed by many serious literary critics as a masterpiece. No less a judge than Ernest Hemingway famously declared that the book marked the beginning of American literature: “There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”" 

- history.com 'A heroic deed, a rewarding friendship' - via The Washington Times: https://bit.ly/2V4sHN3 [Random History of the Day]

was re-reading tom sawyer abroad and CRYING laughing at this for 3 reasons:

1) huck is SO ecstatic that he “outsmarted” tom that he rambles on for a LENGTHY paragraph about, firstly, how proud of himself he is and how good it feels, and then describing how vividly hE REMEMBERS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IN THAT VERY MOMENT that he BEAT tom sawyer in an argument

2) he isn’t even right. he’s got some good reasoning, i will give him credit for that!! but he’s still SO CONFIDENTLY WRONGGDNG

3) how angry tom gets at knowing he’s right but everyone around him thinking he’s wrong. he’s outnumbered by jim and huck lmao and he can’t just let it be, a silent win. “You never see a person so aggravated and disgusted” HELP?