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10 Books Read in my 26th Year
1. 'A Sloth's Guide to Mindfulness' by Ton Mak
2. '1984' by George Orwell
3. 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson
4. 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum
5. 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen
6. 'Catch-22' by Joseph Heller
7. 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott
8. 'The Old Man and The Sea' by Ernest Hemingway
9. 'The Death of Jane Lawrence' by Caitlin Starling
10. 'Dune: Messiah' by Frank Herbert
#book recommendations#a sloth's guide to mindfulness#ton mak#1984#george orwell#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde#robert louis stevenson#the wonderful wizard of oz#l frank baum#catch 22#joseph heller#little women#louisa may alcott#the old man and the sea#ernest hemingway#the death of jane lawrence#caitlin starling#dune messiah#frank herbert#26th year
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i was talking about the vuliros worldbuilding again and i connected some dots that make me want to fucking die
#between dune (1965) and ramayana: the legend of prince rama (1993) my influences are so fucking obvious#and of course nordic trolls#i'm so fucking mad lmao#not genuinely because i think that understanding what had an influence on my art and storytelling is important#and allows me the opportunity to reexamine those works and thinking about where they may have had some fucked up messages#and allows me to think about how i want to avoid putting those same messages in myworks#but GOD DAMN IT LMAO#mr. herbert grabbed me by the brain as a teen and has apparently never let go#babbles
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"I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: "May be dangerous to your health." One of the most dangerous presidents we had in this century was John Kennedy because people said "Yes Sir Mr. Charismatic Leader what do we do next?" and we wound up in Vietnam. And I think probably the most valuable president of this century was Richard Nixon. Because he taught us to distrust government and he did it by example."
Frank Herbert, 1985
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☾ book recommendations: *✲⋆.
my all time favorites:
the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky
notes from underground by fyodor dostoevsky
the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde
frankenstein by mary shelly
the plague by albert camus
we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson
others that i'd recommend:
break the body, haunt the bones by micah dean hicks
tomie by junji ito
uzumaki by junji ito
berserk by kento miura
the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson
i have no mouth, and i must scream by harlan ellison
the tell-tale heart by edgar allen poe
the cask of amontillado by edgar allen poe
rebecca by daphne du maurier
wuthering heights by emily brontë
dune by frank herbert
a shadow over innsmouth by h. p. lovecraft
the color out of space by h. p. lovecraft
the dunwich horror by h. p. lovecraft
crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky
demons by fyodor dostoevsky
the idiot by fyodor dostoevsky
jane eyre by charlotte brontë
animal farm by george orwell
do androids dream of electric sheep? by philip k. dick
a long fatal love chase by louisa may alcott
the stranger by albert camus
the metamorphosis by franz kafka
the trial by franz kafka
dragonwyck by anya seton
discipline and punish by michel foucalt
the castle of otranto by horace walpole
faust by johann wolfgang von goethe
the fall by albert camus
the myth of sisyphus by albert camus
the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson
blood meridian by cormac mccarthy (do look into the content warnings though, there's heavy violence/depictions of 1840s-1850s racism)
the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy
the dead by james joyce
the overcoat by nikolai gogol
dead souls by nikolai gogol
hiroshima by john hersey
useful fictions: evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature by michael austin
no exit by jean paule satre
candide by voltaire
white nights by fyodor dostoevsky
notes from a dead house by fyodor dostoevsky
the shock doctrine by naomi klein
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Oh my god! The vampire teeth! The teeth confiscated by the government from the Magnus Institute! The British Government has a Magnus (Institute) Protocol!
Episode 10 (thank you daily relisten):
There was, however, a small bag left on top of this statement, which appears to contain six shark teeth of varying sizes. According to correspondence with the Zoology Department at King’s College, they didn’t match any currently known species.
Personally, I don’t know what to think. I certainly don’t believe in wild tales of vampirism, but I can’t help but notice that the statement above appears to be a photocopy of a photocopy, and can’t find these supposed vampire teeth anywhere in the Archives or the Secure Containment Room. I don’t know where the originals are, but the file number is listed among multiple information requests from the Institute’s government and law enforcement contracts. It may be that they take Mr. Herbert’s statement far more seriously than I do.
Guys.
Prequel.
Government shenanigans until the Apocalypse happens??
#speculating of course but!!#pretty cool lol#tma#the magnus archives#the magnus institute#the magnus protocol#mag 10#trevor herbert
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How many of these "Top 100 Books to Read" have you read?
(633) 1984 - George Orwell
(616) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
(613) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
(573) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(550) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
(549) The Adventures Of Tom And Huck - Series - Mark Twain
(538) Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
(534) One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(527) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(521) The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(521) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
(492) Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
(489) The Lord Of The Rings - Series - J.R.R. Tolkien
(488) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(480) Ulysses - James Joyce
(471) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(459) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
(398) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(396) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(395) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
(382) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy
(382) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
(380) The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
(378) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Series - Lewis Carroll
(359) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(353) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
(352) Middlemarch - George Eliot
(348) Animal Farm - George Orwell
(346) Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(334) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
(325) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
(320) Harry Potter - Series - J.K. Rowling
(320) The Chronicles Of Narnia - Series - C.S. Lewis
(317) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
(308) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
(306) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
(289) The Golden Bowl - Henry James
(276) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
(266) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(260) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
(255) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Series - Douglas Adams
(252) The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
(244) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
(237) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
(235) The Trial - Franz Kafka
(233) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
(232) The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
(232) Emma - Jane Austen
(229) Beloved - Toni Morrison
(228) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
(224) A Passage To India - E.M. Forster
(215) Dune - Frank Herbert
(215) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce
(212) The Stranger - Albert Camus
(209) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
(209) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(206) Dracula - Bram Stoker
(205) The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
(197) A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
(193) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
(193) The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton
(193) The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding
(192) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
(190) The Odyssey - Homer
(189) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
(188) In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
(186) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
(185) An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
(182) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
(180) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
(179) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
(178) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
(178) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller
(176) The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
(176) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
(175) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(173) The Giver - Lois Lowry
(172) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
(172) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
(171) Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
(171) The Ambassadors - Henry James
(170) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
(167) The Complete Stories And Poems - Edgar Allen Poe
(166) Ender's Saga - Series - Orson Scott Card
(165) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
(164) The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James
(163) The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow
(162) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
(161) The Hunger Games - Series - Suzanne Collins
(158) Anne Of Greene Gables - L.M. Montgomery
(157) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
(157) Neuromancer - William Gibson
(156) The Help - Kathryn Stockett
(156) A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R.R. Martin
(155) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
(154) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(153) I, Claudius - Robert Graves
(152) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
(151) The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James
(150) The Death Of The Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
#books#book lists#p#im posting this so i can reblog it with my own crossed out list and i encourage others to do the same if you want to#i dont actually know how many ive read yet myself
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Fic request if possible? - I want to see Middle aged herb get into some argument with a PTA mom over the funding of the science program or something, I like to imagine he’d deny fighting tooth and nail for that kid to get a proper science education but we both know he would 😂
Ty (no rush on it if you’re busy, sorry to bug ya, love your work)
"Now then, onto the point of school funding. I- Yes, Mr. West?"
"It's Dr. West, Carol, try to get it right. Now, what I want to know is, why is there even a suggestion to blow half the budget on- what was it? A patio?"
"It's for refurbishing the auditorium to make it suitable for the children to perform plays. The current deck has a weight capacity that would limit class-wide performances."
"That's absurd. How can you even suggest that when the science lab is in its current state? I've seen run-down meth labs in better condition."
"Oh, my goodness..."
"Dr. West, please try to keep your language appropriate."
"What did I say? I didn't even curse."
"Does anyone else have any propositions over the budget, or-?"
"I wasn't finished. As I was saying, there can't be any question on funding decks until the lab is fit for students to actually learn the sciences in a productive way."
"Excuse me. I can appreciate that you're advocating for your chosen path, doctor, but what about the other subjects? Like the arts? My daughter, Molly, is an aspiring actress. She needs a suitable auditorium to perform in."
"Little Polly can do cartwheels-"
"It's Molly."
"-or the chicken dance wherever she wants. A child actually wishing to develop their education past the preschool level needs the proper equipment."
"Ms. Chairwoman, I don't appreciate Dr. West's tone."
"And I don't appreciate hippies dragging down the average IQ of the next generation."
"Alright, everyone, let's try to keep things civil-"
"I'm being perfectly civil. Brenda's the one who can't control herself. It's no wonder little Dolly can't even count to three unassisted."
"Her name is Molly you insufferable, little-!"
"Ms. Chairwoman, I don't appreciate Mrs. Gibson's tone."
"Okay, enough. Meeting adjourned. Dr. West, may I have a word please?"
"Oh, hey, Honey. How'd the meeting go?"
"Swimmingly. Though, for some reason, several people made complaints about me."
"Herbert..."
"What? I was simply advocating on the behalf of those children and their right to a proper education. If some of those parents had it their way, those kids would be doing nothing but finger painting and singing about butterflies."
"You know, maybe you should sit the next meeting out."
"Dan, you're a bystander in all this. Indifference is the true enemy of progress, you know."
"Uh huh, sure. Now, why don't you sit down and I'll make you a nice cup of tea, huh? How does that sound?"
"What a dear you are. I knew there had to be some reason why I married you."
"Mhmm."
#hopefully this was easy to follow!#herbert would be the most insufferable PTA parent ever lol#herbert west#dan cain#danbert#the couple down the street#re-animator#reanimator#asks#my fics#writing prompt
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The Tumblr Jerk Tournament Bracket...
...has dropped. I put all my love towards these assholes into it.
Seeded according to uhhhhh "my brain thinks these sources allign in same genre or medium, and if not, then it's because I think the characters have similar themes in some way in my brain". Contestants all chosen by YOU (+ Palpalymo, for diversity /j).
Polls: TBA. Once I finish making them all and draft them, I'll make an announcement.
There's no right or wrong criteria for who to vote here because trying to establish that via Tumblrpoll is useless. You can vote for someone because they're your favorite, because their propaganda swayed you, because they look cool, or because they're the meanest. Just think: Do You Want Them To Emerge Victorious? Or are they such an ass you'd delight in seeing them get swept?
I highly encourage taking the time to read some propaganda. These guys have lots of love behind them.
And last but not least, be nice to other people on the internet. These polls may be for asshole characters, but that gives you no right to be an asshole back. Anything attacking the fans or fandom of a character will get taken out via my sniper team.
Thanks for your patience and let the whooping begin.
Tag directory // Inbox, for propaganda, questions, chatter, etc.
Round One matchups, in text:
Zote the Mighty (Hollow Knight) VS Mothiva (Bug Fables)
Marvin Garden (Falsettos) VS Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Vic Sage/The Question (DC) VS Magic Man (Adventure Time)
Gary Smith (Bully) VS Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls)
Theseus (Hades) VS Gavin Reed (Detroit: Become Human)
Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) VS Shrek (Shrek)
Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!) VS Fakir (Princess Tutu)
Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim) VS Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
Romeo (& Juliet) VS Tybalt Capulet (Romeo & Juliet)
Revali (Legend of Zelda) VS Ankh (Kamen Rider OOO)
Osamu Dazai (Bungou Stray Dogs) VS Berdly (Deltarune)
Louie (Pikmin) VS Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)
Vegeta (Dragon Ball) VS Sentinel Prime (Transformers Animated)
Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) VS Waldo Trumbull (Comedy of Terrors)
Herbert P. Bear (Club Penguin) VS Snowball (Battle for Dream Island)
Takaya Abe (Big Windup!) VS Bakugou (My Hero Academia)
Goro Akechi (Persona 5) VS Monoma (My Hero Academia)
Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa) VS Yesod (Lobotomy Corporation/Library of Ruina)
Vriska (Homestuck) VS Eridan (Homestuck)
Five Pebbles (Rain World) VS Dingo (Pikmin)
Dio (Zero Escape) VS Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)
Cordalia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) VS Dr. House (House M.D.)
Dan (Dan VS) VS Eleanor Shelstrop (The Good Place)
Church (Red VS Blue) VS Hank J. Wimbleton (Madness Combat)
Catra (She-Ra) VS Boscha (The Owl House)
Stan Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Azula (Avatar the Last Airbender)
Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3) VS Shen Jiu (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)
GLaDOS (Portal) VS Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)
Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) VS Jonathan Simms (The Magnus Archives)
Rinne Amagi (Ensemble Stars) VS Papalymo (Final Fantasy XIV)
Owen Harper (Torchwood) VS Sawyer (Lost)
Chloe Bourgeois (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Heather (Total Drama)
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The main block of the house is a Restoration form, not Georgian. (George I was only born in 1660 and didn't come to the British throne until 1714.) The addition of the hyphens and pavilions, as well as the small porch attached to the main block, would have occurred later. The house is essentially a grouping of seventeenth-century forms shoehorned into a British NeoPalladian footprint. This mixing is typical of what has been called "James River Georgian."
Eltham
Eltham was situated in New Kent County, Virginia. The property was owned by the Bassett family. Captain William Bassett was reportedly the first of the family to come to Virginia. He died in 1672 and was succeeded by his son, William Bassett, who died in 1673. This second William Bassett was a member of the Virginia Council. There was a third William Bassett, who inherited the place and was a member of the House of Burgesses. The son of the third Bassett, William Burwell, became owner of Eltham and also a Burgess.
The mansion was said to have been built as early at the 1660's. It was constructed of brick. The house was considered by many architects to have been one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in the South.
The illustration of Eltham above was made from a drawing done by a member of the Bassett family. One description of the house reads, "There was a central portion of the house two-and-one-half stories high with dormer windows in the well-designed roof. Through passages on each side one reached the low wings to the house." Another description says, "The house presented an imposing front, one hundred and fifty feet from wing to wing; the entire building, with peaked roof and gable front, rising above them like the keep of a castle. Over the red English bricks of its walls, time and clinging tribes of lichens had thrown a soft tinting of purple and gray, while a stately avenue of Lombardy poplars led away from the mossy stone steps of the entrance, adding grandeur to the picturesqueness of the place. Many times during the siege of York were the leading spirits of the Revolution gathered at Eltham (which was not far from Yorktown) as guests of Colonel Burwell Bassett, who was a brother-in-law of General Washington and of Governor Harrison, having married the sister of Mrs. Washington [Anna Maria Dandridge; they married on May 2, 1757]."
One reason that there is interest in Eltham is that General and Mrs. Washington often visited the Bassets at Eltham, and Burwell Basset was one of the agents who had charge of Washington's business affairs while he was in command of the army during the American Revolution. In one of his letters to Bassett, written from Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February 1776, he says: "I thank you heartily for the attention you have kindly paid to my landed affairs on the Ohio; my interest in which I shall be more than ever careful of, as in the worst event they may serve for an asylum." This letter was owned by Herbert A. Claiborne of Richmond.
Another visitor of note was Andrew Burnaby, who wrote, "May 26, 1760. Having procured three horses, for myself, servant, and baggage, I departed from Williamsburg, and travelled that night to Eltham; twenty-five miles. . . . May 27. I ferried over Pamunky river . . . . " Burnaby wrote Travels Through North America, a popular book which went through three editions in the 1700's.
The Bassetts intermarried with many prominent Virginia families, including the Dandridges, the Lewises, the Claibornes, the Burwells and others. John Parke Custis, son of Martha Washington (and stepson of George Washington), died at Eltham, the home of his uncle. Martha and George adopted his two children. According to George Washington Parke Custis (John Parke Custis' biological son and George and Martha's adopted son), John Parke Custis "sickened while on duty as extra aide to the commander-in-chief in the trenches before Yorktown. Aware that his disease (the camp-fever), would be mortal, the sufferer had yet one last lingering wish to be gratified, and he would die content. It was to behold the surrender of the sword of Cornwallis. He was supported to the ground, and witnessed the admired spectacle, and was then removed to Eltham, a distance of thirty miles from camp."
The house burned in the 1870's, but the massive foundations could still be seen in the early 1900's.
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The Blue Castle, Chapter 45
Another new beginning is paired with a beautiful, colorful sunset over the natural world.
Cousin Georgiana won the Stirling contest, and is thus selected as the most appropriate cat-sitter. Cross-checking for hypocrisy, previous Stirling complaints against cats were made by Amelia and Aunt Isabel (with second cousin Sarah Taylor mentioning Barney’s ownership of “dozens” of cats); while Aunt Wellington, Aunt Alberta, and Cousin Sarah all volunteered to take the cats. I suppose Amelia’s new-found appreciation for Valancy did not extend to Banjo & Good Luck. I’m also going to head-canon (based on her taking second place) that Aunt Alberta would have been the next choice for cat-sitting.
Interesting how Doc Redfern went for the “screaming purple” car while Barney prefers a more sedate (but still eclectic) dark green. I hope Lady Jane has been adopted by Roaring Abel.
“‘Midst pleasures and palaces though we may roam // Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”
I hope they have a thoroughly delightful time traveling abroad before their next summer on Lake Mistawis.
No Stirlings appear on the page, so the final scoreboard is the same as for chapter 44. To the surprise of no one, Cousin Georgiana is the winner of the “Least Awful Stirling” award, with a total of seven points, the only positive score. Tied for second with 0 points we have the “stupidly good” Aunt Alberta and Uncle Herbert, as well as the only-mentioned-once Second Cousin Jane. In the “Worst Stirling” category, we have Valancy’s own mother, Amelia, with a record-setting -50. Christine Stickles and Uncle Benjamin follow at -18 and -15 points respectively.
Mrs. Stirling: -50
Cousin Stickles: -18
Uncle Benjamin: -15
Aunt Wellington: -11
Uncle James: -11
Olive: -9
Uncle Wellington: -4
Byron Stirling: -2
Aunt Isabel: -2
Cousin Gladys: -2
Cousin Betty: -1
Aunt Mildred: -1
Second Cousin Sarah Taylor: -1
Aunt Alberta: 0
Uncle Herbert: 0
Second Cousin Jane: 0
Cousin Georgiana: 7
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MAG10 - Vampire Killer
*turns around in the most ugliest coolest yellowest office chair like a Bond villain, petting a baguette-shaped cushion* so, you came here from MAG9 without expecting the whiplash. Don't worry, you are not alone lmao
Trevor Herbert is like a homeless Chuck Norris, a shaggy Terminator, a Van Helsing lite (the Hugh Jackman one, not the original). He looks in your head like the dog in The Lady and The Tramp but in human version.
And the very first thing this mf says when he writes his statement is "I've been procrastinating this shit for 50 years, but hey, I finally came to the Magnus Institute". So better late than never and all that jazz.
Quoooooooting timeeeee:
"I hear someone even made me a page on the Internet and it got a few thousand likes. I don’t know exactly what that means but it sounds nice." - Trevor Herbert, July 10th 2010
Aww, doesn't he sound nice? :D
"Obviously that’s not why I’m here, though, is it? No, I’m here because I have also dedicated my life to finding and killing vampires." - Also f*cking Trevor
Sorry u wHAT
" (...) but I do not have proof to give you except for the vampire teeth that I will leave with this statement." - Trevor "I brought you a souvenir" Herbert
" I killed my first vampire in 1959." - Trevor Herbert, THE LEGEND THE MAN THE MYTH
You wish you sound as badass xD
"I was hit by a stale, coppery smell that I did not recognise as old blood at the time, since I was barely 16 and did not have then the experience I have now." - Trevor, barely 16 but already a poet
I find upsetting how many statement givers were so young they didn't know they were smelling blood.
"The furniture and wallpaper had clearly not been changed in many decades, and a thick layer of dust covered everything." - Trevor, 16, also an offended interior designer
LOL the landlord when he tells you " I just painted everything, it's all new"
"I remember wondering whether Sylvia McDonald walked exactly the same route through the house always, as I saw other clear lines of passage in the rooms we passed through." - Trevor "WTF" Herbert
" It was 1968, I remember because that was the year United won the European Cup, (...)" - Trevor "Yes, I'm British, why u asking?" Herbert
"I do not know if you’ve ever felt your blood being sucked out of you, but I would not recommend it." - By Trevor, 0/5, no stars
"Regardless, there is substantial evidence to support the version of events told by Mr. Herbert in all aspects except the vampirism." - Jon Sims, April 13th 2016
He really said "I believe everything except the vampire bullshit" XD
"(...) It may be that they take Mr. Herbert’s statement far more seriously than I do." - Also Jon
He sees that a lot of government and law people takes this statement seriously and goes "hm how weird, why tho, it's all bullshit"
Small review:
The vampires in the tma universe are so freaking weird, disturbing of course, personally I can't really tell if they are scary tho, but I'm certain they are a mystery.
Gotta say, RIP Nigel, he seemed nice :(
I must admit Trevor is quite an interesting figure, he's intelligent and resourceful, can do much with almost nothing and put together every piece of information he has in a way he can reach a satisfactory conclusion. And then he just sticks with it. There are these monsters, which I know how to kill, and so I do it. Simple. Efficient. Practical as hell.
This is also the second time going clubbing has ended horribly for someone in tma, and honestly? Wtf
This guy just die in the break room, like, lmao. He really said "no time like the present, may as well reach supersaiyan state in that couch over ther", and he fucking did it
And then Jon ends everything by showing a lot of evidences while acting the sceptic part and it's so goddamn funny. He should be a comedian.
General overview:
Vibe: this one is so fucking wild, nice homeless grandpa ends up being the modern Van Helsing and "dies" in a couch at paranormal research institute. Iconic
Horror: there are cryptids in it, that's horror genre coded
Audio: pretty ASMR in general
Humour: hilarious Terminator Grandpa, feat.Jon being Jon
Score: 10/10
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EN: Initially built as a salt box in 1812 as a temporary home for a family of wealthy Dutch immigrants, Pembrooke House has been home to several families, including Mr. Jacob Thompson, who lost it to pay off gambling debts, and the Widow Mrs. Mary Pembrooke, who between 1847 and 1850, increased its size, renovated its style for the fashion, added the grand columned entryway and attached the kitchen to the main house, but it was later partially burnt down in 1865 during the civil war, but the heirs of mary found the house expensive like a "white elephant" to maintain and rebuild, spending a long period of time abandoned and deteriorated until its sale in 1886 to Mr. Malcolm Tarth, a prominent surgeon with a thirst for social advancement who grew rich on the railroads, then brought the house into the Gilded Age as a country residence, modernizing and adding gas lighting, furniture brought from Europe, indoor bathrooms, state-of-the-art kitchen generation, and the entrance for carriages with access to the main hall. These were Pembrooke's best years but in 1932, the Tarth family went bankrupt after losing almost everything in 1929 and the house unfortunately went into foreclosure to pay off debts, being closed until 1940 when Mr. Herbert Parysh, poor dreamer, spent almost everything he had and started a renovation to convert it into a country house, but died of illness before finishing. Since then, the house has remained closed under the threat of demolition for the construction of a luxury horizontal condominium.
FR: Initialement construite en tant que "Salt Box" en 1812 comme résidence temporaire pour une famille de riches immigrants néerlandais, Pembrooke House abritait plusieurs familles, telles que M. Jacob Thompson, qui l'a perdu pour rembourser ses dettes de jeu, et la veuve Mrs. Mary Pembrooke, qui entre 1847 et 1850, augmenta sa taille, renouvela son style pour la mode, ajouta la grande entrée à colonnes et attacha la cuisine à la maison principale, mais elle fut plus tard partiellement incendiée en 1865 pendant la guerre civile, mais le les héritiers de Marie ont trouvé la maison chère comme un "éléphant blanc" à entretenir et à reconstruire, passant une longue période de temps abandonnée et détériorée jusqu'à sa vente en 1886 à M. Malcolm Tarth, un éminent chirurgien assoiffé d'avancement social qui s'est enrichi grâce aux chemins de fer, a ensuite fait entrer la maison dans l'âge d'or en tant que résidence de campagne, en la modernisant et en ajoutant de l'éclairage au gaz, des meubles importés d'Europe, des bains intérieurs, cuisines de dernière génération, et l'entrée pour les calèches avec accès au hall principal. Ce furent les meilleures années de Pembrooke mais en 1932, la famille Tarth fit faillite après avoir presque tout perdu en 1929 et la maison fut malheureusement saisie pour rembourser ses dettes, étant fermée jusqu'en 1940 lorsque M. Herbert Parysh, pauvre rêveur, a dépensé presque tout ce qu'il avait et a commencé une rénovation pour le transformer en maison de campagne, mais est mort de maladie avant de terminer. Depuis, la maison est restée fermée sous peine de démolition pour la construction d'une copropriété horizontale de standing.
PT: Inicialmente construída como uma "salt box" em 1812 como uma casa provisória para uma família de imigrantes holandeses ricos, a Pembrooke House foi residência de várias famílias, como o Sr. Jacob Thompson, que a perdeu para pagar dívidas de jogo, e da Viúva Sra. Mary Pembrooke, que entre 1847 e 1850, aumentou seu tamanho renovou seu estilo para a moda, adicionou a grande entrada com colunas e anexou a cozinha a casa principal, porem mais tarde acabou sendo parcialmente incendiada em 1865 durante a guerra civil, mas os herdeiros de Mary achavam a casa dispendiosa como um "elefante branco"
para manter e reconstruir, passando um longo período abandonada e deteriorada até a sua venda em 1886 para o Sr. Malcolm Tarth, um proeminente médico cirurgião com sede de ascensão social que enriqueceu com as ferrovias, trouxe então a casa para a Idade Dourada como uma residência de campo, modernizando e acrescentando iluminação a gás, mobília trazida da Europa, banheiros internos, cozinha de última geração, e a entrada para carruagens com acesso ao salão principal. Foram os melhores anos de Pembrooke mas em 1932, a família Tarth faliu depois de perder quase tudo em 1929 e a casa infelizmente entrou na penhora dos bens para pagar as dívidas, ficando fechada até 1940, quando o Sr. Herbert Parysh pobre sonhador, gastou quase tudo o que tinha e iniciou uma reforma para convertê-la em um hotel-fazenda, mas faleceu doente antes de terminar. Desde então, a casa permanece fechada sob a ameaça de demolição para a construção de um condomínio horizontal de luxo.
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2023 REVIEW + 2024 TBR
From last TBR I finished:
Lock Every Door, Riley Sager
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Magus, John Fowles
Mock, Marek Krajewski
Mock. Ludzkie zoo, Marek Krajewski
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Police, Jo Nesbo
Also I finished some not from the list:
Rzeczy którch nie wyrzuciłem, Marcin Wicha
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Atomic Habits, James Clear
Mrs March, Virginia Feito
Krótko i szczęsliwie, Agata Romaniuk
The 5am Club, Robin Sharma
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Piercing, Ryu Murakami
Homesick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh
Miss Kim Knows, Cho Nam-joo
La Place, Annie Ernaux
The Housemaid, Freida McFadden
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine, Klara Hveberg
Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking
The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
Demian, Herman Hesse
Siostry, Monika Białkowska
The Dragonet Prophecy - Wings of Fire, Tui. T. Sutherland
Kwiaty w pudełku, Karolina Bednarz
Probably list of books is not great idea for me, but despite it I plan the 2024 TBR ! 24 books for 2024 !
21 lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari
Think like a Monk, Jay Shetty
The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber
The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau
Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
The Creative Act, Rick Rubin
Your Next Five Moves, Patrick Bet-David
Nad życie, Wojciech Harpula, Maria Mazurek
What happened to you?, Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
The Sound of the Mountain, Yasunari Kawabata
I fell in love with hope, Lancali
Blindness, Jose Saramago
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, Zoulfa Katouh
The Fall of the Human Intellect, A. Parthasarathy
Chłopki, Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak
Birdy, William Wharton
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Widma w mieście Breslau, Marek Krajewski
Mock. Golem, Marek Krajewski
Educated, Tara Westover
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
1984, George Orwell
The Test, Sylvain Neuvel
Wish me luck! It was pretty good year of reading!
#studyblr#holyarchistud#studying#studyspo#study#student#studies#bullet journal#planning#reading#2023 tbr#2024 tbr#books#currently reading#bookworm#books and reading
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hello hi hey I'm icarus (but I'm also fine with virgo) and welcome to my blog!
idkf how you got here but uhhh congrats?
also sorry if parts of the gif look weird idfk how to fix it
I'm a neurodivergent artist who talks about gay vampires (wwdits) a lot!
I do have other interests tho like ofmd, good omens, hannibal, re-animator, interview with the vampire, watcher, the band ghost, the world of mr plant, and south park (it's just that wwdits is just what I think about the most)
things I've made:
I've written a few fic before and one can be found on my blog! it's a post season 4 nandermo fic and here's a link if you wanna check it out :)
as for the rest can be found on my ao3 here! (I'm not going to move the post season 4 fic there mainly cause idk if I really wanna)
I made a uquiz a few months ago that basically tells you what you would be if you where in the wwdits universe (a vampire, a familiar. an energy vampire etc)
I have an instagram that I just post my art to and that's really it
things I like to make:
as you can probably gather by now I primarily do pixel art but I also like to doodle/sketch with good old pencil and paper
I make a LOT of kandi (primarily singles) buuut I don't really post it on here (I mean unless someone asks me to I'm more than willing to share)
I kinda write? like I've written fics before and I DO have a bunch of wips but it's kinda hard for me to finish a fic due to the fact that I get distracted easily and the fact that I'm really dyslexic (you have no idea how badly I wanna fist fight the english language in a denny's parking lot at 3am)
oh while it's not a medium or anything but I'd like to mention I LOVE to draw characters from the media I like as pastel bunnies! (tho at this current moment it's primarily wwdits characters I draw) is it weird? yeah but I like to so I'm not stopping anytime soon if you want a rough explanation as to why I made a long post about it
fav characters:
guillermo de la cruz from wwdits (seriously I'm fucking feral for this man he's my top blorbo atm! he has my gender in a chokehold and I relate to him A LOT also harvey guillen is just really fucking hot-)
nandor the relentless also from wwdits (not as crazy about him but like he fascinates me and I love his goofy cringefail vibes... HE'S ALSO REALLY HOT-)
dib from invader zim (while I haven't watched invader zim in a while I still consider dib to be a fav! hell he's my fucking profile pic. he's one of the first ever characters in something I've seen that I've related to)
stede from ofmd (he's a huge fucking mood and I too jump into things head first without any plans whatsoever)
argos from twomp (a new addition to my fav character list since I stumbled upon twomp more recently. idk I just like him like go googly eye man date that murderous plant dude! wow that must sound weird to those who don't know what the world of mr plant is XD. it also might have to do with the fact that he's kinda socially awkward)
mr plant from twomp (another new addition. idfk something about that murderous plant I find oddly relatable? I think it's the fact that he's also socially awkward. arguably more than argos)
herbert west from re-animator (idk I think this autistic man with no care for ethics is neat)
I have more but for now those are the ones I'm gonna list :)
other shit:
as I've already said I have dyslexia, I possibly have ADHD (never officially diagnosed buuuuut really fucking confident I do and a past therapist said I most likely do), I keep running into situations where I question if I have autism or not so take that as you will, and despite what it may seem I have really REALLY bad social anxiety (well I have overall anxiety too but let's just say there's a reason I spend a lot of time online and not out and about)
asks as you can already tell are open
DMs are also open (tho I will say it's mainly to mutuals)
WARNING I KEYBOARD SMASH A LOT!
nandermo shipper but I'm fine with other ships involving the two :)
overall I try to be nice on here cuz there's enough negativity out there why add to it? tho key word here is try (I've gone on small rants here before and there's the possibility I will again)
I really REALLY fucking love bats and frogs THEY'RE JUST LITTLE GUYS HOW CAN I NOT?
there will be moments where for one reason or another (sleep deprived, sad, bored, it's a tueday, etc etc) I'll be reminded that oh yeah I fucking love frogs and will just start spam reblogging frog posts so be warned if you see me reblog a frog photo and read the words frog blogging or frog posting in the tags run while you still can (or don't cuz frogs are the best and need to be loved and cherished)
tag stuff:
misc thoughts/ideas/this tag is mainly random shit: throwing up my thoughts onto tumblr again
theories/meta/looking too much into small stuff: word garbage™
answering asks: answering stuff
my art: *funny tag for my art*
bunny art related posts: bun stuff
mothman memo related posts: mothman memo stuff
fanfics I've written: gather around and lend me your time
edits I've made: edit shmedit
memes I've made: brought to you by ms paint
show + tags thing: + tags
all the weekly wwdits sparkle on images: sparkle on it's gay vamp day!!!
posts that involve irl friends of mine: friend chaos
follow for a fuck ton of reblogs, art, and long tangents about whatever takes over my mind atm
thanks for reading, have a nice day, and remember: baby bats are called pups
this has nothing to do with this post I just thought this was important info plus I just wanted to throw in this cute bat image I found on google
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The Babygirl Bracket
the bracket has finally arrived. it's a little awkward looking and doesn't work perfectly but i'm a tumblr blog i'm not putting that much effort in. thank you to everyone who made a submission!!
Round 1 voting will start some time later tomorrow (Monday May 1st)
List of match ups under the cut
Left side
Yennefer (The Witcher) vs Fox Mulder (X files)
Neptune (the actual planet) vs Tim Wright (Marble Hornets)
Victor Frankenstein vs James (Pokémon)
James Flint (Black Sails) vs Wonder Woman (DC)
Shawn Spencer (Psych) vs Cassian Andor (Star wars)
Shane (Stardew Valley) vs Daud (Dishonored)
Enderman (minecraft) vs Ethan Winters (Resident Evil)
Robin Buckley (Stranger things) vs Eleanor Shellstrop (the good place)
Peter B Parker (into the spiderverse) vs Max Brinly (the quarry)
Thorin Oakenshield (lord of the rings) vs Milo Thatch (atlantis)
Mr Krabs (spongebob) vs Ken (Barbie)
Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) vs Erik (phantom of the opera)
Right side
Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and ferb) vs Crowley (good omens)
Hank Anderson (detroit become human) vs greg house (house md)
diego hargreeves (the umbrella academy) vs will graham (hannibal)
ford pines (gravity falls) vs dale Cooper (twin peaks)
aaron hotchner (criminal minds) vs ash williams (evil dead)
clark kent (DC) vs Roman roy (succession)
obi-wan kenobi (star wars) vs father paul hill (midnight mass)
the narrator (the stanley parable) vs james wilson (house md)
kristoff (frozen) vs kermit the frog (the muppets)
simon ghost riley (call of duty) vs waluigi (mario)
jimmy palmer (ncis) vs herbert west (reanimator)
yusuf al-kaysani (the old guard) vs richie tozier (IT)
#pinned post#jordan's babygirl bracket#sorry it took so long#i hope this is good enough for a bracket#sorry to all who didn't make it and also don't get weird about any matchups i literally just used a wheel spin site
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Mermaids on the set film "Peter Pan," ca. 1924.
Peter Pan is a 1924 American silent adventure film released by Paramount Pictures, the first film adaptation of the 1904 play by J. M. Barrie. It was directed by Herbert Brenon and starred Betty Bronson as Peter Pan, Ernest Torrence as Captain Hook, Mary Brian as Wendy, Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell, Esther Ralston as Mrs. Darling, and Anna May Wong as the Native American princess Tiger Lily.
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