Do you ever think that Halt fears dying and having Will or Gilan be the one who finds his body

Ok

But I'm just saying

The imagery of Duncan being rescued from being kidnapped by a soaking wet, shirtless, and (if I remember correctly) pantless man who just knocked out/maybe killed the 3 guards who were in charge of you and then immediately after being told by that same man that all Araluens are cowards and then being pushed off a castle wall is HILARIOUS

Like Y'ALL

IMAGINE DUNCANS FIRST IMPRESSION OF HIM

OMG

starting the reread, I promised myself I won't give Crowley and Halt any queer side-eyes for funsies

these guys made it incredibly difficult tho? I'm in tears from laughter

-> Here's this grumpy runaway prince helping out a guy he barely met like he's a damsel in distress (he actually is) not once but TWICE

-> Halt: Morgarath is after us? PLEASE run away with me 👉👈

Crowley: Naur, let's kick Morgarath's ass together💍🧎

Halt: yes 😉 (I still have some gold coins and I'm going to follow this chirpy idiot around bc I've nothing to do, not like anyone would recognize me if I get involved in royal business lol) I'm Halt "danger" Halt afterall

-> Wouldn't be surprised if they'd actually eloped in these few days between Tournament at Gorlan and The Hiberian really, based on how they act. Top tier married banter

-> MAJOR offense Halt did to Crowley:

1) drink coffee with honey

2) calls potatoes a funny word

3) constantly grumpy (that's not even true, the amount of jokes he played in the meantime?? Crowley are you tone deaf)

-> MAJOR offense Crowley did to Halt:

1) is a redhead

2) sings

-> They share one (1) braincell and I think Copper has it most of the time. Crowley's zero acting skills, Halt using the same name he gave Morgarath, and always getting away with it. Bonus a free meal.

-> Crowley "The kingdom is in danger" Meratyn and his "the world is beautiful with a companion [Halt] like that" 🥰

-> Crowley's in his early 20s and Halt who's 18 acting 45 (now we know where Gilan got this condition) due to chronology shenanigans! Really makes you feel like the series was written by a medieval annalist making thing up whenever he has no idea

-> No idea why Pauline doesn't pull out the "That's my husband Halt, and that's his work husband Crowley" card. Shame

they're legitimately written as soulmates guys, one can be a cheeky redhead and another an emo teenage prince so chill

According to Flanagan Wiki Halt was 17 ½ when he left Hibernia. After he left Clonmel, he spent several months travelling through Hibernia, eventually deciding to come to Araluen and join the Ranger Corps. There, in the Tournament of Gorlan and Battle of Hackham Heath, he turned 18 and 19, because in Ruins of Gorlan Halt is 34 years old, and Will is fifteen. Therefore when Will was one years old Halt was ONLY 19 BECAUSE 34 - 15 = 19.

I LITERALLY NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS

I AM MIND BLOWN - I GENUINELY CANNOT IMAGINE HALT AS ANYTHING BUT OLD AND GREYBEARD.

ROUND 1 POLL V

Tumblr's favorite animated movie!

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What fans say:

The Phantom Tollbooth:

Its blending of live action and animation, especially on the crossing the booth scene, the puns: a car that moves when everyone in it is quiet, because "it goes without saying;" people eating what they declare, so they "eat their words;" restoring the place by rescuing the princesses "Rhyme and Reason"

Krabat – The Sorcerer's Apprentice:

Cutout animated! Fucked up deal with evil! Source of nightmares for kids! The power of love saves the day!!

We are not judging how bad the movie is, we are judging which adapted the book the worst. There are good movies that are bad adaptions.

Propaganda below the cut (spoilers may apply)

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (originally the Darren Shaw saga/The Vampire's Assistant):

Took on a much more early 2000s teen flick approach to a book that, while initially for younger audiences, had a lot of very dark and Intense moments. The casting was also fairly bad and it really went in a different direction from the novel.

Bad acting, weird script choices, not even Ken Watanabe & Salma Hayek could save it

Characterisation was nothing like the books and it couldn't decide if it was a comedy or horror

Seventh Son (originally The Spook's Apprentice):

The book is a dark fantasy book for children, with fantastical elements that ring true to folklore but still have their own distinct flair, really well written horror centered on the fact that the protagonist is still just a boy, and a very strong theme that the spook opposes the forces of darkness and evil with knowledge and wits rather than heroics. The series as a whole has a lot of digs at established powers, both the Church or the nobles. It also has a mentor that is showed as imperfect from the get-go because of sexist tropes, and a protagonist who criticizes it even at the beginning when he's just a boy. The movie makes the protagonist an adult, turns the spook from an old wise man who practices using a stick (peasant weapon!) to fight and throwing silver chains to immobilize supernatural creatures, into the SURVIVOR of an ORDER OF KNIGHTS, and generally removes all the slow creeping horror to turn it into generic shitty fantasy movie #493, with bad acting on top. And it bombed so bad it probably RUINED the Spook's series chances to ever get a good adaptation, damnit!

Mentor gets changed from being part of a long line of people with a cool fantasy job to a discount Templar, cool methods of handling monsters got reduced to just killing them, awesome assassin grandma changed to Default Movie Witch, and more! It's pretty much not the story anymore.

It takes pretty much nothing that I liked from the books with the initial premise and some names being pretty much the only things kept intact.

The plot and world were completely changed. Most of the changes make for a much more generic and, in my opinion, worse story. Spooks in the books are seventh sons of seventh sons who are trained to fight creatures of the dark because seventh sons of seventh sons are able to sense the supernatural. They are hired for jobs by ordinary people, usually exorcising ghosts or capturing creatures like boggarts and witches. In the movie, the Spooks are also seventh sons of seventh sons, but for some reason, they are an order of knights. In the books lot of people think Spooks are charlatans until they come face to face with a ghost or creature of the dark because the world is usually pretty ordinary and peaceful. The setting is inspired by Lancashire and the world feels pretty unique. The setting in the movie is Generic CGI Fantasy Land where everyone has American accents and big CGI monsters are everywhere.

The protagonist Tom and Alice, his friend and later love interest, were aged up like in the Percy Jackson movies. In the books, Tom starts out as a 12-year-old and grows up as the series continues. He starts out very uncertain and wants to stay on his family farm. He only becomes a Spook because he knows he has to get a job to ease the financial burden on his family. He grows into his role as a Spook's apprentice over time. Alice is a pretty interesting character in the books, she is naturally very talented as a witch but struggles with the darker side of her powers over the course of the series. In the movie, they became incredibly generic Hero and Love Interest characters with pretty much no personality and instantly fall in love.

Mother Malkin was a first-book villain, who was mostly only such a threat because Tom was an extremely inexperienced 12-year-old at this point who accidentally released her and didn't realise how dangerous she was. She was monstrous and decrepit and fed on blood. In the movie she is turned into a beautiful seductress and a world-ending threat who can turn into a dragon. They also made her the Spook's lover for some reason.

Tom's mother is a really cool character in the books who pushes him to become a Spook despite him being reluctant and plays a larger role in the later books. In the movie, Tom is the one who wants to be a Spook and his mother doesn't want him to.

I think the character who got it worst was the Spook himself, John Gregory. In the books, he is a former priest at the end of his career as a Spook, he is incredibly uptight and disciplined to an extent that other Spooks find over the top. For example, he has a rule of fasting before a battle that he makes his apprentices follow and he only kills as a last resort. He's tough but usually pretty fair to Tom and explains things to him so he doesn't get hurt. In the movie he is pretty much the complete opposite, he's a drunkard who spends the whole movie making getting angry and fighting and doesn't seem very interested in teaching Tom how to be a Spook. Also, the accent that Jeff Bridges uses is terrible.

I'm not sure the movie would be enjoyable if you hadn't read the books, having read them I hated it, but I feel like it would be mediocre at best even without the comparison. The acting is pretty bad despite the big-name cast. I think you could maybe enjoy it in a so bad it's good kind of way. The books were spooky and pretty charming from what I remember and I think if they had been adapted more accurately, preferably as a TV show, it could have been pretty good. Sorry this is such an essay, I've never hated an adaptation more. It's been a long time since I've both read the books and seen the movie, so if anyone wants to correct anything feel free.

Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 28 Group 137

Propaganda and further images under the cut

The Doctor, the Bodyguard and their Charges: Yorick Brown, Ampersand, Dr Allison Mann, Agent 355

Submissions are still open!

The Doctor, the Bodyguard and their Charges:

*heavy sobbing*

Will, Horace, & Halt:

The author TOOK HIS TIME to show how dealing with Halt changed Will and Horace's personalities to be more sarcastic and snarky, but also to feel more confident in themselves and let their differences aside. Do you understand what I'm saying here? The author took his time to show how living with cranky, grumpy old man affected how these characters ACT. He IS their father now. Will was kidnapped by the Skandians and Halt was SCREAMING AT THE PORT saying how he'd find him, then he commited TREASON so he could be exiled from his kingdom and start a journey with Horace to save his little guy. When Halt was THIS CLOSE FROM IMMINENT DEATH and wasn't even sure where he was, he looked at Horace, thinking he was his teenagehood best friend, and said: "hey can you take care of will and horace for me?? they are like very competent but so insecure. horace thinks i dont know that but i do am i am so worried 🥺" but he'll be damned if he gets this sappy in a situation where he DOESN'T think he's about to die, so much so that he was never this open ever again. except when he willingly said "good night, son" to will, that was intentional. that was a statement. when will got debilitating depression, who was there to try to think of solutions? thats right, halt and horace. and to think this all started with horace bullying the shit out of will when they were 15 but now they are blood brothers, they're each other's everything, their best friend, their right hand arm- man. their silly rabbits. sorry i dont have pictures of them these books are not illustrated and it makes me so sad

Round 1B - Match 3

rereading The Tournament At Gorlan (and RA as a whole)

[Image ID: a simple pencil drawing of Crowley and Halt sticking their heads and hands around a wall. A photo above the drawing (edited on) says “He took up a position behind the water barrel, where he could see through the triangular gap left between it and the wall by the tapered top of the barrel. Crowley joined him, standing a little taller so he could peer over Halt's shoulder. End ID]

People seemed to like my Chen’s Apprentice AU version of Kai so here’s him digitalized and in colour.

I’m not the best with digital art but I tried to keep it as close to my usual style as possible :)

Good night once more

This is a Norris (from Ranger's Apprentice) appreciation post.

Honestly, this is a Norris stan account.

I love how all the other rangers are just like "yeah this is Norris, he takes things literally, just explain things and let him be" in an affectionate way. That's very cool. Norris is also very cool.

Redraw of that one Wallace piece! Still love that post, the art just needed a lot of upgrading. Wish him luck against Morgarath