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ducklooney · 1 year

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Happy 75th anniversary of Scrooge McDuck!

On November 14, 1947, a comic called Christmas on Bear Mountain was released and although it was a Christmas comic, Donald’s uncle named Scrooge McDuck will appear for the first time. At the beginning a big grumpy and bastard man, and at the end a happy man and an adventurer who only loves money. And yes, that comic was invented by Carl Barks, a genius comic artist and writer. Barks is also credited with creating the character Scrooge McDuck. So thanks Barks.

Scrooge was modeled on Ebenezer Scrooge in a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and was a real antagonist at first and cruel to his nephew Donald. However, he will later change and become a great legend not only for his great wealth, but also for his adventures, which he will later write about the making of the Indiana Jones movies. In addition, although he appeared as a forerunner in Donald’s classic propaganda short “The Spirit of ‘43” as Donald’s Good Spirit, he will have a real role in an educational classic short called “Scrooge McDuck and the Money” (1967), to become 20 years later the main character for the legendary Ducktales series (1987).

Apart from Barks, there were other writers and artists who worked for Donald Duck comics. Especially Don Rosa, who wrote and drew, around his collector’s comic, related to Scrooge’s life “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck”. Of course there are other authors who have worked a lot on Scrooge comics such as William Van Horn, Marco Rota, Romano Scarpa, Giovanni Carpi, Guido Martina, Giovanni Cavazano, Arild Mildthun, Kari Korhonen and others.

Of course, Scrooge McDuck will also appear in other cartoons, comics, video games and other Disney franchises. He becomes the first richest duck in the world, having over a trillion dollars and becoming a hilarious legend and thus together with Donald and Daffy Duck, he becomes one of the most famous and best fictional duck characters ever.

Now there are pictures of the richest duck in the world, together with his friends and enemies and his family from the beginning until today, in its various versions. And sorry that this is going to be a long post and that not everyone will be able to stop at this post.

Yes, much of it is copy-pasted from my Scrooge post from last year which you can see here: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/post/671249232279355393/happy-late-birthday-scrooge-mcduck

If you like the richest character in the world, feel free to like and reblog this! Happy birthday to you, Scrooge McDuck! And sorry for the delay! And happy 75th anniversary of his appearance! Although Scrooge is over 100 years old.

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zumpietoo · 2 years

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Of course Greece makes soooo much sense for them. Beaches, islands, moutains to climb and many many archeology sites. That is why I think they left Bear with Aris mom too. This is not a sit your ass on the beach kinda trip but a real adventures kinda trip where he can explore with his 2 passions, photography and archeology. I am very very happy for Cole. Ari is a perfect match i think for him💓

I was actually just thinking on some other comparisons/the timeline of things between them in general:

I've been convinced for awhile Cole unquestionably had a crush from the moment they met....but he was broken hearted and she was committed, however, 6 - 10 months later, she dumped her ex and he took to routinely liking her pics (amusingly while everybody insisted he and Reina were happening, which, noooo).....still don't think they were together and I do wonder what happened over Xmas so that they were together on NYE----cuz all break he was hanging with others, but then, clearly, they were at the party in the desert and clearly a thing....

So did they quietly have a few dates over those 2 weeks (even tho he was on a road trip, etc?) or did he just make sure she was invited and made his move?

Regardless, they both jumped/dived/took the plunge with both feet/head first/never looked back (pick your analogy)----and in 2 - 4 months she'd not only had a month long visit with him, he'd met her fam, spending what is apparently the most important holiday of the year with them...

For his first bday together, she planned multiple elaborate events for him, something PP didn't do in 4 years.....(he planned the heli), she was with him for much of the time on location when he filmed, only leaving for HER work, they took multiple smaller vacations together, spent the entirety of Christmas vacation together and now live together full time in his house in LA...he's visited with her family, again, multiple times and was even included in her grandpa's obit as family.

From what can be told, they've never "broken up" for 5 seconds and this certainly ISN'T a relationship where much of what maintains it is working together closely, which was a lot of why SH took so long to call it quits....

And yes, they appear to have a lot moar in common, etc...

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benito-cereno · 6 years

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Santa Claus Letter 2017

So for years, starting in the 1920s, JRR Tolkien would write letters to his children as Father Christmas, including fanciful drawings and tales of FC and his friend, the North Polar bear, exploding the Northern Light gunpowder or fighting goblins.

Upon the birth of my own nephew last year, I decided I would steal this idea. Even though he is only a year and change old, nevertheless I composed a letter for him from Santa Claus. Theoretically, I will continue to do this, making the letters longer and more intricate as he gets older until he decides they’re stupid and that they should stop.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the skill for drawing or fancy lettering that Tolkien did, so I just had to type it up. Maybe future letters can include drawings.

I understand that this is obviously past Christmas and most of you have already thrown out your tree, but I still haven’t seen the neph for Christmas yet, so this got put off a little in favor of other holiday stuff. I hope you will forgive.

Anyway, I thought I would share it with you here under the cut (even though it does give away some of my Santa Claus secrets!). Feel free to reblog this, or if you want, to use it as a template and alter it for use with a child you know and love, but please do not republish this without my permission. Thankssss.

You can read 2015′s letter here and last year’s letter here.

Santa's Workshop

Beyond the Riphean Mountains

Beyond the North Wind

True North Pole

December 20, 2017

My dearest [name],

Here it is, your third Christmas! Amazing! It seems like only yesterday you had your very first Christmas for the very first time, and here we are at three. Three, you know, is a very special number.

Three is the number of sisters that I secretly gave bags of gold to when they couldn't afford to get married. I threw the bags of gold through the window (chimneys were not invented yet) and they landed in their stockings, which were drying by the fire. This was the first time I ever gave someone a gift by night and it gave me the idea that I might keep doing it. It's worked out pretty well so far!

Three was also the number of boys whom I saved from a wicked innkeeper who stuffed them in a pickle barrel so that he could steal their money. This is how I was named as a special protector of children, the title of which I am most proud. (The innkeeper works for me now, helping me bring joy to children to make up for being bad many years ago. Don't worry about running into him, though. He mainly helps me visit children in France.)

Three is the number of innocent men I once saved from punishment by catching a sword in my bare hand. Three is the number of generals, also innocent, whom I saved from punishment by appearing to the Roman emperor in a dream and telling him what had really happened. (These stories are not as famous as the other two, but I am still fairly proud of them.)

Three is also the number of gifts brought to the baby Jesus by the Wise Men: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The Wise Men were the very first Christmastime gift-bringers, and all the rest of us, like me or Grandfather Frost, whom I told you about last year, are merely following in their footsteps. In fact, in many countries, children expect to receive gifts from the Wise Men more than they do from old Santa Claus! In these countries, they get their gifts later, on January 5 or 6, which is still a very fine day to receive gifts. This day is called Epiphany, and it marks the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Children will set out food for the Wise Men's camels, and the wise old travelers from the East will leave them presents in exchange. You can tell the Wise Men have been to your house because they will write the letters “C+M+B” on your house with chalk. These letters can stand for their names—Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar—or they can stand for words that call for a blessing upon the house in Latin. (I will not make your mommy or daddy have to try to say Latin words out loud to you if they read you this letter. Maybe one day you will learn to read Latin and you and I can write letters to each other in a language that was very common when I was your age, but which is not so common now.)

There is a song I like very much that says that “The past and the present and the future, Faith and Hope and Charity, The heart and the brain and the body give you three as a magic number.” Three is also the number of a mommy and a daddy and a [name]. A magic number.

I can see that it has been much colder where you live this winter than in the other years that I have written to you. That may explain why we have not seen much of Jack Frost and his brother this year, but I can see also that it has been icy cold down there without much snow. I think this is very rude of Jack, to bring cold but no snow. Very inconsiderate. Jack himself would say that it only snows when his grandmother, Holda, shakes the feathers out of the blankets of her bed, so perhaps she has not done much cleaning this year. On the other hand, Jack is well-known as a teller of tales, and I'm not even sure that Holda really is his grandmother. The only grandparent I've ever known him to have was Grandfather Frost, but I do know that he was adopted, so who knows what may be true?

I have also seen that you love animals very much. This is something you would have in common with my friend and helper Rupert, who tends to the animals on our farm. We have a very unusual farm, as I believe I have told you before. We don't raise pigs or cows here. I don't think they would like the cold very much. Instead we of course have reindeer, which are very famous and I suspect already familiar to you. We also have horses, including my most famous horse Amerigo, and donkeys, and goats. These are not so unusual to have on a farm. But Rupert also takes care of moose, alligators that I take to Louisiana, white kangaroos that I take to Australia, dolphins that I take to Hawaii, and even a number of werewolves, though they can mostly take care of themselves. We also receive visits from a very special Camel and Mule, but they don't usually stay long, as they have gifts of their own to deliver. There is of course also Callisto the North Polar Bear, and her cub Arcas, whom I have told you about before, but they really live in the sky and only come to visit us sometimes.

But those are only the farm animals. The True North Pole is also home to a number of wild animals that live in the thick forest of fir trees tended by Mrs Claus and her wood nymphs that surrounds the workshop. These animals are protected by my friend Belsnickel, the fur-trapper who would rather be alone in the woods than live in the workshop. These woods are home to a number of magic reindeer who have not yet been trained to pull a sleigh, as well as animals such as Arctic foxes and Arctic hares, and birds like snow buntings. You should look up pictures of these animals if you have never seen them. They look very different from animals in [state]! I will also tell you a secret about the North Pole: even though many people like to make pictures or movies about penguins at the North Pole at Christmastime, the truth is that penguins live at the South Pole, not the North Pole. It's true! You can look it up. It would be better for people to draw me and my elves being visited by puffins, which is a bird that actually does live around the North Pole. They are just as cute as penguins, if not more so in my opinion, so far as that counts.

If you travel out beyond the silver fir forest, you will eventually hit the Riphean Mountains, which are a very dangerous place to visit, but which are home to our friends the griffins, which are magical creatures that look like they are part lion and part eagle. You can also look up pictures of these if you have never seen one. (There are not many at zoos, so I suspect you would not have seen one there.) The griffins are led by their noble but dangerous king Lunicursor, whose long-standing war against the moutains' one-eyed giants to protect their large hoards of gold has the added benefit of helping keep unwanted visitors out of our workshop on the other side of the mountains.

At any rate, all of these animals—every one of them—says hello and merry Christmas to you. Even King Lunicursor gave a grim-faced but solemn nod of approval when I told him I was writing you this letter. Sometimes when you are older, you may feel lonely or sad, which is okay, but remember that somewhere far to the north some reindeer, some foxes, a bear as big as a dinosaur, the king of the griffins, and a silly old toymaker know your name and hope you have a good Christmas.

Please send my warmest greetings to your mommy and daddy and all your family, and to all your animal friends from all of mine. I will visit soon to fill your stocking as you have been very good this year, as ever. See you soon!

Your dear friend,

Santa Claus

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ducklooney · 1 year

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Duckvember - Judicious and Aloof Duck (Ducks)

I'm already late, although I've been sick these days so I'm behind, but luckily I'm better now so I can finish the final topics for this year as far as Duckvember is concerned. I drew two drawings.

The first drawing refers to Aloof Duck and that I drew Scrooge McDuck, that is, a redraw from Barks' drawing and the first appearance of Scrooge McDuck in the comic "Christmas on Bear Mountain" from November 1947, where Scrooge says that he hates Christmas and this famous sentence: "Everybody hates me, and I hate everybody!" Yes, this would later be used by Don Rosa in his "The Richest Duck in the World" comic in the collection The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

The second drawing is about Judicious Duck and I certainly applied that to the three ducks, but the main one is Grandma Duck, who for me is the best parent in the Duckverse. Grandma Duck (Elvira Coot) takes care of little Donald Duck who is a baby and cries because he doesn't want to be with Uncle Scrooge and Uncle Ludwig, who are too strict for him. So the grandmother scolds the two of them to calm down and that she will mostly take care of Donald. Yes, Scrooge McDuck and Ludwig von Drake are Donald's two uncles (one born, the other married to someone from Donald's family (for some it's Matilda, Scrooge's sister, and for others it's another person)), but even though they're strict they can be very funny.

I hope you like these drawings.

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