Dungeon Meshi Ep. 12 - Red Dragon ll

ryoko kui is hands down the queen of character design

She remade her, she held her bones in her hands and put each piece back together. Only to have to carry on without her.

Everything she did, she did for Falin

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Inspired by The Locked Tomb and Howls Moving Castle, and also how hot these two look in these outfits/forms. This will be a future print for cons this year.

241: Merle Travis // The Best of Merle Travis

The Best of Merle Travis Merle Travis 1967, Capitol

Like his contemporary Les Paul, Merle Travis’s influence as a guitar player tends to overshadow his recording career (he’s one of the few alongside Maybelle Carter and Elizabeth Cotten with a style of picking that bears his name), but The Best of Merle Travis makes a fine case for rediscovering his catalogue. His 1947 Folk Songs of the Hills is generally considered to be the first “concept album” in country music, and it remains the natural non-compilation starting point for his music: four traditional songs and four Travis originals depicting Kentucky working life hammering railroad spikes and delving for coal. There weren’t many guitarists in the country world with the kind of dash and sizzle Travis shows off on his version of “John Henry,” while his bluesy “Nine Pound Hammer” highlights his amiable voice, one of the least affected (and thereby least aggressively dated) of his era.

Folk Songs of the Hills’ replay value is a little dinged by the choice to have Travis provide a spoken introduction to each song, and said intros are preserved on the five of its songs found here, but the repetition’s broken up a little by interspersing them with other cuts from his late ‘40s hey day. For those who’ve only listened to Merle’s folk side, the songs may come as a surprise, as they are perky ragtime/Western swing of the sort that once dominated the charts, but is now predominantly sung by nerd women on the lindy hop side of the swing/burlesque binary. They’re lightweight fluff, but fun fluff nonetheless, particularly “Sweet Temptation” and “Steel Guitar Rag.”

The Best of Merle Travis omits the many excellent songs he recorded after 1950, and interested listeners shouldn’t stop here. Still, the songs you’ll find yourself returning to most are those working man’s folk tunes that made his legend. There simply isn’t a better country song than his astonishing original “Dark as a Dungeon,” an instant standard as elemental as the black rock that shortened so many lives in his native Muhlenberg County, nor a better rendition out of thousands than his take on the standard “I Am a Pilgrim.”

241/365

they're amusing to me

part 2 of my pining falin agenda aka I STAND WITH MARCILLE THAT DRESS WAS CUNT

part 1

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shes my favourite crybaby to ever be born

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH!!!

Ryoko Kui is so fucking real for showing us the complete backstories of rando side characters and introducing us to their loved ones through supplemental material but also being so vague about the actual married spouse of a main character that people online argue about what colour her hair is. Absolute fucking queen

🩸first blood 🩸

Influential RPG adventure writer, artist, and video game creator Jennell Jaquays has died.

She was a founder of the Dungeoneer zine before it was sold to Judges Guild. Her D&D adventures Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia became classics, often studied as examples of adventure design. She also wrote and illustrated for TSR, Metagaming, Steve Jackson Games, and many other publishers. Her video game career included developing many of Coleco's titles in the 1980s and level design for the Quake sequels at id Software in the 90s, and she co-founded the SMU Guildhall video game program.

She recently was hospitalized for symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome, and a GoFundMe to cover her medical expenses is still active.

Minthara is tormented by doubts...

What if Pokemon & Animal crossing had a crossover game? #7 Made in Blender, Haunter design originally by @Yencatx !

Shar's chosen lover

𝖂𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖙𝖍 II

comm for the lovely @moonbuuns 🩸