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According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
one time I was lucid dreaming and I asked the Jennifer Coolidge figure in my dream how do i tell if something in a dream is real or not and she said. It’s only real if they charge your card. best answer ever
me before i get my paycheck: i'm so excited to spend this on essentials and save the rest wisely
me as soon as that direct deposit hits: you know i've always wanted to learn the theremin
Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is
"wait but if u saw the paperclip why would u just leave it there?" its the adhd. Also if i had put it away then i wouldnt have been able to find it a month later when i needed it. So. Checkmate neurotypicals.
Problem is when the ADHD catalogue is out of date, when you go to check under the couch cushion for that paperclip and it ISNT there, sometimes your brain will just give you a montage of false memories of everywhere you've ever seen a paper clip, like this
yeah yeah the paperclip montage, we've all seen it
ok so its not just me. ok good to know
Fuck my life, why are you in my head
love the word fruitless. arguing with you is like if there was no apples involved whatsoever
Why he light skinned?
Because Martin Luther was white and German.
did…
did someone confuse Luther with Jesus omg
I suspect they confused him with Martin Luther King
I mean, I get mixing them up based on names alone, but I’m concerned about the people who think Martin Luther King Jr. routinely wrote with a quill or dressed like a Renaissance man.
At that point it’s your own damn fault for making that kind of mistake
but why is martin luther the fastest sold playmobil figurine
Protestants be shoppin
Trainwreck of a post
In all honestly, The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull isn’t one of my very favorite Bellairs’ novels, but it does set up one of my favorites, so it seemed only fair to lead off with it. Here, though, is The Revenge of the Wizard’s Ghost (1985), the only direct sequel Bellairs wrote (to my knowledge).
Warren Windrow is back and this time he’s aiming to take out his anger on young Johnny Dixon, who foiled Windrow’s deadly curse on Professor Childermas in the previous book. He possesses Johnny and seems to be wasting him away. Fergie and the Professor have to find a way to save him, which takes them to the Windrow estate, where Warren’s impressively competent sorcerer patriarch Zebulon once lived. Zeb’s ghost is a problem, but more pressing is his familiar, a hooded figure with an alarming, flesh-eating tentacle in place of its arm (astute readers will recognize this creature as a direct lift from M.R. James’ story “Count Magnus” — Bellairs was clearly a fan). The brooding, ruined estate is some peak Bellairs; the man loved a gothic edifice. And the familiar is terrifying, one of the few instances of a genuine monster in his novels. The result is probably the second-best Johnny Dixon mystery, which is pretty impressive considering Johnny spends most of it in a hospital bed.
Top shelf art from Gorey for this one. Strong WTF vibes from the cover (the scene has Johnny encounter what he thinks is a paper plate blowing on the wind but winds up being Windrow’s face, so the WTF energy is pulled directly from the text). The back cover is the stained-glass window, full of visual clues about the plot, that shows up in Johnny’s recurring nightmares. There is also a cut-away map of the estate which is pretty great and will certainly show up in some form in my unauthorized John Bellairs-inspired horror investigation RPG (forthcoming 2035). The frontispiece is the best, though, a view of the gate to the Windrow estate, featuring the familiar. Those stick pins are the Urim and the Thumim, obscure relics of significance to the ancient priests of Judaism that figure prominently in the plot. As I said, Bellairs loved an abandoned, menacing estate, which makes Gorey’s presence all the more perfect. That little W flag!
Fun fact: in fourth or fifth grade, I made a diorama for a class project loosely based on this scene.
Medieval Cats
art of stephen gammell
genuine question
We all got that one mutual who cares too much about a bunch real life British men who starved to death in the arctic circa 1847
