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The Count is readying the castle for his esteemed guest! There's much to be done.

#shoutout to Bram Stoker for unintentionally putting his main villain in a position that implies he probably did most of these #before the main story begins #Buying postage in particular tickles me #Dracula Daily #Dracula

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Riding home. hurts me each time to read Camilla get hurt... and OH MY GOD it's such a well written scene, I loved it so much.

#LOVE the angle this is drawn from #Skeleton Crew

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“You have my sword” said the Ranger. “And my Bow” said the elf. “And my axe” said the dwarf. “And all of my guns” said the American.

#Dracula Daily starts again soon #I will not be participating this year but I intend to follow along from afar #Dracula

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August 6: Dracula

“She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind. We'll hear more of her before this time tomorrow.”

#Dracula

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One thing in Lord of the Rings I’ve found extremely relatable lately is how the hobbits react to apocalyptic horrors by focusing on the mundane details of their day.

“Looks like we’re on a hopeless journey into Hell in the middle of a world-ending event where everything we know and love will be destroyed. What are we going to have for breakfast today, Mr Frodo? :D”

#lotr shitposting & lore

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Eowyn is finished, and my Lavender and LOTR series is officially a series!

Adapted from the patterns Celtic Spring and Celtic Winter by Marilyn Leavitt-Inblum

#lotr shitposting & lore #this is beautiful!!

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I want Artemis to be good with small children so. badly

#kids would love him bc he wouldn't talk down to them #he wouldn't know how to adjust his language for a younger audience #and the kids end up feeling special and as if they're being taken seriously as a result #Artemis Fowl #af

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Small art gift for @admiraldora who chose the awful teens as a motif. Had a lot of fun looking up their scenes again and figuring out their overall appearance and outfits.

JM always being in awe of Gideon's biceps are the cutest and funniest moments. I can only imagine how often she she gawks at Gideon in secret and inspects her own muscles in front of the mirror in the fourth's room.

#Skeleton Crew #I do love the Awful Teens

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There's a certain liminality about Artemis' character, a certain inability to fully belong. His interaction with (and indeed, eventual acquisition of) magic marks him as being ill-fit for the human world, but this alienation from humanity does not imply he slots neatly into fairy society, either. Similarly, his genius estranges him from children his age, yet despite all his intellect, he can never escape the reality that he is a child, and thus cannot yet lay claim to the world of adults. Even his name is linked to this idea of mutability; he bears the name of a female goddess despite being a young boy himself. He exists in the borderlands of identity -- between magic and the mundane, between childhood and adulthood, and between masculinity and femininity. Consider what he is compared to the most: a vampire. After all, what creature better embodies the idea of existence in the overlap than a vampire, a being trapped in the transient space between life and death?

#I just found this post waaaaaay down in my Likes #it's such a good analysis #this is the kind of thing I would have liked to see explored if the series had continued as Artemis grew up #Artemis Fowl #af

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Finished at last: Fëanor, light of creation and fire of destruction. (Animated and static versions) 21x30cms, pencils, acrylics; and digital colouring for the flamey business.

Prints and shiny things here.

#lotr shitposting & lore

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big enjoyer of shitty media that i would never recommend to people ever in my life

#I would say Artemis Fowl but #I have lost all objectivity as to whether it's good or not #more like Here's this piece of media I imprinted on at age 8 #Is it good? Who knows #But I have based 95% of my personality on it

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im back!!!

Id really like to take this account more seriously but i have no idea how tumblr works lmao

#Harrow my Harrow #<3 #Skeleton Crew

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favourite thing in the world is when the pages of a book go all soft and yellowy and the edges are slightly fuzzy and rounded. these books couldn’t give you a papercut if you tried they’ve been loved too much. they love you too much

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Some unposted Tolkien art I've been collecting over the years 💫

Huan and Lúthien | Yavanna and Aulë | Celeborn and Galadriel | Fingon | Galadriel but Art Nouveau | Vairë, the Weaver | Lórien and Mandos | Some Hobbiteses

#lotr shitposting & lore #VAIRE #I've never seen fanart of her before this is beautiful OP!!

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

#me abt Artemis Fowl #af #Artemis Fowl

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The latest disgusting tweets from JKR have me thinking that there's probably a discussion to be had about authors using the Holocaust/Nazis as a model for their own Bad Guys, without doing any meaningful research or understanding the extent of what Nazism is. As if it's a hypothetical form of evil that doesn't exist anymore, except as a useful shorthand for communicating that someone is Bad.

And to be clear, I'm talking about JKR not doing her research when she first wrote the books, before she went right down the TERF/Nazi/white supremacist pipeline. Nowadays I know she doesn't actually care about research.

#possibly this discussion is already happening somewhere and I haven't come across it #Holocaust tw #Nazis tw