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BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (2013 - 2021) Season 2 | Episode 10 "The Pontiac Bandit Returns"

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Simon Stålenhag art by Midjourney

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by simon stalenhag

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This week, let’s check out some artists whose work has defined an RPG. What do I mean by that? Well, how about we start with Simon Stålenhag.

Stålenhag is the author and illustrator of Tales from the Loop (2014), a dreamy story from an 1980s that never was, filled with strange technology and robots and the occasional dinosaur. I love this stuff. Yes, it is nostalgia in paint, but it is also something else too, something hard to pin down. There is such a deep melancholy here. There’s tension in the dimming blues of dusk, in the way people always seem to stand with their back to us, in the way all these wonders of technology lie abandoned in the fields. There are so many mysteries in the gathering shadows. No wonder Free League developed a tabletop RPG out of it (and Amazon a TV series)!

I am an absolute sucker for his work, I really think he’s the closest we currently have to a modern N.C. Wyeth, if based only on his control of light. The follow up book (and RPG) Things from the Flood attempts to do the same for the 90s as Loop did for the 80s — neither works quite as well for me. Stålenhag’s subsequent books have been fabulous, though — The Electric State and The Labyrinth. Both build on the science fiction vibes of the Loop books in satisfying narrative ways. You can also see Stålenhag growing as an illustrator (both books use the form of the book — turning pages — and repetition of images to interesting effect). They’re a joy (well, The Labyrinth is pretty grim, actually, but you know what I mean). 

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Meditative TV

Tales from the Loop // Mushishi // Joe Pera Talks with You

“Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer "to" anyone or anything, but prayer "about" everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.”

—Roger Ebert, “A Prayer Beneath the Tree of Life”

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SLEEPY HOLLOW 1999 | dir. Tim Burton

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October

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@academia-lucifer

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻🕸 Abbott Elementary (2021- ) Parks and Recreation (2009 - 2015) Friends (1994 - 2004) Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013 - 2021) Stranger Things (2016- ) The Office (2005 - 2013) Derry Girls (2018 - 2022) Ted Lasso (2020 - 2023) New Girl (2011 - 2018) Modern Family (2009 - 2020)

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Fog

Steven Xue. Cape Meares, Oregon.

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I wanna be gone

#cute #body positive #thick #daddy #lingerie #star wars #nsfw

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I've been at my grandparents' house the past 2-3 weeks, and man, I like gardening but I'm TIRED

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October – William Merritt Chase // There it Goes – Maisie Peters

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｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. October will bring blessings.

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TED LASSO 1.01 “Pilot” 3.12 “So Long, Farewell”

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I feel like we fell out of a lucky tree, hit every branch on the way down, ended up in a pool full of cash and Sour Patch Kids. I mean, Jamie is an ace, right? You know, whose attitude turned him into a seven of clubs. So then we bring in another fella to help turn him back into an ace and then that fella ends up being an ace himself. And so now we got two aces. TED LASSO (2020 - 2023)