#Johnathan Strange

[spooky-something]

I was just thinking about this

Dude, I wonder what would happen if we pinned Victor Frankenstein, Herbert West, Henry Jekyll, and John Jack Seward against each other in a argument....

Like, I would pay money to see this, because we all know DAMN WELL John and Henry would cave in relatively soon within the argument, leaving Victor and Herbert to argue for the rest of the time...

#frankenstein #classic literature #gothic lit #the modern prometheus #victor frankenstein #classic lit #gothic literature #mary shelley #bram stokers dracula #Dracula #Johnathan Seward #jack seward #john seward #henry jekyll #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #The Re-Animator #reanimator #herbert west

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

#batman #bane #catwoman #joker #two face #scarcrow #clayface #killer croc #mr freeze #hugo strange #bruce wayne #selina kyle #harvey dent #johnathan crane #basil karlo #waylon jones #victor fries #dc comics #dc universe #dc villains #dc rogues #batman villains #batman rogues #gotham villains #gotham rogues #rogues gallery #villains gallery #dc #dcu #arkham asylum

[cultiest]

I've come to the conclusion that Dracula the novel is actually a food blog run by Johnathan but to get to each recipe you have to read about his funny little business trip

#dracula daily #tell me this isnt exactly what it is #paprika #i mean come onnnn #its Johnathan harkers queer awkening cook book #and also his new friend Dracula is acting kinda strange #but anyway my meal..

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Gosh I love the internet, in everyday life I perhaps meet twelve people who have heard of Sherlock Holmes and six of them think he was real. Where else but online may I meet people I can enthuse about Gilbert and Sullivan, Raffles, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lord Peter Wimsey, Biggles, Diana Wynne Jones, Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel, why the Oxford comma needs rights, and P.G. Wodehouse with?

#sherlock holmes books #gilbert and sullivan #the scarlet pimpernel #biggles #diana wynne jones #Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel #oxford comma forever #pg wodehouse #raffles #lord peter wimsey series

[blackthxrntree]

same jonathan

#i know he means queer in the sense of strangeness but dracula is a fruity story so its funny to read it in the gay way #dracula daily #dracula #bram stoker #horror #gothic #classic literature #literature #jonathan harker #johnathan harker

[kingarthurtournament]

Round 1 Side A Poll 8

The Luidaeg

"I think a politician who is magically bound not to lie would be a good thing"

"The Luidaeg is Oberon and Maeve's eldest child. Merlin is a descendant of her who was involved in a war between pureblood fae and their descendants. In the present time, the Luidaeg is a tired and cranky witch who is bound by far too many curses and suffered far too many losses, but she still cares deeply for her family and she deserves the world."

John Usklass

"Its a Once and Future King situation- he rode out of England into Faerie 300 years before the novel is set, and he is prophesised to return and bring magic back"

#king arthur tournament #bracket #round 1 #poll #the luidaeg #october daye #john uskglass #johnathan strange and mr nobell

[speakingskies]

Good evening, dear colleagues!

I am Happy to say that I am now in possession of Polls, and inspired by my Delightful colleague @fol-de-lol‘s Advent Trivia Questions, I am Proud to Announce:

THE GREAT JOHN-OFF OF ENGLISH MAGIC

38 Johns, Jonathons, Johnsons &c. from both Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Ladies of Grace Adieu will, over the next few days, battle it out to become The Ultimate John!

The brackets were chosen by a mixture of random number generator and personal choice on my part to make the different rounds as interesting as possible.

This post will link to all active polls, once they are posted.

ROUND ONE MATCHES: Preliminaries

Match 1: Sir John Sowreston vs Jonathan Barratt 56%:44%

Match 2: John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe vs Captain John Kincaid 54%:46%

Match 3: John Waterbury, Lord Portishead vs John Brassfoot 76%:24%

Match 4: John Ford vs Jonah Montefiore DRAW! REMATCH!

Match 5: Jeremy Johns vs John Longridge 87%:13%

Match 6: John Aubrey vs Rev John McKenzie 88%:12%

ROUND TWO MATCHES

Bracket 1

John Hyde vs [Sir John Sowreston or Jonathan Barratt]

John McKean vs Johnson (Beggar)

John Copperhead vs John Alfreton

Jonathan Strange vs John (Waiter)

Bracket 2

John Napier vs [John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe or Captain John Kincaid]

John Windle vs John Harker

John Segundus vs John Upchurch

[John Waterbury, Lord Portishead or John Brassfoot] vs Black Joan

Bracket 3

John Childermass vs [John Ford or Jonah Montefiore]

Dr John Willis vs John (Servant)

John Hollyshoes vs Clara Johnson

John d’Uskglass vs John Cockcroft

Bracket 4

John Uskglass vs [Jeremy Johns or John Longridge]

John Wheston vs Captain John Ayrton

John Polidori vs John Purvis

[John Aubrey or Rev John McKenzie] vs John Murray

ROUND THREE MATCHES

TBC

QUARTER FINALS

TBC

SEMI FINALS

TBC

THE FINAL JOHN-OFF

TBC

#The Great John-Off of English Magic #Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell #jsamn #jsmn #js&mn

[purple-cray0ns]

Some art of book characters i made again in chronological order hehe

We have James T Kent from House of Thieves, Syenite from The Fifth Season, and left to right in the last image is Alabastor also from The Fifth Season, Beatrice from The Living Blood, a refined James Kent lol and finally Childermass from Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norell

#house of thieves #the fifth season #the living blood #johnathan strange & mr norell #my art #artists on tumblr #most of this blog will be backlogs of my fandom art that i want to put here #the actual date of them is floating somewhere on the internet

[clueless-fan-critic]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Edge of the Sony’s Spider-Verse.

Alright. Let’s get to the meat of the business sandwich.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the sequel to 2018 smash hit film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse that honestly broke all of my expectations about the film being a two-parter with too much info. I honestly loved the movie just as much as the first with its iconic animation style, charming characters, and impactful story. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, it felt like the film was greatly cohesive without any confusion to the plot. It feels as if the film was not just a mandatory assignment but also a passion project made in the years before it was production. While I’m a fan of Marvel and the MCU (to some degree), I’ve definitely became a Spider-Verse fan.

Let us get into this Spider-Man classic once again.

The Animation

Alright. Let’s get this out of the way.

The animation was incredible and awe-inspiring much like the first film, but pushed into overdrive. Each animated world has its own style that reflects a different version of Spider-Man. From Hobie Brown’s collage-like style to Pavitr Prabhakar’s bollywood inspired environment. Gwen’s dimension is especially colorful with the watercolor style reflecting her comic book covers. Almost every character has a distinct style to their animation from 1960s campy to 90s angst. While the movie visually stunning and dynamic, let’s get into what’s going on story wise.

The Characters

The main characters of the movie are definitely Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy. They both are different sides of the story that reflect the theme of who someone is as Spider-Man and what kind of story they have or what they want out of life. In a way, it continues the ideas and themes about expectations with choosing their own path in spite of others’ opinions and expectations.

Afro-Latino protagonist Miles is someone who’s dealing with the crossroads of who he wants be while grappling with the expectations from his family. He’s also struggling with balancing his two lives as a teen and a superhero with his responsibilities to his family. When face-to-face with Miguel O’Hara, the Spider-Man of 2099, and the fact about canon events, Miles chooses to go against it believing he can save people without risking the Spider-Verse. The phrase “I can do both” is what caught my attention because it is possible for some people, but not a choice for Spider-People in that they must experience canon events for the sake of the Spider-Verse.

Gwen is faced with the rigid expectations of what it means to be Spider-Man and how she faces the choices she makes. Gwen makes the decision to go against Miguel and the Spider-Society to save Miles on the wrong Earth, deciding to become her own hero that she wants to believe in.

The Spot, Johnathan Ohnn, is the main villain of the movie with his power to make dimensional portals after the collider exploded in the previous film. They at first portray him more of a joke character, but then slowly build him into a terrifying threat with colossal amounts of power at his hands. This is shocking because I always thought of him as a lackluster villain despite having a cool power. They actually made what could of been a joke into someone more terrifying in concept alone.

The numerous cameos from the Spider-Society range from interesting to hilarious. One of them is an obscure spider-person in a wheelchair and with crutches named Charlotte Webber or Sun-Spider of Earth-20023. Others include a cowboy, cat, t-rex, and even dune buggy. They all could just be glorified cameos with no substance, but they actually bring out the abstract craziness of the Spider-Verse and what it means for future of the franchise as a whole.

The Story

The whole story centers around Miles Morales and his journey into becoming Spider-Man, but also Gwen’s journey and how the Spider-Verse is being threatened by the Spot.

The villain is definitely the Spot and his crusade to destroy Miles, but the antagonist is Miguel O’Hara’s ideology about the Spider-Verse. Miguel’s insistence of maintaining the order of the Spider-Verse goes directly against Miles’ idea of what it means to be Spider-Man. Miles wants to save his father from a fated death as a police captain, but Miguel wants to let it play out so that the universe isn’t destroyed because of canon events.

The idea of canon events creates the division among the Spider-People where they choose to let people die to preserve the universe or risk its destruction. This idea is pretty similar to what Doctor Strange presented in No Way Home with letting the villains die than risk the universe. I think because Miles doesn’t follow the canon, he can break the cycle that all the Spider-People endure and have them even question the very system they follow.

I liked how the story left us on a cliffhanger that made us crave more of the movies and possible spinoffs. Leaving us wondering what will happen to Miles on Earth 42 with his evil doppelgänger or what Gwen’s plan is now that she’s leading a splinter team against Miguel and the Spider-Society.

Afterword

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a miracle in the landscape of sequels and two-parters. It has pushed itself to a whole new level of animation with unique colors and styles. The story and characters are pushed to their limits with dilemmas of preservation and duty along with freedom of choice and finding one’s way. It reminds us that no matter who you are, you can still be unsure of what you want and still be okay with questioning things.

Now I can’t wait for Beyond the Spider-Verse next year.

#spider-man #spider-man across the spiderverse spoilers #across the spider-verse spoilers #across the spiderverse #Miles Morales #Spider-Gwen #peter parker #hobie brown #spider-punk #pavitr prabhakar #spider-man 2099 #miguel ohara #spiderman no way home #doctor strange #the spot #spider-verse #charlotte webber #sun-spider #spiderverse #johnathan ohnn #beyond the spiderverse #spider-society #spider-people

[foldingfittedsheets]

So I finally finished Priory of the Orange Tree.

…underwhelmed.

#ramblies #I guess it just wasn’t for me but there was so much that was left unclarified #like there was this whole thing about balance but then ‘balance’ is just no more bad naughty fire dragons #or like what actually caused the imbalance cause the witch’s single line blaming the shards fell so flat #and like if there’s two powers why was there three trees and who’s going around chopping down magic trees left and right #it was a lot of book to slog through for very little satisfaction #I’ve had several people recommend it but it feels like how I read johnathan strange and Mr. norrel #just teeth gritted cause I have one storyline I actually care about then being underwhelmed with the resolution

[wwwwyamd]

everyone crossing themselves and praying and begging him not to go, even giving him a crucifix to wear:

Jonathan: huh, i guess it’s rude to refuse a gift from an old lady ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#johnathan harker #dracula daily #“‘wow what strange practices- must be a local thing’

[apollo18]

Nobody…

Absolutely no one…

Therapists in Gotham:

#johnathan crane #the scarecrow #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #Hugo strange #Amadeus Arkham #I’m sure there’s more but DAMN #just the fact I can list four off the top of my head… #to be fair can you imagine being a psychiatric health care professional in GOTHAM of all places #Batman #dc comic

[queerolddad]

me @ Henry Lascelles

#he’s my arch enemy #me and all my homies hate Lascelles #Henry Lascelles #jsmn #johnathan strange and mr. norrell #jsmn shitpost

[sixofravens-reads]

also I just counted and my tbr is down to 86 BOOKS!! well, maybe 87 cause there's one in the to-go pile I'm not sure if I want to get rid of.

anyway, this is UNPRECEDENTED. my tbr hasn't been under 100 books in YEARS!! wonder if I could make a reasonable goal to read all of them by the end of next year...

#i mean I've made that goal before but it's always been unreasonable #next year i could maybe do it... #except one of the books on my tbr is Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell and i think that would take at least a month to read lol #I'm so happy lol. i want my big giant TBR shelf GONE. i want to just have a handful of tbr books at a time! #and be able to rent books from the library or reread them without feeling guilty #thinking about reading

[dumbestthingiveeverheard]

Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard: 7/31/2023

Fifth Place: Erick Erickson

On 7/30/2023, Mr. Erickson tweeted the following:

Starting to see more and more progressives demand public swimming pools. Get ready for the next entitlement program.

Not public swimming pools! Anything but public swimming pools!

By the way, the top reply is somebody pointing out that the city Erickson lives in--has multiple public swimming pools:

I'm sorry, I can't get over this: Erickson is seriously concerned that progressives are going to--what exactly? Use tax payer dollars to make the community better? That's really something you view as a concern? As one Twitter user put it:

i like that the worst thing this guy can imagine is americans collectively deciding to use the wealth they produce and the taxes they pay to give themselves something nice

Fourth Place: Stephen Strang

Right-wing watch posted a clip of him on Friday talking about allowing drag queens to read to children, he says "They would not let someone dressed up in a Nazi uniform go in and read stories to children."

First off, who exactly is the "they" in this case? Second off, there is obviously no comparison between the ideology of the most genocidal and murderous regime of the twentieth century and people dressing in drag, and the fact that you think these two things are on even remotely the same level shows there is something wrong with you.

Third Place: Donald Trump

NBC reached out to forty-four of Trump's former cabinet officials to see how many of them would support his 2024 run for re-election--only four did. Those four, for those curious, are Mark Meadows, Ric Grenell, Matthew Whitaker, and Russ Vought. A Tea Party holdover who played a key role in the Freedom Caucus until he was made Trump's Chief of Staff and who appeared in a debunked creationist propaganda film, a small time ambassador who once got into a fight with Nick Fuentes over if he was immoral for being a homosexual, a failed Congressional candidate turned Attorney General, and a man who is only known for hindering Biden's transition to the Presidency, respectively.

What I find funny though is not that this group of nitwits have endorsed Trump's re-election, but that they are the only ones who worked with Donald Trump to have done so. If so few of the people who were around Donald feel comfortable giving him a second term, what should that say to the rest of us?

Second Place: Jonathan Chait

What's wrong with this picture?

If you said the fact that it implies the corruption of a Supreme Court Justice is on the same level as the corruption of the son of the President despite one actually having the power to impact people's lives and the other not, you'd be correct. However, this false comparison is the entire basis of New York Magazine's article "The Sleaze Problem: How Democrats can clean up the Supreme Court and address the Hunter Biden affair." Why Democrats need to address the Hunter Biden affair--which is little more than trumped up charges against a private system--I'm not sure.

The column even sees its author admitting that nothing Hunter Biden did was illegal while also accepting the incorrect notion that nothing Clarence Thomas did was illegal.

The article proposes that Democrats should propose an ethics code for the Supreme Court while aiming for Republican support through also creating a stricter ethics code around the actions of family members of politicians. Of course, Chait admits this wouldn't actually work because doing so would indict the Trump kids even more than Hunter Biden--but on the bright side, at least the Democrats now have an answer for the irrational and nonsensical charges against Hunter Biden. If only Democrats would play into GOP talking points, that would show them.

Winner: Samuel Alito

Did you know that nothing in the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate the Supreme Court? Well that's what Samuel Alito thinks--of course, it isn't actually true. Congress specifically has the power to stop courts from ruling on specific issues, to determine who is on the Supreme Court, and various other forms of regulation--but Alito doesn't want to mention that, because that could get in the way of his power grab.

Samuel Alito, you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

#eric erickson #stephen strang #donald trump #johnathan chait #samuel alito

[emeraldcreeper]

The idea of Dracula (to Jonathan, my bestie, he is a very old man) just throwing with incredible vigor a mirror out a window to get rid of it after Johnathan bleeds one (1) drop of blood which makes him mmmmm incredibly bloodthirsty is hilarious to me, especially with Johnathan like (in my mind’s eye) looking distraught and essentially saying “well now how am I gonna shave?” after noticing multiple times that Dracula doesn’t show up in a mirror and tries to fuck and/or kill him when he bleeds shaving, possibly at the same time, touches Jonathan’s rosary (his new favorite possession, despite not being Catholic…………. Bestie please,,,,,) and suddenly wishes not to fuck/eat him

#I’ve decided dracula is a travel blog romcom #and johnathan is like omg like hamlet how I’m staying up all night as my life progresses 🥰🥰🥰 #like bestie no one survived the hamlet but horatio #Arabian nights I’ve never read so debatable how good of a time he’d be having #dracula daily spoilers #since I just read todays #obviously #Dracula is playing it very cool I’ll give him that #warning him to be careful when he shaves #after throwing his mirror away #and again keeping him up all night so he’s back on dracula schedule #as johnathan thinks only some of it strange #he isn’t weirded out how a very old man just threw his mirror out a window and broke it #i love my bestie johnathan harker he’s so stupid