#LEPrecon

[valhelos]

LEPrecon 1

#my art #LEPrecon #happy one year anniversary to the comic #can you believe to learn we've been here for a year #thank you for reading everyone!! <3 <3 #af #artemis fowl #fowldom #holly short #julius root

[munchymunchkin]

#old tumblr #leprecon #leprechaun #punny #punny puns #pun #fantasy #fantasy pun #st patricks day #st patrick #leigh valley #pennsylvania #pa #rainbow #rainbows #many such cases #like wow #thats impossible #too many #so many

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Fairy Creature, Heed This Warning. On Earth, the Fowl Era is Dawning.

Just a reminder that in this house, the Disney/Branagh monstrosity of a so-called adaptation of this book does not exist. Cool? Cool.

Artemis Fowl is a series that I hold a deep love and nostalgia for. The books are absurdly well-written, have one of the best redemption arcs I've ever seen (think Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender-level of good redemption arc), and pull exactly no punches in terms of consequences for fucking around with pixies, mobsters, the actual Russian mafia, and Artemis's own brain. Add that to one of the best casts of characters I have ever seen and an ability to give real emotional weight to events without undercutting them, and this is never not a strong recommendation of a series. Here though, we're just going to talk about the first book. Let's talk Artemis Fowl.

Artemis Fowl II is a 12-year-old criminal mastermind on a mission: Restore the Fowl Family Fortune. How? Obviosuly reveal and exploit the Fairy People in general, and specifically the LEPrecon hostage fund. The plan is to kidnap an LEP officer.

I told you this kid needed some serious redeeming.

Doing that redeeming are primarily LEPrecon Captain Holly Short and Butler. Holly is trying to break through massive sexism in the LEP to become the first female recon officer, and through sheer poor luck, she ends up locked in the basement of Fowl Manor. Shenanagins ensue, because Eoin Colfer has literally never damseled a character in his life, and Holly walked into this hostage situation with utter rage from always having to play the hostage in LEP training scenarios. Holly get an A+ in malicious compliance, something that is both possible to achieve and totally normal to aspire to. Holly also has a tendency to get in serious trouble because her compassion and moral compass often conflicts with the LEP rule book, and she is super not willing to sacrifice living beings for the rulebook.

Butler is a member of the most elite bodyguards on the planet, and he is assigned to Artemis as a manservant and bodyguard. Butler and Holly both speak soldier, and their dynamic is never not delightful. That said, Butler also has a not-as-deeply-buried-as-he-might-like soft, squishy center, so by the time we meet him, he has long ago violated the cardinal rule od bodyguards: Do not get attached to the principal. Butler is basically a surrogate father figure for Artemis, and he fundamentally raised Artemis (and his own sister, Juliet Butler, who also works for the Fowl family).

The last major player we meet in this book is Mulch Diggums, dwarf extraordinaire. I'm sure it says more about my sense of humor than Colfer's writing that my response to "Dwarves tunnel by eating dirt and evacuating it from the other end" was "wow, that's very reasonable in terms of the evolution of a subterranean species" not "lol scatalogical humor." I am not and never have been a 12-year-old boy either, so that might have had something to do with it.

Overall, the first Artemis Fowl book is tightly plotted, well paced, and hints at a world that will get larger with subsequent books. It's a solid, strong first entry in the series. It's not my favorite, but it's in the top three.

#artemis fowl #eoin colfer #holly short #leprecon #domovoi butler #mulch diggums #sci fi #middle grade books

[serdaig1e]

AF St. Patrick's Day Headcannnons

Holly likes to activate her shield and pinch Artemis, who absolutely refuses to wear green because he calls the holiday silly (but he secretly likes it)

Myles, with the help of Beckett, hides all of Arty's non-green clothes in a safe that can only be opened by him saying the words "Lollipops rule"

Beckett hides green slime absolutely everywhere in the house, while Juliet tries to stop him.

Juliet wears her green Jade Princess costume.

Butler wears a ridiculously small, green top-hat.

#artemis fowl #holly short #domovoi butler #myles fowl #beckett fowl #juliet butler #the fowl twins #st. patrick's day #AF headcannons #the jade princess #I don't like lollipops #LEPrecon

[simplykhan]

I just spend the day playing battletech with friends at a convention and I'm so so happy.

#leprecon

[visiogero]

Octubre 2023

CLARISSA en el espacio plural

TRASPASADOS en el teatro Cajigal, luego montaje en el teatro Alberto de Paz y Mateos

Reunión técnica en la catedral de Caracas para EL MESÍAS, en diciembre

No hice registro del montaje de SANTA SEPULTURA....

#teatro #escenario #caracas #iluminacion #diseño #lighting design #lee #rosco #gamcolor #leprecon #strand #dramaturgia

[fredersen]

the yearly "leprecon" in my town (st. patrick's day-themed tradition of day drinking in a parking lot) just got shut down by the town's mayor and the landlord who the parking lot belonged to, which is unnecessary and kind of a bummer. however, i've been watching all the most annoying people i know cry and whine about it all day, and while i won't say anything to them, secretly i enjoy their suffering

#people are So goddamn obnoxious about it every year #posting months in advance like 'wHeN iS LePrEcOn????' SHUT UPPPPP

[ama-dillo]

I was on a road trip with my buddies and something strange happened...

So I had my head out the sun-roof blasting my favorite tunes and I met another guy doing the same thing and the third guy pulled up and was blaming this song about exactly this and I was like"EYO THIS IS PERFECT!!" and the other guy said "WAT!?!" and his speech was so moving ya'll that everybody started clapping and letting go of their weeks and we got in an 8 car pile-up driving in the wrong lane (brits, amirite🙄) and we all died (tho luckily we homies all got to chill in hell idk why not heaven but is ight) and I French kissed Satan and am typing this in the anti-vaxxers hotel (shit-hole, tbh).

Oh yeah, Satan says ya'll're doomed and God tryna get you out of there ASAP.

Js all these politicians can bust it down...

(I was never expecting to see an old guy twerking to nickel back but here we are)

These are what all of my YouTube ads look like down here.

Anyway, make sure to like not to break pots it you're doomed to pergy foreves (pergatory).

Byeeee.

- Satan lover from Saint Louie

My house 1835.

#spice #😛 #saint louis #misica #🎶 I got my head out the sun roof 🎶 #🎶 I'm blasting my favorite tunes 🎶 #LEPRECONS ARE REAL AND MESS WITH MORTALS BUY RUNNING FOR US SENATE #lucky charms #more like #licky charms #...they spit in your food too #don't eat foo the wind has touched #important #satan #satire #buff weomen #b🕳🕳bs #😩🖖 #radio #radiohead #I'm going fucking crazy #shit post #read the tags #pls #i guess you already are tho lol #liguini is the best pasta #i perfer walkmas for all tipes of music listening #weighted blankets are like being strangled #french kiss #satan my beloved

[oliverisntreal]

Silly little abt me

ミ☆ She/they/him

ミ☆ I'm Elvira/Oliver/Ollie

ミ☆ I ♡ Skz, Enhypen, Newjeans, dsmp, HEARTSTOPPER RAHHH, my crush <3

ミ☆ NICHOLAS NELSON IS MY HUSBANDDDD

ミ☆ I <3 Emo's

ミ☆ Honestly... I don't got many straight friends

ミ☆ I hang out with the weirdos (AKA KAI)

ミ☆ I <3 LEPRECON

ミ☆ I alsoooo <3 Arctic Monkeys, MCR, TV girl, Cavetown, Cigarettes After Sex, Steve Lacey, girl in red, d4vd, Billie Eilish

ミ☆ YouTubers I <3 : NSB, Flamingo, Tubbo, Ranboo, Maruwhat, Benoftheweek, Danny Phantom exe, Johnie Guilburt, aemilst, V1ryse_, Jake Webber

ミ☆ Other acc: @heartstopperiseverything

#abt me <3 #I <3 #i <3 him #i <3 them #ily #143

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

Had this thought while reading @valhelos ‘s phenomenal LEPRecon comic.

Can’t wait to see this roll out.

#artemis fowl #af #Trouble Kelp #Turnball root

[valhelos]

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#my art #LEPrecon #the artemis fowl files #artemis fowl #af #fanart #fancomic

[haveyoureadthispoll]

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure.

#book: artemis fowl #author: eoin colfer #genre: fantasy #genre: young adult #genre: middle grade

[checkoutmybookshelf]

You Tag Me Before I Tag You, and You're In. No Questions Asked.

Before we get into Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex, we need to take a small detour into one of the few Fowl Short stories. Before we continue to Artemis's saga, we need to spend a little time with the Root brothers. The Artemis Fowl Files is technically two short stories and a bunch of miscellaneous worldbuilding and activites--it's a kids book, you guys--but we're going to just focus on one of the stories. Let's talk "LEPrecon."

As always, SPOILERS ABOUND below the break, so if you're not caught up on the whole Artemis Fowl series and the short stories, catch up first, then read this.

Content Warning: Arachnaphobes might want to skip this post and this book, because there are scary AF spiders, and I will be talking about them.

We're all very familiar with--and love despite his grumplestiltskin nature and low-key sexism--LEP Commander Julius Root. We're also very familiar with Captain Holly Short, first female elf to make the Reconaissance Squad, or LEPrecon. What we are less familiar with are a) How Holly got herself on recon, and b) Commander Root's dickhead older brother. This short work gives us the story of Holly's recon initiation and introduces us to criminal mastermind wanna-be Captain Turnball Root.

Y'all know that I love Opal Koboi. Well, Turnball makes me sad. Not because he's not a good villain--he is--but because his entire cat-and-mouse game with Julius is sad and it gives Julius the big sad. The TLDR on Turnball is that he was using his position as an LEP Captain to run a smuggling ring and Julius caught him with his finger on the button of a massive explosion that would have wiped out half of Haven. Julius couldn't shoot his own brother, so Turnball escaped and the two have been cat-and-mousing for 500 years.

So when Turnball shows up on the Tern Islands to fuck up Holly's initiation and strip Julius of his magic--and thereby his life, because the LEP does not employ magic-less fairies--the heartbreaking thing is not so much Turnball himself as Turnball's effect of Julius. Julius goes from the most possibly exhausted "not this shit again" to "god I wish I could just hug it out with my brother and make everything ok" to "you threatened my officers, look in my eyes and tell me I won't pull this trigger." And yet, none of that prevents Julius from instantly going for the coffee grounds when his big brother swallows a tunnel blue spider.

SIDEBAR: Holy shit Colfer, did you HAVE to stick a carnivorous spider with claws sharp enough to cut air that is small enough to TIP DOWN SOMEONE'S THROAT in the path of an utter psychopath like Turnball goddamn Root??? I was not ike...thrilled with spiders before I read this short story, and the fact that tunnel blue spiders are Turnball's favorite way of torturing and murdering other elves was NOT COMFORTING.

So yeah, Julius didn't hesitate to use the coffee grounds to stop the tunnel blue spider's heart and save his brother's life. This relationship is hard for both brothers, and the tragic thing is that not only do they both know its hard but they also can't seem to break the pattern.

Now, what does this have to do with Holly? Well, it's her initiation into recon that Turnball completely fucks up to get to Julius. The rules for the initiation are that the rookie and a senior officer (Holly and Julius, respectively, in this case) go hunting for each other. The rookie has zero resources and the senior officer has a full arsenal. Typically, these initiations are recorded and reviewed, and candidates may or may not be promoted to recon based on the review. There is, however, a loophole: If the rookie tags (with a paintball gun) the senior officer before getting tagged themself, then they skip the review process and are in, no questions asked.

Despite fully managing to pull both Julius Root's and Trouble Kelp's bacon out of the fire and successfully facilitating the arrest of Turnball and his two accomplices, Holly is basically told that she isn't trustworthy enough to be in recon. She did have to disobey a set of direct orders and demonlish a human house to rescue her people, but JULIUS, COME ON. And yet, we know that Holly is a member of recon. So what gives?

In the ballsy-est move I think I have ever seen, when she is asked if there is anything she can do to prove that she's trustworthy, she shoots Julius in the chest with her painball gun three times.

*stands up. Applauds.*

Hell yes, Holly.

So overall, I'm not generally a big short story girl; I tend to prefer longofrm storytelling, or at least a novella. That said, I thoroughly did love this short story. I thought it was a nice addition to Holly and Root's relationship, and I think it does a wonderful job of setting up Turnball for his role in The Atlantis Complex.

#eoin colfer #artemis fowl #the artemis fowl files #holly short #commander root #julius root #turnabll root #short story #short story collection #middle grade sci fi #middle grade fantasy #middle grade books #middle grade fiction

[roleyartnstuff]

I havent said this but i kidna have 2 Rain World OCs:

Fake Pebbles (obvious pizza tower reference)

And

FOUR LUCKY LEPRECONS

(this one is more of a joke oc)

I have waaay better art of them, the ones Im posting are old.

#roley stuff #rain world #roley draws #these were made around August-September 2023 #and nowdays ive gotten better into art #the fake pebbles also has some deep stupid lore i added as the “bruno fake peppino” stories #most of these stuff are from my twitter btw

[math-is-magic]

Okay so I was reading a fic for The Hobbit/LotR the other day and it randomly occurred to me that sooo much of the antisemitism re: the goblins in HP could have been avoided if JRo just made the bankers be dwarves instead. Like, it all falls into place super nicely.

Dwarves were originally the miners of magical precious metals back in the day - Gringots' massive vaults are built on the remains of their ancient mines, protected by generations of dwarven enchantments, which is why its so impenetrable. They're the ones who figured out how to craft those metals into currency that couldn't just be magically falsified or replicated (except for briefly, by Leprecons, a magical species that they've probably beefed with for centuries), and those two reasons are the reasons they're in charge of the banks, not just because they're an inherently greedy race. They're still the master craftsmen of a bunch of wizard artifacts that they feel rightly belong to the dwarves. Readers would have a much better understanding of them and their pride and their cultural dissonance from humans because of our experience with similar dwarven cultures in fantasy for decades, which better underlines the supposed themes of equality and understanding... There's even precedent for a dragon in their underground haven - whether you want to go Smaug or Themberchaud for your inspo.

Idk, it just seems like much more obvious worldbuilding for what she was trying to do with the goblin race, with much less blatant bigotry, and instead she went the laziest, most anti-semitic takes. Sigh. We really shouldn't have been so surprised where she ended up.

#anti jkr #anti hp #fantasy worldbuilding #just some musings I should stop thinking about this it's not fair for me to put this much effort into fixing her crap

[visiogero]

Ensayo de PORQUE VOLVÍAS CADA VERANO

Montaje y función de MALA MADRE en el centro cultural parque central con @amaka_colectiva

Ensayo de EL RABINAL ACHI con la cnt

Montaje de FRUTOS EXTRAÑOS en el teatro Luis Mariano Rivera, Cumana

En función de la obra HAMLET WASHING MACHINE, en Rajatabla

#teatro #escenario #caracas #iluminacion #danza #diseño #iluminación #lee #lighting design #rosco #gamcolor #strand #leprecon #Cumana