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astraveritas · 1 year

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just bunch of stuff I noticed observing zodiac men

★ men with aries placements are like taurus men and their touching but on crack. it’s not gentle and sensual, these men will try to fight you, make you wrestle with them, pull your hair, tease you just to get you to react and once you do react their eyes light up, like they just won a contest. “come on fight with me, you don’t wanna fight cause you know you’ll lose” headasses

★ if taurus placements man is attracted to you he will find a way to touch you or get close to you somehow, he needs to lean really close to you cause he just can’t hear what you’re saying, he has tripped and now has to steady himself by grabbing your arms or waist, “those stairs look really steep, here grab my arm”. they are so predictable it’s hilarious.

★ men with gemini placements performing their best stand up routine and staring at the person they like after every joke just to see if they made them laugh like *�� please laugh*

★ you know men with cancer placements are taking you seriously and trust you if they invite you to their home. their home is really important place to them. it’s where their personality shines. it’s who they are. it’s their walls full of pictures of family and friends. photo albums and books their mother read to them when they were little and they could never throw them away, old concert tickets, blankets their grandmother made for them. they can’t let go of these things. so when they let you inside their little shell, you can tell they put huge amount of trust in you, they don’t do that to just anyone.

★ leo placements men are such attention whores when they like you. you meet and the next thing you know he’s taking off his shirt to show you his tattoos and muscles (leo placements men always end up half naked, it’s kinda their thing) and then running off to show you this cool trick he can do. overenthusiastic 5 year old and the family gathering energy, but he’s 26.

★ “peels tangerines and feeds the slices to you” school of virgo placement men flirting. they are very concerned by your vitamin intake. they actually start to be concerned a lot, like “did you eat breakfast? aren’t you cold? you look cold. I’ll go grab you a coat. and a scarf, six months ago you got sore throat without it”. like how do you even remember that? even I don’t remember that. they can’t have you walking around with a sore throat. they notice a lot of stuff, and try to be as useful and helpful as they can be.

★ libra placements men really focus on good manners in their partner, they want someone tactful and polite. they don’t want someone that could embarrass them in public. an acquaintance of mine was trying to flirt with this dude with libra venus/mars conjunction, out of nowhere she started cursing really loud while telling a story and let me tell you, the way everyone could see the visible disgust in this man's eyes, he said nothing, but if he had pearls he would be clutching them like an old lady in church.

★ if a man with scorpio placements is into you, you can play “where’s waldo?” with him, cause he will magically show up in the same place as you, and you catch him staring at you from behind a trashcan like “oh, there he is”. he will also start asking your friends about you, gathering information on you like he’s working for interpol.

★ men with sagittarius placements are flirting royalty, I know this title goes to libras or geminis a lot of times, but sagittarius placements men just bring more fun, laughter and fire into it. libras are polite and charming as hell in an old fashion way, geminis are witty and can rope you into flirtatious banter easily, but if anyone can flirt with you in a way you’re ready to risk it all, drop all the caution to the wind, and go live with him in a shitty van, it’s a sagittarius placement.

★ men with capricorn/saturn dominance in their chart really struggle with flirting. they are either not interested in this at all, so the person trying to flirt with them will feel like they are talking to a brick wall or they look like deer in the headlights when they realize someone is trying to flirt with them. either way, good luck to everyone who will try.

★ I noticed that when they like someone too much men with aquarius placements will straight up pretend that this person does not exist, it’s weird. they will tell you they like this person and when said person is near they avoid eye contact, stand in a way you can’t see their face, they clam up and become shy, they go from pretty chatty with everyone to silence once their crush shows up. it’s completely different from their usual descriptions, fastest 180 I’ve ever seen.

★men with pisces placements will try to get you alone, cause they’re trying to have little one on one time to “vibe” and “connect”, and then they’re like “crazy how you were in my dreams last night hahahaha” *👀👀👀* they’re always trying to make your relationship seem deeper than it is pretty quick. you had one “deep” conversation and now he thinks you’re his twin flame or something.

#astro notes #astrology notes #astro observations #astrology observations #*

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bizarre-blorbo-bracket · 8 months

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Round 1 poll 18: Antonio the Violinist from Identity V vs Waldo Trumbull from The Comedy of Terrors

Propaganda under the cut:

Antonio the Violinist

Antonio is a less popular character from an obscure video game. He's an incredibly tall, lanky, undead man based partially on the real life Niccolò Paganini and legends surrounding him. I have purchased things for research on Paganini to fuel my obsession with Antonio. He has prehensile hair and I just want him to carry me in it. I research harder into his lore than I do for any other character in this game, and he has very little. He's possessed by the devil because the devil got him out of music based slavery. He plays the violin and spins around when he hits a survivor. His original animation for a survivor struggling out of his hold was changed from him falling on the ground and getting up without using his arms to him swiping at the air around him. He has music magic that hurts you. He has no connection to any other playable character as of my submission. He's spooky yet handsome. One of his accessories implies he died alone in the cold of winter. He has insane amounts of gender. He can play violin on a single string. He can play that single stringed violin with his HAIR. He's full of skill and diseases. His first deduction(lore snippet gained by completing tasks) shows that he's got a CVS receipt length of medical disorders, and the second one shows that he's the only character in the game confirmed to fuck for pleasure. I want him carnally. I want him to be my bestie IRL. I want to be him. I want to hold him. I want to comfort him. I want to tear his limbs off and stitch them back on. I want him to be turned into a marketable plushie.

Waldo Trumbull

He's from a rarely talked about 1963 film which is absolutely ridiculous slapstick + dark comedy combined. He's a complete arsehole who there is no good reason to like--not only is he a serial killer (murders people to bring in customers to his undertaker's business) but he's also just a petty dick. He is built like a stick insect and moves around like a live-action cartoon, ungainliest creature ever. Has the personality of a scraggly feral cat that will bite and scratch if you get too close. He asks "May I?" before touching the breast of a *wooden carving* of a woman. His name is *Waldo Trumbull*, his first name only being revealed late in the film as he seems to know it's ridiculous and goes by his last name or "Mr W. Trumbull" (you can't pretend your first name is just W, Waldo, that's not how it works). Half of me wants to grab and shake him, half of me wants to keep him as a pet, he is such a creature.

#Waldo Trumbull #antonio the violinist #idenity v #the comedy of terrors

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jerktournament · 8 months

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The Tumblr Jerk Tournament Bracket...

...has dropped. I put all my love towards these assholes into it.

Seeded according to uhhhhh "my brain thinks these sources allign in same genre or medium, and if not, then it's because I think the characters have similar themes in some way in my brain". Contestants all chosen by YOU (+ Palpalymo, for diversity /j).

Polls: TBA. Once I finish making them all and draft them, I'll make an announcement.

There's no right or wrong criteria for who to vote here because trying to establish that via Tumblrpoll is useless. You can vote for someone because they're your favorite, because their propaganda swayed you, because they look cool, or because they're the meanest. Just think: Do You Want Them To Emerge Victorious? Or are they such an ass you'd delight in seeing them get swept?

I highly encourage taking the time to read some propaganda. These guys have lots of love behind them.

And last but not least, be nice to other people on the internet. These polls may be for asshole characters, but that gives you no right to be an asshole back. Anything attacking the fans or fandom of a character will get taken out via my sniper team.

Thanks for your patience and let the whooping begin.

Tag directory // Inbox, for propaganda, questions, chatter, etc.

Round One matchups, in text:

Zote the Mighty (Hollow Knight) VS Mothiva (Bug Fables)

Marvin Garden (Falsettos) VS Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Vic Sage/The Question (DC) VS Magic Man (Adventure Time)

Gary Smith (Bully) VS Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls)

Theseus (Hades) VS Gavin Reed (Detroit: Become Human)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) VS Shrek (Shrek)

Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!) VS Fakir (Princess Tutu)

Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim) VS Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Romeo (& Juliet) VS Tybalt Capulet (Romeo & Juliet)

Revali (Legend of Zelda) VS Ankh (Kamen Rider OOO)

Osamu Dazai (Bungou Stray Dogs) VS Berdly (Deltarune)

Louie (Pikmin) VS Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)

Vegeta (Dragon Ball) VS Sentinel Prime (Transformers Animated)

Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) VS Waldo Trumbull (Comedy of Terrors)

Herbert P. Bear (Club Penguin) VS Snowball (Battle for Dream Island)

Takaya Abe (Big Windup!) VS Bakugou (My Hero Academia)

Goro Akechi (Persona 5) VS Monoma (My Hero Academia)

Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa) VS Yesod (Lobotomy Corporation/Library of Ruina)

Vriska (Homestuck) VS Eridan (Homestuck)

Five Pebbles (Rain World) VS Dingo (Pikmin)

Dio (Zero Escape) VS Dio Brando (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Cordalia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) VS Dr. House (House M.D.)

Dan (Dan VS) VS Eleanor Shelstrop (The Good Place)

Church (Red VS Blue) VS Hank J. Wimbleton (Madness Combat)

Catra (She-Ra) VS Boscha (The Owl House)

Stan Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Azula (Avatar the Last Airbender)

Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3) VS Shen Jiu (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System)

GLaDOS (Portal) VS Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf)

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) VS Jonathan Simms (The Magnus Archives)

Rinne Amagi (Ensemble Stars) VS Papalymo (Final Fantasy XIV)

Owen Harper (Torchwood) VS Sawyer (Lost)

Chloe Bourgeois (Miraculous Ladybug) VS Heather (Total Drama)

#not a poll #txt #bracket #tumblr polls

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myheadsgonenumb · 8 months

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Murder on The Hogwarts Express: ch4

A Marauders' Era interactive murder mystery - read all the way down to vote in the poll and influence the next chapter

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The results are in!

A more contentious question than usual as it split voters between the fanon and canon interpretations of Regulus (with a safe, neutral option for those who did not want to get caught in the middle). I went out for the day and the third option was trailing behind while the Jegulus stans had put in the best showing, only to return and find canon fans had made a last stand and so "Cutting clippings about Lord Voldemort out of the paper" won by 44.4%.

So - without further ado - onto the next chapter!

Chapter 4: The Ponce's Tale

He was sitting all alone, a copy of the Daily Prophet spread open in front of him, using his wand to cut out clippings about Lord Voldemort - The Dark Lord Calls for Muggleborn Registration; The Dark Lord Denies any Involvement in the Death of Waldo Wimbledon, Minister for Magical Games and Sports; “Giants Will Only Continue To Kill More People Unless We Overthrow The Statute of Secrecy", The Dark Lord claims …He had a little pile already cut out on the seat next to him. (Regulus had a shrine to Lord Voldemort stuck up in his bedroom at home, and when he was at school he continued to collect stories about him and used a scrap book to keep them in.)

‘You!’ exclaimed Sirius, curling his nose up at the newspaper clippings but then choosing to ignore them, ‘I should have guessed. Who else would wear such poncy shoes?’

Regulus looked affronted, and tucked his feet beneath his robes. ‘I don’t know what you’re doing here,’ he said stiffly. ‘You made it perfectly clear that you wanted nothing to do with our family a few weeks ago.’

‘We’re here to catch a murderer,’ James told him.

‘And it’s you, little brother.’

‘Nonsense.’

‘Don’t try to deny it,’ Sirius snapped, his face was becoming flushed and his eyes were dark. ‘We followed the footprints of your poncy shoes right from the scene of the crime to here. You killed the Trolley Witch and then you ran away.’

‘Well you’d know all about running away!’

Sirius roared in outrage and pulled out his wand, but Remus caught hold of his wrist and gave him a warning glance. ‘You must understand it looks bad, Reg,’ he said to Regulus, in a tone much more calm than either Black brother was managing. ‘Your footprints are outside the compartment, so we know you were there - and then we find you here, all alone, scrapbooking the Dark Lord’s Greatest Hits. You’ve got to see that such open adoration of Voldemort does make you look a bit like a Death Eater - and thus a prime suspect for murder. That is what they’re known for.’

Regulus flushed. ‘I’m not breaking any laws here - I’m minding my own business.’

‘But murder is breaking the law,’ Peter pointed out.

‘Look - Reg - you’re our number one suspect right now,’ James said. ‘We followed your footprints right from the scene of the crime to find you privately celebrating a man who has slaughtered more people than I've had hot dinners… and I’ve had a lot of hot dinners. So - unless you want us to hand you straight over to Dumbledore when we get off this train, I suggest you tell us your version of events.’

‘Though we’re not saying we’ll believe you, mind,’ Sirius added, keeping his wand trained on his brother.

Regulus gave a (rather petulant) little sniff. ‘Alright then - not that it’s any of your business. You’re not aurors. You’re not even prefects.’

‘I am … I just don’t have my badge on.’ Remus looked down at his muggle t-shirt, which was still conspicuously inside out.

‘And - by the authority invested in Moony - we demand that you give us some answers,’ James said. ‘What were you doing at the scene of the crime?’

‘I wanted to buy some crystalized pineapple, if you must know,’ he said. ‘I’m a prefect now and on the quidditch team, not to mention a member of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. And this is my fifth year - the year I could get invited to the Slug Club if I make a good enough impression.’

‘Why would you care about that?’ James asked dumbfounded (he had been dodging invites to the Slug Club for the past twelve months).

‘It’s where a young wizard makes connections! Slughorn knows people. My whole life I’ve been in the shadow of my idiot older brother-’

‘Oi!’

‘- People passing me over for him, because he happened to be born first. Slughorn does it as well - and he’s my Head of House! But if I can just get into the club, make an impression of my own - then maybe everyone will forget I’m only the second son. Maybe important people will pay attention to me for once.’

Sirius lowered his wand, and then conjured a very tiny violin - which he began to play.

Regulus scowled at him. ‘So I wanted the crystalized pineapple to give to Slughorn as a gift - to get him to notice me.’

‘You filthy, little suck up.’

Regulus flushed again - a dark and angry red this time. ‘Well I didn’t have a chance to get any over the summer, did I?’ he snapped at his brother, his eyes flashing with annoyance. ‘You saw to that. Running away, creating all that drama. You haven’t even been at home and every last thing has been about you for the past month. Mum refused to go out in public - she wouldn’t take me to Diagon Alley, Kreacher was sent to get my school stuff… so I had no chance to buy a gift for Slughorn until I got on the train. So - once we were moving and I was settled in for the journey, I went looking for the Trolley Witch.’

His face grew pale as he remembered what came next, and he swallowed nervously - his prominent Adam’s apple bobbing up and down. ‘Only I didn’t find her. And I was almost at the end of the train. The train was dark - quiet - eerily quiet. And then I heard someone cry out, and a door slam shut. Just then the train rattled, and I lost my balance, but when I got back to my feet I could hear sounds coming from the final compartment…’

He swallowed again, and looked out of the window.

‘Go on…’ Sirius said (and there was a growl to his voice, a threatening sort of menace which put those in the know in mind of Padfoot).

‘So I went over to it - obviously. And I looked through the window and I saw… well the Trolley Witch was dead on the floor, all glassy eyes and pastry flakes everywhere and there were all these Chocolate Frog boxes surrounding her and then there was a figure - a dark figure, huddled on the ground searching through the boxes.’

‘You saw the killer!’ James said, his eyes shining.

‘I suppose I did - the Trolley Witch was dead and here this person was but…’ He shook his head. ‘I can’t tell you anything about them. Other than they were already in their school robes. That’s all I saw - their back, in black robes, their head was down - searching. I don’t know if it was a boy or a girl - or how old they were. It was just a figure… They were scrabbling through the boxes, picking up the Chocolate Frog Cards and throwing them aside. And then they cried out - like they were in pain. I smelled … blood. I suppose. An iron tang on the air. And then I turned and ran away.’

‘What?’ Peter asked (his voice seemed very loud in the quiet that Regulus’s story seemed to have cast like a spell over the carriage).

Reg frowned. ‘I smelled blood and ran away.’

‘Er - yeah…’ Peter glanced at his friends, who looked at him a little bemused. ‘Don’t you think that just seems a bit cowardly?’ he said.

Regulus flushed again.

‘Reg is a coward,’ Sirius said.

‘I’m not the one who ran away!’

‘You just ran away from a crime scene.’

‘You know what I mean!’

Meanwhile, Peter had taken the licorice wand he had stolen from the trolley out of his pocket and bit into it with relish. He immediately began to choke and turned a little blue. ‘Lodged in my … throat ,’ he coughed, and clamped a hand to his mouth, catching sight of the matching scorn in Sirius’s and Regulus’s eyes ‘... I’ll go.’ And he excused himself and nipped out of the door, slamming it behind him. They could hear him still choking out in the hall way. Then everything went quiet.

Sirius rolled his eyes. ‘The great greedy git, he’s always choking on whatever he shoves in his fat face.’

‘My my - is that really how you talk about your friends, big brother? I’d hate to hear what you say about me.’

Sirius whirled back around. ‘I’ll tell you what I have to say. I think your story has more holes in it than Swiss cheese!’ he declared. ‘Your footprints are at the scene - you’re a pure blood nutter - you want to snog Lord Voldemort, and failing that you’ll cut picture of him out of the newspaper like the world’s biggest fanboy - no one can vouch for you… I think you did it!’

‘Yeah? Who’s your alibi then, big brother?’

It was Sirius’s turn to flush - turning the bright crimson of the Hogwarts Express itself. He was very aware of James giving him a searching glance.

‘Sirius is not under suspicion,’ Remus said (he absentmindedly tugged at his t-shirt as he spoke). ‘You are - they’re your footprints out in the carriage.’

The door slid open, once again and Peter shuffled back inside - looking a bit less green about the gills than before, though his own t-shirt had damp sweaty patches under the arms.

‘Look,’ Regulus said, putting his wand and newspaper down and fixing all the marauders with a hard, and rather satisfied look. ‘All the evidence you have presented to me - such as it is - is entirely circumstantial. Yes - I admit I was there, but there is no proof I killed her - and that is what you need. Proof. Hard evidence. After all, it was Ullick Gamp, the first Minister of Magic himself, who decreed that - in matters of the law - circumstantial evidence is not enough to convict the pure of blood.’ He leaned forward and smirked. ‘You have nothing on me - so either do better, or give up.’

And, still smirking, he returned to his scrapbooking and the four boys filed out of the compartment, feeling gloomy.

‘He thinks he’s got us with that whole “pure bloods require proof to convict” thing,’ James said.

‘One rule for you lot - another for the rest of us,’ Remus said mildly. James frowned at him.

Peter was frowning as well. ‘He was wrong though, wasn’t he? It wasn’t Ullick Gamp who decreed that law, it was his successor - Damocles Rowle, and he was censured for it by the International Confederation of Wizards. I would have expected better from a ponce like Reg…’ he shook his head. ‘Anyway - maybe Regulus is right, maybe we should give up? Maybe we should leave it to the grownups to sort out once we get to Hogsmeade?’

But James would not hear of it. The answers were here on this train and he just needed to put all the puzzle pieces together. ‘It’s a matter of honour as much as anything, he told the others as he led them back down the carriage towards the final compartment. ‘Too many people know we’re investigating now, and we can’t be seen to fail.’

He then came to a stop and threw out his arm, stopping his friends from continuing. ‘Do you hear that?’ he whispered. ‘There’s someone in the compartment.’ He put his fingers to his lips, and they all strained their ears and sure enough, they heard the sound of footsteps and searching - and even the occasional tut - coming from the crime scene.

‘The killer always returns to the scene of the crime!’ he said gleefully, his face shining like a sweaty cheese once again. ‘Come on!’ And - scurrying along on his tippytoes, both as fast and as quietly as he could - he hotfooted it down the carriage, glanced through the window into the compartment, saw a figure inside and triumphantly threw open the door yelling ‘Caught you!’ at the top of his voice.

The figure gasped - and turned around - and James’ stomach lurched and his heart froze in his chest as he took in the blazing red hair and startled green eyes. The mysterious figure, the suspect he had apprehended, was only the love of his life: Lily Evans.

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mappingthemoon · 4 months

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Books Read 2023

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations / Mira Jacob

A Grief Observed / C. S. Lewis

Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader / ed. Brian Carpenter & Tom Franklin

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure / Dorothy Allison

Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate (A Golden Nature Guide) / Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Herbert S. Zim ; Harry McNaught (ill.)

Improbable Memories / Sarah Moon

Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery / Adam Clair

The Difference Between / Billy McCall

The Submissive (The Submissive #1) / Tara Sue Me

Last Night at the Casino [v. 1] / Billy McCall

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing / Marie Kondo ; Cathy Hirano (tr.)

Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov

My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones

"Waltz of the Body Snatchers" / Alfred Bester, in Andromeda I: An original SF anthology / ed. Peter Weston

Blue Highways: A Journey Into America / William Least Heat-Moon

The Stars My Destination (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series) / Alfred Bester

Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov

Man and His Symbols / Carl G. Jung

Mysteries of the Unexplained / ed. Carroll C. Calkins

The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin

The Seven Ages / Louise Glück

The Wild Iris / Louise Glück

Vita Nova / Louise Glück

Doctor Who: Impossible Worlds: A 50-Year Treasury of Art and Design / Stephen Nicholas & Mike Tucker

Where's Waldo? (Where's Waldo #1) / Martin Handford

Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (Where's Waldo #3) / Martin Handford

Doctor Who 50 Years #3: The Doctors / ed. Marcus Hearn

Rabbit, Run / John Updike

Mother Night / Kurt Vonnegut

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) / Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, in collaboration with The Policy Standards Office of the Library of Congress

"Descriptive Bibliography" / Terry Belanger, in Book Collecting: A Modern Guide / ed. Jean Peters

The Essential Doctor Who #2: The TARDIS / ed. Marcus Hearn

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited / Vladimir Nabokov

Chicago: City on the Make / Nelson Algren

Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918 / Gilles Néret

American Gods: A Novel / Neil Gaiman

Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968: Art as Anti-Art / Janis Mink

The Empathy Exams: Essays / Leslie Jamison

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families / James Agee & Walker Evans

Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction / ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg

Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project / W. Eugene Smith ; ed. Sam Stephenson

Twilight / Gregory Crewdson ; Rick Moody

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World / N.E. Thing Enterprises

Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams / Steve Horton & Michael Allred ; Laura Allred (ill.)

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path / Jack Kornfield

The Gin Closet: A Novel / Leslie Jamison

The New Kid on the Block / Jack Prelutsky ; James Stevenson (ill.)

A Book of Common Prayer / Joan Didion

Mariette in Ecstasy / Ron Hansen

Camp Damascus / Chuck Tingle

The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak (Public History in Historical Perspective) / Tammy S. Gordon

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas / Rebecca Solnit & Rebecca Snedeker

Other Voices, Other Rooms / Truman Capote

Fabulous New Orleans / Lyle Saxon ; E.H. Suydam (ill.)

Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets / Matt Lake

Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence (Griffin & Sabine #1) / Nick Bantock

Sabine's Notebook: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues (Griffin & Sabine #2) / Nick Bantock

The Golden Mean: In Which The Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes (Griffin & Sabine #3) / Nick Bantock

Breath, Eyes, Memory / Edwidge Danticat

Last Night at the Casino, v. 2 / Billy McCall

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions / Randall Munroe

Collection-Level Cataloging: Bound-with Books (Third Millennium Cataloging) / Jain Fletcher

Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) / Barbara Johnstone

My Misspent Youth: Essays / Meghan Daum

Slender Intuition: Essays on Artist's Block / Brian Hitselberger

The Mister / E L James

Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place / Scott McClanahan

The Transcriptionist: A Novel / Amy Rowland

Explanations/Opinions below the cut:

Ok so I have several reading lists/stacks that I rotate through: my to-read spreadsheet (which has almost 300 titles listed in chronological order by date added, with the oldest being from 8/22/2014), my to-read bookcase/nightstand (which holds ~50 books I’ve acquired over the past few years but haven’t yet read), a stack of oversized unreads that don’t fit on the nightstand shelves (this gets its own list bc I need to read them and find a permanent home for them before the stack gets too tall), and “interruptions” (books that override the list order bc I didn’t want to wait to read them, for whatever reason).

Maybe it’s weird that I’m so attached to reading things “in order”? Idk. I’ve always been like this. It’s only a mild compulsion – obviously, I am perfectly capable of ignoring what’s supposed to be next on the list, in favor of reading something that catches my interest more strongly in the moment, but in general, I like to read things either in the order I added them to the list, or the order I personally acquired a physical copy (if I went by the list only, I’d be drowning in unread books [yay, college town thrift stores], so I gotta stay on top of that pile pretty regularly). So that is why I am often reading things that I first became aware of/added to my list nearly 10 years ago. Sometimes this practice results in feelings like, “Dang, I wish I would’ve actually read this 10 years ago,” but also sometimes, “WOW, I’m so glad I’m reading this RIGHT NOW, as opposed to 10 years ago when I first heard about it!”

I think my favorites this year were Mariette in Ecstasy; Other Voices, Other Rooms; Crapalachia; and Speak, Memory.

Mild disappointments were the essay collections by Leslie Jamison and Meghan Daum, two authors I’m pretty sure I discovered via popular and relateable quotes reblogged on tumblr ca. 2014, but the collections taken as a whole just had too many moments of cringe – casual classism, arrogant self-absorption, and other annoying and unrelateable qualities typical of privileged 20-something writers (this tone definitely appealed to me when I was a naïve and melodramatic snotty 20-something, so there’s that).

As a kind of memorial, Rachael and I read David’s three favorite books: The Stars My Destination, Mother Night, and American Gods. In all the time I knew him, including all the times we used to sit on the porch together, reading quietly while he drank whiskey, I never thought to ask him his favorites. I kept looking for pieces of him in the stories, wondering what lines stood out, what made a book memorable, what did it say about him that these were his favorites.

Being an elder Millennial, I’m in the stage of nostalgically re-acquiring important artifacts from my childhood, so that’s why there are some children’s books on my list. Where’s Waldo? was one of the most coveted books in my grade-school library! There was always a list of people waiting to check it out, but usually, whoever actually had the book that week would let the other kids gather around and look together.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw was a recommendation from my goth teenaged birthdaughter <3 which I probably read too much personal symbolism into but maybe not!

I thought John Updike was overrated, lol.

Favorite photography book: W. Eugene Smith’s Dream Street. His pictures made me so homesick, and it was wild because he took them from 1955-1957 but they still really, REALLY, to me, looked like the Pittsburgh of my ‘80s/’90s memories (bc Pittsburgh doesn’t change, and also the “idea” or “brand” of Pittsburgh in the ‘80s/’90s was ofc consciously referencing its industrial working-class past). He took over 10,000 photos but was never able to “finish” the project to his intense, obsessive standards of perfection (I KNOW THAT FEEL) and felt it failed to capture the multifaceted essence of the city. WELL, not in my opinion at least!

PS I'm moonmoth on LibraryThing.

#books #lists #personal #Dear Sir Decadent

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eclvpses · 29 days

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introducing; geordi quinn massacre

welcome to marina, GEORDI QUINN MASSACRE ( cis man, he/him ) ! they are a THIRTY-ONE year old WITCH who resides in HYLAND PARK. They work as a MUSIC TEACHER at MARINA HIGH SCHOOL and are said to look a lot like HENRY ZAGA. People around the island find them to be +SANGUINE and +CONSCIENTIOUS, but also -HIGH-STRUNG and -COWARDLY. what do you think?

stats.

name: geordi quinn waldo massacre.

supernatural relation: cradle witch from his father's bloodline.

sexuality: gay.

birthday: march 11.

star sign: pisces.

myer-briggs: isfp.

occupation: music teacher at marina high school.

place of birth: marina island.

last played on spotify: unknown / nth by hozier.

general disposition: nurturing and anxious.

background.

geordi was born to an up-and-coming rock star / legend, and his number one groupie at the time

his mum was only 15 when he was born, she still had a whole childhood she wanted to live, and of course his dad didn’t stick around to do any parenting - he was already having multiple other children with multiple other women - so it resulted in geordi raising his mum more than the other way around

by the time he was a teenager his dad was firmly out of his life, his band finally taking off and leaving behind all the families he’d created and destroyed in the blink of an eye to do world tours

the best thing he ever got from his dad was his little sister olive, her own mum and geordi’s close friends that bonded over their hatred for the man that uprooted their lives without even hesitating or caring

growing up already used to taking care of his mum, geordi didn’t hesitate to help raise his sister too, who he still considers his best friend and is fiercely protective of even tho now she’s more his guardian angel than the other way around (she’s sm cooler and he’s just a loser with anxiety problems)

geordi realized he was a witch at a young age, it became sort of obvious when things around him began to set on fire at the slightest increase of any emotion, but it definitely came as a surprise considering his mum is 100% human with no magic whatsoever, so lo and behold his dad cursed him with something else

he never really gained control over his abilities and therefore gets nervous ever using them

just wanted a normal life for himself - the only similarity geordi would admit to having with his dad was their love, passion, and natural gift towards music, so he took this talent and ran, a music teacher now at one of marina’s public schools

most of geordi’s life was as mundane as it could be and he loved it, until his fiancé lark woke him one night in hysterics, a headache so bad he struggled to speak, walk, basically exist -

a simple slip at work that no one thought anything of had led to a burst aneurysm, he was gone before doctors could even diagnose the issue

geordi waited weeks, but lark never returned to him as a ghost the way he’d hoped, so in a fit of desperation, he turned to his sister and begged her to help him bring lark back - of course olive helped, and while for a week or two at best it seemed like the reanimation spell worked, the malevolence some ghosts possess began to manifest in lark and then some, until he became actively violent, attacking geordi in their home and begging to be put to rest again

geordi doesn’t talk about that particular incident (that took place around two years ago) and he doesn’t talk about lark anymore, and he especially refuses to touch on his magic - probably ever again

details.

he doesn’t actually believe in nicknames, when he introduces himself he says his name’s geordi quinn and will pull a face when people call him geordi, gq, etc. but mostly grin and bears it

his students call him mr. massy, kind of hates the association his last name gives him with his dad and frankly doesn’t particularly think it. appropriate for his students to go around saying Massacre 24/7

he’s developed a barbarically keen sense of mind-reading from growing up and talking to olive in their heads, sometimes a flash of someone’s inner thoughts will go through his mind and he hates it but it’s uncontrollable

just. an awkward anxious fool LKSDHGKLHSDGHSDGLKH he means well but he never rly got to be a kid and had a life of tragedy, he just doesn’t know how to relax rly

there’s been hook up and dating attempts since lark, but he wasn’t much of a Hook Ups person before his fiancé and he is Far from it now, and dating just hurts a bit bless his heart

so grossly loving and nurturing its definitely got him hurt in the past, putting all his attention and trust into people who didnt deserve it / didn’t reciprocate but it hasn’t stopped him from doling out all his kindness

a loser pathetic pushover frankly</3

connections.

he’s lived in marina his whole life so friends!!! childhood friends, teacher friends, just friends from any walk of life rly i need it all

exes from before lark perhaps/first love situation??

friends of olive’s he sees as siblings / family too :)

awkward hook up attempts as of recent or in the past…….

also dates. he’s tried to go on n it failed OR

dates that went well n he got anxious about feeling something?? :eyes:

ppl who know of his dad, this connection cld go anywhere rly but some juicy ideas could come from his painfully loserish lame ass dad n screwing over more ppl in town etc.

i’d love to see lark’s family?? we can talk over whether geordi is still close w them or if their relationship is more strained after lark’s passing</3

anything else that anyone wants :D

#marina:intro #anxiety tw #death tw #grief tw #violence tw #an actual proper intro fr my new bebe :D

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insomniakingdoom · 6 months

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I realised I never posted this one here

#how dare me #that's the best edit I made #Moonstone Island #Waldo the Magic Man #Ferra #Quill #Ossono #Zed #Are all there too I guess #shitpost #low effort #That was my first reaction to the game #and the first thing I even posted on the server

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ionicslime · 9 months

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Excuse me waiter my full name is,

Ionic "im already in cool mode" "tutorial character" "i will get a color role if you beat the path of pain in hollow knight" " @king-of-fuffies do radiant gruz mother" "ADMIN WATCH DAWGS HES TRY TO CHANGE MY COLOR WITHOUT MY CONSENT" "THERE WAS NO BASEMENT! IT WAS THE SECOND FLOOR OF MY HOUSE!" "i don't know what a bong is. WHAT THE FUCK IS A BONG" "there should be a suggestion box on this server. THEY CALL IT THE LITTERBOX" "im going to take an emergency shit" "YOU FORGOT TO PICK UP THE LEGO ON THE FLOOR" "i was the best man AND the pope" "does this look like the face of mercy" "you own him therefore you are responsible for them" "the" "you are the father" "if im a moth do i deal 2 masks of damage" "my body is ready" "if it needs a color role you'll never take me alive" "it was funny but also" "extremely" "extremely" "extremely" "extremely" "cursed" "carleah, not pillar john" "he soaks up more damage that way" "everyone has a horror game dopelganger" "Ruck" "Fuffy get your man’s, He exploded" "I need to find Carleah and steal their liver to take their ability to open the thousand-one year door" "Only then Keane McZupp will explode turning into a bagel at 3 am after ordering the among us happy meal" "ethereal toasters are the only thing that can control toast" "all toasters have secret potato slots" "he is several parallel universes behind" "the internet is a giant mcdonalds" "I’m a ocean" "i cant even throw you, much less pick you up" "he didn't know FedEx had a stand" "funny words magic man" "nothing to see here" "Za Waldo!" "Remember besties, don’t blow stuff in peoples faces unless it’s air kisses, or darts!" "fuffy left me in the car for 4 hours" "There are no mistakey wakeys" "Fuffy I’m like 300% sure you are a pony" "He was pouring out lemonade into the abyss" "**Fuffy was ejected. One Sussy Boy remains**" "The abyss was thirsty" "A funny" "I am not safe for clothes driers" "Can your wall eat a lawn mower" "squirrels do not die at terminal velocity. also theres lizards that fire blood from their eyes as a defense mechanicism" “I bowl like my sexuality: Not straight” "short" "You have 5 minutes to live" "IM A FUCKING CAR KEANE" "\*I mean edgy I mean edgy I mean edgy I mean Edgy" "What is this mario party" "no" "brain issue" "i even crashed your computer" “Seduce the Skeleton!” “Kentucky Fried [REDACTED]” "im scared of my own pasta power sometimes" "He becomes noise pizza tower" "Anything is possible, with the power of Crazy Dave’s Twinkysdinkys" "he eats the golf ball and dies" “Everything is a weapon if you hit someone hard enough” "Happy tale of under unde of tale tdat" "fuffy brain melt. he die" "why are you in my chem textbook" "where is the dinnerbone cat." "Everything is a table." "Was schmoving too hard and bust my ass." "That was just my normal attack. Deploying Unexplainable Gifs" "I am immune to gachas. And they’re immune to me." "Did you know you don’t have organs. The constitution I wrote myself says so." "Go to Burger King" "My attack was so powerful discord crashed" "Fuffy open the door I have 3 sad poems and one sparkler" "If you rearrange final you get fianl" "stop watching cringe and beat the shit out of every boss." “Alright, you’re getting stepped on.” "i am the bio-weapon in youe walls" "*Hello my name is now temporarily humphrey*" "Also I beat up a toaster today," "we got a job to do" Slime

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thealmightyemprex · 11 months

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Fairy Tale June:Jack and the Beanstalk

SO we are going at a emmy winnging TV special directed by Gene Kelley in collaboration with Hannah Barbera

This 1967 TV special follows Jack (Bobby Riha) and peddler Jeremy (Gene Kelley) as they climb a magic beanstalk to find a wicked Giant (Voiced by Ted Cassidy ) who has cursed the princess Sarleena (Voiced by Janet Waldo ) to become a living harp

SO I actuallly reallly enjoyed this despite it having a big flaw .I like the split between the surface world which is all live action and the Giants castle where every inhabiant is animated.The actual blending of live action Bobby Riha and Gene Kelley is decenet but the choreography and interacction with animated characters is good .FOr a Hannah Barbera TV production the animation is better then usual.The songs are alll fun ,What Does the Worgle Birfd Do or One Staarry moment might be my faves

Of all the versions of JAck and the Beanstalk I have seen....This one has the best giant ,being big and intimidating while also having a sense of humor to him without making him a fool ,my favorite moment when he brings up famous Jacks when he meets Jack .I'll asmit part of this is due to my fondness to his voice actor the late Ted Cassidy ,who gives the giant a great deep BOOMING voiice,its basically how I imangined the giant when I read the story as a child

ALso Wanna highlight the performance ofHannah Barbera veteren,Judi Jetson herself , Janet Waldo as the Princess,who brings a sense of vulnrability.Also props to the ghost singers Dick Beals who sings for Jack and MArni Nixon who sings for the PRincess

Of course the highlight of the film is the director and star ,Gene Kelley.Kelley is a veteren song and dance man so seeing him isalways a delight and I think him doing a fairy tale is actually a great choice.See in Kelleys movies there is usually a fantasy sequence (Probabbly trhe most famous is his dance scene with Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh)so it is fitting to see him dance with talking birds,duel a giant cat and sing a duet with a cartoon princess.I think Kelley does a great job in this film .....But it leads to the big problem

So nothing agains Bobby Riha.....But Jack in this film reallly feels unnecesarry....Because all the heroic stuff is done by Gene Kelley and Jack is just kinda there..To be honest I dont get why they didnt just let Kelly be an aged up Jack or something .Its the biggest flaw of the movie,that JAck is just not necesarry

OVerall,I actually had a lot of fun with the movie,and its fun seeing a fairy tale starring Gene Kelley

@ariel-seagull-wings @princesssarisa @the-blue-fairie @amalthea9 @scarletblumburtonofeastlondon @theancientvaleofsoulmaking@autistic-prince-cinderella @filmcityworld1 @themousefromfantasyland @angelixgutz

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cannibalcroissants · 7 months

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Magic man from Moonstone Island. Drawing I did that has a progression of more and more hair until the final product I have concluded with on the left. Probably going to clean and add more but for now this is my man. This is him. RIGHT HERE.

#moonstone island #moonstoneislandgame #game #magic man #waldo magic man #msi magic man #moonstone island magic man #waldo moonstone island

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downatfraggleblog · 1 year

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Riley’s Fraggle Rock Reviews!

Season One, Episode One- Beginnings

Beginnings are always hard, aren’t they? Even if you have a vision for what you want your project to be, it can be hard to get to that point from nothing. You have to start *somewhere*, while making sure everything makes sense for your audience and keeping them entertained and promising that “This will be great! Really!!”

...Admittedly, this is more for me than for Jim, Jerry, and the incredible team of performers, puppet builders, crew members, songwriters, and gorg wranglers who worked their baloobiuses off to get Fraggle Rock made (because *surely* the work of one woman typing reviews about a decades old show is harder than actually making the show was). I’m not sure how to start things here myself, so I feel a little better seeing the crew of Fraggle Rock is in the same spot that I am on this one... more or less.

So! Without further ado, I want to welcome you to the review series! (If you’re looking for more information on the series, check the ‘about’ page.) If for some reason anybody reading this does not know anything about Fraggle Rock, I will be highlighting the names of all the major characters and groups in this episode. There are a lot of elements at play here, but I’m sure you’ll do just fine. Now, I know what you’re here for- let’s start the episode! How does Beginnings begin?

We begin with a dark workshop. *The* workshop, actually, as we see old handyman Doc and his loyal dog Sprocket begin settling into this old, dusty room. I always assumed the workshop was the front room of the house, as we often see Doc bringing in groceries and talking to neighbors, but he explicitly says he is converting an “unused room” into his workshop. Did they always live here? My personal theory is that Doc inherited the house from an old friend or relative, who simply used some other entrance to the house, as I simply can’t believe Doc just had a whole room lying around for who knows how long. He doesn’t strike me as a man to make waste of a whole room like that. Besides, I find more whimsy in him settling in here just as things begin stirring in the world just below his feet.

Speaking of which, just about five feet down and ten feet to the viewer’s right is fraggle explorer Matt, who is lamenting the end of his journeys charting out the caves of Fraggle Rock.

(I can see where Gobo gets his sense of style from!)

His wish for more adventure is quickly granted when a magical force (Doc) penetrates the cave wall (moves a box out of the way), opening a portal to the mythic “Outer Space,” a legend to fragglekind. The exposition from Doc in this scene is kind of flat, but I quite enjoy Matt’s antics here. He quickly rushes home to prepare for this new adventure.

Here we meet Matt’s nephew Gobo, who suffers from protagonist syndrome but has a healthy dose of eccentricity to balance the mixture. Matt trusts Gobo with his papers as he begins to pack (along with one of my favorite bits of physical humor in the episode).

“I am leaving my books and maps with you for safe keeping!” he says as they thud on the cave floor. (Look at his arms— he’s rod handed. I wonder how many takes it took to get this shot perfect…)

Gobo pages his uncle’s (presumably now damaged) tomes and here comes our first song of the series, “Hip Hip Hooray!” Despite the name, I’m not quite fond of this sequence. I feel like it’s mostly here to showcase some of the new puppetry tricks still being toyed with for the series, but we will see just about all these tricks honed much better in later episodes (swimming fraggles, waldos, fraggles “balancing” things on their nose). Admittedly, I am quite a fan of the one fraggle just before the song balancing on one foot atop another’s head, but I’ll let you find that one for yourself ;) Otherwise, the song is boring and so is the staging. Anyways, let’s meet some more fraggles!

(I find it adorable that Wembley comes out following Boober in their very first shot onscreen together. Just something I appreciate!)

Enter gloomy Boober, silly Wembley, and daredevil Red. After an endearing slapstick sequence, the trio all find themselves tripping over one another in Gobo’s room. This scene doesn’t really forward the plot in any way besides establishing these three as characters, and I honestly don’t mind too much.

After the brief visit from his friends, Gobo sees his uncle off on his newest adventure in what is probably my favorite sequence of the episode, and our second musical number, “Follow Me”. Not only am I getting a wave of nostalgic pathos, but the interactions between uncle and nephew are very charming to watch. Gobo’s interactions with Matt in this song and the sequence that shortly follows are endearing because of how natural they feel. There’s genuine chemistry between these performers, having worked together on the Muppet Show and first few Muppet Movies, but beyond that the relationship between Matt and Gobo feels like a real family. They are by no means perfect, but there is clearly a lot of love for one another. It’s a shame that a lot of relationships highlighted in Season One fall to the wayside as the writers figure out their footing.

Matt tasks Gobo with receiving messages he will send back home as he explores Outer Space, and while Gobo says he could never, his uncle doesn’t quite hear that last part. Gobo, feeling a sense of obligation to his elder, sees no way out of it, and wishes Matt goodbye. “Think of me as Uncle Travelin’ Matt,” he replies, and a music cue tells the audience (and, seemingly, the fraggles onscreen) that this name will be important. With that, he’s gone out the door, and Doc is none the wiser. Sprocket, on the other hand, is freaking out at the discovery of these strange little creatures coming out of the mysterious hole in the wall.

We catch up with Gobo a little later, when the nurturing and dreamy Mokey asks him why he’s been so down. Gobo doesn’t know how to talk about his feelings, which Mokey interprets as needing space to process things. Gobo announces to nobody in particular that no, he needs *help*, and Wembley (unaware of his friends anguish?) eagerly calls Gobo to look at a musical construction made by the diminutive, formic Doozers. We get an instrumental sequence here as Doozers build a new bridge with tiny construction tools. (Sequences like these are quite common in the earliest episodes of Fraggle Rock, and while they often can be fun, they can really stop an episode in its tracks...)

By the time Wembley finishes his song, the Doozers have trapped him in with the new bridge they just assembled, as Gobo glumly comments. “It’s a good thing I’m hungry,” Wembley proclaims, as he begins devouring the highway before him.

(If you’re new here, no this isn’t just a Wembley thing. All fraggles do it.)

Wembley asks Gobo what’s wrong, and Gobo again cannot elaborate, so he heads out to go get some wisdom from Marjory the Trash Heap (Again, if you’re new here, she’s their oracle. And yes, she is a talking pile of compost.)

In order to get to her, however, he must cross the Gorg’s Garden, guarded by the titanic Junior Gorg. His blundering mammoth size proves no match for a fraggles’ speed, however, and he misses Gobo as the latter makes his way to the oracle in question.

Her heralds (sons?), the murine Philo and Gunge announce her presence and the pile of compost awakens. She declares that Gobo has “Troubles,” and breaks into the highest energy segment of the episode, our last new song, “I Seen Troubles”. I adore this sequence, especially with how much fun everybody seems to be having and how high energy it is. It’s a spectacular contrast to the rest of the episode, in the best possible way.

Gobo explains that he doesn’t know how to do what he promised his uncle, and that he feels alone and scared of the terrible monster (Sprocket) that he will have to contend with. “Alone? Then don’t be alone!” Bring some friends, Marjory says, friends help. Philo and Gunge declare that to be all, and Gobo goes back to recruit his friends to tag along and help him out. Boober finds the request terrifying, and Red doesn’t believe a word of it, but the group agrees to go.

The sequence where they enter the tunnel to Outer Space has great scoring, and establishes a few running jokes, such as Wembley here bumping his head on a pipe. Everybody is subsequently stopped by a ‘Hideous, Round Thing’ (a red ball Sprocket lost down the hole) blocking up the doorway to Doc’s Workshop.

I hope this wasn’t bothering any of you before, but I just can’t help but be irritated by the fact the Hideous Round Thing is floating about six inches off the ground. Come on! Couldn’t they just have one of the Fraggle Five bend offscreen and pick it up? Couldn’t be bothered to do that?

Regardless, Gobo bravely ventures out of the Fraggle Hole and into Outer Space, past a sleeping Sprocket, only to find his uncle’s message when Doc comes in with the mail, various magazines and… a postcard for one Gobo Fraggle? Doc puts the errand card in the trash (...instead of checking with his neighbors? Perhaps more proof Doc just moved in.) and Gobo makes for the safety of Fraggle Rock. Only problem is the commotion woke up Sprocket, who now has Gobo by the collar of his cardigan, and everybody is freaking out. Mokey finally decides to throw the Hideous Round Thing at the monster to get it to let Gobo go.

This of course works, as dogs love their balls, and Gobo zips back into the tunnel with a “whoosh” sound- another running gag in the making. Red apologizes for not believing Gobo, and they head back home, singing a reprise of Hip Hip Hooray. That night, Gobo reads the message proclaiming his uncle is okay, and finally the young fraggle can rest easily.

(In actuality, Matt almost got hit by a car, ran into a fire hydrant, and mistook a bunch of children playing baseball for horrible warriors. He simply thought Gobo would find Outer Space too preposterous to put all that in his letter back home.)

We end the episode back on Doc and Sprocket, who have just finished setting up shop (literally). Sprocket barks down the hole at his new ‘friends’, and Doc declares that one of these days he’ll get around to boarding up that revolting crack in the wood paneling.

Final Rating- 6/10

Song Score- 3.5 radishes out of five “I Seen Troubles” and “Follow Me” are both spectacular songs, and I like them both in very opposite directions. I Seen Troubles provides a great energy boost to an otherwise meandering episode, and the fun everybody had during it is infectious. Follow Me is a wonderful lullaby for the soul, and one of the series’ classics for a reason (Oh yea, it’s coming back!). “Hip Hip Hooray,” however, brings the score down for its mediocrity, both times it comes about. It’s not horrible, but it’s weak as cardboard.

Story Score- 3 radishes out of five I admire the determination of the writing crew, getting every main character and group on screen with ample time to shine. However, the episode feels both very busy and very hollow at the same time, and the actual plot of the episode is kind of short compared to all the little side bits we run into (Gobo’s friends visiting his room, Wembley playing his song on the Doozer construction, etc.). None of these little bits really push the episode forwards either, but I do think all of this can be forgiven by a writing team that is still figuring themselves out.

Performance Score- 3.5 radishes out of 5 Everybody seems to be having fun! The quick establishing moments of Mokey, Wembley, Boober, and Red all do a good job giving the audience a nice feel for each character, and the physical comedy in this episode is very good, better than I remembered. The puppetry stunts are mostly standard for the series going forward, with many of them improving greatly beyond this episode, but there are a few novel ones as well, such as Matt dropping his books. Score is also a little low for this episode due to it being in what I like to call the “Glum Gobo” era, before Jerry really figured out the light inside Gobo’s character. Don’t worry, it’ll come with time.

That was Beginnings! It’s not perfect, but that doesn’t surprise me. The show is still getting its footing. This is by no means an episode I’d skip in future watchathons, but it’s not one I’ll go out of my way to see when I’m thinking about the Rock. Part of me fears I rated it so middle of the road because I don’t have much to review it on other than memories of other episodes, but I think it is still a fair rating. I apologize if this one was a little wordy too, there was a lot to cover! Next episode up to bat is “Wembley and the Gorgs”. I’ll see you there!

#reviews #fraggle rock

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