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cherylmmbookblog · 11 months

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#Blogtour The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu

It’s a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu. About the Author Originally from Shanghai, China, Wenyan Lu is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2020. Wenyan holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Her unpublished historical novel The Martyr’s Hymn was…

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#Allen and Unwin #Blogtour #literary fiction #Random Things Tours #The Funeral Cryer #Wenyan Lu

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spookshowninjakitty · 2 years

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This Wild, Wild Country by Inga Vesper

Three women; a mystery that spans decades. Will the truth finally come out?

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dougwallen · 2 years

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Paul Dalla Rosa book review for The Big Issue

#Paul Dalla Rosa #books #reading #review #book review #An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life #Allen and Unwin #Serpent's Tail #stories #short stories #The Big Issue #Australia

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uwmspeccoll · 25 days

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Milestone Monday

March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day, a day to honor the literary prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) author of acclaimed high fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has shared that the seeds of inspiration for his novels came from his childhood fascination and experimentation with constructed language and a 1911 Summer holiday hiking through Switzerland. Roughly fourteen years after his Swiss adventure, Tolkien would write The Hobbit and the first two volumes of Lord of the Rings while teaching in Oxford.

Stepping slightly away from Tolkien’s novels, today we’re digging into our broadside collection and sharing Bilbo’s Last Song (At Grey Havens), a poem about leaving Middle-Earth. It first appeared, as seen here, as a poster published in 1974 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., the original English publisher of his famous novels, with illustrations by Pauline Baynes (1922-2008), who illustrated many of Tolkien's publications. Chronologically, the poem takes place at the end of the last volume of Lord of the Rings, however it was never included in the series.

Read other Milestone Monday posts here!

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#milestone monday #j.r.r. tolkien #tolkien reading day #the hobbit #lord of the rings #bilbo's last song (at grey havens)#pauline baynes #broadsides #George Allen & Unwin

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 2 years

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Stewart Wavell, Audrey Butt and Nina Epton - Trances - Allen & Unwin - 1966

#witches #trances #occult #vintage #allen & unwin #stewart wavell #audrey butt #nina epton #candles #1966

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tonguesofdestruction · 2 years

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Darkest Web : Drugs, death and destroyed lives von Eileen Ormsby Buchkritik

Das Buch heißt mit vollständigem Titel “Darkest Web : Drugs, death and destroyed lives … the inside story of the internet’s evil twin” und stammt von der Anwältin, Autorin und Freelance-Journalistin Eileen Ormsby. MIt über 300 Seiten ist diese Buch schon viele Seiten stark. Das erste Buch von Ormsby “Silk Road” beschäftigte sich mit ebenjenen Schwarzmarkt im Darknet, der große Bekanntheit…

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#Allen & Unwin #Darkest Web #Death and Destroyed Lives--The Inside Story of the Internet&039;s Evil Twin #Eileen Ormsby #The Darkest Web: Drugs

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nathsketch · 9 months

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In 1954, on this exact day, The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of The Lord of the Rings, was published for the first time by George Allen & Unwin, and the rest is history. I read it for the first time around the same time the movies were about to be released, in 2001, and I'll continue to revisit these beloved characters and wonderful places until the day that I die.

Happy 69th anniversary to our dear old friends 🧝🏻‍♂️🍃

#the fellowship of the ring #first publication #jrr tolkien #art #my art #artists on tumblr #nathsketch #the lord of the rings #favorite books #gandalf #frodo baggins #sam gamgee #merry and pippin #aragorn #legolas #gimli #boromir

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nobrashfestivity · 1 year

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Stamps from the North Pole. For 20 years, beginning in 1920, the children of J.R.R.Tolkien received illustrated letters from Father Christmas. from J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father Christmas Letters, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1976

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#jrr tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #Illustration #stamps #children's art #set

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detroitlib · 13 days

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From our stacks: Illustration "Member of the Children's staff of the Library." From David Copperfield's Library. By John Brett Langstaff. With Prologue by Sir Owen Seaman and Epilogue by Alfred Noyes. Illustrated by Raven Hill, Frank Reynolds, H. M. Bateman, Arthur Norris, and Hanslip Fletcher. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1924.

#raven hill #illustration #library staff #books #book #old books #library books #staff #libraries #library #detroit public library

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gatorbites-imagines · 2 years

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Gatorbites-imagines Kinktober 2022

Feel free to write any of these yourself, and tag me if you do, id like to read them.

I used a randomizer to put these together, so let’s hope some of these are good.

List under the line

1. Jango Fett + Rough sex

2. Stu Macher + Lingerie

3. Clint Barton + Dom/Sub

4. Eggsy Unwin + Size difference

5. Steve rogers + Roleplay

6. Jack “the narrator” + Edging

7. Angel Face + Teasing

8. Billy Loomis + Dacryphilia

9. Pyramid head + marking (hickeys, bruises, etc)

10. Tyler durden + Leather

11. Barry Allen + Prostate Massage/torture

12. Jake Lockley + Rimming

13. Bucky Barnes + Kitchen/Cooking/Aprons

14. Michael Myers and Corey Cunningham + masks

15. Boba Fett + Muscle/body worship

16. Steven Grant + Wax play

17. Jason Voorhees + dry humping

18. Michael Myers + Bondage/Shibari

19. Din Djarin + shower sex

20. Bruce Wayne + Hero/Villain

21. Hal Jordan + Semi-public

22. Dick Grayson + Drool/spit

23. Marc Spector + Oral fixation

24. Conner Kent + Sparring/fighting

25. Clark Kent + Musk/sweat

26. Namor + beach sex

27. Tim Drake + Knife or gunplay

28. The Deep + Praise kink

29. Jason Todd + Pet play

30. Brahms Heelshire + Breeding

31. Homelander + Daddy kink

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asterias-record-shop · 10 months

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CHARACTERS I WRITE FOR

Hello again!! Just thought I'd update the characters that I write for! Here is my main masterlist! If you don't see someone listed you want to request a fic for, just send me an ask and I'll let you know if I write for them! copy and pasted from my 'recording live' main post, soon to be up!

my favorite characters to write for are marked with ***

K-POP

STRAY KIDS

Bang Chan***

Han***

Changbin***

Felix

Hyunjin

Seungmin

I.N.

Lee Know

ATEEZ

Seonghwa***

San***

Mingi***

Hongjoong

Wooyoung***

Jongho

Yunho

Yeosang

For the K-POP groups, I'm not like deep in the fandoms - I listen and love their music, but I'm not deep in it (a little deep in the Fandom of Stray Kids, but y'know). I didn't list BTS because I don't really listen to much of them.

MARVEL

Peter Parker***

Bucky Barnes***

TASM! Peter Parker***

Loki

Thor

Pietro Maximoff***

Kraven the Hunter*** (this man is so fine, bad boys need love and shit just fuck me-)

Dave Lizewski*** (Kick-Ass is owned by Marvel)

Natasha Romanoff

Wanda Maximoff

Miguel O'Hara

DC

Jason Todd*** (Titans)

Dick Grayson*** (Titans)

Gar Logan*** (Titans)

Conner Kent (Titans)

Damian Wayne

Barry Allen (The Flash series)

THE HUNGER GAMES (2012-2015)

Finnick Odair***

Peeta Mellark

Cato Hadley

TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022)

please request for Bradley Bradshaw, I fucking love that man-

Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw***

Jake "Hangman" Seresin

SCREAM VI (2023)

Ethan Landry

DYLAN O'BRIEN CHARACTERS

Stiles Stilinski*** (Teen Wolf 2011-2017)

Void! Stiles*** (Teen Wolf 2011-2017)

Richie Boyle (The Outfit 2022)

Mitch Rapp (American Assassin 2017)

CRIMINAL MINDS (2005-)

Spencer Reid***

Luke Alvez

Matt Simmons

WEDNESDAY (2022)

Wednesday Addams (No smut!)

TARON EGERTON CHARACTERS

Eggsy Unwin (The Kingsman Series 2015-)

Robin Hood (Robin Hood 2018)

Jimmy Keene (Blackbird Series 2022)

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY (2019–2023)

Five Hargreeves***

Ben Hargreeves

DIVERGENT SERIES

Tobias (Four) Eaton

Peter

HARRY POTTER

Theodore Knott***

Mattheo Riddle***

Remus Lupin

Regulus Black***

Lorenzo Birkshire***

COD (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare)

Simon “Ghost” Riley

König

THE LAST OF US (2022-)

Joel Miller

Tommy Miller

MISCELLANEOUS

Dorn*** (Bad Boys for Life 2020)

Owen Hendricks (The Recruit 2022)

Derek Hale (Teen Wolf 2011-2017)

Seth Clearwater*** (Twilight 2008-2012)

Benjamin (Twilight 2008-2012)

Seth (Day Shift 2022)

Tyler Rake*** (Extraction & Extraction 2 - 2020 & 2023)

Arvin Russell*** (The Devil All the Time 2020)

Luke Marrow (Purple Hearts 2022)

Tangerine*** (Bullet Train 2022)

#asterias-record-shop #with love asteria ♡#characters i write for #ateez #stray kids #skz #marvel #hunger games #the hunger games #top gun: maverick #scream #scream vi #scream 6 #dylan o'brien #teen wolf #cato hadley

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save-the-villainous-cat · 1 year

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*deep breath, dee* I’m not here to fight…as an avid Tolkien reader, what are your reasons for hating the Hobbit movies? How, pray tell, are they so “terrible”? I’m just curious. That’s all.

Is it the cinematography? The actors? Missing scenes? Give me something here. So many people hate on the movies but never give reasons. It starts to feel like it’s because it’s simply not LOTR- and the fact that there’s an age gap. The Hobbit is baby. LOTR is everyone’s great grandmother who makes you warm cookies every time you visit.

Oh boy, here we go.

Lucky for you, I am an unhinged movie nerd and I have lots of food for you on here…

When we talk about the Hobbit, we also have to talk about Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit got published in 1937 and is a fantasy novel for children. Tolkien wrote this book for his kids, so it was a silly story with a simple moral. An episodic narrative with a message about greed and trust, adding lots of adventure and fun. It’s one of the best-selling books ever written. It’s a classic.

Fellowship of the Ring got published in 1954 and is not intended for children. Simply, Allen & Unwin (Tolkien’s publisher) wanted a sequel to the Hobbit and Tolkien provided with a story that is more mature. Because his kids grew up. And those kids who had read the Hobbit had also grown up. Which made Fellowship a perfect story for those grown-ups/teenagers.

And that’s the thing. Fellowship works as a sequel. The Hobbit does not work as a prequel.

We have two completely different stories here on our hands: a story about a ring a bunch of people would like to have and a story about dwarves fighting over their home and…a bunch of treasure. The central conflicts have nothing to do with each other. The Hobbit doesn’t set up the worldbuilding of middle earth, doesn’t tell the story about Sauron nor the rings. And that is because it is not a prequel. It is its own story with its own central conflict.

This made this book a bit difficult to adapt. We either have the chance to turn this childlike story into a movie or turn it into a trilogy that works as prequels to Lord of the Rings (which they desperately tried to do here). I’m not saying there wasn’t any other way — I think they should’ve let Guillermo del Toro do his two movies (as originally intended) that included the overall spirit of the books and could be their own movies without having to reference Lord of the Rings all of the time but we ended up with three movies that can’t be their own thing because trilogies and because money.

The Hobbit is a relatively short book. Roughly around 95,000 words. Fellowship, just Fellowship is around 187,000 words. And it makes sense to make a movie trilogy out of a book trilogy, especially because those books follow a much more Hollywood structure.

But get this. We take the Hobbit with roughly 95,000 words. And we turn this book into a trilogy which leaves us with nine acts in total. Nine acts which leads to adding a bunch of stuff to fill all the plot points. A bunch of mini climaxes that go nowhere, character movements that come too early or too late, adding characters and subplots that absolutely no one asked for (at least of all the story).

For example, the scene at the end of the first movie where Thorin respects Bilbo is way too early. Their relationship doesn’t evolve at all in the second movie. Sure, they fight or whatever in the third movie but wouldn’t it have made sense to show Thorin’s respect for Bilbo when Bilbo frees the dwarves in the barrel plot point? It was originally set to be there but now that it’s not, the barrel plot point is super weak and doesn’t work for character/relationship development at all. It is there because the plot needs it to be there. Bilbo doesn’t have to prove anything, he just does it because the plot needs him to.

And why is that? Because we needed this little climax at the end of movie one (because storytelling and story structure) where Bilbo, a character who is known for his intelligence, who is — unlike the dwarves — not a fighter, fucking knocks over an orc. Don’t tell me this was character development. If this was character development, then he would’ve started killing orcs in movie two and three. Bilbo is not a fighter. He is characterised by his wits. But because the plot needed him to, he had to do this. Weirdly, he doesn’t really do it again, does he?

Originally, the first movie was supposed to end with the dwarves arriving at Erebor/Laketown with movie two starting with getting into Erebor. Smaug’s death would’ve been the midpoint of movie two. Not the most anticlimactic thing to have ever happened in movie three.

Seriously? You kill the main antagonist before the opening title? What were these guys thinking? The death of the Cumberbatch lizard was supposed to be the thing and they just killed him off in the most anticlimactic way ever, thanks to the structure of turning a little book into three movies.

Which makes us watch a bunch of stupid shit: dwarves are — according to the Desolation of Smaug — fire-resistent, we get scary CGI, we get the White Council because, guys, have you heard of lotr, we get a horrible love triangle, a horrible Tauriel who has no character whatsoever, we get Legolas, because guys, remember this trilogy you liked when you were younger, do you remember lotr, we get a river fight scene that is unnecessary, we get Galadriel x Gandalf for whatever reason, a Beorn chase scene, a random trip to Angmar that leads nowhere, Elijah Wood because, hey guys, do you remember LOTR? We get Radagast with poop on his head because we need to tell the people the forest is dying and something bad is coming because lotr, remember? We need Sauron in here because…wait a minute these movies try to be prequels to Lord of the Rings??

It doesn’t work like this. The Hobbit is episodic and not related to Lord of the Rings plotwise. Yes, Bilbo finds the ring but that is that. Help, the ring is actually evil is the only thing that connects these two stories. Nothing more.

But now, we have these three movies full of stuff that doesn’t make any sense, full of characters that stand for nothing, full of contradictions, full of — sorry — bullshit because we needed three movies and as much lotr in it as possible.

Why is Tauriel there? Why is Legolas here? The Necromancer was a plot device to separate Gandalf from the dwarves (which was important for dwarf/Bilbo bonding time) but now the Necromancer is Sauron? Why? Why?

There is more wrong with this trilogy (and don’t get me started on all the stuff regarding the production/New Zealand) and if you’re interested in that, you should watch Lindsay Ellis’ videos on YouTube. She’s an amazing writer and movie critic — a great inspiration— and sums up my thoughts on it pretty well.

But I hope this is somewhat understandable? As someone who grew up with the Lord of the Rings, I am very passionate about these movies and the nostalgia they give me. It is very sad that we ended up with something like this and not Guillermo’s version. Like…c’mon if I recall correctly, these movies came out in December which makes them perfect Academy material and the Academy loves Guillermo…win win for everybody, but no…

#luve u dee!!#no writing #an answer for an ask

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ecoamerica · 15 days

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The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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spookshowninjakitty · 2 years

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Twenty-Six Letters by Charlotte Nash

A heartwarming story following Wilhelmina as she gets to know her mother through letters.

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maironsbigboobs · 6 months

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I know I absolutely deserve to be Canceled Utterly and without Mercy for this take but...

um...

That picture with the little dude in jorts and red pointy shoes crawling over roots?

That... I mean we all know that isn't Beleg, right? I mean I know this is a death knell take but that forest isn't Doriath. It isn't Dimbar. It isn't even Brethil. It's Fangorn.

Fangorn.

At best that's Legolas.

I hate myself for knowing this. I want Beleg to have little red sassy boots. How did everyone come to associate that painting with Beleg when it's Fangorn Forest?

Accept the boots into your heart. No you are correct, it is captioned as Fangorn.

Apparently: It was Fangorn on the 1973 cover of Two Towers, but was apparently first an image of Beleg and Gwindor that JRRT repurposed.

According to Tolkien gateway:

The only possible explanation is that J.R.R. Tolkien decided that "The Silmarillion" painting could nevertheless be used as the cover illustration of the George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973 edition of The Two Towers, as an illustration of the hobbits in Fangorn Forest. It was probably done at the same time as the other "Silmarillion" paintings in the late 1920s.

#answered #Anonymous

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themalhambird · 5 months

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I'm back at work and I've finished my work, so have the citations for this post!:

Levitt, Sarah, Victorians Unbuttoned: Registered Designs for Clothing, their Makers and Wearers, 1839-1900 (George Allen & Unwin Inc, London, 1986)

“For both sexes [sic], and all classes, covering the head was considered essential for decency. Of his childhood in a Salford slum at the turn of the century, Robert Roberts (The Classic Slum) wrote: ‘A man or woman, walking the street hatless, struck one as either “low”, wretchedly poor, just plain eccentric or even faintly obscene.’” (p. 106) “The Bowler…was widely worn from the 1860s, and by 1900 was threatening the popularity of the top hat among certain sections of society…[I]t was hardwearing, conferred a pompous dignity on the would-be important, while its narrow curled brim lent itself to fashionable novelty when required…it was to form part of the typical dress of the City gent and the artisan of standing on each side of the Atlantic.” (pp.111-112)

@thebeautifulsoup

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 2 years

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William Oliver Stevens - Unbidden Guests: A Book of Real Ghosts - George Allen & Unwin - 1951

#witches #guests #occult #vintage #photographic design #real ghosts #william oliver stevens #unbidden guests #a book of real ghosts #ghosts #1951 #george allen & unwin

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