#book trivia

[samasmith23]

Writer J.M. DeMatteis once penned a really great introduction & afterword for the Spider-Man: Maximum Carnage TPB, one which truly emphasizes the story’s central themes about staying true to ourselves even in the face of overwhelming darkness, and not resorting to the methods of your enemies...

#spider man #maximum carnage #jm dematteis #introduction #afterword #behind the scenes #book trivia #marvel comics

[wahlpaper]

The Neverending Story Trivia!

Will-o-the-Wisps in Fantastica are genderless cause they don't care for gender!

#the neverending story #michael ende #neverendingstory #will o the wisp #genderless #agender character #book trivia #fantastica

[harrison-abbott]

The Great Gatsby was another book which was considered a flop when it was first published. 

#the great gatsby #f scott fitzgerald #book trivia

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

#HELLO back at it again #tug introduced groundbreaking new findings about soul permeability but my mind bypassed all that in favour of this au #the division of labour is as follows: #dulcie reads the instructions; snacks; and changes the radio station every time she doesn’t like a song #if you complain she will remind you she's literally dying. life is too short and mediocre songs are too long #pal gets stuff from high shelves and battles his constantly fogged up glasses #he tried to help with prep once and promptly got himself banned from using knives for the rest of his life #cam does 98% of the actual cooking #trivia section - #you can tell i am new to this because i arranged them in the wrong speaking order. let’s all practice our right to left reading #cam has a silly novelty apron because a) the idea was unbearably funny to me and b) i need to spread the gospel (aroace cam) #the cookbooks next to dulcie are ‘a few teaspoons of salt’ (by ianthe tridentarius) #and ‘saintly feasts: food for saints and scholars’ which is a real book! though not written by cassiopeia the first #* #dulcie septimus #dulcinea septimus #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #the locked tomb #field sketches #<< i get to have an art tag now!

[mensmommymilkers]

Had to draw the trio from from my fave book by @sarahreesbrennan as I reread for the millionth time 😮‍💨 They’re so fun

#in other lands #elliot schafer #luke sunborn #serene heart in the chaos of battle #trivia: the pose where Luke grabs his hair is from the unicorn scene (MY BELOVED UNICORN SCENE) #serene getting angry is in regards to her mom I love how she’s all cool and collected and then full on screams at her mother #I’m obsessed with how elliot gets tall and muscular but doesn’t process the latter #ofc had to draw the progression #then ouughhf um #the kisses #all three of them would go about it differently and it was a joy to portray #Serene and Elliot had to be aged down for their kiss bc no WAY that’d happen later lmfao #also uhm I used Laios dungeon meshi as obvious inspo for Luke #I stared at Luke’s face way too much after I drew him I feel like one of the masses 💀💀 #sorry elliot I’m letting u down #I played fast and loose with serene and Elliot’s eye colors so those aren’t fully book accurate #I like dark eyes ok

[allythistle]

Boromir’s last stand 😫

I’ll be honest, I was pretty nervous when I saw that most of you voted for me to draw Boromir next. I’ve been trying not to base my designs too much on the movie versions and have instead been relying on the descriptions in the books, or my own imagination - but film Boromir is just so much better than the one in the books! I decided to base his look more on movie Boromir (although I did make his tunic shorter because a longer one was making an action pose so difficult to draw) but you will notice that I also gave him a shield.

Of course, in the movie, Boromir doesn’t have his shield on him when he dies at Osgiliath. I couldn’t remember if this was the case in the books, so I re-read that chapter before starting this piece, and found that he did have it with him but it was broken during his last battle with the orcs.

In the scene where Boromir's funeral boat is described, his shield is not mentioned among the items placed about him :

“Now they laid Boromir in the middle of the boat that was to bear him away. The grey hood and elven-cloak they folded and placed beneath his head. They combed his long dark hair and arrayed it upon his shoulders. The golden belt of Lorien gleamed about his waist. His helm they set beside him, and across his lap they laid the cloven horn and the hilts and shards of his sword; beneath his feet they put the swords of his enemies.’’

However, we *do* learn in Aragorn's second verse of his departure song what became of Boromir’s shield:

“Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought.

His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.”

What I found interesting was that the broken sword and horn were sent down the river with Boromir but that his broken shield was not. I did some research and learned that an average shield would be so commonly broken in battle that these typically were not named and passed down in the manner that swords were.

Anyway, I really hope you like this little drawing. I had fun with this piece.

#art #artists on tumblr #character art #fan art #digital art #traditional art #small artist #fantasy art #lotr #writing #boromir #sean bean #tolkien #lotr fanart #lotr books #lotr poll #osgiliath #trivia #writing community #writers #lord of the rings #gondor #character design #concept art #orcs

[the-ninjago-historian]

In case anyone needs a reminder of which books and comics are canon. Hope this helps! A couple Dragons Rising books are on here too!

#ninjago #lego ninjago #ninjago lego #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago dragons rising #tweets #tommy andreason #Tommy Kalmar #Books #comics #ninjago dr #dragons rising #trivia

[brother-emperors]

alternative reasons to avoid bringing your brother in law into a conspiracy or a conversation between caesar and cassius

this scene is set sometime after Brutus and Cassius have switched over to Caesar's side during the Pompey-Caesar conflict.

in a different comic, I wrote about about how cassius isn't a dog that needs to be tamed, but that depends on which side of the playing field you're on. if you're Caesar, Cassius is someone you need to leash down immediately, and the complicated social web of debt is one way to do it!

Cassius is inescapably tied to Brutus: the sandbox bond of childhood best friends, brothers-in-law with Servilia bringing Cassius into the family, and a third time with Brutus asking for Cassius' life. if you're going to bring a man who clawed his way out of a horrific defeat that killed your patron and later joined up with your rival in a civil war (twice aligned with the other two heads of the three headed monster you were a part of!) under your heel, reminding him of the only bond that could hope to rival with his family ancestry is one way to do it!

Cic. Phil. 2.26

Brutus, Plutarch (trans. Scott-Kilvert)

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

Civil Wars, Caesar, III. 101 (trans. A. G. Peskett)

Servilia and Her Family, Susan Treggiari

Caesar and the Dangers of Forgiveness, Barry Strauss

tbh, there's probably an additional subtext (there is, I was thinking about it) on how Crassus used 'softer' means than force to bind people to him (again, the politics of debt and patronage) and how Caesar takes after him in some ways here. it didn't last, tho. in 45 BCE Cassius voted against giving Caesar honors. (Cass. Dio 44.8.1)

#hey any older kpop enjoyers here. you want some bonus trivia. that second panel is inspired from a frame #in the B.E.G Abracadabra mv #how's THAT for subtext! #anyway i have. a book somewhere. on the social politics of debt. however it's 11pm and im sleepy and im also #not going to stay up to re read a 300+ book for this #i'll do it for a future piece for sure tho #i have plans #gaius cassius longinus #gaius julius caesar #roman republic tag #komiks tag #long post #ANYWAY HI HOW ARE WE ALL DOING. it's been a minute since ive gone off the rails a bit with the dead romans

[falconfate]

Hello ranger’s apprentice fandom can we talk real quick about the stupidest thing Flanagan ever wrote

It’s about the bows. Yanno, the rangers’ Iconique™️ main weapon. That one. You know the one.

Flanagan. Flanagan why are your rangers using longbows.

“uh well recurve arrows drop faster” BUT DO THEY. FLANAGAN. DO THEY.

the answer is no they don’t. Compared to a MODERN, COMPOUND (aka cheating) bow, yes, but compared to a longbow? Y’know, what the rangers use in canon? Yeah no a recurve actually has a FLATTER trajectory. It drops LATER.

This from an article comparing the two:

“Both a longbow and a recurve bow, when equipped with the right arrow and broadhead combination, are capable of taking down big game animals. Afterall, hunters have been doing it for centuries with both types of bows.

However, generally speaking and all things equal, a recurve bow will offer more arrow speed, creating a flatter flight trajectory and retain more kinetic energy at impact.

The archers draw length, along with the weight of the arrow also affect speed and kinetic energy. However, the curved design of the limbs on a recurve adds to its output of force.”

It doesn’t actually mention ANY distance in range! And this is from a resource for bow hunting, which, presumably, WOULD CARE ABOUT THAT SORT OF THING!

Okay so that’s just. That’s just the first thing.

The MAIN thing is that even accounting for “hur dur recurves drop faster” LONGBOWS ARE STILL THE STUPID OPTION.

Longbows, particularly and especially ENGLISH longbows, are—as their name suggests—very long. English longbows in particular are often as tall or taller than their wielder even while strung, but especially when unstrung. An unstrung longbow is a very long and expensive stick, one that will GLADLY entangle itself in nearby trees, other people’s clothes, and any doorway you’re passing through.

And yes, there are shorter longbows, but at that point if you’re shortening your longbow, just get a goddamn recurve. And Flanagan makes a point to compare his rangers’ bows to the Very Long English Longbow.

Oh, do you know how the Very Long English Longbow was mostly historically militarily used? BY ON-FOOT ARCHER UNITS. Do you know what they’re TERRIBLE for? MOUNTED ARCHERY.

Trust me. Go look up right now “mounted archery longbow.” You’ll find MAYBE one or two pictures of some guy on a horse struggling with a big stick; mostly you will actually see either mounted archers with RECURVES, or comparisons of Roman longbow archers to Mongolian horse archers (which are neat, can’t lie, I love comparing archery styles like that).

Anyway. Why are longbows terrible for mounted archery? Because they’re so damn long. Think about it: imagine you’re on a horse. You’re straddling a beast that can think for itself and moves at your command, but ultimately independently of you; if you’re both well-trained enough, you’re barely paying attention to your horse except to give it commands. And you have a bow in your hands. If your target is close enough to you that you know, from years of shooting experience, you will need to actually angle your bow down to hit it because of your equine height advantage, guess what? If you have a longbow, YOU CAN’T! YOUR HORSE IS IN THE WAY BECAUSE YOUR BOW IS TOO LONG! Worse, it’s probably going to get in the general area of your horse’s shoulder or legs, aka moving parts, which WILL injure your horse AND your bow and leave you fresh out of both a getaway vehicle and a ranged weapon. It’s stupid. Don’t do it.

A recurve, on the other hand, is short. It was literally made for horse archers. You have SO much range of motion with a recurve on horseback; and if you’re REALLY good, you know how to give yourself even more, with techniques like Jamarkee, a Turkish technique where you LITERALLY CAN AIM BACKWARDS.

For your viewing enjoyment, Serena Lynn of Texas demonstrating Jamarkee:

Yes, that’s real! This type of draw style is INCREDIBLY versatile: you can shoot backwards on horseback, straight down from a parapet or sally port without exposing yourself as a target, or from low to the ground to keep stealthy without banging your bow against the ground. And, while I’m sure you could attempt it with a longbow, I wouldn’t recommend it: a recurve’s smaller size makes it far more maneuverable up and over your head to actually get it into position for a Jamarkee shot.

A recurve just makes so much more SENSE. It’s not a baby bow! It’s not the longbow’s lesser cousin! It’s a COMPLETELY different instrument made to be used in a completely different context! For the rangers of Araluen, who put soooo much stock in being stealthy and their strong bonds with their horses, a recurve is the perfect fit! It’s small and easily transportable, it’s more maneuverable in combat and especially on horseback, it offers more power than a longbow of the same draw weight—really, truly, the only advantage in this case that a longbow has over the recurve is that longbows are quicker and easier to make. But we KNOW the rangers don’t care about that, their KNIVES use a forging technique (folding) that takes several times as long as standard Araluen forging practices at the time!

Okay.

Okay I think I’m done. For now.

#to be VERY clear. I Am Not An Actual Expert. #i AM however drawing from my own experience and research #and literally i can find Zero literature about recurve arrow flights dropping faster than longbows #all i could find was that recurve range is worse compared to compound bows #which. OBVIOUSLY. compound bows CHEAT. #(said lovingly. ish. if you use a compound more power to you but also It’s Doing All The Work For You.) #this article was literally all i could find from a couple hours’ search comparing recurves and longbows #anyway recurves are cool. flanagan why did you do recurves so dirty. #for that matter why are all your women blonde. #(i’m not including brotherband here sorry) #(but also why did it take a spinoff series for him to create a named female character that wasn’t a blonde) #(flanagan explain) #god these books have so many problems. truly this is my ‘i could fix him’ #thank you flanagan for getting me into this special interest. now Tell Me Why You Did It Wrong. #rangers apprentice #anyway if you REALLY want to read about some bangin historical horse archers #look up the parthians :) #specifically how they fucking Decimated an entire roman contingent :) #crassus getting absolutely demolished by mounted archer parthians is definitely my favorite bit of roman trivia

[darkest-fantasy]

Friendly Reminder: This narrative that Azriel will not get a mate is a chronically online theory. I went to a huge ACOTAR trivia event in my city with almost 100 guests. On the themed drink menu, the first beverage was named “Azriel’s Mate”. A majority of the guests all bought this drink in excitement( me included). There were also round table discussions on who Azriel’s mate is.

All the guests and people who ran the event all know that it is basic knowledge that Azriel will get a mate.

#Azriel will get a mate #pro azriel #azriel shadowsinger #azriel acotar #acotar #acomaf #sarah j maas #azriel spymaster #a court of mist and fury #a court of thorns and roses #acosf #azriel #post acosf #a court of silver flames #a court of wings and ruin #a court of frost and starlight #a court of war and ruin #acowar #elain archeron #gwyneth berdara #feyre archeron #nesta archeron #acotar series #sjmaas #sjm universe #books #fantasy #trivia

[mysticmonkiebusiness]

The origin of Red Son with a chicken

[ID: A city street, Red Son stands at the end with a chicken. The page is filled with civilians being harassed by various chickens. MK drives his tuk-tuk at the top of the page]

#lego monkie kid #red son monkie kid #trivia #activity books #mmb.png

[burningvelvet]

Just realized that today was the 176th birthday of Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847)! Here are some of it's best quotes to celebrate:

"I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.” 

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

#jane eyre #charlotte brontë #literature #english literature #novel #novels #book #books #birthday #trivia #lit #quotes #book quotes

[commandercoriandersalamander]

I love reading Locked Tomb fandom meta because it really lets me appreciate how little I understand of what happened in these books.

#I've read them all multiple times and I love them lol #and in general I have a pretty solid reading comprehension (yes I know saying that on tumblr is laughable) #but seriously I'll see a thousand-word analysis of a character relationship and I'm just sitting here like 'when did they meet each other' #when did we learn this apparently obvious bit of backstory trivia that you've based your entire headcanon on #is there a fourth book somewhere you've all read that explains this shit #The Locked Tomb #Harrow the Ninth #Gideon the Ninth #Nona the Ninth #look I'm just here having a good time. understanding the actual novel I'm reading is secondary

[21stcenturyschizoidfag]

(in prison)

me: (reading 101 best rib tickling knee slapping belly laughing joke book for boys)

prison warden (shocked): what the hell are you bozos doing? you cant let her read that! shes going to laugh so hard that she realises the world is full of happiness and earnest whimsy and come to a newfound love for g-d and mankind which she lives out in jovial solitude!

(guards rush to snatch the book away from me)

me: (rosy-cheeked grin at the warden)

warden: NOOOOOOOOO FUCK

#this comes from me getting a 2 in 1 joke and trivia book for chr*stmad #averyposting

[simptasia]

LOST reading list

a list of books read by characters in lost for you to enjoy (or not). this isn't every book referenced in lost. for all that and more, see the "literary works" page on lostpedia, where im getting my info

no, my criteria for this list is that it's been read by a lost character. i'll tell you who (you'll see sawyers name a lot), and i'll add if it's somebody's fave book. this list will not include things like the bible or the qur'an or historical texts, as that while that can technically be recreational reading (it seems to be for ben), i'd rather not

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (read by Jack)

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume (read by Sawyer)

A Brief History of Time by Stephan Hawking (read by Ben)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (read by Ben)

Caravan of Dreams by Idries Shah (read by Ben)

Carrie by Stephen King (Read by Juliet, Ben and various other Others. This is Juliet's favourite book)

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (read by Sawyer)

Dark Horse by Tami Hoag (read by Jack)

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King (read by Ben)

Dirty Work by Stuart Woods (read by Jack)

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor (read by Jacob)

Evil Under The Sun by Agatha Christie (read by Sawyer)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (read by Ben)

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (read by Ben)

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (read by Sawyer)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (read by Jack)

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salmon Rushdie (read by Desmond)

Hotel by Arthur Hailey (read by Ben)

The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (read by Sawyer)

Lancelot by Walker Percy (read by Sawyer)

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov (read by Hurley)

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (read by Ilana)

The Oath by John Lescroart (read by Ben)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (read by Sawyer. This is Sawyer's favourite book and author)

Roots by Alex Haley (read by Ben)

A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda (read by Ben)

The Sheltering Shy by Paul Bowles (read by Ben)

Ulysses by James Joyce (read by Ben)

Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler (read by Ben and Jack)

VALIS by Philip K. Dick (read by Ben)

Watership Down by Richard Adams (read by Boone and Sawyer)

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (read by Sawyer)

Every work by Charles Dickens other than Our Mutual Friend (read by Desmond. This is his favourite author)

I encourage you to speculate on the character implications put forth by these reading choices. This can raise such questions as: Jack is a Harry Potter fan? What is Desmond's favourite book by Charles Dickens? Boone can read??

Thank you for your time

#wow this really isn't light reading. here have some complex serious shit #sawyer and ben and jack are dominating the list. nerds #anyways im not exactly recommending these books #especially since it includes books by ayn rand and jk rowling [gags] #and also i don't even know what most of these are #but it's neat to have it listed as trivia at least. and might be useful for character analysis #note that sawyer didnt choose most of his books #but everybody else chose their books #also at a certain point while making this list i was begging ben to stop reading

[samadhifired]

Since LMK has a bit of a futuristic style, it wouldn't be that big of a surprise if the show takes place in "semi-near" future. Several decades from now, but less than a centry.

Like... somewhere around 2092.

Meaning DBK would have gotten imprisoned under the mountain in 1592.

You know

The year the JttW (the book) was first published

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #Look #If the show isn't going to give us a timeline #I'm going to make my own timeline #I know 500 years under the mountain #was probably a reference to Wukong being stuck under the mountain for the same amount of time #But making it also a reference to a real life book's publishing year? #Yeah #I would love that kind of lore trivia #Sf rambles