I want to say this… I love the Femboy OF au. It gets me to laugh every time. My favorite part is the running gag of blood moon just getting traumatized by everyone.
This week’s Publishers’ Binding Thursday is a lovely floral binding in raspberry, green, blue, and gold. The book is Olive’s Story by Mrs. O.F. Walton, published in London by the Religious Tract Society in 1882. Mrs. O.F. Walton is Amy Catherine Walton, who published under her husband Octavius Frank Walton’s name and became well known for her religious stories. The Religious Tract Society was an organization founded by British evangelical Christians in 1799 that published periodicals and books most often with religious themes. This book is part of our Historical Curriculum Collection.
The binding is a bid faded, but lovely, featuring raspberries, flowers, and leaves stamped in a raspberry color in alternating blue and green rectangular blocks. The title and author’s name sit in a gold rectangle—the title stamped in raspberry and the author’s name in blue. The spine features a similar design, with the insignia of the Religious Tract Society at the bottom.
There's also a sweet Christmas card from one friend to another tucked in, and the evidence of the book owner's award for good attendance!
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I am now really interested in this secret agent guy character. I started imagining him appearing in a blue coat often, so I'm calling him the Man in the Blue Coat and his origins and employers are intentionally obscure
I like taking a bit of some of my favorites of PL's roles in his designs, like he's got the scarf from the Stranger, sometimes I draw his hair like Louie, you can't see it here but he's got a bow tie like Stix
And maybe the blue is from Boo Berry even tho that was Paul Frees
// the ungodly urge to add 2 muses that have absolutely no fandom on here. . . so they can end up like poor Zammy and have no interactions oof.
But also hello 💜 I am popping in to say hi and hope the new year has been treating you guys well
Okay this clip disappeared into the void the last time I tried to post it. Maybe the site is trying to shadowban me for this harmless comedy but I'm going to try again anyway.
EDIT: Oh heck, it appeared like twenty minutes later, yeah thanks. Thanks for ensuring no one will ever see it. Anyway, yeah! This movie. I wanted to burn some subtitles for it because it is in fact a very amusing film, and this here was the only online copy I was able to find. Thanks to the uploader for the translation! I sincerely hope that one day this film can be restored.
In the meantime, does anyone else feel the need to provide our man Redakteur Stix with more food until he can't eat any more? Or is that just me being perverse...
"Look at me; I love you, I promise I'll take care of you. Alright?"
"I wish you wouldn't say such things-"
"Why?"
"Because then I'll be liable to believe you and I don't think I can handle the off chance of you leaving. Not now. Maybe when we first met but we're well past that-"
"But I won't; I won't leave you! I prom-"
"Promise me all the pearls in the ocean and all the honey in the valley if you want to, yeah, but don't promise me you'll never leave me, never promise me that. Please."
"What... what shall I promise you, then? How can I convince you I'm telling the truth?"
"Don't promise me anything; just show me, show me. Don't tell me you'll never leave- just... just come back again tomorrow. And the next day. And the day after that."
"... and the day after that, too?"
"Please. That's all I ask. Please."
"Then... then I'll see you tomorrow. No promises, I'll- I'll just turn up. Say 4 o'clock?"
"I... Alright. I'll set two mugs out for tea-"
"Then I'll bring some bread and honey. It's not all the honey in the valley, mind, but I hope it'll do."
"It'll do- that would be perfect, thanks. See you tomorrow, then. And..."
I downloaded Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. and some English subtitles and it was really fun! Peter Lorre is absolutely adorable in it and is good at causing problems.