#source: kipling

[incorrectdwpquotes]

Andy: Miranda texted me “My love, I am intoxicated” and five minutes later Nigel texted me a photo of her, passed out, phone in hand, and zoomed in on one of my selfies.

#the devil wears prada #incorrect quotes #incorrect dwp quotes #andy sachs #miranda priestly #nigel kipling #mirandy #source: unknown

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Cool Cat to Chillest Cat

#cool cat #source: rudyard kipling

[twistedtummies2]

I have ssspark! I have charm.

I know painlessssss ways to harm.

Look right into my eyes…

Let yourssself be hypnotized…

I am in the Mood

To Play With My Food.

“A Mood For Food,” Jim Cummings

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Happy Halloween, everybody! I have a treat for you all: this is the first of five images I got from various artists, for a series I simply like to call “OCs and Inspirations.” In honor of Disney’s 100th Anniversary, I decided to get some images of some of my major OCs for Twisted Wonderland - the first five introduced in stories - posing with their source inspirations. This first one is made by @hooter-n-company, and shows the first boi I ever made: Nakoda “Nako” Spivak, based on Kaa from Disney’s Jungle Book.

Nakoda was not meant to be a major character when I created him, but in the course of writing his introductory piece, “Snake-Like,” I fell in love with what I had created. So, part of the way through, I decided to have him become a student at Night Raven College, and thus allow him the opportunity for more adventures later down the line. He has since become one of my most popular OCs for this universe, even though he honestly hasn’t shown up in THAT many stories yet. I think part of the reason for this IS his inspiration from Kaa, since Kaa has become such an iconic character, ESPECIALLY within this particular “kinkdom.” That was part of what I love(d) about Nakoda: he’s a character who allows me to play with Kaa’s tropes and traits - Kaa HIMSELF being a rather overused and slightly overrated figure, in my personal opinion - while putting my own spin on things.

Like Kaa, Nakoda is insatiable in every sense of the word: about the only thing harder to satisfy than his hunger is his seemingly limitless “thirst.” This was meant to be a sort of in-joke for me on how over-sexualized Kaa himself has become in a LOT of places, but it actually works pretty well for Nakoda on a lot of levels, which is why I’ve kept it: for example, I recently was reminded that, in the original Kipling stories, it’s indicated Kaa has had many mates over the years, so even though we can presume the Disney version (being a VERY different character) is not the same, there’s no reason my guy can’t be. Ha Ha.

On a deeper level, what Nakoda takes from Kaa is what I like to describe as “directionless control.” Both are characters who seek to control other beings, and enjoy the power they have over their prey, toying with their “playthings” before consuming them. Both enjoy the sensation of being in control of their own little world. HOWEVER, in Kaa’s case, there is no greater cause behind all this: he is ruthless and ambitionless in what he does, recognizing no friends, and with seemingly no other desire than to fill his belly and enjoy everything that comes with that. Nakoda’s great issue is that he’s someone who very much lives in the moment; he doesn’t really know what he wants in life, nor how to achieve it: just this vague, nebulous concept of having control and gaining respect and recognition. He, himself, isn’t sure what to do with himself or his gifts.

Off the topic of the character, I just want to say this artwork is absolutely freaking spellbinding. Kaa looks magnificent, and Nakoda…I could comment on a LOT of things in the image that make it so great, but…can we just take some time to appreciate how positively THICC and STACKED this gluttonous hedonist is here? I never want to see Nako with curves ANY smaller than this EVER again, good Lord, they take one’s breath away…possibly literally, if he gets those pythons around somebody. He won’t even NEED the coils of his naga form then. >////>

Thank you for your contribution, Hoots! She's actually made one more image for this same series, which will be released in the near future. Look out for the rest of this series of pics starting tomorrow. ;)

#kink-related #but only peripherally #vore mentioned #oc art #not my art #i'm not an artist #ocs & inspirations #disney #twisted wonderland #hoots #oc #nakoda #nakoda spivak #nako #jungle book #kaa

[sgiandubh]

A true gentleman

Michael Caine is one of my favorite actors. Ever. A very gifted one. A real family man. The works.

I was delighted to read this statement in a very recent interview for The Daily Fail (something I would never buy myself):

(source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-12540335/We-never-intimacy-coordinators-day-MICHAEL-CAINE-calls-woke-dull-says-young-man-national-service-truly-makes-man-reflects-acting-90.html)

No comment. This, however, is confirmation of sorts for the why the dreadful Vanessa Woman.

Bonus, my favorite British poem (Kipling is something very personal to me):

Of course I know it by heart :)

#Youtube

[thefugitivesaint]

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), ‘The Cat That Walked By Himself’, ''Just So Stories'', 1902 Source

#Rudyard Kipling #joseph rudyard kipling #english artists #just so stories #cats #vintage art #vintage illustration

[kkglinka]

My working theory is that a huge chunk of fndm often can't see past various visual homages to the text sources rwby actually uses. The show does this a lot -- uses visuals from well known adaptions of various texts, or unavoidable parallels with real life people and/or events.

Take roman torchwick. Not actually the dude from clockwork orange because that's modern fiction and a movie. He's a peter pan who grew up (hence his rant about the real world) and, like all lost boys who do so in neverland, becomes a hook wielding pirate. With a tiny, temperamental bestie who always flies (is a pilot), whom only he can understand (and she loves him so much that she fades from existence upon his loss from her world). Oh, and they fight a magic flying green girl who cannot age.

Likewise, the white fang is not the black panthers. That was a real life organization. The white fang is the wolf pack from kiplings stories, with blake as the eldest brother wolf. It's also the eponymous white fang himself, the half wolf who ultimately lives with a collie on a human farm that borders the wilderness.

A book that's paired with the more popular call of the wild -- the story of a herding dog forced into sledding, who ultimately finds more comfort in the wilderness. Look, all I'm saying is that the american collie is a herding dog with an infamously fluffy orange and white coat. You should be able to take it from there.

#fandom #rwby #laughing to myself #white fang marries lassie #yes yes #they're cats instead #of wolves in rwby #y'gotta roll with it

[dougdimmadodo]

Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium)

Family: Evening Primrose Family (Onagraceae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Growing rapidly and reproducing very frequently, Fireweed thrives in areas that have been recently cleared of other plants due to forest fires or other disruptive events, earning it its name. Widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, it is a textbook example of a pioneer species (the first species of plants, or other non-motile organisms, to spread onto land that has been cleared of its previous occupants) ; unable to compete with taller, more “aggressive” species of plants that will have taken over older habitats, its seeds remain dormant in soil for years at a time, while adult plants may remain in small numbers in clearing or frequently-disturbed forest edges, or may be entirely absent. When a fire occurs the seeds respond to the heat and begin to germinate, allowing young individuals to emerge after the fire has subsided and most potential competitors have been eliminated. After sprouting, young Fireweed can reach considerable heights (potentially growing to be up to 2.5 meters/8ft tall, although in areas with limited resources they may never exceed 0.5 meters/1.6ft) and, upon reaching maturity, will develop numerous 5-petaled pink flowers each year that, once pollinated, develop into long strings of tiny seeds covered with cottony parachute-like structures that allow them to be carried away from their parent on the wind, settling in new ground where they may later germinate. Members of this species can live for several years, but as slower-growing but taller and more competitive plants gradually return to a cleared area Fireweed populations will gradually decrease as their access to sunlight and soil nutrients is reduced. As such, once an area has “healed” from the disturbance that cleared it, adult Fireweeds become rare once again, but the seeds they produced when more abundant remain dormant in the soil until another disturbance provides them with an opportunity to grow. In human-influenced habitats faced with near-constant disturbance (such as railways or roadsides,) it is possible for adult Fireweeds to remain abundant permanently, and the ease at which members of this species adapt to urban environments, combined with its impressive hardiness, has led to it becoming somewhat prominent in folklore, featuring on the flag of the Canadian territory of Yukon, being referenced in the works of Rudyard Kipling and J.R.R Tolkien, and earning the name “Bombweed” in the UK after large numbers of Fireweeds were observed growing in the ruins of bombed-out buildings leveled during World War II. Ecologically, various species of deer, bears and hawk-moths are known to feed on the leaves, flowers, nectar and seeds of this species.

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Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/564969-Chamaenerion-angustifolium

#fireweed #Chamaenerion angustifolium #plant #plants #flowering plant #flowering plants #angiosperms #angiosperm #biology #botany #wildlife #African wildlife #north american wildlife #Asian Wildlife #European wildlife #ecological succession #ecology #flower #flowers

[lepetitdragonvert]

Le Livre de la Jungle par Rudyard Kipling

1919

Source : Swanngalleries

Artist : Paul Jouve & François Louis Schmied

#the jungle book #le livre de la jungle #rudyard kipling #paul jouve #1919 #elephant #snake #serpent #wolf #peacock #paon #éléphant #loup #classic literature #black panther #panther #panthère #françois louis schmied

[artist-issues]

(I may have accidentally clicked the Unfollow button instead of the Ask button, my bad!! 😅 Still following ya!)

I'm here to deliver you a fun question amidst a world full of negativity, and that is;

If you ever had the opportunity to create your own story/animated film, what would you want it to be about? Who would be the characters and how would you want to write their stories? Would you bring in subtle tenets of your faith, or go all-out Lewis/Tolkien and dive into analogy/Christian values? Fantasy or Sci-fi? Romcom or thriller? Adventure or something cosy and intimate? Any worldbuilding?

Basically, if you could write your dream stories, what would they be about?

Sorry if you've got a similar question before, but I am really curious. Your posts talking about storytelling and faith always fascinate me, and I'd love to know how someone with such a love for Christ and stories would go about creating their own stories 💙

This is a wonderful question! I can't tell you how wonderful. Thank you! I'm so glad you follow me still!

I guess I'd always lean more toward allegory, and fantasy. I don't know how to make a story that isn't saying something very intentionally about God and people and their relationship to God.

It's funny, my taste in stories is more intimate. My favorite Disney movie is Lilo & Stitch, for example. But I have a hard time boiling it down when I make my own stories, because I like to trace every character's motivations back to their source--and when I do that, I wind up world building without meaning to, for way longer than I planned!

I make my stories based off of the Invisible Ink model by Brian McDonald, with a few tweaks to the outline so that it makes sense to me specifically.

So I always start with a thesis statement, the Point of the Story, the lesson I'm hoping it teaches. Then I break it down by listing "characters that need to learn it" and "characters that believe the opposite of it" and "characters that know it already." And then how they all interact, and where they'll be by the end of the story. Fun stuff like setting and fictional history and characterizations come while I'm filling all of that in, kind of naturally, which I wish I was better at giving in to.

Anyway! On to the fun part of your question;

I keep my stories really private because I have learned that if I "tell" the story, even just in a summary or a tumblr post or a text to a friend, I lose a lot of inspiration and a lot of...mental freedom to finish the story itself. It's like once I say it out loud, that version of the story is final in my subconscious, and I have less motivation to tweak it.

So I don't tell people about my ideas. Not unless we're officially or professionally collaborating.

But this question is so GOOD and I so APPRECIATE IT, that I'm going to get over that and tell you about one, for example, that I started doing but probably won't get to make.

I call it "Come When You're Called" and it's a story about a sheep farm, from the perspective of the farm animals (but specifically the dogs.) The style is like if all of Ruyard Kipling's Serious Animals With Their Own Noble Cultures met Albert Payson Terhune's How Animals Thrive Serving Their Owners met Disney's Fun Anthropomorphic Animals.

The main character is a border collie named Sky Blue (she's liver-colored with blue eyes) who is learning the lifestyle of a good dog on her master's farm. She's very energetic. Thats the one word you could use to describe her. She never stops trying to play or have fun. She's proud of being the fastest dog on the property; the older border collie she's learning from, Sharps, isn't even as fast as she is. He's teaching her how to recognize the Master's commands and obey them immediately.

Sharps is excellent at what he does, but he's super irritable because all he cares about is the work. If he had a character arc, it would be to find his identity in how much his Master loves him instead of how well he can do his job. When he first meets Sky, he doesn't like her because there's a subtle fear that he's getting too old to do the work himself. He's very strict.

There's another older dog on the property. His name is Lockjaw but everybody calls him LJ, and he's the opposite of Sharps. He's even older, wiser, and downright jolly. He used to be the guard dog for the whole huge property, but he's been raising a young German Shepherd named Buckwild to take it over. Buckwild and LJ have southern accents and Buck is a very smart, good dog...as long as someone tells him what to do, and exactly how to do it: his default state is laziness. He becomes Sky's love interest.

Anyway, the music would be very highlands-folksy—think The Oh Hellos. Each animal species on the farm has its own "culture," but they all function like a kingdom serving their king, the human Master. When you're living by that code of obeying and fulfilling your purpose, the animals generally call it "Coming When You're Called." But if you are disobedient, lazy, or out for yourself, stealing food or killing the Master's chickens or whatever, you're twisted and looked at with scorn and apprehension by the good animals.

It would be super episodic. 🤷‍♀️ There's villain characters, like a pack of wolves that like to try picking off the sheep every once in a while. Theres also a tomcat who does not Come When He's Called, but just sort of does whatever he wants around the farm and causes mischief. Theres a tiny black kitten who Sky teaches what she's learning, about how to Come When You're Called, who wants to grow up and chase the lazy tomcat off and take his place. Stuff like that.

I have other ideas. One, in particular, I've mentioned before, got me involved with the studio I'm currently working in. It's an allegory to do with a siren, vampire, and werewolf in the early 2000s. But I'll keep that one to myself 🫢 for now! The story the studio and I are making right now is sci-fi fantasy adventure, about a family that needs to figure out their relationship to each other and the world they're finding themselves rulers of...but that's all I'll say about that until it's out there for people to watch!

Really I like creating all of it. I've got a sci-fi idea, three fantasy ones, and then an ongoing batch of monster stories, too! I guess I always tend to create as if my audience is...in that 12-20 range? But really, like Disney, I'd like it if my stuff could be enjoyable for all ages. We'll see! I think! I hope!

Thank you for this question!

#artistissues #me #dog fiction #fiction #writing #invisible ink

[themaninthegreenshirt]

There was a saying, not heard today so often as formerly . .

“What do they know of England who only England know?”

It is a saying which dates. It has a period aroma, like Kipling’s Recessional or the state rooms at Osborne. That phase is ended, so plainly ended, that even the generation born at its zenith, for whom the realisation is the hardest, no longer deceive themselves as to the fact. That power and that glory have vanished, as surely, if not as tracelessly, as the imperial fleet from the waters of Spithead.

And yet England is not as Nineveh and Tyre, nor as Rome, nor as Spain. Herodotus relates how the Athenians, returning to their city after it had been sacked and burnt by Xerxes and the Persian army, were astonished to find, alive and flourishing in the blackened ruins, the sacred olive tree, the native symbol of their country.

So we today, at the heart of a vanished empire, amid the fragments of demolished glory, seem to find, like one of her own oak trees, standing and growing, the sap still rising from her ancient roots to meet the spring, England herself.

Perhaps, after all, we know most of England “who only England know”.

So the continuity of her existence was unbroken when the looser connections which had linked her with distant continents and strange races fell away. Thus our generation is one which comes home again from years of distant wandering. We discover affinities with earlier generations of English who felt no country but this to be their own. We discover affinities with earlier generations of English who felt there was this deep this providential difference between our empire and those others, that the nationhood of the mother country remained unaltered through it all, almost unconscious of the strange fantastic structure built around her – in modern parlance “uninvolved”.

Backward travels our gaze, beyond the grenadiers and the philosophers of the 18th century, beyond the pikemen and the preachers of the 17th, back through the brash adventurous days of the first Elizabeth and the hard materialism of the Tudors and there at last we find them, or seem to find them, in many a village church, beneath the tall tracery of a perpendicular East window and the coffered ceiling of the chantry chapel.

From brass and stone, from line and effigy, their eyes look out at us, and we gaze into them, as if we would win some answer from their silence.”Tell us what it is that binds us together; show us the clue that leads through a thousand years; whisper to us the secret of this charmed life of England, that we in our time may know how to hold it fast”.

“What would they say”?

They would speak to us in our own English tongue, the tongue made for telling truth in, tuned already to songs that haunt the hearer like the sadness of spring. They would tell us of that marvellous land, so sweetly mixed of opposites in climate that all the seasons of the year appear there in their greatest perfection; of the fields amid which they built their halls, their cottages, their churches, and where the same blackthorn showered its petals upon them as upon us; they would tell us, surely of the rivers the hills and of the island coasts of England.

One thing above all they assuredly would not forget; Lancastrian or Yorkist, squire or lord, priest or layman; they would point to the kingship of England, and its emblems everywhere visible.

They would tell us too of a palace near the great city which the Romans built at a ford of the River Thames, to which men resorted out of all England to speak on behalf of their fellows, a thing called ‘Parliament’; and from that hall went out their fellows with fur trimmed gowns and strange caps on their heads, to judge the same judgments, and dispense the same justice, to all the people of England.

Symbol, yet source of power; person of flesh and blood, yet incarnation of an idea; the kingship would have seemed to them, as it seems to us, to express the qualities that are peculiarly England’s: the unity of England, effortless and unconstrained, which accepts the unlimited supremacy of Crown in Parliament so naturally as not to be aware of it; the homogeneity of England, so profound and embracing that the counties and the regions make it a hobby to discover their differences and assert their peculiarities; the continuity of England, which has brought this unity and this homogeneity about by the slow alchemy of centuries.

For the unbroken life of the English nation over a thousand years and more is a phenomenon unique in history, the product of a specific set of circumstances like those which in biology are supposed to start by chance a new line of evolution. Institutions which elsewhere are recent and artificial creations appear in England almost as works of nature, spontaneous and unquestioned.

From this continuous life of a united people in its island home spring, as from the soil of England, all that is peculiar in the gifts and the achievements of the English nation. All its impact on the outer world in earlier colonies, in the later Pax Britannica, in government and lawgiving, in commerce and in thought has flowed from impulses generated here. And this continuing life of England is symbolised and expressed, as by nothing else, by the English kingship. English it is, for all the leeks and thistles grafted upon it here and elsewhere. The stock that received all these grafts is English, the sap that rises through it to the extremities rises from roots in English earth, the earth of England’s history. We in our day ought well to guard, as highly to honour, the parent stem of England, and its royal talisman; for we know not what branches yet that wonderful tree will have the power to put forth.

The danger is not always violence and force; them we have withstood before and can again.

The peril can also be indifference and humbug, which might squander the accumulated wealth of tradition and devalue our sacred symbolism to achieve some cheap compromise or some evanescent purpose.

Enoch Powell MP, Minister of Health, to The Royal Society of St George, London, St George’s day 1961

#enoch powell #quotes #speech #england #politics #conservatives #high tory

[incorrectdwpquotes]

Miranda: Come on, Nigel. Nobody actually believes that Andrea is in love with me. Nigel, to the Runway crew: Raise your hand if you think that Andy is helplessly in love with Miranda. [Everyone raises their hand] Miranda: Andrea, put your hand down.

#the devil wears prada #incorrect quotes #incorrect dwp quotes #miranda priestly #nigel kipling #andy sachs #mirandy #source: perchance generator

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Feell the unforgeeveeng meenuto weeth seexty seconds worth of deestance run.

Speedy Gonzales

#speedy gonzales #source: rudyard kipling

[arsvitaest]

Paul Jouve’s illustrations for the French edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, 1919. Source

#Paul Jouve

[thebeautifulbook]

POEMS AND BALLADS by Rudyard Kipling. (New York: Dodge, 1899) Illustrated by Victor A. Searles.

source

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #illustrated book #book design #rudyard kipling #poetry #victor a searles

[wecandoit]

my youtube recommendations + poet recommendations (?)

• youtube is pretty much my sole entertainment source lately. i also get a lot of editing/aesthetic insp from youtubers i watch regularly and you can probably see that if you watch any of them. • my favourite youtubers: ~ lifestyle, vlogs ~ @Dustin Vuong @dobochobo @linh truong @jasmine le @bestdressed (not active anymore) @Annabelle Gao @Kaiti Yoo @Audrie Storme @moya mawhinney @annika's leaf @Angela V (previously elloitsangela, her studywithme's >>>) ~ other ~ @benjiplant (plants, duh) @Caroline Winkler (interior design) @A Clockwork Reader (books) @Jack Edwards (books) @Mina Le (social commentary) @oliSUNvia (social commentary) • i don't really read poetry, though i am planning on getting into it. some poets that i have read and am in love with: - oscar wilde - rudyard kipling - sappho - sue zhao some poets that i've heard of and want to read more of: - maya angelou - rupi kaur - edgar allen poe - emily dickinson - nikita gill - sylvia plath - lang leav

@cravingstudyvalidation <3 tysm for asking for this, hopefully i wasn't way off the mark

#youtube #dustin vuong #dobochobo #linh truong #jasmine le #bestdressed #annabelle gao #kaiti yoo #audrie storme #moya mawhinney #annika's leaf #benjiplant #caroline winkler #a clockwork reader #jack edwards #poets #poetry #oscar wilde #rudyard kipling #sappho #sue zhao #maya angelou #rupi kaur #edgar allen poe #emily dickinson #nikita gill #sylvia plath #lang leav #recommendations #masterpost

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

APPARENTLY, CHEWIE'S CREATION WASN'T AS ORIGINAL AS WE'VE ALL BEEN LED TO BELIEVE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on cover art to "ANALOG" science fiction magazine (cover dated July 1975), and the big, furry, ape/dog-like beings that inspired Chewbacca's final look. Artwork by John Schoenherr.

PIC(S) #2, 3, & 4 INFO: John Schoenherr's creature compared with Ralph McQuarries redesign of Chewbacca, from "The Art of STAR WARS," page 67.

OVERVIEW: "Enter John Schoenherr Stage Right:

RALPH MCQUARRIE: "George also gave me a drawing he liked from a 1930s illustrator of science fiction that showed a big, apelike, furry beast with a row of female breasts down its chest. So I took the breasts off and added a bandolier and ammunition and weapons, and changed its face so it looked somewhat more like the final character, and I left it at that."

As is obvious from the following side-by-side comparison, the illustration McQuarrie is referring to wasn’t decades old, but months, being none other than this one by "Dune" legend John Schoenherr, from the July 1975 issue of "Analog."

Hmmm.

The drawing, as the cover, was for a Hugo-nominated novelette by George R.R. Martin which: "[…] deals with the “realities of a very rigid society conflicting with what looks like a pushover primitive tribal society; and we find out where the strength really lies. It’s called "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" (drawing its title from a "Jungle Book" poem by Rudyard Kipling).” A story which in itself is pretty familiar to the nature vs machine conflict surfaced in the early scripts and again in "Return of the Jedi" (although that's a theme so common by then that it's hard to say that this particular story had any explicit influence on 1977's "STAR WARS.""

-- KITBASHED (blogspot)

Source: https://kitbashed.com/blog/chewbacca.

#STAR WARS #Chewbacca #Concept Art #Sci-fi Art #Sci-fi #Sci-fi fantasy #Chewie #70s Sci-fi #70s Sci-fi Art #Vintage Sci-fi #Chewbacca Chewie #Wookie Species #Wookie #Analog Magazine #Analog #Original Trilogy #Ralph McQuarrie #The Art of STAR WARS #STAR WARS 1977 #Cover Art #Magazine #Magazines #Sketch Art #Super Seventies #Wookies #Ralph McQuarrie Art #John Schoenherr #John Schoenherr Art #Science fiction #Sci-fi Fri