#up mississippi

[gunterfan1992]

Pre-Order an Updated version of “Exploring the Land of Ooo”!

In 2020, I released Exploring the Land of Ooo, which took a behind-the-scenes approach to Adventure Time by detailing its complex production history. The book was (at least for me!) a smash success, and the University Press of Mississippi soon agreed to re-release it. And so, I whipped up some more content, conducted more interviews, and produced an updated version.

I’m excited to announce that this version is finally available for pre-order! Here’s the cover:

Here’s the description:       

Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network’s "Adventure Time" is a guide through the colorful and exuberant animated television series that initially aired from 2010 to 2018. Created by visionary artist Pendleton Ward, the series was groundbreaking and is credited by many with heralding in a new golden age of animation. Known for its distinct sense of humor, bold aesthetic choices, and memorable characters, Adventure Time has amassed a fan-following of teenagers and young adults in addition to children. Popularly and critically acclaimed, the show netted three Annie awards, eight Emmys, and a coveted Peabody.

In this thorough overview, author Paul A. Thomas explores the nuances of Adventure Time’s characters, production history, ancillary media, and vibrant fandom. Based in part on interviews with dozens of the creative individuals who made the show possible, the volume comprises a captivating mix of oral history and primary source analysis. With fresh insight, the book considers the show’s guest-directed episodes, outlines its most famous songs, and explores how its characters were created and cast. Written for fans and scholars alike, Exploring the Land of Ooo ensures that, when it comes to Adventure Time, the fun truly will never end.

And here’s what some cool people have said about it:

As thorough and comprehensive an account of Adventure Time as one could possibly hope for. I’m grateful for and flattered by all the care that Paul A. Thomas put into this work.—Tom Herpich

"Pen Ward’s Adventure Time is just the sort of bellwether series that deserves the thorough and thoughtful historical accounting Thomas has given us here. I love it (but I still freaking hate Trudy).—Eric Homan

Exploring the Land of Ooo is a wonderful book offering an extremely engaging and thorough production history of the popular show Adventure Time.—Paul Booth

Fascinating revelations from the world’s foremost scholar of Ooo.—Casey James Basichis

Pre-order a copy today through UP Mississippi’s website here: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/E/Exploring-the-Land-of-Ooo

#adventure time #atimers #up mississippi #exploring the land of ooo #finn the human #jake the dog #marceline the vampire queen #marceline #princess bubblegum #tom herpich #eric homan #paul booth #casey james basichis #pendleton ward #adam muto #pen ward

[maureen2musings]

Adam Dutton

#eclipse #look up #moon and sun #banks of the mississippi #curators on tumblr

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 10 #its all in the game #it's summertime and the sweatin is easy #im glad he talks about this even if it's in the later series #he's just going to show up with pit stains all the time and pretend he's not the sweatiest little thing west of the mississippi? please

[quitetheketch-moved]

New year, new me - we're moving house! If you wanna come see me try to figure out who I am post move and the direction I wanna go come say hi again. Feel free to unfollow this blog. And if not and we part here its been a wonderful handful of years and I wish you all well and thank you for the time you were in my life. Take care.

#tbh it'll probably be the same meme bullshit and this urge to remake my life so I feel in control will seem silly come morning but #idk I feel like I've closed a chapter on my old life back in Mississippi #and I wanna try something else even if it shapes up the same

[ambivalentlandscape]

sorry jenny but my favorite character from a mountain goats album is the sun in full force galesburg

#sun climbs the sky for us above the mississippi. i know how to rise up with the sun. saw the sun fall down out of the sky the other day. #sun twinkling on the river this evening. sun refused to shine on my backyard today. sun up above us is trying to kill itself. #many such cases!! #tmg

[spending-life-pretending]

“You think a song’s gonna get a rise out of me?!” shouts local vampire dripping river water all over your floor after swimming the Mississippi and kicking down a door just to break six years of the silent treatment

#me #interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #Louis….don’t freak out but…I think the song may be getting a rise out of you #loustat #so funny to me that these were his FIRST WORDS to Lestat in six years #‘six years of begging u think a songs gonna get a rise out of me?’ #CLEARLY IT DID MY GOOD SIR #YOU JUST SWAM THE FUCKING MISSISSIPPI JUST TO SMASH THE RECORD ON HIS FLOOR #Louis baby have some dignity #get up king

[cheriova]

If you feel sexy, you look sexy.. 🇺🇸

#usa #doggyfuck #cowgirl #sexy pose #america #eat my pussy #hot as fuck #needy pussy #hook me up #xxxx #mississippi #united states #cuba #us army #usagi yojimbo #usagi tsukino #usa news #americans #lick my pussy #purple #punk #qsmp purgatory #bad bitch #bad buddy #so hot 🔥🔥🔥 #hotwives #hot as hell #hot nude #cute #legs

[peninsularian]

Heavenly Gospel, 1961

#five blind boys of mississippi #sending up my timber #gospel #soul #r&b

[daemonicdasein]

Riley Keough in American Honey (2016). Directed and written by Andrea Arnold.

#riley keough #american honey #andrea arnold #2016 #confederate #white trash #hillbilly #southern #southern americana #southern united states #american south #priscilla presley #elvis presley #americana #white trash aesthetic #lumpenproletariat #lana del rey #mississippi south #raise me up #queen of the gas station #movie #film #cinema #2010s movies

[speedlimit15]

if you were born somewhere that looks like this it should be considered illegal torture to make you live in a landlocked state

#I’m so serious #the mississippi river is barely enough for me im like holding onto the fact that she ends up here

[romanceyourdemons]

“well you only think that way because you grew up on the rivers and lakes” -something my dad said that unintentionally makes me sound like some sort of wuxia protagonist

#context is i was confused to discover a subculture of self-identified ‘lake people’ #who buy tshirts that say ‘don’t ask… it’s a lake person thing!’ and shit and their personality is going on vacation at lakes #and meanwhile i grew up close enough to the mississippi that going down to the river is just something you do in the afternoon #CLEARLY my experiences are not universal #ryddles

[rohirric-hunter]

If anyone else was suddenly assaulted with Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 and wants to know how to get rid of it, the instructions here worked for me. There is still an icon for it in my search menu, but it simply links me to a webpage advertising it and the program doesn't appear to be running on my computer anymore.

#if anyones curious microsoft copilot is chatgpt but worse and proprietary to microsoft #lets be honest tho its probably chatgpt in a trenchcoat #like they probably have a bot set up to forward anything you ask it to chatgpt and then just send that response back #idk i didnt play with it or anything #maybe i should have asked it how many ys are in the word mississippi

[zapsoda]

my dads way of connecting with me is telling me about this confederate soldier he read about who lived and enlisted as a man but was revealed to be female after going to the hospital for a hip injury in their seventies or whatever

#i appreciate the effort #his point in bringing it up was that he didnt want me to go to college in mississippi or whatever aha #i cannot stress enough that hes not a racist weirdo hes just really interested in the civil war in like a neurodivergent way

[alliluyevas]

it's so crazy to me that they used to have civil war veteran reunions where veterans of both sides would show up. didn't that get awkward??? we have a family story about my great-grandpa attending a civil war reunion as a teenager in the early 20th century (i have NO idea why he was there, just curious i guess) and there were like a dozen old union vets there and one elderly confederate. like...sir are you lost.

#my mom does genealogy and we have this one ancestor where we genuinely cannot figure out if he actually fought in the civil war and if so #for what side but he died while attending a confederate reunion but i guess he could have technically been a union vet or just some rando #who decided to go there for some reason #note: the confusion about what side he fought on is bc he was from illinois but moved to mississippi at some point we think immediately #after the war and then married some woman there in 1870 and lived there the rest of his life so who knows #so i think it's possible that he was a union vet who then ended up in the south and attended the confederate reunion for the same reason #that one confederate guy attended the other reunion (which was in the midwest) or he was from illinois but fought for the confederates #and then ended up living in the south. but we cant find any pension evidence or anything so maybe he just decided to go to this reunion #for no reason and then die there

[glittergroovy]

Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) • Lana Del Rey

#gif warning #lana del rey #lana lyrics #raise me up (mississippi south) #album: a.k.a. lizzy grant #raise me up #glitter text #lyrics #blue #palatino Linotype font #bloggif.com #flashing lights

[whatevertheywant]

Imagine a woman admits she has a crush on you by not only talking about how pathetic you are but also follows it up with "And good men die,too,so I'd rather be with you"

#crush ethel cain #ethel cain #like...GIRL #i just- #i want better for her but also bruh #out of pocket #amazing but like STAND UP HAYDEN #like she's really about to nut over a man who looks like he works with his hands and smells like Marlboro Reds #ma'am i know it's the southern straight woman in u talking #bc she's living in Alabama and there's like 20 of those men at any gas station there or in Mississippi