Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales #6 - Goloka: The Heroic Dose (April 1, 2003)
writer: Alan Moore | artist by: Jerry Ordway | colorist: Jeromy Cox | letters: Todd Klein | editor: Scott Dunbier | assistant editor: Kristy Quinn | publishing company: America’s Best Comics [Wildstorm Productions]
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
In further research into Yiddish collections of Arthuriana, my father found a story of Gawain. You'll never guess what it is, I guarantee. Go on, guess. You're wrong.
It's a Yiddish story about Sir Gawain becoming Emperor of China.
Random but is anyone here a fan of the gay hockey webcomic Check, Please?
I screwed up my address update when pledging on Kickstarter and now I have two sets of rewards lmao. Looking to give away the second set to a good home.
My pledge includes: All four volumes of Check, Please! in softcover format, packaged into the slipcase. Comes with signed bookplates + a postcard print set.
I hate the “Thoreau’s mom did his laundry” criticism so much, it drives me crazy.
Henry Thoreau did not go to Walden Pond because he thought it would be a fun adventure. He went into the woods because he was deeply depressed and burnt out. He was running from the horror of his brother and best friend recently dying in his arms, and the haunting memory of causing the Fairhaven Bay fire. His friend Ellery Channing literally gave him the ultimatum of either taking some time off to write and think, or else be institutionalized.
I think Thoreau’s mother saw her depressed son choosing to retreat into a small cabin in the woods, and was worried about him. Of course she did his laundry - just as Ralph Waldo Emerson probably brought him firewood and bread. These were not chores of obligation to support a “great” man, but services of love to help their deeply depressed 28yo son and friend.
And if you ask me, there’s a lesson in that - to “suck out the marrow of life” and “live deliberately,” one must also accept help offered from the people in your life who love you. There is no true transcendentalism or individualism without love and friendship behind it.
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