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A bunch of fun links about literature, art, and comics
"Can you guess if the word is an antidepressants drug or a Tolkien character?" (A couple of them are gimmes, but some are genuinely tough!)
Working out which Houses correspond to which planets in the Locked Tomb series.
Visual references that absolutely helped me track the action while reading the first two books: Necromancers and cavaliers from Gideon the Ninth, and a whole massive character-design lineup from Harrow the Ninth.
2020 interview with Tamsyn Muir: "I know lots of people don’t wish for their work to be used by fanfiction writers. I think that should be respected. I mean, I think their reasons are wrongheaded and that they totally misunderstand what is going on, but the fanfiction community is generally generous with people who say they don’t want stuff written about their property. I hope my fandom is writing long serious epics, and writing parody pieces that make me look stupid, and weird porn, and ships I never saw coming."
Long list of punny restaurant names, suggested by one of the writers for The Good Place.
"this video game i've been playing since i was a kid called Wizard101 updated and added a new world where the villain essentially pretends to be Khonshu, and they added a character called Loon Knight."
Somebody wrote to Dear Prudence, confessing to (in short) sending anon hate to the antis who attacked them for writing darkfic. Prudie's perfectly on-point response boils down to "you have to stop bullying these people, instead you should channel your spite into writing more darkfic."
"Through the use of comic book conventions, readers are guided through the decipherment of logographic writing from Central Mexico and, in the process, are shown how colonization has limited our contemporary understanding of ancient Indigenous people."
"I’ve wanted to try my had at drawing [Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work] all myself over the years, and decided to finally give it a crack with a twist: could I also tell a STORY using those exact panel layouts?"
"But why is the DeviantART stamp? Who was the originator of the DeviantART stamp, how did they become so popular? This question was posed on a forum I frequent, and I was unable to find any existing write-ups, so I sought to answer it myself."
Working out which Houses correspond to which planets in the Locked Tomb series.
Visual references that absolutely helped me track the action while reading the first two books: Necromancers and cavaliers from Gideon the Ninth, and a whole massive character-design lineup from Harrow the Ninth.
2020 interview with Tamsyn Muir: "I know lots of people don’t wish for their work to be used by fanfiction writers. I think that should be respected. I mean, I think their reasons are wrongheaded and that they totally misunderstand what is going on, but the fanfiction community is generally generous with people who say they don’t want stuff written about their property. I hope my fandom is writing long serious epics, and writing parody pieces that make me look stupid, and weird porn, and ships I never saw coming."
Long list of punny restaurant names, suggested by one of the writers for The Good Place.
"this video game i've been playing since i was a kid called Wizard101 updated and added a new world where the villain essentially pretends to be Khonshu, and they added a character called Loon Knight."
Somebody wrote to Dear Prudence, confessing to (in short) sending anon hate to the antis who attacked them for writing darkfic. Prudie's perfectly on-point response boils down to "you have to stop bullying these people, instead you should channel your spite into writing more darkfic."
"Through the use of comic book conventions, readers are guided through the decipherment of logographic writing from Central Mexico and, in the process, are shown how colonization has limited our contemporary understanding of ancient Indigenous people."
"I’ve wanted to try my had at drawing [Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work] all myself over the years, and decided to finally give it a crack with a twist: could I also tell a STORY using those exact panel layouts?"
"But why is the DeviantART stamp? Who was the originator of the DeviantART stamp, how did they become so popular? This question was posed on a forum I frequent, and I was unable to find any existing write-ups, so I sought to answer it myself."
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I did SO badly
...even though I've been downing those damn pills since 1991.
It's truly brilliant.
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a Dancing With the Stars performance by the actress who portrayed Luisa in Encanto
a gifset which is somehow even hotter
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fans self what an amazing body!
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(...will I be finding some donkey-free photos of her to use as art references later, yes, yes I will.)
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I didn't know the history of dA stamps! I really miss them (made a couple using one of the popular templates back in the day, it was so fun to collect and display them).
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Hey, thanks for the shoutout!
Oh, wow, that comic about logographic writing is amazing. (Someone tell Steven.)
What a cool piece of Internet history!