Hey there.

My favorite thing about Hannibal is how laid back Will...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:59 -0400

My favorite thing about Hannibal is how laid back Will Graham’s dogs are.

I saw Hamlet tonight and it was great!

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:07:32 -0400

I was doing gleeful dances whenever Rosencrantz/Guildenstern flipped a coin. They’re using all the same actors for Stoppard’s play, which I get to see next week!

chasingcomics: The Man Who Lives Alone My Intro to Comics final...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:39:05 -0400

chasingcomics:

The Man Who Lives Alone

My Intro to Comics final about ghosts and love.

pbab: whale-bone: tibets: Mac Bath WAS THIS REALLY WORTH THE...

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:19:25 -0400

pbab:

whale-bone:

tibets:

Mac Bath

WAS THIS REALLY WORTH THE JOKE

Totally.

“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.” is a Samuel Johnson...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:23:51 -0400

“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.” is a Samuel Johnson quote apparently.

Home in time for Supes after all!

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:05:24 -0400

Home in time for Supes after all!

quarterclever: lairn: @katydidnot Are these Norwegian hex...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:25:08 -0400

quarterclever:

lairn:

@katydidnot

Are these Norwegian hex symbols?

TELL ME KATY

I know I’m not katydidnot, but I’ve never really heard of Norwegian hex symbols? They look more like Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs to me, not something like rosemaling.

Oops! Katy has been talking about Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs but I couldn’t remember what they were called. When I googled “Norwegian hex symbols” things kind of like this came up, so I guessed (incorrectly) that that was their name.

Still, they look pretty cool!

Maybe this isn’t your type of music, but these kids make...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:19:57 -0400

Maybe this isn’t your type of music, but these kids make great faces, so watch anyway.

@katydidnot Are these Norwegian hex symbols? TELL ME KATY

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:03:00 -0400

@katydidnot

Are these Norwegian hex symbols?

TELL ME KATY

destroycomics: The Summer of Battling Boy Give-Away! BATTLING...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:01:28 -0400

destroycomics:

The Summer of Battling Boy Give-Away!

BATTLING BOY POSTERS!

First Second has trusted me to run a series of give-aways and one contest between May and Battling Boy’s release in October. This means you will have a few chances to win posters, prints, galleys (advance reader’s copies of the book) among other things.

For May, I’m giving away a few Battling Boy posters!

Rules and Guidelines:

1. Like or reblog this post and encourage your followers to do the same. The more your name is in the notes to this post the higher your chances of winning.

2. Make sure you follow Destroy Comics. This is not necessary to winning, but if I decide to check if the winner is following the blog, it will influence my decision.

3. You have two weeks.

Winners will be selected randomly and contacted on May 20th.

Good luck!

Richard Gnann could beat Paul Pope in a foot race.

tidingsandthings: With the bank holiday just around the corner,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:08:06 -0400

tidingsandthings:

With the bank holiday just around the corner, our minds are drawn to the lovely weather and our gardens.

Here are some creative ways to grow your herbs: top to bottom

Design Squish

Ewa in the Garden

Unknown

101 Gardens

Camille Styles

all the critics are saying the great gatsby movie is awful and now i’m really depressed

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:16:09 -0400

all the critics are saying the great gatsby movie is awful and now i’m really depressed

lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the world had a...

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:35:10 -0400

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

anonynaila: subvertcliche: mello-dramatic: Everyone who reblogs this will get the title of a book...

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:38:14 -0400

anonynaila:

subvertcliche:

mello-dramatic:

Everyone who reblogs this will get the title of a book to read based on their bio/posts.

Everyone. I mean it.

THIS IS THE BEST POST

I HAVE EVER SEEN

EVER

they really do mean everyone

Except for the grotesque representation of hands and the fantasy...

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:03:58 -0400

Except for the grotesque representation of hands and the fantasy clothes line, this is a pretty accurate depiction of what I looked like today.

comicsreporter: fantastic tezuka panel from Ode To Kirihito

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:03:24 -0400

comicsreporter:

fantastic tezuka panel from Ode To Kirihito

3idjits: pancakes because of this beautiful sherlock pancake...

Thu, 02 May 2013 22:15:47 -0400

3idjits:

pancakes because of this beautiful sherlock pancake gifset

50 of your noted Americanisms

Thu, 02 May 2013 01:30:30 -0400

50 of your noted Americanisms :

quarterclever:

tinfoilstork:

devilmaycryhomo:

thequixoticbedhead:

quarterclever:

48. “I got it for free” is a pet hate. You got it “free” not “for free”. You don’t get something cheap and say you got it “for cheap” do you? Mark Jones, Plymouth

Er… yes… yes, actually, I do

Oh god, this article made me laugh so hard.

TL;DR: “American English is plebeian and dirty and Americans are not allowed to coin their own idioms!”

Ah, elitist prescriptivism. Fun stuff.

Yeah a good portion of these are fine. I mean, people really get made about 24/7? & “Touch base”? I understand #3. That’s about it :\

To quote a commenter on the link page:

“Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum
þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon
hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.

I trust everyone who has complained about Americanisms creeping in to the English language will have no trouble understanding the above. That’s what English looked like around 1,300 years ago.”

And it’s not even as if you even could make the argument that British English is the traditional, correct form, considering that oftentimes American English uses an older form and its British English that’s changed a pronunciation or the like more recently. That doesn’t make American English the better variant either— and of course that’s completely setting aside the fact that both American English and British English are really only language varieties out of convenience (i.e. there isn’t one language variety spoken in the US but a whole bunch of different ones that make up what we consider American English).

Both the reader complaints and the original article make me so angry!

“Britain is a very distinct country from the US. Not better, not worse, different. And long live that difference. That means maintaining the integrity of our own gloriously nuanced, subtle and supple version - the original version - of the English language.”

AHHHHHHH

Question for the Tumblr Adept

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:02:21 -0400

How can I make photo posts not so outrageously large? I have tried actually resizing the image, but then tumblr posts it just as big, simply blurrier. I feel kind of obnoxious posting such a large Northanger Abbey or HHhH image…

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen This was a very rewarding read...

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:57:41 -0400

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

This was a very rewarding read after enduring the gothic agonies of The Mysteries of Udolpho. Austen is playful, and even though she parodies and lightly mocks gothic literature, her respect for novels of any form makes Northanger Abbey a wry, but loving riff off of a genre that I certainly plan to avoid in the future.

One of the best things about this book was that although Austen’s heroine, Catherine, iss naive about the motivations and behaviors of those around her, her blindness is easy to sympathize with. Austen presents her fouler characters in a way that temporarily obscures poorer aspects, so that the reader is surprised by some characters’ failings just as much as Catherine is. Although, to be be fair to the reader, Catherine is still a little late on the uptake. I forgive Catherine all her naiveté for managing to be both entirely wholesome and actually appealing. Austen takes the formula behind Emily St. Aubert and rewrites her into something much closer to a real human. And without nearly as many tears.