#one of my favorite areas

[wanderingwoodlandslotro]

✶ ― Eitheldir, Angle of Mitheithel

❝ ᴀ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ᴅɪꜱᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴏᴜᴛʜ, ɴᴇꜱᴛʟᴇᴅ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴜᴅᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴏᴀʀᴡᴇʟʟ ʀɪᴠᴇʀꜱ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪꜱ ᴀ ᴡᴏᴏᴅᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴏᴄᴋ-ꜱᴛᴜᴅᴅᴇᴅ ʟᴀɴᴅ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴏꜱᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴅᴡᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀɴɢʟᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴍɪᴛʜᴇɪᴛʜᴇʟ. ❞

Beautiful area and beautiful music.

#lotro #the lord of the rings online #gaming #pc games #tolkien #lord of the rings online #gladden #middle-earth #the lord of the rings #the hobbit #the rings of power #gaming photography #gaming screenshot #virtual photography #virtual landscapes #landscapes #mmo #angle of mitheithel #lord of the rings fandom #one of my favorite areas

[aquanutart]

#zelda #legend of zelda #ocarina of time #link #linktober #day 13: phantom #aquanutart #actually i meant to do this for day 2: temple but ... #i guess i could really stretch it and say it's day 15 favorite character (oot link) #i listened to the forest temple music while working on this until i couldn't take it anymore #i hear it in my head when i look at this #the haunted paintings are so cool. this temple is amazing #i love how it's not dark and claustrophobic all the time but also has these bright outdoor areas that are eerily overgrown and abandoned #and then it whiplashes you into stuff like the twisted hallways. it's so cool #i'm not really into spooky/scary stuff but eerie with a sense of implied history and mysteries from years ago? go for it #also the wallmasters teaching us all to deal with anxiety in adulthood #(that is: sense its lurking presence; dodge it when it falls; slash it apart but dont let it split into smaller ones that run away from you

[finelythreadedsky]

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area) #but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad' #some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though... #bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!! #and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥 #and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

[probablyanalienindisguise]

#Why can't I combine the themes to my favorite hk areas?? #Rain 🤝 flora #Deepnest is on my fav list too but i might do a more darker piece involving that one #The silly guys again though #digital art #art #hollow knight #hk quirrel #hk hollow knight #quirrelhollow #quirrel #the hollow knight #THE LET THEM ENJOY RAIN SURPRISE BLAST

[plein-air-on-gorkhon]

image description: a digital painting of the factories from pathologic 2. it is rendered with redder hues than seen in game

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#pathologic 2 #pathologic #plein-air-art #painting this sums up the patho experience: suffering #one of my favorite areas in game mostly from being so well traveled

[pianokantzart]

Mario just spent most of the last scene getting his ass handed to him and only narrowly won the fight because he got ahold of a really good powerup. But the moment DK starts egging him on Mario hands off the ice pack and goes in for round two, fists raised and not a powerup in sight. One braincell. Zero self preservation skills. I love him.

#big of heart dumb of ass is my favorite take on Mario #like he's smart in some areas but avoiding potentially lethal situations is NOT one of those areas #Mario Movie #Donkey Kong #super mario bros #super mario brothers

[softerhaze]

taking some inspo from awingedllama and turning newcrest (or parts of it, at least) into the san myshuno suburbs of my dreams since san sequoia just. wasn't doing it for me babes 😶

#this little area of newcrest with the 5 lots that are all bunched together #is actually one of my favorite neighborhoods in the game just because of how cozy it feels #but i can't stand the base game deco buildings?? seeing awingedllama just get rid of them made me realize....that i can too #and i did!!! i also made a little terrain replacement because the grass here is neon green for some reason #i need to track down the texture of the grass strips in the sidewalk at some point too

[puppyeared]

When you go on walks, what’s your favourite part? Mine is when I find one of the rivers or small streams nearby my house. Or when I get to meet some new dogs- or when the temperature is just warm enough to bask in whilst the trees are rustling because of a strong breeze. Maybe my favourite part is the walk itself, I like walking places. Problem is I always need to have a destination in mind.

the weather is getting nicer so its the best time to go outside and poke around for some new visitors ^_^

#i think i overdid it drawing this but i havent drawn birds in so long that it was a nice exercise.... #actually im thinking of resuming my mspaintbirdies blog.. unfortunately my tablet is ass and i dont like the new ms paint #so ill probably use procreate.. does this mean i would have to change the url...???? #idk if i wanna go with this style or use flat colors.... theyre both good and i wanna switch between them but i also want consistency #i did paint a mandarin duck for a school project with flat paints but its much harder so ill probably have to play around with it #we get dark eyed juncos in the winter here and goldfinches in the summer.. ive been meaning to visit the conservation area #more often bc there are more species there like nuthatches and chickadees. maybe i can rent a camera for photos #but id really love to visit vancouver again especially since they have stellers jays there. theyre one of my favorites <3 #ask #answered #doodles #birds #yapping #sona #puppysona

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | salt bite 1/?

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #tallneck #aloy #i haven't done a salt bite series yet? huh #i love the salt bite area #sunrise here is so pretty #and this is one of my favorite tallnecks #hfw tallneck #hfw salt bite

[northsealight]

#this is one of my favorite official covers for jason #if that tells you all you need to know about me... #I have loads and loads of analysis on him they area all crammed on notes app #Jason todd #arkham knight #my heart of hearts

[generalticktock]

#bioshock #medical pavilion #fanart #dr. steinman #one of my favorite areas in the game #and kinda creepy

[notbecauseofvictories]

Hello, would you happen to have any book recs on arthurian retellings? I've read th white, malory, tolkien and steinbeck and was wondering if there's anymore around that leans into the more fantastical or weird. Either way, any recs would be appreciated please and thank you!

Retellings, no---unfortunately, once you move outside of Malory and de Troyes etc., you're largely in the world of literary classics (e.g., White) or YA novels (e.g., Gerald Morris, my beloved). There was a brief period of resurgence in the 70s with authors like Mary Stewart and Thomas Berger trying their hand at Arthuriana, and the 90s were lousy with juvenilia (I was there, I remember!) but few of them lean into the fantastical in the way you mean.

....that said, there's an unexpected wealth of novels that aren't straight adaptations, but do play with the mythos in interesting ways.

My actual reason for reblogging that post was that I just finished Perilous Times, by Thomas D. Lee. It's set in a future world when the UK is being swallowed by rising seas, half the country has been sold to private corporations, and the other half has devolved into factionalist infighting---oh, and this is about when Sir Kay is roused from his eternal slumber, and told to go kill a dragon. (Slowly, you discover that eternal slumber isn't really "eternal"; he and his fellow knights have been called up a dozen times, each worse, bloodier, and more morally implicating than the last.)

It is a weird as hell set up, and it doesn't get any less weird once you throw in the fay, Welsh independents, refugee camps, and explosions. Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself immensely.

I think that's my takeaway---if you've already read the greats, you can branch out into those authors using Arthuriana as a tool rather than an end in itself. For example, I just started Donald Barthelme's The King, which is the Arthurian cycle transliterated to WWII. I've only read the first bit, but this exchange had me in hysterics:

In the end, I've already read Malory, etc. I'd love a truly mystical Arthurian retelling, that takes advantage of how wide, deep, and unexplained, inexplicable, the world was around the Round Table. However, barring that, I like it when an author does something with all the paper dolls left behind---even if it involves Merlin licking mushrooms, or Lancelot's bloody mace being stolen from the pub washroom.

#also...reading H is for Hawk really lends a lot of depth to th white. is it ABOUT arthurian legend? no. #but nevertheless it lends a lot of depth and meaning to one of my favorite novels #I do think this is a rich area for authors to plumb but you have to deal with a lot of detritus #so it's just interesting which novels attempt it #arthurian legend

[fatehbaz]

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#thinking of dinosaurs and troodontids were my favorite dinosaurs as a child #when younger i had a real full troodontid tooth fossil that meant a lot to me #for a time we lived within a few kilometers of hadrosaur sites and troodontid sites #while wider general area had many sites of recovery for the big celebrities like tyrannosaur and multiple dromaeosaurs #at that time troodontids were kinda infamous for i think the depiction in some childrens field guides and dino books #which depicted like a fantasy speculative humanoid troodontid based on 1980s model at Canadian Museum of Nature in ottawa #anyway would visit a small local paleo center a lot and woman in her 70s or 80s ran the counter of their center and rock shop #one day she asked me what my fave dino was and i said troodon so she pulled out the tooth and just gifted it to me #in little black case size of ring box with padding and transparent plastic viewing cover kinda like laminate for displaying a trading card #tooth got stolen from out my vehicle while giving some people a ride while at university before i got too poor for tuition #later during first year of pandemic owner of my storage unit died and new property owners threw away everything i ever owned #i was homeless anyway lost job due to early pandemic closures and had to allocate any money to insulin and other prescrip meds #but wouldve found a way to save my things if the new owners had contacted me #they threw out photoalbums y backpacking gear y books y musical instruments y clothes y artwork y camera y all family keepsakes #and all childhood treasures like souvenirs and gifts and school awards and writing portfolios and all the little memories #which i was always sentimental about as child #from earliest age my room looked like a natural history museum with plants and maps and library of field guides #and rocks and field trip keepsakes and all kinds of little animal figurines and mother had painted room in forest greens and browns #to feel like a forest and among the succulent plants and a globe sat the troodon tooth #parents passed when i was a child #never near any family and were always moving never got to settle into proper stable place then father passed after long sad illness #and mother put in so much effort but she passed few years later and i could not take care of myself or my remaining material possessions #and so im still quite hurt having nothing whatsoever remaining of my childhood or school friends or mother or life generally #and when trying to process grief my thoughts often come back to the troodontid tooth as a focal point a distillation of what was lost #even when young i knew it was advised not to become too connected to material physical possessions #but still there are some small little trinkets in our lives that seem to hold so much meaning and i tortured myself for losing that tooth #thinking about troodon reminds me of childhood

[leafeonb]

she loves drawing! 🖍️

#my art #image described on alt text #ib game #nothing makes me want to draw more than going through my brushes and finding something that #looks fun to draw with :-) this one brush i used for the lineart and painting reminded me of #when a marker is running out of ink and i was like oh thats fun #anyways. the eeb. mary character of all time she loves drawing did you know that #the sketchbook area..... one of my favorite areas ever in the game #also i drew this too small on the canvas and didnt notice until i finished orz the quality........

[moeblob]

Pen doodles from yesterday and then digital for today

Katale and Rudyard but as little crime babies. Since he's known her for a while and just thought she looked like a little street thug despite being higher ranking than him in the crime organization at first, the cat-ear hairstyle was just A Thing for her. And it spawned the nickname he would use in private of "Kitty" and even when she grows her hair out and he grays even more he still calls her Kitty in private. They're literally just bffs who do crime and what more can you want of them??

#my characters #time for more lore in the tags #so it was brought to my attention that the funniest thing possible is to give them a few bases with my favorite meme #the color theory meme where everything is just too reminiscent of a bloody massacre #because honestly katale would be like hey rud hey i have the FUNNIEST idea ever look at this carpet pattern #and he looks at the very horrific carpet and just says go on #like keep going this is funny and very much the funniest thing we can do as crime lords keep going #and they do actually have that kind of decor in one of the nicer buildings #and the poor little agent who is on a mission to kill them walks in like HOLY CRAP ITS A MASSAC-- thats the carpet that is JUST the carpet #and has to take a minute to file that information away before proceeding #then stuff happens and the two crime bosses are like oh yeah that agent is our son now we adopted him its fine he can be here #also ruds sense of humor is super dry and he doesnt really SHOW the fact hes amused much but thats what makes kitty so happy when he jokes #he sounds very serious but hes enjoying himself and thats wonderful #like those weather reporters who see an off the wall temp and go OH YEAH EVERYONES DEAD IN THAT CITY #or the other weather man video where only some of the temps are off the wall so hes like #oh yeah this seems to be the safe area but if you go up north a bit its basically melted - there isnt anything to loot there dont bother #that is his sense of humor. hes super casual and acts like he didnt just say the funniest thing on the planet

[paging-possum]

I’ve been wanting to make search and find pages for a while and I’m finally getting around to it! :D

#my art #i spy tarot #i WILL be doing the major arcana idk how long itll take but i will #maybe some of the minor arcana too but idk #also sketching out a few non tarot ones but its harder to do fun borders for those and the fun borders are my favorite part so far #if anyones in the rochester area ill be selling this as a print at RICE in a few weeks! #hopefully also the magician and the sun (lol) and matching stickers! #also other stuff like print nematomorpha and a sketchbook zine BUT THIS ISNT ABOUT THEM #i spy #search and find #tarot #art