"I'm not helping, officially. And if anyone happens to ask whether I made any material difference to the welfare of this planet, you can tell them I came and went like a summer cloud."
On this National Poets Day, August 21, we celebrate the work of Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Tagore began writing poetry as a child and remained committed throughout his life to exploring the natural and spiritual world through poetry and prose. He was known as the “Bard of Bengal” and in 1913 became the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his collection of poetry Gitanjali.
Within the Special Collections we hold the first edition of Moon, For What Do You Wait?, a collection of Tagore poems from his 1916 publication Stray Birds which consisted of 326 verses. Published in 1967 by Atheneum, Moon, For What Do You Wait? was edited by Richard Lewis, director of the Touchstone Center for Children in New York City, with illustrations by award-winning artist and author Ashley Bryan (1923-2022). Lewis manages to whittle down Tagore’s lines without losing any of the imbued wonder and delight present in the original publication. Accompanied by Bryan’s bold illustrations, readers are encouraged to let their eyes wander over the pages, getting lost in prose and imagery.
I had the privilege of interviewing Richard Ashley Hamilton (the co-writer of the Dragons comics, alongside Dean Deblois), where he spilled all the tea on the unreleased HTTYD Graphic Novel The Fire Tides.
Here’s a snippet of the interview where we discuss CANON shirtless Hiccup, the full interview and story to be released with my Dragons: The Nine Realms Season 3 Review later this month...
TLDR: HICCUP CANONICALLY HAS A TATTOO OF ASTRID’S NAME ON HIS CHEST!!!
Please share with everyone in the fandom, as we have a fan-related competition coming up in the full interview! Keep up with my YT channel to be notified when that drops!
As much as I love Grimmons and was semi-jokingly hoping for them getting together at the series close-
-seriously speaking in narrative terms, Grif and Simmons choices of their paths makes sense and is a good way of bringing their characters full circle. Grif was drafted and didn’t have a choice, Simmons was always trying to prove himself and be more. They both grew so much over the adventures. At the final adventure they both made choices for their characters of where they want to go forward as everything is finally laid to rest.
And each gave the other the chance for those paths for each other. Simmons gave Grif the chance to go home and stop being a soldier. Grif supported Simmons for this last fight together and letting him be the leader without disparage. He even offered for Simmons to come with him, but understood and fully accepted that Simmons wants something different.
And even then, them physically separating doesn’t mean they disconnect from one another completely. They joke about how Simmons will never come to Earth, but who knows. The way it ended they could easily keep in touch and room for so many headcanons and ideas. (Aka this is still a sandbox, go wild lol)