The Spider And His Apprentice 🕷

A fresco of a young girl

First century A. D.

Villa San Marco, Stabiae

Image Taken From https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/07/23/arts/0725-conw_4.html and Foto Archivio N. Longobardi

I have to ask. Since we see a lot of Doffy babysitting Luffy, to get on Crocodile‘a good side. What about Rosy babysitting Luffy? Just because he likes kids

It might not be the best idea but Dragon and Crocodile still let him babysit.

(Luffy losing his eyebrows was a hit among the older marines because he really resembles his dad *lol*)

"safe"

you know the drill.... drawing something soft to keep from losing my silly little mind

I'm reading the lord of the rings and I'm once again amazed at how... good most characters are. Like, they are genuinely good people. They are a bunch of kindhearted, gracious, caring people, coming together under adverse circumstances and trying to figure things out and find a solution and support each other through it all. Like Frodo and Sam meet Faramir and Faramir is a bit suspicious at first and kind of implies Frodo may be a spy, and then when he hears his story and he's like Frodo, I pressed you so hard at first. Forgive me! It was unwise in such an hour and place. And this blows.my.mind. He wasn't even particularly mean or threatening to him in the beginning, he's just such a kind, considerate man, recognizing the kindness and honesty of another man. And they're all like that. Even Gollum starts slowly changing (for a short while) when he encounters Frodo because that's the thing about kindness and humility and grace, they are contagious. They transform people, even a creature like Gollum cannot be immune to that. Like, you may consider all this simple and basic and I get it but, hear me out. It is quite rare to see that in modern media and it is also pretty difficult to pull off in a way that is not corny and simplistic. It is mind blowing that you actually don't have to present the entire palette of human cruelty and vice in order to tell a compelling story, contrary to popular belief. Lotr does the exact opposite, and it is just beautiful and it warms my heart. Especially taking into consideration tolkien's pretty grim growing-up experience, him being a double orphan without a home, raised between an orphanage and a priest and having no family apart from his brother and then the war and then he almost dies and then he's poor as hell and then a second war and it all makes sense somehow. He writes to his wife who is also an orphan two days before the marriage "the next few years will bring us joy and content and love and sweetness such as could not be if we hadn't first been two homeless children and had found one another after long waiting" and, yes, yes! The love and sweetness just radiate from his work, the entire lotr series is a little radiant bubble of hope and love and grace that he imagined in his head to deal with a dismal reality and then he just gave that to the world, and isn't that what imagination and art is all about after all?

In my medieval era again send help

Lord Golden and Tom

Introductions by Fitz, the Fool and Nighteyes in the 20th Anniversary Edition of Robin Hobb’s

“Assassin’s Apprentice”

on the hunt 🐺

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