Sardines

recently realised how utterly bonkers the adult protagonists of treasure island are.

you've got a doctor who's a former soldier who carries parmesan in his snuff box (???). his best friend is a mildly unhinged squire who has a personality adjacent to a reality TV star when he's upset/angry (which is fairly often but thankfully not for long) and yet is an incredible marksman for someone who seems like he'd go limp-wristed at the sight of a gun. and then there's your captain who of all things goes Ah I Know What I Should Bring To This Island of Horrors! A British Flag! and then he proceeds to fit that - and more! - under his coat.

what's going on with these three. they could have an adventure-comedy show all to themselves.

Master post of various Jules Verne characters, color-coded for your convenience:

Blue-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Green-Around the World in 80 Days

Red-The Mysterious Island

Orange-Five Weeks in a Balloon

Black-Journey to the Center of the Earth

Purple-In Search of the Castaways

INSTAGRAM HAS DECIDED

he accepted the bouquet AND KEPT IT

Pick some classic books and I’ll assign you a Jules Verne character soulmate, a song that matches your vibe, and a John Mulaney quote

http://www.quiz-maker.com/Q7OUWQ8DD

May I present my most oddly specific quiz to date

The Mysterious Island? Did you mean 19th century Minecraft?

NEW RENDERS WHO CHEERED

The Stanley Parable is to MLM what Portal is to WLW

john silver refuses to tell us his story. he lies, and lies, and lies about it. when confronted, he refuses to tell the truth. it’s one of my favourite things about the character, but the thing is— he tries to control the narrative, and he really does at first. but, in the end, he gets swallowed up by the stories others have made up— by the lies others have told about him.

jon steinberg said in fathoms deep that silver’s been removed from his own story, that his curse is that he’s stuck in someone else’s, and he can’t get out. he does everything he can to get out in the beginning, and then he physically can’t, and then he gets so entangled in the story he couldn’t possibly leave— it would fall apart without him (in the end, he makes it fall apart).

billy makes a decision that shapes silver’s whole identity. and even though silver does make the story fall apart in a way, he still can’t get out. and this is what survives him, what has reached us— the lie another man made up.

silver doesn’t just get entangled in it. he becomes it. he becomes a legend, a ghost, a story. it isn’t even one he chose to tell.

Some Pokémon characters that are my absolute favorite.