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I have another round of the Burma Shave signs found on AZ Route 66 between Seligman and Grand Canyon Caverns. Because roadside signs suffer from weathering and theft, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona fully refreshed, added, and replaced the sets of replica signs around 2021 to encourage modern road-trippers to slow down and enjoy the drive.
A Father's Heart: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling
For the Four Loves Fairy Tale Challenge at @inklings-challenge
Let me tell you, I sure confused that Beast when I returned. Have you ever seen a cat pounce on its own tail? That was the look of confusion the Beast had when he saw me in his palace. Only this cat was enormousâstanding seven feet tall on his hind legsâblack as soot, with claws this long, and a mouth full of teeth like butcher knives.
"Where is your daughter?" he asked me. Yes, that's what he sounded likeâall deep and raspy, like he was growling and purring beneath his words.
"At home," I said.
"You did not bring her?"
âYou told me,â I told him, "that I could return to be devoured or send her to take my place. I returned.â
"She did not wish to save you?"
âI never told her. Do you think I could lay that kind of burden upon my own daughter? What sort of father do you take me for?â
He had taken me for a cowardly one, I guess, because it took me a long time to convince him that my daughters were all safely at home, and I didn't plan to fetch any of them. He didn't seem to know what to do with me after that. He wasn't as bloodthirsty as I'd have expected someone with that many teeth to be.
"You will be my guest," he said at lastâand he didn't seem too glad about saying it. No doubt he'd have preferred a pretty young girl as a houseguest to a weathered old sailor. But he gave me run of the placeâI could help myself to anything, go anywhere I pleased. I didn't understand it. He'd been ready to kill me for a rose, and now he was giving me everything in the house?
I wasn't about to complain, though, so I set about to enjoy the place. The Beast encouraged me to enjoy the luxuries of the palace, but I've always been a working manâI didn't fancy living the life of an idle aristocrat. Before the week was out, I was working in the gardensâthe place was overgrown like you wouldn't believe. When I wanted a rest, I'd explore the castle, and boy, was there plenty to see. He had rooms upon rooms of treasuresâpaintings, silks, wines, musical instruments, even an entire room full of exotic birds! I'd made my living selling such things, and my head swam at the sight of itâa tenth of it would have been worth more than all the riches I could have transported in ten lifetimes.
I didn't make my fortune by having dull wits, and I didn't lose it for lack of courage, so it wasn't long before I began to piece together the truth of this place and confronted the Beast with it.
"How long have you been cursed, your highness?" I asked him one evening at supper.
That great big cat was so shocked he knocked a wine bottle off the table. "Who says I am cursed?"
"Blazes, man, I'm not blind! This palace is worth more than most of the kingdoms of the world put together. If there was a king out there this rich, you can bet every merchant in the world would know of him. He'd have destroyed the world's economy. Fairy magic's the only way you get a horde like this, but you, sir, are no fairy."
Now the Beast seemed intrigued. "How do you know that?"
"A fairy would never have let me liveâif he promised to kill me, he'd have killed me. No mercy among their kind. Only a human could have changed his mind like thatâfor which I'm very grateful, by the way."
"You're welcome," he said, seeming dazed.
I went on, "You're definitely more than a dumb beast; you walk and talk and dress like a man, so it stands to reason you were a man onceâthat furry coat of yours is just some fairy shell. Same way all these riches are probably just dirt and ashes once you take away the magic. Which means you must have run afoul of a fairy sometime in your past, who decided to curse you with an animal body and then trap you in a palace full of false riches."
I looked at the furnishings, the food, the Beast's clothesâeverything spoke of royalty. "Fairies always meddle with royals, so you must have been a prince. The seventh son of the king of Gher went missing just before I went on my last voyage, so I'd wager that he is you. Am I right?"
The Beast goggled. "IâŚcan't say."
"Which means I'm right. No fairy worth his salt would let you say you were cursed. Which means all I have to do is figure out how to break it. Those fairies always give you a way outâthe more improbable the better."
I came around to his side of the table so I could walk around him and examine him from all angles. "You were disappointed when I cameâyou wanted one of my daughters, not me. When I did come, you didn't seem too keen on killling meâwhich makes me think it was an empty threat, trying to convince me to send my daughter instead. Which means she must be the way to break the curse. What can she do that I can't? Easyâtrue love. No fairy would think a girl could love a hulking monster like you, so that would be their impossible way to break the curse. You needed, whatâtrue love? Marriage?"
"I can't say," the Beast said, but I knew by his face that I'd hit upon the right answer.
"That makes things simple. You let me out once before. Let me go home again and fetch one of my girls, tell her there's a prince waiting for her, and bring her back to join you in wedded bliss."
He seemed genuinely horrified by that. "IâŚcan't say."
"Oh, of course. It won't count if she knows you're a prince. Well, I'll leave that part out. Tell her that the Beast who spared my life is in need of more company. With a bit of time and a bit of encouragement from her old dad, we'll have you back in human form by Christmas."
He thought it was worth a try, and something he could arrange with the conditions of his curse. So I went home to my children, convinced my sons not to follow me to slay the Beast, and made the castle sound intriguing enough that all three of my girls agreed to join me. I thought that maybe Hope would be the one to break the curseâshe's always been the boldest of my girlsâbut it turned out that my quiet, gentle Beauty brought out the soft side of the Beast. It was the cutest thing you ever saw, the way they'd sit together reading in the rose gardens, that great big cat as shy as a schoolboy with her.
It wasn't three weeks before the Beast worked up the courage to proposeâand my Beauty accepted without hesitation. Then there was blinding light and earthquakes, and when the dust cleared, the palace was gone. We were standing in a clearing in the woodsâand a black-haired prince stood where the black-haired Beast had once been.
He's an excellent boyâI'll be proud to call him a son. He doesn't mind at all that his bride's the daughter of a failed merchant or that she once worked on a farm. We'll all be moving to his palace across the sea to live as honored members of the family.
Which is why we're moving out on such short noticeâhis highness doesn't want to be away from his kingdom any longer than he has to. I'm sure you'll find someone else to take the old place off your hands.
No, you don't have to believe me, but it's much better if you do. You'll look much less like a fool once it comes out that it's all true.
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My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.
Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.
10 years ago today, the culmination of dozens of hours of puzzle-solving and collaboration across the globe concluded with the discovery of a statue in the Oregon woods. I was lucky enough to be one of the few people who was actually present at this historic event in Gravity Falls history, and unlucky enough to become the primary witness in the statue's devastating removal less than 24 hours later.
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Cipher Hunt, I'm posting rare photos of the famous statue and the events that transpired!
Note: I did not take the statue. He was removed by the police due to a property dispute. I was simply there at the same time and documented as much of it as I could.
To begin, the journey up the hill and what it looked like at the time:
I am in the yellow shirt + Dipper hat, my sister is in the Mabel sweater that she made herself!
Next, Bill in his resting place and the beginning of his removal:
Note: Bill's hat was forcibly detached by the man who was hired to remove him from the property. There is a photo of me holding it, but I promise I did not break or steal his precious hat!
Bill being loaded into the man's truck and driven away:
As they were leaving, those of us who were at the scene all sang "We'll Meet Again" in hopes that our words may ring true. At this point, we did not know whether or not Bill would ever be seen again.
And finally, a couple hours and some ice cream later, we reconnected with Bill at the Reedsport Police Station where he briefly took up residence before finding his permanent home in Confusion Hill. This was, as far as I know, the last time his hat was seen.
My participation in the Cipher Hunt opened the doors to my career and is still something I consider one of my life's greatest defining moments. I cannot put into words how honored I am to have been part of the Hunt and how grateful I am to Alex Hirsch for creating something that made Gravity Falls real. I will never forget how it felt to have my flashlight beam pierce through the trees and land on the tip of that concrete hat for the first time. I WAS Dipper Pines in that moment.
Bill can still be found at his permanent home at Confusion Hill, where you can visit him and pay your disrespects.
it is really cool that there is now an official mÄori word for autism, created with input from autistic mÄori, and it was specifically coined to be nonjudgmental
quote from article:
âIn my experience, people with autism tend to have their own timing, spacing, pacing and life-rhythm, so I interpreted autism as âtakiwatangaâ, meaning âhis or her own time and spaceâ,â [Keri Opai] told government-funded MÄori Television.
There is a quality of books (or movies or shows) that I can best describe as âstickiness,â which is separate from being good or even enjoyable: a sticky book is one I just keep thinking about. Sometimes itâs because a book is very good (e.g. The Locked Tomb), and sometimes itâs because a book is very bad (e.g. ACOTAR), but there are also very good and very bad books that are slippery, such that when Iâm done reading them they slip from my thoughts like water from a hydrophobic surface.
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The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and theyâre frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.
Iâm sorry but thatâs thinking way too small, hear me out:
We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.
Think about it⌠whoâs the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a momentâs notice?
Swordfish lives through the pursuit of the worldâs worst archers, and finally meets Grym! I canât tell if either of them are very enthusiastic about their situation, but at least Hopperâs happy!
I wanted to know where these gargoyles came from, so I reverse searched them. Sorry the lettering is a little small. The only one I couldn't firmly identify was the one in the middle row on the left, which generally had no attribution. I gave both the attributions I could find.
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