william_ leonard

william_ leonard

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liam / 25 / ireland (Known in This World as "WILLIAM_ THE BLIND") πŸ“ colourful YTPs, black+white comics, and #1 bestselling series Bikini Bottom Adventures πŸ”Ž if it's stupid enough, it's cool, y'know? (70/100)

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if you told me Got 2 Get 2 U was actually a High Llamas track i would go haha yay i knew it :) and i would enjoy a lovely song while you smirk in the shadows.

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the densest opening he's ever written (OH BOY THE FONTS) - his late style's almost back to Early Vollmann levels of black-comedic dramatic-ironic time-leaping brashness but w/ all the digressions whittled Acidically Sharp… he REALLY did trim this 3000-page novel as lean as he could + i'm terrified πŸ‘

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brought to you by my hi-hat moving like 2 inches back over the course of this video lol (also i should not be propping my bass drum against the radiator)

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fievel is glauque - secret rendezvous DRUM COVER yippeee!!!! (pardon my solo.)

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for some reason my brain's starter motor has always answered "can you PLEASE think of a comic idea it can be anything" with "anime girls at a building site" for years now... well, i did it

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i've kept dipping into this now and then, still so damn cool lmao - it's been internet-archive'd if you want a taste.... archive.org/details/intr...

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if more people knew (as i had not until i saw it!) that this is one of the most incredible encyclopedic projects ever undertaken by one person, i would NOT have been able to easily afford the entire set in dublin this weekend lol

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and SO many delicious digressions hiding everywhere (i caught one on early arabic celestial globes somewhere) - at its most sprawling this thing is a 20th-century Anatomy of Melancholy

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tho if i post any otherwise-forgotten extract, it should be the preface to the final instalment from 1947 (he gave up on finishing the series after this)... surely one of the most sobering things a historian and/or scientist has ever had to write - i think about it a lot :(

william_ leonard
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i've kept dipping into this now and then, still so damn cool lmao - it's been internet-archive'd if you want a taste.... archive.org/details/intr...

william_ leonard@williamleonard.net

if more people knew (as i had not until i saw it!) that this is one of the most incredible encyclopedic projects ever undertaken by one person, i would NOT have been able to easily afford the entire set in dublin this weekend lol

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what i love most is how ungodly rigorous AND messy it is, as only a totally unchecked academic labor of love can be... the 1st vol. covers a century every ~40 pages + by the end he's taking TWO THOUSAND pages to cover every nook and cranny of the 1300s

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i'd go to clown school if THIS was on the reading list ‼️

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first uk edition copy of The Act of Creation i just got on kennys for 5 quid MAY have been owned by ireland's most famous nature writer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael... (rip 🫑)

william_ leonard
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fievel is glauque - secret rendezvous DRUM COVER yippeee!!!! (pardon my solo.)

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new Fievel Is Glauque album arrived!!!! πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ there's a new Fievel Is Glauque album btw. www.hellomerch.com/products/dop...

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this guy added Pronouns since i last visited... hell yes

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found the guy who designed all the canonised astrological symbols for new dwarf planets (+ moons, constellations, meteor showers, etc). one of my new favourite guys suberic.net/~dmm/