A picture of 3 character cards as drawn by cjforpresident, surrounded by a cup, a candle, some pens, and a pot of ink.

A close-up of the card for Greek Diplomat Winnifred Kostopolos which reads: Winnifred Kostopolos – She only speaks Greek. Good Luck.

A character card for Belladonna Spillingsworth with a large amount of text that you don’t want to read

A character card for Samantha Smith with a large amount of text (unnecessary to read) and several corrections made by Charlotte Bronte.

The full character card of Greek Diplomat Winnifred Kostopolos with the words “She only speaks Greek. Good luck.”

cjforpresident:

Character cards for Lenore, Charlotte Bronte, and Louisa May Alcott (before she switched cards)

the borders and names were handdrawn and then scanned into the computer because i didn’t want to have to draw the border so many times lol

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aelliots:

Lenore the Lady Ghost [x]

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owlsintheorchard:

California Thrasher at Ulistac Natural Area in Santa Clara. Great bird with a great name. Thrashers are related to mockingbirds and there were two mockers in the Toyon bush with this thrasher. 

It was the best view we’ve ever had of this normally very secretive bird.At Hidden Villa they are heard singing unseen in steep chaparral covered slopes.

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End Screen Decoding, Poe Party Chapter 1, “The Bells”

Took some careful lip-reading, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got it:

Gif 1: Louisa May has just announced, “I mean to fetch an inspector.” (See trailer around 0:35.) She stares at Poe, expectantly.

Gif 2: Poe: “If you think I can feed more guests at this point you must be crazy.”

Gif 3: Poe: “Even a drunk orangutan can’t expect us to make more soup now!”

Gif 4: Lousa May: “All right.”

Gif 5: Annabel, holding Eddie’s head, still very much in the denial phase: “He’s getting worse!”

Gif 6: Charlotte: “I’m fetching an Uber.”

There’s a pause, then Oscar giggles:

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s-c-i-guy:

‘Victoria Crater’ at Meridiani Planum

This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows “Victoria crater,” an impact
crater at Meridiani Planum, near the equator of Mars. The crater is
approximately 800 meters (half a mile) in diameter. It has a distinctive
scalloped shape to its rim, caused by erosion and downhill movement of
crater wall material. Layered sedimentary rocks are exposed along the
inner wall of the crater, and boulders that have fallen from the crater
wall are visible on the crater floor. The floor of the crater is
occupied by a striking field of sand dunes.

Since January 2004,
the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been operating at Meridiani
Planum. Five days before this image was taken, Opportunity arrived at
the rim of Victoria crater, after a drive of more than 9 kilometers
(over 5 miles). The rover can be seen in this image, at roughly the “ten
o’clock” position along the rim of the crater.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Cornell/Ohio State University

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suicidesskwad:

Hears to the hearts that ache.

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fragileliquid:

parentheticalaside:

fozmeadows:

jenndoesnotcare:

I just left my husband alone with our two children for sixteen days. I was not worried about anything regarding the house, their food, or their wellbeing. I put all the appointments in the family calendar and my husband checked it and kept them. I literally did not worry about them. I missed them, and I was sad that they missed me, but I didn’t worry about them AT ALL. I need to impress upon you all that I missed their company, but was not worried for their welfare.

I also did no meal prep. I don’t even think I went shopping right before I left.

This is not about apples and oranges. This isn’t even about my husband. This is about the fact that this is apparently WEIRD.

Another mum at my daughter’s school is leaving for ten days. She’s taking her youngest (who is a very small baby) and leaving her husband with their two girls. She has been cooking for days preparing freezer meals. She’s panicking and deputizing her six year old to remind him how to make school lunches. AND I AM APPALLED.

A) He is definitely not helpless. (He’s a doctor or something.) What gendered bullshit. B) THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AND HER SISTER’S WELLBEING. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. C) Why is she married to this person and creating children with him if he’s this big of an idiot?

While she was laughingly recounting this, the other mums were nodding and smiling sympathetically, like oh yes, I too have my caveman at home!! Such managing required! I was the only one who was like “Dude, he’ll be fine. Literally. He will be fine.” I said it a lot. She was not convinced. She kept bringing up her older daughter. She’ll be like a little mum!

NO.

NO NO NO NO.

NO.

Straight women, don’t do this shit. It’s gross. Don’t infantilize your husbands and then expect your daughters to pick up the slack. So fucking gross. So. So. GROSS.

The fact that so many adults think a six year old girl is more capable of learning and performing basic domestic tasks than a grown-ass man says it all, really. 

This stuff is so toxic and awful. I told a car full of women one time that I refused to be in another relationship until I met a man who was capable of making his own doctors’ appointments and washing the dishes. They told me I was going to die alone.

Fuck this shit. Don’t enable men’s incompetence and label it cute.

This. A few years ago, I went to Italy for 10 days with my choir. I missed my husband and 15 month old son so much, and I cried when I said goodbye, but I never worried my hubby couldn’t handle…anything, really. No meals prepped, no emergency numbers given…nada. And they were perfectly happy and healthy when I got back.

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Haha. You seriously *do* know your Poe-staches. That is 100% correct. It almost makes me wish–

Hold it. The judges are trying to get my attention. What’s that? Really? We can do that?

Great news! Overcome by your display of Poe expertise, the judges have decided to award you a retroactive top prize! You win a commissioned Poe-themed gif set of your choosing! (It won’t be as awesome as one you would have made yourself, because yours are seriously the best. But it will mean more Poe gifs in the world, which is always a good thing.)

Congratulations!

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tawnypixie:

Here’s some more GIFs I made today:

@shipwreckedcomedy

The middle one (Lenore grabbing Fyodor’s vodka) isn’t animating for me; did it maybe exceed tumblr’s 2MB size limit?

But palindrome Poe is awesome. :-)

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sineadpersaud:

twelvemonkeyswere:

1. c´mon. It’s got a great name.
2. it’s a fantasy-comedy-mystery story about a bunch of literary historical figures assisting to a dinner party in which, you guessed it, murders actually start to happen!
3. E.A. Poe is the awkward host, and one of the cutest and quirkiest versions of him I’ve seen. 
4. Lenore is his friend and roommate, and she’s a lively sort of person. She is also literally a ghost trying to help him impress her own good friend, Annabel Lee (yes, that Annabel Lee)
5. the chemistry and contrast between the two main characters is absolutely gorgeous and enjoyable
6. Annabel Lee is also very nice and played by Mary Kate Wiles. 
7. the show will have 11 episodes (named ‘chapters’) in total, and they will air via their YouTube channel at 9am PTS every Monday till Halloween!
8. the show includes, besides Poe, authors HG Wells (who’s got a sensible steampunkish vibe), cool Mary Shelley, drunkish Ernest Hemingway, posh Charlotte Brontë (played by Ashley Clements!), flamboyant Oscar Wilde, ignored Emily Dickinson, George Elliot in drag, vodka-lover Fyodor Dostoevsky, lively Mary Louise Alcott, and soon-to-appear Agatha Christie! 
9. I’m also pretty sure that most of the actors’ names are well known within the YouTube community and they all do a wonderful job!
10. also, it has Jim O’Heir (Jerry from Parks and Rec!) and Clayton Snyder (Ethan Craft from Lizzie McGuire!)
11. the series is comedy gold and thrives in puns 
12. it’s also got a wonderful recurring gag about ravens
13. it’s from Shipwrecked productions, the same people behind Kissing in the Rain, which is amazing
14. all characters are lovable and flawed and lovely
15. it has lots and lots of heart, and it’s easy to see it’s made with care and love
16. it’s overall wonderful and enjoyable and well-written and does magic with its budget 
17. the aesthetic is also pretty great
18. it has great pace. Chapter one was barely 10 min long and it contained SO MUCH
19. if you’re into literature or books or parodies or murder mysteries or just amazing comedy please check it out!
20. it all started like three years ago with a vlog (A Tell-Tale Vlog) about Edgar Allan Poe and Lenore and it escalated from that and I’m grateful it has!!! You can check out their beginnings in that link and you can watch the prologues to Poe Party here!
21. srsly maybe i’m not a great seller but i love this series so much! i think a lot of people might enjoy it as well!! if you want you can check it out here!

I’d watch this :)

It doesn’t (yet) have the wider media coverage that helped push LBD up to 100K views per episode (at least for the “big” episodes), but in terms of inherent awesomeness I feel like PoeParty is at least as deserving of recognition. It’s going to have a shorter run than LBD, so there will be less time for a larger audience to find it, but I sincerely hope a larger audience *does* find it.

Spread the word!

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The Poe-stache Quiz: Part 2 – Bonus Lip-Reading Round!

In three of the gifs above (D, E, and J) Poe is not visibly speaking. In each of the other seven, though, he is saying a favorite line. (When it comes to Poe dialog, I am haunted by many lines. Many lines.) For this round of the quiz, supply the words he is speaking in each of those seven gifs. See the original post for links to source videos, or (better yet) practice your next-week-on-PoeParty lip-reading skills.

First to supply the correct words for all seven gifs receives (again) their choice of a commissioned Poe-related gifset. Good luck!

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actegratuit:

Bird Plumage Photographs by Thomas Lohr

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spiritofsailing:

12mR “Jenetta”

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jaynaneeya
replied to your photoset “Announcing… the Poe-stache Quiz! In honor of the premiere of Edgar…”

1F, 2B, 3D, 4H, 5C, 6J, 7A, 8I, 9G, 10E

100% correct! Congratulations on being the winner in the Replies channel!

@jaynaneeya joins Ask-Box winner @aeternamente and Honorable Mention winner @anonsally (who was the first to submit an entry and got all but one pair right working only from memory, without rewatching the videos, which I found particularly impressive). All three of you win a custom Poe gifset of your choosing. Let me know what ideas you have for that and we’ll take it from there.

Congratulations to all of you! And congratulations to all of us for being winners of the best prize of all: Getting to watch the rest of PoeParty in the weeks ahead.

Huzzah for the Poe-stache! Long may it bristle!

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Announcing… the Poe-stache Quiz!

In honor of the premiere of Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, I bring you a contest that focuses on one of his most-beloved features.

Rules: Match each of the lettered Poe-staches above with its numbered source video below. First person to match them all wins a custom Poe gifset of their choosing prepared by me.

One entry per user. Please submit your entry via a reply to this post or in a message or ask sent to me, @lies. In the event I can’t determine who won (because multiple winning entries arrive via different channels and aren’t timestamped), or just because I feel like it, I reserve the right to declare multiple winners.

Good luck!

Source videos:

1. Oct 7, 2013: A Tell Tale Vlog – Ep. 1: OH, HELLO
2. Oct 31, 2013: Socially Awkward Edgar Allan Poe: Girl Scout Cookies  
3. Nov 4, 2013: Socially Awkward Edgar Allan Poe: DRAW MY LIFE  
4. Jan 24, 2014: Socially Awkward Poe – A TELL TALE BIRTHDAY – feat. Annabelle Lee (Mary Kate Wiles)  
5. Mar 31, 2014: Kissing in the Rain – Ep. 4: Edgar & Annabel – Mary Kate Wiles & Sean Persaud 
6. Jul 2, 2014: A Very Shipwrecked VidCon | 2014 | Maxwell Glick, Mary Kate Wiles, Sinead Persaud, Sean Persaud
7. Jan 20, 2015: Socially Awkward Poe | A Tell Tale Invitation
8. Feb 2, 2016: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party – Kickstarter Video!
9. May 7, 2016: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Prologue 1: Twain’s Lament
10. Aug 22, 2016: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party Chapter 1: The Bells

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lies:

you may have noticed my recent obsessive interest in a certain webseries. (really. whatever could you mean?)

i’m just here to let you know that i will NOT be posting any original Poe-related gifsets today OR tomorrow. i’m giving you a break. there will, however, be a SPECIAL Poe-related gifset coming Saturday, Aug 27, 2016, at precisely 9 a.m. Pacific (UTC -7). i make a point of mentioning the date and time because this special gifset comes with a CONTEST in which you are invited to participate. there will be a PRIZE. also, time may be a factor.

thank you. that is all.

Reblogging as a reminder: The Special Contest Post goes up in an hour.

Also, I’m planning a follow-up post with its own Bonus-Round Contest for 9 pm Pacific today as an accommodation for people who live in time zones where 9 am Pacific falls at an inconvenient hour.

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charliebowater:

primalheart:

charliebowater:

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

A little doodle for one the most beautiful lines from any poem, The Old Astronomer.

This is not a little doodle. This. THIS. This is fucking MAGIC. You have captured pure wonder and whimsy and romance and bliss and that almost melancholy wholeness when you look up at the sky and just feel the smallness of your being and the grandness of the universe. All this captured with a lover’s eye. We cannot see her face but I feel the tender passionate ardour for this petite but mighty creature in the world. While at the same time I feel the bittersweet swoon of wanting to be gazed upon myself with such whole and overwhemling admiration and love. It is goddamn masterful.

I am fucking following your tumblr charliebowater you are amazing.

THAT’S THE NICEST COMMENT I’VE EVER READ.

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celinesbirds:

Oak Titmouse, Baeolophus inornatus

Oceano Campground, CA

8/9/14

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marykatewiles:

It’s time again for MK’s Corner! As you all (hopefully) know, Poe Party is here and we are in for a fun couple of months. I talk pretty candidly in this episode about the importance of watching/sharing it if you want to support Shipwrecked and the things that we do. It’s my longest installment of MK’s Corner yet! Hope you enjoy!

In response to something MK mentions about trying to spread the word…

I previously mentioned showing the poeparty trailer to some cohabitants, and being a little anxious by their failure to be particularly impressed. To follow up: We watched the The Bells together Monday night, and they (both of them) laughed throughout, and mentioned to me the next day that they were looking forward to watching the next episode. Which I was totally unprepared for, and made me have a moment.

Because going back to LBD I’ve become this person who’s obsessed with literary webseries and smallish creations and tiny but doughty fandoms, but I don’t always get a lot of validation for that IRL from the housemates. They’re into their own (different) things, and they put up with my going on about whatever the latest interest is, but it’s not like they go out of their way to share it. Which is fine, b/c, you know:

But PoeParty apparently has broken through. And having watched it for probably the 20th time with lunch today and enjoying it more than ever, of course it’s obvious why. Because it’s that good.

But anyway. Wanted to share that.

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superblyboring:

robotlyra:

Me: *watching* What the hell is the point of th- OH MY GOD

I thought this caption was being over the top, but… they aren’t wrong

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