As Someone Who Went Through A Huge Robin Hood Phase- One Of My Favorite RH Retellings Was A Short Story

As someone who went through a huge Robin Hood phase- one of my favorite RH retellings was a short story in a children's magazine in which the Sheriff of Nottingham secretly asks Alan-a-Dale to plant stories/rumors of an unstoppable theif so that he can avoid enforcing King John's taxes. With the understanding that he (the Sheriff) will be the villain in these stories.

me reading any robin hood crit

if I had a nickel for every time Harriet Vane had to awkwardly comfort a heartbroken middle-aged woman who was sobbing on her shoulder over much younger man, while trying to soothingly fix said woman's makeup, while also trying to hide how Deeply Uncomfortable she (Harriet) is, I would have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Hijacking this because I'm obsessed with how the whole first chapter of The Hobbit is basically describing how gay Bilbo is but also Tolkien (the catholic hetero Wife Guy) gives off such Zero Gaydar vibes that like... I'm not always convinced he even knew what he was saying.

I'm reading about the Victorian Aesthetic movement and I was violently reminded of...

...Sherlock Holmes's 'rose monologue' from The Naval Treaty, HI HELLO CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

absolutely baffled and befuddled by whoever managed to reverse the eye colors while coloring this in

i mean, come on. Audrey's big brown eyes are basically her trademark. O'Toole's unsettlingly piercing blue eyes are HIS trademark. Who are those people??

Why I love Dorothy L. Sayers