I still think that my favorite urban legend/folklore fact is that there are certain areas in New Orleans where you cannot get a taxi late at night not because it isn’t safe, but because taxi companies have had recurring problems of picking up ghosts in those areas who are not aware that they are dead and disappearing from the cab before reaching the destination and therefore stiffing the driver on the fare causing a loss for the company.
Real Deep Lore from even before my day, Nonny XD @irenydraws , you want to take this one?
/PUSHES GLASSES UP NOSE
long story short, a small portion of old man fandom was watching the ‘72 les mis movie one night and we decided that the only explanation for bernard fresson’s facial hair, as seen here–
–was that he must be keeping squirrels under his hat. in a fit of inspiration i drew a small doodle and from there things spiraled wildly out of control.
face squirrel canon is as nebulous as a face squirrel’s tail, but the general consensus is that javert’s face squirrels are highly trained police agents, top of their class at the finest police squirrel academy in france. they are motivated primarily by the idea of justice and the promise of candied almonds, and are rather more tractable than their inspector.
here is a (by no means comprehensive) list of face squirrel fanworks. my personal art tag can be found here, and i have a small collection of face squirrels on my main blog as well.
i hope that helps, this has been your daily plunge into fandom history with ireny
I made furby a small creature in my dnd campaign. There are a few different subspecies but most have large eyes, two legs, and beaks. They have the ability to mimick spoken words and a limited capacity to understand language. Mostly they like to PARTY and DOO DOO DO DO DO DOO
My miniature Terry Pratchett Discworld novel library!
Made from an Altoids tin, Popsicle sticks, cardstock, copy paper, and a whole lot of patience. All of the miniature books open and have real printed pages you can leaf through. And the insidevof the lid has a sort-of-3D scene of the UU Library.
Contains the novels from The Color of Magic, all the way through Raising Steam
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