#karl grove

[norringtondeservestheworld]

Karl Grove is a gay icon.

#the fact that he is played by the same actor who played norrington in pirates of the caribbean #jack davenport could play every possible character #he was truly iconic here #jack davenport #karl grove #why women kill #gay #LGBT #queer

[short-gremlin]

if i had a nickel for every time i saw jack davenport play a gay man who died a death that personally hurt me i'd have two nickels

#weird it happened twice #and in the same week #jack davenport #why women kill #the talented mr. ripley #karl grove #peter smith kingsley

[a-fucking-tornado]

So like, I finished watching Why Women Kill s1 yesterday and it's just so. good. Like, I'm in love with it. I'm currently in the middle of s2 (although it's not as good as the first one). I'm in love with all the storylines! They're all just so perfect omfgs I love them-

Anyways, I kinda made wallpapers for my phone and I decided to share them. Hope you enjoy it! <<3

#why women kill #beth ann stanton #simone grove #taylor harding #april warner #karl grove #eli cohen #irene tabatchnick #jade #tommy harte #naomi harte #duke #rob stanton #ralph vlasin #amy grove #just to clarify i don't like the people in wallpaper number 2

[michinaaa]

GUYS GUYS GUYS WHY WOMEN KILL IS SUCH A GREAT SHOW IDK WHY IVE NEVER HEARD OF IT RRUKVHER.K

#why women kill #ginnifer goodwin #lucy liu #kirby howell baptiste #simone grove #karl grove #beth ann stanton #taylor harding #rita castillo #irene tabatchnick #eli cohen

[eternalplutoniangoddess]

welcome to day #47389394 of me getting emotionally attached to a fictional middle aged gay man

#karl grove my beloved #i miss him so much #i haven't even finished the show but i know how it ends #karl grove #jack davenport #why women kill #wwk

[fruity-phrog]

I cannot express the way the “He’s a human being” scene in Why Women Kill makes me feel. Just the human need to scream when you’re talking to a group of people, begging them to help you, because there’s no reason why they shouldn’t, they are watching a man suffer before their very eyes as a hate crime is displayed in front of them, but they all just stare. Simone’s desperation and voice breaks and lurches into the crowd to find someone to help while clearly not wanting to stray too far from Karl - tore my heart to pieces.

#AND SO SOON AFTER THE EMILY DEATH SCENE #Beth Ann’s raw visceral screaming #first when she saw the body and then again as she hugged her to her chest #tore my heart into pieces and then Simone stomped on the remains #Lucy lui and Ginnifer Goodwin absolutely destroyed me this season #BUT NO SPOILERS I HAVENT WATCHED THE LAST EP OF S1 #OR ANY PF S2 #cedar crap #why women kill #Simone grove #Karl grove #Lucy lui

[queerinfilm]

Jack Davenport’s Queer Roles:

🎥: The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)

Peter is the translator for a guy named Tom, who is suspected of murder. Soon they start falling for each other.

🎥 Why Women Kill (2019-2021)

Karl is the owner of an Art Gallery, and though he is happily married to his wife, Simone. He has had many affairs with other men.

#jack davenport #potc #the talented mr. ripley #Matt Damon #why women kill #Karl grove #queer characters #lgbt #queer #gay #james norrington

[phonedidion]

i never understood the whole obsession with sad elderly gay men but i think im getting it now. i would like to thank irving severance and karl wwk for educating me i am listening and learning

#why women kill #severance #irving x burt #irving bailiff #karl grove

[p-taryn-dactyl]

just finished season one of why women kill…did i watch the whole season in two days? …maybe

#why women kill #beth ann stanton #simone grove #taylor harding #karl grove

[personinthepalace]

If I had a nickel for every time Lucy Liu played a character who is platonic soulmates with a male character then I would have two nickels which isn’t a lot but I love that it has happened at least twice so far

#they love each other so much #and just ahhhh MY EMOTIONS #I love both of these relationships so so much #lucy liu #joanlock #joanlock brotp #joan and sherlock #joan watson #sherlock holmes #elementary #simone and karl #simone grove #kar grove #why women kill #rambles in the palace

[adamworu]

There’s an Evangelion Heritage tumblr I found and it hurts bc these posts were from the early 2010s...and i remember 3/4 of these. Things from a decade or so ago. The influx of Kaworu head memes. When’s the white haired anime boy going to appear? Sad boy Shinji memes at the ready. Pale lips white hair I’m gay outer space. Pop goes my heart. The advent of some great evanalysis. 

Dear god. It’s like Boomerang but for Eva fans.

#evangelion #kaworu #kawoshin #karl memes too #this is the eva equivalent of blithering about how there used to be orange groves #and by orange groves i mean no one would shut up over eva myself included #boomerang but also there's discourse

[geritsel]

Snowy 19th century winter landscapes from various origines. Nordahl Grove, Anders Andersen Lundby, Laszlo Neogrady (detail), Karl Rosen, Niels Hans Christiansen, Eduard Weichberger, Julius von Klever, Eduard Hein, Gevorg Bashindzhagyan, Julius von Klever

#winterscape #snowscape #19th century art

[galedekarios]

oc meme

name: altonaufein, kulg llarzoran ithrana d'qu'ellar hlarahel

ages ago, when i was trying to find a name for my drow cleric, i was looking to create a drow name and drow house name that would reflect the role he would play within his house, while at the same time reflecting his backstory and journey:

altonaufein -> powerful, eyes of / seer of the way kulg -> male offspring in the house llarzoran -> three, thirdborn ithrana -> name of his mother, matron of the house d'qu'ellar -> of house hlarahel -> seers of, the gods

nickname: alton

alton has been called a lot of things in his life.

he was named altonaufein at birth, his designation as a male is kulg llarzoran ithrana d'qu'ellar hlarahel. during his captivity, he was called auflaque. when he finally fled and made it to the settlement, surrounding a small ilmater temple, he was called treated both with suspicion and fear, but also kindness and an open hand. he was called alton only ever by karl. in time, gale comes to call him alton too - and much, much later alurlssrin.

gender: male

star sign: aries

height: 160 cm, on the taller side for a drow

orientation: gay

race: drow

romancing: karl eifers (oc), gale dekarios

i've written more about alton's backstory and karl's part in it here in more detail.

fave fruit: wild strawberries. one of the first little fanciful things on the surface he took a liking to. at camp, he can often be found reading a book he nicked from the grove. the flora and fauna of faerun.

fave season: late summer, early autumn.

alton enjoys the balmy warmth around that time of year, a contrast to the cold dampness of ust natha that has seeped into his bones.

fave flower: wood anemones. they grew plentiful around the small settlement and ilmater temple that altonaufein lived at before the nautiloid attack.

fave scent: the crisp smell of a cold forest, the salty sea breeze, the soap-clean scent of skin

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: ever since i found coffee in the actual game, i am convinced that alton would drink tons of it. only making his anxiety & overthinking worse too.

average sleep hours: four. a trance usually lasts that long. he's a very light sleeper due to necessity and his paranoia about being found and brought back to the underdark. to ust natha.

i do think that after the game, once he's settled fully into his new life in waterdeep, with gale's coaxing and own habits, he sleeps in more and more, and trances longer.

dogs or cats: cats. alton isn't really used to pets at all. the first experience he had with them was back at the temple where karl fed a little anxious thing of a black cat. sometimes it would curl up to him and he would freeze and just let it do its thing, confused when it started purring up a storm.

but he learned to find it comforting. it was rewarding to pet it and treat it gently, learn to give and receive affection in this way.

dream trip: i don't think alton has one. he's too focused on them surviving the journey. reaching waterdeep maybe. for gale.

amount of blankets: one. he's very utalitarian and can make do with nothing at all if need be. yet again, once settled in waterdeep, he's very much able to learn to enjoy the finer things in life.

random fact(s):

-he's not a perfect eilistraeen and has little knowledge about her or her customs, gale helps him learn & shares what knowledge he has, as eilistraee has a bond with mystra and is known in waterdeep - and through this, they bond during the very early days of the journey -he always wears an ilmater pendant, stolen from karl, and it's his most priced possession -he later buys a medaillon, holding a small piece of parchment (on it are written the names of those important to him, people who have been kind to him - it's a reminder of how far he's come, a motivation to keep going, to keep fighting no matter how grim things are) -alton can't swim and is afraid of deeper water (he wouldn't ever show that fear) -he adopts myshka and takes him to waterdeep

tagging (with zero pressure): @ayrennaranaaldmeri, @messiahzzz, @lairofsentinel, @shibepetter, @rahabs, @wild-magic-oops, @friberchi, @leopardmuffinxo, @hawke, @zahra-hydris, @thenightsong, @fuzzy-set, @inkberrry, @waterdeep

if anyone else wants to do this, please do so and feel free to tag me. 🖤

#trying to distract myself #hoping it works #ch: altonaufein #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #text: personal

[deadpresidents]

GROVER CLEVELAND •Grover Cleveland: A Study In Courage by Allan Nevins (BOOK) •An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland by H. Paul Jeffers (BOOK | AUDIO) •A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland by Charles Lachman (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

BENJAMIN HARRISON •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Warrior, 1833-1865 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman, 1865-1888 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK) •Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier President, 1889-1893 by Harry J. Sievers (BOOK)

WILLIAM McKINLEY •In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (BOOK) •President McKinley: Architect of the American Century by Robert W. Merry (BOOK | KINDLE) •William McKinley and His America by H. Wayne Morgan (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

THEODORE ROOSEVELT •The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Edmund Morris Trilogy •The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •T.R.: The Last Romantic by H.W. Brands (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT •The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •William Howard Taft: An Intimate History by Judith Icke Anderson (BOOK) •Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court by Lewis L. Gould (BOOK | KINDLE)

WOODROW WILSON •Wilson by A. Scott Berg (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson by Gene Smith (BOOK | KINDLE) •The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson by Herbert Hoover (BOOK) •The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

WARREN G. HARDING •The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times by Francis Russell (BOOK) •The Available Man: The Life Behind the Masks of Warren G. Harding by Andrew Sinclair (BOOK) •1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding by Charles L. Mee Jr. (BOOK | KINDLE)

CALVIN COOLIDGE •Coolidge by Amity Shlaes (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) •The High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election by Garland S. Tucker III (BOOK | KINDLE)

#Books #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #Books About Presidents #Presidents #Presidency #Presidents Books #Presidential Books #Grover Cleveland #President Cleveland #Cleveland Administration #Benjamin Harrison #President Harrison #Harrison Administration #William McKinley #President McKinley #McKinley Administration #Assassination of William McKinley #McKinley Assassination #Theodore Roosevelt #President Roosevelt #Roosevelt Administration #TR #William Howard Taft #President Taft #Taft Administration #Woodrow Wilson #President Wilson #Wilson Administration #Warren G. Harding

[monstersinthecosmos]

Your Marius playlist is so good ‼️‼️‼️🫢I never would have thought of wardruna and heilung for him but it’s perfect 100/10

dgdsgaklsd thank you !!!!!!!!! I'm really excited that you like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Marius playlist if anyone is curious (: )

Sometimes people think I'm crazy because I don't really hear lyrics when I listen to music so all my playlists are built on VIBES ONLY. Marius playlist is like: Music That Could Be the Score of an Existential Crisis When You've Lived in Centuries of Darkness and Also Have Trauma From That Time You Were Murdered By a Pagan Cult. Any time I'm listening to music in the wild and I hear this vibe, it gets dropped into this playlist, regardless of lyrical content LOL.

The neofolk half of it speaks for itself, I think. I've also written meta about how I think black metal feels tonally appropriate for the Ancients. And like neofolk is one of those genres where like, so many of the fans are metalheads LOL. (I mean i got into Wardruna because of Gaahl haha it started there). And like I absolutely lose my mind over like pagan black metal/blackened folk metal where they bring in all the historical instrumentation into the metal like HJDKALGDS THE TEXTURE, I DIE, it's my fav genre of music. And it's just so incredibly bleak, but also so patient. It feels so heavy and existential and full of dread!!!!!!!! 😍 And thinking in a vampire context it's like ANCIENT OLD TRAUMA!!!! Bad memories from CENTURIES AGO. Idk man it just feels so good.

It's frustrating because like all the EXTREMELY SPOOKY ANCIENT MOOD MUSIC tends to be Nordic and I wish I could find some what had more Italian influence (this is a thinly veiled rec request if anyone has any) because every time I do go down the rabbithole and look for Italian neofolk it isn't what I'm looking for. I need like that deep terrifying Wardruna sound you know? It's gotta be out there, I will keep searching!!!!!!!!!!

There's some Balkan & Greek bands in there which are so great (Negură Bunget & Rotting Christ lol) and I have to go back and drop in more Karl Sanders for Akasha vibes lol. There are some really cool Middle Eastern metal bands too that use cool instrumentation (thinking of Melechesh) but they're not gloomy enough LOL. I need to go take a stroll and see if I can find some spooky stuff. And there's some really great Greek pagan/folk which probably is similar to what I'm trying to find but I'm looking for like the more neofolky half, like I need Greek Wardruna LOL.

But I really love most genres of music as long as it's gloomy and like the overlap of neofolk with pagan/black metal is like the perfect type of gloomy for me hasdkjga AND LIKE WHEN IM DAYDREAMING ABOUT MARIUS IT FEELS REALLY GOOD BECAUSE THE SOUNDS FEEL SO ANCIENT. And bands like Wardruna and Heilung give me so many God of the Grove feelings it just makes me think about the cult trauma. 🍿 (even if the regions are a little inaccurate please let me live, I'm doing my best with what I can find.)

#vampire music

[therealnoodleman]

Quackity fidgets with his cane, a few steps behind the door and out of sight.

The orange grove of Las Nevadas is an indoors one. Big industrial greenhouse, of sorts.

The orange plantations, even though well suited for the unforgiving cold, are far too precious to Quackity to be left outside to the elements. That's why he made the arrangements after the oranges were a success.

And he waits. He didn't make any arrangements to see Karl, hasn't contacted him since. But he knows he's due to collect his payment... so he waits, ready to intercept him on his own terms.

-🦆

[And so Karl arrives at the allotted time, a slight, sad little skip in his step as he enters the greenhouse. He's got an empty tote bag slung over his shoulder that's just as colorful as he is, complete with his little trademark swirl in the center.

He walks up to the little table near the front of the greenhouse where he was supposed to receive his payment at.

His face falls slightly as he takes in the lack of an employee, and a lack of oranges to pick up. Great.]

Hello? Is anybody here?

[At the lack of a response, his eyes quickly find the nearest available orange tree, and he starts sneaking towards it, pulling his bag off of his shoulder and opening it. Well. A little extra wouldn't hurt...]