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oldcinemalover · 7 months
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Conrad Veidt in The Last Performance (1929) dir. Paul Fejos 
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tiger-ink · 5 months
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Chapter 5: Crazy night
He returned home, tired after a fight for nothing. He entered the dark living room, finding a yellowed paper on the table. Charles remains amazed, at the same time curious, thinking how this paper appeared. Then, in a bookshelf, an album of important drawings had fallen on the floor. He startled because of the noise, he was about to have a panic attack, but he realized something: his drawings woke up to reality! The geometric figurines started running all over the house! Charles rushed to catch them. But in vain. He ran all over the house to catch them because they were fast. In the end, he managed to collect by throwing, jumping, but the only figure was his version in the drawing. He bit Charles' leg badly, and he howled:
-Argh! That would be bloody senseless! Get off me and stop biting my leg! Bleeding out! Down! Now! he kept shaking his leg until he couldn't anymore. All for nothing. He grabs his version of the drawing in his hand, the figure starts to struggle in Charles's hand.
He screamed like a child, the figurine started to cry loudly. Charles got scared and put it on the table. The figure looked around him, and then at Charles, at whom he stuck out his tongue. The sorcerer began to laugh and calmly said:
-I won't hurt you anymore, Doodle-C! See? My hands are free! He shows his empty hands. Nothing bad happens anymore.
Nothing. The figurine shows his middle finger. Charles got a little angry and said.
-Hey! See, it's not pretty! It's very ugly, dwarf! He raises his hand, and Doodle-C piles up, and Charles, laughing, puts his hand down. Do you think I'm really doing this to you? he smiled.
The figurine looked at him and said:
-Go to hell!
Charles sighed. He had nothing to do with this naughty figure. All he had to do was beat him, but the figure got scared.
He was crying more and more. The only thing that calmed him was Ra. He started looking for the motan. But, in fact, he forgot the creature in the palace. All he had to do was stay up all night with Doodle-C's crying. He was rolling on the table and crying. Charles didn't know what to do anymore and kept trying to find solutions.
-Good! Plan A, I put it in something so that it can't be heard! He put it in a box and put it in a closet with clothes. It was not heard from again. He felt freer and started taking his treatment. He went to the bathroom to make a spa, quiet without anyone. He started to fall asleep until Doodle-C started crying again.
He got scared and slipped into the water and drowned. He got out of the tub and ran into the closet, with the towel wrapped around his waist. He took out Doodle-C, and thought and said seriously.
- Now it's time for plan B... and she started to cry loudly. Finally, Doddle-C calmed down.
The door opened. Someone enters Charles's house. It was King Handel, with Ra in his arms. When he saw Charles almost naked and crying next to a figurine, he was shocked and said:
-Ch-Charles...?
The doctor started shouting. With one leg raised and his face covered and breathing hard, he said:
- You don't know how to knock on the door?!
-But why are you looking almost naked in front of me?!
-I-I was taking a bath... do you want too?
Handel is shocked. he slapped his face and said:
- Go get your cat and get out of here! Change into clothes, pajamas or something! That I'll get if you don't change!
-Ok ok! And he ran to get dressed in pajamas.
-Good now?
-Yes... better.
They looked at each other, in silence. Charles went to the living room. He calls Handel into the room.
-Come on. That I have something important to discuss with you.
-Oh! Okay, dear friend! He hurried to the couch next to Charles.He looked at the king, smiling, but also a little confident, he said:
- Go a little further because it's too intimate for me for this moment
.- But what happens if I get even closer to you? Handel says enthusiastically and gets even closer to him.Charles tries to get away from this envious man. Handel takes him in his arms. And Charles gets up and pushes him, but in vain! Handel was tightly wrapped around Charles' abdomen. He pulls him to the ground. They both fall.
-AAAARGH! That would be damn huge! For this you are two meters and forty three?! To kill me?
- That's how it happened! Charles said nervously to Handel.
- Do you know that I am the king of Dridall? Handel changed the subject. I'm going to challenge you.They both get up and sit on the couch again. There remains a moment of silence, be moved. Charles looked into Handel's eyes and asked:
-What challenge are you giving me? he asks, curious but at the same time excited.
- I dare you to moan...Being a mind reader, Charles interrupts Handel, saying the right word in his place.
- Do you kiss? Why did I kiss you at this hour, man? I'm a grandfather and you're young!Handel slapped his face.
- Alas, you are always stupid! Are you really stupid or are you faking it?
-I am not stupid! Charles contradicted, ashamed.
-Then what are you?! says Handel. Are you still old now?
- No, I'm not... I'm a forty-two-year-old man, and you're a thirty-eight-year-old king
.- Yes, and that means we are of the right age. And now, when will you give me a kiss? Change the subject again.They got closer and closer and, with a lot of shame, they kissed. After a good few seconds, they stopped. They looked at each other, and Charles began to speak.
-Was it our first kiss?
-Yes Dear. Handel strokes Charles's face.
- I think I love you much more than that. Good... I wanted to discuss today's meeting. Has something happened or is something changing?
- Well... It was hard to control Serena to calm down from laughing...
- I'm not interested in what he said or what she did. I wonder if they believed me about this dragon!
-Oh! Only priests and monks believed you. but Doctor Nicholas is a stubborn fool! Because I know him, he didn't go to school. I don't know how he became a doctor... Only you are the only one with school.
-I understand... And they planned something to eliminate the dragon? Charles asked thoughtfully.
- Yes, Pontifex Veronica planned for you to destroy his precious star.
-And this old woman? He has had the same plans for many years and I keep doing the same thing and nothing!
- Yes... And priest Laurent contradicted the pontiff who said that I must go with you and the others.
-Which others? And Hasumi, Abram and Serena.
- Yes, and Howard, your brother and Jonah.
-Seriously?? A stepbrother who will ruin this important and perilous journey for me? With Jonah?? What the hell am I supposed to do with a math teacher? to say how much is a cosine with I don't know what? says Charles nervously when he heard these names.
- Well... maybe you don't know. Jonah has a magical power that you don't know about. He can control the emotions and movements of others, when he has these rings on his tail and in his eyes and changes his colors according to his emotions.
- Do you think I can believe you anything? He only knows how to teach math!
- But do you remember when you were at my birthday party when you couldn't stand him anymore and he changed the color of his tail to black, then you became a whiny child and danced. Handel started to laugh.
- Well... maybe he lost his magic power since he started teaching math.Handel looked out the window, looked at the cuckoo clock, because it was past eleven in the evening, he said.
-I should go, Charles. Tomorrow you will come in the dignity of the palace! That I caught someone a supporter of the Star Dragon.
- Good, Handel. Have a nice evening. I go out together. 
Charles remains on the threshold of the entrance door, and Handel mounts his black horse. Leaves.Charles enters the house. He saw Ra on the table, next to Doodle-C. They were sleeping. He remembered the yellowed paper. He opened it and began to read: "On the nineteenth of next autumn".
-What the hell is this? I will keep...
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redscrawl · 1 year
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no i will not make separate blogs for my fandoms, everyone who follows me must experience ALL my insanity
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ghassanrassam · 8 months
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Silent star Evelyn Brent 1899-1975
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evercodine · 7 months
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Joan Crawford photographed by Ruth Harriet Louise C. 1926/1925
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valentinovamp · 1 month
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Buster Keaton
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danmarch 🐉💎
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sleepoutro · 2 years
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can you see? my eyes are shining bright.
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omgahgase · 1 year
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i love the idea of cody and obi-wan needing to go undercover for some mission that they do not trust anakin, rex, and ahsoka for. they somehow end up with a ridiculous backstory of being a married couple from a farming planet who'll spy on a separatist command base and rex—rex just can't fully wrap his head around it.
"so you and general kenobi are meant to be a lovers?"
"yes."
"and you're supposed to," rex waves his hand in a flimsy, confused motion, "play the part?"
"yes, vod. we've already done the debriefing. weren't you paying attention?"
"not in the slightest. what if the general wants to hold hands?"
"i'm prepared to make that sacrifice."
"what if he wants to kiss?"
"i'm prepared to make that sacrifice."
"what if he—"
"brother, you don't want to know how far i'll go for this mission. it's for the greater good. everyone is counting on obi-wan and i."
rex is quiet for a moment longer than necessary and it all clicks in that split second and a half it takes him to realize—because this is cody and rex knows him better than he knows the back of his own hand—that maybe cody won't be 'playing the part' of being in love with the general.
because cody has been in love with him since he stopped being "general kenobi" and became just "obi-wan".
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oldcinemalover · 8 months
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Ivan Mosjoukine in Feu Mathias Pascal (1925) dir. Marcel L'Herbier
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tiger-ink · 5 months
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Chapter 4: The Scandal
He went out through the palace gate to the city of Erytin, through John the Dragon-Heart Square. He felt lost. He washed those geometric figures again and entered a bar. The bartender gave him a shot of cognac. He had asked for one more. The bartender approached Charles and asked him:
- Crises, right? Do shots of blackberry brandy calm you down?
-Y-yes... he blundered.
-Good! Also because of the dragon?
- No... because... of... a geometric figure that I keep seeing instead of people. Do you think this is normal? he asked curiously, looking at the empty glass that contained the cognac.
- Yes, doctor... epilepsy can cause this... my daughter also suffers from this... and she sees nature in a geometrical way. you are not the only one...
-I understood... King Handel used to tell me that it was only my imagination.
- It could be because of this! You with your geometric designs... normal! Draw something else normal too! Not only these paranormal oddities...
- Do you think you can force yourself with me?! Only you are not my brain! Stop controlling me like this! he gets up and leaves the bar.
The bartender looked long at Charles and whispered:
-Ha... stupid aries... what else can I say?
Charles was walking through the crowded markets. Looking around, there was a sharp noise and a strong gust of wind that resembled The Ambush Hurricane. He thought: "Has it become a solar eclipse?" Not! And it's a damn dragon! A few hours ago it was, and now again! What else does he want from me??"
The dragon curls around the square, dropping some multicolored stars.
The only thing the wizard had to stop is not touching these stars on people. He stretched out his hand to the stars and around them formed bubbles of protection. Each multicolored star floated in the bubble. The inhabitants of the city looked at the stars stopped by Charles. The dragon laughs and says:
-Haha! Do you think everything is ready? Have you forgotten about my presence?
-No, do you think it's easy to throw that crap into the air?
The dragon is amazed after he answered back and saying instead of stars in "crap". Furious, he went back east, into the Forbidden Forest.
The royal people also appeared. The king did not seem satisfied with his action. Charles recognized what he had done. Handel approached Charles and said:
- You know what... don't let something like this happen again... It was an absolutely rude gesture.... And I'm not mad at you, so we can understand each other. And after that, he had whispered in his ear. I will always be there for you. And he blinked an eye. Serena looked pleased for the deed she saved a world from a goddamn creature.
-If you knocked over your chair, you saved a world from a dragon.
-Honestly... I'm sorry that I behaved so badly... I had lost control.
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nelkcats · 1 year
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Star Thief ✦
After a medical check with Frostbite and a conversation with Clockwork, it turned out that Danny didn't have a protect obsession, and it was more of a ghostly reflex about protecting his haunt from invaders.
The need to protect his home had invaded his mind until it became a priority due to the constant in which the other ghosts kept coming, leaving his space obsession as a secondary priority until the end of the danger.
He only needed one night looking at the sky and getting stellar freckles to realize that he had an obsession with space, the problem? Phantom has become a possessive ghost.
As with his home, he had an irrational fear of the night sky being stolen from him, so he began stealing stars and keeping them with him. This might seem impossible if Danny were a normal person, but he was a half ghost, and a powerful one.
He stole the stars and hid them within his own ectoplasm, turning his appearance into one similar to Nocturn's. Or at least he did until Clockwork scolded him for interfering with his dimension's solar system and forced him to return the stars.
Which he did with great reluctance. But the desire to hoard the stars just for himself did not disappear; Danny looked for an alternative solution to the problem and with the help of the Infinite Map he found "The perfect dimension to steal stars and not have to return them"
However, this did not go unnoticed by the Justice League when an abnormality was detected in all parts of the cosmos, hundreds of stars were disappearing, and fast. They decided to investigate.
On the other hand, Danny was hugging and hoarding stars as he hovered in the new dimension sky. It was perfect! And he wasn't going to return them again.
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redhairclara · 8 months
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Showgirl and actress Avonne Taylor with a friend, c. 1920s
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retro-only-darling · 1 year
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Bela Lugosi photographed in 1923
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