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thatsdevilstears-a · 2 years

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2. If you’re curious about my favourite ones, though, my two otps are swan queen [emma & regina] and masriel [marisa & asriel]. & when it comes to otps, i rarely ship those characters with anyone else -- if so that's with characters from another fandom (as i mentioned -- i love crossovers)

As for other ships I do support: dani & jaimie, serena & june, villanelle & eve, anne & gilbert, moiraine & lan [platonically but may try also go beyond ;)], moiraine & siuan, alice & luther, alison & cole, norma & romero, lizbon & sergio, nairobi & helsinki (in obvious way ;)).

I'm fairlyyy ok with: dragon queen (regina & maleficent), emma & lily, serena & fred (agnsttt), theo & trish, vanessa & ethan, melanie & ben, beth & benny.

3. If I were to write about all my characters’ sexual orientation, I’d take me forever. Which is why I want you to look at them as bisexual or pansexual [perhaps apart from those who are originally gay]. But it honestly depends on the story; I may ship those characters with either females or males. So even if we have such characters as Serena Joy or Lord Asriel, they can be gay or bi [openly or not], or straight. I like to play with that form in various stories.

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-------PRIMARY

>>>his dark materials (book & tv show based): marisa coulter // face: ruth wilson ; lyra belacqua // face: dafne keen ; lord asriel belacqua // face: james mcavoy.

>>>once upon a time: regina mills // face: lana parrilla ; emma swan // face: jennifer morrison.

>>>the wheel of time (for now tv show based): moiraine damodred // face: rosamund pike ; lan mandragoran /// face: daniel henney.

>>>snowpiercer: melanie cavill // face: jennifer connelly ; alexandra cavill // face: rowan blanchard.

>>>penny dreadful: vanessa ives // face: eva green.

>>>the queen’s gambit: beth harmon /// face: anya taylor-joy.

>>>the haunting series: theodora cran // face: kate siegel ; eleanor crain // face: victoria pedretti.

-------SECONDARY

>> the affair: alison bailey /// face: ruth wilson.

>>luther: alice morgan // face: ruth wilson.

>>anne with an e: anne shirley-cuthbert // face: amybeth mcnulty ; gilbert blythe // face: lucas jade zumann.

>>killing eve (tv show based): villanelle/oksana astankova // face: jodie comer.

>>the handmaid’s tale (tv show based): serena joy waterford // face: yvonne strahovski.

>>bates motel: norma bates /// face: vera farmiga.

>>the haunting series: jamie taylor // face: amelia eve / carla gugino ; dani clayton /// face: victoria pedretti ; olivia crain // face: carla gugino.

>>the oa: nina azarova/prairie johnson /// face: brit marling.

-------TEST

>his dark materials (book & tv show based): mary malone // face: simone kirby.

>killing eve (tv show based): eve polastri // face: sandra oh.

>bates motel: norman bates // face: freddie highmore.

>la casa de papel: nairobi // face: alma flores ; lizbon // face: itziar ituño ; el professor // face: álvaro morte.

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bathroombreaks · 3 years

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masterpost of all my edits and fanfics pt.2

everything i’ve created can be found here. all good girls edits can be found here. all good girls fanfics can be found here. all anne with an e edits can be found here. all shadow and bone edits can be found here. my collection of gifsets of random tv shows and movies can be found here. my rainbow edits can be found here. things that i like the most/am proudest of, for whatever reason, can be found here.

this masterpost is divided into:

1. anne with an e

a. anne x gilbert edits

b. other edits

2. shadow and bone

a. alina edits

b. other edits

3. good girls

a. gifset collections

b. quote edits

c. parallel edits

d. specific scene/episode edits

e. other beth x rio edits

f. other edits

g. fanfics

3.a. good girls - gifset collections

good girls episode titles

countdown to s3 premiere

good girls underrated moments

top 15 good girls moments

good girls appreciation week 2020

our favourite good girls in every episode

christmas gif(t)sets

countdown to season 4

girls in season 4

good girls meme

3.b. good girls - quote edits

beth - now is the time of monsters

annie, beth and ruby - friendships between women

beth and rio - i should go

beth and rio - how to write a tragedy in three acts

beth - everything i wanted

beth and rio - the next time i smile

beth and rio - from eden

beth and rio - steadier with you by my side

beth and dean - one of you is lying

rio - rang each syllable: e-liz-a-beth

beth and rio - nothing’s fair in love and war

beth and rio - entertainer

beth and rio - my love will never die

annie - the human heart

beth and rio - the (greater) fear

beth - the mask and the wearer

beth and rio - 11pm

beth and rio - you know me too well

beth and dean - positions

beth and rio - pov

beth - #girlboss

beth and rio - let it be hell

annie and ben - slipping through my fingers all the time

beth, dean, fitzpatrick and rio - my wife is a bitch and i like her so much

beth and rio - pumped up kicks

beth and rio - we wanna be with each other but we hate each other

beth and dean - a dress like that

beth - it’s not easy for me

3.c. good girls - parallel edits

beth - baking pastries vs cooking cash [2x13]

beth and ruby - hearteyes [1x01, 1x02, 2x02, 2x09]

annie, beth and ruby - robberies [1x01, 1x08, 1x10, 2x09]

annie - throwing cash into a fireplace [season 3 promo, 3x01]

annie and beth - without kids [1x05, 1x07, 2x08, 2x09, 3x01]

beth - drinking slushies [2x05 vs 3x02]

boomer - injured [1x01, 2x02, 2x03]

beth - asking kenny to watch tv/youtube [1x02, 3x02]

rio - realising he can’t/deciding he won’t kill beth [1x02, 2x02, 2x06, 3x03]

rio - saying he needs/doesn’t need beth [1x09, 2x06, 3x04]

annie and beth - loss of vision [3x04]

annie - running [2x12, 3x04]

annie - stuffing bills on her person [2x04, 3x01]

beth, lucy and rio - rio calling someone his girl [3x03, 3x05]

beth - sarcastically using important titles to refer to rio [2x12, 3x06]

beth and rio - hitting it vs making love [1x05, 2x04, 2x09]

beth and rio - facing off [2x04, 2x06, 2x11, 3x04]

beth and rio - standing close enough to kiss [2x04, 2x09, 2x11]

rio - heavy-lidded look [2x06, 3x04]

beth and rio - rio touching beth’s shoulder [1x08, 2x09]

max and turner - boards [1x04, 3x07]

beth, danny and jane - beth not knowing how to answer [2x12, 3x07]

beth, dean and rio - trust [2x05, 3x08]

beth and rio - beth making rio laugh at the bar [2x09, 3x08]

annie - captain can do t-shirt [3x07]

beth and rio - negotiating cuts [1x04, 2x04, 2x06, 3x08]

rio - walking [3x01, 3x08]

rio - expressions [3x01, 3x08]

rio - expressions [2x05, 2x07, 3x01, 3x08]

annie, beth and rio - my girl/your boy [3x03, 3x09]

beth - lying to rio during their meetings in season 3 [3x06, 3x09]

beth - beth finding out about dean’s cheating [1x01, 2x05, 3x09]

beth and rio - standing back to back while talking [2x10, 3x06]

beth and rio - smashing things [1x02, 3x08]

beth and rio - beth being bored with normal life [1x08, 2x10, 3x10]

beth and rio - rio surprising beth in her kitchen [1x01, 3x10]

beth and rio - rio smiling after beth is awkward [2x05, 3x10]

beth and rio - beth rejecting rio’s advances [2x06, 3x11]

rio - reiterating that beth is stuck with him [2x04, 2x11, 3x11]

rio - looking at beth with a lot of emotion in his eyes [3x03, 3x11]

beth and rio - looking at each other and smiling [2x09, 2x11]

beth and rio - kissing with sunlight streaming through the window [2x09, merlin 2x02]

beth, dean, kenny and rio - how dean’s speech applies to what he thinks is happening and what’s really happening [3x10, 3x11]

beth and rio - almost up and running, walk me through it [3x11]

beth - destruction [1x01, 1x09, 2x02, 2x05, 2x10, 3x09]

beth and rio - beth realising rio is alive [3x02, 3x10]

annie, cohen and mick - annie being protective of beth [3x03, 4x01]

beth - wearing apron with lemon print [2x13, 4x01]

beth and rio - eating weirdly [3x09, 4x02]

beth - reacting to seeing boomer’s and mick’s penises [1x02, 4x02]

beth - the state of that woman’s marriage was written all over her face [1x01, 1x05, 1x06, 2x02, 2x04, 2x05, 3x09, 3x11, 4x02]

beth and rio - touching hands [2x05, 3x04, 4x03]

beth and rio - beth bending over [2x04, 4x03]

beth and dean - ignoring “i love you” [1x01, 4x03]

beth - celebrating [1x02, 4x03]

beth - pta activities [2x02, 2x10, 4x04]

rio - looking at beth [2x09, 4x04]

beth and rio - beth looking surprised when rio agrees with her [4x01, 4x04]

beth, phoebe - wire [1x05, 4x05]

beth and rio - fall guy [2x12, 4x02, 4x05]

beth and rio - beth channeling rio [3x09, 4x05]

dean - misunderstanding tattoos [3x01, 4x05]

beth and rio - hooking up [2x04, 4x06]

rio - throwing his head back laughing [2x08, 4x06]

beth and rio - business [2x12, 3x06, 4x06]

beth and rio - rio’s family pictures [2x11, 4x06]

beth, dean, nick and rio - beth being called “elizabeth“ [2x09, 4x03, 4x06]

beth and rio - #bethany, why? [2x09, 4x06]

beth - panicking [3x02, 4x01, 4x06]

rio - beth imagining rio [2x05, 3x03, 4x06]

beth, fitzpatrick, rio - beth going to unbuckle a man and being rejected [4x04, 4x06]

annie and ben - annie taking the ged test [3x10, 4x06]

beth and rio - glovebox [3x10, 4x07]

beth and rio - hook-ups and callbacks [2x04, 2x05, 2x09, 3x03, 4x06, 4x07]

beth and rio - rio touching beths’ back and shoulders [1x08, 2x02, 2x04, 2x06, 2x09, 3x07, 4x04, 4x06]

beth and rio - a dress like that [1x08, 2x04, 2x06, 3x08, 4x06]

fitzpatrick and rio - saying “i can’t talk shop on an empty stomach” [3x09, 4x07]

3.d. good girls - specific scene/episode edits

annie, beth and ruby - flashbacks in 2x08

annie, beth and ruby - ruby saying she shot a guy in 3x01

beth - smiling as lucy leaves in 3x01

annie, beth and ruby - montage of them making counterfeit cash in 3x01

annie, beth and ruby - annie looking for coffee in ruby’s kitchen in 1x08

annie, beth and ruby - deciding to rob nancy’s spas in 1x08

ruby - getting high with stan in 1x09

beth and turner - parking lot at night in 2x05

beth - sitting on the couch in 3x01

ruby - talking on the phone with gwen in 3x01

annie, beth, nancy, rhea and ruby - looking pretty in 3x02

annie, beth, judy and ruby - talking about rouge in 3x02

rio - looking at the ultrasound in 3x03

ruby and stan - together in 3x03

beth and rio - fighting in her backyard in 2x06

beth and rio - drinking and talking at the bar in 2x09

beth - destroying her thanksgiving-themed baked goods in 2x10

beth - walking home in 2x13

beth and rio - bar in 2x05

annie, beth and ruby - talking about when they’ll reopen in 1x08

beth and rio - blue and pink gifs of them in 2x09

beth - wearing the red polka dot dress in 2x04

beth and rio - kissing in her bedroom in 2x09

annie and dean - talking in the bolands’ kitchen in 1x05

annie, beth, boomer and ruby - talking in beth’s car about marion in 3x08

beth - pretending to freak out about her husband in 3x11

annie and ruby - fight in 2x10

beth and pta moms - beth finds out that lucy’s body was found in 4x01

beth - alley in 2x03

beth and rio - bar in 4x01

dean and eric - boland bubbles showroom in 4x01

beth - wearing the strawberry dress in 4x02

beth and rio - rio checking beth out during the 4x03 pool scene

beth and annie - young beth and annie in 4x03

beth and rio - talking at the bar in 4x04

beth and rio - in the bedroom in grandma’s house in 4x06

beth and rio - hands in 4x06

rosa - barbecue in 4x06

beth - thigh shots in 4x06

beth - strip club scene in 4x08

3.e. good girls - other beth x rio edits

rio touching beth

looking at each other in season 1

looking at each other in season 2

looking at each other in season 3

in every episode of season 3

rio looking at beth’s cleavage

softly smiling at each other

playlist

favourite lines of dialogue between them

faceless

tv tropes

text posts

incorrect quotes

3.f. good girls - other edits

annie, beth and ruby - icons

annie, beth, lucy, rio, ruby and stan - season 3 first look and official trailer

beth - looking pretty in season 2

annie, beth and ruby - making funny faces [1x02, 2x05, 3x05]

beth - coping mechanisms

beth - hands

annie, beth, dean, rio, ruby and stan - colours

annie, ben, beth, dean, rio, ruby and stan - onion headlines

beth - black and white

beth - drawing

ruby - drawing

annie - drawing

rio’s golden gun, book club, paper porcupine - drawings

annie, beth, dean, rio, ruby and stan - planets

annie, beth, marcus, rio, ruby - seasons in the park

season 4 promo

good girls + rainbow

stan and diane

beth and mick in s4 trailer

annie, beth and ruby in s4 trailer

blue and yellow

annie, beth and ruby in pink, blue and purple

beth and turner

3.g. good girls - fanfics

bleed me a river - my take on how rio could’ve popped back into beth’s life after 2x13

little league (never felt so sweet) - beth and rio meet when beth picks up jane from little league practice

the bittersweet salt cracks my heart - pg-13 hate sex post-s3

a heart’s a heavy burden - howl’s moving castle au

everything you love will burn up in the light - rio is a vampire au

my heart burns there, too - beth and rio get married

aita for wanting to stop paying my wife’s “business partner” and yelling at her? - dean posts on reddit post s3

you think that by now i’d know - beth inadvertently asks out rio

“you’re being too loud, ma” prompt

“the lasagna here isn’t nearly as good as she remembered” prompt

“i told you: no dungarees” prompt

#txt #stfu #mine #masterpost #nav

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unnursvanablog · 5 years

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Things I am watching lately. I feel like I am having a hard time connecting to some of the new tv I have been trying to watch lately - but I also feel that way with the books I have been trying to read or Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung. Like it doesn't fully hold my attention. I still find Rookie Historian to be a cute, enjoyable show. I am just not as emotionally invested as before. The last few weeks have been kinda hectic though. Not too much free time to watch tv shows or really get immersed into the stories I have tried to consume. And being sick for two days hasn't helped, since I don't always feel like I have the attention span to take in new shows when I am sick. I just watch endless amount of Friends since I don't have to think too much. It is junk food for the brain and I adore it.

The Good Place: It is very unlike myself to truly binge watch a show. I much prefer watching stuff week by week and even with a simple sit com like The Good Place it can take me months to finish it. But I pretty much binge watched the entire first and a half season in a day (stayed up late and went sleepy to work the next day) or so. I got super hooked on it. I am now almost fished with season three. I am enjoying myself.

The Great British Bake Off, s10: Just the best show to just drink tea and chill over. The worst thing about the show is that it sort of makes me hungry and I keep snacking over it. But GBBO is just the coziest baking show there is. I adore watching it. I look forward to it every year (since I started watching it a few years back). I like so many of the contestants (like always) but this year Michael and Helena are probably my favorites.

Sanditon: It lacks something story wise but I am not sure what, but it is stunning to look at and I do find it enjoyable Jane Austen type story (and it is based on her unfinished novel) but it lacks a certain wow factor for me that often Jane Austen adaptations have. That Austen flare if you will. I am not totally hooked, I don't watch it as each episodes comes out. But I do find it kinda enjoyable and pretty to look at. And gorgeous old houses, pretty clothes and scenery is one of the reasons why I like British (or any) period dramas. I am a simple girl. I like watching pretty period clothes and old things.

Why Women Kill: My main problem with this show is that I don't find the different timelines or storylines of this house to be equally interesting or fun. But I am enjoying the show a lot. I find the story set in our time to be very boring - I kinda don't care for it or the characters there. That is also the storyline where the man in the story get's sort of his storyline along with the women, which sort of contrasts with the men in the other stories. Does that make sense.The other two storylines are so much more fun to watch for me, and I especially feel for Beth Ann and her blossoming friendship with the mistress of her husband. What makes the sort of 1980s storyline tick is probably just Lucy Liu as Simone. That women is just so stunning and great in everything I see her in! She is a dream in this one.

Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency: Don’t feel like making a first impression post, so I am sticking this one in there. This show has a moments of kinda sincerely and more intriguing moments, but it is also kinda over the top silly at times (which I don't always like and often goes into over-acting or over-reacting to something) and there isn't that much of a balance between those. There were parts of back stories and hint of political tension and so forth that I liked. But the sort of over-acting and the more silly stuff sort of took me out of the story again. I don’t mind a bit of comedy (although super slapstick stuff isn't my cup of tea) to defuse the tension in a story, but there needs to be a bit of a balance or it sort of needs to fit together better. The first episode was just sort of OK. It is cute and pretty to look at, but I wonder about how much substance it has. I wanted a bit more of a hook. But I shall give it a few more episodes to truly see how I feel about it. But with all of the other kdramas coming up, it might not have enough to hold my attention for too long.

The Crown: setting goals like finishing the first two seasons of The Crown before Olivia Colman steps into the role of Elizabeth actually motivates me to start shows that have been on my to-watch-list for ages. That also happens with book series that are being turned into films/tv but that is another matter. The Crown is a very well executed and stunning to watch period drama, as I expected - which is one of the main requires I have for period dramas according to this list. I have yet to be hooked my it, but first episodes can't always do that. I was strange seeing Matt Smith again. I am not sure I have seen him in anything other than Doctor Who. But this show seems to be the sort of thing that I would enjoy.

Shows I tried to watch:

Strangers from Hell: I want to watch horror show. It is the season for creepy, dark shows. But yet I opted out of Strangers from Hell for some reason after about 30 minutes. It was somehow not holding my attention that well. Maybe it was just because I was getting sick or something, but I just wasn't super into it.

The Terror - Infamy: I had a hard time connecting the the first season of The Terror. I also had a hard time connecting and emerging myself into the book as well. I found myself having a similar problem with the first episode of this season. But I am thinking about giving it another go.

I have not been keeping up with the part 3 of Arthdal Chronicals. The show was kinda lost to me towards the end of part 2. It just could not hold my attention, the episodes felt so long (and the are long) and the show struggled so in the beginning where the worldbuilding and stuff dragged on for too long and by the time the character arcs started to really come to light I just wasn’t emotionally invested anymore.

But still, Arthdal is one of those shows that I kinda wish I was watching, or could enjoy, because I like the idea of it, so it is sort of always in the back of my mind that I should pick it up again. But at the same time, I can’t be bothered to turn on Netflix and watch an episode. I would much rather watch The Good Place or The Crown on there.

#the good place #gbbo #sanditon #why women kill #strangers from hell #flower crew: joseon marriage agency #the terror: infamy #the crown #blog post #I like making lists like these #I should do more of these I think #What I have been watching

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aion-rsa · 2 years

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The Tourist: Jamie Dornan’s Best Screen Roles

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In most cases, an actor being cast as a character without a name doesn’t signal great things for the career. Nobody’s queuing up for an autograph from ‘woman in lift’ or ‘angry hot dog customer 2’. Jamie Dornan’s lead role in BBC crime thriller The Tourist bucks that trend. In the six-part series, Dornan plays “The Man”, a nameless (at least to begin with) Irishman who loses his memory when his car is forced off the road in the Australian desert. With barely a clue to go on, he has to find out who he is, what’s he doing there, and most importantly, why somebody’s trying to kill him.

Dornan is great in The Tourist – intense, funny, unpredictable and convincing at every stage of his character’s gradual discovery. It’s comfortably among his best performances so far, and one of the better received projects Dornan’s starred in (it’s fair to say that the Fifty Shades film trilogy, the 2018 Robin Hood and last year’s Emily Blunt-starring Irish romance Wild Mountain Thyme were not critical darlings). The Tourist fans looking for more Dornan need look no further. Here’s a selection of his best on-screen roles so far.

The Fall (2013 – 2016)

This Belfast-set BBC thriller, currently available to stream on BBC iPlayer and Netflix, made Dornan’s name before he brought Fifty Shades’ Christian Grey to the screen in 2015. In the Allan Cubitt crime drama, Dornan plays Paul Spector, a serial killer of women who leads a double life as a family man and bereavement counsellor. Dornan stars alongside Gillian Anderson, who plays Supt. Stella Gibson, the detective tasked with hunting Spector down. He’s intense, she’s relentless, and their cat-and-mouse dynamic kept audiences rapt for three series. There are apparently plans for more from Gibson’s character in a possible future return to the drama, though without Dornan.

The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

This multiple Irish Film and Television Award-winner dramatises the true story of the Irish Army unit posted to the Congo in 1961 as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. Mercenaries and Katangese soldiers laid siege to the unit, which resisted surrender until eventually being taken and held prisoner, before being freed in a prisoner exchange. The war drama‘s mission was to right the wrong done to the unit’s reputation by a military cover-up about the truth of the siege. Dornan won acclaim for the role of Commandant Pat Quinlan, unit leader, and the film’s action scenes were roundly praised. The Siege of Jadotville is available now to stream on Netflix.

Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar (2021)

Serial killer, army commandant, S&M billionaire… we could be forgiven for thinking that Dornan’s roles tended towards the humourless, but here comes Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar to prove us wrong. Written by and starring Bridesmaids‘ Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, the bonkers comedy tells the story of two Nebraska women who get tangled up in a super-villain revenge plot while on a resort holiday in Florida. Dornan plays Edgar, love interest to Star (Wiig) and henchman to the villainous Sharon Fisherman (Wiig in a wig). It’s daft, absurd fun and features Dornan pouring his heart out to various seagulls in this instant classic pop ballad. It’s available to stream on Hulu in the US and Disney Plus in the UK.

Death and Nightingales (2018)

Back to serious Dornan. This three-part BBC drama currently available to buy on Amazon Prime Video was adapted by The Fall‘s Allan Cubitt from the acclaimed 1992 Irish novel by Eugene McCabe. Set in Ireland in the 1880s, it’s the story of Beth Winters (played by The Nevers‘ Ann Skelly), step-daughter of a staunch Protestant, and pregnant by Catholic rebel Liam Ward. It’s a dark period drama that explores religious division in Irish history, with strong performances from Skelly, Dornan and co-star Matthew Rhys.

Once Upon a Time (2011 – 2013)

ABC fantasy Once Upon a Time offers some escapist fun for Dornan fans, if not for his character whose storyline saw him under the control of evil queen Regina. Season one cast the actor as modern-day sheriff Graham Humbert, whose fairy tale counterpart was Snow White’s Huntsman – a brutal recluse raised by wolves who fell under Regina’s spell. Think romance, fight-scenes, forest backdrops and ultimately, tragedy. The long-running series is available to stream on Hulu in the US and Disney Plus UK.

Belfast (2021)

Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical comedy-drama stages the director’s childhood memories of 1960s Belfast, amid a backdrop of first love, community mistrust and religious division. Jamie Dornan stars opposite Outlander‘s Catriona Balfe as the Irish protestant parents of young Buddy, played by newcomer Jude Hill. The film came out in cinemas in November 2021, and has already been nominated for and won several awards, as well as being talked about as a potential Oscar nominee. See Dornan use those pipes in this clip of his character serenading his girl with pop hit ‘Everlasting Love’.

See also: A Private War (2018) in which Dornan plays Liverpudlian war photographer Paul Conroy opposite Rosamund Pike as American journalist Marie Colvin, plus a short early role in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette playing Count Axel von Fersen, the young Swedish lover of Kirsten Dunst’s French queen.

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Why Women Kill vs the ST Stage Production Teaser and Some Predictions

So, the drawing of the house from the ST stage production teaser trailer actually isn’t fully accurate to the Creel house:

The windows on the left side of the creel house are all wrong. Because the image from the teaser trailer has been mirrored, it’s the right half of the Creel house twice.

And when we look at some of the info that we have about the stage play (ignoring the Hellcheer part bc that’s pure speculation from the article), we can see that there’s two fourteen year old kids listed- George and Betty.

This all ties into this post that I made about Why Women Kill (and how Victor and Virginia have very strong visual parallels to Rob and Beth Ann). In Why Women Kill, three different couples move into the same mansion throughout the decades (not at the same time), and all three storylines end up with the women in each relationship committing murder in the mansion. However, what’s especially interesting to me is that the scene of all 3 husbands being murdered has all three timelines overlaid, as if all of the couples are in the same room at the same time, but they’re actually not, it’s just an artistic choice to show the 3 stories/timelines and how they’re similar but also different:

The other couples are like a ghost to eachother in their different timelines- just like Nancy was when she was seeing the scenes of the Creel house.

I bet they’re going to do a similar sort of thing here, where the story of the stage play and its characters is going to mirror the Creels and there’s going to be two families instead of three couples. And that some sort of murder is going to happen with a family in the play, and it’s going to give us subtext about the Creel murders/mirror/parallel them. After all- we don’t know who lived in that house before the Creels did.

I’m also staring Directly at George and Betty, because I won’t be surprised if their relationship ends up mirroring young Creelarke/subtly foreshadowing the S5 young Creelarke reveal, especially with the whole “moody outcast,” thing, which is very Henry coded.

It’s like. Henry and Scott already parallel Will and Mike, but there’s certain aspects of them that don’t quite match/fully parallel eachother- and I bet that those gaps are going to be filled in by George and Betty’s relationship.

It’s also interesting that Betty is the daughter of a preacher, considering that according to the Indianapolis Gazette, Victor was known for going to church, and according to the Weekly Watcher, Victor had a priest exorcise the Creel home.

And if another family lived there before the Creels did, it would explain all of the extra furniture in the attic that doesn’t seem to belong to the Creels.

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Confronting a Serial Killer Review: The Confession Is Chilling, But the Story Is Balanced

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The new Starz documentary series Confronting a Serial Killer is captivating, immersive and infuriating. One of the first things we learn is how victims are parsed through the criminal justice system. On the scale of homicide priorities, “pretty white college students are the most dead, black hookers are the least dead.”

Because it tells a story about an under-represented and largely dismissed cross-section of the community, Confronting a Serial Killer focuses on the victims. Even the journalist spearheading the investigation is a survivor. Putting a human face and voice to statistics is a slowly growing trend in true crime coverage. It was recently done in Peacock Originals’ John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise. But the Killer Clown is one of the most recognizable names in the history of homicide. While Samuel Little may have racked up a higher body count, his is a lesser-known name.

Little extinguished 93 lives over four decades. Black serial killers are statistically rare, but that is only one reason Little was overlooked by the police. Victimized low income and disenfranchised women of color are statistically high. In the documentary, the authorities list dozens of reasons why they are invisible.

Jillian Lauren (Some Girls: My Life in a Harem) is a Gonzo journalist on par with Jimmy Breslin. She’s gone from memoirist to deep dive investigator, exposing sultans and bureaucrats. Lauren consistently lays herself bare in her works, fully transparent about even the most intimate details of her past. This documentary shows her going beyond mere disclosures, sliding deeper into a sociopath’s world to the point of being on his list. She contorts her psyche to become Little’s most enticing prey, and ends up his last psychological victim.

Besides the audience, that is. Confronting a Serial Killer makes victims of everyone watching. It is blunt and honest, straightforward and absolutely unblinking. The viewer is held captive for five hours, bound by the bare bones presentation but mesmerized by the investigator’s journey. It induces a kind of Stockholm syndrome, but we identify with Lauren, and she identifies with the victims.

Joe Berlinger is a true crime genre pioneer, co-directing the Paradise Lost trilogy, Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger, and Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Berlinger steps aside as a filmmaker so the victims can be heard loud and clear. It is sometimes a cacophony of dissonance, but the messages are unmistakable. Berlinger doesn’t dive headlong into a search for justice in this documentary, he fulfills the promise made by Lauren. Look as hard at the victims as you do at the killer, and don’t let the investigators off the hook.

The interview with Hilda Nelson, a victim who lived, is unsparing. “He cold cocked me,” she remembers, knocking her out without warning. The only reason she survived the attack is because she worked the streets, and people checked in on girls who were on the clock. The police “took her statement, but nothing was done about it,” Nelson remembers. “They didn’t start looking into it until a white girl went missing.”

Even the white girl didn’t get the proper attention because she’d also been marginalized due to the work she did. One memorable moment comes when a family member said he put a cigarette out in his hand just to feel something after being numbed by official inaction. The documentary gives amazing backstories on the victims. The documentary fills in their lives, visiting their hometowns and allowing the families to tell their backstories. Patricia Ann Mount was 26 years old when she was attacked, but she was dismissed by prosecutors because she had an IQ of 40. They do remember she was an alcoholic who went home with men, though.

During the interviews, everyone who worked the case or the courts brings up how each victim was a sex worker who was probably an alcoholic or drug addict. Tonya Jackson, whose attack was interrupted by police, never took the stand because San Diego County DA Gary Rempel said she wouldn’t have made a very good witness. White survivor Laurie Barros also wasn’t considered a credible witness, even though she came prepared with evidence and sketches, because she was labeled a sex worker.

The documentary proves this is how the case went unsolved for so long. Little had a knack for picking victims society didn’t care about and the law didn’t track. He crisscrossed state lines, strangling sex workers, drug addicts, people with mental health issues, and others he believed would not be missed. What precinct had the manpower to investigate the death of a Black hooker from Mississippi, or a junkie in Florida? They certainly aren’t taken seriously on the stand because Little was set free numerous times.

These traits work in Lauren’s favor. She was a concubine in a harem, thought heroin was as comfortable as breathing, survived domestic violence, and lived through attempted murder. Jillian does what no interrogator can do. She cracks the serial killer. Lauren manipulates the psychopath who still vehemently denies the three murders for which he’s been convicted. She does it by becoming the very thing he responds to. She is “a mother, a daughter, his ultimate victim.”

Lauren gets Little to reveal details of the crimes which were unknown to authorities. She gives the killer the space to confess. One of the best moments comes when Lauren realizes Little is actually confessing. She is as concerned as she is pleased, but she still doesn’t let him off the hook. She tells him she doesn’t believe him on several occasions, and wants more than mere details. Lauren wants to understand why Little sees women as lesser human beings.

The audio excerpts of the conversations are chilling. Little has an eye for detail, and his casual descriptions are monstrous. But they are reinforced by law enforcement. In a sequence where Barros confronts Rempel about ignoring her testimony, the DA throws the blame back on her.

The documentary also catches Lauren speaking with current female officers, in an attempt to see how the criminal justice system is still weighted against women of color, as well as people suffering from mental illness or struggling with addiction. LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts used DNA technology to solve three cold cases from the 1980s. She admits she is most proud to be part of the team which put Little behind bars. She is less proud about the final count. Detective Roberts helped put him away for killing three women in Los Angeles. She confesses to a hunch he was guilty of many more murders. It was just out of her jurisdiction.

The documentary also speaks with Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman, the Los Angeles judge who sentenced Little to serve three life sentences in 2014. Some of Little’s murders remain unsolved, and some victims are still unidentified as Jane Does. Confronting a Serial Killer makes a strong case for systematically reappraising unofficially disenfranchised communities. If the survivors who came forward weren’t devalued by the system, Little would never have been able to kill 93 victims.

Confronting a Serial Killer is dry, but it is not unemotional. The series examines indifference and institutional biases. It shines a light on racial and gender bias in the criminal justice system against victims from marginalized communities. But it is also about confronting trauma. Sam Little died in 2020. The documentary points out that he killed more people than Gacy, Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer combined. It also points out how only the system has killed more than Sam Little.

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WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It’s open for anyone to join in and is a great way to share what you’ve been reading! All you have to do is answer three questions and share a link to your blog in the comments section of Sam’s blog.

The three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

A similar meme is run by Lipsyy Lost and Found where bloggers share This Week in Books #TWiB.

What I’m reading now:

Dopesick by Beth Macy

I discovered this book during Non-Fiction November and decided to read it straight away. It’s a hard book as its looking at drug addiction but it’s well-written and really interesting.

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

I’m a fan of this author so was thrilled to get to read her forthcoming novel Three Hours. I’m finding this book to be gripping and tense… it’s hard to put down!

Bowie’s Bookshelf by John O’Connell

I’m really enjoying dipping in and out of this book and learning more about the books that Bowie loved plus a bit more about said books.

Snowglobe by Amy Wilson

This is a gorgeous winter read and I’m kicking myself for not reading it sooner. It’s a middle grade/YA book and it’s stunning!

What I recently finished reading:

Alice Teale is Missing by Howard Linskey

I read this book over the last two days and it was so good. I loved the two detectives in this novel and am hoping this might become a series and that we’ll get to see them again.

Christmas at the Chateau by Lorraine Wilson

This is a short novella that I read in about an hour but it’s a really lovely story. It’s set at Christmas and is full of romance. I’ll be reviewing this one on 5th December for the blog tour so please look out for that then. In the meantime I recommend it!

One Christmas Night by Hayley Webster

This book is gorgeous, I loved every single minute that I spent reading it. It’s a Christmas novel that is different from other books I’ve read and I just adored it. I’ll be reviewing this one soon.

If I Forget You by Thomas Christopher Greene

I’d had this book on my TBR for 3.5 years, which is terrible as I know I love the author’s writing. Anyway, I finally picked it up this week and it was a lovely short read. It’s all about relationships, secrets and regret.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

I can’t believe I’ve never read this one before but it was such a good book. I found it such a moving and open read, one that will stay with me.

Constellations by Sinead Gleason

This is a brilliant book of essays all about Sinead’s life and about being a woman. I did love some of the essays more than others but all are excellently written. I recommend it.

The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

This book is brilliant. I’m in awe of the author and the amount of research she must have done to put these women’s stories together. I love that the focus is entirely on each of them and isn’t about who killed them. I recommend this to everyone, it’s one of the best nonfiction books I’ve read this year.

The Assistant by S. K. Tremayne

I really enjoyed this thriller, it was one of those that’s unnerving and unputdownable at the same time. I reviewed this one yesterday so you can find my full thoughts here if you’d like to know more.

What I plan on reading next:

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

I was delighted to get an ARC of this a while ago and have held off reading it until nearer publication but given that I’ll be focussed on Christmas reading soon I thought I’d sneak this one in this week!

Home Truths by Tina Seskis

This is another book that I really wanted to get to before publication day so I’m determined to pick this one up in the next day or two!

Finding Christmas by Karen Schaler

This is the next Christmas book I want to get to and I’m looking forward to this one. I read a book, Christmas Camp, by the author last year and loved it so I have high hopes for this one

The Secret Santa by Trish Harnetiaux

This is a festive thriller and I’m so keen to get to this one so I might pick this one up in the coming days too!

What have you been reading this week? I’d love to hear. And if you take part in WWW Wednesdays or This Week in Books please feel free to leave your link below and I’ll make sure to visit and comment on your post. 🙂

WWW Wednesdays (27 Nov 2019)! What are you reading this week? WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It’s open for anyone to join in and is a great way to share what you’ve been reading!

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