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juneandnick · 7 months

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After Everything movie. Or how to ruin a franchise.

I was glad when I learned we will have a fifth movie. Less when I saw the trailer. Much more less when I watched the movie. It is a disaster. Why did they do this?

After is about the story of Tessa and Hardin (Hessa). Not only one of them but both of them together. In the trailer itself After We Collided, Hardin confirms it:

"This is our story. Tessa's and mine."

Nevertheless the fifth movie ruined the franchise. A complete disrespect to Anna Todd (who wrote the books), Josephine Langford (the main actress) and the fans.

Source Photo: After Movie Instagram

**Possible Spoilers**

After Everything could have been the opportunity to see them:

- Meeting once and for all at Landon and Nora's wedding, - Settling together in an apartment in Brooklyn, - Trying to have a baby (fertility appointments and ovulation schedules), - Losing a baby at three months pregnant and to see how they handled this, - Becoming the parents of Emery and Auden.

I would have loved to see the scene where Hardin teach at Emery’s elementary school. (Even if he quitted after three days). To see him evolve as a successful writer as well as to see him in the relationship with his two fathers (Ken and Christian).

And notably also Tessa's career development: Leaving Vance again and her job as a waitress to go back to New York University before to become a wedding planner.

Non-exhaustive list. And everything I just mentioned is in the books.

The good thing about the film is that we see Hardin suffering from blank page syndrome. This actually could have been a good start before Hessa’s reunion.

Someone on Instagram suggested the couple could have returned to the lake with their children. If only. Just imagine the scene with the music by Justin Burnett.

Instead we got a movie about Natalie and Hardin. Natalie who appears what? Two or three pages in the books set. A girl who never was a love interest for Hardin. She was only a girl with who he had sex for a night, years ago. That is all!

In the book After We Collided, chapter forty-one, Hardin explains to Tessa:

I had a group of shitty friends back home. […] We would pick a girl for one another, and see who could f*** their girl first. When James saw the video of her (where Hardin f**ked her) he wanted to f** her himself. And when she turned him down, he showed everyone the video. And also: She was not a virgin.

When the video leaked of them having sex, in After Everything he is pissed off whereas it is absolutely not the case in the books. He himself admits to Tessa:

It was fun to me ... Well, not exactly fun but I did not care.

In the books, when Hardin meets Natalie, it happens, I do not know, two or three years after he did what he did to her. But she is still living in London, not in Lisbon. She has been engaged for two years to Elijah, pregnant and happy. She has no rancor against him when they meet around two minutes in the street.

She takes him in her arms and tells him she alrealdy forgave him. End of the story.

He did not buy her a house as he did in the movie. What is wrong with the writers?

Natalie is on screentime around 80%. They use what they shot of Hessa for the end of the fourth movie to finish this movie. They use Josephine’s face to sell After 5.

Source Photo: After Movie Instagram

In the book After Ever Happy, chapter sixty-two, Hessa did a break.

During this time, Tessa starts a new life in New York while Hardin worked on himself to be a better person. He stops drinking and fighting. He went to see a doctor (a mental health professional) and went to Alcoholics Anonymous. He did not stop when they splits again when she discovers his book which tells their story.

In the book Before by Anna Todd, part three, we can read:

"He was finally becoming the man he had never known he could be. His rage was channeled into his writing and he was becoming proud of the person he was. Tessa was the only reason his life turned out this way. He would fall at her knees and thank her every second if he could. [...] The two years they spent apart were not easy: Hell for her, eternal purgatory for him. […] He had an imaginary life with her and was waiting for her to come around and make it a reality. Seeing it as his only hope for a good life, he continued to show her that he was a better person than he used to be."

This is absolutely not what we see in the movie After Everything. All the things with Natalie, Lisbon are just craps. In the first book, when Hardin kisses Tessa for the first time, he never looked or slept or desired or flirted at another girl despite their splits. Yet in this fifth film, he fantasizes about the stewardess. Seriously?

In the book After Ever Happy, chapter seventy-one, Hardin confesses to Tessa: I have craved you every second of every f**king day. You have no idea how many times I have thought of you. [...] He writes in his first book (chapter seventy-five):

"She has to know that he has not given up. Tessa has to know that this man will always love her, and that he will be waiting for her for the rest of his life, whether she returns to it or not. He wants her to know that she was his savior and that he could never repay her for everything she has done for him and that he loves her with his entire soul and nothing will ever change that."

So, I do not understand the script of After Everything. Especially since the ending with the reunion with Tessa and Hardin is very and completely botched.

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Here is what happens, for example, in the book that we do not see:

At Landon and Nora's wedding, Hardin volunteers to accompany Tessa in the procession. And seeing him, she fights against her feelings.

As they go up the nave, they talk about the wedding decoration. Hardin teases Tessa about Robert. The latter is not her boyfriend but only a constant friend. Tessa teases Hardin with Eliza, a fan-turned-stalker. We also learn that Hardin has kept in touch with Carol (Tessa's mother) and that she came to a book signing.

In the film, this scene is summed up with:

- You really do have an eye for this stuff. - Thank you.

It is like that in all the following scenes.

Hardin finds Tessa in women’s bathroom, when she takes off his jacket, he asks her: Are you sure? She replies: I am always sure with you. He questions her the last time she had sex. For both of them, it was with each other. (In fact, they have never had other partners.) Really?, he queries. Yes, no one else. Only you.

He discovers that she is not wearing any panties. Tessa justifies that she had no choice with this dress. He exclaims: You are going to be the death of me, woman.

In the film, this is summed up as: Are you sure? She nods her head and they make love. (By respecting more or less few dialogues before and after this scene.)

It is true that this was already the case for the first four films.

The only difference is that this one is the last one. This ending is unfortunately a waste and that in my opinion it ruins the franchise. It is a disappointment.

Source Video: After Movie Instagram

It is sad, they do not shot scenes we can read at the end of After Ever Happy.

I think of the moment when Tessa tells Hardin the news, she is pregnant:

- Hi, baby, Hardin said into her skin. - Hi, Daddy, she whispered back to him. - Daddy, huh? His voice was thick, and she giggled, a silly and out-ofplace laugh. - Not the Daddy you are thinking of. Pervert.

I wish they wrote the scenes that I mention at the beginning of this post. And they write who did not exist in the book. For example about the first time Tessa and Hardin feel the baby kick or that they held their baby in their arms for the first time.

Getting pregnant took a long time for Hessa. The doctor said to Tessa: Not impossible, but highly unlikely. There were disappointments (negative pregnancy tests) and pain (miscarriage). I think it asks around three years to conceive Emery.

I am sad they do not shot the cute scene where their daughter Emery, 6 years old, slammed her bedroom door and Hardin goes to talk to her :

- What is going on with you, little one? - Addy is being a brat. I do not want to be her friend anymore. [...] - You have to learn to accept Addy and the way she can be a brat sometimes, the way that Mommy accepted Daddy being a brat sometimes. - You are a brat, too? her little voice questioned. [...]

I think also about a scene at the end of the book Before, after Auden's birth:

- I know this part of the novel. This is where you give me the heroic husbandly speech about how I earned my scars and I am much more beautiful for having done so. - No, Tess, this is where I show you how I feel when I look at you.

Instead, the writers decided to rewrite part of the story, invent ridiculous scenes in complete contradiction to the books. Above all, they made a more than secondary character, a suddenly important or even essential character for this last film.

During the two years break up, Hardin lives in Chicago (US) in the books whereas he lives at Camden (UK) in the movie. Why did they rewrite this? I do not know.

During this same break up, Tessa and Hardin always stayed in contact. They saw each other six times in the books. In the movie, Tessa says she did not see him for twenty-five months. When he texts her, when she replies, she writes: Move on.

Anna Todd had left enough material in her books to bring this franchise to a brilliant close. They had the opportunity to write a f**king great movie to close the franchise and they completely missed it. I am really upset and so disappointed.

The marketing team suggested that Hessa was getting married by distorting one of the posters. Even if at the end, Hardin is indeed wearing a wedding ring.

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Something made me smile in the movie, Hardin quotes a verse from the Bible that all Osblainers will recognize (something that does not happen in the book).

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

Moreover, the composer of the original soundtrack, George Kallis, wrote a piece of music called: Love Is Patient. In an interview for Movie Web, he said:

"There are super strong emotional moments with Tessa, and a captivating rendition can be heard in the first lush orchestral arrangement on Love is Patient - an ode to the undying nature of true love."

Special mention to George Kallis for his incredible work. ❤️ He composed the music for the last three films. Justin Burnett was the composer of the first two. ❤️

In any case, a very nice surprise to hear once again the song Us by James Bay ❤️. Music we can hear in the first film when Hessa dance at Ken and Karen's wedding.

I will conclude by simply saying that I respect those who appreciated this film. I hope you will respect my point of view.

Source Photo: After Movie Instagram

After books by Anna Todd

01 - After

02 - After We Collided

03 - After We Fell

04 - After Ever Happy

05 - Before (Prequel)

#after #hessa #josephine langford #hero fiennes tiffin #parenthesis #quote #justin burnett #george kallis #james bay #music #anna todd #books

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bombateazer · 1 year

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A proud Elsa with her Anna’s 🥹🥹

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#frozen #frozen London #frozen the musical #Elsa #Anna #Samantha barks #Stephanie McKeon #Emily Lane #Sarah O’Connor #Char Burnett #Rebecca Botterill #was going to do Gifs but I couldn’t find a video of Sarah’s first bows

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When Poetry Meets Music

There’s a natural affinity between music and poetry, each using sound to create meaning and texture. Even the genius of Goethe’s poem ‘Erlkönig’ becomes more powerful when Schubert uses its words to create a Lieder. I’m always thrilled if my work is performed or set to music. So I was delighted to hear my poem ‘Refuge’ transformed into a piece of music at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival,…

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#Anna Kisby #Bishopstone #Claire Booker #Clare Best #contem #contemporary poetry #Edinburgh Fringe Festival #JS Bach #Keats #Mary Noonan #new poetry #Nicola Burnett Smith #poetry inspired music #Sebastian Comberti #Shelley #Sylvia Paskin #The London Mozart Players #WB Yeats

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best-childhood-book · 9 months

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#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #stargirl #a little princess #the earthsea cycle #the phantom tollbooth #lux #black beauty #tuck everlasting #little house #smile

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p1325 · 11 months

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My book collection so far

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Edith Wharton - The Age Of Innocence

Jane Austen - Emma

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter

Charlotte Bronte - The Professor

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 1)

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Anne Bronte - Agnes Grey

Thomas Hardy - Far from The Madding Crowd

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 1)

William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (Part 2)

Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos - Dangerous Liaisons

Alexandre Dumas fils - The Lady of the Camellias

Henry James - Washington Square

Louisa May Alcott - A Garland For Girls

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 1)

Henry James - The Portrait of A Lady (Part 2)

Jane Austen - Lady Susan. The Watson. Sanditon

Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D’Urbeville

Edith Wharton - The Mother’s Recompense

Daniel Defoe - Moll Flanders

Henry James - The Wings of the Dove

Edith Wharton - The Customs of the Country

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Jane Austen - Juvenilia

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 1)

George Eliot - Middlemarch (Part 2)

George Sand - Nanon

Henry James - The Ambassadors

Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford

Thomas Hardy - Under The Greenwood Tree

Edith Wharton - Summer

George Sand - Indiana

Henry James - The Bostonians

George Eliot - Silas Marner

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 1)

Henry James - The Golden Bowl (Part 2)

Edith Wharton - The Twilight Sleep

Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley’s Secret

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton

Fanny Burney - Evelina

George Sand - Little Fadette

Emily Eden - The Semi-detached House

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley I

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley II

Daniel Defoe - Lady Roxana

Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest

Edith Wharton - The Cliff

Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady of Quality

Louisa May Alcott - Moods

Edith Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist

Frances Trollope - The Widow Barnaby (Part 1)

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angelxd-3303 · 9 months

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Sorry if this is like a weird question and I'm not exactly sure how to word it so bear with me, but do you have any tips on how to write more beautifully? Like poetically because you do it so well and I like it.

Yeah, that's it I love your art and I hope you have a nice day!

Not weird at all! I honestly think that the things I used to read impacted the way I write. I was the kind of person who would read classical novels, so I've found that I have kind of an old-fashioned way of writing. My recommendation? Read classics. The way authors like L.M Montgomery and Jules Verne wrote is so fundamentally different from modern novels, and it really brings a poetic edge to my own writing.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne inspired me with it's unique characters.

White Fang by Jack London and Black Beauty by Anna Sewell helped me look at the world through a different perspective.

I cannot overstate the influence that J.R.R Tolkien had on my writing style. The way he describes places down to the trees and mountains, in a way that you can picture it in your mind, is so inspiring.

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter is a wonderful story that celebrates the Cherokee culture, and the way nature and our place in it is described in such a beautiful way.

Another factor is the fact that I grew up studying the Bible. One could say that consistently reading a book over 6,000 years old and researching topics related to it tends to impact your writing, lol.

In short, my writing style has been built up for years. It was heavily influenced by the things I read, and I cannot recommend classic novels enough. Taking a page out of the books of the masters is a wonderful way to elevate both your personal vocabulary and your writing. Below is a list of my favorite no els, some of which I've mentioned:

1) Any Jules Verne novel. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, ect.

2) The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter.

3) White Fang by Jack London.

4) Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.

5) Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery.

6) The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien.

7) Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

8) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.

9) The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl

10) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Hope this helps!

#thanks for the ask!#book recommendations #read classics I'm begging #you will not regret it #writing tips

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Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket - List of the Ladies!

As promised below is a full list of all 130 women in the Hot Vintage TV Women's Tournament! Thank you to everyone who submitted their favs!

Just a brief bit of cleanup before the list. Thank you for all the submissions. If your submission didn't make it into the bracket or some of your propaganda isn't used know that I still appreciated the submission even if we weren't able to use it. Some things got cut for being outside the bounds of the tournament, some things got cut because the links were broken, etc. Anything I wasn't sure about got brought to family and friends for a second opinion. I did my best to keep as much in as possible but some things just ended up leaning too far outside of our criteria. If you notice some stuff that seems outside the criteria slip by it's because I tried to be very generous so as long as something wasn't obviously outside of our time period or rules I usually gave it a pass.

Anyway, I am working on the bracket as we speak and apologize in advance cause I don't think there's any way to make round 1 completely painless, as you'll see we have a pretty stacked line-up so I'm excited to see how things work out! Enjoy and see you all on Monday April 15th for round one of the Hot Vintage TV Women's Bracket!

Eartha Kitt

Dawn French

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Nichelle Nichols

Loretta Swit

Joan Bennett

Mary Tyler Moore

Yvonne Craig

Barbara Stanwyck

Lara Parker

Bea Arthur

Barbara Feldon

Rue McClanahan

Lynda Carter

Kellye Nakahara

Jan Smithers

Elisabeth Sladen

Diana Rigg

Janet Hubert

Carol Burnett

Jackée Harry

Betty White

Gillian Anderson

Anne Francis

Peggy Lipton

Eliza Dushku

Joan Chen

Terry Farrell

Gina Torres

Catherine Bach

Tina Louise

Carolyn Jones

Dawn Wells

Vivica A Fox

Mariska Hargitay

Deidre Hall

Aimi MacDonald

Carol Cleveland

Valerie Harper

Lisa Hartman

Julie Newmar

Fran Drescher

Melissa Joan Hart

Mira Furlan

Nana Visitor

Claudia Black

Courteney Cox

Sarah Jessica Parker

Jane Krakowski

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sherilyn Fenn

Eve Arden

Elizabeth Montgomery

Marlo Thomas

Lucy Lawless

Joanna Lumley

Barbara Eden

Kathryn Leigh Scott

Grayson Hall

Eva Gabor

Siân Phillips

Shannen Doherty

Lisa Robin Kelly

Debbie Allen

Lisa Bonet / Lilakoi Moon

Rachel Bilson

Karyn Parsons

Jane Seymour

Jonelle Allen

Julia Duffy

Lalla Ward

Miranda Richardson

Mag Ruffman

Penelope Keith

Carole André

Amanda Tapping

Lucille Ball

Nicole de Boer

Jeri Ryan

Penny Johnson Jerald

Katy Manning

Charisma Carpenter

Morena Baccarin

Katee Sackhoff

Janine Turner

Marcia Strassman

Farrah Fawcett

Kate Jackson

Jaclyn Smith

Lily Tomlin

Melissa Leo

Sabrina Lloyd

Joan Collins

Diahann Carroll

Jennifer Aniston

Pamela Anderson

Alexandra Paul

Chloe Annett

Hattie Hayridge

Thalía

Itatí Cantoral

Connie Booth

Linda Cristal

Doris Day

Angela Lansbury

Dorothy Provine

Vivian Vance

Suzanne Pleshette

Bea Benaderet

Gracie Allen

Amanda Randolph

Anna May Wong

Sheila Kuehl

Barbara Billingsley

Barbara Mullen

Phyllis Logan

Annette Crosbie

Geraldine James

Audrey Meadows

Peggy Ashcroft

Holland Taylor

Emma Thompson

Judy Parfitt

Francesca Annis

Mädchen Amick

Joely Richardson

Alex Kingston

Cicely Tyson

Lauren Graham

Kim Cattrall

#vintage tv stars poll #todays news #breaking news #tumblr polls #vintage tv

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magicaltear · 1 year

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How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

As found in the original post I saw by @macrolit

My total: 43/100

#tear-chan talks #reading and stuff #damn this is both more and less than I expected haha #this tells me I should probably read more Dickens #also some of these I read in Spanish so...

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From Anna's Instagram 📖

#anna burnett #ripper street #outlander #endevour

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transmutationisms · 10 months

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hello! ive seen you talk about astrology a few times and i was wondering if you had any books or article that historicise the practice. most of what i can find is very vague, and starting off from a 20th century definition (&not v critical). i'm interested in any period, im just trying to start to get a sense of its different uses & epistemological frameworks. thank you your bibliography work on here is very precious :)

ok there's a lot of writing on astrology so this is not comprehensive by any means. u should also keep in mind that historically (painting in broad strokes here) astrology and astronomy were not entirely distinct practices, both because the point of astronomical observations was often to make astrological predictions, and because most people practicing astrology were expected to at least present themselves as having the instruments and savoir-faire to generate their own astronomical data. the non-astronomer astrologer is kind of a special case. so, astrology will pop up in lots of texts about historical astronomy and cosmology, even if that's not the primary focus. i would honestly usually recommend such texts over ones that try to tackle astrology under the broader schema of 'occult sciences' (contested category).

misc astrology until 1800

"how to accurately account for astrology's marginalization in the history of science and culture: the central importance of an interpretive framework" by h darrell rutkin (early science and medicine 23: 3, 217–243. 10.1163/15733823-00233P02)

the interactions of ancient astral science, by david brown & jonathan ben-dov

sapentia astrologica: astrology, magic and natural knowledge, ca. 1250–1800, by h darrel rutkin

reading the human body: physiognomics and astrology in the dead sea scrolls and hellenistic–early roman period judaism, by mladen popović

"the effect of astrological opinions on society: a preliminary view" by s mohammad mozaffari (trames 16: 4, 359–368. 10.3176/tr.2012.4.04)

in the path of the moon: babylonian celestial divination and its legacy, by francesca rochberg

astronomy and astrology in al-andalus and the maghrib, by julio samsó

ptolemy's science of stars in the middle ages, ed. david juste, benno van dalen, dag nikolaus hasse, & charles burnett

the millennial sovereign: sacred kingship and sainthood in islam, by a azfar moin

astronomy and reformation, by robin bruce barnes

the limits of influence: pico, louvain, and the crisis of renaissance astrology, by steven van den broecke

medical astrology

popular print and popular medicine: almanacs and health advice in early america, by thomas a horrocks

astro-medicine: astrology and medicine, east and west, ed. anna akasoy, charles burnett, & ronit yoeli-tlalim

english almanacs, astrology, and popular medicine, 1550–1700, by louise h curth

"medicine and divination in india" by michio yano (east asian science, technology, and medicine 24, 44–61. jstor.org/stable/43151240)

health and healing from the medieval garden, ed. peter dendle & alain touwaide

paracelsian moments: science, medicine, and astrology in early modern europe, ed. gerhild scholz williams & charles d gunnoe, jr

national and cross-national contexts

chinese astrology and astronomy: an outside history, by xiaoyuan jiang, tr. chen wenan

the duke and the stars: astrology and politics in renaissance milan, by monica azzolini

taming the prophets: astrology, orthodoxy, and the world of god in early modern sweden, by martin kjellgren

"garga and early astral science in india" by marko geslani, bill m mak, michio yano, & kenneth g zysk (history of science in south asia 5: 1, 151–191. 10.18732/H2ND44)

"when missionary astronomy encountered chinese astrology: johann adam schall von bell and chinese calendar reform in the seventeenth century" by liyuan liu (physics in perspective 22: 2, 110–126. 10.1007/s00016-020-00255-z)

#astrology #book recs

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thefreelanceangel · 8 months

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Do the ages of your character(s) factor much into your creation and play of them? Do you tend to gravitate to younger, older characters or a myriad in-between?

Like many of us RP hobbyists who started in the wee years (my introduction into formalized roleplaying, i.e. D&D, was in high school) I skewed my characters young for a long time. When I believed life would all be sorted out and set by 26, starting a character off at 'just turned eighteen because I'm a horny teenager discovering all the possibilities of RP' seemed entirely reasonable.

-quietly stares in the direction of Savannah Keita Burnett, the true Baby's First RP Character haunting my past-

And those very, very young characters having massive skills, etc. made perfect sense because of course it did, it's RP! Just story! I can do what I want!

I didn't exactly age my characters up with myself because after that first couple of years fumbling my way around, I started creating characters with a much wider range of ages. (ilu Slate) Which didn't seem challenging at the time because oh, the glory of writing echo chambers where no one knows what a 50-year-old-man thinks because you're all 18-22. No one's going to look askance at characters acting wildly out of what's reasonable because no one reading it knows what's reasonable! Yay!

Now I decide on ages for characters once I know where the character is in their development first. C'allie couldn't be middle-aged when I began writing her; the kind of curiosity and energy she has is too much like what I recall from my late teens. Nineteen seemed like just enough time for her to have dedicated a few years to learning a trade, but still young enough to be so reckless, carefree, and emotionally detached.

She's grown up a bit, and of course, she's aged along the way. (C'allie is still, to my mind, a baby. Like my gods, she's so young.) And she's in that stage where she's got some things under control, has figured some things out, but there's a lot of wisdom she hasn't accumulated yet because she's just not old enough.

For a character like Anna, she's obviously not very young, but a definitive age for her isn't something that feels necessary to me. Largely because her flaws preclude her from accumulating any sort of wisdom or calming down with age and experience. However, Anna also carries the kind of "no fucks to give" vibe that I was so delighted to discover came as a gift when I turned thirty. (It was like a switch flipped, I stopped caring what my basic social group at large thought of me and dropped the effort I'd been putting in to appear a certain way.) She's definitely middle-aged.

Summer also isn't very young (thanks to her family) but she feels young, and so if I had to give her an age for people to use as a functional start for her, it'd be that "can't yet drink" age range. She's impulsive and doesn't think about consequences until they actually hit her, so in my experience with my age, that means she's still Very Young.

Narasen is in her late thirties, Renaux is in his mid-thirties, Solange is in her early thirties. Now if I'm making a character to toy around with, I basically default to thinking of them in their mid-thirties. That'll probably age up as I do, too.

#OOC #Prompts #I just laugh so hard when I find old character notes #and see how many eighteen year olds I had running around #like oh my gods look at this herd of children I had out committing war crimes

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