#Anna watches Poldark

[mightymizora]

I don't often talk on here about that many passions outside of D&D but inspired by a very brief exchange by @plethomacademia I want to talk very briefly about my great love for period dramas.

I'm a particular fan of Georgian era and Victorian era (but you know, every gal of a certain age had their brain chemistry altered by the 1995 Pride and Prejudice as Greta Gerwig knows well) so I wanted to talk very, very briefly about some of my absolute favourites (and whether the adaptation or the book has my heart)

Poldark. The books and the 1975 version, not the modern version (I liked the Elizabeth, wasn't a fan of the rest.) Poldark man. It's the ONE. Incredibly romantic, but with a real political agenda too around landowners rights and the changing role of the gentry. The books were hugely formative for me - and there's LOADS, so get them from your local library and enjoy.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. The book, and the delightful 1997 BBC adaptation. I love this book. It's one of those early novels where the narrator just fucking talks about whatever they want. And because it's set in the earlier Georgian era where people did whatever they wanted, it's super sexy. Tom is basically fucking his way through the West Country and London.

Vanity Fair. The book, I've not liked any of the adaptations I've seen. Becky Sharp, beloved. The first real antihero I read. I love her to the ends of the earth. All adaptations try and soften her too much for my liking but the 1998 and 2018 both have good strengths.

The House of Mirth. The book and the 2000's film. Just sublime.

Anna Karenina. One of my favourite books. Western adaptations of Russian novels never quite hit the mark but I have to give a shout out to the 2000 version with Helen McCrory because she really sold the sexual obsession to me in a way others didn't. Man, she was the GOAT.

North and South. The book is great. The adaptation really is superb. Probably the best on the list, one that I would rank just as highly as the novel.

Wives and Daughters. The book was unfinished so they filled in a lot of gaps in the 1999 adaptation starring Justine Waddell (who incidentally was in EVERYTHING for a while? Like every period drama cast her, it was bizarre, and then she just disappeared. This also stars Keeley Hawes who was also in everything, including the very underrated Our Mutual Friend.) I know this one isn't the best, but I'm very fond of it.

Middlemarch. Listen, the book is the greatest book of all time to me. You have to read it at least once. The 1994 adaptation does a great job but it will never be the book, whose strands come together so perfectly, which teaches us so much about the intricate webs of being human.

The Crimson Petal and the White. The book is extraordinary, and the 2011 adaptation tries its best but suffers a bit from some odd casting. Still it's very worth the watch.

I Claudius. Curveball lmao. But it's perfect. Utterly perfect. The cultural impact of the 1976 adaptation can't be understated. A masterpiece.

#period dramas #man the more I wrote the more I remembered I loved #but this will do

[funkymbtifiction]

Thinking” Women and “Feeling” Men

Hi, I recently watched the movie Firelight (1997) influenced by your blog posts. I really enjoyed it (although I found some parts of the plot quite unlikely). Just as you liked that the story brings a rational woman and an emotional and sensitive man. Being a 9w1 istj, I miss female characters who are the thinking type, especially in romance movies. Do you have any other recommendations for movies or series in this regard?

This type of interaction escapes a little from the interaction dynamics of the cloying clichés of current movies and books. Ps: I saw your music video dedicated to this movie. And I agree with you, this movie reminds us of Jane Eyre

Firelight is incredibly implausible (how is the wife still alive?), but... it's so passionate and sexy and romantic I forgive it. ;) I love it.

Finding thinker women/feeler men combos is difficult if you limit it purely to romance; there are some in other genres, though.

Elinor/Edward in Sense & Sensibility (ISTJ/ISFJ), Katniss/Peeta in The Hunger Games (ISTJ/ESFJ), Molly/Roger in Wives & Daughters (ISTJ/ISFJ), Helen/James from All Creatures Great and Small (ESTJ/ISFJ), Amanda/Graham in The Holiday (ENTJ/ESFP), Annie/Gabriel in The Patriot (ESTJ/ESFP), Caroline/Dwight in Poldark (ESTJ/ISFP), Anna/King Mongkut in Anna and the King (ESTJ/INFJ), Hermione/Ron in Harry Potter (ESTJ/ESFP), Estella/Pip in Great Expectations (ESTJ/ISFP), Mary/Matthew in Downton Abbey (ENTJ/INFP), Hayley/Elijah (The Originals), Gwendolyn/Daniel in Daniel Deronda (ESTP/INFP), Lois Lane/Clark Kent (STP/SFJ), Ginny/Harry in Harry Potter (ESTP/ISFP), Veronica/Archie in Riverdale (ESTP/ESFP), Angel/Michael in Redeeming Love (ISTP/ISFJ), Selene/Michael in Underworld (ISTP/ISFP). There don't seem to be any NTP women + feeler men in the archives.

#question #mbti

[sauerland-2001]

I feel like Chloe is what Inventing Anna tried and failed to be. I am absolutely in love with Erin Doherty, she’s the reason I’ve started watching this and she’s just as amazing as she was on The Crown. Added bonus is seeing Jack Farthing, because I’m always happy to see someone from Poldark, plus I love that he’s having a bit of a career moment right now.

#chloe #chloe amazon #chloe series #erin doherty

[woozapooza]

I’m sure this has been said before, but I see a really strong parallel between George Warleggan and Thomas Barrow. I’m not talking so much about what kind of people they are or what their role in the story is, but rather the attitudes their respective shows take toward them and their resulting status as fan favorites, at least on tumblr. I’m not gonna go into too much detail because I’ve only seen Downton Abbey once and it’s been almost two years since I finished it and I still have seven episodes left of Poldark and also because I am neither English nor a historian and don’t know much about how social class would have worked in England in these eras, but basically, both shows use these guys’ villainous characteristics to dismiss the actual injustices they face based on class in George’s case and both class and sexuality in Thomas’ case. Both shows seem threatened not just by these guys’ actual malice but by their subversiveness. Now, to be fair, I would say this is more egregious in Thomas’ case than in George’s case for several reasons. For one thing, George is more sinister than Thomas was even at his worst. For another, George has it easier than Thomas: he is very rich, he is straight, and his schemes have a much higher success rate than Thomas’ (lol). But what they have in common is that despite Horsfield and Fellowes’ uh...shaky track record when it comes to empathizing with these guys for the prejudice they face, fandom has—rightly—made up for what the shows lack and pointed out the biases inherent in how the shows construct them as villains. Yeah, George has like a scruple and a half. That doesn’t make it okay for literal aristocrats like Ross, Francis, and Agatha to be contemptuous of him specifically for his social climbing. Yeah, Thomas likes to sabotage people. That doesn’t mean it’s fair for Anna to encourage him not to “be at war with the world” without acknowledging that he was not the one who started the war and that doesn’t mean he should have to lose his ambition of leaving service.

I’m gonna change direction for a second and circle back to the differences between these guys, because even though I am definitely making a valid point about their similarities, the differences are kind of getting in the way of me putting that point into words. For George, obviously the main obstacle he faces—the only obstacle, really—is that he comes from a working-class background. For Thomas, the biggest burden is his sexuality, which obviously George doesn’t have to worry about. So while not being aristocrats connects them, their respective social class doesn’t have equal prominence in each of their identities. (I mean, maybe in-universe it would, but it doesn’t when it comes to their roles as characters, if that makes sense.) Plus, while both are extremely proud and unwilling to accept the social role given to them, they have different goals. George wants to integrate into the aristocracy. Thomas mainly just doesn’t want to be a servant (something neither George nor his father nor his grandfather ever was), but failing that, he at least wants to get promoted as high as possible. And this isn’t really relevant to my main point, but I want to add that I think what George ultimately wants is respect, whereas what Thomas ultimately wants is love, whether romantic or friendly. While both seem to seek status out of deep-seated insecurity, George’s ambitions are in service of what he really wants, whereas Thomas’ ambitions always seemed to me more of a substitute for what he really wanted. Finally, George is very elitist to an extent I don’t remember Thomas being. Basically, the reason for this digression of a paragraph is that I’m just trying not to overstate the similarities. There are a lot of valid reasons that Thomas gets more sympathy from his show and its viewers than George does. He’s a better person and he’s had much a harder life.

But just like you don’t have to be a good person to have the injustices you face to count as real injustices, George doesn’t have to be as sympathetic as Thomas for criticisms of Poldark’s portrayal of class to be legitimate. When the topic at hand is social prejudice, it doesn’t really matter whether either character was in the wrong when they did such-and-such thing. I’m gonna quote one of my favorite bloggers here (it’s me, I’m quoting myself): “Obviously the bad things that have happened to Thomas don’t excuse the bad things he’s done, but the reverse is true, too: doing bad things doesn’t make his own suffering not count.” The same is true for George, although I might in his case replace “suffering” with something milder. Have I overused “injustice” yet? The fact remains that both guys act out in response to being treated unfairly and then get vilified by the “good” characters—in Poldark’s case literal aristocrats and Downton Abbey’s case most frequently the less uppity and more heterosexual servants—in a way that almost completely erases the source of their anger, treating them as rogue individuals rather than addressing the societal forces that shaped them, forces to which many of the other, more “sympathetic” characters who criticize them literally aren’t subjected. (EDIT: I phrased that sentence misleadingly. When I say George is treated as a rogue individual, I’m not overlooking the other seriously elitist characters. I’m just saying that the show seems weirdly resisting to acknowledging the societal forces that shaped him.)

Side note: while thinking about this parallel it occurred to me that both shows have characters who, during the course of the show, rise in rank: Demelza and Tom. But both of them do so through marriage, and in neither case was it their intention. Demelza didn’t seem to care much about class as far as I recall, and Tom was a socialist, which is basically mutually exclusive with being a social climber. Idk, like I said, I’m not gonna pretend to fully understand how class works in either show’s context, and also I haven’t really thought this out, but I do think it’s interesting that both shows show “good” characters changing social status but not through ambition.

#Poldark #George Warleggan #Downton Abbey #Thomas Barrow #x #I have many thoughts #multifandom #Anna watches tv #Anna watches Downton #Anna watches Poldark

[exlibrisfangirl]

Tagged by @angel-in-a-big-blue-box 😘

I'm going to assume we're talking exclusively about romantic ships here, so...

1. First ship:

Han/Leia (Star Wars)... a looong time ago, in a galax- well, you get the idea. It was a long time ago, way before I knew what "shipping" was (and before the internet existed).

2. First OTP:

Sorry but all of my ships are OTPs. It’s OTP as in they are the ONE TRUE PAIRING FOR EACH OTHER….obviously. <- I am not even going to change a single word of this, because Anna is 100% CORRECT (but the answer is the same as above: Han/Leia).

3. Your ship since the first minute:

Fitzsimmons (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Henry Tilney/Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey)

Ross/Demelza (Poldark)

Jamie/Claire (Outlander)

Anne/Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables)

Aramis/Anne (BBC The Musketeers)

Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Rory/Jess (Gilmore Girls)

Olicity (Arrow)

Will/Djaq (BBC Robin Hood)

Captain Swan (Once Upon a Time)

Malec (Shadowhunters)

Danielle/Henry (Ever After)

there are probably more, I'm tired

4. Current favourite ship:

Derek/Chris (Teen Wolf)

Hardison/Parker/Eliot (Leverage)

Supercorp (Supergirl)

Lois/Clark (Superman & Lois)

Penelope/Colin (Bridgerton)

Nina/Matthias (Shadow and Bone/Six of Crows)

Wayhaught (Wynonna Earp)

Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

5. Ship that most of the fandom hates but you love:

I honestly can't think of any.

Now if you were to ask me about ships fandom loves that I... well, lol. You know what? I'm going to add that question, because goshdangit... I want to answer it!

5b. Ship that most of the fandom loves but you... don't:

Sterek (Teen Wolf)

Darklina (Shadow and Bone)

Merthur (BBC Merlin)

Arthur/Gwen (BBC Merlin)

Guy/Marian (BBC Robin Hood)

Bagginshield (The Hobbit)

Reylo (Star Wars)

Wolfstar (Harry Potter)

Bellarke (The 100)

6. You don’t even watch the show, but you ship it:

Destiel (Supernatural)

Flint/Silver (Black Sails)

Uh... no idea.

7. Ship you wish had a different storyline:

Literally every single one where one half dies and the other is forced to keep going <- BRO, SAME. There are so many of them, too. 😩

Every, single ship I ship from Babylon 5: Delenn/Sheridan, Susan/Talia, Susan/Marcus

Wash/Zoe (Firefly)

Mary/Matthew (Downton Abbey) <- that messed me up so badly I stopped watching, lol

Queliot (The Magicians)

Hotspur/Kate (Henry IV Part I, The Hollow Crown)

Olicity (Arrow)

Jon/Ygritte (Game of Thrones)

I know there are more, but my brain is just laughing at me now...

Then there are the ships where BOTH DIE:

Remus/Tonks (Harry Potter)

[Redacted because I realized it would be a major spoiler for one of my mutuals who is currently watching this series for the first time. *waves* You're welcome!]

Aaand then there's the ship where one of them permanently turns into a TREE:

Eretria/Amberle (The Shannara Chronicles)

Oh, and the one where Half Number 1 spends the rest of her life living in an alternate dimension with a CLONE of Half Number Two:

Ten/Rose (Doctor Who)

8. Ship you wish was canon:

Eretria/Amberle (The Shannara Chronicles)

Kahlan/Cara (Legend of the Seeker)

Supercorp (Supergirl)

Morgan/Garcia (Criminal Minds)

Derek/Chris (Teen Wolf)

9. Ship you wish had become endgame:

Rory/Jess (Gilmore Girls)

Choni (Riverdale)

Ten/Rose (Doctor Who) <- nO, TenToo does not count

Han/Leia (Star Wars) <- I was so upset that the sequels broke them up, I refused to watch after TFA, lol

10. Favourite ship that is endgame:

John/Aeryn (Farscape)

Sheridan/Delenn (Babylon 5)

Stydia (Teen Wolf)

Olicity (Arrow)

Captain Swan (Once Upon a Time)

Will/Djaq (BBC Robin Hood)

Aramis/Anne (BBC The Musketeers)

Fitzsimmons (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

Monrosalee (Grimm)

Malec (Shadowhunters)

Riker/Troi (Star Trek: TNG)

Jamie/Claire (Outlander)

Danielle/Henry (Ever After)

Faramir/Eowyn (LOTR) <- but honestly more the book version than the films

Xena/Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)

Anne/Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables)

John Thornton/Margaret Hale (North and South)

Elinor/Edward (Sense and Sensibility)

Fanny/Edmund (Mansfield Park)

Benedick/Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)

and probably lots more I am forgetting!

Tagging: @seven-oomen @takadasaiko @dreamersscape @mostly-vo1d @voidstilesplease @oddwriter @magic-multicolored-miracle @rebakitt3n @jchthys @faithfire @woozapooza @ardricael @shieldmaidenofsherwood and/or anyone else who wants to do it!

#angel in a big blue box #answered ask #tumblr friends #brotp: pass the rump roast please #the derek to my chris #etc. etc. #shipping #fangirl problems #this is my design #and the meme goes on #wayyyy too many ships to tag here

[mercurygray]

Weekend Workshop Idea - Setting a Scene

I don't know if anyone's sat through the end credits lately, but it takes a lot of people to make a movie.

After someone writes a script, you've got a location coordinator scouting for settings, a props coordinator,  a casting director, a costume department, a sound mixer, someone writing a soundtrack, a lighting supervisor, and probably someone doing all the digital wizardry that makes the whole thing look good.

As a writer, you're doing all of that for yourself. So no pressure, right?

This weekend, pick a movie (period dramas are good for this) and pick one scene to pay extra close attention to. 

Take a moment to notice the location, the props, the costumes, the background sounds, the lighting, how the camera moves between speakers or participants. Even though some of these things never really make it into the scene, they help with establishing a sense of place - or give your characters something to interact with or react to.

If you were writing this scene, how might you convey some of these things to your audience?

Let me give you an example: Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence is one of my favorite book adaptations, and one of the things I love about it is its devotion to the lavish late nineteenth century interiors described in Edith Wharton's 1920 prizewinning novel. It also features large sections of Wharton's text in the form of a voiceover. You can watch one of those scenes online here - the famous Beaufort Ball - and then read the full text on which it's based.

(People sometimes tell me that I’m a very cinematic writer and this might be why. You have all also just learned that I have a deep tendresse for Wharton’s prose and Knickerbocker New York.)

See below cut for a list of some of my favorite movies for this exercise!

I love all of these movies and TV shows for their immersive and highly textured settings, but you can really do this with any film.

Rome Outlaw King Tulip Fever The Libertine Harlots Master and Commander War and Peace Vanity Fair Emma (2019) Pride and Prejudice (2005) Poldark Jane Eyre Far From The Madding Crowd Little Women Anna Karenina The Age of Innocence The Alienist 1917 Downton Abbey Journey's End

Peaky Blinders Babylon Berlin Gosford Park The Highwaymen Atonement Glow Lord of the Rings (fantasy setting - still super textured!)

#weekend workshop #writing advice #writing exercise

[tallmadgeandtea]

I was tagged by @annawoodhull to do my top five female characters so here we go! I’ll be doing period pieces for this one!

1. Demelza Poldark- Poldark

How can you not love Demelza? Like she said herself, she is fierce, proud, steadfast, and true. I loved seeing her go from a kitchen maid to the baddest bitch in all of Cornwall, while still remaining true to herself. She has an outside perspective on things that the other characters don’t- she knows what it is like to grow up in poverty and cast aside. She cares so much about people, even if the people don’t deserve her- looking at you, Ross.

2. Anna Strong- Turn: Washington’s Spies

It was hard to pick just one of the Turn ladies, but Anna is a good choice. I liked Anna from the very first episode- how she almost immediately jumps into the cause and is willing to help in whatever way she can. And throughout the show, even as Anna lost her home, her town, and the men she loved- Abraham, Selah- she still wanted to help the cause. I felt for her when she was in camp as a follower and was treated unfairly- the way many camp followers are, but that’s for another post. I’d love to write from her perspective someday. I think it would be fascinating.

3. Elizabeth Bennet- Pride and Prejudice (1995)

I do like both versions of P&P, but I feel like I like this Elizabeth more, probably because I got to spend more time with her. I really felt for her when it came to her struggles with Mr. Darcy, her feelings for him, and her family. Jennifer’s portrayal was amazing. I need to watch this again soon to share more thoughts!

4. Marsali Fraser- Outlander

QUEEN! Queen shit! I love Marsali so much. I love her personality, her charm, and her strength. (That scene where she tells Brianna about her father is so good.) I’m glad that they gave her the storyline of being Claire’s assistant, and I’m really curious to see where that will go. I also love Marsali’s relationship with Fergus, they support each other and are very much in love, and IMO the healthiest relationship on the show. Marsali needs more screentime. And a spin-off. And everything good.

5. Caroline Penvenen - Poldark

(My beloved Lizzie Walker.) Is anyone surprised by this? No? Okay, just checking. Caroline, Dwight, and Demelza are the best characters on Poldark and I’m not taking any questions on the matter. I loved seeing Caroline go from a young, self centered heiress to an important member of the group. Her and Demelza are BFF goals. And her costumes! Ugh, I want all of them! And of course, I love her and Dwight together. Their chemistry and dynamic is amazing. I also love her wit, especially in s2.

Thanks for the tag, btw! I’ll be tagging @ms-march @culper-spymaster and whoever else wants to do it!

#amanda speaks #tag games

[saintmarkovia]

Recommend me some good period dramas. I’ve seen stuff like Downton Abbey, Anna Karenina, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Jane Eyre. I like the juicy regency vibes especially. Tried watching Poldark but I got kinda bored tbh.

#txt. #what do you guys like?

[demelza]

2019 in review 💓🌟 rules: answer the questions about 2019 and tag some people! i was tagged by @supervalcsi thank you!!! (also i thought it was ok to do it on my main)

top 5 films you watched in 2019 (that didn’t come out of 2019):

Suspiria (1977), dir Dario Argento

Styria (2014), dir. Chernovetzky and Mark Devendorf

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) dir. Ranald MacDougall

Anna (1967) dir. Pierre Koralnik

The Rider (2017) dir. Chloé Zhao

top 5 films of 2019 (i added this one bc i can’t just pick 5 movies):

Give Me Liberty dir. Kirill Mikhanovsky

Martin Eden dir.  Pietro Marcello

Matthias et Maxime dir. Xavier Dolan

Us dir. Jordan Peele

Midsommar dir. Ari Aster

top 5 tv shows in 2019:

Roswell New Mexico

Poldark (i can’t remember if i started in 2018 but it is such an important 2019 show for me)

Roswell

Being Human (even if it was a rewatch)

The Good Place/Legacies

top 5 songs of 2019:

Truth Hurts by Lizzo

Roses are Falling by Orville Peck

Djadja by Aya Nakamura

Lover by Taylor Swift

In Another Place by Bastille

top 5 books you read in 2019: tbh i barely read in 2019 :(

The 5 first books of the Poldark series by Winston Graham

L’Armée Furieuse by Fred Vargas

Sting by Sandra Brown

the rest wasn’t good

oops

5 good/positive things that happened to you in 2019:

visited my friend in Italy

saw some of my good friends from here

spent my birthday with the close fam and i was very happy

went to paris at least like 3 times and it was awesome each times

went to the outdoor cinema 

I tag: @fairytalespond @oetravia @dyadoforce @valentimanes @jumbled-nonsense @brekkers-inej @colins-farrells @priceofwarmclothes @allisonargents and anyone else who wants to do it!!

#tagged #you don't have to #apparently i didn't watch any fun movie in 2019 sjdhkfjg #i mean i know i did but they were just less good? #2019 is such a good movie year it makes me sick when i see the oscars nominations ykes #anyway you don't have to do it ofc

[tabloidtoc]

TV Guide, April 19-September 1

Cover: Fall Sneak Peek -- Poldark with Aiden Turner

Page 2: Contents 

Page 4: Ask Matt: Supernatural spinoffs -- Misha Collins and Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki and Alexander Calvert, Madam Secretary, Your Feedback, Coming Next Issue -- Fall Preview 2019 

Page 6: Hollywood Dispatch -- What to expect next season 

Page 7: TV Guide in Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood and Stranger Things 

Page 8: Milestone -- How Freaks and Geeks changed TV 

Page 10: Dog’s New Hunt 

Page 12: The Roush Review -- Succession 

Page 13: Why Women Kill, Preacher, David Makes Man 

Page 14: Cover Story -- Poldark 

Page 16: Fall Stars to Watch -- Cobie Smulders, Mike Colter, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tika Sumpter 

Page 17: Allison Tolman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the cast of Carol’s Second Act -- Jean-Luc Bilodeau and Ito Aghayere and Ashley Tisdale and Kyle MacLachlan and Sabrina Jalees and Patrica Heaton, Walter Goggins 

Page 18: Look Who’s Talking -- Kelly Clarkson 

Page 19: Marie Osmond, Tamron Hall, Jerry Springer 

Page 20: NFL Preview 

Page 22: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 1 -- Anna Paquin on The Affair 

Page 23: Monday, August 19 -- Beat Shazam, I Ship It, Grand Hotel, Jasmine Roth on Hidden Potential 

Page 24: Tuesday, August 20 -- Animal Kingdom, Pose 

Page 25: Wednesday, August 21 -- Grant Wilson on Ghost Hunters, Expedition Unknown, Face the Beast, Snowfall

Page 26: Thursday, August 22 -- Why Women Kill, Baskets, Alone, Friday, August 23 -- Ghostbusters double feature, Lizzo on Today, Racing Wives, The UnXplained 

Page 27: Saturday, August 24 -- TCM Summer Under the Stars: Shirley MacLaine, All Summer Long, Hitsville: The Making of Motown, The Vanilla Ice Project, college football 

Page 28: Sunday, August 25 -- On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Chesapeake Shores, Power, Ballers, major league baseball 

Page 46: Streaming Guide -- Netflix -- Hyperdrive, Jonathan Groff on Mindhunters, Falling in Love 

Page 47: Tom Cullen on Knightfall, Tiny House Nation, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 

Page 48: Prime Video -- Orlando Bloom on Carnival Row, The Addams Family, Hallmark Movies Now -- When Hope Calls 

Page 49: Hulu -- Mom, Jawline, S.W.A.T. 

Page 50: New Movie Releases

Page 51: Series, Specials and Documentaries 

Page 52: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 2 -- The Office in Smell-a-Vision 

Page 53: Monday, August 26 -- Tennis, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, Tuesday, August 27 -- Flipping Exes, Bring the Funny, Ambitions 

Page 54: Wednesday, August 28 -- Jay Leno’s Garage, Animal Babies: First Year on Earth, Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, Yellowstone 

Page 55: Thursday, August 29 -- Queen of the South, Argo: The Real Story of..., Reef Break, Knife or Death, Going for Sold, college football 

Page 56: Friday, August 30 -- Ghost Brothers: Haunted Houseguests, Ancient Aliens, Murder Board, Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music 

Page 57: Saturday, August 31 -- Injustice With Nancy Grace, Maigret, My One & Only, Fire Masters, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, college football 

Page 58: Sunday, September 1 -- Fear the Walking Dead, Inside the Actors Studio, Succession, The Righteous Gemstones, college football 

Page 84: Cheers & Jeers -- Cheers to To Tell the Truth, Orange Is the New Black, Pennyworth, Jeers to The Bachelorette’s Jed, Camille Grammer, Outlander outrage

#tabloid #poldark #aiden turner #supernatural #misha collins #jensen ackles #jared padalecki #alexander calvert #Madam Secretary

[kathleen-kelly]

2018

My 2018 highlights! 

Best of 2018: becoming close friends with some people I work with, going to Disney World in September, getting so see the reputation tour in Atlanta in August, getting to spend so much time with my family. 

Worst: My mother being hospitalized and seriously ill, work stress/working so much overtime

Movies (no specific order and I haven’t seen any awards season movies yet. Be my friend on letterboxd! ) 

Mary Poppins Returns 

Christopher Robbin (I love Disney I can’t help it) 

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before 

Fantastic Beasts Crimes of Grindelwald 

Crazy Rich Asians

Set It Up

A Quiet Place

Red Sparrow 

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Phantom Thread

Television (I watched so many good shows this year!)

Poldark

Black Mirror (Seasons 1-3)

RHONY (don’t judge)

The Great British Baking Show aka Bake Off

The Handmaid’s Tale S2 

Peaky Blinders (just the first two seasons)

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

The Haunting of Hill House 

Daredevil S3 (😭😭😭)

CB Strike 

I failed at reading again, so I don’t have enough books to make a real favorites list, but I loved Lethal White by Robert Gailbraith (Strike book 4- i’m so predictable), and I’d also recommend  If You Come Softly by Jaqueline Woodson. 

Songs (I tried to pick newish songs, but I didn’t listen to a ton of current music this year tbh)

High Hopes by Panic at the Disco

Consideration by Rihanna 

Attention by Charlie Puth (no judgement!)

Gold Guns Girls by Metric

Babe by Sugarland (feat Taylor Swift)

Shallow from ASIB 

GRRLS by AViVA  

Wolves by Marshmello and Selena 

The Other Side from The Greatest Showman

Battle (Let’s Go) by Taylor Swift 

Podcasts

Popcast - the music podcast with the most personality! Billboard’s podcasts are so dry. Popcast is so much fun by comparison and I really enjoy the discussion. I also like RS’s podcast but not quite as much. 

Anna Faris is Unqualified (depends on the episode, and sometimes I skip the caller portion, but it’s such a sweet show and can be really funny)

Empire podcast- my favorite movie podcast. I’ve been listening forever, so I feel like I know all the hosts and listening to them bicker and joke with each other is a bright spot in my week. I particularly love the Spoiler Specials

Little Gold Men - Vanity Fair’s awards show podcast. I’m newish to this one, but I enjoy it! 

Binge Mode: Harry Potter -- my obsession for most of 2018. It’s so incredibly well done. I don’t know how they do it. 

Up First NPR - I try to listen to this every week day! 

Pilot TV podcast - this is from some of the same people as Empire’s podcast. It’s new, so it’s not as smooth as Empire yet, but I like the hosts and enjoy the discussion. 

#lists #2018 #me

[annastrxng]

Is finally sitting down to watch Poldark season 3 and Anna is like please don’t kill her favorites because of @doctordwight & @thestrongdove XDD  And Samuel is like don’t kill my wife @softerthanthesun 

#doctordwight #I hope you are well #ooc

[woozapooza]

Weird how the show is called Poldark when the hero’s surname is Enys...?

#I just watched the Duel Episode #but this post had already been conceived #Poldark #Dwight Enys #Dwight tag #Anna watches Poldark #Anna watches tv #x

[isabeldrakeblog]

WEEK 2

Last week was more recreational, this week was more focussed on work and it was great to get really stuck into things. We had a virtual band meeting on Sunday which was actually really useful. Good to catch up with Harry and Matt and to hear that they’ve been doing a few bits to the tunes. We have realised we now have quite a few songs nearly there, compositionally, which is exciting as it means we can start to think about getting an hour’s set together and playing live. We thought we might add a cover to our set as we probably won’t have enough material to fill a whole hour. We have played so many covers over the years but Harry came up with an interesting suggestion of ‘Great Gig in the Sky’ and this would go well with our tunes. However it will be challenge for us all to learn. See below for a live version...

I’m quite excited about learning this as its a real challenge for me which means I could learn a lot from learning this! Tom has also finalised the structure of another tune which is really exciting as it’s been one that has been in the pipeline for quite sometime and it sounds brilliant! It really is so satisfying to the songs come together and improve week after week. 

I’ve also had more time and space to make waves with the art for the band. I think I might have come up with a logo idea and an album cover which is exciting and a real relief. I have learnt a lot through this process of patience, leaning into discomfort and keeping going even when it feels like I can’t create anything that looks good and the imposter syndrome creeps in. I had a great chat with my dear friend Anna this week about feeling the fear and doing it anyway as a way of expanding and growing and that if you don’t do this at least sometimes this will never happen. We also talked a lot about the general heaviness that is surrounding us all at the moment with the pandemic, the killing of George Floyd and the rage surrounding it from both sides of the political spectrum. Anna said to me that it feels like the world is going through a breakthrough which is always presented as this beautiful, spiritual experience but that often its messy and heavy and scary and hard but they are growing pains. It seems we must go through the dark to reach the light. 

Talking of BLM, Tom and I attended a protest in Brighton to support the cause and it was glorious, powerful and overall, incredibly peaceful. 

I’ve been reading a lot recently. I’ve just finished a book by Eric Hobsbawm on the dual revolution between 1789 and 1848. I really don’t know much about this period but I became intrigued by it after watching Poldark and reading Romatic Outlaws as it seems a time where a lot of the ideologies and ideas were very similar to the issues that are being brought to light today. It was also the very beginning of Capitalism and I wanted to find out more about how Capitalism arose in the world. I did find these things out although it did make me realise how little I know about the world as well! One thing that really struck me was that the Industrial Revolution was more or less founded on the Slave Trade. A very interesting thing to learn just as BLM issues are blowing up around the world and many people are calling for a complete overthrow of the system. Knowing what I now know, I can see why. Another thing I found interesting is how complicated politics were even back then with several different groups advocating slightly different ideas about how society should be run and also how many people wanted to revert back to the traditional feudalist regimes. It struck me how few people actually benefitted from the Industrial Revolution and how much the poor were forced into the city by regulation change, new acts brought in and taxation. I also found out a bit more about the emergence of classical and romantic ideologies which is a topic I am very interested. 

After finishing this book I read around the subject, looking up things that were mentioned online and re-reading chapters from various books. It has given me a really good context of how modern society began and I have a few conclusions to make at this point, not to say these are entirely correct but from my reading and curiosity this is what I now believe. That I believe we may be entering the age of maturity where there is a balance between romantic and classical ideologies and being guided by emotions and being guided by reason. I think I believe this is the best way to live your life, somewhere in the centre. Society suffers when women and other minority groups’ rights are taken away. Take the French Revolution for example, this began on a good note and women were given many rights that would have been unheard of anywhere else, however, it soon turned violent and tyrannical and women’s rights were entirely taken away. To make good art you must also live life by taking a few risks along the way. Your ideas may be unpopular and seem ridiculous but it does not always mean you are wrong.

On Wednesday, I went on a wonderfully wet walk. These walks can be some of my favourite as it feels like you have the whole place to yourself more than usual and it’s much easier to park! I also saw a number of gorgeous wild flowers. 

[ladylannister95]

Favorite female TV characters meme

I was tagged by @lionessonthethrone. Thank you very much! Great subject for the tag game, this <3

It took me some time bc I couldn’t decide (and still I’m not sure) which women shall I choose. I guess I’m supposed to write ten of my fave females, so here you go: 

1. Morgana (Merlin) - I watched the show mostly for her.

2. Demelza (Poldark) - she’s amazing. She’s more awesome and deserving to be on this list than most of the noble ladies here. She’s totally the best character in Poldark series.

3. Anna (Frozen) - she’s basically me, only extrovert, saying all that stupid stuff out loud :)

4. Ilithyia (Spartacus) - little vicious beautiful scheming wench <3 she’s ideal <3 <3 the scene where she killed her husband’s lover and the sex that followed when the dead body was still there and blood everywhere... I think that was the hottest hetero scene I saw *.*

5. Mary Crawley, Rose MacClare, Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess (Downton Abbey) - (I know it’s cheating to put them all in one point but I can’t decide which of these three I adore the most and I need more space for other amazing characters as well)

6. Carina Smyth (newest Pirates of the Caribbean) - the woman of science :D

7. Lucrecia (Áquila Roja) - she certainly knows what she wants. And is not afraid to take it.

8. Luna Lovegood, Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter) - (cheating still but the same problem again)

9. Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones), Lucrezia Borgia (the Borgias) - (yes, so much cheating but have you heard these theories Lannisters are patterned on Borgias?)

10. Bayan Khutugh (Empress Ki) - looking and pretending being so cute and weak and in reality being the most cruel of them all, my beautiful monster

I tag: @clementine-starling, @pocalda, @gaolcrowofmandos, @ladygagalion, @berthulina1314, @tenderlydestroyed, @marietudors, @akasztofaviragpor, @boltxn-queen, @gryvon

#I would add aredhel #and cirilla #but the tag said from tv #fave females #love them all #tagged

[moon-yean]

Hi, I was just wondering if you had gif'd any other German period dramas, like 'Das Sacher'?

Hi! Not as much as I would like to! I’ve gif-ed a few pan-European period dramas like Anna Karenina (2013) or War and Peace (2007) that feature German actors and I also made a set of Die geliebten Schwestern and want to do some more of that movie. I’m planning on gif-ing Maximilian - Das Spiel von Macht und Liebe; I’ve already got all the episodes but haven’t had time to watch it yet. I’ll also definitely gif Babylon Berlin once it airs and I find downloads because I’m super excited about it. And I still want to do some gifs of Mordkommission Berlin 1 because I love Antje Traue and enjoyed that TV movie. I missed Das Sacher but I found a download so I might make a set or two and take requests, if people are interested.

So the short answer is: I’m now starting to get into it :)

(PS: I know I ought to make a tags page, I’ve been meaning to for some time. This started out a year ago as a very Black Sails/Poldark-heavy blog and I’ll continue to gif all those shows but I’m trying to branch out and gif some more German/European period dramas that are not as present on here otherwise.)

#ask #reply #hotchnrr