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Screenshots of Rooney Shepard (They/Them) in Cyberpunk 2077 (19/X)

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evenstarfalls · 2 years

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Thinking about Pip and Rooney

#read the short story from the us edition today #🥰🥰🥰#i love them so much #rooney bach #pip quintana #loveless alice oseman #loveless #alice oseman #osemanverse

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chisaikoring · 2 years

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hey yall top tip if a company uses a font with its kerning slightly larger than default ALWAYS go for a number easy to remember, like 5. the company is NOT going to choose something like 4.67 because it'll be harder to keep it consistent that way. and if you can't afford photoshop but can afford a one time payment, like procreate, procreate supports importing .ttf and .otf files for fonts. you can just open files and open the file, then share it to procreate. continue editing my friends

#THIS IS ABOUT TWST EDITS #btw the dialogue font is rooney sans light #names & titles font is boucherie flared #anyways have fun editing my twisted friends #shoutout to all of the tumblrs that find the fonts #i cant promote piracy in the post so ill hide it in the tags: if you have the patience use graphicex #however do NOT USE THE FONTS COMMERCIALLY #that is a CRIME

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lesfir · 10 days

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Astarion past of corrupt Magistrate

A bud that didn't bear fruit, not one that was cut off.

There was no time to realised in the game that Astarion was a very, very bad, corrupt elf in power. The beginning of the story hasn't been rewritten, the key idea remains - for April 2024.

I have a couple words and sources for it. The latter I found recently, and it has a story of its own. Sources from Larian's internal kitchen is extracted by hacker methods.

Let's start with just that In the fall of 2023, the Larian Discord leaks happened. Leaks of Welch chat, Larian's narrative designer (in the past), and co-writer of some scenes with Astarion. As of April 2024, the narrative designer of the romances. You can read about their unprofessional acts here. For me, it also plays a role that it's not even their character, it was worked on long before them, another author and creator. So that kind of statement who understood what about the character is so... ridiculous.

And the question arises why we should trust the word of a very unprofessional person? That's right. Because: 1. These are not their personal words, interpretations and "I feel like". It says what Larian was planned for Astarion's story, but didn't have time to show. 2. Welch came to work at Larian well after Early Access. This backstory of Astarion was already told before Larian hired Welch.

The other few sources that tell of Astarion's backstory. Their sequence and nuances are also important.

1 - Info from the publication VICE The year is 2020, February 28. First presentation of the Baldur's Gate game by the hands of Swen Vincke. Astarion already Astarion as he is, white hair, fangs, a vampire spawn. (no horns and no tail) I watched it all and dont find that Swen is no information about Astarion's past. I don't think the publication is running a fake. So I'm assuming this is a site exclusive-lure about the key points plot of the game.

„A disgraced nobleman who used his position as a local magistrate to serve a vampire clan by feeding them prisoners, he was eventually too corrupt even for them and was effectively sent to serve as the personal slave of a powerful vampire”

I haven't seen it abandoned. After a while, the artbook confirms corrupt-taste for power-past.

So, a person who has been following the story closely notices that some of the information is incomplete. However, " feeding them prisoners" could very well be a plot twist for new playrs, and it should be left out in the exclusive. All the more reason: • Corrupted elite - used his position of magistrate • Taste for power. Desires, eternal life - for luxury, influence, eternal beauty, more power, vampires. • How vampires came to be? Why do vampires need a magistrate? - prisoners, it's easy to take outcasts for food. They also didn't forget to mention decadence. There is no reason for a person to think that a key moment in history has gone away.

2 - Artbook I found the first mention in winter 2022 (edit if I find it earlier) Baldurs Gate 3 Collectors Edition Pre-order for the physical collection, including artbook $269.99 Next February 2023. It mentioned that BG3 Digital Deluxe Edition will be available to Early Access buyers. With this artbook. That is, the information passed from edition to edition. Weird, giving irrelevant information that will confuse you for free! Yet you have to pay for the physical irrelevant information, 270 bucks. Did Larian give any warning about this? 270 for non-canon. Enjoy the game.

Astarion. Decadent and Dangerous Two hundred years ago, Astarion was a corrupt elite of Baldur’s Gate with a taste for power and a hunger for eternal life.

3 - unprofessional employee revealed the internal workings of the kitchen and what Larian, as an entire company - that's Astarion's author, Stephen Rooney, actors, animators - didn't have time for previously mentioned Astarion backstory. Confirmation of what was already known.

escuisi: I've been thinking about how in act 1 there seems to be a setup for more info on the gur incident/cazador conveniently being there to turn him but then theres no reference to it later on? Like, Astarion's all mysterious about it in a way that clearly implies he did something shitty we would find out later ("they had taken issue with a ruling i had made") but its never expanded.

Baudelaire Welch (larian): lol I did want to more fully explore the 'ACAB * definitely * applies to Astarion' angle but there wasn't really time for it.

The concept of "learning not to be racist" I am a building is shot down, probably by other writers. Not copstarion, that predates Welch. Of course. It would have taken two more acts - just an understanding. Overall it would still look... cheap and strained. The only evil male companion in this game. Astarion is about the darker sides of humanity, balance of fun and darkness. He must be asshole about something. The recent "I'm sure" posts are already more of a personal piece. Doesn't invalidate the information gained, which is verified by past sources.

Headcanon is a fan fiction that never hasn't been mentioned in any way in the media. Which there is no basis for, fiction. Like the dark-haired Astarion, mortal eye colour, for example.

The entire 1st act is precisely done and presented in 2020 with Astarion's backstory - all his approvals, reactions, all the lines. 2022 winter - pre-order of the physical edition with this artbook is open. The artbook that is promised as a gift to players by EA in February 2023 half-year before the release in August 2023 also confirms and includes information about the corrupt past. Approvals, most reactions, some of which are remade in PAD format, but not cut remain in the August 2023 release. The game gives hints and later coquettishly silent. Nothing logically erases this backstory of Astarion in the game And then in autumn 2023 there is a leak where it turns out that there was not enough time for Astarion's backstory.

The artbook is the grail. It always has been in my case in any fandom. In an artbook, every word is very precious. These are the key ideas author for the reasoning of the story. Maybe it's not the fans, but the way Larian treats the information he's given for thought. I find their pitching a clumsy. -- wasn't enough time to do -- abandoned the idea and cut it out are different things. If the wording was: we didn't have time, so we cut off, so this story is no longer relevant - then yes. Now it's: we didn't have really time to fully explore (emphasized the other part, this part was left unrevealed). For me, this story of Astarion levitates in the air, not gone, but not realized either.

There's nothing in the game plot that contradicts that Astarion's past was exactly that. Astarion would never say he was a corrupt arsehole when he wants Tav to help him, though with his barbarians, "raising the dead is easier than catching slaves, don't care slaves or building material", luxury, wealth and power that Astarion remembers in the his original, "mercy, please", vagabonds... Vice versa. It's all coming together.

That's the puzzle. Judge for yourself. Because the main thing that's missing: definiteness. For me, zero reasons to rate that this backstory is burned at the time of the release of the Bladur's Gate 3 game and for April 2024. It's would be hidden as a secret inside the story. A bud that didn't bear fruit, not one that was cut off.

Now Larian is doing a new artbook I really hope the situation is at least clarified. Stephen Rooney has left Larian, he said that in the spring of 2024, so it was always going to be an issue now. Unless of course they do CTRL+C CTRL+V.

Here.

#astarion #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #baldurs gate 3 #Magistrate Astarion #larian critical #bg3 critical #BG3 Early Access

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galedekarios · 3 months

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Sorry to bother you. You're the most information-gathering blogger I know, and also a true lover of Gale. So, even though I can only use a translator, I still want to join the discussion. Tim did use 'she' to refer to the writer. A Twitter user claims to have seen the writer of Orin and Gale, and I found a writer who seems to fit all these clues. Her profile is:[@sulkymoanyface Murder mommy, wizard wrangler, pigeon fancier. She/Her.] So, perhaps Gale has two writers?

thank you for your message! 🖤

that's very interesting and it might as well be true. from what little we know of the writing process, we do know that some of larian's writers were moved to different parts / characters and/or worked on multiple parts of the story / characters.

what i was able to find as far as writers go was this:

"sarah baylus was at first assumed to be gale’s writer since because she touched on some of the characters more in-depth in this pre-release videos.

she was asked on twitter if she wrote for gale, and she said that she does not and also clarified who gale’s writer is:

“Jan Van Dosselaer. He isn’t on social media, too busy doing wizard things.”

i sadly can’t find the tweet to provide a screenshot for you since her account appears to have been deleted since then. the most i could find is this reddit thread now.

edit:

the other writers are so far as we know may be:

Naaber - Chrystal Ding The Dark Urge - Baudelaire Welch Halsin and Shadowheart - John Corcoran Karlach - Sarah Baylus Minthara - Adam Smith Astarion - Stephen Rooney Wyll, Laezel and Kagha - Kevin VanOrd Gale - Jan Van Dosselaer Alfira and Auntie Ethel - Rachel Quirke"

#ch: gale dekarios #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #text: asks

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livwifeofkarl · 2 months

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15 QUESTIONS FOR 15 FRIENDS

I was tagged by @jessystardust Thanks for the tag. 😊

Are you named after anyone?

Yes, Hunter Tylo

When was the last time you cried?

This morning

Do you have kids?

Not unless you count fur babies

What sports do you play/have you played?

I played soccer in elementary school. Other than that not much. I have terrible hand eye coordination. So any sports that involves throwing or catching I’m useless at. I do enjoy rock climbing though.

Do you use sarcasm?

Nooooo never.

Yeah, quite a bit.

What is the first thing you notice about people?

Typically their smile

What’s your eye colour?

Green

Scary movies or happy endings?

Scary movies with happy endings

Any talents?

Ha, I wish. Closest I can think of is that my brain just traps useless trivia whether I want it to or not. Oh I’m also decent at the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game. I used to play that all the time with my friends back in high school. Not really a talent but a fun party trick.

Where were you born?

Lafayette, Indiana

What are your hobbies?

I really enjoy graphic design, so I enjoy making edits in my spare time. Trying to teach myself photoshop so I can make decent gifs. I also make custom album art for my own playlists that I create for characters or ships.

I do a little bit of needle felting

I enjoy reading and playing video/table top games

Do you have any pets?

Yep, 4 cats. Link, Shuri, Jughead and Rooney

How tall are you?

5’3”

Favourite subject in school?

Technical theatre, took it all fours years of high school

Dream job?

Doing some form of graphic design in Hollywood, something along the lines of movies posters.

I tag you all with love and no pressure at all to join in! (If you’ve already done this no worries,j ust ignore 😁): @meluli @cakewith50oranges @ofmd-ann @piratecaptainscaptainpirates @spirker @soupbtch @forpiratereasons @gentlebeardsbarngrill @hang-on-lil-tomato @celluloidbroomcloset @bizarrelittlemew @blakbonnet @manesalex @mxmollusca

#me #personal

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filtercoffeeonsteroids · 2 years

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2022 TBR 🧿 (continuing in 2023)

On Earth, we are briefly gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (🦄)

Twisted lies - Ana Huang (🦄)

Gender Queer: a memoir - Maia Kobabe (🦄)

Lanka's princess - Kavita Kané (🫀)

Forty rules of love - Elif Shafak

All my rage - Sabaa Tahir (🫀)

Redacted : poems - Trista Mateer (🦄)

She gets the girl - Rachael Lippincott, Alyson Derrick

Pride & prejudice - Jane Austen (🌷)

How much land does a man need? - Leo Tolstoy (🦄)

Terribly tiny tales, Vol. 1 (🦄)

God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Secret History - Donna Tartt (🫀)

The Forest of Enchantments - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (🫀)

Love story - Erich Segal (🦄)

Raavan : Enemy of Aryavarta - Amish Tripathi

The love hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood (🦄)

No Regrets - Kaveree Bamzai

Great Goddesses - Nikita Gill

Beautiful World, Where are you - Sally Rooney

Crying in H mart - Michelle Zauner (🫀)

Poetry is undead - Trista Mateer

Artemis Made me do it - Trista Mateer (🫀)

Poems I sleep next to - Shelby Eileen (🦄)

Beach Read - Emily Henry

Menaka's choice - Kavita kané

Loveboat Reunion - Abigail Hing Wen (🫀)

One last stop - Casey McQusiton

The Knockout - Sajni Patel (🫀)

A Promised Land - Khadija Mastur

Daughter of the Moon Goddess - Sue Lynn Tan

Cheer up: Love and pompoms - Crystal Frasier ( 🦄)

Tahira in bloom - Farah Heron

A Good Girl's guide to murder - Holly Jackson (🦄)

The invisible life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab ( 🫀)

Rivals (American Royals #3) - Katherine McGee (🦄)

It ends with us - Colleen Hoover (🦄)

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Normal People - Sally Rooney (🦄)

Graceful Burdens - Roxane Gay (🦄)

I want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki - Baek Sehee (🫀)

The fault in our stars - John Green (🦄)

When the stars wrote back - Trista mateer (🦄,🫀)

Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney (🫀)

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid (🦄)

Flower crowns & fearsome things - Amanda Lovelace (🦄)

The Bitter End - Kaliane Faye (🦄)

Rukmini - Saiswaroopa Iyer

Kate in waiting - Becky Albertralli

Simon vs the homosapiens agenda - Becky Albertralli (🫀)

The Princess saves herself in this one - Amanda Lovelace (🦄)

The Song of Achilles (🫀)

It Starts with Us - Colleen Hoover (🦄)

Here's to hoping I actually read all of them :')

(I have removed books that I know for a fact I will not read, so this is an edited version of the list! Also, finished TSOA today (18/4/23) and The Invisible life of Addie LaRue on 24/4/23 and absolutely fucking bawled, so I decided to add it to this tbr list to honour it :'), not to mention that I actually had planned to read it for a long time, just didn't include it in this list 😭)

( read in 2022 - 🦄, currently reading - 🌷, read in 2023 - 🫀)

I'll be marking off the books when I finish reading them/ I'll be adding more books when I find myself wanting to read them!

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tickle-beans · 1 year

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BETTER IN STEREO

Part One

@trrickytickle thank you for convincing me to write content that has nothing to do with the theme of my blog /sarcasm

“Maddie?” came a voice from outside the door.

Maddie Rooney wiped her tears from under her glasses and cleared her throat.

“Yeah?”

“It’s Liv, can I come in?” Asked her twin twin.

“Yeah,” Maddie agreed.

The door clicked open and Liv Rooney stepped into the room, always so much more well dressed than her sister. Liv wore dark boots and a teal dress with a light blue denim jacket on her shoulders. Maddie never liked dresses, she preferred the basket ball shorts and tank top she was wearing.

They were different and that made her scared to get close to her like she used to be, what if her sister wasn’t the girl she remembered?

“I’ve been home for a week and you have barely said anything to me.” Liv sat next to her.

“I’m sorry I just don’t really know what to say Liv,” Maddie admitted and fiddled with her tank top.

“I’m still your sister,” assured Liv.

Maddie covered her mouth, avoiding eye contact with her older twin.

“Remember who used to come visit you when you were upset?” Liv grinned.

Maddie smiled from behind her hand, she remembered alright and she knew it was going to happen again. She didn’t mind being tickled even though she played the part that she didn’t. Maddie remembered the various tickle fights when they were little.

She missed those days and thought that maybe it could be that way again.

“Does Maddie Rooney need a visit from the tickle monster?” Liv uttered the sentence that sent goosebumps across her arms. Liv held up her manicured nails wiggling them as if they were claws.

Claws that really, really tickled.

Maddie shook her head trying not to giggle, but poked the bear by holding the edge of her tank top up exposing a bit of her bare skin.

“Here she comes!” Liv pounced, digging her nails into Maddie’s sides. Maddie howled and squirmed, curling into a ball.

“Just as ticklish as the day I left you!” Liv taunted and spidered her fingers up and down the ribcage of her sister. Maddie was squeaking and squealing and loving every second of it.

“Does that tickle hm, what about here? Here? Here?” Giggled Liv poking and prodding her sisters sides in various spots.

Liv poked her belly and Maddie’s squeal tuned briefly to a higher pitch.

“Aww I see your tickle spot still hasn’t changed!” Liv pinned her sister to the bed.

“You know what comes next right?” Liv lifted Maddie’s tank top to her ribs exposing her belly.

“Nohooo stahaaaaay awahaaaay!” Maddie shook her head back and forth in laughter sucking her belly in as best as she could.

Liv planted her lips on Maddie’s belly and blew a massive raspberry into her bare skin, Maddie screamed arching upwards as a million ticklish vibrations sounded all across her belly.

Liv laughed at her sister and dug her nails into Maddie’s belly, Maddie bucked forward curling up and squeaking as if she were a mouse.

After a couple more minuets of Maddie shrieking and squirming as her sister worked her nails across her belly, Liv stopped and let her sister catch her breath.

Maddie sat up and pulled her tank top back down.

“Missed you sis,” Maddie for the first time, looked her sister in the eyes.

“Missed you too,” agreed Liv and then wrapped her twin sister in a hug.

Written by, tickle-beans

Edited by, tickle-beans

Produced by, tickle-beans

“Y’know,” said Maddie after the hug was over with.

“I remember you being almost as ticklish as I am, and the same tickle spot too?”

Liv’s eyes widened.

“How bout the tickle monster gets a taste of her own medicine?” Maddie wiggled her fingers making her way towards Liv.

“I-I’m not ticklish anymore!” Liv had a slight smile creep on her lips and she began to crawl away.

“Yeah right!” Maddie clawed her hand into the belly of Liv, Liv squealed and slid off the bed running out of the room.

“Some day I’ll take my revenge on the tickle monster, someday,” Maddie giggled and went after her sister.

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sevencardigans · 8 months

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Getting tagged in this by the wonderful Silja @wunderlichkind is literally the highlight of my evening. 🫶🌞

An estimate of how many physical books i own: so these are solely the books I collected over the last 5 years, since that’s all I own at this point: exactly 194 (including the 6 books that I ordered yesterday) so not that many

Favourite author: incredibly difficult answer, so I’m going to give two academic and two not so academic answers. I enjoy a fun and easy TJR read, although there are definitely a lot of things I don’t agree with when it comes to her writing + I’m a Sally Rooney girl through and through. A serious academic answer would be Virginia Woolf and Shirley Jackson.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: anything Colleen Hoover. Need I say more?

A popular book I thought was just meh: totally copying Silja here, but I also did.not.get why people went crazy over Where The Crawdads Sing. I also didn’t vibe with The Song of Achilles as much as I hoped I would. It was alright, but I didn’t feel it – Circe is Madeline Millers superior novel.

Longest book I own: Just from looking at my bookshelf right now, it’s To Paradise by Hanya Yanaghara (which is also why I still haven’t managed to read it)

Longest series I own all the books to: I’m usually not a book series reader, which is also why I own only half of the Harry Potter books in English (not counting my moms full English collection). I also have the unfinished V.E. Schwab Shades of Magic series if that counts. 😅

Prettiest book I own: I’m literally so guilty of only buying books with pretty book covers. I’d say I'm most proud of my Penguin Orange Book editions of We Have Always Lived In This Castle and Ceremony, though. I mean, just look at those gold details! (not pictured: the deckled edges)

A book or series I wish more people knew about: one of my favorite books of all time, and a book I read every year at least once, is I’m Thinking Of Ending Things. It’s a psychological “thriller” novella. It’s incredibly subtle and uses its vagueness to evoke uncanniness in its truest form. There IS a Netflix movie about this book, so I guess it has become more popular. Other than that, All My Mothers is another unknown favorite of mine. It’s a study on mother-daughter relationships, family dynamic, illness, family trauma, and chosen families. It’s beautiful, heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time (also, beautiful book cover if you ask me).

Book I’m reading now: I’ve sadly been in a bit of a reading slump, mainly because I have too many options and somehow still can’t seem to find the book with the right content and pace for this very moment. But I technically am reading Memphis and listening to The Hunger right now.

Book that’s been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven’t gotten around to it: literally half of my bookshelf? I can’t wait to read The Mercies (I want to wait for winter) though.

Do you have any books in a language other than English: I got a bunch of German books since that’s my first language, but I despise reading German books because it takes me forever to get through them. My favorite non-English book is the latest Asterix comic in German, signed by the German translator who I worked with for a reading/Q&A that I helped host.

Paperback, hardcover or ebook?: Paperback all day long. I have a bunch of hardcovers, but I have to have A LOT of faith in a book/author if I buy the hardcover ones. I also love audible!

#tagged!!#thank you silja I loved reading yours and was super happy when I saw that you tagged me #this makes me want to read so bad and yet #I'm not doing it #I will have to read a bunch for uni starting on tuesday so I guess I will be forced into it in the end

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uglypastels · 1 year

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i dont agree with the anon that your fics are unreadable, but it is weird you dont use "double quotations" especially since you're like an English major or something right?

+ No, but why is punctuation suddenly so hard?. everyone knows you use double quotes when characters speak. its like writing 101. you're just not using them right. learn and get over it.

ok, i saw writers getting shit about this on TikTok months ago, and it already pissed me off then. there is no one way of quoting things, and its so narrow-minded to think so.

Let's do a lil exercise shall we

[below cut] Here's the first page of The Godfather by Mario Puzo, published in four languages - English, Dutch, Polish and French.

Let's find the differences:

In the English edition, the dialogue is written between "double quotations"

In Dutch, it's 'singular'.

— Polish uses em-dashes.

And in French spoken words are between «guillemets»

Isn't that fucking fun? I speak, write and read in 3 of these languages, so I grew up with all that. So did plenty of other people around the world because these differences aren't just per one country. If one way speaks more to you than the other because that's what you know? then go for it. These are all perfectly fine and normal ways to write and I'm sure there are even more out there that I'm not aware of.

But yes, you're right, I am writing in English, and I do study it, so I should learn how to use quotations properly, shouldn't I 🥺. Well, let's see some of the books I had to read this year.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby:

Oh damn. Uses 'single quotes'.

Spring by Ali Smith:

Uses — and then doesn't even use quotations??? Just speaker indicators??? Yeah. you can even switch styles mid-novel because who cares.

But it gets better. As an example, here's a page from Sally Rooney's Normal People:

Rooney said fuck yall quotations. You can figure it out yourself.

Are some easier to read than others? Sure. But they're not fucking wrong either.

#rage #uglypastels answers #anon #z goes off #rant #idk why i get so worked up by this stuff

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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The Antoine Doinel Cycle

Jean-Pierre Léaud in The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)

Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Patrick Auffay, Georges Flamant. Screenplay: François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy. Cinematography: Henri Decaë. Film editing: Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte. Music: Jean Constantin. One of the unquestioned great movies, and one of the greatest feature-film directing debuts, The 400 Blows would still resonate with film-lovers even if François Truffaut hadn't gone on to create four sequels tracking the life and loves of his protagonist, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud). There are, in fact, those who think that the last we should have seen of Antoine was the haunting freeze-frame at the end of the film. But Antoine continued to grow up on screen, and perhaps more remarkably, so did Léaud, carving out his own career after his debut as a 13-year-old. (It's hard to think of any American child actors who were able to maintain a film career into adulthood as well as Léaud did. Mickey Rooney? Dean Stockwell? Who else?) Having Truffaut as a mentor certainly helped, but Léaud had an unmistakable gift. He is on screen for virtually all of the 99-minute run time, and provides a gallery of memorable moments: Antoine in the amusement-park centrifuge, Antoine in the police lockup, Antoine on the run -- in cinematographer Henri Decaë's brilliant long tracking shot. And my personal favorite moment: when the psychologist asks Antoine if he's ever had sex. Léaud responds with a beautiful mixture of surprise, amusement, and embarrassment. It's so genuine a response that I have to think it was improvised, that Truffaut surprised Léaud with the question. But even so, Léaud never drops character in his response. This praise of Léaud is not to undervalue the magnificent supporting cast, or the haunting score by Jean Constantin. It's a film in which everything works.

Jean-Pierre Léaud and Marie-France Pisier in Antoine and Colette (François Truffaut, 1962) Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Rosy Varte, François Darbon, Patrick Auffay, Jean-François Adam. Screenplay: François Truffaut. Cinematography: Raul Coutard. Music: Georges Delerue. Four years after he made The 400 Blows, Truffaut was asked to contribute to an anthology of short films by directors from various countries to be called Love at Twenty. As he had with the first film, Truffaut drew on his own experience, an infatuation with a girl he had met at the Cinémathèque Française. And since Léaud was available -- he had worked with Julien Duvivier on Boulevard (1960) after completing The 400 Blows -- it made sense for him to play Antoine Doinel again. A narrator tells us that Antoine had been sent to another reform school after escaping from the first, and that this time he had responded well to a psychologist: After leaving school, he has found a job working for the Phillips record company and is living on his own. Then he sees a pretty young woman at a concert of music by Berlioz and falls for her. Colette (Marie-France Pisier) is not much interested in him, but she is evidently flattered by his advances. Her parents like Antoine and encourage him so much that he rents a room across the street from them. (Truffaut had done the same thing during his crush.) But one evening when he comes to dinner at their apartment, a man named Albert (Jean-François Adam) calls on Colette and she leaves Antoine watching TV with her parents. It's a droll little film, scarcely more than an anecdote, and the stable, lovestruck Antoine doesn't seem much like either the rebellious Antoine of the first film or the more scattered Antoine of the later ones in the cycle.

Jean-Pierre Léaud in Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Michael Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Claire Duhamel, Daniel Ceccaldi. Screenplay: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon. Cinematography: Denys Clerval. Production design: Claude Pignot. Film editing: Agnès Guillemot. Music: Antoine Duhamel.

The Antoine of Stolen Kisses is in his 20s, but has reverted to the more haphazard ways of his adolescence: He has been kicked out of the army, and now relies on a series of odd jobs to get by. But he has also renewed acquaintance with a young woman he met before going into the army, Christine Darbon (Claude Jade). Like Colette's parents, hers are quite taken with Antoine, and they help him get a job as a night clerk in a hotel. He gets fired from that job after helping a private detective who is spying on an adulterous couple, but the detective helps Antoine get a job with his agency. While working for the detective agency, he has to pose as a clerk in a shoe store, and winds up in a liaison with the store owner's wife, Fabienne (Delphine Seyrig). When that ends badly, he becomes a TV repairman, which brings him back to Christine, with whom he winds up in bed after trying to fix her TV. At the film's end, a strange man who has been following Christine comes up to her and Antoine in the park and declares his love for her. She says he must be crazy, and Antoine, who perhaps recognizes his earlier infatuation with Colette in the man's obsession, murmurs, "He must be." Stolen Kisses is the loosest, funniest entry in the cycle, though it was made at a time when Truffaut was politically preoccupied: The film opens with a shot of the shuttered gates of the Cinémathèque Française, which was shut down in a conflict between its director, Henri Langlois, and culture minister André Malraux. This caused an uproar involving many of the directors of the French New Wave. Some of Antoine's anarchic approach to life may have been inspired by the rebelliousness toward the establishment prevalent in the film community. But it's clear that the idea of a cycle of Antoine Doinel films has been brewing in Truffaut's mind: There is a cameo appearance by Marie-France Pisier as Colette and Jean-François Adam as Albert, now married and the parents of an infant.

Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Bed and Board (François Truffaut, 1970) Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Claire Duhamel, Daniel Ceccaldi, Hiroko Berghauer. : François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon. Cinematography: Néstor Almendros. Production design: Jean Mandaroux. Film editing: Agnès Guillemot. Music: Antoine Duhamel. Antoine and Christine have married, and they have settled down in a small apartment. (There's some indication that it's paid for by her parents.) She gives violin lessons and he sells flowers -- carnations, which he dyes, using some environmentally questionable potions. But settling down isn't in Antoine's nature, and when Christine gets pregnant he looks for more lucrative work. He finds a curious sinecure in a company run by an American: Antoine maneuvers model ships by remote control through a mockup of a harbor. ("It gives me time to think," he says.) One day, a Japanese businessman comes to see the demonstration, accompanied by a pretty translator named Kyoko (Hiroko Berghauer), and Antoine is soon involved in an affair with her. Naturally, this precipitates a breakup, though by film's end they have seemingly reconciled. Still, it's obvious that the marriage is not destined to be permanent. They can't even agree on a name for their son: She wants him to be called Ghislain, and he wants to call him Alphonse. Antoine wins out by a trick: He's the one who goes to the registry office to legalize the boy's name. Antoine also spends time writing a novel about his boyhood, to which Christine objects: "I don't like this business of writing about your childhood, dragging your parents through the mud. I don't know much but I do know one thing: If you use art to settle accounts, it's no longer art." Truffaut had his own regrets about the portrait of his parents in The 400 Blows. Less farcical than Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board still has a strong vein of comedy tinged with melancholy.

Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in Love on the Run (François Truffaut, 1979) Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Claude Jade, Dani, Dorothée, Daniel Mesguich, Julien Bertheau. Screenplay: François Truffaut, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel, Suzanne Schiffman. Cinematography: Néstor Almendros. Production design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko. Film editing: Martine Barraqué. Music: Georges Delerue. Truffaut admitted that he wasn't happy with the final film in the cycle. It's a bit too heavily reliant on flashback clips from the four earlier films, and if it's intended to show that Antoine has finally stabilized now that he's in his 30s and divorced from Christine, it doesn't quite make the case. He has a new girlfriend, Sabine (Dorothée), his novel has been published several years earlier, and he works as a proofreader for a printing house. He's on friendly terms with Christine, and agrees to take their son, Alphonse, to the train station when the boy leaves for a summer music camp. At the station, he runs into Colette, now a defense lawyer, who is on her way to confer with a client -- a man who has murdered his 3-year-old boy. Perhaps a little too coincidentally, Colette is involved with Sabine's brother, Xavier (Daniel Mesguich), and she has bought a copy of Antoine's novel to read on the train. Antoine impulsively boards the train, and sets up a meeting with Colette in the dining car, after which she invites him back to her compartment. All of this sets up a series of revelations: Colette's marriage to Albert broke up after their small daughter was killed by a car. She claims that she supplements her small income as a lawyer by prostituting herself with men she meets on trains. Antoine finally made peace with his mother after her death when he met her old lover, M. Lucien (Julien Bertheau), who persuaded him to visit his mother's grave. (There is a flashback to the scene in The 400 Blows when Antoine, playing hooky, sees his mother kissing a strange man on the street.) Antoine became infatuated with Sabine after hearing a man in a phone booth arguing with a woman on the other end of the line and then tearing up her photograph. Antoine picked up the pieces from the floor, put them together, and after some sleuthing, discovered the woman was Sabine. His marriage to Christine finally broke up after he slept with her friend Liliane (Dani), who he previously had thought was having a lesbian relationship with Christine. And so on. The result of all the flashbacks and revelations is not to round out the Antoine Doinel saga, but to make Love on the Run feel over-contrived.

#The 400 Blows #Jean-Pierre Léaud #Marie-France Pisier #François Truffaut #Antoine and Colette #Stolen Kisses #Bed and Board #Claude Jade #Love on the Run

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aceghosts · 4 months

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Rooney Shepard (They/Them) | Hunter Delaney (They/Them)

I was tagged by @voidika, @cassietrn, @direwombat, @captastra, @alexxmason, @nightbloodbix, @amalkavian, @socially-awkward-skeleton, @inafieldofdaisies, @marivenah, and @captmactavish to do this template for my OCs. I ended up doing this for Rooney and Hunter!

I think most people have done this, but I'll send a few tags to @bbrocklesnar, @carlosoliveiraa, @strangefable, @theelderhazelnut, @clicheantagonist, @fourlittleseedlings, @katsigian, and anyone else who wants to do this! (Opt In/Opt Out for Tag games here).

Song Choices and Template under the cut!

Jaded by Spiritbox: Spotify | Youtube

Throne by Bring Me the Horizon: Spotify | Youtube

Here is the template:

However, I used the template uploaded by the creator on their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/COYK04zlSKL/?img_index=1. It was a lot easier to edit, lol.

#tag games #commander rooney shepard #I won't let fear compromise who I am #Hunter Delaney #Rooney's aesthetic could apply to their mass effect or cyberpunk universe #and I couldn't chose a flower for them #I associate oak trees so strongly with Rooney #and I love how Hunter's vibe is just all edge #I love them for their edginess #and I couldn't chose a real animal for Hunter #I strongly associate them with black dogs actively trying to kill you at all times

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midnight-cowboy1969 · 1 year

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I hate remakes of ip as much as the next card carrying cinephile, but HBO better give Luca Guadagnino the 110 million dollar he wants to remake Brideshead Revisited as a miniseries. Come on, there is nothing I want more than to see Andrew Garfield play Charles Ryder. Like, yess a toxic mother daughter relationship portrayed by Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett

I'm not done. Brideshead Revisited is still chronically underrated even after its incredible 1981 miniseries adaptation (let's gonna ignore the 2008 movie, fuck that.) I'm so ready to see the complicated subtext of BR fully unpacked. If you've read the book , you know that its packed to the brim with Catholicism and Gay Shit™. Don't get me started on how Brideshead Revisited (1981) is one of the most overlooked pieces of queer cinema. Another Country (1984), Maurice (1987), Dead Poet's Society (1989), and many others, wouldn't exist without Brideshead Revisited (1981). Not only was Brideshead Revisited revolutionary in its subject matter, but also in its format. It changed what people thought television could like and the types of stories it could tell. Brideshead Revisited (1981) was a high budget, character study that was almost a word for word literary adaptation. More importantly, it was a big hit in the UK, but a giant hit in the US.

In conclusion, I'll never forgive the television gods if Luca Guadagnino's Brideshead Revisited stays shelved for eternity. HBO should know that they there is an army of people who made Lana Del Rey CMBYN edits, at the ready for something like Brideshead Revisited. I swear, as a gen z who spends too much of her time watching and analyzing queer media, the Brideshead Revisited remake would be HUGE.

#brideshead revisited #Brideshead Revisited (1981)

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booksovrflowers · 2 years

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21.07.2022 // book haul

(aka me being sad because i need glasses to see properly and using this as an excuse to treat myself to more books to feel better)

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

a little life by hanya yanagihara

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi

normal people by sally rooney

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there was this beautiful edition of emma by jane austen and i've been eying it for weeks now. the fact that the store doesn't have it in english and only as a hardcover were the only things stopping me from adding it to this list. maybe one day, emma and i will find each other again

#paperbacks >>#the edition of emma was so pretty it hurts #bookish #haul #bookblr #booklr #convenience store woman #sayaka murata #a little life #hanya yanagihara #before the coffee gets cold #toshikazu kawaguchi #normal people #sally rooney

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Do you have any writing tips it doesn’t have to be for stories just in general

hi anon! i wanted to sit down at my laptop and give this one a proper reply lol, so sorry for the delay.

i am an amateur writer who has never taken a creative writing class in her life, so these are just some things that I found helped me. I hope it helps you as well.

Read a lot. I know everyone says this and at first, I didn't get why, but honestly the more you read, the more you learn about how to write. In fact, if I'm in a rut, there's nothing like a good book that can inspire me to write again. :) I recently read Normal People by Sally Rooney, and it felt like a whole ass writing course. Changed my life, fr.

Don't be afraid to copy. I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but if there's a particular writing style, or plot twist, or usage of words that you really admire, try to reproduce it in your own style. Plagiarism is awful and wrong, but trying to incorporate elements of someone's style because you like it, is not only NOT plagiarism, it can be really good practice. (ALSO there is no sentence or plot that is so unique it hasn't been done before! lol, if I start talking about the unoriginality of all the themes in Harry Potter I will never stop.) Writing with your own voice will eventually happen. I don't think it's really possible to copy somebody else's 'writing voice' so to speak, so if you are writing to the best of your ability, your own unique voice will always shine through. When I first started writing smutfic, I was very impressed by fifty shades of grey (I know, lol my standards...), so I tried to use certain verbiage that EL James did, that made me feel something. However, I never plagiarised her, and now my writing voice is very different and doesn't read anything like her books. In sum: Pay attention to what attracts you when you are reading, and try to bring that forth in your own work. :)

This one is about writing practice. It can be challenging to sit down and write for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes you may not know where to start, and sometimes you may just be really unhappy with the quality of your writing that it inhibits your creative juices. For this, I recommend: SPRINTING! You set a timer for yourself, and in that time you just write nonstop without even pausing to edit. It's important to give yourself this space of just letting your juices flow without the pressure of it being any good. The shorter the timebox, the better. Here's an article that really helped me write: https://writingcooperative.com/how-an-8-minute-writing-habit-could-help-you-write-your-book-this-year-c590897b3a5a

Hope this helps you and thank you for asking!! ^^ GOOD LUCK!

@ my lovely writer friends pls add on if you can think of anything else that helps you write!

#anonymous conversations #writing advice

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Grace Kelly, Stanwyck, Crosby, Bacall, and Rooney.

Happy birthday! 🎂

Grace Kelly: What do you do when you’re bored? Watch movies or listening to music while scrolling through the internet or doing a puzzle or play with my cats. Barbara Stanwyck: What are your hobbies? Same as above haha. But also I like to take photos of nature and try emulate old style photos of myself, but I'm not terribly good at either.

Bing Crosby: Can you sing or play a musical instrument? Would you like to? I wish that I could more than anything but my vocal muscles are very weak so it makes singing impossible. I used to take piano lessons when I was a kid but the place I took lessons and practiced burned down and I never got back to taking them again after that. I like to think I might be able to pick it up again if I ever had the opportunity though.

Lauren Bacall: Do you like to read? If so, what are your favorite books? I like to read from time to time but not as much as I used to. My favorite books are adventurous stories with female protagonists, classic literature, slice of life stories and sometimes biographies.

edit - oooops forgot the last one! Mickey Rooney: What book are you reading at the moment? I’m reading The Girl With The Pearl Earring. A friend gave it to me as a bridesmaids gift in 2019 and I just now decided to give it a go.

Thank you so much for the asks and birthday wishes!

#ask game

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