#Lucy Faust

[stuff-diary]

Looking for Alaska

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

Looking for Alaska (2019, USA)

Directors: Sarah Adina Smith, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Brett Haley, Ami Canaan Mann, Clea DuVall, Megan Griffiths, Rashaad Ernesto Green & Josh Schwartz

Writers: Josh Schwartz, Warren Hsu Leonard, Stephanie Savage, Ashley Wigfield, Kirk A. Moore, Leila Gerstein & Kendall Rogers

Mini-review:

There are a lot of good book-to-movie/TV adaptations. However, there is something that's a lot rarer: an adaptation that improves on the original in pretty much every way. Looking for Alaska is one of those. Going for a miniseries instead of a movie means that everything is much more fleshed out, from the characters to the setting and the themes. The show also perfectly captures the atmosphere of the novel. I've always felt that atmosphere was what made this book so special and popular, and this adaptation made me feel exactly the same. I must admit, though, I still don't like Miles as a lead character, like at all. But, since the other characters get as much focus as him, I didn't dislike him as much as I did in the book.

What's more, the cast is absolutely spectacular. They all nail their roles. I seriously can't think of many teen movies/shows with such fantastic acting. Kristine Froseth and Denny Love are particularly showstopping and I was really surprised (and disappointed) to see they didn't get any award nominations. They're truly that good. Lastly, I want to talk about the setting. I just loved Culver Creek, the pranks, the locations, everything. I honestly wish they would have turned this into some sort of anthology where we follow a different set of Culver Creek students in each season. Seriously, the setting has so much potential. Anyway, this is easily one of the best book adaptations I've ever seen, and I'm really glad I decided to watch it.

#looking for alaska #john green #alaska young #charlie plummer #kristine froseth #denny love #jay lee #sofia vassilieva #landry bender #uriah shelton #jordan connor #timothy simons #ron cephas jones #lucy faust #henry zaga #Sarah Adina Smith #Rachel Lee Goldenberg #Brett Haley #Ami Canaan Mann #Clea DuVall #Megan Griffiths #Rashaad Ernesto Green #Josh Schwartz #Warren Hsu Leonard #Stephanie Savage #Ashley Wigfield #Kirk A. Moore #Leila Gerstein #Kendall Rogers #2023 tv shows and dramas

[airplanes924]

Movies I’ve Watched in 2022

Number 27

12 Mighty Orphans

#movies2022 #12 mighty orphans #ty roberts #luke wilson #vinessa shaw #wayne knight #jake austin walker #robert duvall #martin sheen #jacob lofland #levi dylan #kelly frye #treat williams #carlson young #lane garrison #natasha bassett #scott haze #lucy faust #larry pine #ron white #heath freeman #king orba

[aftout]

this is actually an sos signal on my behalf (joking)

#my art #Juliette's draft #lucy westenra #dr faust #gothic lit au #Dracula

[purzelsims]

Shannon took the family to visit Lucy and Ariel to secure some more votes for the upcoming campaign.

#TS4Gameplay #TS4 #ts4vanilla #ts4 vanilla #Y102 #Y102W1 #family faust #faust gen2 #Betsy Gil #Shannon Faust #Lucy Barrett #Ariel Patten

[persephonelikespomegranates]

Fuck characters doomed by the narrative i'm just sick for characters doomed by themselves.

#CORIOLANUS SNOW MY BELOVED #Not in a literal sense because he's an ass but i like a lot his characterisation and character in general #i'll never support a fascist no matter how hot he is #like i loved hunger games but this shit is something else #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #in reality there are so much more stories that feature a character like him #like faust #or pandora #prometheus #greek myths in general #but right now i'm obsessed #by this modern greek tragedy #coriolanus snow is litterally the kind of character i adore the most in fiction #lucy gray x coriolanus #coriolanus snow #coriolanus #lucy gray baird #lucy gray #coriolanus x lucy gray #sejanus plinth #sejanus

[arikatdraws]

The day we should have left behind

#teal #green #glass #shattered glass #oc #artists on tumblr #original character #blue #moonlight #full moon #luci #lucian faust

[meihouwangslittlecumslut]

Saints of sin characters as images on my phone

Saints of sin is one of my many, many stories I'm working on

Samael

Jacob

Solomon

Faust

Luci

Gremory

Raziel

Alastor

Mephistopheles

Azazel

#saints of sin #original story #samael #jacob #solomon #faust #luci #gremory #raziel #alastor #mephistopheles #azazel

[theoczone]

Kent Family (feat. the Mallaris and Bentleys) 3/16

Sienna Lairus: Born in 1972, Married Yani Mallri in 2005, faceclaim is Lauren German

Yani Mallari: Born in 1974, Married Sienna Lairus in 2005, faceclaim is Benjamin Alves

Faust Bentley: Born in 1962, faceclaim is Benjamin Bratt

Dee Kent: Born in ???, Moved to Rowland Heights in 1987, Adopted by Nick Kent in 1987, married Jonah Leeds in 2008, faceclaim is Phoebe Tonkin

Jonah Leeds: Born in 1735, Married Dee Kent in 2008, faceclaim is Alan Ritchson

Tala Mallari: Born in 2007, started dating Gabe Harkport in 2029 , faceclaim is Olivia Rodrigo

Hanao Mallari: Born in 2016, faceclaim is Clarence Delgado

Lilith Kent: Born in 2003, started dating Ella Armstrong in 2022, faceclaim is Hailee Steinfeld

Ryker Bentley: Born in ‘1998’,, faceclaim is Santiago Fontana

Carmilla Bentley: Born in 1997, faceclaim is Eiza Gonzales

Varian Leeds: Born in 2007, faceclaim is Shawn Mendez

Avery Leeds: Born in 2010, faceclaim is Olivia Holt

Ethan Leeds:  Born in 2010, faceclaim is Ian Nelson

Kara Leeds:  Born in 2013, faceclaim is Mackenzie Foy

Lucy Leeds:  Born in 2016, faceclaim is Stefania Owen

#the kent family tree #sienna lairus #yani mallari #faust bentley #dee kent #jonah leeds #tala mallari #hanao mallari #lilith kent #ryker bentley #carmilla bentley #varian leeds #ethan leeds #avery leeds #kara leeds #lucy leeds #kent family #mallari family #bentley family

[snailsnfriends]

friendship among girls

west wind (mary oliver) / a good love (charlotte ager) / twin stars (clairel estevez) / sex education (laurie nunn) / derry girls (lisa mcgee) / water serpents (gustav kilmt) / ribs (lorde) / anne of green gables (lucy maud montgomery) / the friends (max ginsberg) / in the company of women (january gill o'neil) / graceland too (phoebe bridgers) / wicked (winnie holzman) / fleabag (phoebe waller-bridge) / silhouette (janice lobo sapigao) / x / juno (jason reitman) / black iris (leah raeder) / jennifer's body (karyn kusama) / the art of loving and losing female friends (rachel vorona cote) / clothes swap/brooklyn 2008 (hope gangloff) / mabel (becca de la rosa & maybell marten) / twin stars (clairel estevez) / friends (colin bootman) / my little pony: friendship is magic (lauren faust)

#web weaving #web weave #parallels #poetry #humanity #friendship #collage #love #quotes #terfs/radfems fuck off #<- they stink up any girl related tags so #snailtrail.weaves

[carnificaprince]

Name Suggestions 〜 Vampires ✦

꒰ NAMES ꒱ 〜 Adelaide , Akasha , Akeldama , Alaric , Alcide , Allure , Alluria , Allurine , Ammar , Amaraso , Ambrose , Ambrosia , Amelie , Anatasia , Apparitor , Apparor , Apparitir , Apparitionor , Arius , Armand , Asphodel , Astaroth , Asylum , Augustine , Baital , Ballad , Ballade , Banpiroa , Baobhan , Barnabas , Batre , Bella , Belladonna , Belle , Bianca , Blackwell , Blade , Bloodrop , Blooddrop , Callidora , Carrie , Carrion , Cariste , Carmilla , Cassius , Castor , Celeste , Celia , Claudia , Cion , Cionne , Clareth , Coven , Count , Countte , Countess , Cravensworth , Cruor , Dame , Dames , Darion , Delemore , Dominik , Dorian , Drucilla , Drusilla , Eestelte , Eerie , Eeriely , Elisabeta , Elmir , Esduette , Esme , Essie , Ensanguine , Eztli , Fang , Fangge , Faust , Faustus , Felix , Gesyt , Himo , Ichabod , Immortelle , Jezebel , Kieran , Lac , Lacce , Laccere , Laszlo , Lazarus , Lilith , Liz , Lizette , Louis , Luci , Lucie , Lucielle , Luciel , Luciette , Lucius , Lucy , Luther , Magnus , Marceline , Marcy , Mary , Maryse , Melchior , Mercy , Merlot , Morticia , Mortician , Nadja , Necro , Nerezza , Noctis , Orpheus , Paranoir , Pisaca , Pointe , Remilia , Remus , Reyes , Rook , Rosalind , Rosaline , Salvatore , Sanglure , Sangre , Sangue , Savamp , Selene , Silas , Sire , Sith , Sithette , Spectt , Spect , Specttrila , Spectre , Spectrille , Spellyne , Suco , Syth , Sythette , Tempest , Valenetta , Valentine , Vamine , Vamistte , Vamp , Vampe , Vampiir , Vampid , Vampier , Vampinne , Vampiress , Vampiresse , Vampirine , Vampmir , Vampyra , Vampyre , Vampyyri , Vasanguine , Vesper , Veurinne , Victor , Victoria , Victorine , Vikramaditya , Viktoria , Vileiur , Vilette , Vladmir , Vlaude , Von , Vylad , Vympyre

#꒰ ⚔ ꒱ 〜 The Box Cutter's Emblem #mogai #not coining #name list #name suggestions #vampire names #vampire name help #name ideas

[purzelsims]

Lucy: So ... just one night of fun, you say?

Edith: Yup!

Lucy: Well, you two will have to work something out now, I guess. With a baby on the way and everything ...

Edith: I know ...

#TS4Gameplay #TS4 #ts4vanilla #ts4 vanilla #TS4BACCR18 #family faust #Edith Faust #Lucy Barrrett

[ikevampsenvilprince]

OKAY since the release of Villains is delayed, it gives me a chance to ask y'all which routes I should play first!

I'll give you my faves in some other games, and I'd love your opinions on this ♡

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• Ikevamp: Theo, Shakespeare, Faust, Vlad

• Ikesen: Motonari, Kanetsugu, Keiji, Kenshin

• Ikeprince: Chev, Silvio, Gil, Wicked Keith

• Ikerev: Fenrir, Harr, Lancelot, Luka

• Love & Deepspace: Rafayel

• Obey Me: Belphie, Dia, Luci, Barbatos

• Mystic Messenger: Jumin, Saeran

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Okay, hopefully that's enough info! PLEASE HELP ME 🙏

A big THANK YOU in advance ♡♡♡

#ikemen series #ikemen prince #ikemen vampire #ikemen villains #ikemen sengoku #ikemen revolution #love & deepspace #mystic messenger #obey me

[bloody-bread]

I couldn't find this here so I'll post it now, this is Lucy! Faust's listener and is inspired by the Faustian legend of making a deal with the devil, she's the devil Faust made a deal with! But just in concept not literally since we don't know a lot about that deal hahahahaha:DDDDDD

HER USERNAME WAS A JOKE THAT I REGRET IM SO SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT IT-

#yuurivoice #yuurivoice listener #yuurivoice faust #yuurivoice fanart #myart #non finneas fanart form me?!?! #make a wish. #oc #my oc

[livefromcastledracula]

Odd thought, but what's your personal take on the vampiric weakness towards religious objects and places? Now obviously the myths, legends and folklore where our modern concept of a "vampire" originated, as well as the literary works that would popularize them in pop culture originated in deeply Christian Europe.

However distancing a bit from that context, I kinda like the idea that vampires as a rule are repelled by ANY religious object and place of worship backed with legitimate faith and belief. Could probably lead to a quite comedic scene where a Theistic Satanist of all things manages to have a better time warding off a vampire than a con man televangelist who doesn't actually believe a word he's saying.

There's a fair bit of debate about the cross thing, and I think it's important to separate the crucifix/cross repelling vampires in mythology and folklore from the depiction in pop culture.

Because pop culture vampires and folkloric vampires are quite different beasts, most of the time, and the underlying intent is different. And yes, pop culture does often query the "is it the power of the symbol or the power of the faith" and come up with different answers - the Netflix Dracula series as an example makes a big plot point out of this.

For Stoker, I think, his vampires are specifically demonic. They are not so much just the person they were in life but with fangs and blood hunger, they are a ravenous unclean spirit posessing the person's corpse - this is why Vampire Lucy is such a 180 from the sweetheart we knew her as - so the repulsion of the crucifix comes from that good vs evil thing.

And it's worth noting that whilst Jonathan is a Christian, he's Church of England and 'regards such things (as carrying crucifixes and rosaries) as in some measure idolatrous'. But the symbol still works for him, so it's possible that either his baseline Christianity still empowered it, Stoker (a Catholic definitely not a Catholic, my bad, but that makes this more interesting to me) was implying that Jonathan was wrong and the symbol DOES have power, or...the repulsion wasn't about the symbol or the wielder, but was on Dracula's end. Because there's also the argument that perhaps the vampires repelled by religious imagery, many of them (like Carmilla and Dracula) being themselves from that Christian old world in life, are repelled by the holy symbols because the symbol reminds either the demonic spirit or the shreds of the person that was of all the faith they once had that is now lost, of their severing from God, of their eternal, damned fate, like Mephistopheles in Faust mourning being cut off from the light of heaven, it's too overwhelming for them to bear. It's also plausible, of course, that both Carmilla and Dracula were not actually Christian in life, with Dracula having studied black magic at the Scholomance and Carmilla being born to the notoriously wicked and decadent Karnsteins, so then the implication would be that they were in life witches, devil worshipers, or dabblers in sorcery, and therefore find the whole Christian faith and all of its signifiers repulsive and hateful because of their own opposed faith (and may be afraid of the Christian God's power and judgment, in the context the authors are writing them in) In that case, a vampire from a non-Western culture, or a vaguely analogous creature like say a jiangshi or a manananggal, would arguably only respond to superstitious or religious repellants related to its part of the world and specific to its folklore, and not be repelled by a symbol that meant nothing to that creature, regardless of the faith of the wielder. On the 'mythology' end the cross, like the garlic and the wolfbane and the wild rose and mountain ash and all of the original folkloric vampire countermeasures are part of a much broader aspect of folkloric creatures being repulsed or warded off by specific symbols, rituals, superstitions or cultural practices. Some of these have connections to the religion of the culture they're from and some come more from local and community tradition. This is a very broad and complex topic, and it's hardly restrained to vampires - revenants, fairies, ogres, demons, witches, and evil spirits of all sorts have their specific wards and charms. As always with myth and folklore, it's not about what is 'true' or 'canon', because such things get very, very blurry with oral traditions that are centuries or millennia old, it's about the people telling the story - the people the story belongs to.

Anyway, the question you're really asking is - is the vampire repelled by the holy symbol because of: A) A spiritual power inherent in the symbol itself. B) The wielder's faith and belief in what the symbol represents. C) The vampire's belief in or fear of the power of the symbol or what it represents. D) Something else.

I think there's validity in each answer and a lot of fun to be had exploring them in fiction.

#dracula #count dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #daily dracula #vampires #folklore #mythology

[see-arcane]

Of Debt and Death

And a dream that flows between them like a river.

Ao3 link here

“Centuries. Centuries he has been doing this.”

Jonathan looks up. He doesn’t remember how he got here. A moment ago he was sinking. Or was it floating? Either way, he drowned. Smothered. There is a certainty now as there was before that the Count is near. The closeness of him in Piccadilly had struck a deep and profound cord in him even in the crowd. Now that cord is an entire hellish violin playing until it screeches.

Here! He is here! Up, go, hurry!

But there was only the drowning. The sweet-bitter crush of a blanket around a strengthless babe who kicks and struggles to no avail.

Then, suddenly, here. The boat.

The ferryman has his back to him, hood drawn up against a frigid mist. Black shores hint at themselves through the fog.

“He has done this for almost half a millennium. Did you ever suspect as much in the castle, even with his dust-choked riches? An old monster, surely, but not ancient. Surely he couldn’t be. The people knew him. The people feared him. The people knew then all that the professor had to scrape from a library. You would not have lasted were it not for them and their holy icons, their gifts and knowledge. They know what it is to slay his kind.”

Still though he is, something thrashes violently in Jonathan’s heart. Wanting, needing, fighting to move. To be aware.

The Count is here.

Somewhere close. Near enough to touch. Jonathan eyes the mist warily.

“Do you truly think none have tried what you and your little pack mean to attempt in so many hundreds of years of horror under his reign? None at all? In times of war, in hours of bereft madness, they tried. Lances before the stake, sword before the saw. They tried. The most he lost were new conscripts and his temper. Ash to flesh, mist to teeth. He came back. Through steel and Cross and fire, he has always come back. And taught grave lessons to his enemies each time. He means to teach you all the same. Only he will not waste you on mere slaughter.”

Figures move on the black shore now. Watching them pass. Hazy as they are, Jonathan knows them all. Children. A mother. Sailors. Lucy’s wedding band glints as she waves.

“He will not let you go, Jonathan Harker. If he must lose any of the other jackals in potentia, you will still go on to suffer him. Through her. Through the cudgel he means to make of her and your heart. You have cost him too much to go free and he will have you bowed and bloodied at his feet. You may yet let him for her sake. Once he lures you back. All of you, so sure, so prepared, will lope after him to the genius loci, his realm of power. The land that worked against you from every angle, every muscle of Nature and Supernature. And there you will all do worse than die.”

Let me go. Please, something is wrong, I know it, I know the Count is close, he has done something, he is doing something, I need to go—

 “Oh, yes. He has, he is, he shall do worse. God has not seen fit to stop him in four hundred years. He left humanity a few holy tin shields and wished you all luck. And when the Devil’s best student marks a soul to be his in eternity, he shrugs and lets the game go on with a lenience to make Mephistopheles seem a prude. Both will burn you, burn her, as they have burned untold victims in the past. Which is all to say that you will do as all the men and women of history have done when pitted against him.”

The mist thins. What had been a sparse milling of figures now revealed itself as a legion. Dead faces staring out at the river in an endless menagerie of souls reduced to cattle.

“You will lose. Because you are only what all his enemies have been before, what he sold his own soul to conquer unfettered. Mortal meat waiting for the butcher. If you want to win, to save her as more than a lifeless corpse or a mobile one, you must be something other than that same heroic chattel.”

I am no Faust.

“Nor could you be if I desired someone worth making the offer. I may not have time to rest on my laurels, but I have counted him as a nuisance not worth bothering with so long as he kept to his mountains. There are so few of his kind that make true trouble. But now he means to play a global tyrant. England is only the first step. Its colonies will follow. Its neighbors after them. The world is a throat and he is the tick who wishes to drink it dry. If God and the Devil consider Earth forfeit to laissez-faire, it falls to us and our like to do the work of seeing him pay a toll long overdue. So, to you I make my offer. To make you something else. To make yours what is mine. To end what should have ended on a battleground lifetimes ago.”

Jonathan rights himself on the boat. The river is leading into a cave vaster and more lightless than the void between stars. He tries not to stare at it, to focus on the back of the ferryman’s hood.

I will make no promise I do not understand the facets of. I will not be trapped again by details never given to me.

“As is wise. But desperation ever makes decisions on our behalf, Jonathan Harker. Your choice will be no airy whim. It will simply be the only choice to make. I do apologize for that. Gods and devils are not alone in rigging their games. Know this, at least. There shall be no need for a contract. No signatures in blood or fealties sworn. Such pageantry is not for us. No more than it was the day Peter Hawkins signed you on. The offer and its vocation will simply be ready and waiting for you. Make the decision. It will be done.”

Jonathan’s hand lands on the ferryman’s shoulder.

The Ferryman turns.

His eyes are burning hollows. His eyes are all that is left that could be called a face.

“Wake. She is calling to you.”

And he is in the bed with Mina.

And he is in a nightmare.

And he does not wake from it as she tells them all of the Count’s visit, her blood and the Vampire’s staining his breast.

And his body sits and breathes and listens.

And as his mind swims back to a boat on the River, a sickle grows where his soul should be.

#I am not now or ever done chewing on Jonathan Harker like a ragdoll #sorry buddy #jonathan harker #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #my writing

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

Rebecca Ferguson: “ On Top with Tom”

Tom Cruise is famous for finding his female leads always himself. How is happened with you?

Exactly like that. Tom and Christopher had watched hundred thousand  casting tapes and then asked several actresses for the next round, me among them. And when I met with Tom we lost ourselves in conversation immediately. We talked about everything - the film, our roles and life itself *laughs*. Somewhere Christopher said: “Maybe we can start with audition?” and Tom said, “it’s ok, she got the part!” 

Were you a bit intimidated to be filming with the world famous start Tom Cruise?

You know, I live in a small village in Sweden where you learn not to judge people by their image *laughs* I love meeting people and I try to see everyone if possible without prejudice. And with that in mind I met Tom for the first time: the only thing I was afraid of is not getting the role. But as mentioned Tom and I understood each other right away. I really like him a lot, he is unexpected and he is honest. 

Can you tell us a little bit about your character?

Ilsa Faust is a top agent, born in Sweden and recruited by the british secret service. When she meets Ethan they both understand that they are each other’s match (they are equals). But neither Ethan nor the audience know till the end who she is working for, she is quite mysterious.

And quite strong - did you have to train a lot before the shoot?

Yes, for months six hours a day six days a week. Everything was perfectly planned and organized: Pilates, weights lifting, fitness and of course martial arts. It was hard but important. For this kind of film you need enormous amount of strength and stamina, But I admire Tom who is almost always in training. He gets through his fitness program and he is also producer, actor, he is taking part in editing...I do 1% a day from what he is doing and fall in bed dead tired! But I also enjoyed training a lot. I like moving.  And I could really test my limits and have learned things that I never thought I was capable of doing. 

For example?

I've learned to hold my breath [under water] for 4 and a half minutes. I had severe vertigo before this film and had to film a scene where we jump from 35 meters high. I mean before that I haven't even stepped foot in the elevator *laughs* There was my phenomenal stunt double Lucy Cork, but you know, Tom does all his stunts himself - I was really disappointed if I couldn't keep up. And now when I watch the scenes, I think: “Wow,  I actually did it!”.

What else did the trainings program give you?

I was feeling super. To build muscle strength we had a to keep a strict diet, we were given instruction what and when to eat. So everyday I had a thought through nutrition program that was tailored to my training with the best scientific nutrition knowledge. And it really worked - never in my life have I been feeling so well physically. 

Translated from German by @edwardslovelyelizabeth for @rebeccalouisaferguson. For the scans special thanks to @kiwirazzi on Twitter.

#rebecca ferguson #tom cruise #mission impossible rogue nation #mi5 #interview #mi5 interview #photoshoot #charlie gray shoot