#The Old Maid

[citizenscreen]

Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Edmund Goulding‘s THE OLD MAID (1939) #DailyBette

#bette davis #miriam hopkins #the old maid #old hollywood #classic movis

[davisbette]

“Darling! Just one thing more.” “Yes?” Tina murmured through her dream. “I want you to promise me—” “Everything, everything, you darling mother!” “Well, then, that when you go away tomorrow—at the very last moment, you understand—” “Yes?” “After you’ve said goodbye to me, and to everybody else—just as Lanning helps you into the carriage—” “Yes?” “That you’ll give your last kiss to Aunt Charlotte. Don’t forget—the very last.”

The Old Maid (1939) dir. Edmund Goulding

#bette davis #miriam hopkins #george brent #jane bryan #edmund goulding #1930s #1939 #the old maid #uservintage #classicfilmsource #filmgifs #usertimeless #moviegifs #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmblr #classicfilmcentral #cinemapast #usermulder #dailyflicks #*gifs

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And then, the babies, the babies who were supposed to 'make up for everything' and didn't - though they were such darlings, and one had no definite notions as to what it was that one had missed, and that they were to make up for.

Edith Wharton, The Old Maid (Old New York: The Fifties)  

#the old maid #old new york #edith wharton #1924 #1920s #20th century #american literature #queue pierce my soul

[byneddiedingo]

Bette Davis in The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding, 1939) Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, Louise Fazenda, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Lundigan. Screenplay: Casey Robinson, based on a play by Zoe Akins and a novel by Edith Wharton. Cinematography: Tony Gaudio. Art direction: Robert M. Haas. Film editing: George Amy. Music: Max Steiner. The Old Maid is the kind of melodrama that never really made much sense, except in the original version, the novel by Edith Wharton, where the social taboos and psychological hangups could be dealt with more convincingly. And given that filmmakers under the Production Code had to tiptoe around topics like having a child without being married, the evasions of such key issues became even more ludicrous and artificial. Still, though the movie is fun to watch today because the evasions are so glaring, and because troupers like Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins knew how to make them entertaining. The making of the film is notorious because Davis and Hopkins were constantly feuding over an old wrong: The one losing a coveted role to the other who was also suspected of sleeping with her husband, and so on. Davis is more fun when she's scheming and trying to get even in her movies than when she's suffering and self-sacrificing, so The Old Maid is not one of her juicier films.

#The Old Maid #Edmund Goulding #Bette Davis

[eggsploded]

heiress eternal

#so many thoughts about her #the handmaid #the handmaid homestuck #homestuck ancestors #damara megido #homestuck #egg art #according to hussies book aradia was in contact with the handmaid to receive game instructions #which is interesting considering megidos can speak to the dead and the handmaid is one of the few ancestors alive #so either handmaid channeled a dead aradia or future aradia channeled a dead handmaid #handmaid could of also just manipulated the timeline to make sure aradia was the catalyst for the game being played #or something less more or equally complicated #and without this we just have to assume its maid powers allowing aradia to have flawless instruction of what to do or shes just a #level 3000 gigabrain girl genius at 13 years old #and instead of putting that interaction in the story we got. the dancestor flashes #so im a little miffed about it really

[bixels]

if i may say it. 1 your discord design is hot 2 i know its kind of asynchronous w the story but possible insp for him could be screamin jay hawkins

Felt generous.

#ask me #btmi #discord #mlp #the grand galloping 20s #i'll do fanservice but only on the old men #based on a maid outfit he wears in the show based on a maid outfit he wears in the show #don't read into this

[vapidsoup]

living in hinamizawa must be so fucking funny. its june 1983, youre hanging out with your friends in some fuckass village with zero (0) formal education institutions and being like yeah man im so hyped to go to the watanagashi festival and play the ring toss. hopefully nobody dies from the blood curse for the fifth consecutive year :/ anyways do these cicadas ever shut the fuck up or

#lets go play fucking old maid: IMPOSSIBLE VERSION #anyways fuck okinomiya #hinamizawa gang forever #shitpost #higurashi #higurashi no naku koro ni #all of your friends have brightly colored hair in a town where hair dye is considered devil worshipping #you wanna go to the supermarket? turn left at the godless fetid swamp where a woman killed herself after being kissed by the devil #rikas life is hilarious forreal. sign me up for that time loop #she saw keiichi grab that baseball bat for the fifth hundred and seventy fourth time and said: lets see how this plays out #let him cook actually

[lichdolly]

First of May - Family Restaurant Heart Apron (2002)

#first of may (brand) #sweet lolita #old school lolita #meido #meido fashion #egl community #egl #egl fashion #lolita fashion #maid cafe #kawaii fashion #jfashion #harajuku fashion #alt fashion #aprons #accessories #family restaurant heart apron #my post tag

[yourmaidsp]

Art request: Old man Creek. Tweek nuzzling into Craig's neck. Here's a couple of reference photos. Hope this helps ❤

Yayy my first old man Creek req---

I hope this works--- tried my best on the pose_(:зゝ∠)_ they're quite sweet together!

and as always thanks for the req!

#I'm getting even more creek reqs now so y'all be seeing a lot of them next month #south park #fanart #sp fanart #maid's requests #old man yaoi #sp creek #tweek tweak #craig tucker

[artist-ellen]

The Little Mermaid!

It's so interesting to take a month or two break between these golden-age inspired fairytale illustrations, the small changes in style, even if only i can see them are fascinating.

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok: @ellenartistic

#the little mermaid #old fairytales #ellenart #lnart #fairytales #digital illustration #golden age of illustration #was a big inspiration to this project #little mermaid #the little sea maid #hans christen anderson

[toxi-works-at-culvers]

oh my goodness gracious

#obligatory maid dress drawing #ehehe. love putting that old man in a situation. especially when its embarrassing to him<3 #as you may notice. experimenting with his weight #lmk what you think... #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #artwork #drawing #illustration #artistsupport #fnaf #five nights at freddys #fnaf fanart #william afton #purple guy #william afton fanart

[digiworm]

yeah

#making things transparent for funsies again #nijiura maids #yakui san #yakui the maid #webcore #old web #web graphics #early web #graphics

[davisbette]

BETTE DAVIS, The Old Maid (1939)

#bette davis #the old maid #1930s #*uploads #bestie davis

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The change had come on the day when Charlotte Lovell, cowering on that very lounge, had made her terrible avowal. Then for the first time Delia, with a kind of fearful exaltation, had heard the blind forces of life groping and crying underfoot. But on that day also she had known herself excluded from them, doomed to dwell among shadows. Life had passed her by, and left her with the Ralstons.

Edith Wharton, The Old Maid (Old New York: The Fifties)

#the old maid #old new york #edith wharton #1924 #1920s #20th century #american literature #queue pierce my soul

[reverseoforah]

#damirae #I love maid outfit #old arts

[erineas]

Hey/

Did you see 6 skeletons 1 maid updated?

Thoughts?

I was saving this ask to make a little comic of how that last chapter felt but- lets say it didn't turn out how i wanted. Instead, i just dug out some of my old Maid-chan drawings and stared at them blankly for the next days.

I'm still particularly fixed on this one little page:

Mister Green was my absolute favorite and the only light i saw at the end of her tunnel. He was so kind and sweet, and pretty much the only one that treated her like a person (besides Yellow of course). When i first read this fic so many years ago i didn't trully realized the dark tone of this story but i still chose the only "healthy" option. I wanted MC to be happy and free, and oh how i wanted him to give her that. I held those drawings of him for years imagining a chapter where they would encounter again and that would drive her to a better ending (either skeletons overcoming their issues and treating her with respect or him taking her away).

But then this final chapter appeared and it was... a thing.

(Kinda spoilers for the babes that haven't read it)

First of all, I FINALLY GOT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER BEACH CHAPTERS OMG I NEEDED THAT

Second of all, it didn't look good at all and it was getting worse as I read. But then good because it was a week alone for her to rest and Sans was eating with her?? But also that whole scene reminded me how bad her situation really was so it actually wasn't good at all.

And then the scene that broke me.

I was aware that I wanted her to flee before, but I never thought she could.

It was oddly satisfying, if not a bit anxiety inducing because of the thought that they would caught her eventually. As always.

But then Asgore, and Orange. And nothing...

I got mad that he found her. Which was a weird feeling since I remember liking him a lot. It felt to me like he ruined her good enough ending. But despite that, it makes sense it was him so I don't complain.

What crushed me though, wasn't that she couldn't say goodbye or that Sans got tired of trying to get her back. It was the fact the Gs didn't even try looking for her. They didn't even got mentioned. What happened there, I wonder. Didn't they like her? Care for her? Mister Green wrote her letters, of course he liked her. But then why...?

Suddenly he looked like a fairytale.

The ending was great, finally lending her the ability to choose. It made absolutely everything worth it and the way it was written made me feel like I do have a say in the matter. And for the first time, i didn't choose the skeletons.

I realized she could find her happy ending alone.

(My live reaction)

#Thank you for asking I'm still not over this fic but I'm so relieved we got some kind of closure yknow #Seeing maid-chan after so many years felt like meeting an old friend #and they summarize the hell they went through just to finish it with a “but I'm ok now” #I wanted to hug her so bad #I'm just glad she's free #I still love my skellies duh but I now recognize their highly toxic behavior #I still love Green I would redraw him but damn man where tf are you?! #I'm team Asgore and Chara now #Fuch them everyone else #5am talks #6s1m #That damn woman also had the EGGS to live off of moss and stream water wth