#acting in LA

[katabay]

PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc

to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.

in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.

so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!

that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.

all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.

and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!

Seeing Knights For The First Time

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

The Temptation of Perceval

Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)

The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Perceval and Gender, etc.

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

On Wounds

Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges

The Red Knight

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice

The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell

#long post #GOD IS IT A LONG POST #i am so so sorry for that. #knights knights knights! #komiks tag #blood cw #if it wasn't clear: i dislike galahad so much. he represents so much i cant stand and worst of all he ROBBED MY MAN #OF HIS NARRATIVE #but like. what's christianity but theft acting uwu innocent about all the shit they did tbqh #fucking. la croix jesus christ over here. #sir perceval

[bey-life]

#beyoncé #beyonce #website #update #act ii #act 2 #las vegas #looks #february 2024

[cirkkaa]

About the traveler...

#about lumine´s arrival and a skeptical kaeya #:) #my art #genshin impact #look it´s an actual comic #my inspiration for this was bc i play traveler lumine i wondered if kaeya could recognize an inteyvat #When i first played act 1 i didn´t like kaeya bc he was too bitchy to traveler who was just being kind and he just.. lied man.. #i hate him sm (I have accepted him in my heart) #kaeya #lumine #diluc #a mitad de esto me salen con las noticias del hangout pueden imaginar mi disbelief

[keepthedelta]

"las vegas has delivered on every level" it didn't even deliver on the osha compliance level let's not get ahead of ourselves

#i liked the race but let's not act like it was the greatest race of all time #it wasn't even the greatest nighttime street race this season #las vegas gp 2023

[thaliasthunder]

just rewatched pjo and istg it's like rick said "okay act" and dior said "BET"

#now THATS acting #i never thought i'd say this but #i think clarisse is my fav character now #at least in the show #because girl?????? #shes an icon shes a legend #and she is the moment #clarisse la rue #dior goodjohn #pjo #percy jackson #hoo #pjo/hoo #rick riordan #riordanverse #annabeth chase #grover underwood

[tgoldwalker]

Chris Pratt has a Brooklyn accent as Mario in the same way that la croix has fruit flavors

#chris pratt #crisp rat #super mario #mario movie #voice acting #la croix #mario bros #mario bros movie

[moron-rights]

end cards please, an epilogue, please, I’m begging

#forgive me I haven’t drawn in months #but I had to act quick #I tried to do it a la dragon age trespasser slides style #the captions are kinda cringe but I didn’t know what to do and I was trying to keep them vague enough to fit the smaller details in #so I chose the major ish options #bg3 #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #spoilers #morights #I’ll clean them up later…. maybe….. fix it….in post….. #doing this made me realise how insanely difficult it is to stuff in a neutral character that represents tav #esp when tav can be so many races with tails or horns or big or small or masculine or feminine #or claws. #larian studios

[curlywhirly]

Saw this on Twitter and needed to share

#wwdits #wwdits s5 #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #nandermo #when guillermo acts like himself nandor cannot stop thinking about him #verrrry interesting

[beansprean]

guillermo? hurting someone on purpose because they hurt him on accident? really truly earning his title as king of good communication

My Familiar’s Ghost part 71

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ID: 1a. Knees up of Guillermo standing by the coffin, the edge of Nandor's shoulder close up in the foreground. The pillow-loaded settee and closed crypt door are lit warmly behind. Guillermo looks down with a scowl, face darkened by shadow, lips peeling back from new fangs as his shaking hands clench into fists at his side. After a moment of silence, he says, '...I gave you a thousand chances, Nandor.' 1b. Close up on Guillermo as he looks up, tears streaking down his face and eyes iced over into a glowing platinum gold. He glares as hard as he is capable of, snarling out cruelly, 'But I don't need you. I never did.' The background has turned solid black with a white starburst lashing out in the direction of Guillermo's words. 1c. Shoulders up of Nandor from the back on a mottled dark red background, still turned away from Guillermo. From offscreen, Guillermo spits, 'Still nothing to say?' Nandor visibly straightens, steeling himself. 1d. Repeat, slightly closer, as Nandor turns to face Guillermo and the viewer at last. Tears are running down his face and clearly have been for a while, eyes flashing pinkish-red as he glares at Guillermo and snarls, 'I have many things I would like to say to you.'

2a. Reverse shot, the edge of Nandor's shoulder and hair close up and blurred in the foreground as he looms over Guillermo. Guillermo, waist up, takes an instinctual step back, left fist rising up slightly in defense as he struggles to maintain his glare. The background is in focus behind him, the door getting closer. Nandor advances, continuing, 'Namely...' 2b. Shoulders up of both in profile as Nandor leans close, dark red background becoming splattered with lighter red. He glares icily at Guillermo with their noses less than an inch apart, a tear still pooled in his eye, and hisses, 'Get out.' His speech bubble is black with white text. Guillermo leans back, angry expression dropped for one of fear and confusion.

3a. Low shot from the hallway outside Nandor's room as the door suddenly crashes open, Guillermo flying out backwards as if pushed and smashing into the opposite wall, snapping the legs on a hall table and sending books and candles flying everywhere. 3b. Low shot angled down the hallway as Guillermo slams into the floor on his stomach, table collapsing down the wall behind him. Blood spurts out between his clenched fangs as he bites his tongue on impact, new glasses flying off his face and bouncing to the floor. 3b. Zoom out to wide. There is a visible crash site against the wall where Guillermo was thrown, dust and drywall settling on him, the floor, and the smashed chunks of the table and its contents. Guillermo sits up on his hands and knees and slips his glasses back on, a trail of blood dribbling down his chin and one lapel pin snapped loose and dangling from his collar. He looks over toward Nandor's room only to see the door slam definitively shut, sending the chandelier rocking in the background. /end ID

#wwdits #my familiars ghost #nandermo #mlm #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #what we do in the shadows #what we do in the shadows fx #my art #fanart #fan comic #image described #congrats to everyone who was like 'oh hes totally crying and trying to hide it' u were RIGHT #when ur trying to act aloof in an argument bc if u speak u will weep openly but u end up making him even madder

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

pondering

#redacted audio #redacted asmr #redactedverse #art #illustration #redacted sam #sam collins #samuel collins #i guess he's fucking off then #praying to whatever god is left to hear me that sam doesnt have his own spinoff season a la coral palms #then come back to solve [issue] and everyone is friends again yay! #moving the cast around was probably necessary but im not a fan of jarring third act splits #bc either sam and darlin peace out indefinitely (unlikely) or are driven back towards william by an external force #i dunno man

[killthekilljoy]

They're much easier to drain and kill when they're not wriggling around

#Nandor is finally in his acts of service era #and I'm living for it #nandor wwdits #wwdtis #wwdits spoilers #wwditsedit #guillermo wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandermo #guillermo x nandor #nandor x guillermo #nandor #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #guillermo #my posts

[bey-life]

#beyoncé #beyonce #website #update #las vegas #act 2 #act ii #february 2024

[hotcinnamonsunset]

the nutcracker ballet but make it knitwear💜🩰

#knitting #knitblr #wip #the pattern is march of the nutcrackers on ravelry #i’m mostly just impressed that i managed to write a pattern that made me feel just as insane about the nutcracker as i did deep in #the throes of show week😅 #and as always. it’s full of a few fun details! #the raglan shaping is twisted like candy canes a la Land of the Sweets in Act II. the nutcrackers themselves in all their spooky glory. #and my favorite! the march of the nutcracker theme on the cuffs - the left sleeve has base staff notes & the right has treble staff notes🎹

[nativehueofresolution]

i think there's an interesting connective thread between sarah snook saying she thinks shiv just reads whatever's currently popular and got people talking ("everyone's reading this? all right, fine."), and alan ruck saying he thinks connor only reads books that are very old and considered classics - that way he doesn't have to decide if it has literary merit, because everyone else has already decided it's a seminal work. like, it takes them in the opposite direction when looking for materials, but in both cases they're being driven by a desire to not have to have original artistic tastes or opinions and just defer to someone else's judgements. which is just so telling?

shiv can be a bit of a black sheep politically, but she arrived there by just trying to define herself in opposition to her family; it's an indirect way of having someone else decide for you to keep trying to do the opposite of what's expected. it requires little in the way of genuine beliefs, which is why she flips very easily when it's convenient. connor meanwhile just wants any scrap of attention he can get, which is why he brings up random trivia or collects bizarre historical items. he likes to be able to just say or have something that gets people's attention, without having to provide any real explanation or show understanding. and i think it's interesting how that carries over into things like entertainment or art - the lack of self conception makes it hard to do things like pick up a random book you've never heard of because it looks interesting.

#succession #connor roy #shiv roy #roman meanwhile has never read a book. his reign of terror in la i think had more to do w him being difficult #than him having genuine artistic opinions about kids movies #though i'd love to know more about that era of his life #kendall i think is similar to shiv but with more of a pop culture movies/tv slant #and i think he is probably hipstery in some ways and tries to act above the mainstream #but he's just getting his recs by going off of who everyone says is an auteur #he is also incapable of just like sitting and having a reaction to a work of art #kaitlin speaks

[dasakuryo]

Everyone, please, go watch La Sociedad de la Nieve (Society of the Snow). It's such a deeply moving and powerful movie, hopeful yet heartbreaking, about the Tragedy of the Andes. All the cast (Uruguayan and Argentinean actors) did a phenomenal and extraordinary job (lost count of the times I cried while watching the film), and Bayona's work is incredible.

#every single actor was beyond amazing #imo Enzo Vogrincic and Matías Recalt's acting truly broke me 😭😭 #latam tag #la sociedad de la nieve #society of the snow #huge thanks to lau for the gifs!

[bottombaron]

Something about Nadja mentioning trying to lose her virginity multiple times on a beach in Antipaxos in episode 2

Something about Nadja's ghost wanting to lose her virginity too this season (meaning Nadja never had sex before she was a vampire), as seen from the trailers

Something about her relationship with her Sire, The Baron, knowing they had/have a sexual relationship and that he was most likely the one she lost her virginity to

Something about how Guillermo's turning is framed as a metaphor for his first time having sex

Something about her and Guillermo having time to possibly talk about all this in episode 5

#guillermo de la cruz #nadja of antipaxos #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #guillermo and nadja's relationship is one of the most underrated and most important to me #i really really want them to connect on this and everything that guillermo expected from his turning and the virginity metaphor #and how nadja probably only felt comfortable truly acting on her sexuality when she was a vampire #i think her and guillermo actually have a lot in common especially when she was human #she actually has so much insecurity that she acts out as this ambition for power and status to hide how fragile she actually feels #i love her so much and if nandor and laszlo are getting serious emotional moments with guillermo i want her to too