Wuthering Heights is a story that spans 31 years and encompasses the main characters’ childhoods and adulthoods, and every adaptation must make its own decision on at which point to age Heathcliff and Cathy up.
In relistening, I have noticed that the 1995 radio drama ages them up between Mr. Earnshaw’s death and their visit to Thrushcross Grange. There are 6 weeks between those two events. It seems that Heathcliff’s voice dropped in those 6 weeks. It is not impossible, he is 13 years old, but it is funny nevertheless. It makes some sense, their visit to Thrushcross Grange is Heathcliff’s first big speech, they might have wanted to give it to the adult actor.
Personally I am adamant in my belief that the moment to age them up is Chapter 8. In the Christmas episode (Chapter 7) they are still very much children and are treated as such. In Chapter 8 there is romantic tension and talk of love and marriage. Cathy and Heathcliff also age from 12 to 15 and 13 to 16 respectively in that time jump. It is the ideal place to age them up and it is frustrating that no adaptation except the 1978 BBC one sees it.
imagine for a moment. A world where sunny came out like 15 years earlier. exactly the same show but macdennis was born in the world of fanzines and newletters so all the fanart of them boning each other is done in the weird photorealistic pencil drawn style you get in old fashioned zines and such. where the faces are always nearly there. but not quite right bc they didnt have google images
think about it man!!!!!!!!!! we used to be a real country
So on one hand, there are two characters that I love who are both fun, stabby redheads of vaguely similar ages who died and then came back to life, who have *issues* regarding their sibling, and who are in dire need of therapy. And I think it would be really funny to write a fic where the two of them meet.
on the other hand, Ziggy Berman would fucking hate Jerome’s guts and I can’t think of any plausible reason for them to ever be in a room together.
The way both Poly Styrene and Viv Albertine had a crush on Johnny Rotten. I hate to say it, but I kinda get it .
Janet Street-Porter, Mary Harron, and Ari Up too. there was just smth about him in the 70s thats like catnip. i want to throw beer bottles at him (positive...this is a safe zone for those who are affectionate towards him)
"AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, [ROBERT E.] HOWARD CREATED A HEROINE CALLED RED SONJA OF ROGATINE..."
PIC INFO: Resolution at 1280x1741 -- Spotlight on a pin-up of Red Sonja the She-Devil, over the years as a comic-book heroine, from "Marvel Treasury Edition" Vol. 1 #19 ["Conan the Barbarian"]. October, 1978. Marvel Comics.
L to R: Artwork by Roy G. Krenkel✝, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Frank Thorne✝.
"As most of you know, Howard created a heroine called Red Sonja of Rogatine, in a story set in the 16th century. And now, Marvel presents the adventures of Red Sonja, the Hyrkanian -- as seen here in both the colorful suits of mini-armor she has worn in the sword-and-sorcery '70s!"
The year is 3027. The world has lost much, but gained more. And some still remember one of the most tragic defeats of the Plague Years…. The fall of the great paradise of Souppe Lantation. It was a place where people came and went like an ever-circling tide. Liminality and community and peaceful, warm solitude.
Travelers, locals, friends, loners, salad-lovers and dessert-lovers, the great enemy nations of Pizza pizza and Pineapple pizza. All found a place to love here. They say there was an entire front hallway of fantastical salad, beautifully badly designed tomato-patterned furniture, a steaming counter made of shiny metal that held pits of soup, a table where focaccia pizza was eaten and replaced in short order by a new plate, like a magic cornucopia of legend… a table of desserts adults told children not to eat too many of, but were happily accessible… an entire mechanical compartment devoted to seasonal “ice creams”…. A large soda fountain, where you could mix and match preferred flavors and refill your cup into eternity, like you were Ponce De Leon glugging the water of a cherry-flavored fountain of youth….. an entire serving table dedicated to baked potatoes, a subject of humorous ritual devotion for many years… and most blessedly, a clean bathroom.
It mattered not from whence you came or where you headed. This place with its electric lights tinted the warmth of a cozy hearth, its plush yet stiff booths, occasionally a patio, food to pillow your stomach beyond hunger & thirst’s wildest dreams and desires… a strange sense of solitude and community. Of artificiality made human-like and tangible by the tradition and community of sharing a table in a place where you were feeling good. Like the fleeting rays of sun as they wash through a window, patterned so that it reflects dough-scented prisms of memory.
A true paradise, a self-contradiction in impermanence and lasting memory, the truly cold inauthenticity of business and the authenticity of the people that try their hardest to make the most of life despite all the bad in the world, with family dinners and a “have an amazing day” and a buzz of chatter and laughter and the clatter of forks. A constructed fakeness of a place and idea and the subsequent real emotion & joy of the people and things that fill it, flesh it out. It feels like stories and laughs at a table. Warm soup that matches warm comforting lighting. Trying not to fall asleep in a booth from the coziness and comfort of the company of family or happy strangers the next table over. Being surrounded by one of the oldest facets of humanity like a warm, snugly-fitting sweater: community and comfort, whether material or immaterial.
Most Fear Street fans believe that Nick makes a deal with the Devil so that he can save Ziggy, but no one has any idea as to why since her survival put him and his family's secret at risk. With Nick also having evoked the curse on Tommy way before Ziggy was stabbed, shouldn't that have meant another person should have been possessed as he made another deal? Either Ziggy's survival was a medical miracle or this is an unresolved plothole.
I didn't know that this film is very pink🌸. I love John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's chemistry. They are really talented. The soundtrack in this musical film is sublime. I love the fact behind my most favorite, Hopelessly Devoted To You. I can say that the storyline is not that sturdy, it's like a coming-of-age teeny-themed film but we can't deny that the cast assemble is great. Their skills in different aspects surely blends to each other. Hands down to the cinematography in late 70s.
Also it’s so funny cuz the music other people use for James compilations is soooo different from the music I put in his playlist. All of theirs is 90’s music. And mine is mid to late seventies ahdjfl