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forthegothicheroine · 1 year

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Do you have any gothic novels that you can recommend off the top of your head? Especially to people who want to try their hand at the genre? I've hit a wall in my project and I need to get some fresh inspiration, but I don't know where to start and the book side of tumblr failed me the last time I tried asking them for recs

Hell yeah! I made some old posts for this a while back, but it's good to look at it again with my more recent taste! Let's see...

Classic Gothics

Dracula: The one, the only. Often imitated, never equalled.

Frankenstein: Short, sad and world changing! Can get a little slow at parts, but definitely worth it. (True story, my parents read this to me as a fetus to calm my kicking, so it's part of my personal mythology!)

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: The most gothic of Lovecraft's work, and possibly my favorite. Novella length, usually found in collections.

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Sinister, sexy, philosophical, with a main character I want to punch in the face!

Carmilla: Another novella, about as lush and swooning as vampire stories get.

The Hound of the Baskervilles: A very readable gothic mystery.

Confessions of a Justified Sinner: This one isn't as action packed, but if you have big religious issues like me, it's incredibly haunting.

The Monk: Like the above, but sleazier and crazier!

Northanger Abbey: A gentle parody of early gothics, starring an adorable proto-goth girl.

The Italian: I'll be honest, I find Anne Radcliffe kind of a slog, but if you liked Northanger Abbey and want to read what Catherine Morland reads, this is probably the most accessible.

A Long Fatal Love Chase: This starts as campy and then takes a plunge into gut-wrenchingly intense. The book Jo March was always trying to write!

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Another novella, and Stevenson is one of the best writers out there for excitement!

The Werewolf of Paris: Gothic monster as serial killer, still scary today.

Rebecca: The foundation of all gothic romance to come afterwards. A ghost story without a ghost, with an ending that's still debated as happy or sad!

Jane Eyre: The other foundation of all gothic romance to come afterwards. I bounced off the child abuse-heavy beginning a few times, but I'm very glad I finally read to the good stuff!

The Castle of Otranto: Considered the first gothic novel, a goofy b-movie in written form.

Modern-ish Gothics (post-1950 or so)

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein: Fuck the haters, I love this book.

Mexican Gothic: Genuinely scary, genuinely romantic, genuinely creative. A favorite.

Blackwater: A southern gothic saga of a family in a flooded town, whose scion marries a woman who isn't quite human. A whirlwind ride!

A Bloodsmoor Romance: Another family saga, this one northern gothic, with sisters whose lives all go off the rails in different supernatural ways. Give this a try before writing Joyce Carol Oates off entirely!

The Silver Devil: A nasty, problematic bodice ripper where you'll cheer for the heroine to bring the hero down low!

Interview with the Vampire: To be honest again, I'm not super into Anne Rice, but this is a page-turner, and every vampire book that has come after it has had to respond to it in one way or another. Read the next two Vampire Chronicles books if you like it!

A Taste of Blood Wine: My own preferred sexy vampire romance!

The Bloody Chamber: The ultimate dark sexy fairy tale work, accept no substitutes.

Haunted Castles: Contains the brilliant novella Sardonicus, as well as some other campy gothic stories!

A Great and Terrible Beauty: Many millennials were introduced to the gothic genre via this, Fear Street Sagas, or A Series of Unfortunate Events. This is my favorite of the three, though the sequels are a bit of a letdown.

Gormenghast: This series is a throwback to the pseudo-medieval, Otranto-style gothic, but much better. Don't read Titus Alone.

#books #gothic literature

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fictionaldogcompetition · 7 months

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Contestants!

Below the cut is the contestants and their matches!

Each poll will be 1 week long, and they'll go out 10 at a time. The exact date and time polls will start going up is a little up in the air right now, because I'm going out of town over the weekend. So they might begin as early as Monday 18th, but probably not later than Wednesday 20th. I'll let you know the night before.

Anyway, just think of this delay as time to write propaganda ahead of your dog's poll going up!

Ruff Ruffman (Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman) vs Muttley (Wacky Races)

Snowy (Tintin series) vs Dog (Columbo)

Maliketh, The Black Blade (Elden Ring) vs Wolfie (Until Dawn)

Unnamed Dog/The Imitator (The Thing) vs Whisper the Wolf (Sonic IDW comics)

Queen Teatinu (Healin Good Precure) vs Nigou/Tetsuya 2 (Kuroko no Basket)

Melody Amaranth (Super Lesbian Animal RPG) vs Pappy van Poodle (Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball)

Sunkist (HLVRAI) vs Dog that can Drive (Drawfee)

Hylian Retriever (Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) vs Wolf (Minecraft)

Bee/Bay (Dragon Ball Z) vs Shadow (Homeward Bound)

Blue (Blue's Clues) vs Ein (Cowboy Bebop)

Snoopy (Peanuts) vs Clifford (Clifford the Big Red Dog)

Argos (The Odyssey) vs Barkspawn (Dragon Age)

Diogee (Milo Murphy's Law) vs Winston (Hannibal)

Good Boy (DuckTales) vs Bear (Person of Interest)

Daisy & Winnie (The Mistholme Museum Podcast) vs Heidi & Jackie (Hello from the Hallowoods)

Missile (Ghost Trick) vs Sparky (Frankenweenie)

Bond (Spy X Family) vs Goddard (Jimmy Neutron)

Scratch (Baldur’s Gate 3) vs Iggy (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Cujo (Danny Phantom) vs Cujo (Cujo (1983))

Momiji Inubashiri (Touhou Project) vs Tequila/Ernesto Salas (Arknights)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes) vs Scooby Doo (Scooby Doo media)

Shrimp (The Upturned) vs Holidog (Holiday World)

Rapunzel the Corgi (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) vs K9 (Doctor Who)

Blue (Wolf’s Rain) vs Shiba-Warrior Taro (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Annoying Dog (Undertale) vs Old Dan & Little Ann (Where the Red Fern Grows)

Chou Chou (Shoujo Cosette (Les Miserables anime)) vs Porthos (Star Trek: Enterprise)

Pompompurin (Sanrio) vs Krypto (DC)

Sorry-oo (Moomin) vs Tau (Palia)

Jake the Dog (Adventure Time) vs Lesser dog (Undertale)

Noodle (Nona the Ninth/The Locked Tomb series) vs Nina Tucker/Alexander (FullMetal Alchemist)

Lucky the Pizza Dog (Marvel Comics) vs Seymour (Futurama)

Wishbone (Wishbone Series) vs Angelo (Final Fantasy VIII)

Ox (Dimension 20: Unsleeping City) vs Hewie (Haunting Ground)

Bingpup (The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System) vs Elena (Spiritfarer)

Barnaby B. Beagle (Welcome Home) vs Charlie B. Barkin (All Dogs Go to Heaven)

Polterpup (Luigi’s Mansion) vs Gromit (Wallace and Gromit)

Santa’s Little Helper (The Simpsons) vs Slink/Slinky Dog (Toy Story)

Courage (Courage the Cowardly Dog) vs Twig (Hilda)

Zosimos/Zozo (The Glass Scientists webcomic) vs The BTS Wolves (Midnight Burger)

Unnamed Dog (Teletubbies) vs Shigure Souma (Fruits basket)

Dachsbun (Pokemon) vs Hector J. Peabody (Mr. Peabody & Sherman)

Inuyasha (Inuyasha) vs Frank the Pug (Men in Black)

Sam (Sam and Max) vs Barnabas (The Sandman)

Duck Hunt Dog (Duck Hunt) vs Mira (Silent Hill 2)

Fairy (Mo Dao Zu Shi) vs Shiloh (Shiloh series)

Makkachin (Yuri!!! On Ice) vs Becquerel/Bec (Homestuck)

Rush (Mega Man) vs Dogmeat (Fallout 4)

Dog (Good Omens) vs Zamazenta (Pokemon)

#fictionaldogcompetition #tumblr polls #dogs #masterpost #edit: forgot to say this but if youve followed my other tourneys #you may notice some returning champs

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ultimate-good-dog · 10 months

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Ultimate Good Dog Official Bracket

Preliminaries are closed!

The Bracket is done!

I did my best to seed the bracket but i'm p. new at it so like, i did my best

The matchups!

Side A

Cerberus (Greek Mythology) Vs Aralez (Armenian Mythology)

Cheedle (HunterxHunter) Vs Sam (Sam and Max)

Nina And Alexander (Fullmetal Alchemist) Vs The Husky (The Thing)

The Disreputable Dog Vs the Hound of Baskerville

Akamaru (Naruto) Vs Missile (Ghost Trick)

Mrs O'Leary (Percy Jackson) Vs Dog (Good Omens)

Ruff Ruffman (Fetch!) Vs Diogee (Milo Murphy's law)

This is Fine Dog (Gunshow) Vs Snoopy (Peanuts)

Terriermon (Digimon) Vs Growlithe (Pokemon)

Clifford (Clifford the big red dog) Vs Spot (Spot the dog)

Jake the Dog (adventure time) Vs Becquerel (Homestuck)

Bandit Heeler (bluey) Vs Bluey Heeler (bluey)

K-9 (looney Tunes) Vs K-9 (doctor Who)

Stitch Pelekai (Lilo and Stitch) Vs Blue (Blue's clues)

Seymour Asses (Futurama) Vs Balto (Balto)

Naga (Legend of Korra) Vs Wishbone (Wishbone)

Side B

Polterpup (Luigi's Mansion) Vs Pugsley (Paranormal Park)

Courage (Courage the cowardly dog) Vs Annoying Dog (Undertale)

Miss Rosa (Night in the Woods) Vs Dr Doppler (Treasure Planet)

Slinky Dog (Toy Story) Vs Monchie Mitchel (the Mitchels Vs the Machines)

Cerberus (Hades) Vs Hayabusa (Okami)

Toby (Ace Attourney) Vs Isabelle (Animal Crossing)

Toto (Wizard of Oz) Vs Perrito (Puss n Boots: the last wish)

Dug (Up) Vs Pongo & Perdita (101 Dalmations)

Odie (Garfield) Vs Dogmatix (Asterix)

Daikichi & Dog Ninja (Ensemble Stars & Rhythm Heaven) Vs Sunkist (Half Life but the AI are self aware)

Cujo (Danny Phantom) Vs Waffles (moonglow Bay)

Bond (SpyxFamily) Vs Koromaru (Persona 3)

Scrappy Doo (Scooby doo where are you) Vs Scooby Doo (Scooby doo where are you)

Bear (Person of Interest) Vs Rex (Inspector Rex)

Puppycat (Bee and Puppycat) Vs Grommit (Wallace and Grommit)

Porthos (Star Trek: Enterprise) Vs Queequeg (X-files)

#tumblr polls #ultimate good dog #tumblr tournament #mod doggo #tumblr bracket #dog bracket

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dathen · 1 year

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You know I had figured it was generally patriarchal that Holmes would help the women in his cases by being like “no I won’t tell you what’s going on, just do exactly as I tell you and trust me,” but in Hound of the Baskervilles he’s done the same to several men, including a) a lord and b) his best friend (whom he trusts more than anyone else and whose intelligence he has a very high opinion of). So it’s more just his modus operandi that he doesn’t trust others to effectively feign ignorance or lie when playing a role.

#sherlock holmes #acd holmes #dath reads sherlock holmes #hound of the baskervilles

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bakerstreetbabble · 3 years

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Granada TV Series Review: "The Final Problem" (S02, E06)

IT IS with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.

With these words, Arthur Conan Doyle began what was originally intended to b the last Sherlock Holmes adventure. As the story goes, by 1893, Conan Doyle had grown tired of the impact that his Holmes adventures were having on what he considered to be his "serious" writing. It was apparently after a trip to the Alps with his wife that he was inspired to kill off his famous creation at the majestic Reichenbach Falls. In so doing, he created a villain who, despite the small number of times he appears in the Holmes stories, became the great detective's most infamous nemesis: Professor Moriarty.

Backlash to the publication of "The Final Problem," which featured the (apparent) death of Sherlock Holmes, was swift and enormous. The Strand Magazine was inundated with complaints and subscription cancellations. Reportedly, many people could be seen around London wearing mourning clothes, due to the death of their beloved hero. Conan Doyle eventually felt enough pressure from his fans, that he published what is arguable his greatest Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, in 1901. As that novel was a flashback to an earlier adventure, rather than a true "resurrection," it still wasn't enough for Sherlock fans. In 1903, Sherlock Holmes truly returned in "The Adventure of the Empty House," in which it was revealed that the brilliant sleuth had not, in fact, died at the hands of Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls.

Which brings us to the wrap-up of the first series of Granada Sherlock Holmes adaptations. "The Final Problem" (1985) is a fitting finale to the second season of that first series. It would prove to be David Burke's final performance as Dr. Watson. Edward Hardwicke took over the role for the second series, entitled (appropriately enough) The Return of Sherlock Holmes, which began airing in 1986. Burke turns in an excellent final performance as the good doctor, and as he takes pen to paper to write "The Final Problem" and bid farewell to his friend, the gravitas is palpable.

Jeremy Brett is in absolutely top form throughout the episode. One wonders if the series had been renewed by this point, or if he also felt that the episode may be his last chance to play Holmes, as well. Whatever the case, he is spectacular. Eric Porter turns in a menacing performance as Professor Moriarty. Overall, the episode is a fantastic adaptation of this most pivotal story, despite a rather clunky special effect that happens when Holmes and Moriarty go over the Falls. The stuntpeople are obviously suspended by wires for their "fall," and the bodies that hit the bottom are clearly dummies. Still, I imagine most of their budget was spent on the gorgeous aerial shots of the Swiss Alps, and what looks to be plenty of location shooting in Switzerland for the second half of the episode.

Despite the climactic ending of the story, there really isn't a whole lot going on in much of the original story, so the writers are forced to pad things out quite a bit. As a result, we have a rather lengthy and unusual sequence after the three attempts on Holmes' s life in London, wherein Holmes recovers the stolen Mona Lisa(!) Indeed, it is that event that precipitates Moriarty's decision in the episode to "dispose" of his nemesis.

I suspect, if you were only to choose to watch a few episodes of the Granada series, "The Final Problem" would be a must-see installment to have on your list. Or you could choose to do what I am doing: watch them all on YouTube!

Incidentally, as next week is Holy Week and I am a church musician, my schedule is going to be very busy next weekend. Therefore, I am not planning on doing a review next Saturdaay. I will resume my reviews the weekend after Easter, as I move on to the second series, The Return of Sherlock Holmes. I hope you'll join me!

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#jeremy brett #granada holmes #The Final Problem #Youtube

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thecloudedkokoro · 7 months

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Some thoughts about my version of Lady Baskerville!

Her name is Charlotte, named after Charles Baskerville from the Doyle Hound of the Baskerville story.

She was a very lonely child. Her father traveled the country a lot, leaving her alone with her mother, who cared more about the family's reputation than her daughter.

He had several affairs here and there, one of which eventually ended with the woman getting pregnant. The rumors started when she tried to contact him, though he really didn´t want to have anything to do with this child of a working-class woman.

The thought of her having a brother somewhere made Lady B happy, and she spent her time imagining what it would be like to meet him.

They only get to be in contact years later, when she´s finally able to search him out. She deeply regrets that she couldn´t meet him sooner and wants to build a real family relationship with him.

He, on the other hand, believes that she should stay away from him

She´s a fine lady after all, and he gave up trying to be an earnest man long ago.

The closer she tries to get, the more he tries to get away from her, and they´re both just SO incredibly stubborn, neither of them wants to give up!

Maybe there´s hope that they can eventually build something like a familial bond?

#Lady Baskerville #the great ace attorney #tgaa #dai gyakuten saiban #dgs #the great ace attorney 2 #tgaa 2 #dai gyakuten saiban 2 #dgs 2 #just mina thoughts

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lauriemorganthal · 8 months

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[billy crudup - 52 - he/him] Introducing LAURIE MORGANTHAL. Word on the street is they are an EDITOR & PUBLISHER & CEO, having been around for THIRTY-FOUR YEARS. Despite an otherwise clear record, sometimes they are known to engage with THE BROTHERHOOD's affairs. Though they are A WORKAHOLIC and RESERVED, they can also be CHARMING and ECCENTRIC. In the chaos of New York City, they're sure to fit right in.

[ sky - 23 - she/her - gmt - no triggers ]

tw: abuse, alcoholism ↴

✧･ﾟ— B A S I C S

— NAME: Florian Henry Morganthal

— NICKNAME/S: Laurie (preferred name)

— D.O.B.: 24th August 1971 (age 52)

— GENDER, PRONOUNS, SEXUALITY: Cis male, he/him, bicurious

— HOMETOWN: Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

— AFFILIATION: Gang - The Brotherhood

— JOB POSITION: Editor & Publisher ; CEO of Empire State Books

— EDUCATION: Bachelors and Masters in English Literature from NYU

✧･ﾟ— P E R S O N A L I T Y

— MBTI: INTP – the logician

— POSITIVE TRAITS: Eccentric, charming, creative, patient, observant

— NEGATIVE TRAITS: Meticulous, reserved, calculated, ambitious, a workaholic

✧･ﾟ— F A M I L Y

— MOTHER: Nancy Alexandra Morganthal (née Harrison)

— FATHER: Mitchell Robert Morganthal

— EX-WIFE: Emily ‘Emmy’ Isabelle McGregor (formerly Morganthal)

✧･ﾟ— A P P E A R A N C E

— FACECLAIM: Billy Crudup

— EYE COLOUR: Brown

— HAIR COLOUR: Black with flecks of grey at the temples

— BUILD: Average

— HEIGHT: 5’ 10”

— SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: A 7cm vertical scar on his left forearm from a tree climbing accident he had as a child

— BODY MODIFICATIONS: N/A

— CLOTHING:

✧･ﾟ— F A V O U R I T E S

— FOOD: Apples (and apple related desserts)

— DRINK: Scotch whisky

— BOOK: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

— FILM: Schindler’s List (1993)

— TV SHOW: Justified (2010-2015)

— SEASON: Autumn

— COLOUR: Blue

✧･ﾟ— B I O G R A P H Y

— Laurie was born at 5:55pm on 24th August 1971 in Daytona Beach, FL, to Mitchell and Nancy Morganthal. He is their only child.

— As a young boy, Laurie spent many a day at the beach. He mainly went with his friends under the supervision of their parents and spent hours digging trenches in the sand and snorkelling in the sea. He always finds the beach relaxing and, as an adult, wishes he would go more often.

— Laurie grew up wanting to be a pilot like this father. For Halloween he would dress up as a captain and would get his father’s name tag to pin to the jacket. Despite idolising his father, Mitch was away for work for a lot of the time and Laurie’s mother grew paranoid. She began to think he was purposely staying away and having affairs. He always seemed to be making excuses and disappointed both Nancy and Laurie. He missed birthdays and anniversaries and didn’t seem to care very much. Laurie always felt conflicted: Mitch was his father but he was an absent father and figuring out how to feel about the situation was more confusing than anything else.

— Nancy would take out her anger and frustration about Mitch on Laurie. He endured shouting, screaming, and sobbing, and very rarely suffered physical abuse, but when he did he would hide under his bed sheets or in his wardrobe. He would often sneak around the house just so his mother didn’t see him and accidentally trigger a response in her. He never had any lasting physical scars, but the emotional ones were there for life.

— It was during this period of turmoil when Laurie found an escape in books. Thanks to his teacher at school, he was encouraged to read more and instead of spending time with other children he was tucked away in a corner somewhere with a book. He quickly went from falling behind in class to being the student with the highest grades in reading and writing.

— He was bullied for being a ‘nerd’ amongst other things and, against his nature, Laurie punched an older boy in the nose when he stole Laurie’s favourite book from him. Nobody physically messed with him again, but he was still called names and teased until he was 12.

— As he got older, Laurie’s relationship with his mother began to fail. She was drinking a lot, lost her job at a law firm, and was between shifts at local beachside restaurants and bars. At night, Laurie had to put himself to bed when his mother went out to work and had to cook his own meals (eventually being helped by a neighbour who took pity on both him and Nancy and volunteered to assist them).

— Nancy had every right to be paranoid, however, because Mitch was having affairs. She threw his stuff out for him to collect and changed the locks on the doors. He tried to apologise and make up for his so-called mistakes, but Nancy put her foot down. She stopped Mitch from seeing Laurie and kicked him out of their lives for good.

— When he was 9, Laurie’s parents divorced. Despite what she had said about Mitch in anger and hatred and in gratitude for getting rid of him, Nancy was always an emotional wreck. She often cried when she thought Laurie was asleep and would stay in bed most days. Laurie himself, when he wasn’t at school, took care of his mother in the best way he could as neither of them had any other family.

— Laurie didn’t see his father again until his 16th birthday. Mitch showed up to the house uninvited, but because Laurie wanted him there Nancy couldn’t object. Mitch’s gift to his son was the promise of a college education; he had set aside money to be used in another two years for Laurie to go to whatever university he wanted. They both knew by then that Laurie was no longer pursuing his childhood dream of being a pilot and Laurie told his father about his passion for literature. Mitch was supportive and was thrilled that Laurie wanted to go to NYU. Their relationship never fully healed from the strain it took when Laurie was a child, but the two were civil and Mitch never saw Nancy unless absolutely necessary.

— Laurie found popularity at NYU when he started his English Literature degree. He lived in halls of residence and gained many friends from across all different courses, but mainly in English courses. After promising himself not to drink after what happened with his mother, he was peer pressured into partying and consuming alcohol. He never became a heavy drinker, but sometimes found it difficult to stop drinking once he started, but this was usually only the case when he was particularly stressed or angry. He also went out with his first girlfriend during his first year.

— Following his graduation and after struggling to find a job for months (after taking shifts at a diner to earn money) Laurie landed an opportunity at a small publishing house in the city. He started from the bottom, essentially doing the mundane tasks before being being given a chance to do ‘real’ work. The senior members at this company trained him and taught him all the tricks of the trade and set him up for life. Today, that particular company no longer exists as it went bankrupt, but Laurie himself employs several of his old colleagues in his own successful company out of gratitude.

— Laurie lived with an old roommate at the time, which made it slightly easier to pay rent, and through that friend at a Christmas party he met his eventual wife, Emmy, who was starting out in her career as a cardiologist. They were mad for each other; they dated for two years and were engaged for a little over a year before getting married and taking their honeymoon in Italy.

— Emmy wanted a children and also to move closer to her parents in Austin, TX, but Laurie’s mind was fixated on his work. He was rarely out of the office and even when he was he was cooped up in his study at home. Their relationship broke quickly; Laurie and Emmy were always bickering and began to resent each other. Not two years into their marriage, they were divorced and Emmy returned to Texas. It wasn’t until months later that Laurie felt regret for what happened: he had a beautiful, talented, wonderful wife and he let that go without even realising how much of a mistake he made. But in true Laurie fashion, he distracted himself through his work and having flings with other women.

— Between the ages of 27 and 43, Laurie worked at several different publishers in the city and worked with many prestigious clients. He even did some work for a publishing company in London very briefly. He’d been considering setting up his own company for several years and now that he had made a name for himself he felt capable and confident enough to do. Thus began Empire State Publications: named after Laurie’s self-proclaimed home and set up in a Manhattan office building. It specialises in novels, but also publishes comics, magazines, and online works.

— He is the editor and publisher of Val Dupont’s @yarn-spinning hit books from the ‘Margot Sees Magic’ series. Laurie is trusted by Val to ensure their creative vision gets across in their books and that all mistakes made during the drafting process using Val’s speech-to-text technology are corrected. The two formed both a professional and personal relationship.

— Through Val, Laurie was roped into the dealings of the Brotherhood. He believed that his skills and personality would fit in and could be put to further use and found himself in communications, using his connections in various social circles and industries to pass along messages and intelligence.

— Laurie also never sees either of his parents anymore. He cut himself off from his mother after his divorce because of her continued toxicity and doesn’t know where his dad is. He’s glad that neither of them are around and that he can focus on his own life without having to worry about anyone else. It might seem selfish, but after years of putting up with pain and putting his mother first he can finally be free.

✧･ﾟ— W A N T E D C O N N E C T I O N S

— EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: This muse would work closely with Laurie, organising his meetings and doing other admin jobs as well as supporting other editors. The two of them would more than likely end up as friends outside of the office too, but that can be UTP!

— AUTHORS & EDITORS: If your muse is a new author or a bestselling author, then they might have their book published and edited by Empire State Publications, or maybe by Laurie himself! Or perhaps they’re an editor who has been around since the company’s founding or are just starting their new job at ESP. Either way your muse would know Laurie in a professional setting.

— FLINGS: Laurie likes to frequent bars, usually higher-end ones, on his quieter evenings and will flirt if he’s in the mood. He’s incredibly charming and skilful in the art of persuasion, which can lead to sharing drinks and perhaps even an invitation back to his apartment. If your muse chooses to stay, then they can expect an interesting night ahead.

— AN OLD FLAME: if you, like me, would like explore Laurie’s softer side and explore his younger years, then your muse could be his very first girlfriend! They met at NYU and were mad for each other and fate had a cruel hand in splitting them up- the rest is up to you!

#wb.intro #laurie ✧･ﾟ— bio

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bluebellinbakerstreet · 24 days

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90/100 Sherlock in black and white

#sherlock #benedict cumberbatch #sherlockedit #john watson #martin freeman #johnlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock b+w #sherlock holmes #mine #the hounds of baskerville

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zippocreed501 · 9 months

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FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Early Sherlock Holmes films

Elementary, my dear half-wit...

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/Held for Ransom (1905) Sherlock Holmes i Bondefangerkløer (1910) A Study in Scarlet (1914) Sherlock Holmes (1916) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921) Sherlock Holmes (1922) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) The Speckled Band (1931) The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)

#sherlock holmes #sir arthur conan doyle #from the b-movie badlands #silent cinema #detective #classic #film history

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mogwai-movie-house · 2 years

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Every Known Instance of A Remake Being Better Than The Original

1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) ★★★★★★★★★☆

The 1922 silent with Douglas Fairbanks was a great success but it is the effervescent Errol Flynn remake which became the blueprint for all future depictions of the myth, and essentially what everyone thinks about when you mention the name.

2. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) ★★★★★★★★☆☆

The 12th attempt was the charm, and Basil Rathbone, in the role he was born to play, slips on the deerstalker and strides effortlessly into cinematic history as the perfect Holmes and the blueprint for every attempt that followed.

3. The Fly (1986) ★★★★★★★★★★

Cronenberg replaced the cheap special effects and wooden acting of the original with a serious treatment of the premise, unforgettable shocks and genuine emotional depth, in what seemed in the 1980s to be a devastating AIDS allegory hidden in a monster movie. It's a perfect film, in that I can think of no possible way it could be improved, and it (barely) contains Jeff Goldblum's single finest performance ever.

4. The Thing (1982) ★★★★★★★★★★

As with The Fly, John Carpenter immeasurably improved on the original B-movie by adding fantastic effects, flawless performances and chilling believability.

5. The Maltese Falcon (1941) ★★★★★★★★★★

There was nothing particularly *wrong* with the original from 1931, except that it suffered the misfortune of being so completely overshadowed by the absolute perfection of John Huston's remake that no-one even remembers it exists.

6. Red Dragon (2002) ★★★★★★★★☆☆

So nice to see the story without the shoulder pads and designer stubble and other Miami Vice-like nonsense of 1986's "Manhunter". Red Dragon is better acted, better told, and a better movie experience all round. Also, and let's be clear about this, anyone but Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter is not Hannibal Lecter.

7. Twelve Monkeys (1995) ★★★★★★★★★☆

Much more fleshed-out, emotionally powerful and better made in every way than the short film which inspired it, 1962's La Jetée.

8. The Sound of Music (1965) ★★★★★★★★★☆

Musical version of the obscure 1956 German movie 'Die Trapp-Familie' resulted in immortal songs and a perennial classic.

9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) ★★★★★★★★☆☆

The original 'Bedtime Story', starring David Niven and Marlon Brando(!), is worth checking out the once for the novelty but the remake 20 years later is far, far, funnier and one of Steve Martin's very best.

10. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) ★★★★★★★★★☆

Where you stand on this is a matter of taste, but no-one would dispute this remake of the Japanese samurai movie 'Yojimbo' resulted in one of the greatest westerns ever made.

11. Heat (1995) ★★★★★★★★★☆

Michael Mann's own remake of an earlier made-for-TV film called 'L.A Takedown' which everyone agrees eclipses the first attempt.

12. The Three Musketeers (1948) ★★★★★★★★★☆

The 14th film version of the classic tale ended up in Gene Kelly's hands the most fun, although the Richard Lester version from 1973 is probably close to its equal.

13. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) ★★★★★★★★★★

The silent version with Lon Chaney is rightly considered a groundbreaking work, but is in every way an inferior cinematic experience to this sublime piece of poetry, and Charles Laughton's Quasimodo blows Chaney out of the water, too, along with pretty much every other actor that has ever lived.

14. The Cat and the Canary (1939) ★★★★★★★★★★

The original "reading of the will in a spooky mansion" story was made twice before in 1927 and 1930, but the third time they hit the jackpot, creating perhaps the best ever horror comedy and up there with the cream of the 'Road' movies as Bob Hope's funniest film. Great eerie atmosphere, non-stop one liners and at least one genuine scare to make you jump. Somehow it all just works.

15. His Girl Friday (1940) ★★★★★★★★★★

Ben Hecht's newspaper reporter comedy 'The Front Page' has been remade a bunch of times from 1931 onwards, but Howard Hawk's idea to change the sex of one of the leads and add a romantic angle resulted in easily the best version. The fastest, funniest dialogue of all time and Cary Grant at his zenith. A perfect film in every way, which age repeatedly fails to wither.

16. El Dorado (1967) ★★★★★★★★★☆

John Wayne and Howard Hawks enjoyed making 1959's "Rio Bravo" so much they got back together eight years later and unofficially made it all over again. The later film greatly benefits from actors Robert Mitchum and James Caan replacing crooner Dean Martin and teenybopper idol Ricky Nelson in the original, streamlining and buffing up everything that was good about the first to create maybe the most enjoyable western of all time.

17. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ★★★★★★★★★☆

The seventh cinematic version of Oscar Wilde's haunting novel, but by far the best. There's something deeply poetic and indefinably otherworldly about it that has seldom, if ever, been matched.

18. The Departed (2006) ★★★★★★★★★☆

Martin Scorcese's take on the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller 'Infernal Affairs' ended up as his best movie in 10 years and - not that I place inordinate stock in such things - a 'Best Picture' oscar.

19. Some Like It Hot (1959) ★★★★★★★★★☆

Most surprisingly this most perfect of comedies was a remake of the obscure French film 'Fanfare Of Love', which has a grand total of 1 reviews on IMDB.

20. Farewell, My Lovely (1975) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Robert Mitchum was admittedly a little long in the tooth to play Marlowe in 1975 but nails it all the same. Previously filmed as 'Murder My Sweet' in 1944.

#film recommendations #classic movies

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Muppet movies I’d like

- an original movie that parodies tropes from mafia movies starring Kermit as a PI and Fozzie as his assistant getting tangled up with a few groups of mobsters, a mob of pigs led by Miss Piggy, a Mob of Dogs led by Rowlf with another dog muppet as a red herring leader due to Rowlfs laid back nature, and a third Mob of Rats run by an old Rat with Rizzo wanting to prove he’s best choice to take over and Pepe is his buddy helping him figure out how to prove it. The Electric Mayhem would be playing at every one of the different mobs clubs, Kermit would comment on this and Floyd would shrug and say “a gigs a gig”. Gonzo and a group of chickens would try and act as an up and coming mob and a threat to the others. They would not be but Gonzo would show up at the weirdest places and times for comedic effect but would prove important for the plot near the end. Maybe a trilogy.

- a Muppet Frankenstein remake, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew would be Doctor Frankenstein and Beaker would be the monster. Bunsen Honeystein would reflect on feeling lonely and wishing he had someone to do experiments with. So he’d create the Honeystein’s Monster, Beaker. After a montage of them doing experiments where Beaker always experiencing the negative effects he’d run away. Every new interaction he has also goes awry leading up to the villagers chasing him. Bunsen is able to catch up to them and explains Beaker is not malicious just very accident prone. Beaker would realize none of the experiments were set up to hurt him on purpose and that Bunsen truly does care about him. A misstep of Beakers would still cause the windmill to catch fire but everyone would be okay. The little girl with the flowers would either be Annie Sue or Janice but they wouldn’t die, but Beaker would run off before witnessing them surface in the river.

- A Muppet Remake of Dreamworks “Bee Movie”. The humans would mostly be Pigs with some other humanoid muppets mixed in. Miss Piggy would play that lady Vanessa, Link Hogthrob would be her boyfriend Ken, and obviously Kermit would play Barry B Benson. Now, either the whole thing would be revised to be something about Pigs and Frogs being unable to get along or something, or the plot would be the the exact same with the other bees played by new Bee puppets and Kermit playing the part of a bee completely straight, still being a frog but in a black and yellow striped sweater. That wild defence attorney would be played by Dr. Julius Strangepork because please picture him asking Kermit in his faux German accent if he’s Miss Piggy’s “little bedbug?” And Kermit giving us a real good scrunch face and a genuine “I don’t know what to say to that”. And Barry’s friend would also be someone, probably Fozzie, in a striped sweater, and instead of stinging the attorney in the courtroom he’d hit him with a rubber chicken or something. They would still call it a sting though.

-And Finally a series of Muppet Movies based on the Sherlock Holmes novels Starring Rowlf as Sherlock Holmes and Baskerville the Hound as Watson. This could also make a decent show tbh and is 100% based on this one sketch from The Muppet Show

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#The Muppets #please if you have any ideas for muppet movies add them #share them with me please #long post?#Youtube

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