#courtnay

[supemaeve]

#queen maeve #elena #the boys #another self indulgent gifset #i needed to gif this moment because it's so funny to me #she's so bad and awkward at lying here #it really is a mystery they kept it secret for so long haha #I love this scene so so so much #one of my favorites for sure #I wonder what would have happened if courtnay had released this #because it wouldn't only out maeve as gay but also as a bit of an asshole #let's see how vought fixes that one #my gifs

[bitletsanddrabbles]

Okay, this is going to sound damn pathetic, but I don’t care...

...especially since this is exactly one of those posts that gets 0 responses, but...please...

...even though someone just started following me and said it was because they liked my fic and my opinions...

...even if it’s just that person again...

Someone.

PLEASE.

Someone who loves Thomas Barrow.

Someone who loves Thomas Barrow and Richard Ellis together.

Someone who has not made me want to delete my entire Tumblr and take all of my fanfiction down off of Ao3 - repeatedly - for daring to write Thomas with someone other than Richard. Or for speaking well of Julian Fellowes. Or for feeling represented by a ‘poorly written depiction of gay people who we both happen to love, but gawd could JF have done a worse job?’.

Tell me you’d miss me if I walked out.

Tell me you’d miss me if this blog went away and the fiction was gone over night.

Tell me that all of the times “someone else in ‘my’ corner of the fandom” said something that “everyone who loves Thomas or Thomas/Richard absolutely agrees on” and left me feeling like Thomas in the servant’s hall while everyone else danced at the Carsons’s return to Downton were worth sticking through, and I was right not to throw in the towel.

Maybe I’m just tired and stressed from the holiday season and burnt out and frustrated at not being able to write. Maybe I’m sick of dealing with hundreds of people a day who could take offense at my packing they’re groceries wrong or asking them to obey State law. Maybe I’m just 100% done with feeling like I have to walk on eggshells around every other damn person on the planet, but they can stomp all over me with cleats and I have to say ‘thank you’ for the privilege.

But I really, really need to hear that I’m worth it to someone right now. That I’m not a bad person for needing a place I can go and enjoy something as simple as a show I enjoy. That I have the right to occasionally get a little bit cranky on my blog at people who do nothing but find reasons complain and be dissatisfied and reblog my posts so they can complain and leave comments in my fiction so they can complain and to assume that of course I’m going to agree with them.

I need to know hear that I’m not responsible for thinking of the entire fandom’s feelings, especially since the entire fandom sure as hell doesn’t think about mine! I don’t have to return a favor that isn’t extended in the first place! I can care about my mutuals and that’s good enough!

With everyone else clustering around in their mutual support groups, please just tell me I’m not as alone as I feel.

#downton abbey #downton abbey fanfiction #thomas barrow #richard ellis #guy dexter #jimmy kent #duke of crowborough #peter pelham #edward courtnay #YES I'M HAVING A BLOODY BAD TIME RIGHT NOW WHY DO YOU ASK? #And no #no one's died #i'm not dying #my problems aren't 'real problems' #I KNOW AND I DON'T CARE! #three cheers for depression

[denimbex1986]

'There’s a scene in Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers that felt a bit like watching my own life in flashback. It takes place in the Whitgift Centre in 1980s Croydon, south London, where key parts of the film were shot. Also included is Haigh’s actual childhood home in nearby Sanderstead, where he lived until around the age of nine, before his parents divorced and he moved away. The scene in question lasts only a few seconds as a young boy (Adam) crosses the sombre shopping mall. But it was enough to transport me back to my own experience as a young kid growing up in the same London borough, a few years after Haigh’s time there.

In the 80s and 90s, Croydon felt like an incredibly oppressive place to grow up in. Head down there today, and you’ll find that the shopping centre hasn’t changed much, save that it’s largely lined with discount stores rather than the popular high-street names that once filled it. Meanwhile, the sense of alienation that comes with being a young person in this incongruous suburb tacked onto the southwest of sprawling megacity London feels hauntingly familiar.

“It’s those English suburbs, they’re very, very conservative. They always were,” Haigh says when we meet for our interview in Soho on an unseasonably warm autumn afternoon. “Back then, they were not a pleasant place for someone that’s different to grow up.”

In All of Us Strangers, young Adam is beginning to realise that his sexuality is setting him apart from the comforting familiarity of his beloved parents’ world. Sadly, this is not an experience unique to the 80s, but one that resonates with LGBTQ+ people even now.

The grown-up, contemporary-era version of Adam is played by Andrew Scott. The Fleabag star plays a lonely gay man that is struggling to let go of the past in order to find happiness and move forward. One day, Adam meets the younger and far more outwardly free Harry — exceptionally played by Paul Mescal — who lives in the same apartment block. They begin an intoxicating affair that at last allows Adam a sense of connection and freedom he has denied himself.

You’ll likely know Haigh’s work from his 2011 breakout romantic drama Weekend, starring Chris New and Tom Cullen, which resonated with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Its frank depiction of an overnight affair between two gay men captured the attention of a community that responded well to seeing a sexual and emotional relationship being handled in such a refreshingly candid way on screen. The film’s commercial and critical success opened doors for Haigh in the US. HBO courted him to create Looking, the cult TV series starring Jonathan Groff, Russell Tovey, and Murray Bartlett. But it’s the intense and challenging All of Us Strangers that has propelled the director back into the spotlight.

“When I wrote [All of Us Strangers], I did feel like my intention was to tell an experience of a very specific generation of gay men,” says Haigh. “I think it’s been called by other people the ‘middle generation’, the generation of gay men that came into their sexuality, or came to understand their sexuality, while AIDS was affecting and killing so many people. So, you’re not in the generation before, who grew up coming into sexuality before AIDS, and you’re not in the generation who came after, where there is now medication, and it’s no longer a death sentence.

“Coming out in the 90s, in the shadow of AIDS and HIV, to be gay and to have gay sex equated with death, disease, and social isolation. I remember growing up thinking there was literally no future for me: ‘I cannot be a gay person in the world.’ That carries a lot of shame and a lot of self-hatred. It takes a lifetime to get rid of that,” he reflects. “You don’t have to scratch the surface very far to feel how you used to feel.”

While legislation may allow gay people greater equal rights, Haigh underscores that social attitudes are still a way behind. The wounds of growing up in the years post-AIDS are still raw. “Today, straight people have decided it’s OK now. They’ve decided that now we’ve got gay marriage, that it should be fine for us now. And they’ve forgotten how they used to treat us. We haven’t forgotten; we can still remember,” says Haigh, his calm and measured tone belying a defiant message. “We’re being told we should be happy. It doesn’t mean we are actually fully embracing who we are.”

On shame, Haigh highlights how it never just vanishes. “We’re supposed to have got rid of it, but of course, it still lingers. It doesn’t go away, but you can soften it and deal with it. But I also feel like that’s not necessarily a queer thing. Any kind of difference can make you feel isolated and alone. And lots of people have things that make them different.”

In terms of realising his own sexuality, Haigh remembers finding other men attractive as a kid. “There was always something about boys that I wanted to be around. I’d see a teenage boy and be like, ‘Why am I staring at that person’s hairy legs?’” says Haigh of those early impulses. On a trip to London, he was confronted with a poster about HIV featuring a man and a woman. “It was like, ‘Which do you prefer?’ I remember thinking, ‘I definitely prefer that picture of that man.’ It was the first time I really realised. It’s of no surprise that those things became connected.”

Closeting himself through school and university, Haigh had girlfriends to hide his identity. After university, he found himself living in London. ‘I cannot do this any longer,’ he told himself. “I was wandering around Soho after work looking in the windows of sex shops and wanting to buy a porn video, finally plucking up the courage to buy one. Then, sneaking it back to my flat and watching it and being like, ‘Oh my God, I know what it is that I want.’”

With his newly accepted sexuality, Haigh did what most gay men in the 90s did: he hit the scene, from Heaven to Popstarz and Wig Out at The Ghetto. “I remember going to G-A-Y in the Astoria and seeing what felt like a thousand gay people all in one room, and I was like, ‘Fuck. Oh my God, all of these people are like me.’ It makes me a bit sad that some people maybe don’t experience that now, because those things don’t exist in the same way.”

It was through London’s gay scene that Haigh came across his first film subject: an escort named Pete, who would become the focus of his semi-dramatised 2009 documentary film, Greek Pete. The film’s naturalistic style was the perfect precursor to Weekend, which felt relatable to so many gay men for its forthright take on love-at-gay-sight, and the giddy highs that come with exploring somebody new, and how you can give of yourself to them so unreservedly. “You have a chance, don’t you, to redefine yourself when you meet someone new,” says Haigh, “and you don’t have so much baggage that you have with friends and family. You get a chance to be like, ‘Actually, I’m going to say this thing about me or express this feeling,’ which you might not have ever said to anybody before.”

Arriving over a decade later, All of Us Strangers is viewed by Haigh as having a conversation with his breakthrough second film. “I’m 12 or 13 years older than when I wrote Weekend. I’ve changed, and my understanding of my own queerness has changed and developed,” muses Haigh of the two films’ thematic connections.

“I wanted to expand things that I had been thinking about for a long time. People had always asked if I was going to do a sequel to Weekend, and it just never made sense to me. Weekend is crazy because I had no concept that that film would be seen by people. Or, I think if I did know, I probably would have been more timid at the time about certain things.” Where Weekend may have been audacious for its time, the years since have allowed Haigh to fully release the restraints in All of Us Strangers.

There are many complex, intertwining layers in his universally lauded new film, All of Us Strangers: addiction, shame, grief. While they all pull at the characters, it never at any point feels excessive. Striking that balance was pivotal to making the film feel authentic. “I knew that it was about a lot of things all working together, and all of those things come from a similar place, essentially,” says Haigh. “The grief of losing a parent, the trauma of that, and also the trauma of growing up in a time, and the grief that your childhood wasn’t what you wanted it to be. I wanted the film to feel like there were so many things wrapped up together that linked to other things that can lead to addiction, that can lead to pain, to someone shutting down and not allowing anyone into their lives.

“They’re wrapped up together in a way that you can’t tell where the edges of all of those things are. They’ve all become this knot, essentially. What’s driving the film is the only way to soften that is to find people that care about you. And perhaps, more importantly, how you do that for other people. Adam and Harry, they realise that they need to do things for each other. That being there for someone else is as important as them being there for you. I think sometimes you can be quite selfish with love, expecting that you need to be loved, without realising you actually need to make sure that you’re giving that to someone else.”

The uncanny isolation of the characters is even more tangible seeing as the film was written during the Covid pandemic. “There’s an element of that, of being locked literally inside your house, but also into yourself. And I think when you focus in on yourself, the past comes back. Relationships from the past come back,” observes Haigh.

Another way All of Us Strangers sets itself apart from the director’s filmography is the unnaturalistic cinematography and vivid lighting that fills many of Scott’s scenes with Mescal. “I knew that the only way for this film to work was if it felt slightly shifted from reality,” says Haigh. “I wanted it to exist on a slightly different plane. You had to feel like you were somehow suspended. I wanted to be plunged deeper into some kind of psychological state.”

The actors are similarly beguiling in their roles. Mescal excels as Harry, bringing an effortless toughness and tenderness in equal parts. “I wanted this character to be someone who you felt like his version of falling in love was caring for that other person. That’s what you see unfolding. His version of love is: ‘I care about you, and I want to help you, and I want to know you,’” says Haigh of messy Harry. “Paul’s a really compassionate person. He genuinely cares about people, and is emotionally engaged in other people’s struggle. You feel that. His performance is really beautifully judged in terms of that.”

Mescal was fully aware that the role would only work if it didn’t compete with that of his on-screen partner. “He’s a very generous person and a generous actor. He knew that this is a film essentially about Adam, and he’s a supporting role in that. That’s not easy for an actor. They know they are supporting, but they know they need their role to be important, too.”

Scott’s portrayal of Adam is similarly enthralling. The character’s inner conflict is tortured, and Scott pours himself into the role, but never once does it feel unwarranted. Scott plays Adam delicately in moments, then viscerally in others. “I know that he felt so connected to the material,” says Haigh of Scott. “When I started giving the scripts to people, they’d say, ‘This feels like it’s written for me and about me.’ And Andrew felt that. This is a film about the past bleeding to the surface. When you see it in Andrew coming to the surface, it’s genuine. It’s a beautiful performance, and it feels so real.”

Haigh applies a considered touch to the more intense scenes, which never feel like they’re being played for a reaction. In different hands, with a different actor, a different director, they could have failed. “There’s lots of sadness in the story,” says Haigh. “I was like, ‘OK, I want people to have an emotional reaction to it. But I don’t want them to feel completely manipulated into that emotion.’ You’re trying at every stage to work out, ‘Does this feel genuine?’”

From the older married straight couple played by Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay in 45 Years (for which Rampling was Academy Award nominated) to All of Us Strangers, solitude and loneliness are consistent themes in much of Haigh’s work. If the British are renowned for their emotional reservedness, Haigh would be something of an auteur of the British condition on film.

Something the director is not shy to confront is how society also forces us to seek the comfort of others to mask loneliness. “We feel like that is the solution. But if you’re still hiding it, you’re still hiding it. And you can be very alone in relationships. You can be very alone with all of your friends,” he says. “But also the essence of being human is that we are essentially alone in the world. And our whole life is about dealing with that until the day we die, when you’re essentially alone again. It’s a greater existential question that will never go away, and we pretend it has. ‘Oh, no. I’m happy, everything’s great, we’re all good.’ We’ll buy things, we’ll do stuff, we’ll have fun. We’ll go and have a nice meal in a restaurant. It doesn’t escape the essential aloneness.”

On telling queer stories, Haigh is aware that LGBTQ+ people have been starved of on-screen representation for so long that people have a tendency to lash out at anything that either does not mirror their experience or presents them less than positively. “People can react with real vitriol, real hatred. I understand it when you’re desperate for representation, you want that representation to be you, essentially,” says Haigh about reactions to series like Looking or Russell T. Davies’ actually rather good Cucumber.

Haigh continues, “But it’s not you. It’s representing the person that’s made that show. It feels like that might be changing now. I feel like people are starting to be a little bit more compassionate to difference within the community, rather than it needing to be a strict representation of them.”

Part of these extreme reactions, Haigh says, is also down to the disparity between generations. “There’s a lot of anger from a younger generation against my generation. I’m like, ‘You’ve only just come out, please. We’ve dealt with our own shit.’ You just wish that everybody could realise that we’ve actually all been through the same fucking shit. We should as a community be supportive of each other. Even if we are very different and have different viewpoints on our lives.”

When it comes to those perspectives, there really is only one that Haigh can be responsible for: his own. It’s served him well. Over five remarkable films and his television work, he’s gradually unpicking what it means to be alone in a world that moves on regardless of our feelings, and what it also means to exist in the context of being loved in the same.

Haigh’s under no pretence that the medium of directing is a mirror through which he interprets his life. “It reflects my concerns, my ideas, my thoughts. I never want my films to be narcissistically about me. I’m not interested in that. But the films are an expression of how I see things,” he says as our conversation finds its natural conclusion. “It’s often what I find quite difficult, because [in terms of fame] I don’t want to be necessarily ‘in the world’. But I’m also making films that go into the world in a big dramatic way. So, there’s a tension there, and that triggers a lot of emotional things in me. But it definitely is, it’s a mirror, without a doubt.”'

#Andrew Haigh #Andrew Scott #Paul Mescal #All of Us Strangers #Cucumber #Weekend #Fleabag #Looking #Russell Tovey #Greek Pete #Charlotte Rampling #Tom Courtnay #45 Years #LGBTQ+

[teddytoroa]

its been too damn long since i was regularly in the city i need good fast restaurants in wellington cbd that arent crazy expensive so i can feed myself while studying. ive already hit up tj katsu (my ex wife) but tommy millions seems to be fucking gone and i don't recognise like ANY of the new trendy places for fried chicken or whatever that seem to be everywhere now. anyway im taking recommendations if any of yall live in wellington and know a place around cuba/manners/courtnay/dixon sorta area thats open late and has good food PLEASE tell me

#i know this is a very long shot asking yall bc most of u arent even in nz let alone wellington but if u are. please tell me your restaurants

[ser-shitpost-lannister]

So, are the gods in ASOIAF real?

It's kinda been bugging me for a while. The Night King is obviously a thing, and dragons, but we never get exact confirmation for any of the major religions. So I'm gonna look at some of this stuff and see what I can find.

Major spoilers ahead, from all the books up to ADWD. I'm just gonna assume you have some prior knowledge of ASOIAF.

Edit: thanks @nobodysuspectsthebutterfly for teaching me how to use a cut

The Horse Gods? (Dothraki)

Either the Dosh Khaleen are just really shit at prophecies, or this is one deity (deities? wtf is even going on here) that we can cross off the list. Been a while since I read AGOT but all I really remember is Irri and Jhiqui echoing "It is known" all the time.

Overall, I'm gonna call horsebullshit.

The Drowned God (Iron Islands)

Like most of the deities in this list, we don't have any actual proof that the Drowned God exists, as long as we accept the fact that Aeron is really, really good at CPR. No Godless Man May Sit The Seastone Chair is a decent counterexample as well, since Euron manages pretty well on top of the Ironborn hierarchy.

Final opinion? Probably not real.

The Seven (South Westeros)

Again, not much proof that they are real. We don't see any answered prayers (especially not for Catelyn, RIP). The idea of Trial By Combat is also supposed to be up to the Seven, but obviously in the case of Tyrion's trial, it's not quite in divine hands. Based on that, we could disprove the Seven, but it's not exactly an airtight allegation.

To conclude, I will not be running for High Septon, and not just because of their short lifespan.

The Old Gods (North Westeros)

Ok, here's where things get interesting. Bran looking through the weirwood trees raises interesting arguments. The Children of the Forest are obviously not gods, so have the Northmen just been wrongly interpreting the signs? The Stark siblings' warg abilities are also throwing me for a loop. It's certainly magic, but is it divine?

I'm gonna leave this one up for debate.

R'hllor and the Night King (Essos & Free Cities & Westeros)

Ok, so, at least half of this bit is real. The magic zombies lend some credibility to Melisandre's cult. Stannis cuts down Renly and Courtnay Penrose using Melisandre's shadows. The Brotherhood Without Banners also supports the Red God's existence - Beric Dondarrion and Lady Stoneheart are living(?) proof. Thoros' and Melisandre's visions seem to be correct, if vague. Stannis' Kingsblood leeches seem to do the trick - Balon, Robb, and Joffrey all meet their ends shortly after his ritual on Dragonstone. Melisandre's glamour to hide Mance Rayder is another good example of the Red God's power.

So, clearly there is some kind of divine intervention here. Which leads us to

The Many-Faced God (Braavos, etc.)

The most interesting of the lot, and certainly hard to disprove. While the Servants certainly have some interesting magic (cutting off people's faces, etc.), it's not necessarily divine. Most of their power seems to be learned, not bestowed, as is the case for R'hllor. While I can appreciate the connections between different religions - including casting the Night King and the Stranger as interpretations of the Many-Faced God - it's not at the same level as the Red Priests.

TL;DR

While we don't have explicitly stated conformation of the existence of gods, I will take a leap of faith and say that R'hllor does exist, though the extent of his power remains to be seen. If he's been battling the Night King for centuries, perhaps he doesn't have the capacity to interact with the mortal world beyond the occasional smite, resurrection, and prophecy.

Tell me your fave ASOIAF religion in the comments or tag 'em.

-Ser Shitpost Lannister, guardian of Lannisport, heir to Ashemark

#gotta respect the seven but that's just davos seaworth talking #valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #asoiaf history #asoiaf religion #lady melisandre #aeron damphair #bran stark #bloodraven #game of thrones #long post

[paintnpending]

Ser Courtnay Penrose, Castellan of Storm’s End. “Is it the justice of your cause you doubt, my lord, or the strength of your arm? Are you afraid I’ll piss on your burning sword and put it out?” - Cortnay Penrose  For such a brief character who was ignobly disposed of offscreen, Ser Penrose definitely left an impression for me. A stubborn, undyingly loyal knight that proved enough of a hindrance to Stannis that it forced the hand of Melisandre and her shadow magics. I’ll always enjoy the contrast between the shocking reveal of the glowing, unearthly Lightbringer and Cortnay being utterly unimpressed by it.

#cortnay penrose #castellan #storm's end #baratheon #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf miniatures #renly baratheon

[nathalieskinoblog]

Little Dorrit

Erscheinungsjahr 2008

480 min

Regie: Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, Diarmuid Lawrence

Darsteller: Claire Foy, Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtnay, Pam Ferris, Eddie Marsan, Andy Serkis, Russel Tovey, Freema Agyeman

#little dorrit #little dorrit 2008 #claire foy #matthew macfadyen #freema agyeman #tom courtenay #andy serkis #eddie marsan #alun armstrong #arthur darvill #eve myles #pam ferris #russel tovey #darren boyd #harriet walter #dearbhla walsh #diarmuid lawrence #adam smith

[andromedasummer]

Oh I love both those bookstores!! I had a feeling you were talking about Arty Bees when you mentioned Wellington, but wasn’t so sure. I’m not from Welly so uhhh, thanks for the heads up about it being a dodgy area 😅😅 I make an effort to go to Artys everytime I’m down there, they’re real nice as well and once I bought way too many books so they posted them for me since I couldn’t take them on the plane. I need to check out their Motorsport section tho, I always seem to forget and miss it. Pegasus books I like but I kinda find the store more overwhelming, considering the high shelves and smaller store. I always struggle to find something in there cause of that, but I like the little area it’s in

oh i dont blame, pegasus is tricky to move around in, esp when its packed. if you ask someone to hold the ladders while you use them they'll usually be willing to help out!

and yeah most people dont know courtnays a bit fucked like that! as long as you walk quick and keep to yourself you wont run into trouble. motorsport section is at the top of the shelf 2nd or 3rd from the back of the nonfiction section, the one on the left when you walk in the store. it can be small sometimes, people tend to buy books from there in bulk.

i also dont know when you last were in welly but theres another secondhand store further up cuba! i cant remember its name but ive only been in once. theres also a bookstore called minerva thats not secondhand but is dedicated to books about crafts, ive found some cool stuff to do with quilting and sewing that i ended up noting down to grab on sale so its worth a look! close to my fav craft shop where i get my felt, yarn, buttons and needles, beads and fat quarters for projects, plus thats right next to my fav ice cream place (duck island) and thrift (better than spacesuit which its next to, that place is a rip off), which, if youre into motorsports, is a good place to find vintage racing jackets (i found a signed nascar jacket, bridgestone jacket, 3 leather + patched indycar jackets and some ford racing jackets). emporium (also on cuba) also have 4 vintage ferrari jackets, but of course theyre all $200-$400. Good quality! But something you'd need to save up a whiiile for.

also lmao did you just feel that quake like 5 mins ago? 6.2 but it was 72km deep which means it was bad! mustve been on the main fault because reports from the top of the south island are coming in so it mustve travelled down under the cook strait.

[ifreakingloveroyals]

29 October 2018 | Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex visit Courtnay Creative for an event celebrating the city's thriving arts scene in Wellington, New Zealand. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on their official 16-day Autumn tour visiting cities in Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand. (c) Samir Hussein/WireImage

#Prince Harry #Duke of Sussex #Meghan #Duchess of Sussex #Britain #2018 #Samir Hussein #WireImage

[juurensha]

1, 13, and 14 for the book ask game? ❤️

Woooo yay someone asked these! So glad to answer book rec questions!

#1 a book that is close to your heart

Going to go with Gideon the Ninth, the goth fantasy/scifi book of my dreams. I love necromancers, and now there's a whole universe with them, and it's a locked room mystery, and it's brimming with both snark and characters that you'll just want to keep reading about forever. I absolutely adore both Gideon and Harrow and their relationship, and you can bet that I'm frantically waiting for the rest of the series.

#13 your favorite romance novel

Okay, so the entire Brothers Sinister series by Courtnay Milan is really good, but The Countess Conspiracy is my favorite of the bunch. It's a regency romance, and it's got childhood friends, Sebastian, an amiable rake, and Violet, a widowed countess, who have teamed up to get Violet's scientific papers published. However, Sebastian grows tired of the ruse, not wanting to pretend to be the sole author anymore. Violet desperately doesn't want to stop publishing papers though, so she's willing to maybe open her heart to one of her oldest friends even if she's afraid that he'll ultimately break it. (Of course he doesn't, and watching patient, cheerful Sebastian get the prickly Violet to open up is beautiful) This is the novel that made me get back into reading regency romances (although I've been disappointed with most), and I recommend it and all the rest of the series.

#14 a book that made you trip on literary acid

So special thanks to @bittermoonswrites for reccing it to me in the first place, but Build Your House Around My Body is one of the weirdest and trippiest novels I've read in a long time. Hard to summarize without spoilers, but let's just say, there's an aimless second-generation Vietnamese American expat wandering around Vietnam, and a ghost looking for revenge. Warnings for sexual assault, but despite the sheer weirdness of the novel, I really enjoyed this one! (Got to love a good ghost revenge story)

#asks

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Today in Christian History

Today is Thursday, May 19th, the 139th day of 2022. There are 226 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

336: During the night and early morning, earthquakes accompanied by ball lightening disrupt an attempt to rebuild the Jewish temple in Jerusalem that was to begin the next day. These forces destroy much of the material gathered for the work. The rebuilding had the backing of the pagan emperor Julian as one of his lines of opposition to Christianity; and the event will be recounted in numerous contemporary and near-contemporary sources—Pagan, Jewish, and Christian.

988: Death of Archbishop Dunstan of Canterbury who had attempted to integrate the Danes fully into the English church and nation.

1382: An earthquake shakes London about 2 pm as a synod, led by Archbishop William Courtnay, meets to condemn John Wycliffe for his efforts to reform the church.

1536: Henry VIII has his wife Anne Boleyn beheaded on allegations of adultery and witchcraft. The presence of an extra finger on one hand and an extra nipple were used against her in the trial. Anne had been sympathetic to the Reformation. Her real crime was to miscarry two sons, leaving King Henry VIII without a male heir, but she was mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

1662: The Cavalier Parliament passes “An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers  and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Form of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in the Church of England.” The act requires reordination of many pastors, gives unconditional consent to the Book of Common Prayer, advocates the taking of the oath of canonical obedience, and renounces the Solemn League and Covenant. Great persecution will follow and about two thousand Puritan ministers will be ejected from their positions.

1694: Death of John Mason, rector of Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire, and one of the earliest Anglican writers of hymn lyrics. A learned man, he came to believe he was the Elijah appointed to proclaim Christ's second coming. He gathered a large following who with himself expected Christ to come to Water Stratford. He also predicted he would rise on the third day after his death.

1861: Ashbel Green Simonton, a Presbyterian missionary to Brazil, holds his first service in Rio de Janeiro.

1939: Death of Howard B. Grose, Baptist leader and author of the hymn, “Give of Your Best to the Master.”

1979: Businessman Carlos Annacondia gives his life to Christ in San Justo, Argentina, at an evangelistic meeting led by Manuel A. Ruiz of Panama. He will become an evangelist who preaches on five continents, and eventually will head the Message of Salvation Christian Mission Team, connected with the Assemblies of God.

#Today in Christian History #May 19 #Death of John Mason #Death of Archbishop Dunstan of Canterbury #earthquakes & lightening disrupt an attempt to rebuild the Jewish temple in Jerusalem #Anne Boleyn beheaded #Death of Howard B. Grose

[ael59]

〈Film〉 L'Art du mensonge

Escroc professionnel, Roy Courtnay n’en croit pas sa chance ! Alors qu’il surfe sur un site de rencontre, il fait la connaissance d’une riche veuve, Betty McLeish, qui lui ouvre sa porte… et son cœur. Rien de plus facile que de la dépouiller ! Sauf qu’il n’avait pas prévu de se prendre d’affection pour sa “cible”… Contre toute attente, Roy s’engage dans la mission la plus délicate de sa carrière…

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[bitletsanddrabbles]

Shipping Challenges

Are you getting a bit tired of the same old pairings? Would you like to see something new and different? Do you want to see how many people you can piss off, freak out, or have proclaim you their new best friend?

May I make some suggestions*:

1. Thomas Barrow x Jack Courtnay

Yes, everyone knows what a crush Thomas had on our dear blind soldier boy, but have you ever considered the irony that maybe Edward was the straight one in the family? That maybe Thomas would have even more in common with Edward’s hated little brother? What’s Jack really like, anyway? Mary and Edith would probably have said similar things about each other, but their fans - and neutral parties - agree they’re pretty decent people...or at least one of them is. What’s going on there anyway?

2. Thomas Barrow x Richard Clarkson

Yeah, okay, you may have run across this one. I have, but is it just me or is it nearly always toxic? Generally comes with a non-con tag, which is fine in and of itself, but there’s so much more you can do here! Lady Edith was ready to marry a man her father’s age, and in the queer community age differences were pretty common. Why not explore what, exactly, makes the good doctor so sympathetic to ‘that sort’? I have seen one (1) person try this in a healthy manner! I challenge everyone else to try it!

3. Guy Dexter x Chris Webster

C’mon, you know you want to!

4. Guy Dexter x Richard Ellis

Because there are only about a million fifty ways you can do this! Prequels! Sequels! Straight up AUs! And only about three quarters of them will get you banned from the fandom! LIVE DANGEROUSLY! Odds are good you will win the Fandom Love Of Your Life and a Fandom Arch Nemesis all in one go!

5. Thomas Barrow x Charles Blake

Is there a single thing about this pairing to hang your hat on? Near as I can remember, no! Not a damn thing! That means there’s nothing stopping you! Imagine all of the fun that the working-class-bloke-who-wants-to-be-a-toff and the toff-who-wants-to-be-a-working-class-bloke could have together!

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And I think that will do me for now. Knowing me, I’ll probably be back at some later date with more later**.

* Before everyone asks why, if I want to see these so badly, I don’t write them myself. Have you seen my WIP folder? I’ve actually started some of these - multiple times! - but they are buried under.......everything else. If we have to wait for me to do it, it’ll never happen.

** No, I have not had too much sugar, why do you ask such a silly question? This is definitely not me crashing from a sugar high.

#downton abbey #downton abbey fanfiction #shipping challeng #mad multishipper on the loose! #thomas barrow #jack courtnay #dr. clarkson #guy dexter #chris webster #richard ellis #charles blake #SAIL ALL THE SHIPS!!!!!! #also i have sinuses #i hate my sinuses but whatchagonnado?

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[staceywarriorprincess]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Courtnay striped skirt XL black and white.

[paintnpending]

A bit of a scramble this month, but I managed to get everything on my to-do list done, at the cost of health, sleep and career. As always, the trade off is worth it. - 1 King Stannis (ASOIAF) My 100th model of the year !! - 4 Champions of the Stag (ASOIAF) - 1 Black Goat of the Woods (Cthulhu: DMD) - 6 Dark Young (Cthulhu: DMD) - 1 Dark Elf Bard (DnD) - 1 Eldon Estermont (ASOIAF) - 1 Courtnay Penrose (ASOIAF) - 1 Cultist (DnD) - 1 Earth Elemental (DnD) Whether through luck or damnation, a huge payload of minis that I ordered over a year ago finally came in, filling the gaps in my collection and eradicating my painted to pending ratio. Ah, well. Too many to list here, but take my word for it.                 Painted:     Pending: Monthly:      17                78 Total:           116             188

#a song of ice and fire miniatures #a song of ice and fire #cthulhu #baratheon #Dungeons and Dragons #mini painting #painted miniatures #CMON #monthly totals