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pxmlx · 7 months

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Officially done watching Ripper Street and I recommend it so much!!

I will take that laudanum tho @corpyburd

I will say that Susan Hart/Caitlin Swift is my favourite character (which tbh she probably should be just for being played by MyAnna) because she is such a complex character in my opinion. MyAnna plays her beautifully. I truly believe that she wanted to be a good person but basically every choice she made resulted in her being portrayed as this evil woman, which was especially hard to watch because in most scenes you could just see the pain and the anguish in her eyes, the scene with Jackson in season 3 is a great example of her being very aware of the situation she put herself in and showed her guilt over it. I loved her because even though she wanted to be a good person she was aware that she made choices ‘good’ people wouldn’t and she does a lot of good anyway but she doesn’t even take credit most of the time. In the end even though it pained me greatly I knew she would accept her fate and hang, which broke my heart because she was and is my favourite character.

And another thing, even though her relationship with Matthew was toxic, unhealthy most of the time (almost all of the time tbh) it was epic, I loved it. They were destined for one another and it shows. It was hard to watch when he was with another but I always knew that they would end up together anyway because, to me, he clearly loved her for the entire duration of the show even though they fought more than anything else. Every time they called each other by their original names I got so soft and giddy idk

Reid often annoyed me though 🙄 but even with that the show was still enjoyable, it’s amazing actually, I finished it and immediately started rewatching my favourite episodes that’s how captivating it is

#ripper street #edmund reid #susan hart #long susan #caitlin swift #matthew judge #homer jackson #bennet drake #myanna buring #matthew macfadyen #jerome flynn #adam rothenberg #louise brealey #bbc #show review #show recommendations #jackson x susan #threads of silk and gold

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halscafe · 10 months

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The Beauty in Tragedy

I’ll be the first to admit that of all the characters in the Bastard Warrior series, Albus is the character that arguably is the most deserving of a happy ending. He’s received some of the worst cards imaginable, and therefore, should be the recipient of some light at the end of an extremely dark tunnel. But of course, he isn’t. Throughout the course of episode 12, Albus is doing everything in his power to ensure both Kerano and Faithful make it out of the temple alive and safe. As they are all leaving the temple following Joshua’s death, the supports of the temple start failing and to guarantee their safety, he puts himself in harm's way in their stead; pinning himself under the debris, eventually leading to his death. It’s a tragic end for a tragic character with an even more tragic life. However, as heart-breaking as this moment was, there is beauty to be found in the wake of this tragedy that makes both this episode, and Albus himself, something to respect and commend.

As we go through the series, we (the audience) are provided with more insight as to the events in his life that shaped Albus into who he is today. As a child, he grew up on the streets and was set up by his mother to join the Knight Paladdin ranks so that she could join Clan York. After discovering her true intentions, he ran away from Trents to Kansas where he finished his training in another battalion. Shortly after his training, he’s drafted under false pretences to join Sub-Delta where he experienced terrible, unimaginable horrors. In a world that condemns children for the actions of their parents, Albus York receives the short end of the stick at every path he takes — all because of a mark that rests on his chest.

In episode 10 of “The Bastard Warrior,” Faithful is tasked with the responsibility of entering Albus’ mind in an attempt to wake him up after being attacked and nearly killed by heart rippers. In his mind, Faithful enters an Ideal World from Albus’ POV whereby in short, he has lived a life completely opposite as to what he has in reality. He was raised by his mother and father, and joined a platoon with his brother Devlin where he eventually gained the title of “Knight Captain Albus of Trents, 82nd battalion, Clan York” — a title he presented with pride to Faithful upon her arrival in the ideal-scape. It’s not known (at least to my knowledge) the oaths that Knight Captains must swear when gaining their new title and/or when beginning their journey of rising through the ranks. However, one can deduce that with a title as significant as this, the person receiving the title must uphold certain values such as valiancy, chivalry, heroism, etc.

Although Albus’ life was cut short, his death wasn’t for nought. During the showdown against Joshua in episode 12, Albus goes as far as to cut out his eyes so that Joshua cannot use the mind control implanted by Sub-Delta against him; and later on, prioritizes Faithful and Keranos safety over his own so they aren’t crushed by the falling temple. Although Faithful is insistent on getting Albus out of the rubble before leaving to the ship with Kerano, he tells her what she needs to hear so that she can prioritize her safety before his own. In doing so, he not only fulfills the clauses of the contract he made with her all those months ago, but he upholds the traits that a Knight Captain would — the status he always to make of himself. In the same episode we learn that it's Albus’ dream to be a Knight Captain alongside his brother, he admits to Faithful that it’s only in this Ideal world that people want him around and hold any sort of value to him. He views this impossible in the life he currently lives in reality. However, it’s in his final moments whereby he upholds those values of chivalry and heroism and sees the effects they have on Devlin and Faithful that he realizes that that life he once viewed impossible for himself, is indeed his reality. In his final moments that occurred from a life of tragedy, Albus York is able to experience a brief moment of solace. It’s the occurrence of a great tragedy that allowed Albus to be that chivalrous, brave Knight Captain he always dreamed of becoming, and a man worthy of receiving love and wanting from both those he holds dear to him, and those that hold him dear to their hearts.

#this past week I've only been thinking about the bastard warrior series yall can u tell #it's just- this series is so damn good man #and ALBUS?? FUCK HIS CHARACTER IS JUST AMAZING #albus york is genuinely one of my favourite fictional characters point blank period #everything about him is just so tragic and beautiful #expect more of these brain dumps cause there's no stopping them at this point #good boy audios #goodboyaudios #gba albus #gba the bastard warrior

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itsmemateinnit · 10 months

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Whitechapel series 1 press pack

Steve Pemberton is Edward Buchan

Steve Pemberton was determined not to make his rather eccentric on-screen character Edward Buchan too larger than life for fear he would be unrealistic.

"People like Buchan, who are wilfully eccentric, can be hard to portray on screen," explains Steve.

"His language is very fruity and heightened so, alongside the director, I was really looking for ways of bringing that down and puncturing that. I didn't want him to be dislikeable or overbearing so we worked hard to find his particular journey through the three episodes. I was very conscious that I didn't want him to stand out like a character from a sketch show mixing with these characters from a dark drama. Hopefully we all inhabit the same world in the end.

"There is real progression for this character. He does get close to Chandler, in fact Chandler lets him into the investigation too much and it backfires on him."

In Whitechapel Steve plays a bona fide Ripperologist, an expert in all things Jack the Ripper.

Explains Steve: "This is a word I had never heard before I did this job. Then I realised there is still a thriving industry in Ripper books, tours and memorabilia, so when Buchan sees the location and the timing of the first murder he immediately has an inclination that this could be a copycat killing - it is exactly the day and place where Jack the Ripper's first murder occurred.

"I think Buchan would be a quite a big fish in a small pond within the world of Ripperology. Almost world-renowned. So when he presents himself to the police he really thinks they need him. As the story progresses he actually becomes involved in a real life investigation as opposed to an academic one.

"But we see him crack a bit as he becomes heavily involved. I think if you study something that happened 120 years ago it is very different to suddenly being confronted by the reality of these gruesome murders.

"I think he was fairly cocky when he started liaising with police but when Buchan sees photographs of the victims who have recently been killed he starts to realise that perhaps some of his actions may have contributed to the modern murders."

Steve admits that his knowledge of the multitudinous Ripper theories comes from old movies.

"I'd never read up on the subject but there is a film starring Michael Caine called Inspector Abberline that I used to watch with my friends from The League of Gentlemen. It's one of those films that's so bad it is good. Every ounce of knowledge I have is from fictionalised accounts. Luckily I had on my shelf a pocket guide to Jack the Ripper which someone had given me as I didn't have much time to gen up before I got the role and started filming.

"A lovely touch was being given Buchan's own Ripper book at the end of filming. My picture was on the flyleaf."

One of the most useful pieces of research for Steve was taking part in an organised Ripper tour.

"Our Ripperologist told me it was a very competitive world and as such many friendships are made and lost. There are constant accusations and counter accusations being made about stealing research and so on. He was fascinating but very respectful that this was an investigation of crime and not a sensationalist account. He did just enough storytelling but I think Buchan is far more theatrical; he does love the drama of it."

Steve found filming in the East End at all times of the day and night incredibly atmospheric.

He says: "You have the authentic Victorian architecture, gas lamps and cobbled streets then as you look around you see you are surrounded by these high rise buildings and neon lights. It is a great juxtaposition of then and now.

"When you look down some of these shadowy, damp and dingy alleys, that look as though they haven't changed since Jack the Ripper's day, you can start to understand just how these murders took place outside in the capital city of London. And you start to get a picture of what it must have been like."

#whitechapel #whitechapel itv #text

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liopleurodean · 1 year

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Season 1, Episode 7: Hook Man

Oh great, a sorority

That's suspicious

TAKE THE CALL GIRL

Ah. Hook Man

That hurts my ears

Oh he's invisible now!

Good, lock the doors

No, don't leave the car!

That's Freaky

The Netflix captions are not right 💀

My brother thinks that Dean looks like Jeremy Renner 💀

Reminds me of Sketchy Tuesday

That would explain the Martha Stewart

Oops

This is an awkward conversation

Yes. Dean is VERY open to the Lord's message

Wow. They solved that pretty quickly

Librarians are awesome

Jack the Ripper much?

Again. Solved that quickly

DEAN WATCHES GHOSTBUSTERS

Asdfghjkl consequences of a Christian upbringing (I can relate)

Does it look like she's awake?

Salt shot

Street smarts!

At least they've got an easy alibi

That's concerning

Oh nooo

Hell-week is the perfect excuse

Ooo

Bold gamble. I like it

Do NOT sneak into a sorority house

No Dean!

The symbol on the hook

Always. Every time. They still haven't been able to get ahold of the corpse

That 'music' sounds like a broken door

Something tells me Dean wouldn't last long at college

Dean looks so disappointed with his life choices 😂

That'll be it

But you're so good at grave robbing Dean!

Oh great, they can stay together and get themselves both killed! (Sorry)

Yippie-ki-yay

Hypocrisy at it's finest

This is why people hate Christians

Don't let her, Sam

Okay then!

GET HIM SAM

That smile 🤣

Scavenger hunt time

So if melting it doesn't stop the demon, how do they get rid of it?

I don't think you'll have to worry about that, Dean

I wonder what denomination they are?

Should NOT have said that

Ouch!

Ouch!*2

That's not easy with a hurt hand

Bye bye Hookman!

Huh. That's pretty open-ended

#ashla chick flick moments #supernatural #season 1 episode 7 #hook man

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skatingthinandice · 1 year

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A CREATION FOR EVERY MONTH OF 2022

post your favorite and/or most popular post from each month this year (it’s okay to skip months!)

i saw this and wanted to do it so if you see this and want to do it, feel free to say i tagged you!

JANUARY

most popular - florence + outfit appreciation in 11x03

favourite - naomi and marlon in 11x01

FEBRUARY

most popular - florence + favourite outfits from season 11

favourite - spooks meme favourite season four

MARCH

most popular - naomi + outfit appreciation in 11x08

favourite - spooks meme favourite character zaf younis (bestest boy and i love the colours!)

APRIL

most popular - spooks meme favourite relationship harry and ruth

favourite - spooks meme favourite episode 4.10 (colours abound!)

MAY

most popular - period drama appreciation week master and commander (this has the most notes out of everything i posted this year!)

favourite - as well as the above, both of these were for period drama appreciation week too, some of my finest colouring work here! favourite tv show ripper street / favourite character aldhelm

AUGUST

most popular - tlkafterparty tad lyrics stiorra x sigtryggr

favourite - also for the tlkafterparty, these two still hurt me so deliciously. aethelflaed x aldhelm / uhtred x leofric

SEPTEMBER

most popular/favourite - tlk sable caps (this was the only thing i posted)

OCTOBER

most popular and favourite - inspector george gently 8x02 caps (i really love the colouring on this one!)

NOVEMBER

most popular and favourite - spooks season eight caps (the b&w colouring of this series really makes the caps look so good)

DECEMBER

most popular - finan x osferth wuthering heights (it hurts and i love it so much)

favourite - as well as the above, my heart goes !!!!! for hamza and jowita scd / naomi and marlon in the s11 christmas special

#i don't really have a tag for this oh well

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anthonysstupiddailyblog · 1 year

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Anthony’s Stupid Daily Blog (236): Mon 7th Nov 2022

The last few times I went for a run I got exhausted really quick and I had to stop several times to get my breath back. I didn’t want the same thing to happen this time so I decided to take it really slow. So slow that I must have looked like my ankles were tied together by a pair of invisible handcuffs. I’ve decided to start picking a random podcast to listen to just before I run and hopefully I’ll be treated to great stories and introduced to new things. Tonight I listened to one about missing people. I don’t know why but whenever I watch of listen to true crime shows I only seen to go for the ones covering cases I already know about. I’ve consumed just about every documentary / podcast / tv show there is covering the Yorkshire Ripper / Wearside Jack (and was a little bit disappointed when they didn’t allow me to have this as my specialist subject when I went on Mastermind. So I told them I wanted my specialist subject to by Only Fools And Horses and then just answered questions about the Yorkshire Ripper to spite the producers which made for a confusing episode: “Who starred as the dim witted road sweeper Trigger?” “A hammer and a knife?”). Mid way through the run I saw that there was a peddle bin lying in the street. Are there people so stupid that they don’t realize that you keep the bin and throw out the rubbish. Does the person who threw this away have a big pile a garbage in the middle of their kitchen? Also when do you decide the time is right to get a new bin? The bin itself doesn’t get dirty because it has a bag inside it which is the thing that gets dirty. Maybe the guy had gotten so far in recent years that he realized this bin could no longer cope with the amount of empty pizza boxes and cans of Coke so he needed to get an upgrade? If I still did Emergency Questions like Richard Herring does I think “What is your favourite bin you have ever owned?” would be a perfect addition. The only bins I can remember owning other than the big one I have now were a tiny wicker one which never got used because I had a proper silver pedal bin which I put next to the smaller one…which makes one wonder why I got the smaller one in the first place. Perhaps I was thinking of having a small, medium and large bin and I would allocate my trash based on its quality similar to how medals are assigned at The Olympics. So a box from a really delicious pizza would go in the big bin (The Gold Bin), the plastic covering from a DVD that was just sort of alright (Hot Tub Time Machine, something like that) would go in the Silver Bin and the wrapper from a chocolate bar I tried that turned out to be rank like a Double Decker or something would go in the small Bronze Bin. Although this could be problematic because what if I bought a huge TV which turned out to have a shit picture quality? The ginormous box the TV came in would need to be wedged into the tiny Bronze Bin. Also what if I had something that was okay to eat like a jacket potato with coleslaw from the cafe round the corset but only ate half of it and put the other half in the Silver Bin and than the next few things I had were either really good (gold bin) or really bad (bronze bin). That jacket potato would be the only thing in the silver bin for ages and my room would fucking stink. Given that all this bollocks was going through my head the entire time I was running I frankly think it’s a miracle I wasn’t run over.

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childofchaosnic74 · 2 years

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Here's a drawing of Susan Hart and Raine Thornell, from my absolute favourite episode of Ripper Street "Become Man", that I made for the lovely @brazenedminstrel

This episode is incredibly heartbreaking and fills me with such raw emotion and righteous fury every time I watch it. It's also a great example of how magic can happen when female characters are allowed to interact in a way that feels real and honest, a way that goes beyond the influence of men.

#myanna buring #wlw #my art #ripper street #women's rights

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aronlewes · 2 years

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I feel like I want to get this story out there (not that I expect it to amuse anyone but myself): the completely bizarre and random-ass story of how Killian Scott became my favorite actor.

When I start a new writing project, I usually have an intense brainstorming session where I come up with 24 random ideas. Once I’ve written down these ideas, I’ll roll the dice 3 times, land on whatever, and try to put those 3 ideas together into something cohesive. I randomly landed on the ideas: “a lesser known character from a classic tale” + “bratty princess” + “medieval times.”

I decided to write a Camelot romance centered around Sir Kay, King Arthur’s adoptive brother. For as long as I can remember, I’ve “cast” actors into my stories. Well, I needed a Sir Kay. My only criteria? Find an actor in the age range of 35-40 whose name starts with the letter K. Easy, no? Yeah, but I could only come up with 2 options: Kieran Bew (who I’ve used before... he was Kieran McCray in my Belles & Bullets series, published under my alias, Caylen McQueen) and Killian Scott. Who tf was Killian Scott? I didn’t know. I didn’t have a clue. I also didn’t want to use Bew again, so I was like... screw it, let’s give Killian a shot.

Before I started my book, I watched the first episode of Dublin Murders. I’m not gonna lie, Killian was EXACTLY what I was looking for, and his Rob Reilly performance ended up shaping the entirety of Sir Kay. Even down to Kay’s mannerisms and (later) outbursts, I could see it all so clearly in my head.

After watching Dublin Murders, I watched, um.... everything else. I watched Damnation, Ripper Street (including every season w/o Killian), Traders. I even dug up some smaller, older stuff like Black Ice and Calvary (good movie, btw). I’m currently watching Jack Taylor. I would now follow this man to the ends of the earth, and he’s inspired 3 more books since Sir Kay.

And it all started with a roll of the dice...

#killian scott #dublin murders #ripper street #writers on tumblr

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mando-lore · 3 years

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The Terror of London: the story of Spring-Heeled Jack

Certainly Strange: A Podcast About The Unexplainable, episode 6

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The Victorian era was a time of shadows and superstitions. In every corner of London’s dark streets lived a mystery or a monster. One of the most popular and certainly strange urban legends of this time is the story of the leaping devil, Spring-Heeled Jack.

In October, 1837, a young servant girl named Mary Stevens, is walking through Clapham Common to the house that she works at. Suddenly, a figure jumps from one of the shadows, gripping her tightly. The figure starts to kiss her face and tries to rip off her clothes. Mary cries out in alarm, and the figure vanishes. Of course, this just seems like a case where a man tried to molest the young woman. And it could have been exactly that, had the strange figure not ripped at Mary’s clothes with claws instead of hands. Claws, she said, that were “cold and clammy as those of a corpse.”

Mary Stevens was not the first one to see this strange clawed creature jump from the shadows. In September 1837, one month before the attack on Mary Stevens, a man saw a man with horns and red glowing eyes leap over the cemetery fence.

This strange devil-like man did not wait much longer to strike again after attacking Mary Stevens. The very next day, it was reported that a strange figure had jumped out in front of a traveling coach, causing the coachman to lose control and crash. Witnesses reported that the figure escaped by jumping over wall that was nearly 9 feet tall, whilst laughing uncontrollably.

This was also the very first time the police got involved. At the scene of the crime they found a pair of very deep tracks in the mud that could only have been made by jumping from a great height. The tracks also showed that there was some gadgetry on the shoes, and speculated that it might be “some sort of compressed springs”.

And this is how the strange devil-like figure got the name of Spring Heeled Jack.

It was January, 1838. Polly Adams, who worked as a barmaid, was walking across Blackheath in south London when she was suddenly attacked. She was discovered half-naked lying in the gutter. When she came to, she is reported saying that she had been attacked by a man who had ripped open her blouse and had grabbed her breasts with claws that were sharp and cold as a corpse, eventually cutting open her belly.

On January 9th, the Lord Mayor of London, Sir John Cowan, received an anonymous complaint of another servant girl who was attacked by Spring Heeled Jack. Because of this incident, several other people came forward about similar incidents in the Kensington and Hammersmith area, all involving servant girls.

This was the perfect story for the press, and Spring Heeled Jack began to get a lot of publicity. With the increase of publicity, there was also an increase of reports from people who had seen or were attacked by the now famous ‘terror of London’. The police took these reports very seriously, and even the Duke of Wellington, the one who had defeated Napoleon, went out armed on horseback to hunt for the monster that haunted London.

This did not stop Spring Heeled Jack, however, from striking again.

There came a knocking on her door. The police, he claimed. He had found spring heeled jack in an alley outside her home. Jane Alsop opened the door. When she accompanied the policeman to the alleyway, she noticed that he was not wearing a police uniform, but instead a long black cape. She got suspicious, but it was already to late. The cloaked man attacked her, trying to undress her whilst, according to her, spitting blue flames out of his mouth.

Jane Alsop described her attacker later to London magistrates: ”He was wearing a kind of helmet and a tight fitting white costume like an oilskin and he vomited blue and white flames!”

Nine days later, the same fate befell Lucy Scales. Walking home from having visited her brother, she was attacked by a man in the same outfit as Alsop had described. And again, he spitted blue flames out of his mouth, blinding her and even causing a seizure.

Then, after terrorizing London for many months, Spring Heeled Jack disappeared.

There were no more reports of people being attacked by Spring Heeled Jack. In 1855 he was seen in Old Hill, far from London, leaping from the roof of an inn to another roof across the street. Somewhere in the 1880’s, a man and a young girl reported that they had seen Jack with glowing eyes, who had bid them a good evening.

Spring Heeled Jack was also seen in 1872, when he landed amidst a group of soldiers. One of the soldiers claimed to have shot at him, but the bullet reflected off of him with a hollow, metallic sound.

Spring-Heeled Jack was last spotted in 1904, 67 years after he had first appeared out of the shadows, jumping over a building in William Henry Street in Liverpool. And, seemingly, disappearing into the shadows once again.

Although frightening and violent, Spring Heeled Jack never mortally wounded any of the women he attacked. This did not stop locals from suspecting him of murder. In 1845, a 13-year old prostitute called Maria Davis was pushed off a bridge into an open sewer, where she drowned. Although the coroner recorded Maria’s death as ‘Death by Misadventure’, and though an eyewitness had seen that it had not been Jack who pushed her but instead one of her clients, locals still claimed that Spring Heeled Jack was the true murderer of this child.

Many attacks on women were blamed on Spring Heeled Jack. When there came a report that a woman had been murdered in Whitechapel in 1888, with her clothes ripped off her, people automatically assumed it had been good old Spring Heeled Jack, especially since the culprit had seemingly disappeared into the night without being spotted by police.

Spring Heeled Jack immediately became suspect number one in the other murders that followed. So much so, that the killer himself wrote a letter t the Metropolitan police signed Spring Heel Jack: The Whitechapel Murderer. Later, the killer shortened it simply to Jack. Perhaps better known as the real terror of London. Jack the Ripper.

The real Spring Heeled Jack, if he ever existed, was never caught. There was only ever one suspect. Henry Beresford, the eccentric young third Marquis of Waterford, who was known for his misogynist behaviour towards women and for having a bad, often alcohol-fuelled temper.

The Lord Mayor of London also had a theory that Spring Heeled Jack was simply created by a group of elite gentlemen who dressed up and terrorized women as part of a bet.

There is another, somewhat strange theory of how Spring Heeled Jack is actually an alien from a planet with high gravity. This would, according to them, explain his extraordinary jumping abilities. Our thin atmosphere could have made him giddy, which would explain his laughter. He would be a nocturnal alien, with reflective eyes like that of a cat. That would explain his glowing red gaze.

But, before considering the theories about aliens, it is important to understand the historical context in which Spring Heeled Jack was born. Because, how can a creature such as Spring Heeled Jack be born in the minds of people?

The 1830s in England were turbulent times, full of tension and anxiety. It was a time filled with social, economic, political, and cultural changes. King William IV died in 1837, and people were uncertain about the capabilities of the young queen Victoria, since she was only 18 and a woman. In this time period, society became more regulated and disciplined, which characterised the Victorian era.

In a period of increasing and intensified control, the monstrous Spring Heeled Jack represented the appealingly uncontrolled. Like the wicked Mr Hyde compared to the composed Dr Jekyll. That is why he is constantly shifting in eyewitness reports. One time Spring Heeled Jack is a beast, the next time he is a ghost, and yet another time he is a devil.

This tense and potentially volatile context became the perfect ground to build a legend that is build on mass panic and sensationalism from the press.

During the Victorian era, printing technology improved. This gave more people access to education and books, causing illiteracy rates to drop. The increased demand of books combined with the high rates of crime created the perfect environment for people to profit off of sensationalized stories about monsters and criminals, such as Spring Heeled Jack.

So whether Spring Heeled Jack was a man, a monster, a ghost, a devil, an alien, or simply a result of a restrained society looking for sensation, his legacy is very much real. Spring Heeled Jack remains a popular penny dreadful figure from the Victorian era, featuring in games such as Assassins Creed Syndicate or the series Jekyll and Hyde. And whatever Spring Heeled Jack was or is, he is Certainly Strange.

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Bellows, J. (2006). Spring Heeled Jack. Retrieved from: https://www.damninteresting.com/spring-heeled-jack/

Castelow, E. (n.d.). Spring Heeled Jack. Retrieved from: https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Spring-Heeled-Jack/

Dunning, B. (2007). The Attack of Spring Heeled Jack. Retrieved from: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4064

Grundhauser, E. (2016). Meet Spring-Heeled Jack, the Leaping Devil That Terrorized Victorian England. Retrieved from: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-springheeled-jack-the-leaping-devil-that-terrorized-victorian-england

Ogden, P. (2020). Spring heeled Jack: The Leaping Devil Who Spread Hysteria in Victorian Britain. Retrieved from: https://oddfeed.net/spring-heeled-jack-the-leaping-devil-who-spread-hysteria-in-victorian-britain/

Origjanska, M. (2017). Spring-Heeled Jack: The Leaping Boogeyman who terrorized Victorian England. Retrieved from: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/26/spring-heeled-jack/

Perry, L. (n.d.). Spring Heeled Jack, Fiction Based On Fact. Retrieved from https://casebook.org/dissertations/ripperoo-spring.html

Sheldon, N. (October 29, 2018). 16 Frightening Details in the Story of Spring Heeled Jack. Retrieved from https://historycollection.com/16-frightening-details-in-the-story-of-spring-heeled-jack/16/

#certainly strange #nemo #podcast #mystery #unsolved mystery #london #spring heeled jack #urban legend #ghost story #ghost stories #jack the ripper #unsolved murders #unsolved murder #lore #folklore

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matthew-macfadyen-gifs · 2 years

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Ripper Street (2012-2016) Season 1, Episode 1: "I Need Light"

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jenniferstolzer · 3 years

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Babylon 5 Rewatch Season 2 episode 21: Comes the Inquisitor

The Vorlons send an inquisitor to investigate Delenn. Meanwhile, G’Kar must do his own investigation in order to restore the faith and morale of the defeated Narns on Babylon 5

Things I liked about Inquisitor:

I’ll state right up front that this is not my favorite episode, but I am definitely a fan of G’Kar’s storyline. He was told not to speak in the council so he’s taken to the streets becoming a curbside prophet even before he acquires the title. I love his vigor and refusal to give up. Throughout this episode he wheels and deals pulling every string he has. He buys weapons on the black market, he plies Sheridan for favors, he makes promises he doesn’t know if he can keep and the whole time he’s fighting like a cornered dog. Vicious boy. Very very good.

Same storyline, this episode has his “Dead, Dead, Dead” speech to Vir which is such an important moment for both characters. 1, it sets a firm boundary in G’Kar that he is not willing or able to forgive a Centauri, something that comes back into play in Season 5 in the just best most heartbreaking way. 2, it shows Vir that good intentions and apologies aren’t enough in the face of such a blow. Vir apologizes for what’s happened and tries to excuse himself from the events and G’Kar is like “Nope, no reassurance for you, today” This moment isn’t worthless, though. The fact that Vir didn’t ignore G’Kar in the lift, that he was brave enough to say something and acknowlege that this people had done wrong is the birth of Abrahamo Lincolni

Garibaldi working within the boundaries of his job to help G’Kar is also great.The moment feeds Garibaldi’s storyline by emphasizing his suspicious nature. Like Morden before him, Garibaldi gave G’Kar a test. Tell the truth or get your wrist slapped. The fact is that Garibaldi doesn’t fully trust anybody. You can see why the events later in his story happen... I wonder if in another life he’d be asking “What do you want?”

Unless I misheard, one of the Narns on homeworld say “Thank G’Kar!” the same way G’Kar says “Thank G’Quan.” The first instance of G’Kar being venerated as a prophet maybe?

Sebastian was snatched off planet earth by the Vorlons back in Earth’s History which proves that theyv’e visited us before, they’ve messed with our history before, and they have very odd taste in servants for creatures that are supposed to be pinnacles of good. Its an interesting thought experiment I guess. You’ll read more below about why I’m not sure it /quite/ worked? But the message that Earth was not immune from past meddling and the Vorlons are secretly kinda bad maybe is firmly stated in this episode.

Things I liked less

Sebastian always struck me as a weird choice of storyline. I get the idea -- the Vorlons are not the beacons of good we’ve been led to believe, watch them torture their most loyal soldier to test her loyalty. I get that idea, but I never thought it really worked. First of all, Sebastian is Jack the Ripper. That’s a weird choice. Giving Jack the Ripper a redemption arc is a weird choice. It’s a weird choice for //delenn//. if we were looking for someone from history to torment Delenn i guarantee the vorlons could have found someone from Minbari history whose cruelty would strike fear in her, or whose piety would test her, or whose disapproval would tempt her heart. Not only does she not know who Sebastian is, he’s going by a name he’s not even famous for. So who he is doesn’t matter except to us, the audience, and in that way this episode felt kind of pandering to the audience. Shocking the 20th century butts on the other side of the fourth wall with a “that’s neat” reveal at the end. That woudl have played better around Episode 2.10... but after the stakes established in the last episode, hopping out of the timeline only makes the inquisitor feel less important than the G’Kar stuff.

Also, and this is a personal take, the torture itself felt self-gratifying to me? I have a hard time watching the Sheridan torture episode, too. Misery for misery’s sake doesn’t move me the way the scripts want it to, especially when it’s done just for the sake of showing torture on screen. The Vorlons could have gotten the answer they wanted out of her with telepathy something if the goal was to see her true thoughts, then they erase her memory of the event to boot! So if it was a punishment for pledging the Rangers to Sheridan’s service, she didn’t learn anything about that. She hasn’t learned what might happen to her if she goes off-script. She doesn’t have the emotional investment of having endured a trial and come out victorious... they just electrocuted her until she wept because they could and they wanted to. And what did they learn? That she’s sacrifice herself for her loved ones. I mean, we knew that already didn’t we? Sebastian peeled off her rind to expose her heart, but the circumstances that got her there were erased from her head. Even if we didn’t know Delenn’s capacity for self-sacrifice, what if she decided after enduring torture that she’d rather die than see Sheridan dead and the day before when she hadn’t experienced torture she would have let him die? She went on an emotional journey then got rewound!

In the end, Sebastian quotes Jesus and says “you guys are finally the right people in the right place at the right time” Yeah okay, asshole. I guess that was the goal? To see if they were the right people at the right place? I hate to break it to the Vorlons but they gotta work with what they have at this point the Shadow war is starting RIGHT NOW. They wanted to make sure Delenn was the right person? You’ve been GROOMING her for THIS VERY REASON for DECADES. The right place? You facilitated the BUILDING OF BABYLON 5 AS A BASTION OF WAR. What. Are. You. Doing?????

All this said, the torture scenes do show us, the audience, more about our characters. Lennier shows up, offers to help, then runs and gets Sheridan. Sheridan is the linchpin that makes Delenn finally say “I’ll die for others” when I assume she thought that was an unspoken truth to this point. We and the Vorlons both get proof she’s a selfless saint ready to die for our sins. We see that the Vorlons are cruel and unusual and maybe there’s no pure good in the galaxy. And also G’Kar is trying his very best to fight a war with real stakes and I’d rather be watching that. Theoretical reasons for the torture aren’t lost on me, I just feel like it could have been done better with a more in-universe situation and that the reveal that Sebastian is Jack the Ripper didn’t pay off for this one viewer like I know it does with others.

The next ep ends the season! Let’s go!

#babylon 5 #babylon 5 rewatch #art #jenstoart #john sheridan #delenn #episode 21 #season 2

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acdhw · 3 years

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For the past few weeks I've been listening to two awesome podcasts.

The first one is History Extra podcast, produced by BBC History Magazine. There is a HUGE number of episodes, covering various topics from pre-historical to contemporary periods. I'm listening to it by selecting episodes which interest me, such as Victorian Medicine, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Victorians, Identifying Jack the Ripper, Science and Suffrage, The Roaring 1920s: Roaring or Tame?, etc. The episodes are structured as interviews with historians, writers, educators, and other specialists.

For example, for the Victorian Medicine the hosts invited Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris, the author of Butchering Art, a book which I am still to read. Dr. Fitzharris shared her in-depth knowledge of medical history in a fascinating interview. She is a really good storyteller which is important for the podcast format. Sometimes I couldn't finish an episode with an intriguing topic because the interviewee was boring, but Dr. Fitzharris was certainly not the case. Despite the gruesome aspects of medical realities of the early 19th century her tale was a sheer pleasure to listen to.

The episodes about the Suffrage movement were very interesting and insightful too. In one of them the host and the interviewee discussed terrorist methods which were employed by the Suffragettes, their motives, the price they payed for their beliefs, and the questionable morality of achieving higher goals with such means.

I've learned about the second one from an episode of History Extra called The Big Questions of LGBTQ History. A very interesting episode in itself, it also referred to a podcast called Bad Gays. The Bad Gays podcast is hosted by Huw Lemmey, a writer and novelist, and Ben Miller, a writer, historian, and member of the board of the Gay Museum in Berlin. The host approach each episode in a creative way, studying their sources minutely and providing backstories of the people they talk about. Namely, they discuss queer men who did morally bad things or had problematic attitudes and questionable lifestyles.

Just as the History Extra pod, Bad Gays include men from different histrical periods, from Alexander the Great to Truman Capote. Again, I haven't listened to all the episodes yet. So far I have chosen the episodes concerning men from the Victorian and Edwardian eras, such as Bosie (whom the hosts call 'evil twink' XD), Prince Albert Victor (Queen Victoria's grandson who was involved in the Cleveland Street Scandal and was even suspected to be Jack the Ripper), General Gordon (on whom Watson had a man crush), Lawrence of Arabia, and Roger Casement (a diplomat and Irish nationalist, whom ACD defended to the bitter end). While in case of History Extra I had to be selective, as not every episode proved to be interesting, every epidose of Bad Gays I've listened to so far was excellent, really recommend it.

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Stop acting like your boy is innocent.

There is a 1864 flashback in 2x15 where Stefan is feeding on several women (three or four) in lingerie (people in 1864 don't wear modern underwear like bras, what they were wearing was lingerie at the time, it was highly indecent to be dressed like this in the 19h century, especially around a man), it's implied he compelled them to undress and to be okay with him feeding on them and taking pleasure in it because they were really happy about it. There's even one of them lying on the sofa. We can understand what Damon and Katherine did based on context (this situation is similar to Damon and Andi or Isobel and her assistants, this is a pattern in TVD, vampires with human people in underwear are all implied to be their rapist), so can we for Stefan. Ironically it's newbie vampire Damon who compelled these women to leave, and Stefan was aware of what he was doing, because when Damon said it was too much and he was going to leave Stefan begged him to stay. I also remembered that when Damon arrived, Stefan threw a woman at him and she caressed him. Women don't need to be in lingerie for a vampire to feed on them (ex :1912 flashback in 3x16, the women were not in lingerie), there is an intended message. When Stefan explained it to Elena, she told him "sounds like you were Damon", and Stefan said "I was worse than Damon. »

Case 2 : the women in the 1920s : There is a dodgy line in his diary in S3 which mentions his days in the 1920s when he says he wakes up in strangers’ blood with women he doesn't recognize. The mention of "women" isn't innocent, because it's canon that rippers don't feed only on women, we have seen Stefan feed on little kids too. The show also made it a point that he chose to have an apartment in Chicago next to an all-girls high school, which shut down for attendance issues, I think you can guess why...

I'd like to add that absolutely no one really took accountability in the show, every rape case was swept under the rug :

This is the last post I’m making about this.

Stefan without humanity is sadistic and he’s a murderer I’ve been very upfront with that, he toys with people - including women - before killing them but there is a separation between TVD being like, what would look sexy and erotic and disturbing onscreen

a la

(trying to go for this kinda thing which was an endorsement someone did for the Dracula trailer: The vegetarian vampire is dead, long live his non-sparkling counterpart! Yes, let our vampire stories have some bite. Let us get back some of that danger, some of that seduction of evil, and dare I say it? Let us have blood. Rivers of Hammer Horror technicolor blood. Blood, blood, everywhere, and all the drops to drink.)

and what Stefan as a character does, especially considering that Julie was going for a certain aesthetic:

“There was a sensuality and a seduction to the vampire genre that now, [nearly] 10 years later, isn’t necessarily as sexy, right?” she says, alluding to the fact that vampires can be compelling or glamorous to humans (depending on whether you’re watching TVD or True Blood) and have overpowering strength and speed.

Stefan gorges on blood, the woman on the couch is dead.

Her being in lingerie is for aesthetic, when he goes to his next victim, he bites her immediately, because even if he is playing games, Stefan’s desire is always about this:

like the twister game, it’s about feeding

so him choosing to stay across the street from an all girls school means that he played the same type of games or that he has preferences

but even in this, it’s about the feed although it’s made to look like it could be a makeout until closer examination:

The show in general did have a tendency to skew towards female victims when they wanted to illicit a certain image of disturbing eroticism:

whereas male victims were always rage or functional:

(which isn’t to say female victims were always used to illicit eroticism). The diary entry is easy to split hairs about

Stefan is the one who doesn’t recognize the women he’s with, there’s nothing to suggest that anything was coerced, particularly since in the same entry, he refers to Rebekah as a ‘woman’ so who’s to say that they aren’t other vampires he doesn’t recognize

There’s also the way it was written, which can suggest that each sentence is a different occurrence i.e. there were days he woke up in strangers’ bloods[period] in places he doesn’t recognize [period] with women he doesn’t remember [period].

This really just depends on how you want to interpret it.

I do agree that the show in general did have a problem with rape culture, which JP admitted:

“And you could look at it back through the lens of say the #MeToo movement and object to what may be a little bit of a glorification of a rape culture, but what we were working with at the time was a gothic romance with a fine line — a very fine line — separating it,” she says with a laugh. “And I used to get in arguments about it being a gothic romance and not wanting to censor the sexuality of the characters, even if it felt a little questionable at times, like specifically Damon and Caroline in the first couple of episodes [when he used her as a plaything and drank from her against her will]. Because that’s what vampires represented, and that’s what vampires were. And the culture has just shifted enough that you’d have to think twice before you dove in that boldly now, I think.”

But in this context, the issue with Stefan would then be the framing of his murders and how they were made to look erotic and not Stefan as a character being a rapist.

Not to mention, considering that at the time, JP doubled down on what Damon and Katherine did, if there was “sex” involved with Stefan’s feeding then we would just get a scene like this

or this

or even this

There would be no reason not to.

Anyway, I’ve written about this more than I care to at this point, so.

#stefan salvatore #the vampire diaries

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The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

One of the first documentaries I ever saw was an episode of In Search of History about Jack the Ripper. I think I was about 13 and I was shocked to learn that Jack the Ripper was a real person who had committed real murders. I'd thought up until then, that The Ripper was like Paul Bunion, just a folk tale, maybe the product of some play or something that I'd never heard of.

The show was only 45 minutes long, so it didn't go in depth and I was left knowing that history was full of things that we could never really hope to understand.

I didn't really look farther into the case, but if I saw something about it I would stop and watch.

This book caught my attention because it looks at the victims, I'd never seen anything concentrating on who the women were killed, as people and not just evidence.

As the book points out, all that is usually said is that the victims were prostitutes.

In the book it is made clear that most of the women were not prostitutes fallen victim to a murderous John, at all, but poor women who, for one reason or another, were sleeping rough when they were attacked.

The Ripper is barely mentioned, there were times that I forgot how each woman's story was going to end, and I would hope for a happier conclusion.

I honestly really liked that little attention was given the violence that befell Annie, Kate, Elizabeth, Polly, and Mary-Jane, at the hands of the unknown killer. Too many people focus on the brutality of the murder reducing the women to the sum of their parts. It's almost as if, the real reason for the search for the killer is not to finally put a name to the person who should have been punished, but to give the unknown person *credit* for what they did. And that is deeply sickening.

The book does the exact opposite. Who ended the women's lives isn't important, what's important is that they lived, had families, and people who they cared about and who cared about them. There is also a focus on the problems in society that lead most of of these women into the position of being homeless and vulnerable to the killer. All but Mary-Jane were killed on the streets, and the author puts forth the idea that each woman, including Mary-Jane were attacked while they were sleeping.

This makes sense to me, more so than the standard theory. The Ripper went after the vulnerable, he didn't want resistance who is the easiest target? Someone who found what they thought would be an out of the way and safe place to sleep.

Something *did* bug me about the book.

It is good that the author cleared the record an pointed out that most if the victims were never prostitutes, because, they deserved to be remembered for who they really were. And yes, the book points out that this myth that the victims were "just hookers" has been used to minimize the crime.

But... and maybe I'm reading the tone wrong... butit was just stated over and over that of the victims only one was ever classified as a sex worker and that everyone believing that meant that we were perpetuating that they deserved what happened to them.

I can't speak for everyone, but even when I was a kid and learned about the case and was only told the narrative that all the victims were prostitutes, I never once thought that they deserved it. I thought: So what if they were prostitutes? That doesn't mean anything.

I thought it just proved that the lack of protection for sex workers has been making them a vulnerable population for over 100 years, and you would think we would have figured out a way to fix it by now.

The tone of the book felt like: "They weren't prostitutes, so stop thinking they deserved it" when my feeling is that even if they were prostitutes they didn't deserve it, and that instead of looking at every sex worker who has fallen victim to abuse, and thinking they have failed in some way, maybe we should be thinking about the fact that our society has failed *them* by not recognizing their work and not putting laws and regulations in place to protect them while they work. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with sex work, as long as all parties are adults doing it of their own free will and both worker and customer are clear on boundaries. I also think that the best way to ensure that everyone is safe is having laws and regulations in place. Make it a legitimate job, ensure that workers are protected from abuse, make it that if a client attacks, or in Anyway harms a worker, that The worker can go to the police without fear of being arrested themselves.

The message of the book is good, the five women were whole people with lives and talents and feelings who were not noticed until after they died, and even in death they were made less than, nothing more than pieces of meat that mad man carved up. That is wrong, its always been wrong.

But I feel like the note of "They were not prostitutes " was hit so hard that it drowned out the larger point. The fact that, this twisted admiration of Jack the Ripper means that popular culture sees him in an almost artistic light "Look what he managed to get away with, it's amazing that he was never caught, how clever he must have been".

When in fact it was simply that he targeted those who were invisible to society, in a time where, due to the acceptance of modern forensics being years away, you basically had to be holding a sign saying "I committed a crime, ask me how" to be caught.

Just like how the names and lives of those who are killed now, deserve to be known more than the names of their murderers, Jack the Ripper, as a cultural icon deserves to be forgotten and and Annie, Polly, Elizabeth, Kate, and Mary-Jane deserve to be remembered.

#books #book #book blogging 2022 #hallie rubenhold #the five #nonfiction #history

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