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gogmstuff · 8 months

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Images of 1912 fashion -

Left 1912 (April) Afternoon dress by Beer, Les Modes - photo by Talbot. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/21 784X1920.

Center 1912 (June issue) Robe d'après-midi par Redfern from Les Modes. From Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia; fixed spots w Pshop 1453X2265.

Right 1912 (January) Tailored afternoon suit by Linker & Co., Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/14 705X1920.

Left 1912 (August issue) Journal des Demoiselles print by A. Baeurlé (Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, Netherlands). From their Web site 3277X4834.

Right 1912 Journal des Dames et des Modes. From tumblr.com/antiquebee/733887948520652800/journal-des-dames-et-des-modes-1912? 956X1705.

Left 1912 (September) Laferrière evening gown - photo by Félix, Les Modes. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/10; fixed bigger spots w Pshop 1265X1920.

Right 1912 (September) Lelong evening gown, Les Modes - photo by Talbot. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/10 1236X1920.

1912 (Winter) Jeanne Paquin evening gown (Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection, FIDM Museum - Los Angeles, California, USA). From atkinreport.com/2015/07/21/television-academy-fetes-its-costume-design-emmy-nominees/ 1200X1600.

1912 (June) Vita Sackville-West at Ascot cropped 1396X1022

1912 (May) Dresses for the races by J. Dukes, photo by Reutlinger. From castaroundlesmodes.tumblr.com/post/68584847179/my-little-time-machine-dress-for-the-races-by?is_related_post=1 1280X1877.

Left 1912 Afternoon dress by Jeanne Hallée (Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York, USA). From their Web site 2568X2760.

Right 1912 (September issue) Robe d'après-midi par Redfern from Les Modes. From Bibliothèque nationale de France via Wikimedia; fixed bigger spots w Pshop & trimmed 1334X2118.

1912 Frieda Countess Logothetti née Baroness Zwiedinek of Südenhorst (1866-1945) by Karel Žádník (Slovácké Muzeum - Uherské Hradiště, Zlin Region Czech Republic). From Wikimedia 2784X3855.

Left 1912 Gustav Beer dress (National Gallery of Victoria - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa 1280X1855.

Right 1912 L'Adieu dans la nuit. Robe du soir de Paquin (pl.9, in La Gazette du Bon ton, 1912-1913 n°6) by André-Edouard Marty. From edition-originale.com/en/ 1680X2528.

1912 Ladies attending the Henley Regatta in wide-brim hats, a feathered boa and curved-heel shoes. From vogue.co.uk/gallery/style-file-1912?image=5d54889ce144470008e44627 1280X1920.

1912 Lady Cynthia Asquith by Bassano front and side 5112X3325.

1912 "Sorbet" by Paul Poiret (Victoria and Albert Museum). From omgthatdress.tumblr.com/page/2490.

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dozydawn · 11 months

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series about royals are tired & i don’t even watch tv rn but as long as sibling tv is hot why not a series about victoria, carl philip, and madeleine of sweden. pitching this one for free.

from a costuming standpoint, there’s good opportunity to appreciate mid 90s to early 00s eveningwear (some of which inspired the princess diaries beat for beat)

from a dramatic standpoint, heirs & spares is done to death, but one of the spares was heir for a brief time until a change in constitutional law which... makes it a bit more interesting (especially when their father disagreed with the change)

“King Carl XVI Gustaf objected to the reform after it occurred—not because he objected to women entering the line of succession, but because he was upset about his son being stripped of the crown prince status he had held since birth.” (shh he’s just 7 months old he doesn’t even have to know if we don’t tell him)

two specific moments i’d like to see recreated are the receiving of victoria & madeleine’s 18th birthday tiaras. the ugliest little rinky dink starter pieces but i like them.

#additionally victoria’s struggle & recovery from her ed if handled correctly but we’re already pipe dreaming #shows about royals can’t even recreate the tiaras right & adult animation doesn’t exist as a real medium in the west i’m pulling my hair #crown princess victoria #princess madeleine #prince carl philip #siblings #original

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onihcinimkcin · 1 year

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it's too bad the ranked listicle is dead because i just envisioned pitching Every Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor, Worst to Best

#sorry to fans of madeleine l'engle but the westing game is number one with a bullet

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alas-pooryorick · 1 year

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I am my father's daughter

The Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir

Fleabag (2016-2019)

East, West, Salman Rushdie

Irish proverb

Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen

The Father Tamer, Eileen Granfors

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco

A Room Called Earth, Madeleine Ryan

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portraitsofsaints · 5 months

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Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne

1769-1852

Feast Day: November 18

Patronage: perseverance amid adversity, Dioceses of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO.

Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne was born in France and lived through the French Revolution. In 1804 Rose befriended St. Madeleine Sophie Barat and entered the Society of the Sacred Heart. She dreamed of serving the Native Americans and at age 49 she and four sisters were sent as missionaries to the Louisiana Territory to establish the Society’s presence in America. With Divine grace, courage, an iron will and a lot of faith she started free schools for girls and Native Americans in Missouri and Kansas. The Native Americans called her "Woman Who Prays Always.” St. Rose is the first canonized female saint west of the Mississippi.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

#Portraitsofsaints #Feastday #Saintoftheday #Saintquotes #StRosePhilippineDuchesne #SaintRosePhilippineDuchesne #Frenchnun #patronsaint #patronsaints #saintportrait

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queseraone · 3 months

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Who are 5 guest actors that you would love to see return to the show? (Doesn’t matter how big or small their roles were in the first place)

Oh fun! This was actually pretty easy, because between the characters who have been killed off (and thus can't really return) and Nolan's former love interests (no thank you), there's not that many to choose from...

Kojo (Macklin the dog) - I know, I know, it's hard to film with animals, yadda yadda yadda, but please let us see this good boy again in season 6. Just one appearance?? PRETTY PLEASE??

Genny Bradford (Peyton List) - They moved her character back to Los Angeles, so it would be damn shame to not see her again! I loved seeing her interacting with both Tim and Lucy (and Tim and Lucy together), so I really hope she'll be back around soon.

Percy West (Michael Beech) - He had such a commanding presence, his friendship with Grey was really nice, and the extra layer to the LAPD he brought was so interesting. Do I want him around all the time? Absolutely not. But to have him pop up on occasion in the aftermath of a case (say, Tim's shooting in 5x19 for example) would be great!

Pete Nolan (Pete Davidson) - This may be a controversial choice, but I personally find him hilarious in small doses. He's such a great foil for John Nolan, and I think that's why I enjoy it whenever he shows up—he knocks Nolan off-balance! I know Nolan is the main character, but frankly it's boring to see everything be so easy for him, and you can always count on Pete to throw a wrench into things.

Abigail (Madeleine Coghlan) - It was cool to see her interacting with both Tim and Lucy when she was on her ride-along with Tim and Nolan, and I would just love to see her back one day, ideally as a rookie herself? She was fun! (At minimum I'd love to see her - and Henry - back for Nolan's wedding, but I'm not holding my breath!)

Honorable Mentions:

Rosalind Dyer (Annie Wersching) - Sadly we all know this one can't happen, but she was hands-down the most interesting baddie, and thus one of the greatest guest stars, so I just can't exclude her from this list.

Valerie Castillo (Rosalind Sánchez) - Listen, I'm just such a sucker for guest stars that are connected to cast members (spouses, former co-stars, etc.—I'm looking at you, mini Castle and Firefly reunions) and so for that reason alone I'd love to have her back. The reason she didn't make the top 5 is I'm not entirely sure what they would do with her character, but if it happens, I'm here for it.

Vanessa Chen (Lauren Tom) - She only gets an honorable mention because I fucking hate her... but I would love to see some kind of follow-up to her previous appearances. And I'm weirdly conflicted about what I want to have happen with her. I would love to see Lucy tell her mother off, to shove her happiness and success in her face... but I would also like to see some kind of resolution there too?

Did I miss anyone??? Do you disagree with me? Who would you add?

Hit me with more fun questions! 😊

#the rookie #fun questions #asked and answered #roguetwelve #chenford

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artisticlegshake · 10 months

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THE DANCE AWARDS ORLANDO RESULTS 2023

TEEN SOLOS:

1st Ian Stegeman - WOODBURY JP!

2nd Gracyn French - P21 JP!

2nd Cami Voorhees - EVOLVE JP!

3rd Bella Rose Penrose - EVOLVE JP!

3rd Nathaniel Chua - THE NINE JP!

4th Giselle Gandarilla - STARS JP!

5th Ellen Grace Plansen - DWDE JP!

6th Harper Snell - SOUTHERN STRUTT JP!

6th Samantha Cascudo - MIAMI DANCE COMPANY JP!

6th Shaunaughsey Meagher - THE NINE JP!

6th Tristan Gerzon - EDX JP!

6th Kynadi Crain - JEAN LEIGH JP!

6th Avery Reyes - P21 JP!

6th Hayley Marshall - TRUE DANCE JP!

7th Naima Abram - SPOTLITE JP!

7th Kate Roman - CDC JP!

7th Caitlyn Polis - THE VISION JP!

7th Tim Zvifel - VLAD’S JP!

8th Logan Gallinger - EDX JP!

8th Balbina Cueva Toussaint - ALE MANCILLAS JP!

8th Catherine Clayton - STARS JP!

8th Onna Williams - EVOLVE JP!

8th Eve Schmeichel - EDX JP!

8th Richie Granese - P21 JP!

8th Sophie Garcia - STARS JP!

8th Ava D’Ambrosio - WESTCHESTER JP!

9th Nevaeh Covington - THE NINE JP!

9th Noa Levkov - EDX JP!

9th Stella Eberts - P21 JP!

9th Elyse Wingertsahn - EVOLVE JP!

9th Adina Rooney - STUDIO 412 JP!

9th Madeleine Matos - MIAMI DANCE COMPANY JP!

9th Joli DuQuenne - THE STUDIO PROJECT JP!

9th Maya Loureiro - P21 JP!

10th Kendyl Fay - P21 JP!

10th Alessia Pedone - VLAD’S JP!

10th Hudson Heath - WEST FLORIDA JP!

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juliluvhz · 5 months

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my requests || what I will and won’t write || who i mostly write for

doing this so people know what I’ll write, who i write for and what I refuse to write :3, i will do most requests sent if it isn’t these characters anyways, these are just characters i like to write for

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harry potter

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

George Weasley

Fred Weasley

Hermione Granger

Draco malfoy

marauders

Remus lupin

Regulus black

james potter

sirius black

Spider-Man

tasm!peter Parker

Tom Holland!peter Parker

miles morales

josh hutcherson

clapton davis

mike schmidt

sean anderson (movie 1&2)

jess aarons

josh as himself

josh when he was younger (13-18 basically)

peeta mellark

the black phone

finney Blake

mason Thames

robin Arellano

miguel mora

Vance hopper

Brady hepner

gwen blake

Madeleine mcgraw

Donna

rebecca clarke

victorious

beck Oliver

cat valentine

Jade west

andre harris

tori vega

trina vega

extras

eminem

avril lavigne

jaden walton

javon walton

tom kaulitz

bill kaulitz

dustin long

alex norman

fuckshit

ethan garcia

jude bellingham

jj maybanks

anthony larusso

max dennison

colby brock

sam golbach

jake webber

johnnie guilbert

tom Holland

andrew garfeild

emma stone

gwen stacy

what I’ll write

fluff

smut

angst

small age gaps (1-3 years)

grumpy x sunshine

enemies to lovers

friends to lovers

friends with benefits

love triangles

small mentions of blood

yandere

tsundere

what I wont write

rape

age gap bigger than 3

pedophelia

abuse

kidnapping

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that’s pretty much it! if you do request something that I don’t write I simply will ignore it so there is no point requesting it, thank yaouuu ! ♥️

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blindmanbaldwin · 1 year

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“He [Safin] offers the possibility to Bond to stay alive, but being unable to near the people he loves which is ultimately a checkmate of cosmic proportions.” - Academy-Award winning director Guillermo del Toro on the ending of “No Time to Die”

Appears my earlier post got a little bit of a reaction! Specifically, the bit in which “No Time to Die” cinematographer Linus Sandgren refers to Madeleine Swann as “the love of his life”. This provides a good opportunity to talk about on this platform what I think the logic is across the five-film CraigBond story and how Swann fits into this narrative.

“What are they burning?” “Secrets, wishes, letting go of the past. Getting rid of the old, in comes the new.“

When we’re introduced to the character in “Casino Royale”, we see James Bond commit the first two kills that make him a 00. This doesn’t have its origins in the novels, so I think that number of two bears particular note. You can’t just kill one person, you have to kill two. Every time you hurt someone you are hurting two people: the other person, and you.

Now, there’s a through-line across all five movies — it is impossible to live a life if your life is killing people. We don’t need to look any further than the opening stanza to Chris Cornell’s “You know My Name”, the opening song to “Casino Royale”:

If you take a life do you know what you'll give? Odds are you won't like what it is

There are two people who exist: “James Bond” and “007″. One is a killer, one is not. Every time “007″ kills, it pushes “James Bond” further away from his humanity. I’m reminded of a line from “A Boy Like That” from “West Side Story” (A boy who kills cannot love/A boy who kills has no heart) that seems quite applicable to the character of James Bond, be it the literary or the film Bond. And the unfortunate curse of his profession is his licence to kill ends up being a double-edged sword. Or, as Dominic Greene says in “Quantum of Solace”:

The tragedy at the core of “Casino Royale” is this fundamental divide within the character — if he holds onto his power over death, then everything he loves is doomed to die. James Bond’s identity is murder and death. But he yearns, so desperately, for connection. He is the Dangerous Lover fully. When he meets Vesper, he immediately falls for her and is willing to give up his everything for her but it is of no use. Vesper betrays him out of her own past attachment — honeypotted into a romance used to blackmail her — and she kills herself to spare Bond’s life. Yet, in pure irony, by saving Bond’s physical life she killed his humanity.

It is fitting in “Casino Royale” that the iconic line of the cinematic Bond (”Bond, James Bond”) doesn’t appear until right at the end of the film when Bond shoots the man responsible for the decision Vesper made. We are linking his identity to this act, that the choice Vesper made to save him drove him into being who we (the audience) know him as — a killer. His heart is sealed off when he uses that nasty, five-letter word in reference to Vesper.

If the ending of “Casino Royale” positions the character at his lowest — a totally heartless killer devoid of any humanity — then everything subsequent shows some kind of transformation out of that place. Drama is movement, after all. Stagnation is the enemy of functional storytelling.

“Quantum of Solace” features Bond wandering through the desert and restoring water to a thirsty people. The symbolism of this plot-beat is fairly straightforward — despite all his best intentions, there is a capacity for this killer to give life instead of just taking life. That bargain he made at the beginning of “Casino Royale” is not permanent (powers over death in exchange for your humanity/soul). He can emerge out of the desert and find rebirth. Transform into something new, restore what was lost.

The ending shot of “Quantum of Solace” — featuring Vesper’s jewel given to her by the honeypotter (is that word?) — is such a powerful image. It’s as if Bond is separating himself from his feeling, from his humanity. Committing to the life of a killer.

I have a whole thing about the use of silhouette in “Skyfall” and how Silva exists as a shadow-self of Bond’s anger towards M (which, I think, projects onto the death of his biological mother as every mythic hero has two sets of parents). Silva and Sévérine are a perverted mirror of Bond’s metatextual legacy, with the ending of the film arguing that there is something salvageable within this character with such a misogynistic legacy:

M, the surrogate mother, dies and gives Bond this last word — “I did get one thing right.” The goal of every parent, one imagines, is to not completely fuck up their child. M did fuck up Tiago Rodriquez (birthing Silva) but did not do the same to Bond. James Bond had every opportunity to end up like Tiago Rodriquez (literally “dying” and ending up with a clean slate to do whatever he wants with), but he returned when he found out MI6 (M, his “mother”) was in danger and worked to protect her. Because he loves her — despite sealing his heart off all those years ago, he still does love. That’s what she got right, maintain that humanity within Bond that so many others in this profession lose when they exist within death.

That man Bond shot at the end of “Casino Royale”, Mr. White, returns in “Spectre” — the key to Bond unraveling the mysterious organization that threatens global stability. Only this Mr. White is not the master assassin we last saw him as in “Quantum of Solace”, now he is frail and weak. Isolated. Mr. White abandoned the cause after the organization started targeting women and children, and now he waits for death to come for him as penance for what he has done in life. White recognizes how he and Bond are basically the same person — men who bring death upon the world, which ends up drawing distance between them and humanity at large.

But Mr. White has one thing keeping him alive:

Madeleine Swann is among the more fascinating characters in any popular, brand-name movie I’ve come across. The basic conceit of her character is “What if Death had a daughter, and she was the force of Life?”. She is a doctor who worked with international organizations that travel around the world healing people. This is, obviously, the equal opposite of Bond’s “licence to kill”. How could something so healing come from a man of total destruction? Mr. White is a particularly nasty guy, yet out from him emerged her. What a beautiful, hopeful message — the spark of life will always emerge no matter how bleak its circumstances are in existence.

“Spectre” shapes like a fairy tale: this dark knight (Bond) travels to the Pale King (Mr. White) thanks to a magical ring (the Spectre Ring), and the dying King tasks him to go save the Princess (Madeleine Swann) from the wizard who killed him. But the only way the knight can save the Princess is if he throws down his sword — because what really hurts her is killing. Or, as Swann says:

From the moment they meet, there is something different about Dr. Swann. She doesn’t just know Bond’s world — she *is* Bond’s world. She came from the same World of Death that he navigates in, yet emerged out of that a being of Life. A Doctor, the opposite of a Killer. Madeleine Swann serves as the total antithesis to the cruel belief Bond resigned himself to at the end of “Casino Royale” — life can emerge out of the underworld.

Going back to “Skyfall” for a moment, all of the stag imagery associated with Bond’s family in the film seems important — the stags antlers regrow each year. Out of the death of winter comes the rebirth of spring. New life from death

And there’s a line Silva tells Bond in his monologue where he talks about the psychological transformation MI6 makes agents go under through a parable of his childhood:

The default nature, “Skyfall” proposes, isn’t hurting but helping. We aren’t programmed to kill from birth, someone has to teach us to do that. Silva believes this is irreversible, but as we see through Bond’s journey in the film one can change their nature again back to a helper. Back to healing. Nothing is set in stone. The daughter of an assassin can become a force for life.

As the world’s biggest fan of “Spectre”, I’ll admit I was a bit concerned when I saw Daniel Craig was returning for one last Bond film and that Léa Seydoux was also coming back with him. I loved the ending of “Spectre” — the hero rejects the power of death (think the magical ending of “Return of the Jedi”) and embraces the love of life/life of love. He finds rebirth in this heart. His journey was complete! What more was there to tell?

Ha. Haha. Hahaha...

The trick about “No Time to Die”, dramatically, is it as much the story of Madeleine Swann is the story of James Bond. But more than anything, it is a meta-analysis of James Bond.

In “No Time to Die”, we return to Vesper’s grave (a beat taken from the novel “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, to the silly people I’ve seen on the MI6 forums or Reddit argue that the literary character wouldn’t do this).Vesper represents all of the death associated with Bond, and Swann tasks him to go to her grave to “let go”. They cannot have a future together if he cannot let go of his past. His past of killing will deny them a future. For Swann harbors a secret...

When Del Toro refers to the ending of “No Time to Die” as a cosmic checkmate, this is what he means — the base cosmological forces of life and death are in Bond’s hands, and he gets to choose which will emerge victorious. All of these films have featured him journeying to regain the humanity he lost in “Casino Royale”, the soul he loses every time he pulls the trigger of his Walther PPK. But the choice of him isn’t to throw down the weapon, the choice is for him to make the same choice M made in “Skyfall” or Vesper made in “Casino Royale” — die for love.

Madeleine Swann, as someone born of this same dark world of death, is the only one equipped to handle the psychological weight of James Bond — because they have this same pain. The first pre-title sequence of “No Time to Die”, where we see Madeleine’s mother (or Mr. White’s lover) die like the archetypal “Bond Girl” dies, grounds this in such a harrowing way. Both have seen their lives dramatically altered by betrayal of those who they loved, and because of this is betrayal it reduced the possibility of them finding restoration.

Broken in the same way. Fitting together perfectly because of it. Isn’t that love? She is life coming from death, and he is death coming from life. Equal opposites that form a perfect circle.

The inescapable irony of human existence is our attachments power us to exist but they also give us so much distress. A melted heart (good) and a broken heart (bad) are both destructive. Or, as Léa Seydoux (Madeleine Swann) described it in the marketing for “No Time to Die” — love is the promise of suffering. The love potion is the poison. That which save, kills. That which kills, saves. At the end of “No Time to Die”, Bond could walk away and live with the knowledge that he would one day kill Madeleine Swann. His touch would one day kill her. But instead, he chooses death. He becomes a mortal man through love. He gives up everything for her. He dies *into* the relationship. As Deborah Lutz writes in “The Dangerous Lover” (40):

“The poignancy of love in romance comes from the sense that, once the full presence of love arrives, the characters will be gone; they will die in their narrative; there will be nothing left to say. Love becomes a fantasy of dying, a liebestod”.

The plotting of “No Time to Die” involves nanobots that kills on contact. Basically, it is literalizing that metaphor from “Quantum of Solace” — a literal Midas touch of death. What’s the only way for Bond to get out of this situation when he is poisoned with something that can kill the only person he loves? Let go. The only way he can have a future is if he lets go.

This is the magic of “No Time to Die”, and by extension the character of Madeleine Swann — cinema’s most famous killer has been transformed through her love into a life creator. The bleeding gun barrel has turned into one of light. The iconic line of the character has turned into something else entirely. Not the calling card of a killer it was in “Casino Royale”, but one of a life-giver.

Because much as this being of life-energy could come from Mr. White, so to could something beautiful come from Bond. His eyes (eyes=soul) could pass on into something new. New life could grow from his old death. Out of love we find redemption and rebirth. No wonder the last face we see in the CraigBond films isn’t his own, but his daughter’s. A smiling girl. With his blue eyes staring back at us...

“I got one thing right.” This is why Madeleine Swann is the love of his life. Because she *is* his life. She is the proof he can change his nature and finish his journey to find his ocean-eyed soul once again. All the cosmologic power of the divine in his hand, and James Bond lets it all go to save her. Which, by extension, saves himself. No longer a murder. Now a man. The only thing he ever wanted to be.

#james bond #madeleine swann #craigbond #daniel craig #casino royale #quantum of solace #skyfall #spectre #no time to die #i did not intend to write this post today but it ended up just sort of spilling out onto the page #but now it is accomplished

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larakb117 · 1 year

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LONDON ADVENTURE

Joseph Quinn & female y/n

Summary: slow burn... You moved to London a few months ago, you stroll around the city and meet this handsome guy in a pub named "The French House". His name is Joseph Quinn...

warnings: none so far...

Part 1

Soho was your favorite place to be in London. The restaurants, bars and pubs, the West End with its endless theatres. Every few steps you had the chance to get either a tattoo, food or some new toys… You strolled around Dean Street this afternoon. Since you moved to London from Germany earlier this year you walked this street like the millionth time, but it was the first time you actually noticed this little pub called „The french house“ One look at the menu that was displayed in front of the pub and you quickly decided to go in and check it out. Inside the pub was packed with people (pretty sure this place must be a good one), just one stool at the counter was free. You cleared your way to the free stool and tried to sit down, the curly haired man seated right next to it turned around and immediately said: „Sorry, this ones tak-.“ He looked at you, to be honest, it actually felt like he stared straight into your soul. His eyes were mesmerizing. Brown, the most beautiful brown eyes you´ve ever seen. „Oh, I… I´m sorry.“ It was hard to clear your mind within seconds to finally give him this answer, but you made it. He still stared at you and smirked a little. „No, love. I´m sorry. My friend´s at the restroom right now, but you can have my seat.“ He stood up and offered you the stool with a smile on his face. In this little room with all these people in it he got pretty close to you. He smelled amazing, like one of those expensive fragrances you can buy at the beauty section in Harrods. He was about two inches taller than you. What was that feeling in your stomach? Your knees got weak, but you managed to kind of get up and take a seat. „What´s your name darling?“ „y/n“, you got even more nervous. „I´m Joe, hi.“ He hold out his hand towards yours, you shook it but couldn´t say a word. „Pleasure to meet you, y/n.“ „Finally: „You too.“ It felt like there was a knot in your throat. All of those physical reactions were kind of overwhelming.

„Hey mate! Got the toilet clogged again!Happens every fucking time!!!“ Another man came through the crowd right towards you and Joe. He laughed and was obviously tipsy. Joe giggled: „Fuck, mate, you embarrass me!“ What a cute laugh. „Well, also happens every fucking time!“ was the unknown mans answer to that. „Did I embarrass him to you?“ he looked at you with wide eyes. „Not sure about that.“ You shyly smilded at him and looked down to the ground. Joe introduced him to you: „That´s Wesley, my dead loss, but also known as my best friend.“ The fact that Joe actually kept a conversation with you made you a little bit more confident, you looked at both of them and introduced yourself to Wesley. „You know what?“, Joe looked at you again, well, correction, stare in your eyes. „I want to get you a drink.“ „Oh.“ That was basically everything you were able to say. Joe leaned over the counter to get the attention of one of the barkeepers, but then he faced you again. „Wait, I only know your name, maybe you should tell me what you want to drink.“ His eyes sparkled and he smirked, which made your knees even weaker but you could also feel your confidence grow. Thank god you sat. You both laughed. „I´d like to have an Affogato. Saw that on the menu outside.“ „Great choice, you should definitely get some madeleines with that too.“ „That was my plan.“ You looked at each other intensly. He grinned. „Okay.“ Joe ordered and a few minutes later you got served. Meanwhile you told Joe that you were actually german and that you moved to London, because it was you favorite place in the whole world. Joe agreed with that. You enjoyed your Affogato and kept talking with him and Wesley about a lot of things, Joe asked you tons of questions, so you were the one talking most of the time. It was flattering to you that he seemed so interested in you.

Unfortunatetly after about an hour of chatting with the two boys they had to leave. „I hope to meet you again some time, darling.“ Joe rubbed your back. The way he called you darling made you melt into his touch. „Can I give you my number and you promise to call me?“ Your heart skipped a beat: „Yeah, sure. I´ll call you!“ Your voice got like an octave higher than normal. You handed him your phone, he typed in his number. This was actually the first time a man gave you his number, you were 25 but had no experience with men. Just thinking about that made you a little bit more nervous again. „I hope to hear from you very soon.“Again he rubbed your back and when he left you could swear he winked at you. Wesley followed him outside of the pub and than he was out of sight. You left the pub too, the boys were already nowhere to be seen. You could not believe what just happened in the last hour. The way from Soho to your small apartment room outside of Central London was about 50 minutes long, still not enough time to comprehend the experience with this gorgeous man you just met, and obviously his dead loss, Wesley. It was 9 pm when you got home. You were tired and exhausted of all those emotions and thoughts in your head and just fell into your bed. But you weren´t able to stop yourself from calling Joe immediately. Even though it might seem a little desperate, but right now you were brave enough, so you had to it right now or it might never happen. You unlocked your phone and tapped on your contacts, the newest one was called „Joseph Quinn“.

To be continued…

please be kind!! It's my first serious try of a fanfiction! And I promise it gets spicy!!

#joseph quinn imagine #joseph quinn #joseph quinn smut #joseph quinn x reader #joseph quinn x y/n #eddie smut #eddie munson #eddie munson smut #Spotify #joe quinn #joseph quinn fanfiction #spicy fanfic #slow burn

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khaleesiofalicante · 1 month

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OKAY HEAR ME OUT:

A boy like that from West Side Story but with Madeleine and Theia. Allow me to present:

A boy like that who'd kill your brother

Forget that boy and find another

One of your own kind

Stick to your own kind!

Kill your brother or your entire race and it's totally Madeleine talking to Theia right? And it gets worse

A boy who kills cannot love

A boy who kills has no heart

Madeleine saying that because she believes Lance killed Joseph! And then:

A boy like that wants one thing only

And when he's done he'll leave you lonely

He'll murder your love; he murdered mine

I mean come on! Lance murdering Theia's love for him by betraying her trust and destroying Idris the same way he murdered Madeleine's heart! (Joseph)

And now imagine the same lyrics, but with MAX AND ARTHUR!

A boy like that who'd kill your brother

Umm, the prophecy??

A boy who kills cannot love

A boy who kills has no heart

Max's belief that Kincaid is a murderer?

He'll murder your love; he murdered mine

Max saying that Kincaid's parents hurt David (his love) and Kincaid will do the same to Arthur's love

But also Theia/ Arthur replying

It's true for you, not for me

I hear your words

And in my head

I know they’re smart

But my heart

Knows they’re wrong

You should know better

You were in love, or so you said

You should know better

The last lines are so powerful?? Theia and Arthur saying to them, if it was your love you would've chosen the same, you should understand how I feel??

I really love this parallel amd it makes me want to see West Side Story? How bad should I feel that I haven't seen it before?

THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS. THIS.

THIS IS EVERYTHING.

IMMEDIATELY ADDED TO THE PLAYLIST. LOVE THIS. THANK YOU.

PS - I love WSS. But I wouldn't recommend the one with Spielberg. It was shit. Watch the 1961 version. IT'S THE BEST.

#lbaf

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veliseraptor · 1 year

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April Reading Recap

so apparently I read a fuckton in April. I put that on the week off for Passover and also a number of very fast reads last month. here goes

The Spite House by Johnny Compton. Might be the best horror book I'd read in a while, and I did not see the twist coming for a long while. Good and very spooky on the whole, but the "creepy kids as ghosts" thing took some of the luster off it. Still, some good and original ideas here and I'll be watching for more books by this author.

The Nine Eyes of Lucien by Madeleine Roux. Not very good writing and a good third of the book was rehashing the events of the end of Campaign 2, which I just watched. It was fine, I guess? But I didn't find it added much.

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I've had this one on my list for literal years - it's a retelling of the Biblical story of Dinah, Jacob's one daughter. I kind of wish I'd read it sooner, when (a) I was less burned out on retellings/reinterpretations of familiar stories, and (b) when I would've been less bothered by the flavor of gender essentialism of the text and could have appreciated other things about it without getting stuck in feeling iffy about that. I am trying to work out why it bothers me so much that Diamant chose to change the reading of the text from (an implied) rape to a consensual love affair, and I'm not quite sure I can explain that.

It's an interesting book and I'm glad I read it but I don't think I'd recommend it without disclaimers; I think in some ways it's more interesting as an artifact of the cultural movement it comes out of than anything else. Would analyze in a class about Jewish feminist responses to stories in Tanakh (or Talmud, tbh).

Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts and More by Marina Warner. Fascinating collection of short essays originally given as lectures on the BBC, apparently - the one essay about the way the West conceptualizes the simultaneous purity/monstrosity of children was particularly interesting to me. Interesting piece of work I picked up totally by happenstance because it was short and looked interesting and it lived up to both qualities.

Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates. Good spooky horror recommended by @cigaretteburnslikefairylights and actually legit scared me in places, which doesn't happen all that often to me anymore when I'm reading horror. (I'm still a weenie watching it.) I actually...liked this one start to resolution and am going to be looking up more of Darcy Coates' writing, because if it's not, you know, doing something super ~innovative~ it is good spooky reading and that's really what I've been craving.

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester. Reading this book was a weird experience. I went into it just thinking "ooh, book about an interesting natural disaster, I love volcanoes" and came out of it going "whoa, surprise Islamophobia," checked the publication date, and learned it was 2003, whereupon I was miserably unsurprised. I don't know why the author felt like he needed to make colonial apologetics and blame the post-eruption upheaval on Islamic fundamentalists manipulating the natives into uprising against their Dutch masters but apparently he did. (I'm exaggerating. But not that much.)

The geology stuff was interesting. Mr. Winchester should've stuck with that and the reportage of the eruption itself and left politics out of it.

Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation ed. by Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang. This might be my favorite book I read in April, honestly. It's a really good collection of essays about the concept of decolonizing translation, and what that means, and whether it's possible, and the uneasy and uncomfortable relationship between translation and imperialism. I didn't agree with all the essays in here, and they didn't necessarily all agree with each other, but all of them at least had something interesting to say. I would recommend this one to people who can find it - it's by a small press - who are interested in translation or who frequently read in translation. The writers have a lot to say that I think is worth thinking about.

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thahn Tran. I think I just need to give up reading YA books with the realization they're generally not for me, though this one almost had me. It's something about the...I know there's a range of styles, I can't generalize style across the genre, but there is a texture to YA writing that doesn't quite work for me.

I love the concept - diaspora horror, colonialist horror, some really fucked up body horror stuff that got surprisingly gruesome - and would love to read a slightly different book about it, but alas, that book wasn't this one.

American Midnight: Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921 by Adam Hochschild. Another contender for favorite book I read this month though I think this one loses out to Violent Phenomena and possibly Gallows Hill, though comparing horror fiction to historical nonfiction feels kind of unfair. Anyway, I knew some of what this book was digging into - the Sedition Act and the intensely violent repression that was going on in the United States during World War I - but I learned a lot more here.

The depressing thing about reading this, though, was watching (so to speak) the brutal crushing of a once fairly robust American Socialist Party such that it never recovered. Not to mention the grinding down of the labor movement, which I think was at its most powerful during this period of time and hasn't been as strong since.

Just looking at that and wondering what might've been if Woodrow Wilson wasn't such a fucking dick.

Elektra by Jennifer Saint. I feel so funny about this book. I read another mythology retelling even though I swore not to because a Tumblr user I respect mentioned it being good; my experience was that it wasn't bad and it didn't actively bother me like some other retellings I could name, but I don't know that I'd actually call it good. Mostly I'd say I wasn't annoyed, just uninspired.

Of the three narrators, Elektra was definitely the best, and I really did like the construction of her relationship with Clytemnestra, which really felt like the meat of the book. (Perhaps, considering the House of Atreus, that's a bad turn of phrase to use.) The Cassandra sections felt like a distraction, mostly a way to keep the reader up with what was going on across the sea and provide some action in between the familial drama. Ultimately I just felt like those sections took away from the Elektra/Clytemnestra dynamic, leaving insufficient meat.

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach. I went through a period of time where I was reading all of Mary Roach's books, and was kind of obsessed with them, so this was sort of returning to an old and familiar friend. I found I wasn't quite as enamored with this one as I remembered being of some of her others (I think I remember Stiff being my favorite), but it was an interesting look at the intersections between human and animal - which is really more what this is about than law, per se. It's about what we do when animals cause problems for humans, from monkeys to bears, and the questions that are raised about the best way to handle those issues.

Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome by Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth. I'm so confused by this book. From the insistence on referring to Nero as "princeps" throughout the book, to the random dropping of French in places it really didn't need to be, to the frankly credulous approach to the sources, particularly when it comes to sex, even when the author mentioned how sex is often a proxy for politics in Roman historical writing, the weird sideways digression into "did Rome have gay marriage?", the weird "maybe she got what she deserved" aside about Messalina's death...

I learned a fair amount, I can say that, I'm not as knowledgeable about this period's Julio-Claudians. Frankly I think Agrippina (the Younger) was the real star of this book, despite Anthony Everitt's heroic efforts to make Nero the protagonist. Buddy, I see your point, but you're pushing a little too hard here.

Anyway. Weird reading experience, I'm tempted to recommend it just so someone else can either validate it or go "what are you talking about, this was a perfectly normal history book."

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woof long post, but hey it was a lot of books. currently reading A Fever in the Heartland for more American racism in the early 20th century. I have a stack of library books that are waiting for me and I think the next one is probably going to be The Social Lives of Animals, which will either be really enjoyable or annoy the hell out of me, possibly both.

#reading recaps #sometimes i read things #long post for ts

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fyeah-olivia-colman · 10 months

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Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Rachel Zegler and Emily Mortimer join the cast of “Paddington in Peru,” the third opus of the beloved bear’s adventures.

Set to start filming on July, the third installment film will also star Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin. Ben Whishaw and Imelda Staunton will also be back as the voices of Paddington and Aunt Lucy, respectively. Filming locations will include the U.K., Peru and Colombia.

The story will follow Paddington returning to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. Paddington and the Brown Family embark on an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Colman, who won an Oscar for her performance in “The Favourite,” will play the reverend mother, a blithe and sunny guitar-playing nun who runs the home for retired bears. Banderas (“Pain & Glory”) will play Hunter Cabot, a dashing and intrepid riverboat captain who offers to help the Brown family on their Peruvian adventure. Zegler, who won Golden Globe and NBR Awards for “West Side Story,” will play Cabot’s daughter, Gina with Mortimer taking over from Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Brown.

#Olivia Colman #Paddington in Peru #Paddington 3 #OColman #OColmanNews

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glowing-disciple · 4 months

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Reading List - 2024

Currently Reading:

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Books Read:

The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy

Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Funny Number Tricks by Rose Wyler

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis

Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes by Robin Robertson

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks

Reflections on Evolution by Fredrick Sproull

Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn

Time for Bed, Sleepyheads by Normand Chartier

Future Reading:

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson

The River by Gary Paulsen

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

#reading list #to update as I go

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