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supercalifragipopculturevomit · 7 months

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FUCK, MARRY, KILL: Daniel Brühl Cinematic Universe Edition

Just for funsies. Don't have an aneurysm. Leaning towards Zemo, Laszlo, and Böse, in that order, at the moment. At some other point, I might have said Thomas Lang, Niki Lauda, and Erik Jan Hanussen.

Because of the 30-photo limitation, I removed his minor and/or underdeveloped roles and the ones that wouldn't be difficult to "kill". I also didn't include the ones I haven't seen, so you won't see Salvador on this list. p.s. if anyone has a copy/link to that movie with English subs, I'd be forever grateful!

Lukas, The White Sound (2001)

Daniel, No Regrets / Nichts Bereuen (2001)

Alexander Kerner, Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

Paul Krantz, Love in Thoughts / Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken (2004)

Jan, The Edukators / Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (2004)

Andrea Marowski, Ladies in Lavender (2004)

Lieutenant Horstmayer, Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noël (2005)

Tonda, Krabat (2008)

Dr. Georg Rosen, John Rabe (2009)

István Thurzó, The Countess (2009)

Fredrick Zoller, Inglorious Basterds (2009)

David Kern, Lila, Lila (2009)

Hans Krämer, The Coming Days / Die kommenden Tage (2010)

Konrad Koch, Lessons of a Dream / Der ganz große Traum (2011)

Álex Garel, Eva (2011)

Iván Pelayo, Winning Streak / The Pelayos (2012)

Niki Lauda, Rush (2013)

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, The Fifth Estate (2013)

Thomas Lang, The Face of an Angel (2014)

Daniel, Colonia (2015)

Sebastian Zöllner, Me and Kaminski (2015)

Tony Balerdi, Burnt (2015)

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, The Alienist (2018 - 2020)

Ernst Schmidt, The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Wilfried Böse, Entebbe (2018)

Thomas Fischer, My Zoe (2019)

Daniel Weltz, Next Door / Nebenan (2021)

Erik Jan Hanussen, The King's Man (2021)

Baron Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War (2016) / The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

Matthias Erzberger, All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

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percehaies · 5 months

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Non! Tu ne peux pas prendre un calva comme le Père Noël!

Edmond Kirazian, dit Kiraz, 1929-2020

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transparentgentlemenmarker · 1 year

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Visit Santa Clause’s Mountaintop Workshop in Montreux, Switzerland

December 16, 2010 by Henk Bekker in Christmas, Events, Family Travel, Montreux-Vevey. Each December children can visit Father Christmas by cog-wheel mountain train at his Swiss home on Rochers-de-Naye, an Alpine peak towering over Montreux and Lac Léman. In 2020, the Montreux Christmas market and all related activities were canceled. Visiting Santa’s house at the top of Rochers-de-Naye is one of main attractions for children to the annual Marché de Noël à Montreux on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The Christmas market on the lakeside quays in Montreux is the largest and best Weihnachtsmarkt in French-speaking Switzerland but a cog-wheel train trip up the mountain to see Santa at his Swiss home adds a magical element with snow guaranteed

#marché de noël #marché de noël montreux

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denimbex1986 · 2 months

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'I almost knock into Andrew Scott before I see him. He’s just dashed out of the Tate Modern, frantic and slightly late: “There’s just so many entrances!” he exclaims. His patrician forehead crinkles, and the brown eyes charmingly plead: Forgive me! He was just inside, picking up his membership card. Surely he can get in for free? “Excuse me,” he huffs, “I’m a fully paid-up member.” Then he flashes the broad grin that seduced a legion of Fleabag viewers, and we’re off.

The plan today is to meander in a loop along the Thames. On a midafternoon Friday in London, this involves much ducking and diving through crowds, which suits Scott just fine. The weather is one of those bright, springlike days that convinces you that winter is over—except the rain-swollen river is now sloshing ominously onto the pavement. We slow down to regard an underwater section of our route. “I don’t think we’re gonna get through there,” he says. “I’ve probably got a hole in my trainers.”

We head for the road instead, words pouring out of the 47-year-old actor in that mellifluous Irish lilt, peppered with “you knows” and interrupted frequently by his laugh. It’s no surprise that his colleagues quickly become friends: “It was clear from the moment that I met and worked with Andrew that he was an exceptionally gifted actor,” says Julianne Moore, who starred alongside Scott on Broadway in 2006’s The Vertical Hour. It was both actors’ Broadway debuts, though Scott has juggled screen and theater from the start. “I’ve always done both,” he says, though he acknowledges modestly: “I used to do maybe a few plays a year and one television show. Now maybe it’s kind of the opposite.” That’s somewhat underselling his dramatic accomplishments. Scott has won two Olivier Awards, for the experimental A Girl in a Car With a Man in 2005 and Noël Coward’s Present Laughter in 2020. He has performed in productions of Eugene O’Neill, Oscar Wilde—he’s played Hamlet, too, and was nominated for an Olivier for that as well. “Scott gives carefully controlled, thrillingly virtuoso physical performances,” wrote The Guardian last year, when he performed eight roles from Uncle Vanya by himself, in a much-lauded West End solo adaptation of the Chekhov play. (A New York transfer could not be confirmed when this piece went to press, but seems highly likely.) “He wore his talent so lightly and modestly,” Moore says. “He was joyful and fun and an amazing partner to have onstage and off.”

Scott was born in Dublin, sandwiched between two sisters; his mother is a teacher and an artist, and his father works at an employment agency. As a child, he was brought to art galleries and theaters. A performance by the great Irish actor Donal McCann in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock when he was 11 or 12 made a lasting impression: “There was just something about the power in his stillness—people think that, in theater, it’s all about the grand gesture, but stillness onstage is absolutely mesmerizing.”

An eerie stillness characterizes all of Scott’s performances as well. As Moriarty in Sherlock, the BBC One show that catapulted him to fame in Britain in the 2010s, he requested fewer lines to play up the villain’s spookiness. And then there is that agonizing stretch of silence in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag right after its titular protagonist confesses her love. Has the line “It’ll pass” ever been delivered with so much pathos? Scott’s acting is all submerged passion; when he does speak, his words have depth. “Andrew has an intensity and a precision in his work,” Moore tells me. “I love his vulnerability, the way his eyes glitter onscreen.”

As a child, Scott was sent to drama classes to get over his shyness. He still remembers his first role, as the Tin Man in a production of The Wizard of Oz. “I felt completely free,” he says, seemingly transported to the moment he launched into “If I Only Had a Heart” onstage. “I felt joy—that’s the word. Not only did I feel it, but I felt that other people felt it when they were looking at me…. Some intuition told me as an 11-year-old: ‘You have to be this expressive, that’s what theater is!’ Nobody taught me that. I just felt it.” Then he swerves to avoid a clutch of tourists on Tower Bridge, and the reverie is lost.

These days, walking around London is something of an ongoing pastime for Scott. During the press rollout for Andrew Haigh’s Golden Globe–nominated romance All of Us Strangers, he and costar Paul Mescal went to their PR engagements on foot. One day, two boys on bikes clocked the pair and started chasing after them in an alarming fashion: “We escaped them—it was quite fun, actually!” Does he ever feel slightly protective of Mescal, two decades his junior? “Not any more than I would with any of my other people in my life. Because he’s got his head screwed on, you know? I absolutely adore Paul,” Scott adds, though he wants to make one thing clear: “Bromance is not the word that we associate with it, because neither of us are very bro-ey.”

Waller-Bridge, who has known Scott for 15 years, describes him as “an absolute pixie of mischief.” When asked to elaborate, she continues: “I could write a novel. But I love how naughty he is. He has the magical ability to make you feel instantly present—no matter what’s going on in your life, you’re suddenly there in the moment and feeling joyful. I think that’s what it’s like to watch him as an actor too…like he can stop time with his honesty.”

Between 2020 and 2021, Scott also traversed the lengths of the Thames, pondering the script from Ripley, his upcoming eight-episode project for Netflix, in which he plays the titular protagonist. “Quite unusually, I got sent all eight scripts at the same time,” he remembers. Steven Zaillian, the screenwriter behind Schindler’s List and Gangs of New York and the director and writer behind All the King’s Men, had written all eight at the outset.

Tom Ripley is crime novelist Patricia Highsmith’s slipperiest literary creation; a pathological liar and murderer with whom she felt a strange kinship—she sometimes signed letters with some variation of “Pat H., alias Ripley.” It is not so much a spoiler as an ongoing feature of the books that Ripley, despite splurging on Venetian palazzi and Gucci suitcases, never gets caught. If anybody comes close, there is always a conveniently located oar or glass paperweight nearby. Ripley, in other words, is the hero of the tale. “That’s why he fascinates so many,” says Scott. “There’s been so many iterations of him. I think it’s because people root for him.” Actors like Alain Delon and Dennis Hopper have tried the role; Matt Damon played him as an obsequious, lower-class naïf; John Malkovich, as a slimy, camp killer. Scott’s Ripley is different; a watchful loner escaping rodent-infested poverty, more at home among art than he is around people. Musician and actor Johnny Flynn plays his first victim—the monied Dickie Greenleaf—and Dakota Fanning is Dickie’s suspicious ex-girlfriend. “I find Tom quite vulnerable,” Scott tells me. “I don’t think he’s necessarily lonely, but I certainly think he’s solitary…. He seems to me by his nature that he just can’t fit in. He’s trying to survive.”

In Ripley, Zaillian extracts maximum Hitchcockian dread from every creaky footstep. But most sinister of all is Scott’s face, which exhibits a sharklike steeliness throughout. It’s a performance that exudes queasy force. Is Ripley a scammer, a psychopath, or both? “There’s so many things lurking beneath him that I’ve been very reluctant to diagnose him with anything. I never thought of him as a sociopath or murderous,” Scott declares. “It’s up to everybody else to characterize him or call him whatever they want.”

As we weave through tourists near the Tower of London, barely anybody notices Scott, save for a faint glimmer of recognition among mainly young women. He seems to draw reassurance from it. “I don’t like to think about it too much, if I’m honest,” he muses of fame. “I find it a little bit, er, frightening.” He is known but not blockbuster-recognizable, although he is in the upcoming Back in Action with Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx. What stunts did he do? “I can’t give that away, I’m afraid, or somebody from Netflix will come and shoot me in the head.”

What’s been on Scott’s mind the most hasn’t been acting at all, in fact, but art. As a 17-year-old, he was offered his first movie role on the same day he was given a scholarship to study painting. He chose acting, but has recently been thinking about Oliver Burkeman’s philosophical self-help tract from 2021, Four Thousand Weeks, which makes the case for focusing on the five things you truly want to accomplish. “For me at the moment, it’s like, What do you want to do? What do you want to say?”

He scrolls through his phone to show me his work. There’s a watercolor of a couple arguing in a restaurant in rich reds and greens, line drawings of friends and people on the beach, and two self-portraits. “It’s a bit weird,” he acknowledges of his depiction of himself, all bulbous forehead and Pan-like tufts of hair. His brisk, nervy lines are reminiscent of Egon Schiele or Francis Bacon, who turns out to be one of his favorite painters. “Well, God, I’ll take that,” he mutters at the comparison. He would like someday to go to art school. “I don’t ever regret it,” he says of acting. “But I suppose you just get to a stage where you think, What else? That’s one of the big painful things in life for me, where you can’t quite live all the lives.” As he gets older, he feels the tug toward revisiting old working relationships, including with Waller-Bridge: “We’ve definitely got things cooking,” he smiles. “I’d love to work with her again. She’s just a singular, wonderful person.” For her part, Waller-Bridge says: “I’d love to see him do a fully unhinged slapstick comedy character. Someone who is outraged at everything, all of the time.”

As we round the pavement and the Tate Modern looms back into sight, he recalls a poster he received in 2017—a monstrously large graphic that detailed every week in a human life span. “It’s your entire life if you live to 80—you have to fill in all the bits that you’ve already lived,” he remembers in awe, “a visually terrifying gift.” What did he do with it? “I didn’t hold on to it for too long.” Easy come, easy go: We finally finish our loop around the Thames and, as Scott disappears back into the throng, anonymous just the way he likes it, it occurs to me that the actor has many lives to live yet.'

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nightsidewrestling · 4 months

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D.U.D.E Bios: Giselle Herbert

The Mother of Eli Giselle Herbert (2020)

The mother of Elinor, Isidore and Jade, and wife of Frank, Giselle. An Interpol agent who lives and works in Canada, while raising her kids and working alongside her husband.

"Our work is dangerous, but so is Eli's."

Name

Full Legal Name: Giselle Solange Herbert (Née Granger)

First Name: Giselle

Meaning: Derived from the Old German element 'Gisal' meaning 'Hostage, Pledge'.

Pronunciation: ZHEE_ZEHL

Origin: French, English

Middle Name: Solange

Meaning: French form of the Late Latin name 'Sollemnia', which was derived from Latin 'Sollemnis' 'Religious'.

Pronunciation: SAW-LAHNZH

Origin: French

Surname: Herbert (Née Granger)

Meaning: Derived from the male given name 'Herbert', which is derived from the Old German elements 'Heri' 'Army' and 'Beraht' 'Bright'. (Granger: Means 'Farm bailiff' from Old French 'Grangier', ultimately from Latin 'Granum' meaning 'Grain'.)

Pronunciation: EHR-BEHR (GRAHN-ZHEH)

Origin: English, German, French (English, French)

Alias: None

Reason: None

Nicknames: Ange, Elle, Sol

Titles: Mrs, Ma'am

Characteristics

Age: 42

Gender: Female. She/Her Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: French-Canadian

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: March 9th 1978

Symbols: None

Sexuality: Straight

Religion: Jewish

Native Language: French

Spoken Languages: French, English, Hebrew

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Pisces

Theme Song (Ringtone On Eli's Phone): 'Tous les Mêmes' - Stromae

Voice Actor: Deborah Kara Unger

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Current Location: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Hometown: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Appearance

Height: 5'5" / 165 cm

Weight: 140 lbs / 63 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Blonde

Hair Dye: None

Body Hair: N/A

Facial Hair: N/A

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 1

Piercings: Ear Lobe (Both)

Scars: None

Health and Fitness

Allergies: Bee and wasp stings

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: Asthma

Medications: Inhaler and EpiPens

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: N/A

Enemies: N/A

Friends: Viola Nye, Moira Rhydderch, Caoimhe O'Hannegan, Yvette Rhydderch, Maeve Rhydderch

Colleagues: N/A

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Frank Herbert

Mentor: Ségolène Granger

Significant Other: Frank Herbert (42, Husband)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Tanguy Granger (63, Father), Ségolène Granger (64, Mother, Née Travers)

Parents-In-Law: Romuald Herbert (62, Father-In-Law), Sabrina Herbert (63, Mother-In-Law, Née Lefèvre)

Siblings: Roland Granger (40, Brother), Rose Leclerc (37, Sister, Née Granger), Rémy Granger (34, Brother), Reine Leblanc (31, Sister, Née Granger), Régis Granger (28, Brother), Maylis Granger (25, Sister), Prosper Granger (22, Brother)

Siblings-In-Law: Prune Granger (41, Roland's Wife, Née Lavigne), Pascal Leclerc (38, Rose's Husband), Olive Granger (35, Rémy's Wife, Née Fortier), Norbert Leblanc (32, Reine's Husband), Océane Faucher (39, Frank's Sister, Née Herbert), Melchior Faucher (40, Océane's Husband), Noël Herbert (36, Frank's Brother), Mireille Herbert (37, Noël's Wife, Née Comtois), Mirabelle Chaplin (33, Frank's Sister, Née Herbert), Maxence Chaplin (34, Mirabelle's Husband), Nestor Herbert (30, Frank's Brother), Marjolaine Herbert (31, Nestor's Wife, Née Poirot)

Nieces & Nephews: Maël Granger (20, Nephew), Maeva Granger (17, Niece), Loup Leclerc (17, Nephew), Judith Granger (14, Niece), Lambert Granger (11, Nephew), Jasmine Granger (8, Niece),Kenzo Leblanc (11, Nephew), Iris Leblanc (8, Niece), Judicaël Leblanc (5, Nephew), Gertrude Leblanc (2, Niece), Joseph Faucher (19, Nephew), Geneviève Faucher (16, Niece), Jordan Faucher (13, Nephew), Garance Faucher (10, Niece), Jocelyn Faucher (7, Nephew), Flora Faucher (4, Niece) Jason Fauher (1, Nephew), Fleur Herbert (16, Niece), Humbert Herbert (13, Nephew), Esther Herbert (10, Niece), Hubert Chaplin (13, Nephew), Estelle Chaplin (10, Niece), Hector Chaplin (7, Nephew), Emma Nestor (10, Niece), Gwenaël Nestor (7, Nephew), Cynthia Nestor (4, Niece), Gilbert Nestor (1, Nephew)

Children: Elinor Herbert (21, Daughter), Isidore Herbert (18, Son), Jade Herbert (15, Daughter)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: None

Trainer: None

Managers: None

Wrestlers Managed: N/A

Debut: N/A

Debut Match: N/A

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: N/A

Stables: N/A

Teams: N/A

Regular Moves: N/A

Finishers: N/A

Refers To Fans As: N/A

Extras

Trivia: Nothing of Note

#D.U.D.E #original character #Herbert #Family. Not a Wrestler

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alexlacquemanne · 4 months

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2023 in 12 movies (1 per months)

January

The Horse Whisperer (1998) directed by Robert Redford with Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Neil, Chris Cooper and Cherry Jones

[First Time]

February

L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974) directed by Bertrand Tavernier with Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Yves Afonso, Julien Bertheau and Jacques Hilling

[First Time]

March

The Fabelmans (2022) directed by Steven Spielberg with Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Keeley Karsten, Julia Butters and Judd Hirsch

[First Time]

April

The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed with Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and Bernard Lee

[First Time]

May

The World, The Flesh and the Devil (1959) directed by Ranald MacDougall with Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens and Mel Ferrer

[First Time]

June

La ciociara (1960) directed by Vittorio De Sica with Sophia Loren, Eleonora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi and Pupella Maggio

[First Time]

July

Oppenheimer (2023) directed by Christopher Nolan with Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett and Casey Affleck

[First Time]

August

Heat (1995) directed by Michael Mann with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Dennis Haysbert, Donald Breedan and Ashley Judd

[First Time]

September

Catch Me If You Can (2002) directed by Steven Spielberg with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, James Brolin and Brian Howe

[First Time]

October

Le Grand Bain (2018) directed by Gilles Lellouche with Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Philippe Katerine, Félix Moati, Alban Ivanov, Balasingham Thamilchelvan, Virginie Efira et Leïla Bekhti

[First Time]

November

Fools Rush In (1997) directed by Andy Tennant with Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gómez, Tomás Milián, Siobhan Fallon et John Bennett Perry

[First Time]

December

The Great Race (1965) directed by Blake Edwards with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Jack Lemmon, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn et Ross Martin

[First Time]

Honourable Mentions :

Airplane! (1980)

Duel (1972)

Les Sentiments (2003)

The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Scoop (2006)

Mon crime (2023)

To Have and Have Not (1944)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

臥虎藏龍 (2000)

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Le Dernier Voyage (2020)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

L'ingorgo (1979)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Adieu Gary (2008)

Conflict (1945)

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

La Nuit américaine (1973)

Sorcerer (1977)

La Guerre des polices (1979)

Life of Pi (2012)

The Big Short (2015)

Le Hussard sur le toit (1995)

Excalibur (1981)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

Le Procès Goldman (2023)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

Matrimonio all'italiana (1964)

Chaplin (1992)

La Vie de château (1966)

Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

Au-delà des grilles (1949)

Second Tour (2023)

Le Couteau dans la plaie (1962)

The Eiger Sanction (1975)

JFK (1991)

Le Fugitif (1993)

Chef (2014)

Quai des Orfèvres (1947)

Appointment with Death (1988)

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

River of No Return (1954)

L'Assassinat du père Noël (1941)

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Die Glasbläserin (2016)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Les Mystères de Paris (1962)

#2023 films #my top 12 #cinema #cinematography #the horse whisperer #l'horloger de saint paul #the fabelmans #the third man #the world the flesh and the devil #la ciociara #oppenheimer #heat #catch me if you can #le grand bain #fools rush in #the great race #films #movies of 2023 #bye 2023

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kabbal · 1 year

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Joyeux Noël @kaantt

Tu savais qu'il arrivait, et le voilà : un dessin de tes OCs chéris en mode Regency Romance. Inspiré de Emma (2020) parce que à défaut d'avoir vu le film je peux toujours m'inspirer de l'affiche.

#kaamelott #kaamelott ocs #uinda #galessin #galessin x uinda #my art

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looloolooweez · 4 months

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December

Books

Finished reading:

Audiobook – Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen by Lili'uokalani, 1898

Audiobook – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969

Audiobook – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, 1861

Currently reading:

Book – Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1878

Media

Finished watching + listening:

TV series – Star Trek: Picard starring Patrick Stewart, 2020–2023

Animated series – Star Trek: Lower Decks produced by Paramount+, voiced by Eugene Cordero, Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, and Noël Wells, 2020–TBD

Currently watching + listening:

TV series – The Golden Girls starring Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, and Estelle Getty, 1985–TBD

YouTube series – Binging with Babish starring Andrew Rea at Babish Culinary Universe, 2016–TBD

YouTube series – Tasting History with Max Miller starring Max Miller at Tasting History, 2020–TBD

Projects

Finished projects:

Recipes – Food and Wine 40th Anniversary Special Edition ed. by Hunter Lewis et al., 2018

Recipes – Appetites by Anthony Bourdain, 2016

Recipes – The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman, 2012

Recipes – The Big Texas Cookbook by the editors of Texas Monthly, 2022

Current projects:

Wine tasting – Wine Folly by Madeline Puckette, 2015

Cross-stitch – Feminist Cross-Stitch by Stephanie Rohr, 2019

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Happy New Year 🎆🥳🎆🥳

This is the last monthly wrap-up post for this Tumblr.

I'll still post links to book reviews and follow + like your fantastic content, but one of my goals for next year is to rethink and streamline my online presence and social media use.

I'm not sure exactly what that looks like yet, but for now you can also find me at linktr.ee/bibliothekla

#reading #watching #bookblr #filmblr

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laurentlemonke · 5 months

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Ok so since the "get to know me" posts about my main ocs were mostly jokes (they wrote them themselves, you know😞), I'm making a more legit one with, you know, actually correct information this time. Actually, Ferdinand and Paola's intros were correct (though Paola is very talkative). Blue and Lux's were straight up shit posts (these guys are unreliable😔). So here it is:

Ferdinand Le Gall

Born September 15th 2010 (currently 13).

He's about 5'1 and weighs 90 lbs. He's still a little baby.

He's noidea's bassist. He started playing it when he was about 5.

He does competitive swimming.

He has 3 cats: Keith, Shelley and Moz.

His mom is Russian-Ukrainian and Czech, while his dad is Russian-French. He has 5 siblings: an older sister, two younger sisters and two younger brothers.

His favorite food is strawberries and his favorite drink is apple juice.

He likes Franz Ferdinand (because his name's in it).

Paola Julinha Ferreira Álvarez

Born March 7th 2009 (currently 14)

She's around 5'2 and 100lbs. She stopped growing when she was 12, much to her dismay. She still hopes she'll hit a growth spurt at some point, but it's not gonna happen.

She's noidea's vocalist and guitarist. She started singing when she was very little and picked up the guitar when she was about 10, due to her dad's encouragement.

She plays volleyball.

She has a German shepherd named Ponyo (named after her favorite Ghibli movie).

Both her parents are Portuguese. She has 3 older brothers.

Her favorite food is chocolate, especially chocolate muffins, and her favorite drink is coffee.

She likes Blink 182 because her older brother introduced her to their music when she was little.

Blue (his real name is actually Noël Sébastien Morvan, but he absolutely hates it and will kill anyone who calls him that.)

Born March 5th 2008 (currently 15)

He's around 5'6 and 130lbs. He's always been on the shorter side, but he believes he'll grow taller eventually. Sorry buddy, but you stop growing now. That's it. You've reached your adult height.

He's noidea's guitarist and keyboardist. He picked up the piano on his own when his grandma gifted him a keyboard for his 11th birthday. Then, Lux helped him learn the guitar.

He's a very ambitious stoner.

He doesn't have any pets, but he vibes with the spiders in his room. He calls them Norbert.

His father is French (Breton to be precise) and his biological mother is Filipino (but he's never met her). He has an older brother.

His favorite food is galette saucisse and his favorite drink is monster, which he can't stop drinking.

He likes Operation Ivy because that was his brother's favorite band.

Luxander Gaëtan Martial Hartmann (yes, Luxander is his real government name. What were his parents thinking??)

Born June 30th 2007 (currently 16)

He's around 6'1 and 115lbs. He was always a tall kid and the doctor told him he'd probably grow to be 7 feet tall, but he was severely underweight which might've stunted his development, so he stopped growing at like 14. He's not short by any stretch of the term, but he could've been way taller. He doesn't actually like being that tall due to the attention it brings him.

He's noidea's drummer. His aunt gave him piano lessons when he was little. He can also play the guitar. He decided to start playing the drums during lockdown in 2020 and ended up really liking it.

He likes drawing and writing little comics.

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"Star Trek: Lower Decks" Breaks Protocol with LGBTQ Representation

On October 14, the season two finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks aired on Paramount+, and while the show is lauded by some for "breaking new ground" as a sci-fi comedy and mature adult animation, often reviewers don't talk about the LGBTQ representation at the heart of the show itself.

Reprinted from The Geekiary, my History Hermann WordPress blog, and Wayback Machine. This was the eighth article I wrote for The Geekiary. This post was originally published on October 20, 2021. In the original version of this article I made an error about the bisexuality of Mariner, and unknowingly said some biphobic stuff about Mariner, which I had not intended. I corrected it not long after I heard those comments and worked to make sure that wouldn't happen again. Strangely enough, this article flew through the editors at The Geekiary with no comment on this, showing that the issues with articles are my own and the editors aren't there, all the time, to help me.

Star Trek: Lower Decks, which premiered on the streaming platform CBS All Access (later renamed Paramount+) in August 2020, is the first animated series in the Star Trek franchise since Star Trek: The Animated Series which aired on NBC from 1973-1974. It has been nominated for three Critics' Choice Super Awards and one Emmy Award for voice acting, animation, and sound editing. The series focuses on officers of a low rank who engage in menial work,, rather than senior officers or captains, who are supporting characters.

The series has four main characters: ensigns Beckett Mariner (voiced by Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (voiced by Jack Quaid), D'Vana Tendi (voiced by Noël Wells), and Sam Rutherford (voiced by Eugene Cordero). Supporting characters include Carol Freeman (voiced by Dawnn Lewis), captain of the Cerritos, Mariner's mother, First Officer Jack Ransom (voiced by Jerry O'Connell), Tactical Officer Shaxs (voiced by Fred Tatasciore), and head medical doctor T'Ana (voiced by Gillian Vigman).

Mike McMahan, the creator of Solar Opposites and writer and producer of Rick and Morty, is the series creator and showrunner, while music is composed by Chris Westlake and Titmouse, Inc. does the series animation. Both series include LGBTQ characters, specifically the genderless aliens Korvo and Terry in Solar Opposites. Sleepy Gary and Jerry Smith on Rick and Morty are queer, with Gary as bisexual and Smith as bisexual or pansexual as noted in recent episodes.

The ten-episode first season of the series involves wild adventures from fighting a virus infection and terraforming agent on the ship, to ship salvaging, a surprise party, and a family secret, that Freeman is Mariner's mother. The second season ups the ante, with godlike possession of a crew member, a dangerous mission with a "collector," a mission to retrieve a "special item" for T'Ana, a scammer, and a race of beings which duplicate when they get scared. Other episodes focus on the lower deckers cleaning up unpredictable anomalies from previous missions, a malevolent computer A.I., drills for the crew which they are designed to fail, a 12-hour-time warp, and a risky first contact mission.

Through all of this, Mariner's queerness is emphasized. In the show's first season, Captain Amina Ramsey (voiced by Toks Olagundoye) is shown as being chummy with Mariner in the episode "Much Ado About Boimler," and in the episode "No Small Parts" it was shown that she previously dated Steve Levy, a Lieutenant. She also stated in the episode "Envoys" that she once dated a humanoid and female-presenting Anabaj to anger her mother. In an October 2020 interview, McMahan confirmed that Ramsey was Mariner's ex-girlfriend at Starfleet Academy, and stated that "every Starfleet officer is probably at the baseline[,] bisexual" and hinted that this would be expanded in the show's second season. This meant that by the end of the show's first season, it was implied that Mariner is bisexual.

However, the Season 2 episode "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" blew it out of the water. At one point, Mariner tells Tendi she is "always dating bad boys, bad girls, bad gender non-binary babes, ruthless alien masterminds, [and] bad bynars." As such, this implied she is pansexual, as some reviewers noted. Furthermore, in the show's season two finale, Mariner admitted she liked a female-presenting alien, Jennifer Sh’reyan (voiced by Lauren Lapkus), after Sh’reyan saved her from dying in the void of space, as Mariner's walls began to come down. This led some fans to speculate the two may be shown as a couple in the upcoming third season.

Mariner tells Tendi about the people she has dated in the past, hinting at her possible pansexuality

There appear to be other LGBTQ characters in Star Trek: Lower Decks as well, their identities arguably implied. For one, Andarithio "Andy" Billups (voiced by Paul Scheer), the chief engineer aboard the Cerritos and prince of Hysperia, is implied, arguably, to be asexual. In one episode, "Where Pleasant Fountains Lie", he has no interest in having sex with either the male guard nor the female guard. In another, in the simulated drill called "Naked Time," where all the crew are naked, either kissing one another or engaging in foreplay, which scars poor Mariner, he is not participating in any sexual acts. The funny part about the latter drill is that apparently all of them could see this drill happening with their eyes. Now, that would have been an interesting scene, even though many of them might have been scarred by life if they saw it.

In an interview this month, Quaid has said that Boimler could be queer, stating that he would "not rule it out," and adding that in the Star Trek universe, it is an "aspirational future and sexuality is a spectrum." That has been shown to be the case with queer characters - for instance, Hikaru Sulu, a gay man in various Star Trek films, while Hugh Culber, who is in a relationship with Paul Stamets in Star Trek: Discovery. The latter series also features Gray Tal, a trans man. Kira Nerys, from the mirror universe, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is bisexual and in a relationship with a woman, Ezri Tigan. This is not to be confused with the Kira Nerys in the main universe, who did not have such relationships and had a different sexual orientation. Tigan, on the other hand, also flirts with women other than Nerys from the mirror universe. In the same series, Dax is a symbiont who became an icon for trans people who changes genders. In Star Trek: Picard, Raffi Muskier is the romantic partner of Seven of Nine.

It is likely that Sh’reyan, an Andorian woman, will have more of a recurring role in the show's next season. This can be extrapolated from McMahan's recent interview with SYFY where he talks about how the arc with Sh’reyan started with an ad-lib from Tawny Newsome, with Sh’reyan pushed aside in the episode "Cupid's Errant Arrow." Apart from the interaction between Mariner and Sh’reyan in the Season Two finale and both crossing paths briefly across many episodes, Sh’reyan is coded as liking women. She is shown kissing Barnes, an ensign, in the "Naked Time" simulation, is talking with an officer, Castro, in the episode "wej Duj."

Many shipping fan fictions for Mariner are more skewed toward men, like Boimler and Ransom, and less so toward anyone else, with those fan fictions shipping Mariner with Boimler, a ship dubbed "Marinler" by fans which is popular on AO3 and Tumblr. These fan fictions are just as valid as those shipping her with women like Tendi, or those which describe Mariner as in polyamorous relationships, to give two examples. Marinler fans see Mariner and Boimler as more than friends and buds. Rather they see Mariner as Boimler as two people who are romantic toward each other. This perspective is completely understandable based on the interactions between Mariner and Boimler during the series, even if other fans, like myself, interpret the interactions between Mariner and Boimler as being more platonic. While Marinler fan fictions will undoubtedly continue to prosper and grow, even without a dedicated subreddit, in the fandom as a whole, it is possible that there will be more fan fictions which ship Mariner with non-male characters. After all, McMahan has confirmed that Mariner will be dating Jennifer in the next season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. McMahan also noted that although the show is "not about Mariner’s romantic relationships" it instead focuses on how Mariner "sees herself, and how she treats friends and colleagues more than romantic partners," in his words.

Mariner admits she likes Sh’reyan in the season two finale

A third season of Star Trek: Lower Decks is already confirmed and will likely air sometime in 2022. If Mariner gets a girlfriend, like Sh’reyan, as was implied in the Season 2 finale, and is shown exploring her identity more in the season, then it would mean that series would truly be one of the best representations in mature animation for a while. It would far exceed representation embodied by the lesbian protagonist in the mature animation Final Space, named Ash Graven (voiced by Ashly Burch), for which I gave an overly optimistic (perhaps too optimistic) assessment which led to annoyance from angry Redditors at my "incorrect" assessment of the series.

Unlike Final Space, which was sadly cancelled earlier this year due to the merger of Discovery and Warner Media according to Final Space creator Olan Rogers, Star Trek: Lower Decks will continue on due to its seeming support from ViacomCBS and CBS executives. As such, the series has the ability to expand its LGBTQ representation, apart from Mariner and possibly Billups, to, hopefully, others in the main cast like Tendi, Rutherford, or Boimler, or even in the supporting cast. However, it does not seem that any of the cast members are part of the LGBTQ community, which is unfortunate.

As such, Star Trek: Lower Decks has the possibility of moving mature animation in a more inclusive direction, joining the ranks of ongoing mature animations like The Great North, Invincible, RWBY, Disenchantment, Harley Quinn, Tuca & Bertie, Bojack Horseman, and gen:LOCK, to name a few, of series with LGBTQ characters. While I remain cautiously optimistic that Star Trek: Lower Decks will do this for LGBTQ representation, I'm not holding my breath, as the season could go a different direction and focus on something else entirely.

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