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P.J. Lynch - The Kiss (1962)
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the-dust-jacket · 7 months
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Some lovely old Chronicles of Prydain editions, with cover art by P.J. Lynch.
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lagaleriapopurri · 2 years
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P.J. Lynch
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aqua-regia009 · 1 year
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Death and the Maiden, 2014. — P.J Lynch (Irish, b.1962)
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mermaidenmystic · 7 months
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from "Children of Lir" illustrated by P.J. Lynch
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jewellery-box · 3 months
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P.J. Lynch. Front Art Cover for the book "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry in 1905.
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victusinveritas · 9 months
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Death and the Maiden, 2014.
— P.J Lynch (Irish, b.1962)
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elena-illustration · 8 months
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oh my god i came from your picrew and i need to immediately digest your art style and make my shit like yours. i made some of my ocs in it and they look GORGEOUS MY GOD. HOW DID YOU GET YOUR STYLE??? OR ACTUALLY WHAT ARE YOUR INSPIRATIONS?? YOU'RE MINE NOW FOR SURE
Hehe :D I'm so glad you like it!!
I answered a question about my style once before. Here are some examples from a sample of the artists I listed! :)
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(John Austen - Illustration for Hamlet)
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(Kay Nielsen - Illustration for East of the Sun and West of the Moon)
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(P.J. Lynch - Illustration for East of the Sun and West of the Moon)
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(Sargent's The Lady With the Umbrella)
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(Carravaggio's Cardsharps)
As you can see, I really like long, curving lines.
I also HIGHLY recommend Petra Nordlund's Tiger, Tiger and Clover's Headless Bliss!!
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godzilla-reads · 5 months
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🐲 Three Tasks for a Dragon by Eoin Colfer and P.J. Lynch
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
After his father’s death, Prince Lir is tricked to undertake a dire quest to save a maiden from the clutches of the dragon Lasvarg. Not much of a warrior, Prince Lir proves with his wit and brains that he can be indispensable to the dragon and the strong maiden.
This book feels like an instant classic to me. The story is adventurous, smart, and filled with cunning and peril. By the end of the story you will love Lir, you will love the maiden Cethlenn, you will love the dragon Lasvarg. The ending is like a slow dying of embers, which suits the story very well. I highly recommend!
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medusasbush · 1 year
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read in february 2023
articles (ones behind a paywall are linked through webpage archive):
I'm Intersex. Here's How I Have Sex.
What Is a Nepotism Baby Anyway? (reminded me of the hollywood inbreeding 101 portion of Carrie FIsher's Wishful Drinking)
Your Stuff is Actually Worse Now: How the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.
If You Think Tacos Aren't Healthy, We Have News for You
Deeper into Movies: What Have I Been Watching
How Dolly Parton became a secular American saint
Springtime for the Confederacy
Comedy movies rarely make it to theaters today. Here’s why.
A Short Guide to Living More Pointlessly
Another Side of Rupert Grint
What Is a Narcissist?
Videos of Police Brutality Against Black People Are a Futile Spectacle in White America
Trump proposes genocidal national ban on transgender existence if he wins 2024
The super-kinkeepers (& kinkeeping matrix)
The soothing, slightly sinister world of productivity hacks
We're Already Living in the Metaverse
Doc Filmmakers Reckon with the Industry's Murky Ethics
The Band That Best Captures the Sound of the ’70s
The Number One's: Blondie's Rapture
Meat Loaf Owned the Power Ballad
Dating apps have created a culture of entitlement
America's Dangerous Obsession with Innocence
The War on Bollywood
Restoring the Sex and Rage to Jane Austen
Modern Porn Education Is Totally Unprepared for Modern Porn
Parents Need to Talk to Their Kids About Porn
The Porn Crisis That Isn't
Why Porn Has Gotten So Rough
Memoria and the Limitations of Ebert’s Empathy Machine
Is it Possible for a Fanboy to Be a Good Critic?
The people weeding out first dates with a questionnaire
The Anxious Style of American Parenting
Big commitments loosely held
The Junkification of Amazon
The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
From Tokyo to Paris, Parents Tell Americans to Chill
I guess this turned into a love letter
'Lord' of racism?
The Man Behind the Myth: Should We Question the Hero’s Journey?
AMC is about to make paying for theater seats more like booking an airline ticket
The mounting, undeniable Me Too backlash
Lucky girl syndrome and the endless rebranding of “The Secret”
Stuck in 2020, pretending it’s 2014
No Sex for You: Life in the metaverse will be tacky, prudish, and dull
Sarah's Day in the Life
The Last of Us: Perspectives from an epidemiologist and a plant scientist
Marriage Is Not a Replacement For the Social Safety Net
Gwen Stefani, Ariana Grande, Madonna: The Holy Trinity of Famous Italian American Culture Vultures
How Christopher Columbus Became an Italian-American Icon
Everyone Is Grotesque and No One Is Turned On
Madonna's Face is Not Subversive
The NYT Op-Ed I Just Took A Kill Fee For.
The Whale does all but "giving a voice" to fat people
I Tried Jane Fonda’s ‘80s Workout Tapes To See How They Hold Up.
De-Influencing De-Influencing
TikTok’s De-Influencers Tell You What Not to Buy
The Curious Tale of the Midsize Queen
The Tragedy of Woke Shakespeare
books
the names up on the harp: irish myth and legend by P.J. Lynch, Marie Heaney (reread)
bitten: dark erotic stories by susie bright (started)
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princesssarisa · 11 months
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Character ask: Kai (The Snow Queen)
Favorite thing about them: When he's "himself," he's a kind-hearted, brave, intelligent boy, who isn't ashamed to be best friends with a girl or to do "un-boyish" activities with her, like planting roses or listening to fairy tales.
Least favorite thing about them: The way he turns into a cold-hearted brat who teases and mocks everyone after the mirror shards pierce his eye and heart. Of course it's not his fault; it's evil magic. But it arguably does reflect a change that all too often takes place in preteen boys as they grow up and learn toxic masculinity.
Three things I have in common with them:
*I love roses, stories, and songs.
*I love the beauty of winter.
*As a preteen and teen I could be a bit of a brat, but I outgrew it.
Three things I don't have in common with them:
*I'm female.
*I'm bad at math.
*I've never cared much for sledding.
Favorite line:
His response to Gerda's fear of the Snow Queen when they first learn about her:
"Only let her come. I'll set her on the stove and then she'll melt."
brOTP: Gerda.
In crossover-land, I might also like to see him befriend Edmund Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia. They have some things in common, after all, and C.S. Lewis probably drew some inspiration from the Snow Queen's captivation of Kai when he wrote the White Witch's captivation of Edmund. Although Edmund does worse things than Kai does, of course, and then has more of a redemption arc.
OTP: The most obvious choice is Gerda, though I don't think their love needs to be viewed as romantic, per se. (See "Unpopular Opinion" below.)
nOTP: The Snow Queen.
Random headcanon: The first winter back at home after his time with the Snow Queen, he'll be uneasy because the snow will remind him of what he went through. But for the first time, Gerda will fully appreciate the beauty of snow and ice, because it was in the Snow Queen's icy castle that she found Kai again and saved him.
Unpopular opinion: I wish more adaptations would go back to the original story and portray him as Gerda's platonic best friend. I don't think it's necessary either to rewrite them as siblings or to age them up and make them lovers. Whenever I hear of an adaptation doing one or the other, it seems to say either that the writers don't think platonic friendship can be strong enough to make Gerda journey to the ends of the earth to bring Kai home, or else that they don't think a friendship that strong can exist between a girl and a boy. Both of those viewpoints are nonsense.
Song I associate with them:
The hymn “Softly now the light of day,” because the Let’s Pretend radio adaptation in the 1940s used it as Gerda’s hymn, in place of the “rose hymn” Andersen wrote:
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The lyrics Let’s Pretend used were
Softly now the light of day
Fades upon our sight away
Happy children, Lord, are we
Bless and keep us dear to Thee
I could also easily imagine text based on Andersen’s hymn lyrics being set to the same tune. For example:
In the vale where roses grow
The Christ-child speaks to us below.
Roses bloom and cease to be,
But we shall the Christ-child see.
Favorite picture of them:
In the rooftop garden with Gerda, by Arthur Rackham.
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In the Snow Queen's sleigh, by Nika Goltz.
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Also by Goltz: Gerda's embrace that melts the ice from his heart.
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Gazing out the window with Gerda, by Christian Birmingham.
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Also by Birmingham: in the Snow Queen's palace.
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Also by Birmingham: leaving the palace with Gerda.
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With the Snow Queen, by Susan Jeffers.
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Also with the Snow Queen, by Debra McFarlane.
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In the Snow Queen's sleigh, by Vladyslav Yerko.
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Gerda's ice-melting embrace, by P.J. Lynch.
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thedeadbelle · 1 year
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P.J. Lynch
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honeysuckle-venom · 1 year
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Hi Luna! First of all, do you have a favorite thing you love about dragons you wanna share? Also do you have an innerworld, and do you have any other parts that you are friends with? And if you want here's one more, do you remember when or what it was like to realize you're an alter?
Oh wow thank you for so many questions!!!!
It is not possible to pick a favorite thing about dragons everything about them is amazing. So instead I will share the name of one of my favorit books about dragons! It's called Ignis by Gina Wilson illustrated by P.J. Lynch, and it has the most beautiful illustrations ever.
I do not have an inner world, only the Dolls have that, but I am friends with all the other kids and with Cypher and I guess Lior, and I'm closer than anyone else to T.N.F., she's not close to anyone except me and she's and kind of...connected to me? I'm like...the outer layer, I guard her a lot of the time.
And hmmm that's a great question! I'm one of the oldest parts here (well I mean I'm like 4 lol but I've been around for at least 20 years), but we didn't think in those terms and I didn't think of myself that way until we realized we had DID when we were 19. And at first Lior thought there was only 3 of us, them, Cypher, and Cricket. But after a little while we started finding more parts and realized that "Cricket" did actually exist but who they/we had been thinking of as Cricket was Cricket plus a bunch of other kid parts, including me! I still remember the afternoon I realized I was me. I was with friends and we were very open about the whole DID thing with some of our college friends. And I realized I felt distinct from Cricket and that I had felt that way for a long time but just hadn't realized. And I introduced myself to my friends and they asked if I had been the one in the pink blanket a few weeks ago and I realized I had been and I was a distinct part. And I worked on picking a name, and I made a flight rising account bc the very first thing I knew about me was I loved magic and dragons! I don't know if that story made any sense at all, but yeah. It's hard to describe the feeling of discovering you exist as an alter. It's a weird feeling.
Thank you again for the questions!!!
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thebeautifulbook · 2 years
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MELISANDE by E. Nesbit (New York: Harcourt, 2006). Illustrated by P.J. Lynch.
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aqua-regia009 · 1 year
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The Six Swans by P.J Lynch (Irish, b.1962) Illustration from “The Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales”, 1993.
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glenngaylord · 1 year
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All That Baz - Film Review: Babylon ★★★★
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Quite frequently, new filmmakers will, as I like to say, chew off more than they can bite, trying to throw in every idea they’ve ever had over the 20+ years they’ve waited for their shot. They direct as if they’ll never get the chance to do so again, resulting in an excessive filmgoing experience. Damien Chazelle, who has already had his turn at bat with Whiplash, La La Land and First Man, has written and directed his latest, Babylon, as if it was his first. Perhaps he felt the sensory overload of his first three films seemed a little slight, so he thought he’d turn things up to Baz Luhrmann levels of “too much is never enough” with his 3+ hour epic about the depravity of 1920’s Hollywood. I suspect I’ll be in the minority on this one, but I loved every ridiculous, over-the-top minute of this trope-filled, hot mess in much the same way I enjoyed Ken Russell’s Tommy and yes, Lurhmann’s Moulin Rouge. It wouldn’t feel off-base to call this the over-stimulated cousin to Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Take the bare bones structure of the forgotten 1975 Merchant/Ivory dud, The Wild Party, add mountains of cocaine, orgies, a powerful and original look at blackface, and many references to films by Paul Thomas Anderson and you’ll get just the slightest hint of what this movie has to offer. Back when Los Angeles looked like a combination of orange grove fields and desert, the film opens on our hero, Manny Torres (Diego Calva), a Spanish immigrant hired to transport an elephant up the hill to a lavish Bel Air party. In a scene highly reminiscent of the backwards truck sequence in Licorice Pizza,  Manny impresses the powers-that-be enough to land an invitation to the evening’s festivities. There, he’ll meet an A-list crowd virtually guaranteed to serve as an entree to his film career ambitions. He fatefully meets Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie), a newbie from Jersey who’s already a star in her own mind even before her first audition. It’s love and other drugs at first sight as they bond over a Scarface-level mound of nose candy. Manny also impresses fading silent star Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt) enough to open doors for him, while Nellie lands a film role after another starlet meets her end in a Fatty Arbuckle-like tragedy.
The story follows these crazy kids, along with dozens of others in a way similar to Robert Altman’s classic Nashville but never loses sight of our central pair. Chief among the huge cast are Jovan Adepo’s Sidney Palmer, a talented Black jazz trumpeter at the party who rises to movie stardom but encounters racism at almost every turn,  Lady Fay Zhu (Li Jun Li) as a tuxedo clad Morocco-era Marlene Dietrich type of chanteuse who acts as a sapphic Greek chorus to the proceedings, and Jean Smart as an unnecessarily English-accented Hedda Hopper-esque gossip columnist named Elinor St. John.
The film follows our characters through the advent of talking pictures and beyond, and in one bravura sequence, we watch the repetitive yet hilarious struggles of a film crew attempting to get a single successful take using the then-novel concept of microphones planted on the ceiling. Olivia Hamilton, in a deft turn as the slightly butch Dorothy Arzner-style helmer and P.J. Byrne as her increasingly flummoxed Assistant Director really sell each agonizing moment with Robbie serving up a perfect Jean Hagen from Singin’ In The Rain homage. Her honking voice instantly putting her at odds with the Mid-Atlantic accents favored at the time.  That Arzner herself created the boom microphone out of a similar situation doesn’t get showcased here, but this memorable scene could stand as its own masterful short film.
Same goes for many set pieces in the film, including a supremely creepy Tobey Maguire taking us into the bowels of hell, a scene which would not look out of place in a David Lynch movie. I also loved the scene in which Margot Robbie feebly attempts to seem “classy” to impress the people who run the town. To say the moment spirals out of control would not be accurate since the entire film is one big spiral.
Many will throw their hands up at it. I get it. Robbie’s character is pretty much one note, oh, but what a note! She gives it her all by tearing up the screen, inhaling said torn-up screen, and vomiting it back out all over your face. She’s like Cabaret’s Sally Bowles but ballsier and, pardon the pun, she bowled me over. Chazelle doesn’t have the same cinematic vocabulary of a Baz Lurhmann, so many of the stylized moments get repeated endlessly, such as the zoom ins and outs of Sidney Palmer’s trumpet. I was sick of it already just from watching the trailer. I also wish filmmakers would stop with the close-ups of people watching films in awe. Even Sam Mendes employs the same trope in his new Empire Of Light. Cinema Paradiso and Purple Rose Of Cairo did it so beautifully over 30 years ago, so let’s give that a rest, please and thank you. It doesn’t take a genius to know what to expect when one character walks off camera for what’s supposed to be a shocking moment, because we’ve seen it a thousand times before.
Still, if you connect with this overstuffed epic, gems abound. Diego Calva spends much of the film observing the action silently, but when he takes charge in the second half, you won’t find a more soulful, aching performance this year. Pitt appears to have entered his middle-aged coasting through it phase of his career, much like Robert Redford did after a certain point, but he still knows how to keep things fun and light while still providing some dark undercurrents. Smart, despite that accent, gets a choice monologue late in the film which expertly illustrates the depressing themes in such a gorgeously calculated way. Adepo shines in a big moment in which he’s faced with a difficult choice and just try taking your eyes off Li Jun Li’s brief but stunning work. Rory Scovel, so good on Physical, brings an offbeat, fresh energy to the film as The Count, an Agent of Chaos who hilariously shrugs it all off.
Technically, this film astounds. Between Cinematographer Linus Sandgren, Costume Designer Mary Zophres, Production Designer Florencia Martin, Editor Tom Cross and especially Justin Hurwitz and his blisteringly propulsive score, you will always have something great to see and hear. By the time the film ended, I felt exhausted with the feeling that I had watched every movie ever made. Some inclusions, such as Avatar (!!!???!!!) seemed odd, although the synchronicity of the timing, with its sequel on hitting theaters, makes Chazelle seem more brand aware than I had thought. Yes, it’s all a little too much, but this loving homage to Hollywood exposes the festering slime barely under the surface while still managing to make all of us want to sit in a theater, the lights of the projector beaming just so, and go all Nicole Kidman in her AMC ad as we look at the screen in awe.
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