#poirot is a cat

[halberdbooks]

All I need on a blustery autumn evening: my cat Watson and my friend Poirot.

#watson #watson the cat #poirot #murder on the orient express #book #books #mystery #autumn #autumn aesthetic #autumn vibes #cat #orange cat

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 12x02 "Hallowe'en Party"

#poirot #hercule poirot #david suchet #agatha christie #tvedit #perioddramaedit #cinematv #cinemapix #halloween #chewieblog #tvseriessource #poirotedit #*edit #poirot 12x02: hallowe'en party #the perfect halloween-y cat! :)) #fluffy and feisty and protecting the home #poirot approaching slowlyyy #and with great apprehension #coz there's no way around the cat #always makes him laugh <3

[rarilee33]

In your swap au, have you got any ideas for miss sculpthams character?

Yes! Also I should credit @kanrix for that initial drawing he did of swap Bloberta that inspired me to keep going off it and flesh out the au lol

Ms Sculptham is the principal at Diorama Elementary (which I guess includes middle school/junior high levels lol). Also Ms Secondopinionson is Orel's teacher, and Fakey is filling the void in the track coach category (but I didn't want to draw him lol) One big change besides the profession for Agnes is that Mary (I think that's her name) Plotwist from the scrapped s3 episode is her secretary and girlfriend (I think she had long brown hair in the script? So I improvised)!

#moral orel #my art #ask #agnes sculptham #officer plotwist #miss secondopinionson #ms sculptham #swap au #moral orel swap au #orel puppington #ms secondopinionson can be found at the Bendy's #revising her lesson plans #ngl how I drew ms secondopinionson reminds me of the actress who played Ms Blanche in Poirot Cat among the Pigeons with David Suchet lol

[mutalieju]

just transitioning would not fix Kendall Roy but becoming a rich lady in an agatha christie mystery who gets to dramatically faint when the lights come back on and there's a dead body in the dining room 100% would

#it would fix her #succession #kendall roy #she would be up to some shady shit but not murder but poirot would drag it out anyways before revealing the killer #some inept industrial espionage probably also her pearls would get stolen as a part of an another red herring side plot #other possible career options for post finale kendall: #a cartoon villainess who idk does evil enviromental crimes like has little robots spilling oil at birds or whatever #and is defeated on a weekly basis by a duo of plucky kids and their robot dog #i have ideas but we must go deep #tomgreg are already cartoon villains they can be her henchmen and kendall can keep putting them in funny matching outfits #she could also start breeding pedigree cats and become america's number one catlady

[thebittervampire]

Trophy: Cleaning tomcat Take care of your mustache.

#Hercule Poirot #Poirot #HerculePoirotedit #Poirotedit #vgedit #gamingedit #Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders #ACtABCmedit #own creations #look at this cat #precious little thing ♥

[kats-kradle]

Hey! Journeying over from rereading your fics to ask you some Poirot questions! : ) Had you already liked Poirot prior to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express? And did you immediately fall in love with Bouc in the first film or did it take until Death on the Nile?

Hi!! I love talking about Poirot!! Buckle up😂😂

First off I would like to say that it made my day to see that not only did you read my fics but you reread them!! And then you actually came here to talk to me!! You’re the first person who’s actually done that so it really made my day. 

Also: I apologize in advance. When I start talking about Poirot I tend to launch into rants and I… may have done that here so I will say now in case you don’t make it to the end that I would love to hear your thoughts about the movies or anything else Poirot related! Did you know about Poirot before the movie? What are your thoughts about Bouc?

To answer your questions, I guess I could say that technically I liked Poirot before watching the movie. I actually had never heard about Poirot until the movie came out, and one of my sister’s friends took her to see it and then leant her the book. I stole it and read it in almost one night and ever since then have been absolutely enthralled by Agatha Christie! I own almost all of the Poirot books and have been trying to branch out and sample her other writings, but I keep coming back to Poirot. 

By the time Death on the Nile came out I forgot the Bouc was a character who existed because I hadn’t seen MotOE since it came out in 2017. When I saw him, I did remember that he’d been in the last movie, and was absolutely delighted that they were going to turn him into the Hastings of the movies (especially because he was so happy and full of life😭) which of course we all know what happened with that and now that I’ve recovered from my shock and denial I can take a step back and acknowledge it was a FANTASTIC choice to kill him, and to do it in such a shocking way—but also, I’m also not a a fan of how much Kenneth Branagh deviated from the source material by doing that. 

Adding Bouc to the movie was a choice that made sense, if Kenneth Branagh is going for a Poirot Cinematic Universe. People expect a sidekick, and in stories where the cast has to change every movie, it’s nice for the audience to have a familiar face other than the main detective. However, I also think Kenneth Branagh shot himself in the foot by shooting Bouc in the neck, because he went out of his way to add and establish Bouc as a reoccurring character, just to kill him off in the second movie. I think the audience will now have more difficulty connecting with the side characters in the future since they’ve had two movies with the same character, as a opposed to already being used to the characters changing every movie. But then again, I’m still in denial. Along with this, it’s setting up the next movie to have a distinctly dark tone.

Well, now I’ve gotten started on the topic of Poirot and I can’t stop😂😂😂 Enjoy my decent into madness.

Another way that dear Kenny boy shot himself in the foot is with the iconic mustache. His mustaches in MotOE were luscious and beautiful, despite the critic they received. Branagh understood that Poirot has impressive mustaches that are quite a spectacle to behold, even if the rest of the world can only picture the measly little mustache that David Suchet displays in his version of Poirot (don’t get me wrong I love those adaptations but just… the mustache is all wrong. And David Suchet Poirot is a subject for a different time or we’ll be here forever😂😂). In DotN, for some reason he felt the need to give the mustaches a tragic backstory????? Narratively, I guess it’s a nice bookend and theme to the movie as a whole. BUT HE FELT THE NEED TO GIVE THE MUSTACHES A TRAGIC BACKSTORY????????????? Despite the fact that in DotN the mustaches aren’t actually long enough anymore to cover up the scaring shown at the beginning, HAIR DOESNT GROW ON SCAR TISSUE!!!! It just doesn’t make sense😭 Along with that, now he’s destroyed the main characteristic of Poirot, his trademark. Poirot is quite vain about his mustaches and even when he wears a fake one in Curtain (for reasons that I won’t spoil but if you know you know) Hastings only finds out at the end of the book, and Poirot’s manservant treats the subject with delicacy since the mustaches were such a sensitive subject to Poirot. 

While I’m STILL talking about Poirot (forgive my rant I can’t stop) I’m going to take the opportunity to mention the stark difference in quality between MotOE and DotN. I’ve now seen both of these movies multiple times and back to back. Overall, I think MotOE is much better. DotN uses a lot of green screen, and it’s pretty obvious and creates for some flat feeling backgrounds. For MotOE, they took shots of the mountains and overlayed the train on, instead of all CGI. Now, I don’t know for sure how much of each movie and which parts use CGI; it could be that MotOE uses more CGI and I just have a bad eye for spotting it. It was just my impression that the backgrounds in DotN were severely lacking. 

And let’s talk about the music. MotOE delivers and excellent score that makes you feel a wide variety of emotions, and they use the theme of repetition well in The Armstrong Case. For me, it had just reached the point in the movie where the theme could have started to be annoying; but the. they used it magnificently when Poirot was explaining the murder, and the simple and relentless, already melancholy melody turned into something truly heartbreaking, turning a scene of twelve people stabbing a man to death into something poetic. 10/10 one of the best uses of music and one of the best scenes ever, in my opinion. DotN, besides the songs sung by the talented Sophie Okonedo as Salome Otterbourne, has no notable music to take away from the movie, besides the absolutely grating (I don’t know what it’s called but it goes like. DUN DUN. DUUUN! DUN DUN. DUUUN! I think if you search Death on the Nile on YouTube you’ll find the song titled the same by Patrick Doyle). I got tired of hearing that by the third time it played, and my annoyance with it was one of the main things that I took away from the movie. 

AND ANOTHER THING both movies took creative liberties with the stories, but one of the creative liberties I did not like about DotN was how explicit they made it. Between that dance floor scene and the scene at the tomb… when I go to see a movie that’s rated PG-13 I like to feel comfortable seeing it with my father and not feel the need to slam my hands over my little sister’s ears. Especially when I want to slam them over my ears instead😭

All this being said I’m 100% going to go see a Haunting in Venice, but not because I’m expecting it to be good. I’d just like more fuel for my rants. I didn’t even get touch upon what an amazing actor Tom Bateman is and how I’m mad that he only plays serial killer roles outside of Bouc. 

Anyways I hope that answers your questions😅 thank you for your ask, and congratulations if you made it this far. It did truly make my day to see the phrase “rereading” in association with my fics, and I feel as if you were some curious passerby on the street who I started passionately and somewhat aggressively ranting at. I apologize. Also I took a break from ranting to check out your blog and you’ve got a great curation of posts. Good luck getting rid of me now. Prepare to see me in your notifications. Sorry for the essay.

#asks #i………..can only apologize for the length of this #but anyways. thus is the way of tumblr interactions #you send me an ask I give you an essay and now you’ll never get rid of me #just like when you feed a stray cat #poirot #hercule poirot #bouc #murder on the orient express #death on the nile

[mayamiyamaillustration]

Hava a happy caturday 😺🐾🐾❣️

#maya miyama #illustration #caturday #cat #catlover #catlife #mystery #detective novels #agatha christie #agatha christie’s poirot #the murder of roger ackroyd #推理小説 #ミステリー #アガサクリスティー #名探偵ポワロ #アクロイド殺し

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

‘Oui?’ A tired Poirot answers the door. ‘Hastings, what is the matter?’

‘Couldn’t sleep.’

‘So you come to tell Poirot this?’

‘No, I took a walk in the long gallery. Saw Harry’s father.’

Poirot stares at him then, with deliberation, replies, ‘He is dead, mon ami.’

‘I know. That’s why I thought I should tell you.’

Poirot and Hastings are gems. Beautiful gems. 

#Poirot forgives arthur because he brings him a mystery #like a cat coming in with a half-dead vole #poirot #elegy for those still breathing #captain hastings #poirot x hastings #writing

[thelastofthebookworms]

Previous polls in this series :

- Poll 1 - popular edition

- Poll 2

- Poll 3

#polls #agatha christie #hercule poirot #jane marple #tommy and tuppence #towards zero #mrs mcginty's dead #the pale horse #cat among the pigeons #by the prickling of my thumbs #after the funeral #the big four #why didn't they ask evans? #the mystery of the blue train #hickory dickory dock

[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

Cooking With Christie: Baked Harissa Lemon Chickpeas With Feta

Inspiration: Okay, I know this is a little odd….But I love going to new towns and checking out their grocery stores or independent grocers we happen to run across on a random Sunday drive. Not only do you learn a bit about the gastronomic tendencies of the area by what they stock, but it also allows you to discover new-to-you ingredients. On one of our recent wanders through the country, I ran…

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#agatha Christie #baked harissa lemon chickpeas with feta #book #book cover #book photo #book pic #cat among the pigeons #Cooking With Christie #hercule poirot #heyday canning co #my 52 weeks with christie #mystery #Poirot

[leseigneurdufeu]

so I had posted a while ago about the Doyle-Feild effect and had explained it was something I had invented and yet people would just nod along to me using the term, but now I’ve learned of the Doylist/Watsonian dichotomy and so I’ve decided to tell you what the Doyle-Field effect is:

short version: it’s when you’re tricked because you noticed immediately what was slightly wrong and announced a twist but dismissed it as being due to limited budget (for a movie/series) or just the author’s ignorance.

long version (spoiler warning for Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie, particularly the David Suchet adaptation):

When I first watched Death on the Nile, the 2004 episode of the series with David Suchet, I noticed immediately, when the character of Mr Doyle is shot, that the actor (JJ Feild, hence the Doyle-Feild name) was just clutching against his leg a blood-red piece of fabric and not clutching a real wound. But I thought “hey, they’re not really going to shoot actors right?” and thought the practical effect had just badly aged out or I was beginning to have too keen an eye for it, etc. Twist in the end of the episode: the red fabric was canon in-universe. The guy had not been wounded and had simply pretended to with the help of a pre-redened piece of fabric and an accomplice in the person of the shooter. I had been played, but contrary to the rest of the characters, it wasn’t because I didn’t notice he was faking his injury. It was because I thought I wasn’t supposed to realize it.

Same with the Power of the Three arc of Warrior Cats. The genetics of Lionblaze, Hollyleaf and Jayfeather made no sense if they were the kids of Bramble and Squirrel. Twist! THey’ve been adopted! Again, I had supposed the Erins (the authors, for those who don’t know warrior cats) had just thrown genetics off the window for better design or stylistic effect or something.

So yeah, basically, that’s the Doyle-Feild effect: thinking the Weird Thing is a meta thing when it’s actually true in-universe too.

#death on the nile #hercule poirot (2004 series) #david suchet #warrior cats #power of the three

[timotey]

The orange cat [...] was no longer washing his face but was sitting up very straight, lashing his tail slightly, and gazing over the heads of the crowd with that complete disdain for the human race that is the special prerogative of cats and camels.

The Clocks by Agatha Christie

#the clocks #agatha christie #LOL #cats and camels #ha! #quotes #book quotes #hercule poirot #mé

[quartofroy]

At the beginning of the trailer Logan's voice sounds really slurred. Like that is definitely his piss mad voice.

#like how he sounded when he thought there was a dead cat under his chair #yes i am the hercule poirot of piss #succession

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (5-11 Jun 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊👂 Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot #9) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator)

😍 Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (No Sweeter Death #1) (feelslikefire) - great 00Q slow burn

😍 Whoever Fights Monsters (No Sweeter Death #2) (feelslikefire, circ_bamboo) - 00Q/White Collar crossover - though technically a sequel, could easily be read as standalone; does have a pandemic storyline that def hits differently in 2022 than in 2013 when it was written

🥰👂 Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot #10) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator)

Hold It All At Bay (psocoptera) - decently entertaining zimbits soulbond fic (a small but unfortunate use of the 'magical negro' trope)

😍👂 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot #11) (Agatha Christie, author; Dan Stevens, narrator) - no matter how many times I reread this, it never gets old

No Superman (WhoNatural) - sterek Scrubs AU

💖💖 +170K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

MWR (One-EyedBossman (desert000rose), SecretFandomStories) - MCU: stucky, 26K - Differently Okay Local Idiots #5 - can't get enough of this series!

Dash Yourself Upon the Rocks (triedunture) - OFMD: BlackBonnet, 15K - actual Kraken AU - Stede wants to be the fearsome 'Kraken Hunter' & then he finds it; lots of delicious monsterfucking tentacle sex

With Shoes Like Those (AidaRonan) - MCU: stucky, 10K - reread, perennial fave - pre-war setting with tiny Dom Steve giving Bucky exactly what he's been craving

pretty baby you have me (so weak) (inevitablemeow) - MCU: stucky, 10K, canon-divergent Daddy kink - Bucky talks in his sleeps so now Steve knows that Bucky wants to say it. And Steve is going wild waiting to hear it.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Fire Island - 😍😍😍 thee best modern Pride & Prejudice adaptation

Legends of Tomorrow - s5, e13-15; s6, e1-4

Bob's Burgers - s3, e20

Murderville - s1, e3; interesting concept, Kumail Nanjiani was good, but I feel like the original British show is probably better (though this could be bc I'm largely meh on Will Arnett)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Hit Parade - The Nights on Broadway Edition

Lingthusiasm - #61: Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Eastern State Penitentiary

99% Invisible #494 - Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Ted Lasso S2E8, Part 2: You Have to Put Your Heart Out There

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Nakagin Capsule Tower

Big Gay Fiction Podcast - Fiction Fest Panel Discussion: Historical Romance with Annabelle Greene, Merry Farmer and Cat Sebastian

Ologies with Alie Ward - Gorillaology (GORILLAS) with Tara Stoinski

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Phone Booth on a Roof

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - World’s Oldest Edible Ham

This is Good for You - Ep 33: Former Boy Band Fandom Is Good For You

The Jump with Shirley Manson - Courtney Love: Boys on the Radio

Sidedoor - The Hungerford Deed

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

STRONG SONGS playlist

Disco Sweat

On The Industrial Dance Floor

Penned By: Smokey Robinson

Presenting Bee Gees

Summer Luxe

"Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" [Looking Glass] radio

my faves playlist

Presenting Steely Dan

Low Rise Jeans and Baby Tees

Produced By: Dallas Austin

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #agatha christie #hercule poirot #fanfic ftw #that big gay fiction panel podcast was so much fun #cat sebastian #hit parade podcast #atlas obscura podcast #big gay fiction podcast #99% invisible podcast #lingthusiasm podcast #richmond til we die podcast #ologies podcast #the jump podcast #sidedoor podcast #disco music #industrial music #'70s music #'70s pop #steely dan #'90s music #'00s music

[vesme]

#Poirot #Cats #Dall e #Agatha Christie