#1934-2024

[vox-anglosphere]

Rest in peace, Dame Maggie Smith. You were one of a kind.

[kenneth-williams-diaries]

Dame Maggie Smith dies aged 89

💔

"I will say good night and leave you to discuss my mysterious past."

The Dowager Countess - Downton Abbey

Goodbye Mags ✨️🕊 ... thank you for everything! 🤍

[whamgram]

Charlastor Week - Day 2 - Heaven AU

Where Alastor is The First Man (Who Matters) and Charlie is his lieutenant. 😇🔪

Alastor lived the same life as a serial killer in the 1920/30s and again meets his untimely end from a bullet to the head. But the higher powers thought he was a real swell guy, taking it upon himself to exact justice on the wicked, so he goes to heaven.

Unable to satiate his bloodlust up there, he becomes envious of the violent, crowded realm of hell where sinners can kill each other over and over again with little consequence. He begins to spread propaganda about hell’s overpopulation and the threat of an uprising, and when heaven becomes desperate for a solution, he suggests starting the exterminations.

Charlie, the daughter of the High Seraphim Lucifer, still wants to help sinners. Alastor convinces her that the best way to help them is to exterminate them. Oblivion is a mercy compared to eternal suffering.

He starts scheming a way to use her to overthrow the angelic council and seize power for himself. Then WHOOPS he catches feelings. Everyone in heaven is all sunshine and rainbows but Charlie’s specific brand of sunshine and rainbows makes his heart go all doki doki. She’s initially wary of him and how he even got into heaven in the first place, but when she starts to see the genuine good inside him, she falls for him too.

What’s scarier than the guy who killed you finding you in hell to kill you again? Him letting his starry-eyed seraph girlfriend do it, who cheerfully whispers “you’re welcome” in your ear before your consciousness fades permanently into the void.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934)

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 90 years makes juxtaposition of Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantiс, 1934 & Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 57 One of One, 2024. A one-off Chiron has been created that references the classic Type 57SC Atlantiс, an icon of the 1930s. The car has been commissioned as a 70th birthday present for a woman whose husband is also a Bugatti owner. She wanted her car to be a tribute to the Type 57SC Atlantiс and worked with Jascha Straub, Lead Designer Sur Mesure at Bugatti, to make her vision a reality

[tilbageidanmark]

It's 1932 again

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[femmeleatherface]

i watched the black cat with boris karloff and béla lugosi last night and WHAT is up with karloff's whole aesthetic in this movie.

ah, the old hollywood approximation of the aleister crowley vibe. the eyeliner. the wacky eyebrows. the widow's peaks so high you could climb mountains in them as you ascended to the heights of his not-1950s cheapo alien uppercut. the occultist chic/proto-manos robes and jewelry. lugosi being all "the years have been kind to you" like this man doesn't look haggard as fuck and wildly out of place in his funky art deco mansion in the middle of a ww1 cemetary. he looks like he should be battling superman for world domination and i for one aspire to be this level of pretentiously mysterious. 11/10. RIP that his clothes are so easy to rip, though.

[s-lycopersicum]

— Ars Typographica, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1934, by Frederic W. Goudy

[evelynwaughblack]

[vox-anglosphere]

Words of wisdom from Downton Abbey's grande dame of decorum.

[arcsin27]

[astonishinglysane]

Movies I’ve Watched - 2024

87/?: One Night of Love (1934) - watched 3/25/34

This is a thoroughly mediocre movie which unfortunately dispenses with the most likable characters after the first fifteen minutes. There is a lot of opera, which Grace Moore sings well (for the most part). It is interesting how often, in old movies with love triangles, the woman ends up with the wrong guy and it’s supposed to be a happy ending. Obviously they were not considered the wrong guy back then, so there is something about the assumptions about what love is and what makes a good partner that does not translate to the modern day.

[toamountaindaisy]

Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024

[nathsketch]

Devastating news today. Sorry to have to post these drawings in these circumstances 🥺

I love her a lot, she will be deeply, deeply missed 😔

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (28 December 1934 − 27 September 2024) ✨ Rest in Love.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 90 years makes juxtaposition of Chevrolet Carryall Suburban, 1934 & Chevrolet Suburban High Country, 2024. The facelifted 12th generation of Chevrolet's full-size SUV has been revealed. The Suburban is the world's longest continuously running model name though in the 1930s a number of car makers used the Suburban designation to indicate a windowed, station wagon type body on a commercial frame. Changes to the new Suburban include a new infotainment system, improved 3.0-litre Duramax turbodiesel straight 6 and improved rear suspension.

[fuddlyduddly]

i love how the official upload of the trailer for The Thin Man keeps Warner Bros' internal head slate with the technical info in