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secretcalzonewinnersuitcase · 3 months ago

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Sometimes I imagine how the story of the Amabilis siblings would be recorded in history books, completely from a third-person perspective.

1. Ensis (Knight Emperor Enrique)

During his time as crown prince, he had a gentle personality and everyone believed that he would become a good king, but he suddenly murdered his father and former emperor, Equis, and took the throne himself. After that, he abused his power to satisfy his own desires, and executed all vassals who opposed him.

Although he did not care for the people's livelihood, he did not completely neglect it, the people lived a life that was neither worse nor better, but the blood stains never dried in the imperial castle.

As a result, the discontent of the nobles and knights reached a boiling point, but Enrique's military power was at a level where he could 'fighting a large army alone', so no one dared to oppose him.

He was later executed by the second prince Parma, who rebelled with the nobles, ending his life as a tyrant.

Surprisingly, he responded passively to the resistance and, in the end, is said to have willingly offered his neck to his brother.

2. Parma (Knight Emperor Aegis)

The second son of the late emperor Equis. In his childhood, he was closely attached to his half-brother, Ensis, and had a deep affection for his twin sister, Lorica. After losing his sister and being deeply saddened, he devoted himself solely to knight training and took on the role of leading the imperial knights upon reaching adulthood.

However, unable to tolerate Ensis's tyranny and outrageous behavior, he led the knights and nobles he commanded in a rebellion and executed his brother on the spot. He then soon inherits the throne.

However, is he mentally and physically broken after losing all his brothers, or was it because the blood of brothers could not be purified? The tyranny did not stop.

He sought to strengthen military power rather than care for the terrified populace, which had been engulfed in long-standing bloodshed and civil war. So he tried to build up military power by force. His justification was that he could not afford to lose anything more in the country, but his obsession was driving the empire to its end.

In the end, all the people of the empire rose up, dragged down the emperor who did not care about the people, and eventually put him on the guillotine.

3. Lorica

His last words were as follows:

"There's no need to delay. Take me to my brothers..."

With the execution of the last emperor Aegis, the Broderick Empire fell.

The third daughter of Equis. Ensis's half-sister, Parma's twin sister, and the youngest of three siblings. There are not many records left about Princess Lorica, and those that remain are damaged, making it difficult to accurately speculate about the life she lived. The following is an estimation based on the fragmented records that have been gathered.

Her name clearly existed in the royal family tree, but she never appeared in public events, so few people knew of her existence unless they were closely connected to the royal family. It is presumed that there was a reason for the late emperor Equis to keep her hidden.

Later, it was revealed that she had lived in a 'tower,' leading some to suggest that she was hidden away for the sake of the royal family's honor because she was a 'witch'. After the empire fell, when someone visited the top floor to determine whether to dismantle the 'tower,' they discovered numerous books in the room, many of which were ancient spellbooks.

Although she died of illness at a young age, her death had a great impact on the lives of her remaining siblings. Some people claim to have seen her even after the empire's fall, and her name has become a sort of urban legend passed down through stories.

─Afterward, the land where the empire once stood gradually grew dark and desolate, making it difficult for people to live comfortably, and now more than half of the population has left that land.

Neighboring countries are attempting to take over the territory, but for some reason, they find it difficult to even enter, facing setbacks in their conquests.

.... I want to see a scene where, after reading that part, Didi suddenly appears from behind and asks, "...What are you reading?" like a cult leader.

(*Original link: https://x.com/Null_Hutsori/status/1815400276414873784

*Disclaimer: The English translation belongs to me.)

#Victorism #NuEul #D #Info #Knight's Nights #Lorica Amabilis

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mortalfollies · 11 months ago

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First Time Watches of 2023 (3/3)

SILENT NIGHT - The idea of a Christmas apocalypse film where everyone dies was immediately appealing to my mother and I because our family sucks. That Jojo Rabbit kid is fucking stellar, made me sob.

THE THING - practical effects 💖. Just such a solid film, again another tumblr recommendation I really wanted to tick off, the descent into distrust, the tension, the stakes, sexy Kurt Russell; yeah, 10/10.

LADYHAWKE - Everything about this was made for me except for that excruciatingly 80s score - get that sound outta here! Matthew Broderick is incredibly endearing as Phillipe “the mouse”, i absolutely adore him. The curse is brilliant - and hell, that scene with the transformation as they lie beside each other - MAN! I just wish that instead of telling us about the priest’s curse, and him summoning the devil or whatever, we’d been able to see it. Even if it had just been shadows on the wall, or a semi-animated sequence - would’ve added a little extra.

TREASURE PLANET - My friend Hannah had recommended this to me a decade ago and I’m very sorry it took a literal decade to get to it. The most I knew about Jim Hawkins was that people that made non/disney amvs back in the 2000s/2010s shipped him with Ariel, those Jelsa bitches don’t even know how bad it was. Anyway, this film was gorgeous, oh my god? And while I hate “I need a father figure” plots this one was well-written and genuinely moving. Great ensemble, tho the robot played by Martin Short feels unnecessarily jammed in.

THE LION IN WINTER - Numerous mutuals have posted about this; god, I’m so glad. This was another one I picked up a DVD of in my favourite antique place. KATHERINE HEPBURN. is everything. This whole thing was…insane…Shakespearean delivery for dialogue that is 90% fitting and then 10% bizarre. Timothy Dalton hot asf. Anthony Hopkins really using his eyes. All the Eleanor & Henry scenes are of course, absolute highlights - i love it when people just lie to each other, and between all of that, reveal their devastating truths - but what struck me most, and has stayed with me, is the three princes locked in the dark dungeon, reduced to little boys by the violent whims of their father & the schemes of their mother. a manipulator, a warrior, and, well, john, utterly powerless. Bizarre & entertaining.

THE BOY AND THE HERON - Saw this today, it was visually stunning; Mahito is a strong character and his VA is great; Mark Hamill delivers, but Christian Bale is wobbly, his accent fluctuating. The character of the Heron is a real highlight and wow, kudos to RPats. Love the world this film creates. Kiriko is my new fave ghibli woman. Dreamlike, mournful, fantastical, tugs on the heartstrings, enjoyable but actually made me appreciate Spirited Away more, which has never been one of my favourites but now I really wanna rewatch. Spoiler, btw, if you’re like that: when the tower started crumbling I started welling up because it just felt like a goodbye from Miyazaki, and I don’t even idolise him; it just really feels like his heart, and the heart of all the animators, was in this, and by god I appreciate that.

oh and a shout out to john wick 4, the peter cushing version of dracula, puss in boots the last wish & spiderverse 2, which were all pretty great! I have had a great time with movies this year.

#films #folly’s follies #yeah i copy pasted a couple of my letterboxed reviews thru out this #anyway! that’s my uh top 16 films of 2023 lol

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leanstooneside · 3 months ago

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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

- Shania Twain's breast (Regent's Park)

- Brooklyn Decker's tooth (Richmond)

- NeNe Leakes's upper arm (Southgate)

- Kim Zolciak's head (Dagenham Heathway)

- Kelly Ripa's foot (Tottenham Hale)

- DSquared2's arm (Buckhurst Hill)

- Bristol Palin's forehead (Northfields)

- Jason Aldean's wrist (High Street Kensington)

- Lamar Odom's lip (Bromley-by-Bow)

- Shoshanna Lonstein's foot (Aldgate East)

- Kris Humphries's thigh (Heathrow Terminal 5)

- Katie Couric's wrist (Stamford Brook)

- Christina Milian's ankle (Queensbury)

- Minnie Driver's forearm (Brent Cross)

- Stacy Keibler's foot (Barons Court)

- Connie Britton's ankle (High Street Kensington)

- Travis Barker's arm (Holland Park)

- Hunter Parrish's arm (Buckhurst Hill)

- Jason Ritter's leg (Tottenham Court Road)

- Kelly Cutrone's knee (Caledonian Road)

- Judy Sheindlin's chin (West Acton)

- Giuliana Rancic's forehead (Clapham South)

- Patrick Schwarzenegger's lower leg (Holland Park)

- Amitabh Bachchan's upper arm (Wood Green)

- Shannen Doherty's mouth (Warren Street)

- Gavin Degraw's eyebrow (Hounslow Central)

- Lisa Bonet's thigh (Neasden)

- Matthew Broderick's eyelash (South Wimbledon)

- Tamron Hall's wrist (Vauxhall)

- Nicole Scherzinger's nose (Canning Town)

- Scott Porter's hair (Walthamstow Central)

- Matthew Perry's eye (Russell Square)

- Nick Carter's calf (Boston Manor)

- Kate Winslet's back (East Putney)

- Kobe Bryant's eye (Leicester Square)

- Jersey Shore's leg (Chalfont & Latimer)

- Rob Lowe's belly (Ickenham)

- Bobbi Kristina Brown's thigh (South Kenton)

- Ty Burrell's bottom (Tower Hill)

- Mel B's ear (West Finchley)

- Christina Hendricks's hip (Harrow & Wealdstone)

- Kelly Osbourne's finger (Bow Road)

- Kaley Cuoco's back (Hainault)

- Ashlee Simpson's hand (Victoria)

- Alicia Keys's mouth (Queensway)

- Nikki Reed's leg (Redbridge)

- Farrah Abraham's shoulder (Hainault)

- Maci Bookout's nostril (Tottenham Court Road)

- Haylie Duff's finger (Fulham Broadway)

- Chris Evans's fist (King's Cross St. Pancras)

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bandomfandombeyond · 8 months ago

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there's nothing wilder than learning that in 1993 someone bombed the world trade center

from watching the 1999 Godzilla movie with Matthew broderick

and being confused when some characters mention "the world trade center bombing" about 2 minutes after you've seen both towers still standing in the skyline

#and this is why movies dont expire #the culture behind them #the zeitgeist #think of all the knowledge and context that will be lost when streaming platforms have killed video archiv #*archival

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graminhani · 10 months ago

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Tower Heist (USA, 2011): 🍿 [2012]

Comédia com Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy e Matthew Broderick. Com um elenco desses, esperava muuuito mais.

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13melekradyo · 1 year ago

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30 Eylül 2023 tarihli program kaydı.

Güncel modern kompozisyon kayıtlarından bir seçki // A selection of recent modern composition recordings. Download.

01 – Anenon – Moons Melt Milk Light 02 – Alessandro Sgobbio – Modular Circles 03 – Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0 – Tower Of Meaning III 04 – Megan Perry Fisher – Pensée IV 05 – Rose Riebl – Kimono 06 – Olive Patrice Weder – Village Talk 07 – Bary Hudson-Taylor – Places 08 – Akira Kosemura – Looking In The Same Direction 09 – Yann Tiersen – Ker Al Loch (Solo Piano) 10 – Hildur Guđnadóttir – Confession

#modern kompozisyon #modern composition #yeni #new

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project1939 · 1 year ago

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Day Three- Film: Scandal Sheet

Release date: Jan 16th

Studio: Columbia

Genre: Noir

Director: Phil Karlson

Producer: Edward Small

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek, Harry Morgan

Plot Summary: Mark Chapman is a big-time newspaper editor who made profits soar when he reshaped a respectable paper into a tabloid. But what happens when the bombshell murder case his paper is covering hits a little too close to home?

My Rating (out of five stars): ****

This was a really good film! I love noirs, and I love newspaper flicks, and this combined both well. The acting was top-drawer- Broderick Crawford was the perfect protagonist to both hate and enjoy. I fell in love with Donna Reed, a wise young reporter who was about the only character with any moral compass. The movie had all of my favorite noir elements- the gritty realism, the interesting little side characters, the moral complexity, etc. I loved that the actors here all looked normal normal, not “Hollywood normal." (Aside from the young male/female couple, of course. Donna Reed is stunning, even when she’s not glammed-up, and John Derek is a pretty boy with a bad side.) The plot was compact, and the film had no pretentions of being a towering masterpiece. It was just a great watch. So no snarky play-by-play tonight, I’m afraid!

#project1952 #1952 #project1952 day 3 #100 films of 1952 #200 films of 1952 #200 films of 1952 film 3

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msamba · 1 year ago

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Whale Mural on Detroit Building Is Uncovered by Storm | My Modern Met

By Regina Sienra on September 1, 2023 Photo: ehrlif/Depositphotos Mother Nature saved this legacy work of public art. Nature can be an artist, filling our world with sweeping colors and shapes. Not only that, but it seems like it can also be a creative patron of the arts as well. The “Whale Tower” mural, which decorates Detroit’s Broderick Tower, has been covered by an ad for almost two years.…

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#creatives #infrastructure #Street Art

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xtruss · 2 years ago

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How Tall Is Too Tall? The Rise and Rise and Rise of the Supertall Skyscraper

— How New York City's Skyscrapers went from Tall to 'Supertall'

— ABC RN | By Nick Baker and Keri Phillips for Rear Vision | Tuesday 11 October, 2022

The light catches Central Park Tower, the highest residential building in the world. (Getty Images: DigitalVision)

The penthouse of the highest residential building in the world is on the market and could be yours — if you happen to be a billionaire.

In September, the three-floor apartment atop Central Park Tower in New York City was listed for an eye-popping $US250 million ($390 million).

If the apartment sells at that price, it would become the most expensive home in the US.

At more than 470-metres high, this towering new development is yet another chapter in the city's dramatic 150-year love affair with the skyscraper.

"We started with a very defined area of land called Manhattan," Patrice Derrington, the director of Columbia University's Real Estate Development Program, tells ABC RN's Rear Vision.

"That got filled up [but] more and more people wanted to be there. Rather than spread out and have the disadvantages, commercially and socially — [people] decided they had to go up."

"New York took that to the extreme, as usual."

Going Up

For much of human history, most residential and commercial buildings didn't rise beyond a few floors.

"Buildings were constrained by the leg muscles of the people who inhabited them," says Carol Willis, the founder, director and curator of New York's Skyscraper Museum.

But the invention of the elevator dramatically changed this.

Willis says the development of elevators in the mid-19th century, specifically a safety system designed by American industrialist Elisha Graves Otis, made the idea of a skyscraper possible.

Otis famously demonstrated his invention at the 1853 New York World's Fair. In a suit and top hat, he rode an elevator platform up, before ordering its rope be cut. He fell a few centimetres but the safety system kicked in and the platform halted. The crowd went wild.

Live or work in a skyscraper? Thank Elisha Graves Otis. (Wikimedia Commons)

Willis says this "vertical transportation" technology was initially incorporated into New York hotels and dry goods stores, but it was soon adopted by the city's office buildings.

"This became a kind of revolution that allowed for the exploitation of the value of the land and the urban density and the competition and drive and energy that existed in lower Manhattan."

The First Skyscrapers

So what was New York's first skyscraper or its earliest relative?

The history of the New York skyscraper goes back to structures like the Western Union Telegraph Building. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mosette Broderick, the director of Urban Design and Architecture Studies at New York University, points to the Equitable Life Assurance Building, which opened in 1870 and rose seven storeys.

"At first, people were a little afraid — the very top floor didn't rent," she says.

Meanwhile, Willis points to two nearby buildings from this era that she considers the "very beginning of the skyscraper in New York": The New York Tribune Building and the Western Union Telegraph Building.

"These two buildings were about 10-storeys tall … They rose to about 260 feet [around 80 metres] which is by far the tallest thing in the skyline of lower Manhattan in 1874, when each of them were completed."

Similar buildings continued to spring up in the lower Manhattan area.

"Interestingly, three kinds of businesses create the first tall, multipurpose buildings: They are insurance companies, newspapers, and inventions [like the telegraph]," Broderick says.

'Really stretch into the sky'

New York's earliest tall buildings were built with brick and stone, which came with severe limitations.

It was the introduction of steel that really gave birth to the modern-day skyscraper.

New York's Woolworth Building around 1913. It still stands to this day. (Wikimedia Commons)

"[During] the last quarter of the 19th century, there's lots of experiments in the advancing technologies, particularly 'steel framing'," Willis says.

"A steel skeleton was a much more efficient way to erect tall buildings than a pure masonry structure."

Steel framing meant New York's skyline got taller and taller with each decade.

In 1899, the tallest office building in the world was the Park Row Building, coming in at 119 metres.

Then, just 14 years later, that title was taken by the nearby Woolworth Building, which was more than twice as tall at 241 metres.

"So there was an enormous amount of growth — of business growth, of urban growth. The built forms of skyscrapers were able to exploit the new technology in order to really stretch into the sky," Willis says.

'Arrest the seriously increasing evil'

In 1916, New York passed a comprehensive zoning law, which was the first of its type in the world.

A worker stands on a crane pulley counterweight during the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930. (Getty Images: Hulton Archive)

Borough president of Manhattan George McAneny said zoning was needed "to arrest the seriously increasing evil of the shutting off of light and air from other buildings and from the public streets".

While the 1916 law didn't set a height limit, it did constrain the design of skyscrapers as they rose, which meant they had more of a wedding cake shape.

"If you think of the great art deco skyscrapers of New York, like the Chrysler Building or the Empire State Building, they have a heavy base … and then an intermediate set of what the zoning law called 'setbacks'. So they pyramid up like a ziggurat," Willis says.

"Then often they have a tower that emerges … to unlimited height as the zoning law allowed."

Willis says after 1916, the city had "a new generation of buildings, a series of ziggurats that give New York what we think of as the black and white skyline of noir film".

Towers of Glass

In post-World War II America, further new technologies gave New York a whole new set of skyscrapers.

Willis says the era brought lighter welded steel frames, along with stretched glass and thin mullion (which hold up the windows). This dramatically changed the facades.

"The buildings seem to be these towers of glass," she says.

"The windows don't open. They're hermetically sealed. This was an opportunity that was created by the technology of air conditioning and also fluorescent lights. [This] allowed you to have a very deep space away from windows, but still illuminated, with cool, fluorescent lights."

The Twin Towers once rose high above the rest of the New York skyline.(Wikimedia Commons)

From 1931 to 1971, the Empire State Building was the tallest in the world, before it was overtaken by Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

With 110 storeys and a height of more than 415 metres each, Willis says the towers were "of such titanic scale".

But buildings from around this time were far from perfect.

"[The Twin Towers] were so energy inefficient, in a time when the consumption and the price of energy was not that high. A single light switch would turn on an entire floor," Willis says.

The September 11 Attacks

The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, fractured and changed many parts of New York life, including the relationship with skyscrapers.

"There was an immediate reaction against skyscrapers and against working in skyscrapers," Derrington says.

Surprisingly this was short-lived, she says.

"People's memories are short, particularly in New York when it comes to money. So they came back, they needed to be close [to each other] again."

Derrington says September 11 did have an impact on the DNA of skyscrapers around the city.

"The building [owners] did work hard to put in extra security, big security systems. Before that, you could just walk into an office building and take the elevator to [whatever] floor," she says.

"Similarly, driving under buildings, we forget that there's a whole lot of parking and access under buildings, that became much more secured."

"Plus, we put in better fire systems. One of the problems with the World Trade Center was that the steel melted faster than we had anticipated."

Today's World Trade Center is anchored by the One World Trade Center building, the tallest building in the US, with the tip of its spire at 546 metres.

For comparison, Australia's tallest building is the Gold Coast's Q1, at 322 metres.

Supertalls

Although commercial skyscrapers have continued to rise, there's a new kind of residential skyscraper making headlines in New York.

So-called "supertalls" are mainly clustered around "Billionaires' Row", along the southern end of Manhattan's Central Park.

"These buildings went up — skinny, ultra-tall buildings. It was a quirk or a loophole in the zoning laws that enabled these buildings, on a very small footprint, to actually go as high as they possibly could," Derrington says.

"Many people were horrified," she says.

New York's skyline with a supertall building in the middle. 432 Park Avenue was at one point the tallest residential building in the world.(Pexels: Dustin Demmerle)

But these super-slim apartment buildings have been plagued by complaints and lawsuits from owners.

"The famous example of a tall, thin building that's not working right now is 432 Park Avenue … It was the first super-tall of that order," Broderick says.

When 432 Park Avenue was completed in 2015, it was the tallest residential building in the world.

"But the people who bought units in 2015, 2016, they're now suing the developer for $125 million, because the building creaks, the building sways, the building is scary at night," she says.

"It's not dangerous, it's not going to fall over, but it's disconcerting. So those tall, thin buildings have a problem."

Derrington adds: "A lot of engineers have also said that these things are yet to be tested in terms of exit during a fire".

Tall buildings crowd into a busy skyline, with the iconic Empire State Building dwarfing them all in centre frame. New York's skyline continues to grow and evolve each year.(Pixabay)

Awe or Terror

As the founder, director and curator of New York's Skyscraper Museum, Willis talks about the minute details of these buildings, but also what she calls their "romance".

"That word is a romantic word — skyscraper. It's a word that creates in your mind's eye … a silhouette or an image against the sky," she says.

"When you're at that elevated height, you see the collective city, but you also see, in some cases, the curvature of the earth."

She describes this as "an incredibly powerful image and, I think for most people an emotional one, whether awe or terror at the great height".

"There's an emotional investment in the skyline, of looking at the city from great heights that I think that no one can be immune to."

432 Park Avenue has been nicknamed the “Awful Waffle” in a nod to its gridlike facade. (Jeffrey Milstein)

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