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the regulus I'm writing in thieves is such a failgirl. the popular fanon that he's an op suave, confident sjm love interest type person? nonexistant. hes an anxious unfun weirdo. he's Claire from derry girls coded. he's a craic killer.
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'I’m genuinely curious about and a little afraid of what is going to happen to a certain kind of film lover when All of Us Strangers comes out in late December. If the reaction to the press tour so far is any indication, expect mass fainting spells and/or riots. There are a bunch of reasons I have pegged this movie—a gay romance from director Andrew Haigh—to bring the Letterboxd crowd, me included, to our knees, but the chief one is that it stars not one but two certified internet darlings: Andrew Scott, best known as Fleabag’s Hot Priest, and Paul Mescal, who rocketed to fame via Normal People early on in the pandemic and has been an object of ardent fan obsession ever since.
Despite the movie’s English director and setting, the other thing Scott and Mescal have in common is that they’re Irish, which you’d think would make their coming together to maximize their joint slay a shoo-in for Irish movie moment of the year. But it turns out competition for that title is pretty stiff in 2023. In November alone, audiences saw Barry Keoghan make his mark on an English country estate in Saltburn and Michael Fassbender scoot through Paris in The Killer, the latter’s first major acting job in three years. This is after a summer absolutely dominated by Cork’s own Cillian Murphy, who played a Jewish American scientist in Oppenheimer with so much conviction that it matters not a whit that no one in history has ever looked more Irish. All of this came in what is still the same year that The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Keoghan, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and Mescal was up for best actor for Aftersun.
They didn’t actually win any of those Oscars, but that doesn’t change a growing body of evidence proving that these days, some of the buzziest stars hail from the Emerald Isle. Ask any film fan whom they’re excited about, and you’re likely to get an earful of Mescal, Keoghan, Saoirse Ronan, and so on. I’m not the first to point this out—in August, Elle declared that it was “hot Irish guy” summer. But summer has turned into fall, and the hot Irish guys (and gals) remain with us. During awards season, Mashable made a guide to the Irish “it” boys of the Oscars. Several months later, they’re still “it.” So, what’s the craic with this Irish invasion?
“Irish people tend to be very good-looking and charming,” Rachel Connolly, a novelist and critic who has written about Irish culture’s place in the world, told me via email. “That would have to have something to do with it I’d imagine.”
True, but why are they so good-looking and charming, and so many of them at once? When I asked Ruth Barton, a critic and film studies professor at Trinity College Dublin, what unites performers like Mescal, Scott, and Keoghan, she posited that they all embody “a kind of soft masculinity.”
This wasn’t always the case. In earlier eras of Hollywood, Irishmen played priests and cops, not romantic leads. “Irish actors and Irish identity, particularly Irish masculinity, got sexier around the turn of the century,” Barton said. “The Troubles ended in 1998. You get this new image of Ireland coming through, with the Celtic Tiger, with the boy bands, with the chick lit, with U2, with Bono and all that kind of thing, which changes the image of the Irish male in particular.”
Barton cited Chris O’Dowd’s performance in Bridesmaids—as a cop, which is a typical Irish role, but a sexy one—as a key turning point that paved the way for the ascendance of the Irishman as soulful and sexy male lead. This also then makes room for weirder actors like Keoghan to become fan favorites. “He’s the underdog,” Barton said of Keoghan in Banshees. “He’s not good-looking. He’s not tall. He’s none of those things. But he’s really heartfelt. That’s what he brings to these roles.” (And some people would beg to differ about the good-looking part, I imagine.)
It helps that Ireland is also in the midst of a “huge literary moment,” Barton said. “Sally Rooney is only one of the generation of incredible young women writers coming through.” Rooney, the 32-year-old author of Normal People, is known for portraying “[her] generation’s anomie and discontent” in a way that can also be “viscerally sexy,” Barton said.
And again, this is still kind of a new thing! “Ireland used to be this repressed Roman Catholic country,” Barton said. “We abandoned Catholicism, and then we really let rip.”
Saoirse Ronan notwithstanding, it’s true that the viral “internet boyfriend” phenomenon that so benefits people like Mescal and Scott doesn’t quite have a female equivalent. Still, Irish actresses have been able to take advantage of the spotlight too: Kerry Condon received praise and award nominations for Banshees, Sharon Horgan’s Bad Sisters featured five plum roles for Irish actresses in 2022, with a second season on the way, and we’re still not that far out from the end of Derry Girls, the Netflix show set in Northern Ireland in the ’90s. Irish actress Nicola Coughlan parlayed her role in that show into work on Bridgerton—she will be the lead of an upcoming season—as well as a spot in one of 2023’s most enviable ensembles, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. (She fittingly played Diplomat Barbie.) Otherwise, Barton cited Jessie Buckley in particular, of last year’s Women Talking, as an Irish actress on the rise.
In a larger sense, for millennials and Gen Z audiences who care about such things, Ireland’s politics seem refreshingly unproblematic: “Ireland stands for nothing on the world stage,” Barton said. “We’re not an aggressor. We’re not a colonizer. The Troubles are over. We actually live in one of a few countries with a fairly stable democracy. We don’t have crazy leaders. It’s a benign kind of identity, Irishness.” In other words, the Irish have all the charm Americans find in a British accent, maybe more—Barton cited a certain richness to “Hiberno-English”—with none of the baggage of the Brits.
Ireland’s history, of course, has trickle-down effects on the national character. According to Michael Patrick Gillespie, a professor at Florida International University who has studied Irish film, Ireland’s past is infused into the whole country’s sense of humor. “They have a great sense of irony,” he said. “I mean, they were an English colony for 750 years. I think that would certainly give anyone a bit of cynicism. There’s a great deal of value placed on wit and on repartee and being able to think on your feet, to think quickly and to deal with ambiguity.”
ADVERTISEMENT That may account partly for why such a small country—it has a population of 5 million—continues to leave such an outsize cultural impression. “There’s a tremendous creative vitality in Ireland, and that fosters a wide range of artistic projects,” Gillespie said. “It also builds up a callus and a stamina because there’s just not a lot of money. There’s never money in the film industry. There’s not a lot to support Irish films. And so to make it, to be successful, you really have to endure.”
Things may be improving on the money front: In February, the Hollywood Reporter published a piece on why the Irish film industry lately seems to be punching above its weight. Some Irish filmmakers pointed to specific funds that have been set up to encourage homegrown talent, leading to projects like Normal People and The Quiet Girl, which was a Best International Feature Film nominee at this year’s Oscars. Barton, meanwhile, pointed out that Ireland also offers quite a bit of state-subsidized theater, so much so that there’s now a fairly well-established trajectory for young actors to follow: After making a name for themselves in theater, they usually move into Irish TV, then parlay that into work elsewhere. When Hollywood productions cast Irish actors, “they’re getting pretty accomplished actors coming in who know what to do, who speak English, and who don’t have to deal with the kind of cultural adjustment either because, you know, we can see American TV here,” Barton said.
And it’s also easier now than ever before to work in Hollywood but stay Irish. “Before, you had to really move to America to work, whereas now people go backwards and forwards very, very easily,” Barton said. “Somebody like Cillian Murphy is very, very insistent that this is where he lives, this is where his children are being brought up, they are being brought up with Irish values, not with American values, etc.” For some American fans, this only makes this class of actors more swoon-worthy for how “not Hollywood” they are.
Still, Gillespie worries that American audiences are at risk of over-romanticizing the simple, quaint Irish life. “I think that Americans have a very naïve sense of Ireland,” he said, a sense that is sometimes amplified by movies like Banshees, in Gillespie’s view. “There’s almost a patronizing view of the Irish that that I think causes many Americans to underestimate their complexity.” In other words, Ireland and Irish actors are more than a vision of a sensitive man who reads poetry in bars or, say, really loves his donkey. “I think American audiences are more than capable of seeing the complexity that is there in Irish films and appreciating the complexities that Irish actors can convey,” Gillespie added. Something to keep in mind while you’re watching Mescal and Scott smooch next month at a theater near you.'
#Jessie Buckley#Paul Mescal#Aftersun#Saoirse Ronan#Cillian Murphy#Andrew Scott#Sally Rooney#Normal People#The Banshees of Inisherin#Barry Keoghan#Saltburn#Fleabag#Hot Priest#Colin Farrell#Brendan Gleeson#Oppenheimer#All of Us Strangers#Women Talking#Oscars#Michael Fassbender#The Killer#Andrew Haigh#Sharon Horgan#Kerry Condon#Bad Sisters#Derry Girls
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Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott: Irish actors are having a real breakthrough moment.
"I’m genuinely curious about and a little afraid of what is going to happen to a certain kind of film lover when All of Us Strangers comes out in late December. If the reaction to the press tour so far is any indication, expect mass fainting spells and/or riots. There are a bunch of reasons I have pegged this movie—a gay romance from director Andrew Haigh—to bring the Letterboxd crowd, me included, to our knees, but the chief one is that it stars not one but two certified internet darlings: Andrew Scott, best known as Fleabag’s Hot Priest, and Paul Mescal, who rocketed to fame via Normal People early on in the pandemic and has been an object of ardent fan obsession ever since.
Despite the movie’s English director and setting, the other thing Scott and Mescal have in common is that they’re Irish, which you’d think would make their coming together to maximize their joint slay a shoo-in for Irish movie moment of the year. But it turns out competition for that title is pretty stiff in 2023. In November alone, audiences saw Barry Keoghan make his mark on an English country estate in Saltburn and Michael Fassbender scoot through Paris in The Killer, the latter’s first major acting job in three years. This is after a summer absolutely dominated by Cork’s own Cillian Murphy, who played a Jewish American scientist in Oppenheimer with so much conviction that it matters not a whit that no one in history has ever looked more Irish. All of this came in what is still the same year that The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Keoghan, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and Mescal was up for best actor for Aftersun.
They didn’t actually win any of those Oscars, but that doesn’t change a growing body of evidence proving that these days, some of the buzziest stars hail from the Emerald Isle. Ask any film fan whom they’re excited about, and you’re likely to get an earful of Mescal, Keoghan, Saoirse Ronan, and so on. I’m not the first to point this out—in August, Elle declared that it was “hot Irish guy” summer. But summer has turned into fall, and the hot Irish guys (and gals) remain with us. During awards season, Mashable made a guide to the Irish “it” boys of the Oscars. Several months later, they’re still “it.” So, what’s the craic with this Irish invasion?
“Irish people tend to be very good-looking and charming,” Rachel Connolly, a novelist and critic who has written about Irish culture’s place in the world, told me via email. “That would have to have something to do with it I’d imagine.”
True, but why are they so good-looking and charming, and so many of them at once? When I asked Ruth Barton, a critic and film studies professor at Trinity College Dublin, what unites performers like Mescal, Scott, and Keoghan, she posited that they all embody “a kind of soft masculinity.”
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"Soft Masculinity"? Isn't that the same crap that Majors was pushing?
#Irish#British#Australia#Canadian#Paul Mescal#Andrew Scott#Barry Keoghan#Cillian Murphy#WTF IS SOFT MASCULINITY?#WHAT BULLSHIT IS THIS?#Slate Writer Labels Irish Softly Masculine#Ant Man#Quantumania#No American Actors Allowed
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Jess Watches Final Results - Day 126 [x]
Derry Girls wins with 10 of 13 votes!
"Her name’s Ms. De Brún. She’s a bit of a bitch, but... cracking eyeliner." You were only here for one ep but you looked so hot while you let the wains hit balls and drink wine. And Orla being delighted at the compliment about her drawing of a dog, compared to their devastation at getting James's eye colour wrong in her portrait of him. Also, let it be known that Clare Devlin is not a craic killer!
I voted for The Expanse because " You're going to negotiate with a girl who thinks she's a space station?" The seriousness in which this is said never fails to make me laugh. Holden and Miller putting aside their differences for the greater good. Both making the toughest decisions. And good thing Chrisjen has the braincell and knows to tell Mars that their weapons launch isn't a call to war. The scene with her husband had me tearing up. 😥
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Dragonstone Girls 🐉 ❤️ 🌈 | a Jonerys Derry Girls AU
For @youwerenevermine and our resident Irishman @aenarsnow !!! Enjoy the CRAIC! And thank you Erika for the moodboard!
Missy, Marge, and Arya realized they weren't following and stopped. They had reached one of the staging areas for the speech itself, tons of people now streaming in from all of Dragonstone towards the old castle where the speech would be. it was like the Dothraki flag had vomited all over the place, blue and gold and silver, with moons and stars affixed to every surface. There were handmade signs, people with painted faces and bodies, and streamers and balloons from every rafter and gable. The general theme was peace and happiness, celebration for the ceasefire.
She frowned at Jon. "What did you say?"
Jon stood a little taller, his voice stronger. "I said I'm not going to the speech; I'm going back North. I came just to tell you guys."
"Fuck off," Marge exclaimed. Her bright blue eyes flashed, dangerous, with a bit of fear in them now. She jabbed her fist against his shoulder. “You can’t leave us!”
Missy furrowed her brow. “I do not understand. What do you mean going North?”
It was Dany’s turn to glare, horrified, stunned, and scared. How could he leave? He must be joking, that was it of course, he was making one of those stupid Northern jokes that no one thought was funny. It was like that whole thing with the Northern exchange student a few months ago, the redhead with the big teeth who wanted to have sex with him. She was off her rocker in more ways than one but wanting to have sex with Jon was definitely the thing that made her crazy. It was just some big joke in the universe.
She crossed her arms over her chest, squaring off. “Catch yourself on,” she blurted.
Arya frowned, hanging back a bit. She shook her head. “I don’t remember you saying anything like this this morning.”
“But I did, you weren’t listening to me.”
“Well who would listen to you? You’re Jon!”
“Yeah, exactly,” Missy said, nodding in agreement. “You’re Jon, you can’t leave us.”
“But I’m not supposed to be here, I was never supposed to be here this long,” Jon protested. He didn’t seem as upset as they were all getting. He shoved his hands deeper into his pockets, his voice rising. “Look I was only supposed to be here for a little bit while my mum was…”
“Blowing up supply lines and getting arrested?” Arya interrupted. She blinked her eyes quickly; Dany wanted to reach for her because Arya never cried. She shouted louder now. “We let you stay with us! You can’t just leave!”
He rolled his eyes. “Fuck off it Arya, none of you wanted me here.”
“Yes, we do!” It was Dany now. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Jon had been part of their lives for the last year and a half and now he was just going to abandon them!? It was unconscionable!
#jonerys#jonerys au#my fics#jonerys fanfic#a Jonerys Derry Girls AU lol#CRAIC killer!#you’re a prick that’s what you are!#Erika’s gorgeous moodboards!
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Listen people can feel uncomfortable with whatever but the honest disrespect of putting Scooby Doo on Zombie Island on that list? I mean how dare you consider putting any on it but I loved that one. Also people in that server had it out for billie eilish huh?
god I know right. the fact that Scooby fucking Doo of all things is on there... I think it's because it's about zombies, because "zombies" is its own entry on the blacklist, but like... the fact that it's on there but no other zombie movie is? it's hilarious because it really does look like somebody mentioned that movie in the course of a normal conversation and whoever requested it scuttled off to a mod behind their back and was like "put this on the list it mentions ZOMBIES!!" and the mod did and then the conversation got shut down because of this one person who just... couldn't leave for five minutes until the one single reference was over and the conversation moved on.
source: have seen this happen multiple times. like. just click out of the channel for five seconds king. there's no need to get an entire topic blacklisted and turn it into a 15-minute long comfort session. it was one reference.
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Yeah! I mean, obviously, I totally agree I’d die for her as well, but I’m also conscious of the fact we’ve only known her, like, two days. This is a bit weird that she’s invited us to her house at night. She’s a teacher.
Derry Girls, 2x02 - Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague
#derry girls#derry girls: season 2#derry girls: 2x02#nicola coughlan#clare devlin#jamie lee o'donnell#michelle mallon#saoirse monica jackson#erin quinn#louisa harland#orla mccool#dylan llewellyn#james maguire#craic killer#irish tv
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girl you sure you aren't sending all those asks to yourself ?
bitch, you think i'm mental? 😭😭
#i'd think it too i get it#lmao#idk what's happening today tbh#but like why be a craic killer tho#ask#mean anon#i wouldn't post this if i were#.......or did i just blow up my cover#cjclidigjfkasghkgk
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Hello, I need your opinion on something if you don't mind. I wanted to ask you long time ago when I first found your blog but I forgot so sorry if this feels random. feel free to ignore this
During the scene where John Franklin was dying he had flashbacks of Francis Crozier and his niece. But it was odd that during his final moment he remembered a scene between two people who loved each other instead of remembering his own wife or at least remembering something that involved him. was there a point of that scene that I simply didn't understand?
hello! thanks for your question. the great thing about the terror is that it lets you draw your own conclusions instead of giving answers outright. sir john's flashes are interesting. before his death he sees 1) the hallway where john ross berated him about his lack of a rescue plan, 2) his feet, exact time unknown, and 3) francis and sophia.
to me, sir john's last visions were about regret. he ignored ross's warning about the ships being ice-locked. in that conversation, ross said, "you'll eat your shoes again. you'll eat worse," which tied in neatly to sir john's vision of his naked feet, a callback to his previous arctic expedition where a gross lack of preparation and poor planning led him to eating his own boots.
following that reasoning, the vision of francis and sophia clandestinely holding hands was also about regret. maybe sir john regretted underestimating francis for his niece, and subsequently, underestimating francis's advice. had sir john followed francis's advice to go for broke, maybe they would never have been beset.
sir john had no such regrets with lady jane. as far as we're shown, their relationship was fond and cordial, and he went off on the voyage with her full blessing.
that's just my take. really, it could be ANYTHING. maybe he saw feet because he'd just lost his feet. maybe the white ice just reminded him of the hallway. maybe he, uh, just hated himself for not allowing his niece and his friend their happy ending. god, he's such a craic killer. the interpretation is up for grabs!
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Clare Devlin in Derry Girls
“I am not a craic killer!”
Erin I Orla I Michelle I James
#clare devlin#clare devlin moodboard#clare devlin aesthetic#derry girls#derry girls aesthetic#derry girls moodboard#derrygirlsedit#derry girls series#juliasofia..
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I still think about the person on twitter who thought that Pennywise was living in Derry, Ireland every waking second of my life.
If I think about a Derry Girls au too long, I literally pass out. It’s like, what if the Losers were 8 times stupider and more chaotic? It’s all I’ve ever wanted!!
Like I don’t even know how you would even plot this fic out? Literally all 5 of them would encounter Pennywise and immediately scream and try to hit him with the nearest object?? Like Pennywise would starve to death in Derry. All the kids would throw hands the second they saw him.
“Are ye saying you saw a clown, Michelle?”
“Aye, it was a fecking clown, Claire.”
“But, clowns aren’t even scary!”
“Aye, I know that, and I told the wee bastard as much, then he grew a bunch of fangs, like, total cracker actually if ye think about it.”
“Have none of you considered that a grown man dressed like a clown hiding in the sewers who wants to eat children might be something to take at least a little bit seriously?!?”
“Ach, seriously, fuck off James, go be a craic killer somewhere else!”
“Have ye considered James that maybe the clown is more afeared of us, than we are a him?”
“No, Orla, I hadn’t considered that, thank you.”
“Okay girls, I think we’re all missing the point here! You said that he grew fangs!??! Are you sure you weren’t just a wee bit blackout drunk?!”
“Well to be fair, I was boking all over myself, Erin, to be sure, yeah.”
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“What’s this I hear about a man dressed like a clown in the sewers?”
“But da you don’t think our Erin is daft enough to play in the sewers do ye?”
“I’m sure it’s just an urban legend, Joe.”
“You watch your tone with me boy! I’ll not have some wee Southern shite tell me what’s real and what’s myth!”
“I tell ya it’s real! As real as my right hand, swear to God!”
“Erin! I don’t want you goin anywhere near no man approachin wains dressed like a clown!”
“But don’t you think the whole affair of dressing up as a clown like, is a wee bit... gay? Uh- I mean no offense son.”
“Still not gay!”
#If I were better at writing in that accent#I would absolutely do it#derry girls#it movie#it chapter 1#it chapter 2#it 2016#it 2017#it chapter one#it chapter two#the losers club#claire devlin#erin quinn#orla mccool#michelle mallon#james maguire#mary quinn#gerry quinn#grandda joe#aunt sarah#pennywise#pennywise the dancing clown
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Riordanverse Characters as out of context Derry Girls
Jack: Now, whatever you do, don't forget the Grease Megamix
Sadie: Protestants hate ABBA
Piper: I don't really believe in lesbians
Sally: Why were you pissing on her dead body and making sandwiches?
Sadie: We're not abducting him, Carter, we're... kidnapping him
Alex: Mmmh. Tastes a bit like blood
Magnus: Swear! Swear on Dolly [pointing at a shrine to Dolly Parton]
Lester: EXPAND AND EXPLAIN EXPAND AND EXPLAIN
Leo: Fuck-a-doodle-do!
Apollo, to Meg: THERE IS MORE CHANCE OF ME ELOPING WITH YOUR FATHER TO A FLIP FLOP SHOP IN HAWAI'I
Samirah: Oh my god it's the polar bear
Magnus: I am psychic, Annabeth. I did a course. I got a certificate
Jason: This isn't Windolene, this is mayonnaise
Piper: LESBIANS REALLY DO EXIST
Zia: I do enjoy a good statue, it has to be said
Thalia: Why in under god weren't you writing from the soul!
Alex: JESUS CHRIST
Lavinia: Can you not get Protestant lesbians?
Clarisse: Who put 50p in the eejit?
Silena: I AM NOT A CRAIC KILLER
Luke: Am I in hell? [yes he is]
Luke: I AM NOT LETTING THAT FAT FURRY FUCK RUIN THE BIGGEST DAY OF MY LIFE
Percy: SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'VE GONE THROUGH THE FUCKING LOOKING GLASS
#tw swearing#tw religion#tw caps#tw homophobia#tw sectarianism#pjo#percy jackson and the olympians#percy jackson and the olympians incorrect quotes#pjo incorrect quotes#tkc incorrect quotes#tkc#kane chronicles#kane chronicles incorrect quotes#mcga#mcga incorrect quotes#magnus chase and the gods of asgard#magnus chase and the gods of asgard incorrect quotes#magnus chae#sadie kane#carter kane#zia rashid#percy jackson#piper mclean#percabeth#annabeth chase#luke castellan#silena beauregard#clarisse la rue#lavinia asimov#hoo
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Jess Watches // Fri 26 Jan // Day 126 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll
The Expanse (rw with mum) 2x05 Home
The asteroid Eros takes direct collision course towards Earth. The Rocinante chases it. As last defense Earth launches missiles against Eros. Miller went inside Eros and makes a surprising discovery.
" You're going to negotiate with a girl who thinks she's a space station?" The seriousness in which this is said never fails to make me laugh. Holden and Miller putting aside their differences for the greater good. Both making the toughest decisions. And good thing Chrisjen has the braincell and knows to tell Mars that their weapons launch isn't a call to war. The scene with her husband had me tearing up. 😥
Derry Girls (rw with mum) 2x02 Ms De Brún and the Child of Prague
A new English teacher arrives at Our Lady Immaculate, and the girls find themselves inspired.
"Her name’s Ms. De Brún. She’s a bit of a bitch, but... cracking eyeliner." You were only here for one ep but you looked so hot while you let the wains hit balls and drink wine. And Orla being delighted at the compliment about her drawing of a dog, compared to their devastation at getting James's eye colour wrong in her portrait of him. Also, let it be known that Clare Devlin is not a craic killer!
Criminal Record 1x04 Protected
Pressure mounts on June from all sides as she makes a breakthrough in Errol's case.
Why are the only two Black detectives fighting each other when they should be unionizing! Their boss is spineless and I think he might be the ultimate evil on the show. And is Hegarty covering for his friends while technically not having done anything wrong? Idk, he seems a more complex fellow.
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Is really shite craic just asscraic?
I’m cackling lmao I have never heard this one before but you bet your ass that it’s gonna be now!!
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Wimsey Eleven
You were right the beginning was great craic. loved getting all the different perspectives about the wedding/wedding arrangements. Loved Bunter's speech about the nuptuals. Loved how both bunter and harriet were worrying themselves about how they'd get on with each other <3
Bunter had some Great moments all through this one, but poor old boy, he had some stressful times. I'm also now even more convinced of Fae!Bunter
Abominable lack of Parker
harriet and peter continue to be absolutely delightful together both with romance and crime detection and I do hope you get through this book cause at the end theres some heart wrenching moments between them and it's great and sweet and it hurts.
More peter feeling bad for solving the crime and condemning the killer, this time with added guilt for involving his wife and brief conflict between the two because of his feeling obligated to out all evidence. He's got such strong morals (regarding murder at least) and it kinda feels like he wishes he didnt, especially when he knows his detective work leads to folks death, even when they are guilty.
on that cheerful note!
thanks for having put me onto these books, theyre just brilliant
aaah so i actually did finish it the other day! i mean, i skipped over every bit of actual detecting because i really did not care for the mystery in this one, and largely skim-read the rest but i did get to the end haha and ohhh what an ending <3 definitely not my fave and felt a lot like post-canon fanfic where they're just being in love and talking about their relationship a lot. not bad per se, but i didn't feel any real tension or interest. the ending was absolutely hear-wrenching though, and good boy bunter got some cracking moments! appalled ofc at abject lack of parker, though i do love that his only mention is him cheerfully informing horrible helen that one of peter's wedding guests used to be a burglar. absolute troll charles parker. also love that helen says in her letter at the start, "Mary's policeman was bad enough, but he is, at any rate, quiet and well behaved" like idk i just live for the idea of him keeping his mouth shut and making nice and then quietly making the most blisteringly bitchy comments to mary with a completely straight face.
im so glad you've enjoyed them, they're marvellous aren't they!
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The OG List
Alright folks. Lets try this out. Below is the current list of movies/TV Shows that have been suggested by the folks of Karate Nerds Facebook group. I am trying to find out:
which ones are good,
which are bad and not worth watching,
which are bad but still worth watching, which are just good craic / fun.
If you know where I could find them, like on a specific streaming service.
What type of martial art is featured.
If there are any good ones that have been missed!
So if you know any of the above information or think the list is missing something please let me know!
13 assassins
14 blades
2 Champions of Shaolin
3 Evil Masters, AKA The Master
3 ninjas
36th Chamber of Shaolin
8th Diagram Pole Fighter
A Touch of Zen
Above the law (Nico). (grappling and Aikido)
All dragon dynasty franchise is good
Ame agaru
American Ninja
Armour of God
Avatar the last airbender
Batman begins
Battle creek brawl(Jackie Chan)
Battle Wizard
Best of The Best
Billy Jack
Black Belt Jones
Black eagle
Blade 1 (Wesley snipes -shotokan)
Blade 2
Blade 3
Blind fury
Blood and Bone (Michael Jai White)
Bloodfist with Don Wilson
Bloodsport
Bulletproof Monk.
China O'Brien 1
China O'Brien 2
Chocolate
Chocolate (Jeeja Yanin)
Cinta negra
Circle of Iron
City Hunter (Jackie Chan)
City of Violence
Clan of the White Lotus
Come Drink With Me
Conan the barbarian
cradle 2 the grave
Crime story
Crippled Avengers
Crippled Masters
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon - sword of destiny
Dance of the Drunk Mantis
Dead or Alive
Dragon blade
Dragon fist
Dragon Gate Inn
Dragon Lord
Dragon the Bruce Lee story
Dragon Tiger Gate
Dragons forever
Drunken Master (Jackie Chan)
Drunken master 2
Drunken Tai Chi
Enter the Dragon
Enter the fat dragon
Enter the Ninja
Enter the Ninja
Executioners From Shaolin
Fearless
Fighter in the wind
Fist of legend
Fist of Legend
fist of the north star
Fists of Fury
Five Deadly Venoms
Five Element Ninjas, AKA Chinese Super Ninjas
Five Fingers of Death", AKA "King Boxer" starring Lo Leih
Flash point
Fong Sai-Yuk 1-2
Foot Fist Way.
Force of one
Gorgeous (Jackie chan)
HaraKiri
Hard target
Hard to Kill
Hero (Jet Li)
Heroes among heroes
Heroes of the East, AKA Shaolin Challenges Ninja
Heros of the East with Gordon Liu
High Kick Girl,
House of flying Daggers
Ip Man 1
Ip Man 2
Ip Man 3
Ip Man 4
IRON MONKEY (1993 w/Donnie Yen)
Iron monkey 2
Jet Li Fist of Legend
Jim Kelly
John Wick 1
John Wick 2
John Wick 3
John Wick 4
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
Karate bomber man.
Karate Girl
Karate kid 1
Karate kid 2
Karate kid 3
Karate killer
Kata girl
Kickboxer
Kid With the Golden Arm
Kill and Kill Again,
Kill and Kill,
Kill Bill 1
Kill Bill 2
Kill Zone - SPL
King of Kickboxers
King of the kickboxers 2: American Shaolin
Kiss of the Dragon
Kiss the dragon
Knockabout
Kung Fu - starring David Carradine (old tv series)
Kung Fu cult master
Kung fu hustle
Kung Pow
Kung-fu Panda
Kung-fu pilot
Kuro-Obi (Tatsuya Naka)
Lady bloodfight
Last hero in China
Last Hurrah For Chivalry
Legacy of Rage
LEGEND OF A FIGHTER with Yasuaki Kurata
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Legendary Weapons of China
Love on delivery
Mad Monkey Kung Fu
Magnificent Butcher
Man of Tai Chi (Keanu Reeves/Tiger Chen)
Martial arts of Shaolin
Martial Club
Martial law
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Master with cracked fingers
Matrix Resurrections
Matrix.
Miami Connection
Mr. Vampire
Mulan
My lucky stars
Mystery of Chessboxing, AKA Ninja Checkmate
Never back down
Never back down 2
New legend of Shaolin aka Red Dragon with Jet Lee
Ninja (Scott Adkins -2009)
Ninja 2
Ninja 3
Ninja assasin
Ninja III: The Domination
Ninja in the dragon den
Ninja Terminator
No retreat no surrender
No retreat no surrender 2
On the strong.
Once upon a time in China 1
Once upon a time in China 2
Once upon a time in China 3
Once upon a time in China 4
Once upon a time in China 5
Once upon a time in China 6
One-armed Boxer
One-Armed Swordsman
Ong Bak 1
Ong Bak 2
Ong Bak 3
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
Only the Strong
Painted faces (documentary)
Paper tigers
Perfect weapon.
Police Story - Jakie Chan
Pray for death
Project A
Project A part 2
Rage of honor
Rapid fire
Red Cliff
Redbelt
Remo Williams
Revenge of the Ninja
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Ring of Fire
Roaring fire.
Romeo must die - Jet Li
Rumble in the Bronx
Rurouni Kenshin
seven samurai
Seven swords
Shang chi
Shang chi and the legend of the 10 rings
Shaolin
Shaolin Assassin
Shaolin Soccer
Shaolin temple
Shaolin wooden men
shodown in little tokyo.
Shootfighter
Shugun ninja
Sidekicks (Chuck Norris)
Sister Street Fighter
Snake in eagles shadow
Spiritual Kung fu
Street fighter
Surf ninjas
Sword of Doom
Sword Stained With Royal Blood
Swordsman
Tai chi Hero
Tai chi legend? #3 in series
TAI CHI MASTER (1993 w/jet Lee)
Tai chi zero
Tai Chi Zero
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I, II, and III
The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
The Accountant
The armour of God
The Art of Self Defense.
The blade
The bodyguard 1
The bodyguard 2
The Brave Archer
The Bride With White Hair
The Bulletproof Monk
The Cave of Silken Web
the Chinese Boxer
The crow
The Duel
The Fighters 3: No Surrender
The Foreigner (Jackie Chan),
The incredible Kung fu master
The inspector wear skirts
The Invincible Armour
The Iron fisted monk
The Last Dragon
The last samurai
The legend of muay Thai (a Thai movie)
The legend of Zu
The man from Hong kong, Jimmy Wang Yu
The master
The night comes for us
The Octogan, Chuck Norris
The perfect weapon
The Prodigal Son
The quest
The Raid
The Raid 2
The Raid 2: Derendal
The Raid: Redemption
the Sensei
The Transporter
The Victim
The way of the dragon
The Yakuza
The young master
They still call me Bruce
Tiger and Dragon (Jet Li)
Tiger Claws with Cynthia Rothrock and
Tom-Yum-Goong, AKA The Protector
Twilight Samurai
Underdog kids
Undisputed (4 films)
Unleashed
Warrior (Bruce Lee idea) Series created by Justin Lin and Shannon Lee
Warriors two
Wheels on meals
Wing Chun
Winners and sinners
Wu Assassins (TV show)
Wu Dang
Wushu Warrior
Yamada: The Samurai of Ayothaya
Zatoichi
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
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