#Edward IS the diamond

[renesmeenahresume]

I Can Just Imagine This Is What Edward Does Whenever The Chorus Comes On

[vorpalfae]

༺ 𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 ༻

Wednesday Addams - Addams Family Values (1993)

Kim Diamond - Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Nancy Downs - The Craft (1996)

Elvira - Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

Lydia Deetz - Beetlejuice (1988)

Eric Draven - The Crow (1994)

Vampira (Vampire Girl) - Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

Morticia Addams - The Addams Family (1991)

Edward - Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Angela Franklin - Night of the Demons (1988)

[cosmosnout]

Them

[dive-into-shadows]

Akira had been left on his own. He wasn't quite sure why Iwao had gone to the Speed, but he was here now, absentmindedly waiting in the small, secure waiting area with some random child bailing incoherent questions at him while he nodded [poorly-drawn-akira]

Down at the holding cells...

Eddie was still in his cell at the moment. He'd been playing nice, he'd been enduring his imprisonment here, he lied to some of the therapists so far, all he has to do is keep this up.

[wysteriaisapenguin]

Edward, Henry, and Gordon all shine bright like diamonds. But Thomas is just a diamond in the rough.

Based on this image by @blueart2001

[dive-into-shadows]

Sota was very rattled as he approached Eddie's cell a few hours after... Current events. [poorly-drawn-akira]

Eddie was just... laid out on the floor.

[roseofstardust]

Charles Bukowski // Taste of Cherry (1997) // Atticus // The Lonely ~ Christina Perri // Loneliness ~ Evgeny Matveev // Lonely Hearts Club ~ MARINA // Hannah Nelson // The Conversation ~ Edward Hopper

[dianessunflower]

BTS of Elsbeth 2x04 "Elsbeth Flips the Bird" featuring guest stars Pamela Adlon, Laura Benanti and Micaela Diamond

[jimmyspades]

[framemygazepls]

Why are teens climbing into bedroom windows?

A video essay I made on the trope of teens climbing into bedroom windows in film and tv! Here’s the hyperlink! While I think there can be positives to the trope, in this video essay, I discuss how the trope can perpetuate some problematic myths about romance and consent.

[metalsongoftheday]

Friday, June 14: Van Halen, "On Fire"

R.I.P. Edward Van Halen (1955-2020)

Van Halen’s first record was one of the select few in recorded history that functioned as a ready-made greatest hits album: after a solid four years of backyard gigs and ruling the Sunset Strip, Van Halen was the sound of four locked-in dudes who knew exactly what they were aiming for and were fully formed as an entity.  There was not a single wasted moment, and Ted Templeman’s production was full-on lightning in a bottle magic- these songs didn’t so much play as burst out of speakers, so much so that even a presumable throwaway like “On Fire” roared with the lifeforce of 3,000 parties.  David Lee Roth caterwauled more than sang, but his antics were in full lockstep with Eddie Van Halen’s monumental riffing, shredding and squealing- over 45 years later, there is still something shocking about all of this.  And while Alex Van Halen would get more adventurous as a drummer soon enough, he was in perfect sync with his brother and Michael Anthony’s steady bass.  There was way too much life in here to be contained, which likely explained why “On Fire” was less a song and more of an explosion.

[nerds-yearbook]

Appendix M on film

Bernard Lee - Dr No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man With a Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979)

John Huston (McTarry/M) - Casino Royale (1967)

Edward Fox - Never Say Never Again (1983)

Geoffrey Keen (as Minister of Defence) - For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Robert Brown - Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), The Living Daylights (1987) Licence to Kill (1989)

Judi Dench - GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), Die Another Day (2002), Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012)

Ralph Fiennes - Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), No Time to Die (2021)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Best Leonardo DiCaprio movies and performances:

1. Inception - Christopher Nolan (2010)

2. The Departed - Martin Scorsese (2006)

3. Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (2012)

4. Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese (2010)

5. The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese (2013)

6. Catch Me If You Can - Steven Spielberg (2002)

7. Blood Diamond - Edward Zwick (2006)

8. The Revenant - Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)

9. Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese (2023)

10. Titanic - James Cameron (1997)

[vox-anglosphere]

The Diamond Jubilee Regatta at Spithead - by Charles Edward Dixon

[jessicanjpa]

glimpse

(A sad little snippet from 1950 in which Edward sheepishly asks Alice if she's seen anyone special in his future. In this scene, he's taking her ring shopping since she and Jasper just got married. Feeling unusually wistful in this chapter, he's even dug the heart-shaped diamond out of his mother's jewelry box and brought it along.)

"This one for me, and this one for J—for my fiancée," Alice announced, handing two rings to the jeweler. He went into the back to resize them.

"It's all right to say his name," I said in amusement.

I didn't want you to get crabby again.

"I'm sorry," I sighed. "I didn't mean it."

"I know," she said lightly. "But I really am trying to learn. I just never spent much time interacting with humans, that's all."

"Why not? You seem to like being around them, even more than the rest of us do."

She shrugged. "I didn't want to miss anything, you know? Between Jasper and the rest of you, my visions kept me pretty busy most of the time. Especially when you were all in different places, or traveling. I just sort of lived through all of you. And besides, I look too young to sign up for anything by myself, like school or an apartment or a job."

I nodded, my hand slipping into my pocket. I took out the diamond heart, rubbing my thumb over it thoughtfully. All those years alone with her visions… surely she had seen something, if there was anything to see. I opened my mouth to ask, but shut it again. It felt I was intruding on something. What if Alice could literally find her and see what she was doing right now, like she had been able to find the rest of us before? Would that be wrong, or would it be wonderful? Even if I wasn't destined to meet up with her soon, as it had been with Alice and Jasper, maybe I could at least hear her voice, catch a glimpse of her profile. How would she feel, someday, if she found out that I had been… watching her?

Alice gently took the diamond out of my hand, turning it around and around in her own. "Well?"

"Well, what?"

Are you going to ask me or not? You've been changing your mind back and forth all day.

I looked down at the diamond, grateful she had taken the decision from me… and disappointed, because I already had my answer. I finally lifted my eyes, watching her face carefully. "I'm guessing from your lack of enthusiasm that you don't have much to tell me."

"Nothing. I'm sorry."

I sighed, leaning my elbows back against the glass counter. It was a harder blow than I had expected. I hadn't even thought to hope for this twenty-four hours ago, but now it felt like a part of me was being taken away. "Have you…" I began, feeling suddenly very foolish. "Have you tried? I mean, I know there wasn't anyone with me in the Family Portrait, but have you looked, you know, on purpose?"

"What would I look for? I can't tell my visions to skip ahead to Edward's Wedding Day. It doesn't work like that."

"I know that," I said quietly. "But what if you just looked into my future, as far as you could? Just to see?"

"It doesn't work like that," she repeated, her eyes softening with pity. "You don't have a future. You have hundreds, and at the same time you have none. Almost nothing solid is there to see, yet, and at the same time, there are so many possibilities it all blurs together. A vision gets formed as decisions are made, both by you and by the people that affect your future—all the way from Carlisle, whose job decides where we'll live next, to the person who's going to invent whatever gadget you'll be fiddling with in twenty years."

"It's not always like that," I said impatiently. "You saw Esme, and Emmett and Rosalie, long before Carlisle decided to turn them. You saw yourself with Jasper long before either of you made any decisions that would bring you together."

"That's different. Being with Jasper was always my destiny. And being in the family was always our destiny."

"How is this any different? If she…" My throat tightened, and the ache in my chest deepened as I felt my hope begin to die. "If she was destined to be your sister, just like Rosalie was, wouldn't there be a way for you to see her? Through your own future, if not mine?"

"It doesn't—"

"Stop saying that!" I hissed, my chest aching harder. "Could you just try, please?" I ran my fingers through my hair. "I'm sorry. I know it's not as cut and dried as all that. I'm just… I have to know, if I can. So… please, just try, all right?"

Alice sighed, closing her eyes. I latched fully onto her mind and we flew forward in time together. Almost immediately the pictures began to blur, to dance around wildly until there were so many colors that everything faded to white. Sorry, that's not going to work. She backed up, going more slowly. We saw picture after picture of me, doing the things I always did: playing the piano, hunting, studying, walking in the streets of nameless towns, driving a car. Then I was driving a different car. I was studying in a classroom with an unknown mountain range visible out the window, though the mountain range blinked and changed shape three times. I was in another car now, inserting some kind of gray rectangle into the radio. I was playing another piano. I was reading a book. I was sitting at a desk, typing on what looked like a television and a typewriter glued together. I was wrestling with Emmett. I was sitting in class, and everyone's clothes looked wrong. I was playing yet another piano. Alice seemed to be focusing on my left hand, especially in the piano visions. It was always empty.

It ended the same way as before. No matter how hard Alice tried to keep a grip on the visions, they eventually swirled together in a bland mush of possible futures. She started over again, but our eyes opened when we heard the clerk's footsteps coming toward us.

"There we are," he said cheerfully, brandishing the rings. Alice tried hers on and declared it a perfect fit. I tried on Jasper's, which was just a bit loose, as it should be. I frowned down at the sight; I had never worn any kind of ring before. And just now, I had distinctly seen my hand continue to be ringless for any number of decades. I jerked the ring back off, giving it to Alice with a curt nod of approval. It was silly to think that the ring was mocking me, but that was what it felt like.

Alice held the diamond heart out to the clerk. "And we'd like to see about getting this set in a necklace," she told him. His eyes were just beginning to widen when I snatched the diamond out of her hand, shoving it back into my pocket.

Alice frowned. "I thought you—"

"Forget it."

.

.

"It doesn't mean anything," Alice insisted as we drove home. She played with her new rings, fascinated by the light reflecting off the diamond. "Maybe she wasn't in the Portrait because she wasn't born yet. The others already were. It doesn't mean she won't come."

"I know," I said stiffly, staring out at the road ahead. "I know that."

"And besides," she added, "most people don't have visions. They just have hope, you know? You just have to believe it'll happen. Of course it'll happen. Someday." Someone as wonderful as you… it has to happen. I know it will.

I nodded, refusing to turn and look at the pity in her eyes. Someday. It was no more than I had had before.

Why, then, did it suddenly feel like less?

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[dive-into-shadows]

"hello," a rather small voice gently prodded Eddie from outside the cell. [poorly-drawn-akira]

Eddie seemed caught off guard by the small voice, as his head perked up. "Who's there?"