#Jean Vargas

[v7n5]

Doodled to make sure that I still know how to draw (it's only been 3 weeks)

I read 1 (one) well-written fic of Carla Jean x Anton and now I'm crazy about them too.

Not a single day passes without me losing my mind (over fictional characters)

[stunningcurvess]

[bullet-prooflove]

A quick round up of updates on the blog including new characters added to the ASK LIST and a list of fics that went out last week:

New Fics:

Chicago Med:

Emergency Contact - You realise you don't have anyone to put down as an emergency contact. (Sean Archer x Reader)

Don't Look Back - After running into you at the hospital Sam tries to convince himself not to look back.

Couples Counselling - Sam and you start to date again after couple's counselling.

Right Here, Right Now - Crockett doesn't need anymore than you can give.

Emergency Contact - You help Mitch out in a tricky situation.

Cobra Kai:

Self Defence - You wake up in the middle of the night with John Kreese's hands locked around your throat.

Failure - Terry makes a decision regarding your home in the aftermath of what happened with Kreese.

I Do - Terry gives you his mother's ring in a chapel in Tuscany.

Paper Airplanes - Terry begins to consider starting a family.

Summer School - Daniel's excited to meet Anthony's new art teacher.

Criminal Minds:

Empty Drawer - Will will do anything to get you to stay.

Lily Blossom - Will makes a realisation during your first night together.

FBI:

Yours - Omar realises that you still belong to each other after all this time.

FBI Most Wanted:

The Worst Type of Asshole - Remy apologises for his behaviour.

Haven:

Sedated - Your Trouble causes issues when the doctors try to help with your injuries. (Dwight Hendrickson x Reader)

Stars (NSFW) - You and Duke spend a night under the stars.

Law & Order:

All I Want Is You - Mike reveals his feelings after he makes a mistake.

Mayans:

Silver (NSFW) - You discover Neron has a piercing.

The Musketeers:

In Sickness & in Health - Athos tries to look after you when the sickness moves through Paris.

The Most Dangerous Woman in France - Even on your wedding day you are still the most dangerous woman in Paris. (Treville x Reader)

NCIS:

Not Yet - Jimmy doesn't want you to come just yet.

Rainy Mornings - Nick wishes he could stay in bed with you on a rainy Washington morning.

NCIS - LA:

Name Your Prize - AJ asks you to name your prize during a race.

NCIS New Orleans:

The Cutest Damn Thing - LaSalle realises he's in love.

Second Fiddle (feat: Douglas Hamilton) - You finally end things with Douglas.

The Rookie:

One Woman - There's only been one woman that Tim's been thinking about these past few years.

Culpability - John tries to reach out after he finds out about Robert Ortiz.

Late Night Wine - Wade wakes up the morning after on the floor in your living room.

The Rookie Feds:

Time (NSFW) - You and Matt don't want to waste any more time

Supernatural:

Sweet Dreams - Dean thinks about how this all started.

Deals With the Devil (feat: Michael)- You wake up with an angel in your bed.

Top Gun Maverick:

Something About You - There's just something about you that makes Jake want to settle down.

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Northport Journal, February 4, 1954

[themidcenturyscene]

Several ads, 1940s, 1950s

Top left: 1943 ad "Gala, The Liveliest Lipstick in Town". "CHARACTER

A WOMAN'S LIPS are a key to her character, and to-day lips have a firmer and more resolute line, for they shape words of command, laugh at danger, and with a smile suppress weariness and pain. A little lipstick gives added character to the mouth and added self-confidence to the wearer. It is for this reason that the makers of gala continue to manufacture this famous lipstick and suggest that its use in moderation is an asset to our wartime morale."

Top right: 1943 Vargas pin-up girl, "New Jergens Face Powder." "Be his Pin-up Girl!

If you have the ivory-toned brunette coloring of this Pin-Up girl by Vargas, the shade for you is Jergens New 'Rachel.' To waken the true loveliness of your complexion… to glorify your skin-tones and give you the same glamorous look of Vargas brunette 'Pin-up' beauties…

Star his head a-whirl… wear the shade meant for YOU in New Jergens Face Powder.

Today, it's the Pin-up Girl who's making men sigh and get thoughts of romance. And that man-captivating 'pin-up girl look' is yours… when you wear Jergens Face Powder. Yes, it's those Alix-styled shades… blended for Jergens alone… to bring new beauty to your skin tones. And… it's the texture of Jergens Face Powder, too. Velvetized by an exclusive process. To camouflage tiny lines and skin faults… to help your complexion have that flawless, young look. Result: a lovelier you. Your face so fragrantly smooth… enticing invitation to a kiss.

Choose your Jergens shade… for that 'Pin-up Girl Look'

Naturelle… flower-pretty shade for delicate, light blonde skin tones.

Rachel… Cool, glamorous… for ivory toned skin, whether blonde, brunette or redhead.

Peach Bloom… colorful shade for honey-skin blondes… or any complexion with rosy undertones.

Dark Rachel… exquisitely vibrant shade for light brunette skin tones.

Brunette… exotic, dramatic shade for tawny brunette skin tones.

Southern Rose… darling, luscious! For brunette or deep blonde skin tones, tinged with gold.

Big Boudoir Box , $1.00 try-it sizes, 25c, 10c."

Bottom left: 1951 photograph by Penn. "With the arrival of Summer, black and white are the fashion, and the make-up becomes stronger and with greater contrast. The eyes, the lips and the nails -- which are often the only elements of colour of the ensemble -- are emphasized with bold strokes. Make your eye-brows darker, draw the contours of your lips. Now is the time to use your eyeliners and lip pencils, your battery of brushes and -- this season's novelty -- to file your long nails into a sharp point, like the model in the photograph."

Bottom right: 1950 Blumenfeld photo. "Beauty during the 1950s: the 'look of gazelle,' invented by Piguet in Paris. It could turn out to be a novelty as exciting as the introduction of lipstick in the 1920s."

Scanned and quoted from Bronwen Meredith's "Vogue Body and Beauty Book" 1977.

[andersholmvikbootysex]

innervisions

[wanderingaldecaldo]

These two are opposites in so many ways. While Travis will fuck anything that moves, Tony tries to correct the record about rumors of his escapades and no one believes him.

[rapha-reads]

Allô, y a t'il des lecteurs de Fred Vargas dans le coin ?

Hello, anybody reading Fred Vargas?

Non parce que je viens de finir d'une traite le tout nouveau Adamsberg, Sur La Dalle, et j'ai vraiment envie de parler de notre commissaire, de Louis, Violette, toute la bande, de cette nouvelle enquête tarabiscotée et brillante...

No, cuz, I just finished binge-reading the whole new Adamsberg, and I really want to talk about our police chief, Louis, Violette, and the whole Brigade, and this new convoluted and brilliant investigation...

Et aussi demander à la populace pourquoi il n'y a pas plus de fic Adamsberg/Veyrenc. Je suis sérieuse, 2 fics seulement sur AO3, j'ai recherché sur le web et rien d'autre, alors que le potentiel de ce ship, s'il-vous-plaît !

And also wanna ask the crowd why there's not more Adamsberg/Veyrenc works! Seriously, only 2 fics on AO3, and I went searching on the web, nothing more, even though this ship has so much potential!

Et d'ailleurs pour ceux qui ont lu Sur la dalle [I don't think it has been translated in English yet, so I'm not translating this part, but if you're interested in my thoughts on Adamsberg/Veyrenc, send me an ask] , on en parle, de l'immense naturel de Jean-Baptiste pour admirer paisiblement ses collègues hommes ? Comme dans chaque bouquin depuis son arrivée, pas mal de passages sur la beauté de Veyrenc (Jean-Bapt ton crush is showing), et là, le nombre de réflexions qu'il se fait sur le commissaire Matthieu... De l'autre côté, le Matthieu en question est en pâmoison devant Adamsberg aussi, faut le dire. C'était fascinant.

Et dans ce dernier volume, pas de spoilers, mais le seul perso qui soit systématiquement sur la même longueur d'ondes que Adamsberg est Veyrenc. Il n'y a pas un seul moment où il est dubitatif, ou critique, non, au contraire. Ils n'ont définitivement pas assez de "scènes" rien qu'eux deux, mais chacune de leurs conversations en solo ou de leurs interactions devant le reste des personnages les présentent comme étant totalement synchronisés et évoquent leur très longue histoire commune. J'aurais tellement aimé que Vargas nous donne plus d'interactions entre eux deux. Il y a deux passages en particulier qui m'ont rendu folle, le passage du taureau et le passage du "film d'Adamsberg", ceux qui ont lu le livre sauront de quoi je parle.

Bref. Six ans d'attente avant le prochain tome de nouveau ? Je sens que je vais craquer et finir par écrire mes propres "chapitres manquants"... Alleeeez les gars, qu'on remplisse ce tag un peu, à vos stylos et vos claviers ! Je suis sûre que beaucoup d'entre vous peuvent être inspirés.

Anyway. Six more years before the next book again? I feel like I'm going to snap and end up writing my own missing scenes... C'mon guys, let's fill up that tag! I'm sure so many of you could be super inspired.

[arte-mis-t]

If anyone still needs convincing that Adamsberg and Danglard are married - just look at the latest evidence

"You have everything you need for the 11am meeting"

"Except you," whispered Danglard.

"How do you know?"

"When you care about something, I get information."

"Danglard sent me a quote about that," said Adamsberg, "he sends me those all the time."

Commissioner Adamsberg sent Danglard some photos of the place [...]

"MY COMMANDER DANGLARD"

[watchingalotofmovies]

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose    [trailer]

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

It's not subtle, good and evil are clearly marked. The location is a plus.

It's hard not to think of Sherlock Holmes when listening to wise-cracking Connery. I think at one point he even uses the word "elementary". It's entertaining, but it also feels a little out of place compared with the rest of the film.

Who stood out for me was Ron Perlman. He gave a surprising performance.

I liked the conclusion that it's important to be able to laugh at the powerful. You have to mock and ridicule them.

[cantsayidont]

THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986): Long, disappointingly unfocused, frequently unappetizing adaptation of the Umberto Eco novel, starring Sean Connery as the impishly named Brother William of Baskerville, a highly intellectual Franciscan monk of the 13th century who visits a Benedictine monastery with his young novice Adso (Christian Slater), hoping to find a mundane explanation for a series of mysterious deaths before the Church sends in an inquisitor (F. Murray Abraham) to look for demonic scapegoats.

It starts off well, but it loses focus on the mystery with an extended late second-act shift into the evils of the Inquisition and schisms in the Church, which so derails the plot that the movie never recovers, rendering the eventual solution to the mystery something of a damp squib. Connery is marvelous — he makes William's powers of ratiocination entirely convincing, and his avuncular mentor relationship with Adso (which I have a feeling George Lucas watched with attention in writing the STAR WARS prequels) is appealing — but the still-gawky teenage Slater is terrible, the only significant female character (a horny peasant girl played by Valentina Vargas) never gets a name and has hardly any dialogue, and almost every character other than William and Adso is presented as a kind of Tod Browning grotesque — in particular a young and very hammy Ron Perlman as a mentally challenged hunchback named Salvatore who speaks in a weird pidgin of different languages. After a while, I found it increasingly hard to take, and the ending was unrewarding. CONTAINS LESBIANS? The characters are aware that gay people exist, but no. VERDICT: Almost worth it just for Connery, but by about the 90-minute mark, it feels like he's trying to hold back the tide.

[denmark-street]

he's literally me

[roseshavethoughts]

Medieval Mystery Unfolds: The Name of the Rose (1986)

Synopsis- After a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. William of Baskerville,is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Director- Jean-Jacques Annaud Cast- Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Valentina Vargas, Ron Perlman Genre- Historical | Mystery Released- 1986 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. In “The Name of the…

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Northport Journal, March 4, 1954

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(Sur la Dalle, Fred Vargas)

Ça me rappelle un peu L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus, surtout quand il devient "le foutu oeuf" d'Adamsberg pour Matthieu, après "ses" puces. Le diable est dans les détails...

[techno2025]

Photo Video Journey with Jean-Jacques Annaud

My favorite 1986 blockbuster