#John Hargraves

[neathyingenue]

Final batch (6/6) of painting your OCs in gouache! Thank you for your patience as I recovered from my injury :)

Euphemia “Effie” St. John, the Once-Notorious Grandam belongs to @hellhoundmaggie

Hiram Hargrave, the Soulless Socialite belongs to @esteemed-excellency

Caoimhe Coledoc, the Unwavering Investigator belongs to @the-insouciant-scientist

Thanks again for offering up your characters for my lil experiment!!First batch here!!

[cinematokgraph]

[movie-track01]

#JohnCena to star in #MATCHBOX film based on Mattel toys

#SamHargrave is directing the film

[roseshavethoughts]

Atomic Blonde (2017)

My ★★★★★ review of Atomic Blonde (2017) #FilmReview

Synopsis – An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents – Atomic Blonde. Director – David Leitch Cast – Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman Genre – Action | Thriller Released – 2017 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. Atomic Blonde is a cinematic masterpiece that flawlessly combines…

[gameofthunder66]

=watched 3/29/2023- 3 [1/2] stars- on Netflixdvd

Loved all the 80s music in this movie!

Atomic Blonde (2017) dir. David Leitch

[volvosandvampires]

“She believed in understanding upon meeting someone for the first time that they were going to be important in her life, a sensation like recognizing a familiar face in an old photograph: in a sea of faces that mean nothing, one comes into focus. You.”

“It is knowing that all your joy is bound up in another, and to be parted from it would be to live without light for the rest of your days.”

“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”

“And no matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

Emily St. John Mandel // Kiran Millwood Hargrave // Michael Cunningham // Ocean Vuong // Tiffanie DeBartolo

[theresattrpgforthat]

Woo, the ask box is open again!! Been wanting to ask about any alternatives to Call of Cthulhu (investigative games with the potential to be set in the early 20th century) with more open licensing, such as having Open Game Licenses or being licensed under Creative Commons?

THEME: Hackable CoC Alternatives

Hello friend! I'm excited about the new asks as well!

So as far as I know, a lot of indie designers are very happy to allow hacks and supplements done of their work, but if it isn't clear on their page, asking in a comment certainly doesn't hurt!

That being said, for this ask, I made sure to recommend games that are built on systems that have been stated to be licensed under Creative Commons or something similar.

Eldritch, by Matheus Henrique Morais.

A hack of 24XX for Cosmic Horror games in any setting. Inspired by Cthulhu Dark.

24XX is a game system that has been hacked for a number of different settings and is released under a Creative Commons 4.0 license. The base rules take up about one page, and there’s plenty of examples in other 24XX hacks of how to introduce a rule or two to help the game fit the genre you’re looking for. 24XX is also inspired by the OSR scene, so when it comes to running and designing adventures, you can design adventures for these games similar to how you might design them for other OSR games.

Haunter in the Dark, by Robot Francis.

This town is haunted. Your home is cursed. Monsters are real. Haunter in the Dark is a horror roleplaying game about a group of investigators discovering then confronting the supernatural horrors that haunt their home town. The game is powered by the Forged in the Dark engine, with rules to create your investigators defined by their relationship to the unnatural: the Descendent, the Dreamer, the Exorcist, the Scientist, the Sleuth, and the Sorcerer.

The motivations, powers, and minions of the horror are generated collaboratively by the players during the game, with players encouraged to creep each other out and brandish their character's sharp edges. The MC takes the townspeople, world, and monsters that the players depict, then twists the knife to make it worse than they could have imagined. The game helps you create an escalating mystery, followed by a climactic scene of confrontation.

This is a Forged in the Dark Game, which means it uses the mechanics familiar from the Forged in the Dark SRD. John Harper has stated that the contents of the SRD are available under the Creative Commons Attribution, and if you want to include the Forged in the Dark logo, there’s simply an attribution request to indicate it’s a logo trademarked by One Seven Design. It’s an incredibly free license, and I’m planning on writing a game in this system!

The Between, by the Gauntlet.

The Between is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. They are residents of a place called Hargrave House, and their job is to investigate and neutralize monstrous threats terrorizing the city—threats that Scotland Yard won’t or can’t handle themselves. As the story progresses, they become aware of the plans of a Moriarty-style criminal mastermind they will eventually have to face in order to save Queen and country.

The Between is directly inspired by the gothic horror TV show Penny Dreadful, but also takes a lot of inspiration from British horror classics, graphic novels like From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and pulp-era stories. Mechanically, it’s Powered by the Apocalypse but also uses the mystery system from Brindlewood Bay.

Both the Powered by the Apocalypse “system” and the Carved from Brindlewood license are pretty open. Vincent & Meguey Baker do not lay claim to the 2d6 mechanics of Apocalypse World, but rather use “Powered by the Apocalypse” to signify that a game was inspired by Apocalypse World in some way. There are thousands of PbtA games out there, many of which alter what some folks may have originally thought were key parts of PbtA. Meanwhile, Gauntlet Publishing runs a Discord channel that welcomes people’s ideas that use the Carved from Brindlewood label, and creates channels for each new game that has a name and a draft ready to go.

R’LYEH, by Another Cosmic Zine.

R’lyeh is a hack of Durf.

It adapts the game’s procedures and themes into a ruleset designed for tabletop scenarios of horror, investigation, mystery and madness. 

Both this game and its predecessor are designed to be hacked and re-worked, and are licensed under Creative Commons 4.0. They are fairly rules light and would probably benefit from having some supplements and home-brew! This game looks to be somewhat indifferent to the time period it’s set in, which tells me that you can probably run it in the early 19th century with little adjustments needed.

Cthork Borg, by kumada1.

Cthork Borg is a full conversion hack that adapts MÖRK BORG to a jazz age cosmic horror setting.

Cthork Borg uses the Mork Borg Third-Party License, which is fairly permissive and allows you to reference the mechanics and rules of the game. The creator for Cthork Borg even offers up the colours used in the game so that creators can create using the same colour palette! You’ll also be able to check out some other material that’s already been made for this game on the link above, including extra classes for characters, a guide to the setting, and rules for adding animals!

[tnoy-keraxis]

talk to me about the bog's hollow players please! general vibes? headcanons? thoughts on ragweed?

Oh absolutely thank you so much for asking about them I have so many thoughts!!! I have put a cut because I’m going to ramble.

As for general headcanons, their names are as follows

Sigrid Ormsby (Bryce’s Player)

Alaric Hastings (Curt’s Player)

Bertram Hastings (Jon’s Player)

Cyprian Warwick (James’ Player)

Clarice Beaumont (Angela’s Player)

Anneke Hargrave (Lauren’s Player)

Fiora Irvine (Mariah’s Player)

Gregor Cheeseman (Joey’s Player)

Eydis Longfellow (Kim’s Player)

David Bowman (The Narrator, guess who he’s named after)

And of course the understudies:

Petra Lovelace (Mary-Kate’s Player)

Tove Hawthorne (Allison’s Player)

Sabine Cromwell (Rianny’s Player)

Then for the band it’s:

Matthias Longfellow (Matt) (canon name)

Toothless John (Austin) (canon name)

Elias Wibbler (Josh) (partially-canon name)

Eliot Wibbler (Sam) (partially-canon name)

Then of course Ragweed is there too <3 he is very much the tired old man, he is married to David and generally just goes to rehearse his woodblock in another room.

The players are kind of all embroiled in drama all the time. There’s a lot of relationship drama and infighting, it is a miracle they even put the show together.

They’re a mess but they’re a family.

Please ask more I have so many specific things to say about them and their characters.

[sumire-no-nikki]

24 Books for 2024

Thought I would shop my shelves and make a "must read" book list for the coming year. My actual annual reading goal is 52 books so only planning for 24 leaves plenty of room for more spontaneous picks later on. (Also, 24 for 2024 just sounds fun and neat lol)

Nobody, Somebody, Anybody by Kelly McClorey DNF

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

Water by John Boyne ✅

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint ✅

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross ✅

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw

The Colour of Storm by Damien Dibben

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama ✅

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa ✅

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ✅

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ✅

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell ✅

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh ✅

Breast and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

[chickensarentcheap]

Choosing to spread some love in the community since that anon wants to be a little bitch again, so: please share ten facts about Queen Esme!! Whatever you wanna share about her that you haven’t already, I wanna hear it!! <3

Thank you for sending this! <3

I can't believe they've been at this bullshit as long as they have. If they put that kind of time and effort into creating something or caring about something, imagine what they'd achieve!

It makes so happy that others love my girl Esme as much as I do :)

Esme was born in Snowmass. Colorado, USA and is the youngest of six children, and the only girl

She has a degree in psychology

Besides English, she can speak a handful of languages: French, Spanish, Russian, Pashto, Dari, and some Bengali and Hindi

Aside from being a silent partner/owner of Tyler's mercenary business, she owns a bookstore in Cooktown, Australia. It's even been featured in magazines and a travel show on places to visit in Queensland.

In the main series, she's the proud momma of seven kiddos. Including two sets of twins

While a pretty terrible cook, she's an excellent baker

She was married once before meeting Tyler. She had been divorced for eighteen months when Nik introduced them

Her cousin is/was married to a mercenary on Nik's team. G, who was played by Sam Hargrave in the first film. He's the person who get her hired by Nik

While living in NYC, she was very good friends with John Wick's wife, Helen

When she and Tyler were paired up to work together in Dhaka, she was living in Prague, Czech Republic

My Tyler/Esme peeps: @mrsmungus @secretaryunpaid @youflickedtooharddamnit @tragiclyhip @watermeezer

And anyone else who reads/supports of course :)

[sirfrogsworth]

Extraction 2 is an action panic attack.

The plot is simple and I'm sure people are going to dunk on that. But the director is a former stuntman and stunt coordinator and he is able to use every stunt trick in the book to deliver very satisfying action sequences. I'm pretty sure he hired every stunt person he's ever known to work on this film

There is a 25 minute "oner" that does not let you catch your breath and it is pretty incredible. I know these one shot action sequences can seem like a gimmick at times, but they were able to avoid gimmickry with wonderful shot design and choreography. The single take is used to build up the suspense and keep your heart racing.

I think if you like John Wick you will enjoy this too.

I think if Sam Hargrave would consider co-directing with someone who is a little better at getting good performances out of actors, he could really elevate his films above action setpieces.

[delightindarkness]

WELCOME!

This is an Indie, Semi selective, RP blog for multiple characters and fandoms. I tried separating my blogs and it just never worked, so....here we are. Mun 21+

All characters are open to AU settings

⚠️HEAVY TRIGGER WARNINGS ⚠️

Dark themes will be written.

No God modding

Give me time, I work 40+ hours a week

Minors DNI

Muse list under the cut.

Supernatural Muses

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

John Winchester

Castiel

Joanna Harvelle

Onyx Snow (Faith)- SPN based OC Hunter

Ryat - SPN based demon OC

Gavin Saar - SPN based werewolf OC

Charlotte Daniels - SPN Fox Shifter OC

Micha Collins - Hunter OC

Elijah Hargraves - Fallen Angel OC

Alexander Sterling - Incubus OC

Marvel Muses

James "Bucky" Barnes

Steve Rogers

Tony Stark

Matthew Murdock (Daredevil)

Annalise Dubois - OC

Stranger Things Muses

Eddie Munson

Steve Harrington

Nancy Wheeler

MISCELLANEOUS...

Donovan LaSalle - Serial killer OC

Peter Rumancek - Hemlock Grove

Roman Godfrey - Hemlock Grove

Louis De Pointe Du Lac - Interview with a Vampire

Farkas - Skyrim - headcanon based

John Seed - Farcry 5

MacCready - Fallout 4

Piper Wright - Fallout 4

Lucy MacLean - Fallout TV Series

Johnny Silverhand - Cyberpunk 2077

[sixofravens-reads]

Reading update:

Finished Absolution last night! Wow, what a book. It's definitely meant to be supplementary material for the original trilogy, so if you're new to Southern Reach make sure to read those first.

(whoops this for really long)

I loved this weird book, even though it gave me serious night terrors all week (there were contributing factors but the night terrors were distinctly Area X flavoured). Love the mystery of the biologists and rabbits and the Rogue. Currently I'm not sure who the Rogue could be, unless he's a new character and not someone who appears in the series? I thought he might be Whitby at first but he's described as a pretty big dude and Whitby is notably small and weasely. Old Jim is a wonderful character, a foil for John Rodriguez in Authority. The worst part is knowing no matter what he does, the mission is doomed to fail, and he's going to die horribly along with everyone else.

The final section with Lowry was difficult to get through at first, very much the internal narrative of a 14 year old boy who's obsessed with bathroom humour and sex. He does end up being a pretty amusing character, and his journey through Area X is really something. I also liked that at first we're led to believe he's different and has a special connection with Area X, which is why he survives, but at the end there's a lowkey reveal that everyone has been going through their own psychedelic horror experiences and all the people who have survived that long think that way (Hargraves especially seems to have been shown some footage or a time slip from the night the border came down). It's great to see what really happened there, and gives some insight into why Lowry became so controlling about missions.

Also, I love how while in the original trilogy we get some idea of how secluded the Forgotten Coast is, and how Area X impacts everyone differently, this book really emphasizes how the invasion is truly a personal experience and not a community one. Beforehand, we have the incident with the biologists, who the townsfolk are aware but wary of, and assume they all fled during the hurricane (save for Man Boy Slim and Drunk Boat). Meanwhile they've been fighting and eventually die from multiple supernatural events mere miles from the village. Old Jim and Saul know of each other, but we get no hint of either of their stories because Jim is purely invested in the S&SB and the Dead Town evidence (while battling other Central agents) and Saul is a normal lighthouse keeper who just thinks the S&SB are a bunch of prats who fuck with his lighthouse lantern. The only connection between the two is Henry, but no one knows what he released from the lighthouse. I don't think Henry ever properly knows what it is, because he dies or gets subsumed into Area X pretty early on. Old Jim has his own Area X experience in Dead Town, and knows what's coming before anyone else, but doesn't know Saul has been infected and the change will be triggered by his transformation into the Crawler/Tower, because the "carrier" comment doesn't make sense to him in context. Also, the note that the carrier must always remain the same and how it implies the Rogue has been doing time loops trying to perfect Area X's manifestation is WILD.

Meanwhile, in Lowry's exploration of Area X, the lighthouse is never visited and the tower is never mentioned. His mission involves the village and Dead Town, and the destroyer on the horizon that lures Sky away. He sees what he was sent in to see. Meanwhile, later missions don't mention Dead Town at all--maybe because he doesn't want people to find the Whitby corpse or see the evidence of cannibalism? Or is it just that Area X is a personal experience for everyone, and the landscape will only reveal what it decides should be revealed? Perhaps Dead Town was only meant to be shown to Lowry and not to anyone else.

I believe it's mentioned that some missions find the tower and others don't--i think whether it's present depends on Gloria's involvement, either with entering Area X or with instructions given to her teams, because Saul is someone she's specifically looking for.

Anyway that fascinated me. So many interconnected plot points that people are completely unaware of. Reminds me of true crime or disaster shows where they piece everything together and say "if only X, Y, and Z spoke to each other rationally this would've been prevented, but they either didn't get along or didn't know they had vital information to begin with."

Also...the note on the message board for Saul 😭 my headcanon is that it's from Charlie, because if it were from Gloria she would've also addressed it to her mom. Not sure if that makes it sadder or not. It does spark the question of how the messages got there--were the phone or fax lines still open for a while after the border?

ANYWAY. wonderful book. Definitely need a lighter book after that, so I'm going to reread A Marvellous Light. I remember liking it well enough, though right as I was about to finish it the first time (back in 2022) my coworker in Ukraine messaged everyone to say Russia had invaded, so that's primarily what I remember from that time. (Didn't read for like 2 weeks after that. Both the shock and panic of having a coworker whose life/family was at risk and also being Ukrainian by heritage...that hit pretty hard.) ANYWAY. I'll give it a chance again and then see if I want to read the sequel. Series where each book focuses on different characters can be a tough sell for me, and it annoys me that a lot of "romantasy" authors will write one book, then be like "okay, I made them fuck, time to put those characters away! nothing else could possibly happen to them! but I signed a 3-book contract so here's some new characters that you may or may not like as much! pretend the other ones don't exist!!" the Kingston Cycle also did this and I didn't like books 2 and 3 as much as book 1 (mainly because while the stakes were raised and the plot became more political, the page count remained the same, which meant it seemed like a lot of both the interpersonal plots and the political stuff was a little under-done because the author had to compromise to make it all fit a book the same length as Witchmark which was a simpler murder mystery type deal.)

(sorry this got so very long I apparently had much to ramble about. time to go check on supper, which is chilli with no chilli powder bc I tragically ran out and didn't realize until id already started cooking, but with extra green chilies so hopefully it evens out).

[forestgreenlesbian]

hellooo top ten reads of 2022 in no particular order (+ not including rereads of old favourites):

Our Wives Under The Sea, Julia Armfield

Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan        

Cantoras, Carolina De Robertis

A Tiny Upward Shove, Melissa Chadburn

Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel

Time Is A Mother, Ocean Vuong

Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki  

Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Sj Sindu

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore

Less Is Lost, Andrew Sean Greer    

special mentions:

Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart

In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

Briefly, A Delicious Life, Nell Stevens

The Mercies, Kiran Millwood Hargrave

and some quotes from my top ten under the cut if you are looking for a little flavour. what did you guys read this year i am always looking for recommendations :~)

It’s not grief, [...] it’s more like a haunting. Our Wives Under The Sea

“Is it crazy to love someone you’ve only spent seven days with in person?” / “No, it’s crazy to love someone when you’ve known them for years.” Luckenbooth

It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman holds another woman, and she in turn lifts the world. Cantoras

By then, Lola concluded that love was mostly wanting something you supposedly already had. A Tiny Upward Shove

She never dwelt on my lapses, and I couldn’t entirely parse why this made me feel so awful. There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones. Sea of Tranquility

Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life / the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree. / & I was free. Time Is A Mother

“That’s--” / “A violin from China,” she said without looking up. “Yes, I know.” / “No, I mean, it’s all in pieces.” / “Yes. So are we all.” Light from Uncommon Stars

There’s always a way out. You could be a ghost. I could be an empty chair. Marriage of a Thousand Lies

Everything would turn out fine. Or else--hell--it would burn. I only wanted my body to bloom and bleed and be loved. I was raw with want, but in part it was a simple want, one made for easy satisfaction, quick drama, deep life: I wanted to go places and do things with Sils. So what if the house burned down. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

“Thomas, why are you wearing a sweater when it’s so warm out?” / Thomas shrugs slightly and says, “As my grandma Cookie says, we’re all having different experiences.” Less Is Lost

also my bottom five if you care these are bad do not reccommend lol (not including dnfs):

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

This Is How You Lose the Time War, Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar

A Room Called Earth, Madeleine Ryan