#Of Poseidon Audiobook

[notebookqueenofnarnia]

Okay Demigods

now that Season 2 has been confirmed (!!!!!!!!!!) I am here to make my official appeal that you ALL read the books. and yes...i mean ALL the books. Because here is what you are missing if you don't:

(mostly spoiler free. mostly vibes and chaotic no context)

OG PERCY JACKSON

Percy's INCREDIBLE sarcasm

Lots of chaotic Mr. D moments

Percy's unending absolute obliviousness when it comes to: his own abilities/powers, his own feelings towards a certain daughter of Athena, and EVERYONE'S feelings towards him

the full list of Percy's felonies (it's longer than you think!)

how much Percy thinks about Annabeth, especially in the third book

The Hunters of Artemis (everyone's like 'which godly parent would you have?' but im like ??? who cares??? I'm running off with the girls to immortal to hunt men i mean monsters)

soooooooooo much Sally Jackson is the Best Mom (to everyone who walks through her door) content

BLACKJACK. TRANS ICON BLACKJACK THE PEGASUS.

Rachel. Elizabeth. Dare. (this is how the audiobook says her name every single time)

Paul Blofis

Sally Jackson, author

Poseidon: Blowfish?

HEROES OF OLYMPUS

If you don't read these books you are missing out on some of the coolest female characters Rick has created: PIPER (an iconic), HAZEL (unintentionally hilarious), REYNA (beautiful character arc), and ANNABETH's point of view will have you loving her on a whole other level, trust me

Also: COACH HEDGE

Leo

All The Ladies Love Leo

the audiobooks are INSANE. It felt like a full cast read the book, but no. it was just one insanely talented narrator.

FESTUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (im a dragon girlie)

Personally, I spent a lot of time reading the OG 5 wondering about how Roman mythology plays into Percy's world. Uncle Rick answered my questions and answered them SO WELL

Hazel the horse girl

Frank the horsebirddolphinman

Frank, gentle himbo, my beloved son

MY FAVORITE SCENE WHICH INVOLVES PERCY NOT KNOWING HOW TO DRIVE, A HARPY, FRANK, AND HAZEL AND THEYRE ALL SCREAMING AND IM PRETTY SURE STUFF IS ON FIRE

Forced Proximity for 7 teenagers and one chaotically violent satyr (that's Coach Hedge)

Eros/Cupid being one the most genius things Rick's ever written

Percy's hate of Ares transcending god magic

(also his love of Annabeth, but that's like obvious)

PercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabethPercabe

weird barely gnome things

this one giant whose name is definitely not pronounced like female anatomy

everyone thinking Percy and Annabeth are constantly getting up to the hanky panky

a statue made me cry

Gay Grumpy/Sunshine (or should that be Death/Sunshine) origins!!

TRIALS OF APOLLO

Apollo, vain himbo of godly proportions is forced to live as Lester Papadopoulos

Percy: why

a very chaotic twelve year old daughter of Demeter

she commands Apollo around

plant magic

terrible great haikus at the start of every chapter

Sally Jackson being the best mom to everyone who comes to her door

magic shoes

a sassy magic prophetic arrow that talks in Shakespearean English

so much gay grumpydeath/sunshine content

also yes sunshine's dad is Apollo

Apollo sings

Grover! Piper! Reyna! Hazel! All the friends! Everyone

Jason! (also im sorry)

what if there were some trees who were an elite squad of warriors who also answer to the chaotic twelve year old

gay moms of the midwest

unicorns

in the last book, chiron takes the campers on a 'field trip' to help take down the big baddie and he shows up dressed as a warrior soccer mom with granola bars, water bottles, and extra swords attached to his fanny pack

a different chaotic twelve year old while fighting to the death in a building that's on fire: "CAN WE GO ON FIELD TRIPS EVERY WEEK?"

chiron: "ROSE DEAR RAISE YOUR SWORD A LITTLE HIGHER!"

okay im not going to spoil it but in the last book there is also this extremely horrifyingly violent moment that Uncle Rick somehow turns into one of the most hilarious things i've ever read

Piper in the epilogue

CHALICE OF THE GODS

more insanely funny percy first person narration

Grover, Percy, Annabeth reunite ("the gang is back together!" "The three musketeers!" "Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey!" "Excuse me?")

have you met the god of himbos? (Percy has)

SO

MANY

EASTER

EGGS

for Season one. you can totally see how Uncle Rick worked on the script and chalice together

if you liked Annabeth shoving Percy into the water....this one is for you

Percy, supreme god of snakes

the cutest cutest cutest cutest Percabeth content you will ever read

hippie gods (yes more than one)

Percy is literally obsessed with Annabeth

Annabeth already being the Jackson daughter in law

Sally Jackson and Paul and

For the record: You CAN read Chalice of the Gods without reading the other series, but please please please read all these books. The audiobooks are phenomenal.

[lidiaissunlit]

children of Poseidon headcanons pls? :3

child of poseidon headcanons

a/n: hiii thank u for the request !! currently listening to the last olympian audiobook and im almost doneeeee :3 i cant wait to read hoo

🌊 sits in the water when they're having any big feeling

🐟 and the waves progressively get more intense as their feelings get more intense

🪣 view themselves as pretty chill but most ppl view them as extremely ambitious and a force to be reckoned with

🌊 definitely are a force to be reckoned with

🐟 quick to trust others, but once you lose that trust - it's lost forever

🪣 can go from ditzy to the most intellectual thinker in a matter of moments

🌊 strong moral compass

🐟 subtle charisma that draws people in

🪣 the moon affects their energy and mood slightly, just like it affects the tides

🌊 always the one to find the prettiest sea glass

🐟 and has a collection of cool rocks, shells, and sea glass they've found

🪣 talented story tellers, their stories are so captivating

🌊the biggest goof balls you'll ever meet

🐟feels comfort during storms

[nothankyou543]

Connor Stoll x child of Poseidon Headcanons

He is the shyest person you will ever meet when it comes to PDA, he doesn’t like showing affection in public for some reason but when you guys are alone he’s a little cuddle bug

he’s the types of guy to run his hand through your hair when your laying down together

he hates reading because he’s dyslexic but if your reading a book he’ll watch the movie or try to find the audiobook so you guys can talk about it

because your a child of Poseidon your probably close with Annebeth because of Percy so when he first saw you he asked Annebeth about you and she said “ Percy would snap you like a twig if you tried anything with his sibling”

despite that he started talking to you

he’s really goofy so of course you laugh a lot around him

ane when Percy saw you guys one day he asked you about it later

convo goes as follows

“ why are you and Connor Stoll hanging out all of a sudden”

“is somebody jealous “

”no, i just need to know if I need to shovel talk him”

you are not going to shovel talk my friend, we’re not even dating”

needless to say when Connor asked you out Percy shovel talked him

he takes you on the best dates

like he’ll show up to your cabin and just say I’m taking you on a walk, and then he has a whole picnic by the beach set up

or he’ll take you into town to get ice cream and watch a movie since you guys can’t go out of camp a lot

he has a hoodie blanket, one of the big fleece ones and he wears it in his cabin all the time

he wants to travel the world but since he’s a demigod he cant

he like to draw and he’s gotten good at it

he calls you nickname like aquagirl/boy

he loves to sleep

[chasing-that-jackson]

Look, I didn't want to be praetor. Or be responsible for people, but here I am!

Hey, before you ask. Yes, my dad's the famous Percy Jackson, yes, my mother is Annabeth Chase. But I'm not going to live in their shadow! I'm making my own path! But before all the epic monologues, I'm Charlotte Sally Jackson, but you can just call me Charlie. Or anything other than "Da Big C" (I WILL fight you, Cassie). I'm the praetor of New Rome, along with Ambrose Asher! Now here's some stuff about me !

Name: Charlotte Sally Chase - Jackson.

Alias: Charlie, Char-char , Goldfish (come on, dad.), Praetor Jackson, Jackson, Lottie.

Age: 16 Sexuality: Bisexual :D

Weapons: a trident named "Thalassa" (the sea) given to her by Poseidon. It can change shape at will, as it is made of pure water, her mother's Yankees cap.

Relations: Perseus Jackson (father) , Annabeth Chase-Jackson (mother), Cassandra Hestia Chase (sister), Sally Jackson (Grandmother) , Poseidon, Athena.

Personality: changeable like the sea" and hard to predict — with the important exception that she is extremely loyal to her friends and family. Sarcastic and goody at most times, but works great under pressure. Doubtful in her own skills but she believes a hell of a lot in others. The occasional temper is present, of course, but she wouldn't be a Jackson without it, amirite?

Fatal flaw: Overly giving/overly dedicated. She gives every part of her to a task, to a person. Even if she doesn't have anymore to give. She'll die trying.

Relationship with family: HUGE daddy's girl, but they always just roast each other. Loves her mom too, of course, but sometimes she's just too..overbearing. Too strict. Gets along great with her sister, who is 1 year younger than her. Her relationship with her grandma and grandpa (Sally and Paul) is also pretty good, they spoil her rotten (in a good way!). Vibes with Poseidon, kind of vibes with Athena until..a certain event. Now she's steely towards her. She's fond of Hestia and Apollo as they resonate with her.

Fears: small spaces, loss of loved ones/family, tests, drowning.

Sexuality : Bisexual, demiromantic

Hobbies: playing the guitar, occasional drawing, surfing, listening to audiobooks, joking around and learning new things. My sister, Cassandra is 15!

"You are too giving. You will give yourself to save others, to make others better, to make others feel better, even if you are great danger. In pain, you smile at those around you because you know they'll hurt if you dont. And in the end, legacy of Poseidon, it will be your downfall."

Songs that play constantly on my battered headphones (dad, buy me new ones , please :()

Seven nation army - The white stripes

Teenagers - MCR

Run, boy Run - Woodkid

What's up danger? - Blackway and Black Caviar

And many, many more! Feel free to come ask for song recs, because my music taste is as amazing as my fighting skills, haha.

People I know!:

@percy-jackson-xxx - My super amazing cool dad whose kinda stupid .... (I love you please don't throw me into the pool 😔)

@ineedtoescapefromreality - Echo and Rosalyn Mclean! (Rosalyn, teach me how to be as cool as you :[ and Echo just like. High five, dude ✌️), Auntie Piper and Shel's kids!

@daffy-not-a-duck - Daphne (I am not writing your complete name dude it's so long???) Uncle Nico and Will's daughter! (I like your parents, but you?? ew..........)

@iggy-mini-miny-moe - IGGGGGGYYYYY AYYYY (adhd bestie frfr, let's go commit arson) Uncle Leo and Jason's son! (Uncle Leo's tacos are amazing btw) @violent-cinnamonroll - Aria!( i appreciate chu bestie <333) Auntie Clarisse and Silena's kid! (Auntie clarisse scares me. pls dont pummel me to ground :()

@olivernotfound - Ollieeee! (Better than his sister :D) Uncle Nico and Wills second kid! (Who I like a lot more. High five, bro)

@notwillingtobefound - Will Valdez!! (Bros music taste is top tier?? How??) Uncle Leo and Jason's kid! @the-poison-and-the-sky - Belldonna Jackson-Chase! My older sister! (she hears everything/j) @daredevil-larue - Lucine La Rue ! Auntie Clarisse and Auntie Silena's other daughter! (super cool blue hair hehe <33) @praetor-ambrose-asher - Ambrose Asher, My fellow praetor! (muscles. end sentence. thats it. MUSCLE-)

Ooc notes:

Occasionally, other characters will appear on this blog as I imagine them. This will include Percy , Annabeth, and Cassie! (Any post by them will have their name at the end)

Tags:

praetor charlie on the chase - Charlotte ic

cassie snoops around - notes from cassie

parents are parenting - notes from Annabeth or Percy

the jackson two - both Cassie and charlie together!

In the praetors- ooc

Duck tales- with the idiotic (and pretty) Daffy Duck

Fireboy and watergirl - w/mah bro Iggy!!! We besties fr (stop burning down my freaking kitchen??)

Deathboy and Skatergirl - w/mah other bro ollie!! (Stop being so oblivious because Iggy clearly l- *gets slapped*) the ultimate cool girls - w/super cool girl, Rosalyn! awkward silence - w/ echo (quiet, but awesome)

Please remember, this is not a multi character blog, but just appearances by others! Thanks for reading. No nsfw . I'm a minor 😎.

So, that's me! Ever need anything, I'm always up in the praetors office, or around the stables. Till we meet again, this is Charlie signing off!

That was so cheesy, Char. - Cassie

[shysquidd]

listening to the sea of monsters audiobook in my car bc i just left work and now im in my driveway listening to tyson tell percy how he prayed to poseidon for a friend and ended up w/ a brother like

[trentandmeredith]

Hugh is 5! He is curious, creative, and warm. He loves audiobooks. The Magic Treehouse series is his favorite and he also loves non fiction books about “things from long ago” like pirates and ancient Romans. He loves regular books too - he’ll “read” for hours in his room looking at pictures and remembering the words from books we’ve read before.

He is the king of costumes. Today he dressed up like Poseidon - a white tunic, his Greek warrior ankle guards, and a rake as his trident. Other days he’s Thor, a guard, Hercules, Theseus, an astronaut, a ninja, a Viking, King Arthur, Lancelot, a sailor, Kwazii or Barnacles from the Octonauts, and the list could go on! His birthday party was “warrior” themed and we had Greek warrior food (pita, hummus, and “meat”) for dinner at his request.

Hugh is a great problem solver. If we can’t figure out a costume with materials we already have, he’ll make one out of paper and tape. He’s also great at making plans for the day - he loves to make lists and check things off, something he learned from a Frog and Toad book.

He loves to stay at home - his favorite days are “home days.” He likes to start the morning building in the playroom with Magnatiles or blocks. He enjoys playing with play dough and kinetic sand. His archery set in the backyard is another favorite toy. He learned to play War recently and has a burgeoning interest in card games. He’s content playing with himself or Will, and has started to have closer friendships at preschool. Hugh and Will love doing “small world” play like our Duplos or little knights and castles, racing in obstacle courses that Hugh designs, or pretending to go on adventures like flying to Texas. He has been the sweetest big brother to Cassidy in the past week and I can’t wait to see their relationship evolve.

Meals with him are a blast - he’s always sharing facts about what he learned that day and enjoys trying almost anything we eat. Sushi, Mac n cheese, and popsicles are some of his favorites.

I’m grateful every day this magical human who made me a mom. We love Hugh!

[weeping-angel-13]

ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠 𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕖𝕤! Heute möchte ich euch das #Audiobook zu "ℝ𝕚𝕔𝕜 ℝ𝕚𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕒𝕟'𝕤 - ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕪 𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕠𝕟 - 𝕀𝕞 𝔹𝕒𝕟𝕟 𝕕𝕖𝕣 ℤ𝕪𝕜𝕝𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕟 " vorstellen. Ich hab die Reihe vor einigen Jahren gelesen und habe mir gedacht ich höre mir jetzt die #Hörbücher dazu an. Teil 2 habe ich vor heute komplett durchgehört und auch diesmal hat mich die Stimme von "Marius Claren" überzeugt.

Im zweiten Teil der Reihe geht es darum, das Percy herausfindet dass er nicht der einzige Sohn des griechischen Meeresgottes Poseidon ist. Er lernt seinen Halbbruder Tyson kennen und er begibt sich zusammen mit Annabeth auf ein neues Abenteuer. Diesmal ist er auf der Suche nach seinem Freund Grover und dem Goldenen Vlies...

Von mir gibt es hier ganz klar 5 Sterne. Ich liebe die #PercyJackson Reihe und kann sie jedem nur empfehlen,der sie noch nicht gelesen oder gehört hat!!!

#ImBannDerZyklopen #RickRiordan #LübbeAudio #CarlsenVerlag #Bookstagram #BookTok #BookClub #Bücher #BooksAreLife #Books #LesenMachtSpaß #Lesetipp #Hörbuch

[digital-meat]

The Odyssey: Odysseus is full of shit

I finished my audiobook of the Odyssey. Interesting detail is it’s not a story about Odysseus going on adventures, it’s a story about Odysseus returning home. In fact, Odysseus’s adventures were probably made up even within the fiction. 

The story starts with exposition of Odysseus’s family home, his wife’s getting hit on and avoiding it to be faithful (total ripoff considering ol’ Ulysses is banging a hot nymph every night for 7 years) and his son Telemachus gets sent on a wild goose chase by Athena. It’s only several books later that we hear about Odysseus. He’s been banging a nymph for 7 years, but vaguely homesick about it and some of the gods go behind his back to free him from exile.

So he builds a raft and heads home for Ithaca but Poseidon is still pissed at him and sends a storm to really drown him bigtime, not in nymph puss this time but for real, except a nymph lets him borrow her magic clothes so he lives and washes up on the island of the  Phaeacians, hospitable and wealthy sailors. 

The Phaeacians take him in and are hospitable and before long they discover Odysseus is Odysseus. They ask him to tell his story, and he does, and that is where the only account of his adventures between the Trojan war and the events of this story.

One thing about Odysseus is that he is a “complicated man”. A “man of many turns”. He is a “master tactician”, a “master of of improvisation”, and Homer repetitively hammers home both through example and these descriptors. The first thing Odysseus does when he sees his faithful swineherd for the first time in 20 years is invent a lie, taking it back at the last possible minute. The first thing Odysseus does when he sees his grieving father for the first time in 20 years is invent a lie, taking it back only when his father starts sifting sand through his own hair out of misery. Odysseus is the kind of guy who will craft a tall tale and regale you with bullshit for no particular reason.

And here he is, in a feast hall with a generous host. He doesn’t have a real way to pay back his host, and he needs to ask a ship from him. He can spin a story however. And doesn’t have a problem with lying. That’s the context in which Homer, speaking not as an infallible narrator but giving Odysseus’s account, tells us about the Cyclops and the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis. It’s clear that at some point, Odysseus angered Poseidon and his story would explain that. But it’s also probably a tall tale. I am thinking Homer would have us see it that way.

[noctefuror]

“She started to sob-I mean horrible, heartbroken sobbing. She put her head on my shoulder and I held her.

Fish gathered to look at us-a school of barracudas, some curious marlins.

Scram! I told them.

They swam off, but I could tell they went reluctantly. I swear I understood their intentions. They were about to start rumors flying around the sea about the son of Poseidon and some girl at the bottom of Siren Bay.”

The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan

Quick sketch after listening to the sea of monsters audiobook for like the tenth time🐠🌊✨

[eternally-tired-cryptid]

Hi

The Lightning Thief Musical is canon in my brain at this point

Like I’ve been listening to the audiobook so

1) They directly quote the book for dialogue or scenes in the musical multiple times

2) the characterization in the musical is like. Dead on. And even tho the actors are teens and adults they nail the 12 year old energy ngl

3) Every moment in the musical of adjusting the plot bc they didn’t have time is done really really well and keeps the narrative flow of the book really well

4) Sally Jackson is a) amazing and b) a black woman

5) This makes Percy at least biracial bc Poseidon in the musical is white but like ehhhh he’s a god so idk how ya wanna count it but either way it just fits

6) It’s just. So good. Many Thoughts.

[jasminereadsbooks]

"𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝘩 𝑎 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 '𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑤,' 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝘩𝑜𝑤𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒? 𝐼 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛'𝑡. 𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑖 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑖 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑠: 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑠." In July I didn’t read as much as i did in June. I only read 7 books: • Gild by Raven Kennedy - 4⭐️’s • Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar - 3⭐️’s • Doctor Who: The Day she Saved the Doctor by Calman, Rayner, Colgan and Koomson - 4⭐️’s • Kingsbane by Claire LeGrand - 5⭐️’s • Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston- 5⭐️’s • The Secret History by Donna Tartt - 5⭐️’s • The Odyssey by Homer - 4⭐️’s I participated in the #olympicgamesreadathon in July for House Poseidon and I completed all the mandatory prompts which was great but after that I didn’t read much more. I had to read the Odyssey in Audiobook form by the end because it was taking so long because i kept picking up other books and not that. I did enjoy the Odyssey though. Have to say that The Secret History and Red, White and Royal Blue were my Fave reads of the month maybe even the year they were absolutely incredible. What books did you read in July? #bookstagram #becauseofreading #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookgram #bookishlove #booklover #booknerd #booksbooksbooks #bookpics #bookphotos #bookishphotography #bookworm #epicreads #greatreads #bookquotes #prettybooks #readersofinstagram #readingismagic #thesecrethistory #donnatartt #theodyssey #homer #emilywilson #greekmythology https://www.instagram.com/p/CSEpBfiA7Qf/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nertegeydu582463]

Poseidon's Arrow Audiobook

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[felsenbluete]

Mass textpost with things I was tagged in over the years (and I mean years, I think some of them might be three or more I’m so sorry lmao)

@undead-letsrebellamy​

Indoor plants or gardens // cloud-watching or star-gazing // water or fire // paperback or hardcover // running or hiking // sleeping with socks or without socks // fruit or vegetables (10 yo me would shoot me on sight) // hanging plants or succulents // dark wood or light wood // handwritten or typed // instagram or pinterest // braids or pigtails // dc or marvel // books or movies // oceans or meadows // forests or fields // sweet or salty // ice cream or chocolate // hoodies or sweaters // long hair or short hair (vokuhila) // piercings or tattoos // summer or winter // boots or sneakers // cars or motorcycles // curls or straight hair // castles or cottages // sunny days or storms // reptiles or birds // disney or nickelodeon // strawberries or watermelon // essays or posters // phones or laptops // glass or stone // dark or light // photos or paintings // circuses or theatres // reading or writing // dogs or cats // poetry or novels // monsters or ghosts // thrift shops or libraries // fiction or non-fiction

@northernmoments​ Name/Nickname: Kira Jennifer, the only nick name I’ve ever had was Jenjen and that’s just a shame Pronouns: She/Her, but honestly brave of you to speak about me Star Sign: Aries Height: 178 cm Time Currently: 13:05 When is Your Birthday: 15.04. Favourite Band/Groups: die ärzte, Guns ‘n Roses, Linkin Park, Kaizers Orchestra, Fiddler’s Green Favorite Solo Artists: Howard Shore should count!, also P!nk Stuck in Your Head: Caledonia by Celtic Thunder, but that’s because I’m listening to it right now Last Movie You Watched: I Am Legend Last Show You Binged: tried Superstore, but watchseries is down rn  Last Book You Read: the last one I actually finished was Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.   When You Created Your Blog: 2013?  Last Thing You Googled: How to spell Sir Terry Pratchett’s last name  Other Blogs: about three for just different #vibes, a ski jumping side blog that has so many followers and where I’m the saltiest person on earth, also one for Naruto (don’t look at me), one “studyblr”/”langblr”/resource mine Why I Chose My Url: Wanted a Tolkien one and in the audiobooks by Bluefax the way Smaug says this “title” is one of my personal highlights  Do You Get Asks: almost never How Many People Are You Following: about 20 actually active blogs How Many Followers Do You Have: looking at my activity: 8 Average Hours of Sleep: ~8 hours Instruments: viola/violin What I’m Currently Wearing: grey sweatpants, grey socks, grey sweater, my Gollum-tshirt Dream Job: Rentner (in all honesty I would enjoy being a housewife) Dream Trip: I want to go to Iran just to eat fruit and meet potential in-laws, why is that so hard Favorite food: pannekoeken or Palatschinken, I hate American pancakes, it’s important to me to state how much I disrespect thick pancakes Top Three Fictional Universes You’d Like To Live In: 1, 2 & 3 are all Lummerland

@curuvari​

spell or curse ∙ abandoned mansion or haunted cementery ∙ vampire slayer or ghost hunter ∙ phoenix or griffin ∙ wrist bite or neck bite ∙ fairy godmother or evil stepmother ∙ herbs or potion ∙ ghost or wraith ∙ dragon scales or werewolf claws ∙ druid or mage ∙ elf or hobbit ∙ divination or necromancy ∙ wand magic or hand magic ∙ centaur or unicorn ∙ dark fairytale or disney-style fairytale ∙ sword or bow & arrow ∙ siren or water nymph ∙ garlic or silver ∙ talking animal or walking tree (but in a Huorn, not in a Ent way) ∙ demon trap or crossroads pact ∙ enchanted fairy forest or mermaid lagoon

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first 10 songs on shuffle - note: my itunes library is very very old, but on the other hand I haven’t really listened to music in years, so here we go

1. Massachusetts - Ylvis 2. Treebeard - Howard Shore 3. Your Mother Should Know - The Beatles 4. Pushing Me Away - Linkin Park 5. Pfingsten - Christoph & Lollo 6. Out Ta Get Me - Guns ‘n Roses 7. Rage of Poseidon - Apocalyptica 8. Monster Monster - Lordi 9. Wie es geht - die ärzte 10. Forth Eorlingas - Howard Short 

@mona-liar​ only the answers that weren’t already included above

Sexuality: very deep into aspec territory and we’ll leave it at that Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw Favorite Animal: cats Number of Blankets: one, I’m German Where I’m from: Westfalen  Dream Trip: oh, also Singapoor  Why I created this account: I was really into ski jumping and Ylvis

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Dream Chasers.

Mark Harris and Alicia Malone—two of the hosts of this month’s TCM Film Festival—tell Jack Moulton about Nichols and May, West Side Story, classic lockdown discoveries, and the films that make you feel like everything has changed when you walk out of that cinema.

For a second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the TCM Classic Film Festival is being hosted virtually. Its program screens across TCM and HBO Max from May 6 to May 9. The festival, which began in 2010, was held at Grauman’s Chinese Theater and the nearby Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, a move designed to allow classic movie fans to retread the footsteps of glitzy premieres from the glamorous past.

Ahead of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming remake, the festival opens with West Side Story’s 60th anniversary screening, featuring new and exclusive interviews by living legends Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The complete festival lineup includes classic programming and talent highlights, from Michael Douglas introducing his Best Picture-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to Scorsese on Goodfellas, to a comedian-heavy table read of Edward D. Wood Jr.’s infamously bad Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Journalist and author Mark Harris, who published the biography Mike Nichols: A Life earlier this year, is presenting the 1996 American Masters documentary Nichols and May: Take Two, covering the Oscar-winning director’s legendary comic partnership with Elaine May. It features iconic sketches that will recontextualize the way you think about Nichols if you thought his career started with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate.

TCM host, feminist cinema expert, Australian expat and Letterboxd member Alicia Malone is also a presenter at this year’s festival. (She admits she’s slacking on her Letterboxd logging this year, but used it to track her viewings over lockdown, topping over 500 films.) Neither Harris nor Malone have been able to go to the cinema since they closed over a year ago, but both are eager to return to their local arthouses in Maine and the Upper West Side of Manhattan as soon as they’re ready.

We caught up with Harris and Malone shortly before the festival commenced for a classic edition of the Letterboxd Life in Film.

‘The Poseidon Adventure’ (1972).

What’s your fondest memory of seeing a film in the cinema? Mark Harris: This is embarrassing, but for me it’s The Poseidon Adventure. At the time, my parents were a bit stricter than other parents so the other kids were already getting to see so-called ‘adult’ movies. The Poseidon Adventure was the first ‘not-kids’ movie that I ever got to see in a theater and at the age of eight, I immediately thought ‘well, clearly this is the best movie of all-time’. Everything in it was new information to me, such as how adults talked to each other and Stella Stevens playing a prostitute—I had no idea what that was. I found it so scary, I believed everything I saw on the screen. The joy of taking in something I hadn’t seen before has never left me.

Alicia Malone: It would probably be seeing Amélie. I was living in Canberra but my older sister had moved to Sydney, which to me was the big smoke, I really wanted to live there when I grew up. I got to visit her by myself and stay in her flat which she was renting by herself and it seemed so cool. She took me to the local arthouse cinema where Amélie was playing and I was so swept away. I know that film gets a bad rap now for being overly sentimental and quirky, but I just felt like I was being seen. I had such a kinship with the character of Amélie because she’s a dreamer, always in her own head and that’s how I was. I was always comparing my life to movies and playing movie scenes in my head. I remember walking out of that cinema and it felt like everything had changed—the color was brighter, it was special.

MH: We have to talk Turner into an Amélie-Poseidon Adventure double-feature!

AM: What a double! That would be amazing.

John Garfield and Ida Lupino in ‘The Sea Wolf’ (1941).

Which classic films that you discovered during lockdown had a major impact on you? MH: I wanted to dive into some directors that I really didn’t know well so I started watching all the Luchino Visconti movies, because Italian cinema is not my strongest area. That was an incredibly rewarding experience. I also saw the big seven-hour Russian War and Peace, which completely blew my mind. Those were probably my big pandemic discoveries.

AM: Something I really loved was getting to do the TCM Star of the Month for John Garfield because he’s such an interesting character and was a pre-cursor to Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and those types of method actors. I’d seen him in various films—such as The Postman Always Rings Twice—but I’d never sat down to watch a lot of his filmography and learn more about his personal story. To see films like The Sea Wolf and Body and Soul, I really gained a newfound respect for him as an actor. You can see some of the beginnings of that kind of tough-guy, everyday-man archetype with a brilliant actor putting his emotions right there on his sleeve.

MH: I should also say that the Women Make Movies Festival was huge for me. All those movies are on my DVR and I’m still going through them and discovering them. I recorded everything and that was and continues to be a gigantic education for me.

AM: Yes! Thanks for that reminder. That was such a fulfilling experience to get to be one of the hosts on that with Jacqueline Stewart. What was so brilliant about Mark Cousins’ documentary is that there are so many clips of films that you think how have we not seen this? How are we not studying this film? How do we not know about this particular filmmaker?

Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson in ‘Heartburn’ (1986).

If you could only pick one, which is the most overlooked film by Mike Nichols? MH: The most under-appreciated film to me is Heartburn. That was a real rediscovery when I was working on the book. I remember liking it, but I didn’t remember how sharp the performances were, how funny the comedy was, and the really acute social observations. I was so surprised when I was coming across the reviews—almost all of which were by men—and all of them said some version of “Why is he wasting his time with this? Why would he tell this woman’s story? Why doesn’t he tell the other half of the story?” Surely no-one would leave this character unless she gave him a good reason to leave! It was really shocking to me how dismissive and contemptuous a lot of the critical reaction was. I’m so happy that I’ve gotten to stick Heartburn under a lot of people’s noses because it’s a movie they seem to be really liking once they find it.

AM: I’m obviously not as deep into his filmography as Mark is, but I have to agree that Heartburn is a film that I can’t believe has been so overlooked. I came to that movie through Nora Ephron, who I just adore. [Heartburn is adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by Ephron.] I rewatched it recently and I was blown away by it. Of course, Meryl Streep is amazing, but just getting to be in those characters’ worlds again and watching it after I had listened to the audiobook—which features the voice of Meryl Streep—about a year ago added a whole new experience. I loved how in her book how she has all these recipes dotted through it that you see in the movie as well.

MH: That’s one of the great audiobook readings of all time. It’s great to listen to [Streep] do that.

John Cassavetes and Peter Falk in ‘Mikey and Nicky’ (1976).

Where do you recommend film lovers start with Elaine May? MH: It’s only a four-movie body of work as a director so I think it’s perfectly fine to go in chronological order. A New Leaf is fantastic and feels 100 percent her. You really get a great deal of her sensibility in that movie. I would just start there and go to The Heartbreak Kid and then to Mikey and Nicky, which is not the place to start but is a fascinating movie, and then you’ll be ready for Ishtar.

AM: See, I would say Mikey and Nicky straight out of the gate.

MH: Really?

AM: I love subverting expectations of what a female director can do and that is such a masculine movie. It’s a film that you wouldn’t expect for a female director to make. I love the back and forth, the rapport between [Cassavetes and Falk]. I find it really compelling and exciting every time I see it. So I say, go hard, go in with Mikey and Nicky then, yeah, A New Leaf and The Heartbreak Kid, but maybe skip Ishtar.

Iconic comedy duo Elaine May and Mike Nichols.

Thinking of Nichols fleeing to New York City from Germany, and Alicia moving to Hollywood from Australia, which ‘American Dream’ film resonates with you the most? AM: This answer is going to sound quite cheesy since it was a recent film: La La Land. I understand all the criticism about it, I agree with it, but I don’t care. I feel like it was made for me as a redhead in Hollywood, chasing her dream, and coming up against all the obstacles. I also love Singin’ in the Rain, which I know is not necessarily strictly about the American Dream but is about Hollywood in general. That is a film that really started the idea of moving to Hollywood as a young kid. It’s the idea of a magical place where you could do anything and make your dreams come true and have dignity—always dignity.

MH: This time I’m going to go hard and dark and say the first title that occurred to me, which is The Godfather: Part II. It’s a great immigrant story, though it’s a strange version of the American Dream. The whole saga is about coming to America, becoming an American, and deciding what American values are.

AM: I should say that during our TCM Film Festival on HBO Max, we have a section on immigrant stories. We have America, America, which is a great one by Elia Kazan, and Stranger Than Paradise, which I would recommend as well. It’s a warped view of the American Dream but I love the way they think they get rich and all their dreams can come true. Also Black Legion, which is a darker version of the immigrant story with Humphrey Bogart going to the darker side of ‘foreigners should not take American jobs’.

MH: I’ll just throw in a plug for another Mike Nichols movie, Working Girl. He really saw that as an immigrant story—the first shot is of the Statue of Liberty, even though they’re [emigrating] from Staten Island! I think Mike thought it was as distant of a land as the old country, I’m not sure he spent a lot of time on Staten Island.

Katharine Hepburn in ‘Woman of the Year’ (1942).

What are some of your other problematic faves? The classics we acknowledge have not aged well, but you love anyway. AM: I think My Fair Lady is one of those. I’m a sucker for make-over movies despite all of their problematic ways of showing how women need to change if you don’t fit into the mold and you should sand down all your edges. But I get worked up in the whole transformation myth and making your life better. Even though it’s got Audrey Hepburn and you want to see Julie Andrews in that role, My Fair Lady is still one that I enjoy and I can see all of the problems with it.

Another one, that we featured during our Reframed series on TCM, was Woman of the Year, which is a great example of one of those women’s pictures that, as Professor Jeanine Basinger has pointed out, is so empowering for most of the movie and then in the last five minutes it undoes everything. It’s still a great film to watch when you want to get ahead of feminism and see Katharine Hepburn in a wonderful role, but you just have to ignore the breakfast scene at the end.

MH: I was just talking the other day to some people about the movie Network, which is one of my all-time favorite movies, but if you look hard at Network, it’s very possible to read that as a story about a woman who can’t be a professional in a workplace without hollowing herself out and becoming sort of less-than-human. [Diana Christensen] is talked about terribly by the other characters and you’re supposed to learn a hard lesson about what a monster an ambitious woman can become and that does not hold up well. It’s also a movie that features some of the wittiest dialogue and some of the greatest performances of any movie of the 1970s and I’m always going to love it for that.

AM: That’s such a trope, isn’t it? The ice-cold career woman.

MH: Right, and whoever did it better than…

AM, MH: Faye Dunaway!

Alicia Malone, Mark Harris.

Which coming-of-age movie character did you find the most relatable? AM: For me, it’s Velvet Brown played by Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet. I watched that over and over as a child when I was obsessed with horses. It was so inspiring as a young girl to see another young girl chasing her dreams—pretending she’s a boy that doesn’t speak English to win the Grand National—particularly at the time when I grew up in the 1980s, when so many of those films for kids were about young boys achieving their dreams.

MH: Haven’t seen it in a long time, but the Peter Yates movie Breaking Away meant a lot to me when I was a kid. The idea of chasing something that means something to you but trying to reconcile what your parents thought about it, and how to balance your own dreams with the expectations other people had for you. I think that’s a really lovely movie.

I still think about those performances by Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Jackie Earl Haley, and of course Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley as the parents. That movie landed right in my heart the first time I saw it. I’m almost afraid to go back now, I don’t want it to have turned into one of my problematic faves! I want it to be one of my faves.

If we could gift every Letterboxd member two hours of HBO Max to discover one film from this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival lineup, which film would you want it to be? (My pick is Bless Their Little Hearts.) AM: A film that I just adore is Cléo From 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda. She was working in the French New Wave and arguably made the first movie ever in the French New Wave. It’s one of those great movies that is close to real time as possible—it should be Cléo From 5 to 6:30 really, because it’s an hour and a half. It’s so inventively shot and edited. I’ve done the walk that she did in Paris, I’ve tried to map that out and copy Cléo. I want more people to see it and discover it.

MH: My husband [playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner] recently finished writing a new version of West Side Story for Steven Spielberg that’s going to come out at the end of the year. I think I would like to gift everybody the first version of West Side Story, which opens the festival, because you have to start there. It’s a beautiful movie and I think it’s a really instructive thing to see how this story was told in 1961 versus how it’s going to be told in 2021. Also, it’s two-and-a-half hours so if we’re only gifting people two hours… they’re not going to see the ending and they’re going to have to go to the new one to find out what happens!

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