#P. D. James

[veryslowreader]

A Mind to Murder by P. D. James

Close My Eyes

[biboocat]

I was happy to find two interesting copies of favorite books at the used bookshop today: The The Mill on the Floss and The Return of the Native. I also found two others on my wish list to read for the first time: Bleak House and Cover Her Face (Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh mystery #1). The Mill on the Floss is illustrated with paintings by Wray Manning for the Limited Editions club. It is my favorite novel by any author to date, and I am looking forward to reading it in this edition.

[artisthomes]

Home of P. D. James on 58 Holland Park Avenue in London, England

[filmografie]

Dean Stockwell in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), dir. Sidney Lumet

[askmafiabobvelseb]

the beheading..

decapitated... :)

(yes, this means that BOBS trauma arc is over now.)

[fridayyy-13th]

so for AroSpec Awareness Week i decided to do an entire page of doodles dedicated to the (aromantic) love of my (aromantic) life, Sasha James <3

...buuuuuut then i didn't finish it until tonight, the Sunday after ASAW ended 😅 but here she is!! the best character in TMA!

and as always, full page under the cut & IDs in alt!

[yamodii-official]

god i love job hunting as a part timer

[kindheartedgummybears]

guess who got bored and decided to color-swatch most of the lh characters

now obviously take all of this with a grain of salt since we all know color-picking from screenshots and models isn't the best way to get their skin tone due to color theory and color-picking being pixel but pixel but its the general kind of skin tone they have so <3

all images sourced from HariboStixx on DeviantArt.

[pi-mawrth]

[thebellaedit]

"It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style."

P D James

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[klirk-hammurton]

James, that's such slutty behavior 👀 I live for it

[jaybeefoxy]

Watched the Martin Shaw version of Dalgliesh the other night for the first time. UK TV Play has The Murder Room and Death in Holy Orders on demand. I have to say, I liked Martin's rendition of the character, but he's not as quietly contemplative as Bertie Carvel. He's studied, thoughtful, and shows the character's dedication to the pursuit of truth, but he's not as intimidating as Carvel manages to make his version. Somehow, the new version is much more like the original. I've stuck the rest of this review under the cut. I'd be interested in other folk's thoughts.

They messed with the Martin Shaw stories, but I can forgive it for the purposes of dramatising. I've not read the Murder Room yet so I can't compare it, but I've just finished Death in Holy Orders and was interested to see how it played out. They slightly changed the ending, probably to make it more dramatic, but I'm not sure they really needed to. They don't really seem to bring out the fact that Dalgliesh is a poet in Shaw's version. It seems to be used far more in the recent series.

I'm hoping they do Holy Orders for the new series because if they're sticking to canon, this is where P D James introduces Emma Lavenham. Not that I want to see Dalgliesh with a new love interest (because I definitely ship him with Carlys Peer's Miskin), but I'm interested from a literary pov to see what they do with it.

I was slightly confused, because they stuck Emma in Murder Room for Martin's series, which she isn't in Bertie's rendition. However, they filmed out of book sequence for the new one. Far as I can see Murder Room comes after Holy Orders, so the new series has ignored canon there.

However, I liked neither of the actresses who took Miskin's role in the Martin Shaw series. Tilly Blackwood played a version closer to the books in terms of looks, but I didn't feel sympathetic to her character's attitude. Victoria Scarborough took the role in Holy Orders, (so from a blond actress, they jump to one with short dark hair) and I found her too sharp-edged, despite perhaps being closer to the changes wrought in her by James' writing as the character grows.

I like Carlys Peer's rendition, despite it being the least like the books (not least of which because they didn't cast a white actress), but she brings out Miskin's relationship with Dalgliesh better, in my humble opinion.

Nor did I care for the rendition of Piers Tarrant either. In the Carvel version they've mashed up the (book) characters of Daniel Aaron and Piers Tarrant, so we seem to get Daniel Tarrant, played by Alastair Brammer. I feel he's a much better fit than William Beck who seems to be whinging all the time.

Personally, for series three, I would like to see them do Death in Holy Orders, The Lighthouse and The Private Patient. I think this would allow them to introduce Emma (even though I'd prefer an outcome with Kate Miskin, that's for fanfic realms, not television), and follow their relationship. Private Patient is the last one in the series, so it would allow them to tie this up to three series, unless a fourth is planned, in which case, they'll have to mess around with the timeline, which I hope they don’t do. The main problem I can see is that the last series was firmly rooted in the 70s and the last book brings us up to 2008. It's a big leap, and one I'm not sure will work. Roll on 2024.

[denimbex1986]

'...Joining Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon in the blue chip cast are Chris Messina (Sharp Objects) as U.S. meteorologist Irving P. Krick and Golden Globe and Emmy winner Damian Lewis (Billions) as legendary British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery.

The true story will see All of Us Strangers and Ripley star Scott play Britain’s Chief Meteorological Officer James Stagg, whose job it was to inform Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower (Fraser) of weather conditions that would make or break their Normandy invasion. The complex decision-making was critical in the fate of WWII and the course of history...

The synopsis reads: “In the seventy two hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element – the British weather. Britain’s chief meteorological officer James Stagg (Andrew Scott) is called upon to deliver the most consequential forecast in history, locking him into a tense standoff with the entire Allied leadership. The wrong conditions could devastate the largest ever seaborne invasion, while any delay risks German intelligence catching on.

“With only his trusted aide Captain Kay Summersby (Kerry Condon) to confide in, and haunted by a catastrophic D-Day rehearsal, the final decision rests with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (Fraser). With only hours to go, the fate of the war and the lives of millions hang in the balance.”

HODs include DP Jamie Ramsey (All Of Us Strangers), production designer Daniel Taylor (True Detective), costume designer Liza Bracey (We Live In Time) and casting by Lucy Bevan (Masters Of Air). Studiocanal is handling worldwide sales.

Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin will oversee for Studiocanal with Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin aboard as executive producers.

Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh, EVP Production Ron Halpern and SVP Global Production Joe Naftalin commented: “We are thrilled to have reunited with our long term partners at Working Title, and to be working with our brilliant filmmaker Anthony Maras on this special production. Anthony has assembled a world class array of talent, and the nail-biting true story of the last minute decision-making involved in D-Day is urgent and extraordinary. We can’t wait to share Anthony’s bold and exciting cinematic vision with audiences around the world next year.”...'

[emiliasilverova]

Silverova's very own list of 00 agents

No idea if anybody will be interested to be fair, but well, I made this on a whim 🙃

Some notes:

This is Craig!Bond verse, set in 2014 shoo, shoo, Spectre

13 00s, because I don't think there has been any number above 0013 in the extended universe (that being said I'm not using any characters from said extended universe, because I just don't know them well enough). Also it puts Bond right at the middle 👀

001 is a weird case because he's both an OC and not an OC. He's technically the main character of the video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent, but since he's one of those silent protagonists everything but his name and appearance is completely made up by me

If @themuller13 is hanging around here, hope you're not mad that I couldn't find a better name than "Martisha" for Nomi

004 chose his name specifically to confuse people over the pronunciation (spoiler: it's Ka-zhee-myesh)... and also because I couldn't help making a Metal Gear Solid reference (Kaz, hmmm?)

"Panj" happens to mean "five" in Punjabi (thanks for the intel @00qsillyfanturtle)

James bloody Bond, a Catholic? 😱 Yessir (or ma'am, or any term that applies)

009 is named Eric after Eric Bryce (009 in the Spectre script)

My faceclaims for 008 and 0010 are respectively Regé-Jean Page and Joanna Dark (from the N64 game Perfect Dark)

0011 is Silver (my 16 year old OC) in 00 form. You might have encountered her in some fics of mine already

0013 is by far the least murderous one of them (followed by 005)

Religious background is just, well, a background--doesn't mean they're practising, or even believers

Languages in italics mean that said languages are more or less understood, though not enough to hold a conversation

You can ask lore questions on any of them, if you want. I'll be certainly happy to answer!

PS: damn, it's my 100th post 😮

(Also, cut in two parts to be a bit more readable on mobile)

[bitchslapblastoids]

Dan heard we wanted him to pull his damn pants up and he took the note

GUYS

[hlfmoonshine]

RED AS...

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"red does not always signal danger and aggression. perhaps not surprisingly, red also symbolizes passion, love, and desire. red symbolizes energy, passion, strength, courage, physical activity, creativity, warmth, and security. it is also associated with aggression. In healing, use red to bring warmth and burn out disease."