#Susannah Foster

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Susannah Foster (The Phantom of the Opera)—christine daeeee

Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes)— Moira Shearer is one of the most awe-inspiring dancers ever put to screen. Watching her performance in 'The Red Shoes' changed my fucking life. When I saw her in 'Peeping Tom' it was one of the most anxiety-inducing experiences I've ever had watching a film. Moira Shearer was not only an actress who can make you feel, she's an actress who can make you feel *desperately afraid* for her. An all-time favourite for horror, dance, and just her /presence/, man.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Moira Shearer:

Her performance in 'The Red Shoes' (if you ever have the opportunity to see this on the big screen, TAKE IT.)

[editor's note: if your TWs include death, dismemberment, or general freaky stuff, go forward with caution with these videos. Enjoy!]

Scottish flame-haired professional ballerina who made a successful move into films with ballet classic "The Red Shoes" and several other films. The best way to convey her beauty and grace is to see her in motion so gifsets are attached.

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Please check her out as Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, it's one of my favourite examples of automata ballet and she's so awesome in it

[hollywoodcomet]

Watching 1939: The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, that’s difficult. 1939 film: The Great Victor Herbert (1939) Release date: Dec. 6, 1939 Cast: Walter…

[sapphothetic]

david foster wallace, susannah irene, anne carson

[themightyacilius]

Tweets of the Week: 12 March 23

I don't want children's school lunches to be free. I think they should cost a lot and you, specifically, the person complaining about free lunches, should have to pay for them.— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) March 17, 2023 2. “Crazyism” in philosophy: (1) reminds me of Schwitzgebel’s “crazyism”: https://t.co/GsT3E6I6BI— Felipe Pereira (@fehloop) March 17, 2023 3. Sam Haselby on the good cop/…

[beggars-opera]

Hi, Salem Massachusets is a really fun place to visit, but while you’re listening to the accordion-playing werewolf and eating your caramel apple, please also remember the names of the people who died there in 1692-3, most of whom were executed by a corrupt justice system for a crime that didn’t actually exist:

Bridget Bishop

George Burroughs

Martha Carrier

Giles Corey

Martha Corey

Lydia Dustin

Mary Eastey

Ann Foster

Sarah Good

Unnamed infant of Sarah Good

Elizabeth Howe

George Jacobs

Susannah Martin

Rebecca Nurse

Sarah Osborne

Alice Parker

Mary Parker

John Proctor

Ann Pudeator

Wilmot Redd

Margaret Scott

Roger Toothaker

Samuel Wardwell

Sarah Wildes

John Willard

There are two memorials in town, one at the Charter Street cemetery, and the other at the site of the executions on Pope Street. Please visit them.

[grogusmum]

I don't want to be a wet blanket, I love Halloween in pretty much all its ways of being... but when the decorative merch, t-shirts, etc, come out each year with the "witch this," "salem that" all emblazoned with "est 1692"...

Well, it always sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth... because in the village in that year something really horrible happened.

Whether because of politics, land grabs, ageism/sexism, personal vendettas, economic competition, or ergot poisoned rye grain causing hallucinations and faulty thinking, it was all wrapped up in religious zeal and innocents were murdered.

So, every year at our Samhain program, I say their names and light a candle.

Bridget Bishop Age: 50s

George Burroughs Age: 42

Martha Carrier Age: 33

Martha Corey Age: 70s

Giles Corey Age: 70s

Lydia Dustin Age: 60s or 70s

Mary Easty Age: 56

Ann Foster Age: 70s

Sarah Good Age: 38

Elizabeth How Age: 50s

George Jacobs Sr. Age: 80s

Susannah Martin Age: 71

Rebecca Nurse Age: 71

Sarah Osborne Age: 40s

Alice Parker Age: not known

Mary Parker Age: 55

John Proctor Age: 60

Ann Pudeator Age: 70

Wilmott Redd Age: 50s

Margaret Scott Age: 77

Roger Toothaker Age: 58

Samuel Wardwell Age: 49

Sarah Wildes Age: 65

John Willard Age: 20s

I say your names and honor you today.

[scifipinups]

Doctor! Doctor!

When it comes to parts for women in sci-fi, I may be starting to pick up on a pattern here...

Kyra Zagorsky as Dr Julia Walker in Helix

Gates McFadden as Dr Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Shannon Kenny as Dr Claire Keeply in The Invisible Man (2000)

Kari Matchett as Dr Mariel Underlay in Invasion (2005)

Kim Cattrall as Dr Sheila Moran in Invasion (1997)

Deanna Russo as Dr Sarah Graiman in Knight Rider (2008)

Carla Gugino as Dr Molly Anne Caffrey in Threshold

Maria del Mar, Alexandra Wilson, Gay Thomas Wilson as, respectively, Dr Haylen Breslauer, Dr Dru Breslauer and Dr Rema Cook in Mercy Point

Fiona Gaunt as Dr Helen Smith in Moonbase 3

Lee Meriwether as Dr Ann MacGregor in The Time Tunnel

Yvonne Craig as Dr Marjorie Bolan in Mars Needs Women

Diana Muldaur as Dr Katherine Pulaski in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Susannah Harker as Dr Angela Marsh in Ultraviolet

Lynda Mason Green as Dr Suzanne McCullough in War of the Worlds (1988)

Lois Chiles as Dr Holly Goodhead in Moonraker

Jess Bush and Dr Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Alison Pill as Dr Agnes Jurati in Star Trek: Picard

Carmen du Sautoy as Dr Gentian Foster in Astronauts

Debra Messing as Dr Sloan Parker in Prey

Helen Shaver as Dr Rachel Corrigan in Poltergeist: The Legacy

Denise Richards as Dr Christmas Jones in The World is Not Enough

Hermione Norris as Dr Stella Isen in The Outcasts

Gretchen Corbett as Dr Maggie Sheridan in Jaws of Satan

Felicity Huffman as Dr Nancy Da Silva The X-Files 'Ice'

Louise Jameson as Dr Anne Reynolds in The Omega Factor

Vivian Wu as Dr Lu Wang in Away

Christina Wolf as Dr Cat Brandice in The Ark

Yvette Mimiuex as Dr Kate McCrae in The Black Hole

Saffron Burrows as Dr Susan McCallister in Deep Blue Sue

Kirstie Alley as Dr Susan Verner in Village of the Damned

And that's only the first 30! Stay tuned for the next installment!

[jknerd]

FOP AU OC: Timothea Turner

Full Name: Timothea Trinity Turner

Gender: Female

Occupation(s): Heiress of Turner’s Farm/Ranch, Owner of Foster Home

Residence: Turner’s Manor, Dimmsdale, California

Interests: Hearing her father’s public pronouncements, fairytales, outdoor gatherings

Family: Ebenezer Turner (father), Gerth Turner (mother; deceased), Unknown husband, Pappy Turner (Grandson), Gertrude (graddaughter), Darrick Turner (great grandson), Susannah Turner (great granddaughter-in-law), Timantha “Timmy” Turner (great-great-granddaughter)

Other relationships: Orville Buxaplenty (suitor), Valerian Star (friend, suitor), Charlie McBadbat (friend, suitor), Shelby Dinkleberg (suitor), Hank OxHorn (suitor), Taran V. D’Vil (friend, suitor), Alden Bitterroot (enemy), Dale Dimm (suitor, friend)

Character

Timothea Trinity Turner was a daughter of Ebenezer Turner, one of the founding members of Dimmsdale, bellman and a rich farmer. She is also Timmy’s ancestress. Unlike her occasionally unintelligent father, Timothea is fully aware of her position as rich farmer’s daughter and her beauty, she used her charm into good use; receiving money, jewels, and other valuables to use them on her Foster home for orphans, disabled, and former slaves as well as giving paycheck to her father’s workers. Her portrait has been kept in prime residence of Turner Ranch where Pappy Turner lives. Timothea bears a striking resemblance with her descendant.

Background

Timothea was a little girl when she and her father moved to California. With the dairy and farming business prospering, her father became a rich farmer. When she came of age, her father Ebenezer became one of founding members of Dimmsdale and was given a choice of what occupation he can have. When he chose to be a town crier, Orville Buxaplenty—the youngest member of founders—gained more wealth by becoming a railroad tycoon. She was seen comforting her father who regretted his choice by saying she enjoys his pronouncements, quickly cheering him up. She made official debutante, gaining mass population of suitors in Dimmsdale. Aware of what her charm and beauty can do, she decided to use them well to gain economical support from her suitors to feed the orphans, disabled and former slaves living in her recently built foster home.

It is further revealed that when she was a child, her father hired the Bitterroot family who are family of witch/wizards from Salem, Massachusetts. Their son, Alden—being same age as her—were her only companion and a friend as she knew he was a warlock, but kept a secret to protect their friendship. However, she felt concern witnessing his ambition for social power and his immense hatred for fairies. When she found a magic wand, she decided to use its magic to prosper Dimmsdale but Alden wanted it either destroyed or use it to eradicate all fairies. When he started to accuse god-children as witches, she confronts him with a help of Dale Dimm and had him sealed away as she can’t bear to see him burned alive. She then made a wish that the town doesn’t know about fairies and their existence to keep the fairies safe from Alden’s wrath. According to history, she married a man who came from poor background as he received her family name “Turner” and was known for having a buckteeth.

[passing-through-tull]

my The Dark Tower fancast* that nobody asked for

*Disclaimer: I'm not going for actual castable people here. It's more about an approximation of what those characters are like in my head. We're talking baselines here. I chose pictures of the stage in those actors lives/careers that come close enough to my vision. I'm not only considering looks, but also their craft and if I think there is the right spark there somewhere in their work. (Also minor details like eye color and changeable things like haircuts don't matter much to me and my imagination.)

anyway:

of course we're starting with the man, the myth, old long tall and ugly:

Justin Theroux as Roland Deschain of Gilead, bitch. (give him some salt in that pepper hair, blue eyes, steal his moisturizer for a month and sandblast him: bam. Roland.)

Ka-Tet of 19

Naomi Harris as Susannah Dean (and you know, Detta/Odetta)

River Phoenix as John "Jake" Chambers. Love you, Bama.

...

And what about... Eddie Dean? So far I have not come across an actor (or anybody, really) who matched what Eddie looks like in my head. Big fucking shoes to fill, he's my favorite after all...

But I'm interested in other peoples ideas about that.

bonus

Mads Mikkelsen as Father Donald Callahan

Mejis Ka-Tet

Jake Gyllenhaal as Cuthbert Allgood

Sean Astin as Alain Johns

Anya Taylor Joy as Susan Delgado

bonus

Meg Foster as Rhea of the Cöos

[nitrateglow]

Listening to the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1943 Phantom of the Opera. Susannah Foster and Nelson Eddy are in it, but Basil Rathbone is playing Erique instead of Claude Rains.

I haven't listened to much old time radio, but it's fun so far!

[hellhoundmaggie]

I'm feeling starved of Wayne content and I really like your opinions, do you have any random Wayne headcanons to share with us in these trying times?

I'm working on a big Wayne effortpost, but here's something to tide you over:

So you know how he's the Prisoner stuck in the Scarlet Estate we can see during the haunting in Ep 3? That's what the smart money's on, anyway. Anyway he knows everything the Scarlets have done. Well, I figure the old-timey Scarlets loved to play that big old piano in the Estate, and I bet they loved the music of Stephen Foster. Stephen Foster was a prolific Victorian composer of parlour and minstrel music, and many of his songs -- "Camptown Races," "Oh! Susannah," "Beautiful Dreamer," and more -- are still well-known today.

Wayne hates Stephen Foster songs. He thinks they're treacly, sentimental garbage for people with no taste, and listening to the Scarlets play them over and over and over again did nothing to change his opinion. Fastest way to get him to go ballistic is to play the opening bars of "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair." If MC tries it he'll smash that piano to splinters before he lets them play another note. Other than punching him that's the fastest way to lock yourself out of his romance arc.

[hotvintagepoll]

THE TOURNAMENT IS OVER! Eartha Kitt lounges in her deck chair in the sun, dipping her toes in the pool with Toshiro Mifune and sipping a brightly colored fruity something with an umbrella in it.

Far below in the shadow realm, however, the fallen hotties dance in the dark—let's take a minute to look back at them under the cut.

PRELIM PRETTIES:

Claude Gensac, Silvia Pinal, Ewa Aulin, Rita Tushingham, Annette Funicello, Norma Bengell, Catherine Spaak, Brigitte Auber, Micheline Presle, Nanette Fabray, Libertad Lamarque, Vera Miles, Martha Raye, Catherine McLeod, Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allan, Belle Bennet, Virginia Cherill, Mary Brian, Ruth Chatterton, Agnes Ayres, Merna Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Corinne Griffith, May Allison, Virginia Brown Faire, Alice Brady, and Jetta Goudal

ROUND ONE WONDERS:

Angie Dickinson, Thelma Ritter, Geraldine Chaplin, Evelyn Preer, Vanessa Brown, Betty Blythe, Susan Hayward, Mae Clarke, Sally Ann Howes, Ossi Oswalda, Adrienne La Russa, Hermione Gingold, Barbara Bouchet, Melina Mercouri, Anna Karina, Edwige Fenech, Charmian Carr, Pina Pellicer, Marlène Jobert, Tsuru Aoki, Alice Roberts, Leila Hyams, Lady Tsen Mei, Geneviève Bujold, Dolores Hart, Anita Berber, Bonita Granville, Vonetta McGee, Claire Windsor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Tuesday Weld, Grace Darmond, Carol Channing, Deanna Durbin, Laraine Day, Mariette Hartey, Wendy Hiller, Candy Darling, Hermione Baddely, Valeria Creti, Ella Raines, Ann Miller, Dana Wynter, Dalida, Martine Beswick, Gale Storm, Simone Signoret, Cristina Gaioni, Mabel Normand, Stéphane Audran, Ruth Weyher, Anna Wiazemsky, Ann Sheridan, Sandhya Shantaram, Alice White, Anne Francis, Gena Rowlands, Lyda Borelli, May Whitty, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Walter, Virna Lisi, Barbara Shelley, Iris Hall, Heather Angel, Anne Shirley, Joanna Pettet, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Collins, Greer Garson, Gracie Allen, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Shirley Maclaine, Geraldine Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Margaret Hamilton, Eva Gabor, Francesca Bertini, Julie Adams, Olga Baclanova, Misa Uehara, Yvette Vickers, Milena Dravić, Jenny Jugo, Madeleine Carroll, Benita Hume, Olive Borden, Shirley Jones, Miyoshi Umeki, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Mary Anderson, Charlotte Greenwood, Sybil Seely, Mona Barrie, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Ross, Madge Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Gray, Jana Brejchová, Debra Paget, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Evelyn Brent, Zelma O'Neal, Marie Laforêt, Türkan Şoray, Beatriz Costa, Irene Zazians, Eleanor Powell, Susan Luckey, Patsy Kelly, Lil Dagover, Norma Talmadge, Dorothy Mackaill, Madge Evans, Virginia McKenna, Amália Rodrigues, Mamie Van Doren, Valerie Hobson, Isabel Jeans, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Claire Luce, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nieves Navarro Garcia, Janet Leigh, Carmen Miranda, Jean Harlow, Aud Egedge-Nissen, Nina Foch, Jean Simmons, Piper Laurie, Katy Jurado, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Garvin, Frances Farmer, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Greenwood, Una Merkel, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette, Ruta Lee, Carolyn Jones, June Richmond, Eva Nil, Diana Dors, Anna Chang, Colleen Moore, Alexis Smith, Yvette Mimieux, Ruby Keeler, Viola Dana, Dolores Grey, Marie Windsor, Danielle Darieux, Jean Parker, Julie Christie, Acquanetta, Leatrice Joy, Ghita Nørby, Julie Newmar, Joanne Woodward, Sandra Dee, Eva Marie Saint, Simone Simon, Katherine Dunham, Birgitte Price, Lee Grant, Anita Page, Flora Robson, Martha Sleeper, Elsie Ames, Isabel "Coca" Sarli, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Burke, Linden Travers, Diane Baker, Joan Davis, Joan Leslie, Sylvia Sidney, Marie Dressler, June Lockhart, Emmanuelle Riva, Libertad Leblanc, Susannah Foster, Susan Fleming, Dolores Costello, Ann Smyrner, Luise Rainer, Anna Massey, Evelyn Ankers, Ruth Gordon, Eva Dahlbeck, Ansa Ikonen, Diana Wynyard, Patricia Neal, Etta Lee, Gloria Stuart, Arletty, Dorothy McGuire, Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon, Maria Schell, Lili Damita, Ethel Moses, Gloria Holden, Kay Thompson, Jeanne Crain, Edna May Oliver, Lili Liliana, Ruth Chatterton, Giulietta Masina, Claire Bloom, Dinah Sheridan, Carroll Baker, Brenda de Banzie, Milú, Hertha Thiele, Hanka Ordonówna, Lillian Roth, Jane Powell, Carol Ohmart, Betty Garrett, Kalina Jędrusik, Edana Romney, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kay Kendall, Ruth Hussey, Véra Clouzot, Jadwiga Smosarska, Marge Champion, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, María Casares, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mildred Natwick, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Elisabeth Bergner, Celeste Holm, Betty Hutton, Susan Peters, Mehtab, Leslie Caron, Anna Sten, Janet Munro, Nataša Gollová, Eve Arden, Ida Lupino, Regina Linnanheimo, Sonja Henie, and Terry (what a good girl)

ROUND TWO BEAUTIES:

Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Todd, Tura Satana, Helen Gibson, Maureen O'Hara, Rocío Dúrcal, Mary Nolan, Lois Maxwell, Maggie Smith, Zulma Faiad, Ursula Andress, Musidora, Delphine Seyrig, Marian Marsh, Leatrice Joy, Sharon Tate, Pina Menichelli, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Lee Remick, Jane Wyman, Martita Hunt, Barbara Bates, Susan Strasberg, Marie Bryant, Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, Rosalind Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brigitte Helm, Gloria Grahame, Rosemary Clooney, Bebe Daniels, Constance Bennett, Lilian Bond, Ann Dvorak, Jeanette Macdonald, Pouri Banayi, Raquel Welch, Vilma Bánky, Dorothy Malone, Olive Thomas, Celia Johnson, Moira Shearer, Priscilla Lane, Dolores del Río, Ann Sothern, Françoise Rosay, June Allyson, Carole Lombard, Jeni Le Gon, Takako Irie, Barbara Steele, Claudette Colbert, Lalita Pawar, Asta Nielsen, Sandra Milo, Maria Montez, Mae West, Alma Rose Aguirre, Bibi Andersson, Joan Blondell, Anne Bancroft, Elsa Lanchester, Nita Naldi, Suchitra Sen, Dorothy Van Engle, Elisabeth Welch, Esther Williams, Loretta Young, Margueritte De La Motte, Ita Rina, Constance Talmadge, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Bedford, Josette Day, Stefania Sandrelli, Jane Russell, Doris Dowling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donna Reed, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Billie Burke, Kyōko Kagawa, Françoise Dorléac, Hend Rostom, Monica Vitti, Lilian Harvey, Marjorie Main, Jeanne Moreau, Lola Flores, Ann Blyth, Janet Gaynor, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Sullavan, Sadhana, Ruby Myers, Lotus Long, Honor Blackman, Marsha Hunt, Debbie Reynolds, Michèle Mercier, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Tippi Hedren, Susse Wold, Vera-Ellen, Carmelita González, Nargis Dutt, Purnima, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne De Carlo, Miroslava Stern, Sheila Guyse, Helen, Margaret Dumont, Betty Grable, Joan Bennett, Jane Greer, Judith Anderson, Liv Ullman, Vera Zorina, Joan Fontaine, Silvana Mangano, and Lee Ya-Ching

ROUND THREE ELECTRIFIERS:

Jean Hagen, Sumiko Mizukubo, Mary Philbin, Ann-Margret, Margaret Rutherford, Claudia Cardinale, Eleanor Parker, Jessie Matthews, Theresa Harris, Brigitte Bardot, Alla Nazimova, Faye Dunaway, Marion Davies, Anna Magnani, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Hideko Takamine, France Nuyen, Claudine Auger, Miriam Hopkins, Maylia Fong, Samia Gamal, Maude Fealy, Machiko Kyō, Sharmila Tagore, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Juanita Moore, Anna Fougez, Waheeda Rehman, Ruan Lingyu, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Nadira, Olivia de Havilland, Abbey Lincoln, Louise Beavers, Agnes Moorehead, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer, Maria Falconetti, Reiko Sato, Marie Doro, Clara Bow, Margaret Lindsay, Catherine Denueve, Madhabi Mukherjee, Rosaura Revueltas, Hu Die, Mary Pickford, Fredi Washington, Louise Brooks, Leonor Maia, Merle Oberon, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Francine Everett, Savitri, Tita Merello, and Meena Kumari

ROUND FOUR STUNNERS:

Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Papas, Lupe Vélez, Pola Negri, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Gina Lollobrigida, Lena Horne, Nutan, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Gladys Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Darnell, Julie Andrews, Carmen Sevilla, Gloria Swanson, Glynis Johns, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Anita Ekberg, Toshia Mori, Deborah Kerr, Hazel Scott, Chelo Alonso, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Devika Rani, Shima Iwashita, and Anouk Aimée

ROUND FIVE SMOKESHOWS:

Setsuko Hara, Pearl Bailey, Joan Crawford, Madhubala, Marpessa Dawn, Keiko Awaji, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Xia Meng, Suraiya, Natalie Wood, María Félix, and Mbissine Thérèse Diop

ROUND SIX SEXY LADIES:

Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Vyjyanthimala, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman

QUARTER FINALIST GLAMAZONS:

Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Lauren Bacall

SEMIFINALIST ICONS:

Rita Moreno, Diahann Carroll

FINALIST FABULOSITY:

Hedy Lamarr

ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF THE HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE WOMAN TOURNAMENT:

Eartha Kitt

[jomiddlemarch]

Each time you happen to me all over again

“It’s a lot of fuss over nothing, a lot of silly nonsense and fretting, and I can hardly countenance that you’ve let them all convince you, Dr. Foster,” Mrs. Manson Mingott said, as if she hadn’t been saying something similar since he’d arrived. He could tell, if none of her servants and family could not, that despite her attempt at asperity she was fearful, a state she was unaccustomed to, and that allowed him to take a breath and modulate his tone, instead of responding with a completely exasperated exclamation.

“You. Had. A. Stroke,” he said, pausing between each word in some vain hope that she might accept his diagnosis. She was possibly his most difficult patient and it was not unusual for him to look back on his time in Alexandria with a fond nostalgia after a house-call paid to her at her vast brick mansion overlooking the park. “Call it an apoplexy if you wish, it’s all the same and the consequences are unchanged. You must begin to take my advice or the next time your family send for me, there will be nothing I can do.”

“How brusque you are!” she replied. “To speak to me so—”

“You retain me as your personal physician for just that reason, madam,” he said. “You know I have too much respect for you to prevaricate.” Rude was what Mary would have called him, had she heard the exchange, frank and ill-advised and would have reminded him of the woman’s frailty. But she would have smiled as she said it and reminded him he’d survived four years with Miss Hastings, he might do well to curb his tongue with Mrs. Manson Mingott as he’d managed with the former paragon of the Crimea.

“You’re no sycophant, I’ll give you that,” the older woman said, pursing her lips and shrugging her shoulders. “Though a little of the famed Southern charm wouldn’t go amiss.”

“I’m afraid that is reserved for ballrooms and barbecues, not your sickbed. Will you take the tonic I leave for you and follow my instructions regarding your diet?” he said.

“I cannot survive on consommé and that foul sassafras concoction,” she said.

“You cannot survive without them,” he replied. “Another four-course dinner with petit fours and canards a la Rouennaise will finish you off. And you cannot think to restore yourself with a good burgundy.”

“You speak like an epicure,” she said, with more reflection than accusation in her tone. “I should not have thought the table of a Bostonian matron would groan so.”

“Mrs. Foster would only take offense at your assuming her to be a Bostonian, when she is in fact from the relative wilds of New Hampshire,” Jed said. “We do eat more simply than the Beauforts and van der Luydens. It’s not a household overflowing with Allemande sauce.”

“What a droll image,” Mrs. Manson Mingott said, her smile lopsided but genuine.

“You must rest now, I think, Mrs. Mingott, and I’ll be back to look in on you tomorrow,” he said, noting the fatigue in her small, dark eyes, the effort it was taking her to keep from collapsing back on the myriad pillows surrounding her. If he hurried, he would find Mary in the sitting room with Susannah on her lap and the boys sprawled on the rug before the fire, Daniel reading aloud while Timothy and John sorted out whatever small treasures they’d accumulated, pebbles and twigs and the odd jay’s feather, as they listened to their brother and their mother’s occasional and gentle corrections of a mispronounced word. He felt a sudden pity for the old ill woman before him, swathed in Belgian lace and frills. Her family would come to see her, but the comfortable and amiable warmth of his own home was something she’d never have, for all her wealth and power.

“Have your butler send for young Mrs. Archer,” he added. May was Mrs. Mingott’s favorite granddaughter, the least likely to unsettle her, conventional, happily or at least respectably married. He’d met her once and she reminded him of Emma Green when she’d first come to Mansion House to work, fresh and dainty as a rosebud and equally certain of herself and her society. Mrs. Mingott was beyond any revelation; it would be a marvel if she ever left the confines of her elegant house. Any further change was beyond her.

[heretoreadmyfics]

🧸🎊❓️

Hey anon! Thanks for the ask!! Here’s some of my basic overview headcanons of the missing children!!

🧸 = Full Names, 🎊 = Personality,❓= Ages

Susannah “Susie” Anderson / Age 8 / Susie was regarded as a very confident and happy girl! She always had positivity to her, and she always had a smile to give others. She walked her dog and made sure to wave, she encouraged her brother to go ahead instead of staying behind her, but in the end, did all of that really matter? Yes. It did. In death, Susie doesn’t regret a thing she did in life, except for her last day…

Jeremy Anderson / Age 9 / Jeremy was very reserved, and preferred to stay in the shadows behind his sister Susie. Jeremy was very smart, and often liked to share facts along with Gabriel (his best friend of the 5, if he’s honest [and not counting Susie]). In death, Jeremy is very traumatized from the circumstances surrounding his death, but has improved in self-worth skills, as being Bonnie, to him, is being the cool guitarist bunny, and he has to keep it cool, for his favorite.

Gabriel Foster / Age 9 / Gabriel, while not being the oldest, definitely acted like it. Always having facts, bandaids, and general “mom friend” (dad friend?) energy. When Gabriel died, he couldn’t exactly always carry bandaids and such with him, but as Freddy, Gabriel makes sure that the rest of the gang always feel at the very least comfortable. Of course, this doesn’t stop him from mourning a lot.

Francis “Fritz” Rose / Age 7 / Fritz was the youngest victim, and as such, was very rowdy and energetic. In death, Fritz still keeps a childlike whimsy in him, confusing even Cassidy and Charlie, who don’t understand how even after all the horrible stuff that’s happened to him, how he still keeps that energy up. Fritz doesn’t understand it. In his mind, he just became his favorite, Foxy the Pirate Fox!

Cassidy Ha / Age 10 [turned 10 on her death day] / Cassidy. Cassidy was always regarded as “mature”, but she was really just a kid at heart. Which is why in death, she cannot let go of anything. She’s stubborn, impatient, and quick to anger. All is just a resentment. She shares Golden Freddy with Evan, the Afton boy, and is the determined leader between the both of them.

Send me an ask about my missing children!

[netherfeildren]

https://www.tumblr.com/sapphothetic/735001502886838272/david-foster-wallace-susannah-irene-anne-carson

my favorite little sith coded 🥺

ohhhhhh my best girl!! my poor girl !!!!!!!!! “i am someone who did not die when i should have died” i’m crying

[biggsodorcitystories]

TUGS FANKIDS!!!

As well as crack ships, I love fanbabies too, even for ships I do not support (not the babys fault who its parents are, after all)

So, here are some designs I scribbled for my fankids. Bit of a Tumblr "exclusive" as I've never shared this drawing on Deviantart. I hope you like them, and if you do, please give a like or comment. 🙏

With all my OCs, I am happy for anyone to use them, provided you credit and, where possible, tag me.

Onto the kiddies:

Maia Starr:

+ Daughter of Lillie and Hercules.

+ Eldest of the Starr Siblings' children.

+ Born nine months after the "revelation," which was the cause of her conception. Fortunately, Lillie and Hercules were engaged and married before they discovered their extra guest!

+ Absolutely Daddy's Little Girl, unless Uncle Warrior is around.

+ Strong-willed and independent. Likes to gently test the rules to see what she can get away with...and with whom.

Poppy Reynolds-Starr:

+ Daughter of Zip and Ten Cents.

+ Born six months after Maia.

+ ¾ British, ¼ Canadian.

+ The reason her parents had to get married.

+ Not actually canon to the main AU, Poppy and her siblings exist in an offshoot branch of it. In the main AU, Zip is straight.

+ Daddy's girl, but looks up to her Auntie Aurora and adores her paternal grandparents' St. Bernard, Titan.

+ A good girl, but not above getting up to mischief.

Orion Starr:

+ Son of Hercules and Lillie.

+ Three years younger than Maia.

+ His birth was something of a relief to Hercules, who wanted his children to be born closer together than he and his siblings (He is eight years older than Warrior, twelve older than Ten Cents, and thirteen older than the twins).

+ Takes after his father in that he always looks out for his younger siblings and cousins, but usually lets Maia do the talking and make decisions.

+ Lillie suspects he lets his sister try new things first to make sure it's safe!

Cassandra Starr:

+ Daughter of Warrior and Susannah (oc daughter of Zebedee and Edward)

+ Eldest grandchild of Zebedee and Edward, and practically worshipped by them both!

+ Joked to be Big Mac and Top Hat's 'practice grandchild,' as Warrior was briefly fostered by them.

+ Not a spoiled brat, which is something of a miracle!

+ Through her mother is ¼ steam engine, which does make her slightly faster than her cousins.

+ Two years younger than Orion.

+ Daddy's girl, also Grandad's girl. Literally likes everyone though and doesn't play favourites.

+ Looks up to her uncles, Bill and Ben, much to everyone's horror, and has made them her role models!