#a haunting in benice

[thepunktheory]

Book vs. Movie: A Haunting in Venice/Hallowe'en Party

Hello, my darling readers!Today we’re going to tackle Kenneth Branagh’s latest Hercule Poirot adaptation, A Haunting in Venice which is based on Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party. Let’s see how Branagh did this time… The Plot of the Movie (according to Rotten Tomatoes): “A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring…

[wdawktpodcast-blog]

A Floppy Cloth F*ck - Episode 19 has been live since yesterday friends! Have you listened yet?! #wedrinkandweknowthings #podcast #husbandandwife #allthingsweird #creepy #haunted #ghosts #conspiracytheory #truecrime #comedy #benice #wordsarehard #dolls #scary #annabelledoll #haunteddolls #edandlorrainewarren #possessed #dyatlovpass #russia #uralmountains #hiking #snow #leaveusareview #tragedy (at Louisville, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/BumxYUFBoc9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f7je1nav7bsa

[bioticgoddess]

Witcher Drabble/Interlude Fic

Notes: Been reading the books and playing Wild Hunt. Realized that, or less, the games and books do create a relatively complete timeline. I’m sure the rest of the Witcher Fandom has figured that out, so I realize my bum is late to the party. That said, Lady of the Lake ending how it does and Wild Hunt picking up where it does I thought - what if Ciri knew she’d have to leave Galahad’s world and come back to the Nordling/Witcher World at some point? So here’s that drabble.

Spoiler Warning: If you haven’t read the books or played the games (or been sucked into this fandom...). 

Goodbye

She could feel it, Child of Destiny, in the water and earth, smell it on the air - the Riders were coming for her. They had finally and inevitably found a way to track her and the months spent with Galahad were ending. She would not bring the Aen Elle’s wrath upon him, upon Camelot. A chill ran up her back as a gust of air rushed through her window – unseasonably cold she thought. Very soon, she would need to leave this place and it made her sick.

“Zireael, we must flee. You are not safe.”

“Avallac’h,” she muttered to the voice that echoed faintly in her head, heart beat picking up speed. She wasn’t sure if it was really the elf or just what she suspected he would say.

“Say your goodbyes Zireael. I am sorry.”

Hanging her head, grief dropped like a rock to her belly. Of course he had found her. If she suspected the Wild Hunt and Eredin could do so then it was a guarantee that the Elven Sage could track her through space and time. “I don’t want to go,” she whispered, staring at the toe of her slippers. Gwynevere had had the shoes made for her, insisting the young woman be afforded the same finery as the other ladies of court and the wives of Arthur’s Knights. “It was nice to be this way again,” ran her palms over the soft satin of her dress, “Even if only for a time.”

--

By the time Galahad came back to the chambers they shared, she had packed and changed into traveling clothes. What he found was the ashen-haired woman sharpening the sword she hadn’t used – save to train – in months. “Ciri,” he asked curiously, “What’s going on? Are you alright?”

“I have to go Galahad,” her voice was shaking. This would be more difficult than she expected. “Remember when I came here? I said that there was a chance that…that a Wizard would come for me? If he did I needed to go, to run.”

“Yes,” his blood ran cold and fear played in his eyes, “He’s come hasn’t he?”

She nodded.

“I’m going with you.”

“No,” Panic backed her words only to be squashed as she shot up, nearly cutting her hand on her blade. “Ah! No, Galahad, you belong here. This, this is your world. I have to go back to mine. To finish out the Prophecy I was born under.” Setting the blade and whetstone aside as he crossed to her, the Princess turned Witcher let herself be safe in his embrace. He smelled of sweat and firewood, a thing she knew would haunt her the way Yennefer’s own Lilac and Gooseberry fragrance haunted Geralt. Oh makers she missed them. She would miss him too.

--

They stood where they had met. Where he’d enticed her to share her story – the first place she’d felt safe in a long time. “I will come back for you, I promise,” she whispered, holding his hands and putting on a brave face. For the first time since the Fall of Cintra she felt helpless. It would not be the last.

“I love you Cirila of Cintra,” he smiled weakly, heart clenching in his chest. One last time, Galahad leaned in, pressing his lips to that of the woman before him.

“I love you too, Galahad of Caer Benic,” she smiled back and he wiped tears from her eyes.

They would have stayed there, trying to forever burn the images of one another into their minds had Avallac’h not cleared his throat. Ciri introduced him as the wizard and the masked Aen Elle Elf bowed slightly at the waist in greeting. Extending an arm to her he hastened, “I am afraid we must leave my lady.”

Reluctantly, hands slipping from Galahad’s, she stepped over to her pseudo-protector and companion. As her palm rested in his, the elf reached back behind them with his other hand. With a flourish of his wrist, a portal opened. “Are you ready?”

“Yes,” she swallowed, not entirely convinced. When he nodded they stepped through. At almost the last moment, she turned her gaze back over her shoulder to see Galahad watching and holding the token she’d given him – the Griffin medallion taken from her late tormentor, Leo Bonhart.

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May 17-23

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Venues: The Bearded Lady, Black Bear Lodge, Bloodhound, The Brat Cave, Brightside, Can You Keep A Secret, Crowbar, The End, Fat Louie’s, The Flamin’ Galah, The Foundry, Greaser, The Green Room, HeYa Bar, JMI Live, Junk Bar, Laruche, Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, Lock’n’Load, Milk Factory, New Globe Theatre, Padre, Post Office Square, Powerhouse, QPAC Green Jam, Queen St Mall, Reload, Retro Bar, Rics Bar, Sonic Sherpa, Sonny’s House of Blues, The Triffid, the Zoo

Wednesday 17

Crescent City Players, Barksdale Brass Band and Betty Smokes & The Forgetaboudits at Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Royal And The Southern Echo at the Bearded Lady: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Byron Short & The Sunset Junkies at Sonny’s House of Blues: From 9pm, more info on FB

Ben Wright Smith at the Triffid: Free entry, from 6pm. More info on FB

Abbie Cardwell, Cameron Milford and Ruby Gilbert at Retro Bar: $10 entry, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Re:Bop at Rics Bar: Free entry, from 8:30pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] I Mean Blues feat. Benny Van Jole at Greaser: Free entry, from 9pm. More info at JMI

Thursday 18

Faux Bandit and Wakan Phoenix at Crowbar: Free entry, from 8pm. More info at V FB

Jen Mize, Quiet Achiever and Tiarne at the Milk Factory: Tickets $13.30, doors at 8pm. More info on FB

Moreton and Ben Ely at the End: Free entry, from 8:30pm. More info on FB

Moondogs Blues (NZ) at Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall: From 9pm. More info on FB

Cash Savage and The Last Drinks, Karl S. Williams and Some Jerks at the Zoo: Tickets $17.85, from 8pm. More info on FB

Rap Kitchen: Spacecowboy4005, Jesswar, rohan the intern, Samurai Sam, Joey Legit and APEman at the Brightside: $10 entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Vesper Green at Rics Bar: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Revelation Groove at Can You Keep a Secret: From 7pm. More info on FB

Katie Who at Beach Burrito Fortitude Valley: Free, ALL AGES, from 7pm. More info on FB

Byron Short at the Brat Cave: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

[JAM] Soul Jam at Laruche: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Sara Tindley and Abbie Cardwell at the Junk Bar: Tickets $15, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

Major Electric with Mecha Mecha at Greaser: Free entry, from 9pm. More info on FB

Wolf Shield, Browning Mummery and S>c>r>a>p>s at the Bearded Lady: $10 entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Friday 19

Kendall Layt, Crayon, Saskia and Archie Arsenic at the Green Room: $10 entry, doors at 7pm. More info on FB

RUGGED COAST, Arpier and Galaxy Girls at Bloodhound Bar: From 7pm. More info on FB

NOISE IN MY HEAD, Matt Treffene and Nathan Sellin at the Foundry: Tickets $12.75, from 9pm. More info on FB

Shanon Watkins and Amela at the Milk Factory: Tickets $13.30, doors at 8:30pm. More info on FB

Tim Moore (SA) and O' Little Sister at a house in Woolloongabba: More info and address can be acquired through FB

The Weight Of Silence with Ivorylane, Double Chamber, All Heroes Fall, Lavidius & DIRTY BREW at the New Globe Theatre: $15 entry, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Jake Bristow at JMI Live: $10 entry, jams from 6pm, band from 8pm. More info on FB or at JMI

The Wet Fish at Lock’n’Load: Free entry, from 10pm. More info on FB

Shark & Wine at the Brat Cave: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Tobias and Karin Page at the Queen St Mall: Free, ALL AGES, from 1pm. More info on FB

Pepper Jane at Reload Espresso Bar: $20 entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

One Dragon Two Dragon at the Queen St Mall: Free, ALL AGES, from 5pm. More info on FB

Soda Jerks and The Gametes at HeYa Bar: Free entry, from 8:30pm. More info on FB

Chocolate Strings at QPAC’s Green Jam Stage: Free, ALL AGES, from 5:30pm. More info on FB

William Crighton at Sonic Sherpa: Free, ALL AGES, from 1pm. More info on FB

Captan Jak at the New Farm Bowls Club: $10 entry, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

Hope Defteros at Post Office Square: Free, ALL AGES, from 12pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Brad McCarthy Trio at Black Bear Lodge: From 7pm, more info on FB

Mt. Mountain (WA), Sacred Shrines and Flamingo Jones at the Bearded Lady: $10 entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Le Tupperware at the Bearded Lady Front Bar: Free, from 6:30pm. More info on FB

Saturday 20

The Dagwood Dogs, The Eagle Junction and The Dillion James Band at the Green Room: $5 entry, doors at 7:30pm. More info on FB

Baltimore Gun Club, BUZZkillers, Being Jane Lane, The Disgruntled Taxpayers, Bazooka Fist, Ellie Jane, ROO and Aiden Bradley at the New Globe Theatre: $10 entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Running Touch, SACHI and Austen at the Foundry: Tickets $17.85, doors at 8pm. More info on FB

Wallace, Tiana Khasi & rohan the intern at the Milk Factory: Tickets $15.30, $15 on the door, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

Grimhild and Nothing Fancy at Crowbar: Free entry, from 8pm. More info at V

Cōmmacōmma, Høt Coffee, BENICE, Mosaïc, TØBI, Tokyo Twilight, Clawmachine, Cheeki and Hakido at the Flamin’ Galah: Tickets $10, $15 on the door, from 6pm. More info on FB

sweater curse and Jess Locke at Barbara: $5 entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Night Legion, Awaken Solace, Seraphic, Wartooth, Dragonsmead and Twin City Riot at Crowbar: $15 entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Izania at the Boundary Hotel: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Elbury, Boatkeeper and Matt Hsu at the Haunt: $12 entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

Goon On The Rocks, Ringpull, No Trust, DELUSO and Sixth League at Fat Louie’s: Free entry, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

Spirit Bunny, Low Season and Leavings at the Bearded Lady: $10 entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

Royal Chant at Rics Bar: Free entry, from 9pm. More info on FB

J.B.Paterson and Majiggy at the Bearded Lady: Free entry, more info on FB

Pepper Jane at Reload Espresso Bar: $20 entry, from 2pm and 7pm. More info on FB

Angela Toohey and Caroline Hammond at the Retro Bar: $15 entry, from 7:30pm. More info on FB

Sarah Frank at Beach Burrito West End: Free, ALL AGES, from 6pm. More info on FB

Sunday 21

Loveless Union, King Kongo, Songs of Tom Smith and Hillsborough at The Foundry: From 4pm, more info on FB

Neighbour and Bad Pony with Amela at Black Bear Lodge: Tickets $15.85, doors at 7pm. More info on FB

K Mak and Alan Boyle at Junk Bar: Tickets $13.30, doors at 6pm.

Sam Haven and Cloud Tangle at Crowbar: Free entry, from 5pm. More info at V

[JAM] CHURCH at the Bearded Lady: Free entry, from 3pm. More info on FB

[JAZZ] Yellow Blackbird and Cowbird at Padre: $10 entry, from 4pm. More info on FB

The Double Happiness at the End: Free entry, from 8pm. More info on FB

AdelePickvance and Asha Jefferies at the Powerhouse Turbine Stage: Free, ALL AGES, from 3pm. More info and set times on FB

[BAND COMP] Trichome, Monster Fodder, Pinion, Not a Lemur. and Candybomber at Rics Bar: Free entry, from 7pm. More info on FB

[pilram16-blog]

#Repost @_blueeyedvegan_ (@get_repost) ・・・ #Repost @loveone_project ・・・ Do NOT turn away! THIS is a DIRECT RESULT of climate change. The Animal Agriculture Industry is the BIGGEST contributor to global warming and pollution. Please educate yourself and then Go VEGAN. @maddie.appona @jordyn.silberstein THIS is why we go #vegan 💔💔💔💔💔 . . @paulnicklen and the entire @Sea_Legacy team was pushing through their #tears and #emotions while documenting this dying polar bear. It’s a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the #beautiful and the #heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of apathy. This is what #starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death. When scientists say polar bears will be #extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner. There is no band aid solution. There was no saving this individual bear. People think that we can put platforms in the ocean or we can feed the odd starving bear. The simple truth is this—if the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar ecosystems. This large male bear was not old, and he certainly died within hours or days of this moment. But there are solutions. We must reduce our carbon footprint, eat the right food, stop cutting down our forests, and begin putting the Earth—our home—first. Please join us at @sea_legacy as we search for and implement solutions for the oceans and the animals that rely on them—including us humans. Thank you to our angel donors for your love and support and for keeping our team on location. With @CristinaMittermeier • • photo + caption #Repost @paulnicklen . . . #turningthetide #loveone #polarbear #science #climatechange #loveoneproject #earth #vegan #stoppollution #pollution #benice #heartbreak @Sea_Legacy #bethechange #nature #naturelovers @dp4k.m @christylee787 @istandwithmypack @protect.animals.worldwide #racingextinction

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@Regranned from @loveone_project - @paulnicklen And entire @Sea_Legacy team was pushing through their #tears and #emotions while documenting this dying polar bear. It’s a soul-crushing scene that still haunts me, but I know we need to share both the #beautiful and the #heartbreaking if we are going to break down the walls of #apathy. This is what #starvation looks like. The muscles atrophy. No energy. It’s a slow, painful death. When scientists say polar bears will be #extinct in the next 100 years, I think of the global population of 25,000 bears dying in this manner. There is no band aid solution. There was no saving this individual bear. People think that we can put platforms in the ocean or we can feed the odd starving bear. The simple truth is this—if the Earth continues to warm, we will lose bears and entire polar ecosystems. This large male bear was not old, and he certainly died within hours or days of this moment. But there are solutions. We must reduce our carbon footprint, eat the right food, stop cutting down our forests, and begin putting the Earth—our home—first. Please join us at @sea_legacy as we search for and implement solutions for the oceans and the animals that rely on them—including us humans. Thank you to our angel donors for your love and support and for keeping our team on location. With @CristinaMittermeier • • photo + caption #Repost @paulnicklen . . . #turningthetide #loveone #polarbear #seaice #climatechange #loveoneproject #newearth #stoppollution #pollution #benice #heartbreak @Sea_Legacy #bethechange #nature #naturelovers @dp4k.m @christylee787 @istandwithmypack @protect.animals.worldwide #racingextinction

[advocatingforwomen]

What I am about to write about has been on my mind a couple of times lately and I am sure where this post will go but let's just see. ❤️ ~~~ When I was in seventh grade I remember being at an assembly in my schools gym and I was talking with my friend when all of a sudden she tells me she has something to tell me and I am like what? That day she told me that she heard some kids talking about how fat my family was and the kids were just making fun of my parents cause of their weight. At this time I had a few extra pounds as well and I just remember feeling awful and to this day that comment still haunts me. My parents are amazing people and they shouldn't be judged for their weight. ~~~ Take the time to get to know people for what's on the inside. ❤️ ~~~ I use the picture above to push me a little further today. To make myself see that just cause I am not the skinniest person I can still rock some leggings and a crop top! 👏🏻 ~~~ #endbullying #beautiful #bodypositive #bodylove #womenempoweringwomen #benice

[wdawktpodcast-blog]

EPISODE 14 IS OUT! :) New World Airport and GUILTY Give us a listen on iTunes, google play, stitcher, Castbox, or wedrinkandweknowthings.com *warning* Andrea’s story this week contains violent subject matter involving children. #podcast #wedrinkandweknowthings #listen #tellyourfriends #husbandandwifepodcast #denverairportconspiracy #denverairport #colorado #joshpowell #murder #allthingsweird #haunted #scary #creepy #airport #conspiracytheory #wine #bourbon #gameofthrones #got #idrinkandiknowthings #benice #leaveareview #newepisode #followus (at Louisville, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsei_hBBFv_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=butse2lyserq

[wdawktpodcast-blog]

Monday’s suck.. but a new episode of We Drink and We Know Things will always make I️t suck a little less! Episode 4 is out! A Possessed Box for Wine, and Maybe a Quantum Leap You can listen to us on iTunes and now also on Google Play!!! #wedrinkandweknowthings #wedrink #got #husbandandwifepodcast #podcast #truecrime #ghosts #conspiracytheory #conspiracies #weird #fun #funny #comedy #haunted #aliens #thedibbukbox #dibbukbox #wine #boxedwine #benice #gameofthrones #quantumleap #timetravel #leaveusfivestars (at Louisville, Kentucky)