#abbey drucker

[risingstarlets]

Diane Guerrero - behind the scenes of her Abbey Drucker photoshoot 2019

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[andtheliike]

Z Berg by Abbey Drucker

thank you @tinyobserver for having the best quality versions of these pics xoxo

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Evangeline Lilly by Abbey Drucker.

[grendelsmom]

The importance Pentiment places on food, on shared meals in the first two acts is something that can be so meaningful and personal to me.

From the lunch at the hill by the Abbey with Endris and Otto, to dinner with the Druckers or even the baron's wife. You share their meals and their stories and learn who they are not just by what they say, but by what they eat.

There's something so fundamentally human about being welcomed at a table.

[noobsomeexagerjunk]

fuck it. Pentiment AU time.

It was really conceptualized for a fic idea (whose title is temporarily called Layers Labyrinthine), but it's spiralled enough that I felt a need to do some semblance of character design.

Basically, Lenhardt shoots Peter instead of Ulrich. The mill burns but the abbey doesn't and the aftermath forces the lord of the town to shuffle the powers of Tassing a little. A council is made, Matthieu is abbot, and both are under the town lord's stricter command.

Andreas leaves 1525 Tassing shaken into prioritizing what's left of his home life and repairs the relationship he has with his wife, enough that they try for another child again. In 1534, Sabine doesnt make it and the baby doesnt either, which gives rich man Maler the really big sad. He's richer but more lonely, and tries to keep himself sane by being picky with clients, even pickier with apprentices and maintaining correspondence with them + his closest friends in Tassing, the Druckers. At the height of his melancholy, he returns to Tassing in 1543, considering abandoning everything in Nuremburg. Within that week, Claus is killed, and Andreas swears to help a grief-stricken Magda, whose plans to leave for Prague are interrupted by the event.

This is still about a mural, and still very much about history, but the stakes have shifted, and whoever the thread-puller is, they have a stronger will to keep everything as it is. Might contain some OCs if only to fill in gaps. I haven't figured out the rest.

Design notes:

- Andreas is rich, rich people somewhat follow trends, and I'm pretty sure fashion styles change in 20 years so I had to research a little for this guy's outfit. Took colors associated with his Act I & II looks + yellows from his dead wife and child. The grey is to parallel his final look at the end of the game, as well as his hair and beard.

- Gave Magda Claus's hat as well as a bit of her mother Marie's old clothes. Since Claus is dead here, I wanted her to, like, inherit the guy's mix of colors in his fashion. So, teals, reds, and browns for Magda.

[emily-watch-the-stars]

Everglades | Abbey Drucker - Caitriona Balfe

[druckers]

Andreas maler and/or magda for the character questions?

answering both because they are my friends ^_^ (spoilers obv)

for andreas:

first impression honestly its been about 6 months and ive done 3 other playthroughs since my first so i dont have the best memory of it. i was very charmed by him as a protagonist but i think it took me until my second playthrough to really get a good feel for who he is

impression now i adore him and adore how well his character arc is finished up. everytime i go back for a replay i put more and more little things together about him and he feels like someone i know. i love following him throughout the story and grieving with him and just going through all of my goddamn emotions playing as him. i shit you not i think hes just one of my favorite videogame protagonists ever

favorite moment i feel like its a little cheesy saying the windmill with ulrike and little andreas because its the last proper scene in the game but everything about it gets me.. its a very small ending but i feel like its perfect. theres a routine in it being right before supper. hes spending time with the kids and getting their energy out for maybe a half hour before they sit down and eat... it shows how well hes settled into tassing and how hes recovering and how he really is loved by the people there i think.

idea for a story with the nature of pentiments setup in acts with timeskips inbetween i think you can do a lot to fill in the blanks. i want to know more about josef and daniel and the rest of his family or how he tried to raise august or how his first week or so with caspar was or how he got to know magdalene for the few months before she left for prague. i have something drafted (no idea if itll ever get finished though) thats about him and the druckers before the events of act 1 and how you go about integrating a traveling artist into your family unit

unpopular opinion see the nice thing about pentiment being kind of niche is i havent seen any really shit opinions that end up as Major Shit Opinions but i will always have contempt in my heart for the people who say andreas never dying doesnt do anything for the story

favorite relationship sorry this is a garrett tumblr user druckers moment but his friendship with claus (and with marie and bert before they died- the lines talking about how fond they all were of eachother get me) HIIIIIITS i love how perfectly they parallel eachother and how those parallels highlight the differences that led to them falling out. and i love how they both still really care for the other despite everything. goddamn!!!!

favorite headcanon weird thing is i really dont have a lot of headcanons for most of the pentiment characters? hes bisexual though

for magdalene:

first impression also dont remember it very well for previously listed reasons but i Also feel like i missed out on a lot of act 3 my first goaround. but i got attached to her very fast in both acts. was very very very charmed when she waddled over to caspar in act 2 and said hi to him that entire interaction is adorable...

impression now she is my EVERYTHINGGGGG act 3 is my favorite out of all of them and i love her as a protagonist i love (similar point to andreas) putting so many little things about her together when i go back and play the game again. shes the character i connect with the most and everything about her story hits an extremelyyyy personal spot for me. following her progress on the mural and how its a rite of passage for her and how it connects her to both her mother and her father. waaah

favorite moment exploring in the abbey in act 3... seeing her trying to work through everything that happened the night of the revolt :-[ i feel like it gives you a lot of tiny insights into her character. also cool mural parallels wrt preserving history. to me that entire sequence reads as her rummaging around in the remains of the abbey for both her own research and for any bit of closure she can find because its her first time being there in 18 years. the music (which even lyrically fits her, i think) and the general atmosphere has just like. gotten itself stuck in my mind. its my favorite scene in the game.

idea for a story written letters between her and everyone back in tassing with little bits inbetween showing how her and the sommerfelds are getting along in prague. i have another thing drafted (unsure if it will ever be finished) with her and andreas on the night claus passes.

unpopular opinion repeat of the "niche videogame so there are not a lot of bad opinions that are widely agreed upon" point but anyone who insists shes too bitchy or shes not a good protagonist compared to andreas is getting a personal throttling courtesy of ME. act 3 is everything to me.

favorite relationship sorry garrett druckers moment. saying this as a son who spent most of his life as a daughter everything about her and claus makes me cry and throw up i see myself in her and i see my dad in him. they love eachother so much and all of the tiny ways its shown through lines of dialogue or animations or expressions.. the hardest i have ever cried over a videogame was during the conversation they have after the feast. ive been working on typing up an entire post on the mural and how its significant to both of their characters but given how much time i spend thinking about them it will probably take a very long time to actually finish writing. i want to say more but alas it will probably end up deeply personal... just please take away that claus and magdalene are some of the most important characters to me ever. (shoutout to esther too i adore her. her letters and how much her and magda love eachother.... never EVER forget it) (also shoutout to baltas also all 4 of my playthroughs had tinkerer as one of her skills and i love hanging out with him. i go back and bother him as much as possible trying to find any other bit of dialogue i can)

favorite headcanon shes a lesbian :^]

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[^^^ Link to the actual interview, it's in a foreign language]

[19lef]

"En un momento, el atractivo de Interpol se basaba en la frialdad desapegada. Banks cantaba sobre no impresionarse y entrenarse para no importarle, mientras las guitarras angulares golpeaban con una precisión como la de un pico, tratando de romper algo congelado en él. Pero en 'Interpol', su voz es mucho más clara y cálida, y en muchos sentidos, más triste. 'Exploré la vulnerabilidad por primera vez en este disco', admite. 'En el pasado, tenía más una actitud de orgullo herido', que, dice, fue una reacción a los críticos que se negaron a tomar en serio a la banda, 'pero ahora se trata más de mi lado patético'. Banks rompió con su novia de mucho tiempo, Abbey Drucker, mientras trabajaba en el álbum, y líricamente, ha tomado prestada esa experiencia. 'Hubo momentos en los que lidié con la envidia o en los que aprendí más sobre mis propias inseguridades', confiesa. 'Como, me burlo del nuevo novio de mi exnovia en una canción'. Da crédito a su entrenador vocal, Ron Anderson, quien ha trabajado con personas desde Elvis hasta Axl Rose, por ayudarlo a sacar ese pathos, tanto en su voz principal como en los coros fantasmales y apenas audibles que se entrelazan en muchas de las nuevas canciones de Interpol. 'Es casi como una corriente subconsciente', explica. 'Comunica la forma en que todos tenemos voces internas conflictivas'." —

"Interpol: The Fame Monster," eMusic.com, septiembre de 2010 (vía obstaclespecialist)

“Once, Interpol’s appeal was all about cool detachment. Banks sang about not being impressed and training himself not to care, while angular guitars hit with pick-axe precision, trying to break down something frozen in him. But on Interpol, his voice is far clearer and warmer — and in many ways, sadder. “I explored vulnerability for the first time on this record,” he admits. “In the past I had more of a chip-on-my-shoulder stance,” — which, he says, was a reaction to critics who’ve refused to take the band seriously — “but now it’s more about my pathetic side.” Banks broke up with his longtime girlfriend Abbey Drucker while working on the album, and lyrically, he’s borrowed from that experience. “There were moments where I coped with jealousy, or where I learned more about my own insecurities,” he confesses. “Like, I make fun of my ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend in one song.” He gives some credit to his voice coach Ron Anderson, who’s worked with everyone from Elvis to Axl Rose, for helping him bring out that pathos, both in his lead vocals, and in the ghostly, barely-audible background vocals that weave through many of Interpol’s new songs. “It’s almost like a subconscious undercurrent,” he explains. “It communicates the way we all have conflicting inner voices.””

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Interpol: The Fame Monster, eMusic.com, Sept 2010

(via obstaclespecialist)

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Diane Guerrero by Abbey Drucker

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alison stroming photographed by abbey drucker

[lordegallery]

Lorde, Jaime King, Taylor Swift and Hailee Steinfeld in a photo recently posted on Jaime King's instagram (taken in November 2014).

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Britney photographed by Abbey Drucker (2002)

[noobsomeexagerjunk]

pentiment review & thoughts

so. i played pentiment. writing this while at my 4th play (with my first and third as same stats, different accusations). bookworm, hedonist, bookworm again, and now businessman. having a lot of fun so far.

was prompted bc 1) this game is a common rec for disco elysium players, 2) i got andreas maler in a blorbo uquiz, so of course i had to see what the fuss was about

spoilers, obviously:

prefacing first that. uh, i got into this game with relatively surface-level understanding of the late middle ages/early renaissance, and like very little of how this impacted germany. god bless the glossary. the only thing really guiding me was being catholic + my familiarity with benedictines (the people who ran the all-girls catholic school i studied in) so uh

given that, my 1st andreas had his wanderjahre in Italy, is a bookworm with skills towards Oratory and Logic, possessing a Master's in Theology. this will be about the first play

act i

what an introduction. i played off my andreas as an intellectual with a love for God but also a concern for people regardless of class, and i just went around being as respectful as possible. emphasis on "as possible," bc i can refuse to be a Lutheran and still criticize the abbey actually <- pissed off both gernot and rothvogel

the DRUCKERS! my best friends :)

spent much of my dinners with the farmer-peasants. had a meal with sebhat as well. tassing is so alive!!!

the implication that andreas fell asleep if you choose to watch matthieu and rüdeger go at it is very funny to me. monk sex is boring ig. also sorry zdena, im too worried about piero to fuck you right now

why did i think the baron was just an intellectual outcast. of course he's an asshole who abuses his power

THE KIDS! THEY ARE SO LOVELY!

none of these suspects feel like the murderers. tbh i probably should've settled on lucky bc he had the most damning evidence in retrospect. but ferenc just had more, and i was able to push him to the archdeacon

i am a coward and did not look at the execution

act ii

this Andreas just came from France!

"you are banned from the abbey, but i need you to come join me for dinner" okay father gernot???

the golden hand inn looks sooo pretty. surprised i could only make conversation with samuel until the troops were like, really close/the drinking quest

things got worse, a revolt is in formation. this was apparently a trend all over germany at the time, and not limited to tassing. weirdly familiar huh

when you want to escape from your problems via involving yourself from the problems others instead

caspar my boy! im glad to have known you

the Sommerfelds are so lovely

these aqueducts are so cool

it was so much easier to pick Guy, as far as the evidence i got on him is concerned. your embezzlement had an effect on the abbey's management of tassing, which is now biting all of you in the ass

i knew Lenhardt was an ass but i didnt think he'd go as far as to protect the accused

that ending holy shit

act iii

haha i opened tumblr before getting here and got spoiled about the mysterious guy following magdalene

my magdalene bg is Vitae Sanctorum, Bookkeeping, Haggle, & Volksbücher

Ötz you are adorable but you do not suit Magda at all

it does not help that the town ships the two

every single theme is coming together. the question... of history!

the letter writing being so prominent here is very felt

the familiar and unfamiliar are so clouded as time progresses, its insane

apparently ill peter can live *that* long

i learned the hard way after my first run that werner will be an outright asshole in act iii if andreas doesnt speak with him well via my second run; see, my major and only interaction with the guy in run 1 is during the drinks quest in act ii. the difference is stark

martha pfieffer i wish i got more time with you <- got her contemplating the monastic life in the 1st run only? i wonder what triggers this

fucked up that i couldnt send sister susanne out. i think i played my magda too nice with the nuns

snitched on the twins immediately whoops. this is fine, i can go down the mines myself

haha i thought baltas was an act iii-only character, i straight up didnt interact with him during act ii and probably forgot he spoke during the discovery of otto's body

the readying for christmas was sooo brain-sctatchy. seeing the direct effects of our choices in the previous acts, it's so!!!

gotta be real, i thought the discussions on historiography and historical revisionism were like, just there? i didn't think it would be the core of the problem but. of course it is. it makes me feel very stupid for not pointing at father thomas sooner

like, if you spend significant amounts of time with the guy enough, his distrust of collective lay men and assertion towards the authority of the church is like, very very obvious. you see it during the dinner with the baron. when he says the words that triggers peter into burning the abbey. when you talk about claus publishing the 12 articles and agreeing upon the suggestion of banning book reading. the story of how he and sister amalie escaped the fire from their old abbey. in my 3rd run, i got strong hints when i (andreas) decided to eat with the albans (fr. thomas is present in the meal), particularly when discussing the strictness of the abbot

also, notably, in my 3rd run, during the conversation with father thomas for the christian tassing quest, a Vitae Sanctorum Magdalene can ask about the veracity of the story regarding the marian apparition, our lady of the labyrinth. when father thomas asks why she's pondering on it, if Magda is also of Volksbücher bg, she can bring up comparisons to a story she read about a man who tricked a town into believing a head he possessed was a relic from a saint. Father Thomas will then outright ask whether Magdalene thinks that it is valid of the guy to lie about that. Whatever you make Magda respond, he clearly values it. that fucked me up upon discovery, especially since i chose not to question the story of the church in my first run. that's outright foreshadowing, especially since that conversation literally takes place inside said church

anyways, i considered for a moment as to how conscious Sister Amalie was about the notes she wrote. to my fury (against thomas) and relief (for her), she was very unaware. fucking hell, i love christian mystics, and i outright ignored the implications of father thomas as her interpreter

like, i knew such interpreters would twist the testimonies of mystics to assert the church's authority, but. i assumed that this, like the obvious real-time historical revisionism in-game, was just shit that happens. not the core. another blow to my observation skills, but what matters to me is that i figured it out eventually

i had an inkling claus would die but not like that D":

like. magda on christmas eve. dad's friend is back from the dead. the town priest has been responsible for the deaths of people who risked the secrets of the town. dad is dead. idk if the devs over there are interested in spin-offs, but the time between christmas 1543 and when magda leaves for prague should be known

the müller kids really take after their parents, and seeing them interact with old man maler really warmed my heart

ugh, what a lovely game. it deserves its praises