#alice pitt

[samantha-and-nellie]

so like, i realize this is morbid, but the reason behind the age gap between cornelia and her other siblings is probably because of unmentioned pitt siblings dying, right?

[despatchrey]

Where are the Alice x reader guys come on please😔🙏🏼(Alice in eps 8 with rio broke me)

[disneytva]

Development Art by Alex Kirwan for a rejected Untitled Disney Television Animation Series starring Mr Toad, Merlin and Cheshire Cat.

"This was before Merlin was made into a teenager and Toad was given checkered vans so that they’d be more kid relatable. You can’t make this stuff up!" - Kirwan.

"Oh man I forgot about those notes 🤢" - Joe Pitt ("Gravity Falls", "Park Poppers")

[churrosbitxh]

ANOTHER HALLOWEEN DPS STUFF..

DPS and Alice in Wonderland

NO PLS JUST HEAR ME OUT

Wonderland is Welton

and Todd is Alice

He fell into a rabbithole and met the poets

Neil is the Mad Hatter

Charlie is March Hare

Cameron is White Rabbit

Meeks and Pitts are Tweedledee and Tweedledum (idk they are just the perfect duo)

Mr.Keating is Cheshire Cat

Nolan is the Queen of Hearts

me just implying everything I think of with DPS...

[alsghuls]

Supporting Alicent, a victim of her circumstances, is fine whatever (especially bc she isnt as gross as her book counterpart) but AEGON? A RAPIST??? Nah.

[thegothicalice]

I bought the Micheline Pitt Labyrinth skirt because of you and it might be my new favorite item of clothing. so thank you!

Aww, yay! That skirt’s wonderful, Iris Compiet’s art is so pretty and the pockets are so roomy.

[cantsayidont]

Movies movies movies:

THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976): Disquieting, bloody psychological drama, directed by Matt Cimber (later the founder of G.L.O.W., and the basis for the "Sam Sylvia" character played by Marc Maron on the 2017–2019 G.L.O.W. TV series), about a disturbed young woman named Molly (Millie Perkins, wife of screenwriter Robert Thorn), whose horrifying history of childhood abuse causes her to sublimate sexual attraction into dissociative homicidal fits, when she isn't doting on her two young nephews or drinking herself into a haze. Vibes like an exploitation movie, but too arty and surreal to really qualify as one, and it doesn't ever feel quite like a horror movie despite the lurid subject matter; probably the closest comparison is Abel Ferrara's MS.45, with which it would make an apt double bill. Demands strong CWs for CSA and suicide, both of which are pretty rough, but it definitely makes an impression, perhaps most strikingly in the later scenes where Molly's seedy boss (Lonny Chapman) and bitchy coworker (Peggy Feury) begin to grasp how unhinged Molly has really become, leading to a disturbing finale. Too unsettling to easily recommend, hard to forget.

ALICE GOODBODY (1974): Lightweight, smutty exploitation movie, written, produced, and directed by Tom Scheuer, starring Sharon Kelly as a starstruck Hollywood waitress who loves old movies and movie stars (most of whom the people she meets in the industry have barely even heard of) and who is determined to get a small part in a new musical about Julius Caesar, even though it means sleeping with almost everyone in town. A kind of cheerful low-stakes sex comedy they don't make anymore: The situation is obviously sleazy, but not in any way that ever puts Alice in any particular jeopardy (she's in far more danger on set, where she keeps suffering different workplace accidents). The movie's central running joke is that the men whose favor she's supposed to be cultivating are at least as fixated on their own weird obsessions and neuroses as on sex, something Alice just has to sort of work around as best she can, which ends up making her sympathetic and even relatable. More likable than you'd think.

SPICE WORLD (1997): Delightfully dopey Girl Power homage to Richard Lester's A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, starring the Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant at his Richard E. Grantiest, and a cast of thousands. (Just picking out all the cameos and guest stars is half the fun.) This is what I think the Greta Gerwig BARBIE movie was going for: obviously a commercial product, and making no apologies for its mercantile ambitions, but self-aware enough and full of enough sly piss-taking to be thoroughly enjoyable even if you aren't in (or never had) a Spice Girls phase. Goes on a bit too long, but Grant's outfits alone are worth sticking it out for, and the bridge-jumping climax is very funny.

KALIFORNIA (1993): Mordant thriller starring a disconcertingly young-looking David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, a young writer who blows his advance for a new book about serial killers on an old convertible for him and his horny art photographer girlfriend Carrie Laughlin (Michelle Forbes, with disconcerting bangs) to drive across the country, photographing famous murder sites. Along the way, they pick up a couple of hitchhiking hicks, Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) and Adele Comers (Juliette Lewis), to help pay for gas, not realizing that Early is a paroled convict who's just murdered someone and has no qualms about dropping more bodies along the way. Tim Metcalfe's script (with obligatory '90s voiceover narration) scores some points early on in its depiction of Brian and Carrie's obvious classism and brittle middle-class hipster intellectualism, but the story ends up validating their prejudices rather than questioning them, which keeps the film from being entirely satisfying despite its effectiveness as a thriller. The cast is very good, with Pitt and Forbes the real standouts — Pitt plays Early as a man who draws no line between aw-shucks Southern congeniality and murderous rage, while Forbes makes Carrie's mix of ambition, appetite, and roiling intensity so vivid that you come away wondering what she's doing with Brian, who Duchovny plays as a somewhat gormless jackass. As for Lewis, suffice to say this would make an interesting double bill with NATURAL BORN KILLERS, released about a year later, where she plays a variation on the same damaged theme.

[cruiseperuse]

spotted in a magazine about twilight we got today. i know alice cullen and lestat would be best friends or mortal enemies let’s be serious.

[atreus-time-travel-read]

TIME TRAVEL ASSOCIATED CRIMINALS ARE RELYING ON DOWNGRADED TECHNOLOGY TO JUSTIFY THEIR LIES.

READ OR WATCH AND ANALYZE THE MUSIC VIDEO BAD BLOOD BY TAYLOR SWIFT FOR AN ILLUSTRATION.

[thelonelyraven]

So, sometimes I play songs.

Sometimes I even upload videos of me playing songs on TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@nierninwa?_t=8gOuxLWC3M1&_r=1) or, well, not so much in the past months, but there’s a backlog of slightly higher quality covers there, I’ve also been know to post things on YouTube (https://youtube.com/@AliceDeranged?si=h_kC1VvfaGawDoJd)

Thing is, sometimes, I’ve already posted a song both on Youtube (https://youtu.be/_BehUpxmeBg?si=DzNVwHVGvEHxpywY) and TikTok (https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ3uUNVK/)… multiple times (https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ3uspsK/). Hell, I even can have posted it years ago on Soundcloud (https://on.soundcloud.com/95dHmd5mWYJWLtQB8).

So when I play it for the umptieth time, I shared with friends a recording made some days ago, and I have another where I pour my heart out into the performance, where else can I share it?

Well, to not worry my friends and family too much on Facebook, I guess tumblr is the place.

So here.

[bestofsimoneashley]

Simone Ashley’s upcoming movies, a thread (will be updated regularly)

“Picture this”

Genre: Comedy/Rom-Com

Release Date: 2025

Plot: Pia (Simone Ashley) is single and runs a failing photography studio with her best friend Jay (Luke Featherston). As her sister (Anoushka Chada) prepares to wed, Pia's mother (Sindhu Vee) is desperate for her to also find love. Then a spiritual guru at her sister's engagement party tells her she is destined to find love on the next five dates she goes on.

Director: Prarthana Mohan

Cast: Simone Ashley, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Elliot Bird, Nikes Patel, Luke Featherston, Anoushka Chada, Phil Dunster, Eben Figueiredo, Sindhu Vee, Adil Ray

Character: “Pia”

Watch it on: Amazon Prime

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"This Tempting Madness"

Genre: psychological thriller

Release Date: 2024

Plot: A young woman awakens from a coma grievously injured, memory fractured, her husband arrested. But as she puts together the pieces of her past, she starts to question her own actions — and her perception of reality.

Director: Jennifer E. Montgomery

Cast: Simone Ashley, Mojean Aria, Austin Stowell, Suraj Sharma, Zenobia Shroff

Character: "Mia"

Watch it on: TBA

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“The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland”

Genre: animated movie

Release Date: 2024

Plot: The Queen of Hearts hates Christmas – she's banned tinsel, mince pies and even good cheer – because when she was a little princess, the White Rabbit was late delivering her letter to Father Christmas and she didn't receive a present. But one snowy Christmas Eve, Santa finally receives her letter and races to deliver her gift! Will Santa and his reindeer be able to put the Merry back into Christmas in Wonderland?

Director: Peter Baynton

Cast: Simone Ashley, Emilia Clarke, Gerald Butler

Character: "Alice"

Watch it on: TBA

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“F1”

Genre: Action, Drama

Release Date: June 25, 2025

Plot: Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), a Formula One driver who raced in the 1990s, has a horrible crash, forcing him to retire from Formula One and start racing in other disciplines. A Formula One team owner and friend (Javier Bardem) contacts Hayes and asks him to come out of retirement to mentor rookie prodigy Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) for the Expensify Apex Grand Prix team (APXGP).

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Cast: Simone Ashley, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Javier Bardem, Sarah Niles, Brad Pitt

Character: TBA

Watch it on: Apple and in cinemas

[justapotatoeater]

🎂 Remembering actress/comedian Thelma (Alice) Todd born on July 29th, 1906 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Appeared in 119 feature films and shorts between 1926 thru 1935. She performed opposite; The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chase. Thelma was also partnered with Zasu Pitts and later Patsy Kelly in over 30 comedy shorts at Hal Roach Studios. 🎭 🥂🍾

[littlequeenies]

Alice “Clay Pipe” McKenzie

Alice McKenzie (b. Alice Pitts, aka Alice Kinsey, “Clay Pipe” Alice, Alice Bryant, Kelly)

Birth date: March 8, 1845 Attacked and killed (age): July 17, 1889 (44)

Complexion: Freckle-faced Eyes colour: Hazel Hair colour: Auburn Height: 5′4″ (163 cm) Ocupation: Washerwoman and charwoman

Clothes at the time of murder/discovery: A black coat; a brown/black staff skirt; a red staff bodice; a linsey petticoat; black stockings; buttoned boots; a Paisley shawl.

Resting place: Plaistow Cemetery, Bromley.

***

Early Life

Alice McKenzie was born Alice Pitts on March 8th 1845 in the Precincts of Peterborough Minster (Cathedral), Cambridgeshire (England) to Charles Pitts, a post office messenger, and Martha, neé Watson. She had four older siblings, William, John, Martha and Jane, and two younger brothers, Charles and Thomas.

Around 1860, when she was 15, Alice worked for Mrs Strickland in her refreshment rooms in St. John Street, Peterborough. In 1861, aged 17, Alice no longer lived with her family, but  in the household of a master brazier named Edward Miller in High Cross Street, Leicester where she was employed as a house servant.

On October 11th1863 Alice Pitts marries Joseph Kinsey or McKenzie, a chair and cabinet maker at All Saints Church, Leicester. Three years later, on 21st July 1866 they became parents of Joseph James at Freeman’s Common, St Mary, Leicester. Sadly, on October 12th of the same year baby Joseph James died of ‘marasmus’ (a form of malnutrition) at 4 Joseph Street, St. Mary, Leicester. The informant was his mother, Alice, who was present at the death. The following year, on 18thFebruary 1867 Joseph Kinsey died aged 25 of tuberculosis at the same place. The informant was Alice Kinsey, then aged around 22, who was present at the death. Notices of Joseph’s death were printed in several local newspapers.

On 31st October 1873, a 27-year-old laundress named Alice McKenzie, widow of carpenter Joseph McKenzie was convicted of ’D & R’ at Southwark police court. She was fined 10s and sentenced to 7 days imprisonment with hard labour, which she served in Wandsworth Prison. She was described as 5ft 4 ½ ins tall, with Auburn hair, hazel eyes and pale complexion. She was released on 6th November, 1873. Prior to that, she had already been convicted, but the details haven’t arrived to this day.

Later life

She was later to move into the East End of London sometime before 1874. On August 13th 1875 she was admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary from Leman Street police station because she was ‘Ill and destitute’. She was discharged on 20thAugust, 1875. She went there again on June 14th 1877 due to an ulcer and stayed until the 23rd. On August 1st she was admitted to the St George Workhouse, Mint Street, Southwark having been charged with being drunk but was discharged the same day. On March 1878 her father Charles Pitts died in Peterborough, aged 74. On June 26th, a 32-year-old laundress and hawker was convicted at Southwark police court of being ‘drunk in a thoro'fare’. She was fined 5s and sentenced to 7 days imprisonment with hard labour, which she served in Wandsworth Prison. She was released on 2nd July, 1878. From 1883 Alice lived, off and on, with an Irishman named John McCormack (also Bryant) who was in the employ of some Jewish tailors in Hamburg Street as a porter, at various East End common lodging and doss-houses. On August 11th, aged 37, she was admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary due to an ulcer and she was discharged on 24th August. From November 5th to 16th she was admitted to the workhouse infirmary by a policeman who found her drunk in ‘Dorset Street’. On December 20th another policeman brought her to the Whitechapel Infirmary for alcoholism and fits. She was discharged on 23rd December.

On December 1885 her mother Martha Pitts died in Peterborough, aged 74. 

Last months and murder

On January 1889 Alice was arrested for causing a disturbance in a butcher’s shop in Long Causeway, Peterborough, very near the Minster Precincts. Besides that, Alice worked for her Jewish neighbours as a washerwoman and charwoman, and from April she resided with John McCormack mainly at Mr. Tenpenny’s common lodging house, 52 Gun Street, Spitalfields. It was managed by Mrs. Elizabeth Ryder, wife of Richard John Ryder. At this time, Alice was around 43 years of age, described as a freckle-faced woman with a penchant for both smoke and drink. She preferred the smoke of a pipe, which was soon to grant her the name “Clay Pipe” Alice by her friends and acquaintances. Her left thumb was also injured in what was no doubt some sort of industrial accident.

On Tuesday 16th July 1889 she spent the day at the common lodging house but the evening possibly at the Cambridge Music Hall with a blind boy. From 11:30pm to midnight, Alice chatted with three women, Margaret Franklin, Catherine Hughes and Sarah Marney in Flower and Dean Street, and then left alone toward Whitechapel.

On Wednesday 17th July, at 12:15am Police Constable Joseph Allen took a break under a street lamp in Castle Alley, a dark and dismal snickleway that led off Whitechapel High Street, for a bite to eat. The narrowness and overall dismalness of this alley had, for several years prior, been the subject of much comment in the local press, and this latest Whitechapel murder led to calls for the local authority to “do something” about its condition. According to Allen the alley was completely deserted. After about five minutes, Allen noticed another constable entering the alley. It was P.C. Walter Andrews, who remained in the alley for about three minutes. He saw nothing of a suspicious nature.

At about 12:25am, Sarah Smith, deputy of the Whitechapel Baths and Washhouses (which lined Castle Alley) retired to her room. She began reading in bed, the closed window of her room overlooking the entire alley. Sarah later testified she heard nothing suspicious until she heard the blow of Andrews’ whistle.

At 12:45am it began to rain in Whitechapel. Five minutes later, P.C. Andrews returned to Castle Alley on his regular beat, about twenty-seven minutes having passed since he left the area. This time, however, he discovered the body of a woman lying on the pavement, her head angled toward the curb and her feet toward the wall. Blood flowed from two stabs in the left side of her neck and her skirts had been lifted, revealing blood across her abdomen, which had been mutilated.

The pavement beneath the body of Alice was still dry, placing her death sometime after 12:25am and before 12:45am, when it began to rain. In her possession were found a clay pipe often referred to as a ‘nose warmer’ and a bronze farthing. She was noticed to have been wearing some ‘odd stockings.’ P.C. Andrews heard someone approaching the alley soon after, it was Isaac Lewis Jacobs, of Old Castle-street, who was running home when the police-constable came towards him and asked him “for God’s sake” to go to the woman and stand by while he called assistance. Lewis went to the spot while the constable was blowing his whistle. At 1:10am Inspector Edmund Reid arrived only moments before the Divisional Police Surgeon, Dr George Bagster Philips, and noted that blood was still flowing, but by when Philips arrived, about 1:12am, he pronounced life extinct.

It would be several hours before the body was identified, in the meantime a description was circulated to the newspapers, with one peculiarity: part of the nail on the thumb on the left hand was deficient. The papers also mentioned the clay pipe found near the body. Several hours elapsed before the woman was identified, but John McCormack came forward during the day and recognised her. He stated that he did not know whether the deceased had been married, and that the reason of her going out last night was that they had had a slight quarrel, and that she had never, to his knowledge, been out late at night previously. He also said that she was a hard-working woman and was very much upset about her fate. He also identified the clay pipe as belonging to her.

Investigation

Dr. Philips performed the post-mortem and declared that the cause of death was from severance of the left carotid artery. She also suffered two stabs in the left side of the neck , some bruising on chest and five bruises or marks on left side of abdomen. Cut was made from left to right, apparently while McKenzie was on the ground. The body also presented a long (seven-inch) ‘but not unduly deep’ wound from the bottom of the left breast to the navel, seven or eight scratches beginning at the navel and pointing toward the genitalia and small cut across the mons veneris. Dr. Phillips believed there was a degree of anatomical knowledge necessary to have committed the atrocities to McKenzie.

The mutilations committed upon McKenzie were mostly superficial in manner, the deepest of which opened neither the abdominal cavity nor the muscular structure. The wounds also suggested that the killer was left-handed (as opposed to the Ripper being right-handed). Phillips suggested the five marks on the left side of her body were an imprint of the killer’s right hand, which left only his left hand to facilitate the injuries. Dr. Thomas Bond disagreed, claiming there was no evidence to support the theory that those marks were made through such processes (admittedly, Bond saw the body the day after the post mortem, and it had already begun to decompose). The weapon was agreed upon to have been a ‘sharp- pointed weapon,’ although it could be smaller than the one used by the Ripper.

Phillips ultimately claimed that McKenzie’s death was not attributable to the Ripper. Dr. Thomas Bond chose the opposite conclusion, telling Sir Robert Anderson he believed it was indeed a Ripper killing, but Anderson himself disagreed, writing: “I am here assuming that the murder of Alice McKenzie on the 17th of July 1889, was by another hand. I was absent from London when it occurred, but the Chief Commissioner investigated the case on the spot and decided it was an ordinary murder, and not the work of a sexual maniac.” Inspector Frederick Abberline also believed this was not a Ripper murder.

Commissioner James Monro, who had replaced Sir Charles Warren in the position, was on duty during the investigation since Anderson was on leave at the time, and disagreed: “I need not say that every effort will be made by the police to discover the murderer, who, I am inclined to believe, is identical with the notorious Jack the Ripper of last year.” In fact, on the day of the murder, Monro deployed 3 sergeants and 39 constables on duty in Whitechapel, increasing the force with 22 extra men.

At the inquest, which was held on July 17th and 19th, and later adjourned to August 14th, Coroner Wynne Edwin Baxter acknowledged that Alice could have been either killed by the Ripper or another killer, and concluded: “There is great similarity between this and the other class of cases, which have happened in this neighbourhood, and if the same person has not committed this crime, it is clearly an imitation of the other cases.” The conclusion was the all too familiar ‘murder by a person or persons unknown.’

Aftermath

The Scotland Yard Files pertaining to the McKenzie murder detail an interesting sidebar concerning an individual named William Wallace Brodie, who confessed to murdering the woman. It was earlier printed in the Kimberley Advertiser of June 29th, 1889 that Brodie had confessed to all the Whitechapel murders while in a drunken stupor. His statement was forwarded by Chief Inspector Henry Moore, but Superintendent Thomas Arnold gave instructions to dismiss Brodie as of unsound mind. Scotland Yard gave the same prognosis: “Let him be charged as a lunatic.” It was soon discovered that Brodie had a conviction for larceny, and just to be sure, enquiries were made into his character and location during the Whitechapel Murders. It was found that he was in South Africa between September 6th, 1888 and July 15th, 1889. Ultimately, Brodie was released from custody, but was almost immediately rearrested for fraud.

Alice was buried in Plaistow Cemetery (East London) on Wednesday 24th July, 1889.

***

To know more:

Wikipedia

Casebook website – Casebook Forum – Casebook Wiki

Jack The Ripper.org

Jack The Ripper Tour

JTR Forums (where all her family and early years information comes from!)

Jack The Ripper Map

Historic Mysteries

BEGG, Paul (2013): Jack The Ripper. The Facts.

BEGG, Paul & BENNETT, John (2014): The forgotten victims.

BEGG, Paul; FIDO, Martin & SKINNER, Keith (1996): The Jack The Ripper A – Z.

EDDLESTON, John J. (2001): Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia.

EVANS, Stewart P. & RUMBELOW, Donald (2006): Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates.

EVANS, Stewart P. & SKINNER, Keith (2001): Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell.

GRAY, Drew D. (2010): London’s Shadows. The Dark Side of the Victorian City

JAKUBOWSKI, Maxim & BRAUND, Nathan (1999): The Mammoth Book of Jack The Ripper.

MARRIOTT, Trevor (2005): Jack the Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation.

PRIESTLEY, Mick P. (2018): One Autumn in Whitechapel.

RUMBELOW, Donald (2004): The Complete Jack the Ripper: Fully Revised and Updated.

TROW, M. J. (2009): Jack The Ripper: Quest for a Killer.

[drvcxrys]

under the call you will find my plotting call/starter call. i'm going to cap at three each starter so i don't get crazy but feel free to ask whatever you prefer there, i'm always happy to open and plot with all of you (: i'm only putting the jobs on the people that are not aware that things have changed in dc but those that are aware well, obviously they don't really have like a job so they are going to just go with the flow there until they figure it out.

aware that things have changed in dc.

adora (1/3) - catra

alice cullen (1/3) - minette

annabeth chase (1/3) - clarisse

betty cooper (0/3)

bree tanner (0/3)

choi nam ra (0/3)

daphne bridgerton (0/3)

hanna marin (1/3) - aria

hope mikaelson (1/3) - josie

jean grey, (0/3)

jill roberts (0/3)

kagome higurashi (1/3) - inuyasha

loona (0/3)

mal faery (3/3) - rosamund, harry, hades

malia tate (1/3) - erica

nancy wheeler (0/3)

niffty (0/3)

samantha carpenter (0/3)

tohru honda (1/3) - vivi

violet parr (0/3)

win wanichakarnjonkul (0/3)

unaware that things have changed in dc:

alicent hightower (1/3) - helaena job: innkeeper

anna of arendelle (0/3) job: astrologer

annie cresta (0/3) job: herbalist.

beverly marsh (0/3) job: dressmaker

bianca di angelo (0/3) job: painter

buffy summers (0/3) job: noblewoman

caroline forbes (1/3) - lizzie job: thespian

daenerys targaryen (1/3) - nehemia job: noblewoman

emma swan (1/3)- astrid job: noblewoman

ginny miller (1/3) - marcus job: hatmaker

heidi volturi (1/3) - klaus job: harlot

isabelle lightwood (0/3) job: blacksmith

jessica riley (0/3) job: noblewoman

katara (1/3) - aang job: nurse

lila pitts (0/3) job: assassin

lucy gray baird (1/3) - nettles job: artist

mary stuart (1/3) - kenna job: noblewoman

myrcella baratheon (0/3) job: noblewoman

rapunzel corona (3/3) - elsa, sally, ella job: dressmaker

usagi tsukino (0/3) job: baker

wednesday addams (1/3) - vesta job: unemployed, interesting in dark magic.

yelena belova (1/3) - daken job: assassin

isadora quagmire (0/3) job: astrologer.

lissa dragomir (0/3) job: noblewoman

claudia (0/3) job: unemployed.

rhaena targaryen (0/3) job: lady in waiting

wanda maximoff (2/3) - jester, lorna job: florist.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

top first-time watches tag ~

Rules: Post 9 of your favourite films you saw for the first time this year that are not new (2023/2024) but are new to you, and tag 9 others to do the same.

tagged by the amazing @illgiveyouahint thank you!!!

I didn't manage to watch as many films as I generally like to, and not much foreign stuff unfortunately :(( (I've been focusing on watching films on my ever growing watch list plus various short films I manage to stumble across!)

It was hard to narrow it down to just 9 ngl lol these were just the ones I think had the biggest emotional impact on me?

A Field In England (2013) dir. Ben Wheatley

Joy Street (1995) dir. Suzan Pitt (this is a short animated film, Suzan has a bunch of them which I watched back in March and they're honestly all incredible!!!)

Withnail & I (1987) dir. Bruce Robinson

An Adventure In Space And Time (2013) dir. Terry McDonough

Candyman (1992) dir. Bernard Rose

The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch

Saving Face (2004) dir. Alice Wu

Minotaur (1999) dir. Daniel Sousa (this is a short film someone mentioned on my letterboxd poll about least seen films btw!)

The Wicker Man (1973) dir. Robin Hardy

Special mentions (for films that came out 2023/2024 that I loved):

Bottoms (2023) dir. Emma Seligman

The Passenger (2023) dir. Carter Smith (not the best film BUT it did change my brain chemistry for a couple months lol)

Festival Of Slaps (2023) dir. Abdou Cisse (absolutely amazing short film that I'd HIGHLY recommend!)

Identiteaze (2024) dir. Jessie Earl (aka Jessie Gender on youtube! I really hope she gets to make more films tbh cos this was so queer and so delightful!)

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) dir. Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham

Tagging (no pressure ofc!): @trans-elrond @micamicster @rainbowconvection @silverview @dollopheadsandclotpoles @lapis-lazuliie @suburbanrot @coquelicoq @wintersoulwitch & honestly anyone else who wants to do it!!

[theredqueenandthebloodwyrm]

Major Spoilers for HOTD S2 Ep3

Mostly just my thoughts while watching (live blogging?). Mostly me yelling at my screen.

“Your False Queen Rhaenyra is a Kinslayer!” Ugh and your False King’s brother is a Kinslayer! I need someone to call Aemond Kinslayer on screen now.

I love Jacaerys’ understandable anger, and getting a bit tired of Rhaenyra’s flittering between peace and war. Rhaenys is getting on my nerves so much with her bs. “Reason will be forgotten”, uh no it fucking will not? And no this war was not predestined when Luke took out Aemond’s eye, it was ensured when Aegon usurped Rhaenyra’s throne and then solidified when Aemond killed Lucerys (who was a peace envoy). “Alicent Hightower” is NOT the other way, she is not the way to peace?! Have you forgotten, Rhaenys, how Alicent insulted your own son on multiple occasions? Fuck you, Rhaenys, for saying Rhaenyra permitted Jaehaerys’ death when Rhaenyra said Alicent permitted Luke’s death. Because you know what? Alicent’s shitty mothering did permit her sons to act wantonly and without care, her constant excuses of her sons, even after Luke’s death she still found ways to lessen what Aemond did.

We’re setting up Seasmoke to be claimed which is nice.

I don’t understand this weird conflict between Rhaenyra and Rhaena that they’ve established. Rhaenyra’s plan is to send Joffrey to the Vale with his dragon for his safety. While she wants Rhaena to go with Aegon & Viserys to Pentos (except at first she said Aegon & Viserys would accompany Joffrey?). It makes no sense for Rhaenyra to tell Rhaena she needs to be a mother to the boys. Rhaena shares the same father with Aegon & Viserys (they’re her half-brothers), it’d make more sense for Rhaenyra to say “I need you to be a sister/ big sister to Aegon & Viserys, protect them and keep them safe like a dragon would.” Rhaenyra should have also emphasized that sending Rhaena away was for her SAFETY! Yes, not having a dragon doesn’t help her safety, but she’d be safer away from Dragonstone either way, and surely Rhaenyra would emphasize that! I don’t understand why Rhaenyra is so short / frustrated with Rhaena in that scene, there’s no buildup to it either. They’re creating character conflicts for no reason other to have conflict.

Caraxes! Daemon on Caraxes! Love Simon Strong. He’s smart enough to bend the knee, yet also polite & witty. (“No redcurrant, sorry”).

Would Daemon actually be called “Your Grace”? Are any of the Queen Consorts called “Your Grace” in the books or show? I can’t remember. Though I imagine from a political standpoint, it’d be better to leave him as Prince Consort or refer to him as your Prince to not overshadow Rhaenyra as Queen. Sidenote: is that Alys Rivers in the background with the dark hair?

Gwayne Hightower is here! Everyone was excited for him, yeah? So Criston Cole is officially Dornish! Which is a bit weird because his house is from the Stormlands, granted located in the Dornish Marshes, but so is their liege lord House Dondarrion (who are very much not Dornish, and are very much Stormlanders). He could have like a Dornish mother I suppose. I can see some comparisons made to someone like Vayon Poole (a noble house hence the surname but a small one), yet he’s still a nobleman and certainly not a smallfolk like how some people claim.

I know I was just hating on Rhaenys but I do love her in her scenes with Corlys, the actors really sell that they’re in love / in a committed relationship full of love. The Driftmark succession is in question again, Rhaenys says it is either Rhaena or Joffrey (neither of which Corlys believes are fit). So I imagine this is how they further set up Addam and Alyn.

Wait wait, so Rhaena is going to the Vale! But she’s taking Joffrey and the other sons with her? So the plan is ward Joffrey at the Vale, and Aegon & Viserys are staying temporarily there as well. Awww, Rhaenyra giving Rhaena the clutches of eggs. Baela & Rhaena hugging!

Ooo! We get another Helaena scene! Larys pitting Aegon against Alicent & Aemond is great (and kind of funny in a manner).

Oh shit the Brothel scene. Wow I was not expecting that! Aegon is such a little shit. Wasn’t expecting all the full frontal nudity tbh.

Don’t open the letter, Rhaenyra. Just burn that shit.

YES YES YES BAELA ON MOONDANCER! MOONDANCER! BAELA THE DRAGONRIDER! DRAGON SCENE! OUR FUTURE QUEEN BAELA TARGARYEN ON HER DRAGON! GET HIM! GO GET HIM, BAELA!

Creepy ass Harrenhal really making sure we believe that it’s cursed, making Daemon hallucinate. That or the damp nature of the castle means mushrooms and fungi grew that causes hallucinations. What a freaky nightmare sequence to have Young Rhaenyra sewing up Jaehaerys’ head. Then the weirwood tree and (presumably) Alys standing there creepily. Supposedly to make us think she’s a witch.

No, no, no, no. The time for peace is over. Ugh, why do you want to go meet with her, Rhaenyra? Alicent holds no power or sway. Aegon would never agree to Peace and neither would any of Rhaenyra’s followers. “There are no terms now” Why is woe is me Alicent making a good statement for once. Should have stabbed the Queen Dowager and booked it back to Dragonstone. Alicent can’t prevent shit, Rhaenyra.