#blackey

[xsosuni]

Xexexexe, I love playing dress up

Imma make more christmassy/winter outfits for everybody else. (⌒‐⌒)

Suggestions? <(▪︎v ←)

[the-bitterest-breakups-poll]

Poll: Round 1 #6

*Reminder that Break up is being used loosely here and not all relationships may be romantic in nature

Propaganda under cut:

Sherlock and Watson:

Watson realises that Sherlock has been keeping a secret from him for three years that could have put him and Mary in danger. They argue, big time, and Watson decides he's finished helping Holmes with cases altogether. Holmes leaves and Watson spends the rest of the day sitting around in a "melancholic torpor".

Anna, Sasha, and Marcy:

No propaganda was submitted

[starsburnout]

"buck" this "eddie" that WHERE'S THE HEN AND KAREN AND MARA AND DENNY CONTENT? WHERE'S THE ESSAYS? WHERE'S THE LOVE? WHERE'S THE- you get the picture

[podargus-strigoides]

my ideal frankenstein adapation would be an indie, undergound, but still well-funded theatre show. think la mama experimental theatre vibes. (yeah, that doesn't make any sense. well-funded INDIE theatre? a fucking fantasy. hence the Ideal)

it'd have the creature as a stage puppet, much like blackeyed theatre's. but much bigger and more angular, like toby olié's christmas carol puppet

it would cast bobby bradley (again) because he's hand's down my favourite victor.

unlike blackeyed theatre, it would be like. a really weird mostly nonverbal performance to a bunch of songs by igorrr and alamaaliman varsarat. so more of a dance than a play but still not really a dance.

lots of puppetry and non-naturalistic object theatre involved. would be awesome to play with scale, too....the mountain scenes to use the set as a mountain and have a mini puppet victor and creature climbing it. visually a lot like the depraved appetite of tarrare the freak... surgical room would be a great set...

the background would have william kentridge-esque charcoal animations to help with backgrounds and expressions. like in war horse or ubu and the truth commision

the vision is grand and powerful in my mind but my god it would be hell to put together. a man can dream...

[drowningparty]

Jack Bannell in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 2017.

[pestisly]

If you could have a pencil that haid anything written on it what would you have it say?

Ce n'est pas un crayon~

[strathshepard]

Eating black-eyed peas on New Years Day is thought to bring mystical good luck in the year ahead – a tradition (possibly a superstition) that goes back centuries. These organic ones from Camellia are delicious and the package looks great on a pantry shelf. Buy them here

[bunnygirl678]

the problem with new years is all the lucky food i hate.

like i really only like cabbage and if bacon counts as pork then i'm okay (cabbage fried in bacon yum yum bein from the south rules)

but i hate hate hate black eyed peas, i avoid cornbread, and for the most part don't really like pork

but every year i stuff my face with the shit hoping to get some money and luck

[itwasthereaminuteago]

|| Blackeyed & Blue ||

A Frank Castle x OC/Female Reader series/series of vignettes, following you (Blue), a mechanic working in Hell's Kitchen, where you meet The Punisher and life is irrevocably changed…

Skull & Crossed Wires

Familiar

Living Dead Girl

12/13

...

Coming... um, when I finish a couple of chapters that I've got on the go, also please be warned this might not be a thing I even finish. 😁 no strict release schedule with that in mind but if you want to be 'tagged' please follow @itwasthereaminuteago-fics and turn on notifications! Thanks for having any faith in me at all if you do. 🤣

[sasha-whos-askin-racket]

My favourite thing about the Blackeyed Theatre Sherlock Holmes universe is that Watson is the clueless one. I know we typically say that Sherlock is the one who is emotionally unaware/stunted but not this time. Nope. This time, it's all John.

Like. Mary immediately cottoned on. She acknowledges shortly after their marriage that marrying Watson is like marrying Holmes as well because they come as a set. And she understands that. She even tells Watson that Sherlock needs him, just as much as he needs Sherlock. She just comes out and says it. She's realised it. She can tell. And more than that, she knows that John hasn't realised it.

And then, THREE YEARS LATER, Holmes, after having an argument with him about Moriarty and about trying to protect him and what have you, finally gets his head out of his ass and confesses. Straight up says he doesn’t exist without Watson.

And Watson still just. Does not comprehend.

[odysseys-blood]

WAIT NAH ACTUALLY FUCK NEW YEARS MY WHOLE FAMILY GETS TO EAT THEIR NICE LITTLE NEW YEARS MEAL BUT I CANT. SCREAMING CRYING ROLLING ON THE FLOOR ETC.

[geeoharee]

Theatre again tonight! Nearly thwarted by the 41 bus, should have known better, that is a terrible route.

Saw a version of Valley Of Fear in a tiny tiny theatre in my old home town. The room's more like a school hall than anything and I went through my usual half-an-act of not being able to look directly at the actors' faces because I was sat too close. But that has nothing to do with whether it was good or not.

It was, I think! At first I thought Watson was being mis-used - he had the most painful-looking limp I've ever seen on a Watson and was doing mainly comic relief stuff, so I was worried they weren't going to fully use him. But then they got into the case (executed by interleaving scenes of the American flashback with scenes of the investigation at Birlstone Manor - everyone playing several characters and moving around the chairs and suitcases that they had for props) and yeah that was just my usual 'Oh No Is Watson Being Wrong Done By' nerves, he was fine.

-- Oh, I just remembered the thing they got horribly wrong here! I don't want it to sound like I was just being horrible about his leg. Yeah, it's the scene where Holmes and Watson and the cop are all in a carriage going to the Manor and Watson has got a bag of sweets from somewhere and is eating them, then Holmes starts maliciously describing the effects of blowing someone's head off with a shotgun and Watson puts his sweet back in the bag. Watson was a med student and then he was a soldier. I would be amazed if it's possible to gross him out at ALL, and a bit of blood and brains certainly isn't going to do it. Anyway, back to the review --

Actually they made some really interesting points about VALL being 'the other Moriarty case'. They stated it was 1895 but also it was 'three years since Watson got married' (What are dates! We just don't know) which allowed for some sneaky "Several times in the last three years, I thought about telling you..." that Moriarty existed. Watson is somewhat put out that Holmes has been fighting a criminal mastermind who explicitly threatened John and Mary and has not, like, mentioned it. Watson threatens to quit, actually. Which means Holmes says '...well if it's our final adventure', with stifled laughter from some quadrants of the audience. And then you get a wonderfully tense 'you can get the train back to London if you want' moment except he even says 'back to Mary'. I like this writer, I really do.

Oh yeah the threat. This was a new bit (Moriarty doesn't have lines in VALL. Okay, he has one.) which I felt was SUPER effective. Holmes says, actually, I did meet this mysterious reclusive murderer once.

Watson: Where was I?! Holmes: [pointed] On your honeymoon.

And then we get the flashback, which is Holmes at an art exhibition (Watson scoffs at this! someone did their reading!), when he's joined in front of a painting (both of them staring out into the audience - Holmes does a lot of that when he's thinking, too, which I really liked) by a softly spoken gentleman with an Irish accent. They make idle conversation for a bit about the painter, who was unhappy. Drank too much. Lived on a clifftop and liked to paint the sea. Like this painting of the sea, which is beautiful, isn't it? The critics thought it was a mistake. The light's coming from two angles. The sun's over there. But he only painted what he saw, the bright stars in the sea, the reflected sparkles of the other light.

"It was his house burning down. And his best friend was killed, and his best friend's wife, too. If only he had looked the other way."

I would NEVER encourage people to give Moriarty more lines, god knows he takes up enough space in the public image of Sherlock Holmes, he turns up in stories he isn't bloody in, but I thought that was marvellous given that it's not really clear why he's in VALL in the first place and if he HAS to be, he might as well be goddamn scary.

Anyway, everyone knows the rest. "I am Birdy Edwards!" was done very well, I thought. The actor who plays Holmes had to be Baldwin because if you make him Edwards it poses logistical problems. And it really got me thinking, I almost want to re-read VALL and see if the parallels they drew are actually there, because Douglas's "death" - Holmes taking one look at his wife and realising she isn't grieving - I mean, that's suggestive. That might give a certain kind of mind an idea about the pre-requisites for successfully faking one's death.

(For god's sake, they have Holmes complaining that Watson snores, and set up a thing about him dozing off on stake-outs to get away with it. I really, really like this writer. And the actor playing Holmes flitted and spun and flung himself on the floor with the best of them. I really want that frock-coat he had on.)

[nando161mando]

Smokin' Johnny Cash - The Blackeyed Susans

[q-posts]

Saturday

Let’s express our joy to others When you express your joy to others, the joy will multiply and make others happy as well. (PL2017.26) Oyashikiri

[drowningparty]

Blake Kubena, Zach Lee, and Paige Round in Blackeyed Theatre's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 2020.

[lbeth1950]

Well, Black My Eyes!

This post might not make sense to you if you’re not from the South, but I had a near calamity today.  I had a taste for black eye peas, so I got my trusty cast iron pot out and started washing peas.  Bud made a pass through and nearly swooned with true love when he saw how lovely I looked washing peas, and the garlic, celery, and onion waiting on the chopping block.  There would be unhappiness in…