#breathing for laura

[padmaddean]

Laura & Maxine Steal Her Breath (2024)

[wardensantoineandevka]

the fact that people keep interpreting the word "consequences" to be exactly and only "punishment" and knee-jerk responding to it with "why do you want my precious Bells Hells pookies punished" frankly says a lot about more about you than it does about those who feel that C3 as a narrative never followed through on consequences for anything

this is ESPECIALLY evident when it is remembered that we're all talking about a story and doing narrative analysis and media critique here, yes, all of us, even the casual commentaries, debriefs and post-mortems of the campaign is analysis. consequences. narrative follow through. the consequential story beat that carries the weight and concluded a prior set up. results, negative or positive or neutral, that are incurred as a consequence of what happened before. a continuity of narrative logic. actions that result in the expected and prior established weight and outcome. feeling like things consistently matter and affect things meaningfully on various levels, including the personal.

[honig-dachs]

streets are saying peter might get a new love interest in spiderman 4 and you know what? fuck that. i'd rather see this

[annemarieyeretzian]

laura/imogen risking the devastating consequences of the ring the arch heart gifted imogen,,, (bonus: travis telling laura “can I just say how in love with you I am right now?” 🥰)

[antomander]

Having been to the London live show tonight, I can confirm that Ashley Johnson is the most beautiful woman to set foot in this country.

[agoldengalaxy]

besties of all time !!!!!!!!

[legendarygladiatorbeliever]

❤️🌈Luisa Binger and Christina Lopes🌈❤️

Laura & Maxine Steal Her Breath (2024)

🌈❤️💋

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Lady Isolt, heir apparent of the Duke of Loyret, looked silently out of the window of the carriage rattling swiftly away from the city gates of Dolar, back towards tranquil Ylen. Her mother required no conversational response as she lamented her failures and celebrated her successes in acquiring her purchases.

“Can you believe there was not a single alchemist with eternal candles on hand? And I sanctioned Holt to pay thrice the usual if need be! Your father will be vexed.”

That should please him then, it would spare him the trouble of having to find an excuse on his own.

“Ugly thoughts make ugly faces, young lady,” the Duchess scolded and Isolt listened wearily to a repetition of her fears, demands and wishes concerning her behaviour. In the distance the first trees began to announce the woodlands separating Ylen from the capital.

“When you are a little older and a little wiser,” her mother concluded. “Your father will teach you how to run the estate, and you shall have a clear purpose again.”

“I have been of age these two years mother, nothing prevents me from inheriting but father’s threat of disowning me,” Isolt responded rashly. This was a mistake.

The look in the Duchess ’ warm brown eyes, so very like her own, cooled to a sharp chill. “Do not be vulgar, dearest, we do not inherit, we succeed.”

Isolt held her tongue and her mother looked unhappy.

“Or perhaps you will marry,” she said, after a short silence. “You might even move away. It is not at all disreputable, you know, to let one's marriage take one abroad. Lady Helm's youngest son was very lately married to a baron from Kanne and she shall certainly not see him for a twelve month.”

“How fortunate for the happy couple,” Isolt said evenly. “I rejoice at their freedom to leave.”

“If you were to cede your place...” The Duchess smiled knowingly. “You may have a sibling yet.”

“We both know that will not happen, Mama.”

Her mother, still every bit the dark, slender beauty she was in the portraits painted thirty years ago, looked stricken. Isolt hastened to add:

"Whom could I marry? I do not have your talents for directing my affections."

It was a poor deflection, but her mother grasped at it. “Well, Fates ordaining, you will learn . Honestly Isolt, the way you run on, if I had done as you do, my father would have sent me to serve at one of the shrines. ”

If she had been in her mother ’s position, she would have gone, gladly.

“You are so disagreeable.” Her mother turned away from her. “What a way to celebrate our first outing in months. Next time you must come with me to the salon, instead of charging off on your own. I could have had need of Holt myself, you know.”

Isolt bowed her head and turned back to the window. Poor Holt. He had been so distressed at losing sight of her. At least he would never dare to tell her parents.

Not until it no longer mattered.

[Read the rest of The Heiress and the Rogue on AO3!]

[nothoughtsonlytrance]

“And that’s it…time changes everything!”

Song: Breathe Music by Laura Brehm (one of my favorite artists! Highly recommend her music!)

[hxhhasmysoul]

Tagged by @iris-nonsense thank you 💙

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[showmehowtoelectriceel]

extremely normal news anchors. a nepobaby and a guy everybody lusts over but his coworker hate him but keep him for ratings

[padmaddean]

My top 10 of the best scenes of 2024

I know I usually create a top 10 list of the best couples of the year, but this year has either been particularly disappointing or I’ve become more picky. Either way, I couldn’t find 10 couples that I liked this time. Instead, I put together a top 10 of the best scenes. For some reason, it was easier to choose these. Let’s hope next year will be better.

Happy New Year!

Vi & Caitlyn Arcane: League of Legends s02e08

Jules & Mika Grey's Anatomy s21e01

Nova & Alice Nova & Alice (2024)

Agatha & Rio Agatha All Along s01e08

Rhaenyra & Mysaria House Of The Dragon s02e06

Laura & Maxine Steal Her Breath (2024)

Cruz & Josephina Lioness s02e07

Cami & Wyatt Killer Body Count (2024)

Noa & Jen Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin s02e05

Lily & Natasha Strictly Confidential (2024)

[kashilascorner]

Okay!! Done with The Count of Monte Cristo. That was a ride. I did not enjoy the ending in itself much. The final chapter felt a bit disjointed and while I can understand Edmond was trying to teach Morrel and Valentine a lesson that's more important than any treasure, I think keeping them apart was unnecessarily convoluted and, frankly, cruel, especially keeping Valentine in the dark about her family's demise.

That being said, compared to the 2024 movie, which was my gateway into the book (spoilers for the movie ahead):

I still think it was very well adapted and I generally enjoy the changes made.

In particular, Benedetto/Cavalcanti's storyline in the movie works wonderfully and his relationship to both Eugénie and Haydée was cute. I do prefer this Cavalcanti over book!Cavalcanti because he feels more rounded. However, the movie cannot top Villefort's demise in the book. It's extremely good and heart wrenching.

The movie utilizes Albert and Haydée in the end in a vaguely similar way to Morrels and Valentine in the book, which was appreciated. They close the circle their literal or adoptive parents started and Edmond sails off on his own and I think there's a lot of beauty in that too.

I disagree that the changes made to Haydée's character in the movie reinforce the orientalism. The movie did not even try suppressing (or addressing) the orientalism, I do agree with that, and believe things could have been handled better. But Haydée's seduction game is entirely premeditated. She's not alluring as a walking oriental femme fatale, she is rather explicitly made to look that way. She and the count play with that as part of the trap they are laying for Albert. This mirrors Cavalcanti's trap too. It is similar to the way "Sinbad the Sailor" metaphorically seduces Franz d'Épinay in the book when they first met. I'm not saying it was perfect though. I'd say the orientalism in regards to Haydee has more to do with casting choices, costumes and treatment of her background than with the narrative use made of her in the movie. Sorry, but revenge-seeking willing to seduce her way to her goals movie!Haydée that still has a filialish role to the Count is definitely more appealing to me than submissive (literally a slave), love-sick book!Haydée who most of the time only waits and pines. She does testify against Fernando on her own accord and free will and shows an absolutely amazing strength and I love book!Haydée for that but it's not often that she gets to shine like she deserves.

Making Edmond and Fernando childhood friends is actually good, I loved that! But making the Mondegos an already affluent and well positioned family by the beginning and making Mercedes/Edmond lowkey forbidden because of class difference was not so good. One of the most interesting things in the book is getting to see just how much their status improves -with Edmond being the price to pay.

The movie does go much easier on Mercedes, WHICH SHE DESERVES. The aspect of her being "unfaithful" is moderately prominent in Edmond's discourse in the book, even if Edmond tells her to her face she's a saint. Given her ending, I think the book narratively does punish her for that so-called infidelity which I personally believe to be absolutely unfair but. 19th century right.

Other book things I prefer over the movie: Fernando's ending. The final battle was super fun to watch but sorry. Fernando offing himself because his family left him adds a whole other layer of tragedy and gives him a sort of redeeming quality (even if in the book they don't really put it this way). In the movie he has no redeeming quality lol

Also. I get why Noirtier was not much there. Same happens with the Morrels and Valentine. But Noirtier is one of the characters from the book that fascinate me the most so I'll miss him

[criefffs]

I want you to know that I gave it up willingly/ Nothing real was lost in the bringing of you to me

[dykefever]

hi guys back from iceland i saw the northern lights and lots of waterfalls and stuff it was amazing :-)))

[frederickjones]

𝓜ʸˢ𝙏𝙀ᴿ𝘠    𝐈𝐍𝐂.        ˚  〜 ₊   ✿      ˖     𝙰𝙲𝙲𝙾𝚁𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚃𝙾 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚉𝙴𝙳 𝙲𝙰𝙽𝙾𝙽.

Fᴿᴱᴰ... (i)      1.   the virgin suicides (1999) dir. sofia coppola    2.    society (1989) dir. brian yuzna    3.     the evil dead (1981) dir. sam raimi    4.     a nightmare on elm street 4: the dream master (1988) dir. renny harlin    5.     the burning (1981) dir. tony maylam     6.     the breakfast club (1985) dir. john hughes     7.     twin peaks (tv, 1990-2017)     8.    ryan phillippe    9.    mark-paul gosselaar    10.    scream (2022) dir.  matt bettinelli-olpin, tyler gillett    11.    the loved ones (2009) dir. sean byrne    12.    beetlejuice (1988) dir. tim burton   13.    the x files (tv, 1993-2018)    14.    martin solveig feat. dragonette - boys & girls    15.    back to the old house - the smiths   16.    scooby doo 2: monsters unleashed (2004) dir. raja gosnell 

Vᴱᴸᴹᴬ... (ii)     1.    mirror mirror (1990) dir. marina sargenti    2.    vampire in brooklyn (1995) dir. wes craven    3.    kilo kish    4.    detention (2011) dir. joseph kahn    5.    cherry falls (2000) dir. geoffrey wright    6.    the scream, 1893 by edvard munch    7.    the breakfast club (1985) dir. john hughes    8.    scooby doo 2: monsters unleashed (2004) script by james gunn    9.    a nightmare on elm street 4: the dream master (1988) dir.   renny harlin    10.    bones (2001) dir. ernest dickerson    11.     le fabuleux destin d'amélie poulain (2001) dir. jean-pierre jeunet    12.     the craft (1996) dir. andrew fleming    13.    ghost world (2001) dir. terry zwigoff    14.    susie searches (2023) dir. sophie kargman

Sᴴᴬᴳᴳʸ... (iii)    1.     clueless (1995) dir. amy heckerling    2.    detention (2011) dir. joseph kahn    3.    hereditary (2018) dir. ari aster     4.     basket case (1982) dir. frank henenlotter    5.    smiley face (2007) dir. gregg araki     6.    unicorn kid - boys of paradise     7.    heath ledger    8.    the new radicals - you've been brainwashed too   9.    narrow head - ash tray    10.   go (1999) dir. doug liman 

Dᴬᴾᴴᴺᴱ... (iv)   1.      the virgin suicides (1999) dir. sofia coppola    2.    hope sandoval    3.    death proof (2007) dir. quentin tarantino    4.    go (1999) dir. doug liman    5.    scooby doo 2: monsters unleashed (2004) dir. raja gosnell    6.    fiona apple    7.    britney spears    8.    hole - miss world    9.    frankenhooker (1990) dir. frank henenlotter     10.    texas chainsaw massacre: the next generation (1995) dir. kim henkel    11.     jawbreaker (1999) dir. darren stein    12.   clueless (1995) dir. amy heckerling    13.    vivian girls - take it as it comes    14.    juno (2007) dir. jason reitman    15.    skins (tv, 2007-2013)

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