#c — emma stone.

[harrykane-hf]

I keep seeing the movie of yours advertised. Especially with the nominations you are getting for it as well. Now I just need to find the time to watch it. Congratulations on the nominations...and the wins.

@emxastone

[duranduratulsa]

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[emilynightshade89]

maybe seeing emma stone go ape shit feral in a film would fix me

[garethxsouthgate]

I know. But sometimes it can be a little scary. Yeah, even when people are married to others and fans still come up with that. I did have a good Halloween. The children did enjoy it. We didn't really get many trick or treaters though.

You'd be surprised how accurate the fans can be though. How cunning and thorough they are. When they have their heart on something, they all turn into mini detectives to try and find the truth, or enough circumstantial evidence to form their own conclusions. If they believe it happened, then it happened, despite what we know to be true. I came across a small fandom of people that ship me and Jennifer, even after we both got married and had kids. I find it flattering because I should be so lucky. Did you have a good Halloween? Did you get many trick or treaters?

[blue-jisungs]

ACTION!

author's note. first fic of the event!!! thank u so so much @slytherinshua for making this cute banner<3

genre. crack, fluff, coffee shop au, non-idol

word count. 1048

summary. movie major!vernon decides to confess to you, lead by an impulse (and a rush of caffeine)

as creepy as it sounds, vernon has been watching you. not in a stalker way, of course, but it just so happened that you both liked the same cafe. 

and you shared the same classes, like literature. and you both attended the movie club. and! he sometimes saw you on the gym when he went to accompany work out with mingyu. 

he realised this a while ago – he has a serious crush on you. 

he adored the way you always painted your nails with a glittery nail polish, the way your h/c hair fell on your arms perfectly. you also had amazing taste – not only he loved your fashion style but also during the club discussion about movies, he realised you both share the same taste in movies. and tropes… and favorite directors. 

or when, like right now, you chewed on a straw while your gaze was stuck in your laptop. the almost coal-black coffee looked sweet as hell when you drank it. 

letting out a deep sigh you put the plastic cup away and rested your chin on your hand, looking out of the window to observe passers-by. the pleasant chatter of the people inside the cafe made it really easy to space out. 

vernon failed to notice that he let his hand lie on the keyboard, his essay turning into a bunch of incoherent letters. 

suddenly, the door opened and a gust of cold wind sneaked inside causing you to turn around.

oh shh– you looked his way, don’t look–! 

maybe it’s the day he should confess? you live once, no? he already asked his friends for a piece of advice – chan said to leave it, jeonghan insisted to go for it. 

vernon sighed, grabbing his stuff and packing his belongings. careful enough not to nudge the empty glass after his cappuccino and plate with the rest of a lemon tart, he put his precious laptop covered in stickers into his bag. drumming his fingers in thought against it for a moment, he precisely weighed his options.

whatever, he’ll try. the worst you can say is no. besides, he once described emma watson as “a bit foreign, eyes beige and hair darkish-blondish”… so, props to teenager vernon for being so creative but he won’t be so corny now. hopefully. 

maybe… i think i’m in love with you and you just gotta let my love adorn you. no, too poetic. and he’ll sound like a weirdo. no, no.

vernon ordered an americano (extra shot, extra ice, make it nice) and grabbed it, taking a deep breath. casually walking up to you, he cleared his throat.

“can i?” 

your eyes tore away from the window and a cute smile appeared on your lips, brightening your face. 

“sure, vernon. sit down, i wasn’t being productive anyways” you nodded and moved your laptop to make some place. 

“y-you know my name?” he stuttered before plopping down. here goes his coolness…

“yeah, seungkwan introduced us. and we share classes together” you nodded, observing how the gears visibly turned in his head. 

“would you like to be a part of my movie?” vernon suddenly blurted out and he felt as if the whole cafe turned quiet. no chatter, no rumble of coffee machines working and glasses clinking. just you, him and silence. 

the tips of his ears reddened but his features remained calm.

“what? dude, i know you’re a cinematography major but i’m no professional” you scoffed and started chewing on your straw again. 

“no, like… that was stupid. wh… you know what i major in?” vernon was, yet again, taken aback. you nodded, taking a sip of the black liquid. the ice cubes in your cup bounced off the plastic walls when you stirred it. 

“vernon, you’re a friend of a friend. if course i know. you know my major too, so…” you let out an amused laugh and it was the most angelic sound he’s ever heard “but is the movie like a project?”

“no… just… y’know how everyone crushes emrata, emma watson or like, emma stone?” he named all the emmas he could, seeing that clearly you were confused by his words “and you… you’re just like everyone’s favorite movie” 

“what the emmas have to do with that though?” you blinked, apparently ignoring his previous sentence. 

vernon let out a shaky breath and looked around the room. couples, students, businesses men in a hurry. everyone surrounded by the smell of freshly grounded coffee beans in the air. 

“that you’re way prettier than all of them combined. and i used to have… no, let’s not go there. i keep making weird parallels to movies but what i wanted to say is that i have a huge crush on you” the boy said, fiddling with his thumbs and missing the way the straw fell out of your mouth. his eyes kept scanning the people in the cafe, afraid to meet your gaze “if you don’t know, let me explain girl. hmm, so what i mean is that saying you’re perfect is not enough…”

you scoffed at his adorable awkwardness. his iced americano began to drip on the table long ago, a small puddle of water forming around it. 

“vernon” 

“even if it doesn’t work, it’s okay…” he shrugged, looking like he was talking to himself at this point rather than to you. 

“vernon…”

“we’ll probably fight from time to time but we’ll overcome it like it’s nothing–”

“chwe hansol!”

his gaze snapped up, eyes widening. 

“not the government name?! sorry. what were you saying?” vernon rose his eyebrows and then blinked slowly. oh he’s such an idiot. 

“you’re so cute” you snickered and leaned forward, resting your chin on your interlocked hands “sure, let’s give it a go. action! as they say on movie sets, no?” 

“wha… are you serious?” vernon couldn’t believe this. it all happened so quickly and very impulsively… and… it happened for real. 

“one hundred percent serious, you movie nerd. i thought you were cute ever since i joined that movie club… so why not?” you nodded gently and saw a white smile bloom on his lips.

“i… i kinda can’t believe it. but so… y/n, may we go on a first date then? movies?” he asked excitedly, whipping out his student id “i have discounts!”

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[eqho]

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ introduction ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

" wherever books are burned, men in the end will also burn. " - heinrich heine

" until we are all free, we are none of us free. " - emma lazarus

☆ i am 3teen :3

☆ i study psychology (since i was 9, so for 4+ years hehe) bc it's a hyperfixation, but I don't support demonizing cluster bs or paras, or using your unfair power dynamic as a mental health provider to mistreat your parents, nor do I support the disgusting treatment of patients in mental hospitals

☆ I wanna be a lawyer :3

☆ i am proship/comship/darkship

☆ pro-para and anti-contact

☆ anxiety, autism, tourette's and suspected ocd

☆ (more info on my pronouns page!!) i am a oriented aroace, lesbian, genderfluid, enby, posic/objectum and fictophile, angelkin alienhearted, transneumasc!! https://en.pronouns.page/@aroaceofspades

☆ fae/they/he + any neos except it/its

☆ no dni bcuz i block freely except for transphobes!! :c

☆ plz don't be weirdly sexual unless ur a minor 2

☆ anarchist without adjectives, intersectional feminist, gyaru/goth/punk (idk if I'm a poser punk bc I don't rly like the musik but I love the style and I'm an anarchist)

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[mass-monumentalist]

This one is more somber than most (despite the sunny locale). When I set out to photograph cemeteries in Massachusetts, I imagined sprawling hills of death's head graves and a famous grave (or two).

But we cannot discount those that have been forgotten.

This is "Cemetery Hill" in Northampton, MA - it is the final resting place of the unclaimed bodies of those that died at the Northampton State Hospital, a mental institution that ran from 1856-1993.

The records seem to indicate that these people were buried on Cemetery hill: John A. L. Adams (Dec 1852-15 Feb 1905), Annie Bazzell (unknown - 19 November 1904), Kate Benton (unknown - 13 Sep 1903), Jennie Johnson Bregquist (4 Dec 1875 - 1926). Sarah Chapin Brundage (1842 - 27 Mar 1906), Thomas Grove Chaffee (19 Sep 1837 - 26 Jan 1912), Miles B Hicks (1821 - 21 Feb 1898), William Kuhn (1847 - 6 Dec 1884), Catherine Lockerly (1830 - 6 Jul 1884), Francis Alden Loud (10 Oct 1825 - 19 Mar 1885), Elizabeth Lowe (14 Oct 1880 - 12 Oct 1905). Nancy Sage Main (Oct 1813 - 26 Apr 1903), Josephine Villancoeur Monier (unknown - 19 April 1905), John O'Brien (1832 - 21 Sep 1883), Emma Patterson Petterson (unknown - 10 Feb 1905), Melvin C. Stone (unknown - 3 August 1906), and Michael Tool (unknown - 24 January 1905).

Cemetery Hill - Northampton, MA

[austinslounge]

A list couple would require both celebs in a relationship to b A list... Kaia was a A list model yrs ago (before she quit it), now shes a C list actress at best. Good luck to Lewis, i hope he dsnt mind being a trio with Camila 👀 I wonder how soon Kaia will introduce him to her and their activities

ANYWAY

What future costar r u excited to see Austin act with onscreen?

What actors do you think/hope he'll bond with off screen?

🤣

You can only be an "A-List" couple if both of you are "A-list" lol.

Does this mean she's going to quit acting since she's now able to be "more herself" lol? 🙄

Anyway --

What future costar r u excited to see Austin act with onscreen?

I'm really excited to see Austin work onscreen with Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, and Emma Stone in "Eddington".

I'm super excited to see Austin work with Zoe Kravitz, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Regina King in "Caught Stealing".

And I'm really excited to see Austin work with Tom Holland in "American Speed"! 😃

**Sidenote: I would love for Austin and Denzel to do another project together again (maybe something like "Training Day"?), but this time, on the big screen! 😉

What actors do you think/hope he'll bond with off screen?

I kind of think Austin and Tom would get along really well. Austin seemed to hit it off super well on their "Bikeriders" Press tour. Austin also gets along really well with Callum. Tom, Jodie, and Callum are all from England. ☺️

Idk why, I just feel like Austin and Tom Holland would get along well.

I also think Austin and Zoe would get along pretty well too. 😁 They seem to have quite a bit in common, and they are both huge cinephiles!

[sgiandubh]

When the brain turns into pretzel

Irrespective of who posted it, this sums up pretty well the confusion and grasping at straws of her Stans:

'This is not for fans unless they can afford it'. See how you are and see how you think, people? Taking your statement one step further, I come and ask: if this is not for fans, then who is it for? Imelda Marcos? Taylor Swift? A bored Russian female oligarch, who can afford to throw in almost 7k USD for a gadget? And if this is not for all the fans, are you suggesting C is discriminating? Not a pretty picture, mind you, and I doubt it was her purpose.

She did post the video on her SM, eventually (and unbeknownst to the person who posted the comment, at the time she posted it), but she cleverly shared her MUA's story, not the company's. Was she helping a friend? Doubtful. Was she endorsing a product that was obviously offered for free, test incentive on top? More like it, but still not entirely clear ('it happened during the break', LOL).

'Her glam team follows and uses the product'. That would have been a legit comment if all of them were promoting the PRO version (which they don't) and product placement is not a shame, in our world. It is what it is. There is no use to go OTT with defense, especially when nobody asked you to and nobody really cares: boredom is the reason this is discussed to death, right now.

Yeah, even Cillian Murphy uses it, before Oscar functions. But, as I said, the PRO version, according to the Daily Fail:

I have always thought she had the most appalling Stan community on this planet, whose stupidity regularly throws her under the bus, with the best intentions ever. Of course.

PS: I resolutely refuse to find out who Mrs. Emma Stone is.

[garethxsouthgate]

I know I am not the only person who wouldn't get up to do karaoke. It isn't for everyone. If I had to...it probably would be Sweet Caroline. I know that people would join in with that.

oh man, that is so boring. not the national anthem part, that is cool but there has to be one song out there that if you were forced to do, you know you could.

[queenofbaws]

Hi Queenie! I hope you’re having a lovely day :)) I was wondering what are your favourite Until Dawn and The Quarry fanfictions? 😁

well hello there yourself!!! i hope your day's treating you kindly too! ;)c

always happy to spread a lil' fic-love around, hehehehehehe. i mentioned a few over in this post a couple days back, but here are a few others i tumble around in my head like pebbles in a stone polisher on the reg!

until dawn

the one-eyed man is king by @ollierachnid - jack and chris have a rough go of it

the final days of our youth by @love-fireflysong - OOPS chrashley kiss, uh oh!!!

it's uncanny, really by @sammyloomis - sometimes you just gotta put on costumes based on the hit a24 film, midsommar, i don't make the rules man

the quarry

max brinly's guide to surviving being in love with your best friend by @icequeen-07 - GOD i hope max brinly survives being in love with his best friend!!!

this is not over, but just the beginning by @theartofdreaming1 - max and laura are GOING to find a cure...the second they're done dealing with those wily hacketts

crush culture by @bazwillendinflames - emma and ryan act as each other's wingman so romance can bloom! 😏

[cemeterygrace]

remembering my trans ancestors and those we’ve lost on this trans day of remembrance. they are all so loved by us, and unique in their own ways. fly high and know that you are beloved. for those not on this list, you are known and remembered.

rest in peace and in freedom.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

NOVEMBER 2023

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Kejuan Richardson

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Mya Finch

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DECEMBER 2023

Demita Jo Armstrong

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Star Possum

Jermaine Golden

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Zoey Flye

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Care Hansen

Amber Minor

Ashlei Jasmine Colgate-Edwards

Fleetwood Mars Mozee

Shelby “Lexus” Riddick-Walker

Kimbella Blackshear

Easley Jeffcoat

Tripp Schultz

JANUARY 2024

Lady Fabian Sanchez

James Moen

Dana Randolph “Desiree A. DeMornay”

Quin Joy

Sasha Williams

Jennell Jaquays

Sarina Mihailoff

Sasha Washington-Cohen “Sasha Fierce”

Guelila “Gigi” Iyob

Videl Lombardo

Savannah Rose Rivers Amore

Kathy “Otter” Ottersten

Robin Valentina

Forrest Douglas Buckley

Giselle Stone

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FEBRUARY 2024

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Nex Benedict

Emma “África” Parrilla García

Blakely Hanson

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Madison Nicole Spann “Madison St. Claire”

Cecilia Gentili

MARCH 2024

Diamond Cherish Brigman

Elliot Ganiel

Fae Morganna Barbone

Aurelia A. Legassey

Alex Franco

Meraxes Medina

Ty Geissinger “Ty Holiday”

APRIL 2024

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Yella Clark

Allister Matthews

Tiffany Azalea Monceaux

Tara Fable

Randy Dudley

River Neveah Goddard

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Jazlynn Johnson

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Darri C. Moore

Niomi Jenkins

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JUNE 2024

Pauly Likens

M. Tapia

Lynn Conway

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JULY 2024

Dylan Gurley

Griffin Shaun Sivret

Kenji Zemonta Spurgeon

Ev Smith

Shannon Boswell

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Lily Autumn Rose

Monique Brooks

AUGUST 2024

Noelle Woolley

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Vanity Williams

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SEPTEMBER 2024

Kassim Omar

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[crystalfic]

Yesterday's Legacy, Chapter 1

You asked, I provide! The next part of We're Off to Punch the Wizard, otherwise known as Yesterday's Legacy.

AO3 link

Prologue is here

(I have endeavoured to be as accurate and respectful as possible to the Islamic faith, but if I've made any horrible errors, please let me know.)

Valla's hand slipped from Emma's grip as her feet hit the ground. Sunglasses. She should have brought sunglasses. It might be cloudy back home, but she had walked through a solid glass window and now it was bright and idyllic and beautiful and had she mentioned bright yet? Ow. Valla squinted in automatic protest against the sunlight assaulting her eyeballs.

Beside her, Emma had grabbed Andy's chin and was looking closely into his eyes. A moment later, Emma released her husband and stepped back with a sigh of relief. "All clear. No glow," she said, and both Andy and Mukhtar visibly relaxed.

"No glow?" Valla echoed.

Mukhtar glanced at Valla, his dark eyes softening. "No glow means that the side-effects of his use of magic have stopped. For now, at least."

"Magic. Okay. I'm in a world where magic works, how else would I have got here in the first place?" Valla wanted to pace, wanted to let her jitters out through her feet, but she held herself still.

"You are not mad," Mukhtar said firmly, understanding what she had not said. "Or drugged. Or dreaming. In this world, magic is real. I am not one of those who could ever use it, but these two can."

While Valla was processing this, Mukhtar stepped over to Emma and Andy to exchange a few murmured words. With little more than a few nods, the three of them separated – Mukhtar and Emma to the trees at the side of the clearing, Andy to sit on a convenient rock. Something small, something that glittered in the bright daylight, passed from Mukhtar to Emma, and she put it in her pocket without a word before they disappeared into the forest.

Had that tree politely lifted its branches out of Emma's way? No. No, it must have been the wind.

Lost, Valla seated herself on the suspiciously ergonomically-shaped rock next to Andy and drank in the landscape. Before them, a circle of stones on mostly-bare earth, and lush ground cover beyond that. Circling them, trees of more kinds than Valla could name pushed against each other in their competition for good soil and light and air. Above, a cloudless blue sky of a shade she'd rarely seen except at the height of summer.

"You okay?" Valla ventured.

"I will be," Andy said, leaning back on his hands as his eyes fixed on that astonishing sky. "It's been a few decades since I've used – well, any magic at all, to be honest. Took more out of me than I expected."

"The joys of closing in on your forties," Valla said dryly before changing the subject. "Um, Mukhtar said that you and Emma had magic?"

"We do, but it only works here. I'm a sorcerer, which means I channel magic directly through my body and invoke it by will. That kind of use has side effects, which is why Emma was worried about the glowing eyes. Emma, she's a plant-witch, although a better translation is probably plant-sibling. Plants speak to her, and they usually do what she wants them to. Except goatweed. Very stubborn stuff, goatweed."

"Should I have brought weedkiller?" Valla asked, biting her lip thoughtfully.

Andy half-twisted towards her and eyed the heavy-duty hiking backpack slung over her shoulders. "I think you're carrying enough already. Wait, is that a frying pan?"

"If it's good enough for Sam Gamgee, it's good enough for me," Valla said firmly, even as the smile that pulled at the corners of her mouth ruined the attempt at seriousness. "Lord of the Rings is one of Jamie's favourite books."

"Hope you're not expecting second breakfast," Andy teased back.

Valla laughed, which released Andy's own snicker, and the two of them let their laughter fill the air for a moment. It wasn't that funny, but it was a release from tension that they both needed.

"I was born here," Andy said abruptly, cutting off Valla's lingering giggles. "By the time I opened the portal to Emma's world, I was eighteen, and the magic I used was destroying my body. I expected her and Mukhtar to go. I didn't expect them to refuse to leave me." There was an odd, wondering smile on his face. "They hauled me through anyway. It was stolen magic, magic that I barely knew how to use, and I messed up the temporal anchors. I set it to the world that they remembered, and forgot to account for their seven years here. I sent us back to nearly the moment they'd left. In payment, the magic took those seven years from us. I was eleven again. More or less healed, but I'm not sure that having to go through puberty again was worth it."

That. That was. Valla was aware her mouth was hanging open, and she snapped it shut as quickly as she could. "I need a few minutes to process that," she said faintly.

Andy nodded, and turned back to his contemplation of the sky.

"More or less healed?" Valla said after a while.

"Eh, I still had some of the scars I earned as a teenager. That said, it was easier growing up the second time around. Fewer people were trying to kill me. Much less stressful."

Valla shook her head and packed away that casual admission for later. "You said you were born here. Does – does this realm have a name?"

Andy shrugged. "Maybe? If it does, I never learned it. Emma calls it Deathworld."

The peaceful glade took on sinister overtones in Valla's mind. "So all this pretty is just the sweet topping over poison?"

"Mostly. This is a campsite, one that's been used recently by the look of the ashes, so it's reasonably safe. Otherwise? Yeah. It took a long time for us to figure that out as kids." His eyes closed, fingertips digging into the stone of his seat. "Too long."

Valla was certain of two things. One, that at least one of the kids that he'd been travelling with had died, and two, that she did not want to know about it. (They'd been children, he'd been eleven and Emma would have been even younger, good grief was this Wizard mad?)

The sound of good, solid, Earth-made hiking boots on packed earth interrupted them, and Valla turned gratefully to see Emma padding back out of the treeline.

"I've talked to Mukhtar," Emma said without preamble once she was close enough to speak normally. "He thinks we're somewhere in Galgarn's Forest. I agree; the plants say someone very large is wandering around here, and this place feels familiar." She spread her hands. "Wish I could remember it better, but we travelled through a lot of places back then."

"Is he still back there?" Andy asked.

"Yeah, he took a few minutes to pray. He brought his qiblah talisman, it lit up right on time."

At Valla's bewildered look, Emma pulled the shiny thing she'd seen earlier out of her pocket. It was shaped like a bookmark with a rounded point on one end, made of metal engraved with what looked to Valla's untrained eye like Arabic text.

"It's still functioning?" Andy asked in surprise. "I was worried it might have drained out while we were on Earth."

"You do good work, love," Emma said fondly. To Valla, she explained, "It glows and hums when it's time for his prayers – we didn't have watches, back then, and you can't always see the sun. It also points the way to Mecca for him. He's not sure if it counts as an amulet and he can't really ask an imam about it, so one of us hangs onto it for him."  

"And it is very useful," Mukhtar said from behind them. Valla squeaked, achieving a levitation of at least two inches without benefit of magic.

Andy snorted. "Still sneaking up on people?"

Mukhtar grinned unrepentantly. "You too could be quiet, if you practiced."

Emma rolled her eyes, also smiling. Valla might not be in on this particular in-joke, but she could tell it was there.

"Any sign of the children?" Andy asked, bringing them all back around to their first and most important task.

"None. However, I would have been surprised to find anything – we followed our children quickly, but there is no guarantee that the Portal dropped us in the same place as them."

"It's unlikely we were, Andy admitted. "It was taking everything I had just to hold it open. Trying to maintain the exact destination was a losing fight."

Mukhtar clapped a hand on Andy's shoulder. "I'm grateful that you did hold it open. We will find our children, Andy. I have faith that Allaah is with us."

"Good," Emma said, with a nod of thanks to Mukhtar. "So, if we're in Galgarn's Forest, let's go straight to the source."

"Talk to Galgarn?" Andy shivered. "Are you sure?" "We're not kids anymore," Emma said with a dangerous glint in her eyes. "I'd like to see him try that kind of intimidation now."

[hotdaesthetic]

#thoughtsadmin

SPOILER

Sorry, English is not my first language

I watched the first episode of the second season.....

I want to warn you right away that I haven't read the book, but I'm well aware of the actions and events in the book thanks to our fandom.

Let's start at the beginning.

The opening credits (splash screen) hit me.

The man who pulled out the black stone and went to the wall???? Who are you? Why do we need you?

Krigan and Jace... This is basically how I pictured them meeting and talking.

So far... It's off to an even start.

Now on to Alicol. Love and advice to them. Only Christon's face was not happy again....

Aegon looking for his son in Helaine's chambers is pure nevduplenish sweetness.

The emotions that Emma Darcy conveyed..... I got goosebumps and even got teary-eyed at the moment of meeting Jace.

Daemon seemed to me like a purely cranky child trying to blame everyone for what happened.

Aemond, Otto, Laris are all smooth here too, I have nothing to pick on.

The scene where the "audience" with the King takes place is a bit laughable.

Now for the pressing matter...

Blood & Cheese.

I don't even know how to put it more correctly, a tragedy turned into a tragicomedy.

I'm sad, I didn't feel it, Helaena (?) I don't know. I was expecting a scream, more tears. Maybe she'll figure it out in the next episode, but that doesn't make up for the fact that it didn't have that very B&C effect. The sounds of the baby's head being cut off made me cringe and regret.

[dalekofchaos]

Webbverse fancast

Inspired by my Raimiverse, fancast, I'm gonna do a expanded Webbverse fancast

Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man

Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen

Caleb McLaughlin as Spider-Man/Miles Morales

Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson

Sally Field as May Parker

Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn

Felicity Jones as Black Cat/Felicia Hardy

Chris Zylka as Flash Thompson/Agent Venom

John C McGinley as J. Jonah Jameson

Zooey Deschanel as Betty Brant

Keith David as Robbie Robertson

Michael Massee as The Gentleman/Gustav Fiers

Chris Cooper as Green Goblin/Norman Osborn

Christoph Waltz as Doc Ock/Otto Octavius

Rhys Ifans as The Lizard/Dr Curt Connors

Jamie Foxx as Electro/Max Dillon

Paul Giamatti as Rhino

Jonathan Banks as Vulture/Adrian Toomes

Zachary Quinto as Mysterio/Quentin Beck

Jason Momoa as Kraven The Hunter

Tom Hardy as Venom

Woody Harleson as Carnage

Noomi Rapace as Silver Sable

John Cena as Sandman

Edgar Ramírez as Scorpion

[wonder-worker]

The memory of [Emma of Normandy] was of a generous patron. At Ely an inventory made in 1134 listed her gifts of precious textiles to the church. They included an altar frontal worked in gold and silver with an image of Christ in majesty, seven cloths with gold worked fringes (orfrey) and one of rich purple fabric, perhaps shot silk taffeta (purpura), adorned all round with orfrey work and precious stones, a purpura pall for each saint and each altar, and four woollen dorsals. The twelfth-century Ely monks also recalled a blood red altar cloth with a gold border a foot wide, and the magnificent purpura one worked with orfrey and adorned in a chequer pattern with gold and gems which she made for them, as well as the gold and gem-worked silk cloths for each saint,’ and, richest of all, the cloth she gave to cover the tomb of St Æthelthryth. The twelfth-century Abingdon Chronicler told of the gold and silver shrine she and Cnut had given to the church. It bore an inscription recording the two hundred and ten mancuses of gold and twenty-two pounds of silver which had gone into its construction. At Winchester they remembered her striving with Bishop Ælfwine to adorn the church of St Swithun, a contest which she won.” Canterbury tradition recorded the cup of gold worth 13 marks, two altar cloths, two copes with gold tassels, and a golden ornamented text which Emma had given.

Canterbury was not the only church to which Emma gave books. She sent an English psalter to her brother Robert, Archbishop of Rouen. She and Cnut have been associated with a lively production of de luxe manuscripts in the third decade of the eleventh century, most of which were intended as gifts for English and foreign churches or individuals. Gifts of manuscripts linked Emma and Cnut with such English churches as York, Canterbury, London, New Minster and Bury, and with cross- Channel recipients in Germany, Scandinavia and France. Peterborough, with its strong ties to queens in general and Emma in particular, was a major centre of this production. Wulfstan of Worcester remembered how a skilled scribe and painter of manuscripts who had taught him there as a boy gave Emma and Cnut a psalter, which eventually ended up in Germany. Ervenius was the scribe who taught Wulfstan. He is the same Earnwig who followed Emma’s close associate Ælfsige as abbot of Peterborough.

Emma was an acquirer of relics, and her acquisitions were almost invariably followed by their distribution. When the bishop of Benevento visited England in Cnut’s reign, Emma bought from him the body of St Bartholomew, which he happened to have with him; she gave most of it to Christ Church Canterbury, though retaining the arm for herself. Whilst staying in Rouen after the death of Æthelred she bought the body of St Ouen, which she again split on her return to England, this time keeping the head for herself and giving the body to Canterbury. New Minster was thus particularly favoured by her gift of the head of St Valentinus. A queen’s gifts were much sought after, and sometimes the process of giving was shortcircuited. Emma kept the head of St Ouen; after her disgrace, her goldsmith purloined it from her reliquary and gave it to Malmesbury where his brother was a monk.

Sherborne attracted her largesse in a more standard way. According to Goscelin writing c. 1100, she and Cnut came to visit St Wulfsige’s shrine at Sherborne. There the king pointed out to her the poor state of the church; the poverty of the angelic citizen Wulfsige was an accusation of them, weighed down as they were by gold and jewelled ornament.” It was up to her to repair it. She gave twenty pounds’ worth of silver for the repair of the roof. Sherborne is a rare instance of Emma as a patron of buildings. She may have contributed more than general support and intercession to the development of Bury and St Benet Holme.’ But according to the surviving sources her most generous building patronage was far away in western France where the rebuilding of St Hilaire at Poitiers was in ‘large part paid for by the queen of the English'.

The patronage of both Emma and [her daughter-in-law Edith also included] land. Emma gave Newington to Christ Church, acquiring it from Cnut after Ælfric forfeited it; she bequeathed land at Kirby to Bury, and together with Harthacnut gave land to Ramsey for the soul of Cnut. Edith was remembered as a benefactor of Wells, granting Milverton and Mark to bishop Giso. Emma almost certainly made gifts of land to the Old Minster, Winchester, where she and Cnut were buried: her son Edward confirmed her grant of the urban property of Godebegot in Winchester to the Old Minster, and after 1066 the Old Minster claimed that she had left them land at Hayling Island in reversion, after the death of her servant Wulfweard the White.

— Pauline Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England