#catherine plays

[ladyxerra]

Yay I've unlocked a new conversation with Zhongli in my teapot 💛

I imagine all sorts of conversations over numorous cups of most delicious tea...

[asha-mage]

Broke: Merlin is a royalist because he is a class traitor boot licker

Woke: Merlin is a royalist because he was raised a peasant in the sixth century and he has the perspective and values typical of that time period on top of his personal experiences with Arthur to give him faith in the enlightened despotism favored by Catherine the Great and Frederick of Prussia.

Bespoke: Merlin is a royalist because anyone who had to live through both the English Civil War and Voltaire's exile to Britain would come out the other side thinking democracy is stupid.

Transcendent: Merlin is not a royalist. He is the divine right of kings in human form. The avatar of Albion and its magic. He does not believe in kings because of Arthur. He believes in Arthur so Arthur gets to be king.

[crowleybrekkers]

god keep your ladyship still in that mind, so some gentleman or other shall ’scape a predestinate scratched face.

much ado about nothing (2011)

[misandriste]

↳ endless gifs of lena luthor ✰ 85/∞

KATIE McGRATH as LENA LUTHOR in SUPERGIRL ⪼ 5.14, "THE BODYGUARD"

[cynassa]

Hey hey what if I told you that Jason throwing himself on Sheila to save her against the bomb right after she betrayed "Robin-him" to the Joker ... is the SAME STORY as Jason throwing himself in front of Zur-en-Arrh to save Bruce right after he forcibly injected Jason and tried to kill off "Red Hood"

[henley-reeves]

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you."

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Star Beast - Part Fifteen

Excerpt from Benjamin Cook’s Star Beast Set Visit in Doctor Who Magazine 597:

Will David be playing the new, Fourteenth Doctor differently? “Part of the fun is that you’re a Doctor that the audience – and the Doctor himself – recognises,” he says. “Even when it came to the costume, we thought, how do we make it immediately recognisable, and yet not be the same thing? Which felt impossible, but it actually came together quite brilliantly. I like the idea that people who aren’t paying close attention will think it’s the same costume, but the more educated fan will be interested in all the differences.” He gestures at the suit. “It’s a little more distressed than before.” Is that true of his performance too? “Well. Ha. Hmm. Inevitably it will be different, because… he is a different man. He’s older, I’m older, so I am coming at it from a different place. You never stick your foot in the same river twice, as they say.” Do they say that? “They do, yeah. I don’t know who they are, but they’re very wise. Also, Russell’s writing is a little bit different. It has a slightly different energy to it, I think. But what I’m not doing is spending a lot of time self-consciously finding different notes. If anything, I’ve spent the time trying to recapture that sense of what it was before, which I would say is probably what Russell has done in the writing of it, too.”

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[elliot-amy]

Catherine Hicks in a behind the scenes photo from Child’s Play (1988)

[anghraine]

Also, after all my years of using the Project Gutenberg etext of P&P, I only today noticed that one of the illustrations is of a scene we don't actually "see" in the book but that's hilarious to think about: Lady Catherine telling Darcy about Elizabeth's outrageous!!!! refusal of her demands. It's not my favorite style of art but I kind of love this one:

Details I love include:

Lady Catherine's sheer indignation and Darcy's "..." response.

Lady Catherine's hat feathers, and the inevitable fur edge of her ... pelisse? I always forget my fashion terms. Also, that Darcy doesn't have his cane but Lady Catherine does.

Darcy's height and spindly legs (though I don't like the curls; I picture Darcy as one of those people with very straight, smooth, thick hair that refuses to hold a curl).

Lady Catherine and Darcy having the same nose.

What I'm guessing is a pianoforte for Georgiana to play on the side of the room despite the fact that Georgiana's status and wealth allows for her own separate residence.

[paradox-n-bedrock]

[yrsonpurpose]

Nicholas Galitzine talking about the connection between Mary & George and Red, White & Royal Blue

[ladyxerra]

I know that nobody plays Epic7 but I gotta share this. I finally beat Zio!!!!!!

And here's my team:

(for whoever needs the stat info, I didn't use high end gear, only made sure that STene, SSB and ARas had 100 % crit of all the stats)

[chelshiart]

shout out to my siblings for being tolkien-nerds because they make it possible for me, a dwj-nerd, to photobomb their lego rivendell set <3

context of dwj's history with tolkien:

"Tolkien was a different matter. He was just a kind of eminence grise and a legend. You couldn’t hear him lecture. He worked at not letting you hear, because he wanted to go away and finish writing The Lord of the Rings. So he had the very smallest lecture room. First of all it was packed out, so he spoke with his back to the audience and mumbling. Unfortunately he was talking about - meditating on, really - what a plot is like and how it mutates into other plots, and this I found so fascinating that I went back the next week as did one other person. And this meant that he couldn’t stop lecturing and still get the money, which apparently in those days you could if no one turned up - it was a dreadful racket, really. He could have given just the one lecture and then been paid for a term if we’d all stayed away."

 (Quoted from “Interview with Diana Wynne Jones, 22 March 2001” Page 170 in Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, by Teya Rosenberg et al. Peter Lang Publishing, 2002.)

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[expelliarmus]

[saphirdevil]

there was an attraction.... (wuthering heights 2011 movie shots redraws)

[fistfuloflightning]

‘Oh! I must tell you, that just after we parted yesterday, I saw a young man looking at you so earnestly - I am sure he is in love with you.' Kattika coloured, and disclaimed again. Isara laughed. ‘It is very true, upon my honour, but I see how it is; you are indifferent to everybody's admiration, except that of one gentleman, who shall be nameless.’

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