#christen jul

[genevieveetguy]

Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)

[leveloneandup]

We Can Do Hard Things: Christen Press & Tobin Heath: THE OLYMPICS! THE SOCCER!

Abby, Glennon and Amanda are talking ALL about The Olympics and US Women's Soccer with Olympians and soccer legends, Christen Press and Tobin Heath.

Discover:

-Their take on the impact of not having Alex Morgan on the team;

-The Canada cheating scandal and Christen's solution for it;

-What Tobin would have done differently, if anything, in the Germany game; and

-How Tobin, Christen, and Abby feel about our chances of winning the games.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

RTA, first, thank you! for that awesomely comprehensive and meticulous timeline of Meghan's pregnancy, Archie's birth, and the aftermath. Reviewing it in one fell swoop is quite a trip down memory lane lol! Second, re: Archie's Christening photo:

There’s some discussion that they (W/C) changed at Windsor before the service but there’s also something wonky going on with the metadata in the photos.

IIRC the "something wonky going on with the metadata" w/in Archie's official Christening photo is that: 1) Archie's Christening purportedly happened on Jul 6, 2019. The common sense assumption, then, is that the official Christening photo was also taken on Jul 6, 2019, but...

2) the metadata for the official Archie Christening photo supposedly indicates that it was taken on May 8, 2019, ~TWO MONTHS BEFORE the actual christening and on the same day as 2-day-old A's presentation to the world at Windsor...and also the same day that the "Baby Archie Meets QEII and Prince Philip" photo was taken, but...

3) "Archie meets the Queen" Archie (May 8) is allegedly 2 days old, while "Christening Archie" (Jul 6) is allegedly 2 months old (although the infant in the photo looks ~6 mos old), so...

4) How can it be that - according to the metadata - photos of a 2-day-old Archie and of a 2-month-old Archie were taken on THE SAME DAY????? It's a mystery.

(WRT QEII's - and PP's - clothes in the "Archie Meets the Queen" pic, their outfits were identical to those that they had worn to a horse show previously, indicating that QEII and PP were photoshopped in, along with everyone else in that photo, allegedly. And speaking of clothing, the outfits that KC3 (then PoW) and Camilla wore in the Archie Christening photo were the identical outfits, down to Cam's hat and Charles' boutonniere, that they had worn to a previous family event (Louis' Christening, maybe?). Plus the William/Catherine blue v pink clothing discrepancy. And also, why is one of the Spencer aunts wearing Megs' funky white Panama hat? It's a mystery.)

[thewarmestplacetohide]

Dread by the Decade: Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Gray

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★★★

Plot: A man must save two young women from a vampire’s curse.

Review: Vampyr boasts striking visuals, a noteworthy experimental style, and interesting lore, but falls short in terms of plot and characters.

English Title: Vampyr: The Dream of Allan Gray Source Material: In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu Year: 1932 Genre: Vampires, Gothic Country: Germany Language: German Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Writers: Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté Editors: Tonka Taldy, Carl Theodor Dreyer Composer: Wolfgang Zeller Cast: Nicolas de Gunzburg, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard, Maurice Schutz

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Story: 2.5/5 - Bare-bones, it works best when viewed as a dream. Too much time is dedicated to making the audience read lore written on screen and not enough on the monster.

Performances: 3.5/5 - Schmitz creates one of the most unsettling shots of the film without a word, and the rest of the cast is surprisingly strong for nonprofessional actors.

Cinematography: 4.5/5 - Fantastic camerawork, framing, and use of shadow.

Editing: 3/5 - Purposefully disjointed with varying degrees of success.

Music: 3/5

Effects: 4/5 - Really creative shadow effects and use of multiple exposure.

Sets: 4.5/5 - Varied and rich. The film was entirely shot on location to its benefit.

Costumes & Make-Up: 4/5

Trigger Warnings:

Very mild violence

[michyeosseo]

looking back…….

uncharacteristically, i took a hiatus in 2022. despite bouts of inactivity, by instinct, i turn to gifsets as my personal reprieve but this year has been doubly heavy (which must hold true for a lot of us by now). chronic fatigue left the latter, greater chunk of the year a blur. oof. stress aside, i have completed a couple of releases this year. this post is somehow most of them. though if you ask me to fill up any sort of bingo, please, i decline.

still in the process of retrieving my giffer groove back so may this write-up inspired by my brilliant mutuals suffice.

a preview of the titles you'll be able to read underneath. four dramas sorted chronologically... those that i remember finishing (important criteria!!) and to round them off, one i am in the midst* of watching. there's another that i omitted to not do an overlong list but a shoutout to the ever-charming law of the lady.

pride & price

feb-mar | 29 episodes @ youku

Female virtue is not morality but a ghost of the old ages. Why are labels for women so specific and detailed? Do we have to sit in the right seat? Do we have the right to refuse to be any kind of perfect woman?

if you were wondering why this, out of the blue, became my tumblog title you probably weren't but here's the reason: i was just that into it. i got winded into following its daily stream timing (10pm sharp) roped a friend in, too hahaha no but seriously, 'girlbosses in the fashion industry' seem like most stale premise but who knew a cdrama had what it takes for it to not be made basic. the <blossom> magazine being on the cusp of medium change in the year 2016/2017 - print versus online. ideals it stands for contested by how the target audience can relate versus how much profit they can rake in. fractures forming within the staff and at the eye of the storm is who gets to be the new editor. the two candidates: miranda chen kaiyi and helen xiao hongxue. yes, i put their english names there not just as decor. we start the series acquainted with kaiyi, complete with a devil wears prada-esque intro. she’s exacting to down to the minute details, she’s the public face of the publication except she signs off as the deputy editor. the parent company assigns the chief editorship of the besieged magazine to the person at the helm of the successful hongkong branch, hongxue. her alliance (or supposed defeat) is the key to win <blossom>.

besides the main leads, the ensemble consists of ladies in positions ranging from human resources head down to the rookie assistants. different degree of darlings the <blossom> squad may be with the vision admirably determined but the 29eps can still be trimmed down imho. i could go on and on (towards spoiling the entire thing) but what i'll say is the vermin masquerading as men who surrounded them, expecting catfights, were bound to lose. thoroughly. why? they were blinded by insecurity projections. also because they cannot fathom that women naturally are inclined to admire other women, that strength stems from being cognizant of mutual sorrows. plus, they're not privy to the wooing power of chocolate.

the legendary life of queen lau

jun-jul | 36 episodes @ viki

There are no fairies in this world. But even if there is a fairy, it would be me.

LAMU (jackie li) IS A STAR. let me state that for the record. i am very salty the webdrama's all but buried under controversies (ugh, plural) because it brought me so much unbridled joy. queen lau was so unserious it has a palace p.a. system with functions such as weather forecasts, sports commentary, serenades, etcetera like... heylo?

heipang, a countryside girl prodded by her mother (to fix their local village curse) heads to the capital to be wedded. there, she finds out her longtime penpal/betrothed boy is the new emperor and only hitch to her happily ever after is he does not really know her. sorta hates her existence, even. she meets her father first, the chief counselor aka the antagonist, she's christened a new name befitting the nation's phoenix. she meets a handmaid, she becomes steadfast on her side ever since. the dowager empress, she leaves an even greater impression as untraditional daughter-in-law. she meets her half-sister, she bonds with her thus averting a rivalry. she meets her husband's motley crew (the royal chef, the chief guard, the court physician), she wrecks them before lunch. you get the gist. her same-age castmates, limited acting aside, were carried by the fact lamu's so adept in comparison. i appreciate a comedy that doesn't try that hard in the outrageous department. 'twas possible because of her pun timing, her reactions, her charisma - anyone with sense would be buying the fantasy. i say fantasy but it's the core message: that liu jinfeng's self-assured enough to ignore/convert her detractors as she dances. the lovely queen leading the entire palace during catchy dance sequences, that's quite novel, isn't it?

sleep with me

aug | 6 episodes @ iwanttfc

Tower ka ba? Because Eiffel for you.

gorgeous poster, yes/yes? here's another from their promo spread. hailing from the writing and direction of samantha lee is a project i had my eye on since its announcement. of her two films i previously saw, my reception were polar opposites. hence, cautious, i approached what is to be my third filipino gl series. [previous ones were betcin and fluid. pearl next door is in my list, promise, i just haven't gotten around to continuing so it's fairer not to count it yet.]

if you've seen my billie & emma gifset before, harry & luna's story is like that but grown up. not an exact copy since i thought that was meant for lil' unknowing queer me but the same cinematic, almost nostalgic lens applies. harry is a nighttime dj and luna is a... well... vampire. the pace is just right and soft (without insulting) kind of coddling. finally, a lovi poe acting thing i can sit down for where i can be mesmerized without suffering a cheating/stealing husbands storyline. janine gutierrez has the brightest smile, beautiful like the moon. they both had spaces to grow in the narrative and if there's one thing direk sam and i will find sure common ground is her punctuating that with the perfect soundtrack. of course, it would be a crime if that wasn't the case, their meet-cute was at a radio station. local sapphic references are just bound to hit different *wipes tear* a fitting august gift.

glitch

oct | 10 episodes @ netflix

I can't let them take you. I'm taking you with me.

i love, love, love how all my mutuals went, "jeon yeobin and nana lesbians" after the vague initial boyfriend-ghosted-her-and-she-stumbles-into-an-alien-cult synopsis came out. ironically, we didn't even need to be ribbing each other 'cause they were, in fact, e.t. enthusiasts reconnected~ with obvious next step: risking it all by choice. not sorry about all of this, donghwi.

negl don't really have notes about glitch (minus the usual problem where kdramas don't edit out superfluous footage). they did everything better than any given entry of the ntflx originals roster so if there's one kdrama you should pick up from their catalogue this year, let it be this zany adventure and i promise you won't be disappointed.

she loves to cook and she loves to eat

dec | 10 episodes @ furritsubs

My neighbor two doors down... is an incredible, one-in-a-million gal!?

my friend who loves kinou nani tabeta recommended this. saw the first two episodes as of this post but i have read the manga, gobbled that up with a quickness.

*you can gauge how anticipatory i am of an adaptation if i go and seek out the source material... some cases, it ruins things for me lol but i am of the belief if they're done well, they'd hold up on their own merit with/without changes when i compare.

in the case of tsukutabe, from what i've seen, the dialogue and interactions were lifted right from manga page to the actresses doing the scenes. yes, scenes upon scenes about enjoying heavenly food. fluffy af, the notion of finding an avenue of bonding in this day and age of tightly packed yet ever-distant neighbors. nomoto and kasuga have unrelated jobs but happen to notice each other in their daily comings and goings – the whiff of her cooking, the common denominator. i will be taking my time with this series so i'm unlikely to finish this before new year's eve but i just want to mark it having aired on nhk, a public channel in japan. the creator emphasizes how cooking as a hobby isn't only a means to be someone's proper wife/mother + portions of food mustn't be treated according to gendered prejudice but it should be up one's pleasure and capability to eat. i know many more shared meals await them and that thought makes me feel lighter already. all it took was some courage to ask for her to find what she was searching.

[aromantisk-fagforening]

Wait actually further on that "nisse" thing. So in Norwegian folk belief there's a common concept, called a couple different things:

«tuft», «tuftekall», «tomt», «gardsbonde», «godbonde», «haugebonde», «gardrud», «rudkall» «rundbonde» (via wikipedia)

now I won't claim to understand every name, but some of them are like adjective-farmer, and "rud" is a suffix used for farms that were abandoned after the Black death. (source: me, hi I'm Norwegian this is taught in like fourth grade)

variations include (via wikipedia)

fjøsnisse - fjøs: house for "fe" which means like, cows and similar, sheep, pigs etc. (google translate just lied to me so please tell me the English word)

skipsnisse - ships (boats)

kirkenisse - church

hagenisse - garden. (see also: cobolds, garden gnomes, dwarfs)

in Norwegian jul tv you'll find most fjøsnisser, such as in "jul i Blåfjell" (jul in Blue Mountain) - a jul calendar tv program. I think also most cozy jul books too, but please prove me wrong.

translations & equivalents include:

tomte - sweden

goblin, gnome - England

Wichtel, Heinzelmännchen, Kobold - Germany

jólasveinar - Iceland

Contexts of "Nisser" in Norway

national-romance, because the period was about making a national identity it's not surprising they pulled up with nisser. Ibsen wrote plays with them. (via wikipedia)

the era of enlightenment. Wergeland portrayed nisser as bigoted and ignorant, as opposed to elves. (via wikipedia)

(pagan/heathen¹) yule times (jul), from as early as year 900 in icelandic & Norwegian culture it was for example tradition to set out porridge with butter for nisser, if you didn't they'd be pissed. (via NRK)

1. I think it's pagan/heathen, though 900 was during the Christening of Norway (year 850-1100) (sources: store norske leksikon, norgeshistorie)

(and cause apparently it's not common knowledge, "christmas" (originally "jul" or "yule" (which it still is called in Norway today)) does originate in Norse mythology and Nordic tradition, with supernatural spirits and animal sacrifice (source: store norske leksikon), and beer (ref that NRK article)) (and no I don't care if you ""disagree"" with history unless you are an actual historian). (and I don't care about christian aspects of the holiday today, bother someone else).

[byneddiedingo]

Rena Mandel in Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan HIeronimko, Henriette Gérard. Screenplay: Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer, based on a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu. Cinematography: Rudolph Maté. Art direction: Hermann Warm. Film editing: Tonka Taldy. Music: Wolfgang Zeller. 

In the catalog of vampire movies, Vampyr is probably the second scariest after Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922). Which is odd, because its narrative, based by director Carl Theodor Dreyer and co-writer Christen Jul on a story be Sheridan Le Fanu, is fractured and almost incoherent and its characterization scattered. But you get the feeling that Dreyer himself really believed in the malevolent creatures he put on film, not surprising since most of Dreyer's films were in one way or another about faith. One story has it that the look of the film came about accidentally: Cinematographer Rudolph Maté shot an early sequence slightly out of focus, and when he apologetically showed it to Dreyer, the director insisted that was exactly how he wanted the film to look. Maté consequently shot many sequences through gauze. Accident also dictated some of the story: Dreyer insisted on location shooting, and in scouting for places to shoot, discovered the flour mill, giving him the idea for the scene in which the doctor meets his rather gruesome end. The lead character, Allan Grey, was played by a non-professional, Nicolas de Gunzburg, under the pseudonym Julian West -- Gunzburg was also the principal financial backer of the film. Most of the rest of the cast were non-professionals as well, and the sense that Vampyr is the result of serendipitous filmmaking has given the film a certain cachet over the years, especially with filmmakers and critics struggling with the restrictions that the corporate bottom line places on their art. To my mind, Vampyr is a collection of fascinating, disturbing images -- the man with the scythe crossing the river, the play of eerie shadows, the unusually successful double exposure that gives us Grey's out-of-body experience, the sequence in which Grey sees himself in a coffin, and so on. But it seems to me to be brilliant parts in search of a satisfying whole.

[uswnt5]

I’m pretty sure it was the game against CR in November 2019 https://ar.pinterest.com/pin/642044490612747899/

oh ha this was not what I was thinking of but you're right

[from1837to1945]

Mr. Errol was discovered in vaudeville by a friend of a friend of Mr. Ziegfeld, who regarded him as the funniest and liveliest man on the stage.

"My wife and I never walk around the house; we always tango, but we never let even the neighbors in on it."

"Won't you and she do it for my show?"

"I'll be very glad, Mr. Ziegfeld, If you will permit me to improve on all tangoers who have gone before or who are passing now," responded Leon Errol.

Then Errol and his wife got into collaboration to learn all that ever had been known of the tango, studying seriously the tangoes of all ages and nations. His wife is light in weight, light on her feet, has vivacity, good loo'ks and as a man, nor was he named after him, nor did Leon christen him Leon in honor of his discovery."

-"Tango—The Newest Angles On A Craze." 20 Jul 1913

[sesiondemadrugada]

Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932).

[addictivecontradiction]

Vampyr, 1932

[icollectimages]

Vampyr (1932)

Country: Germany / France

Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Written by: Dreyer & Christen Jul Based on a story from the book “In a Glass Darkly” by: Sheridan Le Fanu

Cinematography by: Rudolph Maté & Louis Née

Edited by: Tonka Taldy

Produced by: Dreyer & Julian West

Music by: Wolfgang Zeller

Art Direction by: Hermann Warm

[uswntpaesh]

Opinions on the NWSL best eleven,

That shit ain’t right.

[rookieforlife]

Christen Press | Angel City v PTFC | Jul 1, 2022

Photo by lejendaryphotos

[socksnstuff00]

im in love with her.

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/rookieforlife/689182799676211200?source=share

you and me both 😍

[thisdayinwwi]

Jul 15 1918 Pennsylvania National Guard 28th Division was up against Imperial German Army's Champagne-Marne Offensive. The 109th Infantry Reg was christened "Men of Iron" for their actions #OTD. 28th was later dubbed "Iron Division"

Painted by Don Troiani