#christian hemmes

[no-guns-at-the-dinner-table]

daisy haites: the great undoing chapter 13 🌼

[brekker-by-brekkerr]

attention magnolia parks fans! i started a magnolia parks community if you'd like to join and chat about the series, things you love about it, what you're hoping for future books, theories, jess hasting, etc. here's the link:

[4amethyst]

Pls think with me how unstoppable this couple could be

Julian Haites and Bridget Parks

[torispringkinnie]

One thing that absolutely pisses me off about the magnolia parks books is the double standards in characters.

I mean, when multiple men are in love with magnolia everyone just shames her for it?? and treats her like absolute shit??

But when everyone is in love with daisy it’s just a funny inside joke????

[artemisandhersilverbow]

I finished all of Magnolia Parks in less than a week and I’m absolutely insane now.

Expected absolutely nothing. Got more than I ever could have asked for. I loved this series. LOVED it.

[andreai04]

There is something about loving a person that makes their agony so much worse than your own.

[ottovonruthie]

Daisy Haites

Christian Hemmes's character evokes a profound sense of sadness and pity in me.

On page 196, "A feel good months, that's all I'm good for, I reckon."

It pains me to witness his belief in being undeserving of love and his fear of being merely a temporary fix. His emotions resonate with deep-seated insecurities and vulnerabilities that many people encounter in their relationships.

Understanding the reasons behind his feelings is comprehensible, considering his past experiences with Magnolia. It appears he has internalised a sense of unworthiness due to those experiences. As someone who enjoys romance, I firmly believe that every individual deserves love and affection. However, his persistent self-doubt hinders him from fully embracing it.

The weight of his failed relationship with Magnolia casts a shadow on his perception of the situation with Daisy, making him apprehensive that he might only be a fleeting solution until she returns to her past partner, Romeo. This fear immobilizes him, preventing him from fully committing to new relationships.

In the intricate tapestry of life, some individuals, paralyzed by the formidable fear of rejection, opt to forego the profound experience of love, sheltering themselves from potential heartache, yet missing out on the extraordinary joys and fulfillment it can bestow.

Sidenote: Brené Brown have a good special talking about vulnerability.

[thebookwormsara]

Magnolia cracks me up sometimes 🤣🤣

[short-tired-but-sometimes-witty]

January 9th: Current Read - Magnolia Parks

[Update] Chapters 7-9

The story is still a bit awkward but oddly enough I like it. I don’t care for any of characters as the author does nothing to make you connect with any of them. Christian Hemmes seems the most tolerable, as he appears to be the least shallow, even then we barely know anything about him.

Magnolia and BJ are just like every couple who started dating in secondary school through to their adult life. They may be this attractive it couple that everyone admires aesthetically but deep down they’re better off not being together. They’re toxic even.

Quote of the day:

“He's a time bomb for me, do you see now? That he'll hurt me. He'll always hurt me. I'll never be safe with him, even if I'm always safe next to him.”

[manonblackbaek]

019. playlist: daisy + christian (magnolia parks universe)

[no-guns-at-the-dinner-table]

i am once again begging for fanfic prompts and ideas 🙏

[eebie]

we are deconstructing gender on Google docs tonight boys

[4amethyst]

I'm convinced that Parks is not Julian true love therefore I'm Manifesting a spin off called Julian Haties were he fall in love with his Psychiatrist, new intelligent female character with a mystery past iykyk 

[legacey]

tag drop.

ଓ... ic‚ andrew minyard. ଓ... ic‚ avery kylie grambs. ଓ... ic‚ prince henry. ଓ... ic‚ shayla wang. ଓ... ic‚ susannah beck fisher. ଓ... ic‚ halle jacobs. ଓ... ic‚ henry turner. ଓ... ic‚ john logan. ଓ... ic‚ christian hemmes. ଓ... ic‚ julian haites. ଓ... ic‚ madeline ballentine. ଓ... ic‚ serena ballentine/van der woodsen. ଓ... ic‚ gerard gibson. ଓ... ic‚ johnny kavanagh. ଓ... ic‚ edel kavanagh.

[artemisandhersilverbow]

This series has me alternating between anxiety tears, deep sadness tears, frustration tears, and laughing tears. I cannot possibly explain the emotional Olympics this series puts you through.

But this scene will live in infamy.

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube

I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.

These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.

By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)

Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)

Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)

La Traviata

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)

Carmen

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)

Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)

La Bohéme

Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)

Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)

Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)