#ernest blyth

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Mummy 1959

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Hard Contract (1.5, LWT, 1972)

"I was just wondering what it was like to kill somebody."

"Well, that's a nice thought to start the day, innit?"

"In all my stint in the army, I never did. Not like -"

"Not like me."

"Yeah, well, you bagged a few terrorists in your time, didn't you? I was just wondering..."

"What it was like?"

"Yeah."

"Well, it... it was like... like nothing. You just sit on a roof and wait. For movement. The sun on a rifle. Just a flash, a glint. The first bullet gets you - or gets them, it's as simple as that."

"No involvement?"

"None."

[darlingdressed]

bought this from my local secondhand bookstore today!! I’ve read it as an ebook but I’m happy to have a physical copy. can’t wait to see Tom bring this book to life (if they ever start production lol)

[pureblyth]

tom blyth in uniform in tbosas. now he's gonna be a lead in a WWI movie...

[raviollies]

did theta turn/got turned into a fey like blythe or was she like already born as a cool ass skull nature green hag already?

In true tragic fashion...she was turned just like her a long time ago. The nature of abuse is often cyclical, and I am drawing from experience of the older generation inflicting the same abuse they suffered onto the young generation due to the belief that it's the "right way."

At one point Theta also was a High Elf, who became a hexblood and later a green hag. It was many centuries ago, and she most likely does not even recall what her elven life was like. Perhaps it's the curse of her being a fae for so long, perhaps it's just how her mind learned to cope with it--- but she is of the opinion that the hag that turned her was correct. That she turned out to be an incredibly powerful witch, and now it's her turn to guide another woman, just like she was guided long ago. And in time, Blythe will understand it too. And when the time comes, she will guide someone else.

[francixoxoxo]

I took a nap earlier and I truly think that reseted my brain bc why am I a scholar all of a sudden

[nicoooooooon]

Mildred Pierce (1945) directed by Michael Curtiz featuring Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth

[berzahoes]

actors on actors | tom blyth

summary: tom and reader are paired for variety’s actors on actors.

an: full credit goes @prettylittlels for the idea!! thank you!!🫶🏼 you can choose what film you’re in and your character for this fic :)

“were you a hunger games fan growing up?” you asked tom. you and tom were paired together to be in a new edition of actors on actors for variety. you were seated across tom.

“i did read the books, watched the movies, but they were unavoidable. i remember going to midnight screenings of the movies with my mum.” tom nodded.

“i loved going to midnight screenings! we need to bring those back,” you replied. midnight screenings were your favorite when you were a teenager. you loved going with your best friends and sometimes your parents, but they always ended up sleeping halfway through the movie.

tom then asked about your character. “i definitely made multiple playlist for them. i just love making playlists. they for sure listen to some sad stuff like mitski. but i enjoyed everything about them.”

“i think snow would listen to money, power, glory by lana del rey. it’s going on his playlist while he’s getting his hair ready.” he laughed.

“oh my god, snow is a lana stan.”

after a while, you talked about your upcoming projects. tom’s new project was an adaptation of ernest hemminway’s novel alongside olivia cooke while you were finishing up filming the remake of nosferatu as ellen hutter.

“then i might take a break. i’ve been working nonstop for about three years and i’m forever grateful for all the opportunities. i just want to lay down for a bit.” you admitted with a laugh.

“i’ll join you.”

TWITTER

@/blythupdates “I’LL JOIN YOU” IM SCREAMINGGG

@/ynsocar pls they’re so cute together 😭

@/onedirectioncomeback no you don’t understand i need them in a movie together NOWWW

[jepic-angel-in-dog-heaven]

Favourite Irish historical conspiracy theories i've ever encountered

the Irish Free state carried out systemic genocide against protestants, like somehow. obviously ignoring that fact that like extremely prominent irish 1920s politicians like robert barton and erskine childers (both involved in anglo-irish treaty delegation), ernest blythe (cosgrave's fascist scumbag finance minister) and like the first fucking president of the country were all prods. this one was spread by like one specific guy a few years ago in the comment sections of a bunch of random videos pertaining to independence irish history. he claimed to be part of the royal naval nuclear submarine division or some shit like that and he would end all of his comments with "just admit it was wrong... admit it was all wrong"

eamonn devalera exterminated all yola speakers by forcibly moving them to the coastline where they all drowned (?!) that's as much information as was given

ulster scots is the real native language of ireland and gaeilge was invented in the 19th century by radical catholics who wanted to destroy the proud native unionist culture of ireland. and the pharoahs of ancient egypt were fucking presbyertian.

[rickmoya]

the books I read in 2024

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (1)

Digital Cosmopolitans, Ethan Zuckerman

Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (2)

How To Take Over the World, Ryan North

To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever, Will Blythe

Hark! A Vagrant/Step Aside, Pops, Kate Beaton (3)

Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation, David Crystal

Ducks, Kate Beaton

Operation Do-Over, Gordon Korman

Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit, Chuck Palahniuk and Cameron Stewart (4)

The Fort, Gordon Korman

Romeo and/or Juliet, Ryan North

Turning Japanese, MariNaomi

Abroad in Japan, Chris Broad

Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline (5)

Interesting Stories for Curious People, Bill O'Neill (6)

Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska and Swing, Kenneth Partridge

Swamp Story, Dave Barry

The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Alison Bechdel

Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton

Flavorama, Arielle Johnson

Welcome to St. Hell, Lewis Hancox

Peasprout Chen: Future Legend of Skate and Sword, Henry Lien (7)

The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau

Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner

Out Of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper

italics: read it before struck: unfinished

Maybe I just suck at reading now that I'm past 40? I don't know. The last few years I've been making excuses and padding out my list with rereads, but at some point you have to acknowledge the trends. My trend is fewer books. This might be the lowest number I've hit in any year since birth.

I also read ten years each of the webcomics Schlock Mercenary and Sluggy Freelance. Got to a point I hadn't read before, but not finished with either.

I did rotate some stock off my TBR shelf, at least. Not that you'd know to look at it — the shelf is as full as ever. Then again, at least four books up there are rereads, and three others are juv/YA. Maybe I'll make more progress in 2025.

Goals:

Ding 40. (I originally put 50, but, like, come on. Trend.)

At least 40% authors who are not white men. (I did OK there this year: 12/26, not counting the trans guy who is technically a white man.)

At least 10 books off the TBR.

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So. I've had this book on my TBR since college. (The first time.) I took a modernist English lit course where we read Ulysses and To the Lighthouse, and Mrs. Dalloway was one of the comparative important links, but after Joyce I wasn't gonna do it right away. I found my copy at a mega library sale around the time I graduated. Opened it several times over the last 25 years, but the stream-of-consciousness/internal-monologue style meant (for me) that I couldn't set it down and come back and remember what was going on. So finally I had a free day and read the whole thing in almost one go. (I technically didn't do this until July, but I attempted to do it during a day off in January, which is why it's first.)

Substitute teaching exposes me to a lot of teacher libraries. Sometimes during a prep period I can read stuff from them. For this book (which I'd heard of but never opened) I was covering a classroom that was empty for nearly four hours.

I started poring through Beaton's comics on her archived website. When I realized my library had two books of it in print, I checked those out for easier reading. This entry encompasses all of it.

It's a graphic novel! It's totally unnecessary! It gets way too meta (to the point that it acknowledges IN TEXT that it's too meta)!

If you feel like you need to read this, ask yourself: have I already read Ready Player One? If so, then ask: was my favorite part the constant Family Guy-style "memba this?" references. Because this is that, just with different fandoms.

My niece got me this one. It's like a book full of factoids or the beginnings of stories. Not immersive, but good for while waiting through piano lesson.

Another substituting library selection, about an alternate-universe Taiwan where the predominant mode of transportation/self-defense is ice skating. I had a prep, thought this is a stupid book and then read half of it before the day was over. So endearingly stupid, I checked it out of the public library to finish.

[detournementsmineurs]

“Rings" by Ernest Blyth in gold and diamonds (1972) presented in “A History of Jewellery: Bedazzled (part 8: Jewellery from 1950s, 60s and 70s)” by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson - International Jewellery Historian and Author - for the V&A Academy online, april 2024.

[spideyhexx]

https://movieweb.com/tom-blyth-calls-ernest-hemingway-movie-farewell-to-arms-daunting/

this is from june but this is what’s giving me hope 😭😭😭

yeah i don't have hope cause that's the last time he talked about it/any mention of it BUT😭who knows. In the original article about it, it mentioned filming late next year (later 2024) and to my knowledge that was not occurring lmao

so either it was delayed and is in pre-production hell or it isn't happening :/

[elonomhstoryvillage]

aireverie, the pocket world story (fairytale)

moodboards:

ciara coulwood collection

sulphrin family collection

remburn family collection

characters, profiles:

ciara coulwood

julian coulwood

amelie sebree

wren sulphrin

everett remburn

ernest boyington

vivienne melgar

ledger edrene

oliver pittwin

violet sebree

wesley sulphrin

perry remburn

henry edrene

atticus pittwin

willem sulphrin

freya pittwin - //

olive sulphrin

marigold sulphrin

sullivan battensmith

genevieve battensmith

emery battensmith

fabian melgar

christopher sulphrin

blythe remburn

franklin sebree

robin pittwin

vella remburn

abigail sulphrin

carmen coulwood

rosalind pittwin - //

wiley coulwood

anthony pittwin

matilda gallogett

norman sulphrin - scientist

plot/synopsis:

'pocket worlds' have always been and will always surround us. they sit just on the outside of our world, simply existing on separate planes of the universe. these worlds are only accessible by incredibly hard-to-reach, specific keys. you're familiar with them, i assure you.

neverland? wonderland? narnia? andalasia? the other world? idris? the house? faerie? the underworld?

(peter pan, alice in wonderland, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, enchanted, coraline, shadowhunter chronicles, keys to the kingdom, various)

there is a scientist who exists on a nearby plane of the universe - in a magical kingdom named aireverie. norman sulphrin's research has lead to his ownership of 4 major keys. fairytale keys.

now, you didn't think that these tales were all fiction - did you? how do you suppose so many countries discovered near-exact stories ... sharing them down generations. there can only be one explanation: these fairytale worlds exist greatly close to ours.

[wahwealth]

Richard Chamberlain | F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the Belles

F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' is a 1974 American made-for-television biographical romance drama film directed by George Schaefer and starring Susan Sarandon, Blythe Danner and Richard Chamberlain. The film, which is known as The Last of the Belles in Australia, was written by James Costigan based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1935 short story "The Last of the Belles". Cast Richard Chamberlain as F. Scott Fitzgerald Blythe Danner as Zelda Fitzgerald Susan Sarandon as Ailie Calhoun David Huffman as Andy McKenna Ernest Thompson as Earl Shoen Richard Hatch as Bill Knowles James Naughton as Captain John Haines Albert Stratton as John Biggs Alex Sheafe as Philippe Sasha von Scherler as Jeanette Thomas A. Stewart as Horace Canby Norman Barrs as Waiter Earl Sydnor as Oliver Brooke Adams as Kitty Preston Cynthia Woll as Mary Bly Harwood Tom Fitzsimmons as Don Cameron Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

[angstics]

having finally listened to other noel coward plays, design for living is god damn INSANE. ive listened to hay fever and present laughter, and read the first act of blythe spirit. all these plays are comedically structured, hilarity building on the goofy relationships btwn the characters. there’s a “oh you!” sense to the humor. there’s also constant play w social conventions in these plays. the climax of present laughter is the successive moments ppl propose to join him at the end — one a girlfriend who SAYS she doesnt expect marriage and another a man who is obsessed with him (which is explicitly made a joke of when our main says something like “i suppose he doesnt want to get married either”). hay fever has both romantic unconventionalities (the mother and the guy she invites who is funnily pursued by the daughter to prevent an affair i think?) and social ones (the daughter pointing out how rude their family is). i mention all these examples by name because theyre easy enough to mention. theyre moments, not stories. and they contribute to the screwball hijinks of the play. a mess is funny.

SO alls to say that design for living isnt like this at all. to start off, it isnt very funny. definitely not zany like these. the situation isnt side-splitting, it’s sad! the love is well-established which makes the break ups depressing. coward couldve written this play to be like how love triangle comedies are often written. leo walks out and otto arrives and gilda treats him like she treated leo and she has to hide him a la present laughter and oh the hilarity! but that hilarity is never entertained. the audience doesnt know about leo in act one when ernest is there so there’s no comedic tension. and when we do find out, they tell otto as soon as he’s back. it isnt funny when ernst (and the audience) figures it out. it’s dramatic. and that tone continues the whole show. even the ending isnt one last laugh. it’s a gasp moment. “havent you figured it out? ive given in.” it’s a full-on romance. i get the sense coward wrote a dramatic play under the veneer of a comedy because the situation is better received in the ambiguity of comedy. the non conformity being the whole premise of the show rather than a one-off is another irregularity that furthers that