#flighty talky

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[hotvintagepoll]

At the end of the Dracula poll, will you explain how each of the cast influences the final tone of/ any minor plot changes to the movie?

oh I’m happy to do that right now!

-Jimmy Stewart grounds the movie and is a terrific pick for Jonathan because his career was full of stories of ordinary men set into slowly unraveling, reality-challenging environments that irrevocably change their characters and push them past their limits—there are sketches of what Jonathan goes through already present in It’s A Wonderful Life, Rear Window, even the Thin Man sequel he was in. Jimmy brings the tone of boy next door, Capra-esque hometown normalcy that slowly gets turned upside down as he meets…

-Gloria Holden as the Count! who is pure gothic horror but laced with psychological complexity, wants and needs that push beyond the typical Universal horror aesthetic. She’s a perfect transition into the fantasy side of the story because she can meet Jimmy in his reality world….but chooses not to.

-the brides can’t possibly meet Jimmy in reality! They’re Betty, Lauren and Marilyn! They’re ethereal next level bombshells and the first sign this movie might trend a little camp. I expect their scene to dip into dream sequence imagery, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Vincente Minelli is brought in just to stage their entrance.

-I am hugely embarrassed to say I have not seen enough of Setsuko Hara’s work to tell you how her Mina impacts the tone, though I suspect she brings a quiet, steady, subtle quality that contrasts with Judy Garland’s mannered but sincere Lucy. There is absolutely an unnecessary talent show scene early on that gets Lucy singing in front of a crowd of adoring concertgoers.

-Toshiro Mifune needs no introduction. His Quincey is blindingly sexy and always finds the good lighting in every shot.

-Vincent Price’s Seward and Veidt’s Renfield up the, ahh, bisexual undercurrents of their scenes together into new dimensions. I fear again the movie tips a little into camp here.

-Sidney Poitier’s Holmwood brings us back to grounded reality; his performance is rooted in calm, subtle realism, with only the occasional explosions into grand emotional sweeps. This balances him really well with Judy’s Lucy, where she brings a flighty magical transparency and he brings the depth, intelligence, and calm.

-Mary Philbin suddenly tips the movie into silent film territory and goes a bit avante-garde as the agonized mother. It would be nice to have a shot here where Jonathan realizes, in some way, that he is suddenly soundless as pipe organ music ramps up over the scene and he’s left voiceless: he can only speak again when it’s too late to save her, and the movie switches back to talkie mode.

We haven’t cast some other players yet but this is what I’m seeing so far from the electorate’s choices :D

[astrology-by-sita]

ON AQUARIUS RISINGS ♒️

This is a part of a series on the rising signs not necessarily in Zodiacal order.

Aquarius risings are social outcasts who feel that they don't belong in their birthplace. Saturn rules 12h and 1h. Night charts especially feel like their society doesn't want them. Their ruler exalts in 9h in libra - the house of foreign lands and religion. But they aren't really religious. They can be critical especially of conventional religion. Saturn exalts in libra because aquarians have that skepticism over traditional religion.

They exalt as in get success and status when they show a formidable rational critique of the dominant doctrine and dogma. They shift societal trends and paradigms. Karl Marx is a great example of an aquarius rising who reaches prominence by critiquing the dominant system in society, an economic system which privileges only the bourgeoisie.

They talk a lot they can be as talky as geminis cause they have aries in 3h and where you have aries is where you're impulsive. But their ruler saturn debilitates in 3h so they won't get success there. Talking just for the sake of talking takes them nowhere but if they show a rational, alternative view of the structures of society they'll be prominent influential figures in their country and even the world.

They view the general as well as the specific. Sagittarius 11h gives them a general (sagittarius) view on human society (11h) but saturn is also particular and detail oriented. Virgo 8h - they transform everything around them (8h) when they get into the details. They can transform a malfunctioning institution or organization into a more functional and efficient one for benefit of all members. State reform and organizational reform is their specialty.

11h is 4h from 8h - the home of 8h. Societal transformation and paradigm shifts are the basis of every personal transformation taking place in 8h. Aquarius has got the best of both. Jupiter is too busy with his grand visions to be occupied with details and mercury is too nitpicky, flighty, to visualize generalities. Saturn does both! Saturn is about small restrictions and binds but it rejoices in 12h where we transcend them all. Saturn rules their 12h.

They have scorpio 10h so bosses and authority figures are threatened by them. They can be better than their bosses at their job so the authority people sense a threat or intimidation. They don't get on well with people of higher positions than them. Especially day charts. Unlike Leos who might try to pander to people in power on order to reach status(Venus ruling 10h),aquarians don't do that and hate that as well. They'd rather work on their own as their 10h ruler Mars exalts in 12h in capricorn.

They have gemini 5h so without intellectual stimulation they won't be attracted to you. You have to impress their intellect and mind. Now let's address the elephant in the room, the moon ruling 6h. People close to aquarius risings (moon is close emotional connections) throw unnecessary burdens on their shoulders. People expect aquarius to serve them and when the aquarius rightfully sets boundaries, problems arise.

Sun rules 7h and 7h is sunset so it's not really a good place for the sun unless the condition of the sun plus its domicile lord states otherwise.

Aquarius get egoistic partners or partners who try to control them. They get arrogant partners who expect the aquarius to serve them. Sometimes partners who gossip behind their back as sun their 7h ruler exalts in 3h.

They should keep in mind that a healthy relationship is supposed to be between two equals. I think they and capricorns both know this deep down better than anyone cause their ruler exalts in libra the sign of equal partnership.

What the aquarius wants first of all is an identity, to be somebody. Where you have aquarius in your chart is what you wish for. They have it in 1h, so they wish for some sense of self. Of course saturn delays that but it never denies. They do find themselves even if somehow later in life. They are late bloomers but once they bloom they're unstoppable trend setters and ideological geniuses.

[abubblingcandle]

3 and 23 for the ask game?

Thank you love!! From this ask game

3. how you feel about your current WIP

So because I am incapable of working on only one thing at once and the one I am actually working on rn is about to be posted we'll go with my secondary priority which is Captive Audience (aka. River in a Cage fic)

I'm actually loving it. It's a big one. It's complicated. It is very talking heavy but I am suprisingly having so much fun writing River and Frank's interactions. Next chapter is like nowhere near done not gonna lie but it's going to be a BIG ONE!

23. pick three keywords that describe your writing

Ooo this is a hard one ... um ... talky, whumpy, flighty

[monkeyssalad-blog]

Alice Brady by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: Vintage Swedish postcard. Förlag Nordisk Konst, Stockholm, No. 907. Alice Brady (born Mary Rose Brady, 1892–1939) was an American stage and screen actress, who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. Brady's father William Brady, a reputed theatrical producer, moved into movie production in 1913 with his new company World Film, and Brady soon followed along after him, making her first silent feature appearance in 1914, followed by another twenty films at World Film. All while she continued to perform on the New York stage, as World Film was situated in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Now mostly forgotten, World Film was highly active during the 1910s as production and distribution company, which even had a separate, all-French section with French emigre directors such as Léonce Perret, Emile Chautard, Maurice Tourneur, and Albert Capellani. In 1918 Alice Brady moved to Select Pictures of former World Film manager Lewis Selznick (father of David). In 1921 she acted at Reelart and in 1921-1923 at Paramount. In 1923, Brady stopped appearing in films to concentrate on stage acting, and did not appear on the screen again until 1933. After that she acted in another 25 sound pictures. All in all Brady acted in some 80 films. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1937) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Between 1919 and 1922 Alice Brady was married to actor James Crane, with whom she acted in three films and had one son, Donald. Source: French and English Wikipedia, IMDB.

[rainbowtiedx]

silly blonde girl and her green girlfriend; you agree

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changed my username for the first time ever lol

maybe i'll change it back but rn i want to to fit with my other handles

hibiscuit-rose -> rainbowtiedx

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i think what im mourning most about being single now is having someone to tell literally anything

like i could just send a picture of something random i saw and we could talk about it

now i just see things and keep it to myself

[rainbowtiedx]

i don't have tears in me to cry

im just asking, how?

after everything he's done, everything he's said, people would rather have him? this racist, misogynistic man who is a convicted felon?

was it really so bad the last four years you want him back?

[rainbowtiedx]

i remember drawing sonic as a warrior cat as a kid, i might do those again it was fun

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i wish i had a reason to keep going

silly as it may be, my interests are really all i have

making ponies or cats or whatever gives me something, it's fulfilling

art as a whole makes me want to live

without this i have nothing

i hope i can hold out for better things but right now some silly little creatures make me not want to end it

[rainbowtiedx]

let's go gambling (trying a dating app)

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i wish i could move out

i wish i could live with the girl of my dreams

i wish i could have a cat

i wish i could have it all right now

[rainbowtiedx]

is it bad that even after a good day i still have overwhelming thoughts

like i can't forget im mentally ill even for a bit, it doesn't go away

ughh

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i fear caffeine has no effect on me anymore

i just had a dr pepper and im still tired like im about to pass out 😭

[rainbowtiedx]

i love gay people and i love being a lesbian

i'll never shut up about it ok