#freddie greenwood

[nemmet]

🎣🍳⛏️my farmer freddie, @sonicsbigmassivepersonality’s farmer noodle, and @theomoment’s farmer spud!!

bonus (gifting our beloveds!):

[nemmet]

AWAAAAAAAA THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL!!!!! TYSM I OWE YOU MY LIFE 🥺🥺🥺🥹🥹🥹🫶🫶🫶🫶

omg hi…… sliding over my stardew farmer to you!! they are a shane kisser (eventually. agonising enemies to friends to lovers arc occurs first)

I LOVEB UR FARMER THEIR HAIR IS SOOOOOOOOO 🥹 smth abt an enemies -> lovers arc is so juicy

[freddie-mercury-rising]

"Home was a comfort to Freddie. His mother was glad to see him, and began in earnest to prepare all his favourite meals: warm, rich tapestries of flavour that he had missed terribly when he was away at school. There, among mostly white English boys, Freddie had dreamt of bhakhra and dhansak and his mother’s warm hands sliding him brun pav fresh out of the oven first thing in the morning. At home, he didn’t have to try and explain what being Parsi meant to an audience of blue-eyed stares."

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[laserpinksteam]

Film after film: Spencer (dir. Pablo Larraín, 2021)

Another atonal biopic by Larraín with a fascinating lead role may seem narratively unfocused despite its tight diegetic-time context, but it is what makes it adventurous and entertaining. Its cinematography is lush and editing very staccato. Stewart's usual emotional presence is interestingly contorted by adopting a persona, which, I think, she never did before, relying not on mimicry but on rhymes with the public person of the titular character. The result is, therefore, neither Spencer nor Stewart, but something entirely different and yet still hauntingly familiar. While being disappointed by the absence of Mica Levi, I was still appreciative of the score, authored by Greenwood. Hawkins is fantastically strange in the scenes she's in.

[claudia1829things]

"SILAS MARNER" (1985) Review

"SILAS MARNER" (1985) Review

I have seen a handful of television and movie adaptations of novels written by George Eliot. But the very first adaptation I ever saw was "SILAS MARNER", the 1985 version of Eliot's third novel published back in 1861. My recent viewing of the production led me to reassess it.

"SILAS MARNER" begins with an English weaver living with a small Calvinist congregation in Lantern Yard, a slum street in a Northern England city. His life falls apart when he is framed for stealing the church's funds, while watching over the congregation's ill deacon. Worse, his fiancee leaves him for his so-called best friend, the very man who may have framed him. Shattered and embittered, Silas leaves Lantern Yard and arrives at a rural village in the Midlands called Raveloe. Although he resumes his trade as a weaver, Silas' traumatized past leads him to achieve a reputation as a miser and a loner in the community.

Silas' move to Raveloe eventually leads him to cross paths with the community's leading citizens, the Cass family. The head of the latter is the elderly Squire Cass who has two sons - Godfrey and Dunstan. Godfrey, who is the squire's heir is secretly married to one Molly Farren, a lower-class woman and opium addict from another town, who has given birth to his young daughter. Godfrey is also engaged to a young middle-class woman named Nancy Lammeter. Dunstan is a dissolute wastrel who constantly loses money via excessive gambling. One night, a drunken Dunstan breaks into Silas' cottage, steals the gold coins that the latter has been hoarding and disappears. Through a series of events, Molly plots to expose her marriage to Godfrey and their child during the Cass family's New Year party, but dies in the snow before she can reach it. Silas, who is emotionally upset over the loss of his coins, finds both the dead Molly and the child. Although he informs the partygoers of Molly's death and the child, he assumes guardianship of the latter (renamed Hephzibah "Eppie"), much to the relief of Godfrey, who can now legally marry Nancy. All goes well until Godfrey and Nancy's failure to have children threaten Silas' newfound happiness as Eppie's father years later.

What can I say about "SILAS MARNER"? I can honestly say that it was not one of the best adaptations of a George Eliot novel. Then again, I do not consider the 1861 novel to be one of her best works. I realized that Eliot had set the story either around the end of the 18th century or around the beginning of the 19th century. It was her prerogative. But both the novel and the movie seemed to reek of Victorian melodrama that I found myself feeling that Eliot or any adaptation could have set the story around the time it was originally written and published - the mid 19th century. The story is, at best, a good old-fashioned Victorian melodrama. I would never consider it as particularly original in compare to the likes of "MIDDLEMARCH" or "DANIEL DERONDA".

"SILAS MARNER" tries its best to be profound on the same level as the other two Eliot stories I had mentioned. But I had a few problems with the narrative. What was the point behind Dunstan Cass' disappearance and theft? Yes, he stole Silas' hard earned money before he disappeared. I got the feeling that the stolen coins seemed to serve as a prelude to Silas' emotional attachment to Eppie. But why have Dunstan take it? How else did his disappearance serve the story . . . even after his dead remains were found close by, years later? In Eliot's novel, the discovery of Dunstan led brother Godfrey to form a guilty conscience over his own secret regarding young Eppie and confess to his wife. But in the movie, it was Godfrey and Nancy's inability to conceive a child that seemed to finally force the former to confess. Unless my memories have played me wrong. Frankly, Dunstan struck me as a wasted character. Anyone else could have stolen Silas' money.

I also noticed that Giles Foster, who had served as both screenwriter and director for this production, left out a few things from Eliot's novel. I have never expect a movie or television to be an accurate adaptation of its literary source. But I wish Foster had shown how Eppie's presence in Silas' life had allowed him to socially connect with Raveloe's villagers. Eliot did this by allowing her to lead him outside, beyond the confines of his cottage. The only person with whom Silas managed to connect was neighbor Dolly Winthrop, who visited his cottage to deliver him food or give advice on how to raise Eppie. I also noticed that in the movie, Silas had never apologized to another villager named Jem Rodney for his false accusation of theft. And Jem had never demanded it. How odd. I also wish that Foster could have included the segment in which Silas had revisited his former neighborhood, Lantern Yard. In the novel, Silas' visit revealed how the neighborhood had transformed into a site for a factory and its citizens scattered to other parts. Silas' visit to his old neighborhood served as a reminder of how his life had improved in Raveloe and it is a pity that audiences never saw this on their television screens.

Yes, I have a few quibbles regarding "SILAS MARNER". But if I must be really honest, I still managed to enjoy it very much. Eliot had written a very emotional and poignant tale in which a lonely and embittered man finds a new lease on life through his connection with a child. Thanks to George Eliot's pen and Giles Foster's typewriter, this story was perfectly set up by showing how Silas Marner's life fell into a social and emotional nadir, thanks to the betrayal of a "friend" and the easily manipulated emotions of his neighbors.

Once Silas moved to Raveloe, the television movie did an excellent, if not perfect, job of conveying how he re-connected with the world. It was simply not a case of Silas stumbling across a foundling and taking her in. Even though he had formed a minor friendship with Mrs. Winthrop, having Eppie in his life managed to strengthen their friendship considerably. The movie's narrative also took its time in utilizing how the Cass family dynamics played such an important role in Silas' life in Raveloe. After all, Godfrey' secret marriage to Molly Farren brought Eppie into his life. And Dunstan's theft of his funds led Silas to re-direct his attention from his missing coins to the lost Eppie. And both Godfrey and Nancy Cass proved to be a threat to Silas and Eppie's future relationship.

The production values for "SILAS MARNER" proved to be solid. But if I must be honest, I did not find any of it - the cinematography, production designs and costume designs - particularly memorable. The performances in the movie was another matter. "SILAS MARNER" featured solid performances from the likes of Rosemary Martin, Jim Broadbent (before he became famous), Nick Brimble, Frederick Treves, Donald Eccles, Rosemary Greenwood; and even Elizabeth Hoyle and Melinda White who were both charming as younger versions of Eppie Marner.

Angela Pleasence certainly gave a memorable performance as Eppie's drug addicted mother, Molly Farren. Patsy Kensit not only gave a charming performance as the adolescent Eppie, I thought she was excellent in one particular scene in which Eppie emotionally found herself torn between Silas and the Casses. Freddie Jones gave his usual competent performance as the emotional Squire Cass, father of both Godfrey and Dunstan. I was especially impressed by Jonathan Coy's portrayal of the dissolute Dunstan Cass. In fact, I was so impressed that it seemed a pity that his character was only seen in the movie's first half.

I initially found the portrayal of Nancy Lammeter Cass rather limited, thanks to Eliot's novel and Foster's screenplay. Fortunately, Nancy became more of a central character in the film's second half and Jenny Agutter did a skillful job in conveying Nancy's growing despair of her inability to have children and her desperation to adopt Eppie. I thought Patrick Ryecart gave one of the two best performances in "SILAS MARNER". He did an excellent job of conveying Godfrey Cass' moral ambiguity - his secrecy over his marriage to Molly Farren, the passive-aggressive manner in which he "took care" of Eppie through Silas and his willingness to use Eppie as a substitute for his and Nancy's failure to have children. Ryecart made it clear that Godfrey was basically a decent man . . . decent, but flawed. The other best performance in "SILAS MARNER" came from leading man Ben Kingsley, who portrayed the title character. Kingsley did a superb job of conveying Silas' emotional journey. And it was quite a journey - from the self-satisfied weaver who found himself shunned from one community, to the embittered man who stayed away from his new neighbors, to a man experiencing the joys and fears of fatherhood for the first time, and finally the loving man who had finally learned to re-connect with others.

Overall, "SILAS MARNER" is more than a solid adaptation of George Eliot's novel. I did not find its production designs particularly overwhelming. I did enjoy Eliot's narrative, along with Giles Foster's adaptation rather enjoyable . . . if not perfect. But I cannot deny that what really made this movie work for me were the first-rate performances from a cast led by the always talented Ben Kingsley. Victorian melodrama or not, I can honestly say that I have yet to grow weary of "SILAS MARNER".

[queersrus]

request for cottagecore + sad-ish? id pack? please + thanks!

here's my attempt!

assuming id pack includes more than just the usual npts i'll throw in a few cottagecore and sad related labels i found

(nick)names:

ambrose, amos, ansel, acacia, ada, adelaide, arwin/arwen, ava, avery/averie, aviva, amaranth, able, arbor, art, arty/artie, asher, ainsley, acheron, adalia brandy/brandi, branwen, billie/billy, bryony, bill, banner, booker, bram

barley, brion, brian, bryce chloris, chandra, cyrene, cayenne, cade, clyde, chester, cliff denna, diana/dianna, diona, donna/dona, derby, dallas, danica, daphne, dixie, dawn, dylan

edmund, elenore, elodie, eudora, elenore/eleanor, ebony, erica, eila, eira, eve, eithne, everlee, elize, eliza, elizabeth, everlyn, elwood, emerson, elowen finnegan, freddy/freddie, frederick, fallin/fallon, florance/florence

fable, frank, frankie/franky, franklin/franklyn, faine, filbert, finneas ginny/ginnie, gale, georgia, george, georgina, granger halcyone, hana/hanna/hannah, harriet, harry, hayley/hailie/hailey, halie/hallie, heather, harlowe/harlow, harrow, hadar, hawl, hayes,

huck, holden, huso ilana, illiana/iliana, ingrid, ivory jane, janet/janette, jesse/jessie, josie, jose, jack, jackie, jackson kingston, kodi/kodie, kodiak, kylan

lupin, lian, liana/lianna, liane/lianne, linc, linden, lyle, lucius maisie, matilda, maude, mabel, merle, marin, mica/mika, mason/macon, martin, miller, miles nellie, nyssa, ned, nick, ness

opholia, oliver, olive, olivia, oleander, odell, oriel, oscar paisley, poppy, posie, phineas, parker rose, rosemary/rosemarie, rosy/rosie, rory, rosette, rosetta, rue, rosabel/rosabell/rosabelle, rosa, rosabela/rosabella, rosella, rosaria,

rosario, rob, robert, ray, reed, ridge, ryland, rowan, roan shiloh, sharon, scarlet/scarlett/skarlett, sam, samantha, samuel, sunny/sunnie, sawyer, shaw, shay, steve, stevie, stevia, sorell/sorrell, seb, sebby/sebbie, sebastian, saddie/sadie, sade

theodore, theo, tori, toria, tamie/tammie, tawny, terra, timber, tim, timothy, tanner, teddy/teddie, trevis/travis, trevor, tyler, tristan/tristin, tristah/trista, trystia verginia, vicky/vickie, victor, victoria, viola, violet/violette,

violeta/violetta, valerian, vernon winnie, willa, winston, winifred, winslow, will, william, willow, wade, wagner, warren, watts, watson, wilhelmina yvonne, yves zephyr/zephyre, zara, zinnia, zion

surnames:

appleyard, ashton, ashwood baker, brookstone, butterfield catkin, cobbler, cooper, copper, copperwood, copperfield, crestfallen dogwood, direwood, direbrook, direfield, desperfield, downyard

doleman fenlon, falkner, forlorn greenwood, greenfield, golding, goldwood, goldfield, griefman, griefwood, gardner

hilbrook, holbrook, heath, horsewood, horsefield, hawksley, harrowing, hawkswood, hawthorne, hawkner, hawkfield, holloway, hallowood

larken, limewood, lockhart, lovejoy mourner, mournwright, mournman nettleship

plowman, penrose, penwright redbrook, rosedale, redwood, rosewood, redfield summerfield, sweetnam, seawright, sorrowfield, sorrowbrook, shamewood, shamewright

thacker, thatcher westfield, wainwright, write/wright, wagonwright, woodsman, wyrmwood/wormwood, winterwood, winterrose, wretchwood, wretchman

system names:

the cottagecore *system, the sorrowful system, the melancholic cottage system, the mourning flowerbed system, the gloomy garden system, the tearful system, the harvest system

1st p prns: i/me/my/mine/myself

ci/cotte/cottagy/cottagine/cottageself hi/he/hy/harvestine/harvestself gi/garde/gardy/gardine/gardenself si/sade/sady/sadine/sadself si/sorre/sorry/sorrowine/sorrowself mi/me/mely/melancholine/melancholyself

2nd p prns: you/your/yours/yourself

co/cottager/cottagers/cottagerself ho/harvester/harvesters/harvesterself go/gardener/gardeners/gardenerself so/sader/sadders/sadderself so/sorrower/sorrowers/sorrowerself mo/melancholer/melancholers/melancholerself

3rd p prns: they/them/theirs/themself

co/cottage, cott/age, cot/cottage, cot/tage, cottage/cottages, cottage/core har/vest, ha/harvest, harv/est, harvest/harvests gar/den, gar/garden, garden/gardens, garden/core farm/core sa/sad, sad/sads, sa/ad, sad/sadden, so/sorrow, sor/row, sorr/ow, sorrow/sorrows, sorrow/sorrowful mel/melancholy, mel/ancholy, melan/choly, melancholy/melancholies, melancholy/melchancholic

titles:

the weeping gardener, the mourning farmer, the sad cottage dweller, the melancholic planter, the sorrowful woodsman

**one who lives a sad cottage life, one who mourns within ones cottage, one who weeps amongst ones gardens, one who copes with sadness through cottage life

book titles:

the sad little cottage, a melancholic villager, the weeping willows, the mourning garden, the sorrows of an old cottage, a pitiful harvest

genders:

buncottagecoric(link),

cottagegoric(link), cafdreamian(link), cottagecrittean(link), cottagecoric(link), Cálidatierramielgender(link)

epuisetristic(link)

gendersob(link)

Sadnostacatgender(link)

orientations: (n/a)

other:

cottagecore bpd(link)

many can be found by searching cottagecore genders/mogai/liom as well, there are many versions of cottagecore flags especially for lgbt related labels so they should not be hard to find if you feel like looking!

*system can be replaced with any alternative (ex. cluster, collective, hoard/horde, etc)

**one can be replaced with any prn

[docgold13]

All The Batman(s)

From the best of the best to the not so best of the rest…*

#1). Kevin Conroy

#2). Michael Keaton

#3). Adam West

#4). Bruce Greenwood

#5). Christian Bale

#6). Roger Craig Smith #7). Diedrich Bader

#8). Robert Patterson

#9). Olan Soule #10). Rino Romano

#11). Ben Affleck

#12). Will Arnett

#13). Will Freddie

#14). Val Kilmer

#15). Jensen Ackles

#16). Robert Lowery #17). Jeremy Sisto

#18). David Mazouz

#19).Jason O'Mara #20). Anthony Ruivivar

#21). Keith Ferguson

#22). Lewis Wilson

#23). William Baldwin #24). Peter Weller

#25). Maura Monti

#26). David Giuntoli

#27). Troy Baker #28). Iain Glen

#29). Luke Wilson

#30). Anson Mount #31). Ben McKenzie

#32)Levent Çakir #33). Rene Requiestas

#34). Nat Wolf #35). Jimmy Kimell

#36). George Clooney

*Agree, disagree; have I left anyone out? Let me know what you think.

[mariagreenwoodart]

Pinned post, introduction, f/o list, DNI list, theriotypes

Hi! My name is Maria! I'm 17 years old and I do digital (and sometimes traditional) art! My main platform is YouTube, so if you like my art on here, please consider subbing to my YouTube channel!

My yt channel: https://youtube.com/@MariaGreenwoodArt?si=Nfi78I3dTd0639Im

This is pretty important, so I'm putting it at the top: I'm fine with asks, but please don't DM me unless I message you first.

My special interests:

Fortnite

Genshin impact

Five nights at Freddy's

The owl house

Marvel Cinematic Universe (though I'm kinda losing interest)

Spider-verse

My Little Pony: friendship is magic (DON'T JUDGE OKAY)

Star Wars

Hamilton

Six the musical

Wonka

Barbie

Disney

Welcome home (I have a separate blog for that- @maria-greenwood-neighbour!)

The amazing digital circus (again, separate blog- @maria-greenwood-digital-circus)

Taylor Swift

Amulet book series

Cuphead

Literally anything historical, but especially the victorian era

My hero academia

Hazbin hotel

Stardew valley

Pokemon (especially scarlet and violet)

Super Mario

DC comics

Scratchin' Melodii

Poppy playtime (blame my brother)

Epic: the musical

Ramshackle

ENA

Yaelokre

Metroid

I'll be adding more. Mark my words.

Do not interact if:

Racist

Sexist

Homophobic

Zoophile

Furry hater

Pedo

NSFW blog

You judge people based on religion

Proshipper/comshipper

It's fine if you don't like something that I do, but please don't hate.

By the way I AM A MINOR.

Tags:

Walmart my puffy friends- a greeting I say in all of my yt videos

:3- :3

Malarkey :3- CHAOSSSS

Art- duh

Not my art- when I post fanart of my characters/persona that I get on yt/insta (doesn't happen a lot)

My wife- basically anything with Antonia (fortnite).

Father/my girlfriend- anything with arlecchino (genshin impact). (she's not my father that's just what her title is)

Ramblings of a Swiftie- basically when I start rambling about the most random stuff about taylor Swift

My favourite moots

@malarkey42

@pan-anarcho

@scally-wiggles716

@simplylatte

@sketchquill

@miahearts

My birthday is April 15th for anyone who wants to give me a gift of some sort!

Oh and I'm british

My f/os:

My main f/o(s):

Antonia (fortnite)

Ship name: maritonia/maridirectonia

Emoji combo: 💜💰/💰💜 (purple heart is me, money bag is Antonia)

Relationship status: Married

Claudie (Chaos Director) (Fortnite)

Ship name: mariclaudie/maridirectonia

Emoji combo: 🖤💜 /💜🖤

Relationship Status: dating

Rio Vidal (Agatha All Along)

Ship name: Riolene/Mayrio

Emoji combo: 💚🔮/🔮☠️ (Green heart/skull is Rio, crystal ball is Maylene)

Relationship status: Married

Main Polyam f/os: Antonia and Chaos Director

Ship name: maridirectonia

Emoji combo: 🖤💜💰

Relationship status: married to Antonia, dating Claudie (chaos director)

Romantic:

Nisha (fortnite) (ship name: amelisha) 💍

Montague (fortnite)

Valeria (fortnite) 💍

Aphrodite (fortnite) (ship name: aphronelope)

Midas (fortnite)

Marigold (fortnite)

Jules (fortnite)

Doctor Slone (fortnite) (ship name: echoslone) 💍

Ga ming (genshin impact)

Neuvillette (genshin impact) (ship name: chevalette) 💍

Venti (genshin impact) (ship name: aeriven)

Lisa (genshin impact) (ship name: marilisa)

Raiden Shogun/Ei (genshin impact) (ship name: blossomblade/sakurei)💍

Arlecchino (Genshin Impact) (ship name: arlerosa)

Wally Darling (Welcome Home) (ship name: walleve)

Nemona (pokemon scarlet and violet)

Vinnie (Ramshackle) (ship name: vinnivy)

Mavuika (Genshin Impact)

Lyney (Genshin Impact) (ship name: lynesme)

Golden Queen/Aurea (Skylanders)

Beidou (Genshin Impact) (ship name: beiriana)

Emma Frost (X-men/Fortnite)

Rensa (Scratchin' Melodii)

Samus Aran (Metroid)

Mel Medarda (Arcane)

Vi (arcane)

Sevika (arcane)

Family:

Alastor (hazbin hotel) (father-daughter)

Rosie (hazbin hotel) (aunt-niece)

Lilith Clawthorne (the owl house) (aunt-niece)

Ford Pines (gravity falls) (grunkle-niece)

Jamtine (Scratchin' Melodii) (sisters)

Friendship:

Ballister Boldheart (nimona)

Angel Dust (hazbin hotel)

Barbie

Glamrock Freddy (FNaF security breach)

Roxanne Wolf (FNaF security breach)

Vanessa (FNaF security breach)

Artemis (specifically the fortnite version)

I am fine with sharing f/os!

Theriotypes:

Rosy Maple Moth

Death's Head Hawk Moth

[cdyssey]

The Fall of the House of Usher (1.01 Reactions)

Starting this show because everything I’ve seen about Tamerlane Usher specifically convinced me that there was a new overworked cringefail girlflop out there for me to adopt like a feral, little kitten.

“If pain and suffering were like the kiss of Jesus, then he kissed the loving fuck out of my mother.” AKWJEJEJW

OH, the actor who plays teen Madeline was young Shirley in HOHH.

These poor kids are burying their mother in a wooden box. 😭 Also, Bruce Greenwood’s voice is so stately and complicated, churching and churning like gravel. His voiceover as he recites “For Annie” is perfect.

Lol, it’s not a Poe story if someone wasn’t buried alive.

The shadow of Eliza moving in the background behind Dupin aughdnehshs. The way the dialogue makes you pay attention to what’s behind him so you can’t miss that ghost.

“That day was the last day we were all in the same place.”

And then the text flashing two weeks later is effective too. Six people dead within two weeks.

I’m sorry. I can’t take madeline’s bangs seriously. QKQKWMDNWN what. why

obsessed with how hot all of the usher children are. I’m sure they’re all human cesspools and everything, but they’re sure serving cunt in the courtroom

really appreciate the gravitas carl lumbly is bringing to auggie—whether it’s his righteous rage in the trial or his various reactions to Roderick in the living room. In the latter especially, he gets to embody so many complicated emotions: his disgust at roderick, his horror at what happened to the usher family, his reluctant curiosity as roderick goes on and on…

“I don’t think it can be true. If it is true, it’s Perry.” AQokqqkoqsk. Henry Thomas is wonderful.

Oh, god yeah. Tamerlane Usher is gonna do it for me. Love when women are ambitious and horrible and definitely have intergenerational trauma that they repress under a paper thin veneer of being put together: “I don’t give a shit about the world. I care about what my dad thinks.”

“Fuck Blippi.”

T’Nia Miller. Audhehwngnrnwjjwjejw.

“We just have to keep it away from Perry or it’ll end up in some co-ed’s drink.” ALL of the siblings have bagged on Perry so far. This line is so eurgh, though. Says a lot about who Perry is before we meet him in earnest.

Usher being so casually queer is wonderful.

the sibling introductions are doing a nice job of shading their definitely fatal flaws, lol.

PLUTO!! love a good black cat

“Hannity knows which side his dick is buttered on. He’ll be friendly.” GOD WKWNENSNSKN

“I want you to start with Perry obviously, but I don’t think he’s clever enough to keep it off TikTok.” AAfjwkwoama

Kate Siegel can murder me. Love the white hair.

The difference between present day Madeline and Roderick and their teenage counterparts is stark. They were jaded, yes, but they weren’t cold and callous, neglectful and disdaining.

“Freddie, marrying this woman might be the one thing you didn’t fuck up.” MAN WOQMWNWNDJJSNSSKA

“Oh, for fuck’s sake, Freddie.”

Love the whole toxic family being together. <3

“Neutralized. Like dead.” WLQLQLQLQKDJNDNS. GOD

“I’ll have to sue the bloody puddle of gore in the designer shoes.” slay

“To the rest of you, happy hunting.” Fascinating and horrifying. The way the Ushers are so insular—they’re expected to defend the family, the company, with their lives, but Roderick also sees no problem with turning them against each other. Before they’re ever killed, they’re already cannibalizing themselves.

Roderick claims responsibility for all of the children’s deaths.

Carla Gugino is so hot aufhwikqlwkwkakwkw.

good on usher for playing with the incestuous vibes of the original story with Maddie and Rod. Fun and fucked up.

Madeline wearing sunglasses to the funeral is soooo Alqkqkwsmakma.

OH THE GHOSTS OF ALL SIX. SO FUCKED UP. AUOUGHDNDJS. AND THE LINE BEINg, “… the sweeping precipitancy of a fall from such a height.” YEAH

Lenore reaching out to place a hand on Roderick. 😭 also, bruce is so good in this. His agony as he looks upon all those condemning bodies and wounds is chilling

THAT FUCKING JESTER JUMPSCARE WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. GOD

yeah okay. I’m into this show QKQMQKQKKSN

[everyframeapainting1991]

The opening shot of "The Master" shows a captivating high-angle shot of aqua-blue water churning behind a ship, setting the tone for the film's exploration of turbulence and introspection. The water, with its constant movement, is both calming and chaotic, reflecting the psychological states of the characters Lancaster Dodd and Freddie Quell. The predominant blue tones evoke a feeling of detachment and sadness, mirroring the emotional undercurrents in the story. When Jonny Greenwood's score starts playing, it intensifies the tension, creating a sensory experience that immerses the audience, drawing them into the intricate and disorienting world of the film.

[fiercynn]

was in bed all day so i watched the entirety of the fall of the house of usher. i'm mixed about it overall, but i think it may have actually been the best plot-wise of the mike flanagan shows i've seen?

spoilers for all the mike flanagan tv shows except the midnight club (which i started and was intrigued by, but fizzled out on when i found out it had been cancelled) beneath the cut

my problem with both hill house and bly manor is that i think that plot-wise, they set up interesting stories and then can't stick the landing and go out with a whimper out at the end. they do an okay job with emotional arcs, but you can't entirely divorce the emotional journey from the bones of the story - at least, not in these kinds of stories - so the plot still matters, i think.

(imo midnight mass does not do that, it tells exactly the story it wants to tell and constructs it decently; i just found that story really boring lol.)

so while i think bly manor was still the most enjoyable of the shows to watch, the fall of the house of usher might be the best in my book at plot, and i enjoyed the way it used poe stories amd poetry with its own twists on them. and i think with a few changes could have been really good overall! here's what i would have changed:

less racism. i mean it was probably average amount of racist for both a flanagan show and, generally, a majority-white cast & crew american show, and i know the whole thing was about how horrible rich people are, but there was still so much casual racism, sigh

like 40% less monologuing. i know, i know, that's flanagan's whole deal, but it's still too much even when it's performed by actors as enjoyable as bruce greenwood and carla gugino, and isn't all about catholicism (sorry midnight mass fans)

pretty early on i thought that the reveal about what happened on new year's 1980 would be madeline and roderick killing rufus griswold. but then after roderick betrayed auguste at the deposition i was like "wait no that's too obvious, they must have killed annabel to keep her quiet about roderick's perjury" and honestly i think that would have been a better twist??? like even the bells they were hearing behind the wall made sense to me because her name was annabel! and it would have been a murder roderick felt guilty about on a personal level, and it might have made sense that he would take the deal from verna if her pitch was "you already sacrificed your wife who you loved. don't you want to make it worth it by having some certainty for you and your children for at least a number of decades?" so i was bored when my original predictable guess was right. i guess it fit better with the cask of amontillado to have it be rufus but still, less compelling

the scene with arthur showing pictures of verna throughout history was SO silly and hamfisted, i'm sorry. also the lemons speech, the worst kind of example of a flanagan monologue which thinks it's brilliant and is just...goofy

i thought maybe there was going to be a twist where lenore didn't die because her mom had actually cheated on freddie and i was upset that didn't happen :( i know it was meant to be a lesson, that roderick and madeline's deal had to apply even to the not-horrible members of the family, but i still hated it! sigh

i thought that both lulu wilson (child madeline) and willa fitzgerald (mid-20s madeline) did a much better job with the character than mary mcdonnell (senior madeline). idk something about her just didn't seem as ruthless and collected and cold?

also not a change exactly but why did no one comment on the fact that roderick and madeline usher, who are twins, one of whom was married at the time, decided to do a couples' costume as jay gatsby and daisy buchanan for new year's 1980. why

[nemmet]

figured that it was finally time to post my stardew farmer’s full ref!! meet freddie greenwood of llandoger farm, the grooviest spot in town! their doors are always open if you need a hot meal on a cold night. 🌳🦆☀️🍳

bonus info & doodles under the cut :)

their birthday is summer 5

they have a scar underneath the lock of hair that covers their left eyebrow following a workplace injury, which prompted them to quit jojacorp and inherit the farm

they LOVE going to the movies, their favourite films are the brave little sapling and it howls in the rain but they’ll watch anything

their pets are bean (grey cat), emerald (horse) and judy (duck)

their friends are maru, emily, gus, marnie and jas

they experience an agonising enemies to friends to lovers slowburn with shane because they have similar issues but cope with them in such drastically different ways (freddie is overly friendly and desperate to be useful, shane is rude to others and keeps to himself) that they decide to be super petty to one another at first, before eventually becoming each other’s ride or die. i love them your honour.

bonus: a silly doodle of them & shane, what they looked like in their jojacorp days, their character inspirations, and an in-game photo of freddie, shane and their kid rose (jas is also with them in my heart)

[reasoningdaily]

It’s easy to forget that people of African descent come from a rich legacy of community and wealth-building as the first kings and queens on the planet. In a world that stifles Black progress and seeks to recreate a Eurocentric world-view of history, the brilliance of Black business owners shines through like a diamond in the rough.

As communities of the African diaspora, from Historic Greenwood District to Cape Town, South Africa, seek to build generational wealth after decades and centuries of pillaging and persecution, a few exceptional entrepreneurs stand out. The 10 wealthiest people of African descent prove the potential that’s often locked away inside Black people everywhere.

Using data from Forbes, which tracks the net worth of the wealthiest human beings in the world, The Black Wall Street Times compiled a list of the top 10 wealthiest Black people. Out of the 10, four are American, and three are Nigerian. Additionally, two are women, and eight are men.

What lessons can we learn from their success? Let’s meet them.

10. Folorunsho Alakija — Nigerian businesswoman and philanthropist.

Alakija has an estimated net worth of $1 billion as of 2020. Alakija is the founder and executive vice chairman of Famfa Oil, one of Nigeria’s largest oil exploration companies. Entering the business world with a fashion label, Alakija rose to financial prestige by cultivating high-profile clients, including the wife of former Nigerian president Ibrahim Babangida. At 72 years old, Forbes ranks her as the 20th wealthiest person in Africa and the wealthiest woman on the continent.

I have faced many hurdles in my own life, but I have learned that with the right mindset, every challenge is a chance to create bigger and better opportunities. pic.twitter.com/KJDholX9tx— Folorunso Alakija (@alakijaofficial) March 20, 2023

9. Mohammed Ibrahim — British-Sudanese businessman and philanthropist.

Ibrahim has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion as of 2023. Born in Sudan, he’s the founder and chairman of Celtel International, one of Africa’s largest mobile phone companies. He also established the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to support good governance in Africa. He sold Celtel International to Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Company for a whopping $3.4 billion in 2005, pocketing $1.4 billion in the process.

— startupAFRICA (@startupafrimag) April 28, 2019

8. Michael Jordan — Former NBA player and American businessman.

The six-time NBA champion has stayed busy in his retirement years. He’s now a successful businessman with an estimated net worth of $2 billion as of 2023. Jordan is the majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets franchise and has several other investments in business ventures across the world.

7. Strive Masiyiwa — Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist.

Masiyiwa has an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion as of 2023. In 1998, he overcame government opposition to launch the mobile phone network Econet Wireless Zimbabwe. He also owns stakes in fiber optic and fintech companies in several African countries. Together with his wife Tsitsi, he found HigherLife Foundation. The organization supports orphaned and low-income children in  Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi and Lesotho.

I met Strive Masiyiwa’s Higher Life Foundation & Celebration Ministries International fact finding team that will help Joyce Banda Foundation International provide immediate & long term help to cyclone Freddy victims. Our people need urgent help. Looking forward to their support. pic.twitter.com/SvRuG7CSB0— H.E. Dr. Joyce Banda (@DrJoyceBanda) March 20, 2023

6. Oprah Winfrey — American media mogul and philanthropist.

Arguably one of the most famous Black American women, Winfrey has a net worth of $2.5 billion as of 2023. She is the founder and chairwoman of Harpo Productions, which produces television shows, films, and digital media for a variety of platforms. Beginning her career as a TV journalist, Winfrey transitioned her hit talk show into a media empire with the OWN network, reinvesting profits from movies into more ventures.

Top five

5. Patrice Motsepe — South African businessman.

In 2008, Motsepe became the first Black African billionaire and has an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion as of 2023. Motsepe is the chairman and founder of African Rainbow Minerals, a South African-based mining company. In 1997, he flippled low-producing mining shafts into a profitable enterprise. He is the owner of the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club and was elected president of the Confederation of African Football in 2021.

This is Patrice Motsepe. He bought an unknown South African club to frustrate Orlando Pirates and Kaiser Chiefs. All the cups prize money is shared among the players. Today Mamelodi Sundows is the best football club in Africa pic.twitter.com/k2vhDRXtBo— Tolo (@021Nongwadla) March 28, 2023

4. David Steward — American businessman and philanthropist.

Steward has a net worth of $6 billion as of 2023, making him the fourth wealthiest Black person in the world. Steward is the founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, Inc., a privately held technology solutions provider. A man who once watched his car get repossessed has progressed past poverty to become owner of a company that boasts high-profile clients, such as: Citi, Verizon and the U.S. government. In 2018, Steward donated $1.3 million to the University of Missouri-St. Louis to establish the David and Thelma Steward Institute for Jazz Studies.

David Steward battled with obstacles like poverty and racism. David didn’t enjoy the best resources from his parents. However, he learnt lessons from his parents that gave him significant wealth. One such is “treating people right.”https://t.co/b1ntWaFeEX— Business Elites Africa (@ElitesAfrica) March 27, 2023

3. Mike Adenuga — Nigerian businessman and billionaire.

Adenuga has an estimated net worth of $6.1 billion as of 2023. He’s the founder and chairman of Globacom, one of Nigeria’s largest mobile phone networks. It’s the third largest operator in Nigeria, with 55 million subscribers. Adenuga also runs a profitable oil exploration company in the Niger delta. He supported himself as a college student earning an MBA in New York by moonlighting as a taxi driver. At age 26, he earned his first million dollars selling lace and soft drinks.

Mike Adenuga worked as a taxi driver to help fund his university education. A student in New York, USA, he drove a taxi to pay for his studies, even though his parents belonged to the upper middle class in Nigeria. He was born and raised in Ibadan, Oyo. pic.twitter.com/qs7CCk0CVh— Yorùbáness (@Yorubaness) March 17, 2023

2. Robert F. Smith — American businessman.

Smith a net worth of $8 billion as of 2023, making him the second wealthiest Black person in the world. He is the founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in software, data, and technology companies. Vista is one of the most successful private equity firms, with $96 billion in assets. The persistent self-starter earned an internship at Bell Labs during college after calling the company every week for five months. As an engineer, he worked at Goodyear Tire and Kraft Foods before earning an MBA from Columbia University. In 2019, he vowed to pay the student debt for the entire graduating class of Morehouse College.

1. Aliko Dangote — Nigerian businessman.

Topping the list of the wealthiest Black person in the world with an estimated net worth of $13.7 billion as of 2023, is none other than Nigeria’s own Aliko Dangote. He’s founder and chairman of Dangote Cement, one of Africa’s leading cement producers and he’s Africa’s richest man. The company has operations in 10 countries across the Motherland, and he also boasts a newly created fertilizer company as of 2022. Once completed, Dangote Oil Refinery is expected to be one of the world’s largest, even as climate change continues to disrupt the planet.

Today we celebrate a polio-free Africa, the result of decades of vaccination, hard work, collaboration. Tomorrow we get back to work, to ensure wild polio does not come back. Together, we all can #EndPolio globally.— Aliko Dangote (@AlikoDangote) August 25, 2020

While Nigeria boasts the third and first richest Black people in the world, the list reflects a diverse array of personalities, backgrounds, and ingenuity across the African diaspora.

[nerdby]

The Loki season two trailer dropped today. Judging from the trailer, the series seems to be leaning more into the series' horror elements. I'm basing that largely on the soundtrack because I have not met a single person that isn't creeped the fuck out by theremin music, myself included. That being said this is definitely your typical horror story. It falls into the social horror genre, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite subgenres.

Social horror is a newly emerging genre of horror that examines all of the fucked shit that we as a society allow to take place simply because the mainstream says that it's ok.

In the case of the Loki series that is allowing one person to take the fall for crimes that he didn't even do and also hunting down and murdering someone simply cause they're transgender. And I know that not everyone headcannons Sylvie as trans and for those of you who don't, I have a question for you:

If Sylvie isn't trans and was simply born female, then why didn't the TVA come for her as an infant? Why would they wait until she was a child capable of complex magic and, ya know, running away?

Just a little something to think about.

It does seem as though Sylvie's story is taking the back burner in season two. Or that's how it seems in this trailer. She didn't exactly turn out to be a fan favorite among stalkerish Hiddlestoners who can't stand to see Tom have a love life even if it's an imaginary one. Or among biphobic assholes who insist that being a straight-passing relationship negates a bisexual's queerness. So it would make sense if Sylvie got less screen time, but she was also a huge part of the season one story arc.

I, personally, thought it was nice that Loki had someone who didn't exist simply to remind him of what a terrible person he was simply for existing. But it's like I said their kiss didn't really eek me out as much as it did other people cause I guess I'm desensitized. Desensitization is what happens when you watch A LOT of horror movies over a long period of time. Or when you just live through so much fucked up shit that you just stop caring.

I do have a line, though, and I don't go out of my way to read about incest and shit like that. Like there's this book called All The Ugly & Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood that I absolutely refuse to read because the plot is basically that this girl's life is so fucked up that the only good thing she has is an incestous relationship with her brother or someone. That's just fucking torture porn, ok? It's disgusting. But the whole incest/self-cest trope also plays into the social horror thing cause that happens quite often in horror stories.

Cause usually when characters end up in a consensual incestous relationship it's because they've bonded over shared trauma and are kept so isolated both socially and psychically.....That I guess it starts to feel like it's impossible for someone other than this sibling or whoever to love and understand them.

It's not meant to be sexy or funny. It's meant to be tragic. And like you think you might be some desensitizing yourself I highly recommend--

Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino

Flowers In The Attic by V.C. Andrews

Bates Motel tv series

Vampire Knight also exists as an anime, but I don't think the complete series was ever put to film. So if you wanna know how it ends then you need to read the manga. Flowers In The Attic is also a movie and you definitely want the 1987 version if you decide to watch it. Here's the trailer--

The movie is (or was) available to stream for free on Tubi.

And Bates Motel is a TV series that depicts a prequel to Robert Bloch's classic horror novel Psycho. The novel was adapted as a movie by Alfred Hitchcock whose well-known for putting horror movies on the map with his film, The Birds. Bates Motel stars Freddie Highmore and my favorite scream queen, Vera Farmiga who you may know from the Conjuringverse movies that depict the work of famed paranormal investigators (and con-artists) Ed and Lorraine Warren. Here's the trailer for that, too--

If you guys think some of these are too much for you to handle or that they're too triggering, I recommend looking up reaction videos and embracing schadenfreude because I can promise you if the person watching is a first time viewer.......Well, the first time I watched Bates Motel I was pretty much making this face the entire time--

So yeah.

[jrpneblog]

Long trip for North End in punishing schedule

North End make the longest trip of the season on Saturday when we take on Plymouth Argyle at Home Park, a round trip of over 600 miles for the Deepdale faithful. The game in Devon comes on the back of a decent week with North End taking four points from the two home games against Coventry and Norwich at the start of an intense seven game run in twenty two days. After the trip to Plymouth on Saturday we welcome Arsenal to Deepdale next Wednesday evening in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup as we look to cause a major upset in the competition and get to the quarter final stage for the first time in our illustrious history.

Last Saturday North End claimed all three points from Mark Robins Coventry City, with a 1-0 win, courtesy of an Emil Riis header twenty minutes from the end in what turned out to be a quite tight affair. North End shaded the chances in the game and shaded the play but if it had not been for Freddie Woodman diving to his left in the dying seconds of the match it could have have easily finished with the spoils shared. North End seem to have the jynx over the Sky Blues at Deepdale and I think this was the twenty second league game that Coventry have come to Deepdale without going away with a win. A truly incredible record.

On Tuesday evening Norwich City were the visitors to Deepdale and I thought the Canaries were the best side we have seen at Preston in the league this season. North End started the game like a house on fire and were two goals up inside twelve minutes from a Sam Greenwood penalty and a well constucted goal from Duane Holmes. North End put a massive amount of energy into the first quarter of the game and could not quite hold out until half time before the visitors pulled one back. When Duffy equalised after an hour it was very nip and tuck but North End finished the better and were well deserving of a point from an entertaining game under the Deepdale lights.

On Saturday we travel to Plymouth to take on Wayne Rooneys team who lie two points and five places below North End in 21st position in the Championship. Having said that the Pilgims have won three and drawn one of their five home games this season scoring nine goals and only conceding six. North Ends last waay win in the Championship came at Home Park way back in March when a Liam Millar shot from the right hand side was the difference between the two teams. It wont be an easy game for North End, none in the Championship are, but I think we are playing well enough to win this game and make it a very good week with seven points out of nine for Hecky`s charges.

On Wednesday evening we welcome Arsenal to Deepdale for our 4th Round Carabao Cup tie in what promises to be a grand occasion for those inside Deepdale. I, personally, am very disappointed with ticket sales to date leading up to the game but there are many reasons why this should be the case. It is, of course, a free hit for North End and although there will be speculation on how strong a team Arsenal will put out but you can bet your life that there will still be plenty of stars on show and the least we can do is give Hecky and the boys a full house to run out to. So if you havent made up your mind whether to go or not to go, get yourself down to Deepdale as you may well see a bit of history being made.

And finally this week:- I had a long discussion the other day on whether VAR would be an improvement if introduced into the Championship. I am definitely in the No camp on this one as Ive seen too many decisions go in favour of the so called big teams in the Premier League. On that basis alone ...it`s a NO from me!

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MATCH PREDICTION -

PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (A) League - Away win

ARSENAL (H) - Carabao Cup 4th Round - Away win

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JR`s HIGH FIVES

Arsenal to beat Liverpool 6/4

A £5 Stake returns £12.50 on bet365

SEASONS STATS

Returns £37.63 Stake £55.00

Percentage profit+/-loss - 31.58%

Predictions 11 won 3 lost 8

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.4

Beer Birthdays

Bob Brewer (1948)

Christian DeBenedetti (1973)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Jeff Bridges; actor (1949)

Samuel Butler; English writer (1875)

Crazy Horse; Lakota Native American leader (1840)

Wink Martindale; television game show host (1934)

Wassily Kandinsky; Russian artist (1866)

Famous Birthdays

Brooke Adams; model (1984)

Fred Armisen; comedian, actor (1966)

Max Baer, Jr.; actor (1936)

Tyra Banks; model (1973)

Gregory "Pappy" Boyington; aviator, Black Sheep Squadron commander (1912)

Horst Buchholz; actor (1933)

John Cale; rock musician (1940)

Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon; rock singer (1940)

Thomas Carlyle; English writer (1795)

Edith Cavell; English nurse (1865)

Courtney Cummz; porn actor (1981)

Deanna Durbin; actor (1921)

Francisco Franco; Spanish dictator (1892)

Chester Greenwood; earmuff inventor (1858)

Jim Hall; jazz guitarist (1930)

Alfred Hershey; bacteriologist (1908)

Eddie Heywood Jr.; jazz pianist, composer (1915)

Chris Hillman; rock musician (1942)

Jay-Z; rapper (1969)

Southside Johnny; rock singer, songwriter (1948)

Charles Keating; right-wing hypocrite, S&L crook (1923)

Rainer Maria Rilke; German writer, poet (1875)

Gary Rossington; rock guitarist (1951)

Lillian Russell; soprano (1861)

Marisa Tomei; actor (1964)

Nikki Tyler; porn actor (1972)

Patricia Wettig; actor (1951)

Cassandra Wilson; jazz singer, songwriter (1955)

Dennis Wilson; rock musician, singer (1944)