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[gnome-adjacent-vagabond]

I was told I should post this for any Cash on Demand fans out there (I know we are few).

For the majority of you who aren't familiar, it's a weird take on A Christmas Carol where a suave bank robber walks into a bank and basically terrorizes the stuffy (usually unflappable) manager by kidnapping his family and forcing him to help rob the bank. Doesn't sound much like A Christmas Carol? That's what I thought! Then I watched the movie and sure enough, there are some very similar themes.

It's also just a very fun, tense, well-contained movie that has a pair of fantastic actors set opposite on another. Morell and Cushing do exactly what their roles call for and more. It's just a delight.

[chrliebot]

Schiaparelli Spring 2024

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill by Stephen Greco #ARC #NewBooks #May2023Books #BookReview #NetGalley

There's a new book coming out about the relationship between Truman Capote and one of his "swans," Lee Radziwill, otherwise known as Jackie Kennedy's younger sister. #LeeRadziwill #TrumanCapote #InColdBlood #JackieKennedy #BlackandWhiteBall #BookReview

On a Thursday morning in May 1961, a well-mannered twenty-one-year-old named Marlene enters the Fifth Avenue apartment of Lee Radziwill to interview for the position of housekeeper and cook. The stylish wife of London-based Prince Stanislaw Radziwill, Princess Lee is intelligent and creative, with ambitions beyond simply jet-setting. But to the public, she is always First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s…

[mooniehoneyrey]

𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑒'𝑠 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑔 ღ

• 𝑀𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝐼𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑐 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 ♥︎

• 𝑖'𝑚 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟.

• 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑖 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 ♥︎♥︎♥︎

• 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑏𝑡𝑖 𝑖𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑝 (𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝐸𝑛𝑓𝑝)

𝙼𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚑, 𝚜𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑 ☺︎︎.

୨ৎ────୨ৎ─────୨ৎ────୨ৎ────୨ৎ────୨ৎ

My favorite sagas

• The lord of the rings

• Star wars

• The hunger games (i have all the books to🤞)

• Twilight (waiting for the books¡¡)

I loveee Ahs

My favorites seasons are Cult, Murder house, hotel, coven, freak show and asylum (and all the others i like the same, i just don't hate none of them)

AND I LOVE SUPERNATURAL

• Also i'm a fan of a lot of stuff (what i mean is almost everthing), i really do like Star wars, the Kick ass comics, the lord of the rings, hanibbal, anything called "nerd" is my thing.

•I love cats, or any animal i just like nature¡¡

ღ

• I freaking love sitcoms The big bang theory, how i met your mother, Brooklyn 99, young sheldon, superstore, almost any of them ^^

I love every age in music, movies and fashion¡¡ (i'm to Lazy for finish this yet😭)

50s:in music Lesley gore, the flamingo's, Nina Simone and Jerry lee lewis, Peggy lee, the poni- tails in fashion (my icons) Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelley, Brigitte Bardot, In films singing under the rain and born yesterday

60s: In music the crystals, the ronettes, the doors, the supremes, skeeter davis, and elvis Presley In fashion Twiggy, Sharon tate, Jane Birkin, Shelley Duvall in films Breathless and contempt

𝙼𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎...: 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎,motley crue, weezer, the runaways, 𝚜𝚘𝚍𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚘, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚜, 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎, 𝚗𝚒𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚊, 𝙺𝚘𝚛𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚜, 𝚏𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚌, 𝙺𝚒𝚜𝚜, 𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚖𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚒𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚔𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚎, she wants revenge.

(𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚋𝚞𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚛𝚗 𝚒 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 :𝚙)

𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 🩷 ���𝚊𝚗𝚊 𝚍𝚎𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏𝚌 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙻𝚒𝚣𝚣𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚎𝚛𝚊, 𝚋𝚓𝚘̈𝚛𝚔, 𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚜𝚔𝚒, 𝙻𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚐𝚊𝚐𝚊, 𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜, 𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚢 𝚐𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊, Joan jett, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚐𝚘, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚊, 𝚙𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚢, 𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚊 𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚣𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚊, fiona apple, Kurt Cobain.

𝚒 𝚕𝚘𝚟 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚜! 𝚒 𝚕𝚘𝚟 𝚙𝚊𝚕𝚘 𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚘, 𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍, 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚍, 𝚔𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚋𝚒𝚕, 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝚖𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌 𝚏𝚘𝚡, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚞𝚋, 𝚌𝚛𝚢 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢, 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚢 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚑, 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎, 𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕!

(𝙰𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚂𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚊, 𝚝𝚒𝚖 𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚘𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚘 𝙼𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚎!)

𝚒 𝚕𝚘𝚟 𝚝𝚟 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚜.. 𝙰𝚑𝚜, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚢𝚙𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚌𝚘𝚖, 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎, 𝚜𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚛, 𝚏𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚋𝚊𝚐, 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝙰𝚗𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚎, 𝙳𝚛 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚎𝚛, Pretty little liars, supernatural

𝚒 𝚕𝚘𝚟 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜! 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 💔... but my favorites are the trial, the diary of a teenage girl, the stranger, anna karenina, Emma, anuarí, lady windermere's fan

♡To be fair this is just a silly blog♡ (don't take me serious)

I don't have many boundaries, just be nice and kind :) (don't be a creep)

🩷 𝑀𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑠 🩷

I'll edit this every time something occurs to me¡¡

[moontrinemars]

Tenth Lord in Jupiter Nakshatras

Thanks for your patience in waiting for the next part of the series - I’m glad you guys are interested. As always, recorded for my own benefit, published for yours. General disclaimer is in my bio. Credit to KRSchannel for inspiring this post.

Find your 10th lord here, and find your 10th lord’s nakshatra here.

The 10th house rules our life’s honor. It represents the services we perform for society as well as the reputation we earn as a result. It is associated with the father and the career because traditionally, this is where both our standing in society and the role we performed in society would come from - inherited through the father’s family line. However, in our contemporary world, this isn’t always the case, which is why it’s important to know the grander themes at play.

The three Jupiter-ruled nakshatras are Punarvasu, Vishakha, and Purva Bhadrapada.

Jupiter is a planetary object that represents ascension, expansion, and union. It is the aspiration that guides us to our greatest heights, and the intangible whole comprised of all pieces, parts, and individuals. Channeling Jupiter means to take the role of the collective in our capacity as an individual, such as sharing our experiences to better the understanding of others, or discovering, exploring, and sharing universal truths that connect everyone. This is why Jupiter is associated with the partner. Venus is like the practical partner, who represents our own earthly values, but Jupiter is the soulmate, who allows us to ascend beyond the self, uniting physical with spiritual. Jupiter obscures, elevates, and enlightens, offering both afterlife and a life purpose.

DO YOU HAVE YOUR 10TH LORD IN A JUPITER-RULED NAKSHATRA? THAT MEANS YOU…

Audrey Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, and Kendrick Lamar all have their tenth lords in Jupiter ruled nakshatras. Audrey’s is in Punarvasu, Anne’s is in Vishakha, and Kendrick’s is in Purva Bhadrapda.

… AND THE PUBLIC MUTUALLY TEACH, EVOLVE, AND MYTHOLOGIZE ONE ANOTHER.

This placement produces an individual who is not content to engage with either their vocation or their society as a means to an end. These natives rather prefer to approach their public life, and the concept of the public itself often enough, as deeply meaningful and containing a higher purpose. Here you find individuals who shake up their industry by introducing cultures of open-mindedness and experimentation, as often as you find those who pursue their far-flung, lofty legacies at the expense of their health, relationships, privacy, and even life.

Jupiter's fame is more particular to how its influence manifests than to the amount of or method by which it was accrued. Whether you're looking at canon-defining classics, the celebrity of subculture, or the first individual of a certain kind to succeed in this or that field, you're looking at a Jovian native whose legacy serves to teach the public, and expand how the public defines itself. Of course, anyone can push boundaries, but these natives are most likely to be remembered for the barriers they break, and the lessons they taught in the process.

MORE ON THE SPECIFICS OF PUNARVASU, VISHAKHA, AND PURVA BHADRAPADA BELOW!

IF PUNARVASU RULES THE TENTH LORD, YOU…

Sharon Tate, David Beckham, and Halle Berry all have their tenth lords in Punarvasu. Others with this placement are William Shakespeare, Aretha Franklin, Amy Adams, J. M. Barrie, Debbie Harry, Al Gore, Alannis Morisette, Naomi Judd, Stephen King, Tony Curtis, Eddie Murphy, Gisele Bündchen, Werner Herzog, and Courtney Love.

Take public responses to your behavior personally, even finding it difficult to separate your identity from your reputation at first.

Are likely to be known for your professional value on an individual level, as a matter of skill, rather than as a team member or leader.

May benefit from a mentor who takes you under their wing, or may play such a role to new incomers to your field or workplace.

Count on your inborn charm to buoy you through scandal.

Transform your persona with age to appeal to new expectations.

AND YOU MAY FIND…

Travel is an expected part of your job, and public service you perform in foreign places seems to leave a greater impact.

Early on in life, key marriages and romantic partnerships can interfere with your career and social status, or vice versa.

Engaging in social service, partaking in cultural traditions, and organizing society-wide events, is spiritually cleansing, and allows you to reintegrate your public persona and personal identity.

Others imbue you with moral authority you are not prepared to shoulder, potentially leading to unearned imposter syndrome.

A pattern of being publicly linked to 'someone else': a role you have played, a title you've been given, a superior who enhances your image, a teammate who steals your valor, etc.

PUNARVASU is the Star of Renewal. Industries and career types favored are those involving archetypes, exploration, drama, history, innovation, education, spirituality, relationships, care-taking, healing, delivery, narrative, articulation, influence, and transportation.

IF VISHAKHA RULES THE TENTH LORD, YOU…

Anne Hathaway, Usher, and Billy Idol all have their tenth lords in Vishakha. Others with this placement are Dodi Al Fayed, Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon, Winston Churchill, Giorgio Armani, Martin Luther, Patti Page, H. G. Wells, Martin Scorsese, Analeigh Tipton, Joel Coen, Megan Mullaly, Richard Strauss, CM Punk, Georgia O'Keefe, John Cleese, Monica Vitti, Ashanti, and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Naturally come to occupy positions of authority in the industries of your mastery, if not through literal rank than socially/morally.

May find yourself successfully introducing a new movement, genre, belief, or idea before it's celebrated by the mainstream.

Are generous in the world of public service, and will leave a legacy of having cared for and striven for the betterment of your society.

Know how to communicate your ideals and philosophies to a wide audience in a professional setting effectively, even artistically.

May be accused of elitism, pretentiousness, or arrogance, even when you try to cultivate an attitude of humility and modesty.

AND YOU MAY FIND…

Your early professional life is beset with competition, or your chosen industry is somehow affected by martial conflicts.

Members of the public will interpret you either as self-indulgent and petty, or as austere and enlightened, with no in-between.

Opportunities for romance are plentiful for you in social and legal settings, but resulting relationships must be extricated from those wider contexts to establish a happy and healthy marriage.

Your boss often partakes in social drinking with his subordinates.

Jealousy is a common theme, whether you have a reputation for being jealous, others are jealous of and threatened by you, etc.

VISHAKHA is the Star of Purpose. Industries and career types favored are those involving research, politics, competition, speech, ideology, agitation, immigration, criticism, trade, exchange, leisure, intoxicants, production, leadership, personal branding, and style.

IF PURVA BHADRAPADA RULES THE TENTH LORD, YOU…

Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and Sidney Poitier all have their tenth lords in Purva Bhadrapada. Others with this placement are Kurt Cobain, Laurence Olivier, Michael Jordan, Charles Dickens, Vincent Price, Armie Hammer, Franz Schubert, Gerard Way, John Steinbeck, Kurt Russell, Maya Angelou, Conan O'Brien, Bobby Driscoll, David Tennant, Jay Leno, Rik Mayall, Keri Russell, and OP.

Tempt others into rule-breaking and are tempted in turn by communities and livelihoods that circumvent or defy the law.

Signify a movement or change in social norms within your field.

Use your work to provoke others into changing their core beliefs.

Bring elements of the metaphysical, spiritual, transcendental, and philosophical into a more social and/or practical public setting.

Naturally uncover and grapple with a fundamentally darker side of public life and of the public in general, with too much exposure or attention more likely to pose a real, material risk to your health, security, or even life.

AND YOU MAY FIND…

Your look, attitude, and/or impulses are easily congealed into an image or symbol, one that is powerful but restrictive, and your depths may be shunned by the public or authorities as a result.

Anyone who tries to take a conflict with you public will suffer serious consequences as a result, from either your own ferocity when tested, or organized backlash from others on your behalf.

Introduction through the professional and public sphere makes others magnetically attracted to you; however, those who would already be attracted to you are at risk of becoming obsessive.

The pursuit of a specific career or end-goal, specifically through higher education or founding of a philosophy, actually puts you in contact with more opportunities and generates more success in a totally different field or toward a different goal than you plan for.

One of the most rewarding and effective means by which you can perform public service is through contributions to education and community outreach through mentorship.

PURVA BHADRAPADA is the Burning Pair. Industries and career types favored are those involving ideology, sensuality, speculative genres, music, investigation, nature, spirituality, research, administration, promotion, conflict, subcultures, rhetoric, death, and crime.

HOPE THIS IS HELPFUL. VARIATION IN REQUESTS MEANS WE’RE GOING OUT OF ORDER, BUT WE WILL RETURN TO THE OTHERS LATER. FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE WITH QUESTIONS, THOUGHTS, IDEAS, ETC. THANKS SO MUCH. PART 7 WILL BE FOCUSED ON MERCURY-RULED 10TH LORD NAKSHATRAS! ♡

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[wildestdreamcatcher]

Monroe Girl

Summary: A look into different periods of Elijah and Becca's relationship

TW: Mentions of alcohol and being drunk, toxic relationships, trauma with relationships, breakups

A/N: This is a long fic with a word count of 2138k

August 1960

I sat in biology listening to the teacher ramble about her life, her expectations for the school year, and some other shit I didn’t really care about. It was the first day of 10th grade, and I was already bored and felt bad. My makeup hadn’t turned out right and I felt like my hair was flat. I looked around the room in boredom, trying to focus on anything but this class, and that’s when I noticed him. He wore ripped jeans, a Harley shirt, and black and white Converse. He had long curly hair and dark skin, he was laughing and smiling while talking to Todd about god knows what. 

I knew who he was: Elijah Matthews. He was one of Andrew’s best friends and he always seemed cool. I had talked to him a few times for partner work in class and he always seemed interesting, like someone I wanted to know more about. There were rumors that he was bad, he didn’t care about people but Andrew wouldn’t surround himself around selfish people. I had a hallway crush on Elijah, but it felt stupid to think we’d be together. I was starting to zone out and stare at him when we turned around. He started to smile at me and I blushed like an idiot. 

Todd didn’t come to school the next day and Elijah invited me to sit with him on the table. We were sitting there whispering about music and actors we liked. He told me his favorite movie was “Rebel Without a Cause”, he told me I looked like Marilyn Monroe and that he thought I had pretty eyes. The teacher started to scold us for talking so much but we didn’t care, he was the only thing making this class interesting. That same day, Elijah and Andrew had decided to sit with Ruby and I at lunch. Ruby looked really excited when Andrew sat with us and he did too, it was obvious they had crushes on each other and it never made sense why they wouldn’t get together. I didn’t really pay attention to them though, I just paid attention to Elijah and tried not to blush when he called me “Monroe Girl”. 

It had almost been a month since this had been happening, but I guess my feelings weren’t one-sided. He had come up to me at the end of the day and asked me if I wanted to go to the drive-in theater with him there was a screening of “Roman Holiday” that he wanted to take me to and he knew that I loved Audrey Hepburn. I said yes, praying to God this was a date and that everything would go well.

December 1960

Elijah and I had been dating for 4 months and it had been as entertaining as I had thought. He liked sneaking out with me so we could hook up and make out in his red Chevy Bel Air, he had a huge collection of vinyls from Bob Dylan, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Frank Sintra, and Aretha Franklin. He liked taking me to movies and getting me gifts, he told me I was the prettiest girl ever. Everything seemed perfect, and I was fucking ecstatic to be with him. 

I was sitting in Elijah’s car after Ruby’s Christmas party. He said I looked pretty in my red mini dress with the white tights and gogo boots. He wanted to give me my Christmas presents since he’d b in New Jersey to visit his brothers. I felt special with the way he was looking at me like nothing else mattered, the Christmas songs playing on the radio, the white snow adding to the wintery landscape. He handed me this white and red bag with a heart-shaped locket, a Lesley Gore vinyl, and a card he wrote saying how happy he was to be with me. I kissed him and everything felt right.

“I love you, Elijah.” I could see how he flinched at those words. It was almost as if he was scared. He just nodded and kissed me, like he was trying to distract me from everything.

Maybe he just wasn’t ready to say it back yet and I guess I would wait until he did. 

March 1961

I was trying not to be pissed Elijah, not tonight. He was upset because his mom had made him leave so she could fuck her boyfriend without him being a bother to her and now he was getting drunk at this party he wanted me to come to. He did this whenever one of his parents would make him leave the house, I guess so he could get his mind off of everything and so he could stay in a warm house with food and drinks. I was watching him in the kitchen, he was supposed to be getting me the coke I wanted seeing as how I had to be the designated driver because he was going to be too drunk to drive. He was standing there talking to some brunette who was batting her lashes at him, laughing at his drunken humor, he was eating it up too!

I could blame his flirting on the beer he was drinking but it wasn’t the first time he had done this. Elijah liked entertaining people, he liked being flirtatious, his ego was bigger than the fucking sun at times, he was overly confident and it was irritating. He didn’t completely see the problem with flirting with other girls but maybe it wasn’t his fault. He had grown up watching his parents having affairs and flirting with other people openly to piss each other off. It was normal in his household so I guess I couldn’t completely blame him.

I managed to drag him back into my bedroom without him falling on top of me. I felt bad for him: he was going to feel like shit in the morning, not only because of the alcohol but because he was going to have to figure out where to stay. His mom liked having her boyfriend over as long as she could and Elijah would just have to pick up the pieces of that. My parents were nice enough to let him stay for a few days but eventually, he would have to go home. 

  He sat on my bed, drinking the water I gave him. I wanted to feel at peace with him especially with the way he was holding me.

“Why were you so pissed at the party, Bec? You were pretty much glaring daggers nto me.” He didn’t sound angry, just confused. I was just going to lie to him. This moment felt too nice and I didn’t want to have this argument, especially since he was starting to sober up. 

“It’s nothing!”

“No, it’s not. Just tell me how you feel! I can’t fix it if I don’t know why your pissed!!” 

A sober Elijah would never push me this hard. He hated arguments, he hated confrontation. It terrified him even if he would never admit that. 

“I’m just mad you were entertaining and flirting with that girl at that party! And honestly, I feel like you shouldn’t even have to ask me why I’m upset because it should be so obvious!” 

I was like word vomit was just coming out. He looked shocked and confused like he didn’t think he was doing anything fucking wrong and it felt infuriating. 

“I was just fucking talking to her! You seem annoyed when I just sit in the corner and don’t do shit at the parties!” 

“You weren’t just talking to her! You were looking at her the same you look at me so what I’m supposed to think when you don’t automatically shoot down girls who are batting your lashes at you or asking for your number?”

 I started crying and I hated it. I didn’t even want to have this argument! I wondered if he thought I was jealous or possessive now. I didn’t want to stop him from being nice, I didn’t want him to stop being social or having friends but it didn’t seem like he was just being nice to her. Elijah didn’t yell: he seemed meeker than normal. He just let me cry and kept apologizing to me.

“Do you love me, Elijah?”

“Of course I do.”

Maybe he did love me. After all: I was the girl whose picture was kept on his nightstand, and whose clothes were on his bedroom floor, he called me his “Monroe Girl”, he let me drive his car and wear his clothes. I was the girl who he wrote songs for. Besides he never did anything like having sex with other girls. He just flirted with them.

October 1962

I wanted to cry right now. Elijah and I had just left this Halloween party and it had ended horribly. We went together as an angel and devil, and now I started to think his devil costume was fitting for tonight. He flirted with another girl, after promising me he would stop. It felt like we had been having this argument for the 2 years we had been dating, and there were only so many times I would let this go. Tears were steaming down my face as I walked into my house while he trailed behind me. I got lucky my parents weren’t home.

“You promised me you would stop this shit but it never fucking ends, now does it?!” 

“I was just being fucking nice to her, Becca!! Why is that hard for you to fucking understand?”

“You always say that! Like I’m just a bitch who doesn’t want you to be happy and socialize! I’m so fucking tired! And you know what’s the worst part of this, Elijah? In the 2 years we’ve been together, you’ve never once told me you loved me!”

“What do you want me to be? I can’t be your fucking prince charming, I can’t be a perfect angel for you! Do you want me to change all my personality for you? And why are you acting like I don’t fucking love you?”

I felt heated and distraught. Elijah made me happy but he also made me so fucking stressed, angry, and devastated and I wondered if this would last another month.

“What am I supposed to think? You’re always acting a fucking fool in front of me, you’re flirting with other girls like I’m not in the same Goddamn room, you’re pushing me away like I don’t even fucking matter! I love you so much, Elijah. I’m in love with you and I want you to feel the same way! I’d marry you if you fucking asked yet you don’t even bother to speak to me unless you’re moaning my name while you’re fucking me!”

I knew that the last part was probably too far but maybe he needed to hear it.

“Look me in the eyes, Elijah! Look me in the eyes and tell me you love me, that you’re in love with me. That the words you write in your songs about me are true!” He wrote in his songs that I was his girl, that he couldn’t live without me, and that I meant the fucking world to him!

“I’m not going to lie to you, Becca! I’m not in love with you, I’m not in love with anyone, I don't think anyone is actually in love! It doesn’t fucking exist! Do you think that people like my parents are in love, do you think that marriage is going to work? It doesn’t work out, Rebecca! You’re either gonna spend the rest of your life pretending that what you feel is being ‘in love’ or regretting the rest of your life being married to someone you hate!” 

I felt gutted when he said that. He sounded cold, angry, and I couldn’t even blame it on alcohol because he hadn’t had a fucking drop of anything but coke. 

“Elijah, I am not going to be the one you project your fear of relationships onto! I thought you loved me, I thought I was gonna fucking marry, but you don’t feel the same way and I won’t settle for a man who doesn’t love me like that. Somewhere out there is a man who will love me the way I love him and clearly it’s not you. It’s over, Elijah. I’m done!”

He didn’t even fight, didn’t protest, he just left and told me “I hope you find that man, Becca. I’m sorry it’s not me!”

I cried when he left. I had given away 2 years of my life with this man and now it was all in a little over an hour. I hope I’ll be ok.

@sadlonelyyogurt @blowflygrls @vommitgirl

[byneddiedingo]

Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, and Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond, Mavis Villiers. Screenplay: Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, based on a play by Williams. Cinematography: Jack Hildyard. Production design: Oliver Messel. Film editing: William Hornbeck, Thomas Stanford. Music: Malcolm Arnold, Buxton Orr. 

Suddenly, Last Summer is a film with a rare distinction: Both Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor received Oscar nominations as best actress for their performances in it. It says something about the film that these two performances are the most memorable thing about it -- and not always for the right reasons. The only other nomination it received was for art direction. There were none for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's direction or for the screenplay credited to Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams. In fact, Williams had nothing to do with the film, and according to John Lahr's fine biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, he later called it "an abortion." It was Vidal who accomplished the task of expanding Williams's one-act play into a two-hour film. What Vidal and Mankiewicz actually accomplish is a kind of parody of Williams's style at its most florid. They take the film beyond the play's single setting in the jungle-like hothouse and dilute and dissipate the intensity of the play's great scenes for Catherine (Taylor) and Mrs. Venable (Hepburn). Vidal himself regretted the decision to film the attack on Sebastian, which in the play is only described by Catherine, but it's likely that producer Sam Spiegel insisted on showing Taylor in her revealing white bathing suit.  Hepburn at this point in her career couldn't help being a collection of familiar mannerisms -- the haughty head-tilt, the reedy vocal production -- but she holds the screen like no other actress. Taylor, however, fails to evoke Catherine's vulnerability and she begins her great final narrative on too high a pitch, then has to sustain it to the point of shrillness. Montgomery Clift, as the doctor who tries to resist Mrs. Venable's attempt to eradicate Catherine's memories with a lobotomy, is clearly a damaged man, suffering the effects of alcohol and drugs after his near-fatal car crash in 1956, but Taylor was insistent on casting him, over Mankiewicz's objections, which continued well into filming. Taylor and Hepburn both mothered him, and they resented Mankiewicz's sometimes harsh treatment, to the point that, according to several accounts, when Hepburn finished her final scene she spat at the director.

[terrorpenned]

DOSSIER : VICTORIA WINTERS

Studies in: parasitic obsessions with the past, entanglements with old families, Jane Eyre and Mrs. de Winter, the genre-dysphoric protagonist, transmutable identity, hauntings by the women of the narrative.

FULL NAME: Victoria Winters  AGE: early 20's BIRTH DATE: March 4th, 1946 ETHNICITY: white, American GENDER: cis woman ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: biromantic SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual   RELIGION: Protestant, but not devout   SPOKEN LANGUAGE: English  CURRENT LIVING CONDITIONS: in a room at Collinwood OCCUPATION: governess, tutor  

RELATIONSHIPS

PARENTS: unknown (Betty Hanscombe and Danny Taylor) SIBLINGS: none SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Burke Devlin (present, presumed deceased), Peter Bradford (1795)/Jeff Clark (present), Barnabas Collins (ish, present) CHILDREN: none

PHYSICAL TRAITS

EYE COLOUR: blue HAIR COLOUR: brunette HEIGHT: 5'6″  BODY BUILD: thin TATTOOS + PIERCINGS: no tattoos, ear piercings NOTABLE PHYSICAL TRAITS: hair often tied back into a half-up ponytail with ends flipped. favors comfortable clothing like loose cardigans and jackets. captivating, haunted-looking eyes : sometimes more like a spirit, than a girl.

PERSONALITY

INTELLIGENCE: mixed bag, definitely not the brightest. very book smart, especially when it comes to history, which is a fixated interest of hers ––  to the point it is regarded as an unhealthy obsession by everyone else. she can name every president in US history in order, one of her only party tricks. once she begins working for the Collins family, she undertakes study of their own family history as well, especially the story of Josette Collins. quite decent at mathematics, geography, and basic science, as well as teaching them, and overall makes David a fine tutor: his aptitude and questions help her learn more too. socially, though, she struggles with a lot of social cues, and very frequently gets herself into a lot of trouble by oversharing with the wrong person, or misreading situations with those she's close with, or misreading situations period; in a modern era, she might be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. the intensity of her obsession with the past tends to put people off. while she’s often oblivious, she’s not completely helpless, and has successfully solved some complicated supernatural mysteries and managed to save David’s life, but she also stays on at Collinwood after repeated kidnappings so… not the sharpest tool in the shed.

LIKES: fresh coffee (hot and iced), sherry, soda, the smell of the sea and sounds of the waves, old books, family stories and oral histories (including ghost stories), antique stores - old jewelry and paintings, knitted cardigans, pop music: (including The Beatles, the Monkees, Lesley Gore, the Everly Brothers), some classical music, namely for piano, and jazz (she doesn’t have a large record collection of her own, so usually ends up either listening to the radio or borrowing Roger’s) , music boxes, movies of old Hollywood - Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Jane Russel, Audrey Hepburn - equally noir (Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Niagara, The Phantom of the Opera, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) and technicolor musicals (The Court Jester, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Mary Poppins). The writings of Austen and the Brontë sisters, radio dramas. She doesn’t watch much television, but she does enjoy The Twilight Zone. Museums: art or history, it doesn’t matter. she tends to prefer older art to modern art in general, but she does like photography and surrealism

DISLIKES: any hard liquor and for the most part, drinking in general, though she’ll occasionally have some champagne or a glass of sherry out on a date; the smell of cigarette smoke (cigars and pipes are better, though she doesn’t smoke herself and generally dislikes the habit), canned food - especially fish, she’s quite sick of it by now, and she doesn’t care much for crab, shrimp, or oysters; the cubist movement, most non objective art (though she has a secret soft spot for Rothko). I wouldn’t call it an outright dislike, as she appreciates it in other women, but she doesn’t have much interest in keeping up with fashion or hair/makeup and she hates shopping for her own clothes (though she’ll happily shop for David, or accompany Carolyn out on a shopping trip). any horror film with a lot of gore and on-screen violence. the only history she’s not much interested in is military history. and she tends to be uncomfortable around firearms and the thought of war in general: though she’s never going to be a passionate political activist, she is staunchly against the war in Vietnam, and opposes the draft.

DISPOSITION: quiet, naive, goody-two-shoes. can occasionally be too blunt and too honest (to her own harm). “this may as well happen.” extreme fortitude in the face of continual Shenanigans that would rival Marcus Aurelius.

Biography:

“Because she’s lost and lonely. Because she looks in shadows.”

For eighteen years of her life, Victoria Winters lived in the Hammond Foundling Home in New York City. At a few months old, she was dropped at the freezing doorstep with nothing but a note: “Her name is Victoria. I cannot take care of her,” and she was given the name Winters in honor of the season. Though she waited for her birth parents to come back and take her into the fold, no one did; neither did anyone have any clues about her past, and her family, or any place where she might belong, despite her desperation in the search. Her one link was the anonymous gift of $50 every month, postmarked Bangor, Maine, that came regularly until she turned 16 years old. Once she turned 16, she took a job at the foundling home helping to take care of and tutor the younger children, and she became a favorite of her students and staff alike.

Her work at the orphanage continued for two years. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Victoria received a letter from Elizabeth Collins Stoddard requesting her to the great old house of Collinwood, in Collinsport, Maine, to serve as governess. No one at the foundling home was able to give her any answers as to why she was thus requested: no one knew the Collins family. Victoria seized on the job eagerly as an opportunity to learn more about herself, and her past, convinced that the answers lay in the bay of the old fishing town. She took a train from New York to Bangor, and never looked back (despite everyone begging her to)

With the Collinses, Victoria found the home, and the family she had longed for in the howling old house. Once used to sleeping in iron cots, Vicki is given Mrs. Stoddard’s former childhood bedroom, and treated much as one of their own within weeks of her arrival. Carolyn, the heiress beating at the walls of her ivory tower, became a proto-sister and her fastest friend. Elizabeth, the matriarch and ghost in a house of ghosts, treated her much like her own daughter. Roger, Elizabeth's wayward brother, though initially hostile, became immensely fond of his son’s governess … probably more than he should have been. David, her student, proved more trouble than she expected, and was the source of some of her earliest severe trials in the house, both threatened and realized: including aiding and abetting her kidnapper, as well as locking her away in abandoned rooms at Collinwood himself. After sustained effort, she was able to finally befriend David, a little worse for wear but staunchly resolved.

Though not for Roger's lack of trying, the man that captures her attention is Burke Devlin, a handsome, well-travelled and wealthy businessman, whom she was soon to learn was an avowed enemy of the entire Collins family. Wrongly convicted of vehicular manslaughter ten years ago, Devlin had returned to Collinsport to take his revenge out on the man who had gone free in his stead (and who had married the woman he loved), Roger Collins. Burke doted on the pretty, doe-eyed governess and though her loyalties were technically with her employer… she wasn’t long to resist his charm. The two of them became engaged, initially despite the Collins wishes, but eventually with their blessing, and even intended to buy a house on the Collins property: a beautiful old house called Seaview.

"What am I?" "It's a toss-up between a chocolate malt and champagne."

Eventually, the ghosts of the Collinwood estate and the wailing of the widows materialize themselves into tangible spirits, overshadowing Roger’s legal troubles and ten-year-old wounds. First, it is the ghost of the murdered Bill Malloy, covered in sea weed and dripping salt water onto the basement floor. Then, the ghostly bride of Jeremiah Collins, Josette, who makes herself Victoria’s spectral protectress when she is once again kidnapped and locked away on the Collinwood grounds. Then, Roger’s estranged wife, Laura, who reveals herself to be far more than an unfit mother, but a reincarnated phoenix, who attempts –– unsuccessfully, due to Victoria’s intervention –– to kill David. And then there is Barnabas. The Collins ancestor, lately returned from his coffin, who adores the past and scorns all modern amenities, charms Victoria, and she never suspects that the young women dying all over town might result from his gentleman’s hand. Conveniently, Burke Devlin’s plane goes down over the jungle right before they are to be married, making way for Barnabas to hypnotize his way into Victoria’s heart.

The defining event of her stay at Collinwood –– more than the murders, the many, many kidnappings, and the rotating circle of suitors –– is her travel back to the year 1795 in the midst of a séance, where she is able to pay witness to the early Collins family history herself and the earlier existence of Angélique Bouchard ( though, importantly, missing the evidence of Barnabas’s monstrous transformation ). Victoria is tried and hanged as a witch, which jerks her back to the present, after which she becomes obsessed with finding her lost love from the past, Peter Bradford, and miraculously succeeds, though Barnabas, as per usual, regards this engagement as just another inconvenience.

A note on Vicki’s parents: even though it’s the dominant theory, I won’t be following Liz as Vicki’s mother, at least on this blog, for these purposes (unless written as an au!). Instead: Vicki is the daughter of Betty Hanscombe, a former servant at Collinwood who was a lover of Elizabeth’s. Her father was Betty’s husband: a loveless, normative marriage. As the Collins family hushed the affair, Betty was institutionalized at Windcliff for homosexuality, a victim of American hysteria in the Lavender Scare. The intensity of the aversion therapy and other “treatment” received worsens her mental health, and though she is released before Vicki’s birth, Betty commits suicide only six months later at Widow’s Hill. Betty’s husband absconds to New York and abandons Vicki at the foundling home, leaving her with the note. Elizabeth, through the use of private investigators, is able to locate Vicki and send her regular payments, and later, to bring her to Collinwood under her personal protection. She feels an immense connection to Vicki both out of her love for her mother, as well as her tremendous guilt for her part in her fate. She’s also willing to let her suspect she is her mother, because it distracts from other secrets she’s not ready to disclose; nor is the town at large (including Sam Evans) willing to discuss what exactly happened to Betty, so it’s simply said she went away and died soon after.

[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: White, part 1

(Multiple movies listed left to right)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Anything Goes December

"I'm trying to skip the overly obvious (Marilyn Monroe in The Seven-Year Itch, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman) but some of these might still fall into that category."

The Producers (2005) / Uma Thurman as Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson

"The very first one that leaps to mind is Uma Thurman as Ulla in the movie of the musical version of The Producers."

My Fair Lady (1964) / Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle

"Eliza Doolittle's ballgown is glorious, of course."

Midsommar (2019) / Gunnel Fred as Siv

"This is a very cool costume: Siv the village/cult leader from Midsommar. There's cool information out there on the materials and the symbolism and so on. However, I understand if you'd prefer not to read up on the movie in order to include it. It's strong stuff. " [Note: Yeah, I'm kind of a wimp about horror.]

Ready or Not (2019) / Samara Weaving as Grace Le Domas

"I know you don't particularly want to do wedding dresses (and they are kind of a copout) but one very interesting one is worn by Grace (Samara Weaving) in Ready or Not. She's in it for the whole movie, gradually shedding and repurposing elements and getting rather messy in the process. Again, I understand if you don't want to look into this, as there is gore."

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) / Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson

"It's a black-and-white movie of course, but the dress is clearly white and there are some color publicity shots to confirm it."

Johnny Guitar (1954) / Joan Crawford as Vienna

"I haven't actually seen Johnny Guitar, but Joan Crawford wears a striking white dress in it."

Gone with the Wind (1939) / Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara

Live and Let Die (1973) / Jane Seymour as Solitaire

Casino Royale (2006) / Eva Green as Vesper Lynd

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) / Caroline Blakiston as Mon Mothma

The Muppet Show / Raquel Welch and Miss Piggy as Themselves

"Here's a two-fer - Raquel Welch and Miss Piggy in matching white jacket ensembles."

[nancynextdoor]

hi!! im nancy fan, new to town, purple is the best color ever, audrey hepburn and lesley gore avid enthusiast

give me a love thats true~ 🪻

[widowshill]

DOSSIER: VICTORIA WINTERS.

Studies in: parasitic obsessions with the past, entanglements with old families, Jane Eyre and Mrs. de Winter, the genre-dysphoric protagonist, transmutable identity, hauntings by the women of the narrative.

FULL NAME: Victoria Winters  AGE: early 20's BIRTH DATE: March 4th, 1946 ETHNICITY: white, American GENDER: cis woman ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: biromantic SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual   RELIGION: Protestant, but not devout   SPOKEN LANGUAGE: English  CURRENT LIVING CONDITIONS: in a room at Collinwood OCCUPATION: governess, tutor, hired companion  

RELATIONSHIPS

PARENTS: unknown (Betty Hanscombe and Danny Taylor) SIBLINGS: none SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Burke Devlin (1960's, engaged, presumed deceased) Barnabas Collins (ish, 1960's, formerly engaged... sort of) Peter Bradford (1795)/Jeff Clark (1960's, married, deceased ... kinda?) CHILDREN: none

PHYSICAL TRAITS

EYE COLOUR: grey HAIR COLOUR: brunette HEIGHT: 5'6″  BODY BUILD: thin TATTOOS + PIERCINGS: no tattoos, ear piercings NOTABLE PHYSICAL TRAITS: hair often tied back into a half-up ponytail with ends flipped. favors comfortable clothing like loose cardigans and jackets, midi skirts, or mock neck sleeveless dresses. captivating, haunted-looking eyes : sometimes more like a spirit, than a girl, as if she lived in another time entirely.

PERSONALITY

INTELLIGENCE: mixed bag, definitely not the brightest. very book smart, especially when it comes to history, which is a fixated interest of hers ––  to the point it is regarded as an unhealthy obsession by everyone else. she can name every president in US history in order, one of her only party tricks. once she begins working for the Collins family, she undertakes study of their own family history as well, especially the story of Josette Collins. quite decent at mathematics, geography, and basic science, as well as teaching them, and overall makes David a fine tutor: his aptitude and questions help her learn more too. socially, though, she struggles with a lot of social cues, and very frequently gets herself into a lot of trouble by oversharing with the wrong person, or misreading situations with those she's close with, or misreading situations period. in a modern era, she would be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. the intensity of her obsession with the past tends to put people off. while she’s often oblivious, she’s not completely helpless, and has successfully solved some complicated supernatural mysteries and managed to save David’s life, but she also stays on at Collinwood after repeated kidnappings so… not the sharpest tool in the shed.

LIKES: fresh coffee (hot and iced), sherry, soda, lobster, the smell of the sea and sounds of the waves, old books, family stories and oral histories (including ghost stories), antique stores - old jewelry and paintings, knitted cardigans, pop music: (including the Monkees, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Lesley Gore, the Everly Brothers), some classical music, namely for piano, and jazz (she doesn’t have a large record collection of her own, so usually ends up either listening to the radio or borrowing Roger’s) , music boxes, movies of old Hollywood - Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Jane Russel, Audrey Hepburn - equally noir (Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Niagara, The Phantom of the Opera, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) and technicolor musicals (The Court Jester, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Mary Poppins). The writings of Austen and the Brontë sisters, radio dramas. She doesn’t watch much television, but she does enjoy The Twilight Zone. Museums: art or history, it doesn’t matter. she tends to prefer older art to modern art in general, but she does like photography and surrealism

DISLIKES: any hard liquor and for the most part, drinking in general, though she’ll occasionally have some champagne or a glass of sherry out on a date; the smell of cigarette smoke (cigars and pipes are better, though she doesn’t smoke herself and generally dislikes the habit), canned food (she feels obligated to like sardines but they're just ok); the cubist movement, most non objective art (though she has a secret soft spot for Rothko). I wouldn’t call it an outright dislike, as she appreciates it in other women, but she doesn’t have much interest in keeping up with fashion or hair/makeup and she hates shopping for her own clothes (though she’ll happily shop for David, or accompany Carolyn out on a shopping trip). any horror film with a lot of gore and on-screen violence. the only history she’s not much interested in is military history. and she tends to be uncomfortable around firearms and the thought of war in general: though she’s never going to be a passionate political activist, she opposes the war, and the draft

DISPOSITION: quiet, naive, goody-two-shoes. can occasionally be too blunt and too honest (to her own harm). “this may as well happen.” extreme fortitude in the face of continual Shenanigans that would rival Marcus Aurelius.

Biography:

“Because she’s lost and lonely. Because she looks in shadows.”

For twenty years of her life, Victoria Winters lived in the Hammond Foundling Home in New York City. At a few months old, she was dropped at the freezing doorstep with nothing but a note: “Her name is Victoria. I cannot take care of her,” and she was given the name Winters in honor of the season. Though she waited for her birth parents to come back and take her into the fold, no one did; neither did anyone have any clues about her past, and her family, or any place where she might belong, despite her desperation in the search. Her one link was the anonymous gift of $50 every month, postmarked Bangor, Maine, that came regularly until she turned 16 years old. Once she turned 16, she started helping at the foundling home to take care of and tutor the younger children, which became an official position at 18.

Her work at the orphanage continued for two years. Shortly after her twentieth birthday, Victoria received a letter from Elizabeth Collins Stoddard requesting her to the great old house of Collinwood, in Collinsport, Maine, to serve as governess. No one at the foundling home was able to give her any answers as to why she was thus requested: no one knew the Collins family. Victoria seized on the job eagerly as an opportunity to learn more about herself, and her past, convinced that the answers lay in the bay of the old fishing town. She took a train from New York to Collinsport, and never looked back (despite everyone begging her to)

With the Collinses, Victoria found the home, and the family she had longed for in the howling old house. Once used to sleeping in iron cots, Vicki is given Mrs. Stoddard’s former childhood bedroom, and treated much as one of their own within days of her arrival. Carolyn, the heiress beating at the walls of her ivory tower, became a proto-sister and her fastest friend. Elizabeth, the matriarch and ghost in a house of ghosts, treated her much like her own daughter. Roger, Elizabeth's wayward brother, though initially hostile, became immensely fond of his son’s governess … probably more than he should have been. David, her student, proved more trouble than she expected, and was the source of some of her earliest severe trials in the house, both threatened and realized: including attempting to frame her for his father's murder, aiding and abetting her kidnapper, as well as locking her away in abandoned rooms at Collinwood himself. After sustained effort, she was able to finally befriend David, a little worse for wear but staunchly resolved. their bond became significantly closer after David realized that his governess, too, could see the ghosts of Collinwood.

Though not for Roger's lack of trying, the man that captures her attention is Burke Devlin, a handsome, well-travelled and wealthy businessman, whom she was soon to learn was an avowed enemy of the entire Collins family. Wrongly convicted of vehicular manslaughter ten years ago, Devlin had returned to Collinsport to take his revenge out on the man who had gone free in his stead (and who had married the woman he loved), Roger Collins. Burke doted on the pretty, doe-eyed governess and though her loyalties were technically with her employer… she wasn’t long to resist his charm. The two of them became engaged, initially despite the Collins wishes, but eventually with their blessing, and even intended to buy a house on the Collins property: a beautiful old house called Seaview.

"What am I?" "It's a toss-up between a chocolate malt and champagne."

Eventually, the ghosts of the Collinwood estate and the wailing of the widows materialize themselves into tangible spirits, overshadowing Roger’s legal troubles and ten-year-old wounds. First, it is the ghost of the murdered Bill Malloy, covered in sea weed and dripping salt water onto the basement floor. Then, the ghostly bride of Jeremiah Collins, Josette, who makes herself Victoria’s spectral protectress when she is once again kidnapped and locked away on the Collinwood grounds. Then, Roger’s estranged wife, Laura, who reveals herself to be far more than an unfit mother, but a reincarnated phoenix, who attempts –– unsuccessfully, due to Victoria’s intervention –– to kill David. And then there is Barnabas. The Collins ancestor, lately returned from his coffin, who adores the past and scorns all modern amenities, charms Victoria, and she never suspects that the young women dying all over town might result from his gentleman’s hand. Conveniently, Burke Devlin’s plane goes down over the jungle right before they are to be married, making way for Barnabas to hypnotize his way into Victoria’s heart.

The defining event of her stay at Collinwood –– more than the murders, the many, many kidnappings, and the rotating circle of suitors –– is her travel back to the year 1795 in the midst of a séance, where she is able to pay witness to the early Collins family history herself and the earlier existence of Angélique Bouchard ( though, importantly, missing the evidence of Barnabas’s monstrous transformation ). Victoria is tried and hanged as a witch, which jerks her back to the present, after which she becomes obsessed with finding her lost love from the past, Peter Bradford. she miraculously succeeds, but her marriage to him (known in present day as Jeff Clark) is ill-fated. Jeff/Peter disappears back into the past, and Victoria is forced to pick up the pieces.

A note on Vicki’s parents: I won’t be following Liz as Vicki’s mother, at least on this blog, for these purposes (unless written as an au!). Instead: Vicki is the daughter of Betty Hanscombe, a former servant at Collinwood who was a lover of Elizabeth’s. Her father was Betty’s husband: a loveless, normative marriage. As the Collins family hushed the affair, Betty was institutionalized at Windcliff for homosexuality, a victim of American hysteria in the Lavender Scare. The intensity of the aversion therapy and other “treatment” received worsens her mental health, and though she is released before Vicki’s birth, Betty commits suicide only six months later at Widow’s Hill. Betty’s husband absconds to New York and abandons Vicki at the foundling home, leaving her with the note. Elizabeth, through the use of private investigators, is able to locate Vicki and send her regular payments, and later, to bring her to Collinwood under her personal protection. She feels an immense connection to Vicki both out of her love for her mother, as well as her tremendous guilt for her part in her fate. She’s also willing to let her suspect she is her mother, because it distracts from other secrets she’s not ready to disclose; nor is the town at large (including Sam Evans) willing to discuss what exactly happened to Betty, so it’s simply said she went away and died soon after.

[mugunghwarp]

Idade: 25 anos.

Gênero: Feminino cis.

Qualidades: Encantadora, persistente.

Defeitos: Desconfiada, teimosa.

Nacionalidade/Etnia: Australiana-coreana/coreana.

Temas de interesse: Todos.

Faceclaim: Rosé - Blackpink.

Twitter: MV97PY.

OOC: +18 ela/dela.

TW: Aranhas, gore.

TW: Menção à doença e morte.

A tentativa falha da mãe de Yuna no começo do ano de 1996 pra vir a se tornar uma atriz de sucesso tornou-se o maior furacão de sua vida. Park Yuna não passava de uma filha indesejada pra família da mãe. E por fim, pareceu que o desejo da mãe, passou pra filha. O pai era um renomado editor de fotografia dos cinemas coreanos, foi morar com a filha sendo pai solteiro na Austrália até os 13 anos da garota. Perdeu parte da carreira na criação dela. Essa que já era alguém forte, encantadora, desejada e teimosa, desde pequena. Voltou pra Coréia com o pai quando ele finalmente teve proposta de trabalho, passou a ficar sozinha.

Fez sucesso na escola, do jeito bom e ruim. Não deixava barato quem a zoasse por quaisquer motivo e prometia mostrar-se nas telonas logo em breve. Apesar de uma condição maravilhosa, Yuna queria mais e mais. Luxuosa. Estilo Audrey Hepburn. Desse jeito que começou aos 15 anos sua carreira de modelo, que perdura até hoje. Mas se concentrava na vida de atriz, era o que sempre quis.

Por mais que fosse filha de um editor de fotografia reconhecido pela crítica, ela não conseguia obter o sucesso. Passou a cantar em alguns Night Clubs de Seul e fazer sucesso com sua voz e guitarra. Mas o sonho continuou. Aos poucos tornava-se uma pessoa insegura e sem muita expectativa de sua vida. A depressão não deixou fácil pra Yuna, logo, se via encamada. Após quase um ano de terapia, voltou à ativa. Lógico que ainda tinha pequenos quadros da doença. Mas não desistiu.

Uma mulher frustrada fazia músicas boas. É o que dizia. Se lançou pra música, aprendeu novas línguas, viajou, se graduou em Cinema e Audiovisual anos antes. Mas nunca chegou no auge da carreira que queria.

A morte a deixou sem esperanças, o pai ficou doente por seis meses e foi levado por um câncer maligno. Isso acabou com ela, trazendo um novo quadro de depressão. Dessa vez, estava sozinha de novo. Voltou a trabalhar — Sem a ajuda do pai, a vida financeira podia piorar. — ainda com a terapia em dia, finalmente se pós graduou na sua área. Virou animadora.

Conheceu Mugunghwa pelo pai no primeiro mês adoentado, ele falou que foi onde ele nasceu. Pediu pra que as cinzas fossem jogadas por lá. Lógico que Yuna nunca esqueceu, prometeu fazer o que ele pediu. Visitou algumas vezes e perdeu a coragem de espalhar as cinzas pela vila, pois a lembrança a fazia mal. Mas voltaria em breve. Conseguiu o tão sonhado teste pra um filme-drama coreano. Finalmente.

Se passasse no teste, chegaria um pico que estava sonhando desde pequena. A frustração iria embora. Foram anos. 25 anos de vida frustrados por não ter o que queria e finalmente poderia gravar pra um filme. Foi pra Mugunghwa realizar o desejo do pai, se encantou pela vila e ficou por lá, ainda aguardava pela data do teste.

O encanto pela vila era genuinamente por ela lembrar o pai diretamente. Os lugares. As coisas e a flora. Por estar no último mês antes de fazer o teste, conseguiu fechar os últimos contratos pra finalmente se mudar pra pequena vila. Poderia parecer um tiro no pé, mas Yuna sabia que conseguiria manter sua carreira intacta dali, caso fosse aceita no teste. Passou a trabalhar ajudando o teatro local e fazendo animações independentes enquanto esperava a data do teste. Parecia que Mugunghwa trouxe um brilho. Parecia que tinha sido a sorte dela, afinal, ganhou o teste logo depois de ir pra pequena vila por uma das primeiras vezes.

[heavenangelblog]

saying more:

I adore Star wars movies but main ones only and I didn't watch the last one, I collect some stuff but I am no expert on the series - I know a bit of this and that

I still belong to BTTF fandom even though it's dead

I adore LOTR fandom but never read the books as I hate them - watched everything related to Lord of the rings I could find

I dislike Harry Potter because of personal reasons - I don't hate people who like HP but I prefer to avoid big fans (it has nothing to do with J.K.Rowling as I have no idea what is going on and never tried to find out)

I used to watch Big bang theory but watched at it differently than most people and now I dunno if I should say I like it because people misunderstand me/it

I obsessively watch From now and Grotesquerie too

I watched every single movie about DID I could lay my hands on

I'm a movie maniac but I hardly watch shows which mean I have over thousand watched movies on filmweb (movie portal) and many people never even heard about when I try to talk to them about those

I quote movies, not all the time but it happens, references is part of who I am - sorry not sorry

I am interested in behind the scenes, bloopers, how everything was made, I adore old special effects, I will bore you with some trivia probably - a warning - but when it comes to celebs I don't follow much gossips tbh and I suck at remembering names or dates

I am obsessed about survival movies but maybe not the way you think - catastrophy? thriller with some weird creatures? even if aliens won't attack me - I gather info on how to fight them and hide etc. so Bird box or Quiet place

I adore true crime, I'm pretty good at guessing who is evil and what will happen next but I am not a pro at this, I don't know many popular cases (again - not remembering names) and I never went deep enough to be a detective (my dream) or work in criminology department any other way so wanting to write something like this is not my option probably, believe me, I tried - also I'm very picky when it comes to crime movies/shows so don't think I know most of them because I don't

Jurassic park - love it

Ghostbusters - sentimental about it

watched all Aliens and Predators as a week marathon once - not gonna say am a fan but know the drill

probably saw bunch of Marvel movies, who didn't? have some opinions about those too

Hunger games and Maze runner was a thing at one point - also didn't read the books

saw almost every The purge

still not a fan of horrors! dislike (even if can stand) mindless/pointless gore and have enough trauma/bad experiences to deal with stress/fear everyday without watching something for thrill or whatever, I avoid most of those

my favorites are usually not know to anyone so I won't list them...

two words - Mad Max

only Tim Burton's Batman

surrealist movies can be a thing I watch at times

in awe of Straż dzienna and Straż nocna

I hate Avatar, bye!~

scored all John Wick's besides the show which was boring af

used to be huge fan of Jackie Chan and probably know every older movie but stopped few years ago

films based on games are awesome - prove me wrong (actually don't)

watched all Mission impossible - am I fan? no, also Kingsman - have a love hate towards those movies tbh, Bad boys are ok

I prefer Marilyn Monroe over Hepburn and I adore Buster Keaton - makes me laugh even tho I hate slapstick humor

80s movies was my childhood even though I was born in the 90s, call it a country's problem to air movies decade or more later I guess haha

my most favorite romantic movie is Red white and royal blue, shh!

I don't watch anime, the only one I still have respect for is Ghibli

prefer Pixar over Disney

Indiana Jones, Mummy, Red, Speed, Die hard, Lethal weapon, Sister act, old Charlie's angels...

Miss Marple and Poirot <3 (read all books about Poirot, basically none about Marple as she annoyed me for life in the paper version, I also have problems with aphantasia so it's hard for me to imagine stuff while I read - used to be fan of books but stopped, can't focus much lately so I only read Choices by Pixelberry now once a week)

admiring Wes Anderson's art

planning to finish Planet of the Apes finally as I only saw new movies and not the old ones besides the Tim Burton version which I have mixed feelings about

you will indeed catch me watching My big fat greek wedding, whoops

only biographies of those people I am interested in, basically no documents

Night at the museum!

I collect things about Grinch, Spongebob, Simpsons (even tho I watched only fragments of it) and Moomins - yep, I'm a baby

old Addams family and old What we do in the shadows - I promise I watch the show... someday

in my whole life I liked maybe 3 musicals only... one of them is Cats and I will protect it with my life

I recently started watching High potential and it's not be best but worth recognition

watched Gen V and waiting for continuation

waiting for The last of us continuation too

used to watch Stranger things and OITNB but... made it too long for my liking (and ruined Orphan black)

have to finish Twin peaks and maybe Warrior nun

recommend - Into the night and Into the badlands maybe

Buffy is one of my most favorite shows, never watched Angel and don't plan to

been obsessed over Don Matteo and Relic hunter for awhile

anyone knows The 10th kingdom?...

My mad fat diary on youtube

only AHS I tried was Freak show and enjoyed it

Neverending story franchise

I also watched Call the midfiwe for years but now I wouldn't but I still recommend!

byłem wychowany na Czterech pancernych, Zorro i Plebanii ;)

if you like any of this shows/movies - comment, dms me

if you want me to make a fav movie list BESIDES THOSE ALREADY MENTIONED - tell me (I will probably do it anyway haha)

I belong to fandoms but I also... don't?

which means - I post about some shows/movies sometimes, I hardly ever reblog anything related to them, I might talk about what I like and/or look for spoilers/informations + watch some yt videos on the subject (even do quizes "which character I am from") but I don't interact with other people on the matter usually, don't read fanfics nor look at fanart and don't follow blogs that are made by fans as it's too much for me and I often disagree with them

call me a side fan like that one ally in LGBT cafe coming once a year and sitting in a corner with tea instead of coffee and smiling at two gays kissing for their happiness

[countesspetofi]

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959) directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.  

(Twice I’ve been cast in productions of the play which closed before opening.)

[musidoro]

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959), Joseph L. Mankiewicz.