#helen morse

[packedtotheaussies]

Mademoiselle de Poitiers & Miss Greta McCraw (Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975) || Helen Morse & Vivean Gray

[moviesmoodboards]

Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 dir.Peter Weir

[thebelljxr]

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975. Mystery Film

By Peter Weir

Starring: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne-Louise Lambert, Margaret Nelson, John Jarrat, Wynn Roberts, Christine Schuler, Jane Vallis...

Country: Australia

Language: English

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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Peter Weir

January 30th 2023

[aliminalhauntingofghostgirls]

One of my forever top 10 films. 💗

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Out-Takes

[endeavourfiles]

[organicbeing]

Chimney Rock Lost: Hurricane Helen’s Destruction of a Beloved Landmark

Chimney Rock was more than just a landmark—it was a symbol of North Carolina’s beauty, a testament to time, and a beacon of memories for countless families who visited its towering heights. But now, after the wrath of Hurricane Helen, that symbol lies in ruins, forever altered. The iconic stone formation, which had stood proudly for millions of years, has been reshaped by nature’s unforgiving…

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[hurricane-eva]

Girl

Under the cut because spoilers!

Fred: Because she's a damsel in distress? When it comes to a bird with a wing down, you've got s blind spot a mile wide. It'll be your undoing.

BAM, FRED. If that isn't a prophecy, I don't know what is.

This isn't one of my favourite episodes, but it's satisfying enough.

Morse meets Strange and, as per custom, is incredibly rude right off the bat.

Morse meets Bright and immediately becomes a Heckin Frustration. I really loathed Bright and it's amazing to think if this is the only episode you watched, you'd never change your mind.

Max is trying to get on with Morse even tho they ad a rough start. I expect he feels bad about Morse's fainting spell and wants to make it up to him.

Morae types the Name That Must Not Be Mentioned!!!! As you might guess from my header image I don't find this exciting at all.

Best of all, Morse gets Bobby back where he belongs. Who knows better than Morse does how much a child needs its mother?

Two questions.

1. Do you think Helen suspected who Bobby's father was?

and

2. Did Morse take Pamela to bed?

I'm undecided about both. My initial gut reaction to 2 is no he didn't, because that's out of character. But she is in bed in her nightgown when he's reading to her and the weird cheek kissing thing they do when Pamela boards the bus at the end also feels out of the ordinary for Morse.

[casual-violinist-fangirl]

Series 1, Episode 1 (Girl): Morse when he’s listening to Pamela and Helen arguing over a literal child.

[nanomooselet]

The Immortal Twins

Note: I am not an expert. I've just read too many books.

If you were ever regrettably into Homestuck* or possibly The Hunger Games, you've probably heard of Castor and Pollux (together, Polydeuces or the Dioskouroi), the demigod twins of the constellation Gemini.

Twin brothers to Helen (of Troy) and Clytemnestra, who were twin sisters, and all born of the mortal Leda and two fathers, a Spartan king and Zeus (don't ask, usual Zeus-related shenanigans involved). Speaking very very generally because of course sources are contradictory, Pollux was Zeus's son and thus immortal, while Castor was the king's son and mortal. Nevertheless, they were always together, usually getting into trouble. Even as adults, they were inseparable.

Then came the day they got into too much trouble and Castor was badly wounded. Pollux killed the man who injured his brother, but could do nothing for Castor himself, who was dying - and once he did, he'd be in Hades, where immortal Pollux couldn't follow him. So Zeus, keeping an eye on his son, gave Pollux a choice. His divine heritage entitled Pollux to live on Olympus... or he could give half his immortality to his brother.

Obviously Pollux chose the latter and the twins became the constellation Gemini. Also divided their time between Hades and Olympus, but stars is the point. They give aid to the shipwrecked.

Knives, naturally, has found a way to ruin it.

English translation of the lyrics in the closing song:

Your light... If that light never changes And continues to shine high above the sky Even when I'm lost, even when I'm struggling I'll continue to search for you Even on days of sickness or sadness I'll open the window to a new morning I'm moving forward, I'm standing still Tell the people who are praying But today this flower before me is praising you My song is a song of joy and wishes Yes, I'm reaching out But you're too high up in the evening stars But today this flower before me is praising you My song is a song of joy and wishes Yes, I try to reach out But you're too high up in the evening stars

The song in the credits is from Knives's point of view. He's believes himself to be the immortal twin, and he wants his mortal brother with him among the stars, sharing his immortality.

Sounds sweet! It's such a soft and gentle song. Maybe a little, uh, fixated, but hey, he's an intense guy! It's... possibly also strange that he thinks of his adult brother as a child even after (checks notes) a century and half but you know, childhood leaves a strong impression on a person -

...Oh.

And that's why the 'welcome home' Morse code is weird.

* I don't want to talk about it.

[brokehorrorfan]

Picnic at Hanging Rock will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 9 via The Criterion Collection. Eric Skillman designed the cover art for the 1975 Australian mystery film.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society) directs from a script by Cliff Green, based on Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel. Anne-Louise Lambert, Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray, and Jacki Weaver star.

Picnic at Hanging Rock has been newly restored in 4K, supervised by Weir and director of photography Russell Boyd, with HDR and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with director Peter Weir

Making-of featurette with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members

Introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

On-set documentary hosted by executive producer Patricia Lovell and featuring interviews with Peter Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and author Joan Lindsay

Homesdale - 1971 black comedy directed by Peter Weir

Trailer

Essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide

This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.

Pre-order Picnic at Hanging Rock.

[see-arcane]

Harker Horrors

The Vampyres

Something is culling the dead.

Whether they imbibe blood, leech life, or merely traded mortality away to their devil of choice, the revenants of the world are disappearing. A phenomenon that has been carving its way through the undead like a belated necrosis moving steadily through the past century and more. One which the Vampyre, a possessor of many names and collector of many lives, has been fretting over for some time.

A laughable fear, for he is one of those canny cadaverous few who made a deal for perpetual resurrection. The bitten may crumble, but the bargainer may rise from death after death. So he reminds himself. So he worries is no longer the case.

Not when the old boyar in the Carpathians was one of the first to vanish. Still, the monster from the mountains may simply be in hiding, just as the rest must be. The Vampyre himself is surely jumping at shadows. So he convinces himself for a single night…

…before a Thing known only as ‘Quinn Morse’ makes itself and its work known.

Surprise! I accidentally finished a novella during what was supposed to be a short story break. Whoops. Updates to come.

Link to Tumblr post (and Google Doc link within) is here.

If you’d like to drop some change in my virtual tip jar, my Ko-fi is here.

Assorted other Horrors are below the cut to save you from an overlong post:

Barking Harker

The climax in Transylvania takes a perilous turn. The surreal shifts in Jonathan Harker’s person are revealed as only the beginning of a far stranger metamorphosis. The promise of Mina Harker’s life becomes the crux of an unthinkable bargain. The dead travel fast, but are far from the only roaming children of the night—and far from the only threat. The past is exhumed, the present brims with monsters new and old, and the future yawns open like the swinging lid of a coffin as plans further, deeper, and far more nightmarish than Dracula’s English holiday come to light…

Link to teaser section here.

Penclosa

It’s been almost a year since Jonathan Harker made that fateful first trip to Transylvania. The monster that imprisoned him, that threatened his love, that died in a box of earth by two blades, has been gone for months. Yet Jonathan’s nightmares have never left. In fact, as the bleak anniversary nears, they have worsened. Van Helsing’s mesmerism has made no progress in freeing him from the nightly horror. But he has come from Amsterdam for a potentially fruitful visit to another professor. Prof. Wilson is playing host to a mesmerist of singular and uncanny power, Miss Helen Penclosa. On meeting the troubled young man and his wife, she is only too happy to help…

Link to teaser section here.

[marcmarcmomarc]

Kingdom Hearts IV predictions

Toronto, Canada (Turning Red)

Takes place after the movie.

Is visited by Sora.

Starring the voices of:

Anna Brisbin as Lauren

Madison Brunoehler as Kat (Stacy’s Other Friend)

Addie Chandler as Devon

Tristan Allerick Chen as Tyler Nguyen-Baker

Rosalie Chiang as Meilin Lee

Lori Tan Chinn as Auntie Chen

Sherry Cola as Helen

Jordan Fisher as Robaire

Wai Ching Ho as Grandma Wu Lee

James Hong as Mr. Gao

Orion Lee as Jin Lee

Josh Levi as Aaron Z.

Lillian Lim as Auntie Ping

Ava Morse as Miriam Mendelsohn

Topher Ngo as Aaron T.

Finneas O’Connell as Jesse

Sandra Oh as Ming Lee

Jackson Parfitt as Carter Murphy-Mayhew

Hyein Park as Abby Park

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Priya Mangal

Lily Sanfelippo as Stacy Frick

Patricia Summersett as Jaiden (Goth Girl with Green Dye)

Mia Tagano as Lily

Lauren Tom as Sammy (Goth Girl)

Grayson Villanueva as Tae Young

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[eldritch-nightmare]

You don't have to answer this, but I was curious.. What are some of your general headcanons for the creeps? Nothing romantic or anything like that, just headcanons you have for the creeps.

ah. i have... so many, to be honest with you. but i can share a few!! these are just my own personal headcanons that sometimes influence how i write certain characters so! here you go. gotta put it under a cut bc idk how long this'll be and also i needed to include a photo bc i am terrible at describing things. ignore the numerous liu headcanons i'm so normal about him, i promise.

the mansion itself is a living being in my mind. it's an entity that exists, that just one day appeared within the forest slenderman resides in. think... monster house and the house from encanto. it's a living being, it has its own thoughts and it can only convey those thoughts to a very small handful of people.

continuing on, the mansion isn't a place where people live, the only people who can stay there permanently are ben and sally, as well as any animal such as smile dog and grinny cat. everyone else uses the mansion more as a safe house more than anything else.

it/its slender.

jeff has a pretty bad fear of fire, though he does a very good job at hiding it.

jeff, ben, and eyeless jack are a found family in my mind. they all deeply care for each other and would burn the world to ash to keep each other safe.

liu, sully, helen, and nurse ann are also a tightly-knit group of friends. i can't explain why, they just are.

liu and jeff know morse code. they learned it before everything happened so they could communicate with each other without the people in their community knowing what they're talking about. they still use it from time to time, though it's a lot less friendly

bouncing off the last one, jeff taught eyeless jack and ben morse code.

and liu also taught nurse ann morse code so she can communicate with him without forcing herself to speak.

liu has nightmares at least once a month.

liu is an arsonist. burned his home down elric brothers style. he carries a lighter with him everywhere and finds fire to be very captivating.

liu uses a gun as his go-to weapon. it puts a distance between him and anyone he needs to harm; it keeps the blood off of his hands in a physical sense. he doesn't kill if he doesn't have to, and most of the lives he's taken have been in self-defense. 

meanwhile, sully uses a knife. likes getting up close and personal when he's about to cause someone harm. he's the one who does the killing. he kills people willfully. the blood will always be on his hands.

sully thinks cannibalism is Very romantic and honestly wouldn't mind partaking in it but liu thinks cannibalism is a big no no, so alas. no cannibalism for him.

sully is a hatsune miku fan.

okay i'm not really sure how to explain this one but. i imagine eyeless jack can only see like... white outlines. you know the uh. black paper scenes from omori.

like this. this is how i imagine jack sees things.

nina and jeff have a love-hate relationship. one moment, they get along pretty well and the next, they're at each other's throats.

liu has basically adopted sally as his little sister.

sally has a diary full of her first impressions, current impressions, and tea party experiences of each and every creepypasta that has visited the mansion.

not really a headcanon but slender does Not like children. it took it months to warm up to sally and ben, and it took it even longer to become a parental figure to sally.

slender and zalgo are besties. idc what anyone says, in my mind, they meet up once a month and discuss random things while sally and lazari play together.

liu will never forgive jeff. i could go on and on about how liu hates jeff and how jeff just wants to be a family again and how that will never be able to happen but that's not the purpose of this so i shall withhold myself.

the jeff, nina, jane, liu dynamic. let's discuss it. jeff and nina are frenemies. jane despises jeff. nina doesn't really like jane but doesn't hate her. jane ignores nina's existence more often than not. liu doesn't hate nina or jane, but he doesn't interact with them. jane hates liu. nina doesn't like liu too much, but she respects him. liu hates jeff. jeff wants to be liu's brother again. sully isn't fond of any of them other than liu.

helen has a fear of the dark but is hesitant to admit it.

eyeless jack can eat cooked meat without throwing it up but it genuinely tastes absolutely disgusting to him and it does make him feel nauseous afterward eating it.

sully shows little to no interest in things, so when something catches his interest, it catches his interest.

jason, vine, and the puppeteer meet up every few weeks to have a little doll-making club.

helen is very very very interested in the horror genre and has seen many many horror movies. it's one of the best ways to strike up a conversation with him.

okay uh i think that's all that's coming to mind for now! so. yeah.