#helen red richards

[fashion4standusers]

My Top 10 Fashion Posts (so far)

((based on how much I like them personally, not based on notes!!))

10. Moschino

9. ABBA

8. SWEAR Smileys

7. Antonio Ortega

6. AREA NYC

5. Fanci Club

4. lucygarland

3. Ai Fairouz

2. Helen Red Richards

1. André 3000

[thursdaymurderbub]

Excerpt from an interview with Melvyn Douglas in 1980 Toronto about his wife Helen Gahagan Douglas, taken from Conversations with Classic Film Stars: interviews from Hollywood's golden era (2016) by James Bawden and Ron Miller.

Then-Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas speaks at the Democratic National Convention in 1948. She once filibustered for days to name every Black man who had served in the war, to make sure they got listed in the Congressional Record.

[watchingalotofmovies]

RED

RED    [trailer]

When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last-ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.

A guilty pleasure. I just enjoy watching Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox having a good time.

[redcarpetview]

Eddie Murphy to Receive the Cecil B. deMille Award at the 80th Golden Globe® Awards

Courtesy of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association��.

    The Hollywood Foreign Press Association® (HFPA) has announced that Golden Globe Award® winner and six-time nominee Eddie Murphy will be honored with the coveted Cecil B. deMille Award at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

     The highly acclaimed star of legendary films such as 48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, Dreamgirls, and others will accept the honor at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023 airing live coast-to-coast from 5-8 p.m. PT/8-11 p.m. ET on NBC and streaming on Peacock.

     “We’re honored to present this year’s Cecil B. deMille Award to the iconic and highly esteemed Mr. Eddie Murphy,” said HFPA President, Helen Hoehne. “We’re thrilled to be celebrating the lasting impact on film and television that his career – in front of and behind the camera - has had through the decades.”

     The Cecil B. deMille Award, historically chosen by the HFPA Board of Directors, is presented to a talented individual for their outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment. Past recipients of the Award include Jane Fonda, George Clooney, Morgan Freeman, Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro, Audrey Hepburn, Harrison Ford, Jodie Foster, Sophia Loren, Steven Spielberg, Denzel Washington, Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, and more.

    In a career that has spanned five decades, Murphy’s multi-faceted and moving performances, such as his role as singer James Thunder in “Dreamgirls,” have earned him a Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, Emmy Award, and Academy Award nomination.

     Murphy was most recently seen starring in the Amazon streaming hit “Coming 2 America,” the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 box-office hit, as well as portraying legendary underground comic personality Rudy Ray Moore in the Netflix biopic “Dolemite Is My Name,” a performance that garnered him Golden Globes nominations for Best Picture Comedy/Musical and Lead Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

      In 2020, he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his return to Saturday Night Live.

    Murphy starred in the 1997 hit comedy The Nutty Professor in which he portrayed multiple characters and received Golden Globe and other award nominations. He also was the voice of Donkey in the Oscar-winning animated film Shrek and its sequel, Shrek 2, which is the top-grossing animated film of all time. Murphy won an Annie Award and earned BAFTA and MTV Movie Award nominations for his performance in the first Shrek, and he reprised the role of Donkey in the final installment of the hugely successful franchise, Shrek Goes Fourth.

     Murphy’s additional feature credits include Mulan, Dr. Dolittle, and Dr. Dolittle 2, Life, Bowfinger, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Daddy Day Care, Norbit, and the drama Mr. Church. Murphy’s upcoming projects include co-starring in the romantic comedy You People and producing and starring in Beverly Hills Cop 4. In 2015, Murphy received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Award from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

     Produced by Dick Clark Productions and Jesse Collins Entertainment in association with the HFPA, the Golden Globe® Awards are viewed in more than 210 territories worldwide. Helen Hoehne is president of the HFPA. Adam Stotsky, President of dick clark productions, and Barry Adelman, Executive VP of Television at dick clark productions will serve as executive producers.

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[ofmdrecaps]

11/21-22/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Kristian Nairn; Samba Schutte; Vico Ortiz; Articles; NZ Television Series 2024 Awards; TinyCrewBigRaffle Results; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Today's Taika;

= David Jenkins =

Chaos Dad shared with us some sweet nail art!

Source: David Jenkins Bsky

= Rhys Darby =

Tickets for the Atlanta Helium Comedy Club Weekend are still available! November 29 - December 1! Get tickets here!

Source: Helium Comedy Atlanta

Rhys talked to Newstalk KZB about his upcoming Comedy Tour! Thank you to @adoptourcrew for sharing the article!

I'm fairly certain Australia Dates were shared last time but just in case, here's some more info! BohmPresents Tickets

Source: Rhys Instagram

Rhys also posted a fun extra video on his paid Substack if you're subscribed and interested in cars!

Source: Rhys' Substack

= Taika Waititi =

Taika has been so recently! He's been out taking pics, doing interviews for Interior Chinatown-- the works!

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= Samba Schutte =

Samba has also been busy! There's a new show coming out that he'll be starring in-- Parallel!

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Samba also joined Behind The Funny Podcast to talk about his role on Advanced Chemistry! Check it out on Spotify!

Source: Samba's Instagram Stories

More Hell Hath No Fury red carpet pics with Samba!

Source: Samba's Instagram

= Kristian Nairn =

Kristian sent us a headshot before heading out for The Republic of Pirates! The beard is gone!

Source: kristian's Instagram

= Vico Ortiz =

Vico posted more OFMD BTS on their Patreon!

Source: Vico's Patreon

== Articles ==

Thank you as always to @adoptourcrew for keeping us appraised of new articles!

Source: Adopt Our Crew Twitter

== NZ Television Awards 2024 ==

Congrats to the Pinnacle Post Sound Team who won Best Contribution to a Soundtrack at the 2024 NZ Television awards! Fantastic news! Thanks @adoptourcrew

Source: Adopt Our Crew's Twitter

More information on the win was posted on the NZPost's Instagram!

"What a night! Thank you to the @nztvawards for this recognition, Pinnacle Post is honoured to receive the award for Best Contribution to a Soundtrack Special thanks to @DvidJenkins, Alan Marshall Palmer and @OurFlagonMax Huge shout out to the team, super proud of your work, couldn't have done it without you. Supervising Sound Editor / Additional Re-recording Mixer - Damian Del Borrello Re-recording Mixer - Gareth Van Niekerk ADR Supervisor - Angelina Faulkner Dialogue Editor - Helen Luttrell Music Editor - Steve Griffen Sound Editor - Amy Barber Sound Editor - Jonathan Bruce Sound Editor - Richard Wills First Assistant Sound Editor - Alex Sipahioglu Assistant Sound Editor - Benny Jennings Mix Tech - Julia Huberman Mix Tech - Luana Barnes ADR Partner - Native Audio Foley Package - Bespoke Post And congratulations to all the other winners and finalists, very special getting to celebrate with all of you x #OFMD#streamonmax#PinnaclePostNZ#nzfilm#ourflagmeansdeath#mixedatpinnaclepostnz#nztva2024#nztvawards#nzfilm#screenauckland#nztva2024

Source: Pinnacle Post Nz

= TinyCrewBigRaffle =

So the count was put together and the winners were released on the 24th, but since I'm running out of room on the next issue-- it's all going here! The @ofmd-buys-boats raffle is closed and the winners have been announced! First of all-- CONGRATS AND WELL FUCKING DONE EVERYONE! $11,474 sent to charity! And apparently even more! Absolutely amazing job!

Source: OFMD Buys Boats

Wanna see the winners get pulled by an adorable member of our crew and find out if you won? Visit OFMD Buys Boat's Instagram!

== Love Notes ==

Hey lovelies. Coming up soon is the Republic of Pirates coverage! I hope the weekend treated you kindly-- whether you were at the con or not! I also wanted to send some love and remind you that you really are doing your best. The world doesn't always fit perfectly for folks, especially queer and ND folks. That doesn't mean you don't fit in it, it just means you're making your own section for others like you to fit together. We can get through just about anything if we support each other. Remember to lean on those closest to you if you need it. You're beautiful and worth it. I found these love notes from HopeHealingArts that I really loved so I thought I'd share them your way. Please take care of yourselves lovelies, and if you need help, reach out ok? <3

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== Daily Darby / Today's Taika ==

Tonight's theme is fingers. These fabulous gifs brought to you by the magnificent @ofmd-ann and @a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives!

[tragedry]

Tyler Hernandez on 'love, grief, rage, and rebirth.'

Anna de Noailles (Translator) “Dazzled, Precise” by Norman R. Shapiro / Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching / Red, School Bus Graveyard / Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild / Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides / Maya Angelou / Fortesa Latifi, The Truth About Grief / defromitittes on tumblr, Meditation On The Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology Of Poetry, ‘Dido’s Lament’, Rosario Castellanos / Leah Horlick, for your own good / Suzanne Collins, the hunger games / Car Seat Headrest, Big Jacket / Jen Rouse, Acid and Tender / Richard Siken, Crush / Ingeborg Bachmann, In the Storm of Roses: Selected Poems; Songs of Flight / Fortesa Latifi, Fingertips / The Mountain Goats, Sax Rohmer #1

part i/vii

[therobotmonster]

What do you get when the 6 Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman decide to pull a Brady Bunch and a Johnny Quest at the same time?

You Get the Bionic Six.

Impossible to find streaming in high quality anyplace, but a bunch of eps in pretty decent quality hit archive.org.

Decent animation, an earworm themesong that I am so frightened of I muted it while taking its screenshots. The Bionic Six is a lost 80s gem. Not like, a diamond or a sapphire, but like, at the very least a citrine, or a really nice tiger eye that's all polished up in a riverbed? Anyhow...

I joke about the premise. It's not Steve Austin, it's Jack Bennett. It's not Jaime Sommers, it's Helen Bennett. It was a serial number filing but it absolutely is someone's 6MDM and Bionic Woman fanfic where they got married and both had and adopted a bunch of bionic kids.

The story, however, involves Jack (already bionic) and his family getting irradiated by an alien spaceship (the 80s was a hell of a drug) in the Himalayas, with the family going comatose except for Jack, thus requiring the family's upgrades.

This explains why a bunch of children would be turned into cyborgs, but it does not explain why those upgrades came with superpowers. That seems to be down to the grandpa-figure of the group, Professor Dr. Amadeus Sharp Ph.D, which, I gotta say, that's a chef's kiss cartoon character name right there.

Putting both Professor and Doctor in front of your name is exactly what I'd expect from a guy that's like "these children are comatose... I think I'll give that one the magnetic repulsors..."

As for the family proper, you've got Bionic-1/Jack Bennet, the literal team dad who suspiciously has all the bionic powers you'd expect from Steve Austin, with a touch of Reed Richards gray on the temples.

You have, ahem, Mother-1/Helen Bennett, who doesn't have the Bionic woman's powers because they'd be redundant. But she is a lady in an 80s team cartoon so she's got... say it with me folks... psychic abilities!

Also, if I had a nickel for every brunette be-bobcuted supermilf in a red jumpsuit named Helen I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it does lead to some obvious crossover concepts that the r34 community have thus far failed to provide. I'd commission something but, as established, I've only got the two nickels.

She also stands out by having a codename that is calculated to make villains deeply uncomfortable with using it, thus putting them on the back-foot. Just takes every deathtrap situation to a weird place.

Their (at least initially) biological children, Sport-1/Eric Bennett and Rock-1/Meg Bennett establish the pattern of there being a bionic kid for every interest. Sport-1 has magnetic attraction-repulsion powers, and uses lamposts like baseball bats all day, every day.

Rock-1 was literally designed to be cartoon Cyndi Lauper and has speakers built into her shoulders for sonic attacks. She is also super-speed runs the fastest.

IQ/J.D. Corey is adopted, and doesn't do the normal naming convention. He's an unusual character in 80s toon terms, as he's both the smartest member of the team (per the codename) but also has the most powerful super-strength. You don't get the smart AND strong combo that often, and you'd expect the Sport-1 to be physically strongest but it seems he's more the Mario of the team.

Karate-1/Bunjiro "Bunji" Tsukahara is a foster kid who got dragged into all of this, and has both the most greatly enhanced super-agility and also actually knows how to fight without powers.

They also have a robot ape named F.L.U.F.F.I. who wasn't in every episode.

The story structure is an 80s toyvertoon take on Johnny Quest, with the whole family having toyetic super-powers and vehicles, and instead of a cavalcade of one-off baddies, you get a recurrent cast lead by Dr. Scarab, who is Sharp's brother, and is after Sharp's superior bionic knowledge.

Mad science, not even once.

I have vague memories of Scarab's pursuit of 'trionic' technology, which assumed both that the 'bi' in bionic was for 'two' (reasonably understandable assumption) and that that if two was good, three was logically better, while never really establishing what third thing was being mixed in (baffling even to my childhood self).

On top of his drone robots, called "Cyphrons" (not Cylons, Battlestar Galactica Lawyers, cyphrons), Scarab had a host of modified goons, most of whom where combinations of dumb, strong, and ugly.

The main stand out being Madame-O, who is a cartoon femme fatale of the classic variety, who punctuates her sentences with 'Darling', uses a harp to shoot energy blasts, and can disguise herself as other people, because why be good at one thing when you can be confusing at several?

The animation is pretty good for the time period (It was a TMS animated show!) and it has that weird mix of self-aware and totally earnest that makes 80s cartoons fun.

It was, like most of them, an advertisement for action figures. In this case from LJN, the gimmick of which was they were G.I.Joes that were mostly made of die cast metal. A lot of the characters were pretty chunky, to the point that a FLUFFI could be bring down an assailant if you chucked it at 'em just right.

Oh, and the whole family could join hands to pull of Deus Ex Machina bullshit. It's a trip.

Go watch ya some cartoons.

[darkpeacemusic]

ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕒 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕟𝕤: 𝔽𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤

Jeff the Killer - Jeffrey "Jeff" Alan Dan Woods

Homicidal Liu - Liuis "Liu" Victoria Woods

Sully - Sullivan "Sully" Akira Woods

Randy - Randall "Randy" Allen Warren

Keith - Keith Harvey Davis-Green

Troy - Troy John Green

Ben Drowned - Benjamin "Ben" Scott Lawman

Jane - Jane Todd Richardson-Vaughn

Mary - Mary Annabelle Vaughn

Ticci Toby - Tobias "Toby" Erin Rogers

Masky - Timothy "Tim" Buck Wright

Hoodie - Brian Hunter Thomas

Skully - Jay Gabriel Merrick

Kate the Chaser - Kate Eleanor Milens-Hayes

Charlie - Charles Matheson Jr.

Laughing Jack - Laughing Jack in a Box

Eyeless Jack - Jackson "Jack" Nicky Nyras

Slenderman - Simon (middle and last name unknown) (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Splendorman - Jim (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Trenderman - Beau (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Tenderman - Cedric (Human name prior to his experimentation/death)

Sally - Sally Maryam Dawn (formerly Williams)

Dr Smiley - Azerael Jesse Smiley

Nurse Ann - Annie "Ann" Lusen Mia

Nina - Nina Selene Hopkins

Candy Pop - Unknown

Candy Cane - Unknown

April Fools - Unknown

Jason the Toymaker - Jason Caleb Meyer

The Puppeteer - Jonathan Cole Blake

Clockwork - Natalie Priscilla Ouellette

Rouge - Heather Bridget Marshall

Wilson - Wilson Liam Marshall (neé Jones)

Zalgo - Z͠a̛'l͘ga̶t҉ot̡h

Queen Blackheart (oc) - Elizabeth Cindy Phillips (name prior to death)

Lazari - Lazari Natalie Swann

Stripes - Eloise Sarah Bellarose (name prior to her death)

Nathan - Nathan Maxwell Lux

Bloody Painter - Helen Delilah Otis

Kagekao - Unknown

Laughing Jill - Laughing Jill in a Box

Sadie - Sadie Marie Bennett

Hobo Heart - Unknown

Cat Hunter - Rodrigo Milo Ortiz

Chris the Revenant - Christine "Chris" Wendy Meyers

X-Virus - Cody Larkin Drake

Dollmaker - Erina Jezebel Kerenzalys

Frankie the Undead - Frankie Hades Asher (his real name prior to his death)

Judge Angels - Dina Angela Clark

Lifeless Lucy - Lucy Ava Jones

Lost Silver - Ethan Kin Fuji (his real name before his death)

Glitchy Red - Red (his real name remains a mystery)

Strangled Red - Steven Garrett Stoughton

Dr. Locklear - Evander Agnar Locklear

Lulu - Lucille "Lulu" Tiffany Greatfeil

Killing Kate - Katherine "Kate" Evelyn Knight

Screaming Dawn (oc) - Dawn Evelyn Woods

Will Grossman - William "Will" Gordon Grossman

Lulling Lauren - Lauren Robyn Ross (neé Evans)

CR - Carl Morton Ross

Emra - Emra Amelia Blake (neé Albridge)

Zero - Alice Marie Jackson

Slendrina - Charlotte (first name prior to death/experimentation)

Lily - Lily May Kennett

Nightmare Ally - Adeline "Ally" Ashley Abendroth

Zachary the Proxy - Zachary Julius Gibson

Oliver - Oliver Gorgon Henderson

Alex Kralie - Alexander "Alex" Joseph Kralie

Amy - Amy Callie Walters

Jessica - Jessica Ellie Locke

Seth - Seth Apollo Reid-Wilson (neé Wilson)

Sarah - Sarah Cassie Reid-Wilson (neé Ried)

Third Base - Richard "Doby" Vincent Doggers

Vailly - Vailly Suki Evans

[hannahhook7744]

Descendants Background Characters Names (Redone) Part 4;

Crysta (Blonde girl), one daughter of Arista (Ariel's sister) and Dylan. Seaside High was in serious danger of overcrowding, so quite a few students were encouraged to attend Auradon Prep instead.

Brian Robinson (glasses guy), son of Lewis and Franny Robinson.

Aqua, one daughter of Aquata (Ariel's sister) and Nexar.

Sitara, daughter of Mowgli and Shanti.

Trevor, the son of Big Nose and Assunta.

Prince Henry (the guy behind Mal and Lonnie), son of King Richard the Lionheart. He's supposed to go to Sherwood High, but he got expelled.

Shira (girl behind Evie), daughter of Ariel's friend, Gabriella. One of the Seaside students who transferred.

Leon du Lac (guy beside Evie) son of Lancelot du Lac and Elaine of Astolat (he's an exchange student).

The girls behind him are Mary and Dorothy, daughters of Tiana's friend, Georgia.

The red head girl under him is Sigrid, daughter of Kai and Gerda.

Adonis Jr aka AJ (right next to Lonnie), son of Adonis and Helen of Troy. His older siblings attend Olympus High, but his father thought he was too nerdy to compete.

Silvie (behind AJ), daughter of Sharma.

The girls below him are Princesses Noelle and Natasha, daughters of Cavin and Princess Calla.

Guy in stripes is named Prince Rowan, son of Wee Dingwall.

Girl in yellow beneath him is Celestina Potts, youngest daughter of Mrs. Potts.

Guy in a blue T-shirt is named Samuel 'Sammy' Sweet, son of Joshua Sweet.

Guy in a yellow T-shirt is named Makaio Bubbles, son of Cobra Bubbles from Lilo and Stitch (Bubbles adopted him from an unsuitable home).

The guy below them is Prince Ajax, son of Prince Thor and Pearl. One of the Seaside transfer students.

The guy next to Makaio is Prince Reynard, son of Princess Willow.

The girl next to him is Princess Wenhua 'Wen', daughter of Yao and Princess Mei, who flat out refused to go to the Imperial Academy.

Guy below her is Johannes Little, son of Little John.

Salvatrix Mim aka Sad Sally Mim, granddaughter of Madam Mim.

Elizabeth 'Lizard' West, daughter of Elphaba and Fiyero (aka the Wicked Witch of the West).

Orlie, daughter of Orddu.

Owena, daughter of Orwen and Bill Jukes (she's the youngest member of Uma's crew).

Morven Mim, aka Mimpathy Morven, grandson of Madam Mim.

Farley-Fletcher Fflam, son of Fflewddur Fflam.

Maureen 'Goo' Yagoobian, Michael 'Goob' Yagoobian.

Murky Maggie Mim, granddaughter of Madam Mim (she has four legs. This may or may not be Dorothy Tremaine's fault).

Ula and Uziel, daughter and son of Uliana.

Shepherd Scaremonger, Aka the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Ichabod 'Icey' White, son of Snow White and Prince Florian. Along with Princesses Noelle again and Audrey.

Princess Natasha again.

The girl next to her is Rebecca, daughter of Safi.

Felicidad Daniela Ruíz, she's the daughter of one of the Encanto villagers. The boy next to her is Prince Ajax again.

Jonas again.

The girl below him is Adda Slim, daughter of Alameda Slim.

The guy next to Jonas is Morven Mim again.

Dizzy Tremaine.

Guy next to her is Abner, son of Captain Gantu.

Girl next to him is Tara, daughter of King Trevor.

Guy behind her is Blaise, son of Morgie.

Guy in the pirate hat is Sean, the son of the Sherriff of Nottingham (He's a member of Uma's Crew).

The girl behind him is Susan Finkelstein, Dr. Finkelstein's daughter.

The girl next to him is Quinlynn Hearts, daughter of the Queen of Hearts (and member of Harriet Hook's Crew).

 Axel, son of the Huntsman. 

Bathsheba (girl with the bandana), daughter of Ammand the Corsair.

Rummy Bloodbeard (boy behind bandana girl), son of Captain Bloodbeard.

Kevar (Kid in pirate hat next to Bandana girl), son of Marquis de Bouillabaisse.

Daang (First kid in goggles), son of Ed.

Niki (Red Head Girl), daughter of Hecate.

Birger (Kid with green hat), son of Loki.

Desmend (2nd kid with goggles) , son of Ed.

Harlan Alan Never, son of Arika the Mermaid.

Vidal Pezmuerto, son of Señora Pezmuerto.

The girls in the pink dresses next to Uma and Elle are Annika and Raylene Jenkins, the daughters of Coach Jenkins.

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Thanks @igetthedisneybox and @casinotrio1965 for the help.

[limblesstar]

You'll never recover from that kind of devotion.

THE HIEROPHANT: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Matthew Stover / Vintage Style Broaches, Jorunna / Antique Pearl Necklace, Bebemoon / What we’re reading, Johan Deckmann / Hierophant, King Women / Elie Saab Fall 2016 Couture Collection / Cherry, Archivered / War of the Foxes, Richard Siken / ​Ingydar, Adrianne Lenker / Hearts, Wherewolf / Pomegranates, Blacksailsgf / Hands, DannyLaiLai

THREE OF SWORDS: Red Lights : Vatican, Aishy / Night and Day, Virginia Woolf / Vintage Alexander McQueen / Pomegranates, Png-magician / Could Never Be Heaven, Brand New / Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult / Blasted, Sarah Kane / Hearts, Wherewolf / Jack Krauser's Knife, Resident Evil / Dagger, Naturom--demonto / It's Just Us Now, Sleigh Bells / For A Good Boy, Missilecrashedtoearth / Rosary, Png-magician / Hannibal PNGs Pt 2, Snailspng

TEN OF SWORDS: Cinemas, Sylvia Ballhause / White Is for Witching, Helen Oyeyemi / Hearts, Wherewolf / Scissors, Weirdpngs / cut, Caitlyn Siehl / Roses, Unknown / I AM SORRY FOR WHAT I HAVE DONE, Brad Rohloff / Black Pear Tree, The Mountain Goats / I hope its us, Stinkytofubaby / Pomegranates, Blacksailsgf / V & Johnny, Cyberpunk 2077 / Unknown / Photos I took at 3am, Briscoe Park / Backpack, AJJ / Hannibal PNGs Pt 2, Snailspng / A Winged Hussar’s Zischägge, Poland, ca. 18th century, housed at the Wawel Royal Castle State Art Collection. / Church, Lucas Deshazer / NO TITLE (Valentines you you), Raymond Pettibon / Warm Healer, Everything Everything / Knives Out, Radiohead / Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Matthew Stover

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

October: White Redux

Richard III / Mary Kerridge as Queen Elizabeth

Hmm, black spots creeping into our white costumes again? Strange....

This costume, nice as it is, baffles me. It's a fine example of fashion from the 1300s, worn for a scene (the death of King Edward IV) that takes place in 1483. See the picture below: Jane Shore in the red and blue dress shows an example of what women were actually wearing at the time (see here for a more detailed look at that costume). The queen even wears other costumes more along those lines in other scenes. So why on earth did they choose to put her in clothing that was a hundred years or more out of date for the first part of the film? I would love to know the answer.

She's not the only one, either--one of the photos shows her walking with the Duchess of York (Helen Haye, in black), who is wearing a gown of a similar era but almost a perfect palette-swap of the queen's costume.

[tw-nicoless]

Nintendo's Gameboy shoes

designed by Helen Red Richards, 2000

I decided to share this with y'all because LOOK AT THIS????? like "huh I don't have any pockets in my clothes to put my gameboy in it but hey what about my sHOES GUYS" what the hell Nintendo

[neoneun-au]

A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing. 

All time favourites are marked with a ☆

All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.

(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)

Anthology/Short Story Collections

Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆

Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Essays

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆

Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆

Fiction (Classic)

Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆

Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction (Modern)

All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆

Bunny - Mona Awad

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

White Oleander - Janet Finch

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆

Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆

After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Blindness - José Saramago

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Ru - Kim Thúy

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

Horror/Thriller

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Audition - Ryū Murakami

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid

Manga/Graphic Novels

Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa

Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou

Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆

Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

Uzumaki - Junji Ito

xxxHolic - CLAMP

Memoirs/Journals

Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton

Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆

Non-Fiction (General)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The Red Market - Scott Carney

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White

Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆

The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Poetry Collections

I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy

Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon

The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Speculative Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

True Crime

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆

Young Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆

The Diviners - Libba Bray

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

[kyouka-supremacy]

Quotes on my Pinterest board that remind me of sskk:

“Eurydice, now dying a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?” —Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book X

“I don’t know what I would give to speak to you one day with an open heart.” —Albert Camus, letter to Nicola Chiaromonte, November 7, 1945

“I press you to me. Come, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.” —Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Crawl inside this body—find me where I am most ruined, love me there.” —Rune Lazuli

“Didn’t I adore you harder than silence?” —Nathalie Handal, Midnight Train to Georgia

“He is in my heart and I suffer.” —Andal, translation by A. K Ramanujan, from, Noisy Among the Shenbaka Flowers

“In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.” —Richard Silken, from I Had a Dream About You

“—softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him.” —Angels Carter, “The Erl-King” from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“A lover? Something tender, anyways. But tender like a bruise.” —Marie Rutkoski, The Winner’s Kiss

“I suffer in my loving and you know it.” —Willa Cather, from The Complete Works of Willa Cather; The Basket

“Finally. A sin worth hurting for, a fervor, a sweet—you are mine.” —Natalie Diaz, These Hands, If Not Gods

“I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow.” —Hélène Cixous, The Love of the Wolf

“It seems to me that the dead only return for love or for revenge. Who did you come back for?” —Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching

“Decipher me, my love, or I will be forced to destroy you.” —Clarice Lispector, The Book of Delights; The Beginning of Spring

“I’d follow him to hell and back but I wish he’d just stop going there.” — buckykingofmemes, tumblr

“The center of every poem is this: I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.” —Salma Deera, Letters from Medea

“That was my last act of love.” —Aurelia Schober Plath, quoting Sylvia Plath

“You are embarrassed about your blood, it’s redness, the way it is just coming out of you with no concern for anyone’s feelings. You are (…) embarrassed to be alive.” —Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Where can my lovers touch me when all of me hurts? Certainly not my body. Certainly not my heart.” —Molly Burton, Fragile

“I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? I’m not too gone am I?” —Alive Notley, Pines: Poems; “In the Pines”

“But the ache for him is stronger than my anger. I want to speak of something not dead or divine. I want him to live.” —Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles

“I love you like a rotten dog. I love you like my canines are falling out of my gums, like a monster like a beast. Like something not worth loving back.” — Anouri, Tumblr

“I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.” —Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“I know I have a heart like a wild thing with snapping jaws and matted fur but I’d hang up my hands on hooks for you, pluck out all of my sharp teeth for the chance to be easy.” —Trisha Mateer, How I Asked You to Stay

“He and I are closer than friends. We are enemies linked together. The same sin binds us.” —Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

And where is the sskk web wave Anon??? 📢📢‼️‼️‼️

[joyfulmagic]

Muse List

[Updated 11/03/2024]

Blue muses are primary Red muses are secondary Pink muses are by request only

Superhero/Spy/Marvel/DC-Based:

Harley Quinn circa the Harley Quinn cartoon, The Suicide Squad, and Birds of Prey —> FC: Ma.rgot Ro.bbie Clark Kent circa My Adventures With Superman —> FC: H.enry Ca.vill [Agath.a Hark.ness — MCU / Marvel-616] —> FC: Kathry.n Hah.n & Helen Mirre.n [Lady D.eath — MCU/Marvel 616] FC: A.ubrey Pl.aza

[Illya Kuryakin - Canon Divergent from The Man From Uncle 2015 with heavy MCU/616 influences]

[James “Bucky” Barnes - MCU + 616 Mix]

[Arina Bondar- MCU/616 + TMFU (2015) OC]

[Adeliana Bondar-Kuryakin - MCU/616 + TMFU (2015) OC]

Fantasy-Based:

[Farah - The Tower]

[Jane - High Priestess]

[Rosie - The Empress]

[Relta - Temperance]

[Aislin - Death]

[Keife - The Hanged Man] Disne.y/Fairytale/Folklore Based: 1. Hercules (Hercules 1997) —> Sa.m Heu.gan & Hen.ry Ca.vill fcs 2. Flynn Rider (Tangled 2010) —> Seb.astian St.an 3. Dmitri (Anastasia 1997) —> De.rek K.lena 4. Sir Guy of Gisborne (BBC’s Robin Hood 2006-09) —> Richard Armitage 5. Prince Adam de Valois (BATB 1991 & Historical influences) 6. Grand Duchess Anastasia (Anastasia 1997)

History/Mythology/HOTD/ASOIAF/Medieval or Ancient Eras Based:

[Catherine of Aragon’s Muse Bio & Verses] [Henry VIII — Verses & Bio]

[Mary I’s Muse Bio & Verses]

[Relta’s historical verses] * [Prince Alastair] * [Lady/Princess Madeline] *

[Lady Marguerite of Gisborne — BBC’S Robin Hood / Sherwood OC]*

[Maid Marian of Knighton — BBC’s Robin Hood / Sherwood by Meghan Spooner] * [Lady Jane Grey — Amazon’s My Lady Jane] * [Lady Zenobia — Demigoddess OC]* [Chloe de Soilel — Demigoddess OC]* * = modern verses available

[lamarchesacasati]

1971 Cecil Beaton, Marisa Berenson in a Paul Poiret dress as the Marchesa Luisa Casati for The Proust Ball at the Rothschild family’s opulent Château de Ferrières in France, December 1971.  

Tribute to Marchesa Luisa Casati.

Marisa Berenson went as Marchesa Luisa Casati to The Proust Ball—the idea of costume designer Piero Tosi, with whom Berenson had just worked on the film Death in Venice. “You are not going to go like all those other women,” he proclaimed, instead dressing her in a Paul Poiret dress adorned with jeweled snakes, a curled red wig, black lipstick, and a black tiara. "When I walked in, nobody recognized me,” she says. “I had so much fun because I was totally sticking out from everybody else.  

The Proust Ball (Bal Proust), 1971.

The Proust Ball, thrown in honor of the 100th anniversary of Marcel Proust’s birth in 1971, might be considered Marie-Helene de Rothschild’s greatest triumph. Around 350 guests attended the extremely rich dinner at her home outside of Paris, the Château de Ferrières, with 350 or so more arriving in time for a second, later dinner. Among the guests were Audrey Hepburn, Princess Grace of Monaco, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton, while Cecil Beaton was the night’s photographer. French model and actress Marisa Berenson remembers the night, saying, “As soon as you arrived at Ferrières it was like going back in time, but more luxuriously with highly refined taste… . The women wore dresses, bodices, big headdresses, tiaras, lots of jewelry. It was truly the era of Proust.” (x)