#ilsa bing

[joeinct]

My Shadow, Amsterdam, Photo by Ilsa Bing, 1933

[enchanted--roses]

International Woman Day — Day 3 —  "In March I'll be rested, caught up and human."

Violet Bing , Ilsa MacGyver, Genesis O’Hara, Elizabeth Monahan, Liliana Pietri, Phoenix Halliwell, Vivien Reeves, Gwenevere Sinclair , Kaitlynn Kane , Alexandra D’Amore - & Quotes that means things to them

Happy International Women’s day! Women have influenced society from its beginning, and a large part of that has been through literature. We want to know what quote/s by women represent your OC! Or even, what quotes or lyrics does your OC use to ground herself. Feel free to use any female made quote, it doesn’t have to be from poetry or a book!

Emma Stone // Emily Wickersham // Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility) // Princess Diana // Anne Hathaway // Emily VanCamp // Glinda The Good Witch (Wizard of OZ) // Diane Von Furstenberg // Katie McGrath (Supergirl) // Holliday Grainger// Jane Austen (Persuasion) // Marilyn Monroe // Katherine McNamara // Sophia Bush // Dolly Parton // Maya Angelou // Jenna Coleman // Holliday Grainger // Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) // Cinderella

Forever Tag: 💠@fiercefray​ 💠@foxesandmagic💠@valdrinors​ 💠@ochub​ 💠@arrthurpendragon💠@fanficanatic-tw​ 💠@robertdowneyhiddlesbatch   💠@chickensarentcheap​ (wanna be on any of my taglist? ask me!)

[jedimitsopolis]

i've been binge watching all the mission impossible movies yet again so here's an ilsa sketch!! good thing nothing bad ever happened to her right!!

[margotbamborough]

I'm just jotting down a few themes I've noticed so far in the Running Grave!

Food/hunger/weight: while Robin's undergoing forced starvation in the cult (again, a common form of mind control used by cults) Strike is on a diet. A lot of references are made to characters being under- or overweight. For instance the detail that one of the ex-cult members developed a binge eating problem following her traumatic experience with the cult. Food (and Strike's and Robin's respective relationships to it) has been a pretty consistent motif that has popped up throughout the series so far and it's being made very explicit in TRG. There's definitely an idea of unhealthy relationships with food being explored. (Though also jkr just likes to write about food lol that's pretty clear in hp as well)

Disconnection from family: While Strike is actually connecting with his family more than we've seen before– forging a new bond with Lucy and her family, taking care of Ted, getting to know Prudence– the cult's MO (as is the case with most cults) is the opposite, to alienate victims from their families. We're getting to know several families who have been torn apart by UHC. The central family to the mystery is of course Mazu, Wace, and Daiyu. There's specifically a focus on mothers: there are several mothers or expecting mothers in the cult, Leda, Mazu, Ilsa (the book starts at her son's christening with her as a new mother). Even Bijou's apparent baby-trapping schemes fit into this theme, though I'm not sure how thats going to play out yet.

Mental illness/trauma: Prudence is a psychologist, and several of the cult victims either suffered from mental illness before being recruited or as a result of the trauma they experienced. Lucy discloses the fact that she's in therapy to Strike, a fact which surprises him, and encourages him to pursue therapy as well. Robin and Strike are both characters who have a great deal of unprocessed trauma, which they've slooowly been coming to grips with throughout the series, but I think so far this is the book where it's been most directly addressed. As of yet mostly in Strike's case, though given the nature of what's happening at in the cult I imagine I'm going to start seeing some of Robin's too.

Empathy/forgiveness: I'm not sure how to word this one but there's a feeling that Strike is becoming more open to understanding others and feeling more empathy towards them. He's a character who has previously been somewhat harsh and judgmental towards the people he deals with both in his personal life and his work– I'm not complaining, it's a good bit of characterisation. But after having criticised/scorned Lucy's lifestyle for the entire series so far, he's finally beginning to understand why she is the way she is and respect her. His realisation that she's actually incredibly brave was a HUGE moment. In general, Strike's inner monologue has been much less critical of the people he interviews than it typically is. The cult has a very black and white mentality, people are either good or evil, and I think this is something Strike has tended towards in the past- so TRG seems to be putting forward the notion that people deserve understanding and kindness. That nuance is important. A big issue when dealing with victims of cults is that many of them have been coerced into doing terrible unconscionable things that are difficult for the rest of us to understand, and many of them struggle with guilt, while outsiders struggle to forgive their actions. Steve Hassan explains this very well in his book (which is referenced in TRG and read by Strike)

I may expand on this!! These are just a few thoughts I've had so far

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

🔁

Putting it below the cut!! I’ve tried to update it from the list I made way back when but I’m sure I’ve missed some 🥺😭 I’m sorry in advance if mobile makes the format wonky I will pretty-ify it after work to have headers and bullet points and a nice setup I just didn’t want to wait 4 hours 🥺

Descendants

Jax Hearts

Jax Hearts & Beatrice

Jax Hearts & Eliane

Jax Hearts & Evander Grimhilde

Jax Hearts & Gloria Gothel

Jax Hearts & Hannah Westergaard

Jax Hearts & Harley Hook

Jax Hearts & Harmony Of Atlantica

Jax Hearts & Keto Jones

Jax Hearts & Lovetta Garou

Jax Hearts & Lucette LeFou

Jax Hearts & Raina Gold

Jax Hearts & Rini Bing

Jax Hearts & Rosabelle Legume

Jax Hearts & Savina Stromboli

Jax Hearts & Trina Tremaine

Jax Hearts & Winona Sykes

Jess Hearts

Jess Hearts & Eliane

Jess Hearts & Gloria Gothel

Jess Hearts & Hannah Westergaard

Jess Hearts & Harley Hook

Jess Hearts & Raina Gold

Glee

Elliot Walker

Elliot Walker & Betty Fabray

Elliot Walker & Colton & Cece Cartwright

Elliot Walker & Jeremy St James

Elliot Walker & Jo Berry

Elliot Walker & Joy Schuester

Elliot Walker & Kendall Pierce

Elliot Walker & Savannah Evans

Elliot Walker & Abbie’s Dance Squad

Nate Simmons

Nathaniel Simmons & Betty Fabray

Nathaniel Simmons & Charlie Sylvester

Nathaniel Simmons & Dolly & Barbie Corcoran

Nathaniel Simmons & Jeremy St James

Nathaniel Simmons & Jo Berry

Nathaniel Simmons & Joy Schuester

Nathaniel Simmons & Kendall Pierce

Nathaniel Simmons & Savannah Evans

Marvel

Kit Barton

Kit Barton & Anya Barton

Kit Barton & Bianca Davis

Kit Barton & Cora Royce

Kit Barton & Dominique Barton

Kit Barton & Elizabeth Barton

Kit Barton & Kassandra Maximoff

Kit Barton & Peyton Parker

Kit Barton & Sabina Maximoff

Kit Barton & Sammy Barton

Kit Barton & Tyler Barton

Mia Barnes

Mia Barnes & Elena Barnes

Mia Barnes & Ellie Coulson

Mia Barnes & Evelyn Rogers

Mia Barnes & Grace Osborn

Mia Barnes & Jameson Barrett & Stefania Raine

Mia Barnes & Mia Pierce

Mia Barnes & Tyler Barton

Victoria Vill

Victoria Vill & Alvina Strange

Victoria Vill & Aris Stark

Victoria Vill & Athena Stark

Victoria Vill & Ava Potts

Victoria Vill & Diana Moore

Victoria Vill & Ellie Coulson

Victoria Vill & Grace Osborn

Victoria Vill & Jaden Jameson

Victoria Vill & Patti Parker

Victoria Vill & Pippa Ross

Victoria Vill & Stella Carter

Victoria Vill & Tesla Banner

Victoria Vill & Wendy Parker

Merlin

Delfine

Delfine & Elsine

Elissa

Elissa & Elsine

Elissa & Allyria

Mabel

Mabel & Aelia

Mave

Maeve & Lynette

Misc

Effie Munson

Effie Munson & Heaven

Effie Munson & Beth

Elys Herondale

Elys Herondale & Alya D’Angelo

Elys Herondale & Annabelle Bane

Elys Herondale & Cassiel Fell

Elys Herondale & Clem Wayland

Elys Herondale & Hannah Dawnwell

Elys Herondale & Rebecca Wayland

(Bonus: Jack Herondale & Talia Lightwood-Lewis)

Kayla Winchester

Kayla Winchester & Briony Harvelle

Kayla Winchester & Deborah Winchester

Kayla Winchester & Elle Winchester

Kayla Winchester & Esther Colt

Kayla Winchester & Ilsa George

Kayla Winchester & Nevaeh Murphy

Kayla Winchester & Phoebe Winchester

Kayla Winchester & Trix Stilinski

Kayla Winchester & Rachel Winchester

Miles Henderson

Miles Henderson & Angelica Hopper

Miles Henderson & Camila Nelson

Miles Henderson & Heaven Orella-Munson

Miles Henderson & Jacob Hopper

Miles Henderson & Jessica Wheeler

Miles Henderson & Kaylie Hopper

Miles Henderson & Kimberly Harrington

Miles Henderson & Rhiannon Ballard

Miles Henderson & Serena Brenner

Miles Henderson & Sidney Hopper

Miles Henderson & Stacey Byers

Miles Henderson & Valerie Rush

Rosalind Potter

Rosalind Potter & Adriana Flores

Rosalind Potter & Eurydice Crouch

Rosalind Potter & Gemini Black

Rosalind Potter & Holly Evans

PJO

Mike Lore

Mike Lore & Andromeda Jackson

Mike Lore & Ashley Wilson 

Mike Lore & Blossom Talbot

Mike Lore & Cressida Brantley

Mike Lore & Crystal Solace

Mike Lore & Desdemona Gaumond

Mike Lore & Ellie Jackson

Mike Lore & Elyana Chase

Mike Lore & Esmeralda Wilde

Mike Lore & Helena Jackson

Mike Lore & Jasper Gabriel (& Blake Castellan) 

Mike Lore & Jem Skeates

Mike Lore & Pandora Jackson 

Mike Lore & Pyrrah Jackson

Mike Lore & Stella Beauregard

Mike Lore & Victoria Blofis

RWRB

Val

Val & Margaret

Emma Spring

Emma Spring & Abi

Emma Spring & Lucy

Emma Spring & London

Lena Richards

Lena Richards & London

Lena Richards & Lucy

Lena Richards & Madi

Lena Richards & Abi

[whileiamdying]

Human, All Too Human

In praise of Ingrid Bergman. By Sarah Kerr "The Billy Rose Tribute to Ingrid Bergman" Museum of Modern Art, New York City Dec. 22, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998 Ingrid Bergman had the greatest downcast eyes in history. That's what I concluded, anyway, when I first fell under the spell of old Hollywood movies and started making up trivia questions about actors and actresses as if they were the Brooklyn Dodgers. I'm not the only one who feels this way, either. Mention Bergman to a female cinephile and she'll let out a sad, admiring sigh. Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis had more zing, Carole Lombard and Katharine Hepburn were wittier, Joan Crawford had a certain compelling insanity, but Ingrid Bergman felt. She got her greatest effects in Casablanca and Gaslight and Spellbound and Notorious by swooping her eyes down to the floor and darting them back and forth, as if watching a mouse scurry across the room. She was the classic example of an intelligent, dignified woman turned by love into a big fluttering nerve.

O n the basis of triumphs like A Woman's Face, David O. Selznick brought her over in 1939. When she refused to pluck her eyebrows and had trouble slimming down (with a rather charming lack of vanity, she binged on ice cream and cookies to calm anxiety), Selznick introduced his new Swedish export as a wholesome Greta Garbo--what Garbo might had been like if she'd grown up on a jolly farm. There followed striking performances in a string of heavy-handed movies (Intermezzo, 1939; For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1943; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1941) and then Casablanca (1942), which went so badly during the filming that everyone involved was sure it would be the bomb of the year. During the entire shoot, no one ever told Bergman whether her character, Ilsa, was supposed to be in love with her brave, freedom-fighting French husband (Paul Henreid) or with Rick (Humphrey Bogart), the American she used to love, who had turned into a bitter cynic. Bergman was naturally frustrated and confused--she considered leaving the picture--but her uncertainty translated on-screen into a gorgeously accurate portrait of the way lovers swing back and forth between longing and the fear of too much pain.

The story behind Casablanca is so often told that it wouldn't be worth retelling if frustration and uncertainty did not become the hallmarks of Bergman's high-Hollywood style. Sadly, perhaps, she was at her best playing a woman in love with a man who won't let her know where she stands. In Gaslight (1944), she was a loyal wife to suave Charles Boyer, who slowly poisoned her and led her to believe she was going mad. In two collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, she helped nudge the filmmaker toward his darker, late style, which pivots around a self-possessed heroine whose resistance to love needs to be broken down--often brutally. Like a piece of fancy candy, Bergman had a tough and shiny outside and an inside of bubbling goo. In Spellbound (1945), she was an overly intellectual psychiatrist who loses her cool when she falls for a colleague (Gregory Peck) who may be an insane killer. But her greatest role was in Notorious (1946), as Alicia Huberman, a self-loathing, hard-drinking daughter of a German spy who gets coerced into espionage herself by a U.S. agent (Cary Grant). He's too proud to admit that he loves her, so he encourages her to prostitute herself and risk her life by marrying the head of a Nazi conspiracy. The ending, in which he realizes she's in danger, breaks into the Nazi's mansion, and finds her rotting with poison (but beautiful as ever in the haunting chiaroscuro), may be the most romantic scene ever committed to film. It's typical Hitchcock and typical Bergman: The heroine must be tortured before she can get her reward.

Were the movies she made with Rossellini worth this nightmare? Sort of. Rossellini didn't believe in such hidebound concepts as "plot" or "dialogue" or "acting." For their first film together, Stromboli (1950), he asked Bergman to play a sophisticated war refugee who marries a poor Italian fisherman and feels trapped by his backwardness. He sent the actress to a tiny, parched island; surrounded her with amateurs; and told her to make the whole thing up. The result was simultaneously poetic and dull, natural and pretentious. The sound quality was terrible, the dialogue flat and awkward. But Stromboli was a little like an early personal computer: It was clumsy and painfully slow, but in its scriptless wanderings, it hinted at a powerful new freedom. A generation later it was cited as an inspiration by pioneers of the French New Wave.

Bergman made four more films with Rossellini; the two I have seen are intriguing and dull. Then they split, and she survived by performing on the European stage until the United States finally allowed her back in in 1956. She made a number of Hollywood films, a few of which MOMA showed, most of which are charming but disappointingly lightweight. Because she was so unfairly punished for the Rossellini affair, there's a temptation to elevate the reputation of her less celebrated films, to point out the bounty of interesting work that Americans have missed out on or ignored in favor of chestnuts like Casablanca. But I think she did her best and most unique work in 1940s Hollywood. When Bergman arrived, leading actresses were superwomen, admirable but hyperstylized, like Garbo or Hepburn. After 1949, the year she left, they tended to split into two equally fantastical categories: big-breasted bimbos (Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe) and anorexic princesses (Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn). In the middle was the supremely human Ingrid Bergman, sane but soulful, vulnerable but always able to attract and hold the love of men and audiences, for the simple reason that she deserved it.

Photographs of: Bogart and Bergman in Casablanca from Corbis-Bettmann; Bergman and Grant in Notorious, Bergman and Rossellini from UPI/Corbis-Bettmann.

[graffiti-bi]

Miller's Girl actually was so fucking good. Been chasing the kind of high that it gave me since high school when I binged The Sin-Eater's Confession by Ilsa J. Bick.

[gluvsbooks]

↳ January Wrap-Up ˚୨୧⋆｡

Better late than never, right?

Here’s my wrap-up for January! It was a good reading month for me, and a great start to the year, reading wise :)

~ I Dare You by Ilsa madden-mills

~ Taken By A Sinner by Michelle Heard

~ How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black

~ Owned By A Sinner by Michelle Heard

~ The Marriage Game by Sara Desai

~ Heartstopper: Vol #1 by Alice Oseman

~ Heartstopper: Vol #2

~ Heartstopper: Vol #3

~ Heartstopper: Vol #4

~ The Heartstopper Yearbook

~ The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

~ Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

~ The Sun Will Rise and So Will We by Jenna Cecelia

~ Uncaged Wallflower by Jennae Cecelia

~ Riot House by Callie Hart

I enjoyed all of my January reads but the notable mentions would have to be - in no particular order:

The Heartstopper Series, I absolutely devoured and loved these graphic novels, I enjoyed them that much I just had to go and binge watch the Heartstopper Netflix series right after it!!

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories, was a beautiful dive into Cardan’s childhood. It definitely gave some insight as to why he behaved the way he did. After reading The Folk of the Air Series back in 2022, I loved being able to go back to Elfhame even if it was for a short while. Jude x Cardan will forever hold a place in my heart <3

And finally, Milk and Honey. Wow just wow! This was my first poetry book, can you believe that?! I loved every single passage, it was raw, beautiful and I found myself being able to relate to quite a few poems.

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Other socials:

Bookstagram - @gluvsbooks

Booktwt - @darcyxorion

[maegfen]

So, I’ve been away for a while and I’ve realised a few things...

1. I haven’t posted on here properly/ regularly for months - I’d been having a hard time work wise, I had to pack up all my stuff and move house and mentally I was just exhausted and feeling pretty low.

However, I’m doing reasonably well now I think; I’ve successfully moved across the country, I’m finally getting some teaching supply work with an outlook for getting a permanent post soon, and I’m getting used to being 200 miles away from my network of friends.

2. I haven’t written/ posted anything fic wise for close to a year and... I’m kind of happy? When I discovered that the other day I thought it would stress me out but it hasn’t. I mean, I need to catch up on years worth of prompts and the like (I’m sorry if you’ve ever sent me a prompt and I’ve never filled it...) but I think I really needed the break. I was reaching a point where I was getting worried about my writing and not posting and so I didn’t work on anything and then I stressed about not posting and so on and so forth. But taking a break for this long has helped me put things in perspective; yes I want to write, but I’m going to try and not pressure myself, or worry that I’ve not posted anything. I’m gonna work on things I think, but at my own pace and for my own happiness to start with. I was reading through some old stories of mine and I could see how well (relatively) I have written in the past - I think I lost that ability somewhere along the way and I want to find and work at that standard again (and maybe improve too...)

3. I miss chatting to people in fandom. I’ve been away for so long that I guess I’ve fallen off people’s radar, but if anyone wants to say hi, or catch up, or just fangirl about anything then feel free to send me a message - I’m going to try and do better to stay in touch.

TLDR - I’ve been away for a while, but I’m feeling happier and a little healthier and hopefully it’s onwards and upwards for me with things 🤞

[kafkasapartment]

Laundry, Frankfurt, 1925. Ilsa Bing. Silver print

[weedhorse69]

Match for Partner#1Match for Partner#2From universe

Satine (64.183%)Christian (76.357%)Moulin Rouge!

Chandler Bing (63.700%)Monica Geller (75.457%)Friends

Elliot Reid (68.766%)John Michael Dorian (70.341%)Scrubs

Mia Dolan (71.171%)Sebastian Wilder (67.426%)La La Land

Nino Quincampoix (72.580%)Amélie Poulain (65.526%)Amélie

Emily Gardner (69.479%)Kumail Nanjiani (67.926%)The Big Sick

Amy Sosa (68.973%)Jonah Simms (67.102%)Superstore

Bella Swan (65.321%)Edward Cullen (70.540%)Twilight

Sam Button (72.200%)Charlie Kelmeckis (62.138%)The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Narrator (75.204%)Marla Singer (58.882%)Fight Club

Calvin Weir-Fields (72.295%)Ruby Tiffany Sparks (61.542%)Ruby Sparks

Drew Baylor (72.457%)Claire Colburn (61.278%)Elizabethtown

Connell (63.749%)Marianne (69.314%)Normal People

Prince Hamlet (62.704%)Ophelia (69.075%)Hamlet

Nick Miller (70.981%)Jess Day (60.196%)New Girl

Tiffany Maxwell (63.448%)Pat Solitano (67.561%)Silver Linings Playbook

Annie Hall (72.474%)Alvy Singer (58.464%)Annie Hall

Daisy Buchanan (71.003%)Jay Gatsby (59.701%)The Great Gatsby

Joel Barish (69.830%)Clementine Kruczynski (60.338%)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Debora (73.736%)Baby (56.124%)Baby Driver

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Jack Maine (56.280%)Ally Maine (73.296%)A Star Is Born

Jesse Pinkman (67.339%)Jane Margolis (61.983%)Breaking Bad

Hazel Grace Lancaster (61.532%)Augustus 'Gus' Waters (66.909%)The Fault in Our Stars

Rita (71.379%)Betty Elms (56.564%)Mulholland Drive

Marianne (60.047%)Heloise (67.601%)Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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Abbi Abrams (72.208%)Lincoln Rice (54.842%)Broad City

Sam Baldwin (59.007%)Annie Reed (67.879%)Sleepless in Seattle

Monica Gaztambide (67.874%)Denver (58.495%)Money Heist

Tokio (57.940%)Rio (68.423%)Money Heist

Bianca Stratford (72.295%)Cameron James (53.641%)10 Things I Hate About You

Philip J. Fry (60.567%)Turanga Leela (65.197%)Futurama

Josh Lyman (61.539%)Donna Moss (64.127%)The West Wing

Sara Tancredi (61.004%)Michael Scofield (64.638%)Prison Break

Ann Perkins (62.662%)Chris Traeger (62.793%)Parks and Recreation

Romeo Montague (57.727%)Juliet Capulet (67.510%)Romeo and Juliet

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Anastasia Steele (66.061%)Christian Grey (59.021%)Fifty Shades of Grey

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Jennifer Parker (67.222%)Marty McFly (56.377%)Back to the Future

Johnny Castle (67.037%)Frances 'Baby' Houseman (56.264%)Dirty Dancing

Dom Cobb (64.355%)Mal Cobb (58.902%)Inception

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Howard Wolowitz (67.300%)Bernadette Rostenkowski (55.558%)The Big Bang Theory

Wichita (66.286%)Columbus (56.321%)Zombieland

Harry Burns (68.931%)Sally Albright (53.549%)When Harry Met Sally...

Chip Dove (63.919%)Anita 'Needy' Lesnicki (58.326%)Jennifer's Body

Jin-Soo Kwon (61.573%)Sun-Hwa Kwon (60.638%)LOST

Elisa Esposito (61.268%)The Amphibian Man (60.933%)The Shape of Water

Aladdin (57.750%)Jasmine (64.341%)Aladdin

Benjamin Button (55.845%)Daisy Fuller (66.000%)The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Becca Butcher (54.440%)Billy Butcher (67.378%)The Boys

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Penny (67.686%)Leonard Hofstadter (53.735%)The Big Bang Theory

Jo March (55.433%)Theodore Laurence (65.882%)Little Women

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Mike Ross (59.331%)Rachel Zane (61.757%)Suits

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Daisy Mason (56.693%)William Mason (64.177%)Downton Abbey

Sailor Moon (60.472%)Tuxedo Mask (59.999%)Sailor Moon

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Rya

[joeinct]

Circus Acrobat on Black Ball, New York, Photo by Ilsa Bing, 1936

[darkpoisonouslove]

Tag Game

rules: tag 9 people to learn more about them!

tagged by: @intothewickedwood​ Thanks a lot! This looks fresh and interesting! :D

music

♡ fave genres: anything; I have no preference

♡ fave artists: Halsey, Melanie Martinez, Unlike Pluto, Lana Del Rey

♡ fave songs: East of Eden - Zella Day, Easy Love - Lauv, Zombie - Natalia Kills, Where’s My Love - SYML, Kerosene - Rachel Lorin, Young God - Halsey, Lover’s Death - Ursine Vulpine, Devil I Know - Allie X, Never Worn White - Katy Perry, Everything - SMNM

♡ songs most listened to recently: Witchcraft – Frank Sinatra; Pray – JRY; Haunted – Beyonce; Sacrifice – Black Atlas; Dangerous Woman – Rosenfeld; Use Me – PVRIS; Bodies – Bryce Fox

♡ song currently stuck in your head: Woman Like Me - Little Mix

♡ fave lyrics: “You’re a million dollar man/ So why is my heart broke?” (and pretty much the rest of A Million Dollar Man by Lana Del Rey + so many of her other lyrics because they are great)

radio or your own playlist | solo artists or bands | pop or indie | loud or quiet volume | slow and fast songs | music video or lyrics video | speakers or headset | riding a bus in silence or while listening to music | driving in silence or with radio music on

books

♡ fave writers: James Rollins, Rick Riordon, Ivan Vazov

♡ fave genres: Fantasy

♡ fave book series: The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins

♡ comfort book: The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins

♡ perfect books to read on a rainy day: The First Wives Club

♡ 5 fave characters: Natalia Aaron (TDC), Ripred (I think that’s how you spell it) (Underland Chronicles), Genya Safin (Grishaverse), Aaron Warner (Shatter Me Series), Seshru (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness)

♡ 5 quotes from your fave books that you know by heart: My brain has been destroyed by quarantine; you can’t expect me to remember quotes no matter how much I love a book. I can barely remember characters’ names. I guess that one from Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, though:

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

hardcover or paperback | buy or rent | book series or standalone novels | ebook or physical copy | reading at night or during the day | reading at home or in nature | music while reading or reading in silence | realism or fantasy | one or multiple POVS | judging by the covers or the summary | rereading or just once

tv + movies

♡ fave tv / movie genres: Fantasy, Sci Fi (tentatively), Mystery

♡ fave movies: The Strange Case of Benjamin Button, Lord of the Rings, True Lies, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Mission Impossible: Fallout, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Cinderella 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Now You See Me, Zootopia, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Kingsman: The Secret Service

♡ comfort movies: The Road to El Dorado, The Emperor’s New Groove, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

♡ movies you watch every year: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Lord of the Rings, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, + the comfort movies

♡ fave tv shows: Gravity Falls, Tangled: The Series, Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc, The Golden Girls, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Fairy Tail, Death Parade

♡ most rewatched tv show: The Golden Girls & Gravity Falls

♡ ultimate otp: Griffin x Valtor

♡ 5 fave characters: Griffin (Winx Club), Valtor (Winx Club) Dorothy Zbornak (The Golden Girls), Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Ilsa Faust (Mission Impossible)

tv shows or movies | short seasons (8-13 episodes) or full seasons (22 episodes or more) | one episode a week or binging | one season or multiple seasons | one part or saga (depends on the quality) | half hour or one hour long episodes | subtitles on or off (depends; sometimes they distract me) | rewatching or watching just once | downloads or watching online

Tagging: @her-majesty-wears-jeans, @trashcankitty12 and @darcyinstilettos if you want to!

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Penguins Behind Bars | July 20, 2003 - 11:00PM | Special

Well, fuck me, I'm covering Penguins Behind Bars, aren't I?

In the past I didn't consider this to be a true Adult Swim original, and I forget why exactly I came to that conclusion. It may have been because for a time this was impossible to find. Now it's just up there on Adult Swim's website and app, ready to be watch by all those who are morbidly curious enough to check it out. It's a National Film Board of Canada co-production, which might be another reason I considered this to belong to a different canon. But a little more research reveals that this short is owned by Cartoon Network and it's current presence on the Adult Swim app seems to support this. So I guess this is, indeed, an Adult Swim original. I coulda sworn this played at animation festivals and was merely acquired by Adult Swim for a one-time showing, but I guess this was a bonafide attempt at piloting a series and this is still currently their property.

Penguins Behind Bars is a fairly straight-forward women-in-prison story with penguins instead of human women, making it so you can't beat off to it. The humor is pretty light and the tone is cute. It's fairly adult, but it's nothing that you couldn't get away with airing on normal Cartoon Network in prime-time. It's not exactly Ilsa The Wicked Warden. It just feels like a Canadian cartoon. In fact, I'd say the defining characteristic of Penguins Behind Bars is Canadian.

The director, Janet Perlman, based this on her graphic novel of the same name, originally published in 1989. She directed another penguin short in 1981, called The Tender Tale of Cindrella Penguin. It's shorter, more kid-friendly, and dialogue-free, and is basically just a retelling of Cindrella but with penguins. It is also cute. As I understand she has a pretty respectable career in animation and children's books. Good for her!

The main problem with this pilot is that it's boring. It's mostly just penguin-related puns and visual gags. The plot is played fairly straight. I struggle to imagine a genuine audience for this. Not juvenile enough to satisfy kids, teens or (let's face it) your typical Adult Swim viewer, not sophisticated enough to amuse high-minded adults. It's a strange mixture of concepts all around. I've never in my life encountered anyone seeking this out except out of some kind of completist duty on the part of Adult Swim or adult animation fanatics.

Speaking of seeking, for years this was considered "lost media" as a broadcast recording of this short was not known to have survived (I probably had one somewhere, not to brag). Eventually one turned up in 2017 and a copy was uploaded to the internet. Cartoon Network apparently took notice, had the upload pulled, and put up their own copy themselves on Adult Swim's website. I have a distaste for when TV networks protectively pull fan-supplied copies of rare TV shows or even commercials they have no intention of making available themselves, so this is about as happy an ending for Penguins Behind Bars as it deserves.

MAIL BAG

I have this vague memory of seeing something on adult swim of a woman holding her arms out (Katherine Hahn maybe?) and to a hip hop beat going: ♫I'm a lesbian/ I do what *I* want♫ Do you remember what this was. It's vague memory is ruining my spiritual life.

Oh WOW. This sounds like something that would air on Spike TV, frankly. It sounds like you’re talking about a live-action thing, but could it have been Gary the Rat? They had an exquisite animation style that could easily be misremembered as live-action. The phrase “uncanny valley” gets tossed around a lot in animation circles, but, 

If Adult Swim teamed up with your favorite fast food burger joint to make an "adult" style happy meal what kind of Toys would you like to see.

I would very much appreciate a line of Happy Meal toys that are Looney Tunes but Censored 11 themed. I know this doesn’t answer your question. To answer your question actually I would also very much appreciate a line of Assy McGee toys

im assuming all the mean/trolling e-mail you get are from your friends. do you ever wonder if they are really your friends since they have nothing better to do than anonymously harass your blog?

No I wonder about better stuff like what if they remade the spice girls but they are all naked

Any thoughts on Mike Richards becoming the new Jeopardy host? And no it's not Kramer so I'm gonna cut you off on the pass there.

I don’t know who that is, I don’t know who Kramer is, I don’t know who YOU are. This is a three strikes your out kind of sitch here. YOUR OWT

Tuca and Bertie is coming back for a 3rd season on [AS], what is your immediate reaction. If it's "I haven't seen the show" then make something up. Lie. I don't care.

I love bird movies and I eagerly await watching these ones! I love to freak to the beak. Episode 1 binge watch coming up :D

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I was tagged by @obikenobis! Thank you!!!!

nickname: Tasha

pronouns: she/her

star sign: Taurus

height: 4′11, to my constant and eternal annoyance

time currently: 18:26

birthday: 26th April

favourite groups/bands: Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie,

favourite solo artist: Taylor Swift, George Ezra

song stuck in my head: 11:59 - Blondie

last movie you watched: Ball of Fire

last show you binged: Stargirl

when you created your blog: 2018, I didn’t really use it for a while then came back on last year

last thing I googled: Witherward sequel, I just finished the first book and loved it! Sorry to everyone who I try to persuade to read it so I have people to talk about it with. It’s about an alternate version of London that’s split into six areas, each belonging to a different magical faction. Ilsa is a changeling who grew up in the otherworld (aka our world) and gets brought back to the Witherward to try help find the missing Changeling Alpha, and deal with a secret society of people who think the Changelings are lesser beings and are trying to take their territory (Camden, but that includes more than our world’s Camden) off them and generally kill them. So yes plenty of action, mystery and twists. 

other blogs: nope

why I chose my url: Skywalker is a reference to the skywalkers obviously because that’s largely what I post about, radiant is a reference to the Knights Radiant from The Stormlight Archive, because I absolutely love those books and I love the Knights Radiant, and they’re kind of the equivalent of the jedi so I thought it worked.

do you get asks: Sometimes from mutuals  as part of ask games and such and I really appreciate it. 

how many people you are following: 118, I keep meaning to get around to following more people but I keep getting distracted.

how many followers: 110, thank you!

average hours of sleep: 8 but like from 4 in the morning and then waking up in the afternoon.

lucky number: 5

instruments: nope, couldn’t even manage the recorder and I’ve never really tried anything else, I’d probably annoy the crap out of my neighbours if I tried (thin walls)

currently wearing: black cord trousers, pink ribbed long sleeve top.

dream job: oh man I have no idea, I have like no skills and haven’t a clue what to do with my life. I guess being a director would be interesting? That or just like working in a bookshop. 

dream trip: New Zealand or Canada.

favourite food: mint choc chip ice cream. 

favourite song: The Show Must Go On - Queen 

top 3 fictional worlds to live in: Doctor Who, Star Wars, Cosmere 

No pressure tags (i’ve lost track of whose done this sorry): @sapphic-rey @andy-curry @kckenobi @ah-soka @harryvvells

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Greta Garbo Poster, Paris, 1932- Ilsa Bing