#isabelle hartley

[thingsasbarcodes]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x15 - One Door Closes

[thewalkingplumbob]

I made a minimum cc sim to test out the For Rent EP. Meet Isabelle Hartley. She's a goofball. 😋 And also thinks it's cool that adults can play hopscotch too.

[unwind-myself]

Victoria/Isabelle, that other timeline.

[paperdollheart]

Isabelle from the Marvel Cinematic Universe - specifically Agents of SHIELD - (as portrayed by Lucy Lawless) in the style of Sailor Moon. Senshi outfit, professional outfit, casual outfit, formal outfit.

[Image  ID: Four pieces of art of Isabelle from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the anime style of Sailor Moon. Victoria is white and slender, with bobbed brown hair with bangs, blue eyes, and pink lips. In the first and third pictures, the background gray with glitter texture that becomes more pronounced in the middle of the image; in the second and fourth pictures, the background is the same but olive green.

In the first image, she’s wearing her sailor scout uniform: it has a black bodice, an olive-green pleated skirt and sailor collar, and dark grey bows on the chest and lower back. The front bow has an olive-green jewel in the center of it. She’s wearing wrist-length black gloves and olive green knee-high boots with straps around the ankles.

In the second picture, she’s wearing a school uniform, since in this AU she’s a high school student. She’s wearing a short-sleeved, untucked white button-up shirt and an olive-green striped tie, as well as plaid olive-green slacks. She’s wearing black shoes.

In the third picture, she’s wearing a more casual outfit. She’s wearing an olive green army jacket over a gray textured shirt, black jeans, and black boots.

In the fourth picture, she’s dressed like the space royalty she is. Her olive-green gown is covered in splatters of lighter green; it's short-sleeved and split open below the gray belt at the waist, revealing gray slacks and silver shoes. /.End  ID]  

[tremorsmackenzie]

There is an unexplored time period in shield where maria, bobbi, may, natasha, isabel hartley, sharon carter, clint and coulson all worked simultaneously at shield and its a crime that we havent seen anything set in it. that literally sounds like the best thing ever.

like, may has nat in her contacts (season 2 i think). come on.

just imagine the snark.

[glennfitzgerald]

Amateur (1994)

Hal Hartley

[silent-hills]

Isabelle Huppert as Isabelle in Amateur by Hal Hartley, 1994.

[dalesramblingsblog]

Rewatched Amateur tonight and holy shit, I love Trust but, while I did spend some time thinking that might be my favourite Hartley film... nah I can't deny the raw undiluted autistic/sex favourable energy Isabelle and Thomas give off. These two people are the horniest mfs in existence that never had sex with one another, and despite the fact that they don't talk like real people at all they are somehow perversely, achingly human.

"How can you be a nymphomaniac if you've never had sex?" "I'm choosy."

And with that, folks, Hal Hartley casually brings about my ace awakening. Isabelle is iconic, and if this movie was made today she would get the recognition she deserves as a character, but alas too many remain unaware. Writing erotic novels at her local coffee shop that dovetail into maudlin poetry? Believing a rented pornographic VHS tape to be a sign from God and reaching out towards the flickering cathode ray tube screen in rapturous wonderment?

How can you not love this movie?

[thingsasbarcodes]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2x01 - Shadows

[thewalkingplumbob]

Get an apartment, they said.

It'll be fun, they said.

[herbaklava]

Just saw Michael Imperioli make an appearance in Amateur (1994) pre The Sopranos and I’m like “awww he’s a babyyy” lmao

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching [Hal Hartley Retrospective]

AMATEUR Hal Hartley USA, 1994

Bonus Shorts:

THE OTHER ALSO (1997) THE NEW MATH(S) (2000)

[dalesramblingsblog]

Hal Hartley's Amateur is one of my favourite films of all time. Its soundtrack introduced me to a number of great artists I love, and is a veritable who's who of early 1990s alt rock. If I'm being honest, I would probably rather have a world in which Amateur was hailed as a masterpiece and Pulp Fiction was less talked about, don't @ me.

Now with all of that being said... the trailer is absolute dogshit. Really the only thing they got right is the decision to highlight Water by PJ Harvey as the background music, particularly for my uncultured self who only gave the film a watch because "Ooh, PJ Harvey's on the soundtrack."

But I remember sitting there watching the movie and gradually realising "Wow, they really just put almost every scene in the trailer, huh." Even the *literal* last scene of the movie. Granted, there is so little context for any of the scenes that it's not as if you're getting spoiled or anything, but it's just such a weird trailer that is unnecessarily revealing and downright incoherent at points.

(It did feature the "How can you be a nymphomaniac if you've never had sex?"/"I'm choosy" exchange, though, so I guess they actually made two good choices.)

Anyway, I mean nothing by this, I just really sat here at two in the morning feeling like being a bit of a goofy hater.

[agentoffangirling]

Bc of all this stuff of "Billy is the first gay character in the MCU", I have decided to compile a list of queer characters in the MCU, sorted by date so y'all know who the actual firsts are

The conditions are thus:

It is confirmed in the project by either the character themselves or by another person. Maybe they speak of a partner, or say "I'm gay" onscreen

It is confirmed outside of the project by a director, actor, writer, etc. The specific thing about this is that it must be spoken about openly, not just "oh I like that idea!". No, it must be said, "yes, we intended for this" "this character is queer", you get the idea. This means cases like where Chloe Bennet voiced support for an openly bi Daisy Johnson in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." will not be counted, for while she does like it, she doesn't confirm Daisy as bi

The project must be set in the MCU timeline. If it is the subject of a multiverse, then that must be when the multiverse started branching out. "Deadpool and Wolverine" counts, but all other X-Men movies will not count

With these conditions, it also means cases like Iceman will not be considered, as even though him being a mutant is written like a coming out scene, he is still treated as being entirely het

Does that make sense? Good, let's get going

Victoria Hand (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 1, 2013-2014): Lesbian, confirmed by actress

Isabelle Hartley (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2, 2014-2015): Lesbian, stated by actress

Joey Gutierrez (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3, 2015-2016): Gay, confirmed on screen

Jeri Hogarth (Jessica Jones, 2015-2019): Lesbian, confirmed on screen

Valkyrie (Thor: Ragnarok & Thor: Love and Thunder, 2017/2022): Bisexual, confirmed by actress and later confirmed on screen

Korg (Thor: Ragnarok & Thor: Love and Thunder, 2017/2022): Gay, only confirmed on screen in Love and Thunder

Karolina Dean (Runaways, 2017-2018): Lesbian, confirmed on screen

Nico Minoru (Runaways, 2017-2018): Bisexual, confirmed on screen

Ruby Hale (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5, 2017-2018): Aesxual, confirmed by actress

Aneka (Black Panther & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2018/2022): Lesbian, confirmed by actress

Ayo (Black Panther & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2018/2022): Lesbian, confirmed on screen

Unnamed character played by Joe Russo (Avengers: Endgame, 2019): Unknown, confirmed on screen

Marcus Benson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6, 2019): Gay, confirmed on screen

Loki Laufeyson (Loki, 2021): Genderfluid and bisexual, confirmed on screen (it is worth noting that Loki was only confirmed as queer in the series, ten years after he made his debut, which is why I only count the series here. However our main timeline Loki is suggested to be same)

Sylvie Laufeydottir (Loki, 2021): Bisexual, confirmed by creators

Yelena Belova (Black Widow & Hawkeye, 2021): Aroace, hinted on screen, confirmed by writer

Phastos (Eternals, 2021): Gay, confirmed on screen

America Chavez (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022): Lesbian, confirmed by actress

America's moms (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022): Unknown, confirmed on screen

Mister Immortal (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, 2022): Bisexual, confirmed on screen

Agatha Harkness (WandaVision & Agatha All Along, 2021/2024): Unknown, potentially sapphic or wlw, confirmed on screen

Rio Vidal (Agatha All Along, 2024): Unknown, potentially sapphic or wlw, confirmed on screen

Billy Maximoff (Agatha All Along, 2024): Gay, confirmed on screen

[delaneytalks-tostatues]

do you have any thoughts on podcast characters and scene queen songs you'd like to share? :)

OH BOY DO I this will not be as put together as the Chappell and Pasithea one because I haven't sat down and written this out before:

Sophie Green would absolutely LOVE Milf, she'd think it's the funniest shit and also "wrote my duck into a song made the genre change // big shotgun cock 'cause you know I've got range" is SUCH a her lyric

She would also be a big fan of Pink Panther and Pink Hotel i think. And Pink Whitney.

Jane would not actually be a SQ girlie realistically I don't think, but Pink Push-up Bra, Pink Barbie Bandaid, and The Rapture (but it's Pink) are Jane songs

Moving on from Pasithea, Captain Isabel Lovelace, the woman that she is 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Pink Whitney, Pink Barbie Bandaid, The Rapture (but it's Pink), Pink Rover, Pink Push-up Bra, Pink Paper--actually you know what Lovelace is just the entire discography tbh, it's the absolutely Unbridled (and justified) Rage--

Hera would probably not want to admit it but she enjoys when Lovelace plays Scene Queen. (I think as she starts to understand music as an emotional outlet she consumes as much of it as she possibly can but that's another conversation.

Moving on from Wolf, Gwen Hartley and Bell Summers I think get a kick out of Barbie and Ken. It's a fun little duet for them!

[therubyreader]

Book Bites: Volume 1

Hello again! I know it's been a while since I’ve written anything in a while, real life has a way of beating you up sometimes, and while I still want to write book reviews, I also know I don’t have the mental capacity to write long reviews like I used to, so I have come up with a compromise! Introducing Book Bites, quick reviews for the books I’ve been reading recently which I will be simultaneously posting on my Goodreads account, they will be spoiler free unless stated otherwise. I also wanted to let you all know I will be switching to tracking books on Storygraph for the coming year, I’ve started posting on there already, so check out the link in my pinned to follow my account! Please let me know what you think and let's get into it!  

The Seventh Veil of Salome – Silvia Moreno-Garcia ☆☆☆☆☆ 

As soon as I heard that Silvia Moreno-Garcia was publishing a new book I had to place a hold on it at my library through Libby. I’m a huge fan of all of Silvia’s writing so I knew that I was going to love this book as soon as I read it, and I was right! This book tells both the story of the biblical Salome, the woman who ordered the head of John the Baptist, Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican actress who somehow managed to land the coveted role of Salome in the movie production set in the golden age of Hollywood, and Nancy Hartley an unsuccessful actress trying to become a star. The way the books is written is extremely unique, there aren’t any chapters just changing points of view between the three women, and bits where it is written like a documentary based on the movie being made in modern day. While this format is a little weird at first, it really lends to the story telling experience and it makes for a beautifully written ending. I absolutely loved going on this journey with all three women, all facing unique hardships and their unified struggle of a woman trying to be successful in a time where men held all the power. If you love historical fiction and are a fan of golden age Hollywood movies, you’ll love this book but be prepared to go on an emotional rollercoaster with each of these characters. 

The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif ☆☆☆☆☆ 

This book was recommended to me by one of my dear friends, and since I love making them read books that I loved, it was my turn to return the favor. The book tells the story of a woman, Isabel, who inherits her great-grandmother, Ana's, suitcase full of her writings, and after some guidance from Omar, an Egyptian American man she has fallen in love with, she travels to Egypt to meet Omar’s sister, Amar, to help her unravel Ana’s hundred year old love story. The book switches points of view between Ana’s journey to Egypt from England and her love story with an Egyptian man, Sharif, and Isabel and Amar’s own struggles in the modern day. The point of view shifts a quite jarring at first, it does take a while to get into, but once you do it's such a good way to tell the story of all three women and the political landscapes of their times. It really puts into perspective how Egypt is such an old country as there is common locations across those hundred years as well as common problems, namely the situation in Palestine which we are still living through twenty-five years after the book was published. I absolutely loved this look into the late-Victorian era and early Edwardian in a country outside the US and UK, though the story is greatly influenced by both. If you want to read some more diverse historical fiction and have the patience for a long and dense book, then I highly recommend this one. 

The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields ☆☆☆★★ 

I was once again influenced by TikTok and their rave reviews about this book and decided to check it out at my library. This book is about 21-year-old Marigold Claude, a high society outcast and soon to be spinster who is whisked away by her grandmother to a magical island after finding out that she is the next Honey Witch meant to protect the island, its magical inhabitants, and the people of the nearby town, all while grappling with a curse that prevents her from falling in love and a brewing evil. I was promised by the people of TikTok a witchy sapphic romance and it unfortunately underdelivered, the book took too long establishing the world and magic system, and once things started to get into motion each plot point was connected to the next with very flimsy strings and everything felt super circumstantial and forced. The life altering evil was over and done with in fewer book pages than I would’ve liked, and the romance was written like a bad Wattpad story from 2012. I did give it three stars because I thought all the characters were very compelling, though victims of a subpar story, and the world and magic system that was very well thought out. Honestly, not a bad book, but if you want to read it, I recommend keeping your expectations lower so as to not be disappointed.