#james henry lynch

[whats-in-a-sentence]

This portrait of the Ladies of Llangollen goes some way to repeat the slander against them: that they were an 'odd' couple, dressed in masculine clothing and mimicked husband and wife. James Henry Lynch copied Margaret Parker's secret of drawing the faces of these inseparable friends, Eleanor Butler (c.1738-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (c.1755-1831), without permission and added the manly jackets, men's top hats and their well-known garden scene, and mass-produced the image.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[n-jostcn]

red, white & royal blue — casey mcquiston

giovanni's room — james baldwin

blue lily, lily blue — maggie stiefvater

[californiannostalgia]

the raven cycle series and marauders fics have a weirdly similar throughline

the bad boy falls in love with the traumatized magician

the bespectacled leader has a prophesied doomed romance with a girl who's very aware of the class divide

the fourth guy is barely there until he very much is (or, depending on interpretation, very much isn't)

[rwpohl]

call northside 777, henry hathaway 1948

[saintshigaraki]

my reading list currently looks like....

frankenstein* (ill probably finish this one up in a day or two)

the salt grows heavy by cassandra khaw

dracula

wuthering heights

the death of jane lawrence by caitlin starling

the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

howls moving castle by dianna wynne jones

the secret history by donna tartt

jane eyre

drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tokarczuk

dune by frank herbert

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

birnam wood by eleanor catton

are prisons obsolete? by angela davis

a game of thrones* by grrm

daughter of smoke* and bone by laini taylor

a clash of kings* by grrm

days of blood and starlight by laini taylor

into the drowning deep by mira grant

dune messiah by frank herbert

their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston

bunny by mona awad

a storm of swords* by grrm

the lottery and other stories by shirley jackson

a psalm for the wild-built by becky chamber

the poppy war by r.f. kuang

the ash family by molly dektar

project hail mary by andy weir

beartown by fredrik backman

a prayer for the crown shy by becky chamber

once there were wolves by charlotte mcconaghy

mother thing by ainslie hogarth

all’ s well by mona awad

the long way to a small and angry planet by becky chambers

the goblin emperor by katherine addison

the memory police by yoko ogawa

our wives under the sea by julia armfield

nightbitch by rachel yoder

the painter’s daughters by emily howes

the will of the many by james islington

a fig for all the devils by c.s. fritz

the devil and mrs davenport by paulette Kennedy

prophet song by paul lynch

our share of night by mariana enriquez

the unmaking of june farrow by adrienne young

the shadow of the gods by john gwynne

the other valley by scott alexander howard

whale fall by elizabeth o’connor

the sword of kaigen by m.l. wang

the cruel prince by holly black

the wicked king by holly black

the dragon republic by r.f. kuang

the burning god by r.f. kuang

starve acre by andrew michael hurley

the assassin's apprentice by robin hobb

the hunger of the gods by john gwynne

a secret history of witches by louisa morgan

the fury of the gods by john gwynne

geek love by katherine dunn

funny story by emily henry

james by percival everett

the seven moons of maali almeida by shehan karunatilaka

book lovers by emily henry

foster by claire keegan

demon copperhead by barbara kingsolver

martyr! by kaveh akbar

small things like these by claire keegan

orbital by samantha harvey

the vegetarian by han kang

the god of endings by jacqueline holland

a feast for crows* by grrm

*rereads

[waight-gain]

What AI do I use? Do I take requests?

This will help a bit but you will have to research what you can run locally with your VRAM. For me I have 16 gb VRAM and 64 gb RAM, I run Flux Dev GGUF. When wanting a specific person use PULID here are my settings, in pluidlux adjust weight higher for better face match lower for better quality, have to find the sweet spot, I try to stay between .55-.85. If you aren't running PULID and just generating images you can use a higher Q Flux model, depending on your VRAM, Q8 is what I am able to use. There's also LORAs but I will let you research those on your own.

Current requests

Paused until I get through more of the list

More of the marvel guys: Chris Pratt

Harry Styles, Niall Horan - hairy

Evan Peters - current

Danny blu on Twitter

Colin Donnell - Hairy

Mark Addy

Nick Jonas

justin hartley, tyler hoechlin, ilkka villi, hugh jackman, wes bentley, john krasinski. all hairy

Josh Duhamel ,Kevin Federline ,Jeremy Sisto ,Armie Hammer , Edgar Ramirez

Dan Reynolds Hairy Bearded

idris elba

ross lynch

Drew Manning from Fit2Fat2Fatter

Tobey Maguire

Roger Federer

Jon Hamm

Julian Alvarez, Lionel Messi

Dr. Strange, Iron man

Ben Stiller, Ewan McGregor, Edward Norton, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joe santagato and Frank Alvarez from the basement yard

Jason and Travis Kelce with large beards

James Macavoy

middle-aged Pierce Brosnan - gain weight gradually please! a little scruffy! ❤️

Bill skarsgård

Rafael nadal and Dominic thiem

Harry Collett House of dragon 2024

joel miller

Zach Quinto outgrown clothes

Brett Goldstein, Adam Levine, Henry Cavill, Tom Ellis, Frank Grillo, Michele Morrone. ☝🏻 hairy and bearded

Charlie Puth

wendigoon

Nick Jonas

Batman

Richard Madden, Micheal Fassbender, Henry Cavill, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Micheal Scott, Russel Tovey.

Matthew Daddario

CM Punk - old cm punk when he was already chubby

Jacob elordi

S.Coups,DK and Mingyu from Seventeen

Bang Chan,Changbin and Lee Know from Stray Kids

San,Mingi and Jongho from Ateez

Bill skarsgård

James Franco

Dylan Minnette and Cole Preston

Martin Garrix or Prince Harry

RDJ iron man

ryan gosling stuffing, fit to fat

[yallthemwitches]

Some James (and Potter family) Headcanon

Because I always seem to fixate on Lily hc and he needs some love:

---James didn't really chase after Lily because she was pretty, intelligent, and cheeky (though those helped) but rather because she was a challenge for him. Not in the sense that she said no for years and he loved the chase, but because Lily as a person really expanded his worldview. Due to his extremely coddled upbringing and lush life due to his blood status/ quidditch ability, James always gravitated to people that made his life more difficult in an enriching way: Sirius was the first person to ever "hit back" with his own antics and not shy away from taking the piss out of him, Remus had a troubled life completely foreign to James that provided lots of apparent troubles but also made James see bravery in a new light, and Peter made him a mentor figure who saw merit even in meekness. Lily came from a different background from him and despite having a temper was highly rational and never reactionary even when faced with discrimination. Despite growing up in one of the hardest times to be a muggleborn, she overcame it. She found meaning and joy in even the darkest places ( her friendship with Snape being the most difficult of examples to understand.) and made James better because she didn't resign to looking at the world like he did, but rather sharpened his vision of it.

--Of all the many muggle movies Lily showed James, his absolute favorite was Harold and Maude ( Hal Ashby 1971). It was the first time he had ever seen a depiction of mortality really laid out in front of him and it was the first time Lily ever saw him cry.

--Nothing made James more angry than when Lily would be harassed for her blood status and the fact that she was dating him. This feeling was often left unresolved as Lily refused to let him retaliate, saying it was stooping to their level to fight back.

---While also having just natural unruly hair, James like keeping his hair unkept because it was an act of rebellion from his parents who acquired the family fortune on hair taming products. He felt like it brought a sense of irony to the household.

---I feel like this one MUST be canon: James hated Snape for a lot of reasons but I think the biggest was that he was so close to Lily for so long and James was never so lucky. Then, once Snape started to be into dark magic it was all the more reason to detest him.

--I know everyone loves Fleamont, but I am always partial to thinking about Euphemia Potter because there is so little known about her. I like to think she was a very eccentric and worldly person who gave her interest in muggle things to her son. I have this image of her listening to 1960s muggle zamrock around the house ( artists like WITCH and Amanaz---60s trippiness meets African traditional music). For a while I had this headcanon that she worked directly with the Statue of Secrecy Department ( hence why she met the Potters' in the first place due to Henry Potter's influence) so she was very up to date on the very thin line squibs and muggles would walk into either finding or revealing the wizarding world (like how hilarious would it be if someone like Alejandro Jodowosky or David Lynch was a squib and Euphemia was their case worker and had to call them up and be like "Cutie, you are giving away too much, take it down a notch" so they don't accidentally reveal wizard secrets.) For this reason her and Lily got along really well.

--James really loved to read! Everyone always makes James this jock, prankster bad boy but the kid was super smart ( I mean he became an animangus and made the marauders map--its literally canon). He had loads of books on Transfiguration and mostly read nonfiction, but Lily got him to read more fiction and muggle works once they got together. He was more practical about his reading though and was not very interested in the more existential topics that Sirius would often carry around.

--When he found out Lily was pregnant he quit the order on the spot. No questions asked. Lily was annoyed by this for a while. He pulled them out of missions before she had even finished her first trimester and even so she felt like he would have been much more helpful out on the field then playing house with her at home (especially when she wasn't even showing yet). Lily even wanted to keep doing missions until she was farther in her pregnancy, but James was beside himself about the idea of her continuing to be in danger while pregnant. It was one of the biggest fights they ever had and ended with James crying, which immediately broke Lily down.

(Art source @blvnk-art )

[brehaaorgana]

I'm devastated. They just announced that PAFA is closing their college (degree earning programs) after this academic year.

While they're continuing the museum, certificate programs, commitment to K-12 arts programs and continuing education classes —the college and graduate degrees are ending.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the first and oldest art school in the United States. And the college is closing.

So so many famous artists attended or taught at PAFA!! All kinds of them too! Thomas Eakins. Mary Cassatt!!!!! Mike Berenstain (son of Stan and Jan, who took on illustrating the Berenstain Bears!). Apparently David Lynch? Don Martin! Howard Pyle!! Barkley L. Hendricks! James Metcalf, Henry O. Tanner, William Rush, Sarah Peale, Anna Peale, Jessie Willcox Smith, Maxfield Parrish, Henrietta Myers Miller (known professionally as Peter Miller). Thomas Cole. Robert Henri. Cecelia Beaux.

(it is also the first and oldest museum in the US, which thankfully isn't also being closed).

I wish the US funded the arts better. The college deserves to be saved as an iconic and immensely influential american institution, similar to the Smithsonian network of museums — with government funding. Hell, congress people should be FIGHTING to bail out PAFA, sustain it and treat it as a PAFA-Smithsonian arts institute funded by the government. Or SOMETHING. :(

It's going to close after reaching 220 years.

[byneddiedingo]

The Chase (Arthur Penn, 1966)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Richard Bradford, Robert Duvall, James Fox, Diana Hyland, Henry Hull, Jocelyn Brando. Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on a novel by Horton Foote. Cinematography: Joseph LaShelle. Production design: Richard Day. Film editing: Gene Milford. Music: John Barry.

Bad movies are often fun to watch anyway, and most of the people involved with The Chase, including director Arthur Penn, screenwriter Lillian Hellman, and star Marlon Brando, agreed that it was a bad movie. Brando let his opinion show, giving a sluggish performance that validates the old criticism that he mumbled his lines. Hellman had her script taken away and rewritten, and Penn struggled to deal with an ill-conceived project. The chief interest the film generates today is seeing actors like Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, and Robert Duvall on the brink of major stardom. There's a good deal of miscasting, including E.G. Mashall as the boss of a small town that seems to be in Texas or Louisiana. Marshall lacks the ruthless aura that the character needs. Angie Dickinson is wasted as the loving and dutiful wife of the town sheriff played by Brando. And Redford feels out of place in the role of Bubber Reeves, the town bad boy who escapes from prison (it's never quite clear what he did to be sent there) and stirs a manhunt, a lynch mob, and a conflagration in a junkyard. The town itself is a hotbed where everyone sleeps with everyone else's spouse and goes orgiastic on the Saturday night when the news of Bubber's escape breaks. It's a silly and lurid movie, but a little too long to be entertainingly bad.

[badtouchs]

badtouchs is a roleplay blog focused on gay smut involving dark/taboo subjects . don't follow if uninterested or uncomfortable | policing/hate will not be tolerated .

general info :

i'm above twenty-one years of age. i live in the bra timezone. i'm open for writing in discord, but i highly prefer tumblr (open to sideblogs, even). i'm considering a muse list - for now, characters will be made up based on plotting/thread.

interested in :

dynamics: incest, teacher/student, boss/worker, kidnapper/victim, home invader/victim, abusive husband/victim, stalker/victim, nerd/jock, cowboy/city guy, fraternity bros, cop/thug, dirty cop/victim, rock star/groupie, priest/altar boy, cruising, grindr date (goes wrong), cult leader/follower(s), stripper/customer, creep neighbor, fandom characters. settings: medieval/historical, apocalypse, disaster, supernatural, dystopian, horror/slasher, camping settings. kinks: age difference, gangbangs, cuckolding, breeding, monsterfucking, humiliation, size difference, bodily fluids, gooning/ahegao, humping, frotting, namecalling, facials, degradation, feminization, pec play, watersports, slapping, impact play. extreme: dub-con, non-con, raceplay, underage/age play, orientation play, gender play, beastility (selective), bigotry, political play. more tba.

faceclaims :

andrew garfield. adam scott. zane phillips. idris elba. chris hemsworth. chris evans. sebastian stan. jack quaid. jake gyllenhaal. trevante rhodes. froy gutierrez. richard madden. jason momoa. brandon perea. david corenswet. michael b jordan. evan mock. henry cavill. kj apa. charles melton. jacob elordi. eric dane. aldis hodge. matt bomer. jonathan bailey. jonathan groff. aaron taylor-johnson. bob morley. danny pino. andre lamoglia. carloto cotta. alexander ludwig. alexander skarsgard. bill skarsgard. michael evans behling. dylan o'brien. winston duke. lewis tan. will sharpe. theo james. rege-jean page. jensen ackles. jared padalecki. jeffrey dean morgan. chace crawford. alessandro bedetti. jon bernthal. andrew lincoln. clayton cardenas. jeremy allen white. avan jogia. dylan minnette. thomas doherty. ross lynch. lee pace. leo woodall. timothee chalamet. oscar isaac. matt barr. travis van winkle. chay suede. wagner moura. jesse williams. ricky whittle. mason gooding. jack champion. pedro pascal. ethan hawke. drew starkey. harris dickinson. joshua bassett. david harbour. milo ventimiglia. paul mescal. non-comprehensive.

banned / hard no :

writers under the age of eighteen. faceclaims under the age of eighteen. faces: most tiktokers/influencers/models. johnny depp. harry styles. noah schnapp. more tba. kinks: scat, rosebud. more tba.

[timeclipsed]

I hope ur shoelace gets untied while jogging >:c

Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

Massachusetts

John Hancock

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

Pennsylvania

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean

New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

Massachusetts

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

New Hampshire

Matthew Thornton

[ambrenoir]

DALLA PAGINA FB DI SEBASTIANO ALICATA

UN DESTINO INTRECCIATO

È stato recuperato anche l’ultimo corpo dentro il Bayesan, quello della figlia 18enne di Mike Lynch, ed ora il veliero "inaffondabile" che è stato per qualche giorno la tomba di sei persone, giace a 50 metri di profondità in fondo al mare siciliano con 18.000 litri di carburante e tutte le prove che potranno aiutare a capire le dinamiche di un naufragio su cui ci sono ancora dei punti poco chiari. Ci vorranno settimane se non mesi e pare almeno 15 milioni di dollari per riportare l'imbarcazione in superficie.

Recuperare il relitto del Bayesian non serve solo per l’inchiesta. Lo yacht valeva circa 30 milioni di euro. E secondo il The Sun l’assicurazione stipulata aveva un massimale di 2 miliardi di euro. Con buona probabilità nei prossimi mesi si aprirà una lunga battaglia legale tra gli ospiti e la società che gestisce l’imbarcazione per accertare tutte le cause e i rimborsi. Capire cosa è successo servirà anche a decidere il ruolo delle assicurazioni.

Ovviamente man mano che i giorni passano i misteri aumentano. Cominciano ad esserci ombre sull’equipaggio e sul comandante e sul perché sia andata così, visto che ora si sa che il tempo che è servito affinché il mare inghiottisse lo yacht è di 16 minuti, quindi verosimilmente un tempo sufficiente e mettere in sicurezza tutti e ad evacuare l’imbarcazione completamente.

Si aggiunge poi il mistero delle mail a cui non rispondeva più il comandante James Cutfield. L’agenzia marittima che si occupava dello yacht e ne seguiva gli spostamenti fa sapere : “Gli ultimi contatti con il comandante Cutfield prima di Ferragosto, poi il silenzio”.

Ma è curioso anche lo strano legame tra il Bayesian e il Titanic. Il nome dell’armatore del Titanic, il famoso John Pierpont Morgan, uno dei banchieri e uomini d’affari più ricchi degli Usa, è infatti legato al naufragio del Bayesian tramite un filo sottile che rende ancora più incredibile tutta la vicenda. Il signor Morgan è stato fondatore della General Electric ma anche della Drexel, Morgan e Co. divenuta poi appunto JP Morgan (dalle iniziali del suo nome), multinazionale statunitense di servizi finanziari con sede a New York.

Nel 1935 il nipote Henry Sturgis Morgan, dopo essersi fatto le ossa nella banca del nonno, fondò assieme a Henry Stanley la banca d’affari Morgan Stanley, proprio quella presieduta da una delle facoltose vittime del Bayesian, Jonathan Bloomer, uno che nel settore era considerato un vero e proprio gigante dei servizi finanziari. Ed ecco come i destini del naufragio del Titanic (in cui morirono 1.518 persone, a causa delle poche scialuppe disponibili) e del veliero naufragato al largo di Palermo sono in qualche modo intrecciati tra loro.

Come se non bastasse c’è un’altra coincidenza che lega all’Italia questa facoltosa e storica famiglia a stelle e strisce: il signor JP Morgan scampò al disastro del Titanic perché non si imbarcò ma morì, guarda caso, nel sonno il 31 marzo 1913 (nemmeno un anno dopo l’affondamento) proprio a Roma, in una suite dell’Hotel Plaza, dove si trovava in vacanza.

Alla lunga sequela di strane coincidenze, misteri, sfortune e sorprendenti catene di errori umani fatti da un equipaggio esperto, si aggiungono anche le testimonianze dei pescatori del posto che hanno affermato: “E' inspiegabile che una nave di quelle dimensioni sia affondata. Qui il maltempo poi non lo conosciamo. Quando arriva ci coprono Capo Zafferano e Capo Gallo. Questo tratto di mare è il più tranquillo del mondo”.

Insomma, qualunque cosa sia successa, la morale di questa storia e del i filo che lega il Titanic al Bayesian è che si può essere anche i più ricchi e potenti del mondo, ma quando la “sfortuna” (chiamiamola così) ti punta, ti raggiungerà anche nel punto più tranquillo in cui ti sei rifugiato e non avrai scampo.

Però forse c’è un modo per evitarla: comportarsi bene.

#sebastianoalicat

[thedecamerone]

Hii!! (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡ I just wanted to say how much I love your works! I remember a few months back when I first started really liking aeon, I found your works and immediately fell in love! It was some of the first fics I read of them. I remember thinking, omg this captures them so well. I still do! I'm excited to read your new fic, whenever you finish it! ♡

hello! and thank you!!! 🥹❤️ seeing this made my day a little brighter. i’m just as excited for this aeon fic to be done, despite how long it’s taking me, and i do hope the wait will be worth every chapter once it’s out. here’s what i can say about it so far:

- it’s shaping up to be about 30k+ words that span a single night in Los Angeles from Ada’s point of view.

- it is about my fav things, so: hauntings in every form, love and trauma and art and of course the nature of small talk, the undercurrents of brutality and tenderness that exist in Leon and Ada’s tense, complicated relationship. there are some minor characters at a mansion. awkward party chatter. gardens and secret passageways and one creepy stag that may not be as dead as it appears. and plenty of s-m-u-t. there is so much more than this too.

- any time i get stuck writing the fic, i’ll turn to the authors who inspired the ideas for it: Edgar Allan Poe, Brandon Taylor, Laura van den Berg, Edith Wharton, Henry James and Ocean Vuong. And lots of other media too. One of my goals is to make this feel like a cross between a Wong Kar-wai and David Lynch film.

- i will try my best to have the first chapter out in july or august!

- there will be artwork for every chapter 💕

[vocesincaput]

MUSE LIST

TURN WASHINGTON'S SPIES

Peter Price - (He/Him) (OC) (SECONDARY).

Captain Henry Simpson - (He/Him) (OC) (PRIMARY).

Genevieve Hawkins - (She/Her) (OC).(PRIMARY),

Edmund Hewlett - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Benjamin Tallmadge - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Caleb Brewster - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Mary Woodhull - (She/Her) (PRIMARY).

John André - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Ensign Baker - (He/Him) (UNAVAILABLE).

Abraham Woodhull - (He/Him) (SECONDARY).

Anna Strong - (She/Her) (TEST MUSE).

George Washington - (He/Him) (TEST MUSE).

Abigail - (She/Her) (TEST MUSE).

ASSASSIN'S CREED

Shay Patrick Cormac - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor Kenway - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Aguilar/Cal Lynch - (He/They) (SECONDARY).

Edward Kenway - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Arno Dorian - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Jacob Frye - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

DOCTOR WHO

The 15th Doctor - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Rogue - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

The Corsair - (She/He/They) (PRIMARY).

Ian Chesterton (He/Him) (SECONDARY).

KINGSMAN

Merlin - (He/Him) (PRIMARY) (formerly @kngsmnmerlin-blog).

Arak - (He/Him) (PRIMARY) (formerly @statesmanarak-blog).

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Steve Rogers - (He/They) (PRIMARY) (formerly @steverogerscpt).

Lady Sif - (She/Her) (PRIMARY) (formerly @ladysifcfasgard).

Ayo - (She/He/They) (PRIMARY).

Daniel Sousa (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Steven Grant/Marc Spector/Moon Knight - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Yon-Rogg - (He/They) (PRIMARY).

Nebula - (She/They) (PRIMARY).

SHERLOCK HOLMES (MOVIES)

John Watson - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH

Izzy Hands - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Frenchie - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

Samuel Bellamy - (He/She/They) (PRIMARY).

Jim Jimenez - (They/Them) (SECONDARY).

BLACK SAILS

James Flint - (He/Him) (SECONDARY).

Thomas Hamilton - (He/Him) (PRIMARY).

HORNBLOWER / AGE OF SAIL

Samuel Clayton - (He/Him) (HORNBLOWER) (SECONDARY).

Charles Braddock - (He/Him) (AGE OF SAIL - OC) (SECONDARY).

GOOD OMENS

Aziraphale - (She/He/They) (SECONDARY) (formerly @vocesincaput-arc & @ineffablebookseller).

FurFur - (They/Them) (PRIMARY) (formerly @underno9)

Crowley - (She/He/They) (SECONDARY) (formerly @vocesincaput-arc).

Gabriel/Jim - (He/They) (SECONDARY) (formerly @vocesincaput-arc & @archangelfngabriel).

FANDOMLESS

Kaveh - (He/They) (SECONDARY)

[autolabrum]

Watched The Beast. Spoilers below.

Tough one. Gorgeous, great performances (Seydoux is really quite extraordinary), great set design, good music, etc. I may spend some time later puzzling out the pigeon image. A couple of major thoughts immediately after.

Certainly the most fulfilling image in the movie, for me, is the medium/fortune teller (the little extra in the weirdly separated credits makes me think Bonello agrees with this). An opposite image of the woman in the future, in a mind-numbing utopia where all human purpose has been dismantled in favor of automated and totalizing calm, where we have nothing to dread but dread itself because nothing bad will ever happen again. The medium instead represents someone who in their lifetime experiences a not-yet-finished world, full of strife and hatred and love and anguish, but is keenly aware that it is all coming to an end. This is actually the more horrific image to me: Gabrielle experiences horror rather than inexplicable dread exactly because she is given something to contrast her world to; in the same way she instills a sense of dread in us because her environment contrasts to ours pessimistically (to say the least), and so we are much more akin to the forward-looking medium than the backward-looking utopian.

The incel stuff is almost interesting but I do think fails pretty horribly, especially in conjuring an actual mass murderer. The tragedy of the real story is not that Elliot Rodger was alone, or even that by shutting himself off he brought about his own loneliness, the tragedy is that of his victims. For all its impressive genre-bending and deep empathy with all of the Gabrielle's, her death in this version of herself is for some bizarre reason not given priority over building sympathy for her killer. So that part was bad I think.

As mentioned, this movie is astounding from the generic perspective, and does a seriously impressive job of moving between early 20th century romance with a background of industrialization, early 21st century socially-conscious thriller, and at least fairly good (although perhaps not so totally impressive) science fiction.

Certainly I need to read some Henry James, the original story is pretty short so I'll move that up the priority list. Based on the reviews I've read so far, I also really need to get around to watching some more Lynch, I understand I may have been less impressed with the creativity of this piece if I was more conscious of its influences, but nonetheless this is pretty great.

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(Unverified yet) submissions for couples from books (polyamory ships will get their own tournament too later) :

Other :

Magnus Chase/Alex Fierro (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

Tak/Sidra (The Wayfarers)

F/F :

Rosethorn/Lark (Emelan)

Blue/Red (This Is How You Lose the Time War)

Dellaria “Delly” Wells/Winnifer "Winn" Cynallumwynsurai (The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry)

Kyoshi/Rangi (Chronicles of the Avatar)

Sarah Bishop/Emily Mather (All Souls trilogy)

Maud Blyth/Violet Debenham (A Restless Truth)

Snow White/Lilith (Tales from the Kingdom)

Emmanuelle/Selene (Dominion of the Fallen)

Rosemary Harper/Sissix Seshkethet (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet)

Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Carmilla Karnstein/Laura (Carmilla)

Miri/Leah (Our Wives Under the Sea)

Evelyn Hugo/Celia St. James (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)

Mina Murray/Lucy Westenra (Dracula)

Viv/Tandri (Legends & Lattes)

M/M :

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish (The Raven Cycle)

Naolin/Brennan Sorrengail (The Empyrean series)

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton (The Montague Siblings series)

Simon Snow/Bazilton "Baz" Grimm-Pitch (Simon Snow series)

Jesper Fahey/Wylan van Eck (Six of Crows duology)

Aristotle Mendoza/Dante Quintana (Aristotle and Dante books)

Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood (Ths Shadowhunters Chronicles)

Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey (A Marvellous Light)

Jack Alston/Alan Ross (A Power Unbound)

Dorian/Zachary Ezra Rawlins (The Starless Sea)

Enjolras/Grantaire (Les Misérables)

Jean Valjean/Javert (Les Misérables)

Dogberry/Verges (Much Ado About Nothing)

Nico Di Angelo/Will Solace (Riordanverse)

Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry “Prince Henry” Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor (Red, White & Royal Blue)

Patroclus/Achilles (The Song of Achilles)

F/M :

S1 -

Blue Sargent/Richard Campbell Gansey III (The Raven Cycle)

Sophie Hatter/Wizard Howl Jenkins Pendragon (Howl's Moving Castle)

Abdullah/Flower-in-the-Night (Castle in the Air)

Lettie Hatter/Wizard Suliman a.k.a Benjamin Sullivan (Castle in the Air)

Lady Amalthea/Prince Lír (The Last Unicorn)

Schmendrick/Molly Grue (The Last Unicorn)

Christine Daaé/Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (The Phantom of the Opera)

Jonathan Harker/Mina Murray Harker (Dracula)

Linh Cinder/Prince Kai (The Lunar Chronicles)

Scarlet Benoit/Wolf a.k.a Ze'ev Kelsey (The Lunar Chronicles)

Winter Hayle-Blackburn/Jacin Clay (The Lunar Chronicles)

Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa (Six of Crows duology)

Jude Duarte/Cardan Greenbrair (The Folk of the Air series)

Puck Connolly/Sean Kendrick (The Scorpio Races)

Laia of Serra/Elias Veturius (An Ember in the Ashes series)

Evie/Lend (Paranormalcy)

Margaret Welty/Weston Winters (A Far Wilder Magic)

Emily Wilde/Wendell Bambleby (Emily Wilde books)

Lucivar Yaslana/Marian (The Black Jewels trilogy)

Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark (The Hunger Games)

Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

Isaac Bell/Marian Morgan (Isaac Bell Books)

Percy Jackson/Annabeth Chase (Riordanverse)

William "Will" Herondale/Tessa Gray (The Infernal Devices)

Princess Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee a.k.a Ani or Isi/Prince Geric (Goose Girl)

Anne Elliot/Capt. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Finlay Donovan/Det. Nick Anthony (Finlay Donovan)

Francesca Stirling/Micheal Stirling (Bridgerton)

Matthew Clairmont/Diana Bishop (All Souls trilogy)

Penelope/Odysseus (The Odyssey)

Romeo Montague/Juliet Capulet (Romeo and Juliet)

Patricia Delfine/Laurence Armstead (All the Birds in the Sky)

S2 -

Nancy Drew/Ned Nickerson (Nancy Drew series)

Pepper/Blue (A Closed and Common Orbit)

Matthias Hevlar/Nina Zennik (Six of Crows)

Jane Bennet/Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice)

Lucy Carlyle/A.J. Lockwood (Lockwood & Co.)

Kell Maresh/Lila Bard (Shades of Magic)

Marisa Coulter/Lord Asriel Belacqua (His Dark Materials)

Celia Bowen/Marco Alisdair (The Night Circus)

Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley/Thomas "Tommy" Beresford (The Secret Adversary and others)

Roran/Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle)

Mo Folchart/Resa Folchart (Inkheart trilogy)

Kvothe/Denna (Kingkiller's Chronicle)

Anne Shirley/Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables)

Margaret Hale/John Thornton (North and South)

Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester (Jane Eyre)

Cordelia Naismith/Aral Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga)

Miles Vorkosigan/Ekaterin Vorsoisson (The Vorkosigan Saga)

Hazel Grace Lancaster/Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars)

Alanna of Trebond/George (Tortall)

Commander Sir Samuel Vimes/Lady Sybil Ramkin (Discworld)

Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane (Lord Peter Wimsey)

Faramir/Eowyn (The Lord of the Rings)

Cimorene/Mendenbar (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles)

Fox | Celeste/Jacob Reckless (Mirrorworld)

Oliver/Celia (Foul Lady Fortune Duology/These Violent Delights Duology/Secret Shanghai Universe)

Rosalind/Orion (Foul Lady Fortune Duology/These Violent Delights Duology/Secret Shanghai Universe)

Carrie Soto/Bowe Huntley (Carrie Soto Is Back)

Emma Woodhouse/George Knightley (Emma)

Aaron/Kim (This Blood That Binds Us)

Yumi/Painter (Yumi and the Nightmare Painter)

Ashby/Pei (The Wayfarers)

S3 -

Zia Rashid/Carter Kane (The Kane Chronicles)

Catherine Morland/Henry Tilney (Northanger Abbey)

Addie LaRue/Luc (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue)

Christine Daaé/Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)

Princess Buttercup/Westley (The Princess Bride)

Arwen/Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings)

Lyra Belacqua/Will Parry (His Dark Materials)