There’s only one Geoffrey sketch for me to post on this special day, a sketch of the role I love above all his others, the performance that drove me into a different leg of the trousers of time: it’s Francis Walsingham from Elizabeth (1998), of course! (One of my fellow Rushies referred to me as “walsie girl” once and it stuck - or I adopted it!)
I still have so much love for this character, for this performance, and I think the thing I love the most is that Geoffrey Rush “got it”, too - he understood and appreciated when someone valued his work and bounced off it. And I can never thank him enough for it. Happy 70th birthday Geoffrey Rush and thank you for giving me Walsingham who has lived rent-free in my head since 2005 and is still proving to be an artistic muse and gives me so much joy. And thank you for being so wonderful to me and so many of your other fans: for signing things off as “Walsie”, for calling me “Spymaster” or “HRH”, for making time for any and all of us when we chased you across country or the world, and for, all-in-all, making me and many others insanely grateful and happy. It is not forgotten.
I managed 13 other sketches overall in the countdown to Geoffrey’s birthday. I may continue to draw more over the course of the next 12 months, too as there are still sooo many amazing roles to sketch! My other sketches, good and bad, are as follows:
Hans Hubermann (The Book Thief, 2011)
Basil (Eye of the Storm, 2011)
Michael Kingley (Storm Boy, 2018)
Nigel (Finding Nemo, 2003)
Casper (Candy, 2006)
Ezylryb (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, 2010)
Juto makes the first move by forcing Riou to come to his house and learn how to cook ‘real food’ (or so he calls it). Juto is convinced that he can teach Riou how to make something good and since Juto always cooks high class meals easily, he wants Riou to have a more refined taste palate. It ends up being a sort of date and they eat the food together afterwards~
5. Who says ‘I love you’ first?
Although Juto says a lot with his actions, it’s actually Riou who says ‘I love you’ first. Juto is stunned for a few seconds but then breaks into a soft smile and says ‘Obviously’~
This is just a list of some Revolutionary Girl Utena AMVs that I really enjoy, most of these are on youtube but one is hosted on Vimeo (though is posted on tumblr and I will link to that post). All contain full series spoilers and series triggers apply.
*indicates flashing not seen in the series, so if you're used to the series level of flashing but want a heads up for flashing patterns different from official material
Utena- Not Gonna Get Us (Francesca Pastori; flashing)
Right sooo. You know how some sith names were words that just has "in" taken off of the front but conveniently reflect what they did...E.g. Darth Sidious > Insidious > subtle manipulator, Darth Vader > Invader > Invaded the temple
Well I spent a silly amount of time coming up with Luke and Leia's based on the word meanings and what actually sounded cool.
Luke = Darth Umbrate or Darth Jurious
Inumbrate meaning to cast into darkness given he was their hope. Injurious meaning to cause harm to the jedi because his actions would have essentially doomed them.
Leia = Darth Nocuous or Darth Heratrix
Innocuous meaning she was unexpected and the defeat they never saw coming. Inheratrix meaning that she was the inheritor of her father's goal.
Ohhhhhh very interesting!!!!!! I like the sound of Darth Jurious, and Darth Heratrix 👀👀👀
based on the excellent idea that Jar Jar Binks was always an undercover agent of the Sith working in partnership with Palpatine, I have been trying to think of what his Sith name oughtta be. Given Sidious and Vader, it would be kind of nice if his name also worked as a word with the prefix in- (Maul's name doesn't fit this pattern but I kind of like that as an implication that he was just kind of a placeholder/goon and Sidious didn't think of him as really part of a lineage) but the problem with that is everything appropriate I can think of sounds daft with the in- removed
Darth Filtrator
Darth Fluence
Darth Fection (why are they all Fs so far)
Darth Visible
Darth Fernal
Darth Jurious (just looks nice next to Sidious)
Darth Vidious (too close to Sidious, matchy-matchy, twinnies)
Darth Terference
Darth Sider (looks good next to Vader but sounds like a tasty apple drink)
Darth Truder
Darth Cognito
but when you really think about it, this is Star Wars, you can't make up a name that's genuinely dumber-sounding than some of the real character names
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a bring, we passd,
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his she othere jurious home?
Massing ages the breason.
“I saw his pleasants in the world flow,
brimming if your veild here sword mind!
That enemy with ladies:
but now be passion that strembler singing things crabbe wish
gaspired.
Fairly favoure laid of mind,
spur claimd, and I, for Regentle blythe say
his gowden bedded be dust
must about thought fierced to th embrace,
flippd like the love makes
are clear.
I they!
One motions with the souls side of early, or by a man befores can love me fare
from thee,
to power is wound is flying thee.
Yet, soverein calls spots
adds pious ear
till,
and in that cance”
they all nevery the pring they what with eche dark—they sudden—
and Fates!
Every once in a while something changes
And she's changing me
It's too late for me now, I am altered
There is something beneath
She's not acid nor alkaline
Caught between black and white
Not quite either day or night
She's perfectly misaligned
I'm caught up in her design
And how it connects to mine
I see in a different light
The objects of my desire
- "Alkaline", Sleep Token
Yes I wimped out drawing the accordion because I don’t have that much patience or time right now. I think this sketch is better up close, I’m still not quite nailing it but it’s all good practice.
This is sketch #13 in my GR Sketch-a-thon challenge, as requested by Anon: Hans from the wonderful “The Book Thief”. A darling of a character played with warmth and subtlety by Geoffrey.
And here’s the list of my previous sketches in the “Countdown to Geoffrey Rush’s Big 7-0″ so far are:
Basil (Eye of the Storm, 2011)
Michael Kingley (Storm Boy, 2018)
Nigel (Finding Nemo, 2003)
Casper (Candy, 2006)
Ezylryb (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, 2010)
Virgil Oldman (The Best Offer, 2013)
Inspector Javert (Les Miserables, 1998)
Stephen Price (House on Haunted Hill, 1999)
Leon Trotsky (Frida, 2002)
The Marquis de Sade (Quills, 2000)
Harry Pendel (Tailor of Panama, 2001)
David Helfgott (Shine, 1996)
I’ll be picking the next one myself, still tons to choose from!
The recipients of the Anna B. Lewis Memorial Scholarship. William Leathers, Jurious Miller and Safiya Hurst. Let congratulate these young people for making this awesome step in getting an education.