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First look at The Serpent Queen S2

A new trailer has been released for the second season of The Serpent Queen. No release date was specified.

“The Serpent Queen” tells the story of Catherine de Medici (Samantha Morton) who, against all odds, became one of the most powerful and longest-serving rulers in French history. Catherine’s tale unfolds through flashbacks as she defends her actions and imparts the lessons she’s learned to her new servant girl, Rahima (Sennia Nanua). At 14, the young, orphaned Catherine (Liv Hill) marries into the 16th-century French court. Despite her commoner status, her uncle Pope Clement (Charles Dance), has negotiated a large dowry and a geopolitical alliance in return for the union, and with it comes the expectation of many heirs. However, on her wedding night, Catherine learns that her new husband is in love with Diane de Poitiers (Ludivine Sagnier), a beautiful lady-in-waiting twice his age. With her future suddenly uncertain and with little hope of conceiving, Catherine must quickly learn who she can trust - both within her personal entourage of courtiers and the members of the royal court - while outmaneuvering anyone who underestimates her determination to survive at any cost.

[inspiredbyabook]

the empirium trilogy by claire legrand ↝ lady ludivine sauvillier

the truth was that she wasn’t like them, that she had lied to them...

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Really wishing the empirium trilogy had a fan base on Tumblr, I need to discuss it with other fans

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KINGSBANE SPOILERS, part 1!

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#78 8 Women (8 Femmes) (2002)

Prepare yourself for a good, old-fashioned murder mystery with 8 Femmes: All the different ways a woman can screw over a man.

This movie is an adaptation of a 1950s French play by Robert Thomas, and is spiritually equivalent to a sitcom bottle episode.  The head of the household, Marcel, is killed in his sleep during a snowstorm so horrific that all means of escape have been eliminated, and calling for help is useless.  Now the eight most important women in his life are tasked with the responsibility of deducing which one of them is a murderer.

Is it his invalid mother-in-law who recently moved into the house to be cared for?  

Or his high-strung, hypochondriac, sister-in-law Augustine, who is overly concerned with everyone else’s actions?

Is it his fabulously dressed wife, Gaby, who strides to maintain a high level of wealth and decorum?

Maybe it’s Chanel, the housekeeper who has dutifully served the family for years, but has a secret gambling problem?

Or Louise, a recently hired young sexpot with a mysterious past?

It might be Catherine, his youngest daughter, who always has her nose in a book?  Or perhaps his eldest daughter Suzon, who has recently returned from school for Christmas break several pounds heavier, but suspiciously vocal on how she’s maintained excellent grades?

Or perhaps is it his estranged sex-worker sister who is always asking for money?

As the story unfolds, the layers of these women are peeled back like onions.  Their relationships with each other and Marcel eventually reveal themselves, as well as their personal motivations for his untimely demise.

I won’t divulge details of the plot, because I don’t want to spoil it.  I think everyone should watch this movie and bask in its luxurious glory.  The women start off as allies, but as time progresses, their behavior becomes increasingly unhinged.  Even when their actions were abhorrent, I still rooted for them because the women in this movie are unbelievably charismatic and captivating actresses.  Catherine Deneuve’s glamour just seeped out of her pores.  The way she wears clothes gives me the yearning of a child wanting to put on their mother’s coat and shoes and prance around the house.  Isabelle Huppert’s facial ticks and loud, sharp outbursts that cut her otherwise restrained persona were absolutely hilarious.  Both Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart made me feel hot underneath the collar due to their effortless antagonization of Gaby.  Virginie Ledoyen and Ludivine Sagnier made me annoyed with their characters in similar ways - Virginie with the feigned doe-eyed innocence of someone who is hiding a secret, and Ludivine as the whiny, outspoken younger sister who thinks she knows everything but knows nothing.  Firmine Richard’s performance was both hilarious and heartbreaking, balancing the loneliness of feeling ostracized by the family she’s supported for years, but trying her best to stay out of the way and let these crazy ladies tear each other down.  And last but not least, Danielle Darrieux’s exasperated reactions to everything that happens and everything she was accused of consistently cracked me up.

The songs in this musical are delightful, and didn’t feel out-of-place in an otherwise straightforward murder mystery.  However, they are not original to the film, making this a dreaded jukebox musical.  I was unfamiliar with the songs outside of the context of the movie, which made it easy to associate them with parts of the plot.  Each woman has their own musical style that fits their character, and when their motivations were called into question, they burst into song to address it.  The actresses all have fairly good singing voices, but what surprised me was how uncomfortable they looked during their musical performances. 

I’m fairly certain they didn’t rehearse the choreography much, as I noticed several of the actresses looking at each other for their next dance move.  Virginie Ledoyen was the biggest culprit of this, with Catherine Deneuve as a close second, which really, really bummed me out.  She is explosive while she’s acting, but you can kind of see the thoughts running through her head every time she had to move.  

In a similar vein, I really didn’t buy that Pierrette was an exotic dancer, because although Fanny Ardant perfectly embodied the sultry seductress, during her musical number she reminded me of a drunk aunt singing karaoke.  When I think of burlesque, I think of Dita Von Teese, where clothes melt off of her like a magician’s sleight-of-hand card trick, not the strong and brazen removal of articles of clothing in this number.

I don’t think these performances needed to be handled by musical theatre veterans, but maybe another day of rehearsals (or perhaps some liquid courage?) might have served them a little better.  Not to put it all on the actresses, either, the choreography isn’t all that elegant to begin with.  I’m just saying, when I was watching the musical numbers, I kept wondering if the actresses were reluctant to really lean into them because they were afraid to screw it up, or if they hadn’t had enough time to memorize the movements where they felt comfortable enough to make them their own.  Based on the behind the scenes stuff I was able to watch, I’m leaning toward the latter.  It’s a bad sign when the choreographer has to dance with them behind the camera to remind them of what they’re supposed to be doing.

I had to purchase 8 Women on DVD for $10 because I couldn’t find it anywhere online with English subtitles, and despite my nitpicky quips, this film was worth the price of admission.  I was along for the ride the entire time, and aside from the shocking ending that I think tried to venerate a dude who absolutely deserved to die, the story was interesting and captivating.  If a campy and emotional whodunit story interspersed with musical respites sounds like your cup of tea, this is absolutely a must-see.

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From Lupin III to Inspector Gadget: Examining the Heirs of Arsène Lupin

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This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s Lupin.

As Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief created by Maurice Leblanc in 1905, is a renowned master of disguise, it is fitting that he has inspired a number of literary characters to take up his mantle. Arguably the most recognizable riff is Lupin III, a copyright-infringing, quasi-canonical descendant by way of Japanese manga and anime. Yet it wasn’t until Netflix’s new French mystery comedy-drama series Lupin—which reinvented the source material through Omar Sy’s Lupin and the lenses of immigration, racism, and fandom—that readers and viewers have truly been challenged to consider what it means to inherit, whether through blood or through books, an iconic character’s legacy. Consider this a field guide to the many different Arsène Lupins.

What is immediately intriguing about both Lupins is that neither is as white as the top-hatted, monocled thief that Leblanc created over a century ago. Assane Diop (Sy), the charismatic lead of George Kay’s Lupin, is a Senegalese immigrant whose father Babakar (Fargass Assandé) brought him to Paris for a better life. The lethal mix of elitism and systemic racism that they encounter via Babakar’s employers, the Pellegrini family, are what shape young Assane’s life into a revenge narrative, but also become tools in his career as a gentleman thief. Yet even Lupin III, created in 1967 by manga artist Monkey Punch (a.k.a. Kazuhito Katō), is introduced as the French-Japanese grandson of Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin. In the Lupin the Third Part II episode “The Southern Cross Looked Like Diamonds,” which concerns Japanese casualties of the Pacific War, Lupin discusses his dual heritage. Both adaptations add texture to their Lupins’ stories by not allowing them to move through society quite as smoothly as the original French thief.

That said, Monkey Punch’s Lupin III certainly benefits from a fair amount of family legacy by carrying on his grandfather’s and father’s reputation as a world-renowned thief, marksman, master of disguise, womanizer—you name it. He’s almost more of a reincarnation of the original than a descendant, with the only real change being the shift in period from the early 20th century to the swingin’ sixties. Monkey Punch also drew from Lupin III’s contemporary James Bond to enhance some of those darker and more adult aspects in the manga, while basing Lupin’s on-again, off-again romance with bombshell spy Fujiko Mine on D’Artagnan and Milady de Winter’s relationship from Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers.

According to a 1995 issue of Manga Mania, Monkey Punch had initially considered keeping the blood connection a bit more under wraps, having not obtained the legal rights from Leblanc’s estate, but was convinced to embrace the Arsène Lupin connections. While Monkey Punch’s adoption of the Lupin persona wasn’t kosher by copyright standards, it was also very much in the spirit of the character—asking for forgiveness rather than permission—as well as the creator himself: Leblanc borrowed Sherlock Holmes for a few Lupin adventures before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle realized, and only then changed the detective’s name to “Herlock Sholmes” for subsequent showdowns. Still, it did eventually backfire for him, though it also led to, fascinatingly, beloved animated character Inspector Gadget (more on that later).

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Perhaps the most beloved iteration of Lupin III is in Hayao Miyazaki’s 1979 film The Castle of Cagliostro. Monkey Punch’s manga cast Lupin III as a rather unsympathetic master thief: callous about his victims, a caddish ladies’ man who often harassed women he saw as little more than sex objects. While the anime quickly established a moral code—stealing from rich people who either deserved it or would not overly suffer for it—it was Miyazaki’s film that gave Lupin III real heart. In rescuing princess bride Clarisse from a Gothic marriage, he displays a surprising sense of chivalry, especially when the plucky girl wants to be his sidekick. Lupin’s silent agony over turning her down lends the otherwise carefree heist film a shocking touch of melancholy, and lays the groundwork for a more well-rounded Lupin III in future outings.

The Lupin III bloodline has extended several generations into the future, though none of these descendants made much of an impact beyond their respective adventures. First there was Lupin III Jr. (yes, that’s his name), the son of Lupin III and Fujiko, who only ever existed in the manga. Elusiveness of the Fog, the nineteenth Lupin III TV special, uses a time machine to jump ahead to 2883 and glimpse Lupin XXXIII, a.k.a. Lupin the 33rd, identical to his green-jacketed ancestor. He gets three whole lines and mostly seems like an excuse to show that thirty generations later, little about the iconic thief has changed.

In between those two there was Lupin the Eighth, would-be star of a 1982 spinoff created in collaboration between Lupin III studio TMS Entertainment and French-American studio DiC Entertainment. The Lupin VIII series would have jumped a conservative five generations ahead, with the familiar crew’s great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren carrying on the same names, traits, and rivalries and romantic entanglements. But when the Leblanc estate got wind of this Japanese/French collaboration showing up on their continent, they put the kibosh on the project; only the pilot was animated, and was shut down before vocals had been recorded.

Because TMS and DiC had already lost their investment, they scrambled to come up with a replacement for the timeslot. And so Inspector Gadget was created, with the trenchcoat-clad cyborg bumbling his way into viewers’ hearts. Despite his complete lack of suaveness compared to any version of Lupin, you could say that, in terms of staying power, Gadget was Lupin III’s true successor.

Yet while Lupin III had every familial and financial resource at his disposal to continue his grandfather’s and father’s work, everything Assane Diop needs to know he learns from a book. The Arsène Lupin books, which Babakar gifts him right before he is framed for stealing the priceless Queen’s Necklace from the Pellegrinis. Babakar’s arrest, guilty plea, and prison suicide leave Assane burdened with a strange inheritance of misfortune, words, and blood money—as Madame Pellegrini (Nicole Garcia) pays for fancy schooling he otherwise would not have been able to afford. Attending a prestigious academy is where he forges friendships with fellow morally gray criminal Benjamin Ferel (Antoine Gouy) and his eventual partner Claire (Ludivine Sagnier) and learns how to code-switch among his peers. 

Presumably, that upbringing creates the scaffolding of connections that allows him to move through high society, but his wealth and prestige in adulthood is all due to Arsène Lupin. Assane studies those books like religious texts, like instruction manuals, like the last connection to his late father. His obsessive fandom provides him the blueprints for foolproof heists that he enhances with his own experiences at playing with disguise. Though he does later employ prosthetics for his appearance as Twitter user Salvator, for the most part Assane doesn’t obscure his face. Instead, he trusts in his marks’ implicit racial biases that they will buy him as a deadbeat dad and immigrant janitor Luis Perenna, then not blink twice when staring him in the face as millionaire Paul Sernine in the course of the same evening. In prison, he literally counts on a white guard’s inability to differentiate between two black men to switch places with a prisoner.

Assane also continues his father’s tradition of gifting the Arsène Lupin books to his own son for his 14th birthday: Raoul (Etan Simon), French-born, mixed-race and equally enamored of the gentleman thief’s adventures. While it’s unlikely that Assane wants his son to make the same dangerous enemies, he clearly wants Raoul to see himself in the character—and to see his father, who understandably has difficulty showing his true self to anyone.

This by-the-book adaptation (Arsène Lupin entered the public domain in 2012) engages with the notion that anyone can embody an iconic character—that their skin color or class upbringing doesn’t have to match the original, that they don’t have to be a blood relation to inherit a persona. For all that Lupin III exists in his own right and will endure as a classic franchise, Assane Diop’s Lupin may be the truer heir to the gentleman thief’s legacy.

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HP fanfic: Puppy Love

In which Sirius fell in love with fem!Lucius at first sight. (This story has been plaguing me for YEARS. I don’t know if I’ll ever have time to finish it, but meh, why not share this little thing!)

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Sirius remembered well the first time he saw what Pure-Blood society called the Malfoy Jewel.

Ludivine had been at the arm of his cousin Narcissa, walking leisurely through the lush expanse of Neptune Hall’s garden. They had become fast friends at Hogwarts, Ludivine taking a liking to the young Black on her first year at the castle. They looked like sisters – both heads adorned with fair, thick hair, both faces graced with soft curves and angles.

It was not a secret that Bellatrix resented Ludivine for taking her place at Narcissa’s side – the youngest daughter of Cygnus and Druella used to worship the ground her elder sisters walked on, and even cried daily the first month she was left alone at home when both the eldest Black sisters were at Hogwarts. What was less known out of the family was the fact that Bellatrix came back home for Yule in a rage, crying that Narcissa stole her friend – like she did everything else.

If asked about it, surely Ludivine would’ve answered falsely contrite, “I can’t be blamed if Bellatrix cannot share my attention with her sister. Surely she doesn’t expect me to cater to her every whim.”

When she came the same summer to spend some time with her young friend in one of the Black family abodes in Cornwall, Sirius had been struck by her ethereal beauty and sky-blue eyes.

“Who is this, Cissa?” she had asked in a lilting voice, eyes never straying from the young boy.

From anyone else, this question would’ve been met with contempt. Sirius had proudly been presented to the Pure Blood families at his birth, the Blacks happy to welcome a male heir in their midst. However, the Malfoys had sheltered their daughter all her life, sending her to spend her childhood in France with their extended family. She had been a shame at first, some dark mark that the Malfoys needed to hide away. A daughter as a firstborn! It was never heard of, in their family. Lady Hera had been fond of her only daughter, but Lord Abraxas had been firm in his decision, and soon, everybody knew not to talk of the exiled daughter. It wasn’t long before a boy was borne by Lady Malfoy, and just like this, Ludivine was once again in the good graces of her family. Still, she remained in France until her time for Hogwarts came, and therefore, had still yet to memorize who all the important heirs of Britain were. Or perhaps Ludivine could just not find it in her to care about what she deemed her lesser.

Narcissa had been prompt to dismiss him, nose pointed in the air in a show of self-importance. “This is my cousin, Sirius. Come now Ludivine, there is no need to stay. If Aunt Walburga sees us, she’ll insist we take him with us.”

Sirius had flushed a bright red, angry at his cousin and embarrassed to see Ludivine laugh at him behind a dainty hand. He had only been five at the time, but already Orion had trained him to be a proper heir. And thus he had reined his temper in, scoffed at his cousin and turned on his heels, ready to go see his baby brother. Surely Regulus would at least be happy to see him, contrary to some!

That was his first memory of Ludivine Malfoy. That was the first encounter that slipped from his mind as he grew, only to strike him again like lightning six years later when he saw her at Hogwarts, taller and still so otherworldly.

He was eleven then, and to his immature mind, he only blushed and acknowledged her as a pretty girl – the prettiest of all Hogwarts. Sometimes, he would stammer when talking to Narcissa, unable to take his eyes off a patiently waiting Ludivine.

“Puppy love,” he had once heard his cousin whisper to the Malfoy Jewel who only smiled with amusement.

And then she was gone from the castle, ready to begin her life as the Lady of a Noble House. Surely someone would snatch her away, for even if they couldn’t claim the title of Lord Malfoy, they would be able to claim the most beautiful witch of their time. He enquired about it when he turned fourteen and still, no news of a Malfoy wedding reached his ears. James just looked at him with furrowed brows, head upside down where he was hanging from his bed.

“Didn’t you know?”

“What?”

“She refused every proposals made to her – not worthy enough, apparently.” James shrugged and returned to his Quidditch magazine, feeling quite unconcerned. “I think she’s bitter about the fact that her brother’s the Heir. Maybe she’s waiting to see if she can murder him or something…”

Sirius snickered and started playing with a bouncing ball. “Or she’s waiting for a prominent House to offer her a good bargain…”

“Well she’ll have to wait a long time then! All Heirs around her age are already betrothed or married.”

Not me, Sirius wanted to say. Never me.

Because he might not be ready to admit it to his best friend, but he wanted Ludivine all to himself, and was ashamed to have rekindled with his family solely in the hope of catching her eye.

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Genevieve would sometimes watch over malroy when ludivine was away

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movies of the month

Fortini/Cani (1976)

A Fish Called Wanda

I’ve been meaning to see this one for awhile. Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline didn’t disappoint. Sophie Monks Kaufman wrote a great essay for Arrow Films on how the film’s comedy has aged as I think it’s required reading but proved a very insightful model of how to discuss “problematic” comic elements.

Panic Room

That movie where Dwight Yoakam kills Jared Leto. But seriously I finally watched it and it was good. I don’t exaggerate when I say it’s the perfect follow-up and even complement to Fight Club. Now to watch Fincher’s earlier, more obscure movies.

Jackie Brown

I don’t know what to say other than it’s still good and denying yourself seeing Pam Grier is ill-advised. Recommended on a double bill with Panic Room.

Shirkers

I was elated for days by the vitality and invention of this documentary.

Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)

The Duchess of Langeais (Ne touchez pas la hache)

Inherent Vice

Recommended on a double bill with Zodiac.

The Gospel According To Eureka

From The Clouds To The Resistance (1979) / Dalla nube alla resistenza

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Episodes 16 and 20

Probably my two favorite episodes.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Hold Back The Dawn (1941)

Zodiac (2006)

Ladies of Leisure (1930)

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

It was such a great experience watching this in a theater. A lot I hadn’t noticed before really stood out - like the empty space in a lot of the framing especially close-ups - so this was just terrific. The sound could have been a lot louder especially for such a quiet movie but the DCP looked incredible so I totally recommend seeing it this way if you ever can.

Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone

Love Crime (Crime d'amour) (2010)

I think I like the more melodramatic DePalma remake better but how isn’t there a franchise starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas?

Eve’s Bayou

Literally one of the best American movies ever. Also, one of Samuel L. Jackson’s best performances in it and it’s still overlooked by so many ‘90s movie obsessives.

Community (Season Five)

She-Ra (Season Three)

A video about season one by Riley Dennis that I really enjoyed. Also a nice discussion of storytelling craft if you’re feeling stuck behind a writer’s block.

GLOW (Season Three) 

Giving Debbie the Joy Division song and Tammé the All That Jazz montage were genius moments.

Killing Eve (Season Two)

Am I still watching this show right if my favorite character ends up being Eve’s boss?

Mindhunter (Season Two)

Derry Girls (Season Two)

Duelists in Winter-Utena AMV

A lovely and wonderful tribute to Anthy and Utena set to “Wizards In Winter” by Trans Siberian Orchestra.

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Saint of the Day – 14 April – Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380-1433) aged 53 – Mystic, Ascetic, apostle of the Holy Eucharist and of penance and prayer, also known as Liduina, Lidwid, Lidwina, Lijdwine, Ludivine, Lydwid, Lydwine – born on 18 April 1380 (Palm Sunday) at Schiedam, Netherlands and died on 14 April (Easter Sunday) 1433 at Schiedam, Netherlands of natural causes.   Patronages – against sickness, against bodily ills, ice skating, prolonged suffering. roller skating, skaters, Schiedam, Netherlands.

The story of Lydwina, the patron saint of ice skating, is a sad and fascinating one indeed. She was a Dutch girl born on a Palm Sunday and raised alongside eight brothers to a father and mother, Peter and Petronella who were a “poor noble” and ‘poor commoner”.

By all accounts, she was “a lovely and charming girl”. At age fifteen, in a severe winter Lydwina was skating with girlfriends when she fell and broke a rib and was put in bed in her family home. After her injury, gangrene set in and Lydwina became partially paralysed.

She never fully recovered and became progressively more disabled and ill throughout her life.   It is believed that she became paralysed with the exception of her left hand and that parts of her body… “fell off”.   Blood is reported to have spontaneously poured from her mouth, ears and nose.   Some historians have hypothesised that accounts of her affliction may have actually been describing one of the first known cases of Multiple Sclerosis, which of course would not have been known at that time.

Much of Lydwina’s time was spent in prayer, meditation and in offering her pain to God. Devoutly spiritual, she developed a devotion to The Eucharist, was visited by saints and had visions in which she was shown a “Heaven and Purgatory”.   Miracles reportedly occurred at her beside.

After Lydwina’s fall while skating, she fasted constantly and became reputed as a healer and holy woman, although many viewed her as being ‘under the influence of an evil spirit’ due to her deteriorating health.

Her hometown of Schiedam created a document that attests to her fasting.   She ate only a little piece of apple, then part of a date, watered down wine and then river water that was contaminated with salt from the tides.   This document created by Schiedam town officials (which still exists) also claims that she shed skin, bones and part of her intestines, which her parents kept in a vase until Lydwina had her mother bury them after they drew much attention.

She lost her sight seven years before her death but continued to fast and report visions, in one of which her Guardian Angel assisted her, until her death at age fifty three.

Posthumously, Lydwina’s grave became a place of pilgrimage.   Thomas à Kempis’s (1380-1471) publication, Vita Lidewigis, A Life of St Lydwina, caused an increase in veneration.  In 1615 her relics were taken to Brussels but in 1871 they were returned to Schiedam. In 1434, a chapel was built over it.   Her relics were taken to Brussels, Belgium in 1615 but returned to Schiedam in 1871.

In 1890, Pope Leo XIII Canonised her.   She is known as the patron saint of ice skaters and the chronically ill and her “feast day” is observed on 18 March, 14 April (universal memorial) or 14 June depending on the region and area’s tradition.

The Church of Our Lady of the Visatation, which was opened in 1859 in Schiedam closed in 1969 and her statue and relics were removed and moved to the chapel dedicated to her Basilica of Lydwina in West-Frankeland.   In Schiedam, her name is attached to numerous institutions and the Intorno Ensemble foundation presents a bi-annual musical theatrical production about Lydwina, the town saint, in one of Schiedam’s churches.

Of her suffering at the end of her life, Lidwina allegedly said, “If I live to be healthy by Ave Maria again I would not want to.”  Her final vision was of Christ administering last rites to her. 

This powerful and heartwarming history makes it so fitting that Lydwina was named the patron saint of ice skating.

Surely, one of the parables of the story of St Lydwina, is that if you fall down, you never give up and you too may become a Saint.   Your search for holiness, may, after all, only begin after the fall!

Saint of the Day – 14 April – Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380-1433) Saint of the Day - 14 April - Saint Lydwina of Schiedam (1380-1433) aged 53 - Mystic, Ascetic, apostle of the Holy Eucharist and of penance and prayer, also known as Liduina, Lidwid, Lidwina, Lijdwine, Ludivine, Lydwid, Lydwine - born on 18 April 1380 (Palm Sunday) at Schiedam, Netherlands and died on 14 April (Easter Sunday) 1433 at Schiedam, Netherlands of natural causes.   

[zolarianstarman]

wait who's ludivine - simp anon

Angel lady

[carriefrance]

🥳 A last drink at @la_cave_aux_13ors (La Rhumerie) 🍹 Ludivine, the barmaid adviced us to have a Pink Lady and it was perfect 🥳 #larhumerie #lacaveaux13ors #drink #pinklady @sophie.collot16 https://www.instagram.com/p/CffKLLENjqo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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KINGSBANE SPOILER, part 5 @clairelegrand

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Ship: Gaby/Pierrette Film/TV Show: 8 Women [Film] 2002 Canonical Pairing: Yes | No | Undecided Characters: Gaby, Pierrette, Chanel, Augustine, Louise, Suzon, Mamy, Catherine Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Firmine Richard, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Emmanuelle Beart, Isabelle Huppert, Ludivine Sagnier Ending: Happy | Sad | Ongoing | Undecided Other Traits: Older Ladies, Musical, Mystery, Intrigue, 1950s Why you should watch it: This one is a lot of fun. My favorite thing to do is to put this film on for people who haven't seen it and say “Okay so 4 of these 8 women are gay - guess which ones?!” It’s a musical, it’s fun, it’s mysterious and it’s a bit off the wall. A gorgeous film with exquisite french actresses (I mean they really got a lot of them together for this). This movie will 100% make you in love with Catherine Deneuve. What you may not like about it: Might be too zany for you if you don’t like the genre. 

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8 Women

[sarah-ganny-blog]

J’ai connu ludivine en 2008. Au début c’était virtuel, nous correspondions sur le web. Elle habitait dans la même région que moi et fréquentait un lycée non loin du mien. Ludivine c’était une fille blonde et féline, avait un immense caractère, parfois excessif mais jamais méchant. Les gens la voyaient comme un produit de consommation, quelque chose de provocant, d’infréquentable. C’était l’inverse. Moi j’ai cherché plus loin, et j’ai trouvé une fille d’une très grande sensibilité, qui croquait la vie à pleine dent, elle ne savait simplement pas ce qu’elle voulait. Mais à la réflexion, quelle fille de dix-sept ans sait parfaitement ce qu’elle veut? Je me souviens de nos promenades dans les rues de Rouen, de cette incroyable joie que je pouvais ressentir à ses côtés. Je me souviens de la colère qui s’emparait d’elle dès qu’une personne cherchait à me faire du mal. Ses taquineries, le centre commercial Saint-Sever à Rouen rive gauche, le cinéma UGC, la gare, le lycée Élisa Lemonnier du Petit-Quevilly, les fast-foods. Je garde en mémoire son sourire, son fard à paupière vert et ses vestes en cuir. Ludivine et moi étions capable, au-delà de notre mal-être et de nos problèmes personnels, de vivre d’intenses moments de joie. Le centre-ville de Rouen, un hamburger, la chanson Bad romance de Lady Gaga, une cigarette et Ludivine à mes côtés c’était ma définition du bonheur. Celui de mes dix-sept ans.

Sarah Ganny