#leaphorn & chee

[patrocles]

DARK WINDS 1.02 The Male Wind Approaches

[zeldahime]

shh, mod's asleep, quick, drop a vid for Dark Winds

I've been working on this for weeeeeeeks and I'm so, so excited to share it!!!! Bernie is a badass and Jessica Matten is fucking gorgeous playing her and she's going to be an even BIGGER part of season 3 in March!!!

Everyone please join me on the Dark Winds hype train, or at least the Jessica Matten hype train 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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[holly-mckenzie]

I think I want to apologize. I'm sorry. I think there's something wrong with my ears. When you walked into the station, I thought, "Man, this boy does not know how to act.

DARK WINDS created by Graham Roland

[isildursestrid]

Thanks to Dark Winds I have Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito back in my life. This season looks excellent! Next episode can’t come soon enough, Bernie is still giving Jim the cold shoulder and I’m living!

[litcityblues]

Tony Hillerman's books were a constant presence in the bookstores of my youth- though I never actually read any of them- so I figured the least I could do was check out this adaptation of his work.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Make your way to Hominy, Oklahoma to see the magnificent New Territory sculptures by resident artist Cha' Tullis. These majestic depictions of Native American warriors on horseback stand nearly 20 feet tall, and are simply magical when illuminated by a gorgeous Osage County sunset. You can catch sight of these fantastic artworks on a hill overlooking the west side of town. Find more info at https://bit.ly/NewTerritoryHominy

[h/t Visit The Osage - Osage County, Oklahoma] :: [via Robert Scott Horton]

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‘Dance Ground of the Spirits,’ or something like that.” Ingles smiled. “Rather a poetic concept. In life, ritual dancing for the Zuñi is sort of a perfect expression of . . .” He paused, searching for the word. “Call it ecstasy, or joy, or life, or community unity. So what do you do when you’re beyond life, with no labors to perform? You spend your time dancing.”

Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2) by Tony Hillerman

[carolinemillerbooks]

New Post has been published on Books by Caroline Miller

New Post has been published on https://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/the-way-of-the-bear/

The Way Of The Bear

  Anne Hillerman’s 8th book in her mystery series featuring Navajo detectives Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito is a page-turner.  Taking it to bed thinking you’ll drop off to sleep is a mistake.  Instead, you’ll find yourself reading until the morning’s light. Set in Utah’s Bear Ears National Monument territory, The Way of the Bear places husband and wife Navajo detectives Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito in mystical surroundings. Against a backdrop of Mesozoic Age artifacts and Indian tradition, they struggle to solve a series of modern crimes.    Murder hadn’t been on their agenda as the pair headed from New Mexico to Utah. Chee’s assignment was to meet a paleontologist who wanted to make a sizeable donation to a Navajo police charity. Manuelito wanted a holiday, a consolation for having lost a job promotion.  Neither is prepared to deal with the cast of thugs, thieves, and killers that await them. Nor could they have predicted that nature would summon a storm to block roads and cut off electronic devices as it dumped several feet of snow over the normally tawny landscape. After Bernadette’s phone goes dead during a worrisome conversation with her sister about their mother’s deepening dementia, the detective decides to leave her exploration of ancient cave paintings and return to New Mexico.  As she drives to her hotel intending to pack, she notices a car by the side of the road seemingly mired in the snow. She stops to investigate and discovers the woman inside the vehicle is about to give birth.  With medical help out of reach, Manuelito assists with the delivery. To her surprise, the baby’s first cry awakens maternal longings within her, emotions that confuse her thoughts about her future.   Meanwhile, a security guard has driven Chee to his appointment with the paleontologist. Despite the storm, they arrive at the scientist’s home on time. What they find is a body slumped near the entrance and a door forced open by the blows of an axe. Entering the hose, they discover it is empty and the premise intact, except for traces of yellow powder in some of the rooms.  Where is the scientist?  And who murdered the man outside being buried in the snow? Chee is forced to investigate.    As he plows through the evidence and interviews several suspects, he encounters more bodies, one of them his wife’s. She’s alive but she’s been hogtied and stuffed into the trunk of a suspicious car.  Once released, she joins Chee’s hunt for the murderer and the missing paleontologist.  The pair knows they must hurry because, with each passing minute, the snow is burying forensic evidence and there could be more victims.      Hillerman’s style is taut like a drum beat as she carries the plot forward.  Even so, she takes sufficient time to paint the mind’s eye with depictions of Utah’s majestic landscape, the source of much Navajo lore.  Few since Stephen Crane have made the connection between the environment and the human condition as palpable.  For lovers of mystery, Hillerman’s The Way of the Bear is a must-read.

[tinytownoregonrp]

Welcome JIM CHEE of LEAPHORN AND CHEE to Tiny Town, Oregon!

Welcome to Tiny Town, Oregon-- an interesting town with a misleading name. A home to everyone from the unwitting humans who believe there are no things that go bump in the night to the demon blooded creatures who may see them as a meal. But as unordinary as the population may seem, the townspeople seem happy. Peaceful. Curious. And what is even more curious is the chat app that seems to pop up on half the populations cellphones, allowing them interaction with the most unlikely company. This town only seems to draw in the strangest of sorts. It’s an ever growing town-- but the word tiny never was meant to describe the size of the city... There’s a reason for everything-- for the application that may have appeared on your phone, for the mysterious area called the Weald, for all the odd things that seem to happen. There’s a reason you came and a reason you don’t want to leave. Everyone has secrets…And in this town, it seems someone is always watching. Don’t bother looking over your shoulder and don’t bother trying to delete Tiny Town Chat. In this town, there’s nothing you can really escape from… but maybe you can try to find some peace.

Tiny Town, Oregon is an 18+ Multifandom Discord Roleplay Server. We are a multifandom modern fantasy group with a growing lore to incorporate humans and heroes, demons and angels, wizards and warlocks, and more!

To learn more,  just check out our FULL DOCUMENT with rules / cast / blacklist OR hop into our SERVER WAITING ROOM to start checking out our lore-- inclusive of species, laws, and notable NPCs in the world!

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[startrailsiv]

Review of "Skinwalkers" by Tony Hillerman

After binge watching the first two seasons of Dark Winds with my granddaughter, I wanted to see what the Hillerman books are like. I chose this one hoping for the mystery and intrigue seen in the TV rendition of another novel in the series, “Listening Woman,” which comprised the basis for the first season. The story centers around three murders that Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant, Joe Leaphorn,…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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The Milky Way, Łees’áán yílzhódí. Bernie smiled as the old name came to her. The Navajo term translated to “cake that is dragged along.” It conjured an image of the cosmic star cloud as a trail that would be created by pushing a cake through the sky, leaving a path of tasty crumbs behind as it moved among the celestial bodies. She had marveled at the starry cloud as a girl sleeping outside in the summer. The swath of twinkling light against the dark night still delighted her.

Stargazer (Leaphorn & Chee, #24) by Anne Hillerman

Air Desert by Titouan Lamazou

[frost-wolf-26]

Deputy Ali's Dark Winds story (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/332649688-deputy-ali%27s-dark-winds-story?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=blackkat26&wp_originator=35mrg%2FFI76deEyD4tFrzeFaq8LKIPOEhWjl9E5O%2Foy6bAHw8j8GxikvL47Q8n%2FBVDbifRRRoaAqWPQkQ0RptBODbtiS9JvUYT669jxmSAoY30GQUsuST8R9Cjz9n5PTJ Hi people. The Names Ali, I just thought I'd tell you a little bit about my story. Disclaimer: I do not own any character's Except my original OC. All rights go to the Book author: Tony Hillerman T.V.: Graham Roland, & AMC.

[notasapleasure]

Dark Winds season 2 episode 4 dilemma, who is hotter:

Filthy, bloodied Leaphorn handling evil bomber man at the end of a rope leash like he's a recalcitrant calf

Or

Injured Chee in vest and tight '70s trousers disarming a man at close range

Or

Bernadette in that tie and uniform finally getting to do her job on a horse and fucking winning at it

[olderthannetfic]

I was digging around in the Chee and Leaphorn tags on AO3 and found out that there's a new(ish) TV show! I also saw that there were some old vids dedicated to you from the PBS Mystery! adaptations. So, I'm here 2 years late to let you know if you didn't already that there's a new Chee and Leaphorn show, it's called Dark Winds, and the actress playing Bernie is gorgeous 😍

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Haha. I clearly failed to post enough. I watched an episode or two and was really excited but didn't have time to finish and then got distracted.

My general thoughts are that I love the dark tone, love the lack of Chee's annoying relationship, and love Bernie being there from the beginning, but mourn the lack of slashy vibes. Hillerman would never have had that "They'll forcibly sterilize you" scene. This show looks to be adding back in the things he wouldn't have touched and it's great.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

No, this is not a painting. The prairie sunflower (Helianthus pauciflorus) is a striking and vibrant flower that adds a beautiful touch to the sandy landscape of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Its bright yellow petals and dark center create a stunning contrast against the surrounding dunes and grasslands. Photo: Patrick Myers / NPS (Aug 2023) :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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“Nothing,” he said. “If someone carried him in from this side, they carried him up from way down the tracks.” “Or down from way up the tracks,” Baca said, grinning. “What were you looking for?” Kennedy asked. “Besides tracks.” “Nothing in particular,” Leaphorn said. “You’re not really looking for anything in particular. If you do that, you don’t see things you’re not looking for.”

Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9) by Tony Hillerman

[sloshed-cinema]

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

I’m a real sucker for a detective story with a supernatural twist to it.  From the original Hound of the Baskervilles to the cult elements of the original RDJ Sherlock Holmes movie to Tony Hillerman’s Leaphorn and Chee novels, inflecting a grounded investigation with strange elements makes for a strange and enticing brew.  Sadly, such a combination is always a difficult tightrope to walk.  But I’m a glutton for punishment and keep coming back for more.  This period mystery weaves a web of intrigue around strange happenings at West Point.  Shocking killings with seemingly ritualistic elements haunt the academy, cadets picked off one by one.  Who better than a disillusioned alcoholic and Edgar Allen Poe to solve the mystery?  It’s a strange and gruesome breadcrumb trail to follow, but the gents are hot on the case.  Turns out it’s Satanists and rituals all the way down.  It’s atmospheric and fun enough, but nothing too world-changing.  What does baffle the mind is the twist ending.  It’s an elaborate double game all the way, Dr Marquis trying to obscure and confound the investigation through deliberate omissions in his report while Landor is a little bit too knowing about details and connections in the case in hindsight.  It’s almost a marriage of convenience, revenge colliding with Satanic ritual performed in the name of saving a sickly woman.  The movie seems self-satisfied with how things fit together, but by the time Landor’s duplicity is revealed it just feels like the movie is overstaying its welcome and offering an additional ending nobody asked for.  

There are some truly remarkable performances in this film, if in the broadest sense.  Harry Melling’s wide-eyed Poe returns the actor to the ground he trod in The Devil All the Time with his country-fried accent, and Gillian Anderson is delightful in full Tennessee Williams southern belle mode.  She seems to truly grasp the ludicrousness of the plot and leans into it.  Seeing her at a black magic ritual, goading her children on from the sidelines, is something to see.  Toby Jones is flighty and weasly as he does so well, and Timothy Spall pops in every now and again to just Spall it up.  It’s fun enough, but nothing to linger in the memory.  In fact, I felt like I was actively forgetting the movie even as it passed before my eyes.  An unwieldy mess made from a promising heart.  To quote Dana Scully, “Sure, fine, whatever.”

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says ‘heart’.

Adult beverages are imbibed.

Poe starts to recite poetry.

BIG DRINK

A killing is discovered or committed.

A note is found.