#madsea

[shit-talk-turner]

are you sure? because we've seen it and there were many photos in the original article // yep, i saved them all when the article was posted, these were all the pics in the original:

one is very similar (2nd row column 2, the one i put under here) but not the same

see here no madsea/backgrid logo + his arms

i don’t know where it surfaced from🤷‍♀️ i’m not complaining though, he looks good😋 (it’s not that important i just find it odd it wasn’t in the article)

I feel like we've seen this other one in the new batch that cropped up on other sites in the days after because we've definitely seen these before! but yeah, weird

[alexstorm]

The Madsea photographer who works for Backgrid should be familiar with all the celebrities who go to this vacation spot in Italy, and know that lounging in those beach chairs means they want to be photographed.

Madsea is not a photographer. It's a local agency (word play on Mediterranean Sea), most likely Italian, that shoots celebs in that area. They either work for or sell to Backgrid.

And again, a lot of paps don't necessarily know their subject but know they can make money from it. There are several documentaries on that out there like Paparazzi: Full Throttle LA or Teenage Paparazzo. Channel 4 currently has one on their website called Confessions Of The Paparazzi. Can't remember which one I've seen but most of the paps couldn't tell you a film or a song those celebs done. They just shoot and get those opportunities through contacts like hotels, restaurants, snitches. At most they know the A-list celebs but believe me, someone told that pap that this is Alex Turner and his even more unknown girlfriend Louise Verneuil. He did not figure that out himself.

[trueloveisrarelyafairytale]

Currently reading and madly in love with this cover🐚💜

[lamalawand]

#manara #beirutlebanon #madsea #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/B8VEZKxBiBZ/?igshid=4cem5c41ocn5

[shaper-gato]

@madsea_bodyboard_and_more ・・ “Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing” #helenkeller . . . Rider 👉 @lenatnunes 👈 . . . #madsea #bodyboard #madeira #bodyboardinggirls #bodyboarding #bodyboards #bodyboarders #bodyboarder #holidays #travel #summer #fun #friends #northshore #ocean #atlantic #quotes #bestspot #refresh_boards #shapergato @refresh_boards @shaper_gato @100.sushi (em Madeira) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0x9fI0nHZ-/?igshid=1h5ydn7j3joan

[twopoppies]

You know the photographer who took those photos has no other credits on Backgrid, named MadSea? Strangely enough, there’s a 1964 Italian film called that when translated to English. Synopsis: “A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.”

The fact that their name is MadSea is making me giggle almost more than the film synopsis. But that’s such a weird coincidence. 😆

[leeminholinoing]

HARRY STYLESA LIL R&R, ITALIA STYLE ...Does His Body Good!!!

6/18/2021 3:45 PM PT

Madsea/BACKGRID

Even in swim trunks, Harry Styles looks fly ... it's written all over him.

The former "One Direction" singer couldn't look more relaxed Friday while enjoying a shower right next to the beach in the Tuscany town of Porto Ercole. That name, btw, means Port Hercules -- appropriate for Harry's physique.

Madsea/BACKGRID

He was flaunting his heavily inked bod, too! He's got about 60 tattoos ... which he had to cover for his first starring role in the film "Don't Worry Darling."

He definitely earned some R&R after wrapping his movie "My Policeman" in Venice earlier this week. The Amazon project had him filming all over England ... including in London, where he donned an old school London police uniform.

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He's the lead in a film that's an adaption of the 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts.

Harry plays a policeman named Tom, who is involved in a love triangle between school teacher Marion (played by "The Crown" star Emma Corrin) and a museum curator Patrick (played by English actor David Dawson).

The novel's set in the 1950s when homophobia was rampant ... forcing Tom to marry Marion, who then secretly shares him with Patrick. The plan eventually falls apart.

No release date yet, so for now ... enjoy Harry's body of work at rest.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/06/18/harry-styles-enjoys-time-off-italy-wraps-my-policeman-film-amazon/

[irondadofficial]

i think athenia or aethenia (i have dyslexia and cant remember urls with lots of vowels sorry) posted something about madsea being against same sex marriage?

oh no prob 4 not remembering but im not deleting the post until someone sends me solid proof bc personally i dont think its a huge deal *shrug*

[rawfitgames]

Treinos Indoor ou Outdoor... Interessa treinar #shapnup #stayfit #fit #abdo #sportzone #madsea #horizontefm92.8 #carlosrebologinásio #carlosreboloteam @carlosrebolo_ginasio @tiagotenente91 #ufgames2019 #ufgames #ufittest #asapatilharosachoque (em Carlos Rebolo Ginásio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtDrUCHHguN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tj4uqbnaurc2

[beathrycicunha]

Conto #MadSea de #kwebsterauthor, para aproveitar esse clima de praia - motos, bad boy, sereias, tritões, romance, Hot Hot.... tudo para um final de tarde chuvosa na praia. Boa tarde... #Boatarde #leiturasdaBea #pensamentosdaBea #terçafeira  #pensepositivo #pensamentospositivos #vivaavida #superandooslimites #opoderdaspalvras #amoler #books #bookaholic #instalivros #livros #leitoracompulsiva #instabook #incentivoaleitura #incentivoaleiturasempre #viciadaemlivros #loucurasaudável #geek #nerd #eusouvep #caféelivros #cafeelivros #mudanças #porummundosempreconceitos (em Praia das Pitangueiras - Guarujá-SP)

[shit-talk-turner]

I discovered something very interesting: The photos taken by Backgrid, they were taken other times of other celebrities always in the same vacation spot. In 2021 Harry and Olivia were photographed there on a boat near the beach, Elisabeth Olsen and her husband in May 2022, James Franco and his girlfriend in July 2023 and finally Harry Styles and Alex with Louise in 2023 a few days apart. On the watermark of all of these photos taken there it says "Madsea/Backgrid" I guess it's some paparazzi who knows the place very well and photographs any VIP staying in that hotel

This was discussed if you scroll back a bit — other anons have let us know that this is almost definitely an agency that you call and ask/pay to come, not that hangs out just waiting for celebrities to pop up and get “spotted”.

[alexstorm]

Seems to be quite a popular holiday motif, that terrace, this year. lmao / It seems to be the perfect place to be photographed by the paparazzi, they look for any VIPs and take pictures or celebrities go there knowing the photographers are ready to take pictures. Elisabeth Olsen also took pictures there last year with her husband lol

https://images.app.goo.gl/g87XLAcwab7eYzkR9

(also photographed by Madsea/Backgrid like everyone else lol)

Already posted. Please guys, check before sending in the same links again and again.

[trueloveisrarelyafairytale]

[wellthatwasaletdown]

I’m Italian and I can tell you that those pap pics on the yatch last year were staged by either of their teams because Italian paps don’t work that way.

True, the credited photographers were “MADSEA” whoever the fuck that is, who has been taking pics of celebrities at that specific resort since Harry but not before.

The other person credited was, FOCUS PICTURES, which only took pictures in the Tuscany area of British celebrities because FP is a British paparazzi company, that like many older paparazzi companies is just down to one person, Dean Clayton.

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[shaper-gato]

Thanks @madsea_bodyboard_and_more ・・・ #madsea was in @savoysaccharum presenting and promoting #bodyboard in @visitmadeira ☺️ Thank you @avalentinajesus for your skills 🌺 and @duartevafonso for the invitation 👌 We really had a good time! 😁 . . . #empowerthepeople #besttravel #savoysaccharum #bodyboarding #madeira #apm #madeiraisland #travel #visit #fun #nature . . . www.madsea.pt (em Madeira) https://www.instagram.com/refresh_boards/p/BuUXzIFHyVm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10az2m3hoioz6

[brynwrites]

Ask Compilation!

Ask topics covered:

Titling fantasy books

Character agency

Character arcs ending in failure

Book translations

Also a few happy messages!

Happy things!

@ciel-is-queer said: bryn! i just started writing my story and already in the first chapter, one character has said they dont identify with gender and the other has dropped the b bomb (bisexual). im actually rather proud! 

That’s awesome!! Thanks for sharing <3

Anon said: I read the first chapter of Pearl and I loved it! Can't wait for the whole thing!

Aww, thank you <33 I’m so glad you enjoyed it, and I can’t wait to publish the rest!

Titling fantasy books

Anon asked: Hello! If its all right, can you share how you decide or make names for your fantasy books?

Aha haha ha ha. (It’s totally all right to ask, I just don’t have a good answer I’m so sorry.) My current method for naming my novels is to cry about it for two years and then wake up one day and suddenly realize that I know the perfect title... mysteriously, somehow, like the book gods decided to smile on me for half a second.

The advice that I can give, is don’t worry too much. You don’t need a title during the first draft (a title during the first draft might not even fit the final version anyways), nor the second or third or fourth. By the time you do need one, you’ll either be submitting to a publisher who will just change your title if they feel like it, or you’ll be self publishing and hopefully have a good idea of what your story is about and will have done research on what types of titles draw people in.

Character Agency

@aerodragneel asked: In my current WIP, a zombie apocalypse story, one of the my MC’s is middle school aged and a pacifist. Throughout the story, the men he’s traveling with push him to try and kill an infected, but the MC cannot bring himself to do it and is usually saved, sometimes at the expense of someone else. How do I make sure that this character isn’t a constant damsel in distress.

The key to making a character not feel like a passive piece of the story is to lean into their agency. Make sure that the things that happen to them are their own choice, caused by their own actions. 

You can also consider having the MC take precautions and make the sort of decisions he needs to in order to keep himself alive until someone else can save him, especially as he realizes that other people are being hurt by his inability to kill the infected. 

Character arcs ending in failure

@iamrianneth asked: Hello! So my protag is a questionable character, who, though she comes close, could never actually succeed at her goal. The book ends with her failure and realization that she really couldn't ever do it. I have a full plot (though I'm still editing and outlining) and I wonder if with the ending I have would change the plot structure any. It follows a three act hero structure, but ends at her darkest point. I'm not sure if that's a satisfying ending for the readers or would feel incomplete.

I don’t see any reason you’d have to change the plot structure itself. Any kind of character arc could theoretically fit with any plot structure. Whether this will be a satisfying ending for the reader though, depends heavily on these things:

1. Does the character development (in this case, a towards destruction) feel consistent and properly fleshed out so that every bad choice the character makes feels rational from the character’s perspective?

2. Is it clear prior to the climax that the character’s end will likely be failure? (Think about characters in movies and books who’ve ended their arc in failure and at what point you felt a grudging suspicion that nothing good could happen to them.)

3. Who’s reading the book? Some readers will never feel satisfied by this type of character arc, but others will greatly enjoy it. You want to target those readers who long tragic characters and make it obvious that’s the direction the story is heading.

Book translations

@madseas asked: Hello! I’ve been wondering something, I want to become a translator for YA books but I’m not too sure what languages books are mostly translated too other than Spanish. I’d like to learn an Eastern language like Japanese or Korean but I don’t think those are widely translated to. Do you know any big ones?

I have no idea, I’m sorry. Your best bet would be to do some heavy research and maybe contact people who translate for large publishers.