#miss desjardin

[alicesbread]

Sick prompt: Stubborn and rebel student who has a very tense relationship with their strict teacher suddenly falls very sick in class. Unfortunately for them, they can't escape being cared for by the person who they thought hated the most, and it's surprisingly not as bad as they thought.

[jurassicsickfics]

ACTUAL Carrie (1976) lines that could potentially be used as sickfic Prompts.

Now I know this may seem to be a stretch, but that's the point. I personally think that using prompts that aren't actually related at all is lots of fun and forces us to really use our imagination in order to make a connection. So, I hope you enjoy!

1. "Hurry up, I wanna go home." -Chris Hargensen

2. "Somebody open this door! What is going on?!" -Sue Snell

3. "I'll get them, just please sit and talk to me!" -Carrie White

4. " I-I'm sorry, I didn't know..." -Miss Collins

5. " They're all gonna laugh at you!" -Margaret White

6. "C'mon, you can tell me anything, I'm your best friend." - Norma Watson

7. " Where will I put it, miss Collins?" - Chris Hargensen

8. "I don't wanna talk about it anymore." -Carrie White

9. " That'd hit you where you live, wouldn't it? And you deserve it!" -Miss Collins

10. " Shut up, Chris. Just shut up." -Sue Snell

[yourstrulylightstar283]

This is heartwarmingly lovely! 🩷💕

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"There must be a God Could it be that he's heard me at last?

Because you look at me As though I'm beautiful Could it be the lady is me? I never dreamed someone like you Could want someone like me..."

Based to the prom scene, but this time, after Sue got apologize and befriend to Carrie, she joined the prom and danced to her boyfriend Tommy while Carrie stayed to her old friend Brick. But this time, looks like they aren't just friends anymore. And this quote from the song tell you a lot behind of it.

[minisinmedia]

Betty Buckley as Miss Rita L. Desjardin wearing super short white gym short shorts on Carrie (1976)

[melodiesofmidnight]

One of the most frustrating things about film adaptations of Stephen King's Carrie is the repeated omission of one primary feature of her appearance: her weight. She is not thin; she has bad skin, greasy hair, and frumpy clothing. However, upon the night of her prom, she is able to transform herself into someone considered to be attractive: whilst still being fat.

By continually casting thin, beautiful women in the role of Carrie, the films 1) imply that fat women cannot believably have Cinderella moments without shedding any pounds and 2) remove one of the most crucial aspects of the story: audience introspection.

The films do not force us to recognise and challenge our biases. We do not see ourselves in the bullies, who are humans, for better or worse -- as represented best by Sue Snell and Chris Hargensen. We do not see ourselves as being capable of what these teenagers did to Carrie, because their insults seem comedic and far-fetched to us, parody beyond relatability: Sissy Spacek and Chloe Grace Moretz do not elicit any implicit revulsion in us. They are thin, and beautiful, and the bullies' motivations in harassing them are outlandish and superficial beyond empathy.

However, if Carrie were to be kept fat, the audience would finally be forced to look inward and to recognise the ugliness in themselves that is instilled by societal norms. Instinctually, society rejects fat, unattractive women. Carrie, were she to remain as she was in the book, would elicit the same reaction from general audiences as she does from her classmates at school.

No longer would people be able to distance themselves from their own disdain for women and girls like Carrie by sitting safely behind the absurdity that is an attractive female lead being ridiculed for their appearance. They too would exist as Miss Desjardin did in the novel: sympathetic, pitying, but ultimately put off by Carrie, solely because she does not fit the requirements of modern, aesthetic womanhood.

People would finally be forced to reconcile that with themselves. How much more resonant would Carrie's retribution be if audiences finally felt the full impact of its being directed at themselves just as much as it is directed toward the ill-fated prom attendees? How important of a discussion could it have inspired even back in the 70s?

Even still, Hollywood is too scared to fully sit audiences before a mirror. Even still, we are unable to accept the lessons a novel like Carrie offers without having its protagonist altered nearly beyond recognition. How long will it be before we are able to portray the tragedy of Carrie with all of its nuances intact? How long before we are able to feel the sting of injustice just as sharply when a protagonist is fat as we do when a pretty and thin protagonist is injured?

I'm still waiting for the Carrie modern audiences need to see.

[bandcampfun2021]

So, with a Carrie TV-series in the works as Mike Flanagan reteams with Stephen King, I wanted to go back to the 2013 and what most may not know about this film by Kimberly Pierce.

Before the whole Justice League scandal, to say that Kimberly Pierce's 2013 film Carrie got butchered by executives would be an understatement: According to the original 2013 film script, this was a movie that wasn't supposed to try to replicate De Palma's previous version and instead be a direct adaptation of Stephen King's novel got cut and reshot to resemble the 1976 version with it only being modernized. Some of the changes in the original 2013 script include the popular girls getting more development (if you notice, aside from Chris and Sue, and Tina to an extent, the other popular girls don't get much character development), the town destruction that was included in the original teaser trailer, Sue's diary entries in videos, interviews in the White Commission and more.

This director's cut does exist, fully finished, with over 40 minutes of unseen footage, and it merely awaits to be released. There was a campaign years ago, but once the official petition went down and tenths of thousands of signatures were lost, the movement lost momentum. A new petition was made recently, but it hardly has any signatures - I'll still link it below, though. I'd hope that this trailer can maybe help generate some more excitement among horror fans regarding Carrie's director's cut again, especially after the release of Zack Snyder's Justice League. We deserve to see Kimberly Peirce's true vision for Carrie.

Current petition link: https://www.change.org...

With Mike Flanagan making a TV-show, I really do hope that he brings full justice to the novel in a way that's similar to the 2002 made-for-TV remake (bar the ending). The 2013 film had a lot of potential and I hope that Mike Flanagan takes full inspiration from the novel.

I also hope that they expand more on what the 2013 film tried to do with Sue Snell. When it comes to Gabrielle Wilde's interpretation of Sue Snell, I feel that she gets a bit too much unwanted hate.

You can actually see early on that Sue doesn't approve of what the other girls are doing. In the locker scene, Sue likewise realises pretty quickly that Carrie doesn't know what's happening to her (in the previous two films, it's implied she didn't know and in the book she did and participated anyways) and tries to make amends immediately by telling Miss Desjardin that Carrie doesn't realise.

Even though some would call the pregnancy subplot of the alternate ending a bit pointless, I feel that it's actually symbolic in a way and connects to the ending of the Carrie book in a way. The beginning starts with Margaret giving birth to Carrie....and the alternate ending has history repeating with Sue giving birth to her and Tommy's daughter.

Many people, myself included, believe that Tommy and Sue's daughter is the reincarnation of Carrie White.

At the very end of the book, a young mother named Amelia writes a letter to her sister about her young daughter, Annie, who is turning out to have the same telekinetic powers as Carrie. When she sees Annie playing "marbles", she remembers her own grandma using her power to protect the family. Her only worry is that Annie has inherited her great-grandmother's "heart spells" as well. And if you choose the interpretation that Annie is the reincarnation of Carrie, then after everything she's suffered, Carrie finally knows what it's like to have a family who loves her.

[someotherdog]

it was a long, lonely road. all of them were. silas had spent most of his adult life driving, collecting miles on the odometer as if it could be turned in some kind of currency. by law, the desjardins ranch was his home, but he hadn't consistently lived there in years. it was his home, but every time he returned, he felt like an unwanted visitor. dallas treated him politely, but there was an obvious resentment underneath it, a layer of mold below the love he had for his brother—undoubtedly due to the fact the responsibilities of the ranch fell onto dally's shoulders when it traditionally should've landed on silas, the oldest. he wondered if dally knew the whole reason why big don sent silas away until he was needed was that he knew his eldest wasn't suited to ranching. there was violence in silas from a young age and it was put to better use elsewhere. hank, for his part, was the only brother that seemed to like silas. whenever he came back into town, it was hank that wanted to go out drinking with him. eddie, the youngest brother, feared silas, always eyeing him like a dog prone to biting. their father, big don, knew that silas was a dog prone to biting—bred to bite—because big don made him that way.

the only people in his family that seemed to have any sort of affection for him were the women. his mother doted on him as her eldest child, but he knew if he was any further down the generational line, there would be no love in her heart for the black sheep that tarnished the desjardins name. baby, his only sister and the youngest of the siblings, loved him warily. they kept the secret of his true purpose away from her as best they could, but he doubted she was completely unaware of why he was sent away so often. no longer a baby, though the family was unlikely to ever see her as anything else, the only way she wouldn't figure out the desjardins weren't just simple ranching folks was if she was willfully in denial. maybe his mother and sister loved him because they were the only ones allowed to. the fairer desjardins. his father and brothers knew the truth about silas: there was nothing good about him, and for the most part, that was the way everyone preferred it.

the woman in the car didn't seem fairer like the desjardins girls. her words were polite, if not a bit clipped, but her eyes held wariness. for good reason, too. silas exuded menace, even in a simple action or benign statement. he had no plans to hurt her, but she would be smart to be cautious. not everyone on the road could be as pragmatic as him. the aura of danger that surrounded him was a convenient warning to the innocents and a natural attractant to likeminded individuals. he wasn't a dog prone to bite, but a rattlesnake with a tail that never stilled.

“that's mighty kind, thank you.” silas would've tipped his hat if he ever wore one off the ranch (too obvious and too noticable anywhere else). he stepped back as she pulled the car off to the side, though he did recognize there was little danger in staying on the road. she was the only other car he had seen on the highway in hours. eventually, he had to stop driving and figure out where he was. there wasn't a highway in the southwestern united states that silas hadn't driven on at least once before, but this route he must've accidentally drove onto seemed different somehow. visually, it looked the same. cracked dirt; cactuses; desert willows; hazy mountains in the distance; blazing sun up above. it looked no different than the rest of southern california or baja arizona, but even in the long stretches of road, there was some signs of life. a random church here, a spatter of adobe houses over there. for the past ten inexplicable hours, silas saw no one but himself in the rear view mirror. not until her.

he used his hand to shield his eyes from the sun, despite the fact that he was already wearing sunglasses. for a moment, he expected her to just drive off and leave him on the side of the road, but she kept her word and pulled off to the side. once she exited the vehicle, he got a look at her slim legs and long, black hair. to put in the most simple language, she was fuckin' hot. when she called out to him over her shoulder, silas obliged and picked up a few rocks off the side of the road. making the short walk over to her car, he wordlessly placed the rocks in opposite corners so it wouldn't catch on the wind. “you headin' the same direction then, i take it?” he asked, though silas never had a specific destination in mind whenever his father released him out into the wild. he had no concrete plans, though he had been toying around with the idea of visiting an old friend up in crescent lake for a bit. that was until he found himself on a highway that had no name and didn't seem to want to end. now he just wanted to make it somewhere with a semi-decent motel. “i'm silas, in case you were wondering.”

the original wilhelmina hardesty had a way of saying that her daughter, billie, was too suspicious for her own good. it wasn't polite. billie couldn't disagree more, but she often found her mother's words to be a nagging insecurity that could make her falter in trusting her own intuition. worse still, she knew it. could tell the second she was doing it, but was powerless to stop it. perhaps that was the way all daughters felt when they sinned against the cautionary advisory of their mothers or betrayed their own inner voices.

bristling at being called 'doll' billie tried not to grimace. this man felt all kinds of wrong, and she knew better to stop for a stranger on the side of the road, but she also knew that the desert could mean death for a man stranded alone. least she could do was to stop even if men meant death for a woman alone anywhere. stopping though, that inner voice made her wish she'd just kept on driving.

"uh, no, not exactly." she admitted. she'd been living off her gps to get her back to the family ranch in alberta, but it had told her she'd be going straight along for the next 100 miles before she lost service. "but i have a map in the glove compartment." too helpful. "let me pull off the road--" she felt stupid for even saying so; who the hell was going to rear end her on this deserted stretch of highway? she hadn't passed anyone in hours. "--and we can take a look at it."

when she'd pulled over, billie brandished the map and unfolded it on the hood of her car. a bit of wind picked up and threatened to send it down the highway as if it would show the way to i-10 itself. she spread her hands over the map and called over her shoulder. "can you grab a coupla rocks to hold the corners down?"

[ominousredherring]

Now, a formal introduction to my Hufflepuff sweetheart.

I made this based off her seventh year, since I wanted to add more to her lore after her fifth year.

Evangeline Sabrina Desjardins was born on the most beautiful spring day on May 1st, 1875 by her wealthy parents Mr. and Mrs. Desjardins in Paris, France. Despite the joyous occasion, the complications of her birth almost caused both her and her mother to die. Thus, her parents always kept her at a distance, believing she was a cursed child.

Her Veela ancestry stems from her grandmother on her paternal side. Evangeline always hated this part of her, because she hated the attention she would garner at events she was dragged to. She began to wear a masquerade mask when she was six to hide her face to others, even to the maids. Once she learned how to properly cast a glamour at eight years old, it became a morning ritual she never forgot.

She began to attend Beauxbatons Academy of Magic when she was eleven and when her arrow exploded into a wondrous green color, she was housed in Bellefeuille. This came to no surprise, since she had a natural love for plants. If you ever needed to find her, she would either be found in the library, the gardens, or the closest conservatory or greenhouse. Her dream was to become a horticulturist and travel the world to research exotic plants and their properties for potion brewing. Perhaps, even become a professor to teach others about them.

After an accident at Beauxbatons which resulted in a near catastrophe, Evangeline was on house-arrest by her parents until they were greeted by a man named Eleazar Fig. He introduced himself as a professor who had heard of her accident and offered to let her attend Hogwarts under the direct mentorship of himself and the illustrious headmaster in Scotland. While her mother was a bit apprehensive, her father agreed, hoping the distance and seclusion would help her realize how lenient they were and she would change completely. Of course, it would end up being the exact opposite. Evangeline had a tumultuous fifth year. Naturally, she was housed in Hufflepuff and made a variety of friends in every house. She learned of her Ancient Magic and the price that comes with such a great power. After losing her precious mentor and almost losing her own life, she vowed to never use her ancient magic unless it was a matter of life and death.

While she wished to keep her involvement in ending the Goblin Rebellion a secret, the Minister arrived at her door over the summer and congratulated her parents on bringing up such a gifted child and offered her a job in the British Ministry upon her graduation as an Auror. Her parents were less than pleased. She decided to run away after they forbid her to attend her sixth year. After that, she never spoke to them during her final two years at Hogwarts and chose to stay at the castle over the summer to assist Professor Garlick with her plants.

During her time at Hogwarts, she became an entirely different person. She developed a love for flying and was naturally gifted (high praise considering it was Imelda who told her that) and she was roped into becoming an amazing chaser for the Hufflepuff Quidditch Team. Win some or lose some, nobody ever doubted her talent. While she never took Crossed Wands as seriously as her friends, she did enjoy watching them. She was the closest thing you could get to a personal cheerleader and always made you feel like a winner, even if you lost abysmally.

While Evangeline left Hogwarts under the direct orders of her parents to an arranged marriage against her will, she had never truly developed a crush on any boy due to the fear of her Veela ancestry. However, she knew she would miss one boy in particular - One who never stood out to others, but he certainly did to her.

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

Christmas in July 2024

Falling Like Snowflakes and A Very Vermont Christmas are new, the extended cut of Three Wise Men and a Baby, Rescuing Christmas (this movie is great), and An Ice Palace Romance all premiered on Hallmark Movies Now last year during Countdown to Christmas.

🎄 Falling Like Snowflakes Premiere Date: Saturday, June 29 at 8/7c Cast: Rebecca Dalton, Marcus Rosner  Premise: A photographer (Dalton), determined to complete her exhibit by capturing a rare photo of a 12-sided snowflake, enlists the help of a childhood friend (Rosner) and they go on a mission they’ll never forget.

🎄 Three Wise Men and a Baby (Extended Cut) — new to Hallmark Channel Premiere Date: Saturday, July 6 at 8/7c Cast: Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Colin Premise: Three brothers (Campbell, Hynes, Walker) get the surprise of their lives when they are forced to work together to care for a baby over the holidays. 

🎄 Rescuing Christmas — new to Hallmark Channel Premiere Date: Saturday, July 13 at 8/7c  Cast: Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page  Premise: Erin (Cook) is granted three Christmas wishes – with her final wish being that Christmas would just disappear. And to her bewilderment, it does!  Can potential suitor Sam (Page) help her bring back Christmas?

🎄 A Very Vermont Christmas Premiere Date: Saturday, July 20 at 8/7c Cast: Katie Leclerc, Ryan McPartlin  Premise: A local champion skier (Leclerc) and Vermont brew master (McPartlin) teams up with an unlikely match to create a seasonal microbrew, in order to save her family’s business by Christmas.

🎄 An Ice Palace Romance — new to Hallmark Channel Premiere Date: Saturday, July 27 at 8/7c  Cast: Celeste Desjardins, Marcus Rosner Premise: A journalist (Desjardins) faces old fears when she returns to her hometown ice rink to cover a story.  With the help of the owner (Rosner) and his young daughter, she begins to reevaluate her life’s purpose. 

Hallmark Movies Now 🎄 Operation Nutcracker Release Date: Monday, July 1 Cast: Ashley Newbrough, Christopher Russell Premise: When an antique nutcracker set to be auctioned at the Warby family Christmas charity goes missing, a demanding event planner (Newbrough) and the heir to the Warby dynasty (Russell) try to track it down.

[watchinghallmark]

Christmas in July (and June) Schedule

Falling Like Snowflakes - June 29

Stars: Rebecca Dalton, Marcus Rosner

A photographer (Dalton), determined to complete her exhibit by capturing a rare photo of a 12-sided snowflake, enlists the help of a childhood friend (Rosner) and they go on a mission they’ll never forget.

Operation Nutcracker - July 1 on Hallmark Movies Now

Stars:  Ashley Newbrough, Christopher Russell

When an antique nutcracker set to be auctioned at the Warby family Christmas charity goes missing, a demanding event planner (Newbrough) and the heir to the Warby dynasty (Russell) try to track it down.

Three Wise Men and a Baby: Extended Cut - July 6 (television premiere) Stars: Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker, Margaret Colin

Three brothers (Campbell, Hynes, Walker) get the surprise of their lives when they are forced to work together to care for a baby over the holidays. Watch the extended cut and prepare for the highly-anticipated sequel, Three Wise Men and a Boy, which will premiere later this year.

Rescuing Christmas - July 13 (television premiere)

Stars: Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page

Erin (Cook) is granted three Christmas wishes – with her final wish being that Christmas would just disappear. And to her bewilderment, it does!  Can potential suitor Sam (Page) help her bring back Christmas? The film originally premiered in 2023.

A Very Vermont Christmas - July 20

Stars: Katie Leclerc, Ryan McPartlin

A local champion skier (Leclerc) and Vermont brew master (McPartlin) teams up with an unlikely match to create a seasonal microbrew, in order to save her family’s business by Christmas.

An Ice Palace Romance - July 27 (television premiere)

Stars: Celeste Desjardins, Marcus Rosner

A journalist (Desjardins) faces old fears when she returns to her hometown ice rink to cover a story.  With the help of the owner (Rosner) and his young daughter, she begins to reevaluate her life’s purpose. The film originally premiered in 2023.

[timdrakesbussy]

sdv carrie!au with penny as carrie but i have no heart to use other characters except for sam as tommy, robin as miss desjardin, and pam as margaret

[alicesbread]

Carrie alternative ending where after the blood falls Miss Collins actually gets to calm her down, takes her home and comforts her while she bathes her and changes her before she stays with her until she falls asleep. Holding her head against her chest, like a mother with her baby. This is a plus bc a part of me feels like not only is Carrie interested in having a maternal figure but deep inside I think Miss Collins/Desjardin is either sterile or a lesbian with a cisgender wife and has always wanted to be a mother but can't. They both find what they so desperately craved in each other. Nobody dies, Chris gets the spanking of her life, and Carrie and Sue become friends. The bucket didn't fall on Tommy's head and he's healthy and fine btw. Margaret gets arrested bc of child abuse and Miss Collins/Desjardin takes care of Carrie while her custody is debated. These are the happiest weeks of her life and she can be herself without being afraid of being judged.

[jurassicsickfics]

Miss Collins: *feeling sick* Carrie?

Carrie: Yeah?

Miss Collins: Do you mind if I go to the infirmary?

Carrie: *confused* Um...sure..go ahead...why ask me?

Miss Collins: I dunno, just...you all have to ask me first so...it's only fair..yeah, anyway, I'm going...

Carrie: 😐

[blue-cookie-for-percy]

Miss Desjardin's mouth opened and her voice issued forth, horrible and slow and deep:

"Let me help you, dear. Oh I am so sor--"

She struck out at her

(flex)

and Miss Desjardin went flying to rattle off the wall at the side of the stage and fall into a heap.

The only time someone even utters the word sorry in Carrie's direction and it's not even complete

[daitranscripts]

Trespasser Pt. 1a

Another Bloody Negotiation - Cassandra Divine

Trespasser Masterpost

The Inquisition rides into the Winter Palace flanked by soldiers.

Cullen: Another parade, another bloody negotiation.

Josephine: Smiles, everyone. We must be careful how we present ourselves.

Cullen: Why did Divine Victoria call the Exalted Council? She’s kept Orlais from bothering us for the last two years.

Josephine: At increasing political cost, yes. She has done all she can, but the Exalted Council has become necessary.

Arl Tegan and Duke Cyril look down at them as they pass.

Josephine: Orlais would control us. And based on their many marriage proposals, they have specific plans for you. Our real concern is Ferelden. They would see us disbanded entirely.

—

The PC enters the Winter palace, where they are greeted by Mother Giselle.

Giselle: Inquisitor. It has been too long. I hope the years have been kind to you.

PC: How have you been, Mother Giselle?

Giselle: I spent last summer in Emprise du Lion, distributing food sent from the Exalted Plains. The Dales are finally recovering.

Dialogue options:

General: Thanks to you. [1]

General: You stay busy. [2]

General: Took them long enough. [3]

1 - General: Thanks to you. PC: Corypheus left a great deal of damage for us to repair. I appreciate your efforts. Giselle: And I yours, Your Worship. [4]

2 - General: You stay busy. PC: Since Corypheus fell, I think you may have spent more time traveling than I have. Giselle: It keeps me out of trouble, Your Worship. [4]

3 - General: Took them long enough. PC: They had better be recovering. Corypheus has been dead for two years. Giselle: Not all wounds heal quickly, but I hope the worst is behind us. [4]

4 - Scene continues.

Giselle (PC claimed Suledin’s Keep): I should mention that your forces at Suledin Keep were of great help. Please give my compliments to Baron Desjardins. Giselle (PC did not claim Suledin’s Keep): The Inquisition forces were of great help tending the sick. The Orlesian soldiers at Suledin Keep… somewhat less so.

Giselle: Divine Victoria asked me to greet you on her behalf. She is currently attending to the Fereldan ambassador’s concerns.

12 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: You mean Cassandra. [13]

Investigate: How has she done? [14]

Flirt: I’ve missed her. [15]

General: I’ll find her. [16]

13 - Investigate: You mean Cassandra. PC: You can probably just call her Cassandra in private conversation. Giselle: You can, Inquisitor. I prefer to use her Divine name. Our last Divine once joked about why I insisted upon calling her Justinia. She called it my way of reassuring her that I had not completely forgotten who was in charge. [12]

14 - Investigate: How has she done? PC: How do you think Divine Victoria has done these last two years? Giselle: It is hardly for me to say, Inquisitor. PC: With respect, that’s never stopped you before, Mother Giselle.

Giselle: Victoria says she is better suited to the battlefield than the Sunburst throne, but she has restored the Chantry… And also people’s faith in it. I am glad you are here for her. [12] Giselle (Cassandra high approval): Victoria says she is better suited to the battlefield than the Sunburst throne, but she has restored the Chantry… And also people’s faith in it. We are lucky to have her. [12] Giselle (Cassandra low approval): Victoria has done what she can to keep the peace, and I admire the forms she has brought. Nevertheless, I will be the first to say she is a better warrior than a diplomat. [12]

15 - Flirt: I’ve missed her. PC: I haven’t seen Divine Victoria as much as I’d wished these past few years. Giselle: She has missed you as well, Inquisitor. There are few with whom the Divine can be herself. I suspect the same is true for you. [21]

16 - General: I’ll find her. PC: I’ll speak to Divine Victoria. Giselle: I believe she would appreciate that, Your Worship. The Divine sees the good that you can do, and have done. [21]

Giselle: Duke Cyril will wish to greet you on behalf of Orlais. I believe he is currently speaking with the Tevinter ambassador. Many of your friends have returned as well. I hope you have a chance to speak with them before the Exalted Council begins.

22 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: Which old friends? [23]

Investigate: The Tevinter ambassador? [24]

General: Goodbye. [25]

23 - Investigate: Which old friends? PC: Who has returned for the Exalted Council? Giselle: Your dwarven friend, Master Tethras, for one. I understand he spent much of the last few years in Kirkwall

If Blackwall was recruited Giselle: I believe Ser Blackwall has returned as well… although he now uses the name Thom Rainier.

If have not asked about the Tevinter ambassador Giselle: And of course, there is the Tevinter ambassador.

Giselle: Enjoy time with them while you can, Your Worship. I doubt you will have the chance once the Exalted Council is underway. [back to 24]

24 - Investigate: The Tevinter ambassador? PC: The Imperium sent an ambassador?

Giselle (Dorian has hostile approval and returned to Tevinter/left the Inquisition): Yes, Your Worship. Dorian Pavus, the mage who briefly assisted the Inquisition, has returned. Giselle (Dorian has positive approval and returned to Tevinter): Yes, Your Worship. Dorian Pavus has taken the chance to return from Tevinter. Giselle (Dorian was convinced to stay in the South): In a manner of speaking, Your Worship. Dorian Pavus has been declared the Tevinter ambassador.

Giselle: It will be good to see him again. I owe him my apology.

Giselle (Dorian romanced): I allowed my distrust of Tevinter to cloud my judgment. I am glad you saw more clearly than I did. Giselle (Dorian’s personal quest completed): I allowed his father’s words to sway me into lying to him. He deserved better treatment. Giselle (Dorian not romanced): I allowed my distrust of Tevinter to cloud my judgment. He took a great risk coming to help us, and deserved better treatment.

PC: You’re going to apologize? To Dorian?

Giselle: I have little patience for those who cannot admit they were wrong, Your Worship. Myself included. I will have to make my apology somewhere public. He will want an audience for his reaction. [back to 24]

25 - General: Goodbye. PC: Thank you, Mother Giselle. Giselle: Your Worship, a final question, if I may. This Exalted Council… Ferelden would have the Inquisition disband. Orlais sees its power as another feather in a chevalier’s helmet. What do you wish to do with the Inquisition?

Dialogue options:

Special (If asked about the original Inquisition at Haven/Skyhold): You would disband, I agree. [26]

General: We’re not going anywhere. [27]

General: Our work is done. [28]

26 - Special: You would disband, I agree. PC: You once told me about the first Inquisition that took place eight hundred years ago. You said that when their battle was over, that Inquisition’s soldiers sheathed their swords and went home. If our battle is truly over… perhaps it’s time for us to do the same. Giselle: Thank you. [29]

27 - General: We’re not going anywhere. PC: The Inquisition still has work to do. We can’t let someone’s fear push us into disbanding. Giselle: Then I wish you luck in the negotiations to come. [29]

28 - General: Our work is done. PC: Corypheus is dead. We accomplished what we set out to do. If we’re not needed any longer, and if it can be done peacefully, it may be time for the Inquisition to disband. Giselle: Thank you. [29]

29 - Scene continues.

Giselle: Maker watch over you, Inquisitor. I will not keep you any longer.

Next: Arl Tegan

[algerian-lady]

i gotta be the last person to watch Carrie (1976) on earth fr, i've been slacking off doing it and then i finally did and i liked it sm i had to watch the other versions just to make sure that the first is indeed the best, i gotta buy the novel tho to check if i like it better, saw some Stephen King books in a library in the center, i haven't been there in a while, i'm sure i can find it elsewhere tho. I just think the first movie is amazing, it's so beautiful, well made and deep i have a loooot to say about it, i'd watch it again for sure, the 2014 movie was good too, althou i don't like all of Chloë's movies, she's really pretty and did great but i just don't like actors who have one face in every movie, it's not always their fault, but i can't project into the character when it looks exactly like every other roles they have done before, ofc its the same person, but it also looks like the same persona (do i even make sense rn) but that's just me, no hate tho.

One thing i kept thinking abt is how Carrie's mother is def insane, it's not just abt her being religious, she's just batshit crazy, like there's religious then "there's not wanting your daughter to have her periods" or "no sex after marriage" kind of nuts. I get it if she's celibate or wanted to be a nun, but she just sounds like she had been abducted and r**ed in a forced marriage while she still had a kid's (who had been in a religious order/family) mind, she's much too extremist. It's either that or King has no idea over religious women (or women in general).

Another thing, (well i'm sure there's 21455623212 Carrie analysis out there that pointed this out already) but Carrie seems to have Hemophobia, her reaction at getting her first periods (even if zaama she never heard of these ever, which really Stephen? just sounds insane) thus freaking out, even then it's still exaggerated for just a shocked reaction (esp in the first movie) she looks like she's completely out of it, also breaking down and having a panic attack until her teacher slaps her to get her out of her extase like state.

Instead, i kind of feel like this unlocked this trauma or Phobia (could be either, could be earlier), talking abt the first movie still, this is why when the pig blood was thrown over her, she doesn't look like herself anymore, her eyes are wild open, blown out, and she really looks in a trance here, like she's completely in another world and doesn't know what she's doing, and at the moment when she's in her bathroom, cleaning out the blood out of her skin, we can see a sudden switch in her expression as if she was no longer hypnotized and she freaked out and realization washed over her. At least that's what i really felt happened in the 1st movie, she acted really different afterwards with her mother.

Third point is about how adorable Miss Desjardin is, she's what i strive for to be as a teacher or an adult in general, responsible and witty, kind and compassionate. She had interfered when she saw the others bullying Carrie, comforted her, punished the bullies, checked out on Carrie when she was sulking and gave her a pep talk, she felt that Tommy and Sue's action were fishy so she looked into it, warned them, came to cheer on her and check on her date in the prom, said some supportive things, looked delighted when Carrie won, honestly her only slip up is not noticing that Sue had changed and refused to listen to her when she tried to warn them but she did that with Carrie's best interests in mind, so honestly she did better than any other teacher i've seen in any teenage movies to date.

I felt really bad for her ending in the first movie, glad they fixed it by the third (can't talk abt the second much bcz i couldn't finish it tbh) i had wished for a different ending, that she'd end up adopting or taking care of Carrie which brings me to my fourth point.

I really really feel like Roald Dahl took one look at Carrie and told himself "welp, let's fix that", because Matilda really sounds like an AU for Carrie now (that i've seen, i can't unsee it,) if it was a children book and she had found her refuge in books and her loving teacher earlier in her life.

I'm ofc not accusing him of copy rights infringements, ofc not, the two stories are completely different with only the Telekinesis ability in common (as well as the abusive family and supportive teacher), but hear me out, who hasn't looked at a work before and told themselves it deserves a happier ending? there's even a whole fanfiction genre called fix-it fics and i know i've read and even Privately written a few esp for the JJBA anime and especially for the first season, two lines underlining Dio Drando, because he's my favorite character ever and i always wished things were different for him. Which is my last point, but let's talk about Malida/Carrie for a bit first.

If i ever did a Carrie fixit fic, it'll end up looking pretty similar to Matilda, the idea of it being inspired from it in any way makes me giddy in the stomach because that's what i'd have wanted for Carrie, to have found a lifestyle to keep her sane and leveled up, despite all the abuse going on around her, to find smn to take care of her, to not have fallen to the darkness, this would have been the perfect AU and i'm sure there's some written abt her out there, along with so many other good ideas ofc. I've read some theories that Carrie and Matilda are atleast from the same universe which sounds reasonable.

My last point has to do with smth i feel Stephen King wanted to say through Carrie's insane mother, when she saw her in pink, predicted she'll come back in red, said she attempted to kill herself when she was about to have her then about to give her to god, but she was weak bcz she loved her and couldn't do it, she ended up being the devil though. It feels too much like smth similar Speedwagon said in JJBA s1 (and which feels like it's Araki's plot narration) when he said that Dio shouldn't fool them with his rough upbringings and difficult childhood, that the guy was evil from birth or smth, this also reminds me a bit of smth Zodd (i think?) said to Guts in Berserk, abt Griffith and his nature, although it's not compltely similar, none of these cases are but they have smth in common.

I hate the implication, (even by a side character which feels like the author speaks through him) that a person was inevitably going to become evil, and that it was decided from birth, that despite all the shit they had to go through in life, none of it counts as much as smth they have no control over and it was decided from birth and they are just evil and they'd have been anyways even if they grew up in different circumstances and didn't face any shit in their lives, it just goes against all of my beliefs.

Ofc i'm not accusing the creators of these works (i haven't even read king yet so i'm not judging that) or putting words in their mouths, they aren't excplicitely saying these characters are inherently evil, but it's the underlying subtext that ticks me off, and it doesn't have to be all the story that carries it, it could just be the mantra of one character (like in the first 2 cases), suggesting just a different perspective but still it always leaves a sore taste in my mouth.

Like dudee, nobody is born evil or the devil or whatever (idc if it's fiction on this point) that implication is just stupid and ignorant. I'm not saying that smn should hide behind their environement and background to justify their actions, ofc not, those have an effect but in the end of the day, the decision is ours, always, we have a free will.

So we should be judged over our actions, yes, our background should be taken into consideration in the long run, but not as an exuse to the actions we took on our own accord, a crime is a crime, whoever did it. But going as far as to dismiss any relation between these things is just wrong and putting it on our very nature and essence from birth is all kinds and shapes of wrong, it's such a loathable idea to me istg lol