#mr. chastain

[rarilee33]

Regina and Angela based off a Crimson Peak screenshot...

[jorahssquire]

Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain in the upcoming George and Tammy - airing on Showtime starting December 4th...

[whatsnewtonetflix]

This month on What’s New to Netflix Instant!? we talk about all of the new Netflix titles coming in November 2022, but you already knew that didn’t you?

Then we discuss the film responsible for bringing ‘Brangelina’ into the world when we get into Mr. & Mrs. Smith from 2005, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, obviously! Duh! Next, old people start turning violent and wreaking havoc on a small town in Old People from 2022. And finally, the unnerving true story of a struggling nurse and the sociopathic killer that befriends her in The Good Nurse, starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, from 2022.

All of this plus the unreleased Key & Peele seasons Netflix doesn’t want you to see, shows ripping off Lost, video games, warrior nuns, teletubbies, good manners, Pepsi lies to everyone, tacos, Kim Kardashian tries to act, and the worst candy ever made.

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[wtf-tfw]

mr rosemary, you goober! get your pierre ass over here dawg!!

[starkwlkr]

Hi

It's ok if the request got deleted no need to say sorry,

Can u pls make a fic about papa nolan finding out about cillian and physicist!reader's relationship,

Like would he be angry or accepting, i was wondering

And then if u r comfortable with it then a time jump to the wedding or pregnancies

I would really like to know his reactions!!

This is really just a follow up to another anon request (which u made a fic on) and had this idea

Anyway so sorry for the long request

Have an awesome day ahead!!!!

nolan!reader x cillian murphy headcanons

I’m going to make these headcanons if that’s ok 🫶🏼🫶🏼 and i think i got carried away but who cares 😌

Ok so obviously y/n and cillian met in the early 2000s (you can make up how they met)

papa nolan knows that y/n is talking to a boy but he doesn’t know it’s mr. ‘my eyes aren’t even that blue’ so when y/n tells papa nolan that her bf is coming over for dinner, he’s preparing to meet so douche bag who says his favorite movie is pulp fiction or fight club (nothing wrong with that, but the film bros make me want to gauge my eyes out)

anyways, cillian shows up and ofc they get along great <3

after cillian and y/n are now OFFICIAL official obviously the press asks about what papa nolan thinks and if they get along

y/n and cillian are just the it couple of the 2000s like they’re on the cover of every magazine with those cheesy headlines ‘she’s got the beauty AND the brains’

literally any interview cillian or papa nolan do, they ramble about y/n and how proud they are of her

and you know how it goes, first comes love then comes marriage then comes y/n with a baby carriage🤍💍🍼 butttttt our fav nepo baby and Irish man don’t do it in that order bc my girl y/n got pregnant with their first baby in 2003 and she’s named alexandria

papa nolan is so excited about the birth of baby alex and he always offers to babysit whenever even if he’s busy

baby alex and papa nolan are my favorite duo 🫶🏼

eventually cillian and papa nolan work together on batman begins and you bet that baby alex is always on set

papa nolan at first did not want to bring her because he thought alex would be scared but she loved being on set and meeting everyone

her and christian bale become besties by the end of filming 🤞🏼

baby alex got to say the last “cut!” and everyone laughed because of how cute she sounded

bonus: cillian tried to get her to put the scarecrow mask on but she thought it was yucky (her exact words)

y/n and cillian don’t have kids until like 2014 because they were busy with work obviously like cillian getting movie roles and y/n being at work 24/7 and getting a literal nobel peace prize but eventually she does get pregnant and BAM it’s twins

it’s 2014 and they’re still not married (it happens ya know just ask academy award winner michelle yeoh)

but y/n gets pregnant and she wants to wait until the twins’ birth and then get married

but anyways the murphy twins arrive and papa nolan just cries happy tears because he now has more grandchildren to love and spoil whenever he wants to (they’re named scarlett and wyatt and papa nolan gives them nicknames idk what they would be but go wild with your imagination besties 🫶🏼)

papa nolan just wants to see his daughter get married and see her happy with her new family 🫶🏼

the day of the wedding comes and baby alex is the flower girl and steals the show

it’s a private wedding BUT that doesn’t stop it from being the most famous wedding of 2014

ofc christian bale is there like who doesn’t want batman at their wedding?? tom hardy, best man um yes?! peaky blinders cast, jake gyllenhaal (swifties, don’t hate me, I love jake and he’s one of my favorite actors)

jessica chastain and anne hathaway ofc they’re invited

u know if heath ledger was still alive he would def be invited 🫶🏼

I’m picturing the kids having career day at their schools and each kid takes an adult like papa nolan goes to alex’s school, wyatt takes y/n and cillian goes with scarlett and every adult is just like “fuck, how am i supposed to go on after them?!”

papa nolan goes all out with his presentation for career day like he even called hans zimmer and christian bale to impress the kids (obviously hans zimmer would impress the teachers, not the kids but some kids recognize the music from batman movies so let’s just go with it)

twitter loves the murphy-nolan fam 🫶🏼

no bc i just imagine the edits to beautiful boy with dad!cillian and I’m bawling

ok ok flashforward to 2023 and oppenheimer is coming out and twitter gets more content on the murphy-nolan fam

y/n finally does an interview bc she worked with the cast and taught them about ✨science✨

Y/N AND CILLIAN AT THE OPPENHEIMER PREMIERE AND THEN PAPA NOLAN PHOTOBOMBING THEIR PICS

overall the murphy-nolan fam has my heart and surprise! the murphy kids watched barbie because the twins are not even old enough to watch oppenheimer and I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t want to watch their dad have fake s e x with another woman (FLORENCE PUGH ILY)

[marzipanandminutiae]

First off, your blog has increased my sympathy for Lucille's character, so congratulations, I hope you're proud. Though, to be fair, I was never in the EvilTM camp, more of the Batshit Crazy Because Of Massive Trauma viewpoint, which, you know, she was.

Anyways, my actual reason for the ask is about Eunice. I've never read any of the extra source material so I don't know if this is explained somewhere. But basically why Eunice McMichael?

The Sharpes presumably met the McMichaels while they were visiting Alan in London (perhaps his graduation?). There's no father in the picture, but otherwise, she doesn't seem to fulfill any of their criteria. She has family and is highly social (lots of people to notice and care if she went missing/died), she's young and desirable to have as a wife (there must've been some competition for her back home at least), she's not older or widowed (i.e. "undesirable"), and while she's clearly rich, she's not the sole inheritor of her family's estate (they'd be working solely with her dowry, a much lower figure).

It's heavily implied (/stated outright?) that Lucille is the one who chooses Thomas's brides. There's no logical reason to choose Eunice. But following with your "sapphic" take on Lucille, I think she just has a thing for Eunice.

A lot of words just to say that but what are your thoughts?

Welcome to the Lucille Appreciators Club! Meetings are Fridays at 7:30. I'll bring snacks.

So, this is such an interesting question. The bios don't shed much light but they do provide some on how the Bride Selection Process works

Namely, that it's far from an exact science.

Per the bios, Bluebearding has never been Plan A. Plan A is finding investors for the goo-mining business. Marriage + Murder is the fallback option- that they keep having to fall back on. They've never actually chosen a bride on purpose before Enola, exactly- Margaret developed a passion for Thomas on her own; Pamela's dying father begged Thomas to marry his disabled daughter so she'd be cared for. Enola seems to have been the first one who didn't just fall into their laps, so to speak

And Thomas picked her.

So no, it's not always Lucille's choice- she encouraged him to go along with Mr. Upton's notion and propose to Pamela, the first time, but how much she was involved with the inception of the other marriages is up for debate. Which makes me think Thomas picked Eunice- I can't imagine such a fluttery little social climber being other than annoying to Lucille.

Why EITHER of them thought she was a good idea when she had so many friends and family to miss her...well, the Sharpes aren't very good at crime, frankly. Enola still has relatives writing to her five years later, so I suspect they would have come looking for her eventually. The snare seems to have been tightening around Thomas and Lucille for a while now, without them knowing it.

I do imagine that Edith's superior "qualifications" made a key lynchpin of Thomas' argument to convince Lucille to switch targets, though. And an interesting Word of Actor tidbit: Jessica Chastain thinks Lucille's desire to protect Edith by leaving her alone, at first, was genuine. Because she loves delicate, beautiful things, and saw Edith that way.

[no-where-new-hero]

many thoughts about the character of lucille after finishing crimson peak because in the second half the important dynamic is between her and edith, rather than thomas and edith, and i'm still trying to figure out if i think it was well handled.

because on the one hand, she's as much a gothic heroine as edith is--trapped by love, a house, and her own hysteria--which could set up a more obvious and tragic parallel, but her version of the prototype is so consistently villainized: she's the dark haired, the sexual perversion, beside edith's pure blond virginity. the script offers her some sympathy, though never enough to descend into complexity. and yet, the complexity lurks around the edges, probably due to chastain's acting, which swings from a natural chilliness to remarkable vulnerability. she plays the role, particularly her scene where she braids edith's lock of hair, as though lucille could be, in another story, the heroine.

but the movie still never gives her that dignity. i was most upset, i think, at how edith dispatched her at the finale; not that lucille deserved forgiveness from her, but perhaps a sort of recognition at their similarity, at their shared monstrosity. (this is probably an unfair gripe to level at a male director/writer, who wouldn't understand the monstrous thing it is at all to live as a woman at all). because edith does exactly as lucille does: kill to preserve herself. of course, i appreciated that lucille dies the way she killed mr. cushing, but that's the wrong kind of mirroring, in my opinion.

i guess because the movie's final image is of lucille (and rightfully so, tbh, that was one of my favorite shots of an already gorgeously directed movie), i expected a bit more richness between her and edith leading up to the end than mere jealousy.

[bloody-wonder]

making progress on old series

let it not be said that i can only start new series🧐

new releases:

empire of the damned by jay kristoff (book two in: empire of the vampire). i might have mentioned this one once or twice already so let's keep it brief. i loved it! even more than book one, i think. love liathe joining the main cast, love jean françois' everything, love how everyone got queerer, love the reveals at the end. very excited for the last book in this series, altho i'm a bit disappointed that it's now three books instead of five - since there are five vampire houses i wanted them to keep taking on a house in each book, with blood chastain being the final boss. very rude of kristoff to betray my vision.

the sunshine court by nora sakavic (book four in: all for the game). i don't think this spin off continuation was necessary and i didn't particularly enjoy it but i'm glad jean stans now have their own sacred text. my biggest fear was that nora would retcon something about the og trilogy and that didn't happen so i can just keep living in peace while mostly ignoring tsc fan content. more thoughts on why i didn't vibe with tsc in these posts.

mislaid in parts half-known by seanan mcguire (book nine in: wayward children). so this series consists of books focused on individual wayward children as well as of ensemble books which are usually weaker and this particular novella unfortunately belongs to the latter category. i still liked it fine and it was a quick read but tbh i'm ready for this series to wrap up so i hope goodreads isn't lying about the next book being the final installment.

fence vol. 6: redemption by cs pacat & johanna the mad. i rated it five stars but ngl i have no memory of what happened in this volume altho i read it in february😅 i like this series overall but i feel like the first few volumes were more exciting. weirdly now that the slow burn is finally starting to pay off i suddenly lose interest😕

heartstopper: volume five by alice oseman. i'm not a big fan of heartstopper in general, i think it's overhyped, but i did like this volume more than the previous ones. maybe i'm biased bc it features tori coming out as ace which prompted me to pick up solitaire which i loved and so it retroactively cast a more favorable light on the graphic novel. looking forward to reading the last volume bc i like finishing things and then i might as well read the nick and charlie novellas - at which point i will have become a person who doesn't like oseman's books all that much and yet has somehow read all but one of them🫤

mammoths at the gates and the brides of high hill by nghi vo (books four and five in: the singing hills cycle). i have only really liked the second singing hills novella so at this point it would be smart to admit that this series is simply not for me and stop reading it but. these books are so short and perfect for when you want to get through something quickly even if you know you're not likely to enjoy it. and if indeed eight stories are planned then it means i have now read more than half so i might as well complete the series🤷‍♀️ *gets shot by sunk cost fallacy police*

series i completed:

regency faerie tales by olivia atwater (read books two and three: ten thousand stitches and longshadow). love love LOVE these books!! i read half a soul last october and ten thousand stitches this january - both times when i was sick in bed and i couldn't have wished for better books to help me recover from a cold. the first one is pride & prejudice meets jonathan strange & mr norrell, the second one is a cinderella retelling, both have lovely romances and can be read as standalones. i think half a soul is fairly popular (and constantly compared to the book that shall not be named😒) but ten thousand stitches is very underappreciated. i for one think it's at least as good, if not better, than half a soul - apparently people just can't appreciate a love interest who isn't angsty and brooding😒 longshadow is a companion novel too but imo it features too many characters and concepts from the previous books so it should definitely be read last. i didn't like it as much bc i think it relies too much on the stuff we already know and love instead of giving its protagonists enough time to shine but it is queer which made me realize we don't have nearly enough queer fae books. what a disgrace🧐

noumena by lindsay ellis (read book three: apostles of mercy). so this was unfortunately mind-bogglingly boring. this type of sci fi is usually not my cup of tea and so i stay away from it but i decided to give this series a try bc it was written by lindsay ellis. the first book was entertaining enough but both sequels bored me to tears. it seems i was under a misconception that the story was gonna be about a sad girl trying to navigate a third thing type of relationship with a freaky alien but it was instead about her navigating instalovey relationships with random humans and the alien was also there sometimes. big disappointment👎

series i'm slowly working my way through:

the memoirs of lady trent by marie brennan (read books two, three and four: the tropic of serpents, the voyage of the basilisk and in the labyrinth of drakes). i read book one last december and liked it just enough to continue the series but every next book after that turned out to be amazing. follow lady trent, a 19th century dragon naturalist and adventurer, legendary as she is scandalous, as she travels through fantasy africa, oceania and arabia in search of dragons living and extinct, starts various political upheavals, makes breathtaking discoveries and finds love - a life journey she recounts as an old woman in a delightfully snarky narrative voice.

book two is my favorite so far bc it found a perfect balance of fast-paced adventurous plot on the one hand and character and relationship development on the other. i'm a bit sad that natalie left the main cast after this book - one of the only two criticisms i have of this series is that the titular lady trent remains the only important woman character. i think it wouldn't be too far-fetched to have one more woman on the team and natalie was a perfect protegée who, might i add, is also canonically ace. hate to see her leave😒

book three introduces a love interest who i at first found kinda bland but he grew on me in book four. my favorite relationship in the series however remains the one between lady trent and her trusted colleague tom wilker with whom they used to butt heads when they first met but who is now her dearest friend and longtime companion on her journeys. there are many books about romance and friendship but not so many about the utter satisfaction of having a coworker you can absolutely rely on. my prediction/wish for the last book is for wilker to turn out to be gay and find love too🤞

the other criticism i have has to do with the worldbuilding and i'll elaborate on it when i complete the series later this year.

the witcher by andrzej sapkowski (read books two and three: the time of contempt and baptism of fire). i'm enjoying this series much more than i thought i would. the key to success here is to leave behind all expectations you have from reading western epic fantasy or indeed from the witcher adaptations. this saga started as short stories and sapkowski remains a short story author first and foremost which might irritate a reader expecting a novel with a neat three act structure but which i personally found fascinating. the opening chapter of book two told from the pov of a messenger who encounters all major characters on the road, gets a death prophecy from a girl he doesn't know to be ciri and indeed dies as the chapter ends - i think that was a very creative way to reintroduce the reader to the main cast and plot essentially through the format of a short story.

another thing sapkowski does a lot is conveying everything through dialogue which, as you might know, is like bookish catnip to me lol. some dialogues are there just for the sake of dialogue, only bc the author wanted some side characters he made up to have a funny conversation. to be fair, at worst this structure becomes too meandering but i gotta say i find that chapters that are focused on mundane scenes seemingly going nowhere are more fun than plot focused chapters about sorceresses and wizards fighting or whatever. the witch trial chapter in baptism of fire - that's where it's at for me.

the thing i'm still not so sure about is the way women and women's issues are represented. very mixed feelings on what happens to milva in book three, tho i think i wouldn't be so skeptical had she not been the only woman on the main cast in that book. (cahir and regis are such fun characters with interesting motivations and stuff so ig i'm pissed that the only female character's deal has to be about that). ciri on the other hand is written very well imo and i totally did not expect her to be in a sapphic relationship. sure hope nothing bad happens to her gf🥲

vorkosigan saga by lois mcmaster bujold (read books one, two and four (??): shards of honor, barrayar and the vor game). so after reading the warrior's apprentice and the mountains of mourning last year i took a step back and read cordelia's books which i unfortunately didn't like. cordelia is a type of female character i don't vibe with and the gender themes in her books, while likely very progressive for their time, often made me roll my eyes, grind my teeth etc. in my goodreads reviews i explain my issues in more detail. the ethical implications of uterine replicators haunt me still😕

returning to miles in the vor game was both welcome and disappointing bc i keep expecting more from this man and he keeps falling short of my grand lymondesque expectations. in this book in particular i was immediately hooked on the arctic base plot only for it to be cut short bc this is a space opera and miles needs to go do pew pew pew in space, just like in book one. boo. now that i know weatherman was formerly a short story bujold later incorporated into the vor game i think it's curious that i seem to like miles a lot in short stories and novellas (the mountains of mourning remains my favorite) but am underwhelmed by the full length novel miles.

i will say however that now i have sufficiently adjusted my expectations and am very motivated to find out if there is a vorkosigan book out there that i will absolutely love. so i'll keep reading a few books per year - there's something soothing about slowly working one's way through a very long series😌

the realm of the elderlings by robin hobb (read books two and three: royal assassin and assassin's quest). the farseer books are the longest and (for the most part) the most boring books i have read this year. normally i don't torture myself like this but i wanted to do it for the fool and see how his relationship with fitz develops. was it worth it? i would say yes but only bc i let myself curate my own perfect reading experience and skimmed aggressively, sometimes skipping entire chapters. and i will do it again!👿 bc i will keep reading the elderlings books to see how the one million page yaoi plays out.

the only part of the farseer trilogy i really enjoyed was the second half of assassin's quest - not just bc fitz and the fool were cute and heart-wrenching together but bc of the entire unlikely fellowship on this quest. nighteyes is my favorite which is a feat on hobb's part bc normally i don't care about animal companions or am annoyed by them. kettle is iconic, always remember to take an auld woman on a quest (or she will chase you down and join despite your protests and prevarications). i hated starling but in a series where most characters provoke zero emotions that was a welcome change. kettricken was also there. their group dynamic was delightful and i wish the entirety of this series (or at least of this last book) was this slow burn psychological character study in close proximity group dynamics. but you can't always have what you want ig🤷‍♀️

what's next:

finishing the memoirs of lady trent - only one book in the main series is left and then there's also a spin off about her granddaughter, i think

rereading swordspoint which i first read back in 2020 and found underwhelming but it may just have been bc captive prince was such a hard act to follow for many gay books i tried back then. i hope i will like it more now that i can meet it halfway and if it goes well i want to complete the riverside trilogy right away

sometime this fall i'm gonna read pandora and vittorio the vampire. finishing the vampire chronicles is on my bookish bucket list and now, two whole years after i reread three of them to refresh my memory, i finally feel sane and brave enough to keep working towards that goal. so wish me luck🥲

finishing joanne harris' st oswald's series which started with one of my favorite dark academia novels gentlemen and players. i read the sequel last year and liked it a lot so now i want to read the final book a narrow door which also seems like a perfect autumnal read

the new evander mills mystery comes out in october and i'd like to read it before the year ends

2024 reading updates | goodreads

[jorahssquire]

Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain as George Jones and Tammy Wynette - Soon to be seen in Paramount's George and Tammy - Should be released late 2022...

[shakespearean]

Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story), Emmy winners Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah), Chris Messina (Argo), Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs), Danny Huston (The Constant Gardener), Matthew Jacobs (Bar America), Rhys Coiro (Entourage) and Stephen Dorff (Blade) have joined Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain in Bernard Rose’s Lear Rex, a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

[awardseason]

2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards — Winners

Outstanding Performances in a Motion Picture

Cast Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once — WINNER The Fabelmans Women Talking

Female Actor in a Leading Role Cate Blanchett (Tár) Viola Davis (The Woman King) Ana de Armas (Blonde) Danielle Deadwyler (Till) Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) — WINNER

Male Actor in a Leading Role Austin Butler (Elvis) Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) Brendan Fraser (The Whale) — WINNER Bill Nighy (Living) Adam Sandler (Hustle)

Female Actor in a Supporting Role Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) Hong Chau (The Whale) Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) — WINNER Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Male Actor in a Supporting Role Paul Dano (The Fabelmans) Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin) Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) — WINNER Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

Stunt Ensemble Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Top Gun: Maverick — WINNER The Woman King

Outstanding Performances in Television

Ensemble in a Drama Series Better Call Saul The Crown Ozark Severance The White Lotus — WINNER

Female Actor in a Drama Series Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) — WINNER Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown) Julia Garner (Ozark) Laura Linney (Ozark) Zendaya (Euphoria)

Male Actor in a Drama Series Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul) Jason Bateman (Ozark) — WINNER Jeff Bridges (The Old Man) Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) Adam Scott (Severance)

Ensemble in a Comedy Series Abbott Elementary — WINNER Barry The Bear Hacks Only Murders in the Building

Female Actor in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate (Dead to Me) Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) Jean Smart (Hacks) — WINNER

Male Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Carrigan (Barry) Bill Hader (Barry) Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building) Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building) Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) — WINNER

Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Emily Blunt (The English) Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy) — WINNER Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Steve Carell (The Patient) Taron Egerton (Black Bird) Sam Elliott (1883) — WINNER Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) Evan Peters (Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)

Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series Andor The Boys House of the Dragon Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Stranger Things — WINNER

Lifetime Achievement Award Sally Field

[sassmill]

I’m always thinking about clothes and clothes hold so much significance in Rebecca and I just need to say that I would redesign Danny’s costume for the musical to set her firmly in the past that she can’t let go of. Everybody else dressed for 1926, Danny dressed for 1916 or thereabouts. I don’t recall if it’s ever explicitly stated how long Maxim and Rebecca were married, but the number 10 is rattling around in my head so it’s what I’m going with. It would distance her further from reality and do some of the storytelling for her character visually. She doesn’t care for what’s new, she wants things to stay the way they were with Rebecca. So she would probably be wearing the same kind of uniform in 1926 that she would’ve been wearing when she and Rebecca first came to Manderley however many years ago.

Something along the lines of this silhouette, which isn’t terribly far off from the existing costume, but is still different. A wash dress or tub dress would simply be the most practical daily attire!

No weird hip peplum thing, and proper undergarments so that the frumpy unfitted bodice has that soft pigeon-breast shape.

There’s still quite a bit of fabric in the skirt, but rather than flaring out at the hips it falls more straight—flattened hips are in from this point on until curves start to come back into fashion later in the 1930s. Remember, fabric was rationed during WW1–and the kind of thrift that was instilled in everyone during that time, let alone someone like Mrs. Danvers, is a value that would likely stick around for awhile in rural areas like the coast where Manderley sits (as opposed to cities, where trends and goods cycle much faster), giving her more reason to keep wearing the same things: they are perfectly serviceable garments, no need to spend the time or money making replacements. That would be inefficient and wasteful.

I’m almost certain that the existing hip peplum and slouchy bodice are intentional to make the actress appear stern and frumpy, but that also doesn’t scan right for me—Mrs. Danvers would keep her clothes perfectly tailored. There’s also something to be said of the implications of an older style—even if you’re not a fashion historian, most people see an older style and immediately have some sort of association of seniority or authority (it distinguishes an older person when in contrast to newer styles) as well as a certain frumpiness or orneriness (the resolution not to change). If it’s properly tailored and has the proper support garments (girdle and brassiere at this point, maybe a bust bodice for shaping, but we’re past corsets and into flattening the hips without accentuating the natural waist), it can have the same effect and communicate more about the character’s past and motivations.

I think one of the best examples of this tactic I’ve seen in costuming is Jessica chastain’s character in crimson peak—I clocked immediately that her clothing was 15-20 years out of style, and it told me right away that the passage of time (and the refusal to accept the passage of time) was an important aspect of the story.

Anyway I’m absolutely supposed to be doing something else right now and none of the books I have in the office go past the 1890s so. This post would be better if I had access to the 1910s catalog reproductions that I have in my workshop at home.

[beardedmrbean]

Hollywood actor Gabriel Olds, who has appeared in dozens of supporting television and film roles over the past several decades, was arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning and charged with seven counts of sexual assault, according to local authorities, who said they are seeking out other possible victims or witnesses in a series of alleged attacks that date back to over a decade ago.

Olds, 52, was taken into custody in the Crestwood Hills area of Los Angeles after the L.A. Superior Court issued a warrant for his arrest for $3.5 million in July. The district attorney had charged him with seven counts of sexual assault after a 41-year-old woman reported that he’d raped her in her L.A. home; following the woman’s report, two other women came forward to police saying Olds had raped them in incidents dating back to 2013, according to a press release from the LAPD.

Charges against Olds include rape, rape of an unconscious person, sodomy, assault with intent to commit rape, and injury on a girlfriend or significant other.

Olds, who recently appeared in the Oscar-winning The Eyes of Tammy Faye, in which he portrayed evangelist and 700 Club founder Pat Robertson, is a New York native who attended Yale University before finding success as an actor. He was cast in one-off roles on series such as JAG, CSI, and Six Feet Under and a variety of lesser-seen films before landing the Robertson role opposite Jessica Chastain.

Police say that Olds used all of these aspects of his life to charm women and lure them into a “false sense of security” before turning violent. They said that each woman interviewed, some of whom said they met Olds on dating applications, reported the same tactics.

“We heard the same story, again and again,” Detective Brent Hopkins, who is a Special Assault Section supervisor, said in the LAPD’s release. “Mr. Olds started off charming, but then used brutal violence to carry out these rapes. Some of these survivors suffered in silence for years before finding the strength to speak up. Now that he’s off the streets, we want to make sure everyone can be heard.”

In addition, police say they located two more alleged victims who said that they experienced assaults that were less violent than the initial three had reported. Investigators are now seeking more potential victims, the LAPD said, as Olds’ work as an actor had him traveling frequently.

Police are seeking assistance from members of the public and are asking any victims or witnesses to contact the LAPD’s West Division, Special Assault Section.

An email sent Thursday by The Hollywood Reporter to a representative for Olds seeking comment was not immediately returned. Whether Olds has hired an attorney to speak on his behalf was not apparent at the time of publication and no case number for Olds’ arrest has yet been issued by the LAPD.

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OC Introduction: Sloane Delacourt

Fandom: Deus Ex

Role: Foil, Mirror, Romantic Partner

BASICS

Full Name: Athénaïs Sloane Delacourt

Preferred Name: Sloane

Nickname(s): Peril, Princess (only Adam calls her that one)

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Bisexual

Occupation and Titles:  Previously: Staff Sergeant Sloane Delacourt, United States Army, 10th Special Forces Group, 1st Battalion, Alpha Company, Operational Detachment Alpha 0113 (aka the "Wild Boys"). Now: Independent do-gooder (don't you dare call her a mercenary or she will hurt you).

Birthday & Age:  34. DOB December 7, 1995.

Physical description: Sloane is 5'11", broad-shouldered and athletic, with auburn-copper hair and grey eyes (artificial). She has shrapnel scars along the right cheek and up through the eye; high cheekbones and a strong jaw. Both arms and legs have been replaced with high-end Sarif augmentations. (Faceclaim: Jessica Chastain)

Clothing style: She is half-French, and therefore she knows exactly what to wear at any given occasion. She just tends to prefer the kind of occasions where it's best to wear a t-shirt that says "Once You Have Pulled the Pin from Mr. Grenade, He Is No Longer Your Friend".

BACKGROUND

Daughter of David Sarif and Violette Delacourt, she was conceived as a failed attempt on Violette's part to get David to play ball with the Illuminati. When that didn't pan out, Violette tried to raise Sloane as her heir apparent. Instead, Sloane did the thing she knew would piss off her mother the most: she enlisted in the Army. Her test scores were high enough that she was shunted right into the Special Forces pipeline (which had just opened up to women). After training as a Special Forces medic, she was assigned to ODA-113, who became known over the next decade for their expertise in shutting down rogue biowarfare labs.

They were so good at their job, in fact, that the Illuminati used one of their "private contractor" contacts to crash their plane on an op a month before the events of Human Revolution, leaving her critically injured.

At the time of the opening of Odysseus Gambit, Sloane has been augmented with a special set of augs (built and secretly provided by her father) and is absolutely chewing the walls in her enforced retirement…

COMBAT & SKILLS

Preferred fighting style: Close-combat with pistols, shotguns, or knives. She'll fall back on martial arts if she has to, and she's a decent marksman with a rifle, but she likes to get right into the fray.

Favorite weapon(s): A Jaeger & Ritter Knight Tactical Compact Pistol in .45 ACP, initially; later a 10mm Aspid.

Special skills: She can patch someone up with chewing gum and duct tape while laying down a wall of lead.

RELATIONSHIPS

Family: David Sarif (father: estranged through her childhood, now trying to have a real relationship with her); Violette Delacourt (mother: a high-ranking member of the Illuminati currently believed dead)

Love interest: Adam Jensen. (Just don't tell her that. She's... still figuring it out.)

Best friends: Stefan and Hantz Gerber, Strickland Hall, Aria Argento and Eliza.

PERSONALITY

Positive traits: Brave, Protective, Compassionate, Smart

Negative traits: Impulsive, Arrogant, Angry, Stubborn

Likes: Dancing, Parkour, Extreme Sports, Killing Bad Guys

Dislikes: Bigots, Terrorists, Bioweaponeers, and Idiots in general

Fears: Falling in love

Guilty Pleasure: Letting Adam cuddle her.

Hobbies: Dancing, cooking, eating what she cooks, killing people that seriously need killing

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Growing their family! Zawe Ashton secretly gave birth to her and fiancé Tom Hiddleston’s first child, Us Weekly confirms.

“Tom and Zawe are loving being new parents and are filled with joy,” a source exclusively tells Us. “They have been having the struggles of new parents and aren’t sleeping much but are thrilled.”

The Velvet Buzzsaw actress, 38, first announced she was pregnant in June at the Mr. Malcolm’s List premiere in New York City. Though the Loki actor, 41, stars alongside her in the film, he was not present for the event, so she walked the red carpet solo in a floor-length gown that showed off her growing baby bump.

The Captain Marvel 2 star’s appearance came only two weeks after Hiddleston confirmed the couple were engaged, telling the Los Angeles Times in June that he was “very happy” after popping the question.

The pair first sparked engagement rumors back in March when Ashton was seen wearing a diamond ring 2022 BAFTA Awards. That same month, Us confirmed that Hiddleston had proposed after three years of dating.

The costars were first linked in 2019 following their work together on the West End’s production of Betrayal, only to spark even more speculation when they both transferred to the Broadway version of the play three months later. A source exclusively told Us in November 2019 that the England native and Wanderlust alum “are crazy about each other,” adding that the duo are “truly past the honeymoon phase and “looking to build a long-term future together,” while focusing on their careers.

“They love the finer things in life,” the insider told Us at the time. “They also love to let loose and rock out with friends, whether it’s at a house party or heading to a local bar or restaurant.”

In September 2021, the pair made their official red carpet debut during the 74th annual Tony Awards when Ashton showed up to support her beau, who was nominated for Best Leading Actor for his role in the drama.

Before his relationship with the Josephina star, Hiddleston was previously linked to Elizabeth Olsen, Susannah Fielding and Jessica Chastain. The Thor: Ragnarok actor also made headlines in September 2016 for his whirlwind romance with Taylor Swift, which lasted three months before the two called it quits.

In August 2019, Hiddleston opened up about his newfound low-key approach to his romantic relationships following his high-profile romance with Swift, 32. “I’m protective about my internal world now in probably a different way,” the Avengersstar told the New York Times. “If you go through life without connecting to people, how much could you call that a life? Because you have to fight for love. You can’t live in fear of what people might say.”

[lovelyflowers-world]

Where The Crawdads Sing (teaser)

Just wrote this fun little teaser about a fanfic I want to write about the movie where the crawdads sing it is a xreader story but I don't know what the main ship should be nor do I know if anyone will actually read this so I'm just going to post this here and see the type of attention it gets anyway without further a do heres the teaser

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I knew the marsh girl.

Everyone did.

But I knew her better than anyone else like the back of my hand. I grew up with Kya, me and her are like sisters, since the moment we met only being a year old we had been inseparable doing everything with each other I knew the way she thought, I knew her biggest fears and I always kept her secrets and in turn she'd keep mine. 

We made a pact we made when we were young only the age of five..I remember it like it was just yesterday 

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"(Y/N).." I heard the southern accent of Kya I turned away from staring at her older brother Jodie I always found him handsome even as a young girl "Yeah Kya?" I was concerned she rarely ever called me by my name always said some about 'You call me kya 'cause that's my nickname now I gotta call you a nickname too' she always stuck to just callin' me Birdie said it's because I was pretty like one. Kya set her stuff down and sat up real quick with a rigid back "Birdie promise me that no matter what you gonna stick by my side..that yous always gonna keep my secrets" She grabbed my hands and looked at me for a couple of young girls you wouldn't think we'd be talkin' like this "Of course Kya! You like a sister to me!" I smiled at her but she wasn't smilin' back 

"I'm serious Birdie! You promise! You gotta promise- swear on it" 

"I swear kya.." 

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"Miss Madison?" I looked up started to the man talking to me I was on the stand of the courtroom Mr. Chastain seeming to be agitated at my like of focus at what he was sayin' all eyes on me waitin' for a response "I'm sorry can you repeat the question?" I said in a small voice looking away from his eyes only to catch a glimpse of Kya's seeming to tell me all I needed to know "Of course Ms. Madison" Mr. Chastian cleared his throat what seemed like an hour of silence was just an agonizing second, He looked at me once more and spoke his words weren't soft nor gentle they were sharp like a knife tryna gut me open like a fish and intimidate me 

"Where you there the night Miss Catherine Danielle Clark murdered Chase Andrews?"

An absolute uproar was caused the jury shocked at such a question why would such a sweet soft spoken girl be there to witness and assist in such a horrible act the judge banged his gavel to stop the uproar tryin' to bring order back once everyone settled down the judge turned to me "Answer the question Ms. Madison" I looked down scared for a moment to answer such a question how could one really answer that in truth 

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Mama always told me that when you break a promise a dove dies and a angel loses it's wings that's why I always never made promises I couldn't keep so when I promised to Kya I would keep her secrets like she would keep mine I knew I could follow and respect that promise to the end of time.

No matter how heavy the burden of the secret is...

No matter how wrong it is...

No matter how dirty..

And no matter how bloody...

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I looked up at the man no hint of emotions in my eyes I looked around and back at him 

"No I wasn't" 

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