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The Saint: The Best Laid Schemes (6.1, ITC, 1968)
"You know, it's, uh, pretty obvious that somebody who knows your aunt's past medical history is trying to drive her mad. I must admit they're doing a pretty good job of it, too. But now suppose the end object of the exercise is not to have her committed but to get her to the state where she would take her own life. Be neat, wouldn't it?"
#the saint#the best laid schemes#itc#1968#leslie charteris#joe morheim#a. sanford wolfe#john llewellyn moxey#roger moore#sylvia syms#paul daneman#gabrielle drake#norman bird#fulton mackay#john tate#godfrey quigley#francis de wolff#olive milbourne#jonathan elsom#fredric abbott#john ringham#joanne dainton#aaaaand we're back. i only took a very brief pause between seasons this time‚ nothing like the 15 month wait contemporary viewers had#so yes‚ series 6! endgame babey. i can see the horizon. i suspect (but have no proof) that this ep was part of the production block that#made up s5 (certainly promotional pics are grouped with that series). it's a twisty turn whodunnit but also whatdone and whyfor#actually the plot probably bites off a little too much‚ lurching from side plot to twist like a ship in storm waters (it's a maritime#episode ok?). lovely sylvia syms makes her 3rd of 5 appearances (3 in this season alone!) and a very juvenile Gab Drake turns up and#thankfully does not get romanced by Simon (it's even vaguely alluded to that she's too young for him‚ good taste be praised)#this ep looks notably grotty on my dvd; whether this one in particular was badly degraded or network (rip) did less work on s6 idk#it could also just be bc i have a new tv and like all shiny new hd tvs it seems to make my old tv stuff look even worse somehow
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and the other girl also dies horrifically… not one single survivor of the misogyny drive by
#live#Hemlock grove#letha godfrey#:(#norman saying “fuck the baby. She’s my baby.” Horrible.#Spoilers
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Slashers - who would say "I love you" first
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Warnings: none that ik
Characters:
Billy Loomis, Stu macher, Ethan Landry, Norman Bates, Tiffany Valentine, Art the clown, Herbert West, Brahms Heelshire
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🎃Billy Loomis:
• You would say it first
• he has abandonment issues from his mom leaving so I feel like he would wait for you to say it first
• you'd be lying on your bed your head on his chest your falling asleep and before you fall in to slumber you mumble a "I love you Billy"
🎃Stu macher:
• He would say it first
• I don't know why it's just a gut feeling that he would
• like your at his house watching a movie and he's not even paying attention the the TV his eyes are on you and he has big puppy dog eyes and .just says it barely louder than a whisper "I love you"
🎃Ethan Landry:
• him definitely
• probably during a make out session in between kisses he probably says it without realizing it
🎃Norman Bates:
• this is a hard one
• if you say it first I think mother would probably get involved so watch out
• if he said it first I think it would end less deadly possibly?
• helping him at the motel and it just slipped out he'd be a blushing mess either way
🎃Tiffany Valentine:
• she'd say it first
• shes clingy (but like so am I so....)
• your washing dishes and she comes up behind you hugs you from behind and kisses the top of your head and says "I love you Sweet face"
🎃Art the clown:
• I think he would but uhhhhhh.......he didn't talk but! When i write for Art if there's talking he uses ASL
• it's like Valentine's Day and he gets you a human heart in a candy box and id just standing there like "🤟🤡" (🤟= ILY in sign)
🎃Herbert West:
• you have to say it first
• probably would be the rare occasion you mange to get him out of the basement for the night you guys are in bed and you kiss him goodnight "I love you" you say before rolling over and falling asleep
🎃Brahms Heelshire:
• he probably does
• after his bedtime story you give him his mandatory goodnight kiss and before you leave the room you hear him yawn "I love you goodnight"
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hope y'all enjoyed! I will probably do more of these and add more slashers.
I was thinking about putting Ash Williams on here but he's not like bad guy and I was thinking about adding Roman Godfrey to this so what do y'all think about that?
Also I will be adding Spencer Charnas, Patrick Bateman, and probably Jennifer Check to this prompt series.
Also might do something similar with the DC boys I write for
#billy loomis headcanons#stu macher headcanons#ethan landry x reader#norman bates headcanons#tiffany valentine x reader#art the clown x reader#herbert west x reader#brahms heelshire headcanons
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#𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐅𝐑𝐂𝐘 ⸻ HIGHLY TRIGGERING CONTENT MAY BE PRESENT ! minors and personals DNI. proceed with caution. rp account crafted for fakevz but not limited to. eng.
31 year old current sitting ceo of Godfrey Industries, 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐘 is the boy king of one of the world’s leading bioengineering empires, a medical and pharmaceutical powerhouse stationed in the heart of scenic Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. The only biological child born to Olivia and Norman Godfrey, an illicit affair between a wife and her brother in law, Roman was quite literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a crown awaiting his head. No one bearing the Godfrey name has ever wanted for anything in life, and Roman is no exception. And still, the young man was always hungry for something else, aching for the elusive something. Finding no notable solace in drugs, sex, alcohol, or self harm as a teen, Roman attempted and succeeded at suicide at the age of nineteen. He did in fact die, but did not stay dead ⸺ instead, he awoke as something else. UPIR as his mother had said, though most would simply say vampire. Something, he would come to find out, made him just like Olivia herself.
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Godfrey Penington Kingdon, Norman Road, Winchester - The View From The Artist's Window In January, 1965
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Book Reviews and Recommendations
This will be a running list of books I’ve reviewed and which ones I recommend according to topic. This way when people ask I have an easy place to point them.
Right now I’m posting one review a week of a book that’s already on my shelf. Eventually all the books I’ve recommended will have a review linked as well; for now if you have questions about one feel free to ask. This post will continue to be updated.
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Content:
Book Reviews
Book Recommendations
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Book Reviews
America Bewitched
American Brujeria
Aradia
Astral Dynamics
Backwoods Witchcraft
Besom, Stang, and Sword
Betwixt and Between
Black Dog Folklore
The Black Toad
The Book of Celtic Magic
A Broom at Midnight
By Rust of Nail and Prick of Thorn
Celtic Lore and Spellcraft of the Dark Goddess (coming soon)
Mastering Witchcraft
Thirteen Pathways of Occult Herbalism
Under the Witching Tree
Witches Among Us
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Book Recommendations
For Beginners:
Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente
Psychic Witch by Mat Auryn
Weave the Liminal by Laura Tempest Zakroff
The Witch’s Path by Thorn Mooney
Ancestor Work:
Honoring Your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise
Animal Spirits:
Black Dog Folklore by Mark Norman
Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone by Lupa
Skin Spirits by Lupa
Astrology:
The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology by April Elliott Kent
Crafts:
The Green Witch’s Grimoire by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Potions, Elixirs, and Brews by Anaïs Alexandre
Cultural Literacy in Modern Witchcraft:
Aradia by Charles Godfrey Leland
Doreen Valiente: Witch by Philip Heselton
Power of the Witch by Laurie Cabot
The Rebirth of Witchcraft by Doreen Valiente
Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Transcendental Magic by Éliphas Lévi
Witches Among Us by Thorn Mooney <- good for outsiders
Death Work:
Morbid Magic by Tomás Prower
Druidry:
The Book of Celtic Magic by Kristoffer Hughes
Elements:
The Four Elements of the Wise by Ivo Dominguez Jr.
The Little Work by Durgadas Allon Duriel
Faeries:
Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk by Morgan Daimler
Feri (not to be confused with faeries):
Betwixt and Between by Storm Faerywolf
Forbidden Mysteries of Faery Witchcraft by Storm Faerywolf
Folklore:
Black Dog Folklore by Mark Norman
The Devils Plantation by Nigel Pearson
Folk Magic:
American Brujeria by J. Allen Cross
Backwoods Witchcraft by Jake Richards
Doctoring the Devil by Jake Richards
Ozark Folk Magic by Brandon Weston
Ozark Mountain Spell Book by Brandon Weston
The Powwow Grimoire by Robert Phoenix
Trolldom by Johannes Björn Gårdbäck
Working Conjure by Hoodoo Sen Moise
Green Witchcraft:
The Green Witch’s Garden by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Plants of the Devil by Corrine Boyer
The Poison Path Herbal by Coby Michael
Under the Bramble Arch by Corrine Boyer
Under the Witching Tree by Corrine Boyer
Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer
Wortcunning by Nigel Pearson
Hearth Witchcraft:
The Hearth Witch’s Compendium by Anna Franklin
The House Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Hedge Riding/Spirit Flight:
Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce
A Broom at Midnight by Roger J. Horne
History:
America Bewitched by Owen Davies
Demons and Spirits of the Land by Claude Lecouteux
Harry Potter and History by Nancy Reagin <- unaffiliated with JK Rowling
A History of Magic and Witchcraft by Frances Timbers
The Return of the Dead by Claude Lecouteux
The Tradition of Household Spirits by Claude Lecouteux
The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
The Witch by Ronald Hutton
Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies by Claude Lecouteux
Holidays:
The Hearth Witch’s Year by Anna Franklin
Samhain by Diana Rajchel
Yule by Susan Pesznecker
Protection:
By Rust of Nail and Prick of Thorn by Althaea Sebastiani
Hex Twisting by Diana Rajchel
The Reclaiming Tradition:
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
Scientific Studies on Magic:
Real Magic by Dean Radin, PhD
Spirit Work:
Honoring Your Ancestors by Mallorie Vaudoise
A Witch’s Guide to the Paranormal by J. Allen Cross
Traditional Witchcraft:
Besom, Stang, and Sword by Christopher Orapello and Tara-Love Maguire
The Black Toad by Gemma Gary
A Broom at Midnight by Roger J. Horne
The Crooked Path by Kelden <- great for beginners
The Devils Dozen by Gemma Gary
Folkloric American Witchcraft and the Multicultural Experience by Via Hedera
New World Witchery by Corey Hutcheson
Plants of the Devil by Corrine Boyer
The Poison Path Herbal by Coby Michael
Southern Cunning by Aaron Oberon
Traditional Witchcraft by Gemma Gary
Treading the Mill by Nigel G Pearson
Tubelos Green Fire by Shani Oates
Under the Bramble Arch by Corrine Boyer
Under the Witching Tree by Corrine Boyer
Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer
The Witch Compass by Ian Chambers
The Witches’ Devil by Roger J Horne
The Witches’ Sabbath by Kelden
Wortcunning by Nigel Pearson
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#witchcraft book reviews#witchcraft book recommendations#witchcraft book recs#midwest bramble book reviews and recommendations#witchblr#witchcraft#master post#book master post
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Carol Diann Johnson was born in the Bronx, New York City, on July 17, 1935, to John Johnson, a subway conductor, and Mabel (Faulk), a nurse. While Carroll was still an infant, the family moved to Harlem, where she grew up except for a brief period in which her parents had left her with an aunt in North Carolina. She attended Music and Art High School, and was a classmate of Billy Dee Williams. In many interviews about her childhood, Carroll recalls her parents' support, and their enrolling her in dance, singing, and modeling classes. By the time Carroll was 15, she was modeling for Ebony. "She also began entering television contests, including Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, under the name Diahann Carroll." After graduating from high school, she attended New York University, where she majored in sociology, "but she left before graduating to pursue a show-business career, promising her family that if the career did not materialize after two years, she would return to college.
Carroll's big break came at the age of 18, when she appeared as a contestant on the DuMont Television Network program, Chance of a Lifetime, hosted by Dennis James. On the show, which aired January 8, 1954, she took the $1,000 top prize for a rendition of the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein song, "Why Was I Born?" She went on to win the following four weeks. Engagements at Manhattan's Café Society and Latin Quarter, nightclubs soon followed.
Carroll's film debut was a supporting role in Carmen Jones (1954), as a friend to the sultry lead character played by Dorothy Dandridge. That same year, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in the Broadway musical, House of Flowers. A few years later, she played Clara in the film version of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), but her character's singing parts were dubbed by opera singer Loulie Jean Norman. The following year, Carroll made a guest appearance in the series Peter Gunn, in the episode "Sing a Song of Murder" (1960). In the next two years, she starred with Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, and Joanne Woodward in the film Paris Blues (1961) and won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (the first time for a Black woman) for portraying Barbara Woodruff in the Samuel A. Taylor and Richard Rodgers musical No Strings. Twelve years later, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role alongside James Earl Jones in the film Claudine (1974), which part had been written specifically for actress Diana Sands (who had made guest appearances on Julia as Carroll's cousin Sara), but shortly before filming was to begin, Sands learned she was terminally ill with cancer. Sands attempted to carry on with the role, but as filming began, she became too ill to continue and recommended her friend Carroll take over the role. Sands died in September 1973, before the film's release in April 1974.
Carroll is known for her titular role in the television series Julia (1968-71), which made her the first African-American actress to star in her own television series who did not play a domestic worker. That role won her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female for its first year, and a nomination for an Primetime Emmy Award in 1969. Some of Carroll's earlier work also included appearances on shows hosted by Johnny Carson, Judy Garland, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar, and Ed Sullivan, and on The Hollywood Palace variety show. In 1984, Carroll joined the nighttime soap opera Dynasty at the end of its fourth season as the mixed-race jet set diva Dominique Deveraux, Blake Carrington's half-sister. Her high-profile role on Dynasty also reunited her with her schoolmate Billy Dee Williams, who briefly played her onscreen husband Brady Lloyd. Carroll remained on the show and made several appearances on its short-lived spin-off, The Colbys until she departed at the end of the seventh season in 1987. In 1989, she began the recurring role of Marion Gilbert in A Different World, for which she received her third Emmy nomination that same year.
In 1991, Carroll portrayed Eleanor Potter, the doting, concerned, and protective wife of Jimmy Potter (portrayed by Chuck Patterson), in the musical drama film The Five Heartbeats (1991), also featuring actor and musician Robert Townsend and Michael Wright. She reunited with Billy Dee Williams again in 1995, portraying his character's wife Mrs. Greyson in Lonesome Dove: The Series. The following year, Carroll starred as the self-loving and deluded silent movie star Norma Desmond in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the film Sunset Boulevard. In 2001, Carroll made her animation debut in The Legend of Tarzan, in which she voiced Queen La, ruler of the ancient city of Opar.
In 2006, Carroll appeared in several episodes the television medical drama Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke, the demanding mother of Dr. Preston Burke. From 2008 to 2014, she appeared on USA Network's series White Collar in the recurring role of June, the savvy widow who rents out her guest room to Neal Caffrey. In 2010, Carroll was featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docudrama titled 1 a Minute and appeared as Nana in two Lifetime movie adaptations of Patricia Cornwell’s novels: At Risk and The Front.
In 2013, Carroll was present on stage at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards to briefly speak about being the first African-American nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She was quoted as saying about Kerry Washington, nominated for Scandal, "She better get this award."
Carroll was a founding member of the Celebrity Action Council, a volunteer group of celebrity women who served the women's outreach of the Los Angeles Mission, working with women in rehabilitation from problems with alcohol, drugs, or prostitution. She helped to form the group along with other female television personalities including Mary Frann, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, and Joan Van Ark.
Carroll was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She said the diagnosis "stunned" her, because there was no family history of breast cancer, and she had always led a healthy lifestyle. She underwent nine weeks of radiation therapy and had been clear for years after the diagnosis. She frequently spoke of the need for early detection and prevention of the disease. She died from cancer at her home in West Hollywood, California, on October 4, 2019, at the age of 84. Carroll also had dementia at the time of her death, though actor Marc Copage, who played her character's son on Julia, said that she did not appear to show serious signs of cognitive decline as late as 2017. A memorial service was held in November 24, 2019, at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York City.
#carroll#emmy award#neal caffrey#carol diann johnson#carol johnson#african#afrakan#kemetic dreams#brownskin#africans#brown skin#afrakans#bronx#new york#los angeles#marc copage#october#julia#helen hayes theater#west hollywood#california#kerry washington#scandal#mary frann#linda gray#donna mills#joan van ark#breast cancer#diagnosis
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"Of all the prophecies in verse foretelling a future Saviour to which the West has given birth, Vergil's Fourth Eclogue is the most famous. Before celebrating in his mighty epic the future of Imperial Rome, the poet painted in this relatively short poem his picture of the future ruler of the world. He lent him all the attributes of the Messiah: as befits a son of the Gods he shall greet Life with a smile, he shall bring peace on earth and the Age of Gold, and shall evoke once more the kingdom of Apollo. The Middle Ages never paused to reflect that Vergil's promises might seem to be fulfilled in Augustus, Emperor of Peace, the poet's patron. To that Christian age such prophetic verses could bear one interpretation only — a miraculous fore telling of Christ's advent. That they foretold a "Ruler" was no deterrent, for men were wont to praise Christ as "King of the World" and "Emperor of All," and to represent him graphically, in a mandorla, throned on clouds, bearing the globe and law book in his hand and on his head the diadem: the stern Ruler of the Cosmos. To the pious mind it was but one miracle the more, that the heathen Vergil, like the prophets of the Ancient Covenant, had known and told the coming of the Redeemer. Thus this short poem, with its miraculous fore knowledge, earned for Vergil the admiration and reverence of the medieval world. This Vergilian prophecy provided the inspiration both in manner and matter for the song in which the Campanian poet, Peter of Eboli, extravagantly hailed the birth of Henry V’s only son. It is by no means without significance that Vergil thus stands by the cradle of the last and greatest Christian Emperor of the German Roman Imperium.
The learned Peter of Eboli was not the only poet and sooth sayer who offered his prophetic wares to the new-born child on the day following the Christmas of 1194. Godfrey of Viterbo, the tutor of Henry VI, hailed the boy as the future Saviour foretold of prophets, the time-fulfilling Caesar. Even before the birth Godfrey had in sibylline speech informed his master that the coming son was destined to prove the long-awaited King of all the World, who should unite East and West as the Tiburtine sibyl had foretold. And later the story ran that East and West had cried aloud with joy at the birth of the imperial heir. Meanwhile other and less flattering predictions gained currency which had likewise accompanied the birth of the youngest Hohenstaufen. The Breton wizard Merlin was said to have spoken of the child's "wondrous and unhoped for birth" and in dark mysterious words to have hinted at disaster. The child would be a lamb, to be torn in pieces, but not to be devoured; he was to be a raging lion too amongst his own. The Calabrian Cistercian, the Abbot Joachim of Flora, the "Fore-runner" of St. Francis, was swift to recognise in the new-born child the, future Scourge of the World, the AntiChrist who was to bring confusion in his train. The Abbot, indeed, full of prophetic fire, was said to have informed the Emperor betimes that the Empress — overlain by a demon — was pregnant, without yet knowing of her pregnancy. The Empress too had had a dream and it had been revealed to her that she was to bear the fiery brand, the torch of Italy.
Constance obsessed the imagination of her contemporaries as few empresses have done. The strangely-secluded girlhood of the heiress of Sicily, posthumous daughter of the gifted Norman king and state-maker, Roger II, the great blondbearded Viking: her belated marriage, when she was already over thirty, with Barbarossa's younger son, her junior by ten years: her nine years of childlessness: the unexpected conception by the ageing woman: all this was — or seemed — mysterious enough to the people of her time to furnish ample material for legend. According to current rumour Constance's mother, Beatrice, daughter of Count Gunther of Rethel, had been a prey to evil dreams when, after the death of King Roger, she was brought to bed of the future Empress. And the augurs of the half-oriental Norman court declared that Constance would bring dire ruin on her fatherland. To avert this evil fate, no doubt, Constance was at once doomed to be a nun. The fact that the princess actually spent long periods in various nunneries in Palermo may well have strengthened such a report. The story further ran that Constance had been most unwilling to marry at all, and this coloured Dante's conception of her: because she left her "pleasant cloister's pale" under pressure and against her will, he gave the Empress a place in Paradise. The tale that Constance had taken the veil was widely believed, and later deliberately circulated by the Guelfs out of malice towards her son. The similar super stition of a later day foretold that a nun should be the mother of Anti-Christ. Meantime this first and only pregnancy of the forty-year old empress gave rise to another cycle of legend. It became the fashion to represent Constance as being consider ably older than she was, in order to approximate the miracle of this belated conception to Bible precedent, and she is tradition ally depicted as a wrinkled old woman. The rumour that the child was supposititious was bound to follow, and it was given out that he was in reality the son of a butcher. Shrewd woman that she was, Constance had taken measures to forestall such gossip: she had had a tent erected in the open market place, and there in the sight of all she had borne her son and proudly displayed her well-filled breasts — so the counterrumour ran.
Not in Palermo, but in Jesi, a small town dating from Roman times, in the March near Ancona, Constance brought her son to birth. After he was Emperor, Frederick sang the praises of his birthplace in a remarkable document. He called Jesi his Bethlehem, and the Divine Mother who bore him he placed on the same plane as the Mother of our Lord. Now the Ancona neighbourhood with its landscapes belongs to the most sacred regions of Renaissance Italy. As soon as the Italian people awoke to self-consciousness it recognised this as a sancta regio and consecrated it as such. From 1294 — a hundred years after the birth of the Staufen boy — the Virgin's house from Nazareth stood in the Ancona Marches, and Loreto, where it eventually came to rest, became one of the most famous places of pilgrimage in Italy. So it need cause no surprise that the March — the home moreover of Raphael — supplies the actual landscape basis (so far as a mythical landscape has a real prototype) for innumerable pictures of the Madonna playing with the Holy Child. These sunlit scenes played no part in the actual childhood of the boy. A few months after his birth Constance had the " blessed son " — to whom for the moment she gave the name of Constantine — removed to Foligno near Assisi and placed in the care of the Duchess of Spoleto, while the Empress herself hastened back to her Sicilian kingdom. She had only stayed in Jesi for her confinement, while the Emperor Henry travelled south to repress a Sicilian insurrection. This he accomplished with severity and bloodshed, and at last, after years of toil and fighting, he took possession of the hereditary country of his consort. All that Barbarossa had once dreamed, and had hoped to achieve through the Sicilian marriage of his son: to checkmate the exasperating Normans who always sided with the enemies of the Empire; to secure in the extreme south a firm fulcrum for the Empire of the Hohenstaufen, corresponding to their stronghold north of the Alps, and from these two bases — independent of the favour or disfavour of the German princes — to supervise and hold in check the Patrimonium between, and the ever-restive Italy: all this had reached fulfilment one day before the heir to this imperial power was born. Escorted by Saracen trumpeters, Henry with unexampled pomp entered as victor into the conquered city of Palermo, the terrified populace falling on their knees as he rode by, and on Christmas Day 1194 he was crowned King of Sicily in the cathedral of the capital. He was soon able to announce in one and the same letter both the victorious outcome of his cam paigns and the birth of his son and heir. The assurance of the succession gave full value to the conquest of the southern kingdom, a hereditary not an elective monarchy, and to the other great achievements of the indefatigable Emperor."
Ernst Kantorowicz, Frederick the Second, pp. 3-6
#history#historicwomendaily#constance i of sicily#frederick ii#sicily#house of hauteville#house of hohenstaufen#people of sicily#women of sicily#norman swabian sicily#myedit#historyedit
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Veteran British born/based film/TV actors born before and including 1937 still alive:
With the recent death of Dame Maggie Smith, I thought I'd detail the legendary actors of UK cinema and television that are still living as of the date of this post:
Eileen Bennett (b. 1919)
Beulah Garrick (b. 1921)
Elizabeth Kelly (b. 1921)
Elisabeth Kirkby (b. 1921)
Sara Luzita (b. 1922)
Annabel Maule (b. 1922)
Paul Harding (b. 1923)
Vincent Ball (b. 1923)
David Lawton (b. 1923)
Anne Vernon (b. 1924)
Donald Pelmear (b. 1924)
Laurie Webb (b. 1924)
Thelma Ruby (b. 1925)
Pete Murray (b. 1925)
Michael Beint (b. 1925)
Shelia Mitchell (b. 1925)
Kerima (b. 1925)
David Attenborough (b. 1926)
Elizabeth Benson (b. 1926)
Margaret Barton (b. 1926)
Terry Kilburn (b. 1926)
Stanley Baxter (b. 1926)
David Frankham (b. 1926)
William Glover (b. 1926)
Josephine Stuart (b. 1926)
Patricia Davidson (b. 1926)
Barbara Clegg (b. 1926)
Glen Michael (b. 1926)
Araby Lockhart (b. 1926)
Eileen Page (b. 1926)
Rosemary Harris (b. 1927)
Cleo Laine (b. 1927)
Lee Montague (b. 1927)
Genevieve Page (b. 1927)
Neville Phillips (b. 1927)
Jean Lodge (b. 1927)
Barbara Ashcroft (b. 1927)
Jill Freud (b. 1927)
Jean Southern (b. 1927)
Antonia Pemberton (b. 1927)
Peter Cellier (b. 1928)
Jeanette Landis (b. 1928)
Sheila Ballantine (b. 1928)
Dorothea Phillips (b. 1928)
Jeannie Carson (b. 1928)
Hazel Ascot (b. 1928)
Brenda Hogan (b. 1928)
Philip Guard (b. 1928)
Raymond Llewelyn (b. 1928)
Pauline Brailsford (b. 1928)
Leonard Weir (b. 1928)
Kevin Scott (b. 1928)
Tony Hughes (b. 1928)
Joan Plowright (b. 1929)
Patricia Routledge (b. 1929)
Colin Jeavons (b. 1929)
Michael Craig (b. 1929)
Thelma Barlow (b. 1929)
Peter Myers (b. 1929)
Paul Williamson (b. 1929)
John Gale (b. 1929)
Phillip Ross (b. 1929)
Jimmy Fagg (b. 1929)
Hazel Phillips (b. 1929)
Mignon Elkins (b. 1929)
Margaret Stallard (b. 1929)
Maya Koumani (b. 1929)
Clive Revill (b. 1930)
Charles Kay (b. 1930)
Roy Evans (b. 1930)
Una McLean (b. 1930)
Roddy Maude-Roxby (b. 1930)
Ruth Trouncer (b. 1930)
Cyril Appleton (b. 1930)
Vera Frances (b. 1930)
Gary Watson (b. 1930)
Keith Alexander (b. 1930)
Libby Morris (b. 1930)
Pauline Jefferson (b. 1930)
Claire Bloom (b. 1931)
Leslie Caron (b. 1931)
Carroll Baker (b. 1931)
Virginia McKenna (b. 1931)
Vivian Pickles (b. 1931)
Stanley Meadows (b. 1931)
Gerald Harper (b. 1931)
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Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
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Richard Chamberlain (b. 1934)
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A little while back, you answered a question on what you'd do for a "Spider-Man in DC Comics" type of fic and honestly, I'm enamored with the idea of him being the New Gods/Forever People's de facto Earth buddy and designated minder. Like Spidey and his Amazing Friends, but instead of Firestar and Ice Man, it's Mister Miracle, Big Barda, and Orion sometimes.
That being said I feel like, for better or worse, a lot of folks would be more focused on how Spidey would interact with the more recognizable names in DC Comics, as well as their close family, friends, and associates.
So... what would Peter Parker's dynamic with the New Gods and Forever people end up looking like? What does the Justice League overall, and its individual members think of him? How many would buy into the narrative of him being a Wall-Crawling Menace that the Daily Bugle keeps pushing? How many would call J. Jonah Jameson on his baloney?
Do you think a young Peter Parker would have been scouted to join the Teen Titans back in the day? Would he have accepted, or continued flying solo well into adulthood?
Well going back to the Kirby roots of the Fourth World, I feel like Spider-Man's bonds with the New Gods/Forever People would start out very similar to the initial Fourth World introductions---disorienting and overwhelming!!!! Like, this stuff started back, not with the Superman title, but with the Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen title, and the thing with the introduction of the Hairies and Cadmus and the DNAliens, was that Kirby kind of flipped things on their head by having a hapless Superman being dragged along in Jimmy's adventures, though Superman took on a more established and authoritative role as Cadmus got more developed. So I feel like having Spider-Man be the Designated Fourth World Minder would basically put him a role that's kind of a combination of both Superman and Jimmy Olsen in those initial issues. At first you have Spidey starting out as kind of a youth advocate--some weirdoes start showing up in New York and Spider-Man sees, despite some culture clashes and these people talking about crazy large-scale stuff that he has no idea about, that ultimately these new visitors mean well and actually have an incredibly strong appreciation and even awe for earth. I love the Forever People so much because they are honestly THE CUTEST about how much they think earth is cool. They came to our planet from a planet that basically touts itself as SPACE OLYMPUS/HEAVEN and instantly fell in love with us. I like the idea that they would come to earth at a time when Spider-Man's feeling particularly lonely about the weirdness of his own situation and suddenly finds himself surrounded by Space Hippies who kind of give him a fresh perspective on being the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and right when he thinks, "Yeah you know, this is a lot easier with friends :)" WHUH-BAM WE HIT HIM WITH THE NEW GODS AND PARADEMONS AND GLORIOUS GODFREY AND ALSO HE PROBABLY HAS TO GET BEAMED TO NEW GENESIS AT SOME POINT.
Honestly I haven't read enough Marvel comics where Spidey is teamed up with the Avengers to really feel confident in describing how Spidey would mesh with the League. The thing is, I'm very much in the Spider-Man as "Scrappy Local Hero" camp--that's the core of his appeal for me, so like, even though Spider-Verse is so devastatingly popular right now, when I see Spider-Man, like... in Space™ with The Avengers™, I'm kind of like "What's he doing there. It's a school night." Most of my comics experience with Peter Parker's Spider-Man is grounded in the 2000-2011 Ultimate Spider-Man run because that's the comic my library had growing up, and I didn't really make it that far past Norman Osborn so like, I've also seen enough of the MCU to know that Spidey's adventures get way way way way WAY scaled up, but Spider-Man's core for me is "Some kid in NYC."
It's interesting that you ask about Spider-Man interacting with bigger names, because I recently read an arc in Superman that featured a guy with HARDCORE Spidey vibes and an appearance that definitely had some Spider-Man/Impulse inspiration.
Outburst had magnetic powers and was part of a group, "The Young Supermen of America" who were a very youthful, scrappy Superhero team that formed in Metropolis following Superman's death from Doomsday, and--okay this will eventually lead into a "Superman went fascist but it wasn't his fault because he was being manipulated by the Reality-Manipulating Entity Dominus don't worry it got fixed with THE POWER OF LOVE" arc--but Outburst ended up filling this role that felt a lot like the kind of role Spider-Man might fulfill in the DC universe, a kid who idolizes other superheroes but also holds them accountable through their admiration. It's a role very similar to the one Spidey came to inhabit in the MCU (despite being gentrified by Tony Stark...). So Spider-Man in the greater-scale DC universe, I feel, would inhabit a role that is midway between Shazam and Green Arrow.
(Look at Outburst down there on the side of that building. That's a fucking Spider-Man pose. "It's magnetic adhesion." IT'S FUCKING WALL-CRAWLING AND YOU KNOW IT, DC.)
So just looking at Outburst, I feel like that kind of answers a lot of questions about what kind of position Spider-Man would hold in DC. Still youthful, very "Local Kid" angle, desperately doesn't want to make an idiot of himself in front of the BIG TIMERS.
And similarly, there would be a lot of sort of... sympathy and protectiveness from the League towards Spider-Man both for his youthful optimism and because Spider-Man maintains a very strong connection with the civilian community he serves. They wouldn't be helicopter parenting, but there definitely would be a handful of situations where a League member swoops in like "Okay yeah no, you are 16 and WAY OUT OF YOUR DEPTH and while I respect you as a hero, I, as an adult, am not going to stand here while you get your ass handed to you"--probably to Spidey's frustration because he feels that kind of overreach undermines the trust his community has in him. So basically a much more light, optimistic, and trusting version of, "Other superheroes don't interfere with Batman's rogues" and also played with a bit more flexibility. The League is also no stranger to bad press themselves, so I think they'd take J. Jonah Jameson's takes with a grain of salt.
I honestly don't see Spidey joining a team like the Titans or Young Justice--I feel like that takes too much away from how big of a role Peter Parker's civilian life plays in his character. I feel like he would be scouted as a sort of, "Hey do you need a support system" sort of thing, but he backs away because he wants to be there for Aunt May and Mary Jane.
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How do you think Roman is when he’s in love?
Why are y’all so obsessed with me being “in love”? Is this some kind of fetish, or what?
{ I have answered this one previously. But long story short: it’s a canon event that Roman in love becomes obsessed to extreme extents. He falls hard and it’s not even funny. He gave red roses to Annie and they barely knew each other; he would walk around that cheerleader who was murdered in season 1 like a puppy who got kicked. He was also definitely in love with Letha. Peter Rumancek was the absolute love of his existence - Even if he’s not canonically bisexual, to me it’s pretty obvious he was extremely romantic with Peter. And there was thay blonde girl in season two… I guess her name was Miranda - she was able to talk him into a menage a trois… So yeah, he definitely falls in love very badly. And let’s not forget it’s also canon that he had a panic attack in front of Annie because he had lost his daughter which explains a lot about how difficult it is for him to deal with his feelings. The most important thing to understand about Roman is that he is a soup of mommy and daddy issues: JR Godfrey died, so he feels like he was abandoned; then he finds out Norman was his father, which leaves him further confused, especially because he discovers he’s Letha’s brother; and then there’s his mom… Olivia is the type of woman who should never be able to be in the same room as a child, she’s manipulative and basically evil incarnated… This guy doesn’t know how to love. All he knows is manipulation and narcissism, that’s what Olivia taught him. }
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The Saint: The Double Take (6.6, ITC, 1968)
"Now, Templar, please... You are very angry, yes?"
"That is an understatement."
"It will all be made good. You are here, now listen to me and sit down. I need something done, done urgently."
"Mr. Patroclos, let's get one thing straight. I very rarely do favours for the overprivileged - and never under pressure."
#the saint#the double take#1968#itc#leslie charteris#leslie norman#john kruse#roger moore#grégoire aslan#kate o'mara#denise buckley#blake butler#michael robbins#june abbott#michael mellinger#martin wyldeck#geoffrey morris#rose alba#anne godfrey#iain blair#michael pemberton#somewhat frustratingly we seem to have hit another dip in picture quality; it's not that the picture is particularly bad or fuzzy it's just#that it looks really quite faded when compared with the last couple or with the monochrome eps. anyway this is an intricately plotted#mystery along the doppelganger line‚ and pretty cleverly done; i still guessed the twist almost instantaneously‚ just bc it's the only#thing that made sense. the clever but relatively simple plot made me think this could have been based on a Charteris story (making it one#of the last eps to be so) but apparently not; he may have contributed a plot outline of some sort but it's Kruse's script. funnily enough#this is a rare backwards adaptation case: the ep would be turned into a short story for a 70s Saint collection credited to Charteris but#written by one of his ghost writers (as all post 60s Saint books were). Kate O'Mara is once again in doubling territory but doesn't have to#play two characters this time‚ just look sort of kind of a tiny bit like Denise Buckley (she doesn't all that much succeed tbh)#still she's playing a nice calm character for once and not a raving vamp threatening to murder anyone who crosses her
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He leaves his wife, his daughter not even cold in the ground…
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Horror:
• Billy Loomis (Scream)
• Stu macher (Scream)
• Ethan Landry (Scream)
• Norman Bates (Psycho)
• Tiffany Valentine (Chucky)
• Art the clown (Terrifier)
• Herbert West (Re-animator)
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• Colin Grey (Jennifer's body)
• Brahms Heelshire (The boy)
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• Roman Godfrey (Hemlock Grove)
• Peter Rumancek (Hemlock Grove)
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• Bo Sinclair (House of wax)
• Corey Cunningham (Halloween ends)
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#𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐅𝐑𝐂𝐘 ⸻ HIGHLY TRIGGERING CONTENT MAY BE PRESENT ! minors and personals DNI. proceed with caution. rp account crafted for fakevz but not limited to. eng. headcanon heavy & influenced by both novel and series.
31 year old current sitting ceo of Godfrey Industries, 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐃𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐘 is the boy king of one of the world’s leading bioengineering empires, a medical and pharmaceutical powerhouse stationed in the heart of scenic Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. The only biological child born to Olivia and Norman Godfrey, an illicit affair between a wife and her brother in law, Roman was quite literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a crown awaiting his head. No one bearing the Godfrey name has ever wanted for anything in life, and Roman is no exception. And still, the young man was always hungry for something else, aching for the elusive something. Finding no notable solace in drugs, sex, alcohol, or self harm as a teen, Roman attempted and succeeded at suicide at the age of nineteen. He did in fact die, but did not stay dead ⸺ instead, he awoke as something else. 𝐔𝐏𝐈𝐑 as his mother had said, though most would simply say vampire. In the few years since his death and rebirth, Roman has managed to expand Godfrey Industries by over sixty-five percent, and has settled in amicably to his role as a corporate mogul and undead thing. He sustains primarily on synthetic blood created in the Godfrey labs or bagged human blood, but still struggles deeply with the urge to drink from someone, occasionally indulging his craving with the help of willing donors.
𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐈𝐍 [ . . . ] nepotism , blood , wealth , power , killing with no mercy , “ when is a monster not a monster ? ” , the void that cannot be filled , and what it’s like to have violence in the roots of your family tree .
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Robin Hood (2010)
What an exquisitely awful origin story. In using both familiar elements of Robin Hood’s mythos and changing up the norm, Ridley Scott sets up his audience for failure. These are the gritty 2010s, so Robin can of course no longer be slavishly devoted to a war-mongering Christian Nationalist King Richard. No, he has to call out the Lionheart for his zealotry. But it doesn’t even go so far as that. The alliances of England and the power brokers on that sceptr’d isle are confusing and muddy at best, as imagined here. But where things cut to the core are the essential thesis thrust of this film: fuck the French. “Godfrey… and his marauders… ARE FREEEENCH!!!” Ridley Scott harnesses the Robin Hood folk hero to… craft his epic anti-Fr*nch manifesto? All of the usual Saxon/Norman soft-coding typically used is absolutely discarded here. Particularly hilarious notes include the normally skilled Léa Seydoux turning in an absolutely atrocious performance with an exceptionally escargot-chomping accent, Mark Strong sinisterly whistling “Frère Jacques” to summon the unholy hordes, a sort of reverse D-Day in the final assault on Anglo shores, and all of the unsubtitled French to signal this was a nonsense language spoken by the unclean. Fucking wild. Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?
THE RULES
SIP
Someone speaks Fr*nch.
A noble title is named.
Drinking songs are sung.
King John's mother looks disapproving.
BIG DRINK
Parchment paper with illegible text on it appears onscreen.
Bee talk.
Awkward slo-mo.
#drinking games#robin hood#ridley scott#russell crowe#cate blanchett#oscar isaac#action#action & adventure#drama
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