#queen :: scandal

[cryingpariah]

They were my Elphaba and Glinda

[republicansexscandals]

[lilyflowerhere]

The girls are at it again (making me ship them and then not getting together)

[occudo]

In your Magus AU, is Agnes just another a wizard/witch, a noble, or is she some sort of royalty for the Desolation-based kingdom? Also, does she still have a *thing* with Gertrude?

Soooo...

Agnes is the queen of the desolation-based kingdom-

she is an exception to the 'witches are only noble in name' rule but mostly her advisors make decisions.

She and Gertrude don't have the same *thing* as in GiSA but they have met 👁👁

[aneurins-barnard]

Aneurin Barnard period drama sexy times 😏 | Requested by @violaobanion feat. THE WHITE QUEEN (2013) THE SCANDALOUS LADY W (2015) INTERLUDE IN PRAGUE (2017) 1899 (2022)

[rogers-rainbow-radio]

Roger Taylor in Scandal - 1989

[thietanavenus]

𝕸𝖆𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕷𝖚𝖘𝖙

I'm a big fan of Royal Scandal, and the songs and characters are heavy inspiration for Lady, and I love Lorena's design, so I thought it'd be fitting to put Lady in her outfit! I've been listening to Queen of Hearts on repeat while working on this, it's SUCH a good song and one of my favorites from the series- (Bitter Sweet and Magic Ring Night are my top faves tho)

The hair and cape gave me so much trouble, I'm never working with flowy parts ever again-

That's a lie, I most definitely will because I'm a masochist and the suffering is worth it for the aesthetic

[mod-doodles]

If your relationship can survive a Shondaland press run, your relationship can survive anything.

Honourable mention to whatever Andy and Danai have going on.

[helianthus21]

really tho, the implication that Vincenzo and Queen of Tears exist in the same universe and nobody bats an eye at the fact that the young male heirs of two separate problematic conglomerates have the same exact face is hilarious to me

[mastersoftheair]

this isn't even me being a certified CrozGirl (i'm an hbo* war girl, if anything)- but some of the reactions to croz getting it on with sandra feel very "i can excuse war crimes, but i draw the line at extramarital affairs" tbh

[republicansexscandals]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Last night they were acting Moliere in Fourteenth Street; Dickens was being played through the auspices of Nigel Playfair. Further uptown, George M. Cohan was unveiling the latest George M. Cohan musical comedy. But Broadway, being eternally curious, turned out in greatest numbers at the Biltmore Theater in Forty-Seventh Street, where the result of Mae West's latest encounter with the drama was being performed. This was the exhibit—play is not precisely the word—with a vaudeville background, whose preliminary trip through the Bronx and Queens had been followed by rumors that here was something that might arouse the police to action.

So began the review by an unnamed theater critic for the Times on October 2, 1928. It appeared, not in the arts section, but following a front-page story about the police ... taking action.

The play was Pleasure Man, a reworking by Mae West of her earlier play The Drag. It dealt not with vaudeville, as the critic said, but burlesque, and finished with a lavish drag ball.

Cops were stationed at all theater exits and just as the play was ending, reserves surrounded the front. When the cast tried to leave, they were arrested—56 in all, including West, who also acted in the show.

Of course this attracted audience members (some in evening dress, the Times noted) from other theaters nearby. The presence of cabs and other cars waiting to pick up theater-goers and actors added to the chaos.

Flashlights exploded as news photographers tried to capture the actors being led into paddy wagons. The police had to make five trips to get everyone to the station house on 47th St., where they were charged with indecency.

By 2:30 in the morning, Actors Equity posted bail. West's was $500, which may have been more than the others because she was doubly guilty, having written the play as well as acted in it. The producer, director, and theater staff were not arrested.

For some reason, the cops let the next day's matinee start, but raided it halfway through and arrested everyone once more. They had their own theatrical flair.

The trial wasn't held until April of 1930, and resulted in a hung jury. By that time West was a star, having triumphed in another play of her own called Diamond Lil. The next year she went to Hollywood.

Top photo: J.D. Doyle via Digital Transgender Archive Second photo: NY Daily News

[thepastisalreadywritten]

14 November 2024

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day: ill-fated Polish starlet Bella Darvi (née Bajla Węgier, 23 October 1928 - 11 September 1971), one of the many protégées (more accurately, mistresses) that 20th Century Fox magnate Darryl Zanuck unsuccessfully groomed for stardom in the fifties. (As Kenneth Anger leers in Hollywood Babylon II (1984), “Of all Hollywood’s “piggy” moguls, Zanuck was the biggest casting couch hog”). After discovering Darvi in Paris in June 1951 and importing her to Hollywood, Zanuck launched the publicity build-up: “A newly arrived French doll by the name of Bella Darvi, who has the voice of Marlene Dietrich, the eyes of Simone Simon and the allure of Corinne Calvet, is hitting Hollywood with the impact of TNT. She’s got zip, zoom and zowie and in parlez-vous she is ravissante, chi-chi and très élégante.” Unfortunately, movie audiences were underwhelmed by Darvi’s performances in Hell and High Water (1954) and Biblical epic The Egyptian (1954, pictured) and she ignominiously returned to Paris. Her messy later years were blighted by gambling addiction (according to Wikipedia “In 1956, she reportedly lost $1,000 in two minutes at the casino then $65,000 in two days … Zanuck was still paying off her debts as late as 1970. She would win and lose up to £30,000 a night”) and Darvi died of suicide aged 42 in Monte Carlo in 1971.

[kj7895]

One of the many great things about Shonda Rhimes is her ability to cast some of the amazing and talented actors in her shows. Going from Grey’s to Station 19, each one of her shows was elevated by the performances of the entire ensembles. I fell in love with these actors and I thank Shonda for it.

[batbeato]

Bit of Royal Scandal theorizing today.

I've been thinking about how to connect up Queen of Hearts and Anti-Queen of Hearts, as well as Cheshire Game, for a while, and I've finally come to a best guess on it.

We know that Alicia/Chelsea was born in the original timeline, the one before any interference. This means that she would be the daughter of a noble, fitting with her wealthy appearance in Cheshire Game, as well as the flash-forward of her as an unhappy but well-dressed woman. There's also the potential implication that she married Albert in this timeline, given that the outfit in the background of the future shot matches Albert's attire.

We see the Alicia from the end of Cheshire Game in Anti-Queen of Hearts in the Drink Me / Eat Me sequence; she goes from her adult self to child Alicia. It's after this that the child Alicia appears in Matt's timeline.

So my theory is that the child Alicia who appears in Matt's timeline does so because of something involving Catherine - they seem to be involved with the Eat Me / Drink Me items, given that they steal the Eat Me cookies for Alicia in Cheshire Game, and also force-feed Chelsea the Drink Me vial in Wonderland in Alice. It also makes sense that Alicia's appearance isn't a random phenomenon, but is caused by an external force.

It's implied that in her timeline, Chelsea is unhappy with her life and how it has turned out. I feel like this may also be implied by Bitter Sweet, with how Chelsea is unhappy when with Albert (amongst nobility) and is happiest with Lewis. This may potentially tie into this timeline's Chelsea having her own motivations for why she might use the Drink Me vial to go back. Similar to how Matt uses the vial to make Lorena choose love over her happiness, this Chelsea may want to use it to choose love over her happiness and change the course of her life, which she regrets.

This still leaves Queen of Hearts, though. Queen of Hearts is difficult to slot into place: it features a cursed Lorena, the Queen of Hearts, as well as various people in bunny masks. It has very intense child sexual abuse implications, which Anti lacks. I can't even shrug the bunny-masked people off as being there for atmosphere / fantasy-setting / some kind of visual metaphor, since Chelsea mentions the bunny masks (I forget where; some MV story description, maybe), so I can't match it up to Anti-Queen of Hearts as Alicia's perspective / interpretation of events.

It's still kind of murky for me, but my thought is that Queen of Hearts involves some kind of timeline-merging/fuckery. Alicia asks where her normal mother went, implying a sudden or very recent change in Lorena. Lorena also seems different from her Anti self: Matt made her choose love, and it seems that they lived monogamously together, but the Queen in QoH is very openly sexual with various men, or at least using sexuality to manipulate them. Maybe something happened with Lorena that resulted in her QoH transformation? My only theory is that, since she becomes the QoH at the end of Anti, her losing her love for Matt resulted in the curse making her very open to many partners. Perhaps Matt is attempting to acquire all of the suit items in order to 'cure' Lorena (why he makes Alam get the spade ring)?

One option for how everything fits together is that Anti is Alicia's introduction to the Matt/Lorena timeline. Matt tries to drag Alicia away, but she uses the Eat Me cookie and thus cements her existence in this timeline, rather than returning to her original timeline. Alicia has no home to go to, so when Matt kicks her out, she ends up at Bar Masquerade. Once the 10 years the Eat Me cookie bought her are up, Matt gives her the Drink Me to try to fix the timeline, resulting in Queen of Hearts.