#spanish miniseries

[thehotelpod]

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Hotelen español begins! Our original 16 season 1 episodes reproduced in Spanish starting April 10!

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[theghostofwilburtheworm]

i love adventure time so much it literally makes me sick

[dilemmaontwolegs]

Formula One - MiniSeries

(Stories under 20k words)

Riding Shotgun Pairing: boyfriend!Charles Leclerc x fem!reader x ex!Pierre Gasly Summary: A trip away with your boyfriend takes a turn when your ex comes along. Word Count: 3k Part One || Part Two - complete

Shades of Grey Pairing: Charles Leclerc x fem!driver!reader Summary: Reader is in a terrible crash and wishes she had the chance to tell Charles how she felt. Word Count: 8k Part One || Two || Three || Four - complete

Wild Nights Pairing: Charles Leclerc x songstress!reader Summary: After getting dumped before your wedding you decide to take your best friend on your honeymoon instead. Word Count: 12k Part One || Two || Three || Four || Five || Epilogue - complete

Another Lie Pairing: Charles Leclerc x fem!reader Summary: After breaking up, your relationship with Charles turns toxic with neither one really letting go. Word Count: 13.5k One || Two || Three || Four || Five (Charles) || Five (Max) || Blurb Request 5.1 - complete

His Best Man Pairing: Daniel Ricciardo x fem!reader Summary: With your marriage on the rocks you accept Daniel's invitation to the Mebourne GP where the best man at your wedding becomes something more. Word Count: 9k One || Two || Three - complete

305 Pairing: Logan Sargeant x fem!reader Summary: A collection of moments in the 305 - the code for Miami-Dade county where you live with Logan. Word Count: 10k One || Two || Three || Four - complete

Crazy For You Pairing: Dark!Lando Norris x fem!reader Summary: A dark, toxic romance between new neighbours where nothing is as it seems. Word Count: 8.4k Part One (Crazy For you) || Part Two (Crazy For You Too) || Part Three (Crazy For The Three Of Us) || Part Four (Crazy Forever) - complete

Playboy Pairing: Pierre Gasly x fem!reader Summary: You judge a book by its cover but he is determined to prove you wrong. Current Word Count: 10k One || Two || Three || Four - complete

A Night At The Awards Pairing: Max Verstappen x gf!reader Summary: Snapshots from the FIA Prizegiving 2023. Current Word Count: 6k Pre-Gala || The Real Prize || Jealousy || Panties || Captivity || Rocky || Escaping || Thighs || Consequences || A Mile High || New Beginnings - complete

The Best Kept Secret on the Grid Pairing: GR, CL, MV, PG, LH, CS x fem!reader Summary: Reader becomes the coveted prize for the podium winners and the reason things get a little out of hand on the track. Pure smut. Word Count: 13.3k Part One || Part Two (request) || Part Three (request) || Part Four || Part Five || Part Six - complete

Lady in Red Pairing: Carlos Sainz Jr x fem!reader, Charles Leclerc x fem!reader Summary: When a Spanish Ferrari driver works hard to get your attention it is impossible to keep turning him down, despite his complicated relationship status and empty promises, but maybe all hope is not lost in the Ferrari garage. Word Count: 8.5k One || Two || Three || Four - complete

Your Biggest Fan Pairing: Lando Norris x fem!reader Summary: In an age of anonymous internet interactions you and Lando connect on OnlyFans where he is your biggest fan in more ways than one. Word Count: 5k One || Two || SMAU || Three - complete

Transcending Time Pairing: Charles Leclerc x princess!reader Summary: Destined to be together, you and Charles’ love transcends time to find one another again and finally get the future you never had - the one with a happy ending. Current Word Count: 7k One || Two || Three - ongoing

Already Gone Pairing: Max Verstappen x spy!fem!reader Summary: You ease yourself into Max's life for a job but find it harder to leave than planned. Current Word Count: 15k One || Two || Three || Four || Five || Six || Seven - ongoing

The Perfect Life Pairing: Charles Leclerc x fem!reader Summary: On the outside it appeared you had the perfect life but Charles didn't know the secrets that had been kept from him. In order for him to succeed deals were made with your family and no price was too much to pay. Current Word Count: 19.1k One || Two || Three || Four || Five || Six || Seven || Eight - ongoing

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[budgies-with-pencils]

A (maybe) Comprehensive List of everything we know about the diner crew visually

I MAY BE MISSING STUFF. If you find anything for me to add comment! :^]

Also this is NOT meant to police anyone's designs. My designs don't follow any of this half the time. I just thought it'd be fun.

DINER CREW:

-Gloria doesn't wear makeup much [Farmhouse]

-Gloria is mexican [Duh]

-Gloria is a “tiny Spanish woman" according to Caspar [Chaos!]

-Ava is "stronger than she looks" [Big, Malevolent Thing]

-Leif has some variety of Facial Hair [Transdimensional Haboob]

-Caspar is white as hell [This is obvious emotionally, but Sheep?]

-The Mucklewains are canonically hot. [Farmhouse]

-The Mucklewains look like an "Alt-Country Duo" according to Gloria [Farmhouse]

-Zebulon does not have a mustache [Welcome to the Horizon (MB, not the miniseries)]

OTHER MAJOR CHARACTERS:

-Clementine has red hair. [several episodes]

-Clementine is, in this universe, the reference for the painting "Woman with Red Hair" by Amadeo Modigliani. This also implies that Terric, at some point, looked like painter Amadeo Modigliani, as he mentions he painted it. [Brunch]

-Ex looks, and I'm quoting directly here, "like some sort of things nerds masturbate to" [Pockets]

-Kazi's eye color changes frequently [Three Sisters]

-Kazi "Has a claw". You apparently don't want to see it. [Three Sisters]

-Kazi white as a ghost" [Three Sisters]

-Teta is incredibly tall, and has large horns [Welcome to the Triad]

-Libusa is "older than she looks" [Three Sisters]

-Libusa is bright yellow [Three Sisters]

YOUNG LEIF:

-BertBert is not a fish [Segius]

-BertBert does not have bangs [Interludes: Vela]

-BertBert has a "muscular Frame" according to Leif. [Nancy]

-Bertbert is blue [Welcome to the Triad]

-Verge looks mostly human apart from "Two Things" (one thing likely being the arms.) [The Wayfaring Stranger]

-Verge has a tattoo on their arm of all the bounty hunters they've killed. As of this episode, it has four lines [Escape from Moog]

-Verge has an extra set of arms they keep hidden [Welcome to the Triad]

[atopvisenyashill]

if westeros ever advances to the modern age with film and television, what asoiaf characters would make popular biopic leads in-universe? like, imagine a movie about elia martell being made within the asoiaf universe in the style of sofia coppola's marie antoinette but more depressing and violent.

you can pick characters from the main series or any of the historical eras.

i think robert's rebellion gets the wwii treatment in that there is a movie made about them every 5-10 business days. some of them have really interesting things to say, most of them are not particularly accurate, some of them are just phase 3 marvel esque cashgrabs. but there’s a million. there’s a whole industry.

i think nymeria’s conquest is one of those really long epic movies that randomly gets popular, like Baahubali or lawrence of arabia. aegon’s conquest is NOT popular bc no one can ever do it very well, at best it gets some c list actors and breaks even but doesn’t make a lot. the dance gets the miniseries treatment, like that white queen/spanish queen philippa gregory stuff, where there’s one prolific author and that’s it really. dunk & egg get a series of great mini series, the ones that are half-acted on history channel, that only history channel watchers ever know about.

[cinnamonspicevanilla]

Coquette Brazilian Midia. pt 1.

Hilda Furacão

- The miniseries tells the story of Hilda Furacão (Ana Paula Arósio), the most desired prostitute in the bohemian area of Belo Horizonte in the 1950s. Daughter of a traditional middle-class family, Hilda scandalized Minas Gerais society by breaking with her family and conventions, running away on her wedding day and taking refuge among prostitutes and transexuals. It is told by the point of view of a writer, since his childhood with his friends Malthus (Rodrigo Santoro, a big faunlet inspo btw), a bona fide seminarian, known by the population as The Saint, and Aramel (Thiago Lacerda) an aspiring Hollywood actor trying to learn English.

Their lives change when they see Hilda for the first time and witness her change from a fearless but rich and traditional lady and model, to the most sought after and scandalous prostitute in the entire city.

After being popularized in the city as the most beautiful and popular prostitute, Hilda is accused of being possessed by demons and Malthus decides to try to exorcise her in the Church square, only to discover that he would not be able to resist Hilda's charms, she would become his greatest object of desire and guilt.

This story is full of sensuality, anguish, Catholic guilt and other popular tropes on the community, if you like erotic dramas and thrillers, you will love it, and if you like vintage fashion, you will love it even more. If you are from a Spanish-speaking country you can most likely find the series on the internet, as it was super popular throughout Latin America, and if you speak English, I can make some episodes available via google drive, however the person who subtitles the episodes is translating one at a time, so be patient, maybe the wait will leave you wanting more ;)

I decided to make a series of posts giving recommendations about brazilian coquette/faunlet media, i felt that something about Brazil was missing, im very proud if my country's culture and media and think that it should be spread and appreciated more.

Also, aren't her outfits just so cute?

[saiiboat]

if you had to summarize cellbit in one paragraph what would you say .. i see you post so much im intrigued but im not sure if im ready for the deluge of cellbit information you surely have in your head

hi jackieeeee :33 i feel like ive just been given a homework assignment

cellbit is a brazilian game designer, roleplayer, game master, and massive variety streamer who enjoys playing and supporting a lot of indie games and frequently interacts with other devs! hes played a frankly insane amount of different games on stream. like a lot.

^^ a lot

he's also the creator of Ordem Paranormal [link], an insanely popular horror ttrpg, and gms in the ttrpg podcast of the same name ^_^ you can watch that here [link]! hes a super fucking talented gm its kinda crazy. while all of Ordem is in portuguese (with the exception of OPQ which is in english), AOP and OSNF are fully captioned in english and spanish, with OPD having the first few episodes done and more being worked on. his videogame, Enigma do Medo/Enigma of Fear, takes place in the world of Ordem and is coming out this year and he'll probably keep not streaming until it comes out, hence why you're always seeing me go insane saying i miss him. the steam page for the game is here [link] :33

he also acted in Fuga Impossível [link], Tazercraft's 2015 mcrp prison escape miniseries where he played Cell, an awful and violent inmate who antagonized Pac and Mike, as well as in QSMP (vod links here and wiki here) where he played a continuation of Cell's story, although in an alternate universe where Cell cannibalized Pac's leg during the events of Fuga. qcellbit, after escaping prison, a few years of therapy and eventually getting stuck on a shit ass island, is a father, an uncle, a husband, a brother, a friend, and a dork. he's also someone put in a situation where all of the people he loves are in danger and he would do anything, anything to save them, even becoming the person he once was and never truly stopped being. he's a very loving and self-sacrificial character who loves a good mystery perhaps a little too much. he also killed his fiance's abuelo because he was threatening their wedding. important note

[draculasfavoritewife]

Azúcar (Capítulo 1)

Summary: You know how this little game always ends, and yet you can't help playing along with it anyway.

Pairing: Miguel O'Hara x fem!Spider!Reader

Warnings: This miniseries covers a wide range of potential triggers, including heavy sexual tension, bad/nonexistent communication, depression, implied smut, using said smut as coping mechanism, mentions of child death, guilt complex, a tiny bit of emotional manipulation, avoidant attachment style (lookin' at you, Señor O'Hara), and one shameless display of my bite kink, whoops.

Note: I use the shortened version of his name "Mique" in my own writing just because I personally prefer it. Swap it with whatever nickname you prefer in your head :) For my intents and purposes, Reader understands and speaks Spanish.

This series came to me in one feverish fell swoop during the summer of 2023 because my lovely friend made the fatal mistake of introducing me to Sleep Token's song "Sugar". The lyrics were just too perfectly Miguel-coded in my twisted mind and I was violently struck by the compulsion to write my first multi-chapter songfic, with each segment inspired by a stanza of lyrics. I hope it becomes as addictive to any readers out there as it has been to me during the creative process. As mentioned in my other Miguel-centric writings, reader is a spider-hero, but I left her pretty vague on purpose -- feel free to fill in her costume/powers/skill set with your own spidersona!

*Spanish translations at the end! (I am fairly bilingual, but if I made a lil mistake here or there do forgive me)

And you play a twisted little game...

“Miguel? Babe? You here?” You narrow your eyes to scan the darkened apartment, cursing under your breath at the way the shadows crouch so thickly in every corner and wishing, not for the first time, that your powers included night vision like his. When he leaves the lights out, you are reduced to mere muscle memory of the furniture layout to avoid crashing into everything and bruising your shins. 

He doesn’t answer.

If he is back, he’s being stubbornly silent. 

Hijo de puta. 

“Mique?” 

You fumble for the light switch, but just as your fingertips make contact with it, a massive hand pins yours under an iron grip, keeping you from illuminating your living space. 

“Leave ‘em off for a bit. Los ojos me duelen.” His velvety voice sounds rough and bone-tired, more and more of a frequent occurrence lately. You’re worried about him, but he barely lets you in much further than he does anyone else.

Keep them all at arm’s length. 

If putting up walls was an Olympic sport, Miguel O’Hara would hold the world record, you think. 

Funny, that it somehow still hasn’t stopped you from trying to climb over them. 

You sigh and let your hand go limp, but his tense hold remains, pinning your arm to the wall. “Why didn’t you say anything when I called, huh?” 

As your eyes adjust bit by bit to the dim, you catch the rise and fall of his immense shoulders in a flippant shrug. “Your spider-sense would have warned you if I was a danger. I didn’t see the point.” 

A spark of anger ignites in the bottom of your chest. “The point is that I just wanted to know if you were here tonight or not, you ass.” 

He lets you go and stalks away in the direction of the main window, and for as annoyed as you are, you can’t help the stab of sheer admiration as always at the way his statuesque form can move like no more than one of the shadows themselves. Miguel is a towering man, yet still walks with the silent grace that many of his lither counterparts possess.

“Well, now you know. I’m here. And since my presence only seems to further upset you, I’ll go now. Good to see you’re alright after today’s mission. Adios, Corazón.” 

Damn him.

Damn him. 

You know you should just let him leave. Watch him slip out through that open window and plunge down into the lightless night. You’ll see him tomorrow, after all. Telling him to stay will only make this frustrating, nameless tangle the two of you share that much harder to unwind later.

He knows all of that, too, and also knows exactly what he’s doing by calling you the name that only ever leaves his lips in the undisturbed quiet of your unmade bed. He’s playing one of his little games, and you both know it, and you know why he does it, why he is the way he is, and yet you still can’t do what you know you should. 

“Mique….” 

He flicks a glance over his shoulder at you, crimson eyes smoldering in the dark. 

You let out a long exhale, suddenly weary. 

“Stay here, tonight.” 

And just like that, you’ve willingly surrendered to his proverbial web once again. 

Hijo de puta = Son of a bitch

Los ojos me duelen = My eyes hurt

Corazón = Heart (here used as term of endearment)

(2)

[justforbooks]

David Soul, who has died aged 80, stormed to fame in the 1970s as half of the television “buddies” detective duo Starsky and Hutch, who careered across Los Angeles in their red and white Ford Gran Torino, over the roofs and bonnets of other cars, and through piles of cardboard boxes.

“When the Starsky and Hutch series was showing, police on patrol duty were adopting sunglasses and wearing their gloves with the cuffs turned down,” claimed Kenneth Oxford, a British chief constable. “They also started driving like bloody maniacs.” In south London, a council lowered a wall after fans of the tyre-squealing screen action used it as a launchpad to jump on to parked vehicles.

While Paul Michael Glaser played the streetwise, cardigan-wearing, junk food-eating Dave Starsky, Soul’s character, Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson, was the quieter, yoga-loving, healthy-eating one – two cool cops looking after each other as if they were brothers.

Over five series (1975-79), they patrolled a rough area populated by muggers, drug dealers, sex workers and pimps. They also fraternised with Huggy Bear (played by Antonio Fargas), a snazzily dressed, “jive-talking” informant with his own bar.

Soul traded on his newfound stardom to return to his first love, music. He recorded the ballads Don’t Give Up on Us (1976), a No 1 in the US and UK, and Silver Lady (1977), another British chart-topper.

His television career continued, but the starring roles rarely resonated beyond his homeland. An exception was the miniseries World War III (1982), in which he played an American cold war colonel trying to avert a nuclear holocaust. It also chimed with his political and social campaigning, which included supporting the anti-nuclear movement.

He took up the tempting offer to play Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1983), a five-part TV prequel to the film classic, in the role originally played by Humphrey Bogart, but it proved a flop.

Soul found renewed success – particularly on the West End stage – after moving to Britain in the 90s. He even hit the headlines beyond the review pages in the title role of Jerry Springer the Opera (Cambridge theatre, 2004-05), taking over from another American actor, Michael Brandon, as the “shock” talkshow host.

The BBC’s decision to screen Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee’s musical, complete with thousands of swear words, transvestites, tap-dancers dressed as Ku Klux Klan members and a nappy-wearing Jesus, received more than 60,000 complaints from viewers.

Soul simply relished the chance to fulfil his “dream to play in the birthplace of English-speaking theatre” after failing to “cut the mustard” when auditioning on Broadway.

He was born David Solberg in Chicago to June (nee Nelson), a teacher who had also performed as a singer, and Richard Solberg, a Lutheran minister of Norwegian descent. His father’s work as a representative of the Lutheran World Relief organisation during the reconstruction of Germany after the second world war meant the family moved to Berlin in 1949, returning to the US seven years later to live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where David attended Washington high school.

He then acted in plays while studying at Augustana College, before moving to Mexico with his family. Influenced by his father’s work, he initially had plans to join the diplomatic service, and learned Spanish and studied Latin American history. He was also taught to play the guitar by Mexican students.

After a year, he hitchhiked to the US, landed a job singing Mexican folk songs at a coffee shop in Minneapolis and set his sights on a career in music. He also gained some acting experience with the city’s Firehouse theatre company.

While talking with friends about the metaphorical masks people wear, he came up with the idea of wearing a real one while performing so that the music stood on its own merits, and billed himself “David Soul, the Covered Man”. The William Morris Agency signed him up after hearing a demo tape, and he soon had bookings. One was in The Merv Griffin Show on TV between 1966 and 1968, when he eventually dispensed with the mask. More significantly, a talent agent spotted his acting potential.

He had a regular role in Here Come the Brides (1968-70), a comedy western series set after the civil war, as Joshua Bolt, one of the brothers running a logging company in a male-dominated Seattle frontier town and importing marriageable women.

A guest star, Karen Carlson, became Soul’s second wife (1968-77), following the dissolution of his first marriage, to Mirriam “Mim” Russeth, in 1966, three years after their wedding.

Soul was then popping up all over American TV in guest roles himself, and had a short run in 1974 as Ted Warrick, the defence lawyer’s assistant, in Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, before wider fame came in Starsky and Hutch. By then, he was living in an “open” relationship with another actor, Lynne Marta. When he moved on to his third marriage, to Patti (nee Carnel, 1980-86), former wife of the 60s pop idol Bobby Sherman, he hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

In 1982, having already struck Patti several times, he returned home drunk one night following a day’s filming on Casablanca – which he correctly feared would bomb – and hit her repeatedly. He was arrested on a charge of misdemeanour battery, but a judge spared him jail on condition that he underwent therapy. Soul admitted to having a violent streak and, although he and Patti were reunited, the marriage was soon over.

He kept working, landing starring roles as Roy Champion in the cattle ranch soap-style drama The Yellow Rose (1983-84), the private eye of the title in the TV movie Harry’s Hong Kong (1987), and “Wes” Grayson, leading an FBI forensics team, in Unsub (1989), but his star was on the wane. Another marriage, to Julia Nickson (1987-1993), also failed, before he had a relationship with the actor-singer Alexa Hamilton.

Soul’s career was revived when in 1995 the theatre producer Bill Kenwright was looking for an American to star in the comedy thriller Catch Me If You Can on tour in Britain. He played Corban, a newlywed whose wife goes missing. There were other tours and Soul was in the West End as Hank in The Dead Monkey (Whitehall, now Trafalgar, theatre, 1998), Chandler Tate in Alan Ayckbourn’s Comic Potential (Lyric, 1999-2000) and Mack in Mack & Mabel (Criterion, 2006).

In between, he had one-off roles on British television, including as a locum surgeon in two episodes of Holby City (2001 and 2002), a Boston detective helping to investigate his wife’s murder in Dalziel and Pascoe (2004) and a criminology lecturer in Inspector Lewis (2012). Soul and Glaser had cameos in the 2004 film spoof Starsky & Hutch, alongside Ben Stiller as Starsky and Owen Wilson as Hutch. In the same year, Soul was granted British citizenship.

He is survived by his fifth wife, Helen (nee Snell), whom he married in 2010, and five sons and a daughter.

🔔 David Soul (David Richard Solberg), actor and singer, born 28 August 1943; died 4 January 2024

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[fictionadventurer]

4 6 and 10 for the book asks? :D

4. Most anticipated book release of the second half of the year

The only new book release I can think of is that Rachel Kovaciny has a book coming out that's a retelling of "The Ugly Duckling" set in a Spanish-California-inspired fantasy realm. And that does sound like a cool concept.

6. Biggest surprise

So I started watching the Vanity Fair miniseries, and I thought it was a uniquely modern creative choice for them to have meta-scenes of the narrator talking to the audience, so I was surpised to find that all of that was directly from the book. In general, I was shocked by the rollicking Wodehouse-turned-up-to-a-thousand tone of the book--everything I'd heard about it made me expect a depressing slog. And then I was surprised by how much I cared about the characters, given how unrelenting the author was in criticizing them.

10. A book that made you happy

Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes has this lovely atmosphere of a heightened fairy tale world, where everything that happens is technically possible, but can only happen this way in this story world. It did go too far--not everyone speaks in inspirational metaphors all the time, Amanda, and that treasure hunt was absurdly overcomplicated so by the end I was frustrated with the lost potential of the story--but in general, that atmosphere fit very well with the elements of Old Hollywood that made up parts of the plot, and it was a lovely reading experience.

[disasterarea-podcast]

A listener named Tobi was nice enough to give me a head’s-up that Netflix had a five-episode miniseries named “The Endless Night” about the Kiss Nightclub fire in 2013. Which I’ve been tempted to do an episode on, but the book this miniseries was based on isn’t translated into English, or at least not that I can find. I can fumble my way through Spanish and Swedish, but not Portuguese, alas.

I will warn to those who want to watch that the first two episodes deal with the fire and the parents looking for their children, so if that might trigger you, tread lightly.

The Kiss nightclub fire was caused by pyrotechnics set off inside the club which set fire to soundproofing and killed 242 people. If the cause sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same thing brought down the Station in Rhode Island, and the Lame Horse in Perm, Russia, and Club Colectiv in Bucharest, Romania.

*hits nightclub owners over the head with a rolled-up newspaper*

Stop. Allowing. Pyrotechnics. In. The. Nightclub.

[blackghostm2o]

Lil stupid story time . Pfft, hahaah. (Plus ramblings about the series itself)

So… My fried and I were trying to watch And “Then there were none” or “10 little Indians” she remember watching a rather new movie about it (probably 2017/2018) but we couldn’t find it neither in Italian nor in English (even tho now that I think about it, at least me, it could have been confused this with “Murder at the Oriental Express” which actually came out in 2017).

And, a bit desperate, I was: “Do you know any actors? We could look up their name and we could search it between their movies.” She clearly didn’t (understandable) and was looking at the cast of the 2015 BBC miniseries and slowly read “Charles Dance”. And I repeated the name and then it clicked, the actor that was Erik in the 1990 miniseries! So I was “CHARLES DANCE!?!? YOOOOO!!! I wanted to see something else in which he was in!” And now I was much more eager to see this version of it, heh.

THIS MINISERIES IS REALLY GOOD THO, you should check it out.

SPOILERS AHEAD (I need to yap about this a lil). BIG YAPPING SESSION, BEWARE.

The miniseries has 3 episodes, each 1 h long.

I haven’t read the novel (my friend did) and the only thing that I know is that everyone dies (I asked her), but not who’s the killer.

I love how right from the start there’s this atmosphere of uneasiness: the place is gloomy, the music is ominous, the guests seem to barely tolerate each other (which is true) and the circumstances of how they where invited are a bit strange. Also really like how you see all the characters slowly going mad (some more than others), abandoning all their nice facades and giving in to their more unpleasant characteristics, also slowly accepting what they did and confessing to it (not everyone obviously, but the endgame people sure do)

Basically the 10 people here are all guilty of something (the 10 lil Indians or soliders) and get killed based on a nursery rhyme, by the same name, tho some actions are more dire than others and the order of the killings are based on that (my friend made me notice that).

The ten little soldiers and how they are killed (not in order):

- Mr and Mrs Rogers: the keepers of the house. He killed a wealthy woman in her sleep (basically pulled a James Sunderland) and his wife didn’t denounce it. The man got slaughtered with an axe (foreshadowed by a long sghot (?) of the axe) (chopped himself in a half”) and the woman killed in her sleep (probably with the pillow) (“overslept himself”)

- General MacArthur: General during WWI. He discovered that his wife had an affair with a good friend of his so he shot him in the head and… Yk… He was counted as a victim of the battlefield. Well… His wife died shortly afterwards, because of the Spanish flu so it was all useless. Gets his head cracked open outside the house. (Stayed in Devon).

- Dr. Armstrong: a doctor who was specialised in female neurosis (how lovely), he obviously was a fucking misogynist. He failed (really badly) a surgery… Probably was too drunk for it? He is shown drinking to alleviate the shaking of his hands, so probably did the same in that occasion. Medical malpractice, yay! I really find it amusing how the was one of the first ones to loose his marbles… He really went crazy and paranoid, didn’t trust Philip and especially Vera (they heated each other’s guts a lot, making jabs at each other right from the start). He was the most fragile of the guests and the most unbalanced, really ironic considering how he treated people with neurosis. Found outside near the coast all wet and with seaweed on him, probably drowned. (“A Red herring swallowed one”)

- Anthony Marston: the first to die. Your average rich young man that could do whatever the fuck he wanted with daddy’s money. Was obsessed with cars (he treated his own like his wife, my god). Always speeding, run over 2 children, says that it was their parents fault, because they have let the children out at night (it was in the countryside and they had some lamps). This mf, who doesn’t feel guilty, only got his license revoked for 6 months, no jail time no nothing… Really annoying mf, used to take “stimulants” (drugs, but our good gentlemen obviously cannot use that rude and unstylish word). Killed with Cyanide (“chocked himself”).

- William Blore: a pig (policeman). As pigs do, he has beaten a criminal to death, he should have let him go, but didn’t do it. One of the last standing ones, he breaks down when left with Philip and Vera and confesses, he also reached the deeper end and was “What if we are all already dead and this is just Hell?”. Him talking about his lil piece of land, gives him some humanity and makes us almost feel bad for him. Stabbed to death (“A bear hugged one”)

- Emily Brent: I’m a bit confused about her character… She’s into those teaching circles, about what a good woman should do and whatnot and had taken a girl “under her wing” to teach her… My confusion comes from here… There’s a scene in which she is sucking the bleeding finger of the girl, so sexual tension… Does that mean the she SA the poor girl and then abandoned her when she wanted to tell everything? Then the girl threw herself under a train… She got stubbed at the neck with a crochet hook (“A bumblebee stung one”)

- Philip Lombard: a mercenary, killed 21 men for some diamonds (your average white colonialist). In his case I was pretty sure that he wasn’t the killer, it would have been too obvious, he is the only one that immediately admits his crime. He is a sick mf for what he has done, but he is in peace with himself, really nonchalant about it. He gets shoot by Vera Claythorne (multiple times), because she didn’t trust him, as I said he was the obvious choice (a gun for hire, man with no morals) and the “only other left” besides her. (“Frizzled up”)

- Vera Claythorne: a secretary. So… The series wants you to believe that she’s the one last standing, there are many shots in which she is seen with a noose (like at the start when she was in the train) or something related (the hook on the ceiling)… So you are like: “Everyone has to die, so she’s killing everyone and then herself.” Tho towards the end Bill gets killed and she is following (not closely) Philip and this throws you off a lil bit: “It couldn’t have been her. Are they just killing each other, because they cannot trust anyone???”. It is shown her true story, how she wanted to kill Cybill so Hugo could get rich and then live a happy life with Vera (what a bitch… Poor child) and this leaves you a bit shocked (a pretty big twist, am I right?), because throughout the whole thing she seems the more guilty ridden of everyone so you don’t expect that shit. She goes to hang herself (obviously). (“He went out and hanged himself”).

NOW THERE’S THE REAL BIG PLOT TWIST! SPOILER!!!

You might say “Hey! What about the 10th person?” LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THAT MF, MY FRIEND.

THE REAL LAST PERSON IS THE JUDGE LAWRENCE WARGRAVE!… (Charles Dance, btw)

This man was a judge and was really well known for the fact that he watched every hanging of the people he sentenced to death, so we are lead to think that this is another sick fuck that enjoys this shit. His crime is convicting a dude (don’t remember his name) who apparently was a serial killer, but the way this is shown and the fact that he refused the hood makes us think that in reality he was innocent. While watching this I wasn’t really convinced by his mannerisms… He was too calm, too collected for that situation, everyone was going mad (even Philip) and it is mentioned that he had cancer (tho HE tells us that he was able to get rid of it)… So I obviously was: “Ok… It has to be him, he doesn’t have anything to loose, probably the cancer will come again and is TOO collected. I don’t trust this mf.” But then HE GETS SHOT TO THE HEAD!!! So obviously we all are: “Oh… So it wasn’t him… He’s dead… Huh.” And you are still left to wonder who is the killer. The thing is , AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS, HE IS NOT DEAD!!!! HE MADE AN ALLIANCE WITH THE DOCTOR (who was too paranoid of the others and already had shown trust to the judge “we are both fine and intelligent men, not like these other people”) TO FAKE HIS DEATH WITH SOME LIVER AND OTHER ORGANS (previously shown missing in the fridge). THE DR CHECKED AND PRONOUNCED HIM DEAD AND EVERYONE BELIEVED HIM. Those 2 met outside at night and Wargrave killed Armstrong…

The scene in which he appears made me loose my shit: we have Vera trying to hang herself and then we hear rustling and THE FUCKING JUDGE OPENS THE DOOR!!!! Then they talk, she is slowly dying of asphyxiation because she lost her balance on the chair and is barely touching it and begging Wargrave to help her and to give the blame to Philip. After calmly sitting next to her he starts listening to her (while watching her dying) and hen explains everything and how that specific hanging (of the serial killer, who, btw, was NOT INNOCENT) made him realise how similar they were, tho the dude killed innocents and he only guilty people. He also says that the cancer was spreading (so he really had nothing to loose). Listens to Vera’s pleads for help in such a cold way, probably used to it and most likely finding her revolting (for what she did and for how quickly she wanted to betray Philip, they had sex the previous night and were being together a lot). He’s also pretty sassy here, because she was asking why and he was “I have a strong sense of duty (he explained previously in the 3rd ep to the remaining people.) I thought that I made that clear.” She was also saying that he couldn’t kill himself because the gun was empty so to help her, then he shows one bullet “You forgot the bullet that killed me” and gets up AND NONCHALANTLY TAKES HER CHAIR AND GOES AWAY AFTER CLOSING THE DOOR.

The last scene is him going to the dining room setting 2 glasses of wine and 2 tissues at the opposite ends of the ramble, cleans the gun and shoots himself and the gun slides to the opposite end of the table. He is smiling.

I loved this miniseries so fucking much, that’s why I’m blabbing about it. Oh, Wargrave’s character is fantastic. This is a very well written story, the tension… The uncertainty… The twists, I should try to read some of Agatha Christie’s novels.

The actors did a good job :)

[dil3mma]

The David Tennant brainrot is spreading faster than I thought. Yesterday I finished Takin' Over the Asylum and today I've watched both Hamlet and a YouTube miniseries called Posh Nosh where he appears for literally five seconds as an Spanish tennis coach and then dies only to come back as another tennis coach. I need help.

[foul-z-fowl]

Soooo I know probably no one cares, but I was bored this afternoon and decided to make a list of historical period dramas following the history of the English monarchs

(Note: these are all DRAMAS. None of them are perfectly historically accurate, several of them are downright offensive. Also, several British monarchs are multiple depictions and some had none. I did my best, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. Do your own research on each of the films for any triggers or content warnings.)

William the Conqueror- The Early Life of William the Conqueror, up to the Battle of Hasting and the Invasion of 1066

1066- William the Conqueror, the invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings

[William II does not have any film dedicated to his life or his reign (that was usable, anyway]

[Henry I does not have any film dedicated to his life or his reign]

Pillars of Earth- This series does not focus on it, but it is set to the backdrop of the Anarchy, which is absolutely fascinating, and it is a crime we do not have any good films about Empress Matilda

The Lion in Winter- Henry II and Elanor of Aquitaine (another woman who needs her own miniseries)

Richard the Lionheart (2021)- Richard I

King John (1899!)- John I [ALL of the other movies with these two were fucking Robin Hood movies]

[Henry III has never been depicted in film]

Outlaw King- Edward I

Edward II- Edward II (this is Piers Gaveston erasure that I could only find this one film)

The Dark Avenger- Edward III (and Edward the Black Prince as a bonus!)

Richard II- Richard II (any adaptation works, there are multiple)

The Hollow Crown- Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V

The King- Henry IV and Henry V

[Henry VI has no film depictions of his life or reign. WHICH IS A CRIME GIVE ME MARGARET OF ANJOU YOU FUCKING COWARDS!)]

The White Queen- Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, and Henry VII (plus a fuckton of other historical figures)

Richard III: The Princes in the Tower- Richard III, Edward V

Richard III- Richard III (any adaptation will work, there are multiple. Be forewarned that although modern portrayals tend to be sympathetic, Shakespeare thought he was dick and it shows.)

The White Princess- Henry VII (plus his family)

The Spanish Princess- The last years of Henry VII's reign, the beginning of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's marriage, and Prince Arthur! (Still salty we haven't had a KING Arthur yet)

The Tudors- Henry VII (+plus his six wives and Mary I) (Henry VII has an absolute fuckton of movies about each of his wives, I recommend picking a few more from the list) (also, be warned that this show is as historically inaccurate as shit, but good for drama)

The Prince & The Pauper- Edward VI (I don't think this one is very historically accurate either, but the most interesting thing about this Edward was his birth and death sooooo)

Lady Jane- Jane Grey

[Mary I has no film depictions of her life or reign (GIVE US A MOVIE YOU COWARDS!) (She does appear in the Tudor's and in some of Elizabeth I's shows though)]

Becoming Elizabeth- Elizabeth I (plus her siblings, I think)

Reign- Mary, Queen of Scots (VERY historically inaccurate, but one of my favorite period dramas. Mary's story is also very important to Elizabeth I and James I's)

Mary, Queen of Scots- Mary, Queen of Scots & Elizabeth I (2018) (this show covers the time in between Mary arriving in England and being executed)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age- Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I- Elizabeth I (2005)

Mary & George- James I & VI (This one isn't out yet, but none of James' other movies are that great- like AT ALL, and this one looks like its shaping up to be interesting)

[Charles I has no film depictions of his life or reign (which is very disappointing- this guy was so awful he got his head cut off and caused a civil war! Where's the vilification?)]

To Kill a King- Oliver Cromwell (+ a little Charles I)

Cromwell- Oliver Cromwell

Charles II: The Power and the Passion- Charles II

[James II has no film dedicated to his life or reign (another one that's a shame, this guy was so unpopular he was ALSO chased off the throne. Down with the Tudors, I want to see some Stuart movies)]

[William III and Mary II have no film dedicated to their joint reign.]

The Favourite- Anne I

[George I has no film dedicated to his life or reign]

[George II has no film dedicated to his life or reign]

Queen Charlotte- George III (and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)(this one also isn't out yet, but it will be in 2023)

The Madness of King George- George III (and George IV)

A Royal Scandal- George IV

[William IV has no film dedicated to his life or reign]

The Young Victoria- Victoria I

Mrs. Brown- Victoria I

Victoria & Abdul- Victoria I

Edward the Seventh- Edward VII

[George V has no film dedicated to his life or reign]

The Woman He Loved- Edward VIII (and Wallis Nazi Simpson)

Bertie and Elizabeth- George VI (and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon)

The King's Speech- George VI (and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon

The Crown- Queen Elizabeth II

Spencer- Charles III (and Princess Diana)

[brigdh]

Tagged (ages ago, whoops!) by @saiditallbefore and @coyotesuspect!

Last song: 'No Place Like London', Sweeney Todd, Original Broadway Cast. I got to see the current run of Sweeney Todd for my birthday earlier this week, and while I really liked the production generally, the lead does not have a deep enough voice for Sweeney. So obviously I had to relisten to some previous casts to correct this mistake.

Favourite colour: Always so hard to choose! Blue, maybe? Or green? Or purple? But red's also very good....

Last Book: Currently in the middle of Imperial Spain: 1469 - 1716 by J.H. Elliott. I've been slowly making my way through Don Quixote over the last five months or so with a bookclub, and I realized that I needed some more context. I've also been realizing that, while I know British and French and American history fairly well, I am pretty ignorant about Spanish history. Anyway, this is the book that everyone seems to recommend for the period I'm interested in, and it is quite good, but it was written in the 1960s and you can frequently tell.

Last Movie: Just saw Civil War this afternoon. It was very good at keeping the tension and had some gorgeous shots, but ultimately felt weirdly empty.

Last TV Show: Shogun! I've really been enjoying the new miniseries, though I'm an episode behind and need to catch up.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Usually savory, but I need all three for a complete meal.

Relationship status: Married to @lettersfromtitan!

Last thing i googled: a tax form, so I will not be putting specifics here. :D Before that, "wavewalker by suzanne heywood", which I saw someone mention. It apparently is a memoir about an awful childhood.

Current obsession(s): Nothing in particular, I think? I have been doing a deep-dive on Early Modern Spanish history – the book up above is the fifth one I've read this year, not counting Don Quixote itself, and I've also been doing some research on early textile making, though I haven't quite found the angle I want to take there.

Looking Forward To: I have tickets to see Monkey Man tomorrow, and I can't wait!

tag 9 people: @schmirius, @napneeders, @petrichorca, @thewalrus-said, @badgerette, @why-worry-do-it-later, @sixappleseeds, @peregrineroad, and @starberrywine! Only if you want to, of course. <3

[accirax]

Decided to finally check out Disventure Camp and Reality Resort after seeing so much art for them on twitter and my goodness I need Monica to win Reality Resort.

Also have any first thoughts on the Disventure Camp season 4 cast? Personally I'm already theorizing that Alessio is going to make it into the Top 5.

glad you're enjoying Reality Resort! (and Disventure Camp, although that's obviously less relevant to my personal involvement.) while I obviously can't say anything about Monica's odds of winning the competition, i'm happy to hear that there's someone out there rooting for her :D

as for DC4, all of the art and voice acting i've seen so far looks really good. especially, as everyone's noted, those awesome front views and side profiles. i'm not jealous of them or anything...... not at all.......

despite the... controversial ending to All Stars and a hit-or-miss track record in the miniseries, i'm really rooting for DC4 to be a banger. i certainly think it has the potential to be that way!

in terms of how people will place, i might make a more thorough predictions post once all of the audition tapes are released, so i won't analyze too much here. however, i can share my pre-thoughts to those thoughts!

back in July, when the casting call first came out, i made this poll asking the people who they thought would win based on the sample lines only. i voted for "Cecilia," which turned out to be Hannah. while I don't think that Hannah is a bad choice, necessarily, i made that prediction back when i thought that Jake was going to win All Stars. given that Riya won instead, that leaves us with 3 female winners and 1 male winner across the four seasons. therefore, i now find it likely that the winner of DC4 will either be a guy or nonbinary.

given that, i've sort of started to think that Spencer might win? it's partially based off of my theory that he and Logan will be in a relationship. Logan's third audition line mentions his "family not being keen" on his matters of the heart, while Spencer has the line "he broke my heart." both of those make me think that the characters might be into men, and given ONC's love for shipping, two 20-year-old MLMs are bound to have some sort of romance bloom between them. they even have an elder gay sports coach father figure (Richard) for Logan's sports-loving homophobic-parents-having ass to help them along!

now, being in a relationship doesn't mean you're guaranteed to make it far into the game-- Will and Ashley placed 16/16 and 12/16 on the season in which they got together. but, c'mon. these are your attractive young white gays! who else are they supposed to spam thumbnails for? (/j) if i'm right, i could honestly see one of Spencer or Logan winning as a sort of redemption for Jake not winning, in the sense that they didn't wind up having a winner who fills Jake's "niche." and then i favor Spencer over Logan just because i think it would be more interesting. but it could definitely be Logan, too.

otherwise, i suspect that, if Isabel isn't, like, the first boot, she'll last a while, because why would you otherwise make a nun if you didn't have some sort of plan for her? i also expect Tristan and Natalia to last a while, because it would be a shame to waste such seemingly cool characters on an early boot. as for first boot potential... idk, Ivy's not giving me a whole lot? and it's weird that Diego doesn't have a VA (english or spanish) yet.

thanks for the ask! this was fun.