#suzanne campbell

[cokedupblonde]

me & who

[kikistrikesagain]

ITS JUST AN INFANT

im making a tuc-epic animatic and here is my VERY important preview for the fans

[emerdoodls]

wishing i was good at writing bc theres a concept thats been bouncing around in my head of like. an outsider pov fic about the campbell family throughout all five books. or like a bunch of fics. idk.

[disarmluna]

[anxiousdragoncollector]

Do you think Haymitch is to Prim as Ripred is to Lizzie?

[overandunderland]

It's Not a Sleepover (Seeker Of The Warrior Chapter 9 Excerpt)

"Your kids will walk through these doors again, no matter what. Even if I don't," he promised, his voice steady yet tinged with a finality that belied the seriousness of his commitment.

The implication of his words was stark; he was prepared to ensure their safety at any cost, even if it meant sacrificing his own well-being.

The air seemed to thicken with the weight of his promise, the room charged with a mix of apprehension and a deep, unspoken understanding. Grace felt a chill run through her as she processed his words, the reality of the situation settling around her like a heavy cloak.

The tension in the room reached a crescendo as Owen pressed, his voice blending urgency with a stark, commanding edge. "I need you to say that you understand, Grace."

Grace's response was quick, her voice tinged with rising panic. "Owen, I DON’T understand—" she began, her words trailing into a plea as she grappled with the enormity of the situation thrust upon her.

“I need you to say okay Grace. If I don’t come back—"

"Stop saying that! I'm not going to tell you to d–" Her protest was cut short, her voice cracking under the strain of emotion, her eyes glistening with the beginnings of emotion. She had barely been able to agree to let them go, to shoulder this type of assurance. That wasn't fair, not to any of them. But the boy wasn't letting up, he was unrelenting in his pressure. Like the rats, snarling against the glass, slobbering and scratching the walls of their tiny apartment back in New York. She could almost hear them again, chattering, squeaking getting louder and louder in her brain. Untill Owens voice cut through:

“Say Ok.”

“OKAY!" The word burst from Grace in a yell, her voice echoing off the walls, laden with frustration and fear, the acknowledgment forced from her by the unyielding circumstances.

A heavy, tense silence enveloped the room, broken only by the distant chirps of morning birds and the soft rustle of leaves outside—a stark contrast to the internal swell. After a moment that seemed to stretch endlessly, Grace spoke again, her voice shaky, through her clenched teeth.

"If it comes down to you or my kids, You will make sure they come home."

Have I told y'all how much I love Grace Campbell?

Chapter 9 is out now ❤️💜

[banji-effect]

The Philadelphia 11

[passionatepages]

What I read in 2023:

23: Paper towns by John Green ( 4 stars)

22: My heart is a chainsaw by stephen graham jones ( 5 stars)

21: You by caroline kepnes ( 3 stars)

20: I was here by Gayle Forman ( i didn't rate)

19: behind her eyes by sarah pinborough ( 3 stars)

18: layla by Colleen Hoover ( 5 stars)

17: Capturing the devil by Kerri Maniscalo ( 5 stars)

16: becoming the dark prince by Kerri Maniscalo ( 5 stars)

15: escaping from houdini by Kerri Maniscalo ( 5 stars)

14: Hunting Prince dracula by Kerri Maniscalo ( 5 stars)

13: stalking jack the ripper by Kerri Maniscalo ( 5 stars)

12: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover ( 5 stars)

11: verity by Colleen Hoover ( 4 stars)

10: who goes there by John w campbell Jr ( 2 stars)

9: it starts with us by Colleen Hoover ( 5 stars)

8: it ends with us by Colleen Hoover ( 5 stars)

7: the orc's bride by Layla fae ( 3 stars)

6: that's not what happened by kody keplinger ( 4 stars)

5: what have we done by Alex finlay ( 4 stars)

4: all the bright places by Jennifer niven ( 5 stars)

3: the silent patient by Alex michaelides ( 3 stars)

2: the hunger games by Suzanne Collins ( 5 stars)

1: the fault in our stars by John Green ( 4 stars)

[remotecontrolledangel]

Women and Slavery Volume II: The Modern Atlantic edited and by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller

[adamwatchesmovies]

Icebreaker (2000)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

If you adore Bruce Campbell, Icebreaker might have some appeal as a movie that’s so bad it’s good. This Die Hard clone feels like one bad call after another but to get to those unintentional laughs, you’ll have to stay awake during the agonizingly slow first half.

It’s the biggest ski vacation weekend of the year and ski patrol officer Matt Poster (Sean Astin) is about to have a very bad day. The night before, a plane carrying stolen nuclear materials crashed into Kilington mountain and the terrorists responsible have sent a team of professionals to retrieve the cargo from the crash site. With the F.B.I. hot on their trail, the terrorists descend on Killington mountain, taking everyone at the summit lodge hostage, including Matt’s girlfriend (Suzanne Turner) and parents. Away from the lodge to search for a lost skier, Matt makes a startling discovery… the plane. The terrorists are well armed and well trained but Matt knows the mountain like the back of his hand. Its high altitude action as Matt makes a dangerous choice... to take on the terrorists and free the hostages.

That summary I just provided you? It's the blurb on the back of the DVD cover. Typos and all. You know you’ve got something special when it's longer than the film’s Wikipedia entry. From that “preview”, you can deduce most, if not all of what's incoming. You’ll wish the film would get to it instead of wasting time setting up a needlessly complicated backstory for everyone involved but in the meantime there are a couple of chuckles to be had. Bruce Campbell as. the terrorist's leader is hamming it up but his performance is dwarfed by his “Canadian” goons, none of which sound anything like any Canadian I’ve ever met. I’d go back and double-check that I heard the dialogue correctly but my DVD doesn’t have subtitle options so I just won’t. It’d be a waste of my time, just like watching this movie was.

Sean Astin is trying, but he's ill-fitted for the role of an action movie star. He’s too cuddly and not the least bit intimidating, even when armed. The film seems to be aware of this, which is why it makes him into a completely ineffectual action hero. Count the bodies. At the end of the day, the comic-relief buffoon has more notches on his belt than the lead!

The cheapo production, combined with the many excessive shots of the ski resort where the film was shot often makes Icebreaker seem more like a commercial than a legitimate movie. The chemistry between the romantic leads is non-existent. The plot alternates between "clunky" and "laughable". The action scenes will have you rolling your eyes or picking your jaw off the floor (did they really expect us to buy that?). At the end of the day, it’s an utterly forgettable film. Pair it up with Die Hard on your "Good Movie, Good Bad Movie Night" and you’ll enjoy tearing this movie apart but there’s nothing here for anyone other than those who like bad movies. Even then, you could find "better" things to watch. (On DVD, February 7, 2020)

[jolieeason]

WWW Wednesday: March 15th, 2023

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? I am not doing a personal or reading/blog section this week. I have been and still am super busy these past couple of weeks. I will be back to normal updates within the next couple of weeks (I…

[dangermousie]

So I started reading The Captive based on your post the other day (I am invested) and now I’m hoping you have other period romance novel recs because I love them when they hit but they don’t always 😭

Oh, I dooooooooooo!

The King's Falcon by Stella Riley

Earlier stuff by Elizabeth Hoyt

Anna Campbell's The Captive of Sin

MJ Putney's One Perfect Rose

Anything by Laura Kinsale but especially Flowers from the Storm

Meredith Duran's At Your Pleasure and The Sins of Lord Lockwood

Stuff in this post: https://dangermousie.tumblr.com/post/164254742936/three-book-series-with-jacobites-named-alex-and this post https://dangermousie.tumblr.com/post/44264765206/janoda-said-omg-you-read-romance-i-really-like and this post

and here https://dangermousie.tumblr.com/post/56327193377/who-are-your-top-5-romance-novel-otps

and here https://dangermousie.tumblr.com/post/45584789003/seeing-that-i-am-currently-stuck-in-santiago-while

Also:

[kikistrikesagain]

Just more TUC character designs! Trying to do more but have no clue how to draw small children, bats, rats, or bugs so….

[emerdoodls]

i'm regressing (i'm drawing underland chronicles fanart)

[yama-bato]

Detail, James Turrell’s “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion

Mabry Campbell

more: mabrycampbell.com

[plutodetective]

I have to work today, but there’s a lot I want to say about Jonathan and gender, and I won’t have the time to organize it in a proper essay, so here are some points:

1) Of fucking course men can have characteristics usually attributed to women and still be men. I’m working on a series of sci-fi adaptations of fairy tales, and in my Sleeping Beauty the protagonist is a (cisgender) boy, precisely because I want boys to see they can be vulnerable and need rescue too. And I completely understand if someone prefers to see Jonathan as a cis man because it’s so rare to see men in this role, surviving abuse, when it does happen in real life. I start my Gothic Heroine Support Group fic with Belle making precisely this point. Men can be prey, women can be predators. She knows this because that’s what happened to the original Beast, and kudos to Gabrielle Suzanne de Villeneuve, the author of the original Beauty and the Beast, for making this point centuries ago.

2) That being said, Jonathan seems to identify with women on a deeper level than being on a role in which women usually are. For me, what cements the headcanon is when he chooses the women’s quarters to sleep in, seeming to long for “a gentle life”, even if it involved sadly waiting for the menfolk to return from war. He seems to identify with the female identity, not only the female role. That’s only my personal interpretation, I fully acknowledge that. But seeing as it’s one that a lot of trans people in the fandom seem to share and, more importantly, to identify with, it’s one that is more than valid: it brings people joy. I’m cis. I’m also bisexual, and I know the joy of seeing myself in a character through subtext, and also how frustrating it is when people say it’s not true because it’s not 100% explicit in the text. If trans people are telling me they identify with Jonathan, I believe them and I take that as there being reasons I acknowledge I cannot fully understand why Jonathan is potentially a trans woman.

3) I assume everyone here has heard of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey. But it’s less likely that everyone has heard of Gail Carriger’s The Heroine’s Journey. I fully recommend this book to everyone. But the point she makes is that whether someone is a “hero” or a “heroine” according to hers and Campbell’s analysis doesn’t depend on their gender. Women can follow Campbell’s Hero Journey, and men can follow Carriger’s Heroine Journey. And non-binary people can follow either. The names come from the gender of the characters who originated the archetypes, with Campbell’s being classic Greek heroes, and Carriger’s being ancient world goddesses. With that in mind, although no one has written a “Gothic Heroine’s Journey”, Jonathan Harker is a gothic heroine, regardless of whether you see him as cis man or trans woman, because he follows that story type step by step.

4) Does anyone here know of a transgender gothic heroine (in the gender neutral sense explained above)? Because I don’t. If anyone does, seriously, please point me their way, I’d love to increase my gothic knowledge. But it’s a type of representation I’ve never seen. As a member of a lot of minorities, I feel very happy whenever I see any of them represented in ways I’ve never seen before, and I can only imagine it’s the same for trans people. So what’s the harm in letting Jonathan be that? Seriously. All that is missing so far from Jonathan being a fully classical gothic heroine is him going around the castle in a flowing white dress. If I ever get to adapt my written version of modern day!Dracula, I’ll absolutely put Natália (my version of Jonathan) in a white nightgown, just to give a transgender actor the chance to play out this scene that I’ve seen so many cis women do over the years. Again, I understand if someone takes empowerment from Jonathan as a cis man surviving abuse, and I’d never want to take that away from them. Jonathan being a cis man is an absolutely valid reading too. But I think trans women deserve empowerment too, deserve to see a trans woman playing out a story so many of their cis counterparts have always had. The book is in public domain. We can each adapt them the way we choose. Cis man Jonathan and trans fem Jo, Natália, or whatever name you prefer for her, can coexist and be important to the groups of people each of them are important to.